Sep 23, 2025 City Council Workshop Meeting

ARE THERE ANY PLANNERS IN THE, IN THE BUILDING? I, THE, IT THERE'S ANY LAWYERS? UH, SIR, WOULD YOU, UH, WOULD YOU MIND? SURE.

ALRIGHT, WE'LL GET THROUGH IT PRETTY QUICK HERE.

WELL, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR PATIENCE.

MOHAM.

SO PRO, UH, PROCLAMATION RECOGNIZ IN OCTOBER AS NATIONAL PLANNING MONTH IN THE CITY OF ROSENBERG.

WHEREAS CHANGE IS CONSTANT AND AFFECTS ALL CITIES, TOWNS, SUBURBS, COUNTIES, BOROUGHS, TOWNSHIPS, RURAL AREAS, AND OTHER PLACES.

AND WHEREAS PLANTERS CAN HELP NAVIGATE CHANGE WITH DATA DRIVEN INSIGHTS AND EXPERTISE THAT PROVIDE BETTER CHOICES FOR HOW PEOPLE WORK AND LIVE.

AND WHEREAS FULL BENEFITS OF PLANNING REQUIRE PUBLIC ELECTED AND APPOINTED OFFICIALS WHO UNDERSTAND SUPPORT AND DEMAND EXCELLENCE IN PLANNING AND PLAN IMPLEMENTATION.

WHEREAS THE MONTH OF OCTOBER IS DESIGNATED AS NATIONAL COMMUNITY PLANNING MONTH THROUGHOUT THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND ITS TERRITORIES.

AND WHEREAS THE CELEBRATION OF THE NATIONAL COMMUNITY PLANNING MONTH GIVES US THE OPPORTUNITY TO PUBLICLY RECOGNIZE THE PARTICIP, THE PARTICIPATION AND DEDICATION OF APPOINTED PLANNING COMMISSION MEMBERS WHO HAVE CONTRIBUTED THEIR TIME AND EXPERTISE TO THE EMPLOYMENT OF THE CITY OF ROSENBERG.

AND WHEREAS WE RECOGNIZE THE MANY VALUABLE CONTRIBUTIONS MADE BY THE PROFESSIONAL COMMUNITY AND REGIONAL PARTNERS OF THE CITY OF ROSENBERG AND EXTEND OUR HEARTFELT THANKS FOR THE CONTINUED COMMITMENT TO PUBLIC SERVICE.

SO, ON BEHALF OF OUR CITY COUNCIL, CONGRATULATIONS AND THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR SERVICE TO THE CITY.

YOU'RE WELCOME.

UH, WOULD YOU LIKE TO GRAB A QUICK PICTURE WITH OKAY.

ANY OTHER COUNSEL, UH, WOULD CARE TO JOIN ME? UH, STEVE, YOU GOT YOUR COAT ON.

GEORGE, YOU GOT YOUR COAT ON? SO I'M NOT ADDRESSED.

I GOT MY TENNIS SHOES.

YEAH, HE'S ALL RIGHT.

WELL, DO WE HAVE ANY PUBLIC COMMENTS? ANYBODY THAT SIGNED UP FOR GENERAL? NO.

READ, UH, ITEM NUMBER ONE, REVIEW AND DISCUSS FORT BEND COUNTY EPICENTER HOTEL AND CONVENTION CENTER PROJECT AND TAKE ACTION AS NECESSARY.

ALRIGHT, SO I'LL

[1. Review and discuss the Fort Bend County EpiCenter Hotel and Convention Center Project, and take action as necessary to direct staff. (Joyce Vasut, City Manager) ]

SO THIS IS A WORKSHOP.

IT REALLY SHOULD NOT SAY TAKE ACTION, SO WE CANNOT TAKE ANY ACTION.

SO I WILL REVISE THAT AND SAY, UH, REVIEW AND DISCUSS FORT BEND COUNTY EPICENTER HOTEL AND CONVENTION CENTER AS NECESSARY TO DIRECT STAFF.

SO WE HAVE A PRESENTATION I THINK TONIGHT.

UM, SO IS THAT WHAT WE WANT TO GO THROUGH? IS THAT WHAT WE WANNA DO? YES.

EPICENTER AND SOME, UH, FUTURE DEVELOPMENT THAT, THAT, UH, THAT, THAT SUGGESTING AND PROPOSING, UM, WITH THE CITY.

SO DO YOU WANT TO START IT, COMMISSIONER? ALRIGHT.

LET ME INTRODUCE OUR FORMER MAYOR AND CURRENT COUNTY COMMISSIONER PRECINCT ONE, VINCENT MORALES.

ALSO WANNA RECOGNIZE GRADY PRESTI, WHO IS A CURRENT COUNTY COMMISSIONER AND PRECINCT TWO.

THANK YOU COMMISSIONERS, BOTH FOR BEING HERE.

THEY ARE, UH, GONNA TELL US SOME VERY, UM, UH, INTERESTING NEWS AND I WOULD SAY GOOD NEWS, UH, REGARDING, UM, THE

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SO WE'RE GONNA HEAR ALL ABOUT IT TONIGHT, UH, AS MUCH AS WE CAN IN THE TIME PRESCRIBED, I GUESS.

SO IF YOU'LL BEGIN, WELL, GOOD EVENING.

TURN IT ON.

GOOD EVENING.

UH, MAYOR COUNCIL, I JUST WANT TO THANK YOU FOR HAVING US THIS EVENING, UH, TO BE ABLE TO PRESENT, UH, A POSSIBLE NEW, UH, HOTEL CONFERENCE CENTER THAT, UH, WILL EXPAND THE EPICENTER COMPLEX.

UM, I'D LIKE TO INTRODUCE, UH, AS YOU HEARD, COMMISSIONER PRESTI PRECINCT TWO IS HERE.

I'D LIKE TO INTRODUCE HIM AGAIN.

AND, UH, COMMISSIONER, UH, WHEN I GET THROUGH HERE, I'LL, IF YOU HAVE ANYTHING YOU'D LIKE TO SAY, UH, YOU'RE WELCOME TO.

UM, THEN I ALSO WOULD LIKE TO, UH, INTRODUCE, UH, THE COUNTY AUDITOR EDURANT, CHRISTINE MILLER, WHO'S WITH, UH, A BHR STEVE ROBINSON WITH A BHR.

AND CARLOS GUZMAN, WHO IS OUR DIRECTOR OF, UH, OPPORTUNITY AND DEVELOPMENT.

UM, WE'RE EXCITED ABOUT THIS PROJECT FOR NOT ONLY THE ASSISTANCE OF FORT BEND COUNTY, BUT FOR, UH, THE GROWTH AND THE CITIZENS OF, UH, ROSENBERG.

UM, I'M GOING TO TURN IT OVER TO, UH, CARLOS GUZMAN, UNLESS THE COMMISSIONER WANTS TO SAY ANYTHING.

AND NOW WE'D LIKE TO INVITE STEVE ROBINSON WITH A BA CHART TO COME TO THE PODIUM.

UH, I'M GONNA TURN IT OVER TO, UH, CARLOS GUZMAN, UH, TO GIVE YOU, UH, A LITTLE UPDATE ON WHAT'S HAPPENING WITH THE EPICENTER.

THANK YOU MAYOR AND COUNCIL FOR HOSTING US TONIGHT.

AGAIN, MY NAME IS CARLOS GUSMAN.

I'M DIRECTOR OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITY FOR FORT BEND COUNTY.

OOPS, SORRY, I'M A LITTLE TALL.

I HAD MY WHEATIES GROWING UP.

UM, AS YOU ARE WELL, WELL AWARE, FORT BEND COUNTY IS EXPERIENCING EXTREMIST, UH, A LOT OF GROWTH.

RIGHT NOW WE'RE JUST SHY OF 1 MILLION RESIDENTS AND WE EXPECT TO DOUBLING POPULATION IN ABOUT 20 YEARS.

SO THE COUNTY HAS TAKEN PROACTIVE STEPS TO CAPITALIZE ON THE GROWTH WITH THE PHASE ONE OF THE EPICENTERS, WHICH IS WHAT WE HAVE TODAY.

SO HOW IS PHASE ONE DOING EPICENTER FACILITIES PERFORMING ABOVE AND BEYOND COUNTY'S INITIAL EXPECTATIONS? WE ARE STARTING OUR 30 YEAR OF OPERATIONS, AND OUR CURRENT NUMBERS ARE IN LINE WITH EXPECTATIONS FOR YEAR SIX.

SO THE EPICENTER IS PERFORMING THREE YEARS AHEAD OF EXPECTATIONS.

JUST THIS WEEKEND, THE EPICENTER HOSTING CAR, LEON, A WORLD FAMOUS MEXICAN SINGER, HE HOLDS THE RECORD FOR THE TEJANO NIGHT AT THE HOUSTON RODEO WITH OVER 70,000 IN ATTENDANCE.

AND HE'LL, HE WILL BE THE FIRST LATINO ARTIST TO HEADLINE AT THE VEGAS SPHERE.

JUST SPOKE WITH THE AUDITOR EARLIER TODAY, AND HE WAS TELLING ME THAT IN JUST ONE NIGHT, THE EPICENTER MADE OVER A HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS IN NET PROFIT.

SO THE EPICENTER IS POISED TO CONTINUE TO GROW, AND WE WANT TO ENSURE THAT WE STAY ON THIS TRAJECTORY.

SO NOW WE'RE HERE TO TALK ABOUT PHASE TWO OF THE EPICENTER COMPLEX.

UM, WE'RE LOOKING TO PARTNER WITH THE CITY OF, OF ROSENBERG TO MAKE, MAKE SURE THIS FACE BECOMES A REALITY.

SO PHASE TWO, WE'LL ASK, UH, RIGO PLEASE IF YOU CAN PLEASE, UH, SHOW THE VIDEO AND WE CAN TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT IT.

ALRIGHT, WE'RE TURN THE LIGHTS DOWN A LITTLE BIT, IF THAT'S OKAY.

SO THAT'S PHASE ONE, CORRECT.

PHASE ONE IS WHAT WE HAVE RIGHT NOW.

YEAH, JUST, JUST, UH, THE FACILITY SO WE CAN SEE THERE'S PARKING GARAGES.

SO WHAT WE'RE LOOKING TO DO IS TWO PARKING GARAGES, A WEST GARAGE WITH OVER 1500, UH, PARKING SPACES TO SERVE HOTEL AND FUTURE RETAIL IN EAST GARAGE, WHICH IS OVER A THOUSAND PARKING SPACES TO SERVE THE HOTEL.

A CONFERENCE CENTER, UH, WITH 70,000 SQUARE UH, FEET, GROWTH SQUARE FEET, AND NEARLY 40,000 FOR CONFERENCE AND A GRAND BALLROOM, AND ALSO FULL SERVICE HOTEL WITH OVER 200 ROOMS. IT'LL BE A FULL SERVICE HOTEL, UM, THAT WOULD HELP ENHANCE WHAT IS HAPPENING AT THE EPICENTER.

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HE HAS A LOT OF EXPERIENCE WORKING ON THESE TYPES OF PROJECTS.

UH, HE WAS INSTRUMENTAL IN THE SUGARLAND TOWN CENTER PRO, UH, HOTEL PROJECT.

SO WE CAN GIVE YOU MORE DETAILS OF WHAT, WHAT IS IT THAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT IN MORE DETAIL.

MAYOR AND COUNCIL, STEVE ROBINSON WITH ALLEN BOONE HUMPHREYS ROBINSON.

IT'S A PLEASURE TO BE HERE, UH, BACK IN FRONT OF YOU, UH, TONIGHT.

UM, WHAT ARE WE TALKING ABOUT HERE? UH, THE, UH, THE PROJECT, UH, CONSISTS OF A FIRST CLASS FULL SERVICE HOTEL, CURRENTLY SLATED WITH 218 ROOMS, UH, INCLUDING A 70,000 SQUARE FOOT, UH, CONVENTION CENTER, UH, AND TWO GARAGES, A 1,517 STALL, UH, WEST GARAGE, AND A JUST UNDER 1100 SPACE, UH, GARAGE ASSOCIATED WITH THE HOTEL AND CONFERENCE CENTER.

UH, THESE PROJECTS ARE, UH, EXTRAORDINARILY DIFFICULT, UH, TO COMPLETE, UM, SO DIFFICULT THAT, UM, THE STATE OF TEXAS HAS REALLY ONE OF THE ONLY PROGRAMS THAT EXIST THAT ALLOWS, UH, CITIES TO ACCESS, UH, FUNDS FROM THE STATE OF TEXAS, UH, HOTEL OCCUPANCY TAXES AND SALES TAXES.

AND IT'S ACTUALLY THE WAY IN WHICH THE MUNICIPAL HOTEL AND CONFERENCE CENTERS AROUND THE STATE HAVE BEEN BUILT.

FORTUNATELY, YOUR LOCAL, UM, UH, ALLEGED YOUR LOCAL DELEGATION WAS ABLE TO BY SPECIFIC, UH, UH, LEGISLATION ADD THE CITY OF ROSENBERG TO THE AVAILABILITY, UH, AND ACCESS TO THAT PROGRAM.

AND REALLY WITHOUT THAT, WE WOULDN'T, UH, BE, UH, HERE TALKING, UH, TO YOU.

UM, THESE PROJECTS ARE, ARE DIFFICULT.

UH, AND UM, WHEN WE BEGAN WORKING WITH THE COUNTY, UH, ON THIS PROJECT, WE REALLY ESTABLISHED A FEW PRINCIPLES.

UH, ONE IS THAT, UH, THAT WE WERE GOING TO FIX THE OBLIGATIONS THAT THE PUBLIC WOULD HAVE IN ORDER TO ACHIEVE THIS PROJECT.

UH, TWO, UH, THAT WE WOULD, UH, MAKE CERTAIN, UH, THAT THE, UH, PROJECT IS ONE THAT DOES NOT CREATE AN ONGOING OBLIGATION, UH, FOR, UH, MAINTENANCE AND INVESTMENT IN THE FUTURE BY OUR LOCAL GOVERNMENTAL ENTITIES.

UH, AND LASTLY THAT OUR, UH, DOLLARS THAT ARE WE PUT IN WOULD NOT UNJUSTLY ENRICH THE DEVELOPER OR THE OWNER OF THE HOTEL.

THE WAY IN WHICH THIS IS, UH, PROPOSED TO BE STRUCTURED, UH, IS THAT THE, UH, HOTEL, UH, DEVELOPER WOULD BUILD THE HOTEL.

UM, THEY WOULD, UH, THE, UH, THE SITE WOULD NEED TO BE CONVEYED TO THE CITY FROM THE COUNTY, BUT LEASE BACK TO THE COUNTY.

AND THE COUNTY WOULD FINANCE THE STRUCTURED PARKING, BOTH PARKING GARAGES AS WELL AS THE CONFERENCE CENTER TO ALLOW THIS PROJECT, UH, TO, UM, UH, TO OCCUR.

THAT TOTAL CONTRIBUTION BY THE COUNTY IS PROPOSED TO BE RIGHT AT $161 MILLION.

UM, THAT INCLUDES 43 MILLION FOR THE WEST GARAGE AND 117 MILLION, UH, FOR THE CONFERENCE CENTER AND THE EAST PARKING GARAGE.

ADDITIONALLY, THE, THE COUNTY HAS AGREED THAT THEY WOULD REBATE THEIR 2% HOTEL OCCUPANCY, UH, TAX, UM, THE, UH, THE DEVELOPER WILL BUILD AND OWN THE, THE HOTEL.

UH, AND THAT IS, UH, PROPOSED THAT 218 ROOM FULL SERVICE HOTEL WITH A FIRST CLASS FLAG, UM, IS PROPOSED TO BE JUST OVER $75 MILLION, UH, FOR, UH, THAT HOTEL.

