[I) Call Meeting to Order and Roll Call]
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          ALL RIGHT, Y'ALL READY? ALL RIGHT. GOOD MORNING EVERYONE. THE TIME IS 8:07 A.M. IT IS SATURDAY, JUNE THE 7TH. AND I'M GOING TO CALL THE SPECIAL CITY COUNCIL MEETING TO ORDER WITH CITY SECRETARY. PLEASE CALL THE ROLL. MITCHELL. HERE. KAISER HERE. RIZZO. PRESENT. ZUNIGA. 
          PRESENT. HARRIS. HERE. MCKINNEY. HERE. TOBIAS. HERE. ALL RIGHT. ALL MEMBERS ARE PRESENT. WE HAVE A QUORUM. DID I MISS SOMEBODY? DID I? NO. YOU GIVE ME A LOOK. NEXT UP IS CITIZEN COMMENTS. 
          PERIOD. IS THERE ANYONE WHO WISHES TO COME FORWARD AND SPEAK? SEEING NONE, I'M GOING TO 
          [III.1) Receive a report, hold a discussion, and provide staff feedback regarding the Water Utilities proposed budget for fiscal year 2025-2026 and the five-year capital improvement plan.]
CLOSE CITIZEN COMMENTS. NEXT UP, REPORTS AND PRESENTATIONS. RECEIVER REPORT. HOLD DISCUSSION. PROVIDE STAFF DIRECTION OR FEEDBACK REGARDING THE WATER UTILITIES. PROPOSED BUDGET FOR FISCAL YEAR 2526 AND THE FIVE YEAR CIP. UTILITIES. AND BEFORE WE GET STARTED, I'D LIKE TO INTRODUCE THE MANAGEMENT TEAM FOR WATER UTILITIES. IF YOU'LL BEAR WITH ME FOR JUST A SECOND. SO OF COURSE WE'VE GOT TIM SANFORD AS ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OVER WATER UTILITIES. 
          GOT WARREN CHRISTIAN WARREN IS A WATER DISTRIBUTION AND WASTEWATER DIVISION MANAGER. 
          WARREN, RAISE YOUR HAND. DIDN'T RECOGNIZE WARREN WITHOUT HIS HAT, SO. KIND OF CAUGHT ME OFF GUARD. THEN WE GOT MIKE VAN WINKLE, DIVISION MANAGER, OVER TREATMENT AND WATER OPERATIONS. 
          MICHAEL, THERE HE IS. WE CALL MICHAEL THE WATER MEISTER. ROBERT DE FREITAS. HE'S THE DIVISION MANAGER OVER WASTEWATER TREATMENT. ROBERT, I THINK EVERYBODY KNOWS ROBERT RIGHT THERE. AND THEN OUR NEWEST MANAGER TO OUR TO OUR TEAM IS STEVEN OVERBEY. HE IS THE WATER WASTEWATER MAINTENANCE DIVISION MANAGER. SO THIS THIS IS OUR BUDGET TEAM THAT PUT PUT ALL THIS INFORMATION TOGETHER TODAY. AND SO I THINK THEY DID A REALLY GOOD JOB. HOPEFULLY YOU WILL TOO. SO THE MISSION OF THE CITY OF WATER UTILITIES DEPARTMENT IS TO ENHANCE THE QUALITY OF LIFE FOR OUR COMMUNITY BY PROVIDING A HIGH QUALITY AND DEPENDABLE WATER, WASTEWATER, RECLAIMED WATER SERVICES AT A COST EFFICIENT MANNER MANNER WHILE MAINTAINING SUPERIOR CUSTOMER SERVICE. SO I GOT A LOT OF CONTROLS UP HERE, SO SEE IF I CAN MANAGE THIS. IT'S NOT MOVING. OKAY, THIS IS OFF TO A GOOD START. CAN I SAY THAT AGAIN? YOU HAVE YOUR MOUSE. I CAN DO THIS. OH, WE'RE USING THE MOUSE. OKAY. THERE YOU GO. SORRY ABOUT THAT. I THOUGHT WE WERE USING THAT. OKAY. GOT IT. SO THIS IS THIS IS OUR CURRENT ORG CHART. WE HAVE 60 POSITIONS RIGHT NOW. WE HAVE EIGHT VACANCIES OR ACTUALLY NINE VACANCIES. WE'VE GOT FIVE OF THEM THAT ARE BEING. MANAGED RIGHT NOW THROUGH THE REVIEW PROCESS. AND WE'VE GOT FOUR OF THEM THAT ARE WE HAVE OFFERS PENDING. AND SO LIKE I TELL THE CITY MANAGER AND THE ASSISTANT CITY MANAGER, IT'S SORT OF A TAKE TWO STEPS FORWARD, ONE STEP BACK BECAUSE WE'VE GOT A LOT OF MOVING, A LOT OF MOVING POSITIONS AND WATER UTILITIES. SO WATER UTILITIES DIVISION IS DEPARTMENT IS BROKEN DOWN INTO FOUR DIVISIONS. WE'VE GOT WATER DISTRIBUTION, WASTEWATER COLLECTION MAINTENANCE WATER TREATMENT OPERATIONS AND WASTEWATER TREATMENT. AND SO WE'VE GOT A LOT OF SLIDES HERE. SO I'M GOING TO GO AT A PRETTY PRETTY GOOD PACE. IF YOU GOT ANY QUESTIONS FEEL FREE. SO WATER DISTRIBUTION CONSISTS OF 17 EMPLOYEES. AND IT ENSURES THE UPKEEP AND MAINTENANCE OF MORE THAN 228 MILES OF THE WATER SYSTEM. WE'VE GOT SEVERAL THINGS THAT WE DO ON A DAILY BASIS AND YOU CAN SEE THEM ALL. I'M NOT GOING TO READ THESE SLIDES, BUT YOU CAN SEE THEM ALL LISTED RIGHT HERE. IT'S A BIG IT'S A BIG EFFORT. THEN OUR TREATMENT OPERATIONS 12 FULL TIME EMPLOYEES OVERSEE THE PRODUCTION, TREATMENT, STORAGE AND PUMPING OF THE CITY'S POTABLE WATER SUPPLY, INCLUDING 14 WATER PRODUCTION FACILITIES, FIVE WELLS. AND WE GUARANTEE THE DELIVERY OF HIGHEST QUALITY OF WATER TO THE CITY OF KYLE. AND SO THE BIG NUMBER WE GOT BOLTED OUT HERE IS ON AN ANNUAL BASIS. WE TREAT RIGHT AT 1.5 BILLION GALLONS OF WATER EVERY YEAR. AND IF YOU TAKE THE AVERAGE OF THAT, THAT'S A LITTLE OVER 4 MILLION GALLONS A DAY. WASTEWATER COLLECTIONS. AND DEPARTMENT OR DIVISION CONSISTS OF NINE FULL TIME EMPLOYEES. ENSURE THE STEADY FLOW OF APPROXIMATELY 205 MILES OF SEWER MAIN SERVICE, AS WELL AS TEN MILES OF RECLAIMED WATER LINES, WHILE ALSO MONITORING 17 LIFT STATIONS THROUGHOUT THE CITY. AND OF COURSE, LISTED DOWN THERE ARE THE DAY TO DAY DUTIES OF OUR OF 
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THAT DIVISION AND THEN THE WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT, WHICH IS, AS WE ALL KNOW, IS GOING THROUGH A MAJOR RENOVATION AND REHABILITATION PROGRAM RIGHT NOW. AND THE AVERAGE FLOW RATE, THE GOAL IS TO GET TO AN AVERAGE FLOW RATE OF 9 MILLION GALLONS A DAY. AND WE'LL TALK ABOUT THAT WHEN WE TALK ABOUT OUR SUCCESS PROJECTS FOR THIS PAST YEAR, ABOUT WHAT THE STATUS OF THAT IS, BUT THAT THAT'S ROBERT DE FREITAS, DEPARTMENT DIVISION. AND SO THE PROPOSED BUDGET, AS WE KIND OF GET INTO THIS, WE'RE WE'RE GOING TO BE TALKING ABOUT SEVERAL THINGS. WE'RE GOING TO START OFF WITH WHAT WE CONSIDER OUR SUCCESS HIGHLIGHTS. THESE ARE PROJECTS THAT YOU PROBABLY HAVE THROUGHOUT THE YEAR, HAVE HEARD LEADERSHIP TALK ABOUT. WE'VE GOT TO GO. WE'VE GOT TO MOVE THESE PROJECTS FORWARD AND WATER UTILITIES. SO WE LABELED THESE AS GOTTA GO PROJECTS. AND YOU'LL SEE THAT THROUGHOUT THE PRESENTATION. SO THE FIRST ONE WHAT I WAS JUST TALKING ABOUT WITH THE WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT, AND I KNOW IT'S NOT TYPICAL TO PUT UP A SCHEDULE CHART OF THE WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT AS A SUCCESS. BUT IF YOU'LL GIVE ME A SECOND TO EXPLAIN THIS, ORIGINALLY, THE COMPLETION OF THE WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT REHABILITATION TO THE 9 MILLION GALLONS PER DAY LEVEL WAS GOING TO BE SOMEWHERE AROUND THE THIRD QUARTER OF 2028. AND RIGHT NOW, WE'RE PUSHING THE PERMIT LIMITS ON OUR WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT. SO BY WORKING WITH WITH OUR ENGINEERS ON THIS PROJECT, WE WERE ABLE TO EXPEDITE THIS IN WHAT WE CALLED AN EARLY WORKS PACKAGE, WHICH YOU'VE ALREADY APPROVED, AND THEN A FINAL WORK PACKAGE, WHICH WILL BE FOLLOWED IN PARALLEL, NOT NOT IN IN SERIES, BUT IN PARALLEL WITH THE FIRST ONE. AND BY DOING THIS, WE'RE GOING TO BE ABLE TO TREAT 6 MILLION GALLONS PER DAY BY THE SECOND QUARTER OF 2026. AND BEING VERY CREATIVE, WE'RE GOING TO DO WE'RE GOING TO DO THE PROCUREMENT. WE'RE DOING A PROCUREMENT PACKAGE ON MATERIALS INTERNALLY INSTEAD OF HAVING THE CONTRACTOR DO IT. AND THAT SAVED US SEVERAL MONTHS ON THIS PROJECT. SO THE 6 MILLION GALLONS PER DAY EARLY WORK PACKAGE IS WELL UNDERWAY. AND BY DOING THAT, WE WILL WE WILL BE AT THE 6 MILLION GALLON PER DAY, 21 MONTHS AHEAD OF THE FULL EXPANSION SCHEDULE. SO THAT'S WHY WE'RE CONSIDERING THIS A SUCCESSFUL PROJECT. AND WE WILL BE DELIVERING TYPE ONE WATER, WHICH IS THE HIGHEST LEVEL OF WATER BASICALLY THAT YOU CAN TREAT BEFORE IT'S POTABLE. THAT BUTTON RIGHT THERE, ANOTHER GUY TO GO PROJECT AND A SUCCESS PROJECT THAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THIS YEAR WAS THE EXPANSION OF THE 1626 TAKE POINT TO TAKE OUR WATER. AND I'M PROUD TO SAY THAT WE'RE WE MET OUR SCHEDULE, WE WERE ON TIME, AND WE'RE TAKING OUR WATER NOW. WE'RE TAKING ABOUT 750,000 GALLONS A DAY. AND BY THE 15TH OF THIS MONTH, WE'LL BE TAKING 1.73 MILLION GALLONS PER DAY AT THAT POINT, PLUS AN ADDITIONAL 650,000 GALLONS PER DAY THAT WE JUST RECENTLY CONTRACTED WITH GREEN VALLEY. SO THIS WAS A BIG, A BIG SUCCESS PROJECT FOR US. ON HAVING AVAILABLE WATER. AND THE CRITICAL POINT ABOUT THIS IS RIGHT NOW, OUR OUR TOTAL FIRM SUPPLY WAS AROUND 4.1 MILLION GALLONS PER DAY, AND OUR AVERAGE DAILY CONSUMPTION WAS AROUND FOUR, 4.1 MILLION GALLONS A DAY. SO, YOU KNOW, I TOLD A STORY ONCE ABOUT WHEN I WAS IN COLLEGE, I NEVER FILLED MY I WAS DRIVING A CHEVETTE. I NEVER FILLED IT UP WITH GAS. I ALWAYS PUT LIKE 2 OR $3 IN IT. SO I WAS CONSTANTLY RIDING THE E. I WAS ON EMPTY ALL THE TIME, AND SO WE SORT OF ADOPTED THAT AS THAT'S KIND OF WHERE WE ARE WITH OUR WATER SYSTEM. WE'RE RIDING THE E, BUT WITH THE, WITH THE THINGS THAT WE'VE DONE TO BRING ADDITIONAL WATER SOURCES ON BOARD, WE'RE NOW OFF THE E. WE'RE SORT OF ON, YOU KNOW, MAYBE TWO NOTCHES ABOVE A QUARTER OF A QUARTER OF A TANK. NO, I'M KIDDING. SO WE'RE BUT WE'RE DOING MUCH BETTER. AND SO BY BY BY DOING THAT, WE WERE ABLE TO RAISE OUR FIRM SUPPLY, WHICH IS WATER WITH RESTRICTIONS AT FROM 4.1 MILLION GALLONS A DAY, OR A LITTLE BIT ABOVE THAT TO ROUGHLY 6.9 MILLION GALLONS A DAY. SO WE WE'VE GOT THE WATER AVAILABLE NOW. IT'S HOW CAN WE DISTRIBUTE THAT WATER WITH OUR EXISTING SYSTEM AND OUR FUTURE SYSTEM. AND WE'LL TALK ABOUT THAT A LITTLE BIT MORE DETAIL. 
          SO THIS THIS I'M I'M SUFFERING WITH ALLERGIES THIS MORNING. I'M NOT CRYING. SO I PUT THIS SLIDE ON THE IN THE PRESENTATION BECAUSE I WANTED YOU TO SEE WHAT WE DEAL WITH ON A REGULAR BASIS AS FAR AS PLAN REVIEW GOES. AND OUR, IN OUR DEPARTMENT. AND WE'RE CALLING THIS A SUCCESS PROJECT. AND IT'S A GOTTA GO PROJECT IS WE CHANGE THE WAY WE REVIEW PLANS. AND THIS IS NOT VERY, YOU KNOW, NOT VERY SEXY, NOT VERY ATTRACTIVE. BUT THIS THING IS GOING THIS IS GOING TO PAY OFF HUGE DIVIDENDS IN THE FUTURE. BUT BY THE WAY, THAT WE'RE CURRENTLY NOW REVIEWING PLANS AND WHAT HAPPENS A LOT OF TIMES ARE ENGINEERS WILL WILL TURN IN AN INCOMPLETE SET OF 
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PLANS AND USE US FOR THEIR QUALITY CONTROL AND PLAN REVIEW OUR QA, QUALITY ASSESSMENT, QUALITY CONTROL. AND THEY WILL TELL THE DEVELOPER THAT THEY'RE WORKING FOR THAT THE THAT THE PROJECTS ARE OVER AT THE CITY. AND SO IT PUTS A LOT OF BURDEN ON OUR STAFF. WE SPEND A GREAT DEAL OF TIME ON THIS. SO TIM SANFORD HAS BEEN HAS TAKEN THE LEAD IN THIS. AND WE'VE COMPLETELY RENOVATED HOW WE DO PLAN REVIEW. AND NOW WE'RE PUTTING OUT MORE ACCURATE SET OF PLANS. AND THAT MEANS THERE'S NOT GOING TO BE ANY DELAYS OR ANY OR I CAN'T SAY ANY, BUT NOT AS MANY DELAYS OR ISSUES WITH PLANS AS THEY AS THEY GO INTO CONSTRUCTION. AND IT DOESN'T SOUND LIKE A BIG DEAL. BUT THIS WAS A HUGE EFFORT. AND THIS IS THIS IS GOING TO PAY HUGE DIVIDENDS TO THE CITY IN THE UPCOMING MONTHS AND YEARS. AND WE'RE CURRENTLY AVERAGING ABOUT REVIEWING FIVE DEVELOP DEVELOPMENT PLANS PER WEEK, WHICH A CITY OF THIS SIZE IS, IS PRETTY INCREDIBLE. AND IT TAKES A LOT OF TIME TO DO THIS. BUT THAT'S KIND OF WHY WE HAVE THIS SLIDE ON THERE. BUT CONGRATULATIONS TO TIM AND HIS PLAN REVIEW TEAM. IT'S A BIG EFFORT. AND SOMETHING THAT YOU PROBABLY ALL REMEMBER IS THE SCADA SYSTEM. THIS WAS A GUY TO GO PROJECT. WE ACTUALLY WENT TO COUNCIL FOR EMERGENCY PROCUREMENT FOR DESIGN ON SCADA SYSTEM. GLAD TO SAY THAT IT IS. THE DESIGN IS COMPLETE AND NOW WE'RE ENTERING THE ACTUAL INSTALLATION AND CONSTRUCTION PHASE OF THIS NEW SCADA SYSTEM THAT'S CLOSE TO 15 YEARS OLD, MAYBE A LITTLE BIT OLDER THAN 15 YEARS, WHICH IN THE TECHNICAL WORLD IS, YOU KNOW, THAT'S PRETTY UNHEARD OF, THAT YOU WOULD HAVE A SYSTEM THAT LONG. SO WE'RE GETTING CAUGHT UP. THIS IS GOING TO BE A REALLY GOOD PROJECT. AND IT WAS. SO JUST LET ME JUST READ ONE OF THE BULLETS ON HERE. BUT THE SCADA SYSTEM IS THE SYSTEM THAT PROVIDES CENTRALIZED REMOTE MONITORING AND OPERATIONAL CONTROLS OF THE CITY'S WATER AND WASTEWATER SYSTEM. AND THAT'S, THAT'S THAT'S A REALLY BIG DEAL IN IN OUR DEPARTMENT. SO HAVING AN UPDATED SYSTEM IS INCREDIBLE. 
          AND WE APPRECIATE MARCO'S HELP. HE AND HIS TEAM HAVE BEEN WORKING ON THIS, AND MIKE VAN WINKLE AND HIS TEAM HAVE BEEN WORKING ON THIS. AND SO WE CONSIDER THIS A HUGE SUCCESS IN OUR IN OUR PROGRAM. AND ALSO WE'RE GOING TO BE COMPLETING IN ABOUT NINE MONTHS AHEAD OF SCHEDULE, WHICH OUR SORRY, THREE MONTHS AHEAD OF SCHEDULE, ANOTHER ONE GOT TO GO PROJECT. 
