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WE READY? CITY COUNCIL OF CITY OF LEAGUE CITY, TEXAS WILL NOW COME TO ORDER THE BUDGET WORK STOP ON JULY 17TH, 2023
[Budget Work Session on July 17, 2023.]
AT 6:00 PM ROLL CALL.DID I GET A HAND WAVE OR HIS WAIVED ANYTHING? I THINK I SAW A THUMBS UP.
ALL RIGHT, SO ITEM TWO IS PUBLIC COMMENTS, BUT LET'S, UH, IF WE COULD GO ON AND DO PUBLIC COMMENTS NOW OR WE COULD WAIT TILL AFTER THE, AFTER THE PRESENTATION, I, I'D PREFER TO WAIT.
UM, IF ANYONE HAS ANY BROTHERS, I THINK SOME OF THE PUBLIC IS SHAKING THEIR HEAD TO WAIT.
ITEM THREE, DISCUSSION REGARDING THE CITY OF LEAGUE CITY'S 20 20, 24 TO 2020, I'M SORRY, CAPITAL 2024 TO 2028.
CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM AND PROPOSED FY 2024 BUDGET.
SO WE'RE READY TO GET STARTED IF YOU ARE.
AND JUST KIND OF A, A INTRODUCTION FOR TONIGHT.
I KNOW WE HAVE, I'LL SAY A STOP AT 7 45 WITH A HARD STOP AT EIGHT O'CLOCK, UH, DUE TO SCHEDULING COMMITMENTS.
AND SO WE'LL TRY TO GET YOU OUT OF HERE QUICKLY.
ANGIE WILL GO THROUGH THE C I P HIGH LEVEL, UH, OVERVIEW, AND THEN IF YOU'VE GOT QUESTIONS ABOUT, YOU KNOW, ANYTHING THAT SHE TALKS ABOUT OR SPECIFIC PROJECTS OR WHAT HAVE YOU, WE'RE GONNA FOCUS ON PRIMARILY SHORT TERM.
WHAT ARE WE DOING IN 24? MAYBE A LITTLE LOOK AT 25.
AND THEN, YOU KNOW, THE OUT YEARS ARE A LITTLE MORE OF A CHALLENGE.
UM, WE'VE CONSTRAINED IT A LITTLE MORE THAN WE HAVE IN THE PAST FINANCIALLY.
SO IF THERE'S NOT A IDENTIFIABLE FUNDING SOURCE, WE PUT IT ON A LIST OF, HEY, HERE'S SOME GREAT IDEAS.
IT'S IN THE BOOK ON PAGE SIX, AND IT'S GETTING TO BE A FAIRLY LONG LIST, THREE OR $400 MILLION.
BUT UNTIL WE KIND OF COME UP WITH THE FUNDING SOURCES, IT'S DIFFICULT TO ADD, PARTICULARLY NEW TAX SUPPORTED PROJECTS.
OBVIOUSLY, THE PROJECTS THAT ARE SUPPORTED BY FOUR B PARKS FUNDS, WATER, SEWER REVENUES ARE A LITTLE BIT EASIER TO MANAGE OUR WAY THROUGH.
MOST OF THOSE COME WITH MASTER PLANS THAT WE'RE WORKING TO TOWARDS A FUNDING GOAL.
SO IF THERE'S NO QUESTIONS, WE'LL GO AHEAD AND GET ANGIE STARTED ON KIND OF THE, THE HIGHLIGHTS OF THE PROGRAM.
UH, TONIGHT WE ARE GONNA TALK ABOUT THE 24 THROUGH 28 PROPOSED C I P.
UM, ON THE SCREEN YOU WILL SEE THAT WE HAVE THE REVENUE SUPPORTED AT 46% AND TAX SUPPORTED MAKES UP ALMOST 54% OF THE PROGRAM IN THE FIVE YEARS.
IT INCLUDES 666.24 MILLION IN INVESTMENT.
THIS IS ACROSS THE CITY AND INFRASTRUCTURE PARKS, MUNICIPAL BUILDINGS, AND THIS IS OVER THE NEXT FIVE YEARS.
THE TAX SUPPORTED PROGRAM IS 358.14 MILLION, AND THE REVENUE SUPPORTED PROVIDES 308.1 MILLION.
LOOKING AT THE INVESTMENT BY PROGRAM, UH, WE WANTED TO SHOW THAT WE ARE SPENDING 28% AS PROGRAMMED FOR WATER WASTEWATERS AT 19%.
PARKS IS ALSO AT 19%, AND STREETS AND TRAFFIC IS AT 17% AND DRAINAGE IS AT 11.
SO LOOKING AT JUST THE TAX SUPPORTIVE PROGRAM, THIS IS GONNA BE EVERYTHING EXCEPT FOR UTILITIES.
SO IT DOES NOT INCLUDE WATER AND WASTEWATER.
WE HAVE SEVERAL DIFFERENT TYPES OF FUNDING SOURCES FOR THE, UH, PROGRAM.
IT INCLUDES 136.64 MILLION OF EXISTING CITY FUNDS.
THAT REPRESENTS, UM, 12.7 MILLION BETWEEN TDOT H G A C AND THE CITY OF WEBSTER.
THAT'S ALMOST 69 MILLION OF THE PROGRAM.
POTENTIAL GRANTS ARE AT 14 MILLION, FOUR B CASH IS AT 3 MILLION.
AND GEO DEBT FROM OUR 2019 GEO BOND ELECTION IS 37 MILLION.
SO LOOKING AT THE REINVESTMENT PROGRAM FOR 2024, IT TOTALS 12.43 MILLION.
IT'S 9% OF THAT TAX SUPPORTED PROGRAM FOR THE YEAR.
AND THEN THE CASH TRANSFER FROM THE GENERAL FUND FOR THAT REINVESTMENT PROGRAM IN 2024 IS PROGRAMMED IN THE PROPOSED BUDGET AT 5 MILLION.
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SO ON THIS SCREEN, THERE IS A LIST OF THE DIFFERENT PROGRAMS THAT MAKE UP THE REINVESTMENT.YOU CAN SEE THE LARGEST IS THE STREET RECONSTRUCTION AND DRAINAGE IMPROVEMENTS AT 4.4 MILLION.
IT'S CLOSELY FOLLOWED BY THE ASPHALT ROAD REHAB AT 2.45 MILLION.
AND, AND JUST TO MAKE SURE I READ AND UNDERSTOOD CORRECTLY, THAT 4.4 MILLION FOR STREET RECONSTRUCTION AND DRAINAGE IMPROVEMENTS DOES NOT COVER, UM, STREETS IN BABRA LANDING NEWPORT OR CLEAR CREEK VILLAGE THAT WE'VE IDENTIFIED AS FUTURE NEEDS FOR REINVESTMENT.
SO THE CONCRETE STREET PORTION, AND SO IF WE LOOK AT THE SUBDIVISIONS THAT YOU READ OFF, THEY'RE ALL, YOU KNOW, I'LL SAY 40 YEARS MAYBE APPROACHING 50 MILLION YEARS.
AND, YOU KNOW, THEY'RE IN VARIOUS STATES OF DETERIORATION.
AND THAT PROGRAM TO KIND OF GET OFF THE GROUND IS PROBABLY ABOUT A $5 MILLION A YEAR INVESTMENT.
YOU KNOW, WE'RE GONNA, IF IF, IF I THINK IF TEXDOT FUNDS A HUNDRED PERCENT OF THE LANDING BRIDGE AND THEN WE FREE UP 6 MILLION OR SO, WE MAY COME BACK TO COUNCIL AND SAY, HEY, THAT IS THAT MONEY WE WANNA DEDICATE TO THIS RE REINVESTMENT OF THESE CONCRETE STREETS AND PICK KIND OF A FIRST LEVEL OF STREETS.
THE VERY, VERY WORST OF THE WORST.
BUT IT RIGHT NOW, IT DOESN'T INCLUDE ANYTHING THAT EVEN GET THAT PRO PROGRAM STARTED.
QUICK POINT, UH, APPEARS THAT SHAWN HAS JOINED US.
AFTER THE REINVESTMENT PROGRAM, WE HAVE THE STREETS AND TRAFFIC.
SO FOR AN OVERVIEW, LOOKING AT 2024, IT'S ALMOST 82 MILLION.
IT'S ALMOST 60% OF THAT TAX SUPPORTED PROGRAM IN THE 24TH TIME PERIOD.
UH, CURRENTLY THERE ARE SIX PROJECTS AT PROGRAM FOR DESIGN PHASES, THREE FOR LAND AND NINE IN THE CONSTRUCTION.
SO THE NEW PROGRAM OR THE PROGRAM HAS NEW PROJECTS IN 2024.
AND SO WE HAVE A COUPLE OF DIFFERENT SLIDES THAT LIST THEM OUT.
THE FIRST ONE, IST STOP ROADWAY INTERSECTION IMPROVEMENTS.
SO THIS IS AT FIVE 18 AND BAY AREA STATE HIGHWAY 96 AND FM TWO 70.
AND THEN STATE HIGHWAY 96 AND COLUMBIA MEMORIAL PARKWAY.
THESE ARE GRANT FUNDED WITH A CITY MATCH PROGRAMED AT 25%.
WE ALSO HAVE SOME INTERSECTION STUDIES FOR FM 2094 AT ENTERPRISE LAKESIDE AND TWIN OAKS.
THIS IS PROGRAMMED TO BE CASH FUNDED, BUT CURRENTLY WE DO NOT HAVE, UM, CASH PROGRAM FOR THE CONSTRUCTION.
AND SO WITH THIS PROJECT TO MOVE FORWARD, PAST DESIGN, IT WOULD NEED ANOTHER, UH, FUNDING SOURCE SUCH AS A CO OR BE PART OF A, A BOND ELECTION, MAPLE LEAF AND LEAGUE CITY PARKWAY TRAFFIC SIGNALS.
THIS IS PROGRAMMED FOR CASH FUNDING.
WE ALSO HAVE STREETLIGHT UPGRADES WITH L E D LAMPS, SCHOOL ZONE SAFETY IMPROVEMENTS, BOULDER CASH FUNDED.
AND THEN FOR A TECH STOCK, 75% WITH THE CITY'S MATCH AT 25% WE HAVE SOME TRAFFIC SIGNAL IMPROVEMENTS.
AND THEN THERE'S ONE PROJECT THAT, UM, OUR CIP ADMINISTRATOR WANTED TO BRING TO EVERYONE'S ATTENTION.
IT'S ON THE SLIDE IN RED FONT.
IT'S MARINA BAY DRY PEDESTRIAN SIDEWALK AND MULTI-USE TRAIL EXTENSION.
UM, AFTER PUTTING THE BOOK TOGETHER AND GETTING EVERYBODY'S PASSED OUT, UM, WE REALIZED THAT WE NEEDED TO REPROGRAM THAT FOR THE PARKS PROGRAM AND WE WOULD USE PARK DEDICATION FEES AND OR CASH.
CURRENTLY, I BELIEVE IT'S IN THE STREET PROGRAM AND IT'S A CHANGE THAT YOU'LL SEE WHEN WE BRING FORWARD THE CAPITAL BUDGET ORDINANCE.
SO FOR THE 24 PROGRAM, IT'S OVER 33 MILLION.
IT'S 24% OF THE 24 PROGRAM FOR TAX SUPPORTED.
THERE'S EIGHT PROJECTS FOR DESIGN, THREE FOR LAND, AND SEVEN FOR CONSTRUCTION.
THAT'S MADE UP OF THE MASTER DRAINAGE PLAN.
CRS UPDATE, THAT'S GRANT FUNDED.
ANOTHER GRANT FUNDED PROJECT IS FROM THE MASTER DRAINAGE PLAN.
IF THE GRANT'S NOT AWARDED, THE PROJECT IS NOT PLANNED TO MOVE FORWARD.
AND THEN WE ALSO HAVE A HISTORIC DISTRICT UPDATE FROM THE MASTER DRAINAGE PLAN.
IF THE GRANT IS NOT AWARDED, UM, THERE'S NO ANTICIPATION THAT THE PROJECT WOULD MOVE FORWARD.
AND FINALLY WE HAVE THE C CDBG MITIGATION THAT'S AT MAIN.
AND WESLEY, THIS IS PHASE TWO OF THE DRAINAGE IMPROVEMENTS.
IT ALSO IS GRANT FUNDED AND WE ARE NOT ANTICIPATING IT WOULD MOVE FORWARD UNLESS WE ARE AWARDED THE GRANT.
AND THAT WRAPS UP THE DRAINAGE FOR 24.
MOVING ON TO FACILITIES, THIS IS A $950,000.
IT'S A VERY SMALL PORTION OF THAT TAX SUPPORTED 24 PROGRAM.
WE HAVE ONE PROJECT WITH EQUIPMENT PURCHASES AND INSTALLATIONS, AND THAT WOULD BE GENERATORS FOR THE CITY FACILITIES.
IT ALSO IS GRANT FUNDED AND OUR MATCH
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FOR THE CITY FUNDS IS 25%.WHAT IS THE SOURCE OF THE GRANT? LIKE WHO, WHO'S THE, WHO'S THE FUNDER OF THE GRANT? UH, ONE, IF YOU DON'T HAVE IT, JUST WE'LL GET THE ANSWER FOR YOU.
I WANNA SAY IT HAS TO DO WITH ONE OF THE STORMS THAT RECENTLY OCCURRED.
AND IT'S THOSE DISASTER, UH, RECOVERY THAT I WILL FIND OUT FOR SURE.
AND WE WILL SEND OUT AN EMAIL TO THE ENTIRE COUNCIL.
THIS PROGRAM IS A LITTLE OVER 8 MILLION IN 24.
IT'S ALMOST 6% OF THE PROGRAM.
THERE'S FIVE PROJECTS THAT DESIGN TWO AT LAND AND SEVEN FOR CONSTRUCTION.
THOSE NEW PRO PROJECTS ARE NEWPORT PARK REDEVELOPMENT, WHICH IS PROGRAMMED AT A PARK, DEDICATION FEES.
AND THEN WE ALSO HAVE AN EAST SIDE DOG PARK PARKING ACCESS, IT'S FOUR B FUNDED.
THE FOUR B BOARD DID MAKE A REQUEST AT THEIR SEVEN 10 MEETING.
UH, THEY WANTED TO NAME CHA THEY WANTED TO CHANGE THE NAME TO ADDITIONAL ACCESS TO 5K LOOP.
AND WE'RE GONNA DO THAT, RIGHT? THAT WOULD BE OUR HOPE.
UH, WE WILL PROGRAM THAT IN OUR CAPITAL BUDGET.
AND SO WHEN YOU SEE THAT, UM, IT'S GONNA BE A NAME SWAP FROM THIS EAST SIDE DOG PARK PARKING ACCESS.
