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[1. Call to Order, Roll Call, and Establishment of Quorum.]
WELCOME TO THE CITY COUNCIL MEETING.THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ANNA WILL MEET ON TUESDAY, MAY 26, 2026 AT 6 P.M.
IN THE ANNA MUNICIPAL COMPLEX COUNCIL CHAMBERS LOCATED AT 120 WEST 7TH STREET TO CONSIDER THE FOLLOWING ITEMS. WELCOME TO THE MEETING.
IF YOU WISH TO SPEAK ON ANY OPEN SESSION AGENDA ITEM, PLEASE FILL OUT THE OPINION SPEAKER REGISTRATION FORM AND TURN IT IN TO THE CITY SECRETARY BEFORE WE GET STARTED.
GO AHEAD AND CALL THIS TO ORDER.
FOR THE RECORD, WE DO HAVE A QUORUM.
THE ENTIRE COUNCIL IS PRESENT AND ACCOUNTED FOR.
THIS TIME I'D LIKE TO INVITE COUNCILMAN CARVER TO START US OFF WITH THE INVOCATION AND OUR PLEDGES.
BY THE WAY, JUST ON A PERSONAL NOTE, IN THE LAST MEETING, Y'ALL WERE PRAYING FOR MY FAMILY, AND, YOU KNOW, HE'S DOING QUITE WELL, SO I DO APPRECIATE THE PRAYERS ON BEHALF OF MY FATHER-IN-LAW.
AND I DON'T KNOW HOW LONG HE'LL BE WITH US, BUT HE WANTED YOU TO KNOW HOW MUCH HE APPRECIATED THAT.
LORD, WE COME TO YOU ON BEHALF OF THE CITY OF ANNA.
WE THANK YOU FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO BE HERE.
AND AS I SO TRADITIONALLY PRAY, I PRAY THAT YOU BE OVER OUR FIRE AND POLICE AND EMTS AS THEY WATCH OVER US.
I ALSO PRAY FOR A LOT OF UNRECOGNIZED STAFF, PUBLIC WORKS, PARKS, ACCOUNTING, OUR LIBRARIANS, OUR JANITORS.
WHO DON'T REALLY GET RECOGNIZED MUCH, BUT I DO PRAY THAT EVEN IN THE SMALL THINGS THAT YOU RECOGNIZE THEM.
I'M GOING TO CLOSE MY PRAYER WITH THE ARIANIC BLISS, AND IT SAYS, MAY THE LORD BLESS US, CITY OF ANNA.
MAY IT KEEP US, MAY THE LORD MAKE HIS FACE SHINE UPON THE CITY OF ANNA AND BE GRACIOUS TO EACH OF YOU.
THE LORD LIFT UP HIS COUNTENANCE UPON YOU AND GIVE YOU PEACE.
Y'ALL WOULD JOIN ME IN PRAYER, OR IN THE PLEDGE.
I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AND TO THE REPUBLIC FROM WHICH IT STANDS, ONE NATION, UNDER GOD, INDIVISIBLE, WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL.
I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THEE, TEXAS, ONE STATE UNDER GOD, ONE AND INDIVISIBLE.
[3. Neighbor Comments.]
AGENDA ITEM NUMBER THREE IS NEIGHBOR COMMENTS.AT THIS TIME, ANY PERSON MAY ADDRESS THE CITY COUNCIL REGARDING AN ITEM ON THIS MEETING AGENDA THAT'S NOT SCHEDULED FOR PUBLIC HEARING.
ALSO, AT THIS TIME, ANY PERSON MAY ADDRESS THE CITY COUNCIL REGARDING AN ITEM THAT'S NOT ON THIS MEETING AGENDA.
EACH PERSON WILL BE ALLOWED UP TO THREE MINUTES TO SPEAK.
NO DISCUSSION OR ACTION MAY BE TAKEN AT THIS MEETING ON ITEMS NOT LISTED ON THIS AGENDA OTHER THAN TO MAKE STATEMENTS OF SPECIFIC INFORMATION IN RESPONSE TO A CITIZEN'S INQUIRY.
OR TO RECITE EXISTING POLICY IN RESPONSE TO THE INQUIRY.
I DO HAVE THREE CARDS THIS EVENING.
FIRST ONE IS MARTIN MATUSAKE, AND HE'S HERE TO ADDRESS ME.
PLEASE STATE YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS FOR THE RECORD.
PLEASE STATE YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS FOR THE RECORD.
MY NAME IS MARTIN MATUSZAK, AND I LIVE HERE IN ANNA.
BOX 397 SO MY MAIL DOESN'T GET LOST.
I'M UNFAMILIAR WITH THE PROCESS.
IS THERE MORE INFORMATION WE NEED? NO, SIR.
MAYOR CAIN, I HAVE BEEN ATTEMPTING TO GET IN CONTACT WITH YOU AS IT WAS PASSED FROM YOUR PREDECESSOR, MAYOR NATE PIKE, ON HIS CLOSING DAYS BEFORE HE LEFT.
IT WAS TO BE HANDED OVER TO YOU, AND I HAVE MADE SEVERAL ATTEMPTS, LEFT MESSAGES, SPOKE WITH YOUR RECEPTIONIST, PERSON THAT RUNS YOUR OFFICE OR WHATEVER. AND HAVE ASKED TO BE ABLE TO HAVE TIME TO SEE AND SPEAK WITH YOU IN PRIVATE BUT HAVE NOT HEARD A WORD BACK THAT'S BEEN TWO YEARS.
MAY I ASK, CAN WE, I'M TALKING
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YOU AND I, FIND A TIME TO SIT DOWN HERE IN THE VERY NEAR FUTURE AND DISCUSS WHAT I WISH TO DISCUSS WITHOUT GOING PUBLIC AND LETTING EVERYONE KNOW THE UNFORTUNATE SITUATION.HOW DOES NEXT TUESDAY WORK FOR YOU? FINE.
I'LL HAVE TO BE A LITTLE EARLY SO I CAN GET DIRECTIONS AS TO WHERE TO GO BECAUSE I'M NOT FAMILIAR WITH THIS BUILDING AT ALL.
TUESDAY AT 4 P.M., YOU SAID? YES, SIR.
SORRY TO TAKE UP SO MUCH TIME.
NEXT UP, WE'VE GOT SHERRY SACHS ON SECTION ROAD AT LEONARD AND FINLEY.
I'M SHERRY SACHS, 1316 DAVID DRIVE.
WE HAVE THAT SECTION THERE AT LEONARD AND FINLEY, WHICH WE'VE ALREADY TALKED ABOUT.
AND I JUST FIRST I WANT TO SAY THE LIGHT IS WORKING, SO THANK YOU.
SECOND, I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT BEFORE WE MOVE ON TO BIGGER AND BETTER PROJECTS AROUND TOWN REGARDING ROADS, THAT WE PAY ATTENTION TO THIS ONE LITTLE SECTION THAT SEEMS TO HAVE BEEN NEGLECTED BY OR FORGOTTEN EITHER BY A DEVELOPER AND THE CITY WASN'T TOTALLY SURE ON WHO SHOULD HAVE DONE WHAT.
AND SO SINCE THE BUDGET IS COMING IN OCTOBER, HOPEFULLY THAT WE CAN.
TAKE A LOOK AT THIS ONE SECTION AND GET IT DONE.
I KNOW THIS AFFECTS YOUR DRIVE, TOO, SINCE WE'RE ALL IN THE SAME NEIGHBORHOOD.
I THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR TIME, AND I THINK I'M THE NEXT ONE, TOO.
YOU ARE THE NEXT ONE, ABSOLUTELY.
MAYOR AND COUNCIL, THANK YOU SO MUCH.
I'M SHERRY SACHS, 1316 DAVID DRIVE.
THERE WAS A POST ON FACEBOOK THIS WEEK ABOUT DATA CENTERS.
I WANTED TO SAY THAT I THINK THIS IS A HOT TOPIC ALL ACROSS THE NATION.
I AM FOR THE PROSPECT OF BRINGING WORK HERE.
I THINK THERE'S A LOT TO BE SAID ABOUT THIS.
NOBODY REALLY UNDERSTANDS WHAT THEIR NEEDS ARE, ALL THE NUANCES OF A DATA CENTER.
AND I THINK IT'S A HOT TOPIC TO HAVE PEOPLE YAPPING ABOUT ON FACEBOOK, BUT NOT MAYBE THE MOST PRODUCTIVE LOCATION.
AND SO I WOULD HOPE THAT AS WE CONSIDER THIS, THAT THIS IS REALLY AN OPEN CONVERSATION ALONG THE WAY AND THAT WE DON'T ALL OF A SUDDEN SHOW UP TO A MEETING AND IT'S ON THE AGENDA.
PLEASE, PLEASE, IF THIS IS REALLY SOMETHING THAT WE'RE GOING TO CONSIDER IN OUR TOWN, THAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT IT WELL AHEAD OF THAT MOMENT.
[4. Presentations.]
ALL RIGHT, THAT WILL BRING US TO ITEM FOUR, PRESENTATIONS.RECEIVE REPORTS FROM STAFF OR CITY COUNCIL ABOUT ITEMS OF INTEREST OF COMMUNITY INTEREST.
ON YOUR AGENDA 4A IS GOING TO BE RESCHEDULED.
THE INDIVIDUALS INVOLVED IN THAT ARE ACTUALLY ON SHIFT RIGHT NOW SO THEY CAN'T BE HERE.
SO THAT'S GOING TO TAKE ME TO ITEM 4B, RECOGNITION OF OUTGOING DEPUTY MAYOR PRO TEM, MS. STAMCARVER.
I'LL SAVE THE WATERWORKS FOR LATER.
OR THERE MAY BE CHEERING, I'M NOT SURE WHICH.
COUNCILMAN CARVER HAS SPENT A LOT OF YEARS UP HERE.
THIS IS NOT A JOB THAT YOU GET A LOT OF THANKS FOR.
THIS IS NOT A JOB WHERE YOU GET A LOT OF PATS ON THE BACK.
THIS IS A JOB WHERE YOU GET A LOT OF GRIEF.
AND IF YOU'RE DOING THIS JOB CORRECTLY, YOU'RE SPENDING A TREMENDOUS AMOUNT OF TIME AWAY FROM YOUR FAMILY.
SO ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I KNOW FOR CERTAIN THAT STAN HAS ALWAYS DONE IS HE'S ALWAYS PUT THE PEOPLE IN THIS COMMUNITY FIRST.
AND THAT'S WHAT I THINK YOU SHOULD DO.
SO I WANT TO THANK YOU FOR THAT AND TELL YOU GOOD LUCK.
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GO AHEAD.SOME OF Y'ALL MAY BE LAUGHING ABOUT THE WORD BRIEF COMING OUT OF MY MOUTH.
I HAVE A FEW NOTES, BUT HONESTLY, I DON'T THINK I NEED THEM.
I WANT TO START OFF WITH THANKING YOU.
YOU'RE THE HIGHEST OFFICE IN THIS CITY, AND I HAVE SEEN YOU GROW.
ANY FAMILY MEMBER HERE, AND MINE'S HERE, AND I'M GRATEFUL THAT THEY ARE, KNOWS THAT YOU CANNOT JUST GO HOME.
THIS IS NOT LIKE YOUR DAY JOB, TYPICALLY, WHERE YOU JUST GO HOME AND YOU'RE DONE FOR THE DAY.
WHETHER YOU WANT TO LIVE IT OR NOT, YOU LIVE IT.
YOU NEVER GET TO TAKE THE COUNCIL HAT OFF, NO MATTER WHERE YOU ARE.
YOU CAN POST THE MOST INNOCUOUS THING AND IT BECOMES WORLD WAR III.
AND FRANKLY, THE FACT THAT SOMEBODY'S READING IT AND HAS A CONCERN, LIKE THE GENTLEMAN WHO WAS HERE JUST A MOMENT AGO, THAT'S WHAT WE'RE HERE FOR.
WE'RE HERE TO MAKE SURE THAT EVERYONE WHO IS...
EITHER WORKING, LIVING, TRYING TO DO BUSINESS, RAISING THEIR CHILDREN IN THE CITY OF ANNA, THAT THEY'RE REPRESENTED, REPRESENTED FAIRLY.
WITH THAT, WE TRY REALLY HARD TO COME UP WITH POLICIES THAT ARE NOT FADS, THEY'RE NOT FOR THE MOMENT.
WE'RE TRYING TO FIGURE OUT DECISIONS THAT WERE MADE BY MANY COUNCILS PAST, SOME GREAT, AND AS JOHN GUERIN SAID, SOME YOU'VE BEEN AROUND LONG ENOUGH TO...
SAY MAYBE THOSE WEREN'T THE BEST DECISIONS THAT COULD HAVE BEEN MADE, BUT IT'S THE INFORMATION WE HAD AT THE TIME.
AND I KNOW THAT WE'RE GOING TO LOOK BACK WHILE THE SIX YEARS THAT I WAS HERE, WE'RE GOING TO LOOK BACK AND WE'RE GOING TO GO, EH, THAT COULD HAVE BEEN A LITTLE BIT BETTER.
ALMOST ALL OF MY FAMILY LIVES HERE.
SO WE HAVE TO ENDURE, EITHER POSITIVELY OR NEGATIVELY, WHAT DECISIONS WERE MADE.
BUT I KNOW THAT ANYTHING THAT WE'VE DONE, THAT THIS COUNCIL THAT'S SUCCEEDING ME AND THE WONDERFUL LADY THAT'S GOING TO BE IN MY SEAT, JESSICA WALDEN, CARES DEEPLY ABOUT THIS COMMUNITY TOO.
WE KEEP PASSING THAT TORCH FORWARD.
I ALSO WANT TO SAY THAT WE HAVE AN INCREDIBLE, INCREDIBLE STAFF.
CITY MANAGER WHO CAME FROM A VERY LONG WAY WHO TOOK A CHANCE ON US IN SPITE OF, YEAH, GO FOR IT, THAT'S WORTH IT.
YOU KNOW, YOU READ FACEBOOK AND YOU READ SOME GOOD THINGS AND YOU READ SOME MAYBE NOT SO GOOD THINGS AND PEOPLE CAN SAY WHAT THEY WANT TO, WHETHER THEY'RE TRUTHFUL OR NOT.
BUT SHE HAS TAKEN THE BULL BY THE HORNS AND OUR STAFF THAT SHE REPRESENTS ARE VERY HAPPY AND THEY ARE JUST LIKE THIS COUNCIL.
THEY DON'T GET TO GO HOME EITHER WITHOUT STILL BEING A REPRESENTATIVE OF EVERYONE HERE.
ON A PERSONAL NOTE, I DON'T SEE OUR POLICE AND FIRE.
THEY'RE KIND OF BUSY THESE DAYS.
OH, HEY, OUR ENTIRE POLICE DEPARTMENT.
WHICH, BY THE WAY, I DON'T KNOW IF YOU SAW THE SLIDESHOW, BUT WHENEVER YOU GOT ME, THE OFFICER WAS IN THE SLIDESHOW IN THE PRECEDING PRESENTATION.
WHEN I MOVED TO ANNA, IT WAS A MUCH DIFFERENT CITY, A LOT SMALLER.
AND THERE WERE A LOT OF REALLY INCREDIBLE THINGS.
BUT I WILL TELL YOU, AS I WRAP THIS UP, I DIDN'T WANT TO BE HERE UNTIL I...
MY WIFE AND MY STEP-UP DAD TOOK US TO HOUSES ALL OVER NORTH TEXAS, AND I'M LIKE, NOPE, NOPE, NOPE, NOPE, NOPE.
AND THEN OUR REALTOR WAS DRIVING PAST A HOUSE THAT WAS LIKE THE SUNBEAMS WERE UPON IT, AND WE WENT OUT, AND I'M LIKE, HEY, WE'RE HOME.
I NEVER WANTED TO MOVE TO ANNA.
HALF PART OF MY FAMILY'S FROM SALINA.
PART OF THEM ARE IN VAN ALSTYNE.
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I THINK MY STEP-UP DAD'S ACCEPTED AND EMBRACES HIM, BY THE WAY.SO WITH THAT, I'M SO GLAD TO BE HERE.
IT IS ABSOLUTELY THE BEST PLACE IN THE WORLD FOR ME PERSONALLY.
I HAVE THE BEST WORKMATES HERE.
I HAVE THE ABSOLUTE FULLEST CONFIDENCE IN THIS STAFF AND IN THIS MAYOR.
AND IN THIS CITY COUNCIL, THE ONES TO COME.
BECAUSE WE MAKE SURE THEY KEEP DOING A GOOD JOB.
AND WITH THAT, I WANT TO EXPRESS ONE LAST GRATITUDE TO YOU.
LET'S KEEP MAKING ANNA THE MOST AMAZING PLACE IN THE WORLD.
WE'RE GOING TO GET A GROUP PHOTO ALSO.
WE'RE GOING TO TAKE A 10-MINUTE RECESS.
THAT WILL TAKE US TO AGENDA ITEM C, ADMINISTER THE OATH OF OFFICE TO NEWLY ELECTED CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS.
MS. LAND? RAISE YOUR RIGHT HAND AND REPEAT AFTER ME.
I, JESSICA WALDEN, DO SOLEMNLY SWEAR THAT I WILL FAITHFULLY EXECUTE THE DUTIES OF THE OFFICE OF CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ANNA, COUNTY OF COLLIN, AND STATE OF TEXAS.
AND WILL, TO THE BEST OF MY ABILITY, PRESERVE, PROTECT, AND DEFEND PRESERVE, PROTECT, AND DEFEND.
THE CONSTITUTION AND LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES.
THE CONSTITUTION AND LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES.
AND OF THIS STATE, SO HELP ME GOD.
AND OF THIS STATE, SO HELP ME GOD.
CAN I GET COLLEEN FROM CONGRESSMAN SELF'S OFFICE, PLEASE? MY NAME IS COLLEEN, I'M FROM CONGRESSMAN KIESFELD'S OFFICE.
I HAVE A LETTER HERE TO CELEBRATE YOUR INDUCTION AS COUNCILMEMBER.
DEAR COUNCILMEMBER WALDEN, CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR CONTINUED SERVICE TO THE RESIDENTS OF ANNA AS PLACE 3 CITY COUNCILMEMBER.
YOUR DEDICATION TO PUBLIC SERVICE AND COMMITMENT TO THE CITY OF ANNA ARE DEEPLY APPRECIATED.
PRIOR TO JOINING THE ANNA CITY COUNCIL, YOU DEMONSTRATED STRONG CIVIC LEADERSHIP THROUGH YOUR SERVICE ON THE PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION, WHERE YOU PLAYED AN IMPORTANT ROLE IN SUPPORTING RESPONSIBLE GROWTH, THOUGHTFUL DEVELOPMENT, AND LONG-TERM PLANNING FOR THE COMMUNITY.
YOUR WORK HAS HELPED ENSURE THAT ANNA CONTINUES TO GROW AS A STRONG, VIBRANT, AND FAMILY-ORIENTED CITY, WHILE PRESERVING THE CHARACTER, VALUES, AND SENSE OF COMMUNITY THAT MAKE IT UNIQUE.
AS ANNA CONTINUES TO EXPERIENCE REMARKABLE GROWTH, STUDY LEADERSHIP AT THE LOCAL LEVEL IS ESSENTIAL.
YOUR CONTINUED SERVICE REFLECTS A CLEAR COMMITMENT TO LISTENING TO RESIDENTS, ENCOURAGING PUBLIC INVOLVEMENT, AND ENSURING THAT THE NEEDS AND PRIORITIES OF THE COMMUNITY REMAIN AT THE FOREFRONT OF LOCAL DECISION-MAKING.
THROUGH YOUR LEADERSHIP, RESIDENTS CAN HAVE CONFIDENCE THAT THEIR VOICES ARE HEARD AND THAT THE FUTURE OF ANNA IS BEING SHAPED WITH CARE, RESPONSIBILITY, AND VISION.
CONGRATULATIONS ON THIS IMPORTANT MILESTONE.
I WISH YOU CONTINUED SUCCESS IN YOUR SERVICE TO THE RESIDENTS OF ANNA AND TO THE PEOPLE OF TEXAS' 3RD CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT.
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THERE YOU GO.YOU'LL RAISE YOUR RIGHT HAND AND REPEAT AFTER ME.
THAT I WILL FAITHFULLY EXECUTE THE DUTIES.
THAT I WILL FAITHFULLY EXECUTE THE DUTIES.
OF THE OFFICE OF CITY COUNCIL.
OF THE OFFICE OF CITY COUNCIL.
AND WILL TO THE BEST OF MY ABILITY.
AND WILL TO THE BEST OF MY ABILITY.
PRESERVE, PROTECT, AND DEFEND.
TO PRESERVE, PROTECT, AND DEFEND.
CONSTITUTION AND LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES AND OF THIS STATE.
ALL RIGHT, AND WE HAVE ANOTHER LETTER FROM THE CONGRESSMAN IN CELEBRATION OF YOUR INDUCTION.
DEAR COUNCILMEMBER BAKER, CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR CONTINUED SERVICE TO THE RESIDENTS OF ANNA AS PLACE 5 CITY COUNCILMEMBER.
SINCE JOINING THE ANNA CITY COUNCIL IN 2023, YOU HAVE DEMONSTRATED STRONG LEADERSHIP AND A STRONG COMMITMENT TO PRESERVING THE VALUES, HISTORY, AND SENSE OF COMMUNITY THAT MAKE ANNA THE CITY IT IS TODAY.
YOUR LEADERSHIP HAS HELPED ENSURE THAT THE PRIORITIES OF LOCAL RESIDENTS REMAIN AT THE FOREFRONT AS ANNA CONTINUES PLANNING FOR ITS FUTURE.
FOR 20 YEARS, YOU HAVE FAITHFULLY SERVED OUR COUNTRY AS A DECORATED UNITED STATES NAVY VETERAN, DEMONSTRATING DEDICATION AND COMMITMENT TO DEFENDING THE FREEDOMS AND VALUES OF OUR NATION.
YOU HAVE CARRIED THESE VALUES INTO YOUR LEADERSHIP.
IN ADDITION TO YOUR ROLE AT RAYTHEON INTELLIGENCE AND SPACE, YOU HAVE REMAINED ACTIVELY INVOLVED IN THE COMMUNITY THROUGH THE ANNA NEIGHBOR ACADEMY, THE PARKS ADVISORY BOARD, AND COLLIN COUNTY HISTORICAL COMMISSION.
YOU ARE A NOTED RAILROAD HISTORIAN WITH MANY RESIDENTS REFERRING TO YOU AS THE TRAIN GUY AT THE ANNA DEPOT.
YOUR CONTINUED DEDICATION TO CIVIC ENGAGEMENT AND HISTORICAL PRESERVATION REFLECTS THE SPIRIT OF SERVICE AND COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP THAT STRENGTHENS ANNA FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS.
CONGRATULATIONS ON THIS MILESTONE.
I WISH YOU CONTINUED SUCCESS IN YOUR FUTURE ENDEAVORS AND CONTINUED SERVICE TO THE PEOPLE OF ANNA AND TEXAS' 3RD CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT.
[5. Work Session.]
ALL RIGHT, THAT TAKES US TO WORK SESSION.5A, DISCUSSION AND STAFF DIRECTION ON ORDINANCE REQUIRING MINORS 17 AND UNDER TO WEAR HELMETS WHEN RIDING BICYCLES, SCOOTERS, OR SKATEBOARDS, OR WHEN OPERATING IN ELECTRIC OR MOTORIZED VEHICLES.
SPECIFICALLY, I PUT THIS ON A WORK SESSION BECAUSE I'D LIKE TO GET THE TEMPERATURE OF THE COUNCIL ON AN ITEM LIKE THIS.
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I WANT TO HEAR PROS AND CONS, SEE WHAT YOU GUYS THINK.IF YOU'RE INTERESTED IN IT, IF YOU DON'T HAVE ANY INTEREST AT ALL IN HAVING STAFF DO ANYTHING, I'M JUST OPEN TO WHAT YOU GUYS MIGHT THINK.
I WOULD, FROM EXPERIENCE, SHORT STORY, I WANT TO ADD LIGHTS TO ANYTHING ELECTRIC BECAUSE THEY GO SO FAST.
I ALMOST, I COULD HAVE REALLY SERIOUSLY HURT A KID BECAUSE I WAS PULLING INTO THE STORAGE UNIT, MY 7-ELEVEN, AND HE ZOOMED RIGHT PAST ME.
AND I DIDN'T THINK ELECTRIC BIKES WOULD BE OUT THAT NIGHT, AND IT WAS DARK.
YEAH, LIGHT ON FRONT AND BACK.
SO ANYTHING ELECTRIC, THESE BIKES, BECAUSE THEY'RE FAST.
THESE SCOOTERS, SOME OF THEM ARE FAST.
THESE LITTLE ONE-WHEEL THINGS, I FORGET WHAT YOU CALL THEM, THEY CAN BE FAST.
I HAVEN'T SEEN THEM, BUT THOSE BIKES ARE FAST.
SO ANYTHING ELECTRIC, I WOULD LIKE TO MAKE SURE, ESPECIALLY AT NIGHT, THERE'S SOME KIND OF LIGHT.
NOT DIRECTIONAL BLINKERS OR ANYTHING, JUST SOME KIND OF FRONT AND BACK LIGHTS ON THERE.
THE HELMETS, I'VE GROWN UP RIDING BMX MY ENTIRE LIFE.
HALF THE TIME I WORE A HELMET WHENEVER I WAS MAYBE ON A RACETRACK OR A PUMP TRACK OR WHATEVER OR A SKATE PARK.
BUT IT'S HARD FOR ME TO GET BEHIND THAT.
BUT SEEING HOW I AM NOW, I SHOULD BE BEHIND IT.
BUT I WOULD LIKE TO ADD THE LIGHT FOR SURE.
YEAH, I LIKE THE IDEA OF ADDING THE LIGHTS.
THAT'S A GOOD POINT, COUNCILMAN TOGAN.
ESPECIALLY WITH HELMETS, THOUGH, I UNDERSTAND THAT IT WOULD BE DIFFICULT TO ENFORCE, BUT IF WE DON'T HAVE THE ORDINANCE, WE CAN'T ENFORCE IT.
AND, YOU KNOW, IF WE DO, AT LEAST WE HAVE THE INFORMATION OUT THERE.
A LOT OF CHILDREN, ANYONE UNDER 17, YOU KNOW, YOU TALK TO ANYBODY WITH A TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY, AND THEY WOULD NOT DO IT THAT WAY AGAIN.
SO, YOU KNOW, ADULTS PROBABLY NOT BE ABLE TO ENFORCE IT.
