Good evening. It is now 7 p.m. It's August 21 21st, 2024 and I now call the meeting to order. Miss Hall would you please call the roll. Council Member Bethel. Council Member Moore. Council Member Wilson. Mayor Scarot. Mayor Pro Tem Green. Council Member Sutton. And Council Member Aubrey. Mayor there is a quorum and the required charter officers are present to conduct. Thank you. Thank you. Item number three is our invocation and pledge. I'm going to ask Councillor M. Wilson to lead us in our invocation and I will lead us in the pledges. Please stand and join me in prayer. Father God, thank you for bringing us together to the city and to do the business of this city. Lord, we thank you for the privilege of public service and we thank you for public servants and those who give so much to our community. Lord, be with us tonight as we deliberate the business of this city. We ask for your continued blessings in our community and our citizens, leaders, cadets, and directors, forgive us for where we fail you. We ask this in Christ's name. Amen. I pledge allegiance to the Father of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under our indivisible liberty and justice for all. Honourable Texas flag of pledge allegiance to the Texas one state under God, one in the individual. So tonight we have recognition of the Portland Aquacat State and National Swimmers. Well if you certainly didn't see him coming you're certainly going to hear them coming with all that bling on them. Come on in everyone. Yay! for you to recognize our swimmers. The city of Portland Parks and Recreation has a swim team called AquaCats. We have a winter and summer league and we have a great group of swimmers. This is not everyone. I want to tell you that people have a lot going on now. And so we couldn't get all the swimmers here, but we definitely wanted to bring them before you. We always compete well. They represent Portland, excellent, and we're always so proud of them. But at this time, I would like to introduce Michelle Miller. She's going to tell you just how fantastic they are. Thank you for being here. Hi guys. Excuse me. So this summer was a big summer for our swim team. Every two years, the kids get four opportunities to qualify in the state of Texas to be a top three to go to. The event every two years that's called games of America. Each state will every two years it changes. So this year was in San Diego, California, California hosted all 50 states and that's the top three swimmers of each event that needs to be qualified in their state. We brought about 18 swimmers this year over the last two years and brought over 30 medals home at the end of that. Mm-hmm. Come on. Come on. Come on. Come on. Come on. Come on. Come on. Come on. Come on. Come on. Come on. Come on. Come on. Come on. Come on. Come on. our state games in Texas, which is in Brownsville, which is held in the summer and then January again. So we have in that, I'm sorry, and those meats, you have to place top three. As you see with the medals and the blinging, they do pretty well there. So we did have 20 overall qualifiers for the state this year. And we had four gold medals, eight silver medals, five third place medals, and it was really cool this year. We had a lot of parents that jumped in and swam it as well. So parents have the opportunity, eight and over, 18 and over, get to swim. And they also have to place in the top three regions to go to the state meet. Myself, we've been swam, but I didn't, I'm not bragging. It wasn't pretty, but I did. So up here today, we have Shannon. She's the mom of Sawyer, but she showed up in Swam Region and State as sport in her medal. We have Sawyer Rubrit. Step one. Karina Gomez. Snarros. I said that right, this is Marcus Phillips, eight and Rodriguez, and Carlota, Gomez, the Snarros. We have 20 swimmers that qualified, we have some littles in the family. I have three little ones that's going to be too hard for me to manage coming and school events. So this is just a piece of what we bring home every summer. And so I just want to let you know, summers are amazing here. Portland is about families. And I feel like my swim team is my family, too. So when I go to work it's not a job it's my family and I just would love these kids and the families to death so thank you guys for letting me do this every year. Thank you. Yeah let's take a council and get around and take a picture. It's cherished. My back of my knees there. Excuse me, you cannot go. Okay. So Shannon helps you with my teach. She's a dental hygienist. So I know her well. Get in the picture. Just a few comments about, you know, Shannon, she told me all about their trip to San Diego and you would talk about a proud mama and and dislistening to all the wonderful things that happen with these young youth traveling to San Diego and just all the experiences that they are that they have the opportunity to do. And then of course bring home, you know, the trophies and the medals. I can't be more proud of this team and what they've accomplished. And just looking at everybody up here, I guess there's also one unintended consequence of being a swimmer. Man, y'all have beautiful highlighted hair. People pay a lot of money for that. So congratulations to you all and we look forward to you. Swimming, this is a lifelong sport and we look forward to seeing you year after year after year. Congratulations. All right, we'll let them have an opportunity. Y'all can stay for the meeting or y'all are free to go have the rest of your evening free. It's up to y'all. Thank you very, very much for coming. Bye. We'll go into Council Comets. Councilman Bethel will start with you tonight. Thanks mayor. I'll just congratulate the swimmers and clearly a big haul for them as you could hear them jingling their way up. Obviously in my household a lot of excitement tearing over from the Olympics and a couple of Olympians in my household who have a long way to go just to catch up with these kids. But just a really cool thing to be Olympians in my household who have a long way to go just to catch up with these kids but You know just a really cool thing to be able to represent your city your state in this case And very proud of the the talent that's being produced here Councilman more yeah same thing just correct congratulations to swimmers, you know It's something I did as a kid for quite a long time and I really enjoyed it and it served me well Especially when I joined a Navy that was helpful so but other than that I'm gonna leave anything else to add. That requirement you have to have a swim in the Navy. Councilman Wilson. I just echo the comments and congratulations to the swimmers and appreciate all that you did. Let's go all the way down to the end. Councilman Albrek. I like why I just want to congratulate the swimmers and also there have been several new businesses open up in the last couple of weeks would like to congratulate them and thank everybody for putting up with some of the construction that it took to make that happen. Councilman Echo the comments year after year it's impressive what the swimmers do. And the amount of hardware they bring back, it's phenomenal, really is. It takes a lot of hard work to get there. Also, the councilman Ulrich's comment about the local business. I know one that has opened up has already impacted my household. I don't know how it's affected y'all, but it is impacting me. A lot of good businesses opening up. Hope everybody's enjoying them. Mayor Putin. I echo everybody's comments about the swimmers. It's really great to see these young kids going through programs like this and you folks that are spending the time to teach these kids what the values of sports can bring to them. So thank you for that as well. And to see what they're doing and what they can do in life later on in representing Portland, representing all of us and just gonna make leaders out of them. So this is pretty awesome. Thank you. And congratulations. I think there's a couple of adults out there too that won some bling too. So it's really great to see the parents, the family, this is a family sports event. That's really good. Congratulations to all again. Of course, a lot of it just seems like the last two weeks have been just incredibly busy. After our last council meeting, we all left and went to have dinner with the governor in Portland. The governor came to Portland and I think left with a very favorable impression of Portland. Thanks to our Chamber of Commerce, put on a very nice dinner for him. And of course, I want to thank our security and police for making sure that he had a safe