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          OKAY, 
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IT'S UH, 
          [ Call to Order]
6:00 PM UH, WE'LL GO AHEAD AND GET OUR REGULAR, UH, CHURCH CITY COUNCIL MEETING. 
          GO AHEAD AND CALL IT TO ORDER. 
          TODAY IS MARCH 17TH, 2026. 
          UH, THANK Y'ALL FOR COMING OUT. 
          UH, TAKE TO THANK YOU FOR TAKING THE TIME OUTTA YOUR DAY TO COME OUT THIS EVENING TO, UH, JOIN US, UH, HERE AT THE CITY COUNCIL MEETING. 
          WE'LL GO AHEAD AND, UH, OPEN UP WITH THE OPENING PRAYER AND PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG OF THE UNITED STATES AND THE STATE OF TEXAS BY COUNCILWOMAN HAYWARD, THIS BOW, FATHER, GOD, I WANNA TAKE A MOMENT TO SAY THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU FOR THIS CITY. 
          THANK YOU FOR THE PEOPLE. 
          THANK YOU FOR OUR STAFF WHO WORKED HARD EVERY DAY TO TRY TO MAKE THE CITY RUN AS SMOOTH AS IT CAN. 
          THANK YOU FOR THE FOLKS THAT ARE SITTING HERE TONIGHT. 
          THANK YOU FOR THOSE THAT ARE AT HOME WHO ARE COUNTING ON US TO DO THE RIGHT THING BY THEM. 
          LORD, I WANT TO THANK YOU FOR BRINGING US ALL HERE SAFELY TONIGHT. 
          AND AS WE MAKE DECISIONS TONIGHT ABOUT THE BUSINESS IN FRONT OF US, THE PARKS, THE TRAILS, THE FLOOD PROTECTION, THE FINANCES, HELP US TO REMEMBER THAT EVERY DECISION WE MAKE IMPACTS SOMEONE, SOMEONE'S FAMILY. 
          HELP US TO NEVER FORGET THAT. 
          AND FATHER, TOMORROW EARLY VOTING BEGINS ACROSS THIS CITY. 
          I KNOW PEOPLE ARE TIRED. 
          LORD, I KNOW THAT WE'VE HAD A LONG ELECTION SEASON, AND I UNDERSTAND THAT VOTER FATIGUE IS REAL. 
          BUT I PRAY RIGHT NOW THAT YOU WOULD PRICK THEIR HEARTS, THE PEOPLE OF SHIRTS, TO REMIND THEM THAT THIS ELECTION MATTERS. 
          THAT SHOWING UP MATTERS THAT THEIR VOICE MATTERS AND MOVE THEM TO GET OUT TO VOTE. 
          I PRAY THAT THE RIGHT PERSON GETS ELECTED, NOT SOMEONE CHASING A TITLE, LOOKING FOR POWER, NOT SOMEONE SERVING A PERSONAL GRUDGE. 
          NOT SOMEONE WHO SAYS ONE THING AND DOES ANOTHER, BUT SOMEONE WHO GENERALLY LOVES AND CARES FOR THIS CITY, THE COMMUNITY, AND WHAT IT'S AND WANTS TO SERVE IT WITH TRUTH AND GRACE. 
          SOMEONE WHO WILL MAKE SURE THE PLACE WE ALL CALL HOME BETTER FOR OUR FUTURE AS WE MOVE FORWARD TOWARD IT. 
          LORD, I HAVE SEEN THE DIVISION, WHAT DIVISION DOES, AND I'M REALLY TIRED OF IT. 
          AND I PRAY THAT WE HAVE A LEADER THAT WILL BRING PEOPLE TOGETHER WHO WILL LISTEN BEFORE THEY SPEAK AND WHO WILL REMEMBER THAT THE WORK IS ABOUT THE PEOPLE AND NOT ABOUT THEMSELVES. 
          BECAUSE WE KNOW WHAT THINGS NEED TO HAPPEN IN THE CITY. 
          AND WE'RE NOT TO BE REMOVED FROM THIS COMMUNITY, THAT WE ARE PART OF IT AND KEEP US THAT WAY. 
          KEEP US HUMBLE AND KEEP US CLOSE NOW, LET US MAKE THE RIGHT DECISIONS TONIGHT AND PRAY THAT WE ALL MAKE IT SAFELY HOME. 
          I ASK THESE BLESSINGS IN YOUR SON'S NAME. 
          AMEN. 
          AMEN. 
          I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND TO THE REPUBLIC FOR WHICH IT STANDS, ONE NATION UNDER GOD, INDIVISIBLE, WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL, HONOR THE TEXAS FLAG. 
          I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE TEXAS ONE STATE UNDER GOD, ONE AND INDIVISIBLE. 
          THANK YOU FOR THAT, COUNCILWOMAN HAYWARD. 
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          WE'LL 
          [  Quarterly Financials - 1st Quarter 2025 (S.Gonzalez/J.Walters)]
GO AHEAD AND, UH, MOVE ON TO PRESENTATIONS, UH, QUARTERLY FINANCIALS FIRST QUARTER 2025, JAMES. 
          ALL RIGHT. 
          GOOD EVENING, MAYOR AND COUNCIL. 
          MY NAME IS JAMES WALTERS. 
          I'M THE FINANCE DIRECTOR HERE FOR THE CITY OF SHIRTZ. 
          BRING UP OUR PRESENTATION, GIVE YOU AN UPDATE ON HOW WE'RE COMING ALONG IN THE FIRST QUARTER OF 25 26 FISCAL YEAR. 
          SO FOR THE REVENUE FOR THE GENERAL FUND, THE MAJORITY OF THE REVENUE WE ACTUALLY GET IN DECEMBER AND JANUARY. 
          USUALLY, UM, THIS IS WHEN THE PROPERTY TAXES START TO COME IN. 
          THEY MAKE UP A GOOD PORTION OF THE GENERAL FUND, UH, REVENUE. 
          UH, THE REST OF THE, UH, OF THE REVENUE CAN COME IN A LITTLE BIT MORE VARIABLE THROUGHOUT THE YEAR. 
          SALES TAX FOLLOWS A PATTERN, WHICH WE'LL SEE IN A SECOND. 
          WHILE OTHER REVENUES ARE A LITTLE BIT, UH, UM, MORE CONTINGENT ON PROJECT SCHEDULES, WE'LL SEE WHERE THOSE AS WELL. 
          UM, I WILL SAY WE'LL MOVE OVER TO THE EXPENSES. 
          UH, EXPENSES. 
          WE LOOK AT A MORE, UM, FLAT EVEN FOR THE MOST PART, SORT OF AVERAGE, UH, WE'LL SEE A LITTLE DIP IN DECEMBER IS USUALLY, UH, EVERYONE GOES ON VACATION. 
          THERE'S NOT A LOT OF, UH, MUCH DIRT MOVING, 
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MUCH AS PRIORS GOING ALONG. 
          UM, THIS LAST YEAR, WE SAW A LITTLE BIT MORE IN AUGUST AS WE'RE WRAPPING UP SOME OTHER CAPITAL PROJECTS. 
          UM, BUT AS YOU CAN SEE, WE'RE PRETTY CLOSE TO WHERE WE EXPECT IN THE BUDGET WITH THAT BLUE LINE, UH, FOLLOWING WHERE WE, UM, ARE EXPECTING. 
          SO AVALOR TAX REVENUE, THIS IS WHERE I WANTED TO TO SHOW YOU AS WELL, THIS IS JUST THE PROPERTY TAXES AND YOU CAN SEE THAT WE EXPECTED TO GET, UH, OR THIS IS WHAT WE'VE GOT THE PAST THREE YEARS. 
          SO TWO YEARS AGO LAST YEAR, AND THEN THE CURRENT YEAR. 
          NOW IT LOOKS LIKE WE'RE WAY FAR BEHIND. 
          UM, BUT GUESS WHAT, JANUARY, WHEN I COME BACK TO YOU NEXT TIME, IT'S GONNA BE SO FAR OFF THE CHART. 
          , IT'S GONNA MAKE IT LOOK, UM, MUCH, MUCH SMALLER. 
          UM, BUT DUE TO HOW THE DATES FELL, A LOT OF THE ESCROWS PAY ON THE VERY LAST DAY OF DECEMBER. 
          AND THAT KIND OF MEANS THAT THE PAYMENTS ARRIVED IN OUR BANK ACCOUNT TWO DAYS LATER AFTER THEY MAKE THE PAYMENT. 
          'CAUSE AT FIRST IT GOES TO THE, TO THE TAX ASSESSOR COLLECTOR, AND THEN THEY TURN AROUND AND, AND FORWARD IT ON TO US. 
          UH, SO A LOT OF PAYMENTS ACTUALLY WOUND UP IN OUR BANK ACCOUNT IN JANUARY THIS YEAR, JUST DUE TO HOW THE DATES FELL. 
          SO YOU'LL SEE A VERY LARGE JANUARY AND A LITTLE BIT LARGER FEBRUARY THAN NORMAL. 
          UM, REST ASSURED THAT WE ARE STILL ON TARGET FOR OUR REVENUES OVERALL FOR THE GENERAL FUND, AND THAT'LL BE A RESTATEMENT I MAKE WHEN I COME BACK TO YOU WITH THE NEXT QUARTER. 
          UM, SO I JUST DIDN'T WANT YOU TO PANIC WHEN YOU SAW LIKE, OH, WE'RE, WE'RE NOT GETTING ANYTHING IN. 
          NO, IT DID COME IN, IT JUST CAME IN ONE DAY LATER INTO THE JANUARY TIMEFRAME. 
          SALES TAXES, UH, WE'VE, WE'VE SENT OUT A MEMO ON THE SALES TAXES. 
          THIS IS ANOTHER GRAPH SHOWING JUST KINDA THE OVERALL IMPACT OF WHAT ACTUALLY IS HAPPENING HERE. 
          UH, SO YOU SEE AROUND MARCH LAST YEAR, THIS GRAY AREA IS WHEN WE STARTED SEEING RECEIVING SOME ONETIME OR VERY LARGE SALES TAXES. 
          UM, WE THOUGHT, OH, YEAH, ONETIME SALES TAXES IS SOMETHING THAT WE DO GET AT FROM NOW. 
          AND THAT, UH, NOW AND THEN USUALLY RELATED TO CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS, WHENEVER A CONSTRUCTION PROJECT COMES IN, WHATEVER AREA THE CONSTRUCTION PROJECT HAPPENS, GENERATES THAT SALES TAX AND THAT COMMUNITY GETS THOSE SALES TAXES. 
          UM, SO WE THOUGHT, MAN, WE JUST GOT REALLY LUCKY. 
          THIS IS GREAT. 
          WE DIDN'T REALLY REALIZE THAT THERE WAS A BIG, UH, CONSTRUCTION PROJECT GOING ON, BUT MAYBE WE MISSED SOMETHING, OR MAYBE IT JUST DELAYED IN THIS, WE WERE KICKED OFF UNTIL WE STARTED SEEING THOSE HIGH PAYMENTS START TO COME BACK A LITTLE BIT MORE REGULARLY A COUPLE MONTHS LATER. 
          AND HAS SO FAR CONTINUED INTO THE 25, 26, UM, TIMEFRAME. 
          AND WE DID SPEAK TO, UH, THE COMPANIES INVOLVED, AND THIS IS, WE'VE CONFIRMED THIS IS A LIMITED TIME SALES TAX INCREASE. 
          UH, THEY'VE CONFIRMED THAT THIS WILL GO AWAY AROUND THE SECOND QUARTER OF THIS YEAR. 
          SO THIS WILL STILL BE GOOD FOR US. 
          IT'LL BE A A, A GOOD BOON AND, AND LUCKY FOR THE CITY TO GET, UH, BUT IT WILL DIE BACK DOWN TO OUR NORMAL LEVELS, UH, BY THE END OF THIS YEAR. 
          UM, SO A LITTLE BIT MORE ON SALES TAX BECAUSE IT'S HAVING SUCH A BIG IMPACT ON US, UH, BOTH LAST YEAR AND SO FAR THE FIRST QUARTER OF THIS YEAR. 
          SO SALES TAXES ARE COLLECTED BY COMPANIES AND ARE SUBMITTED TO THE STATE EITHER MONTHLY OR QUARTERLY. 
          THEY HAVE THAT OPTION. 
          THEN THE STATE DISTRIBUTES THAT TO CITIES AND COUNTIES THE MONTH FOLLOWING THE SUBMISSION. 
          SO IF THEY MAKE SALES IN JANUARY, THEY SUBMIT THAT TO THE STATE IN FEBRUARY, WHO THEN TURNS AROUND AND GIVES IT TO US IN MARCH. 
          SO IT'S LIKE A TWO MONTH DELAY WHEN THE SALES ARE ACTUALLY GENERATED VERSUS WHEN WE GET THEM DUE TO PRIVACY LAWS. 
          ONLY THE CITY MANAGER OR HIS SPECIFIC DESIGNEE CAN REQUEST TO SEE THE FULL LIST OF SALES TAX PAYERS. 
          AND WE CAN ONLY USE THAT DATA FOR AUDITING AND FOR FISCAL FORECASTING. 
          SO WE CAN'T SHARE THAT DATA IN ANY WAY THAT COULD SINGLE OUT A SPECIFIC COMPANY WITH THE AMOUNT THAT THEY'RE PAYING. 
          UM, THAT'S ABOUT THE ONLY KIND OF RULE. 
          UH, YOU CAN, YOU CAN PARSE IT DIFFERENT WAYS. 
          YOU CAN LOOK AT TOP 50, BUT, UH, THERE'S CERTAIN, THERE'S KINDA A GRAY AREA OF WHAT'S, UM, WHAT MUCH DETAIL IS ACTUALLY ALLOWABLE. 
          BUT WE DON'T WANT TO GO A LITTLE BIT TOO FAR. 
          UH, SO WE, WE DO, WHEN WE APPROACH SALES TAXES, WE'LL LOOK AT INDUSTRY, UM, UH, WE CAN LOOK AT ZONES, WE CAN LOOK AT TOP 50. 
          THAT'S USUALLY THE ONES THAT ARE PAYING US THE MOST OR THE TOP 10. 
          SO WE'VE, UH, ENGAGED WITH ZACK TAX, WHO'S, UH, BEEN GAINING MARKET SHARE WITH THE, WITH THE CITIES. 
          THIS COMPANY COMPILES AND VERIFY SALES TAX DATA ON BEHALF OF THE, UH, CITY OF SHIRTS. 
          THEY HAVE A ROBUST PLATFORM THAT LETS STAFF REVIEW SALES TAX LOCATIONS EASILY EACH MONTH AND ENSURE THE STATE IS ALLOCATING THE TAXES CORRECTLY. 
          SO THAT COULD BE AN ISSUE. 
          UM, THERE'S A WHOLE ISSUE WITH, UH, THE ZIP CODES AND HOW THEY DON'T ACTUALLY ALIGN WITH CITIES EXACTLY. 
          SO IT COULD BE A MAJORITY, BUT YOU CAN HAVE A, UM, 7, 8, 1 0 8 ZIP CODE. 
          IT COULD BE IN SHIRTS. 
          IT'S USUALLY A BIG SELMA POPULATION. 
          UM, AND SO IF YOU'RE LOOKING AT THE WRONG WAY, THE ADDRESS ON A, ON A ON A STORE COULD BE NEW BRAUNFELS. 
          AND SO THEY COULD GET THE SALES TAX INITIALLY BECAUSE THEY, HEY, I THINK I'M A NEW BRAUNFELS. 
          MY ADDRESS SAYS NEW BRAUNFELS. 
          UM, AND SO THAT'S KIND OF UP TO US TO GO ON. 
          OH, NOPE, THAT'S, THAT'S ACTUALLY OURS. 
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C IT'S IN OUR BOUNDARY. 
          WE CAN MAKE THOSE REQUESTS TO THE STATE. 
          THEY CAN DO AN AUDIT, THEY CAN TURN AROUND AND, UM, THEY CAN FIX THOSE TAXES FOR US AND START ALLOCATING 'EM TO US. 
          UH, SO THIS IS A CHART, UM, FROM ZAC SHOWING SORT OF THE DISTRIBUTION IN SHIRTS OF WHERE THE, UH, SALES TAX ARE BEING GENERATED FROM. 
          THIS IS I 35 AND, AND 3 0 0 9. 
          YOU SEE, WE HAVE A BIG RETAIL CENTER THERE. 
          SO THAT'S WHERE A LOT OF OUR, AND THEN THE INDUSTRIAL PARK. 
          AND YOU'LL SEE OUT SOUTH, WE HAVE SOME MORE, UH, BUSINESSES OUT OF HERE ON, UH, SO THIS IS HELPFUL TO TRACK BUSINESSES AND THEIR LOCATION IN SHIRTS, BUT NOT ALL SALES TAX CONTRIBUTORS ACTUALLY RE UH, WE RECEIVE, ACTUALLY COME FROM BUSINESS THAT HAVE A PHYSICAL LOCATION. 
          UH, SO LIKE ONLINE SALES OR CONSTRUCTION MATERIAL PURCHASE I MENTIONED BEFORE. 
          SO ONLINE SALES ARE BECOMING BIGGER AND BIGGER, ESPECIALLY AFTER COVID, WHICH DON'T HAVE A PHYSICAL ADDRESS. 
          SO MUCH HARDER TO DETERMINE HOW MUCH CHURCH SHOULD ACTUALLY GET, BECAUSE ONLY PEOPLE THAT ACTUALLY HAVE THAT DATA ARE THE COMPANIES THAT ARE TAKING THE, UH, TAKING THE SALES, UH, FOR CONSTRUCTION GENERATED SALES. 
          TAX STAFF LOOKS AT BUILDING PERMITS, DETERMINE IF WE ARE RECEIVING APPLICABLE TAXES. 
          SO WE SEE LIKE, HEY, WE'RE DOING THIS BIG OLD PERMIT. 
          WHERE ARE THOSE CONSTRUCTION? WE CAN FOLLOW UP WITH THAT WITH TA, UH, WITH ZACK TAX, AS WELL AS THE STATE TO SAY, HEY, UM, WE'RE SEEING THIS PROJECT. 
          WHERE IS IT? AND THEY CAN DO AN AUDIT ON OUR BEHALF AND, AND TURN ON AND CORRECT THAT. 
          UM, SO IF, IF THE AUDIT'S SUCCESSFUL, IF CASE Y'ALL ARE CURIOUS, THEY SAY, YEAH, THOSE ARE YOURS. 
          THEY CAN ACTUALLY GO BACK FOUR YEARS AND TAKE THAT MONEY FROM THE CITY THAT ACTUALLY WAS RECEIVING IT AND TURN ON GIVING IT TO US. 
          UM, SO IF YOU LOOK AT THE SALES TAX ALLOCATION THAT'S ON THE, ON THE STATE WEBSITE, YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES YOU'LL SEE AUDIT ADJUSTMENTS, AND THAT'S THE STATE MAKING CHANGES BETWEEN COMMUNITIES GOING, A, WE ACTUALLY GAVE YOU THEM, IT BELONGS TO THIS PEOPLE OVER HERE. 
