Good evening everyone. Welcome to the Shenandoah City Council meeting for March 26, 2025. Look around and I see that all except Councilman Summallin are here so we do have a quorum. going to stand up and say the Pledge of Allegiance to the U.S. and to the Great State of Texas, followed by an invocation. What do you think is to rely on the United States of America and to recall it for which stands one nation under the guile individual of liberty and justice for all. On our indexes of life, I put one nation's seed in one type of practice, one state under God, one in the business world. Not so much about it. Would you please join me in a word of prayer? Our Heavenly Father, we humble ourselves before you and we thank you for your loving grace and forgiveness. May your wisdom and power come upon this city council to whom you have entrusted leadership. May the responsibility of our service to the citizens of this great city lie heavily on our hearts. Give us wisdom, courage and moral integrity as we deliberate the business of the city. Remind us that you are a mighty fortress, not a hiding place where we can escape for an easy life, but rather an arsenal of courage and strength. Father I ask that you protect our city staff, our police officers, our emergency personnel, our residents and our visitors. Police protect our military personnel and bless the state of Texas and the United States of America. Father we ask these things things in the name of your son, Jesus Christ. Amen. Amen. Thank you, God for Robinson. By the way, some of it is excused for me being here tonight, just make it official. Just a little bit about our YouTube channel has gone down. The YouTube is the sound going out? I don't think the email is going out. Our casting devices just went crazy. I don't think anything is going to go out or record. Separate audio will have Okay. Okay. Well, did you say you can't record or you can't record? Cannot. Just the audio. The audio is... Audio audio. Audio audio. For those of you who are monitoring the YouTube version of this, you will receive the audio portion of it, unfortunately. All right, I'm going to acknowledge our neighbors from Tamina, Patricia and Ivy. Thank you for being here, the bells. Always welcome, you're always here. That's great, it's always great to see you. All. We're going to move on to Citizens Forum. Do we have anyone? Nobody. But Citizens Forum, citizens are invited to speak for three minutes on matters related to the city government. They relate to agenda or non-agenda items. Speakers are asked to stand up and approach the podium to address counsel and give their name before sharing their comments. No one is here so we're going to move on to item number six, introduction of new employee. Marin council, very excited to introduce Allison Gray in the back. Allison is born in Lubbock and she attended the same Houston State University in Colbert Kats and she earned a business, a bachelor's in business administration and in 22 she took the leap and opened a brick and mortar bakery and Montgomery so yeah near near Lake Conrail and it was called Doe Baby Bake Shop. She's a self-top baker and you should ask her about her cinnamon rolls sometimes. Apparently they're famous. I can't wait for the next office party. Joseph, that's not why you're harder. Well, all things are taken into consideration. Now sadly a man? Because she makes a killer. Now, sadly, she did close her store at the end of 2024, but she's very happy that it led her to Shenandoah. So she is filling the role of the Aquatics and Events Coordinator. So she'll be operating the pool and planning events, which I can tell you this already. She has a ton of ideas and is going to be very exciting. A lot of fun ideas coming toward the residents of Shenandoah. Oh, and I shouldn't leave out. She has a French Bulldog named Lola, and she loves to travel, too. Thank you. Welcome to Shenandoah. Anyone? You wanna say? Welcome. Welcome aboard. Brings some similar roles with me. Next time you show up here. Thank you for the bells too. Did hardly wait to have you at the Civic Club get involved with many activities that we have, and we'll jump in and help you as much as we can. As I know, you'll jump in and help us too. Welcome. All right. Anyone else? Sit. We're going to move on to item number seven. Presentation of the mid year financials. Lisa. Madam Council, we did this a few years ago. And the past couple of years I haven't. So I want to bring this back as a mid year financial review. Just to give an outlook on the three major funds within the city and where we are in revenues and expenditures and kind of sales tax, because that is our bread and. So this will be a quick presentation. If there's any questions, feel free to email me. I will publish this to the financial transparency page as we have been the past as well. So if any residents, I know the YouTube's down. If they have questions, they can always email me, call me, and we can go through it if they have any questions. So pretty much just a quick introduction on what we're going to talk about. The General Fund, the Hotel Motel CBB Fund in the Water Sewer, we'll look at the revenues and expenses here to date, and then we'll look at just sales tax to see where we are sitting with that between the General Fund share and the MDD share. So this slide will show