WE'RE READY TO GO. I'M GOING TO OPEN THIS UP AT FIVE 30.
[1. CALL TO ORDER Invocation - Jennifer Woods, Burleson Harvest House Pledge of Allegiance to the US Flag Texas Pledge: Honor the Texas Flag; I pledge allegiance to thee, Texas, one state under God; one and indivisible]
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WE HAVE FROM THE HARVEST HOUSE.JENNIFER WOODS, HOW ARE YOU DOING? AND IF YOU PLEASE ENABLE PLEASE STAND WHILE WE HAVE THE INVOCATION AND ALSO OUR PLEDGES.
DEAR HEAVENLY FATHER, WE JUST THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO SERVE THIS COMMUNITY AND TO BE A PART OF THIS COMMUNITY.
AND WE JUST KNOW, LORD, THAT YOU ARE DOING A NEW THING THIS YEAR AND WE JUST ARE EXCITED TO BE A PART OF THAT.
WHATEVER IT IS THAT YOU HAVE GOING ON.
AND I JUST PRAY, LORD, THAT TONIGHT WOULD BE FRUITFUL AND THAT YOU WOULD BE PRESENT AND THAT ALL THE DECISIONS MADE HERE TONIGHT WOULD BE HONORING HONOR AND GLORIFYING TO YOU, JESUS NAME. AMEN.LIKE. THERE'S.
GOOD EVENING, MAYOR AND COUNCIL AND HAPPY 2022.
FIRST, WE ARE NOW AT SECTION TWO OF THE AGENDA PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS.
WE HAVE NO PROCLAMATIONS FOR TONIGHT.
HOWEVER, WE DO HAVE A PRESENTATION, A RECOGNITION OF EMPLOYEE OF THE QUARTER FOR THE
[B. Presentations Recognition of Employee of the Quarter for the 4th quarter 2021 and the 2021 Employee of the Year. (Staff Presenter: Rick DeOrdio, Director of Human Resources)]
FOURTH QUARTER OF 2021 AND THE 2021 EMPLOYEE OF THE YEAR.STAFF PRESENTER IS RICK DEORDIO, DIRECTOR OF HUMAN RESOURCES, MR. DEORDIO. THANK YOU, AMANDA.
GOOD EVENING. HONORABLE MAYOR COUNCIL.
HAPPY NEW YEAR. LET'S HOPE IT'S A WHOLE LOT BETTER THAN THE LAST ONE.
LET ME TAKE A COUPLE OF MINUTES TONIGHT AND RECOGNIZE A COUPLE OF OUTSTANDING EMPLOYEES THAT WE DIDN'T HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO RECOGNIZE IN THE MONTH OF DECEMBER DUE TO A NUMBER OF THINGS.
ONE MEETING AND THEN A LOT OF HOLIDAYS.
SO WE WANT TO A COUPLE OF MINUTES TO RECOGNIZE OUR EMPLOYEE OF THE QUARTER AND OUR EMPLOYEE OF THE YEAR.
THE EMPLOYEES ARE NOMINATED FROM OTHER CITY EMPLOYEES, AND THE RECIPIENT IS SELECTED BY THE EMPLOYEE OF THE QUARTER COMMITTEE, WHICH IS MADE UP OF PEER EMPLOYEES REPRESENTED FROM A CROSS SECTION OF DEPARTMENTS AND PRIOR EMPLOYEE OF THE COURT OF RECIPIENTS.
THE EMPLOYEE OF THE FOURTH QUARTER IS KELLY KLUTE.
KELLY HAS BEEN WITH THE CITY FOR APPROXIMATELY THREE YEARS AND 10 MONTHS, STARTING IN DECEMBER OF TWENTY EIGHTEEN AND AS THE CIRCULATION SUPERVISOR IN THE LIBRARY.
KELLY WAS NOMINATED BY SEVERAL STAFF MEMBERS HER FOR HER INNOVATIVE EFFORTS DURING THE ONGOING PANDEMIC TO ENSURE CITIZENS, ESPECIALLY THE VULNERABLE COMMUNITY MEMBERS, COULD STILL PARTICIPATE IN LIBRARY SERVICES, SAFELY TROUBLESHOOTING AND ENSURING LIBRARY TECHNOLOGY IS OPERATING AS NEEDED IN OUR DIGITAL DEPARTMENT, AS WELL AS BEING CONSISTENT, A CONSISTENT SUPPORT AND OPTIMISTIC LEADER FOR HER STAFF AND RAPIDLY CHANGING TIMES.
PLEASE JOIN US IN CONGRATULATING KELLY FOR HER VALUABLE WORK AND CONTRIBUTIONS TO OUR COMMUNITY KELLY KLUTE.
I NOW HAVE THE HONOR OF ANNOUNCING THE EMPLOYEE OF THE YEAR WHO IS SELECTED FROM THE RECIPIENTS OF THE EMPLOYEE OF THE QUARTERS AND RECAP OUR EMPLOYEE OF THE QUARTERS WERE RAUOL RODRIGUEZ, JR.
OR JUNIOR FROM PUBLIC WORKS THE WATER OPERATIONS.
OFFICER ANDREA EVANS FROM THE POLICE DEPARTMENT.
ANGEL STROPMAN FROM ANIMAL SERVICES.
AND AGAIN, KELLY KLUTE FROM THE LIBRARY.
DECIDING EMPLOYEE OF THE YEAR IS ALWAYS TOUGH BECAUSE WE HAVE SUCH OUTSTANDING PUBLIC SERVANTS, ESPECIALLY THIS YEAR WITH SO MANY THAT WENT ABOVE AND BEYOND DURING THE ONGOING PANDEMIC AND HISTORIC WINTER STORM.
THIS YEAR, THE COMMITTEE SELECTED JUNIOR RODRIGUEZ FROM PUBLIC WORKS WATER OPERATIONS AS OUR EMPLOYEE OF THE YEAR.
PLEASE HELP ME RECOGNIZE JUNIOR FOR ALL THE WORK THAT HE DID DURING OUR WINTER EVENT AND EVERYTHING SINCE THEN.
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YOU. THANK YOU, THAT BRINGS US TO ITEM 2C WHICH[C. Community Interest Items This is a standing item on the agenda of every regular meeting of the City Council. An "item of community interest" includes the following: expressions of thanks, congratulations, or condolence; information regarding holiday schedules; honorary recognitions of city officials, employees, or other citizens; reminders about upcoming events sponsored by the city or other entity that is scheduled to be attended by city official or city employee; and announcements involving imminent public health and safety threats to the city.]
IS COMMUNITY INTEREST ITEMS, THIS IS A STANDING ITEM ON THE AGENDA FOR EVERY REGULAR COUNCIL MEETING OF THE CITY COUNCIL, CITY COUNCIL.ANYBODY. ANYBODY? MERRY CHRISTMAS.
OKAY, THAT'LL MOVE US ON TO SECTION THREE CHANGES TO THE POSTED AGENDA.
THREE EIGHT, 3A EIGHT IS ITEMS TO BE CONTINUED OR WITHDRAWN AND 3B IS ITEMS TO BE WITHDRAWN FROM CONCERNED AGENDA FOR A SEPARATE DISCUSSION OR ITEMS TO BE ADDED TO THE CONSENT AGENDA.
DEPUTY CITY MANAGER LUDWICK, DO WE HAVE ANY ITEMS TO BE CONTINUED OR WITHDRAWN? NO, MADAM SECRETARY.
IS THERE ANY MEMBER OF THE COUNCIL THAT WOULD LIKE TO HAVE SOMETHING REMOVED FOR FROM CONSENT AGENDA FOR SEPARATE DISCUSSION OR ITEM TO BE ADDED TO THE CONSENT AGENDA? ANYBODY. WE'RE GOOD.
OK. SEEING NONE WE'LL MOVE ON TO THE AGENDA.
SECTION 4 IS CITIZEN'S APPEARANCE.
OTHER THAN PUBLIC HEARINGS AND ITEMS LISTED ON THE POST-IT AGENDA, CITIZENS IN ATTENDANCE WHO DESIRE TO SPEAK TO THE CITY COUNCIL MAY SPEAK DURING THIS SESSION.
ANY SPEAKER CARDS THAT I HAVE THAT ARE RELATED TO A PUBLIC HEARING OR ITEM LISTED ON THE AGENDA WILL BE CALLED AT THE TIME THE ITEM IS PRESENTED DURING THE MEETING.
AT THIS TIME, I HAVE NO SPEAKER CARDS, NO IN-PERSON OR ONLINE SPEAKER CARDS FOR TONIGHT.
IS THERE ANYBODY IN THE AUDIENCE THAT WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK TO COUNCIL ON AN ITEM THAT IS NOT LISTED ON TONIGHT'S AGENDA? ALL RIGHT. WE'LL MOVE ON.
SECTION FIVE CONSENT AGENDA, ALL ITEMS LISTED ON THE CONSENT AGENDA ARE CONSIDERED TO BE
[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.]
ROUTINE BY THE CITY COUNCIL AND WILL BE ENACTED IN ONE MOTION.THERE WILL BE NO SEPARATE DISCUSSION AND THE APPROVAL OF THE CONSENT AGENDA AUTHORIZES THE CITY MANAGER TO IMPLEMENT EACH ITEM IN ACCORDANCE WITH STAFF RECOMMENDATIONS.
TONIGHT'S CONSENT AGENDA CONSISTS OF ITEMS 5A THROUGH 5G.
MAYOR IF YOU COULD CALL FOR A MOTION.
IS THERE A MOTION ON THIS? YOU HAVE A MOTION BY JIMMY AND THE SECOND BY DAN, PLEASE VOTE SORRY, COUNSEL, IF I COULD JUST INTERRUPT YOU FOR JUST A MOMENT WHEN YOU'RE MAKING MOTIONS.
IF YOU COULD INDICATE WHETHER YOUR MOTION IS FOR APPROVAL OR DENIAL, THAT WOULD JUST NEED TO VERBALIZE YOU'RE MAKING A MOTION TO APPROVE OR A MOTION TO DENY, PLEASE.
HOW DO WE DO THAT ON THE SCREEN? YOU WON'T ON THE SCREEN HAVE TO DO A VERBAL AND THEN PUSH THE BUTTON FOR THE SCREEN.
THANK YOU. THAT MOVES US ON TO SECTION SIX DEVELOPMENT APPLICATIONS.
[A. 210 N Hurst Road (Case 21-137): Hold a public hearing and consider approval of an ordinance amending ordinance B-582, the zoning ordinance of the City of Burleson, Texas, by amending the official zoning map and changing the zoning on approximately 82.58 acres of land, addressed as 210 N Hurst Road, known as Lot 1, Block 1, J.E. White Addition an addition to Johnson County, Texas, from SF10, Single-family dwelling district-10 to A, Agricultural, making this ordinance cumulative of prior ordinances, providing a severability clause; providing a penalty clause, and providing for an effective date. (First and Final Reading) (Staff Presenter, Tony Mcilwain, Director of Development Services) (The Planning and Zoning Commission recommended approval unanimously)]
6A IS TWO ONE ZERO NORTH HURST ROAD.THIS IS TO HOLD A PUBLIC HEARING AND CONSIDER APPROVAL OF AN ORDINANCE AMENDING ORDINANCE B 582.
THE ZONING ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF BURLESON BY AMENDING THE OFFICIAL ZONING MAP AND CHANGING THE ZONING ON APPROXIMATELY EIGHTY TWO POINT FIVE EIGHT ACRES OF LAND ADDRESSED AS 210 NORTH HURST ROAD, KNOWN AS LOT ONE, BLOCK ONE, JE WHITE EDITION, IN ADDITION TO JOHNSON COUNTY, TEXAS.
THE CHANGES FROM SF7, SINGLE FAMILY DWELLING DISTRICT 10 TO A AGRICULTURAL.
THIS IS BEFORE YOU ON FIRST AND FINAL READING.
MAYOR, IF YOU COULD OPEN THE PUBLIC HEARING, PLEASE AND STATE THE TIME.
I OPENED THE PUBLIC HEARING AT 5:39.
TONIGHT'S STAFF PRESENTER IS TONY MCELWAIN, DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT SERVICES.
YES. THANK YOU, MADAM SECRETARY.
THIS ITEM DOES INVOLVE A ZONING REQUEST AND MS. SUBMITTED BY NATHAN WHITE.
THE APPLICANTS INTENT COUNCIL IS TO DOWN ZONED THE PROPERTY FROM SF 10 TO AGRICULTURAL ZONING. THE AGRICULTURAL ZONING DISTRICT ALLOWS FOR BARNS TO BE CONSTRUCTED ON PREMISES, WHICH IS WHAT MR. WHITE INTENDS TO DO WITH HIS SITE.
WE ALSO HAVE OTHER USES, SUCH AS GARDENS AND ORCHARDS, WHICH ALSO ALLOW IT AS PRIMARY RIGHTS. AS FAR AS LAND USE.
WITH REGARD TO THE CITY'S COMPREHENSIVE PLAN, THIS PROPERTY IS LOCATED IN AN AREA DESIGNATED FOR NEIGHBORHOODS.
IT'S PREDOMINANTLY TRADITIONAL SINGLE FAMILY, WHICH ALLOWS FOR CERTAIN THINGS SUCH AS INCREASED PEDESTRIAN CONNECTIVITY AND IN SOME INSTANCES, MULTIFAMILY RETAIL SMALL SCALE.
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SO YOU HAVE SOME CORRESPONDING ZONING DISTRICTS.I WANT TO SAY TO THE 20-30 MID POINT UPDATE OF THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN.
WHAT THE STAFF IS PROVIDED ON THIS SCREEN GRAPHIC IS JUST A ZONING MAP THAT SHOWS THE ZONING DESIGNATIONS FOR SURROUNDING PROPERTIES.
THOSE PROPERTIES THAT YOU SEE TO THE NORTH THAT DON'T HAVE A ZONING DISTRICT THAT IS WITHIN FORT WORTH.
AND SO OBVIOUSLY OUTSIDE THE CITY LIMITS.
BUT I'LL DRAW YOUR ATTENTION TO THE AGRICULTURAL SITE THAT YOU SEE TO THE EAST OF THE SUBJECT SITE AND THEN INDUSTRIAL USE IMMEDIATELY TO THE WEST AND THEN S.F.
10 7 AND OTHER SINGLE FAMILY ZONING DISTRICTS SOUTH AND ADJACENT TO THE SUBJECT SITE.
WE KNOW THE FACTS SURROUNDING PROPERTY OWNERS WITHIN THREE HUNDRED FEET OF THIS SITE, PUBLISHED IN THE NEWSPAPER AND POSTED A SIGN TO THE PROPERTY, WE RECEIVED NO INQUIRIES REGARDING THIS REQUEST.
THE PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION VOTED UNANIMOUSLY TO RECOMMEND APPROVAL OF MR. WHITE'S ZONING REQUEST.
THERE WAS A DISCUSSION REGARDING THE MASTER THOROUGHFARE PLAN AND FLOODWAYS ON THIS PROPERTY. SO THE CITY COUNCIL ACTIONS REQUESTED THIS EVENING IS FOR YOU TO OPEN A PUBLIC HEARING COUNCIL CLOSED THAT HEARING STAFF IS RECOMMENDING APPROVAL OF THE APPLICANT ZONING REQUEST AND I ENTERTAIN ANY QUESTIONS THAT YOU HAVE.
I HAVE NO SPEAKERS AT THIS TIME, COUNCIL.
JUST I JUST HAVE ONE QUICK QUESTION ON THE AGRICULTURAL.
DO WE KNOW WHAT KIND OF AGRICULTURAL IS HE PLANNING ON? I MEAN, WOULD HE BE ABLE TO PUT A PIG FARM ON THERE AS MY CONCERN? WELL, IT'S THE QUESTION THAT YOU GET A LOT OF INSTANCES WHERE WE HAVE AGRICULTURAL ZONING. YOU DO HAVE THE OCCURRENCE OF FARMING NOW TO THE EXTENT THAT HE WOULD GO SO FAR AS TO PUT IN THAT TYPE OF USE.
I CAN'T ANSWER THAT DEFINITIVELY RIGHT NOW.
WHAT HE'S TOLD STAFF IS THAT HE'S INTERESTED IN HAVING A BARN ON THE PROPERTY.
THIS WILL ALLOW THAT TO HAPPEN.
THAT'S THAT'S SOMETHING THAT COULD BE A CONCERN, BUT WE ANTICIPATE THAT NOT BEING AN ISSUE. HE HAS IN ATTENDANCE TONIGHT AND I THINK HE CAN ANSWER THE QUESTIONS MORE SPECIFIC TO WHAT YOU MIGHT HAVE. MR. STANFORD.
HOW MANY ACRES, HOW MANY ACRES, SIR.
WE'VE GOT A TOTAL OF EIGHTY TWO, EIGHTY TWO POINT FIVE EIGHT ACRES OF LAND.
ANYBODY ELSE? I'M GLAD TO SEE THIS HAPPEN.
IT'S AN INTERESTING PIECE OF PROPERTY, I DROVE IT OUT AND IT'S NOT SET OUT RIGHT IN THE PACKET, BUT IT'S IMPLIED THAT THIS MIGHT BECOME AN ORGANIC FARM, WHICH I THINK WOULD BE AN INTERESTING AND UNIQUE THING TO HAVE IN THE IN THE CITY.
I'M KIND OF WONDERING HOW IT EVER GOT TO BE 10 IN THE FIRST PLACE, BECAUSE THAT'S JUST ODD. I DON'T KNOW HOW IT HAPPENED.
I DON'T THINK WE'VE RESEARCHED IT AND IT REALLY DOESN'T MATTER.
IT'S AN AG USE. IT SHOULD BE ZONED AG, GET HIM THE OPPORTUNITY TO GET AN AGRICULTURAL EXEMPTION AND AND PAY A REASONABLE PRICE.
IT LOOKS LIKE IT'S PUTTING A LOT OF EFFORT INTO IT AND KIND OF MADE ME THINK OF THE EXPRESSION THAT IF YOU WANT TO MAKE A SMALL FORTUNE IN FARMING, THE BEST WAY TO DO IT START WITH A LARGE ONE, AND I DON'T KNOW WHETHER THAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN.
I HOPE THE GENTLEMAN IS SUCCESSFUL.
I HOPE HE DOES WELL AND I THINK WOULD BE FINE.
ANYBODY ELSE? MAYOR, IF YOU COULD CLOSE THE PUBLIC HEARING, PLEASE LET ME CLOSE THE HEARING AT FIVE FORTY FOUR.
IS THERE A MOTION ON THIS MOVE TO APPROVE? I GOT IT FIRST. GO AHEAD, RONNIE.
YOU CAN GO SECOND. SECOND, I'M HITTING IT RIGHT NOW, OK? I'M SORRY, I GOT A MOTION BY CAMERA IN A SECOND BY RONNIE, PLEASE VOTE.
EVERYBODY HAS GOT ECHO AND GOING THROUGH MY HEAD PASSES UNANIMOUS.
OK, THAT MOVES US ON TO ITEM 6B ORDINANCE MODIFICATION FOR TAX AMENDMENTS TO SECTION
[B. Ordinance Modification for text amendments to Section 7-2 of Article VII – Business Park Design Standards of Appendix C, and Sections 10-600 and 10-601 of Chapter 10 of the Code of Ordinances of the City of Burleson (Case 21-149): Hold a public hearing and consider an ordinance amendment to eliminate the masonry waiver process, with the exception of the Old Town Overlay District, as defined and modify the masonry definition. (First Reading) (Staff Presenter: Tony Mcilwain, Director of Development Services) )(The Planning and Zoning Commission recommended approval by unanimous vote.)]
SEVEN, TWO OF ARTICLE SEVEN BUSINESS PART DESIGN STANDARDS OF APPENDIX C AND SECTION 10-600 AND 10-601.OF CHAPTER 10 OF THE CODE OF ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF BURLESON.
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THIS IS CASE TWENTY ONE DASH ONE FORTY NINE.WE'RE ASKED TO HOLD A PUBLIC HEARING AND CONSIDER AN ORDINANCE AMENDMENT TO ELIMINATE THE MASONRY WAIVER PROCESS WITH THE EXCEPTION OF THE OLD TOWN OVERLAY DISTRICT.
THIS IS BEFORE COUNCIL ON FIRST READING.