BUT MINORS, YEAH, IF PARENTS AREN'T GOING TO PARENT, AT LEAST WE'LL HAVE AN ORDINANCE IN PLACE TO AT LEAST LET PEOPLE KNOW THAT IT'S IMPORTANT.
I MEAN, I'D ALSO LIKE TO SEE SOMETHING, EITHER SOME KIND OF, YOU KNOW, RESEARCH FOR WHAT OTHER COMMUNITIES HAVE, ANY OTHER ORDINANCES THAT ARE LIKE ORDINANCES OR, YOU KNOW, SOMETHING ALONG THAT FOR.
FOR THIS REGION OR EVEN JUST FOR TEXAS IN GENERAL? WHAT OTHERS THAT ARE AVAILABLE? WELL, I'M GLAD YOU SAID THAT BECAUSE I DID THE RESEARCH.
I KNOW, RIGHT? I'VE LOOKED AT COMPARABLE CITIES INCLUDING PROSPER, SALINA, MELISSA, AND PRINCETON.
NONE OF THEM HAVE ADOPTED UNIVERSAL HELMET ORDINANCES FOR BICYCLES, E-BIKES, SCOOTERS, OR SKATEBOARDS.
WHERE HELMET RULES DO EXIST, THEY'RE VERY LIMITED TO SPECIFIC AGE GROUPS, GENERALLY 16 AND UNDER.
OR CERTAIN DEVICE TYPES, WHICH ARE THE ELECTRIC ONES, THE ELECTRIC BICYCLES THAT ARE 20 MILES AN HOUR AND OVER, WHICH THE LIGHTS WOULD BE A GREAT ADDITION TO.
I COULD NOT FIND ANY MEASURABLE ENFORCEMENT OUTCOMES FOR THESE POLICIES, WHICH BRINGS ME TO MY NEXT QUESTION, WHO WOULD ENFORCE THAT? WOULD IT BE OUR POLICE DEPARTMENT? WOULD IT BE OUR CODE? WHO WOULD ENFORCE THAT, AND HOW WOULD THEY GET THAT DONE? BECAUSE PARENTS ARE GOING TO PARENT THEIR KIDS.
THEY'RE GOING TO PUT A HELMET ON THEM OR NOT.
YOU CAN TELL A KID ALL DAY LONG TO PUT YOUR HELMET ON.
WHAT THEY DO IS WHAT THEY DID.
SO FOR ME, ENFORCING IT WOULD BE RELATIVELY HARD TO DO.
AND LIKE I SAID, I COULDN'T FIND ANY MEASURABLE OUTCOMES FOR THOSE TWO CITIES THAT DO HAVE THAT FOR THEIR E-BIKES.
HAS ANYONE TALKED TO OUR POLICE DEPARTMENT ABOUT THAT? NO.
THIS IS WHERE I'M JUST BRAINSTORMING AND SEEING WHAT THEY THINK.
OKAY, BECAUSE THAT WAS ONE OF MY QUESTIONS.
HAS THE POLICE DEPARTMENT BEEN CONSULTED REGARDING ENFORCEABILITY AND STAFFING? NO, I DIDN'T KNOW IF ANYBODY WOULD HAVE ANY INTEREST IN IT, SO I WASN'T GOING TO.
MAKE THEM START DOING WORK ON SOMETHING THAT WASN'T GOING TO HAPPEN.
YEAH, I THINK IF WE'RE GOING TO HAVE A HELMET RULE, WE SHOULD HAVE IT AT LEAST ON PUBLIC CITY PROPERTY.
THEY SHOULD BE REQUIRED FOR THAT.
I DON'T KNOW HOW YOU'RE GOING TO DO IT WHEN THEY'RE AT HOME, IN THE STREET, OR THAT KIND OF THING.
YEAH, THAT WAS ONE OF THE QUESTIONS I HAD.
AND, AGAIN, WE'D HAVE TO HAVE OUR ATTORNEYS AND STUFF LOOK AT THAT.
BUT I THINK IT COULD BE ENFORCEABLE ON, LIKE, IN THE CITY PARKS, ON THE SLATER CREEK TRAIL, ET CETERA.
I WAS, LIKE KELLY WAS SAYING, I'VE LOOKED TO SEE OTHER CITIES THAT HAVE IT, AND IT'S LIKE PULLING HEN'S TEETH.
IT'S JUST INFORMATION IS JUST NOT OUT THERE.
MAYOR, WERE YOU TALKING HELMETS ALL AROUND, BIKES, REGULAR BICYCLES, REGULAR SCOOTERS? I WAS, AND I WAS THINKING ABOUT IT, TOO, AND I GOT TO THINKING, YOU KNOW, MAYBE 17.
WE MIGHT BE PUSHING IT A LITTLE BIT.
MAYBE WE GO UNDER 11 OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT.
YOU KNOW, REALLY SMALL CHILDREN.
WELL, THERE'S SOME BIG 11-YEAR-OLDS, BUT YOU KNOW.
AND LIKE I SAID, I JUST WANTED TO GET EVERYBODY'S OPINION.
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WELL, I HAVE A STAFF QUESTION.I DON'T KNOW IF ANY OF YOU CAN ANSWER IT, AND IT COULD BE A POLICE QUESTION TOO.
HOW MANY SCOOTER E-BIKE RELATED INJURIES OR FATALITY INCIDENTS HAVE OCCURRED IN ANNA IN THE LAST FIVE YEARS? SO I SPOKE WITH OUR POLICE CHIEF, OUR ACTING POLICE CHIEF, A COUPLE DAYS AGO WHEN THIS WAS AGENDIZED, AND SHE SAID THAT WE'VE HAD ONE.
I THINK IN A SITUATION LIKE THIS, WE NEED TO LOOK AT IT BECAUSE WE DON'T WANT TO WAIT FOR A TRAUMATIC INCIDENT TO OCCUR BEFORE WE PUT IT ON AND LOOK AT IT.
YEAH, COUNCILMAN BAKER, YOU'RE RIGHT.
I MEAN, ALL IT TAKES IS ONE, RIGHT? YEAH.
MAYBE THAT ONE THAT I ALMOST WAS A PART OF.
YOU KNOW, WELL, HE HAPPENED TO BE WEARING A HELMET, BUT HE HAD NO LIGHTS.
BUT THOSE LIGHTS GO SUPER FAST.
WELL, I THINK TOTEN AND I ARE THE ONLY TWO UP HERE THAT CAN TALK ABOUT BRAIN SURGERY.
BUT ANYWAY, REGARDLESS, I MEAN, MINE WAS PREVENTATIVE.
I CAN'T IMAGINE GOING IN FOR THAT AFTER HAVING AN ACCIDENT.
SO, IF WE CAN PREVENT ONE, WE NEED TWO.
HONESTLY, I'M HEARING REALLY GREAT CONVERSATION HERE.
I LOVE THAT PEOPLE ARE FINALLY GETTING TO SEE HOW THE CHICKEN IS BATTERED BEHIND THE SCENES.
YOU KNOW, WHAT I'M HEARING HERE IS...
OTHER CITIES AROUND US ARE NOT DOING IT.
I SEE AN OPPORTUNITY TO LEAD HERE.
LET ME TELL YOU WHY I SAY THAT.
I'VE ACTUALLY GONE AROUND TO QUITE A FEW NEIGHBORS AND I WENT TO A COUPLE OF THE PARKS THIS PAST WEEKEND AND I WAS CURIOUS, RIGHT? I ACTUALLY WENT AND ASKED PARENTS AND I ASKED SOME OF THE KIDS THAT WERE EVEN ON THE BIKES, HOW WOULD YOU FEEL? IF THERE WAS AN ORDINANCE REQUIRING YOU TO WEAR A SAFETY HELMET, WHATEVER.
I DID NOT HAVE ONE SINGLE PERSON SAY NO, THAT THEY'D BE AGAINST IT.
I THINK I'VE TALKED TO ALMOST 30 PEOPLE.
NOW, ONCE AGAIN, YOU KNOW, IT IS, YOU KNOW, A LIMITED, YOU KNOW, DATA POOL, BUT I THINK THERE'S, YOU KNOW, CLEAR SUPPORT ON THIS.
YOU KNOW, I WAS EVEN THINKING MAYBE UP TO 14.
YOU KNOW, MAYBE THAT'S SOMETHING WE CAN FIGURE OUT, LOOK AT WHAT OTHER CITIES NATIONALLY ARE DOING.
BUT ONCE AGAIN, I SEE THIS AS AN OPPORTUNITY FOR US TO LEAD.
IT'S ALSO A REASONABLE SAFETY REQUIREMENT.
ONE THING I WANT TO BE CAREFUL ON IS, YOU KNOW, WE DON'T HAVE A HEAVY HAND OF GOVERNMENT INVOLVED.
BUT I THINK THIS IS AN APPROPRIATE TIME WHEN IT COMES TO THE SAFETY OF THE KIDS.
BECAUSE ESSENTIALLY, YOU KNOW, PARENTS ARE BUSY, THEY'RE WORKING TWO JOBS, THEY'VE GOT A LOT OF STUFF TO DO.
SOMETIMES THEY CAN'T KEEP UP WITH THEIR KIDS.
I MEAN, KIDS MAKE IT TO WHERE THEIR PARENTS CAN'T KEEP UP WITH THEM HALF THE TIME.
BUT IF THERE'S AT LEAST SOME WAY TO, YOU KNOW, REMIND THEM, HEY GUYS, THERE'S MORE TO LIFE THAN, YOU KNOW, CROSSING THE STREET WITH NO HELMET AND DOING STUNTS AND ACCIDENTALLY GET HIT BY A CAR.
THERE'S MORE TO LIFE THAN THAT.
SO, YOU KNOW, I KNOW IT PROBABLY DOESN'T LOOK SUPER COOL, BUT IT'S ONE THING, YOU KNOW, I THINK IT'S NECESSARY.
AND EVEN ME, YOU KNOW, BEING ON A MOTORCYCLE, RIGHT, LIKE YOU'RE NOT REQUIRED TO WEAR A HELMET ON A MOTORCYCLE.
BUT SHOULD YOU? PROBABLY, YEAH.
ESPECIALLY IF YOU'RE REACHING SPEEDS IN EXCESS OF, YOU KNOW, 10, 15 MILES AN HOUR.
BECAUSE AT THAT, I MEAN, YOU CAN LOOK AT THE MYTHBUSTERS, YOU KNOW, EPISODE.
I WAS HONESTLY WATCHING THAT BEFORE I CAME HERE.
I THINK IT'S ABOVE 10 MILES PER HOUR IF THERE'S ANY IMPACT.
THAT'S WHY YOU SEE A LOT OF THESE SCOOTERS IN AUSTIN.
THEY'RE ALL GETTING REMOVED OR THEY'RE GETTING CHANGED IN SOME FORMAT WHERE THERE'S MORE SAFETY FEATURES OR WHATEVER THERE IS BECAUSE A LOT OF PEOPLE GOT HURT ON THOSE.
BUT ONCE AGAIN, I LOVE THAT WE'RE HAVING THIS CONVERSATION.
I'D LOVE TO FIND A WAY FORWARD FOR US.
IF WE PURSUE THIS ROUTE, DO YOU THINK THIS SHOULD APPLY TO BICYCLES, SCOOTERS, E-BIKES? STATE BOARDS AND OTHER DEVICES EQUALLY? ABSOLUTELY.
I THINK THAT'S THE PLAN, BUT I THINK AT THIS POINT, REALLY, WE NEED TO JUST GET MORE DATA BEHIND IT.
AND MAYBE THE ANSWER ISN'T TO HAVE AN ENFORCEMENT POLICY, A $25 TICKET OR WHATEVER, BUT MAYBE AN EDUCATIONAL DIRECTIVE.
MAKE IT MORE PUBLIC AWARENESS.
AND THAT'S A KEY MAYBE LOOP IN THE PARENTS.
IT'S LIKE, LOOK, WE'RE NOT HERE TO GET ANYONE IN TROUBLE.
IT'S AN OPPORTUNITY FOR ALL OF US TO IMPROVE.
MAYBE SOME PARENTS DON'T KNOW.
BUT MAYBE THAT'S A GREAT OPPORTUNITY FOR SOME OF OUR POLICE FORCES TO HAVE A GREAT INTERACTION WITH SOME FAMILIES, OPEN UP SOME MORE DOORS.
YOU KNOW, I SEE NOTHING BUT VALUE IN HERE.
AND, YOU KNOW, CONSIDERING THE ONE GUY ON HERE WITH A HELMET RIGHT NOW, I MEAN, I THINK IT'S NEEDED.
IF WE HAVE SOMETHING LIKE THIS, IT'S A GOOD OPPORTUNITY FOR PEACE OFFICERS, IF THEY DON'T HAVE ANYTHING GOING ON, TO STOP AND TALK TO THE KIDS.
A GROUP THAT WOULD BE WILLING TO ACTUALLY GIVE US SOME HELMETS SO THEY CAN HAVE THEM WITH THEM AND THEY CAN PASS THEM OUT.
THAT WOULD BE AWESOME, ESPECIALLY LIKE OFFICER TONY, JUST HAVING KEPT HELMETS.
IT'S AN EDUCATIONAL OUTREACH THING.
I WANT TO GET YOUR TEMPERATURE, AND IT SOUNDS LIKE YOU GUYS ARE INTERESTED IN AT LEAST GETTING SOME MORE INFORMATION.
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OKAY.RHONDA, I'D LIKE TO GET STAFF TO GIVE US SOME MORE INFORMATION ON THAT, MAYBE SOME PROS AND CONS, BOTH SIDES.
5B, PRESENTATION TO COUNCIL ON CONNELLY COUNTY REGIONAL TRAILS MASTER PLAN AND TRAIL PLANNING IMPLEMENTATION.
BEFORE WE GET STARTED, CAN WE GIVE HIM A ROUND OF APPLAUSE? IF NOBODY KNOWS THIS, HE JUST GOT APPOINTED TO THE DIRECTOR OF PARKS.
MAYOR, COUNCIL, LAST COUNCIL MEETING, Y'ALL ADOPTED THE 2050 PARKS, OPEN SPACE, TRAILS, AND RECREATION MASTER PLAN.
AS PART OF IT, WE DISCUSSED THE NEXT STEPS IN THAT PLAN AND HOW WE BEGIN TO IMPLEMENT WHAT IS IN THAT PLAN.
SO TONIGHT, UNDER THIS ITEM, WE HAVE A PRESENTATION BY HALF.
HERE TONIGHT, WE HAVE REPRESENTATIVES LENNY HUGHES AND KENDALL HOWARD.
THEY WILL TALK ABOUT THE COLLIN COUNTY REGIONAL TRAILS MASTER PLAN.
AND THE TRAIL PLANNING AND IMPLEMENTATION AND HOW ANA FITS INTO IT.
SO I WILL PASS ON THE MIC TO LENNY AND KENDALL.
AGAIN, MY NAME IS LENNY HUGHES, THE PRACTICE LEADER FOR PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT ARCHITECTURE AT HALF ASSOCIATES.
AND YOU GUYS ARE TALKING ABOUT ONE OF MY FAVORITE SUBJECTS.
I'VE BEEN WITH HALF NOW ALMOST 31, GOING ON 32 YEARS.
AND WE HAVE DEVELOPED A LOT OF THE TRAILS AND BIKE FACILITIES IN AND AROUND THE DALLAS AREA, COLLIN COUNTY.
AND SO WE ARE VERY EXCITED ABOUT PRESENTING TO YOU ALL THE COLLIN COUNTY TRAIL PLAN, BUT ALSO LOOK AT WAYS TO NOT ONLY PLAN FOR THESE TYPE OF PROJECTS, BUT ALSO HELP WITH FUNDING AS WELL AS IMPLEMENTATION.
SO JUST BRIEFLY A LITTLE BIT ABOUT PLANNING FOR TRAILS.
WE'RE ALSO GOING TO TALK TO YOU THIS EVENING ABOUT THE COLLIN COUNTY TRAILS MASTER PLAN AND I WAS ACTUALLY INVOLVED IN THE 2012 COLLIN COUNTY TRAILS PLAN AND EVEN BEFORE THAT I BELIEVE IN 2007 OR 8 WE WORKED ON THE SIX CITIES TRAILS MASTER PLAN AND THAT WAS A REGIONAL TRAIL PLAN THAT LOOKED AT CONNECTING PLANO THROUGH RICHARDSON, ALLEN, MCKINNEY AND FRISCO.
THAT WAS KIND OF THE BEGINNING OF THAT MUCH LARGER TRAIL PLAN FOR WHAT WE HAVE NOW FOR COLLIN COUNTY.
AND EVEN THOUGH I'M GOING TO DATE MYSELF BACK TO 1997, I WORKED ON THE FIRST EVER DALLAS COUNTY COUNTYWIDE TRAILS PLAN.
SO MY PREDECESSOR, BUD MELTON, HE HAS BEEN ONE OF THE LEADING FOR TRAILS IN THIS REGION.
AND IS REALLY KIND OF THE FOREFATHER OF TRAILS FOR THIS AREA HERE.
AND SO WITH THAT, I'M GOING TO TALK ABOUT THE BEST PRACTICES FOR IMPLEMENTATION, THEN HAVE AN OPEN DISCUSSION FOR YOU ALL.
AND SO A LITTLE BIT ABOUT HAF, WE'RE A TEXAS-BASED FIRM.
WE'RE LOCATED IN RICHARDSON, TEXAS.
WE'RE A FULL-SERVICE ENGINEERING AND ARCHITECTURAL FIRM.
MY SPECIALTY IS IN PARKS, RECREATION, TRAIL, TRAIL PLANNING, DESIGN.
I DO A LOT OF GRANT WRITING FOR A LOT OF DIFFERENT COMMUNITIES.
BEING ABLE TO HELP SUPPORT THEM IN THEIR ENDEAVORS, BUT ALSO THEIR VISION AS FAR AS GETTING THESE TRAILS AND PARKS BUILT WITHIN THEIR COMMUNITIES.
WITH MYSELF HERE, I ALSO HAVE KEN O'HOWARD.
SHE'S A SENIOR COMMUNITY PLANNER.
KEN AND I HAVE TAG-TEAMED ALL THESE PROJECTS, AND SHE HAS REALLY LED SOME OF THE MOST CUTTING-EDGE TYPE PROJECTS FROM PARKS AND TRAILS TO ALSO NEW WORK AND A LOT OF FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES FOR THESE PROJECTS.
LINDSAY MCLOOM, SHE'S A FUNDING RESOURCE SPECIALIST.
LINDSAY JOINED HAF ROUGHLY ABOUT THREE YEARS AGO.
THAT'S WHEN WE FIRST STARTED TO LOOK AT HOW NOT ONLY HAVE WE PLANNED FOR PROJECTS FROM PARKS AND TRAILS, BUT ALSO NOW LOOK AT WAYS OF FUNDING THESE FOR COMMUNITIES LIKE YOURSELF TO GET THESE PROJECTS BUILT WITHIN THESE REGIONS HERE.
AND SO JUST A LITTLE BIT ABOUT WHY IT'S IMPORTANT TO PLAN FOR THESE PROJECTS.
AND SO, YOU KNOW, WE DO A LOT OF RESEARCH AND, YOU KNOW, WHAT WE FOUND IS THAT THE COLLIN COUNTY REGION, THERE'S JUST A TREMENDOUS AMOUNT OF GROWTH THAT'S HAPPENING WITH THIS AREA.
AND, YOU KNOW, YOU GUYS, THIS IS FROM A NATIONAL STANDPOINT, RIGHT? YOU GUYS ARE RECOGNIZED ON A NATIONAL LEVEL AS FAR AS THE GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT THAT'S HAPPENING HERE WITHIN CONLON COUNTY.
AND WITH THAT, THIS IS YOUR OPPORTUNITY TO REALLY PLAN AND REALLY SET THE SEED FOR NOT ONLY WHERE TRAILS GO, BUT HOW THEY'RE BUILT,
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HOW THEY'RE PLANNED FOR, BUT ALSO LOOK AT STRATEGIES FOR IMPLEMENTATION FUNDING TO HELP WITH THAT FROM A DEVELOPMENT COMMUNITY.JUST LIKE YOUR PARK DEDICATION ORDINANCE, MANY COMMUNITIES THAT'S IN AND AROUND THE AREA, SUCH AS ALLEN, FRISCO, PLANO, WELL, THEY STARTED OUT THESE THINGS 20, 30, ALMOST 40 YEARS AGO.
THEY TOOK THE STEPS EARLY ON TO PLAN FOR THE FUTURE, LOOK AT PRESERVING THESE CORRIDORS AND RIGHT-OF-WAYS, BUT ALSO HELP WITH THE ORDINANCES TO BE PUT IN PLACE SO THAT YOU'RE NOT ALWAYS FUNDING THIS ON YOURSELF, BUT THIS IS NOW PART OF THE DEVELOPMENT COMMUNITY AND OTHER THINGS THAT ARE HAPPENING WITHIN THE REGION.
SO IT'S A REALLY IMPORTANT STEP THAT YOU GUYS ARE REALLY TAKING ON THIS OPPORTUNITY TO REALLY PLAN FOR YOUR FUTURE HERE FOR TRAILS.
AS WELL AS PARKS HERE IN ANNA.
AND SO, AS JEFF JUST MENTIONED, YOU GUYS HAVE JUST RECENTLY ADOPTED THE PARKS MATCH PLAN.
AND A LOT OF THAT, WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT THE POLLING AND SURVEYS, TRAILS TYPICALLY COME UP AS THE NUMBER ONE OR TWO ITEM IN A PARK PLAN.
AND SO BEING ABLE TO SUPPORT THOSE ENDEAVORS, TO LOOK AT THAT VISION, TO PLAN FOR THAT, YOU GUYS ARE REALLY TAKING THE RIGHT STEPS TO REALLY THINK ABOUT THIS IN THE FUTURE.
AND HOW CAN THIS MAKE THIS A SAFE, BIKEABLE, WALKABLE COMMUNITY HERE FOR ANNA? AND SO JUST THE VALUE OF TRAILS, IT LOOKS AT IDENTIFYING POTENTIAL CORRIDORS IN THE AREA, PRESERVING THOSE RIGHTS OF WAYS.
AND I'VE WORKED ON A LOT OF TRAILS IN A LOT OF DIFFERENT STATES AND COMMUNITIES, AND TYPICALLY YOU DON'T HAVE A RIGHT BY NOW BY PRESERVING THESE, BUT ALSO THINK ABOUT SOME OF THOSE MORE COMPLEX AREAS, SUCH AS THE DRAINAGE CORRIDORS OR UTILITY EASEMENTS.
OR WHERE FUTURE ROADS ARE PLANNED.
I MEAN, THESE ARE OPPORTUNITIES TO REALLY TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THAT AND PUT THESE THINGS IN WRITING AND ALSO A MAP SO THAT WHEN TXDOT OR OTHER ENTITIES ARE PUTTING AND DEVELOPING HERE, YOU'RE ABLE TO GET THAT AS PART OF THEIR CONSTRUCTION AND THEIR PLANNED ELEMENTS FOR THOSE AREAS.
ALSO, WITH A PLAN LIKE THIS, YOU'RE GOING TO BE MORE COMPETITIVE WITH GRANT FUNDING.
WE'VE GOT SOME GREAT EXAMPLES OF HOW WE WORK WITH COMMUNITIES TO DEVELOP THEIR PLANS, FOLLOWING UP WITH...
FUNDING STRATEGIES AS WELL AS LOOKING AT HELPING THEM TO WRITE AND PREPARE THOSE GRANTS.
AND WHAT WE BELIEVE IN, THIS IS A COMMUNITY-DRIVEN PRIORITY.
I'VE BEEN OUT IN MANY COMMUNITIES, WALKED TRAILS, HAD COMMUNITY WALKS WITH CITIZENS, WITH NEIGHBORS, WITH BIKE ENTHUSIASTS, WALKERS, JOGGERS, KIDS, PRINCIPAL SCHOOLS.
SO WE WANT THIS TO BE A REALLY COMMUNITY-DRIVEN OPPORTUNITY FOR LOOKING AT TRAILS WITHIN THE COMMUNITY.
BUT ALSO WHAT'S REALLY IMPORTANT THAT YOU ARE COORDINATING WITH THE OTHER DEPARTMENTS, PUBLIC WORKS, STREETS.
WE'VE GOT POLICE AND FIRE INVOLVED FOR SAFE EMERGENCY ACCESS POINTS.
THIS IS ALSO PART OF THEIR FUTURE 911 SYSTEM FOR REPORTING AN ACCIDENT AT RETRIEVAL THERE.
AND SO THIS IS A HOLISTIC PLAN THAT REALLY ADDRESSES ALL THE THINGS THAT YOU WOULD HELP TO LOOK AT AS FAR AS CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE FOR OUR COMMUNITY HERE.
SO AT THIS POINT, I'D LIKE TO GIVE IT OVER TO KENDALL TO TALK ABOUT THE COLLIN COUNTY TRAILS MASTER PLAN.
SO AS LENNY MENTIONED, THE PREVIOUS COUNTYWIDE TRAILS MASTER PLAN WAS LAST DEVELOPED BACK IN 2012.
AND SO WE WENT THROUGH ABOUT A YEAR-LONG PROCESS WORKING WITH ALL THE COMMUNITIES WITHIN COLLIN COUNTY.
TO DEVELOP AN UPDATE TO THIS MASTER PLAN.
AND SOME OF THE PRIMARY OBJECTIVES OF THIS MASTER PLAN UPDATE WAS TO, FIRST AND FOREMOST, ACCOUNT FOR ALL THE TREMENDOUS AMOUNT OF GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT THAT'S OCCURRED, REALLY SEEK OUT WHAT THOSE ACCOMPLISHMENTS IN TRAIL DEVELOPMENT HAVE BEEN IN COMMUNITIES SUCH AS ANNA AND OTHER COMMUNITIES.
ANOTHER MAJOR ASPECT WAS IDENTIFYING WHAT WE CALL INTER-JURISDICTIONAL CONNECTIONS, SO THOSE KEY CONNECTIONS BETWEEN COMMUNITIES.
SO WE REALLY HONED IN ON WHAT ARE THE REGIONAL CONNECTIONS THAT CAN BE MADE, NOT JUST TO CONNECT WITHIN COMMUNITIES, BUT TO CONNECT BETWEEN THE VARIOUS COMMUNITIES WITHIN COLLIN COUNTY.
AND THEN, AS LENNY MENTIONED, ALSO TRYING TO POISE COMMUNITIES FOR GRANT FUNDING.
PROJECTS ARE IDENTIFIED IN MASTER PLANS THAT CAN MAKE THEM MORE COMPETITIVE FOR GRANT FUNDING MOVING FORWARD.
I WANT TO TAKE JUST A MOMENT TO TOUCH ON JUST SOME OF THAT TREMENDOUS GROWTH LIKE I MENTIONED THAT'S HAPPENED OVER THE PAST 15 YEARS OR SO.