you the, physically year 2025, six months, operating reserves year to date for our general fund. We are 35% of annual anticipated revenues received at this point. Revenues for general fund are a little, they're based mostly on schedule, sale, sales tax, mixed beverage, it's all incrementally given to us franchise fees, especially the electric franchise fee that's our number one, it's usually ranges about $350,000, that one usually comes in June July. So revenues look like they're low, but it's just because of schedules with how things are paid pilots, franchise fee, stuff like that. Sales tax as I just stated is our bread and butter. It's 72% of our general fund revenues for this fiscal year. And then we are still benefiting from higher interest rates. We've conservatively budgeted it for interest because it's not, it's a very volatile thing. It just depends on the market interest rates. So you will see that we have six months in, we have made $233,000 worth of interest just in the general fund. We are talking to our financial advisor Hilltop to try to see if there's any opportunity to maybe invest in some CDs, treasury bills, and that will come to you for approval to try to lock in some rates before they start because they are starting to decline at this point anyway. So that's all allowed per the investment policy, so that will be something that you'll be seeing the next couple of months. We'll be talking about that. So really, the general fund looks good for revenues. There are some property taxes outstanding. We know who they are. They are in delinquency right now. There's will be paid most likely soon. And other than that, that's all I have for the general fund revenue. The next slide will be the general fund expenditures, and it is a little crammed because we have a lot of departments within general fund. At this point, we're 46% of budget expenditures for only operating. Those that include like transfers to the equipment replacement because that's all quarterly or the capital improvement, funds that are transferred into capital, the fund 400. These are strictly just operational costs. So I did do a expenditure breakout by department just so that everyone can see how our budget is divided out. Obviously the number one 32% of our general fund is the police department and the second biggest one is 17% with fire services. So public safety is the number one expenditure within the city. Then followed from that it's going to be usually public works and non-department, non-department usually a catch all fund for like insurance stuff like that. And then you'll have your other smaller departments like the administration, finance, court, the pool, parks, community development and technology. So we're doing good, nothing to over budget at this point, So we're doing great there. When do we do for that fire contract? So it expires not this December coming up with the following December 2026. There are plans. We are Kristen and me keep track of their call logs so me and the state attorney will be reviewing those coming up soon. If you ever look at our budget, there's one quarter that's always a different number because their fiscal year ends December 31st and ours is September 30th. So we always have a differential in our contract that way. So the next fund is going to be our CVV hotel motel. So CVV revenues are primarily from hot tax, which is a 7% tax that every visitor pays on their hotel bill unless there's an exemption that's allowed. The city does have 13 hotels and there are several short term rentals that pay. They're very minimum though. So revenues are up for a hotel hotel. I don't want to dive into this because John did a whole great presentation a couple of meetings ago. But I did want to show you a breakout year to date where our hotels are ranking based on their revenue there. Court Yard's number one with 14%. Crown Plaza's second, Hyatt House, A loft, home to sweets, town place, even. Homewood, Hampton, comforts, sweets, days in, super eight, and Scottish in. So, we're doing good with her, tell me until tax. The Hampton Inn kind of surprises me. Party? The Hampton Inn kind of surprises me. That's the newer one. I know. Yeah, not the old Hampton Inn, not what's going on. I know. Yeah. It's a newer facility, so they're building up, I think, their clientele more. I thought that they would have been drawing better by now. There are. Also, this is based on what has been paid at this point. So there might be payment in limbo. From the time we printed this report as well, because their due date was the 20th. So the next page is your six month operating expenditures for the CVB. 33% budget expenditures are completed. And the majority of the expenditures in this fund is advertising. Houtama hotel is a restricted kind of fund. There's certain uses it can fund. So advertising is always what's you know the number one expenditure in this one. The next slide will be your Water Sewer fund. At six months we're at 53% of annual revenues received. This is anticipated to increase with the water months coming up. It's our higher usage months and then we are currently in a utility rate study. So that will factor into your future. Where are we in the rate study? When will that be ready? It's at about 90% right now. But we're doing really well in the Water Suer Fund. So that's positive. The