MAYOR, IF YOU COULD OPEN THE PUBLIC HEARING.
STAFF PRESENTED TONIGHT AS TONY MCELWAIN, DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT SERVICES, MR. MCELWAIN. THANK YOU, MAYOR AND COUNCIL.
THIS ITEM IS AN HOUSEKEEPING ITEM.
AS YOU ALL ARE WELL AWARE, BACK IN 2019, THE LAW CHANGED REGARDING CITY'S ABILITIES TO REQUIRE CERTAIN EXTERIOR BUILDING MATERIALS.
THIS IS APPLICABLE TO AREAS OF THE CITY UNLESS YOU HAD SOME HISTORIC DESIGNATION THAT SERVED AS A MEANS OF PROTECTING THE CHARACTER OF A COMMUNITY.
CHAPTER 10 OF OUR ORDINANCE DOES HAVE A MASONRY REQUIREMENT FOR ALL SECTIONS OF THE CITY AND CERTAIN OVERLAYS.
WITH REGARD TO THOSE AREAS OF THE CITY THAT ARE EXEMPT, THE OLD TOWN OVERLAY DISTRICT IS ONE OF THOSE AREAS WHERE THE HOUSE BILL HAS NO IMPACT REGARDING THE CITY'S ABILITY TO REQUIRE CERTAIN EXTERIOR BUILDING MATERIALS.
BACK IN OCTOBER, COUNCIL DIRECTED STAFF TO AMEND THE ORDINANCE TO ELIMINATE THE WAIVER PROCESS IN CHAPTER 10 AND ALSO TO ADD ADDITIONAL LANGUAGE THAT WOULD REVISE THE MASONRY DEFINITION. THE FURTHER EVALUATION AND DISCUSSION WITH LEGAL STAFF.
STAFF MOVED FORWARD WITH MODIFICATIONS THAT WE PLACED IN A DEFINITION SECTION THAT WE HAVE ON THE SCREEN REGARDING INCLUDING SPLIT FACE CMU'S CONCRETE MASONRY UNITS, EIFS, EXCUSE ME AND SEE CEMENTITIOUS FIBER CLAPBOARD WITH 50 YEAR WARRANTY.
SO THAT'S THOSE ARE MATERIALS THAT HAVE BEEN ADDED INTO THE APPENDIX SIX BUSINESS PARK DESIGN STANDARDS SECTION SEVEN DASH TWO.
HOWEVER, STAFF DID NOT MOVE FORWARD WITH ANY ADDITIONAL CHANGES.
THERE WERE CONCERNS ABOUT US OPENING UP THE CODE FOR FURTHER CRITIQUE AND REVIEW AND POSSIBLE LEGAL CHALLENGE.
SO WHAT WE'RE BRINGING FORWARD TO YOU TONIGHT IS AN AMENDMENT TO THE DEFINITION SECTION AND TO THE EXTENT THAT WE HAVE MASON REQUIREMENTS IN OTHER SECTIONS OF THE CODE, WE JUST DON'T ENFORCE THEM. THE STATE LAW, AS YOU KNOW, LEADS IN THIS PARTICULAR INSTANCE.
AND SO CITY STAFF WILL NOT ENFORCE MASONRY ORDINANCE WITH THE EXCEPTION OF THOSE REQUIREMENTS IN THE OLD TOWN, AT LEAST A WAIVER REQUEST INTACT.
BUT AGAIN, A STATE LAW IS PRETTY SIMPLE.
YOU CAN'T YOU CAN'T REQUIRE MASONRY OR MASONRY AS FAR AS EXTERIOR BUILDING MATERIAL AT OUR PRESENTATION OF THIS ITEM TO THE PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION THERE IN SUPPORT, RECOMMEND APPROVAL BY UNANIMOUS VOTE AND THERE ARE NO PUBLIC SPEAKERS GOING TO THE COURSE OF THAT EVENING. SO I LIKE TO SIT AND ENTERTAIN ANY QUESTIONS THAT YOU HAVE FOLLOWING YOUR OPENING CLOSING OF THE PUBLIC HEARING.
IS THERE ANY QUESTION? I HAVE NO SPEAKER CARDS AT THIS TIME, IS THERE ANYBODY IN THE AUDIENCE THAT WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK ON THIS ITEM? MAYOR YOU COULD CLOSE THE PUBLIC HEARING I'M GOING TO CLOSE THE HEARING AT 5:49.
IS THERE A MOTION ON THIS? MOVE TO APPROVE.
YOU'VE GOT TO CLICK THE BUTTON ON YOUR SCREEN.
GUYS, THIS IS A DUAL DEAL NOW.
I GOT A MOTION BY RONNIE IN THE SECOND BY JIMMY.
PLEASE VOTE. PASSES UNANIMOUS.
THANK YOU, MAYOR AND COUNCIL, THAT BRINGS US ON TO ITEM 6C, 3429 SOUTH BURLESON
[C. 3429 S Burleson Blvd, Victron (Case 21-148): Consider approval of a minute order for a variance to the maximum height and square footage of a pole sign; Chapter 63, Sign Regulations. (Staff Presenter: Tony McIlwain, Development Services Director) (No Planning and Zoning Commission action was required for this item.) ]
BOULEVARD, VICTRON, THIS IS CASE 21-148.THIS IS TO CONSIDER APPROVAL OF A MINUTE ORDER FOR A VARIANCE TO THE MAXIMUM HEIGHT AND SQUARE FOOTAGE OF A POLE SIGN AS ACCORDING TO CHAPTER SIXTY THREE, THE SIGN REGULATIONS.
TONIGHT, STAFF PRESENTER IS TONY MCELWAIN, DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT SERVICES, MR. MCELWAIN. THANK YOU AND MAYOR COUNCIL.
THIS IS YOUR LAST DEVELOPMENT SERVICES ITEM FOR THE EVENING, BUT THIS DOES INVOLVE YOUR CONSIDERATION FOR A VARIANCE FOR A SIGN AT THE SITE THERE AT 3429 SOUTH BURLESON BOULEVARD. THE CURRENT ZONING OF THE PROPERTY IS COMMERCIAL.
WHAT THE APPLICANT IS REQUESTING ARE VARIANCES TO THE SECTIONS THAT WE HAVE ON THE SCREEN IN FRONT OF YOU. THOSE WOULD BE SECTIONS REGARDING MAXIMUM SQUARE FOOTAGE FOR SIGN FACES
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AND ALSO HEIGHT.JUST BY WAY OF A SUMMARY OF WHAT WE HAVE ON SITE.
WE'VE GOT A SIGN THAT IS CURRENTLY A POLE, BASICALLY AT A 70 FEET TALL.
ARCO HAS A 50 FOOT HEIGHT LIMITATION AND THEN THE CURRENT FACE IS THREE HUNDRED AND THREE SQUARE FEET AND OUR CURRENT CODE LIMITS IT TO TWO HUNDRED SQUARE FEET.
WHAT THE APPLICANT IS REQUESTING BY WAY OF THIS VARIANCE IS SIX HUNDRED AND THIRTY THREE SQUARE FEET FOR THE SIGN FACE AND TO GO UP AN ADDITIONAL 15 FEET TO EIGHTY FIVE FEET IN HEIGHT. THIS WAS A PROPERTY THAT WAS ANNEXED INTO THE CITY.
THE EXISTING SIGN WAS ALREADY IN PLACE.
THAT WOULD GIVE YOU SOME EXPLANATION AS TO WHY IT WAS ALREADY GREATER THAN WHAT THE CITY TYPICALLY ALLOWS.
SO THIS IS A GRAPHIC THAT THE PLANNING STAFF PUT TOGETHER JUST TO GIVE YOU SOME IDEA OF WHAT WE'RE LOOKING AT WITH REGARD TO THE ADDITIONAL HEIGHT AND SQUARE FOOTAGE.
SO THE GRAPHIC TO THE LEFT SHOWS AN APPROXIMATE 70 FOOT TALL SIGN TO THE RIGHT, OF COURSE, IS EIGHTY FIVE FEET.
WITH THE INCREASE INCREASE VISUAL WITH THE INCREASED SQUARE FOOTAGE RATHER FOR THE SIGNS, THE APPLICANT'S JUSTIFICATION FOR THIS IS THAT THEY FEEL THAT IT'S LESS VISUAL CLUTTER BY HAVING ONE EXPANDED POLE SIGN INSTEAD OF GOING THROUGH THE EXERCISE OF REPLANTING THE PROPERTY INTO A SEPARATE LOT, WHICH WOULD IN TURN ALLOW A SECOND SIGN TO BE PLACED.
STAFF AGREES. WE DON'T WANT TO SEE A SECOND SIGN THE THE SIGN.
THEY ALSO FEEL THAT THE EXPANDED HEIGHT WILL ALLOW MORE VISIBILITY AND REACTION TIME FOR TRUCK DRIVERS FOR REFUELING AND REST.
THIS CHART SHOWS THE CITY'S CODE REQUIREMENTS AS THE CONSIDERATIONS THAT APPLICANTS LOOK TOWARD AND THEN THE APPLICANTS JUSTIFICATION WE HAVE GONE IN AND PUT IN OUR RESPONSES IN THE BOLD BLACK TEXT AND ALSO THE RED TEXT.
WE ARE NOT OPPOSED TO THE INCREASE IN THE SIGN FACE.
WE THINK THAT'S WARRANTED BASED ON THE CHANGE IN THE CONDITIONS ON THE PROPERTY.
THEY'RE ADDING TO THE SITE AND WILL THEREFORE HAVE ADDITIONAL TENANTS THAT WANT TO HAVE THEIR SIGNS ON THE POLE.
STAFF IS NOT IN SUPPORT OF THE ADDITIONAL HEIGHT.
WE FEEL THAT 85 FEET TAKES US THAN THIRTY FIVE FEET ABOVE WHAT THE CODE TYPICALLY ALLOWS.
WE ALSO FEEL THAT THE VISIBILITY AT THAT HEIGHT IS AMPLE FOR INDIVIDUALS THAT MIGHT UTILIZE THEIR FACILITIES.
SO OUR RECOMMENDATION TO THE PLANNING, OUR RECOMMENDATION TO YOU, EXCUSE ME, DIDN'T GO TO THE PLAN IS ON A COMMISSION. A RECOMMENDATION TO YOU COUNCIL IS THAT WE ARE IN FULL SUPPORT OF THE INCREASE IN ASSIGNED FACE.
WE ARE NOT IN SUPPORT OF INCREASING THE POLE ANY AMOUNT GREATER THAN WHAT'S CURRENTLY THERE. YOU HAVE AT YOUR DISPOSAL TO SIMPLY APPROVE OR DISAPPROVE THE VARIANCE, YOU CAN APPROVE A PORTION OF THE VARIANCE, OR DENY OUTRIGHT, SO THOSE ARE THOSE ARE THINGS THAT YOU HAVE AT YOUR DISPOSAL.
THAT CONCLUDES MY PRESENTATION AND I'LL TO THE EXTENT THAT I CANNOT ANSWER QUESTIONS THAT YOU MAY HAVE. ANY QUESTIONS, I WILL STATE THIS MOTION.
ARE YOU READY FOR A MOTION ALREADY? SO MAYOR, WHAT I WOULD SAY IS THAT IF YOU WANT TO MOVE FORWARD WITH THE STAFF'S RECOMMENDATION, THE MOTION WOULD BE PER STAFF RECOMMENDATION SHOULD YOU WANT TO MODIFY THAT IN SOME WAY. PUT THAT IN YOUR MOTION OR IF YOU WANT TO BASE IT BASED ON THE APPLICANT'S ORIGINAL REQUEST, YOU MAY DO THAT AS WELL.
I JUST WANT TO KNOW HOW THIS DISCUSSION WAS GOING TO GO.
TONY, COULD YOU GO BACK? I DON'T HAVE MY IPAD.
OK? THE ONE BEFORE THAT WITH THIS SIGN.
SO YOU'RE SUGGESTING THAT WE JUST GIVE THEM MORE ROOM FOR THESE ADDITIONAL SIGNS ON THE TOP, THE SHELL AND THE PILOT? YES, WE THINK THAT THEY ARE EXPANDING AND WE RECOGNIZE THAT AND WE THINK THAT IT MAKES SENSE TO HAVE THEM HAVE THE ABILITY TO PUT IN OR MORE OPPORTUNITY TO SHOW THE TENANTS WHO MIGHT BE IN PLACE. NOW I WILL SAY THAT YOU'RE YOU'RE LOOKING AT A BASELINE STANDARD OF TWO HUNDRED SQUARE FEET.
WITH THIS VARIANCE, YOU WILL SEE THAT BASELINE UPWARDS OF SIX HUNDRED FEET.
WE DON'T THINK THAT IS THE THE ISSUE AS MUCH AS THE THE INCREASE IN HEIGHT WE THINK COULD YIELD SOME UNDESIRABLE RESULTS THAT WE RATHER NOT SEE AT THIS LOCATION.
THAT BEING SAID, WE'RE IN SUPPORT OF THIS REQUEST FOR THE INCREASE IN THE VARIANCE FOR
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THE SIGN PHASE. ANYBODY ELSE? I'VE HAD OCCASION TO LOOK AT THIS SIGN THREE DIFFERENT TIMES SINCE THIS CAME UP ON THE AGENDA PACKET.I MADE A ROUND TRIP TO AUSTIN.
I'VE BEEN DOWN TO ALVARADO AND BACK A COUPLE OF TIMES AND I TEND TO AGREE WITH WHAT THE APPLICANT WANTS.
ON MY TRIP TO AUSTIN, YOU KNOW, IT BECAME APPARENT TO ME THAT PILOT, FIRST OF ALL, PILOT'S, A GOOD BRAND, I'VE STOPPED INTO THEIR STORES ON A NUMBER OF OCCASIONS, BUT BETWEEN PILOT'S AND LOVES AND QT AND ALL THE OTHER ROADSIDE PLACES, WHAT THEY REALLY DEPEND ON IS EXACTLY WHAT THE APPLICANT IS ASKING FOR, WHICH IS THE ABILITY TO SEE THE SIGN COMING IN TIME TO MANEUVER YOUR VEHICLE, TO MAKE THE EXIT AND GET OFF THE ROAD.
THAT'S THAT'S THAT'S HOW THEY LIVE AND DIE.
THERE ARE SIGNS FROM BURLESON TO AUSTIN THAT DO NO GOOD FOR ANYBODY AT ALL.
WE'VE LOOKED AT SIGNS OF PEOPLE'S CANDIDATES FOR OFFICE.
WE'VE GOT THIS JACKASS DOWN THE ROAD HERE THAT PUT THIS BILLBOARD UP, SLAMMING CERTAIN PEOPLE IN THE COMMUNITY, WHICH I JUST DESPISE THAT.
AND THAT WAS TOTALLY UNCALLED FOR.
BUT SIGNS THAT SERVE A PURPOSE TO ME HAVE SOME, SOME MERIT.
THIS NOT ONLY SERVES THE PURPOSE OF THE OWNER OF THE BUSINESS BECAUSE IT WILL HELP DRAW CUSTOMERS IN, BUT IT ALSO BENEFITS TO TRAVELERS ON THE ROAD.
YOU KNOW, ONE THING YOU'RE CONSTANTLY ON THE LOOKOUT FOR IS WHEN YOU'RE DRIVING IS TO SEE THE NEXT PLACE TO STOP, TO GET YOUR FUEL, TO GET REST STOP.
LITTLE COFFEE BREAK OR WHATEVER.
I THINK IT HELPS THE PUBLIC, AND I THINK IT HELPS THE BUSINESS OWNER IF THAT SIGNS AS VISIBLE AS IT FEASIBLY CAN BE.
AND I DON'T THINK AT THE HEIGHT THAT THEY'RE ASKING FOR THAT, THAT'S UNREASONABLE.
IT IS RIGHT NEXT TO THE HIGHWAY.
IT IS AN IMPORTANT AND, YOU KNOW, LOOKING AT IT, APPROACHING IT THREE DIFFERENT TIMES FROM THE SOUTH. IT IS, AT ITS PRESENT HEIGHT, SOMEWHAT OBSCURED BY OTHER SIGNS AND OTHER STRUCTURES. SOME STATE HIGHWAY SIGNS, SOME NOT KNOW.
GRANTED, I'M IN A VEHICLE THAT'S LOWER THAN AN 18 WHEEL TRUCK AND MY MY VIEWPOINT MIGHT NOT BE AS GOOD, BUT IT'S STILL YOU DO HAVE SUFFICIENT TIME TO MAKE THE EXIT.
IF YOU'RE LOOKING FOR IT, BUT THEY'RE THERE TRYING TO GET SOMETHING UP THERE THAT PEOPLE WILL NOTICE. SO AS MUCH AS I HATE TO GO AGAINST STAFF RECOMMENDATIONS TOO, I THINK I'M GOING TO SUPPORT WHAT THE APPLICANT WANTS TO DO ON THIS ONE.
SO THIS IN I AGREE WITH EVERYTHING YOU'RE SAYING DAN, BUT DOES JUST OPEN UP A PRECEDENT FOR OTHER SIGNS.
I MEAN, ARE WE GOING WE'RE GOING TO HAVE, WHAT'S THE POSSIBILITIES WITHIN BURLESON THAT SOMEONE'S GOING TO WILL WE WANT ONE OF THOSE TOO? WELL, IN A SENSE, WE'RE ALREADY GIVING THEM SOME BEYOND THE RULE BECAUSE WE'RE GOING BEYOND THE MAXIMUM SQUARE FOOTAGE AS WELL FOR THE SIGN.
SO WE'RE KIND OF ALREADY GIVING THEM A VARIANCE IN EXCESS OF THE MAXIMUM ALLOWED ON ONE FACTOR. I'M GOING WITH DAN ON THIS, BUT I'M NOT SURE IF THAT'S IT'S EVEN AN ISSUE OF SAYING, WELL, IF WE DO IT HERE, WE'LL DO IT SOMEWHERE ELSE.
I DON'T THINK WE HAVE ANY OTHER TYPE OF RETAIL OR GAS STATIONS THAT EVEN CONSIDER THIS KIND OF STUFF, WOULDN'T IT? NO.
I THINK WHAT I READ IN THE PACKET, TOO, WAS JUST THE FACT THAT IT'S ON THE HIGHWAY.
IT'S A VERY DIFFERENT ANIMAL THAN IF THEY CAME TO US ON 174.
WE KNOW WE WERE THRILLED TO GET RID OF THAT UGLY, HIDEOUS OLD RACETRACK, RACETRACK RACEWAY OR RACETRACK SIGN.
SO THIS IS, I THINK, STRICTLY BECAUSE OF WHAT IS ALLOWABLE ON A HIGHWAY IS WHAT I BELIEVE I READ. SO THE ISSUE YOU'RE CONCERNED WITH THE ADDITIONAL 15 FEET BEING A HAZARD IF WEATHER CONDITIONS OR WIND OR WHAT'S THE CONCERN THERE? YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT SIGN HEIGHTS, AND I'LL BE VERY CANDID WHEN YOU TALK TO YOUR TYPICAL PLANNER ABOUT SIDE HEIGHTS, PART OF WHAT WE WANT TO DO IS REDUCE THE OVERALL, I CALL IT, REACHING FOR THE SKY EFFECT THAT YOU SEE WITH A LOT OF SIGNS THAT YOU BECOME, YOU KNOW, CLUTTER, LEADS TOO VISUAL CLUTTER, NOW WITH THAT BEING SAID, THE APPLICANT HAD THE BENEFIT OF CONSTRUCTING A SIGN OUTSIDE THE CITY LIMITS, AND WE HAD CONVERSATIONS WITH THE APPLICANT AND ACTUALLY ENCOURAGED HIM TO GO THROUGH THIS PROCESS.
BUT TO THE EXTENT THAT WE WOULD LIKE TO TAKE IN LIMIT THE HEIGHT, THAT'S WHAT WE'RE RECOMMENDING. WITH THAT BEING SAID, WE DULY NOTE THERE CONDITIONS THAT ARE FAVORABLE IN SOME CASES.
SOME OF THESE FRANCHISES HAVE CERTAIN REQUIREMENTS IN THEIR CONTRACTS THAT THEY WANT TO HAVE SIGNS AT A CERTAIN HEIGHT.