SO THAT IS THE END OF OUR TAX SUPPORTED SECTION.
ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT ANY OF THOSE PROGRAMS BEFORE WE MOVE ON TO UTILITIES? OKAY.
LOOKING AT REVENUE SUPPORTED PROGRAM, THIS IS PRETTY EVENLY SPLIT.
WASTEWATER IS ALMOST 52% AND WATER IS RIGHT AT 48%.
WE DO HAVE FUNDING SOURCES OF ALMOST 17 MILLION.
4.2 MILLION IS CAPITAL RECOVERY FEES.
12.3 MILLION IS MISCELLANEOUS CAPITAL PROJECTS FUND.
THIS IS THE MONEY THAT'S SET ASIDE ANNUALLY FROM THE UTILITY FUND THAT'S TRANSFERRED INTO THE CAPITAL PROJECTS.
AND THEN WE HAVE ABOUT 270,000 OF POTENTIAL GRANT FUNDING.
THE WATER PROGRAM ITSELF FOR 24 IS RIGHT AT 8 MILLION.
IT'S 48% OF THE REVENUE SUPPORTED PROGRAM.
THERE'S FIVE PROJECTS IN DESIGN AND SIX IN CONSTRUCTION.
AND WE DO HAVE ALMOST 1.4 MILLION PROGRAM IN DEBT SERVICE PAYMENTS.
THAT IS FOR A PROJECT THAT, UH, WE ARE PARTNERING WITH, UH, GULF COAST WATER AUTHORITY AND THEY WILL PROBABLY ISSUE THE DEBT AND WE WILL MAKE THE PAYMENTS IN WASTEWATER.
UM, THAT'S 52% OF THE REVENUE SUPPORTED PROGRAM FOR 24.
THERE'S ONE PROJECT IN DESIGN, TWO FOR LAND AND FIVE IN CONSTRUCTION.
SO LOOKING AT WHAT'S NEW, UM, ACTUALLY, I'M SORRY, WE'RE NOT TALKING ABOUT THAT.
WE'RE GOING ON TO MAJOR PROJECTS FOR THE FIVE YEAR PLAN.
THE FIRST ONE IS NORTH LANDING.
UH, THIS IS A, UH, JOINT PROJECT WITH TECH DOT.
WE ARE CURRENTLY IN THE LAND ACQUISITION PHASE.
ALSO, THERE'S SOME UTILITY RELOCATIONS.
THE CONSTRUCTION ESTIMATE IS ALMOST 70 MILLION FUNDING COMES FROM H G A C.
WE HAVE SOME PROP, A GEO BOND FUNDING, AND THEN WE ALSO HAVE A PORTION OF IT THAT WEBSTER WILL CONTRIBUTE.
AND WE ALREADY HAVE AN AGREEMENT IN PLACE ALSO IN THE FIVE YEAR PLAN.
ANOTHER MAJOR PROJECT IS THE 20 MILLION GALLONS A DAY EXPANSION OF OUR SOUTHEAST WATER PLANT.
THE DESIGN ESTIMATE IS A LITTLE OVER 13 MILLION.
CONSTRUCTION IS ALMOST 88 MILLION.
THE PROGRAM IS LOOKING AT CRF FUNDS FROM WATER AND ALSO FUTURE DEAD.
AND THEN WE HAVE 4 MILLION GALLON A DAY EXPANSION TO OUR SWERVE PLANT.
THE CURRENT PHASE IS DESIGN IN THE PROGRAM AND CONSTRUCTION IS ESTIMATED AT ALMOST 95 MILLION.
THIS WILL BE WASTEWATER CRF FUNDS AND FUTURE DEBT.
BEFORE WE MOVE ON FROM THIS ONE, UM, THE, UH, FUTURE DEBT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT HERE IS THAT THAT STILL WOULD BE SUPPORTED BY THE UTILITY BILLING, NOT BY SELLING, UM, OR, OR INCREASING TAXES OTHERWISE, CORRECT.
SO LIKELY IT'LL BE SUPPORTED BOTH FROM UH, WATER WASTEWATER FEES, BUT PRIMARILY OR MOSTLY BY, UM, CRF FEES.
OBVIOUSLY, YOU KNOW, THAT'S DEPENDENT ON HOW FAST THE HOME SALES, YOU KNOW, IF THEY, YOU KNOW, EXCEED PROJECTIONS, THERE'S MORE CRF REVENUE.
IF THEY UNDERPERFORM BECAUSE OF HIGH INTEREST RATES OR ECONOMIC DOWNTURN, YOU'RE GONNA STILL HAVE TO FUND THAT DEBT CUZ YOU HAVE TO MAKE THAT DECISION TO EXPLAIN, EXPAND EITHER THE WATER PLANT OR THE SEWER PLANT, YOU KNOW, BEFORE THE, THE WORK ACTUALLY HAPPENED.
SO IT'S A COMBINATION OF UTILITY RATES AND CRF FEES.
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AGAIN, SO DESIGNS, YOU KNOW, THIS IS THE FIRST PART OF THAT.IF IT, IF THE GROWTH HAPPENED SLOWER THAN WAS PART OF THE CALCULATION, UM, AND WE FUND IT WITH, WITH BONDS THAT ARE THEN PAID OFF WITH THE UTILITY FEES.
DO WE REIMBURSE THE UTILITY FUND WHEN THOSE CAPITAL RECOVERY FEES EVENTUALLY COME IN? THERE'S SOME FORMULA THAT WORKS FOR THAT.
AND THAT'S A LITTLE FUZZY I KNOW CUZ IT HAS TO KIND OF HAPPEN FOR ME TO BE ABLE TO
AND DELAYING THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE CAPITAL RECOVERY FEE INCREASE SINCE THIS IS A SELF-FUNDED UTILITY MEANS ADDITIONAL INCREASES ON THE UTILITY FEES, CORRECT? UH, IT'S POTENTIALLY, YES.
IT'S, YOU KNOW, DIFFICULT TO SAY.
I MEAN, REMEMBER THAT'S, YOU KNOW, HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS AND WE'RE NOT, AND AND THERE'S A LOT OF ESTIMATION AND TIMING, I GET THAT.
BUT THE DOLLARS HAD TO COME FROM SOMEWHERE AND IT'S GONNA COME SINCE WE'RE STILL MAINTAINING SELF-FUNDED STATUS FOR THE UTILITY.
IT'S GONNA COME IN THE FORM OF EVERYBODY'S UTILITY BILLS.
IT'LL COME OUT AT CRF RATES OR UTILITY RATES.
SO AS UM, CITY MANAGER BAUMGARDNER MENTIONED EARLIER, THERE IS A LIST ON PAGE SIX AND PAGE SEVEN OF OTHER IDENTIFIED BUT UNFUNDED PROJECTS.
UM, THIS IS THAT CURRENT LIST THAT, UM, HE MADE THE COMMENT THAT IT'S SOMEWHERE BETWEEN 300 AND 400 MILLION.
AND SO IF THERE'S A PROJECT THAT YOU'VE HEARD ABOUT OR UM, THAT YOU'RE INTERESTED IN AND YOU DON'T SEE IT IN THE FIVE-YEAR PLAN, UM, YOU CAN ALWAYS CHECK PAGE SIX OR PAGE SEVEN AND LET US KNOW IF IT'S SOMETHING THAT YOU'D LIKE TO ADD INTO THE PLAN.
AND IN THE PREVIOUS YEARS Y'ALL WOULD SHOW THIS AS LIKE FUTURE BOND AS A CATEGORY, NOT UNFUNDED.
IS THAT WHAT CHANGED? CORRECT.
AND YEAH, THESE ARE PROJECTS FUNDAMENTALLY IN THE OUT YEARS.
I'D LIKE TO MAYBE BRING COUNCIL'S ATTENTION TO A COUPLE OF THEM.
UH, YOU KNOW, SOME OF THE ONES WE'VE HEARD ABOUT.
AND AS WE WENT THROUGH THE WHOLE, UM, HARVEY AND THEN KIND OF WHAT'S THE WORST HIT NEIGHBORHOODS, UH, WE CAME UP WITH A FAIRLY ROBUST LIST OF DRAINAGE IMPROVEMENTS AND THEN AS WE'VE MADE SOME IMPROVEMENTS AND HAD SOME SUCCESSES IN NEIGHBORHOODS, HELLO.
NOW KIND OF WHAT WE'RE HEARING FROM SOME OF THE NEIGHBORHOODS ARE SOME SMALLER AREAS THAT COULD USE SOME IMPROVEMENTS AND DON'T HAVE AN IDENTIFIABLE FUNDING SOURCE.
SOME OF THEM WE HAVE A CHALLENGE WITH GETTING A CONSENSUS FROM THE NEIGHBORHOOD.
WHAT'S THE RIGHT AND WHAT'S THE RIGHT, WHAT'S, WHAT'S WHAT'S, I'M SORRY WE'RE GETTING AN ECHO.
SO I'LL GIVE LEANNA JUST A SECOND.
AND DID SHE FIX IT? TEST THAT? YEAH, THAT'S A LITTLE BETTER.
SO, SO YOU KNOW, DRAINAGE IS ONE AREA WE HEAR A LITTLE BIT ABOUT.
WE HEAR ABOUT SOME OF THE SMALLER TRAFFIC ISSUES.
SO FOR EXAMPLE, AT THE CROSSINGS THERE ON TWO 70 THERE WAS A PROJECT PROPOSED, UM, OR SUGGESTED WITH A SIGNAL THERE AND THEN MAKING SOME IMPROVEMENTS TO ALABAMA.
THAT'S WHEN WE COULDN'T, WE COULDN'T FIT IN.
UM, AND THEN, UM, YOU KNOW, DON'T HAVE A CLEAR VISION FORWARD WITH UM, YOU KNOW, FUTURE FIRE STATIONS.
OBVIOUSLY WE KNOW WE NEED THEM.
UM, AND THEN WHAT'S THE RIGHT TIME TO START 'EM KNOWING, YOU KNOW, A PROJECT LIKE A FIRE STATION PROBABLY HAS A HELLO, YOU KNOW, THREE YEAR DELIVERY SCHEDULE IF THE INFRASTRUCTURE'S IN PLACE AND WE KNOW WHERE IT'S GOING.
IF YOU GOTTA BUY LAND AND BUILD INFRASTRUCTURE TO IT PERHAPS A LITTLE BIT LONGER.
UM, SO WE KNOW THAT'S AT, WE KNOW THAT'S, CAN YOU SEE ME NOW? YOU KNOW WHEN YOU HERE HERE WE GO.
I'M GONNA, YOU AND ME AN ESTIMATE, YOU KNOW, HEY WE CAN GET ANYTHING DONE NICK.
I COULDN'T HEAR A LICK ON THAT OTHER 1 MILLION.
YOU HAVE TO SELL DEBT FOR THAT.
IT STILL WOULD COME THROUGH SOMEWHERE AROUND, YEAH, I DIALED IN OFF ANOTHER PHONE ON TAX RATE IN ORDER TO, HOW DO WE PUT OUR BACKGROUND HERE? SO WE, WE KNOW SOMEWHERE WHETHER WE HAVE A GEO BOND ELECTION OR SELECTION PROCESS, BUT THOSE ARE JUST A COUPLE OF THE HIGHLIGHT AREAS WHERE WE KNOW THERE'S MORE PRESSURE THAN SOME OF THE OTHER AREAS.
SO WE'VE INCLUDED A LIST FOR THIS GETS GENERATED BOTH FROM INPUTS FROM STAFF.
CAN ANYBODY SEE US AS A WHOLE? BECAUSE WE CAN'T SEE, I DON'T THAT CHRISTOPHER DOES WITH THE VARIOUS, I JUST GOT A TEXT LIST SAYING THAT NOT, YOU KNOW, GIVE, YOU KNOW, THE COUNSELING OPPORTUNITY TO LOOK AT THAT.
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PUT THIS TOGETHER A CONSTRAINED FUNDING WHICH IS, YOU KNOW,Y'ALL HAVE TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS RELATED TO PROJECTS SPECIFIC OR PROJECTS THAT AREN'T INCLUDED OR STATUS ON PROJECTS THAT ARE IN THE BOOK.
YOU WANT QUESTIONS DOWN ON THE FIRE STATION OR NOT? SURE.
MY ONLY CONCERN LOOKING THROUGH THIS, UH, MR. BOB GARDNER'S THE FACT THAT WE HAVE SOME PROJECTS IN HERE.
ALL RIGHT, I'M GONNA DROP, THIS IS EVEN WORSE THAN THE OTHER WAY AROUND.
58 MILLION TOTAL COST I GUESS.
UM, AND MOST OF THE FUNDING COMES FROM FUTURE BONDS AND SO FORTH.
MY, MY CONCERN IS RIGHT NOW, IF YOU GO OUT TO MAPLE LEAF AND LOOK AT THE WEST SIDE DEVELOPMENT, WE'RE PROBABLY A A YEAR BEHIND ON BUILDING THE FIRE STATION OUT THERE NOW, EVEN IF WE STARTED WITH THE BOND, UH, APPROVAL PROCESS, NOW IT'S GONNA BE THREE YEARS BEFORE WE GET ONE WEST SIDE FIRE STATION OVER THERE.
AND I'M VERY CONCERNED THAT WE'RE GONNA COME TO THE POINT IN PROBABLY, I THINK OUR LAST ISO STUDY WAS WAS UH, 2017, IF I REMEMBER RIGHT.
SO YOU'RE, YOU'RE LOOKING AT 10 YEARS BEFORE YOU'RE PROBABLY ELIGIBLE FOR ANOTHER ONE.
SO, UM, THAT TIME IS COMING PRETTY QUICKLY.
UM, I DROVE OUT THERE THE OTHER DAY AND HOUSES ARE ON THE GROUND ALREADY.
SO I'M SOMEWHAT CONCERNED WITH NOT HAVING AT LEAST A C I P I KNOW THAT WE USED TO HAVE A C I P THAT WAS INCLUDING STATION LOIN AND STATION SEVEN CORRECT.
NOW IT'S COMPLETELY OFF THE BOOKS YET.
UM, THEY WERE FUNDED OR THEY WERE PROPOSED FUNDED I GUESS THROUGH SEAL BONDS IN 2019 WHEN WE WENT OUT FOR THE BOND ELECTION.
SO, YEAH, SO AS WE, YOU KNOW, AS OBVIOUSLY THE, THE C I P CHANGES MATURES EVERY YEAR AND I THINK WE HAD, WE HAD SOME ANTICIPATION THAT 24 PERHAPS WOULD BE TIME TO GO THROUGH A COMMUNITY DRIVEN, UH, GEO BOND MM-HMM.
AND SO, YOU KNOW, UNTIL WE HAVE KIND OF WHAT'S THE AUTHORIZATION TO DO THAT, IT SEEMED UM, A LITTLE BIT MISLEADING TO INCLUDE THEM.