next slide is going to be your Water Suer expenditures. We're 47% of our budget expenditures. And the majority of these expenditures are for infrastructure, inspections, maintenance. A lot of maintenance goes on to the plant, chemicals, stuff like that. So that's why you'll see that other operational costs is significantly high just because I keep the system going. So nothing over, you know, nothing's looking too crazy over here. So I will say, yeah. And then within the worst year there's two departments. There's water sewer operations and then utility bill. And utility bill is a small fund within it. So then that comes to the end. I tell you it would be quick. The final slide is our sales tax overview. Currently two date, we're doing pretty well. Our Christmas month came in very good. So we are almost 89,000 over what we brought in last December. And then we've seen significant increases since then. There was one down month in November and that was because of an audit finds. So that's just something the comptroller finds and that's what it was. So we're doing well in sales tax. And if you do notice the chart last year, we did not come to the full revenue anticipated for sales tax. And that was mostly because of the July hurricane barrel. We were close for a whole week. There's no electricity. So July's numbers were significantly down. So. And that's about it. But overall, you know, we monitored this every month to make sure expenditures are seen in line and revenues are coming in where we think and we make adjustments as we see them. And we've been very fortunate that things are coming out still to par. And then we're also going to be, we've added several new things, escapeology, stuff like that. So we'll start to see them really come onto the market more and some other restaurants are open over at the Portofino, maybe the other one, Metro Park Square. So we're excited to see and I think pluckers is gonna be a huge ad once they open. And so, and then with the same move center, starting to like lease out, that's good for revenues. Is there any indication when pluckers is going to get started on their property there? They're clearing currently and as discussed they're hoping for early next year opening. Great. Can't wait. What about the business that's going to replace Killens? Yes, they're on the agenda tonight for their alcohol permit. Are they close? Yes. I've seen them working on the killing of building. I guess we're putting the signage up or something. Or taking a... I've seen them working on the killing of building. I guess we're putting the signage up or something or taking it down. I want to see it a better. Is that at least? Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you for the hard work that you do. That's great. All right. We're going to move this item to the next meeting. Unfortunately, the chief police couldn't be here today. Yes, some family issues to attend to. So we're going to table this until the next council meeting. All right, we're going to move to item number nine, discussion of possible action to approve purchases from the Equipment Replacement Fund. Oh, I'm sorry. For I have so many agents tonight. So, Mayor and Council, this is requested by the police department and also public works. So, as you're seeing in your agenda pack, there are three items for requests for the quote replacement fund. And just to explain the quote replacement fund, it's a restrictive fund that each department contributes funds to to replace certain equipment and vehicles and other items that the council has to formally approve to expend expenditures from. So the first one is tasers. We discuss this during a budget workshop a bit. So tasers have, like everything else, has changed how they are purchased. It used to be one-off-stay, you kind of go into a contracting. It's basically like a lease program and they replace them if they break, stuff like that. So this is that first year of that. So that's why we bumped up the contribution to match that number each year. So this one would be $20,354.44 and that's for 30 tasers plus some accessories as well, which is in the quote there you can see. The second is body armor. The police armor has made an offer for a new and hired a new officer that will be probably presented at the next meeting. So we need to order body armor for that police officer and those are the heavy, they're the dual vest that they had switched to a couple years ago, the angel armor. Those's our custom fitted, so unfortunately you have to order a new one for each officer. And then the third, this one's a little bit different. So in the equipment placement for the pool, we had, we used to have salt cells, a salt system at the pool. During COVID, the availability of salt cells were very scarce and expensive, so we switched it to a chlorine system. There are still funds remaining in the Quiratin Placement Fund for the replacement of that salt cell system, which is not going to happen anymore. So we did use some of those funds to do the migration to the chlorine system, but I've kept those in there just in case the pool did anything else. So Joseph had approached me. The pool roof over there is age. The shingles are starting to deteriorate. They're getting into the system. It's compromising the pumps. So they want to replace that with a metal roof, which has