Dec 10, 2024 City Council

ALL RIGHT, 6:00.

[CALL TO ORDER/GENERAL COMMENTS]

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IT IS TUESDAY, DECEMBER 10TH, 2024.

I'D LIKE TO WELCOME EVERYONE HERE IN THE COUNCIL CHAMBERS ATTENDING THIS MEETING.

WE HAVE A FULL HOUSE, IT LOOKS LIKE.

AND THOSE WHO MAY BE TUNING IN ONLINE.

FIRST UP, WE HAVE AN INVOCATION BY MR. JACK TERRELL OF THE KIDS BEACH CLUB.

AND THEN WE'RE GOING TO HAVE A PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE LED BY CUB SCOUT PACK 254 LOCAL HERE IN BEDFORD.

SO WOULD EVERYONE PLEASE STAND? YEAH. YOU KNOW WHAT? IN THE 15 DAYS, IF THERE ARE CHILDREN AND THERE ARE KIDDOS IN HERE, THEY'LL TELL YOU IN 15 DAYS THERE'S A REALLY BIG THING HAPPENING.

IT'S CALLED IT'S CALLED CHRISTMAS.

AND SO I JUST STAND BEFORE YOU GUYS.

THANK YOU, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN.

THANK YOU FOR WHAT YOU DO.

SO JUST LET ME JUST GIVE YOU THIS LITTLE TIDBIT, OKAY AS WE PREPARE FOR CHRISTMAS.

ALRIGHT. IN MATTHEW'S GOSPEL IT SAYS THE VIRGIN WILL BE WITH CHILD AND WILL GIVE BIRTH TO A SON, AND THEY WILL CALL HIM IMMANUEL, WHICH SIMPLY MEANS GOD WITH US.

GOD CHOSE TO BE WITH US.

HE CHOSE TO WALK WITH US, AND WE GET TO DO OUR JOBS SERVING PEOPLE.

AND WE GET TO EXPERIENCE CHRISTMAS AFRESH AND ANEW EVERY YEAR.

AND SO AS WE ENTER INTO THIS CHRISTMAS TIME AS A CITIZEN, TO YOU FOLKS, I WANT TO TELL YOU ONE MORE TIME.

THANK YOU FOR WHAT YOU DO.

AND IT REALLY DOES MEAN A LOT TO US.

AND SO THANK YOU.

AND SO FOR ALL THE KIDDOS, MAN, CHRISTMAS IS COMING.

SO, YOU BETTER BE SURE AND GET ON THAT GOOD LIST PRETTY QUICK.

LET'S PRAY. FATHER, I THANK YOU FOR THE FACT THAT YOU CHOSE TO BE HERE.

YOU COULD HAVE BEEN ANYWHERE.

YOU DIDN'T HAVE TO LEAVE HEAVEN, BUT YOU CHOSE TO BE HERE.

FATHER, THESE MEN AND WOMEN THAT SIT BEFORE US AND THAT WORK WITHIN OUR CITY, THEY DIDN'T.

THEY COULD BE ANYWHERE.

THEY COULD BE DOING WHATEVER.

BUT, FATHER, THEY'VE CHOSEN TO SERVE, AND THEY'VE CHOSEN TO BE PART OF A SOLUTION RATHER THAN ALWAYS BEING PART OF THE PROBLEM. AND SO, LORD, AS WE CELEBRATE CHRISTMAS TIME, AND IT'S A TIME OF GIVING AND UNDERSTANDING, I PRAY THAT YOU WOULD PROVIDE THESE MEN AND WOMEN THAT THAT SIT IN THESE AMAZING SEATS WISDOM.

GUIDE THEM, FATHER, AS THEY LABOR AND GIVE TO THE CITIZENS AND SHARE.

AND SO I JUST SAY THANK YOU, FATHER, FOR THE GIFT OF CHRISTMAS.

AND THAT AS WE ENTER INTO THIS TIME, FATHER, LET US LET US SHARE THAT DOSE OF LOVE AND HOPE TO OTHERS, AND LET US BE A PART.

FATHER, LET US BE A PART OF THE SOLUTION.

WE THANK YOU, AND WE PRAISE YOU.

AND WE GIVE ALL THIS TO YOU.

IN THE PRECIOUS NAME OF JESUS WE PRAY.

AMEN AND AMEN.

AMEN. THANK YOU.

ALRIGHT, WE'LL GO AHEAD AND INVITE UP HERE TO THE FRONT OUR CUB SCOUT PACK 254 TO LEAD US IN THE PLEDGES.

COME ON UP. DON'T BE AFRAID.

DON'T BE AFRAID. YOU GUYS ARE GOING TO LEAD IT.

OKAY, WE'RE READY WHEN YOU ARE.

ALL RIGHT, GUYS, WE GOT TO GET A PICTURE.

LET'S GET LET'S GET A PICTURE.

ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU ALL FOR THAT.

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IT'S MUCH NEEDED.

AND THANK YOU TO THE CUB SCOUT PACK FOR LEADING US IN THE PLEDGES.

ALL RIGHT. MOVING RIGHT ALONG.

[COUNCIL RECOGNITION]

SO I'D LIKE TO INVITE UP FIRST TO THE PODIUM, DEPUTY FIRE CHIEF JOEY LANKFORD FOR FIRE DEPARTMENT.

GOOD EVENING. GOOD EVENING, MAYOR AND COUNCIL.

HOW ARE YOU ALL TONIGHT? DOING WELL.

HOW ABOUT YOURSELF? DOING GOOD.

I'D LIKE TO BRING UP FIREFIGHTER PARAMEDIC DANIEL STEWART.

HE'S GETTING HIS TENURE AWARD TONIGHT, AND HE DANIEL GREW UP IN NORTH RICHLAND HILLS.

GRADUATED FROM RICHLAND HIGH SCHOOL IN 1995.

BOY, DO I FEEL OLD.

AFTER HIGH SCHOOL, DANIEL ATTENDED THE FIRE ACADEMY AND EMT SCHOOL BEFORE TAKING A POSITION AT AMERITECH AMBULANCE, THEN ATTENDING PARAMEDIC SCHOOL.

HE SPENT A TOTAL OF 15 YEARS WORKING FOR AMERITECH, AND HE GOT VALUABLE INFORMATION OR VALUABLE KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE WITH THAT SERVICE.

PATIENT CARE MANAGEMENT AND LEADERSHIP.

HE MET HIS WIFE, BETH, 19 YEARS WHILE WORKING AT AMERITECH.

THEY NOW HAVE TWO CHILDREN, AVERY, 17, AND PEYTON 14.

DANIEL COMES FROM THE CITY, COMES TO THE CITY OF BEDFORD IN DECEMBER OF 14 AND SINCE HAS BECOME AN FTO, SERVED IN THAT CAPACITY FOR THE LAST SEVEN YEARS, HELPING BUILD A FOUNDATION OF THE EMS PROGRAM IN THE FIRE DEPARTMENT.

HE RECEIVED A MEDAL OF MERIT AND COMMENDATION THROUGH THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE FOR HIS OFF DUTY EFFORTS ASSISTING HOMELAND SECURITY.

RECEIVED HIS DRIVER OPERATOR CERTIFICATION THROUGH THE TEXAS COMMISSION ON FIRE PROTECTION, AND IS CURRENTLY AN ENGINE AND TRUCK DRIVER FOR OUR DEPARTMENT.

A GREAT EMPLOYEE, A GREAT ASSET, AND I'D LIKE TO BRING UP DANIEL.

[APPLAUSE] ALL RIGHT.

ALSO MOVING RIGHT ALONG HERE WE HAVE SOME SERVICE RECOGNITION FROM OUR POLICE DEPARTMENT.

SO, I'LL INVITE UP TO THE PODIUM POLICE CHIEF BOBBY LAPENNA.

GOOD EVENING. GOOD EVENING MAYOR, COUNCIL.

THAT MICROPHONE IS REALLY CLOSE NOW.

IS THIS THE FIRST TIME? I THINK THIS IS. I THINK THIS IS THE FIRST TIME IT FELT A LITTLE WEIRD WHEN I SAID IT PUBLICLY, NOT INTERIM CHIEF.

CHIEF? CHIEF.

CONGRATS. THANK YOU.

CONGRATULATIONS VERY MUCH.

WE ARE HERE TO RECOGNIZE A FEW PEOPLE.

I'M GOING TO GIVE A COUPLE HONORABLE MENTIONS BECAUSE THEY'RE ON THE STREETS RIGHT NOW, AND THEY DID NOT GET HERE.

BUT STEPHANIE BURKE IS CELEBRATING FIVE YEARS OF SERVICE PATROL OFFICER AND OFFICER DENNIS SNYDER IS ALSO CELEBRATING FIVE YEARS.

AND THEY ARE PROBABLY CURRENTLY WORKING A CALL RIGHT NOW, AS IT WAS DISPATCHED A FEW MINUTES AGO.

SO BUT I'M GOING TO GO AHEAD AND CALL JENNIFER CASTANEDA UP HERE.

JEN HAS BEEN HERE FOR FIVE YEARS.

SHE BEGAN HER EMPLOYMENT WITH US IN 2019 AS THE LEAD SCHOOL CROSSING GUARD.

SHE CURRENTLY SERVES AS OUR ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT FOR OUR COMMUNITY SERVICES AND TRAINING.

RECRUITING. SHE GRADUATED FROM LINDSAY HIGH SCHOOL IN LINDSAY, TEXAS.

SHE HAS A BACHELOR'S OF SCIENCE DEGREE IN CRIMINAL JUSTICE FROM MIDWESTERN STATE UNIVERSITY, A BACHELORS OF SCIENCE DEGREE IN SOCIOLOGY FROM MIDWESTERN STATE UNIVERSITY.

SHE HAS CREATED OUR QUARTERMASTER PROGRAM TO KEEP TRACK OF OUR EQUIPMENT AND ALL OF OUR UNIFORMS. SHE WAS A SCHOOL CROSSING GUARD OF THE YEAR FOR HEB ISD IN 2024.

SHE RESIDES IN BEDFORD WITH HER HUSBAND AND HER TWO SONS AND DAUGHTER.

I'M NOT GOING TO GIVE AWAY JEN'S SECRET, BUT COME AROUND THE HOLIDAY TIME, SHE DRESSES UP AND IS DISGUISED.

SO YOU MAY NOT RECOGNIZE HER AROUND CHRISTMAS TIME, BUT SHE IS AROUND US.

SO JUST BE AWARE AND BE WILLING TO SEE THAT.

SO, JEN CASTANEDA FIVE YEARS.

[APPLAUSE] YES. SIR.

THANK YOU.

ALL RIGHT. OUR NEXT EMPLOYEE TO HAVE NO CONFUSION IN THE ROOM TO BE CLEAR, THIS IS SALVATORE CARUSO CELEBRATING TEN YEARS OF SERVICE WITH THE CITY OF BEDFORD.

SAL BEGAN HIS EMPLOYMENT IN 2014 AS A CODE COMPLIANCE OFFICER.

HE MOVED INTO OUR RECORDS DIVISION IN NOVEMBER OF 2016, AND HE CURRENTLY SERVES SINCE 2024 AS THE PATROL ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT.

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HE HAS A BACHELORS OF ARTS DEGREE IN PSYCHOLOGY FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON.

CODE COMPLIANCE PERSONNEL OF THE YEAR IN 2016, AND SEVERAL LETTERS OF COMMENDATION ON FILE.

SAL IS KNOWN FOR HIS PROFESSIONALISM.

HE LIKES TO LEARN NEW THINGS, EXPAND HIS KNOWLEDGE.

HE'S ALWAYS LOOKING FOR NEW AND DIFFERENT WAYS TO IMPROVE DAILY DUTIES AND FUNCTIONS.

OF THE RECORDS DIVISION AND ANY OTHER DIVISIONS.

HE'S IN HIS FREE TIME.

HE ENJOYS REMODELING HIS HOUSE AND SPENDING TIME OUTDOORS WITH HIS FRIENDS AND FAMILY.

WHILE HUNTING. HE RESIDES IN HURST WITH HIS WIFE NATALIE AND THEIR TWO BOYS, EMMETT AND COLLIN.

I WILL SAY THIS ABOUT SAL.

HE WILL READ THE MANUAL AND SO HE WILL KNOW HOW TO WORK THE SYSTEM.

IF YOU HAVE IT. AND IT'S AMAZING.

SO HE'S A TRUE ASSET TO THE POLICE DEPARTMENT.

SAL CARUSO.

WAS THERE A LONG TIME.

MY NEXT PRESENTATION IS SERGEANT ZACH HICKS CELEBRATING 20 YEARS OF EMPLOYMENT.

THEY'RE NOT COMING IN BEHIND ME, AND IT JUST FEELS WEIRD.

BUT ANYWAYS ZACH BECAME A POLICE OFFICER WITH US IN 2004.

HE MOVED TO A POLICE OFFICER TWO, IN 2006.

HE WAS A CID DETECTIVE IN 2014, PROMOTED TO CORPORAL IN 2017, AND BECAME A PATROL SERGEANT IN 2021.

IN HIS TIME, HE SERVED AS A FIELD TRAINING OFFICER MASTER.

HE EARNED HIS MASTER PEACE OFFICER CERTIFICATE THROUGH TCOLE.

HE'S A INTOX OPERATOR.

HE CURRENTLY SUPERVISES THE BIKE UNIT.

HE IS A MEMBER OF OUR HONOR GUARD.

HE WAS CID OFFICER OF THE YEAR IN 2016.

HE WAS THE DIRECTOR OF OUR BEDFORD MUNICIPAL POLICE ASSOCIATION AND HE ALSO, IN HIS TIME IN CID AROUND 2016 EARNED A LIFE SAVING AWARD.

HE ALSO SERVES AS THE FIRST VICE PRESIDENT FOR TEXAS MUNICIPAL POLICE ASSOCIATION, WHICH IS BASICALLY A STATEWIDE ORGANIZATION THAT'S CONSTANTLY WORKING DOWN IN AUSTIN AND WORKING ON LEGISLATION TO MAKE OUR JOBS BETTER, EASIER.

AND IT DOES DILIGENT WORK THERE FOR US.

DURING HIS TENURE, HICKS HAS EARNED RECEIVED SEVERAL LETTERS OF APPRECIATION FROM HIS COWORKERS AND THE PUBLIC.

HE'S KNOWN FOR HIS WILLINGNESS TO ASSIST OTHERS AND HIS SENSE OF HUMOR.

HE RESIDES IN HURST WITH HIS WIFE, EMILY, AND THEIR CHILDREN.

SO, I CAN SAY A LOT WHEN YOU'VE KNOWN SOMEBODY FOR HALF OF YOUR LIFE AND YOU'VE BEEN AROUND SOMEBODY FOR HALF OF YOUR LIFE, YOU HAVE A LOT OF STORIES THAT PROBABLY WOULDN'T SHARE A LOT OF THEM UP HERE.

BUT IT'S A TRUE PLEASURE TO WORK WITH AND A PLEASURE TO BE AROUND AND TRUST EVERYTHING THAT HE'S DOING OUT THERE ON THE STREETS WITH THE GUYS AND GIRLS THAT WE WORK WITH.

SO APPRECIATE ZACH HICKS. [APPLAUSE] ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH.

AND THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR COMMITMENT TO BEDFORD.

IT'S ALWAYS ONE OF MY LIKE I SAID, IT'S ALWAYS ONE OF MY FAVORITE TIMES WHERE WE CAN HONOR OUR EMPLOYEES.

ALL RIGHT. MOVING ALONG ON OUR AGENDA.

[PUBLIC COMMENTS]

AND I DO HAVE SOMEBODY HERE THAT SIGNED UP FOR PUBLIC COMMENTS.

MR. ERIC KRILL, PLEASE GO AHEAD AND COME TO THE PODIUM NOW TO SPEAK ON ITEM NUMBER 14.

GOOD EVENING. GOOD EVENING.

GOOD SEEING YOU AGAIN. GOOD TO SEEING YOU.

MAYOR, COUNCIL.

ERIC KRILL, I'M HERE TO SPEAK TO ON BEHALF OF TAD.

YOU HAVE 14 NOMINEES, AND I'M ONE OF THE NOMINEES.

AND THIS LITTLE SPEECH THAT I WAS GOING TO GO OFF BUT I'M GOING TO MAKE AN ASSUMPTION HERE AND ADDRESS SOME COMMENTS THAT I BELIEVE I HEARD SITTING DOWN.

THERE ARE FOUR SCHOOL DISTRICTS THAT ARE HOLDING THEIR VOTE BACK UNTIL DECEMBER 16TH.

THE APPRAISAL DISTRICT WILL ACCEPT THE RESOLUTION UP UNTIL MIDNIGHT ON DECEMBER 16TH.

SO THERE'S BEEN A LOT OF GAMESMANSHIP AND POLITICIZATION ON THAT BOARD.

AND SO THE REASON I'M RUNNING IS BECAUSE I RAN IN THE MAY ELECTION, AND I HAVE NO DESIRE OTHER THAN TO CREATE AN APPRAISAL DISTRICT THAT DOES FAIR AND EQUITABLE PROPERTY VALUE EVERY YEAR AT 100%.

THAT'S ITS PRIMARY PURPOSE, AND THAT'S ITS ULTIMATE GOAL IS A FAIR AND EQUITABLE APPRAISAL.

A LITTLE BIT ABOUT ME. I LIVE IN NORTH FORT WORTH.

I'M A FIREFIGHTER HERE IN THE METROPLEX, AND I'M STUBBORN.

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BUT I'M GOING TO KEEP AT IT.

SO I WANT TO TALK ABOUT THE REAPPRAISAL PLAN THAT THE DISTRICT IMPLEMENTED.

AND WHAT WAS THAT? AUGUST, AUGUST 9TH MEETING AND WHY I BELIEVE THAT HOWEVER YOU CHOOSE TO ALLOCATE YOUR VOTES, YOU SHOULD CHOOSE TO ALLOCATE THEM FOR SOMEONE THAT IS COMMITTED TO REVERSING THAT CHANGE.

WE HAD A 5% PAY CAP VALUES AT 5% RIGHT.

SO YOU HAVE A 5% CAP ON INCREASING VALUE.

BUT WHAT IF YOU GO TO A 2010 MARKET WHERE VALUES ARE DECREASING? WHAT'S TO STOP A FUTURE BOARD FROM LIMITING THE DECREASE IN PROPERTY VALUES THEREBY.

THAT'S GOING TO HURT YOUR CITIZENS.

SO JUST STICK TO WHAT IT WAS 100% OF MARKET VALUE EVERY YEAR.

THAT'S WHAT THE TAX CODE REQUIRES.

REGARDING THE FREEZE, THE PROBLEM WITH THE FREEZE IS IT'S TWO YEARS VALUES WILL BE READJUSTED IN 2027.

BUT AT THE TAD MEETING ON JULY 22ND, THERE WERE COMMENTS FROM THE TAD BOARD THAT 40% OF HOME VALUES, 40% OF HOMES IN TARRANT COUNTY, ARE STAGNATING OR DECLINING IN VALUE.

SO WITH THE FREEZE, WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN IS IF YOU LIVE IN A MARKET WHERE YOUR HOME IS ACTUALLY DECLINING IN VALUE, YOU'RE GOING TO PAY TAXES ON AN OVERINFLATED VALUE.

UNLESS YOU KNOW, TO PROTEST.

AND BEING HONEST, NOT EVERY CITIZEN KNOWS TO PROTEST THEIR VALUES.

AND REGARDING THE TWO YEAR REAPPRAISAL AND AN ASCENDING MARKET, WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN WHEN VALUES ARE INCREASING? THE VALUES THEY'RE GOING TO THEY'RE GOING TO VALUE IT AT THE 100% OF THE MARKET VALUE, RIGHT.

SO TAXES ARE GOING TO BE INCREMENTALLY LARGER EVERY OTHER YEAR.

SO FOR FAMILIES THAT HAVE THEIR HOMES, THEIR MORTGAGES, ESCROWED, THEY'RE GOING TO HAVE A LARGER JUMP THAT THEY'RE GOING TO HAVE TO DEAL WITH, AND IT'S GOING TO CREATE FINANCIAL HARDSHIP FOR THOSE FAMILIES.

YOU KNOW, EVERY YEAR IF YOUR VALUES GO UP AND YOU'RE PAYING INCREASED TAXES, IT'S EASIER TO BUDGET FOR A SMALLER INCREASE THAN IT IS IN A DECREASING MARKET.

WHAT'S GOING TO END UP HAPPENING IS THE CITIES.

YOU'RE EITHER GOING TO HAVE TO MAKE CUTS TO YOUR BUDGET, OR YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE TO RAISE YOUR RATE, WHICH ISN'T GOOD FOR ANYONE EITHER.

SO I'M RUNNING TO GO DOWN THERE AND I'M OPPOSED TO THE REAPPRAISAL PLAN.

BUT AT THE END OF THE DAY, I REALLY, I WANT WHAT'S BEST FOR DOWN THERE.

AND SO HOWEVER YOU DECIDE YOUR VOTE, JUST MAKE SURE THAT WHOEVER IT IS WANTS TO TAKE THE POLITICS OUT OF IT AND JUST DO THE PURPOSE OF THE APPRAISAL DISTRICT, WHICH IS TO PROVIDE FAIR AND EQUITABLE PROPERTY VALUES FOR ALL YOUR CITIZENS.

THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR TIME.

THANK YOU, MR. [INAUDIBLE] APPRECIATE IT.

ALL RIGHT. AND WE'LL BE GETTING TO THAT ITEM AGAIN.

I THINK IT WAS ITEM NUMBER 14 LATER ON IN THE AGENDA.

ALL RIGHT. NEXT UP WE HAVE PERSONS TO BE HEARD.

[PERSONS TO BE HEARD]

REQUEST TO SPEAK TO COUNCIL REGARDING HOMELESS ISSUE IN GENERATIONS PARK.

I'LL WELCOME TO THE PODIUM.

WE HAVE A SCREEN DOWN HERE IN FRONT OF THE PODIUM.

THANK YOU ALL.

AS YOU ALL KNOW, ON THE MORNING OF NOVEMBER THE 18TH, WE WOKE UP AND WAS IN OUR BACKYARD AND FOUND A HOMELESS MAN SLEEPING BEHIND OUR HOUSE.

THAT'S AWFUL CLOSE TO OUR HOME.

IT WAS VERY DISTURBING.

MY WIFE WAS DISTURBED.

WHEN SHE'S DISTURBED, I'M DISTURBED.

I DID OPEN THE BACK GATE AND I ASKED HIM IF HE WAS OKAY.

HE SAID HE WAS.

AND AS YOU CAN TELL, IT WAS RAINING AND THERE WAS SOME PRETTY BAD STORMS HEADED THAT WAY THAT DAY.

I TOLD HIM HE'D BE BETTER OFF GOING TO THE Y, YMCA.

HE PACKED UP HIS STUFF AND LEFT.

I SENT AN EMAIL TO THE CITY COUNCILMAN AND DEPARTMENT HEADS OF THE CITY OF BEDFORD AND EXPLAINED MY CONCERNS WITH THE SITUATION.

THEY TOLD ME FROM HERE ON OUT, JUST LET THE POLICE HANDLE IT.

AT THAT POINT, I WAS HOPING THIS WAS THIS WHOLE THING WOULD HAVE BEEN DONE AND OVER WITH.

THAT WAS REALLY MY HOPE.

I WOULD LIKE TO THANK EACH AND EVERY COUNCIL MEMBER FOR RESPONDING TO MY EMAIL THAT COULD.

THAT WAS VERY IMPRESSIVE AND IT MADE ME IT FELT GOOD ABOUT THREE, ABOUT 3:00 THAT AFTERNOON MY WIFE TOLD ME THAT ONE OF OUR SINGLE FEMALE NEIGHBORS, WHO LIVES DOWN THE STREET, HAD DISCOVERED THAT HOMELESS PERSON'S BELONGINGS BEHIND HER HOUSE.

I WENT DOWN TO HER HOUSE AND SHE TOLD ME THAT SHE FOUND BELONGINGS THERE LAST WEEK AND CALLED THE POLICE AND THE POLICE CAME BACK AND SAID,

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WELL, AS WE'RE SITTING HERE LOOKING, WE COULD SEE THAT GENTLEMAN'S STUFF IS RIGHT HERE ON A LITTLE INLET IN THE ELECTRIC BOX.

I CALL THE POLICE.

THE NON-EMERGENCY NUMBER, AS YOU ALL TOLD ME TO DO, AND WAS TOLD AT THAT PARTICULAR MOMENT THERE WERE NO UNITS AVAILABLE AND THEY WOULD GET SOMEBODY OUT THERE WHEN THEY COULD. ABOUT THAT TIME, CHIEF LAPENNA CALLED ME ABOUT MY EMAIL EARLY THAT MORNING, AND I TOLD HIM WHAT HE SAID AND SOMEBODY WAS OUT THERE PRETTY QUICK.

OFFICER KIDD, VERY IMPRESSIVE OFFICER, ARRIVED ON THE SCENE AND TOOK THE ABANDONED PROPERTY AND PLACED IT IN THE BACK OF HIS VEHICLE, AND HE LEFT AND I WENT BACK HOME.

JUST A FEW MOMENTS AFTER HE LEFT I HEARD SCREAMING, LOUD SCREAMING.

VERY AGITATED SCREAMING.

I POKED OUT MY HEAD OUT THE BACK GATE TO SEE WHAT WAS GOING ON.

UNFORTUNATELY, LIVING NEXT TO THE YMCA PARK, YOU GET A LITTLE DESENSITIZED TO SCREAMING.

IT HAPPENS.

IF I WAS TO CALL THE POLICE EVERY TIME I WOULD HEAR SCREAMING, WE'D HAVE OUR OWN PATROL UNIT, OUR OWN PATROL DISTRICT.

SO, I WENT TO I LOOKED BACK THERE TO SEE WHAT WAS GOING ON, AND I SAW THE HOMELESS MAN STANDING BY WHERE HIS PROPERTY WAS.

HE SAW ME AND STARTED TO WALK IN MY DIRECTION.

HE ACCUSED ME OF STEALING HIS STUFF.

I TOLD HIM THE POLICE HAD HIS PROPERTY AND HE COULD CALL THEM TO GET IT BACK.

THE MAN WAS VERY ENRAGED.

HE WAS NOT ACTING IN A NORMAL BEHAVIOR.

HE WAS OVERLY AGGRESSIVE AND STARTED WALKING TOWARDS ME, STILL YELLING REPEAT! HE STEADILY REPEATED THAT HE WAS GOING TO KILL ME.

I BECAME CONCERNED FOR MY SAFETY AND MY WIFE'S SAFETY.

SO I RETREATED TO MY BACKYARD AND I CALLED 911.

I TOLD THE 911 OFFICER THAT THE OWNER OF THE PROPERTY THAT THEY JUST PICKED UP WAS THREATENING TO KILL ME.

I TOLD HER THAT THIS GENTLEMAN'S BEHAVIOR WAS GETTING TO THE POINT I FELT THE NEED TO ARM MYSELF.

I WAS BEGINNING TO THINK WE WERE FIXING TO HAVE SOME MAJOR PROBLEMS. JUST THAT FACT ALONE SHOULD HAVE BEEN A CLUE TO THE POLICE.

THIS WAS, THERE WAS SOMETHING SERIOUS HAPPENING.

THE POLICE OFFICERS ARRIVED ON THE SCENE AND WAS TALKING TO THE PERSON.

THERE WERE ABOUT 400FT AWAY.

IMAGINE TALKING TO SOMEBODY ON ONE END OF A FOOTBALL FIELD AND TRY TO COMMUNICATE WITH THEM AT THE OTHER GOALPOST.

HOW LOUD YOU WOULD HAVE TO SCREAM TO BE HEARD.

THIS IS FURTHER THAN THAT.

SO THAT'S A CLUE.

WHEN THE OFFICERS ARRIVED, THEY SPOKE WITH HIM FOR A WHILE.

THAT'S ABOUT 400FT AWAY AND COULD NOT HEAR WHAT WAS BEING SAID.

I WAS GOING TO RELOCATE CLOSER TO WHERE THEY WERE, BUT A MOTORCYCLE OFFICER MOTIONED ME BACK AND I COMPLIED.

I STAYED BACK BY MY FENCE.

I DID NOTICE THE MAN WAS NOW RIDING A BICYCLE.

HE DID NOT HAVE A BICYCLE THAT MORNING.

AS THE OFFICERS WERE TALKING TO HIM, A TEEN WALKED UP AND SPOKE TO THE OFFICERS AND AFTER A FEW MINUTES THEY GAVE THAT BICYCLE TO THE TEEN AND HE LEFT THE AREA. I LATER LEARNED FROM CHIEF LAPENNA THAT THE BICYCLE HAD INDEED BEEN STOLEN PROPERTY.

IT WAS STOLEN FROM THE YMCA THAT DAY AND THAT THE VICTIM, HE JUST WANTED HIS PROPERTY BACK AND DIDN'T WANT TO PRESS CHARGES.

THE POLICE OFFICER FINALLY CAME BACK TO MY LOCATION AND TO TALK TO ME.

THE BASIC QUESTION I GOT WAS WHAT HAPPENED? SHE FAILED TO ASK ANY PERTINENT QUESTIONS SO THAT WE COULD, SO THAT SHE COULD FULLY REALIZE WHAT HAD HAPPENED.

I FELT THAT SHE HAD TALKED TO THE SUBJECT AND ALREADY MADE UP HER MIND, AND IT DIDN'T REALLY MATTER WHAT I HAD TO SAY.

I WAS NOT ASKED IF I WANTED TO PROSECUTE.

I WAS NOT ASKED ANY FOLLOW UP QUESTIONS TO MY ORIGINAL STATEMENT THAT THE MAN SAID HE WAS GOING TO KILL ME.

I DID NOT REALIZE I NEEDED TO INTERVIEW MYSELF FOR THE OFFICER.

I DID NOT NEED TO REALIZE I NEEDED TO LAY OUT THE CASE FOR THE OFFICER.

I'M FAILING TO UNDERSTAND WHY THE VICTIM WAS SHOWN SO LITTLE TIME AND CONCERN, AND THE OFFENDER WAS GIVEN SO MUCH TIME TO EXPLAIN HIS SIDE OF THE STORY.

IT SEEMS TO ME THE POLICE OFFICERS NEED TO BE SURE THEY HAVE BOTH SIDES OF THE STORY, SO THAT THAT WAY THEY CAN HAVE A FULL AND CLEAR PICTURE AND UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT'S

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THIS WAS THE FRONT COPY OF THE CALL LOG.

THIS WHOLE INCIDENT WAS DESCRIBED AS A DISTURBANCE NOISE COMPLAINT AND THE PRIMARY DISPOSITION WAS NO REPORT.

IN THE CALL LOG NOTES THAT THE OFFICER FILED, YOU COULD READ DOWN AT THE BOTTOM.

SUBJECT ADMITTED TO GOING TO GET A GUN.

STATE HE NEVER SAID HE WAS GOING TO KILL ANYONE.

HE WAS MAD. CALLER STATED HE THREATENED TO KILL HIM.

HE WAS UPSET THAT WE DID NOT TAKE HIM TO JAIL.

THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN ME.

IN THIS REPORT.

THE OFFICER CLEARLY STATES THE SUBJECT ADMITTED TO GOING TO GET A GUN.

SHE STATED THAT THIS DISTURBED MAN WAS MAD AT ME, AND SHE CHOSE TO LEAVE HIM IN THE PARK ABOUT 400FT FROM MY HOUSE.

AS SHE LEFT.

I HAVE A PROBLEM WITH THAT.

I DID FILE A FORMAL COMPLAINT AGAINST THE OFFICER AND THE WAY THE CALL WAS HANDLED.

THE FIRST THING I HAD TO DO WAS SIGN A DOCUMENT WHERE I HAD TO ACKNOWLEDGE THAT IF I MISREPRESENTED ANYTHING OR PROVIDED A FALSE STATEMENT ON ANY OFFICIAL DOCUMENT, I COULD BE CHARGED WITH A FELONY.

IF I WROTE SOMETHING THAT THEY DID NOT AGREE WITH OR BELIEVE, THEN I COULD BE ARRESTED AND CHARGED WITH A FELONY.

CHIEF LAPENNA DID TELL ME THAT THE POLICE ARE NOT QUICK TO ENFORCE THAT, BUT IT WAS STILL THERE.

I PERSONALLY TOOK THIS AS AN ATTEMPT TO INTIMIDATE ME, NOT TO FILE A COMPLAINT.

HOW MANY OFFICERS COMPLAINTS HAVE NOT BEEN FILED BASED ON THIS FORM? I DECIDED TO DELETE SOME OF WHAT I WAS GOING TO SAY.

I READ THROUGH EMAILS AND OTHER CALLS AND I SAW SEVERAL INSTANCES OF THE HOMELESS. JUST BEING ALLOWED TO WALK AWAY.

ONE OF THEM HAD WARRANTS FOR HIS ARREST, AND HE WAS JUST ALLOWED TO WALK AWAY BECAUSE HE WAS COOPERATIVE.

MAYBE BEDFORD IS NOT AS WELL EQUIPPED TO HANDLE THE HOMELESS AS THEY THINK THEY ARE.

I ACKNOWLEDGE IT IS NOT AGAINST THE LAW TO BE HOMELESS, NOR DO I WANT IT TO BE.

I HOPE THAT A CITY THAT THE CITY WILL ACKNOWLEDGE THAT HOMELESS PEOPLE IN THE AREA WHERE THERE ARE NO RESOURCES COULD CONSTITUTE A DANGER TO TAXPAYING CITIZENS.

ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAWS COULD ACTUALLY BE THE THING THAT HELPS A HOMELESS PERSON.

NOT ENFORCING THEM COULD BE HURTING THEM.

IF A HOMELESS PERSON MAKES A DECISION TO GO TO AN AREA SUCH AS BEDFORD THAT DO NOT HAVE ANY RESOURCES, THEN THEY MUST PROVIDE THOSE BASIC RESOURCES THEMSELVES SOMEHOW.

IF THEY ARE UNWILLING TO ACCEPT HELP, THEN THEY COULD BECOME A DANGER TO EVERYONE AROUND THEM.

WHERE AM I GOING WITH THIS? I AM STILL CONCERNED THAT THIS MAN COULD COME BACK AND HARM MY WIFE OR ME.

AFTER THE POLICE LEFT THAT DAY, WE SAW HIM WALK UP TO AS FAR AS THE STOP SIGN.

WE FINALLY GAVE UP AND JUST WENT BACK INSIDE.

WE DON'T KNOW IF HE EVER LEFT THE PARK.

WE DON'T KNOW WHERE HE'S AT.

AFTER WATCHING HIM ON THE BODY CAM THAT THE CHIEF LAPENNA LET ME WATCHED.

I'M MORE CONCERNED ABOUT HIS DEMEANOR AND HIS STABILITY.

I SAW THINGS THAT JUST I JUST MADE ME EERIE.

BECAUSE THE CALL EARLIER AT MY NEIGHBOR'S HOUSE.

THE OFFICER SAID THAT HAD CHILDREN STUFF.

THIS GUY DID NOT HAVE ANY CHILDREN'S STUFF.

SO DO WE HAVE TWO SETS OF PEOPLE LIVING BACK BEHIND OUR HOUSES OR IS IT JUST ONE? I HAVE FROM TIME TO TIME FOUND EVIDENCE OF PEOPLE SLEEPING BACK THERE.

BUT THIS WAS THE FIRST TIME I'VE ACTUALLY SEEN SOMEBODY DOING IT.

COLDER WEATHER IS COMING.

ARE WE GOING TO FIND EVEN MORE PEOPLE OUT HERE AS THE TREES START TO LOSE THEIR LEAVES, ESPECIALLY THOSE MESQUITE TREES ON THE NORTH END OF THE PARK.

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I REALLY DON'T CARE THAT I HAVE TO CHECK MY PROPERTY EACH NIGHT NOW.

I DON'T REALLY CARE THAT I HAD TO PUT UP A RING CAMERA WITH NIGHT VISION BEHIND MY FENCE, JUST TO SEE IF THERE'S ANYBODY BACK THERE.

I'VE FOLLOWED YOUR ADVICE AND CALLED THE POLICE.

THEY DROPPED IT LIKE A HOT POTATO.

I'M NOW IN WORSE SHAPE NOW THAN I WAS BEFORE.

IF WE CONTINUE AS A CITY TO GO DOWN THIS PATH, BEDFORD WILL BECOME A DESTINATION CITY THAT THIS COUNCIL HAS ALWAYS BEEN WORKING FOR.

ONLY WE WILL BE A DESTINATION FOR THE HOMELESS AND CRIMINALS AND NOT THE ARTS AND THE CULTURE.

AND THAT IS A SHAME.

THANK YOU. KEITH, I, DO YOU MIND STAYING UP HERE FOR A SECOND? I DO HAVE SOME QUESTIONS FOR YOU.

CAN MY WIFE GIVE HER A TALK? AND THEN I'LL STAND BACK UP HERE? THAT'S FINE.

HER TIES A LOT MORE INTO MINE.

OKAY. THAT'S FINE.

THANK YOU.

ALL RIGHT, NEXT UP ON OUR LIST OF PERSONS TO BE HEARD.

MS. DENA WALTER, 2508 LAKEVIEW DRIVE.

YES. SORRY. Y'ALL ARE GETTING A DOUBLE DOSE OF THE WALTER FAMILY TONIGHT, BUT THIS WAS A PRETTY SERIOUS INCIDENT.

SO CAN I SAY ONE COMPLIMENT TO SOMETHING THAT HAPPENED YESTERDAY BEFORE I START ON THIS? YES. WE WERE AT A COOKIE EXCHANGE ON OUR BLOCK, AND AN ELDERLY NEIGHBOR HAD A MEDICAL ISSUE, AND 911 WAS CALLED.

AND I JUST WANT TO SAY THAT THE FIRE AND EMS DID A WONDERFUL JOB LAST NIGHT.

I SENT A NOTE TO CHIEF WALKER AND CHIEF SMITHWICK TODAY JUST TO LET THEM KNOW THEIR TEAM DID A GREAT JOB.

THEY FUNCTIONED AS A TEAM.

THEY WERE CARING TO THE ELDERLY WOMAN AND THEY WERE VERY EFFICIENT IN GETTING THINGS TAKEN CARE OF.

SO I JUST WANT TO START WITH THAT.

I DON'T NEED TO REPEAT ANYTHING OF WHAT KEITH SAID.

HE COVERED THAT WELL.