SO SINCE THE 2012 PLAN WAS DEVELOPED LOOKING COUNTYWIDE, THERE'S BEEN ABOUT A HUNDRED AND THIRTY PERCENT INCREASE IN THE EXISTING TRAIL MILEAGE.
SO YOU CAN SEE THE NUMBERS TODAY IS OVER 600 MILES OF TRAIL WITHIN THE COUNTY, WHICH IS PRETTY SIGNIFICANT.
AND IT'S REALLY NOT JUST LOCATED IN THE MORE BUILT-OUT AREAS OF THE COUNTY, BUT YOU'RE SEEING AREAS NEAR ANNA AND MELISSA AND SALINA AND PROSPER REALLY STARTING TO
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DEVELOP THEIR INTERNAL TRAIL NETWORKS AS WELL.WE ALSO, THROUGH THIS PROCESS, HAVE IDENTIFIED WHAT WE CALL KEY CONNECTION POINTS.
SO THOSE ARE THOSE INTERJURISDICTIONAL CONNECTIONS BETWEEN COMMUNITIES.
AND SINCE THE 2012 PLAN, THERE HAVE BEEN A NUMBER OF THOSE THAT HAVE BEEN COMPLETED AND SOME THAT HAVE BEEN PARTIALLY COMPLETED.
AND OFTENTIMES THESE ARE THE HARDEST CONNECTIONS TO MAKE, BUT THEY ARE VERY IMPORTANT TO COORDINATE AMONGST COMMUNITIES TO MAKE THOSE HAPPEN.
SOME OF THE ENGAGEMENT EFFORTS THAT HAPPEN AS PART OF THE COUNTYWIDE MASTER PLAN, WE ENGAGE THE COUNTY PARK FOUNDATION ADVISORY BOARD.
BOARD, WE ALSO INVITED REPRESENTATIVES FROM ALL THE COMMUNITIES.
WE HAD A REPRESENTATIVE FROM ANNA AT MANY OF THOSE MEETINGS.
AND THEN WE DID SOME PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT INCLUDING A SURVEY AND SOME PUBLIC MEETINGS.
AND SOME OF THE KEY FINDINGS FROM THE ENGAGEMENT IS PEOPLE PREFER TO UTILIZE PAVED TRAILS FOR EXERCISE OR RECREATION.
BUT IF THEY WERE AVAILABLE, THEY WOULD LIKE TO BE ABLE TO USE TRAILS TO ACCESS MORE DESTINATIONS.
AND THEN FEELING SAFE IS ALSO A TOP PRIORITY FOR FOLKS FOLLOWING TRAILS.
SO THESE NEXT FEW MAPS JUST REPRESENT THE BUILD OUT OF THE RECOMMENDED COUNTYWIDE TRAIL SYSTEM.
SO THE SPINE TRAIL CORRIDORS, THOSE REPRESENT THOSE LONGER CONNECTIONS THAT CONNECT MULTIPLE COMMUNITIES.
SO THAT IS SHOWN IN THE PINK COLOR.
AND THEN THE PURPLE COLOR ARE WHAT WE CALL COMMUNITY TRAIL CORRIDORS.
SO THESE ARE STILL SIGNIFICANT TRAILS, BUT FOR THE MOST PART ARE WITHIN A SINGLE COMMUNITY.
AND THERE'S ALSO SOME EXAMPLES OF MAJOR SOFT SURFACE TRAIL CORRIDORS THAT ARE EITHER EXISTING OR COULD POTENTIALLY BE DEVELOPED IN THE FUTURE TO SERVE A KEY CONNECTION.
THE EXISTING AND CURRENTLY PLANNED SYSTEM ON TOP OF THAT, YOU CAN SEE MANY OF THESE SPINE AND COMMUNITY TRAIL CORRIDORS ARE EXISTING, BUT ESPECIALLY AS YOU GET FURTHER OUT INTO THE COUNTY AND THE LESS DEVELOPED PORTIONS, A LOT OF THEM ARE NOT EXISTING TODAY.
SO TO LENNY'S POINT, A PLANNING EFFORT LIKE THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT TO PRESERVE THOSE CORRIDORS FOR THE FUTURE.
AND THEN HERE IS A MAP OF THE KEY CONNECTION POINTS, SO THE PLAN IDENTIFIED 24 KEY CONNECTION POINTS AS PART OF THIS UPDATE.
SEVEN ARE PARTIALLY COMPLETE AND IF THEY WERE ALL TO BE IMPLEMENTED IN THE FUTURE, PROVIDE CONNECTIONS BETWEEN 18 COMMUNITIES WITHIN COLLIN COUNTY.
AND THERE ARE TWO WITHIN ANNA ON THE, REALLY THE NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN BORDERS OF THE COMMUNITY TO CONNECT SOUTH TO MELISSA AND THEN NORTH TOWARDS VAN ALSTYNE.
WE ALSO PROVIDED SOME ADDITIONAL DETAIL OF THESE KEY CONNECTION POINTS IN OUR APPENDIX.
SO JUST INCLUDING SOME HELPFUL INFORMATION FOR IMPLEMENTATION CONSIDERATIONS AS PLANNING AND DESIGN MOVES FORWARD.
AND THEN IN ADDITION TO THE, THE REGIONAL NETWORK THAT'S RECOMMENDED, THE COUNTY MASTER PLAN ALSO HAS A SERIES OF THOSE POLICY AND PROGRAM RECOMMENDATIONS RELATED TO HOW COMMUNITIES CAN INTERACT WITH THE COUNTY AND OTHER ENTITIES TO THUS MOVE FORWARD TRAIL PLANNING AND IMPLEMENTATION.
I DO WANT TO SPEND A FEW MOMENTS TALKING THROUGH SOME BEST PRACTICES FOR IMPLEMENTATION.
SO THROUGH THIS MASTER PLAN PROCESS, WE ENGAGED WITH A NUMBER OF PARTNERS.
I'VE HIGHLIGHTED THREE HERE, TXDOT, THE NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS COUNCIL OF GOVERNMENTS, AND COLLIN COUNTY.
SO WHEN IT COMES TO TRAIL DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION, THESE ARE REALLY KEY PARTNERS.
SO TXDOT OBVIOUSLY IS A KEY PARTNER WITH ANY...
TXDOT MAINTAINED ROAD PROJECTS AND RECENT POLICY CHANGES HAVE LED TXDOT TO INCLUDE 10-FOOT-WIDE SIDE PATHS ON EITHER SIDE OF TXDOT ROADWAYS AS THEY'RE CONSTRUCTED WHERE THERE'S FEASIBLE RIGHT-OF-WAY.
THAT'S A GREAT OPPORTUNITY TO HELP BEGIN TO IMPLEMENT SOME OF THESE COMMUNITY CORRIDORS, ESPECIALLY WITHIN COMMUNITIES.
TXDOT DALLAS DISTRICT IS ALSO DOING A DISTRICT RIDE BICYCLE PLAN RIGHT NOW, SO THAT'S ANOTHER OPPORTUNITY FOR COMMUNITIES LIKE ANNA TO COORDINATE OR COLLABORATE WITH TXDOT AND OTHER
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COMMUNITIES.NCTCOG, THEY HAVE A LOT OF GREAT RESOURCES IN TERMS OF RESEARCH AND FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES.
THEY MAINTAIN SOMETHING CALLED THE REGIONAL FELLOW WEB, SO THEY ARE ALWAYS SEEKING UPDATED DATA.
FROM COMMUNITIES SO THEY CAN HAVE THE LATEST AND GREATEST PLAIN TRAIL INFORMATION TO UPDATE THEIR, THEIR REGIONAL NETWORK, AND THEN OF COURSE, COLLIN COUNTY. THEY, THEY WERE THE ONES THAT ADMINISTERED THIS MASTER PLAN AND THEY DO HAVE A PROJECT FUNDING ASSISTANCE PROGRAM, SOME OF WHICH CAN BE USED FOR TRAIL CONSTRUCTION, SO I'LL HAVE A LITTLE BIT MORE INFORMATION ON THAT IN A COMING SLIDE.
TRAIL IMPLEMENTATION, LOOKING AT DIFFERENT FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES IS ALSO A KEY ELEMENT.
SO WE'VE LISTED JUST A FEW OPPORTUNITIES HERE THAT COULD FUND EITHER PLANNING, DESIGN, AND CONSTRUCTION.
SO BOTH TXDOT AND NCTCOG ADMINISTER TRANSPORTATION ALTERNATIVES PROGRAMS. SO THOSE CALLS ARE ANTICIPATED FOR LATER THIS YEAR AND THEN EARLY 2027.
THERE'S A NUMBER OF FEDERAL PROGRAMS AS WELL THAT CAN BE USED FOR TRAIL INFRASTRUCTURE. AND CTCOG DOES HAVE SOME OTHER FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES, SUCH AS THE CONGESTION MITIGATION AIR QUALITY, OR CMAQ, CALLS. SO THERE'S A LOT OF DIFFERENT OPPORTUNITIES FOR, FOR TRAILS AND DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION THROUGH, THROUGH GRANT FUNDING.
I DID WANT TO CALL OUT THE COLLIN COUNTY PROJECT FUNDING ASSISTANCE PROGRAM. THE APPLICATION IS CURRENTLY OPEN, SO THOSE APPLICATIONS ARE DUE ON JULY 6TH, SO JUST IN A LITTLE OVER A MONTH. IT IS A RE-BASED PROGRAM THAT'S ADMINISTERED BY COLLIN COUNTY, AND SINCE THEY JUST ADOPTED THIS UPDATED COUNTYWIDE MASTER PLAN, THEY WILL BE LOOKING TO TRY TO FUND PROJECTS THAT ALIGN WITH THE RECOMMENDATIONS IN THAT MASTER PLAN. SO YOU CAN SEE THERE THAT REGIONAL TRAIL CONNECTORS OR TRAIL PROJECTS IS ONE OF THEIR PRIORITY ITEMS THAT THEY SEEK TO FUND THROUGH THIS PROGRAM.
AND THEN MANY OF THE GRANT PROGRAMS THAT I PREVIOUSLY MENTIONED, THEY ARE VERY COMPETITIVE, WHETHER IT'S A LOCAL OR STATE OR NATIONAL GRANT PROGRAM. AND SO THERE'S A LOT OF IDIOSYNCRASIES THAT GO INTO BEING ABLE TO SECURE A LOT OF THESE FUNDING PROGRAMS. HALF DOES HAVE A FUNDING RESOURCE TEAM. IT'S ABOUT 10 PROFESSIONALS THAT HAVE BOTH GRANT WRITING AND GRANT ADMINISTRATION EXPERTISE. SO YOU CAN SEE SOME NUMBERS THERE, THAT WE ARE ABLE TO HELP FROM INITIAL PROJECT SCOPING TO HELPING WITH THE GRANT APPLICATION ALL THE WAY TO, ONCE YOU RECEIVE A GRANT, TO HELPING ADMINISTER THE GRANTS AS WELL.
I THINK WE JUST HAVE A COUPLE OF SLIDES THAT LENNY IS GOING TO WRAP UP HERE. SO ONE REALLY IMPORTANT PART OF THIS PROCESS IS, YOU KNOW, THIS IS AN EXAMPLE OF... WE WORKED ON THE 2022 PARKS AND TRAILS MASTER PLAN FOR THE CITY OF DENTON. AND OUT OF THAT, THEY IDENTIFIED THREE PRIORITY CORRIDORS THAT REALLY PROVIDED A LONG-RANGE VISION FOR TRAILS. THERE WERE THREE SPECIFIC CORRIDORS: ONE PECAN CREEK, OTHER HICKORY CREEK, AND THERE'S ANOTHER INNER CITY CONNECTOR WITHIN DENTON. AND SO THE CITY WANTED TO FOCUS ON THE PECAN CREEK TRAIL SEGMENT. THAT'S ROUGHLY ABOUT EIGHT MILES OF TRAIL FOR THAT CORRIDOR THAT REACHES BASICALLY LAKE RAY HUBBARD, CLOSE TO THEIR INNER CITY CORE THERE.
AND SO WE WORKED WITH THE CITY ON DEVELOPING KIND OF A CORRIDOR ANALYSIS. WE LOOKED AT ROUTING OPTIONS. WE GOT OUT THERE WITH STAFF, WALKED THE TRAIL CORRIDOR, DEVELOPED SOME CONCEPTUAL LAYOUTS. AND THEN AT THE END OF THAT PROCESS, WE HELPED THEM TO PREPARE A GRANT, WHICH WAS SUBMITTED TO TXDOT FOR THE, AS KENDALL HAD MENTIONED, THE TRANSPORTATION ALTERNATIVES SET-ASIDE PROGRAM. THEY RECEIVED $11 MILLION FOR THAT GRANT. THAT DID INCLUDE CONSTRUCTION AND DESIGN. AND SO THAT'S ROUGHLY ABOUT 4.3 MILES OUT OF THE 8 MILES. AND SO THEY'RE SETTING THEMSELVES UP FOR THE NEXT PHASE OF FUNDING ONCE THIS PHASE OF PROJECT IS DONE. AND SO WE TRY TO, AGAIN, LIKE WE SAID BEFORE, TO LOOK AT NOT JUST THE BIG PICTURE OF THE PLAN, BUT HOW DO WE HELP
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THE CITIES FUND THESE PROJECTS AS WELL AS THE DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION OF THOSE.ONE OF THE OTHER THINGS WE LOOK AT IS, YOU KNOW, WITH ALL THE COORDINATION THAT HAS HAPPENED... AND I SAID BEFORE, IT WAS 31 COMMUNITIES THAT WAS INVOLVED IN THE LAST PLAN.
THERE'S BEEN A SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF COORDINATION WITH NOT ONLY WITH COG AND TXDOT, BUT WE'VE MET WITH THE ARMY CORPS INDIVIDUALS. WE'VE MET WITH DART, TXDOT, WE MET WITH ONCOR, WE MET WITH NORTH TEXAS MUNICIPAL WATER DISTRICT. AND SO THESE ARE OTHER ENTITIES THAT WOULD HELP SUPPORT THE PLAN IN EITHER LOOKING AT EITHER FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES AND OR RIGHT-OF-WAY OR EASEMENT OPPORTUNITIES FOR THESE ELEMENTS. AND SO THE NEXT STAGE OF THAT BIGGER PLAN IS TO REALLY DIVE DEEP INTO EACH INDIVIDUAL CITY TO UNDERSTAND WHAT THEIR NEEDS ARE, SO WE GET MORE GRANULAR IN THAT PLANNING PROCESS.
AND SO, TYPICALLY, BECAUSE YOU GUYS ARE GROWING SO FAST IN THIS REGION, THESE THINGS ARE REALLY UPDATED EVERY FOUR OR FIVE YEARS. AS A MATTER OF FACT, WE JUST FINISHED THE ALLEN TRAIL PLAN... WELL, I GUESS A LITTLE LONGER, BUT I THINK IN 2017, 18. BUT AS WE WERE FINISHING THAT PLAN UP, IT WAS HAPPENING SO FAST, WE WERE ALWAYS CONSTANTLY JUST UPDATING THOSE MAPS. AND SO A LOT OF COMMUNITIES ARE UPDATING THE PLANS BECAUSE OF ALL THE FAST GROWTH WITHIN THIS REGION.
ONE OF THE THINGS IS ALSO TO LOOK AT TRAIL DESIGN STANDARDS.
WHAT IS THE OVERALL WIDTH? THIS WILL HELP THE PARKS DEPARTMENT AND ALSO PUBLIC WORKS AND TRANSPORTATION TO LOOK AT NOT ONLY THE WIDTH OF THESE SIDEWALKS AND TRAILS AND SIDE PATHS, BUT ALSO THE SIGNAGE, THE ORDINANCES THAT MAY GO WITH IT, STANDARDS AS FAR AS THE DEPTH OF CONCRETE. WE'RE ABLE TO HELP SUPPLEMENT SOME OF YOUR CURRENT STANDARDS AND MAYBE ENHANCE SOME OF THOSE AREAS.
THIS PLAN WILL ALSO LOOK AT ORDINANCE UPDATES. YOU KNOW, HOW CAN WE LOOK AT SUPPORTING YOUR DEVELOPMENT ORDINANCE FOR IMPLEMENTATION? LOOK AT LITTLE STANDARDS. IT WILL LOOK AT, YOU KNOW, JUST REALLY WORKING WITH THE DEVELOPERS ON HOW THESE TRAILS CAN BE PLANNED AND DEVELOPED WITHIN THIS REGION.
AND AT THE END OF THE DAY, JUST CONTINUING TO UPDATE THIS AS THIS PLANNING PROCESS EVOLVES HERE. SO THAT'S MORE THAN I CAN OPEN FOR ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS THAT YOU MAY HAVE HERE.
COUNCIL, ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS? I DO. IN OUR PACKET, AND IN THE PACKET THAT WAS PRESENTED TO US ON PAGE 24, WHEN I LOOKED AT YOURS, YOU DIDN'T... I WAS HOPING THAT YOU WOULD HIT ON THAT SLIDE HERE, BUT I JUST LOST IT. 24. YES, 24 IN OUR PACKET, PAGE 24. HE DIDN'T HIT ON HERE.
BUT THERE ARE INDICATIONS HERE, CIRCLES THAT YOU SAY KEY GROWTH AREAS, YEAH. AND YOU'VE GOT WESTON, PROSPER, MELISSA, PRINCETON, ROYSE CITY CIRCLED, BUT ANNA'S NOT CIRCLED. IS THERE A REASON WHY WE'RE NOT CIRCLED AS A KEY GROWTH AREA? OH, YOU'RE DEFINITELY A KEY GROWTH AREA.
I JUST WONDERED WHY IT WASN'T INDICATED ON THE MAP. DOES INCLUSION IN THE REGIONAL PLAN CREATE ANY FINANCIAL OBLIGATIONS FOR ANNA? IT DOES NOT HAVE ANY FINANCIAL OBLIGATIONS, BUT IT REALLY JUST ENHANCES YOUR OPPORTUNITY FOR GRANT FUNDING. AND SO, AS A PART OF THE COLLIN COUNTY PLAN PROCESS, ONCE THE PLAN WAS ADOPTED BY THE COUNTY, WE SENT THE PLAN TO NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS COUNCIL OF GOVERNMENTS. SO NOW THIS IS PART OF THEIR REGIONAL VELOWEB NETWORK. AND SO WHEN ANY FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES COME AROUND FOR EITHER THE COG OR FOR TXDOT, YOU GUYS ARE NOW ON A REGIONAL AND ALSO A STATE WEBSITE FOR THAT. SO IT REALLY SETS YOURSELF UP TO HELP ENHANCE YOUR OPPORTUNITY FOR GRANTS WHEN YOU DO APPLY FOR THOSE.
YEAH, THAT WAS ONE OF THE PLUSES THAT I READ WITH THIS. WHICH REGIONAL CORRIDORS DIRECTLY AFFECT ANNA? LET'S GO BACK TO A MAP. YES, OKAY. SO, YES, THAT ZOOM IN THERE, YOU CAN SEE THAT THERE IS A FEW COMMUNITY TRAIL CORRIDORS THAT I THINK ARE CONSISTENT WITH SOME PAST PLANNING EFFORTS WITHIN ANNA. AND THEN ON THE SOUTHERN EDGE OF THE... THE COMMUNITY, WE ARE IDENTIFYING THE COLLIN
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COUNTY OUTER LOOP AS A POTENTIAL REGIONAL CORRIDOR, PASSED AS PART OF THAT.AND THEN THERE'S A NORTH-SOUTH CORRIDOR AS WELL, WHICH IF YOU FOLLOW THE MAP ALL THE WAY DOWN TO THE COUNTY, IT IS LOOKING AT A PARALLEL, AND THIS IS A VERY LONG-TERM VISION, BUT THE POTENTIAL FOR A PARALLEL ROUTE TO THE DART RAILROAD CORRIDOR STARTING, YOU KNOW, IN THE SOUTH, PLANO, GOING NORTH TOWARDS ALLEN. IT DOES VEER OFF FROM THE RAILROAD RIGHT-OF-WAY IN A FEW, A FEW SPOTS.
BUT THAT IS PART OF A VERY GRANDER LONG VISION FOR A LARGER REGIONAL CONNECTION.
I ALSO WONDER HOW THIS INTEGRATES WITH OUR 2050 PLAN, THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN? YES, I BELIEVE THAT. SO AT THE BEGINNING OF THIS MASTER PLAN PROCESS, WE REACHED OUT TO ALL OF THE COMMUNITIES FOR THEIR LATEST AND GREATEST DATA. AND SO ALL THE DATA THAT WAS PROVIDED TO US, YOU KNOW, SHOULD BE CONSISTENT WITH THE LATEST INFORMATION FROM THOSE OTHER PLANNING DOCUMENTS.
SO, HEY, I DO WANT TO SAY THAT I REALLY DO APPRECIATE YOUR THOROUGH WORK THROUGH THIS. I REALLY SPENT SOME TIME GOING THROUGH THE PACKET. IT'S VERY WELL THOUGHT OUT AND LAID OUT, SO I REALLY DO APPRECIATE YOU GUYS. A COUPLE OF THINGS THAT I DO HAVE...
WELL, FIRST THING I DO WANT TO MENTION IS I LOVE HOW YOU GUYS LAID OUT THE FUNDING AND THE GRANTS THAT ARE GOING TO HELP SUPPORT A LOT OF THESE PROJECTS AS WELL. YOU KNOW, NUMBER ONE, IT'S TAKING THE BURDEN OFF THE TAXPAYERS, BUT ALSO IT ALLOWS, YOU KNOW, THE RESIDENTS TO SEE WE'RE REALLY THINKING OUTSIDE OF THE BOX NOW. WE'RE GETTING FUNDING, WE'RE GETTING, YOU KNOW, BUY-IN FROM DIFFERENT PLACES. AND, YOU KNOW, WE'RE REALLY GOING TO BE ABLE TO BUILD SOME QUALITY HERE. SO I REALLY APPRECIATE THAT. I DO HAVE A COUPLE QUESTIONS, THOUGH. SO THROUGH THIS LIGHTING SYSTEM, ONE THING THAT I'VE REALLY BEEN, YOU KNOW, ADAMANT ABOUT IS CREATING A OR GETTING SOME LEVEL OF DARK SKY CITY DESIGNATION.
IS THERE ANY TYPE OF LIGHTING OR ANYTHING YOU GUYS CAN INCORPORATE INTO SOME OF THESE TRAILS THAT WOULD COMPLY WITH ANY OF THOSE? YEAH, A LOT OF THE TRAILS OR PARKS THAT WE'VE WORKED ON HAVE THE CUTOFF FOR LIGHT, FOR DARK SKY, AND SO THAT'S WAYS OF HAVING A SHIELD OR PROTECTOR TO HELP DIRECT THE LIGHT DOWN OR TO THE AREA OF PATH AND PARK AREA THAT THEY'RE IN. A LOT OF THE TRAILS, BECAUSE SOME OF THOSE ARE SO REMOTE NOW, THEY USE, UM, SOLAR, SOLAR LIGHTING, AND ALL THOSE... A LOT OF THOSE HAVE ALSO THE SAME CUTOFF MECHANISMS FOR THOSE SYSTEMS THERE.
PERFECT, I APPRECIATE THAT, BECAUSE, UH, I THINK THAT'S REALLY GOING TO BE IMPORTANT AS WE MOVE FORWARD, BECAUSE I DON'T KNOW IF MANY OF YOU EVER GET A CHANCE TO LOOK AT THE SKY. WE STILL HAVE A LOT OF STARS OUT THERE. AND WITH THESE TRAILS, IT'S GOING TO ALLOW YOU TO GO INTO A LITTLE BIT DARKER REMOTE AREAS, REMOVED FROM SOME OF THE LIGHT DOMES THAT THE CITY CREATES.
AND I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT AS WE KIND OF GO THROUGH THESE THAT WE, YOU KNOW, DON'T LOSE SIGHT OF, YOU KNOW, THE ABILITY TO KIND OF GO DOWN THESE TRAILS IN THE EVENING AND JUST KIND OF STARE INTO THE SKIES AND SIT ON A BENCH AND JUST KIND OF LET YOUR MIND WANDER. SO REALLY DO APPRECIATE THAT.
ANOTHER QUESTION I HAVE IS, SO WITH THESE TRAILS, HAVE YOU GUYS THOUGHT OF ANY HISTORIC COMPONENTS ON ANY OF THESE TRAILS YET? LIKE, ARE WE GOING TO BE LINKING TO ANY, QUOTE, HISTORIC TRAILS, MAYBE WAGONS WENT DOWN THIS TRAIL OR WHATEVER IT IS? TO ME, THAT'S ONE OF THE FUN PARTS OF DEVELOPING A TRAIL PLAN.
ONE OF THE THINGS WE DID IN ALLEN, ONE OF THE TRAILS GOES BY THE HISTORIC WATER STATION PARK. AND SO THAT THEMING WAS THE OLD ABANDONED RAIL LINE AND ALSO THE TOWERS. SO JUST INCORPORATE THAT INTO EITHER THE NAMING OR THE ACTUAL PLANNING OF SOME OF THE OTHER DESIGN STANDARDS, THE TRAIL PLAN FOR FLOWER MOUND. AND SO THEY HAVE A LOT OF THEIR NAMING OF THE TRAIL SYSTEM AROUND THE NATIVE FLOWERS AND THE NATIVE NATURAL PLANTS.
AND SO IT'S BEING ABLE TO HAVE THAT LEVEL OF CREATIVITY TO BE ABLE TO EITHER NAME, BRAND PART OF YOUR TRAIL SYSTEM.
SO, HOW MANY OF THESE TRAILS ARE ACTUALLY GOING TO CONNECT TO STATEWIDE OR NATIONAL TRAILS? SURE.
SO AS WE WERE LOOKING AT UPDATING THIS REGIONAL NETWORK, WE DID CONSIDER THE TXDOT BICYCLE TOURISM STUDY.
SO THAT IS A STATEWIDE PLANNING EFFORT THAT TXDOT HAS DONE TO CONNECT AREAS OF CULTURAL
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AND HISTORIC SIGNIFICANCE BY BICYCLE ROUTES.SO IN SOME AREAS IT MAY BE ON RURAL ROADS OR IN SOME AREAS IT MAY BE ALONG CAVE TRAILS.
SO THERE ARE SOME PORTIONS OF THAT NETWORK THAT DO FALL INTO COLLIN COUNTY.
AND THEN IN FARMERSVILLE, THERE IS, AND I'M BLANKING ON THE TRAIL NAME, THE NORTH, NORTHEAST, NORTHEAST TEXAS TRAIL, I BELIEVE IT'S CALLED.
