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          WELCOME. 
          IT IS 6:00 PM ON APRIL 28TH, 2026. 
          THIS IS THE REGULAR CITY COUNCIL MEETING FOR THE CITY OF BERNIE. 
          UM, THANK Y'ALL FOR BEING HERE. 
          UM, WE'LL CALL THIS MEETING TO ORDER. 
          UM, TO START THE MEETING. 
          WE'LL DO A, UH, BRIEF MOMENT OF SILENCE. 
          SO IF YOU'LL INDULGE ME WITH THAT. 
          ALL RIGHT, THANK YOU. 
          NEXT, WE'LL DO THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE TO THE US FLAG, FOLLOWED BY THE TEXAS FLAG PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE. 
          ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG OF UNITED, THE UNITED STATES AMERICA, AND TO NEW REPUBLICAN OF WHICH WITHAND ONE NATION UNDER GOD, INDIVISIBLE, WITH LIBERTY, ROUTINE JUSTICE FOR ALL ON UNDER THE TEXAS FLAG. 
          I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO BE TEXAS ONE, ONE STATE UNDER GOD. 
          ONE AN INDIVISIBLE. 
          THANK YOU. 
          MAY BE SEATED. 
          [2. CONFLICTS OF INTEREST]
COUNSEL, ANYONE HAVE ANY CONFLICTS OF INTEREST? NO, SIR. 
          NONE. 
          NONE MYSELF EITHER. 
          UM, WE HAD NO ONE SIGN UP FOR PUBLIC COMMENTS AS ANYONE COME IN THAT WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK. 
          I SEE A COUPLE MEMBERS FROM THE PUBLIC. 
          RIGHT. 
          SEEING NONE. 
          WE'LL 
          [4. CONSENT AGENDA: All items listed below within the Consent Agenda are considered to be routine by the City Council and may be enacted with one motion. There will be no separate discussion of items unless a Council Member or citizen so requests, in which event the item may be moved to the general order of business and considered in its normal sequence]
MOVE ON TO THE CONSENT AGENDA. 
          IS THERE ANYONE WHO'D LIKE TO PULL ANYTHING FROM THE CONSENTS AGENDA? NO. 
          UM, DR. MACK ENTERTAIN A MOTION, UH, MAYOR PRO TIME. 
          I MOVE TO ADOPT THE CONSENT AGENDA AS PRESENTED. 
          I HAVE A MOTION TO, UM, ACCEPT THE CONSENT AGENDA AS PRESENTED A SECOND FROM COUNCILMAN BUNKER. 
          PLEASE VOTE. 
          THAT MOTION PASSES. 
          FIVE ZERO. 
          THANK YOU, COUNSEL. 
          ALL RIGHT. 
          WE'LL 
          [5.A. 2026-092 CONSIDER RESOLUTION NO. 2026-R23; A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE AN AMENDMENT TO THE PROFESSIONAL SERVICES CONTRACT WITH HOEFER WELKER ARCHITECTS FOR ADDITIONAL DESIGN SERVICES FOR FIRE STATION #2 PROJECT FOR AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $847,500. (Design of Fire Station #2)]
NOW MOVE ON TO THE REGULAR AGENDA. 
          ITEM FIVE, A DENNY GUIDE, US MAYOR PRO, TIM. 
          COUNSEL, GOOD EVENING. 
          UH, I'M GONNA START US OFF TONIGHT. 
          CHIEF CASRE IS IN, UH, APPLETON, WISCONSIN, PLAYING WITH FIRE TRUCKS IN THE SNOW. 
          WE ORDERED A FIRETRUCK A FEW YEARS AGO, FINALLY GETTING THE CHANCE TO GO DOWN AND FINALIZE THAT FIRE TRUCK SO THAT IT CAN, UH, UH, GET SHIPPED TO US. 
          I THINK WE'RE HOPING SOMETIME AROUND OCTOBER. 
          UH, BUT THAT MEANT HE WASN'T HERE TONIGHT. 
          SO, I'M GONNA START US OFF JUST WITH A LITTLE BIT OF, UH, SUMMARY OF WHERE WE'VE BEEN WITH THIS PROJECT. 
          UH, AND THEN I'M GONNA TURN IT OVER TO, UH, ASSISTANT CHIEF BALL. 
          HE'S GONNA KIND OF WORK THROUGH THE DETAILS A LITTLE BIT. 
          SO OBVIOUSLY, UH, HITS A LOT OF, UH, SPOTS HERE ON OUR STRATEGY MAP. 
          UM, SO LET'S START WITH A RECAP. 
          SO, UH, WHEN WE STARTED THIS PROJECT, UH, WE WENT TO AN RFQ. 
          WE SELECTED THE ARCHITECT. 
          AND AT THAT TIME, UH, WE SET, WE SET AN AGREEMENT, UH, FOR THE SCOPE AS WE KNEW IT AT THAT TIME. 
          UM, SINCE THEN, WE HAD SEVERAL, UH, SEVERAL MEMBERS OF COUNCIL, BOTH MAYOR PRO TEM WILLISON, AND, UH, DR. MACK. 
          WERE A PART OF THOSE, UH, EARLY MEETINGS. 
          WE HAD THE ECOSURE AND DESIGN. 
          IT'S WHERE WE REALLY TALKED ABOUT, UH, THE IMPORTANCE THAT WE WERE PUTTING ON OUR DISCUSSION ABOUT RAINWATER CAPTURE. 
          UM, HV CON CONDESCEND RECAPTURE, UH, DISCUSSION ABOUT SOLAR DISCUSSION ABOUT DRAINAGE AND HOW WE WERE GONNA TREAT THAT SITE, WHICH CHANGED SOME THINGS ON THE DESIGN. 
          UH, THEN WE MOVED INTO SCHEMATIC DESIGN, WHERE WE STARTED TO PROGRAM. 
          WE TALKED ABOUT WHAT SPACES WE NEEDED AND HOW LARGE THOSE SPACES NEEDED TO BE, UH, WHAT THINGS WE WANTED TO SEE. 
          SO WE HAD BOTH FROM THE FIRE SIDE OF SAYING, THESE ARE SPACES WE NEED TO BE FUNCTIONAL. 
          UH, WE ALSO HAD COUNCIL AND STAFF ON THAT SIDE. 
          WE TALKED ABOUT FROM, FROM EARLY ON, THE THINGS THAT WE WANTED TO MAKE SURE WE WANTED TO DO AS AN EXTENSION TO THE COMMUNITY, THE LIBRARY SPACE, DISPLAY SPACE, COMMUNITY SPACE THAT WE WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT WE, UM, HAD IN THAT DESIGN. 
          UM, THEN WE MOVED TO ACTUALLY PUTTING THAT INTO, UM, UH, DESIGN THAT WENT TO PLANNING. 
          AND, UH, THE PLANNING DEPARTMENT HAD SOME, HAD SOME THINGS THAT GO TO PLANNING AND ZONING. 
          AND THEN WE DID THE EXTERIOR REVIEW AND HAD A CONCEPTUAL COST ESTIMATE. 
          THE LAST TIME WHEN WE TALKED TO YOU, THAT'S WHERE WE WERE, RIGHT? SO WE, WE HAD THE, UH, EXTERIOR, EXTERIOR DESIGN DONE. 
          WE HAD A CONCEPTUAL, UH, COST ESTIMATE THAT WE HAD TO YOU AT THAT ONE TIME AS, UH, 21.9 MILLION WAS THAT ESTIMATE, TOTAL PROJECT ESTIMATE. 
          UM, WHAT WE'LL HAVE TODAY, EVERYTHING THAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT TODAY IS REALLY ABOUT DESIGN AND ENGINEERING COST. 
          UH, WE DO HAVE AN UPDATED OPC, WHICH I'LL TALK ABOUT HERE IN JUST A SECOND, WHICH IS, UH, OPINION OF PROBABLE COST FOR CONSTRUCTION. 
          UH, THAT'S A DIFFERENT, WE'RE NOT APPROVING THAT CONTRACT TODAY. 
          WE'LL JUST KIND OF LET YOU KNOW WHERE WE'RE AT WITH THE UPDATE IT. 
          UH, BUT WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT TODAY IS THE, UM, CHANGE IN SCOPE IN THE PROJECT FOR ENGINEERING 
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AND DESIGN. 
          UM, AND WALTER WILL GO THROUGH HOW SOME OF THOSE THINGS, UM, CHANGE IT OVER TIME. 
          SO THIS IS OUR UPDATED OPC. 
          AS YOU CAN SEE, NOT A LOT OF DIFFERENCE. 
          IT DID COME UP A LITTLE BIT. 
          UH, THE BUILDING ITSELF, THE ACTUAL, UH, BUILDING, UH, FACILITY, ABOUT 15 SEVEN, UH, SITE COSTS, ABOUT THREE FIVE, UH, AND CONTINGENCIES. 
          UH, 1.6, WHICH IS A PERCENTAGE. 
          AND THEN ADDITIONAL ROAD WORK. 
          I REALLY WANTED TO KIND OF POINT OUT TWO OF THESE, THE ADDITIONAL ROAD WORK PORTION OF THAT. 
          AND THEN THE BUILDING COST. 
          SO WHEN WE, WHEN WE HAD THE ORIGINAL AGREEMENT, UM, SCOPE OF, SCOPE OF WORK THAT WE BROUGHT TO YOU, THAT WAS FOR AN APPROXIMATELY 15,000 SQUARE FOOT BUILDING AND A THREE ACRE SITE. 
          UM, SINCE THEN AND GOING THROUGH THIS PROCESS, THE BUILDING IS ABOUT A 2220, BETWEEN 22 AND 23,000 SQUARE FEET AND A SIX ACRE SITE. 
          SO, AS WE STARTED TALKING ABOUT HOW WE WANTED TO DEAL WITH DRAINAGE, HOW WE HAD TO SET THIS THING ON THIS SITE, UM, A LOT OF THOSE THINGS CAME INTO, UH, CAME TO LEAD TO WHERE WE ARE TODAY. 
          THE SECOND IS THE ROAD WORK. 
          SO, UM, IF YOU'RE, WE'VE TALKED ABOUT THE SITE AND WE'RE FAMILIAR WITH THE SITE. 
          IF YOU, IF YOU LOOK AT THE TOPOGRAPHY OF THE SITE, UH, WE WEREN'T ANTICIPATING ALL THE ROAD WORK THAT WAS GONNA HAVE TO BE DONE FOR US TO BE ABLE TO SWEEP FIRE TRUCKS IN AND OUTTA THAT SITE, UM, BECAUSE OF THE, THE STEEP GRADE. 
          ALL OF THAT WAS NOT INCLUDED AT ALL IN THE, IN THE ORIGINAL SCOPE OF SERVICES. 
          SO THAT'S A, A BIG PORTION OF THIS. 
          UM, ANY QUESTIONS BEFORE I TURN IT OVER, WALTER? HE'LL GO THROUGH DETAILS. 
          ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT THE OPC, UH, OPINION OF PROBABLE COST? ALRIGHT, CHIEF BALL, GOOD EVENING, MAYOR PROAM, CANADIAN COUNCIL. 
          SO, AS, AS DANNY WAS SAYING, WE, WE CAME UP TO SOME PIVOT POINTS. 
          SO ONE OF THOSE BEING THE SITE TOPOGRAPHY, UH, THAT WAS GONNA INITIALLY REQUIRE A PARTIAL BELOW GRADE CONSTRUCTION, UH, WHICH WAS GONNA LEAD TO QUITE A BIT OF EXCAVATION CHALLENGES, UM, FOR THAT, FOR THAT PROCESS. 
          IN THAT PROCESS, THE DEVELOPER DID DE US SOME ADDITIONAL LAND, WHICH WAS THE THREE TO SIX ACRES THAT TOOK PLACE. 
          AND THAT ALLOWED US TO TAKE THAT BUILDING AND RELOCATE IT TO A FLATTER PORTION OF THE PROPERTY CLOSER TO ESPERANZA BOULEVARD. 
          THAT RESULTED IN A FULLY AT GRADE SINGLE STORY FACILITY. 
          THIS ADDITION ESSENTIALLY IMPROVED OPERATIONAL FLOW. 
          UH, AS WE WENT THROUGH THE STATION, IT EXPANDED OUR FOOTPRINT TO ACCOMMODATE FOR THE PROGRAM NEEDS AND FUTURE-PROOFING IT. 
          THE TRAINING COMPONENT WAS ABLE TO BE ADDED ABOVE THE DECONTAMINATION AREA, UH, WHICH UTILIZED AN UNUSED SPACE, AND ADDITIONALLY SOME ROOFING SPACING. 
          UH, TO, TO ADD TO THAT TRAINING ELEMENT. 
          THE BUILDING RELOCATED. 
          UH, ALSO BY RELOCATING IT, IT ALIGNED WITH THE NEARBY INTERSECTION OF LAJITAS, WHICH GAVE A CLEANER AND SAFER, UH, TRAFFIC FLOW IN AND OUT OF THE STATION, UH, WITH A DEDICATED TURN LANE, UM, COMING FROM HIGHWAY 46 AND A DEDICATED DECELERATION AND TURN LANE COMING FROM, UH, HER ELEMENTARY. 
          THIS ROADWAY DESIGN, LIKE DANNY MENTIONED, WAS NOT ORIGINALLY INCLUDED IN THE ORIGINAL, UH, ARCHITECTURAL SCOPE. 
          THIS IS A, A CURRENT, UH, MAPPING OF TWO OF THOSE, OF THOSE ASPECTS THAT, THAT WE SPOKE OF. 
          SO THE, THE GREEN, UH, HIGHLIGHTED AREA IS GONNA BE THE WATER MANAGEMENT THAT HAD TO BE CONSIDERED WITH THE ADDITIONAL DEEDED PROPERTY AND THE, THE WORK TO THE, TO THE SITE THAT WAS GONNA TAKE PLACE. 
          AND THEN THE BLUE SHADED AREA IS GONNA BE THAT TURN LANE COMING FROM HIGHWAY 46. 
          AND THEN THE, UH, ALIGNING OF, UH, WITH LAJITAS AND THE DECELERATION LANE AND THE TURN LANE COMING INTO THE RIGHT, UH, COMING INTO THAT MAIN DRIVEWAY. 
          UM, BELOW THE STATION, JUST TO GIVE YOU A 360 OVERVIEW OF, OF THE STATION AS THE, THE CURRENT SITS. 
          THIS IS COMING FROM, UH, THE LAJITAS INTERSECTION COMING AROUND THE STATION. 
          THIS WILL BE COMING DOWN THAT, THAT DRIVEWAY THAT, UH, THAT WAS SHOWN, UH, WHERE THE BLUE, UH, TURN LANE WOULD COME INTO COMING AROUND TOWARDS THE KITCHEN AREA. 
          AND THEN BACK TO OUR TRAINING, UH, WORKOUT FACILITY. 
          SO THIS ALLOWS US NOW TO HAVE, UM, AERIAL APPARATUS OR OUR PUMPER APPARATUS TO, TO FACILITATE OUR TRAINING RIGHT THERE WITH OUR WORKSHOP. 