I JUST HAVE TO SAY THAT SITTING ON OUR BACK PORCH THAT MORNING TALKING ABOUT OUR DAY AND HOW WE WERE GOING TO GET EVERYTHING DONE WE NEEDED TO DO THAT DAY, AND LOOKING THROUGH THE SLATS OF THE FENCE AND SEEING A TENT AND A PERSON STANDING NEXT TO IT, FOLDING UP A TARP OR A BLANKET OR SOMETHING 20FT AWAY WAS VERY UNSETTLING.

THAT IS NOT SOMETHING I EXPECTED TO EVER HAPPEN HERE IN BEDFORD.

I GREW UP IN RICHARDSON WHEN WE BOUGHT THIS HOUSE EIGHT YEARS AGO.

WHAT I LOVED ABOUT BEDFORD IS SIMILAR ERA HOUSES AND GOOD PEOPLE.

GOOD NEIGHBORS THAT CARE ABOUT EACH OTHER AND LOOK OUT FOR EACH OTHER.

IT FELT LIKE A REALLY GOOD PLACE.

MONDAY, THE 18TH OF NOVEMBER HAS NOT FELT LIKE A GOOD PLACE.

IT WAS VERY UPSETTING TO GO THROUGH WHAT WE DID.

I WAS ALMOST SPEECHLESS WHEN I REALIZED THE MOVEMENT ON THE OTHER SIDE WAS SOMEBODY THAT WAS NOT SUPPOSED TO BE THERE.

AT FIRST, WHEN THEY. WHEN IT STARTED, I THOUGHT IT WAS SOMEBODY WALKING A DOG AND THEY WERE BENDING OVER TO PICK UP THE DOG POO OR SOMETHING.

AND THEN I WAS LIKE, NOT WITH A TENT RIGHT NEXT TO HIM.

WHILE THEIR INITIAL DISCUSSION WAS BRIEF.

AND REALLY, THE CONCERN WAS THE GUY GETTING SOME SHELTER.

IT WAS STILL UNSETTLING TO ME.

KEITH'S A BIG, STRONG GUY.

HE CAN TAKE CARE OF HIMSELF IF HE NEEDS TO.

I'M THERE BY MYSELF SEVERAL DAYS A WEEK, WORKING FROM HOME.

I LIKE TO I GO TO THE Y TO WORK OUT.

I'M PRO Y NOW.

I'M WORKING OUT WITH A TRAINER THERE.

I LIKE TO WALK AROUND THE LAKE.

SOMETIMES I'M TAKING OUR DOGS OUT TO DO THEIR BUSINESS AFTER DARK BY MYSELF AND I DON'T FEEL SAFE.

I AM NOW DRIVING TO THE Y, WHICH IS RIDICULOUS.

IT'S 250FT BEHIND MY HOUSE.

ESPECIALLY BECAUSE IT'S DARK BY THE TIME I'M DONE COMING HOME.

AND I SHOULDN'T HAVE TO FEEL THAT WAY IN A IN A TOWN LIKE BEDFORD.

SO JUST SO YOU GUYS KNOW, THIS IS MY PERSPECTIVE AS THE FEMALE, NOT THE ONE THAT LIVED IT, BUT THE ONE WHO'S LIVING WITH THE AFTERMATH.

IT'S NOT THE FIRST TIME I'VE SEEN A HOMELESS PERSON OVER THERE.

THERE WAS ONE. KEITH SAW THEIR BELONGINGS A WHILE BACK.

THERE WAS ONE TIME THIS LAST SPRING.

I WAS WALKING AROUND THE LAKE AND ON THE EAST SIDE OF THE LAKE, ON ONE OF THE BENCHES.

THERE WAS A HOMELESS PERSON SLEEPING THERE ON 1205, DRIVING DOWN HARWOOD, COMING HOME FROM WORK, I SAW A HOMELESS PERSON WALKING AROUND THAT I THOUGHT MIGHT HAVE BEEN THE SAME PERSON.

THANKFULLY, CHIEF LAPENNA LET ME SEE ENOUGH OF THE BODY CAM THAT I WAS ABLE TO IDENTIFY.

IT WAS NOT. IT WAS ACTUALLY SOMEBODY DIFFERENT.

SO THAT'S A LOT OF HOMELESS PEOPLE AROUND HERE.

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THAT'S AT LEAST TWO.

I'M VERY GRATEFUL FOR THE WALL BEHIND US.

IT HELPS WITH THE NOISE.

IT HELPS WITH THE PRIVACY.

IT'S FABULOUS, IT KEEPS THE BEAUTIFUL BUILDING OF THE Y, HAVING TO SEE WORN FENCES OR ANYTHING GOING ON IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD.

THIS MAY BE AN UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCE IS THAT IT'S A PLACE FOR THEM TO HIDE AND SLEEP AND BE AS NEEDED. SO, WHEN THE AFTERNOON THING HAPPENED, I WAS ACTUALLY OUT FRONT TALKING TO MY NEIGHBORS WHO WERE HERE, THE BROWNS AND ANOTHER NEIGHBOR.

AND I HEARD THE YELLING BACK THERE.

DIDN'T THINK TOO MUCH OF IT.

IT HAPPENS OCCASIONALLY AT THE Y.

SOMETIMES IT'S JUST TEENAGERS HAVING A GOOD TIME.

SOMETIMES IT'S A PARENT TRYING TO GET THEIR KID TO, YOU KNOW, GET IN THE CAR OR WHATEVER.

IT'S NOT A BIG DEAL.

THE GOOD OUTWEIGHS THOSE THINGS.

BUT THEN I GOT A TEXT FROM KEITH AND IT SAID SO THE POLICE TOOK THE HOMELESS GUY STUFF RIGHT AFTER THEY LEFT.

HE CAME BACK AND STARTED RAISING CAIN.

HE THREATENED TO KILL ME AND ALL KINDS OF STUFF.

THE POLICE ARE HERE NOW TALKING TO HIM.

THAT IS NOT A TEXT YOU EVER WANT TO GET FROM YOUR SPOUSE? I LEFT THE CONVERSATION, WENT THROUGH OUR BACKYARD, UP ONTO THE HILL WHERE HE WAS BY THE WALL ABOUT 400FT FROM WHERE THEY WERE TALKING TO THE THE HOMELESS PERSON AND STOOD THERE AND WATCHED.

I SAW THE INCIDENT WITH THE STOLEN BIKE, AND THEN I SAW THE PART THAT WAS THE WORST.

AND THAT WAS WHEN THE POLICE DROVE AWAY, LEAVING HIM RIGHT THERE IN THE PARK.

IT LOOKED LIKE THEY SAID, YOU NEED TO LEAVE THE PARK.

I COULD SEE HIM LIKE POINTING TOWARDS THE POST OFFICE AREA, AND HE SLOWLY TRIED TO MAKE HIS WAY THAT DIRECTION.

BUT HE'S TRYING TO CARRY ALL HIS STUFF AND HE KEPT HAVING TO STOP AND PUT IT DOWN.

AND BEFORE WE EVEN GOT TO THE STOP SIGN, HE STOPPED AND HE'S LOOKING AROUND AND LIKE HE DIDN'T KNOW WHAT TO DO.

AND THAT WAS ABOUT THE POINT WE GAVE UP.

I WAS I WAS PRETTY UPSET AT THAT POINT.

I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE RIGHT THING TO DO WITH HIM WOULD HAVE BEEN.

I'M NOT IN LAW ENFORCEMENT, BUT LEAVING HIM THAT CLOSE TO WHERE HE IS ALREADY MADE A THREAT AGAINST SOMEBODY DIDN'T SEEM RIGHT.

SO WE HAD WE HEADED HOME.

AND THEN WE, YOU KNOW, WENT INSIDE.

I HAVE TO SAY THAT SINCE THEN, I, LIKE MY HUSBAND, AM CHECKING THE RING BEFORE I GO OUTSIDE.

I JUST HAVE THIS BAD FEELING THAT, YOU KNOW, HE SAID HE WAS GOING TO GET A GUN.

WE DON'T KNOW HOW ANGRY HE IS.

IF HE'S GOING TO COME BACK.

I MEAN, MIGHT NEVER BE ANYTHING THAT HAPPENS FROM THIS.

BUT, YOU KNOW, THE GUY FROM UNITED HEALTHCARE WALKING DOWN THE STREET IN NEW YORK DIDN'T THINK ANYTHING WAS GOING TO HAPPEN EITHER.

HE COULD COME BACK.

WE DON'T KNOW. SO WE'RE HAVING TO BE EXTRA CAREFUL.

SO I DON'T FEEL SAFE GOING OUT.

KEITH HAS BEEN ESCORTING ME TO THE Y UNLESS I DRIVE.

WE'VE ADDED THE RING CAMERA.

CONTINUE TO CHECK IT.

SO THAT'S. IT'S BEEN A REALLY BAD EXPERIENCE FOR A COUPLE OF WEEKS.

AND VERY STRESSFUL.

SO I HAVE TO COMPARE THAT TO EVERYTHING GOOD GOING ON HERE.

I LOVE THE THINGS HAPPENING IN BEDFORD.

I APPRECIATE ALL OF YOU UP HERE WORKING TO MAKE THINGS BETTER.

I KNOW EVERY EMPLOYEE IN BEDFORD IS TRYING THEIR BEST TO DO A GREAT JOB.

I LOVE EVERYTHING THAT'S HAPPENING.

THE SENIOR CENTER, ALTHOUGH I WILL NOT ADMIT I'M OLD ENOUGH TO GO THERE.

THE CONCERTS, THE MUSIC.

I LOVE THAT THE ART FAIR.

BUT THE PROBLEM IS, IF WE'RE NOT SAFE AND WE HAVE BAD THINGS HAPPENING, THOSE THINGS ARE NOT GOING TO MATTER AS MUCH.

SAFETY IS A REQUIREMENT.

THOSE ARE BONUSES.

SO I'D ASK EACH OF YOU JUST TO THINK ABOUT THIS, YOU KNOW, NOT JUST FROM OUR COMING IN AND TALKING ABOUT IT, BUT YOUR OWN PERSPECTIVE.

IF YOU LIVE ALONE, IF YOU'VE GOT A WIFE OR KIDS OR WHATEVER WITH YOU, HOW WOULD YOU FEEL IF THIS WAS RIGHT BEHIND YOUR HOUSE AND THIS PERSON HAD THREATENED YOUR LIFE? SO THAT'S PRETTY MUCH WHERE I'M AT.

I REALIZE MOST HOMELESS PEOPLE ARE TOTALLY HARMLESS, BUT I'M ALSO NOT NAIVE ENOUGH TO THINK THEY'RE ALL HARMLESS.

THIS MAN SHOWED MULTIPLE REASONS WHY HE MAY NOT BE A HARMLESS PERSON.

AND ADD TO THAT, I CAN ONLY IMAGINE A HOMELESS PERSON, THE DESPERATION THEY WOULD FEEL AROUND JUST SIMPLE SHELTER AND FOOD AND WHAT THEY MIGHT DO JUST TO MAKE SURE THEY HAVE THOSE VERY BASIC NECESSITIES MIGHT NOT BE SOMETHING YOU WANT HAPPENING TO YOUR RESIDENTS.

SO BASICALLY MY ASK IS THAT AS YOU GUYS ARE DEALING WITH THIS PROBLEM IN THE CITY YOU KNOW, OF HOMELESSNESS, THAT YOU JUST THINK ABOUT THIS VERSUS OTHER THINGS IN THE BUDGET IF THEY IF THEY NEED MORE OFFICERS OR SUPPORT STAFF.

LET'S FIND A WAY TO MAKE IT HAPPEN.

IF THEY NEED MORE TRAINING, LET'S FIGURE THAT OUT.

IF THEY NEED MORE SUPPORT, LET'S FACE IT, THE POLICE HAVE HAD A HARD TIME SINCE 2020 AND I THINK THEY NEED TO FEEL SUPPORTED BECAUSE I DON'T KNOW HOW

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IF SHE FELT LIKE IT WAS TOO RISKY TO HER OWN LIFE TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT HIM OR WHAT, BUT I CAN'T SAY THAT A GOOD JOB WAS DONE IN THAT PARTICULAR CASE THAT DAY.

SO THAT'S REALLY WHAT I'VE GOT TO SAY.

I HOPE WE CAN FIGURE OUT A SOLVE FOR THIS THAT HELPS THE HOMELESS, BUT ALSO PROTECTS THE RESIDENTS.

AND I KNOW EACH OF YOU, I'VE VOTED FOR MANY OF YOU.

AND I KNOW YOU'RE HERE TO DO A GOOD JOB, AND YOU'RE WORKING REALLY HARD AT IT, BUT I REALLY WOULD JUST ASK THAT YOU GUYS THINK ABOUT THIS AND REALLY MAKE IT A PRIORITY.

BECAUSE IF THIS STARTS BECOMING A TREND, THAT IS NOT GOING TO BE GOOD FOR BEDFORD, IT SORT OF REMINDS ME OF I USED TO TRAVEL TO SAN FRANCISCO ON BUSINESS A LOT, AND WHEN I FIRST STARTED AROUND 2000, IT WAS A BEAUTIFUL CITY.

I COULD GO ANYWHERE I WANT, DO BEAUTIFUL THINGS.

BY THE TIME I QUIT GOING AROUND 2010, I COULDN'T LEAVE MY HOTEL AFTER DARK BECAUSE THERE WERE SO MANY HOMELESS PEOPLE ALL OVER THE STREETS AND I WAS TOLD, YOU NEED TO STAY INSIDE, STAY WHERE YOU'RE SAFE.

I DON'T WANT THAT HAPPENING BEHIND OUR HOUSE OR ANYWHERE ELSE IN BEDFORD.

THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU FOR SHARING.

BEFORE WE YOU KNOW, OBVIOUSLY, I SEE POLICE CHIEF LAPENNA IN THE BACK THAT I WOULD LIKE TO HAVE HIM MOMENTARILY.

PROBABLY AFTER I GET TO MR. CARUSO, TO HAVE HIM COME BACK AND HAVE A REBUTTAL.

BUT I WILL SAY THIS NO DOUBT THAT HAVING SOMEBODY CAMPING OUT WHO'S HOMELESS BEHIND YOU AND THREATENING YOUR LIFE, THAT, I MEAN, OBVIOUSLY YOU WOULD BE ANYBODY WOULD BE SHAKEN BY THIS.

AND SO, YOU KNOW, I WANT FOR THE RECORD TO KNOW THAT, YOU KNOW, THAT, KEITH, YOU TALKED TO CHIEF LAPENNA ON MANY OCCASIONS.

WE'VE TALKED TO OUR CITY MANAGER.

I HAVE TALKED WITH YOU.

MANY COUNCIL MEMBERS HAVE REACHED OUT TO YOU REGARDING THIS, THIS ISSUE, JUST TO TALK ABOUT HOMELESSNESS IN THE CITY AND WHAT'S GOING ON.

AND I KNOW THAT THERE IS A LOT THERE'S A LOT THAT IS GOING ON THAT THAT IS HAPPENING IN TERMS OF HOMELESSNESS.

I DO HAVE A QUESTION, THOUGH, FOR YOU.

YOU SAID YOU'RE WORSE OFF THAN YOU THAN YOU ARE NOW.

CAN YOU ELABORATE ON THAT? YES. Y'ALL.

Y'ALL LEFT HIM THERE.

WE DON'T KNOW WHERE HE'S. AT LEAST IF Y'ALL WOULD HAVE TAKEN HIM, I THINK THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN A MUCH STRONGER DETERRENT FOR HIM COMING BACK.

BUT WHEN YOU JUST LEAVE, IT'S ALMOST LIKE GIVING PERMISSION.

SO THAT'S WHY I'M SAYING WE'RE WORSE OFF NOW THAN WE WERE BEFORE.

GOTCHA. IF I JUST WOULD HAVE DONE NOTHING OR, YOU KNOW.

YEAH. HE WAS VERY UPSET.

YOU CAN SEE IT IN THE BODY CAM TOO.

HE'S NOT, HE WAS NOT A HAPPY CAMPER.

GOTCHA. ANOTHER THING I WANT TO CLARIFY.

ALSO, YOU MENTIONED YOU MENTIONED YOU CALLED PREVIOUSLY AND IT WAS A NON-EMERGENCY NUMBER.

YES. AND THAT WAS THAT WAS WHEN THE.

WE FOUND THE CLOTHING. BELONGINGS.

YES. AND THAT'S WHEN OPERATOR SAID THAT THEY COULDN'T DISPATCH SOMEONE.

YEAH. OKAY. IT WAS NOT AN EMERGENCY.

OH, IT WAS NOT. YEAH.

I MEAN, THIS IS I DON'T CONSIDER THIS HIGH PRIORITY JUST FOR THE FOR THE I JUST.

OKAY. GET SOMEBODY HERE WHEN YOU CAN.

GOTCHA. WE WATCHED THE BURGLARY WHEN THE CENTER WAS BEING BUILT AND WE CALLED THE POLICE, AND THEY DIDN'T COME OUT FOR TWO HOURS, SO I DID.

YOU KNOW, I WAS NOT TOO UPSET ABOUT THAT.

SO THAT BEING SAID.

SO THEN AFTERWARDS THEN YOU CALLED.

CALLED THE EMERGENCY NUMBER.

AFTER THE MAN CAME BACK.

HE WAS YELLING.

SCREAMING? YOU HAD ALREADY TOLD THEM THAT THE POLICE HAD THE STUFF.

AND THAT'S WHEN THREATENED YOUR LIFE.

AND THEN I KNOW FIVE OFFICERS CAME AND RESPONDED TO THAT CALL, AND THEY CAME OUT AND THEN SPOKE AND WERE ABLE TO SPEAK WITH HIM AND GO IN THERE BECAUSE I DID WATCH. I WATCHED THE VIDEO AS WELL, ALONG WITH YOU, JUST TO MAKE SURE, BECAUSE I WANTED TO MAKE SURE I HAD MY FACTS STRAIGHT BEFORE I SEE THINGS COMING UP HERE. THAT BEING SAID, I THINK THERE WAS I CAN'T SPEAK TO ANY DISCIPLINARY, YOU KNOW, ISSUES OR ANYTHING IN REGARDS TO THE COMPLAINT, THE OFFICER, THEIR CONDUCT, AND NOR DO I THINK THIS IS THE PLATFORM.

THIS IS NOT THE PLACE TO DO THAT.

TO DO THAT. ALL I WILL SAY IS THOUGH, IS THAT I THINK THERE IS ROOM.

DEFINITELY. THERE WAS THINGS THAT COULD HAVE BEEN DONE BETTER.

YES. AND IDENTIFIED BETTER.

AND I THINK THAT GOING FORWARD I KNOW THAT THERE ARE GOING TO BE ADDRESSED.

I FEEL CONFIDENT THAT THINGS ARE GOING TO GET FIXED.

CORRECT. THAT'S WHY I'M HERE.

YES. IF I DIDN'T THINK THINGS WERE GOING TO GET FIXED, I WOULD NOT HAVE COME UP HERE.

WELL, THAT'S GOOD. THAT'S GOOD TO KNOW.

SO WHAT I'M LOOKING FOR IS COUNCIL TO GIVE CITY EMPLOYEES DIRECTION.

YOU'RE OUR VOICE.

WE VOTED FOR Y'ALL.

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YOU'RE OUR VOICE.

LET THEM KNOW WHAT WE WANT AND WHAT WE NEED.

ABSOLUTELY. ABSOLUTELY. AND THAT IS WHY, YOU KNOW, I YOU KNOW, I WAS GOING TO SAY LATER, BUT WE ALSO HAD A MEETING IN RESPONSE TO THIS.

ALL THREE OF OUR MAYORS OF THE THREE CITIES, YOU KNOW, CAME TOGETHER AND ACTUALLY HAD A MEETING WITH CITY MANAGERS ALONG WITH THE POLICE CHIEFS TO TALK ABOUT HOMELESSNESS.

IT WAS A VERY I'LL JUST SAY RIGHT HERE, FOR THE RECORD, IT WAS A VERY PRODUCTIVE MEETING WHERE WE WERE ABLE TO TACKLE THAT AND HANDLE IT AS AN ISSUE.

AND GOING FORWARD, WE WANT TO MAKE IT AN ANNUAL MEETING TO TALK ABOUT HOMELESSNESS.

WHAT IS EACH CITY DOING? WHAT ARE THEY SEEING SO THAT WE ARE ON THE SAME PAGE SO THAT WE DON'T SEE IT INCREASE WITHIN OUR COMMUNITY.

IN ADDITION, WE WANT TO PULL IN OTHER ORGANIZATIONS TO EDUCATE US ON BEST PRACTICES AND ALSO PULL IN THE SCHOOL DISTRICT AS WELL.

I THINK WE ALL, WE ALL AGREE THAT THE SCHOOL DISTRICT SHOULD BE THERE AS WELL.

VERY MUCH SO. SO I KNOW THAT WE'RE ON THE RIGHT TRACK.

TAKING IT FROM AN ORDINANCE STANDPOINT, TAKING IT FROM TRAINING STANDPOINT FROM POLICE.

SO WE ARE DEFINITELY DOING WHAT WE CAN TO ADDRESS THIS ISSUE.

IS IT AN ISSUE, IS THIS A ONE OFF? IF YOU LOOK AT, YOU KNOW, AROUND THE CITIES AROUND THE AREA, YOU DON'T SEE ENCAMPMENTS WITHIN OUR CITY BOUNDARIES.

WE DON'T SEE ANY HOMELESSNESS CAMPING OUTSIDE UNDERNEATH THE FREEWAYS.

WE'RE NOT SEEING THAT TYPE OF ACTIVITIES WITHIN OUR COMMUNITY.

WE DON'T SEE THEM WITHIN THE DRAINAGE SYSTEMS. AND YOU MENTIONED THE FOLIAGE AND MAKING SURE THAT THERE'S NO TENTS BACK THERE AND OUR WOODED AREAS AND OUR DRAINAGE SYSTEMS AND IN AREAS WE DON'T SEE THAT.

I KNOW THAT WE FLY DRONES TO MAKE SURE, TO CHECK TO SEE IF THERE'S ANYBODY LIVING BACK THERE.

SO I KNOW THERE'S DIFFERENT CHECKS, AND I KNOW THAT CHIEF'S GOING TO TALK MORE ABOUT THAT AND WHAT WE'RE DOING.

BUT I WANT YOU TO BE REST ASSURED.

I WANT THE I WANT RESIDENTS TO BE REST ASSURED THAT THE POLICE ARE DOING EVERYTHING THEY CAN TO, TO TACKLE ANY KIND OF ISSUE.

BUT I THINK WHAT'S HAPPENED HERE IS KIND OF A ONE OFF.

YOU HAD A TRANSIENT PERSON IN THAT VIDEO.

IF YOU WATCHED THAT VIDEO AS WELL FROM THE BODY CAM FOOTAGE.

CORRECT. AND SO DID YOU, DID YOU CATCH WHERE THAT PERSON SAID THAT? MAN, THEY TREATED ME BETTER IN ARLINGTON THAN WHEN I GOT UP HERE.

I DIDN'T HEAR ALL OF IT.

CHIEF LAPENNA KEPT TALKING.

OKAY. ALL RIGHT.

SO, YEAH, THERE WAS, THERE WAS A SO THERE WAS A PART IN THAT VIDEO WHICH EVEN SAID THAT ORIGINALLY CAME FROM, I GUESS, ARLINGTON.

HOW THEY GOT HERE? NO IDEA. BUT ONE OF THE COMMENTS THAT GENTLEMAN MADE WAS, MAN, YOU KNOW, I HAD IT MUCH BETTER IN ARLINGTON THAN I CAME TO BEDFORD AND SO GOOD.

SO, SO YEAH, THAT'S IN THERE.

I JUST WANTED TO POINT THAT OUT.

BUT YEAH. SO IN A MOMENT, I'LL HAVE I'LL HAVE POLICE CHIEF TALK ABOUT WHAT WE'RE DOING.

SO I'M GLAD THIS IS GETTING OUT IN THE OPEN.

SO THAT THE AIR CAN FIX IT.

NO. ABSOLUTELY. NO I AGREE I AGREE.

ABSOLUTELY. IT'S A SITUATION THAT NEEDS TO BE TALKED ABOUT AND ESPECIALLY HOMELESSNESS.

AS A COUNTY, AS A REGION, AS AN AREA, THIS IS SOMETHING THAT NEEDS TO BE TO BE ADDRESSED AND TALKED ABOUT.

SO I'D LIKE TO INVITE NEXT UP ON OUR PRISONS TO BE HEARD, MISTER CARUSO, 148 RAVENSWOOD DRIVE, BEDFORD, TEXAS, ON THE SOUTH SIDE, 76022.

THE SUN IS STILL OUT ON THE SOUTH SIDE RIGHT NOW.

YEP. THAT'S RIGHT.

WHOA! GOOD EVENING.

GOOD EVENING. MAYOR. CITY COUNCIL.

I WANT TO TITLE THIS PRESENTATION AS FIRST LINE OF DEFENSE.

I'VE ALWAYS BEEN A STRONG SUPPORTER OF THE MEN AND WOMEN WHO WEAR BLUE.

ALWAYS HAVE BEEN, ALWAYS WILL BE.

A POLICE OFFICER'S JOB IS NOT EASY.

TODAY'S POLICE HAVE TO DEAL WITH CAMERA PHONES, DISRESPECT BY MANY, AND ARE AT THE MERCY OF POLITICAL AGENDAS IN THEIR CITIES.

YET THEY SHOW UP TO WORK EVERY DAY WITH THE POSSIBILITY OF NEVER RETURNING HOME.

THEY SHOW UP TO WORK TO BE THE FIRST LINE OF DEFENSE FOR THE RESIDENTS OF OUR CITY, AGAINST THOSE WHO MAY WANT TO DO US HARM.

SO WHEN I HEARD ABOUT THIS INCIDENT WITH KEITH AND DANA AT OUR PARK CONCERNING THE HOMELESS MAN, I WAS TAKEN ABACK. AND I ALWAYS GIVE THE POLICE THE BENEFIT OF THE DOUBT, THIS ONE HIT HOME A LITTLE BIT.

THERE ARE GOOD FRIENDS OF MINE, AND THERE WAS A THREAT OF HIM BEING KILLED, AND THE HOMELESS MAN WAS GOING TO GET A GUN.

THE HOMELESS ARE HOMELESS FOR MANY REASONS MENTAL HEALTH REASONS, DRUG AND ALCOHOL ADDICTIONS.

A RUN OF BAD LUCK, LOST THEIR HOMES, JOBS, ETC.

I MEAN, THERE'S MANY PROBLEMS IN OUR SOCIETY WITH DEALING WITH HOMELESS PEOPLE.

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MANY DON'T. MANY DON'T WANT HELP.

MANY DON'T FIT OUR SOCIAL NORMS THAT WE LIVE BY, THAT WE ALL LIVE BY.

MANY BECOME VIOLENT.

MANY HAVE NOTHING TO LOSE.

I WANT TO REPEAT THAT.

MANY HAVE NOTHING TO LOSE.

MANY ARE A TICKING BOMB READY TO EXPLODE.

ABOUT SIX WEEKS AGO, THERE WAS A FOUR DAY PERIOD IN NEW YORK CITY WHERE THERE WAS A HOMELESS MAN THREATENED AND INJURED.

A HOMELESS MAN THREATENED AND INJURED PEOPLE IN THE CITY WITH AN ICE PICK.

THAT WAS ONE DAY, THE TWO DAYS THAT PEOPLE WERE INJURED IN BETWEEN.

AND ON THE FOURTH DAY, A HOMELESS MAN KNIFED AND KILLED THREE RANDOM PEOPLE, PEOPLE THAT HE JUST SAW WALKING ON THE STREET JUST BECAUSE THE TICKING BOMB WENT OFF.

AND THREE PEOPLE ARE DEAD.

THEIR FAMILIES WILL BE MISSING THEM AT THE CHRISTMAS DINNER TABLE.

TO BE CLEAR, I AM NOT COMPARING BEDFORD TO NEW YORK CITY.

NO, I AM COMPARING, NOR, NO, I AM COMPARING HOMELESS PEOPLE TO HOMELESS PEOPLE, NO MATTER WHERE THEY ARE, NO MATTER WHAT THE CITY.

MANY OF THEM PROTECT THEIR PROPERTY JUST LIKE IN THIS SITUATION AND BELONGINGS.

AGAIN, THEY HAVE NOTHING TO LOSE AND SADLY WILL BECOME VIOLENT.

WHERE WAS KEITH'S FIRST LINE OF DEFENSE? WHY WEREN'T, WHY WASN'T THIS MAN THREATS TAKEN SERIOUSLY? MANY OF THE HOMELESS HAVE POLICE RECORDS.

THE POLICE KNOW MANY OF THEM.

MANY HAVE WARRANTS, YET WALK AWAY.

ANOTHER SITUATION IN NEW YORK CITY WAS JUST NOW THAT THE HERO WAS CLEARED OF ANY WRONGDOING.

THE MAN WENT INTO THE SUBWAY, THREATENED PEOPLE, AND I THINK, YOU KNOW, ALL KNOW THE STORY.

HIS NAME WAS NEELY, AND HE WAS TAKEN DOWN BY THE BY A HERO.

THAT MAN HAD 42 ARRESTS IN SEVEN YEARS.

ONE OF THEM, HE PUNCHED A 68 YEAR OLD GRANDMOTHER, BROKE HER EYE SOCKET.

THIS IS JUST AN EXAMPLE.

MANY OF THE POLICE.

OKAY. SOFT ON CRIME WELL, THREATENING SOMEONE IS A CRIME.

AND THE POLICE OFFICERS WHO WERE THERE SHOULD HAVE KNOWN THAT RIGHT AWAY.

THAT WAS WITHOUT DOUBT.

AGAIN, I AM STILL NOT SURE WHY THE POLICE OFFICERS DID NOT ARREST THIS MAN.

I'M CONCERNED THAT OUR PARK, OUR $70 MILLION PARK WILL BECOME MORE POPULATED WITH THE HOMELESS.

WE HAVE TO WATCH THAT.

WE DON'T WANT THAT IN THIS CITY.

AGAIN. WHY DID THE FIRST LINE OF DEFENSE BREAK DOWN? I THINK THAT SHOULD BE YOUR GUIDANCE AND YOUR GOAL TO THE POLICE DEPARTMENT TO SEE THAT THIS DOESN'T HAPPEN AGAIN.

BECAUSE AFTER ALL, WE ALL WANT WHAT WHAT'S BEST FOR OUR LITTLE CITY WE CALL HOME.

RIGHT. AND WE WANT PEOPLE SAFE AND SECURE.

FORTUNATELY, NO HARM TO MR. WALTER OR MRS. WALTER, OR TO THEIR HOME, OR TO THE HOMELESS MAN LIKE NEELY AND NEW YORK CITY WHO LOST HIS LIFE.

AND IT'S ALWAYS A SAD CHAPTER, BUT THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR TIME.

THANK YOU. ALL RIGHT.

CONSIDERING, YOU KNOW ALL THE DEBATE AND TALK AND ALL THIS I'D LIKE TO INVITE UP TO THE PODIUM OUR POLICE CHIEF.

CHIEF LAPENNA. OKAY, SO A LOT TO ADDRESS HERE, A LOT TO UNPACK.

I'D LIKE TO FIRST ASK YOU THE SAME QUESTION THAT WAS JUST ASKED TO ME MOMENTS AGO.

WHY DID THE FIRST LINE OF DEFENSE BREAK DOWN COMMUNICATION? COMMUNICATION BREAKDOWN.

AS THE OFFICERS WERE IN ROUTE AND STUFF LIKE THAT.

AND LIKE WE'VE TALKED ABOUT, THOSE HAVE BEEN ADDRESSED.

THE ISSUES HAVE BEEN BROUGHT FORWARD, ADDRESSED AND HANDLED.

COMPLAINTS BEEN INVESTIGATED.

OKAY. ALL RIGHT. AND EVERYTHING'S BEEN ADDRESSED.

AND WE UNDERSTAND WHERE DEFICIENCIES WERE AND MADE CORRECTIONS.

YES. OKAY. ALL RIGHT.

THAT BEING SAID, ALSO IN TERMS OF HOMELESSNESS IN BEDFORD FROM A GENERAL STANDPOINT, WHAT ARE WE WHAT ARE WE SEEING? SO IT'S NOT DIFFERENT THAN THERE WAS AN EMAIL BACK IN JANUARY OF THIS YEAR ADDRESSING THE SAME ISSUE.

COLD COMES AROUND AND YOU START SEEING PEOPLE POP OUT MORE IN DIFFERENT PLACES AND STUFF LIKE THAT.

AND, YOU KNOW, I'LL STAND BY WHAT WAS SAID BACK IN JANUARY.

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AND BY WHAT I MEAN BY THAT, THEY MAY BE SLEEPING IN THEIR CAR.

IT MAY NOT JUST BE SOMEBODY IN A TENT.

THERE IS PEOPLE THAT ARE OUT THERE STRUGGLING AND THEY'RE LOOKING FOR PLACES TO STAY.

WE GET PEOPLE THAT WALMART PARKING LOT WILL BE NOTORIOUS FOR PEOPLE JUST PARKING AND SLEEPING.

IT'S NOT ALLOWED. AND WE HAVE ALL KINDS OF ORDINANCES TO ADDRESS THAT.

AND SO AND WE DO SO YOU KNOW, WE APPROACH WE SEE PEOPLE WALKING DOWN THE STREET AND STUFF LIKE THAT.

AND I DON'T MAKE ASSUMPTIONS JUST BECAUSE SOMEONE'S WALKING DOWN THE STREET THAT THEY'RE HOMELESS OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT.

BUT WE APPROACH EACH SITUATION AS WE, AS WE COME TO IT AND EACH, YOU KNOW, WE'LL TALK TO PEOPLE.

AND IF WE FIND OUT THEY'RE HOMELESS, THEY'RE IN NEED AND THEY'RE NOT BREAKING ANY LAWS.

WE TRY TO GIVE THEM RESOURCES.

WE ASK THEM IF THEY NEED HELP, IF THEY NEED A PLACE TO GO, IF WE CAN TAKE THEM SOMEWHERE.

AND WE ALSO SPEND TIME EDUCATING THEM ON THE DIFFERENT ORDINANCES AND LAWS THAT THEY COULD BE IN VIOLATION OF IF THEY CHOOSE TO SLEEP IN OUR PARKS, SLEEP ON THE STREETS, SLEEP IN CARS AND STUFF LIKE THAT.

BECAUSE THERE ARE THERE ARE ITEMS THAT COVER THAT WE YOU KNOW, OVER THE LAST TWO YEARS, WE'VE BEEN WORKING WITH AN ORGANIZATION CALLED HANDS FOR HOPE THAT IN JANUARY. DOES A NIGHTLY WANT TO CALL IT A SURGE COUNT, WHERE THEY GO OUT THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE COUNTY AND ALL THE DIFFERENT CITIES, AND THEY ATTEMPT TO COUNT ALL THE HOMELESS PEOPLE THAT THEY CAN ENCOUNTER.

IN THE LAST TWO YEARS, AS THEY'VE DONE THIS, THEY HAVE NOT COUNTED ANYBODY IN BEDFORD, THANKFULLY, AND DOESN'T MEAN IT DOESN'T EXIST.

THEY MAY HAVE JUST BEEN IN A PLACE THAT THEY WEREN'T FOUND.

WE ALSO DEPLOY OUR DRONE UNITS.

STOLE MY THUNDER A MINUTE AGO ABOUT THIS.

SORRY ABOUT THAT. WE DO DEPLOY OUR DRONE UNITS IN THE WINTER BECAUSE THE LEAVES ARE OFF THE TREES AND IT'S THINNER, AND YOU'RE ABLE TO SEE MORE CLEARLY INTO A LOT OF OUR FOLIAGE ALONG THE CREEK BEDS AND STUFF LIKE THAT.

AND WE SEARCH FOR HOMELESS PEOPLE THAT WAY ALSO.

BOTH YEARS THAT WE'VE DONE THAT HAVEN'T COME BACK WITH ANY RESULTS OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT.

THERE WE WILL HAVE PEOPLE TELL US, HEY, DID YOU SEE THE HOMELESS GUY HERE OR THE HOMELESS FAMILY HERE AND STUFF LIKE THAT? WE MAKE CONTACT WITH THESE PEOPLE.

SOME OF THEM ARE PEOPLE IN NEED.

SOME OF THEM ARE ALSO SCAM ARTISTS.

WE'VE COME ACROSS THAT ALSO PEOPLE HAVE GOFUNDME ACCOUNTS AND DIFFERENT THINGS LIKE THAT THAT ARE LOOKING FOR OPPORTUNISTIC ITEMS AND PICTURES AND STUFF LIKE THAT TO SEND OUT TO GET MONEY.

IN A SENSE. SO WE'RE, WE'RE PROACTIVE WITH HANDS FOR HOPE.

WE I HAVE A COUPLE OTHER PERSONAL OUTREACHES THAT I'VE MET IN MY TIME THAT DEALING SPECIFICALLY WITH VETERANS AND STUFF LIKE THAT.

IF YOU COME ACROSS SOMEONE IN NEED, THAT'S A VETERAN.

CALL ME. WE WORK OBVIOUSLY, DOWNTOWN FORT WORTH IS CROWDED.

THEY HAVE THEY HAVE PLENTY OF ISSUES DOWN THERE THAT THEY'RE DEALING WITH.

BUT WE OFFER PEOPLE UNION, GOSPEL MISSION, PRESBYTERIAN NIGHT SHELTER AND STUFF LIKE THAT.

AND I WILL TELL YOU, IN MY EXPERIENCE WITH HOMELESSNESS AND SPEAKING TO HOMELESS PEOPLE.

I HAD A VERY GOOD CONVERSATION WITH A HOMELESS MAN ONE TIME THAT WAS IN A PROGRAM AND IN AN ORGANIZATION THAT WAS HELPING HIM OFF THE STREETS, AND HE TOLD ME FLAT OUT, IF SOMEONE WANTS HELP THERE, THERE ARE RESOURCES OUT THERE.

THEY CAN GET OFF THE STREETS AND STUFF LIKE THAT.

IF THEY'RE REFUSING HELP, IT'S BECAUSE THEY, YOU KNOW, THEY WANT TO STAY OUT ON THE STREET BECAUSE THEY'RE NOT READY TO DO THAT YET.

AND SO YOU'LL GET A LOT OF PUSHBACK AND YOU'LL GET A LOT OF ARGUMENT AND A LOT OF.