SO WE PUT THEM ON THE LIST UNTIL AT SUCH TIME THAT, YOU KNOW, COUNCIL MAKES A DECISION, WE'RE GONNA DO IT THROUGH COS OR WE'RE GONNA DO IT THROUGH SOME SORT OF, YOU KNOW, GEO BOND PROCESS.
AND SO OBVIOUSLY WE BRING IT TO YOUR ATTENTION BECAUSE IT'S, YOU KNOW, BECAUSE IT'S NOT INCLUDED AND CERTAINLY THE PETRO GUY AND THEN THE LENAR DEVELOPMENT OFF OF HOBBS ROAD AND THEN THE FOUR STAR, UM, I FORGET THE NAME, THE STUFF OFF OF MAPLE LEAF MM-HMM.
ALL ACROSS THE SOUTHERN PART OF THE CITY, SOUTHWEST SIDE.
AND THAT'S MY CONCERN BECAUSE LOOKING AT, LOOKING IN THE BOOK, I MEAN RIGHT NOW WE SEE THE UNFUNDED ITEMS OVER HERE ON THE PROJECTS.
WE SEE IN THE PARKS DEPARTMENT WE HAVE A $59 MILLION PROJECT THAT'S IN THE BOOK.
SO LIKE WHEN WE LOOK AT, YEAH.
SO WHEN WE LOOK AT THINGS LIKE A PARK PROJECT MM-HMM.
AND WE CAN'T USE, OBVIOUSLY WE CAN'T USE THE FOUR B MONIES FOR THE TAX SUPPORTED ITEMS LIKE A FIRE STATION.
BUT WHEN YOU'RE LOOKING AT 59 MILLION TO BUILD A PARK COMPARED TO A 7 MILLION FOR OUR WEST SIDE FIRE STATION, I WOULD THINK THAT SOMEHOW THE, THE PRIORITY OF THE, OF THE TWO WOULD SOMEHOW, UM, MATCH.
CAUSE LOOKING AT THIS PARK DEDICATION FEES AND FOUR B FUNDING IS, IS MINIMAL COMPARED TO IT LOOKS LIKE WE'RE GOING OUT FOR BONDS FOR 48 MILLION.
AND WE, AND WE WOULD, AND WE WOULD LOOK AT THOSE BONDS WHILE BEING, YOU KNOW, SOLD AS TAX SUPPORTED PLEDGE, THE DEBT SERVICE WOULD COME OUT OF THE DEDICATED FUNDING SOURCE FOUR B OR PARK DEDICATION FEES.
SO IT'S NOT AS, IN OTHER WORDS, YOU DON'T HAVE TO PRE COLLECT YOUR FOUR B MONEY CORRECT.
YOU CAN GO AHEAD AND DO IT ON A BOND AND PAY IT BACK WITH THE FOUR B.
SO REALLY WE CALL THAT REVENUE SUPPORTED, MUCH LIKE CORRECT.
WE DO THE, UM, THE WATER AND SEWER FUNDS.
IT'S, AND IT'S, AGAIN, IT'S NOT QUITE AS CLEAR IN THERE PERHAPS AS IT COULD BE.
NO, AND THAT, AND THAT'S FINE.
MY ONLY CONCERN IS, LIKE I SAID, UH, YOU KNOW, HOUSES ARE BEING BUILT OUT THERE EVEN IF WE DECIDE TO GO OUT FOR BONDS AND YEAH.
A YEAR FROM NOW YOU'RE LOOKING AT ADDITIONAL THREE YEARS FOR OUR FIRE STATION.
I WILL TELL YOU THAT EVERYBODY'S IN INSURANCE RATING
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OUT THERE WILL BE A 10 BECAUSE OBVIOUSLY THERE'S NO FIRE STATION.UH, EVEN THOUGH WE'RE ONE, THEY'RE GONNA BE A 10 BECAUSE YOU DON'T MEET THE REQUIREMENTS TO TO TO THE THAT'S CORRECT.
SO EVERYBODY'S GONNA BE PAYING THE MAXIMUM FOR FIRE INSURANCE OUT THERE.
AND I, I'D JUST LIKE TO SEE SOMEHOW THAT WE COULD, UH, INCLUDE AT LEAST A WEST SIDE FIRE STATION AND START PUTTING SOME TYPE OF CONCERN ON THE, ON STATION ONE BECAUSE IT, WE HAVE NO FACILITIES OR ANY FIRE OR POLICE PUBLIC SAFETY, UH, IN THIS FIVE YEAR PLAN.
I GUESS THERE'S NOT ONE ONE PLAN FOR PUBLIC SAFETY AS OF NOW.
NOW I KNOW THAT MAY CHANGE NEXT YEAR OR COULD CHANGE A YEAR AFTER.
THIS IS A EVOLVING, UH, PLAN I GUESS, BUT YEAH, NO, CORRECT.
MY CONCERN IS, IS THAT THE FIRE AND THE PUBLIC SAFETY HAS BEEN TOLD ONE THING FOR SEVERAL YEARS THAT WE WERE GOING TO HAVE STATION ONE, WE WERE GONNA LOOK INTO HAVING STATION SEVEN ON THE WEST SIDE.
AND IT SEEMS, NOW LOOKING AT THIS, I WAS REALLY SURPRISED TO SEE THAT THERE WAS NOT EVEN A, A MENTION EXCEPT UNFUNDED CORRECT.
UH, THE OTHER QUESTION, IF NOBODY ELSE IS ON THE QUEUE, I GUESS WHEN DID, UM, IT BECOME LEGAL OR IS IT LEGAL THAT WE FUND OUT OF THE FOUR B PROJECTS THAT ARE NOT AMATEUR SPORTS FACILITIES? ISN'T THAT SO ISN'T THAT THE PART OF THE, THE, THE LAW WHEN WE PASSED THE FOUR B THAT IT HAD TO BE AMATEUR SPORTS FACILITIES.
DO YOU HAVE PERFECT MAINTENANCE OFF OR MAINTENANCE FROM THAT? BUT WE'RE, I'M SEEING IN HERE A LOT OF FOUR B FUNDING, LIKE THE WESTOVER PARK PROJECT.
UM, SO THE WESTOVER, BUT YOU HAD TRAIL SYSTEMS AND STUFF LIKE THAT.
THAT'S FOUR B'S TRAILS TRAIL SYSTEMS. WE WENT THROUGH AN EVALUATION PROCESS AND I LIKE TO SAY 10 YEARS AGO.
AND DETERMINED THAT THOSE WERE ELIGIBLE FOR AMATEUR ATHLETICS THAT RUNNING I PRESUME VERSUS VERSUS TEAM SPORTS.
YEAH, THERE WAS JUST A LOT OF THINGS THAT LOOKED LIKE FOUR B WAS PAYING FOR THAT.
THEY SHOULD ALL, THEY SHOULD ALL BE SPORTS RELATED IN SOME FORM OR FASHION.
THEY ARE, BUT MOST OF 'EM WERE EITHER PARKS LIKE THE TED DUD, UM, OR DR.
I THINK FOUR B MONEY WAS OUT OF THAT WAS KRISTEN.
I GUESS YOU CAN, BUT I JUST, WHEN I READ THE LAW IT SAID AMATEUR SPORTS FACILITY.
SO I WAS YEAH, WE, WE TRY, WE TRY TO COORDINATE THAT BOTH WITH FOUR B AND WITH LEGAL AND CITY ATTORNEY DON IS LOOKING AT ME CAUSE DOESN'T REMEMBER LAST TIME WE ASKED THIS QUESTION'S.
WE'LL CIRCLE BACK AROUND WITH THAT.
UH, JOHN, CAN WE TALK ABOUT THE REINVESTMENT FUND? SURE.
SO FOR, FOR 2024, IT'S AT, IT'S AT 12 AND THEN IT DROPS TO EIGHT AND THEN SEVEN.
SEVEN AND THEN SIX IS THE 20, 24 12.
IS THAT BECAUSE WE'RE REFILLING IT BECAUSE IT WAS KIND OF GUTTED OUT BEFORE? OR COULD? MY CONCERN IS THAT IT'S A LITTLE, IT SEEMS LIGHT COMPARED TO ALL THE THINGS THAT WE'RE GONNA HAVE TO, TO GO THROUGH TO GET UPDATED.
AND IF WE START TO NEGLECT IT, I'M AFRAID THAT THE EXPENSE WILL ACTUALLY GO THE OTHER WAY.
AND SO I WAS JUST TRYING TO, UH, TO UNDERSTAND HOW THOSE NUMBERS CAME TO BE.
WHAT WAS THE THINKING? SO, SO A NUMBER OF YEARS AGO WE WENT THROUGH, I'LL SAY GENERALLY IN EVALUATION OF THE COMMUNITY, UM, IN JUST REALLY BASED ON AGE.
SO WE SAID HOW MUCH OF OUR, HOW MUCH ARE OUR STREET ASSETS WORTH? AND IF THEY HAVE A 50 YEAR LIFE, WHAT WOULD THE ANNUAL INVESTMENT BE IN ORDER TO ADDRESS THOSE ISSUES KNOWING THAT, YOU KNOW, MORE THAN HALF OF THE CITY, LET'S SEE, LET ME GET MY MOUTH RIGHT, YOU, IF WE, SO MORE THAN HALF THE CITY, ABOUT A THIRD OF THE CITY WAS BUILT PRIOR TO 2000 AND THE REST OF THE CITY HAS BEEN BUILT IN THE LAST 23 YEARS.
AND SO THERE'S KIND OF A, THE, YOU KNOW, THOSE NUMBERS WILL INCREASE OVER TIME, BUT THE NUMBER CAME TO APPROXIMATELY 24 MILLION A YEAR IN 2016.
AND THEN ALSO KEEP IN MIND SOME OF THE REINVESTMENT IS TAKEN CARE OF, I'LL SAY WITH DEBT SERVICE.
SO FOR EXAMPLE, GRISSOM ROAD WAS $12 MILLION.
IT'S NOT REALLY IN THE REINVESTMENT, BUT IT IS A REINVESTMENT PROJECT.
WE UNDERFUND THE REINVESTMENT, I WOULD SAY A LITTLE BIT TODAY.
IT'S BEEN A LITTLE BIT OF A, OF
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A CHALLENGE OVER THE YEARS.I THINK IN THIS YEAR'S REINVESTMENT PROGRAM, DON'T WE HAVE THE EXTRA 6 MILLION FROM LANDING KIND OF UNTIL WE GET TRUE CONFIRMATION THAT NORTH LANDING WILL BE COVERED.
UM, UNDER, UH, TECH DOTS FUNDING, WE KIND OF HAVE IT DOUBLE PROGRAMMED.
SO WHERE WE CAN MOVE FORWARD, UM, WITH ONE OF OUR PROJECTS AND REINVESTMENT WITH REINVESTMENT CASH AND IF THAT CASH IS FREED UP, UM, WE WILL DO WHAT, UM, COUNCIL MEMBER, UH, TRESSLER, UH, HAD BROUGHT UP TO, UH, DO, UH, CONSTRUCTION ON ONE OF THE, UM, CONCRETE ROADWAYS OR SEVERAL CONCRETE ROADWAYS, $5 MILLION WORTH OR SO.
AND SO, YOU KNOW, AS WE'VE CONSTRAINED OURSELVES WITH A NO NEW REVENUE RATE, WE GET SQUEEZED ON WHAT DO WE DO WITH CURRENT OPERATIONS VERSUS TRYING TO MAINTAIN THE REINVESTMENT DOLLARS.
AND SO, YOU KNOW, THOSE DOLLARS HAVE BEEN SQUEEZED A LITTLE BIT LAST YEAR AND THEY'RE KIND OF SQUEEZED AGAIN THIS YEAR A LITTLE BIT.
IF, IF WE WERE TO JUST HYPOTHETICALLY PICK ONE OF THE NEIGHBORHOODS IT WAS THAT HAD BEEN LISTED AS AS AGING, MAYBE THE CLEAR CREEK VILLAGE SURE.
WHAT WOULD IT TAKE IF, IF WE WERE JUST TO ACTUALLY KINDA GET THAT REPAIRED.
SO JUST, YOU KNOW, HIGH LEVEL APPROXIMATIONS, YOU KNOW, IN THE FIVE TO $6 MILLION RANGE PER PER NEIGHBORHOOD.
SOME NEED A LITTLE MORE, SOME NEED A LITTLE LESS, YOU KNOW, IT'S ABOUT A 30 MILLION TO 35 MILLION KIND OF FIVE YEAR PROGRAM IF YOU WERE TO TACKLE ALL THE OLDER ONES AT ONE TIME.
DO YOU WANNA PUT THAT ON? DO YOU WANNA PUT THAT ON THE LIST OF ALL RIGHT.
SO FAR THE LIST, THE LIST HAS A, UH, WEST SIDE FIRE STATION AT LEAST PLAN OR SOMETHING.
AND THEN ALSO CLEAR CREEK VILLAGE ALONE.
I ARE YOU LOOKING FOR OR JUST NO, I, I THINK IF I MAY SPEAK MY CONCERN IS A GENERAL, WE'VE BEEN PLAYING KICK THE CAN ON REINVESTMENT AND THE LONGER WE PLAY IT, THE MORE DANGEROUS IT BECOMES BECAUSE IT'S ONLY GOING TO BE THAT LIST OF NEIGHBORHOODS IS GOING TO GROW.
UM, SOUTH, SOUTH SHORE CAN'T BE TOO FAR OFF, ESPECIALLY WITH THE OAK TREES PLANTED IN THE TREE LAWNS BETWEEN THE SIDEWALKS AND THE ROADS.
UM, WELL THE LANDING IS CONSTANT.
IT SEEMS LIKE THEIR LANDING IS A PERPETUAL FOR 12 YEARS THAT I'VE SERVED ON AND OFF AND, AND THE LIST.
SO MY POINT IS WE KEEP KICKING THE CAN.
THE COST OF DOING THE PROJECTS DOESN'T GET ANY CHEAPER.
UM, I I THINK OUR FOCUS ON REINVESTMENT MIGHT NEED SOME, UH, SOME ADDITIONAL ATTENTION.
AND, AND IF I UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU'RE SAYING CORRECTLY, IT SOUNDS LIKE WE'VE NEVER MET OUR GOAL AND WE'RE ONLY DOING LESS.
SO, YOU KNOW, WHEN WE WENT, AGAIN, WHEN WE WENT THROUGH THIS KIND OF HIGH LEVEL, LOOK AT WHAT IT DOES, WE HAD PROJECTED SLOWLY GROWING THE REINVESTMENT DOLLARS ON THE ANNUAL BASIS BY AS APPRAISALS WENT UP, KEEPING SOME OF THE TAX RATE, YOU KNOW, GROWING IT A MILLION DOLLARS A YEAR OR SO AND THOUGHT WE WOULD BE IN THE, YOU KNOW, 12 TO $15 MILLION RANGE NOW.