AND SO WE'RE TRYING TO BE MINDFUL AND RESPECTFUL OF THAT AS IT RELATES TO HAVING THE ABILITY TO PLACE ADDITIONAL SIGNS ON THE SIGN FACE.
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NOW WHAT THE APPLICANT HAS AT THEIR DISPOSAL IS THEY COULD REPLAT THE PROPERTY BUT CAN'T GET ANY ADDITIONAL HEIGHT UNLESS THEY GET A VARIANCE THROUGH YOU ALL.SO EVEN IF THEY WERE TO REPLAT THE PROPERTY, THEY CAN GET AROUND A SIGN FACE REQUIREMENT.
YOU CAN'T GET AROUND THE HEIGHT REQUIREMENT WITHOUT GETTING A VARIANCE FROM YOU ALL.
SO WE LOOK AT IT FROM THAT ANGLE.
IF SOMEONE ELSE CAME IN AND PUT IN A SIGN RIGHT NEXT DOOR, THEY WOULD BE LIMITED TO 50 FEET UNLESS THEY WENT THROUGH THIS PROCESS.
IN THIS PARTICULAR CASE, THEY'RE ALREADY AT 70 FEET.
SO THE QUESTION, MR. MAYOR, IS DOES IT SERVE AS A PRECEDENT? I LIKE TO THINK LAND USE CASES STAND ON THEIR OWN, BUT I WILL TELL YOU, PEOPLE WILL LOOK AND SEE WHAT HAS BEEN DONE AND IT'S MORE OF A, YOU KNOW, FOLLOW THE LEADER TYPE EFFECT.
BUT WHEN THEY COME FORWARD TO YOU, YOU'VE JUST JUDGED A CASE ON ITS MERIT.
SO THAT'S MY RESPONSE REGARDING THAT.
IT IS A LITTLE HARDER TO SEE EVEN THE CURRENT SIGNS WERE COMING AS I'M COMING UP THE FREEWAY. YOU KNOW, I DO THINK THAT THE THE 50 FOOT HEIGHT IS VERY GOOD FOR OUR WITHIN OUR WITHIN THE DENSELY POPULATED AREA OF THE CITY.
BUT ON THE FREEWAYS, MAYBE WE CAN GO A LITTLE HIGHER.
I KNOW PILOT IS A VERY, VERY REPUTABLE COMPANY AND I KNOW THEY'RE GOING TO HAVE THEIR NAME UP THERE. AND I REALLY DON'T WANT SOMEBODY TO PASS THIS UP AND AND GO TO THE NEXT GAS STATION, WHICH IS LOVE'S JUST IN THE NORTH OF US.
I'D RATHER THE SUPPORT OUR LOCAL BUSINESSES AND KEEP THEM HERE.
SO I'M GOING TO BE WITH DAN ON ON THE HEIGHT.
I DEFINITELY RESPECT ALL THE WORK PUT INTO IT, BUT I'LL BE WITH DAN ON THE HEIGHT AND THE WHOLE THING. IT'S NOT THE FIRST TIME WE'VE MADE EXCEPTIONS TO SIGNS, WE'VE HAD THE SAME CONVERSATION THROUGHOUT THE YEARS.
I, FOR ONE, CERTAINLY LIKED THE POLE SIGNS WHEN MANY OTHERS DIDN'T.
I HAVE ABSOLUTELY NO PROBLEM WITH WHAT THEY'VE ASKED US TO DO.
IT'S NOT AS EASY TO SEE OUT THERE AND I PERSONALLY HAVE NO PROBLEM WITH THE WHOLE DEAL FOR.
MY PERSONAL OPINION IS I FEEL LIKE IT'S LESS CLUTTERED WHEN THERE IS MORE HEIGHT.
BUT JUST TO THE MAYOR'S POINT ABOUT PRECEDENTS, THERE WILL BE ANOTHER FACILITY DIRECTLY ACROSS FROM THIS ONE. SO I WOULD ANTICIPATE IF WE APPROVE THIS ONE, THAT WE'LL SEE ONE FROM THE OTHER COMPANY AND THAT IN THAT INSTANCE, WE WOULDN'T HAVE MUCH GROUND TO STAND ON AND SAYING, WELL, YOU APPROVED IT FOR ACROSS THIRTY FIVE, BUT NOT FOR US.
BUT I FEEL IN TOWN WE HAVE THE HEIGHT DIFFERENCE.
JUST LIKE MS. PAYNE MENTIONED THE RACETRACK SIGN THAT WAS UP FOR A REALLY LONG TIME AND WAS NOT ATTRACTIVE. SO JUST AS DAN SAYING FOR FOUR DRIVER SAFETY, I'M UNFORTUNATELY ALWAYS THE ONE THAT'S ON THE BOTTOM OF THE TANK LIKE, OH, WHERE? WHERE AM I GOING TO MAKE IT TO THE NEXT ONE? SO IT'S HELPFUL TO BE ABLE TO PLAN AHEAD AND AND THINGS THAT ARE WELL LIT.
IT JUST GIVES THE APPEARANCE OF SAFETY LIKE THAT SEEMS LIKE A BIG LOCATION TO PULL OVER AND SAFELY BE ABLE TO GET GAS AND RUN IN.
AND SO I THINK A LOT OF FACTORS PLAY INTO SOME OF THAT VISIBILITY AND ATTRACTIVENESS OFF THE HIGHWAY. I'M ALSO FINE WITH IT.
DO WE NEED TO REVISIT THIS, THOUGH? BECAUSE I MEAN, WE'RE PUTTING THIS ONE AT EIGHTY FIVE FEET.
WHAT'S TO KEEP SOMEBODY TO COME BACK AND SAY, WELL, I'M ONE HUNDRED FEET, YOU KNOW, WE NEED TO REVISIT OUR ORDINANCE AND AND LOOK AT THAT AGAIN, OR WE WE ARE IN THE PROCESS OF LOOKING AT ALL OF OUR STANDARDS.
YOU KNOW WHAT? SIGNS AND TOWERS? THAT'S WHAT YOU'RE GOING TO GET MORE HEIGHT, MORE HEIGHT, MORE HEIGHT.
SO, YOU KNOW, I THINK ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I RESPECTFULLY REQUEST IS THAT IN YOUR A MOTION, YOU KNOW, BE VERY CLEAR AND THAT YOU'RE APPROVING WHAT'S REQUESTED BASED ON THE APPLICANT'S JUSTIFICATION.
AND I THINK THAT WILL HELP WHEN SOMEONE COMES AND LOOKS AT YOUR ACTIONS.
THIS GENTLEMAN PROVIDED JUSTIFICATION FOR WHY HE THOUGHT IT WAS NECESSARY.
I GUESS WE'RE READY FOR A A MOTION IF ANYBODY WANTS TO VERBALIZE THIS.
I DID ALREADY, BUT I'LL MOVE TO APPROVE, APPROVE WHICH WAY.
MAYOR PRO TEM IS THAT A MOTION TO APPROVE? TO APPROVE AS THE APPLICANT HAS REQUESTED? OK, THANK YOU.
I'VE GOT A MOTION BY MCCLENDON AND A SECOND BY JOHNSON.
THANK YOU. THANK YOU, MAYOR AND COUNCIL THAT MOVES US ON TO SECTION SEVEN, GENERAL 7A IS
[A. Consider approval of a contract with Ryan Stalsby to create a public art mural on the embankment at Bailey Lake Park in amount not to exceed $15,000. (Staff Presenter: Lisa Duello, Neighborhood Services Director)]
CONSIDER APPROVAL OF A CONTRACT WITH RYAN STALLSBY TO CREATE A PUBLIC ART MURAL ON THE EMBANKMENT AT BAILEY LAKE PARK IN AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED FIFTEEN THOUSAND STAFF[00:35:03]
PRESENTER TONIGHT AS LISA DUELLO, DIRECTOR OF NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES, MS. DUELLO. GOOD EVENING, MAYOR FLETCHER AND COUNCIL MEMBERS.WE GET A LITTLE ORGANIZED HERE IN MY NOTES.
ALL RIGHT. WE'RE KIND OF EXCITED ABOUT THIS PROJECT, AS YOU RECALL, WE CAME TO YOU BACK IN JULY AND WE MADE QUITE A BIT OF PROGRESS SINCE THEN, SO I WANTED TO KIND OF DO A LITTLE REVIEW OF WHERE WE ARE.
BACK IN AUGUST OF TWENTY TWENTY, KBB PICKED A THEME OF LOCAL FLORA AND FAUNA, AND THEN IN DECEMBER OF 2020, KBB DISCUSSED VARIOUS LOCATIONS AND THEN THEY WOULD DETERMINE THAT BAILEY LAKE WAS A GOOD LOCATION AND COMMITTED KBB COMMITTED TO A TWO THOUSAND DOLLARS FOR THE PROJECT. AND IN FEBRUARY, WE BROUGHT IT TO THE PARKS BOARD FOR REVIEWING THE OPTIONS AND PARK BOARD RECOMMENDED ARTISTS PAINT THE MURAL ON THE EMBANKMENT.
AND THEN IN JULY, A CITY COUNCIL APPROVED THE RESOLUTION FOR THE ARTISTS TO PAINT A MURAL ON THE EMBANKMENT. AND THEN IN DECEMBER, JUST A COUPLE FEW WEEKS AGO, THE PARK BOARD APPROVED OF MR. RYAN STALSBY AS A SELECTED ARTIST TO PAINT A MURAL AT BAILEY LAKE.
JUST A LITTLE BIT KIND OF GETTING A LITTLE BIT AHEAD, BUT PARK BOARD RECOMMENDED A UNANIMOUS VOTE AND THEY DID INQUIRE ABOUT THE TYPE OF PROTECTION THAT WOULD BE USED FOR THE MURAL IN THE ART.
THE ARTIST IS GOING TO BE PUTTING A UV COATING ON THE MURAL THAT KIND OF WORKS AS A VARNISH AND ACCORDING TO SOME RESEARCH, AND TO THE ARTIST WHO HAS DONE QUITE A FEW OF THESE, THIS SHOULD LAST FOR MANY, MANY YEARS FOR PROTECTING THE ARTWORK.
I JUST WANT TO JUST REMIND YOU ALL THIS WAS ON OUR STRATEGIC PLAN AS PART OF A PROJECT.
SO WE'RE HOPING TO GET THIS APPROVED HERE.
AND THIS HAS BEEN THE PROCESS KIND OF A REVIEW OF WHAT I'VE ALREADY TALKED ABOUT.
THIS WAS A LOCATION THAT EVERYONE AGREED UPON.
AND SO IN SEPTEMBER, THROUGH NOVEMBER, KBB HAD A CALL FOR ART, AND THE GOAL OF THE PROJECT THAT WAS PUT OUT ON THE CALL FOR ART WAS TO GIVE LIFE TO AN URBAN SPACE WHILE CELEBRATING THE NATIVE PLANTS AND ANIMALS THAT DWELL ALONGSIDE THE HUMAN COMMUNITY MEMBERS IN THIS SPACE, WE HOPE TO INSPIRE ALL PEOPLE WHO PASS THE SITE TO BECOME GREAT STEWARDS OF PUBLIC PARKS.
SO THIS WAS SOME LANGUAGE THAT WAS PUT OUT TO THE ARTIST.
THE SELECTION CRITERIA WAS ABILITY TO UNDERSTAND A LOCAL SENSE OF PLACE DESIGN AND CONTEXT SENSITIVE MANNER AND FOCUS ON THE GOAL OF THE PROJECT DEMONSTRATE SUCCESSFUL, CREATIVE, INNOVATIVE AND EFFECTIVE APPROACH IN COMPARABLE PROJECTS AND PROVEN MASTERY OR SKILL IN LARGE SCALE PAINTING.
I'D LIKE TO SAY THAT WE RECEIVE FIFTY SIX ARTISTS FROM ALL OVER ONE FROM UKRAINE, TWO FROM CANADA, ALL OVER THE UNITED STATES, AND WE WERE REALLY OVERWHELMED AT THE ART THAT WAS SUBMITTED TO US.
REALLY, WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR IS PHOTOREALISM.
WE RECEIVED A LOT OF LIKE ABSTRACT MODERN POP ART, UNBELIEVABLE ARTWORK, YOU KNOW, AS FAR AS FUTURISM CONTEMPORARY.
BUT WE WERE LOOKING FOR PHOTOREALISM.
SO ON NOVEMBER 10TH, WE TOOK THOSE FIFTY SIX THE KBB BOARD WENT OVER.
IT TOOK A LONG TIME. WE SENT THAT TO SENT IT TO HIM PRIOR TO THE MEETING, AND EACH MEMBER REVEALED THEIR TOP THREE FOUR ARTISTS.
THREE ARTISTS WITH TOP CHOICE CAME OUT AS A COMMONALITY AND THEN AN ANONYMOUS, ANONYMOUS VOTE FOR TOP ARTISTS AND RYAN STALSBY.
WAS SELECTED WITH THE MAJORITY VOTE.
SO WHY DID WE PICK RYAN STALSBY? HIS VISION ALIGNED WITH THE THEME OF THE PROJECT? HIS PREVIOUS WORK EXAMPLES.
HE WAS BORN. HE'S HE'S FROM TEXAS.
WE HAD A LOT OF DIFFERENT ARTISTS FROM ALL OVER THE COUNTRY AND AGAIN TWO FROM CANADA AND ONE FROM UKRAINE, I BELIEVE.
HE WANTS HE HAD STATED THAT GIVE BACK TO THE COMMUNITY BY CREATING A BEAUTIFUL PIECE THAT TOUCHES THE HEARTS OF INDIVIDUALS AND RADIATES A POSITIVE MESSAGE BACK TO THE VIEWER INSPIRES MANY FOR YEARS TO COME.
SO THIS IS SOME OF HIS ARTWORK.
AND THIS WAS HIS RENDERING THAT HE HAD PROPOSED.
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AND WE ALSO LIKED WHAT HE HAD PUT IN HIS AND HIS RESPONSE.AND HE THE PURPLE CONE FLOWER, IT WAS SYMBOLIZED THE BEAUTY OF THE LAND.
THE BEES AND MONARCHS SYMBOLIZE RECYCLING OF NATURE AND HOW EVERYTHING WORKS TOGETHER.
AND THE GREAT BLUE HEARING HIGHLIGHTED FOR HIS PATIENCE AND DILIGENCE.
SO WE AGAIN, HE WAS THE ONE THAT WE VOTED ON.
SO WE'RE HOPING THAT YOU LIKE WHAT HE'S PROPOSED AND WE THEN THAT YOU LIKE RYAN'S WORK.
AS YOU CAN SEE, THE ONE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE SCALE, SOME OF THESE ARE REALLY BIG MURALS THAT HE'S GOT THERE. HERE'S SOME MORE OF HIS WORK.
AND WITH THAT, WE'D LIKE TO SEE IF YOU WANT TO APPROVE A CONTRACT WITH RYAN.
HOW DID YOU GET SUCH A LARGE VIEWING TO GET UKRAINE? WE FOUND WE FOUND JESSE TATE, WHO'S NOT HERE, OUR ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SPECIALISTS, HE FOUND QUITE A FEW WEB SITES THAT ARE SPECIFIC FOR ARTISTS THAT WE WE SENT OUT.
HE DID QUITE A BIT OF RESEARCH.
WE TALKED TO THE PEOPLE IN FORT WORTH THAT DID PAINT THE TRAILS.
I DON'T KNOW IF Y'ALL ARE FAMILIAR, IF YOU RIDE THE BIKE TRAILS ALONG AND WE WE KIND OF MIRRORED A LOT OF WHAT THEY DID THERE BECAUSE A LOT OF THIS HAS BEEN VERY NEW TO US.
AND WHAT WAS FUNNY IS LIKE THE LAST DAY, I THINK THE LAST DAY WE RECEIVED, LIKE 15, EVERYBODY WAITED TILL THE LAST MINUTE AND THEY JUST BOMBED US, YOU KNOW? I MEAN, HE STILL BEFORE THAT, WE HAD ABOUT 40 SUBMITTALS.
SO WELL, THERE ARE SOME BEAUTIFUL WORK, BUT I HAVE TO SAY THE RENDERING THAT HE PROVIDED AND WHAT HE WROTE ABOUT IT REALLY CAPTURES FOR ME WHAT I WAS HOPING FOR WITH THIS, AND I WAS VERY PLEASANTLY SURPRISED IN HIS APPROACH.
IF ANY OF YOU ALL ARE INTERESTED, WE COULD SEND YOU.
I MEAN, THE FIFTY SIX AND YOU CAN JUST SEE ALL OF THE DIFFERENT.
IT TOOK IT TOOK ME HOURS TO GO THROUGH AND LOOK AT IT.
SOME OF SOME OF IT WAS AMAZING.
BUT THIS HIS HIS ARTWORK IN A SUBMITTAL AND EVERYTHING REALLY FIT THE GOAL AND OF THE OBJECTIVE OF OUR PROJECT IS WHAT WE THOUGHT.
CAN I GET A MOTION ON THIS? I'D LIKE TO MOVE TO APPROVE.
I'LL SECOND. HAVE A, WHO WAS THE SECOND? I TRIED TO.
HAVE A MOTION BY TAMARA AND A SECOND BY DAN, PLEASE VOTE.
I'D LIKE TO SAY A THANK YOU TO THE BOARD FOR WORKING SO HARD AND GOING THROUGH ALL THOSE PROPOSALS THAT HAD TO BE A LOT OF HOURS AND A LOT OF TOUGH DECISIONS.
IT WAS ENJOYABLE, BUT IT WAS A LOT OF TIME.
MAYOR AND COUNCIL THAT BRINGS US TO SECTION EIGHT, REPORTS AND PRESENTATIONS.
[A. Receive a report and hold a discussion on the Texas Local Option Election process. (Staff Presenter: Amanda Campos, City Secretary)]
8A IS TO RECEIVE A REPORT AND HOLD A DISCUSSION ON THE TEXAS LOCAL OPTION ELECTION PROCESS. THE STAFF PRESENTER IS AMANDA CAMPOS, CITY SECRETARY.THAT WOULD BE ME. I'M GOING TO MOVE OVER TO MY NEXT SPOT.
OK, GOOD EVENING, MAYOR AND COUNCIL, I WAS REQUESTED TO PRESENT TO YOU ALL THE LOCAL OPTION PROCESS HERE FOR THE CITY OF BURLESON.
FIRST OF ALL, A QUICK OVERVIEW OF WHAT A LOCAL OPTION IS HERE FOR BURLESON, SO JOHNSON COUNTY PORTION OF BURLESON HAS BEEN DRY UNTIL TWO THOUSAND FOUR WHEN WE HAD OUR FIRST LOCAL OPTION ELECTION.
THERE WERE TWO MEASURES ON THE BALLOT, AS YOU CAN SEE HERE, ONE FAILED AND ONE PASSED.
SO WE HAD THE LEGAL SALE OF MALT BEVERAGES AND WINE FOR OFF PREMISE CONSUMPTION, WHICH FAILED, AND THEN THE LEGAL SALE OF MIXED BEVERAGES AND RESTAURANTS BY A FOOD AND BEVERAGE CERTIFICATE HOLDER ONLY IN THAT ONE PASSED.
WAITED TWO YEARS, CAME BACK AND HAD A SECOND LOCAL OPTION.
I DIDN'T PUT THAT ON THERE IT WAS IN NOVEMBER.
IT WAS HELD IN NOVEMBER OF TWO THOUSAND SIX AND IT PASSED.
IT WAS THE SAME MEASURE THAT WAS BEFORE THEM IN 2004 FOUR, BUT THEN IN TWO THOUSAND SIX, HAVING PROVEN THE LOCAL OPTION FOR MIXED BEVERAGES FOR RESTAURANTS, FOOD AND BEVERAGE, THE COMMUNITY WAS MORE OPEN TO HAVING THAT SECOND PART.
THERE HAVE BEEN NO OTHER LOCAL OPTIONS HELD TO DATE IN THE CITY OF BURLESON.
WE'VE BEEN RUNNING ON THESE TWO MEASURES HERE SINCE YOU CAN SEE SINCE TWO THOUSAND SIX.
SO WE'LL GO THROUGH THE STEPS, AND I'VE KIND OF GOTTEN IN THE WEEDS, SO IF WE'RE GETTING TOO MUCH IN THE WEEDS AND IT'S TOO MUCH OVERLOAD, JUST LET ME KNOW AND I CAN STOP.
