Good evening everyone and welcome to the April 1st, 2025 City Council meeting. It is now 7.03 p.m. and I call the meeting to order. Ms. Hall would you please call the roll. On some member more? Mayor Scuro. Mayor Pro Tem Green. Councillor Member Sutton. Mayor. And Councillor Member Aubrey. Mayor. There is a quorum and the required charter officers are present to conduct the meeting. Item number three is our invocation and pledge of allegiance if you all stand. I'm going to lead y'all in the ward's prayer and then I'm going to ask councilman Moore to lead us in our pledges. Our Father, who aren't in heaven, how would be thy name, thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us and lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil. Amen. What do you do to what I am? I am the United States of America. I am to republic for which it stands. One mission under God in the people of liberty and justice for all . . . . . . honor. We're going to have some presentation updates and it looks like we're going to start with our director of parks and recreation. Kristen Connor. Good evening. Mayor City Council, I'm so happy to be here and tell you about some of our events that we have coming up this spring. So we have our farmers market it's back and we will actually be out at the market this Saturday. And so come out from 9 to 1. We are there the first Saturday of every month. And then July and August, we are not there because they don't like to melt out there in the heat. But hey, next year I'm going to tell you that we're going to have a market every single month because we're going to be at the LED. So that'll be good news coming soon. And we also have a new program. We've had a couple of dance classes. We've had West Coast Swing. We had a country western dance. And now we're doing a Latin dance series. So you can come with a partner or you can come by yourself. And so we encourage people to come for those. They're on Thursday nights. And beginning this week, you can sign up. At this Saturday we have the We Warrior event and this is a bunny edition. Some of you will remember from Christmas we did our very first reindeer games We Warrior event and it was a great response. We actually have 30 children signed up right now for Saturday so at 4 o'clock at Simpson Park you you will be able to come out and do the adventure course and It will be bunny theme. That's all I'm saying. So hip hop. It'll be a great time Saturday April 5th and then the next Saturday on Saturday April 12th You can and have breakfast with the bunny the bunny jelly bean is gonna be all town, you know, going everywhere for this festive time. So you can sign up online or at the community center at a $15 per person and you get breakfast and you can take a photo with the bunny. Parents do have to pay a fee as well. It is a reduced fee. It's, I believe it's $5 because we don't wanna, you know, not pancakes out of anybody's hands. So we let everybody the pancakes, they pay a little money, come on in. But it's a five dollars because we don't want to, you know, not pancakes out of anybody's hands, so we let everybody the pancakes They pay a little money come on in, but it's a really good time and you get to make a craft as well So that's at the community center. We do have two sessions 8 30 a.m. and 10 30 Be sure to get signed up because these kind of events do fill out and And then on April 26th the Portland Power Will Grand Prix is back. I do want to remind everybody this is really important. You see that warning right there? No modifications are allowed. You soup up your little four wheel drive, your power wheel. We're going to find out. You put a bigger battery in it. We're going to find out. So be sure and we're looking for factory purchased no modifications to make it illegal. I mean we laugh but people get excited and honestly some people have toys that they've done that for their children not because of this and they bring something that maybe falls outside of that but we did think it was funny to put a warning there. So we're all playing or racing at playing field. And the pit will open at nine. And so you can come in with your cars, get ready. And then the first race will start at 10. We do have age groups there. And then you do get trophies. You'll see that little guy in the bottom left. There is a belief. Is there a fee on that? It's $10. Oh, there it is. I mean, yes it's $10 so be sure to register and of course you know as these things gain popularity I really do encourage people to register ahead of time. I know sometimes folks wait but I really do encourage people. This is getting more and more popular but it will be in the pool parking lot and if you don't have a little one who has a car come watch it. It's really a great time. Just be ready to, we try to contain them in areas where they can't drive all over the place because it gets super fun and you know your reaction needs to be quick if one of them gets loose. And then we have our mother's son. We're having a touchdown dance party on May 9th. And this is an event for school-aged kids. When we say school age, a lot of people ask, what does that mean? Do they have to be in school? They can be in a daycare. You know, the three year- on May 9th and this is an event for school-age kids. When we say school-age, a lot of people ask, what does that mean? Do they have to be in school? They can be in a daycare. The three-year-old that's going to daycare, they can come in and bring their mom or a mother figure, a sister, an aunt, something like that. And so there will be music, there will be games and snacks. And we make this more a party. Boys, you don't have to come and just dance with your mom all night long. Your friends will be there, will give you candy and snacks and stuff like that. So it's really a good time to come out and have that experience. We have the father, daughter, and February, so it's really nice to provide this opportunity. And then just wanted to let everyone know we are hiring. Summer is right around the corner if you can believe it or not. And we are hiring for all our summer positions as well as year-round part-time positions at the community center. If you know folks looking for a part-time job to work on a great team, you get a free membership to the community center in the pool, not a bad gig. And so I encourage you to share that with folks. I can't wait to come back when we're talking about summer. and it's gonna be a great summer as well, but this is kind of a snapshot of what we're doing this spring. Any questions? Yes. Can you go back to the salsa class? Also. I don't know what salsa, yeah. I actually love dancing. Just a clarity on the prices, $100 for partners, 60 for solos, is that per session or for fun? No, that's for, that's for your four weeks. It's for all of them. Yes, yes. Oh, we would be making the money if that was per session. Well, that's why I was asking. So the session is, it's a four week program, one night a week on Thursday and so that would be your fee for the whole thing. And say what you want but if it was per session I probably wanted to attend but now I might. See there you go. I'd be excited to be there. Second question. Have you considered an open class on the Power Wheels thing? An open class? No competition but it's kind of cool to see some of the things parents will do for these. Yeah. Power Wheels. We maybe in the future we look at an extreme I've seen them set up where they're full-blown drifting cars. I was thinking I was thinking the same thing So this is like an exhibition just show and tell kind of oh there you go Well, maybe we'll have to look at that that's something I trust Nitrous and then as I did talk real quick summer, I'll be back soon, but I did want to share with you all May 5th on Monday at 8 a.m. when everything summer will open. And so you'll be able to rent the pool, rent an umbrella, sign up for kids camp, sign up for any summer programs. And everybody stay tuned because you will be doing that through civic correct not active net. So we're super excited about this coming summer. Thank you. Now we're going to have Jenny Moses, our librarian, to tell us all the activities of the library. Hello everybody. Yes. I want to tell you, Tim, that Jenny celebrated her 10th year anniversary with the city. Congratulations, Just seems like yesterday. Well, hi everybody. We're moving into the busy season as is the public community center, public library. I'm going to give you a little fill-in on things we do regularly before I go into the special events. Our weekly programs are in full swing right now and believe me, we can see the increase in the population because we're getting more people to our programs. I'll give you a statistic in a minute. We have Dorothy doing her toddler time and her after school programs, teen library lounge, story time with