          UM, WE HAVE JUST LIMITED VIEW OF THAT DATA. 
          THAT IS SOMETHING THAT CAN AND DOES HAPPEN WHENEVER, UH, SOMETHING GETS CAUGHT. 
          UH, PERMITS IS ANOTHER ONE I WANTED TO TOUCH ON REAL QUICK. 
          UM, AS YOU CAN SEE, PERMITS CAN BE, CAN VARY WILDLY FROM YEAR TO YEAR TIME PERIOD. 
          UM, GOING AS FAR AS, I GUESS GENERAL DECEMBER IS FAIRLY CONSISTENT, NOT A LOT OF CONSTRUCTION GOING ON IN DECEMBER. 
          UM, AND THEN WE SEE A LITTLE BIT HIGHER TIMEFRAMES OVER IN THE SPRING AS CONSTRUCTION GETS OFF. 
          UM, COMMERCIAL PERMITS ARE USUALLY THE ONES THAT ARE CAUSING THIS BIG GRAY LAST YEAR THAT COME THROUGH. 
          UM, CAUSE BIG SPIKES. 
          AND OVERALL IN THE, IN THE PERMITS, UH, IT'S MAKES IT VERY HARD TO ANTICIPATE WHEN THOSE PROJECTS GO THROUGH. 
          WE KNOW A BIG PROJECT'S COMING, WE DON'T KNOW WHEN THEY'LL BE READY TO SUBMIT, PAY THE PERMIT, OR IF THEY'RE GONNA PULL OUT ENTIRELY AND DECIDE TO NOT GO THROUGH, THROUGH WITH THE PROJECT. 
          UH, SO WE HAVE A, JUST A VERY GENERAL IDEA OF WHEN WE CAN EXPECT THOSE. 
          UH, BUT WE TRY NOT TO COUNT OUR EGGS BEFORE THEY HATCH IN CASE IT FALLS INTO ANOTHER FISCAL YEAR OR IF THEY DECIDE TO PULL OUT. 
          AS I MENTIONED, UH, FRANCHISES, THESE ARE GENERALLY VERY, UH, VERY STEADY. 
          UM, THESE ARE COMPANIES LIKE, UM, WATER SYSTEMS OR TELECOM OR THE POWER COMPANIES THAT USE OUR RIGHT OF WAY AND USUALLY THE, BASICALLY THE POWER LINES, UM, UH, TO PROVIDE SERVICES. 
          SO THEY HAVE TO PAY US IN LIEU OF GOING OUT FOR A PERMIT EVERY TIME THEY WANNA GO INTO OUR, INTO OUR RIGHT OF WAYS. 
          UH, MOVING ON TO THE WATER AND SEWER REVENUE. 
          UM, THEIR REVENUE IS FAIRLY CONSISTENT THROUGHOUT THE YEAR. 
          UH, YOU MAY SEE A LITTLE SPIKES UP HERE IN THE GRAYS OVER IN JUNE, UM, TIMEFRAME WHEN PEOPLE START WATERING THE, THE LAWN MORE BEFORE THEY HEAR SAN ANTONIO STARTS PUTTING WATER RESTRICTIONS IN. 
          AGAIN, SERIOUS SHIRTS DOES NOT PUT WATER RESTRICTIONS, BUT THEY HEAR THAT IN SAN ANTONIO AND THEY THINK, OH NO, I GOTTA TURN BACK. 
          SO THAT'S WHERE THAT KIND OF COMES FROM. 
          GET A LITTLE MORE GRANULAR DETAIL ON, JUST ON THE WATER SIDE. 
          UM, WE'LL SEE A LITTLE BIT OVER IN OCTOBER, NOVEMBER. 
          IT DIES OFF WHENEVER WE START DOING SEWER AVERAGING AS WELL AS DURING THE WINTER MONTHS, AND THEN COMES BACK DURING THE SUMMER TO START. 
          PEOPLE START WATERING THE YARDS. 
          UH, SO FAR WE'RE GENERATING MORE REVENUE THAN WE WERE THIS TIME LAST YEAR. 
          UH, SEWER REVENUE, UH, COMES IN, UM, WE MAKE UPDATES IN APRIL AND UPDATES IN OCTOBER VERSUS THE RATES NOW. 
          THIS IS ZOOMED IN QUITE A BIT, SO IT LOOKS LIKE SOME HIGH INCREASES. 
          UH, BUT WE'RE ALREADY STARTING AT THE 740,000 TO 900,000 AS OPPOSED TO LIKE BACK HERE. 
          WE'RE STARTING AT ZERO. 
          SO THIS IS JUST A ZOOMED IN VERSION SHOWING THAT WE DO HAVE SOME INCREASES. 
          AND THOSE ARE THE TWO TIMES WE USUALLY HAVE INCREASES IN, UH, WHEN WE DO OUR SERVER AVERAGING, AND THEN AGAIN, WHEN OUR RATES CHANGE. 
          UH, BUT OVERALL THEY SHOULD BE FAIRLY CONSISTENT. 
          ANY JUST CHANGES WOULD BE TO, UM, UH, CORPORATE CUSTOMERS ON THE GARBAGE REVENUE. 
          YOU'LL SEE OUR GARBAGE REVENUE'S A LITTLE BIT LOW THIS YEAR, AND THEN IT DROPPED OFF RIGHT AROUND JULY, AUGUST. 
          SO WE DID CHANGE OUR CONTRACT TERMS WITH OUR NEW GARBAGE PROVIDER. 
          UH, THEY'RE HANDLING ALL OF THE COMMERCIAL BILLING, SO BEFORE WE WOULD HANDLE COMMERCIAL BILLING, WE'D BE COLLECTING THOSE REVENUES. 
          AND THEN 
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ONCE WE ENGAGED WITH THE NEW PROVIDER, UH, THEY TOOK THAT OVER. 
          AND SO YOU'LL SEE THAT DROP OFF. 
          THIS IS, SO NOW YOU'RE SEEING JUST RESIDENTIAL. 
          SO THEY'RE ON TARGET, THEY'RE HITTING WHAT WE EXPECT. 
          UM, BUT THAT'S THE REASON THE CHART LOOKS DIFFERENT OVER IN THE DRAINAGE FUND. 
          UH, SO THIS IS THE, UH, COMING A LITTLE BIT LOWER IN THE FIRST PART OF OUR DRAINAGE FEES, BUT WE'RE COMING BACK IN DECEMBER. 
          UM, THESE FEES WILL BE VERY CONSISTENT. 
          UM, GOING, UH, GOING FORWARD, UH, THESE FEES ARE SET BASED ON, UM, BOTH THE RESIDENTIAL SIDE OR A COMMERCIAL SIDE BASED ON THE, UM, IMPERVIOUS SURFACE COVERAGE AND DON'T FLUCTUATE SO FAR AS DRAINAGE FUND EXPENDITURES. 
          AGAIN, WE HAD SOME CAPITAL PURCHASES TOWARDS THE END OF THE YEAR. 
          UM, OTHERWISE WE'RE TRENDING JUST A LITTLE BIT BELOW BUDGET, AND WE'LL PROBABLY SEE SOME MORE CAPITAL PURCHASES COME IN, OR HIGH DOLLAR EXPENSES COME IN DURING THE SUMMER AND TOWARDS THE END OF THE YEAR AS WELL. 
          UH, EMS REVENUE IS ANOTHER ONE THAT CAN, CAN VARY QUITE A BIT DEPENDING ON, UM, HOW MANY CALL VOLUME. 
          AND THEN YOU'LL SEE EVERY THREE QUARTERS THE REVENUE JUMPS. 
          THAT'S WHEN WE SEND OUT THE INVOICES TO OTHER COMMUNITIES IN THE, IN OUR LOCAL AGREEMENT PORTION TO COVER THOSE AREAS. 
          AS FAR AS EDC, THE PRIMARY SOURCE OF EDC FUNDS ARE SALES TAXES, JUST LIKE THE CITY OF SHIRTS. 
          UH, SO THEIR CHART ON THEIR REVENUE MATCHES VERY CLOSE TO WHAT, UH, THE SALES TAXES ARE DOING. 
          SO AGAIN, THEY STARTED SEEING THE HIGH JUMPS IN MARCH, AND THEY'RE SEEING, SEEING THOSE HIGH DOLLAR AMOUNTS UNTIL THAT SALES TAX PAYER, UH, PAYERS MAKE SOME CHANGES. 
          AND THEN, UH, THOSE WILL FALL OFF AT THE, UM, SECOND QUARTER BACK TO THE AVERAGE. 
          SO ALSO IN OUR, UH, REPORT, WE HAVE OUR INVESTMENTS. 
          SO MAJORITY OF OUR CITY ASSURES INVESTMENTS ARE INVESTMENT POOLS, WHICH ARE LIKE MONEY MARKET MUTUAL FUNDS, BUT JUST FOR, UM, LOCAL GOVERNMENTS. 
          AND THEY'RE SPONSORED AND VERIFIED BY THE STATE OF TEXAS. 
          UM, UH, WE HAVE JUST A LITTLE BIT 3% IN CASH AT THE TIME TO MAKE OUR PAYMENTS. 
          UM, WE'RE ACTUALLY INCREASING OUR CD PORTFOLIO. 
          WE KNOW THE RATES ARE STARTING TO DROP, SO WE STARTED TO LEVERAGE OUT A LITTLE BIT MORE CDS, UH, TO, TO REMAIN AT A HIGHER, UH, YIELD FOR A LITTLE BIT LONGER. 
          AND THEN WE HAVE HANCOCK WHITNEY, UM, WHICH IS, HAS OUR TRADE, UH, AGENCIES AND TREASURIES ONLY ABOUT 1% THERE. 
          UH, WE'RE GONNA BE TRANSITIONING INTO OUR OWN, UM, PROBABLY MORE OF THOSE HERE SHORTLY, UH, DEPENDING ON WHAT THE FED DECIDES TO DO WITH SOME RATES IN THE FUTURE. 
          UM, INVESTMENT POOLS HAVE BEEN VERY GOOD, AS YOU CAN SEE IN A MOMENT. 
          SO, UH, STARTING ABOUT JANUARY OF THIS LAST YEAR, THIS IS ONE YEAR'S WORTH. 
          UH, OUR PORTFOLIO IS BEATING THE THREE MONTH TBI, WHICH WE KINDA USE AS A BENCHMARK, UM, EARNING ABOUT 4.51 AND OVER 4% UNTIL THE VERY DECEMBER, THE THREE MONTH TEAM BILL DROPPED A LITTLE BIT, UH, TO 3.67. 
          UH, BUT EXCEPT FOR THIS ONE LITTLE SECTION, JULY AND AUGUST, UM, WE HAVE, HAVE BEATEN OUR, OUR GENERAL BENCHMARK, UH, FOR OUR RETURN. 
          RIGHT. 
          ARE THERE ANY QUESTIONS OVER THE CITY OF SHIRTS, UM, REVENUES, EXPENSES, OR WHAT'S IN THE REPORT AS FAR AS SALES TAXES OR HOW OUR REVENUES COME IN? I HAVE NO QUESTIONS. 
          ANY OF THE COUNCIL MEMBERS HAVE ANY QUESTIONS. 
          THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR REPORT. 
          NEXT PRESENTATION. 
          [  Presentation of the FY24-25 Parks & Recreation Annual Report (S.Gonzalez/L.Shrum)]
WE HAVE THE FISCAL YEAR 24, 20 25 PARKS AND RECREATION ANNUAL REPORT. 
          LAUREN, GOOD EVENING MAYOR COUNCIL, MR. WILLIAMS. I'M LAUREN SHRUMM, DIRECTOR OF PARKS AND RECREATION. 
          THERE WE GO. 
          SO TONIGHT, JUST WANTED TO PRESENT TO OUR FYI 24 25, UH, ANNUAL REPORT FOR PARKS AND RECREATION HERE IN SHIRTZ. 
          AND WE, UM, GAVE YOU A COPY THERE ON YOUR, ON YOUR DESK. 
          UM, WE LIKE TO SUMMARIZE THE YEAR, UH, AND SHOW THE COMMUNITY THE IMPACT WE HAVE, UM, ON QUALITY OF LIFE AND SHIRTS. 
          SO JUST SOME QUICK HIGHLIGHTS. 
          I WANNA REVIEW WITH YOU, UM, A LITTLE BIT OF A HIGHLIGHT REEL HERE OF ALL OF OUR PHOTOS FROM OUR DIFFERENT EVENTS AND THE TEAM AND THE PROJECTS WE HAVE, UH, 21 FULL-TIME STAFF, TWO PART-TIME STAFF, TWO SEASONAL STAFF, AND OVER 200 VOLUNTEERS THAT HELP MAKE OUR PROGRAMS POSSIBLE HERE IN SHIRTZ. 
          UM, AND OUR LEADERSHIP TEAM, AS YOU KNOW, UH, WHEN WE PRESENTED OUR GOLD MEDAL AWARD A COUPLE WEEKS AGO, WE HAVE A LOT OF STAFF HEAVILY INVOLVED IN PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT IN THE STATE ASSOCIATION, THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION. 
          UH, WE'RE GETTING OUR FOLKS TRAINED THAT WE GETTING THEIR CERTIFICATION, UM, AND REALLY FOCUSED 
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ON, UH, BUILDING THE SHIRTS BRAND, UH, DOING CLASSROOM PRESENTATIONS IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS. 
          UM, SO WE'RE, SO WE'RE ALL OUT IN THE COMMUNITY MAKING A DIFFERENCE FOR SHIRTS. 
          UM, JUST HIGHLIGHTING THE DIFFERENT BOARDS AND COMMITTEES, UM, AND DIFFERENT COMMUNITY GROUPS THAT WE MEET WITH AND ENGAGE WITH ON A REGULAR BASIS, UM, TO HELP MAKE PARKS AND RECREATION POSSIBLE IN THE, IN THE CITY. 
          UM, SOME HIGHLIGHTS OF WHAT WE DO, UM, YOU KNOW, AGAIN, WE HAVE 27 PARKS, UM, 1,131 CIVIC AND COMMUNITY CENTER BOOKINGS. 
          WE'VE GOT OUR 46 DIFFERENT EVENTS. 
          WE PARTNER WITH 18 DIFFERENT ORGANIZATIONS TO PUT ON EVENTS AND PROGRAMS, 12 DIFFERENT SPONSORS, 25.6 MILES OF HIKE AND BIKE TRAILS, 36 PLAY SCAPE UNITS, OUR PICNIC AND PAVILION AREAS. 
          WE'VE GOT 12 OF THOSE 457 ACRES OF PARKLAND ACROSS THE SYSTEM THAT WE'RE MAINTAINING. 
          UM, SOME YEAR IN NUMBERS. 
          WE JUST TRACK THE DATA TO SHOW HOW WE'RE DOING, UM, AND THE HEALTH OF OUR, OF OUR PARK AND OUR PROGRAMS. UH, ONE THING TO NOTE HERE, WE HAD AN UPTICK IN LARGE PAVILION RENTALS AT PICKLE PARK 283 FROM 1 58. 
          SO WE'RE SEEING A LOT OF DEMAND THERE FOR MORE, UM, PEOPLE RENTING THAT SPACE FOR PAR PARTIES AND SUCH. 
          AND THEN ANOTHER ONE I WANTED TO NOTE WAS THE WENDY SWAN PAVILION. 
          UM, WHEN WE RENOVATED AND OPENED THE SPLASH PAD AND OPENED THE BATHROOM UP YEAR ROUND, WE NOW HAVE AN UPTICK THERE IN RENTALS. 
          UM, PEOPLE NOW WANNA HAVE THEIR PARTY THERE. 
          THERE'S SOMETHING THERE TO DO AND THERE'S A RESTROOM AVAILABLE. 
          SO IT WENT FROM TWO TO 45, AND THEN WE ADDED CAPACITY THERE UNDER THE RESTROOM AWNING. 
          IT'S A SECONDARY PAVILION, SO WE WENT FROM NOT HAVING THAT TO 10 RENTALS. 
          SO THAT'S A NEED THAT KEEPS COMING UP TO, IN OUR PARKS MASTER PLAN MORE PICNIC PAVILION. 
          SO WE'VE ADDED THAT, UM, 20,000 PEOPLE AT OUR EVENTS A LITTLE BIT DOWN FROM LAST YEAR. 
          WE HAD A RAINY 4TH OF JULY THIS YEAR, SO WE SAW A LITTLE BIT OF A DOWNTICK IN ATTENDANCE, BUT STILL 20,000 PEOPLE OUT THERE IN OUR PROGRAMS. 50 1007 50 IN SPONSORSHIP DOLLARS. 
          UM, THERE'S SOME CIVIC CENTER RENTAL NUMBERS, STILL HAVING AN UPTICK AT OUR POOL VISITS, 20,000 UP FROM 18 THE YEAR PRIOR. 
          UH, ADMISSIONS AND SEASON PASSES ARE GOING UP. 
          YOUTH SPORTS STILL STRONG, LOOKING GOOD. 
          AND WE HAVE 2200 KIDS IN BVYA UP FROM UP FROM THE LAST FISCAL YEAR. 
          AND THEN WE HAVE 1993 IN SOCCER WITH CISA. 
          VOLUNTEER HOURS ARE STILL STRONG AND SCAN INS AT THE SENIOR CENTER AND ALL ARE, ARE STILL VERY, VERY STRONG. 
          UM, BUDGET EXPENSES. 
          OUR BUDGET WAS 4.488. 
          WE CAME IN AT 4.296 AND THIS JUST BREAKS IT DOWN, UM, BY A FUND. 
          THE VAST MAJORITY OF, OF THE FUNDING IS TO PARK OPERATIONS AND PERSONNEL, UM, REVENUES THERE. 
          UM, PARKS AND REC FEES, CIVIC CENTER FEES, THE DIFFERENT, THE DIFFERENT FUNDS WHERE WE, WHERE WE COLLECT FEES. 
          SOME OF OUR TOP HIGHLIGHTS. 
          UM, WE LAUNCHED SOME THINGS THAT WERE IN OUR PARKS MASTER PLAN THAT CAME OUT OF THE COMMUNITY. 
          UH, SURVEY RESIDENTS WANTED TO SEE MORE, UH, FARMER'S MARKET TYPE EVENTS. 
          SO WE, WE LAUNCHED OUR SHIRTS, HOMETOWN HARVEST, THAT'S BEEN SUCCESSFUL. 
          THE POWER WHEELS DERBY AND THE CARDBOARD BOAT REGATTA. 
          DIFFERENT EVENTS THAT REPLACED SOME OLDER ONES THAT WE'D HAD FOR MANY YEARS. 
          THEY'VE DONE VERY WELL. 
          UM, TOGETHER WE PLAY AN INCLUSIVE EVENT THAT WE STARTED WITH THE LIBRARY. 