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FIRST OF ALL, AN ELECTION MUST BE HELD ON A UNIFORM ELECTION DATE.SO THIS YEAR IN 2022, THE FIRST SATURDAY IN MAY OR THE FIRST TUESDAY AFTER THE FIRST MONDAY IN NOVEMBER, SAY THAT THREE TIMES FAST.
SO THE DATES ARE MAY 7TH AND NOVEMBER 8TH, AND I'VE PUT THERE TO TO LET YOU GUYS KNOW THAT IF WE HAD A MAY 2020 ELECTION, THEN FEBRUARY 18TH WOULD BE THE LAST DAY TO CALL THAT ELECTION. IF WE HAVE A NOVEMBER ELECTION, THEN AUGUST 22 WOULD BE THE LAST DAY.
SO HOW DO WE GET TO THIS POINT? THE FIRST STEP IS THAT WE'D HAVE TO GET AN APPLICATION FOR PETITION.
THAT APPLICATION HAS TO BE FILLED OUT BY AT LEAST 10 QUALIFIED VOTERS OF THE CITY.
IT CAN BE MORE, BUT IT CAN'T BE LESS THAN 10.
AND ON THAT APPLICATION, I'LL WALK THROUGH THAT APPLICATION BECAUSE THERE'S OTHER STEPS ON THERE. ONCE IT'S VERIFIED BY THE CITY SECRETARY, THEN I ISSUE PETITIONS.
ONCE THOSE PETITIONS ARE RETURNED TO ME AND I VERIFY THE SIGNATURES AND THE AMOUNT IS CORRECT ON WHAT THEY'RE REQUIRED TO HAVE ON THAT, THEN I MUST PRESENT THAT TO CITY COUNCIL. THAT'S NOT AN OPTION FOR ME.
IT'S A MUST. CITY COUNCIL THEN WOULD HAVE TO ORDER AN ELECTION FOR THE NEXT UNIFORM ELECTION DATE AND THEN ELECTION WILL BE HELD IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE TEXAS ELECTION CODE.
SO LET'S TALK ABOUT THE APPLICATION FOR PETITION.
SO THIS IS THE ONE WHERE WE'D NEED 10 OR MORE QUALIFIED VOTERS OF THE CITY OF BURLESON.
THERE'S NO SPECIFIC FORM FOR THIS.
HOWEVER, THERE IS SPECIFIC LANGUAGE THAT HAS TO BE IN THIS APPLICATION.
ALSO, IT MUST BE PUBLISHED IN THE NEWSPAPER AND THEN THE PROOF OF PUBLICATION IN THE NEWSPAPER HAS TO ACCOMPANY THE APPLICATION.
SO IF THESE 10 OR MORE VOTERS SUBMIT AN APPLICATION ALONG WITH THAT, I WOULD NEED FOR THEM TO SUBMIT A PUBLICATION AFFIDAVIT TO SAY THAT THEY DID DO THAT.
SO AS YOU CAN SEE THERE, IS THERE ANY QUESTIONS ON THE APPLICATION ON WHAT THAT WOULD DO? OK. GO, I'M SORRY, GO BACK TO THAT JUST A SECOND.
YOU SHOWED THREE THINGS THAT WERE VOTED ON, TWO PASSED, ONE FAILED.
THIS IS KIND OF A GENERAL THING.
ARE THEY GOING TO? SO I'LL GO IN.
I'LL GET INTO THAT OF WHERE THAT IS BECAUSE THERE IS SPECIFICS THAT THEY HAVE TO TELL US WHAT WHAT THEY'RE GOING TO BE ASKING FOR.
AND I'LL TELL YOU WHAT THEY WHAT THEY CAN AND CAN'T ASK FOR THERE.
SO ONCE I RECEIVED THAT APPLICATION, I MUST NOTIFY THE SECRETARY OF STATE AND THE TEXAS ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE COMMISSION IN WRITING BY THE FIFTH DAY AFTER I'VE ISSUED PETITIONS.
SO I RECEIVED THE APPLICATION, I VERIFY IT AND THEN I GO AHEAD AND START ISSUING PETITIONS. BUT AT THE SAME TIME, I HAVE TO NOTIFY IN WRITING THE SECRETARY OF STATE AND THE TEXAS ALCOHOL BEVERAGE COMMISSION.
THE ELECTION CODE REQUIRES THE PETITION TO BE IN ENGLISH AND SPANISH, AND EACH PETITION SHALL BE FOR ONLY ONE MEASURE.
AND I'LL GO OVER THE MEASURES BECAUSE THERE ARE SEVERAL MEASURES THAT YOU CAN HAVE.
SO LET'S SAY THERE ARE THREE DIFFERENT THINGS THAT WE WANT TO ADD TO THIS.
THERE'S GOING TO HAVE TO BE A PETITION THAT SOMEBODY SIGNS FOR EACH ONE OF THOSE MEASURES.
YOU CAN'T COMBINE ALL THE MEASURES TOGETHER ON ONE PETITION, EVEN IF THEY AGREE TO ALL THREE, THEY'RE GOING TO HAVE TO SIGN BECAUSE THEY'RE TAKEN UP AS SEPARATE ITEMS. EACH ONE HAS TO BE A SEPARATE ITEM.
I HAVE TO SUPPLY THE PETITIONS AND THERE IS REQUIREMENTS ON THOSE PETITIONS.
THERE'S GOING TO BE SPECIFIC HEADERS ON THAT PETITION.
THERE'S GOING TO BE SPECIFIC SEQUENCING OF NUMBERS.
THERE'S GOING TO BE SPECIFIC COLUMNS THAT I HAVE TO PROVIDE TO THEM.
JUST SO YOU KNOW, THERE IS NO REQUIRED HOW MANY PER EXCEPT FOR THE ONLY THING IS REQUIRED IS THAT I CAN'T HAVE MORE THAN 10 REGISTERED VOTERS ON ONE PAGE.
I'M NOT SURE THAT, YOU KNOW, I DON'T KNOW.
IT'S WEIRD. SO. AND THE OFFICIAL PETITION IS SUBSCRIBED BY THE SECRETARY OF STATE'S OFFICE. SO WHEN I TALK ABOUT SPECIFIC HEADERS AND AND SEQUENCING OF NUMBERS AND AFFIDAVIT OF CIRCULATOR, THERE'S A WHOLE BUNCH THAT GOES INTO A PETITION ON MY SIDE.
THERE'S NOT A WHOLE BUNCH THAT GOES INTO PETITION ON THE OPPOSITE SIDE.
SO IF I COME AND APPROACH YOU TO SIGN A PETITION HERE IN THE STATE OF TEXAS, THE ONLY THING IN YOUR ORIGINAL HANDWRITING HAS TO BE YOUR SIGNATURE.
SO SOMEBODY ELSE CAN FILL IT OUT FOR YOU, YOUR NAME, YOUR DATE OF BIRTH, YOUR VOTER ID NUMBER, BUT YOUR SIGNATURE HAS TO BE ON THERE IN YOUR OWN ORIGINAL HANDWRITING.
SO WHAT ARE THE MEASURES THAT WE CAN HAVE BEFORE A VOTER AND THESE ARE THE 10, THESE ARE THE ONLY 10 THAT YOU CAN HAVE IN THE STATE OF TEXAS.
THE TWO IN RED THREE AND NINE ARE THE ONES THAT WE HAVE ALREADY PASSED AND APPROVED.
SO IF YOU LOOK AT THOSE, EACH ONE OF THOSE HAS A DIFFERENT CONNOTATION OF WHAT YOU CAN DO
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AND WHAT YOU CAN'T DO.THESE ARE VERY BECAUSE OF LOCAL OPTION BY NATURE.
THE WORD LOCAL IS SPECIFIC TO EACH REGION AND EACH CITY.
AND SO THEY'VE GIVEN US 10 OPTIONS TO DO THAT.
SO IF YOU WANT TO READ THROUGH THOSE, SO WHEN I SAY THAT THEY COME FORWARD WITH AN APPLICATION, THEY'D COME FORWARD WITH AN APPLICATION TO SAY IT'S OUR HOPE.
I DON'T REMEMBER THE EXACT WORDS HOPE, OUR WISHES THAT WE HAVE A PETITION THAT GOES FORWARD. AND IT HAS TO SAY THE LEGAL SALE OF MALT BEVERAGES FOR OFF PREMISE CONSUMPTION ONLY IF THAT WAS THE MEASURE THAT WE HAD CHOSEN OR THAT THEY HAD CHOSEN.
THEY HAVE TO PICK ONE OF THOSE VERY, VERY SPECIFIC AND THEY HAVE TO PICK ONE OF THOSE.
ARE THERE ANY QUESTIONS ON THE MEASURES? OK, SO THE NUMBER OF SIGNATURES REQUIRED, BECAUSE I KNOW THAT'S WHAT EVERYBODY IS ASKING RIGHT NOW, SO IT'S TWENTY FIVE PERCENT AND THIS IS REALLY DIFFERENT TO TWENTY FIVE PERCENT OF REGISTERED VOTERS WHO VOTED IN THE MOST GENERAL ELECTION.
IF YOU CHOSE THE LEGAL SALE OF WINE ON THE PREMISE OF A HOLDER OF A WINERY PERMIT ONLY.
THAT'S THE ONLY MEASURE OF THOSE TEN THAT REQUIRE TWENTY FIVE PERCENT.
EVERY OTHER MEASURE ON THAT LIST OF 10 WILL REQUIRE THIRTY FIVE PERCENT OF REGISTERED VOTERS WHO VOTED IN THE MOST RECENT GUBERNATORIAL ELECTION FOR ALL OTHER MEASURES.
SO THAT MEANS THE LAST GOVERNOR'S ELECTION THAT RAN.
SO IT'S NOT THE CITY OF BURLESON ELECTION HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH OUR GENERAL ELECTIONS.
IT'S GOING TO HAVE TO DO WITH THE ELECTION OF THE LAST TIME THAT WE VOTED FOR A GOVERNOR.
AND THAT'S A CITY OF BURLESON REGISTERED VOTERS WHO VOTED IN THE LAST, NOT THE WHOLE OF THE WHOLE STATE, JUST OF THE CITY OF BURLESON VOTERS.
AND THAT'S THIRTY FIVE PERCENT OF THOSE.
THEY HAVE 60 DAYS TO GATHER THESE SIGNATURES AND RETURN THEM TO ME AFTER THEY'VE BEEN ISSUED. SO THERE IS A TIME FRAME ON THAT.
AND THEN THERE'S ALSO A TIME FRAME ON ME.
I HAVE 15 BUSINESS DAYS TO VERIFY ALL OF THE SIGNATURES ON THERE.
ANY QUESTIONS ON THAT? SO, SO WITH THESE TIMES AND STUFF, WE'RE NOT REALLY LOOKING AT A FEBRUARY THEN, THAT WOULD BE AT THE EARLIEST NOVEMBER.
I WOULD JUST TELL YOU, IF SOMEBODY CAME IN TOMORROW, THEY WOULD HAVE TO REALLY, REALLY HUSTLE TO GET THE NUMBER OF VOTERS THEY WOULD NEED.
BECAUSE IN BURLESON, I'LL TELL YOU HONESTLY AND BURLESON, IT DOESN'T MAKE SENSE TO DO A LEGAL SALE OF WINE ON THE PREMISE OF A HOLDER OF A WINERY PERMIT, BECAUSE WE ALREADY HAVE THAT COVERED WHEN WE COVERED WHEN WE PASSED THE ELECTION IN TWO THOUSAND FOUR FOR, I'M SORRY, TWO THOUSAND SIX FOR WINE AND BEER, FOR OFF PREMISE CONSUMPTION AND A WINERY, IT'S A G. JUST IN CASE YOU WANT TO KNOW THAT THAT ALREADY FITS IN THERE IS ALREADY ALLOWED, SO THERE WOULDN'T BE A NEED TO DO THAT ONE.
SO YES, ALL OTHER ONES WOULD NEED THIRTY FIVE PERCENT.
YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT ANYWHERE FROM FIFTEEN TO TWENTY THOUSAND REGISTERED VOTERS WHO VOTED IN THE LAST GOVERNOR'S ELECTION.
SO THIRTY FIVE PERCENT OF THAT.
SO YOU'RE LOOKING AT FIVE TO SIX THOUSAND REGISTERED VOTERS IN THE CITY OF BURLESON TO SIGN THESE PETITIONS, AND THEY HAVE TO BE REGISTERED VOTERS OF THE CITY OF BURLESON AT THE TIME THEY SIGNED THAT PETITION.
SO WHEN THEY SIGN THAT PETITION AND I GET THAT, I'LL LOOK UP THAT VOTER AND MAKE SURE THAT THEY ARE A REGISTERED VOTER OF THE CITY OF BURLESON.
SO I JUST I'LL JUST TELL YOU THAT WHAT I'VE SEEN IN THE PAST HISTORY IS PROVEN IS THAT WHEN YOU'RE CIRCULATING A PETITION, YOU PICK THE THE HIGHEST TRAFFIC AREAS TO KIND OF GET TO. YOU'RE GOING TO SIT OUT THERE, YOU'RE GOING TO ASK SOMEBODY TO SIGN A PETITION AND THEY'RE GOING TO SAY, THAT'S A GREAT IDEA AND THEY'RE GOING TO SIGN THAT PETITION.
AND THERE'S GOING TO BE TWO FACTORS THAT MAY HAPPEN.
THEY DON'T LIVE IN THE CITY OF BURLESON OR THEY'RE NOT REGISTERED VOTERS.
NOW ONE QUICK QUESTION IS THIS AND I KNOW YOU KEEP SAYING CITY OF BURLESON, I WANT TO MAKE SURE I'M UNDERSTAND CORRECTLY THE CITY OF BURLESON, NOT SPECIFICALLY BETWEEN TARRANT AND JOHNSON, BECAUSE ONE'S DRY ONE'S NOT RIGHT OR NO.
IT'S EVERYBODY, EVERYBODY FOR THE CITY OF BURLESON.
AND SO, YOU KNOW, ONCE I GET A VALID PETITION, LET'S SAY I'VE DONE ALL OF THAT AND IT'S IT'S GOOD AND I'VE PRESENTED IT TO COUNCIL.
WE HAVE TO RECORD THEM IN THE OFFICIAL MINUTES OF THE CITY COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS, CITY COUNCIL MUST ORDER AN ELECTION.
AND I HIGHLIGHTED THAT TO LET YOU ALL KNOW THAT THIS IS NOT AN OPTION BY ANY CITY COUNCIL ON THE STATE OF IN THE STATE OF TEXAS.
IF THEY GET PRESENTED WITH A LOCAL OPTION, PETITIONS THAT ARE VALIDATED AND THEY'VE MET ALL THE REQUIREMENTS, THEN THAT COUNCIL HAS TO CALL THAT ELECTION TO TAKE PLACE AND IT WOULD HAVE TO TAKE PLACE AT THE NEXT UNIFORM ELECTION DAY.
SO THERE COULD BE A WAY THAT SOMEBODY WOULD DO THIS START THIS PROCESS.
WE'D GET EVERYTHING SET AND DONE.
AND MAYBE IN MAY, I WOULD TELL YOU ALL HERE IT IS, AND YOU WOULD CALL THE ELECTION, BUT WE WOULDN'T HOLD THE ELECTION UNTIL NOVEMBER.
SO YOU'RE RIGHT, COUNCIL MEMBER STANFORD.
IT'D BE VERY DIFFICULT FOR SOMEBODY TO DO IT IN IN MAY.
I'M NOT SAYING THEY COULDN'T DO IT, BUT IT WOULD BE EXTREMELY DIFFICULT.
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AND SO ONCE WE DO THAT, THEN WE HOLD IT ON A UNIFORM ELECTION DAY AND WE HOLD IT LIKE ANYTHING ELSE THAT WE DO ANY OTHER ELECTION, IT HAS TO FOLLOW ALL THE SAME RULES THAT ANY OTHER ELECTION WOULD HOLD.AND THEN AFTER THE ELECTION, OF COURSE, WE'D CANVASS THE ELECTION AS WE DO ALL THE TIME.
THAT'S ALWAYS SOMETHING THAT WE HAVE TO DO.
IT'S JUST I WANTED TO NOTE THAT THE PASSAGE OF THE MEASURE GOES INTO EFFECT WHEN THE RESULTS ARE OFFICIALLY CANVASED.
SO THAT GOES INTO EFFECT IMMEDIATELY AS SOON AS YOU GUYS CANVASS IT, NOT IMMEDIATELY.
SO WE HAVE AN ELECTION ON ON A TUESDAY.
WHEN IT PASSES WEDNESDAY, IT'S NOT OFFICIAL YET.
WE HAVE TO WAIT TILL WE CANVASS AND THEN IT WOULD BE OFFICIAL.
AND I WANTED TO LET YOU ALL KNOW UNSUCCESSFUL MEASURES, WHAT THAT MEANS IS THAT WE DON'T HAVE TO WAIT LIKE IF THEY LET'S SAY WE HAVE A NOVEMBER ELECTION AND IT FAILS.
THEY DON'T HAVE TO WAIT TWO YEARS, THEY DON'T HAVE TO WAIT A YEAR.
AND THEY WOULD HAVE TO, THOUGH, GO THROUGH ALL OF THE STEPS ALL OVER AGAIN.
THEY WOULD HAVE TO APPLY FOR THE PETITION.
WE WOULD HAVE TO ISSUE THE PETITIONS AND THEY'D HAVE TO GET THE SIGNATURES AGAIN AND THEN WE WOULD BE ABLE TO DO IT AGAIN.
SO JUST SO YOU KNOW THAT THERE'S NOT A NEGATIVE EFFECT FOR AN UNSUCCESSFUL AND IT DOESN'T AND IT DOESN'T PROHIBIT US FROM ANYBODY WHO ALREADY CURRENTLY HOLDS ANY LIQUOR LICENSES TO BE. IT'S NOT VACATED.
IN OTHER WORDS, IT DOESN'T TELL THEM THEY CAN'T CAN.
THEY CAN NO LONGER SELL ALCOHOL.
WE JUST FOLLOW UNDER THE SAME RULES THAT WE'RE FOLLOWING UNDER RIGHT NOW.
I WILL SAY IT'S INTERESTING TO NOTE THAT THE SAME PROCESS THAT WE DO HERE, THERE IS ALSO A PROCESS, THE EXACT SAME PROCESS FOR SOMEBODY TO COME FORWARD AND PUT ON THE MEASURE ON THE BALLOT TO NOT ALLOW.
SO SOMEBODY COULD COME BY AND SAY, I WANT TO PETITION TO SAY NOT ALLOW A MIXED BEVERAGE RESTAURANT WITH A FOOD AND BEVERAGE CERTIFICATE TO EXIST ANYMORE SO THEY CAN DO THE SAME THING. AND OF COURSE, AND I HAVE TO NOTIFY THE SECRETARY OF STATE AND THE TEXAS ALCOHOL BEVERAGE COMMISSION OF ANY PASSAGES.
AND THAT IS MY PRESENTATION ON THE LOCAL OPTION.
I THINK WHAT THE COUNCIL NEEDS TO REALIZE IS THAT THERE IS NOTHING AS A BODY THAT YOU GUYS ARE REQUIRED TO DO TO INITIATE THIS.
IF YOU'RE GETTING QUESTIONS ABOUT HOW CAN WE GET THIS STARTED? THERE'S NOTHING THAT THIS BODY CAN ACT UPON AS ITS AS ITS FORM AS A CITY COUNCIL.
HOWEVER, EACH ONE OF YOU IS A REGISTERED VOTER OF THE CITY OF BURLESON, AND EACH ONE OF YOU CAN INITIATE ANYTHING AS A PRIVATE CITIZEN, IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO.
I SAY THAT BECAUSE THE LAST LOCAL OPTION, THE FIRST LOCAL OPTION APPLICATION THAT WE HAD WAS BY CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS AND OTHER MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY TO.
BUT AS A CITY, YOU KNOW, YOU'RE REQUIRED TO DO ANYTHING TO TO GET THIS TO GO.
YOU HAVE TO GET THIS PETITION FIRST.
ANY QUESTIONS? BUT WE CAN BE PART OF THAT 10, THOUGH.