Mr. Kippy, which is still two sessions every Thursday. It's a great popular program. The monthly programs, I have my adult mystery book club, which is in full swing also, a lot of fun. We did last month, we did a book and a movie so that everybody could sit around and say, but that's not what it said in the book. They love it. We've added Volantine Time, which is kind of fun. We've got the teenagers that usually come in for the teen library lounge helping with projects. Right now they're filling Easter eggs with candy for the big event, which is also coming up. We're doing chess twice a month on one weeknight and one Saturday. One of my staff members is an avid chess player, so that is a lot of fun. He was very nervous during the filming for the upcoming program. He's made it the city. There is our special programs. At first, the touch of truck, I thought, what are those kids doing? Sitting on a bench? No, you can see they're sitting in, I guess, a front-end loader, having the time of their lives. There's a young man, a adorable child playing with a beat toy. And we had Smokey Bear come to our Take Your Child of the Library day this year. We won a couple of our kids colored some pictures and one visit from Smokey. And we had over 200 people show up on a Saturday morning for that. So that was really fantastic. It was very popular. Upcoming, we have our egg hunt that runs from 10 to 1002 on April 15th. Be in the field across the parking lot from the library, line up inside. And then we take everybody over very orderly. We have summer reading, the theme being color our world, which is again, the kind of thing they leave everything wide open. That you can cover anything with that. So we'll have all kinds of events. We've already scheduled our opening. We'll have our closing swim party, and a whole bunch of things in between. Book of Paloza, most likely at the end of September or in October. In conjunction with the GPISD, which is always a huge event. We love that. And that's it. Right now we're cooking for all the warm months coming up. What more can I tell you? Wonderful programming. Any questions for Jenny? Oh, I did want to tell you one statistic. I'm talking about all the programs. It just finished up the annual report for the state library and that gives us always last year's statistics to compare. We went in our programming attendance. We went from just over 10,000 total to just over 15,000. And it's huge. It's wonderful. I just one thing. Where can we go to find out the Lock-in days for chest open chest play? It's on our website. Absolutely. Yep, and everybody's welcome. And if you don't know how to play, can you still go? Yes, yes. My my staff member who runs it is a very good teacher also. So come on down. It's great. Thank you. And you're going to go play chess? Are you going to go dance? Yes, I'm in play chess. If I had been in play chess, I would like to say one on the field of adulthood. I was having a dance. Well I want you to know I was on the middle school chess team when I was in middle school. So I think we need to go. Perfect. Thank you, Jenny. Congrats on the 10 years. All right. Let's see. Now we're going to council comments. Any comments? Councilor Moore? Yeah. Congratulations on 10 years, Jenny. That's awesome. Thank you. Thank you, Jenny. Congrats on the 10 years. All right. Congratulations on 10 years, Jenny it in the scene. Now we're going to council comments. Any comments? Councilor Moore? Yeah, congratulations on 10 years, Jenny. That's awesome. Now I just want to talk about, you know, went fast real quick over the weekend. It was, I thought it was a really good event. I think it went well from at least the time I was there. I got the judge to Car Show, which I thoroughly enjoyed doing. and hopefully they'll continue to invite me out to do that. But no, I thought the setup was good this year. It seemed like it had a good crowd, and I was quite pleased, and everyone I talked to kind of felt the same way, so I thought it was nice. Thank you. No, the mayor for a tip? Echo is comments on WinFest. I didn't get to spend as much time up there as I would have liked to have spent Had a few other things going on this weekend, but it looks like the crowds were great Even after the rain Thursday night and Friday night when things were slow It really picked up on the weekend. I know the times that I was there was being crowded So congratulations to the chamber on a successful event Let's see what else congratulations on your 10-year anniversary. Where'd she go? She's not going to back. She says he's there. That's always great to see as well. And I had something else, but I lost it in my brain, so maybe we'll come back to you. Well, let's have that opportunity you That opportunity council is certain excited about everything coming. I'm serious about the salsa dancing Talk to the boss see if we can't or taking that activity Jenny congratulations on 10 years. That's awesome. That's a decade. I know it sounds You know a bit more, but that's what it is No excited for everything coming on. Windfest was was great and one thing I just want to hit on is you know the growth and the things that are coming to Portland. I have more and more individuals not only in my work just people that I know and I talk with routinely from different areas that have either recently moved to Portland or are planning to move to Portland because the way we're growing, the reputation that we have is a great community, a great school district, things of that. When I have those conversations with them, it makes me proud of the work we're doing, the work our community is doing and everyone here. So I guess it's kind of a battle in the back to everyone. Job well done, because people are starting to recognize and they're wanting to migrate to this area. So it's pretty awesome. Gail Spinawebri. I think really just kind of echo what Zaribe said. And you know, congratulations on the 10 years and always look forward to hearing from both the parks and the libraries and also just want to call tension to your statistic there again because that's 50% growth. I mean that's that's substantial and significant and likewise just congratulations to the chamber with their their win fest event, but also especially to some of the key volunteers, you's thousands of people came from the area to have a good time and there's probably a dedicated group of 30-ish individuals that really put in a lot of time and effort to make that happen. And we're talking about the other day and kind of always wonder where that core group goes. You know, you got some of these people probably logging 20, 30 plus hours of community service to sent you out on the weekend and probably won't be one for one type of replacement. Or one person is, you probably need two or three. So just congratulations to them and some recognition on a great event. Perfect. Yeah, just this quality of having to spend that much time in the weekend and starting early in the morning and set up and stay until midnight, till the festival ends, and then the next day starting again. So just like again, just the physicality of it, just it's very difficult to do that. And you really have to commend them this year. I think in the history that I've been involved in the last 20 years, I don't think that we've had a rain significant rain event prior to the setup. We've had setup and then significant rain, but we've never had it to where it was significant rain prior to. And I think just, you know, the coming together and implementing the rain plan and getting setup. and again this is a major fundraiser for a lot of nonprofits and so they over it appears that everything they overcame it everything looked fine and so congrats to them. Today I also attend the speaking of growth. I attended the groundbreaking for Mr. Gatti, as along with several staffs there in Bryan and Randy. And it was such a unique event because it's really family centric, local family is doing a local business. So I just wanna say congrats to Jeff and Christy and Manford and Kay Glinig and also to Adam, Garriak, Gar, Gar, Gar, Gar, Gar, Garva, Reki. And those are the owners of this project and so we did get a little bit of media coverage today on from Channel 3 on that. So again, Portland is the happening place and just remember that with all this growth, there's opportunities for Portland, but it's important to visit our local businesses and keep those local businesses in play and spending our sales tax dollars in Portland. This is what's going to continue to make Portland prosperous. If you have a choice, do I shop in Portland or do I go somewhere else? Portland should be your first choice for the good of the community. All right, Mr. Wright, do you have anything? Thank you, Mayor. GPISD has called for a $205 million bond issue from May and Dr. Michelle Kovasso's and Dr. Ishmael