          UM, THAT ROOF AND THEN THE ROOF THAT YOU SEE WHERE THE, THE FIREFIGHTERS ARE AT, THOSE WILL BOTH BE TRAINABLE, USABLE SPACES THAT WEREN'T USABLE PRIOR, AND THEN LEADS US INTO THE BAYS. 
          AND THAT SECOND FLOOR THERE, UH, WOULD BE THE TRAINING ELEMENT THAT'S ABOVE THE DECONTAMINATION AREA AND NOTATED THAT GIVES US SOME DIFFERENT WINDOWS AND, AND FEATURES THAT WE HAVE ON SOME CURRENT AND, AND PREVIOUS CONSTRUCTION IN THE AREA. 
          SO OUR NEXT STEPS TODAY WOULD BE TO, TO THE, THE REQUEST TO AMEND, THE, AMEND THE CONTRACT WITH, WITH FER WEER INCORPORATING OPERATIONAL ENHANCEMENTS AND TRAINING SPACES, UH, EXPANDING OUR CIVIL ENGINEERING SCOPE TO INCLUDE ROADWAY DESIGN. 
          UM, ULTIMATELY OFFERING A SAFER ACCESS AND IMPROVED LONG-TERM FUNCTIONALITY. 
          OUR PLANS REVIEWED WOULD CONTINUE AND 
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BE ONGOING. 
          UH, WE, WE GO, WE ANTICIPATE TO GO OUT FOR BIDS IN LATE SUMMER WITH CONSTRUCTION STARTING LATE FALL. 
          THE CURRENT AMENDED COST BREAKDOWN, $655,000 FOR PROJECT, UH, INCREASED BUILDING AND SITE $32,500 FOR TECHNOLOGY, AV, AND SECURITY, AND $160,000 FOR ESPERANZA BOULEVARD TOTALING THE, THE REQUESTED $847,500. 
          DO YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS FOR ME? MY MAIN QUESTION IS, I UNDERSTAND, AND I THINK, DAN, YOU ANSWERED MOST OF MY QUESTION. 
          UM, 'CAUSE ALL THE STUFF THAT WE'VE TALKED ABOUT IS STILL INCLUDED, BUT WHAT, THIS IS STILL A PRETTY SIGNIFICANT INCREASE. 
          SO IS THIS, ARE WE ANTICIPATING ANOTHER, ANY MORE MAJOR DESIGN CHANGES OR ENGINEERING CHANGES TO, I REALIZE INFLATION'S GONNA HAPPEN WITH THE, UH, OVERALL COST. 
          I KNOW THAT, BUT I MEAN, THIS SPECIFIC ISSUE. 
          N NO, AND THAT'S, THAT'S WHY YOU'RE JUST NOW GETTING THE FINAL COST. 
          SO WE, WE TALKED ABOUT IT LAST TIME THAT THIS WAS COMING. 
          WE KNEW THAT SCOPE WAS COMING. 
          SO WE TALKED ABOUT, UH, THE TOPOGRAPHY WAS CAUSING US TO HAVE CHANGES. 
          WE TALKED ABOUT THE ROAD WORK THAT WAS GONNA HAVE TO BE DONE. 
          WE TALKED ABOUT THE INCREASE IN THE SIZE OF THE BUILDING. 
          UH, BUT WE DIDN'T WANT TO COME BACK IN SMALL CHUNKS. 
          WE DIDN'T WANT TO COME BACK AND, AND, BUT WE DIDN'T HAVE ALL THE ANSWERS THEN. 
          SO THIS IS, UH, WE DON'T ANTICIPATE ANY ADDITIONAL CHANGES, UH, TO THE CONTRACT WITH, UH, DESIGN AND ENGINEERING. 
          WE'RE AT THAT POINT, THE, WE'RE READY TO GO OUT. 
          ONE OF THE BIGGEST ISSUES WAS THE, WAS THE BOULEVARD, THE ROADWAY? SO THIS SHOULD COVER THAT. 
          THIS IS, THIS IS COVERING THE DESIGN DESIGN, THE CIVIL WORK. 
          YES. 
          RIGHT. 
          AND HOW MUCH OF THE, UH, THE COST OF THE REWORKING OF THE BOULEVARD'S GONNA COME BACK TO US? I KEPT TRYING TO REMEMBER YOU SHOWED THAT. 
          I THINK IT'S, I THINK, UH, THE OBC IS 1.6. 
          1.6. 
          OKAY. 
          YEP. 
          SO, DR. MACK W WE, IF COUNSEL APPROVES THIS AMENDMENT, THEN THEY'LL GO FINISH THE DESIGN WORK SO THAT WE CAN THEN GO BID IT OUT THIS SUMMER. 
          GOTCHA. 
          GO AHEAD. 
          I, I, YEAH, I HAD SOME CONCERNS AS WELL WHEN I SAW THE 8 47. 
          RIGHT. 
          THAT WAS A BIG NUMBER, UM, IN SCOPE TO THE INITIAL COST OF THE PROJECT. 
          AND SO I HAD SOME CONCERNS AS WELL. 
          BUT I THINK YOU DID A GREAT JOB EXPLAINING THE HISTORY OF HOW WE GOT HERE FROM NOT TOO LONG AGO, UM, WHERE WE ALL APPROVED AND I THOUGHT WAS, YOU KNOW, A GREAT FIRE STATION, WHICH IS OVERDUE. 
          AND MOST OF THE COMMUNITIES TALKED VERY POSITIVELY ABOUT IT. 
          SO THEY'RE ANXIOUS TO MOVE IT FORWARD. 
          I'M GLAD TO HEAR THAT. 
          UM, THIS WILL HELP THAT TIMELINE. 
          UM, BUT JUST TO MAKE SURE WE'RE ALL ON THE SAME PAGE, UH, NEW LAND BECAME AVAILABLE. 
          CORRECT. 
          AND THAT'S HOW THIS GOT REDESIGNED AND MOVED. 
          THE, THE ORIGINAL SITE WAS THREE ACRES, RIGHT. 
          THAT THEY HAD AGREED TO GIVE US. 
          UM, AS WE STARTED TO HAVE THE CONVERSATION, UH, ABOUT WHAT THE SITE WAS GONNA BE NEEDED AND HOW WE WERE GONNA HAVE TO SITUATE IT, WE, WE SAW THAT WE WERE GONNA NEED MORE TO DO WHAT WE NEEDED TO DO WITH DRAINAGE. 
          SO WE APPROACHED ESPANZA, THEY DONATED THAT THREE ACRES, THAT ADDITIONAL THREE ACRES TO GIVE US THE FULL SIX ACRES SITE. 
          UM, BUT YES, THAT NEW LAND WAS, THAT'S ONE OF THEM ANTICIPATED. 
          AND THAT'S WHAT PRECIPITATED THIS REDESIGN. 
          AND BECAUSE WE ALREADY HAD THE COST OF THE ROAD AND THE GRADING AND CONCERNS TO THE FIRE TRUCKS ON THE INITIAL CONVERSATION THAT WE TALKED ABOUT, RIGHT? NO, SIR. 
          NO, SIR. 
          WE DID NOT TALK ABOUT THAT. 
          WE DID NOT HAVE, SO LAST TIME WE MET, WE DID, I HAD HAD THIS CONVERSATION EARLIER. 
          SO LAST TIME WE MET, WE DID. 
          BUT IT WASN'T A PART OF THE SCOPE TO DESIGN THAT. 
          CORRECT. 
          SO THE CIVIL WORK THAT WAS NEEDED TO DO THE ROAD WORK, WE HAD, WE HAD IDENTIFIED THAT IT WAS GONNA BE NEEDED, BUT WE HAD NOT APPROVED THAT SCOPE, UH, BEING PAID FOR. 
          WE UNQUANTIFIED IT, WE KNEW IT WAS THERE, WE HADN'T IFIED IT. 
          CORRECT. 
          BUT THEN WITH THE NEW LAND BECOMING DEEDED TO US IN THE REDESIGN, NOW WE CAN QUANTIFY IT. 
          AND THAT'S WHERE THIS COST COMES FROM, WHICH IS THE BULK OF THE COST. 
          YES, SIR. 
          RIGHT. 
          BECAUSE THE DESIGN OF THE BUILDING, FOR THE MOST PART, SQUARE FOOT IS THE SAME. 
          RIGHT. 
          SO FOR THE MOST PART. 
          FOR THE MOST PART. 
          RIGHT. 
          OKAY. 
          THAT'S WHAT I NEEDED TO KNOW. 
          THANK YOU, SIR. 
          ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? YEAH, LET GO. 
          UM, DANNY, UH, YOU MENTIONED THAT THE CHANGES, THESE SCOPE CHANGES ARE GONNA FUTURE PROOF, PROVIDE SOME FUTURE PROOFING. 
          UM, WHAT KIND OF DATA POINTS DO YOU HAVE THAT SHOWS THAT THIS SIZE OF, OF STATION WILL SUPPORT, UH, BERNIE'S FUTURE GROWTH? I, I'M NOT SURE. 
          I'M NOT SURE THAT IT, IT SUPPORTS FUTURE GROWTH IN THE FIRE STATION. 
          THAT'S NOT, THAT'S NOT WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT. 
          BUT IT ALLOWS US TO GROW WITH WHAT WERE ADDITIONAL, WHAT WHAT WILL INITIALLY GO ON THE GROUND WHEN WE OPEN THAT STATION? UH, IT WON'T BE FULL. 
          OKAY. 
          WE'LL BE ABLE, WE'LL BE ABLE TO GROW THERE, BE ABLE TO STAFF UP AND GROW TO A FULL STATION OF, OF LIKE WE HAVE OVER HERE. 
          OKAY. 
          UM, WHAT WE DID LOOK AT IS HOW CAN WE UTILIZE THE SPACE FOR ADDITIONAL TRAINING? WE DON'T HAVE A, A TRAINING FACILITY. 
          SO HOW WE COULD UTILIZE THAT FACILITY, UH, WHAT WOULD'VE BEEN UNUSED SPACE OR, UH, YOU KNOW, KIND OF UNUTILIZED SPACE. 
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UM, AND SO THERE, THERE WAS AREA THERE THAT WE GREW INTO THAT FROM A TRAINING ASPECT. 
          UM, BUT AS FAR AS THIS STATION BEING OVERSIZED OR RIGHT, BECAUSE OF, WE THINK WE NEED THAT. 
          THAT'S NOT WHAT, WHAT OUR INTENTION WAS. 
          UH, BUT IT IS A FULL SIZED STATION BE TO BE FULLY, UH, AND UNTIL THAT FULL HEADCOUNT IS OCCUPYING THAT SPACE, THERE'S AN OPPORTUNITY TO USE THE OPEN SPACE IN THE COMMUNITY FOR A MEETING GATHERING PLACE, THINGS LIKE THAT. 
          RIGHT. 
          AS WELL. 
          RIGHT. 
          AND THAT'S SOMETHING THAT, OKAY, WELL, THERE'S A, THERE'S A ROOM SET ASIDE JUST FOR THAT MM-HMM . 
          I MEAN, IN ADDITION, YEAH. 
          THIS, THIS STATION IS A MULTI-USE STATION. 
          THERE IS PREDOMINANTLY THE FIRE SERVICE, BUT COMMUNITY USE SOME TRAINING ASPECTS. 
          IF, IF YOU'LL REMEMBER EARLY ON WE WERE TALKING ABOUT, UM, A SATELLITE LIBRARY SPACE. 
          AND SO THE OPPORTUNITY CAME FOR US TO HAVE THAT CONVERSATION IS CAN WE COMBINE SOME SPACE HERE TO GET SOME TYPE OF, OF THOSE LIBRARY SERVICES, UH, IN A SATELLITE LOCATION WITHOUT BUILDING ITS OWN BUILDING OR PUTTING IT, UM, SOMEWHERE ELSE. 
          SO IT WAS A WAY FOR US TO GAIN THAT EFFICIENCY, HAVE THAT, THAT SUB USE OF THIS FACILITY. 
          SO SOME OF THOSE THINGS WERE PLANNED FROM THE VERY BEGINNING. 
          SOME OF THEM GREW AS WE TALKED ABOUT SCOPE. 
          SO WHILE THAT MAY HAVE BEEN TALKED ABOUT, AS WE TALKED ABOUT HOW MUCH SPACE WAS NEEDED FOR THOSE THINGS, THE FOOTPRINT DID GROW. 
          MAKES SENSE. 
          THANK YOU. 
          AND THE FUTURE GROWTH ALSO, YOU KNOW, WHEN WE DID THE BOND ISSUE, I ACTUALLY WANTED A THIRD FIRE STATION , AS YOU RECALL. 
          I KNOW BEN RECALLS THAT. 
          MM-HMM . 
          AND WE DO HAVE LAND, AS I RECALL, THAT WE IS AVAILABLE TO US ON THE, THE, THE OTHER SIDE BY, BY REGION PARK. 
          BUT WE JUST ARE NOT READY. 
          SO IN TERMS OF FUTURE GROWTH, THAT WOULD RELIEVE SOME OF THE, THE ISSUE WITH THE TWO FIRE STATIONS, WE WILL HAVE. 
          BUT THAT'S NOT, THAT'S NOT HAPPENING QUITE YET. 
          AND THAT'S WHY I WANTED TO MAKE SURE I WAS CLEAR ABOUT, WHEN WE'RE TALKING ABOUT FUTURE GROWTH, IT'S, THAT'S WHERE THE GROWTH IS HAPPENING. 
          AND SO THE STATION IS SUPPLY SUPPLYING THAT. 
          IT'S NOT THAT WE'RE OVERBUILDING THE BUILDING TO MAKE IT FUTURE PROOF BUILDING OVER, YOU KNOW, TO GROWTH. 
          ONE THING I'M EXCITED ABOUT IS JUST THE, WE'RE BUILDING A STATION THAT I THINK WILL BE A QUINTESSENTIAL FIRE STATION FOR THE REGION THAT I THINK OTHER, UH, FIREFIGHTERS WILL LOOK TO AS AN EXAMPLE, THAT EXEMPLIFIES WHAT CAN BE DONE FROM A, UM, H FACTORY CAPTURE FROM WAYNE RAIN, RODDER FROM, UM, AND THAT'S GONNA BE COOL. 
          THERE'S GONNA BE PEOPLE COMING HERE. 
          'CAUSE WE ALREADY HAVE A GREAT FIRE STATION. 
          THEY'RE GONNA BE LIKE, WE WANT TO COME AND SEE WHAT YOU'VE DONE. 
          UM, AND I THINK THAT JUST ADDS TO THE UNIQUENESS OF BERNIE AND, YOU KNOW, WE'RE ALREADY A GREAT COMMUNITY, A GREAT STAFF. 
          AND, UM, IT, AGAIN, THAT'S PART OF WHAT JOE AND I DID AND WHAT THE FIREFIGHTERS WERE DOING. 
          IT WAS JUST, HOW CAN WE MAKE THIS GREAT? AND I THINK WE'VE DONE THAT. 
          AND PART OF THAT IS A BIG PRICE TAG. 
          UM, YOU KNOW, WHICH IS JUST THE REALITY OF THINGS. 