          UM, WE NAMED HILLTOP PARK LAST YEAR. 
          UM, WE TRANSFERRED OUR, UH, NORTH CENTER COMMUNITY CENTER RENTALS TO AN ONLINE PLATFORM SO PEOPLE, UM, COULD RESERVE THEM MORE EASILY. 
          WE PLANNED THE TRANSITION OF THE SENIOR CENTER TO CITY RUN OPERATIONS. 
          THAT'S GOING VERY WELL. 
          OBVIOUSLY WE'LL REPORT ON THAT IN NEXT FISCAL YEAR'S REPORT. 
          UH, WE ADOPTED OUR POSTMASTER PLAN LAST FISCAL YEAR. 
          WE CHAIRED THE TEXAS RECREATION AND PARK SOCIETY ESSENTIAL REGIONAL WORKSHOP PLANNING COMMITTEE. 
          WE HELD IT HERE AND IT WAS VERY SUCCESSFUL. 
          WE ENHANCED THE SHIRT SOCCER COMPLEX THROUGH THE INSTALLATION OF THE NEW LEDD LIGHTING, THE PUBLIC ART EDITION, THE NEW MURAL. 
          WE UPDATED THE VETERANS MEMORIAL PLAZA WITH THE, UH, ADDITION OF THE PURPLE HEART GOLD STAR FAMILIES AND THE SPACE FORCE, UH, PLAQUES. 
          WE UPGRADED 13 RESTROOMS THROUGHOUT THE PARK SYSTEM WITH NEW EPOXY FLOORING, AND WE CONVERTED ALL THE LIGHTING IN THE CIVIC CENTER TO LED FOR BETTER ENERGY EFFICIENCY. 
          AND THEN, UM, EXPERIENCED, WE PARTICIPATED IN A LOT OF TEXAS RECREATION AND PARK ASSOCIATION INITIATIVES. 
          WE WALKED THE HALLS AT THE CAPITOL AND HELD A PLAY DAY OUT ON THE LAWN TO TALK TO LEGISLATORS ABOUT PARKS AND RECREATION. 
          UM, AGAIN, WE HAD A UNUSUALLY RAINY SEASON FOR EVENTS, SO WE KEEP NOTE OF THAT. 
          UH, PARKS MAINTENANCE CREW HAD THEIR MAINTENANCE MORNING. 
          WE HAD 80 PROFESSIONALS HERE THAT WE HOSTED FOR A PLAYGROUND SAFETY COURSE. 
          WE HAD OUR BIGGEST SUMMER LAST SUMMER WITH PARKS AND REC MONTH ATTENDANCE AND EVENTS. 
          AND WE HAD OUR FIRST SUMMER INTERN WHO REALLY HELPED ELEVATE OUR SOCIAL MEDIA PRESENCE AND INCREASED OUR COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT ONLINE. 
          UM, SO YEAH. 
          AND THEN THERE'S JUST A FEW HIGHLIGHT REELS AGAIN, OF OUR, OF OUR EVENTS IN THE COMMUNITY. 
          SO JUST WANTED TO UPDATE YOU WITH THAT IMPACT REPORT. 
          AND THAT'S IT. 
          TAKE ANY QUESTIONS. 
          THANK YOU. 
          I HAVE NO QUESTIONS. 
          ANY COUNCIL MEMBERS HAVE ANY QUESTIONS? YES. 
          OKAY. 
          UH, COUNCIL MEMBER 
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WESTBERG. 
          HEY, GOOD JOB. 
          THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 
          UM, I THINK YOU HAVE A GREAT ARRAY OF, UH, OFFERINGS. 
          UM, I'VE EVEN TAKEN ADVANTAGE OF ONE OF THEM, UH, RECENTLY. 
          UM, BUT ARE Y'ALL OPERATING AT A, AT A DEFICIT OR NOT? ARE Y'ALL, WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME Y'ALL RAISED FEES OR, YES. 
          SO, UH, WE ACTUALLY RAISED FEES SLIGHTLY WITH, UH, THE CIVIC CENTER THIS PAST FISCAL YEAR. 
          OKAY. 
          BUT YES, WE ARE OFFERING A DEFICIT OVERALL. 
          OVERALL, YES. 
          WE DON'T HAVE LIKE A COST RECOVERY MODEL YET. 
          THAT'S BEEN, THAT HASN'T BEEN THE DIRECTION OF COUNCIL IN THE PAST. 
          UM, WE COULD DISCUSS THAT IN THE FUTURE, IF THAT'S THE ROUTE COUNCIL WANTS TO GO. 
          THANK YOU. 
          COUNCIL MEMBER GUERRERO. 
          YEAH. 
          I WANNA MAKE A COMMENT ABOUT THE VOLUNTEERS. 
          AND IT'S NOT JUST THE VOLUNTEERS IN PARKS AND REC, THE VOLUNTEERS. 
          THEY MAY BE IN THE, UH, WORKING WITH THE FIRST RESPONDERS, THE LIBRARY. 
          MM-HMM . 
          YMCA, WHEREVER WE HAVE VOLUNTEERS, WE NEED TO ENSURE THAT THE VOLUNTEERS ARE ACKNOWLEDGED, APPRECIATED, AND THANKED. 
          ABSOLUTELY. 
          EVERY SINGLE TIME THAT THEY COME OUT HERE, THEY'RE OUT HERE FOR A PURPOSE. 
          THEY LOVE OUR CITY, THEY LOVE THE, THE DEPARTMENT THAT THEY'RE VOLUNTEERING. 
          SO WE NEED TO ACKNOWLEDGE THEM, APPRECIATE THEM, AND THANK THEM EVERY SINGLE TIME THEY COME OUT. 
          YEP. 
          I AGREE. 
          THANK YOU. 
          I AGREE WITH THAT. 
          I DON'T SEE WHAT WE HAVE. 
          ANY OTHER COMMENTS? THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR PRESENTATION. 
          MOVING ON 
          [ City Events and Announcements 	Announcements of upcoming City Events (B.James/S.Gonzalez) 	Announcements and recognitions by the City Manager (S.Williams) 	Announcements and recognitions by the Mayor (R.Rodriguez)]
TO CITY EVENTS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS. 
          SARAH? YES. 
          THANK YOU MAYOR. 
          RIGHT IN FRONT OF ME. 
          ALL RIGHT. 
          SO A COUPLE OF THINGS AND A COUPLE OF THE, UM, PARKS EVENTS THAT LAUREN HAD MENTIONED. 
          SO, UM, ON FRIDAY, MARCH 20TH WILL BE A PARTNERSHIP WITH THE YMCA FOR THE EASTER EXTRAVAGANZA, AND IT'LL BE AT THE SHORT AQUATIC CENTERS. 
          THERE'S THREE DIFFERENT SESSIONS. 
          SO IF YOU GO ONLINE, YOU CAN SIGN UP FOR THE SESSION THAT WORKS FOR YOU ON SUNDAY, MARCH 22ND. 
          THE POWER WHEELS DERBY THAT SHE SPOKE OF, UM, WILL BE TAKING PLACE FROM TWO TO FIVE AT THE COMMUNITY CIRCLE DRIVE ON SUNDAY, MARCH 22ND. 
          UM, THERE WILL BE A NATURE SCAVENGER HUNT FROM THREE 30 TO FOUR 30 AT CRESCENT BEND NATURE PARK. 
          FRIDAY, MARCH 27TH WILL BE THE PRE-BUDGET RETREAT FOR COUNCIL. 
          IT'LL START AT 8:30 AM AND COUNCIL CHAMBERS ALSO, UM, I APOLOGIZE. 
          LEMME SKIP BACK TO THIS COMING SATURDAY. 
          UH, WE'LL BE CLEAN THE CREEK EVENT, AND THAT'LL BE 8:30 AM TO 1130. 
          AGAIN, INFORMATION IS ON OUR WEBSITE. 
          IF YOU'D LIKE TO SIGN UP TO VOLUNTEER FOR THAT ON SATURDAY, APRIL 4TH WILL BE THE SHORTZ HOMETOWN HARVEST FROM NINE TO 1:00 PM AT, UH, PICK PARK. 
          AND THEN FINALLY, JUST TO TOUCH ON, UM, FIRST DAY OF EARLY VOTING IS GONNA BE TOMORROW. 
          WE'LL GO THROUGH MARCH 31ST AND ELECTION DAY IS ON APRIL 4TH, AND IT'LL BE FOR THE CITY COUNCIL. 
          PLACE SIX. 
          AND THEN WE WILL BE BACK HERE FOR OUR NEXT REGULARLY SCHEDULED MEETING ON TUESDAY, APRIL 7TH AT 6:00 PM THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU. 
          ANNOUNCEMENTS AND RECOGNITIONS BY THE CITY MANAGER, STEVE WILLIAMS. I DO NOT HAVE ANY THIS WEEK, MAYOR. 
          THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 
          AND I DO NOT HAVE ANY ANNOUNCEMENTS OR RECOGNITIONS EITHER. 
          MOVING ON 
          [ Hearing of Residents This time is set aside for any person who wishes to address the City Council. Each person should fill out the speaker’s register prior to the meeting. Presentations should be limited to no more than 3 minutes.  All remarks shall be addressed to the Council as a body, and not to any individual member thereof. Any person making personal, impertinent, or slanderous remarks while addressing the Council may be requested to leave the meeting. All handouts and/or USB devices must be submitted to the City Secretary no later than noon on the Monday preceding the meeting.  Handouts will be provided to each Councilmember prior to the start of the meeting by the City Secretary.  All USB devices will be vetted by City IT staff to ensure City property is protected from malware. Discussion by the Council of any item not on the agenda shall be limited to statements of specific factual information given in response to any inquiry, a recitation of existing policy in response to an inquiry, and/or a proposal to place the item on a future agenda.  The presiding officer, during the Hearing of Residents portion of the agenda, will call on those persons who have signed up to speak in the order they have registered.]
TO A HEARING OF RESIDENCE. 
          THIS TIME IS SET ASIDE FOR ANY PERSON'S WISHING TO ADDRESS CITY COUNCIL. 
          EACH PERSON SHOULD FILL OUT THE SPEAKER'S REGISTER PRIOR TO THE MEETING. 
          PRESENTATION SHOULD BE LIMITED TO NO MORE THAN THREE MINUTES. 
          ALL REMARKS SHALL BE ADDRESSED TO THE COUNCIL AS A BODY AND NOT TO ANY INDIVIDUAL MEMBER THEREOF, ANY PERSON MAKING PERSONAL IMP PERTINENT OR SLANDEROUS REMARKS WHILE, WHILE ADDRESSING THE COUNCIL MAY BE REQUESTED TO LEAVE THE MEETING. 
          UM, WHEN YOU COME UP TO SPEAK, IF YOU'LL ALSO STATE YOUR NAME AND GIVE YOUR ADDRESS. 
          MAYOR PRO TIMM DAVIS. 
          DO WE HAVE ANY RESIDENTS WISHING TO SPEAK? YES, MR. MAYOR, WE HAVE SEVERAL TONIGHT. 
          FIRST UP IS MAGGIE HITTON. 
          GOOD EVENING COUNSEL. 
          A FEW, UH, ANNOUNCEMENTS FROM THE CHAMBER. 
          UH, WE'RE GOING TO BE SUPPORTING SHIRTZ, EDC AND ONE OF OUR NEWEST MEMBERS OF THE CHAMBER PIATA ITALIAN STREET FOODS GRAND OPENING ON MARCH 25TH AT 10:30 AM VERY EXCITED ABOUT THAT. 
          LOVE MY ITALIAN FOOD. 
          UH, SO HOPEFULLY Y'ALL HAVE THAT ON YOUR CALENDAR TO COME OUT AND, UH, SUPPORT OUR SHIRTZ EDC, OUR NEWEST BUSINESS IN THE AREA. 
          MARCH 27TH IS GOING TO BE AN EXTREMELY BUSY DAY WITH SOMETHING GOING ON MORNING, NOON, AND EVENING. 
          UM, IN THE MORNING FROM SEVEN 30 TO 9:00 AM WE HAVE COFFEE AT THE CHAMBER. 
          IT'S GOING TO BE HOSTED BY SHE CIVIL EMERGENCY CLINIC. 
          UH, FREE COFFEE, FREE GOODIES, COME IN, COME OUT, UH, GRAB IT TO GO BEFORE GOING INTO WORK AGAIN, THAT'S SEVEN 30 TO 9:00 AM THEN FROM 10 TO 2:00 PM 
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OUR MILITARY AFFAIRS COMMITTEE IS DOING A VETERAN-OWNED BUSINESS EXPO, UH, THAT IS GONNA BE LOCATED AT WAYLAND BAPTIST UNIVERSITY. 
          THEY'RE PARTNERING WITH THEM TO GIVE THEM THE SPACE THAT THEY NEED. 
          THEY HAVE ROOM FOR 40 BOOTHS, AND I BELIEVE THERE'S ONLY SEVEN LEFT. 
          UH, IT'S FREE TO THE PUBLIC TO ATTEND. 
          WE JUST WANNA SUPPORT OUR VETERANS THAT OWN BUSINESSES IN THE AREA. 
          IF YOU ARE A VETERAN OWNED BUSINESS AND WANT TO HAVE A BOOTH THERE, LIKE I SAID, THERE'S ABOUT NINE BOOTHS LEFT. 
          JUST CONTACT THE CHAMBER, WE'LL GET YOU HOOKED UP WITH WHO YOU NEED TO BE HOOKED UP WITH. 
          AND THEN WE HAVE A RIBBON CUTTING AT 4:00 PM THAT EVENING FOR, UH, SHIRTS CREEK BEER GARDEN. 
          UM, THEY'VE BEEN OPEN FOR ABOUT A YEAR NOW, BUT THEY NEVER HAD LIKE AN OFFICIAL RIBBON CUTTING AND CELEBRATION. 
          SO WE'RE DOING THAT FOR THEM AT 4:00 PM ON THE 27TH, THE 28TH. 
          THE NEXT DAY WE ARE HAVING OUR SHRED DAY AT THE SHIRTS OFFICES, 1730 SHIRTS PARKWAY. 
          THAT IS FROM 9:00 AM TO 12:00 PM UH, OUR YOUNG PROFESSIONALS HYPER IS PUTTING IT ON. 
          IT IS FREE TO BRING YOUR ITEMS TO SHRED. 
          WE DO ASK FOR A SUGGESTED DONATION OF $5 BECAUSE WE ARE DOING A FUNDRAISER FOR, UH, JOINTLY BIG BROTHERS AND BIG SISTERS. 
          AND THEN THE OTHER 50% GOES TO, UH, GIVING HOLIDAY MEALS AND PRESENTS FOR FROM RAY CAP FOR FAMILIES IN OUR SURROUNDING AREA. 
          LAST, WE ARE CLOSED ON APRIL 3RD FOR GOOD FRIDAY. 
          AND, UH, THAT IS ALL I HAVE. 
          THANK YOU. 
          NEXT UP IS TIFFANY GIBSON. 
          TIFFANY GIBSON, 6 9 3 9 HALLE LOOP CHURCH, TEXAS 7 8 1 5 4. 
          GOOD EVENING, COUNCIL, MAYOR, STAFF, THANK YOU FOR HAVING ME THIS EVENING. 
          I AM GRATEFUL TO COME HERE AND, UM, ASK FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO RUN FOR SHARED CITY COUNCIL. 
          PLACE SIX. 
          I'M ONE OF THE ONLY CANDIDATES THAT HAVE, UH, PRIOR EXPERIENCE, AND I'LL CONTINUE TO RUN ON THE PRIORITIES OF ENSURING THAT WE SUPPORT OUR LAW ENFORCEMENT, AS WELL AS PROTECTING OUR SMALL TOWN VALUES AND AS WELL AS, UM, PHYSICAL RESPONSIBILITY FOR OUR TAXPAYER DOLLARS AS I DID BEFORE. 
          AND AS I WILL CONTINUE TO DO IN THE FUTURE. 
          IT IS A PLEASURE TO BE A RESIDENT HERE AND ALSO TO CONTINUE TO SERVE THIS COMMUNITY. 
          THANK YOU. 
          NEXT WE HAVE RAQUEL GUTIERREZ. 
          GOOD EVENING ALL. 
          COUNCIL MAYOR SCHWARTZ, NEIGHBOR CITY STAFF. 
          MY NAME IS RAQUEL. 
          I LIVE AT 10 16 SILVER TREE. 
          AND I WANTED TO SHARE WITH YOU THIS EVENING WHAT I'VE BEEN DOING OVER THE PAST FEW WEEKS. 
          I SPENT A LOT OF TIME WALKING OUR NEIGHBORHOODS, GOING DOOR TO DOOR, AND STANDING ON FRONT OF PORCHES, ENGAGING WITH RESIDENTS. 
          AND I'LL TELL YOU, WHEN YOU'RE FACE TO FACE, HAVING REAL CONVERSATIONS, YOU LEARN WHAT PEOPLE ARE REALLY CONCERNED ABOUT. 
          NOT JUST THE EASY CONVERSATIONS, BUT THE TOUGH QUESTIONS, THE REAL CONCERNS ABOUT SHIRTS. 
          LAST THURSDAY IN PARTICULAR, I ENGAGED WITH A HOMEOWNER. 
          HE LOOKED ME IN THE EYE AND ASKED ME VERY DIRECTLY, AND WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO TO MAKE OUR SURE OUR STREETS ARE SAFE? THEN HE FOLLOWED UP WITH SOMETHING THAT REALLY STAYED WITH ME. 
          WHY ARE RESIDENTS HAVING TO ASK FOR THE BASIC SERVICES TO BE DELIVERED? I COULD TELL HE SAID THAT OUT. 
          CONCERN WAS HE REFERRING TO LACK OF ACCOUNTABILITY? HE WAS CONCERNED FOR HIS NEIGHBORHOOD, FOR HIS FAMILY, FOR THE COMMUNITY. 
          HE CALLS HOME. 
          HE TALKED ABOUT WANTING TO SEE INCREASED POLICE PRESENCE, WANTING REASSURANCE THAT SOMEONE IS THERE WATCHING, RESPONDING, AND PROTECTING OUR NEIGHBORHOODS. 
          BUT ALLOW ME TO BE CLEAR. 
          I FULLY SUPPORT OUR LAW. 
          ENFORCERS FIRST RESPONDERS BECAUSE THEY SHOW UP FOR OUR COMMUNITY EVERY SINGLE DAY, AND THEY DESERVE OUR FULL RESPECT. 
          AND A HUNDRED PERCENT SUPPORT. 
          LEADERSHIP HAS A RESPONSIBILITY AS WELL, CITY LEADERS, BECAUSE AT THE END OF THE DAY, CITY LEADERS AND THE RESIDENTS, THE TAXPAYERS SHOULD BE THE TOP PRIORITY. 
          AND WHAT I'M HEARING RESIDENTS SAY AT THEIR FRONT DOOR GOES BEYOND JUST ONE ISSUE. 