THAT STARTS IN FARMERSVILLE AND GOES FURTHER, YEAH, I THINK ALL THE WAY TO PARIS, AT LEAST PORTIONS OF IT DO.
SO THAT'S ANOTHER LONGER STATE RIDE ROUTE AS WELL.
JUST, YOU KNOW, ON FROM A PERSONAL LEVEL, YOU KNOW, I'VE HIKED, YOU KNOW, 40, 60 MILES BEFORE.
I'VE STAYED OUT IN, YOU KNOW, THE WILDERNESS OVERNIGHT.
AND, YOU KNOW, I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT.
YOU KNOW, THESE TRAILS ARE ABLE TO CONNECT US.
SO, FOR EXAMPLE, YOU KNOW, I'M NOT SAYING I'M GOING TO DO IT, BUT IF I WANTED TO WALK TO COLORADO, I MEAN, I SHOULD EVENTUALLY FIND A TRAIL THAT CONNECTS ME THERE, RIGHT? OR IF I WANTED TO, YOU KNOW, WALK ALL THE WAY UP TO CANADA, WHICH I PROBABLY WON'T, BUT IT'S JUST, YOU KNOW, LONG-TERM, I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE HAVE THESE OVERALL CONNECTIONS IN THERE.
AND THEN ALSO, YOU KNOW, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT YOU GUYS MENTIONED IS SOME OF THE DIRT TRAILS.
HOW MANY OF THESE TRAILS HAVE YOU GUYS MAYBE THOUGHT OF? SOME MOUNTAIN BIKING, SOMETHING THAT ISN'T MAYBE FOOT-RELATED, BUT MORE, YOU KNOW, MAYBE YOU CAN BRING THE BIKES OUT, MAYBE THERE'S AN OPPORTUNITY TO BRING SOME ELECTRICAL BIKES OUT, RIGHT? JUST THOUGHTS OUT THERE.
YES, SO THERE ARE SOME EXISTING SOFT-SURFACE TRAILS WITHIN THE COUNTY.
THE TRINITY TRAIL, EXCUSE ME, THE TRINITY TRAIL IS ALONG LAKE LAVON.
A LOT OF THAT IS EXISTING TODAY, SO MOUNTAIN BIKING IS ALLOWED THERE AS WELL AS EQUESTRIAN. EXCUSE ME.
THERE'S SOME WATER RIGHT THERE.
WITHIN INDIVIDUAL COMMUNITIES, THERE ARE SHORTER SOFT SURFACE TRAIL PATHS AS WELL.
BUT THAT WAS SOMETHING THAT WE DID HEAR FROM THE COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT, THE DESIRE FOR A VARIETY OF SURFACE TYPES FOR A VARIETY OF USERS.
SO ONE THING I ALSO NOTICED, RIGHT, IN YOUR PRESENTATION, I'M A BIG BRIDGES GUY, RIGHT, IF ANYONE HASN'T NOTICED YET.
WE DON'T HAVE A LOT OF OPPORTUNITIES TO BUILD A LOT OF BRIDGES IN THIS TOWN.
SO I WANT TO MAKE SURE, OR AT LEAST MY REQUEST IS, WHENEVER WE BUILD THESE TRAILS, WHENEVER WE HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO BUILD A BRIDGE, NUMBER ONE, WE BEAUTIFY IT.
IT'S A GREAT OPPORTUNITY FOR SOME ART.
WE ALSO POTENTIALLY LOOK AT IF THERE'S A SPECIFIC LANDOWNER THAT'S HISTORICALLY BEEN THERE, MAYBE WE NEED THE BRIDGE AFTER THEM.
JUST A THOUGHT, JUST THROWING SOME IDEAS OUT THERE.
BUT THIS IS HOW WE GET BUY-IN FROM THE COMMUNITY, AND ALSO CREATES A BIT OF A HISTORIC, I GUESS A FULL-CIRCLE HISTORIC MOMENT.
BECAUSE I THINK THAT'S GOING TO BE IMPORTANT.
AND THEN MY FINAL QUESTION, WHICH I BELIEVE IT MIGHT BE BETTER FOR STAFF.
SO IS THERE ANYONE FROM STAFF THAT MAYBE I COULD ASK? YEAH, WHOEVER FOR PARKS.
HEY, SO FIRST OF ALL, GUYS, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR HARD WORK.
SO ONE OF THE QUESTIONS THAT I HAD FROM NEIGHBORS IS, YOU KNOW, WE'RE PUTTING OUT THESE PROPOSED TRAILS, BUT RIGHT NOW A LOT OF THESE AREAS AREN'T FULLY DEVELOPED YET, RIGHT? SO HOW DOES, WALK US THROUGH WHAT THE DECISION-MAKING PROCESS, OR JUST LIKE AN OVERVIEW OF TODAY WE'RE MAKING THE PLAN, YOU KNOW, IN THE FUTURE EVENTUALLY SOMETHING'S GOING TO DEVELOP THERE.
WHERE DOES THE OWNER, THE LANDOWNER FALL IN, INTO THE CONVERSATION OF HOW THAT? THE TRAIL IS GOING TO ROUTE THROUGH THEIR LAND EVENTUALLY.
SO I'VE HAD THAT A COUPLE TIMES.
SO THE PURPOSE OF THE TRAIL MASTER PLAN WITHIN THE PARK MASTER PLAN IS TO GUIDE THE DEVELOPMENT, JUST LIKE THE 2050 PLAN GUIDES RETAIL, COMMERCIAL, RESIDENTIAL.
SO WHEN A DEVELOPER COMES IN, AND I'M PART OF THE DRC COMMITTEE, SO WHEN ALL THESE RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENTS COME IN, EVEN FROM THE PRE-DEVELOPMENT STAGE, I LOOK AT THE PLAN, IDENTIFY WHERE IT'S LOCATED, FIGURE OUT IF THERE'S A TRAIL ON THE MASTER PLAN THAT GOES THROUGH THERE.
AND THEN WE WORK WITH THE DEVELOPER TO GET THAT TRAIL SEGMENT IN, BECAUSE IT'S OBVIOUSLY NOT GOING TO GO BEYOND THE EXPENSE OF THEIR PROPERTY.
BUT WE ALLOW THE PARK DEVELOPMENT FEES TO GO TOWARD THE CONSTRUCTION OF TRAILS.
THAT'S HAPPENING AT CARROLL PARK AS WE SPEAK.
THERE'S ACTUALLY TWO DEVELOPERS INVOLVED IN THAT PROJECT.
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AREAS WHERE DEVELOPMENTS ALREADY HAPPENED.WE HAVE OWNERSHIP ISSUES, UTILITY ISSUES, EASEMENT ISSUES THAT IN THE FUTURE WE MAY NEED TO COME IN AND CONNECT THOSE SEGMENTS.
BUT WE'RE DOING, WE'RE BUILDING AS MUCH AS WE CAN AS WE DEVELOP AS POSSIBLE.
YOU KNOW, TO TIE A BOW ON IT, YOU KNOW, RESIDENTS AT SOME POINT WILL GET A SAY, YOU KNOW, AT THE TRAILS, YOU KNOW, ESPECIALLY IF IT'S THEIR LAND, WHATEVER DEVELOPMENT'S GOING ON IT, AND THAT NOT EVERYTHING IS EXACTLY IN STONE, THAT THERE COULD BE ADJUSTMENTS AS DEVELOPMENTS COME, AS INFILL HAPPENS, THERE'S GOING TO BE SMALL LITTLE TWEAKS AND WHATNOT THAT HAPPEN, RIGHT? ABSOLUTELY, AND THIS IS THE, AGAIN, IT'S A GUIDE.
IT'S IMPOSSIBLE, IT WOULD COST A RIDICULOUS AMOUNT OF MONEY TO ACTUALLY DO A SURVEY AND...
FIGURE OUT EXACTLY WHERE EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THESE TRAILS IS GOING TO GO.
WE GENERALLY FOLLOW UTILITY CORRIDORS, NATURAL GREENBELT STREAMS, THINGS LIKE THAT THAT MAKE SENSE THAT MOST OF THESE AREAS, OR MANY OF THESE AREAS, ARE NOT DEVELOPABLE.
THE COST OF DEVELOPMENT WOULD BE TOO HIGH TO PUT HOUSES OR APARTMENTS OR BUSINESSES THERE.
SO THOSE ARE, AND THAT'S WHERE WE FOCUSED ON THE TRAILS, ON THE TRAIL MASTER PLAN, IS THESE AREAS.
AND WE EVEN IDENTIFIED ON-COURT EASEMENTS, RAILROAD EASEMENTS, THINGS LIKE THIS THAT MAKE SENSE FOR TRAILS.
SO, YEAH, IT'S KIND OF A POINT A TO POINT B.
HOW WE GET THERE IS SOMETIMES IN QUESTION.
I REALLY APPRECIATE YOU KIND OF PROVIDING THAT CLARITY FOR ANY LANDOWNERS OUT THERE.
THAT'LL MOVE US ON TO 5C, PRESENTATION TO COUNCIL ON ANNA 2050 PARKS, OPEN SPACE, TRAILS AND RECREATION MASTER PLAN, NEXT STEPS, AND COMMUNITY SERVICES PROGRAMS AND OPERATIONS.
COUNCIL, TODAY AS THE NEXT STEP TO THE IMPLEMENTATION PLAN, I HAVE A PRESENTATION THAT WILL GO OVER...
THE PARKS MASTER PLAN IMPLEMENTATION AS IT PERTAINS TO THE COMMUNITY SERVICES DEPARTMENT, AS WELL AS JUST AN OVERALL UPDATE ON OUR PROGRAMS AND OPERATIONS.
WHAT I WILL SAY IS, I'M GOING TO GET THROUGH THIS PRESENTATION.
IT IS ACTUALLY MY FIRST DAY WORKING FOR THE CITY OF ANNA IN THIS CAPACITY, SO HAVE A LITTLE GRACE.
SO, FIRST OF ALL, WE'LL GO AHEAD AND GO OVER THE OBJECTIVES.
SO THE OBJECTIVES ARE TO REVIEW THE FUNCTIONS OF THE COMMUNITY SERVICES DEPARTMENT, WHICH INCLUDES PARK MAINTENANCE, RECREATION, AND LIBRARY DIVISIONS.
UPDATE ON COMMUNITY SERVICES PROGRAMS AND OPERATIONS, INCLUDING DEPARTMENT ACCOMPLISHMENTS, KEY DATA POINTS, GOALS, AND STAFFING.
A REVIEW OF THE ANA 2050 PARKS OPEN SPACE TRAILS AND RECREATION MASTER PLAN IMPLEMENTATION PLAN.
NOW, WHAT YOU WON'T SEE IN THIS, BECAUSE THE CIP, PARK CIP, IS NOW A PART OF ENGINEERING.
WE WILL NOT BE GOING OVER THE PARK CIP THIS EVENING.
DALLIN AND THE ENGINEERING AND CIP TEAM WILL BE GOING OVER THAT IN THE NEAR FUTURE.
SO WE'RE GOING TO CENTRALIZE THAT.
WE'LL ALSO BE TOUCHING ON SOME OF THE STAFFING, BUT IT WON'T BE A DEEP DIVE INTO OUR STAFFING NEEDS OR OUR PROJECTIONS.
WE'LL LET THAT GO THROUGH THE PROCESS IN THE NEXT COUPLE OF MONTHS AS WE WORK WITH CITY MANAGEMENT AND OUR BUDGET TEAM TO DO OUR DILIGENCE IN WORKING THE OVERALL NEEDS FOR THE CITY WHEN IT COMES TO DIFFERENT DEPARTMENTS. SO I HAVE A QUIZ FOR Y'ALL. SORRY TO PUT YOU ON THE SPOT. SO WHICH GROUP OF INDIVIDUALS HAS LED THE CHARGE IN POLICYMAKING TO MAKE ALL PAST COMMUNITY SERVICES INITIATIVES POSSIBLE? ANYONE WANT TO GO? I CAN ANSWER. PARKS BOARD. CITY COUNCIL. SO WHICH GROUP OF INDIVIDUALS HAS LED THE CHARGE IN POLICYMAKING TO MAKE ALL CURRENT COMMUNITY SERVICE INITIATIVES POSSIBLE? SAME ANSWER. CITY COUNCIL.
WHICH GROUP OF INDIVIDUALS WILL LEAD THE CHARGE IN POLICYMAKING TO MAKE ALL FUTURE COMMUNITY SERVICES INITIATIVES POSSIBLE? OKAY, SO LET'S SAY IT AT THE SAME TIME. CITY COUNCIL.
SO COUNCIL, COUNCIL, COUNCIL THE REASON WHY I BROUGHT THIS UP IS BECAUSE IF YOU LOOK AT THE ACTIVITY GUIDE I PROVIDED FOR YOU ALL, IT'S A REFLECTION OF SOME OF THE PROGRAMS AND EVENTS THAT HAVE OCCURRED OVER THE LAST FEW YEARS.
THERE'S SOME THERE FOR ANYBODY IN THE COMMUNITY WHO WOULD LIKE ONE. BUT I WANTED TO POINT THAT OUT BECAUSE IN THE PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE, Y'ALL HAVE EITHER BEEN INVOLVED OR YOU WILL BE INVOLVED. AND IT IS REALLY IMPORTANT
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TO US THAT WE TAKE THAT GUIDE, THAT Y'ALL ARE PAVING THAT PATH, AND WE'RE JUST ENJOYING THE JOURNEY OF GOING ALONG AND MAKING IT HAPPEN. SO AS I PRESENT ON ALL THE DIFFERENT INITIATIVES, PAT ON EVERYONE'S BACK FOR WHO HAS BEEN A PART OF IT AND ALL THE THINGS THAT HAVE BEEN ACCOMPLISHED BECAUSE IT'S THROUGH Y'ALL'S WORKING TOGETHER AND YOUR LEADERSHIP THAT HAS GOT US HERE, AND IT WILL BE WHAT PROVIDES US FOR FUTURE SUCCESS. THIS IS OUR COMMUNITY SERVICES DEPARTMENT TEAM TODAY, AND PHOTO CREDIT TO CHARLIE. SHE TOOK THIS PHOTO FOR US A COUPLE WEEKS AGO. SO HERE'S THE COMMUNITY SERVICES ORGANIZATIONAL CHART.LIKE I SAID, WELL, THERE'S FOUR DIVISIONS, REALLY THE ADMINISTRATIVE SIDE, AND I WORK ALONGSIDE COMMUNITY SERVICES COORDINATOR HEATHER.
AND WE HAVE OUR PARK MAINTENANCE DIVISION, OUR RECREATION DIVISION, AND OUR LIBRARY DIVISION. SO WE'LL BE GOING OVER EACH DIVISION AND TALKING ABOUT PAST SUCCESSES AND CURRENT OBJECTIVES AND GOALS.
SO MISSION STATEMENT, THIS IS NOTHING OFFICIAL. THIS IS JUST KIND OF PUTTING ALL TOGETHER OUR MISSION STATEMENTS FOR OTHER DIVISIONS AND COMMUNITY SERVICES DEPARTMENT'S MISSION IS TO BUILD COMMUNITY AND CREATE MEANINGFUL MEMORIES THROUGH VIBRANT AND INCLUSIVE PARKS AND RECREATION PROGRAMS AND EVENTS AND A LIBRARY THAT INSPIRES CREATIVITY AND CONNECTION BECAUSE COMMUNITY BUILT HERE IS MORE THAN A PHRASE IT'S OUR PURPOSE AND REALLY EVERYTHING THAT WE DO IS COMMUNITY BUILT HERE NOW THAT JUST DOESN'T EXTEND INTO OUR WITHIN OUR DEPARTMENT. THIS EXTENDS TO ALL THE DIFFERENT BRANCHES OF THE CITY, WHETHER IT'S WORKING WITH ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, PUBLIC WORKS. COMMUNITY BUILT HERE CAN BE TONIGHT. WE ENJOYED COMMUNITY. IT'S IN THE LIBRARY. IT'S AT OUR PARKS. IT'S THROUGH RECREATIONAL ACTIVITIES. IT'S ALSO IN THE BUSINESSES WHEN OUR NEIGHBORS ARE COMING TOGETHER.
SO REALLY WHAT OUR JOB IS IS TO WORK WITH ALL THE DEPARTMENTS, WORK WITH Y'ALL, WORK WITH THE COMMUNITY IN MAKING THIS COME TO FRUITION. AND IF YOU CAN SEE, IT IS ON OUR ACTIVITY GUIDE. SO IT IS A VERY STRONG DRIVING FORCE IN WHAT WE WANT TO ACCOMPLISH AS A TEAM. SO CONTINUAL IMPROVEMENT PROCESS.
SO WHAT WE DO TO DEDICATE OURSELVES TO NOT JUST STAYING STAGNANT, NOT JUST HOLDING THE COURSE, IS ACTUALLY ELEVATE OUR GAME AND ELEVATE OUR APPROACH AND OUR DAILY TASKS IS, ONE, ONBOARDING. WHAT WE DO IS WHEN WE HAVE A NEW STAFF, WE HAVE THEM GO THROUGH THIS THING THAT IS CALLED WHAT IS YOUR WHY PROGRAM? AND RIP STANDS FOR THAT WE REALLY WANT TO REFLECT ON OUR THING. WE HAVE EACH STAFF PRESENT A SWOT ANALYSIS OF THEM AS AN INDIVIDUAL SO I CAN IDENTIFY WHO THEY ARE AS A PERSON TODAY.
INTEGRATION, WHICH IS WE WANT THEM TO IMPLEMENT WHAT THEY'VE LEARNED AND WE ASK THEM TO DO A PERSONAL MISSION STATEMENT AND TO SET PROFESSIONAL GOALS, SMART GOALS, SO THAT IT CAN HELP DRIVE THEM.
PROTECTION, WHICH IS WE ASK THEM TO PARTNER IF IT'S A PERSONAL GOAL WITH SOMEONE AT HOME, AND IF IT'S A PROFESSIONAL GOAL, SOMEONE THAT WORKS WITHIN THEIR TEAM TO HELP THEM KEEP ACCOUNTABLE TO REACHING THAT GOAL. AND THEN EVALUATION IS JUST CLOSING THE LOOP AND EVALUATING, HAVE I SUCCEEDED IN MY GOALS AND HOW DO I SET FORTH NEW ONES? WE STARTED THIS AS A PART OF OUR QUARTERLY STAFF TRAININGS, WHICH WE GET TOGETHER WITH STAFF, AND WHAT WE DO IS WE REALLY HIGHLIGHT OUR SUCCESSES FROM THE PREVIOUS QUARTER, AND WE KIND OF DO A LOOK INTO THE FUTURE AND WE HAVE STAFF SHARE WHERE THEY ARE AT WITH THEIR GOALS. WE HAVE THEM SHARE, YOU KNOW, WHAT THEY PERSONALLY SEE AS THEIR HIGHLIGHT FROM THE PREVIOUS.
AND THEN WE ALSO BRING IN A DIFFERENT DEPARTMENT EACH TIME IN WHICH THEY CAN GET TO KNOW THE STAFF FROM THAT DEPARTMENT AND HOW WHAT THE OTHER DEPARTMENT DOES. IT'S CALLED GETTING TO KNOW YOUR OTHER STAFF ON HOW THERE'S OVERLAP IN WHAT WE DO AND WHAT THEY DO.
SO WE HAVE THAT. OUR DEPARTMENT THEMES, WE SET A NEW THEME EACH YEAR.
WE STARTED OFF A FEW YEARS AGO WITH WHAT IS YOUR WHY? AGAIN, THE ONBOARDING PROCESS, BUT THAT WAS KIND OF THE INITIATOR. LAST YEAR WAS MASTERING YOUR SKILLS. STAFF WOULD TALK ABOUT HOW THEY WERE ENHANCING WHAT TRAININGS THEY WERE TAKING AND HOW WITHIN THEIR POSITIONS THEY WERE MASTERING THEIR SKILLS, SHARPENING EACH OTHER, SHARPENING THEMSELVES. AND THEN THIS YEAR IS WHAT MAKES SENSE IN EVERYTHING AND WHAT WE'RE APPROACHING, WHAT MAKES SENSE TO OUR OPERATIONS, WHAT MAKES SENSE AS INDIVIDUAL IN HOW WE APPROACH, AND TAKING A COLLECTIVE AND INDIVIDUAL LOOK AT WHAT WE'RE DOING AND MAKING SURE THAT WHAT WE DO MAKES SENSE NOT ONLY FOR US AS A TEAM, BUT IT ALSO MAKES SENSE FOR THE COMMUNITY AND THE WAY THAT THEY ARE INTERACTING WITH US AS WELL. SO WE ALSO DO DEPARTMENTAL LOGISTICS MEETINGS IN WHICH WE GO OVER OUR SPECIAL EVENTS, AND THAT'S A CULMINATION OF DIFFERENT DEPARTMENTS, PUBLIC SAFETY, AND MAKING SURE THAT OUR EVENTS ARE SAFE, WELL THOUGHT OUT, AND THAT'S ALSO WHERE WE FLUSH OUT SOME OF THE SPECIAL EVENT PERMIT APPLICATIONS. AND WE ALSO DO PROGRAM AND EVENT
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POSTS. EVALUATIONS, INCLUDING SURVEYING, MAKING SURE, AGAIN, THAT WHEN WE DO SOMETHING, WE EVALUATE HOW WE CAN IMPROVE IT, WHAT WERE THE SUCCESSES OF IT, SO THAT WE MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE VERY INTENTIONAL AS WE'RE GOING AND, AGAIN, CONTINUAL IMPROVEMENT PROCESS.SAFETY TRAININGS, WEEKLY LEADERSHIP UPDATES AND DIVISION LEADERS, ONE-ON-ONES. SO AFTER WE MEET WITH CITY MANAGEMENT, I'LL TAKE THE TIME TO MEET WITH OUR LEADERSHIP AND GO OVER IMMEDIATELY WHAT CAME FROM THAT MEETING, AND THEN I'LL BREAK OFF AND HAVE ONE-ON-ONES WITH THE VARIOUS DIVISION LEADERS.
ONE THING THAT'S BEEN VERY HELPFUL LATELY IS LAST WEEK I KICKED OFF WITH OUR PARKS MAINTENANCE SUPERVISOR OR SUPERINTENDENT, I'M SORRY, THAT WE WILL RATHER THAN JUST MEETING IN A ROOM, WE GO OUT AND WE'LL TAKE A CHUNK OF PARKS, WE'LL WALK THROUGH IT AND HELP WITH THAT PREVENTATIVE MAINTENANCE. THAT WAY WE'RE ALSO SERVING AS A SET OF EYES FOR OUR GUYS WHO ARE OUT THERE. THEN BRAINSTORMING AND TEAM BUILDING AND THEN CROSS-DEPARTMENTAL COLLABORATION AND CONVERSATIONS. HERE'S A LIST OF ALL THE CERTIFICATIONS WE HOLD, WHICH IS VERY IMPRESSIVE. A LOT OF THEM ARE PARKS MAINTENANCE.
THIS IS, I HAVEN'T DONE THIS, BUT IF I WOULD COMPARE, I MEAN, WE HAVE IN THE NEXT MONTH OR SO, WE'LL HAVE SIX CERTIFIED POOL OPERATORS. THAT IS OVER 50% OF OUR PARK MAINTENANCE STAFF THAT ARE OUT THERE READY TO RESPOND TO ANYTHING FOR OUR SPLASH PAD, BUT ALSO BEING PROACTIVE IN THE TESTINGS EVERY FOUR HOURS DURING THE DAY.
PLAYGROUND SAFETY INSPECTOR AND CERTIFIED FESTIVAL AND EVENTS.
ALMOST ALL OF THESE HAVE BEEN STAFF THAT IS TAKING THAT STEP FORWARD AND SAYING, I WANT TO LEARN WITHOUT SAYING, HEY, YOU WILL GET THIS NEXT POSITION. THEY'RE JUST, I WANT TO BE A LEADER. I WANT TO LEARN. SO WHEN THE OPPORTUNITIES DO COME, THEY'RE ALREADY STEPPING INTO IT AND NOT FALLING BACK INTO POSITIONS. AND I'M REALLY PROUD OF OUR TEAM AND ALL THE CERTIFICATIONS THAT OVER THE LAST COUPLE YEARS THEY HAVE OBTAINED AND TAKEN THAT INITIATIVE. HERE'S A LIST OF VARIOUS ACCOMPLISHMENTS.
THE ONE I DO WANT TO HIGHLIGHT IS THE BEST IN TEXAS 2025, BEST ACCESSIBILITY PROGRAM WITH A BUDGET OF $75,000 OR UNDER, EASTER EXTRAVAGANZA, AND OUR ADAPTIVE EGG HUNT.
AGAIN, THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE COULD HAVE DONE AND NOT NECESSARILY THAT IT WAS A DEMAND, IT WAS LISTENING TO THE COMMUNITY, FIGURING OUT THE NEXT ITERATIONS ON HOW TO JUST FILL THE GAPS AND INCLUDE MORE OF OUR COMMUNITY, AND I'M PROUD OF THE STAFF FOR TAKING THAT STEP AND FIGURING OUT HOW WE CAN INCLUDE NEIGHBORS. AND IT WAS A NICE REFLECTION, PROBABLY THE BEST AWARD THAT I'VE SEEN A TEAM GET IN IN MY CAREER IN RECREATION BECAUSE IT AGAIN IS BEING PROACTIVE AND JUST REALLY TAKING THAT EXTRA STEP FOR OUR NEIGHBORS. PHRASES WE LIVE BY, FIRST THINGS FIRST, A BETTER YOU IS A BETTER US.
AND I WANT TO HIT ON THAT BECAUSE Y'ALL GOT SOME RANDOM SQUIRREL ON YOUR SEATS. WELL, THAT SQUIRREL IS SOMETHING THAT WE DID THIS LAST, I THINK IT WAS A MONTH AND A HALF AGO.
NOW SQUIRRELS, THEY REPRESENT WORK-LIFE BALANCE. THEY WILL WORK REALLY HARD, THEY'LL GET THINGS READY, BUT THEY ALSO ARE VERY PLAYFUL.
SO WHAT WE CHALLENGE OUR STAFF IS HAVING THOSE AS A REMINDER OF THAT WORK-LIFE BALANCE, THAT YOU'RE WORKING REALLY HARD, BUT WHEN YOU LEAVE HERE, YOU NEED TO BALANCE IT OUT, HAVE FUN. AND SO WE ACTUALLY HAVE A CHALLENGE OVER THE NEXT YEAR, AND WE HAVE A STUFFED ANIMAL SQUIRREL. YOU TAKE IT ON A TRIP, WHOEVER COMES UP WITH THE COOLEST PICTURE WITH THE SQUIRREL WILL WIN A PRIZE.