UH, THE, UH, WHAT WE ARE ASKING FOR, UH, UH, FROM, UH, THE CITY,

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UH, IS THAT AS TO THIS HOTEL ONLY, WE ARE ASKING THE CITY FOR THE NEW HOTEL OCCUPANCY TAXES THAT WILL BE GENERATED FROM THIS HOTEL FROM THE CITY'S HOTEL OCCUPANCY TAX, UH, WOULD BE CONTRIBUTED TO HELP, UH, PAY FOR, UH, THE DEBT SERVICE ON THE, THE COUNTY 160, UH, MILLION DOLLARS.

WHAT THIS DOES NOT INCLUDE IS ANY UPFRONT CONTRIBUTION FROM THE CITY.

IT DOES NOT INCLUDE ANY PROPERTY TAXES OF THE CITY.

IT DOES NOT INCLUDE ANY SALES TAXES FROM THE CITY.

AND IN FACT, IT DOES NOT EVEN INCLUDE ANY RELATED HOTELS THAT MAY COME HERE BECAUSE OF THE NEW TYPES OF EVENTS THAT WILL BE ABLE TO BE ACHIEVED IF WE HAVE A FULL SERVICE HOTEL.

SO IT'S ONLY FROM THIS ONE HOTEL.

AND REALLY, BUT FOR BUILDING THIS HOTEL, UH, THOSE HOTEL OCCUPANCY TAXES WOULD NEVER BE GENERATED.

IT DOES INCLUDE ALSO THE STATE'S SALES TAX AND HOTEL OCCUPANCY TAX FROM THIS FACILITY UNDER THAT STATE LAW.

THOSE DOLLARS CAN ONLY BE INVESTED IN THAT HOTEL OCCUPANT, UH, FROM THE HOTEL OCCUPANCY TAX AND SALES TAX CAN ONLY BE INVESTED IN THE HOTEL CONFERENCE CENTER.

UM, THIS, UH, UM, THOSE DOLLARS FROM THE STATE, UH, HAVE A, UH, ONLY A 10 YEAR PERIOD AFTER THAT DATE, UH, THOSE DOLLARS WOULD THEN FLOW BACK TO THE STATE OF TEXAS, UM, FOR YEAR 11 AND, AND ON.

SO THAT'S THE STATE'S HOTEL OCCUPANCY TAX AND THE STATE'S SALES TAX.

UM, WE BELIEVE THIS IS A, UM, A, A FAIR WAY, UH, TO, UH, HAVE THE CITY PARTICIPATE, UH, IN THIS PROJECT BECAUSE NO DOLLARS THAT COULD FLOW INTO YOUR GENERAL FUND ARE BEING REQUESTED.

SO NO, NOTHING, ONLY THE HOTEL OCCUPANCY TAX THAT CANNOT FLOW INTO YOUR GENERAL FUND ARE, ARE BEING, UH, REQUESTED.

JUST A LITTLE BIT ON ONGOING, UH, UH, MAINTENANCE.

ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE HAVE ALSO BEEN VERY CONCERNED ABOUT IS MAKING CERTAIN THAT ON AN ONGOING BASIS, IT IS NOT THE PUBLIC'S OBLIGATION TO MAINTAIN, UH, THIS, UH, CONFERENCE CENTER FACILITY.

UM, PART OF WHAT, UH, THE DEVELOPER'S OBLIGATION WILL BE TO ENTER INTO, UH, A MAINTENANCE OBLIGATION ON AN ANNUAL BASIS THAT WILL BE FUNDED OUT OF HOTEL REVENUES AND, UH, THAT THEY WILL HAVE TO MAINTAIN BOTH THE CONFERENCE CENTER AND THE HOTEL TO THE FIRST CLASS STANDARD OF, UH, THE, UH, THE FLAG, THE FIRST CLASS FLAG.

THOSE ARE VERY DETAILED STANDARDS THAT INDICATE WHEN THINGS LIKE CARPET HAVE TO BE REPLACED.

THOSE, UM, UH, WILL BE AUDITED ON AN ANNUAL BASIS TO MAKE SURE THAT WE DON'T BUILD A FACILITY THAT IN FIVE OR 10 YEARS BEGINS LOOKING DATED.

IT WILL HAVE TO BE CONSTANTLY MAINTAINED.

THAT WILL NOT BE AN OBLIGATION OF THE COUNTY OR OF THE CITY.

IN FACT, THE CITY WILL HAVE NO ONGOING OBLIGATIONS OTHER THAN TO COLLECT AND REMIT THE HOTEL OCCUPANCY TAX FROM THIS PROJECT.

UH, WE ARE VERY EXCITED ABOUT THE OPPORTUNITY, UH, UH, TO BRING THIS, UH, PROJECT.

UH, AND UH, I AM HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS OR ANYONE ELSE FROM THE TEAM IS HAPPY TO ANSWER.

STEVE, JUST SO RECAP, UM, FOR THE PUBLIC THAT'S, UH, WATCHING US OR HEARING US, WHEN YOU'RE SAYING THE CITY IS INVESTING, BUT WE'RE NOT TAKING ANY MONEY FROM THE GENERAL FUNDS, LIKE YOU SAID.

RIGHT NOW WE DON'T HAVE A HOTEL, SO WE'RE NOT MAKING NO HOT TAX THERE.

SO JUST SO THE PUBLIC UNDERSTAND THAT THE INVESTMENT THAT THE CITY'S DOING IS GIVING UP OUR PART OF THAT HOTEL ONLY AS PART OF THE NEGOTIATION THAT WE'RE DOING WITH YOU GUYS.

THAT IS, SO BASICALLY FOR THE RESIDENTS THAT ARE LISTENING, WE'RE NOT GRABBING MONEY FROM OUR GENERAL FUNDS TO FUND THIS HOTEL.

I WANNA MAKE THAT CLEAR.

IT'S FROM OUR HOUSE HOT TAX.

AND LIKE STEVE SAID, WE CAN'T, IF WE MAKE CONTACTS, WE CAN'T JUST GO PUT IN GENERAL FUNDS.

I WANNA BE, I WANNA BE CLARIFY THAT FOR THE CITIZENS.

I THINK YOU'RE GONNA OPEN THE DOORS, THE VENUE FOR MORE POPULAR ARTISTS THAT WE'RE GONNA HAVE A LOT OF PEOPLE COMING FROM OUT OF TOWN JUST TO COME SEE THESE ARTISTS HERE AND STAY OVERNIGHT AND YOU KNOW, LIKE YOU SAID, THEY'RE GONNA SPEND MONEY HERE.

SO I THINK, UM, IT'S A GOOD PROJECT AND THANK YOU FOR YOUR PRESENTATION.

IT WAS NICE.

I THINK, UH, IT'S GONNA BE, IT'S GONNA CALL OUT A LOT OF NEW ARTISTS COMING OUT HERE.

I KNOW MR. GUZMAN SAID WE HAD CARON THIS WEEKEND.

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AND, YOU KNOW, WE'RE GONNA COLLECT FROM THAT SALES TAX AT THE END OF, AND I JUST WANNA ADD TO WHAT HECTOR SAID FOR THE PEOPLE LISTENING.

UM, THIS IS A HAT HOT TAX, UH, FUNDING THAT DOESN'T EXIST UNTIL YOU BUILD IT.

SO THERE'S NOTHING COMING IN AND YOU'RE GONNA FOOT THE BILL FOR EVERYTHING AND THEN KEEP THE MONEY THAT THAT'S CORRECT.

JUST THE HOTEL OCCUPANCY TAX.

SO ALL OF THAT, YOU KNOW, EVERYONE WHO COMES HERE FOR A CONCERT AND THEN EATS IN A RESTAURANT, UH, THE, THE, YOU KNOW, HOTEL VALUE THAT GOES ON THE RE ANY RETAIL VALUE, NONE OF THOSE PROPERTY TAXES ARE BEING REQUESTED.

AND I WILL SAY AROUND THE STATE, IT IS VERY COMMON, UH, FOR THERE TO BE PROPERTY TAXES AND SALES TAXES OR EVEN UPFRONT INVESTMENTS IN PROJECTS LIKE THIS.

NONE OF THAT IS BEING REQUESTED HERE.

SO THIS IS REALLY ONLY A QUESTION OVER UNREALIZED FUTURE HOTEL OCCUPANCY TAXES, FUTURE HOPE FROM THIS FACILITY.

SO, UH, WHEN I ASK YOU ABOUT LIABILITY, JUST FOR SURE, UH, THE RECORD HERE, UM, WELL BEFORE I GET INTO THAT, BUT IT SAYS FOR THE FIRST 10 YEARS THE CITY WOULD, UH, HAVE TITLE TO THE PROPERTY, BUT THE, THE, THAT WOULD BE LEASED BACK TO THE COUNTY AND THE COUNTY WOULD, WOULD BE, UH, THE, UH, THE OPERATOR AND ASSUME ALL RESPONSIBILITY.

SO YOU ARE, YOU ARE GOING, IT IS REQUIRED THAT YOU BE THE OWNER IN ORDER TO ACCESS THAT THE CITY BE THE OWNER OF THE PROPERTY IN ORDER TO UTILIZE THAT STATE STATUTE.

WE ARE DOING THAT FOR THAT SOLE PURPOSE, BUT WE ARE LEASING IT BACK TO THE COUNTY AND THE COUNTY'S TAKING ALL RESPONSIBILITY AND ALL LIABILITY.

AND RIGHT NOW THE COUNTY, THAT'S COUNTY PROPERTY, CORRECT? THAT'S CORRECT.

SO AFTER 10 YEARS, IT, PART OF THIS AGREEMENT WILL BE THAT IT REVERSED BACK TO THE COUNTY? THAT'S CORRECT.

BACK TO THE COUNTY, NOT TO THE DEVELOPER OR NOT TO THE, TO, TO THE, TO THE HOTEL, UM, PROPRIETOR, WHOEVER OR THAT CORRECT.

WHOEVER IT MAY BE.

WE ASSUME IT WILL BE A BIG, UH, NATIONALLY OR INTERNATIONALLY KNOWN HOTEL CHAIN.

SO DURING THAT 10 YEARS, UH, 'CAUSE I MEAN Y'ALL HAVE CLARIFIED THAT WE HAVE NO IN INIT NO INVESTMENT.

UH, AND THAT WE HAVE NO UPKEEP.

AND WE ARE, UH, WHAT WE HOPE TO GAIN IS THE RESIDUALS FROM PEOPLE COMING INTO ROSENBERG, GOING TO THESE BIG SHOWS.

AND THAT WHEN THAT HOTEL HOLDS UP, UH, FILLS UP 200 AND SOMETHING ROOMS, THAT THEY'LL GO TO THESE, YOU KNOW, OTHER AREA HOTELS, UM, AND WILL COME TO RESTAURANTS AND THINGS LIKE THIS.

BUT DURING THAT 10 YEARS THAT IT'S UNDER CITY'S TITLE, SOMEBODY GETS HURT THERE ON CITY PROPERTY.

UM, HOW DOES THE AGREEMENT, IF WE MAKE THIS AGREEMENT, HOW DOES THE AGREEMENT ADDRESS THAT LIABILITY? SURE.

WE'RE GOING TO BE LEASING THAT BACK TO THE, THE COUNTY.

AND IN THAT LEASE, THE COUNTY WILL ASSUME THAT THOSE RESPONSIBILITIES, WELL, NO, I'M TALKING ABOUT FOR THE FIRST 10 YEARS.

DURING THAT 10 YEARS.

SO DURING THE FIRST 10 YEARS, SO THE, IT'S LEASE, LEASE BACK.

THE COUNTY IS GOING TO CONVEY IT TO THE CITY, THEN THE CITY WILL SIMULTANEOUSLY LEASE IT BACK TO THE COUNTY.

AND UNDER THE TERMS OF THAT LEASE, ASSUME ALL THOSE, THOSE, SO THEY WILL HOLD US HARMLESS IN THAT, YOU KNOW? THAT'S CORRECT.

YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU HAVE PERSONAL INJURY SURE.

THEY GO FOR ALL THE ASSOCIATED PARTIES.

ALRIGHT, WELL WE JUST NEED TO MAKE SURE IF THE COUNCIL SO CHOOSES TO ENTER SUCH AN AGREEMENT THAT UH, THAT'S, THAT THAT'S PART OF THE AGREEMENT.

WE WOULD EXPECT THAT TO BE, YES.

LET'S SEE IF, UH, ANY OF THE OTHER COUNCIL MEMBERS HAVE A CONCERN.

LET'S START WITH, UH, GEORGE.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

I'M PROUD TO BE A PART OF THIS COUNCIL'S DISTRICT FOUR.

VINCENT, DO YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT THE PROJECT? NO.

ALRIGHT, RICHARD, I'M OF IT.

RICHARD, DO YOU HAVE ANY OTHER QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS ABOUT THE PROJECT? I DON'T HAVE ANY QUESTIONS.

UH, THANK YOU FOR CHOOSING ROSENBERG TO BE THEN, LIKE GEORGE SAID, COULD COULD BE PART OF

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IT.

THANK YOU JESSICA.

UM, SO I KINDA HAVE A QUESTION JUST GENERALLY.

SO THE IDEA IS THAT ROSENBERG WILL BENEFIT FROM THIS ARRANGEMENT BECAUSE WE'LL SEE AN INCREASE IN SALES TAX AND, AND IN PROPERTY TAXES PAID BY PEOPLE WHO DON'T NECESSARILY RESIDE HERE BY NON-CITIZENS.

CORRECT? CORRECT.

AND SO IS IT, I GUESS AS, AS A COUNCIL WE GENERALLY TRY AS MUCH AS WE CAN TO NOT INCREASE OUR CITIZENS' TAX OBLIGATION? CORRECT.

AND IF WE'RE ABLE TO, WE EVEN DECREASE IT.

SO IS THIS MONEY THAT WE'RE SEEING FROM THE SALES TAX AND THE PROPERTY TAX IS THE IDEA THAT IT'S GONNA GO INTO OUR GENERAL FUND AND THEN ENABLE US TO, TO USE THAT MONEY TO PROVIDE SERVICE TO OUR CITIZENS? CERTAINLY.

UM, AND, AND WE HAVE SOME PROJECTIONS THAT WE CAN SHARE WITH Y'ALL, BUT WE BELIEVE, ONE, THIS IS GONNA BE A FIRST CLASS FULL SERVICE HOTEL THAT'S AT A HIGHER PRICE POINT.

SO IF THERE'S A BIG CHEER COMPETITION, LET'S JUST TAKE FOR, THERE MAY BE CERTAIN PEOPLE THAT WILL WANT TO PAY THAT, BUT THERE'LL BE PLENTY THAT WILL WANT TO STAY AT THE HOLIDAY INN EXPRESS OR, AND SO WE DO THINK THAT THERE WILL, UH, BY BUILDING THIS OTHER HOTELS WILL WANT TO BE BUILT BECAUSE OF THE EVENTS THAT WE WILL NOW BE ABLE TO CAPTURE.

BECAUSE YOU KNOW, RIGHT NOW CERTAIN EVENTS YOU JUST SIMPLY CANNOT CAPTURE WITHOUT HAVING A FULL SERVICE HOTEL.

SO YES, THERE WILL BE NEW PROPERTY TAXES FROM NEW HOTELS, UH, BEING BUILT.

UM, BUT THERE WILL ALSO, THE PEOPLE THAT COME FROM OUTSIDE OF THE CITY OF ROSENBERG, WHICH THE VAST MAJORITY OF THE PEOPLE THAT WILL COME TO EVENTS HERE WILL COME FROM THE WHOLE REGION.

AND SO THEY'RE GONNA COME AND, UH, YOU KNOW, GO TO ROSENBERG TOWN CENTER, THEY'RE GOING TO EAT IN YOUR RESTAURANTS, THEY'RE GOING TO FILL UP THEIR CARS.

AND SO THAT'S GONNA GENERATE SALES TAXES FROM THAT YOU'RE CAPTURING THAT YOU CANNOT CAPTURE TODAY.

UM, AND, AND SO IN A LOT OF WAYS, VERY SIMILAR TO YOUR ROSENBERG TOWN CENTER, UH, I WAS INVOLVED IN THAT FROM, FROM THE OUTSET.