AND HE WAS TRYING TO TELL ME HE'S LIKE A LOT OF TIMES THEY'RE NOT TRYING TO ARGUE WITH YOU.

THEY JUST DON'T WANT TO DO THAT YET.

SO WE TRY TO BE PROACTIVE WITH IT, ESPECIALLY AT THIS TIME OF YEAR.

IT'S COLD. WE DON'T WANT PEOPLE SLEEPING ON THE STREETS.

I MENTIONED A NUMBER OF TIMES, AND, AND I DON'T EVER WANT TO STEAL AN OFFICER'S ABILITY TO DO SOMETHING AMAZING FOR SOMEBODY.

I HAVE OFFICERS THAT WILL PUT PEOPLE.

THEY'LL FIND A FAMILY SLEEPING IN A CAR, AND THEY'LL PUT THEM IN A HOTEL BECAUSE THEY HAVEN'T.

THEY VIOLATED AN ORDINANCE BY SLEEPING IN A CAR.

YES, THEY HAVE. BUT, YOU KNOW, IS THAT IS JAIL ALWAYS THE RIGHT ANSWER? IS ENFORCEMENT ALWAYS THE RIGHT ANSWER? YOU KNOW, WE EMPOWER OFFICERS TO MAKE THE RIGHT DECISIONS.

SOMETIMES WE WE FIND TIMES WHEN WE CAN MAKE BETTER DECISIONS AND WE HANDLE THOSE SITUATIONS ACCORDINGLY.

BUT I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE THAT OPPORTUNITY FOR THEM TO DO WHAT THEY DEEMED WAS RIGHT AT THE TIME.

I WILL SAY WE ARE VERY FORTUNATE IN THAT MEETING WE HAD WITH THE OTHER CITIES.

I'M GLAD WE DON'T HAVE A TRAIN STATION.

I KNOW I KNOW THE CITIES OF GRAPEVINE, NORTH RICHLAND HILLS, AND APPARENTLY NOW HURST ALSO EXPERIENCE A LOT OF ISSUES WITH PEOPLE GETTING ON THE TRAIN FROM DOWNTOWN FORT WORTH AND DIFFERENT AREAS AND JUST HOPPING A RIDE TO THE MID CITIES AND COMING OFF THE TRAIN.

AND NOW THEY'RE NOW THEY'RE IN THE MID CITIES INSTEAD OF DOWNTOWN.

SO VERY FORTUNATE FOR THAT IN TALKING TO THE OTHER CITIES, YOU KNOW, THEY DEAL WITH ENCAMPMENTS.

I'VE TAKEN THE TURNAROUND IN NORTH RICHLAND HILLS AND LOOKED UNDER THE BRIDGES AND SEEN THEM THERE.

I'M VERY WELL AWARE THAT, YOU KNOW, IT MOVES.

IT TRAVELS.

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SO THEY'LL GET MORE STRICT AND THEN THEY'LL BOUNCE TO THE NEXT CITY.

NO DIFFERENT THAN THIS INDIVIDUAL SAYING I WAS TREATED NICE IN ARLINGTON, PROBABLY UNTIL HE WASN'T TREATED NICE ANYMORE.

AND SOMEBODY FINALLY SAID, YOU NEED TO GO.

SO HE MADE HIS WAY NORTH TO EULESS UNTIL HE WASN'T TREATED GOOD.

AND HE GETS BOUNCED AROUND BECAUSE IT'S NOT ILLEGAL TO BE HOMELESS.

SO WE DO FIND A VERY TRANSIENT ISSUE.

I IT'S I'VE BEEN TO PARKS WHERE I'VE BEEN TOLD THAT THERE'S A HOMELESS GUY SLEEPING IN THIS PARK, AND THIS GUY WAS SLEEPING UNDER A BENCH, BUT I COULDN'T SEE HIM JUST BECAUSE OF THE WAY THE PARK WAS AND STUFF LIKE THAT.

IT TOOK ME A WHILE, AND I FINALLY FOUND HIM AND TALKED TO HIM FOR A WHILE, AND I WAS I WAS GLAD THAT SOMEONE FINALLY CALLED BECAUSE HE HAD BEEN THERE AND HE HAD BEEN BEING FED AND PEOPLE WERE, YOU KNOW, TAKING CARE OF HIM AND STUFF LIKE THAT.

AND THAT WASN'T SOLVING HIS ISSUE, THOUGH, AND HE WAS STAYING.

AND SO, YOU KNOW, IN ORDER TO SOLVE THE ISSUE AND WORK THROUGH IT WITH HIM, I TOLD HIM, YOU CAN'T BE HERE ANYMORE.

IT VIOLATES THE LAW.

IT'S TIME TO GO.

WHERE CAN WE GET YOU? AND WE GOT HIM OUT OF THERE AND GOT HIM TO FORT WORTH.

SO THAT'S, YOU KNOW, A GOOD APPROACH TO THAT SITUATION.

BECAUSE WE CAN THROW THEM IN JAIL.

WE CAN PUT PEOPLE IN JAIL FOR ORDINANCE VIOLATIONS, WARRANTS AND STUFF LIKE THAT.

THEY'RE GOING TO GET OUT OF JAIL AND THEY'RE GOING TO BE RIGHT BACK IN OUR NEIGHBORHOODS.

SO WHILE I APPRECIATE THE ENFORCEMENT THING, I DO LOVE THAT SIDE OF MY JOB.

YOU KNOW, WE'RE ALSO LOOKING FOR LONGER END GOALS TO SOLVING OUR IMMEDIATE ISSUE IN THIS CITY.

OKAY. YEAH.

ONCE AGAIN, I HAVE A FEW, FEW MORE HERE.

CAN I CAN I GO BACK TO THE SITUATION THAT WAS AT HAND? THAT HAPPENED ON NOVEMBER 18TH REAL QUICK.

AND SO WHAT HAPPENED THERE? FIRST OF ALL, YOU CAN'T ARREST SOMEBODY FOR THE STOLEN BIKE, THAT WHOLE THING, BECAUSE THAT PERSON DIDN'T WANT TO PRESS CHARGES, CORRECT? YES. JUST SO, JUST BECAUSE THEY STOLE THE BIKE DOESN'T MEAN WE CAN JUST AUTOMATICALLY.

YEAH. THE OFFICERS, THE OFFICERS SPOKE TO THE PERSON WHO OWNED THE BIKE, ASKED HIM, IS THIS YOUR BIKE? HE SAID YES. AND THEY ASKED HIM IF HE WANTED TO PURSUE CHARGES AND HE DECLINED TO.

OKAY. AND THEN THAT MEANS THERE'S NOTHING WE CAN DO FROM THAT FROM THAT POINT.

THEN OFFICERS AT THAT POINT, AFTERWARDS, THEY TALKED TO HIM.

AND I REMEMBER WATCHING THE VIDEO YOU KNOW, OF THIS ENTIRE INTERACTION THEY OFFERED TO TAKE HIM SOMEWHERE.

THEY SAID, WHERE CAN WE TAKE YOU? AND ALL THAT. AND SO CAN YOU TALK TO ME? WHAT HAPPENED? WHAT ENSUED THERE AFTERWARDS? SO HE DID LEAVE THE PREMISES, THEN LEFT.

HE AS HE WAS YELLING, YES, HE PACKED UP HIS STUFF AND LEFT.

HE MENTIONED CALLING AN UBER.

AND HE GATHERED HIS THINGS.

HE WAS, YOU KNOW, TRYING TO HE WAS ARGUING WITH OFFICER KIDD, TO BE HONEST WITH YOU.

YEAH. HE DIDN'T ENJOY HIS CONVERSATION WITH HIM TOO MUCH, BUT HE WAS GATHERING HIS THINGS AND TO LEAVE THE PARK AND VACATE THE AREA.

OKAY. AND HE DID VACATE THE AREA THEN? YES. OKAY. OKAY. SO OFFICERS DIDN'T JUST LEAVE, AND THEN HE WAS LEFT THERE, RIGHT? OKAY. SO HE DID VACATE THE AREA.

OFFICERS MADE SURE OF THAT, RIGHT? OKAY. BECAUSE I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT THAT'S ON RECORD AND THAT'S CLEAR GOING FORWARD.

MY QUESTION FOR YOU IS WHAT IS YOUR MESSAGE TO OUR RESIDENTS CONCERNING HOMELESS? CONTACT US.

LET US WORK WITH SOME OF OUR OUTREACHES AND ORGANIZATIONS TO GET THEM OFF THE STREETS AND SOLVE THE PROBLEM IN A BIGGER WAY.

SHOULD THEY INTERACT WITH THEM AT ALL? NO, I DON'T I DON'T THINK THEY SHOULD HAVE ANY CONVERSATIONS WITH THEM.

I THINK THEY SHOULD CALL US AND LET US HAVE THE INITIAL CONVERSATION.

LET US IDENTIFY WHAT, IF ANY, LAWS HAVE BEEN BROKEN AND THEN WHAT WE CAN DO FOR THEM TO HELP THEM OR GET THEM TO WHERE THEY NEED TO BE.

AND SO IF IT'S A REPEATED OFFENSE OF SOMETHING HAPPENING, WOULD THERE BE A REPEATED OFFENSE? LET'S SAY YOU CALLED SOMEBODY AND WE ESCORTED THEM OUT AND THEY RETURN.

WHAT'S OUR PROTOCOL THEN? YOU KNOW, A LOT OF OFFICERS ARE GOING TO THEN STEP UP THEIR ENFORCEMENT, YOU KNOW, NO DIFFERENT.

I'VE PULLED OVER PEOPLE FOR SPEEDING, AND I GIVE THEM A WARNING THE FIRST TIME I'VE PULLED OVER THE SAME PERSON THE NEXT DAY.

AND I SAID, WELL, OBVIOUSLY THAT DIDN'T WORK.

SO I ISSUED HIM A CITATION FOR IT.

SO, YOU KNOW, THAT KIND OF PROGRESSIVE, HEY, WE TOLD YOU TO GET OUT OF HERE.

THIS IS NOT THE INTENDED USE FOR THE PARK OR WHATEVER IT IS THEY'RE DOING.

IT'S TIME TO MOVE ALONG.

OKAY. ALL RIGHT. ALL RIGHT.

OBVIOUSLY, THIS IS A VERY AS WE HAD OUR MEETING WITH THE OTHER MAYORS.

THIS IS A VERY COMPLICATED, COMPLICATED ISSUE.

DEALING WITH HOMELESSNESS HOLISTICALLY IS JUST A, YOU KNOW, AS YOU KNOW, YOU HAVE TO DO IT.

YOU HAVE TO TAKE A MULTI-PRONGED APPROACH TO HANDLING THE SITUATION.

MATTER OF FACT, TARRANT COUNTY IS I KNOW THEY'VE REQUESTING FUNDS FOR A MENTAL FACILITY.

THERE'S A MENTAL HEALTH THAT'S INVOLVED IN THIS.

THAT'S AN ASPECT.

THERE'S MANY DIFFERENT WAYS WE CAN ADDRESS THIS.

ONE THING THAT YOU KNOW THAT I'M GLAD THAT WE DON'T WE DON'T HAVE ENCAMPMENTS.

WE DON'T HAVE TENT CITIES HERE.

AND THAT FROM WHAT I CAN TELL, OUR INTERACTIONS WITH OUR OFFICERS AND THIS, THIS PARTICULAR GENTLEMAN IS THAT WE WANTED TO OFFER HELP.

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IT'S TIME FOR YOU TO MOVE ON AND GO, OKAY, I'LL PROBABLY HAVE SOME ADDITIONAL ONES, BUT I KNOW SOME OF MY FELLOW COUNCIL MEMBERS HAVE QUESTIONS, SO COUNCILMEMBER FARCO.

THANK YOU, MR. MAYOR. AND THANK YOU, CHIEF.

WE'VE HAD THIS CONVERSATION FOR A LITTLE BIT TO WORK ON, ON SOME OF THOSE THINGS AND WORK WITH OUR THINGS.

TALKING ABOUT WHAT THE MAYOR SAID, A MESSAGE TO OUR OUR CITIZENS.

AND YOU HAD THAT ONE INCIDENCE WHERE WE FEEL COMPELLED AND, YOU KNOW, AND THE GENEROSITY OF OUR HEART TO FEED SOMEBODY AND TAKE CARE OF THEM AND DO WHAT WE NEED TO DO.

THAT DOESN'T HELP THE SITUATION, DOES IT? NO, SIR. SO DO YOU THINK THAT WE NEED TO CREATE A MESSAGE? AND BECAUSE YOU'LL HAVE RESIDENTS THAT WILL FIGHT ONE ANOTHER, JUST ABOUT ONE FEELS LIKE IT'S THE NEED TO TAKE CARE OF THEM.

THE OTHER ONE FEELS THE NEED THAT THIS COULD BE A DANGEROUS SITUATION.

WE NEED TO REMOVE THIS PERSON.

SHOULD WE PROBABLY CREATE A MESSAGE AND MAYBE EVEN A PROGRAM ON WHO TO CONTACT AND WHERE TO WHERE TO GO, NOT ONLY JUST THE POLICE OR OR WHATEVER, BECAUSE I FEEL THAT WE'RE STARTING TO SEE MORE OF THIS.

I MEAN, YOU'VE GOT AN ECONOMY THAT'S GOOD IN SOME AREAS, AND PEOPLE ARE LOSING JOBS IN THE OTHER.

AND AND WE'VE HAD THIS CONVERSATION BECAUSE WE HAVE PEOPLE IN.

I KNOW THERE'S A WOMAN IN HURST THAT HAS FAMILY IN THE AREA, AND SHE COULD GO SOMEWHERE, BUT SHE DOESN'T WANT TO.

RIGHT. AND IT'S LIKE YOU SAID, THEY'RE NOT GOING TO GET HELP UNLESS THEY WANT TO.

BUT I ALSO, YOU KNOW, THE I WANT OUR CITIZENS TO REALIZE SOMETHING THAT, YES, THIS WASN'T THE PERFECT SITUATION, BUT WE HANDLED IT.

AND COULD WE HAVE HANDLED IT BETTER? PROBABLY. BUT IT COULD HAVE BEEN A LOT WORSE.

AND WE'VE GOT TO JUST ADDRESS IT AND WE'VE GOT TO MOVE ON AND FIGURE OUT WHAT WE'VE GOT TO DO TO DO THIS.

AND THE CONVERSATIONS ARE HAPPENING AND THAT'S WHAT I'M EXCITED ABOUT IS THAT WE ARE ADDRESSING THIS.

AS THE MAYOR SAID, THE OTHER CITIES, WE'VE TALKED ABOUT IT WITH ANDREA, WE HAD A CONVERSATION WITH THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION OF WHAT'S HAPPENING IN OTHER CITIES AND THE OTHER CITIES. YOU GUYS ARE GETTING TOGETHER, SO YOU'RE CONSISTENT AND IT JUST DOESN'T MOVE FROM EULESS TO BEDFORD TO HURST AND KIND OF KEEP COMING BACK.

SO I THINK FOR MESSAGING, WE SHOULD WORK WITH OUR PARTNERS AND MESSAGE TO THEM.

HANDS FOR HOPE, TARRANT COUNTY HOMELESS COALITION, ANY OF THOSE, WE SHOULD MESS WITH THEM.

OKAY. WELL THANKS, CHIEF, AND WE APPRECIATE THE JOB OF YOUR OFFICERS AND WE APPRECIATE THE JOB YOU GUYS ARE DOING.

AND MR. WALTER, WE WE'RE ADDRESSING THE SITUATION.

ALL RIGHT. ALL RIGHT.

COUNCIL, ANY OTHER COMMENTS, QUESTIONS FOR CHIEF? COUNCIL MEMBER STEVES? NO. OKAY. YEAH.

QUICK QUESTION, CHIEF.

OTHER THAN THE DRONES AND, YOU KNOW, DRIVING THROUGH THE PARKING LOTS.

THERE ARE OFFICERS GETTING OUT AT NIGHT.

YOU KNOW WHAT IS IT CLOSED. THE PARKS CLOSED AT 11.

YES, SIR. OFFICERS GETTING OUT AND PATROLLING THE PARKS.

WE CHECK OUT WITH A LOT OF VEHICLES AND STUFF LIKE THAT IN THE PARKS AFTER HOURS.

BECAUSE I'M CONCERNED. LIKE WALTER SAID, WE HAVE THE WALL THERE, AND IT'S A SPACE IN BETWEEN WHERE THIS HAPPENED.

AND IT'S NOT EASY TO BE TOUGH LOCATION.

RIGHT? IF YOU'RE COUNTING ON THE RESIDENTS TO CALL IN, IT'S.

YEAH. NO, IT'S DEFINITELY A TOUGH LOCATION IN A PLACE THAT WE GET OUT AND LOOK AT.

OKAY. RIGHT. THANK YOU.

ALL RIGHT. SO NOT SEEING ANY OTHERS.

FIRST OFF, CHIEF, I WANT TO THANK YOU FOR ADDRESSING IT AND ALSO BEING FORTHRIGHT IN REALIZING THAT DEFICIENCIES WERE THERE WHEN YOU'RE MAKING CORRECTIONS AND ALWAYS PUSHING TO DO BETTER.

I THINK THAT'S THE MAIN THING GOING FORWARD.

AND THE FACT THAT WE'RE TAKING INITIATIVE AND ADDRESSING THIS ISSUE OF HOMELESSNESS, ALL THREE CITIES GETTING TOGETHER, AND WE'RE MAKING THAT PART OF PART OF IT AN ANNUAL MEETING.

AND IN ADDITION, WE WANT TO EXPAND THAT.

WE WANT TO FOCUS THIS, I THINK, YOU KNOW, YEARS PAST I THINK IT WAS BACK IN 2021, 2022.

THE MAYOR'S COUNCIL AT THE TIME TRIED TO DO SOMETHING AS A COUNTY WIDE ISSUE, A COUPLE MAYORS GETTING TOGETHER.

I THINK WHERE WE'RE AT RIGHT NOW IS WE WANT TO FOCUS ON HURST-EULESS-BEDFORD OUR COMMUNITIES, OUR AREA, BECAUSE ALL OF US, WE ARE ALL WE'RE A TIGHT KNIT COMMUNITY HERE.

SO, SO I THOUGHT THAT MEETING THAT WE'VE HAD WITH THE MAYORS WAS VERY BENEFICIAL.

I WOULD LIKE TO SEE THAT CONTINUE GOING FORWARD WITH OUR CITY MANAGERS AND THEN FINDING OUT CREATIVE SOLUTIONS TO THIS ISSUE.

SO TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTION, MR. WALTER YOU KNOW, WE ARE GOING TO WE'RE GOING TO DO WE'RE MAKING IMPROVEMENTS.

AND AS THE WAY I PUT IT, WE'RE ALWAYS PUSHING TO DO BETTER.

THAT'S THAT'S HOW IT GOES.

SO BIG THANKS TO YOU TO OUR POLICE DEPARTMENT FOR EVERYTHING THAT YOU DO IT JUST WATCHING THOSE VIDEOS AND WATCHING EVERYTHING POLICE OFFICERS HAVE TO PUT UP WITH ON A DAY TO DAY BASIS. YOU DO. YOU DO SUCH A GOOD JOB FOR THIS COMMUNITY AND KEEPING US SAFE.

AND I DO WANT TO THANK YOU FOR THAT.

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OKAY. NEXT UP ON OUR AGENDA IS CONSIDER APPROVAL OF ITEMS BY CONSENT.

[CONSIDER APPROVAL OF ITEMS BY CONSENT]

THANK YOU, MAYOR. GOOD EVENING.

I WILL MOVE THROUGH THE CONSENT ITEMS ONE THROUGH FIVE.

CONSIDER APPROVAL OF THE FOLLOWING CITY COUNCIL MEETINGS NOVEMBER 12TH, 2024.

REGULAR MEETING ITEM TWO.

CONSIDER AN ORDINANCE AMENDING THE SCHEDULE OF WATER RATES BY AMENDMENT OF SECTION ONE, ORDINANCE NUMBER 2024-3420.

THIS ITEM IS ESSENTIALLY A CLEANUP TO THE VOLUMETRIC RATE PAID BY MULTIFAMILY RESIDENCES TO MATCH THE TIERED RATE STRUCTURE THAT THE COUNCIL APPROVED BACK IN SEPTEMBER.

THIS IS A TIERED RATE THAT WILL BASICALLY APPLY TO OUR CUSTOMERS PAYING DIFFERENT RATES BASED ON THEIR USAGE.

THE STAFF MISSED APPLYING THE CHANGE TO THE MULTIFAMILY PROJECTS, AND SO THIS WILL CLEAN THAT UP AND GO INTO EFFECT JANUARY 1ST.

SO NO CUSTOMERS HAVE BEEN AFFECTED AS OF THIS DATE.

ITEM NUMBER THREE CONSIDER A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER OR HER DESIGNEE TO ENTER INTO A ONE YEAR AGREEMENT WITH WEX BANK FOR THE PURCHASE OF FUEL AND FUEL CARD RELATED PROCESSING SERVICES THROUGH A MASTER COOPERATIVE AGREEMENT WITH SOURCEWELL IN AN AMOUNT OF UP TO $391,516 ANNUALLY.

THIS ITEM IS TO APPROVE AN AGREEMENT FOR FUEL AND FUEL CARDS RELATED PROCESSING SERVICES.

STAFF ESSENTIALLY RECOMMENDS CHANGING VENDORS FROM FUELMAN TO WEX BANK, WHICH WILL PROVIDE FOR BETTER ACCOUNTING AND REPORTING TOOLS.

THE WEX BANK REPORTS ALLOW FOR BETTER INTEGRATION INTO OUR EXISTING FLEET PROGRAM, WHICH WILL CREATE GREATER EFFICIENCIES AMONG OUR STAFF.

THIS WILL BE FUNDED THROUGH A COMBINATION OF THE GENERAL FUND, STREET IMPROVEMENT, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION, UTILITY FUND AND STORMWATER FUND.

NUMBER FOUR, CONSIDER A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER, OR HER DESIGNEE TO ENTER INTO A TWO YEAR CONTRACT WITH TWO ONE YEAR RENEWAL OPTIONS WITH WALMART INC.

FOR RETAIL AND WHOLESALE MERCHANDISE THROUGH A MASTER COOPERATIVE AGREEMENT WITH THE OMNIA PARTNERS IN AN AMOUNT OF UP TO $20,000 ANNUALLY, TOTALING $80,000 IF ALL EXTENSIONS ARE EXERCISED.

AS YOU CAN IMAGINE, THE CITY REGULARLY USES WALMART FOR PURCHASES, TYPICALLY UTILIZING THEIR PROCUREMENT CARDS FOR THOSE PURCHASES.

BY ESTABLISHING A CONTRACT WITH WALMART, EMPLOYEES CAN PURCHASE THROUGH BOTH DIRECT INVOICING AND THE CARD.

NOW, THE CO-OP CONTRACT ALSO PROVIDES FOR DISCOUNTED RATES ON GOODS AND SERVICES FOR BOTH ON AND ONLINE AND IN-STORE PURCHASES, AND THIS CONTRACT WILL ALSO ESTABLISH INTERNAL CONTROLS ON OVERALL SPENDING TO ENSURE COMPLIANCE WITH STATE LAW, CITY'S PURCHASING POLICIES AND PURCHASING BEST PRACTICES.

FUNDING FOR THIS WILL OCCUR IN THE VARIOUS DEPARTMENTS OPERATING BUDGETS.

AND I'M SORRY, NUMBER FIVE, CONSIDER RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER OR HER DESIGNEE TO REJECT ALL BIDS FOR OVERHEAD DOOR REPLACEMENTS.

ESSENTIALLY, STAFF IS RECOMMENDING THAT COUNCIL REJECT THE BID RECEIVED FROM CONCORD COMMERCIAL SERVICES, WHICH TOTALS $139,793.75. ESSENTIALLY, STAFF INITIALLY SOUGHT OUT COST ESTIMATES FROM TWO VENDORS DIRECTLY, BUT CONFIRMATION OF THE PRESENCE ON THE CO-OP'S AGREEMENTS WERE NOT COMPLETED AND IN THE ESSENCE OF TIME, AND TO ENSURE BEST PRICING ON WHAT WAS KNOWN TO BE A RELATIVELY EXPENSIVE ITEM. THE PROJECT WAS THEN ALSO BID.

SO ESSENTIALLY WE WERE RUNNING TWO THINGS KIND OF SIMULTANEOUSLY AFTER RECEIPT OF THE ONE BID AS A RESULT OF THE BID REQUEST.

AND THEN WE DID RECEIVE ADDITIONAL NEEDED INFORMATION FROM THE INITIALLY SOUGHT OUT VENDORS.

IT WAS FOUND THAT DH PACE PROVIDES THE BEST VALUE AT $101,621.97.

SO ESSENTIALLY THIS THIS PARTICULAR ITEM HERE ON CONSENT IS SIMPLY TO REJECT THE BIDS FOR OVERHEAD DOOR.

THERE IS NO FUNDING IMPLICATION, AND THE REQUEST TO AWARD THE CONTRACT TO DH PACE WILL OCCUR WITH ITEM NUMBER 12, WITH THE REMAINING ARPA ITEMS THAT WILL BE DISCUSSED LATER ON THE AGENDA. AND THAT'S ALL I HAVE, MAYOR.

THANK YOU. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU.

I DO HAVE A FEW QUESTIONS ON THIS ONE.

FOR CONSENT FOR ITEM NUMBER TWO FOR WATER RATES.

IS THIS JUST FOR INDIVIDUAL METERED UNITS FOR MULTIFAMILY? SO ESSENTIALLY IF YOU LOOK AT OUR MULTIFAMILY STOCK, WE REALLY DON'T HAVE ANY THAT ARE INDIVIDUALLY METERED.

SO MOST IF NOT ALL, I THINK THERE IS ONE COMPLEX THAT IS INDIVIDUALLY METERED ON THOSE UNITS.

THEY HAVE A MASTER METER FOR THAT.

AND SO ESSENTIALLY, LIKE WE HAD ESTIMATED THEN THE APARTMENT COMPLEX MANAGEMENT WILL THEN DIVVY THAT UP AS THEY SEE APPROPRIATE OR HOW THOSE LEASES ARE STRUCTURED. SO THE MAJORITY OF OUR 34 PLUS COMPLEXES ARE METERED.

BASICALLY AS A, AS A COMMUNAL MEETING.

CORRECT. OKAY. OKAY.

FOR ITEM NUMBER THREE, THE FUEL AND FUEL CARD.

WHAT WERE WE PAYING BEFORE WITH FUELMAN? I, I DO NOT HAVE THOSE NUMBERS.

NO. AS FAR AS THE RATES GO ON THOSE CARDS, THEY ARE NOT.

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IT'S THE EFFICIENCIES AND THE STAFF TIME OF TRYING TO INTEGRATE, TRACK AND MONITOR USAGE THAT THIS IS REALLY THE BENEFIT TO.

SO AS FAR AS WHATEVER RATE THAT IS AND I'M SORRY I DON'T HAVE THAT NUMBER.

BUT AS FAR AS THAT RATE IS, IT REALLY IS NOT CHANGING NOT CHANGING TOO MUCH.

BUT IT IS. OKAY.

BUT IT IS MORE EFFICIENT AND IT WILL SAVE.

YES, THERE WILL BE A DOLLAR SAVINGS.

NOT IN A DIRECT WAY, BUT MOST DEFINITELY IN A IN A TIME, A TIME SERVICE FOR STAFF AND ALL TO TO LOOK AT THESE THINGS.

OKAY. ALL RIGHT. VERY GOOD.

ALL RIGHT COUNCIL ANY QUESTIONS? ALL RIGHT. I WILL ENTERTAIN A MOTION ON THIS.

I HAVE A MOTION TO MOVE FOR APPROVAL.

DO I HAVE A SECOND? I HAVE A SECOND FROM COUNCIL MEMBER STEVE.

SO FIRST BY COUNCIL MEMBER FARCO.

SECOND BY COUNCIL MEMBER STEVES.

LET'S GO AHEAD AND VOTE.

SO THIS IS.

THIS IS WHERE WE PLAY THE JEOPARDY MUSIC.

OR WE CAN DO THIS BY A BY AN AYE VOTE.

SO IF YOU'RE IN FAVOR OF THIS MOTION, PLEASE SAY IT WITH A VOCAL AYE.

AYE. I DON'T SEE ANY NAYS.

SO THE AYES HAVE IT.

LET'S GO AHEAD AND MOVE FORWARD OKAY.

MOVING ON, NEW BUSINESS.

[6. Consider an ordinance amending the City of Bedford Code of Ordinances Appendix A – Schedule of Fees by updating fees imposed by the City.]

I GIVE YOU FINANCE DIRECTOR BRADY OLSON.

HOWDY, MAYOR AND COUNCIL.

EVERY YEAR WE LIKE TO TAKE A LOOK AT ALL OUR FEES AND SEE IF THEY STILL MAKE SENSE AT THE LEVELS THEY'RE AT, OR IF THEY NEED TO BE ADJUSTED.

SO IDEALLY, WE ARE USING FEES TO RECOVER OUR COSTS WHENEVER IT MAKES SENSE.

AND SO WE CAN ACTUALLY CHARGE SOMEONE FOR A SERVICE.

WE'RE JUST DELIVERING THEM.

AND THEY'RE THE PERSON WHO GETS THE MAJORITY OF THE BENEFIT FOR WE CAN CHARGE A FEE THAT RECOVERS THOSE COSTS.

SO MOST OF THESE CHANGES ARE ADJUSTING AS OUR COSTS HAVE GONE UP, OR ADJUSTING THE FEES UPWARD TO MAKE SURE WE'RE ABLE TO COVER THOSE.

THERE'S A FEW WHERE THE STATE STEPPED IN AND SAID WE WERE NOT ABLE TO CHARGE FEES THE WAY WE HAD, SO WE MADE ADJUSTMENTS THERE.

SO WE'RE IN COMPLIANCE WITH STATE LAW.

WHICH ONES WERE THOSE? SOME OF THE BUILDING REVIEW FEES, THEY WERE BASED ON OVERALL PROJECT SIZE.

AND THE STATE SAID WE CAN'T DO THAT ANYMORE.

SO WE FOLLOWED FORT WORTH'S LEAD, AND WE'RE GOING TO SEE HOW THAT GOES THIS YEAR AND THEN READJUST OVER THE NEXT YEAR AND SEE HOW OTHER PEOPLE TRY THINGS AND WHAT'S GOING TO WORK THE BEST. WAS IT THE CIVIL PLAN? REVIEWS? THE PLAN? REVIEWS AND INSPECTIONS.

WE COMBINE THOSE INTO ONE.

OKAY. YES. SO STATE PRETTY MUCH SAID WE CAN'T DO THAT ANYMORE.

YES. SO WE'RE FOLLOWING FORT WORTH'S LEAD ON THAT? YES. OKAY. ALL RIGHT.

ANYTHING ELSE ON YOUR END? NO, THAT'S THE LONG OF IT.

OKAY. I DO HAVE A FEW QUESTIONS ON SOME OF THE PRICING ON SOME OF IT.

OBVIOUSLY, WE'RE TAKING A LOOK AT SHORT TERM RENTALS.

WE'RE DOUBLING THAT THAT FEE FROM 200 TO 400.

IS IT COSTING US MORE? THE SOFTWARE WE'RE USING TO TRACK IT, IT IS DOES COST HAVE COST TO IT THEN WE WEREN'T FULLY RECOVERING THAT AND NOW WE'RE TRYING TO MOVE TOWARDS IT.

MOVE TOWARDS IT. OKAY. AND SO A LOT OF THESE ARE LIKE YOU MENTIONED JUST ADJUSTING IT TO FOR COST RECOVERY PURPOSES AS THINGS AND WE ARE ALWAYS CONSTANTLY LOOKING AT THESE CORRECT? YES. WE LOOK AT THIS EVERY YEAR TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE STILL STAYING IN LINE WITH WHAT IT'S COSTING US.

AND THEN WHAT'S FAIR IN THE REGION.

WE DON'T WANT TO BE THE CITY CHARGING TRIPLE WHAT EVERYONE ELSE DOES.

GOTCHA. OKAY. IN ADDITION TO THAT LOOKING AT SOME OF THESE, WE'RE THERE'S A NEW FEE FOR WINDOWS AND DOORS, RESIDENTIAL, $75. AND TO FOR THE ENERGY CODE, THAT WOULD BE ANOTHER ONE OF THOSE STATE.

OH, OKAY. YEAH, ONE OF THOSE.

I SHOULD ALWAYS JUST DEFER TO THAT.

YEAH. AND IF WE'RE NOT JUST ADJUSTING THE AMOUNT OF A NUMBER, IF WE'RE CHANGING IT WHOLEHEARTEDLY, HOW WE DO IT, IT'S NORMALLY THE STATE.

YEAH. OKAY. ALL RIGHT. I FIND IT INTERESTING WINDOWS AND DOORS.

JUST FOR RESIDENTIAL, THOUGH.

WE HAVE NOTHING FOR COMMERCIAL ON THAT SIDE.

THE STATE. THAT'S THE STATE.

OKAY. YEP.

ALL RIGHT. STATE AGAIN.

SENIOR CENTER. SO THAT'S PROBABLY A BIG ONE THAT I WANT TO DISCUSS AS WELL.

SO MEMBERSHIP IT'S A YEARLY COST GOING FROM $5 A YEAR TO $15 A YEAR.

SO AND I SEE MARK ALREADY MAKING A BEELINE TO THE TO THE PODIUM.

SO CAN WE TALK ABOUT THE NUMBERS, HOW WE GOT THERE, WHY WE'RE DOING THE INCREASE.

DID THE SENIOR BOARD TAKE A LOOK AT THIS? WHAT DID THEY HAVE TO SAY? YEAH I'LL SAY ONE THING BEFORE IT COMES UP.

THE SENIOR ADVISORY BOARD DID RECOMMEND PASSING THESE RATES AS IS BECAUSE THEY HAD A CHANCE TO LOOK AT IT.

THEY DID HAVE A CHANCE AND THEY RECOMMENDED Y'ALL'S APPROVAL OF THEM.

OKAY. GOOD GOOD. BUT MARK CAN ADD ANYTHING ELSE SPECIFIC.

YES, PLEASE. ALL RIGHT MARK WELCOME.

[01:20:02]

COUNCIL. SO WE KIND OF DO THE SAME THING THAT BRADY JUST MENTIONED AS WE KIND OF LOOK AT KIND OF ACROSS THE BOARD, WHAT CITIES ARE CHARGING FOR THAT FEE.

AS YOU SAID, WE DID TAKE IT TO THE SENIOR ADVISORY BOARD, AND WE KIND OF PUT IT IN THEIR COURT TO SAY, HEY, WHERE DO YOU THINK THIS FITS? ONE OF THE THINGS YOU'LL SEE IS, IS A LOT OF SENIOR CENTERS WILL DO AN ANNUAL FEE, AND IT'S A REALLY LOW ANNUAL FEE.

YOU WILL RUN IN FROM TIME TO TIME.

I KNOW HURST HAS A HIGHER FEE, BUT THEY ALSO TIE THAT INTO A MEMBERSHIP TO THEIR RECREATION CENTER.

SO IT'S A KIND OF AN ALL IN ONE TYPE OF MEMBERSHIP.

IT IS NOT OUR GOAL TO BE 100% COST RECOVERY ON THIS FACILITY.

AND IT'S NOT OUR GOAL TO BE ANYWHERE CLOSE TO THAT NUMBER.

SO WE DO WANT TO PUT AN AMOUNT TO THAT TO HAVE A LITTLE STAKE IN IT, BUT THAT'S KIND OF HOW WE GOT TO THAT POINT.

IT WAS FIVE AND TEN.

UP TO THE CHANGE, THE RECENT CHANGE TO THIS TO TODAY.

SO THAT'S KIND OF HOW WE GOT THERE, HOW WE GOT THERE.

OKAY. ALL RIGHT.

AND SO WOULD YOU SAY WE'RE IN LINE WITH A LOT OF OUR NEIGHBORS IN CHARGING FOR THIS FOR A SENIOR CENTER ANNUALLY? YEAH. WHEN YOU LOOK AT COLLEYVILLE, EULESS THE OUTLIER IS GOING TO BE HURST BECAUSE OF HOW THEY ARE, HOW THEY STRUCTURED NORTH RICHLAND HILLS.

WE PULLED FLOWER MOUND IN GRAPEVINE.

SO WE DID BASICALLY THE MID-CITIES.

OKAY. AND KIND OF THE CITIES THAT TOUCH.

OKAY. AND WE'RE IN LINE WITH FAIRLY.

YES. PRETTY CLOSE.

OKAY. GOTCHA. WE DID TRY.

JUST SO COUNCIL KNOWS, IS WE DID OFFER HIGHER NUMBERS THAN THE 15 AND THE 30 AND THE SENIOR ADVISORY BOARD.

FELT MORE COMFORTABLE WITH THE NUMBER THAT WE LANDED AT.

SO. GOTCHA. SO, SO YEAH, THERE WERE HIGHER NUMBERS.

AND THEN BROUGHT IT SLIGHTLY HIGHER.

YES. OKAY. GOT IT.

AND THEN CAN YOU SPEAK TO THE INSTRUCTOR LED FITNESS FEE.

SO THIS IS AN ADDITIONAL FEE.

SO THAT IS GOING TO BE AN ADDITIONAL FEE.

AND IT'S GOING TO BE A MONTHLY FEE.

THE ONE AREA WHERE WE DO INCUR EXPENSE IS ON THE INSTRUCTOR SIDE.

SO WHAT WE WANTED TO DO AND YOU'LL SEE THIS IN MANY JUST REC CENTERS WHERE YOU'LL HAVE A MEMBERSHIP FEE, AND THEN YOU WILL HAVE A FITNESS FEE.

WE ARE WE DO NEED TO PAY THOSE INSTRUCTORS.

SO WE DO WANT TO GENERATE SOME REVENUE THERE TO WHERE WE CAN OFFSET THAT.

SO WE DO HAVE A LINE ITEM IN THE SENIORS.

YOU KNOW THAT THAT WE THERE'S AN EXPENSE THERE.

SO WE WANT TO GET AS CLOSE TO THAT RECOVERING THAT AS POSSIBLE.

OKAY. SO ALL RIGHT I THINK I UNDERSTAND.

