Oct 15, 2024 City Council

[EXECUTIVE SESSION (Part 1 of 2)]

[WORK SESSION / BRIEFING]

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WE'RE GOING TO OPEN OUR WORK SESSION AT 6:05 P.M. AND JUMP RIGHT INTO AGENDA ITEMS. CITY MANAGER? YES, MAYOR. THANK YOU. COUNCIL. GOOD EVENING. WE'LL START WITH CONSENT ITEMS FOR A OR MINUTES FROM THE PRIOR MEETING. SO I'LL JUST MOVE ALONG FOR BE CONSIDER AN ORDINANCE REGARDING THE CITY OF DUNCANVILLE, TEXAS MUNICIPAL RETIREMENT SYSTEM. TMRS. AS WE REFER TO IT, BENEFITS ADOPTING NON RETROACTIVE REPEATING COLAS FOR RETIREES AND THEIR BENEFICIARIES AND ANNUALLY ACCRUING UPDATED SERVICE CREDITS AND BUDGET ADMINISTRATOR IS HERE TO HELP ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS. IF YOU HAVE. WE TALKED ABOUT THIS IN THE BUDGET. NO QUESTIONS. ALL RIGHT. MOVING ON FOR SEE WE'VE HAD A REQUEST FROM COUNCIL MEMBER PENNEBAKER TO MOVE THAT TO INDIVIDUAL CONSIDERATION. SO I BELIEVE THAT YES. FOR G, CONSIDER AN ORDINANCE AMENDING THE FY 2425 BUDGET, CREATING THE ARTS FUND, AND ALLOCATING 15% OF THE HOTEL MOTEL TAX REVENUE AS ALLOWED BY STATE LAW TO THE ARTS FUND AND ESTABLISHING A BUDGET AND BUDGET ADMINISTRATOR. OKAY, SO HERE TO HELP ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS YOU MIGHT HAVE. QUESTIONS COUNCIL. ALL RIGHT.

MOVING RIGHT ALONG. FOR E. CONSIDER APPROVING A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE PROCUREMENT OF WATER METER READING TECHNOLOGY WITH MSB, LLC, WITH AN ANNUAL ESTIMATED EXPENDITURE OF $18,000. AND FINANCE DIRECTOR MR. JACKSON IS HERE AS WELL AS CASSANDRA IS HERE. IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS. NO QUESTIONS. MOVING ON. FOR F, CONSIDER RESOLUTION REQUESTING THE PROCUREMENT OF OPEN GOV ONLINE TRANSPARENCY SOFTWARE AND AUTHORIZING AN EXPENDITURE IN THE AMOUNT OF $68,000 FROM THE UNAPPROPRIATED BALANCE OF GENERAL FUND AND CFO RICHARD JACKSON IS HERE, AND I KNOW THAT WE WANTED TO HAVE A CONVERSATION WITH COUNCIL ABOUT THIS PARTICULAR ITEM. DO YOU WANT TO SPEAK FIRST OR YOU CAN ASK. HE MAY ANSWER THE QUESTIONS AND OKAY, IMAGINE THAT. WE SHALL SE. BUT MY JACKET FOR THAT ONE. MR. MAYOR, MEMBERS OF THE COUNCIL.

GOOD EVENING. SO IN REGARD TO THIS REQUEST, THE OPENGOV IS ONLINE WEB BASED PLATFORM.

BELIEVE THAT IT WAS INITIALLY BROUGHT TO THIS COUNCIL BACK AROUND 2022 FOR IMPLEMENTATION FOR THE CITY WITH THE WITH THE EYE AND THE FOCUS BEING ON INCREASING OUR TRANSPARENCY, NOT ONLY INTERNALLY AMONGST DEPARTMENTS, CERTAINLY WITH COUNCIL MEMBERS AS WELL, BUT WITH THE RESIDENTS IN OUR COMMUNITY BEING ABLE TO GO ON AND VIEW DIFFERENT THINGS AS IT RELATED TO BUDGET INFORMATION AND PREPARATION FOR THE BUDGET AS ITS ORIGIN. BUT THE PLATFORM ITSELF IS MORE ALL ENCOMPASSING. THE LAST DISCUSSION THAT HAD COME FORTH FROM COUNCIL HAD THIS AS AN AGREEMENT THAT WOULD HAVE COVERED THREE YEARS. AND THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THIS WAS NOT COMPLETED FOR A VARIETY OF REASONS, PRIMARILY CENTERING AROUND THE TRANSITION OF STAFF, PARTICULARLY IN FISCAL SERVICES. SINCE MY ARRIVAL, IT WAS A TOPIC OF CONVERSATION, BUT FROM A PRIORITIZATION STANDPOINT, THE AUDIT PROCESSES, THE BUDGET, OTHER THINGS FROM ERP, GETTING THINGS ONLINE JUST HAD A HIGHER PRIORITIZATION LEVEL BEFORE I WAS PREPARED TO COME BACK FOR DISCUSSION WITH COUNCIL. SO AS IT RELATES TO THE 2025 BUDGET, THIS OPEN GOV INVOICE AND

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BUT ONE OF THE THINGS THAT, AGAIN, WE WERE LOOKING AT WAS AN OPPORTUNITY FOR TRANSPARENCY, BOTH INTERNALLY AND EXTERNALLY, AND AGAIN, WITH IT BEING ALL ENCOMPASSING OF OTHER PLATFORMS BEYOND BUDGET, THERE'S THE POTENTIAL TO ALSO HAVE TRANSPARENCY WITH WHERE WE ARE WITH RESPECT TO CAPITAL PROJECTS. NOW, THIS WOULD INVOLVE SOME TRAINING THAT WOULD NEED TO HAPPEN INTERNALLY AS WELL AS THE ORIGINAL PROCESS OF GETTING THINGS TO A POINT WHERE THE BUDGET PLATFORM CAN BE UP AND RUNNING SO THAT THAT PROCESS HAD NEVER BEEN FINALIZED WITH THE WITH THE PREVIOUS GROUP. WHAT YOU HAVE IN FRONT OF YOU IN TERMS OF A DOLLAR AMOUNT COVERS THE ESTIMATED TRAINING THAT OPENGOV SAID WOULD BE NECESSARY FOR US TO HAVE UNDERSTANDING AND BE ABLE TO PROPERLY NAVIGATE FROM OUR END. ON THE ADMINISTRATIVE SIDE. SO IT'S THE ESTIMATED NUMBER OF HOURS THAT THE VENDOR HAS SAID THAT WOULD BE NECESSARY FOR US TO GET WHERE WE NEEDED TO GO FOR IMPLEMENTATION, AS WELL AS THE COST FOR USE OF THE PLATFORM FOR FISCAL YEAR 2025. FUNDING SOURC. AGAIN, WHAT YOU HAVE IN FRONT OF YOU WAS REQUESTING TO APPROPRIATE FROM THE UNAPPROPRIATED BALANCE OF THE GENERAL FUND, MEANING THAT IT WAS NOT INCLUDED IN THE 25 BUDGET AND WE WOULD BE REQUESTING FUNDS TO COME FROM AVAILABLE FUND BALANCE. BUT WE ALSO WANTED TO PUT OUT THERE FOR DISCUSSION THAT THAT THIS ALSO WOULD QUALIFY FOR ARPA FUNDS. AND SO, AS YOU ALL KNOW, IT'S A REQUIREMENT THAT THE REMAINING ARPA FUNDS THAT WE HAVE HAVE TO BE COMMITTED BY THE END OF THIS CALENDAR YEAR. AND SO I WANT TO SAY IT'S A LITTLE MORE THAN HALF $1 MILLION. THE SPECIFIC NUMBER, IF YOU NEED IT, THAT WE CAN GET THAT FOR YOU. BUT CERTAINLY THIS $68,000 COULD BE USED IN THE ARPA FUND CATEGORY. AGAIN, IF IT'S THE WILL OF THIS COUNCIL TO DO SO. BUT PER THE CITY MANAGER, WE WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT WE HAD THIS ON THE ON THE AGENDA FOR THE DISCUSSION AND FOR US TO BE ABLE TO COMMUNICATE WITH OPENGOV. NUMBER ONE, ARE WE MOVING FORWARD WITH THEM AND THEN INTERNALLY FOR US FROM A FUNDING PERSPECTIVE TO GIVE YOU ALL THE OPTIONS, IF YOU WILL, AND GO WITH THE WILL OF THIS GROUP? AND SO WITH THAT, IF THERE ARE ANY QUESTIONS THAT I GUESS I HAVEN'T ANSWERED IN THE, IN THE PRESENTATION THAT WE CAN ENTERTAIN, WE'LL TRY TO DO SO AT THIS TIME, MISS GOODEN. SO I SEE 68 IS THE PURCHASE AMOUNT. BUT THEN ON THE QUOTE SUGGESTED SUBTOTAL IS 159. AND THESE ALL THESE DIFFERENT PERIODS HELP ME UNDERSTAND JUST PERIODS VERSUS WHAT IS BEING REQUESTED FOR THE PURCHASE ITEM VERSUS THE SUGGESTED SUBTOTAL. THAT'S THE FIRST QUESTION. YES. SO COUNCIL MEMBER GOODEN, WHAT YOU HAVE AND COUNCIL MEMBERS WHAT YOU HAVE AS THE ADDITIONAL DOCUMENTATION YOU'RE LOOKING AT IS THE ORIGINAL QUOTE THAT WAS FROM BACK IN 2022 THAT WAS SIGNED ON WITH WHEN IT WAS FIRST BROUGHT TO COUNCIL FOR APPROVAL. SO THAT WOULD HAVE COVERED. SO I GUESS OPTION ONE IS YEAR ONE, THEN OPTION TWO, YEAR TWO, AND YEAR THREE. SO THAT WOULD HAVE COVERED FISCAL YEAR 22, 23 AND 24 RESPECTIVELY. AND SO THAT THIRD YEAR TIME PERIOD ENDED

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AND SO WE'VE BEEN IN DISCUSSION WITH THEM BECAUSE, AGAIN, IT WAS SIGNED ON FOR IMPLEMENTATION, BUT IT WAS NEVER FULLY IMPLEMENTED. SO IN TERMS OF FUNDING THAT GOES BACK TO PREVIOUS BUDGETS, THERE HAS BEEN FUNDS THAT HAVE ALREADY BEEN PAID TO OPENGOV AND SO THAT AGAIN WAS PART OF THE DISCUSSION OF SAYING, OKAY, HEY, WE'VE STARTED DOWN THIS PROCESS. DO WE CONTINUE DOWN THIS PROCESS BECAUSE THERE WAS ADDITIONAL MONIES THAT WAS ALREADY OWED, DESPITE NOT HAVING THE IMPLEMENTATION COMPLETED. SO YOU HAVE THAT ELEMENT AS WELL. AND SO IT WAS REALLY TRYING TO HAVE A REAL, I GUESS, ROBUST, TRANSPARENT CONVERSATION OF, HEY, DO WE MOVE FORWARD WITH OPENGOV OR AGAIN, I KNOW THERE WERE SOME OTHER COMPETITOR PRESENTATIONS THAT MAYBE YOU ALL WERE HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO PARTICIPATE IN. AND MAYBE BASED ON THAT, YOU KNOW, HAVE A PREFERENCE OR IDEA TO LEAN IN A DIFFERENT DIRECTION. BUT AGAIN, WE WANTED TO PRESENT THAT FOR YOUR REVIEW. I DID STOP AND TALK WITH OPENGOV AND WAS ABLE TO LOOK AT SOME OF THE FEATURES THAT THEY OFFER, AND I DIDN'T SEE THIS PARTICULAR ONE BECAUSE THERE WAS A ANOTHER ONE THAT I WAS LOOKING FOR. AS FAR AS COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT, HOWEVER, I AM IN FAVOR. I JUST WANTED TO HEAR THAT IT WAS THE IMPLEMENTATION HAS STARTED THAT'S DISAPPOINTING AND IT WASN'T, BUT A NUMBER OF REASONS TO PREVENT THAT FROM MOVING FORWARD. AND I GUESS WE HAVE TO GO WITH WHAT WHERE WE ARE TODAY AND SO I'M IN FAVOR. I UNDERSTAND THE CIRCUMSTANCES. I PRESENT, AND THIS HAS BEEN VETTED, THAT IT WORKS WELL WITH TYLER AND ANY OTHER SOFTWARE THAT WE HAVE. YES. AND SO THAT ONE, WHAT'S THE WHAT'S THE TIMELINE WITH IMPLEMENTATION AND ACTUALLY HAVING THIS ONLINE? IT'S A GREAT QUESTION. WE WANTED TO ANSWER THAT. COUNCILWOMAN MCBURNETT, WE WANTED TO BREAK THAT UP SO THAT WE CAN MAKE SURE THAT WE HAVE A SINGULAR FOCUS. SO WE WANT TO DO BUDGET FIRST. AND SO THEY ESTIMATED THE NUMBER OF HOURS BEING SOMEWHERE IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD OF LET'S SAY, MAYBE 20. SO WE WANT TO LINE THAT UP WITH AVAILABILITY LIKE ON BASED ON CURRENT SCHEDULE AND BUILD THAT IN. SO IN TERMS OF THE, THE, THE TIMELINE FOR THAT 20 HOURS, WE'RE STILL IN NEGOTIATIONS FOR FINALIZING THAT BECAUSE THE FIRST STEP WAS WHETHER OR NOT WE WANTED TO MOVE FORWARD WITH THEM IN THE FIRST PLACE. THE GOAL WOULD BE COUNCIL'S OKAY WITH IT MOVING FORWARD. FOR THE 26 BUDGET, YOU WILL SEE A WHOLE DIFFERENT PRESENTATION BECAUSE IT WILL BE DONE THROUGH THE OPENGOV PLATFORM, AND THEN WE'LL CONTINUE TO WORK ON GETTING STUFF. OBVIOUSLY, EVEN BEFORE THEN LISTED ON THE WEBSITE. SO RESIDENTS HAVE THE TRANSPARENT ACCESS TO SEE WHAT'S GOING ON FINANCIALLY. SO WELL, BECAUSE NOW I KNOW IN THE BUDGET WE GET ROLL UP NUMBERS, SO WILL THERE BE ADDITIONAL INFORMATION IN THIS REPORT? YES. SO BASICALLY BECAUSE WE'D BE UPLOADING LIKE ALL OF THE INFORMATION THAT'S INCLUDING THE, I GUESS, THE EXPENDITURE ACCOUNT CODES, THEY WOULD HAVE THE ABILITY TO DRILL DOWN AS WELL. AND SO DEFINITELY AS WE I GUESS KIND OF HONE IN ON THE CONFIGURATION FOR DUNCANVILLE SPECIFIC THAT YES, THERE WE WOULD HAVE AN EYE ON BEING ABLE TO DRILL INTO MORE SPECIFIC LINE ITEMS WITHIN THE BUDGET. ONE LAST THING TRAINING I KNOW WITH ENERGY.GOV WE CREATED A POSITION, A PROJECT MANAGER TO HELP MAINTAIN AND ENHANCE THAT KNOWLEDGE. IS THERE SOMETHING IS THAT SOMETHING WE WOULD NEED TO CONSIDER? YEAH. SO THE SAME PROJECT MANAGER AS WELL AS IT WILL BE HELPING WITH ALL THAT. NOW THAT POSITION IS CURRENTLY VACANT FOR ADVERTISING FOR THAT POSITION. BUT THE INTENT WOULD BE THAT THAT POSITION WOULD ALSO HELP. OKAY. QUESTIONS. SO IF I, IF I MAY AGAIN JUST THE RESOLUTION THAT ACCOMPANIED THIS WAS REQUESTING GENERAL FUND. BUT AGAIN ARPA IS AN OPTION IF THIS COUNCIL SEES IT FIT TO USE ARPA FUNDS INSTEAD. SO THANK YOU. WELL I'M I REALLY CAN'T DO ANYTHING IN

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YEAH. OKAY. THANK YOU MR. NASH. SO FOR US TO HAVE A CONVERSATION ABOUT IT BEING USED IN ARPA, BUT ASSUMING THERE WOULD BE SOME CONVERSATION ABOUT OTHER POTENTIAL USES, OTHER ALTERNATIVES, AND WE'D BE ALLOWED TO HAVE THAT CONVERSATION SINCE THOSE OTHER USES ARE ON THE AGENDA. IN TERMS OF USES OR IN TERMS OF FUNDING, IN TERMS OF USES OF THE FUND OR THE USES OF THE ARPA FUND. SO THERE ARE OTHER USES THAT YOU MIGHT SAY, WELL, JUST SO YOU ALL KNOW, THESE ARE OTHER USES WOULD BE ALLOWED TO DISCUSS ANY OF THAT ON THIS AGENDA AND NOT DEFER TO THE ATTORNEY. YEAH, I CAN I CAN ASK MR. HAGER, I THINK IT'S GOOD TO HAVE A CONVERSATION. I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE WE CAN FIND OUT BEFORE WE GET OUT ON THE FLOOR. IF NOT ON WHEN WE MEET ON OCTOBER 29TH. THAT'S ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE WOULD LIKE TO DISCUSS AS PART OF THE CIP AND THE BOND. WE CAN CERTAINLY INCLUDE ARPA IN THAT TOO, IF WE CAN'T DO IT TONIGHT.

SO ALL RIGHT, I'M SORRY FIVE G CONSIDER RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE USE OF FUNDS FOR A DRONE SHOW FOR CHRISTMAS 2024, NOT TO EXCEED $60,000. AND DIRECTOR BURR AND ASSISTANT DIRECTOR GAY ARE HERE TO HELP ANSWER QUESTIONS. SO I'M EXCITED TO SEE THIS. I KNOW THE COMMUNITY, SO I MISSED IT. MY GRANDKIDS MISSED IT. THE COMMUNITY ENJOYED THE DRONE SHOW. SO SUPPORT OF THE DRONE SHOW I SEE THE WORD ART MENTIONED IN HERE AND MAKES ME WONDER, THERE YOU ARE. MAKES ME WONDER WHEN DID WE HAVE A CONVERSATION WITH THE ARTS COMMISSION? AND IS THIS CONSIDERED ART? AND NUMBER TWO, WHAT FUNDING WOULD WE BE USING FOR THIS? IS THIS COMING OUT OF SPECIAL EVENTS? MR. CITY MANAGE? SO GO AHEAD. IT IS CONSIDERED AN ART FORM. IT'S A DIGITAL ART LIGHT. IT IS CONSIDERED AN ART FORM. NO, THERE HAS NOT BEEN A PREVIOUS CONVERSATION WITH THE ART DEPARTMENT. ART COMMISSION. IT'S HOPING TO COME OUT OF THE HOT FUND SPECIAL EVENTS CATEGOR.

