Nov 08, 2021 City Council Regular Meeting

THANK YOU, MAYOR AND COUNCIL, THAT BRINGS US TO ITEM, I'M SORRY, SECTION 4

[4. CITIZEN APPEARANCES Other than public hearings and items listed on the posted agenda, citizens in attendance who desire to speak to City Council may speak during this section. Speakers in attendance: Each person will be allowed three (3) minutes to speak and will not be interrupted by City Council or staff. If you would like to speak, please fill out a speaker card and give the completed card to the City Secretary prior to addressing City Council. Speakers not in attendance: Each person must fill out an online speaker card. Online speaker cards will be for items posted on the agenda only and must be submitted 30 minutes prior to the posted start time of the meeting. Online speaker cards will be read aloud by the City Secretary at the time the item is presented. Online speaker cards can be found on the city’s website, www.burlesontx.com on the agenda/notices page. Please note that City Council may only take action on items posted on the agenda. The Texas Open Meetings Act prohibits the City Council from deliberating or taking action on an item not listed on the agenda. City Council may, however, receive your comments on the unlisted item, ask clarifying questions, respond with facts, and explain policy.]

CITIZENS APPEARANCE OTHER THAN PUBLIC HEARINGS AND ITEMS LISTED ON THE POSTED AGENDA, CITIZENS IN ATTENDANCE WHO DESIRE TO SPEAK TO THE CITY COUNCIL MAY SPEAK DURING THIS SESSION.

SPEAKERS IN ATTENDANCE.

EACH SPEAKER WILL BE ALLOWED THREE MINUTES TO SPEAK.

IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK.

PLEASE FILL OUT A SPEAKER CARD AND GIVE THE COMPLETED CARD TO MYSELF.

IF NOT, THERE'S SPEAKERS NOT IN ATTENDANCE.

THEY ARE ALLOWED TO FILL OUT AN ONLINE SPEAKER CARD, WHICH MUST BE SUBMITTED 30 MINUTES PRIOR TO THE POSTED START TIME OF THE MEETING.

AT THIS TIME, I HAVE NO ONLINE SPEAKER CARDS, BUT I DO HAVE SEVERAL SPEAKER CARDS FOR MEMBERS IN THE AUDIENCE.

DANIEL BENNETT.

AND MR. BENNETT, IF YOU WILL PLEASE COME HERE TO THIS PODIUM TO MY RIGHT HERE, RIGHT HERE.

YES, CLOSEST TO ME.

THERE YOU GO.

AND IF YOU WILL STATE YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS FOR THE RECORD.

I WILL DO THAT.

DANIEL BENNETT 408 PEMBERTON, WHITE SETTLEMENT.

GOOD EVENING.

I'M HERE TONIGHT TO SPEAK ABOUT YOUR CONSENT AGENDA ITEM N WAS HOPING THAT YOU WOULD PULL THAT FOR FURTHER CONSIDERATION.

IT'S THE APPRAISAL PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE.

I UNDERSTAND YOUR CASTING, YOUR VOTES FOR MR. LEYMAN AND BASED ON MY CALCULATIONS, THERE'S ELEVEN CANDIDATES AND I FEEL MR. LEYMAN WILL PROBABLY COME IN EIGHTH AND I WOULD LIKE TO SEE THIS COUNCIL CAST THEIR BALLOTS FOR SOMEBODY THAT WILL BUILD UPON THE BOARD TONIGHT.

MR. GILLEY, ROCKIE GILLEY IS HERE, IS A RETIRED INDIVIDUAL.

HE'S AN IT PRINCIPAL AND HE HAS THE TIME FOR THE BOARD.

I THINK AT THIS JUNCTURE, IT'S IMPORTANT THAT WE ADD DIFFERENT EXPERTISE TO THE

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BOARD.

RIGHT NOW WE HAVE AN HR EXPERT.

WE HAVE ENGINEER WHO HAS CRITICAL THINKING AND WE NEED AT THIS JUNCTURE.

I BELIEVE SOMEONE WITH A GREAT DEAL OF IT EXPERIENCE.

AND I WON'T GO INTO HIS NARRATIVE.

I DON'T WANT TO STEAL HIS THUNDER.

I JUST RATHER SEE YOU BETTER USE YOUR VOTE TONIGHT.

NOW, MR. GARY LOSADA, HE HAS PROPERTY EXPERIENCE.

HE'S ONE OF THE OTHER OPTIONS THAT I AGREE WITH.

HE SPENT SIX YEARS ON THE ARB CHAIR AND PANEL.

HE HAS DIRECT CONTACT WITH THE PUBLIC AND TAX MATTERS AND APPRAISAL MATTERS FROM 2009 TO 2015.

SO I'D LIKE TO THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME.

AND MAYOR FLETCHER, THANK YOU FOR BEING SO GRACIOUS OUT THERE TO REMEMBER ME.

THE MAYOR TOLD ME TO GO DOWN AND SPEAK IT.

I WAS GOING TO SPEAK, BUT HE HAD LIKE A FIVE HOUR AGENDA WORKSHOP AND I WENT DOWN AND ATE AT THE LOCAL PANCAKE SHOP AND CAME BACK AND SPOKE.

AND I LIKE TO THANK YOU FOR THAT.

THANK YOU, SIR.

THANK YOU COUNCIL.

SO AT THIS TIME, I'LL CALL FORWARD ROCKIE GILLEY, MR. GILLEY IF YOU'LL PLEASE STATE YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS, FOR THE RECORD.

GOOD EVENING, MY NAME IS ROCKIE GILLEY.

I LIVE AT 220 SOUTH DICK PRICE ROAD, KENNEDALE, TEXAS.

AND I WOULD HUMBLY ASK TO THAT.

YOU ALL CONSIDER CONSENT ITEM N AND CONSIDER REMOVING THAT FROM THE CONSENT ITEM AGENDA AND VOTING ON IT SEPARATELY.

YOU'RE ALLOCATED FIVE VOTES FOR THE PAD DIRECTORSHIP, AND I'M HERE HUMBLY TO ASK YOU FOR SOME OF THOSE VOTES.

I DON'T.

I'M NOT CURRENTLY BEHOLDING TO ANY ORGANIZATION OR ANY CITY.

I HOLD NO ELECTIVE OFFICE.

CURRENTLY, I HAVE IN THE PAST BUT HAVE NOT IN A NUMBER OF YEARS.

I UNDERSTAND THE TAX APPRAISALS DISTRICT.

I UNDERSTAND THE BASICS OF THEIR SOFTWARE, AND I RECENTLY RETIRED AFTER OVER 40 YEARS IN THE IT INDUSTRY.

ALSO, BURLESON ONLY A SMALL PART OF YOUR CITY IS IN TARRANT COUNTY, BUT THAT SMALL PART IS ROUGHLY A BILLION DOLLARS ON THE TAX ROLLS.

AND I BELIEVE THAT EVERY CITY, EVERY CITIZEN, NO MATTER THE SIZE OF THE ENTITY, DESERVES AN ACCURATE AND EFFICIENT TAX APPRAISAL SYSTEM AND CERTIFIED ROLE.

AND I THINK WITH MY BACKGROUND, I CAN BRING SOMETHING TO THE BOARD THAT IT CURRENTLY DOES NOT HAVE.

AND THANK YOU VERY MUCH TONIGHT FOR LISTENING TO ME, AND IT WAS GOOD TO COME DOWN TO BURLESON AND SEE Y'ALL VERY, VERY NICE CITY HALL.

I HAVE ONE MORE SPEAKER, AND THEN WE'LL MOVE ON TO ASKING THE COUNCIL IF YOU WANTED TO REMOVE SOMETHING FROM CONSENTS.

LET ME CALL THE NEXT SPEAKER UP IS PHILIP SANDERS.

YOU'RE WELCOME, PHILIP.

HELLO, COUNCIL, I'M PHILIP SANDERS.

I RESIDE AT 900 WARBLER COURT IN BURLESON, TEXAS.

I'M ASKING FOR A CHANGE IN THE CITY, ORDINANCES WITH RVS PARKING IN THE STREET.

IT HAS CHANGED.

I GUESS I DIDN'T MAKE THE COUNCIL MEETING WHERE IT DID CHANGE, BUT PREVIOUSLY I'VE BEEN HERE OVER 20 YEARS AND IT WAS THREE DAYS.

I'VE ENCOUNTERED A PROBLEM WITH MINE AND WHEN I TRAVEL QUITE A BIT, ESPECIALLY NOW THAT I'VE RETIRED AND IT'S JUST NOT PRACTICAL TO BE ABLE TO PULL UP AND LOAD YOUR STUFF AND LEAVE.

THERE'S A LOT MORE TO IT, AND ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU'RE DRIVING AND YOU COME IN LATE, YOU YOU WANT TO GO TO BED AND THEN YOU UNLOAD YOUR STUFF THE NEXT DAY AND TAKE IT BACK TO WHERE IT GOES.

IT USED TO BE THREE DAYS.

THAT'S WHAT WAS IN THIS ORDINANCE PREVIOUSLY, AND IT IS NOT NOW.

AND I'D LIKE TO TAKE I WOULD LIKE YOU ALL TO CHANGE IT BACK TO THREE DAYS MAX OF THREE DAYS.

I THINK THAT'S VERY REASONABLE.

THAT'S ALL I HAVE TO SAY.

ANY QUESTIONS? SO TONIGHT, MAYOR AND COUNCIL, BEFORE WE TAKE UP CONSENT AGENDA, WE DO HAVE A NEED TO GO INTO EXECUTIVE SESSION, BUT AT THIS TIME, GIVEN THE TWO SPEAKERS THAT CAME BEFORE

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YOU.

IS THERE AN ITEM SINCE WE JUST ADDED AN ITEM TO THE CONSENT AGENDA? IS THERE AN ITEM YOU GUYS WOULD LIKE TO REMOVE FROM THE CONSENT AGENDA THAT DOES NOT REQUIRE A MOTION OR A SECOND THAT JUST REQUIRES ONE COUNCIL MEMBER TO ASK IT TO BE REMOVED? I'D LIKE TO REMOVE N, YES MA'AM.

SO MAYOR AND COUNCIL AT THIS TIME WE'LL BE REMOVING 7N FROM THE CONSENT AGENDA FOR A SEPARATE DISCUSSION WHEN WE TAKE UP THE CONSENT AGENDA, ALRIGHT.

SO AT THIS TIME, WE DO HAVE A NEED FOR EXECUTIVE SESSION.

[10. RECESS INTO EXECUTIVE SESSION Pursuant to Section 551.071, Texas Government Code, the Council reserves the right to convene in Executive Session(s), from time to time as deemed necessary during this meeting for any posted agenda item, to receive advice from its attorney as permitted by law. Pending or Contemplated Litigation or to Seek the Advice of the City Attorney Pursuant to Section 551.071 Facilities Use Agreement with the Burleson Youth Association City of Burleson, Texas v. Chesapeake Exploration, LLC, et al., Cause No. MDL No. 96-000003-15, 96th District Court, Tarrant County, Texas Discussion Regarding Possible Purchase, Exchange, Lease, or Value of Real Property Pursuant to Section 551.072 Deliberation regarding a negotiated contract for a prospective gift or donation to the state or the governmental body Pursuant to Section 551.073 Personnel Matters Pursuant to Section 551.074 Appointment of Members to Final Decision-Making Boards and Commissions Deliberation regarding (1) the deployment, or specific occasions for implementation of security personnel or devices; or (2) a security audit Pursuant to Sec. 551.076 Deliberation Regarding Commercial or Financial Information Received from or the Offer of a Financial or Other Incentive made to a Business Prospect Seeking to Locate, Stay or Expand in or Near the Territory of the City and with which the City is conducting Economic Development Negotiations Pursuant to Section 551.087 Pursuant to Sec. 418.0183(f), deliberation of information related to managing emergencies and disasters including those caused by terroristic acts (must be tape recorded)]

JUST GIVE ME A MOMENT HERE.

SO PURSUANT TO SECTION FIVE FIVE ONE POINT ZERO SEVEN ONE OF THE TEXAS GOVERNMENT CODE, THE COUNCIL RESERVES THE RIGHT TO CONVENE INTO EXECUTIVE SESSION FROM TIME TO TIME AS DEEMED NECESSARY DURING THIS MEETING FOR ANY POSTED ITEM TO RECEIVE ADVICE FROM THE ATTORNEY AS PERMITTED BY LAW.

AT THIS TIME, THIS COUNCIL NEEDS TO GO INTO EXECUTIVE SESSION PURSUANT TO SECTION FIVE FIVE ONE POINT ZERO SEVEN ONE, FIVE FIVE ONE POINT ZERO SEVEN TWO, FIVE FIVE ONE POINT ZERO SEVEN THREE, FIVE FIVE ONE POINT ZERO SEVEN FOUR, FIVE FIVE ONE POINT ZERO SEVEN SIX, AND FIVE FIVE ONE POINT EIGHT SEVEN ZERO EIGHT SEVEN.

IS THERE A MOTION ON THIS.

I HAVE A MOTION BY DAN, THE SECOND BY VICTORIA.

WE'RE GOING TO CONVENE TO SESSION AT 5:51.

WE'RE GOING TO RETURN TO SESSION AT 6:40 THIS TIME WE'LL NEED A MOTION AND A VOTE FOR RECONVENING INTO OPEN SESSION.

IS THERE A MOTION? NEED A SECOND? I GOT A MOTION FOR DAN AND A SECOND BY JIMMY.

MOTION PASSES UNANIMOUS .

[5. CONSENT AGENDA All items listed below are considered to be routine by the City Council and will be enacted with one motion. There will be no separate discussion of the items unless a Councilmember or citizen so requests, in which event the item will be removed from the consent agenda and considered in its normal sequence. Approval of the consent agenda authorizes the City Manager to implement each item in accordance with staff recommendations.]

OK MAYOR AND COUNCIL THAT BRINGS US TO SECTION 5, THE CONSENT AGENDA PREVIOUSLY STATED BEFORE THE CONSENT AGENDA NOW HAS INCLUDED ITEMS 5A THROUGH 5 I'M SORRY INCLUDES ITEMS 5A THROUGH 5M.

WITH A REMOVAL OF 5N FOR SEPARATE CONSIDERATION AND 7A THROUGH 7G AND ITEM 7J AT THIS TIME.

ARE THERE ANY OTHER ITEMS THAT COUNCIL OR MEMBERS OF THE AUDIENCE WOULD LIKE REMOVED FROM THE CONSENT AGENDA TO BE TAKEN UP IN ITS NORMAL SEQUENCE, OR ANY ITEMS THAT COUNCIL WOULD LIKE TO ADD ON TO THE CONSENT AGENDA BY MOTION AND VOTE? I'D LIKE TO MOVE ITEM 5B OFF THE CONSENT, PLEASE.

IS THERE A SECOND, THERE'S NO NEED FOR A VOTE ON REMOVING AN ITEM.

OH, OK, THANK YOU.

ARE THERE ANY OTHER CONSIDERATIONS? OK.

AT THIS TIME, ALL ITEMS LISTED ON CONSENT AGENDA ARE CONSIDERED TO BE ROUTINE BY CITY COUNCIL AND WILL BE ENACTED WITH ONE MOTION THAT CONSENT AGENDA CONSISTS OF ITEMS 5A THROUGH 5M.

I'M SORRY 5A REMOVAL OF 5B.

5C THROUGH 5M REMOVAL OF 5N AND NOW INCLUDES ITEMS 7A THROUGH 7G AND ITEM 7J.

MAYOR, IF YOU COULD ASK FOR A MOTION, IS THERE A MOTION? I GOT A MOTION BY DAN AND A SECOND BY TAMARA.

OK AT THIS TIME, WE WILL TAKE UP ITEM 5B CONSIDER APPROVAL OF A MINUTE ORDER

PASSAGE UNANIMOUS.

[B. Consider approval of a minute order for appointments to city boards and commissions for 2021-2024 terms and vacancies. (Staff Contact: Amanda Campos, City Secretary)]

FOR APPOINTMENTS TO CITY BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS FOR THE 2021 2024 TERMS AND VACANCIES.

I AM THE STAFF CONTACT FOR THIS ITEM.

IF THERE'S ANY QUESTIONS FROM COUNCIL, I'D LIKE TO TABLE THIS ITEM.

JAMES, COULD YOU PUT UP A VOTE, PLEASE? DO I MAKE THE MOTION? YES, MA'AM.

YOU'LL MAKE THE MOTION.

PEOPLE ARE VOTING BEFORE.

IF YOU'LL HOLD ON A MINUTE COUNCIL [INAUDIBLE].

THANK YOU, JAMES.

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YOUR MICROPHONE THANK YOU.

I HAVE A MOTION BY VICTORIA AND A SECOND BY DAN, PLEASE VOTE.

NOW, MAYOR AND COUNCIL, WE WILL TAKE UP ITEM 5M THAT IS TO CONSIDER APPROVAL OF A

[N. Consider approval of a resolution casting votes for the election of members to the Tarrant County Central Appraisal District Board of Directors. (Staff Contact: Tommy Ludwig, Deputy City Manager) ]

RESOLUTION CASTING VOTES FOR THE ELECTION OF MEMBERS TO THE TARRANT COUNTY CENTRAL APPRAISAL DISTRICT BOARD OF DIRECTORS IN YOUR PACKET TONIGHT.

THAT RECOMMENDATION WAS MIKE LEYMAN.

THE STAFF CONTACT IS TOMMY LUDWICK, DEPUTY CITY MANAGER.

GOOD EVENING, MAYOR COUNCIL.

SO THE ITEM BEFORE YOU THIS EVENING IS FOR CASTING VOTES FOR THE CENTRAL APPRAISAL DISTRICT FOR TARRANT COUNTY.

SO THOSE VOTES DO HAVE TO BE CAST ON OR BEFORE DECEMBER 15TH OF THIS YEAR.

THE CITY IS APPORTIONED FIVE VOTES.

THE CITY HAS THE ABILITY TO MAKE VOTES FOR ANYONE WHO IS A NOMINEE.

I'LL BE GLAD TO READ THOSE NOMINEES TO YOU.

YOU CAN MAKE A MOTION TO APPORTION ALL VOTES TO ONE CANDIDATE OR SPREAD THOSE AMONG FIVE INDIVIDUALS.

I WILL SAY THAT STAFF DOES HAVE ADDITIONAL INFORMATION THAT WAS PROVIDED BY THE APPRAISAL DISTRICT'S BRIEF WRITE UPS ABOUT THE CANDIDATES, AND SO COUNCIL ALSO RESERVES THE RIGHT TO TABLE THIS ITEM AND TO CONSIDER IT FOR THE 13TH IF YOU NEED ADDITIONAL TIME AND YOU'D LIKE TO SEE ADDITIONAL INFORMATION.

BUT THOSE NOMINEES ARE.

JIM AUSTIN, WESLEY BULLARD, RICK DEOTTE, ROCKIE GILLEY, JIM GRIFFIN, JUNGUS JORDAN, MIKE LEYMAN, GARY LOSADA, J.R.

MARTINEZ, TONY POMPA AND KATHRYN WILEMON.

AND I'M HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS ASSOCIATED WITH THIS ITEM.

I'M GOING TO GO AHEAD AND MAKE A MOTION TO TABLE THIS ITEM.

AND YOU KNOW, WE WE GOT A STAFF RECOMMENDATION.

WE FOLLOWED DOING WHAT WE DID LAST TIME BY REPEATING THAT I DON'T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT ANY OF THE CANDIDATES, NEITHER THE ONE THAT WE'VE BEEN RECOMMENDED TO APPROVE OR THE ONE WHO HAS COME BEFORE US TONIGHT TO ASK TO BE RECONSIDERED.

THE ONLY LOGICAL ANSWER I CAN GIVE IS TO LET US SEE THE AGENDA, SEE THE INFO ON THEM AND MAKE A DECISION FOR OURSELVES.

WE COULD DO THAT NEXT MONTH'S MEETING AND SETTLE IT THEN.

MY MOVE, MY MOTION IS TO TABLE IT.

IS THERE A SECOND? PLEASE VOTE.

OK, WE'RE GOING TO GET LESS COMPLICATED HERE, HOPEFULLY.

REMEMBER THAT, MICHELLE.

SO WE'RE MOVING ON TO SECTION 6 DEVELOPMENT APPLICATIONS 6A IS 210 SOUTH

[A. 210 S Main Street located northwest of the W Eldred and S Main Street intersection (Case 20-101): Consider a Commercial Site Plan for Station 330 restaurant. (Staff Presenter: Michelle McCullough, Interim Director of Development Services) (The Planning and Zoning Commission recommended approval by a unanimous vote)]

MAIN STREET, LOCATED NORTHWEST OF WEST ELDRIDGE AND SOUTH MAIN STREET INTERSECTION.

THIS IS CASE 20-101.

IT'S TO CONSIDER A COMMERCIAL SITE PLAN FOR STATION 330 RESTAURANT.

THE STAFF PRESENTER TONIGHT IS MICHELLE MCCULLOUGH, THE INTERIM DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT SERVICES.

MS. MCCULLOUGH.

GOOD EVENING.

COUNCIL MAYOR AND COUNCIL.

MY NAME IS MICHELLE MCCULLOUGH AND I AM FILLING IN AS INTERIM DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT SERVICES FOR A LITTLE BIT UNTIL OUR DIRECTOR DOES JOIN SOON.

BEFORE YOU.

THE CASE BEFORE YOU TODAY IS A SITE PLAN FOR STATION T330.

I BELIEVE MOST OF YOU HAVE SEEN THIS BEFORE BECAUSE THEY CAME THROUGH WITH A SITE PLAN ZONING DISTRICT, BUT THIS SITS ON HALF AN ACRE, BASICALLY [INAUDIBLE] LOCATED AT 210 SOUTH MAIN STREET.