AND THAT'S OUR BIGGEST COST BECAUSE WE HAVE TO PAY SOMEBODY UP FRONT AND ALL THOSE CLASSES AND BUT REGARDLESS THEY'LL HAVE USE OF THE FACILITY AS MEMBERSHIPS THAT GIVES THEM TOTAL USE OF THE FACILITY. CORRECT.

THE WORKOUT ROOMS, EVERYTHING, ALL THE AMENITIES THAT ARE THERE.

SO GOOD POINT TO CLARIFY, THE NEW FITNESS CENTER WITH THE CARDIO EQUIPMENT AND THE WEIGHT EQUIPMENT IS INCLUDED IN THE IN THE MEMBERSHIP FEE.

GOTCHA. SO THIS IS THIS IS JUST THE GROUP EXERCISE CLASSES WHERE WE HAVE INSTRUCTOR LED.

INSTRUCTOR PAID.

GOTCHA. OKAY. VERY GOOD.

THANK YOU FOR CLARIFYING.

YES, SIR. ANYBODY ELSE HAVE ANY QUESTIONS OVER THE SENIOR RATES? YES. SENIOR RATES? OKAY. ALL RIGHT.

ANYTHING OVER ANY OF THESE FEES? ALL RIGHT. COUNCIL MEMBER. COUNCIL MEMBER.

STEVES. THIS ONE'S FOR BRADY.

BRADY. LOOKS LIKE YOU'RE BACK UP.

GETTING BACK TO THE WINDOWS AND DOOR FEE.

THAT'S $75 PER WINDOW.

OH I SEE.

THAT'S WHAT IT SAYS.

AND IS THAT A STATE MANDATED DOLLAR AMOUNT OR ARE WE JUST IMPOSING THE WEST.

DO YOU HAVE. YEAH. THANK YOU.

ALL RIGHT. WEST MORRISON. THANK YOU.

IT'S NOT A STATE MANDATED AMOUNT.

WHAT IT IS STATE MANDATES THAT WE REVIEW THE ENERGY TO MAKE SURE THEY'RE ENERGY COMPLIANT.

AND SO WHAT IT IS, WE $75 IS ESSENTIALLY OUR MINIMUM DOLLAR AMOUNT FOR ANY PERMIT.

AND SO THAT'S WHAT WE DO. ISN'T THAT KIND OF STEEP.

I MEAN YEAH, WE SHOULD BE GIVING THEM A CREDIT FOR INSTALLING WINDOW, YOU KNOW, ECONOMY EFFICIENT OR ECO EFFICIENT WINDOWS.

AND WE'RE CHARGING $75 PER WINDOW.

WE'RE OUR GOAL IN PROPOSING THAT WAS JUST TO RECOUP THE FEES THAT WERE CHARGED FOR THE PLAN REVIEW.

SO THAT'S WHAT WE'RE CHARGED WITH PLAN REVIEW.

SO I MEAN WE CAN AND THAT'S PER WINDOW AND DOOR CORRECT.

WE CAN DROP THAT DOWN TO THAT WOULD DISCOURAGE SOMEBODY FROM UPGRADING THEIR WINDOWS TO MAKE THEM MORE ENERGY EFFICIENT.

BECAUSE IF YOU HAVE REPLACING TEN WINDOWS ON YOUR HOME, IT.

YES, SIR. I UNDERSTAND $1,000 JUST BECAUSE OF PERMIT FEES.

SURE WE CAN. WE CAN AMEND THAT TO JUST BE A FLAT RATE.

I'M NOT SPEAKING FOR THE REST OF THE COUNCIL, BUT I THINK THAT'S WAY TOO HIGH.

I MEAN, IT'S NOT A STATE MANDATED AMOUNT, SO WE CAN MAKE IT WHATEVER WE WANT.

[01:25:02]

THAT'S ALL IT IS.

SO IT'S STATE MANDATED THAT WE HAVE IT IN THERE.

CORRECT. WE HAVE TO STATE MANDATED THAT WE HAVE TO REVIEW WINDOWS AND DOOR PERMITS.

SO WE HAVE TO ISSUE THEM IT.

I MEAN, WE COULD DO IT FOR FREE IF THE COUNCIL SO CHOSE.

WE WERE JUST TRYING TO RECOUP COST.

AND THIS IS THE FIRST YEAR WE'RE DOING IT OR FIRST.

YES. THIS IS NOT THE FIRST YEAR THAT STATES MANDATED.

ITS WE'VE REALIZED THAT WE WERE NOT DOING IT IN THE PAST.

I'M NOT COMFORTABLE. I JUST PUT THAT OUT THERE.

I'M JUST NOT COMFORTABLE WITH THAT DOLLAR AMOUNT.

BELIEVE ME, I'M.

I'M NOT EITHER FOR VARIOUS REASONS.

MY HOUSE HAS 30 WINDOWS.

SO THAT'S QUITE A BIT.

BUT I THINK, YOU KNOW, MAYBE PER, IS THERE SOMETHING WE COULD SAY? THERE'S ANOTHER OPTION THAT WE COULD DO IS PER VISIT.

I TELL YOU WHAT. LET ME LET ME DO THIS.

WE WERE JUST TAKING THE MINIMUM.

IF WE WANT TO DO A FLAT RATE OF $75 FOR ANY DOOR WINDOW, WOULD THAT I.

CAN I JUMP IN? I'M SORRY.

WHAT I'D REALLY AND I UNDERSTAND AND I UNDERSTAND THAT WE NEED TO RECOUP OUR COSTS BECAUSE WE'RE REVIEWING THAT.

AND AGAIN, BECAUSE WE ARE OUTSOURCING SOME OF THESE SERVICES.

THESE ARE DOLLARS THAT WE SPEND ON THESE REVIEWS.

SO IT'S HARDER FOR US TO ABSORB THOSE COSTS.

SO I THINK THERE'S A THERE'S A HAPPY MIDDLE IN HERE SOMEWHERE.

BUT I HESITATE TRYING TO NEGOTIATE A FEE STRUCTURE SO I WOULD FEEL MORE COMFORTABLE IF GIVE US A CHANCE TO GO BACK AND REEVALUATE AND COME UP WITH A GOOD, FAIR FEE. MAYBE THERE'S A COUPLE OPTIONS.

IF YOU'VE GOT A SINGLE, YOU KNOW, A SINGLE WINDOW OR SINGLE DOOR, IT'S THIS.

BUT AGAIN, THERE'S THERE'S SEVERAL DIFFERENT WAYS TO KIND OF GO ABOUT IT.

IF WE WANT TO PULL THIS OUT AND COME BACK AT THE NEXT MEETING WITH AN ALTERNATE, YOU KNOW, RECOMMENDATION ON THE FEES COUNCIL MEMBER.

OKAY. SO IF I'M LIKE RICH SAID, OR LIKE THE MAYOR SAID, IF I HAVE 30 WINDOWS, OKAY, YOU CAN'T TELL ME IT COSTS US IF I REPLACE TEN, $750 FOR A REVIEW.

THAT'S THE I THINK THAT'S THE QUESTION THAT WE HAVE.

SO IF I UNDERSTAND THAT WE HAVE TO REVIEW THINGS AND THERE'S A FEE, BUT IF WE'RE GETTING CHARGED 750 FROM THE PEOPLE THAT WE'RE DOING YOU KNOW, COME TALK TO ME.

WE'LL SETTLE THAT RIGHT NOW.

THAT'S A LITTLE THAT'S A LITTLE OUT OF OUT OF THE WAY JUST TO REVIEW THAT WE I'M WITH THEM.

DO WE NEED TO ADMIT THIS FROM OR POSTPONE THIS ONE ITEM AND PASS EVERYTHING ELSE? OR DO WE NEED TO JUST HOLD THE FEES TO, TO MAKE SURE THAT WE LOOK AT THAT.

BUT THAT IS THAT'S LIKE THEM, THAT'S WE GOT PEOPLE COMPLAINING THAT WE'RE GOING UP RATES ON, ON, ON A, ON OUR WATER.

IF WE HAVE TO PAY $75 PER WINDOW, WE'LL NEVER GET PEOPLE TO IMPROVE THEIR PROPERTIES.

YEAH, I AGREE WITH THAT WHOLEHEARTEDLY.

I THINK THAT'S A LITTLE ASTRONOMICAL.

SO I'M GOING TO RECOMMEND FOR US TO WITH THIS ITEM TO PASS EVERYTHING WITH, WITH THE ASSUMPTION THAT WE'RE WITHHOLDING THAT, THAT $75 WINDOW DOOR PERMIT FEE.

COUNCIL MEMBER. DONOVAN BRANDON, YOU HAD SOMETHING TO ADD? THANK YOU.

THANK YOU, MAYOR. NOW, I'M LOOKING AT ALL OF THEM AND WONDERING IF ALL OF THEM NEED TO BE RECOVERED.

AND WHERE DID THE MONEY COME FROM BEFORE YOU SAID WE DIDN'T RECOUP THE FEES BEFORE.

WE WEREN'T. WE WEREN'T REVIEWING THE PERMITS BEFORE FOR WINDOWS AND DOORS.

OKAY. BECAUSE IT WASN'T REQUIRED.

GOT IT. OKAY.

I'M JUST WONDERING IF ALL OF THEM NEED TO BE LOOKED AT.

I MEAN, I APPRECIATE YOU BRINGING THIS UP BECAUSE I HADN'T LOOKED AT IT THAT WAY.

I PROBABLY ASSUMED IT WAS $75 TO DO ALL THE WINDOWS.

THAT'S TOO MUCH.

YEAH, I THINK, I THINK I THINK WE'RE ALL IN AGREEMENT THERE.

COUNCIL MEMBER SABOL.

SO, IS THIS AN INSPECTION THAT WE JOB OUT, OR DO WE DO IT IN HOUSE? SURE. NO, WE DO THE PLAN REVIEW IS FARMED OUT CURRENTLY AND THEN WE ALSO DO AN INSPECTION.

SO THE FARMED OUT PRICE TO US IS $75 FOR EACH WINDOW.

THAT'S THE MINIMUM COST FOR AN INSPECTION.

CORRECT. SO BECAUSE WE'RE USING THAT FARMED OUT PRICE OR THAT COMPANY THAT'S THE REASON.

OTHERWISE WE'RE GOING TO LOSE EVERY TIME SOMEBODY.

WELL IF WE DON'T CHARGE THE $75 PER WINDOW WE'RE GOING TO LOSE THAT EVERY TIME SOMEBODY REPLACES ALL THE WINDOWS WITH 30 WINDOWS, WE'LL NEVER GET A DIME.

WHAT I WANT TO DO IS VERIFY THAT THAT IS THE COST, BECAUSE I MAY HAVE GOTTEN IT WRONG.

TO BE HONEST WITH YOU, WHEN WE WERE DOING THIS, I MAY HAVE NOT IT PER WINDOW.

[01:30:04]

SO I JUST NEED TO VERIFY THAT.

OKAY. YEAH.

YEAH, I THINK SO. YEAH, DEFINITELY.

ALL RIGHT. COUNCIL, IS THERE ANY OTHER ISSUES THAT WE HAVE? I THINK I CAN SAFELY ASSUME THAT WE'RE OKAY WITH NOT APPROVING THAT THAT PORTION OF IT.

COUNCIL MEMBER SABOL. OTHER QUESTION.

YOU'VE GOT AN INSPECTION FOR APARTMENTS, AND IT'S NOT EQUAL, NOT APARTMENTS, BUT A SINGLE FAMILY HOME RENTAL ORDINANCE WHERE YOU INSPECT AND THEN AND IT'S LOWER THAN WHAT YOU'RE CHARGING FOR AIRBNBS.

THE REASON WE INCREASE THE AIRBNBS OR THE NUMBER OF I BELIEVE THAT'S THE REINSPECTION COST IS WHAT WE WERE INCREASING ON THAT I'M GOING TO IT REAL QUICK.

AND THAT WAS BECAUSE OF THE NUMBER OF INSPECTIONS THAT WE HAVE TO DO ON AIRBNBS, THAT THIS IS OUR FIRST YEAR, AND WE DIDN'T ANTICIPATE HAVING TO DO THAT MANY INSPECTIONS.

THAT IS AN IN-HOUSE COST TO US, THAT WE HAVE IN-HOUSE STAFF DOING THAT.

AND I WOULD SAY ON AVERAGE, MOST OF THOSE AIRBNBS WERE DOING 3 OR 4 INSPECTIONS ON BEFORE THEY PASS.

OKAY, SO FOR EACH AND EVERY ONE YOU'RE GOING TO CHARGE $200.

I THINK I THINK THAT'S WHAT I READ.

LET ME GET TO THAT JUST TO VERIFY.

BUT MY MY POINT WOULD BE YOU'RE NOT DOING AS MANY.

YOU WOULDN'T DO AS MANY SINGLE FAMILY HOME RENTAL INSPECTIONS.

BUT SHOULDN'T IT BE AT LEAST EQUAL TO WHAT THE AIRBNB ONE? AIRBNB ONE FOR 200.

WE HAVE IT. THE REASON I DIDN'T PROPOSE ANY CHANGES THAT BECAUSE WE HAVEN'T COMPLETELY IMPLEMENTED THE SINGLE FAMILY RENTAL PROGRAM YET, SO WE'RE NOT I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO BASE THAT OFF OF TO AUTOMATICALLY, BUT IF COUNCIL SO CHOSE TO WANT TO RAISE THAT RIGHT NOW, I DON'T KNOW HOW MANY RE-INSPECTIONS WE'RE GOING TO END UP DOING ON THE SINGLE FAMILY RENTAL PROGRAM. OKAY.

THANK YOU. OKAY.

ALL RIGHT. ANY OTHER ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS CONCERNS OVER THESE.

WHAT IS COUNCIL'S PLEASURE ON THIS? DO WE DO WE WANT TO TAKE A SECOND LOOK AT THIS AND SIMPLY JUST LIKE SIGN IT AND THEN COME BACK AFTER YOU DO IT ALL AT ONCE.

OR WHAT DO YOU WANT US TO DO? I WOULD REALLY LOVE TO MOVE FORWARD.

WE'VE GOT FOLKS THAT ARE READY TO UTILIZE THESE FEES, SO I'D LIKE TO MOVE FORWARD WITH THE ITEM IF WE CAN JUST STRIKE.

YOU KNOW, THE WINDOW SITUATION.

I THINK THAT REALLY I JUST KIND OF RAN THROUGH TO SEE IF THERE WAS ANY OTHER GRAY AREAS AGAIN, THAT JUMPED OUT.

AND I THINK THE WINDOW REALLY WAS THE ONE THAT IS KIND OF A LITTLE DIFFERENT.

SO IF WE COULD MOVE FORWARD, LIKE I SAID, WE'RE READY TO, TO ROLL THESE FEES OUT.

IF YOU DON'T MIND JUST STRIKING THAT PIECE THAT JUST THE STAFF.

YEAH. AND CONSIDERING IT'S A NEW IT'S A NEW FEE ALTOGETHER.

YEAH. THAT NEEDS TO BE LOOKED AT IN ITS ENTIRETY.

ALL RIGHT. COUNCIL MEMBER SABOL.

OKAY. I'D LIKE TO MAKE THE MOTION THAT WE APPROVE THE ORDINANCE AMENDING THE CITY OF BEDFORD CODE OF ORDINANCES, APPENDIX A SCHEDULE OF FEES BY UPDATING FEES IMPOSED BY THE CITY. IXNAY THE WINDOWS EXCLUDING THE $78, THE WINDOWS FEE PER WINDOW AND DOOR. OKAY, SO I HAVE A FIRST FOR A MOTION TO APPROVE WITH THOSE STIPULATIONS BY COUNCILMEMBER SABOL.

DO I HAVE A SECOND? SECOND BY COUNCILMEMBER STEVES.

LET'S GO AND VOTE.

OKAY. AND THAT PASSES UNANIMOUSLY.

THANK YOU COUNCIL.

THANK YOU STAFF.

I'LL BE LOOKING FORWARD TO SEEING WHAT PRICE STRUCTURE WE COME BACK WITH FOR THOSE.

ALL RIGHT. ITEM NUMBER SEVEN CONSIDER A RESOLUTION ACCEPTING THE PURCHASE OF NAMING RIGHTS FOR STUDY ROOM NUMBER FOUR IN THE BEDFORD PUBLIC LIBRARY BY

[7. Consider a resolution accepting the purchase of naming rights for Study Room #4 in the Bedford Public Library by Andrew and Catherine Woolen in the amount of $5,000 in memory of Sheila Schonerstedt.]

IS IT SHONN STEAD? OKAY, GOOD. GOT IT RIGHT.

SHOULD I GIVE YOU LIBRARY DIRECTOR MARIA REDBURN.

OKAY. GOOD EVENING, MAYOR AND COUNCIL.

WE HAVE A NAMING RIGHTS REQUEST FROM ANDREW AND CATHERINE WOOLEN TO NAME STUDY ROOM NUMBER FOUR AFTER IN MEMORY OF SHEILA SHAUNA STEAD TO HONOR THE PASSING OF CATHERINE'S MOTHER.

SHEILA WAS A WOMAN OF RESILIENCE, COMPASSION, DEDICATION TO HARD WORK.

AS A SINGLE MOTHER, SHE RAISED THREE CHILDREN ON HER OWN, INSTILLING IN THEM THE VALUES OF PERSEVERANCE AND THE IMPORTANCE OF LEARNING.

SHE RETURNED TO SCHOOL TO EARN HER MASTER'S DEGREE IN SOCIAL WORK, BALANCING HER FAMILY'S NEED WITH HER COMMITMENT TO HELPING OTHERS.

HER STRENGTH AND DEDICATION WERE POWERFUL LESSONS FOR HELPING FOR HER CHILDREN, SHOWING THEM THAT HARD WORK COULD OVERCOME ANY OBSTACLE.

THE FEE FOR THE NAMING RIGHTS FOR STUDY ROOM FOUR IS $5,000, AND IT'S BASED ON SQUARE FOOTAGE.

[01:35:06]

WELL, I'D LIKE TO GIVE AN OPPORTUNITY FOR THE WOUNDS TO COME UP AND SPEAK TO THIS, IF THEY WOULD, IF THEY WOULD SO CHOOSE.

BECAUSE I SEE THEM BACK THERE AND THEY'VE BEEN WAITING VERY PATIENTLY.

MY THREE YEAR OLD COULD NOT HAVE DONE THIS.

I THINK I THINK NONE OF THEM I THINK FREYA HAS DONE AN AMAZING JOB THROUGH THESE COUNCIL MEETINGS.

IT'S DEFINITELY BEEN A LONG JOURNEY.

SO YEAH, WE JUST.

I'LL LET CATHERINE SPEAK.

SHE'S A LITTLE BIT LESS ON WORDS, BUT WE JUST WANTED TO MAKE AN INVESTMENT IN BEDFORD IN SOMETHING THAT WE THOUGHT WOULD HONOR SHEILA.

WE'VE BOTH KNOWN HER A LONG TIME.

SO JUST FIRST, THANKS FOR THE OPPORTUNITY FOR JUST LETTING US ATTEND AND SPEAK ABOUT MY MOM.

BUT MY MOM DEFINITELY VALUED EDUCATION AND HIGHER LEARNING, AND I THINK SHE'D BE HAPPY AND HONORED TO KNOW THAT WE'RE TRYING TO INVEST BACK IN THE COMMUNITY TO SPREAD THAT FORWARD AS WELL.

WELL, ABSOLUTELY. AND FIRST OFF, LET ME LET ME OFFER MY CONDOLENCES ON YOUR LOSS.

BUT I MEAN, IT SOUNDS LIKE SOUNDS LIKE AN AMAZING WOMAN.

AND WHAT A WAY TO HONOR, TO HONOR HER LEGACY AND GIVE BACK TO THE COMMUNITY AND SO ON BEHALF OF OUR RESIDENTS AND EVERYTHING, YOU KNOW, THANK YOU FOR YOUR GENEROSITY TO THIS LIBRARY.

THANK YOU. YOU'RE WELCOME.

THANK YOU. THANK YOU.

THANK YOU ALL. NOW IT'S BEDTIME.

ALL RIGHT. AGAIN, THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH FOR YOUR GENEROSITY.

ALL RIGHT, COUNCIL, I HAVE A MOTION TO APPROVE BY COUNCIL MEMBER DONOVAN BRANDON AND A SECOND BY COUNCIL MEMBER DAWKINS.

LET'S GO AHEAD AND VOTE.

AND WITH A VOCAL AND A VOCAL SOUND OF I.

OKAY. I.

ALL RIGHT. AYES.

I ALL RIGHT? ALL RIGHT. THAT PASSES.

THANK YOU. MINE'S NOT WORKING, SO LOOKS LIKE WE'RE GOING OLD SCHOOL THIS MEETING.

ALL RIGHT. NO NAMES. ALL RIGHT, THERE WE GO.

WE'LL DO IT. JUST FOR THE RECORD.

HE WAS WORKING, ALL RIGHT.

THEY'RE NOT RECUSED.

RECUSED? YOU SECONDED.

YOU SECONDED IT. ALL RIGHT.

IT'S A IT'S A IT'S A FUN MEETING.

ALL RIGHT, SO LET THE LET THE RECORD REFLECT THAT THAT IT WAS VOTED UNANIMOUSLY BY COUNCIL.

THANK YOU. ALL VERY GOOD.

ALL RIGHT. I'VE NEVER SEEN THAT ONE BEFORE THAT WAS RECUSED.

OKAY. ALL RIGHT, MOVING ON.

[8. Consider a resolution approving a site plan for Lot 1R1 Block 1 of the Wal-Mart Addition Bedford being 26.55 acres generally located south of Cheek-Sparger Road and west of State Highway 121, commonly known as 4101 State Highway 121. (SITE-24-8).]

STATE HIGHWAY 121.

ALL RIGHT. OKAY. AND I WELCOME DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR WES MORRISON.

WELCOME BACK. THANK YOU.

AND SORRY WE GOT AN EXTRA BIG MIC NOW.

IT WAS REQUESTED A LONG TIME AGO TO HAVE THE MIC, RIGHT.

I COULD STAND IN THE BACK OF THE ROOM.

OKAY. THIS IS A SITE PLAN AMENDMENT FOR THE WALMART AT CHEEK SPARGER AND AIRPORT FREEWAY.

I'M SORRY. STATE HIGHWAY 121.

REASON FOR THIS AMENDMENT IS THE WALMART SITE THERE IS WANTING TO ADD DRONE DELIVERY TO THEIR TO THEIR OPERATION.

AND ANY CHANGE IN ANY PROPERTY THAT'S CHANGING THEIR SITE PLAN IN THE MASTER HIGHWAY CORRIDOR OVERLAY REQUIRES PNC AND CITY COUNCIL APPROVAL OF THEIR SITE PLAN.

SO THE AREA THERE OBVIOUSLY SHOWS THE WALMART SUPERCENTER.

THE GREEN CIRCLES THERE IDENTIFY THE LOCATION OF THE DRONE DELIVERY IMPROVEMENTS THAT ARE BEING PROPOSED.

A LITTLE BIT OF BACKGROUND PROPERTY WAS ORIGINALLY DEVELOPED IN 1995.

AND IT'S AS A BIG BOX RETAIL.

THERE YOU CAN SEE ZONING MAP.

HEAVY COMMERCIAL IS THE ZONING OF THE PROPERTY.

THE USE IS CONSIDERED TO BE AN ACCESSORY USE TO THE OVERALL ACTIVITY THERE.

AS A BIG BOX RETAIL, THE ONLY IMPROVEMENTS ON THE SITE, THEY'RE NOT TAKING OUT ANY PARKING.

THEY'RE NOT TOUCHING REALLY ANYTHING AS FAR AS OPERATIONS TO THE EXISTING SITE, THEY'RE JUST ADDING THE DRONE DELIVERY ONE THERE AGAINST THE BUILDING AND THEN THE ACTUAL DRONE DELIVERY SITE OUT AWAY FROM THE BUILDING.

WORK WITHIN THE AREA OR TO CLOSEST RESIDENTS TO THE AREA IS ABOUT 300FT.

AND I'LL LET THE APPLICANT, THEY'VE GOT A MUCH MORE DETAILED PRESENTATION AS TO HOW THE OPERATIONS ARE GOING TO WORK, SO I'LL LET THEM HANDLE THAT FOR YOU.

[01:40:05]

THESE ARE THE ELEVATIONS THEY GAVE US.

JUST TO GIVE YOU AN IDEA OF WHAT TO EXPECT IT TO LOOK LIKE, THEY ARE GOING TO PROVIDE SCREENING AND LANDSCAPING AROUND THE DRONE ACTIVITY AWAY FROM THE BUILDING THEY'RE ALSO GOING TO DO BECAUSE OF SOME ELEVATION CHANGE, THEY'LL HAVE TO DO A RETAINING WALL THERE ABOUT EIGHT FEET IN HEIGHT TO ACCOMMODATE THE SPACE SURROUNDING THE SITE. YOU'LL SEE THERE WHERE THE TOP OF THE SCREEN IS, WHERE THE EXTERNAL TO THE SITE IS GOING TO BE, THE DRONE DELIVERY AREA.

AND THEN THE THEY'RE IN KIND OF IN THE SERVICE BAY FOR THE AUTOMOTIVE CENTER IS WHERE THEY'RE DOING SOME WORK AGAINST THE BUILDING.

PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION DID RECOMMEND APPROVAL OF THIS BY 7 TO 0 VOTE.

AND I CAN ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS YOU HAVE.

AND LIKE I SAID, THE APPLICANT IS HERE WITH A FAIRLY DETAILED PRESENTATION AS WELL.

OKAY. ALL RIGHT. SO FIRST OFF WAS THIS IS BEING TRIGGERED ONLY BECAUSE IT'S IN THE MASTER OVERLAY DISTRICT.

ALSO WITH THIS WE ARE ONE OF THE FIRST.

THIS IS SOMETHING NEW THAT WE WE ARE SEEING HERE.

I KNOW THAT THERE'S SOME OTHERS.

DID WE HAPPEN TO REACH OUT TO SOME OF OUR OTHER NEIGHBORING COMMUNITIES TO SEE SOME ISSUES THAT THEY MIGHT HAVE BEEN HAVING, WHAT THEY'VE DEALT WITH.

THERE IN THE VERY EARLY STAGES OF THAT.

WHAT WE DID, WE DID TALK TO A COUPLE OF OUR OTHER COMMUNITIES THAT ARE EXPERIENCING THIS, JUST TO SEE PROCESS WISE, TO MAKE SURE THAT WE WEREN'T LOOKING WE WEREN'T MISSING SOMETHING ON THE ZONING AND LAND USE SIDE OF THINGS.

A COUPLE OF COMMUNITIES ARE HANDLING THIS DIFFERENTLY.

HOWEVER, NONE OF THEM WERE REALLY SIMILAR TO THIS SITE THAT WE HAVE HERE.

THEY WERE IN CLOSER RADIUS TO NEIGHBORHOODS.

AND SO THEY HAD MORE CONCERNS ABOUT NOISE AND APPEARANCE AND THINGS LIKE THAT BEING OVER 300FT AWAY FROM ANY RESIDENTS.

WE DIDN'T HAVE THAT CONCERN HERE.

SO THAT'S REALLY WHAT WE LOOKED AT WAS PROCESS AS FAR AS OPERATIONS.

I'LL LET THE APPLICANT ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT OPERATIONS.

GOT YOU. MOVING FORWARD, AFTER THIS HAS COME BEFORE US AND WE'RE LEARNING ABOUT THIS, DO YOU SEE US IN THE FUTURE TAKING A LOOK AT THIS AS SOME KIND OF USE, CHANGING UP AN ORDINANCE AND ANTICIPATION OF MORE OF THIS HAPPENING? THAT SEEMS TO BE THE TREND IN SOME OF OUR OTHER SURROUNDING COMMUNITIES.

THEY SEEM TO BE ADDING THIS AS A AS AN ACTUAL USE IN THEIR PERMITTED USE CHART.

AND SO I WAS ON THE PHONE WITH THE CONSULTANT HANDLING OUR ZONING ORDINANCE REWRITE YESTERDAY, AND THAT WAS ONE OF THE THINGS WE TALKED ABOUT, HOW WE HANDLE ALL THIS NEW TECHNOLOGY AND THINGS THAT ARE HAPPENING.

AND THIS GOES WITH DRONE DELIVERY, EV STATIONS, ALL THAT KIND OF THING.

SO. OKAY. ALL RIGHT. SO WE'RE AWARE OF IT AND WE'RE WORKING ON IT RIGHT.

FOR THIS APPLICATION SPECIFICALLY WHAT IS THE SCREEN FENCE.

CAN YOU TELL ME WHAT THE MATERIAL OF THE SCREEN FENCE IS AND THE HEIGHT THE.

SURE. LET ME JUMP IN.

THE SCREEN IS GOING TO BE A CHAIN LINK.

FENCING AROUND HEIGHT I BELIEVE IS GOING TO BE APPROXIMATELY SIX FEET.

MAYBE IN SOME AREAS BECAUSE THERE IS A RETAINING WALL THAT MAY BE A LITTLE BIT HIGHER, BUT THAT RETAINING WALL IS GOING TO BE ABOUT EIGHT FEET IN HEIGHT.

OKAY. SO THE YEAH, IS THE RETAINING WALL GOING COMPLETELY AROUND THE BACK OF IT.

RIGHT. IF YOU IN THE SIDE DO YOU MIND GOING, THANK YOU SO MUCH.

I'M GOING TO TRY TO PULL UP A, THERE YOU GO.

THANK YOU. SO LET ME SEE.

SO YEAH, THAT BACK WALL THAT'S REALLY ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE AREA.

AND I DON'T HAVE A POINTER.

BUT HERE, IF YOU LOOK AT THE I THINK SHE'S POINTING IT OUT THERE, KIND OF WHERE THAT RETAINING WALL IS GOING TO BE.

IF SHE CAN GET HER MOUSE TO WORK.

THERE SHE GOES. SHE'S DOING DOUBLE DUTY TONIGHT.

BUT YEAH, TOWARD THE BACK AT THAT TOP CIRCLE THERE, YOU'LL SEE.

YEAH. THAT'S WHERE THAT WHERE HER MOUSE JUST RAN OVER IS WHERE THAT RETAINING WALL WILL BE.

SO. OKAY. SO RIGHT OFF THE BACK THERE.

OKAY. AND THAT'S YOU SAID EIGHT FOOT A LITTLE OVER EIGHT FEET.

OKAY. IN MOST SECTIONS.

AND THEN LANDSCAPING WILL BE IN RELATION TO THAT.

CORRECT. IN RELATION TO THAT, WHERE WOULD THE LANDSCAPING BE? LET ME SEE IF I HAVE A THOUGHT.

I'M SORRY. I THOUGHT WE HAD A BELIEVE.

SO LANDSCAPING WILL BE ON TOP OF THE RETAINING WALL AND KIND OF AROUND, SO IT'LL FOLLOW IT AROUND.

AGAIN, IT'LL BE MORE OF A BUFFER FROM THE NEIGHBORHOOD.

SO IT'S. YEAH, THAT'S GOING TO CREATE QUITE A BIT OF A BUFFER.

RIGHT. FROM THERE WITH THAT RETAINING WALL WITH THE ADDED LANDSCAPING.

OKAY. ALL RIGHT. JUST WANTED TO MAKE SURE YOU'RE CLEAR ON ALL OF THAT.

OKAY. I THINK THAT'S ALL I GOT FOR RIGHT NOW.

I THINK WE'RE READY. SO THIS IS FOR THIS ONE? NOPE. OKAY. SORRY. COUNCIL MEMBER FARCO.

ALL RIGHT. FOR THE APPLICANT ARE THEIR HOURS OF OPERATION, OR IS THIS GOING TO BE 24/7 SEVEN WITH THESE DRONES? SO THERE WILL BE HOURS OF OPERATIONS.

CAN YOU PLEASE COME TO THE MIC, PLEASE? YEAH. DO YOU MIND INTRODUCING YOURSELF? ABSOLUTELY. SO GOOD EVENING.

MAYOR. COUNCIL MEMBERS.

MARK BERGMAN, 702 SOUTHWEST INDEPENDENCE EIGHTH STREET, BENTONVILLE, ARKANSAS, 72716.

[01:45:05]

SO INITIALLY WE'RE GOING TO BE DOING HOURS OF OPERATION DURING THE DAYLIGHT HOURS.

SO FROM 10 TO 6, AS THE OPERATION IMPROVES AND AS THE SEASONS CHANGE WE WILL ADJUST.

JUST BUT IT'LL ALL BE DAYLIGHT.

CORRECT. OKAY.

OKAY. ALL RIGHT.

AND SO THERE IS NO PUBLIC HEARING FOR THIS.

CORRECT. ALL RIGHT. SO I GUESS WE CAN MOVE ON TO THE PRESENTATION.

SO I INVITE YOU WELCOME BACK UP AND ANXIOUS TO SEE THIS HERE.

I THINK THERE'S A LOT OF PEOPLE THAT ARE CURIOUS ABOUT THIS.

I KNOW I'VE TALKED ABOUT THIS AT MY MORNINGS WITH THE MAYOR AND THE COMMUNITY, AND THEY'RE VERY INTERESTED IN SEEING WHAT WE HAVE TODAY.

ABSOLUTELY. EXTREMELY EXCITING.

SO I'M JOINED TODAY BY A COUPLE OF ADDITIONAL MEMBERS HERE.

SO I'VE GOT CAROLYN FROM KIMLEY-HORN TO SPEAK ON THE CIVIL PLANS.

I'VE ALSO GOT CONNOR FROM ZIPLINE TO HELP SPEAK ON SOME OF THE TECHNOLOGY MYSELF.

I'M FROM WALMART'S DRONE DELIVERY BUSINESS TEAM.

I'VE BEEN WITH THE TEAM FOR ABOUT TWO AND A HALF YEARS, AND I'M JUST GOING TO TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT WHY DRONE DELIVERY.

SO I'M GOING TO KIND OF ADDRESS SPECIFICALLY THE CUSTOMERS, THE MARKET AS WELL AS SOME OF THE USE CASES.

SO I'VE GOT TO SAY, IT WASN'T TOO LONG AGO THAT I COULD REMEMBER MYSELF PLACING AN ORDER IN A CRUTCHFIELD CATALOG, MAYBE NOT TOO LONG AGO, BUT ORDERING A TAPE DECK AND WAITING ABOUT 4 TO 6 WEEKS TO GET THAT TAPE DECK DELIVERED TO ME.

AND THAT WAS. WHAT'S A TAPE DECK? I'M JUST KIDDING. OKAY? I'M JUST KIDDING. YEAH.

SO 4 TO 6 WEEKS.

AND THAT WAS GREAT BECAUSE I GOT THE IDEAL TAPE DECK THAT I WANTED AND IT WOULD FIT PERFECTLY INTO MY MUSTANG.

SO IT WAS A GREAT DEAL FOR ME AT THAT TIME.

SO THINGS HAVE CHANGED.

I'VE GOT MY TWO DAUGHTERS.

THEY'RE OVER AT TEXAS TECH NOW.

THEY HAVE NO PROBLEM CALLING ME LATE AT NIGHT TELLING ME, DAD, IT'S GOING TO BE A LATE NIGHT STUDYING.

CAN YOU ORDER ME SOME FOOD? AND I'M THINKING I'M QUITE A BIT AWAY, SO I'M GOING TO BE A GREAT PARENT.

I'M GOING TO GO AHEAD AND PUT THAT ORDER IN AND GET THAT FOOD DELIVERED TO THEM.

I'VE GOT CHRISTMAS BEING CELEBRATED MORE THAN ONCE AT MY HOUSE BECAUSE I'VE GOT PACKAGES ARRIVING ALL TIMES.

MY WIFE HAS FOUND A WAY TO DO THAT.

I'M NOT GOING TO LIE. SOME OF THAT'S ME TOO.

BUT THE OTHER THING IS ME AND MY WIFE.

WE STILL ENJOY GOING TO WALMART.

WE TYPICALLY JOKE WHEN WE GO INSIDE THE STORE AND LOOK TO THE RIGHT OR THE LEFT AND SAY, DO WE REALLY NEED A BASKET? AND EVERY TIME WE SAY WE DON'T, WE COME OUT SAYING, WHEN WILL WE EVER LEARN? SO WALMART'S GOT A LOT OF GREAT PRODUCTS, AND WE TYPICALLY FIND A LOT OF THINGS THAT WE NEED THERE.

SO WHAT I WANTED TO SAY THOUGH, ALSO WHAT WE'VE SEEN IS A GROWTH IN ONLINE ORDERS.

WITH THE PANDEMIC, IT WAS LIKE FUEL ON THE FIRE AND PEOPLE DRAMATICALLY STARTED INCREASING THE USE OF OUR SERVICES.

I THINK TODAY YOU'D BE VERY HARD PRESSED TO FIND A WALMART WITH LESS THAN 20 PICKUP AND DELIVERY SPOTS, AND WE'RE SEEING A GREAT AMOUNT OF USE FROM IT.

AND ONE OF THE ALSO THE GREAT THINGS HERE IS WE JUST ANNOUNCED THIS THIRD QUARTER.

SOME OF THE SOME OF THE METRICS THAT WE'RE SEEING, AND WE'VE SEEN A 22% GROWTH IN OUR ONLINE E-COMMERCE, 50% OF THE THOSE ORDERS ARE BEING FULFILLED BY OUR STORE.

WE'VE SEEN A GROWTH OF ABOUT 50% FROM THE STORE DELIVERY AND MAKING THAT HAPPEN.

SO WHAT WE'RE SEEING IS A LOT OF DEMAND AND WE'RE SEEING CUSTOMERS BEHAVIOR ADAPT.

AND SO THAT'S ULTIMATELY WHAT IT COMES DOWN TO.

WALMART IS ADAPTING TO MEET THE NEEDS OF THE CUSTOMERS.

AND WITH WHAT WE'RE SEEING WITH DRONE DELIVERIES, WE SEE AN OPPORTUNITY TO BE ABLE TO MAKE DELIVERIES TO CUSTOMERS IN LESS THAN 30 MINUTES FOR SMALL ITEMS. AND I CAN TELL YOU THE NUMBER OF USE CASES OF THIS CONTINUE TO GROW.

I'VE BEEN WITH THE PROGRAM FOR QUITE A BIT OF TIME, AND BUT I'VE GOT TO SAY LIKE MY FAVORITE TWO, ONE OF THEM IS GOING TO BE LIKE A NEWBORN PARENT OR A NEWBORN PARENTS.