Gonzalez is here along with the board president, Tim Flynn, to give you kind of a background and up rundown on the bond issue. Thank you so much. Thank you, Mayor Scuro, Councilman. Thanks for this opportunity to share the information over our bond that our board is called. the end we do have an info page for you that has it all in a nutshell with QR code to access all of the information. So you know who we are. I'm the very proud superintendent here in GP and Dr. Gonzalez is our amazing assistant superintendent for business operations and finance and it's also apparent I like to point that out. He has two kids already in our district and a third He'll be starting next year so not only is he working to make sure we're good stewards of our taxpayers dollars But it's also looking up for all of our kids best interests in that vein too So celebrations you've all talked about the growth in our community and we see that also in our school district We reached 5,000 students this this year in the fall and we've actually almost 5,100 students enrolled in our district. So that's an anomaly across the state as a district that's growing. So we're not fast growth but just a steady growth which is the right pace for us. We continue to pay the best in the region and actually south of Austin in all of our job categories. We also continue to repay bonds early and so we save our taxpayers' dollars on the interest. So you can see over the last decade we saved over $60 million in that fiscal management. Academically and extracurricularily we outperform the state and region in almost every content area and in all of the extracurricular areas. In fact, last week we sent six bands to UIL competition and every single one of them got one from the judges, which is historical, it's true making. It's very rare for bands to get all ones from every judge. And then last but not least is last year we were recognized by HEP as a best small district in the state of Texas. And as we've been going around, we've said, you know, everyone says, once a wildcat, always a wildcat, well, once this best small district, always the best small district in the state of Texas. So we're really proud of that. And that's thanks to all of our people. In the fall we came around and went to all of our community and different groups with our board and like you all of our people. In the fall we came around and went to all of our community in different groups with our board and like you all, we've got legislative priorities in our first one and biggest one is fund public education. The last session, no dollars were allocated to public education and we are anticipating and expecting to be funded this session and it's necessary for all of our districts. So why are we here and why did we call for a bond? On the left side, you can see that we started on that far left and it's been a 12-month process to get to here. We start with the District Life Facility Condition Assessments to determine what's the condition of our existing spaces to see what, if any, repairs or maintenance are needed on existing facilities. Then we also look at our demographics and enrollment projections and we have that study done about every six months to look at projections for growth. We see how you all are approving housing developments and so looking at when are those houses going to be built and anticipating about how many families and then kids would be moving into those so that we can build accordingly and not over build but not under build. And then we also have done a financial bond analysis of our capacity to see how much could we go out for a bond without raising any tax rate. And for us, we're a very unique situation. Bless you. With our industrial tax space, that we could actually go out for over $500 million without raising the tax rate. But we, of course, stay on the very conservative side and look at what are our immediate needs. Then we took all of that information to our bond stakeholder committee that's reviewed all of the information and had about 60 or more individuals from around our community, parents, families, community members, leaders to review all that information and help us to determine what our next needs are. And then we took those needs and put it out to a community engagement survey. And it was really structured. We did a survey before bond 23 and so we structured the exact same way that it was structured at that time. And so we'll show you those results here in a moment. But the whole point of this being here so that you're well informed, then you can share what you've learned and then when it comes to voting on May 3rd or early voting, that you can vote with confidence. So these are the results of the community survey. So you you can see this went out in December to January and we had almost 500 people respond, which is more than double when we did a survey back in 2023. And all of those items are things that were asked about. The red shows that there was favor the favorability for each of the projects or each of the items put forward. So you can see them all. The replacement plan and maintenance items, vision performing arts center, career and technical education facility, repurposing the current TM Clark, Natatorium and a comprehensive center. And then also in the top right there, the reimbursement resolution, the support where people stood on that and favorability for that. And then just a summary of the comments that we received on the things that we're doing well, being proactive, the facilities and infrastructure, being transparent and continuing to communicate about what's going on, having effective financial management, focusing on student needs and the engagement with our community. And then the things we can improve are almost the same as what we've done well, is continue to communicate and engage our community, make sure that we're balancing our resource allocations, you can see, and be sure that we're addressing tax and budgeting concerns as we move forward. So in the bond there are four propositions and the reason that there are four is back there were several sessions ago where districts are mandated to separate propositions based on what's included in them. So we'll dig in a little to each of these four a little more here in a moment. So proposition A is the largest and these are all the projects that are listed in it. I mean, you can the top going from the top down the top two are renovations and additions to the high school. The high school now will be our next oldest facility and so there's some modernization and repurposing or restructuring on some internal spaces in there. And then when we look at the CTE, your career and technical additions and renovations, we really focus on high wage, high demand careers. Not just, there's a lot of things that people like us to have a pathway in, but they're not high wage or high demand. So that's really a focus in working with our local industry partners. There is a small reimbursement resolution for TM Clark, construction costs had gone up just slightly when that project went through. You can see deferred maintenance, parking lot improvements, safety and security and safety and securities on there twice. It's up there about middle and then down near the bottom. Something that is that you know about our district I think over time and this started well were here. When Dr. Clawers here was really recognizing how do we make sure that our facilities and spaces are as safe as possible. So in the last session, when the state mandated safety enhancements to every facility, we were already ahead of the curve. And so all of our schools have those enhancements. And it's because of using bond dollars to work ahead and be ahead of that curve on that. There's some elementary playground improvements and then that chunk of items the school buses down through uniform equipment and replacement rotation are items are eligible to be included in a bond and it's just that five year replacement cycle for those items. And then the last two items are in collaboration with the City of Portland. I mentioned in the last session that the state mandated that all schools have enhanced security features and one is having armed security at every school. And so currently we partner with you all to have an SRO at our middle school and high school and we ideally want to expand that to have SROs at all seven of our schools. And we know with that there's some cost in addition to staff but equipment, which would be cars and the training and the equipment that goes along with that. And those are items that are eligible to be spent or funded through school bonds because they would be supporting school efforts. And then the last one with the emergency access road in there. And then Proposition B has to be separated out separately because it is an athletic proposition. So