a longer life. And there's no breakoff, like there would be with shingles. Even during a storm, because during a barrel, we did have some minor damage to that roof. So this is just to approve that some of those funds to be purchased for the roof, basically. If there's any questions, Joseph and Jake's here too, I guess. I'm going to make a motion to table. Motion to table, why? What reason. The numbers. Is there a second to table or second. The numbers to me Lisa. And the first off we're talking about a or you're saying saying it's a lease and if we're going to encumber the city over five years for $141,000 why isn't that addressed you know what I mean in this not just the immediate $28,000 then you didn't add the police bullet profess to the total expense. And... Then you didn't add the police bullet professed to the total expense. And, you know, I basically this was all about the police department. I couldn't figure out why Mary Pantpool was. But I see with your discussion it's just about the equipment replacement fund. Pl the balance equipment replacement fund is $60,000 per police. That's the money you have in there now, right? No, that's for that item. They're broken out by items. I understand that. So this item is $28,354.44. It's probably why Brown wants table this. And then you're going to subtract that from the $60,000 and have a lesser balance. Yes, so each year, so we talked about this on a budget workshop. We increased the contribution each year to cover that contract. Because at right now you can't one off by tasers, I believe, correct, Jake? Yeah, you can't one off by tasers. I believe correct shake. Yeah, you can't one off by tasers I was curious to know why I don't have a comparison of alt-right purchasing versus leasing I don't have a comparison. They don't allow that any Why would you have a comparison? If I were to buy them versus leasing them. Oh, you mean if we were to buy them? Yes. If we were to buy them. Yes. Not you. Yeah. What am I going to do? What am I going to do? Let's go. It's a community when you say aye. Lisa, did I understand that you're saying that they no longer do that? They no longer sell these. That's really understanding that we have brought to council to learn a bunch of workshop is that you cannot no longer just buy a taser. Like it has to be part of a contract like this. So that's why we talked about during a budget workshop and we increased the contribution to the equipment placement so it would just come out of there every year. But we had already had 60,000 plus the 28,000 that was contributed for this year. So so 60,000 less to 28. They already had money in their four tasers anyway, but we did, we just took the whole amount because if there's anyone that we have to add later, we have to add it, we have to, you know, stuff like that if they add more patrol or anything like that. So yeah, so- I just always like to see a straight-up comparison because we had the same thing happen in November with least vehicles. So that's a different subject. And nobody provided a comparison of ownership versus leasing. That is the same type of topic. What I'm what I'm understanding is you can't buy them anymore. So how do you compare against trying to purchase if they won't sell them to you? Exactly. Yeah. We don't have another alternative like Charlie won't be able to call up someplace and find them You look kind of can you clear can you clarify that? Sure We used to buy them now you're saying we can only lease them Yes, so we can get this done and we will not go to the next one Yeah, Taser has moved to this model to provide a fixed operating cost for agencies to spread the cost out over time so that products are covered essentially under anything as far as damage or wear and tear or anything malfunctions they replace it as part of that plan. And so. You're total amount of tasers this year. So would you buy 30 every year? No, that's so you the cost of those 30 is spread out over the course of five years. And then when that time is up, you replace what you have as needed because that's when there are warranty lapses and then you would fold in your next units. So if one fails you take the core or send it to them they send it? Correct. Okay. Yeah. It's a subscription model. Yes. That's right. I was going to add that we're seeing this in a lot of markets on the software side. It's a subscription model. I just hadn't heard of the products. That was the only option anymore. Right. This is what they've moved to for. So there's another vendor that we could look at to purchase though. This is the industry standard for this type of less than lethal solution. Okay. So. And the best. Yeah, so the the the the that will be used so that's why I wanted to use those funds, because already restricted for the pool anyway. But we're not going to replace the salt cell system. And Councilman, I'll just add to that, we wanted to get this replaced sooner than later. We could wait till budget, but then we're going to have a whole another summer of those granules making their way into the pool. Even disgusting, a budget amendment. And as I talked to Lisa, this seemed the cleanest and quickest way to get it done now so that we don't deal with issues of those granules being in the pool. Because you know how the asphalt, single roofs as they as they get older, those granules