entrance and exit and no incidents as well. He was in town. Also, like you said, a lot of significant fanfare this past two weeks over several businesses opening in Portland and just look forward to continuing going to those rooming cuttings and the good fortune that we are experiencing here in Portland numerous meetings and events this week, but again, it's just been a crazy busy two weeks. And when you're busy, you're having fun. So thank you for everybody that participated this past two weeks in all these events. Mr. Wright, do you have any comments? No comments tonight, Mayor, thank you. Thank you. We'll move on to public comment. I don't have any speaker cards or I'm not aware of anyone in the audience that would like to make public comment, but if you are, please come forward at this time. So how do we receive any comments via email or electronic? No, there were no comments received. Okay, see none. We will move on to our action items. Minutes of its previous meetings. City Council will consider approval of the minutes of its August 1st, 2024 special meeting. August 1st, 2024 budget workshop and the August 6th, 2024 regular meeting. I will entertain a motion. Motion to approve the minutes of the August 1, 2024 special meeting, budget workshop and regular council meeting. Second. Motion made by council and seconded by council and Wilson to approve the minutes of the August 1st, special meeting, August 1st Budget Workshop in August 6th, regular Council meeting. Is there any discussion on this motion? Hearing none, we'll begin the vote with Councilman Baffle. Four. Four. Four. Four. Four. Motion is approved. Item number nine, ratification of decisions of the Board of Directors. The City Council will consider ratifying the August 20th, 2024 decisions of the Portland Community Center Complex Development Corporation Board of Directors meeting. Ms. Martin. Good evening, Mayor and Council. The Portland Community Center Complex Development Corporation Board met earlier tonight, August 20th, 2024. They discuss the following items, the minutes from the August 15th, 2023 meeting, the election of officers, and the adoption of the fiscal year 25 budget. A brief summary of the budget that was adopted is on your agenda bill. The budget consists of annual revenues of approximately 1.79 million and expenditures of 1.772 million for surplus fiscal year 25 ending at $18,406. All of the meetings were approved tonight by the board. They also elected the following officers for fiscal year 25. President Kathy Scuro, Vice President Terry Owen, Secretary John Green, Treasurer Aldelia Martin, Executive Officer Randy Wright. The recommended action tonight is a motion to ratify the decisions of the board and directors made at their August 20th, 2024 P-Triple C-DC Board meeting. Thank you. Great questions? If not, I'll entertain a motion. A motion to ratify decisions of the Portland Community Center Complex Development Corporation Board of Directors of its August 20, 2024 meeting. Second. Motion made by Councilman Moore, seconded by Councilman Albrek. To ratify the decisions of the August 20th, 2024 Board of Directors of the PEE Triple CDC. Is there any discussion on this motion? Hearing none, we'll begin the vote with Councilman Albrek. Four. Four. Four. Four. Four. Four. Four. Four. Motion is approved. Next item on our agenda is submission of calculated 2024 tax rates. City Council will receive the calculated 2024 tax rates submitted by the city manager in conjunction with the San Patricia County Tax assessor collector. Mr. Wright. Mayor thank you. This is a required step in our budget setting and tax rate setting process this year as it is every year to require about Texas tax code. So this Martin is going to go over the details of this and it does require a motion by the City Council. It's morning. So, so as stated, the following two agenda items actually are related to our 2024 tax rate. The first item will formally submit the rates that were calculated by our tax assessor collector and the subsequent item will set the public hearing date for the proposed tax rate increase. Please note that no rates are actually being adopted tonight. As stated, these are just formalities to apply with tax code. Texas tax code does require all cities to formally submit their calculated rates to City Council by August 7th or as soon as practicable. They are being submitted tonight because those rates were certified by the tax assessor on August 6th and this is the first meeting subsequent to that date. However, those rates were posted on the city's website since August 7th for the public to view. There are two tax rates that are required to be submitted to Council, the no new revenue rate and the voter approval rate. The 2024 no new revenue rate is 0.639-036 and the 2024 voter approval rate is 0.664-419. Also presented on your agenda bill is our de minimis rate, which is 0.674-452. And again, the de minimis rate applies only to cities that are in population of less than 30,000, and that rate does generate about $500,000 more in revenue than our no new revenue, MNO rate. So detailed definitions of all those rates are included in your agenda bill, as well as in the budget binder that you received during our workshop on August 1st. And again, just to reiterate, these rates are not being adopted. These are just for state compliance and public transparency. Staff does recommend a motion to accept the calculated and certification of the 2024 tax rates by the San Patricia's County Tax Assessor Collector. tax assessor collector. Any questions? I'll motion accept in the 2024 tax rate calculated and submitted by the city manager and conjunction with the San Patricia County tax assessor collector. I'll second. Motion made by Mayor Pro Tem Green, seconded by Councilman Bethel to accept the 2024 tax rates calculated and submitted By the city manager and conjunction with the San Patricia County tax assessor collector is any discussion on this motion? Erie Nunn will begin the vote with Councilman Albrecht. Four. Four. Four. Four. Four. Four. Okay. 4. 4. 4. Okay, motion is approved. Item number 11, resolution number 921, setting date for public hearing of proposed tax rate. City Council will consider resolution number 921, setting the date for the public hearing of proposed tax rate increase this month. The City Council just received the tax rates that were calculated and certified by the tax assessor. On August 6th, the City Manager did present the fiscal year 25 budget to City Council during a regular City Council meeting and that proposed budget is predicated on adopting the diminimus rate of .674452, which is the recommendation of staff to adopt. Because this rate is higher than the new revenue rate, tax code does require a public hearing. The attached resolution sets the date for that public hearing for September 17th of 2024. The notice for the public hearing will be published in the local newspaper on September 5th, and it will be posted on the city's website. So after that public hearing is conducted on September 17th, the city council will vote on the first reading of the ordinance to adopt the tax rate on September, excuse me. September 17th. And then the second reading will occur on September 23rd. So staff does recommend a motion to set the public hearing date for September 17th of 2024 to increase the tax rate. Okay, questions? Hearing none, I'll entertain a motion. With the motion to adopt resolution 921, setting the public hearing date on proposed tax rate for September 17, 2020, 4 at 7 p.m. Second. Motion made by Councilman Wilson, seconded by Councilman Moore, to adopt resolution number 921. Is there any discussion on this motion? Hearing none, we'll begin the vote with Councilman Bethel. 4. 4. 4. 4. 