THE APPLICANT YOURANG LLC AND JOHN BEGGARLY WITH ABP ARCHITECTURE AND, AS I SAID, THE ITEM BEFORE YOU AS A SITE PLAN.

SO A LITTLE BIT OF INFORMATION.

AS I MENTIONED, THIS DID COME BEFORE YOU FOR A ZONING CHANGE FOR A SITE PLAN DISTRICT WITH THE UNDERLYING BASE OF CENTRAL COMMERCIAL.

THIS WAS AUGUST 16, 2021.

THE SUBJECT SITE PREVIOUSLY CONSISTED OF THREE SEPARATE PROPERTIES AND AMENDING PLAT WAS SUBMITTED TO STAFF FOR REVIEW AND APPROVAL.

AND WHAT THAT EFFECTIVELY DID IS TURN THIS INTO ONE LOT.

SO WHAT THE SITE PLAN CONSISTS OF IS IT'S A PROPOSED RESTAURANT, APPROXIMATELY ELEVEN THOUSAND SQUARE FEET.

IT'S GOT A LARGE DINING AREA, OUTDOOR BAR AREA AND COVERED COURTYARD.

THE RESTAURANT USE IS ALLOWED BY THE SITE PLAN DISTRICT AND A TOTAL OF FIFTY NINE PARKING SPACES WILL BE CONSTRUCTED AS PART OF THIS DEVELOPMENT.

AS I MENTIONED, IT'S THE APPLICANT INTENDS INTENDS TO CONSTRUCT A RESTAURANT, AND THE DESIGN IS BASED ON EARLY 20TH CENTURY RAIL STATIONS.

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HERE'S A COUPLE OF THE RENDERINGS OF ALL THE SIDES.

AND A COUPLE OF OTHER PHOTOS OF THEIR INSPIRATION.

THESE ARE THE BUILDING ELEVATIONS AND PART OF THE OLD TOWN DESIGN STANDARDS.

THE MATERIALS ARE UNRESTRICTED AS LONG AS THEY ARE USED IN A MANNER THAT IS CONSISTENT WITH THE ARCHITECTURAL STYLE.

SO ALL FOUR SIDES OF THIS BUILDING HAS THE SAME MAKE UP OF MATERIALS NINETY FIVE PERCENT BRICK AND FIVE PERCENT CAST STONE.

SO I'M JUST GOING TO RUN THROUGH THESE.

SO THIS THIS ELEVATION HERE FACES MAIN STREET AT THE PARKING.

THIS IS THE NORTH ELEVATION AND THIS ONE FACES DALTON'S.

SOUTH ELEVATION, FACES ELDRIDGE, AND THIS FACES THE ALLEY.

THE LANDSCAPING WITH THE OLD TOWN STANDARDS REQUIRE IS I BELIEVE IT IS TWO HUNDRED SQUARE FEET OF LANDSCAPING FOR EVERY TWENTY PARKING SPACES.

SO IN THE PARKWAY, THEY ARE ONLY REQUIRED TO PROVIDE FIVE HUNDRED AND NINETY SQUARE FEET, BUT THEY ARE PROVIDING OVER FIFTEEN HUNDRED.

IN ADDITION, THEY ARE PROVIDING SUPPLEMENTAL LANDSCAPING THAT INCLUDES SHRUBBERY TWO ORNAMENTAL TREES AND SOME SEASONAL COLOR IN THE LANDSCAPE ISLAND.

AS I MENTIONED EARLIER, THEY ARE PROVIDING A TOTAL OF FIFTY NINE.

THE SITE PLAN DISTRICT ORDINANCE DOES REQUIRE A MINIMUM OF FIFTY PARKING SPACES, WITH TWENTY FIVE OF THOSE ON SITE.

THEY ARE PROVIDING THE TWENTY FIVE AND PROVIDING NINE ADDITIONAL.

THESE ARE THE CONDITIONS OF THE SITE PLAN DISTRICT.

I'M NOT GOING TO READ THROUGH ALL OF THESE, BUT BASICALLY THE RESTAURANT USE IS ALLOWED BY RIGHT.

AND THIS IS OUR STANDARD CONFORMANCE TABLE.

THIS SITE IS IN CONFORMANCE WITH THE APPROVED ZONING.

WATER AND SANITARY SEWER IS PROVIDED BY THE CITY OF BURLESON, AND IT DOES EXIST SO THEY WILL NOT BE CONSTRUCTING ANY NEW WATER OR SEWER.

THEY WILL CONSTRUCT A VALLEY GUTTER THAT WILL HELP WITH THE DRAINAGE FOR THE ADDITIONAL STORMWATER RUNOFF TO ELDRIDGE.

AND THEN A TRAFFIC ASSESSMENT LETTER INDICATED THAT A TIA, A FULL TIA WAS NOT WARRANTED IN ACCORDANCE WITH OUR DESIGN MANUAL.

SO IN SUMMARY, WITH P&Z, THEY VOTED.

THEY RECOMMENDED APPROVAL UNANIMOUSLY.

THERE WAS NO DISCUSSION AND NO SPEAKERS, SO THE COUNCIL ACTION REQUESTED TONIGHT IS TO APPROVE THE SITE PLAN FOR STATION 330 RESTAURANT LOCATED NORTHWEST OF WEST ELDRIDGE AND SOUTH MAIN INTERSECTION CASE 20-101.

ANYBODY? I GUESS WE'RE READY TO VOTE.

MOTION, IF YOU CAN CALL FOR A MOTION, YES.

IS THERE A MOTION ON THIS? I GOT A MOTION BY JIMMY AND A SECOND BY TAMARA.

THANK YOU, MAYOR AND COUNCIL, THAT BRINGS US TO SECTION 7 GENERAL.

FIRST ITEM FOR CONSIDERATION IS GOING TO BE ITEM 7H.

[H. Consider approval of a construction contract with J.R. Stelzer Company for the Industrial Boulevard Ground Storage Tanks Rehabilitation project in the amount not to exceed $1,581,250.00. (Staff Presenter: Paul Mitchell, P.E., Public Works Assistant Director)]

CONSIDER APPROVAL OF A CONSTRUCTION CONTRACT WITH J.R.

STELZER COMPANY FOR THE INDUSTRIAL BOULEVARD GROUND STORAGE TANKS REHABILITATION PROJECTS SAY THAT FIVE TIMES FAST IN THE AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED ONE MILLION FIVE HUNDRED EIGHTY ONE THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY DOLLARS.

STAFF PRESENTER IS PAUL MITCHELL, PUBLIC WORKS ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, MR. MITCHELL.

GOOD EVENING, MAYOR AND COUNCIL.

PAUL MITCHELL PUBLIC WORKS CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS.

TONIGHT, I'M BRINGING TO YOU THIS ITEM FOR CONSIDERATION FOR A CONSTRUCTION CONTRACT WITH J.R.

STELZER FOR INDUSTRIAL BOULEVARD GROUND STORAGE TANK REHABILITATION.

SO BACK IN 2019, WE HAD A CONSULTANT LOOK AT ALL OF OUR INFRASTRUCTURE, ALL OF OUR TANKS ACROSS THE CITY TO DELIVER WATER TO OUR CUSTOMERS AND DID AN EVALUATION OF THE INFRASTRUCTURE.

ANNUALLY WE DO INSPECT THEM ANYWAY, BUT WE KNEW THIS THESE TANKS HAD SOME ISSUES.

THEY WERE BUILT IN, I THINK 85 AND 95 AND WE'VE BEEN RECODED ONE TIME IN 2007, WHICH YOU KNOW, OF COURSE, INVOLVES, YOU KNOW, DE-WATERING THE TANKS AND AND BLASTING THEM AND REPAINTING THEM SO THAT LAST TIME WAS DONE IN 2007 ON THE ASSESSMENT OF THE

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INFRASTRUCTURE.

THESE TANKS IN PARTICULAR HAD STRUCTURAL ISSUES WE KNEW ABOUT.

WE WANT TO DOCUMENT THEM AND GET RECOMMENDATIONS ON THEIR THEIR REPAIR, AND BOTH OF THEM HAD INTERIOR AND EXTERIOR LADDERS THAT WERE NOT MEETING OSHA STANDARDS.

EXTERIOR COATINGS WERE RECOMMENDED AND INTERIOR COATINGS.

OF COURSE, THAT'S TYPICAL, WHICH WOULD REQUIRE SHROUDING BECAUSE THERE'S ADJACENCY OF CAR DEALERSHIP TO THE NORTH AND OTHER PROPERTIES THAT ARE REALLY CLOSE TO THIS PROJECT AND ALSO RECOMMENDED VARIOUS OTHER DEFICIENCIES TO BE IMPROVED ON THOSE TANKS.

THESE TWO TANKS, IN PARTICULAR, SUPPLY A VAST MAJORITY OF OUR CUSTOMERS IN THE LOWER PRESSURE PLANE, SO THAT'S A LARGE PERCENTAGE OF BURLESON THAT'S SUPPLIED BY THESE TANKS.

DON'T LET THE PICTURES SCARE YOU.

IT IS CLEAN.

IT'S JUST RUSTY.

SO BY THE NUMBERS, BUT THEY ARE BAD, NO DOUBT.

IS THAT THOSE PICTURES FROM 2019? THAT IS CORRECT.

SO THERE'S WATER IN THEM.

LIKE FOR THIS WHERE IT SHOWS THIS INTERIOR LADDER, IT'S ALL RUSTED.

THERE'S WATER IN THAT TANK RIGHT NOW.

THERE IS WATER THAT WE DRINK.

YES, MA'AM.

YEAH, IT'S CLEAN RUST.

SO BY THE NUMBERS, BRITTA FILTERS, THERE YOU GO.

I DO WANT TO ASK THE QUESTION IS THIS TYPICAL FOR US TO HAVE THIS KIND OF APPEARANCE INSIDE THESE TANKS? I MEAN, I KNOW THE THE PROPOSAL HERE WAS DRAWN UP WITH THE PURPOSE OF HIGHLIGHTING WHY WE NEED TO DO THE WORK.

BUT WHY DO WE GET IT LIKE THIS BEFORE WE ARE THINKING ABOUT DOING THE WORK? AREN'T WE WELL PAST THE POINT WHERE THIS ACTION SHOULD HAVE ALREADY BEEN TAKEN BEFORE WE HAD THIS RUST? AND YOU KNOW, THESE RUSTY LADDERS YOU SEE INSIDE THE TANK ARE ACTUALLY GOING DOWN INTO THE WATER THAT WE DRINK? YEAH, AND PERHAPS THAT'S FINE.

THAT MAY BE AN INDUSTRY STANDARD.

IT MAY BE PERFECTLY NORMAL IN A WATER SYSTEM, BUT IT ISN'T VERY ENCOURAGING TO SEE IT IN OURS.

IT'S VERY COMMON IN THESE STEEL TANKS, BUT TO THIS LEVEL, PROBABLY THIS IS THE TIME TO DO IT.

OF COURSE, CONCRETE.

THAT'S BAD.

I THINK IT MAY BE PAST THE TIME.

IT'S ALL I'M SAYING AND WE DO HAVE OTHER STORAGE FACILITIES.

AND THAT'S THAT'S WHY WE'RE ASKING TO DO IT.

LIKE WHAT IS YOU SAID THE LAST TIME IT WAS COATED WAS 2007.

IS THERE USUALLY LIKE A TIMELINE WHEN WE SHOULD BE REVISITING THESE ABOUT 20 YEARS? AND ONE OF THE ISSUES WE HAD ON THIS TANK, IN PARTICULAR, THAT MIDDLE PICTURE OR IT SAYS THE VENT REMOVED IS THE DOLLAR PLATE WHERE AND THAT'S LOOKING FROM INSIDE UP AT THE TOP OF THE TANK WHERE THOSE STRUCTURAL MEMBERS COME TOGETHER.

IT'S GOOD FOR CONSTRUCTING A TANK STRUCTURALLY, AND IT'S IT'S FINE.

IT'S DIFFICULT TO REHAB BASICALLY OR TO BLAST BECAUSE OF ALL THE TIGHT SPACES AND DIFFICULT TO PAINT.

YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU HAVE ALL THOSE TIGHT SPACES WITH A GUN AND COAT EVERYTHING.

AND SO WHAT WE'RE PROPOSING TO DO ON THE REHAB IS TO REVISE THAT WHAT'S CALLED A DOLLAR PLATE AND MAKE IT TO WHERE IT'S EASILY TO ACCESS AND PAINT AND COAT.

SO A LOT OF THESE AREAS THAT LIKE THAT FALLEN BEAM OR THAT BEAM TOUCHES THE CEILING OF THE TANK, IT'S YOU CAN'T BLAST WHERE THE TWO SURFACES MEET.

SO THERE'S GOING TO BE A LOT OF WORK TO GET THAT BLASTED AND RECODED TO WHERE THAT RUST ACTUALLY STARTS IN THAT AREA.

BUT YOU'RE RIGHT, IT IS ESPECIALLY IN THAT DOLLAR PLATE AREA.

IT'S VERY BAD.

OF COURSE, THE THE STEEL LADDER DOES GET A LOT OF EXPOSURE TO THE ELEMENTS AND TO THE WATER CONSTANTLY.

IT REALLY NEEDS THAT ONE IS PROBABLY PREMATURE.

ARE THERE OPTIONS THAT ARE NOT STEEL.

I'D HAVE TO CHECK ON THAT.

OSHA HAS A LOT OF STRICT REQUIREMENTS ON THE ON THE LADDERS.

ONE OF THE THE PROBLEMS WITH THESE LADDERS, THE RUNGS AREN'T GNARLED FOR SAFETY.

THEY GET SLICK WHEN THEY'RE WET AND I WASN'T BRAVE ENOUGH TO GO DOWN IT, BUT IT'S A LITTLE BIT HAIRY.

BUT I DON'T KNOW IF THERE'S AN ALTERNATE I COULD FIND OUT.

THAT WAS GOING TO BE MY QUESTION.

COULD WE GO WITH A STAINLESS OPTION ALONG THESE LINES? NO ONE HAS STAINLESS TENDS TO NOT RUST IN THE SAME WAY, THAT I COULD FIND OUT.

SO THIS WAS I SEE THAT IT WAS APPROVED IN THE 2020 CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PLAN AND IT'S FULLY FUNDED.

SO WAS IT SUPPOSED TO HAPPEN THIS YEAR OR WAS IT SUPPOSED TO HAPPEN EARLIER? AND I'M WONDERING IF WE FUNDED IT, IF WE BECAUSE IT WAS FUNDED AND VOTED ON IN 2020, WHAT PUSHED IT OFF? OTHER THAN THE PANDEMIC, WHICH WE KNOW THAT COULD BE THE EXCUSE FOR EVERYTHING, RIGHT? YEAH THERE WERE OTHER PROJECTS THAT KIND OF HAD PRIORITY IN FRONT OF THIS ONE.

BUT YEAH, THE PANDEMIC DOES HAVE AN EFFECT ON THE ON A LOT OF THINGS.

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I REALLY HAVE A GOOD ANSWER FOR THAT OTHER THAN IN PRIORITY IT WAS WE NEEDED TO GET A HELP TO GET THOSE PROJECTS OUT TO BID BASICALLY.

IS THE CONTRACTOR READY TO GO TO WORK.

I THINK THE CONTRACT TIME ALLOWS HIM TO FINISH IT WITHIN OUR LOW USAGE TIMES.

BUT IS HE READY TO BEGIN THE WORK? YES, SIR.

WE'VE BEEN IN TALKS WITH HIM ABOUT THE TIMELINE HAS TO FIT IN THIS WINDOW, RIGHT? AND I THINK ACTUALLY, IF I REMEMBER CORRECTLY, THE LAST TIME WE WERE GETTING READY TO LET THIS PROJECT THAT WE WERE NOT GOING TO BE ABLE TO HIT THAT WINDOW, SO IT POSTPONED IT A YEAR.

BUT YES, WE THE TIMELINE IS CRITICAL AND WE HAVE DISCUSSED THAT WITH THIS CONTRACTOR, AND THAT'S PART OF THE REASON FOR THE SELECTION OF THIS CONTRACTOR.

HOW DO YOU MANAGE WATER FLOW TO OUR RESIDENTS? HOW DO WE MANAGE THE WATER FLOW? HOW DO WE KEEP THEM IN WATER WHILE WE'RE DOING THESE THINGS? VERY GOOD QUESTION.

WE DO HAVE CONTINGENCIES ON THIS WHEN THESE TANKS GET PULLED OUT, AND THAT'S ANOTHER REASON FOR THE SELECTION OF THIS CONTRACTOR.

THEY HAD A VERY GOOD PLAN AND THEIR APPLICATION ABOUT HOW TO DO THAT.

WE ALREADY HAD OUR PLAN.

AND WHEN WE OPENED UP THEIR PROPOSED STRATEGY ON DOING THIS.

IT ALIGNED WITH OURS VERY WELL AND THEY HAD PUT SOME THOUGHT INTO IT.

AND WE DO HAVE OTHER TANKS THAT SUPPLY THIS.

THERE'S THE HUMAN PUMP STATION, THAT PUMPS FROM THE CITY OF FORT WORTH DIRECTLY.

SO THAT IS AN OPTION.

IT'S ALSO THE REASON WHY WE'RE PICKING THIS PROJECT IN THE WINTER MONTHS.

THERE'S MUCH LESS WATER USAGE AND SO WE CAN TAKE THOSE TANKS DOWN.

WE DID A TEST.

I BELIEVE IT WAS LAST WEEK WHERE WE DID NOT FILL THESE TANKS AND WE WENT JUST FINE ON ALL THE OTHER TANKS, EVEN IN THESE MONTHS.

EXCELLENT.

SO WE DON'T WANT TO DO THAT.

WE HAVE CONTINGENCIES.

THERE'S ALSO IF IN THE STRATEGY, WE'RE NOT DOING BOTH OF THE TANKS AT THE SAME TIME, NOT DE-WATERING BOTH AT THE SAME TIME, SO WE CAN FILL ONE OF THESE TANKS WITH THE BACKUP GENERATOR WHILE THE POWER'S DOWN AND I CAN GO OVER THAT IN A MINUTE.

BUT THERE'S A STRATEGY.

THERE'S A POWER LINE JUST TO THE NORTH THAT IT'S IN THE BORDER BETWEEN THESE TANKS AND THE CAR DEALERSHIP.

AND WHEN WE WERE LOOKING AT IT, IT'S FAIRLY CLOSE.

THERE'S AN EASEMENT RIGHT THERE IN THE SHROUD THAT'S GOING TO GO AROUND.

THESE TANKS STICKS OUT, RIGHT? IT'S LIKE A SHEET THAT GOES OVER THE TANKS WHEN THEY'RE BLASTING AND PAINTING TO KEEP THAT DRIFT FROM GOING ONTO CARS OR ANY OTHER PROPERTIES AROUND THERE.

IT'S ALSO VERY DANGEROUS FOR A WORKER TO BE NEAR THE POWER LINE AT THAT ELEVATION.

IT'S 30 FOOT HIGH POWER LINES RIGHT THERE.

WE WANT THE WORKERS TO BE SAFE.

WE DON'T WANT AN INCIDENT.

AND SO WE WANTED SOMEBODY WITH AN EXPERIENCE AND THEY HAD A PLAN OF HOW TO DO THAT THAT WE COULD TRUST.

THERE'S A LOT OF PEOPLE THAT PAINT AND THERE'S THERE'S A SMALLER SELECTION OF PEOPLE THAT PAINT WELL AND SAFELY.

SO WE WANTED THAT TO HAPPEN.

BUT YES, SIR, THERE'S THAT ISSUE WITH THE SHROUD AND THE POWER LINE.

SO FOR FUTURE ON THESE TANKS, WHAT HOW OFTEN DO WE REPAINT THEM AND HOW OFTEN ARE WE CHECKING THIS SO THAT WE DON'T POTENTIALLY GET TO THIS LEVEL OF EROSION AGAIN? YES, WE FEEL LIKE THIS TANK THESE TANKS FAIL PREMATURELY.

THE LIFE CYCLE IS SUPPOSED TO BE 20 TO 25 YEARS.

WE DO INSPECT THEM EVERY YEAR, AND I THINK WHAT WE SHOULD DO WITH THE FUTURE IS TO MAYBE RAISE THE FLAG A LITTLE SOONER.

OK, GREAT.

IF WE NOTICE IT, OF COURSE.

WOULD YOU LIKE TO GO ON? OKAY, SO BY THE NUMBERS, WE HAD COMPETITIVE, SEALED PROPOSALS, THAT'S SOME OF THE REASONS I WAS EXPLAINING EARLIER SOME OF THE REASONS WHY WE WANTED TO NOT ONLY LOOK AT THE PRICE, BUT THE QUALIFICATIONS.

SO THESE PROPOSALS HAD, LIKE I SAID, A PLAN.

WE REQUESTED A PLAN BY THAT CONTRACTOR OF HOW THEY WERE GOING TO GET THE WORK DONE WITHIN OUR TIME FRAME.

AND THERE ARE OTHER QUALIFICATIONS OR REFERENCES, THOSE TYPES OF THINGS.

WE RECEIVED EIGHT PROPOSALS ON THIS.

WE HAD OUR LOWEST BID AT ONE MILLION AND THE HIGHEST BID AT ONE POINT NINE.

AND OF COURSE, WE HAD A CONSTRUCTION TIME RESTRICTION AS WELL FOR 150 CALENDAR DAYS TO FIT IN OUR LOWEST WATER USAGE TIME FRAME.

BY DOING THAT, WE WEIGHTED THEIR QUALIFICATIONS 40 PERCENT VERSUS 60 PERCENT ON THE PRICE BECAUSE PRICE STILL MATTERS A GREAT DEAL, AND J.R.