just start to come off and droves, and it's gotten really bad over there. And it's making its way into the pool. Yeah, I was confused because we had columns in here that didn't add up like the one column says total expense, 28,000, but it's really 40,000. But it's really 41,000. It was a clerical, but the balancing equipment placement is based on the bucket within the department, if that makes sense. So like tasers, cars, vests, they each have their own bucket that we keep track of within their contribution. So that's why that column, like 60,000, even though tasers and body armor are the same thing, within the same police department, contribution, they have their own bucket within that contribution, if that makes sense. So that's dedicated to that item. Yeah, it didn't make sense, but I was looking at it. Yeah. It's been great as I measure of help from the dog. So now that it's explained that you want to, what do you want to do with the emotion? If there's somebody who wants to make another motion, buy it. Well, there's a point of order and you could withdraw that motion. Yeah. It's not a lie. Because we have a second. And because we have a second on it, we're either we have to I voted up or down. I believe. No, Frank is good lawyer. Sorry Bill. I didn't mean to. No, no, no. Thanks. We've had the discussion. You can. A motion in a second. We had a discussion. It's not going to vote on. I vote to approve it. I do. I do. I do. I do. I do. I do. I do. No, that's what we've had the discussion. You can. We have a motion in a second. We have a discussion. It's not going to vote on it. I vote to approve it. I do, to approve. No, we have a motion. First, the motion. First of all, the motion to table. First of all, the motion to table. Hold on, favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? No. No. Okay. All right. So now we're going to continue the item. I'd like to make a motion that we approve these items as presented. However, I would like for the record for a correction. Yeah, that was just the... Propolary purposes that you go ahead and have an opportunity to correct the column and put the correct amount in there since that's what's been mentioned. Yeah just the total expense which is just the technicality there. Displating it's not even it yeah. Okay we have a we have a motion to approve we'll do I have a second second we have a second by consument-pollot then clarify the motion was made by consumpt with Robinson and a second by consument-pollot any discussion No, I just, I just, I just, I just, I just, I just, I just, I just, I just, I just, I just, I just, I just, I just, I just, I just, I just, I just, I just, I just, I just, I just, I just, I just, I just, I just, I just, I just, I just, I just, I just, I just, I just, I just, I just, I just, I just, I just second about consummate Pollard Any discussion No, I just I just think that these again, this is an agenda item that it could have been written a whole lot better And that's why I decided that I thought it should be table We discussed I All the food is here. Hi. Hi. I understand. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. of the City of Chanda, Texas, amendment the Court of Ordinances, Chapter 102, so I still allow a zoning alcohol permit for a mixed beverage on-premise permit for the property located at 1700 research forest drive, Chantendola, Texas providing for a penalty in the amount of $2,000 for violations thereof, providing severability and providing for an effective date Mayer and council the applicant For this location is requested zoning alcohol permit Sally Braza will be opening up in the existing killings Steakhouse located at the address listed in the agenda packet the requesting on mixed beverage on premise permit identical to what healingslon's had, do not including late hours. The applicant is actually a business owner currently in the city at the Avenue to Brazil location. They're closing that location at the end of the month, doing a small cosmetic interior renovation to the Keylon State Council will be opening their new business model at this location. Free branded. That's basically. Oh, yeah, same kind of concept maybe a little bit more luxurious at the new location All right, do we have motion? Motion to approve we have motion to approve our consp and Pollard. Second. Second. Seconded by consp and Robinson. Discussion? Yes, I'm glad that you've put it up on a map here because there was no map in the agenda packs. We talked about that before, so let's get better at it. Is a map required in the packet? I don't believe that a map is required in the packet. If we do send public notifications, maps are provided for a requirement with the state statute. But as far as the page is concerned, we haven't had maps on these that come up from. This is recommended by P and Z as well, isn't it? Yeah, I'm sorry, yes. Thank you for clarifying that. P and Z did recommend. It was okay with the packet without the map. Correct. It is at Killens, where everybody knows where Killens is on the corner there. Yes. We know where it is. I don't know that everybody knows it. Ron, did you? It's a 1700 research for us. Everybody should know. So it's not required. I just think that it's a good practice to have a map. I think it's a good practice to help our businesses get open as soon as they can. It's good for