this is a reimbursement resolution for the all-purpose indoor facility in George Harris Field House. And then actually on the next slide, I think it could go through what a reimbursement resolution is. And the reimbursement and Dr. Gensel also go on this more when he gets into the finance part. But as you know, like in the city, there's INS and MNO taxes that are generated or levied. And so bonds are on that red bucket, that INS side. A reimbursement resolution should have passed, allows us to access those INS dollars and replace it back into the MNO. So these dollars were expended out of the MNO initially. And it maintenance and operation funds a day-to-day operations. It funds our utilities, our transportation, our meals, our salaries and benefits. And so that would replace our general operating fund and extend the life in that area. The third proposition is related to technology. And again, technology has to be separated out. Back in 2020, we did get to one-to-one, but we know like iPhones, there's a new one every year. And kids are not the most careful with their devices that they're bringing back and forth. And neither are adults. I know I've dropped my stuff quite frequently, but it's time for them to be replaced and rotated. So not just classroom devices, but also what's used in the classrooms. And then also some infrastructure. And then last but certainly not least, it's a visual performing arts center. And this has to be separated out again also because it has more than 1000 seats and is a fine arts or extracurricular facility. And so this would have enhanced spaces for performances but then also have some academic spaces for some of our career and technical programs that are related to visual performing arts. And then there's opportunities for community enrichment and partnership with this facility as well. Those images on there are just images. We don't have anything planned out or sketched out yet, but we know we'd like to have our current auditorium seats about 300 and so we know we need a larger space for performances. And then on that picture, what the red rectangle is the proposed site for this should this pass. And that's on the practice fields by the high school, on the high school side across from the stadium. And that allows us to leverage the parking lot that's right there adjacent to it for that. So I'm going to let Dr. Inzal's talk about the money I can, but it's nice to hear from him because he's way more expert on it than I am and he's going through the financial side. Well first thank you so much for the opportunity to be here I appreciate that we do tremendously. I don't want to provide redundant information bonds at the school district are similar to what you deal with here at the city as well so I'll go through this. These next couple of slides very briefly. But we're our goal right now is educating our community. And for the purposes of this slide, what are bonds? We like to compare them and similar to a mortgage. You go, if you're buying a house or purchasing a home, you would go to the bank. You would ask for a 30-year note and go through the process of being approved and then paying that 30-year note off. There's also tools like refinancing and those things like you saw that's $60 million that we've been able to do in defeasing bonds, over the years in prepaid bonds, that you're able to pay them off early, right? So bonds are different in the context of in order for us to go to the bank and request a loan of $200 million, we need approval from our taxpayers. So that's the difference when it comes to bonds. So right now what we're seeking is $200 million and in order to activate and leverage those dollars, we need taxpayer approval. And going into the next slide, one of the strategies that our district has used in the past is reimbursement resolutions. And I'll just echo what Dr. Kovasos mentioned early on is that a reimbursement resolution is essentially a transfer of funds that are approved by taxpayers back into our annual operating budget, which can be used for day-to-day operations. And it benefits us not only because we're able to leverage these dollars and be recipients of $50 million and 90% of that coming from industry. It also gives us the ability to stay ahead of the curve when it comes to our situation with recapture. And as you well know, and our community, we're known as a high wealth district. And I've mentioned in several presentations in the past that starting right around 2028, 2029, GPISD is going to be sending backwards of $50 million a year back to Austin via recapture. And that is how our finance system works through our legislature. And it's also known as Robinhood. It's a Robinhood law. So this is just a tool for us to take advantage of, given the opportunity to have with the difference and the mechanism of interest in sinking fund for the district. And great segue into this slide here where you're able to or the audience is able to see the difference and how the budget is divided into two different buckets, one being maintenance and operations and one being interest in sinking. Maintenance and operations is solely used for daily operations as far as interest in sinking. Its sole purpose is to go out for bonds specifically for construction or any capital equipment that is needed for the school district. And you see a couple of the different items that we add into the bonds such as school buses and technology equipment. If we didn't have the ability to go out for these bonds and get them passed, where would that money be coming from? So with the money that's in the general operating budget, we're able to do additional things, such as you see there pay high wages and provide a top educational program for our school district. These funds are broken up into two buckets and they have a total tax rate of $100, $10, 46. Why they're broken up into two different buckets is because they're used in two different ways. As you know, the district is in several different chapter 313 agreements with our industry. And on the MNO side, that's where those are subject to the abatement, to the limitation agreement. So our MNO fund, right now we're collecting taxes on approximately $4 billion of wealth that is considered here from our county appraisal district. And on the INS side, we're collecting taxes on a value of $16 billion. So that gives us a leverage that we have today as a school district to go out for Bonds without increasing our tax rate upwards of $500 million like Dr. Kovasos mentioned and the other interesting piece of the debt service fund of that red bucket Is that it is not subject to recapture so every dollar that we collect on I and S We don't have to pay recapture dollars back to the the state. So those dollars stay in GPISD, those dollars stay here versus the MNO side, anything above an entitlement that we're a subject to by school finance formulas has to go back to the state, which I mentioned the $50 million several years from now, right? So an additional component or benefit of the INS fund is that 90% of the collections are coming from industry. And this is a very unique situation for any Texas school district. Less than 10% of school districts in Texas have the ability to access these types of opportunities and We're living in one today Considering the school finance situation and that we're in today with many school districts right now I just came from a conference last week in Tasbow and I won't mention any names But in central Texas, North Texas, East Texas,, close to us as well are shutting schools down, because they cannot afford to pay for them next year. They're starting a reduction in force. And here at GPISD, because we've been able to access dollars like this, we have the ability to continue onward and continue business as usual. So the additional, an additional benefit is our tax rate. In the last decade, we've been able to access several hundred million dollars in bonds, and you can see there from 2012 to 2023, over four hundred million dollars of bonds have been passed for GPISD. And you also saw 60 million of that has already been covered through prepaid bonds, right? But if the bond passed here on May 3rd, our tax rate would remain the same or possibly reduce and compress even more than $1.10. So we've been able to compress our tax rate in the situation of seeing our district go and invest $400 million in our district. And here's a list of initiatives in the last decade just so that everybody has an idea of what's been spent. You see from 2015 where this kicked off, we have a brand new WC Andrews Elementary School, a new middle school campus, a new early childhood center, a new Agro Science Facility with a new Project Center in Greenhouse, where currently building the all-purpose practice facility, Wildcat Park with the new baseball and softball stadium. Peers are being