AND THEN ALSO WE SAY HOW DO THE NEIGHBORS BENEFIT AND THEN LASTLY AND ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT PARTS OF THE FOUNDATION OF ANY GOOD RELATIONSHIP COMMUNICATION COMMUNICATION COMMUNICATION.
THIS IS ADMINISTRATION. THIS IS MYSELF AND HEATHER OVERVIEW OVERSEE THE PARKS MAINTENANCE RECREATION LIBRARY DIVISIONS COLLABORATE WITH THE ENGINEERING DIVISION POLICY DEVELOPMENT BUDGET DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT MARKETING INITIATIVES GRANT AND SPONSORSHIP SPONSORSHIP PROGRAMS VOLUNTEER PROGRAM OVERSIGHT FACILITY RESERVATIONS. KEEP THAT A BEAUTIFUL. FACILITY RESERVATIONS. SO HERE IS A LIST OF OUR FEES. I WON'T GO SPECIFICALLY INTO IT, BUT IT'S JUST TO KIND OF SHOW OUR CURRENT FEES, WHICH ARE PRETTY GOOD REGIONALLY WHEN IT COMES TO HAVING LOWER FEES.
THIS KIND OF JUST SHOWS YOU THAT WE HAVE THE GROWTH NOW IN 2022, 2023. WE HAD A LOT OF CONSTRUCTION GOING ON. THAT PREVENTED SOME OF THE RESERVATIONS. BUT ALL OF THESE FACILITIES ARE, I SHOULDN'T SAY ALL OF THEM, ALL OF THE PAVILIONS AND GAZEBOS, THOSE ARE FIRST COME FIRST SERVE UNLESS YOU HAVE A RESERVATION. SO IT GIVES THAT EASE OF IF SOMEONE WANTS TO HAVE A BIRTHDAY PARTY, WANTS TO SEND OUT FLYERS, BUT DOESN'T WANT TO HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT SOMEONE ELSE SHOWING UP BEFORE THEM. THAT'S KIND OF WHAT IT DOES. AND, AGAIN, THERE'S A LOW BARRIER TO ENTRY AS FAR AS THE FEES GO.
BUT AS YOU CAN SEE, WE'RE GROWING, AND WE'RE ALREADY AT 92. AND WE HAVEN'T EVEN HIT OUR BUSIEST TIME OF THE YEAR. AND
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THAT'S JUST A REFLECTION OF THE GROWTH. AND I BELIEVE, TOO, IT'S A REFLECTION OF THE PRIDE THAT OUR COMMUNITY HAS IN OUR PARKS AND OUR AMENITIES THAT THEY WANT TO HAVE THESE GATHERINGS AT THESE PLACES. KEEP OUT OF BEAUTIFUL. SO SOME OVERVIEW INITIATIVES, LITTER CLEANUPS, A COUPLE OF DATES LISTED ON THERE, PRAIRIE RESTORATION, MONARCH BUTTERFLYWAY STATION.SO IF YOU LOOK RIGHT OUT THERE NEXT TO THE THE LIBRARY, THOSE PLANTS THERE WERE SPECIFICALLY PLANTED TO ATTRACT BUTTERFLIES. SO WE HAD AN EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY AND HAD SOME SIGNAGE OUT THERE SO IF PEOPLE WANT TO LEARN ABOUT THOSE PLANTS AND HOW THEY ATTRACT BUTTERFLIES, BUT ALSO THE DIFFERENT TYPES OF BUTTERFLIES, THERE'S THAT EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY. IT DOESN'T JUST STAY IN THE LIBRARY, IT OUTFLOWS OUT INTO THE PLAZA AREA. TREE CITY USA AND OUR ARBOR DAY.
ADOPT A SPOT, WHICH WE HAVE THREE SPOTS, AND WE'LL TALK ABOUT SOME GOALS A LITTLE BIT LATER HERE.
RESOURCES AND EDUCATION AND PARKS AND RECREATION ADVISORY BOARD AS KEEP ANNA BEAUTIFUL COMMITTEE. SO OUR GOALS FOR KEEP ANNA BEAUTIFUL OVER THIS NEXT YEAR IN THE SHORT TERM ARE WE WANT TO DISCUSS PROGRAM AND EVENT ENHANCEMENT OPPORTUNITIES WITH THE PARKS AND RECREATION ADVISORY BOARD, GET THEM REALLY INVOLVED AS THEY ARE THE COMMITTEE, FIGURE OUT WHAT ARE THOSE NEXT STEP OPPORTUNITIES.
ENGAGEMENT OPPORTUNITIES, ENHANCEMENT OF THE PROGRAM IN GENERAL. EXPAND AND PROMOTE AN ONLINE RESOURCE GUIDE.
IDENTIFY AND ESTABLISH OR ENHANCE PARTNERSHIP OPPORTUNITIES AND EXPAND AND PROMOTE ADOPT-A-SPOT PROGRAMS. VOLUNTEER PROGRAM, HERE'S A BUNCH OF PICTURES ON THE DIFFERENT VOLUNTEERS WE'VE HAD OVER THE LAST COUPLE OF YEARS.
VOLUNTEER PROGRAM OVERVIEW DATA, SO HERE ARE VARIOUS OPPORTUNITIES.
BUT YOU CAN SEE EVEN WITH THE GROWTH OF OUR CITY, WE ARE GROWING IN THE AMOUNT OF HOURS THAT OUR COMMUNITY IS COMMITTING BACK TO THEMSELVES AND TO THEIR NEIGHBORS.
AND THERE'S DIFFERENT AMOUNTS THAT ARE FORECASTED OR A PART OF THE NATIONAL VOLUNTEERING DATA.
AND THAT JUST SHOWS YOU HOW MANY HOURS AND WHAT THEY EQUATE TO.
ACCORDING TO THAT DATA VOLUNTEER PROGRAM GOALS WE WANT TO SPECIALIZE THE PROGRAM STRUCTURE SO WE'RE KIND OF SPLITTING IT UP AND WE'LL HAVE SOMEONE FROM THE LIBRARY FOCUS ON VOLUNTEER PROGRAM OPPORTUNITIES WITH THE LIBRARY HOW DO WE ENHANCE? USING AND COLLECTIONS WHICH WE CURRENTLY HAVE BUT ALSO IN AND THE FRONT DESK HELP ALSO IN THE MAKERSPACE.
HOW DO WE REALLY CREATE A COMPREHENSIVE? LIBRARY VOLUNTEER PROGRAM THAT CREATES EXCITEMENT BUT ALSO HELPS THE COMMUNITY HELP THE COMMUNITY.
AND SAME WITH OUR RECREATION EVENTS.
WE WANT TO ENHANCE THE PROGRAM MARKETING, AGAIN, TO FOCUS IN ON THOSE OPPORTUNITIES AND HOW WE GET THE INFORMATION OUT TO OUR NEIGHBORS.
A RECRUITMENT PROGRAM, SETTING UP INFORMATIONAL DAYS.
HEY, JUST COME LEARN ABOUT THE OPPORTUNITIES THERE.
AND THEN ONCE YOU DO COMMIT, HOW DO WE FREQUENTLY HAVE TRAININGS AVAILABLE SO THAT RIGHT WHEN SOMEONE GETS THAT INFORMATION AND SIGNS UP, WE IMMEDIATELY TRANSFER THEM INTO THE TRAINING OPPORTUNITIES SO THAT WE CAN GET THEM CONNECTED TO THE COMMUNITY.
AND EVALUATE AND ENHANCE RECOGNITION OF VOLUNTEERS.
WE'RE GOING TO LOOK AT NEXT YEAR'S VOLUNTEER RECOGNITION EVENT, HOW WE CAN ENHANCE THAT, POSSIBLY LEADING INTO THAT EVENT, YOU KNOW, A COUPLE HOURS BEFORE, A VOLUNTEER FAIR OUT IN THE PLAZA.
AND THEN OUR OVERALL GOAL IN ALL OF THESE GOALS IS INCREASED VOLUNTEERISM.
PARKS MASTER PLAN IMPLEMENTATION.
SO FROM AN ADMINISTRATIVE STANDPOINT, IT'S GOAL NUMBER FOUR.
AND WE PROMISED Y'ALL THAT WHEN WE GOT IT ADOPTED, WE WOULD COME BACK AND TELL YOU SPECIFICALLY ON THAT CHART HOW WE WOULD START ADDRESSING THOSE ISSUES OR THOSE GOALS.
PROVIDE A DIVERSE RANGE OF RECREATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES FOR ALL AGES, ABILITIES, AND INTERESTS.
4.4 IS PURSUE OPPORTUNITIES TO PROVIDE A RECREATION CENTER IN ANNA.
CURRENTLY, WE ARE IN THE MIDDLE OF A FEASIBILITY.
STUDY IN WHICH THERE IS A CONSULTANT WHO IS WORKING ON ALL THAT DATA, WORKING ON A CONCEPT PLAN.
SO WE SHOULD HAVE THAT OVER THE NEXT FEW MONTHS.
SO THAT IS A SHORT-TERM GOAL ACCOMPLISHMENT WE HOPE TO HAVE, GIVE YOU ALL THE INFORMATION, GIVE YOU ALL THE PRO FORMA, HOW MUCH IT WOULD COST TO OPERATE, POTENTIALLY HOW MUCH IT'S GOING TO COST, WHAT IT POTENTIALLY COULD LOOK LIKE.
SO WE SHOULD HAVE THAT SOON FOR YOU ALL WITHIN THE NEXT FEW MONTHS.
GOAL SIX, PURSUE PARTNERSHIPS AND SECURE DIVERSE FUNDING SOURCES TO SUPPORT PARK DEVELOPMENT, UPGRADES, AND ONGOING OPERATIONS.
PURSUE GRANT FUNDING FROM DIVERSE SOURCES AND STRENGTHEN INTERNAL GRANT CAPACITIES.
SO WITH THIS GOAL, WE HEARD SOME OF THE OPPORTUNITIES AS FAR AS TRAILS.
NOW WHEN IT COMES TO THE COMMUNITY SERVICES PROGRAMMING ASPECT, WE WILL, ONCE WE HAVE
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THE LIBRARY SERVICES MANAGER COME ON, HAVE THAT MANAGER LOOKING OPPORTUNITIES FOR LIBRARY.MYSELF AND THE STAFF WILL LOOK AT RECREATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES.
TOMORROW WE DO HAVE STAFF GO INTO THE TEXAS PARKS AND WILDLIFE GRANT OPPORTUNITIES THAT KIND OF TALKS ABOUT DIFFERENT OPPORTUNITIES AS FAR AS PARKS AND RECREATION.
A COUPLE OF WEEKS AGO, MYSELF AND THE PARK SUPERINTENDENT ALSO ATTENDED ONE THAT'S PLAYGROUND.
FOR THOSE OPPORTUNITIES AND WE ARE GOING TO EVALUATE THOSE.
SO BY THE END OF QUARTER FOUR, WHICH IS SEPTEMBER, WE'LL HAVE A LIST, BUT IT WILL BE AN ONGOING PROCESS AS WELL.
COORDINATE AND OR PARTNER WITH LOCAL ORGANIZATIONS AND ENTITIES TO PROVIDE ADDITIONAL PARKS AND RECREATION OPPORTUNITIES.
RIGHT NOW I'M MEETING WITH THE YMCA.
THEY'RE INTERESTED IN POTENTIALLY HAVING PROGRAMMING, ADULT AND YOUTH, IN THE LIBRARY.
SO AGAIN, HOW CAN WE WORK ALONGSIDE WITH THEM WITH THOSE OPPORTUNITIES? AND GET MORE RESOURCES OUT TO OUR NEIGHBORS.
WE'LL LOOK AT OTHER PARTNERSHIP OPPORTUNITIES AS WELL.
EVALUATE OPPORTUNITIES FOR PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS TO CREATE A RECREATION CENTER OR COMMUNITY POOL.
AND ANNA WILL IDENTIFY THOSE IN Q4.
I'M WORKING WITH ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND NATASHA TO BRING ALL THE PLAYERS IN SO WE'RE ALL HAVING THE SAME COMMUNICATION.
WE'RE NOT GOING OFF AND OVERLAPPING.
SO WE'LL BE DOING THAT AS SOON AS WE GET THE FEASIBILITY STUDY AND COUPLE THAT WITH THOSE KIND OF DISCUSSIONS.
AND THEN UPDATE THE MASTER PLAN EVERY FIVE YEARS.
SO, OF COURSE, WE'LL BE LOOKING AT THAT.
ADDITIONAL GOALS, IN COLLABORATION WITH THE CITY MANAGER'S OFFICE, DEVELOP A COMPREHENSIVE SPONSORSHIP POLICY AND PROGRAM.
SO WE'RE IN THE PROCESS OF THAT CURRENTLY.
SO AS PART OF THAT GRANT FUNDING AND GETTING THE COMMUNITY AND THE NEIGHBOR'S MONEY STRETCHED AS FAR AS WE POSSIBLY CAN.
WE WILL LOOK AT THOSE SPONSORSHIP OPPORTUNITIES FOR EVENTS, FOR PROGRAMS, AND, AGAIN, SEE WHAT WE CAN DO TO GIVE OUR NEIGHBORS MORE WITH LESS.
SO WE'RE DEVELOPING A BANNER PROGRAM.
SO IN THE NEXT FEW WEEKS, YOU SHOULD SEE OUR ADVERTISING FOR BOOTS AND BOOMS. THAT'S SOMETHING RHONDA, SHE CAME IN, SHE'S LIKE, LET'S MAKE THIS HAPPEN.
SO I'VE BEEN WORKING WITH STEPHANIE IN PUBLIC WORKS AND PARKS MAINTENANCE TO MAKING IT HAPPEN.
RESEARCH AND PROPOSE A TRANSPORTATION PROGRAM.
THERE WAS A PRESENTATION A FEW WEEKS AGO.
THERE'S ALSO ANOTHER COMPANY THAT IS INTERESTED.
SO WE'LL DO AN RFP PROCESS AND, AGAIN, GATHER THE INFORMATION AND THEN LET YOU KNOW.
AND THEN FINALLY, AS THESE ADDITIONAL GOALS, DEVELOP A COMMUNITY SERVICES STRATEGIC PLAN.
JUST LIKE WE DRIVE THE CITY'S PLAN, WE WANT TO LOOK AND SEE WHAT OPPORTUNITIES THERE ARE TO SET A PLAN FOR OUR DEPARTMENT TO MAKE SURE, AGAIN, THAT WE'RE HITTING THOSE MAJOR CHECKPOINTS AND WE'RE FOLLOWING Y'ALL'S LEAD.
SO THERE'S GOING TO BE A LOT OF DATA IN HERE.
MY PURPOSE ISN'T TO GO THROUGH THE DATA, BUT TO SHOW Y'ALL THAT WE ARE COMMITTED.
WE'RE COMMITTED TO MAKING SURE THAT ALL OF OUR DECISIONS ARE DATA DRIVEN, BUT ALSO WE'RE DRIVING OURSELVES IN OPERATIONS WHERE WE'RE REALLY STRETCHING OUT OUR RESOURCES TO DELIVER GREAT THINGS TO OUR NEIGHBORS.
SO THIS IS AN OVERVIEW OF EVERYTHING THEY DO.
SOMETIMES, YOU KNOW, YOU GO PLACES AND, OH, YEAH, PARKS MAINTENANCE, THEY MOW.
NO, THEY DO ALL OF THIS AS WELL.
AND THOSE GUYS ARE VERY, VERY HARDWORKING, WHETHER IT COMES TO THE DAILY OPERATIONS, OUR SPORTS PROGRAMS, PREPARING THINGS FOR EVENTS.
I MEAN, WITH ALL THESE CRAZY STORMS THAT COME, THEY HIT IT AND THEY TRY TO BE PROACTIVE, AND THEN THEY'LL COME BACK AND THEY DO IT AGAIN BECAUSE THEY REALLY, THIS GROUP OF GUYS, REALLY, REALLY, REALLY DOES CARE ABOUT HOW THINGS LOOK, AND THEY TAKE GREAT PRIDE IN IT.
AND I'M VERY PROUD OF EVERYTHING THAT THEY DO, AND WORKING ALONGSIDE OF THEM IS AWESOME.
HERE'S A LIST OF ALL THOSE THINGS.
AGAIN, WON'T GO OVER ALL OF THEM, BUT THIS IS ALL THE ACREAGE, ALL THE DIFFERENT AMENITIES WE HAVE TO JUST GIVE YOU THAT DEPTH OF WHAT THE GUYS ARE OUT THERE TAKING CARE OF ON A DAILY BASIS.
SO WE HAVE C-CLICK FIX, IN WHICH WE ENCOURAGE NEIGHBORS TO GO ON THERE, SUBMIT WHATEVER THEY'RE SEEING.
YOU KNOW, WE HAVE STAFF OUT THERE THAT IS COMMITTED TO TAKING CARE OF WHAT THEY NEED TO AND WHAT THEY CAN.
BUT THERE'S SOMETIMES NEIGHBORS ARE GOING TO USE THINGS OR SEE THINGS.
THAT'S OUR EXTRA EYES, AND WE WELCOME THEM SUBMITTING THINGS SO THAT, AGAIN, WE CAN MAKE SURE THAT WE TAKE CARE OF IT.
AND IF THERE ARE THINGS THAT ARE REPEATING, OUR JOB IS TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY'RE NOT REPEATING.
AND HOW DO WE TAKE THAT REACTIVE MAINTENANCE AND WE TURN IT INTO SOMETHING THAT'S NOT EVEN PROACTIVE BUT JUST ROUTINE MAINTENANCE? IT'S SOMETHING WE HAVE TO KEEP OUR EYES OUT FOR BECAUSE IT'S A REOCCURRING THING.
AND THEN ONE THING I'M REALLY PROUD ON IS THE GUYS HAVE REALLY
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HONED IN ON BRIGHTLY ASSET ESSENTIALS IN LOGGING THOSE ROUTINE MAINTENANCE, PROACTIVE MAINTENANCE, AND ASSET MANAGEMENT.SO C-CLICK FIX DATA, AS YOU CAN SEE, THESE ARE ITEMS IN TOTAL, LIKE 80 OVER THE WHOLE YEAR IS A NEIGHBOR SAYING, I SEE SOMETHING THAT PROBABLY NEEDS REPAIR.
AND SO YOU CAN SEE THAT THERE'S VERY SMALL AMOUNTS.
AND AGAIN, IT'S, THIS WILL NATURALLY GROW.
WE'RE GOING TO HAVE MORE NEIGHBORS TO PUT EYES ON THINGS.
WE'RE GOING TO HAVE MORE AMENITIES.
BUT AGAIN, I MEAN, THE FACT, WHEN I GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE, YOU'RE GOING TO SEE THE DIFFERENCE.
AND SO ROUTINE MAINTENANCE DATA, SO THERE IS 1,916 ITEMS. IN 2015, THIS IS TRACKING FOR THIS YEAR.
THIS IS THE GUYS DOING ITEMS THROUGHOUT THE DAY, THROUGHOUT THE WEEK THAT ARE JUST, THEY'RE ON THEIR SCHEDULE, MARK IT OFF.
AND THEN PROACTIVE MAINTENANCE IS THAT 1,700 IS THINGS LIKE WHEN WE GO OUT TO THE PARK AND WE SAY, HEY, LOOK, WE SAW THAT.
WE DON'T WANT THE NEIGHBORS TO SEE IT ENTERING IN THERE.
AND THEN AGAIN, YOU'LL GET THROUGHOUT TIME THAT TO TRANSITION FROM PROACTIVE TO ROUTINE BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT WE WANT TO DO.
WE DON'T WANT TO HAVE TO CONTINUALLY LOOK OUT THAT THINGS ARE LIKE, HEY, STAFF'S JUST GOING TO DO IT.
THIS IS A ROUTINE AND PROACTIVE MAINTENANCE DATA.
AGAIN, I WANT YOU ALL TO SEE THAT THIS IS THE AMOUNT OF TIME WE ARE LOOKING AT ALL OF THE DATA.
THIS IS THE SECOND FULL YEAR I THINK WE'RE REALLY HONING IN.
AND REALLY, THIS LAST OCTOBER, I'M LIKE, GUYS, CAN WE JUST MAKE THIS HAPPEN? SO WE'RE STILL COLLECTING THE DATA, AND WE'RE STILL REFINING THE PROCESS.
MAINTENANCE COSTS, AGAIN, THIS IS SPLIT UP BY DIFFERENT PARTS AND CHEMICAL APPLICATIONS.
WHEN WE PUT NEW MULCH IN, KIND OF JUST A DIFFERENT BREAKDOWN.
AGAIN, TO SHOW Y'ALL THAT WE ARE TRACKING THIS STUFF.
PARKS MASTER PLAN IMPLEMENTATION.
ENSURE ALL PARKS ARE SAFE, WELCOMING, AND WELL-MAINTAINED FOR ANA RESIDENTS TO ENJOY COMFORTABLY.
ENSURE THAT ADEQUATE FUNDING AND STAFFING ACCOMPANY PARKS SYSTEM EXPANSIONS.
STAFF IS BEING REALLY PROACTIVE, AND RIGHT NOW WE'RE WORKING ON A SPREADSHEET THAT IF A NEW PARK WERE TO COME ONLINE, WE WOULD TAKE THE AMENITIES, WE WOULD PLUG THEM IN, WE WOULD TAKE THE ACREAGE, AND THE HOPES IS IF, WHETHER IT BE US OR A DEVELOPER, YOU PLUG THOSE NUMBERS IN, AND THAT WILL TELL YOU HOW MANY STAFF HOURS YOU NEED AND WHAT IT EQUATES TO A FULL-TIME STAFF.
AGAIN, BEING PROACTIVE AND TAKING THE DATA SO THAT WE CAN SAY, OKAY, IN ADDITION TO THE COST OF THIS PROJECT, THIS IS HOW MUCH WE'LL NEED IN THE NEXT YEAR'S BUDGET.
AGAIN, BEING PROACTIVE AND SAYING THESE ARE OUR NEEDS WHEN THESE AMENITIES COME ONLINE.
SYSTEM MANAGEMENT PLAN, OUR PARK SUPERINTENDENT HAS SUBMITTED THAT TO ME, SO IT IS IN DRAFT MODE.
WE'RE HOPING TO TRANSFER THAT OVER THE NEXT FEW MONTHS AND BY OCTOBER INTO A MANAGEMENT PLAN THAT ALL OUR NEIGHBORS AND Y'ALL CAN LOOK AT AND KNOW HOW WE APPROACH WHAT WE DO IN PARKS MAINTENANCE.
CONDUCT A STAFFING ASSESSMENT TO DETERMINE NEEDS FOR EXPANDED HEADCOUNT.
AGAIN, THAT'S GOING TO BE A PART OF THE BUDGET PROCESS.
I'M WORKING WITH CITY MANAGER IN GETTING ALL THOSE CALCULATIONS AND AGAIN PART OF IT ADVOCATING, BUT ALSO REALIZING WE GOT TEAMMATES IN THIS ROOM AND OUT THERE THAT ARE ALSO TRYING TO ACCOMPLISH IT, SO HOW DO WE MAKE AWARE BUT ALSO MAKE DO WITH THE RESOURCES THAT WE PURSUE PARTNERSHIPS AND SECURE DIVERSE FUNDING SOURCES TO SUPPORT PARK DEVELOPMENT UPGRADES AND ONGOING OPERATIONS WHEN WARRANTED? ESTABLISH JOINT MAINTENANCE AGREEMENTS WITH ATHLETIC LEAGUES. OUR GUYS TAKE A REALLY GOOD APPROACH AND ARE MAINTAINING THOSE ATHLETIC FIELDS.
QUITE POSSIBLY WHEN WE START GROWING, THERE MIGHT BE OPPORTUNITIES TO LOOK THROUGH THIS, BUT WE HAVE A REALLY GOOD TEAM, BUT THIS IS ON OUR RADAR, JUST NOT SOMETHING YOU'RE PROBABLY GOING TO SEE ROLL OUT ANY TIME SOON.
THIS IS THEIR ADDITIONAL GOALS.
THEY WANT TO SPECIALIZE IN EXPERTISE WITHIN THE DEPARTMENT IN MAINTENANCE, IRRIGATION, CHEMICAL APPLICATION, EFFICIENCY, AND ACCOUNTABILITY BY FURTHER IMPROVING STAFF KNOWLEDGE AND USE OF THE BRIGHTLY WORK ORDER MANAGEMENT SYSTEM.
MAINTENANCE WORKER ONE POSITION IN THE FUTURE.
THAT WAY WE CAN HAVE SOMEONE THAT WORKS TUESDAY THROUGH SATURDAY.
YOU SAW THE INCREASE IN RESERVATIONS.
THAT WAY IT CAN HELP MINIMIZE SOME OF OUR OVERTIME COSTS.
BUT AGAIN, WE HAVE STAFF THAT'S TAKING CARE OF IT.
IT'S JUST SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT IN THE FUTURE.
CREATE A DEDICATED FULL IRRIGATOR POSITION.
WHAT'S GREAT ABOUT THIS IS THAT I BELIEVE WE HAD BUDGETED AROUND $400,000 FOR IRRIGATION AT SLATER CREEK PARK, BUT WE HAD TRENT, WHO WAS REALLY, HE WANTED TO SPECIALIZE IN THAT.
WELL, HE BOUGHT, I THINK IT WAS $10,000 OF MATERIAL AND PROBABLY A CULMINATION OF TWO MONTHS OF WORK AND WAS ABLE TO GET
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EVERYTHING FIXED AND TAKEN CARE OF THROUGH HIS LICENSE, WHICH SAVED THE CITY HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS.AND AGAIN, IT'S THAT INVESTMENT IN OUR STAFF TO SAY, HEY, YOU WANT TO LEARN IT? WE'LL EQUIP YOU WITH THE RESOURCES AND THE RETURN ON IT IS THEIR PRIDE IN BEING ABLE TO ACCOMPLISH SOMETHING FOR THE CITY, BUT SAVINGS TO THE CITY.
SO IT'S THAT DEDICATION OF STAFF SAYING, HERE I AM, LIKE, LET'S GO.
AND THEN FULL-TIME, WE TALKED ABOUT THAT.
CONSISTENT CLEANING, UPKEEP OF RESTROOMS, PAVILIONS.
AGAIN, THIS IS ALL ABOUT SPECIALIZATION THAT WE'LL LOOK AT IN THE FUTURE.
LONG-TERM GOAL, EXPAND URBAN FORESTRY AND BEAUTIFICATION INITIATIVES, AND THEN ESTABLISH A DEDICATED CHEMICAL APPLICATOR POSITION.
AGAIN, WHEN PROPERTIES COME IN ONLINE, SOMEONE SPECIFICALLY SPECIALIZES IN THAT.