YES, SIR. YOU CAN BE PART OF THAT 10.
THAT'S WHY I WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT IT'S CLEAR THAT YOU GUYS CAN BE PART OF THAT 10.
YOU DON'T HAVE TO WAIT FOR SOMEBODY ELSE TO DO THAT IF YOU DON'T WANT TO.
YOU CAN DO THAT YOURSELVES. YOU JUST CANNOT DO IT.
THE CITY COUNCIL CAN'T SAY WHERE WE THE BURLESON CITY COUNCIL, WANT TO WANT TO APPLY FOR THAT. YOU'D HAVE TO SAY, YOU KNOW ME.
JIMMY STANFORD, CITIZEN OF BURLESON, REGISTERED VOTER SIGNS THAT.
OK. DO OUR ZONING ORDINANCES ADDRESS LIQUOR SALES? YES IT DOES WE HAVE ZONING DISTRICTS THAT LIQUOR SALES ARE ALCOHOL SALES ARE PROHIBITED? MM HMM. MOSTLY, IT'S RESIDENTIAL AREAS ALWAYS NEED TO REMEMBER.
WE ARE VERY CAUTIOUS WHEN WE DEAL WITH ALCOHOL BECAUSE THE TEXAS SUPREME COURT HAS MADE A RULING IN THE DALLAS MERCHANTS AND CONCESSIONAIRES ASSOCIATION CASE.
IN NINETEEN EIGHTY SEVEN, THE TEXAS LEGISLATURE DID A MASSIVE AMENDMENT TO THE TEXAS ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE CODE, AND THEY ESSENTIALLY REMOVED MOST LOCAL REGULATORY AUTHORITY FOR ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE SALES.
WE CAN ENFORCE THE PROVISIONS OF THE STATE ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE CODE AND WE CAN COMPLY WITH THAT STATE CODE.
WE DO NOT HAVE THE ABILITY TO ADOPT ANY NEW REGULATIONS AFTER 1987 THAT WOULD AFFECT THE LOCATION OF SALES OTHER THAN SOME VERY MINOR UNUSUAL PROVISIONS.
WE RETAIN THE RIGHT TO PROHIBIT BEER SALES IN RESIDENTIAL AREAS, YOU KNOW, LET SOME ODD BITS AND PIECES SCATTERED AROUND.
BUT GENERALLY WHEN YOU'RE TALKING ZONING, YOU BEGIN WITH THE ASSUMPTION WE'RE GOING TO FOLLOW THE ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE CODE BECAUSE THAT PRETTY MUCH SETS OUT THE BOUNDARIES OF WHAT WE CAN OR CANNOT DO.
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YOU WANT.SO, MAYOR AND COUNCIL, THE NEXT ITEM BEFORE YOU IS 8B, RECEIVE A REPORT AND HOLD A
[B. Receive a report and hold a discussion on elections in 2022. (Staff Presenter: Amanda Campos, City Secretary)]
DISCUSSION ON ELECTIONS IN 2022 AGAIN OUR PRESENTERS.AMANDA CAMPOS, CITY SECRETARY.
SO THIS IS SOMETHING THAT I WANTED COUNCIL TO REVIEW AT THIS TIME.
NORMALLY I DO THIS WHETHER WE HAVE AN ELECTION OR NOT.
IN JANUARY, I'M GOING TO ASK YOU GUYS TO REVIEW OUR ELECTIONS AND WHERE WE'RE AT, WHETHER CONDUCTING THEM OURSELVES OR CONTRACTING OUT WITH THE COUNTY.
TONIGHT ALSO, WE'RE GOING TO TALK ABOUT ELECTION THINGS TO DISCUSS, WHICH IS LEGISLATIVE CHANGES, WHICH THERE WERE MASSIVE LEGISLATIVE CHANGES.
AND WHAT I WILL TELL YOU RIGHT NOW IS THAT I'VE GONE ON A VERY TOP LEVEL OF THESE CHANGES. THERE ARE, HOWEVER, NUMEROUS OTHER CHANGES THAT ARE IN EFFECT.
WE WE DID A DAY AND A HALF OF THESE, AND I DON'T THINK WE COVERED EVERYTHING TO THE SATISFACTION OF US AT A AT THE SECRETARY OF STATE'S ELECTION CONFERENCE.
WHICH UNIFORM DATES FOR ANY SPECIAL ELECTIONS COMING UP, WHETHER WE HOLD OUR ELECTIONS OR CONTRACT WITH THE COUNTIES FOR ELECTION SERVICES? I JUST WANTED TO NOTE THAT IN EVEN NUMBERED YEARS, THE COUNTY CAN DENY OUR REQUEST TO RUN OUR ELECTIONS. THEY'RE ALLOWED TO DO THAT BECAUSE IF YOU REMEMBER, THEY'RE GOING TO START PRIMARIES IN MARCH.
AND SO IT'S IT'S TAXING FOR THEIR THEIR STAFF TO DO MORE THAN, YOU KNOW, THAT IT'S TOO CLOSE IN TIME FROM MARCH TO MAY AT SOME TIMES.
THEY CAN'T TURN AROUND THEIR MACHINES AND PROGRAMING AND EVERYTHING ELSE.
IF WE EVER HOLD ANOTHER NOVEMBER ELECTION DATE, WE WE MUST CONTRACT WITH THE COUNTY BECAUSE OF THE LOGISTIC REQUIREMENTS.
REMEMBER, IF YOU'LL IF YOU'LL REMEMBER THAT IN NOVEMBER ELECTIONS, I'M REQUIRED TO SHARE POLLING PLACES WITH THE COUNTIES.
AND SINCE TARRANT COUNTY WENT TO VOTING CENTERS, THE NUMBER OF POLLING PLACES THAT THEY HAVE, I COULD NEVER STAFF FULLY, EVEN JOHNSON COUNTY.
I THINK RIGHT NOW THEY HAVE 12.
I DON'T KNOW THAT WE COULD EVEN HAVE 12.
I DON'T THINK I COULD GET STAFF ENOUGH TO ELECTION WORKERS TO DO TWELVE DIFFERENT LOCATIONS. SOME OTHER THINGS AGAIN, I'LL GO BACK OVER.
WE KIND OF ALREADY TALKED ABOUT THIS IN THE LOCAL OPTION IS THAT SATURDAY, MAY 7TH TWENTY TWENTY TWO IS THE UNIFORM ELECTION DAY IN MAY AND NOVEMBER 8TH.
2022 IS THE ELECTION DAY IN NOVEMBER, AGAIN THE LAST DAYS TO CALL ELECTIONS FOR THOSE DATES. SO LEGISLATIVE CHANGES, I SAID THIS NOT IT'S NOT A FULL LIST, BUT I DID WANT YOU TO SAY NO THAT THEY ARE.
THEY DID CHANGE SOME VOTING BY MAIL.
ONE OF THE MAJOR THINGS THAT THEY DID VOTING BY MAIL.
IF YOU'LL MOVE DOWN A COUPLE OF BULLET POINTS BALLOT BY MAIL TRACKER.
THIS IS ONLY IF THE EARLY VOTING CLERK IS THE IS THE COUNTY CLERK.
SO IF THE COUNTY CLERK IS THE EARLY VOTING CLERK, THEN EVERY COUNTY IS REQUIRED NOW TO HAVE A BALLOT BY MAIL TRACKER.
SO YOU APPLY FOR A BALLOT BY MAIL, YOU'RE GIVEN A UNIQUE SIGN ON.
NO, YOU GO TO THE COUNTY'S WEBSITE, YOU PUT IN THAT SIGN ON NUMBER, BUT YOU WOULD NEED THAT THAT SIGN ON NUMBER PLUS EITHER YOUR SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER OR YOUR DRIVER'S LICENSE, AND THEN IT'LL PULL UP WHERE YOUR APPLICATION IS, WHETHER IT'S BEING REVIEWED, WHETHER IT'S BEEN APPROVED, WHETHER A BALLOT HAS BEEN MAILED OUT TO YOU, WHETHER THEY'VE RECEIVED YOUR BALLOT AND WHETHER YOUR BALLOT HAS GONE TO THE BALLOT.
BOARD FOR COUNTING THAT DOESN'T.
THAT DOESN'T REQUIRE A LOCAL ELECTION.
SO WHEN I CONDUCT THE ELECTIONS, IF I CONDUCT THE ELECTIONS, I DON'T HAVE TO DO THAT BECAUSE THAT SPECIFIC SOFTWARE THAT REQUIRES ALL THIS ENCRYPTION BECAUSE YOU'RE GOING TO REQUIRE SOMEBODY TO ENTER IN THEIR DRIVER'S LICENSE AND OR SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER.
SO HAVING SAID THAT, WE COULD NEVER DO THAT, THAT SOFTWARE, THEY'RE ACTUALLY TRYING TO PROGRAM AND CREATE A SOFTWARE THAT THEY ALL FEEL SECURE ABOUT RIGHT NOW.
SO COUNTIES ARE STRUGGLING RIGHT NOW TO WITH THAT.
VOTER IDS, SO VOTER IDS GO BACK TO THE VOTING BY MAIL ALSO NOW IF YOU APPLY FOR A BALLOT BY MAIL ON THAT APPLICATION AND WHEN YOU RETURN YOUR BALLOT BY MAIL, IT'S A NEW FORM AND YOU DO HAVE TO PUT IN YOUR DRIVER'S LICENSE NUMBER OR YOUR SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER.
IT'S WHAT I'M GOING TO TELL YOU, THOUGH, BECAUSE THIS IS A CAUTIONARY TALE HERE.
IF YOU ARE A LONG TIME REGISTERED VOTER, YOU COULD HAVE USED YOUR DRIVER'S LICENSE TO REGISTER TO VOTE, OR YOU COULD HAVE USED YOUR SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER REGISTERED TO VOTE.
WHICHEVER ONE YOU DID, YOU DIDN'T HAVE TO USE BOTH.
YOU COULD USE ONE OR THE OTHER.
SO WHEN YOU ARE A REGISTERED VOTER AND THE VOTER REGISTRAR LOOKS YOU UP, THEY'RE GOING TO LOOK YOU UP BY NAME, BY DATE OF BIRTH, AND THEN THEY'LL HAVE EITHER ONE OR THE OTHER, A
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DRIVER'S LICENSE NUMBER OR A SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER.IF YOU APPLY FOR A BALLOT BY MAIL AND YOU USE YOUR DRIVER'S LICENSE NUMBER AND THE COUNTY ONLY HAS YOU LISTED UNDER YOUR SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER, THEY ARE GOING TO REJECT THAT AND I WOULD HAVE TO REJECT THAT BECAUSE YOU WOULD NOT BE A QUALIFIED VOTER.
THEY HAVEN'T BEEN ABLE TO QUALIFY YOU FOR A BALLOT BY MAIL.
HOWEVER, THERE IS A PERIOD TO REMEDY THAT, SO THE REMEDY WOULD BE THE COUNTY HAS YOU UNDER A SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER AND YOU PROVIDED YOUR DRIVER'S LICENSE NUMBER.
CAN YOU PROVIDE YOUR SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER? THIS WAS A LOT OF DISCUSSION AT THE SECRETARY OF STATE'S OFFICE WHEN WE WENT TO THIS BECAUSE THERE ARE SOME RAMIFICATIONS OF THE INFORMATION NOW THAT WE ARE ASKING A VOTER TO PROVIDE TO US BY MAIL.
SO ON THE ENVELOPE, YOU ALSO WILL HAVE TO PUT THAT EXACT NUMBER, YOUR SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER OR YOUR DRIVER'S LICENSE NUMBER ON YOUR CARRIER ENVELOPE.
THEY'VE CREATED A NEW ONE, SO IT'S UNDER A FLAP, SO YOU SEAL IT, IT'S GOING TO BE UNDER THAT FLAP. BUT IF SOMEBODY CUTS THAT OPEN AS SOON AS THEY CUT THAT OPEN, THEY'RE GOING TO HAVE ACCESS TO YOUR DRIVER'S LICENSE NUMBER AND YOUR SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER.
THAT'S ONLY FOR BALLOT BY MAIL, THIS BALLOT BY MAIL.
JUST KEEP IN MIND THAT ALL OF THIS IS FOR THE BALLOT BY MAIL.
THERE IS A LIST OF INDIVIDUALS ALLOWED IN THE POLLING PLACE.
THEY JUST KIND OF SPECIFIED A LITTLE BIT MORE.
THEY KIND OF NARROWED THAT DOWN TO MAKE SURE THAT WE UNDERSTOOD WHO COULD COME INTO THE POLLING PLACES AND WHO COULDN'T.
ONE THING I WILL SAY POLL WATCHERS NOW THEY HAVE, THEY'RE REQUIRED NOW TO TAKE TRAINING.
THE TRAINING WILL BE PROVIDED BY THE SECRETARY OF STATE'S OFFICE.
AND SO WHEN THEY COME IN AS A POLL WATCHER, NOT ONLY WOULD THEY HAVE TO HAVE THEIR AFFIDAVIT OF OF BEING A POLL WATCHER BY A CANDIDATE OR BY A SPECIAL PACK.
THEY ARE ALSO NOW GOING TO BE REQUIRED TO PRESENT THEIR CERTIFIED TRAINING THROUGH THE SECRETARY OF STATE'S OFFICE, JUST SO EVERYBODY KNOWS THAT TO.
WEB POSTING REQUIREMENTS, THEY'VE EXPANDED THOSE THIS WAS INTERESTING, SO LAST TWO YEARS AGO, THEY SAID THAT WE HAD TO PUT THE COMBINATION FORMS THE POLL LIST ON THE WEBSITE BY 11:00 A.M. THE NEXT MORNING.
WHAT THEY'VE DONE IN HERE IS ADDED AN AVENUE OF COMPLAINT SO YOU CAN COMPLAIN TO THE SECRETARY OF STATE'S OFFICE IF YOUR LOCAL ELECTION, EITHER COUNTY CITY, WHATEVER IS NOT POSTED, THOSE BY 11:00 A.M.
THE NEXT MORNING ON THEIR WEBSITE, YOU CAN CALL TO THE SECRETARY OF STATE'S OFFICE AND COMPLAIN THAT THEY DIDN'T DO THAT.
THE SECRETARY OF STATE'S OFFICE WILL TURN AROUND AND CALL THAT PERSON AND SAY, PUT THEM UP THERE BY 11:00 A.M.
SO THERE'S NO PENALTIES, THEY KIND OF THEY KIND OF EQUATED IT TO A TATTLETALE KIND OF THING. BUT IT ALSO HELPS IF THESE SMALLER COMMUNITIES AREN'T GETTING IT UP OR THESE COUNTIES ARE NOT GETTING IT UP IN TIME IF THEY'RE NOT PUTTING THEM UP BY 11 A.M.
THE NEXT DAY. AND IT'S THE NEXT DAY, NOT THE NEXT BUSINESS DAY.
SO IF THERE'S VOTING ON SATURDAY, THEY HAVE TO BE UP ON SUNDAY BY 11:00 A.M..
SO THAT'S THE EARLY VOTING ROSTER THAT'S KIND OF THE WEB REQUIREMENTS TO THERE THAT I WAS TALKING ABOUT. THIS IS THE ONE THAT WE'RE GOING TO HAVE TO SEE WHAT WE'RE GOING TO DO ON THIS ONE. SO THEY'VE CHANGED THE VOTING SYSTEM VENDOR REQUIREMENTS.
SO EVERYTHING TO DO WITH THE MACHINE NOW HAVE TO BE BY A MANUFACTURER AND PROVEN THAT THEY'RE A MANUFACTURER IN THE UNITED STATES ONLY.
SO SECRETARY IS SO THE SOS HAS UNTIL JANUARY 2023, TO COMPLETE A STUDY AND FILE THAT STUDY THAT SAYS BECAUSE THEY'VE RESEARCHED ALL OF OUR EQUIPMENT, LIKE THE EQUIPMENT THAT WE USE, I HAD TO REQUIRE I HAD TO REQUEST FROM THE SECRETARY OF STATE'S OFFICE FOR THEM TO APPROVE MY MACHINERY.
THEY GO TO THE VENDOR, THEY'VE GOT ALL THE VENDOR SPECIFICATIONS AND THEY SAY, YEAH, THAT'S GOOD THAT THAT FOLLOWS EVERYTHING.
BUT SINCE THIS NEW LAW IS SO SPECIFIC, EVEN IF, LIKE OURS, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE A ROLLER THAT PULLS THE BALLOT THROUGH, LET'S SAY THAT ROLLER GEAR ON THERE IS MANUFACTURED OUTSIDE THE STATES.
AND YES AND YES, OUR VENDOR, THAT'S WHERE THEY GET THAT REPLACEMENT SO THEY CAN COME REPLACE THE ROLLER HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH ANYTHING ELSE OTHER THAN THE FUNCTIONALITY OF THE MACHINE. IF THAT'S NOT PRODUCED IN THE UNITED STATES, OR THEY CANNOT PROVE THAT THE MACHINE HAS PARTS THAT WERE ONE HUNDRED PERCENT FROM THE UNITED STATES, THEN YOU CANNOT USE THOSE MACHINES ANYMORE.
SO IT WOULD BE A BIG CAPITAL INVESTMENT BY THE CITY OF BURLESON TO BUY NEW MACHINES TO DO THAT. HOWEVER, THE SECRETARY OF STATE'S OFFICE HAS TOLD US.
HOLD ON, LET US TRY TO FIGURE THIS OUT AND SEE IF WE CAN GET TO THE PLACE WHERE WE CAN
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VERIFY ALL THIS CANDIDATE.APPLICATIONS HAVE CHANGED JUST A LITTLE BIT.
IT HAS TO DO WITH FELONIES IF YOU'VE BEEN CONVICTED OF A FELONY.
ADDRESS CONFIDENTIALITY FOR PUBLIC OFFICIALS.
THIS HAS ALREADY KIND OF COME UP.
SO THE CHANGE HERE WAS ANY PUBLIC OFFICIAL HAS THE RIGHT TO CONFIDENTIALITY OF THEIR ADDRESS, THEIR PERSONAL INFORMATION.
BEFORE YOU'D FILL OUT A FORM AND WE'D KEEP THAT.
I PUT THIS IN HERE BECAUSE IT HAS AN EFFECT ON ELECTIONS.
WHEN YOU RAN FOR COUNCIL AND YOU SUBMITTED YOUR APPLICATION FOR A PLACE ON THE BALLOT, YOU WERE A CANDIDATE.
AND YOU APPLY YOUR APPLICATION IS ONE HUNDRED PERCENT OPEN, ACCORDING TO THE TEXAS ELECTION CODE. IT'S ALWAYS BEEN WHAT WE'VE DONE.
IT'S WHAT THE SECRETARY OF STATE'S WHAT THE AG.
WITH THIS CHANGE, WHAT THEY CHANGED WAS IF YOU'RE A PUBLIC OFFICIAL AND YOU'RE RUNNING FOR REELECTION, YOU STILL HOLD THE TITLE OF PUBLIC OFFICIAL.
SO WHEN YOU FILE THAT APPLICATION, THAT NOW BECOMES CONFIDENTIAL.
SO EVERYBODY ON COUNCIL RIGHT NOW, EVEN IF YOU RAN TWO YEARS AGO LAST YEAR THAT THAT WAS OPEN BEFORE THAT WE OPENLY PUBLISHED TO EVERYBODY NOW IS NOT OPEN.
SO IF THERE'S AN OPEN RECORDS REQUEST THAT COMES IN, LIKE FOR YOURS, I HAVE TO REDACT THE CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION NOW, EVEN THOUGH AT THE TIME WHEN YOU APPLIED, IT WAS WIDE OPEN FOR EVERYBODY TO SEE.
BUT YOU WERE A CANDIDATE AT THAT TIME.
SO I'M SURE THAT WE ARE GOING TO GET IT.
IT SEEMS THAT THE PUBLIC IS PROBABLY GOING TO BECAUSE THE THING IS IS IF THERE'S THREE PEOPLE RUNNING FOR A PLACE AND ONE IS A IS RUNNING FOR REELECTION AND SO THEY HOLD THE OFFICE OF PUBLIC OFFICIAL AND THE TWO OTHERS ARE CANDIDATES.
YOU ASK ME FOR THEIR APPLICATIONS FOR THAT PLACE.