4. Mission is approved. Item number 12. Chris Andrews' vote launch change orders number 1 through 19. Final pay application and project acceptance. The City Council will consider that Chris Andrews' vote launch change orders number one through 19 final pay application and project acceptance. The city council will consider the Chris Andrews boat launch change orders number one through 19 pay application number eight final and project acceptance. Dr. Banks. Good evening, Mayor and Council. This item has been a long time coming and I'm very happy to present it to you this evening. In 2017, the capital improvement program did include this project as Project Number 17-003 for construction of a boat launch and parking lot. The original contractor that was selected was in the Western. They started about mid-2022 and abandoned the job site at the end of that same year. Portland worked, staff worked with Shurtec Insurance Company to develop and approve a tender release and substitution agreement. And the total amount of $1,217,597 and transition the project to the second lowest bidder that was included in the group that submitted, which was J. M. Davidson. J. M. D. began that site work in November of 2023 and the project was substantially completed in late May of 2024. M. B. Western issued change orders number one through three. JMD issued change orders number four through 19 for combined total change order cost of $88,193. And 74 cents. We were very conscious about tracking all of these change orders. And a lot of them were related to late and defects that were very minor. Some of them were refunds, but because of the grant monies associated with this particular project, we wanted to be sure that every one of those were tracked. Some of the change orders that were issued included defects that were known at the beginning of the project. Others that were discovered along the way. We had several deductions and additions, landscaping, extra signage. We relocated the photo cells for the parking lot lights so that we would not have to change them out on each individual light. They're all centrally located. We relocated a fence, we constructed a sidewalk from the ramp area to the look out deck. There were several other minor adjustments that happened along the way. So the total was 88,193. We do have an additional reimbursement from requests for a surchak of 71,177 that is still pending. That was basically due to the Umphurcine site condition of the elevation of the abutment of the ramp and ultimately resulted in that section of the ramp being taken out and reconstructed. We had to do that in order to be able to get the angle of the ramp right so that we weren't too steep and causing problems with some of the longer boats that will be launching from that side. So that request is still pending. We did open the boat ramp on May 21st through the public. I enjoy every time I drive by seeing all of the parking lot full and a lot of people enjoying the facilities. Portland staff, HDR and JMD have completed all final site work and close out. Texas Parks and Wildlife Department has been on site and has completed the final site assessment and inspection for the project. The project deadline for the latest extension on this grant is at the end of this month. So thankfully we're able to go ahead and close this out. We'll have an additional 60 days to finalize the close-out section of the grant. So we are ready for close-out now. This will allow us to release the project Retain H to JMD and also to get the request meeting remaining funds from the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department and complete the final close-out of the project with the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department. As mentioned, this was a capital program and the 17 series of the CIP. It's funded from a Texas Parks and Wildlife Boating Access grant, a donation from the Andrews family and hotel occupancy tax. The original contract cost from J&D was 1,217,597. As stated, we had an 88,193 cumulative change order, and there is a pending request to sure-tech for $71,777. Our recommended action is to approve the boat launch change orders, final pay-off and project acceptance, and authorize the city manager to execute all contract documents. And I'd be glad to answer any questions anyone may have. Questions? Oh, man. More of a comment. I don't know what I'm going to talk to my constituents about what this project being finished since it's been taken six years to get from design to construction. The only project that I've ever done that has taken longer than this one was the Federal Courthouse and that included it and it only beat it by about two months. So yeah, it's been a long and painful process, but I'm thrilled that we are to the point where we are. And I'd like to make the motion to approve the Chris Andrews book, launch change orders, numbers one through 19, final pay application, number eight, project acceptance and other residents city managers to execute all necessary contract documents. Well, seconded, but I do have an additional comment. So being in capital projects outside of here, I've learned an appreciation that two of the most exciting times is when you break ground when you actually close it out. Because it's painful in between there and this is one of those. I've made this comment several times up here already, but I'd drive by that place to, at minimum, two times a day, and it's always packed. And everyone outside of here that I talk to, that I associate with, that I've used it, absolutely love it. They say it's the best one in the area. So this is a good one to finally close out and put a ribbon on it and send it on its way. Let me go ahead and we have a motion by Councilman Wilson seconded by Councilman Sutton now discussion. Sorry. Got excited. Well I just want to get on the table with the next second. Any discussion on this motion? I'll just say maybe it's time to start looking at expansion. You know? Councillor Winnah-Breck. I just want to highlight for a lot of folks that aren't necessarily in capital projects that especially when you have a project that stretches on for years, the fact that while this is slightly over budget just doing quick math in my. It looks like about 7% and probably exactly on target if you get reimbursement is really phenomenal. As soon as you start delaying projects like this and you have unforeseen circumstances, normally you end up in just a place you don't want to be with change orders and delays and sunk cost and that we were able to avoid that is really spectacular and took a long time. I think we delivered a lot of value to our citizens. Okay. I do want to make a comment that you start these capital projects and you never know what the full intent of the contractor is or their capabilities. This contractor came recommended and of course we were also dealing with another entity that was our partner in a grant application. But I have to give the credit to this ultimate success of this project to the staff that made sure that we had well oiled documents and shurdy bonds that covered us in the event that a contractor actually could not complete the job. If it was not for that, I don't know. We probably, well, I don't even want to speculate where we'd be. But this credit had to do with the thoroughness and making sure that these contract documents were well thought out, well done, and so kudos to staff on that. Mayor, just one more comment, too. And I kind of go back to the beginning of this project. For many, many years, for decades, that was an area we call the Shell Docks. And there were some fishermen that used that at their own risk, putting their boats in and out, some of the John boats, and some of them that were not high-value boats, I think, because of the character of that. And it was the Andrews family that came to us looking for a project and Chris Andrews, who was a graduated GP in 1971, was an avid fisherman and he had passed away and they wanted to do something as they have in other parks and other places contributed to the city. So the very fact that we're there and then we've got a great project and the result. Really the catalyst of it was the Andrews family that began that. And so, you know, just wanted to acknowledge them again. And to your point about, you know, the construction, the delays, it's kind of the nature of government projects. I mean, in our zeal to be fair and equitable to a painful end, sometimes this is the result. Is it end up with a process that is really extended? And though we have to follow state and federal law in order to get to the end and Dr. Banks, Brian, Delat, worked very hard to make sure this project got done so good was for them to thank you. With that being said we have a motion on the table and I guess you have something you want to say again? Okay. All right let's go ahead and begin the vote with Council Nalbrak. Four. Four. Four. Four. Four. Okay, very good. Motion is approved. And I hope everyone is enjoying. If you don't have a vote, you can still go out there and sit on the deck and the sunset is gorgeous. Item number 13, our fifth and Elm Restaurant Least of Facility Management Agreement Contract Award. The City Council will consider awarding the contract for the fifth and Elm Restaurant Least of Facility Management Operator. Mr. Wright. Mayor, thank you. Back on May 21st, the Council authorised a release of RFPs for the selection