SO NOW WE'RE ON TO LIBRARY DIVISION.
HERE'S A BUNCH OF PICTURES OF EVERYTHING THAT IS TAKING PLACE SINCE NOVEMBER.
SO HERE'S GOING TO BE SOME OVERALL DATA LEADING UP TO TODAY.
SO FROM OCTOBER, JUST BEFORE WE OPENED, AND THEN TO MAY, WE HAD ALMOST 40,000 ITEMS CHECKED OUT.
NEIGHBORS REGISTERING FOR EXTENDED ACCESS, YOU CAN SEE THE BREAKDOWN, THAT'S SIX HUNDRED AND THIRTY THREE.
NEIGHBORS, NEW LIBRARY USERS BY MONTH TOTAL, WE HAVE FOUR THOUSAND SIX HUNDRED AND THIRTY SEVEN.
USERS TOTAL, AND THEN DISTINCT NEIGHBORS BORROWING MATERIAL, 02,613 FROM OCTOBER TO TODAY.
PROGRAMS, THESE ARE ALL THE DIFFERENT PROGRAMS THAT DO OCCUR AT THE LIBRARY CURRENTLY.
YOU'LL SEE IT'S A WIDE RANGE OF DIFFERENT AGES, FROM YOUTH ALL THE WAY TO OUR ADULT 50S PROGRAM.
LIBRARY HOURS, SO CURRENTLY THESE ARE HOURS: 12 TO 6, MONDAY THROUGH THURSDAY, 10 TO 2 FRIDAY, 10 TO 2 SATURDAY, UNSTAFFED ON SUNDAY, TOTAL HOURS 32 HOURS.
NOW WE TALKED ABOUT WE DO HAVE TEAMMATES COMING ONLINE.
SO THERE WAS ONE POSITION WE HAVE RE-NAVIGATED, AGAIN, LOOKING AT WHAT MAKES SENSE.
WE'RE TURNING THAT INTO A LIBRARIAN POSITION.
BECAUSE OF THAT, ONCE WE GET OUR NEW STAFF SETTLED, WE WILL BE ABLE TO EXTEND THOSE HOURS TO 48 HOURS.
SO IN THE NEXT COMING MONTHS, YOU WILL SEE THAT WE WILL HAVE 16 MORE HOURS THAT NEIGHBORS CAN COME IN AND HAVE A STAFF MEMBER THERE TO HELP THEM.
WE'LL ALSO BE EXTENDING, BECAUSE OF THE EXTRA FULL-TIME STAFF, OUR MAKERSPACE HOURS AND WORKING ON A PLAN TO REALLY ENHANCE THAT AND BRING KNOWLEDGE TO OUR NEIGHBORS WHEN IT COMES TO THAT.
AND THIS IS JUST IN THE FUTURE.
IF WE WANT TO GET THERE, IT PROBABLY TAKES ABOUT TWO PART-TIME STAFF.
AGAIN, WE'RE GOING TO UTILIZE VOLUNTEERS, BUT ESPECIALLY IN EVENING HOURS, YOU WANT TO MAKE SURE YOU HAVE A STAFF SO THAT YOU'RE NOT JUST LEAVING THE VOLUNTEER AND, HEY, GO TAKE CARE OF THE STUFF.
IF SOMETHING COMES UP, WE'LL GET TO IT TOMORROW MORNING.
SO IT'S A COMBINATION AND FIGURING OUT HOW VOLUNTEERS CAN ASSIST THE STAFF AND HAVE THE INFLUX OF NEIGHBORS THAT MAY WANT TO COME IN ONCE WE HAVE THE, SEND THE LIBRARY HOURS.
GOALS, EXPAND LIBRARY STAFFED HOURS.
I JUST COMMUNICATED HOW WE CAN DO THAT.
EXPAND STUDIO MAKERSPACE HOURS AND HEAVILY PROMOTE IT.
DEVELOP AND ENHANCE POLICIES AND PROCEDURES.
EXPAND PROGRAMMING AND SEEK GRANT AND PARTNERSHIP OPPORTUNITIES.
AGAIN, NEXT IS OUR RECREATION DIVISION.
SO HERE'S SOME OF OUR SPECIAL EVENTS THAT HAVE BEEN OCCURRING OVER THE LAST YEAR OR WILL OCCUR.
SO ON THERE YOU HAVE THE ADVERTISEMENT IN OUR ACTIVITY GUIDE OF THE BOOTS AND BOOMS. REALLY EXCITED ABOUT THE BOOTS AND BOOMS THIS YEAR.
WE ARE GOING TO BE DOING A FLYOVER.
THAT'S REALLY, REALLY EXCITING.
AGAIN, CITY MANAGER CAME IN AND SAID, LET'S BLOW THIS THING UP.
LET'S JUST MAKE IT A REALLY AWESOME CELEBRATION.
SO WE SAID, HEY, CAN WE HAVE PLANES FLY OVER AND DO IT? SHE SAID YES.
SO WE'RE GOING TO HAVE THAT, AND THEN ALSO SOMETHING YOU'RE GOING TO SEE DIFFERENT IS WHEN WE HAVE THE NATIONAL ANTHEM BEING SANG, THEY'RE GOING TO GET US A COUPLE OF FIREWORKS THAT WE CAN, WHEN IT'S BUMPERS AND AIR THEY GO OFF, CAN MAKE IT A WHOLE DIFFERENT EXPERIENCE, AND WE'RE ALWAYS LOOKING AT WAYS TO ENHANCE.
HERE'S SOME DATA ON OUR DIFFERENT ATTENDANCE.
WE PARTNERED WITH THE MULTICULTURAL, FOR THE MULTICULTURAL EVENT WITH NISD, BOOBASH WITH THE CHAMBER.
WE ALSO HAVE, OUTSIDE OF OUR PROCESS, A SPECIAL EVENT PERMIT PROCESS IN WHICH IF THERE'S AN ORGANIZATION OR A GROUP OF NEIGHBORS THAT WANT TO THROW AN EVENT AND THEY WANT TO TAKE CARE OF IT AND THEY HAVE THE RESOURCES OR SPONSORSHIP, HOW DO THEY WORK ALONGSIDE
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OF THE CITY TO UTILIZE OUR RESOURCES AS FAR AS FACILITIES OR PARKS TO MAKE IT HAPPEN.THESE ARE THE STEPS IN WHICH THEY WOULD TAKE TO MAKE IT HAPPEN, BUT MOST IMPORTANTLY IS OUR POST-EVENT WRAP-UP AND DEBRIEF IS, AGAIN, IT'S ONE THING TO HAVE THE EVENT, BUT IF IT'S GOING TO BE A RECURRING EVENT, WORKING WITH THAT ORGANIZATION, SAY, HEY, WHAT WENT WELL? WHAT COULD BE IMPROVED ON? AGAIN, WE WANT FEEDBACK ON IF THERE'S AREAS WHERE WE CAN IMPROVE ON, WHETHER IT BE THAT EVENT OR A PROCESS, MAKE IT EASIER FROM START TO FINISH.
WE'LL ENGAGE ON THAT BECAUSE WE JUST, AGAIN, DON'T WANT TO SIT STAGNANT.
WE WANT TO MAKE SURE WE'RE LISTENING AND IMPROVING OURSELVES AS WELL.
SPECIAL EVENT PERMITS DATA, YOU CAN SEE AS TIME IS GROWING, WE'RE ALREADY AT SEVEN, AND WE STILL HAVE A LOT OF TIME LEFT.
SO THIS IS OUR MOST FAST-GROWING PROGRAM.
I NOTICED ON HERE UNDER 10U, IT SHOULD SAY 12U, DID NOT MAKE, AND I'LL POINT THAT OUT.
WE DIDN'T HAVE ENOUGH TEAMS OR PARTICIPANTS TO MAKE THAT DIVISION OCCUR.
BUT WHAT WE DO IS WE ARE ALWAYS GOING TO REGISTRATION A LOT SOONER THAN OTHER ORGANIZATIONS IN THIS AREA OR MUNICIPALITIES.
AND WE'RE CLOSING REGISTRATION BEFORE THAT.
AND THE INTENTION IS IF WE CAN'T MAKE A LEAGUE, WE DON'T WANT THEM TO BE OUT OF NOT BEING ABLE TO PLAY SOMEWHERE.
AND WE'RE REALLY COMMUNICATIVE ON THAT.
WE ARE HOPING THAT THIS YEAR IS THE YEAR BECAUSE EVERY YEAR WE'VE ADDED DIVISION.
AS YOU CAN SEE, THOUGH, IS, FROM 2022 TO 2025, WE HAD AN INCREASE OF 247.
THAT'S ALMOST A 300% INCREASE.
AGAIN, I'VE SAID IN THE PAST, THAT'S A CULMINATION OF OUR NEIGHBORS AND DOING A GREAT JOB AT COACHING, BUT IT'S ALSO OUR STAFF THAT'S VERY DILIGENT IN THEIR APPROACH.
NOW, YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES WE GET THE QUESTION, YOU HAD 247.
COULD IT HAVE BEEN 270 OR 280? WELL, THE ONLY TIME WE'RE REALLY TURNING PEOPLE AWAY IS IF WE'RE AT THE VERY END AND WE DON'T HAVE ENOUGH KIDS TO MAKE ANOTHER TEAM.
AND THE WAY SOCCER IS, IS YOU WANT IT TO BE EVEN SO THAT THEY CAN EASILY SWITCH OUT AND SO YOU'RE NOT CUTTING INTO THE PLAYING TIME.
AND SO THAT IS JUST THE NATURE OF, OR IT'S WE DON'T HAVE ENOUGH VOLUNTEER COACHES AT THE END AND WE DON'T WANT TO BRING ON MORE KIDS AND THEN SAY, THANKS FOR SIGNING UP, BUT UNFORTUNATELY YOU CAN'T PLAY BECAUSE WE DON'T HAVE A COACH.
AND LAST YEAR WE HAD A VERY LONG WAIT LIST, AND IT WAS LIKE, HEY, LET'S ADD MORE TEAMS. AND STAFF DID ADD A LOT MORE TEAMS OFF OF THAT WAIT LIST, AND WE GOT IT MINIMIZED.
AND THE MINUTE YOU START TEAMS, YOU MIGHT HAVE A COUPLE MORE PARENTS THAT COME IN.
OR SOMETIMES OUR WAIT LISTS ARE REFLECTIVE OF PEOPLE WHO CAME IN AFTER REGISTRATION CLOSES.
BUT, AGAIN, WE'RE VERY PROACTIVE IN OUR REGISTRATION PROCESS.
UT BALL, BASEBALL, AND SOFTBALL, AS YOU CAN SEE, THAT THERE WAS IN 2023 TO 2024, IT DECREASED.
THAT WAS DUE THAT WE HAD THREE TEAMS THAT LEFT TO GO DO SELECT BASEBALL.
AND SO THAT'S, ABOUT THE EQUIVALENT OF THREE TEAMS, AND THEN IT KIND OF STAYED THERE, AND THEN WE GOT SOME OF THE TEAMS BACK BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, THEY ENJOY PLAYING IN OUR LEAGUE.
SO IT'S A REFLECTION OF THAT, BUT IT'S KIND OF STAYING FLAT, AND AGAIN, WE'RE TRYING TO PROMOTE BRINGING AS MANY TEAMS, AND THIS YEAR WE TRIED TO DO 14U.
ONE OF OUR NEIGHBORS WAS LIKE, HEY, WOULD YOU DO A 14U LEAGUE? AND SO WE OPENED IT UP, BUT UNFORTUNATELY THEY DIDN'T HAVE ENOUGH KIDS TO DO.
NATIONALLY, SINCE I BELIEVE IT'S 2008, THERE HAS BEEN A STEADY DECLINE IN ADULT SOFTBALL BY ONE-THIRD.
THIS SHOWS THAT OUR PROGRAM IS GROWING.
SO, AGAIN, OUR STAFF IS DOING A GOOD JOB, AND PEOPLE ARE JUST WANTING TO BUILD COMMUNITY HERE, AND THE MORE PEOPLE THAT COME IN, AND WE PROBABLY WILL ECLIPSE THAT IN 2026.
PROGRAMS, THIS IS JUST A LIST OF OUR VARIOUS PROGRAMS. IF YOU WANT THE ACTUAL DATA TO SOME OF THESE, PROGRAMS THAT WE'VE DONE IN THE PARKS MASTER PLAN, IT HAD ALL THAT MAPPED OUT, SO IMPLEMENTATION GOAL FOUR, PROVIDE A DIVERSE RANGE OF RECREATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES FOR ALL AGES, ABILITIES, AND INTEREST. ONE, EXPAND RECREATIONAL PROGRAMMING FOR TEENAGERS. A LOT OF WHAT WE'VE DONE OVER THE PAST COUPLE MONTHS IS ADD PROGRAMMING WITHIN THE LIBRARY, BUT WE WILL HAVE THAT BE EVALUATING HOW WE CAN ENGAGE TEENAGERS OVER THIS NEXT SCHOOL YEAR.
WHAT ARE THE OPPORTUNITIES TO PARTNER WITH THE SCHOOL DISTRICT TO LISTEN TO THEM, AND HOW CAN WE ENHANCE THAT, EXPAND RECREATIONAL PROGRAMMING FOR ADULTS? SO WE'RE GETTING READY.
WE WANT TO USE ALL OF OUR PROMOTIONAL OPPORTUNITIES THAT WE POSSIBLY CAN.
WE JUST SENT OUT THE SUMMER ACTIVITY GUIDE.
SO ONE THING WE WILL BE WORKING ON WITH THE FALL ACTIVITY GUIDE IS DOING A CALL
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TO OUR NEIGHBORS AND THE ADULTS 50 PLUS COMMUNITY TO SET, PROBABLY SOMETIME IN SEPTEMBER OR OCTOBER, THEY COULD COME JOIN US IN LIBRARY, GIVE US FEEDBACK FROM THERE, SEEING HOW MUCH INTEREST THERE IS, AND IF WE NEED TO BRING THAT DOWN TO A SMALLER GROUP TO GIVE FEEDBACK.BUT THAT IS PART OF WHAT COUNCIL HAS DISCUSSED OVER THE, I THINK IT WAS A MEETING OR TWO AGO, AS ENGAGING ADULTS 50 PLUS.
SO WE ARE WORKING ON THAT, AND WE WILL WORK ON A PLAN ON HOW DO WE LISTEN IN THIS SPECIFIC AREA, AND NOT ONLY LISTEN, BUT HOW DO WE GET THE RESOURCES OUT THROUGH PARTNERSHIPS OR STAFF TIME.
AND THEN REVIEW THE ORGANIZATION OF YOUTH SPORTS PROGRAMS AND CONSIDER RESTRUCTURING TEAM FORMATS TO ENHANCE CONTINUITY FOR BOTH COACHES AND PARTICIPANTS ACROSS SEASONS.
I KNOW ONE OF THE LARGEST QUESTIONS THAT WE'VE GOTTEN IS WHEN WILL YOU SPLIT UP THE BOYS AND THE GIRLS? WE WANT, RIGHT NOW, WE JUST NEED THE NUMBERS TO GROW BECAUSE, AGAIN, THE BENEFIT OF OUR SOCCER PROGRAM IS WE STARTED OFF AND ALL THE GAMES ARE IN ANNA, AND NEIGHBORS LOVE THAT.
NOW WE HAVE TO HAVE THEM PLAY IN DIFFERENT CITIES, AND WE'RE AFRAID THAT WE'LL LOSE PEOPLE OR WE WON'T MAKE TEAMS. SO FOR NOW, THAT'S OUR APPROACH, BUT WE ARE THINKING ABOUT HOW DO WE GET THAT, AND WE JUST NEED MORE PARTICIPANTS.
AND EVEN OUR FORMATS, WE ENCOURAGE FOR TEAMS TO STICK TOGETHER.
IT'S JUST WITH THE AGE, SOMETIMES YOU'LL HAVE PART OF THE KIDS THAT WILL MOVE UP, AND SOME OF THEM WILL STAY BEHIND, BUT WE ARE LOOKING AT HOW WE CAN ENHANCE OUR ATHLETIC PROGRAMS. ADDITIONAL RECREATION GOALS.
REFINE THE SPECIAL EVENT PERMIT PROCESS, ONGOING CONTINUATION OF JUST ENHANCING THE WAY WE DO THINGS.
VALUATE SPECIAL EVENTS, PARTNER AND OR ENHANCE WHEN IT MAKES SENSE.
POTENTIALLY ADD FALL YOUTH BASEBALL AND SPRING YOUTH SOCCER LEAGUES.
THAT WAS A REQUEST BY OUR PARKS ADVISORY BOARD, SO WE'LL PUT THAT IN THE BUDGET PROCESS TO DO OUR DILIGENCE.
ADD AN ADDITIONAL RECREATION COORDINATOR.
ADD PART-TIME STAFF TO ASSIST WITH PROGRAM AND EVENT IMPLEMENTATION.
THESE ARE OUR MARKETING INITIATIVES.
YOU CAN SEE THE ACTIVITY GUIDE, OUR WEBSITE, THE NEIGHBOR NOTES, AND THEN OUR POSTCARD.
AND OUR POSTCARD STATS ARE, IF WE WENT BACK, I MEAN, YOU CAN SEE NUMBERS ARE GROWING.
SO FROM SPRING OF 2024, 10,000.
NOW THERE ARE 14,834 POSTCARDS THAT WENT OUT.
TO UM HOMES THAT HAVE AN ANNA ADDRESS ON THOSE POSTCARDS, THEY CAN SCAN THE QR CODE AND IT WILL GIVE THEM OUR ACTIVITY GUIDE.
WE HAVE ACTIVITY GUIDES AVAILABLE HERE.
WE HAVE THEM AT THE LIBRARY, CITY HALL.
WE'RE GOING TO HAVE STAFF DELIVER SOME TO SOME OF THE LOCAL BUSINESSES.
AND SO YOU CAN SEE THAT NUMBER IS GROWING, BUT WE DO DO A PRETTY SIGNIFICANT EFFORT IN MAKING SURE THAT EVERY HOUSEHOLD HAS AT LEAST A RESOURCE TO FIND OUT ABOUT ALL THE COOL THINGS THAT WE HAVE GOING ON.
SO IT COMES DOWN TO THE QUESTION IS ALL WHAT WE NEED.
LIKE I SAID BEFORE, IT'S LEADERSHIP AND GUIDANCE.
WE NEED YOU ALL TO REALLY LISTEN TO THE COMMUNITY, SET THAT TONE FOR US, PAVE THAT PATH.
SUPPORT AND ADVOCATION IS, AGAIN, YOU ALL ARE SHOWING UP TO THE EVENTS AND CHECKING THEM OUT, GIVING US GOOD FEEDBACK, INTERACTING WITH THE COMMUNITY, GIVING SPEECHES, DOING RIBBON CUTTINGS.
OUR STAFF REALLY ENJOYS THAT AND HEARING THOSE GREAT THINGS SO THAT THEY KNOW THEY'RE HITTING THE MARK AND ADVOCATION FOR THE THINGS THAT WE'RE DOING AND SAY, HEY, COME, GIVE THE STAFF FEEDBACK.
I DON'T WANT TO SHY AWAY FROM FEEDBACK.
THAT'S HOW WE'RE GOING TO GET BETTER.
AND THEN FINALLY, IT'S GRACE AND UNDERSTANDING.
AS YOU CAN TELL IN THIS PRESENTATION, THERE IS A LOT OF STUFF GOING ON.
OUR STAFF IS WORKING VERY DILIGENTLY.
YOU'RE PROBABLY LIKE, WHAT IS THIS DOG DOING ON THE SCREEN? WELL, THIS IS POM POM FROM BLUEY.
SO THERE'S AN EPISODE IN WHICH THEY'RE DOING THE SEESAW AND THEY'RE TRYING TO GET THE DAD TO BASICALLY GET OFF OF IT.
SO ALL THE LITTLE DOG FRIENDS ARE GOING, BUT THEY CAN'T GET HIM TO GO.
AND SO ALL THE LITTLE PUPPIES THAT ARE ON THERE ARE OUR TEAM, RIGHT? OUR TEAM OF DIFFERENT DEPARTMENTS HOLDING THE CAUSE.
AND SO HERE WE HAVE POM POM WHO DOESN'T THINK, HEY, I CAN'T REALLY DO ANYTHING.
THE SEESAW AND WAS MAKES IT TILT.
AND IT'S LIKE, POM POM SAID, POMERANIANS ARE SMALL, BUT HARDY.
I WOULD SAY SMALL AND HARDY IS WHAT APPLIES TO OUR TEAM.
BUT I WOULD SAY MORE SO SMALL AND MIGHTY.
OUR TEAM IS SMALL, BUT WE'LL GET THINGS DONE.
WE'RE GOING TO TAKE CARE OF THE NEIGHBORS.
WE'RE BEING, YOU KNOW, VERY PROACTIVE IN OUR APPROACHES.
SO I ALWAYS TELL THE STAFF, REMEMBER YOUR POM POM, WE'RE GOING TO GET THINGS DONE.
WE MIGHT BE THAT THING THAT SOMETIMES JUMPS ON THE SEESAW.
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AND IS WHAT MAKES THE PROJECT HAPPEN.SO THAT'S KIND OF OUR APPROACH.
BUT IT'S THE GRACE AND UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING OUR STAFF IS TAKING CARE OF IT.
WE 100% WILL MISS THINGS SOMETIMES, BUT I CAN TELL YOU THAT EACH AND EVERY STAFF MEMBER THAT WE HAVE IN COMMUNITY SERVICES IS DEDICATED TO DELIVERING AWESOME THINGS TO OUR NEIGHBOR, AND SOMETIMES IT'S JUST HAPPENSTANCE, BUT WE NEED EVERYBODY'S EYES AND EARS TO HELP US IN WORKING TOGETHER TO BUILD THE COMMUNITY.
I TALKED ABOUT A LOT ABOUT OUR DEPARTMENT AND OUR STAFF, BUT I WANT TO SAY THANK YOU TO THE COUNCIL.
I WANT TO SAY THANK YOU TO CITY MANAGEMENT, COMMUNICATIONS AND HUMAN RESOURCES, DEVELOPMENT SERVICES AND CODE, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, FINANCE, PUBLIC WORKS, POLICE AND FIRE.
ALL THE THINGS THAT WE DO, THERE'S TOUCH POINTS IN WHICH WE WILL WORK WITH ALL THE OTHER DEPARTMENTS TO MAKE IT HAPPEN.
AND IT'S IMPORTANT THAT YOU KNOW THAT ALL THE COOL THINGS YOU SEE IN THE ACTIVITY GUIDE IS NOT JUST OUR DEPARTMENT.
IT IS A CULMINATION OF PEOPLE WORKING VERY HARD TO MAKE IT HAPPEN.
FINAL EXAM, WHICH GROUP OF INDIVIDUALS WILL WORK TOGETHER TO ENSURE THE POLICYMAKING SET FORTH BY COUNCIL BECOMES A REALITY? CITY MANAGEMENT TO SUPPORT AND HELP LEAD THE CHARGE.
LOCAL ORGANIZATIONS AND BUSINESSES TO PARTNER WITH THE CITY AND NEIGHBORS FOR FEEDBACK AND VOLUNTEERISM.
AND THEN THERE'S A QUOTE, TOGETHER WE WILL MAKE ANNA BETTER.
THAT CAME FROM OUR CITY MANAGER, SO SHE'S SETTING THE CHARGE AND WE'RE MAKING IT HAPPEN.
THAT WAS AN INCREDIBLE AMOUNT OF INFORMATION.
I CAN'T BELIEVE HOW HARD THAT WOULD BE PUT TOGETHER, BUT I APPRECIATE IT.
IT'S CLEAR THAT YOU GUYS ARE DOING A LOT, AND WE DO SEE IT.
CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR PROMOTION, TOO.
I LIKE THAT YOU'RE PROACTIVE AND NOT REACTIVE, BUT WHEN HALF HAD THEIR SLIDES UP HERE, THERE WAS ONE THAT CAUGHT MY ATTENTION, AND IT'S COLLIN COUNTY PROJECT FUNDING ASSISTANCE PROGRAM.
IF YOU HAVEN'T CHECKED THAT OUT, PLEASE CHECK THAT OUT.
OH, WHAT'S POLITICAL PEST CONTROL? IT'S A FANCY WAY OF SAYING CHEMICAL APPLICATIONS.
THAT IS THE MOST COMMON QUESTION, AND IT'S JUST WHAT THEY CALL IT.
COUNCIL, ANYTHING ELSE? NO, JEFF.
SINCE DAY ONE, WHENEVER YOU ARRIVE FROM THE OTHER STATES, YOU HAVEN'T SLOWED DOWN, AND I THINK RHONDA MADE THE RIGHT CHOICE.
YOUR TEAM, Y'ALL ARE SMALL AND MIGHTY, AND WE SEE THAT EVERY WEEKEND Y'ALL HAVE AN EVENT, AND I LOOK FORWARD TO ALL THE OTHER EVENTS IN THE FUTURE.
WE'RE GROWING ON THE BASEBALL, SOFTBALL, SOCCER.
TELL ME THIS, AND PLEASE BE HONEST.
WHAT IF WE HAD BETTER FIELDS? DO YOU THINK IT WOULD GROW MORE? I THINK ONE OF THE THINGS, SO...
I HAD ONE COMMUNITY MEMBER SAY, HEY, I GET THAT IF WE ADDED A FALL SOCCER PROGRAM, I'M SORRY, SPRING SOCCER PROGRAM, THAT Y'ALL ARE DOING MAINTENANCE AND THAT IT WOULD DRIVE DOWN THE QUALITY.
I'M OKAY WITH LESS OF A QUALITY THAT MEANS HAVING THE EXTRA PROGRAMMING.
AND THE REASON WHY I SAY THIS IS PEOPLE ARE VERY HAPPY WITH OUR QUALITY OF THE FIELDS.
WE ACTUALLY GET A LOT OF COMPLIMENTS FROM OTHER CITIES.
AND, AGAIN, WHEN OUR NEIGHBORS GO OUT TO SOME COMMUNITIES.
I KNOW THAT THERE'S OPPORTUNITIES FOR EXPANSION, SO I CAN'T REALLY TALK ABOUT SO MUCH WHAT'S FEASIBLE RIGHT NOW.
I'M GOING TO LEAN ON THE CONSULTING FIRM WHEN THEY GIVE US THE DATA AND INFORMATION TO KIND OF GUIDE US IN THAT DECISION MAKING AND SEEING WHAT OPPORTUNITIES ARE OUT THERE.
RIGHT NOW, WE STILL HAVE ROOM TO GROW OUR PROGRAMS WITHIN THE RESOURCES WE DO HAVE.