YEAH, BOTH WORK, BUT PARENTS THAT HAVE A NEWBORN BABY AND THEY'RE SPENDING QUALITY TIME AT HOME AND SOMETIMES THEY NEED SOME ITEMS. LAST MINUTE WIPES OR OINTMENT.

YEP. YEAH I GOT I GOT A LITTLE ONE ON THE WAY HERE.

AND BEING ABLE TO GET THAT DELIVERY IN LESS THAN 30 MINUTES CAN MEAN THE WORLD.

EVERYBODY GETS A LITTLE BIT EXTRA NAP TIME AND I THINK IT'S WELL WORTH IT.

ABSOLUTELY. YOU GOT TO YOU GOT TO GO IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT.

YOU GOT TO HAVE ALL THOSE PROBLEMS. COME ON. RIGHT OF PASSAGE.

MAKE IT EASY NOW. I KNOW.

BUT MY OTHER ONE THAT I LIKE, AND I'M LOOKING AT MY FAMILY QUITE A BIT AND I USE THEM IN QUITE A FEW EXAMPLES.

BUT I'VE GOT MY, MY MOTHER THAT SOMETIMES SHE ASKS ME, HEY, YOU KNOW, I GOT TO GO TO THE STORE AND I MIGHT NOT BE ABLE TO MAKE IT JUST IN TIME.

SO IF I CAN GET A PRESCRIPTION OR A PRESCRIPTION, BUT AN OVER-THE-COUNTER MEDICATION DELIVERED ADVIL TO HER IN LESS THAN 30 MINUTES THAT'S A THAT'S A HUGE, HUGE VALUE TO ME.

SO I'VE GOT TO SAY THAT I THINK WE'VE AND I SAY, I THINK I KNOW THAT WE'VE GOT AN AMAZING SERVICE AND AN AMAZING OPPORTUNITY TO OFFER THE RESIDENTS OF BEDFORD AND JUST TO KIND OF CONTINUE TO EXPLAIN HOW WE'RE GOING TO BE ABLE TO DO IT.

I'M GOING TO BRING UP CAROLYN FROM KIMLEY-HORN TO KIND OF TALK ABOUT SOME OF THE SITE PLAN.

[01:50:05]

OF COURSE, OF COURSE. THANK YOU.

ALL RIGHT. WELCOME, WELCOME.

GOOD EVENING, MAYOR AND COUNCIL.

I'M CAROLYN COOK WITH KIMLEY-HORN.

WE'RE THE CIVIL ENGINEER ON THE PROJECT SERVING WALMART FOR THE ZIPLINE DELIVERY.

I JUST WANTED TO WALK YOU THROUGH QUICKLY THE SITE PLAN THAT WAS PRESENTED.

AND THEN ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS THAT YOU MAY HAVE.

OKAY. SO I DID WANT TO POINT OUT, AS WAS POINTED OUT, THERE'S THE TWO AREAS ON THE SITE PLAN.

THE AREA IN GREEN HERE IS WHERE THE GOODS WILL BE LOADED INTO THE DRONES SO ASSOCIATES WILL COME OUT OF THE WALMART.

LOAD IT INTO THE DRONE AND THEN IT'LL GET TAKEN OFF FOR DELIVERY.

IN RED IS THE CHARGING STATIONS THAT ARE SENT AWAY FROM THE STORE THERE.

IN THE LANDSCAPE AREA.

AS MENTIONED, THERE WILL BE A RETAINING WALL.

SO THIS AREA WILL BE LOWER THAN THE SURROUNDING GRADE WITH A RETAINING WALL AND THEN A FENCE AROUND THAT WITH WHAT WAS STATED WITH TREES THAT LINE THE RETAINING WALL ON THE HIGH SIDE.

GOTCHA. WHAT TYPE OF TREES DO WE HAVE THERE? YES, THEY ARE HOLLIES, I BELIEVE.

OKAY. I MEAN, HOW BIG DO THEY GET? I THINK THAT'S MY BIGGEST.

I ACTUALLY DO NOT KNOW THAT INFORMATION.

THAT'S FINE. I WAS LOOKING IT UP.

THEY TEND TO GET PRETTY, PRETTY LARGE.

AND IT SHOULD OFFER A GOOD AMOUNT OF SCREENING FOR, FOR THAT AREA.

YES. AND BEING ON THE HIGH SIDE OF THE WALL WILL HELP.

CORRECT. AND SO HOW MANY CHARGING STATIONS? WELL, FIRST OFF, LET ME SAY HOW MANY DRONES ARE YOU GOING TO HAVE CHARGING BACK THERE? I WILL LET CONNER ANSWER THE NUMBER OF DRONES.

I WILL GET, BUT WE HAVE.

LET ME GET TO THAT LATER THEN.

SO WE'RE GOING TO HAVE THE CHARGING STATIONS THERE.

AND THEN, THEN THEY'LL FLY OVER AND GET LOADED IN THE SECONDARY LOCATION, WHICH IS CLOSER TO THE BUILDING.

THAT'S CORRECT. OKAY. ALL RIGHT.

ALL RIGHT. CHAIN LINK FENCE.

I'VE JUST PROVIDED FOR SECURITY PURPOSES, I'M ASSUMING.

YES. AND WE'LL HAVE A SCREENING SIMILAR TO, LIKE, THE FENCE YOU SEE AT THE GARDEN CENTER.

OKAY. OKAY.

GOTCHA. THAT'S PRETTY STRAIGHTFORWARD THEN.

ALL RIGHT. YES.

COUNCIL MEMBER SABOL. ARE THE DRONES IN A HOUSE OR ARE THEY JUST SITTING OUTSIDE? I WILL ALSO LET CONNOR ANSWER THAT QUESTION ABOUT THE NEST THAT THEY SIT IN.

SO ANYTHING ABOUT THE SITE PLAN, NEST? ANYTHING ABOUT THE SITE PLAN IN GENERAL? OKAY. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU SO MUCH.

THANK YOU. ALL RIGHT.

WELCOME. THANK YOU.

GOOD EVENING. MAYOR.

CITY COUNCIL. MAYOR, CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR SOON TO BE ADDITION.

THAT'S A VERY EXCITING MOMENT.

THANK YOU. BEFORE I GET STARTED, I WILL SAY IT IS KIND OF A RIGHT TO PASSAGEWAY AND TO A PARENT TO A 2 A.M..

NEED TO GO GET SOMETHING.

SO AS MUCH AS WE WANT TO MAKE IT EASY, YOU'LL HAVE TO DO IT.

OH, YEAH, I KNOW. WELL, I DID IT MY FIRST, SO I HAVE TO DO IT IN MY SECOND HERE.

EXCELLENT. ALL RIGHT.

SO, [INAUDIBLE] I'M WITH ZIPLINE.

YOU MAY HAVE SEEN US. WE HAVE EARNED A LOT OF MEDIA RECENTLY.

EVERYTHING FROM DALLAS MORNING NEWS, FOX, AS WELL AS SOME OF THE LOCAL PUBLICATIONS SUCH AS PRINCETON HERALD, KAUFMAN HERALD.

BUT IN CASE YOU HAVEN'T HEARD OF US OR YOU HAVE QUESTIONS, I HAVE A QUICK PRESENTATION.

WE'LL GO THROUGH THEM. I THINK IT WILL ADDRESS MOST OF THE QUESTIONS, BUT I'LL BE AVAILABLE TO ANSWER ANYTHING AFTER THAT.

SO ZIPLINE AS A WHOLE WERE THE WORLD'S LARGEST DRONE DELIVERY COMPANY.

WE'VE DONE OVER 1.3 MILLION COMMERCIAL DELIVERIES.

WE HAVE OPERATIONS IN MULTIPLE COUNTRIES, AS WELL AS SEVERAL OPERATIONS IN THE UNITED STATES, INCLUDING BEDFORD, SOON TO BE SO WHY ZIPLINE? WE ALREADY HEARD A LOT FROM, YOU KNOW, WALMART AND FOLKS ABOUT DRONE DELIVERY AND HOW FOLKS ARE EXPECTING TO GET PACKAGES FASTER.

AND OUR CASE STUDIES ARE SHOWING, YOU KNOW, SAVING TIME ON THE CONSUMER SIDE, SAFER ROADS, REDUCING TRAFFIC, AS WELL AS IMPROVED ACCESS AND ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES.

ONE THING I FOUND AS I'VE MOVED TO THE DFW AREA IS I THINK EVERYBODY COULD BENEFIT FROM A LITTLE BIT OF REDUCED TRAFFIC.

SO VERY EXCITED TO SEE WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE IN THE CITIES AS A WHOLE.

WE'LL SEE IF THIS WILL PLAY HERE.

ARE YOU ABLE TO PLAY THIS FOR ME? NO WORRIES. WE'RE JUST GOING TO MOVE RIGHT ON.

AND THEN WE'LL KIND OF DISCUSS HOW THAT WORKS.

OH. MAYBE.

WE CAN JUST GET THAT.

IT'S NOT GOING TO BE TO GET TO KNOW EDGE.

ARE WE DOWNLOADING SOFTWARE IN THE MIDDLE OF A MEETING? NO, WE'RE JUST HAVING A GREAT TIME.

WE'LL JUST SKIP OVER TO THE PRESENTATION AND I'LL BE ABLE TO.

SO WHAT WOULD THAT VIDEO HAVE SHOWED US ABOUT THAT? GREAT QUESTION. SO WE'LL STILL BE ABLE TO DISCUSS THIS AS A PRESENTATION.

THIS IS A END TO END VIDEO THAT JUST SHOWS THE AIRCRAFT BEING LOADED ALL THE WAY THROUGH THE DELIVERY AND THEN BACK, BUT VERY EASY FOR US TO DISCUSS THIS.

[01:55:01]

WHAT YOU'RE SEEING IN THE LOWER RIGHT CORNER IS A TWO MILE RADIUS AND THEN A TEN MILE RADIUS.

GENERALLY SPEAKING, WHEN WE'RE LAUNCHING SITES, WE'RE LOOKING AT A CRAWL, WALK, RUN APPROACH.

SO WE'D BE LOOKING AT LAUNCHING WITH A TWO MILE SERVICE RADIUS AND EVENTUALLY EXPANDING TO THE FULL TEN MILE SERVICE RADIUS.

THE AIRCRAFT CAN FLY UP TO ABOUT 70 MILES AN HOUR AND HAS A WINGSPAN OF ROUGHLY EIGHT FEET.

THE THING THAT YOU'LL SEE ON THE LEFT SIDE IS A LIKE, QUICK VERSION THAT I'LL GO THROUGH OF HOW THE AIRCRAFT WORKS.

SO THE MAIN AIRCRAFT IS WHAT WE CALL A ZIP.

SO THAT'S THE PART UP TOP.

AND THE LITTLE PIECE BELOW IT IS THE DELIVERY DROID.

SO THE ITEMS GO INTO THE DELIVERY DROID.

THE DROID THEN GOES INTO THE ZIP.

THE ZIP THEN PLOTS A PATH TO THE DELIVERY SITE, AND THEN IT STAYS UP HIGH.

SO IT STAYS AT OVER 300FT IN THE AIR.

AND THEN JUST THE DELIVERY DROID COMES DOWN ON A TETHER TO MAKE THE DELIVERY, WHICH IS WHAT YOU WOULD HAVE SEEN IN THE PREVIOUS VIDEO.

SO WE LIKE TO SAY THAT OUR DELIVERY DROID IS QUITE CUTE, BUT ALSO QUITE MIGHTY.

AND THESE ARE THINGS THAT WE TAKE TO EVENTS.

WE SHOW PEOPLE WHAT IT CAN FIT.

SO EVERYTHING FROM FOOD, ELECTRONICS, GROCERY, HEALTH AND WELLNESS ALL THOSE ITEMS ARE EASILY ABLE TO FIT WITHIN THE DROID.

GENERALLY SPEAKING, WE'RE LOOKING AT TENS OF THOUSANDS OF ITEMS PER WALMART THAT ARE ABLE TO BE DELIVERED IN A SINGLE DAY.

SO THE NEXT THING WE'LL MOVE INTO IS WE OFTEN HEAR QUESTIONS FROM COMMUNITY MEMBERS OR CITY COUNCILS ABOUT THINGS LIKE, YOU KNOW, HOW LOUD ARE THEY? OR HOW DO THEY WORK? SO ZIPS ARE QUIETER THAN MANY COMMON LIKE NEIGHBORHOOD SOUNDS WHEN MEASURED AT ROUGHLY 100FT AWAY, THE MAXIMUM LIKE NOISE PROFILE WOULD BE ABOUT 64DB, AND DURING DELIVERY IT IS LESS THAN 60DB.

NOW, I WAS TOLD THIS BY SOME ENGINEERS, AND I WAS LIKE, COOL, THAT SOUNDS REALLY GREAT.

I HAVE NO REFERENCE TO UNDERSTAND HOW THOSE DECIBELS ACTUALLY MEAN TO WHAT I'M HEARING.

AND SO WHAT WE WERE ABLE TO MEASURE AND FIND IS THAT IT IS QUIETER THAN A PASSING DELIVERY TRUCK, AND AT ITS QUIETEST, IT'S ABOUT A QUARTER AS LOUD AS A NORMAL CONVERSATION, AND AS LOUD AS IT SITS RIGHT AROUND A NORMAL CONVERSATION.

AND WERE THOSE MEASURED AT THE 300 FOOT WHEN THEY WERE TAKING THOSE DECIBEL READINGS? GREAT QUESTION. SO THOSE ARE MEASURED IN RESPECT TO THE 100 FOOT AWAY, WHICH WOULD BE DURING THE DOCKING.

SO THE ACTUAL ZIP ALTITUDE WAS CONSIDERED LIKE NEGLIGIBLE.

LIKE IF IT WAS AT THE DOCK OR AT 300FT, AND THEN THE ONE ON THE RIGHT, WHICH IS THE 60 FOOT, WAS WHEN WE WERE AT THE 300FT.

DOES THAT ANSWER YOUR QUESTION? YES, YES IT DOES.

SO, SO FAIRLY QUIET AT THAT 300FT.

DID WE MEASURE THE DROID? A GREAT QUESTION. SO THE DROID, IF I HAD A VIDEO TO SHOW YOU, IS VERY IMPRESSIVE.

THERE WAS RECENTLY A VIDEO THAT WENT AROUND ON X THAT ACTUALLY SHOWS THIS IN REAL LIFE WITH LIKE, REAL VOLUMES, INCLUDING A DELIVERY DROID HAPPENING DIRECTLY ABOUT TEN FEET AWAY FROM SOMEBODY AND THEM NOT NOTICING IT UNTIL THEY SAW IT.

GOTCHA. AND JUST FOR REFERENCE, HOW LONG DO THESE DELIVERIES USUALLY TAKE? YOU MIGHT BE COVERING IT. SORRY.

YOU MIGHT BE COVERING IT. BUT JUST FOR THIS INSTANCE, BECAUSE I WANT TO MAKE SURE, YOU KNOW, EVEN IF THERE IS A NOISE.

HOW LONG IS THAT. HOW LONG IS THE DELIVERY GOING TO TAKE? GREAT QUESTION. SO I'LL ANSWER THIS IN A COUPLE OF WAYS.

THE TIME FROM WHEN YOU PLACE AN ORDER TO WHEN WE DELIVER IS LIKE ROUGHLY 30 MINUTES.

A TEN MILE FLIGHT TAKES US ROUGHLY SEVEN MINUTES THERE AND SEVEN MINUTES BACK.

SO 14 MINUTES AND OUR CITIES WITH THE FAA ON OUR VARIOUS SYSTEMS, IT'S GENERALLY ROUGHLY LIKE SIX SECONDS THAT SOMEBODY IS HEARING THE ZIP WHEN IT'S IN TRANSIT OR ABLE TO SEE IT, AND THEN IT'S UNDER A MINUTE DURING THE FULL DELIVERY PROCESS.

GOTCHA. OKAY. DOES THAT ANSWER YOUR QUESTION? IT DOES. THANK YOU. EXCELLENT.

SO A LITTLE BIT MORE ON OUR SAFETY RECORD.

SO ZIPLINE HAS FLOWN OVER 80 MILLION AUTONOMOUS MILES SAFELY.

AND WE DO THIS BY BRINGING EVERYTHING IN HOUSE.

SO WE DESIGN THE AIRCRAFT, WE MANUFACTURE, TEST, OPERATE THE AIRCRAFT ALL INTERNALLY.

AND THEN WE PARTNER WITH FOLKS LIKE WALMART TO MAKE THOSE DELIVERIES.

SO WE'RE FULLY FAA CERTIFIED.

AND THEN WE ALSO LEVERAGE A REALLY UNIQUE SYSTEM THAT WE CALL FLIGHT IQ, WHICH IS OUR AUTONOMY AND PERCEPTION SYSTEM.

THIS SYSTEM ALLOWS US TO MAKE SAFER AND SMARTER DELIVERIES.

IT IS DONE SPECIFICALLY FOR FLIGHT AND DELIVERY PURPOSES.

OUR SENSORS IS A MIX OF SOUND SENSING, VISUAL SENSING, AS WELL AS WEATHER AND GPS.

AND WE DO EVERYTHING FROM APPLYING INDUSTRY STANDARD TOOLS TO BLUR FACES AND ANY VISUAL DATA.

AND WE DO NOT IDENTIFY ANY VISUAL INDIVIDUALS OR READ LICENSE PLATES.

SO IT DOESN'T EVEN HAVE THAT CAPABILITY TO CAPTURE LICENSE PLATES, FACIAL RECOGNITION OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT.

GREAT QUESTION. SO THAT'S NOT PART OF HOW THE SYSTEM WORKS.

SO FOR EXAMPLE FACES ARE AUTOMATICALLY BLURRED AS PART OF THE PROCESSING.

OKAY GOOD. SO THESE ARE SOME EXAMPLE RENDERINGS.

AGAIN THESE ARE NOT SPECIFIC TO THE SITE HERE IN BEDFORD.

[02:00:04]

SO I BELIEVE THAT THERE WAS A QUESTION ABOUT THE AIRCRAFT LIKE GOING INTO HOUSES OR SOMETHING OVERNIGHT.

AND THE AIRCRAFT GO INTO THESE DOCKS.

SO THE DOCKS, I THINK THE MIDDLE ONE WHERE YOU CAN SEE AN AIRCRAFT COMING INTO LAND IS THE PART THAT THEY ACTUALLY LIKE REST ON.

BUT THE SYSTEM IS UNIQUE IN THE SENSE THAT IT'S LIKE A TOP DOCK.

SO THE AIRCRAFT FLIES IN AND THEN DOCKS FROM THE TOP.

THIS GIVES IT SOME LIKE SHIELDING FROM THE ELEMENTS, THOUGH WE DO TEST AT OUR TEST RANCHES IN CALIFORNIA, WYOMING AND OTHER PLACES IN VARIOUS LIKE EXTREME CONDITIONS, BUT IT IS ELEVATED SO IT'S AWAY FROM PEOPLE.

IF THAT WAS SOME OF THE CONCERN.

AND THE LAST PART IS A LITTLE BIT ABOUT COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT.

SO A BIG THING THAT WE BELIEVE ABOUT IS THAT FOLKS SHOULD NOT HEAR ABOUT ZIPLINE FOR THE VERY FIRST TIME WHEN WE SET UP OPERATIONS OR WHEN THEY'RE SEEING THEM.

SO WE MAKE A LOT OF EFFORTS TO INFORM THE COMMUNITY.

THIS INCLUDES EVERYTHING FROM OUR ENGAGEMENT WITH SCHOOLS.

SO STEM ENGAGEMENT UP IN THE TOP LEFT.

YOU SEE SOME PICTURES FROM OUR SITE IN PEA RIDGE, ARKANSAS, WHERE WE FINISHED A STEM PRESENTATION FOR THIRD GRADERS AND THEN BROUGHT THEM OUT TO SEE SOME DELIVERIES, AS WELL AS IN THE TOP RIGHT. YOU SEE SOME OF OUR COMMUNITY EVENTS, WHICH WE'VE DONE THROUGHOUT THE METROPLEX AND SOME IN THIS AREA RECENTLY.

AND THEN IN THE BOTTOM LEFT CORNER IS A NOTE FROM ONE OF THOSE THIRD GRADERS IN ARKANSAS, WHICH SAYS, THANK YOU FOR COMING IN.

I LIKE HOW YOU'RE NOT JUST TRYING TO CHANGE THE WORLD, BUT YOU'RE ACTUALLY DOING SOMETHING TO CHANGE THE WORLD.

I THINK THIS REALLY SHOWS THAT PEOPLE, ONCE THEY GET IT, THEY GET IT.

WE'RE ABLE TO SHARE OUR EXPERIENCES OPERATING IN AFRICA, SAVING LIVES, AS WELL AS NEW PARENTS, YOUNG MOMS AND FOLKS WHO ARE ABLE TO GET THEIR OVER-THE-COUNTER GOODS, AS WELL AS PRESCRIPTION GOODS FROM ZIPLINE AND THE TRUE IMPACT THAT THAT HAS.

SO WITH THAT, I WOULD LIKE TO THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR TIME AND SEE IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS.

ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU.

THANK YOU FOR THAT. SO HOW MANY OF THESE ZIPS WILL BE AT THAT STATION? I GUESS TO THE WEST ON THIS PROPERTY.

GREAT QUESTION. SO WHEN I SAW THE SITE PLAN, I BELIEVE THAT IT HAS NINE DOCKS.

THOSE DOCKS ON THAT AREA ARE CALLED DOUBLE DOCKS.

SO IT WILL ACCOMMODATE TWO.

SO THIS WOULD MEAN THAT THIS SITE PLAN WOULD HAVE A TOTAL CAPABILITY OF 20 AIRCRAFT IF EVERY SINGLE DOCK WERE TO BE FULL.

OKAY. SO 20 AIRCRAFTS.

AND THEN I'D ALSO INCLUDES THE DROIDS.

AND THEN THEY'LL BE CHARGING AND THEN OBVIOUSLY LOADING AND GOING AT THAT POINT.

YEP. SO A DROID ZIP COMBO WOULD BE CONSIDERED LIKE ONE AIRCRAFT.

SO 20 TOTAL DROIDS, 20 TOTAL ZIPS.

OKAY. AND SO IT IS TETHERED.

YES, SIR. THAT DROID.

SO IT HOVERS AT 300FT AND THEN IT'S TETHERED AND DELIVERS IT.

CAN YOU I DON'T KNOW, DO YOU? WHAT'S THE SPECIFICS OF THE TETHER? THAT'S A GREAT QUESTION. IT IS A THE PURPOSE AS IN THE PURPOSE.

I DON'T NEED TO KNOW WHAT IT'S MADE OUT OF.

YEAH, YEAH. SO THE PURPOSE OF THE TETHER IS THE ACTUAL DROID ITSELF DOESN'T HAVE THE ABILITY TO GENERATE LIFT.

GOTCHA. THAT IS ALL DONE BY THE MAIN AIRCRAFT.

THAT'S UP HIGH. SO WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT IT, IT'S OVER 30 STORIES IN THE AIR.

SO RATHER THAN HAVING ANYTHING THAT'S ON THE DROID PROVIDING THAT LIFT THE TETHER IS ABLE TO PROVIDE US THAT VERTICAL COMPONENT.

OKAY. OKAY. GOOD.

AND THEN OBVIOUSLY WHEN WE'RE DEALING WITH THIS, THIS IS SOMETHING VERY NEW TO, TO MOST OF US.

THERE HAS TO BE SOME REGULATIONS TO ALL OF THIS.

CAN YOU GO INTO THE REGULATIONS THAT YOUR INDUSTRY HAS TO ABIDE BY.

YES. THIS IS A VERY GREAT QUESTION.

IT COULD GET VERY DETAILED, BUT HIGH LEVEL.

HOW I EXPLAIN IT TO PEOPLE IS THAT BEING THE MANUFACTURER AND THE OPERATOR, WE ARE REGULATED BY THE FAA AS BOTH THE BOEING OR AIRBUS AS WELL AS THE AIRLINE.

SO LIKE THE AMERICAN OR DELTA.

SO WE GET REGULATED ON BOTH SIDES OF THE HOUSE.

WITH IT BEING A NEW TECHNOLOGY.

THE FAA HAS TAKEN A VERY CAUTIOUS APPROACH.

WE'RE ONE OF VERY FEW OPERATORS THAT HAS WHAT'S CONSIDERED A PART 135 AIR CARRIER, MEANING THAT WE'RE NOT HOBBYISTS, WE'RE NOT INDIVIDUALLY TRAINED.

WE HAVE A FULL TRAINING PROGRAM THAT'S APPROVED, AN AIRCRAFT THAT'S APPROVED VERY RIGOROUS MAINTENANCE STANDARDS AS WELL.

OKAY. AND SO THAT'S ALL THAT'S ALL OBVIOUSLY BEEN DONE.

AS WE SEE MORE OF THIS, THERE'S A LOT OF WALMARTS AROUND AND THE RADIUS IS TEN MILES.

HOW IS THIS ORGANIZED TO THE FACT THAT IS THERE? BECAUSE DO YOU OPERATE A CERTAIN AIRSPACE FOR THIS? FOR JUST THIS DELIVERY? LIKE, HOW IS THIS GOING TO ALL WORK? AND WE HAVE PACKAGES GOING IN AND OUT IN TEN, 15 YEARS FROM MULTIPLE WALMARTS DELIVERING AT MULTIPLE ADDRESSES.

AND WE JUST SEE DRONES ACROSS THE SKY.

NORMALLY LIKE WE DO A PLANE AT DFW AIRPORT.

FANTASTIC QUESTION.

SO HIGH LEVEL, ALL ZIPLINE AIRCRAFT THEMSELVES ARE ABLE TO TALK TO AND COMMUNICATE WITH EACH OTHER.

THIS INCLUDES INFORMATION LIKE LIVE WEATHER DATA SO THEY CAN DO LIKE THE BEST PATH PLANNING AS WELL AS DECONFLICTION.

WHEN WE START TALKING ABOUT MULTIPLE WALMARTS OR MULTIPLE OPERATORS, YOU KNOW, TEN, 15 YEARS DOWN THE ROAD.

ZIPLINE PARTICIPATES WITH NASA, THE FAA, AND OTHER INDUSTRY PARTNERS TO FORM WHAT'S CALLED UTM OR UNMANNED TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT, WHICH IS A SYSTEM THAT IS ABLE TO AUTOMATE

[02:05:01]

SO, SO, SO OBVIOUSLY THIS THIS ISSUE, YOU KNOW, IT'S BEING ADDRESSED AND NOT ONLY ZIPLINE BECAUSE WE HAVE THERE'S GOING TO BE OTHER OPERATORS.

THERE'S GOING TO BE WING IN IN OTHER PLACES.

SO ARE YOU GUYS ABLE TO DELIVER PACKAGES WITH COMPETING OPERATORS? YES. SO THAT'S ONE OF THE KEY UNLOCKS FOR UTM.

OKAY. MY LAST QUESTION BEFORE I TURN IT OVER.

I'M SORRY A VERY, VERY INTRIGUING.

INSURANCE FOR YOU GUYS.

YOU OBVIOUSLY OFFER THIS BECAUSE WE DON'T WANT THESE FALLING OUT OF THE SKY, LANDING IN SOMEBODY'S HOME, DAMAGING OTHER THINGS.

I'M ASSUMING YOU'RE READY TO HAVE THIS INSURANCE.

YES. WE HAVE A FULL SUITE OF BUSINESS INSURANCE.

LIABILITY INSURANCE AS WELL AS WE'VE NEVER, EVER HAD TO MAKE A CLAIM AGAINST OUR INSURANCE.

OKAY, SO NEVER, NEVER HAD ANY ISSUES WITH THAT.

YES, SIR. KNOCK ON WOOD.

SO NONE OF THESE HAVE DROPPED OFF THE SKY? NONE OF NO ISSUES LIKE THAT? CORRECT. OKAY.

ALL THAT ALSO BEING SAID, I'M TRYING TO THINK ABOUT ALL THE VARIOUS THINGS THAT COULD HAPPEN HERE.

YEAH, I THINK I MIGHT BE ABLE TO SUMMARIZE A FEW OF THEM FOR YOU.

LIKE, IF YOU'RE KIND OF WORRIED ABOUT, LIKE, WHAT COULD HAPPEN? WHAT COULD HAPPEN? SO THE AIRCRAFT IS SEVERE WEATHER.

YEAH. GREAT. SO I THINK THERE'S TWO ELEMENTS.

NUMBER ONE, ON SEVERE WEATHER, WE HAVE A FULL TEAM OF WEATHER FORECASTERS AS WELL AS TOOLS TO PREDICT WEATHER AND CHOOSE TO, LIKE, NOT FLY.

IF SOMETHING WERE TO OCCUR, LIKE IN FLIGHT.

THE AIRCRAFT IS QUITE TOLERANT.

IT'S DESIGNED TO FLY IN LIKE, VERY EXTREME WEATHER CONDITIONS AS WELL AS IT HAS MULTIPLE REDUNDANCIES.

SO IF SOMETHING WERE TO HAPPEN TO YOU, LIKE JUST PART OF THE AIRCRAFT, THE REST OF THE AIRCRAFT IS ABLE TO SENSE THAT AND COMPENSATE.

SO I THINK THAT IT OVERALL ADDRESSES LIKE WEATHER AS WELL AS LIKE SYSTEM RELIABILITY.

OKAY. AND THEN I GUESS ONE LAST THING I'LL ADD IS THAT WE DO HAVE A LIKE LAST SAFETY SYSTEM.

SO YOU TALK ABOUT LIKE FALLING OUT OF THE SKY IF SOMETHING WERE TO GO VERY, VERY WRONG.

THE AIRCRAFT HAS A FULL AIRFRAME PARACHUTE THAT'S ABLE TO DEPLOY A VERY LARGE PARACHUTE THAT'S QUITE VISIBLE.

THAT ALSO ALLOWS IT TO COME DOWN LIKE, YOU KNOW, MUCH SLOWER AS WELL.

OKAY. WHAT DO YOU DO WITH HOMES THAT HAVE MULTIPLE TREES LIKE AND LIKE A VERY YOU HAVE A HOME THAT'S VERY, YOU KNOW, WOODED AREA AND THEY STILL WANT THEIR DELIVERY. HOW DO YOU DO HOW DO WE NAVIGATE THAT? I'M NOT SURE IF THIS IS A QUESTION SPECIFIC TO YOUR PROPERTY OR NOT.

I KNOW A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE VERY EXCITED.

IT'S ACTUALLY. SO GENERALLY SPEAKING, WE'RE LOOKING FOR A DELIVERY SITE THAT'S ROUGHLY THREE FEET OF CLEAR AREA, WHICH CAN BE LIKE A FRONT WALKWAY, DRIVEWAY OR SOMETHING SIMILAR TO THAT. OKAY. SO ALL YOU NEED IS THREE FEET OF CLEAR.

CORRECT. OKAY. THAT'S PRETTY SMALL.

ALL RIGHT. COUNCIL QUESTIONS.

I KNOW THERE'S GONNA BE A LOT OF PEOPLE JUMPING UP HERE.

COUNCIL MEMBER DONOVAN BRANDON.

I HAVE A LOT OF QUESTIONS, AND I HAVE A JOURNALISM DEGREE, SO.

ALL RIGHT, I'LL BUCKLE UP.

BUCKLE UP. OKAY.

IT'S VERY FLATTERING WHEN I SEE THIS.

THIS MAP.

WHY DID YOU PICK US? I LIKE TO BE SPECIAL.

BUT TELL ME WHY WE'RE THAT SPECIAL.

THAT'S A GREAT QUESTION. I WOULD DEFER A LITTLE BIT TO WALMART ON THIS SPECIFIC SITE.

YEAH. SO A COUPLE OF THINGS.

NUMBER ONE, I WAS GOING TO SAY DFW BEING IN TEXAS, VERY BUSINESS FRIENDLY.

NUMBER TWO, DALLAS, A HUGE AMOUNT OF GROWTH.

WE'RE NOT DALLAS, BUT SO BEDFORD, WE'RE ALSO SEEING A TON OF GROWTH WITHIN THE STOREFRONTS AND FROM OUR ONLINE PICKUP AND DELIVERY.

SO WE ARE LOOKING AT THIS MARKET AS A WHOLE, AND THIS IS ABSOLUTELY A GREAT CANDIDATE.

SO THAT'S WHY WE CHOSE WHY ARE WE A GREAT CANDIDATE ONLINE DELIVERY.

SO WE'RE SEEING A TREMENDOUS GROWTH.

SO YOU HAVE NUMBERS.

WHAT DOES IT LOOK LIKE AT HOME? YOU SHOWED US WHERE YOU TAKE OFF FROM WALMART.

I'M PICTURING, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE A MAILBOX.

IS THERE GOING TO BE SOMETHING ON EVERYONE'S LAWN TO RECEIVE THIS? HOW DOES THAT HAPPEN? LET ME GO AHEAD AND BRING TYLER BACK UP FOR THE TECH.

ALL RIGHT. SO THE ANSWER IS, WE'VE DESIGNED THE SYSTEM TO NOT REQUIRE ANY SORT OF SPECIAL HARDWARE OR, LIKE, FIDUCIALS OR ANYTHING AT YOUR HOUSE.

THE VIDEO WOULD HAVE SHOWN IT A LITTLE BIT BETTER, BUT ON THE BOTTOM OF THE DROID, YOU CAN KIND OF SEE THAT OUTLINE THAT'S BLACK? THOSE ARE DOORS ON THE BOTTOM.

SO WHEN THE DROID TOUCHES DOWN, THE DOORS OPEN AND LEAVE THE PACKAGE ON THE GRASS OR THE DRIVEWAY, AND THEN THE DROID GOES BACK UP.

SO WE DON'T REQUIRE ANY SPECIAL INFRASTRUCTURE.

IF THERE'S SOMETHING LIKE A BOTTLE FOR THE MAYOR'S NEW BABY AND IT'S GLASS, IS IT BUBBLE WRAPPED AND ALL OF THAT SO I CAN JUST DROP? GREAT QUESTION. SO THE ACTUAL DISTANCE THAT IT'S GOING DOWN IS LESS THAN HALF AN INCH.

OKAY. I HAVE BEEN TO A WEDDING, AN OUTDOOR WEDDING WHERE A DRONE CAME OVERHEAD AND IT SCARED THE BEJESUS OUT OF EVERYBODY.

SO EXPLAIN TO ME HOW, BECAUSE OF THE NOISE OVERHEAD, EXPLAIN TO ME, IS THIS GOING TO BE LIKE THE LEAF BLOWERS THAT I HATE IN MY NEIGHBORHOOD? HOW WHAT'S THIS GOING TO BE LIKE? ALL RIGHT, ALL RIGHT.

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SO THIS INCLUDES TRANSIT.

SO OVERALL THE SYSTEM LIKE THIS WAS A MAIN CONSIDERATION WHEN WE DESIGNED THE SYSTEM.

AND WE LOOKED AT SOMETHING THAT WE WOULD NOT ONLY BE HAPPY AS LIKE THE RECIPIENT, BUT AS WELL AS LIKE THE NEIGHBORS OR THE NEIGHBORS WHO ARE LIKE TWO STREETS DOWN OR THE NEXT DOOR NEIGHBOR. WE BASICALLY FEEL VERY STRONGLY THAT THE SYSTEM SHOULD BE DESIGNED, BUILT TO INTEGRATE WELL INTO THE COMMUNITY.

OKAY. BUT THESE NUMBERS ARE FOR 100FT AWAY, RIGHT? SO 100FT AWAY FROM THE TAKEOFF AND LANDING.

SO THE DOCKING AND THEN FROM DELIVERY THE MAIN AIRCRAFT STAYS 300FT IN THE AIR.

DOES THAT DOES THAT MAKE SENSE? OKAY. SO NOTHING IS GOING TO CAUSE ANY NOISE ON MY LAWN BECAUSE WE'VE ALREADY GOTTEN PEOPLE WHO ARE MAD THAT WHAT WE DID TO THE BUNNIES SOMEWHERE, I DON'T REMEMBER WHERE, BUT PEOPLE WHO ARE LOVING THEIR BIRDS CHIRPING.

IS THIS GOING TO INTERRUPT THAT? SO THAT'S SOMETHING THAT AGAIN, WE'VE DESIGNED IT TO NOT INTERRUPT THOSE TYPES OF ACTIVITIES.

SO THE ONLY PART THAT'S COMING DOWN IS THAT LITTLE DELIVERY DROID, WHICH I WISH I HAD THAT THAT VIDEO ON X, BUT I DO ENCOURAGE YOU TO LOOK IT UP IS IMPRESSIVE.

I DON'T HAVE AN X ACCOUNT.

DO YOU HAVE IT ON YOUR WEBSITE? YES. SO, IF YOU GO TO OUR WEBSITE, FLYZIPLINE.COM OR YOU GO TO YOUTUBE AND SEARCH FOR ZIP LINE, YOU CAN FIND THE VIDEOS THERE AS WELL.

OKAY. AND THEN I'M THINKING, BECAUSE I'VE RAISED TEENAGERS WHEN THIS COMES DOWN AND IT'S TETHERED, WHAT'S TO KEEP A TEENAGER FROM DECIDING IT'S A TETHER BALL? YEAH. THIS IS A COMMON QUESTION THAT WE GET AT CITY COUNCILS.

SO THERE'S A COMBINATION OF LIKE SYSTEMS AT PLAY, ONE OF THEM BEING THE FLIGHT IQ SYSTEM AS THE DROID IS COMING DOWN TO DELIVER.

IT'S LOOKING AT THINGS LIKE PEOPLE, PETS, OBSTACLES.

JUST LIKE WE DON'T WANT TO MAKE A DELIVERY ON TOP OF YOUR DOG, RIGHT? WE WANT TO HAVE ADEQUATE SAFE DISTANCE FROM PEOPLE.

AND NOW IF SOMEBODY WERE TO BE ABLE TO LIKE, SNEAK ATTACK US, THE AIRCRAFT IS DESIGNED TO DETECT THAT CONDITION.

IT WILL THEN REMOVE THE TETHER TO LEAVE THE DROID BEHIND, AND THEN AUTOMATICALLY ALERTS OUR TEAMS SO THAT WE HAVE INSTANT NOTIFICATION TO FOLKS THAT THIS HAS HAPPENED AND WHERE IT OCCURRED.

OKAY, THAT'S IT FOR NOW.

THANK YOU. ALL RIGHTY.

YES, MA'AM. COUNCILMEMBER DAWKINS.