AND WE'RE FRANKLY AT THE, WE'VE GONE THE BACKWARDS JUST A LITTLE BIT.
AND SO WITH THAT KEEPS IT CONSTRAINED.
NOW, ONE THING THAT JODI AND DAVID DEKEL DO IS, YOU KNOW, THE WORST OF THE WORST, YOU KNOW, GET A, A PATCH MUCH LIKE YOU'VE SEEN ON LANDING IN PARTICULAR, UM, YOU KNOW, WE GO IN THERE AND WE PROBABLY SPEND A COUPLE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS A YEAR ON LANDING.
WE PROBABLY SPEND A HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS A YEAR ON SOUTH SHORE.
THOSE ROADS, YOU KNOW, THEY DEMAND A HIGHER LEVEL OF REPAIR AND SERVICEABILITY.
THE RESIDENTIAL STREETS WE TALK ABOUT WHETHER THEY'RE IN CLEAR CREEK VILLAGE OR THEY'RE IN BAYOU BRA OR WHATEVER, YOU KNOW, IT'S NOT THAT WE HAVEN'T DONE WORK THERE TO KEEP UP THE RIGHT ABILITY, BUT THEY POND WATER HOLDING AT THE CURB, ALL OF THOSE THINGS THAT CREATE A NUISANCE IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD.
AND, BUT WE DO SPOT REPAIRS THERE TOO, BUT CURBS FALL OFF AND THEY DON'T GET REPLACED.
AND SO OVERALL DETERIORATION OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD THEN KIND OF COMMENCES.
AND SO AT SOME POINT IN TIME, YOU KNOW, WE'RE GONNA HAVE TO, YOU KNOW, WE'RE GONNA HAVE TO ADDRESS IT.
AND SO IT'S, IT'S, YOU KNOW, IT'S A CHALLENGE BETWEEN OPERATIONAL DAILY NEEDS AND THEN KIND OF LONG TERM INVESTMENT.
WE HA WE HAVE MUCH MORE ROBUST PROGRAM TODAY THAN WE DID PRIOR TO 2016.
AND I THINK WE COUNCIL MEMBER MAYOR PROAM MANN, WHO WAS ON THE COUNCIL BACK IN, YOU KNOW, WERE YOU ON THE COUNCIL IN 2000 WHEN WE SET UP
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THE REINVESTMENT? I DON'T KNOW, BUT YOU REMEMBER THE TIME WITH ALL THE SIDEWALK AND SIDEWALK COMPLAINTS AND IT TOOK US TWO YEARS TO GET TO SOMETHING AND ALL OF THOSE, THOSE ARE MUCH BETTER THAN THEY WERE WHEN YOU WERE FIRST ON COUNCIL.YEAH, DEFINITELY JUST MADE IMPROVEMENT.
JUST YEAH, IT'S JUST AN INDEFINITE IMPROVEMENT WHENEVER YOU STARTED THE SEPARATE FUNDS.
SO, SO WE MAY NOT BE LIVING UP TO OUR GOALS, BUT WE'RE STILL DOING BETTER THAN BEFORE WE CREATED A GOAL.
WE'RE DOING, YEAH, WE'RE DOING, YOU KNOW, WE HAD, WE HAD SIDEWALK LISTS AND CONCRETE, SOMEBODY WOULD CALL AND YEAH, YOUR SIDEWALK NEEDS TO BE REPAIRED.
AND WE COULDN'T EVEN GIVE THEM A DEFINITIVE TIME.
IT WAS WELL OVER A YEAR IN MANY, IN MANY IN MANY CASES.
AND THEN THE AMOUNT OF MONEY WE'VE INVESTED IN THE ASPHALT STREET, THEY COST LESS PER SQUARE YARD TO REHAB.
AND SO WE'VE MADE A SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCE THROUGHOUT THE COMMUNITY ON ALL THE OLDER ASPHALT STREETS THAT DON'T NEED TO BE WIDENED TO CONCRETE STREETS.
SO LIKE THINGS LIKE BUTLER AND TURNER THAT ARE ASPHALT TODAY, YOU KNOW, YEAH, THEY'VE GOT ENOUGH TRAFFIC THEY NEED TO BE RECONSTRUCTED AS CONCRETE.
BUT THE STUFF IN THE HISTORIC DISTRICT AND THOSE KIND OF STREETS, WE'VE, LIKE I SAID, I THINK WE'VE DONE A HECK OF A LOT OF WORK.
WE'VE TOUCHED MAYBE 60 OR 70% OF THEM AND WE'LL CONTINUE TILL WE'RE, TILL WE'RE DONE AND THEN IT'LL BE TIME TO PROBABLY START THAT OVER.
AND THAT'S BEEN TWO TO $3 MILLION A YEAR.
IT'S, AGAIN, IT'S MUCH DIFFERENT THAN WHERE WE WERE 10 YEARS AGO.
IT IS JUST TRYING TO, JUST TRYING TO, TO MAKE SURE, YOU KNOW, I KNOW THAT WE'RE, WE'RE, WE'RE JUST KIND OF TIED IN WITH THE MONEY, BUT JUST TRYING TO SAY, WELL, YOU KNOW, WE WERE BETTER THAN 10 YEARS AGO THAN WE ARE TODAY AND THAT'S GREAT.
BUT WE'RE ALSO 10 YEARS FURTHER ALONG WITH THE, UH, WITH THE SIDEWALKS DETERIORATING AND WITH THE ROADS DETERIORATING.
UM, AND YEAH, I DON'T WANT, I WASN'T SINGLING OUT THAT ONE NEIGHBORHOOD, I WAS JUST PICKING OUT ONE OFF THE TOP THAT I COULD REMEMBER.
UM, SO MY ONLY CONCERN IS I THINK THAT IT'S, IT'S UNDERFUNDED WITH WHAT WE NEED AND I THINK WE ARE AS, AS MR. TRUSTWORTH SAID, KICKING THE CAN DOWN THE ROAD AND IT CAN BE A VERY EXPENSIVE MISTAKE TO DELAY, I BELIEVE.
SO ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE HAVE WORKING FOR US RELATIVE TO THAT IS WHEN THIS, WHEN THE SALES TAX WAS PASSED IN 2019 AND SOMEWHERE, ANGIE, IS THAT TONIGHT WE'RE GONNA GO, OH, THERE IT IS.
SO WE HAVE A COUPLE OF, YOU KNOW, UNTIL WE GET TO ABOUT 2030, IT DOESN'T GENERATE A LOT OF EXTRA DOLLARS, BUT AT SOME POINT IN TIME IT'LL START GENERATING SOME EXTRA REVENUE.
SO RIGHT NOW WE'RE USING IT TO OFFSET, IS THAT ALL THE GEO BOND DEBT IS BEING OFFSET WITH THAT? OR IS THIS JUST A PORTION, A VERY LARGE PORTION? A VERY LARGE, SO THE 2019 GEO BOND DEBT IS BEING COVERED MOSTLY BY SALES TAX.
NOT ENTIRELY THE UH, SPEAKING OF THE 2019 BONDS, UM, THOSE DRAINAGE BONDS AND THE PROJECTS THEY'RE SUPPORTING COME TO COMPLETION.
IS THAT WHY WE SEE THIS STEEP ROLL OFF IN DRAINAGE SPENDING OVER EACH OF THE NEXT YEARS? IT IT'S KIND OF DECLINING THE SAME WAY THE REINVESTMENT IS.
SO IF YOU LOOK, SO THIS SLIDE SHOWS THE PROPOSITION A INVESTMENT, THE TABLE ONE, I THINK IT'S ON, UH, PAGE, WELL IT'S PRINTED PAGE TWO NUMBERED, IT'S PAGE 16 OF THE PDF FILE ONE, UM,
IT SHOWS DRAINAGE FOR 24 AT 33,000,025 AT 25, 26 AT SIX AND A HALF, 27 AT 1.2 AND THEN BACK UP TO JUST UNDER 11 AND 28.
UM, SO A TREND LINE ON THAT IS VERY MUCH DOWNWARD.
IS THAT BECAUSE THOSE BOND PROJECTS GET COMPLETE AND WE YEAH, THAT'S, YEAH.
SO IF THE FUNDING SOURCE THERE IS A GEO BOND DEBT WITH A LITTLE BIT OF REINVESTMENT DEBT WITH THE REINVESTMENT CASH, THEN UNTIL THERE'S ANOTHER IDENTIFIABLE FUNDING SOURCE, IT WON'T GROW.
AND SO AS I SAID EARLIER IN THE PRESENTATION, THERE IS SOME PENT UP DEMAND IN, YOU KNOW, I THINK THREE OR FOUR NEIGHBORHOODS IN PARTICULAR.
I'M LOOKING FOR CHRISTOPHER, I DON'T SEE HIM.
BUT THEORETICALLY IF WE, IF WE DID DRAINAGE RIGHT, WE'D EVENTUALLY RUN OUT OF MUNICIPAL LEVEL DRAINAGE PROJECTS THAT YOU WOULD FUND WITH LOCAL BONDS, CUZ THEN YOUR ONLY SOLUTIONS LEFT ARE FIXING THE BAY.
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I MEAN, RIGHT? YES.SO, AND I THINK, I'M SORRY JOHN, BUT YOU KNOW, THAT'S WHAT, WHENEVER WE STARTED THE, UH, THE INITIATIVE FOR THE BOND PROJECT, YOU KNOW, IF YOU GUYS RECALL IT WAS, YOU KNOW, WHAT ARE THE TWO THINGS WE GOTTA WORK ON? AND TO ME, MOST FASCINATING THING ABOUT IT NOT KNOWING ANYTHING ABOUT IT AS YOU KNOW ABOUT DRAINAGE, IS THE, THE REALIZATION THAT, YOU KNOW, THERE ARE A COUPLE OF NEIGHBORHOODS THAT COULD REALLY USE SOME HELP, BUT OTHERWISE, UNLESS YOU HAVE THE CORE OF ENGINEERS AND A BILLION DOLLARS, YOU'RE KINDA OUTTA LUCK.
YOU KNOW, JUST MIGHT WANT TO GET, UH, GOOD INSURANCE.
I'D BE CURIOUS TO KNOW THOUGH, I WE FINISH THIS BOND EXACTLY HOW MANY MAJOR PROJECTS WOULD BE LEFT OR WOULD IT BE JUST LIKE IT HAS BEEN IN THE PAST AND THAT IS, YOU THINK YOU GOT IT PRETTY MUCH SQUARED AWAY AND THEN THE DEVELOPMENT COMES IN AND EVEN THOUGH YOU PLANNED AS WELL AS YOU COULD, SUDDENLY A NEW, UH, A NEW CHALLENGE PRESENTS ITSELF AND YOU'RE RIGHT BACK TO OAKS, A CLEAR CREEK OR, OR ONE OF THESE OTHER TYPES OF PROJECTS, SIX STUDIES BASICALLY THAT LOOKED AT OUR HARDEST HIT AREAS AND THEN WE WENT AFTER GRANTS.
SO, SO THE GRANTS, AND I KNOW YOU NOTICED ON THE NEW STUFF A LOT OF MASTER DRAINAGE PLAN TYPE STUDIES INSTEAD OF, WE COULDN'T GET FUNDED A FULL COMPLETE STUDY.
UH, THE FIRST SEGMENT LOOKED AT OUR TRIBUTARIES TO SEE IF WE NEEDED TO IMPROVE THEM BECAUSE EVEN IF WE DO ALL THESE IMPROVEMENTS IN NEIGHBORHOODS, IF OUR TRIBUTARIES CAN'T GET IT TO CLEAR CREEK OR DICKINSON BAYOU, WE HAD PROBLEMS THERE.
SO THEY IDENTIFIED SOME, FOR THE MOST PART WE WEREN'T IN HORRIBLE SHAPE ON THE TRIBUTARIES, BUT WE, WE DO HAVE SOME RESTRICTIONS THERE.
SO OUR HARD HIT AREAS ARE BEING TAKEN CARE OF IN THE GEO BOND, BUT AS THESE MASTER DRAINAGE CHAPTERS COME ONLINE, IT WILL IDENTIFY OTHER AREAS.
AND, AND ONE THING THAT THAT KIND OF GETS LOST A LITTLE BIT IN THE, IN THE MIX WHEN WE START TALKING ABOUT DRAINAGE WAS WE HAD TWO MAJOR UP UPDATES THAT CHANGED HOW YOU LOOK AT DESIGNING DRAINAGE IN LEAGUE CITY.
ONE WAS THE FEMA FIRM MAPS BEING UPDATED IN IN JULY OF 2019.
AND THEN IN FEBRUARY OF 2019, UM, THE RAINFALL INTENSITIES CHANGED.
SO THOSE ARE, THOSE ARE BIG UPDATES THAT LOOK AND SEE, YOU KNOW, HOW YOU NEED TO IMPACT STUFF.
WE WENT FROM ROUGHLY 22%, I BELIEVE, OF THE CITY BEING IN THE HUNDRED YEAR AND ABOUT 35% OF THE CITY BEING IN THE HUNDRED YEAR AND 500 YEAR TO 52% BEING IN THAT A HUNDRED YEAR AND 500 YEAR FLOOD PLAIN.
SO, SO BIG JUMPS THERE WHEN YOU LOOK AT RAINFALL INTENSITIES.
IT, IT SAID EVERYTHING THAT HAD BEEN DESIGNED WITH THE BEST AVAILABLE DATA BEFORE THAT CAME OUT WAS OFF BY ABOUT 30%.
SO WHEN YOU START HEARING OF PLACES LIKE, UM, OAKS OF CLEAR CREEK WHERE THEY HAVE MASSIVE PONDING IN THE, IN THE STREETS, A LOT OF THAT IS DUE TO THE RAINFALL INTENSITIES AND HOW WE WERE DESIGNING, UM, IN THE EIGHTIES WHEN THAT CAME OUT.
SO WE, WE'VE DONE A LOT TO IMPROVE AND ENSURE WE ARE NOT GOING TO HAVE THOSE SAME PROBLEMS ON OUR NEW DEVELOPMENT ON THE WEST SIDE OF TOWN.
BUT THERE'S STILL A LOT OF WORK TO GO IN AND CORRECT THE EXISTING NEIGHBORHOODS.
AND SO EVEN AS IT RELATES TO SUBDIVISIONS, IF YOU, YOU KNOW, KIND OF THINK A LEAGUE CITY THAT TO ME THERE'S KIND OF FOUR ERAS.
THERE'S THE ERA PROBABLY BEFORE MODERN DESIGN STANDARD, THAT'S A LOT OF RURAL SECTIONS.