          RESIDENTS WANT TO FEEL SECURE IN THEIR DAILY LIVES. 
          THEY WANNA KNOW WHEN THEY LEAVE THEIR HOME, IT WILL BE SAFE AND PROTECTED UPON THEIR RETURN. 
          THEY WANT THE STREETS THEY DRIVE ON, MAINTAINED AND SAFE. 
          THEY WANNA KNOW THERE HAS BEEN RESPONSIBLE PLANNING FOR FUTURE GROWTH. 
          THEY WANNA KNOW THAT THEY CAN CONTINUE LIVING IN THE COMMUNITY THEY LOVE WITHOUT BEING PRICED OUT WITH TAX INCREASES. 
          RESIDENTS WANT TO BE ASSURED THAT CITY LEADERS ARE BEING GOOD STEWARDS OF TAXPAYERS DOLLARS. 
          NOT JUST MAKING DECISIONS FROM BEHIND 
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THE DESK, BUT SHOWING UP, BEING IMMERSED AND UNDERSTANDING WHAT'S REALLY HAPPENING IN THE COMMUNITY. 
          I'VE WALKED OUR NEIGHBORHOODS. 
          I'VE HEARD THE SAME CONCERNS COME UP AGAIN AND AGAIN. 
          THESE ARE NOT COMPLAINTS. 
          THEY ARE REAL RESIDENT CONCERNS. 
          RESIDENTS ARE PAYING ATTENTION. 
          THEY EXPECT ACCOUNTABILITY IN BASIC SERVICES. 
          THINGS LIKE SAFE STREETS, VISIBLE POLICE PRESENCE, RELIABLE INFRASTRUCTURE, AND RESPONSIBLE USE OF TAXPAYER DOLLARS SHOULD ALWAYS BE A TOP PRIORITY. 
          AND BECAUSE LEADERSHIP BEGINS WITH LISTENING, WHICH I SEE COUNCILWOMAN IS NOT LISTENING, I HAVE STOOD AT THOSE FRONT PORCHES. 
          I'VE GONE DOOR TO DOOR AND I'M READY TO SHOW UP AND REPRESENT SHIRTS, RESIDENTS. 
          EARLY VOTING STARTS TOMORROW. 
          MAKE A PLAN, SHOW UP AND VOTE ONCE MORE BECAUSE SHIRTS NEED TO VOTE. 
          THANK YOU. 
          NEXT UP WE HAVE MICHELLE TURKI SPEAKING FOR DANA ELDRIDGE AT 26 28 GALLON FOX MAYOR COUNSEL, MR. WILLIAMS. MR. SANTI, UH, DANA ELDRIDGE ASKED ME TO READ THIS STATEMENT THAT HE HAS WRITTEN. 
          HE UNFORTUNATELY AT THE LAST MINUTE COULDN'T BE HERE. 
          AND I SAID I WOULD BE GLAD TO FROM DANA ELDRIDGE. 
          I COMMEND ALLISON HAYWARD FOR HER TIME ON COUNCIL THREE ELECTIONS WITH 70% OR MORE OF THE VOTE. 
          HOW THAT DROPPED TO 40% DURING THE ELECTION FOR COUNTY COMMISSIONER IS STILL QUESTIONABLE, MAYBE DUE TO FALSE STATEMENTS ABOUT HER OWING MONEY TO THE CITY. 
          IT SEEMS THAT SAME INDIVIDUAL IS CONTINUING TO MAKE FALSE STATEMENTS ABOUT OTHER CANDIDATES. 
          DO WE WANT THIS KIND OF QUOTE, LEADERSHIP UNQUOTE, TO BE PART OF OUR COUNCIL SLASH COMMUNITY? THE DIVISION NEEDS TO STOP NOW. 
          CAPITAL N OOW, IT HAS BEEN GOING STRONG SINCE MAYOR RODRIGUEZ WAS VOTED IN. 
          CITIZENS OF SHIRTS ARE NOT ENEMIES OF THE CITY, NOR ARE WE TERRORISTS OF THE CITY. 
          STOP THE RHETORIC. 
          DANA ELDRIDGE 26 28 GALLANT FOX SHIRTS. 
          I BELIEVE I'M UP NEXT, CORRECT? YES. 
          NEXT UP IS MICHELLE LESKY. 
          I'M CHANGING THE SUBJECT COMPLETELY ON Y'ALL AND YOU'RE GONNA LOVE THIS. 
          I'M WISHING YOU HAPPY ANNIVERSARY, AT LEAST FOUR OF YOU. 
          AND, UM, AS ONE COUNCILMAN USED TO POST COMMENTS ON SOCIAL MEDIA, LET'S TALK TRASH. 
          I ALWAYS FOUND THAT QUITE APPROPRIATE THAT COUNCIL PERSON WOULD WANT TO TALK TRASH. 
          ON 28 MARCH, 2025, AN ANNOUNCEMENT WAS POSTED AT THE CITY WEBSITE OF CONTRACT AWARD TO FRONTIER WASTE MANAGEMENT ON THE 30TH OF MARCH, 2025. 
          THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ANNOUNCED ON THEIR WEBSITE THAT FRONTIER MANAGEMENT MADE A DONATION TO THE CHAMBER ON ONE APRIL, 2025, WHICH WAS APRIL FOOL'S DAY, COUNCIL WAS ASKED TO CHOOSE BETWEEN TWO OPTIONS FOR SERVICES FOR THE CONTRACT DURING THIS COUNCIL. 
          CITIZENS TO BE HEARD PORTION, THREE INDIVIDUALS SPOKE ABOUT THE CONTRACT IN CONSIDERATIONS. 
          I AND A FRIEND DISCUSSED THE BULKY BINS AND HOW THEY WOULD BE DIFFICULT FOR SOME CITIZENS. 
          WE WERE TOLD THERE WERE NO OPTIONS FOR SMALLER BINS. 
          THAT MAY HAVE BEEN BECAUSE THE RFP, THERE WAS AN RFP WRITTEN FROM A CONTRACTOR STATING TO THE CONTRACTOR STATING THAT 96 GALLON BINS WOULD BE WHAT THEY WANTED. 
          MAYBE THAT WAS BECAUSE OF THE CONSULTING CONTRACTOR THAT WE PAID 39,000 TO. 
          I DON'T KNOW. 
          THE OTHER CITIZEN STATED SHE WOULD HAVE NO PROBLEM WITH THE BINS. 
          SHE SPOKE AS A CITIZEN, BUT HAS A DIRECT RELATIONSHIP TO THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE. 
          ACCORDING TO HER STATEMENT, ALL THE CITIZENS HAVE TO DO IS STORE THE BINS IN THEIR GARAGE, THEN ROLL OUT THE BIN DOWN THE DRIVEWAY ON TRASH DAY. 
          WELL, LET'S DISCUSS THAT. 
          IN MY AREA. 
          IN THE AREA WHERE THIS INDIVIDUAL GREW UP, NOT ALL RESIDENTS HAVE CONCRETE DRIVEWAYS. 
          NOT ALL RESIDENTS HAVE GARAGES BECAUSE AT THE TIME THE HOUSES WERE BUILT, THEY 
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DIDN'T PRODUCE THEM. 
          OKAY? THOSE OF US WHO, WHO DO HAVE GARAGES COULDN'T GET A CAR IN THERE IF OUR LIFE DEPENDED ON IT. 
          I GOT ONE IN ONE TIME, WAS ABLE TO GET OUT, BUT HAD TO GO OUT THE SIDE DOOR, GO AROUND, WHOOP, GO AROUND THE FRONT TO GET IN MY HOUSE. 
          WHY? BECAUSE VEHICLES ARE A LOT LARGER NOW THAN THEY WERE, UM, ARE A LOT LARGER THAN THEY WERE THEN. 
          I BET YOU SO MANY OF YOU DON'T EVEN KNOW THAT THERE'S SEVERAL STREETS THAT DON'T HAVE SIDEWALKS. 
          IN ADDITION TO CONCRETE DRIVEWAYS. 
          WHAT'S ODD IS AT LEAST TWO, IF NOT MORE, ONE SIDE OF THAT STREET HAS A SIDEWALK AND THE DIRECT OPPOSITE SIDE DOESN'T HAVE A SIDEWALK. 
          THOSE HOUSES HAVE BEEN THERE FOR AT LEAST 49, 50 YEARS. 
          I'LL, I'LL QUIT, BUT I WILL HAVE A SEQUEL TO THIS GUARANTEE. 
          THANK YOU SIR. 
          NEXT UP WE HAVE HEATHER CORN. 
          SORRY, SIGNING UP . 
          I'M SORRY. 
          AND FOR LAST WE HAVE JONATHAN MARQUEZ. 
          JONATHAN MARQUEZ, 58 17 SHIRTS ST. 
          ANDREWS. 
          TODAY I COME TO COUNCIL. 
          TODAY I COME TO COUNCIL WITH MIXED FEELINGS. 
          FOR ONE, I'M EXCITED ABOUT THE OPPORTUNITY TO SEE IT, TO SERVE THE CITY OF SHIRTS ON THE T SAC AND PARKS RECREATIONS BOARD. 
          YET ON THE OTHER HAND, I'M DISCARD, I'M CONCERNED. 
          AND QUITE FRANKLY, I'M OFFENDED AT THE LACK OF KNOWLEDGE AND ATTENTION TO DETAIL FROM A CERTAIN COUNCILWOMAN, I'M SORRY, COUNCIL MEMBER OF THIS IN REGARDS TO THE INCOMPLETE SIDEWALKS AT DANVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL. 
          SO ALLOW ME TO REITERATE TO THE NEW MEMBERS OF THE COUNCIL AND TO THE, AND TO THE INCOHERENT MEMBERS OF THE COUNCIL. 
          DANVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL IS TECHNICALLY IN SHIRTS. 
          THEY HAVE SIDEWALKS ON THEIR, ON THEIR PROPERTY LINE. 
          AND THEN IT GOES INTO RURAL AREA WHERE THERE'S INCOMPLETE SIDEWALKS. 
          THEN YOU GET TO THE BANK. 
          BANK HAS SOMEWHAT OF SIDEWALKS, AND THEN THERE'S SIDEWALKS ALL THE WAY DOWN TO THE CROWN JEWEL, NORTH CLIFF SIDEWALKS ON RURAL LANDS. 
          ALL I ASKED IS THAT THE CITY BUILDS COMPLETE THOSE SIDEWALKS ON EITHER SIDE T SAC BOARD. 
          THEY, UH, THEY WENT AND OBSERVED IT. 
          THEY DID THE ANALYSIS. 
          UM, BRIAN TELLS ME THAT THERE'S GONNA BE A BUSINESS POSSIBLY COMING ON THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. 
          THAT'S FINE. 
          THAT'S GOOD. 
          I CAN WAIT. 
          BUT CAN WE FILL IN THE OTHER SIDE OF THE SIDEWALK? NOW I HEARD, I GET IT. 
          I'VE PERSONALLY RODE ON DIRT, ROADS, GROUND IT, IT DOESN'T MATTER. 
          BUT THIS IS NOT VAUGHN ARMY. 
          THIS IS NOT PLEASANTON, THIS IS NOT FLORESVILLE. 
          THIS IS SHIRTS. 
          WE HAVE THE MONEY TO MAKE IT RIGHT AND WHEN IT'S KIDS IN, WHEN IT'S KIDS INVOLVED IN THE SAFETY OF CHILDREN, WE HAVE TO DO WHAT'S RIGHT. 
          SO I'M HERE AGAIN TO REITERATE TO NEW MEMBERS OF THE COUNCIL AND MEMBERS OF THE COUNCIL THAT WE'RE NOT PAYING ATTENTION. 
          PLEASE BUILD THE SIDEWALKS AND I'M HAPPY, HAPPY TO BE HERE, HAPPY TO SERVE. 
          BUT I JUST WANT TO REITERATE IT 'CAUSE I SAID I WOULD AND I DO WHAT I SAY. 
          THANK YOU. 
          HAVE A GOOD DAY, MR. MAYOR. 
          THAT'S ALL FOR TONIGHT. 
          OKAY. 
          MOVING 
          [ Consent Agenda Items The Consent Agenda is considered self-explanatory and will be enacted by the Council with one motion. There will be no separate discussion of these items unless they are removed from the Consent Agenda upon the request of the Mayor or a Councilmember.]
ON TO THE CONSENT AGENDA ITEMS. THE CONSENT AGENDA IS CONSIDERED SELF-EXPLANATORY AND WILL BE ENACTED BY THE COUNSEL WITH ONE MOTION. 
          THERE WILL BE NO SEPARATE DISCUSSION OF THESE ITEMS UNLESS THEY'RE REMOVED FROM THE CONSENT AGENDA. 
          UPON REQUEST OF THE MAYOR OR A COUNCIL MEMBER. 
          COUNCIL MEMBERS, IS THERE ANY ITEMS THAT YOU'D LIKE TO REMOVE FROM THE CONSENT AGENDA? YES. 
          ONE AND TWO. 
          OKAY, WE'RE GONNA GO AHEAD AND REMOVE, UH, CONSENT. 
          AGENDA ITEMS ONE AND TWO. 
          UH, CAN I GET APPROVAL FROM, CAN I GET A MOTION TO APPROVE, UH, CONSENT AGENDA ITEMS THREE THROUGH FIVE. 
          SO MOVED SECOND. 
          ALL RIGHT. 
          WE HAVE A MOTION MADE BY COUNCIL MEMBER HAYWARD, SECONDED BY COUNCIL MEMBER WESTBROOK, CAN I GET EVERYBODY TO CAST THE VOTES? CAN I GET THE VOTES PUBLISHED, PLEASE? OKAY. 
          HAVING, UH, 
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SEVEN YAYS, NO NAYS. 
          MOTION PASSES. 
          NOW MOVING ON 
          [1.  Minutes - Approval of the minutes from the regular Council Meeting on March 3, 2026 (S.Edmondson/S.Courney/I.Chavez)]
TO, UH, ITEM, UH, WE'LL PERCENTAGE AGENDA TO ITEM ONE. 
          UH, MAY I REMOVE THAT BECAUSE THERE NEEDS TO BE A CORRECTION ON THE AGENDA UNDER THE, UH, I THINK IT'S THE CITY UNDER CITY EVENTS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS. 
          IT MADE, IT NEEDS TO BE CORRECTED THAT, UH, STEVE WILLIAMS IS THE TCMA PRESIDENT, NOT THE TML PRESIDENT, ISN'T IT? THANK YOU. 
          YOU'RE WELCOME. 
          AND THAT, UH, UM, SARAH GONZALEZ IS A-T-C-M-A BOARD MEMBER AS WELL. 
          NOT TML. 
          THANK YOU. 
          SO I'D LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION THAT WE APPROVE ITEM NUMBER ONE. 
          CAN I GET A SECOND? SECOND? ALRIGHT, UH, WITH THOSE CORRECTIONS, I HAVE A MOTION TO APPROVE, UH, THE MINUTES BY COUNCIL MEMBER HAYWARD. 
          SECONDED BY COUNCIL MEMBER WATSON, CAN I GET EVERYBODY TO CAST THEIR VOTES? ALRIGHT, HAVING SEVEN YAYS, NO NAYS. 
          MOTION PASSES. 
          MOVING ON TO 
          [2. Appointments, Re-appointments, and Resignations - City of Schertz Boards, Commissions, and Committees 	Appointments 	 		Capital Improvement Advisory Committee Boardmember for term ending 06/30/2028: Nancy Alicia Schuerman Croteau 		Parks and Recreation Boardmember for term ending 09/30/2028: Rodricus Harvey 		Parks and Recreation Boardmember for unexpired term ending 09/30/2027: Janet Sanchez 		Parks and Recreation Alternate 1 Position for term ending 09/30/2028: Jonathan Marquez 		Parks and Recreation Alternate 2 Position for unexpired term ending 09/30/2027: Michelle Frey 		Planning and Zoning Commissioner for the term ending 06/30/2028: Francisco Velazquez 		Planning and Zoning Commission Alternate 1 for the term ending 06/30/2028: Sonja Loredo-Reyes 		Planning and Zoning Commission Alternate 2 for the unexpired term ending 06/30/2027: Sean Grady 		Transportation Safety Advisory Commissioner for term ending 03/31/2028: Jay Starr and Jonathan Marquez 	 	 	Re-appointments 	 		Transportation Safety Advisory Commission for term ending 03/31/2028: Richard Dziewit, Steven Icke, and Paul Wiley  		Planning and Zoning for term ending 06/30/2028: Clay Wallace, Glen Outlaw 	 	 	Resignations, Removals, and Expiring Terms 	 		TSAC: Donald Nolan, Ronald Stevens, Michael Winter and Melanie McCoy 		Planning and Zoning Commission Alternate 1: Judy Goldick]
ITEM TWO APPOINTMENTS AND REAPPOINTMENTS AND RESIGNATIONS BY CITY OF CHURCH BOARDS, COMMISSIONS AND COMMITTEES APPOINTMENTS. 
          SO I PULL THIS ONE, MAYOR BECAUSE WE HAVE A FEW OF THE RECOMMENDED, RECOMMENDED BOARD MEMBERS THAT WE'RE PRESENTING TO THE CITY, AND THEY'RE IN THE AUDIENCE. 
          AND I WANTED EVERYONE TO REC BE ABLE TO RECOGNIZE THEM. 
          SO ON THE CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT ADVISORY BOARD, WE HAVE ALICIA SHERMAN, PLEASE STAND. 
          UM, WE HAVE ON THE PARKS AND RECS, JONATHAN MARQUEZ. 
          WE HAVE PARKS AND RECS ALTERNATE. 
          SO HE WAS AL HE WAS ALTERNATE ONE, ALTERNATE TWO WILL BE MICHELLE FREY. 
          WE HAVE ON THE PLANNING AND ZONING, SEAN GRADY AS AN ALTERNATE, WE HAVE ON TAC JAY STAR AND JONATHAN MARQUEZ. 
          I HOPE I DID NOT MISS ANYONE, SONYA. 
          SORRY ABOUT THAT. 
          I WAS LOOKING AT AND I WAS LIKE, I COULDN'T HARDLY SEE YOU. 
          UH, AND THEN WE ALSO HAVE SONYA LAREDO REYES, WHO IS ON THE PLANNING AND ZONING AS AN ALTERNATE ONE. 
          PLEASE STAND IN. 
          THANK YOU. 
          SO I JUST WANTED EVERYONE TO, TO MEET THEM, UH, AS WE GO THROUGH. 
          'CAUSE A LOT OF TIMES WE TEND TO, AS THE INTERVIEW COMMITTEE, WE PUT PEOPLE ON BOARDS AND THEN WE DON'T KNOW WHO THEY ARE. 
          SO I, THEY WANTED TO COME AND I WANTED TO RECOGNIZE THEM. 
          SO WITH THAT, I LIKE TO MAKE THE APPROVAL OF ALL OF THE, UH, APPOINTMENTS, REAPPOINTMENTS AND RESIGNATIONS. 