STELZER CAN'T SAY IT RIGHT CAME OUT ON TOP.

BUT BY FAR HAD ONE OF THE BEST APPLICATIONS AND REFERENCES WE THAT WE FOUND AND THE PRICE WAS WITHIN OUR BUDGET.

SO WE WERE HAPPY TO GET SO MANY BIDS, BUT THEY CAME HIGHLY RECOMMENDED AS WELL FROM THEIR RECOMMENDATIONS.

ON THE COATINGS.

IS EVERYBODY USING THE SAME COATING OR ARE THEY [INAUDIBLE] OUT THE COATINGS? AND WHAT'S THE PROCESS? ARE THEY PRIMING OR IS IT ONE SHOT OR WHAT IT IS? THE TANKS ARE BLASTED WITH SAND, SAND OR AN ABRASIVE.

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ALL OF THAT IS REGULATED BY TCEQ, THE TEXAS COMMISSION ON ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY.

SO THERE ARE SPECIFICATIONS FOR THIS PROJECT TO MEET THOSE CRITERIA'S.

ARE YOU FAMILIAR WITH THE COATING THEY'RE USING? NO, SIR, NOT PARTICULARLY.

I HAVEN'T LOOKED IN DETAIL.

IT HAS TO MEET STATE REQUIREMENTS.

OKAY.

THAT WOULD BE NICE TO HAVE KIND OF A RECOMMENDATION ON SOME OF THESE COATINGS THAT WE'RE USING BECAUSE YOU JUST SAID WHILE AGO THAT THIS WAS A PREMATURE FAILURE.

YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT I'M SAYING.

SO IF YOU FOLLOW UP ON THAT, LET'S DON'T USE THE SAME JUNK AGAIN.

AND THE THICKNESS OF THE COATINGS AND EVERYTHING ARE REGULATED PART OF THE CONSULTANT'S CONTRACT THAT WE HAVE IS FOR A VERY SPECIALIZED INSPECTION OF THOSE COATINGS AS THEY'RE PUT ON.

OH YES.

THEY HAVE TO MEET CERTAIN THICKNESS REQUIREMENTS, MIDDLE THICKNESSES WHEN THEY COAT THEM.

ARE THEY GOING TO INCLUDE ANY KIND OF GUARANTEE OR WARRANTY, PERIOD? I DON'T WANT TO SEE A PREMATURE FAILURE.

YES, SIR.

WELL, TYPICALLY THEY'RE WARRANTED FOR TWO YEAR WARRANTY ON THE ON THE PROJECT ITSELF.

I'D HAVE TO LOOK TO THE CONTRACT AGAIN TO SEE IF WE HAVE ANYTHING LIKE 20 YEAR WARRANTY WOULD BE PRETTY TOUGH.

IT'S A PRETTY HAZARDOUS, CORROSIVE ENVIRONMENT.

I THINK SOME OF THE BEST THINGS WE CAN DO ARE THE THINGS WE'RE DOING WITH THE TANK AS FAR AS MAKING SURE THE SURFACES ARE COMPLETELY CLEAN BEFORE THEY'RE PAINTED.

I THINK A LOT OF THE DIFFICULTY WE HAD WERE ON THAT DOLLAR PLATE AREA.

OF COURSE, THE LADDER IS IN CONSTANT CONTACT WITH THE WATER AND IT FLUCTUATES.

SO YOU'VE GOT OPEN AIR AND VERY HUMID AIR WITH WITH THE LADDER MORE SO THAN WHAT'S SUBMERGED, SO WE CAN LOOK AT.

DEFINITELY LOOK AT THE THE LADDER, SEE IF THERE'S OPTIONS FOR THAT.

BUT THE DOLLAR PLATE IN PARTICULAR WAS, I THINK, VERY DIFFICULT LAST TIME TO TO COMPLETELY CLEAN AND REPAINT.

ANYBODY ELSE? SO JUST A SUMMARY OF ALL THE BIDS THAT WE RECEIVED.

JARED STELZER KIND OF CAME IN KIND OF A LITTLE BIT IN THE MIDDLE, A LITTLE BIT BETTER.

OUR BUDGET WAS TWO POINT ONE, OUR ESTIMATE, ACTUALLY.

SO WHERE WITH THE SITUATIONS WE HAVE WITH HAVING TO DO THIS IN A VERY FIXED TIMELINE.

WE DON'T KNOW WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN.

AND WITH THE WINTER WEATHER, ALL THOSE TYPES OF THINGS, WE MAY HAVE TO MAKE SPECIAL CONSIDERATIONS.

SO WE HAVE TO RUN THE GENERATOR FOR WAY LONGER THAN WE THOUGHT.

DIESEL IS NOT VERY CHEAP RIGHT NOW, AND THERE'S A LOT OF THINGS WE NEED TO DO.

SO WE'RE ASKING FOR A 50 PERCENT, 15 PERCENT CONTINGENCY WITH THIS CONTRACT TO MAKE ADJUSTMENTS.

OF COURSE, WE DON'T WANT TO DO THAT IF WE HAVE TO, BUT LAST WINTER KIND OF SCHOOLED US ON A LOT OF CONTINGENCY ISSUES, BUT DEFINITELY LIKE THINGS LIKE THE LADDER AND THINGS, IF THERE'S ALTERNATES WE CAN, WE CAN DO CERTAINLY WOULD LOOK AT THAT DOING THAT.

JUST A BREAKDOWN OF THE PROJECT.

IN PARTICULAR, WE HAVE TWO TANKS, INTERIOR AND EXTERIOR KIND OF EVEN ON ALL FOUR OF THOSE OPTIONS AND A CONTINGENCY, OF COURSE, IN THERE.

SO AT THIS TIME, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE EITHER APPROVE OR DENY A CONTRACT.

ANY QUESTIONS QUESTIONS? I'LL LOOK FOR MOTIONS HERE.

OH, LOOK AT THIS.

I'VE GOT A SCREEN POPPED ON, Y'ALL ARE ALREADY DONE.

BOY, Y'ALL DIDN'T, AND YOU CAME IN SECOND TOO I GOT A MOTION BY VICTORIA AND A SECOND BY DAN, PLEASE VOTE.

PASSES UNANIMOUS, THANK YOU, THANK YOU.

AT THIS TIME, WE WILL MOVE ON TO ITEM 7I CONSIDER APPROVAL OF AN ORDINANCE

[I. Consider approval of an ordinance amending Section 14-240 “Food Trucks” of Article V, “Food and Food Establishments,” of Chapter 14 “Businesses" of the Code of Ordinances of the City of Burleson, by regulating the operation of food trucks (also known as mobile food units) at construction sites and manufacturing business sites and amending the “Exceptions” for food trucks at special events; providing a cumulative clause; repealing all ordinances or parts of ordinance in conflict herewith; providing severability clause; providing for inclusion in the code; finding and determining that the meeting at which this ordinance is passed is open to the public as required by law; providing for an effective date and publication; and providing for penalties. (First Reading)(Staff Presenter: Lisa Duello, Neighborhood Services Director)]

AMENDING SECTION 14-240 FOOD TRUCKS OF ARTICLE 5 FOOD, FOOD AND FOOD ESTABLISHMENTS OF CHAPTER 14 BUSINESSES OF THE CODE OF ORDINANCE BY REGULATING THE OPERATION OF FOOD TRUCKS, ALSO KNOWN AS MOBILE FOOD UNITS.

I DID NOT KNOW THAT, AT CONSTRUCTION SITES AND MANUFACTURING BUSINESS SITES AND AMENDING THE EXCEPTION FOR FOOD TRUCKS AT SPECIAL EVENTS.

THIS IS BEFORE YOU ON FIRST READING.

THE STAFF PRESENTER IS LISA DUELLO, NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES DIRECTOR, MS. DUELLO.

GOOD EVENING MAYOR AND COUNCIL [INAUDIBLE].

AS MOST OF YOU KNOW, I WAS HERE IN JULY AT A WORK SESSION DISCUSSING THIS ORDINANCE AMENDMENT TOOK SOME DIRECTION FROM YOU.

SO WE'RE HERE TONIGHT FOR OUR FIRST READING WITH THE RECOMMENDATIONS.

SO JUST A LITTLE BIT OF BACKGROUND.

I'M NOT GOING TO GO INTO EXTENT THAT I DID DURING THE WORK SESSION, BUT AS YOU KNOW, IN 2019, WE AMENDED THE CODE CHAPTER 14 TO ALLOW A FOOD TRUCK PARKS AND FOOD TRUCK OPERATION SITES.

AND WHEN WE MADE THOSE AMENDMENTS, THE REGULATIONS BASICALLY CUT OUT FOOD TRUCKS

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OPERATING AT CONSTRUCTION SITES AND MANUFACTURING SITES.

AND WE HAD A TRUCK THAT WAS OPERATING AND WE FOUND THEM IN VIOLATION.

AND THEN, YOU KNOW, IT WAS A REASONABLE REQUEST TO AMEND THE ORDINANCE.

SO I DO WANT TO REPORT THAT WE HAVE A VERY FIRST PERMITTED FOOD TRUCK OPERATION SITE THAT JUST HAPPENED LAST WEEK.

SO BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THAT.

BUT SO BACK IN JULY, WE TALKED ABOUT DIFFERENT REGULATIONS AT CONSTRUCTION AND MANUFACTURING SITES AND A COUPLE OF THINGS THAT WERE BROUGHT TO OUR ATTENTION THAT WE MADE ADJUSTMENTS.

WE DIDN'T WANT TO HAVE A LIMIT ON THE NUMBER OF FOOD TRUCKS AT CONSTRUCTION SITES.

SO THE ORDINANCE THAT I HAVE PRESENTED TONIGHT DOES NOT HAVE A LIMIT ON THAT AND THEN ALSO ALLOW FOOD TRUCKS TO OPERATE AT MANUFACTURING SITES THE SAME HOUR AS THE BUSINESS.

I HAD PROPOSED A ONE HOUR, SO THE ORDINANCE THAT I HAVE PRESENTED ALLOWS THEM TO OPERATE AT THE SAME TIME AT THE MANUFACTURING SITE AND THE A SMALL AMENDMENT THAT WE TALKED ABOUT WAS ALLOWING FOOD TRUCKS AT PRIVATE EVENTS THAT ARE NOT OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.

SO WE MADE A MINOR ADJUSTMENT.

AS YOU MAY RECALL RIGHT NOW, THE WAY THE ORDINANCE IS WRITTEN, YOU HAVE TO GET TWO PERMITS IN ORDER TO OPERATE AT A TEMPORARY OR SPECIAL EVENT.

AND THIS AMENDMENT WILL ALLOW PRIVATE PEOPLE, PRIVATE PROPERTY OWNERS THAT ARE NOT OPEN TO THE PUBLIC, SUCH AS HOAS THEY WILL NOT HAVE TO GET TWO PERMITS, JUST THE ONE PERMIT.

SO WITH THAT, A LOT OF THIS IS A LITTLE BIT OF A REPEAT.

WHAT WE HAVE THE RECOMMENDED.

THE ORDINANCE THAT YOU HAVE IN YOUR PACKET HAS THE FOLLOWING CRITERIA CRITERIA FOR FOOD TRUCKS AT CONSTRUCTION SITES.

SO THEY HAVE TO MEET.

EVERYBODY HAS TO MEET THE STATE REQUIREMENTS.

I'M NOT GOING TO REPEAT THOSE.

IT'S JUST COMMON THAT THEY HAVE TO HAVE ALL OF THE REQUIREMENTS.

SO WE SAID THAT IF THEY'RE AT A CONSTRUCTION SITE, THEY HAVE TO OPERATE FOR ONE HOUR.

IT HAS TO BE IN CONSTRUCTION WITH A BUILDING PERMIT THAT CAN'T BE IN A FIRE LANE OR TRAVELING LANE OR REQUIRED PARKING.

THEY'VE GOT TO KEEP THE AREA CLEAN.

THEY HAVE TO THEY CAN'T OBSTRUCT ANY EMERGENCY AND OPERATIONS WHEN THEY PERMIT THEY HAVE TO PROVIDE US A ROUTE AND LET US KNOW WHERE THEY ARE AND THEY CAN BE LOCATED ON THE STREET WHEN THEY'RE OPERATING ON THE ON THE CONSTRUCTION SITES.

I JUST WANT TO ADD ONE THING THE INDIVIDUAL THAT HAD EMAILED YOU, I THINK BACK IN JUNE REGARDING THIS, I'VE BEEN IN CONTACT WITH HIM AND LET HIM KNOW THAT THESE ORDINANCES IS COMING BEFORE YOU TONIGHT, AND HE HAD NO ISSUES WITH IT OR ANYTHING SO.

AND NUMBER NINE THAT I HAVE HERE ON THE PRESENTATION.

THAT WAS ONE THING THAT WE HAD IN THE ORIGINAL ORDINANCE SO I DID STRIKE THAT.

I JUST WANTED TO MAKE NOTE OF THAT.

SO THAT IS NOT IN THE ORDINANCE.

LISA QUESTION PLEASE.

WHAT'S THE RATIONALE BEHIND REQUIRING A LEVEL PAVED OR GRAVEL SURFACE? IS THAT A HEALTH CODE REQUIREMENT? WELL, THEY HAVE WELL, YOU DON'T WANT TO GET IT STUCK.

NUMBER ONE, IF IT'S ON LIKE, YOU KNOW, IN THE GRASS OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT, THEY'LL LEAVE [INAUDIBLE].

IT NEEDS TO BE ON A, YOU KNOW, A SURFACE THAT CAN HOLD THE TRUCK.

THEY'RE PRETTY HEAVY VEHICLES.

SO YEAH MOST OF THEM WILL PARK IN THE STREET.

MY QUESTION IS DIRECTED TOWARDS THE THE POSSIBILITY THAT, YOU KNOW, WHEN WHEN GRADING IS GOING ON A CONSTRUCTION SITE, THERE ARE NO LEVEL PAVED OR GRAVEL AND MAYBE LEVEL SURFACES, BUT THEY'RE PROBABLY NOT GRAVEL AND THEY'RE DEFINITELY NOT PAVED TO MAKE THAT REQUIREMENT.

THEN IT SEEMS WE'RE FORCING THE FOOD TRUCK OPERATION TO TAKE PLACE OUT ON THE PUBLIC STREET OR ON OTHER PRIVATE PROPERTY WHERE THEY MAY NOT BE AS WELCOMED.

DON'T UNDERSTAND THE LOGIC BEHIND REQUIRING THE SURFACE TO BE PAVED OR GRAVEL BECAUSE FREQUENTLY ON A ON A MASS EXCAVATION SITE OR A PROPERTY PREPARATION, OR REGRADING SITE SAY LIKE WHAT'S GOING ON UP AT THE NEW DEALERSHIP THAT'S BEING BUILT.

YOU KNOW, IT'S ALL A DIRT AREA.

SO IF YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE A REQUIREMENT FOR PAVED SURFACE, THEN THAT TRUCK IS GOING TO HAVE TO PULL UP AND SIT ON THE SERVICE ROAD.

OR, YOU KNOW, HOW'S THAT GOING TO HAPPEN? WELL, I MEAN, IT TALKS ABOUT SAFE PEDESTRIAN ACCESS AND THAT, YOU KNOW.

I DON'T KNOW IF IT'LL EVER BECOME AN ISSUE.

I DON'T KNOW IF IT'LL EITHER TO BE HONEST WITH YOU BECAUSE I DON'T THINK A LOT OF THEM ARE GOING TO PULL UP IN AN AREA LIKE THAT BECAUSE IT'S GOING TO BE HARD TO GET OUT OF SOME AREAS IF THEY'RE NOT.

THE WORKERS WILL MAKE SURE THE FOOD TRUCK CAN GET IN THAT I WILL I ASSURE YOU FROM EXPERIENCE I WOULD LIKE TO I WOULD LIKE TO STRIKE THE WORDS PAVED OR GRAVEL.

SURE THING WE CAN.

I DON'T THINK THAT'S GOING TO BE AN ISSUE.

WE'LL MAKE THE AMENDMENTS WHEN WE GO BACK.

YEAH, THAT'S ALL RIGHT.

WE CAN DO THAT.

I KNOW, YOU KNOW, CONSTRUCTION SITES WELL SO, I KNOW A LITTLE BIT ABOUT IT.

YEAH, IT MAKES SENSE.

PERMEATED THE PERMIT.

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HOW LONG DOES THAT LAST? IS THAT FOR AN ANNUAL PERMIT OR, WELL, IF IT'S A CONSTRUCTION SITE DEPENDS ON HOW LONG THE SITE IS.

YOU KNOW, IF THEY'RE BUILDING A HOUSE UNTIL.

IF THERE'S HOUSES THAT ARE BEING BUILT IN A NEIGHBORHOOD, AS LONG AS THERE'S A PERMIT IN THE AREA WHERE THEY'RE SETTING UP, DOES THAT MAKE SENSE? THERE SHOULD BE A PERMIT ON FILE WITH THE BUILDING INSPECTIONS DEPARTMENT WHERE WHERE ADJACENT TO WHERE THEY'RE SETTING UP.

SO IT'S SPECIFIC TO THE SITE.

YEAH, IN THAT AREA, I MEAN, YOU KNOW, SOME OF THESE GUYS, THEY GO FROM HOUSE TO HOUSE OR A BUSINESS TO BUSINESS.

SO BEING, YOU KNOW, I MEAN, IN PARTICULAR, A NEIGHBORHOOD.

BUT IF IF THEY'RE IN A NEIGHBORHOOD, THERE'S THERE'S GOING TO BE A BUILDING PERMIT IN A NEIGHBORHOOD WHERE HOUSES ARE BEING CONSTRUCTED.

SO THEY GET THEIR FOOD PARK, THEIR TRUCK PERMIT BASED ON THAT PERMIT.

WELL, THAT'S WHY THAT'S WHY WE'RE ASKING FOR THE ROUTE AND THEIR ITINERARY TO MAKE SURE THEY'RE IN AREAS THAT ARE WHERE THERE'S CONSTRUCTION GOING ON.

OK, SO YEAH, NOT JUST SETTING UP IN A PARKING LOT OR ANYTHING.

SO ANYBODY ELSE? THAT'S CONSTRUCTION SITE, SO MANUFACTURING SITES, IT'S PRETTY MUCH IT'S IT'S VERY SIMILAR.

THEY WILL HAVE TO GET PERMISSION FROM THAT BUSINESS OWNER.

AND AND AS FAR AS OPERATING THE SAME AS THE THE BUSINESS THAT THEY'RE THAT THEY'RE SETTING UP AT.

SO AND THEN THEY CAN ONLY OPERATE AT THE SAME TIME AS THE HOURS OF OPERATION BECAUSE IF IT'S LONGER THAN AN HOUR, THEY'RE GOING TO NEED ACCESS TO POSSIBLY A RESTROOM.

SO THEY NEED TO THEY'LL GET DURING THE PERMITTING PROCESS.

WE'LL GET A LETTER FROM THEM AND SAYS THAT THEY CAN USE THE RESTROOM.

SO AND WE'LL HAVE THEY'LL HAVE TO HAVE MAKE SURE THAT THEIR CERTIFICATE OF OCCUPANCY SAYS THAT THEY'RE DESIGNATED AS A MANUFACTURING.

OF COURSE, THEY CAN'T PARK AND, YOU KNOW, AN EXIT OR ENTRANCE LANE, TAKE UP REQUIRED PARKING SPACES AND JUST MAKE SURE THAT THEIR SAFE VEHICLE MOVEMENT IN THE AREA THAT THEY'RE SETTING UP AND THEY CAN'T IMPEDE OTHER BUSINESSES EITHER, AND THEY'VE GOT TO CLEAN UP AFTER THEMSELVES.

AND ALSO THEY CAN'T THE LIQUID SEWAGE AND STUFF, OF COURSE, THEY CAN'T LET IT RELEASE AT THE SPOT.

THAT'S JUST SOMETHING THAT'S JUST GENERAL LANGUAGE FOR FOOD FOOD TRUCKS.

SO ANY QUESTIONS ON MANUFACTURING SITES BEFORE I SAID JUST ONE HOUR THIS THIS THIS IN THE JULY MEETING, THIS ALLOWS THEM TO OPERATE THE SAME AS A BUSINESS.

WHO'S RESPONSIBLE FOR ENFORCING THIS? MY DEPARTMENT, OUR ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SPECIALIST.

YEAH, BUT WE DO THE PERMITTING AND IN NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES.

AND CODE COMPLIANCE.

I MEAN, BOTH OF THEM.

ANYBODY ELSE? SO ONE OF THE THINGS WE DIDN'T I DIDN'T CHANGE VERY MUCH ON THIS, AS I HAD MENTIONED IN THE BEGINNING.

GOOD QUESTION.

THERE'S SOME SITUATIONS THE WAY THE ORDINANCE IS WRITTEN RIGHT NOW THAT YOU'VE GOT TO GET A PERMIT FROM COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT OR DEVELOPMENT SERVICES AND A PERMIT FROM US.

THE CHANGE THAT WE MADE IN PARTICULAR SOME CIRCUMSTANCES I HAVE HOA'S BUSINESS ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATIONS WHERE THEY'RE JUST INVITING THEIR EMPLOYEES SITUATIONS WHERE THEY'RE NOT INVITING THE PUBLIC.

THE CHANGE THAT WE MADE, THEY WOULDN'T HAVE TO GET THE TWO PERMITS, THEY WOULD JUST HAVE TO GET A FOOD TRUCK PERMIT.

SO THAT'S KIND OF WHAT I JUST SAID HERE, SO THAT WHEN I APPROVED THE FIRST READING OF THE AMENDMENTS TO CHAPTER 14 OR DENY.