OKAY. IS THIS A CONVERSATION WE WANT TO OR WE NEED TO PULL THE ARTS COMMISSION IN JUST AS WE HAVE THE ARTS COMMISSION, AND WE HAVE IT FUNDED AND KIND OF MOVE IN A CERTAIN DIRECTION AND DO THINGS. SHOULD CONVERSATIONS THAT INCLUDE THE ARTS BE CONSIDERED. SO IF WHAT I WOULD SAY AND JUMP IN HERE TO MR. I THINK THE CHALLENGE IS IF IT WAS COMING THROUGH THE ARTS FUND RIGHT, THEN ABSOLUTELY. WE'RE GOING TO DISCUSS THAT WITH THE ARTS FUNDING POLICY. RIGHT? I THINK IF I UNDERSTAND CORRECTLY, THE INTENT WAS NOT TO USE THE ARTS FUND TO USE THE PROMOTION CATEGORY. ALSO UNDER HOT FUNDS. BUT THE OTHER THING THAT I KNOW THAT SHE'S RUN INTO IS JUST A TIMING ISSUE THAT TO GET THE SHOW BOOKED. YES. AND IT'S GOT TO BE BOOKED VERY SOON. SO OKAY.

BUT IT WOULDN'T BE ABLE TO BE THE USE OF THAT 15% WITHOUT CORRECT ARTS COMMISSION. THAT IS CORRECT. SO THAT IS CORRECT. BUT IF IT IS APPROVED, WE CAN DEFINITELY MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE UTILIZING PROMOTIONS OUTSIDE OF THE CITY. SO THAT'S ALSO COMES UNDER THE FUNDING, NOT THE ARTS.

SO I NOTICED SO IT'S IN THE NOTES. SO I GUESS WE'RE DOUBLING. WE'RE LOOKING TO DOUBLE THE NUMBER OF DRONES WE HAD LAST YEAR. YES. THERE WERE COMMENTS ABOUT THAT LAST YEAR.

IS IT SO I'M ASSUMING SO THIS IS FOR 60,000 THEN. IT WAS 30,000 LAST YEAR. YES. IT WAS A LITTLE BIT OVER 30,000. IS THAT A FAIR. BECAUSE YOU KNOW OBVIOUSLY COSTS INCREASE AND THE DRONE SHOWS HAVE BECOME MORE POPULAR. SO THEY'RE GOING TO CHARGE MORE. SO IS THAT GOING TO BE ENOUGH FOR WHAT YOU ALL ARE ENVISIONING? YES. THIS WILL ACTUALLY DOUBLE THE NUMBER OF DRONES THAT WERE USED LAST YEAR SO THAT YOU'LL HAVE A CONSISTENT FLOW OF ANIMATION IN THE SKY. THANK YOU.

SO HELP ME UNDERSTAND. MY GOAL IS TO FOLLOW ALONG WITH THE ADOPTED BUDGET. AND SO THIS IS 60,000 OUTSIDE OF WHAT WE APPROVED BECAUSE WE'RE DOUBLING IT. RIGHT. SO THE 401 FOUR NINE

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WE'RE GONNA DO IT HERE. YES. OKAY. MAYOR, I WANT TO SAY SOMETHING ON THAT DAY, TOO, I HAD A CONVERSATION WITH MR. JACKSON, AND HE'S ACTUALLY LOOKING AT A AUDIT COMMITTEE MEETING POTENTIALLY THAT DAY AS WELL. AND SO THAT ALSO MEANS WITH MR. JACKSON STILL HERE.

OKAY. YEAH. HOW LONG? HOW LONG DO YOU EXPECT A SPECIAL MEETING NOW? WE'VE ADDED ANOTHER ITEM.

SO HOW LONG DO YOU THINK, MR. MCBURNETT, YOU HAD TALKED ABOUT GETTING INTO DOING IT OR TALKING ABOUT. WELL, NO, I'M TALKING ABOUT IF WE'RE GOING TO DO IT ON THE SAME DAY. HOW LONG, MR. MCBURNETT? HOW LONG DO YOU SEE US BEING IN THE SPECIAL MEETING? WOULD YOU SAY HOUR AND A HALF? YES. WE'RE TALKING ABOUT CIP BRIEFING OR CIP BRIEFING. I THINK IT'S GOING TO BE A LOT LONGER. AN HOUR AND A HALF. WE HAVE BONDS. WE HAVE CFP. NO, I'M TALKING ABOUT NO NO NO NO, NO, I'M SORRY. I'M SORRY. AUDIT. NO, NO, I'M NOT TALKING ABOUT THAT. LET ME BACK UP. IF WE'RE GOING TO DO THIS AT 4:00, HOW LONG DO WE THINK THIS WILL LAST. BECAUSE THAT'S GOING TO SET THE TIME THAT WE CAN HAVE AN AUDIT COMMITTEE MEETING, PROBABLY FOUR HOURS OR MORE. I WOULD SAY THAT'S GOING TO BE A LONGER IN-DEPTH CONVERSATION. IF YOU WANT TO DO THE AUDIT COMMITTEE EARLIER. THAT'S WHAT THAT'S WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT, RIGHT? WE'RE DOING IT PRIOR. SO I MISSED THAT PART ABOUT PRIOR. SO DID I WANT TO GO BACK AND WATCH THE TAPE? WELL, SO SINCE NOT EVERYBODY'S INVOLVED IN THAT, I WOULD BE AGREEABLE TO WHATEVER TIME PRIOR TO 4:00. BUT TWO TO GET THIS SETTLED NOW TO 2:00. 2:00 AUDIT COMMITTEE. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU. OKAY. FOR THE NOVEMBER WE HAVE KEITH DUNCANVILLE BEAUTIFUL ARBOR DAY CELEBRATION ON NOVEMBER THE SECOND. NOVEMBER THE 9TH IS KEITH. DUNCANVILLE BEAUTIFUL PUMPKIN COLLECTION AT THE SENIOR CENTER. WE HAVE COFFEE WITH THE COP AT MCDONALD'S ON NOVEMBER THE 14TH. WE HAVE ONE COUNCIL MEETING ON THE 19TH, THE ONE ON THE FIFTH IS CANCELED DUE TO ELECTION DAY. AND THE COFFEE WITH THE MAYOR IS ALSO CANCELED ON THE 28TH DUE TO THANKSGIVING. MR. CITY MANAGER, SO I UNDERSTAND THE REASON WHY WE'RE CANCELING BECAUSE OF ELECTION DAY. BUT WE WON'T MEET AGAIN AFTER THE 29TH UNTIL THE 19TH. IS THERE ANYTHING THAT YOU NEED TO HAVE A SPECIAL MEETING WITH COUNCIL ABOUT AHEAD OF TIME? WE'VE BEEN PLANNING FOR THAT. I THINK WHAT WE'RE. EXPECT TO.

IT'S A BUSY MEETING ON THE 19TH. I SEE I WAS TRYING TO PREVENT THAT. OKAY. FOR DECEMBER WE HAVE OUR FIRST MEETING ON DECEMBER THE 3RD. COOKIES WITH SANTA ON DECEMBER THE 14TH AT THE RECREATION CENTER COUNCIL MEETING ON THE 17TH, FAMILY GAME NIGHT AT 6:00 AT THE RECREATION CENTER. WE HAVE THE CHRISTMAS EVE AND CHRISTMAS DAY HOLIDAY ON THE 24TH AND 25TH, AND COFFEE WITH THE MAYOR ON THE 26TH. I DIDN'T SEE THE COUNCIL LUNCHEON FOR A STAFF THAT THEY HAVE ANY.

I DON'T WANT TO SPEAK. I KNOW, I KNOW, WE'LL GET BACK TO WE'LL GET WE'LL GET BACK TO YOU. OKAY.

THANK YOU. OKAY. NOW ON TO ITEM THREE BRIEFING. AND PRESENTATIO. ITEM EIGHT. EXCUSE ME. CITY COUNCIL, TO RECEIVE A BRIEFING ON THE STATUS OF CEDAR RIDGE ROAD RECONSTRUCTION PROJECT.

PROVIDE FOR AN OPPORTUNITY FOR CITY COUNCIL TO DISCUSS AND PROVIDE DIRECTION IF NEEDED.

THIS IS PART OF THE 2018 BOND PROJECTS, AND THIS IS GOING TO BE BROUGHT TO US BY MATT BRYANT, DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WORKS, AND CHAD MUHAMMAD, ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WORKS. HELLO.

OKAY. ALL RIGHT. YEAH. GOOD EVENING. MAYOR, COUNCIL AND STAFF, THIS IS SHAHEED MUHAMMAD, ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WORKS WITH ME TODAY I HAVE QUINTON, JASMINE AND KERVIN FROM DUNAWAY ENGINEERS, WHICH ARE THE ENGINEER ON THE PROJECT. TODAY, WE'RE GOING TO BE TALKING ABOUT CEDAR RIDGE CONSTRUCTION PROJECT STATUS UPDATE. SO OVERVIEW OF THIS PRESENTATION WILL BE BRINGING IN A PROJECT HISTORY. THE PROJECT LIMITS THE SCOPE RECOMMENDED RECOMMENDATION

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SO THIS WAS THE ORIGINAL SCOPE AND THIS WAS THE RECOMMENDED SCOPE OR THE CURRENT EXISTING SCOPE THAT WAS VOTED BY COUNCIL AFTER CORRIDOR STUDY. SO NOW I WILL JUST GIVE IT TO THE PROJECT ENGINEER, QUENTIN, TO WALK YOU THROUGH THE HISTORY OF THE PROJECT. THANKS, CHAD. SO AS A SLIDE SHOWS, OUR INITIAL RECOMMENDATION FROM THE CORRIDOR STUDY WAS TO LOOK INTO MULTIMODAL USE ALONG THE CORRIDOR PART OF THAT WAS TO SEE IF THERE WOULD BE IMPROVEMENTS FOR PEDESTRIAN MOBILITY OR BICYCLE IMPROVEMENTS. SO AS PART OF THAT, WE LOOKED INTO WHETHER A ROAD DIET COULD BE IMPLEMENTED, WHERE WE WOULD REDUCE SIX LANES DOWN TO FOUR FROM OUR TRAFFIC ENGINEERING AND ANALYSIS. THAT WAS FEASIBLE WITH THE CAVEAT THAT THE SECTION NEAR THE DUNCANVILLE HIGH SCHOOL WOULD NEED TO STILL BE SIX LANES, JUST DUE TO THE AMOUNT OF TRAFFIC TO THAT AREA. SO WE RECOMMENDED ALTERNATIVE C, WHICH WAS TWO LANES IN EACH DIRECTION.

THERE WOULD BE 12 FOOT SHARED USE PATHS ON BOTH PARKWAYS ENDED UP BEING THE LOWEST COST ALTERNATIVE, JUST DUE TO THE LESS CONCRETE PAVEMENT, AND THEN THAT WOULD HELP CONNECT THE DIFFERENT OPPORTUNITY AREAS WITHIN THE COMPREHENSIVE CITY PLAN. MIKE HAD SAID THE COUNCIL FEEDBACK WHEN WE PRESENTED WAS TO GO AHEAD AND PROCEED AS IT EXISTS TODAY SIX LANES, THREE THREE LANES EACH DIRECTION AND KEEP THE FIVE FOOT SIDEWALKS ON EACH SIDE. THERE WON'T BE ANY BIKE LANES OR LARGE SHARED USE PATHS, SO MOVING ON. JUST A QUICK RECAP FROM SOME OF THE HIGHLIGHTS OF THE CORRIDOR STUDY. SO THIS IS THE TRAFFIC ANALYSIS. WHAT THIS SHOWS IS THE DELAY AT EACH INTERSECTION. THE LEFT COLUMN SHOWS THE 2021 EXISTING INFORMATION. SO THAT WILL BE THE DELAY BASED ON THE TRAFFIC COUNTS WE CONDUCTED OUT IN THE OUT ALONG CEDAR RIDGE.

THE PROPOSED WAS SHOWING THE FOUR LANE ALTERNATIVE, BUT AS YOU CAN SEE, GOING BACK WITH JUST THE EXISTING SIX LANE DIVIDED ARTERIAL, ALL OF THOSE ARE LEVEL OF SERVICE D OR HIGHER. AND SO THAT'S CONSIDERED ACCEPTABLE BY TRAFFIC ENGINEERING STANDARDS. AND AGAIN, THAT HIGHLIGHTED SECTION FOR WEST CAMP WISDOM TO MIDDLE OR CURRENT SECTION AS OPERATING BETWEEN LEVELS D AND B. SO ANOTHER CONDITION WE LOOKED AT WAS THE PAVEMENT CONDITION INDEX OTHERWISE KNOWN AS PCI. SO THIS IS FROM 2017 DATA. THE CITY CONDUCTED ITSELF. SO THE WEIGHTED PCI IS HOW WE COAGULATED EACH SECTION INTO A NUMBER FOR EACH CORRIDOR SEGMENT. JUST TO DETERMINE WHICH PAVEMENT CONDITION IS WORSE. FROM THAT, WE COULD TELL THAT SEGMENTS TWO A, THREE A, AND THREE B WERE ROUGHLY RIGHT AT 55. AND SO WE GAVE THEM EQUAL WEIGHTING. AND IN GENERAL, THE TRAFFIC WHICH HELPS DETERIORATE THE PAVEMENT IS GENERALLY COMING FROM THE NORTH TO THE SOUTH. SO WHICH INDICATES A LOT OF MOTORISTS ARE COMING FROM I-20.

SO HERE WE DID A CONSTRUCTION COST. NAMELY THESE WERE JUST TO LOOK AT COMMON ITEMS BETWEEN THE UTILITIES THAT WERE CURRENTLY PRESENT WITHIN EACH CORRIDOR SEGMENT, AS WELL AS JUST

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THERE'S STILL BEEN SOME CONSTRUCTION INFLATION SINCE THEN, BUT THE FINAL NUMBER TODAY IS ROUGHLY ABOUT 5.6 MILLION. AND THAT'S INCLUDING DEMOLITION, MOBILIZATION, TRAFFIC CONTROL, OTHER ITEMS THAT WERE NOT CONSIDERED WITHIN THIS COST TABLE. SO THE EXISTING TYPICAL SECTION HERE AGAIN IS JUST THREE LANES EACH WAY, WITH A 14 FOOT DIVIDED MEDIAN AND THEN FIVE FOOT SIDEWALKS ON EITHER SIDE. THIS CORRIDOR SEES NINE SIGNALIZED INTERSECTIONS, ROUGHLY 100FT OF RIGHT OF WAY THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE CORRIDOR. THE ONE BRIDGE CROSSING UP AT I-20 WITHIN TXDOT RIGHT OF WAY AND THEN MOSTLY CONTINUOUS SIDEWALKS ON THE EAST AND WEST PARKWAY THROUGHOUT THE CORRIDOR. SO THIS IS OUR CURRENT DESIGN, JUST AN OVERALL SCHEMATIC LAYOUT. OBVIOUSLY, THE GRAY IS THE ROADWAY PAVEMENT, AND YOU CAN SEE THE EXTENTS JUST SOUTH OF MARTINDALE EXTENDING ALL THE WAY TO THE NORTH, JUST NORTH OF CAMP WISDOM. WITH THAT, WE HAVE OUR WATERLINE IMPROVEMENTS THAT ARE GOING ALL THE WAY FROM MIDDLE INTERSECTION TO THE NORTH AT CAMP WISDOM. SAME WITH THE SANITARY SEWER AND GREEN AND THE STORMWATER IMPROVEMENTS ARE MOSTLY TO THE SOUTH AND MIDDLE CURRENTLY, ALTHOUGH WE MAY BE REPAIRING A LATERAL LINE ALONG WEST CAMP WISDOM WITHIN THE CITY OF DUNCANVILLE LIMITS. AN IMPORTANT THING TO NOTE ON THIS PROJECT, THOUGH, IS THAT NORTHWEST CORNER OF CAMP WISDOM THAT LIES WITHIN THE CITY OF DALLAS LIMITS, SO THERE HAS BEEN COORDINATION WITH THAT ENTITY AS WELL FOR THIS PROJECT. SO. SO I'M GOING TO BE JUST EXPLAINING THE FINANCIALS OF THE PROJECT AND BASICALLY THE UPDATED FINANCIALS OF THE PROJECT. AS WE HAVE MENTIONED EARLIER, WE STARTED WITH $2 MILLION ASSOCIATED WITH THIS PROJECT. BUT AS PART OF THE BOND PROGRAM, HOWEVER, THE EXISTING ESTIMATE REACHES UP TO $6 MILLION TO INCLUDE A DESIGN FEE FOR THE DESIGN OF THE PROJECT.

CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT, CONSTRUCTION AND THE CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT FEE OF A TOTAL OF ALMOST $5.5 MILLION AND A TESTING FEE OF $43,000, WHICH TOTALED INTO THE 6,075,000 AMOUNT YOU SEE HERE. SO THIS IS THE ESTIMATIONS. HOWEVER, THE FUNDING WAS BASICALLY OBTAINED BY USING SEVERAL SOURCES OF FUNDS. ONE OF THEM IS THE BOND FUNDS THAT WE SPOKE ABOUT, THE $2 MILLION. IN ADDITION, WE WERE ABLE TO FIND $3.78 MILLION COMING FROM THE BUDGET OF WATER AND WASTEWATER AND A $290,000 COMING FROM THE BUDGET OF DRAINAGE TO MAKE THE FUNDS TOTAL FUNDS AVAILABLE TO COMPLETE THE PROJECT. SO FOR THE UPDATED TIMELINE OF THE PROJECT NOW, WE WERE SUPPOSED TO TALK TO COUNCIL ON SEPTEMBER 17TH. SO THIS IS A KIND OF RESCHEDULED TO TODAY'S MEETING. SO WE'RE AT THE SECOND SPOT HERE WHERE IT SAYS COUNCIL MEETING. SO WE ANTICIPATE RECEIVING THE FINAL 100% DESIGN ON OCTOBER 22ND. AND THEN WE ALSO JUST HAVE RECEIVED THE DOCUMENTS WE NEED TO OBTAIN RIGHT OF WAY ACQUISITION FROM TWO ENTITIES, WHICH GOING TO BE THE SCHOOL AND A CHURCH. AND THEN THAT REALLY IS THE ESTIMATED TIME WE HAVE THE 90 DAYS TO OBTAIN THOSE RIGHT OF WAY ACQUISITION AS NEEDED. BUT IT CAN BE SHORTER THAN THAT.

WE'RE REALLY GOING TO DEPEND ON HOW THE INTERACTION AND THE RESPONSIVENESS OF THOSE ENTITIES GOING TO GO. AS WE REACH OUT TRYING TO OBTAIN THIS EASEMENTS. SO IF IT GOES AS PLANNED, WE CAN HAVE PROBABLY LESS THAN 90 DAYS. BUT THE ANTICIPATION IS 90 DAYS TO DO THAT. AND THEN ONCE IT'S WE GET THE RIGHT OF WAY ACQUISITION DONE, WE WOULD BID THE JOB OUT FOR CONSTRUCTION. WE WOULD BE ADVERTISING FOR 30 DAYS. WE WOULD OPEN BID IN FEBRUARY OF 2025. WE ALSO ARE TARGETING TO GO TO AWARD AND GO BACK TO COUNCIL FOR AWARDING A CONTRACTOR IN MARCH OF 2025 AND HAVE A KICK, A KICK OFF OR A CONSTRUCTION BEGINS IN APRIL OF 2025. THE CONSTRUCTION,

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CONSTRUCTION WILL START JUST A LITTLE BIT BEFORE SCHOOL IS OUT. DO YOU HAVE THE SCHOOL CLOSING DATE? SCHOOL CLOSING DATE? I'M ASSUMING END OF MAY, BUT I'M NOT SURE THE EXACT DATE YET. BUT YEAH, IT'S PROBABLY YEAH. SO THAT WAS PART OF IT. WITH THE UTILITIES GOING IN FIRST, MOST LIKELY THE WATER LINE WHICH IS IN THE PAVEMENT CURRENTLY WE HAVE IT WITHIN THE NORTH MOST WEST LANE OF ADJACENT TO THE SCHOOL. SO IF THAT IS DELAYED IT WOULD POTENTIALLY HELP WITH HAVING LESS TRAFFIC ALONG THAT CORRIDOR. BUT AGAIN IT JUST DEPENDS ON WHETHER YOU WANT TO START THE PROJECT AS SOON AS POSSIBLE OR TRY AND TIME IT WITH LESS TRAFFIC POTENTIALLY. OKAY.

YES, SIR. SURE. WE'VE BEEN PRESENTED THIS BEFORE, BUT JUST TO REFRESH MY MEMORY. SO WE FOUND $3.7 MILLION. SO I JUST KIND OF CURIOUS ABOUT I MEAN, WAS IT JUST UNDER THE CUSHIONS OR. I THINK MATT CAN GIVE SOME MORE INFORMATION, BUT THAT WAS THAT'S OUT OF OUR UTILITY CIP FUND. WE GET ABOUT $7 MILLION EVERY YEAR FOR UTILITY CIP. SO WE PULLED IT FROM THAT. BECAUSE ANYTHING ELSE TO BE DELAYED TALKING ABOUT THAT ON OCTOBER 29TH. EXACTLY THAT WOULD BE ONE OF THE 29 PROJECTS I KNOW FOUND MONEY IS NORMALLY EARMARKED FOR SCHOOLS, FOUND IT WAS LOST.

YEAH, YEAH. HOWEVER, THERE'S SOMETHING THAT THAT WE ARE DEFINITELY TRYING TO WORK ON IN PARALLEL TO THIS, THIS CONVERSATION, WHICH IS NOT A GUARANTEE, BUT WE ARE TRYING TO SUBMIT FOR GRANT APPLICATION FOR CEDAR RIDGE, YOU KNOW, USING THE AMOUNT OF FUNDS THAT WE HAVE ALREADY SPENT IN CORRIDOR STUDY TO BASICALLY SEEK SOME FUNDS FROM COG AND CONSIDER THIS AMOUNT THAT IS AVAILABLE AS OUR 20% MATCH TO BE ABLE TO DO THE WHOLE PROJECT. SO HOPEFULLY WE GET SUCCESSFUL WITH THAT. BUT WE'RE STILL IN THE INITIATION OF SUBMITTING THAT PROJECT FOR GRANT FUNDS. AND CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG, BUT WHAT YOU'RE TRYING TO DO FOR US IS NOT JUST THIS. IT'S ALL OF CEDAR RIDGE. YES, ALL OF CEDAR RIDGE. BUT THIS CAN BE CONSIDERED. WE'RE TRYING TO CONSIDER WHATEVER FUNDS AVAILABLE AS OUR 20% MATCH, BECAUSE IN ORDER TO GET THIS COVERED, WE NEED A MATCH. THE CITY THAT NEEDS TO PROVIDE IN SOME CASES IS 50%. BUT IN THIS CASE, I THINK 20% WOULD WORK JUST WHO WOULD BE DOING THE GRANT? WE'RE WORKING WITH MRB SHOTS, TAKING THE LEAD ON COORDINATING IT, AND LOOKING UNDER EVERY ROCK. BUT YES, THEN THEY WE ACTUALLY USE THEM TO WRITE IT SO THAT AND YOU CAN ALWAYS LOOK BACK UNDER MATT'S CUSHION RIGHT. IT'S A BIG CUSHION. YEAH. MATT'S CUSHION WAS MORE OF A REALLOCATION. ONE SIDE OF THE COUCH WAS A LITTLE HIGHER. AND HE'S NOT HERE. I KNOW YOU'RE GOING TO TALK ABOUT IT. AND WE GOT TO WATCH TIME TOO. BUT THE MILL AND FILM. BUT JUST OBVIOUSLY WE WERE GOING TO BRIEF COUNCIL AT THE LAST MEETING ON THE OVERLAY. THAT WAS JUST DONE. ALSO CEDAR RIDGE JUST SOUTH OF THIS. YES. OKAY. I JUST WANT TO ONCE AGAIN, I WANT TO GO BACK TO THE SCHOOL TIMING. SO I TRUST THAT SINCE THIS IS A WAYS OFF, THAT THERE WILL BE COMMUNICATION. IF IT'S DECIDED THAT WE'RE GOING TO GO AHEAD BEFORE IT GOES OUT, THERE'LL BE COMMUNICATION WITH THE SCHOOL DISTRICT TO MINIMIZE THE DISRUPTION, OR AT LEAST LET THEM KNOW. ABSOLUTELY. ALL RIGHT.

ANYTHING ELSE? ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU. OKAY. IT LOOKS LIKE YOU'RE GOING TO STICK AROUND FOR THIS ONE. ITEM B CITY COUNCIL, TO RECEIVE A BRIEFING ON THE STATUS OF THE FY 24 MILL. AND OVERLAY PROJECT. PROVIDE FOR AN OPPORTUNITY FOR CITY COUNCIL TO DISCUSS AND PROVIDE DIRECTION AS NEEDED. AND DO WE HAVE KELLY HERE AS WELL? YES. THANK. ALL RIGHT. OKAY. GOOD EVENING MAYOR. I GAVE HER THE HARD ONE. OKAY. THIS WILL BE QUICK. SO WE JUST WANTED TO TAKE THIS OPPORTUNITY. YOU HEAR US? COME TO COUNCIL TALKING ABOUT MILL AND OVERLAY AND MICRO SURFACING AND ALL THESE THINGS. SO WE JUST WANT TO TAKE THIS OPPORTUNITY TO GIVE YOU A LITTLE MORE EXPLANATION ON WHAT WE'RE ACTUALLY DOING, WHAT THE PROCESS IS, AND HOW WE BUDGET FOR THESE MOVING FORWARD. SO WE JUST COMPLETED OUR MILL AND OVERLAY AND OUR MICRO SURFACING FOR THE CITY OF DUNCANVILLE FOR FY 24. YOU'VE PROBABLY SEEN CEDAR RIDGE HAS

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WE BASICALLY KELLY'S CREW OR KELLY'S CONTRACTORS WILL GO OUT AND PERFORM CRACK SEAL, WHICH IS WHERE YOU'LL DRIVE DOWN THE STREET AND YOU'LL SEE ALL THE BLACK LINES EVERYWHERE. SO THEY'RE SIMPLY JUST SEALING UP THOSE CRACKS BECAUSE WE DON'T WANT THOSE TO MIRROR THEIR WAY THROUGH THE NEW PAVEMENT. AND THEN THEY POUR A SLURRY, WHICH IS JUST A FINE FILM OVER THE TOP OF THE ROAD. AND IT'S 5 TO 7 YEARS, ROUGHLY, IS WHAT WE GET OUT OF THAT. SO THAT'S WHAT WE PERFORMED ON CEDAR RIDGE. ANY QUESTIONS? I'M GOING TO PUT PRESENTATIONS ON THIS. SO IT'S A ONE YEAR CONTRACT AND THERE'S THREE OPTIONS FOR THREE RENEWALS OR THE OPTION FOR THREE ADDITIONAL RENEWALS. ADDITIONAL RENEWALS OKAY. ARE WE PRETTY SATISFIED WITH THE WORK THAT WE'VE SEEN. SO FAR. AND THEN IF SO, ARE THERE ANY OPTIONS OF EXTENDING THAT CONTRACT AND GETTING A BETTER PRICE? SO BECAUSE THESE ARE PIGGYBACK CONTRACTS, WE'RE LIMITED TO THE TERMS OF THAT CITY THAT WE'RE USING. SO WE ARE FANS. ME PERSONALLY, OUR FANS OF OUR OWN REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS THAT GIVES US OUR CONTRACT WITH OUR TERMS. SO WE'LL LIKELY FINISH THIS CONTRACT OUT AND THEN WE'LL PURSUE THAT OPTION. ARE YOU SAYING YES, MA'AM? I'M SORRY. IT WAS BID OUT. IT WASN'T A PIGGYBACK CONTRACT. ANDERSON WA. YES. SORRY. CORRECTION. ANDERSON WAS BID OUT SO THAT WAS BEEN PROBABLY PROCURED. THAT'S ON OUR TERMS. THE MICRO SURFACING IS A PIGGYBACK. THAT'S RIGHT. THAT'S EXACTLY RIGHT. WE WOULD HAVE TO RFP AT THE END OF THAT TERM.

YEAH. AND IF I MAY ADD TO YOUR QUESTION ON THAT ONE, USUALLY THOSE CONTRACTS ARE JUST, YOU KNOW, ONE YEAR WITH THREE RENEWALS OR TWO YEARS WITH THREE RENEWALS, WHICH MAX OUT AS FIVE YEARS. AND THESE ARE BASICALLY MORE OF, YOU KNOW, PROCUREMENT PRACTICES IN TERMS OF, YOU KNOW, IN THE EFFORT OF GIVING OPPORTUNITIES TO DIFFERENT FIRMS TO WORK WITH THE CITIES. SO

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FOR OUR RESIDENTS. SO RESOURCE ALLOCATIONS, HOW ARE WE DISTRIBUTING OUR FUNDS? THE PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT. BECAUSE THIS IS REALLY MORE ABOUT INVOLVING, YOU KNOW, THE PUBLIC AND THEIR NEEDS. AND ALSO IT'S GOING TO NEED TO INVOLVE ALL STAKEHOLDERS THAT ARE IMPACTED BY THOSE DECISIONS. ACCESS AND MOBILITY IS PROVIDING ACCESS TO ALL REGARDLESS OF THEIR LOCATION, INCOME AND ABILITY. AND THE BUDGET OPTIMIZATION, AFTER ALL, IS VERY IMPORTANT THAT THIS INITIATIVE WOULD SERVE THE ALLOCATING OF FINANCIAL RESOURCES. MOST EFFICIENTLY. SO AND EFFECTIVELY FOR THE CITY RESIDENTS NEEDS. SO WHY? WHY THIS INITIATIVE AND WHY WOULD WE WANT TO SUPPORT THE EQUITY IN INFRASTRUCTURE MANAGEMENT? IT PROMOTES FAIRNESS AND INCLUSION.

IT ALSO BOOSTS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT. AND I WANT TO KIND OF ELABORATE A LITTLE BIT ON THIS. WHEN WE MENTIONED, YOU KNOW, TALKING ABOUT THIS, THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN WE HAVE AND THIS, THIS, THESE KIND OF INITIATIVES ARE REALLY IMPORTANT IN ATTRACTING INVESTMENTS TO UNDERSERVED AREAS WHERE WE CAN BASICALLY ENHANCE THE ALSO CREATE JOB OPPORTUNITIES,

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THE COMMUNITY, KNOWING THAT WE KIND OF CONSIDER EACH AND EVERY ONE OF THEM AND ALL OF THEM EQUALLY. THIS REALLY GIVES A TRUST AND CONSIDERS ENGAGEMENT INCREASES RESILIENCE AND SUSTAINABILITY. SO IT HELPS COMMUNITIES BETTER ADAPT TO CHALLENGES LIKE CLIMATE CHANGE AND ECONOMIC DISRUPTIONS. BY DOING THIS, EQUITY INFRASTRUCTURE, RELIABLE INFRASTRUCTURE FOR ALL. SO COMING FROM THE CITY OF DALLAS AND IT'S A NEIGHBORING CITY WHERE I KIND OF BROUGHT A VERY EXAMPLE OF PRACTICE THAT I WAS INVOLVED IN MYSELF IN IMPLEMENTATION, BEING THE LEAD ON THE 2024 BOND PROGRAM AND THE LEAD ON THE EVERY YEAR IMP FOR PUBLIC WORKS. SO EQUITY DALLAS HAD KIND OF CREATED THIS ATLAS EQUITY ATLAS WHERE IT KIND OF THIS SHARED THE CITY INTO SMALLER SQUARES WHERE IT WAS RANKED FROM 1 TO 5 BASED ON CENSUS TRACK DATA AND THEIR INFORMATION. SO THERE WERE MEASURES THAT WAS DECIDED THAT IS RANGING, CREATED RANGES. AREAS OF THREE, FOUR AND FIVE WERE CONSIDERED, WHICH ARE DARKER ON THIS ON THIS MAP ARE CONSIDERED AREAS OF INEQUITY OR AN EQUITY PRIORITY AREAS, AND THE MORE POPULATION LIVED WITH THESE SPECIFIC MEASURES LIKE INCOME, AGE, YOU KNOW, PEOPLE OF COLOR, ETC. IT WAS GIVING MORE PRIORITY AND THESE THESE PRIORITY AREAS HAD IMPACTED DECISIONS LIKE BOND PROGRAMS SCORING. SO FOR THE 2024 BOND PROGRAM, THERE WAS TWO POINTS FOR EACH OF THESE ASPECTS OF EQUITY ASPECTS, FIVE OF THEM. SO A TOTAL OF TEN POINTS THAT WAS BEING ON TOP OF PRIORITIZATION PROJECT. THERE WAS ALSO EQUITY IMPLEMENT IN THE BUDGETING BECAUSE THE BUDGETING WAS ALSO BUILT ON A CENSUS TRACK BELL CURVE, AND THEN 10% EXTRA WAS GIVEN TO THOSE ON THE TOP AND LESS ON THE THOSE THAT DISTRICTS THAT CAME ON THE BOTTOM. THERE IS ALSO A 20% GOAL IN MAINTENANCE FOR EVERY YEAR. THAT WAS MONEY TO SPEND IN THE EQUITY PRIORITY AREAS AS PART OF THE STREETS MAINTENANCE. AND THEN THERE WAS THE SIDEWALK MASTER PLAN, WHICH GOT ALSO 20% OF SCORE. IN ADDITION TO CREATE FOCUS AREAS. SO GIVEN THAT I WANT TO SAY DALLAS IS NOT UNIQUE IN THIS PRACTICE, THERE ARE OTHER CITIES IN THE NATION WHERE THEY ARE ALSO, YOU KNOW, STARS IN IT. YOU KNOW, THERE IS THERE IS SEATTLE, THERE IS ATLANTA.

DOT A LOT OF OTHERS THAT HAVE SIMILAR PRACTICES. SOME ARE MORE ADVANCED, SOME ARE LESS. BUT THIS IS JUST AN EXAMPLE. BUT USUALLY THESE ARE TAILORED DEPENDING ON EVERY CITY'S NEEDS AND DEMOGRAPHY. NEXT QUESTION I'M SORRY THOSE DOW SEGMENTS. HOW BIG ARE THEY? 30 BY 30. EACH SQUARE IS 30 BY 30. SO CITY OF DUNCANVILLE EXISTING PRACTICE BASICALLY GOING BACK TO WHAT WE HAVE IN PLACE AT THIS POINT IN THE CITY OF DUNCANVILLE, THAT EQUITY DATA IS NOT OBTAINED OR NOT PUT IN USE. EQUITY IS NOT A DECISION FACTOR IN PLANNING OR BUDGETING IN THE PAST OR NOT. A DIRECT DECISION FACTOR. THERE IS NO BUDGETING BASIS OR OPTIMIZATION PRACTICES THAT'S BEING DONE. USUALLY BUDGET IS JUST OKAY. REALLY, DEPENDING ON WHAT WE HAVE AND WHAT WE CAN DO.