I'M GOING TO GIVE YOU TWO UNREDACTED AND I'M GOING TO GIVE YOU ONE REDACTED.
AND THAT'S GOING TO LOOK LIKE FAVORITISM IN MY MIND TO THE APPLICANT, THE THE REQUESTER.
UM, YEAH, WE'VE GONE ROUND AND ROUND WITH THAT ONE.
CAN YOU PUT A NOMENCLATURE ON THERE, TOO, TO SAY THAT BY A RULE, THIS IS THE REASON THIS IS REDACTED OR YOU JUST LEAVE IT THAT WAY WHEN WE WHEN WE SUPPLY THE OPEN RECORDS REQUEST, WE TRY TO GIVE THAT EXPLANATION.
BUT ANY I'M SURE ALAN CAN TAKE ANY LEGAL EXPLANATION IS NOT GOING TO SIT WELL WITH ANY REQUESTER THAT IS OUT THERE REQUESTING INFORMATION THAT USED TO BE ONE HUNDRED.
I MEAN, I CAN'T REMEMBER I'VE BEEN DOING THIS 20 YEARS AND I CAN'T REMEMBER A TIME THAT THAT WAS CONFIDENTIAL, EVER THE APPLICATION FOR A PLACE ON THE BALLOT.
I DON'T KNOW IF MATT HAS SOMETHING TO SAY ABOUT IT.
I MEAN, WE'VE ALL BEEN LOOKING AT THIS.
WE'VE RECEIVED THOSE REQUESTS BEFORE AND WE SEND IT DOWN TO THE ATTORNEY GENERAL.
THE REQUESTER GETS A COPY OF THE LETTER, AND THE LETTER EXPLAINS, WHERE WE HAVE A CONFLICT IN THE LAWS, WE'VE GOT SOMETHING THE ELECTION CODE SAYING THAT THE FORM IS PUBLIC AND WE'VE GOT SOMETHING ELSE IN THE PUBLIC INFORMATION ACT SAYING THAT INFORMATION INFORMATION IS CONFIDENTIAL.
SO THEY SEE OUR LINE OF REASONING WHEN WE SEND IT DOWN TO THE ATTORNEY GENERAL FOR A DETERMINATION. IT'S JUST IMPORTANT THAT THE COUNCIL UNDERSTAND YOU MAY GET CITIZEN COMPLAINTS ABOUT IT ANY TIME THE CITY STAFF TELLS A CITIZEN THEY ARE NOT GOING TO BE GIVEN INFORMATION THAT THAT CITIZEN FEELS THEY'RE ENTITLED TO.
THERE IS A LOT OF SQUEALING AND YOU'RE GOING TO HEAR ABOUT IT BECAUSE IT INVOLVES CANDIDATES FOR THE CITY COUNCIL.
AND SO THEY'RE GOING TO FEEL LIKE FAVORITISM IS INVOLVED.
AMANDA IS CORRECT AND YOU'RE GOING TO HEAR ABOUT IT, BUT WE DON'T HAVE ANY DISCRETION.
THE STATE LEGISLATURE GAVE US THIS GIFT ALONG WITH A NUMBER OF OTHERS, AND WE SIMPLY HAVE THE RESPONSIBILITY OF BEING THE ONES WHO HAVE TO EXPLAIN IT TO THE PEOPLE, EVEN THOUGH WE DIDN'T CREATE IT. SO IS THERE A DOCUMENT THAT A PERSON LIKE MYSELF COULD SIGN SAYING IT'S PERFECTLY OK TO GIVE THAT INFORMATION OUT? SURELY THERE ARE, BECAUSE THIS SOUNDS LIKE THE FEDERAL AND STATE BOYS, NOT PEOPLE LIKE US. I WOULD SAY THAT WE WOULD ACCEPT THAT, AND WE WOULD, BUT THAT WOULD, I MEAN, WE CAN WE CAN NOTIFY YOU.
SO THERE'S BEEN A REQUEST FOR YOUR APPLICATION.
EITHER THAT OR I MEAN WHEN WHEN WE COME UP IN 2023.
THE OTHER THING I HAD BEEN KICKING AROUND IS TO HAVE SOMETHING ALREADY STATED UP FRONT TO SAY, DO YOU WANT TO SIGN THIS WHEN YOU TURN IN YOUR APPLICATION FOR A PLACE ON THE BALLOT OR YOU CAN PUBLISH YOUR OWN APPLICATION FOR A PLACE ON THE BALLOT? NOBODY IS STOPPING YOU GUYS FROM PUTTING THAT OUT THERE, EITHER.
AS A AS A PRACTICAL MATTER, THE PURPOSE OF THE CONFIDENTIALITY REQUIREMENT IS TO PROTECT
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THE PRIVACY INTERESTS OF THE INDIVIDUAL PUBLIC OFFICIAL WHO IS A CANDIDATE.YOU CAN ALWAYS WAIVE THAT CONFIDENTIALITY REQUEST BECAUSE THE ONLY PERSON WHO WOULD BE ATTACKED IS THE CITY IF IT RELEASED IT.
AND IF YOU'VE GIVEN US LEGAL AUTHORITY TO RELEASE IT, THEN YOU ARE A STOPPED TO COMPLAIN TO THE CITY OR TO CHALLENGE US IN COURT.
IT'S JUST LIKE SO MANY THINGS THE LEGISLATURE DOES.
IT JUST MAKES IT FAR MORE COMPLICATED AND WE KILL A LOT MORE TREES DOCUMENTING THINGS.
AND JUST REMEMBER THAT'S GOING TO THAT GOES TO EVERYTHING THAT YOU ALL HAVE, SO CAMPAIGN TREASURER FILING, IF YOU IF YOU FILE THAT AND YOU NAME YOURSELF AS THE CAMPAIGN TREASURER OR YOU NAME YOUR SPOUSE AS YOUR CAMPAIGN TREASURER, I'M GOING TO HAVE TO REDACT ADDRESS BECAUSE THAT'S YOUR HOME ADDRESS AS A PUBLIC OFFICIAL.
SO I JUST WANT YOU GUYS TO KNOW.
DO THEY NOT REALIZE THAT THE APPRAISAL DISTRICT, WE CAN LOOK UP ANYBODY THERE? I MEAN, ISN'T THAT JUST KIND OF COUNTER? I DON'T UNDERSTAND THE POINT.
NO COMMENT ON LEGISLATIVE CHANGES.
IT DOESN'T MAKE ANY SENSE WAKING THEM AND WHAT THEY'RE EVERYBODY'S ADDRESS THE PUBLIC.
THERE IS ACTUALLY A STATUTORY PROVISION NOW THAT ALLOWS PUBLIC OFFICIALS TO KEEP THEIR RESIDENTIAL ADDRESSES CONFIDENTIAL, EVEN IN THE TAX RECORDS.
AND BEFORE ANYBODY MAKES LIGHT OF IT IN THE CURRENT POLITICAL ENVIRONMENT AND HOW TWISTED IT'S BECOME ON SO MANY LEVELS, WE DON'T WANT TO TAKE LIGHTLY YOUR INTEREST IN POSSIBLY KEEPING YOUR HOME ADDRESS CONFIDENTIAL.
THERE ARE PEOPLE IN OUR COMMUNITY, IN OUR STATE WHO ARE NOT NECESSARILY ACTING AND BEHAVING IN RESPONSIBLE MANNERS, AND OUR MENTAL HEALTH PROGRAMS HAVE NOT ADEQUATELY CAUGHT UP WITH SOME OF THIS.
SO WE DON'T WANT TO BE AUTOMATICALLY SIGNING THESE THESE RELEASES WITHOUT THINKING THROUGH WHAT'S THE NATURE OF OUR ENVIRONMENT AT THIS ELECTION? OR THEY'RE LIKELY TO BE PEOPLE OUT THERE WHO WOULD DO THINGS WE WOULD WE WOULD ALL REGRET. WELL, IF ANYBODY CAN'T FIND MY HOME, ALL THEY HAVE TO DO IS PICK ANY ROOFING SALESMAN AND FOLLOW HIM AND HE'LL HE'LL HE'LL WIND UP ON MY DOORSTEP ABOUT ONCE A WEEK.
SO THE NEXT BULLET POINT I PUT IN HERE, IT'S NOT.
IT DOESN'T. IT DOES NOT PERTAIN TO US AS A CITY.
BUT I WANTED YOU GUYS TO KNOW THERE HAVE BEEN SOME CHANGES TO SPECIAL ELECTION DAYS THAT COUNTIES CAN DO FOR DIFFERENT STUFF IN THE COUNTY.
SO I JUST WANT YOU GUYS TO KNOW THAT BECAUSE I THINK WHAT HAPPENS A LOT IS THE PUBLIC SEES CHANGES AND JUST BLANKETLY SAYS, OH, THAT'S A CHANGE IN AUTOMATICALLY APPLIES THAT ACROSS THE BOARD. AND THAT IS NOT THE CASE IN ELECTIONS, A CITY ELECTION COMPLETELY DIFFERENT THAN ANY COUNTY ELECTION.
EARLY VOTING HOURS, THIS WAS INTERESTING.
SO EVERYTHING THEY DID, THEY CHOSE TO REMOVE THE REQUIREMENT FOR CITIES TO HAVE TWO 12 HOUR DAYS. SO WE NO LONGER HAVE TO HAVE TWO 12 HOUR DAYS OF VOTING, SO BEFORE IT WAS ALWAYS, YOU'D KNOW ALL THE VOTING AND YOU HAD TO HAVE TWO WEEK DAYS HAD TO BE 12 HOUR DAYS OF VOTING. THEY REMOVED THAT REQUIREMENT.
THAT IS NO LONGER A REQUIREMENT.
THEY'VE ALSO LIMITED THE HOURS, SO YOU CAN'T OPEN ANY POLL BEFORE 6:00 A.M.
ON EARLY VOTING. THIS IS EARLY VOTING, NOT ELECTION DAY, AND YOU CANNOT CLOSE ANY LATER THAN 10 P.M.. SO BETWEEN THE HOURS OF 6:00 A.M.
AND 10 P.M. AS EARLY VOTING, THIS ONE IS THE ONE THAT HAS WORRIES ME.
THEY ALLOWED CIVIL PENALTIES FOR ANY ELECTION OFFICIALS.
SO WHEN THEY SAY ELECTION OFFICIALS, THEY MEAN ANY.
ANYBODY WHO TOUCHES THE ELECTION, PRESIDING JUDGE, ALTERNATE JUDGE, EARLY VOTING CLERKS, ELECTION WORKERS, CENTRAL COUNTING, STATION WORKERS, ANYBODY IN THERE THEY CAN DO, THEY CAN FILE A CIVIL CASE AGAINST THAT PERSON.
SO. THEY COME FORWARD, THEY SAID, I THINK THAT PERSON DID SOMETHING WRONG, I THINK THEY CHECKED ME IN WRONG.
IT DOESN'T GET THERE, IT DOESN'T MEASURE UP.
YOU CAN GO AND YOU CAN FILE A CIVIL CASE AGAINST THAT PERSONAL PERSONALLY, NOT THE CITY, NOT THE COUNTY.
THIS ALSO HAS A LOT TO DO WITH THE COUNTY, TOO.
I MEAN, NOW ALL OF YOUR ELECTION WORKERS ARE GOING TO BE SUBJECT TO CIVIL PENALTIES.
SO I WOULD SAY TO THIS COUNCIL WHEN WE RUN OUR OWN ELECTIONS, AND I HOPE THE COUNTIES DO THIS TOO, BUT I DON'T KNOW THAT THEY WILL.
I WOULD SAY THAT WE WOULD WANT TO BOND EVERY MEMBER THAT'S GOING TO WORK OUR ELECTIONS IN
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ANY WAY, SHAPE OR FORM.WE WANT TO GIVE THEM SOME BECAUSE AT THE END OF THE DAY, IF THEY FILE A SUIT THAT HAS NO MERIT. STILL, THE COST TO THE ELECTION WORKER TO HIRE AN ATTORNEY TO PROTECT THEM IN COURT IN THIS CIVIL CASE.
SO WE'RE PAYING THEM 11 DOLLARS AN HOUR TO PRETTY MUCH WORK VERY LONG HOURS DOING, YOU KNOW, TEDIOUS WORK AND THEN FOR THEM TO HAVE TO TURN AROUND AND USE THAT MONEY PLUS TO DEFEND THEMSELVES IN COURT.
AND AT THE END OF THE DAY, THERE'S NOTHING THAT COMES OUT OF THAT.
I THINK I THINK I'M GOING TO HAVE TO TELL ALL OF MY ELECTION WORKERS THAT THAT'S WHAT THE NEW LAW IS. I FEEL I'M OBLIGATED TO ALLOW THEM TO UNDERSTAND THAT BEFORE THEY GET IN HERE TO WORK, THAT THAT'S A POSSIBILITY.
ARE YOU SAYING THE CITY NEEDS TO BIND THEM? YES, I AGREE. YEAH, THE EXACTLY I WOULD LIKE TO TO LET THEM KNOW THAT WE'LL WE'RE WE'RE GOING TO TELL THEM THESE CIVIL PENALTIES, BUT WE'RE ALSO GOING TO.
I THINK WE SHOULD BOND EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM TO HELP THEM.
QUESTION ON THE ON THE CIVIL PENALTIES.
COULD THAT BE USED TO HOLD UP AN ELECTION? NO. OK.
BECAUSE IT'S REALLY AGAINST THAT.
SEE, THAT'S THE THING IS, IF IT WOULD BE DIFFERENT, IF IT WAS LIKE, OK, YOU CAN HOLD UP AN ELECTION BECAUSE YOU THINK THEY DID SOMETHING WRONG AND THE WHOLE ELECTION, WE'RE TALKING THE INDIVIDUAL PERSON, THEY'RE GOING TO NAME AN INDIVIDUAL PERSON.
AND EVEN IF AT THE END OF THE DAY IT'S NOT SUBSTANTIATED, THEY STILL HAVE TO GO THROUGH THE PROCESS TO DEFEND THEMSELVES.
ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WILL BECOME CONFUSING WHEN THIS BEGINS TO BLOSSOM AFTER THE NEXT ELECTION SEASON.
IF WE HAVE A CITIZEN WHO IS ANGRY ABOUT SOMETHING THAT WENT ON IN THE ELECTION, THEY WILL SUE AMANDA, BUT THEY SUE HER IN HER OFFICIAL CAPACITY AS THE CITY SECRETARY ON RELEASING THE RESULTS. SHE'S NOT PERSONALLY LIABLE FOR FINANCIAL DAMAGES.
SHE SUED IN HER OFFICIAL CAPACITY, MUCH AS THE MAYOR CAN BE SUED IF THEY'RE SUING THE CITY FOR SOMETHING THAT HE SIGNS AS AN ORDINANCE.
THE DIFFERENCE IN THIS NEW LAW IS THEY ARE ALLOWED TO SUE THE ELECTION WORKERS IN THEIR INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY.
THEY'RE SUED FOR MONEY DAMAGES FOR THE DAMAGES OR THE DISTRESS THAT THIS PERSON SUFFERED BECAUSE OF THE ALLEGED ELECTORAL MISDEED.
AND SO THERE IS NO AUTOMATIC PROTECTION FOR THEM.
THAT'S WHY WE NEED TO CONSIDER THE BONDING ISSUE TO BE SURE THAT THEY'RE ADEQUATELY PROTECTED IF THEY'RE DOING THE WORK FOR THE CITY.
SO I JUST KIND OF WANTED TO BRIEFLY GO OVER AN ELECTION CALENDAR, WHAT THAT'S KIND OF LOOK LIKE FOR US THIS YEAR.
SO IF WE CALL AN ELECTION, OF COURSE, FEBRUARY 18TH, BUT I WANTED TO SHOW YOU GUYS APRIL 7TH WOULD BE THE LAST DAY TO REGISTER TO VOTE.
THE TWENTY FIFTH WOULD BE THE FIRST DAY OF EARLY VOTING IN PERSON.
TWENTY SIX IS THE LAST DAY TO APPLY FOR A BALLOT BY MAIL.
MAY 3RD WOULD BE THE LAST DAY FOR EARLY VOTING AND THEN MAY 7TH WOULD BE ELECTION DAY.
AND IN NOVEMBER, THE FIRST DAY, THE LAST DAY TO REGISTER TO VOTE WOULD BE OCTOBER 11TH.
IN-PERSON VOTING STARTS THE TWENTY FOURTH OF OCTOBER.
THE LAST DAY TO RECEIVE A BALLOT IS THE TWENTY EIGHTH.
THE LAST DAY FOR EARLY VOTING IN PERSON IS THE FOURTH OF NOVEMBER AND ELECTION DAY WOULD BE NOVEMBER 8TH.
SO WHEN WE LOOK AT CONDUCTING OUR OWN ELECTIONS OR CONTRACTING ONE THING WITH THE CONDUCTING YOUR OWN ELECTIONS IS THE POLLING LOCATIONS, AND I WANTED TO BRING THIS FORWARD TO YOU ALL THIS TIME BECAUSE WE DID HAVE SOMETHING THAT HAPPENED DIFFERENTLY THAT I DON'T THINK WE TOOK STOCK OF FULLY BEFORE WE HELD THIS LAST ELECTION.
AND THAT IS THE WHOLE CHANGE OF LOGISTICALLY HOW THIS BUILDING IS SET OUT AND HOW PEOPLE COME AND VISIT THIS BUILDING EVERY YEAR PRIOR, EXCEPT FOR THIS LAST YEAR, EVERY YEAR PRIOR. WE HAD A PARKING LOT IN THE VERY FRONT OF OUR BUILDING, WHERE PEOPLE WOULD PUT UP PULL UP PARK AND THEN WALK JUST ACROSS THE SIDEWALK A COUPLE OF FEET AND COME INTO THE BUILDING. WHEN WE PUT THE PLAZA UP, WE'VE DISPLACED THOSE PARKING SPOTS AND MOVE THEM WAY BEYOND THE ENTRANCE OF THE CITY OF BURLESON.
THE FRONT DOORS OF THE CITY HALL.
WHEN YOU DO THAT FOR AN ELECTION, WHAT YOU'VE DONE THEN BASICALLY IS THAT ONE HUNDRED FOOT BUFFER FOR ELECTIONEERING NOW IS IN FRONT OF THE BUILDING, AS IT HAS ALWAYS BEEN.
IS THE EXACT SAME MEASUREMENT.
IT HAS ALWAYS BEEN IN EVERY ELECTION.
THE DIFFERENCE IS, IS THAT PEOPLE NOW PARK OUTSIDE THAT HUNDRED FEET ELECTION NEARING PROHIBIT PROHIBITED SPACE.
SO PRIOR TO THAT, WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IS YOU PULL UP AND IT'S YOU'RE WITHIN THE HUNDRED FEET. SO ANY ELECTIONEERING WOULD NEVER HAPPEN.
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YOU WOULD NEVER BE AFFECTED BY THAT.AND SO I KNOW IT WAS A SHOCK TO EVERYBODY, AND I DON'T THINK EVERYBODY REALIZED THAT IN AND I DID NOT HIGHLIGHT THAT.
I DON'T BELIEVE A STRONG ENOUGH FOR YOU ALL TO UNDERSTAND THAT THAT'S WHAT THAT WAS GOING TO WAS GOING TO DO WHEN WE HAVE ELECTIONS HERE IN THIS BUILDING.
SO ALTERNATIVES, I'VE LOOKED THIS IS ONES THAT I THAT I HAVE BROUGHT FORWARD TO COUNSEL BEFORE. THE SENIORS ACTIVITY CENTER IS ONE YOU CAN ENTER IN OFF OF ELLISON OR JOHNSON STREET. ALL ELECTION PARKING IS IN THE BACK OF THE BUILDING.
THE ENTRANCE FOR VOTING WOULD BE IN THE BACK OF THE BUILDING.
WE KNOW THAT IT CAN HANDLE THE TRAFFIC BECAUSE IT HELD THE COVID VACCINATION TRAFFIC, SO WE KNOW WE CAN LOGISTICALLY LINE THAT OUT AND HAVE NO PROBLEMS AT ALL WITH HOW WE'RE GOING TO MOVE PEOPLE THROUGH THERE, NO MATTER WHAT THE THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE.