of an operator, both for the facility and for the restaurant for our fifth and own project. Now this is a milestone in this project because it means that we now have a direction to go. We know who all the players are and we can begin an artist to complete this project. And of course it's well underway but this is going to be an important step to move this project and of course it's it's well underway but this is going to be an important step to move this project forward. We received only one proposal from that process but we've been in negotiation with CC Turnkey events since the bid openings or since proposal openings and we've reported that to you a couple weeks ago. So tonight, what we wanna do is I'd like to have Mark Schaiburg with CC Turnkey events, kind of given overview of their vision for the, for the Walter Restaurant and for the operation of the facility. And then once they have done that, I asked Brian to talk about the details of the contract and basically the financial end of all this. So Mark, welcome. Thank you Randy Mayor Council. I'm Mark Schabert with CC Turnkey event group. I'm here with our CEO Vulcan Coach as well as most of our partners and many of our associates. We are super excited to be here to present to you our proposal to both manage and operate the fifth and own facility, as well as lease and operate the restaurant. I think Brian has asked me to kind of do an overview that you all got our full proposals in your packets on Friday to do an overview of a little bit about our history as well as our vision moving forward. Before I do so, I think it's worth pointing out or worth talking about that previous to May 21st, I believe, I was able to participate in the design committee for the past 18 months on this project. And as a consultant for Richter Architects, and it has been my privilege to participate in that. I've really learned the depth and the scope of this project. And certainly for me, it's been an honor to play a small role in this as a citizen of my hometown here in Portland. And I can't wait for this to come to light no matter how this all turns out today. The other thing I want to point out to you all, and I know you probably know this already, but the team that you have managed in the city is absolutely phenomenal. I've enjoyed working know this already, but the team that you have managed in the city is absolutely phenomenal. I've enjoyed working with Randy Bryant, Kathleen, all of them. They're the way they work together. They're teamwork. We've done a lot of design and builds and some different projects. And we've never seen a teamwork together like this. And you should be proud of what you've got there as a team. So CC Turnkey event group was pretty much formed in 2008 by five of the six founding members of Brewster Street Ice House. We got together and leased a property from the sixth member of Brewster Street Ice House to open up a boutique high end event center of the courtyard at Gaslight Square. The courtyard became very successful and a lot of people, a lot of clients wanted us to take our services, our event planning services and our catering services off site to their homes on Ocean Drive, to the Country Club of Corpus Christi, everything in between. And that was the precipitous of Diamond Point catering. Diamond Point has basically become one of the premier offsite caterer and event planners here in the area. In 2009-10, we had an opportunity to start an industrial division. With the boom, the frack boom that was going on in the Eagleford Shell, we started doing offsite into these remote locations, dropping off box lunches, dinners for these remote facilities. Forty, fifty, sixty guys, we would go out to the different facilities and feed. It really, more importantly than all the logistical nightmares that that caused, gave us an opportunity to start what is now our biggest, most profitable division at Diamond Point, which is our industrial division. We work with, we've worked with pretty much all the big players in San Pat, Exxon. We have a facility out at SDI, Shaneer. We do a lot of work at Kiwit. We feel like we'll talk about this here in a little bit, but we feel like that brings a lot to this management of this facility, our relationships, and our reputation with those groups. While we were developing our industrial side, we continued on the special event side of things. We also began managing multiple, sorry next slide. We also started managing multiple event facilities their food and beverage concrete street. We managed all the food and beverage there. Hurricane Ali We were over at the Museum of Science and History doing all the food and beverage there. Hurricane Ali, we were over at the Museum of Science and History doing all their event and catering as well as now we're managing all the food and beverage at the Art Center of Corpus Christi. An additional division that Diamond Point has that's worth talking about is our disaster relief division. We started that right after Hurricane Harvey since we've sold or we've provided hundreds of thousands of meals for disaster relief and workers, including probably a month ago we were in Houston for a couple of weeks feeding a 3,000 people for two weeks that were a EP line workers That division has really given us week. We had to go mobile kitchen. We've got a lot of assets and a lot of staff to be able to do that type of thing Our current active entities that CC turnkey events include Diamond Point Catering, Gallery 41, the courtyard at Gaslight Square, the Beacon Event Center, Aloy Cafe, which is at SDI and the Art Center of Corpus Christi. Current affiliated entities that are owned and operated by one or more of our partners include popular productions, frame entertainment, distance brothers, transportation services, entities that are owned and operated by one or more of our partners include popular productions, frame entertainment, distance brothers, transportation services, and rockets. So our founding partners are include Vulcan, who is our CEO, Vulcan Comes. Vulcan grew up in Turkey, His family was in the hospitality business all his life. They had high in restaurants, wedding centers, facilities. He came here to manage or he came here to go to school at Texas A&M Corpus Christi. He'd be in work in for us at the courtyard. I don't remember if it was dishwasher or bus boy, but worked his way up to manager, eventually general manager, left for a few years to do some things on his own. And then the partners of CC Turnkey got together, gave up a little bit of equity each and brought him back as our partner, CEO, and managing partner. Myself, I graduated from King High School. Don't hold that against me. Went up to the University of Texas, got my business degree, played in a band, all through college. Got out of college, started a talent agency, booking agency, managing bands, promoting bands. Became one of the largest talent agencies in Texas. I was a president of the Society of Texas Entertainment professionals for multiple years. Bought my first venue on 6th Street in Austin in 1996. It was the number one TABC sales bar in Austin for three or four years. Dusty Durrell, businessman and corpus brought me down here in 2002 to turn around street for them. Three, four years later his son and I purchased the old Union Pacific warehouse across the street from the new baseball stadium that Nolan Ryan was building down here. And we operated a Brewster Street, you know kind of the rest of this history there. I think Bruster Street is the work we've done at Concrete. Bruster's kind of stands on its own as far as one of the most iconic venues in South Texas. Sandy and her wall is back here. Sandy has been in the hospitality industry all her life. She's owned and operated restaurants in the Valley. She owned the Frosty and Woodsboro. We met them, Brewster Street, but so she understands front of house back of house, but also we kind of say she's to the stake, if you will. Anything that we do that's really exciting, she's either come up with or had her hands in. So we're excited, Al Sandi. Her husband, Larry, Andrew Wollum, for 40 plus years was a regional sales director for Biniki Foods. Larry has been in every kitchen, South of San Antonio. He's been involved with the design, consulting. The man understands more about kitchen operations and efficiency and food ordering and inventory than everybody in this room put together. His, his, his, what he's brought to this group has been invaluable. Laura is our front of house staff development and customer service specialist. If you've been at Gallery 41, since