UH, YOU KNOW, THE ABILITY TO CAPTURE SALES TAXES, UH, FROM OTHER AREAS, MEANING NOT JUST FROM YOUR OWN CITIZENS, REALLY IS A GREAT WAY TO SUPPLEMENT YOUR GENERAL FUND BY PULLING IN THOSE SALES TAX DOLLARS AND PROPERTY TAX DOLLARS.

AND THAT ALLOWS US TO LOWER, LOWER, CORRECT, OR IN WORST CASE SCENARIO, NOT INCREASE OUR CITIZEN'S TAX OBLIGATION.

AND JUST, JUST TO PIGGY, UH, BACK OFF OF YOU, JESSICA, THAT'S A GREAT QUESTION BECAUSE IF WE REVENUE MORE TAX MONEY, WE CAN LOWER OUR TAX RATE MM-HMM .

SO AT THE END OF THE DAY, IT'S UH, I THINK IT'S A WIN-WIN FOR THE RESIDENTS OF ROSENBERG.

UH, STEVE, NOW THIS IS RIGHT IN FRONT OF YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD.

I DON'T KNOW.

SO I I'M ALL FOR IT.

I MEAN, THIS TOWN NEEDS SOMETHING TO, TO BRING IN SOME ENTERTAINMENT AND, AND YOU KNOW, ALL THE, THERE'S A LOT OF, WE'RE NOT VOTING ON IT TONIGHT.

YEAH, I KNOW.

BUT IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS? NO, I DON'T HAVE ANY QUESTIONS.

ALRIGHT, FELIX? UH, I THINK SO IT'S A GREAT IDEA.

UH, IT'S LIKE A ONCE IN A LIFETIME PROJECT.

UH, I BELIEVE IT'S A, IT'S A WIN-WIN WIN.

WE CAN ALL WIN, WE CAN ALL, UM, PROFIT FROM THIS.

UH, I'M PRETTY SURE THE CITIZENS WILL LOVE THAT.

WE MAKE MONEY, WE'RE ABLE TO GIVE THEM BETTER SERVICES.

SO I, I'M FOR IT.

ALRIGHT, WELL THANK Y'ALL SO MUCH.

WE WILL PUT THIS ON A FUTURE AGENDA AND SEEK SOME PUBLIC INPUT.

UM, LIKE I SAID, LIKE WE SAID, UH, AND YOU SAID THAT THERE'S NO RISK TO THE CITY, BUT WE WOULD LIKE TO HEAR FROM MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC TO SEE IF THEY WISH TO HAVE US INVOLVED.

I, I WOULDN'T THINK THAT THERE WOULD BE TOO MUCH OBJECTIONS SINCE WE HAVE, UH, NO INVESTMENT AND NO RISK.

AND IF Y'ALL ARE HOLDING US HARMLESS, UM, I SEE NO HARM.

THAT'S A PERFECT INVESTMENT.

SO, WE'LL, UM, WE WILL JUST STAY TUNED.

THANK Y'ALL SO MUCH FOR YOUR TIME.

THANK YOU FOR COMING COMMISSIONERS.

I'M SURE Y'ALL HAVE A BUSY DAY TOMORROW.

AND THANK Y'ALL TWO FROM, UH, ALAN BOONE HUMPHREYS.

YES, THANK YOU COMMISSIONERS.

THANK Y'ALL.

MOVE ON TO THE NEXT ITEM, WHICH IS THE DRAINAGE PROJECT.

ALRIGHT,

[2. Review and discuss an update on the General Land Office (GLO) Community Development Block Grant - Mitigation (CDBG-MIT) Drainage Project, and take action as necessary to direct staff. (Rigo Calzoncin, Assistant City Manager) ]

AND WE DO HAVE SOME FOLKS HERE FOR THAT.

DID THEY SIGN UP TO SPEAK? NO ONE SIGNED UP TO SPEAK.

NO ONE SIGNED UP TO SPEAK.

SO THEY'RE HERE FOR AN FYI.

SO I'LL READ THE ITEM AND WE WILL GIVE THEM SOME FYI

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REVIEW AND DISCUSS, REVIEW AND, UH, REVIEW AND DISCUSS UPDATE ON GENERAL LAND OFFICE GLO COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT MITIGATION, ALSO KNOWN AS C-D-B-G-M-I-T DRAINAGE PROJECT AND TAKE ACTION AS NECESSARY TO DIRECT STAFF RIGO.

THANK YOU MAYOR.

COUNSEL.

UM, STEVEN WILCOS WITH, UH, COSTELLO IS GONNA BE DOING, HE'S UH, ONE OF THE DESIGN ENGINEERS FOR OUR C-D-B-G-M-I-T PROJECT.

HE'S GONNA GIVE, UH, AN OVERVIEW OF WHERE WE'RE AT WITH, WITH OUR, UH, OUR DRAINAGE PROJECT THAT'S, UH, THROUGHOUT, UH, A LARGE PART OF ROSEBURG.

SO I'M GONNA TURN OVER TO MR. WILCOX AND YOU'LL END UP, UH, UH, HAVING A PRESENTATION.

YOU'RE MORE THAN WELCOME TO ASK QUESTIONS SO THAT WE CAN ANSWER THOSE.

OKAY, SO WE HEAR THE PRESENTATION.

WE'VE GOT, I'M NOT SURE IF THE GENTLEMAN TO YOUR LEFT, UM, RICHARD IS, SIR, ARE YOU HERE FOR, ARE YOU A RESIDENT HERE? OKAY, SO IF Y'ALL THREE AND CAROLYN, SHE'S A RESIDENT.

UM, MELISSA'S A RESIDENT, BUT SHE'S ALSO A STAFF MEMBER.

SHE KNOWS ALL ABOUT THIS PROJECT.

SHE'S FORGOTTEN.

SHE'S FORGOTTEN MORE THAN WE'LL EVER KNOW ABOUT IT.

BUT IF Y'ALL HAVE ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT THE PROJECT, WRITE YOUR QUESTIONS DOWN OR RAISE YOUR HAND.

WE WANT TO GIVE YOU REAL TIME ANSWERS.

THERE WAS A COUPLE OF OTHER FOLKS THAT WERE SUPPOSED TO BE HERE AND HAD BEEN HERE AND APPARENTLY THEY HAD TO LEAVE.

THEY HAD A FAMILY ISSUE COME UP.

BUT, UM, WE'RE GOING THROUGH THIS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC.

GOOD EVENING COUNSEL.

MY NAME'S STEVEN WILCOX.

I'M THE PRINCIPAL HYDRAULIC ENGINEER FOR THIS PROJECT.

UM, AND WE'RE PAID TO AUSTIN NOW, BUT JUST, I DIDN'T WANT THE TITLE TO CONFUSE YOU.

UM, SO QUICKLY, IF YOU REMEMBER, I, I'VE DONE THIS UPDATE A COUPLE OF TIMES OVER THE YEARS FOR Y'ALL.

JUST AS A QUICK REFRESHER AT THE END, UH, AFTER HURRICANE HARVEY, THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT PUSHED FEDERAL FUNDS DOWN THROUGH THE GLO THROUGH THE CDBG PROCESS TO DO FLOOD CONTROL PROJECTS, UH, OUTSIDE OF HARVEY, RIGHT? SO THAT WAS A MITIGATION PROGRAM.

Y'ALL WENT THROUGH A COMPETITIVE PROCESS AND GOT A ROUGHLY 47 AND A HALF MILLION DOLLARS GRANT TO DO A BUNCH OF FLOOD CONTROL PROJECTS THAT Y'ALL HAVE HAD ON THE BOOKS, UH, IN ONE FORM OR ANOTHER, BUT NEVER HAD THE FUNDS TO DO SO.

FROM THAT, UH, WE IDENT WE HELPED WORKED WITH Y'ALL TO IDENTIFY WHICH PROJECTS TO DO.

THERE'S SEVEN DIFFERENT ACTIVITIES AND THAT'S WHAT'S SHOWN UP HERE ON THE MAP.

AND WE'RE GONNA TALK ABOUT EACH INDIVIDUAL ACTIVITY, SO DON'T TRY TO CATCH UP TOO QUICK WITH THAT MAP RIGHT THERE.

JUST A QUICK TIMELINE, UH, AGAIN, IT GOT, THE GRANT GOT AWARDED AT THE END OF 2020.

AND THEN YOU GO THROUGH, YOU WENT THROUGH A CONTRACTING PERIOD WITH THE GEO LOAD THROUGH 2021.

WE STARTED DESIGN, WE DID 30%.

AND AT THE END OF 2022, WE SUBMITTED OUR ENVIRONMENTAL PERMIT TO THE CORPS OF ENGINEERS AND SOME OF THOSE PREVIOUS UPDATES, YOU'VE HEARD ME COMPLAIN A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE CORPS OF ENGINEERS.

WE ALWAYS KNEW THEY WERE GONNA BE A LONG AND DIFFICULT PROCESS.

THEY ALWAYS ARE, ESPECIALLY IF YOU'RE DOING CHANNEL IMPROVEMENTS INSIDE A CHANNEL.

I THINK THEY GOT BROUGHT UP WHEN Y'ALL WERE APPROVING THE THEATER DITCH SOUTH, UH, CONTRACT.

BUT THERE AT THE, IN APRIL 18TH, 2025, WE FINALLY GOT ALL OUR PERMITS AND ALL OUR DOCUMENTATION SQUARE WITH THE CORE.

THE ISSUE WAS CALLED AN APPROVED JURISDICTIONAL DETERMINATION.

AND THAT DOCUMENT SAYS, TOOK THE DESIGN OF THE PROJECTS, WENT THROUGH ALL THEIR CRITERIA AND THEIR, AND WHAT THE CORE DESIRED, DID ALL THAT WITH OUR ENVIRONMENTAL CONSULTANT AND THEY ISSUED THAT DOCUMENT APPROVING THE DESIGNS THAT ARE FOR ALL THE ACTIVITIES.

UH, ALSO IN 2024 YOU GOT WHAT'S CALLED A UGF, WHICH IS WHERE THE GLO DID THEIR PROCESS AND THEIR REVIEW AND THEY SAID, YES, ALL THESE DESIGNS MEET OUR CRITERIA AND WE WILL FUND YOU ALL THE CONSTRUCTION DOLLARS.

SO, AND THEN FROM THAT YOU WENT THROUGH LAND ACQUISITION, WHICH I KNOW OVER THE LAST YEAR Y'ALL HAVE HAD DIFFERENT MEETINGS TO APPROVE PURCHASES OF PROPERTY AND WHATNOT.

SO THAT'S THE TIMELINE OF WHERE WE'RE AT TODAY AND WE'RE JUST ABOUT TO START KICKING OFF CONSTRUCTION ON A LOT OF THESE ACTIVITIES.

SO LET'S JUST DIVE INTO THE DIFFERENT ACTIVITIES.

THE FIRST ONE IS THE DRY CREEK CHANNEL IMPROVEMENTS.

AND THIS PROJECT ACTUALLY STEMMED FROM OLDER MASTER DRAINAGE PLANS THAT Y'ALL HAD DONE OVER THE YEARS.

Y'ALL HAD A 20 11 1 THAT A DIFFERENT ENGINEERING FIRM DID FOR Y'ALL THAT IDENTIFIED A LOT OF THESE IMPROVEMENTS.

AND AS PART OF THIS, WE WERE GETTING THE FUNDING TO HELP IMPLEMENT A LOT OF THOSE IMPROVEMENTS.

WE'VE HAD TO MAKE SOME ADJUSTMENTS 'CAUSE OF THE RIGHT OF WAY.

AND, YOU KNOW, ANY GOOD PLAN ONCE IT HITS THE GROUND TO BE BUILT HAS TO BE ADJUSTED.

SO WHAT YOU'RE SEEING IN GREEN IS THESE IMPROVEMENTS GO FROM 2218 ALL THE WAY UP TO THE STATE HIGHWAY 36.

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AND THE INTENT OF IT IS TO WIDEN AND DEEPEN THE CHANNEL TO COLLECT THE FLOWS, TO CONVEY THEM IN A MUCH SAFER MANNER.

REDUCE THE RISK OF FLOODING FOR YOUR, YOUR RESIDENTS.

UH, THIS PROJECT FULLY IN PLACE IS PROBABLY GONNA REDUCE A HUNDRED YEAR FLOODING BY FOOT TO FOOT AND A HALF.

THAT'S WHAT, WHAT THE HYDRAULIC MODELS ARE SHOWING.

UM, SO THE CHANNEL IMPROVEMENTS ARE MEANT TO COLLECT THAT WATER, LOWER THE A HUNDRED YEAR FLOOD PLAIN AND GET THAT WATER SAFELY DOWN TO DRY CREEK EVENTUALLY SMITHERS LAKE AND THE BROADEST RIVER.

THERE'S ALSO TWO DETENTION PONDS THAT ARE, THAT ARE PART OF IT AND WE'LL TALK ABOUT THOSE IN A SECOND.

THIS PROJECT, IF YOU REMEMBER FROM THE LAST PRESENTATION, WE HIT SOME FUNDING.

THE CONSTRUCTION COSTS INCREASED SINCE THE GRANT WAS AWARDED TO NOW.

SO WE HAD TO DO SOME VALUE ENGINEERING AND, AND TAKE OUT SOME PIECES.

SO DOWN FROM LUIS TO 2218, THE ENTIRE IMPROVEMENTS ARE BEING BUILT UPSTREAM OF LOUISE.

WE'RE JUST DOING SOME MINOR CHANNEL REGRADING CLEANING UP THE BANKS, DOING WHAT WE CAN.

BUT TO BE HONEST, THE RIGHT OF WAY IS SO LIMITED UNTIL WE CAN GO TO THE FINAL CONSTRUCTION, WHICH IS GONNA BE SLOW PAVING AND CONCRETE FOR A LOT OF IT, PARTICULARLY THROUGH THE CAMBRIDGE VILLAGE SECTION.

UM, THOSE WILL BE IN A FUTURE FUNDING THAT'S NOT PART OF THIS PROJECT.

SO IF YOU CAN REMEMBER BACK TO FEBRUARY, I KNOW IT WAS A LONG TIME, BUT, UH, , THAT'S WHEN WE TALKED ABOUT THAT FUNDING STUFF.

THESE ARE THE TWO DETENTION PONDS THAT ARE, UM, PROPOSED AS PART OF DRY CREEK.

THE FIRST ONE TO THE LEFT IS JUST SOUTH OF GEORGE JUNIOR HIGH ON THE SOUTH SIDE OF AIRPORT AVENUE.

PIECE OF PROPERTY.

Y'ALL BOUGHT IT.

IT IS GOING TO BE A WET BOTTOM POND AND A DRY BOTTOM POND.

WHAT DOES THAT MEAN? WET BOTTOM POND MEANS THAT WE HAVE DESIGNED IT TO ALWAYS HAVE A WET BOTTOM AND A PORTION OF IT.

IN THIS CASE, IF YOU LOOK AT THAT BLUE SHADE, I SHADED WHAT WILL ALWAYS BE WET.

AND IT THAT IS ON PURPOSE FOR A COUPLE OF REASONS.

ONE IS WE NEEDED TO HAVE CERTAIN AMOUNT OF DEPTH FOR THE GRAVER IMPROVEMENTS, WHICH WE'LL SEE IN A MINUTE FOR THOSE BOSS CULVERTS.

THE OTHER IS, IS THAT MAXIMIZES VOLUME.

THE REASON WE DON'T DO THAT ON ALL THE PONDS IS BECAUSE IT ALSO ADDS A LOT OF CONSTRUCTION COSTS.

'CAUSE YOU'RE DIGGING A LOT OF EXTRA DIRT THAT YOU OTHERWISE WOULD NOT HAVE TO DIG OR TRUCK OUT.

SO THIS WAS AN ECONOMIC BALANCING ACT BETWEEN WHAT WE COULD DO FOR GRABBER, WHAT WE NEEDED FOR DRY CREEK AND HOW THAT POND WORKED OUT.