          UM, AND I THINK WE KNEW THIS NUMBER WAS COMING WITH THE SCOPE. 
          I MEAN, IT'S JUST MORE, MORE SQUARE FOOTAGE AND THE, THE, UM, TRANSPORTATION PART OF IT. 
          SO THERE WAS A BIGGER NUMBER COMING AT SOME POINT. 
          SO ANYWAY. 
          AND IT'S PRETTY CLOSE TO A ONE WATER BUILDING. 
          YEP. 
          I MEAN, BECAUSE IT'S GONNA HAVE ALREADY HAS PURPLE PIPE. 
          SO EVEN THOUGH THEY DON'T HAVE WHAT'S CALLED A BLACK WATER RECYCLE, IT'S GOING TO THE WASTEWATER PLANT COMING BACK IN THE PURPLE PIPE. 
          THEY'VE GOT THE RAINWATER CAPTURE, ALL THAT. 
          SO IT IS PRETTY CLOSE TO, NOT EXACTLY, BUT PRETTY CLOSE TO ONE WATER BUILDING. 
          SO I'M, I'M EXCITED ABOUT IT. 
          I WILL ENTERTAIN A MOTION. 
          YES, SIR. 
          UH, MAYOR PRO TEM, I MOVE TO APPROVE RESOLUTION NUMBER 2026 DASH R 23 RESOLUTION AUTHORIZED IN THE CITY, MANAGE TO EXECUTE AN AMENDMENT TO THE PROFESSIONAL SERVICES CONTRACT WITH HOPE, HOPE FOR WELLER ARCHITECTS FOR ADDITIONAL DESIGN SERVICES FOR FIRE STATION. 
          NUMBER TWO, PROJECT FOR AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $847,500 DESIGNED TO FIRE STATION NUMBER TWO. 
          HAVE A MOTION TO APPROVE FROM DR. MACK. 
          A SECOND FROM COUNCILMAN BUNKER. 
          PLEASE VOTE THAT MOTION PASSES FIVE TO ZERO. 
          THANK YOU, CHIEF. 
          THANK YOU, DANNY. 
          YES, SIR. 
          APPRECIATE IT. 
          ALL RIGHT. 
          WE WILL NOW MOVE ON TO ITEM SIX 
          [6.A. 2026-105 DISCUSSION ON PAST MOBILITY PLANNING STUDIES, SIDEWALK PROJECT PRIORITIZATION FRAMEWORK, AND METHODS FOR PROJECT SELECTIONS.]
A. 
          WE HAVE JEFF EVENING AMERIPRO, TIM COUNCIL, UH, HERE TO TALK TO YOU ABOUT HOW WE DO SIDEWALK SELECTIONS HERE FOR THE CITY. 
          UH, THIS TIES BACK TO OUR STRATEGY MAP, HANDFUL OF WAYS ABOUT MA ADVANCING MASTER PLAN RECOMMENDATIONS, AS WELL AS INVESTING AND MAINTAINING HIGH QUALITY INFRASTRUCTURE. 
          UM, I'M GONNA TALK THROUGH SIDEWALK HISTORY, HOW WE DO PROJECT SELECTION, SIDEWALK PLANNING, HISTORY, SIDEWALK CONSTRUCTION, AS WELL AS PAST AND FUTURE SIDEWALK PROJECTS. 
          REALLY HERE IN BURN, UH, SIDEWALK REALLY WASN'T EVEN REQUIRED UNTIL THE MID EIGHTIES. 
          YOU GO BACK AND LOOK AT PROJECTS IN TOWN, UH, PROJECTS IN THE SEVENTIES, DIDN'T HAVE SIDEWALK, EARLY EIGHTIES, DIDN'T HAVE SIDEWALK. 
          LATE EIGHTIES, THEY STARTED KIND OF HAVING SIDEWALK AND CONTINUING ON EVERY PROJECT WE DO NOW REQUIRES SIDEWALK. 
          UM, OUR UDC TODAY REQUIRES SIDEWALKS ON BOTH SIDES OF ALL NEW STREETS. 
          DEPENDING ON THE STREET, THAT COULD BE A FIVE FOOT SIDEWALK. 
          AND IF IT'S A COLLECTOR ARTERIAL, IT COULD BE A EIGHT OR 10 FOOT SIDEWALK DEPENDING ON WHERE IT IS. 
          UH, ALSO OUR CODE HAS THAT REDEVELOPMENT MAY TRIGGER NEW OR UPGRADES TO SIDEWALK. 
          SO IF YOU HAVE AN EXISTING, THERE'S PARTS OF TOWN 
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THAT HAVE THREE FOOT AND FOUR FOOT SIDEWALKS. 
          UM, SO REDEVELOPMENT MAY TRIGGER UPGRADING THOSE SIDEWALKS. 
          UM, AND THERE'S A TYPO HERE, BUT CITY CREWS MAINTAIN, UM, A VERY BIG DISTANCE OF SIDEWALKS ACROSS TOWN. 
          UH, I TRUTHFULLY DON'T REMEMBER THE NUMBER OFF THE TOP OF MY HEAD. 
          I APOLOGIZE ABOUT THAT. 
          UM, BUT WE DO MAINTAIN ALL THOSE SIDEWALKS. 
          SO WE DO GET CALLS FROM CITIZENS, UM, WITH, THERE'S A CRACK IN MY SIDEWALK OR MY SIDEWALK SETTLED. 
          THAT'S A CONSTANT THING THAT WE SEND OUT PEOPLE TO WORK ON. 
          HOW DO WE COME UP WITH THESE PROJECTS? UM, FIRST OFF, WE HAVE A BIG LIST OF PROJECTS, WHETHER IT'S PAST PLANNING STUDIES, STAFF CONCERNS, CITIZEN COMMENTS, THERE'S ALL SORTS OF DIFFERENT WAYS THAT WE RECEIVE SIDEWALKS. 
          UM, THEN WE KIND OF LOOK THROUGH THE LOCAL PRIORITIES. 
          UM, WE, THROUGH OUR PLANNING STUDIES, THROUGH OUR MASTER PLAN, THERE'S A HANDFUL OF THINGS THAT WE REALLY LOOK AT, WHETHER IT'S DOWNTOWN, IF IT'S ADJACENT TO SCHOOLS, CONNECTIVITY, CONNECTING TO TRAILS, SIDEWALK GAPS, KIND OF OUR PRIORITIES THAT WE REALLY LOOK AT FOR SIDEWALKS. 
          UH, THEN THROUGH OUR A DA DEFICIENCY, AS YOU RECALL, WE'RE SEVERAL YEARS INTO OUR A DA TRANSITION PLAN. 
          SO WE'VE IDENTIFIED MANY LOCATIONS THAT WE NEED TO BE IMPROVING EXISTING SIDEWALKS OR RAMPS, AS WELL AS FEASIBILITY SCREENING. 
          UM, THESE ARE SOME THINGS THAT REALLY MAKE A EASY, AN EASY SIDEWALK PROJECT VERSUS A COMPLICATED SIDEWALK PROJECT. 
          UH, THE BIG ONES THERE ARE RIGHT AWAY AVAILABILITY, RIGHT AWAY AVAILABILITY, UTILITY CONFLICTS, TOPO CONFLICTS. 
          UH, FOR EXAMPLE, HERE'S A PICTURE ON SCHOOL STREET. 
          YOU CAN SEE FROM THE EDGE OF PAVEMENT. 
          THERE'S ABOUT A 18 INCH GAP TILL WE HIT THE PROPERTY LINE WITH A PRIVATE FENCE. 
          AND WE ALSO HAVE A NICE BIG HISTORIC TREE. 
          UM, SO AT THIS LOCATION, IT'S GONNA BE REALLY TOUGH TO PUT A FIVE FOOT, AND ACTUALLY BY OUR CODE, IT NEEDS TO BE A EIGHT FOOT SIDEWALK AT THIS LOCATION. 
          UM, SO THAT MAKES IT WHERE WE'RE POTENTIALLY HAVING TO BUY MANY, MANY PROPERTIES TO TRY TO GET A SIDEWALK IN. 
          UH, AS WELL AS UTILITY CONFLICTS. 
          THERE'S POWER POLES, TELECOM POLES, ALL SORTS OF THINGS POTENTIALLY IN THE WAY. 
          UM, AS WELL AS TOPO. 
          WE HAVE SOME AREAS THAT ARE KIND OF A SIDE OF THE HILL. 
          UM, IT'S VERY TOUGH TO PUT FLAT SIDEWALKS IN. 
          UM, THEN WE HAVE FUNDING AVAILABLE. 
          AND THEN AS WELL, ONCE WE KIND OF WORK THAT DOWN, THAT'S HOW WE GET OUR PATH, UH, TO THESE ARE THE PROJECTS THAT WE'RE GONNA BE WORKING ON. 
          AS MENTIONED, WE HAVE LOTS OF PLANNING STUDIES. 
          UH, GOING BACK TO 2016 WAS OUR FIRST ALAMO AREA, MPO STUDY. 
          UH, THERE WERE SEVERAL PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT OPPORTUNITIES, AND IT DEFINED THIS MAP OF SIDEWALK AND SHARED USE PATH TRAILS THAT THE CITY SHOULD BE WORKING TOWARDS. 
          UM, LATER IN THE 2018 COMPREHENSIVE MASTER PLAN, IT SPECIFICALLY LISTED, HEY, GO GET COSTA ESTIMATES AND BUILD THESE PARTICULAR SIDEWALK PROJECTS. 
          AND IT LISTED, UM, WEST SAN ANTONIO AVENUE TO LATIMORE. 
          SO WE'VE DONE THAT, UH, ROSEWOOD AVENUE TO DOWNTOWN BURNIE. 
          WE'VE DONE THAT, UH, NORTH, RIGHT AWAY OF RIVER ROAD. 
          WE HAVE NOT DONE THAT. 
          WE'VE HAD LOTS OF CONVERSATIONS WITH TXDOT, AND WE'RE WORKING THROUGH THAT EAST BANDERA ROAD. 
          WE'VE COMPLETED THAT ONE SCHWEPPE STREET THAT HAS BEEN DESIGNED, AND THAT'S GONNA BE IN OUR MPO PROJECT NEXT YEAR. 
          SO WE GO TO CONSTRUCTION HERF ROAD TO OLD SAN ANTONIO ROAD. 
          THAT'S, AGAIN, THAT'S DESIGNED, UM, AND, SORRY, HERF ROAD TO OLD SAN ANTONIO HAS ALREADY BEEN BUILT. 
          WEST BEND ARROW ROAD FROM I 10 TO PAST NORTH, THAT'S ACTUALLY A TEXT DOT LOCATION. 
          UM, THAT'S THE, THERE'S A GAP THERE AT THE TACO CABANA. 
          AND THEN THERE'S A PRIVATE CITIZEN, UH, THAT OWNS SOME LAND THERE THAT HAS TOLD US THAT WE, SHE DOES NOT HAVE ANY INTEREST TO SELL US RIGHT AWAY. 
          SO THAT'S, UH, SOMETHING THAT WE CAN'T PUT THAT SIDEWALK IN AT THIS TIME. 
          UH, CONTINUING PLANNING STUDIES. 
          WE HAVE THE, THE CITIZENS COUNTY AT A CROSSROADS STUDY. 
          IT HAD SEVERAL DIFFERENT AREAS OF SUGGESTIONS OF SIDEWALKS. 
          UH, THIS ONE PARTICULAR PAGE MENTIONED JOHNS ROAD, WEST HIGHLAND, WEST TYSON, AND OAK PARK. 
          UM, WHICH OAK PARK HAS BEEN DESIGNED AND CONSTRUCTED AT THIS TIME, WEST TYSON. 
          THE GAPS IN WEST TYSON WILL BE IN OUR MPO PROJECT NEXT YEAR. 
          UM, SO AGAIN, WE'RE JUST CONTINUING TO WORK THROUGH THESE PROJECTS THAT HAVE BEEN IDENTIFIED, AS WELL AS THE MOBILITY MASTER PLAN HAS PROJECTS THAT HAVE BEEN IDENTIFIED THAT WE'RE WORKING THROUGH, UM, AS WELL AS IN OUR CITIZEN SURVEYS. 
          AS YOU KNOW, 21, 23, 24, WE DID CITIZEN SURVEYS. 
          UM, IN 2025, WE HAD A SPECIAL PUBLIC ACCESS SURVEY. 
          AND JUST RECENTLY WE JUST WRAPPED UP OUR SAFETY ACTION PLAN COMMENTS AND ALL OF THESE CITIZEN COMMENTS, IT'S SOMETHING THAT WE LOOK AT ALL THE TIME. 
          AND SO THERE ARE SOMETIMES THEY'RE VERY GENERAL, PLEASE REPAIR OR SIDEWALKS IN THE CENTRAL CORE. 
          PLEASE ADD SIDEWALKS IN OUR NEIGHBORHOOD. 
          SOMETIMES THEY'RE VERY SPECIFIC, THE STEPS PAST KALANI, YOGURT BLOCK, WHEELCHAIR AND SCOOTERS. 
          UH, THAT ONE, FOR EXAMPLE, WE HAVE A PROJECT THAT'S GONNA BE STARTING CONSTRUCTION ON THAT ONE VERY SOON. 
          UM, BUT WE ALWAYS TRY TO TAKE THE CITIZEN SURVEYS LOCATIONS AND GO THROUGH OUR SELECTION CRITERIA TO SEE IF THESE ARE FEASIBLE PROJECTS. 
          ONE OF THE MOST COMMON COMPLAINTS WE GET ARE GAPS, JUST SIDEWALKS THAT HAVE BEEN BUILT, UM, WITH KIND OF LEAVING DEAD ENDS. 
          SO THIS IS EXAMPLE HERE ON PLANT STREET, UM, WHERE THE SIDEWALK DEAD ENDED IF YOU'RE TRYING TO GO NORTH ON PLANT TOWARDS BLANCO. 
          UM, THIS IS SOMETHING THAT WE WENT THROUGH OUR CRITERIA OF MATRIX. 
          UH, WE HAD PLENTY OF RIGHT AWAY AT THIS LOCATION, AND WE WERE ABLE TO EXTEND THIS 
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WITHOUT HAVING TO ACQUIRE ANY RIGHT AWAY. 
          SO IN THE 2022 PROJECT, WE EXTENDED RIGHT AWAY ACROSS SEVERAL PROPERTIES UP TO BLANCO ROAD, ANOTHER ONE ON BENTWOOD IN 2023. 
          THIS IS ONE THAT I THOUGHT WAS REALLY NEAT. 
          UM, AS YOU CAN SEE ON THE LEFT, THERE'S AN EXISTING DRAINAGE CULVERT. 
          THE SIDEWALK STARTED AND STOPPED BEFORE THE CULVERT. 
          UM, THERE WAS ACTUALLY, AT THE TIME, THERE WAS A BURNING HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT THAT USED AN ELECTRIC SCOOTER TO GET TO AND FROM SCHOOL, WHEELCHAIR, SCOOTER. 