          UH, I'D LIKE TO MAKE THE MOTION FOR, FOR THAT, PLEASE. 
          SECOND. 
          OKAY. 
          WE HAVE A MOTION MADE BY COUNCIL MEMBER HAYWARD, SECONDED BY, UH, COUNCIL MEMBER GUERRERO. 
          CAN I GET COUNCIL TO CAST VOTES? AND AGAIN, SONYA, I APOLOGIZE. 
          , CAN I GET THE VOTES PUBLISHED, PLEASE? OKAY. 
          HAVING SEVEN YAYS, NO NAYS. 
          MOTION PASSES. 
          MAY. 
          SO I WANNA THANK YOU GUYS FOR COMING IN AND BEING RECOGNIZED IN FRONT OF CITY COUNCIL AND, UM, PUTTING IN YOUR APPLICATION TO BE ON, TO SERVE ON THESE BOARDS. 
          WE KNOW THAT YOU'RE GONNA DO GREAT THINGS AND WE LOOK FORWARD TO HEARING AND THE THINGS THAT YOU HAVE TO SAY. 
          SO THANK YOU AGAIN FOR COMING IN AND CONGRATULATIONS. 
          THANK YOU ALL VERY MUCH FOR VOLUNTEERING AND SERVING ON THOSE BOARDS. 
          I KNOW IT REQUIRES A LOT OF TIME, AND SO THANK YOU FOR, UH, TAKING TIME OUTTA YOUR DAY, YOUR SCHEDULE AND YOUR FAMILIES TO BE ABLE TO DO THAT. 
          SO THANK Y'ALL VERY MUCH. 
          ALL RIGHT, MOVING ON 
          [6.  Resolution 26-R-038 - Authorizing an Advanced Funding Agreement (AFA) with the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT), for the West Dietz Creek Trail Project. (S.Gonzalez/L.Shrum)]
TO DISCUSSION ACTION ITEMS. ITEM SIX, RESOLUTION 26 DASH R DASH 0 3 8, AUTHORIZING AN ADVANCED FUNDING AGREEMENT WITH THE TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION FOR THE WEST DE CREEK TRAIL PROJECT. 
          WE HAVE LAUREN SHROOM. 
          GOOD EVENING AGAIN, COUNSEL. 
          UM, I DON'T HAVE A FORMAL PRESENTATION TONIGHT. 
          UH, JUST WANTED TO BRING THIS ITEM TO YOUR ATTENTION. 
          YOU HAD PREVIOUSLY APPROVED THE DESIGN SERVICES FOR THIS PROJECT FOR THE WEST DES CREEK TRAIL. 
          UM, THIS IS, UM, WHAT WAS PRE PRESENTED IN THE CCM FOR THE TOTAL PROJECT COST HAS INCREASED FROM, UH, 1.8354 TO 1.603. 
          SO WE WANTED TO NOTE THAT, UM, WHEN WE ORIGINALLY APPLIED FOR THIS FUNDING, WE THOUGHT THAT, UM, PROFESSIONAL SERVICES WERE ALSO REIMBURSED BY TECH DOT. 
          THEY'RE NOT IN THIS PROGRAM CALL. 
          THEY WERE IN A PREVIOUS ONE WE HAD DONE, BUT WE GOT A LITTLE BIT MIXED UP. 
          UM, AND SO THIS DESIGN COST IS GOING TO BE, UM, BORN SOLELY BY THE CITY. 
          UM, BUT THEN THE CONSTRUCTION PORTION WILL BE REIMBURSABLE FROM TDOT. 
          SO YOU 
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HAVE THE TOTALS THERE. 
          UM, WANTED TO BRING THAT TO YOUR ATTENTION. 
          AND THEN THE FUNDING SOURCES. 
          WE ALREADY HAD SOME GENERAL FUND DOLLARS ALLOCATED FOR THIS PROJECT. 
          AND THEN WE ARE COVERING THE REMAINING 247,000 FROM THE PARKLAND DEDICATION FUND, WHICH WE DO HAVE RESERVES IN THERE OF OVER 635,000. 
          AND THAT'S IT. 
          I'LL ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS IF YOU HAVE THEM. 
          WELL, MAYOR, I CAN MAKE ONE COMMENT, BUT L SO LAUREN, WE'RE STILL LEVERAGING OUR 600,000 VERSUS ABSOLUTELY. 
          THE STATE'S $1 MILLION GRANT. 
          CORRECT. 
          OKAY. 
          OKAY. 
          ANY MEMBER, ANY COUNCIL MEMBERS HAVE ANY, ANY QUESTIONS? OKAY. 
          CAN I GET A MOTION TO APPROVE RESOLUTION 26 DASH R DASH 0 3 8. 
          SO MOVED. 
          SECOND. 
          OKAY. 
          I HAVE A MOTION MADE BY, UH, COUNCIL MEMBER HAYWARD, SECONDED BY COUNCIL MEMBER WESTBROOK. 
          CAN I GET COUNCIL TO CASH YOUR VOTES? OKAY. 
          HAVE, CAN I GET THE VOTES PUBLISHED, PLEASE? OKAY. 
          HAVING SEVEN YAYS, NO NAYS. 
          MOTION PASSES. 
          MOVING ON 
          [7.  Resolution 26-R-044 -Approval of the Annual Comprehensive Financial Report FY 2024-25 (S. Gonzalez/J. Walters)  ]
TO ITEM SEVEN, RESOLUTION 26 DASH R DASH 0 4 4. 
          APPROVAL OF THE ANNUAL COMPREHENSIVE FINANCIAL REPORT. 
          FISCAL YEAR 2024. 
          2025. 
          MR. WALTERS, GOOD EVENING, MAYOR AND COUNSEL. 
          THIS YEAR WE ENGAGED WITH A NEW AUDIT FIRM, A BIP, UH, HEAR FROM THEIR FIRM. 
          UH, WE HAVE JEREMY WHO WILL GO OVER THE HIGHLIGHTS OF THE ANNUAL FINANCIAL REPORT, AND WE'LL BE HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS YOU MAY HAVE. 
          UH, THE AUDIT COMMITTEE DID MEET LAST TUESDAY, UH, AND REVIEW THE, REVIEW THE BOOK IN IN MORE, UH, COMPLETE MANNER. 
          THEN, UH, WE PLAN TO DO TONIGHT. 
          BUT WE'LL STILL HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS, UH, THAT YOU HAVE. 
          THE AUDIT COMMITTEE DID, UH, RECOMMEND APPROVAL TO COUNCIL TONIGHT FOR THE, UH, THE ANNUAL REPORT. 
          UH, SO I'LL INTRODUCE, UH, JEREMY, UM, WHO WILL GO OVER THE FINANCIAL REPORT. 
          UH, THANK YOU MAYOR. 
          THANK YOU COUNCIL FOR HAVING ME HERE TODAY. 
          UM, A AS JAMES MENTIONED, UH, MY NAME'S JEREMY BARBADO. 
          I'M AN AUDIT PARTNER HERE AT C UH, A BIP. 
          UM, I WAS, UM, OVERSAW THE AUDIT OF THE CITY'S FINANCIAL STATEMENTS, UM, WITH THE HELP OF MANAGEMENT, WE GOT HERE TODAY AS REQUIRED BY THE STATE MANDATE. 
          I THINK MOST OF Y'ALL ARE AWARE, THE STATE PUT SOME TEETH BEHIND GETTING THESE AUDITS FILED WITH THE CITY, UM, UH, SECRETARY, UM, BY THE HUNDRED 80TH DAY AFTER THE FISCAL YEAR END. 
          UM, ALSO, UM, THERE IS ALSO A SIX MONTH REQUIREMENT, WHICH IS A LITTLE LONGER, UH, TO GET SUBMITTED TO GFOA, WHICH Y'ALL HAVE, HAVE, HAVE DONE. 
          AND SO WE'RE HERE BEFORE YOU TODAY TO PRESENT THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND MEET ALL THOSE DEADLINES. 
          UM, BUT I'M HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS. 
          AGAIN, THIS PRESENTATION'S GONNA BE MORE HIGH LEVEL, BUT I'M HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS ON THE AUDIT PROCESS OR IN, UH, ANY OF THE ITEMS THAT ARE IN YOUR BOOK THAT, UH, WE PASSED OUT EARLIER TODAY. 
          OH, AND THE, THE BOOK WE PASSED OUT, IT DIDN'T DIFFER FROM THE AGENDA PACKET ITEM THAT Y'ALL GOT, UM, LAST WEEK. 
          SO, REAL QUICK, JUST A HIGH OVERVIEW OF WHAT'S IN THE, THE BOUND DOCUMENT HERE, THAT YOU HAVE THIS REAL THICK, UM, GOOD READING MATERIAL FOR TONIGHT, HELP PUT YOU TO SLEEP. 
          UM, WHAT'S IN THE ACT FOR IS THE INTRODUCTORY SECTION THAT IS THE TRANSMITTAL LETTER FROM THE CITY MANAGER. 
          UM, THAT'S A PRETTY MUCH A PROFILE OF WHAT THE CITY HAS GOING ON AND WHAT THE CITY PLANS ON GOING, UH, IN THE FUTURE. 
          THE ECONOMIC, UH, IMPACTS THAT THE CITY FACES, AS WELL AS THE CAPITAL AND DEBT ADMINISTRATION THAT THE CITY, UH, HAS ON, ON THE, ON THE FINANCIALS ITSELF. 
          AND IT GIVES A LITTLE MORE INFORMATION ON HOW THE BUDGET, UH, GETS ADOPTED EVERY YEAR. 
          UM, ALSO IN THE INTRODUCTORY SECTION IS THE GFOA, WHICH IS THE GOVERNMENT FINANCING OFFICER ASSOCIATION CERTIFICATE OF ACHIEVEMENT AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN FINANCIAL REPORTING FOR THE FISCAL YEAR, END OF SEPTEMBER 30TH, 2024. 
          NOW, THAT'S THE PRIOR YEAR. 
          IT'S REQUIRED TO BE PUT INTO THE, THE SUBMISSION OFFER FOR, FOR GFOA FOR THE 2025 FISCAL YEAR. 
          AND, UH, THIS WILL BE THE 39TH YEAR, UM, THAT Y'ALL WILL RECEIVE THAT AWARD CONSECUTIVELY. 
          UM, WE'VE GONE THROUGH THE CHECKLIST FOR GFOA THAT THEY'VE, THEY'VE PROVIDED, AND SO WE, WE, WE DON'T DOUBT THAT Y'ALL WILL HIT THE SEPTEMBER 30TH, 2025 AWARD FOR ACHIEVEMENT. 
          ALSO IN THE, IN THE ANNUAL FINANCIAL REPORT IS, IS THE INDEPENDENT AUDITORS REPORT. 
          THAT'S OUR REPORT EXPLAINING WHAT THE SCOPE OF SERVICES WE PROVIDED TO THE CITY, AS WELL AS, UM, THE RESPONSIBILITIES OVER, OVER THEIR FINANCIAL STATEMENTS THEMSELVES, WHICH LIES WITH MANAGEMENT. 
          THEN IT GIVES THE MANAGEMENT DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS, WHICH IS, GIVES THE FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS OF THE CITY WHAT HAPPENED DURING THE YEAR, AS WELL AS, UM, UH, COMPARATIVE OUTLOOK, UH, AS A CITY AS A WHOLE. 
          AND IT KIND OF ANALYZES THE, THE CITY'S FINANCIAL FUNDS, UH, MAJOR FUNDS THAT, THAT THE CITY HAS. 
          THEN 
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YOU GET INTO THE BASIC FINANCIAL STATEMENTS, WHICH IS YOUR GOVERNMENT WIDE AND FUND FINANCIAL STATEMENTS. 
          UM, THAT'S WHERE YOU SEE ALL THE BALANCES FOR THE FISCAL YEAR. 
          AND I'LL GO OVER SOME OF THOSE AND, UM, AND, AND, AND IN A LITTLE BIT THEN YOU HAVE THE NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS. 
          THERE'S A LOT IN THIS DOCUMENT I KNOW. 
          UM, THE NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS, WHICH GIVES A LITTLE MORE MEAT BEHIND, UH, THE FINANCIAL, BEHIND THE BONES OF THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS BALANCES THEMSELVES, GIVES A LITTLE MORE DETAIL ON WHAT'S HAPPENING, UM, WITH THE BALANCES AND THE, UM, AND HOW THE BALANCES CONSIST OF AND WHAT, WHAT MAKES IT UP. 
          THEN THERE'S SOME SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION THAT'S REQUIRED BY OUR STANDARDS TO, TO, UM, SOME BUDGET SCHEDULES THAT WE HAVE TO PRESENT AS WELL AS YOU'RE COMBINING, UH, INDIVIDUAL FINANCIAL STATEMENTS, WHICH ARE YOUR NON-MAJOR FUNDS, UM, THAT THE CITY MANAGES. 
          FINALLY, UH, THIS IS, UH, EXCLUSIVE TO ACTERS IS THE STATISTICAL SECTION. 
          AND THIS GIVES, UM, A 10 YEAR LOOKOUT, UH, LOOK BACK ON HOW THE CITY HAS PROGRESSED OVER THE LAST 10 YEARS IN VARIOUS ASPECTS SUCH AS, UH, TAX ASSESSED VALUE, UM, UH, MEDIUM INCOME OF THE CITY, THE SOME DEMOGRAPHICS, UM, USAGE OF YOUR UTILITY SYSTEMS, SALES TAX, UH, SALES TAX PAYERS, LIKE YOUR HIGHEST SALES TAX PAYERS, STUFF LIKE THAT. 
          SO IT GIVES A LITTLE MORE DETAIL BEHIND, UM, HOW THE CITY'S PROGRESSED OVER THE LAST 10 YEARS. 
          SOME, SOME INTERESTING STUFF IN THERE. 
          UM, THEN FINALLY WE HAVE THE COMPLIANCE SECTION, WHICH IS, UM, REQUIRED THIS YEAR BECAUSE Y'ALL HAD, UH, FEDERAL FUNDS, Y'ALL EXCEEDED THE $1 MILLION CAP THAT'S REQUIRED, UH, REQUIRED US TO DO A SINGLE AUDIT FOR THE, FOR THE CITY, AND THAT'S RELATED TO YOUR ARC FUNDS THAT Y'ALL GOT. 
          SO, AGAIN, JUST, UH, JUST TO GO OVER OUR INDEPENDENT AUDITORS REPORT OVER THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS, WE DID FOLLOW, UM, CERTAIN AUDITING STANDARDS, THE GENERALLY ACCEPTED AUDITING STANDARDS OF THE UNITED STATES, AS WELL AS THE GOVERNMENT AUDITING STANDARDS ISSUED BY THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES. 
          THOSE ARE THE STANDARDS WE HAD TO FOLLOW, UM, IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE CITY'S FINANCIALS. 
          THE PURPOSE OF OUR AUDIT IS TO FORM AN OPINION, INDEPENDENT OPINION OVER THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND WHETHER THEY'RE IN COMPLIANCE WITH GENERALLY ACCEPTED ACCOUNTING PRINCIPLES OF THE UNITED STATES. 
          UM, AND OUR OPINION IS UNMODIFIED, WHICH IS BASICALLY, UH, STATES THAT WE HAVE NO, UM, MODIFYING STATEMENTS AND NO DEPARTURES FROM GENERALLY ACCEPTED ACCOUNTING PRINCIPLES. 
          THIS IS THE HIGHEST OPINION. 
          IT'S CALLED A CLEAN OPINION THAT YOU CAN HAVE FROM A INDEPENDENT ACCOUNTING FIRM. 
          UH, BASICALLY STATES WE HAVE NO MODIFYING STATEMENTS, UM, IN YOUR OPINION OR IN OUR OPINION OF, UH, YOUR FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AS THEY'RE PRESENTED IN FRONT OF YOU TODAY. 
          UM, AGAIN, THE MANAGEMENT DISCUSSION ANALYSIS, IT'S BROKEN UP INTO THESE COMPONENTS. 
          I'LL COVER MORE ON THE FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS, UM, BUT IF YOU EVER TURN TO THE MANAGEMENT DISCUSSION, IT GIVES YOU A, A GOOD OVERVIEW OF, OF HOW THE CITY, UH, DID FROM PRIOR YEAR TO THIS YEAR. 
          AND, AND THOSE, UM, THOSE ARE THE, THE SEGMENTS OF THE MANAGEMENT DISCUSSION ANALYSIS, JUMPING INTO SOME FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS. 
          UH, GOVERNMENT-WIDE FINANCIALS. 
          I, I WON'T COVER TOO MUCH OF THESE 'CAUSE IT'S ALL YOUR FUNDS CONSOLIDATED INTO ONE OPINION UNIT. 
          UM, I'LL COVER MORE ON THE FUND LEVEL IN A LITTLE BIT, BUT, UH, JUST REAL QUICKLY, YOUR, THE CITY REPORTED A COMBINED NET POSITION OF $445 MILLION, AND IT'S BROKEN UP BETWEEN YOUR GOVERNMENTAL ACTIVITIES OF 231 AND TWO 13 IN YOUR BUSINESS TYPE ACTIVITIES. 
          THOSE ARE ALL YOUR ENTERPRISE FUNDS, UM, CONSOLIDATED TOGETHER, AND THIS IS A REQUIRED STATEMENT BY OUR STANDARDS. 
          SO THE NET POSITION DID INCREASE BY 67.1 MILLION FROM THE PRIOR YEAR. 
          UH, GOVERNMENTAL ACTIVITIES TOOK UP 30.8 OF THAT AND BUSINESS TYPE TOOK UP 36.3. 
          UM, AS MENTIONED IN, UH, JAMES PRESENTATION EARLIER, WE DID HAVE AN INCREASE IN SALES TAX DOLLARS FOR THE FISCAL YEAR. 
          THAT MADE UP A, A SIZABLE CHUNK OF THE 30.8 IN THE GOVERNMENTAL ACTIVITIES, AS WELL AS SOME CAPITAL CONTRIBUTIONS. 
          UM, THAT MADE UP ABOUT 18 MILLION. 
          SO, UM, THE, THERE'S SOME DEVELOPMENT THAT GOT FINISHED AND THE CITY HAS TAKEN ON THAT INFRASTRUCTURE, UM, TO MAINTAIN IT. 
          SO WE RECORDED THAT AS A, AS REVENUE FOR THE, FOR THE CITY. 
          ALSO ON THE BUSINESS TYPE ACTIVITIES, WE DID HAVE AN INCREASE IN, IN CHARGING FOR SERVICES. 
          THOSE ARE, UH, CUSTOMERS, EITHER THE CUSTOMERS HAVE INCREASED OR THE USAGE HAS INCREASED, SO, OR A COMBINATION OF THE TWO, UM, AND THE WATER AND SEWER FUND, AND THEN ALSO SOME CAPITAL CONTRIBUTIONS, UH, FOR INFRASTRUCTURES THAT Y'ALL HAVE TAKEN OWNERSHIP OVER TO MAINTAIN. 