THE SECOND POND IS JUST UPSTREAM OF LUIS.

OF LUIS.

IT'S, YOU GOT THAT LITTLE NEIGHBORHOOD, I THINK THE STREET'S CALLED MAIN STREET.

IS THAT CORRECT? IT'S THAT, THAT ALWAYS THROWS ME OFF.

IT'S CALLED MAIN STREET ANYWAYS.

UM, IF YOU DRIVE DOWN IT DEAD ENDS THAT PASTURE, THAT'S THAT DETENTION POND RIGHT THERE.

CAMBRIDGE VILLAGE IS ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THAT.

SO THAT IS UPSTREAM OF LUIS.

THAT IS THE MAJOR IMPROVEMENTS THAT ARE GONNA GIVE SOME INITIAL RELIEF TO THE, THE RESIDENTS UP THERE UNTIL WE CAN GET THE FINAL, UH, CHANNEL IMPROVEMENTS UPSTREAM OF LOUIS IN PLACE.

POND NUMBER TWO IS A DRY YES SIR.

GOOD QUESTION.

IT'S A DRY BOTTOM POND.

MEANING THERE WILL BE NO WATER IN IT.

IT'S GRASS LINED.

AND IF YOU LOOK WE'RE THAT DART BLACK LINE DOWN THE MIDDLE AS A CONCRETE LINE PILOT CHANNEL, UH, THAT IS SO THAT WAY RIO DON'T HAVE TO GET IN THE BOTTOM OF IT WITH THE WEED EATER.

IT MAKES IT A LOT EASIER TO MOW AND MAINTAIN.

I GOT A QUESTION.

IN PERSON.

SO IT'S GONNA BE A DRY POND.

ARE WE, ARE Y'ALL GONNA PUT LIKE GRASS, LIKE I'VE SEEN IT USED FOR WALKING THE DOGS OR ANY? WE IT IS JUST GONNA BE COMPLETELY FENCED.

IT'S, WE, WE ARE GONNA GRASP, WE'RE GONNA SEAT IT.

YOU'RE GONNA SEAT IT WHEN IT'S DONE.

IT'S GONNA BE SEATED.

HYDRO MULCH AND THEN SEATED BROADCAST SEATED AND, OKAY.

SO I DON'T KNOW.

THE INTENT IS TO BE FULLY GRASPED AND I HAVE A PICTURE LATER ABOUT THE RAVS POND THAT WILL HELP ANSWER HOW THESE WILL LOOK.

UH, SO I HOLD THAT QUESTION.

LEMME GET TO THAT.

I THINK YOU'RE ASKING IF WOULD THE PUBLIC HAVE ACCESS? YES.

THAT THAT'S Y'ALL'S DECISION.

THAT MEAN THAT'S, THAT'S WE CAN FIGURE THAT OUT.

THERE IS NO FENCE.

IN AROUND THE POND IN THESE PROJECTS WE DO HAVE GATES AT THE ROADWAY.

JUST SO, BECAUSE YOU DON'T WANT MOTORIZED VEHICLES, PARTICULARLY 14-YEAR-OLD BOYS ON DIRT BIKES.

'CAUSE THAT'S WHAT WE WOULD ALL DO.

OR FOUR WHEELERS.

UH, OR FOUR WHEELERS.

SO WE PUT GATES AT WHERE THE ENTRANCE IS, BUT I MEAN YOU CAN OBVIOUSLY WALK RIGHT AROUND IT WITH YOUR DOG IF YOU, IF YOU WANTED TO.

SO HECTOR'S TRYING TO FIGURE OUT A WAY WE CAN, UH, START BRINGING BACK SOME FINANCIAL RE RESIDUAL FROM THIS 16 ACRES NOT BEING USED .

MAYBE TURN INTO A LITTLE REC STOCKER FIELD.

Y'ALL HAVE, Y'ALL HAVE BEHIND BRAD TOWN CENTER.

THEY GOT, WEREN'T WE LOOKING FOR A DOG PARK SPACE? THERE YOU GO.

PERFECT PLACE.

YOU WILL WANT A FENCE IF YOU MAKE IT A DOG PARK THOUGH.

JUST LIKE A PART OF IT.

UM, THAT IS AN EXCELLENT IDEA RIGHT THERE.

ANYWAY, JUST TO CLARIFY, THE GLO WILL NOT LET US PUT ANY OF THAT IN THIS CONTRACT.

SO WE HAVE TO, THAT WILL HAVE TO BE A SEPARATE CONVERSATION LATER ON.

THAT'S AN AFTERTHOUGHT.

CREEK NEEDED TO BE IMPROVED DOWNSTREAM IN LUIS.

YES, YES.

WE COULD.

WE'LL TALK ABOUT IT A LITTLE.

THIS IS ANOTHER POINT THAT DRY

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'CAUSE WE ARE EXTENDING DEPTH, MEANING WE'RE DEEPENING DRY CREEK UP TO THEATER DITCH.

'CAUSE WE NEED THAT DEPTH TO HELP WITH THE FLOODING ISSUES THAT ARE HAPPENING ALONG AVENUE INN.

SO JUST BRIEFLY ON AVENUE INN, 'CAUSE WE'LL TALK ABOUT RABURN A LITTLE BIT.

AVENUE INN, IF, I MEAN Y'ALL KNOW IT, YOU DRIVE DOWN IT, IT IS LOW, IT'S IN A TOPOGRAPHIC BOWL.

WHAT DOES THAT MEAN? ALL THE LAND AROUND IT IS HIGH.

SO THAT MEANS WHEN IT RAINS, IT'S GONNA HOLD ALL THAT WATER AND IT'S GOTTA GET OUT THROUGH THEATER DITCH SOUTH RIGHT NOW.

SO RIGHT NOW AVENUE INN DRAINS BY A STORM SEWER BACK FROM JUNKER ALL THE WAY BACK AND GETS IN THE THEATER DITCH SOUTH AND THEN GOES SOUTH TO DRY CREEK.

THAT'S WHAT HAPPENS TODAY.

THEATER DITCH SOUTH BY ITSELF IS TOO SMALL FOR HOW MUCH DRAINAGE AREA GETS TO IT.

YOU GET A BIG RAIN, THE WATER'S COMING OUTTA THE DITCH SOUTH.

THE WATER ON AVENUE END CAN'T DRAIN INTO THE DITCH.

SO THESE IMPROVEMENTS ARE INTENDED TO HELP LOWER THE FLOODING, ALLOW AVENUE END STORM THROUGH TO HAVE BETTER OUTFALL INTO THEATER DITCH.

AND THEN HOPE, YOU KNOW, HELP REDUCE THE RISK OF FLOODING OF ALL THE HOMES ALONG AVENUE INN.

AND FOR Y'ALL'S ACCESS ALONG IT, UM, IT WILL BE FULLY CONCRETE LINED.

IF YOU LOOK DOWN AVENUE INN, THAT DITCH IS NOT MUCH WIDER THAN FROM HERE TO THERE, THERE IS NO ROOM TO DO GRASS LINE SIDE SLOPES THAT COULD BE MAINTAINED.

YOU CAN SEE IT RIGHT NOW.

THOSE GRASS LINE SIDE SLOPES ARE STEEPER THAN TWO TO ONE.

THAT'S A REALLY STEEP SLOPE FOR WE LIKE FOUR TO ONE OR FLATTER FOR, UH, GRASS LINE MAINTENANCE SIDE SLOPES.

SO YOU'RE GONNA HAVE CONCRETE LINING.

IT'S GONNA BE VERTICAL WALL AT THE BOTTOM.

WE, WE HAD NO CHOICE.

THE RIGHT OF WAY IS TOO NARROW WITHOUT BUYING OUT HOMES, WHICH WAS NEVER ON THE TABLE.

BUT WITHOUT DOING THAT, WE CANNOT GET THE CROSS SECTION.

WE NEED TO, UH, IMPROVE THAT.

THERE WILL BE A NEW CULVERT UNDER AVENUE INN.

AND SO I THINK EARLIER Y'ALL ASKED IF AVENUE IT WILL BE SHUT DOWN TEMPORARILY TO REPLACE THAT CULVERT.

UM, AND THEN LAUREL STREET WILL ALSO HAVE SOME BIG CULVERTS PUT UNDER HOW LONG TEMPORARILY IT NEEDS TO BE VERY, VERY SHORT TIME SIR.

YEAH, IT, WE'LL HAVE TO WORK WITH THE CONTRACTOR.

THIS IS PROBABLY, THEY'LL PROBABLY PHASE IT.

YOU KNOW, WHEN WE DID AIRPORT, OH, EXCUSE ME, WE DID AIRPORT PHASE ONE.

WE WERE ABLE TO DO THAT, GET IT IN OVER A WEEKEND AND GET TEMPORARY ASPHALT BACK ON THERE.

SO THEN THAT WAY IT COULD BE OPENED BACK UP.

AND THEN THEY CAME BACK IN AND CLEANED UP THE, THE PAVING.

WE GOT FIVE SCHOOLS ON AVENUE.

OH YEAH, WE, I GOT, I GOT A QUESTION.

WE'LL MAKE SURE THAT'S FULLY COORDINATED.

OH, MR. COX, WHAT ABOUT ON LEONARD AVENUE WHERE IT HITS? THERE'S A, I KNOW YOU CAN'T CROSS BARRICADE.

NO.

YEAH, IT'S A BARRICADE TO GO TO AVENUE O.

ARE WE DOING ANY ACROSS STREET THERE? NO SIR.

WE TOOK IT OUT FOR A COST MEASURES TO GET THE PRICE.

OH YEAH.

THERE WAS A, WE ORIGINALLY, WE WERE TRYING TO, AND THEN, UH, THE COST OH, TO OPEN UP LEONARD ALL THE WAY TO, TO AVENUE OLD.

THAT WOULD'VE BEEN A GOOD IDEA.

SINCE WE'RE CLOSING DOWN AVENUE FOR A BIT.

WE ORIGINALLY HAD IT, OH, TEMPORARILY AS A DETOUR.

WE, WE ORIGINALLY HAD THAT AS PART OF THE, WE ORIGINALLY HAD THAT AS PART OF THE PROJECT TO KEEP, TO PUT A BOX THERE SO WE CAN HAVE ACCESS FROM ONE TO THE OTHER.

BUT AS PRICES HAVE GONE UP, WE NEED TO FIND PLACES THAT WE NEED TO CUT TO, TO DO IT, TO DO IT.

SO THAT'S ONE OF THE PLACES THAT WE ENDED UP CUTTING.

UH, UH, TEMPORARILY I'D BE OKAY WITH THAT, BUT I DON'T, BUT BUT THEN WHEN THE PROJECT'S OVER REMOVED THE, I WOULDN'T LEAVE IT OPEN.

BUT FROM A TEMPORARY STANDPOINT, IF YOU'RE GONNA PUT TEMPORARY CARD IN, YOU MIGHT AS WELL MAKE IT PERMANENT.

YEAH, IT'S GONNA BE THE, THAT'S PRETTY MUCH THE SAME COST.

THAT'S A DEEP.

SO, AND I'M, I'M NOT GONNA HOLD YOU UP TOO MUCH, BUT THAT'S VERY STEEP.

Y'ALL GONNA BE ABLE TO POUR CONCRETE ON THOSE SIDES ON A YEAH, THEY CAN DO IT ON A SLUM.

A SLUMP TWO SLUMP, ONE CONCRETE 60 DEGREE.

LOOKED LIKE A 60 DEGREE ANGLE THERE.

TWO, ONE IS YOU, YOU GOTTA POUR REAL DRY.

BECAUSE IT'S GONNA, IT'S GONNA RUN.

IT'S GONNA RUN.

WE UH, UH, ALRIGHT, CITY HOUSTON DRIVING THERE.

THERE'S ALL THE ONE SLOW PAY DITCHES THAT, THAT ARE REALLY STEEP.

SO I MEAN IT'S LIKE THIS.

ANYWAY.

THE PURPOSE OF ALL THAT IS TO HAVE A WELL GRADED POND BOTTOM SO YOU'RE NOT HOLDING WATER SO THAT WAY YOUR GRASS CAN GROW.

OKIE DO THE NEXT ACTIVITY IS THREE AND FOUR IS WRAPS AND THE POND.

THEY WERE SEPARATE ACTIVITIES AS PART OF CONSTRUCTION PLANS.

WE JUST COMBINED 'EM INTO ONE 'CAUSE IT MADE SENSE.

HAVE ONE CONTRACTOR HANDLE EVERYTHING.

SO WE'LL TALK ABOUT 'EM TOGETHER.

UH, THIS PROJECT ORIGINATED WELL EVEN BEFORE THEN, BUT IN 2018 Y'ALL DID A MASTER DRAINAGE PLAN THAT I LOOKED AT FLOODING ISSUES THAT WERE OCCURRING IN THIS AREA, THE DETENTION POND AND CHANNEL IMPROVEMENTS FOR THE RECOMMENDATION OUT OF THAT.

AND EVEN BEFORE THAT, IN 2024, KELLY KALUZA DID A STUDY FOR Y'ALL THAT IDENTIFIED THE POND.

AND SO WE, IN 2018, IT PRETTY MUCH COPIED THAT SAME POND.

UM, BUT ESSENTIALLY IT'S A 22 ACRE POND.

THIS IS A DRY BOTTOM POND, CONCRETE LINE PILOT CHANNELS.

YOU SEE THOSE LINES CUTTING THROUGH THE MIDDLE OF IT RIGHT THERE.

THOSE ARE THE CONCRETE LINE PILOT CHANNELS.

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THE CHANNEL IMPROVEMENTS.

YOU'RE NOT GETTING, YOU KNOW, EROSION THAT'S OCCURRING.

YOU'RE NOT GETTING STANDING WATER WITH MOSQUITOES AND OTHER PESTS.

SO THAT'S THE PURPOSE OF THE, UH, CONCRETE LINE PILOT CHANNELS AND THE WELL GRADED PALM BOTTOM.

IT'S VERY SIMILAR.

THEATER DITCH YOU HAVE VERY LIMITED RIGHT OF WAY.

WE NEED AS MUCH FLOW AS WE CAN.

TWO TO ONE CONCRETE LINE SIDE SLOPES.

THE POINT OF THIS IS THERE'S A LOT OF FLOODING ALONG TIMBER LANE AND LANE DRIVE.

WE'RE REDUCING THOSE, THOSE FLOODING ELEVATIONS.

I'M GONNA COME BACK TO THAT SIDE.

SO THIS IS, THIS RIGHT HERE IS WHAT YOUR POND'S GONNA LOOK LIKE.

THAT PICTURE IS A PICTURE OF YOUR CURRENT DRY CREEK REGIONAL BASIN, WHICH IS OFF RICEVILLE ROAD THAT Y'ALL BUILT ON DRY CREEK.

UH, I DON'T KNOW HOW DEEP IS THAT? EIGHT OR NINE AGO? WE'RE LOOKING AT THAT.

WHAT'S THE ELEVATION ON IT? THAT POND'S RIGHT THERE IS WHAT, EIGHT TO 14 FEET? YES.

DEPENDING ON WHERE YOU'RE AT, CHARLIE OR RICO, IT'S GONNA BE DEEPER THAN YEAH.

THIS IS A DEEPER POND THAN THE RAS BUY ONE WHEN IT RAINS HARD.

UH, IT IT'S STORAGE.

AND YEAH, IT, IT MIGHT MAKE A GOOD DOG PARK OR SOME OTHER FACILITY LATER ON THE FUTURE.

IT IT IS, YOU KNOW, THE, THE FLOOD CONTROL ONLY NEEDS IT ONCE A YEAR.

NOT .

NOT NOT EVERY DAY.

WELL WE JUST WANNA MAKE SURE TO TELL FOLKS 'CAUSE THEY'RE GONNA SAY WE DON'T NEED TO CREATE ANY MORE PERMANENT, UH, MOSQUITO PONDS.