we opened in March, The next item is the CIS. The next item is the CIS. The next item is the CIS. The next item is the CIS. The next item is the CIS. The next item is the CIS. The next item is the CIS. The next item is the CIS. The next item is the CIS. The next item is the CIS. The next item is the staff management and partnership and then Eric is our guru of beverage service. Eric was our concessionary at concrete street when I moved here and partners and Brewster's been in the bar business for probably four years. I've seen him sling hundreds of cases of beer in a couple of hours and I've seen him develop high-end craft cocktail menus. He has a deep understanding of TABC laws and how to efficiently and profitably run a bar. So that's pretty much our six core partners. Other key team members, key team members, Danielle is our creative expert in special events and sales and management and oversees all the execution of our events. Victoria was my operations manager at concrete street for eight years. She went to the American Bank Center's and event manager and then came back and joined us in June. Kelly is our sales management event coordinator and Chef Richard, his resumes, pages long, he's our key executive chef that oversees all of our food production throughout the company. Part of the proposal that you all saw was talking a little bit about case studies and the things that we've done here in town, and more specifically the relevance to this project, the fifth and album. As I said, we opened up Rooster Street in 2006. Five of the six partners are here in this room and are involved with CC Turnkey Event Group. We all managed every aspect from design build to kitchen management, to operation management, to bar, to live music. One of the things that I'm proudest about what we accomplished at Brewster Street over the 16 years that we operated it was for 16 years in a row. We were best of the best live music venue in Corpus Christi and concurrently at the same time for 16 years in a row we were family best family friendly restaurant in Corpus Christi. That's an impossible feat to accomplish find any other place in America that is the number one live music venue and the number one family friendly restaurant and that's what we intend to bring to Portland. concrete street amphitheater as I said I came down here to turn around and operate concrete street. Street, very proud of what we accomplished at Concrete Street. Continuously named in the top 50 Ampitheaters in the nation, everybody here in this room was involved with every part of the operations of this facility from talent buying to management to food and beverage to event production. You know, again, kind of stands on its own for what Concrete Street's accomplished and what it means for the community. Brister Street Southside, the importance of that, I think, is that we were involved. We, as John said earlier, we turned the shovels and we were, we were there from the get-go. We, it was a ground up design and build project for us. We operated the startup operations, all the branding, the marketing of a family-friendly restaurant with a lot of rooftops around it. That was quite, and it was quite successful. Hurricane Ali, same thing, was a ground up design and build project for us. We operated and managed all the food and beverage operations. We did all the marketing branding as well as the special events and private events for Hurricane Ali. Diamond Point catering, I talked a lot about diamond point catering. Basically, we have multiple divisions, the facility operations management, the event planning and coordination, the food and beverage development, disaster release, and we have our exclusive catering contracts for multiple venues in town that we work with. Allerick Cafe at SDI is a project that we also did design build for. I think the relevance here is that very similar to what we'll be doing with Fifth and Alme hopefully is we report monthly budgets. We talk about projections. We are paid for based on profitability and our ability to meet numbers. So it's just the relevance of that in here is just that it's very similar to what we'll be doing with the city of Portland. Also, similar is what we're doing at the art center of Corpus Christi. We've recently gone into a contract with them to manage their facility, all their food and beverage. We partner with them on all their event planning and the event production, but then also in addition to it, we have a for-profit lease with a restaurant facility, which is what Gallery 41 is. So in a weird way, it's somewhat analogous to what we're looking at doing here. So that's a little bit about our past before I talk about the future or any questions about our past or history. It was very difficult to try to sum up. I put 200 years of combined experience, which is true, unfortunately, and fortunately at the same time. But to try to sum that up in 10 minutes was difficult. But the main point of that, I hope that you see, is that we have six partners. I think I put on the top there that strength through diversity. Each of us, as our, we work great together collaboratively. But each of us has our own specialty that we, that we would be really difficult. I know Randy said there was only one group. And that's, that that's that's not an accident it's really tough to do what we do and to be able to do all the things that this facility is gonna require from live music to managing the restaurant to the special event facility that's involved so we're excited about it and I'll go ahead and talk a little bit about the restaurant first. Oh, just kidding. Before I talk about the restaurant, I think one of the proposals, one of the things in the proposals was to talk about our philosophy and approach. It had many different areas. Talk about our philosophy and approach to restaurant management, our philosophy and approach to customer service. You don't have to look that far, just look across the bridge to know, you know, our philosophy and approach to family friendly, to creating memories, to all the things that we want to bring here. But I thought these five items were worth talking about as our core philosophy and approach to how we'll run this facility for you all. Community centric, I think that's top of the list on purpose. You can see by what we've done at all of our other facilities, how community focused we are. We do so many events at Brewsters and Concrete and everything from political events to fund racers, to benefits to partnering with the hooks and the ice race to partnering with events like the Buckdays rodeo to it is it's at the core of our business plan there and it will be at the core here just to engage with the stakeholders of the community. Before I was here I was over I think Tom was here earlier but I was over speaking to the VFW at the community center just before this meeting about the event we're helping them produce this week in with Steve Tribune. That's just the tip of the iceberg but that's the type of thing we want to bring to Fifth and Helm is really engaging the community not only for the fact that it, you know, brings good will, but also from a purely selfish standpoint, it runs people through your property that hopefully come and have a great time and come back and bring their family. Second philosophy and approach is our proven success in market understanding. I mean, we've been in the market for 20 years doing exactly this. We understand the data, we understand the, you know, some of what we've learned has been through the school of hard knocks, which is good for you. We've learned what to do and we've learned what not to do. In this business, and I know this runs counter to sometimes bureaucracy in city, but you have to move fast sometimes, and you have to have enough, I've spoken to city managers here about giving the operator whoever it is, enough latitude to be able to make decisions and do things quickly because you need to do that in this business when an opportunity comes up. But the good thing is we've got a lot of data, we've got a lot of information, we've got a lot of experience in the market to understand that when it's important to make a decision. Not everyone's going to be correct. I mean, if this business were easy, everybody would do it. But we do feel like we've got a proven success and a lot of history to be able to draw from, to understand what opportunities are out there. Third principle, financial planning and operational excellence are our new CFO Spencer's came down from San Antonio. We fully understand that we're working for you all, and it's going to