          AND THAT WAS ABOUT $33 MILLION OF CAPITAL INFRASTRUCTURE Y'ALL TOOK ON GOING TO THE, THE GENERAL FUND. 
          THIS IS THE, THE BUDGETS AND, AND WHERE Y'ALL ARE USED TO MANAGING. 
          UM, Y'ALL DID HAVE FIVE MAJOR FUNDS. 
          I'LL COVER THE THREE, UH, MORE, UH, I GUESS, UH, MA MORE MAJOR FUNDS , FOR LACK OF A BETTER TERM, THE GENERAL FUND, THE DEBT SERVICE, AND THE CAPITAL PROJECTS. 
          THOSE ARE YOUR THREE BIG PRIMARY FUNDS. 
          UM, YOU DO HAVE OTHER FUNDS OBVIOUSLY, AND, UM, THEY'RE PRESENTED IN THE FINANCIALS, BUT I WAS JUST GONNA COVER THOSE THREE, UM, HEAVILY USED FUNDS. 
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UH, FOR, FOR, FOR MY PRESENTATION HERE. 
          SO GOING WITH THE GENERAL FUND, THIS IS YOUR CITY'S MAIN OPERATING FUND. 
          UM, AT THE END OF THE 2025, YOU DID HAVE A $24.4 MILLION INCREASE, OR, I'M SORRY, $24.4 MILLION. 
          UM, FUND BALANCE, THAT'S AN INCREASE OF SIX AND A HALF MILLION. 
          AGAIN, MOST OF THAT IS IN YOUR, UM, SALES TAX DOLLARS. 
          IT DOES INCLUDE A RESTATEMENT OF 1.9, SOME RECEIVABLES THAT WE HAD TO, UM, OR SOME, UH, ADDITIONAL REVENUES THAT WE SHOULD HAVE RECORDED IN THE PRIOR YEAR. 
          SO THAT'S, THAT'S INCLUDED IN THAT INCREASE. 
          BUT OUR UNASSIGNED FUND BALANCE IS 17.8 MILLION OF THAT 24. 
          SO THAT IS APPROXIMATELY 39% OF GENERAL OPERATING, UH, EXPENDITURES. 
          AND THE GOAL OF FOR THE CITY IS, IS TO KEEP AT LEAST 26. 
          SO YOU'RE WELL NORTH OF THAT. 
          SO GOOD BUDGETING AND GOOD, UH, MAINTENANCE OF THE, THE, UH, CITY'S FUND BALANCE THERE. 
          AND THEN I'D LIKE TO PUT KIND OF HOW THE CASH AND CASH EQUIVALENCE OF THE CITY IS, UM, OF 19.6 MILLION. 
          THAT'S WHAT WE'RE REPORTING AT, AT THE END OF THE YEAR. 
          SO OF THE 24.4 MILLION IN TOTAL FUND BALANCE, 19.6 IS LIQUID, AND, AND Y'ALL HAVE ACCESS TO THAT. 
          SO, UM, VERY HEALTHY FUND BALANCE FOR THE GENERAL FUND. 
          TOTAL REVENUES WERE 53.6 MILLION, AND TOTAL EXPENDITURES WERE 47.9. 
          AND I'LL COVER THE BREAKOUT OF THOSE ON THIS SLIDE. 
          SO HERE'S WHERE THE TOTAL REVENUES, UM, FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDED OUT, UM, SALES TAXES WERE YOUR, YOUR BIGGEST PORTION, UM, OF 22.5 MILLION. 
          AND PROPERTY TAXES WAS NEXT OF 18.4. 
          PROPERTY TAX STAYED PRETTY CONSISTENT FROM THE PRIOR YEAR. 
          SALES TAXES HAD THE BIGGEST INCREASE FROM THE PRIOR YEAR, AND THEN FRANCHISE TAXES OF 2.7 WAS THE OTHER LARGE COMPONENT. 
          SO OF THAT, YOUR TAX BASE, UH, MAKES UP ABOUT 82% OF YOUR REVENUE STREAM. 
          SO HEAVILY RELYING ON THE PUBLIC DOLLARS COMING INTO THE CITY TO, TO FUND OPERATIONS. 
          TOTAL EXPENDITURES, THESE ARE THE FUNCTIONS THAT, THAT THE, THE BUCKETS FELL INTO OF THE EXPENDITURES. 
          UH, 24.7 MILLION IN THE PUBLIC SAFETY, WHICH IS, UH, JUST ABOUT HALF OF, UH, THE CITY'S OPERATING, UH, EXPENDITURES, AS WELL AS 7.3 IN GENERAL GOVERNMENT. 
          AND, UM, UH, ADMINISTRATIVE OF 6.2. 
          THOSE ARE THE BIG CHUNKS. 
          NEXT, REAL HIGH LEVEL ON THE DEBT SERVICE FUND, IT DID DECREASE ABOUT, UH, ALMOST $800,000 TO 1.2. 
          AND THAT'S JUST RESTRICTED FOR ONGOING DEBT, UM, OBLIGATIONS THAT THE CITY HAS. 
          UM, SO, UM, A 1.2 MILLION. 
          SO IT'S FUNDED PRIMARILY BY, UH, PROPERTY TAX DOLLARS. 
          YOUR INS RATE, CABO PROJECTS FUND DID INCREASE 26.1 MILLION FROM THE PRIOR YEAR, AND THAT'S SITTING AT 67.6 MILLION. 
          UH, MOST OF THAT IS RELATED TO THE NEW BOND THAT Y'ALL PASSED OF 27.4 MILLION IN 2025. 
          UM, CAPITAL LA FOR THE FISCAL YEAR WAS 7.9. 
          SO Y'ALL ARE SPENDING SOME OF THOSE BOND RESERVES ON, ON PROJECTS THAT ARE ALLOWED, UM, UNDER THOSE BOND AGREEMENTS. 
          FINALLY, ON THE COMPLIANCE SECTION, THESE ARE THE OTHER TWO, UM, AUDIT REPORTS WE ISSUE. 
          WE HAVE THE IN, UM, INTERNAL CONTROL REPORT OVER FINANCIAL REPORTING AND COMPLIANCE ON OTHER MATTERS RECORDED, UH, IN ACCORDANCE WITH GENERAL, OUR GOVERNMENT AUDITING STANDARDS, AS WELL AS, UM, THE SINGLE AUDIT OPINION, WHICH IS THE COMPLIANCE ON EACH MAJOR, UH, PROGRAM. 
          ON THE AUDIT WE DID IN ACCORDANCE WITH UNIFORM GUIDANCE. 
          UM, WE HAD NO MATERIAL WEAKNESSES IN, UM, INTERNAL CONTROLS, OR NO CONTROLLED DEFICIENCIES OR NON-COMPLIANCE NOTED IN THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS DURING OUR AUDIT. 
          UM, ALSO WE HAD NO COMPLIANCE REQUIRE, UH, NO INTERNAL CONTROL WEAKNESSES OR NON-COMPLIANCE RELATED TO THE MAJOR PROGRAM, WHICH IS ARP, UM, DURING THE FISCAL YEAR. 
          AND YOU HAD AN UNMODIFIED OPINION ON THE FINANCIAL, ON THE SINGLE AUDIT AS WELL. 
          SO OVERALL, A, A CLEAN, A CLEAN YEAR ON THE FINANCIAL AND COMPLIANCE SIDE. 
          NEXT IS OUR LETTER OF CONDUCT AND AUDIT. 
          THIS IS OUR REQUIRED COMMUNICATION WITH YOU AND LET YOU KNOW HOW THE AUDIT WENT. 
          UM, ACCOUNTING POLICIES, WE DID HAVE A NEW ACCOUNTING, UH, IMPLEMENTATION THIS YEAR. 
          IT'S GASB 1 0 1, WHICH IS COMPENSATED AMS. UH, NOTHING THE CITY COULD HAVE DONE IT. 
          IT WAS, UM, IN ORDER TO COMPLY WITH THE AUDITING STANDARDS, OR I'M SORRY, ACCOUNTING STANDARDS, UH, THE CITY HAD TO ADOPT THIS, UH, MANAGEMENT PREPARED A NEW MEASUREMENT OF ITS COMPENSATED ABSENCES, AND THOSE ARE REFLECTED IN, UH, THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS YOU HAVE IN FRONT OF YOU. 
          UM, AGAIN, ACCOUNTING ESTIMATES AND DISCLOSURES, UM, AND SENSITIVE DISCLOSURES. 
          ESTIMATES ARE PART OF THESE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS, AND WE EVALUATE THOSE IN AND THEY'RE COMPARABLE, CONSISTENT WITH THE PRIOR YEARS. 
          I WILL SAY ONE, UH, SENSITIVE DISCLOSURE IS, IS NOTE THREE RELATED TO THE RESTATEMENT OF BEGINNING, UH, BALANCES. 
          IT'S ON PAGE 66 OF THIS DOCUMENT. 
          UM, WE DID HAVE SOME BEING THE FIRST YEAR WE CAME BACK, UH, WE CAME IN AS AUDITORS. 
          WE STARTED QUESTIONING THINGS. 
          AND SO WE, WE FOUND SOME RESTATEMENTS. 
          SOME OF IT'S RELATED TO THE IMPLEMENTATION OF GASB 1 0 1, AND, UH, THAT 
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JUST REQUIRES A RETROACTIVE APPLICATION. 
          UM, THE OTHER TWO WERE RELATED TO CAPITAL ASSETS AND RECEIVABLES THAT WE, WE IDENTIFIED. 
          WE HAD NO DIFFICULTIES IN PERFORMING THE AUDIT OR MATERIAL, UH, MISSTATEMENTS OR DISAGREEMENTS WITH MANAGEMENT. 
          SO IF WE HAD ANY OF THOSE, WE'D HAVE TO BE REQUIRED TO COMMUNICATE THAT TO YOU. 
          UH, MANAGEMENT HAS PROVIDED ALL REPRESENTATION FOR US TO DO OUR AUDIT. 
          SO THEY'VE PROVIDED US EVERYTHING WE NEED TO GET US HERE TODAY, AND THERE WERE NO CONSULTATIONS WITH, UH, INDEPENDENT AUDITORS OR IN OTHER INDEPENDENT ACCOUNTANTS. 
          UM, THEY WOULD BE, THOSE ACCOUNTANTS WOULD BE REQUIRED TO COMMUNICATE WITH US AND, AND WE DIDN'T GET ANY SUCH COMMUNICATIONS. 
          FINALLY, WE DID PERFORM AN AUDIT OVER THE CITY'S INVESTMENT PRACTICES AND MAKE SURE THAT Y'ALL WERE IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE PUBLIC FUNDS INVESTMENT ACT, WHICH Y'ALL WERE. 
          SO, UM, NO, UH, UNALLOWED INVESTMENTS AND INVESTMENT OFFICERS ARE ALL UP TO DATE ON THEIR TRAINING AND THE INVESTMENT POLICIES AND COMPLIANCE WITH THE ACT THAT Y'ALL HAVE IN, IN THE CITY. 
          WITH THAT, I'LL TAKE ANY QUESTIONS OR ABOUT THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS OR THE AUDIT PROCESS OR ANYTHING Y'ALL HAVE. 
          OKAY. 
          DOES COUNCIL HAVE ANY QUESTIONS? OKAY. 
          COUNCILMAN GUERRERO? YEAH, I GOT A QUESTION. 
          UM, HOW LONG DID IT TAKE TO DO THIS AUDIT? HOW LONG  UNTIL LAST WEEK? NO, UM, UH, WHEN DID WE START? I THINK WE STARTED IN NOVEMBER. 
          WE CAME OUT FOR TWO WEEKS, AND THEN WE CAME BACK IN JANUARY FOR ANOTHER TWO OR THREE WEEKS, AND THEN ABOUT TWO WEEKS. 
          SO ALL, ALL IN ALL, PROBABLY ABOUT TWO MONTHS. 
          EIGHT, EIGHT TO 10 WEEKS I WOULD SAY. 
          TO KIND WRAP UP, UH, WHAT WAS THE COST FOR FOR DOING THE AUDIT? 5,000 55, 50 GRAND. 
          SOMETHING. 
          50 GRAND. 
          I'D HAVE TO LOOK AT THE, THE RFP, AGAIN, I DON'T HAVE THAT NUMBER ON THE TOP OF MY HEAD, BUT YEAH, ABOUT 55,000. 
          ALRIGHT, THANK YOU. 
          MM-HMM. 
          COUNCIL MEMBER WESTBROOK. 
          YES. 
          SO THE AUDIT WAS BASICALLY ABOUT IF EVERY WE'RE COMPLIANT, RIGHT? GAP COMPLIANT CONTROLS ARE IN PLACE AND ALL THE NUMBERS ARE CORRECT. 
          THAT PRETTY MUCH A, A BRIEF SUMMARY OF WHAT AN AUDIT DOES. 
          YES. 
          SO, SO, SO MANAGEMENT, UH, MANAGES THE FUNDS, THE RECEIPTS COMING IN, THE, THE, UH, THE PAYABLES GOING OUT, UH, THE, THE PAYROLL GOING OUT, STUFF LIKE THAT. 
          UM, AND, AND AS A PART OF AN AUDIT, WE DO A RISK ASSESSMENT OVER THE, OF THOSE POLICIES AND WE DETERMINE WHAT AREA TO KIND OF, WHAT'S STONED UP TO, TO LOOK INTO, UM, BASED OFF OUR RISK ASSESSMENT OVER THOSE AREAS. 
          SO THEN WE DO, THEN WE PERFORM OUR PROCEDURES TO MAKE, TO VALIDATE NOT ONLY THE BALANCES ARE CORRECT, BUT ALSO THE CONTROLS THAT ARE IN PLACE, OUR OPERATING EFFICIENTLY. 
          YEP. 
          SO WE'RE TALKING ABOUT CONTROLS AND COMPLIANCE, BUT WHAT DOES IT NOT TELL US? IT DOESN'T TELL US ABOUT REVENUES. 
          YEAH. 
          DEFICIT. 
          DOES IT TALK ABOUT DEFICIT? ACTUALLY, I'VE GOT SOME COMMENTS ABOUT THAT. 
          OKAY. 
          YEAH. 
          YEAH. 
          SO, SO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS THEMSELVES SHOW THE, THE, THE, THE REVENUES AND EXPENDITURES. 
          AND OUR JOB IS TO MAKE SURE THAT THOSE ARE IN COMPLIANCE WITH OUR STANDARDS. 
          SO, OR REPORT, IF YOU GO BACK TO THE, CAN YOU GO BACK TO, UM, CAN I, DO YOU MIND IF I MAKE A COUPLE COMMENTS? NO, GO. 
          BECAUSE I THINK I KNOW WHERE YOU'RE HEADED WITH THIS ALL. 
          SO, AND I DO JUST WANNA MAKE A COUPLE OF COMMENTS. 
          GREAT JOB. 
          UH, GREAT JOB TO JAMES AND THE TEAM JESSICA, FOR, FOR PUTTING TOGETHER, THESE ARE OUR FINANCIAL STATEMENTS. 
          THESE ARE THE CITY'S FINANCIAL STATEMENTS, AND THE EXTERNAL AUDITING FIRM COMES IN AND AUDITS OUR FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND THE THINGS THAT GO BEHIND HOW WE OPERATE. 
          FAIR, COMMON LAY WAY TO SAY IT. 
          SO THIS IS, THEY'RE PRESENTING THE RESULTS OF THAT. 
          SO I DO WANT TO POINT ABOUT THE, ABOUT THE ACTUAL FINANCIAL STATEMENTS, THE ANNUAL COMPREHENSIVE FINANCIAL REPORT, SOME KEY THINGS. 
          SO THE GENERAL FUND BEING OUR LARGEST FUND AND A LOT OF WHAT PEOPLE TEND TO LOOK AT. 
          I, I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT IF YOU WANT TO TURN TO PAGE 26 IN YOUR BOOK. 
          THIS IS, THIS IS SOMETHING THAT I, I TEND TO LOOK AT WHEN, WHEN WE'RE EVALUATING THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS IN OUR POSITION. 
          AND ON PAGE 26, YOU'LL SEE THE GENERAL FUND. 
          IN THE FAR LEFT COLUMN, IF YOU GO ALL THE WAY DOWN, YOU KNOW, YOU HAVE REVENUES AND EXPENDITURES, AND THEN YOU GO DOWN, YOU GO DOWN TO THE NET CHANGE IN FUND BALANCE. 
          SO FOR THE GENERAL FUND, WE HAD A $4.5 MILLION INCREASE IN FUND BALANCE. 
          AND FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO, WHO MAYBE ARE IN THE AUDIENCE, DON'T UNDERSTAND THE TERMINOLOGY, THE GOVERNMENTAL ACCOUNTING TERMINOLOGY FOR FUND BALANCE, WHICH ONLY APPLIES TO GOVERNMENTAL FUNDS LIKE THE GENERAL FUND, IT IS ESSENTIALLY OUR SAVINGS ACCOUNT IN, IN OUR RESERVES. 
          SO YOU SEE THE $4.5 MILLION CHANGE PLUS THAT $1.9 MILLION RESTATEMENT. 
          THAT'S 
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WHAT BUMPS US FROM THE, UH, WE EFFECTIVELY GO FROM 17.9 MILLION TO 24.4 MILLION IN OUR GENERAL FUND FUND BALANCE. 
          ANOTHER PAGE TO LOOK AT, IF YOU TURN TO PAGE 71, IT BREAKS DOWN THOSE REVENUES A LITTLE BIT MORE AND IT SHOWS OUR ORIGINAL BUDGET VERSUS OUR FINAL BUDGET. 
          AND WHAT THE FINAL BUDGET IS, IS THE AMENDED VERSION OF OUR BUDGET THAT'S, THAT'S OCCURRED OVER THE YEARS, I MEAN, OVER THE FISCAL YEAR, EXCUSE ME. 
          SO YOU CAN SEE UNDER THE REVENUES THAT THE, THE, THE FINAL BUDGET AMOUNT'S $48.2 MILLION. 
          AND WE ACTUALLY ENDED UP RECEIVING $53.5 MILLION. 
          THAT'S FIVE POINT, ALMOST $5.3 MILLION OVER WHAT WE BUDGETED FOR REVENUES. 
          AND, AND LIKE IT WAS MENTIONED DURING THE PRESENTATION, MOST OF THAT'S IN THE TAXES BECAUSE THAT'S THE SALES TAX THAT JAMES MENTIONED IN HIS QUARTERLY UPDATE AT THE BEGINNING OF THE MEETING. 
          BUT ALSO, IF YOU DIRECT YOUR ATTENTION TO PAGE 71, YOU CAN SEE UNDER TOTAL EXPENDITURES ABOUT THE MIDDLE OF THAT PAGE, OUR AMENDED BUDGET WAS THAT 49.8 MILLION, AND WE ACTUALLY ONLY SPENT 47.8. 