IS THERE ANY QUESTIONS? WHOO! THERE YOU GO.

VICTORIA, THERE'S A MOTION ON THIS.

VICTORIA AND RONNIE, VOTE.

PASSES UNANIMOUS WITH DAN'S AMENDMENT, RIGHT? YES, I'LL MAKE THAT, I'M SORRY.

YES, WE'LL MAKE THAT AMENDMENT.

THAT'LL BE EASY.

NO PROBLEM.

MAYOR AND COUNCIL, AT THIS POINT, WE WILL MOVE ON TO 7K RECEIVE A REPORT ON THE

[K. Receive a report on the City's response to the 2019 Coronavirus Disease (Covid-19) and consider approval of a minute order authorizing the continuation and renewal of the declaration of local disaster and public health emergency regarding Covid-19 dated November 17, 2020. (Staff Presenter: K.T. Freeman, Fire Chief and Matt Ribitzki, Deputy City Attorney)]

CITY'S RESPONSE TO 2019 CORONAVIRUS DISEASE COVID 19 AND CONSIDER APPROVAL OF A MINUTE ORDER AUTHORIZING THE CONTINUATION AND RENEWAL OF A DECLARATION OF LOCAL DISASTER AND PUBLIC HEALTH EMERGENCY REGARDING COVID 19 DATED NOVEMBER 17, 2020.

STAFF PRESENTERS TONIGHT ARE KT FREEMAN, CASEY DAVIS, MATT RIBITZKI, ANYONE ELSE, ANYBODY ELSE.

WE'LL START OFF WITH

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OUT THERE IT IS RIGHT THERE.

MAYOR AND COUNCIL, GOOD EVENING.

KT FREEMAN, FIRE CHIEF I'M GOING TO JUST BE LEADING LEADING OFF AND THEN CHIEF DAVIS IS GOING TO TAKE OVER THE MAJORITY OF THE THE CONVERSATION DISCUSSION.

BUT I DO WANT TO SHARE WITH YOU THAT WE'VE BEEN TRENDING OUR STATS, WHICH CHIEF DAVIS WILL GO INTO SPECIFICITY HERE IN JUST A LITTLE BIT.

BUT OUR OUR STATS ARE TRENDING DOWN, WHICH IS GOOD.

AND JUST OVER THE LAST WEEK, I HAD A CONVERSATION WITH DR.

MARTIN THAT HE TOO IS PLEASED WITH THEM.

AND I THINK WE'RE NOT READY TO MAKE A RECOMMENDATION YET.

SO PLEASE DON'T HEAR THIS.

BUT WE'RE ALL LOOKING AT IT WITH A REAL CRITICAL EYE ABOUT AT SOME POINT.

IF THIS TREND CONTINUES TO GO DOWN, AT WHAT POINT DO WE LOOK AT MAYBE PLAYING A DIFFERENT ROLE IN PUBLIC HEALTH? NOT NOT ELIMINATING, BUT AT SOME POINT WE'VE GOT TO TAKE A CRITICAL LINE.

WE'RE ALREADY LOOKING AT IT ABOUT WHAT ARE WE GETTING VERSUS WHAT ARE WE SPENDING? AND WE CONTINUE TO REDUCE STAFF APPROPRIATELY.

WE CONTINUE TO LOOK AT OUR HOURS TO TO HAVE EFFICIENCIES AND THE EFFECTIVENESS.

SO I'M NOT PREPARED TO GET INTO A DETAILED, GRANULAR DISCUSSION WITH YOU TONIGHT.

BUT PERHAPS MAYBE AFTER THE FIRST OF THE YEAR, WHEN WE LOOK AT THE HOLIDAYS AND SEE WHAT MAY MANIFEST OR MAY NOT MANIFEST OUT OF THAT.

I THINK WE'RE GOING TO BE IN A BETTER POSITION TO COME BACK TO YOU AFTER THE FIRST YEAR IN CONSULTATION WITH DR.

MARTIN, AND WE TAKE A LOOK AT WHAT OUR PUBLIC HEALTH LOOKS LIKE AND WHAT IT MAY NEED TO LOOK LIKE IN THE FUTURE.

SO I JUST WANT TO LEAD OFF TO ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS OF THAT FOR NOW.

OK, THANK YOU.

I'M GOING TO TURN IT OVER TO CHIEF DAVIS.

GOOD EVENING.

SO WE JUST HAVE A FEW SLIDES FOR YOU THIS THIS EVENING, BUT AS CHIEF FREEMAN WAS ALLUDING TO, ALL OF OUR NUMBERS ARE INDICATING THINGS ARE TRENDING DOWN, WHICH WE'RE VERY PLEASED WITH AT THE MOMENT.

SO WE'RE GOING TO GIVE AN UPDATE ON WHAT'S GOING ON WITH OUR VACCINE CLINIC AND OUR COVID TESTING.

SO RIGHT NOW, WE'RE OFFERING THE ALL OF THE COVID BOOSTER SHOTS THAT ARE AVAILABLE.

YOU KNOW, MOSTLY WE'VE DONE MODERNA, BUT WE HAVE DONE PFIZER AND SOME OF THE JOHNSON AND JOHNSON BOOSTER SHOTS ORIGINALLY AS WELL.

SO WE'RE OFFERING ALL THREE OF THOSE WE HAVE ON HERE FOR YOU TONIGHT, THOUGH, JUST TO REMIND EVERYBODY WHAT THE BOOSTERS ARE FOR THE 65 YEARS AND OLDER 18 WHO LIVE IN LONG TERM CARE SETTINGS, 18+ WHO HAVE UNDERLYING MEDICAL CONDITIONS AND 18+ WHO LIVE IN HIGH RISK.

I MEAN, WORK OR LIVE IN HIGH, HIGH RISK SETTINGS LIKE HEALTH CARE, THINGS OF THAT NATURE.

JOHNSON AND JOHNSON, 18 AND OLDER, WHO HAD WHO WERE VACCINATED TWO MONTHS OR MORE AGO.

SO THAT ONE IS JUST ANYBODY THAT'S BEEN VACCINATED WITH IT.

THEY'RE RECOMMENDING IF YOU'RE 18 AND OLDER, YOU SHOULD RECEIVE ANOTHER BOOSTER AND THEY'RE RECOMMENDING ANY BOOSTER WITH THAT AS WELL.

SO CURRENTLY, OUR TESTING IS STILL AT STATION THREE.

WE'VE, AS CHIEF SAID, WE'VE WE'VE REDUCED OUR NUMBERS AND HOURS TO MEET THE DEMAND.

RIGHT NOW, WE'RE OPEN MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, FRIDAY FROM 8 TO 10 IN THE MORNING AND THE TESTING NUMBERS ARE VERY LOW AT THE AT THE MOMENT.

THIS LAST WEEK WE TESTED THIRTY SIX, SO ALL OF THE NUMBERS ARE TRENDING VERY LOW FOR TESTING.

TESTING SUPPLIES AND STUFF ARE STILL REIMBURSABLE THROUGH HARPA.

WE'RE STILL USING THE BINAXNOW TESTS THAT WE'VE PURCHASED AND WE STILL HAVE OUR PARTNERSHIP WITH HUGUELY FOR PCR TESTING WHEN WE NEED THAT.

WE STILL HAVE THE APPOINTMENT PROCESS THROUGH THE CITY WEBSITE AND THE ONLINE FORM.

WE'RE STILL ASKING THAT WE WE'RE TESTING SYMPTOMATIC PEOPLE, NOT TESTING FOR TRAVEL AND OTHER OTHER NEEDS FOR TESTING.

CALL CENTERS PROCESSING ALL OF THOSE FORMS AS THEY COME THROUGH FOR SYMPTOMATIC PATIENTS AND PLACING THOSE APPOINTMENTS FOR THOSE FOLKS.

SO WE STILL HAVE THE HOTLINE UP AND RUNNING, AND IT'S STAFFED MONDAY THROUGH FRIDAY EIGHT TO FIVE.

YOU KNOW, THEY STILL TAKE VACCINE QUESTIONS.

TESTING QUESTIONS.

GENERAL COVID QUESTIONS THEY'RE HELPING WITH, YOU KNOW, JUST A LOT OF LOGISTICAL THINGS WITH PEOPLE NEEDING REPLACEMENT OF CARDS, THINGS LIKE THAT.

SO THEY'VE THEY'VE BEEN A BIG HELP, REALLY.

WE FEEL LIKE THERE ARE THE BIGGEST PART OF THE OPERATION RIGHT NOW BESIDES WORKING, WORKING CASES AND THE VACCINES.

SO THEY'RE THEY'RE STAYING BUSY WITH THOSE, THOSE ITEMS. VACCINES ARE STILL AVAILABLE AT THE PIT OR THE COLLEGIATE HIGH SCHOOL.

WE'RE DOING THOSE THURSDAYS FROM 3:30 TO 6:00 P.M.

WE HAD SEEN THE NUMBERS DROP OFF DRAMATICALLY UNTIL THE MODERNA BOOSTER CAME OUT ON

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THE 28TH OF OCTOBER.

WE SAW, YOU KNOW, OUR NUMBERS PRETTY MUCH TRIPLE FROM WHAT WE WERE DOING, WHICH OUR NUMBERS WERE PRETTY LOW.

SO WE DID ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY SEVEN.

ON OCTOBER 28TH, NOVEMBER 4TH, WE DID ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY FIVE AND THEN NOVEMBER 11TH COMING UP.

WE ONLY HAVE FORTY FOUR SCHEDULED AT THIS TIME.

SO WE'RE STARTING TO SEE THE NUMBERS TREND DOWN FOR DEMAND FOR THE VACCINE BOOSTER AS WELL, THOUGH WE'RE HAPPY TO OPEN IT UP TO QUESTIONS AND COMMENTS AND.

YES.

SO CHIEF WANTED ME TO MENTION ABOUT THE PEDIATRIC DOSES IF ANYBODY HAD ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT THAT.

SO WE WE'VE TALKED TO ALL OF THE PEDIATRICIANS IN TOWN AND PHARMACIES, AND ALL OF THEM HAVE HAVE IT AVAILABLE TO TREAT THAT 5 TO 11 AGE RANGE GROUP IN PUBLIC HEALTH.

RIGHT NOW, WE BELIEVE THE BEST PLACE FOR THOSE CHILDREN TO GET THE VACCINE IS IN THE PEDIATRICIAN'S OFFICE, WHERE PARENTS CAN ASK THOSE QUESTIONS IN A PRIVATE SETTING.

WE HAVEN'T SEEN A DEMAND FOR IT AT OUR VACCINE SITE.

WE'VE RECEIVED LESS THAN 20 PHONE CALLS ASKING FOR IT.

WE'VE REACHED OUT TO THE ISDS AND THEY KNOW AND UNDERSTAND HOW WE'RE HANDLING THIS RIGHT NOW.

THEY'RE ON BOARD WITH THAT, THAT PLAN.

THEY SAID THEY'RE NOT SEEING AN INCREASE IN DEMAND.

THEY'RE POINTING EVERYBODY TO OUR WEBSITE, ON OUR WEBSITE.

WE HAVE THIS STATEMENT ON THERE AND THAT WE HAVE THE VACCINE FINDER.

THERE'S 50 LOCATIONS WITHIN TWENTY FIVE MILES OF BURLESON, AND SEVERAL OF THOSE ARE RIGHT HERE IN BURLESON, WHERE THEY CAN RECEIVE THOSE VACCINATIONS IF THEY THEY CHOOSE TO PARTICIPATE IN THAT.

ANY QUESTIONS? ANY QUESTIONS? THANK YOU, CASEY.

ALL RIGHT, GOOD EVENING, MAYOR AND COUNCIL, MATT RIBITZKI,, DEPUTY CITY ATTORNEY, I'M HERE NOT ONLY FOR THE UPDATE, BUT FOR THE CONTINUING AND RENEWING OF THE CITY'S EMERGENCY DECLARATION AND ORDER.

AGAIN, THE CURRENT DECLARATION BECAME EFFECTIVE ON NOVEMBER 17TH 2020.

IT INCORPORATES THE GOVERNOR'S EXECUTIVE ORDERS, INCLUDING THE EXECUTIVE ORDERS THAT HAVE BEEN ISSUED SINCE THE LAST TIME THIS DECLARATION HAS BEEN CONTINUED, RENEWED IN GA 38, G A 39 AND GA 40.

OUR EXECUTIVE ORDER.

EXCUSE ME, OUR.

DECLARATION IS CONSISTENT WITH THOSE EXECUTIVE ORDERS.

OUR CURRENT DECLARATION DOES NOT REQUIRE CITIZENS TO WEAR FACIAL COVERINGS.

IT DOESN'T LIMIT THE OCCUPANCY OF BUSINESSES, DOESN'T LIMIT THE SIZE OF NUMBER OF GATHERINGS.

DOESN'T REQUIRE BUSINESSES TO ADOPT A HEALTH AND SAFETY POLICY, REQUIRE VACCINE PASSPORTS OR INCLUDE A VACCINE MANDATE.

THE DECLARATION DOES ALLOW THE CITY TO TAKE EMERGENCY MEASURES, AUTHORIZED THE CITY MANAGER TO MAKE CERTAIN EMERGENCY PURCHASES AND AUTHORIZE THE CITY MANAGER TO CLOSE PARKS.

AS IT STANDS RIGHT NOW, THE DECLARATION IS CONTINUED TO RENEWED THROUGH TONIGHT.

COUNCIL HAS A COUPLE OF OPTIONS IN FRONT OF IT, IT CAN CONTINUE TO RENEW THE CURRENT DECLARATION THROUGH MARCH 7TH, 2022, CONTINUE TO RENEW THE DECLARATION TO ANOTHER DATE INTO THE FUTURE, OR TAKE NO ACTION AND LET THE DECLARATION EXPIRE.

BE HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS.

IS THIS STILL A FACTOR OF RECEIVING REIMBURSEMENT OR FUNDING OF OTHER KIND? I THINK YOU'RE MAKING A FINDING THAT IT'S IN THE GENERAL HEALTH, SAFETY AND WELFARE OF THE PUBLIC TO CONTINUE THE EMERGENCY DECLARATION AND ORDER.

I DO THINK THAT COMES INTO PLAY TOO.

SO I'M GOING TO ASSUME THAT THAT WOULD BE TIED TO US PROVIDING THE VACCINES AND CORRECT.

IF WE WANT REIMBURSEMENT FOR THEM, YEAH, YES, YES.

SO DO WE NEED TO MAKE A MOTION? I WOULD MAKE A MOTION TO CONTINUE AND RENEW THROUGH MARCH 7TH, AS RECOMMENDED BY STAFF.

WE'RE AHEAD, I DON'T SEE ANYTHING ON THE SCREEN.

THERE WE GO.

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YEAH, I GOT A MOTION BY VICTORIA AND A SECOND BY JIMMY, PLEASE VOTE.

UNANIMOUS, YES.

THANK YOU, MAYOR AND COUNCIL.

AT THIS POINT, MAYOR AND COUNCIL WE WILL MOVE ON TO SECTION EIGHT REPORTS AND PRESENTATIONS.

8A IS TO RECEIVE A REPORT, HOLD A DISCUSSION AND PROVIDE STAFF DIRECTION

[A. Receive a report, hold a discussion, and provide staff direction regarding the design of Shannon Creek Park. (Staff Presenter: Jen Basham, Director of Parks and Recreation).]

REGARDING THE DESIGN OF SHANNON CREEK PARK.

TONIGHT STAFF PRESENTERS ARE JEN BASHAM, DIRECTOR OF PARKS AND RECREATION.

MS. BASHAM.

GOOD EVENING, MAYOR AND COUNCIL.

WE'LL GET STARTED THIS EVENING TALKING ABOUT SHANNON CREEK WITH A LITTLE BACKGROUND.

SHANNON CREEK IS FOURTEEN POINT EIGHT SIX ACRES IN THE AREA THAT WE'RE CURRENTLY LOOKING TO DEVELOP.

IT IS PART OF A LARGER SYSTEM THAT IS ABOUT A HUNDRED ACRES OF PARKLAND.

RESIDENTS IN THIS AREA HAVE BEEN REQUESTING THAT WE DO IMPROVEMENTS TO THE PARK FOR THE PAST FIVE YEARS OR SO.

THE ORIGINAL PLAN FOR THIS PARK WAS TO BE A NATURE PRESERVE AND JUST TO REITERATE THAT THIS IS PART OF A LARGER SYSTEM OF PARKLAND THAT CONNECTS MULTIPLE PORTIONS.

A LITTLE TIMELINE THE INITIAL BUDGET AND POTENTIAL AMENITIES WERE PROPOSED TO THE PARKS BOARD BACK IN APRIL OF 2021.

AFTER THAT, IT WAS PRESENTED TO COUNCIL.

COUNCIL DID REQUEST THAT WE DO SOME ADDITIONAL PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT PRIOR TO SETTING A BUDGET FOR THIS PROJECT.

SO IN JULY, A COMMUNITY SURVEY WAS ISSUED TO THE COMMUNITY AND THEN A TOWN HALL WAS ALSO HOSTED IN JULY.

FROM THE FEEDBACK WE RECEIVED ON THOSE, WE DID CREATE A NEW AMENITY LIST AND BUDGET BASED OFF OF THAT FEEDBACK AND TO REFINE TWO SPECIFIC AMENITIES.

WE JUST COMPLETED A SECOND LAYER OF PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT THAT ENDED OCT.

31ST.

SHANNON CREEK WAS APPROVED AS A 2022 PROJECT AS PART OF OUR CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM.

AND BEFORE WE GET STARTED WITH THE PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT FEEDBACK, WE WANTED TO GO THROUGH HOW WE AS STAFF CLASSIFY OUR PARK SYSTEM.

THIS IS BASED OFF OF NATIONAL RECREATION AND PARKS ASSOCIATION STANDARDS.

IT'S JUST A WAY FOR US AS PROFESSIONALS TO STANDARDIZE OUR VOCABULARY SO THAT WE MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE CLEANING THAT UP.

WE CONSIDER A MINI OR POCKET PARK AS ANYTHING LESS THAN ZERO POINT FIVE ACRES.

IT'S TYPICALLY TO ADDRESS A SPECIFIC NEED WITHIN AN AREA, AN EXAMPLE FOR US AS CLARK PARK, A NEIGHBORHOOD PARK, IS A PARK THAT'S BETWEEN ONE AND FIFTEEN ACRES OR REALLY POINT FIVE AND FIFTEEN ACRES.

IT SERVES RESIDENTS WITHIN A QUARTER OR A HALF MILE RADIUS.

IT'S GENERALLY UNLIT AND HAS OFF STREET PARKING IS NOT RECOMMENDED.

FOR US, THIS WOULD BE MISTLETOE OR CENTENNIAL PARK.

A COMMUNITY PARK IS A PARK THAT'S BETWEEN SIXTEEN AND NINETY NINE ACRES.

IT'S USUALLY MEETING RESIDENTS WITHIN ONE TO TWO MILES.

THERE'S TYPICALLY LIT.

IT HAS VARIOUS AMENITIES WITHIN IT.

WE DO TYPICALLY HAVE PARKING AND TRAIL SYSTEM WITHIN A PARK THIS BIG ABOVE THAT.

AS A METRO OR URBAN PARK OR AN ADDITIONAL CAUSE WOULD BE A SPECIAL USE PARK, WHICH IS BETWEEN A HUNDRED AND ALMOST FIVE HUNDRED ACRES.

IT SERVES MULTIPLE COMMUNITIES.

IT HAS MULTIPLE AREAS OF DIFFERENT TYPES OF PROGRAMING.

FOR US, THIS WOULD BE CHISENHALL THAT HAS MOUNTAIN BIKE TRAILS, PARKS OR PLAYGROUNDS, BALL FIELDS, DISC GOLF COURSE, JUST MULTIPLE DIFFERENT TYPES OF USE.

IT BRINGS IN PEOPLE FROM OTHER AREAS OF THE COMMUNITY A REGIONAL PARK.

TYPICALLY, YOU WON'T SEE THIS AT A MUNICIPAL LEVEL.

IT'S FIVE HUNDRED PLUS ACRES.

THERE ARE A FEW COMMUNITIES LIKE LEWISVILLE AND DALLAS THAT HAVE PARKS THAT ARE THIS LARGE, BUT TYPICALLY THOSE ARE STATE OR COUNTY LEVEL PARKS SYSTEM.

WE WON'T TYPICALLY HAVE SOMETHING LIKE THAT IN A COMMUNITY, OUR SIZE, LINEAR OR LINKAGES.

THESE ARE AREAS THAT CONNECT MULTIPLE PIECES SO IT CAN BE GREENWAY BLUE WEIGHT TRAIL SYSTEM.

IT CAN BE BIKING, HIKING, HORSEBACK RIDING, CANOEING MULTIPLE MODES, BUT WE JUST CONSIDER IT A LINEAR LINKAGE.

AND THEN THE LAST TYPE THAT WE DISCUSS, WHICH IS SOMETHING THAT WE WILL BE LOOKING AT FOR SHANNON CREEK IS A CONSERVANCY WHICH IS JUST TO PROTECT EITHER THE NATURAL ENVIRONMENT THERE OR THE CULTURAL ENVIRONMENT.

AND TYPICALLY, RECREATION IS A SECONDARY USE OR CONSIDERATION WHEN WE'RE LOOKING AT ANY TYPE OF CONSERVANCY OF SPACE.

SO, SHANNON CREEK, WHERE DOES THIS FALL INTO THAT? SHANNON CREEK IS CENTRALLY LOCATED AS PART OF OUR SYSTEM.