be very important to communicate clearly, transparently, on all of our financial planning, our budgeting, our projections, and, or, you know, we honestly, we don't know what we don't know right now. And one of the most important things is going to be able to be flexible and to pivot and work together with everybody. And part of that is just talking about finances from day one. Dynamic programming and event scheduling. I've had the opportunity this last year to get to work with some of the people of the city of Portland, Kristen and Parks and Rec and all their team. I'm excited about working or the opportunity to work with them to program this facility. We feel strongly that this facility's got to be activated frequently. Many nights a week with multiple events. The event center, the lawn, the stage, the restaurant, all of it, we're gonna have to really keep it busy and keep it active, work with your team, work with our team to keep the programming and the event scheduling as active as possible. And then commitment to excellent kind of goes without question. But I think what you'll find with this group, kind of our motto has always been that quality is inexpensive, it's priceless. And that's kind of been our motto across all of our businesses that we want people to come. We know they're exchanging their hard earned money for an experience at our facility, and we want it to be worth it. We want it to be value-based. We're not always the cheapest in the market, but we do bring value and we think that commitment to excellence and everything we do from hiring to training to just creating memorable experiences is what we want to do. So moving forward to the restaurant. So we've named it the Grove at Fifth and Elm. The Grove kind of came about from, I think, for weeks in our design meetings. We kind of nicknamed the Southwest corner of the facility, the Shady Grove, the area where we're going to plant those live oak trees and watch them grow up to cast a lot of shade over the years. So what we wanted to do with the grove is kind of create an extension of the shady grove, kind of an indoor outdoor oasis inside, all at 72 degrees, of course, but kind of bring that warm outdoor feel into the facility. Live plants are official plants, hardwood, darker warmer colors. The concept, the service concept is what we call fast casual. Similar to what you've experienced at Brewster Street, kind of an order at the counter delivered to you. That doesn't talk about at all the quality of the product. We're just talking about a service style. It's a family friendly atmosphere, but we really feel like on balance, we've talked about our different service style opportunities, but on balance we feel like there's more positives than negatives with this fast casual type order at the counter and delivered to you. It's fast number one, if for lunch, you can get in and get out without having to wait for a server to drop your check or if you gotta be out in 45 minutes. Family friendly, incredibly family friendly, we've all experienced where we arrive at a restaurant and our kids are hungry and they're waiting for a waitress and they're waiting for this. And so this is bam, bam, you get your food and the kids are happy, which is important. Get a warm and inviting atmosphere. The cuisine is what we call scratch American. Everything will be prepared fresh, nothing frozen, nothing's pre-bredded. We put some of the menu options in our proposal, but everything from, again, what you would see at Bruster Street. But some of the elements we've talked about was the street corn nachos, the Lulee water melon salad, the pistachio-crusted chicken fried steak with jalapeno gravy, lots of local seafood, grilled blackened or fried, the black angus, burger, steaks, cajan pasta, that type of stuff that is all, again, prepared and Vulcan can speak a lot more to the food than I can, but all prepared fresh, all ordered fresh, and really a quality product. The sit down area around the bar will have like local, local draft beer sports on the TVs, a little vibrant Texas music play. And I like to say we show sports, but we're not a sports bar. So you'll have the music, we're just kind of the sports on the TV. Moving upstairs to the old town terrace, a little bit more of an adult atmosphere, kind of a 25 plus atmosphere with lounge seating, some fire pits, high top seating, stage where we might do acoustic music on the weekends, and just something that's a lot more appealing to a little more than adult crowd. Not going to be, not going to kick kids out, but it's going to definitely be a place where the adults can get away a little bit. We'll have the ability to order appetizers from the QR code and have them brought to the table there. One of the things that I didn't talk about with the restaurant too is that this fast casual service style really gives for a facility that's this big. It really gives the flexibility for people to, you know, if they start out sitting outside and want to come inside, if they start inside, want to go outside, they need to follow the kids, all that. Basically, with the GPS technology, we can see right in the kitchen exactly where their number is located next to any table throughout the facility and deliver the food just straight to them. And then as far as the daily operations and the facility outside the walls of the restaurant, there's a lot of opportunity for us to bring food and beverage into the facility in general. The daily offerings, these little carts and the kiosk are just an example of being able to do popcorn or nachos or ice cream or different coffees or drinks within the whole facility. Of course on ticket event days when we have thousands of people in there, we kind of convert more to a high volume situation where we're setting up portable bars and grabbing the type foods like personal pizzas and prepared sandwiches and stuff like that. And then of course for the catered events inside this event facility, you've got to be able to do high end catering, which when we were involved with designing this kitchen, we designed it with two lines, which basically means we have an event line and an operations line for the restaurant. So if we have a event such as this in the multi-purpose room, or I should say when we have an event like this in the multi-purpose room, we'll be able to cook for that on the separate line that won't bog down the restaurant. So really, I mean, I guess our overall philosophy with programming this and with working together is just we want to keep this route, especially the event center room and the stage and the restaurant just as active and activated as possible. I guess any questions at this point or did I leave anything out? You want to add? Okay. Any questions? Mary Thurrow, thank you so much and thank you for the team support tonight. I'm really impressed and we're all very excited. We're ready to get to work. Thank you Mark for your volunteer and expertise in this project. Certainly you've elevated this to a level that maybe was beyond what we might have been thinking and you know this project started as a vision just walking around old town one day and people talking to us and community. I remember in this very room we had a community workshop and we were putting up on the walls, sticking notes on what this should look like, what it should envision and what's the vision. And I remember words like eclectic and different and fun and colorful and and I think this has come to that culmination now and I can't wait I just can't wait and I I envision some great community events there and city events and private events. And certainly I can tell you that I have experienced the food at every one of your restaurants and I've never been disappointed. So thank you. I look forward to that. All right, where are we next, Brian? You want to talk about the contract? Absolutely. We talked about a couple of contract details. And as Mr. Wright mentioned, when we received just one bid from CC Turnkey events, we always try to make a determination. Do we need to go back out to bid or do we begin negotiating contract and it became apparent after reviewing the bid and interviewing CC turnkey events group. We wanted to recommend negotiating a contract directly with them. The presentation speaks for itself. And so the RFP that went out included a draft contract. And so we've worked with Mark and CC Turkey events in the last several weeks to finalize that agreement. It remains largely as it was with the RFP. It is a five year term from the commencement of operations, which at this point we believe is right around Labor