drilled right now, and the foundation is being poured across the street for a TM Clark Elementary. We have additions at the high school for our band program expanding the cafeteria there as well. And then other projects like roof projects and other deferred maintenance related projects have all been because of the district going out for bonds and this community trusting the school district to do so. The question I like to leave with an audience is, what if these bonds did not pass? Where would WC Andrews be today? Where would our middle school students be today? Where would our kids be eating at the high school today given that the cafeteria is beyond maximum capacity at this point? Where would our early childhood center, where would our early childhood students be at today? All these questions are in the void at this point because they're in these facilities, but it's critical for us to educate our community and just the opportunity that we have, this go around as well. So the last thing before I hand it back for just a take away, I also like to share just an analogy that if we all walked into a bank today as a family and we decided to go and buy a $200,000 home and you sit there, we sit there as a family and the banker says, hey, you know what? I just came back with the paperwork for this $200,000 home. You only have to pay $20,000. What would you tell him that $180,000 was covered? We would say, of course, how about I buy two or three at homes, right? Or I'll pay you cash right now. Well, that is the situation that we're in as a school district right now. We are able to go to, go out for bonds for $200 million and $180 million of it is going to be covered by industry. That is an opportunity that less than 10% of our state school districts have. So thank you so much. So in summary, just the takeaways we've been working on this and looking at this for over 12 months to make sure that we have the right projects coming forward and based on our needs and our growth. We are growing. We continue to outperform academically and ext curricularily around the region and state. All of prior projects are either complete or in progress and our tax rate continues to decrease over time and compress. We do or board did call for a $205 million bond with four propositions and 90% of those bonds past night, should pass, 90% would be paid from business and industry. We also have a one-pager here for you, sure. Thanks. And I don't know if anyone in the audience wants in, but we can get these out. But it really, it just shares the props. Early voting starts April 22nd through the 29th at the community center here next door. Election Day will Saturday May 3rd and then this QR code is you know if there's questions that other people have and we'll as we get them as we're going around giving information we'll be putting replying to any questions but at this time whatever what questions do you all have First off I've always been a fan of Wildcat burgers and pizza day. So are the kids. We're actually serving 90% of our kids are eating every single day because we've paid for free breakfast and lunch and we've monitored the participation and there's 90% participation from our students and that. So excuse me, I always have a way of oversimplifying things, but just looking at the presentation, great presentation. So, let me make sure I'm computing this properly. Bond pass is we can take the INS funds from that roll it to M&O and that directly deflates the amount of recapture we have to pay. Is that correct? Keep on the straight narrow here. So should proposition be the reimbursement resolution is the one I believe you're referring to. So should that one pass those dollars at 50 million would reimburse the maintenance and operation to continue to fund a say-to-day. And then as far as it's related to recapture, that 50 million dollars would not be subject to recapture. Okay, so it would lessen the recapture burden? In a sense, I guess, to simplify it's taken from Peter to give to Paul because five years from now we're sending back $50 million and we're gonna probably send it in barrels with pennies or something like that, right? But we're sending back $50 million but we have an opportunity right now to collect $50 million from the INS fund To put into our general fund for day-to-day operations So that 50 million though in five years it's gonna be an annual. And that is because these three 13 agreements are gonna come off the books. So the issue is that we are going to be collecting 50 million in excess of what we should collect. And that's the issue. And the state law says, you cannot keep it. You only can keep up to this much. So reimbursement resolution is just you know for us It it allows us to think It allows us to feel better that we're able to access some of that you know some millions of dollars That go back to our to our day-to-day operations because in and in several years from now We're gonna be sending money that we believe should stay here We would love it to stay here back but back to Austin you know based on the current statutes today. I guess that's the second part. I was kind of curious if there's a way that we can have committed funds that deduct from that recapture point. If we're committed to bonds, bond repayment, projects and so forth. And our board does yes that's a great point great point. And yes, our board does go through and process, a, through a process of a fund balance resolution, where we do sit through a workshop and go through committed funds, assigned funds, restricted funds. And those are things that we're looking at, most definitely. Okay, yes, sir. Thank you. So I think to even simplify this a further. You have a savings account and you spent on your M&O and now you're wanting to use INS back to Village savings account back. So my question on that is And you said 50 million. I'm assuming that's just a reimbursement this time After 313 agreements are done could will we be allowed to continue on asking for the five-year unit to continue that reimbursement back to him? Is there anything that stops that at some point? No, I was going to go back to here. So unless the law changes, that's the- That was become it. As current law stands, we still be eligible to do a reimbursement resolution on items that are funded through maintenance and operation that qualify. You can see here the projects that have been are being are initially funded with maintenance and operations funds. Which would be similar to items like we've mentioned vehicles. If we buy them with maintenance and operations funds and have their first, they would be eligible potentially for it. Within 18 months of acquisition, should the tax payers approve a bond to reimburse them? So I would assume that you would never over extend yourself. You would make sure that if it didn't pass, you would have it in the same account. But once that opportunity is done, and we don't pass a reimbursement bond, then we're done. Right. It is not in our practice to spend our M&ot dollars frivolously, but this has been a strategy that our district used before us as well to, it's allowable. And it's a strategy to reimburse that maintenance and operation to extend those dollars and keep them local here longer. Right. Okay. Yep, I just saw the government. And by the way, I'm sorry, I just came here. The governor was live on channel three and talking about school finance. So we'll see how it all turns out. But he's fairly confident that he's going to get some legislation passed. And if he's correct and he's cited all the other states that have done this, hopefully we'll be in a great position to be determined. We'll see. With hold comment. We'll see. We'll see. We'll see. We'll see. But we're going to thank you all so much. And you know where to contact us if you have any questions. Thank you so much. Thank you very much. Thank you. That's all I have have mayor. Thank you. Okay. So item number seven is public comments. As I remember the audience who was to make public comment at this time. I do not have any speaker cards. This hall was there any comments made online. Mayor there was no comments received. All right. Thank you very much. We'll move on to our action items. Items number eight is minutes of our previous meeting. City Council will consider approval of the minutes of its March 18, 2025 meeting. I did call in some corrections. I think there was, we referred to CSEC last time and we just made a clarification as to what that was for the council to know other than that she's going to make that grammatical correction other than that I will entertain a motion. Motion to approve the March 18th 2025 regular meeting with proposed corrections. Seconded. Motion may be by councilman Sutton seconded by councilman Moore to approve the March 18th 2025 regular meeting minutes. Is there any discussion on this