SO I HAVE A CONCERN ABOUT THAT WET, THAT WET ONE.

BUT ANYWAY, WE CAN TALK ABOUT THAT LATER.

BUT FOR THE MOST PART, THESE ARE ALL FOR STORAGE.

WHEN THE RIVER GOES DOWN, WHEN THE CREEK GOES DOWN, THESE WILL GO DOWN.

JUST, JUST LIKE WHAT YOU'RE EXPERIENCING WITH THIS POND RIGHT HERE.

THAT'S HOW THESE OTHER PONDS WILL WORK.

SO THIS IS A NET GAIN FOR STORAGE AND IT'S BASICALLY FOR, I MEAN, ANYTIME IT RAINS, BUT UH, GONNA BE MOSTLY UTILIZED IN THESE HIGH WATER EVENTS.

WE GET THESE 5, 6, 7, 8 INCHES OF RAIN AND TWO, THREE HOURS.

GOT IT.

SO THIS IS JUST A QUICK SUMMARY OF THE HYDRAULIC MODEL.

WHAT'S IN KIND OF PINKISH THERE OR SAME IN WHATEVER COLOR YOU SEE THAT AS.

THAT'S THE EXISTING FLOOD PLAIN AND THE BLUE IS A LIGHT FLOODPLAIN.

SO YOU CAN SEE GOOD RE GOOD REDUCTION ALONG LANE.

ANYTHING IN PEAK IS A, IS FULLY OUT OF THE FLOODPLAIN.

AND THEN EVEN IN THE BLUE, THOSE ARE BEING REDUCED BY HALF A FOOT TO TWO FEET.

SO YOU'RE GETTING A LOT OF REDUCTION OUT OF THIS POND IN THESE CHANNEL IMPROVEMENTS FOR THIS AREA.

SO YOU SHOULD SEE A MUCH BETTER PERFORMANCE OF THE .

OH, I GOT A QUESTION ABOUT THAT.

IT IS GONNA GO UNDER THE TRAIN TRACK IN RICHMOND AND INTO VICTORIA DRIVE.

IS THIS GONNA SOMEHOW NEGATIVELY NO SIR.

IMPACT THOSE FOLKS? NO, WE ARE NOT ALLOWED TO NEGATIVELY IMPACT 'EM.

WE HAD TO PROVE THAT OUT WITH THE HYDRAULIC MODEL.

GOOD.

BECAUSE THERE WAS, THERE WAS, SOMEONE'S ALREADY ACCUSED US THAT IT, THAT OUR WORK ON THIS PROJECT IS GONNA FLOOD PEOPLE DOWNSTREAM.

NO SIR.

IT WILL NOT.

AND THAT YOUR 20, WELL, I DIDN'T BELIEVE IT ANYWAY.

I JUST WELL, YOUR 2018 STUDY WAS A PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN YOU AND CITY OF RICHMOND.

TO LOOK AT ALL OF THIS.

SO IT'S, YOU KNOW, THEY'RE, THEY UNDER THE CITY AT LEAST UNDERSTANDS WHAT'S GOING ON AND WHAT THE CONDITIONS ARE.

UM, FOR DETROIT, THEY WERE TALKING ABOUT IT'S GONNA FLOOD DOWNSTREAM IN THE GULF OF MEXICO, WHICH IS WHERE WE WANTED TO, TO FLOOD.

WE'RE, WE'RE FINE WITH THAT.

IF ONLY WE COULD GET IT TO THE GULF FAST ENOUGH, RIGHT? MM-HMM .

PONDING THAT'S OCCURRING IN THAT DE DEPRESSED AREA OF AVENUE INN.

UM, SO WE'LL HAVE TO SHUT DOWN SOME ROAD CROSSING.

SAME THING AT AVENUE INN WHERE WE HAVE TO REPLACE A BARREL.

WE'VE GOTTA REPLACE CULVERTS UNDERNEATH LANE AND PECAN MAN, UH, CONCRETE.

SO I'VE GOT THE SAME PECAN DRIVE ON MULTIPLE PROJECTS.

I GET THE ROSE MIXED UP, UH, PECAN PARK.

EXCUSE ME.

SO THIS IS AN, WHAT WE'LL DO IS WE'LL HAVE TO SHUT DOWN THE ENTIRE ROAD, HAVE A DETOUR IN PLACE, GET THE CULVERT IN, GET THE PAVEMENT BACK, REOPEN THAT ROAD, DO THE NEXT CROSSING.

SO THEY'LL, THE CONTRACTOR WILL HAVE A PHASED DETOUR PLAN TO MAKE SURE PEOPLE CAN ACCESS AND GET THROUGH EVERYTHING WHILE WE REPLACE THESE CULVERTS, UH, THE GRABBER.

SO THINK BACK TO THEATER DISH SOUTH.

EVERYTHING I SAID ABOUT THE TOPOGRAPHY, THE, THE DIFFICULTY WITH GRABBER IS WHILE THE STORM SEWER FROM GOES FROM JUNKER AND DRAINS BACK TO THE DITCH SOUTH, THE TOPO FALLS FROM THE DITCH SOUTH BACK TO JUNKER.

WHICH IS WHY IT PAWNS SO HEAVILY AT JUNKER.

SO WHENEVER IT RAINS HARD, YOU GOT 64 ACRES OF DRAINAGE THAT'S COMING AND HITTING AVENUE INN.

AND IF IT DOESN'T GET IN THE INLET, IT'S COMING TOWARDS GRABBER.

AND THAT'S WHY YOU'RE GETTING ALL THAT INTENSE

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AND THEN IT PROPAGATES BACK AS CONSIDERED.

DITCH SOUTH DOESN'T HAVE ENOUGH CAPACITY.

SO WHAT WE HAD PROPOSED WAS RUNNING A LARGE BOX CULVERT.

ORIGINALLY IT WAS FROM THE CREEK ALL THE WAY BACK NOW THAT WE WERE ABLE TO ACQUIRE THIS PROPERTY FOR THE DETENTION POND IS FROM THE DETENTION POND UP GRABBER ON THE WEST SIDE OF GRABBER, TYING IN AT, AT, AT UH, AVENUE INN, AVENUE INN AND THEN TURNING AND THERE'S A BOX.

I DIDN'T DRAW IT IN RED, I'M SORRY.

IT TURNS TOWARDS JUNKER AND THERE'S BIG INLETS THAT ARE ALL RIGHT THERE.

THAT'S GOING WHEN THAT WATER GETS THERE, WE'LL GET IN THESE BIG INLETS, GET DOWN THIS BOX CULVERT AND GET OUT TO YOUR NEW DETENTION POND.

YOU, YOU SHOULD SEE A VERY REMARKABLE IMPROVEMENT IN THE CONDITIONS ALONG AVENUE AND WITH BOTH THESE PROJECTS IN PORT.

SO IT'LL GO UP A LITTLE BIT MORE.

IT'S NOT SHOWING HERE IN RED, BUT YES SIR.

IT GOES UP TO THAT FIRST INTERSECTION HERE.

YEAH, JUST SHORTER.

THAT FIRST INTERSECTION, THERE'S A BUNCH OF BIG INLETS AND A 12 BY FOUR IT GETS, IT'S COLLECTING ALL THAT THREE FEET OF WATER NOW.

SOMETIMES 2, 2, 2 OR THREE FEET OF WATER THERE AT TIMES RIGHT NOW.

WELL NOT RIGHT NOW, BUT WHEN IT'S, YOU KNOW, TORRENTIAL AND WHEN WE HAVE A TO RENT.

SO IT, YOU'RE GONNA SEE A LOT OF IMPROVEMENT ALONG AVENUE INN RIGHT HERE.

WE PUT, WHEN BOTH THESE PROJECTS ARE IN PLACE, I I I THINK IT'S GONNA LOOK IN FLOOD CONTROL.

IT CAN STILL RAIN ENOUGH ANY AT SOME POINT TO FLOOD ANYTHING.

WE'RE DESIGNING THESE THINGS FOR THE A HUNDRED YEAR STORM EVENT THAT'S 16 AND A HALF INCHES IN 24 HOURS.

YOU'RE GONNA HAVE REALLY GOOD PERFORMANCE IN ALMOST EVERY EVENT YOU'VE SEEN.

EVEN IN THE HARVEY'S YOU WILL SEE MUCH BETTER PERFORMANCE.

IT MAY STILL FLOOD A LITTLE, BUT YOU'RE STILL GONNA SEE A LOT OF IMPROVEMENT COMPARED TO WHAT YOU EXPERIENCED DURING HARVEY OR ANY OF THE OTHER EVENTS.

SO THOSE BOXES, UH, ON GRABBER WILL BE HOW DEEP WOULD YOU GUESS? 10, 12 FEET? THEY'RE, YEAH, THEY'RE ABOUT 10 OR 12 FEET DOWN TO CREATE THAT FALL.

I THINK THEY'RE, THEY'RE THEY, IT IS GOTTA COME UP IN THE MIDDLE FOR SOME CONFLICTS, BUT IT'S, IT'S ABOUT EIGHT.

IT'S ABOUT EIGHT TO 10 FEET IN DEPTH.

DO YOU KNOW THE EXACT DEPTH WAY? DO YOU REMEMBER? YEAH.

EIGHT TO 10 FEET DROP.

SO THAT'S GOOD.

OH, AND THE OTHER THING, WHEN AT WHATEVER POINT IN THE FUTURE YOU DO AN AVENUE IN RECONSTRUCTION, I RECOMMEND THAT YOU THEN TAKE THE STORM SEWER AND TIE IT INTO THIS BOX AND NOT THEATER DISH SOUTH.

THIS BOX IS DESIGNED TO FULLY CARRY ALL THAT FLOW.

IT WILL GET THAT WATER OUT A LOT BETTER THAN TRYING TO GO BACK TO THEATER DITCH SOUTH.

SO JUST SOMETHING FOR THE FUTURE, WHENEVER YOU DO AN AVENUE IN RECONSTRUCTION, BECAUSE AVENUE INN IS PRETTY, PRETTY HIGH.

NO, ITS PRETTY.

NO, NO.

THE OTHER PART HE'S TALKING ABOUT.

YEAH, I I'M I'M TALKING ABOUT IF YOU WERE BUILDING BACK TOWARDS, UH, RADIO LANE, THEN THAT'S, THAT'S BEEN, THAT THAT WAS DONE IN THE LATE NINETIES.

I'M SAYING WHENEVER YOU GET TO THE POINT THAT THAT ROAD NEEDS TO BE REPLACED, WE NEED TO TAKE THE STORM SEWER AND TIE IT INTO THIS BOX AND NOT THE OTHER DIRECTION.

I MEAN THAT COULD STILL BE 20 YEARS.

IT'S, IT'S WHENEVER IT FALLS IN YOUR CIP PROGRAM GOT ANOTHER PART THAT, YOU KNOW, THE PART ACROSS FROM THE SCHOOL BETWEEN GREENWOOD AND THE SCHOOL.

THAT'S ASPHALT ROAD OPEN DITCH.

AND IT NEVER FLOODS 'CAUSE IT'S TWO FEET HIGHER THAN AVENUE INN FROM THE OTHER PART OF AVENUE INN.

SO IT ALL GOES THERE.

SO IT'S BLOCKING YOUR INTERSECTION RIGHT NOW, ? YEAH.

SO, ALRIGHT.

UH, THIS IS A DETOUR PLANNED.

UH, THE WAY THAT WE WILL PHASE THE CONSTRUCTION IS WE WILL SHUT DOWN GRAVER WILL NOT HAVE TWO-WAY CONSTRUCTION THE ENTIRE AT ALL DURING THE PROJECT.

WE'LL SHUT THE ENTIRE THING DOWN AND WE'RE GONNA DO CHUNKS AND THEN REOPEN THE NEXT CHUNK AND THEN READ, THEN ADJUST THE DETOUR PLAN.

THIS HAS BEEN DISCUSSED WITH THE SCHOOL, SO THEY ARE AWARE OF THE PLANS AND, UH, HAVE THEIR COMMENTS TO, YOU KNOW, HOW IT WOULD AFFECT THEIR OPERATION.

SO DO KNOW THAT'S A PRETTY BACKED UP ROAD DURING A PICKUP TIME AT GEORGE JUNIOR HIGH THERE.

HMM.

UH, JUST OUTTA CURIOSITY, WHEN DO Y'ALL PLAN TO DO THAT ONE? I THINK THEY SAID MARCH.

OH, SORRY.

I THINK HE SAID MARCH.

JUST TO SEE THEY CAN HIT THE SUMMER, RIGHT? YEAH.

WHAT DID I SAY THERE? WELL, WE WE'RE STARTING AS SOON AS WE CAN.

WE GOTTA GET DONE.

WELL, YEAH, I MEAN, IT'S BID, IT'S, IT'S READY.

SO THAT'S GONNA GO THROUGH CHRISTMAS AND YES.

WE'LL TRY TO FINISH UP BEFORE THE END OF SUMMER.

WELL, THAT WOULD'VE BEEN THE TIME TO START ACTUALLY AT THE BEGINNING OF SUMMER.

BUT THE, THE CORPS OF ENGINEERS DIDN'T, DIDN'T PLAY NICE WITH THEIR TIMING FOR US.

DOING IS RE IT IS IN POOR SHAPE.

WELL, WE'LL HAVE TO TELL 'EM WHO TO COMPLAIN TO.

THEN.

, UM, THEATER DITCH NORTH, IF Y'ALL REMEMBER, THE ORIGINAL PLAN FOR THIS WAS TO DO FULL CONCRETE LINING ALL THE WAY UP TO, UH, AVENUE H.

THIS IS A PROJECT THAT WE SCALED BACK TO, HIT THE FUNDING NEEDS.

SO NOW WHAT WE'RE

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IT'S HARD TO MAINTAIN.

IT'S GOT A LOT OF EROSION AND, AND IT'S SUPER FLAT.

SO WHAT WE'RE PLANNING TO DO IS TO REGRADE SIZE SLOPES, TRY TO GIVE YOU AS MUCH BENEFIT AS WE CAN WITHOUT HAVING TO DO ANY SLOPE PAVING.

SO THIS IS A SCALE BACK PROJECT THAT, UM, UH, TOOK OUT ALL THE SLOW PAVING AND, BUT YOU HAVE PLANS FOR IT.

SO IN THE FUTURE, IF YOU DO HAVE FUNDING, YOU HAVE CONSTRUCTION PLANS THAT YOU CAN GO TO BID.

AND SO Y'ALL ARE GONNA DO THIS PROJECT ACTIVITY SIX? YES SIR.

WE HAVE TO DO IT.

SOME OF THAT IS UNDER CONCRETE UNDERGROUND, UNDER, UH, H, L AND P WE, NO, UH, WE'RE WE'RE ONLY DOING THE, THE OPEN DITCH.

OH, OKAY.

YOU'RE ONLY DOING UP TO AVENUE H? YES, SIR.

YEAH, WE'RE NOT GOING NORTH OF AVENUE H.

THERE IS A WATER LEAK BY THE, UM, IN, IN ONE OF THESE BY, WHAT DO Y'ALL WANT TO DO ABOUT THAT? IN, BY THE ONE BY THE CAR WASH.

THERE'S WATER ALWAYS IN THAT.

THERE'S WATER ALWAYS IN THERE BECAUSE THERE'S A, I BELIEVE JUST THE GRADING OUT THERE, THERE'S ACTUALLY A SANITARY SEWER LINE THAT, UH, WILL NEED TO BE ADJUSTED SO WE CAN GET THAT DE TO CLEAR THAT WATER.

SO IS THAT SEWER, SANITARY SEWER WATER? NO, NO.

IT IS JUST WATER BEING HELD BACK BECAUSE THERE'S A, A SANITARY SEWER LINE THAT CROSSES THAT AREA AND HOLDS WATER BACK.

BUT IT LOOKS LIKE IT'S FRESH WATER INTRUDING INTO THAT DITCH.

OH.

I MEAN, THERE'S BIG FISH IN IT AND WELL, IF OKAY.