SO ASPHALT STREETS WITH DITCHES, PRE DETENTION, AND THEN THERE'S A BIG SECTION.
AND SO, UM, OAKS OF CLEAR CREEK KIND OF BEING ONE OF THE LAST ONES THAT WERE SO BABRA CLEAR CREEK VILLAGE, THAT ERA SUBDIVISION GOT BUILT WITH A TWO YEAR DESIGN STORM AND NO DETENTION.
AND THEN THERE'S AN ERA FROM ABOUT 1990 TILL ALMOST 2020 THAT GOT BUILT WITH TWO YEAR DESIGN STORMS AND DETENTION AND THEY FARED A WHOLE LOT BETTER IN THE STORM RELATIVELY.
AND THEN SINCE ABOUT 2000, WAS IT 1819, SOMEWHERE IN THERE, WE INCREASED OUR DESIGN STANDARD TO BE NO MORE THAN NINE INCHES OF PONDING DURING A HUNDRED YEAR EVENT AND WE INCREASED OUR DETENTION.
SO THEY'RE MORE ROBUST SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENTS AS IT RELATES TO STORM WATER.
AND SO EVERY ONE OF THOSE KIND OF REQUIRES A DIFFERENT LOOK AT AS TO WHAT PEOPLE ARE SEEING.
AND SO WHAT WE KIND OF ADDRESSED IN THE 2019, EXCEPT FOR THE STUFF ALONG THE CREEK, WAS REALLY THOSE FIRST MODERN ERA
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SUBDIVISIONS THAT HAVE BEEN CHALLENGED BY THE NODE DETENTION IN THE LOW, UM, STORM DE STORM DESIGN.AND YOU SAW IT WITH, YOU'D SEE IT ANNUALLY ONCE OR TWO OR THREE, ONCE OR TWICE WHERE YOU COULDN'T GET OUT OF THE SUBDIVISION, YOU COULDN'T GET TO SCHOOL, YOU COULDN'T GET TO WORK, YOU COULDN'T RESPOND TO EMERGENCY IF YOU HAD TO.
AND I THINK WE'VE DONE A DECENT JOB BEGINNING TO ADDRESS THOSE.
WE STILL GOT A LITTLE BIT OF WORK TO DO.
AND SO AS WE CONTINUE FORWARD, THERE WILL BE STILL SOME ISSUES TO ADDRESS PROBABLY FOR THE NEXT 10 YEARS ANYWAY.
THEY WILL BE AT A LOWER MAGNITUDE OF COST THAN WE SAW IN THIS FIRST ROUND OF STUFF THAT WE ADDRESSED IN THE 2019 BOND PROGRAM.
BUT IN THE UNFUNDED PROJECTS WE ONLY HAVE FOUR AND AT LEAST ONE OF THEM IS ONE WHERE WE'RE STRUGGLING TO GET CONSENSUS.
UM, Y'ALL ARE TALKING ABOUT THERE'S SOME OTHER NEIGHBORHOODS THERE GONNA END UP ON THIS UNFUNDED LIST.
AND THAT'LL BE A RESULT OF YES SIR, THESE STUDIES BEING DONE.
SO THAT'S WHY THEY'RE NOT ON THE LIST YET.
AND, AND I THINK TI YOU KNOW, ULTIMATELY FOR THE COUNCIL TO DECIDE IS HOW AND WHEN DO WE MOVE FORWARD WITH THOSE? DO WE DO IT THROUGH, YOU KNOW, CERTIFICATES OF OBLIGATION? DO WE HAVE A BOND ELECTION TO MAKE SURE THERE'S GREATER COMMUNITY CENSUS? CUZ OBVIOUSLY IF WE START MAKING IMPROVEMENTS UNDER A GEO BOND, WHOLE COMMUNITY PAYS TO MAKE IMPROVEMENTS IN, IN, IN CERTAIN NEIGHBORHOODS.
AND SO THAT'S ULTIMATELY, I MEAN THAT'S THE CRITICAL POLICY DECISION THAT HAS TO BE MADE THAT WE NEED, YOU KNOW, DO WE ADDRESS IT THIS YEAR? DO WE ADDRESS IT SOMETIME IN THE FUTURE? DO WE HAVE A COMMUNITY COMMITTEE, YOU KNOW, TO PUT TOGETHER A COMPREHENSIVE BOND PROGRAM.
I THINK WHEN WE HAD OUR STRATEGIC PLANNING SESSION, WHAT I HEARD FROM THE COUNCIL IS 2024 IS NOT THE YEAR TO DO THAT.
LET'S SEE IF WE CAN GET THE LANDING BRIDGE DONE IN A COUPLE MORE OF THE DRAINAGE PROJECTS SO THAT WE'VE INVESTED MOST OF THE BOND PROCEEDS FROM THE LAST 11 AND AT A MINIMUM HAVE THESE DRAINAGE STUDIES COMPLETED.
SO WE HAVE A LIST OF PROJECTS TO CONSIDER AS PART OF A BOND PACKAGE.
SO, YOU KNOW, AGAIN, ULTIMATELY DO WE, YOU KNOW, DO WE PLAN FOR THAT IN 24? DO WE PLAN FOR THAT IN 25 OR SOMETIME IN THE FUTURE? AND AGAIN, I THINK GENERALLY WE HEARD, LET'S, WE'VE GOT A LOT ON OUR PLATE, LET'S FOCUS ON GETTING THOSE OUT THE DOOR AND UNDER CONSTRUCTION AND THEN CIRCLE BACK AROUND.
YEAH, I I JUST WANTED TO HAVE THIS CONVERSATION TO MAKE IT CLEAR WE'RE, WE'RE NOT FORGETTING ABOUT DRAINAGE, YOU KNOW, EVEN THOUGH THAT NUMBER'S ROLLING OFF IN, IN THE YEARS COMING UP, THAT'S A FUNCTION OF HOW THE BUDGET'S BEING PRESENTED THIS TIME AND WE WOULD, UM, WITHOUT UNFUNDED STUFF.
I THINK THAT'S A FAIR WAY TO SUM IT UP.
LET'S SEE IF WE CAN GET THROUGH THE REST OF THE SLIDES.
SLIDES AND THEN WE'LL, HEY GUYS, CAN Y'ALL HEAR ME NOW? UNFORTUNATELY, UNFORTUNATELY.
UH, SO ON THIS SLIDE, THIS IS JUST A, A VIEW OF WHAT WE'VE ALREADY ISSUED FROM OUR PROPOSITION A AND B FROM 2019.
SO WE HAVE THE AUTHORIZATION AND THEN WE'VE HAD THREE ISSUANCES.
WE ARE CURRENTLY, UM, PUTTING OUT THIS ISSUE.
UM, IT WILL COME BEFORE COUNCIL ON AT THE NEXT COUNCIL MEETING NEXT WEEK.
IT'S FOR PROPOSITION B, THE LARGEST PROJECT IS THE NORTH LANDING EXTENSION AND IT IS 20.9 MILLION.
COULD I ASK YOU ABOUT THE WINDFIELD ROAD? YES SIR.
I'M, I'M SOMEWHAT, I WENT THROUGH IT TODAY JUST TO LOOK AT IT AND I KNOW THAT WAS, UH, I GUESS YEAH CHRIS, I, I JUST DON'T SEE A NEED FOR THE ROADWAY AND THAT'S 2.4 MILLION THAT I THINK COULD PROBABLY GO INTO THE REINVESTMENT FOR NEW ROADWAYS OR SOMETHING ELSE.
I, I MEAN THIS IS ALL GEO BONDS.
I, I'M NOT FOR SURE HOW THIS, I NEVER REMEMBER SEEING THIS ON THE FEW OR THE PAST CIPS, BUT SO HAVE WE DONE STUDIES ON THIS TO SEE IF IT WOULD HELP WITH TRAFFIC? YES.
SO, SO PART OF THE GOAL FOR THAT ROADWAY WAS TO HELP A JS SOME OF THE CONGESTION THAT EXISTS TODAY AT FIVE 18 I 45 AND HOBBES AND FIND AN ALTERNATE ROUTE THAT KIND OF KEEPS PEOPLE OUT OF THE HOBBES FIVE 18 INTERSECTION MM-HMM.
AND SO I DON'T KNOW IF I CAN SAY I'VE SEEN NUMBERS ON IT, BUT IT WAS INCLUDED IN, WAS IT INCLUDED IN THE GEO BOND ELECTION? IT, IT WAS, YEAH.
SO, SO THIS, THIS PROJECT WAS ONE OF SEVERAL THAT WERE IDENTIFIED AND WE, WE KIND OF HIT
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THE BRAKES ON, ON SEVERAL AND THOUGHT THIS WAS THE ONE TO PUT INTO THE BOND AND WE HAD TEXDOT, UM, WORKING ON FIVE 18, WHICH WE KNOW WILL WILL HELP SOME WINFIELD ROAD WILL, WILL HELP SOME.AND THEN ULTIMATELY YOU'RE PROBABLY GONNA BE LOOKING AT SOME TYPE OF ACCESS MANAGEMENT ON FIVE 18, POTENTIALLY SOME TYPE OF REALIGNMENT WITH NEWPORT AND WILLIAMSPORT.
THAT'S A MUCH BIGGER, UH, JOB.
SO, SO THE THOUGHT PROCESS WAS, IS TO GET THE TECH STOP WORK DONE, WINFIELD DONE, AND THEN YOU, YOU'VE GOT A BETTER ASSESSMENT OF WHAT IS REALLY NEEDED ON THAT CORRIDOR.
AND, AND WE CAN MOVE FORWARD IF IT WAS IN THE BONDS, BUT MY OWN CONCERN WAS I JUST DON'T SEE A GREAT NEED FOR IT BECAUSE WITH FIVE 18 REDONE NOW 5 45, I THINK YOU'RE GONNA SEE A MASS IMPROVEMENT IN THAT AREA.
BUT, UH, WHEN I WAS OFF ASKING ABOUT WINFIELD ROAD CHADFIELD, HOW IT GOT INTO THE, TO THE CIP, I JUST DON'T SEE IMPROVEMENT.
I WOULD RATHER TAKE THAT PUT INTO SOME TYPE OF REINVESTMENT.
I WAS A BIG PROPONENT OF IT BEFORE THE, BEFORE 45 COMPLETED.
AND NOW YOU CAN JUST, IT'S AMAZING, YOU KNOW, NOW, YOU KNOW, THE TRUE TEST OF ALL THAT IS 30, 60, 90 DAYS FROM NOW, I WOULD THINK THAT IF IT COULD BE USED FOR REINVESTMENT IN OTHER AREAS, LIKE TOM WAS TALKING ABOUT, CHAD WAS TALKING ABOUT, I JUST DON'T, I I DROVE BY IT TODAY.
I STOPPED AT BOTH LOCATIONS, LOOKED AT THE DEAL AND KIND OF WATCHED THE TRAFFIC PATTERNING A LITTLE BIT AND I JUST COULDN'T SEE THAT IT'S GOING TO HELP IF YOU COME OUT BEHIND CRACKER BARREL WITH ANOTHER ROADWAY, HOW IT'S GOING TO IMPROVE ANYTHING FROM I 45.
I THINK PEOPLE ARE STILL GOING, STILL GONNA GO DOWN TO HOBBS ROAD AND TAKE A LEFT OR YOU'RE GONNA GO DOWN TO, TO NEWPORT AND TAKE A LEFT TO GET INTO THAT SUBDIVISION.
AND I THINK MOST PEOPLE GO TO NEWPORT YEAH.
BUT, UH, I JUST THINK HERE'S THE ROADWAY THAT WE'RE THROWING OUT THERE CUZ WE THINK IT MAY HELP.
SO I, WITHOUT DOING PROPER STUDY OR SOMETHING.
AND I, I PROBABLY SAID THAT POORLY.
I MEAN THAT NO, THAT'S ALL RIGHT.
THAT CAME FROM OUR, OUR 2018, UM, UH, MA MASTER MOBILITY PLAN.
AND IT WASN'T, HEY, YOU NEED TO BUILD THIS ROAD.
IT WASN'T THAT TYPE OF A THING.
IT WAS WHAT IS THE VOLUME OF TRAFFIC YOU'RE GONNA HAVE ALONG, ALONG FIVE 18? AND THE THOUGHT WAS THAT, THAT IT'S PROJECTED TO GROW ABOVE 50, 60,000 VEHICLES A DAY IN THAT AREA.
SO THAT'S WHERE YOU START LOOKING, WELL, YOU'RE CONSTRAINED ON HOW WIDE YOU CAN GET TO, TO HANDLE THAT TYPE OF VOLUME BETWEEN ON THAT SEGMENT, WHAT ARE WAYS TO TAKE IT OUT AND TAKING OUT SOME OF THAT LEFT TURN BY MOVING THOSE LEFT TURNS DOWN TO, UH, WINFIELD ROAD AND ALLOWING THEM TO TURN LEFT THERE WAS WAS AN OPTION TO, TO TAKE THAT TRAFFIC FLOW OFF.
DO WE HAVE, DO WE HAVE ANY ROADS TODAY WITH 50,000 CARS A DAY? JUST TO GIVE THEM A PERSPECTIVE ON, UM, BEFORE THE PANDEMIC, UH, 96 YOU HAD ALONG THE FREEWAY WHERE, WHERE 96 AND FIVE 18 YOU WERE BUMPING 50,000.
I WOULD EXPECT IT TO BE A LITTLE BIT BELOW THAT NOW, BUT I THINK WE'VE GOT SEVERAL THAT ARE 40,000.
SO 50,000 CARS A DAY ON A FOUR LANE ROADWAY IS A LOT.
TYPICALLY YOU WOULD HAVE A SIX LINE SECTION MM-HMM.
NO, I MEAN, I'LL JUST MAKE A STATEMENT.
I MEAN, I JUST THINK LOOKING AT IT, THANK YOU.
YOU GOT BUTLER A LITTLE BIT FURTHER DOWN.
IT COULD TAKE SOME OF THE TRAFFIC OFF.
I JUST DON'T BELIEVE IT'S GONNA BE WORTH THE, WITH THE IMPROVEMENTS OF I 45, IT'S GONNA BE WORTH WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO SPEND FOR IT AND THAT MONEY COULD BE REALLOCATED.
AND NOW ANYONE ELSE HAVE ANY STRONG THOUGHTS IN THAT ONE WAY OR THE OTHER? I KIND OF KIND OF SEE YOUR POINT.
IT'S ONLY, IT'S ONLY A MILL RIGHT NOW, BUT YOU KNOW, TWO.
YEAH, THAT'S BEFORE WE ACTUALLY WOULD WANNA TAKE THAT OFF.