WHAT I WILL SAY IS WHEN WE USE, IF WE USE THE SENIOR CITIZENS CENTER, THE ENTRANCE IN THE BACK, THE PARKING LOT IN THE BACK.
EVERY VOTER WHO COMES TO PARK AND VOTE AS LONG AS THERE'S SPACE AVAILABLE IN THOSE PARKING SPOT WOULD BE PARKING WITHIN THE HUNDRED FEET PROHIBITED SPACE.
SO THERE WOULD BE NO ELECTIONEERING.
SO YOU'D PULL UP PARK WALK IN THE BUILDING, VOTE, COME BACK OUT.
THERE'D BE NO ELECTIONEERING IN THAT PORTION THERE UNLESS YOU PARKED IN THE FRONT.
HOWEVER, I DO WANT TO SAY THAT I DID TALK TO EACH ONE OF THESE DEPARTMENTS BECAUSE I'LL I'LL GO INTO THE NEXT ONE.
AND THE SENIOR ACTIVITY CENTER FELT LIKE THEY HAD ENOUGH ACTIVITY WITHIN THE WHOLE BUILDING THAT THEY DIDN'T FEEL LIKE THEY COULD JUST SHUT OFF THE FRONT PART OF THE BUILDING. I'M STILL GOING TO LOOK AT THAT IF THEY COULD, BECAUSE IT'S NOT THE WHOLE BUILDING, THE FRONT PART OF THE BUILDING WHERE THEY HOLD BINGO OR THEY HAVE LITTLE WHAT DID THEY CALL THAT DOMINO'S? THEY HAVE DOMINO'S, THEY ARE CROCHETING, THEY HAVE SMALL ROOMS IN THE FRONT.
THOSE WOULD NOT BE AFFECTED. I'M TALKING ABOUT THE BIG ROOMS IN THE BACK THAT WOULD PROBABLY AFFECT THE I KEEP SAYING THE LINE DANCING.
THEY'RE NOT GOING TO BE ABLE TO LINE DANCE, BUT WE WOULD TALK ABOUT THAT.
THAT WOULD BE IF WE DID THAT, THEN WE WOULDN'T HAVE ACTIVITY AT THE ACTIVITY CENTER FOR APPROXIMATELY TWO WEEKS.
SO THAT WOULD BE THAT LAST WEEK IN APRIL FOR THE EARLY VOTING, THE FIRST WEEK IN MAY.
AND THEN WE WOULD BE OUT OF THERE BY MAY SEVEN, WELL, MAY 8TH, BECAUSE I WOULD NEED THAT WHOLE DAY, YOU KNOW, TO CLEAR OUT OF THERE.
SO I JUST WANT YOU GUYS TO BE AWARE OF THAT.
OF COURSE, CITY HALL, WHICH IS WHERE WE'VE HAD IT BEFORE, BUT I JUST WANT YOU TO KNOW THAT, YOU KNOW, YOU CAN AGAIN HAS GREAT ACCESS.
YOU CAN ENTER IN OFF OF SOUTH WARREN OR SOUTH WILSON.
YOU PARK ON THE SIDE. WE HAD DEDICATED PARKING WHERE WE NORMALLY HAVE CITIZENS.
I MEAN, STAFF PARK AND AND COUNSEL ON COUNCIL MEETING DAYS THAT COULD BE DEDICATED, BUT THE ENTRANCE IS OFF THE PLAZA.
AND IF YOU PARK IN THE OTHER ONE, YOU MUST CROSS THE STREET TO COME TO THE ENTRANCE.
THE OTHER THING HERE AT CITY HALL, WHEN WE HOLD VOTING HERE, WHAT THAT AFFECTS IS ONE CITY COUNCIL MEETING. WE WOULD HAVE TO MOVE A CITY COUNCIL MEETING AND WE WOULD HAVE TO MOVE A PLAN AND ZONING MEETING.
SO THERE'S A PLAN AND ZONING MEETING THE LAST WEEK IN APRIL THAT WOULD HAVE TO BE MOVED TO ANOTHER LOCATION AND OR CANCELED AND A CITY COUNCIL MEETING THAT FIRST MONDAY IN MAY THAT WOULD EITHER HAVE TO BE MOVED OR CANCELED.
THE BRICK, SO THE BRICK, ENTER OFF OF NORTHWEST SUMMER CREST ONLY, BUT THERE'S TWO LOCATIONS TO ENTER IN OFF OF, YOU SHARE THE PARKING LOT WITH VISITORS WHO ARE GOING TO THE BRICK AND THE ENTRANCE IS AT THE FRONT OF THE BUILDING.
THAT PARKING? UNLESS YOU GOT REAL, IT'S NOT IT WOULD BE OUTSIDE OF THE HUNDRED FOOT PROHIBITED SPACE.
SO IF THAT'S YOUR CONSIDERATION, THEN THIS THE BRICK HAS THE SAME THING, BUT THE BRICK HAS BLOCKED OFF THOSE ROOM FOR US IN CASE WE ARE GOING TO USE THOSE.
SO STAFF WAS VERY COOPERATIVE WITH US ON THAT AND SAW NO PROBLEM LOOKED AHEAD.
THERE WASN'T ANYTHING BOOKED YET, SO I WENT AHEAD AND HAD THEM HOLD THOSE ROOMS IN CASE COUNSEL WANTED TO.
BUT THE BRICK IS VERY WELL KNOWN.
EVERYBODY KNOWS WHERE THE BRICK IS.
IT'S GOT PLENTY OF PARKING, PLENTY OF ADA REQUIREMENTS WITHHELD.
I MEAN, HELD UP ALL THE ALL THE LOCATIONS I'M TELLING YOU FALL WITHIN OUR ADA REQUIREMENTS. SO I JUST WANT YOU GUYS TO TO LOOK AT THAT.
WE'RE JUST TALKING ABOUT THIS SO WE CAN MOVE FORWARD IF WE'RE GOING TO DO ANY KIND OF ELECTIONS EVEN NOW OR IN THE FUTURE.
AND THAT WAS THE LAST OPTION I HAD THERE, SO DO YOU GUYS HAVE ANY QUESTIONS FOR ME? YOU WANT TO SHUT THAT DOWN? THANKS, ANYBODY.
SO REALLY THE ONLY LOCATION AVAILABLE TO US WHERE PEOPLE COULD BE ASSURED OF PARKING WITHOUT HAVING TO RUN THE GANTLET OF THE ELECTIONEERING CENTER? YES, THE ONLY OTHER PLACE WHICH I HAVE I PRESENTED TO COUNCIL BEFORE AND COUNCIL HAS JUST DECIDED THAT THAT WAS TOO FAR OUT OF THE WAY WAS THE SERVICE CENTER.
THAT'D BE THE ONLY OTHER BUILDING THAT WOULD HAVE PARKING, EVEN THOUGH THE SERVICE CENTER
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IS TECHNICALLY IN THE CITY IS IN THE HEART OF THE CITY.IT'S IN THE MIDDLE OF THE CITY.
IT IT ALSO, THOUGH, DOES HAVE CHALLENGES IN THE FACT THAT THE LOCATION.
DO PEOPLE REALLY KNOW WHERE THAT'S AT? IT'D BE HARDER TO FIND, PROBABLY FOR VOTERS TO COME IN AND FIND THAT LOCATION.
BUT IF WE'RE TALKING ABOUT EASE OF LOCATION, LOGISTICALLY RECOGNITION BY THE VOTERS, THAT KIND OF STUFF, THEN THEN THE SENIOR CITIZENS CENTER IS PROBABLY THE ONE THAT WOULD FIT THE CRITERIA FOR THE COUNCIL.
THE OTHER THING IS GIVEN WHERE WE'RE LOOKING AT IN THE FUTURE, THIS COUNCIL PROBABLY NEEDS TO START CONSIDERING WHETHER WE'RE GOING TO CONTINUE HOLDING OUR OWN ELECTIONS OR CONTRACTING WITH THE COUNTY.
YOU KNOW, I THINK THIS YEAR, THE SECRETARY OF STATE'S OFFICE AND THE ATTORNEY GENERAL'S OFFICE HAS TOLD US, LET US LOOK AT AND SEE WHAT THIS YEAR HOLDS.
NOBODY PANIC. BUT LET'S LOOK AT IT BECAUSE THEY FEAR LIKE THERE'S GOING TO BE A LOT OF DIFFERENT CHANGES THAT ARE GOING TO AFFECT THEM TO THAT THEY'RE GOING TO HAVE TO BE LOOKING AT SO. MY MY CONCERN IS WHAT YOU JUST MENTIONED, ESPECIALLY WITH THIS VOTER MACHINE THING COMING UP, IF I LIKE THE IDEA OF HOLDING OUR OWN ELECTIONS, BUT IF WE'VE GOT TO GO OUTLAY A TON OF MONEY FOR THESE VOTER MACHINES, IT MAY MAKE SENSE THAT WE HAVE TO GO WITH THE COUNTY.
I MEAN, WE DON'T KNOW WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE, I GUESS, FINANCIALLY.
SO I LIKE THE SENIOR CENTER, IF WE CAN DO IT.
BUT IF IT'S GOING TO COST US A TON OF MONEY, WE MAY HAVE TO LOOK AT THE COUNTY.
AND I THINK IT'S JUST IT'S JUST SOMETHING TO KEEP IN MIND.
I THINK BEFORE WE'VE HAD THE EASE OF HAVING A GREAT LOCATION RIGHT HERE, EVERYBODY KNOWS WHERE CITY HALL IS.
THEY PAY THEIR WATER BILL HERE.
WE HAD A SMALLER COMMUNITY, ONE LOCATION.
THEY DON'T HAVE TO GO. THEY DON'T HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT THEIR PRECINCT OR WHERE THEY'RE GOING TO. ALTHOUGH NOW IN TARRANT COUNTY WITH VOTING CENTERS, THEY DON'T REALLY HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT THAT ANYMORE, EITHER.
AND THEN JOHNSON COUNTY, THEY'VE PRETTY MUCH CENTRALIZED THEIR EARLY VOTING HERE FOR BURLESON AT THE SUB COURTHOUSE.
SO I THINK THERE'S JUST BEEN A LOT OF CHANGES OVER THE YEARS THAT WE PROBABLY NEED TO START LOOKING AT IN THE LIGHT THAT THEY ARE.
SO WE DECIDED TO GO WITH THE COUNTY.
THE COUNTY HAS THE RIGHT TO SAY WE DON'T WANT TO.
BUT IN TWENTY TWENTY THREE, YOU KNOW, THEY WOULDN'T HAVE AN OPTION, SO AN ODD NUMBER.
SO I KNOW IT'S ELECTION LAW, GUYS.
I'M SERIOUS. SO IN IN ODD NUMBERED YEARS, THE COUNTY HAS NO OPTION.
IF IT'S AN EVEN NUMBERED YEAR, THEN THEY DO HAVE THE OPTION TO SAY NO.
HOWEVER, TARRANT COUNTY HAS NOT SAID NO TO ANYBODY, AND JOHNSON COUNTY REALLY HASN'T SAID NO TO ANYBODY EITHER.
IF WE'RE HAVING JUST A CITY ELECTION BY ITSELF, DO WE HAVE TO HAVE IT IN BOTH COUNTIES? SO IF IF WE CONTRACT WITH THE COUNTY, YES, WE HAVE TO HAVE IT IN BOTH COUNTIES.
THERE'S A WAY WE DON'T HAVE TO.
BUT I HAVEN'T BEEN ABLE TO GET THESE TWO COUNTIES TO DO THIS YET.
SO TARRANT COUNTY CAN CONTRACT AND ALLOW JOHNSON COUNTY TO HOLD ALL OF CITY OF BURLESON ELECTIONS BECAUSE THEY DON'T HAVE A MAJORITY OF OUR VOTERS.
IT HAPPENS AROUND THE STATE, EVERYWHERE.
THESE SMALLER COUNTIES GIVE THESE LARGER COUNTIES THAT SHARE JURISDICTIONS AUTHORITY TO RUN THEIR ELECTIONS.
SO YOU COULD IF TARRANT COUNTY WOULD SAY, OK, WE'RE NOT GOING TO RUN THEM AND I GOT THEM TO SAY OK, BUT YOU HAVE TO HAVE JOHNSON COUNTY TO SAY YES, WE WILL TAKE THE TARRANT COUNTY VOTERS TO. IF THEY WOULD, YOU COULD HAVE JOHNSON COUNTY DO ALL THE ELECTION.
THAT'S WHAT MAKES SENSE TO ME.
YEAH, BECAUSE IF WE DON'T HAVE ANYTHING OTHER THAN CITY ELECTIONS, IF WE SPLIT IT, IT JUST THERE WAS ALREADY SO MUCH CONFUSION DURING THE GENERAL ELECTION OF PEOPLE FROM TARRANT COUNTY, SHOWING UP AT THE COURTHOUSE THINKING THEY WERE HAD TO VOTE FOR CITY STUFF THERE AND THEN GO OVER TO THE THE CROWLEY AREA TO VOTE FOR THE GENERAL ELECTION.
SO THAT WOULD BE MY CONCERN AS WELL.
BUT I GUESS IT'S ALL WE'LL WE'LL WAIT AND SEE KIND OF THING.
I WAS GOING TO SAY THAT THE THE THING THAT WE HAVE TO REMEMBER IS THERE'S SO MANY, SO MANY WAYS OF VOTER REMEMBERS HOW TO VOTE.
SO IF THE LAST ELECTION THEY THEY VOTED IN WAS A COUNTYWIDE OR A STATE ELECTION, THEY'RE GOING TO REMEMBER NOT CITY HALL AT ALL OR THE SENIOR CITIZENS CENTER OR THE BRICK.
THEY'RE GOING TO REMEMBER THEIR VOTING POLLING PLACES IN TARRANT COUNTY, OR THEY'RE GOING TO REMEMBER THE SUB COURTHOUSE TO GO THERE TO VOTE.
IF IT'S A CITY ELECTION, THAT'S THE LAST PLACE THEY VOTED, THEN WE GET PEOPLE COMING IN
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HERE LIKE WE'LL GET PEOPLE COMING IN HERE FOR AS SOON AS THE EARLY VOTING STARTS, FOR THE PRIMARIES TO COME AND VOTE BECAUSE THE LAST ELECTION THAT THEY VOTED IN WAS HERE AT CITY HALL. AND SO THEY'LL REMEMBER TO COME HERE TO CITY HALL.ESPECIALLY SINCE THE FACT THAT WE KEEP CHANGING IT AROUND, NOT JUST US, EVERYBODY DOES THROUGHOUT THE STATE, RIGHT? WE'RE ALWAYS CONTINUOUSLY CHANGING VOTING.
WE'RE TRYING TO IMPROVE. I GET IT.
CHANGE IS GOOD BECAUSE IT BUT THERE IS SUCH THING AS A VOTER MEMORY, RIGHT? REPETITION. KEEP GOING THE SAME PLACE.
KEEP DOING IT OVER. AND FOR A LONG TIME, IT'S BEEN CITY HALL FOR US, FOR CITY ELECTIONS AND SCHOOL. AND LET ME MAKE SURE EVERYBODY REMEMBERS THE SCHOOL DISTRICT CANNOT CONDUCT THEIR OWN ELECTION. THEY HAVE TO CONTRACT WITH ME OR THEY HAVE TO CONTRACT WITH THE COUNTY, AND SO THEY WILL CONTRACT WITH ME.
IF WE HOLD A SPECIAL ELECTION IN MAY, THEN THEY'LL CONTRACT WITH ME.
IF THEY DON'T, THEN THEY'LL TRY TO GET THE COUNTY.
AND IF THE COUNTY WON'T, THEN THEY'LL HAVE TO GO TO BOTH CITIES AND SEE IF FORT WORTH WILL OR JOSHUA WILL.
SO BECAUSE THE SCHOOL DISTRICTS CAN PICK ANY CITY THAT THEY ARE PARTIALLY OR WHOLLY LOCATED IN TO CONDUCT THEIR ELECTIONS.
I KNOW IT'S I FEEL IT'S A LOT.
I WAS GOING TO MENTION THE SCHOOL DISTRICTS BECAUSE I WAS FAIRLY CERTAIN THAT THEY CONTRACTED WITH US MOST OF THEIR ELECTIONS.
SO WHILE WE MIGHT HAVE SOME ISSUES WITH THE VOTING MACHINES, I FEEL LIKE THAT'S AN INVESTMENT AND IT'S IT'S FOR THE EASE OF THE VOTERS.
LIKE YOU SAID, THE CONSISTENCY VOTERS KNOW THAT THEY WHERE, HOW THEY VOTED IN THIS HAVING THIS PRIOR NOVEMBER ELECTION, I FEEL LIKE THREW EVERYONE FOR A LOOP.
THEY DIDN'T KNOW WHERE THEY WERE SUPPOSED TO VOTE AND AND THEN WHEN THEY CAME THERE WAS LIKE EVERYBODY WENT BACK TO THE COURTHOUSE BECAUSE THAT WAS THE LAST TIME THEY VOTED.
I MEAN, THAT'S SEE, THAT'S THE THING, TOO.
AND I JUST WANT TO TELL COUNCIL THAT I CAN'T TELL YOU ENOUGH HOW STRONGLY I FEEL ABOUT TRYING TO MAKE IT EASY FOR VOTERS TO VOTE.
AND SO WHEN WE CHANGE, IF WE CHANGE LOCATIONS FROM CITY HALL, I WOULD JUST ASK THAT WE CONTINUE TO MOVE FORWARD AND THINK ABOUT IF WE CHANGE IT, WE CHANGE IT FOR ALL THE ELECTIONS AND IF WE CAN'T DO THAT, BUT FOR A COUPLE OF YEARS, THEN YOU KNOW.
WE MAY JUST HAVE TO MAKE THE DECISION THAT EVERY ALL THE VOTING IS HERE AND THE VOTERS HAVE TO PARK OUTSIDE THE PROHIBITED ELECTION SPOT, I MEAN, WE HAVE TO MAKE A DECISION BECAUSE I FEEL LIKE IT'S JUST IT'S JUST RIGHT AND JUST FOR VOTERS TO HAVE THAT KNOW WHAT TO EXPECT. I HAVE ONE OTHER QUESTION SINCE THE VOTERS ARE PRETTY ACCUSTOMED TO HAVING ELECTIONS HERE AT CITY HALL.
IS IT A POSSIBILITY TO JUST THROWING THIS OUT THERE TO DO A MOBILE BUILDING IN THIS PARKING LOT? IS THAT LIKE SO THAT THEY KNOW YOU GO TO CITY HALL, BUT IT'S NOT CITY HALL? I DON'T KNOW. I'M JUST THROWING THAT OUT THERE.
FROWNED UPON IN THIS ESTABLISHMENT BY THE SECRETARY OF STATE'S OFFICE.
AND AND WHAT ELSE? THE FEDS? THE FEDS DON'T LIKE THAT STATE.
YEAH, IT'S NEEDS TO BE A PLANTED BUILDING.
WELL, IF WE HAD A MOBILE BUILDING THAT WE WERE USING FOR SPECIFIC, LET'S SAY, WE'VE WE'VE OUTGROWN CITY HALL, WHICH WE HAVE AND WE'VE DECIDED WE'RE GOING TO DEDICATE A MOBILE HOME OVER HERE. I MEAN, A MOBILE SPACE OVER HERE AND THAT'S OUR OFFICES FOR WHOEVER.
AND I GET TO USE PART OF THAT AND THAT'S CONSISTENT.
BUT WHEN WE'RE BRINGING IN SOMETHING JUST FOR VOTING, YOU'RE AFFECTING THAT.
AND THEN A MOBILE BUILDING WOULD HAVE TO HAVE ADA REQUIREMENTS.
YOU'D HAVE TO BE ABLE TO TURN AROUND IN IT WITH A WHEELCHAIR AND EVERYTHING ELSE.
PLUS, THE FEDS FROWN UPON THAT.
ANYTHING ELSE? SO WHEN WOULD YOU SUGGEST WE MAKE THESE? IS IT JUST AS THE NEXT ELECTION COMES UP WHENEVER THAT MIGHT BE? WHAT WE NEED TO DO IS I WANT YOU GUYS TO BE THINKING ABOUT THIS BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, ON JANUARY 10TH, YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE THE BOND COMMITTEE PRESENT TO YOU THEIR RECOMMENDATIONS TO FOR A BOND ELECTION, WHICH WOULD HAPPEN IN MAY IF THE COUNCIL DECIDES THAT THAT'S WHAT THEY WANT TO MOVE FORWARD WITH.