motion? You're-None will begin a vote with Councilman Moore. Four. Four. Four. Motion is approved. We'll move on to item number nine, engineering services for Nicholas Livestation, Force Main, and Wastewater Collection System upgrades. The City Council will consider a service agreement with the Dura Group Eank for engineering services Nicholas station, force main and wastewater collection system upgrades project and not to exceed a amount of $271,334.60. Dr. Banks. Good evening, Mayor and council. I'm happy to bring this item to you tonight. We've been looking at the Nicholas lift station for quite some time now. Have had it programmed in as a CIP project. It is getting close to capacity and it does require some significant improvements. These may involve the lift station itself as well as upgrades to the existing force main and gravity wastewater systems that are associated with this lift station. Nicholas is kind of an interesting arrangement because it's part of a fairly large wastewater infrastructure that includes country club, Bay breeze, cedar and junior high lift stations. They serve areas on both sides of 181 and all of those lift stations do convey wastewater to the Nicholas lift station. So when we're looking at our overall wastewater capacity needs for the future, we felt it was very important to look at that arrangement as it stands today and try to determine if there might be a more efficient way given the city's growth patterns and wastewater volumes to be able to make the improvements that we need at the Nicholas lift station, but also make other improvements that make sense within the overall wastewater network. So you can see on this graphic, by the way, I'm so thankful we have our GIS folks. They make this stuff look easy. And this was put together relatively quick, but everything that's in kind of the pink color or basins that drain into the Nicholas lift station. So you can see it's a fairly large part of the overall system. So we want to look at that arrangement. And again, see if there might be ways to take better advantage of gravity in certain areas or otherwise rearrange the system. So RFQ-5924 was issued September 12, 2024 for engineering services for the Nicholas Lufstation. Those responses were due on October the 8th and we received five total responses based on our evaluation criteria. City staff recommended our Dura Group and the selected engineering firm was tasked with evaluating the current capacity of Nicholas lift station, recommending improvements to Nicholas lift station as well as these other assessments for different components of the system. So we are anticipating that potential improvements for NICLIS could involve installation of larger or additional pumps, constructing additional wet well and upgrading the electrical systems, but we also are going to perform a hydraulic modeling of N Livestation and the contributing Livestations to determine whether wastewater flows can be directed elsewhere. Once that modeling is complete, the firm will summarize their finding and provide preliminary cost estimates. And then the second phase of the project will include the preliminary engineering designs for recommended improvements with a focus on the most efficient means of conveying wastewater from the Nicholas lift station to our existing wastewater treatment plant. I did point out earlier that this project was included in the FYFY 2529 Capital Improvement Program as project number 2105 and it will be funded by utility revenue bonds. I do have Logan Burton who is the principal on this project here from our doer. I'd like to invite him up to introduce himself and talk briefly about his perspective of the project. Good evening. Mayor and City Council. Yeah, Logan Burton here. I'm the Water Practice Director for Ardura based out of the Corpus Christi office. We have approximately 85 staff located in this particular office here in Corpus with a handful of them actually live in here in Portland. It's funny, I had a couple of bullet points that I was going to run through on the project, but I feel like Mr. Banks just went right through it all and covered it very well. So I'm happy to repeat a little bit of what he said, but to me, the big picture here is that the Nicholas lift station is approximately 40 years old. It's nearing the end of its service life and yet it's in a growing area, an area that's still experiencing really what I would call infill, right? And rather than just immediately going in and restoring that to its current condition, or to new condition, the city, in talking with us, kind of decided to take this approach of figuring out, is that really what we need to do? Is there a smarter way to do it? Does it need to be relocated? Is there a more efficient way to move the wastewater from this lift station to the plan? And so in doing that, one of the most effective ways for really evaluating that is by creating a hydraulic model of the system. And the best way, I guess that I could say is that it's all done in computer, correct? And what we do is we create this mathematical model that represents the behavior of how wastewater flows through the system to your lift stations through the force mains and then to the plant. And the great thing about it is that it allows us to evaluate, I almost want to say the word infinite, but we can evaluate a ton of different alternatives. You don't have to build something and then figure out if it's going to work, we're going to model it. We can brainstorm all the different feasible alternatives. We can evaluate them and then it's real easy to apply cost to that. I think the only other thing that I would say is that this model will be the city of Portland's. Y'all will own it. It would be handed over after the project and it's a tool y'all can use from here on out for evaluating system capacity as Portland continues to grow. We heard a lot about that earlier. You'll continue to grow. So any questions? So, guessing is a 3D model, the whole entire NICLIS system. Slash simulation, capability, which will ultimately help us with option analysis. Correct? Okay. The only thing that I might slightly tweet, when we say 3D, it's really 2D, it's really what it is. It's really planned view. There's not really three dimensions to it. This is a really big project. I mean, we talked about this before. It's, You know, inexplicably, 20 years ago, a lot of our western area was rerouted north and across the highway that ended up in the Nicholas lift station, only then to be forced main back to the west side. And so we've known for some years that this is a critical issue that we're going to have to deal with. And this is having this model that's going to give us all the answers we need to see how to move forward. Yeah, just a quick question. I don't know what software the model is or anything, but is that something that the city would have and be able to manipulate on our own later out the outcome of this? Sorry, I couldn't quite hear the question. Yeah so I would say in this particular case We use three different modeling softwares and which in their all industry standard in other words We have various clients that pick one or the other or have a preference. I remember us talking about this early on, and I cannot remember which one was the preference. But, him, do you recall? The software? What's in it now? Anyway, I will tell you it's industry standard. Bentley, Enterprise, and maybe this one might have been Info Swim. But I don't recall exactly. Yeah, no, I think it looked like I got some nods from Brian. And Kenny, I was just asking, you know, sometimes, you know, we have a model, but then can the client actually use the model? Oh, right. An issue we come up with in industry from time to time. So I just want to make sure it's something that we'd be able to, you might have the car, but do you have the keys? What's my question? Sure. Yeah, and if I can just add a little context to that, we did kind of an abbreviated study similar to this eight or 10 years ago. And at that point, with the growth patterns in the city, it suggested not moving the Nicholas lift station to keeping all the flows where they're at, but growth patterns have changed, but that is why Mr. Burton doing that model in the city acquiring and owning that model and being able to utilize it, sort of growth patterns change even further, they're able to not have to redo the study time and time again. Okay. Another question. change even further they're able to not have to redo the study time and time again. Other questions I'll entertain a motion. I'm motion to approve service agreement with andorra group or professional engineering service for the Northwest station force pain and wastewater collections. Okay. Project, not to2.71,334.16. You know, throws a city manager that you don't necessarily come to. Okay. That would you