          AS YOU ALL REMEMBER FROM TROPICAL STORM, I THINK IT WAS YURI THAT DEVASTATED A LOT OF CITIES IN THIS AREA BECAUSE OF LACK OF GENERATED POWER. ONE OF THE FIRST PROJECTS THE CITY MANAGER AND CITY MANAGER HANDED ME WAS, WE'VE GOT TO PUT SOMETHING IN PLACE SO THAT WE DON'T SUFFER THAT EVER AGAIN. AND SO WHAT WE DID IS WE PUT THESE DOCKING STATIONS AT ALL OF OUR WATER, WATER FACILITIES. AND WHAT THIS MEANS IS WE CAN PULL UP A TEMPORARY GENERATOR, HOOK IT INTO THIS DOCKING SYSTEM, AND WE HAVE POWER. AND SO THIS WAS A THIS WAS A BIG PROJECT FOR US THAT WE COMPLETED. AND NOW WE'RE AND YOU'LL SEE IN A LATER PRESENTATION THAT WE'RE WORKING ON PERMANENT GENERATORS AT THESE LOCATIONS. BUT THE DOCKING STATIONS WILL ALWAYS BE A NECESSARY ASSET JUST IN CASE ONE OF THE PERMANENT GENERATORS GO DOWN. WE STILL HAVE THE ABILITY TO PULL A TEMPORARY GENERATOR UP AND PLUG IT IN. SO THAT GIVES US A LITTLE EXTRA INSURANCE COST CONTAINMENT STRATEGY. SO THIS THIS IS MORE LIKE WHAT PROJECTS DID WE DO THAT ACTUALLY PAID MONEY BACK TO THE CITY AND HAD AN IMMEDIATE COMPENSATION TO THE CITY AS, AS FAR AS GOT TO GO PROJECT. AND SO THE GENERATOR GRANT, LIKE I WAS JUST TALKING ABOUT, THANKS TO AMBER AND HER WORK ON THAT PROJECT, WE WERE ABLE TO ACQUIRE $1.3 MILLION GRANT. AND THAT'S A THAT'S A BIG PART OF THE COST. THE TOTAL ANTICIPATED COST IS AROUND 4.19 MILLION, BUT HAVING THAT ADDITIONAL 1.3 MILLION DEFINITELY TOOK THE TOOK A LITTLE OF THE PAIN OUT OF THAT, OUT OF THAT PROJECT. AND SO WHAT WE DID IS SEVEN PERMANENT GENERATORS ARE CURRENTLY UNDER CONSTRUCTION AND WILL BE INSTALLED LATER. THIS SHOULD BE COMPLETE LATER THIS YEAR. AND SO YOU CAN SEE ALL THE DETAILS THERE. BIG PROJECT. AND THIS ONE IS I GUESS ONE OF OUR MOST POPULAR PROJECTS IS OUR SLUDGE HAULING FROM THE WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT. WE HAD A LOT OF CONVERSATIONS OVER THAT LAST FEW MONTHS, BUT WE'RE TAKING THIS OPPORTUNITY NOT ONLY TO PRESENT IT TO COUNCIL, BUT WE HAD SAID WE WILL COME BACK IN SIX MONTHS AND TELL YOU THE STATUS OF THE PROJECT. SO WE'RE GOING TO USE THIS AS AN OPPORTUNITY TO UPDATE COUNCIL ON WHERE WE ARE ON THIS PROJECT. SO RIGHT NOW IT'S BEEN A HUGE SUCCESS. KBMY OR K3, BMI WAS AWARDED THE SLUDGE HAULING CONTRACT BACK IN DECEMBER, AND THE CURRENT EXPENDITURE OVER THE LAST QUARTER HAVE RESULTED IN PROJECTED ANNUAL SAVINGS OF $300,000. AND THIS IS GOING TO BE ONGOING FOR THAT. AND THE 
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WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT OPERATIONAL EFFICIENCY GAINED FROM MORE FLEXIBLE BELT PRESS OPERATIONS. NOT VERY AGAIN, NOT VERY ATTRACTIVE, NOT VERY SEXY. BUT THIS IS A CRITICAL TO THE HEALTH AND OF OUR OF OUR WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM. AND THESE GUYS ARE DOING AN AMAZING JOB. AND THEY'RE FITTING IN KEEPING THINGS CLEAN, KEEPING THINGS MOVING. AND, YOU KNOW, THE ODOR CONTROL IS, IS, IS SORT OF A BYPRODUCT OF HAVING AN EFFICIENT SLUDGE HAULING PROCESS. AND SO THAT IS UP AND RUNNING. AND THEN ALSO AT THE WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT. JUST A QUICK UPDATE. WE'VE GOT OUR ODOR CONTROL FEATURES IN PLACE AT THE AT THE WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT. AND SO HOPEFULLY THE ODOR COMPLAINTS HAVE GONE WAY, WAY DOWN. SO WE'VE GOT ALL THOSE THINGS IN PROCESS. AND AS YOU KNOW, WITH THE WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT REHABILITATION PROJECT, WE'VE GOT A MASSIVE ODOR CONTROL FEATURE ASSOCIATED WITH THAT. 
          BUT THAT'S IN PHASE TWO OF THE WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT. SO THE SOME OF THE THINGS THAT WE'VE DONE IN ADVANCE OF THAT, I THINK ARE REALLY HELPING BECAUSE OUR HOPEFULLY YOU'VE NOTICED THAT ON ODOR CONTROL COMPLAINTS. BUT I KNOW THAT WE HAVE FOR SURE. MIKE, CAN YOU DRILL DOWN JUST A LITTLE BIT MORE ON THAT? SO BECAUSE WE DO GET A LOT OF COMPLAINTS. SO WHEN IS THE PERMANENT SOLUTION COME IN. YOU SAID PHASE TWO. WHAT IS THE PERMITTED SOLUTION. PERMANENT. 
          THE PERMANENT SOLUTION. YOU SAID OH THE PERMANENT SOLUTION OKAY. SO I'LL TELL YOU WHAT. WHY DON'T I TAKE THIS OPPORTUNITY. I'LL HAVE ROBERT, WHO IS OUR WASTEWATER TREATMENT DIVISION MANAGER OR WASTEWATER TREATMENT AND LET HIM WALK YOU THROUGH THAT RIGHT QUICK. SO, ROBERT. 
          YES, SIR. THE LIKE MIKE SAID, THAT'S GOING TO BE IN THE FULL WORKS PACKAGE TO GET THE LARGE TOWERS. YOU KNOW, THE AQUA BACTERIOLOGICAL SYSTEM. SORRY, THAT'S GOING TO BE INSTALLED. 
          THERE'S GOING TO BE TWO LARGE, YOU KNOW, CYLINDERS AND ONE OF THEM WILL BE FOR THE HEADWORKS WHERE ALL THE RAW INFLUENT COMES IN. AND WHAT HAPPENS IS WITH THE WASTEWATER, ANYTIME THERE'S TURBULENCE, IT RELEASES, YOU KNOW, HYDROGEN SULFIDES. AND THAT'S THE SMELL. AND SO THAT'S A BIG PLACE WHERE LINES COME IN AND FALL INTO THE LIFT STATION AND BE PUMPED INTO THE PLANT. 
          AND THEN THE OTHER ONE IS OUR SPLITTER BOX, WHICH, YOU KNOW, THAT'S WHERE THE PUMPS PUMP PUT IT TO AN ELEVATION AND IT DISTRIBUTES TO THE PLANT. AND SO THE HEADWORKS, WE'VE GOT A DEODORIZER SYSTEM, AND WE'RE ALSO FEEDING A BACTERIOLOGICAL AMENDMENT TO REDUCE THOSE SULFIDE GENERATION AT THOSE POINTS. AND THEN AT OUR SPLITTER BOX, WE'VE INSTALLED A SMALL IT'S ABOUT 500 CFM SCRUBBER. AND WE'VE ENCAPSULATED THAT WITH SOME RUBBER MATS TO CONTROL THE ODOR FOR NOW. AND UNTIL WE CAN GET THE LARGE PROJECT WE DID ALL THAT WORK FOR, YOU KNOW, LESS THAN $10,000. SO I THINK THE QUESTION WAS TIMING WHEN IT'S GOING TO BE DONE. FIRST PHASE IS JULY 26TH. THE SECOND PHASE WILL BE DONE IN JULY OF 28. LET ME JUST I CAN I THINK I CAN MAKE IT A LITTLE BIT. I'M SORRY I MISUNDERSTOOD YOUR QUESTION. SO THIS CHART HERE, THIS IS THE SCHEDULE THAT THAT WE'RE WORKING ON. AND SO YOU CAN SEE THE GO TO THE BOTTOM OF IT. WELL IT'S GOT FULL EXPANSION CONSTRUCTION PHASE 24 MONTHS. SO THAT ODOR CONTROL SYSTEM WILL BECOME ACTIVE IN THE THIRD OR AT THE END OF THE SECOND QUARTER, FIRST OR THE THIRD QUARTER OF 2028. GO DOWN ALL THE WAY DOWN TO THE BOTTOM OF THIS CHART. I DON'T KNOW IF I CAN PUT A NO. YOU CAN'T SEE MY CURSOR ON THERE, BUT YOU CAN SEE THAT ON YOUR ON THE SCHEDULE IN FRONT OF YOU. 
          AND SO THAT WAS ONE OF THE MAIN REASONS THAT WE TOOK THESE TEMPORARY MEASURES TO ADDRESS ODOR. WHILE WE'RE GETTING TO THAT POINT, ROBERT TOUCHED ON IT A LITTLE BIT, BUT WE PUT SCRUBBERS, WHICH IS SIMILAR TO IT'S A POLY URETHANE MEMBRANE SYSTEM THAT WE PUT ON THE SPLITTER BOX, WHICH IS THE WHICH IS THE TALL TOWER YOU SEE AS YOU GO RIGHT INTO THE TREATMENT PLANT. AND THAT'S WHERE MOST OF THE ODOR COMPLAINTS WERE COMING FROM. THAT AND THE HEADWORKS. 
          AND YOU COUNCIL APPROVED. I'M SURE YOU DON'T REMEMBER, BUT YOU APPROVED US TO USE A, A SOLVENT AT THE FRONT OF THE HEADWORKS. IT'S SORT OF A DEODORIZER. AND THEN WE'VE GOT A MR. ALSO THAT THAT SHOOTS A FINE MIST WITH THE ODOR CONTROL IN IT ALSO. SO WE'VE GOT THREE THINGS THAT WE'RE WORKING ON FOR RIGHT NOW. BUT THE NEW SYSTEM IS 2028. WHAT WAS IT THAT WE'RE USING THAT CREATES A BARRIER ABOVE IT? LIKE A ALMOST LIKE A CRUST. YEAH. SO WHAT WAS THAT? YEAH. COME ON UP. 
          I DON'T I'M NOT SURE WHAT THAT WAS. TIM SEIFERT, ASSISTANT DIRECTOR. SO WHAT ROBERT WAS DESCRIBING IS BASICALLY A CATTLE MAT THAT THEY USE OVER THAT OPEN GRATING AND THAT JUST CONTAINS THOSE ODORS WHILE THE FOREST AIR SCRUBBER IS PULLING THAT OUT OF THERE, TAKING IT TO A CHARCOAL MEDIA AND JUST, YOU KNOW, GETTING RID OF THAT HYDROGEN SULFUR SMELL. I THINK WHAT 
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COUNCILMAN WAS TALKING ABOUT WAS WHAT WE'RE PUTTING IN AT THE HEADWORKS, THAT THAT SOLVENT, THE ONE THAT TURNS INTO A CRUST THAT HOLDS EVERYTHING IN THERE WAS SOMETHING YOU WERE USING THAT Y'ALL TALKED ABOUT. ACTUALLY, WE'RE TRYING TO DISSOLVE THE CRUST, ACTUALLY IS WHAT IT WAS. YEAH, OKAY. BECAUSE THAT WAS ONE OF THE PROBLEMS IS IT'S NOT VERY AFTER EVERYBODY HAD BREAKFAST, BUT IT IT FORMED THE CRUST OVER THE, OVER THE LIFT STATION RIGHT AT THE HEADWORKS. PSALM SIX MONTHS ON THE WHAT DO YOU CALL IT, OUR SLUDGE HALL. I WAS KIND OF HOPING ON A BIGGER REPORT, MAKING SURE THAT WE'RE GETTING EVERYTHING WE ASKED FOR, MAKING SURE THAT WE HAVE DOCUMENTATION ON WHERE THEY'RE DISPOSING OF, WHAT THEY'RE TAKING OFF OF IT, MAKING SURE WE'RE KEEPING AN EYE ON THAT PART OF IT. I JUST DON'T WANT IT TO COME BACK LATER ON SAYING THAT CITY COLLEGE IS DOING SOMETHING HE SHOULDN'T BE DOING RIGHT. SO JUST MAKING SURE WE HAVE ALL THAT IN PLACE. YEAH. SO I THINK WE CAN SAY 100% THE COMPANY THAT THAT WE'RE USING IS CHECKING ALL THE BOXES. THESE GUYS SO FAR. YOU KNOW, I DON'T WANT TO LET THEM HEAR IT. SO THEY'LL RAISE THEIR PRICES. BUT THEY'VE BEEN DOING AN AMAZING JOB. I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE WE'RE GETTING WHAT WE PAID FOR AND WHAT WE'RE WHAT WE'RE PROMISED TO HAULING, YOU KNOW, MAKING SURE THAT THEY'RE TAKING IT TO THE RIGHT LANDFILLS AND EVERYWHERE ELSE. WE'RE NOT LANDFILL, BUT THE RIGHT AREA TO DISPOSE OF THE MATERIAL THEY'RE TAKING, MAKING SURE THEY'RE THEY'RE NOT TAKING SHORTCUTS. SO LET ME JUST KIND OF GO BACK TO THAT PICTURE. I'M SORRY. I'LL PULL IT BACK UP, BECAUSE THERE IS A MANIFEST THAT WE KEEP AN EYE ON, RIGHT? AS A CITY. SO YOU CAN SEE THE TRUCKS THAT THEY'RE USING. NOW, THESE THESE ARE SO MUCH NICER THAN WHAT WE'VE BEEN USING. THIS IS THEIR HAUL TRUCK RIGHT HERE. AND NIGHT AND DAY DIFFERENCE IN THE EQUIPMENT THAT THESE GUYS ARE USING OPPOSED TO THE PRIOR CONTRACTOR. YEAH. YEAH. IT'S NOT A CONTAINER ANYMORE NOW IT'S A FULL TRUCK. THAT'S COOL. SO THE PROCESS IS JUST IT'S WORKING EXTREMELY WELL. AND WE CAN PUT SOMETHING IN WRITING. DO A, DO A IF YOU WANT TO SEE MORE THAN THIS, WE CAN I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE WE'RE WE'RE DOING WHAT WE SAID WE'RE GOING TO BE DOING. WELL WE'VE GOT, WE'RE WE'RE DISPOSING OF OUR MATERIAL IN THE RIGHT AREAS, NOT, YOU KNOW, TAKE ANY SHORTCUTS ANYWHERE. THE OTHER THING IS, YEAH, IT LOOKS REALLY GOOD. I'M IT LOOKS LIKE IT'S GOING TO BE WORKING FASTER. THE OTHER THING IS HOW LONG DOES THE MATERIAL NOW STAY? THAT'S WHAT I WANTED WHEN I ASKED FOR SIX MONTH REPORT. I KNOW HOW LONG THE MATERIAL IS STAYING ON PROPERTY. I THINK OUR DISPOSAL PROCESS IS EVERYTHING RIGHT? YEAH. LET'S GET ROBERT BACK UP HERE. I MEAN, WE ARE TOP END. WE'RE 12 TO 14 HOURS. LIKE, AT THE END OF THE DAY, IF WE PRESS A BOX, THAT'S THE FIRST BOX PICKED UP IN THE MORNING. A LOT OF TIMES THEY'RE SHOWING UP AND TAKING A BOX AS IT'S COMING OFF THE PRESS. THAT'S GREAT BECAUSE REMEMBER, ROBERT, WHEN WE WERE HAVING THE ISSUES WITH CONTAINERS WITH THE LAST COMPANY. YEAH. AND WE WERE GETTING ALL THE PHONE CALLS FROM ALL THE RESIDENTS. I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE WE'RE. YEAH. WITH OUR PREVIOUS CONTRACTOR, I THINK THE LONGEST WE HAD, WE HAD BOXES OUT THERE FOR FIVE DAYS. YEAH. 
          AND SOMETIMES OVER THE WEEKEND. COMPLETELY. SO WE'RE GETTING THAT LARGE SMELL COMING OUT OF THERE. YEAH. SO GREAT TO HEAR THAT. IT'S GETTING OUT OF THERE ALMOST LEAVING THE PRESS. THAT'S PROBABLY THE RESIDENTS PROBABLY APPRECIATE THAT. YEAH BUNCH. SO YEAH THANK YOU FOR THAT INFORMATION OKAY. THANK YOU. OKAY. ANYTHING ELSE ON THE I KNEW I KNEW THIS WAS GOING TO BE ONE OF OUR MOST POPULAR. YOU'RE YOU'RE SAYING THAT I KNEW IT I KNEW IT. YOU'RE SAYING THAT WE HAVE NOT BEEN GETTING COMPLAINTS LATELY BECAUSE OF THESE IMPROVEMENTS? WELL, ARE WE ARE WE STILL. I WOULDN'T SAY WE HAVEN'T BEEN GETTING COMPLAINTS BECAUSE IT'S STILL A YOU KNOW, IT'S STILL IS WHAT IT IS. BUT THEY HAVE GONE DOWN I WOULD SAY MAYBE 90%, 90, 95% SAY, BECAUSE WE'RE GETTING A LOT OF EMAILS FOR A WHILE. WE DID GET A LOT OF COMPLAINTS FOR A WHILE THERE. WE NEVER USED TO. AND THEN ALL OF A SUDDEN AFTER THE NEW NEW PLANT WAS EXPANDED, WE STARTED GETTING A LOT MORE COMPLAINTS. SO IT'S JUST IT AFFECTS WATERLEAF RIGHT DIRECTLY. SO I'M GLAD TO HEAR THAT IT DOES. IF I COULD JUST TIE INTO THAT JUST REAL QUICK, BECAUSE THIS WAS A VERY INTERESTING CONVERSATION WE HAD IN DECEMBER, BECAUSE WE WERE GOING WITH THIS DIFFERENT COMPANY THAT WE REALLY HAD NO RECORD ON. REMEMBER THAT, RIGHT? I DO, AND SO, YOU KNOW, COUNCILMAN RIZZO AND I HAD A CONVERSATION BEFORE LIKE, OKAY, WHAT ARE THE QUESTIONS WE'RE GOING TO ASK THIS COMPANY? YOU KNOW, WE WERE NOT SO MUCH CONCERNED, BUT WE WANTED TO MAKE SURE THEY WERE ON POINT BECAUSE OF THE CONSTANT COMPLAINTS AND SO FORTH. SO, I GUESS TO ADD WHAT HE WAS SAYING, IF WE HAD DETAILED REPORTS LIKE MAYBE IN SIX MONTHS OR AT THE END OF THE YEAR, YOU KNOW, WHEN THERE UP FOR RENEWAL OR TO HAVE IT SAY, THIS IS WHERE WE'RE TAKING OUR SITES, THIS IS HOW LONG, LIKE YOU SAID, WE'RE KEEPING THEM AT BAY. AND THIS IS WE'RE TAKING THEM OUT EVERY 24 HOURS. THAT REALLY HELPS ON THAT END, BECAUSE IN THE EVENT WE HAVE RESIDENTS DO COME BACK AND SAY, HEY, THIS WE'VE NOTICED A BIG DECREASE IN THE SMELL. WE CAN AT LEAST GIVE THEM SOME INFORMATION. THIS IS WHY WE CHOSE THIS COMPANY TO GO WITH THIS ROUTE. I THINK, YOU KNOW, THAT'S A GOOD QUESTION. SO I THINK WHAT WE CAN DO IS IN OUR 
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WEEKLY REPORTS, BECAUSE WE'VE GOT THAT WE WERE PLANNING ON DOING A PRESENTATION IN JULY, BUT WE'LL PUT IT IN YOUR WEEKLY REPORT SO YOU CAN HAVE THAT. I WAS JUST HOPING MAYBE WE COULD TAKE THIS AS THAT OPPORTUNITY AND NOT TAKE UP COUNCIL TIME, BUT WE WILL DEFINITELY. IF IT'S OKAY WITH THE CITY MANAGER, WE CAN PUT THAT REPORT AND IT'S GOT PHOTOGRAPHS AND EVERYTHING THAT YOU GUYS ARE LOOKING FOR IN OUR WEEKLY PRESENTATION. WE'LL BE GLAD TO DO THAT. AND I THINK THE SLUDGE HAULING IS ONE PIECE OF MANY PIECES THAT WE'VE IMPLEMENTED TO ADDRESS THE ODORS. AND SO WE'LL GET YOU A COMPREHENSIVE REPORT ON ALL OF THOSE ITEMS. BUT I THINK THE POINT WE WERE TRYING TO MAKE TO YOU IS THAT THIS HAS BEEN VERY SUCCESSFUL AND HAS CERTAINLY ADDRESSED ONE OF THE CORE ISSUES THAT WE'VE HAD, AS WELL AS SAVED US A SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF MONEY. SO WE'LL GET YOU A MORE COMPLETE REPORT SO YOU CAN HAVE THAT DETAIL. I'LL JUST JUMP IN AND SAY THE FREQUENCY OF THE COMPLAINTS HAS GONE DOWN. MIKE. RIGHT. SO WE USED TO GET THEM A DAY AND THEN THE NEXT DAY WE'D STILL HAVE SOME ODOR SMELL THAT WOULD, YOU KNOW, PERSIST. NOW IT'S JUST A FEW NOT VERY LONG. AND IT NORMALLY HAPPENS WHEN THERE'S A LOT OF HIGH SATURATION, HIGH HUMIDITY AND NO WIND OUT THERE. SO THAT'S WHEN YOU CAN DETECT IT. BUT IT DOESN'T LAST VERY LONG, BUT A LOT BETTER THAN IT WAS BEFORE WHERE I WOULD HEAR FROM THE RESIDENTS ONCE OR TWO DAYS, AND THEN EVEN THE THIRD DAY THEY'D STILL GET THE SMELL. BUT IT'S GONE AWAY WITH A LOT OF THESE IMPROVEMENTS, AND I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO MOVING TO THE FINAL PHASE AND SEEING THE FINAL SOLUTIONS, WHICH ARE REALLY GOING TO IMPROVE TREMENDOUSLY FROM WHERE WE WERE. SO IT'S LIKE WE MOVED FROM POINT A AND WE'RE GOING TO GET THERE, AND THE IMPROVEMENTS HAVE BEEN A LOT BETTER NOTICED BY THE RESIDENTS, AND THERE'S GOING TO BE OVER THE NEXT BETWEEN NOW AND WHEN THE PROJECT IS COMPLETE, THERE'S GOING TO BE SEVERAL THINGS THAT YOU GUYS ARE GOING TO NOTICE, BECAUSE WE PUT IN A MAJOR RENOVATION PLAN TO THE BEAUTIFICATION AROUND WATER LEAF PARK AND, AND TO THE TREATMENT PLANT ITSELF. WE'RE PUTTING IN AN EIGHT FOOT TALL MASONRY FENCE AROUND THE ENTIRE SITE. AND SO THAT AND WE'RE GOING TO WE ARE GOING TO ELIMINATE ANY TRAFFIC GOING THROUGH THE NEIGHBORHOOD. ALL TRAFFIC IS COMING THROUGH FROM THE OTHER SIDE OF THE, OF THE, OF THE PLANT. SO THERE'S A LOT OF THINGS AND IT INCLUDES WE'RE WORKING WITH DAVID AND HIS GROUP ON LANDSCAPING AND DOING ALL THAT AROUND. SO THERE'S A COUPLE THINGS IT'S GOING TO BE IT'S GOING TO HELP THE PARK. IT'S GOING TO SCREEN ALL THAT OFF. THE PEOPLE WHO ARE USING THE WALKING TRAILS AROUND IT. IT'S NOT GOING TO HELP AS MUCH AS ODOR, BUT DEFINITELY THE APPEARANCE OF THAT TREATMENT PLANT IS GOING TO BE IMPROVED A GREAT DEAL. SO I KNOW THE TRUE TEST WILL BE IN THE FALL, BECAUSE RIGHT NOW THE WINDS ARE OUT OF THE SOUTH. IN THE SUMMERTIME. IT'LL BE THE FALL WHEN WE COME IN, AND THEN NORTHERN WINDS WILL PUSH THE ODORS TOWARDS QUARTERLY. SO IT'LL BE THE FALL WHEN WE REALLY GET A GOOD TEST OF WHAT IT IS. SOUNDS GOOD. I'LL TAKE MY VACATION IN THE FALL. NO, WE'RE WE'LL WE'RE WE'RE ON IT. WE'RE ON THIS THING. WE'RE GOING TO WE'RE GOING TO WORK THIS THING. 