WELL, MR. MAYOR COUNCILMEMBER DONAVAN BRANDON ACTUALLY ASKED? DID SHE? OH, SHE ANSWERED ALL THE QUESTIONS.

ALL RIGHT. IT'S THAT JOURNALISM, THE JOURNALISM.

I'LL ASK YOU TO GO FIRST NEXT TIME.

ALL RIGHT. YES.

COUNCILMEMBER SABOL.

SO AT THE DOCKING STATION, EACH ONE OF THOSE HAS A DECIBEL LEVEL OF 64.

64 WOULD BE THE MAXIMUM FROM THE LOADING DOCKS, WHICH ARE THE ONES THAT ARE CLOSER TO THE WALMART BUILDING.

SO IF THEY WERE ALL RUNNING AT THE SAME TIME, BUT THE DECIBEL RATING GO UP, THAT'S A GREAT QUESTION THAT I DO NOT KNOW THE ANSWER TO.

THAT WOULD PROBABLY BE LIKE AN ACOUSTIC QUESTION FOR AN ACOUSTIC ENGINEER.

IT DOES. SO FOR EACH ONE YOU JUST DOES IT 60, 60, 60, 60.

YES. WELL IT DOES.

AND IT JUST IT'S LIKE ANYTHING ELSE.

WHEN YOU HAVE 60 PEOPLE TALKING AT 70DB, IT GETS LOUDER.

SO IT WILL GET LOUDER.

BUT IT WILL. YEAH. I'M JUST SAYING I DON'T KNOW THE ANSWER IN THE SAME AREA.

AND BY THE TIME IT DISPERSES, IT'LL BE A LOT QUIETER.

YEAH, YEAH.

AND I WOULD SAY SO. JUST KEEP IN MIND THAT WHEN WE'RE TALKING ABOUT 20 AIRCRAFT, THE WHEN WE HAVE DOUBLE DOCKS, WE CAN'T HAVE BOTH AIRCRAFT TAKING OFF AT THE SAME TIME.

SO WE'D STILL CUT THAT NUMBER IN HALF TO ABOUT TEN.

OKAY. AND SO THAT'S NOT IT'S PRETTY IT'S A DECENT AMOUNT OF WAY FROM LIKE HOUSING BECAUSE THOSE HOUSES ARE ALONG THE TOP.

YEAH. YEAH I BELIEVE THAT THEY HAD MENTIONED IT WAS A 300FT OFFSET IN THIS PARTICULAR CASE.

OKAY. AND YOU PUT IT IN THE BACK BECAUSE IT'S SAFER BACK THERE.

I FROM A SECURITY POINT.

YEAH. YEAH.

SO WHEN EVALUATING WHERE TO PUT THESE ITEMS ON THE SITE, WE WANT TO DESTRUCT.

WE DON'T WANT TO DISRUPT THE OPERATIONS OF THE SITE FOR CUSTOMERS THAT ARE CHOOSING TO GO TO THE STORE OR CHOOSING TO PICK UP THEIR DELIVERY.

SO THIS SPECIFIC AREA WAS CHOSEN A BECAUSE IT DOESN'T IMPACT PARKING.

THERE IS KIND OF THAT LANDSCAPE AREA IN THE BACK WHERE WE'RE NOT AFFECTING UTILITIES, EASEMENTS, PARKING, CIRCULATION.

SO EACH SITE IS EVALUATED DIFFERENTLY.

BUT THAT'S WHY THESE LOCATIONS WERE CHOSEN.

OKAY. THANK YOU. ALL RIGHT.

AND THEN THE LAST PART THAT I'LL MENTION THERE IS THE NUMBERS THAT YOU SAW HERE TODAY ARE WITH 100 FOOT OFFSET.

AND WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THREE TIMES THAT OFFSET AS WELL.

ALL RIGHT. AND AGAIN AGAIN THE DELIVERIES ARE UNDER A MINUTE.

SO WHEN THEY HOVER IT'S JUST GOING TO BE IN AND OUT PRETTY FAIRLY QUICKLY.

YES, SIR. ALL RIGHT. ONE FINAL QUESTION FOR WALMART.

SO OBVIOUSLY MY BIG CONCERN WITH THIS IS WHEN YOU'RE DOING THESE DELIVERIES.

[02:15:08]

CORRECT. THAT'S WHEN WALMART IS IN OPEN.

CORRECT? CORRECT.

SO WALMART'S OPEN LATER THAN THAT.

BUT FOR THE PROGRAM, AS WE CONTINUE TO EVALUATE, WE FEEL THIS IS GOING TO BE THE BEST APPROACH FOR US TO BEGIN OUR OPERATION.

DO YOU SEE A POINT WHERE THAT CHANGES? BECAUSE THAT'S MY CONCERN IS THAT WE'RE GOING TO THIS IS GOING TO HAPPEN AT EARLY MORNING.

THIS IS GOING TO HAPPEN AT NIGHT.

CORRECT. AND WAKE UP MY WAKE UP MY BABY.

WAKE HIM UP. AND NO ONE'S GOING TO BE HAPPY.

SO AS OF RIGHT NOW, IT'S 10 TO 6.

WHERE DO YOU SEE THIS GOING? AND I GUESS MY AFTER THAT QUESTION, MY QUESTION FOR LEGAL IS DO WE HAVE ANY PROTECTIONS FOR THAT? NO. AS OF RIGHT NOW, BECAUSE WE DON'T HAVE AN ORDINANCE IN PLACE.

THAT'S RIGHT. THIS IS A SITE PLAN.

AND THE STAFF REPORT SAYS IT COMPLIES WITH THE ZONING.

SO IT'S A MINISTERIAL ACTION.

I MEAN, OF COURSE, THE QUESTIONS ARE HELPFUL AND INFORMATIVE, BUT NOT REALLY.

YES. SO HAVING ANY DISCRETION.

DISCRETION. YEAH, THAT'S WHAT I FIGURED.

AND THIS GOES TO IT.

SO IF YOU MAY.

SO I'VE GOT TWO THINGS ON THAT.

NUMBER ONE I WAS GOING TO SAY TYPICALLY FAA IS GOING TO REGULATE AIRSPACE FOR US.

NUMBER TWO WALMART'S VERY KEEN TO CUSTOMER FEEDBACK AND ADAPTING BASED OFF THE FEEDBACK THAT WE RECEIVE.

COULD IT EXTEND.

I THINK THAT'S A POSSIBILITY.

I DON'T THINK IT WOULD BE TO THE POINT THAT WE WOULD GET NEGATIVE FEEDBACK, AND WE WOULDN'T RESPOND TO THAT AND ADJUST OUR BUSINESS OPERATIONS.

OKAY. ALL RIGHT.

THAT'S, ONE OF MY MAIN, MAIN CONCERNS IS AS LONG AS YOU'RE WILLING TO BE A GOOD PARTNER WITHIN THE CITY AND RESIDENTS AND ALL THAT BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT I WANTED. THINGS I WANT TO TRY TO AVOID AND CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG, BUT IF WE WERE TO PASS AN ORDINANCE DEALING WITH ZONE DELIVERY, DRONE DELIVERY, RATHER, YOU COULDN'T RETROACTIVELY GO BACK AND TALK ABOUT THE HOURS OF OPERATION.

IT WOULD RENDER IT LEGALLY NONCONFORMING.

THAT'S RIGHT. AND AS THE SPEAKER SAID, ANYTHING INVOLVING THE OPERATIONS IN THE AIR OF THESE DEVICES WERE COMPLETELY PREEMPTED FROM.

SO IT WOULD JUST BE THE ACTIVITIES AT WALMART, BUT THEY WOULD BE LEGALLY NONCONFORMING.

GOTCHA. ALL RIGHT. COUNCILMEMBER PARKER.

WELL, MR. MAYOR, I DON'T MEAN TO DISAGREE WITH YOU, BUT WE DON'T REGULATE AMAZON RIGHT NOW.

AND IT'S THE SAME THING, THEIR DELIVERY.

AND THEY'LL PROBABLY BE LOUDER THAN THIS DELIVERING AT ALL TIMES OF THE HOUR.

SO, I MEAN, WE CAN'T REGULATE THAT.

I DON'T THINK WE CAN REGULATE THIS.

AND THAT'S WHY I POSED THE QUESTION SO THAT IT'S OUT THERE, IT'S ON RECORD.

AND THE FACT THAT THAT TO MAKE SURE THAT WHAT WE CAN AND CANNOT DO.

THAT'S THE MAIN CONCERN.

SO THAT WAY WHEN A RESIDENT COMES AND TALKS TO ME AND WE INITIALLY GET THAT EMAIL, WHICH WE'RE PROBABLY GOING TO GET, I WANT TO BE ABLE TO HAVE AN ANSWER FOR THEM.

SO ABSOLUTELY.

AND LIKE I SAID, WE WANT TO BE A GOOD PARTNER.

SO FEEDBACK WE TAKE IT ALL THE TIME.

AND WE'D BE MORE THAN WILLING TO HELP.

HAPPY TO TAKE THAT FEEDBACK.

OKAY. THANK YOU.

AND TYLER I KNOW YOU. OH GO AHEAD.

YEAH I WAS JUST GOING TO ADD ONE THING.

AND SO AND WE DO PUBLISH AN EMAIL DFWFLY@ZIPLINE.COM.

IF FOLKS DO HAVE QUESTIONS COMMENTS CONCERNS THEY CAN WORK WITH US.

WE ALSO WORK WITH CITIES.

I CAN SAY IN LIKE TWO AND A HALF YEARS OF OPERATIONS IN UTAH THAT I LED.

WE NEVER HAD A SINGLE COMPLAINT, BUT WE DO WORK VERY CLOSELY WITH CITIES THAT IF PEOPLE DO GO TO THE CITY, THE CITY HAS LIKE AN OPEN LINE OF COMMUNICATION TO US.

THAT WAY WE CAN TALK ABOUT WHAT RESOLUTIONS MIGHT EXIST.

WE JUST HAVE TO KNOW ABOUT IT TO BE ABLE TO DO SOMETHING, TO DO SOMETHING.

OKAY, WELL, THAT'S GOOD TO HEAR. THAT'S GOOD TO HEAR.

THANK YOU. COUNCIL MEMBER DONOVAN BRANDON.

THAT WAS GOING TO BE ONE OF MY QUESTIONS, BUT I WAS LOOKING.

YOU'VE BEEN PEA RIDGE.

WHAT? I DON'T KNOW, PEA RIDGE.

WHAT? IT'S JUST OUTSIDE OF BENTONVILLE.

OH, IT WOULD BE LIKE SAYING DALLAS AND THEN BEDFORD.

OKAY, BUT EVERYBODY KNOWS BEDFORD.

OF COURSE. THANK YOU.

BECAUSE WE ARE AT THE CENTER.

IN SALT LAKE CITY SINCE 2022, HAVE YOU SEEN AN INCREASE IN USE? I MEAN, OF COURSE, FROM DAY ONE YOU HAVE.

BUT IN THE FEW YEARS THAT THEY'VE BEEN IN OPERATION, WHAT'S THE USAGE BEEN? YEAH, WE'VE SEEN AN INCREASE IN USE ACROSS ALL OF OUR SITES.

SOME OF THAT IS TIED TO REGULATORY APPROVALS WITH THE FAA ALLOWING US TO DO MORE OR SERVE MORE, MORE CUSTOMERS AS WELL AS LIKE GENERAL AWARENESS ACROSS CUSTOMERS AND MORE PARTNERS.

SO SHORT ANSWER IS YES, BUT IT'S A COMBINATION OF THINGS THAT HAVE LED TO IT.

IS THERE AN INCREASED COST FOR THIS? IS IT LIKE FOR THE CONSUMER, LIKE WHAT THE CONSUMER IS PAYING FOR A SUBSCRIPTION THAT LIKE YOU COULD HAVE FOR AMAZON OR SOMETHING.

GREAT QUESTION. SO I'LL TALK FROM THE ZIPLINE SIDE AND THEN I'LL BRING WALMART UP AND ZIPLINE.

WE ARE LIKE THE DELIVERY PARTNER.

WE WORK WITH OUR PARTNERS.

AND THEN ULTIMATELY OUR PARTNER GETS TO DECIDE LIKE HOW THEY RUN THEIR BUSINESS.

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SO ON THE PRICE ON THE QUESTION ON PRICE.

SO TODAY WE ARE HAVE A PRICE STRUCTURE THAT IS 19.99 PER DELIVERY.

IT WOULD BE 12.99 IF YOU'RE A WALMART PLUS SUBSCRIPTION SUBSCRIBER.

AND WE ARE CONSTANTLY EVALUATING MARKET FEEDBACK RIGHT NOW, THOSE PRICES ARE IN LINE WITH THE CURRENT MARKET OFFERINGS THAT WE HAVE, NOT JUST WALMART, BUT ALSO DELIVERY SERVICE PROVIDERS.

BUT I WOULD SAY THAT WALMART HAS A STORIED HISTORY AND BEING ABLE TO SCALE AND DRIVE COSTS DOWN.

WE'VE ALREADY CRUNCHED A FEW NUMBERS AND WE ALREADY SEE OPPORTUNITY THERE TO BRING THAT PRICE DOWN AS WELL.

SO BECAUSE OF THE PRICE, PROBABLY MOST OF THEM ARE EMERGENCY TYPE DELIVERIES FOR THEY ARE LIKE TYLENOL OR SOMETHING.

THEY ARE OKAY. THANK YOU.

YEP. ALL RIGHT.

I JUST WANT TO THANK YOU ALL AND LET US KNOW IF YOU HAVE ANYTHING ELSE.

ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU SO MUCH.

YEAH. I WANT TO THANK THE PUBLIC AND THANK YOU ALL FOR ANSWERING OUR QUESTIONS.

THOSE IN THE AUDIENCE, THIS IS SOMETHING VERY NEW.

SO WHEN SOMETHING NEW COMES ACROSS THIS, WE WANT TO MAKE SURE WE'RE VERY THOROUGH IN OUR QUESTIONING.

SO I WANT TO THANK COUNCIL FOR YOUR QUESTIONS AND THOSE OF YOU IN APPLICANT FOR ANSWERING.

SO WITH THAT BEING SAID, I WILL ENTERTAIN WHAT COUNCIL'S PLEASURE IS ON THIS ITEM.

MOTION TO APPROVE. I HAVE A MOTION TO APPROVE BY COUNCIL MEMBER FARCO.

I HAVE A SECOND BY COUNCIL MEMBER SABOL.

LET'S GO AHEAD AND VOTE.

ALL RIGHT. AND THAT PASSES UNANIMOUSLY.

THANK YOU, COUNCIL. THANK YOU, STAFF.

THANK YOU AND WELCOME.

DON'T WAKE MY SON UP.

OKAY. ALL RIGHT, ALL RIGHT.

THANK YOU GUYS. THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH.

ALL RIGHT. ALL RIGHT.

NEXT UP NUMBER NINE CONSIDER A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER OR HER DESIGNEE TO ENTER INTO A PROFESSIONAL SERVICE AGREEMENT WITH WESTWOOD PROFESSIONAL

[9. Consider a resolution authorizing the City Manager or her designee to enter into a professional services agreement with Westwood Professional Services, Inc. (Westwood) in the amount of $98,200 for the Bedford Road Beautification Conceptual Design.]

GIVE YOU CITY ENGINEER JOE SCHWEITZER.

HOW ARE YOU DOING? GOOD EVENING.

GOOD EVENING. SO WE HAVE A IN FRONT OF YOU.

TODAY IS THE PROFESSIONAL SERVICES AGREEMENT FOR CONCEPTUAL ENGINEERING RELATED TO BEAUTIFICATION ON ALONG BEDFORD ROAD BETWEEN WOODSON AND THE EAST EDGE OF THE CITY.

TO EXPLAIN WHAT YOU SEE IN FRONT OF YOU WHAT WAS IN THE PACKET? PURPLE ARE THE SCHOOL'S, BLUE, OUR CITY FACILITIES THAT REGULARLY HOST PUBLIC PROGRAMS AND GREEN ARE THE PARKS AND TRAILS.

SO TYPICALLY, AREAS YOU WOULD SEE PEDESTRIAN TRAFFIC PEOPLE TRYING TO WALK SOMEWHERE, BIKE SOMEWHERE, THOSE KIND OF THINGS.

THIS PROJECT IS THE INITIAL PHASES OF THIS PROJECT IS LOOKING AT THE POTENTIAL TO REDUCE THE RELATIVELY UNUSED WIDTH OF BEDFORD ROAD AND BEAUTIFY THAT CORRIDOR WITH PEDESTRIAN AND BICYCLE AMENITIES, IF YOU WILL.

IT WOULD THE TARGET OF THE PROJECT IS TO NOT ONLY BEAUTIFY, BUT ALSO APPLIED THE NEW COMPREHENSIVE PLAN YOU APPROVED JUST THIS PAST FALL.

ADJUST THE BICYCLE AND PEDESTRIAN AND THE OVERALL TRAIL NETWORK WOULD TIE THE COMMUNITIES TO THE EAST OF 121 AND SPARGER PARK INTO THE LARGER PICTURE TRAIL NETWORK.

THE TIMING OF THE REQUEST AND SUCH IS TARGETING A COUPLE OF FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES COMING IN THE NEAR MONTHS FROM BOTH THE NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS COUNCIL OF GOVERNMENTS NCTCOG AND TXDOT.

NCTCOG CURRENTLY HAS ONE OPEN, AND TXDOT WILL BE OPENING A CALL FOR PROJECTS FOR FUNDING BETWEEN 3 AND $10 MILLION FOR PEDESTRIAN AND MULTI-USE NON-VEHICLE RELATED PROJECTS.

ARE THERE MATCHING ELEMENTS TO THIS? YES. THIS WOULD BE AN 80 OVER 20 MATCH.

GOTCHA. FOR CONSTRUCTION.

FOR CONSTRUCTION. GOT IT.

AND SO, MY MEAN, THIS IS OUR FIRST.

BASICALLY, WE APPROVED OUR COMPREHENSIVE PLAN IN SEPTEMBER, AND IT CALLED FOR TAKING A LOOK AT OUR ROADS AND ALSO IDENTIFYING ROADS THAT WERE OVERBUILT. YOU KNOW, BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, AS WE WERE GROWING COMMUNITY, WE EXPECTED GROWTH.

[02:25:06]

SO WE HAVE THIS, THIS PARTICULAR SPOT WHERE WE'RE OVERBUILT.

AND WHAT DOES THAT MEAN? THAT MEANS MORE SPEEDING IN THAT AREA.

BECAUSE WE HAVE SO MUCH SPACE IN IT.

AND SO THE REASON WHY THIS WAS CHOSEN, CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG, IS BECAUSE OF ITS LOCATION, BECAUSE OF ITS ABILITY TO TIE INTO OUR PARK OVER THERE.

CORRECT. AND I AND OUR TRAIL SYSTEM.

YES, YES, IT WOULD TIE IN AT THE WEST END TO THE EXISTING WALKWAY AND SIDEWALK ALONG WOODSON AND TIED CLOSELY INTO THE STORMY JONES PARK ON THE ON THE EAST SIDE.

PROVIDE BETTER FACILITIES TO THOSE NEIGHBORHOODS AND ALSO POTENTIALLY CONNECT TO THE HIGH SCHOOL INTO EULESS, JUST ACROSS THE STREET.

GOTCHA. THAT BEING SAID, SO THE ENTIRE SCOPE OF THIS, THIS IS STEP ONE, OBVIOUSLY, IS TO CREATE CONCEPTUAL DESIGN.

SO WHAT ARE THEY LOOKING FOR IN THIS CONCEPTUAL DESIGN? SO CONCEPTUAL DESIGN IS WOULD BE OPTIONS.

WE'RE GOING TO LOOK AT, AT OPTIONS OF CAN WE BECAUSE PART OF THE PART OF THE WHOLE THING IS DUE TO THE WIDTH OF BEDFORD ROAD IN THIS AREA, WE HAVE SOME PEDESTRIAN CROSSWALK CHALLENGES.

CORRECT. SO THE GOAL HERE AND ONE OF THE MANY FACETS AND WHAT WE'RE LOOKING AT IS HOW TO INCREASE VISIBILITY AROUND THE CURVES.

PROVIDE FOR GREATER PEDESTRIAN SAFETY.

AND ACCESSIBILITY? YEAH. REDUCE SPEED.

YEAH. HOPEFULLY.

HOPEFULLY REDUCE SPEEDS.

ALONG THE COURT ALONG THE CORRIDOR.

WE'RE ALSO LOOKING FOR WHAT MIX OF LANDSCAPING WOULD, WOULD HELP TO IMPROVE THE, THE USABILITY.

BECAUSE MOST MUCH OF THE, THE NORTH SIDE ON THE SIDEWALK IS BEDFORD ROAD IN THIS SECTION DOES HAVE FIVE FOOT SIDEWALKS ON BOTH SIDES, BUT A GOOD PORTION OF THE SIDEWALK ON THE NORTH SIDE IS CURB AND GUTTER, SIDEWALK AND CONCRETE RETAINING WALL.

NOT THE GREATEST PLACE TO WANT TO WALK IN ANY KIND OF A WARM MONTH.

YES. CORRECT. OKAY.

WE ALSO TAKE A LOOK AT INTERSECTIONS SUCH AS.

THE FIRST ONE THAT COMES TO MIND IS BECAUSE I GET A LOT OF COMPLAINTS FROM DURANGO RIDGE DEPARTMENTS ABOUT THE THREE WAY STOP THERE ON BEDFORD ROAD AND THE ACCESS ROAD. THEY SAY IT'S KIND OF DANGEROUS.

WILL THEY LOOK AT THAT INTERSECTION AS WELL? YES. THE OVERALL TRAFFIC PATTERNS AND SUCH.

WE DID HAVE SOME IN PREVIOUS EVALUATIONS OF CROSSWALK OPTIONS.

WE HAD SOME VERY BASIC EVALUATIONS OF TRAFFIC PATTERNS AND WHATNOT.

AND WE BELIEVE THOSE SUPPORT THE REDUCTION IN LANES.

WE'RE GOING TO GO THROUGH AND, AND MAKE SURE THAT WE HAVE ALL OF THE ENGINEERING IN PLACE TO REDUCE THAT.

GOTCHA. WHAT'S THE TIMELINE ON THIS? SO THIS PROJECT IS THE DUE TO THE FUNDING APPLICATION DEADLINES.

WE WOULD HOPE TO ACTUALLY BE BACK TO YOUR NEXT MEETING WITH ASKING FOR YOUR SUPPORT OF A PROJECT PRIOR TO THE FIRST OF THOSE APPLICATION DEADLINES BEING LATER THAT WEEK IN JANUARY.

OH, WOW. SO IT'S SO, SO THIS IS A FAIRLY AGGRESSIVE, FAIRLY AGGRESSIVE.

BUT TXDOT'S CALL FOR PROJECTS IS ACTUALLY LATER.

SO IT'S ONLY THE FIRST OF SEVERAL DEADLINES.

OKAY. ALL RIGHT. GOTCHA.

COUNCIL MEMBER SABOL.

SO WE DO THIS CONCEPTUAL DRAWING FOR 98,000, AND THEN WE ARE APPROVED OR NOT APPROVED BY TXDOT OR COG, BASICALLY.

SO, WE MAY WIN OR LOSE ON THIS.

WE COULD DO ALL THE CONCEPTUAL DESIGN AND NOT GET THE FUNDING FOR THE IMPROVEMENT.

IS THAT CORRECT? CORRECT.

AND THAT'S WHY WE DID THIS AS A PHASED PROFESSIONAL SERVICES AGREEMENT.

WE DO NEED THIS WORK TO BE ABLE TO TURN IN THOSE APPLICATIONS AND KNOW THE BIGGER PICTURE.

HOW MUCH IS THIS REALLY GOING TO COST? I MENTIONED THE CALL FOR PROJECTS ARE BETWEEN 3 AND 10 MILLION FOR CONSTRUCTION.

WE'RE NOT GOING TO GO INTO A FULL ENGINEERING PACKAGE FOR, SAY, 10% OF THOSE COSTS BEFORE WE KNOW THAT WE HAVE MONEY COMING TO US.

OKAY. AND APPROXIMATELY HOW MANY OTHER CITIES ARE WE UP AGAINST? DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA? WE DON'T KNOW ANY INFORMATION ABOUT HOW MANY ARE APPLYING.

EVERY CITY CAN TURN IN AS MANY APPLICATIONS FOR VARIOUS PROJECTS AS THEY WANT, BUT EACH CITY WILL ONLY BE ALLOWED ONE.

THEY'LL WIN ONE. CORRECT.

AND TYPICALLY THIS IS A GOOD SIZE FOR THEM TO ACCEPT.

I WOULD YES.

THIS IS THIS IS IT'S IDEAL.

[02:30:02]

THANK YOU. SO WITH THIS ONE, EVEN IF EVEN IF WE WERE TO, WORST CASE SCENARIO, NOT GET THESE, WE STILL HAVE THE CONCEPTUAL DESIGN OF THE ROAD.

WE COULD APPLY IT TO FUTURE GRANTS THAT COME AVAILABLE.

CORRECT. OKAY. YEAH.

NOTHING'S GOING TO EXPIRE IN THE CONCEPTUAL DESIGN.

WE MAY COME BACK WITH A COUPLE OF OPTIONS THAT COUNCIL MAY LIKE, A LESSER OPTION THAT DOESN'T REQUIRE OR DOESN'T FIT THE COG OR TXDOT REQUIREMENTS. GOTCHA.

SO THERE'S NO WASTED EFFORT HERE.

CORRECT. OR WASTED FUNDS? IT'S SOMETHING THAT NEEDS TO BE DONE AND GOING FORWARD.

OKAY. OKAY.

COUNCIL QUESTIONS? COUNCIL MEMBER STEVES.

AND THEN I'LL GO ON TO COUNCIL MEMBER FARCO.

JUST A QUICK QUESTION.

WITH THIS PREVIOUSLY WENT BEFORE 4B OR DOES IT NEED TO GO BEFORE 4B? NO, NO, THIS IS NOT THE FUNDS.

I WAS JUST WONDERING, BECAUSE THE FUNDS ARE COMING OUT OF THE 4B.

RIGHT. SO I DON'T KNOW WHERE THE FUNDS ARE COMING FROM.

I'LL LET KAREN JUMP UP AND SPEAK TO THAT.

BUT YEAH, IT IS 4B FUNDS.

I'M SHORTER THAN JOE.

IT'S. WE'RE HOPING THAT IT CAN JUST BE ABSORBED WITHIN THE EXISTING FOUR B BUDGET AND NOT A SEPARATE PROJECT.

IN THE EVENT, AS WE MONITOR THE FOUR B BUDGET, IF WE LOOK AT WHERE WE ARE SIX MONTHS FROM NOW AND WE'RE GOING TO HAVE TO DO A BUDGET AMENDMENT, THAT'S WHEN WE WOULD GO BACK TO FOUR B AND GO. WE WEREN'T ABLE TO ABSORB THIS WITHIN THE EXISTING OPERATING BUDGET THAT WE HAD ALREADY SET ASIDE.

OKAY. THANK YOU. YOU'RE WELCOME.

COUNCILMEMBER FARCO.

YES. AND THANK YOU, BECAUSE THAT WAS MY QUESTION.

IF WE WERE USING FOUR B, THE NEXT THING WAS, IS THAT THIS IS THE SAME TYPE OF GRANT THAT COLLEYVILLE APPLIED FOR CHEEK SPARGER, IF I'M NOT MISTAKEN, BECAUSE THEY WENT THROUGH COVID AND WELL, THE I BELIEVE THE CHEEK SPARGER PROJECT YOU REFERENCED WAS THE TARRANT COUNTY TARRANT COUNTY BOND PROJECT.

AND THAT WAS ALL TYPES OF TRANSPORTATION, NOT SPECIFICALLY FOR NON VEHICLE TRANSPORTATION ALTERNATIVES.

OKAY. SO BUT I MEAN THIS IS THE PERFECT PROJECT THAT COG IS LOOKING FOR TO DO.

AND YEAH WE BELIEVE IT MEETS A NUMBER OF THEIR CRITERIA.

BUT I ALSO LIKE THE FACT THAT, LIKE YOU SAID, THAT THIS HAS BEEN A BIG BONE OF CONTENTION OF THE SPEEDS AROUND THAT CORNER AND COMING DOWN THERE BECAUSE YOU IT'S A MIXED YOU HAVE RESIDENTIAL, HIGH COMMERCIAL AND STUFF LIKE THAT.

SO I KNOW THAT WE HAD SEVERAL PEOPLE TALK TO US ABOUT PUTTING A CROSSWALK AT THE CURVE TO GO TO STORMY JOHN'S PARK.

SO, I MEAN, I MR. MAYOR, I THINK THIS IS SOMETHING THAT WE REALLY NEED TO DO IN THE FUTURE ANYWAY.

SO I WOULD BE FOR IT.

I AGREE, WE, I TALKED TO ONE SPECIFIC GENTLEMAN, THIS IS HIS PET PROJECT ABOUT CREATING SAFETY FOR THIS ROAD.

AND SO THIS IS A BIG DEAL.

BUT MOREOVER, LOOKING AT THIS BIGGER PICTURE, THIS IS OUR FIRST WAY, YOU KNOW, METHOD OF IMPLEMENTING OUR COMPREHENSIVE PLAN.

THIS IS THE FIRST GO AHEAD AT IT.

AND WE KNOW THAT THIS ONE IS IDENTIFIED.

AND IT'D BE THE BIGGEST IMPACT THAT WE COULD HAVE ON OUR RESIDENTS AND EVEN STILL, BY MAXIMIZING BICYCLE LANES, BY MAXIMIZING SIDEWALKS, MAYBE EVEN GETTING RID OF A LANE, THE MIDDLE LANE THERE TO REDUCE TRAFFIC FLOW.

WHAT DOES THAT DO FOR THE FUTURE? WHAT PEOPLE DON'T UNDERSTAND IS THAT IN THE FUTURE, WHEN THIS ROAD NEEDS TO BE REDONE, REBUILT, IT'S ACTUALLY GOING TO BE AT A CHEAPER COST.

BECAUSE WHAT HAPPENED? THE ROAD IS NOW SMALLER THAN WHAT IT WAS PREVIOUSLY.

AND SO BECAUSE IT'S ACTUALLY BUILT TO FIT WHAT IT'S THE TRAFFIC PATTERNS ARE THERE FOR.

SO IT ACTUALLY, IN THE LONG RUN ACTUALLY SAVES THE CITY MONEY THAN CONTINUING TO BUILD AN OVERBUILT ROAD WITH MORE CONCRETE AND MORE ASPHALT.

YEAH. YEAH. OKAY.

COUNCIL, ANY OTHER ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS? ALL RIGHT. I WILL ENTERTAIN A MOTION ON THIS ITEM.

OH, I HAVE A MOTION TO.

I VERBALLY HEARD A MOTION TO APPROVE BY COUNCIL MEMBER STEVES.

DO I HAVE A SECOND? SECOND BY COUNCILMEMBER DONOVAN BRANDON LET'S GO AND VOTE.

ALL RIGHT. THAT PASSES UNANIMOUSLY.

THANK YOU, COUNCIL. THANK YOU.

STAFF. ALL RIGHT.

MOVING RIGHT ALONG.

ITEM NUMBER TEN.

[10. Consider a resolution authorizing the City Manager or her designee to enter into a contract with Southwest/Medic Built Ambulance, LLC for the purchase of one ambulance modular remount on a 2025 Ford F550 chassis and one Stryker Power Pro Stretcher in the amount of $327,929.79.]

[02:35:04]

WE GOT A LITTLE COUGH GOING HERE.

SO WE ARE COMING TO NOT JUST FOR APPROVAL TO MOVE FORWARD WITH THIS PROJECT.

IT WAS APPROVED IN THE BUDGET.

THIS COMPANY DID OUR LAST AMBULANCE REMOUNT.

VERY HAPPY WITH IT THUS FAR.

THEY FEATURED IN THE TEXAS EMS CONFERENCE.

SO WE'RE CONFIDENT IN THEIR ABILITIES AND LIKE WHAT WE HAVE SEEN.

SO WE'D LIKE TO MOVE FORWARD WITH THAT.

I'D LIKE TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS, BUT THAT'S THE CRUX OF IT.

SO THAT'S KIND OF THE NUTS AND BOLTS OF IT RIGHT THERE.

SO. WELL FIRST OFF, YOU KNOW OBVIOUSLY WE HAVEN'T WE'VE DONE THIS IN THE PAST.

YES, SIR. AND WE HAD SUCCESS FOR IT.

AND COULD YOU ENLIGHTEN US JUST FOR THE PUBLIC WHO HAVEN'T BEEN WITH US THROUGH THIS JOURNEY, WHY WE'RE CHOOSING TO DO THIS INSTEAD OF PURCHASING A NEW ONE.

WELL, OKAY. SO PURCHASING A NEW AMBULANCE RIGHT NOW WE ARE NOW BEING TOLD 24 TO 35 MONTHS, WHICH IS AN IMPROVEMENT.

SO LAST YEAR WE WERE BEING TOLD 35 MONTHS.

HOPEFULLY I'M GETTING ONE.

SO THAT'S KIND OF A, YOU KNOW.

YES. A LOT OF PLACES CAN'T SUSTAIN THAT, YOU KNOW, WITHOUT DOING THIS.

THE OTHER REASON, YOU KNOW, THERE'S SOME ADDITIONAL COST SAVINGS THERE.

YOU KNOW, OUR LAST REMOUNT WAS A LITTLE LESS THAN THIS NEW AMBULANCE IS RUNNING BETWEEN 450 AND $500,000.

WE'RE SAVING A LITTLE BIT OF MONEY.

I MEAN, WE WOULD LOVE TO COME IN HERE AND SAY WE WANT TO BUY A NEW AMBULANCE AND Y'ALL SAY, OH, SURE, GO AHEAD.

BUT YOU KNOW, RIGHT NOW IN THE MARKET, I THINK IT'S WISE TO DO WHAT WE'RE DOING.

I DON'T THINK WE CAN WAIT.

I MEAN, PROBABLY NEXT YEAR WE MIGHT CAN SUPPORT THIS OR YEAR AFTER, BUT I THINK WE KEEP DOING WHAT WE'RE DOING FOR A COUPLE OF YEARS TO KIND OF LET THE MARKET STABILIZE AND, AND, YOU KNOW, AGAIN, MAKE KAREN HAPPY WITH A LITTLE BIT OF MONEY SAVINGS AND SAVING.

YEAH, ABSOLUTELY. BUT NO, WE'RE HAPPY.

LIKE I SAID WE WOULD WE'D LOVE TO COME EVERY YEAR AND SAY WE'D LIKE A NEW ONE.

BUT YOU KNOW AGAIN.

YES. YEAH.

IT'S JUST NOT IT'S NOT FEASIBLE. BUT BASICALLY WHAT THEY'RE GOING TO DO IF PEOPLE THAT DON'T KNOW THE OLD CHASSIS GETS TRADED IN THE BOX IS COMPLETELY REFURBISHED.

YOU SHOULD SEE THE ONE THEY JUST DID.

I MEAN, IT LOOKS LIKE A BRAND NEW AMBULANCE INSIDE, SO NEW STANDARDS ARE PUT IN THERE.

I MEAN, IT'S ALWAYS GOING TO BE A THIS ONE IS A 2007.

IT'S ALWAYS GOING TO BE A 2017, BUT IT LOOKS NEW, CHANGED SOME THINGS OUT, OPERATES NEW.

SO, THIS IS A WAY OF JUST REFRESHING OUR.

PRETTY MUCH. YES, SIR. YOU KNOW OUR APPARATUSES AND MAKING THEM NEW BASICALLY.

YES, SIR. AND SAVING SOME COST IN THE PROCESS.

SO MY QUESTION IS HOW MANY HAVE WE REMOUNTED AND WHAT'S THE FUTURE LOOK LIKE FOR THIS.

SO WE'VE REMOUNTED TO THUS FAR.

SO THE AMBULANCE THAT WE DID LAST YEAR.

OKAY. IT WAS A 2009 MODEL AMBULANCE BOX.

OKAY. HAD ALREADY BEEN REMOUNTED ONCE.

WE CHOSE TO COME TO REMOUNT LAST YEAR FOR THAT REASON BECAUSE WE HAD A FIRE TRUCK GET TOTALED ON THE FREEWAY.

YES. YOU KNOW, WE KNEW THERE'S BIG EXPENSES THERE, SO WE WANTED TO DO THAT.

THIS AMBULANCE HAS NEVER BEEN REMOUNTED.

IT'S A GOOD ONE TO DO.

RIGHT NOW, THE AMBULANCE STATION IS STATION THREE.

MEDIC 153. IT WAS REMOUNTED.

WE GOT IT THE YEAR I MOVED INTO THE OFFICE, 2022.

WE GOT IT BACK. SO WE'VE GOT TWO THAT HAVE BEEN REMOUNTED.

WE'VE GOT TWO NEW AMBULANCES.

OH, I SAY NEW? WE'VE GOT TWO NEW AMBULANCES, BUT THE TWO CURRENT REMOUNTS IS ALL WE HAVE.

SO. AND THEN WITH THIS ONE.

SO WITH THIS ONE, THIS MEANS OUR WHOLE APPARATUSES ARE THE EXCEPTION OF ONE.

THEY'LL ALL BE YEAH, PRETTY MUCH REMOUNTED.

SO REMOUNTED, NEW.

AND SO WE REALLY SHOULDN'T HAVE TO INCUR ANY ADDITIONAL COSTS FOR AN APPARATUS.

RIGHT? I MEAN, YOU KNOW, AS YESTERDAY, I PUT SOME INFORMATION OUT TO ANDREA AND YOU PRETTY MUCH BANK EVERY YEAR, OUR CALL VOLUME.

YEAH, WE ARE VERY BUSY.

EMS ARE PART OF THE FIRE DEPARTMENT, SO PRETTY MUCH EVERY YEAR WE ARE PROBABLY GOING TO BE COMING SAYING, HEY, WE NEED TO DO SOMETHING WITH A, WITH A MEDIC UNIT BECAUSE LIKE I SAID, THIS MEDIC UNIT IS SEVEN YEARS OLD.

LIKE, THE ODOMETER I THINK READS 105,000 MILES, BUT THE ENGINE HOURS ARE 10,400, WHICH IS EQUIVALENT TO 500,000 MILES.

GOTCHA. SO QUITE SUBSTANTIAL.

OKAY. ALL RIGHT.

THANK YOU FOR THAT. YEAH.