IT DOES CREATE MULTIPLE LINKAGES, MULTIPLE TRAILS, PARKS AND OPEN SPACE.

SO IF YOU LOOK AT THE CONGRUENT LINKAGE AND I'LL SHOW YOU A MAP ON THE NEXT SLIDE, WE HAVE ABOUT NINETY ACRES CONNECTED WITH SHANNON CREEK.

AS THE CENTRAL POINT OF THAT.

THE CURRENT PHASE THAT WE'RE LOOKING AT IS FOURTEEN POINT EIGHT SIX ACRES, BUT INCLUDING IN THAT FUTURE PHASES.

IN THE ADJACENT AREAS, WE HAVE ALMOST THIRTY ACRES AND THEN ABOUT TWENTY FIVE LINEAR LINKS BETWEEN THAT.

SO SHANNON CREEK IS POSITIONED TO SERVE JUST OVER FOUR THOUSAND HOUSEHOLDS WITHIN ONE MILE.

AND SO WHEN WE'RE CONSIDERING IMPROVEMENTS TO THIS AREA, THAT'S WHAT WE'RE LOOKING AT AS STAFF.

SO IN THIS, AND I BELIEVE YOU GUYS HAVE SEEN THIS BEFORE, THE YELLOW AREA IS

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THE AREA THAT WE'RE DISCUSSING RIGHT NOW WITH THIS ONE POINT EIGHT FIVE ACRES AS WELL.

AND THEN THE ONE POINT THREE ACRES THAT ARE ON THE OTHER SIDE OF CANDLER DRIVE.

AS YOU CAN SEE, WE ALSO HAVE THE REVERIE PARK LAND THIS FUTURE DEVELOPMENT OF SHANNON CREEK, HILLSIDE PARK, WAKEFIELD, THE REVERIE, WHICH THIS IS ACTUALLY JUST CONSIDERED OPEN SPACE.

IT'S NOT DEDICATED PARK LAND, BUT IT'S A CLEAR LINEAR CONNECTION FOR TRAIL.

AND THEN WE'VE GOT OUR VILLAGE CREEK TRAIL EXTENSION AND EVENTUALLY CHISENHALL PARK.

ALL OF THIS KIND OF LANDS WITH SHANNON CREEK.

SO OUR ORIGINAL CONCEPTS, JUST TO BRING THOSE BACK FOR A BRIEF SECOND.

WE DID THREE DIFFERENT CONCEPTS A LOW, MEDIUM AND LARGE SCALE WITH DIFFERENT AMENITIES AT EACH SITE.

THE COST FOR THOSE VARIED IN RANGE FROM ONE POINT FOUR MILLION TO THREE POINT FOUR, WITH THE CONCEPTS REALLY JUST SAYING THIS CAN FUNCTION SIMILARLY TO A COMMUNITY PARK, BUT IT DOES HAVE OPPORTUNITIES TO BE NATURE PRESERVE, PARKING TRAIL, ET CETERA.

ANY QUESTIONS ON THOSE ORIGINAL CONCEPTS? ALL RIGHT, SO LET'S GET INTO THE PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT RESULTS.

SO THE FIRST LEVEL OF SURVEYS, WE HAD A LITTLE OVER THREE HUNDRED RESPONDENTS THERE.

AS YOU CAN SEE, THE BIGGEST DEMOGRAPHIC OF RESPONDENTS WERE IN THAT THIRTY FIVE TO FORTY FOUR.

BUT WE DID HAVE SOME PEOPLE AT ALL VARYING AGES.

AND WHEN WE'RE LOOKING AT DATA, WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE NOT JUST GETTING ONE BIG SECTION AND WE REALLY FELT LIKE WE GOT A GOOD CROSS-SECTION.

WE EVEN HAD ALMOST THIRTY PERCENT OF OUR RESPONDENTS DIDN'T HAVE KIDDOS.

SO WE THOUGHT, YOU KNOW, WE'RE GOING TO GET A GOOD, DIVERSE FEEDBACK ON THIS.

AND THEN IF THEY HAD KIDDOS, THEY HAD KIDS FROM ZERO ALL THE WAY TO 18 OR THEY DIDN'T HAVE KIDDOS ANYMORE.

AND SO THAT WAS A VERY EVEN SPREAD.

WE LIKED THAT THE VAST MAJORITY OF THE RESPONDENTS IN THIS FIRST SECTION, I THINK NINETY NINE POINT SOMETHING PERCENT WERE BURLESON RESIDENTS AND SIXTY SEVEN PERCENT OF THOSE DO LIVE IN THE SHANNON CREEK NEIGHBORHOOD.

THE SUPPORTED AMENITIES FROM THAT FIRST PHASE WERE NATURALIZED AREAS AND TRAILS, SOME PAVED TRAILS, MANICURED OPEN SPACE, A LARGE BARRIER FREE PLAYGROUND WHICH IS ESSENTIALLY AN INCLUSIVE PLAYGROUND THAT CAN SERVE KIDDOS WITH ALL AMENITIES.

THEY WANTED IT TO BE NATURE THEMED AND THEY WANTED IT TO BE SHADED.

A FISHING POND, SPORTS COURT, FITNESS EQUIPMENT AND PARKING AND RESTROOMS WERE ALSO REQUESTED FREQUENTLY FROM THIS SURVEY IN THE OPEN ENDED QUESTIONS.

AND THESE WERE THE COMMENTS THROUGH A WORD CLOUD.

TWO BIG THINGS THAT YOU'RE GOING TO SEE ON HERE ARE A SPLASH PAD AND A DOG PARK.

THOSE AMENITIES ARE BEING BUILT CURRENTLY IN OTHER AREAS OF TOWN, SO WE DID NOT INCLUDE THAT IN THE SCOPE OF THIS PROJECT, JUST BECAUSE WE REALLY FEEL LIKE WE'RE MEETING THAT NEED CURRENTLY.

AND THESE ARE THE SURVEYS FROM THE IN-PERSON TOWN HALLS, SO GREEN ON THESE MEANS YES, I REALLY, REALLY WANT THIS.

YELLOW MEANS TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT.

AND RED MEANS PLEASE DON'T PUT THIS IN MY PARK.

SO AS YOU CAN SEE, PEOPLE REALLY WANTED NATURALIZED AREAS.

THEY WERE MIXED ON OPEN SPACE AND THEY WERE NEUTRAL ON WILDFLOWER AREAS, WHICH IS DIFFERENT THAN WHAT THE SURVEY STATED.

AND THESE SAME PICTURES WERE USED FOR BOTH THE ONLINE SURVEY AND THE IN-PERSON TOWN HALL SO THAT WE GOT SOME CONSISTENCY IN OUR FEEDBACK.

FOR THE PLAY AREAS.

THE NATURAL PLACE SCAPE ON TOP PEOPLE WERE PRETTY SUPPORTIVE OF MAKING SURE IT WAS THEMED THAT WAY.

THE SMALL PLAY AREA PEOPLE DO NOT WANT A SMALL PLAY AREA.

THEY WOULD LIKE A LARGE PLAY AREA.

AND THEN BARRIER FREE.

THEY WERE IN SUPPORT OR NEUTRAL ABOUT.

AND THEN FOR OTHER AMENITIES.

SO ON THE LEFT SIDE, YOU'LL SEE SPORTS COURTS.

AT THE IN-PERSON TOWN HALL PEOPLE WERE NOT IN SUPPORT OF THAT.

FITNESS EQUIPMENT PEOPLE WERE REALLY SUPPORTIVE OR NEUTRAL ON.

AND THEN THE FISHING POND WAS KIND OF 50 50 ALL OVER THE PLACE.

AND THEN, AS YOU CAN SEE ON THE RIGHT, WE DID RECEIVE A LOT OF JUST OPEN ENDED FEEDBACK THAT WAS KIND OF CONFLICTING TO BE JUST COMPLETELY TRANSPARENT.

SOME PEOPLE WERE REALLY ADAMANT THAT THEY DID NOT WANT PARKING, WHILE OTHERS WERE VERY ADAMANT THAT WE DO HAVE PARKING.

PAVILIONS WERE SUPPORTED, LIGHTING WAS SUPPORTED, WALKING TRAILS WERE SUPPORTED, BARRIER FREE PLAYGROUNDS WERE SUPPORTED.

AND AS YOU CAN SEE, JUST SOME DIFFERENT RANDOM COMMENTS SPLASH PADS, DOG PARKS, ETC.

THIS IS JUST A SUMMATION OF EVERYTHING THAT YOU JUST SAW ON THOSE OPEN ENDED, BUT I FEEL LIKE THE PICTURES SELL IT A LOT BETTER THAN THIS.

THEY TELL THE STORY BETTER.

AND THEN THIS IS PHASE TWO THAT WE JUST COMPLETED.

WE DID RECEIVE FIVE HUNDRED AND FORTY FIVE RESPONDENTS.

THE SURVEY WAS OPEN FOR A LITTLE OVER TWO WEEKS.

SAME COMMENTS OR THE SAME DEMOGRAPHIC QUESTIONS WERE ASKED HOW OLD ARE YOU? AS YOU CAN SEE THE STILL MOST PREVALENT IN THAT 35 TO 44 AGE GROUP.

BUT WE DID HAVE SOME YOUNGER AND WE DID HAVE SOME OLDER.

ON THIS ONE WE DID HAVE A LITTLE BIT MORE HIGHER LEVEL OF HOW MANY PEOPLE HAD CHILDREN, 74 PERCENT OF THE RESPONDENTS.

WE STILL HAD A GREAT CROSS-SECTION OF DIFFERENT AGE RANGES AND HOW OLD THEIR KIDDOS WERE.

WE DID HAVE A FEW A LITTLE BIT HIGHER PERCENTAGE OF NONRESIDENTS ON THIS ONE.

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SO OVER FOUR PERCENT OF THE RESPONDENTS WERE NOT BURLESON RESIDENTS, WHICH IS 24 OF THE 545 THAT TOOK IT.

AND THEN THIS ONE IS ALMOST A FLIP OF THE PHASE ONE SURVEY.

SO WE HAD A HIGHER RESPONDENT OF PEOPLE THAT DID NOT LIVE IN THE SHANNON CREEK NEIGHBORHOOD, BUT WE DID HAVE ABOUT 40 PERCENT THAT DID.

AND THEN 20 AGAIN, 20 RESPONDENTS DID NOT LIVE IN BURLESON.

OUT OF THAT, AS YOU CAN SEE ON THE ONE ON THE TOP RIGHT THE PEOPLE LIVED MOSTLY IN CROWLEY, JOSHUA OR GODLEY, SO THEY WOULD BE PEOPLE THAT WOULD USE THIS PARK IF THEY SAW THAT IT WAS THERE.

THE TWO BIG QUESTIONS THAT WE ASKED ON THIS SURVEY WAS WOULD YOU LIKE A BARRIER FREE PLAYGROUND, A NATURE THEMED PLAYGROUND OR BOTH? AND THAT'S WHAT YOU SEE ON THE BOTTOM LEFT, AND PEOPLE REALLY WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT IT'S NATURE THEMED AND THEY WOULD LIKE TO SEE BOTH.

THAT WAS PRETTY MUCH THE SPLIT.

THERE WAS NOT AS MUCH SUPPORT FOR JUST THE BARRIER FREE PLAYGROUND.

AND THEN THE SECOND QUESTION THAT WE ASKED THEM WAS IF YOU HAD TO CHOOSE A WATER FEATURE BETWEEN A WETLAND AND A POND, WHICH ONE WOULD YOU LIKE? BOTH OF THOSE ARE IMPROVEMENTS THAT WE'RE LOOKING AT BECAUSE DRAINAGE IS AN ISSUE OUT OF SHANNON CREEK, AND IT WAS REQUESTED IN THE FIRST PHASE OF SURVEYS.

AND OVERWHELMINGLY, PEOPLE WOULD REALLY LIKE TO SEE A FISHING POND WITH A PIER.

SO THESE WERE THE SUPPORTED AMENITIES, NATURALIZED AREAS PAVED TRAILS MANICURED, VERY SIMILAR TO THE FIRST PHASE, BUT PEOPLE REALLY WANTED TO SEE A NATURAL THEMED PLAY AREA AND A BARRIER FREE PLAY AREA, SPORTS COURTS, PARKING RESTROOM AND I'LL SHOW THE WORD CLOUD FOR THIS ONE.

WE DID HAVE THREE RESPONDENTS IN THE WORD CLOUD THAT DID STATE THEY DIDN'T WANT ANY IMPROVEMENTS.

OUT OF FIVE HUNDRED AND FORTY FIVE, THAT'S LESS THAN ONE PERCENT.

SOME ADDITIONAL RANDOM ITEMS DISC GOLF COURSE BASKETBALL.

BUT AS YOU CAN SEE, THE BIG ONES ARE WALKING TRAILS, RESTROOMS, TRAILS, BIKE TRAILS, BENCHES, FURNITURE WAS REALLY IMPORTANT BATHROOMS. A LOT OF PEOPLE DID REQUEST SEEING VOLLEYBALL COURTS, SO A SPORTS COURT OF SOME TYPE LIGHTING PARKING WAS ACTUALLY NOT AS PREVALENT RESPONDED TO IN THIS PHASE OF THE SURVEY.

SO THE REVISED CONCEPTUALS INCLUDE THESE WERE WHAT WE PUT IN THE SURVEY.

THE PICTURE ON THE LEFT IS A WETLAND.

THE PICTURE ON THE TOP RIGHT IS A POND WITH A PIER, AND THEN THE BOTTOM IS A PAVILION WITH AN INTEGRATED RESTROOM.

SO IT WOULD BE A PICNIC SHELTER AS WELL AS A RESTROOM AS ONE.

AND THEN WHEN WE SAID NATURAL PLAY AREA, WHAT WE ARE MEANING IS THE TOP LEFT PICTURE.

SO IT'S USING NATURAL FEATURES TO CREATE PLAY AREAS ON THE TOP RIGHT.

THAT'S A CONCEPT.

IT'S NOT AN ACTUAL FINAL CONCEPT OF OPPORTUNITIES TO DO BARRIER FREE PLACE OR AS YOU CAN SEE, THIS ONE IS NATURE THEMED.

IT WOULD BE AN OPPORTUNITY.

AND IF WE PROCEEDED WITH THIS, ANY FUTURE OR FINAL DESIGN OF THOSE PLAY AMENITIES WOULD GO BACK OUT FOR PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT.

WE WOULDN'T JUST SELECT IT WITHOUT GETTING RESPONSES FROM THE COMMUNITY.

THE BOTTOM LEFT IS WHAT WE WOULD SAY IF WE WERE TALKING ABOUT FITNESS EQUIPMENT.

AND THEN THIS IS AN EXAMPLE OF A SAND VOLLEYBALL COURT THAT WE WOULD PLACE.

PHASE ONE IT DOES SAY SMALL SHADE STRUCTURES, NATURAL PLAY AREAS.

IT GIVES MULTIPLE OPTIONS FOR PARKING.

WE HAVE HEARD BACK ABOUT SOME PARKING OPTIONS, SO I KNOW WE WILL BE WORKING VERY DILIGENTLY WITH THE COMMUNITY TO SELECT AN AREA THAT EVERYONE CAN KIND OF COMPROMISE ON.

IF THAT'S SOMETHING THAT'S REQUESTED WILDFLOWER AREAS, A COMBINATION OF PAVED TRAIL AND DECOMPOSED GRANITE TRAIL.

SO THAT WAS ONE OF THE THINGS MULTIPLE PEOPLE ASKED FOR PAVED MULTIPLE PEOPLE ASK FOR NATURAL, SO WE'LL DO A COMBINATION.

THIS ONE ONLY INCLUDES ONE RESTROOM.

IT'S A PREFAB.

THIS IS A SHADED PAVILION WITH A PICNIC AREA.

IT DOES CONNECT TO EXISTING.

IT DOES HAVE A BIG MAINTAINED OPEN SPACE AND A SMALL, NATURE THEMED INCLUSIVE PLAYGROUND.

AND SO ALL OF THOSE THINGS THAT I JUST STATED.

IN ADDITION, REFORESTATION IS A BIG THING.

SO CREATING A LANDSCAPE BUFFER BETWEEN THE HOMES AND THE PARK HAS BEEN REQUESTED.

WE WILL INCLUDE THAT IT'S A BIG, HEALTHY PORTION OF THE BUDGET.

THIS CONCEPT 2A INCLUDED THE WETLAND THAT WAS PART OF THE SURVEY IRRIGATION SHADE OVER THE PLAYGROUNDS, AND THIS ONLY HAS ONE RESTROOM.

SO THERE IS A PAVILION INCLUDED IN THIS CONCEPT AND THEN A SINGLE RESTROOM, AND THIS CAME IN AT TWO POINT NINE.

AND JUST TO BE COMPLETELY CLEAR, THESE CONCEPTS ARE NOT FINAL PROGRAMS. SO IF YOU SEE SOMETHING ON THIS LAYOUT, IT DOES NOT MEAN THAT IT WILL BE INCLUDED IN THE FINAL DESIGN.

IT'S JUST WHAT WE COULD FIT WITHIN THIS BUDGET.

2B.

IT SHOWS A SPLASH PAD, BUT IT'S JUST DESIGNATING AN AREA FOR IT.

IT'S NOT ACTUALLY INCLUDED IN THE BUDGET THAT WE'RE PRESENTING.

THIS HAS NATURAL PLAY AREAS.

THE BIG CHANGES IN THIS ONE IS IT INCLUDES A SPORTS COURT, IT INCLUDES THE

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FISHING POND, AND THEN IT HAS THE PREFABRICATED RESTROOM THAT'S CONNECTED TO A PAVILION AND A SEPARATE RESTROOM ON THE OPPOSITE SIDE OF THE PARK.

THIS IS 15 ACRES, SO IF YOU WERE IN THE BACK OF THE PARK, YOU PROBABLY WANT TO USE THE RESTROOM THERE IF YOU'RE IN THE FRONT OF THE PARK.

PROBABLY WANT TO USE THE RESTROOM THERE.

SO THIS DOES INCLUDE BOTH OF THOSE ITEMS BASED ON HOW WE DID THE FINAL PROGRAMING OF THE PARK.

AND THEN IT INCLUDES ALL OF THE ITEMS FROM THE FIRST CONCEPT.

JEN IS THE SPORT COURT CONCEPT BASED AROUND ONE TENNIS COURT THAT CAN BE PLAYED AS TWO PICKLEBALL COURTS OR HOW DOES THAT WORK? SO WE HAVE NOT SELECTED A SPORTS COURT.

IN THE OPEN ENDED COMMENTS THE MOST PREVALENT REQUESTS WERE HONESTLY SAND VOLLEYBALL OR BASKETBALL.

WE DIDN'T GET A LOT OF REQUESTS FOR TENNIS OR PICKLEBALL OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT, BUT WE WOULD USE A MULTI-USE COURT REGARDLESS OF THAT.

WE DON'T HAVE ANY SAND VOLLEYBALL IN OUR INVENTORY, IN ANY OF OUR PARKS RIGHT NOW.

SO BASED ON THE FEEDBACK, WE WOULD SUPPORT THAT OFF THE CUFF, BUT THAT WOULD BE ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE ASK FOR IN THE NEXT PHASE OF PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT.

THAT SPORT COURT ON THERE THAT COULD BE MOVED UP TO WHERE THE IN A DIFFERENT LOCATION LIKE WHERE THE SPLASH PAD IS.

YES SO IT'S A LITTLE CLOSER TO THE PARKING.

EXACTLY.

AND LIKE, THAT'S WHAT I'M SAYING.

THIS IS BASICALLY A BIG PUZZLE PIECE RIGHT NOW.

EXACTLY.

SO WE'RE JUST SHOWING YOU WHERE YOU CAN PLUG STUFF, BUT IT'LL ALL BE MOVED AND SHIFTED BASED ONCE WE GET A BUDGET SET AND WE ENTER INTO FINAL DESIGN, WE'LL WALK THAT PARK WITH THE COMMUNITY ONE HUNDRED TIMES UNTIL WE FEEL LIKE WE'VE GOT IT RIGHT.

SO THIS SECOND PHASE, THE CONCEPT 2B IT INCLUDES EVERYTHING THAT WE JUST DISCUSSED.

BOTH CONCEPTS DO INCLUDE PARKING LOTS AND RESTROOMS. JUST BASED ON THE SIZE OF THE PARK AND THE USES THAT WE'RE SEEING WITHIN IT.

THIS APPROXIMATE COST IS 3.69 MILLION.

WE DID TAKE THIS TO PARKS BOARD LAST THURSDAY, AND THEY DID UNANIMOUSLY RECOMMEND CONCEPT 2B IN THE AMOUNT OF 3697.

SO ONCE WE RECEIVE FEEDBACK THIS EVENING FROM COUNCIL, WE'LL BRING FORWARD A FINAL DESIGN CONTRACT.

AND THEN ONCE WE ENTER INTO FINAL DESIGN, WE WILL INCLUDE PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT FOR THE FINAL LAYOUT OF FEATURES, PLAYGROUND STYLES, PAVILION STYLES, PARKING LOCATIONS, LIGHTING, ETC.

AND THEN ONCE ALL OF THAT IS SCRUBBED, WE WILL PRESENT WE WILL BID OUT CONSTRUCTION AND WE'LL BRING THAT BACK TO YOU GUYS FOR AWARD.

SO A COUPLE OF QUESTIONS ON THE PARKING LOT FROM 2A TO 2B.

SAME AMOUNT OF.

IS IT JUST ONE PARKING LOT THAT WE'RE LOOKING AT? YES.

SO WE'RE LOOKING AT IDENTIFYING ONE AREA TO PUT PARKING.

WE'RE JUST SHOWING THE DIFFERENT AREAS WE'VE IDENTIFIED THAT IT COULD WORK.