          SO IT'S NOT THE PERFECT SOLUTION. I THINK THE PERFECT FIX IS GOING TO BE IN IN 2028, BUT DEFINITELY IS A MUCH, MUCH BETTER. AND THANK YOU ALL FOR HELPING US AND APPROVING THE FUNDING NECESSARY TO DO THESE PROJECTS. SO ANOTHER PROJECT THAT WE'RE LOOKING AT THIS, THIS WAS A GUY TO GO PROJECT ON OUR AUTOMATED METER INTEGRATION SYSTEM, AUTOMATED METER READING, GOING GOING FROM THE OLD STYLE THAT WE HAD TO THE NEW STYLE. AND SO I'M GOING TO READ SOME OF THESE THINGS BECAUSE THIS WAS A REALLY BIG SUCCESS PROJECT. AND MANY COUNCIL MEMBERS. COUNCILMAN RIZZO, THANK YOU ALL FOR WORKING WITH US ON THIS PROJECT. BUT IT CONSISTS OF THE REPLACEMENT OR REHABILITATION OF APPROXIMATELY 15,000M. AND A LOT OF THE WORK WAS DONE BY STAFF. AND YOU CAN SEE THIS IS ACTUALLY IN OUR GARAGE WHERE WE, YOU KNOW, WHERE WE MOVE STUFF AROUND AND WE HAVE LUNCH AND WE HAVE SAFETY MEETINGS AND ALL THAT, BUT WE SORT OF CONVERTED THAT INTO A MANHOLE CONVERSION PROCESS FOR SEVERAL, SEVERAL MONTHS. AND STAFF SAVED ABOUT $190,000 BY CUTTING LITTLE HOLES IN THE TOPS OF ALL THE METER BOX LIDS AND PAY GREAT DIVIDENDS AND HELP SPEED UP THE PROJECT. AND BY DOING BY BY RETASKING SOME OF OUR EXISTING SOME 5000 OF OUR EXISTING METERS, INSTEAD OF REPLACING THEM, WE MODIFIED THEM WITH THE NEW SYSTEM. THEY WERE, THEY WERE THEY WERE COMPATIBLE WITH THE NEW SYSTEM. AND BY DOING THIS, INSTEAD OF JUST GOING COMPLETELY NEW, EVERYTHING, WE RENOVATED AND REHABBED, NOT REHABBED, BUT RENOVATED THE EXISTING METER SYSTEM. WE DID BUY SOME NEW ONES AS PART OF THIS, BUT WE SAVED SOMEWHERE BETWEEN 5 MILLION AND $6 MILLION BY DOING THIS. SO THIS WAS A BIG PROJECT FOR US. 
          IT'S CURRENTLY UNDER CONSTRUCTION RIGHT NOW, AND YOU WILL BE SEEING A NEIGHBORHOOD NEAR YOU WHERE WE'RE ACTUALLY WORKING IN YOUR HOUSE, CONVERTING ALL THESE METERS. 
          WE'RE GOING DOOR TO DOOR AND WE'VE GOT A CONTRACTOR ON BOARD WITH AQUA TECH THAT WE'RE WE'RE MODIFYING THOUSANDS OF EXISTING METERS. AND SO THE PROCESS IS WORKING. IT'S IN PLACE. WE HOPE TO HAVE IT FINISHED BY THE END OF THIS YEAR. AND BY DOING THAT, IT'S GOING TO GIVE US GREAT 
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FLEXIBILITY ON WATER CONSUMPTION. AND THERE'S WE DON'T KNOW HOW MUCH IT'S GOING TO SAVE US ON LOST WATER OR LOST REVENUE, BUT WE THINK IT'S GOING TO BE IN THE HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS PER YEAR ONCE WE GO TO THIS NEW METERING SYSTEM. AND WE ALSO HAVE THE ABILITY TO SEE IF WE WANTED TO, HOW MUCH WATER EACH INDIVIDUAL HOME IS USING. IF WE SEE A HOME IS USING TYPICALLY 6000 GALLONS PER MONTH OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT, AND ALL OF A SUDDEN NOW IT'S 50,000 GALLONS PER MONTH, WE KNOW THEY'VE GOT A PROBLEM AND WE CAN WE CAN IDENTIFY IT. 
          AND BY DOING THAT, IT SAVES US THAT LOST WATER. THESE ARE ALL BIG THINGS. AND ALSO I'VE GOT ONE MORE SLIDE ON THIS. SO A COUPLE OF OTHER SIDE SIDE BENEFITS ON THIS PROJECT. BUT WE WERE ABLE TO REDUCE CURRENT UTILITY BILLING STAFF FOR PEOPLE WHO ACTUALLY DROVE AROUND READING THE METERS SORT OF THE OLD FASHIONED WAY. SO THE OLD SCHOOL WAY, WHICH IS WHAT WE WERE DOING IT, AND WE WERE ABLE TO REDUCE FROM SIX FULL TIME EMPLOYEES TO 2 TO 2 FULL TIME EMPLOYEES AT A SAVINGS OF 225,000. NOW, WE DIDN'T PUT THESE GUYS OUT ON THE STREET. WE OFFERED THEM OTHER JOBS WITHIN WATER, UTILITIES OR ACTUALLY ANYWHERE IN THE CITY. SO THAT WAS A THAT WAS A BIG PLUS ON THIS PROGRAM TOO. SO WE'RE VERY PROUD OF THE WAY THAT THAT HAS BEEN WORKING OUT. IS THERE A WAY WE COULD LIKE MAYBE GET A DASHBOARD OR SOMETHING PUT TOGETHER THAT SHOWS THE PROGRESS OF THE ARMY CONVERSION, LIKE WHERE WE'RE AT AND LIKE A SCHEDULE FOR CONVERSION? YEAH, WE CAN WE CAN ABSOLUTELY DO THAT. SO THESE GUYS JUST RAMPED UP. WE JUST FINISHED THE PROCESS OF PREPARING. AND SO I THINK OUR LAST REPORT, THEY'VE INSTALLED 200 AND WAS 296 SO FAR. AND WE'RE GOING TO RAMP THAT UP A GREAT DEAL. SO THAT'S AFTER A COUPLE OF WEEKS GETTING INTO THE PROGRAM. THEY'RE HIRING MORE STAFF. SO YOU'RE GOING TO SEE A LOT MORE THAN THAT. SO BUT WE CAN DEFINITELY GIVE YOU THAT. BUT SO FAR WE'VE WE'VE CHANGED THAT 296 OF THESE PLUS OR MINUS OVER THE LAST TWO WEEKS. BUT YOU'RE YOU'RE GOING TO YOU'RE GOING TO BE CHANGING OUT 15,000 OVER THE NEXT. YEAH. SO WE'RE RAMPING THAT WAY UP. I MEAN WE HAD A CONVERSATION WITH AQUA TECH THIS THIS PAST WEEK. AND AS THEY SORT OF FIGURE THIS OUT AND GO DOOR TO DOOR AND ALL THAT, WE'RE ADDING MORE STAFF TO IT. AND SO YOU'RE GOING TO SEE HUNDREDS AND HUNDREDS MORE PER DAY OR PER, NOT PER DAY, BUT PER WEEK THAN WHAT WE'RE CURRENTLY DOING. AND ARE WE WORKING ON A COMMUNICATIONS STRATEGY WITH THAT TRAINING IN PARTICULAR, LIKE, YOU KNOW, FOR RESIDENTS, BECAUSE IT'S A DIFFERENT WAY OF MONITORING. THERE'S A DOOR HANGER PROCESS. BEFORE WE COME TO YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD, WE'LL LET YOU KNOW A GOOD WEEK IN ADVANCE THAT WE'RE GOING TO BE COMING TO YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD. AND THIS IS AND SORT OF WHAT YOU EXPECT TO SEE AS FAR AS THE CONTRACTORS THAT ARE WORKING TO DO THESE INSTALLATIONS SO THAT, YOU KNOW, AND. WE THINK THAT'S GOING TO BE SO PRETTY MUCH THE BEST WAY. SO THE FIRST PART OF IT IS JUST THE CONSTRUCTION IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD. SOMETHING'S GOING ON WITH YOUR METER. WE'RE MAKING CHANGE. AND THEN TOWARDS THE FALL WHEN WE GET READY TO LAUNCH, THERE WILL BE A BIG COMMUNICATIONS PUSH OF WHAT IS THIS PROGRAM, HOW DO YOU LOG IN, HOW DO YOU USE IT? HOW DOES IT WORK? WE'LL CERTAINLY GET ALL THAT. AND TO YOUR POINT, MAYOR, WE'LL GET YOU A DASHBOARD. SO YOU AND THE COUNCIL CAN MONITOR THE PROGRESS OF THIS PROJECT. I KNOW IT'S A BIG PROJECT FOR THE COMMUNITY AND SOMETHING WE'VE BEEN WORKING ON FOR A LONG TIME. SO WE'LL GET YOU THAT SO YOU CAN SEE IT. WE'RE REALLY PROUD OF IT. I THINK IT'S MAKING GOOD PROGRESS, BUT WE'LL YOU CAN SEE IT KIND OF RAMPING UP OVER THE NEXT FEW MONTHS. DEFINITELY. IT'S SORT OF WHERE WE'RE AT RIGHT NOW. HAVING JUST STARTED THIS PROGRAM. WE'RE DOING THIS INITIAL INSTALLATION, AND WE'RE WORKING WITH OUR UVO TO MAKE SURE EVERYTHING WE'RE PUTTING IN, THEY CAN THEY CAN SEE IT AND IT HAS A BENEFIT TO THEM. AND SO THEY HAVEN'T TAKEN OVER THESE FIRST 200 PLUS METERS YET. WE'RE STILL WORKING ON THAT RELATIONSHIP WITH UVO TO MAKE SURE IT WORKS. BUT BY THE TIME WE GET THROUGH WITH THIS TOWARDS THE END OF THE YEAR, YOU'LL SEE THIS THING. IT'S GOING TO BE AMAZING, AND THERE WILL BE A DASHBOARD AND WE'LL PROBABLY COME BACK TO COUNCIL AS WE GET CLOSER TO COMPLETION OF THIS. SO YOU KNOW WHAT TO EXPECT AND HOW IT'S GOING TO WORK. ARE WE BUYING ALL THE METER, THE NEW METERS DIRECTLY, OR IS THERE SOME KIND OF FINANCIAL PROGRAM? BECAUSE IN THE PAST WHEN WE LOOKED AT IT, IT WAS VERY EXPENSIVE TO DO THE ENTIRE CITY. 
          AND SO WE LOOKED AT MAYBE DOING PIECES OF IT, IF I REMEMBER. AND ROBERT CAN CORRECT ME BECAUSE IT WAS, IT WAS IT WAS A LOT. SO BUT NOW I DON'T SEE REALLY ANY DISCUSSION ABOUT THAT. I'M JUST CURIOUS IF THERE'S. YEAH. SO LET ME GO BACK. I COULD ADD A LITTLE BIT TO THAT. SO IN 2019 WHEN I STARTED TALKING ABOUT AMI WITH THE CITY, WE GOT WITH STAFF, THE COUNCIL, FELLOW COUNCIL MEMBERS AS WELL, AND WE STARTED AS WE WERE IMPLEMENTING NEW METERS, WE STARTED BRINGING IN AMI TECHNOLOGY. SO MAGNETIC METERS IS SOMETHING WE STARTED WORKING ON. SO THAT WAY WHEN AND THEN NEW DEVELOPMENT STARTED PUTTING IN THE NEW MAGNETIC METERS AS WELL. SO THAT WAY WHEN WE DECIDED TO GO TO THIS PROCESS, WE WOULDN'T HAVE TO PUT THAT BIG CHUNK LIKE WE WERE LOOKING AT EARLY ON. THAT'S WHY IT'S TAKEN SO LONG. IT WAS 2019 WHEN WE FIRST STARTED HAVING THESE CONVERSATIONS. NOW WE'RE HERE 2025, AND WE'RE NOT GOING TO HAVE TO REPLACE AS MANY BECAUSE 
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AS METERS WERE GOING OUT AS WELL, WE WERE REPLACING THEM TOO. BUT WITH THE NEW TECHNOLOGY MIKE AND THEM ARE DOING, LIKE RETROFITTING, DOING THINGS LIKE THAT, IT'S REALLY SAVED US A LOT MORE MONEY THAN JUST SWITCHING EVERYTHING OUT COMPLETELY. THE ONLY QUESTION I HAVE, MIKE, IS, ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT SOME OF THE METERS WE RETROFITTING? ARE WE RETROFITTING MAGNETIC METERS? WE'RE NOT DOING THE OLD SPIN. WE'RE NOT TRYING TO RETROFIT THE SPIN METERS, ARE WE? LET ME DO THIS. I'VE GOT ONE CHRISTIAN STANDING RIGHT BEHIND ME. YOU GUYS KNOW WARREN? HE'S A HE'S A VETERAN HERE AT CITY OF KYLE, BUT HE'S OVERSEEING OUR AMI CONVERSION PROGRAM. AND MAYOR, TO YOUR QUESTION, WE'RE REPLACING ALL NOT REPLACING, BUT WE'RE EITHER RENOVATING OR REPLACING ALL OF THE METERS IN OUR CURRENT SYSTEM. SO, WARREN, YOU WANT TO JUST KIND OF GIVE AN UPDATE ON WHERE WE'RE AT? SURE. TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTION DIRECTLY, COUNCIL MEMBER. THE CITY OF KYLE STARTED ABOUT 7 OR 8 YEARS AGO IMPLEMENTING THE PROCESS AND INSTALLING METERS AND RADIOS THAT WOULD BE COMPATIBLE WITH AMI IN THE FUTURE. SO EVERYTHING THAT WE'VE INSTALLED OVER THE LAST 7 TO 8 YEARS IS COMPATIBLE. THAT'S ALLOWING US TO NOT HAVE TO GO BACK AND REPLACE EVERYTHING. AND THOSE ARE MAGNETIC METERS, CORRECT? CORRECT. THOSE ARE ELECTROMAGNETIC METERS. YES, SIR. COOL. THAT'S GREAT. THAT'S AWESOME. SO LITTLE BY LITTLE, IT'S A SLOW PROCESS. AND THAT'S I GUESS SOMETIMES GOVERNMENT WORKS THAT WAY, BUT IT'S BECAUSE OF THE DOLLARS, RIGHT? IT WAS REALLY CRAZY. I KNOW WHEN WE FIRST STARTED TALKING ABOUT THIS IN 2019, IT WAS IT WAS MILLIONS 4 TO 6 MILLION I THOUGHT IS WHAT IF I REMEMBER CORRECTLY, HOW MUCH IT WAS GOING TO COST RIGHT AWAY JUST TO MAKE THE CONVERSION? I'VE NEVER BEEN CONVINCED THAT AMI WILL ACTUALLY BE A NET POSITIVE FROM A REVENUE STANDPOINT TO THE CITY. I DON'T THINK THAT WORKS LIKE THAT BECAUSE AMI ACTUALLY IS A REVENUE REDUCER BECAUSE IT PREVENTS PEOPLE FROM IT LETS THEM MONITOR AND FIND LEAKS FASTER AND LEAKS ARE, YOU KNOW, LIKE SO IT'S A BUT IT IS AN EFFICIENCY, WHICH IS, YOU KNOW, WELL WHERE THE SAVINGS COMES IN IS BECAUSE RIGHT NOW THE OLD TECHNOLOGY METERS, THEY'RE WHAT DO YOU CALL IT. YOU LOSE WATER SO THEY DON'T START REGISTERING WATER RIGHT AWAY. SO WE'RE ACTUALLY LOSING WHETHER IT'S A THREE QUARTER INCH LINE OR A THREE INCH LINE, YOU'RE YOU'RE LOSING DOLLARS. WHEN THEY FIRST TURN ON THE TAP, YOU'RE THE CITY IS LOSING DOLLARS. SO THIS IS GOING TO PREVENT THAT. THE OTHER THING IS THAT IT'S GOING TO DO IS THAT IT'S GOING TO HELP US SAVE WATER, ESPECIALLY WHEN WE'RE IN DROUGHTS. WE'RE GOING TO BE ABLE TO MONITOR STUFF ALL THROUGH THE SYSTEM AS WELL. SO IT'S GOING TO BE A WIN FOR US. HELP US. IT'LL HELP US TO SAVE WATER AND PREVENT WATER LOSS. 
          BUT BUT WATER LOSS BEFORE THE METER THAT'S HAPPENING, IT'S NOT REALLY THAT'S NOT VERY EXPENSIVE WATER. YOU KNOW, MAYBE IT'S WE'RE LETTING THE CUSTOMER USE WATER THAT WE'RE NOT CHARGING THEM FOR BECAUSE IT'S NOT BEING CAPTURED SOMEHOW. LIKE IF THE BASICALLY FOR EVERY 100 GALLONS YOU USE, THE CURRENT METER ONLY GETS 95 OF IT CAPTURED, WHICH, YOU KNOW, AND THEN THIS WILL CATCH ALL 100. THEN THERE'S AN EXTRA FIVE GALLONS OR 5% INCREASE THERE. BUT ESSENTIALLY WE'RE JUST CHARGING THE CUSTOMER MORE ACCURATELY. SO LOTS TO IT. BUT ANY WAY YOU LOOK AT IT, THIS IS THE CORRECT TECHNOLOGY. THANK YOU. THAT'S A GOOD POINT. WELL, MY LAST QUESTION IS ON THE TECHNOLOGY, MAKING SURE THAT, YOU KNOW, WE'RE DOING THE BEST WE CAN FIGHTING CYBERSECURITY. 