THAT'S NOT TO SAY THAT WE COULD GET EXPONENTIAL GROWTH.
BUT, AGAIN, WE'RE ENGAGING WITH LT CONSULTING ON THAT TO HELP GIVE US THAT DATA. AND ONCE WE HAVE THAT DATA, I THINK WE COULD HAVE A BROADER CONVERSATION ON WHAT IS GOOD FOR ANNA AND KIND OF THE NEXT STEPS THAT WE WOULD LIKE TO TAKE WHEN IT COMES TO SPORTS, RECREATION, FACILITIES, ET CETERA. ALL
[6. Consent Items.]
RIGHT. THANK YOU, JEFF.APPRECIATE IT. THANK YOU. ALL RIGHT, THAT'LL TAKE US TO AGENDA ITEM SIX, CONSENT ITEMS. THESE ITEMS CONSIST OF NON-CONTROVERSIAL OR HOUSEKEEPING ITEMS REQUIRED BY LAW. ITEMS MAY BE CONSIDERED INDIVIDUALLY BY ANY COUNCIL MEMBER MAKING SUCH REQUEST PRIOR TO A MOTION AND A VOTE ON CONSENT ITEMS. IS THERE ANYTHING THAT ANYONE WOULD LIKE TO REMOVE? MAYOR, I THINK WE SHOULD PULL ITEM, WHERE WAS IT? F. 6F.
ANY OTHERS? IF NOT, I WILL ENTERTAIN A MOTION.
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I MOVE THAT WE APPROVE A THROUGH E, G AND H.WE HAVE A MOTION BY COUNCILMEMBER HERNDON, SECONDED BY COUNCILMEMBER BAKER. IF YOU WOULD PLEASE CAST YOUR VOTES.
[f. Approve a Resolution of the City of Anna, Texas, Approving the First Amendment to Meadow Vista Development Agreement. (Director of Public Works Joseph Cotton)]
MOTION PASSES UNANIMOUSLY. SO ITEM 6F, APPROVAL RESOLUTION OF THE CITY OF ANNA, TEXAS APPROVING THE FIRST AMENDMENT TO MEADOW VISTA DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT. DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WORKS, JOSEPH COTTON.GOOD EVENING, COUNCIL, MAYOR, NEW COUNCIL MEMBER. HOW MAY I HELP YOU? CAN YOU TELL US WHAT THIS IS? BECAUSE IT'S ABOUT INFRASTRUCTURE, SO I THINK IT'S A GOOD THING TO TALK ABOUT.
YES, SIR. SO WHAT THIS IS, IT IS THE FIRST AMENDMENT TO THE METAVISTA DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT. SO IN THE METAVISTA DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT, IT DEFINED THAT THE LAST, I CALL IT THE LAST SECTION OVER OF HACKBERRY, JUST NORTH OF THE WALMART DEVELOPMENT AS IT WOULD BRING YOU BACK TOWARDS HIGHWAY 5. AS WE ALL KNOW, THERE'S A SECTION THAT'S MISSING. THE REASON IT WAS MISSING WAS BECAUSE AT THE TIME IT WAS EXTREMELY DIFFICULT TO OBTAIN THE RIGHT-OF-WAY WHEN THEY WERE BUILDING PHASE 1 IN METAVISTA. WE HAVE SINCE OBTAINED THAT RIGHT-OF-WAY, AND NOW THIS WAS THE ABILITY TO DEFINE HOW THAT RIGHT-OF-WAY WAS GOING TO GET PAID FOR BY THE CITY TO THE METAVISTA DEVELOPMENT COMMUNITY, AND THEY ARE GOING TO BE BUILDING THIS, WHAT WE CALL, OUT-OF-PHASE. WE'RE NOT WAITING UNTIL THE NEXT PHASE OF METAVISTA FOR THIS TO BE CONSTRUCTED. IF THIS GETS APPROVED TONIGHT, I WOULD ANTICIPATE THAT THEY'RE GOING TO BEGIN CONSTRUCTION WITHIN THE NEXT FEW MONTHS.
THEY SAID THAT THEY ARE PREPARED TO GO TO THE PRE-CON PROCESS, GET US ALL THE DOCUMENTATION THEY NEED FOR THIS TO HAPPEN.
SO WHAT I'M HEARING IS, CAN YOU CLARIFY THIS, ON HACKBERRY, RIGHT? CAN YOU CLARIFY EXACTLY WHERE THIS PORTION IS? SO AS YOU COME FROM HACKBERRY TODAY, IT GOES FROM THE ACCESS ROAD FOR PROBABLY ABOUT A QUARTER OF A MILE OR SO, AND IT ENDS.
IF YOU COME IN FROM HIGHWAY 05, IT COMES RIGHT TO THE CREEK, AND IT ENDS.
BASICALLY IN THE MIDDLE OF META VISTA DEVELOPMENT. THIS IS THE PIECE THAT WILL BRING YOU ACROSS THE CREEK. SO YOU WILL BE ABLE TO GO FROM, IT WILL BE ANOTHER EAST-WEST CORRIDOR BESIDES WHITE STREET TO GET YOU TO THAT DEVELOPMENT THAT IS CURRENTLY THERE WHERE HOME DEPOT, WALMART, ALL THE RESTAURANT ROW AND ALL THAT IS TODAY. IT WILL ALSO BE WHEN BUDDY HAYES GETS EXTENDED TO THE NORTH AS DEVELOPMENT COMES.
THIS WILL ALSO BE ANOTHER CONDUIT TO CONNECT PEOPLE TO THAT NORTHERN DEVELOPMENT AS IT COMES IN THE NEXT FEW YEARS.
SO WHEN WAS METAVISTA ORIGINALLY DONE? METAVISTA WAS ORIGINALLY A 2021, I BELIEVE. 2019. IT WAS, LIKE I SAID, IT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE DONE WITH PHASE 1 OF METAVISTA. THAT WAS ALWAYS TO BE DEFINED. WHEN I ARRIVED, WE WERE STILL MISSING THE GAP.
I'VE BEEN HERE ALMOST A YEAR, BUT IT WAS ONE OF MY ACCOMPLISHMENTS THAT I WAS VERY PROUD OF THAT BY THE END OF LAST YEAR, EARLY THIS YEAR, WE WERE ABLE TO OBTAIN THAT RIGHT-OF-WAY BY WORKING WITH THE DEVELOPMENT COMMUNITY AND THE OWNERS OF THAT TO HELP GET IT ACROSS THE FINISH LINE FOR THAT.
FANTASTIC. THANK YOU FOR THAT TIMELINE BECAUSE I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT SINCE 2019. RIGHT, THIS HAS BEEN LINGERING. IT'S BEEN A LONG TIME. THIS, PAIRED WITH ROSEMAN, PAIRED WITH BUDDY HAYES, PAIRED WITH LEONARD, PAIRED WITH EAST FOSTER CROSSING, THERE ARE MORE ROADS BEING BUILT IN ANNA NOW AND PLANNED THAN THERE HAVE BEEN IN THE PAST 10 YEARS, PROBABLY LONGER. SO THERE'S A REAL SWING IN PRIORITIES FOR THIS CITY, AND INFRASTRUCTURE AND ROADS IS TOP OF THAT LIST. SO I WANT PEOPLE TO UNDERSTAND, YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES THEY DON'T SEE THE MOVEMENT AS QUICKLY.
BUT I'LL TELL YOU ONE THING, AND, YOU KNOW, STAFF CONFIRMS THAT WE HAVE NOT MOVED THIS QUICKLY ON ROADS IN A LONG TIME. AND THE FACT THAT, YOU KNOW, THIS ISSUE ON HACKBERRY, WHICH HAS BEEN EVIDENT FOR SO LONG, WHICH SHOULD HAVE BEEN DONE ORIGINALLY, PHASE ONE, AS, YOU KNOW, EVERYONE, YOU KNOW, AGREES, THE FACT IS WE'RE FINALLY GETTING IT DONE, RIGHT? HACKBERRY IS GOING TO BE HERE SOON. SO, YOU KNOW, WE APPRECIATE EVERYONE'S PATIENCE. YOU KNOW, WE KNOW THERE'S BEEN A LOT GOING ON.
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ROADS ARE SOMETHING WE'RE TAKING VERY SERIOUSLY. WE'RE MOVING THEM FORWARD, AND I'M HAPPY THAT EVERYONE IS ON THE SAME PAGE AS WELL.ALSO, THERE'S PROBABLY GOING TO END UP BEING A BRIDGE ON THAT, ASSUMING OVER THE CREEK.
THERE IS CULVERTS. IT'S NOT REALLY GOING TO LOOK LIKE A BRIDGE. FROM THE TOP, IT WON'T LOOK LIKE A BRIDGE.
IT'LL JUST LOOK LIKE ANY ROADWAY WITH VERY LARGE CULVERTS UNDERNEATH IT.
PERFECT. SO JUST TO MAKE SURE, WHO'S PAYING FOR THIS? IS THE CITY PAYING FOR THIS OR IS THE DEVELOPER? SO THE WAY IT IS ACTUALLY BEING FUNDED IS FROM EXCESS PID BONDS, WHICH IS PART OF THE AMENDMENT. AND THEN IT IS ALSO BEING PAID FOR THROUGH PID FEES, WHICH IS A PORTION OF OUR PID POLICY AND WAS PART OF THAT DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT.
SO THERE WILL NOT BE ANY ROADWAY IMPACT FEES REQUIRED FOR THIS. IT WILL ALL BE PAID FOR THROUGH THE PID PROCESS THAT WAS ORIGINALLY SET UP FOR THIS PROJECT.
PERFECT. I LOVE THAT THERE'S NO EXTRA TAX BURDEN ON ANY OF THE RESIDENTS, CONSIDERING ORIGINALLY WHEN THIS WAS PROBABLY AGREED UPON, THE COST TO DEVELOP IT WAS PROBABLY A LOT CHEAPER THAN IT IS RIGHT NOW. BUT THE GOOD NEWS IS WE'RE STILL NOT HAVING TO FRONT ALL THAT MONEY WITH THAT INFLATION COST. AND HOW MANY LANES WILL IT BE? IT WILL BE TWO AND EIGHT, OR IT'LL BE FOUR TOTAL, TWO IN EACH DIRECTION.
PERFECT. NOW, IS THAT GOING TO BE JUST THAT MIDDLE SECTION, OR IS THAT GOING TO BE THE FULL STRETCH OF HACKBERRY? SO, IT IS ALREADY TWO FOR A LARGE PORTION OF IT. AS YOU GET CLOSER TOWARDS HIGHWAY 05, IT NECKS BACK DOWN TO THE TWO. BUT IT WILL BE, IT IS CURRENTLY FOUR AT THE ACCESS ROAD, AND THROUGH THE METAVISTA DEVELOPMENT, IT IS ALSO FOUR.
SO, AS THINGS REDEVELOPMENT FURTHER TO THE EAST OR WE CREATE CIP PROJECTS, I WOULD ANTICIPATE IT'S GOING TO BE A FUTURE FOUR LANE, BUT IT WON'T BE ALL THE WAY FROM HIGHWAY 5 TO 75 NOW, BUT IT WILL BE FOR A LARGE PORTION OF IT.
SO JUST TO UNDERSTAND, IN ORDER FOR PEOPLE FROM THE EAST SIDE TO GET TO THE COMMERCIAL CORRIDOR ON 75, WE'RE GOING TO BE ABLE TO EXPAND ROSAMOND. WE'RE GOING TO BE ABLE TO EXPAND HACKBERRY. YOU'VE GOT BUDDY HAYES THAT'S BEING EXPANDED.
YOU'VE GOT FERGUSON THAT'S EVENTUALLY IN THE PIPELINE TOO. THERE'S A LOT COMING HERE, GUYS. AND, YOU KNOW, FIRST OF ALL, THANK YOU TO YOUR STAFF FOR PUTTING IN SO MUCH WORK.
BUT I ALSO WANT THE CITY TO UNDERSTAND AND ALL THE RESIDENTS THAT WE ARE MOVING VERY QUICKLY ON ROADS. I KNOW I'VE SAID THAT A COUPLE TIMES TODAY, BUT I WANT TO REALLY SEND THAT MESSAGE HOME, IS THAT WE'RE DOING STUFF HERE THAT HAS NOT BEEN DONE IN A LONG TIME.
SO THANK YOU, STAFF. THANK YOU, MANAGEMENT AS WELL, AND THANK YOU, COUNCIL. SO CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG READING THIS. THIS IS GOING TO BE PAID FOR BECAUSE THIS PROJECT CAME IN UNDER BUDGET, AND THESE ARE EXCESS FEES.
SO THE BOND, SO WHEN A PID IS CREATED, THEY MAKE AN ASSUMPTION OF WHAT THE CONSTRUCTION COST OF A PARTICULAR PID IS GOING TO BE. AND THEN THAT'S HOW THE ASSESSMENTS ARE APPLIED TO EACH LOT WITHIN THAT DEVELOPMENT. WHEN THEY DID THE COST ESTIMATE, WE WERE SEEING A TIME OF GREAT INCREASE IN CONSTRUCTION COSTS. SO WHEN THEY ACTUALLY GOT FINISHED, WHAT WE DO IS WE TAKE THE PID AMOUNT AND WE TRUE IT UP VERSUS ACTUAL CONSTRUCTION COSTS.
ACTUAL CONSTRUCTION COSTS FOR THE PID-ELIGIBLE PROJECTS CAME IN AT ABOUT A LITTLE OVER A MILLION DOLLARS LOWER.
SO THERE WAS AN AGREEMENT STRUCK WITH THE DEVELOPMENT COMMUNITY ON THIS. THEY HAD ASKED IF IT COULD BE ELIGIBLE FOR RIGHT-OF-WAY, WHICH HAS BEEN DONE IN SOME OF THE OTHER PIDS THAT WE HAVE.
AND THEY WANTED TO SAY, HEY, CAN WE HAVE THAT FULL MILLION DOLLARS FOR THAT? IN NEGOTIATIONS, I KNEW THAT WE HAD TO BUILD THE BRIDGE. SO I SAID, HEY, I WOULD LIKE THE FULL MILLION DOLLARS.
WE CAME TO AN AGREEMENT BECAUSE THE, YOU'LL HEAR TONIGHT WE DEVELOP A PSAP, A PLAN FOR WHAT IMPROVEMENTS WOULD BE COVERED BY THE PID. RIGHT-OF-WAY WAS NOT CLEARLY IDENTIFIED, BUT THIS BRIDGE WASN'T EITHER.
SO WE AGREED THAT WE WOULD, IN ESSENCE, SPLIT THE PROCEEDS OF THE SAVINGS THAT WERE SEEN BY THE CONSTRUCTION COSTS, APPLY SOME OF IT TO THE RIGHT-OF-WAY, AND APPLY HALF OF IT TO THE RIGHT-OF-WAY, AND APPLY HALF OF IT TO THE BRIDGE, WHICH THEN BROUGHT DOWN THE PID REQUIREMENTS FOR NEEDING TO REIMBURSE THEM THROUGH THE PID FEES.
THANK YOU FOR THAT EXPLANATION.
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I HAVE A FOLLOW-UP ON THAT.HOW LONG WAS IT KNOWN THAT THERE WAS A MILLION OVERAGE? WE ACTUALLY JUST FOUND THAT OUT A FEW MONTHS AGO.
REALLY? WE BEGIN TO TRUE UP OUR CALCULATIONS NEAR THE END OF A PROJECT. YOU NEED TO FIGURE OUT WHAT YOU'RE GOING TO DO WITH THOSE BOND PROCEEDS.
WHEN WAS THE PROJECT FINISHED? OR WHEN WAS IT, I GUESS, ON PAPER? IT'S BEEN A COUPLE YEARS, RIGHT? I WANT TO SAY WE WERE RIGHT ABOUT THE TWO-YEAR MARK ON NEEDING TO TRUE UP WHAT WE WERE GOING TO DO WITH THE FINAL.
SO WHAT I'M HEARING HERE, HOLD ON, BECAUSE YOU HIT ON SOMETHING IMPORTANT. WE'VE KNOWN ESSENTIALLY FOR TWO YEARS THAT THERE'S BEEN OVER A MILLION DOLLARS SITTING WITH THE DEVELOPER, AND WE'RE JUST NOW GETTING AROUND TO IT. AND THIS IS BEFORE YOUR TIME, TOO, SO I WANT TO BE CLEAR.
SO UNTIL WE HAD THE RIGHT-OF-WAY, THERE REALLY WASN'T THE NEED TO HAVE A DISCUSSION AS TO HOW YOU WERE GOING TO FINAL OUT THE BOND PIECES. SO ONCE WE OBTAINED THE RIGHT-OF-WAY, THAT'S WHEN I STARTED TALKING ABOUT WHAT WE WERE GOING TO DO WITH THE BRIDGE. WE STARTED TRYING TO TRUE UP WHAT WAS LEFT IN THE BOND PROCEEDS. AND SO THAT PIECE OF THE CONVERSATION, I DON'T THINK ANYBODY WHO IS CURRENTLY ON THE TEAM OR EVEN OUR FINANCIAL ADVISORS TRULY KNEW.
TYPICALLY, WHEN YOU GET DONE WITH ONE OF THESE, YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT LESS THAN $100,000. SO IT'S REALLY YOUR ADMINISTRATIVE COST THAT YOU FIGURE OUT WHAT YOU DO SORT OF AT THE END OF IT. IT HAPPENED IN THIS CASE THAT THE PID BONDS WERE BASED UPON A HIGHER CONSTRUCTION NUMBER THAT ACTUALLY CAME IN AT A TRUE LOWER NUMBER. SO I DON'T BELIEVE THAT ANYBODY WHO IS CURRENTLY WORKING ON THE PROJECT KNEW THAT THERE WAS A MILLION DOLLARS SITTING OUT THERE.
IT WAS SOMETHING THAT WAS BROUGHT UP AS WE BEGAN TO TRUE UP HOW WE WERE GOING TO CLOSE OUT THIS.
SO FIRST OF ALL, I WILL COMMEND YOU AND YOUR TEAM FOR FINDING THAT.
NOW, FOR YOUR RIGHT-OF-WAY TIMING, WHEN WAS THAT TAKEN CARE OF? WHEN SHOULD IT HAVE BEEN TAKEN CARE OF? THERE'S TWO PARTS TO THAT.
WHEN SHOULD IT HAVE? WHEN SHOULD IT HAVE? FROM WHAT I UNDERSTAND, IT WAS IN NEGOTIATION BEFORE I GOT HERE.
HOW LONG BEFORE I GOT HERE, I AM NOT REAL SURE ABOUT THE TIMELINE.
IS IT A REASONABLE ASSUMPTION TO ASSUME PHASE ONE PROBABLY WOULD HAVE BEEN A...
I BELIEVE THAT THEY WERE HAVING THOSE CONVERSATIONS.
DURING PHASE ONE, BUT CONSTRUCTION OF PHASE ONE ONLY FINISHED ABOUT A YEAR AND A HALF AGO, FULLY BUILDING OUT OF ALL THE HOMES.
SO THE PID IS IN EFFECT UNTIL BASICALLY THE LAST HOME IN A PHASE IS BUILT.
SO EVEN THOUGH IT WAS PLANNED VERY EARLY ON, IT CAN TAKE SEVEN, EIGHT YEARS BEFORE YOU ACTUALLY BUILD THE LAST HOME.
SO I KNOW THAT WHEN I GOT HERE, THAT WAS A DISCUSSION WE WERE HAVING OF, WE HAVE THIS RIGHT-OF-WAY GAP, OR WE HAVE A GAP.
WHY DO WE HAVE A GAP? IT'S A RIGHT-OF-WAY GAP.
WHO ARE WE NEGOTIATING WITH? WHO ARE WE TALKING WITH? THEY HAD ALREADY, IT HAD KIND OF STALLED, IS MY UNDERSTANDING.
DOES COUNCIL HAVE ANY CONTEXT ON WHY IT WAS STALLED FOR SO LONG? I'D LIKE TO GIVE ANYONE THE FLOOR.
THE ANSWER THAT I CAN HONESTLY TELL YOU IS I DON'T THINK IT WAS COUNCIL.
I'M NOT ASKING FOR HISTORICAL CONTEXT.
MAYBE IT'S JUST SOMETHING WE DON'T KNOW.
MAYBE SOME DECISIONS THAT WERE BEING MADE OR JUST.
DEVELOPERS WERE HARD TO GET HOLD OF FOR A COUPLE OF YEARS FOR REASONS I HEARD.
THEY HAD THEIR OWN PLANS OF WHERE THE FERGUSON, NOT FERGUSON, SORRY, SAME STORY WITH FERGUSON.
THEY HAD THEIR OWN PLANS ON HACKBERRY ON THE ROUTE THAT THEY WANTED TO GO. SO I MEAN, I MEAN, PHASE 1, MEADOW VISTA, I GUESS MIGHT HAVE PASSED 19 OR '20, BUT IT JUST STARTED BUILDING IN '20 INFRASTRUCTURE IN 2024, 2025.
SO IT'S NOT THAT IT'S TAKEN THIS LONG.
THERE WAS A LONG TIME WHEN THE ROUTE ITSELF WASN'T EVEN...
SO WHEN WAS THE ROUTE TRUED UP? LIKE, AT WHAT POINT DID WE AS THE CITY REALIZE, HEY, WE NEED TO GET INVOLVED IN THE DECISION OF THIS ROUTE? SO IT WAS PRIOR TO ME GETTING HERE.
I WANT TO SAY IT WAS PROBABLY ABOUT TWO YEARS AGO.
THE INTERESTING THING ABOUT THE NEGOTIATION WAS I WENT BACK TO THE ENGINEERS.
I KIND OF REMOVED THE DEVELOPERS FROM IT, AND I BROUGHT THE DEVELOPER...
FOR METAVISTA ENGINEER IN AND I BROUGHT THE ENGINEER FOR THE PROPERTY OWNER THAT WE ULTIMATELY OBTAINED THE INFORMATION FROM.
AND I SAID, HOW FAR APART ARE WE REALLY? AND WHAT WE FOUND WAS WE REALLY WEREN'T THAT FAR APART. THERE WERE SOME MISCONCEPTIONS, THERE WERE SOME MISUNDERSTANDINGS.
THEY WERE THINKING THAT DIFFERENT THINGS WERE HAPPENING THAT WEREN'T DIFFERENT THINGS LIKE THAT. SO WE WERE ABLE TO GET TO THAT WITHOUT HAVING
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TO GO THROUGH THE CONDEMNATION PROCESS, WE WERE ABLE TO OBTAIN THE RIGHT OF WAY. IT JUST TOOK A LITTLE BIT LONGER WHEN YOU'RE TALKING THROUGH ENGINEERS AND INTERMEDIARIES THAT IT'S JUST THE PROCESS TOOK SOME TIME TO FINALIZE.FIRST OF ALL, I WANT TO COMMEND YOU FOR FINDING A PATH THROUGH THAT, RIGHT? BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, I KNOW YOU CAME INTO, YOU KNOW, A SITUATION LIKE THIS THAT WAS FLUID. YOU DIDN'T HAVE ALL THE INFORMATION, BUT I'LL GIVE YOU THE CREDIT BECAUSE YOU'VE REALLY PULLED IT THROUGH, YOU AND YOUR STAFF. SO, YOU KNOW, HATS OFF TO YOU GUYS.
BUT I DO WANT THIS TO BE A CLEAR LESSON, RIGHT? WHAT ARE WE DOING IN THE FUTURE TO MAKE SURE THAT THESE BOND OVERAGES, YOU KNOW, AREN'T SO BIG, RIGHT? AND WHAT ARE WE DOING IN THE FUTURE TO MAKE SURE THAT THERE'S AT LEAST A TIME WHERE WE'RE, ARE WE AUDITING ANYWHERE THROUGH THE PROCESS? ARE WE ANTICIPATING, HEY, IT'S PROBABLY GOING TO END UP OVER? WHAT IF IT'S UNDER? WHAT IF THERE'S A SITUATION ON THE OTHER END? WHAT IF THEY'RE A MILLION SHORT? SO IS THERE A WAY FOR US TO MAKE SURE THAT IN THE FUTURE SOMETHING LIKE THIS DOESN'T GET REPEATED, OR IF WE HAVE ANOTHER BEST PRACTICE? SO, YES. WHAT I CAN TELL YOU IS THAT IF IT'S AN OVERAGE, MEANING THAT THE COST OF CONSTRUCTION WAS OVER WHAT THE PID ASSESSMENT WAS, IT IS ON THE DEVELOPER TO MAKE UP THAT DIFFERENCE.
THAT'S CLEARLY STATED IN THE PID AGREEMENTS. WE ARE WORKING AS A TEAM, WORKING WITH OUR PID CONSULTANTS. WE HAVE ASKED THEM FOR A LOT OF INFORMATION. THEY HAVE HELPED US COMPILE REEM'S PAPER AT THIS POINT, HELPING US UNDERSTAND WHAT OUR PIDS ARE, WHAT THE TIMELINES ARE, WHEN PID FEES ARE PAID.
DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENTS, WE'VE BEEN READING THROUGH THOSE DILIGENTLY, TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHAT THOSE TRIGGERS ARE, WHEN WE'VE REACHED THE POINT THAT THEY'RE OUT OF COMPLIANCE WITH A DA OR THAT WE MAY HAVE PUT OURSELVES OUT OF A COMPLIANCE WITH A DA, WHICH THERE AREN'T ANY RIGHT NOW. BUT WE'RE TRYING TO MAKE SURE THAT THE CITY IS FULFILLING THEIR OBLIGATION, THE DEVELOPMENT COMMUNITY IS FULFILLING THEIRS. WE ARE BEGINNING TO UNDERSTAND MORE ABOUT HOW WE'RE TRUING UP.
WE'RE TRUING UP ANOTHER ONE HERE RECENTLY, AND THAT'S WHY I SAY IT'S LIKE $40,000. IT'S NOT A MILLION. AGAIN, I THINK IT HAD A LOT TO DO WITH WHEN THIS PID WAS CREATED, YOU HAVE TO MAKE AN ASSUMPTION OF WHAT THE CONSTRUCTION COSTS ARE GOING TO BE. SOMETIMES YOU WIN, SOMETIMES YOU LOSE AS THE DEVELOPMENT COMMUNITY. WE JUST WANTED TO MAKE SURE, AND IT'S NOT A WIN AND LOSE.
SOMETIMES YOUR ENGINEER'S ESTIMATES ARE MORE ACCURATE THAN THEY ARE AT ANY GIVEN TIME. SO THAT'S WHY WIN AND LOSE IS NOT THE CORRECT TERM BY ANY MEANS.
BECAUSE WE WANT EVERYBODY WHO IS WORKING WITH US IN A DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT OR OTHERWISE TO BE SUCCESSFUL.