ask? I heard you, but I'll not forget you. Yeah, well, here you go. The jack. The jack. All right, I want to do this one more time. There you go. There you go. I have a problem with my hearing. I can hear myself talking, sorry about that folks. Motion to approve a service agreement with Endor Group, Inc. for Professional Engineering Services for the Nicholas List Station, Forest Main and Wastewater Collection System Upgrades Project, and an opt to exceed amount of $271,334.60 and authorizing a city manager to execute all necessary contract documents. Second. We heard everybody. Motion made by Prozim Green, seconded by Councilman Sutton to approve. The service agreement with the Dura Group is already discussion on this motion. Hearing none, the movie can vote with Councilman Albrecht. Or four. Or four. Or four. Okay. Perfect. Motion is approved. Thank you, Mr. Burton. Thank you very much. Thank you. Move on to item number 10, US 181. Emergency wastewater line reroute project, final pay applications, change order and project acceptance. City Council will consider a motion to ratify the US 181 emergency wastewater line reroute project, change order number one, final pay application and project acceptance and authorize the city manager to execute all necessary contract documents. Dr. Banks. Thank you mayor Mayor, members of the council. Again, another one I'm very excited is completed. Over might be a better word, but I'm really excited that we were able to get this project on and really pleased with the way that it ultimately turned out. We just, just to recap, we have a 15-inch gravity line under 181 that conveys 70 to 75% of the city's wastewater. We found through video inspection that the line was in bad shape and had a possible break in the line that was during April of 2024. We began monitoring storm events on the down flow side. After that point, we continued to see signs of failure. We did some additional video inspection and showed that the pipe was moving more and giving more indications that we were having a some instability and a break there. We exercised emergency procurement procedures to enact those to secure engineering services from LJA and we also solicited emergency construction vids from contractors. engineering speed engineering sphe on this was $116,600. IPQ construction, which was the awarded contractors estimate was $1,491,490. IPQ installed a parallel line. We had to leave the existing line and service during the entire time of the job. There was no ability to bypass and this allowed ultimately through the installation of that line to take the existing line out of service and abandon it in place. Parallel line has a 24 inch steel casing and 15 inch PVC wastewater line. This is a great advantage over the existing line which had no casing at all. Construction, I said will start, started on December 2nd, 2024 and it was estimated to take 89 days and was completed in 80 days. Project was under budget by total of $97,954.13. So on an emergency project like this, it's a great benefit to be able to get it done in under budget and ahead of schedule. Wanted to revisit some of the original maps just to kind of remind everybody where this construction occurred. And we had to essentially cross 181 both sides, West Broadway Avenue, live traffic, no bypass, and basically install this new casing and new line. So it's interesting to see it mapped out like this, but I think the magnitude of the project kind of speaks for. It's self, you can see this is the area on the, on the eastern side where they're beginning construction. You can see the size the the equipment out there already as they're starting to to do this work Now you see the bore pit that's that same excavator So you can get a real sense of the scale of how large this thing was Essentially the vast majority of the work went on inside the bore pit and it's just basically completing the bore installing the steel casing and Then installing the line with spacers inside of that steel casing keep in mind That this is a gravity line and so they had to be Extremely exact on the elevations that they were at at both sides which they they were able to accomplish. I think that is pretty impressive considering the distance, which was somewhere around 600 feet. Just some more viewpoints of kind of what this look like. And then I also, you know, I always like to show the the after pictures here we are at the restoration. This pavement is over, or a portion of this pavement is over where the bore pit existed. And then over on the other side, there's a much less work on that side that's still quite a bit of disturbance. Streets restored now. Striping is done and the line has been performing extremely well. So the emergency purchase, as we said, was to LJA and to IPQ. Total expenses from the IPQ side were about $97,000 less than what they had estimated. Funding was derived from utility reserves and a reimbursement resolution will use future utility revenue bonds to reimburse the utility fund reserve drawdown and I would point out that our position as staff is for a motion to ratify the expenditures. I just want to compliment the staff and city city employees for execution of this project. Although an inconvenience for the citizens' apartment and it takes broad way to go home or take broad way to Dairy Queen for a few months, this was executed very, very well. And then actually the neatlyness of the project as well, around the facility and around the work was without standing and thanks to the staff and thank the employees as well. Thank you. Well, excuse me. Councilman Green, beat me to it. You know, when you have an emergency project like this, I definitely wanted to give props to not only the hazard recognition, the condition of what was in there and elevating the concern. You know, you have an expedited process and anytime you repair something under an emergency situation to come in, under schedule and under budget, that's a rarity. So it was done very well. That road by the car wash is part of my morning commute and no impact. I just went one other block over and it was fine. So no, the phenomenal job really was. In very briefly, Mayor. On the May 6th city council meeting will be the utility revenue bond for that and we'll have a reimbursement resolution. I motion to ratify the US 181 emergency waste water line. Rear out project change. Number one, final pay, applications, and project acceptance. Authorize the city manager to execute all necessary contract documents. Second. Motion made by Councilman Moore, seconded by Councilman Albrek. To ratify the US-181 emergency waste water line, reroute project. Is there any discussion on this motion? You already know when we begin about with Councilman Moore. Or. Or. Or. Or. Or. Motion is approved. We want to item number 11, construction bid for sewer system improvements. The City Council will consider a bid for sewer system improvements that was received open and publicly read on February 27th, 2025. Dr. Banks. Thank you, Mayor and members of the Council. You may recall that we received a Texas Department of Agriculture grant for $500,000 to complete some sewer line work in the old town area. The grant includes replacement of 2,385 feet of wastewater line using trench list methods. These lines are in tight spaces and they are, it would be difficult to open trench repair these lines or replace them. And so we really focused on trying to use these trenchless methods to minimize the disturbance to our customers and also to be efficient in completing this work. There is an up sizing of a sewer main that will be done through pipe bursting also a trenchrenchless method and then there will be rehabilitation of six manholes to Basically replace the upper section as well as the the lower section and to make sure that they are waterproof to prevent any kind of infiltration of storm water into the system LJA reviewed the I'm sorry a bid invitation was advertised on January 30th and February 6th, meaning all TDA requirements, four bids were received, opened and publicly read on February 27th, 2025. The LJA engineering, who is the engineer on this project, reviewed the qualifications and experience of the apparent low bidder and recommends Texas Pride Utilities LLC. Just a very quick overview of kind of where these areas are. You can see the manholes kind of, they're a little bit west of Maple Drive. And then we've got some north-south larger lines that are depicted going all the way from 4th Avenue up to around 6th, or actually north of 6th, and then also over on the between the lots between the, trying to see what one that is, I'm sorry, generally fourth avenue and right there at the 181 front inch road. The interesting part that I want to point out on this is that the opinion of probable construction costs from the engineer was $519,230. You can see the range