          THAT'S THE BIGGEST CONCERN THAT MOST CITIES ARE GOING TO HAVE, YOU KNOW, MAKING SURE THAT WE HAVE A REALLY GOOD COMPANY OVERSEEING THAT. I DON'T KNOW IF THEY'RE DOING IT IN-HOUSE OR WHAT, BUT JUST MAKING SURE THAT WE'RE THEY'RE DOING THE BEST. RIGHT? WE WANT THE BEST TECHNOLOGY, BUT CYBERSECURITY TECHNOLOGY ON THAT PLATFORM, BECAUSE IT'S GOING TO BE A HUGE PLATFORM. AND, YOU KNOW, YOU'VE SEEN CITIES THROUGHOUT THE UNITED STATES GET RANSOMED. YOU KNOW, I MEAN, SO JUST MAKING SURE WE'RE DOING WHAT WE CAN TO PREVENT THAT. RIGHT. AND THIS THIS IS THE HIGHEST LEVEL OF TECHNOLOGY. AND IT'S NOT LIKE WE'RE PUTTING THIS ON A, YOU KNOW, AN OLD BROKEN DOWN METER. THESE METERS ARE COMPATIBLE. AND THEY WERE DESIGNED FOR THIS TYPE OF SYSTEM. BUT WE I DON'T MEAN THIS IN A NEGATIVE WAY, BUT WE SORT OF WENT ON THE CHEAP WHEN WE INSTALLED THE METERS THAT WE'RE CURRENTLY USING. AND NOW WE'RE ADVANCING THOSE UP. SO ANY OTHER QUESTIONS ON JUST EXCITED ABOUT THIS FINALLY GOING ONLINE. YEAH I MEAN IT'S 2019. WHEN I FIRST DID COUNCIL AND WENT TO A WHAT DO YOU CALL IT BUDGET TO A WHAT WAS IT TRAVIS WHERE WE ENDED UP GOING TO SAN ANTONIO. WHAT WAS THAT FOR? HTML RIGHT. HTML CONFERENCE WHERE I LEARNED ABOUT ARMY AND WAS REALLY EXCITED, BROUGHT IT BACK AND WAS HOPING THAT TO SEE IT ONLINE SOONER. SOMETHING I REALLY WORKED FOR. BUT I'M GLAD IT'S FINALLY COMING HERE AND I THINK IT'S GOING TO BE A GREAT SAVINGS. IT'S GOING TO BE GREAT FOR THE CITY, ESPECIALLY IN CASE OF AN EVENT WEATHER EVENT. I MEAN, MARBLE FALLS WAS A SMALLER CITY THAN US, HAS IT IN PLACE AND WAS ABLE TO TACKLE DURING THEIR THE SNOWBALL SNOWPOCALYPSE TACKLE THEIR LEAKS BY THE GREATNESS OF THE LINE. RIGHT. SO ABLE TO GO FROM LARGE LINES TO SMALL LINES INSTEAD OF RUNNING AROUND NOT HAVING A PLAN. SO IT'S DEFINITELY GOING TO SAVE US A LOT IN THE FUTURE. THANK YOU. 
          APPRECIATE THAT COMMENT. ALL RIGHT. SO I'M GOING TO TURN IT OVER TO TIM. AND WE'RE GOING TO GO THROUGH CUSTOMER SERVICE PROPOSAL. GOOD MORNING COUNCIL AND MAYOR. SO THESE NEXT FEW SLIDES THAT I HAVE FOR YOU IS REALLY JUST TALKING ABOUT THE GROWTH OF OUR SYSTEM THAT WE'VE 
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SEEN OVER THE LAST SEVERAL YEARS. I'LL DISPLAY SOME CHARTS TO KIND OF PUT A VISUAL TO THAT JUST TO HELP, AS WE PRESENT OUR BUDGET IN THE LATER SLIDES, TO GIVE YOU AN UNDERSTANDING AND A LITTLE BIT OF BACKGROUND OF WHY WE'RE ASKING WHAT WE'RE ASKING FOR. SO TO GET US STARTED, WE'RE GOING TO TALK ABOUT OUR WASTEWATER SYSTEM. SO AS MIKE HAS SPOKEN ABOUT ALREADY, OUR WASTEWATER SYSTEM IS MADE UP OF WHAT'S LISTED HERE. I'M NOT GOING TO READ ALL OF THESE OFF TO YOU, BUT 17 LIFT STATIONS, 206 MILES OF GRAVITY MAINS, AND THEN TO THE RIGHT OF THE CHART. 
          THAT'S JUST KIND OF A STAT CHART I WAS SHOWING YOU ON THE GROWTH OF OUR SYSTEM. SO IN THE ORANGE WE HAVE WASTEWATER LINES LISTED. AS YOU CAN SEE THAT THAT CHART HAS GONE UP OVER THE YEARS. AND THAT ALSO SHOWS THE NUMBER OF LIFT STATIONS HERE IN THE MORE RECENT YEARS, AND THEN ALSO SHOWS THE NUMBER OF STAFFING THAT WE HAVE THAT'S RESPONSIBLE FOR MAINTAINING THOSE SYSTEMS. AND THEN DOWN AT THE BOTTOM THOSE THAT'S THE SCHEDULE THAT WE SPOKE ABOUT ALREADY FOR THE WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT. SO WE'RE CURRENTLY AT 4.5 MILLION GALLONS PER DAY. OUR GOAL IS TO BE AT 6 MILLION GALLONS PER DAY BY AUGUST OF 2026, AND THEN 9 MILLION GALLONS A DAY OF TREATING CAPACITY BY AUGUST OF 2028. SO THE NEXT PART OF THE SYSTEM WE'LL TALK ABOUT IS THE WATER SYSTEM. THIS IS JUST THE MAKEUP OF WHAT OUR WATER SYSTEM IS, IS MADE UP OF. SO WE HAVE EIGHT ELEVATED STORAGE TANKS, 228 MILES OF WATER LINES, SOME PROJECTS. AND I'LL TALK ABOUT THE CHART FIRST. BUT AGAIN THAT JUST SHOWS THE SYSTEM GROWTH TO THE RIGHT. ON THE CHART IN ORANGE YOU HAVE WATER VALVES, IN GREEN YOU HAVE WATER HYDRANTS. SO THAT'S YOU KNOW, RIGHT NOW WE'RE SITTING AT AT ROUGHLY 19, 2000 FIRE HYDRANTS AROUND THE CITIES THAT WE HAVE TO MAINTAIN. 
          AGAIN, IN THE BLUE WE SORT OF STAFF, THEY'RE KIND OF HARD TO SEE ON THE CHART. AND THEN THE NUMBER OF MILES OF WATER LINE ALSO SHOWN SOME SUCCESS PROJECTS THAT WE'VE BEEN ABLE TO COMPLETE OVER THE LAST YEAR. ONE OF THEM, IF YOU'VE SEEN IT AT THE CROSSWINDS WATER TANK, YOU KNOW, KIND OF LOOKS LIKE A GOLF BALL ON A TEE OUT THERE. IT'S JUST NOT PAINTED THAT WAY. AND THEN AS GOING OUT OF TOWN, KIND OF GOING TOWARDS WIMBERLEY ON THE WEST SIDE, THAT HOOVER ELEVATED STORAGE TANK IT IS, IS DAYS FROM BEING ONLINE. SO THEY'RE DOING THE FINAL COMMISSIONING OF THAT FACILITY. THAT SERVICE IS PRESSURE PLAIN THREE FOR OUR WATER SYSTEM. AND THEN THERE'S PROJECTS THAT ARE STILL UNDER CONSTRUCTION. 1626 AND THEN THIS NEXT PROJECT HAS A COUPLE OF DIFFERENT NAMES YOU MAY HEAR CALLED WATERSTONE FACILITY OR CR 158. THIS IS LOCATED ON THE SOUTHEAST SIDE OF TOWN IN THE WATERSTONE SUBDIVISION. IT WILL BE A TAKE POINT FOR OUR SUPPLY. 
          SO WE HAVE 16. 26 IS A TAKE POINT FOR ARBOR. THE SIERRA 158 STATION WILL BE A SECOND TANK POINT. AND THEN WE'RE ALSO WORKING ON A THIRD TAKE POINT THAT WE'VE WE'VE SPOKEN WITH YOU ABOUT RECENTLY. SO THIS LAST SLIDE I HAVE FOR YOU IS JUST A COMPARISON WITH SOME OF OUR SISTER CITIES. SO OUR GOAL OUT OF THIS IS TO SHOW US WHERE WE ARE TODAY. AND THEN I WANT TO EXPLAIN WHAT OUR GOAL IS, WHERE WE WANT TO BE. AND WE UNDERSTAND THAT WE'RE NOT GOING TO BE THERE TOMORROW. IT'S GOING TO TAKE A FEW YEARS. AND SO WHAT THIS CHART IS, WHAT I'M TRYING TO DESCRIBE IS THE COMPARISON TO THE NUMBER OF CITIZENS THAT WE SERVE, TO THE NUMBER OF STAFF THAT WE HAVE THAT SERVE THOSE CITIZENS. SO JUST USING KYLE AS A EXAMPLE, FOR EVERY 121 CITIZENS THAT WE SERVE, WE HAVE 60 EMPLOYEES. I'M SORRY, WE HAVE ONE EMPLOYEE FOR EVERY 121 CITIZENS THAT WE SERVE. AND THEN THAT GOES ACROSS FOR EACH ONE OF THESE OTHER MUNICIPALITIES AND ORGANIZATIONS. SO YOU SEE, LIKE PFLUGERVILLE IS CLOSER TO 780, SAN MARCOS IS 858 AND MBU IS 975. OUR GOAL IS TO BE IN AROUND THE 7 TO 800 RANGE. AND AGAIN, WE KNOW WE'RE NOT GOING TO BE THERE TOMORROW, BUT OUR GOAL IS MOVING FORWARD. WE WANT TO START BITING AWAY AT THAT AND TAKING SMALLER BITES TODAY, EVERY YEAR, EVERY FISCAL YEAR. SOMETHING IMPORTANT TO KNOW ABOUT THESE OTHER SISTER CITIES. NOT ALL OF THEM, BUT THE MAJORITY OF THEM ALSO HAVE THIRD PARTY OPERATIONS THAT OPERATE THEIR WATER FACILITIES, OPERATE THEIR WASTEWATER FACILITIES. WE DO EVERYTHING IN-HOUSE HERE AT THE CITY OF KYLE. WE DO SOME CONTRACT WORK WITH THE LABS AND THINGS LIKE THAT, BUT WE OPERATE OUR FACILITIES, WATER, WASTEWATER AND THINGS LIKE THAT. 
          SO AGAIN, THIS IS THIS IS THIS IS JUST KIND OF SPEAKS TO OUR GOALS AS WHAT AS WE PRESENT OUR BUDGET. AND JUST TO GIVE YOU SOME BACKGROUND AS TO WHY WE'RE ASKING WHAT WE'RE ASKING FOR, THAT'S ALL THE SLIDES I HAVE. AND I'LL TURN IT BACK OVER TO MIKE, UNLESS YOU ALL HAVE ANY QUESTIONS. THANK YOU. ALL RIGHT. THANKS, TIM. AND SO THIS IS THIS IS OUR PROPOSED ORGANIZATION CHART FOR THIS UPCOMING YEAR. WE'RE ASKING FOR EIGHT POSITIONS. AND LIKE WHAT TIM WAS SAYING, IF YOU GO BACK TO THE PREVIOUS SLIDE, WE'VE GOT ONE EMPLOYEE PER 1200 RESIDENTS. AND 
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THE REASON THAT WE'RE ASKING FOR THESE IS WE CONTINUE TO GROW OUR SYSTEM. AND AS OUR SYSTEM CONTINUES TO GROW, SO DOES OUR NEEDS TO MAINTAIN THE THINGS THAT WE'RE SPENDING SO MUCH MONEY BUILDING. AND SO LIKE, LIKE TIM WAS SAYING, WE KNOW IT'S NOT GOING TO HAPPEN OVERNIGHT. WE NEVER ASK THAT OF COUNCIL. WE APPRECIATE EVERYTHING THAT YOU GUYS DO FOR US FOR NEW EMPLOYEES. SO WE'RE GOING TO START TAKING BITES AT THE APPLE. AND OUR GOAL IS TO GET IN THAT 7 TO 800. OR ONE EMPLOYEE FOR EVERY 7 TO 800 CUSTOMERS THAT WE HAVE, AND WE THINK IT'S DOABLE AND PROBABLY NEXT 4 OR 5, SIX YEARS. SO WE'RE GOING TO KEEP LOOKING AT THAT. 
          BUT THESE ARE THE POSITIONS THAT WE'RE ASKING FOR THIS YEAR. AND WE'LL KIND OF GO OVER THOSE A LITTLE BIT MORE DETAIL. SO WE'RE LOOKING FOR AN ADDITIONAL MANAGER A MANAGEMENT ASSISTANT. 
          RIGHT NOW WE'VE GOT WE'VE GOT TWO LADIES THAT ARE DOING A GREAT JOB. BUT THEY'RE THEY'RE OVER WATER WASTEWATER. PUBLIC WORKS FACILITIES AND FLEET SERVICES. AND THOSE DEPARTMENTS ARE GOING TO CONTINUE. OUR DIVISIONS ARE GOING TO CONTINUE TO GROW. AND SO WE FEEL LIKE WE NEED TO BRING A ADDITIONAL SYSTEM ON BOARD TO HELP US WITH THAT PROCESS. AND THEN WE'VE GOT. PRETREATMENT. AND WHAT IS THAT ONE DIVISION MANAGER WATER QUALITY. SO WE'RE WORKING ON THAT WASTEWATER TREATMENT OPERATOR. AND IF YOU WANT TO GO INTO DETAILS ON ANY OF THESE, THESE GENTLEMEN BEHIND ME CAN DEFINITELY GO INTO MORE DETAIL ON EACH ONE OF THESE. THE LEAD WATER PRODUCTION OPERATOR, A BACKFLOW TECHNICIAN, YOU'LL SEE A LOT OF THINGS COMING OUT ON BACKFLOW AS WE RAMP UP THAT PROGRAM ON BACKFLOW PREVENTION AND CROSS CROSS-CONNECTION CONTROL, AND THEN INSTRUMENTATION AND CONTROL TECH. SEE IF I CAN DO THAT. 
          SORRY. THERE WE GO. AND BEFORE YOU GO ON, WILL YOU GO BACK TO THE ORG CHART. YOU DON'T MIND. 
          GO BACK TO WHICH ONE. THE ORG CHART OKAY. STAFFING ON IT. YEP. SORRY. THERE'S A COUPLE OF KEY ROLES ON HERE THAT SEEM THAT ARE VACANT. WHAT'S WHAT'S ONE WHAT'S THE PLAN FOR FILLING THOSE ROLES. AND TWO IS THERE ANY ARE THERE ANY ROADBLOCKS THAT ARE KEEPING YOU FROM FILLING THOSE. 
          YEAH. SO. THE VACANT POSITIONS WE DESCRIBED THAT A LITTLE BIT EARLIER. WE CURRENTLY HAVE NINE VACANCIES OUT OF THE 60. AND IT'S JUST PEOPLE MOVING ON, PEOPLE GETTING PROMOTED, PEOPLE NOT LIKING THE WORK AFTER THEY GOT HERE. YOU KNOW, THERE'S A LOT OF DIFFERENT THINGS THAT GO INTO THAT. AND SO ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU'RE DEALING IN A BUSINESS LIKE THAT DEALS WITH WASTEWATER, VERY, VERY TOUGH TO HIRE SOMEBODY TO START AT, YOU KNOW, IN THE FIRST PLACE. RIGHT. 
          BECAUSE THE NATURE OF THE, OF THE JOB. BUT GETTING THAT, GETTING THEM ON BOARD AND KEEPING THEM ON BOARD, THAT'S THE CHALLENGE. AND I KNOW WE'RE WORKING WITH ROSIE AND HER DEPARTMENT AND JULIE BEGGS ON SALARY AND ADJUSTING THAT. AND WE'RE GOING THROUGH THAT WHOLE PROCESS RIGHT NOW WITH HR ON MAYBE LOOKING AT EACH INDIVIDUAL ROLE OF OUR EMPLOYEES. AND IT'S NOT JUST WATER UTILITIES, IT'S ALL ACROSS THE BOARD WITH THE CITY TO SEE IF WE'RE ACTUALLY PAYING THE RIGHT AMOUNT FOR THESE POSITIONS, YOU KNOW, DOING COST COMPARISONS AND ALL THAT WITH OTHER CITIES AND OTHER OUTSIDE AGENCIES THAT WE'RE IN COMPETITION WITH. IT'S NOT JUST OTHER CITIES, BUT IT'S ACROSS THE BOARD. AND WITH DEVELOPMENT THAT IS SO RAMPANT IN THIS AREA, WE'RE ALL COMPETING FOR THE SAME LABOR POOL. YOU KNOW, WHETHER, YOU KNOW, BECAUSE WE HAVE CONSTRUCTION WORKERS AND CONCRETE WORKERS, PEOPLE THAT WORK IN WATER UTILITIES. WELL, THOSE ARE THE NEEDS OF THE OF THE BIG DEVELOPERS IN THIS PART OF THE ESPECIALLY IN THIS AREA BETWEEN SAN ANTONIO AND AUSTIN, THERE'S A HIGH DEMAND AND CDL DRIVERS, INCREDIBLY HIGH DEMAND RIGHT NOW FOR TRUCK DRIVERS, THINGS LIKE THAT. ALL THE THINGS THAT WE DO ON A DAILY BASIS, THOSE ARE WHO WE'RE IN COMPETITION WITH. AND SO WE'RE TRYING. AIR IS WORKING RIGHT NO, TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHAT THAT'S GOING TO LOOK LIKE. OKAY. I WOULD JUST WITH SO MANY MOVING PIECES HERE AND ALL THE PROJECTS THAT WE'VE GONE THROUGH THIS MORNING, I WOULD THINK CONTINUITY IS OF THE UTMOST IMPORTANCE. SO IF YOU DON'T MIND THINKING ABOUT IT AND TALKING WITH ROSIE AND BRIAN AND FIGURING OUT IF THERE'S SOMETHING MORE THAT YOU NEED TO TRY TO HELP FILL THOSE POSITIONS FOR, YOU KNOW, LONG PERIODS OF TIME THAT WOULD LET US DO THAT, PLEASE COME BACK TO US AND LET US KNOW, OKAY. GLAD TO DO THAT. THAT'S A GOOD POINT TO GO OFF OF THAT. YOU THINK, YOU KNOW, YOU'RE LOOKING AT ATTRITION RATES, RIGHT? PEOPLE RETIRE OR THEY MOVE ON. BUT I CAN KIND OF UNDERSTAND WHERE YOU'RE GETTING AT BECAUSE IN OUR AREA OF TEXAS WE HAVE SO MUCH LARGE DEVELOPMENT. YOU CAN DRIVE TO SAN ANTONIO AND JUST SEE 
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CONSTRUCTION EVERYWHERE. SO I'M WONDERING IF NUMBER ONE, WHEN WE'RE LOOKING AT TRYING TO, LET'S SAY THE ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF WATER UTILITIES, NUMBER ONE, THE QUALIFICATIONS. BUT NUMBER TWO, THEY MAY HAVE 5 OR 6 OTHER APPLICATIONS OUT THERE TO OTHER CITIES. SO ARE WE COMPETING IN THAT MARKET? WE ARE, ALONG WITH JUST THE AMOUNT OF WORK THAT WE HAVE WITH OUR GROWTH. YOU KNOW, BECAUSE I WANT PEOPLE TO UNDERSTAND LIKE, OH, LOOK, THEY'RE JUST TRYING TO HIRE PEOPLE LEFT AND RIGHT, YOU KNOW, AND JUST PUTTING BRINGING MORE PEOPLE ON BOARD. BUT HAVING AN UNDERSTANDING AS AS THE WORKLOAD CONTINUES TO GROW IN OUR CITY AND MORE AND MORE PEOPLE ARE MOVING IN, YOU KNOW, THE DEMAND FOR THE SERVICE, DEMAND FOR THESE TYPE OF THINGS. AND THEN WE'RE NEEDING TO BRANCH OUT BECAUSE I HATE TO SAY, WELL, WE'VE GOT ALL THESE EMPLOYEES. 
          WHY CAN'T WE JUST STACK MORE WORK ON THEM INSTEAD OF HIRING ANOTHER PERSON? LET'S FILTER IN THEIR POSITIONS INTO OTHER AREAS, WHICH SOMETIMES OVERLOADS THAT PERSON AS WELL. AND THEN WE HAVE ISSUES TO WHERE SOME PROJECTS COULD GET DELAYED VERSUS NEEDING THE HELP. SO IT'S SOMETHING TO CONSIDER. THOSE THOSE ARE ALL THINGS THAT WE THINK ABOUT PRETTY MUCH EVERY SINGLE DAY. AND WE'RE CROSS-TRAINING AND WE'RE GOING, YOU KNOW, BETWEEN WATER UTILITIES, WATER, WASTEWATER, YOU KNOW, PEOPLE IN MIKE AND CHRIS'S DEPARTMENT OVER IN PUBLIC WORKS, AND WE'RE ALSO SHARING ENGINEERING. IT'S A CHALLENGE. I MEAN, IT'S A CHALLENGE JUST BECAUSE THERE'S SO MUCH WORK GOING ON. BUT THANKS TO THE MEN AND THESE GENTLEMEN BEHIND ME, I THINK WE'RE DOING A REALLY GOOD JOB OF MANAGING IT. BUT DO WE NEED HELP? YES, WE DO, AND THAT'S WHY WE'RE ASKING FOR THESE POSITIONS. AND WE WILL. AND I PROMISE YOU, WE'LL BE BACK NEXT YEAR ASKING FOR MORE. JUST LIKE I SAID, WE'RE GOING TO START TAKING BITES OF THESE APPLES. BUT GETTING THESE PEOPLE HERE AND HAVING A PLACE FOR THEM TO WORK OUT OF IS ANOTHER BIG DEAL. AND YOU'LL SEE THAT WHEN WE START TALKING ABOUT NEW FACILITIES, BECAUSE RIGHT NOW WE'RE COMPLETELY FULL AT PRETTY MUCH EVERY FACILITY, AND WE'RE GOING TO BE OPENING UP THESE MOBILE OFFICES AT THE WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT, PROBABLY WITHIN THE NEXT TWO WEEKS. WE'LL BE OPENING THAT UP. SO THAT'S GOING TO HELP SOME. WE'RE SEEING THOSE PHOTOS WHERE YOU HAD A DESK AND A COMPUTER AND YOU HAD LIKE SIX GUYS THAT HAD TO SHARE IT. YEAH. 