Day 2025 with mutually renewable terms, year periods thereafter that. There is a 30 day termination clause for four cause if either party isn't fulfilling its contractual obligations. There is also 180 day notice for termination for convenience by the city. There are the money flows several different ways through the contract. First, there's a $12,500 monthly management fee from the city to the operator. That's going to begin with the commencement of operations right around Labor Day 2025. Between April 1st, 2025 and those commencement of operations, there is kind of a preliminary fee of $5,000 and that allows CC Turnkey events to begin working ahead of time, get everything staffed up, advertising, marketing, everything so that they hit the ground running as soon as Becroff construction is completed with the project. There is an incentive for the operator, if they exceed $2.5 million in non-ticketed and non-resistant revenues, there's a 20% incentive payment. We believe that is an aggressive number. But if this exceeds all of our imaginations of what this can be, there is a new clause in the contract that that $2.5 million will increase year after year. And so for example, if after the first year that number is actually 3.5 million, that number will reset at 90% of the difference, sort of reset at 3.4 million, that will be the new target. That way we know we're not sandbagging that number long term. In terms of funds from the operating back to the city, the restaurant lease is $12,500 monthly or 7% of the net sales. It does include a $4,000 to $50,000 tenant finish out and then the city will receive between 12.5% and 15's an event that is operated by the operator. If it's a city sponsored event or a co-sponsored event, it'll be 15%. And the operator will receive 20% commission and all event sponsorships and advertising. And as we mentioned back in May, the city retains the right to approve all sponsorships, all advertising, all naming rights for this facility. This does not relieve the city of our ability to do that. In terms of how the dollar shake out with this contract, these numbers are slightly updated from what we saw in May. There is about a $15,000 annual difference between total operating revenue and expenditures. That was $30,000 in May, so that delta is continuing to decrease. This budget is only getting refined over time as CC Turkey events, if approved this evening, they'll spend the next several months developing their full operating budget. And this assumes not the first year of operation. This has been likely years two through five after everything gets stabilized. There are two one time cost in addition to those annual operating and recurring cost, the first ten to finish out. We already have that $4,000 budgeted in our capital project and the capital construction as an allowance. So we'll utilize that funding there. And then it does anticipate seeding an events account with $100,000 of hot funds. And that's to help program the first couple of months of concerts and events at the facility. As you know CC, turnkey events, produces events, those ticket sales generally offset the expenditures for events. And so when you go to a concert, you know, a Bruce Tree or Concert Street, if the ticket sales were about $100,000, you know, at Concord Street, the cost to operate to bring in that artist to produce the event about $100,000, it's generally a wash. It's the food and beverage sales were the operator and the owner make their money. So in this particular case, that goes back to the city to receive the 12 and a half to 15% of sales during those events. And so during a typical concert on a weekend, that could be $5,000, could be $8,000, could be $10,000. That's something that we're at the ability to adjust the dial on as we produce either smaller events, larger events, less frequently, more frequently throughout the calendar year. One of the things that is in their proposal, and we discussed an interview, but Mark didn't mention this evening. Their CC Turkey events, their initial plan is to have, you know, Thursday night, Friday night, Saturday night events at the facility, where Thursday night, kind of more community event could be an open mic night or something like that. Friday night free concerts, so probably get a sponsor to help those. And those would be smaller events. And then Saturday night kind of the hard ticket, we've got to pay for a ticket to get into the event. And those would be similar in nature to the concerts that we've had, so far either Joe Burkekwevillian or at the warehouse of Fifth and Elm, so the Roger Krieger, Kevin Fowler's, the world. With that, I'll be happy to answer any questions. Any questions? questions. On this, you might, yeah, get stand on that slide. Just a high level from an expense standpoint, the maintenance and the parks and rec programming 160,000 is that specific to the restaurant or the event space or is that in totality for the fifth and Elm as a whole? Sure, the maintenance line item is in totality. And so that is the budget that we have in the city personnel as that first line item. And so we may have a city, Fifth and Elm or LED manager. They will help ensure that some of those daily and weekly and monthly maintenance activities are occurring, but then help also work with CC Turkey events in terms of promoting, advertising, marketing, and what have you. But that number is for for everything. And so if it's HVAC repair or broken glass or anything like that, that's that's that line item. So in this case, if we didn't have the operator like we do now, or you know, if we did, if we got zero bids or we, or they weren't ready to operate when we open the facility, those, we would still have those costs. So, you know, when you take that kind of separated, it's not necessarily that we're losing money or operating kind of at a break even from just this standpoint because we're going to have those costs regardless. Is that accurate? that likely increase in other line items if there was an operator. The city personnel cost, the maintenance cost, the programming cost would all increase. And so that operator management fee of $150,000 is offset by the income that we're receiving directly from the restaurant. I mean, they're essentially a wash of assuming kind of a $3 million sales. So, I mean, I think in my mind, this is kind of a, I don't wanna say worst case scenario, but it's even a little skewed to the conservative side of because it's not, those expenses aren't solely related just to having an operator there. So that's a good thing. The other question I had, and this is really just more of the mechanics, I'm just curious, I don't have a problem with the numbers. The management and synophe and them getting 20% back in excess of $2.5 million. How will we quantify that it's a monthly payment to them, but we're talking about an annual benchmark. So is there just going to be kind of a sure up at the end of the year based on monthly payments we've made and then if there's a difference that we owe or they owe us back? Yes, there's a clause for auditing in the contract and so we're going to have our auditors do more than our typical yearly audit. And so whether that's monthly or quarterly, we'll kind of go through it. But every month we'll figure out where we are in relation to that $2.5 million. And then the month that they exceed that $2.5 million, first payment will be due the following month after that. And for us from a budgeting standpoint though, it'll smooth it out a little bit versus it being a one-time payment. Absolutely, one-zero. Absolutely. Understood. Thank you. So, the set, I mean, take it back. This is not a line for the third or fourth or fourth year. The price, I mean, it's relatively close to a break even with projected revenues and expenditures. I mean, it's really the sort of conceptual game plan. Is that accurate? It is. And this is actually financially a better position than the Community Center because there are no direct sales taxes that are going to support it. And we've been careful to keep that total annual operating revenue and the total annual operating cost as close to married as we can without dipping into sales tax or any other funding sources. So the idea that restaurant and facility aside, we're operating a water feature, playgrounds, outdoor gathering spots, reconstructing an entire block, and doing that for on an annual basis is kind of a break-even venture. It's really attractive. It's got a better upside than the community center potential. Yes, sir. Yes. If it becomes the buckies of entertainment and the tax tax