WE, WE CAN CHECK IT OUT IF THERE'S FISH.

WELL, YEAH, IF THERE'S A LEAK, WE CAN GO OUT THERE AND TAKE A LOOK AT IT.

SEE, SEE IF THERE'S, WELL THEY TRIED TO FIX IT YEARS AGO.

I REPORTED IT FIVE YEARS AGO, 10 YEARS AGO MAYBE.

ANYWAY, UH, WELL THIS IS RIGHT THROUGH THAT.

SO GOOD LUCK WITH THAT SIR.

, I HOPE Y'ALL CAN FIND THAT LEAK.

NO, THERE IS, THERE IS A FRESH WATER LEAK.

OH YEAH, I REPORTED IT TOO.

I REMEMBER THAT.

THERE IS A FRESH WATER LEAK UNDER THE CAR WASH IN THAT, IN THAT DITCH RIGHT THERE.

SO YOUR GUYS ARE GONNA FIND THAT WHEN THEY GET IN THERE, BUT I DON'T KNOW.

WELL, WE'LL SEE.

BUT THAT'LL BE GOOD BECAUSE THERE PEOPLE COMPLAIN ABOUT THAT.

BUT THERE'S, UM, THERE'S ALWAYS STANDING WATER THERE.

I DON'T CARE HOW DRY IT IS.

THERE'S TWO FOOT OF STANDING FRESH CLEAR.

JUST IT'S BEEN THERE FOR 10 YEARS AT LEAST.

I DON'T KNOW.

I REMEMBER TELLING RIGO ABOUT IT IN 2018 AND IT, IT WAS, UH, YOU TESTED IT AND THERE WAS CHLORINE IN IT.

YEAH, THEY SAID IT.

UH, DOUG KNOWS ALL ABOUT IT.

HE, HE'S, HE TRIED TO DAM IT UP ON BOTH SIDES AND PUMP THE WATER OUT AND THEY NEVER COULD GET IT.

BUT MAYBE IT'S SOMETHING, WE'LL TALK ABOUT THAT LATER.

UH, THE LAST, THE LAST ACTIVITY IS THE RAILROAD TRACK CULVERT.

AND THIS IS UP OLD RICHMOND ROAD.

THE IDEA WAS TO TRY TO GIVE A LITTLE FLOOD RELIEF TO THE DOWNTOWN AREA BY PUNCHING ANOTHER, THE CULVERT UNDERNEATH THE RAILROAD TRACK.

THAT PROJECT WENT OUT TO BID.

AND WHEN WE WENT TO THE RAILROAD TO GET THE PERMIT COST TO DO THE PERMITS, THE EXPENSE WAS SO GREAT.

IT WAS MORE THAN THE CONSTRUCTION COST OF THE PROJECT.

AND SO WE CANCELED THAT PARTICULAR ACTIVITY.

MAKES SENSE.

SO, IN SUMMARY, THOSE ARE ALL THE ACTIVITIES.

UH, WE'RE AIMING TO BE FULLY DONE WITH CONSTRUCTION END OF NOVEMBER NEXT YEAR.

SO WE GOT A LOT OF WORK TO DO.

UM, NOT A LOT OF TIME.

SO HOPEFULLY NO HURRICANES IN THE MEANTIME.

THAT'S THE BIGGEST THING THAT'LL HOLD US UP.

UH, A LITTLE, A LITTLE DROUGHTS NOT A BAD THING FOR CONSTRUCTION OF DRAINAGE IMPROVEMENTS.

NO.

SO THE CITY GOT A GRANT FOR 47 AND A HALF MILLION DOLLARS, BUT I THINK IT'S EXCEEDED THAT.

SO HOW MUCH ALTOGETHER WILL THE CITY HAVE TO CHIP IN? WHAT'S THE TOTAL PROJECT NOW? 55, 50 6 MILLION.

54 MILLION I THINK TO DATE.

UM, WE'VE ALREADY PUT IN, WELL, I MEAN THREE TO 4 MILLION.

UM, AND WE MAY NEED A COUPLE MORE, BUT IT'S NOT GONNA BE TOO MUCH MORE.

SO I'M TELLING FOLKS IT'S, IT'S MORE THAN THE 47 AND A HALF MILLION THEN.

MM-HMM .

WELL, LET'S SEE IF THE COUNCIL HAS ANY OTHER QUESTIONS, THEN WE'RE GONNA TAKE SOME QUESTIONS FROM OUR CITIZENS OUT HERE IF THEY HAVE ANY QUESTIONS OR JUST COMMENTS.

SO LET'S START WITH YOU, GEORGE.

DO YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT THIS PROJECT? ANY CLARIFICATION? I JUST DON'T, I JUST DON'T WANT IT TO BECOME LIKE, UH, MICROPHONE COMING FROM THE CAR WASH, COMING FROM THE CAR WASH, UH, TO, UH, AVENUE, UH, UH, H AND UH, LIKE, LIKE IT'S THAT THAT WHOLE CREEK THERE IS JUST LIKE, THEY'RE GONNA IMPROVE IT, SO IT'S TERRIBLE.

GONNA MAKE IT BETTER.

WHY DIDN'T YOU DO SOMETHING ABOUT THIS? AND WE SAW THAT THIS PAST SUMMER, UM, FOR THOSE PEOPLE WHO LOST A LOT.

RICHARD, NO QUESTION.

JESSICA.

NO, I'LL JUST SAY THAT I THINK THAT, YOU KNOW, WHENEVER THERE'S FLOODING AND THERE'S, YOU KNOW, LOSS OF LIFE AND PROPERTY, A LOT OF CITIZENS WILL LOOK AT THE GOVERNMENT AND SAY,

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AND SO WHILE IT MAY BE INCONVENIENT OR, YOU KNOW, PEOPLE ARE STRESSED OUT ABOUT THIS, IT IS OUR RESPONSIBILITY TO MAKE SURE THAT WE DON'T HAVE DISASTROUS FLOODING IN OUR CITY.

SO, DEFINITELY, YEAH.

AND IT'S A GOOD TIME BECAUSE IT'S KIND OF DRY RIGHT NOW.

SO GOOD TIME TO WORK.

HECTOR? NO, I THINK, UH, IT'S A GOOD PROJECT.

I THINK THAT, LIKE THEY SAID, IT'S BEEN IN THE WORKS AND IT'S GONNA, IT'S GONNA HELP A LOT OF THE, THROUGHOUT THE CITY AT THE END OF THE DAY.

STEVE, NO QUESTIONS? UH, FELIX? YEAH, I HAVE ONE QUESTION.

UM, WILL THESE IMPROVEMENTS ACTUALLY QUALIFY RESIDENTS TO LOWER THEIR INSURANCE PREMIUMS? 'CAUSE I KNOW THEY WERE IN THE FLOODED ZONE.

NOT, NOT DIRECTLY.

SO TO CHANGE A FEMA FLOODPLAIN MAP, YOU HAVE TO GO THROUGH A VERY SPECIFIC PROCESS.

SO ONCE THESE ARE COMPLETED AND CONSTRUCTED, YOU COULD GO THROUGH WHAT'S CALLED A LETTER OF MAP REVISION, WHERE YOU SUBMIT ALL THE ENGINEERING ANALYSIS AND THE DOCUMENTS TO FEMA TO GET THEM TO CHANGE THE FLIP PLANE MAPS.

AND THEN YOU CAN ALSO, OR CONVERSELY, YOU COULD WAIT UNTIL FEMA, UD FORT BEND COUNTY, WHICH WILL PROBABLY HAPPEN THE NEXT FIVE TO 10 YEARS, AND THEN THEY WILL PICK IT UP THEN.

ON THE FLOOD PLAIN MAP, THE ONLY WAY TO GET INSURANCE REDUCTION IS YOU HAVE TO CHANGE THE FLOOD PLAIN MAPS.

GOTCHA.

WOULD THIS, WILL THIS HELP? I WOULD ASSUME THIS WOULD HELP.

MINES, UH, THE FLOODING ON MINES, THAT'S MOSTLY GOING TO SEABORN.

IT WILL HELP TO THE EXTENT THAT THE MODELS SHOW IN THE REALLY BIG EVENTS THAT DRY CREEK CAN OVERTOP GO THROUGH THOSE APARTMENTS AND THEN COME DOWN LUIS AND HIT MINES.

BUT, SO THIS PROJECT WILL HELP WITH THAT.

BUT ANY LOCALIZED RAIN ON MINES IS GOING TO SEABORNE.

IT'S NOT GOING TO BE IMPACTED BY THIS PROJECT.

AND IS SEABORNE, UH, PRETTY WELL.

THEY ALL NEED, I GUESS, CAN USE IMPROVEMENT ONE DAY.

BUT, 'CAUSE SEABORN IS NOT A BIG CREEK EITHER.

I'M NOT GONNA GONNA COMMENT ON A CREEK, HAVEN'T RUN A HYDRAULIC MODEL ON, IF I RECALL, I THINK WE LOOKED AT THAT RIGHT.

RIGO, IT RUNS THROUGH, UH, FOURTH STREET, THE CULVERT'S ON THE OTHER SIDE.

59, RIGHT? IF I RECALL CORRECT.

THEN IT GOES, YEAH, IT GOES INTO SEABORN THERE, GOES TO THE PARK, AND THEN IT GOES INTO, WE HAVE A REGIONAL POND THERE THAT, UH, RIGHT NOW WE'RE IN DESIGN.

WE'RE, WE'RE IN ANOTHER DRAINAGE STUDY, UH, TO FINISH, UH, DESIGNING, UH, THE FUTURE PONDS THERE AT, AT THE PARK.

IS IT IN THE PARK? IN THE PARK? CORRECT.

WILL THAT HELP ON RETENTION OR ON, IS THAT, IS THAT GONNA BE USED FOR FLOOD MITIGATION? ABSOLUTELY.

NO, ABSOLUTELY.

WILDLIFE? NO, NO, THAT, THAT'S GONNA END UP, THAT'S GONNA BE FOR, FOR YEAH.

TO HELP WITH FLOODING FOR DETENTION.

UM, OKAY.

SO LET'S SEE WHAT, UH, IF ANY OF OUR CITIZENS, WE'RE GONNA START WITH LADIES FIRST.

CAROLYN, DO YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT THIS PROJECT? NO, I THINK IT'S NEEDED.

DR.

IVES, THANK YOU FOR BEING PATIENT.

, WHY DON'T YOU COME UP AND TELL US WHAT YOUR, WHAT YOUR, IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS OR EVEN SOME SUGGESTIONS.

IS THIS ON? IS THIS ON? YES, SIR, IT IS.

IT'S ON.

THE, UM, CERTAINLY WE, WE APPRECIATE THE, THE PROJECT.

CAN YOU SAY YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS PLEASE? FOR THE RECORD? WHAT'S THAT? I'M SORRY.

I'M DAN IVES, 2,500 PECAN DRIVE, ROSENBERG, TEXAS.

AND, UH, FIRST OF ALL, I, I REALLY WOULD LIKE TO SAY THAT, UH, YOU MENTIONED ABOUT PLAY AREAS IN REGARD TO THESE DETENTION PONDS.

AND, UH, YOU, YOU LOOK AROUND THE, THE, YOU LOOK AROUND THE COUNTY AND WE GOT A NUMBER OF DETENTION PONDS.

THAT COULD BE, IT COULD BE PLAY AREAS IN SOME VARIOUS DIFFERENT WAYS AT, AT DRY TIMES FOR SURE.

AND, UH, WE'RE NOT UTILIZING THEM.

SO KEEP THAT IN MIND DOWN THE ROAD TO SEE IN REGARD TO LIABILITIES AND REGARD TO THE PIPING AND ALL THAT SORT OF THING THAT, THAT GOES IN THAT, UM, ON THE, UM, ON THE BOTTLENECKS BETWEEN, ON FOURTH AND LOUISE AND AIRPORT, ARE THOSE GONNA BE BOTTLENECKS THAT ARE GONNA HAVE TO BE WIDENED OR, OR WHAT'S GONNA HAPPEN IN, IN THOSE POINTS? UH, ULTIMATELY ALL THREE ARE SLATED FOR IMPROVEMENTS IN WHAT IS THE CURRENT CONSTRUCTION CONTRACT WILL ONLY BE WORK UNDERNEATH AIRPORT LOUISE AND FOURTH STREET WILL BE IN THE FUTURE PROJECT.

UH, ONCE WE GET TO THAT, ONCE THE CITY HAS IT, FUNDS TO DO THAT.

TOWARD THE END OF THE PROJECT? THE, HE'S WONDERED ABOUT TIMELINE.

SO WHEN, WHEN WILL BE THE AREA BETWEEN FOURTH, THE FOURTH STREET AND LOUISE, WHEN WILL, WHEN WILL, WHEN WILL THAT HAPPEN

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HE'S THE GRADING.

YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT THIS RIGHT HERE? STARTING RIGHT HERE? YEAH.

GOING TO, UH, SO THE, THE GRADING WILL PROBABLY BID THAT PROJECT SOMEWHERE JANUARY, AND THEN WE'LL WORK WITH THE CONTRACTOR TO FIGURE OUT HIS TIMING OF WHEN HE DOES WHAT ALON DRY CREEK.

WELL, NORMALLY THEY WORK WELL, I THOUGHT, I THOUGHT YOU MENTIONED THAT, THAT YOU'RE GONNA START DOWN LINE AND, AND COME BACK TO FOURTH STREET, RIGHT? YES, SIR.

NORMALLY COME BACK TO 36.

NORMALLY THE CONTRACTORS START AT THE DOWNSTREAM END AND WORK THEIR WAY UP.

THEY MAYBE 'CAUSE OF TIMELINE, THEY MAY PUT TWO CREWS OUT THERE AND START, DO ONE FROM LOUIS TO FOURTH AND RUN FROM 2218 TO AIRPORT.

SO THAT'LL BE A CONTRACTOR DECISION ON HOW HE MANS AND, AND FACES THAT.

SO WE, WE DON'T, WE DON'T KNOW SPECIFICALLY, IN OTHER WORDS, IN JANUARY OR OCTOBER, CORRECT, SIR? YES, SIR.

WE DON'T KNOW.

IT'LL PROBABLY BE BEFORE OCTOBER WHEN YOU, WHEN YOU DO KNOW, LET US KNOW SO WE CAN LET THEM KNOW AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.

I THINK THAT'S WHAT DR.

IVES IS GETTING AT.

HE WANTS TO NOTIFY THE PEOPLE AND WE WILL NOTIFY OUR RESIDENTS OR NEIGHBORS, THE OTHER FOLKS THAT LIVE AROUND.

SO ONCE WE GO OUT TO BED AND WE END UP HAVING THE PRE-CONSTRUCTION MEETING WITH THE, WITH THE CONTRACTOR, HE ENDS UP HAVING TO SUBMIT A SCHEDULE OF WHERE HE IS GONNA END UP STARTING BECAUSE WE CAN'T TELL HIM HOW TO DO THE PROJECT.

THEY, THEY JUST LET US KNOW, UH, HOW THEY WANT TO, UH, WHERE THEY WANNA START AND HOW THEY'RE GONNA END UP COMPLETING IT.

SOON AS WE KNOW, WE GOTTA LIVE AS SOON.

YEAH, WE'RE GONNA DEFINITELY HAVE TO LET EVERYBODY IN YOUR SUBDIVISION KNOW AND EVERYONE THAT'S GONNA BE AFFECTED, WE'RE GONNA GIVE THEM A HEADS UP TO MAKE SURE THAT EVERYONE KNOWS THAT THERE'S GONNA BE PEOPLE WORKING IN THE DITCH.

SO THESE BOTTLENECKS THAT ARE GONNA BE IMPROVED, WHEN WILL THAT HAPPEN? AT, AT, IN OTHER WORDS, WILL IT HAPPEN AT THE SAME TIME THEY'RE WORKING IN THAT PARTICULAR AREA OR NOT? YOU DON'T KNOW TO, WELL, TO CLARIFY, LOUISE AND FOURTH STREET WILL NOT HAPPEN NEXT YEAR.