          AND HE HAD TO GET OUT INTO THE ROADWAY EVERY DAY AND THEN BACK OUT AT THIS LOCATION. 
          UM, AND SO THIS WAS ONE THAT WE CAME THROUGH WITH A CITY PROJECT. 
          WE LENGTHENED THAT CULVERT AND EXTENDED THE SIDEWALK TO KEEP PEOPLE ON THE SIDEWALK AND NOT HAVING TO GET ONTO THE PAVEMENT ON THE ROAD. 
          UH, AS WELL DOWN IN SOUNDERS AND KIND OF THE DOWNTOWN CORE, THERE'S SEVERAL PLACES THAT WE JUST HAVE LITTLE BITTY GAPS IN SIDEWALK LIKE THIS. 
          ON SAUNDERS WHERE THE SIDEWALK ENDED, IT WAS MAYBE 40 FEET THAT WE HAD TO EXTEND SIDEWALK TO THE CURB AND BUILD A CURB RAMP. 
          UM, THERE'S MANY LOCATIONS THAT WE CONTINUE TO DO IN THE DOWNTOWN CORE. 
          HOW DO WE BUILD ALL THESE SIDEWALKS? UH, SEVERAL DIFFERENT WAYS. 
          UH, STREET DEPARTMENT OPERATION BUDGET, UM, JUST IN OUR NORMAL OPERATION BUDGET, WE CAN, NORMALLY, IT'S MORE OF A MAINTENANCE CRITERIA, BUT THERE'S NORMALLY 400, 500 FEET OF SIDEWALK WE MAINTAIN A YEAR, UM, TEARING OUT BAD SIDEWALK, REPAIRING IT. 
          THAT'S SOMETIMES OUR OLDER NEIGHBORHOODS, ACTUALLY SOMETIMES IN OUR NEWER NEIGHBORHOODS AS WELL. 
          UM, ALSO, SEVERAL YEARS AGO WE STARTED ADDING A STREET DEPARTMENT INFILL CONTRACTOR PROJECT. 
          AND WE'VE DONE THAT SEVERAL YEARS IN A ROW. 
          ACTUALLY, IT'S GONNA HAPPEN VERY SOON. 
          WE TYPICALLY DO IT AT SUMMERTIME, TRYING TO MINIMIZE, UH, DISTURBANCES. 
          AND WE'VE REALLY BEEN CONCENTRATING ON THE URBAN, THE CITY CORE, BUT ALSO AS WELL AS PLANT STREET AND BLANCO THE LAST HANDFUL OF YEARS. 
          AND THAT CONTRACTOR HAS YEAR AFTER YEAR DONE MANY PROJECTS LIKE I JUST SHOWED YOU ON SAUNDERS, AS WELL AS WE HAVE PROJECTS IDENTIFIED IN OUR CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PLAN PROJECTS. 
          UM, SOME OF THESE PROJECTS, AGAIN, TAKE MULTIPLE YEARS OF, OF US STUDYING, DECIDING IS THIS A FEASIBLE PROJECT? LOOKING THROUGH IS THIS, SOME OF OUR ROADS ARE TDOT. 
          UM, FOR EXAMPLE, THE, UH, KALANI YOGURT STAIRS THAT WE'RE REPLACING. 
          THAT'S PROBABLY A YEAR WORTH OF CONVERSATIONS WITH TXDOT, UM, TO GET TO THE POINT THAT WE'RE GETTING, UH, MOVING FORWARD WITH THAT PROJECT. 
          AS WELL AS, ONE OF THE THINGS I WANTED TO TALK THROUGH IS STATE AND FEDERAL FUNDING OPTIONS. 
          AS, AS I MENTIONED, WE WERE ABLE TO GET A $2.7 MILLION GRANT, UH, TO BUILD, UH, SIDEWALKS FOR KIND OF A CITYWIDE SIDEWALK PROJECT. 
          THE THING KNOWS THAT GRANT WAS, UH, 80 20, SO WE SPEND A HUNDRED PERCENT AND WE'LL GET 80 BACK, BUT THAT'S JUST HARD CONSTRUCTION COSTS. 
          SO ANY DESIGN COSTS AREN'T REIMBURSED ANY RIGHT OF WAY. 
          COSTS AREN'T REIMBURSED ANY UTILITY, RELOCATION COSTS AREN'T REIMBURSED. 
          UM, SO THOSE COSTS CAN ADD UP QUITE A BIT IF WE'RE NOT FINDING THE RIGHT FEASIBLE PROJECTS, UM, THAT CAN MAKE THESE SIDEWALKS MUCH MORE EXPENSIVE TO BUILD IN GENERAL. 
          HERE'S A CITYWIDE SIDEWALK MAP. 
          AS YOU CAN TELL, MOST OF THE NEWER AREAS OF TOWN THAT YOU RECOGNIZE, OUR NEWER NEIGHBORHOODS HAVE SIDEWALKS, KIND OF THERE IN THE MAGENTA, THE YELLOW OR THE TXDOT SIDEWALKS. 
          UH, YOU LOOK AT KIND OF OUR OLDER AREAS OF TOWN, WHETHER THAT'S THE FLATS OR DOWN OAK PARK AND SOME OF THOSE AREAS. 
          UM, OBVIOUSLY WE DON'T HAVE SIDEWALK IN THOSE AREAS. 
          UM, THAT'S WHERE WE'VE BEEN KIND OF WORKING. 
          UM, SO THIS NEXT EXHIBIT KIND OF SHOWS RECENT CIP PROJECTS THAT WE'VE WORKED ON THE LAST HANDFUL OF YEARS. 
          UM, SO WEST SAN ANTONIO, WE CONNECTED SIDEWALK FROM THE, THE DOWNTOWN SQUARE ALL THE WAY OUT TO KIND OF LATIMORE TOWARD THE WOODS OF FREDERICK NEIGHBORHOOD AND SEE KIND OF THE MORE PURPLE LINE HERE OVER THE MAGENTA. 
          UM, THEN WE ALSO DID A PORTION OF ROSEWOOD THAT KIND OF CONNECTED THAT GAP THAT ALLOWED ESSER TO BE ABLE TO WALK ALL THE WAY. 
          YOU CAN WALK FROM ESSER ALL THE WAY TO MAIN STREET ON A SIDEWALK NOW, UM, AS WELL AS THE PORTION ON NORTH PLANT THAT I SHOWED A PICTURE OF EARLIER. 
          AND THEN WE HAD THE LARGE PROJECT THAT WENT DOWN OAK PARK FRY, WHERE IT TURNS INTO OLD SAN ANTONIO, AS WELL AS THAT PIECE OF EAST BANDERA. 
          SO THOSE ARE SOME LARGE CONNECTIONS. 
          AGAIN, GOING BACK AND LOOKING AT WHAT PROJECTS WE WANT TO DO, WE'RE TRYING TO FIND PROJECTS THAT CONNECT GAPS AND MAKE NEIGHBORHOODS CONNECTED TO THE DOWNTOWN CORE. 
          I MENTIONED OUR MPO PROJECT THAT'S COMING UP NEXT YEAR THAT WE GOT FUNDED THROUGH THE MPO. 
          UM, THE AREAS IN RED, WE HAVE THE HOAC AND TYSON. 
          SO WE HAVE HOAC FROM SCHOOL STREET ALL THE WAY TO MAIN STREET, ACROSS MAIN STREET, OVER TO SCHWEPPE. 
          WE HAVE A LITTLE GAPS IN SIDEWALK ON TYSON. 
          UM, WE HAVE OLD SAN ANTONIO AND HERF DOWN NEAR THE INTERSECTION. 
          WE HAVE A PORTION OF CITY PARK ROAD FROM HIGHWAY 46 DOWN TO CHARGER BOULEVARD, AS WELL AS SIDEWALK THROUGH THE BACK OF BENTWOOD. 
          AND IT'S TOUGH TO SEE HERE, BUT THE NUMBER NINE EXTENSION, WE ARE EXTENDING THE NUMBER NINE, UM, FROM GARDEN STREET UP TO ADVO. 
          AND AS WELL AS THERE'S A LITTLE TRAIL CONNECTOR ON GARDEN STREET THAT'LL CONNECT SIDEWALK FROM KIT KAT, UH, DOWN TO NUMBER NINE AS WELL. 
          SO ALL THOSE WERE INCLUDED IN OUR MPO PROJECT FUTURE PROJECTS THAT WE IDENTIFIED AND WE'RE GONNA BE SHOWING UP IN THE NEXT HANDFUL OF YEARS. 
          UH, WE HAVE HIGHLAND AND WANDA 
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STREETS, UM, THAT WILL ALLOW PEOPLE TO MAYBE WALK TO HEB OR KIND OF TAKE THAT SQUARE AROUND ST. 
          PETER'S, UH, HICKMAN AND FRY. 
          SO AGAIN, THE ORANGE COLORS. 
          NOW HICKMAN AND FRY WILL ALLOW ANOTHER LARGE AREA OF THAT PART OF TOWN TO CONNECT FROM MAIN STREET BACK TO THE SIDEWALK THAT WE'VE ALREADY BUILT AT FRY AND OAK PARK, AS WELL AS SEVERAL IDENTIFIED LOCATIONS IN THE DOWNTOWN CORE, UM, CHAPARRAL CREEK UP HERE IN THE UPPER RIGHT. 
          THEREFORE THERE'S SEVERAL LITTLE GAPS IN THAT NEIGHBORHOOD. 
          UM, AND SO WE'RE GONNA TRY TO FILL IN THE GAPS OF THAT PARTICULAR NEIGHBORHOOD. 
          AND IN THE BOTTOM LEFT WE HAVE THE BLUFF FLU TRAIL, BLUFF VIEW, TRAIL EXTENSION. 
          UH, SO THAT'S WHEN WE ACTUALLY GOT FUNDS FROM THAT DEVELOPER TO EXTEND A TRAIL UNDERNEATH I 10, UM, AND CONNECT TO THE SIDEWALKS THAT ARE THERE ON WEST SAN ANTONIO. 
          UH, THAT PROJECT'S UNDER DESIGN RIGHT NOW. 
          AND WE'VE, UH, BEEN DISCUSSING, DISCUSSING THAT WITH TEXT OUT FOR ABOUT SIX MONTHS NOW. 
          AND IT'LL CONTINUE TO WORK THROUGH, UH, WITH ALL THE REQUIREMENTS TO BUILD SOMETHING IN THERE RIGHT AWAY. 
          'CAUSE THAT TRAIL WILL BE IN AND UNDER THE I 10 BRIDGES. 
          SO REALLY THAT'S OUR PROCESS, HOW WE GET FROM A POTENTIAL PROJECT TO AN ACTUAL PROJECT. 
          SEEING IF YOU HAVE ANY PARTICULAR QUESTIONS, ANY QUESTIONS, COUNSEL? I'LL, I'LL JUST MAKE ONE POINT OF JUST, UH, THE IMPORTANCE, AGAIN, I THINK I'VE MENTIONED THIS BEFORE, BUT WITH AMPO, JUST HOW MUCH WE HAVE TO DO TO GET FUNDING. 
          I MEAN, JUST FOR THE SIDEWALKS, JEFF KIND OF POINTED TO IT AND ELABORATE OR ELABORATE WITH THAT, BUT THAT'S ALSO FOR STREET PROJECTS AS AS WELL. 
          AND THEY'RE MORE AND MORE GUNG-HO ON THAT. 
          IT HAS TO BE SHOVEL READY. 
          SO THAT MEANS WE HAVE TO COME UP WITH THE FUNDING OR FIND ANOTHER FUNDING SOURCE AND HAVE THAT PROJECT OR PROJECTS PLURAL, READY TO GO. 
          UM, AND JUST THE IMPORTANCE OF THAT IS JUST GOOD TO KNOW AND FOR THE PUBLIC TO KNOW. 
          YEAH, ABS, ABSOLUTELY. 
          THE, THE PROJECT THAT WE GOT AWARDED, WE'VE BEEN DESIGNING SIDEWALKS FOR PROBABLY FOUR YEARS NOW THAT WE'VE HAD SEVERAL YEARS OF GETTING CAPITAL FUNDS TO GO DESIGN PROJECTS. 
          AND WE TOOK ALL OF THOSE PROJECTS THAT WERE DESIGNED AND BUNDLED THEM INTO ONE CITYWIDE PACKAGE AND SUBMITTED IT. 
          UM, SO YES, GETTING PROJECTS SHOVEL READY, DEFINITELY HELPS, UH, GET THE PROJECTS AWARDED JUST TO COMMENT. 
          I'LL SAY THAT'S ONE OF THE MORE COMMON REQUESTS THAT I GET IS AROUND SIDEWALK REPAIRS OR CONCERNS IN YOUR DEPARTMENT. 
          YOUR TEAM'S BEEN AMAZING AT RESPONSIVENESS TO THOSE. 
          SO THANK YOU FOR THAT. 
          AND I'M NOT SURE HOW YOU GO ABOUT PRIORITIZING IT, BUT YOU'VE DONE A GREAT JOB, SO THANKS. 
          APPRECIATE IT. 
          ANYTHING ELSE? NO, THANK YOU JEFF. 
          THAT WAS GREAT. 
          APPRECIATE IT. 
          THANK YOU. 
          ALRIGHT, NEXT, UH, WE 
          [6.B. 2026-135 UPDATE AND DISCUSSION ON WATER CONSERVATION.]
HAVE DIRECTOR BRINKMAN, MAYOR PRO TIMM. 
          THIS IS DIRECTOR BRINKMANN'S FIRST PRESENTATION AND COUNCIL. 
          OH, THIS FIRST ONE WE, WE WORKED YESTERDAY AND SO PLEASE GO EASY ON ME. 
          WE'LL GO EASY ON YOU, . 
          BE GENTLE. 
          ME TOO. 
          UH, THE PRESENTATION TODAY IS ON WATER CONSERVATION, REALLY OUR WATER SUPPLY EFFORTS AND, AND SOME OF THE SUPPLIES WE USE. 
          IT'S REALLY A REPORT ON LAST YEAR AND WHAT OUR USAGE WAS. 
          AND THEN WE HAVE SOME CONSERVATION UPDATES WITH, UM, RYAN BASS AND NATHAN CRANE HERE TO FOLLOW UP TO SORT OF A, UH, ENCAPSULATE A COMPLETE DESCRIPTION OF OUR WATER SITUATION. 
          UM, SO I WANT TO GET STARTED. 
          UM, CERTAINLY MEETS OUR TENANTS OF SAFETY AND SECURITY, ENVIRONMENTAL RESPONSIBILITY WITH OUR WATER, WATER PLAN. 
          UM, GETTING INTO THIS, YOU, SOME OF YOU HAVE SEEN THIS, SOME OF YOU HAVE SEEN THIS BEFORE. 
          IT'S A TYPICAL DEMAND BASED CURVE. 
          UM, THE WAY BERNIE USES OUR WATER, UM, SIGN SIGNIFICANT BASE FLOW BY CANYON LAKE, UM, SUPPLY. 