          SO YOU'VE SEEN THOSE, YOU KNOW LIKE ONE CHAIR, YOU KNOW. SO WE I UNDERSTAND IT'S A PROCESS. I MEAN YOU NEED AND YOU ALL KNOW BETTER THAN I DO. IT'S A PROCESS TO GET THERE. AND SO THAT'S WHAT WE'RE WE'RE WORKING ON THAT. YEAH. AND HOPEFULLY BACK IN THE PAST I KNEW THAT YOU KNOW CITIES COMPETED WITH OTHER CITIES, YOU KNOW, BECAUSE PEOPLE TOOK CITY JOBS BECAUSE OF, YOU KNOW, ALL THE BENEFIT PACKAGES THAT WERE OUT THERE. AND I JUST THINK THAT THE MINDSET HAS CHANGED FROM THAT. WE'RE NOW COMPETING WITH THE PRIVATE SECTOR PEOPLE. I DON'T KNOW, IT JUST SEEMS LIKE PEOPLE, THE YOUNGER GENERATION DIDN'T REALLY CARE ABOUT THE BENEFIT PACKAGE. IT'S MORE ABOUT THE DOLLARS NOW. AND I'M JUST WONDERING WHAT WE CAN DO AS A CITY TO REALLY PROMOTE THE BENEFIT PACKAGES WE HAVE, WE OFFER, AND MAYBE FIND A WAY TO SHOW PEOPLE THAT THE BENEFITS OUTWEIGH EVERYTHING ELSE. I MEAN, WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE PRICE OF INSURANCE, EVERYTHING ELSE, I MEAN THAT THE CITY IS OFFERING, IT'S A WIN FOR YOU. INSTEAD OF GOING OUT AND BUYING INSURANCE FROM A PRIVATE SECTOR COMPANY WHEN YOU'RE WORKING IN A PRIVATE SECTOR. SO REALLY PROMOTING WHAT WE HAVE TO OFFER CITY MIGHT, MIGHT BE BENEFICIAL FOR US AS WELL. WELL, YOU KNOW, ONE MINOR THING THAT THAT WE JUST RECENTLY IMPLEMENTED WORKING WITH HR WHEN THEY WERE LISTING A JOB, THEY WOULD TYPICALLY LIST THE STARTING SALARY OF THAT POSITION. AND THAT'S WHAT WENT OUT INTO THE MARKET. SO OUR TEAM WORKING WITH ROSIE'S TEAM, WE'RE PUTTING THE FULL SCALE, NOT JUST THE STARTING SALARY, BUT THE FULL THE FULL PAY SCALE IN THE JOBS THAT WE'RE WE'RE SENDING OUT AND ASKING FOR PEOPLE TO APPLY, BECAUSE A LOT OF PEOPLE WILL LOOK AT THAT STARTING SALARY AND THEY GO, THERE'S NO WAY I'M GOING TO DO THAT. I'VE BEEN DOING THIS FOR 20 YEARS. 
          I'M NOT GOING TO. AND SO IT WAS REDUCING THE AMOUNT OF APPLICATIONS WE WERE GETTING. SO BY PUTTING THE FULL PAY SCALE IN THERE, WE'RE GETTING MORE PEOPLE APPLY FOR IT. AND SO, YOU KNOW, HR HAS GIVEN US THE FLEXIBILITY BASED ON EXPERIENCE AND EDUCATION WHERE WE CAN HIRE A NET SALARY RANGE, WHICH HELPS HAS HELPED A GREAT DEAL. IT MAKES US MORE COMPETITIVE NOT COMPETING WITH WHAT IF WE DO SOME KIND OF IMPLEMENTING PLAN, LIKE WHAT THE POLICE IS DOING WHEN THEY'RE DOING A LOT OF THEIR RECRUITING VIDEOS? IF WE COULD DO THE SAME THING FOR ALL OF THEM, ALL THE ONES THAT ARE COMING UP, THAT'S GOING TO BE REQUESTING FOR ADDITIONAL STAFF TO WHERE WE CAN GET SOME KIND OF POSITIVE CAMPAIGN TO WHERE WE COULD REALLY SHOW OUT THERE. 
          THIS IS PUBLIC WORKS, THIS IS WHAT THEY DO. COME JOIN OUR TEAM. THIS IS THE TYPE OF WORK WE DO AND REACH OUT AND BRANCH OUT TO THAT MARKET LIKE WE DO WITH LAW ENFORCEMENT SOMETIME TO GET THAT KIND OF CAMPAIGN AND HAVE AN INTERVIEW WITH ONE OF YOUR ENGINEERS, OR HAVE A SMALL CLIP OF THE OF BEING ON SITE AND SEEING WHAT YOU'RE DOING, WHETHER IT'S DRIVING THE TRUCKS OR WORKING INSIDE THE FACILITY AND JUST KIND OF GETTING THAT, THAT EXCITEMENT. BECAUSE I CAN 
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TELL YOU RIGHT NOW, THERE'S SOME HIGH SCHOOL KIDS RIGHT NOW THAT ARE LOOKING PROBABLY, WHAT AM I GOING TO DO WHEN I GRADUATE? SO IF WE CAN PUSH THAT KIND OF MARKET, WE COULD SAY, HEY, LOOK, YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU GRADUATE FROM COLLEGE OR YOU LOOKING FOR SOMETHING TO DO TO BETTER YOUR CAREER, WE CAN MAYBE PROMOTE SOMETHING LIKE THAT FROM AN ENGINEERING STANDPOINT AND PROMOTE OUR CITY THAT WAY. AND MAYBE WE CAN GET SOME GET SOME FEED ON THAT. SURE. WE CAN CERTAINLY LOOK AT DOING SOMETHING LIKE THAT. I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE HAVEN'T GIVEN THE WRONG IMPRESSION. WE DON'T THINK THIS IS A CRISIS MOMENT FOR THE STAFFING. WE'VE GOT MANY OF THESE THAT ARE IN PROCESS OF BEING INTERVIEWED AND SOME FOLKS THAT ARE JUST AWAITING OFFERS, SO YOU'RE ALWAYS GOING TO HAVE A FEW OPENINGS JUST WITH THE TRANSITION AND, YOU KNOW, TURNOVER THAT YOU HAVE IN A LARGE STAFF LIKE THIS. SO WE THINK WE'RE IN A GOOD SPOT HERE. 
          IT'S ALWAYS A LITTLE CHALLENGING WITH THE MARKET AND YOU'VE GOT A LOT OF PEOPLE IN DEMAND, BUT WE'RE IN A GOOD SPOT. BUT WE CAN CERTAINLY LOOK AT DOING SOME ADDITIONAL RECRUITMENT VIDEOS AND TRYING TO GET MORE PEOPLE INTO THE DOOR. I THINK IT'S MIKE'S TALKED ABOUT. WE'VE MADE A LOT OF PROGRESS ON THAT RECENTLY, BUT THERE'S ALWAYS MORE THAT CAN BE DONE. YEAH, BECAUSE IF WE'RE GOING TO BE COMING BACK EVERY YEAR, IS WHAT I'M SAYING. IF WE'RE COMING BACK EVERY YEAR TO SAY WE'RE LOOKING AT HIRING THIS, BUT AT LEAST WE CAN MAYBE FROM OUR POINT, PROMOTE NOT ONLY OUR CITY AND THE GREAT THINGS WE'RE DOING, BUT IF THERE IS EVER SOMEBODY OUT THERE THAT IS INTERESTED IN A POSITION TO WORK, YOU KNOW, YOU START AT THE GROUND AND THEN YOU MOVE UP EVENTUALLY IN YEARS TO COME. YEAH. AND I APPRECIATE THE CITY MANAGER SAYING THAT BECAUSE WHERE WE'RE AT RIGHT NOW, ALL THE CITIES THAT THAT TIM LISTED, ALL OF OUR SISTER CITIES HAVE GONE THROUGH WHAT WE'RE GOING THROUGH RIGHT NOW AS FAR AS THIS INCREDIBLE GROWTH. 
          AND SO AS WE GROW, AS WE CONTINUE TO GROW, AND YOU'LL SEE THAT IN OUR CIP PRESENTATION, PART OF THE PRESENTATION, WE WANT TO KEEP UP WITH THAT GROWTH. AND BRIAN IS OUR CITY MANAGER IS 100% RIGHT. WE'RE IT'S NOT A CRISIS MODE RIGHT NOW, BUT FOR US TO KEEP UP, WE'RE GOING TO BE COMING BACK AS, AS THE AS OUR SYSTEM CONTINUES TO GROW AND SO DOES THE NEED FOR ADDITIONAL MAINTENANCE. THAT'S THAT'S KIND OF WHAT WE'RE GETTING AT HERE. 
          MIKE, I JUST WANT TO SAY, LIKE WHEN I'M LOOKING AT YOUR WORK CHART AND YOUR PROPOSED POSITIONS, THEY THEY COMPLETELY FEEL LIKE WHERE YOU NEED TO BE BALANCED AND TO PROVIDE GOOD SERVICE AND QUALITY. SO THESE ARE ALL ESSENTIAL. YOU KNOW, ALL THESE POSITIONS PROVIDE A GREAT VALUE. AND THE CHALLENGE IS RETAINING AND KEEPING THEM AFTER AFTER THEY'RE TRAINED. AND KEEP THESE THESE EMPLOYEES HERE, YOU KNOW, LONG TERM FOR US BECAUSE THAT'S WHERE WE GET OUR RETURN. 
          BUT THERE'S ALSO A SORT OF ANOTHER PIECE TO THAT IS IT'S NOT THAT THEY'RE LEAVING THE CITY, BUT THEY'RE GOING TO THEY'RE BEING PROMOTED INTO ANOTHER POSITION, WHICH LEAVES THE VACANT POSITION. SO IT KIND OF YOU KIND OF ALWAYS IN THAT LITTLE, THAT LITTLE CIRCULAR CYCLE. BUT WE WANT WE WANT OUR EMPLOYEE AND WE EVEN PROMOTE IT WHEN WE HIRE THAT THERE ARE GROWTH OPPORTUNITIES. SURE. AND IF YOU WE WOULD DEFINITELY SUPPORT YOU IN. AND IF YOU'RE LOOKING FOR SOMETHING TO PROMOTE INTO WE'RE DEFINITELY WE'RE GOING TO SUPPORT THAT. RIGHT. 
          WELL I COULD JUST SEE A LOT OF CONSIDERATION WAS DONE AND DECIDING WHERE YOU NEED THEM AND WHERE THEY NEED TO FIT. SO THANK YOU. THANK YOU. YES, SIR. ALL RIGHT. SO WE GOT THROUGH THAT. 
          THANK YOU FOR ALL THAT. SO JUST KIND OF ON OUR ON OUR BUDGET, ONE OF THE NEW THINGS THE CITY MANAGER HAS ASKED US TO DO THIS YEAR IS TO SHOW ALL THE COSTS ASSOCIATED WITH HIRING THESE POSITIONS, NOT JUST THE SALARY AND BENEFITS, BUT ALSO THE CONTRACTUAL COSTS, THE COMMODITY COSTS AND THE CAPITAL EQUIPMENT COSTS. SO THESE, THESE THESE POSITIONS ARE AROUND ALMOST $1 MILLION FOR EIGHT POSITIONS, WHICH IS A PRETTY GOOD BARGAIN. ALL RIGHT. SO NON CIP EQUIPMENT THIS IS ANOTHER BIG THING IS KEEPING OUR EQUIPMENT CURRENT. KEEPING MODERN EQUIPMENT THE HIGHEST TECHNOLOGY AVAILABLE FOR OUR TO MAINTAIN OUR SYSTEMS. AND THEN ALSO ROTATING OUT OUR EQUIPMENT. THAT'S WORN OUT BECAUSE WE'RE, WE'RE PRETTY HARD ON OUR CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT. 
          SO WE'VE GOT A LIST OF 11 PIECES OF EQUIPMENT THAT WE'RE PROPOSING. YOU CAN SEE THE ONES THAT HAVE ASTERISKS. BESIDE THEM ARE PIECES THAT WE ASKED FOR LAST YEAR, BUT HAVING TO CUT EQUIPMENT TO MEET OUR BUDGET, WE HAD TO MOVE THOSE TO THIS YEAR. SO YOU'LL SEE THESE ARE ALL LAID OUT. THESE ARE IN PRIORITY ORDER HERE. SO THESE ARE THE PIECES THAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT. AND IF YOU WANT TO GO INTO ANY DETAIL, MORE DETAIL ON ANY OF THESE PIECES OF EQUIPMENT, WE'VE GOT THAT INFORMATION AVAILABLE. AND SO THE WHAT WE DID IS, IS, IS IN OUR BUDGET, WE PRIORITIZED EQUIPMENT AND STAFF AND LISTED THEM ALL OUT, WHICH ARE WHAT WE CONSIDER THE MOST CRITICAL NEEDS RIGHT NOW. AND SO WE'VE GOT THOSE LISTED OUT HERE ALSO. AND WE'VE ALSO TO DECIDE IF WE IF WE ARE ABLE TO HIRE ALL THESE EIGHT PROPOSED POSITIONS, WE GO FROM ONE ONE EMPLOYEE PER 1200 TO 1 EMPLOYEE PER JUST A LITTLE OVER A THOUSAND. SO YOU CAN SEE HOW WE'RE GOING TO BE KNOCKING THIS 
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THING DOWN WITH OUR GOAL OF AROUND 700 TO 800 PER EMPLOYEE. SO THIS THIS IS JUST A AND WE WON'T GO THROUGH THIS UNLESS YOU WANT TO STOP ON ONE OF THESE. BUT THIS IS JUST THE BASIC DESCRIPTION ABOUT EACH ONE OF THESE PIECES OF EQUIPMENT. WE'RE FLYING DOWN. UNLESS YOU GUYS WANT TO STOP ME. OKAY. IS THE ONLY VERSION OF THE JOHN DEERE. LOOK, I'M A BIG FAN OF JOHN DEERE, BUT AS WE'RE. WHICH ONE? HOW HAVE WE BEEN DOING THAT SINCE GETTING, YOU KNOW, A PART FOR THAT BECAUSE, YOU KNOW JOHN DEERE IS SHIFTING EVERYTHING OVER TO MEXICO NOW WITH THE PLANTS AND THE TRAILERS. COMMAND IS KIND OF WORRIED ABOUT WHAT THAT'S GOING TO LOOK LIKE FOR THE FUTURE OF PAKISTAN. YEAH. WELL, THERE'S NO DOUBT, ESPECIALLY ON OUR BIGGER PIECES OF EQUIPMENT, THAT WHEN THEY DO GO DOWN, THEY'RE DOWN FOR IT'S NOT THEY'RE DOWN FOR DAYS AT A TIME. THEY'RE DOWN FOR WEEKS AND WEEKS AT A TIME. AND THAT'S WHY WE WANT TO KEEP ROTATING THE WORN OUT PIECES OF EQUIPMENT, GET THE NEW OBVIOUSLY NEW EQUIPMENT DOESN'T HAVE AS AS MANY ISSUES AS WE DO. ONE OF THE GREAT THINGS AND MIKE, MIKE TRIMBLE AND CHRIS WILL BE TALKING ABOUT IN THEIR PRESENTATION, IS HAVING INTERNAL FACILITIES OR FLEET MAINTENANCE, AND WE ARE 100% IN SUPPORT OF THAT RIGHT NOW. WE HAVE TO CONTRACT EVERYTHING OUT THAT WE NEED MAINTENANCE ON, AND EVEN OUR LEASED VEHICLES IS A CHALLENGE. BUT ON OUR LARGER PIECES OF EQUIPMENT, WE HAVE TO CONTRACT ALL THAT OUT. SO AS PART OF THE PROJECT THAT WE'VE BEEN WORKING ON FOR A WHILE NOW AND, AND COUNCIL JUST APPROVED OUR LAND ACQUISITION EFFORT IN THAT NEW FACILITY. WE'LL HAVE A NEW FLEET MAINTENANCE SHOP, WHICH WILL DO HEAVY OR THE I GUESS THE GOAL IS, IS TO DO HEAVY EQUIPMENT AND LIGHT EQUIPMENT MAINTENANCE. AND SO TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTION, IT'S A CHALLENGE FOR SURE. AND IT'S ALWAYS GOING TO BE A CHALLENGE UNTIL WE BRING THAT IN-HOUSE. YEAH. YES THAT SOUNDS GREAT. KEEPING SPARE PARTS AS WELL. 
          JUST THERE'S SOMETHING THAT WE KNOW PROBABLY GOES OUT MORE FREQUENTLY. WOULD PROBABLY BE HAVING THAT FACILITY NOW WOULD PROBABLY BE BENEFICIAL. BUT I GUESS EVEN NOT JUST JOHN DEERE, I GUESS ALL THE DIFFERENT, YOU KNOW, PROVIDERS PROBABLY BRING IN STUFF FROM OVERSEAS. I KNOW I WAS WAITING ON A CLAW BUCKET, TOOK ME OVER A YEAR TO GET IT. SO JUST EVERYTHING'S JUST TAKING FOREVER AND JUST TOUGH. BUT. ALL RIGHT. THANKS, MIKE. YES, SIR. OKAY, THIS IS JUST A LIST OF THE LEASED VEHICLES, AND I KNOW THAT I DON'T WANT TO STEAL THE THUNDER FROM OUR FRIENDS OVER AT PUBLIC WORKS. THEY'LL BE TALKING ABOUT LEASE VEHICLES AND THINGS LIKE THAT IN THEIR PRESENTATION. 
          SO THIS IS THE BOTTOM LINE ON OUR OPERATING BUDGET. WE'VE GOT THE PERSONNEL, GOT CONTRACTUAL SERVICES, COMMODITIES NON CIP TRANSFERS. AND YOU KNOW AT THE END OF THE DAY WE'RE WE'RE PROPOSING ABOUT A 24 A LITTLE BIT MORE THAN 24% INCREASE IN OUR OPERATING BUDGET. THAT WILL GET US UP TO RIGHT AT 30, JUST A LITTLE OVER $38 MILLION A YEAR. IT'S NOT TOO AGGRESSIVE, BUT IT IS A LITTLE I MEAN, WE'RE ASKING FOR WE KNOW WE'RE ASKING FOR A LOT. AND SO GETTING INTO THE UNLESS THERE'S ANY QUESTIONS ON THAT, GETTING INTO THE FIVE YEAR CIP SPENDING PLAN AND NEW PROJECTS WERE PROPOSED, AND ALL OF THESE ARE ALL OF THE NEW PROJECTS THAT WE'RE PROPOSING ARE WATER UTILITY PROJECTS THIS YEAR. BECAUSE, AS YOU ALL KNOW, WE'RE CURRENTLY UNDERWAY ON OUR WASTEWATER MASTER PLAN. SO YOU WILL SEE PROJECTS COMING NEXT YEAR AS FAR AS OUR WASTEWATER MASTER PLAN, AS FAR AS NEW PROJECTS GO, WE'VE GOT SEVERAL WASTEWATER PROJECTS THAT ARE UNDER CONSTRUCTION RIGHT NOW OR UNDER DESIGN, BUT THOSE AREN'T WHAT WE CONSIDER NEW PROJECTS. 