THAT HAS TO BE IN A FUTURE CITY PROJECT BECAUSE OF FUNDING ISSUES.

SO WE'VE GOT, WE DO HAVE A BOTTLENECK THERE.

SO AIRPORT WILL BE PART OF THIS PROJECT AND THAT WILL BE IMPROVED THROUGH AIRPORT AVENUE.

SO THE DETENTION POND WILL, IS GONNA HELP IN REGARD TO THAT POINT UP TO AIRPORT FROM 36.

I MEAN, THE DETENTION POND'S GONNA HELP ALL ALONG THE, THE SYSTEM, THE ONE THAT'S UPSTREAM AND LUIS WILL GIVE MORE BENEFIT DIRECTLY TO UPSTREAM AND LUIS.

AND THE ONE DOWNSTREAM WILL GIVE MORE BENEFIT TO THE, TO THE, UH, SO ONE THING, DRY CREEK, WHEN WE'RE DOING THIS, WE'VE GOT TO THINK ABOUT AS COUNSEL TO BE ABLE TO TAKE CARE OF THIS PROBLEM DOWN THE LINE IN REGARD TO THESE TWO BOTTLENECKS.

WHAT, WHEN YOU SAY BOTTLENECKS, I, I MEAN, I LIVE RIGHT THERE AND OF COURSE YOU DO TOO.

I I, THERE ARE TIMES, YOU KNOW, DRY CREEK, IT LOOKS LIKE A RAGING, IT LOOKS LIKE, YOU KNOW, BRAUS RIVER, MISSISSIPPI YEAH.

MISSISSIPPI RIVER.

BUT, UM, BUT IT'S GETTING THROUGH, UH, YOU'RE SAYING THAT IT JUST, IT SQUEEZES DOWN.

IN A REALLY BIG EVENT, PARTICULARLY BETWEEN, ALONG CAMBRIDGE VILLAGE DOWN TO LUIS, THAT'S THE TIGHTEST SPOT.

AND YOU, YOU NEEDED MORE FLOW CONVEYANCE TO HELP WITH THE UPSTREAM FLOODING.

SO YOU GOT THE FOURTH STREET CULVERTS THAT NEED TO BE ENLARGED AND YOU GOT THE LUIS CULVERTS THAT NEED TO BE IN OTHER WAYS TO BE PUT IN.

BUT WATER'S STILL GETTING, I MEAN, YES, IT'S STILL GETTING THROUGH.

I'VE, I'VE SEEN IT.

UM, AFTER WE DO THIS DOCTOR RISE, AND WE CAN DO, OF COURSE, IT'LL DEPEND ON AGREEABLE WITH, UH, CITY COUNCIL DO CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS TO MAKE THOSE.

WE JUST HAD TO GET THIS 47 AND A HALF MILLION FROM THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TO GET GOING ON THIS.

UNDERSTAND.

I JUST WANT, I DON'T WANT YOU TO FORGET IT.

NO, NO.

WELL, AND UH, SO ANY RATE THAT I DON'T THINK YOU'LL LET US FORGIVE THAT THAT, UH, WELL, I, I MAY NOT BE HERE, YOU KNOW.

WELL, I SEE THAT'S THE THING ABOUT IT.

NONE OF US MAY BE HERE EITHER.

SO WE'VE GOT TO REMIND OURSELVES AND THE STAFF.

I THINK IT'S GOOD THINGS TO BRING UP.

UH, THERE ARE PEOPLE THAT KEEP LISTS.

UM, SOMETIMES THERE'S STUFF ON THE LIST HERE TOO LONG THAT THEY SHOULDN'T BE, THEY GET OBSOLETE.

WELL, WE HAD A NUMBER OF QUESTIONS ANSWERED WHILE Y'ALL WERE IN SESSION.

OH, YOU DID? OKAY.

AND, UH, WE APPRECIATE, UH, CHARLIE AND, AND THE ENGINEER BEING ABLE TO ANSWER A NUMBER OF THOSE QUESTIONS FOR US.

RICHARD'S ONE OF YOUR REPRESENTATIVE, AND I'M ONE OF YOUR REPRESENTATIVES.

THAT'S GOOD INFORMATION TO KNOW.

THANK YOU, DR.

IVES.

UM, RICHARD, DID YOU OR YOUR, UH, NEIGHBOR HERE HAVE ANY QUESTIONS SPECIFIC? WE'VE GOT ALL OUR QUESTIONS ANSWERED EARLIER WITH, UH, ENGINEER.

OKAY, WELL, HEY, YOU KNOW, THERE'S NO, UH, THERE'S NO EXPIRATION DATE ON THAT.

IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS NOW FOR Y'ALL'S NEIGHBORHOOD, YOU KNOW, HECTOR IS YOUR SINGLE MEMBER, DISTRICT REPRESENTATIVE.

JESSICA'S ONE OF YOUR REPRESENTATIVE.

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SAME THING WITH CAROLYN, DR.

IVES, UM, AND MELISSA, YOU KNOW THAT FELIX IS YOUR REPRESENTATIVE, YOUR SINGLE MEMBER REPRESENTATIVE.

SO THANK Y'ALL SO MUCH.

UM, WE WANT TO TRY TO PUT OUT AS MUCH OF THIS INFORMATION IN AS MUCH DETAIL AS POSSIBLE.

SOMETIMES FOLKS SAY, WELL, THAT'S TOO MUCH DETAIL.

IT'S BETTER TO GIVE THEM TOO MUCH THAN TO GIVE THEM TOO LITTLE.

SO WE'RE GONNA DO THAT AND FOLKS ARE WELCOME.

UH, IF FOLKS ARE SEEING OR HEARING THIS, UH, UH, THAT ARE NOT HERE, THEY'RE WELCOME TO COME.

THEY'RE WELCOME TO REACH OUT.

'CAUSE THIS IS GONNA BE A BIG PROJECT.

IT BRINGS A LOT OF VALUE.

UH, IT'S GONNA BE AN INCONVENIENCE FOR, UM, FOR FOLKS AROUND HERE FOR ABOUT A YEAR.

UM, JU JUST IN TIME FOR THE MAY ELECTIONS NEXT YEAR.

SO ANYWAYS, BUT WHEN IT'S DONE, UH, AS JESSICA SAID, UM, IT'S GONNA BE A BIG IMPROVEMENT.

WE'RE GONNA HAVE THESE AREAS, UH, THAT ARE GONNA STORE WATER TO AVOID THINGS.

SOME OF THE THINGS LIKE, AND WE WERE PRETTY LUCKY AT A HURRICANE HARVEY, THESE FUNDS ARE A RESULT OF HER HURRICANE HARVEY.

THAT'S HOW LONG IT TAKES TO GET THINGS DONE.

UH, PRESIDENT TRUMP AT THE TIME GAVE A GRANT TO THE STATE AND THEN THE STATE PUSHED IT OUT, UM, FROM THERE.

AND THE CITY APPLIED, UH, IN 2020 FOR THIS GRANT.

AND HERE WE ARE FIVE YEARS LATER.

AND SO THAT'S HOW LONG THINGS TAKE.

BUT 47 AND A HALF MILLION DOLLARS, THAT'S A LOT OF MONEY.

THANK YOU, SIR.

CAN I ADD ONE COMMENTARY TO THAT? IRONICALLY, Y'ALL ARE ONE OF THE FASTEST ONES ABOUT TO BE IN CONSTRUCTION IN THESE BIG PROJECTS.

SO, I MEAN, READ ABOUT HARRIS COUNTY AND FLOOD CONTROL AND THE PROBLEMS WE'RE HAVING WITH, WELL, THE STAFF DID A LOT OF WORK ON THIS, UM, UH, HEC WHEN HECTOR AND GEORGE WERE ON HERE, I WANT TO, UH, COMMEND THEM FOR, FOR STICKING WITH IT.

Y'ALL WERE ELECTED IN IN 2022.

UM, THE REST OF US WERE ELECTED AND RE UH, REELECTED IN 2024.

AND, UM, I HAD BEEN MAYOR, UH, UH, ONCE UNTIL 2021 AND WAS NOT HERE FOR THREE YEARS.

AND THE STAFF CONTINUED TO WORK ON IT AND TO DEAL WITH THE BUREAUCRACY OF, UH, OF ALL OF THIS.

AND I GUESS, YOU KNOW, YOU WERE WORKING WITH THEM TOO.

SO THANK Y'ALL ALL FOR YOUR PATIENCE AND YOUR DUE DILIGENCE.

UM, WE'RE GONNA HAVE SOME, A FEW UPSET CITIZENS, BUT WE'RE GONNA HAVE TO EXPLAIN TO 'EM THAT THIS IS A, A DRAINING, A BASIN DRAINING.

SO, UM, I THINK IN THE END, UH, IT'S GONNA BE, WELL, WELL WORTH THE, THE SUFFRAGE.

SO THANK Y'ALL.

ALRIGHT, WE BETTER MOVE ON 'CAUSE IT'S ALREADY AFTER NONE.

SO LET'S SEE IF WE CAN GET THROUGH HERE PRETTY QUICK.

THANK YOU, SIR.

ANYWAY, REVIEW AND DISCUSS,

[3. Review and discuss permitting fees, fines, and penalties, and take action as necessary to direct staff. (Brian Swint, Building Official) ]

UH, PERMITTING FEES, FINES AND PENALTIES, AND TAKE ACTION AS NECESSARY.

DIRECT STAFF.

BRIAN SWINTT.

GOOD AFTERNOON, MAYOR.

COUNSEL AT THE REQUEST OF CITY COUNCIL DURING THE FEBRUARY 25TH, 2025 CITY COUNCIL WORKSHOP MEETING.

THIS ITEM HAD BEEN, HAS BEEN PLACED ON THE AGENDA TO ALLOW CITY COUNCIL THE OPPORTUNITY TO REVIEW AND DISCUSS THE CITY'S CURRENT PERMITTING FEES, FINES, AND PENALTIES.

CURRENTLY, THE PENALTIES FOR PERFORMING WORK WITHOUT A PERMIT THAT REQUIRE A PERMIT IS ASSESSED AT THE GREATER OF $100 OR TWO TIMES THE PERMIT FEE.

THE ORIGINAL PERMIT FEE, UH, FOR BUILDING PERMITS AND FIVE TIMES THE PERMIT FEE FOR FIRE MARSHAL RELATED PERMITS.

STAFF RECOMMENDS REVISING THE APPROACH TO PROVIDE GREATER CLARITY AND EFFECTIVENESS.

SPECIFICALLY, THE EXISTING PENALTY WOULD BE RECLASSIFIED AS AN INVESTIGATION FEE, WHICH WOULD REFLECT THE STAFF TIME AND RESOURCES NEEDED TO INVESTIGATE AND CONFIRM REPORTS OF UNPERMITTED CONSTRUCTION ACTIVITY.

STAFF PROPOSES ESTABLISHING A FLAT INVESTIGATION FEE OF $275 FOR PERFORMING ANY TYPE OF WORK WITHOUT A PERMIT.

THIS AMOUNT WOULD BE ASSESSED IN ADDITION TO THE APPLICABLE PERMIT FEES.

UH, THE REVISION IS INTENDED TO IMPROVE COMPLIANCE DETER UN PERMITTED CONSTRUCTION, AND ENSURE THAT BOTH CONTRACTORS AND PROPERTY OWNERS ARE HELD ACCOUNTABLE FOR MEETING THE CITY'S PERMITTING REQUIREMENTS ATTACHED AS A RED LINE COPY OF THE SCHEDULE OF FEES FOR REVIEW.

STAFF IS SEEKING DIRECTION FROM CITY COUNCIL REGARDING THE PERMIT FEES, FINES, AND PENALTIES.

OKAY, LET, LET, LET ME

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TAKE JUST A SECOND, HECTOR, BUT, BUT IS THIS BEING BROUGHT ABOUT BECAUSE PEOPLE ARE NOT GETTING PERMITS THEN THEY GET CAUGHT AND THEY THEY RUN DOWN AND GET A PERMIT.

SO YOU'RE WANTING TO PUT SOME, UH, SOME PUNITIVE IN IT? YES, WE CURRENTLY HAVE.

IT'S PUNITIVE, BUT IT'S VERY SMALL.

IF YOU HAVE A 30 OR $40 PERMIT AND YOU DO THE WORK, THE MAX YOU'RE GONNA PAY IS $80 TO A HUNDRED DOLLARS.

SO MY QUESTION TO YOU, BRIAN, THE ONLY THING WE'RE CHANGING IS WHATEVER'S IN RED.

I JUST WANNA CLARIFY THAT.

AND I THINK I, I THINK I KNOW WHERE BRIAN'S COMING FROM.

THERE'S A LOT OF HOMEOWNERS START WORKING ON STUFF.

OH, WE DIDN'T KNOW WE NEED A PERMIT AND THEIR, THEIR TIME SENDING PEOPLE OUT THERE.

I THINK, YOU KNOW, THAT'S GONNA HELP.

WELL, AND GEORGE, YOU HAD A CONCERN ABOUT PEOPLE NOT GETTING PERMITS CORRECT GEORGE? AND THEN THEY GET CAUGHT AND THEN THEY RUN DOWN AND GET A PERMIT.

ALRIGHT, BUT HE TAKES IT AFTER THE FACT, RIGHT? THEY, THEY'RE FINISHED.

TURN YOUR, TURN YOUR SPEAKER ON YOUR MICROPHONE ON PLEASE.

ANIMAL CONTROL AND SHELTER MONTHLY REPORT FOR AUGUST 25.

IS YOUR CONCERN THOUGH, THAT THERE HAS NOT BEEN ENOUGH PENALTY FOR FOLKS THAT DON'T GET A PERMIT, THEN THEY GET CAUGHT WITH NO PERMIT AND THEN THEY JUST RUN DOWN AND GET A PERMIT, BUT THEY DO IT AGAIN? TURN IS YOUR MICROPHONE ON? CAN YOU TURN ME? I GOT THEY DO IT AGAIN.

WELL, YEAH, BUT THAT, THAT'S WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO THE CONTRACTOR.

WE'RE TRYING TO ENCOURAGE PEOPLE TO GET A PERMIT AND DISCOURAGE THOSE THAT DON'T.

SO ARE YOU IN FAVOR OF THIS? WHICH WOULD MAKE IT ALRIGHT, RICHARD? YES.

WE DON'T NEED A MOTION.

WE JUST NEED THAT FUTURE.

WE NEED TO COME BACK AT A FUTURE MEETING.

ALRIGHT, SO LET'S GO ON TO, THANK YOU BRIAN.

LET'S GO ON TO THE, UM, WHERE YOU THANK BRIAN.

THANK YOU AGAIN.

ALRIGHT, WE'RE JUST GONNA GO ITEM NUMBER FOUR, REVIEW AND DISCUSS

[4. Review and discuss the Animal Control and Shelter monthly report for August 2025, and take action as necessary to direct staff. (Omar Polio, Director of Animal Control) ]

AND TAKE ACTION AS NECESSARY.

THERE'S NO ACTION TO TAKE, BUT WE WILL, WE'LL HEAR THE REPORT.

THANK YOU OMAR, FOR, UH, STICKING WITH US AND WE'LL TRY TO GET THROUGH THIS VERY QUICKLY.

MAIN THING I THINK THE COUNCIL WANTS TO KNOW IS THE NUMBERS, YOU KNOW, LIKE THE RELEASE RATE AND EUTHANIZATION RATE, BUT WE'LL HEAR YOU WELL.

GOOD EVENING COUNSEL.

UM, GLAD TO BE BACK HERE IN FRONT OF YOU ALL TODAY.

UH, IT'S BEEN A WHILE.

UM, TODAY WE'RE GONNA GO OVER OUR MONTHLY REPORT FOR THE MONTH OF AUGUST.

WE'LL GO AHEAD AND GET STARTED.

COUPLE OF DIFFERENT STORIES.