THERE WAS PROJECTS. PRIORITIZATION IS MAINLY WAS BASED ON PUBLIC AND POLITICAL INTEREST. AND THEN PAYMENT OR ASSET CONDITION WAS THE ONLY FACTOR CONSIDERED WHEN SELECTING MAINTENANCE PROJECTS. SO WHAT ARE OUR BEGINNER STRATEGIES AND HOW WE CAN IMPROVE AND REACH WHERE THE GOAL OF THIS EQUITY IN OUR INFRASTRUCTURE MANAGEMENT. SO WE NEED TO INCLUDE EQUITY INFRASTRUCTURE MANAGEMENT INITIATIVE AS PART OF OUR COMPREHENSIVE CITY COMPREHENSIVE PLAN. COLLECT DATA ABOUT EXISTING PRACTICES FOR FOUNDATION, WHICH IS WE HAVE

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AND THEN IMPLEMENTATION. ARE WE TALKING ABOUT ALL INFRASTRUCTURE OR JUST STREETS OR. I HAVE SEEN AND I SHARED THAT WITH WITH THE CITY MANAGER AS WELL. I HAVE NOTICED THAT STREETS ARE BEING ARE BEING. I'M TRYING TO CHOOSE MY WORDS, BUT THEY HAVEN'T BEEN ADDRESSED THE WAY THEY SUPPOSED TO BE OR THEY HAVEN'T BEEN GIVEN THE ATTENTION THEY SHOULD. SO FAR. SO I'M HOPING THIS KIND OF INFORMATION THAT WE'RE SHARING HERE GOING TO KIND OF SPOTLIGHT ON THE NEED FOR ATTENTION FOR INFRASTRUCTURE AND STREETS AND THEIR IMPORTANCE FOR THE CITIZENS, AND THEN EVENTUALLY OTHER DEPARTMENTS AND EVERYTHING ELSE WILL MOVE AND SHARD AND I HAVE HAD CONVERSATIONS. I KNOW COUNCIL MEMBER PENNEBAKER ASKED ABOUT THE PROJECTS THAT HAVE HAPPENED IN DISTRICT FIVE. WE'VE TALKED ABOUT THAT. YOU KNOW WHAT KIND OF EQUITY IS TAKING PLACE BETWEEN THE FIVE DISTRICTS AS WELL AS OVERALL CITY? IS IT THE NICE NEIGHBORHOODS GETTING THE PAVEMENT VERSUS THE NOT SO NICE ONES NOT GETTING IT? THOSE ARE ALL THE TYPES OF THINGS. OBVIOUSLY IT'S GOING TO TAKE MORE TIME, BUT I JUST WANTED TO INTRODUCE THE CONCEPT TO YOU AND I JUST WANT TO INTRODUCE THIS THOUGHT THAT. WE WE'VE HAD A HISTORY OF HAVING REALLY GOOD PEOPLE IN OUR PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT. SO THIS IS NO WAY IS ANYTHING NEGATIVE ABOUT THAT. THE CITY OF DUNCANVILLE, FOR MANY, MANY YEARS ONLY PROMOTED FROM WITHIN. AND THAT WASN'T A BAD THING BECAUSE PEOPLE KNEW OUR PROCESSES AND OUR SYSTEMS. WHAT HAPPENED WAS WHEN WE EVENTUALLY I'M GOING TO SAY 12, 15 YEARS AGO, STARTED HIRING PEOPLE FROM OUTSIDE. OUR FIRST EXAMPLE WOULD BE A BUDGET

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LET'S GO. WHAT IF WE HAVE QUESTIONS? I DIDN'T SAY THAT. YOUR QUESTIONS WOULD TAKE LESS THAN 30S. I JUST SAID I CAN DO THIS IN SECONDS. THANKS. MAYOR AND COUNCIL. DAVID KEYS, INTERIM ASSISTANT CITY MANAGER FOR COMMUNITY. I'M TRYING TO LINK IN THE TITLE SOMEHOW. OPEN STORAGE ORDINANCE CURRENTLY ADDRESSES ANYTHING IN RESIDENTIAL NEIGHBORHOODS THAT ARE PLACED IN THE FRONT YARD. GOT A COUPLE OF SLIDES HERE IN A SECOND. ONE OF WHAT I WANTED TO HIGHLIGHT AND THIS WAS BROUGHT TO US BY COUNCIL MEMBER KOONTZ, WHO REQUESTED THAT WE PUT IT ON THE AGENDA, IS THAT THERE IS A REFERENCE TO TRAILERS BOAT TRAILERS WITH A BOAT OR CAMPER TRAILERS, OFTEN KNOWN AS RV. THOSE THINGS CAN BE PARKED IN THE FRONT YARD, EITHER ON A DRIVEWAY OR ANOTHER IMPROVED SURFACE. THEY JUST CAN'T BE PARKED IN THE GRASS. IN THE ORDINANCE, THE EXAMPLE GIVEN OF A FRONT YARD IS ANYTHING FROM THE FRONT EDGE OF THE HOUSE THAT GOES OUT TO THE STREET RIGHT OF WAY. SO NO MATTER WHERE YOU ARE AT THE HOUSE, IF YOU'RE ON THAT FRONT EDGE, BETWEEN THAT AND THE RIGHT OF WAY IS CONSIDERED A FRONT YARD. ONE OF THE THINGS THAT PRECIPITATED THIS WAS A RESIDENT WHO HAS A UTILITY TRAILER, WHICH GENERALLY IS DEFINED AS SOMETHING THAT YOU MAYBE HOOKED TO A CAR OR TRUCK, TOW SOME EQUIPMENT IN, THINGS LIKE THAT, PULLS IT OUT. IT WAS ACTUALLY IN HIS DRIVEWAY, BUT THAT'S CONSIDERED PART OF THE FRONT YARD. BASED OFF OF THIS DIAGRAM. AND SO I THINK THE PURPOSE FOR MR. KUNTZ ASKING US TO BRING IT TO YOU WAS TO SEE IF COUNCIL WOULD LIKE TO GIVE CONSIDERATION TO POSSIBLY ADDING SOMETHING LIKE UTILITY TRAILERS, THAT IF SOMEBODY CAN'T STORE IT IN THEIR BACK YARD OR THE SIDE YARD AND KEEP IT OUT OF SIGHT, IF THAT WAS SOMETHING THAT YOU WOULD LIKE TO CONSIDER ADDING, AS LONG AS IT'S STILL ON THAT IMPROVED SURFACE, LIKE SOME GOOD ONE 30S PRETTY GOOD. THE I WOULD SAY THE BIGGEST PROBLEM I SEE WITH IT, ESPECIALLY IN FAIR MEADOWS, IS PUSHING CARS OUT.

MORE CARS OUT ON THE STREET WHERE YOU DON'T HAVE A LOT OF ROOM FOR CARS ALREADY BECAUSE YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE A LOT MORE TRAILERS IF YOU START ALLOWING ANY KIND OF TRAILER. AND I HAVE TRAILERS, IT'S IMPORTANT TO BE ABLE TO PARK THEM AND BE ABLE TO STORE THEM SOMETHING THAT WE JUST TALKED ABOUT, THE EQUITY AND IMPROVEMENTS, AND THAT'S ACTUALLY SOMETHING THAT KIND OF PLAYS INTO WHAT MIGHT BE A SOLUTION FOR A LOT OF THESE PROPERTIES IS THE UNIMPROVED EASEMENTS THAT WE HAVE. AND I DON'T KNOW SPECIFICALLY THIS PROPERTY, BUT IF WE CAN GET SOME ATTENTION TO THE UNIMPROVED EASEMENTS, WHICH ARE ESSENTIALLY ALLEYS, BUT THEY'RE JUST RUTTED UP AND UNUSABLE, IF WE CAN IMPROVE THOSE AND CREATE MORE ACCESS FOR PEOPLE CAN USE THOSE AND BRING TRAILERS INTO THE REAR OF THE PROPERTY. I A LOT OF NEIGHBORHOODS THAT WOULD WORK. I KNOW IN FAIR MEADOWS THAT WOULD BE A PROBLEM. TO ADD TO THAT, I'M JUST GOING TO TELL YOU FROM EXPERIENCE AND THAT THE IDEA OF TRYING TO MANAGE THE MANY DIFFERENT VARIABLES OF UTILITY TYPE TRAILERS AND WHAT THEY HOLD. SO WHAT WHAT, WHAT SOMEBODY MAY HAVE AS A FLATBED TRAILER THAT THEY KEEP EMPTY BECAUSE THEY TAKE IT TO A JOB SITE SO IT DOESN'T LOOK BAD.

SOMEBODY ELSE CAN HAVE A TRAILER THAT THEY KEEP A LOT OF SCRAP STUFF IN, AND IT BECOMES WHAT I CONSIDER ESTHETICALLY. ENCODES THE EYESORE. IT'S IT BECOMES AN EYESORE. IT'S PUT RIGHT ON THE NEIGHBORS OF EITHER SIDE THAT THEY HAVE TO LOOK AT THAT AND TO TRY TO ENFORCE KEEPING THAT TO

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RIGHT. BUT FOR ANYONE AND I AND I DROVE AROUND AND ONE REASON I WANTED TO BRING BECAUSE I THOUGHT, WELL, THIS IS JUST ONE CASE. BUT THEN I DROVE AROUND AND THERE WERE A LOT OF UTILITY TRAILERS THAT ARE PARKED OUTSIDE. YOU DON'T WANT TO BE, YOU KNOW, GETTING ANY ATTENTION.

AND SO THAT'S CHAD'S NEW JOB. NO, I UNDERSTAND I UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU'RE SAYING TO CLARIFY THAT. YEAH. WE'RE NOT SAYING, HEY, ANYBODY WITH A UTILITY TRAILER PARKING OUTSIDE YOUR HOUSE. I UNDERSTAND YOU'RE SAYING THAT MAKES SENSE. ANYTHING ELSE? SO I MEAN, IF YOU CAN AT LEAST BRING IT BACK FOR. YEAH, I MEAN, EVERYBODY IS OPEN TO DISCUSS IT. OKAY. ALL RIGHT, WE'LL BRING IT BACK. OKAY. SO WITH THAT WE'RE GOING TO CLOSE OUR OUR WORK OUR BRIEFING SESSION AND. 717 AND TAKE A QUICK FIVE MINUTE BREAK

[CALL TO ORDER]

GOOD EVENING EVERYONE. I'D FIRST LIKE TO JUST SAY THANK YOU TO THIS COUNCIL FOR GIVING ME THIS OPPORTUNITY. I'D LIKE TO BEGIN BY READING JEREMIAH 29. IT SAYS, BUILD HOUSES AND DWELL IN THEM, PLANT GARDENS AND EAT THEIR FRUIT. TAKE WIVES, AND BEGET SONS AND DAUGHTERS. TAKE WIVES FOR YOUR SONS, AND GIVE YOUR DAUGHTERS TO HUSBANDS. SO THAT THEY MAY BEAR SONS AND DAUGHTERS. THAT THAT THAT YOU MAY INCREASE THEIR AND NOT DIMINISH AND SEEK THE PEACE OF THE CITY WHERE I HAVE CAUSED YOU TO BE CARRIED AWAY, AND PRAY TO THE LORD FOR IT. FOR IN THE

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TONIGHT, AS YOU TAUGHT US HOW TO PRAY IN MATTHEW SIX, YOU SAID, OUR FATHER IN HEAVEN, HALLOWED BE YOUR NAME, AND YOUR KINGDOM COME, AND YOUR WILL BE DONE ON EARTH. AND WE ASK YOU SPECIFICALLY THAT YOUR WILL BE DONE IN DUNCANVILLE AS IT IS IN HEAVEN. LORD, GIVE US THE CITIZENS, THE SERVANTS, THE EMPLOYEES OF THIS CITY. EACH DAY OUR DAILY BREAD AND FORGIVE US OF OUR DEBTS. FOR WE KNOW THAT WE COME UP SHORT. AND LORD, WE ASK YOU THAT YOU WOULD LEAD US NOT INTO TEMPTATION, BUT DELIVER US FROM EVIL. DELIVER US FROM THE EVILS OF VIOLENCE, OF THIEVERY, OF IMMORALITY, OF RACISM. DELIVER US FROM THE EVILS OF INJUSTICE AND OTHER CRIMES. AND NOW WE SAY, FOR YOURS IS THE KINGDOM AND YOURS IS THE POWER, AND YOURS IS THE GLORY. FOREVER IN DUNCANVILLE AND THE SURROUNDING BEST OF SOUTHWEST CITIES IN DALLAS COUNTY, IN OUR GREAT STATE OF TEXAS, AND IN THE GREATEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD, THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. AMEN AND AMEN. WE GIVE YOU GLORY IN JESUS NAME. THANK YOU SO MUCH. AMEN.

THANK YOU. PLEASE JOIN US IN THE PLEDGES. OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND TO.

THANK YOU. CITY SECRETARY, BEFORE I GO INTO THE. WELL, THAT'S GOING TO BE OUR NEXT ITE.

DID WE DID WE RECEIVE ANY ELECTRONIC REQUEST? OKAY. THANK YOU. OKAY. FIRST ORDER OF

[1.A. Mayor's Report.]

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AND MOST PART, THE GROUP THAT MET AT THE HILTON GARDEN INN. THIS WEEKEND FOR A THREE DAY EVENT CELEBRATING THEIR 75TH ANNIVERSARY OF THIS SMALL COLLEGE, 3000 STUDENTS. THEY CAME TO DUNCANVILLE AND THEY CELEBRATED HERE. AND THEY I THINK THEY WENT OVER TO FORT WORTH AND THEY WENT TO THE ARBORETUM. BUT THEY HAD THEIR OWN EVENTS HERE. I GOT TO GO AND FOR THEIR OPEN CEREMONIES. AND THAT'S WHEN I REALIZED IT WASN'T PERSISTENCE, IT WAS PASSION.

THESE PEOPLE WERE VERY PASSIONATE ABOUT THIS COLLEGE, PROVIDING THEM WITH AN OPPORTUNITY TO GO ALL OVER THE WORLD TO LIVE. AND MANY OF THEM ARE HERE IN THE UNITED STATES.

CAME TO DUNCANVILLE FROM HOUSTO, CHICAGO, MARYLAND, ALL OVER THE COUNTRY. IT WAS FASCINATING THAT I'D SAY THERE WERE 55, 60 PEOPLE THAT WERE IN ATTENDANCE, AND IT WAS AN INTERESTING CULTURAL AWARENESS FOR ME TO SEE SOME OF THE THINGS THAT THEY DID DURING THEIR CELEBRATIONS. I GOT TO PARTICIPATE IN A FEW, SO JUST WANTED TO MENTION IT TO EVERYBODY, BECAUSE IT WAS KIND OF AN OFF THE WALL THING THAT CAME TO ME AT FIRST, AND IT WASN'T OFF THE WALL AT ALL. IT WAS FITS RIGHT IN WITH WHAT WE'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT SO MUCH RECENTLY, AND THAT IS ACCEPTING ALL CULTURES INTO OUR COMMUNITY AND CELEBRATING ALL CULTURES. AND SO THIS WAS A REALLY NEAT

[1.B. Councilmembers' Reports]

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 26TH AGAIN BACK AT LAKESIDE PARK. THEY'RE HAVING THE SEED PROGRAM. THEY'RE LOOKING FOR VOLUNTEERS, BUT IT'S A NATIVE LANDSCAPE PROJECT THAT'S BEEN BEEN HAPPENING.

THAT'S THAT'S FROM THE CENTER STREET SIDE GOING BACK IN TOWARDS. AND IT'S REALLY AN OUTSTANDING THING. SO WE NEED VOLUNTEERS LOOKING FOR PEOPLE TO BE WILLING TO DO THE WORK.

THAT'S 9 TO 1. AND ALSO THERE'S A SPOOKY OPEN HOUSE THAT'S BEING DONE BY THE POLICE DEPARTMENT FROM 3 TO 5 ON THAT DAY, NOVEMBER 2ND. MY CHURCH, FIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH, IS HAVING THEIR ANNUAL BAZAAR. IT'S AN ALL DAY EVENT. KDB'S ALSO HAVING THEIR ARBOR DAY FROM 9 TO 11. SO

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AND AGAIN, HTML WAS WONDERFUL. I WAS IN THE SAME INVESTING IN THE ARTS WITH COUNCILWOMAN GOODEN, AND COUNCILMAN KOONTZ WAS IN THERE, TOO. AND IT'S KIND OF FUNNY BECAUSE WE WERE SEPARATED AND SITTING APART. AND WHEN SHE REALIZED I WAS THERE, WE'D CATCH EACH OTHER'S EYES AND OUR EYES WOULD LIGHT UP TOGETHER. IT'S LIKE, WE GET THIS. WE UNDERSTAND THIS. THIS MAKES WONDERFUL SENSE. AND I SAW COUNCIL MEMBER KOONTZ AT THE END OF IT, AND HIM AND I HAD A REALLY GOOD TALK ABOUT IT. WE'RE WE'RE EXCITED. AND I KNOW THIS COUNCIL IS EXCITED ABOUT WHAT THE ARTS IS GOING TO START DOING COMING OUT OF HTML, THE CAMARADERIE WITH THE COUNCIL AND CITY MANAGEMENT.

THAT WAS WONDERFUL. WHEN I CAME ON TO COUNCIL, I SAID, I THINK I'M JOINING A GREAT COUNCIL. SO LEAVING HTML, I THINK I'M COMING BACK WITH AN EVEN BETTER COUNCIL COMING HERE LAST NIGHT WE HAD OUR DOG PARK TOWN HALL, AND IF YOU WEREN'T THERE AND HAVEN'T SEEN THE PLANS YET, I BELIEVE WE'RE GOING TO HAVE THEM UP ON THIS COUNCIL ON THE CITY WEBSITE SOON. BUT THERE'S TWO CONCEPTUAL PLANS AND IT'S AMAZING WHAT WE'RE GOING TO PUT DOWN FOR THE CONCEPT, BUT THIS IS GOING TO BE SOMETHING THAT WE NEED THE COMMUNITY TO GET BEHIND. JUST LIKE ANYTHING THAT WE'RE DOING, WE NEED YOU TO GET BEHIND. JUST LIKE WITH KIDS. BILL, 40 YEARS AGO, THAT WAS THE LARGEST VOLUNTEER BUILT PLAYGROUND IN THE COUNTRY. WE DID THAT ALL OF US. SO WE CAN DO THIS DOG PARK.