the residents of this city because taxes go up. And also we're being very, very good to a very, very good business owner. And we want to be business friendly and try not to hinder them doing business in Chidandola. We do not want a reputation like some councils have of being bad to their business. I'm not saying hinder them. I'm just saying. Put a man up. If you delay on six weeks, it's kind of hinders them. Kind of hinders the city too. Costless money. I see no need in changing the processing of this. All right, let's forward on this item. Moshe was made by Gunpla Pollard. Seconded by Councilman Robinson. All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. Item number 11. Discussion and possible action to award waterpoint number two. Recoding and gate installation. Yes, Mayor and Council. This is a capital project and staff has solicited bids for the recoding of the external piping there at our waterpoint two. It's been a long time and is in need of it. And it's been found that as you you do these maintenance items you can prolong the life of your equipment so but that was all discussed time budget workshop so the lowest bidder was A and H coding services and they came in at $33,750 we also had them give us an alternate price for recoding the generator that's out there. That price came back at 8,000, which was a little too much money for the benefit. We're going to get out of it, so we're not recommending that portion. But we are recommending the piping as well the replacement of the gate that's at that water plant. It's seen better days, it's a manual gate, and all of our other water plants have activated motorized gates, so this is getting it up to the standard of our other water plants. The price for the gate was provided by Gates Emotion, and they do all of our maintenance and upgrade work for the city. That price came in at around 17,500. So the total cost is going to be for the recoding of the piping of the gate. It's 51,214 cents and $58,000 is budgeted for the project. So it's within budget. approved. We have a motion to approve by Councilman Ray Maker. Second. Seconded by Councilman Robinson. Discussion? Is this the generator that was burglarized? No, that's at water plant 4. That's at 4, okay. Yes, sir. And what is the life expectancy of that generator? We decided not to be cold. So it's getting near end of life. It was going to potentially help it last a little longer, but honestly, it would have been more aesthetic at this point. So it is- I was asking because if it doesn't have much of a future, why you spend the money on coding. Right, I can't recall the age of it, but it is approaching end of life. There is a discussion that staff wants to have at the next budget workshop about a program for generators that you collaborate with, ENTERGY. If they've got it up and running in this area, we've been in conversation with them for a few years now as something that we just want to see if it's worthwhile versus having to replace the entire generators because those generators that size are not cheap. Any more discussion? All in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. Item 12. Discussion and possible action to approve a contract with A1 Utility and Construction Services. Madam Councillor Sina, gender fact there's a contract for A1 Utility and Trifton Services. They are the current Bill and an operator over in the Tamin community that was with the Old Tamin Water Company to keep the transition smooth as well as to help spread out workload. We are adventuring an option to keep contract with them until our service lines are live and total connections have been made and switched over at that point. A1 knows exactly where all those meters are, where all the lines are. They have a good relationship with the community over there for the bill and we did approve A couple of meetings ago to have a separate bank account that they could deposit these deposits into to keep them separate until we bring them onto our system. So this contract was reviewed by the City Attorney and it is approved by him to be approved by you. And this contract will be active until that switch over happens onto our infrastructure. Right. Motion to award the contract to the motion. The motion to approve and to award the contract to a one utility by Councilman Brott seconded by consul and Raymaker discussion. I have a question. Any issues of reason during this transition, the financial aspect of it as far as you know the deposits that they made previously to one and all of that. We've had to have a lot of communication and coordination with the old town of Water Supply Company, but we've been able to get through you know there have been challenges but we have been able to get through them and get them solved. Yes and they've already started to collect the deposits and they'll switch them over to our bank account as soon as it was approved. Okay. Any more discussion? All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. Item 13. Discussion and possible action to adopt the minutes of the January 23rd, 2025 special meeting and the February 12th, 2025 and the February 26th, 2025 regular meeting. Motion to approve the minutes is presented. Second. Motion to approve the minutes as presented by Councilman Brott seconded by Councilman Pollard. Any discussion? All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. Item 