          AND WE TEND TO PEAK OFF THE COW CREEK AFER AT BURN CITY LAKE AND, AND CERTAINLY, UM, THE PEAK IRRIGATION DEMANDS FROM RECLAIM SYSTEM, WHICH IS ABSOLUTELY TREMENDOUS. 
          UM, BUT THE KEY TO OUR AVAILABILITY IS LOOKING AT A REASONABLE, UH, CONSERVATION AND REASONABLE DEMAND MANAGEMENT. 
          SO, UM, AS I GO THROUGH THIS, I'LL SHOW YOU A FEW THINGS THAT I'M NOTICING. 
          THIS WAS A 2025 LAST YEAR'S WATER DEMAND, UM, ACTUALS. 
          SO IT'S A GRAPH FROM JANUARY TO DECEMBER AND IT SHOWS YOU WHAT SUPPLY WAS USED IN WHICH MONTH. 
          AND THEN THE BLACK LINE BEHIND IT WAS THE YEAR PRIOR 2025 WAS A RATHER DRY YEAR. 
          AND WE DO HAVE SOME SIGNIFICANT PEAKING. 
          WE DID HAVE A BIG RAIN AND FLOOD EVENT IN, IN, UH, IN JULY OF LAST YEAR. 
          UM, BUT, UH, THAT WAS SHORT-LIVED. 
          UM, SO THE TOTALS, UM, ARE, ARE REALLY WHAT I LOOK AT IS, IS GBA. 
          WE HAVE A SIGNIFICANT RELIANCE UPON 55%. 
          UM, AND IT'S REALLY NICE TO SEE THE RECLAIM SYSTEM COMING UP TO 14.5%. 
          UM, I THINK WE HAVE SOME UPGRADES GOING INTO PLACE THAT SHOULD HELP THAT LONG TERM WITH 
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SOME ADDITIONAL STORAGE. 
          BUT, UM, WHERE WE ARE DURING DROUGHT, WE HAVE SOME STAGES OF, OF, UM, CONSERVATION THAT IS, UM, LIMITING SOME OF OUR ABILITY TO PULL SOME OF THESE SUPPLIES. 
          AND, AND RIGHTFULLY SO, IT'S DRY. 
          WE NEED TO CONSERVE, WE NEED TO BE CONSERVING IN MOST TIMES. 
          SO I JUST WANTED TO POINT THAT LAST YEAR'S USAGE OUT. 
          AND THEN HERE'S SOME HISTORIC PATTERNS. 
          UM, DIRECTOR MANN PRIOR TO ME BEING HERE HAD ONE FOR 2021. 
          IT WAS A WET YEAR. 
          AND SO THE SLIDE TO THE LEFT WAS A WET YEAR PROJECTION. 
          AND YOU'LL SEE IRRIGATION IS SIGNIFICANTLY DROPPED OFF, BUT BEHIND IT WAS THE YEAR PRIOR TO THAT, THAT WAS A 2020 WATER PROJECTION, THE BLACK LINE, YOU COULD SEE THE BLACK LINE THE YEAR BEFORE WE HAD SIGNIFICANT USAGE, SIGNIFICANT IRRIGATION DEMAND. 
          SO, UM, WHEN I LOOK AT WATER USAGE PATTERNS, THAT'S NOTABLE FOR ME. 
          UM, IT HELPS ME UNDERSTAND HOW MUCH I HAVE TO HAVE CONTRACTED AND AVAILABLE TO THE CITY OF BURN. 
          AND THEN YOU LOOK TO THE RIGHT 2025 WATER PRODUCTION. 
          UM, AND THAT IS REPRESENTATIVE OF A, OF A, OF A DRY YEAR, 2024 BEING THE BLACK LINE. 
          UH, JUST BEHIND THE SCENES, UH, OF THAT YEAR. 
          AND SOME OF THE, I GUESS BETWEEN THESE TWO SLIDES, ONE OF THE NOTABLE SLOT THINGS I SEE IS IT'S A, WE'RE STARTING TO APPROACH ON AVERAGE OF FOUR MGDF PRODUCTION PER DAY. 
          SO IN JUST FIVE YEARS YOU'LL SEE SOME INCREASED PRODUCTIVITY. 
          UM, AND, UM, CONSERVATION HAS TO CONTINUE TO REMAIN, UH, A COMPONENT OF OUR WATER STRATEGY. 
          SO WHEN WE GET WATER, WE, WE TRY TO BALANCE OUR DEMAND AND OUR SUPPLIES, OUR SERVICE POPULATION AS IT INCREASES. 
          WE GOTTA MAKE SURE WE HAVE WATER THERE, BUT, UH, WE ALSO NEED TO CONSERVE AND LOOK AT OUR RESTRICTIONS WHEN THE WEATHER BECOMES EXTREME. 
          AND, AND IN MOST CASES, I THINK LIVING ON THE EDGE OF A DESERT CONSERVATION HAS TO BE A COMPONENT THAT WE HAVE TO CONTINUE TO WORK THROUGH AND PROBABLY BE OUGHT TO BE A PART OF OUR, UH, PART OF OUR SYSTEM AT ALL TIMES. 
          UM, AND THEN FROM A WATER QUALITY PERSPECTIVE, WE'RE TRYING TO MAKE SURE THAT WE, OF THE WATER, THAT WE DO GET, THAT IT'S HIGH QUALITY. 
          SO IN SOME CASES WE, BECAUSE WE ARE USING SOME SURFACE WATER, WE DO HAVE SOME CHALLENGES THERE WITH DISINFECTION, UH, THAT WE MANAGE. 
          AND BEING ABLE TO BE ABLE TO TAKE SOME OF THE GROUNDWATER AND MIX IT WITH SURFACE WATER HELPS US MEET THOSE REGULATIONS. 
          UM, BUT IT'S CERTAINLY ON TOP OF MIND FOR US. 
          AND OF COURSE OUR OPERATIONS. 
          WE DO HAVE MAIN BREAKS, WATER LOSSES, UH, THAT WE HAVE TO ACCOUNT FOR. 
          PUBLIC SAFETY, REALLY RICHES, FIRE, UM, AND THEN MAKING SURE WE'RE DELIVERING HIGH THE HIGHEST QUALITY WATER TO OUR RESIDENTS THAT WE CAN IS, IS EXTREMELY IMPORTANT. 
          AND OF COURSE, UH, WORK AND PLAY AND GARDENING AND THOSE TYPE OF THINGS, UH, FOR OUR BALL FIELDS. 
          AND IT, IT'S CERTAINLY A, A COMPONENT THAT WE WANNA MAKE SURE WE SUPPLY AND, AND HAVE IN PLACE. 
          THIS IS A NEW SLIDE MAYBE FOR YOU. 
          UM, IT'S A WATER LOSS SLIDE. 
          THIS IS THE, THE STATE OF TEXAS IS NOW REQUIRING, AND THERE IS LEGISLATION THAT WAS GOING FORWARD WITH REGARD TO EVERY CITY'S GONNA HAVE TO TURN IN A WATER SUPPLY COUNTY TO THE STATE DEVELOPMENT BOARD. 
          HOW MUCH SUPPLY DO YOU GET VERSUS HOW MUCH DO YOU, UH, CONSUME AND WHAT ARE YOUR LOSSES? AND SO AS YOU CAN SEE, UM, BERNIE'S SITTING THERE ROUGHLY AROUND 10 TO 11%, UM, WHICH IS ACTUALLY VERY GOOD COMPARED TO THE STATE AVERAGE. 
          I'VE BEEN IN SYSTEMS THAT HAVE BEEN UPWARDS OF 20%, UM, SEEN SYSTEMS HIGHER THAN THAT. 
          UM, BUT BERNIE IS DOING A GREAT JOB, BUT THIS IS CONTINUOUS. 
          UM, YOU HAVE TO CONTINUE YOUR EFFORTS HERE OR ELSE THEY WILL GET WORSE IF YOU DON'T MAINTAIN YOUR OLD PIPES. 
          THAT'LL BE A CONTINUOUS SOURCE OF LEAKS THAT YOU HAVE TO BE MINDFUL OF. 
          AND OF COURSE, EVERY GALLON OF WATER THAT WE GET, WE WANNA MANAGE IT PROPERLY. 
          SO THIS IS SOMETHING WE LOOK AT. 
          UM, I GOT, UM, SOME DATA FROM THE TEXAS CONSERVATION SCORECARD. 
          THEY TAKE, THEY TAKE ALL THE DATA THAT THE STATE GETS AND THEY START TO DISSECT IT AND HIGHLIGHT IT PER UTILITY, LARGE, MEDIUM, AND SMALL UTILITIES. 
          AND THEY'RE SAYING THAT SMALL UTILITIES HAVE A REALLY TOUGH TIME 'CAUSE YOU DON'T HAVE A LOT OF WATER THAT YOU CAN LOSE, UM, WITHOUT IT SIGNIFICANTLY IMPACTING YOUR NUMBERS. 
          SO BERNIE'S DOING VERY WELL THERE ON AVERAGE. 
          UM, THEY'RE EXPECTING CITIES THE SIZE OF BERNIE TO HAVE ABOUT A 15% WATER LOSS RATE, BUT THIS IS LEAK DETECTION. 
          THIS IS ALL THOSE TYPE OF THINGS YOU NEED TO PURSUE TO MAKE SURE YOU'RE NOT LOSING WATER OUTTA YOUR SYSTEM. 
          AND THEY CAN BE NORMAL LOSS RATES THROUGH GASKETS, THOSE TYPE OF THINGS THAT YOU GOTTA BE MINDFUL OF. 
          OUR GALLONS PER CAPITA PER DAY, THIS IS SOMETHING THAT'S REALLY IMPORTANT TO MOST WATER UTILITIES IN CENTRAL TEXAS. 
          WE WANNA MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE WISELY USING OUR WATER. 
          AND BERNIE'S JUST UNDER 110 GALLONS PER CAPITA PER DAY. 
          HOW DOES THAT FARE WITH REGARD TO THE STATE WATER PLAN? UP ON THE UPPER RIGHT, THE REGIONAL DISTRICT AND THE STATE WATER PLAN STATES THAT THE CITY OF BURN SHOULD BE BY THE YEAR 2030, 
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GETTING TO AS LOW AS 170 GALLONS PER CAPITA PER PERSON. 
          BUT WE'RE SIGNIFICANTLY BETTER THAN THAT. 
          WE WILL CONTINUE TO STRIVE TO GET LOWER THAN THAT, BUT AS YOU CAN SEE ALL THE WAY OUT TO 2080, THEY'RE THINKING WE CAN ONLY GET TO 1 27. 
          SO, UM, I'VE SEEN CITIES TARGETS MUCH LOWER, UM, DOWN INTO THE A HUNDRED, A HUNDRED FOURS. 
          UM, I'VE SEEN SOME EVEN LOWER THAN THAT, BUT THEY'RE FURTHER WEST. 
          THEY DON'T HAVE A LOT OF EXISTING DEMAND FOR IRRIGATION AND NOR DO THEY PLANT YARDS FULL OF GRASS. 
          SO, UM, WE'LL HAVE TO CONTINUE WATCH THIS. 
          BUT THESE ARE INDICATORS FOR US TO MAKE SURE WE'RE BEST IN CLASS AND THAT WE'RE MEETING OUR REQUIREMENTS PER THE STATE. 
          I MEAN, COMPARING OURSELVES TO THE TOP UTILITIES IN THE, IN THE, IN THE STATE AS WELL WITH SIMILAR CLIMATES. 
          UM, CITY MANAGER THATCHER ASKED ME YESTERDAY, WHAT IS THE HIGHEST YOU'VE SEEN IN GPCD? AND I'VE SEEN, I'VE BEEN A PART OF A SYSTEM THAT HAD, IT WAS UP TO 216 GALLONS PER CAP PER PERSON, AND WE DROPPED IT, BUT I THOUGHT THAT WAS THE MAX. 
          BUT I LOOKED AT IT AGAIN LAST NIGHT AND I SAW QUITE A FEW SITTING UP IN THE FIVE AND 600 GALLONS PER CAP PER PERSON. 
          BUT IT'S FAR EAST, THEY GET A LOT OF RAINFALL AND THEY DON'T REALLY, UH, MANAGE THEIR LEAKS VERY WELL. 
          SO WE'RE DOING A GREAT JOB, BUT VERY GOOD WITH REGARD TO CENTRAL TEXAS. 
          SOME OF THE DROUGHT IMPACTS FOR THE RECENT RAINFALL, OF COURSE, WE GOT JUST OVER FIVE INCHES HERE IN BURN CANYON LAKE. 
          HOW DOES THIS, YOU KNOW, IT, IT WAS MINUSCULE IMPACT ON THE LAKE, HOWEVER, THE LAKE OVER THE LAST YEAR IS 58.9% FULL. 
          LAST YEAR IT WAS 8.71 FEET LOWER AT THIS TIME LAST YEAR. 
          SO, UM, THERE'S A LOT OF ANXIETY AND, AND PRESS ABOUT THE LEVELS OF LAKES AND, UM, CONCERN ABOUT CONSERVATION IN CENTRAL TEXAS AS THERE SHOULD BE. 
          UM, AND I JUST WANTED TO GIVE YOU AN INDICATION THERE OF JUST A LITTLE BIT OF RAIN. 
          UM, MAY NOT HAVE SUCH IMPACTS ON, ON, UM, ON SURFACE WATER, BUT IT DID HERE AT BURNING LAKE WE GOT SIX INCHES OF INCREASED FLOW OR VOLUME AND IN BURNING LAKE, UM, AND THEN IT'S FURTHER SOUTH WHERE THEY GOT MORE RAIN. 
          YOU SEE THE EDWARDS AFER JUST BUMPING UP 10 FEET JUST IN A FEW DAYS. 
          IT'S PROBABLY EVEN HIGHER THAN THAT. 
          MOST EXPERTS WERE TALKING HERE IN THE LAST TWO WEEKS ABOUT, UM, HOW IS THIS GONNA, HOW IS CLIMATE GONNA CHANGE? AND ALMOST ALL EXPERTS AGREE IN THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. 
          PUT IT OUT MAY THROUGH THE JULY OF 26, THEY ENVI ENVISIONED EL LA NINA GOING AWAY, EL NINO COMING INTO PLAY, WHICH BRINGS MORE TROPICAL MOISTURE TO TEXAS. 
          SO, UH, WE'RE PRAYING FOR THAT. 
          UM, NOT TOO MUCH. 
          WE DON'T NEED A HURRICANE, BUT UM, THAT RAIN THAT WE JUST EXPERIENCED IS SOMETHING THAT WE WANT TO CONTINUE TO SEE. 
          WE NEED, WE NEED A FEW OF THOSE STRUNG TOGETHER TO HELP RECOVER. 
          UM, OTHERS HAVE, UH, INCLUDING BERNIE HAS, UM, DROUGHT CONSERVATION PLANS. 
          GBA HAS SIX STAGES. 
          UM, RIGHT NOW THEY'RE IN STAGE TWO, WHICH IS A VOLUNTARY 10% CUTBACK. 
          UH, COW CREEK IS IN STAGE THREE WITH A 30% CUTBACK. 
          SO THAT IMPACTS ALL THE WELL OWNERS WITHIN THE COW CREEK DISTRICT. 