WE CAN DO SO MANY THINGS WITH ARTS, BUT WE NEED YOUR INVOLVEMENT. SO PAY ATTENTION.

ASK WHERE YOU CAN HELP. ASK HOW YOU CAN GET CONNECTED. WE NEED YOU. THANK YOU. OKAY, NO FURTHER

[1.C. City Manager's Report.]

MAYOR, COUNCIL. I'LL KEEP IT BRIEF. WE'VE GOT WE'VE GOT A LOT OF THINGS AND REALLY EXCITED

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[2.A. Presentation on Life Saving Award to Officer Figueroa.]

GOOD EVENING, CHIEF STOGNER. WE'VE GOT A MICROPHONE SO YOU DON'T HAVE TO LEAN OVER SO MUCH.

OH, NO. IT'S FINE. YOU SURE? YEAH, ABSOLUTELY. I DON'T KNOW. WE'RE GOOD. THANK YOU THOUGH. DO YOU HAVE THE CLICKER RIGHT. ALL RIGHT. GOOD EVENING, MAYOR. AND COUNCIL. THANK YOU FOR THE TIME TO PRESENT OFFICER FIGUEROA WITH THIS MUCH DESERVED RECOGNITION. I CERTAINLY WOULD LIKE TO THANK THE MEDIA WHO ARE PRESENT TO HIGHLIGHT THIS INCIDENT. AND OFFICER FIGUEROA, AS WELL. SO ON SEPTEMBER SIX, 2024, AT APPROXIMATELY 11:26 P.M, DUNCANVILLE OFFICERS AND DUNCANVILLE FIRE PARAMEDICS WERE DISPATCHED TO A MEDICAL EMERGENCY AT 626 NORTH CLARK ROAD. DISPATCHERS ADVISED THAT A FEMALE HAD JUST GIVEN BIRTH AT THE LOCATION. THE BABY WAS NOT BREATHING. WITHIN MINUTES, OFFICER FIGUEROA ARRIVED AT THE LOCATION, QUICKLY ASSESSED THE SCENE AND OBSERVED THAT THE NEWBORN APPEARED TO BE COMPLETELY LIMP AND WAS NOT BREATHING. OFFICER FIGUEROA IMMEDIATELY BEGAN PERFORMING LIFE SAVING MEASURES ON THE NEWBORN UNTIL THE NEWBORN EXPELLED FLUID FROM THE MOUTH AND STARTED CRYING. OFFICER FIGUEROA DID THIS WHILE DEMONSTRATING EXCEPTIONAL SKILL AND COMPOSURE UNDER PRESSURE.

THANKS, OFFICER FIGUEROA'S QUICK RESPONSE AND LIFE SAVING TECHNIQUES TO NEWBORN AND THE NEWBORN'S MOTHER WERE STABILIZED AND TRANSPORTED TO THE HOSPITAL, WHERE THEY RECEIVED FURTHER MEDICAL TREATMENT. OFFICER FIGUEROA'S RAPID THINKING AND DECISIVE ACTIONS EXEMPLIFY HER DEDICATION AND COMMITMENT TO PUBLIC SAFETY. THE LIFE SAVING AWARD IS PRESENTED TO OFFICERS WHO WERE DIRECTLY RESPONSIBLE FOR SAVING A HUMAN LIFE. OFFICER FIGUEROA JOINS A BRAVE GROUP OF OFFICERS WHO HAVE GONE ABOVE AND BEYOND THE CALL OF DUTY TO PROTECT AND SERVE THIS COMMUNIT.

SO PLEASE HELP ME CONGRATULATE OFFICER FIGUEROA FOR HER CONTRIBUTIONS AND UNWAVERING DEDICATION TO MAKING DUNCANVILLE A SAFER PLACE. TO.

WE'LL GET A QUICK PICTURE AND THEN WE'LL CUE UP THE VIDEO. ALL RIGHT. I DID THAT A LITTLE BACKWARDS, SO I APOLOGIZE, ALEX, IF YOU MAY.

ALL RIGHT. SHE'S RIGHT. YEAH. HE'S CRYING. HE'S CRYING. ALL RIGHT. SO PLEASE, ONCE AGAIN, IF WE CAN ACKNOWLEDGE OFFICER FIGUEROA FOR ACTIONS. THANK YOU.

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[2.B. Proclamation Recognizing October 2024 as Domestic Violence Awareness Month.]

ALL RIGHT. GOOD EVENING. COUNCIL MAYOR. WHEREAS DOMESTIC VIOLENCE IS A PATTERN OF ASSAULTIVE AND COERCIVE BEHAVIORS SUCH AS PHYSICAL, PSYCHOLOGICAL, SEXUAL, AND ECONOMIC ABUSE, INCLUDING SOCIAL ISOLATION AND STALKING THAT INDIVIDUALS USE TO MAINTAIN POWER AND CONTROL OVER THEIR INTIMATE PARTNERS. AND WHEREAS THE CRIME OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE VIOLATES AN INDIVIDUAL'S DIGNITY, SAFETY, AND BASIC HUMAN RIGHTS. AND WHEREAS DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CROSSES ALL ETHNIC, RACIAL, ECONOMIC, AGE, EDUCATIONAL AND RELIGIOUS LINES. AND WHEREAS DOMESTIC VIOLENCE IS THE SINGLE LARGEST CAUSE OF INJURY AND HOMICIDE FOR WOMEN. AND WHEREAS CHILDREN WHO ARE EXPOSED TO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE EXPERIENCE FEELINGS OF TERROR, ISOLATION, GUILT, HELPLESSNESS AND GRIEF AND HAVE A HIGHER RISK OF SUBSTANCE ABUSE, ENGAGING IN CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR AND BECOMING VICTIMS OF CRIME. AND WHEREAS IT IS INCUMBENT ON EVERY RESIDENT TO AID AND ASSIST THOSE SUFFERING FROM DOMESTIC ABUSE, AND LET VICTIMS KNOW THAT SUPPORT IS AVAILABLE. AND WHEREAS DURING THE MONTH OF OCTOBER, THE DUNCANVILLE POLICE DEPARTMENT WILL BE INTENSIFYING EFFORTS TO PROMOTE PUBLIC UNDERSTANDING OF FAMILY VIOLENC, INCREASING SENSITIVITY TO VICTIMS WHILE EMPHASIZING THE NEED FOR CITIZEN INVOLVEMENT IN EFFORTS TO REDUCE FAMILY VIOLENCE. NOW, THEREFORE, GREG CONTRERAS, MAYOR OF THE CITY OF DUNCANVILLE, TEXAS, DO HEREBY PROCLAIM OCTOBER 2024 AS DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AWARENESS MONTH AND ASK ALL CITIZENS IN THE CITY OF DUNCANVILLE TO JOIN ME IN PROMOTING DOMESTIC DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AWARENESS AND THANKING THE THANKING THE DUNCANVILLE POLICE DEPARTMENT FOR ITS EFFORTS IN SERVING AND SUPPORTING THOSE AFFECTED BY DOMESTIC VIOLENCE.

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THAT. AND I THINK WE'RE ALL AWARE WE SEE IT WAY TOO OFTEN. VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ACROSS THE NATION. SO THAT'S SOMETHING WE HAVE TO THINK ABOUT A LOT, AND HOPEFULLY WE WILL BE BETTER AS A NATION. THANK YOU. ITEM TWO C PROCLAMATION DESIGNATING

[2.C. Proclamation designating November 2, 2024 as "Arbor Day" in Duncanville.]

[2.D. Proclamation designating October 20-26, 2024 as National Friends of the Library Week]

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PROGRAMING TARGETED TO OUR COMMUNITY'S UNIQUE NEEDS, AND OUTREACH OPPORTUNITIES FOR PATRONS OF ALL AGES. AND WHEREAS THE GENEROUS GIFT OF THE FRIENDS TIME AND COMMITMENT TO THE DUNCANVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY SETS AN EXEMPLARY STANDARD FOR ALL AND HOW VOLUNTEERISM LEADS TO POSITIVE CIVIC ENGAGEMENT AND THE OVERALL BETTERMENT OF OUR COMMUNITY. AND NOW, THEREFORE, ON BEHALF OF MAYOR GREG CONTRERAS, I DO HEREBY PROCLAIM OCTOBER 20TH THROUGH 26TH, 2024, AS NATIONAL FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY WEEK AT THE DUNCANVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY, AND URGE EVERYONE TO JOIN AND SUPPORT THE FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY AND THANK THEM FOR ALL THEY DO TO ENRICH OUR LIBRARY AND THEREFORE OUR COMMUNITY. I. OKAY. THANK YOU ALL. OKAY.

[3. CITIZENS' INPUT]

THOMAS LACKEY 1818. SEABROOK. I'M HERE TO SPEAK ABOUT THE OPEN GOV SOFTWARE ITEM ITEM NUMBER FOUR F. I WAS JUST THINKING THAT, YOU KNOW, IN MY TIME IN THE CITY, I'VE SEEN BUDGETS PRESENTED IN A LOT OF DIFFERENT WAYS. SOME OF WHICH HAVE BEEN OPAQUE, YOU KNOW, AND SOME THAT ARE A LITTLE MORE TRANSPARENT WITH BETTER VISUALIZATION. AND I WAS LOOKING THROUGH THAT SOFTWARE AND THE THREE EXAMPLES THAT WERE AVAILABLE TO US ON THAT ON THE AGENDA TONIGHT. AND

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I WOULD LIKE TO REQUEST FROM THE CITY COUNCIL THAT THE TWO MINUTES BE WAIVED, BECAUSE I ATTENDED A PLANNING AND ZONING SESSION FOR THIS TOPIC, AND I HAD A TWO MINUTE STATEMENT PREPARED, AND I WAS INTERRUPTED. THE FIRST TIME I BEGAN TO GIVE THE STATEMENT, I WAS INTERRUPTED THE SECOND TIME THAT I WAS GIVING THE STATEMENT, AND I WAS TOLD THAT MY STATEMENT WOULD BE ALLOWED AT THE END OF THE SESSION, AND THEN THEY ABRUPTLY ENDED THE PLANNING SESSION WITHOUT ALLOWING ME TO SPEAK. FIRST OFF, JUST FOR THE RECORD, STATE YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS.

ROYCE MILAM 623 SOUTH ALEXANDER AVENUE. OKAY. AND THEN AT THIS POINT, I'LL HAVE TO DEFER TO THE CITY ATTORNEY AS TO WHETHER OR NOT, ACCORDING TO OUR RULES. AS I READ ON, CITIZENS INPUT, IF THERE'S ANY EXCEPTIONS THAT ARE ALLOWED AND BY WHOM. OKAY. I'M NOT AWARE. AWARE OF ANY EXCEPTIONS AT THIS TIME. SO WE'RE JUST GOING TO GO WITH THE TWO MINUTES. OKAY. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. I HAVE A TWO MINUTE STATEMENT PREPARED. I AM NOT IN FAVOR OF ORDINANCE NUMBER 2461, BECAUSE WE DO NOT KNOW WHAT WE ARE GETTING IN 2022. IT SEEMED AS IF WE WERE CREATING AN ECO VILLAGE ONLY TO FIND TWO YEARS LATER THAT THE TREES IN THE ALLEY OVER WHICH I HAVE HELD STEWARDSHIP RESPONSIBILITIES FOR OVER 30 YEARS, THE REDBUDS AND THE AMERICAN ELMS HAVE ALL BEEN CUT TO THE GROUND, AND THE BUFFALO GOURDS AND PASSION FLOWERS ARE NOW RELIGIOUSLY MOWED IN WHAT MONTY ANDERSON HAS CONTINUOUSLY AND ERRONEOUSLY CALLED AN ABANDONED ALLEY A CONVENIENT DESIGNATION BECAUSE IT ALLOWS HIM TO DO WITH IT AS HE PLEASES. SO NOW, TWO YEARS ON FROM THE PROMISE OF AN ECO VILLAGE, FROM THE PROMISE OF GOOD RESTAURANTS AND A TEXAS WILD SCAPE WALKWAY WITH NATIVE GRAPE VINES AND PASSION FRUIT FORMING A LANDSCAPE BUFFER BETWEEN THE HOMEOWNERS. AND ALL OF THESE COMMERCIAL ENTERPRISES THAT ARE TRANSPIRING LITERALLY IN OUR BACKYARDS. NOW, TWO YEARS ON, ALL OF THOSE MATURE GRAPEVINES AND OTHER USEFUL, WELL DOCUMENTED SPECIES HAVE BEEN SLAUGHTERED SO AS NOT TO IMPEDE THE SPEED OF THE RACING MOWER THAT SWEEPS THROUGH THE ALLEY TO MOW THE TRASH IN THE FAMINE WEED. TWO YEARS ON, WE HAVE A GUN SHOP, A SWAT ACADEMY, AND A TATTOO PARLOR. PLUS THE PROMISE OF A HOTEL AND BAR NEXT DOOR TO AN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. THE BACK OF THE BUILDINGS HAVE NOW BECOME ENTRANCES WITH WINDOWS TO PEER INTO ANY NEIGHBORHOOD ACTIVITIES, AND THE GLARE OF SECURITY LIGHTS BEAMS UNIMPEDED ALL NIGHT LONG THROUGH THE RECENTLY VEGETATED FENCES DIRECTLY INTO OUR BEDROOM WINDOWS. I AM NOT IN FAVOR OF THIS ORDINANCE THAT GIVES MONTY ANDERSON EVERY POSSIBLE ALLOWANCE AND PROVIDES EXEMPTIONS AND EXCLUSIONS TO CIRCUMVENT ANY POSSIBLE RESTRICTIONS ON WHATEVER BUSINESS MONTY CAN FIND TO FILL HIS EMPTY SPACES. THANK YOU.

PHILLIP JAMES. PHILLIP JAMES, 910 GREEN TERRACE LANE. I COME TODAY A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENT. I

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ISMAEL MORALES, 355 EAST CHERRY. FIRST OF ALL, THANK YOU. I WANTED TO GIVE THANKS TO MR. AM THE RESIDENT WITH THE UTILITY TRAILER, AND I WAS ACTUALLY SURPRISED THAT HE MADE THE AGENDA AS QUICKLY AS HE DID. I'D LIKE TO REQUEST THE REVISION TO ORDINANCE 1292 AND TO MAKE AN EXEMPTION TO UTILITY TRAILERS. I UNDERSTAND IT CAN BE AN EYESORE, AND I UNDERSTAND HAVING A HEAVY EQUIPMENT VEHICLE ON THE STREET CAN BE NOT NOT RIGHT, ESPECIALLY FOR THE RESIDENTS. RIGHT. BUT WHEN I OVERHEARD SOMEBODY SAYING THAT IT COULD BE AN EYESORE, I UNDERSTAND IT. IF IT'S BEING KEPT WITH TRASH. BUT WE'RE NOT IN AN HOA. THAT'S ONE. TWO. I DON'T HAVE ACCESS TO MY BACKYARD BECAUSE THE CITY DECIDED TO PUT SOME GUIDE CABLES TO SOME UTILITY POLES. AND THEN THE OTHER THING TOO, IS IT. I DON'T UNDERSTAND HOW A UTILITY TRAILER IN A DRIVEWAY CAN BE AN EYESORE, BUT RAISING RABBITS IN YOUR FRONT YARD IS NOT. THAT'S BEEN GOING ON FOR A COUPLE OF YEARS NOW. SOMETIMES WE CAN'T EVEN WALK DOWN THE SIDEWALK BECAUSE THERE'S TREES THAT ARE OVERHANGING OVER THE SIDEWALK, AND YOU HAVE TO GET ON THE STREET. SO I'D JUST LIKE TO HAVE YOU GUYS HAVE CONSIDERATION INTO MAYBE MAKING SOME REVISION AND MAKING AN EXEMPTION TO UTILITY TRAILERS, AS LONG AS THEY'RE NOT ON THE STREET. NOT CAUSING HARM TO PEOPLE. AND IF I'M NOT KEEPING JUNK ON IT OR ANYBODY, ANY RESIDENT FOR THAT MATTER. THAT'S ALL REALLY. BUT THANK YOU FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK. THANK YOU. OKAY. THIS CONCLUDES OUR CITIZEN INPUT FOR THIS

[4. CONSENT AGENDA]

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MOTION BY COUNCILMEMBER MCBURNETT. SECOND BY COUNCILMAN KOONS. PLEASE VOTE. UNANIMOUSLY APPROVED. OKAY, NOW WE MOVE ON TO ITEM FIVE. INDIVIDUAL ITEMS FOR INDIVIDUAL CONSIDERATION.

ITEM A WE HAVE NO ACTION TO TAKE AS A RESULT OF THE EXECUTIVE SESSIONS THAT WE'VE COVERED. WE DO HAVE MORE EXECUTIVE SESSIONS TO FOLLOW THIS. THIS MEETING. ITEM B CONSIDER A RESOLUTION

[5.B. Consider a resolution authorizing approval of Duncanville Community & Economic Development Corporation (DCEDC) Incentive/Design Grants for an amount not to exceed $35,000 to Sistergirl's Kitchen LLC located at 106 North Cedar Ridge, Duncanville, TX 75116]

YOU GUYS HAVE HAD THEIR FOOD A COUPLE OF TIMES. THEIR PROPOSED EMPLOYEES ARE ABOUT 11. THEIR APPRAISED VALUE OF THE PROPERTY IS AT THREE. A LITTLE BIT OVER 3000. THE PROPOSED OVERALL PERSONAL INVESTMENT IS A LITTLE BIT OVER 50,000. AND THEY HAVE ASKED FOR LET ME I'M GONNA GO A LITTLE FASTER. THEY HAVE ASKED FOR. THEY HAVE BEEN APPROVED FOR 35,000 THROUGH EDC FOR A SIGNAGE GRANT AT 6000. YOU CAN'T HEAR ME. I'M SORRY. AT 6000 AND AN INFRASTRUCTURE GRANT AT 29,000.