UM, OF COURSE AUGUST WAS OUR MEGA ADOPTION EVENT.

SO, UM, WITH THAT, THAT'S, A LOT OF THAT IS POWERED BY PETCO LOVE.

UM, IN AUGUST WE ACTUALLY RECEIVED $10,000, UM, DONATION GRANT FROM PETCO.

LOVE THIS GOES DIRECTLY TO THE CARE FOR ALL OF OUR ANIMALS.

SO WE'RE VERY THANKFUL FOR PETCO, LOVE FOR SUPPORTING US, UM, FROM THE MOMENT THAT I GOT HERE THREE YEARS AGO.

SO THEY'VE BEEN AN INCREDIBLE GROUP FOR US.

UH, SOME HAPPY TAILS.

WE HAVE FOREVER HOMES.

ONE OF OUR MORE LONGER STAY DOGS THAT WE'VE HAD IN THE PAST.

CYRUS WAS FINALLY ADOPTED FROM THE SHELTER.

UM, THIS DOG WAS A HEARTWORM POSITIVE DOG, WHICH CAROLYN IL'S ORGANIZATION, UM, FRIENDS OF HOMELESS PETS, FRIENDLESS FRIENDS OF ROSA BROOKS HOMELESS PETS HAS SPONSORED THE TREATMENT FOR THAT DOG AND IS NOW LIVING COMFORTABLY IN A, IN A HOME MEGA.

COULD, COULD A DOG LIKE THAT HAVE BEEN PUT DOWN UNDER EVEN UNDER NO KILL STANDARDS? Y YES.

DEPENDING ON HOW STRAPPED FOR CASH A A A A SHELTER MONITOR.

A SHELTER IS.

'CAUSE NOT EVERYONE HAS ACCESS TO THESE, THIS, THIS TREATMENT.

SO TECHNICALLY, SO THIS IS AN, AN ANIMAL THAT MIKE COULD HAVE BEEN PUT DOWN THAT WE, THAT WE SAVED.

CAROLYN AND HER GROUP SAVED, CORRECT? YES.

DUE TO OUR PARTNERSHIP WITH GREAT WORK, ABLE TO EXTEND THE, FOR THOSE THAT SAY THAT WE'RE LIFE DOING WRONG, UH, WE COULD SHOW THEM THIS CASE.

IT'S RIGHT THERE.

BOSS AND GET CHRISTIE ON AN AGENDA? WE WANT TO, THE COUNCIL WOULD LIKE TO THANK HER.

UH, MEGA HOUSTON, THIS WAS OUR THIRD YEAR, I BELIEVE ACTUALLY MAYBE FOURTH YEAR, BECAUSE COVID DID TAKE ONE YEAR AWAY OF US ATTENDING THE PECO OF MEGA ADOPTION EVENT THIS YEAR.

IT WAS HOSTED AT NRG.

UM, AFTER A TWO DAY EVENT, WE DID HAVE 27 DOGS AND CATS FIND THEIR FOREVER HOMES.

AND WE ALSO WANTED TO SHOUT OUT CHRISTIE'S PET SALON, UH, BECAUSE THEY ACTUALLY TOOK THEIR OWN TIME.

ALL THE STAFF THERE TOOK THEIR TIME TO BATHE.

EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THE DOGS THAT WENT WAS IN ATTENDANCE FOR THIS ADOPTION EVENT.

SO, BUT MORE PROVIDED US.

WOULD YOU, WOULD YOU, WOULD YOU UH, TALK TO THE JOYCE OR, UH, TO YOUR

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SURE.

WE CAN.

AND RECOGNIZE SOMETHING LIKE THAT AND HER STAFF FOR DOING THAT.

THAT'D AWESOME.

THAT'S A LOT OF VALUE.

YES, THEY DID.

THAT'S A LOT OF VALUE.

I THINK THEY, I THINK, I WANNA SAY THEY DID 15 DOGS.

SO THAT'S, WELL, THATS, WELL WE NEED TO THANK HER PROPERLY.

UH, HERE'S SOME OF THE RESCUE SUPPORT WE'VE RECEIVED.

UM, AND TOWARDS THE LATE TOWARDS THE, THE LATER PARTS OF AUGUST, WE DID HAVE TWO MOMS COME IN.

TWO DOG MOMS COME IN, UH, WITH A TOTAL OF 17 PUPPIES BETWEEN THE TWO.

AND LUCKILY WITH OUR FR UH, FRIENDS THAT WE HAVE AT THE HOUSTON HUMANE SOCIETY, WE WERE QUICKLY ABLE TO GET THEM OUT OF THE RES, OUT OF THE SHELTER AND INTO THEIR, THEIR RESCUE.

AND, UM, HAVE ESSENTIALLY BEEN PUT INTO FOSTER HOMES WITH THEM AND WILL BE SCHEDULED FOR TRANSPORT AT A LATER DATE.

AS FAR AS THE NUMBERS GO, INTAKES FOR THE MONTH OF AUGUST, WE HAD A TOTAL OF 129 INTAKES THAT IT'S 58 DOGS, 70 CATS, ONE OTHER.

THERE IT IS ALL SEPARATED BASED ON THE KINDS OF, UM, SURRENDERS THAT WE GET OR HOW THEY COME INTO THE SHELTER.

THE OUTCOMES WE HAD UNDER 112 OUTCOMES WITH 60 DOGS GOING OUT, 51 CATS AND ONE OTHER AS WELL.

UH, IT, AUGUST WAS PRETTY GOOD FOR US.

AS FAR AS EUTHANASIA GOES.

WE ONLY HAD THREE, UM, CAT KITTENS EUTHANIZED AGAIN WITH, UH, DUE TO THE PAN LUKE OUTBREAK.

UH, THIS IS TOWARDS THE FINAL END OF IT.

SO IT'S VERY RARE THAT WE SEE THIS.

SO FOR US TO ONLY SEE THREE IN AUGUST, IT, IT'S SHOWN, UM, THAT OUR STAFF HAS BEEN ABLE TO MAINTAIN THAT, UH, THE HEALTH AND SAFETY OF THE PETS IN OUR SHELTER DUE TO EXTENSIVE CLEANING.

WE'VE HAD EXTENSIVE QUARANTINE PROTOCOLS AS WELL THAT EVEN OUR VOLUNTEERS ARE ADHERING TO, WHICH KEEPS OUR NUMBERS, UM, WHERE WE WANT THEM TO BE.

WERE ANY EUTHANIZED DUE TO LACK OF SPACE? 'CAUSE I KNOW THEY'RE ONLY CROWDED OVER THERE.

NO, SIR.

IN TOTAL, OUR LIVE RELEASE RATE FOR THE MONTH OF AUGUST WAS 97%.

A HUNDRED PERCENT DOG LIVE RELEASE, 94 CAT, UH, LIVE RELEASE.

AND A HUNDRED PERCENT FOR THE OTHERS, OUR OFFICERS DISPATCH WERE DISPATCHED A TOTAL OF 90 TO NINE DIFFERENT CALLS.

TWO BIKE CASES WERE INVESTIGATED, TWO OF THOSE WERE IN THE PUBLIC DOSE AND NONE, NONE INVOLVING STAFF OR VOLUNTEERS.

ZERO FORMER COMPLAINTS.

FOUR CRUELTY CASES BEING INVESTIGATED.

AND THERE WAS A TOTAL OF FOUR MAJOR ADOPTION EVENTS IN THE MONTH OF AUGUST TO, UM, ONE AT THE SHELTER.

THE SHELTER EVENT THAT WE HOLD ONCE A MONTH WHERE WE HAD TWO ADOPTIONS, ONE CAT AND ONE DOG.

THE MEGA HOUSTON ADOPTION EVENT, WHICH AGAIN WAS 27 PETS, 13 CATS AND 14 DOGS.

WE DID HAVE A, A MEMORIAL EVENT.

THIS WAS MORE OF A PRIVATE EVENT THAT WE, WE WERE INVITED TO FOR A FORMER VOLUNTEER OR, UM, DONOR.

UH, NO ADOPTIONS, BUT THEY ACTUALLY DID COME BACK LATER AND WE WERE ABLE TO GET ONE DOG OUT AT A LATER DATE THAT, THAT DID GO TO THAT EVENT.

AND THEN WE HAD A SUMMER MARKET THAT WAS HOSTED BY SOME LOCAL ORGANIZATIONS AND BUSINESSES HERE IN ROSENBERG.

WE DID NOT HAVE ANY ADOPTIONS AT THAT EVENT.

TOTAL OF THREE SURRENDER DENIALS AND ALL THREE WERE OWNER SURRENDERS.

I HOPE ONE DAY THAT WE CAN HAVE IT, UH, MORE REDUCED WHERE WE DON'T HAVE TO HAVE ANY SURRENDER DENIALS.

UH, AND YEAH, NOW I CAN OPEN IT UP FOR ANY QUESTIONS FOR YOU.

I WANT TO ASK THE COUNCIL A QUESTION THOUGH.

UM, AND THEN WE'RE GOING TO GO BACK THROUGH THE LINE.

UH, WOULD Y'ALL, THE THE RIBBON CUTTING FOR THE NEW EXPAND, UH, NEW BUILDING, I MEAN RIBBON CUTTING.

WHAT, WHEN IS THAT BUILDING GONNA BE DONE? AND, AND, AND MAY I ASK YOU A QUESTION? WHAT IS THE HOLD UP, ? WHAT DO YOU MEAN? WHAT'S HOLD UP? WELL, WHAT'S TAKEN SO LONG TO GET IT DONE? I, WE'VE HAD BEAUTIFUL WEATHER.

ARE THEY, ARE THEY FINISHED WITH IT? THE BUILDING? YEAH, THE BUILDING.

WE'RE PRETTY MUCH WRAPPING UP.

I THINK WE'RE WORKING ON THE GUILLOTINE DOORS.

WE STILL NEED TO DO THE ASPHALT.

WELL, LET'S GET IT DONE ALREADY.

WE STILL MAYOR THE CO THE STAFF HAS DONE VERY WELL ON THAT.

IT TAKES TIME.

WE'RE DOING, DOING TO GET A BUILDING FINISHED.

WE ARE DOING A LOT OF THAT INTERNALLY AND ALSO WORKING WITH CONTRACTORS.

SO IT TAKES TIME AND EFFORT.

AND, AND TRY TO GET SOME FOOD OUT THERE AND SOME, UH, SOME ATTENTION AND MAYBE THEY CAN ADOPT SOME, SOME ANIMALS.

THEY, THEY'VE WORKED VERY DILIGENTLY ON IT.

ALRIGHT, GREAT.

WHEN, WHEN IS THE ESTIMATE FOR THE, FOR IT TO BE FINISHED FOR THE BUILDING? IF THEY WANNA START USING IT? UH, HOPEFULLY WITHIN THE NEXT TWO WEEKS.

BUT WE STILL NEED TO FENCE THE PROPERTY TO ACTUALLY CLOSE IT UP.

SO IF A DOG DOESN'T GET OUT, WE STILL, WELL THAT'S AS FAR AS THE GENERATOR, WE'RE STILL WAITING ON CENTER POINT TO PUT A METER.

THE PARKING LOT IS GONNA BE A GRAVEL UNTIL WE END UP ASPHALTING IT.

I GOTCHA.

SO, SO I WANT ASK AND THERE'S NOT GONNA BE ANY DOG RUNS UNTIL WE FINISH THAT.

AND THEN WE'RE GONNA HAVE TO STILL LAY OUT ALL THE DOG RUNS.

WELL, WHENEVER Y'ALL ARE READY, THIS IS WHAT I WANT TO ASK THE COUNCIL.

WHEN, WHENEVER Y'ALL GIVE THE GREEN LIGHT, WHENEVER THEY GET IT DONE, IT DOESN'T HAVE TO DO THE PARKING LOT, BUT TO THIS POINT, UH, WOULD Y'ALL LIKE TO HAVE LIKE A, UH, A GRAND OPENING OR RIBBON CUTTING AND AT THE SAME TIME, UM, MAKE IT A, UH, WELL A, AN ADOPTION EVENT? YES.

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WE'LL START WITH JESSICA 'CAUSE SHE'S ON THE ANIMAL BOARD.

WOULD YOU BE IN FAVOR OF THAT? YEAH, AS SOON AS IT'S DONE.

I, I WOULDN'T WANT IT TO BE, YOU KNOW, HALF DONE OR THREE QUARTERS OF THE WAY.

BUT ONCE IT LOOKS HOW IT'S SUPPOSED TO LOOK AND IT'S READY, I WOULD LIKE TO DO THAT.

GOOD.

GEORGE, WHAT DO YOU THINK? ARE YOU I LIKE THE CONCEPT.

UH, NO.

ARE YOU OKAY WITH HAVING A RIBBON? YEAH.

AN ADOPTION EVENT THERE? YEAH.

TO GET GIVE IT A RICHARD.

NONE OF AN INCENTIVE.

UH, HECTOR? I'M FINE.

STEVE? YES, FELIX.

ALRIGHT, NOW LET'S GO THROUGH AND SEE IF ANYBODY HAS ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT OMAR'S REPORT.

LET'S START AGAIN WITH, WITH JESSICA.

SO, 'CAUSE SHE'S THE REPRESENTATIVE ON THE BOARD.

UM, NO, I DON'T HAVE ANY QUESTIONS.

UM, AND THANKS FOR KEEPING US POSTED.

YOU'RE WELCOME.

ALRIGHT, GEORGE, DO YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS FOR THE ANIMAL REPORT? I'M FINE.

UH, RICHARD, YOU HAD 20 QUESTIONS BEFORE THE MEETING ABOUT THAT REPORT.

NOW ALL OF A SUDDEN YOU HAVE NO QUESTIONS.

THAT'S RIGHT.

UH, HECTOR? NO, STEVE, FELIX, JUST WANNA SAY YOU'RE DOING A GREAT JOB.

UH, THANK YOU.

JUST LOOKING AT THE NUMBERS.

KEEP IT UP.

UH, THANK YOU FOR ALL THE, UH, EVENTS YOU DO AND COORDINATE ALL THAT.

SO I HOPE THAT THE TELL THE PEOPLE GREAT JOB.

AND I HOPE THAT THE PAPER WOULD PICK UP ON THIS, UM, THIS SUMMARY BECAUSE THAT'S GOOD INFORMATION.

I THINK I'LL PUT THAT ON MY FACEBOOK AND I ENCOURAGE Y'ALL COUNCIL MEMBERS TO DO THE SAME THING BECAUSE WE SHOULD BE VERY PROUD.

THAT DOES NOT COME EASY.

IT'S VERY, VERY HARD WORK.

UM, AND IT TAKES A LOT OF TIME.

AND OUR VOLUNTEERS, LIKE CAROLYN AND THE OTHER VOLUNTEERS, CHRISTIE, UH, DO A LOT OF HARD WORK.

THEY SPEND THEIR TIME, THEY SPEND THEIR MONEY, THEY SPEND THEIR ENERGY.

AND WE'RE VERY GRATEFUL FOR THOSE VOLUNTEERS.

THANK YOU SO MUCH.

DOES ANYBODY HAVE ANYTHING ELSE? IF NOT, WE DO NEED A MOTION TO, I I'LL MOVE TO GO INTO EXECUTIVE SESSION.

DO WE HAVE ANY EXECUTIVE SESSION? NO, WE WILL NOT HAVE ANOTHER EXECUTIVE SESSION.

SO MOTION TO ADJOURN.

YES MA'AM.

I'LL SECOND.

ALRIGHT, ALL THOSE IN FAVOR OF ADJOURNING.

I'LL MAKE A MOTION TO ADJOURN.

UH, WELL I THINK SOMEONE ELSE MADE IT.

WE ALL KNOW .

ALRIGHT, SO PRESS OKAY.

UH, DON'T FORGET ABOUT THURSDAY.

UM, COUNCIL MEMBERS AT THE FAIRGROUNDS AT SIX 30 AND DINNER WILL BE SERVED AT ABOUT SEVEN.

BRING A GUEST IF YOU WISH.