YEAH, BECAUSE I NOTICED ON THE BOARD WITH THE POST-IT NOTES, A LOT OF PEOPLE WERE SAYING NO PARKING AT ALL.

AND I THINK WE WOULD BE DOING A DISSERVICE IF WE DIDN'T PROVIDE PARKING BECAUSE IF THEY STARTED PARKING ON THE STREETS IN FRONT OF THEIR HOMES, THEY WOULD BE FURIOUS.

OK, SO THE OTHER BIG DIFFERENCE BETWEEN 2A 2B IS THE POND VERSUS THE WETLAND.

POND VERSUS WETLAND.

IT'S A BIGGER PLAYGROUND.

IT DOES HAVE TWO RESTROOMS INSTEAD OF ONE.

THOSE ARE THE BIG COST DIFFERENTIALS IN BETWEEN THE CONCEPTS AND A SPORTS COURT.

I'M NERVOUS ABOUT THE RESTROOMS. I KNOW WAS IT, OUR LAST MEETING THAT WE TALKED ABOUT A CERTAIN COMMITTEE THAT PD HAS THAT I'M JUST WONDERING HOW I JUST FEEL LIKE THIS WOULD BE TUCKED AWAY AND I'M WORRIED ABOUT SAFETY OF PEOPLE HIDING IN THEM.

PEOPLE.

SO TECHNOLOGY HAS REALLY EVOLVED.

OUR RESTROOMS HAVE NOT QUITE YET, BUT THEY HAVE LOCKING MECHANISMS NOW THAT ARE ON A TIMER.

SO AT A CERTAIN TIME IN THE DAY, THE SENSORS GO OFF.

THEY MAKE SURE NO ONE'S IN THE RESTROOM AND THEN THEY'RE LOCKED.

WE KEEP THEM LIT.

WE CAN PUT CAMERAS ON THE OUTSIDE.

THERE'S WAYS FOR US TO CREATE A SAFE RESTROOM EXPERIENCE WITHOUT IT BEING A HAZARD.

I KNOW THERE'S RISK ASSOCIATED WITH IT, BUT IT'S A PRETTY STANDARD AMENITY IN A PARK THIS SIZE.

WE HAVE THEM AT MISTLETOE, AT CENTENNIAL, AT WARREN AND ALL OF OUR PARKS OF THIS SIZE.

BAILEY LAKE, CHISENHALL.

THERE'S RESTROOMS. AND I HAVE LITTLES AND SO WE ALWAYS INEVITABLY NEED TO POTTY AS SOON AS YOU GET SOMEWHERE.

SO I'M TORN ON THAT LIKE I WANT.

I CAN RELATE AND KNOW WE FREQUENT POTTY'S A LOT, BUT I'M JUST CONCERNED BECAUSE THIS IS KIND OF IT SITS BACK.

THE OTHER THING YOU SAID THIS, AND I JUST WANT TO REITERATE REFORESTATION.

SO MANY OF THE TREES WERE REMOVED FROM BACK THERE, AND I JUST WANT TO I THINK IT'LL KIND OF PLAY INTO THE NATURAL AND THE ATMOSPHERE OF THIS PARK IN ADDING ADDITIONAL TREES, BUT ALSO PROVIDING SOME PRIVACY AND SEPARATION.

BETWEEN THE EXISTING RESIDENTS.

THIS TRAFFIC WILL BE VERY NEW TO THEM, AND MY UNDERSTANDING IS ALL THE CONVERSATIONS UP TO THIS POINT WHERE IT WAS GOING TO BE A VERY NATURAL LOTS OF LIKE TRAILS, BUT MOVING PEOPLE AND NOT NECESSARILY PEOPLE PLAYING RIGHT BEHIND YOUR BACKYARD? SURE.

AND I THINK THAT'S GOING TO BE AN ADJUSTMENT TO THOSE LIVING ON.

IS THAT STILLWATER AND THE OTHER STREETS THAT BACK UP TO IT? ABSOLUTELY.

AND I THINK THAT'S THE BIG PICTURE THAT WE WANT TO MAKE SURE PEOPLE UNDERSTAND IS THE CONCEPT OF THE STAYING NATURAL IS STILL VERY PREVALENT, EVEN WITH THE DECOMPOSED GRANITE AND THE NATURE THEMED PLAYGROUNDS AND THE OPEN SPACE, YOU KNOW, OTHER THAN THE SPORTS COURT AND A BARRIER FREE PLAYGROUND THAT WE WILL ALSO THEME TO LOOK

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VERY NATURAL THIS SHOULD STILL FEEL LIKE A VERY NATURAL SPACE.

IT SHOULDN'T FEEL OVER PROGRAMED.

IT SHOULDN'T FEEL STUFFY OR CONGESTED WITH MULTIPLE USES.

IT'S BIG ENOUGH THAT WE CAN SPREAD THOSE OUT, AND IT'S STILL FEEL VERY NATURAL OUT THERE.

JEN, I WANT TO THANK YOU, FIRST OF ALL, FOR CHANGING THE PARADIGM.

I KNOW THIS PARK CREATED A WHOLE DIFFERENT CONCEPT OF PUTTING THE COMMUNITY FIRST AND ALLOWED THEM TO BE ON THE FRONT END BEING ABLE TO DECIDE WHAT THEY WANT.

THE PARKING IS I CAN KIND OF LIVING ON STILLWATER I CAN TELL YOU THE CONCERN OF THE ORIGINAL PARKING HAD TO DO WITH IT BEING AT THE END OF THE CUL DE SAC.

AND SO MANY PEOPLE DRIVE THROUGH THE NEIGHBORHOOD WITH ALL THE LITTLES PLAYING.

VERY SCARY CONCEPT.

SO I THINK THAT'S WHY YOU SAW NO PARKING.

AND THAT IS THE REASON I BROUGHT UP THE SPORT COURT OF MOVING IT OUT OF, SAY, THE CUL DE SAC BECAUSE THAT'S GOING TO CONGEST THE CUL DE SAC.

I REALLY DON'T THINK IT BELONGS THERE AND LIKE YOU SAID, WE CAN MOVE THAT.

SO I THANK YOU FOR PUTTING THE PARKING UP ON THE OTHER SIDE, WHICH WILL ALLOW BETTER FLOW OFF OF A MAJOR ROADWAY AND EVERYTHING.

SO THAT'S GOING TO TAKE CARE OF THAT PARKING ISSUE.

AND AGAIN, I JUST WANT TO SAY THANK YOU FOR CHANGING THE WAY OF DOING BUSINESS AND PUTTING THE CITIZENS FIRST, BECAUSE THIS LOOKS DIFFERENT.

YEAH, THIS IS DIFFERENT.

AND I THINK THAT THIS SPEAKS TRUER TO WHAT PEOPLE WERE REALLY WANTING FROM THAT FIRST TIME, I THINK THEY SAW SOME AMENITIES THAT WERE SCARY AND THEY WERE JUST PROPOSALS, BUT ABSOLUTELY HEARD THAT FEEDBACK.

AND I THINK THIS THIS REALLY IS WHAT EVERYONE IS REQUESTING, BOTH FROM THE SHANNON CREEK NEIGHBORHOOD AND FROM THE REST OF THE COMMUNITY.

PARKING IS GOING TO BE ONE OF THOSE THINGS WE HAVE TO ADDRESS WHEN WE GET THERE.

WHERE CAN WE PUT IT THAT KIND OF COMPROMISES AND MAKES THE NEIGHBORHOODS ALL FEEL SAFE, BUT ALSO PROVIDES ACCESS TO THIS PARK? CAN YOU REMIND US AND THE CITIZENS THE FUNDING MECHANISM FOR THIS, PLEASE? YES.

SO THIS IS FUNDED THROUGH 4B DEBT.

WE WILL ISSUE A CO BOND FOR THIS.

IT IS NOT FUNDED THROUGH OUR GENERAL FUND.

AND I THINK IT'S JUST IMPORTANT THAT THE NEIGHBORHOOD, YOU KNOW, ALBEIT IT'S IN THEIR NEIGHBORHOOD, THAT THE CONCERN IS THAT IT'S NOT JUST THEIR PARK, THIS IS A PUBLIC PARK.

SO THAT'S KIND OF IMPORTANT BECAUSE I DID JUST READ A COUPLE OF POST-IT NOTES THAT SAYS, CAN WE DO A SECRET ENTRANCE SO PEOPLE DON'T KNOW HOW TO GET IN? AND I THOUGHT, WELL, IT'S A PUBLIC PARK.

YEAH, AND WE DID.

WE RECEIVED A FEW COMMENTS ABOUT FENCING OFF THE WHOLE PARK OR, YOU KNOW, ONLY PROVIDING GATED ENTRANCE.

AND SO WE HEAR THAT.

BUT IT IS A PUBLIC PARK.

IT'S A PUBLIC PARK.

YEAH, IT'S NOT A NEIGHBORHOOD HOA PARK.

SO OK.

I JUST I DON'T KNOW.

WE HAVEN'T ACTUALLY NAMED THIS PARK, CORRECT? NO, IT'S UNDEVELOPED CURRENTLY.

SO IT'S CALLED SHANNON CREEK.

WE COULD CALL IT CANDLER PARK.

WE COULD CALL IT WHATEVER WE COULD DO A NAMING CONTEST AND WE'LL ACTUALLY BRING THAT DOG PARK VERSION OF THAT JUST THINKING THROUGH LIKE WHERE TAMARA WAS GOING.

AS FAR AS IF WE DON'T PROVIDE PARKING, PEOPLE WILL USE STREETS AND BLOCK DRIVEWAYS, AND THEY'RE GOING TO GO TO IT.

BUT I'M JUST CURIOUS.

I DON'T KNOW HOW WELL THIS WOULD BE RECEIVED AND I'M JUST THROWING IT OUT THERE.

IF IT'S TO ME, IF IT'S CALLED SHANNON CREEK, IT'S IMPLIED THAT THE PARKING IS IN THROUGH SHANNON CREEK OR YOU ACCESS IT ONLY THROUGH THAT NEIGHBORHOOD IF IT'S NAMED SOMETHING LIKE CANDLER PARK DOES, WHERE LET'S SAY PARKING ENDS UP OPTION B AND WE NAME IT CANDLER PARK, THEN THAT GIVES THE PERCEPTION THAT THE PART THAT HOW YOU ENTER IT, WHERE THE PARKING IS, IS OFF OF CANDLER.

AND THEN LET'S SAY IF IT'S PARKING OPTION, I'M JUST THROWING JUST SOME IDEAS BECAUSE IN MY HEAD, LIKE IF I SAY I'M GOING TO SHANNON CREEK PARK, WELL, I'M GOING TO GO THROUGH SHANNON CREEK DEVELOPMENT TO GET THERE.

THAT WOULD JUST BE MY THINKING.

LIKE WAKEFIELD OR SOMETHING.

WAKEFIELD.

YEAH, I KNOW I GO TO OAK VALLEY TO ACCESS THAT.

PRAIRIE TIMBERS.

IF IT WERE TECHNICALLY NOT IN OAK VALLEY AND IT SAT ON HIDDEN CREEK INSTEAD, YOU KNOW, AND IT WERE CALLED HIDDEN CREEK PARK AND THEN I WOULD THINK I'D ACCESS THAT THROUGH HIDDEN CREEK.

I THINK THAT'S VALID, AND THAT'S A GOOD IDEA.

AND WHAT DID YOU TELL ME? BRYAN THE OTHER DAY IT'S LIKE 4000 HOMES AROUND THE OTHER SIDE OF THAT TOO AS WELL.

YEAH, I THINK IT WAS 4000 HOMES WITHIN A MILE RADIUS.

WITHIN A MILE RADIUS.

OUT THERE.

BUT YEAH, WITHIN A ONE MILE RADIUS, WE MAILED LIKE FORTY ONE HUNDRED POSTCARDS WHEN WE DID THE TOWN HALL.

YEAH, THAT'S BIG.

SO OTHER THING I WOULD LIKE US TO BE EXTREMELY CAUTIOUS ON BECAUSE I'VE WALKED THIS PROPERTY MOSTLY ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF WHAT WE'RE LOOKING AT HERE, WHERE THE BIG OPEN GREEN SPACE IS, IS THE DRAINAGE AND REALLY GETTING THIS PARK DONE CORRECTLY BECAUSE OBVIOUSLY WE'RE GOING BACK TO TWO DIFFERENT PARKS RIGHT NOW AND HAVING TO REDO DRAINAGE AND FIX WHERE THE FLOODING IS OVER THE WALKWAYS.

AND THIS IS ALREADY PRETTY MARSHY.

YOU KNOW, IT'S ALREADY PRETTY WET WHEN YOU'RE OUT THERE, EVEN THAT GREEN SPACE.

SO I WOULD, YOU KNOW, IF WE HAD TO GIVE A LITTLE ON SOMETHING TO BE ABLE TO GET BETTER ON THAT.

BECAUSE THAT WE CAN ALWAYS BUY MORE STRUCTURES ABOVE THE LAND, BUT PREPPING THE LAND BELOW AND MAKING SURE THAT WE DON'T HAVE TO GO BACK AND THEN REDIG

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THINGS UP, THERE'S ALWAYS SO MUCH MORE COST INVOLVED IN THAT.

SO FOR ME, I'M UBER CAUTIOUS ON MAKING SURE WE GET GRADING AND DRAINAGE PROPER ON THIS, SO WE'RE NOT HAVING TO DIG BACK UP EVEN FIVE OR 10 YEARS FROM NOW.

WELL, IT'S NOT A FORMAL APPROVAL, IT'S JUST FEEDBACK, I JUST NEED GUIDANCE ON WHICH BUDGET YOU GUYS WOULD LIKE ME TO PROCEED WITH.

SO YOU READY, I'M READY.

I WILL BE BRINGING THE CIP TO YOU NEXT WEEK, SO I'LL PUT THIS BUDGET INTO THAT CONFIGURATION.

OK, WELL, SOME OF THE THINGS I WANT TO TALK TO YOU ABOUT, WE BUILD THIS AND I'M FINE WITH IT.

GREAT JOB, BUT YOU NEED TO LOOK AT MAINTENANCE ON THIS.

YOU KNOW, YOU BUILD IT ONE THING, THEN YOU'LL SPEND MORE THAN WHAT YOU PAID FOR IT, TAKING CARE OF IT.

YOU'VE GOT SOME GRANITE THOSE ARE LOOSE GRANULES, AREN'T THEY IN THE WALKWAYS? THE DG YES, SIR.

YOU KNOW, THEY DON'T STAY IN THE PATH.

YOU KNOW, THEY GET WE'LL DO A BORDER.

WE'LL PROBABLY DO A CONCRETE MO-STRIP BORDER JUST TO ENSURE THAT IT STAYS AND THEN WE'LL INLAY IT.

BUT WE'LL LOSE A LITTLE BIT OF IT.

WHAT'S WRONG WITH JUST GOING WITH CONCRETE ON THAT? I MEAN, I KNOW THAT AESTHETICALLY IT'S NICE.

WELL, WE GOT TO LOOK AT LONG TERM, OK? AND MAINTENANCE THE WETLANDS.

YOU GOT MOSQUITOES, AND I DON'T KNOW HOW TO DEAL WITH THAT.

WELL, I DO.

BUT IF YOU WANT THE WETLANDS IF IT'S A TRUE WETLAND THAT SHOULDN'T HAVE MOSQUITOES BECAUSE MOSQUITOES ONLY DO WHERE IT'S STAGNANT [INAUDIBLE] WETLANDS SHOULD BE MOVING.

BUT IF YOU MESS IT UP, WE'LL TOTALLY GET MOSQUITOES.

SO HOW DO YOU MOVE THE WATER IS YOUR.

DO YOU HAVE A PUMP? FLOWING, AS WELL AS THE VEGETATION WITHIN.

OK, SO WHAT'S THE MAINTENANCE ON THAT KIND OF THING? IF IT'S BUILT PROPERLY IS THE SAME AS THE POND.

IT WON'T BE THAT MUCH DIFFERENCE.

AND IT'S SEASONAL HERE.

WE WOULDN'T HAVE A YEAR ROUND WETLAND SOME PORTIONS OF THE YEAR WHEN WE'RE NOT GETTING A LOT OF RAINFALL, IT'LL DRY OUT.

AND THEN WHEN WE START GETTING INTO A WET SEASON, IT'LL FILL BACK UP.

I WANT YOU TO GIVE SHANNON CREEK EVERYTHING THEY WANT.

YOU KNOW THAT AND IT IS NOT.

IT IS TIED TO THE MONEY A LITTLE BIT I LIKE FOR YOU TO GET UNDER THREE MILLION.

IF IT DOESN'T HAPPEN, IT DOESN'T HAPPEN.

BUT THEN AGAIN, DON'T MAKE THIS SOME LITTLE PARK THAT'S DELICATE.

YOU KNOW, YOU PUT ALL THE LITTLE FLOWERS HERE AND ALL THE LITTLE FLOWERS THERE.

IT'S REALLY GREAT.

BUT SOMEONE'S GOT TO TAKE CARE OF THOSE LITTLE FLOWERS.

OK, SO LONG TERM, TRY TO GET IT UNDER THREE.

AND TAKE IT EASY ON THE MAINTENANCE.

OKIE DOK.

GOOD JOB.

I THINK IN GOING WITH THE NATURAL THEME, IT'S PLANTING LOTS OF NATURAL GRASS, NATURAL FLOWERS.

IT'S A LOT OF SEEDING UP FRONT.

STUFF THAT COMES BACK EVERY YEAR THAT DOESN'T REQUIRE A LOT OF FROU FROU.

YES.

AND I THINK JUST IN GENERAL, PEOPLE ARE MOVING.

EVEN AT MY OWN HOUSE, I'VE MOVED TOWARD THINGS THAT I DON'T HAVE TO PLAN EVERY YEAR.

SO I MEAN, AND IT SAVES ON A LOT OF ENDS, I'M SURE TO JUST PLANT THINGS THAT ARE GOING TO BE SELF MAINTAINING.

UNDER CONSIDERATION.

I'D LIKE TO KIND OF MEET IN THE MIDDLE BETWEEN THESE AND GO FOR THREE.

I TOO AGREE.

MY CONCERN WITH GOING WITH A THREE POINT SIX IS THAT IT'S GOING TO GO HIGHER.

IT'S GOING TO GO HIGHER BECAUSE OF THE PRICE OF MATERIALS.

AND IT JUST SEEMS TO BE THE WAY WE'VE BEEN TRENDING IN THE LAST YEAR SINCE I'VE BEEN HERE OF WE SET A BUDGET AND THEN, WELL, IT'S GOING TO GO A HUNDRED AND FIFTY TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND ABOVE.

AND SO WE NEED TO GO LOWER SO THAT WE HAVE A LITTLE BIT OF WIGGLE ROOM AND I DON'T MEAN LIKE $600,000 WORTH OF WIGGLE ROOM, BUT I REALIZE THAT MEANS SOME THINGS, YOU KNOW, WOULD HAVE TO GO OR WE REDUCE THE SIZE OF SOMETHING AND WE CAN ALWAYS ADD ON MORE.

WE CAN DO THAT IN PHASES IF NEED BE.

AND I THINK THAT'S PART OF WHAT WE'LL BRING YOU WITH THE CIP AS WELL IS WE'LL SHOW YOU, YOU KNOW, IF WE WERE TO APPROVE THIS AT THIS FULL BUDGET, THESE ARE THINGS WE CAN SHIFT IN THE CIP TO BE ABLE TO ACHIEVE BOTH OR WE CAN PHASE THIS OUT AS WELL.

MOST LIKELY, THIS WILL BE IN DESIGN ALL OF THIS YEAR BASED ON HOW HEAVY OUR PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT WILL BE FOR IT.

SO IT'LL BE SPREAD OUT OVER MULTIPLE YEARS AS WE ISSUE THE DEBT.

THE OTHER THING WITH IT WOULD BE IS IF YOU GUYS CHOOSE TO SET A BUDGET OF THREE THIS EVENING, THEN WE'LL BRING YOU A MENU ONCE WE GET INTO DESIGN OF WHAT THINGS COST AND SHOW YOU, YOU KNOW, THIS IS WHAT WE WOULD POTENTIALLY NEED TO CUT TO GET IT TO THAT NUMBER.

JEN FROM AN ENGINEERING STANDPOINT, HOW DO WE DEAL WITH THE FACT THAT THE ENTIRE AREA IS IN THE 100 YEAR FLOODPLAIN, DO WE ELEVATE THE STRUCTURES ABOVE THE FLOODPLAIN LEVEL, LIKE THE RESTROOMS PLAY AREAS.

SO THOSE WE WOULD NEED TO ELEVATE AND THEN WE WOULD NEED TO NET ZERO ON OUR GRADING.

SO WHATEVER WE MOVE, WE GOT TO PUT BACK SOMEWHERE ELSE.

SO AS LONG AS OUR GRADING STAYS THE SAME, THE POND WILL HELP WITH A LOT OF THAT.

THAT'S REALLY WHERE WE'RE HOPING TO DIRECT A LOT OF THE DRAINAGE.

OK, I'M JUST CURIOUS HOW THAT WOULD WORK.

I KNOW WE HAVE BAILEY LAKE, WHICH IS FLOOD PLAIN AS WELL, BUT THE STRUCTURES AND EVERYTHING

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EVERYTHING HAVE TO BE ELEVATED OUT OF THAT.

YES, SIR.

I WANT TO THANK YOU FOR DOING THIS THE WAY YOU DID CRITIQUE IT.

IMPROVE IT SO WE CAN GO TO THE NEXT ONE THE SAME WAY.