THE 29,000 WAS FOR A GREASE TRAP. NOW, THERE WAS A PREVIOUS GREASE TRAP IN THERE, BUT IT WASN'T EFFECTIVE FOR THE USE THAT THEY WERE GOING TO BE USING IT FOR. SO THEY DID PRESENT THEIR THREE BIDS AND THE DCDC EDC DID APPROVE THEM AT THAT 35,000 FOR BOTH THE INFRASTRUCTURE AND THE GREASE TRAP. AND WE DO HAVE MISS RENEE HERE WITH US TODAY. IF YOU GUYS HAVE ANY ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS. SHE DID NOT BRING SAMPLES, UNFORTUNATELY. MEMBER MCBURNETT THANK YOU. MAYOR. MY QUESTION GOES BACK TO IS. I THINK IT WAS MARCH OR MAY OR SOMEWHERE IN THERE. WE GAVE MONEY TO THE DEVELOPER DUE WEST TO UPGRADE SO THAT THEY COULD BRING THINGS IN.

AND WE GAVE THEM MONEY. AND IT SPECIFICALLY LISTS GREASE TRAPS AND THAT KIND OF STUFF. NOW THEY'RE COMING TO US AND ASKING US FOR THIS, AND I'M DEFINITELY NOT AGAINST YOU OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT, BECAUSE IT'S THAT. BUT I'M THINKING THAT SHOULD BE COMING FROM THE DEVELOPER. SO CAN YOU HELP ME UNDERSTAND WHAT'S WHAT'S THE ISSUE? WELL, IT'S MY UNDERSTANDING THAT DUE WEST DID COME TO THE EDC AND ASK FOR SOME FUNDING, AND THEY DID ASK FOR MONEY FOR A GREASE TRAP.

HOWEVER, AFTER REVIEWING THE RECEIPTS THAT THEY SUBMITTED FOR REIMBURSEMENT THAT DID NOT INCLUDE GREASE TRAP OR ANYTHING OF THAT NATURE, AS FAR AS WE KNOW, AT THIS POINT. MISS RENEE HAS ALSO INFORMED US THAT THE GREASE TRAP THAT WAS IN THERE WAS NOT ADEQUATE AND BASED ON THE ESTIMATES, SHE'S HAD TO GET THAT REDONE AND FIXED AND UPDATED. SO INSTEAD OF US HOLDING OUR DEVELOPER TO WHAT THEY'RE SUPPOSED TO BE DOING, WE'RE WE'RE GOING TO GO AHEAD AND JUST OR ASSUME MAKE THE ASSUMPTION TO DO THIS. BASED ON THE DECISION MADE BY THE BOARD, BY THE BOARD AND BASED ON THE BIDS THAT WERE SUBMITTED, THERE WAS A NEED FOR IT. DID YOU WANT

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COUNCILWOMAN GOODEN. SO THEY DIDN'T DO THE GREASE TRAP. THEY DIDN'T. THEY DIDN'T PROVIDE A RECEIPT FOR IT. SO THEREFORE THEY WERE NOT REIMBURSED FOR IT. CORRECT. THAT IS CORRECT. OKAY.

THANK YOU. COUNCILMEMBER MCBURNETT, YOUR LIGHT IS STILL ON. DO YOU HAVE ANOTHER QUESTION? OKAY. COUNCIL. MOVE TO APPROVE. OKAY. MOVE. MOTION TO APPROVE THE REQUEST BY COUNCILMAN KOONTZ. SECOND BY COUNCILWOMAN CHERRY BROWN. YEAH. MAYOR, I DO HAVE A COMMENT. I'D LIKE TO MAKE SURE AS WELL. IS THAT WE GAVE MONEY TO THIS DEVELOPER TO EXECUTE AND THEY HAVEN'T EXECUTED. AGAIN, THIS ISN'T ANYTHING ABOUT THIS PARTICULAR BUSINESS OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT. BUT THEY WERE GIVEN MONEY AND THEY WERE ASKED TO PERFORM A CERTAIN SERVICE. AND I THINK THAT'S WHO IT SHOULD GO TO. OKAY. AND THAT'S AND THAT'S AND IT'S IT WAS THEIR RESPONSIBILITY TO DO IT. AND I WOULD ASK THAT, THAT THIS COUNCIL KIND OF CONSIDER AND LOOK AT THIS AND THAT. IT'S WE, WE PROVIDED THEM MONEY TO DO A JOB. AND THAT WAS SUPPOSED TO BRING IN TWO RESTAURANTS, IMPROVE THE GREASE TRAPS, SUPPOSED TO BRING IN CERTAIN AMOUNT OF EMPLOYEES AND THAT KIND OF STUFF TOO. AND THAT WAS GIVEN TO THE DEVELOPER. OKAY.

HELP, HELP ME OUT, IF YOU WOULD. MR. MCBURNETT ON THE PORTION OF YOUR COMMENT THAT YOU SAID THE DEVELOPER WAS SUPPOSED TO AND YOU SPECIFICALLY, SPECIFICALLY CALLED OUT THE GREASE TRAP. AND I HONESTLY DON'T RECALL THAT. AND I'M NOT SAYING THAT WASN'T PART OF SOME AGREEMENT THAT WE READ OVER WHEN WE GAVE HIM MONE. BUT WAS THE GREASE TRAP SPECIFICALLY CALLED OUT FOR THIS SPECIFIC SUITE IN THERE? BECAUSE IT SOUNDS TO ME LIKE THIS DISCOVERY THAT THIS GREASE TRAP WAS NOT USABLE TO THE EXTENT THAT IT WOULD HAVE TO BE FOR THIS PARTICULAR FOOD SERVICE THAT THAT WAS A DISCOVERY THAT WAS MADE AFTER THE FACT. OKAY. SO IT'S RESOLUTION NUMBER 2024, DASH 230. AND IT SAYS WHEREAS D W CEDAR RIDGE OCCUPIES THE BUILDINGS LOCATED AT 102 TO 110 NORTH CEDAR RIDGE DRIVE. AND DUNCANVILLE INTENDS TO REPLACE A TENANT IN THEIR SHOPPING CENTER WITH THE USE OF ADDITIONAL TENANT IMPROVEMENT AND LEASING COMMISSION ALLOWANCES. THESE TENANT IMPROVEMENT ALLOWANCES WILL BE DISTRIBUTED BY CEDAR RIDGE TO THE NEW TENANT TO BE USED FOR THEIR INTERIOR IMPROVEMENTS. ADDITIONAL PICKUP DRIVE THROUGH CAPABILITIES FOR BETTER SPACE, AND THE ENLARGEMENT OF GREASE TRAPS TO CREATE OVERALL INVITING ATMOSPHERE TO ALL CUSTOMERS. THE PAYMENT OF THESE INCENTIVE GRANTS IS CONTINGENT UPON THE SUBMISSION OF A BONA FIDE LEASE AGREEMENT FROM THE NEW TENANT TO OPERATE IN AN APPROVED PROPERTY.

OKAY. THANK YOU. SORRY. AND THE AMOUNT OF THE AWARD WAS $103,000. OKAY. SO I WOULD THEN HAVE A QUESTION. AND MR. PENNYBAKER, I SEE YOUR LIGHT ON, BUT JUST GIVE ME ONE SECOND. SO HE HAS READ AND CLARIFIED TO ME THAT THAT WAS PART OF THEIR SCOPE OF WORK. SO WERE THOSE CONTRACTORS THAT DID THAT WORK REIMBURSED THE FULL AMOUNT OF THE MONEY THAT WE VOTED TO GIVE THEM? CAN I ASK COUNCILMAN, IF YOU WOULD JUST ADDRESS MY QUESTION, I CAN GIVE YOU BACK OVER TO HIM. THE REASON I'M I'M CONFUSED BECAUSE IT SOUNDS LIKE HE SAID 110 NORTH CEDAR RIDGE

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ENTIRE BUILDING. OKAY, SO ALL OF THOSE BUILDINGS I KNOW FOR A FACT ARE NOT RESTAURANTS AT THIS TIME. SO WHAT WE CAN DO IS GO BACK TO DO THAT RESEARCH AND FIND OUT AND GET BACK, GET THAT INFORMATION TO YOU, BECAUSE I THINK MR. MCBURNETT BROUGHT UP A GOOD POINT OF CLARIFICATION WHEN HE READ THAT, THAT IT SOUNDED TO ME THAT WITHIN THE SCOPE OF WORK FOR THAT CONTRACTOR, THAT HE WAS TO DO THAT. SO THE QUESTION IS, RIGHT NOW THAT I'M ASKING IS, HAS HE BEEN PAID FOR THE SCOPE OF WORK THAT HE PROVIDED? OKAY. SO HE'S SO BASED ON THE RECEIPTS THAT WE THAT WERE SUBMITTED IS WHAT HE WAS BASED ON WHAT HE WAS REIMBURSED ON. SO BUT WHAT WE CAN DO IS GO BACK TO DO THAT RESEARCH TO MAKE SURE AND SEE WHAT WAS DONE AT THAT TIME. OKAY. SO APPARENTLY HE DIDN'T HE DIDN'T PROVIDE A HE DIDN'T DO ANY WORK ON THE GREASE TRAPS OR HE JUST DID NOT PROVIDE A RECEIPT. WHAT WE KNOW AT THIS TIME, YOU WANT TO HE DIDN'T DO ANY. COULD YOU STEP TO THE MIC AND GO AHEAD AND IDENTIFY YOURSELF? MY NAME IS RENEE AT 1013 GREENBRIER DRIVE. HE DIDN'T PROVIDE ANY NOTHING FOR THE GREASE TRAP. IT WAS LIKE, NOT FOR CITY CODES. IT WAS IN THE BUILDING. WE HAD TO PUT IT ON THE OUTSIDE SO NOTHING WAS DONE. IT WAS JUST A BAD BUILDING.

OKAY. NO, I UNDERSTAND MR. PENNYBAKER. AND I THINK JUST BACK TO YOUR QUESTION, WAS THE FULL 103 PAID OUT REGARDLESS OF THE GREASE TRAPS? WERE DONE OR NOT? SO IF IT WAS, THEN WE ASSUME THAT. YEAH, I THINK I THINK AT THIS POINT WE'VE ESTABLISHED THAT WE DON'T HAVE THAT ANSWER READILY AVAILABLE. SO I THINK WE'RE GOING TO HAVE TO TABLE THIS WHILE WE GET THAT INFORMATION BACK, IF THAT'S OKAY WITH THE COUNCILMAN WHO MADE THE. YEAH. I'LL WITHDRAW MY MOTION. OKAY. YES. WHAT I'D LIKE TO SUGGEST IS JUST THAT REMOVE THIS ITEM FROM THE AGENDA AND GIVE US AN OPPORTUNITY TO DO RESEARCH ON BOTH GRANT APPLICATIONS AND COME BACK WITH A FULL REPORT AT THE NEXT MEETING. THAT SOUNDS FAIR. IF THAT'S OKAY, I'D LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION TO TABLE IT. OKAY. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. HAVE A MOTION TO TABLE BY COUNCILMAN MCBURNETT.

SECOND BY COUNCILMAN PENNYBAKER. YES. COUNCILMAN KOONTZ, JUST A PROCEDURAL QUESTION BECAUSE THE THERE WAS A MOTION AND THERE WAS A SECOND. AND IT'S OKAY THAT I'M WITHDRAWING THE MOTION EVEN THOUGH THERE WAS ALREADY A SECOND. OKAY. JUST CHECKING. ALL RIGHT. SURE. THANK YOU. AND, MAYOR MISS SHERRY. YEAH. MISS SHERRY. HEY, I DO WANT TO MAKE SURE YOU KNOW THAT IT'S NOT SOMETHING AGAINST YOU. IT'S SOMETHING THAT WE'RE ASKING THE DEVELOPER TO DO. SO I'M DEFINITELY IN SUPPORT OF YOUR BUSINESS. THANK YOU. OKAY, WE'VE GOT A MOTION AND A SECOND TO TABLE THIS AGENDA ITEM. PLEASE VOTE. JERRY BROWN. YOU'RE ABSTAINING. OKAY. DID YOU GET THAT? OKAY. ALL RIGHT. THANK YO. AND NOW WE'RE ON TO ITEM FIVE C. CONSIDER RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING

[5.C. Consider a resolution authorizing approval of Duncanville Community & Economic Development Corporation (DCEDC) Incentive/Design Grants for an amount not to exceed $50,000 to 214 Woodhaven LLC located at 214 Woodhaven Boulevard, Duncanville, TX 75116]

INCENTIVE DESIGN GRANTS FOR AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $50,000 TO 214 WOODHAVEN, LLC, LOCATED AT 214 WOODHAVEN BOULEVARD. DUNCANVILLE, TEXAS. 75116 MR. BARRERA GOOD EVENING AND THANK YOU SO UP FOR THIS EVENING'S CITY COUNCIL'S CONSIDERATION. AND APPROVAL IS A $50,000 INCENTIVE GRANT FOR THE INSTALLATION OF A FIRE SUPPRESSION SYSTEM AT 4214 WOODHAVEN BOULEVARD. THE PROPERTY WAS PURCHASED BY THE CURRENT OWNER ON APRIL 20TH APRIL 2020. FOR JUST A COUPLE OF MONTHS AGO, BUT THE PROPERTY BACK IN IN DECEMBER OF 2023 EXPERIENCED SOME SEVERE FIRE DAMAGE THAT AT THE TIME, THOSE OWNERS WERE NOT ABLE TO MAKE THE NECESSARY REPAIRS AND REACHED OUT AN AGREEMENT WITH THE CURRENT OWNER TO PURCHASE TO PURCHASE THE PROPERTY. THE CURRENT OWNER HAS BEEN IN DISCUSSIONS WITH US ABOUT SOME OF THE PROPOSED IMPROVEMENTS TO EACH OF THE SPACES. THIS IS A SEVEN TENANT BUILDING, MOSTLY

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I WILL I SPOKE WITH THE GENTLEMAN MAKING THE REQUEST AT ONE OF THE DC EDC MEETINGS AND I'M VERY FAMILIAR WITH THAT BUILDING AND ITS HISTORY AND THE POOR MANAGEMENT OF THAT BUILDING FOR DECADES. SO I WANT TO DO EVERYTHING I CAN TO HELP HIM IF HE'S COMING IN AND GOING TO MAKE THAT BUILDING ANYTHING BETTER THAN WHAT IT IS AND HAS BEEN, IT'S BEEN AN IMPOSSIBLE TASK FOR CODE ENFORCEMENT AND NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES TO MANAGE ALL THE PROBLEMS THAT ARE OUT THERE. AND HE SOUNDS LIKE HE'S GOING TO COME IN AND TAKE CARE OF SOME THINGS THAT WILL BE A BIG BENEFIT TO THAT NEIGHBORHOOD AND THAT STREET. SO, COUNCILWOMAN GOODEN, DID YOU HAVE YOUR LIGHT ON? YES. OKAY. MY QUESTION WOULD BE REGARDING THE FUNDING FOR AND THIS WAS BECAUSE IT WAS SENT IN. I HAD A CITIZEN ASK ABOUT THE FUNDING BEGINNING AMOUNT. MR. CITY MANAGER, AND IT REFLECTING TO BE TOO HIGH. ABOUT 85,000. IS THAT DUE TO THE NEW BUDGET COMING OUT AND FUNDS WERE. ADJUSTED TO INCREASE BECAUSE OF THE NEW BUDGET OR. I WANT TO MAKE SURE I UNDERSTAND YOUR QUESTION. THE AMOUNT THAT'S IN THE STAFF REPORT YOU'RE SAYING WAS 85,000 OUT. IT SAYS THAT IT WAS HIGHER BY 85,000. THE AVAILABLE BUDGET SHOULD REFLECT. 2,171,000. AND INSTEAD IT REFLECTS 2,256,000 750,000. I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE DISCREPANCY WOULD BE. I WOULD HAVE TO ASK OUR BUDGET ADMINISTRATOR TO LOOK INTO THAT. THAT'S PROBABLY NOT SOMETHING THAT, OKAY, IF YOU'RE GOING TO BE ABLE TO ANSWER RIGHT NOW, BUT YEAH, JUST FOLLOW BACK UP WITH ME. SURE. AND LET ME KNOW SO I CAN RESPOND TO THE CITIZEN. THANK YOU. ANY OTHER QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS ON THIS ITEM? I'D LIKE TO ASK FOR A MOTION. MOTION TO APPROVE. MOTION TO APPROVE BY SECOND COUNCILMAN MCBURNETT AND SECOND BY COUNCILMAN CRUZ. PLEASE VOTE. OKAY. UNANIMOUS.

THANK YOU. THANK YOU. OKAY, NOW WE'RE GOING TO MOVE TO ITEM FIVE D, WHICH WAS FORMERLY FOUR C,

[4.C. Council to consider an amendment to the Arts Fund Policy.]

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SO EVERY, YOU KNOW, IF THEY WANTED TO BUY A BOX OF SPOONS FROM THE HOT FUND, WE'D HAVE TO APPROVE THAT. THAT THAT IS CORRECT. THEY WOULD HAVE TO SUBMIT THAT IT MEETS THE REQUIREMENTS OF HOT FUNDS TO THE COUNCIL AND THE COUNCIL WOULD HAVE TO AUTHORIZE IT. CITY MANAGER, IS THAT THE RESULT OF AND I'M NOT SURE HOW THIS EVOLVED TO WHAT IT IS THE REMOVAL OF THAT REFERENCE TO ANYTHING UNDER $20,000 THAT WAS PREVIOUSLY IN THE POLICY RIGHT.