I THINK IT MIGHT BE USEFUL TO MAYBE HAVE A TOWN HALL WITH SOME OF THE NEIGHBORHOODS THAT THE ONES THAT WERE COUNTING ON IT MAYBE SAY, HEY, WE GET IT.
WE, WE THOUGHT IT'D HELP TOO, BUT NOW WE, WE DON'T KNOW.
WE COULD CHANGE THE NAME OF ANOTHER STREET
I THINK, YOU KNOW, YOU'RE, YOU'RE RIGHT CHAD, I'M NOT EVEN GOING DOWN THAT PART YET.
I THINK, HEY, I USED TO LIVE IN NEWPORT AND A LOT OF THE RESIDENTS USED THE CRACKER BARREL PARKING LOT TO CUT BACK AND FORTH BETWEEN HOBBS.
BUT, BUT I THINK TOMMY'S POINT TO THAT IS THAT THE IMPROVEMENTS TO I 45, IT, IT COULD NOT BE AN ISSUE ANYMORE.
I JUST WANT PEOPLE TO BE AWARE THAT WE'RE CONSIDERING THAT BEFORE WE DO IT INSTEAD OF AFTER.
CAN WE PUT IT ON THE LIST WITH AN ASTERISK AND MAYBE A QUESTION MARK THERE? YEAH, I THINK, I THINK MAYBE ONE THING WOULD BE GOOD, MAYBE A, MAYBE A SLASH AND A HYPHEN.
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BE GOOD PERHAPS IS, YOU KNOW, CHRISTOPHER, PULL OUT THE MOBILITY STUDY AND GIVE US SOME BACKGROUND AS TO WHAT WE SEE AND WE'LL SEND THAT OUT TO COUNCIL AND THEN ABSOLUTELY CIRCLE BACK AROUND SOMETIME AFTER THE BUDGET'S ADOPTED.LET'S, UH, LET'S KEEP, KEEP ON TRUCKING HERE.
SO I'M SURE EVERYONE'S AWARE OF IT FROM JULY 24TH THROUGH AUGUST 21ST, FEEL, PLEASE FEEL FREE TO REACH OUT, UM, TO THE CITY MANAGER'S OFFICE IF YOU WOULD LIKE ANY ONE-ON-ONE MEETINGS TO DISCUSS EITHER THE BUDGET OR THE C I P.
AND THAT CONCLUDES OUR C I P PORTION OF THE PRESENTATION.
THE NEXT SECTION IS JUST A HIGH LEVEL OVERVIEW OF THE PROPOSED BUDGET DOCUMENT.
I KNOW WE HAVE THOSE WITH US TONIGHT TO HAND THEM OUT AND WE WILL HAND THEM OUT AS SOON AS WE ARE DONE WITH THE MEETING.
WE DIDN'T WANNA, UH, BURDEN YOU WITH, UH, MORE THINGS TO PUT IN YOUR SMALL SPACE ON THE TABLE AT THIS POINT.
SO THE 24 PROPOSED BUDGET IS PREPARED IN KEEPING WITH OUR STRATEGIC PLAN.
OUR TOP REVENUE SOURCES ARE PROPERTY TAX AT 39.53 MILLION.
THIS IS THE GENERAL FUND PORTION ONLY.
THAT'S 40% OF ALL GENERAL FUND REVENUES.
SELLS TAX AT 29.7 MILLION IS 30% OF GENERAL FUND REVENUES AND OUR WATER AND WASTEWATER SALES AT 45.2 MILLION, WHICH IS 97% OF OUR UTILITY FUND REVENUE.
SO LET'S TALK ABOUT PROPERTY TAX FIRST, SINCE IT IS OUR LARGEST REVENUE.
UM, ALL THOSE CERTIFIED PROPERTY VALUE TAX VALUES IN THE CALCULATION OF THE NO NEW REVENUE TAX RATE ARE NOT AVAILABLE UNTIL THE END OF JULY.
THE PROPOSED BUDGET MUST INCLUDE AN ESTIMATED TAX RATE PER STATE LAW.
THE 24 PROPOSED BUDGET IS PREPARED BASED ON PRELIMINARY TAXABLE VALUES ESTIMATED AT 12.44 BILLION WITH AN ESTIMATED PROPERTY TAX RATE OF 0.39043 OR 39 CENTS.
WHILE THIS, WHILE THIS RATE IS PROJECTED TO BE SLIGHTLY BELOW THE NO NEW REVENUE TAX RATE, WHICH IS BASED ON THE REVENUE PROJECTED IN THE PROPOSED BUDGET, THE ACTUAL NO NEW REVENUE RATE WILL BE CALCULATED IN EARLY AUGUST BASED ON THE CERTIFIED TAXABLE VALUES.
WHEN TALKING ABOUT THE REVENUE AS COMMITTED IN OUR STRATEGIC ACTION PLAN, CRITICAL SUCCESS FACTOR OF FINANCIALLY SUSTAINABLE, THE PROPOSED BUDGET WAS PREPARED BASED ON A PROPERTY TAX REVENUE OF 48.58 MILLION.
THAT IS FOR GENERAL FUND AND DEBT SERVICE.
IN TOTAL, THIS IS 250,500 LESS THAN THE 48.83 MILLION ESTIMATED TO BE RECEIVED IN 23 BASED ON THE REVENUE DECREASE.
THE PROPERTY TAX RATE FOR 2024 IS ESTIMATED AT 39.04 CENTS, AND IT IS ANTICIPATED TO BE SLIGHTLY BELOW A NO NEW REVENUE TAX RATE WHEN COMPARED TO THE 23 TAX RATE OF 41.55 CENTS.
THAT'S AN ESTIMATED REDUCTION OF TWO AND A HALF CENTS.
WHILE NEW PROPERTIES ARE ESTIMATED TO GENERATE PROPERTY TAX REVENUE OF 630,000, THE REDUCTION IN THE TAX RATE BELOW THE ESTIMATED NO NEW REVENUE TAX RATE, THAT'S AN OVERALL DECREASE OF 250,500 IN REVENUE WHEN COMPARING THE TOTAL TO 23.
UM, AS MENTIONED, UH, THE, UH, SENATE BILL TO, UH, IS GONNA HELP US SET THAT NO NEW REVENUE TAX RATE AND IT WILL BE CALCULATED BY GALVESTON COUNTY TAX ASSESSOR COLLECTOR AT THE BEGINNING OF AUGUST.
AND THE COUNCIL WILL RECEIVE AN UPDATE ON THE OFFICIAL RATE, UM, THAT NO NEW REVENUE AND THE VOTER APPROVED RATE AND ANY IMPACT THAT THE RATE AND SUBSEQUENT PROPERTY TAX REVENUE ESTIMATE FROM THAT RATE WILL HAVE ON OUR 24 PROPOSED BUDGET.
SO LOOKING AT SALES TAX REVENUE, HISTORICALLY SALES TAX REVENUE HAS AVERAGED ABOUT 8% INCREASE ANNUALLY.
UH, THE 23 BUDGET IS CURRENTLY PROJECTED TO END THE YEAR AT 27.7 MILLION OR ABOUT 200,000 UNDER BUDGET.
OUR LONG RANGE FINANCIAL FORECAST THAT WAS UPDATED FOR 24 THROUGH 28 HAS A 7.22% INCREASE IN F BY 2024 SALES TAX, UM, IS ALSO BUDGETED AT THAT SAME AMOUNT.
IT'S A 7.22% INCREASE AND IT'S A 29.7 MILLION JULY RECEIPTS WERE RECEIVED LAST WEEK.
UNFORTUNATELY, THAT WAS RIGHT AFTER WE HAD FINISHED THE COMPLETION OF THE BOOK.
UH, WHILE WE'RE GRATEFUL INFLATION IS SLOWING, IT HAS A DECLINING EFFECT ON SALES TAX REVENUE, AND WE WILL CONTINUE TO MONITOR MONTHLY AND MAKE ADJUSTMENTS AS NECESSARY.
LOOKING AT OUR UTILITY OR OUR WATER AND WASTEWATER REVENUE, IT'S BUDGETED 45.19 MILLION WITH WATER AND WASTEWATER FEES, COMPRISING THE CITY'S
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SECOND LARGEST SOURCE OF REVENUE.LOOKING AT CITYWIDE REVENUES, THE 24 PROPOSED BUDGET IS 5.2% MORE THAN THE 23 YEAR IN ESTIMATE.
AND THAT'S BASED ON GROWTH PROJECTED IN THE FORECAST AND THE RATE INCREASE FROM THE 2019 UTILITY RATE STUDY.
SO THAT IS A GOOD OVERVIEW OF OUR TOP THREE REVENUES IN THE PROPOSED BUDGET.
NEXT WE'RE GONNA TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT EXPENSES.
SO THE 24 PROPOSED BUDGET DOES INCLUDE, UM, FUNDING FOR 2.5% MERIT BASED ON PERFORMANCE AND 2.5% COST OF LIVING, OR WE REFER TO IT AS COLA BEGINNING IN JANUARY OF 2024.
ALSO INCLUDED AN INCREASE THE BOARD 4% COST OF LIVING INCREASE FOR CIVIL SERVICE POLICE OFFICERS AND STEP RAISES FOR POLICE OFFICERS IN ACCORDANCE WITH THEIR PRE-PLANNED.
WE ALSO HAVE CONTINUATION OF THE REIN PROGRAM, BOTH ON THE TAX SUPPORTED AND REVENUE SUPPORTED SIDE.
THAT WAS THAT FORMER SLIDE THAT WE HAD THAT SHOWED THE TRANSFERS, UM, TO THE C I P.
THERE'S ALSO AN ANTICIPATED INCREASE IN SOLID WASTE.
THERE'S A INCREASE FOR COST OF SERVICE THAT IS PART OF THE CONTRACT AND GROWTH AND NUMBER OF HOUSEHOLD SERVICE, WHICH IS OFFSET BY SOLID WASTE COLLECTIONS REVENUE.
ALSO IN THE PROPOSED BUDGET WE HAVE A TOTAL OF 12 FULL-TIME EQUIVALENTS ADDED, 10 OF WHICH ARE IN THE GENERAL FUND.
ONE IS IN THE UTILITY FUND, ONE IS IN THE HOT FUND.
AND WE ALSO HAVE ABOUT 13 RE CLASSIFICATIONS BETWEEN LIBRARY PARKS OPERATIONS, FOUR B LINE REPAIR AND WATER.
WHAT YEAR DID WE FINALLY GET RID OF THE LAST ROW ON THAT TABLE THERE? OKAY.
UH, 2024 IS GOING TO BE THE LAST AGREEMENT.
JUST TO POINT OUT AGAIN, YOU SAID 12 HEADS.
THE PROPOSED BUDGET ALSO HAS AN INCREASE IN PROPERTY INSURANCE OVER THE 23 YEAR ESTIMATE AS WELL AS WINDSTORM INSURANCE.
THERE IS IN THE POLICE DEPARTMENT, NEW AXON, BODY WORN AND IN-CAR TASER CONTRACTS.
UM, ALSO ADDITIONAL FUNDING FOR THE FLOCK LICENSE, UH, PLATE READER CAMERAS.
THERE'S $140,000 FOR OAKTREE MAINTENANCE AND PARKS OR OPERATIONS.
THE FIRE DEPARTMENT HAS SEVERAL INCREASES INCLUDING THE COST OF OPERATING SUPPLIES, UH, INCREASED COSTS TO REPAIR AND MAINTENANCE.
AND THERE'S ALSO AN INCREASE FOR LONGEVITY COSTS FOR ADDITIONAL FIREFIGHTERS AND A CANCER POLICY AND A NEW MENTAL HEALTH APP WHILE CITYWIDE.
THE CAPITAL OUTLAY CATEGORY IS A DECREASE FROM THE 24 PROPOSED BUDGET WHEN COMPARED TO 23 YEAR ESTIMATE.
THE GENERAL FUND DOES HAVE AN INCREASE OF ABOUT 380,000.
IT'S MAINLY DUE TO A NET INCREASE OF 230,600 IN EMS AND THAT'S MEDICAL EQUIPMENT PURCHASES.
WE HAVE FIVE VENTILATORS, TWO REPLACEMENT EKG MONITOR DEFIBRILLATORS, FOUR REPLACEMENT STAIR CHAIRS, AND A ONE-TIME PURCHASE OF A MEDICAL UTV.
UM, THIS IS A GRANT, UH, FUNDED DEVICE.
UM, IT IS, UH, THE CITY'S MATCH IS IN THEIR SPECIAL REVENUE FUND, BUT THE GRANTS REVENUE AND THE, UH, EXPENSE IS IN THE GENERAL FUND.
THE STREET DEPARTMENT HAS AN INCREASE, UH, TO PURCHASE A NEW SOLAR ARROW BOARD AND ALSO TO REPLACE A TRAFFIC CONTROL MESSAGE BOARD.
WE ALSO HAVE FUNDING FOR THE P WALK TO HAVE A 2000 GALLON DIESEL FUELING CENTER.
IT'S SPLIT HALF AND HALF BETWEEN GENERAL FUND AND UTILITY FUND BASED ON WHO WE THINK WILL UTILIZE THE FUELING CENTER.
THERE'S ALSO NEW VEHICLES TO SUPPORT SOME OF THE NEW POSITIONS IN THE PROPOSED BUDGET.
UH, TO BE ABLE TO LOOK AT THE LIST OF ALL NEW VEHICLES.
YOU CAN FIND THAT BEHIND THE INTERNAL SERVICE FUND TAB AND THE CAPITAL REPLACEMENT SECTION.
WHEN YOU ARE, UH, PROPOSED BOOKS ARE PASSED OUT.
THERE IS A PAGE IN THE FRONT OF THE BOOK THAT HAS THE PAGE NUMBERS OF THE THINGS WE'VE COVERED TONIGHT SO THAT WHEN YOU GET YOUR BOOK, IF YOU WANNA LOOK BACK THROUGH THOSE, THEN IT HAS THEM LISTED ALONG WITH PAGE NUMBERS.
WHEN LOOKING AT THE PROPOSED BUDGET FOR UTILITY FUND HIGH LEVEL, WE HAVE INCREASES TO WATER CONTRACT PURCHASES.
IT'S BASED ON GROWTH AND A RATE INCREASE.
IT'S A LITTLE OVER $900,000 WHEN COMPARED TO THE 23 YEAR ESTIMATE.
WE HAVE ANTICIPATED ELECTRICITY COSTS ACROSS FACILITIES.
UM, WE DO HAVE AN INCREASE FUNDING FOR BANKING FEES, UH, AND UTILITY BILLING FUNDING TO UPDATE THE UTILITY FINANCIAL RATE PLAN AND REUSE STUDY AND ALSO INCREASE IN SLEDGE REMOVAL AND WASTEWATER.
ALSO IN UTILITY FUND WE HAVE THE G C W A PAYMENT FOR A 2023 REVENUE BOND ISSUE.