LIKE I SAID, WE'RE EXCITED TO GET ANYTHING WE CAN GET.

IT'S GREAT.

WELL, WELL, I THINK I THINK MORE MOREOVER, IT'S A GOOD WAY OF USING TAXPAYER MONEY AND FUNDS TO MAKE TO MAKE THE BEST DECISIONS, TO BE EFFICIENT, TO MAKE SURE WE'RE NOT WAITING YEARS FOR AN AMBULANCE.

AND THEN AND THEN ALSO MAKING SURE THAT OUR ENTIRE APPARATUS FLEET IS, IS UP TO DATE.

SO IT'S A SMART DECISION.

YEAH. SO WE LIKE IT.

YOU KNOW, AGAIN, I'D LOVE TO COME OVER HERE AND SAY, CAN WE GET A NEW ONE? BUT, YOU KNOW. YEAH, I THINK YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE TO TALK TO KAREN ABOUT THAT ONE.

ALL RIGHT. ALL RIGHT.

COUNCIL. I'LL ENTERTAIN A MOTION ON THIS ITEM, UNLESS YOU HAVE QUESTIONS.

ALL RIGHT. I HAVE A MOTION FROM COUNCIL MEMBER SABOL AND A SECOND FROM COUNCIL MEMBER MARCO.

[02:40:04]

AND THAT PASSES UNANIMOUSLY.

THANK YOU. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. APPRECIATE IT.

APPRECIATE IT. HAVE A GOOD EVENING.

YEP. YOU TOO.

WELL, I'M HAVING A NEW GRANDBABY RIGHT NOW, SO.

OH, THERE YOU GO. CONGRATULATIONS.

ANOTHER ONE. THERE WE GO.

GOOD JOB. ALL RIGHT, NEXT UP WE HAVE LET'S SEE HERE.

[11. Consider a resolution authorizing the City Manager or her designee to execute a contract with HCI Commercial LLC for the renovation of Fire Station 3 located at 541 Bedford Road for an amount not to exceed of $435,500 and approve a total budget for the project in the amount of $708,784.]

CONSIDER RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING CITY MANAGER OR DESIGNEE TO EXECUTE.

EXECUTE A CONTRACT WITH HCI COMMERCIAL, LLC FOR THE RENOVATION OF FIRE STATION THREE LOCATED AT 541 BEDFORD ROAD, FOR THE AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $435,500, AND APPROVE A TOTAL BUDGET FOR THE PROJECT IN THE AMOUNT OF 708,784.

I GIVE YOU DEPUTY FIRE CHIEF JODY LANKFORD.

WELCOME BACK. HELLO, MAYOR AND COUNCIL AGAIN.

THIS IS JUST TO GET THE CONTRACT SIGNED AND TAKEN CARE OF WITH THE COMPANY THAT'S GONE THROUGH THE BIDDING PROCESS.

THERE ARE EIGHT COMPANIES THAT WENT THROUGH.

THEY WERE GRADED AND HCI IS THE ONE THAT CAME OUT ON TOP AND THE ONE WE RECOMMEND.

SO I MEAN, YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW, ALL OF IT.

SO WHAT CAN I DO TO ANSWER.

WHAT? SO JUST FOR THE PUBLIC'S KNOWLEDGE, WHAT IS BEING DONE ON THE IN THAT STATION, THEY'RE GOING TO DO AN INTERIOR FACELIFT.

IT'S 24 YEARS OLD.

IT WAS BUILT IN 2000.

AND THAT'S OUR NEWEST STATION.

THAT'S THE NEWEST STATION.

AND I'VE BEEN TOLD IN PREVIOUS THAT IT IS IT WAS VALUED, ENGINEERED AT THE TIME THAT IT WAS BUILT.

YES, THAT IS CORRECT.

AND WE'RE GOING BACK AND GO BACK AND TRY AND FIX IT.

I DON'T THINK RIGHT NOW I THINK THE PLANS LONG TERM ARE TO REPLACE IT COMPLETELY, BUT THIS IS SOMETHING TO GET US THROUGH THE NEXT 5 TO 7 YEARS.

KIND OF A STOPGAP MEASURE.

GOTCHA. AND THE TIMES HAVE CHANGED.

THOSE WERE DORM STYLE BUNK ROOMS. NOW IT GOES TO INDIVIDUAL BUNK ROOMS. IT'S INCREASING THE RESTROOM FACILITIES, SHOWER FACILITIES, GETTING A NEW KITCHEN.

THE AMENITIES OF A NEWER LOCATION.

GOTCHA. VERY GOOD.

AND LIKE I SAID, I THINK CORRECTING, CORRECTING MISTAKES THAT WERE MADE.

RIGHT. AND, I MEAN, IF WE IF WE WERE PERFECT AND WE HAD A LOOKING GLASS, WE COULD LOOK AND SEE WHAT IT'S GOING TO BE LIKE, BUT WE NEVER KNOW.

AND THINGS DO CHANGE SO OFTEN.

ABSOLUTELY. ABSOLUTELY.

SO THAT'S DEFINITELY DOES NEED A FACELIFT.

SO WHAT'S THE TIMELINE ON THIS? THEY ARE READY TO START.

TIMELINE. YES.

CONSTRUCTION RIGHT AFTER THE FIRST OF THE YEAR SINCE.

AND YOU WANT TO YOU WANT TO COME TO THE MIC GARY.

SORRY. SORRY.

IT'S A BIG MIC, BUT I DON'T THINK IT REACHES BACK THAT FAR.

THEY SHOULD START CONSTRUCTION RIGHT AFTER THE FIRST OF THE YEAR.

THAT'S THE STATION THEY'RE HAVING TO DO MOLD REMEDIATION IN.

SO THAT'S GOING TO START ON MONDAY.

MY UNDERSTANDING IS TAKE ABOUT TWO WEEKS.

WE'LL BE RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF CHRISTMAS.

AND SO CONSTRUCTION WILL PROBABLY BEGIN SHORTLY AFTER THE FIRST, AND IT'S ABOUT AN 8485 DAY CONSTRUCTION TIME PERIOD.

OKAY. ALL RIGHT.

AND THAT'S FOR THE ENTIRE STATION, THEN? YES. OKAY. YES.

ALL RIGHT. GOOD. AND MY LAST QUESTION IS HOW WE FUNDING ALL THIS? I'M TRYING TO GET EVERYBODY INVOLVED IN.

SO THIS IS ONE OF THOSE PROJECTS THAT WAS FUNDED WITH THE DEBT ISSUANCE THAT WE MOST RECENTLY DID.

AND WHAT AT THE TIME, WE DID A LUMP SUM FOR BOTH STATION TWO AND THREE IN THE AMOUNT OF 4 MILLION, BECAUSE WE DIDN'T REALLY KNOW AT THAT POINT WHAT THE PROJECT COSTS WERE GOING TO BE. AND SO WHAT WE'VE ALLOCATED TO THIS PROJECT WAS 2 MILLION.

BUT THE BOND LANGUAGE IS ALSO GIVES US THE FLEXIBILITY SINCE OBVIOUSLY THESE BIDS CAME IN LESS THAN WHAT WE NEED, WE CAN MOVE THOSE FUNDS TO OTHER PROJECTS THAT MEET THAT BOND DEFINITION. FANTASTIC.

YES, IT'S GOOD NEWS.

YES. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU.

YOU'RE WELCOME. ALL RIGHT.

ALL RIGHT COUNCIL? YES. COUNCIL MEMBER STEVES.

I JUST HAVE A QUESTION. IS THE MOBILE HOME THAT WE PURCHASED.

IS THAT WORKING OUT OR HOW IS WHAT'S THE HOW YOU I SEE YOU SMILING SO THAT'S NOT THAT'S MY PROJECT.

SO UNFORTUNATELY YES, THAT IS MY PROJECT.

SO WE HAVE HAD SOME STRUGGLES WITH THE CONTRACTOR THAT WE HIRED FOR THAT MOBILE HOME.

WE DID FINALLY GET THE SKIRTING FINALIZED OVER THIS PAST WEEKEND.

THE STAIRWELL OR THE STEPS IN THE FRONT OF THE MOBILE HOME RIGHT NOW ARE A WOODEN STRUCTURE, WHICH IS WHAT WE'RE GOING TO LEAVE UNTIL WE GET THE FURNITURE MOVED IN.

AND THEN CHRIS'S TEAM HAS FOUND A MODULAR STEP WITH A HANDRAIL FOR MORE SAFETY, BECAUSE THAT WAS THE CONCERN WITH THE WOODEN STEPS THAT WERE INCLUDED WITH THE MOBILE HOME. BUT STAFF WILL BE MOVING INTO THAT FACILITY THURSDAY AND FRIDAY OF THIS WEEK.

AND THAT MODULE STAIRCASE WILL BE INSTALLED ON MONDAY.

OKAY. SO YOU THINK IT'S GOING TO SUIT THE NEEDS? IT'S A FIVE BEDROOM.

YEAH, IT'S A FIVE BEDROOM.

AND WHEN WE WALKED IT LAST RIGHT BEFORE THANKSGIVING IT'S PRETTY SPACIOUS IN THERE.

NOW GRANTED, IT WAS COMPLETELY EMPTY.

[02:45:02]

ALL RIGHT. GREAT. THANK YOU. THANK YOU.

YOU GOT IT. ALL RIGHT.

ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? ALL RIGHT.

I HAVE A MOTION TO APPROVE BY COUNCIL MEMBER SABOL.

DO I HAVE A SECOND? SECOND BY COUNCILMEMBER DAWKINS.

LET'S GO AHEAD AND VOTE. ALL RIGHT.

THAT MOTION IS PASSED.

THANK YOU. COUNCIL. THANK YOU. STAFF.

THANK YOU. HAVE A GOOD EVENING.

HAVE A GOOD EVENING. ALL RIGHT.

RIGHT ALONG.

[12. Consider a resolution of the City of Bedford, Texas approving the American Rescue Plan Act Appropriation Plan; and recognizing and appropriating expenditures within the Fiscal Year 2024 Coronavirus Local Fiscal Recovery Fund Budget for a variety of projects for an estimated total of $730,967.]

GIVE YOU ASSISTANT CITY MANAGER KAREN RIGGS.

YES, SIR. SO TONIGHT, THIS IS THE FINAL ITEM THAT WE HAVE BEEN TALKING ABOUT FOR MONTHS, THAT WE HAVE TO HAVE THESE FUNDS OBLIGATED BY THE END OF THIS CALENDAR YEAR.

SO THIS ITEM TONIGHT WILL DO THAT.

THIS ITEM IS GOING TO ALLOCATE THE REMAINING TRUE ARPA DOLLARS TOTALING.

LET ME GET TO THAT.

I DIDN'T SCROLL FAR ENOUGH TOTALING $322,353.42.

IT'S ALSO ALLOCATING THE PROJECT SAVINGS THAT WE HAVE TALKED ABOUT IN THE PAST, OF $268,962.29, THAT'S A LITTLE BIT HIGHER THAN WHAT I PRESENTED TO YOU LAST MONTH.

IF YOU'LL NOTICE, A LOT OF THE ITEMS WE BRING, YOU SAY WE'VE ROUNDED THEM UP BECAUSE WE DON'T WANT CENTS ON THE ITEM AND STUFF LIKE THAT.

SO THAT'S SOMETIMES WHERE THAT PROJECT SAVINGS COMES IN.

SO WE HAD SOME INVOICES THAT WERE PAID.

SO THERE WAS $5 ON THIS ONE OR YOU KNOW, SO THAT'S WHY IT'S A LITTLE DIFFERENT THAN WHAT I TOLD YOU IN NOVEMBER.

AND THEN THE INTEREST THAT WE'RE USING IS $139,651.29 AND THEN I CAN GO IN AND SPEAK ABOUT THE ITEMS ON THE AGENDA IN PARTICULAR, AND THEN WE CAN TALK ABOUT WHERE WE ARE, INTEREST EARNINGS FOR THE REST OF THE YEAR.

OKAY. SO THESE ARE.

OH, NO, I JUST LOST IT ON MY PHONE.

I'M SO SORRY.

SO MOST THERE ARE SEVERAL ITEMS THAT ARE ON THE AGENDA THAT WE HAVE TALKED ABOUT IN THE PAST.

AND THE SAVINGS HAS CHANGED A LITTLE BIT FROM THE ESTIMATES THAT WE PROVIDED YOU, FOR EXAMPLE.

THERE WE GO. FINALLY GOT THERE.

WELL, NO, I DIDN'T.

THIS IS WHY I SHOULD PRINT IT OUT.

I'M TRYING TO BE, YOU KNOW, ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY, AND IT'S NOT WORKING FOR ME.

WE HAD PLANNED ON 15,000 TO REALLOCATE BUILDING B'S AC UNITS TO THIS FACILITY.

WELL, WHEN WE FINALLY GOT THE QUOTE THAT CAME IN AT $10,743.

SO THAT'S A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENT THAN WHAT WE GAVE YOU BACK IN NOVEMBER.

THAT IS WITH PAYNE MECHANICAL SERVICES AND THAT IS A VENDOR THAT'S ON TIPS, WHICH IS A CO-OP THAT WE'RE ALLOWED TO USE.

AND THE OTHER THING THAT'S ON HERE IS TO REPLACE ALL THE OVERHEAD DOORS AT THE PUBLIC WORKS FACILITY.

THAT WAS THE ITEM THAT WAS ON CONSENT THAT ANDREA TALKED ABOUT EARLIER WHEN WE BID THIS.

WE WERE TRYING TO REACH QUOTES AND TRY TO FIND SOMEONE ON CO-OP, AND WE COULDN'T GET SOME RESPONSES IN TIME.

SO WE WENT AHEAD AND DID A BID.

WELL, WHILE THAT WAS BEING BID, WE ALSO GOT THE QUOTE FROM PACE THAT WAS ON BY BOARD, AND IT JUST SO HAPPENED THAT THE BY BOARD QUOTE WAS LESS THAN WHAT THE BID CAME IN, WHICH IS WHY WE REJECTED ALL BIDS TONIGHT.

AND WE'RE BRINGING FORTH THE QUOTE WITH D.H.

PACE. SO THAT FACILITY YOU HAD APPROVED A PAINTING CONTRACT.

AND SO THIS WILL JUST BE THE ONE MORE EXTERNAL PIECE FOR THE PUBLIC WORKS FACILITY TO REPLACE THOSE BAY DOORS.

I DON'T KNOW IF YOU'VE SEEN THEM.

THEY'RE IN NEED OF REPLACEMENT.

I'M PRETTY SURE THEY'RE ORIGINAL.

AND THEN ON TWO OF THOSE ARE GOING TO BE LARGER BAY DOORS FOR OUR APPARATUS AND THINGS LIKE THAT.

YOU KNOW, WE YOU GUYS AUTHORIZED AN EMERGENCY VEHICLE TECHNICIAN IN THE BUDGET.

WE RECLASSED A POSITION.

AND SO TO ALLOW HIM TO BE ABLE TO WORK ON THAT LARGER APPARATUS, THOSE BAY DOORS NEED TO BE EXPANDED A LITTLE BIT.

SO THAT'S INCLUDED IN THIS QUOTE.

AND THAT ESTIMATE FROM PRIOR ACTUALLY CAME DOWN AS WELL.

WE HAD ESTIMATED THAT WAS GOING TO BE 117,243.

AND SO THE QUOTE FROM DH PACE CAME IN AT 101,622.

SO WE'RE GOING TO HAVE SOME FUTURE SAVINGS THERE TOO.

THE OTHER ITEM THAT WE HAD BEEN TALKING ABOUT WAS THE ADA PARKING AT BUILDING C.

THERE IS A REQUIREMENT WHEN YOU REACH A CERTAIN DOLLAR AMOUNT IN RENOVATIONS THAT YOU HAVE TO ADDRESS YOUR ADA PARKING, AND WE HAD REACHED THAT DOLLAR AMOUNT.

WE HAD A QUOTE, AN ESTIMATE OF WHAT WE THINK THAT'S GOING TO BE, BUT WE HAVE TO DO A FORMAL DESIGN.

AND SO THAT'S PART OF THE CONTRACT THAT IS ON TONIGHT'S AGENDA.

IT IS WITH DMW DESIGN GROUP.

HE'S ALSO THROUGH TIPS.

AND SO THE DESIGN COST IS $4,960.

WE DO STILL HAVE EARMARKED ON OUR FUTURE PROJECT.

THE TRUE COST OF THAT ADA PARKING AT ABOUT 36,000.

[02:50:01]

MAYOR, IT WAS FUNNY.

YOU HAVE ASKED ME, I DON'T KNOW HOW MANY TIMES IF WE HAVE ACCOUNTED FOR EVERYTHING.

EVERY TIME I TRY TO ASK YOU, EVERY TIME YOU.

I KNOW, AND I ASSURE YOU, WE HAVE.

DO YOU ACCOUNT FOR EVERY SINGLE HVAC UNIT? YES. EVERYTHING. YES, YES.

AND SO WHEN CHRIS AND BRANDI BROUGHT THIS ONE TO ME, I SAID, I AM GOING TO HAVE TO HAVE AN EXPLANATION FOR THE MAYOR BECAUSE HE HAS ASKED ME THIS QUESTION.

SO THE CHILLER ON THE PD FACILITY, LLC IS THE ORIGINAL, AND IT HASN'T GIVEN US A WHOLE LOT OF PROBLEMS OVER THE YEARS.

THEY'VE BEEN ABLE TO FIX IT THROUGH MECHANICAL AND THINGS LIKE THAT.

UNFORTUNATELY, WE IT HAS FAILED.

AND CHRIS TRIED TO EXPLAIN IT TO ME.

THERE'S THESE SWITCHES THAT TURN THINGS ON AND ALLOW THINGS TO FLOW.

AND THIS SWITCH ISN'T WORKING.

SO THIS SWITCH IS HANGING ON BY ITS LAST THREAD, AND THE WHOLE CHILLER UNIT HAS TO BE REPLACED SO THAT ALL THE CHIPS WORK AND SWITCHES AND THINGS.

IT'S ABOUT 20 YEARS OLD.

IT'S TIME.

IT'S TIME. BUT IT'S BEEN DOING SO WELL, WHICH IS WHY WE HAVEN'T ADDED IT TO THE LIST IN THE FUTURE.

IT'S ONE OF THOSE UNFORESEEN THINGS YOU JUST NEVER KNOW.

SO THAT IS WITH ALSO WITH PAYNE MECHANICAL SERVICES THROUGH TIPS.

AND IT IS $262,057.

THESE UNITS HAVE A 20 TO 30 YEAR LIFESPAN.

AND I TOLD YOU WRONG MAYOR, I'M SO SORRY.

IT'S 25 YEARS OLD, NOT 20.

25 YEARS ON THE OLD. YES, ON THE OLD UNIT.

SO THE UNITS TYPICALLY CAN SPAN ANYWHERE FROM 20 TO 30 YEARS OLD.

SO THE OTHER ITEM THAT IS ON HERE THAT WE HAVE NOT PRESENTED TO YOU BEFORE, BUT I THINK I'VE MENTIONED IT AS A FUTURE ITEM FOR EITHER BUDGET OR WHATEVER.

WAS OUR FINANCIAL SYSTEM IS CURRENTLY THROUGH NEW WORLD, THROUGH TYLER TECHNOLOGIES.

NEW WORLD ANNOUNCED PROBABLY LATE 2022 EARLY 23.

THAT THEY ARE NO LONGER GOING TO BE ACCEPTING NEW CLIENTS FOR THAT SOFTWARE, AND AT SOME POINT THEY WILL NO LONGER SERVICE IT.

SO IT'S REACHED ITS END OF LIFE.

FINANCE BEGAN LOOKING AND EVALUATING SOFTWARES, TRYING TO FIGURE OUT EXACTLY WHAT WE NEED THAT WILL FIT OUR NEEDS.

WE CURRENTLY ALSO USE CLEAR GOV.

YOU GUYS APPROVED THAT CONTRACT A COUPLE YEARS AGO FOR US TO DO THE DIGITAL BUDGET BOOK CAPITAL PLAN, THINGS LIKE THAT.

AND IT'S A GREAT SOFTWARE.

WHAT WE FOUND WAS NEW WORLD AND CLEAR GOV DO NOT TALK.

SO IN ORDER FOR US TO GET OUR BUDGET INFORMATION FROM CLEAR GOV AND INTO OUR FINANCIAL SOFTWARE IS A MANUAL MANUAL PROCESS.

WE HAVE TO HAND ENTER EVERYTHING WE CANNOT IMPORT AND GET THE DATA THAT WE NEED FOR OUR DIRECTORS.

SO WE REALIZED SOME LIMITATIONS IN THOSE TWO SOFTWARES AND HOW THEY TALK WITH THE LOOMING FUTURE OF OUR CURRENT FINANCIAL SOFTWARE, AND THEN UNDERSTANDING THE LIMITATIONS OF THE BUDGET SOFTWARE.

SO WE EVALUATED OUR OPENGOV, AND WE HAVE EVEN GONE TO OTHER MUNICIPALITIES THAT USE OPENGOV FOR THEIR FINANCIAL SYSTEM, THEIR BUDGET SYSTEM, TO MAKE SURE IT MEETS OUR NEEDS.

THE OTHER THING THAT HAS BEEN A PROJECT OF MINE SINCE I WALKED IN THE DOOR, IN FACT, JIMMY AND I TALKED ABOUT IT WHEN HE WAS HERE.

WAS LOOKING AT OUR CHART OF ACCOUNTS.

WE HAVE A VERY COMPLICATED CHART OF ACCOUNTS.

IT'S A VERY LARGE COMPLICATED CHART OF ACCOUNTS.

I CAN'T EXPLAIN IT OTHER THAN THAT.

AND SO PART OF THIS PROJECT IS ALSO TO REVAMP THAT CHART OF ACCOUNTS AND BRING IT UP TO INDUSTRY STANDARDS.

ONE OF THE THINGS THAT IS NOT TYPICAL IN A CHART OF ACCOUNTS IS TO HAVE A CHART OF AN ACCOUNT CREATED FOR A SPECIFIC PURCHASE.

WE HAVE LOTS OF ACCOUNTS THAT WERE CREATED FOR SPECIFIC PURPOSES.

SO WHAT WE HAVE TO DO IS WE HAVE TO GO THROUGH EVERY SINGLE ACCOUNT AND HISTORY AND FIGURE OUT HOW THOSE NEED TO BE MERGED TOGETHER, WHERE THAT DATA NEEDS TO LIE, AND HOW FAR BACK WE WANT TO GO. SO IT'S GOING TO BE A VERY COMPLICATED PROCESS TO GET THAT CHART WHERE IT NEEDS TO BE AND MAKE SURE IT MEETS INDUSTRY STANDARDS.

SO THE ITEM TONIGHT IS THE IMPLEMENTATION OF OPENGOV FINANCIAL SUITE, WHICH INCLUDES THEIR BUDGET AND DIGITAL BUDGET PROCESS.

AND IT ALSO INCLUDES THE FIRST YEAR PRORATED PORTION OF THEIR MAINTENANCE.

SO IT WOULD BE WE WOULD START IN ACTUALLY I THINK WE HAVE A MEETING NEXT WEEK IF YOU APPROVE IT.

OTHERWISE WE'LL CANCEL IT.

BUT SO THE MAINTENANCE WOULD START IN JANUARY AS WE START BUILDING THAT PROGRAM WITH THE INTENT OF GOING LIVE IN OCTOBER.

OKAY. SO I KIND OF TALKED HIGH LEVEL KIND OF ABOUT THESE PROJECTS.

I'LL BE HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS YOU HAVE.

OKAY. THANK YOU. YOU'RE WELCOME.

COUNCIL QUESTIONS ON THIS? YES.

COUNCIL MEMBER DAWKINS. THANK YOU, MR. MAYOR. SO IN TERMS OF THE FINANCIAL SOFTWARE, WAS IT ALWAYS ON THE RADAR FOR YOU GUYS? THAT NEW WORLD WAS REACHING ITS END OF LIFE, AND WE WERE GOING TO HAVE TO IDENTIFY ANOTHER SOLUTION.

YES, YES.

OKAY. BUT I MEAN, IT SEEMED LIKE IT WOULD BE A NATURAL THOUGHT TO GO TO OPENGOV BECAUSE WE DID IT WITH THE FINANCIAL BOOK.

SO, WAS IT JUST LIKE WAITING FOR THE RIGHT TIMING TO BRING IT TO US?

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AND SO WE KIND OF HELD OFF AND I'M LIKE, I WANT TO SEE WHAT THESE UPDATES LOOK LIKE.

THEIR PREVIOUS SUITE WAS FABULOUS.

AND IT WAS I WAS REALLY I REALLY LIKED IT, BUT I DIDN'T WANT TO GET STAFF USED TO SOMETHING AND THEN HAVE IT BE UPDATED.

SO WE KIND OF WERE JUST WAITING FOR THAT UPDATE TO COME THROUGH.

AND THEN HERE WE ARE TODAY.

OKAY. THANK YOU. YOU'RE WELCOME.

ALL RIGHT. COUNCIL MEMBER SABOL I MAY HAVE SLEPT AND FORGOT, BUT DID WE GET THE GENERATOR MOVED? THE GENERATOR FOR.

DIDN'T WE HAVE ONE IN BUILDING? SO IT GOT MOVED.

SO WE ARE TALKING ABOUT THE GENERATOR FROM BUILDING B, SO IT NO WE DID NOT GET IT MOVED BECAUSE IT'S ACTUALLY ATTACHED TO THIS FACILITY.

BUT THERE WAS A NETWORK SWITCH THAT HAD SOMETHING TO DO WITH THE SERVER ROOM.

AND WE APPROVED THAT WHEN WE MOVED THE EOC TO THE LEC.

OKAY. SO, DID YOU GET ALL THAT? IT'LL EVENTUALLY GET MOVED.

YES. BUT WE DON'T WE DON'T NEED TO HAVE IT IN ANY OF THESE COSTS.

NO, BECAUSE IT'S ACTUALLY ALREADY ATTACHED TO THIS FACILITY.

OKAY. YES. AND OPENGOV.

IS THAT WHO WE'RE USING FOR OUR WATER BILL? IT IS. OH MY GOD.

YES. SO I WILL BE VERY HONEST.

AND I'LL BE VERY OPEN AND HONEST WITH YOU.

AND WE DO HAVE SOME OPENGOV TEAM WITH US TONIGHT.

WHEN I VISITED WITH THEM ABOUT I MADE IT ABUNDANTLY CLEAR SOME OF THE IMPLEMENTATION HICCUPS THAT WE HAD WHEN WE IMPLEMENTED UTILITY BILLING.

AND THEY HAVE ASSURED US THAT WE HAVE THEIR A TEAM.

I WILL SAY THE ADVANTAGE OF DOING THE FINANCIAL SYSTEM VERSUS THE UTILITY BILLING SYSTEM IS UTILITY.

BILLING IS COMPLICATED, AND IT TOUCHES 20,000 ACCOUNTS.

MOST OF WHAT THE OPENGOV FINANCIAL SUITE, IT'S ALL INTERNAL.

SO WE'RE NOT GOING TO HAVE WE'RE NOT GOING TO HAVE WHAT WE HAD WITH UTILITY BILLING.

OKAY. BUT I'LL TELL YOU THAT I KNOW THAT'S BEEN A NIGHTMARE.

STILL HEARING ABOUT IT.

I HAVE PROBLEMS WITH IT.

YES, MA'AM. AND I YOU KNOW, WE BETTER HAVE HIGH, HIGH LEVEL PEOPLE WORKING ON THIS BECAUSE I, YOU KNOW, KIMLEY-HORN WAS A PROBLEM FOR US AT ONE TIME.

YES, WE REMEMBER.

SO YES, I DON'T WE DON'T NEED TO REVISIT ANYTHING LIKE THAT.

AGREED? AGREED.

THANK YOU. THANK YOU.

ALL RIGHT. ALL RIGHT.

OKAY. OKAY.

YEAH. YEAH.

YOU'RE GOOD. ALL RIGHT.

ANY OTHER ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS OVER THESE FINAL ARPA FUNDS? THIS IS IT. THIS IS THIS IS IT REACHED? WE REACH IT. YES.

OH, YOU WANTED ME TO TALK ABOUT INTEREST.

AND I WAS ABOUT TO GO THERE. SO YOU WERE.

AND I HAD IT RIGHT HERE IN FRONT OF ME.

SO WE'VE EXPENDED ALL THE FUNDS THAT WERE GIVEN TO US BY THE COUNTY AND UTILIZED IT QUITE, QUITE EFFECTIVELY, I MIGHT ADD.

IN ADDITION TO THAT, WE'VE HAD SOME PROJECT SAVINGS ALONG THE WAY WHICH WE HAVE ALSO USED.

YES. AND THEN ALL THAT'S LEFT NOW IS SOME INTEREST EARNINGS OFF THOSE FUNDS.

SO WHAT DO WE HAVE LEFT.

SO AS OF IF YOU APPROVE THE ITEM TONIGHT, WE WILL HAVE $615,759.51.

THAT IS AS OF OCTOBER.

WE HAVEN'T ALLOCATED NOVEMBER INTEREST EARNINGS YET.

BUT I WILL TELL YOU FOR OCTOBER IT WAS A LITTLE OVER 31,000.

SO AND THE WAY THE INTEREST WORKS IS YES, YOU HAVE OBLIGATED ALL OF THESE FUNDS.

BUT UNTIL WE WRITE THE CHECK THAT CASH IS STILL SITTING IN THIS FUND.

SO THIS FUND WILL CONTINUE TO EARN INTEREST.

FANTASTIC. YES. THAT'S GREAT NEWS.

YEAH. THAT'S PHENOMENAL.

SO WE'LL STILL FIGURE OUT WHAT WE'RE GOING TO DO WITH THOSE FUNDS BECAUSE THEY AGAIN, THEY CAN BE SPENT ON ANYTHING.

IT DOESN'T HAVE TO BE ALLOCATED.

CORRECT. THIS MONTH. SO THERE'S NO REPORTING REQUIREMENT.

NO REPORTING REQUIREMENT FOR THAT.

SO I GUESS FOR, FOR MY OWN SAKE AND I'LL DIRECT THIS TO STAFF WOULD AFTER, YOU KNOW, GIVEN APPROVAL OF THESE ITEMS, WOULD STAFF BE ABLE TO CONSOLIDATE THAT AND SUMMARIZE IT AND GIVE ALL OF COUNCIL A LIST OF EVERYTHING THAT WE'VE DONE WITH ALL THESE ALLOCATED FUNDS AND BY DEPARTMENT.

THAT WAY WE HAVE THAT WHOLE THE FINAL RUNNING LIST.

YEAH, ABSOLUTELY.

THAT'S CERTAINLY YEAH, AN END KIND OF AN END OF PROJECT SUMMARY LIST.

I DO WANT TO MAKE NOTE, THOUGH, THAT WE HAVE IDENTIFIED PROJECTS FOR FUNDING WITH THE INTEREST EARNINGS.

SO IT'S NOT THERE'S NOT A 615.

I MEAN I THINK THAT WE HAVE REALLY LOOKED AT THAT AND IS AN EXTENSION OF THE ARPA PROJECTS.

SO IT'S NOT UNFORTUNATELY IT'S NOT.

WE'VE GOT CASH SITTING HERE.

NO, NO. WE ARE LOOKING.

I JUST WANTED TO MAKE SURE WE WERE ALL AWARE.

THERE'S STILL SOME EARMARKING THAT'S OUT THERE.

WE JUST DON'T HAVE THAT TIMELINE WITH THAT.

BUT I ANTICIPATE THOSE COMING IN THE NEXT COUPLE OF MEETINGS TO WRAP THOSE UP.

YEAH. SO YEAH, THE ARPA PRESENTATION THAT WE'VE GIVEN YOU THE LAST COUPLE OF TIMES, THE VERY LAST TWO SLIDES OF THAT IS ALL THE FUTURE PROJECTS AND THOSE WE STILL HAVE THOSE FUNDS EARMARKED WITH THE EXCEPTION OF THE COUPLE THAT WE APPROVED TONIGHT.

I WILL TELL YOU WE DID MOVE AS WE WERE LOOKING AT POTENTIAL OTHER FUNDING SOURCE, WE'VE KIND OF PLAYED AROUND WITH MOVING SOME OF THOSE PROJECTS OFF OF THE FUTURE

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GOTCHA. YEAH, MAJORITY OF IT.

CORRECT. OKAY. OKAY.

IT'S GOOD TO KNOW. ALL RIGHT.

ALL RIGHT. SOUNDS GREAT.

COUNCIL. ANY QUESTIONS OVER ARPA? I'D LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION.

ALL RIGHT. ALL RIGHT.

COUNCIL MEMBER SABOL MOVING THINGS ALONG.

MAKING A MOTION YOU'RE TAKING.

YOU ARE FOR APPROVAL.

DO I HAVE A SECOND? SECOND.

BY COUNCIL MEMBER DONOVAN. BRANDON, LET'S GO AND VOTE.

OKAY. AND THAT PASSES UNANIMOUSLY.

THANK YOU, COUNCIL.

THANK YOU. STAFF. ARPA IS COMPLETE.

THAT'S A WRAP. ALL RIGHT.

ALL RIGHT. NUMBER 13.

[13. Consider an ordinance authorizing the City Manager to negotiate and execute a Developer Participation Agreement between the City of Bedford and DD Gateway Village, Ltd. for certain public improvements associated with the construction of the residential development to be located on an approx. 11-acre tract located at the northwest corner of State Highway 183/Airport Freeway and N. Industrial Blvd.; and authorizing the City to participate in public improvement costs.]

TO BE LOCATED ON AN APPROXIMATE 11 ACRE TRACT LOCATED IN THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF STATE HIGHWAY 183 AIRPORT FREEWAY AND NORTH INDUSTRIAL BOULEVARD, AND AUTHORIZING THE CITY TO PARTICIPATE IN PUBLIC IMPROVEMENT COSTS.

GIVE YOU CITY MANAGER ANDREA ROY.

THANK YOU, MAYOR AND COUNCIL.

IF THIS SOUNDS FAMILIAR, IT IS.

WE DID REVISIT OR REVISITED THIS CONVERSATION IN JUNE AT THE TIME WHERE YOU ALL AUTHORIZED THE LAND SALE OF WHAT WE REFER TO AS THE CAMPUS WEST PROPERTY OR SIXSTONE PROPERTY.

AT THAT TIME, WE AUTHORIZED THE SALE OF THE LAND TO TWO SEPARATE PURCHASERS.

THERE WAS A RESIDENTIAL COMPONENT, WHICH IS THE GATEWAY VILLAGE, AND THEN A COMMERCIAL COMPONENT, WHICH, AS YOU'LL SEE IN THE STAFF REPORT, IS REFERENCED AS THREE MEBS.

SO SINCE THAT TIME IN JUNE, WE PROVIDED A DRAFT INCENTIVE AGREEMENT WHICH OUTLINED OUR ABILITY TO UTILIZE OUR BOND FUNDS TO CONTRIBUTE TO THE COST OF THE PUBLIC INFRASTRUCTURE THAT WAS GOING TO BE NEEDED TO DEVELOP THE PROPERTY.

SO AS WE DOVE INTO THAT, ATTORNEYS GOT INVOLVED, BOND COUNCIL WAS INVOLVED.

FURTHER, IT WAS DISCOVERED THERE'S BEEN SOME RECENT LEGISLATION THAT APPLIES SOME ADDITIONAL RESTRICTIONS ON THE USE OF THE BOND FUNDS THAT WE HAD ISSUED FOR THIS PROJECT. SO ESSENTIALLY TRYING TO KEEP IT SIMPLE BECAUSE IT'S BURIED, BURIED, BURIED.

AND HOW WE LANDED HERE WAS REALLY YOU KNOW, KIND OF PUTTING PIECES OF THE PUZZLE TOGETHER, BUT ESSENTIALLY WHAT IT DID IS IT LIMITED OUR ABILITY TO FUND THAT PUBLIC INFRASTRUCTURE AT 30% OF THE TOTAL PUBLIC INFRASTRUCTURE COSTS.

SO IT PULLS THAT DOWN.

SO WHILE WE HAD THE GREATEST IDEA AND INTENTIONS OF UTILIZING THOSE BOND FUNDS TO ROLL OVER INTO THIS PROJECT, WE'RE NOW CAPPED AT THAT AS WE DOVE INTO IT DEEPER. AND THAT WAS THAT WAS REALIZED.

SO ESSENTIALLY, WE HAD ONE CLEAN AGREEMENT.

WE WERE GOING TO UTILIZE BOND FUNDS AND REFUND VIA THAT WAY.

WE NOW HAD TO SPLIT THAT APART INTO TWO SEPARATE AGREEMENTS WHERE WE HAVE THE ORIGINAL INCENTIVE AGREEMENT, WHICH REPRESENTS THE 30% CAP BOND FUNDS GOING THERE.

AND THEN WE HAD TO SUPPLEMENT WITH A PARTICIPATION AGREEMENT.

SO THIS WAS ALWAYS AN OPTION TO DO SOMETHING LIKE THIS.

UNFORTUNATELY WHAT IT DOES IS IT IT'S MORE OF JUST A STRAIGHT CASH OPTION.

AND SO THOSE BOND FUNDS WERE THERE KIND OF READY TO GO FOR THIS.

SO ALL IN ALL IT JUST KIND OF TAKES ONE AGREEMENT AND PUTS IT INTO TWO, AND IT REALLY SHIFTS KIND OF WHERE THE MONEY IS COMING FROM TO FUND THESE, THIS PROJECT. IT IS UNFORTUNATE BECAUSE, AGAIN, THOSE BOND FUNDS HAVE SOME RESTRICTIONS ON IT.

SO WE'RE TOUCHING A LITTLE BIT OF THAT CASH THAT WE WOULD HAVE REALLY RATHER HAD TO BE FREE AND OPEN FOR US TO INVEST OR DO OTHER PROJECTS WITH.

SO ESSENTIALLY THIS IS JUST THE RESIDENTIAL COMPONENT RIGHT NOW.

THAT IS THE PART THAT'S REALLY MOVING MUCH FASTER.

THE COMMERCIAL PIECE IS FORTHCOMING AND I WILL KNOCK ON WOOD HAVE THE PARTICIPATION AGREEMENTS IN FRONT OF YOU IN JANUARY FOR THE COMMERCIAL COMPONENT. BUT THIS IS THE RESIDENTIAL PIECE AND THEY ARE REALLY READY TO GO.