          SO THE NEW PROJECTS ARE GOING TO BE THAT WE'RE GOING TO PRESENT ARE ARE BASICALLY ALL WATER RELATED. THE WATER MASTER PLAN IDENTIFIED CIP. CIP THAT WILL INCREASE TRANSMISSION CAPACITY AND PUMPING CAPABILITY AND WATER PRESSURE IMPROVEMENTS. SO RIGHT NOW WE THERE'S SORT OF LIKE I EXPLAINED, THERE'S THREE LEGS TO THIS STOOL. WE'VE GOT TO HAVE THE WATER SUPPLY. SO I THINK WE'RE DOING REALLY, REALLY GOOD RIGHT NOW ON OUR WATER SUPPLY. HAVING MOVED US OFF OF THE IH TO ABOUT A HALF TANK. SO WE'RE DOING REALLY WELL THERE. SO THE OTHER THINGS THAT WE'RE WORKING ON IS ARE OUR PUMPING CAPABILITIES, WHICH WE FEEL WE'RE IN REALLY GOOD SHAPE THERE. BUT WE HAVE A WE STILL HAVE A WAYS TO GO ON THE TRANSMISSION SIDE, WHICH IS OUR 
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PIPELINES. OUR OUR SYSTEM IS EITHER DOESN'T EXIST OR IT'S UNDERSIZED IN SEVERAL AREAS OR SEVERAL THE PRESSURE AND PRESSURE PLAYING ONE AND TWO SPECIFICALLY. AND SO THAT'S WHAT WE'RE GOING TO BE SPENDING MOST OF OUR MONEY ON OVER THE NEXT FIVE YEARS ARE PUMPING AND TRANSMISSION. SO KEEP THAT IN MIND WHEN WE GO THROUGH THIS PRESENTATION. SO STAFF IS ALSO RECOMMENDS SEVERAL HIGH PRIORITY PROJECTS. AND YOU'LL SEE THOSE. SO WE'VE GOT THE MASTER PLAN THAT WE JUST COMPLETED. AND WE'VE GOT STAFF RECOMMENDATIONS. AND THEN WE'VE ALSO GOT ROAD BOND PROJECTS IN WHICH WE'RE WORKING WITH THE TRANSPORTATION GROUP TO MAKE SURE THAT IF WE NEED A LINE UPSIZE, REPLACED OR RELOCATE, WE'RE DOING THOSE AS ALL PART OF THIS PROCESS. AND THEN THE WATER MASTER PLAN, LIKE I SAID, IS CURRENTLY UNDER DESIGN. SO, MIKE, IF YOU'RE IF YOU'RE UPGRADING A WASTEWATER LINE OR WATER LINE AS A PART OF THE ROAD BOND PROJECT, HOW ARE THE FUNDS FOR THAT PROJECT? LIKE WHAT ACCOUNT ARE THOSE COMING OUT OF? IS IT IS IT IN THE ROAD BOND BUDGET? IN OTHER WORDS, IS IT COMING OUT OF THE ROAD BOND FUNDS TO UPGRADE THOSE LINES, OR IS IT COMING OUT OF THE WATER WASTEWATER UTILITY FUNDS? IT'S A LITTLE OF BOTH. IF IT'S IF IT HAS TO DO WITH US WANTING TO UPSIZE AN EXISTING LINE FOR NO OTHER REASON THAN WE NEED MORE CAPACITY. WE DON'T WANT TO HAVE TO GO IN AND TEAR OUT THEIR BRAND NEW ROAD TO PUT IN A WATER LINE, SO WE'RE TRYING TO STAY IN FRONT OF THOSE, AND THOSE ARE TYPICALLY PAID OUT OF OUR WATER FUND. IF IT'S AS A RESULT, WE'RE HAVING TO DO SOMETHING AS A RESULT OF THE ROAD BOND PROJECT, I THINK, AND THESE GUYS CAN SPEAK ON IT BETTER THAN I CAN. BUT I THINK WHAT CHRIS WAS DOING AN ESTIMATE AND AS PART OF THAT PROJECT, BUT THERE'S SORT OF A LITTLE OF BOTH, IS THE WAY I WOULD KIND OF SAY THAT. AND WE CAN I'VE GOT SOME, I'VE GOT A FEW. AERIAL PHOTOS THAT WE'RE GOING TO GO OVER THAT IN JUST A SECOND. AND I KIND OF SHOW YOU HOW THAT WILL WORK. MAYBE ANSWER THAT QUESTION. AND I THINK, YOU KNOW, I THINK A GOOD ONE WAS THIS GBRA THAT WE JUST APPROVED, YOU KNOW, AS A RESULT OF A ROAD BOND PROJECT, WE NEEDED TO GBRA NEEDED TO BUY A DIFFERENT ABIDE EASEMENT AND RELOCATE SOME OF THEIR BIG FACILITIES. AND I THINK THE ROAD BOND ESTIMATED ABOUT A MILLION AND A HALF. WELL, THE PROJECT CAME IN AT LIKE 3 MILLION, GBRA CAME AT 3 MILLION. SO WE SPLIT THAT COST WITH THE ROAD BOND AND THE WATER DEPARTMENT ALMOST 5050. I THINK WATER PAID A LITTLE BIT MORE, BUT NOT MUCH. SO THAT WAS HOW THAT ONE WORKED OUT. SO HERE, LIKE I SAID, WE HAD 15 PROJECTS. THE FIRST THIS FIRST TRANCHE IS FIRST. WAS IT ONE, TWO, THREE, FOUR. THE FIRST SIX PROJECTS ARE LISTED IN THIS CHART. AND IT DOESN'T REALLY HAVE A LOT OF MEANING. WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE WHEN YOU JUST LOOK AT A CHART AND IT, IT SAYS A 24 INCH WATER LINE AND THIS IS HOW MUCH IT COST. IT REALLY DOESN'T MAKE A LOT OF SENSE. AND SO WHAT WE TRIED WE TRIED SOME OR WE'RE TRYING SOMETHING A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENT THIS YEAR. I HOPE YOU LIKE WHAT WE'RE DOING. SO WE'VE WE'VE TAKEN THIS PRESSURE ZONE OF PROJECTS AND WE PUT IT IN IN A MAP LIKE THIS. SO NOW YOU CAN SEE HOW THESE PROJECTS COME TOGETHER. THIS IS IN PRESSURE PLANE NUMBER ONE. AND THESE ARE ALL PROJECTS THAT EITHER WE'RE PROPOSING OR THEY'RE OR THEY'RE UNDER DESIGN RIGHT NOW. THESE ARE NEW PROJECTS. THESE ARE NEW PROJECTS. SO WE'LL START OFF, YOU KNOW, FROM THE BOTTOM LEFT HAND CORNER, YOU SEE IN YELLOW THAT IS THE GOFORTH MERITAGE HOMES PROJECT, WHICH IS CURRENTLY UNDER DESIGN. YOU CAN SEE THAT. AND THE REASON WE'RE DOING THIS IS SO YOU CAN KIND OF GET AN IDEA OF OUR THINKING ON HOW WE'RE TYING ALL THESE SYSTEMS TOGETHER. WE'RE NOT JUST RANDOMLY BUILDING. AND I KNOW YOU DON'T THINK THAT, BUT WE'RE NOT JUST RANDOMLY BUILDING THESE WATER PROJECTS. WE WANT TO SHOW YOU HOW THEY ALL CONNECT TO THE OVERALL SYSTEM. SO THE SECOND ONE IS THE GOFORTH MERIDIAN WEGGELAND WAGON. I CAN'T WHATEVER THAT IS MASTER WATER PLAN. AND SO THE FIRST ONE IS UNDER DESIGN, WHICH MEANS THAT IT WAS ALREADY EITHER APPROVED PRIOR TO THE WATER MASTER PLAN. SO THE GOFORTH PROJECT IS A WATER MASTER PLAN PROJECT. AND THEN WE'VE GOT CONTINUING ON. WE'VE GOT THE RIGHT BY SUNSET RIDGE. WE'VE GOT THE 24 INCH POST OAK WATER LINE, WHICH IS UNDER DESIGN. THE BUNTON CREEK ROAD PROJECT, WHICH IS UNDER DESIGN. AND THEN MOVING ON UP, YOU CAN SEE HOW THESE ALL KIND OF CONNECT LAYMAN EXTENSION. AND I THINK THE BUNTON ROAD PROJECT, THAT'S A THAT IS A ROAD BOND PROJECT TO ANSWER THE MAYOR'S QUESTION. SO WE'VE GOT MASTER PLAN PROJECTS. WE'VE GOT 
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PROJECTS THAT WERE IDENTIFIED WITH STAFF AND THEN WE'VE GOT ROAD BOND PROJECTS. AND THIS IS HOW THEY ARE ALL SORT OF CONNECTING TOGETHER. AND THIS IS IN PRESSURE PLANE NUMBER ONE. 
          WHERE ARE WE AT? HOW FAR ARE WE GOING. SO I GOT A COOL LITTLE LITTLE. YEAH I GOT A COOL LITTLE THING HERE. SO I CAN CLICK ON THAT AND BRING THAT UP. SO YOU CAN KIND OF SEE THE STATUS OF THE PROJECT. SO LET'S SEE. SCHEDULE IS 26 THROUGH 29. BUT I CAN AND THANKS TO TIM AND GETTING IN HIS BRAIN A LITTLE BIT. HE'S THE ONE THAT KIND OF CREATED THE SYSTEM WHERE WE CAN GO FROM THE MAP TO THE ACTUAL PROJECT ITSELF, ROADS GOING THROUGH THERE AS WELL. WE KEEPING THAT IN MIND AS WELL FOR, FOR THE YOU MEAN FOR OUR WATER LINE. YEAH. OH FOR SURE. 
          YEAH. WE'VE GOT TO. YES. THE ROAD COMING IN WHEN WE'RE LOOKING AT RIGHT OF WAY EASEMENTS, ALL THAT, ALL OF THAT. YES. EASEMENTS ARE THE BANE OF OUR EXISTENCE. NO. JUST KIDDING. SO YES, WE ARE WE SO NO, BUT BUT THE WAY WE'VE GOT THIS SET UP. AND THEN IF YOU ALL WILL HAVE THE CAPABILITY OF DOING THIS TOO, WE'LL SEND YOU THE ELECTRONIC COPY, BECAUSE YOU CAN SEE HOW WE KIND OF GO BACK AND FORTH. IF YOU WANT TO SEE ANY OF THESE PROJECTS, LIKE IF WE WANT TO LOOK AT THE LAYMAN EXTENSION PROJECT, WE JUST CLICK ON IT. IT GIVES YOU THAT. SO IT'S PRETTY COOL. PRETTY COOL LITTLE FEATURE. BUT THIS IS THE FIRST TIME WE'VE EVER TRIED THIS. BUT WE HOPE THAT BY SEEING BY DOING THIS YOU CAN SEE THE SEE WHAT WE'RE THINKING IN OUR OVERALL PLAN. SO THIS IS PRESSURE PLANE NUMBER ONE. PRESSURE PLANE NUMBER TWO. YOU CAN SEE ALL THE PROJECTS LISTED HERE THAT THAT WE'RE PROPOSING FOR PRESSURE PLANE NUMBER TWO IN IN THE FIVE YEAR CIP PLAN. AND SO VERY SIMILAR TO WHAT WE JUST SAW THERE YOU GO TO YOUR MAP. 
          WE'VE GOT THEM ALL LAID OUT TO SHOW HOW THESE ALL CONNECT. NOW THE CRITICALITY BEHIND THIS IS WE'VE GOT IF WE'VE GOT THE PUMPING CAPACITY, WE AND WE'VE GOT THE WATER AVAILABLE TO MAKE ALL OF THAT WORK, WE'VE GOT TO UPGRADE OUR WATER SYSTEM. AND THAT'S WHY YOU SEE THESE PLANS SO THAT WE CAN TAKE AND WE'VE GOT MORE WATER COMING. JUST SO YOU KNOW, WE'RE NOT STOPPING RIGHT NOW IN 2027. WE'VE GOT ANOTHER 2 MILLION GALLONS A DAY COMING FROM ARWA. AND THEN WE'VE GOT WATER COMING IN SOMEWHERE BETWEEN 2030 AND 2033 ADDITIONAL WATER. SO WE'VE GOT TO HAVE A SYSTEM THAT CAN MOVE. THAT WATER DOESN'T DO YOU ANY GOOD IF WE'VE GOT THE WATER, BUT WE CAN'T PUSH IT THROUGH OUR SYSTEM. SO THAT'S THE CRITICALITY BEHIND EVERYTHING THAT WE'RE PROPOSING NOW AND OVER THE NEXT FIVE YEARS. AND SO YOU CAN SEE THEM ALL LISTED HERE. I WON'T GO THROUGH THEM, BUT UNLESS YOU WANT ME TO PLUCK ONE OF THESE OUT SPECIFICALLY, I JUST KEEP THINKING ABOUT HOW MUCH WATER THAT IS A 24 INCH LINE. THAT'S HUGE. IT'S HUGE. YEAH. JUST IT'S GREAT TO SEE THAT WE'RE BEING PROACTIVE AND THINKING ABOUT WHAT'S COMING IN THE FUTURE. SO YEAH GREAT JOB. APPRECIATE THAT. SO THOSE ARE THE THREE THINGS THAT WE THINK ABOUT EVERY DAY. 
          WATER PUMPING AND TRANSMISSION. THOSE ARE THOSE ARE WHAT WE DO. AND IT JUST SO OPENS UP EVERYTHING. AND THEN ON THE FLIP SIDE OF THAT IS THE WASTEWATER SIDE OF IT TOO, WHICH IS ABSOLUTELY AS CRITICAL. AND SO NOT TO LEAVE OUT THE PRESSURE PLANE ONE AND TWO, WE GOT A LITTLE PROJECT RIGHT HERE, WHICH IS WATER CIP PROJECTS OVERVIEW. SO THAT YOU CAN SEE THE LITTLE PROJECTS HERE THAT WE'RE LOOKING AT IF YOU WANT TO SEE WHAT THAT IS. SO PRESSURE PLANE BOUNDARY MODIFICATIONS TO ONE AND TWO INCLUDES CHANGES IN ADDITIONAL LINES, TARGETED AREAS IMPROVED PRESSURES IN THE DOWNTOWN AREA. SO THAT'S WHAT THIS WASN'T ALL ABOUT. BUT IT'S REALLY SIMPLE. 
          AND LIKE I SAID, YOU GUYS WILL HAVE THESE MAPS AVAILABLE TO YOU AND YOU CAN TOGGLE THROUGH THEM JUST LIKE I'M DOING RIGHT NOW. YOU JUST GO TO THE BOX, WHATEVER YOU WANT TO SEE, YOU JUST CLICK ON IT AND IT GIVES YOU ALL THE INFORMATION ABOUT THAT CURRENT PROJECT. OKAY. AND SO OOPS, I GOT A LITTLE AHEAD OF MYSELF THERE. SO I WAS TALKING TO AMBER JUST YESTERDAY ABOUT HOW IMPORTANT COUNCIL'S DECISION WAS TO APPROVE THE ASR PROGRAM. THAT WAS A THAT WAS A HUGE STEP FOR THE CITY OF KYLE. AND DOING SOMETHING THIS CREATIVE. AND JUST COINCIDENTALLY, BRIAN SENT ME AN EMAIL THE VERY NEXT DAY THAT SAID THAT SAWS HAD JUST APPROVED A $100 MILLION PLANT EXPANSION FOR THE ADDITIONAL ASR WATER THAT THEY'RE GOING TO BE HARVESTING. SO THIS IS A BIG 
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DEAL. THIS IS A BIG DEAL FOR A TOWN LIKE KYLE, THE CITY OF KYLE, TO MOVE FORWARD. THIS TECHNOLOGY IS AVAILABLE. AND LIKE WE SAID IN OUR MEETING TUESDAY NIGHT, WE'RE GOING TO BE GOING AFTER LOW INTEREST FUNDING, GRANT FUNDING, WHATEVER IS AVAILABLE TO OFFSET SOME OF THESE COSTS. BECAUSE WHAT WE APPROVED THE OTHER NIGHT WAS JUST BASICALLY STEP ONE. AND THEN AS WE GET INTO THIS, WE'RE GOING TO BE COMING BACK ASKING FOR ADDITIONAL FUNDING, HOPEFULLY, BECAUSE THAT WILL MEAN THAT WE'RE ON TRACK. WE'RE ON WE'VE DISCOVERED SOMETHING. 
          SO THIS IS REALLY EXCITING TO DO THIS KIND OF WORK FOR, FOR AN ENGINEER. I WILL TELL YOU PERSONALLY, THIS IS THIS IS TRULY A VERY COOL THING TO DO. SO AND THEN POSSIBLY, YOU KNOW, WE'RE OPENING THE DOOR FOR INDIRECT POTABLE REUSE. AND SO IF WE'RE GOING TO BE PRODUCING TYPE ONE WASTEWATER OUT OF OUR WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT AT A RATE OF ABOUT 9 MILLION GALLONS A DAY BY 2028, A LOT OF CITIES ARE GOING TO THIS. AND SO I DON'T WANT TO BE LEFT BEHIND. I WANT TO KEEP THIS ON OUR RADAR AS POTENTIAL ADDITIONAL WATER SOURCE OF TAKING OUR WASTEWATER, MINGLING IT WITH A WATER SOURCE SOMEWHERE AROUND THE CITY, AND THEN DRAWING THAT OUT, TREATING IT TO LEVEL OF POTABLE WATER. THAT'S A POSSIBILITY. I'M NOT SAYING WE'RE GOING TO DO IT, BUT DEFINITELY IS SOMETHING THAT MANY, MANY OTHER CITIES ARE GOING TO DO. AND WE'LL PROBABLY BE TAKING A TRIP TO EL PASO SOMETIME THIS FALL. THEY'RE HEAVILY ENGAGED IN THIS PROCESS RIGHT NOW, DOING IT. WICHITA FALLS, WHICH IS WHERE CHRIS IS FROM, ARE CURRENTLY DOING INDIRECT POTABLE REUSE. SO OTHER CITIES ARE DOING THIS WITH GREAT SUCCESS. AND ONCE YOU GET OVER THAT STIGMA OF WHERE THAT WATER IS ORIGINATING FROM, IT BECOMES THE, YOU KNOW, THE WATER OF CHOICE BY FROM THE CUSTOMERS JUST BECAUSE IT'S SO CLEAN. YEAH, WE VISITED A CITY IN ARIZONA THAT'S DOING THIS, AND THEY CALLED THE MAYOR THE WATER MAYOR. AND HE'S FAMOUS FOR PUTTING NUMBER TWO INTO H2O, IS WHAT THEY SAY. SO BUT BUT HE'S VERY POPULAR. PEOPLE REALLY HAVE BOUGHT INTO THE WHAT IT IS. AND WHAT THEY DO IS THEY TAKE IT DOWN, SET IT DOWN IN THE AQUIFER, LET IT CLEAN UP AND THEN BRING IT BACK UP, IS WHAT THEY'RE DOING. SO STAGE ONE. SO THERE'S A PROCESS IN DOING IT. BUT YEAH IT'S REALLY COOL. WE'VE TALKED WE'VE TALKED TO SEVERAL PEOPLE. WE'VE WE'VE TALKED TO THE ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OVER WATER WITH EL PASO AND THE AND THE CHALLENGE IS NOT THE WATER. THE TECHNOLOGY FOR SURE IS THERE. YOU KNOW, WHERE I CAME FROM IN CORPUS CHRISTI. WE GOT WE DREW OUR WATER FROM COLORADO RIVER, WHICH IS NOWHERE NEAR AS CLEAN AS THE WATER THAT WE'RE GOING TO BE TREATING AT THE WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT. BUT THE STIGMA IS THE PUBLIC RELATIONS PIECE OF THAT. SO WE'RE WE'RE GOING TO DEFINITELY MEET WITH PEOPLE WHO HAVE GONE THROUGH THIS BEFORE IF WE DO DECIDE TO GO THIS WAY. BUT WE'VE GOT IT THERE AS PART OF OUR FIVE YEAR PLAN TO INVESTIGATE IT. SO KIND OF CLOSING OUT WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT. SO WE ON THE WATER SIDE, WE COMBINED OUR 15 YEAR NEW PROJECTS WITH PROJECTS THAT ARE ALREADY APPROVED AND ARE IN THE EXISTING FIVE YEAR PLAN. SO WE DID A COMBINATION OF THOSE TWO AND IT'S A BIG NUMBER. BUT OVER THE NEXT FIVE YEARS IT'S A TOTAL OR THROUGH 2030, LET'S PUT IT THAT WAY. JUST UNDER $388 MILLION. IT'S A BIG ASK. BUT YOU KNOW THIS WHEN YOU'RE WHEN YOU'RE GROWING A CITY AND GROWING A SYSTEM, THIS IS SORT OF THE PART OF THE GROWING PAIN, YOU KNOW? BUT THIS THIS IS WHAT WE'RE LOOKING AT. AND WE HIGHLIGHTED WHAT WE'RE CONSIDERING, SOME OF OUR KEY PROJECTS OVER THE COURSE OF THE NEXT FIVE YEARS. OKAY. WHEN YOU WHEN Y'ALL DO GO TO LOOK AT THE WATER REUSE PROGRAM, BRIAN, IS THAT SOMETHING COUNCIL MEMBERS MIGHT BE ABLE TO GO IF THEY HAVE TIME AND AVAILABILITY? SURE. AND FUNDING? SURE. THAT WOULD BE SOMETHING I'D BE VERY INTERESTED IN THE TECHNOLOGY TO SEE IT DONE. ABSOLUTELY. I MEAN, I WAS HOPING THAT THAT THAT WOULD BE THE CASE, BUT WE WANTED TO WAIT TILL IT COOLED OFF A LITTLE BIT. 