          SO IT'S ABOUT A ONE, UH, ALMOST A $2 MILLION UNDER BUDGET EXPENDITURE AMOUNT FOR, FOR, FOR THOSE FUNDS. 
          BUT THEN YOU GOTTA TAKE INTO ACCOUNT THE TRANSFERS THAT'S, THAT'S DOWN THERE A LITTLE BIT FURTHER. 
          AND, AND YOU CAN SEE THAT WE, WE ACTUALLY BUDGETED TO TRANSFER OUT 1.5 MILLION, BUT WE BUDGETED OUT A LOT MORE THAN, I MEAN, I'M SORRY, WE TRANSFERRED OUT, I'M SORRY, WE BUDGETED TO TRANSFER OUT 28 MILLION TRANSFERRED OUT 1.4 MILLION. 
          SO WE'RE A LITTLE BIT HIGHER THERE. 
          AND IF YOU GO DOWN TO THE, THE NET CHANGE IN FUND BALANCE, OUR BUDGET SAID THAT WE WERE GONNA DRAW DOWN FUND BALANCE. 
          'CAUSE WE HAD EXCESS FUND BALANCE, LIKE YOU MENTIONED, RIGHT? WE'RE GONNA DRAW IT DOWN ACCORDING TO OUR BUDGET BY 1.5 MILLION, BUT WE ACTUALLY ENDED UP INCREASING IT BY 4.5 MILLION. 
          SO THAT'S WHAT THAT, WHAT TAKES US TO THE, YOU KNOW, BUMPS US UP TO THAT 24 MILLION. 
          ANOTHER REALLY, IT WAS MENTIONED DURING THE PRESENTATION TOO, THE STATISTICAL SECTION, AND I REALLY LIKE THIS 'CAUSE IT SHOWS THE TRENDS OVER TIME AND REALLY IS A GOOD INDICATOR OF YOUR FISCAL HEALTH LONG TERM. 
          AND I'LL SAY WHEN GASB PUT THIS INTO PLACE, A LOT OF US MOAN AND GROAN THAT WE HAD TO DO IT, BUT I REALLY LIKE HAVING IT NOW. 
          SO IT'S REALLY NICE. 
          IT'S HARD TO GO BACK. 
          YEAH, IT'S, IT, IT, AND SO IT GIVES YOU A 10 YEAR LOOK BACK. 
          AND IF YOU GO TO PAGE ONE 16 AND ONE 17, IT SPANS ACROSS BOTH PAGES, BUT JUST KIND OF LOOK THERE UP AT THE TOP, YOU GOT THE GENERAL FUND AND YOU HAVE FIVE DIFFERENT CATEGORIES OF GENERAL FUND FUND BALANCE. 
          SO BEING THE MOST RESTRICTIVE AT THE TOP AND THE LEAST RESTRICTIVE AT THE BOTTOM. 
          SO YOU HAVE NON NONS, SPENDABLE, RESTRICTED, COMMITTED, ASSIGNED, AND UNASSIGNED. 
          UNASSIGNED IS EFFECTIVELY YOUR CASH, RIGHT? YOUR BLANK CHECK, YOU CAN DO WHAT YOU WANT. 
          THE OTHER THINGS, WE'VE SET THOSE ASIDE FOR CERTAIN THINGS. 
          SO IN, IN THE PAST COUNCIL HAS EITHER BY RESOLUTION OR SOME OTHER WAY, WE'VE SET ASIDE MONEY TO DO CERTAIN THINGS. 
          THAT'S WHY IT'S ASSIGNED. 
          AND THEN COMMITTED MEANS IT'S COMMITTED FOR A CERTAIN PURPOSE, SO IT MOVES UP THE LADDER, IT'S MORE RESTRICTED. 
          SO I JUST WANT TO SHOW YOU IN CASE IT COMES TO YOUR ATTENTION OR THERE ARE COMMENTS MADE ABOUT OUR FUND BALANCE FOR THE GENERAL FUND. 
          IF YOU LOOK AT 2021, WHICH IS THE 2021 FISCAL YEAR TO 2025, WHICH IS THE 20, THE THIS MOST RECENT AUDITED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS, YOU'LL SEE THAT OUR UNID AND FUND BALANCE HAS GONE FROM $11.5 MILLION TO $17.78 MILLION. 
          SO PRETTY SIGNIFICANT GROWTH IN OUR SAVINGS AND OUR RESERVES OVER THAT FIVE YEAR PERIOD OF TIME. 
          UM, ALSO, UH, YOU KNOW, AND, AND OUR EXPENDITURES HAVE GROWN QUITE A BIT ALSO. 
          AND IF YOU THINK ABOUT WHAT TYPE OF ORGANIZATION WE ARE, WE ARE A SERVICE DRIVEN ORGANIZATION THAT IS RUN BY PEOPLE, ESPECIALLY IN THE GENERAL FUND. 
          SO IF YOU WERE TO LOOK BACK AND YOU WERE TO LOOK AT WHERE, WHY HAS THE EXPENDITURE SIDE GROWN SO MUCH? YOU, AND YOU COULD LOOK AT PAGE ONE 20, WELL, I'M SORRY, UH, PAGE 1 42 AND 1 43. 
          YOU LOOK AT THE LAST FIVE YEARS, WE'VE ACTUALLY GROWN FROM 383 BUDGETED POSITIONS TO 433 POSITIONS. 
          SO THAT'S A SIGNIFICANT INVESTMENT IN ADDING NEW POSITIONS TO OUR BUDGET. 
          AND A LOT OF THESE AFFECTED THE, UH, GENERAL FUND. 
          AND SO ANYWAYS, THAT'S, THAT'S WHY YOU WOULD PROBABLY SEE A PRETTY DRAMATIC INCREASE IN THE AMOUNT OF SALARY DOLLARS WE SPEND. 
          AND THEN LASTLY, I'LL JUST SAY ON PAGE ONE 20 AND 1 21, IT SHOWS THE GROWTH IN, IN OUR REVENUE SOURCES IN THE GENERAL FUND. 
          SO IF YOU LOOK AT THE FIRST TWO COLUMNS, YOU GOT 
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PROPERTY TAX AND SALES TAX. 
          AND SINCE 2021 TO 2025, YOU'VE SEEN IN PROPERTY TAX, IT'S GROWN PRETTY SIGNIFICANTLY FROM 21.4 MILLION TO 27.7 MILLION. 
          AND THEN SALES TAX HAS ACTUALLY GONE WAY HIGHER THAN THAT FROM 16.8 MILLION TO 33.9 MILLION. 
          SO ALL THAT BEING SAID, THANK YOU FOR YOUR PRESENTATION. 
          I REALLY APPRECIATE AND THANK YOU FOR GIVING ME THE LIBERTY TO, TO EXPOUND ON SOME OF THESE THINGS. 
          I THINK THAT A CFR IS A DOCUMENT THAT'S REALLY CONFUSING TO A LOT OF PEOPLE. 
          'CAUSE YOU KNOW, YOU CAN GET CAUGHT UP IN THE NET POSITION AND GOING BACK AND FORTH FOR BETWEEN FULL ACCRUAL AND MODIFIED ACCRUAL. 
          AND I THINK THAT'S WHAT CONFUSES PEOPLE SOMETIMES. 
          BUT IT, IT DOES SHOW, AND THE TREND LINES DO SHOW THAT WE'RE IN A PRETTY GOOD FINANCIAL POSITION. 
          SO, UM, ANYWAY, THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 
          I HOPE THAT ANSWERED YOUR QUESTION PARTIALLY, BUT FOR LAYMAN LIKE MYSELF, THREE QUESTIONS AND I'M READING OFF A DOCUMENT THAT I RECEIVED. 
          SO YOU CAN BE YES OR NO. 
          IS THE CITY OPERATING IN A DEFICIT? NO. 
          IS THE CITY USING RESERVES TO FUND OPERATIONS? NO. 
          HAS THE CITY, UM, HAD THE FINANCIAL CAPACITY FOR INFRASTRUCTURE AND NEW SERVICES? YES, ACCORDING TO OUR CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM THAT WE HAVE LAID OUT, WE HAVE ALIGNED THE CONSTRUCTION AND THE THINGS THAT ARE ON THE LIST WITH WHAT WE ANTICIPATE TO BE THE EXPECTED RESOURCES. 
          IF WE DO RUN INTO A SITUATION, IT, IT'S KIND OF LIKE DRIVING A, A SHIP, STEERING A SHIP AND YOU'RE LOOKING 20, 30 YEARS DOWN THE ROAD, YOU'RE TRYING REALLY HARD TO HIT THAT. 
          BUT IF YOU SEE THAT YOU'RE OFF COURSE, YOU CORRECT IT AND IT'S A SLOW CORRECTION AND YOU KNOW, YOU, YOU, YOU MAKE ADJUSTMENTS HERE AND THERE TO MAKE SURE YOU'RE STILL MAINTAINING THAT COURSE TO THE NORTH STAR. 
          SO THAT'S WHAT WE'RE DOING. 
          IF YOU LOOK AT THE PLANNING THAT WE'RE DOING WITH OUR BUDGETS, WE DO A FIVE YEAR MULTI-YEAR FORECAST FOR OUR MAJOR FUNDS LIKE THE GENERAL FUND. 
          AND WE ALSO DO A FIVE YEAR CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM THAT DETAILS OUT EXPENDITURES OVER THAT CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM AS WELL AS THE, THE, WHAT WE ANTICIPATE IN THE NEXT FIVE YEARS BEYOND THAT. 
          SO I, I WOULD SAY NO, NO. 
          AND YES. 
          YES. 
          THANK YOU. 
          AND OH, I'M SORRY, WAS THAT DIRECTED TO ME OR TO THE HONOR? ALL THE ANSWER DID. 
          IT DOESN'T MATTER. 
          BETTER THAN I COULD. 
          THANK YOU MAYOR. 
          I APPRECIATE IT. 
          OKAY. 
          COUNCIL MEMBER HAYWARD, DID YOU STILL HAVE A, A QUESTION TO ASK? NO, I WAS ACTUALLY GOING TO SAY THANK YOU TO JAMES WALTERS AND THE PUBLIC AFFAIRS FOR COMING UP WITH A NEW COVER FOR THIS WONDERFUL DOCUMENT THAT WE ALL HAVE TO READ AS A FINANCIAL STATEMENT AND TRYING TO UNDERSTAND IT. 
          SO I JUST WANNA APPRECIATE IT. 
          I APPRECIATE THE AUDITING FIRM AND WHEN WE HAD OUR MEETING GOING THROUGH THE THINGS THAT WE NEEDED TO AND, AND EXPLAINING THOSE THINGS AND JUST GIVING US WHAT WE NEEDED TO BE ABLE TO SAY THAT WE HAVE A CLEAN AUDIT. 
          SO I TRULY APPRECIATE THAT AND I APPRECIATE YOUR DEPARTMENT, JAMES WALTERS PUTTING EVERYTHING TOGETHER AND HAVING THAT MEETING AND EXPLAIN IT. 
          AND SO I JUST WANNA MAKE A MOTION THAT WE APPROVE ACCEPTING THE AUDIT. 
          OKAY. 
          AND BEFORE WE PROCEED WITH THAT MOTION, UH, DO WE HAVE A QUESTION BY COUNCIL MEMBER MACALUSO? YES, I DO. 
          UM, JUST REAL QUICK, APPRECIATE THE REPORT. 
          I'M GLAD THAT WE GOT IT. 
          I JUST WISH WE COULD GET THIS A LITTLE BIT EARLIER. 
          SO WHEN YOU ASK IF WE HAVE COMMENTS OR QUESTIONS, WE ACTUALLY HAVE SOMETHING TO GO OFF OF. 
          'CAUSE I'M JUST GOING OFF OF WHAT YOUR REPORT IS, BUT YOU KNOW, IT WOULD BE NICE IF WE HAD A LITTLE BIT OF TIME TO EVALUATE THIS SO WE CAN HAVE MORE INFORMED QUESTIONS AND COMMENTS. 
          BUT, UM, YOU HAVE SOMETHING TO SAY. 
          OH, I WAS JUST GONNA SAY, UM, IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS OVER THE FINANCIALS OR HOW THEY WORKED OR WHY THE NUMBERS A CERTAIN WAY, UM, EVEN IF AFTER THIS, PLEASE REACH OUT TO US, UH, UM, AND WE'LL BE HAPPY TO WALK YOU THROUGH, UH, WHAT'S ACTUALLY IN THERE. 
          AND AS, AS STEVE AND, AND JEREMY MENTIONED, UH, WHAT THE REPORT ACTUALLY IS, IS THEM COMING, COMING IN AND MAKING SURE WE'RE FOLLOWING ALL THE RULES AND WITH HANDLING THE MONEY, IT, THEY DON'T CHANGE WHAT'S IN THE REPORT. 
          THEY'RE NOT SAYING, UM, WE'RE, WE'RE DOING GOOD, WE'RE DOING BAD. 
          THE NUMBERS ARE WHAT THEY ARE. 
          AND IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, YOU CAN ALWAYS COME AND ASK US. 
          AND, AND THAT WOULD BE EXTENDED TO MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY THAT MAYBE NEED HELP WORKING THROUGH SOME OF THESE DOCUMENTS AS WELL. 
          MY, MY ONLY QUESTION IS ON THE, UH, UNASSIGNED PORTION OF THE GENERAL FUND, I KNOW IT'S, UH, UP TO 17 MILLION, IS THAT, THAT WAS LARGELY DUE TO THE INCREASE IN THE SALES TAX THAT WE RECEIVED AT THE END OF LAST YEAR. 
          SALES TAXES ARE, SO 20, 24 MILLION AND WHAT'S THAT? OH, THE UNASSIGNED. 
          I'M SORRY. 
          NO. 
          SO, UM, LOOK, LET'S SAY IF IT WAS A MORE NORMAL SALES TAX COLLECTION PERIOD, COULD YOU, YOU HAVE A NUMBER IN YOUR HEAD OF WHERE WE WOULD'VE BEEN WITHOUT THAT? YEAH. 
          UH, SALES TAX, IF YOU LOOKED AT THE OVER UNDER ON THAT, THE PAGE, UH, ABOUT 
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$5 MILLION OVER ON THE SALES TAXES, WE WERE $2 MILLION, UH, UNDER ON THE, THE, UM, EXPENSES. 
          SO YOU COULD TAKE $5 MILLION OFF OF THAT. 
          OKAY. 
          SO AROUND 12 YOU WOULD'VE BEEN CLOSER TO AROUND 12. 
          OKAY. 
          MORE IN LINE WITH KIND OF WHERE WE WERE. 
          OKAY, THANK YOU. 
          OKAY. 
          SEEING NO OTHER QUESTIONS. 
          AND I ALREADY HAVE A MOTION BY COUNCIL MEMBER HAYWARD, DO I HAVE A SECOND? SECOND. 
          OKAY, WE HAVE A SECOND BY COUNCIL MEMBER WATSON, CAN I GET COUNCIL MEMBERS TO CASH YOUR VOTES? CAN I GET THE VOTES PUBLISHED PLEASE? ALRIGHT, HAVING SEVEN YAYS, NO NAYS. 
          MOTION PASSES. 
          THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 
          THANK YOU. 
          [8.  Ordinance 26-M-009 - Conduct a public hearing to consider amending Chapter 90 Article V. Water and Wastewater Capital Recovery Fees, Section 90-155 Appeals. (S.Williams/B.James)]
ALRIGHT, WE'RE GONNA MOVE ON TO ITEM NUMBER EIGHT, UH, WHICH WILL INVOLVE A PUBLIC HEARING ON ORDINANCE 26 M DASH 0 0 9 CON. 
          CONDUCT A PUBLIC HEARING TO CONSIDER AMENDING CHAPTER 90, ARTICLE FIVE, WATER AND WASTEWATER CAPITAL RECOVERY FEE SECTION 90 DASH 1 55 APPEALS. 
          THANK YOU MAYOR BRIAN JAMES, DEPUTY CITY MANAGER FOR THE CITY OF SHEZ. 
          I'LL TRY TO BE FAIRLY BRIEF AS I OFTEN AM NOT FAIRLY BRIEF. 
          UH, BUT AS COUNCIL MAY REMEMBER ABOUT A YEAR AGO, WE UPDATED OUR, UH, BASICALLY WATER AND SEWER IMPACT FEES AS WE'RE REQUIRED TO DO EVERY NUMBER OF YEARS BY, BY STATE LAW. 
          AND AGAIN, AS WE SEE OVER TIME COST INCREASE, WHAT THAT MEANS IS OUR IMPACT FEES GO UP WITH IT. 
          UM, AND THAT HAS AN IMPACT ON, UH, BUILDING AND DEVELOPMENT IN THE COMMUNITY BECAUSE THE COST TO BUILD AND DEVELOP IN SHIRTS GO UP, UH, TO BASICALLY PAY FOR THE WATER AND SEWER INFRASTRUCTURE, UH, NEED THAT THAT DEVELOPMENT CREATES. 
          AND, AND SO IT'S, IT'S TO HAVE DEVELOPMENT PAY FOR, UH, THE INFRASTRUCTURE THAT THEY NEED. 
          WITH REGARD TO WATER AND SEWER, TYPICALLY IN THE PAST WHAT WE'VE DONE IS WE'VE DONE A PHASED IN APPROACH. 
          SO WHEN WE DO THESE STUDIES AND WE TAKE THE ORDINANCE TO COUNCIL, WE NORMALLY LAY OUT TO INCREASE THOSE FEES, UH, OVER A PERIOD OF TIME, UH, TO LET DEVELOPERS KIND OF TAKE THAT INTO ACCOUNT AND BETTER PLAN FOR IT. 
          UH, THIS LAST YEAR WHAT WE HAD HAPPEN IS, AT THE TIME WE WERE DOING THAT, UH, THE LEGISLATURE WAS CONSIDERING A BILL, SENATE BILL 1883 THAT, AS IT WAS WORDED AT THE TIME, WOULD'VE PREVENTED US FROM PHASING IN IMPACT FEES LIKE WE TYPICALLY HAD. 
          BASICALLY IT SAID ONCE YOU ADOPTED THEM, YOU WERE STUCK WITH THOSE FOR A NUMBER OF YEARS AND THAT PROVED PROBLEMATIC. 
          UH, WE REACHED OUT TO, TO THE SENATOR WHOSE BILL THAT WAS, BUT DIDN'T GET THE IMPRESSION THEY WERE GONNA CHANGE IT. 
          AND SO THE GIST OF IT WAS WHEN WE CAME TO YOU ON APRIL 1ST AND SAID, HEY, WE NEED TO UPDATE THE IMPACT FEES, UH, BECAUSE OF THOSE FACTORS, IT WAS AGREED TO GO WITH A SHORTER PHASE IN FOR THAT. 
          ESSENTIALLY WHAT WE SAID IS THAT, UM, THIS NEW IMPACT FEE WOULD APPLY TO ALL PLATS FILED AFTER JUNE 1ST, JUST A COUPLE OF MONTHS. 