SO AT THAT TIME, I'M GOING TO I'M GOING TO CONTINUE TO PUT ELECTIONS AS A REPORTED DISCUSSION ITEM ON ALL OF AN ACTION ITEM TWO, BUT I'M JUST GOING TO KEEP DOING IT.
SO IT'S GOING TO BE ON THIS ONE. IT'S GOING TO BE ON THE 10TH.
THEY'RE JUST GOING TO KEEP ON GOING, RIGHT, TOMMY.
WE'RE GOING TO KEEP ON PUTTING IT ON THE AGENDA UNTIL BECAUSE I WANT THAT TO BE.
I MEAN, IF YOU THINK OF SOMETHING ELSE OR YOU GET FEEDBACK OR SOMETHING, THEN THAT'S SOMETHING WE NEED TO DISCUSS.
BUT THE QUICKER, THE BETTER SO THAT I KNOW TO TO LET PEOPLE KNOW, ESPECIALLY IF WE'RE GOING TO CHANGE IT TO THE SENIOR CITIZENS CENTER.
DO WE HAVE ANY IDEA WHEN SECRETARY OF STATE IS GOING TO MAKE A DECISION ON THEIR VOTING MACHINES? THEY HAVE UNTIL JANUARY 20 TWENTY THREE, SO THEY HAVE THIS YEAR TO DO THEIR RESEARCH AND TO COME UP WITH THEIR NEW REQUIREMENTS AND THEIR NEW AUTHORITY OR NOT.
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ELECTIONS IN 2022? YES. OKAY. WELL, I'M GOING TO WRITE THE SECRETARY OF STATE'S OFFICE AND MAKE SURE THAT THEY'RE GOING TO SAY MY MACHINES ARE OK.THEY MAY NOT. THEY MAY SAY THERE'S ENOUGH QUESTION OR THEY DON'T KNOW SO.
AND WE'RE NOT THE ONLY ONES IN THIS.
LISTEN, THERE'S GOING TO BE COUNTIES THAT ARE GOING TO HAVE A HIGH, HIGH, HIGH COST TO THIS NEW REGARDLESS, BECAUSE THE OTHER PART OF THAT VOTING MACHINE IS ALSO YOU CANNOT HAVE A VOTING MACHINE THAT DOES NOT PRODUCE SOME TYPE OF PAPER BALLOT.
SO. YOU KNOW, TARRANT COUNTY, THEY THEY SWITCHED, BUT THEY HAVE WHERE YOU PUT YOUR FEET IN YOUR PAPER AND IT MARKS IT AND THEN IT FEEDS IT BACK OUT AND YOU DEPOSIT A BALLOT, THAT'S ALL LEGALLY.
BUT THIS NEW CHANGE NOW, SO ANY COUNTY THAT WAS USING ONE HUNDRED PERCENT ELECTRONIC WITH NOTHING ELSE. SO YOU GO UP, YOU, YOU QUALIFY, THEY GIVE YOU A LITTLE.
IT'S LIKE A LITTLE DISK AND YOU GO TO A MACHINE AND YOU PUT IT IN THAT DISK AND YOU CAST YOUR VOTE AND POPS OUT AND WIPES THE DISK CLEAN.
AND THERE'S NOTHING IT'S JUST HELD IN THAT MACHINE.
THOSE MACHINES WILL NO LONGER BE LEGAL.
THEY ARE ACTUALLY THEY'RE NOT LEGAL.
THEY THEY'VE GOT TO STOP USING THEM.
SO THERE'S GOING TO BE COUNTIES THAT ARE GOING TO HAVE VERY, VERY HIGH DOLLAR HIT FOR THEM. OK, SO MAYOR AND COUNCIL, THE NEXT ITEM ON YOUR
[C. Receive a report, hold a discussion, and provide staff direction regarding the naming of the dog park. (Staff Presenter: Jen Basham, Director of Parks and Recreation)]
AGENDA IS 8C, RECEIVE A REPORT, HOLD A DISCUSSION AND PROVIDE STAFF DIRECTION REGARDING THE NAMING OF THE DOG PARK.THE STAFF PRESENTER TONIGHT IS JEN BASHAM, DIRECTOR OF PARKS AND RECREATION.
GOOD EVENING, MAYOR AND COUNCIL, I HOPE EVERYONE'S HAVING A GOOD NEW YEAR.
ALL RIGHT, THIS EVENING, WE ARE BRINGING TO YOU GUYS OUR PARK NAMING POLICY AND JUST TO GIVE THE BACKGROUND, A NAMING POLICY WAS PUT IN PLACE IN OCTOBER OF 2009.
THIS POLICY WAS REALLY JUST TO CREATE SOME GUIDELINES FOR NAMING ALL OF OUR MUNICIPAL PROPERTIES. IT'S NOT SPECIFIC TO PARKS.
WE JUST USE THIS AS A GENERAL RUBRIC WHEN WE'RE NAMING ANY NEW FACILITY, ANY PARK, ANY OPEN SPACE. THE PULP, THE WHOLE POLICY WAS CREATED TO CREATE A CONSISTENT AND FAIR NAMING SO THAT WE DIDN'T JUST DECIDE RANDOMLY WHAT WE SHOULD CALL EACH FACILITY THAT WE BUILD.
WE WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT WE WERE FAIR AND CONSISTENT.
AND THESE ARE THE GUIDELINES FOR SELECTING A NAME SO PREDOMINANT NATURAL FEATURES OF THE SPACE ADJOINING STREETS OR SUBDIVISIONS, A HISTORIC OR HEROIC EVENT THAT MAYBE OCCURRED WITHIN THE SPACE OR IS IN MEMORIAM OF SOMEONE OUTSTANDING INDIVIDUALS, PUBLIC OFFICIALS OR BENEFACTORS OR DONORS, WHICH IS A PRETTY BROAD SPECTRUM WHEN IT COMES TO NAMING A SPACE? AND THE APPROVAL PROCESS FOR THIS, IF THE CITY WERE TO INITIATE IT, SO IF WE KNEW WE WERE BUILDING SOMETHING, WE STAFF WOULD PRESENT A LIST TO THE CITY MANAGER'S OFFICE.
THE CITY MANAGER'S OFFICE WOULD PRESENT THAT LIST TO CITY COUNCIL AND CITY COUNCIL WOULD APPROVE THAT NAME.
THE INITIAL NAMING SHOULD BE COMPLETED PRIOR TO CONSTRUCTION COMPLETION.
WE CAN ALSO RENAME CITY FACILITIES OR PROPERTIES, SO IF SOMETHING YOU KNOW WAS 10, 20 YEARS LATER DOWN THE ROAD AND SOMETHING HAPPENED ON THAT SITE AND WE REALLY FELT LIKE WE WANTED TO, YOU KNOW, HONOR SOMETHING, WE WOULD BE ABLE TO RENAME THAT.
AND THEN CITIZENS ARE ALSO ALLOWED TO REQUEST A RENAMING OR NAMING OF A PROPERTY BY WRITING A WRITTEN REQUEST TO THE CITY MANAGER.
SO WHAT WE'RE HERE FOR THIS EVENING IS WE HAVE A DOG PARK THAT WE'RE BUILDING AND WE HAVE A LOT OF NAMES THAT HAVE BEEN THROWN AROUND, BUT WE HAVE NOT OFFICIALLY NAMED OUR DOG PARK YET, SO WE HAVE SOME OPTIONS.
THE FIRST OPTION IS THAT STAFF WOULD CREATE A LIST OF POTENTIAL NAMES.
WE WOULD BRING THAT TO COUNCIL.
COUNCIL WOULD REVIEW IT AND JUST SELECT FROM THOSE OPTIONS.
THE SECOND WOULD BE THAT STAFF CREATES A LIST OF POTENTIAL NAMES.
WE WOULD PULL THE COMMUNITY AND BRING THE RECOMMENDED NAME TO COUNCIL FOR APPROVAL, WHICH KIND OF IS IN LINE WITH OUR PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT POLICY THAT WE'VE BEEN USING FOR MOST OF OUR RECENT PARK PROJECTS.
THE THIRD IS THAT WE WOULD CREATE A LIST OF POTENTIAL NAMES.
THEY WOULD THEN WE WOULD PULL THE COMMUNITY AND THEN WE WOULD TAKE BACK THAT FINAL.
SO WE BRING TO YOU GUYS A LIST.
YOU GUYS SAID YES, WE LIKE THAT LIST.
WE WOULD POLL THE COMMUNITY WITH THAT LIST AND THEN WE WOULD BRING BACK THE FINAL RECOMMENDATION TO COUNCIL.
THE FOURTH WOULD JUST BE TO SELECT ONE NAME.
STAFF WOULD SAY, HEY, WE WANT TO CALL IT THIS.
WHAT DO YOU THINK? YOU'RE GOOD WITH IT? MOVE ON. OR THE FIFTH WOULD BE, YOU GUYS SELECT A NAME THAT'S NOT PROVIDED BY STAFF.
AND BEFORE WE GO ON, I DO HAVE AN ONLINE SPEAKER CARD FOR THIS ITEM.
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SPEAKER IS SHANNON SUTTER.SHE'S AT 301 NORTHWEST SUMMER CREST BURLESON.
SHE SAYS, HI, SHANNON SUTTER, CHAIR OF THE WHERE'S MY DOG PARK GROUP.
BACK IN APRIL OF 2017, WE RAN AN ARTICLE TO HAVE A HAVE THE PUBLIC GIVE THEIR OPINION ON THE NAMING OF THE FUTURE DOG PARK IN BURLESON IN BURLESON IN THE BURLESON STAR.
AFTER THE SUBMISSIONS CAME IN, OUR GROUP MET AND DISCUSSED THE RESULTS AND THEN BROUGHT THREE CHOICES TO THE MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL ON MAY 22, 2017, IT WAS OVERLY, OVERLY OVERWHELMINGLY CHOSEN TO BE NAMED BURLESON BARK PARK.
I HOPE YOU WILL HONOR THIS CHOICE.
YES, SO THAT WAS IN TWENTY SEVENTEEN WHEN WE CREATED THIS PRESENTATION STAFF IS NOT TENURED ENOUGH CURRENTLY, WE DIDN'T KNOW THAT THIS OCCURRED.
IT WAS BROUGHT FORWARD AS A CITIZEN APPEARANCE ON THAT DATE, SO THERE WAS NO FORMAL RECOMMENDATION BY COUNSEL AT THE TIME.
BARK PARK IS ONE OF THE OPTIONS THAT WE ARE PRESENTING HERE THIS EVENING FOR POLLING.
FEEDBACK. WHERE DO WE GO NEXT? ARE YOU ARE YOU ASKING FOR CONSIDERATION OF THESE OR SO? THE FIRST THING WOULD BE WHICH PROCESS WOULD YOU GUYS LIKE US TO MOVE FORWARD WITH? AND THEN IF YOU WOULD LIKE US TO POLL THE COMMUNITY OR YOU WOULD LIKE TO SELECT FROM ONE OF THOSE OPTIONS, THE OPTIONS WOULD BE THE ONES THAT WE JUST SHOWED.
I'D LIKE TO POLL THE COMMUNITY.
NUMBER TWO. NUMBER TWO FITS WITH WHAT WE'RE DOING, I BELIEVE.
OK. SO BASED ON THAT, THIS IS A LIST OF NAMES THAT STAFF HAS PUT TOGETHER.
ONE OF THE OTHER THINGS IS WE'LL LEAVE A WRITE IN OPTION.
SO IF THERE'S, YOU KNOW, SOMEONE OUT THERE THAT COMES UP WITH A BETTER NAME THAN ANYTHING BEING PRESENTED, THEY WILL BE ABLE TO WRITE THAT ONE IN.
AND IF IT GETS THE MOST VOTES THAN ABSOLUTELY, THAT WOULD BE WHAT WE BROUGHT FORTH AS THE RECOMMENDATION. AND YOU SAY THAT YOU ALREADY HAD THE CITIZENS HAVE ALREADY SENT NAMES IN.
NO, NOT YET. THIS WAS JUST A STAFF COLLECTIVE.
SO WE SAT DOWN AS THE STAFF AND BRAINSTORMED A BUNCH OF NAMES, EVERYONE POLLED.
AND SO THIS WAS THE ONES THAT KIND OF MADE THE FINAL CUT.
SO WE WOULD TAKE THIS TO THE PUBLIC FOR POLLING AND THE COMMUNITY WOULD BE ABLE TO DO THAT OR THEY WOULD BE ABLE TO WRITE IN THEIR OWN OPTION AND THEN WE WOULD BRING FORTH A RECOMMENDATION. DOES ANYBODY ON COUNCIL REMEMBER THE LADY SHOWING BRINGING THE NAMES TO US? SO MAYOR, SO MAYOR AND COUNCIL? I WILL SAY THAT, OF COURSE, I WAS HERE AND I DID REVIEW THIS.
SO SHANNON DID BRING FORWARD THIS.
SHE DID TELL THE COUNCIL THESE ARE THE TOP THREE OPTIONS THAT WERE VOTED ON AND COUNCIL DID AGREE AND THANK HER FOR WHAT SHE DID, BUT DID ALSO REMIND HER THAT THERE WAS A PROCESS THAT WE HAD.
WE HAVE A FORMAL NAMING PROCESS, WHICH JEN JUST WENT THROUGH AND SO TOLD HER THAT THEY WOULD TAKE INTO CONSIDERATION THE NAMES THAT SHE BROUGHT FORWARD WITH THE WHOLE NAMING PROCESS. BUT WE NEVER DID FORMALLY NAME.
WE DIDN'T GO THROUGH THE POLICY PROCESS THAT WE HAVE IN PLACE.
I LIKE GETTING THE PEOPLE INVOLVED.
OK. YOU KNOW, IF EVERYBODY WOULD SEND THEIR NAMES IN, LET'S GO DOWN IF WE START GETTING STACKED UP AND PUT THEM TOGETHER AND WE GET SOME CONTINUITY THERE.
SO WOULD YOU LIKE US TO PROVIDE A LIST OF NAMES AND HAVE THEM POLL OR WOULD YOU LIKE US TO JUST HAVE OPEN ENDED? WHAT WOULD YOU WHAT DO YOU WANT TO NAME IT? ONE SOUNDS A LOT MORE DIFFICULT ON YOU THAN THE OTHERS, AND I DON'T WANT TO DO.
I'M GAME. I KNOW THAT JEN, I ASK A LOT OF YOU.
ANY THOUGHTS ON THIS? SO YOU JUST SAID, I THINK, GIVE THEM THIS LIST AND THEN THE WRITE IN AND THEN IF THEY WRITE IN, DOES THAT MEAN THAT PEOPLE CAN VOTE ON ANYTHING WRITTEN IN? YES. SO THE WAY THAT IT WOULD WORK IS THE WRITE INS WOULD POPULATE SO PEOPLE WOULD SEE THE WRITE INS. AND SO THE POLL WOULD BE LIVE ESSENTIALLY.
AND SO YOU'D BE ABLE TO SAY, OH GOSH, YOU KNOW, BARKENSON PARK IS WINNING, YOU'LL BE ABLE TO SEE THAT. AND THEN IF THERE'S A RIGHT IN THAT EVERYONE'S STARTING TO VOTE ON, WE WOULD ALSO SEE THAT. OK, SO I HAVE TO THROW DAN.
I HAVE A SHEET OF NAMES HERE, AND DAN JUST WROTE SOMETHING DOWN, AND I JUST WANT TO GIVE HIM THE CREDIT NOW BECAUSE I MAY WRITE THIS IN.
AND HE WROTE FIDO STATION TWO, AND I SAID, WHY TWO? BECAUSE IT WAS FIRE STATION TWO.
JUST WANT TO SAY, DAN MODERNIZED YOUR YOUR YOUR POTENTIAL CAREER IN MARKETING? YOU REALLY DID, BECAUSE WE THOUGHT ABOUT 10 FIRE STATION ONES AND THEY WEREN'T THAT GOOD.
I MEAN, MY POINT, MY POINT THERE IS THAT DOG PARKS UNIQUELY SEEMED TO CATCH ATTRACTIVE AND CUTE AND PUNY BASED KIND OF NAMES.
IT'S MAN'S BEST FIELD, AND FORT WORTH HAS FORT WOOF, WHICH IS CUTE, AND THEY CONVERTED THE OLD Z, BO'S GOLF COURSE, PART OF ITS GOLF DOG PARK.
SO, YOU KNOW, THERE'S JUST A UNIQUENESS TO DOG PARK NAMES THAT THAT I THINK YOU'VE GOT TO
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GO A LITTLE BEYOND JUST NAMING THE BURLESON DOG PARK.I JUST I I MIGHT ADD THAT TO THE LIST IF YOU'RE OK WITH IT.
ALL RIGHT. SO IT'S IT'S A CUTE NAME AND, YOU KNOW, BUT BUT THAT I'M SURE THERE'S A LOT OF CREATIVE AND FUNNY PEOPLE IN THE COMMUNITY THAT COULD COME UP WITH SOMETHING INTERESTING.
IF WE REACH OUT AND AND FIND SOMETHING, WE MAY FIND ONE.
AND JUST EVERYBODY JUST SAID, OH YEAH, THAT'S RIGHT, THAT'S WHAT IT NEEDS TO BE.
SO I THINK WHAT IT DOESN'T NEED TO BE A NUMBER ONE, JESUS, THE BONE YARD.
WOW. BUT THERE IS A CURRENT TREND TO NAME THINGS YARDS.
THE THE BARK YARD, THE BONE YARD, THE LOOKING RIGHT ACROSS THE DALE AT THE CEMETERY.
YES. OK, SO RONNIE, DO THE BONE YARD AND ADD FIDO STATION TWO BONE.
I'VE SEEN BARK YARD AND I WOULD BE IN FAVOR OF SWITCHING THAT ONE TO PARK YOUR BACKYARD.
OR DO WE WANT TO REPLACE THIS KIND OF SOUNDS MORBID TO CALL IT THE BONE YARD.
AND I'M JUST CURIOUS OF THE OTHER TWO NAMES THAT WERE SURVEYED WITH THE BURLESON STAR AT THE TIME ARE THOSE ARE EITHER OF THOSE TWO LISTED ON HERE OR COULD WE ADD THOSE TO YOU? I DON'T KNOW WHAT THEY WERE. YEAH, WELL, WE CAN DO THAT.
GET A HOLD OF SHANNON AND GET JUST CURIOUS.
WHO KNOWS WHAT THEY WERE, BUT JUST SOMETHING TO CONSIDER? I AGREE. SO YOU'RE GOING TO GENERATE THE NAME.
I WON'T MAKE YOU START OVER, GENERATE THE NAMES AND GO TO THE PUBLIC.
IS THAT WHAT YOU WANT TO DO? YES, SIR.
IF WE FEEL LIKE WE'VE GOT A HEALTHIER RESPONSE, WE'LL STOP.
IF WE FEEL LIKE WE NEED TO KEEP GOING, WE'LL KEEP GOING AND WE'LL BRING THIS BACK TO YOU GUYS NEXT MONTH. IS EVERYBODY GOOD WITH THAT? SOUNDS LIKE WE'RE HAPPY? THANK YOU.
THANK YOU. OK, MAYOR AND COUNCIL, THAT BRINGS US TO SECTION NINE.
CITY COUNCIL REQUESTS FOR A FUTURE AGENDA, ITEMS OR REPORTS THERE ANY REQUESTS, RONNIE, ANYBODY? WE'RE GOOD.
OK. BRINGS US TO SECTION 10 EXECUTIVE SESSION, WE HAVE NO NEED FOR EXECUTIVE SESSION TONIGHT. SO THAT BRINGS US TO THE END OF THE MEETING.
SO, MAYOR, IF YOU COULD CALL FOR A MOTION AND A SECOND FOR ADJOURNMENT IN STATE AT THE TIME, NO VOTE.
IS THERE A MOTION ON THIS? MOVE TO APPROVE.
WHO'S THE FIRST? I GOT A FIRST BY TAMARA AND A SECOND BY RICK.
THANK YOU, MAYOR AND COUNCIL.
* This transcript was compiled from uncorrected Closed Captioning.