UM, THAT'LL BE PAID OUT OF WATER.
THIS WAS FOR MOVING WATER LINES
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AHEAD OF TEXDOT WITH GC W'S ASSISTANCE.THERE'S INCREASE FOR PROJECTS AND REPLACEMENT PARTS AND UTILITY SYSTEMS AND REPAIR.
THERE'S ABOUT A HUNDRED THOUSAND IN UTILITY SYSTEM AND REPAIR COSTS ON LINE REPAIR THAT INCREASED.
AND THEN THERE'S FUNDING FOR REPLACEMENT, UH, REGISTERS.
THERE'S 133 OF ONE AND A HALF INCH AND 492 INCH REGISTERS, ALL OF WHICH ARE REACHING THEIR END OF LIFE.
THAT IS A VERY HIGH LEVEL LOOK.
THERE'S OTHER THINGS THAT ARE INCLUDED AS WELL.
WE DO HAVE IT BROKEN DOWN IN THE BUDGET BOOK BY DEPARTMENT.
IT'S ALSO LOOKED AT BY FUND AND ACROSS THE CITY LOOKING AT, LOOKING AT THE SCHEDULE SCHEDULE.
SO AS I MENTIONED EARLIER, WE DO HAVE THAT TIME FROM JULY 24TH THROUGH AUGUST 21ST THAT YOU CAN SCHEDULE ANY ONE-ON-ONE MEETINGS IF YOU'D LIKE TO DISCUSS SOMETHING.
UM, WE ALSO HAVE OUR NEXT WORKSHOP ON THE 24TH.
IT'S GONNA BE ABOUT HALF OF THE DEPARTMENTS.
THE REST OF THE DEPARTMENTS WILL BE ON JULY 31ST.
AND THEN ON AUGUST 1ST, WE HAVE ONE LAST WORKSHOP SCHEDULED IN CASE WE HAVE ANYTHING OUTSTANDING, INCLUDING IF WE WOULD NEED TO TALK ABOUT THE PROPERTY TAX RATE CALCULATIONS, WHICH ARE NOT, UM, DONE UNTIL THE END OF JULY.
AND BASED ON TIMING AND ALSO HOW MUCH WE HAVE ON THE AGENDA FOR THE 31ST, I'M NOT SURE IF WE'LL GET TO IT.
SO WE DO HAVE AN EXTRA MEETING SCHEDULED JUST IN CASE SOMETHING COMES UP.
SO LOOKING AT THE COUNCIL, UM, AGENDAS AUGUST 8TH, WE WILL HAVE A REPORT ON THE PROPERTY TAX VALUES AND THE RATES.
WE'LL ASK THE COUNCIL TO PROPOSE A PROPERTY TAX RATE ON THAT NIGHT.
WE ALSO HAVE OUR FIRST OF TWO PUBLIC HEARINGS ON THE BUDGET.
THE SECOND PUBLIC HEARING WILL BE ON AUGUST 22ND MEETING, AND THAT'LL ALSO BE THE FIRST READING OF THE BUDGET ORDINANCE.
SEPTEMBER 12TH WILL BE THE SECOND AND FINAL READING OF THE BUDGET ORDINANCE.
AT THIS TIME, WE DO NOT HAVE A NEED TO HAVE THAT RATIFIED TAX INCREASE BECAUSE WE HAVE IT ESTIMATED THAT WE'LL BRING IN LESS PROPERTY TAX REVENUE THAN WE HAVE FOR THE CURRENT YEAR.
UH, IF THAT CHANGES THEN, THEN THAT IS SOMETHING THAT'S REQUIRED.
AND THEN ALSO ON SEPTEMBER 12TH, WE'LL HAVE THE ADOPTION OF THE PROPERTY TAX RATE.
THIS IS JUST ANOTHER WAY TO LOOK AT, UH, THE BUDGET SCHEDULE AND THEN ALSO THE TAX RATE ADOPTION PROCESS.
IT'S ALL THE SAME INFORMATION THAT I JUST MENTIONED.
SO THE NEXT TWO WORKSHOPS, WE DO HAVE IT SPLIT UP, UM, HALF OF THE DEPARTMENTS AT ONE AND THE OTHER HALF AT THE NEXT WE WILL, UH, TRY TO DO VERY HIGH LEVEL.
WE WILL HAVE AN AGENDA, UH, WITH PAGE NUMBERS AND WE WILL BASICALLY OPEN IT UP AND GO THROUGH SOME THINGS THAT ARE HIGHLIGHTS AND ADDITIONS AND UH, THINGS TO BE THAT ARE NOTABLE ABOUT THE DEPARTMENTS, UH, THAT WE HAVE ON THE AGENDA.
AND THEN WE'LL OPEN IT UP TO QUESTIONS.
AND IF SOMEONE WANTS TO GET INTO DETAILS, THEN WE CAN GO TO THE SPECIFIC DEPARTMENT INFORMATION.
WE WILL HAVE A POWERPOINT PREPARED.
WE JUST WON'T GO THROUGH IT AND BASICALLY READ YOU THE BOOK.
ANY QUESTIONS FOR THE, UH, FOR THE SALES TAX? DO WE, IS THE SALES TAX KIND OF PLANNED AT THE 8% GROWTH? IS THAT JUST WHAT WE'RE GOING TO ASSUME THROUGHOUT THE, THROUGHOUT THE WHOLE BUDGET IS.
SO WE'RE GONNA BE FOCUSED MORE ON THE EXPENSES AND NOT ON THIS SIDE OF THE REVENUE.
WE DEFINITELY TRACK THE REVENUE MONTHLY AND WE UPDATE IT WITH A MEMO THAT GOES TO THE CITY MANAGER THAT HE FORWARDS ON TO COUNCIL.
IT DOES HAVE A HEARING ESTIMATE UPDATED.
UM, WE DO MONITOR IT MONTHLY AND IT IS ONE OF THOSE THINGS THAT WE LOOK AT.
IF THERE NEEDS TO BE ANY ADJUSTMENTS, WE MAKE THOSE ACCORDINGLY.
BUT TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTION, TOM, WHEN WE'RE LOOKING HERE, WE'RE, WE'RE LOOKING ON THE EXPENSE SIDE.
WE, THEY DON'T MESS WITH THE MATH ON HOW THEY FORECAST THE, THE, YEAH.
PREVIOUSLY, AND I'LL SAY PRE, YOU KNOW, TWO OR THREE YEARS AGO WE WERE PROBABLY A LITTLE MORE CONSERVATIVE ON THE FORECAST, PARTICULARLY SALES TAX.
AND THEN, YOU KNOW, WE WOULD END THE YEAR PERHAPS WITH A LITTLE BIT OF EXCESS.
AND SO AS WE'VE RATCHETED DOWN THE, THE FUNDING ON THE PROPERTY TAX SIDE, WE'VE, YOU KNOW, TRIED TO DO A LITTLE LESS CONSERVATIVE JOB ESTIMATING SALES TAX.
ONE OF THE RESULTS OF THAT IS KIND OF, WE'RE LOOKING A LITTLE BIT CLOSER AT IT THIS YEAR CAUSE WE'VE BEEN A LITTLE MORE AGGRESSIVE THAN WE HAVE BEEN IN YEARS PAST.
OBVIOUSLY IF REVENUES, YOU KNOW, UNDERPERFORM, THEN WE HAVE TO DO SOMETHING MID-YEAR BUDGET WISE.
AND SO LIKE WHEN WE PROPOSE, LET'S JUST SAY SOME NEW POSITIONS, WE MAY NOT START THOSE UNTIL JANUARY OR MARCH IN ORDER TO, YOU KNOW, NOT OUTSTRIP THE REVENUE RELATIVE TO THE EXPENSES.
AND SO THAT'S BEEN PART OF THE COUNCIL'S DIRECTION TO US OVER THE LAST FEW YEARS IS TIGHTEN UP YOUR ESTIMATES AND,
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AND DON'T BE QUITE AS CONSERVATIVE.I JUST, I WAS JUST, WHEN, WHEN I WAS LOOKING AT IT, 8% PER PER YEAR.
AND I WAS JUST SAYING, YOU KNOW, IF IT'S TIED BACK TO THE NUMBER OF HOMES BEING, BEING BUILT OR IF IT'S TIED TO THE POPULATION GROWTH, IF, IF THAT'S THE CASE, IS IT, IS IT ACTUALLY GONNA FLATTEN OUT? AND I KNOW THAT RIGHT NOW WE'VE HAD A GROWTH DUE TO THE FACT THAT THEY CHANGED THE, FROM THE DELIVERY.
LIKE FOR THE AMAZONS FROM THE SHIPPING SPOT TO THE HOME.
I'M NOT SURE THAT, THAT, I KNOW THAT THERE'S A LAWSUIT GOING ON, SO I'M NOT SURE WHERE THAT IS, BUT IF THAT GOES BACK, THEN OUR SALES TAX IS GONNA DROP AS WELL.
THAT'S, I WAS JUST A LITTLE CONCERNED TO SEE HOW MUCH PLAY WE HAVE IN THAT NUMBER.
YEAH, SO YOU HAVE, I MEAN, 7.2.
YEAH, SO TO, YOU KNOW, TODAY WE'RE, TODAY WE'RE FOR NEXT YEAR WE HAVE IT AT 7.2, STILL CLOSE TO 8%.
AND IT'S COMPRISED OF TWO DIFFERENT PIECES.
ONE IS HOW MANY NEW HOMES AND CITIZENS DO WE ADD? AND THE OTHER PIECE IS THE INFLATION PIECE.
AND IF IT TEMPERS A COUPLE PERCENT, IT WILL IN, IN FACT IT WILL IMPACT OUR REVENUE.
AND WE, AND WE WILL HAVE TO MAKE SOME DECISIONS AS TO HOW WE'VE, YOU KNOW, FUND THE, YOU KNOW, FUND THE BUDGET.
WITH THAT, THOUGH, SAID ALSO SAID IS USUALLY THROUGHOUT THE YEARS WE HAVE SOME STUFF THAT OVER PERFORMS AND THAT'S OFFSET OR UNDERPERFORMS, IT'S OFFSET BY SOME STUFF THAT OVER PERFORMS. SO FOR EXAMPLE, THE LAST COUPLE YEARS, CHRISTOPHER'S CONSTRUCTION INSPECTION FEES ASSOCIATED WITH NEW SUBDIVISION DEVELOPMENTS, OVERPERFORMED, YOU KNOW, SOMEWHAT.
AND SO WE HAVE TO LOOK AT ALL THOSE THINGS AND THEN WE HAVE TO MAKE ADJUSTMENTS OR RECOMMENDATIONS.
AND AGAIN, IT MAY BE DELAY IN HIRING FREEZING POSITIONS, REDUCING SOME OF THE EXPENDITURES.
AND SO WE HAVE BUDGETED TIGHTER AND TIGHTER YEAR AFTER YEAR.
BUT EVEN WITH THAT, YOU KNOW, WE BUDGET A LITTLE BIT OF A DEFICIT AND GENERALLY WE COME TO THE END OF THE YEAR AND REVENUES OVER PERFORM A LITTLE BIT AND WE DON'T QUITE SPEND AS MANY DOLLARS AS WE THOUGHT WE WOULD.
AND THAT GAP CLOSES A LITTLE BIT.
AND SO THEN LIKE FOURTH QUARTER SOMETIMES WE'RE ABLE TO PUT SOME MORE MONEY BACK INTO REINVESTMENT OR PUT SOME MORE MONEY BACK INTO THE FUND BALANCE.
DID WE DO THAT IN THIS YEAR? YEAH, WE DID.
I THINK MAYBE RIGHT WHEN YOU GOT ON COUNCIL, RIGHT BEFORE YOU GOT ON COUNCIL, WE MADE A DECISION CUZ WE HAD, YOU KNOW, AGAIN, THE REVENUES OVERPERFORMED AND THE EXPENDITURES WERE A LITTLE LOWER THAN WE THOUGHT.
SO IT'S AN ONGOING CONTINUOUS PROCESS THROUGHOUT THE YEAR.
THAT'S WHY WE HAVE A WHOLE BUDGET TEAM THAT HELPS US WITH THAT.
AND WE HAVE A WHOLE BUNCH OF GREAT DEPARTMENT HEADS THAT HELP US ON THE EXPENDITURE SIDE.
AND AT LEAST IN THIS NEXT YEAR, WE'RE STILL SPENDING A GOOD BIT ON CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS.
SO IF THE, IF THE INFLATION PIECE FALLS OUT OF THE, THE SALES TAX PROJECTION THEORETICALLY OR HOPEFULLY IT'S GONNA FALL OUT ON THE PROJECT COST TOO.
THAT'S NO, NO, THAT'S, YEAH, THAT'S TRUE TOO.
JOHN, WHAT YOU GOT CHAD? NO COMMENTS? I'M NOT, I'M SORRY.
WE'RE DONE RIGHT? WE ARE DONE.
SO, UM, BEFORE WE GO TO PUBLIC COMMENTS, WE WANT TO ASK, UH, NICK OR SEAN IF THE MAYOR AND COUNCILMAN SAUNDERS IF THEY HAVE ANY COMMENTS OR WE READ EITHER OF THEM.
UH, ALL RIGHT, TOMMY, YOU GOT ANY, UH, COMMENTS? JUST, JUST ONE REAL QUICK ON 1 35 OF THE DRAINAGE, UH, ON SHEET 1 35 TALKS ABOUT HUGHES ROAD WEST AND DEETS ROAD CULVERT MODIFICATION.
IS THAT NOT IN DICKINSON? IS THERE, DO WE OKAY, LET CHRIS WELL I, CHRIS, I DON'T WANT HIM TO PREEMPT CHRISTOPHER, SO I GOT YOU.
HE'S CLOSER TO WHERE WE ARE AND HE ALSO UNDERSTANDS WHY WE'RE DOING SOMETHING THERE.
SO THIS IS OUTSIDE LAKE CITY? THAT, THAT IS CORRECT.
UH, ONE OF THE DRAINAGE STUDIES WE DID AFTER THE, AFTER HARVEY WAS BAY COLONY AND, YOU KNOW, IT WAS, BAY COLONY HAS A LOT OF SMALL ISSUES.
UH, THERE WASN'T LIKE ONE SMOKING GUN TYPE FIX THERE.
UH, SO WE, WE'VE DONE SEVERAL THINGS FOR THE GREATER BAY COLONY AREA AND ONE OF 'EM IS TO, UH, ONE OF THE CONSTRICTION POINTS THAT WE HAVE IS THE HUGHES LANE DES ROAD AREA.
UM, IT NEED THAT BOX CULVERT COULD BE WIDENED, UH, THE CHANNEL CAN ALSO BE DEEPENED.