          AND EVERYBODY NEEDS TO BE CONSERVING UP TO 30% OF WHAT THEIR FULL DEMAND WAS. 
          UM, CITY OF FAIR OAKS IS IN STAGE TWO, I THINK THEY HAVE ONCE A WEEK WATERING, UM, WITH, UM, REDUCED HOURS. 
          AND, UH, TEXAS WATER HAS IS IN STAGE THREE EVERY OTHER WEEK WATERING ONE DAY A WEEK. 
          SO THEY'RE HAVING SOME SIGNIFICANT CHALLENGES THERE WITHIN TEXAS WATER. 
          AND SOME OF THAT CHANGES BETWEEN KENDALL COUNTY AND KAMAL COUNTY. 
          OMA COUNTY IS A LITTLE WORSE. 
          UM, THE NEXT STAGES THOUGH, THAT THESE UTILITIES GO THROUGH ARE NO OUTDOOR WATERING. 
          SO WE'VE GOTTA BE ABLE TO MANAGE OUR RESOURCES APPROPRIATELY, UH, SO THAT WE DON'T HAVE TO GO THERE. 
          OF COURSE, UH, AS I STATED, WE'RE IN STAGE, UH, STAGE TWO HERE WITH, UM, ONE WEEKDAY WATERING DAY A YEAR OR UH, A WEEK WITH REDUCED HOURS. 
          UM, SO ANYWAY, UM, Y'ALL ARE VERY AWARE OF THAT. 
          UM, AND THEN I WANNA BRING UP RYAN BASS AND NATHAN CRANE TO TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT OUR CONSERVATION INITIATIVES WHERE WE'RE HEADED WITH CONSERVATION AND DIRECTOR CRANE WITH REGARD TO SOME ENFORCEMENT ACTIVITIES WE HAVE WITH REGARD TO THIS OVERALL WATER STRATEGY. 
          THANK YOU. 
          GOOD EVENING. 
          SO YEAH, I WANNA PRO PROVIDE AN UPDATE OF WHERE WE ARE IN OUR WATER CONSERVATION INCENTIVE PROGRAM. 
          UM, BACK IN MAY OF 2024. 
          WE, WE FIRST ROLLED OUT OUR, OUR FIRST ONLINE INCENTIVE WHERE WE WERE LOOKING AT RAINWATER HARVESTING OUR IRRIGATION SYSTEM CONSULTATIONS, AND THE REBATE FOR THE INSTALLATION OF RAIN FREE SENSORS. 
          UH, I FIRST WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE ALL THE DIFFERENT DEPARTMENTS THAT, THAT PLAY A SIGNIFICANT ROLE IN, IN DOING THIS REBATE, UH, WOULDN'T BE POSSIBLE WITHOUT IT SETTING UP 
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THE SMART SHEET AND THE DASHBOARD FOR, UH, UH, CUSTOMER CARE AND BUILDING FOR ACTUALLY APPLYING THE REBATES TO THE CORRECT CUSTOMERS AND FOR COMMUNICATIONS FOR ADVERTISING AND PROMOTING, UH, OUR WATER CONSERVATION OPPORTUNITIES FOR OUR WATER UTILITY CUSTOMERS. 
          UM, BY FAR THE MOST POPULAR REBATE OPPORTUNITY THAT WE HAVE RIGHT NOW IS OUR IRRIGATION SYSTEM CONSULTATION. 
          WE HAD 84, UH, 50, I THINK WE HAVE 52 PEOPLE, THE, THE FIRST YEAR AND LIKE 84 THE SECOND YEAR. 
          AND ON THE FORMS THAT COME THROUGH THE, UH, THE IRRIGATOR PROVIDES AN EVALUATION OF THE SYSTEM, UH, IDENTIFIES PROBLEMS AND RECOMMENDED REPAIRS. 
          I WOULD SAY 90% OF THOSE IRRIGATION FORMS THAT COME THROUGH IDENTIFY PROBLEMS ON THE SYSTEM. 
          AND IT'S NOT ALWAYS SIMPLY A LEAK. 
          MOST OF THE TIME IT IS A LEAK, BUT IT'S, IT'S, UH, BATTERY ISSUES, IT'S TIMING ISSUES. 
          IT'S NOT BEING SET UP CORRECTLY TO WATER ON THE RIGHT DAY DEPENDING ON WHAT DROUGHT, DROUGHT STAGE WE'RE IN. 
          BUT I'LL SAY, UM, IT'S, IT'S KIND OF SHOCKING TO SEE THE NUMBER OF LEAKS THAT ARE DETECTED AND THEN REPAIRED THROUGH THESE REBATE FORMS. SO IT'S, UH, I THINK IT'S A GOOD PROGRAM. 
          WE'RE GETTING SOME PRETTY GOOD ROI ON THAT FROM A, A WATER LOSS STANDPOINT AND SEEING SOME, UH, LEAK REPAIRS ON OUR IRRIGATION SYSTEMS. SO THIS YEAR WE CHANGED THE PROCESS A LITTLE BIT AND ROLLED OUT A NEW REBATE OPPORTUNITY, WHICH IS A TURF GRASS REDUCTION REBATE, UH, RED, UH, REDUCTION REBATE. 
          THIS ALSO ALLOWED US TO KIND OF TAKE A LOOK AT HOW MUCH MONEY WE'RE, UH, PROVIDING IN INCENTIVE OPPORTUNITIES AND REBATES TO WATER UTILITY CUSTOMERS. 
          AND WE SET A CAP AT $500 IN COMBINED REBATES PER FISCAL YEAR PER WATER UTILITY CUSTOMER. 
          AND WE ALLOW CUSTOMERS NOW THEY CAN MIX AND MATCH REBATE OPPORTUNITIES DEPENDING ON THEIR WATER CONSERVATION GOALS ON THEIR PROPERTY, UH, TO INCLUDE ANY OF OUR REBATES. 
          UM, WE ARE REATING, WE'RE PROVIDING A REBATE AT $1 PER SQUARE FOOT OF TURF GRASS REMOVED AND REPLACED WITH EITHER A Z ESCAPE DESIGN OR A WATER SMART LANDSCAPE DESIGN. 
          THERE'S SOME, UH, QUALIFIERS ON THE APPLICATION. 
          IT'S A TWO STAGE PROCESS WHERE THEY SUBMIT TO ME, UH, NARRATIVE DESCRIPTION OF THEIR PROJECT, PHOTOS OF THEIR SITE MEASUREMENTS OF THE TURF GRASS. 
          THEY'RE GONNA, UH, REMOVE SOME ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS THAT THEY WILL REMOVE ANY EXISTING, UM, IRRIGATION COMPONENTS THAT ARE WITHIN THIS AREA. 
          THEY'LL CAP THOSE, UH, PROPERLY, WE'LL APPROVE THEIR DESIGN AND THEN THEY WILL COMPLETE THE WORK. 
          STEP TWO IS THEY SUBMIT PHOTOS OF THE WORK COMPLETED AND MA I'LL GO BACK AND MATCH IT UP WITH WHAT THEY DESCRIBED ON THEIR INITIAL DESIGN AND THEN WE'LL APPROVE THE REBATE AT THAT POINT. 
          BUT, SO THEY CAN DO 500 SQUARE FEET PER YEAR AND GET $500 IN REBATES, OR THEY CAN DO 400 SQUARE FEET AND REPLACE THEIR RAIN FREE SENSOR. 
          THEY CAN MIX AND MATCH HOWEVER THEY WANT BASED ON THEIR INDIVIDUAL NEEDS. 
          SO, UM, I THINK THIS IS GONNA BE PRETTY POPULAR. 
          WE'VE ROLLED OUT SOME, UM, ADVERTISEMENTS FOR IT THROUGH COMMUNICATION, SO WE'LL SEE. 
          IT'S, UH, BRAND NEW. 
          WE HAVEN'T HAD ONE COME THROUGH YET. 
          WE HAVE SOME PEOPLE CALL AND ASKING QUESTIONS ABOUT IT THOUGH. 
          SO WITH THAT, I DON'T IF YOU HAPPY TO, DO YOU WANNA HOLD QUESTIONS TO THE END OR GO WITH THAT? NOT A QUESTION COMMENT? YEAH, GO AHEAD. 
          A LITTLE BIT OF BOTH. 
          YEAH. 
          YEAH, GO FOR IT. 
          UM, SO I I I'M VERY ENCOURAGED TO SEE THE INCREASED PARTICIPATION WHEN IT FIRST ROLLED OUT. 
          'CAUSE I REMEMBER WHEN IT WAS FIRST SHARED, IT WAS REALLY EARLY ON AND THE NUMBERS WEREN'T OVERWHELMING. 
          SO I'M GLAD TO SEE THE INCREASE. 
          MY QUESTIONS ARE, DO YOU HAVE ANY THOUGHTS ON HOW WE GET MORE TRACTION AROUND THE HARVEST RAIN HARVESTING? BECAUSE WE TALK ABOUT CONSERVATION HERE. 
          EVERY COUNCIL MEETING AND RAIN HARVESTING IS OFTEN WHAT WE TALK ABOUT. 
          SO HOW DO WE GET MORE PARTICIPATION THERE? THAT'S MY FIRST QUESTION. 
          AND MY SECOND QUESTION IS, WHAT WOULD YOU ESTIMATE THE NUMBER OF HOMES THAT HAVE AN IRRIGATION SYSTEM ARE THAT ARE AVAILABLE TO THIS SERVICE? WE HAVE 130 SOMETHING THAT HAVE PARTICIPATED, BUT THAT SEEMS, IT SEEMS LIKE A SMALL NUMBER COMPARED TO THE NUMBER OF LAWNS THAT ARE OUT THERE. 
          YEAH, WE COULD, WE COULD DIG INTO, UM, YOU KNOW, FOR, THERE'S AN IRRIGATION SYSTEM PERMIT THAT'S REQUIRED FOR THE INSTALLATION OF A NEW IRRIGATION SYSTEM. 
          UH, I WOULD'VE TO GO AND LOOK THROUGH THE SYSTEM AND TRY TO FIGURE OUT HOW MANY ACTUALLY OPERATIONAL IRRIGATION SYSTEMS WE ARE, WE HAVE ON OUR UTILITY. 
          UM, I'M NOT SURE I'D HAVE TO DIG INTO THAT BECAUSE I, I THINK THE MOMENTUM IS GREAT. 
          I JUST WANTED TO FIGURE OUT HOW WE CAN GET IT TO GO FASTER. 
          'CAUSE I, I DO SEE THE ADVERTISINGS OF THE REBATES EVERY ONCE IN A WHILE. 
          UM, I FEEL LIKE I SHOULD SEE MORE OF IT HONESTLY. 
          UM, AND THEN UNDERSTANDING THAT, YOU KNOW, IT'S A COMBINATION OF $500. 
          UM, ADDING THE NEW ELEMENT THIS YEAR WITH THE TURF REMOVAL I THINK, UM, IS A GREAT, GREAT OPPORTUNITY TOO. 
          I JUST THINK WE NEED TO GET IT OUT THERE A LITTLE BIT MORE. 
          AND, AND TO ANSWER YOUR FIRST QUESTION, UH, RAINWATER HARVESTING WAS THE, THAT CAME OUT SUPER FAST. 
          EVERYONE INITIALLY JUMPED ALL OVER THAT. 
          THAT'S THE ONLY REBATE OP REBATE APPLICATIONS I WAS GETTING AT FIRST. 
          I MEAN, WE PROBABLY, OF THE 50 WE GOT THE FIRST YEAR, I PROBABLY GOT 40 OF THOSE IN THE FIRST MONTH. 
          I MEAN, EVERYBODY THAT I THINK WAS READY TO DO IT WANTED TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF IT. 
          AND SO, UM, SOME PEOPLE HAVE, UH, STATED THAT THEY DON'T WANT TO CAPTURE THE MINIMUM OF 50 GALLONS. 
          SOME PEOPLE WANT TO DO SOME THINGS THAT DON'T ACTUALLY COMPLY WITH, UH, THE REQUIREMENTS OF OUR PROGRAM, WHICH ARE LIKE DIRECTING THIS, UH, INSTALLING SYSTEMS THAT, UM, WITH DONATED MATERIALS OR, UH, GETTING BARRELS 
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THAT THEY PURCHASED PRIOR TO THAT, TO THE INITIATION OF THE PROGRAMS. THERE'S A FEW LITTLE THINGS THERE THAT WHERE THEY DIDN'T QUALIFY. 
          BUT, UH, YOU KNOW, IT'S, THE GOAL OF THIS PROGRAM IS TRULY AN INCENTIVIZE SOMEONE TO TAKE AN ACTION AND HOPEFULLY THEY GROW AND CAPTURE MORE RAIN WATER AND GROW THEIR SYSTEM OVER TIME. 
          SO, UM, WE ARE ALLOWING PEOPLE TO COME BACK AND APPLY FOR THESE PROGRAMS ANNUALLY. 
          SO IF YOU DO AN IRRIGATION SYSTEM CONSULTATION THIS YEAR, YOU COULD DO IT AGAIN NEXT FISCAL YEAR. 
          SAME WITH RAINWATER. 
          IF YOU WANNA CAPTURE 50 MORE GALLONS AND GROW YOUR SYSTEM, YOU CAN DO THAT. 
          UM, WE SETTLED ON 50 GALLONS AS A MINIMUM CATCH RATE 'CAUSE THAT'S THE COMMON BARREL COLLECTION BARREL SIZE THAT YOU CAN GET ONLINE AT WALMART, HOME DEPOT, AMAZON. 
          SO WE REALLY WANTED TO JUST GET THE BALL ROLLING ON SOMEONE AND GET, AND GET THEM, UM, TO MAYBE GROW THEIR SYSTEM OR SHOW THEIR NEIGHBOR AND TALK ABOUT, UH, CHANGE OF BEHAVIOR ON THEIR PROPERTY. 
          THERE WAS A, THERE WAS A GRANT PROGRAM 10, 15 YEARS AGO WHERE THE CITY ACTUALLY GAVE OUT RAIN BARRELS. 
          DO YOU RECALL THAT? I DO, YES SIR. 
          BECAUSE I HAVE SOME OF 'EM. 
          AND THOSE WERE 65 GALLON RAIN BARRELS. 
          I DON'T KNOW WHAT THAT GRANT PROGRAM WAS ABOUT. 
          STATE OR FOUNDATION OR WHAT? JUST WE ACTUALLY COMBINED WITH, UH, WE, I WORKED WITH, UH, CALGARY CREEK, UH, GROUNDWATER CONSERVATION DISTRICT ON THAT. 
          WE PARTNERED WITH THAT. 
          IT WAS A LITTLE BIT OF A LOGISTICAL JOB. 
          WE HAD A 18 WHEELER PULL UP FULL RAIN BARRELS AND THEN WE HAD TO STAGE 'EM AND THEN WE HAD TO HAND THEM OUT TO THE PEOPLE THAT APPLIED. 
          UH, SO THERE WAS DEFINITELY SOME, A LITTLE MORE INVOLVED THAN BEING ABLE TO JUST INCENTIVIZE SOMEONE KIND OF THE COST OF A BARREL. 