SO WHAT HAPPENED BEFORE WAS WE HAD THE REFERENCE TO THE $20,000 BECAUSE THE DC, EDC WAS YOUR ADMINISTRATOR OF HOT FUNDS. SO THEY, AS THE DECISION MAKING BODY, COULD AUTHORIZE ANY EXPENDITURE LESS THAN $20,000. BUT NOW THAT THE COUNCIL IS THE ADMINISTRATOR OF THE HOT FUNDS, THEY NO LONGER HAVE THAT AUTHORITY. THE ARTS COMMISSION IS AN ADVISORY BOARD, FROM WHAT I UNDERSTAND. SO THE DECISION MAKING BODY THEN RESTS WITH THE COUNCIL TO APPROVE ANYTHING.

OKAY. I'M NOT SURE THAT WE HAD THAT DISCUSSION WHEN WE FIRST COVERED THIS ISSUE. SO I'D LIKE TO GET ANY INPUT REGARDING WHAT THE CITY MANAGER JUST DESCRIBED. THIS COULD. SO I WILL SAY IT, IT

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EITHER THE DC EDC, AS A SEPARATE, NOT FOR PROFIT CORPORATION OR THE CITY COUNCIL.

AND SO I THINK IT'S SOMETHING THAT WE CAN DISCUSS MORE WITH THE CITY ATTORNEY DOWN THE ROAD AND MAYBE FIGURE OUT ANOTHER SOLUTION. BUT I THINK FOR RIGHT NOW, I, I NEED SOMEBODY TO AUTHORIZE ME TO SIGN A DOCUMENT. AND I THINK IT'S GOING TO HAVE TO BE THE CITY COUNCIL. SO.

COUNCILWOMAN CHERRY BROWN. OH, EXCUSE ME, I WAS GOING TO SAY THAT I THOUGHT A THRESHOLD NEEDED TO BE SET, BUT I SAY IF WE AUTHORIZE HIM TO DO A CERTAIN AMOUNT, OTHERWISE THEY DON'T GET ANYTHING DONE. COUNCILMAN. AND I, I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE WE CONSIDER, BECAUSE THIS IS SOMETHING THAT'S GOING TO HAVE TO YOU KNOW, WE'RE WORKING AT THIS, RIGHT? WE'RE KIND OF LEARNING AS WE'RE GOING ALONG. AND I AND WE MADE A DECISION HERE RECENTLY THAT IMPACTED A DECISION WE'D ALREADY MADE. AND SO, YOU KNOW, WE'RE KIND OF GOING THROUGH THE GROWING PAINS OF HAVING THIS. BUT BOTTOM LINE IS WE WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT WE RESERVED 15% OF THAT FUND FOR THE ARTS. AND REGARDLESS OF WHAT WE DECIDE TONIGHT, THAT THAT'S THAT'S WHAT WE'RE GOING TO HAVE, YOU KNOW, AFTER WHATEVER DECISION WE MAKE RIGHT NOW. AND I THINK THAT'S PROBABLY WHAT'S MOST IMPORTANT TO MAKE SURE WE DON'T LOSE SIGHT OF THAT IS THAT WE HAVE 15% SET ASIDE FOR THE ARTS, AND WE DO HAVE, YOU KNOW, THE ARTS COMMISSION THAT, YOU KNOW, IS VERY CAPABLE OF MAKING RECOMMENDATIONS, YOU KNOW, ADVISING US ON HOW TO USE THAT FUND. BUT, YOU KNOW, THAT'S, YOU KNOW, THAT'S WHAT'S MOST IMPORTANT HERE. AND THEN AGAIN, AS WE KIND OF MOVE ON WITH THIS, THAT THE POLICIES MIGHT CHANGE AND HOW WE APPROACH IT. BUT, YOU KNOW, FOR ME, AS LONG AS THAT

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WE'VE GOT A MOTION TO APPROVE BY COUNCILMAN, SECOND BY COUNCILMAN PENNYBAKER CITY MANAGER. I'M SORRY, MAYOR, I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE CLEAR ON WHAT WE'RE APPROVING. YOU MADE A MOTION TO APPROVE WHAT'S ATTACHED TO THE AGENDA OR HIS. WHAT? I THOUGHT I HEARD PROPOSED AMENDMENT. YEAH. REPEAT THE AMENDMENT, THEN. OKAY. EXPENDITURES ALL REQUEST FOR FUNDING SHOULD BE DIRECTED TO THE ARTS COUNCIL. AND THE CITY COUNCIL. THE CITY COUNCIL AS THE ADMINISTRATOR OF HOT FUNDS, RESERVES THE RIGHT TO AUTHORIZE EXPENDITURES REGARDLESS IF THE ARTS COMMISSION HAS RECOMMENDED AN APPROVAL OR DENIAL OF THE REQUEST PERIOD. SO MOVE TO APPROVE, AS AMENDED. MOTION AND A SECOND. YES. LET'S VOTE. UNANIMOUS. THANK YOU. OKAY. THE NEXT ITEM IS GOING TO BE FIVE E, WHICH WAS FOUR F. CONSIDER A RESOLUTION REQUESTING THE

[4.F. Consider a resolution requesting the procurement of OpenGov online transparency software and authorizing an expenditure in the amount of $68,000 from the unappropriated balance of the General Fund.]

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COUNCILMEMBER, THANK YOU. YOU KNOW, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT THAT THE COUNCIL HAS IS THEY HAVE SOME FLEXIBILITY HERE IN TERMS OF HOW TO GO ABOUT THIS. SO, YOU KNOW, IF WE USE $68,000 OF AS IDENTIFIED BY MR. JACKSON FROM ARPA, AND THEN WE COME UP ON ANOTHER PROJECT THAT YOU WANT TO FUND, AND WE'RE $68,000 SHORT, WE CAN ALWAYS USE UNASSIGNED FUND BALANCE. SO WE DO HAVE SOME FLEXIBILITY. THE THING WE DO NOT HAVE FLEXIBILITY IN IS THESE FUNDS HAVE TO BE COMMITTED BY THE END OF THE YEAR. BASICALLY, WE EITHER USE IT OR LOSE IT. SO I GUESS MY RECOMMENDATION WOULD BE TO ACTUALLY USE THE ARPA FUNDS SO THAT WE CAN DESIGNATE THAT WE'RE USING IT FOR SOMETHING THAT QUALIFIES FOR IT. AND THEN, LIKE I SAID, WE CAN ALWAYS GO BACK AND USE FUND BALANCE IF NEEDED. COUNCILWOMAN GOODIN THANK YOU, MAYOR. I REMEMBER ONE PARTICULAR ITEM AND I WON'T MENTION IT BECAUSE IT'S NOT ON THE AGENDA. BUT THERE WAS ONE PARTICULAR ITEM THAT WE DID DISCUSS DESIGNATING THOSE ARPA FUNDS FOR. HOWEVER, I DO SUPPORT THE IDEA OF DEFERRING IT OVER TO THE CITY MANAGER. BUT IF THERE'S 68,000 OVER THAT DESIGNATION FOR THIS PARTICULAR ITEM, THEN YES, USE ARPA FUNDS. BUT IF IT'S GOING TO CAUSE THIS PARTICULAR ITEM TO BE SHORT, 68,000, THEN I WOULD SAY MY SUGGESTION, OF COURSE, IS GO WITH THE UNASSIGNED FUND BALANCE. BECAUSE YOU KNOW WHAT? AT THE END OF THE FISCAL YEAR, WE MAY HAVE A SURPLUS AND YOU MAY NOT HAVE TO GO TO AN UNASSIGNED FUND BALANCE. I TRUST YOU GUYS ARE JUST THAT GOOD THAT YOU CAN FIND US SOME SAVINGS, AS YOU ALWAYS DO UNDER SOME CUSHION SOMEWHERE.

SO EITHER WAY, THOSE ARE MY SUGGESTIONS. THANK YOU. COUNCILMAN MCBURNETT. THANK YOU MAYOR. I'M IN AGREEMENT WITH WHAT COUNCIL MEMBER GOODIN SAID. BUT I'M GOING TO MAKE THE COMMENT WHEN YOU HAVE ASTUTE CITIZEN THAT RECOGNIZES THE BALANCE OF IT, LET'S JUST GO FOR IT. I'M GOING TO MAKE A MOTION TO APPROVE. OKAY. MOTION TO APPROVE BY COUNCILWOMAN MCBURNETT SECOND. SECOND BY COUNCILMAN GOODIN. PLEASE VOTE. OH, JUST GIVE US ONE SECOND. I'M SORRY. I'M JUST ASKING FOR CLARIFICATION. THE MOTION WAS TO APPROVE THE RESOLUTION AS WRITTEN OR AS AMENDED AS WRITTEN WITH Y'ALL. Y'ALL CAN DECIDE. I MEAN, THAT CAN BE DONE. WE HAVE THE MONEY. THE RESOLUTION IS WRITTEN, SAYS GENERAL FUND UNASSIGNED FUND. BALANCE GENERAL FUND. OKAY, OKAY. IS THAT WHAT YOU SECONDED? YEAH. THE GENERAL FUND OKAY. EVERYBODY CLEAR ON THAT. ALL RIGHT. LET'S VOTE. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. OKAY. SO NEXT WE'RE GOING TO

[6.A. City Council to receive a briefing on the Mexican Independence Day 2024 budget and activities, provide for the City Council to discuss and provide direction for future Mexican Independence Day celebrations, if needed.]

THE WHITE CAR WAS DONATED BY CLAY COOLEY. THEY WERE ONE OF OUR LARGER SPONSORS IN CENTRAL ELEMENTARY. THE MEXICAN CONSULATE FROM DALLAS CAME AND PERFORMED EL GRITO. THAT WAS

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SOMOS DUNCANVILLE COUNCIL MEMBER VERA CRUZ, I THINK YOU'RE VERY FAMILIAR WITH THEM, AND I WANTED TO ALSO SAY THANK YOU FOR YOUR HELP ORGANIZING THEM AND COUNCIL MEMBER FOR SENDING THEM TO ME TO GET TO CONNECT WITH US. NOT ONLY DID THEY PARTICIPATE IN THE PARADE, BUT THEY WERE VOLUNTEERS AT THE EVENT AND THEY HELPED WITH EVERYTHING, ANYTHING THAT WE NEEDED HELP WITH. THE EVENT WAS PUT ON BY A GROUP, THREE AMIGOS ENTERTAINMENT, ONE OF WHICH IS A LONG TERM RESIDENT, LONG TIME RESIDENT HERE IN DUNCANVILLE. HE'S BEEN IN DUNCANVILLE FOR OVER 15 YEARS, AND I THINK THE SOUND COMPANY, ALSO ONE OF THEIR MEMBERS, ONE OF THE MEMBERS OF THE MILITIA, DEL RANCHO, THEY WENT TO DUNCANVILLE HIGH SCHOOL AND THEY WERE VERY EXCITED TO BE ABLE TO PARTICIPATE HERE. AND THEY'VE LIVED IN DUNCANVILLE FOR MANY YEARS AS WELL. THERE'S SOME IMAGES OF THE BANDS, AS YOU GUYS CAN SEE. IT WAS A HUGE SUCCESS WITH THE BANDS. THERE WERE PEOPLE LINED UP AFTERWARDS TO TAKE PICTURES WITH THE BAND MEMBERS. ONE OF THE COMMENTS WERE THAT WE SHOULD HAVE A BIGGER DANCE FLOOR. THE VENDORS WERE HAPPY WITH THE OUTCOME.

THEY ALL MADE THEIR FINANCIAL GOALS. THEY WERE ALL HAPPY. THE NEXT WEEKS WE HAD SEVERAL CITIZEN EMAILS SAYING THANK YOU FOR PUTTING ON THE EVENT. THANK YOU FOR ACKNOWLEDGING THE COMMUNITY. THE DIVERSITY OF OUR COMMUNITY, BRINGING PEOPLE TOGETHER JUST SEVERAL EMAILS AND LOTS OF COMMENTS ON OUR FACEBOOK AND OUR SOCIAL MEDIA PAGES. PLACER I IS A DATA COLLECTION SOFTWARE THAT WE USE HERE IN THE CITY, AND IT PUTS 3.46 THOUSAND PEOPLE IN THE PARK AT THAT TIME.

ON A MONDAY FROM 4:00 TO 9 P.M. IT WAS THERE WAS A LOT OF PEOPLE THERE. AGAIN, A PLACE WHERE I ALSO HELPS US FIGURE OUT WHERE EVERYONE'S COMING FROM AND WHERE THEY'RE GOING TO AFTER THE EVEN, WHICH WE CAN UTILIZE PLACER AI FOR OTHER ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS AS WELL. BUT YOU CAN SEE THAT MOST PEOPLE CAME DIRECTLY FROM THEIR HOME HERE IN DUNCANVILLE. SO WE REALLY PROVIDED A GREAT OPTION FOR OUR CITIZENS. THE BUDGET WAS A TOTAL EXPENSES WAS ABOUT 33,000. THIS IS WHAT I HAVE SO FAR. THERE MIGHT BE 1 OR 2 MORE THINGS COMING IN, BUT IT WON'T BE VERY MUCH. BUT I BELIEVE THIS IS PRETTY MUCH OUR TOTAL AMOUNT. WE DID HAVE SOME VENDOR PARADE REGISTRATIONS, AND THEN WE HAD SPONSORSHIPS IN A TOTAL OF 14,000. OUR SPONSORS WERE I DIDN'T PUT THAT ON THERE. OUR SPONSORS WERE CLAY COOLEY, FROST BANK, STAR TRANSIT. AND THERE'S ONE MORE. I CAN'T THINK OF WHAT IT WAS, BUT WE HAD A TOTAL OF ALMOST 15,000 DONATED. AND AS A RESULT OF THIS, WE ALSO HAD A PHONE CALL JUST THE OTHER DAY. OUR EMAIL WANTING TO GIVE US MONEY FOR OUR CHRISTMAS CELEBRATIONS. AND SO THE CITIZENS, AS WELL AS THE LOCAL BUSINESSES, THEY WANT TO BE A PART OF THE CELEBRATIONS AND THEY REALLY DO APPRECIATE THE CITY DOING THESE THINGS. VERY WELL DONE. THIS DAY THAT THE EVENT WAS A BIG SUCCESS. AND THANK YOU SO MUCH AND THANKS TO ALL THE VOLUNTEERS WHO MOST ARE AT HOME RIGHT NOW. BUT BART STEVENSON IS HERE. TYLER IS HERE. IT WAS A GREAT EVENT AND THANK YOU SO MUCH. ANY OTHER COMMENTS? YES. ENLIGHTEN UP THE BOARDS, MR. KOONTZ. I JUST WANT TO SAY THANK YOU TO YOU AND YOUR TEAM FOR A GREAT EVENT AND ALSO THE FACT, YOU KNOW, THREE AMIGOS AND MELISSA DEL RANCHO THERE. I MEAN, TO HAVE LOCAL MUSIC, LOCAL PROMOTERS. I MEAN, THEY'RE RIGHT HERE IN THE CITY. AND TO HIGHLIGHT AND BRING THEM OUT. AND, YOU KNOW, I WANTED TO ASK, SO WHEN WAS SO HOW LONG HAVE YOU ALL BEEN PLANNING THIS? BECAUSE I, BECAUSE IT DOESN'T SEEM I MEAN, I KNOW, YOU KNOW, AT SOME POINT I HEARD, OH, WE'RE HAVING A MEXICAN INDEPENDENCE DAY PARADE AND WE'RE HAVING ALL THESE EVENTS. I THOUGHT, OH, I DIDN'T KNOW WE WERE DOING THAT. AND SO IT LOOKS I MEAN, IT APPEARS THAT Y'ALL DID A LOT IN A SHORT AMOUNT OF TIME AND SO HOW LONG HAVE YOU ALL BEEN WORKING ON IT? THAT WAS ABOUT SIX WEEKS. I'M SORRY. I'M LAUGHING BECAUSE, YES, COUNCIL MEMBER, IT WAS A LOT DONE IN A SHORT AMOUNT OF TIME. IT WAS ABOUT SIX WEEKS. SO NOW YOU'VE GOT A WHOLE ALMOST A WHOLE YEAR TO GET READY FOR NEXT YEAR. SO WE'RE READY TO SEE WHAT YOU'RE

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AND I ASKED THE PRINCIPAL WHAT WHAT WOULD IT TAKE TO GET YOU TO COME TO SOMETHING? NOT THINKING ABOUT THIS EVENT, BECAUSE WE HADN'T TALKED ABOUT THIS YET AT THAT TIME. AND SHE SAID, SOMEBODY JUST CALL ME. SO CITY MANAGER, I WANT TO THANK CITY MANAGER FOR HAVING SOMEBODY CONTACT THEM, BECAUSE WHEN I SHOWED UP AT THE PARADE AND I SAW THEM, THAT WAS THANK YOU. IT WAS AROUND THAT SAME TIME. OKAY. I JUST I LOVED IT BECAUSE WHEN I SAW ALL THE COLORFUL DRESSES AND ALL THE COSTUMES, I JUST I GOT VERY EXCITED. SO BUT AGAIN, I WANT TO I WANT TO THANK MR. VERACRUZ FOR SAYING STILL DO OUR OWN HOMETOWN THING. AND IT TURNED OUT PERFECT. NO CONFLICT WITH THE DESOTO ISSUE UP THERE EVENT UP THERE. SO THANK YOU AGAIN. MR. PENNYBAKER. THANK YOU. THANK YOU, MR. VERACRUZ. I'M SORRY. SO ALL RIGHT, MR. VERACRUZ. THANK YOU, MAYOR. I DO WANT TO THANK MISS. SHE SHE DID AN AWESOME JOB AND ACCEPTED A LITTLE BIT OF INPUT FROM ME TO BRING THE CARS BECAUSE MY SISTER IS PART OF ESTILO CAR CLUB, AND I ASKED HER IF SHE WOULD BE INTERESTED IN PARTICIPATING, AND SHE SAID ABSOLUTELY. AND SO TALKED MISS INTO IT. SO. BUT SO I WANT TO GIVE A SHOUT OUT TO STEAL CAR CLUB. BUT ACTUALLY A LOT OF THOSE CARS ARE FROM THE LOCAL AREA AND THEY'RE PART OF THE UNITED LOWRIDER ASSOCIATION. AND THEY WERE HAPPY, REALLY HAPPY TO PARTICIPATE. AND THEY'LL BE HERE NEXT YEAR AS WELL. AND THEN THE PICTURE THERE OF SOMOS DUNCANVILLE, THAT'S AN UPCOMING GROUP IN DUNCANVILLE THAT THAT WE'RE WORKING WITH.