SO THAT PROJECT WILL BASICALLY ADD SOME CAPACITY BACK INTO BORDEN SCULLY THERE BETWEEN, UM, THAT, THAT INTERSECTION MM-HMM.
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SO WHEN YOU HAVE THAT COUPLED WITH THE POND, UM, EXPANSIONS THAT WE HAVE GOING ON RIGHT NOW, THE 18 PONDS THAT ARE GETTING EXPANDED A LITTLE BIT, THE NEW DOVE MEADOWS DETENTION POND THERE, THAT'S WHEN YOU START SEEING SOME SIGNIFICANT, UM, REDUCTIONS FOR THOSE NEIGHBORHOODS AND IN THEIR STREET PONDING.
SO THE WORK IS IN DICKINSON, BUT IT'S TO BENEFIT OF LEAGUE CITY NEIGHBORHOOD? THAT IS CORRECT.
WELL, THE WORK IS STILL IN LEAGUE CITY AS WELL.
SO YOU'RE, YOU'RE REWORKING THE BULK OF IT.
PART OF THE, THE BULK OF THE WORK IS DICKINSON WHERE YOU'RE REWORKING THAT INTERSECTION, BUT THEN YOU'RE REGRADING BORDEN'S GULLY ALL THE WAY BACK INTO, INTO LEAGUE CITY.
I MEAN, IT MAKES SENSE THAT IF IT BENEFITS US, BUT IS THERE ANY COST PARTNERSHIP WITH DICKINSON OR ANYBODY? NO, THERE IS NO PARTNERSHIP WITH THEM.
WE DID MEET WITH THEM, UH, THAT WAS NOT, YOU KNOW, WE, WE WANTED THEIR OKAY TO, TO EVEN DO THE PROJECT.
I'M JUST SOMEWHAT SURPRISED I GUESS.
I MEAN, IF WE HAVE AN ISSUE IN CHEMO, DO WE, I I GUESS WE MAKE THAT DECISION LATER ON IF IT, IF IT'S A MAJOR, MAJOR DRAINAGE ISSUE.
SO THAT'S IT, IT'S A PROJECT THAT DIDN'T END UP MAKING OUR LIST, BUT THE MM-HMM.
AND DOESN'T DICKINSON HAVE THEIR OWN PROJECT IN THE SAME AREA DOWNSTREAM OF THAT THEY ARE DOING YEAH.
NOT IN OUR, THERE'S NOT A PROJECT TO OVERLAP.
THEY'RE FARTHER DOWNSTREAM OF US, BUT AGAIN, IT, SO IT ACCOUNTS FOR WATER GOING DOWNSTREAM AND HELPING LOWER THAT.
THAT'S ALL I GOT FOR MUCH? YES, SIR.
COUNCILMAN HICKS? YOU GOT ANYTHING? OKAY, I, BEFORE WE GO, I GUESS I'M, I'M LAST AND FIRST THANK Y'ALL FOR A WONDERFUL FIRST, UH, MEETING OUT THE GATE.
YOU KNOW, THIS BUDGET YEAR IN THE PAST, I THINK THAT WE SOMETIMES GET CAUGHT UP IN, UH, IN SOME, WE GET INTO THE WEEDS AND THEN WE END UP FIGHTING OVER, YOU KNOW, 20,000, 25,000, 50,000 AIR.
AND ALL I WOULD DO IS, UH, IF, IF WE'RE GONNA, IF YOU HAVE A CONCERN, LET'S GET 'EM ALL OUT EARLY ON THE, UH, YOU KNOW, FOR ALL OF COUNCIL TO TALK ABOUT AND, YOU KNOW, KIND OF NEGOTIATING WITH STAFF.
SECONDLY, I THINK THAT FOR ME, UH, THIS YEAR, WHAT I'M REALLY LOOKING FOR IS, UH, FINISHING WHAT WE SAID WE WERE GONNA DO.
AND THAT'S THE 2019 BOND PROGRAM.
SO, UH, EVERYTHING THAT I SEE IN THERE THAT, THAT ACHIEVES THAT GOAL OR WORKS TOWARDS THAT GOAL, THAT'S WHERE I'M AT.
AND I THINK THAT THE, THE MAYOR, UM, AGREES WITH ME ON THAT.
SO, UH, BEYOND ALL THE OTHER WONDERFUL THINGS THAT WE DO, LIKE, UH, YOU KNOW, WHEN IT COMES TO PUBLIC SAFETY OR YOU KNOW, ALL THE OTHER THINGS, BUT THIS YEAR I'M KIND OF PICKING A THEME ON THINGS THAT I WILL LOSE MY MIND ON INSTEAD OF GOING, UH, RANDOMLY LIKE WE'VE DONE IT YEARS IN THE PAST.
SO, UM, THANK YOU I, FOR THANK YOU FOR YOUR HARD WORK AND UH, LOOK FORWARD TO IT.
WITH THAT, WE NOW HAVE, UH, PUBLIC COMMENTS.
SO IF YOU'D LIKE TO ADDRESS THE COUNSEL, PLEASE JUST STAND UP THERE, STATE YOUR NAME AND YOUR ADDRESS AND HEARING NOTHING.
NO, I'M JUST, YOU WOULD THINK I WOULD KNOW THAT.
YOU WANT ME TO REPEAT THAT? UM, PEGGY ZALAR.
SO A QUESTION IS, I WAS TOLD AT THE LAST COUNCIL MEETING THAT THE DECISION HAD BEEN MADE, ALTHOUGH NO DOCUMENTATION HAD BEEN PROVIDED TO ME, IS THAT YOU NO LONGER HAD TO LIVE IN LAKE CITY OR OWN A BUSINESS IN LAKE CITY TO SPEAK TO COUNCIL.
AND INDEED, I THINK THAT HAS HAPPENED MAYBE A COUPLE OF TIMES AT THE, AT THE COUPLE OF LAST COUNCIL MEETINGS.
I DON'T HAVE ANY OBJECTION WITH PROVIDING MY ADDRESS.
I HAVE AN OBJECTION IF WE HAVE CHANGED THE RULES AND THE CITIZEN, AND I'M NOT SAYING WE HAVE, THAT'S JUST WHAT I'VE BEEN TOLD.
AND IF WE HAVE AND THE CITIZENS HAVEN'T BEEN TOLD, AND SOME OF US ARE CONTINUING TO GIVE OUR ADDRESS BECAUSE WE THINK WE'RE COMPLYING,
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THEN I'M GOING TO SAY IF THE RULES HAVE CHANGED, I JUST ASSUME NOT PROVIDE MY ADDRESS.SO MY, MY ADDRESS IS 1802 RAMPART BECAUSE I'M GONNA HONOR YOUR REQUEST, BUT I WOULD RESPECTFULLY ASK THE COUNCIL IF THE RULES HAVE CHANGED, LET THE CITIZENS KNOW AND THEN THERE SHOULDN'T BE A REQUIREMENT TO, UH, PROVIDE OUR ADDRESS.
UM, I'M GONNA TICK TICK THROUGH A COUPLE OF NOTES I MADE.
I'M GONNA GO OVER THREE MINUTES, BUT NOT TOO MUCH OVER.
SO, SO JB YOU COMMENTED ABOUT FOR, UH, POSSIBLE DRAINAGE PROJECTS IN NEIGHBORHOODS, HOW WE'D BE LOOKING AT TRYING TO GET SOME INPUT.
IF I UNDERSTOOD YOUR COMMENT CORRECTLY, I WOULD SAY PERHAPS THE HOA ALLIANCE IS ONE MECHANISM WE CAN USE TO REACH OUT TO THE SEPARATE HOAS BECAUSE SINCE OUR LAST MEETING, WE HAVE HAD FIVE MORE HOAS REACH OUT TO US AND ASK TO JOIN THE ALLIANCE.
SO THAT MIGHT BE THAT THAT IS NOT THE ANSWER IN ITSELF, BUT THAT MAY BE ANOTHER MECHANISM BECAUSE TYPICALLY WE HAVE THE DIRECTORS FROM THE HOAS WHO ATTEND.
AND I WOULD THINK IF THEY HAVE A SENSE OF WHAT'S GOING ON IN THE SUBDIVISION, UH, THAT MIGHT BE A GOOD PLACE TO, TO START.
SO WE'D BE GLAD TO HELP YOU WITH THAT.
UM, IF, IF YOU THINK THAT'S A GOOD IDEA, I REALLY APPRECIATE THE DISCUSSION ABOUT THE REIMBURSEMENT PROGRAM OR THE REINVESTMENT PROGRAM.
THANK YOU VERY, VERY MUCH BECAUSE, UM, WHEN THE TRAFFIC AND INFRAS, WELL IT WAS CALLED THE TRANSPORTATION COMMITTEE WHEN IT WAS FORMED IN 2017.
AND THE REASON WHY IT WAS FORMED IS TO GIVE CITIZENS AN OPPORTUNITY TO REVIEW, GET INVOLVED LIAISON TO THE COMMUNITY ABOUT THE C I P AND IT WAS NARROWED TO TRANSPORTATION.
SO I WAS AT THE WORKSHOP WHEN WE TALKED ABOUT THE NEED FOR ESTABLISHING THE REINVESTMENT PROGRAM, HOW MUCH IT WOULD TAKE, HOW WE WOULD PLAN TO WORK TOWARD A PHASING APPROACH, SUCH THAT AT SOME REASONABLE TIME WE WOULDN'T HAVE THE, UH, PEAKS AND VALLEYS WITH OUR, WITH OUR PROGRAM.
WE WOULD BE FAIRLY SUSTAINABLE AND IT WOULD BE A STORY WE COULD COMMUNICATE TO OUR RESIDENTS.
SO I REALLY APPRECIATE THE DISCUSSION AND, AND THE QUESTIONS AND, AND WHAT, WHAT I WOULD SAY FROM THE STANDPOINT OF WE'RE MUCH BETTER THAN, THAN WHERE WE WERE.
I THINK THE CHALLENGE IS, AND THIS IS WHAT THE STREET CREWS TELL ME, IS THAT OFTENTIMES WE'RE HAVING FAILURES WITH OUR STREETS IN OUR NEWER SUBDIVISIONS THAN HAD BEEN EARLIER THAN HAD BEEN PLANNED.
I'M NOT SURE WHETHER THAT'S TRUE OR NOT, BUT I DO KNOW THAT SOME OF US IN THE OLDER SUBDIVISIONS AS WE BEGAN TO HAVE FAILURES, NOT NECESSARILY SIGNIFICANT IN SOME OF OUR MINDS, IT'S A LITTLE SIGNIFICANT.
SO, SO AS WE PATCH, WHICH WE REALLY APPRECIATE, BUT WHAT HAPPENS IS WITH THE SETTLEMENT WE HAVE IN THE AREA WITH THE PATCHING WE DO WITH THE EXTREME WEATHER CONDITIONS, IT THEN LEADS INTO EITHER MORE CRACKS OR UNEVEN PAVEMENTS.
AND YOU'LL SEE THAT IN SOME OF THE OLDER SUBDIVISIONS AND IT'S GETTING FAIRLY, FAIRLY PRONOUNCED THE UNEVENNESS OF THE, OF THE, UH, LANES.
AND, AND IF WE ALL KNOW ABOUT IT, IT'S FINE IF, IF YOU FORGET ABOUT IT OR YOU'RE NOT PAYING ATTENTION, UM, YOU'RE GONNA BE GRABBING YOUR STEERING WHEEL REALLY FAST.
SO, SO I WOULD SAY THAT TO THE EXTENT WE COULD LOOK AT OPPORTUNITIES WHILE THE TIMES ARE GOOD FOR OUR CITY INSTEAD OF CONCENTRATING ON CUTTING THE RATE LOWER THAN THE NO NEW REVENUE RATE, AND I KNOW THIS ISN'T GLAMOROUS, BUT I DO THINK IT'S IN THE BEST INTEREST OF THE CITY TO TAKE WHAT LITTLE MONIES THERE MAY BE, EVEN IF IT'S 250,000 OR WHATEVER IT IS, AND, AND CHANNEL THAT TOWARDS SOMETHING THAT WE KNOW WE'RE GOING TO NEED.
AND AND TO ME, FROM A STRATEGIC PLANNING STANDPOINT, FROM A CITIZEN'S EXPECTATIONS, I WOULD THINK THAT YOU WOULD KNOW WHAT I NEED SOONER THAN I DO BECAUSE WHEN I'M GONNA KNOW I NEED IT IS WHEN I'VE GOT A FAILURE.
AND WHAT I WOULD LIKE TO THINK IS WE'VE GOT A GROUP OF PEOPLE WHO, WHO WORK TOGETHER AND, AND LOOK AT IT HOW WE'RE GOING TO TRY TO ADDRESS OUR FAILURES BEFORE THEY EVEN BECOME A FAILURE, BUT CERTAINLY BEFORE THEY BECOME A CATASTROPHIC FAILURE.
SO ANYTHING I CAN DO TO HELP WITH THE REINVESTMENT PROGRAM, WE TALK ABOUT IT AT ALMOST EVERY NOW, IS THE TRANSPORTATION AND INFRASTRUCTURE COMMITTEE.
WE TALK ABOUT IT ALMOST EVERY TIME.
AND THE MANTRA WE HEAR AND AND I UNDERSTAND IT TOTALLY, IS THAT WE'VE GOT MORE NEEDS THAN WE DO DOLLARS.
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PROBABLY ALL BE, ALWAYS BE THE CASE.MS. YOU'RE AT FIVE MINUTES NOW, SO, OKAY.
SO, SO I'M GONNA WRAP UP WITH MY FIVE MINUTES.
UM, WITH, WITH WI WITH THE COMMENT ABOUT WINFIELD ROAD.
I WOULD RESPECTFULLY ASK, UM, THAT YOU GIVE IT JUST A LITTLE BIT OF TIME CUZ WHAT WE'RE FINDING HAPPENING IS THAT THOSE OF US WHO CHANGED OUR TRAFFIC PATTERNS, OUR COMMUTE PATTERNS BECAUSE OF 45, WERE NOW ALL COMING BACK TO OUR OLD PATTERNS.
SO WHERE I HAD THE HORROR STORIES OF COMING OUT OF C C V ONTO FIVE 18, I'VE HAD, I'VE HAD A REPEAT PROBLEM.
IT'S NOT THE MAGNITUDE OF THE HELL I'VE, WE'VE BEEN THROUGH IN THE LAST SEVERAL MONTHS, BUT, BUT WHAT'S HAPPENING IS MORE PEOPLE ARE NOW CHANGING THEIR HABITS AND GOING BACK TO THE OLD HABITS AND, AND THAT CONCLUDES MY THREE MINUTES.
ANY OTHER COMMENTS? HEARING NONE AT 7 26 THIS MEETING IS ADJOURNED.