          AND SINCE IT'S UNDER CONSTRUCTION, WE IN OUR CONVERSATION WITH EL PASO, IT WOULD BE BETTER TO WAIT UNTIL THE CONSTRUCTION IS ACTUALLY PROGRESSED. SO IT MAKES SENSE WHAT WHAT WE'RE LOOKING AT. BUT THEY'RE USING, YOU KNOW, NOT TO PICK ON EL PASO, BUT THEY'RE USING EVERYTHING. THEY'RE DOING DESALINATION. THEY'RE DOING AQUIFER STORAGE RECOVERY. 
          THEY'RE DOING IT. AND ALSO GROUNDWATER. AND SO THEY'RE STRUGGLING LIKE EVERYBODY ELSE, ESPECIALLY IN WEST TEXAS FOR SURE. BUT YEAH. SO WASTEWATER VERY SIMILAR TO WHAT WE WERE JUST TALKING ABOUT OVER THE COURSE OF THE NEXT FIVE YEARS. PROJECTS THAT ARE CURRENTLY UNDER CONSTRUCTION OR UNDER DESIGN FOR THE NEXT FIVE YEARS, WE'RE LOOKING AT 320,000,320 
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MILLION. SO RIGHT NOW WE'VE GOT HDR IS WORKING ON ON UPGRADING, UPDATING OUR IMPACT FEES FOR DEVELOPMENT. AND SO JUST WANTED TO KIND OF GIVE YOU GUYS A SCHEDULE ON WHERE WE ARE WITH THAT. SO JULY 15TH WE'RE GOING TO BE RECOMMENDING COUNCIL ADOPT AN ORDER FOR PUBLIC HEARING, FOR A PUBLIC HEARING TO PROVIDE PUBLICATION OF A 30 DAY ADVANCE PUBLIC NOTICE ON IMPACT FEES. 
          AND WE WILL WE WILL BE WORKING THROUGH THAT PROCESS WITH CITY, OBVIOUSLY WITH CITY MANAGER AND COUNCIL. SO JUST TO HIGHLIGHT THAT FOR THE COUNCIL, AS WE DID THIS ABOUT A YEAR, YEAR AND A HALF AGO, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE TOLD YOU IS WE WANTED TO UPDATE OUR MASTER PLANS AND GET OUR NEW CIP PROGRAMS IN PLACE, AND THEN USE THAT AS THE BASIS FOR THE UPDATES OF THE IMPACT FEES. SO THAT'S THE PURPOSE OF THIS IS NOW THAT WE HAVE OUR PLANS, IS TO PUT THAT INTO THE FORMULAS WITH IMPACT FEES TO SEE WHAT THOSE IMPACT FEES SHOULD BE AND WHAT DEVELOPMENT SHOULD, SHOULD PAY FOR WHEN THEY'RE COMING IN AND PUTTING IN NEW UNITS. SO WE SEE IT AS KIND OF PART AND PARCEL THAT THAT WHOLE PROGRAM. BUT IT DOES TAKE US A FEW MONTHS TO GET THERE TO, TO CALCULATE THOSE. BUT THOSE WILL BE COMING BACK AT THE END OF THE SUMMER. AND HOW WOULD THAT LOOK LIKE? BECAUSE THE STATE IS NOW ALLOCATING DOLLARS TOWARDS WATER PROJECTS. WE'VE WE HAD A CONGRESSMAN REACH OUT TO US ABOUT, YOU KNOW, OUR WATER PROJECTS AS WELL, PUTTING SOME TOGETHER AS A REGIONAL SCALE WHERE WE AT IN THAT PROCESS OF PUTTING THAT MEETING TOGETHER AND MAKING SURE WE CAN GET SOME DOLLARS FROM THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, STATE GOVERNMENT TO TRY TO LIMIT THESE IMPACT FEES BEING SO DETRIMENTAL ON PUTTING THE WHOLE BURDEN ON THE RESIDENTS. WELL, THE IMPACT FEES WOULD BE PAID BY NEW DEVELOPMENT THAT'S COMING IN. SO IT'S DESIGNED TO OFFSET THE COST TO OUR RESIDENTS. SO AS PEOPLE THAT ARE COMING INTO THE SYSTEM, BUT WE ARE LOOKING AT EVERY POTENTIAL FUNDING OPTION THAT'S OUT THERE. WE'VE TALKED TO BOTH STATE AND FEDERAL PARTNERS, THE STATE WATER DEVELOPMENT BOARD. WE MET WITH THEM RECENTLY. WE'VE ALSO BEEN MEETING WITH THE EPA. WE'RE WORKING WITH OUR OUR FEDERAL LOBBYISTS TO TRY TO GET ADDITIONAL OPPORTUNITIES FOR GRANT FUNDING. SO WE'RE LOOKING AT ALL THOSE DIFFERENT OPTIONS. 
          WE'LL BE COMING BACK WITH SOME SOME PROGRAMS WITH WIFI AS WELL. EPA HAS HELPED US KIND OF MANAGE HOW WE FINANCE PROJECTS GOING FORWARD, BUT THERE'S NO STONE THAT WE'RE LEAVING UNTURNED ON THESE. WE WANT TO GET EVERY DOLLAR WE CAN. THEY'RE JUST VERY EXPENSIVE PROJECTS, AND THEY DO TAKE A NUMBER OF YEARS TO KIND OF MOVE FORWARD. BUT WE'RE LOOKING AT EVERYTHING WE CAN. 
          YOU BET. ALL RIGHT. OH DID WE MISS A COUPLE OF SLIDES OR TIM. NO, I THINK THEY GOT IT. SORRY. 
          ALL RIGHT. SO THAT THAT'S THE END OF OUR PRESENTATION. AND I KNOW WE'VE BEEN ASKING QUESTIONS AS WE'RE GOING ALONG HERE, BUT ANYTHING ELSE. AND IF YOU THINK OF SOMETHING FOR SURE LET US KNOW IN THE PROCESS. AND WE'LL WE'LL TRY TO ANSWER THE BEST WE CAN. IT'S GOOD TO SEE WHERE HOW PROACTIVE WE ARE, BECAUSE WE LOOK AT OUR ROADS. AND I'VE HAD THESE CONVERSATIONS WITH MANY COUNCIL MEMBERS, INCLUDING MAYOR. WE'RE PLAYING CATCH UP RIGHT NOW AND WE'RE WE DIDN'T PLAN THE CITY'S PAST ADMINISTRATIONS NOT PUTTING ANYTHING ON THEM, BUT THEY DIDN'T SEE THIS EXPLOSION THAT WE HAD. AND THIS IS WHERE WE'RE KIND OF STUCK WITH OUR ROADS TRYING TO GET THEM UPGRADED. BUT IT'S GOOD TO SEE WHEN IT COMES TO OUR WATER. WE'RE TAKING PROACTIVE STEPS BECAUSE IT ALWAYS REMINDS ME OF LAST YEAR WHEN I WENT TO HTML AND FORMER COUNCIL MEMBER DANIELLA PARSLEY AND I WERE THERE, AND WE WERE VISITING WITH OTHER CITIES, AND SOME OF THOSE SMALL TOWNS ARE REFUSING TO EVEN GROW, OR THEY'RE JUST FIGHTING GROWTH. 
          THEY ARE FIGHTING GETTING WATER IN THERE, FIGHTING, PASSING AMENDMENTS TO INCREASE THEIR SALES TAX TO GET THAT MONEY, THE DOLLARS. AND SO YOU HAVE SOME SMALL TOWNS AND CITIES IN THIS STATE THAT ARE JUST SAYING IT'S NOT GOING TO BE US, IT'S GOING TO BE OUR NEIGHBORS. SO DON'T EVEN BOTHER COMING. BUT FOR US TO BE ABLE TO TAKE THESE PROACTIVE MEASURES, I KNOW IT'S A BIG DOLLAR DOLLAR SIGN ON THEM, BUT WE HAVE TO NOT ONLY JUST NOT PUT ASIDE JUST THE GROWTH THAT'S COMING, BUT THE SUSTAINABILITY OF THE PEOPLE THAT ARE ALREADY HERE. NOW, YOU KNOW, THROUGH THE YEARS, THOSE PIPES ARE GOING TO NEED TO BE REPLACED. THOSE PIPES NEED TO BE FIXED AND SO FORTH. AND YOU'RE RIGHT, IT DOESN'T MAKE SENSE TO HAVE A HUGE WATER TANK. IF WE ONLY GOT ONE WATER HOSE TO PUSH IT OUT. WE'VE GOT TO LOOK AT THE DIRECTION OF HOW TO BE ABLE TO UTILIZE GETTING WATER THROUGHOUT THE CITY. SO IT'S GOOD TO SEE HOW WE AS A CITY AND YOUR GROUP IS TAKING PROACTIVE STEPS. AND I HOPE THE RESIDENTS CAN UNDERSTAND THAT AND SEE THAT AS MUCH AS WE'RE DIGGING UP PIPE, WE'RE DIGGING UP GROUND AND WE'RE PUTTING THESE WATERS IN. 
          AND IF THERE'S EVER A HIGH PRICE THAT GOES UP OR OR WATER FEES, JUST GOT TO UNDERSTAND, THIS IS 
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KIND OF WHERE WE'RE AT RIGHT NOW. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. OKAY. SO IF I COULD FOR SOME REASON THERE WERE TWO SLIDES LEFT OFF THE END OF THIS PRESENTATION, I THINK THAT ARE CRITICALLY IMPORTANT THAT THAT PERVEZ PREPARED FOR US. SO I'LL SEND YOU GUYS A COPY TO UPDATE WHAT YOU'VE GOT SO FAR. BUT WE WANTED TO TALK. AND THIS HAS TO DO WITH THE IMPACT FEES WATER UTILITY IMPACT FEES. SO I'M JUST GOING TO READ THESE OFF SINCE I DON'T HAVE THEM ON THE PRESENTATION ON THE ONES THAT WERE GOING TO GIVE US. DO YOU HAVE IT ON YOURS? I THINK THEY WERE UNDER US ALL ALONG. OKAY. WELL, IF YOU'VE GOT IT THEN I WON'T. I WON'T READ IT OUT, READ OVER IT. BUT I JUST WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT YOU KNEW THAT WE STILL HAD WE STILL HAD THAT ONE SLIDE THAT WE SPENT A GREAT DEAL OF TIME PUTTING THIS PARTICULAR SLIDE TOGETHER. SO I WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT YOU GUYS HAD A COPY OF THAT. OKAY. SO YOU CAN KIND OF SEE HOW IMPACT FEES VERSUS ESTIMATED AMOUNT THAT WE'RE GOING TO USE FOR DEBT FUNDING. AND SO WE'VE ALREADY GONE THROUGH PRETTY MUCH OUR ENTIRE BUDGET ON IMPACT FEES FOR THIS YEAR. AND SO ALL THE PROJECTS WE'RE DOING IS DEBT FUNDING RELATED OR THE MAJORITY OF IT. SO SORRY ABOUT THAT. I DON'T KNOW WHY IT DIDN'T SHOW UP HERE. OKAY. SO THANK YOU ALL. WE APPRECIATE IT. ALL RIGHT. YES, SIR. ALL RIGHT. NEXT UP IS 
          [III.2) Receive a report, hold a discussion, and provide staff direction regarding the results of the 2025 Cost of Service & Rate Study for the City's water and wastewater utilities as completed by Raftelis Financial.  ]
AGENDA ITEM NUMBER TWO. RECEIVE A REPORT, HOLD A DISCUSSION, PROVIDE STAFF DIRECTION REGARDING RESULTS OF THE 2025 COST OF SERVICE AND RATE STUDY FOR THE CITY'S WATER AND WASTEWATER UTILITIES, AS COMPLETED BY REF TELUS FINANCIAL. 
          YEAH. MAYOR. MAYOR PRO TEM COUNCIL MEMBERS. GOOD MORNING. FOR THE RECORD, I'M PERVEZ, CITY'S DIRECTOR OF FINANCE. THE ITEM BEFORE YOU NOW IS THE RESULTS OF THE 2025 COST OF SERVICE AND RATE STUDY FOR OUR WATER AND WASTEWATER SYSTEMS. SO BEFORE I REQUEST THE CITY'S RATE EXPERT TO COME UP AND SHARE THE OR PRESENT THE RESULTS OF THE STUDY, THANK YOU. I WOULD LIKE TO SHARE SOME BACKGROUND INFORMATION WITH YOU AS TO WHAT WE DID LAST YEAR IN THE 2024 COST OF SERVICE AND RATE STUDY, BECAUSE THIS BACKGROUND INFORMATION IS CRUCIAL, IT WILL NOT ONLY HELP US ESTABLISH THE CONTEXT FOR TODAY'S DISCUSSIONS, BUT ALSO EXPLAIN WHAT WAS COMPLETED IN THE 24 STUDY. I WILL ALSO TRY TO HELP EXPLAIN THE QUESTION YOU MIGHT BE ASKING. IF WE DID A STUDY IN 24, THEN WHY ARE WE DOING AGAIN IN 25? SO I'LL EXPLAIN THE DIFFERENCES. SO IN FEBRUARY 2024, CITY COUNCIL APPROVED A CONTRACT AT THE REQUEST OF CITY MANAGER AND STAFF TO REF TELUS FINANCIAL CONSULTANTS INC. THEY'RE A NATIONALLY. RENOWNED FIRM FOR DOING RATE STUDIES WATER, WASTEWATER. SO IN FEBRUARY WE STARTED THE PROJECT FOR WATER AND WASTEWATER UTILITY RATE STUDY. THE PRIMARY OBJECTIVE OF THE CITY'S COST OF SERVICE AND RATE STUDY IN 24 AND 25 IS STILL THE SAME, WHICH IS WHAT IS THE CITY'S COST OF PROVIDING WATER AND WASTEWATER SERVICE TO ITS CUSTOMERS. NUMBER ONE. NUMBER TWO, WHAT IS THE COST RESPONSIBILITY OF EACH CUSTOMER CLASS? BY CUSTOMER CLASS, I MEAN RESIDENTIAL, MULTIFAMILY. COMMERCIAL IRRIGATION. AND THEN LASTLY, OR THE THIRD OBJECTIVE, PRIMARY OBJECTIVE WAS HOW BEST SHOULD THE COST BE RECOVERED THROUGH THE RATES FROM EACH OF THOSE CUSTOMER CLASSES. SO IF YOU'LL RECALL, OUR WATER AND WASTEWATER UTILITY SYSTEM IS AN ENTERPRISE OPERATION OF THE CITY, BY WHICH I MEAN IT IS A SELF-SUPPORTING ENTITY. ALL ITS COST, OPERATING AND CAPITAL COSTS ARE RECOVERED OR PAID FOR THROUGH THE RATES, FEES AND OTHER SIMILAR CHARGES FROM THE UTILITY. THE GENERAL FUND OF THE CITY DOES NOT MAKE ANY CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE WATER AND WASTEWATER SYSTEM. THEY STAND ON THEIR OWN. WHILE THE STUDY OBJECTIVE IS STRAIGHTFORWARD, THE STUDY, HOWEVER, INVOLVES DETAILED EXAMINATION AND ANALYSIS OF THE DEMAND CHARACTERISTICS AND COST RESPONSIBILITIES FOR EACH CUSTOMER CLASS SERVED BY THE CITY'S WATER AND WASTEWATER UTILITY SYSTEMS. LAST YEAR, IN AUGUST AUGUST OF 24, WE COMPLETED PHASE ONE OF THE COST OF SERVICE AND RATE STUDY. PHASE ONE FOCUSED ON DETERMINING THE 
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COST FOR PROVIDING WATER AND WASTEWATER SERVICE TO EACH INSIDE CITY CUSTOMER CLASS. 
          THAT'S VERY IMPORTANT TO NOTE. THE 24 STUDY FOCUSED ON INSIDE CITY CUSTOMERS ONLY. PHASE ONE OF THE RATE STUDY DID NOT INCLUDE OUTSIDE OUTSIDE CITY CUSTOMER CLASSES. BASED ON THE RESULTS OF THE PHASE ONE STUDY, CITY COUNCIL APPROVED RATE ADJUSTMENTS FOR INSIDE CITY CUSTOMER CLASSES FOR IMPLEMENTATION IN OCTOBER 2024. SO WE INSTITUTED THE COST OF SERVICE BASE RATES FOR ALL INSIDE CITY CUSTOMERS IN OCTOBER OF 24. THIS YEAR IN 25, WE ARE COMPLETING PHASE TWO OF THE COST OF SERVICE AND RATE STUDY FOR THE CITY'S WATER AND WASTEWATER UTILITY SYSTEMS. THE SCOPE FOR PHASE TWO COST OF SERVICE AND RATE STUDY FOCUSED ON THREE PRIMARY OBJECTIVES ONE. LET'S UPDATE THE COST OF SERVICE MODEL WITH THE LATEST OPERATING AND CAPITAL COST PROJECTIONS FOR THE CITY'S WATER AND WASTEWATER UTILITY SYSTEMS. YOU JUST HEARD THE WATER UTILITIES DEPARTMENT AND THE DIRECTOR OF WATER UTILITY DEPARTMENT, MIKE MURPHY, GO THROUGH WHAT THE COST STRUCTURE IS GOING TO BE IN FY 26 AND HOW THAT WILL CHANGE. AND YOU MAY HAVE NOTICED THAT THE COST STRUCTURE OF THE WATER AND WASTEWATER UTILITY SYSTEMS FOR THE CITY OF KYLE IS RAPIDLY CHANGING AND SIGNIFICANTLY CHANGING. THE SECOND OBJECTIVE WAS TO CONDUCT A DETAILED EXAMINATION AND ANALYSIS OF THE DEMAND CHARACTERISTICS AND COST RESPONSIBILITIES FOR EACH OUTSIDE CITY. OUTSIDE CITY CUSTOMER CLASS SERVED BY THE CITY'S WATER AND WASTEWATER UTILITY SYSTEM. SO, AS I MENTIONED, JUST A FEW MINUTES AGO, PHASE ONE ONLY LOOKED AT INSIDE CITY CUSTOMER CLASSES. SO 2025 STUDY IS FOCUSING ON NOT ONLY UPDATING THE COST OF SERVICE MODEL WITH THE LATEST, GREATEST COST PROJECTIONS FOR 26 AND BEYOND. WE'RE ALSO FOCUSING ON OUTSIDE CITY CUSTOMERS TO BRING THEM UP TO COST. THIRD OBJECTIVE. ONCE YOU'VE DONE ALL THAT, WE MUST DEVELOP A RATE PLAN FOR 26, FY 26 OR FISCAL YEAR 2026 THAT WOULD RECOVER THE CITY'S COST OF PROVIDING WATER AND WASTEWATER SERVICE TO EACH INSIDE CITY AND OUTSIDE CITY. CUSTOMER CLASS. WITH THAT MAYOR AND COUNCIL. IF YOU DON'T HAVE ANY QUESTIONS FOR ME AT THIS POINT, I'M NOW GOING TO REQUEST MISS ANGIE FLORES. SHE'S VICE PRESIDENT WITH RAFTELIS FINANCIAL TO PRESENT THE RESULTS OF THE 25 PHASE TWO COST OF SERVICE STUDY AND FOR CITY COUNCIL'S CONSIDERATION AND DIRECTION TO STAFF. ANGIE, THERE YOU ARE. THEY'RE USING THIS CLICKER. OKAY, GREAT. GOOD MORNING. MAYOR PRO TEM AND COUNCIL. I AM ANGIE FLORES. I'M WITH RAFTELIS FINANCIAL CONSULTANTS. I'M HAPPY TO BE HERE TO PRESENT THE RESULTS OF THE RATE STUDY. AND THANK YOU PERVEZ. THAT WAS A GREAT FOUNDATION FOR STARTING MY PRESENTATION. AS PERVEZ MENTIONED, YOU KNOW, WE JUST COMPLETED THE FY 25 RATE STUDY UPDATE, AND WE DID USE AS OUR BASIS THE WORK THAT WE DID LAST YEAR. AND SO REALLY THE UPDATE WAS TO UPDATE THE MODEL TO INCLUDE YOUR FY 26 PROJECTIONS. 