          AND THAT NEW FEE WOULD GO INTO EFFECT A MONTH LATER ON JULY 1ST. 
          AND THAT SEEMED TO WORK FAIRLY WELL AS WE LOOKED AT THINGS AND WE WORKED WITH FOLKS, WE, WE KIND OF, WHEN WE DO THIS, WE KNOW THE DEVELOPERS WHO ARE IN PROCESS TRYING TO PULL BUILDING PERMITS OR FILE PLATS AND WE WORK WITH THEM AND KIND OF REMIND THEM, HEY, YOU NEED TO MOVE THIS THING ALONG, OTHERWISE YOU GET HIT WITH A HIGHER FEE. 
          AND SO IT GENERALLY WORKS FAIRLY WELL. 
          UH, BUT THIS TIME AGAIN, IT WAS A BIT OF A DIFFERENT PROCESS BECAUSE OF THE LEGISLATURE AND SOME OF THE CHANGES WE MADE, UH, EVEN TO MOVE UP THAT PHASE AND DATE. 
          WHAT WE'VE HAD HAPPEN, FRANKLY IS DEVELOPER CAME BACK AND SAID, HEY, YOU GUYS DIDN'T REALLY MAKE THIS CLEAR TO US. 
          WE FEEL HERE ARE THE THINGS THAT WE HAD IN PROCESS AND IF WE HAD KNOWN THAT WE COULD HAVE PUSHED TO GET OUR STUFF THROUGH. 
          IT DOESN'T SEEM FAIR, IT DOESN'T SEEM CONSISTENT WITH THE CITY'S CORE VALUES TO MAKE US PAY THIS. 
          BECAUSE IN FACT, IN THEIR SITUATION, AND WE SORT OF WROTE THIS INTO THE DRAFT BILL, A GOOD PORTION OF THEIR PROPERTY WAS ALREADY PLATTED AND IT WOULD'VE IN FACT IF THEY HADN'T RE PLATTED PAID AT A MUCH LOWER RATE. 
          THEY HAD COME IN AND DONE AN AGREEMENT WITH THE CITY ONE SUBDIVISION IMPROVEMENT AGREEMENT TO DEFER SOME OF THE PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS. 
          THEY WERE IN PROCESS WITH US TALKING ABOUT ANOTHER SUBDIVISION IMPROVEMENT AGREEMENT FOR A SEWER LINE IMPROVEMENT. 
          AND SO IN, AND WHEN WE WENT BACK AND LOOKED AT IT, IT SEEMED FAIR THAT YEAH, IF THEY HAD KNOWN THIS, THEY COULD HAVE SAID, OH, WELL IF WE KNOW THAT IMPLICATION, LET US RUSH THIS THING THROUGH, LET US MOVE IT THROUGH BECAUSE WE'RE ALREADY IN PROCESS AND GET THERE. 
          AND, AND SO WHILE WE HAVEN'T HAD OTHERS COME IN IN LOOKING AT IT MADE SENSE TO PUT IN A PROVISION THAT ALLOWS FOR AN APPEAL BASED ON SOME OF THOSE FACTORS, UH, THAT WE HAVE GOING, WE DON'T THINK WE HAVE A LOT OF 'EM RIGHT. 
          AND WE, BUT WE PUT SOME LANGUAGE INTO ACCOUNT FOR SOMEBODY ELSE THAT MAY HIT US WITH THIS, UH, PARTICULARLY THAT 
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REFERENCES SOME OF THE FACTORS. 
          SO AGAIN, IT'S A REPL FOR ALL OF THE PORTION OF THE PROPERTY. 
          THEY WERE IN PROCESS WITH APPLICATIONS AND LIKELY COULD HAVE MADE THE EFFECTIVE DATE. 
          AGAIN, I DON'T THINK WE'RE GONNA SEE THE FLOODGATES OPEN ON THIS, BUT WE'VE GONE BACK AND LOOKED AT THE FOLKS WHO WERE IN PROCESS. 
          WE'LL REACH OUT TO A COUPLE OF 'EM AND JUST MAKE 'EM AWARE THAT WE DID THIS. 
          UM, BUT THAT'S WHAT WE'RE ASKING FOR YOU TONIGHT, IS TO PUT IN THIS APPEAL PROCESS FOR THAT FEE. 
          WE THINK IT'LL BE VERY, VERY LIMITED USE. 
          UM, AND THEN AGAIN, WHEN WE COME BACK WITH ROADWAY IMPACT FEES THIS FALL, AGAIN, THIS JUST APPLIES TO WATER AND SEWER. 
          WE'LL LIKELY GO BACK TO MORE OF OUR TYPICAL MODEL BASED ON THE STATE LAW TO PHASE IN. 
          SO WITH THAT, I'LL BE QUIET AND ANSWER QUESTIONS. 
          OKAY. 
          WELL, BEFORE WE DO THAT, I'LL GO AHEAD AND OPEN IT UP, UH, FOR A PUBLIC HEARING AT 7 26. 
          FOR THOSE WHO WISH TO SPEAK ON THIS TOPIC, UH, PLEASE STATE YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS AND YOU'LL BE GIVEN THREE MINUTES TO SPEAK. 
          GOING ONCE, GOING TWICE. 
          WE'LL CLOSE, UH, UH, PUBLIC HEARING AT 7 26 WITH NOBODY SPEAKING ON BEHALF OF ORDINANCE 26 DASH M DASH 0 0 9. 
          COUNCIL MEMBERS, DO Y'ALL HAVE ANY QUESTIONS? CAN I GET A MOTION? SO MOVED. 
          SECOND. 
          OKAY. 
          I HAVE, UH, I HAVE A MOTION MADE BY COUNCIL MEMBER HAYWARD SECONDED BY COUNCIL MEMBER WESTBROOK. 
          CAN I GET COUNCIL TO CAST THE VOTES? CAN I GET THE VOTES PUBLISHED PLEASE? ALRIGHT, HAVING SEVEN YAYS, NO NAYS. 
          MOTION PASSES AT THIS TIME WE'RE 
          [ Closed Session]
GONNA GO AHEAD AND GO AND CLOSE SESSION AT 7 27. 
          OKAY. 
          WE'RE GONNA GO AHEAD AND COME OUTTA EXECUTIVE SESSION AT 8 0 7. 
          SO ON, UH, SO THERE WAS, UH, NO ACTION TAKEN, NO ACTION TO BE TAKEN. 
          ON ITEM 10, UH, ON ITEM NUMBER NINE THAT REFERS TO ITEM NUMBER NINE. 
          SO WE'RE GONNA GO AHEAD AND MOVE ON TO ITEM 11 AND 12 AND THERE'LL BE NO DISCUSSION TO OCCUR ON THOSE TWO ITEMS 
          [ Requests and Announcements 	Requests by Mayor and Councilmembers for updates or information from Staff  	Requests by Mayor and Councilmembers that items or presentations be placed on a future City Council agenda 	City and Community Events attended and to be attended (Council) 	 	 ]
WHEN, SO WE'LL MOVE FORWARD WITH REQUEST AND ANNOUNCEMENTS REQUEST BY MAYOR AND COUNCIL MEMBERS FOR UPDATES OR INFORMATION FROM STAFF, ANY COUNCIL MEMBERS REQUESTING ANY UPDATES FROM STAFF? YES. 
          OKAY. 
          UH, JUST WANTED TO ASK ABOUT THE, UH, MEMORIAL FOR COUNCIL MEMBER TIM BROWN. 
          YES, THANK YOU. 
          AND I DID HAVE AN UPDATE. 
          WE'RE NOT, WE'RE REALLY CLOSE TO SENDING IT OUT, BUT WE DO HAVE A DRAFT OF WHAT WE INTEND TO DO AND WE'RE GONNA RUN IT BY COUNCIL. 
          I THINK WE'RE PUTTING IT ALL IN THE WRITTEN UPDATE FOR THE, YEAH. 
          YES. 
          SO IT'LL BE IN THE WRITTEN UPDATE OF THE NEXT COUNCIL MEETING, THE SECTION OF THE INFORMATION ONLY. 
          APPRECIATE IT. 
          THANK YOU. 
          OKAY. 
          ANY OTHER UPDATES FROM COUNCIL? OKAY, THE ONLY, UH, REQUEST THAT, THAT I'D LIKE TO MAKE IS I'D LIKE TO SEE WHAT WE COULD DO TO GET, UM, MAYOR GUTIERREZ, UH, PICTURE ON THE WALL. 
          UH, SO, UH, AND SO WHATEVER WE CAN DO TO, UH, MOVE THESE PICTURES AND, AND MAKE THOSE LOOK GOOD, SO, SO THAT WAY WE CAN RECOGNIZE HIM FOR HIS TIME SERVED HERE. 
          SO WHEN ARE WE, WHEN ARE WE GONNA GET A RE LAST MEETING? SHE REQUEST, WHAT DID YOU REQUEST LAST MEETING? COUNCIL MEMBER WATSON. 
          UM, THE TRAFFIC FOR 1103 FOR THE ORDINANCE. 
          SO WE CAN GO THROUGH THE ORDINANCE AND HAVE A DISCUSSION IN REGARDS TO FEES OR ANY IMPACTS TO COMPANIES IN REGARDS TO THE RAILROAD 1103 OR, OR SURE. 
          SHIRTS. 
          PARKWAY, I'M SORRY, SHIRTS, PARKWAY AND MAIN STREET RELATIVE TO THE 3 0 9 O OVERPASS. 
          YES. 
          BUT SPECIFICALLY FOR SHIRTS, PARKWAY, BECAUSE OF THE, THE 18 WHEELERS OVER THE, I THINK I THE SOUND? YES. 
          OKAY. 
          I HAVE AN EMAIL. 
          YOU KNOW, I'LL, I'LL GIVE YOU A PRESENTATION ALL DAY LONG ABOUT IT. 
          YES. 
          OKAY. 
          YEAH, AND I THINK, UM, GOING FORWARD WE REALLY DO NEED TO TAKE A HARD LOOK ON WHAT WE CAN DO WITH OUR RAILROAD CROSSINGS, ESPECIALLY ON FIRST STREET 
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AND CHURCH PARKWAY. 
          UM, BECAUSE THE SIGNS THAT ARE CURRENTLY UP THERE, THEY'RE AMONGST OTHER SIGNS THAT COULD BE VERY EASILY OVERLOOKED. 
          SO THEY DON'T REALLY STAND OUT. 
          AND THEY'RE ALSO YELLOW AND BLACK, WHICH JUST AN INDICATION OF WARNING, RIGHT. 
          THAT YOU CAN GET HUNG UP ON THE RAILROAD TRESTLE. 
          IT DOESN'T SAY THAT YOU'RE NOT TO GO ACROSS THE RAILROAD TRESTLE. 
          SO I'D LIKE TO SEE WHAT WE COULD DO TO GET SOMETHING UP THAT'S PRETTY MUCH STATES THAT THEY'RE NOT TO GO ACROSS A RAILROAD TRESTLE FOR THE REASON OF BEING ABLE TO CAUGHT OF GETTING HIGH CENTERED ON THE RAILROAD TRESTLE. 
          AND WHEN YOU COME ACROSS, UH, SHIRT, WHEN YOU COME ONTO CHURCH PARKWAY FROM 78, AS SOON AS YOU GO OVER THE ROAD TRACKS, THERE'S A SIGN THAT SAYS NO HEAVY TRUCKS ALLOWED. 
          WELL, IT'S KIND OF TOO LATE. 
          YOU'RE ALREADY ON IT. 
          SO I WAS WONDERING IF WE CAN DO SOMETHING TO POST RIGHT BEFORE THEY EVEN ATTEMPT TO GET ON TO CHURCH PARKWAY FROM 78. 
          YEAH, THAT WOULD BE THE FINES THAT I WAS INTERESTED IN AS WELL. 
          MM-HMM . 
          YEAH. 
          SO IF WE CAN COME UP WITH SOMETHING THAT, EVEN LIKE SOME LIT SIGNS THAT KIND OF GET GRABS PEOPLE ATTENTION, THINGS LIKE THAT I THINK WOULD WORK. 
          I THINK MAYBE THE REASON WHY I ASKED IS I DIDN'T KNOW IF THERE WAS A REQUEST ABOUT THE WATER ISSUE. 
          YOU ADDRESSED SOMETHING I HAVE NOT YET ABOUT WE SORT OF TABLED IT. 
          WE, UH, WE PASSED THE RESOLUTION AND THEN I THINK WE WERE GONNA ADDRESS A SECOND PORTION OF IT. 
          NO. 
          OR AT THE END OF LAST MEETING. 
          WELL, I, I THINK YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT WHAT WAS DISCUSSED IN THE EXECUTIVE SESSION. 
          YEAH. 
          BUT WE HAD TO PASS A RESOLUTION AND THEN I THOUGHT THERE WAS ANOTHER MOTION TO ACT LATER IN THE MEETING TO BRING SOMETHING BACK TO BRING UH, HAVE ANOTHER DISCUSSION ABOUT THE SECOND PORTION OF IT. 
          I DON'T, I DON'T RECALL THAT. 
          BUT WE CAN GO BACK AND LOOK. 
          WE DO INTEND TO DISCUSS WHAT WE, IN FURTHER DETAIL RELATIVE TO THE STRUCTURE OF OUR WATER AND SEWER SYSTEMS TO GIVE A DEEPER EXPLANATION OF WHAT WE HAD A DISCUSSION IN EXECUTIVE SESSION ABOUT AND MAP THAT OUT. 
          AND WE'LL WALK THROUGH ALL OF THAT IN, IN OUR PRE-PLANNING, OUR BUDGET PRE-PLANNING RETREAT AT THE END OF THIS MONTH. 
          UM, CAN I GET A, DO YOU HAVE A COPY OF THE AGREEMENT AND OR CONTRACT WITH ALL OF THE, THE LANDOWNERS AND THEIR WATER LEASING, WHATEVER CONTRACT YOU HAVE WITH THE LANDOWNERS IN TERMS OF, UH, THEIR WATER RIGHTS? THAT'S WHAT I'M LOOKING FOR. 
          SO I THINK WE HAVE TWO THINGS. 
          LEMME TRY HERE AND SEE IF I'M NOT MISTAKEN. 
          SO I THINK AS STEVE SAID, WE'RE GONNA DO KIND OF A 1 0 1 AT THE BUDGET RETREAT ON WATER AND SEWER SERVICE, HOW IT GETS PROVIDED, WHERE WE GET OUR WATER, WHERE OUR SEWER GOES GOING FORWARD. 
          AND THEN WE'RE ALSO GOING TO COME BACK MORE SPECIFICALLY TO TALK ABOUT THE STATUS OF C-V-L-G-C IN THE FUTURE. 
          AND THAT'S WHERE WE'RE GONNA COVER WHAT C-B-L-G-C IS, WHAT ASSETS THEY HAVE, WHAT OUR OPTIONS ARE AS, AS SORT OF A, A SEPARATE WE TALKED ABOUT. 
          WELL, I STILL WOULD LIKE TO SORT OF SEE THE TERMINOLOGY AND THE LANGUAGE USED FOR THE CONTRACTS AND AGREEMENT WITH THE LANDOWNERS IN TERMS OF, UH, WATER RIGHTS. 
          SO EMAIL IS FINE. 
          YOU EMAIL IT TO THE WHOLE COUNCIL, BUT I DON'T WANNA RECEIVE IT AT THE LAST MINUTE. 
          WE, WE CAN PROVIDE COPIES OF THE LEASES THAT, THE GROUND LEASES THAT GO WITH C-B-L-G-C IF CORRECT. 
          THAT'S WHAT YOU WANT. 
          WE CAN PROVIDE THAT AS LONG AS THEY'RE, THEY'RE GENERALLY THE SAME. 
          IT'S, IT'S GENERALLY THE SAME. 
          ALL RIGHT. 
          MOVING ON. 
          ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? HAVE SOMETHING TO PLACE ON THE AGENDA? OKAY. 
          UM, GO AHEAD. 
          I WANTED TO HAVE A DISCUSSION IN REGARDS TO THE CURRENT IMPACT FEES AND ALTERNATIVE OPTIONS, AND I'LL FOLLOW IT WITH THE EMAIL IN SPECIFIC QUESTIONS THAT I HAVE AND OTHER OPPORTUNITIES THAT MAY BE AVAILABLE. 
          OKAY. 
          NOW MOVING ON TO CITY AND COMMUNITY EVENTS ATTENDED AND OR TO BE ATTENDED, WE APPROACH TIM DAVIS. 
          NOTHING TONIGHT, SIR. 
          NOTHING TONIGHT. 
          YES. 
          UH, JUST REAL QUICK, UH, WAS ABLE TO GO TO THE KICK CANCER. 
          UM, THAT WAS A GOOD TIME AND WE HAD AN INTERVIEW COMMITTEE MEETING, BUT, UH, ALSO YOU, YOU SAW THESE HANDOUTS THAT, UH, LAURA GAVE. 
          UM, I'M, I'M ASKING FOR EVERY COUNCIL MEMBER'S SUPPORT AND TRYING TO HELP WITH THIS. 
          UM, YOU KNOW, WE, WE HAVE A ESPECIALLY EVENT PLANNED AND, UM, WE REALLY NEED SOME PARTICIPATION, UH, FROM OUR COMPANIES AND PEOPLE IN THE COMMUNITY. 
          AND SO IF YOU CAN HELP WITH GETTING SPONSORSHIPS, UM, IT'D GO A LONG WAY FOR US TO PUT ON SOMETHING SPECIAL. 
          AND IT'S BEEN REQUESTED THAT WE EMAIL 
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THAT OUT TO THE COUNCIL AND WE'LL BE HAPPY TO DO THAT. 
          UH, JUST ATTENDED THE, UH, THE COUNCIL COUNCIL RUN NORTHEAST PARTNERSHIP LUNCHEON. 
          I ATTENDED THE SMOOTHIE KING, UM, ON LA IT WAS GREAT. 
          IT WAS A GREAT EVENT AND THAT'S WHERE I INJURED MY FOOT. 
          BUT ANY RATE, UH, I DID THE AUDIT COMMITTEE AND THE INTERVIEW COMMITTEE AND EVERYTHING WENT WELL. 
          THAT'S ALL. 
          DID THE, UH, NORTHEAST PARTNERSHIP LUNCH IN AND, UH, THE S-U-S-I-D UH, FELLOWSHIP BOARD. 
          OKAY. 
          AND I WAS PRETTY BUSY. 
          I ATTENDED A GUADALUPE COUNTY MAYOR'S MEETING, UM, ALSO ATTENDED A TML MIDTERM YEAR CONFERENCE. 
          ALSO WENT TO KICK THE CANCER PEP RALLY AND 5K AND ALSO WENT TO THE ROTARY CLUB MEETING AND THE NEP LUNCHEON AND THE CHAMBER LUNCHEON TODAY. 
          SO HAVING, UH, NO OTHER ITEMS, WE'LL GO AHEAD AND ADJOURN AT EIGHT 16.
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