DO YOU LIKE THE WAY IT WORKED OUT THIS TIME? YEAH, I THINK THIS ALLOWS BOTH THE COMMUNITY AND STAFF TO FEEL LIKE WHATEVER WE'RE PRESENTING TO THE BOARD AND TO COUNCIL THAT YOU GUYS ARE GETTING THE TRUE FEEL OF WHAT PROFESSIONALLY WE FEEL CAN FIT IN THE PARK AND WHAT THE COMMUNITY IS REQUESTING.

IT'S A GOOD COMBINATION.

IT'S A BALANCED APPROACH.

WHAT I LIKE ABOUT IT, IT COMES TO COUNCIL FEWER TIMES AND WE GET STUFF DONE.

WE GOT A LOT OF PARKS PROJECTS.

WE'VE GOT TO GET DONE.

WHICH BUDGET? [LAUGHTER] I'M GOING TO SPEAK FOR THE FULL CONCEPT.

SO THANK YOU, JEN.

YES, SIR.

I DON'T KNOW WHETHER ANY OF THESE NUMBERS ARE LIKELY TO BE REAL OR NOT, I MEAN, BY THE TIME WE GET AROUND TO ACTUALLY DRIVING NAILS AND HAULING CONCRETE, I DON'T KNOW WHETHER THAT'S GOING TO BE REACHABLE OR NOT, BUT I LIKE THE FACT THAT WE ARE LOOKING AT THE FULL AMOUNT AND I WOULD SUPPORT THE PARK BOARD'S RECOMMENDATION ON THAT.

I AGREE WITH DAN ON THAT.

I THINK THE FULL AMOUNT OF MOVING FORWARD AND, YOU KNOW, WITH THE MENU, WE CAN DEFINITELY WITH THAT MENU GO AT THE TAIL END OF THIS.

FIGURE OUT WHAT WE CAN STRIKE, NOT STRIKE TO GET WHERE WE'RE AT A COMFORTABLE NUMBER.

BUT I THINK FULL I THINK THE FULL IS WHERE WE NEED TO GO TO START WITH.

WE GOT A WINNER.

OK MAYOR AND COUNCIL THAT'S GOING TO BRING US TO ITEM 8B.

THANK YOU ALL.

[B. Receive a report and hold a discussion on diversity and inclusion program discussed at the July 12, 2021, special council meeting. (Presenters: Victoria Johnson, Council Place 1 and Tamara Payne, Council Place 4)]

JEN IF YOU COULD PULL UP THEIR PRESENTATION, PLEASE AND START IT AS A SLIDESHOW.

THIS IS RECEIVE A REPORT.

HOLD A DISCUSSION ON DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION PROGRAM DISCUSSED AT THE JULY 12, 2021 SPECIAL COUNCIL MEETING.

TONIGHT'S PRESENTERS ARE VICTORIA JOHNSON COUNCIL PLACE ONE AND TAMARA PAYNE, COUNCIL PLACE FOUR, AND JAMES IS PULLING UP YOUR PRESENTATION FOR YOU.

GOOD EVENING, MAYOR AND FELLOW COUNCIL MEMBERS, STAFF, TODAY WE'RE GOING TO TALK ABOUT WHAT WAS BROUGHT TO YOU SEVERAL MONTHS AGO, FIRST BY MYSELF AND THEN BY MY COLLEAGUE COUNCIL MEMBER VICTORIA JOHNSON, WHERE WE HAD ASKED TO EXPLORE OPTIONS FOR INVOLVING ALL COMMUNITY MEMBERS IN A CITY PROCESSES AND EVENTS.

WE INITIALLY CALLED IT DIVERSITY INCLUSION, AND WE TALKED ABOUT IN A JULY 12TH WORK SESSION.

AND DURING THAT DISCUSSION, WE HAD ALL TALKED ABOUT REPURPOSING THE ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES BOARD TO SERVE A MORE BROAD AUDIENCE AND ALSO PASSING A RESOLUTION TO ENCOURAGE DIVERSITY INCLUSION AND ALSO TO ENCOURAGE CITY DEPARTMENTS TO PLEDGE TO INCORPORATE THESE IDEAS INTO THEIR PROGRAMS. ON AUGUST 16TH, THIS WAS BROUGHT FORWARD TO US ACTUALLY AS A VOTE, AND I HAD REQUESTED AFTER CONCURRING WITH MY COLLEAGUE TO TABLE THIS DISCUSSION ON REPURPOSING THE ADA COMMITTEE TO EVALUATE SOME OTHER OPTIONS.

THIS WAS BASED ON FEEDBACK AND FROM THE COMMUNITY AND OUR EXPLORATION AS WELL OF UNDERSTANDING THAT THE ADA COMMITTEE ACTUALLY HAS A VERY SPECIFIC CHARGE AND PURPOSE.

AND WE WANTED TO KEEP TO THE ORIGINAL CHARGE AND PURPOSE OF THE ADA COMMITTEE AND HONOR THE PEOPLE WHO ARE ON THAT COMMITTEE AND THE PURPOSE OF WHICH THEY WERE DOING.

SO ON OCTOBER 13TH MYSELF AND COUNCIL MEMBER JOHNSON MET WITH CITY STAFF TO FURTHER DISCUSS THE OPTIONS FOR A NEW TYPE OF CITY COMMITTEE TO PRESENT TO THE CITY COUNCIL.

SO WHEN DISCUSSING WHAT THIS COMMITTEE WOULD LOOK LIKE, WE JUST WE BOTH CAME TO THE TABLE WITH IDEAS AND WE DISCUSSED A NUMBER OF THESE DURING THE WORK SESSION AND IT'S ABOUT INVOLVING THE GREATER COMMUNITY AND HELPING PEOPLE FEEL LIKE THEY BELONG.

AND I'VE MENTIONED SEVERAL EXAMPLES OF, YOU KNOW, WHEN SOMEONE, IF YOU'RE PASSIONATE ABOUT THE PARKS BOARD, YOU'RE GOING TO APPROACH A PARK BOARD MEMBER ABOUT AN IDEA OR AN ISSUE THAT YOU'RE HAVING OR YOU'RE WANTING TO SEE SOMETHING NEW IN A PARK.

YOU'RE GOING TO GO TO A PARK BOARD MEMBER BECAUSE YOU HAVE LIKE YOU SHARE IN THAT PASSION OR YOU SHARE IN THOSE INTEREST.

AND I FEEL AS THOUGH IF PEOPLE HAVE THE SAME INTEREST AND THEY'RE SERVING

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ON A COMMITTEE TOGETHER, YOU'RE GOING TO KNOW WHO TO APPROACH WITH AN IDEA OR A SHARED CONCEPT OR SOMETHING THAT CAN BE TACKLED.

THAT HASN'T BEEN YET.

AND SO WE JUST TRULY FELT LIKE WE WANT TO CREATE A SPACE WHERE PEOPLE OF ALL DIFFERENT BACKGROUNDS, ETHNICITIES, PASSIONS CAN COME TOGETHER AND BRING US AS A CITY TO SHARE IN WHAT'S DIFFERENT AND UNIQUE AND BEAUTIFUL ABOUT ALL OF US.

AND SO WE CAME UP WITH THIS IDEA OF BETTER TOGETHER.

AND I FOUND A QUOTE FROM HELEN KELLER, AND SHE SAID ALONE, WE CAN DO SO LITTLE.

TOGETHER WE CAN DO SO MUCH.

AND I JUST FELT LIKE OR WE FELT WITH AN OPEN FORUM FOR PEOPLE TO SHARE PASSION AND USE THEIR PASSION TO INSPIRE OTHERS.

WE ALL COME FROM DIFFERENT BACKGROUNDS AND DIFFERENT EXPERIENCES.

WE CAN LEARN FROM EACH OTHER AND WORK TOGETHER TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN THE LIVES OF OTHERS.

AND BY CREATING THIS COMMITTEE, I BELIEVE THAT WE'RE COMMITTING TO HAVING CONVERSATIONS, FINDING SOLUTIONS, SHARING COMPASSION AND LIFTING EACH OTHER UP.

THE PROPOSED MISSION IN CHARGE IS TO GROW, NURTURE AND SUSTAIN THE COMMUNITY BY CELEBRATING AND EMBRACING A-HA.

SORRY, OUR PRETTY PICTURE.

I FORGOT THE MOSAIC OF LIVED EXPERIENCES AND VARIED PERSPECTIVES OF ALL BURLESON CITIZENS.

LIKE THIS IMAGE HERE THAT CAME TOGETHER, THEY'RE SQUARES OF ALL DIFFERENT COLORS.

AND, WELL, THEY'RE NOT EVEN ALL SQUARES, THEY'RE ALL DIFFERENT SHAPES AND COLORS.

AND BUT TOGETHER THEY CREATE THIS BEAUTIFUL IMAGE.

AND THAT'S WHAT'S FUN ABOUT OUR COMMUNITY IS WE ALL HAVE.

WE'RE JUST THIS BIG MOSAIC.

WE'RE BEAUTIFUL AND WE'RE UNIQUE AND WE'RE DIFFERENT AND WE ALL COME TOGETHER AND WE CAN SHARE AND CELEBRATE AND EDUCATE AND THERE'S SO MUCH THAT WE COULD BE DOING TO INSPIRE OTHERS AND HELP PEOPLE FEEL A SENSE OF BELONGING IN THIS COMMUNITY.

AND PERSONALLY, I JUST BELIEVE IF PEOPLE FEEL LIKE THEY BELONG, THEY'RE GOING TO TAKE A SENSE OF OWNERSHIP.

AND IF YOU HAVE A SENSE OF OWNERSHIP, YOU'RE GOING TO TAKE CARE OF SOMETHING THAT'S IMPORTANT TO YOU.

THEY'RE GOING TO GET INVOLVED.

MAYOR, YOU SPEAK OF THIS A LOT WHEN YOU SAY YOU WANT PEOPLE PARTICIPATING ON COMMITTEES AND BOARDS AND COMING TO MEETINGS, WELL, IF THEY FEEL LIKE THEY HAVE OWNERSHIP IN SOMETHING.

THEY'RE GOING TO TAKE BETTER CARE OF IT, VOICE THEIR OPINIONS AND GET INVOLVED, AND IT REALLY TAKES ALL OF US TO MAKE A COMMUNITY.

AND AS MUCH AS WE HEAR ABOUT HOW FAST WE'RE GROWING, THE WAY WE'RE GOING TO KEEP THAT SMALL TOWN FEEL IS BY CONNECTING WITH EACH OTHER, GETTING TO KNOW OUR NEIGHBORS AND AND HAVING COMPASSION AND SHARING COMPASSION AND LIFTING EACH OTHER UP.

THE CHARGE THAT WE SEE FOR THIS NEW PROPOSED COMMITTEE IS TO ACTIVELY LOOK FOR AVENUES TO CREATE OPPORTUNITIES TO ENGAGE WITH OUR COMMUNITY AND PROMOTE VARIED PERSPECTIVES AND LIVED EXPERIENCES WITH MEASURABLE OUTCOMES TO FULFILL OUR MISSION.

SO THINGS THAT WE'VE TALKED ABOUT, YOU KNOW, MAYBE IT'S COMING TO COUNCIL, FOR EXAMPLE, MYSELF AND COUNCIL MEMBER PAYNE AND OTHERS HAVE BROUGHT UP DIFFERENT AWARENESS AND NATIONAL.

SO NOVEMBER 1ST, WHAT MARKED THE NATIONAL NATIVE AMERICAN HERITAGE MONTH.

AND THAT, FOR EXAMPLE, COULD HAVE BEEN BROUGHT FORWARD BY THIS COMMITTEE? AND MAYBE THEY GIVE US A FACT OR TWO ABOUT THE MONTH OR HOW IT WAS ESTABLISHED OR SOMETHING THAT OUR COMMUNITY IS DOING.

THE LAST MONTH OR BETWEEN SEPTEMBER AND OCTOBER, WHEN IT WAS HISPANIC HERITAGE MONTH, OUR LIBRARY HAD PULLED TOGETHER RESOURCES AND THEY WERE DOING DIFFERENT ACTIVITIES, AND I MENTIONED THOSE IN A COUNCIL MEETING.

AND SO THIS COMMITTEE COULD PROMOTE THOSE THAT ALREADY EXIST IN OUR COMMUNITY AND FIND NEW OPPORTUNITIES TO HIGHLIGHT OTHER THINGS.

THERE'S I'M CONTINUOUSLY LEARNING ABOUT ART, FASHION, MUSIC, POETRY, LITERATURE, THINGS THAT COME FROM ALL DIFFERENT CULTURES AND BACKGROUNDS AND PERSPECTIVES.

AND IT'S HERE AND WE'RE JUST CREATING THE SPACE TO HIGHLIGHT IT.

SO THIS IS SOME EXAMPLES CELEBRATING BURLESON.

THERE ARE THINGS THAT WE HAVE ALREADY DONE THERE.

WE USED TO HAVE A VERY A WONDERFULLY ATTENDED AND PARTICIPATED IN CINCO DE MAYO FESTIVAL.

AND I PERSONALLY MISS THAT A LOT BECAUSE THE FOOD WAS AMAZING.

IN THIS LAST FOUNDER'S DAY.

RONNIE, I BELIEVE YOU TALKED ABOUT THE GENTLEMAN THAT NATIVE AMERICAN WITH THE TEEPEE AND EDUCATIONAL INFORMATION THAT HE HAD, AND YOU WERE REALLY ENTHRALLED BY THE STUFF THAT HE SHARED.

THERE HAVE BEEN ART EVENTS IN OLD TOWN WALKING, AND THERE HAVE BEEN BEAUTIFUL PIECES OF ART CREATED BY PEOPLE FROM ALL OVER THIS COMMUNITY WITH DIFFERENT

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BACKGROUNDS.

AND THERE'S JUST SO MUCH THAT WE CAN LEARN FROM EACH OTHER AND HIGHLIGHT WHAT'S BEAUTIFUL.

AND THERE'S A SPECIAL LADY HERE TONIGHT.

MS. LILLIANN NUNLEY.

SHE IS MS. BURLESON'S TEEN, AND I INVITED HER TO TONIGHT'S MEETING AND TOLD HER THAT WE'D BE TALKING ABOUT THIS.

I HAD THE GREAT PLEASURE OF MEETING HER AT RUSSELL FARM AND AND SHE IS TAKING ON DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION AS A CHARGE FOR HER POSITION.

AND SO THERE ARE SO MANY UNIQUE AND DIFFERENT THINGS GOING ON ALREADY IN OUR COMMUNITY, AND WE JUST WANT TO HAVE THE SPACE TO HAVE THAT CONVERSATION.

AND I THINK YOU'RE GOING TO SPEAK TO US IN JUST A MINUTE.

YOU HAVE SOME REMARKS FOR US.

THANK YOU SO MUCH.

NO WE'LL FINISH THIS AND THEN.

SO IF YOU GUYS WILL NOTICE SOMETHING THAT WAS SAID, A LOT IS CELEBRATING, RIGHT? YES, WE WILL BE HAVING CONVERSATIONS AND SOMETIMES THEY MAY BE DIFFICULT CONVERSATIONS, BUT WE REALLY WANT TO CELEBRATE OUR COMMUNITY AND THE DIFFERENCES AND THE THINGS WE ACTUALLY HAVE MORE LIKE THAN NOT.

AND SO WHAT WE SEE AS THE PILLARS OF SUCCESS FOR THIS COMMITTEE MOVING FORWARD IS TO COLLABORATE WITH THE CITY'S VARIED COMMUNITY GROUPS AND ORGANIZATIONS TO STRENGTHEN THE COMMUNITY CONNECTION.

SO THERE ALREADY ARE A LOT OF GREAT GROUPS OUT THERE THAT DO A LOT OF DIFFERENT THINGS, I.E. WE'RE NOT LOOKING AT BEING THE FOUNDERS DAY OR TAKING OVER THINGS THAT ALREADY EXIST, BUT WE'RE LOOKING AT SAYING, HEY, HOW DO WE WORK WITH THEM? HOW DOES THIS COMMITTEE COLLABORATE WITH THEM TO CREATE MORE COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS AND STRENGTHEN OUR COMMUNITY AS A WHOLE? AND THEN WE WANT TO FOSTER A SENSE OF UNITY, ACCEPTANCE AND BELONGING THROUGH INTERACTION, APPRECIATION AND ACKNOWLEDGMENT WITH ALL CITIZENS.

SO AS WE NOTED, THE APPRECIATION COUNCIL MEMBER JOHNSON ALREADY STATED.

YOU KNOW, I'M BIG ON WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH AND HELPING WOMEN TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS, SO THAT COULD BE A CHARGE THAT THE COMMITTEE COULD LOOK INTO.

AND WHAT COULD THEY DO TO ACTUALLY BE A PART OF THAT AND BRING THAT FORWARD WITHIN OUR COMMUNITY TO CELEBRATE THE WOMEN ENTREPRENEURS THAT WE HAVE IN OUR CITY? THAT'S WHAT THIS COMMITTEE COULD DO.

IT'S ABOUT CELEBRATING AND BRINGING US ALL TOGETHER.

AND THEN FINALLY, WHICH WE FEEL IS CRITICAL TO ANY COMMITTEE IS ESTABLISHING GOALS, OPPORTUNITIES AND MEASURABLE OUTCOMES TO FULFILL THE MISSION.

IF WE DON'T SET FORTH SOME SORT OF OUTCOMES, THEN THEY'RE JUST KIND OF A COMMITTEE OUT THERE WITH NOT KNOWING WHAT THEY'RE SHOOTING FOR.

SO WE ACTUALLY WANT TO HAVE SOME OUTCOMES AND SOME THINGS THAT THEY CAN COME BACK AND REPORT TO US AS A COUNCIL AND TELL US WHAT'S HAPPENING, THIS IS WHAT WE FOUND.

WE DON'T WANT THEM KIND OF FLOATING IN THE WIND WITHOUT, OH, WE'LL MEET WHENEVER WE WANT THEM TO HAVE REGULAR MEETING DATES, WE WANT THEM TO FEEL A PART OF THIS COMMUNITY AND THAT THEY ARE LENDING A VOICE FOR THE REST OF THE CITIZENS OUT THERE.

SO MOVING FORWARD, BASICALLY, WE BELIEVE THAT THE COUNCIL DEVELOPS THE COMMITTEE STRUCTURE IF YOU GUYS APPROVE TO MOVE FORWARD WITH THIS.

THAT WOULD BE A RESOLUTION ESTABLISHING A NEW COMMITTEE AND WE WOULD APPOINT THE MEMBERS.

AND THEN THE COMMITTEE CREATES THE PILLARS OF SUCCESS TO SUPPORT THE CHARGE.

AND THEN THE SUBCOMMITTEES TO PROMOTE AND SUPPORT EACH PILLAR.

SO WE'VE KIND OF LOOKED AT THIS LIKE WE GAVE YOU A LITTLE IDEA WITH SHOWING YOU THE PILLARS.

BUT AS WE WERE WORKING ON THE MISSION AND THE CHARGE, WE'D COME UP WITH A LOT OF DIFFERENT STATEMENTS THAT COULD HAVE BEEN THE MISSION OR THE CHARGE.

AND WHAT WE REALIZED WAS THESE WERE THE MAIN ONES THAT WE DEVELOPED THE MISSION IN CHARGE FROM.

AND THEN THERE WERE A LOT OF THEM THAT ACTUALLY SUPPORTED HOW DO WE GET THAT DONE.

SO THE PILLARS ARE ACTUALLY LIKE THE LITTLE PIECES OF IT, AND THEN WE BELIEVE THOSE WOULD BE SUBCOMMITTEES.

OF COURSE, THE COMMITTEE COULD GET TOGETHER AND GO, YEAH, WE KIND OF SEE IT MOVING THIS WAY AS WELL.

WE'RE NOT GOING TO HAVE OUR FINGER OVER THE WHOLE THING AND SAY, YOU CAN'T DO THAT, AND THEN THE COMMITTEE WILL BEGIN TO BE WORKING IN THE COMMUNITY AND REPORTING BACK TO COUNCIL, MOST IMPORTANTLY, ESTABLISHING COUNCIL MEETING REPORT DATES SO THAT WE HEAR FROM THEM AND WE KNOW WHAT THEY'RE DOING.

OVERALL, THIS COMES DOWN TO ONE THING IS THAT BURLESON IS BETTER TOGETHER AND WE HOPE BY OUR COLLABORATION HERE TOGETHER IN BRINGING THIS FORWARD TO YOU GUYS THAT YOU WOULD SEE THAT OUR GOAL IS ONLY TO HELP UNITE OUR COMMUNITY AND TO CELEBRATE THE MOSAIC OF LIVED EXPERIENCES.

THAT'S GENERATIONAL.

THAT'S CULTURAL, THAT'S MALE, FEMALE IT ENGAGES A WHOLE LOT OF ASPECTS TO THIS.

SO THANK YOU.

AND IF WE WANT TO HEAR FROM OH, GOOD EVENING, MAYOR AND LADIES AND GENTLEMEN OF THE COUNCIL.

I AM LILLIANN NUNLEY I AM MS. BURLESON'S OUTSTANDING TEEN 2022.

AND SO THIS YEAR I WILL BE REPRESENTING BURLESON AND MISS TEXAS.

AND IN THE MISS AMERICA ORGANIZATION, EACH CANDIDATE HAS TO PICK A SOCIAL IMPACT INITIATIVE AND MINE WAS DIVERSITY, EQUITY AND INCLUSION.

AND I CHOSE THIS BECAUSE IT HAS MADE ME WHO I AM TODAY.

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AS A BIRACIAL INDIVIDUAL.

I'M A WOMAN, I'M AN ART STUDENT, I'M A FOUR SPORT ATHLETE AND I AM ONE OF 10 SIBLINGS.