of the base bid plus additive bids on the responses that we got and you will notice that Texas Pride Utilities LLC is effectively half of the price of most of the other or all of the other respondents. So this gives us pause. It seems to be a very low price considering the type of work. I will say that LJA engineering fully vetted this. They talked to people that had construction projects with this group. They made sure that the respondent had done their math correctly. So they were given an opportunity to revisit that. They informed them that their ability to enact any form of a change order is severely diminished because of the overall percentage of that change order maximum and the amount that they had put in for a bid. All of those things being said to Texas Pride, they had an opportunity to revisit everything and they said their numbers are correct. I will say that one difference is that Texas Pride did come and actually look at the site. And to our knowledge, none of the other respondents did. A lot of these lines are relatively shallow and are probably going to be easier to work on than your typical lines are going to be. There are also older lines and clay lines which make pipe bursting quite a bit easier. So there are some legitimate reasons why this bid might be a little low. Since it's lower than the engineer's opinion of probable construction costs, we're working with grant works right now and the Texas Department of Agriculture to explore the possibility of additional projects. One nice thing about this was that we submitted a large number of projects which they reviewed and we had to take a subset to fit the budget. So we're hopeful that by having been vetted through the TDA that we will be able to recapture some of these additional funds and do additional work. So the financial impact is a $500,000 grant funding this project, the matching funds of $75,000 if we need those will be provided by the water and waste water budget. And you could see our recommended action is a motion to accept the bid. And I'll be glad to answer any questions. Yes, sir. So you probably talked through it. Seeing the delta between the highest and lowest bid does raise concern for me. Right. And you kind of talked through what other layers of protection does the city have for this? Is there something in the contract to manage change orders as far as restricting them so many? As we know some people will throw a low ball bid and they'll change order you to the end of time. Yeah. The change orders are capped at 25% of the submitted budget. That's correct. Everything else falls on them. That's correct. Okay. That is the limit to which they can impose change orders in this particular situation. I just want to make sure I was confident you had it covered. Right. And Councillor Mellor, the primary protection that City has is the performance bond. The contractor has to submit a performance bond. If at any point they feel that their price was too low and are able to complete it, we've got the ability to require the bonding company to select a contractor to finish the job But trying to avoid that is there a maximum number of change orders. They're listed Is there a maximum yeah 25% of TIC's okay. It's the total max. Yeah, yeah, it's not 25% each. Oh, no, okay Okay, got it. All right. With that, I'll entertain a motion. Move to accept the bid submitted by Texas Pride Utilities LLC for wastewater system improvements for the Texas Department of Agricultural Grant Contract Number CDV23-0368 and the not to exceed amount of $159,204 and authorize the city of Manager to execute all necessary contract documents. Second. So there's a motion made by Councilman Albrek, seconded by Councilman Sutton to approve or accept the bid submitted by Texas Pride Utilities LLC. Is there any discussion on this motion? Hearing none, we'll begin with Councilman Albrek. Four. Four. Four. Four. The motion is approved. Dr. Banks, I just want to make a comment to about how grateful I am for everything you've done to work on grant funding for our community. I see every time there's a question, you know, they always send it to the mayor, you know, or the, so I get all these and then, you know, of course, Yalorah all rolled up on that, but not only is it very difficult to apply for these, but it's also extremely cumbersome to comply with these. So thank you for that. I know you've been working on multiple ones. Thank you so much for saying that. I appreciate that. A lot of work. And I know the same goes true for almost every department we have. They're working very diligently to make sure that we are capitalizing on any grant funding that's available to us. So thank you for all our department heads are doing that. You're lucky. Yeah. Our next item is number 12 animal services facility heating, ventilation and air conditioning project change orders final pay application and project acceptance. City Council will consider the animal services facility heating ventilation and air conditioning project change order orders number one and two final pay application and project acceptance. Thanks. Thank you mayor members of the council. to report this project has been completed. It was the original animal services facility was completed in 2022. And as you recall, it had an open air design for the Kennel. And it relied on ventilation to keep the area reasonably cool and prevailing winds. I did have some large ceiling fans and generally that did meet the state requirements, but it did make for some uncomfortable situations with regards to the amount of high temperature days that we get and humidity that we get in this area which made things uncomfortable for the dogs, the staff and for our visitors. On September 3rd, 2024, Council approved a proposal by Beak Crop Construction for the Animal Services HVAC project. This project did include mechanical air cooling systems with ducts and vents, thermal acoustic insulation to the, for the interior of the Kennel roof, which by the way has been great. It is significantly reduced the noise inside there. The construction of an exterior concrete foundation of walls for the outside AC condenser, installing aluminum fence and insulated overhead doors to make sure the system was efficient, and removing one of the building heaters simply because it was not needed. So we did have two change orders that were issued during this project. Change order number one was a modification to the design to provide access for maintenance and repairs of that outdoor air conditioning condensing unit. The way it was designed would have made it extremely difficult to get in and clean the device and do basic service on it. And so we modified the fence and gate that was around it to allow for some additional room and to provide an additional small gate session to prevent the animals from being able to get into that facility. Change order number two came about due to the fact that we had to remove the dogs from the facility and house them elsewhere. The paint that was used on the on the in the Kennel area was starting to come apart and it wasn't looking good and was also creating a bit of a mess. mess and so we went ahead and took this as an opportunity to prepare that surface and then provide it with a brand new epoxy-based finish that should hold up for a very long time in that environment. The final cost of the project was $249,000 and $21.00. The change order for the HVAC modification was $3,032 and the site preparation painting and cleanup was $15,824. The animal services HVAC project is now complete and ready for acceptance enclosure closure. And the financial impact total project cost 249.021. This is funded through General Fund Reserves and our recommended action is approval. Questions? All in obtain a motion? Motion to approve the Animal Services Facility Heating Ventilation and air conditioning project. Change, change orders numbers one and two final pay application and project acceptance. Authorized city manager execute all necessary contract. Motion made by councilman Sutton, seconded by Mayor Pro Tem Green to approve the Animal Services Facility Heating Vinyl Nation Air Conditioning Project. Is there any discussion on this motion? Hearing none, we'll begin the vote with Councilman Moore. Four. Four. Four. Four. Okay, motion is approved. Again, thank you. Item number 13, the 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 prospective gift 551.074 personnel matters 551.076 deliberation regarding security vices and 551.087 deliberation regarding economic development negotiations. Is 8.25pm? We're going to recess our council meeting and go into executive session. I do not anticipate any action as a result of the executive session so we will not be coming back on the TV monitor but we will be closing out our meeting at the end of the session. Thank y'all everyone and good night.