          THIS IS A, A LESS LABOR INTENSIVE OPPORTUNITY HERE. 
          I KNOW. 
          UM, JUST, AND I THINK I'VE MENTIONED THIS, WHEN WE WERE FIRST TALKING ABOUT THIS, WHEN WE, MY WIFE AND I LIVED IN AUSTIN, THEY HAD KIND OF TWO PROGRAMS. THEY HAD A BASIC 150 PROGRAM, WHICH WAS MORE FOR LIKE THE 50 GALLON. 
          AND THEN THEY HAD ANOTHER PROGRAM WHICH WAS FOR BIGGER SYSTEMS, WHICH IS A LITTLE BIT MORE COMPLICATED. 
          YOU HAD TO SUBMIT YOUR ACTUAL PLANS FOR THE, LIKE IF, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE A, A 500, 1000 GALLON AT OUR HOUSE AND IF YOU HAD THAT SIZE SYSTEM, YOU ACTUALLY HAD TO SUBMIT THAT PLAN TO THE CITY. 
          'CAUSE THAT'S A LOT OF WATER. 
          YOU HAD TO SHOW WHAT YOUR SYSTEM WAS GONNA LOOK LIKE AND THEN YOU HAD TO SUBMIT ALL YOUR RECEIPTS AND THEN YOU GOT THE REBATE, WHICH WAS XX PERCENT. 
          AND I THINK THAT WOULD BE SOMETHING WE SHOULD BUILD TOWARDS. 
          NOT SAYING WE SHOULD DO THAT, I GET WE'RE IN OUR KIND OF INFANCY. 
          BUT I DO THINK TO YOUR POINT, I THINK MORE INCENTIVES WOULD PROBABLY DRIVE THAT IN SOMEWHAT. 
          I MEAN, SOMEONE WHO, THERE'S PROBABLY TWO DIFFERENT PEOPLE. 
          WE'RE TRYING TO GET THOSE PEOPLE JUST TO DO IT AND KIND OF GET EXCITED ABOUT IT. 
          AND THEN THERE'S PROBABLY SOME PEOPLE WHO MAY WANT, AND I THINK ABOUT JUST, YOU KNOW, TIME MOVES FAST. 
          AND JUST TWO YEARS AGO WHO LAUNCHED IN THE PROGRAM, I DIDN'T HEAR AS MANY PEOPLE TALKING ABOUT RAINWATER AT THEIR HOUSE AS I DO TODAY. 
          RIGHT. 
          AND A LOT MORE PEOPLE WERE TALKING ABOUT IT. 
          SO I JUST THINK THERE'S AN OPPORTUNITY TO TAKE SOME OF THE VELOCITY THAT YOU'VE ALREADY BUILT AND JUST USE THAT MOMENTUM. 
          YEAH, I'D LOVE TO SEE IT, UM, LARGER. 
          I MEAN, THE TRUTH IS YEAH, IF, YOU KNOW, I WOULDN'T, 150 WOULDN'T GO VERY FAR FOR SOMETHING I'D WANT, BUT, UM, WELL, IT'S A NO NINO EVERY LITTLE BIT HELPS. 
          YEAH. 
          EVERY LITTLE BIT HELPS. 
          IT'S A GOOD START. 
          WE HAVE A CALCULATOR. 
          THERE ARE CALCULATORS, BECAUSE I'VE USED THEM ONLINE. 
          THERE ARE, THAT WILL LOOK AT THE ESTIMATED SQUARE FOOTAGE OF YOUR ROOF, THE TYPE OF ROOF YOU HAVE, THE AGE OF ROOF, THE LOCATION YOU'RE IN, IN TERMS OF HISTORICAL RAINFALL. 
          I KNOW I DID ONE FROM MY, MY MAIN HOUSE. 
          IT WAS LIKE I NEEDED A 2000 GALLON TANK. 
          EVEN WITH THE LIMITED AMOUNT OF RAINFALL WE HAVE, BECAUSE WHEN, WHEN YOU GET THE RAINFALL, IT'S A LOT. 
          NOW I REALIZE YOU DON'T HAVE TO KEPT, I DON'T, YOU DON'T HAVE TO CATCH IT ALL. 
          I UNDERSTAND THAT. 
          BUT THAT WOULD BE A USEFUL TOOL IF IT WAS JUST AVAILABLE ONLINE. 
          JUST SOMETHING PEOPLE CAN ACCESS. 
          WE DON'T HAVE TO CREATE IT. 
          YEAH. 
          YEAH. 
          THERE, THERE'S MULTIPLE OF THOSE TOOLS OUT THERE. 
          TEXAS A M MACRO LIFE HAS ONE, AND IT'S ASSOCIATED WITH SOME OF THE WORKSHOPS SO THAT WE, WE POSTED IN THE PAST SOME OF THE RAINWATER CAPTURING WORKSHOPS. 
          I'LL, UH, I'LL CHECK AND MAKE SURE IT, IT'S, YEAH. 
          I THINK A LOT OF PEOPLE DON'T REALIZE HOW MUCH WATER THEY ACTUALLY COULD CAPTURE. 
          GRANTED, TO YOUR POINT, WHEN YOU GET TO THESE BIGGER SYSTEMS, IT'S A LITTLE MORE COMPLICATED. 
          UM, BUT, UH, THE OTHER THING I WOULD MENTION IS THAT, UH, RESIDENTIAL HVAC CAPTURE, WHICH I KNOW IS, IS A DIFFERENT ANIMAL. 
          UM, BUT IN RESEARCHING THAT IT ACTUALLY CAN BE DONE, UH, MODESTLY. 
          AND I SAY, WHEN I SAY MODEST, I DON'T MEAN CHEAPLY. 
          I THINK THE CHEAPEST I'VE SEEN IS LIKE TWO, 2000, $2,500. 
          THAT'S WHAT'S THE SYSTEM THAT COLLECTS WATER, THEN LEDS IT OUT INTO THE YARD. 
          BUT IT IS SOMETHING WE SHOULD AT LEAST TALK ABOUT OR GIVE PEOPLE AN IDEA ABOUT. 
          IT'S NOT SOMETHING THAT AVERAGE PERSON'S GONNA DO. 
          IT'S TOO EXPENSIVE. 
          I UNDERSTAND THAT. 
          I'LL SAY WE ARE CURRENTLY HAVING THAT CONVERSATION WITH, UH, ALL OF OUR COMMERCIAL APPLICANTS THAT COME THROUGH RIGHT NOW. 
          WE'RE, WE'RE PUTTING THAT, UH, EVEN DURING THE PRE-APPLICATION MEETINGS, VERY EARLY IN THE, IN THE, IN THE, UM, PROCESS OF THE DEVELOPMENT. 
          WE'RE HAVING THOSE CONVERSATIONS WITH THEM ABOUT HVAC CAPTURE. 
          AND DESPITE THE CONTROVERSY, BUCKY'S IS A POSTER CHILD FOR HVAC CAPTURE IN OUR COMMUNITY, . 
          'CAUSE THEY REALIZE IT'S GONNA BE TENS OF THOUSANDS OF GALLONS OF WATER. 
          I JUST THINK IT'S GREAT THAT, YOU KNOW, WE IMPLEMENTED IT AND THERE ARE PEOPLE USING IT REGARDLESS IF THE NUMBERS SEEM LOW, YOU HAVE TO START SOMEWHERE. 
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AND WE HAVE STARTED SOMEWHERE AND, UM, I THINK IT'S GREAT. 
          RYAN, YOU DO A GREAT JOB, GREAT PRESENTATION AS USUAL. 
          THANK YOU. 
          UM, AND, UM, APPRECIATE MIKE, YOU AS WELL STEPPING INTO THE OTHER MIKE SHOES. 
          UM, YOU'LL HAVE TO THINK OF SOME SILLY JOKES TOO. 
          USUALLY HAD SOME STUFF TOO, BUT GOOD JOB REGARDLESS. 
          AND THEN, UM, WE ACTUALLY HAVE DIRECTOR CRANE WHO'S GONNA TALK ABOUT THE ENFORCEMENT OF, UH, SOME WATERING VIOLATIONS. 
          NO, IF ENFORCEMENT, LET'S HEAR IT. 
          I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT TO UNDERSTAND THE ENFORCEMENT PIECE AND YOU GET ASK QUESTIONS. 
          YOU WANT THE GAVEL, , GIMME, UH, MAYOR PRO TEM AND COUNCIL MEMBERS. 
          FIRST, I THOUGHT IT WOULD BE IMPORTANT THAT WE REVIEW WHAT OUR ENFORCEMENT, UH, PROCESS IS. 
          AND THIS APPLIES TO ALL ENFORCEMENT THAT WE DO. 
          UH, NOT JUST OUR WATERING ENFORCEMENT. 
          UH, OUR APPROACH IS TO TRY TO GAIN VOLUNTARY COMPLIANCE. 
          IF YOU LOOK AT, UH, THE TIMELINES, IT'S MUCH EASIER AND MUCH BETTER TO WORK WITH SOMEBODY, UH, TO GET, UH, COMPLIANCE RATHER THAN HAVE TO GO THROUGH A FORMAL ENFORCEMENT PROCESS. 
          OUR PROCESS INCLUDES ONCE THE, UH, THE COMPLAINT IS RECEIVED, UH, WE DO A SITE INSPECTION DOCUMENTED, UH, AND THEN WE ISSUE WHAT WE CALL A NOTICE OF VIOLATION. 
          THAT'S BASICALLY A LETTER SAYING, HEY, UH, MR. BUNKER, YOU KNOW, YOU, UH, YOU HAVE, I JUST PICKED ONE. 
          YOU'RE A LUCKY GUY TODAY. 
          UM, UH, WE NOTICE IT'S WATERING OUTSIDE. 
          JUST SO YOU KNOW, THE WATERING HOURS ARE THIS, YOU KNOW, PLEASE  ADDRESS IT ACCORDINGLY. 
          AND THEN, UH, WE, UH, FOLLOW UP WITH ANOTHER INSPECTION. 
          UH, AND IF IT HASN'T BEEN ADDRESSED AT THAT POINT, WE ISSUE WHAT WE CALL A SECOND NOTICE OF VIOLATION AND REPEAT THAT PROCESS. 
          AND FINALLY ISSUE A CITATION, WHICH THEN GOES TO THE CITY PROSECUTOR FOR, TO ADDRESS. 
          UH, SO BASICALLY WE HAVE THREE SHOTS, UH, TO TRY TO WORK WITH PEOPLE. 
          UH, IF SOMEBODY CALLS AND SAYS, HEY, YOU KNOW, I'VE BEEN OUT OF TOWN, SORRY, I'LL ADDRESS IT WHEN I GET HOME. 
          I'M, IT'S OUTSIDE YOUR WINDOW. 
          THEN WE WORK WITH THEM ON THAT. 
          UH, THE PENALTY IS A MISDEMEANOR. 
          UH, IT'S FINE UP TO A THOUSAND DOLLARS PER OFFENSE. 
          AND EACH DAY IS A SEPARATE OFFENSE. 
          UH, WATERING VIOLATIONS. 
          SO I THINK WE HAVE SOME GOOD NEWS HERE. 
          UH, IF YOU LOOK, UH, ON THE RIGHT HAND SIDE OF THE SLIDE, YOU CAN SEE, UH, THE NUMBER OF COMPLAINTS, UH, THAT WE GET EACH YEAR. 
          NOW, THESE ARE COMPLAINTS. 
          THIS ISN'T, UH, THAT WE ADDRESS. 
          SO WE WENT FROM 307 AND 2023 DOWN TO 95 IN 2025. 
          I THINK THAT SHOWS A GREAT, UH, EFFORT AND THAT OUR RESIDENTS ARE LISTENING AND, AND TRYING TO IMPLEMENT, UH, THE RESTRICTIONS. 
          UH, YOU ALSO NOTICE THAT THE NUMBER OF CITATIONS IS VERY LOW. 
          WE WENT FROM 23 DOWN TO, UH, ZERO OR ONE, UH, THE LAST TWO YEARS. 
          UH, SO I, I'M PRETTY ENCOURAGED BY THESE NUMBERS. 
          UH, AS FAR AS, UH, RESPONSIVENESS FROM THE COMMUNITY, UH, TO ADDRESS THIS, UH, THIS YEAR WE HAVE A TOTAL OF 16 COMPLAINTS SO FAR. 
          UH, AND THAT'S PRETTY CONSISTENT WITH, UH, LAST YEAR AT THIS TIME, NUMBERS ARE ALMOST IDENTICAL. 
          UH, ONE OF OUR GOALS THIS YEAR IS TO TRY TO INCREASE THE FREQUENCY OF INSPECTIONS AND WHEN THOSE, UH, ARE HAPPENING. 
          SO I'M WORKING WITH CODE ENFORCEMENT STAFF, UH, TO, UH, ALTER SCHEDULES, THINGS LIKE THAT, TO TRY TO GET ADDITIONAL RESOURCES OUT, LIKE ON A SATURDAY, ONCE A MONTH OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT TO, UH, DO SOME DRIVE-BYS AND DRIVE THROUGH NEIGHBORHOODS AND THINGS LIKE THAT. 
          UM, SO, UH, AGAIN, I THINK, UH, YOU KNOW, SOME OF THE THINGS, ANOTHER COUPLE INTERESTING THINGS IS 50% OF OUR COMPLAINTS THAT WE RECEIVED IN 2025 WERE IN, UH, JUNE AND JULY. 
          THE NEXT MONTHS WERE HALF OF WHAT WE GOT IN JUNE AND JULY. 
          NEXT HIGHEST MONTHS WERE HALF OF WHAT WE GOT IN JUNE AND JULY, AND THEY WERE, UH, MAY AND SEPTEMBER. 
          UH, SO I FOUND THAT INTERESTING. 
          UH, I THINK OUR EFFORTS IN TO INCREASE THE CITIZEN AWARENESS OF OUR WATER RESTRICTIONS IS WORKING. 
          UH, I THINK THE SIGNS THAT WE PUT UP, UH, IS A CONSTANT REMINDER. 
          SOMETIMES THEY CAN GET LOST IN LOST AS YOU DRIVE BY 'CAUSE THEY'RE SO USED TO SEEING 'EM, BUT I THINK THEY'RE A GOOD REMINDER. 
          SO ANYWAYS, I AM HAPPY TO REPORT THAT WE REALLY HAVE A GOOD, UH, WE'RE HAVING GOOD SUCCESS IN RESPONDING TO COMPLAINTS AS WE RECEIVE THEM AND, UH, ENCOURAGED BY THOSE NUMBERS. 
          HAPPY TO EVER ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS YOU HAVE ON THESE TWO ON ENFORCEMENTS. 
          RIGHT? YEAH. 
          SO LOOKING AT YOUR, UH, STATS HERE FOR WATER VIOLATIONS, YOU KNOW, YOU SHOW LIKE IN 2024 OR 82% OF RESIDENTS 
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VOLUNTARILY COMPLY WITH NO CITATIONS. 
          YEAH. 