14, discussion and possible action to ratify the accounts payable for February 20, 25. Motion to approve. We have motion to approve a Councilman Raymaker. Have a second? Second. Second by Councilor Brott. In discussion. Sorry, in discussion. Okay. You have something to say, I doubt it. I just would have done. I was really tickled to see that you purchased the two taos. I got that done, what, March or whatever. And I also had a question though, on under the, over here, under Capital Projects General Fund cameras. In February the 12th, it added up to about $25,000, 30,,000, or those installed? That's a partial invoice payment on the word that's ongoing. I think within about a week or maybe a little more will have all that installation completed for all the water treatment, the water treatment plant and the water of the water. So's all I have. All right. All right, question. All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion categories. We're going to move on to our 15 civic club updates. Welcome back from your vacation. Yes. Can you tell Jake was here? Come over to me here What was your name again It even made her in council. Yeah, my vacation was awesome And I hear that everybody did a fantastic job running the city club meeting So we've got three things for tonight First is that I am incredibly excited to say that we ended up with nine scholarship applicants. This is the most that I'm aware of and everybody that I've asked that's participated in it. It's significantly more than we've had in the past. So it was very nice to see that kind of participation. Most of them came in within the last couple hours. It was all actually fearful on Thursday that we were only going to have one or two applicants. But they just all came in on Friday. So our judges are scoring them and we will present which everyone's awarded scholarships in the first council meeting in May. So the two activities coming up, we will be serving food, hot dogs, pizza chips, soda, drinks and stuff for the Montgomery County Safety Expo, the Saturday over at the Woodford Stadium. That event is from 11 to two. There will be a ton of other things other than just food. So if you've never been, I encourage you to go. And then the other thing is then two weeks after that will be on April the 12th, will be our biggest event in the spring time, which will be our Easter Egg Hunt, Easter at the Park in Fishwood, as it's called. But as I mentioned last time, we will have 5,000 eggs for the Easter Egg Hunt. So plenty for all the kids to participate in. Any questions? You got volunteers to stuff 5,000 eggs? I'm actually going to make that part of the next one maybe get them all. But I think eggs themselves are all pre-stopped in package. So it was just separate amounts. So we've got age groups for a little bit older folks, our kids. So I think we'll be doing probably 12 and up. And then seven or eight years old to that 12. And then a little bit younger group, basically anything under seven. And then there will be an area for infants to just go wrong. Anybody that's under the age or two To have a special area. There were then our being trampled by the stampede of eight year olds and ten year olds trying to go get all the eggs So the safety expo is a really big deal is a really big deal last year We get people from everywhere. I feel like Montgomery County looking at all the equipment. The first responders have, have our canines doing the display. They get to interact with our beautiful, wonderful, should-and-do-a-please department and other police departments and fire departments. Do you need any extra help on putting this on on Saturday for the Civic Club? Should we be there at help? So I think I've got the food prep done, and I'll be there of course serving, and then I'll, I'm gonna send an email out to our Civic Club members, they are all aware of the event. So hopefully we'll get a couple of people to help me serve some food. Otherwise otherwise I'll be like an octopus and anybody else in the council would like to come you're welcome it's always a great time yep fantastic all right thank you thank you thank you would want to item number 16 city administrative updates I just a couple updates. Last Saturday we hosted our fall or sorry spring. I don't know where my mind is. Spring trash bash and needless to say it was slammed. It was probably one of our busiest trash bash events that we've ever had. There was a line from the very beginning when we started at 8 until we closed it in noon and we filled every single dumpster we had and we brought in about 180 cubic yards worth of dumpster storage. A lot of storage and it filled up. There was 1.77 tons of paper shred and the scrap metal we got from it we were able to scrap for $85 worth of scrap. So very successful also during that event as people came in and we checked IDs we handed them a survey card for our Parks and Pathway Master Plan so that they get to the survey, had a real easy QR code to scan and while they, you know, hey, why you wait in line? Get on there, there's a few questions you can do it on your phone. So we're able to get those out to everybody who drove through. Unfortunately, I got with Burtett, who's the consulting agency and one person filled out the survey from that, but we'll continue to keep trying. They will be at