SO THIS WILL PROVIDE THAT ADDITIONAL INCENTIVE THAT NEEDS TO BE.

UNFORTUNATELY, ONE HAS NOW SPLIT INTO TWO.

BUT AGAIN, ESSENTIALLY THE DOLLAR AMOUNT HAS REMAINED THE SAME.

I WILL TELL YOU, WHILE IT'S DISAPPOINTING TO ME AND THAT WAS NOT OUR, OUR VISION SINCE THIS ALL HAS TRANSPIRED AND WE'VE HAD ADDITIONAL CONVERSATIONS, WE'VE HAD TALKS WITH PUBLIC WORKS.

THERE HAVE BEEN ADDITIONAL PROJECTS THAT WILL BE FORTHCOMING AND HAVE BEEN REALIZED AS WE RUN INTO ISSUES AND MAINTENANCE OF OUR AGING INFRASTRUCTURE, THAT I CAN TELL YOU RIGHT NOW, THOSE BOND FUNDS AND THE BEAUTY OF HOW WE DID STRUCTURE THAT WAS THERE IS FLEXIBILITY.

AS KAREN KIND OF MENTIONED, WITH THE FIRE STATION, WE SET THOSE WITH A FLEXIBILITY THAT, YOU KNOW, IT'S STREETS.

IT WASN'T STREETS ON THIS PARTICULAR PROPERTY.

SO THAT MONEY WILL IN NO WAY SIT FOR VERY LONG BECAUSE WE WILL HAVE ADDITIONAL PROJECTS TO REALLOCATE THAT TO.

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I KNOW IT'S A LITTLE MESSY.

BUT LIKE I SAID, SIMPLE TERMS, WE WERE CAPPED AT 30% OF TOTAL.

AND SO WE WERE WE'RE HERE WITH TWO SEPARATE AGREEMENTS, SPLITTING THAT OUT HERE FOR QUESTIONS THAT 30% I'M ASSUMING THE LEGISLATURE KEPT US ON THAT. THEY DID.

THEY DID? YES.

ALL RIGHT. I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE EVERYONE'S AWARE OF THAT ONE, TOO.

AND THERE'S ALWAYS A VARIETY OF REASONS THAT THOSE THINGS HAPPEN.

I THINK, YOU KNOW, THERE WAS THERE'S USE OF FUNDS THAT, YOU KNOW, WE'RE FUNDING STADIUMS AND PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND THINGS LIKE THAT.

SO THIS WAS REALLY INTENDED, YOU KNOW, THERE'S ALWAYS UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES.

BUT THIS WAS INTENDED TO MAKE SURE THAT THIS IS FOR INFRASTRUCTURE ITSELF, NOT FACILITIES AND THINGS LIKE THAT.

SO WE'RE GOING TO DO ANYWAYS WHICH WAS FOR INFRASTRUCTURE.

CORRECT. STADIUM. NOT CORRECT.

CORRECT. IT'S JUST TIGHTEN THINGS UP.

AND IT ALSO TIGHTENED UP COMPETITIVE BIDDING REQUIREMENTS WITH THE USE OF CITY DOLLARS ALSO.

SO THIS REALLY IS THE SIMPLEST CLEANEST PATH TO MOVING FORWARD.

OKAY. ALL RIGHT.

THANK YOU. ALL RIGHT.

COUNCIL QUESTIONS CONCERNS DISCUSSION.

DOESN'T LOOK LIKE IT. ALL RIGHT.

SO I WILL ENTERTAIN A MOTION.

COUNCIL MEMBER SABOL WOULD LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION TO APPROVE.

DO I HAVE A SECOND BY COUNCILMEMBER DAWKINS? LET'S GO AHEAD AND VOTE.

OH, HANG ON JUST A SECOND.

ALL RIGHT. THAT PASSES AS WELL.

UNANIMOUSLY. THANK YOU.

COUNCIL. THANK YOU. STAFF.

ALL RIGHT. NEXT UP, ITEM NUMBER 14.

[14. Consider a resolution authorizing the casting of the City of Bedford’s allocated votes for appointment on the Tarrant Appraisal District Board of Directors.]

AGAIN, TO GIVE YOU CITY MANAGER ANDREA ROY.

OKAY, MAYOR, I THOUGHT THIS WAS YOUR ITEM.

NO. NOPE.

YOU'RE UP. SO ESSENTIALLY, TONIGHT WE ARE MOVING FORWARD WITH OUR APPOINTMENT TO THE APPRAISAL DISTRICT.

IF YOU ALL RECALL, WE HAD SUBMITTED A NOMINATION OF FIVE NAMES.

AND WE ARE AT THE TIME WHERE IT IS, WE ARE READY TO MAKE A DECISION ON THAT.

SO WE'VE PROVIDED YOU A BREAKDOWN THAT WAS PRINTED OFF OF THE TARRANT APPRAISAL DISTRICT WEBSITE.

LITERALLY ABOUT TEN MINUTES BEFORE YOU ALL WALKED IN TONIGHT.

SO THIS IS THE ABSOLUTE CURRENT LIST AS WHERE THE VOTES ARE FALLING.

JUST A REMINDER, YOU ALL CAN SEE THAT BEDFORD HAS 26 VOTES.

AND SO YOU KNOW, THINGS ARE MOVING IN A CERTAIN DIRECTION WITH CERTAIN FOLKS THAT YOU ALL CAN SEE.

BUT JUST AS A REMINDER WE HAD NOMINATED CAMPOS, PENA, PUENTE AND SAYID, AND I AM MISSING ONE.

GRISSOM. AND GRISSOM, I'M SORRY, THANK YOU.

AND THAT HAD BEEN OUR NOMINATION.

WE DID FOLLOW A LOT OF THE SCHOOL DISTRICTS THAT HAD RECOMMENDED THOSE NAMES TO US.

AND I WILL TELL YOU THAT FROM THE TIME THAT WE DID MOVE FORWARD, I THINK IT WAS ACTUALLY HAPPENING SIMULTANEOUSLY, SOME OF THE SCHOOL DISTRICTS THAT WE'VE BEEN TALKING TO DID MODIFY THEIR RECOMMENDATION TO RECOMMEND BURGESS IN LIEU OF SIAD.

AND WE DID NOT MAKE THAT CHANGE IN OUR NOMINATION.

SO WE ARE OPEN TO DISCUSSIONS.

THERE ARE SEVERAL DIFFERENT WAYS WE CAN GO ABOUT THIS.

AND AGAIN, THE REASON YOU'LL SEE ACROSS THE SHEET THAT SEVERAL FOLKS DID INDICATE ONE VOTE ACROSS THE BOARD WAS SO THAT IF YOU ARE IN A RECALL SITUATION, WE WOULD ACTUALLY GET TO PARTICIPATE AND CONTRIBUTE ON THOSE DISCUSSIONS.

IF YOU DO NOT PUT THAT VOTE IN, YOU ARE KIND OF LOCKED OUT OF THAT IS MY UNDERSTANDING.

THERE WAS A RECALL FOR THAT CANDIDATE.

THAT CORRECT, THAT CANDIDATE ITSELF.

SO IF YOU HAVE NOT PUT YOUR IF YOU'VE NOT GIVEN THEM ANY VOTES, YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO PARTICIPATE IN THAT.

SO MY ONLY CONCERN WITH THAT APPROACH IS BECAUSE YOU'VE GOT 14 NAMES ACROSS THIS PAGE.

WE MIGHT NOT WANT TO LOSE OUR, YOU KNOW, 14 OF OUR 26 VOTES TO JUST FOR THAT ONE PERHAPS CIRCUMSTANCE THAT COULD ARISE.

SO WE ARE OPEN TO DISCUSSION ON THIS ITEM.

YES. VERY GOOD. THANK YOU. THANK YOU FOR THE INTERJECTION.

AND AGAIN, FOR OUR 26 VOTES WE CAN ALLOCATE HOW WE HOW WE WISH.

WE'RE NOT AS FORTUNATE AS OTHER ENTITIES LIKE ARLINGTON, WHICH HAS 211, WHICH THEY HAVE THE ABILITY TO ALLOCATE ONE FOR EVERY SINGLE CANDIDATE AND THEN CHOOSE, YOU KNOW, HOW THEY HOW THEY WANT TO GO AHEAD AND DO THIS.

I WILL SAY THIS LOOKING AT THE HOW THIS WORKS, YOU TAKE THE TOP FIVE FOR THIS.

SO IT'S THE TOP FIVE CANDIDATES WILL BE THEN APPOINTED TO THIS BOARD.

LOOKING AT THE TOTALS RIGHT NOW, I TOOK THE TOP ONES.

THERE'S A LOT OF ONES THAT WE NOMINATED WHICH ARE JUST MATHEMATICALLY NOT GOING TO MAKE IT.

MISTER KRILL, WHO WAS HERE?

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SHE UNFORTUNATELY, MATHEMATICALLY, JUST CAN'T MAKE IT.

YES. COUNCILMEMBER DAWKINS.

I GUESS I GOT THE MEETING THEY CAME INTO THE MEETING I WASN'T AT.

I THINK THAT'S WHAT IT WAS.

OH, OKAY. BECAUSE I DON'T REMEMBER THESE NAMES, BUT.

OH, YEAH. I'VE ONLY MISSED ONE MEETING THIS YEAR.

I'VE ONLY MISSED ONE. SO THAT WAS. THAT WAS THE ONE.

YEAH. SO. YEAH, I MISS SIAD CAME AND SPOKE AND SO WE AND SHE WAS INCLUDED IN THE RECOMMENDED NOMINATIONS WHO WE NOMINATED. LOOKING AT THE TOTALS RIGHT NOW, HERE'S WHAT I HAVE SO FAR.

I HAVE BLAYLOCK AT 807, WHICH BASICALLY SECURES HIS NOMINATION.

SO IF WE WERE TO PUT VOTES THERE, THAT'S A WASTE OF BEDFORD'S VOTES.

ALFRED'S AT 485, BURGESS 470.

CAMPOS IS AT 376.

PENA, YOU'LL BE REMINDED THAT SHE WAS THE ONLY VOTE.

SHE CURRENTLY SERVES ON THAT BOARD AND IS THE ONLY ONE THAT VOTED NO AGAINST THE REAPPRAISAL PLAN.

I DO WANT TO POINT THAT OUT. SHE IS AT 483 AND THEN WE HAVE PUENTE AT I'M SORRY, 520.

SO THOSE ARE YOUR TOP ONES.

THREE, FOUR, FIVE, SIX, WHICH ARE IT'S KIND OF NARROW AND THERE'S STILL A LOT OF VOTES OUT THERE REMAINING, BUT THEY'RE THE ONES THAT ARE RUNNING BASICALLY FOR THIS.

LOOKING AT MY OWN NUMBERS AND LOOKING AT HOW THIS WORKS, JUDGING BY WHAT WE WANT ON THIS BOARD, WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE HAVE OUR INTERESTS. LOOKING OUT FOR THIS REAPPRAISAL PLAN, I DON'T THINK WAS WELL THOUGHT OUT AS WE'VE DISCUSSED.

IT WASN'T WELL THOUGHT OUT. IT HURTS OUR SCHOOL DISTRICTS VERY MUCH.

AND SO FOR ME, I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE HAVE SOMEBODY THAT HAS OUR BEST INTEREST AT HEART.

FOR ME PERSONALLY, I THINK WE SHOULD PUT OUR VOTES ALL TO ONE CANDIDATE.

THAT COULD REALLY TIP THE SCALE.

IF I'M DOING MY MATH CORRECTLY.

MR. CAMPOS IS AT 376.

IF HE WERE TO GET HEB, THE SCHOOL DISTRICT 170, EULESS AT 28, BEDFORD AT 26 AND HURST AT 21.

THAT WOULD GIVE HIM 245 VOTES, JUST BETWEEN ALL FOUR OF THOSE ENTITIES PUSHING HIM TO 621.

SO IF WE ASSUME THAT MR. CAMPOS, WHO IS CURRENTLY SERVES, HE'S A BEDFORD RESIDENT WHO ALSO SERVES AS A SCHOOL BOARD TRUSTEE WITHIN OUR DISTRICT, HE WOULD HE WOULD BE VERY CLOSE TO MAKING IT.

WE WOULD PUSH WE WOULD BE ABLE TO PUSH HIM TO BASICALLY MAKE IT TO THE VICTORY LINE.

SO THAT IS MY RECOMMENDATION TO THIS COUNCIL, BUT I AM OPEN TO FURTHER DISCUSSION.

COUNCILMEMBER STEVES.

THANK YOU, MAYOR. I KIND OF LIKE THE IDEA OF SPREADING OUR VOTES OUT OVER TO THE TOP CONTENDERS, JUST FOR THE FACT THAT I THINK IT WAS IN 2020 LAST YEAR THAT KELLER INITIATED A RECALL, A SUCCESSFUL RECALL.

AND IT WAS ONLY ABOUT SIX ENTITIES, 6 OR 8 ENTITIES THAT WERE ALLOWED TO DO THAT BECAUSE THEY VOTED FOR THAT PERSON.

SO IF YOU DON'T HAVE A VOTE, IF YOU DON'T VOTE FOR THAT PERSON YOU CAN'T YOU DON'T HAVE A CARD IN THE GAME ANYMORE.

NOW, I AGREE WE SHOULD GIVE MR. CAMPOS AS MANY, MANY OF THE VOTES AS WE CAN, BUT I WOULD LIKE THE IDEA OF SPREADING THEM OUT.

SO WE STILL HAVE THE ABILITY TO STILL HAVE THE ABILITY TO HOLD THEM ACCOUNTABLE DOWN THERE BECAUSE THINGS GOT PRETTY CRAZY IN THE PAST FEW YEARS, AND THEY HAD TO INITIATE THAT RECALL.

AND LIKE I SAID, WE WERE OUT OF THE PICTURE BECAUSE WE COULDN'T.

WE COULDN'T. WE COULDN'T DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT.

WE JUST HAD TO WATCH.

WE DIDN'T HAVE ANY SAY IN THE MATTER, BUT YEAH, I'M OPEN TO HOWEVER WE WANT TO DO IT.

COUNCIL WANTS TO DO IT. WANTS TO YEAH.

THAT'S A THAT'S A GOOD OBSERVATION.

WHAT I WOULD SAY IS I DON'T RECOMMEND US DILUTING OUR VOTE BY PUTTING 1 IN 14 CANDIDATES, ESPECIALLY ONES THAT WE KNOW ARE NOT GOING TO MAKE IT.

SO THAT'S WHERE I'M AT.

YOU KNOW, IT'S A SHAME THAT WE ONLY HAVE 26 VOTES.

I WISH WE HAD MORE TO BE ABLE TO PLAY AROUND WITH SO THAT WE COULD AFFORD TO DO THAT, AND UNFORTUNATELY, WE DON'T.

SO. SO YEAH.

ANY OTHER THOUGHTS, COUNCIL ON THIS.

COUNCIL MEMBER DONOVAN BRANDON OH.

OH, SORRY. COUNCIL MEMBER.

I LIKE FRED, AND I LIKE THE FACT THAT HE'S PART OF US.

BUT I ALSO LIKE THE FACT THAT WE HAVE A TAX ASSESSOR COLLECTOR, OR FORMER TAX ASSESSOR COLLECTOR THAT KNOWS HOW TAD WORKS AND THINGS ARE GOING TO.

AND I MEAN, I'LL BE HAPPY TO SPREAD OUT THE VOTES, BUT I THINK WENDY BURGESS, WHO'S IN ONE OF THE TOP POSITIONS, NEEDS SOME OF THE VOTES BECAUSE I THINK SHE'D BE AN ADVOCATE.

I KNOW SHE'S AGAINST THE FACT THAT THE TWO YEAR TAD APPRAISAL AND SHE FOUGHT AGAINST IT.

AND I THINK THAT WE NEED PEOPLE THAT ARE GOING TO FIGHT FOR THAT, THAT KNOW HOW TO GET THINGS DONE, THAT KNOW HOW TO DEAL WITH THE BUDGETS ON THAT.

A LARGE AMOUNT AND KNOW WHAT WE NEED TO DO.

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SHE KNOWS WHAT'S GOING ON COUNTYWIDE RATHER THAN THAT.

SO I WOULD I KNOW THAT SOME OF THE ONES THAT WE WANTED TO SUPPORT ARE NO LONGER THERE OR IN THE RUNNING, BUT I'D LIKE TO SEE IF WE WOULD SUPPORT FORMER TAX ASSESSOR COLLECTOR WENDY BURGESS.

THANK YOU FOR THAT.

YEAH. AGAIN, I GO BACK TO MY ORIGINAL STATEMENT WHERE WE'D BE WE'D BE DILUTING OUR VOTES, ESPECIALLY WHEN WE'RE.

SO WE'RE THROWING IT OUT THERE TO MULTIPLE CANDIDATES IF WE WERE TO SPLIT IT.

MR. CAMPOS IS VERY CLOSE TO SECURING HIS A SPOT ON THIS BOARD.

PLUS, HE'S A SCHOOL BOARD TRUSTEE, WHICH IS A TAXING ENTITY THAT HAS BEEN NEGATIVELY IMPACTED BY THIS BY THIS DECISION AND HE'S VERY LOCAL. I MEAN, HE IS A RESIDENT OF BEDFORD IN OUR COMMUNITY.

SO THAT THOSE ARE MY CONCERNS WITH NOT SPREADING IT OUT.

I'M SORRY WITH SPREADING IT OUT AND NOT CONSOLIDATING ON ONE CANDIDATE, ESPECIALLY WHEN ONE IS SO CLOSE TO SECURING VICTORY.

COUNCIL MEMBER DONAVAN BRANDON. I FIND THIS REALLY INTERESTING AND.

IT IS INTERESTING. I DO NOT KNOW HOW THIS ALL WORKS, SO WHY ARE WE VOTING AND GUESSING HOW OTHER PEOPLE ARE VOTING IF WE DON'T KNOW? WHEN ARE THEY, WHEN ARE THESE OTHER ENTITIES TO VOTE? SO AS YOU AS YOU MAY HAVE HEARD A LOT, A LOT OF THESE ENTITIES ARE WAITING UNTIL THE 11TH HOUR TO DO THEIR VOTES.

AND IT'S A LOT OF THE SCHOOL DISTRICTS AND REASON BEING BECAUSE THEY HAVE THE MOST TOTAL VOTES.

NUMBER ONE, WE ONLY HAVE A MEASLY 26.

BUT IF YOU LOOK AT SOME OF THESE OTHER DISTRICTS, THEY'RE IN UPWARDS OF 200 AND CLOSE TO IT SO THAT THEY CAN PICK THE PEOPLE THAT THAT WOULD BEST SERVE THEM AND BEST REPRESENT THEM AS THE SCHOOL DISTRICTS.

OKAY, I THINK.

OKAY. I'M JUST.

DOES THAT MAKE SENSE? YES.

AND I'M LISTENING TO ALL THIS DISCUSSION.

I'M. I'M AN OPEN SLATE SO CONVINCE ME.

OKAY. OKAY.

YEAH. YEAH. IT'S EASIER WHEN YOU HAVE BIGGER VOTE TOTALS AND EVERYTHING ELSE.

AND THE REASON BEING, WE COULD HAVE ALLOCATED OUR VOTES EARLIER IN NOVEMBER, BUT I WANTED TO WAIT TO THIS MEETING FOR THE MERE FACT THAT WE SEE WHAT THE LANDSCAPE LOOKS LIKE.

BECAUSE IF YOU LOOK AT SOME OF THESE, A LOT OF CITIES ALMOST THREW AWAY THEIR VOTES BECAUSE THEY DIDN'T SEE HOW THIS WAS GOING TO GO.

SO A LOT OF THEM TOOK THEM TO OTHER CANDIDATES WHO NOW WE KNOW BASICALLY, MATHEMATICALLY WILL NOT REACH THAT THRESHOLD.

AND SO THEY BASICALLY THREW AWAY THEIR VOTES.

AND THAT'S ALL DUE TO IT BEING AND IT'S A VERY CLOSE RACE, THIS ONE I DON'T REMEMBER EVER BEING THIS CLOSE IN YEARS PAST, ONLY FOR THE FACT THAT THERE'S 14 CANDIDATES AND IT DILUTED THAT VOTE.

YEAH. DID PENA? COUNCIL MEMBER SABOL. SO, PENA VOTED AGAINST WHAT THEY WENT.

YES. CORRECT. YEAH.

BUT WHAT ABOUT BLAYLOCK? IT WAS EVERYBODY.

SHE WAS THE ONLY NO VOTE.

OKAY. SO THEY CURRENTLY SERVE LIKE THEY BLAYLOCK.

BLAYLOCK SERVES.

LOSADA. YES.

PUENTE. SO, PUENTE.

YES. LOSADA IS OUT.

HE CAN'T MAKE IT.

OKAY. EXACTLY.

WELL, I KIND OF.

I KIND OF WOULD LIKE TO SEE US SUPPORT COMPOST BECAUSE HE'S TALKED ABOUT IT FOR YEARS, AND HE DOES KNOW HOW IT WORKS. IF WE COULD JUST GET HIM IN.

AND HE REPRESENTS HEB.

ABSOLUTELY. AND NOW IF WE WANTED TO PUT, LIKE, A COUPLE OF VOTES ON SOMEBODY WE THINK MIGHT GET RECALLED, LIKE BLAYLOCK.

BLAKE BLAYLOCK. WE COULD TAKE A GAMBLE.

WE CAN TAKE A GAMBLE ON A FEW OF THEM THAT MAY.

BECAUSE THEY'RE ON.

YES. I DON'T KNOW.

MAYBE BLAYLOCK PUT ONE VOTE ON HIM SO THAT IN CASE THEY, BECAUSE WE COULD, IF THEY RECALL HIM, WE COULD GET RID OF HIM AND PUENTE.

PUENTE IS CURRENTLY ON THERE AS WELL.

I HAVE A QUESTION.

YES, PLEASE. HAS THE DISTRICT TOLD US HOW THEY'RE SUPPORTING OR WHO THEY'RE SUPPORTING? I THINK IT'S SAFE TO ASSUME THAT THEY WOULD SUPPORT THEIR OWN THEIR OWN CANDIDATE.

THIS IS TOTALLY SEPARATE THAN THE CANDIDATE.

BUT I MEAN, THEY HAVE A TON OF VOTES.

ARE THEY SPREADING THEM OUT OR ARE THEY GIVING EVERYTHING TO FRED? SO, I THINK I THINK WHAT THEIR STRATEGY IS, IS BECAUSE THEY'RE ONE OF THOSE DISTRICTS THAT ARE WAITING IN THE 11TH HOUR IS THEY'RE WAITING TO SEE ENTITIES LIKE OURSELVES, WHERE THE VOTE TOTALS COME AT THE END SO THAT THEY CAN ALLOCATE ACCORDINGLY.

IT VERY WELL COULD BE THAT MISTER CAMPOS SECURES IT WITH OURS HOURS TONIGHT, AND THEN MAYBE A COUPLE ENTITIES THAT ARE NOT HEB IN EULESS.

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WE DON'T KNOW THAT FOR A FACT.

AND SO THEIR STRATEGY IS GOING TO BE THEY'RE GOING TO WAIT AND THEN ALLOCATE ACCORDINGLY.

SO IT MAY NOT EVEN CAMPOS MAY SECURE IT HYPOTHETICALLY BEFOREHAND.

WE DON'T KNOW THAT. BUT HE MAY.

AND THEN THAT WAY HEB WOULD GO AHEAD AND VOTE FOR WHOEVER THEY FEEL WOULD REPRESENT THEIR INTERESTS ALONG WITH THE OTHER SCHOOL DISTRICTS.

YEAH, IT'S A VERY POLITICAL TIME.

I DON'T REMEMBER A TIME LIKE THIS WHERE THERE WAS SOMETHING VERY POLITICAL TIME RIGHT NOW.

YEAH. YEAH. SO.

BUT THAT THAT MAKES IT ALL THE MORE IMPORTANT.

OKAY. YEAH.

SO, WE HAVE COUNCIL MEMBER DONOVAN BRANDON.

OKAY, AFTER THINKING ABOUT IT, I DO LIKE WHAT RICH SAID.

OKAY. BUT THEN I THINK WE SHOULD SUPPORT CAMPOS.

OKAY. HEAVILY.

HEAVILY. OKAY. VERY GOOD.

ALL RIGHT. SO I HAVE FOR A COUPLE PEOPLE FOR ALLOCATING SOME VOTES TO.

YEP. I'D ALSO LIKE TO REWARD THE ONE WHO VOTED AGAINST IT.

I'D LIKE TO SHOW HER SOME SUPPORT.

PENA. PENA.

WELL, IF WE IF WE DILUTE OUR VOTE TO ONE, I MEAN, IF WE'RE GOING TO SPREAD, WE WOULDN'T BE PULLING HER OFF, EVER.

NO. YOU KNOW, LIKE.

OKAY. OKAY. ALL RIGHT.

SO. OKAY. TAKE THAT PART.

PUENTE AND BLAYLOCK VOTED AGAINST WHAT WE THINK.

CORRECT. IF WE'RE GOING TO PUT THE VOTES ON THERE AND THEY'RE ALREADY ON, THEY MIGHT GET THERE BECAUSE BLAYLOCK GOT 807.

YEP. HE'S ON.

YEAH. WHAT'S.

PUENTE HAS ONLY GOT 483.

HE'S GOT 520.

SO HE'S GOING TO HE'S PROBABLY GOING TO GET HIM.

SO I PUT ONE VOTE ON EACH OF THOSE GUYS AND THEN TAKE THE REST OF THEM TO CAMPOS.

YEAH. THAT'S I THINK THAT'S A SMART MOVE.

I'M CONVINCED.

COUNCIL MEMBER DAWKINS, WHAT'S YOUR? YEAH, NOT THAT I AND I I'M SORRY I MISSED THE PREVIOUS DISCUSSION AND HOW TO DO THIS, BUT I APPRECIATE ALSO THE EXPLANATION OF WHY WE WANT TO PARTICIPATE IN A RECALL FOR, YOU KNOW, BEING ABLE TO REMOVE CURRENT MEMBERS IF THEY AREN'T VOTING IN OUR BEST INTEREST.

SO I'M KIND OF ALIGNED WITH ONE VOTE ALLOCATED THAT FOR THOSE MEMBERS THAT DIDN'T REALLY SUPPORT OUR INTEREST AND THE REMAINDER GOING TO OUR OWN RESIDENT, FRED CAMPOS.

OKAY. VERY GOOD.

SO MY MOTION WOULD BE 24 VOTES FOR CAMPOS, ONE FOR BLAYLOCK AND ONE FOR PUENTE.

GOTCHA. DO I ONLY HAVE 25? WE HAVE 26.

DO WE? WE 26.

OKAY. COUNCIL MEMBER.

STEVES. HOW DO YOU FEEL ABOUT THAT? I'M ALIGNED WITH THAT, I THINK THAT.

COUNCIL MEMBER FARCO. I AM GOING TO SPEAK MY PIECE AND DUE TO PREVIOUS KNOWLEDGE, I CAN'T SUPPORT FRED CAMPOS.

OKAY. ALL RIGHT.

ALL RIGHT.

FEELS THAT WE HAVE KIND OF A CONSENSUS.

MAYBE NOT A FULL CONSENSUS.

SO ALL RIGHT, I WILL.

ANY OTHER FURTHER DISCUSSION ON THIS? OKAY. ALL RIGHT. I WILL ENTERTAIN A MOTION, THEN.

COUNCILMEMBER DAWKINS, DO YOU WANT TO GO AHEAD AND MAKE THE MOTION? I THOUGHT I ALREADY DID.

YOU DID? YOU DID.

ALL RIGHT. FINE. ALL RIGHT.

WE HAD DISCUSSION. ALL RIGHT, SO WE HAVE THAT MOTION.

WE HAVE A SECOND.

AND FOR REVIEW, WE'LL BE FOR THIS VOTE.

WE'RE ALLOCATING 24 VOTES TO MR. CAMPOS, ONE FOR BLAYLOCK AND ONE FOR PUENTE.

ALL RIGHT, LET'S GO AHEAD AND VOTE.

I SWEAR I VOTED.

OKAY. WAITING ON A FEW MORE PEOPLE.

COUNCIL MEMBER SABOL.

I VOTED. OKAY. IT SAYS I VOTED.

YEAH. I VOTE AGAIN.

I'LL FIX IT. OKAY.

THAT IS FIVE IN THE AFFIRMATIVE.

BUT ONE IN NEGATIVE.

SO THAT MOTION DOES PASS.

ALL RIGHT. THIS HAPPENED WITH MY VOTE.

SAYS NOT VOTED. ALL RIGHT.

WAIT. OUR VOTES DIDN'T DO ANYTHING.

ALL RIGHT. HERE'S WHAT WE'RE GOING TO DO.

BECAUSE I'M FOR THAT MOTION.

ALL IN. OKAY.

DO IT AGAIN. ALL RIGHT.

IT'S BEEN.

VOTE AGAIN.

AGAIN. THAT WAS FINE.

ALL RIGHT. FIVE IN THE AFFIRMATIVE.

ONE AGAINST.

SO THAT MOTION PASSES.

ALL RIGHT. ALL RIGHT.

THANK YOU, COUNCIL.

THANK YOU FOR KEEPING IT CIVIL.

ALL RIGHT.

[15. Discussion and possible action regarding appointing a member to the number 2 vacant position on the Street Improvement Economic Development Corporation (SIEDC). (Item requested by Mayor Cogan)]

[03:25:08]

SO WE DO HAVE A VACANT POSITION.

WE HAD OUR BOARD AND COMMISSION INTERVIEWS.

WE APPOINTED MEMBERS TO THOSE TO THOSE COMMISSIONS.

WE LEFT ONE SPOT VACANT ON THE CDC AND WANTED TO BE ABLE TO GET THAT FILLED BEFORE OUR NEXT MEETING TO HAVE A FULL BOARD BEFORE THE MEETING IN JANUARY.

I WAS I WAS ASKED BY ONE OF OUR FORMER PNC MEMBERS, MR. STEVE OTTO. HE TOOK AN INTEREST TO THIS POSITION.

PARDON ME. I'M LOSING MY VOICE.

I'VE BEEN TALKING TOO MUCH, I GUESS.

BUT HE IN ESSENCE, IN SUMMARY, HE WOULD LIKE TO SERVE ON THIS BOARD IN THIS CAPACITY, GIVEN THE FACT THAT HE'S SERVED AND HAS A HISTORY WITH THE CITY, AND WE ALL KNOW HIM ON HIS SERVICE WITH THE PNC.

I WANTED TO PUT IT FORWARD TO THE REST OF COUNCIL TO SEE IF YOU ALL APPROVE.

I'M FINE. APPROVE.

APPROVE. ALL RIGHT.

I GUESS, AMANDA, WE NEED A FORMAL MOTION ON THAT ONE.

I'LL GET IT. YES.

OKAY. DO WE NEED A FORMAL MOTION ON THAT? OKAY. ALL RIGHT, SO I'LL GO AHEAD AND MAKE THE MOTION TO APPOINT MR. STEVE OTTO TO VACANT POSITION NUMBER TWO.

DO I HAVE A SECOND? SECOND? SECOND BY COUNCIL MEMBER SABOL.

ALL IN FAVOR, SAY AYE.

ALL RIGHT. THAT PASSES.

ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU. ALL RIGHT, MOVING RIGHT ALONG.

BEFORE I COMPLETELY LOSE MY VOICE.

[16. Mayor/Council Member Reports]

I HAVE NOTHING TO REPORT.

COUNCIL MEMBERS I PASS ON ANIMAL SHELTER BEAUTIFICATION.

[17. Report on most recent meeting of the following Boards: ]

OKAY. THANK YOU, MR. MAYOR. THE ANIMAL SHELTER HAS BEEN VERY ACTIVE AT THE POLICE AND FIRE OPEN HOUSES.

THEY WANTED TO LET EVERYBODY KNOW THAT THEY'RE STILL COLLECTING AT THEIR PET TREE IN THE LIBRARY UP UNTIL CHRISTMAS.

SO THEY'VE GOTTEN A LOT OF GREAT DONATIONS, BUT CONTINUE TO, TO SUPPORT THAT.

THEY ALSO WANTED TO LET EVERYBODY KNOW THAT THIS SATURDAY THEY'LL BE AT MOXLEY MANOR WITH THE TRAILER AND ADOPTIONS ARE STILL AVAILABLE.

AND PEOPLE NOTHING SAYS BETTER TO HAVE A PET FOR CHRISTMAS.

AND ADOPT IT FROM OUR TRAILERS.

AND THEN THE LAST THING IS, IS A PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT.

JANUARY THROUGH MAY IS COYOTE MATING SEASON.

AND THEY WANTED TO LET EVERYBODY KNOW THAT THIS IS A POSSIBILITY.

I ASKED IF THEY SHOULD CALL ANIMAL CONTROL.

THEY SAID THERE'S REALLY NOTHING THEY CAN DO.

TEXAS PARKS AND WILDLIFE. BUT IF YOU CREATE A LARGE LIKE A HAZING OR YELLING THAT THEY SHOULD RUN OFF.

BUT PLEASE JUST BE CAREFUL DURING THE MONTHS OF JANUARY THROUGH MAY.

ABSOLUTELY. AND JUST TO ADD ON THAT, WE'VE HAD A LOT OF WHEN I FIRST CAME ON COUNCIL, WE'VE HAD TEXAS PARKS AND WILDLIFE DO INFORMATION ABOUT COYOTES.

AND, YOU KNOW, MANY PEOPLE TRY TO LEAVE THEM ALONE.

DON'T BE SCARED OF THEM. YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO MAKE NOISE.

YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO MAKE THEM AFRAID.

BECAUSE THE PROBLEM WITH COYOTES IS THAT THEY'RE GETTING TOO USED TO HUMANS AND BEING AROUND US, SO WE NEED TO GET THEM A LITTLE SCARED AGAIN.

SO THAT'S THE WHOLE POINT.

AND I WAS ASKING BECAUSE IN KELLER, THEY HAD A PRETTY BIG COUGAR ON TOP OF SOMEBODY'S HOUSE.

AND IT WAS LIKE, OH MY GOSH, IT WASN'T A BOBCAT.

IT WAS THEY'RE CALLING EITHER COUGAR OR MOUNTAIN LION, BUT IT IS A BIG CAT.

YEAH. NICE. VERY GOOD.

ALL RIGHT. ALL RIGHT.

THANK YOU. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THAT REPORT.

BEAUTIFICATION. THANKS, MR. MAYOR. SO I DID MISS WITH MY ADVISORY BOARD THAT BEAUTIFICATION DID HAVE THE FALL SWEEP ON NOVEMBER 16TH.

AND THE WEATHER WAS FANTASTIC.

AND SO THERE WERE A LOT OF VOLUNTEERS SHOWED UP.

I KNOW I ENCOURAGED A GROUP THAT WORKED GENERATIONS PARK.

AND SO IT WAS ABOUT 15 YOUTH THAT DID THAT.

AND ONE OF THE OTHER ADVISORY BOARD MEMBERS TY WRIGHT, HE HAD FOLKS FROM TEENS FROM TEEN COURT PARTICIPATE.

SO WE'RE LOOKING FORWARD TO NEXT YEAR WITH THAT SPRING CLEANUP AND HAVING THOSE VOLUNTEERS RETURN.

OKAY. VERY GOOD. THANK YOU SO MUCH.

APPRECIATE THAT. THAT WAS THAT WAS A BUSY DAY ON AT THE LIBRARY.

THE CLEANUP DAY VERY EVERYTHING WAS GOING ON.

THEY HAD BREAKFAST WITH SANTA AND THE HOLIDAYS.

IT WAS A PLUS FOOD TRUCKS OUT THERE.

ALL RIGHT. CULTURAL ARTS ADVISORY BOARD, WHICH WE HAVEN'T MET.

AND WE'RE IN LIMBO RIGHT NOW, SO I'M GOING TO GO AHEAD AND SKIP THAT ONE.

LIBRARY ADVISORY BOARD.

WE HAD A MEETING.

IT WAS GREAT. AND THE PUMPKIN PATCH DID GREAT AGAIN THIS YEAR.

I RAN OFF WITHOUT MY NUMBERS, BUT EVERYTHING WAS HUNKY DORY AND THEY GAVE US SOME NUMBERS NEXT TIME.

SURE. AND THE GREAT PUMPKIN PATCH WILL RISE AGAIN.

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VERY GOOD. PARKS AND RECREATION.

YES. THE PARKS AND RECREATION ADVISORY BOARD DID NOT MEET THIS MONTH, BUT THEY DID VOLUNTEER AT THE BEDFORD TREE LIGHTING LAST FRIDAY.

I WANT TO THANK THE FOLLOWING MEMBERS HEATHER LOPEZ VELARDE, LYNN GROTTO, TERRY HARE AND MAGGIE ALLEN.

THEY WERE ALL OUT THERE MANNING THE REINDEER STATION AND IT WAS A FUN NIGHT.

ABSOLUTELY. I KNOW IT WAS.

AND THAT REINDEER STATION IS NOW BECOMING THE MAIN ATTRACTION, SO THAT'S GOOD THAT WE HAVE IT THERE.

ALL RIGHT. VERY GOOD.

ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU COUNCIL FOR THOSE REPORTS.

NEXT UP ITEM NUMBER 18 CITY MANAGER [INAUDIBLE] REPORTS.

MAYOR I DON'T HAVE ANYTHING ADDITIONAL THIS EVENING.

OKAY. VERY GOOD. THAT COVERS THAT.

ALL RIGHT, SO NEXT UP WE HAVE EXECUTIVE SESSION PURSUANT TO SECTION 5.51.071 TO DELIBERATE AND APPOINT

[EXECUTIVE SESSION]

CITY MANAGER REVIEW.

SO WE WILL BE BACK MOMENTARILY.

ALL RIGHT.

SO COUNCIL HAS RETURNED.

AND THERE IS OH, THERE I AM.

THERE IS NO ACTION TO BE TAKEN AFTER EXECUTIVE.

SO WITH THAT I WILL ENTERTAIN A MOTION TO ADJOURN.

MOTION TO ADJOURN BY COUNCILMEMBER PARKER.

I HAVE A SECOND BY COUNCILMEMBER DAWKINS.

ALL IN FAVOR, SAY AYE.

AYE. AYES HAVE IT, AND WE ARE ADJOURNED AT 11:04.

THANK YOU ALL VERY MUCH.

* This transcript was compiled from uncorrected Closed Captioning.