          SO WHY DIDN'T THAT 18% THAT AREN'T COMPLYING GET A CITATION? OKAY, SO THE 82% ARE VOLUNTARY COMPLYING. 
          WHAT THAT MEANS IS THAT WE ARE ABLE TO ISSUE THE ONE NOTICE OF VIOLATION WITHOUT HAVING TO FOLLOW UP. 
          SO OF THE 157 COMPLAINTS, 82% WAS ADDRESSED AND WE DIDN'T HAVE REPEAT OFFENDERS. 
          DOES THAT MAKE SENSE? YEAH. 
          THAT'S HOW WE GOT IT. 
          SO DIRECTOR CRANE EXPLAINED WHAT'S NEXT IF THEY DON'T, SO IF THEY, SO THE 18% THAT DIDN'T COMPLY, 18% DIDN'T IMPLY EITHER GOT A SECOND NOTICE OF VIOLATION AND OR A CITATION. 
          AND SO IF IT SAYS NO CITATIONS, THAT MEANS THAT 18% RESPONDED TO THE SECOND NOTICE. 
          YEP. 
          OKAY. 
          EXACTLY. 
          SORRY, IT TOOK ME A MINUTE. 
          AND THERE WERE A COUPLE OF EFFORTS IN THAT FIRST ATTEMPT TO VOLUNTARY, IF YOU GO BACK TO THAT SLIDE, THE, THE SIDES JUST THE LETTER WEREN'T THERE? UH, NO, IT IS, IT'S JUST THE TWO NOTES. 
          YES. 
          IT'S FOCUS AROUND THE NOTICE OF VIOLATION. 
          SO YOU LIKE, DOES VOLUNTARY IS THE FIRST NOTICE FIXES IT? YES. 
          THEY TAKE THE SECOND NOTICE. 
          IT'S YES, THEY'RE STILL FIXING IT, BUT RIGHT. 
          AND WE ALSO MONITOR REPEAT OFFENDERS. 
          RIGHT. 
          SO WE'LL SEND ONE OUT TO ONE ADDRESS IN PICK MAY. 
          IF WE HAVE ANOTHER COMPLAINT IN JUNE, THEN WE MONITOR THAT AND, AND MON AND MODIFY, UH, OUR LETTERS TO THEM TO DIRECTOR CRANE. 
          DO WE STILL HAVE ON OUR CITY WEBSITE A PORTAL WHERE RESIDENTS CAN YES. 
          CAN UPLOAD OR SUBMIT, HEY, I SAW THIS ADDRESS. 
          YEP. 
          WATERING CAN DO THE WEBSITE, CAN DO PHONE CALLS. 
          UM, I THINK THERE'S THE CITY ADDRESS. 
          YEAH, THE CITY, YEAH. 
          CITY APP. 
          SO THERE'S LIKE THREE PLACES WE HAVE TO COLLECT. 
          SO ABOUT 50% OF ALL THOSE CAME IN TWO MONTHS. 
          YEAH. 
          SO, SO, UH, SO YOUR EXTRA HELP ON THE WEEKENDS FOR INSPECTIONS NEEDS TO BE YEAH, JUNE AND JULY TO VOLUNTEER HELP ON THOSE TWO MONTHS. 
          YEAH. 
          WE WILL TARGET, WE WILL TARGET THAT IN JUNE, JUNE AND JULY. 
          BUT THE COMP, THE COMBINATION OF VOLUNTARY AND ENFORCEMENT, I MEAN, BASED ON WHAT, WHAT WAS PRESENTED EARLIER, WE'RE AT THE 110 PER CAPITA, WHICH IS OUR 2080 TAR IS BELOW OUR 2080 TARGET FROM THE STATE. 
          SO IT'S, YOU KNOW, IT'S WORKING. 
          MM-HMM . 
          WE DON'T WANNA LET GET LAX, BUT IT'S WORKING. 
          YEAH. 
          YEAH. 
          I THINK DO THOSE THREE PRESENTATIONS TOGETHER, KUDOS TO OUR COMMUNITY. 
          MM-HMM . 
          THAT'S, THAT'S WHAT IT MEANS. 
          AND KUDOS TO STAFF. 
          RIGHT. 
          ALL, ALL OF THAT. 
          THAT'S GREAT. 
          YEAH. 
          I THINK IT'S A VERY GOOD STORY BY THE STAFF, BY THE CITY, UH, THESE DEPARTMENTS TO COLLABORATE AND TO FOCUS ON THE RIGHT OUTCOME, WHICH IS IMPORTANT TO YOU AS A COUNCIL. 
          WE HEAR IT FROM OUR CITIZENS IN OUR CITIZEN SURVEY AND SO FORTH. 
          SO, UM, DEFINITELY THREE, FOUR DIFFERENT KEY INDICATORS. 
          WE'LL CONTINUE TO MONITOR. 
          YEAH. 
          THANK YOU, NATHAN. 
          OKAY. 
          YOU'RE WELCOME. 
          ANYTHING ELSE? GOOD. 
          ALL RIGHT. 
          NOT A FOURTH PERSON, RIGHT?  THAT, NOT A FOURTH PERSON. 
          I'M JUST KIDDING. 
          . 
          ALL RIGHT. 
          UH, CITY MANAGER 
          [7.A. 2025-659 MONTHLY PROJECTS UPDATE]
REPORT THEN. 
          YES. 
          MAYOR PRO, TIM COUNCIL, I GOT A, A BRIEF UPDATE THIS MONTH. 
          WE'RE IN THE HEART OF THE FISCAL YEAR, RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE. 
          LOT OF PROJECTS ARE STILL ONGOING. 
          UM, ONLY REALLY FOUR UPDATES TO GIVE YOU ONE IN THE MOBILITY SECTION AND THREE IN THE OTHER CATEGORY. 
          UH, JUST TO FOLLOW UP WITH, UH, DIRECTOR CAROL'S SIDEWALK PRESENTATION, UH, HE'S BEEN WORKING ON THIS FOR A COUPLE, SEVERAL YEARS, BUT THIS, UH, SCHWEPPE AREA, SIDEWALK DESIGN IS DONE. 
          UH, HE, HE MENTIONED IT, BUT MAYBE I'LL REEMPHASIZE A LOT OF FOLKS THINK, HEY, A CALL, WE NEED A SIDEWALK. 
          GO THROW SOME CONCRETE DOWN. 
          IT REQUIRES A LOT OF DESIGN WORK, A LOT OF THESE, UH, UH, SIDEWALKS OR SOME THAT ARE EASIER THAN OTHERS, BUT THIS HAS BEEN A, A LONG DESIGN PROJECT AND SO KUDOS TO HIS TEAM FOR GETTING THAT DONE. 
          NEXT WILL BE THE IMPLEMENTATION WHEN WE GET FUNDING FOR THAT, RIGHT, AS HE DISCUSSED. 
          ANY OTHER QUESTIONS ABOUT MOBILITY PROJECTS IF WE GO TO INFRASTRUCTURE? I DON'T HAVE ANY UPDATES, BUT I'LL PAUSE IF YOU HAVE ANY SPECIFIC QUESTIONS. 
          NEXT, UH, THESE ARE COMPLETED NEXT, THE DEVELOPMENT, UM, UDC UPDATES AND THE ENGINEERING DESIGN MANUAL UPDATES SHOULD BE COMING IN THE, UH, IN JUNE, UH, HERE SHORTLY NEXT, NOTHING TO REPORT IN THE FINANCIAL NEXT, UH, PUBLIC SAFETY. 
          NOTHING TO REPORT NEW. 
          UH, WE DO HOPE TO HAVE THE GROUNDBREAKING THIS SUMMER ONCE WE BID IT OUT FOR CONSTRUCTION, UH, WHICH WE'RE HOPING 
          [01:05:01]
MID TO LATE SUMMER THAT WE'LL HAVE A GROUNDBREAKING SHORTLY AFTER. 
          NEXT ON THE OTHER, I DO WANNA, UH, GIVE KUDOS TO, TO OUR LIBRARY DIRECTOR, LIBRARY TEAM, UH, NATALIE AND HER FOLKS. 
          THEY SUBMITTED THEIR ANNUAL STATE REPORT FOR THE LIBRARY. 
          IF YOU'LL CLICK ON THAT, THAT LINK THERE, CHAS, THEY HAVE EXCEEDED ALL MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS. 
          THAT'S NOT A SHOCK. 
          WE HAVE A GREAT PHENOMENAL LIBRARY PROGRAM. 
          THEY DO A GOOD JOB OF ENGAGING WITH OUR COMMUNITY AND REPORTING BACK IN AN ACCOUNTABLE MANNER TO THE STATE. 
          SO CONGRATULATIONS TO, TO THE LIBRARY. 
          IF YOU GO BACK, I DO WANT TO TALK ABOUT THE COMMUNITY PARK SURVEY. 
          UM, I WAS HOPEFUL TO HAVE HAD THAT RELEASED BY THE END OF APRIL. 
          THAT'S GONNA BE PUSHED INTO MAY. 
          UM, I HAD, UH, BACK AND FORTH WORK WITH THE CONSULTANT ON THE QUESTIONNAIRE. 
          I DO WANNA SEND THAT TO THIS WEEK TO SEE IF THERE'S ANY FEEDBACK FROM COUNCIL. 
          WE'RE GONNA LOOK AT OUR EXISTING PARKS. 
          WHAT ARE, WHAT IS OUR COMMUNITY AND THE GREATER BERNON COMMUNITY WANTING TO SEE FROM OUR PARK SYSTEM? WE UNDERSTAND WE PROVIDE A LOT OF THAT SERVICE TO MORE THAN JUST OUR RESIDENTS. 
          UH, WE WANT TO GET ATTITUDES ABOUT THE CEMETERY. 
          THE CEMETERY IS UNDER THE PARKS DEPARTMENT. 
          WE DON'T VIEW IT AS A PARK, BUT IT IS A SERVICE PROVIDED AT OUR PARK BY OUR PARKS DEPARTMENT. 
          WE NEED TO UNDERSTAND MORE, UH, INSIGHT ON THAT, AS WELL AS SOME OTHER FUTURE PARKS THAT WE'RE PLANNING TO, TO DESIGN NEXT. 
          AND THEN, UM, THE UTILITY BILLING, INTERNAL AUDIT, UH, CUSTOMER SERVICE WITH THE FINANCE DIRECTOR, BUCKALEW AND HER TEAM, THEY DID KIND OF A PROACTIVE JUST AUDIT OF HOW THINGS ARE WORKING WITH OUR METERS, WITH OUR BILLING, JUST ALL OF OUR DATA. 
          AND WE WORKED WITH AN OUTSIDE, UH, CONSULTANT ON THAT. 
          AND ALL THINGS CAME BACK, UH, IN VERY GOOD SHAPE. 
          AND NEXT, I BELIEVE THAT IS EVERYTHING. 
          ANY OTHER SPECIFIC AREAS THAT YOU'D LIKE TO, TO KNOW MORE ABOUT? OKAY. 
          ALRIGHT. 
          APPRECIATE, UH, YOUR, UH, BRIEF TIME TONIGHT. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU BEN. 
          UM, TAKES US 
          [8. COMMENTS FROM COUNCIL – No discussion or action may take place.]
COMMENTS FROM COUNSEL. 
          YEAH. 
          I JUST, UH, WANTED TO RECOGNIZE, UH, TAYLOR BROON, A FIFTH GRADE CLASS AT CARRINGTON HAD, UH, THEIR HOLOCAUST MORAL WEEK PROJECTS, UH, AGAIN THIS YEAR, OR AT THE HOLOCAUST MUSEUM IN SAN ANTONIO. 
          SO THEY'RE UP RIGHT NOW. 
          SO YOU HAVE A CHANCE TO GO BY THE HOLOCAUST MUSEUM ON, UH, NORTHWEST MILITARY AND WBA PARKWAY. 
          UH, YOU CAN SEE OUR, UH, LOCAL STUDENTS WORK UP THERE. 
          UM, LAST MEETING I TALKED ABOUT COLTON MCCUE WON THE REGION 20 CITIZEN B, HE ACTUALLY GOT THIRD IN THE STATE AT THE STATE MEET LAST WEEK. 
          SO CONGRATULATIONS TO COLE. 
          AND THEN JUST TO ALL OF OUR STUDENTS THAT MADE IT THROUGH STAR WEEK AND THE STAR TEST. 
          SO, UH, WE STILL GOT A COUPLE WEEKS OF SCHOOL, SO WE'RE NOT DONE YET. 
          UH, AND THEN ALL OF THE KIDS TAKING THE AP TESTS THE NEXT TWO WEEKS. 
          GOOD LUCK TO ALL OF THEM. 
          SO KYLE, UH, JUST I THINK, UH, HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY. 
          I THINK WE'LL HAVE THAT BETWEEN NOW AND OUR NEXT COUNCIL MEETING AS WE WRAP UP THE SCHOOL YEAR. 
          I KNOW THERE'S A LOT OF BUSY FAMILIES AND SO JUST A SPECIAL ACKNOWLEDGEMENT TO ALL THE MOM'S OUT THERE. 
          YEAH. 
          COOL. 
          WELL, I, UM, WHAT I DIDN'T DO IS SAY THAT I'M OBVIOUSLY HERE IN REPLACEMENT OF FRANK FRANK'S, UM, UH, CELEBRATING HIS DAUGHTER'S ACHIEVEMENTS IN ATHLETICS AT MIDDLE SCHOOL. 
          SO I'M, UH, SORRY THAT I DID NOT SIT THAT AT THE BEGINNING OF THE MEETING. 
          SO, UM, KUDOS TO THE MAYOR FOR DOING THAT. 
          IT'S IMPORTANT TO, UM, TAKE THOSE STEPS WITH YOUR FAMILY. 
          SO I'M HAPPY TO BE HERE IN, UM, PLACEMENT OF FRANK TONIGHT. 
          UM, UH, ALL I HAVE TO SAY IS GO SPURS, GO . 
          LET'S, UH, WRAP IT UP TONIGHT. 
          UM, THANK YOU EVERYONE. 
          WE'RE GONNA GO INTO AN 
          [9. EXECUTIVE SESSION IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE TEXAS GOVERNMENT CODE]
EXECUTIVE SESSION. 
          BEFORE WE WRAP UP THE MEETING. 
          WE ARE GOING TO COVER SECTION 5 5 1 0 7 2 DELIBERATION REGARDING REAL PROPERTY, DELIBERATE, THE PURCHASE EXCHANGE, LEASE, OR VALUE OF REAL PROPERTY. 
          UM, SO YEAH, WE'LL BE BACK AFTER THAT. 
          ALL RIGHT. 
          IT IS 7 35 
          [10. RECONVENE INTO OPEN SESSION AND TAKE ANY NECESSARY ACTION RELATING TO THE EXECUTIVE SESSION AS DESCRIBED ABOVE]
AND WE ARE BACK FROM EXECUTIVE SESSION. 
          WE DO NOT HAVE ANY ACTION, SO WE ARE OFFICIALLY ADJOURNED AT 7 35. 
          THANK YOU AND HAVE A GREAT NIGHT.
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