AND THAT WAS THEIR FIRST EVENT. AND THEIR GOAL WAS TO ONE TO EDUCATE, BUT TWO, TO GET INVOLVED IN THE CITY AND TRY TO ENCOURAGE THE HISPANIC COMMUNITY TO GET INVOLVED. AND SO WE'LL BE LOOKING FOR A LOT MORE FROM THEM FOR SURE. SO BUT THANK YOU FOR ALL YOU DID, MA'AM, AND THANK YOU FOR YOUR HELP AS WELL. COUNCILMAN. MR. PENNYBAKER. CONGRATULATIONS. THANK YOU. YOU ACTUALLY ANSWERED SOME OF MY QUESTION, SOME INPUT, MAYBE AS FAR AS USING DUNCANVILLE LOCAL BUSINESSES. AND I SAW ONE ON HERE. THEN THE CONNECTION WITH THREE AMIGOS IN THE BAND. SO

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[6.B. City council to receive a briefing on the proposed Christmas 2024.]

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AND SO YOU KNOW JUST MY COMMENT THIS IS SOMETHING I SAY EVERY YEAR WITH, YOU KNOW, EVERY YEAR THAT I REMEMBER THE FIRST YEAR SEEING JUST A COUPLE OF LITTLE, THEY WERE JUST KIND OF LIKE STAND UP SCROOGE MCDUCK WITH CHRISTMAS HAT ON. BART KNOWS WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT. JUST A FEW DECORATIONS OVER ON THE FAR SIDE OF THE HISTORIC PARK. AND SO IF YOU WALK THE TRAIL AND YOU WALK OVER THERE, THEN YOU WOULD SEE THOSE DECORATIONS WAY OVER THERE. AND THEN THE NEXT YEAR IT'S EXPANDED TO THIS REALLY AWESOME TUNNEL OF LIGHTS, AND YOU COULD WALK THROUGH THIS TUNNEL. THAT WAS ABOUT THREE YEARS AGO. AND THEN THE YEAR AFTER THAT, IT WAS EXPANDED EVEN FURTHER. AND LAST YEAR IT WAS THIS TRAIL THAT WENT ALL THE WAY AROUND. AND SO I JUST WANT TO, YOU KNOW, AGAIN, OFFER MY SUPPORT AND ENCOURAGEMENT TOWARD EXPANDING. I SEE WE HAVE, YOU KNOW, THE TREE AND THOUSANDS OF LIGHTS AND WE'RE TALKING ABOUT CHRISTMAS EVENTS AND REALLY CONTINUING TO EXPAND THAT UNTIL IT BECOMES ITS OWN ATTRACTION. AND BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, THERE ARE OTHER CITIES THAT WE TRAVEL TO GO SEE THEIR, YOU KNOW, THEIR LIGHT DISPLAYS. AND SO AND WE'RE I MEAN, LAST YEAR IT WAS PRETTY MUCH THERE. AND SO I, I JUST WANT TO CONTINUE TO ENCOURAGE THAT. AND YOU KNOW, I SUPPORT THAT. AND AGAIN THAT'S SOMETHING THAT'S BRINGING PEOPLE TO THE CITY OF DUNCANVILLE. SO YOU KNOW I APPRECIATE THE PARKS DEPARTMENT, YOU KNOW, WORKING ON THAT. MISS GOODWIN. SO CHRISTMAS IS ONE OF MY FAVORITE HOLIDAYS. I WOULD LIKE TO SEE IF WE CAN ALSO INCORPORATE SOMETHING ABOUT GRINCH. MUST LIKE THE GRINCH. THAT WOULD BE FUN. I'M EXCITED ABOUT THE KID AND PLAY TENTATIV. SO NOW THEY HAVE TO SHOW UP BECAUSE WE KNOW ABOUT IT AND I'M ALL IN FAVOR AND SUPPORTIVE OF WHAT MR. KOONTZ SAID ABOUT EXPANDING THE LIGHTS IN THE PARK AND HAVING SOME TYPE OF LIGHT EXHIBIT WHERE IT IS AN ATTRACTION FOR EVERYBODY TO COME OUT. YOU KNOW, WE ALWAYS GO TO GRAND PRAIRIE FOR THEIR PARTICULAR THING. IF WE COULD HAVE SOMETHING HERE IN OUR CITY THAT WOULD DRAW ATTENTION AND DRAW THE ATTRACTION OF THE PEOPLE, I HIGHLY RECOMMEND THAT. AND I'M ALL IN FAVOR OF MORE CHRISTMAS TREES. YES, WREATHS, WHATEVER WE WANT TO DO. SO I THINK THAT'S ALL I HAVE TO ADD. COUNCILMAN MCBURNETT THANK YOU, MAYOR. I'M IN AGREEMENT WITH COUNCIL MEMBER KOONTZ AND EXPANDING AS MUCH AS WE CAN ON THIS THING. NOT TRYING TO BLOW A BUDGET, BUT BUT I WOULD I WOULD ALSO TELL YOU THAT THAT I GOT SEVERAL CALLS ABOUT THE TREE NOT BEING IN THE CENTER OF TOWN AND PEOPLE COMING IN, AND THEY REALLY THEY REALLY LIKE SEEING THAT TREE THERE. WHEREAS ARMSTRONG IT'S MORE HIDDEN AND STUFF. SO I'D BE SUPPORTIVE OF SEEING SOMETHING IN THERE AND THEN YOU BROUGHT UP THE, THE TOUCHY SUBJECT AND, YOU KNOW, I'M WHAT I'M GOING TO SAY, RIGHT. IS THAT THAT, YOU KNOW, IN TERMS OF VEHICLES AND, AND THAT KIND OF STUFF. THE OFFICERS HAVE SAID THIS, I'VE SAID THIS AS WELL. YOU KNOW, I'M STILL GOING TO SUGGEST THAT THAT WE ARE ON A FLATBED OR WHATEVER.

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WELL, WE WOULD KEEP THEM, BUT THEY WILL BE PUT ON YOUR VEHICLES THAT YOU COULD REUSE THEM. SO THAT'S SO IT SETTLED. SIX CONVERTIBLES AND ONE FLATBED TRAILER ORDER HAS BEEN PLACED.

SIR. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. THANK YOU. YES, SIR. ON. DON BROUGHT THIS UP AND IT'S WE'VE KIND OF TALKED ABOUT A LITTLE BIT SO BECAUSE I HEAR SOME OF THE SAME COMMENTS ABOUT DOWNTOWN AND NOT HAVING A TREE OR AN ATTRACTION THERE, I MEAN, MOST CITIES WE TALK ABOUT DEVELOPING OUR DOWNTOWN AS A HUB OF ACTIVITY AND AS WELL AS THOSE BUSINESSES THERE DO BENEFIT FROM THERE BEING SOME ACTIVITY OR CIRCULATION AND NOT NOT JUST THE TREE, BUT ALSO THE PARADES AS WELL. LATELY, THE PARADES HAVE BEEN BYPASSING DOWNTOWN DUNCANVILLE. SO, YOU KNOW, IF WE CAN GET MORE ACTIVITY THERE, I'D SUPPORT THAT. THANK YOU. OKAY, ONCE AGAIN, THANK YOU SO MUCH.

WE'LL MOVE ON TO ITEM SIX. JINGLE BELL. OH SORRY. I WAS GOING TO I WAS GOING TO PLAY THAT. BUT I KNOW TIME IS. DO YOU WANT ME TO PLAY IT. NO. PLAY IT OKAY. I WAS GOING TO GO PAST IT.

I THINK I PASSED IT TOO FAST. YEAH. THIS IS THE DRONE. OKAY. WHERE IS MR. DON'T KNOW IF IT'S GOING TO. THERE IT GOES. JINGLE BELLS. CORRECT. SO THIS IS LAST YEAR'S DRONE SHOW. NOW THE JINGLE HOP HAS BEGUN. JINGLE BELLS, JINGLE BELLS, JINGLE BELLS, JINGLE BELLS. NOW THE TIME LAPSE OF COURSE, HAS BEEN SPED UP. BUT BECAUSE OF YOUR APPROVAL, WE'LL BE ABLE TO DO A MUCH FASTER AND LONGER DRONE SHOW. ALL RIGHT. FINE. IT'S THE RIGHT TIME TO ROCK THE NIGHT AWAY. JINGLE BELL TIME IS A SWELL TIME TO GO GLIDING IN A ONE HORSE SLEIGH. GIDDY UP, JINGLE HORSE. PICK UP YOUR FEET. JINGLE AROUND THE CLOCK. MIX AND MINGLE IN THE JINGLE. AND SEE THAT'S THE JINGLE BELL LIGHT. THANK YOU. OKAY, ON TO ITEM SIX C BRIEFING ON BUDGET DEVELOPMENT

[6.C. Briefing on Budget Development Policy]

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IF THINGS WERE TO COME UP NOT ONLY THROUGHOUT THE YEAR, BUT MOVING FORWARD AND PROJECTING OUT FOR FUTURE YEARS. ALSO, REVENUE AND EXPENDITURE PROJECTED PROJECTIONS FROM A REVENUE PROJECTION STANDPOINT, THE IDEA IS TO START CONSERVATIVELY. SO AS TO HAVE A MORE ACCURATE VIEW OF THE BUDGET. CERTAINLY FOR BOTH REVENUE AND EXPENDITURE PROJECTIONS THEMSELVES THAT THEY'RE BASED ON HISTORICAL DATA. THEIR TRENDS, FORECASTS OF WHERE WE FORESEE THINGS GOING FOR THAT PARTICULAR YEAR, PREPARATION TIMELINE FOR THE BUDGET CALENDAR, EXCUSE ME TO HAVE THAT SET NO LATER THAN DECEMBER 31ST. AND AGAIN, THAT ENCOMPASSES HAVING THE DATES OR TIMELINES FOR MEETINGS, HEARINGS AND ETCETERA. MOVING ON TO THE BUDGET PROCESS, THAT WE WANT TO BEGIN THAT PROCESS NO LATER THAN JANUARY. AND THAT'S ALSO INCLUDING INITIAL DISCUSSIONS ON CIP. AGAIN, WITH AN EYE ON MAKING SURE THAT WE HAVE A GOOD OUTLINE AND WE'RE ALLOWING THE APPROPRIATE TIME FOR PREPARATION, DISCUSSION, MEETINGS AND EVERYTHING THAT GOES INTO THE BUDGET PROCESS. ALSO, IN THAT PREPARATION TIMELINE, IT DETAILS THE LITERALLY FROM START TO FINISH WHAT THE PROCESS ENTAILS FROM YEAR TO YEAR WITH THE BUDGET, AND THEN FINALLY ON THE BUDGET MONITORING SIDE, ADDRESSING THAT BUDGET TRANSFERS THAT THERE ARE CERTAIN THINGS AND CERTAIN RULES IN PLACE FOR THOSE TRANSFERS. SO FOR GENERAL FUNDS SPECIFICALLY, IT ADDRESSES THAT THE CITY MANAGER HAS THE ABILITY TO APPROVE GENERAL, GENERAL FUND TRANSFERS SO LONG AS THEY STAY WITHIN THE SAME DEPARTMENT. SO POLICE TRANSFERS TO POLICE AND FIRE TRANSFERS TO FIRE ANYTHING THAT IS OUTSIDE OF A PARTICULAR DEPARTMENT THAT'S DEPARTMENT TO DEPARTMENT OR FUND TO FUND, WILL REQUIRE COUNCIL APPROVAL FOR THOSE REQUESTS. BUDGET AMENDMENTS, THOSE ALL OF THOSE REQUESTS WOULD NEED TO COME TO COUNCIL FOR REVIEW AND PASSAGE THROUGH LEGISLATION. AND THEN ALSO MAKING SURE THAT WE MEMORIALIZE OUR NEED AS A FINANCE DEPARTMENT, THAT WE'RE HAVING MONTHLY REPORTING ON THE PAST BUDGET. SO ONCE IT'S PAST THAT, WE'RE PROVIDING MONTHLY REPORTING ON WHERE WE ARE ON THE ACTUAL BASIS, ON A BUDGET TO ACTUAL BASIS IN COMPARISON, WHEN WE TAKE THROUGH EACH MONTH, WHAT ACTUAL DOLLARS HAVE BEEN SPENT COMPARED TO WHAT WE HAVE BUDGETED IN A PARTICULAR CATEGORY OR IN A PARTICULAR FUND OR DEPARTMENT? WITH THAT, I WILL CEDE MY TIME. IF THERE ARE ANY QUESTIONS THAT YOU HAVE. WE'RE CERTAINLY ENTERTAINING AT THIS TIME. BUT AGAIN, WANTED TO PRESENT THE BUDGET POLICY THIS MONTH FOR YOUR REVIEW. THANK YOU. THANK YOU, COUNCILMAN KOONTZ. SO IS THIS GOING TO SOME OF THIS GOING TO BE DRAFTED INTO SOMETHING THAT WE'RE GOING TO HAVE TO APPROVE, LIKE AMENDMENTS TO OUR FINANCIAL POLICY? IS THAT OKAY? YES. OKAY. YES. SO WE WANTED TO START OFF IN THE REVIEW STAGE FIRST. OH I'M SORR. SO WE WANTED TO START OFF IN THE REVIEW STAGE FIRST, BUT EVENTUALLY WE'LL BE COMING BACK TO YOU WITH A REQUEST TO ADOPT THIS POLICY FORMALLY. AND THIS MIGHT MAYBE IT MIGHT BE IN THAT PROPOSED DOCUMENT. BUT COULD YOU DEFINE BALANCED BUDGET? BECAUSE I KNOW THAT'S A TOPIC THAT CAME UP RECENTLY. YOU KNOW, IN I THINK, YOU KNOW, A COUPLE OF TIMES WE WERE TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHAT EXACTLY DOES THAT MEAN? SO AND IF YOU DON'T HAVE A DEFINITION. MAYBE THAT'S GOING TO COME TO US WHEN WE GET THAT AMENDMENT. BUT YEAH. SO IT'S IN COUNCILMAN COOTS. IT IS IN THE DRAFT. IT'S ITEM A UNDER THE POLICY POLICY STATEMENT SECTION HERE IN THE IN THE SUBMITTED POLICY. AND SO I'LL JUST READ

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[6.D. Receive the Monthly Financial Report as of August 31, 2024]

IT'S AT 40.4 9% OVER 2223 FISCAL YEAR. THAT BENCHMARK AT THIS POINT IN THE YEAR IS AT 75%. SO WE ARE ACTUALLY AT 73%. SO WE'RE JUST PICKING UP A LITTLE BIT ON THE SALES TAX COLLECTION. SO GENERAL FUND SUMMARY THE ACTUAL REVENUE IS AT 94.1%. SO A LITTLE BIT AHEAD OF THAT BENCHMARK.

AGAIN INTEREST INCOME IS AT 2.3 MILLION THAT WE HAVE RECEIVED ON THE EXPENSE SIDE, OUR EXPENSES COME IN AT 83.9%. SO THAT IS UNDER THE BENCHMARK FOR THIS MONTH. AND JUST TO SHOW YOU KIND OF THAT TABLE VIEW AND THE VARIOUS DIFFERENT REVENUE CATEGORIES THAT WE HAVE, OF COURSE INTEREST IS TRENDING WELL ABOVE WHAT IS BUDGETED. AND AS WELL AS OUR PERMITS AND LICENSES, WE'RE RECEIVING MORE THAN WHAT WE HAD PROJECTED. SO BUT OVERALL, 94%, 94.3% ON THE EXPENDITURE SIDE. THIS IS BROKEN DOWN, OF COURSE, BY CATEGORY OF EXPENSES FOR ALL THE GENERAL FUND DEPARTMENTS. THE ONLY AREA IN WHICH WE ARE TRENDING AHEAD ABOVE EXPENSES REALLY IS IN THE UTILITY AREA. BUT OTHERWISE THE TOTAL EXPENSES FOR THE WHOLE GENERAL FUND IS COMING IN AT 83.9% OF THE BUDGET. SO WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE CHART BELOW THERE, THIS JUST SHOWS YOU THE ACTUAL WHERE WE'RE AT YEAR TO DATE FOR A FUND BALANCE STANDPOINT. SO THAT ENDING FUND BALANCE IS AT 25 MILLION. SO THAT PUTS US ABOUT 187 DAYS. BUT I WANTED TO SHOW YOU. SO WITH OUR FUND BALANCE POLICY, WE ADOPTED A COUPLE OF MEETINGS BACK WITH A MAXIMUM OF 150 DAYS WOULD BE ABOUT A 16 MILLION. SO THAT PUTS US 4.1 MILLION ROUGHLY OVER THAT 150 DAYS. SO UTILITY FUND SUMMARY. OF COURSE, THIS IS AGAIN WATER SEWER REVENUE THAT WE'VE COLLECTED YEAR TO DATE 17.9 MILLION. THAT'S ROUGHLY 81.9% OF THE OF THE REVENUE. AND THE EXPENDITURES COME TO 16.8 MILLION. SO THAT'S 74% OF THE BUDGET AND A HALF OF THAT 8.7. THAT'S FOR DALLAS WATER UTILITIES AND FOR TRINITY RIVER AUTHORITY, FOR OUR WHOLESALE WATER AND OUR WASTEWATER TREATMENT. AND HERE'S JUST THE TABLE VIEW SHOWING THE BREAKDOWN OF THE REVENUES BY CATEGORY OF

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[EXECUTIVE SESSION (Part 2 of 2)]