which we would love to see. And in terms of the upsides, significantly better. And this is similar to sports complex in municipal park, you know, with the recently approved contract there. You know, that is subsidized by venue sales tax. And so, you know, that contractor trying to do the same thing that we're doing from day one here. And Martin mentioned that we've talked about this before. We don't know what we don't know. So, you know, we've tried to be very conservative in this entire approach. And so the numbers are skewed conservatively just to make sure as we do a lot of our things in our budgeting. But they're all designed to make sure that we can adjust things as we go as we learn. We think we have a pretty good handle, but we looked at other operates, other cities. This is kind of a compilation of a lot of different contracts and a lot of different cities. So it seems to be the best of all those things. But again, we're a cognitive fact that we may have to pivot at some point as well. My question, and I might have missed it in the contract, but can you go over security and who's responsible for what aspects of security Whether it's a ticket event or a city sponsored event and then it's particularly on ticket events How do we control access and you know, what's that where where do those I kind of see as a gray area? Can you help me with that? Yeah, day-to-day security the operator takes care of that just like the wood in the other facility For a ticket event we'll treat that similar to how we operate concerts in the Joe Burke parking lot or at the warehouse. Anything, any sort of ticketed event or any event inside that has alcohol, just like at the community center, that they have officers or off-duty security there and so we'll do that. In terms of- We'll do that or the offer. It'll be built into the budget for that particular event. Okay. And each event is being operated at an events account and that's one of the expenses for that event. And then they're responsible for coordinating their own security, whether they, I would say, lease our police officers? So they have special requirements that are attached to their alcohol program. Correct, I understand. So that's kind of built into a cell. I mean, when we look at each event, security will be a component of that, and be a part of the budget. Yeah. In terms of access, you know, the rickters are designing that final access plan right now with the fencing. That can be either open or closed during events. It would be anticipated if you've got an event on the lawn with the stage that you'd have the main entrance for that event, kind of in the southeast corner by the restrooms. That way you can kind of fence off and you know kind of segregate the concert from people still being able to use the playground or the tree grove or going to the restaurant without having to have a ticket to go to a concert. So I have a suggestion for us on the insurance clause of the contract to be a little bit more specific, specifying limits and everything it doesn't really specify that. It gives some general terms on it, but I think that we should go back and review that and update that. I'm sure that we have something a little bit more specific in some of our other contracts. And potentially suggesting business interruption for the event of a hurricane or something like that that can get everyone back up on their feet pretty quickly. I think if Council approves and gives the authorization to move forward, I'd like to say I want you to maybe offline and talk about that and why you're expertise to that. Thank you. I'm going to give you a little bit of a little bit of expertise to that. Thank you. Okay, so where does that leave us tonight? Tonight because I know there's an insurance club. Where is that in here? That's on page 16. Article 15. Okay. And their insurance certificate is in the proposal and we can review that and make sure those coverage is are appropriate as well. Yeah, but so that can be purchased year by year. So I think that we need to have that stated specifically in the contract. Absolutely. Okay. I am. So I'm kind of like how can we move forward tonight without, you know, unless we give you the authorization to work through the insurance requirements or, you know, and again, this goes back to my comments earlier on that, you know, good contracts, good understanding, good insurance, really make for good partners. So this isn't anything that I don't think this is, this is just making sure that we all have an understanding and making sure that everyone is covered and insured in a manner that is appropriate for this type of interview. I'm comfortable with it, you know, reading that, you reading that he can execute all necessary contract documents. And the revisit of the insurance. Sure. Authorize the city manager. Yeah. All right. I'm ready for a motion. OK. A motion that we award the fifth and L.M. restaurant lease and facility management agreement to CZ Turnkey events LLC and authorize the city manager to execute and potentially renegotiate clause for the insurance on the contrary contract documents. Okay. Okay. So we have a motion by Councillor Moore, seconded by Councillor Monsutton to award the contract for the leaves of Silly Management Agreement to CC Turnkey events and authorize the City Manager to execute that contract and also to renegotiate the contract terms for the insurance coverage. And barring any other thing you could bring it back to council if you know. All right any further discussion? Okay here we go we're gonna make history here. Okay four four four four all right congratulations yeah four. Four. Four. Four. All right. Congratulations. Yeah. All right. I'm pretty excited about all. I'm very excited. I think we're all excited about it. There's Mayor Spirod mentioned earlier. You know, this has been a, it was a vision walking the streets and what can can do with hotel and from that develop the discussions with the area and staff getting involved and the public getting involved at huge, huge for Portland. And to have a place, a family friendly place that we could potentially maybe make it a town square where people can gather and basically give it a sense of place. So it's really remarkable. And I can't wait. It's like John said earlier, the shovel in the dirt to the final finished product. Let's go. Amazing. It's going to be amazing. Congratulations. As majority of the venues that we're mentioning in the presentation, I've had the opportunity to take my daughters at, just in my daughters, my son, and and my wife different ones and we'd thoroughly enjoyed ourselves at all. I'm super excited this is gonna be about a mile and a half from my house. Perfect. Mayor let me just say to you my comments about there being one bitter what we're correct and conservative as we normally are but the truth is now that this is past I can tell you that we were overjoyed that this, that Mark and his group bid on this, this project couldn't think of a better group to operate it, and we're just tickled to death to have them and look forward to work with them. Well, I suspect, I think we have a lot of interest in this bid and this RFQ, we call it bid, but request for proposals. However, when a lot of times in my professional career, I've looked at should I bid on this project or not? And you look at the people you're potentially going to be competing with. And so that kind of might have had a lot to do with the single bidder. So we definitely are very fortunate and y'all are, y'all, especially with Mark and Laura Living in Portland. You are invested partners in this and I could think of a better team to continue this milestone in really transformative project for the city of Portland. So, all right, feeling great tonight. Let's move on to our next agenda item. Executive session. Y'all get to go home, we get to stay. City Council will conduct an executive session according to government code is authorized by Texas government code Section 551.071 consultation with attorney 551.072 deliberation regarding real property 551.073 deliberation regarding perspective gift 551.074 personnel matters 551.076 deliberation regarding security devices and 551.087 deliberation regarding economic development negotiations. It is 8.22 p.m. We're going to recess our city council meeting and go into executive session. I'm not anticipating any action. Thank you. I'm not anticipating any action as a result of our executive session, but we will come back in in a journal meeting after our executive session. Thanks, Ted. Appreciate it. I'm going to go to the next room. Thank you.