BECAUSE IF THEY'RE SUCCESSFUL, WE'RE SUCCESSFUL. IT CREATES JOBS, IT CREATES SALES TAX, IT CREATES ALL THESE DIFFERENT THINGS AT GROWTH WITH BANANA.
SO STAFF IS WORKING OUR BEST TO TRY TO CONNECT THOSE DOTS AND FIGURE OUT HOW WE NAVIGATE THOSE DIFFICULT SITUATIONS HERE IN THE FUTURE.
DEFINITELY. I KNOW HACKBERRY HAS BEEN A MAIN POINT OF ISSUE, ESPECIALLY FROM WEST OF HIGHWAY 5, BUT ANY INSIGHTS ON TO WHEN THE EXPANSION ON THE EAST SIDE OF 5 IS GOING TO HAPPEN? IT IS NOT CURRENTLY PLANNED.
AS YOU SAY, WE'VE GOT A NUMBER OF OTHER CORRIDORS THAT WE'RE FOCUSED ON RIGHT NOW. WE ARE LOOKING AT WHAT IT WOULD LOOK LIKE IN OUR 10-YEAR CIP, BUT WE DON'T HAVE A DEFINITIVE DATE ON WHAT EXPANSION TO THE EAST CURRENTLY LOOKS LIKE BECAUSE WE ARE FOCUSED ON ROSAMOND, WE'RE FOCUSED ON BUDDY HAYES, WE'RE FOCUSED ON FERGUSON, THOSE SORTS OF THINGS AT THIS POINT.
DO WE HAVE A TIMELINE APPROXIMATELY FOR HACKBERRY? SO IT WILL, LIKE I SAID, FOR THE PIECE THAT WE'RE MISSING, I WOULD ANTICIPATE IT'S GOING TO BEGIN CONSTRUCTION BEFORE THE END OF THE SUMMER.
AND THEY'VE TOLD ME IT'S GOING TO BE ABOUT A NINE TO 12 MONTH CONSTRUCTION PROCESS, DEPENDING ON WHAT THE WINTER AND WEATHER AND ALL THAT LOOKS LIKE. IF WE HAVE A RELATIVELY DRY WINTER, I WOULD ANTICIPATE IT'S PROBABLY GOING TO BE MORE CLOSE TO THE NINE.
IF WE HAVE A LITTLE BIT WETTER WINTER SLASH SPRING, IT'LL PROBABLY PUSH CLOSER TO THE 12TH.
PERFECT. AND OUT OF CURIOSITY, I'M ASSUMING THE HACKBERRY AND...
I'M GOING TO GO AHEAD AND BRING US BACK TO THIS THING ON THIS AGENDA ITEM, PLEASE. I'M ON HACKBERRY. ARE WE ON TOP? RIGHT. IT'S HACKBERRY.
BUT WE WANDERED OFF INTO ROSAMOND A LITTLE BIT. I JUST WANTED TO MAKE SURE WE'RE...
NO, THAT'S FINE. SO HACKBERRY, IS THAT GOING TO HAVE A LIGHT AT BUDDY HAYES ONCE IT EXTENDS OUT? SORRY, WHAT WAS THAT? IS HACKBERRY EXTENDING OUT TO BUDDY HAYES, AND WILL THERE BE A LIGHT?
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SO BUDDY HAYES DOES EXTEND TO HACKBERRY. CURRENTLY, THE SECTION BETWEEN BUDDY HAYES AND US-75 IS ALREADY CONSTRUCTED.THERE WILL NOT BE A LIGHT RIGHT NOW AT BUDDY HAYES AND HACKBERRY RIGHT NOW. IT WILL BE A T INTERSECTION. IF IT BECOMES WARRANTED IN THE FUTURE, THEN WE WOULD LOOK AT WHAT THAT NEED WOULD LOOK LIKE.
ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU. SOUNDS LIKE A PERFECT PLACE FOR A ROUNDABOUT, BUT I'LL MAKE A MOTION TO APPROVE ITEM 6A.
I HAVE A MOTION BY COUNCILMEMBER TOTEN, SECONDED BY COUNCILMEMBER SINGH. IF YOU WOULD PLEASE CAST YOUR VOTES.
[7. Items For Individual Consideration and Public Hearings.]
ITEM PASSES UNANIMOUSLY. IT TAKES US TO AGENDA ITEM SEVEN, ITEMS FOR INDIVIDUAL CONSIDERATION IN PUBLIC HEARINGS AT THE TIME AND PLACE OF ANY PUBLIC HEARING HELD DURING THIS MEETING. ALL PERSONS WHO DESIRE WILL HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO BE HEARD IN OPPOSITION TO OR IN FAVOR OF THE ORDINANCE, APPLICATION, OR OTHER PROPOSED ITEM. A, AS CONDUCTED PUBLIC HEARING, CONSIDER TO DISCUSS AND ACT ON A RECOMMENDATION TO AMEND ARTICLE 9.04, A ZONING ORDINANCE, ADOPTING REGULATIONS AS IT PERTAINS TO DRONE DELIVERY INFRASTRUCTURE.DEVELOPMENT SERVICES DIRECTOR CALEB KENTNER. AND AS YOU COME DOWN, I'M GOING TO OPEN OUR PUBLIC HEARING AT 8.41 P.M.
ALL RIGHT. MAYOR AND COUNCIL, YOU HAVE IN YOUR PACKETS THE COMPLETE STAFF REPORT THAT OUTLINED THIS REQUEST. AS SOME OF YOU ARE AWARE, THIS IS SOMETHING THAT CAME FROM THE COUNCIL BACK IN JANUARY. DIRECTED STAFF TO WORK WITH THE PLANNING COMMISSION TO COME UP WITH THE REGULATIONS IN REGARDS TO THESE DRONES AND AND HOW THEY THEIR INFRASTRUCTURE ON THE GROUND AND I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT'S VERY CLEAR TO THE PUBLIC AND EVERYONE THIS IS INFRASTRUCTURE THAT IS ON THE GROUND THERE ARE STATE PREEMPTIONS AND FAA FEDERAL REGULATIONS THAT PREEMPT US FROM REGULATING ABOVE THE GROUND WHEN IT COMES TO DRONES. AND SO WITH THAT, THE PURPOSE OF THIS IS TO ESTABLISH THOSE REGULATIONS FOR SPECIFICALLY LOOKING AT THE DEFINITIONS FOR DRONE DELIVERY HUBS AND DRONE DELIVERY PICKUP KIOSKS.
LOCATIONS AND REQUIREMENTS FOR DRONE DELIVERY HUBS AND DRONE DELIVERY PICKUP KIOSKS, INCLUDING WHEN IT WOULD BE PERMITTED BY RIGHT OR BY SPECIFIC USE PERMIT, AND STAFF APPROVAL OF PARKING SPACE REDUCTIONS IN CERTAIN CIRCUMSTANCES. THIS DID GO BEFORE THE PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION. THEY ACTUALLY WORKED ON THIS SINCE MARCH. AND AT THEIR MAY MEETING, RECOMMENDED APPROVAL ORDINANCE THAT YOU HAVE IN YOUR PACKETS. AND WE HAVE A LOT OF HISTORY AND DETAILS INCLUDED IN THIS INFORMATION THAT'S IN YOUR PACKETS AND HAS BEEN AVAILABLE TO THE PUBLIC. AND IF THERE'S ANYTHING THAT I CAN ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS FOR, I'D BE GLAD TO GO OVER THAT, WHERE THESE ARE ALLOWED IN PARTICULAR AS FAR AS SETBACKS AND SOME OF THOSE THINGS. I'D BE GLAD TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS THAT YOU MAY HAVE OR THE PUBLIC MAY HAVE DURING THE PUBLIC HEARING.
ALL RIGHT. I DON'T HAVE ANY PUBLIC HEARING FORMS. DO YOU HAVE ANYTHING OVER THERE? ANYBODY WANTING TO SPEAK ON THIS ITEM? LAST CALL. ALL RIGHT.
I'M GOING TO CLOSE THE PUBLIC HEARING AT 8.43 P.M.
COUNSEL, ANY QUESTIONS? I WANTED TO TAG IN OUR NEW RESIDENT EXPERT FROM PNZ.
I WASN'T GOING TO MISS THIS OPPORTUNITY.
BUT DO YOU WANT TO MAYBE GIVE US SOME CONTEXT ON WHAT YOU GUYS WORKED THROUGH AND JUST, YOU KNOW, JUST HOW YOU GUYS CAME TO THIS? PLEASE? THANK YOU.
WE WORKED THROUGH WHAT AREAS WE THOUGHT THEY SHOULD AUTOMATICALLY BE ALLOWED TO BE IN VERSUS ONES THAT WE DIDN'T THINK THAT THEY WOULD FIT.
OBVIOUSLY, RESIDENTIAL IS NOT A KEEN PLACE THAT WE'D WANT TO SEE THEM.
MULTIFAMILY WASN'T REALLY ONE EITHER, BUT WE WERE THINKING COMMERCIAL.
SO WE REALLY HONED IN ON THOSE AREAS THAT WE WOULDN'T HAVE TO COME AND TRY TO DO LIKE A ZONING ORDINANCE CHANGE TO HAVE THEM PLACED.
WE WORKED ON WHERE IT COULD BE PLACED AROUND THE BUILDING, YOU KNOW, IF IT WAS GOING TO TAKE UP PARKING, IF THAT WAS GOING TO BE AN ISSUE, THEN WOULD WE MAKE THEM HOLD TO THE PARKING? BECAUSE PART OF THE PLOT IS THAT THEY HAVE A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF PARKING SPOTS FOR EACH BUSINESS.
SO IF THEY'RE GOING TO PUT IT IN A PARKING SPOT, DO WE NEED THEM TO COME BACK AND GET REAPPROVAL IF THEY LOSE PARKING SPACES FOR THAT? SO THAT WAS SOMETHING ELSE THAT WE LOOKED INTO.
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OF FINE-TUNING OF VERBIAGE TO MAKE SURE THAT WE WEREN'T.PIGEONHOLING US INTO A SITUATION THAT WOULD REQUIRE MORE ARGUMENTS THAN FORESIGHT.
DO WE HAVE ANY BUSINESSES ALREADY INTERESTED? I BELIEVE THE COUNCIL WAS ORIGINALLY PROPOSED BACK IN JANUARY OF THE COMPANY THAT'S CURRENTLY OPERATING OR CURRENTLY OUT OF WALMART.
YEAH, I'M TALKING ABOUT PICKUP.
INTERESTED THAT WOULD USE THESE.
WHEN WE WERE GOING THROUGH PLANNING AND ZONING, THERE WAS SOME RESTAURANTS THAT THEY HAD MENTIONED THAT THEY HAD ALREADY TEAMED UP WITH.
LIKE CHIPOTLE WAS ONE OF THEM.
YOU KNOW, YOUR WENDY'S IS ANOTHER ONE.
THINGS LIKE THAT, THEY'RE ALREADY HERE.
BUT NONE HAVE, LIKE, DIRECTLY APPROACHED HEARING ANNA TO SAY, HEY, WE WOULD LIKE TO ADD THIS SERVICE.
JUST OVER A QUICK VIEW, SOME OF OUR FAST FOOD PHARMACIES PROBABLY, DO YOU SEE ANY ISSUES WITH OUR CURRENT ZONING WITH THOSE RESTAURANTS? NOT WITH THE PLANNING COMMISSION.
WE WENT OVER THAT IN VERY DETAIL IN LOOKING AT THE AREAS THAT WE WANTED TO BE SURE THAT THERE WAS PROPER SETBACKS IF THEY WERE NEAR RESIDENTIAL AREAS AND THOSE AREAS.
THIS IS A BRAND-NEW TECHNOLOGY.
IN A LOT OF CITIES, THIS IS NEW TO EVERYONE.
I BELIEVE THE PLANNING COMMISSION DID A GREAT JOB IN LOOKING OVER AS THOROUGHLY AS WE COULD.
I'M SURE THERE'S THINGS THAT WILL COME UP AS WE GO, AND THOSE WILL BE THINGS THAT WE'LL BE BRINGING BACK TO YOU AND TO THE PATIENT AS WE SEE THEM.
WHAT HOURS OF IS THERE ANYTHING RELATED TO HOURS OF SERVICE? SO, FOR EXAMPLE, CAN SOMEONE DROP OFF A ZIP LINE PACKAGE AT 3 IN THE MORNING? RIGHT NOW THERE IS NO TIME LIMITATIONS.
THEY SELF-TIME THEMSELVES AT THIS TIME.
IF IT DOES GO THROUGH A SPECIFIC USE PERMIT.
SPECIFIC USE PERMITS DO ALLOW TIME AND OPERATIONS TO BE CONSIDERED AS A CONDITION THAT CAN BE PLACED ON A BUSINESS THAT OPERATES.
THAT WOULD BE SOMETHING THAT WOULD COME UP.
RIGHT NOW, THE OPERATORS OF THEM CURRENTLY LIMIT THEMSELVES AS FAR AS THEIR OPERATIONAL TIMES.
ANY TELLS OF A I MEAN, WE PROBABLY GOT TO GET ID FOR THIS, BUT ANY CHANCE OF ALCOHOL DELIVERIES? I DO NOT KNOW.
YOU KNOW, A GOOD TWO-FOOT PACK DELIVERED AT HOME ON A WEEKEND, UFC NIGHT.
I'LL MAKE A MOTION THAT WE APPROVE ITEM 7A.
I'LL MOTION BY COUNCILMEMBER TOTEN, SECONDED BY COUNCILMEMBER BRYAN.
IF YOU WOULD PLEASE CAST YOUR VOTES.
TAKES US TO ITEM 7B, CONDUCT A PUBLIC HEARING AND TAKE TESTIMONY ON IT.
OPPOSED LEVY OF ASSESSMENTS ON PROPERTY LOCATED WITHIN IMPROVEMENT AREA NUMBER TWO, IMPROVEMENT AREA NUMBER THREE, AND IMPROVEMENT AREA NUMBER FOUR ON THE SHIRLEY TRACT PUBLIC IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT NUMBER TWO.
PURSUANT TO CHAPTER 372, TEXAS LAW AND CODE, DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WORKS, MR. JOSEPH COTTON.
JOSEPH, I'M GOING TO GO AHEAD AND OPEN UP OUR PUBLIC HEARING RIGHT NOW AT 8.48 P.M.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TONIGHT.
THIS IS THE BOTH OR ALL OF B, C, AND D.
A COUPLE MEETINGS AGO, WE BROUGHT TO YOU A SIMILAR ITEM AS ITEM NUMBER 6E, WHICH SETS FUTURE DATES FOR THESE TYPE OF HEARINGS AND THEN ULTIMATELY ORDINANCES AND THEN ULTIMATELY THE ALLOWANCE OF LEVIES.
SO THIS IS THE FIRST STEP IN THIS THREE-STEP PROCESS FOR TONIGHT, WHICH IS HAVING THE PUBLIC HEARING, HEARING FROM THE PUBLIC.
ANSWERING ANY QUESTIONS Y'ALL MAY HAVE AND THEN PROCEEDING ON TO THE ORDINANCE AND ULTIMATELY THE AUTHORIZATION PROPOSED SALE IN THE TWO SUBSEQUENT ITEMS. THANK YOU, SIR.
I DON'T HAVE ANY SPEAKER CARDS ON THIS EITHER.
MS. LAND, ANYONE IN THE CROWD? LAST CALL.
CLOSING THIS PUBLIC HEARING AT 8.49 P.M.
COUNSEL, ANY QUESTIONS, COMMENTS, CONCERNS? IF NOT, I'LL ENTERTAIN A MOTION.
WE HAVE A MOTION BY COUNCILMEMBER HERNDON, SECONDED BY COUNCILMEMBER BAKER.
IF YOU WOULD, PLEASE CAST YOUR VOTES.
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ITEM C, CONSIDER DISCUSSING AN ACT ON AN ORDINANCE ACCEPTING AND APPROVING A 2026 AMEND AND RESTATED SERVICE AND ASSESSMENT PLAN AND ASSESSMENT ROLES FOR THE SHIRLEY TRACK PUBLIC IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT NO.02, MAKING A FINDING OF SPECIAL BENEFIT TO SUCH PROPERTY, LEVYING SPECIAL ASSESSMENTS AGAINST PROPERTY WITH IMPROVEMENT AREA NO.
IMPROVEMENT AREA NUMBER THREE, IMPROVEMENT AREA NUMBER FOUR OF THE DISTRICT AND ESTABLISHING A LIEN ON SUCH PROPERTY PROVIDING FOR THE METHOD OF ASSESSMENT AND THE PAYMENT OF THE ASSESSMENTS IN ACCORDANCE WITH CHAPTER 372 TEXAS LOCAL GOVERNMENT CODE.
THIS IS THE NEXT STEP IN THAT PROCESS.
WE JUST HELD OUR PUBLIC HEARING.
THIS IS SETTING THE ORDINANCE.
CREATING THE AMENDED AND RESTATED SERVICE AND ASSESSMENT AGREEMENT, WHAT WE CALL THE SAP, AND THEN THE ASSESSMENT ROLES FOR SHIRLEY TRACT PUBLIC IMPROVEMENT AREAS 2, 3, AND 4.
I HAVE A MOTION BY COUNCILMEMBER HERNDON, SECONDED BY COUNCILMEMBER BAKER. IF YOU WOULD, PLEASE CAST YOUR VOTES.
THAT WILL TAKE US TO ITEM D, CONSIDER TO DISCUSS AN ACT ON AN ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING THE ISSUANCE OF THE CITY OF ANNA, TEXAS SPECIAL ASSESSMENT REVENUE BOND SERIES 2026 FOR THE SHIRLEY TRACK PUBLIC IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT NO.
02, AREAS 2 THROUGH 4 PROJECTS, AND A PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF UP TO $11 MILLION, AND APPROVING VARIOUS DOCUMENTS RELATED TO SUCH BONDS.
THIS IS THE LAST STOP FOR THIS ONE THIS EVENING.
THIS IS ACTUALLY THE AUTHORIZATION ALLOWING OUR FINANCIAL ADVISORS TO GO OUT AND GET THE BONDS SOLD HERE IN THE NEAR FUTURE.
MOTION BY COUNCILMEMBER HERNDON.
SECOND BY COUNCILMEMBER TOTEN.
IF YOU WOULD PLEASE CAST YOUR VOTES.
MS. PEREZ, I THINK BEFORE WE CONTINUE ON
[8. Closed Session (Exceptions).]
DOWN HERE, THERE'S SOME THINGS THAT THE NEWEST COUNCIL MEMBER NEEDS TO KNOW, SO I'M GOING TO GO AHEAD AND SEE IF WE CAN GO INTO CLOSED SESSION RIGHT NOW.SO UNDER TEXAS GOVERNMENT CODE CHAPTER 551, THE CITY COUNCIL MAY ENTER INTO CLOSED SESSION TO DISCUSS ANY ITEM LISTED OR REFERENCED ON THIS AGENDA UNDER THE FOLLOWING EXCEPTIONS.
TEXAS GOVERNMENT CODE 551.072, TEXAS GOVERNMENT CODE 551.07.
WE'VE GOT ONE, TEXAS GOVERNMENT CODE 551.074 AND TEXAS GOVERNMENT CODE 551.087.
DO I HAVE A MOTION TO GO INTO CLOSE? I HAVE A MOTION TO GO INTO CLOSE.
I HAVE A MOTION BY COUNCILMEMBER HERNDON, SECONDED BY COUNCILMEMBER WALDEN.
IF YOU WOULD, PLEASE CAST YOUR VOTES.
WE'RE IN CLOSED SESSION AT 8.52 P.M.
ALL RIGHT, WE'RE COMING OUT OF CLOSED SESSION AT 9.42 P.M.
STILL IN ITEMS FOR INDIVIDUAL CONSIDERATION.
CONDUCT THE FIRST READING OF A RESOLUTION APPROVING A JOINT PROJECT OF THE ANNA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION IN THE CITY OF ANNA TO ENTER INTO AN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INCENTIVE AGREEMENT AMONG THE CITY, THE CORPORATION, AND BVE, ANNA NEC, SPE, LLC, FOR THE ROSEMONT TOWN CENTER DEVELOPMENT. NEXT UP IS F.
CONDUCT THE SECOND READING OF A RESOLUTION APPROVING A JOINT PROJECT OF THE ANNA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION IN THE CITY OF ANNA TO ENTER INTO AN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INCENTIVE AGREEMENT AMONG THE CITY, THE CORPORATION, AND BVE-ANA-NEC-SPE-LLC FOR THE ROSEMONTOWN CENTER DEVELOPMENT. AND UNDER G, CONSIDER, DISCUSS, AND ACT ON A RESOLUTION APPROVING A JOINT PROJECT OF THE ANA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION AND THE CITY OF ANA TO ENTER INTO AN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT AMONG THE CITY, THE CORPORATION, AND BVE-ANA-NEC-SPE-LLC FOR THE ROSEMONTOWN CENTER DEVELOPMENT, DIRECTOR OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, NATASHA ROACH.
GOOD EVENING, MAYOR AND COUNCIL. I AM VERY EXCITED TO BRING THIS NEXT ITEM BEFORE YOU FOR CONSIDERATION AND APPROVAL.
THIS RESOLUTION SPEAKS TO THE AGREEMENT AND THE DEAL POINTS THAT YOU HAVE AT EACH OF YOUR SEATS, AND WE DID DISCUSS IT, SO YOU SHOULD BE AWARE OF WHAT IT ENTAILS. ALSO WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT YOU UNDERSTAND THAT THE RESOLUTION ADOPTS THE AGREEMENT FROM BOTH
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THE CITY'S PERSPECTIVES, NOT JUST THE CDC'S. AND I'LL BE HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS THAT YOU HAVE.COUNCIL, ANY QUESTIONS ON THIS? YES. OH, SORRY, ONE SECOND. I JUST WANTED TO MAKE A STATEMENT. SO, I WANTED TO GIVE A SHOUT-OUT TO A COUPLE PEOPLE TODAY. SO, FIRST AND FOREMOST, I WANT TO GIVE A SHOUT-OUT TO NATASHA. SHE'S RECENTLY BEEN PROMOTED TO DIRECTOR OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT. IT'S BEEN A LONG TIME IN THE MAKING, AND, I MEAN, WE ARE SO EXCITED, SO EXCITED, IN FACT, THAT SHE WAS HIRED ON TUESDAY, AND TODAY WE'RE CLOSING THIS DEAL. I MEAN, JUST, IT'S ABSOLUTELY FANTASTIC. I ALSO WANT TO GIVE RHONDA CREDIT HERE.
SHE'S WITHIN HER FIRST 90 DAYS, AND WE'RE LOCKING 90 MILLION DOLLARS OF TAX REVENUE YEARLY. WHAT IS IT, A QUARTER BILLION OVER FOUR YEARS? I MEAN, THIS IS AN UNBELIEVABLE AMOUNT OF REVENUE THAT IS COMING INTO THE CITY, AND HONESTLY, WE COULDN'T HAVE DONE IT WITHOUT THESE TWO. SO, THANK YOU VERY MUCH. THANK YOU TO THE BOARD AND COUNCIL. I'LL LEAVE IT TO YOU.
IS THIS THE FINAL? IS IT? IS THIS THE FINAL? YES, WHAT YOU HAVE IS THE FINAL. BASED ON YOUR EXECUTION TONIGHT, IT WILL GO BACK TO THE DEVELOPER FOR THEIR SIGNATURES, AND THEN IT GOES TO CDC AT OUR NEXT MEETING.
SO NO MORE REVISIONS TO THIS AT ALL? NO, MA'AM.
OKAY, GOOD. THAT WAS MY QUESTION BECAUSE I WANTED TO KNOW IF WE WERE GOING TO SEE IT. THANK YOU.
I'LL MAKE A MOTION TO APPROVE UNLESS THERE'S SOMEONE ELSE.
I'LL SECOND. SORRY, I'LL DO E, F, AND G, JUST TO KEEP IT EASY.
WE JUST HAVE TO DO AN A, OR A G, JUST G.
SO WE HAVE A MOTION BY COUNCILMEMBER SINGH AND A SECOND BY COUNCILMEMBER HERNDON. IF YOU WOULD, PLEASE CAST YOUR VOTES. MOTION PASSES UNANIMOUSLY. THANK YOU, MA'AM.
THANK YOU. THANK YOU FOR THE KIND WORDS. I DO WANT TO TAKE A MOMENT TO SAY THAT I AM VERY EXCITED TO BE IN THIS POSITION, BUT I DON'T GET ALL THE CREDIT. I HAVE A GREAT TEAM THAT WORKS WITH ME TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE BRINGING THE DEVELOPMENT IN THAT YOU GUYS WANT AND THAT IT'S QUALITY DEVELOPMENT.
AND, OF COURSE, BEING LED BY RHONDA HAS BEEN A GREAT ADDITION TO THE TEAM. THANK YOU.
CAN WE JUST GIVE STAFF A ROUND OF APPLAUSE REAL QUICK? ALL RIGHT. AGENDA H, CONSIDER, DISCUSS, AND ACT ON APPOINTMENT OF MAYOR PRO TEM AND DEPUTY MAYOR PRO TEM.
IT SAYS MS. LAND. IS THERE SOMETHING YOU WANT TO SAY HERE? NO.
PERFECT. CAN I MAKE A MOTION TO NOMINATE ELDON BAKER FOR MAYOR PRO TEM? DO I HAVE A SECOND? AGAIN, I'LL ASK FOR SOME. OH, SORRY, SORRY IF I DROPPED THE GUN.
ALL RIGHT, I HAVE A MOTION FOR, IT'S NOT YOUR INITIALS, ELDEN BAKER FOR MAYOR PRO TEM. DO I HAVE A SECOND? DO WE HAVE TO SEPARATE THIS? BECAUSE THIS IS ALL IN ONE THING.
WE HAVE A MOTION AND A SECOND TO ELECT MR. BAKER AS MAYOR PRO TEM. IF YOU WOULD, CAST YOUR VOTES. MOTION PASSES 5-2. NOW WE NEED DEPUTY MAYOR PRO TEM.
I'LL GO AHEAD AND MAKE A MOTION TO APPOINT KELLY HERNDON AS DEPUTY MAYOR PRO TEM.
SORRY, I WON'T SAY THAT. I HAVE A MOTION, DO I HAVE A SECOND? I'LL SECOND.
ALL RIGHT, IF YOU WOULD, PLEASE CAST YOUR VOTES. MOTION PASSES 5-2. KELLY HERNDON IS NOW DEPUTY MAYOR PRO TEM. WE DON'T HAVE ANYTHING ELSE FOR ANOTHER CLOSED SESSION, SO SEEING NO OBJECTION, WE'RE ADJOURNED.
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