AND IN MY FAMILY, DIVERSITY IS HIGHLIGHTED EVERY DAY.

MY OLDEST SISTER IS AN AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMAN, A MOTHER AND THE FIRST TO GRADUATE FROM COLLEGE OUT OF ALL 10 OF OUR SIBLINGS.

MY BROTHER IS A MARINE.

MY SISTER IS A PART OF THE LGBTQIA PLUS COMMUNITY, AND THESE ARE JUST THREE EXAMPLES OF HOW DIVERSE MY FAMILY IS.

AND SOME PEOPLE MIGHT THINK THIS IS WHERE OUR HEADS START BUTTING AND PEOPLE START TO DISAGREE.

BUT THIS HAS ONLY MADE OUR BOND STRONGER AND MADE OUR FAMILY STRONGER.

I WOULD LIKE YOU GUYS TO CONSIDER THIS COUNCIL BECAUSE IT IS SO GREAT WHEN WE START EMBRACING EACH OTHER'S DIFFERENCES, AND I THINK IT'LL HELP BRIDGE MEMBERS OF SOCIETY AND BRING PEOPLE TOGETHER.

WELL, DO YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS? [LAUGHTER] WE HAD NO IDEA WHAT TO EXPECT, SO YOU'VE GOT TO GIVE US A MINUTE, OKAY? NO I THINK IT'S GREAT.

IT'S PHENOMENAL.

IT GAVE ME CHILLS.

I FORGOT TO SAY, JUST SO YOU KNOW, I DID TELL BRYAN THAT WE WERE GOING TO BE IN COSTUMES, AND HE LEGIT LOOKED AT ME AND SAID, REALLY.

AND I SAID NO.

THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN FUNNY.

[LAUGHTER] THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN GOOD.

HEADDRESS.

ANYBODY.

I'M CURIOUS.

I DON'T UNDERSTAND HOW IT WORKS.

I KNOW YOU ALL JUST WENT THE WHOLE PRESENTATION.

I'M SORRY.

BUT, YOU KNOW, TRYING TO UNDERSTAND, ARE YOU ALL GOING TO BE? I KNOW LIKE FOUNDERS DAY IS THIS LIKE COMMUNICATING WHAT WE HAVE GOING ON.

IS THIS.

NO I WANT TO GET A BETTER UNDERSTANDING.

IT CAN WORK IN CONJUNCTION WITH SOME OF OUR EXISTING.

I MEAN, JUST AS A PARKS BOARD LOOKS AT OUR EXISTING PARKS AND COMES UP WITH IDEAS TO REPLACE OR UPDATE EXISTING.

AND THEN AS WE LOOK AT BUILDING NEW PARKS AND WHAT SHOULD GO IN THEM, WHAT'S WORKED, WHAT HASN'T? THIS IS A COMMITTEE OF OUR COMING FROM ALL DIFFERENT SEGMENTS OF OUR COMMUNITY.

WE'LL ALL HAVE TO DETERMINE HOW THIS COMMITTEE IS MADE UP.

BUT YET A PIECE WILL BE WHAT DO WE DO NOW, WHETHER IT'S EVENTS, YOU KNOW, AND HOW CAN IT SUPPORT THAT OR BE A PART OF THAT? OBVIOUSLY, THERE WAS A PIECE THAT I'D NEVER SEEN AT FOUNDERS DAY BEFORE.

I'VE NEVER SEEN SOMEONE BRING A TEEPEE AND TALK ABOUT THE NATIVE AMERICAN HERITAGE OR PIECE OF THAT.

THAT'S PART OF OUR OUR MAKEUP.

AND SO I THINK THAT THERE'S DEFINITELY SOME OF THAT SOME OF IT JUST MAY BE BRAND NEW.

LIKE, WE HAVEN'T HAD CINCO DE MAYO FESTIVAL AND I THINK THE LAST ONE WAS 2014 OR 2016, ONE OF THOSE.

AND SO IT'S NOT JUST FESTIVALS.

IT COULD JUST BE COMING TO CITY COUNCIL AND RECOGNIZING YOU KNOW NATIONAL NATIVE AMERICAN HERITAGE MONTH AND SAYING, YOU KNOW, THESE ARE SOME THINGS THAT HAPPEN JUST DOING A PROCLAMATION.

IT MIGHT BE COMING AND BRINGING INSTRUMENTS FROM A DIFFERENT CULTURE, DIFFERENT COUNTRY AND SHARING THEM WITH THE COMMUNITY AT A COUNCIL THROUGH A COUNCIL MEETING.

IT COULD ALSO SO THINK ABOUT THE ADA COMMITTEE, WHICH IS ORIGINALLY WHY THERE WAS A THOUGHT TO BLEND THEM TOGETHER.

THE ADA COMMITTEE, ACTUALLY PART OF THEIR CHARGE IS TO LOOK FOR PLACES WITHIN THE CITY AND OPPORTUNITIES WHERE POTENTIALLY NOT ALL AREAS OF DISABILITIES ARE BEING ADDRESSED RIGHT AND TO BRING THAT FORWARD, I.E.

THE PARADE AND STREAMING THE PARADE ONLINE, RIGHT? SO THERE ARE GOING TO BE ISSUES THAT MAYBE COME FROM THE SENIORS THAT THEY ARE NOT BEING HEARD ON, NOT JUST THROUGH THE SENIOR CENTER, BECAUSE THAT'S NOT NECESSARILY WHAT THEY'RE FOR, BUT ISSUES RELATED TO SENIORS ON STEP UPS AT A PARK OR SOMETHING.

I'M JUST THROWING SOME, YOU KNOW, RANDOM OUT THAT THEY CAN BRING FORWARD AND BRING TO THIS COMMUNITY SAY, HEY, I THINK THIS IS SOMETHING THAT'S BEING MISSED FOR OUR AGE GROUP AND OR I WOULD LOVE TO DO A TALK AT THE LIBRARY BASED ON MAYBE HE'S A WORLD WAR TWO VETERAN OR A VIETNAM VETERAN, AND THEY WANT TO SHARE THEIR STORY WITH THE YOUNGER GENERATION AT THE LIBRARY.

SO IT'S OPPORTUNITIES FOR CONVERSATION RELATED AROUND GENERATIONAL DIFFERENCES, CULTURAL DIFFERENCES, SEXUAL DIFFERENCES, AS WELL AS CELEBRATING AND EVENTS AND ACKNOWLEDGING MOMENTS IN TIME WHERE THEY COULD BE THE PEOPLE LEADING THAT VERSUS ME SAYING EVERY SINGLE MONTH IT'S NATIONAL WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH.

AND THAT'S WHERE IT ENDS.

AND THAT'S IT, RIGHT? SO WHAT DO WE DO ABOUT IT? SO WE NEED SO WE COULD HAVE A COMMITTEE THAT CAN BE A LITTLE BIT MORE PROACTIVE IN CELEBRATING THESE THINGS WITHIN OUR CITY.

OKAY, THANK YOU.

THAT PROVIDES A LOT MORE CLARIFICATION.

SO IT COULD BE EVEN SOMETHING WHERE YOU KNOW THAT YOU WERE TALKING OR THE SENIOR THAT'S HAVING TROUBLE AT THE PARKS COULD AT LEAST KNOW TO COME THERE FIRST AND THEN Y'ALL

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CAN SHARE WITH THE PARKS BOARD HEY, WE'VE GOT A REQUEST KIND OF THING, OK.

IT'S JUST IN MY EXPERIENCE, MY WORK EXPERIENCE, ALL PUBLIC RELATIONS, COMMUNITY RELATIONS AND PEOPLE APPROACH AND GET INVOLVED AND FEEL AS THOUGH THEY CAN HAVE CONVERSATIONS WITH PEOPLE THAT LOOK LIKE THEM OR SOUND LIKE THEM OR HAVE GENERALLY THE SAME INTEREST AND THAT WE'RE A BIG MOSAIC PHOTO.

WE'RE A BIG MOSAIC PIECE THIS COMMUNITY AND WE'RE MADE UP OF SO MANY DIFFERENT BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE, EXPERIENCES, CULTURES, AND THEY'RE GOING TO FEEL A PART OF THIS COMMUNITY AND FEEL LIKE THEY CAN BRING THINGS FORWARD.

IF A COMMITTEE EXISTS TO BRING UP THOSE IDEAS OR CAN BOUNCE THINGS AROUND OR THAT LOOK OR SOUND LIKE THEM.

THE THING IS, IS THAT IF YOU FOCUS ON THE BETTER TOGETHER PART OF IT.

YOU CAN SAY THAT THIS CAN BE A VERY FLUID COMMITTEE, IT COULD CHANGE AND ADAPT AS ALONG WITH THE COMMITTEE, LEARNING MORE ABOUT WHAT DOES THAT MEAN FOR OUR CITY AND HOW CAN WE BE A PART OF PROMOTING BETTER TOGETHER? BETTER COMMUNICATION IS THAT BASICALLY WHAT WE'RE SAYING IS THAT BEING TOO SIMPLISTIC? YES.

WELL, I'M SORRY.

HUH? IT'S PART OF IT.

IT'S ONE PART OF IT, FOR SURE.

AND I AGREE.

I'M FINE WITH EVERYTHING YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT, GETTING THE WORD OUT TO PEOPLE.

IT'S GOING TO BE THIS COUNCIL'S PROBLEM AND SPREADING IT REALLY IS.

SO AND WE CAN WORK ON THAT, BUT YOU'RE HEADED IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION.

THAT WAS THE WHOLE POINT WAS TO REALLY BRING SOMETHING TO YOU THAT YOU ALL WOULD BE PROUD OF AS WELL, AND THAT YOU UNDERSTAND THAT THIS IS NOT ABOUT DIVISIVENESS, BUT MORE ABOUT UNITY.

WE WERE.

AND HOW DO WE BRING THAT TOGETHER BY EMBRACING OUR DIFFERENCES? I'VE BEEN REALLY PROUD OF THIS COUNCIL OF HOW WE GET INTO A PROJECT AND WE TWEAK IT AND WE TWEAK IT AND WE COME UP WITH A GOOD PROJECT.

I MEAN, A GOOD PRODUCT AND WE'LL GET THERE.

WE WILL JUST HOLD US TO THE STONE.

SO IS YOUR DIRECTION THAT WE CAN PROCEED WITH TO THE NEXT STEP? WHAT IS THE NEXT STEP? THE NEXT STEP IS TO DEVELOP CAN WE DISCUSS THAT AND FIND OUT WHAT THEIR AGENDA IS GOING TO BE AND HOW THEY'RE GOING TO DO THAT? MAYBE VISIT ON THAT.

WE'LL DEFER TO OUR GUIDANCE ON THIS.

BY THE WAY, WE HAVE TO SAY THAT WE'VE HAD TREMENDOUS HELP FROM THE CITY SECRETARY'S OFFICE.

ALL THREE OF THE STAFF THERE HAVE BEEN TREMENDOUSLY HELPFUL AND VERY BRILLIANT ON THIS, QUITE FRANKLY.

SO AMANDA, CAN YOU HELP US A LITTLE BIT ON WHAT THAT NEXT STEP LOOKS LIKE SINCE? THANK YOU.

SINCE WE'RE FOLLOWING YOU.

[LAUGHTER] ABSOLUTELY.

IF IT'S THE DIRECTION OF THIS COUNCIL, THEN WE WILL BRING FORWARD.

WE'LL START WORKING ON THE COMMITTEE STRUCTURE AND THAT WILL BE PRESENTED TO COUNCIL.

AND WE'RE NOT SAYING THAT MAY BE THE FIRST ROUND IS JUST THE STARTING POINT.

IT MAY BE TWO BITES AT THE APPLE.

SO TO SAY BEFORE WE COME FORWARD WITH A STRUCTURE THAT WOULD MEET EVERYTHING AND I THINK WHAT THEY'VE SAID, WHAT THEY'VE LAID OUT HERE TOO IS THE IMPORTANT THING IS TO REALIZE THAT THERE'S GOING TO BE A SUBCOMMITTEE.

SO YOU TALK ABOUT HOW ARE WE GOING TO GET THE WORD OUT? WE TALKED ABOUT COMMUNITY CHAMPIONS, SO EVERYBODY TAGGING A COMMUNITY CHAMPION TO BE PLACED ON THIS COMMITTEE SO THAT YOU DO HAVE THESE HIGHER LEVEL AT THE COMMUNITY CHAMPIONSHIPS WHERE THEY'RE GOING TO BE PASSIONATE ABOUT WHAT THEIR PILLAR IS OR WHAT THEIR FOCUS IS.

AND THEN WE CREATE THESE SUBCOMMITTEES AND THAT'S HOW YOU'RE GOING TO BUILD UPON IT AND GET MORE ACTIVE MEMBERS IN THERE.

AND I MEAN, IT'S GOING TO BE CONNECTORS, RIGHT? I KNOW OF SOMEONE.

I KNOW OF SOMEONE.

I'VE ALREADY BEEN APPROACHED JUST IN THE CONVERSATIONS THAT WHEN THE COUNCIL HAS TO HAVE THIS ON OUR AGENDA OF PEOPLE THAT WANT TO SERVE ON THIS OR HAVE AN INTEREST OR KNOW OF SOMEONE WHO WOULD BE A GOOD PERSON TO SERVE ON THIS COMMITTEE.

I THINK WORD'S GOING TO GET OUT.

AND I MEAN, WE'RE A VERY FORTUNATE COMMUNITY THAT OUR APPLICATIONS FOR ALL OF OUR BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS ARE WE HAVE A NUMBER OF PEOPLE WHO APPLY EVERY TIME.

AND SO I THINK THAT THIS WILL JUST BE ANOTHER ONE, ESPECIALLY WHEN IT'S LOOKING AT IT'S A REAL CREATIVE COMMITTEE AND THE PARAMETERS HAVEN'T BEEN SET.

THEY GET TO BE A PART OF DRAFTING HOW DO WE UNITE, WHAT'S DIFFERENT AND UNIQUE ABOUT ALL OF US? AND WE THERE'S SO MUCH MORE THAT UNITES US THAN DIVIDES US, AND THAT'S WHAT WE CAN HIGHLIGHT THROUGH THIS COMMITTEE.

AND THEN IT EXISTS RIGHT WHEN THINGS COME UP, WHEN WE DON'T KNOW WHERE TO HEAD ON SOMETHING LIKE, SHOULD THAT HAVE A RAMP OR SHOULD IT NOT? WE HAVE A COMMITTEE TO BOUNCE THINGS OFF OF AND THAT'S WHAT'S IMPORTANT.

AND THAT GOES BACK TO THAT COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT, THE CITIZEN INVOLVEMENT, IF WE HAVE THE THE PLATFORM FOR PEOPLE TO GET INVOLVED AND THEY WILL JUST THE SAME AS THE PARK

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BOARD AS THE ANIMAL SHELTER.

THERE'S THESE EXISTS BECAUSE PEOPLE CARE ABOUT THOSE AREAS AND PEOPLE CARE ABOUT HIGHLIGHTING AND FOCUSING ON HOW WE'RE MADE UP, WHERE DO WE COME FROM AND WHAT MAKES THIS SPECIAL AND UNIQUE.

AND THE ONLY THING THAT I'LL SAY IS WE HAVE TO BE CAREFUL IN MOVING FORWARD THAT WE DON'T FORGET ABOUT THE OTHER COMMITTEES.

AND THAT WOULD BE MY ONLY CONCERN, WE MAKE SURE THAT WE DON'T PUSH THEM ASIDE.

WE'RE NOT STEPPING ON ANYONE'S TOES.

EXACTLY.

NO, ABSOLUTELY.

I THINK WHEN WHEN WE GET TO THIS NEXT PHASE, IT'LL BECOME A LITTLE MORE CLEARER.

YEAH, I THINK WE HAVE TO GET ESTABLISH THE COMMITTEE AND FIGURE OUT AND THOSE PILLARS, AS TAMARA SAID.

WE KIND OF STARTED IT CAME TOGETHER LIKE, OH, THAT'S A CHARGE, OH, THAT'S A CHARGE.

AND THAT COULD BE ITS OWN LITTLE SUBCOMMITTEE THAT FOCUSES ON THIS, THAT COULD LOOK INTO THIS.

AND SO I THINK ONCE WE CAN GET THE PEOPLE ON IT AND WE CAN START TALKING, THEY CAN HASH OUT WHAT THEY FEEL LIKE THAT THEY CAN ACCOMPLISH.

MAYBE IT'S STARTING WITH THE THINGS THAT WE KNOW USED TO BE HERE AND AREN'T ANY MORE LIKE CINCO DE MAYO FESTIVAL AND LOOKING AT A CALENDAR, IT IS SO EASY TO LOOK UP A CALENDAR AND FIGURE OUT.

WHAT A HERITAGE OR RECOGNITIONS ARE EACH MONTH AND FIGURING OUT, YOU KNOW, WHAT ARE THINGS THAT THEY CAN BRING FORWARD TO THE COMMUNITY? MAYBE IT'S HAVING AN ART FESTIVAL OR ART EVENT OUT AT RUSSELL FARM, WHERE YOU JUST WALK THROUGH AND LOOK AT ART CREATED FROM AMERICAN INDIAN HERITAGE.

AND BUT THERE'S JUST SO MANY THINGS THAT WE COULD.

IT DOESN'T ALWAYS HAVE TO BE A BIG EVENT, BUT JUST EDUCATION OPPORTUNITIES, AND I THINK THAT'S WHAT WE'RE HOPING FOR.

I THINK DAN RONNIE ARE Y'ALL OK WITH EVERYTHING YOU READY TO MOVE FORWARD.

I'M FINE WITH IT.

THE YOUNG LADY MENTIONED SOMETHING THAT IT'S A TOPIC IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH NATIONALITY.

SHE SAID SHE WAS AN ATHLETE AND WAS THINKING ABOUT THAT IS AND IT'S BEEN I'VE DONE THIS PROBABLY FOUGHT IT 25 30 YEARS.

GIRLS ATHLETICS GET A LOUSY, LOUSY DEAL WHEN IT COMES TO THE ATHLETIC PROGRAM, THEY DON'T GET THE SAME AS THE BOYS.

AND BROTHER I'LL GET ON THAT BANDWAGON EVERY DAY OF THE WEEK, SO THANK YOU YOUNG LADY FOR BRINGING THAT UP.

[LAUGHTER] I GUESS THAT'S A YES.

I THINK THE MOST MOVING STATEMENT THAT YOU MADE IS THAT WE MAINTAIN OUR SENSE OF COMMUNITY AND ESPECIALLY OF A SMALL COMMUNITY WHEN WE ALL MEET EACH OTHER AT THE SAME LEVELS, REGARDLESS OF OUR BACKGROUNDS OUR PERSONAL HISTORIES OUR CONSTRUCT OF WHAT LIFE SHOULD BE IN A SMALL TOWN.

DAN YOU GOOD.

AND I FEEL LIKE IT'S THE LADIES PITCHING THIS IDEA TO THE OLD DUDES UP HERE.

THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT IT IS.

I WANT YOU TO KNOW.

YOU SAID IT, NOT US.

I'M GOING TO SYMBOLICALLY COME AND STAND WITH YOU.

SO.

THIS IS TRUE.

[LAUGHTER] YOU DID SHARE SOME A LOT OF THE SAME THINGS THAT WERE IN OUR WORK SESSION, SO WE COULD BRING YOU IN.

NOW YOU'RE NO LONGER PITCHING IT TO ALL THE [INAUDIBLE].

SEE, THIS IS COLLABORATION.

THIS IS WHAT WE WANT THEM TO SEE FROM US AS COUNCIL TOO.

WELL, ANY TIME YOU CAN IMPROVE COMMUNICATION BETWEEN COUNCIL AND THE CITIZENS AND CITIZENS TO CITIZEN, I'M FOR IT.

YOU KNOW THAT.

JIMMY YOU IN? YEAH, I AGREE WHOLEHEARTEDLY.

I MEAN, THE BIGGEST PROBLEM THAT I'VE SEEN IN OUR CITY, IN MY OPINION, HAS BEEN THE LACK OF COMMUNICATION AND THE PEOPLE THAT DON'T FEEL THEIR VOICES ARE HEARD.

SO THIS ALLEVIATES THAT ALONG WITH PEOPLE WANTING TO MAINTAIN THEIR SMALL TOWN FEEL AND THE SMALL TOWN CULTURE AND THIS SOUNDS LIKE WE'RE GOING TO BE ABLE TO DO SOME WONDERFUL THINGS WITH THAT, BUT ESPECIALLY TO BE ABLE TO MAINTAIN THAT SMALL TOWN, BE ABLE TO GIVE THE PEOPLE A VOICE.

YOU KNOW, THAT'S THE REASON THE WHOLE PARK THING I WAS SO ADAMANT ABOUT JEN AND THE GREAT JOB SHE WAS DOING IS BECAUSE IT GAVE THE CITIZENS A VOICE, AND I BELIEVE STRONGLY IN THAT.

[C. Recieve a report, hold a discussioin, and give staff feedback regarding Final Draft Report of the Long-Range Master Plan for the Burleson Fire Department. (Staff Presenter: K.T. Freeman, Fire Chief)]

EXCITEMENT BUILDING HERE.

RECEIVE A REPORT, HOLD THE DISCUSSION AND GIVE STAFF FEEDBACK REGARDING THE FINAL DRAFT REPORT OF THE LONG RANGE MASTER PLAN FOR THE BURLESON FIRE DEPARTMENT.

THE STAFF PRESENTER IS K.T.

FREEMAN, FIRE CHIEF EXTRAORDINAIRE.

THANK YOU, AMANDA.

NEXT, PAYDAY.

I'M GOING TO GIVE YOU A LITTLE TIP THERE.