Easter at the park. They'll have their table there and some displays showing some pie charts of where we're at now and trying to encourage people to go take the survey. So I'll say that, well, YouTube's not working, but anyone that hears this, you know, we want to hear your voice, and we want to get your opinion on what we need for, you know, future pathways. Where do we need pathways? Where do we need parks? And we just want citizen input. So if you're at Easter, the park will find their table and take the survey, please. Yeah, and we'll make sure that this is posted on the city's website and social media pages as well. Right they're there now. I believe it's still in the scrolling banner on the front page so it's available. We're trying to push the QR code out to make it very easy for people to just scan that it'll take you right to the survey. Yeah. Great. Those are all my updates. Thank you. But Council inquiry, position one. Five years and four months. That was my streak of faithfully reporting the capital improvement report, but it was not on the agenda tonight. I'm asking for an agenda item to be voted on at our desk meeting, restoring my monthly report to the last meeting of each month as it has been for the past five years and four months for the benefit of residents and council members. Can I get a second? Second. With the financial update, I do want to remind everybody to sharpen your pencils as we get ready for the budget. It may be tight and I am not yet ready to give up on free trash so don't try me yet. Okay, that's not happening. As far as other things on here then, yeah, I got that one. Are we going to get the police and the PD metrics nothing next month? Yes, as I indicated email to you guys that was sent out earlier this week, it was being worked on. We had other priorities. Okay. And then congratulations on getting your additional star and not just waiting on that procurement one. So do we have a target for that? We're working on it. We need to find some contracts to make sure that they're correctly recorded within the procurement star requirements. I have to read some of the contracts. You have to indicate the terms. Okay. Yeah, that was a long, we're on the long guess. So, okay, but congratulations on the other. Thank you. That's it. Nothing. I want to report to the public that all of us went to Central Texas to play in Austin and we got out of there in one piece. Yeah, that was good. But we went and we visited with Representative Toth and Senator Criton on issues that were germane in the bills that are being run through the legislature. And we've got, we had a very good meeting with both people. I just want to let everyone know that it was very, very productive. That's one of the thank our staff. Courage them to keep up the good work. Thank you. Thank you. I agree with that. Also, we, that was a very informative meeting. We had the TML by-year conference here in Austin. There was a lot of good information that was put out regarding the legislation that's coming up for a vote here in for this, for the 89th session that applies to small cities like ours. Good discussion, good question and answers during the presentation. So we got a lot of information, a lot of very eye opening and what's going on in Austin. So, and we need to stay on top of it as things come out of committee and change. Yeah. Nothing so permanent has changed. And I'll ask them. It's crazy. Yeah. There is a service that TML has that they provide the legislative updates as they compile them and they send them out via email for those who want to subscribe to those updates. I get them and I sit there and I read and see what is going to affect our city. All right, we're going to move on to executive session. The time is 6.50. Go to the Texas Open meetings app, chapter 551 of the Texas Government Code as follows. Texas Government 551.074 personnel matters. Consideration and if the term inappropriate, take action resulting from the item listed under executive session. We will come back once we complete our executive recess. All right, we're going to reconvene our council meeting at 7.18. No action was taken in executive session. Mr. Mayor, I'd like to make a motion that we appoint Joseph Peart as interim city administrator. Second. Okay, we have a motion to appoint Joseph Peart as the interim city administrator. And pardon me just for clarification, with an appropriate adjustment and pay? That's correct. Certainly we need to raise the level of pay to meet that duty. That'd be a part of my motion. All right, I need, I. I'll just down here. I suppose we ought to be very clear on that that whatever the city administrator pay is, that's where he needs to be during that period of time. Yes. Okay. We have a motion to appoint Joseph Perkins from a civil administrator with commensurate pay by Councilman Robinson. You're the second. Second. Oh, yeah. Second is about Councilman Prye. Paul and favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. There was no discussion. It would be probably an appropriate point just from everyone's benefit that right now we need to have somebody that can sign contracts and just carry on with the general ministry of duties officially. The official V.S. All right. The motion carries. It is now 720 and we're going to adjourn this session of the City Council of China Dollar.