          AND AS WAS PRESENTED EARLIER, WE DID CONSIDER ALL OF THOSE SIP DOLLARS THAT WERE PRESENTED IN THE STUDY TO DETERMINE WHAT THE RATES NEEDED TO BE FOR FY 26. OUR STUDY ALSO LOOKS AT A FORECAST OF FIVE YEARS, BUT BECAUSE OF JUST THE CHANGES THAT KYLE IS UNDERGOING, WE'RE LOOKING AT THIS ON AN ANNUAL BASIS TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE TAKING INTO ACCOUNT YOUR LATEST AND GREATEST NUMBERS. SO MY PRESENTATION I WILL PRESENT THE REVIEW, THE RESULTS OF THAT RATE STUDY. WE'LL REVIEW THE RATE RECOMMENDATIONS AND THEN TALK ABOUT NEXT STEPS. SO THE RATE STUDY PROCESS JUST AS A REFRESHER SOME OF YOU HAVE HEARD THIS ALREADY. WE HAVE A FIVE STEP PROCESS THAT WE GO THROUGH. AND IT STARTS WITH WORKING WITH STAFF TO IDENTIFY WHAT YOUR 
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FINANCIAL AND PRICING OBJECTIVES ARE FOR THE UTILITY. AGAIN, WE CONSIDER THE REVENUE REQUIREMENTS. THESE ARE THE COSTS THAT ARE REQUIRED TO BE FUNDED THROUGH RATES. ONE IMPORTANT ASPECT IS TO LOOK AT YOUR DEMAND PROJECTIONS. SO THIS IS BASED ON HOW YOUR CUSTOMERS ARE ACTUALLY USING WATER. ONE IMPORTANT ASPECT OF THE STUDY THIS YEAR IS THE FACT THAT YOU'RE IN STAGE THREE WATER RESTRICTIONS. SO OBVIOUSLY THAT RESULTS IN LESS WATER CONSUMPTION FROM YOUR RESIDENTS, WHICH DOES RESULT IN A REDUCTION IN REVENUE. SO THE RATE INCREASES THAT I'M GOING TO SHOW HERE IN A MINUTE WILL DO TAKE INTO CONSIDERATION THAT REDUCED CONSUMPTION. FINALLY, WE ALLOCATE COSTS FIRST BETWEEN WATER AND WASTEWATER. AND THEN SECONDLY, AS PERVEZ WAS MENTIONING, WE'VE WE'RE TAKING INTO CONSIDERATION YOUR INSIDE CITY LIMIT CUSTOMERS AND YOUR OUTSIDE CITY LIMIT CUSTOMERS. AND DOING THAT ALLOCATION AS WELL, WHICH I'LL TALK ABOUT IN MORE DETAIL HERE SHORTLY. AND THEN FINALLY LOOKING AT THE RATES AND WHAT THE RATE RECOMMENDATION IS, AND THEN WE GO BACK AROUND AND BASED ON THE CONVERSATION WE HAVE WITH YOU TODAY, WE'LL GO BACK AND ASSESS AND MAKE SURE THAT WE'VE IDENTIFIED OR ADDRESSED ALL OF THE OBJECTIVES THAT WE'VE IDENTIFIED IN STEP ONE. SO FOR KYLE, YOU KNOW, Y'ALL ARE GROWING IN LEAPS AND BOUNDS. AND SO OBVIOUSLY THAT HAS TO BE TAKEN INTO CONSIDERATION AS WE'RE DOING OUR FINANCIAL PLANNING AND AS WE'RE DOING YOUR RATE CALCULATIONS, SOME OF THE CHALLENGES THAT WE'RE SEEING THAT HAVE TO BE ADDRESSED THROUGH RATES, OBVIOUSLY, ARE YOUR INCREASED GROWTH AND YOUR SIGNIFICANT CAPITAL NEEDS, WHICH TOTAL IN THE MODEL, ABOUT $694 MILLION OVER THAT FIVE YEAR PERIOD. AGAIN, AS MIKE WAS MENTIONING, YOUR WATER SUPPLY COSTS HAVE ALSO INCREASED DUE TO SECURING MORE WATER. IT'S IMPORTANT TO HAVE THAT WATER SUPPLY, BUT OBVIOUSLY IT DOES ADD COST TO YOUR CUSTOMERS. AND THEN FINALLY, AN IMPORTANT OBJECTIVE FOR THIS STUDY WAS TO ADDRESS AND DETERMINE WHAT THE OUTSIDE CITY LIMIT RATES NEED TO BE BASED ON THE, YOU KNOW, THE DEMAND THAT THEY'RE PUTTING ON YOUR WATER AND WASTEWATER SYSTEM. SO I'LL GO OVER THAT AS WELL. SO THIS SLIDE IS SHOWING THE FINANCIAL FORECAST FOR THE UTILITY. THE TOP GRAPH THERE IS YOUR WATER FINANCIAL PLAN. AND THEN THE BOTTOM DRAFT REPRESENTS WASTEWATER. SO THE BARS HERE REPRESENT THE REVENUE REQUIREMENT BROKEN DOWN BETWEEN O&M DEBT SERVICE. YOUR TRANSFER TO THE GENERAL FUND AND THE LINE. THE GRAY LINE THERE SHOWS THE REVENUE AT EXISTING RATES. SO THIS IS IF WE DO NO RATE INCREASES HOW MUCH REVENUE SHORTFALL THAT YOU WOULD HAVE WHEN YOU CONSIDER THOSE FORECASTED REVENUE REQUIREMENTS. SO THE BLUE BARS WHICH REPRESENT YOUR DEBT SERVICE IS WHAT REPRESENTS THE HOW YOU WOULD PAY FOR YOUR CAPITAL. AND SO AS MIKE MENTIONED THERE TOWARDS THE END OF HIS PRESENTATION, WE'RE USING IMPACT FEES TO THE EXTENT THAT WE CAN. AND THEN ANY CAPITAL NEEDS THAT ARE REQUIRED ARE THEM BEING DEBT FUNDED WITH LONG TERM DEBT. AND SO YOU CAN SEE THERE THAT BASED ON YOUR CAPITAL PLAN, BY 2030, YOU'RE LOOKING AT ABOUT $32 MILLION IN DEBT SERVICE FOR WATER AND ABOUT $14.3 MILLION IN DEBT SERVICE FOR WASTEWATER. SO IF WE DO NOT RAISE RATES, THEN YOU WILL HAVE A SHORTFALL. IN YOUR UTILITIES AND IN FACT, YOUR OPERATING RESERVE, WHICH YOU HAVE AN OPERATING RESERVE TARGET OF 25% OF O&M AND DEBT SERVICE, DOING NOTHING TO YOUR RATES WOULD RESULT IN A NEGATIVE OPERATING RESERVE, WHICH MEANS THAT YOU'LL HAVE A SHORTFALL IN COVERING YOUR COSTS. SO THESE NEXT TWO. PIE CHARTS SHOW YOUR INCREASE IN THE OVERALL REVENUE 
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REQUIREMENT TO THE SYSTEM FROM 25 TO FY 26. WE'RE WE'RE SHOWING A REVENUE REQUIREMENT THAT WILL INCREASE FROM 23.6 MILLION TO 32.2 MILLION. YOU CAN SEE THERE THAT THE MAJORITY OF THAT COST IS RELATED TO YOUR WATER OPERATIONS. AND SORRY, THESE COLORS AREN'T QUITE THE SAME. 
          THE DEBT SERVICE IS SHOWN IN THAT RED. THAT RED LITTLE SLIVER THERE. BUT THEN YOU'LL SEE THAT IN 2026, THAT DEBT SERVICE IS INCREASING TO 3.8 MILLION. IN THE KIND OF GOAL PIE PIE CHART THERE IN 26. SO THAT'S SOME OF THE THINGS THAT ARE DRIVING THOSE INCREASES ON WASTEWATER, THE REVENUE REQUIREMENTS INCREASING FROM 12.67 MILLION TO 14.85 MILLION. SO AGAIN, ALL OF THESE COSTS ARE TAKING INTO ACCOUNT AS WE DEVELOP YOUR RATE, OUR RATE RECOMMENDATION. SO THE CITY OF KYLE SERVES BOTH INSIDE CITY LIMIT CUSTOMERS AND OUTSIDE CITY LIMIT CUSTOMERS. SO BEFORE I GET INTO THE RESULTS OF THE OUTSIDE CITY LIMIT COST OF SERVICE STUDY, I JUST WANTED TO KIND OF WALK YOU THROUGH WHAT WE CONSIDER IN THE INDUSTRY. THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE INSIDE CITY CUSTOMERS AND THE OUTSIDE CITY CUSTOMERS. SO YOUR INSIDE CITY LIMIT CUSTOMERS ARE ARE THE RESIDENTS THAT ELECT YOU TO COUNCIL. SO IN THE WATER RATE WORLD, WE CONSIDER THEM OWNERS OF THE SYSTEM. IF THEY HAVE CONCERNS ABOUT THEIR RATES, THEY COME TO YOU AND THEY VOICE THEIR CONCERNS. AND SO YOU HAVE ORIGINAL JURISDICTION OVER RATE MAKING FOR INSIDE CITY LIMIT CUSTOMERS. YOU'RE OUTSIDE CITY LIMIT CUSTOMERS ARE A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENT IN THAT THEY CAN APPEAL THE RATES TO DIRECTLY TO THE PUBLIC UTILITY COMMISSION OF TEXAS. AND BECAUSE OF THIS, WE CONSIDER THEM NON-OWNERS, WHICH MEANS THAT THE CITY HAS THE RIGHT TO A RATE OF RETURN THAT TAKES INTO ACCOUNT THE RISK THAT YOU TAKE OF SERVING THOSE OUTSIDE CITY LIMIT CUSTOMERS. 
          AND SO, HISTORICALLY, THE WAY THAT THE CITY HAS CHARGED THOSE OUTSIDE CITY LIMIT CUSTOMERS IS THROUGH A DIFFERENTIAL AND REALLY THROUGHOUT TEXAS, THAT'S HOW CITIES HAVE HISTORICALLY CHARGED OUTSIDE CITY LIMIT CUSTOMERS, WHERE YOU JUST ADD A EITHER AND IT RANGES FROM 30% TO 50%. YOURS IS ACTUALLY THE DIFFERENTIAL IS LIKE IS 1.35. AND SO THAT'S WHAT YOU CHARGE. 
          CURRENTLY YOUR ACL CUSTOMERS. NOW WHEN WE DID THE STUDY LAST YEAR THERE WAS AN IMPORTANT RATE CASE BEING CONSIDERED BY THE PUBLIC UTILITY COMMISSION, AND IT WAS THE CITY OF LEANDER RATE CASE WITH THEIR OUTSIDE CITY LIMIT CUSTOMERS. SO BECAUSE WE WERE AWAITING THE DECISION OF THAT IMPORTANT RATE CASE, WE WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT ONCE THE PUC RULED THAT WHATEVER WE DID WAS IN LINE WITH THAT RULING. AGAIN, DUE TO THE FACT THAT YOUR ACL CUSTOMERS COULD APPEAL YOUR RATES, WE WANT TO BE SURE THAT WE HAVE A GOOD FOUNDATION AND A GOOD BASIS FOR HOW WE CALCULATE THAT RATE. SO WE DO HAVE THAT THAT RULING FROM THE PUC. THE PUC RULED IN FAVOR OF THE CITY OF LEANDER, WHICH WAS POSITIVE, WHICH WAS A GOOD THING. BUT AS WE'VE CALCULATED YOUR ACL RATES, IT IS BASED ON THAT RULING. AND ESSENTIALLY, YOU KNOW, THE PICTURE THERE ON THE SIDE IS, IS SHOWING HOW WE DID THAT ANALYSIS. I WON'T BORE YOU WITH ALL THE DETAILS, BUT WE DID FOLLOW THE PROCESS AND METHODOLOGY THAT THE CITY OF LEANDER DID. SO OUR OVERALL 
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RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THE RATES IS THAT YOU IMPLEMENT THE FY 26 ADJUSTMENT THAT WE RECOMMEND, AND I'LL WALK YOU THROUGH HERE SHORTLY FOR THE INSIDE CITY LIMIT CUSTOMERS, AS WELL AS THE RATE ADJUSTMENTS FOR THE OUTSIDE CITY LIMIT CUSTOMERS. WE ALSO RECOMMEND THAT WE CONTINUE TO REVIEW YOUR REVENUE REQUIREMENT ON AN ANNUAL BASIS. THIS ALLOWS FOR THE COMPLETION OF YOUR MASTER PLANS. MAKE SURE THAT WE HAVE ALL OF YOUR LATEST AND GREATEST CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PLAN NUMBERS, AND THAT WE TAKE INTO CONSIDERATION THINGS LIKE YOUR DROUGHT WHERE YOU ARE ON YOUR DROUGHT STAGES. HOPEFULLY WE'LL COME OUT OF THIS DROUGHT SOON AND THAT WE'RE CONSIDERING ALL OF YOUR LATEST GROWTH AS WELL, BECAUSE THAT'S THAT'S CONTINUING, CONTINUING TO OCCUR. 
          AND SO ALL THOSE FUTURE INVESTMENTS WILL INFLUENCE FUTURE RATE INCREASES. ANY QUESTIONS AT THIS POINT? I'LL SAY WITH THE HISTORY OF CENTRAL TEXAS, I KNOW EVENTUALLY WE WILL BE OUT OF THIS DROUGHT, BUT IT'S GOING TO BE IN A WAY THAT WE'RE ALL GOING TO KNOW THAT IT'S WE'RE OUT OF THE DROUGHT. IT'S GOING TO BE A FLOOD, RIGHT? IT'S DEFINITELY GOING TO HAPPEN, UNFORTUNATELY. BUT NO, DEFINITELY LOOK FORWARD TO MOVING ON. THANK YOU. YEAH, THANK YOU FOR PRESENTING SO FAR. SO JUST QUICKLY THEN THE DEBT SERVICE IS GETTING LARGER AND SO IS THE DEMAND. AND THAT'S CAUSING US TO RELOOK AT THE RATE FOR OUTSIDE AND INSIDE. RIGHT. 
          CORRECT. OKAY. AND BY 2030 IF WE DID NOTHING LIKE YOU SAID, WE'D BE IN THE NEGATIVE ON THE WATER SIDE. CORRECT. OKAY. WELL ACTUALLY AS A COMBINED THAT'S A COMBINED UTILITY OKAY. OKAY. SO I JUST WANT TO KIND OF CAPTURE THAT REALLY QUICKLY BECAUSE I RESIDENTS ARE ALREADY ASKING ABOUT THEIR WATER FEES. SO THANK YOU. THANK YOU. SO THESE ARE THE RECOMMENDED CHANGES TO THE WATER MONTHLY FIXED CHARGE. SO YOUR INSIDE CITY LIMIT CUSTOMERS PAY A MONTHLY FIXED CHARGE THAT IS CHARGED TO ALL YOUR CUSTOMER CLASSES IN THE SAME WAY. SO AS I WALK THROUGH THE NEXT FEW SLIDES, I'M GOING TO SHOW YOU THE RATE ADJUSTMENTS FOR EACH COMPONENT OF THE RATE STRUCTURE. 
          AND THEN I'LL SHOW YOU WHAT THE IMPACT IS TO A TYPICAL CUSTOMER. AT AN AVERAGE USAGE. SO THIS IS THE INCREASE TO THE MONTHLY FIXED CHARGE. THESE ARE CHARGED BY METER SIZE. SO THE LARGER THE METER THAT YOUR CUSTOMERS HAVE, THE HIGHER THE FIXED CHARGE THAT THEY PAY. SO WE'RE RECOMMENDING A 20% INCREASE ACROSS THE BOARD TO THOSE METER SIZES FOR YOUR 5/8 INCH METER, WHICH IS YOUR RESIDENTIAL WHAT YOUR RESIDENTIAL CUSTOMERS PRIMARILY HAVE. THAT IS ABOUT AN $8.45 INCREASE TO THAT MONTHLY FIXED CHARGE. FOR THE VOLUMETRIC RATES AND FOR YOUR VOLUMETRIC RATES ARE DIFFERENT BY CLASS. SO YOU MAY RECALL IN THE LAST STUDY WE DID, THERE WAS VERY VARIOUS INCREASES. EXCUSE ME. THERE WERE VARIOUS INCREASES BY CLASS. AND SO FOR YOUR INSIDE CITY LIMIT, RESIDENTIAL CUSTOMERS WERE ALSO RECOMMENDING A 20% INCREASE TO THE VOLUMETRIC CHARGES. YOU HAVE SEVERAL BLOCKS FOR YOUR VOLUMETRIC CHARGES TO RESIDENTIAL, AND THESE WERE PUT IN PLACE TO ENCOURAGE CONSERVATION. SO YOUR CUSTOMERS, AS THEY USE MORE WATER, PAY MORE, WHICH REALLY WORKS TO ENCOURAGE CONSERVATION SO THAT THEY THEY REALLY FEEL THE THANK YOU. THE COST OF USING MORE WATER. AND AGAIN, WE DID TAKE INTO ACCOUNT WHEN WE'RE LOOKING AT THE REVENUE REQUIREMENT, THE CONSUMPTION THAT WE'RE CURRENTLY SEEING ON YOUR SYSTEM BECAUSE OF THE STAGE THREE. DROUGHT RESTRICTIONS. THESE ARE THE OTHER VOLUMETRIC CHARGES FOR YOUR OTHER CLASSES. YOU HAVE YOUR MULTIFAMILY, COMMERCIAL AND IRRIGATION. SO AGAIN WE DID THE 20% ACROSS THE BOARD FOR MULTIFAMILY. THIS RESULTS IN $2.42 INCREASE. FOR COMMERCIAL 
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IT'S $2.12 AND IRRIGATION $2.92. SO WHAT DOES THAT MEAN FOR THE AVERAGE MONTHLY BILL IMPACT. SO FOR YOUR RESIDENTIAL CUSTOMER AND THIS REPRESENTS 5500 GALLONS PER MONTH. THIS IS THE AVERAGE FOR YOUR RESIDENTIAL CLASS. THIS IS AGAIN 20% INCREASE. IT'S ABOUT $15.35. IT'S GOING FROM 7673 TO 9207. AND AGAIN THIS IS FOR WATER. THESE GRAPHS REPRESENT THE OTHER CLASSES THE MULTIFAMILY, THE COMMERCIAL AND THE IRRIGATION. SO YOUR MULTIFAMILY IS INCREASING BY ABOUT $1,000. FOR COMMERCIAL. IT'S $144 ABOUT. AND THEN FOR IRRIGATION 111. SO NOW WE GET INTO YOUR OUTSIDE CITY LIMIT CUSTOMERS. AND YOU'LL NOTICE HERE, RIGHT OFF THE BAT THAT THESE INCREASES ARE HIGHER THAN WHAT I JUST PRESENTED ON THE INSIDE CITY LIMIT CUSTOMERS. AND THIS IS DUE TO, AGAIN, THAT METHODOLOGY THAT WE FOLLOWED ON THE COST OF SERVICE TO DETERMINE THE DEMAND THAT THE OUTSIDE CITY LIMIT CUSTOMERS ARE PUTTING ON YOUR SYSTEM. YOUR ACL CLASS IS A MUCH SMALLER CLASS THAN WHAT YOU HAVE IN INSIDE THE CITY LIMITS. HOWEVER, THEY DO PEAK A LOT HIGHER THAN YOUR INSIDE CITY LIMIT CUSTOMERS. WHAT THIS MEANS IS THAT ON THEIR HIGHEST MONTH OF USAGE, THEY'RE USING A MUCH HIGHER PERCENTAGE OF WATER THAN YOUR INSIDE CITY LIMIT CUSTOMERS. SO ONE WAY TO THINK ABOUT THIS IS FOR RESIDENTIAL, WHO PRIMARILY USE MORE WATER IN THE SUMMERTIME FOR THEIR LAWNS. THIS SEEMS TO INDICATE THAT THAT THE RESIDENTIAL CLASS OUTSIDE THE CITY LIMITS IS THEY EITHER HAVE LARGER LOTS OR THEY THEY LIKELY HAVE, SINCE THEY'RE NEWER, LIKELY HAVE IRRIGATION SYSTEMS. AND SO THEIR THEIR WATERING ON A MORE REGULAR BASIS. IF I COULD ADD A QUESTION THEN YES, DO THOSE SPECIFIC USERS, DO THEY HAVE TO ABIDE BY THE STAGE THREE RESTRICTIONS, OR IS IT IN THEORY? BUT I WAS ABOUT TO SAY, BECAUSE I KNOW THAT I GOT A LOT OF COMPLAINTS WHERE PEOPLE WERE ACTUALLY DROWNING THEIR YARDS IN THEIR NEIGHBORS YARDS, BUT THESE WERE NEIGHBORHOODS OUTSIDE THE CITY LIMITS, SO THERE'S ONLY SO MUCH, BUT THEY'RE TAPPED INTO OUR WATER SOURCE. THEY THEY ARE REQUIRED TO FOLLOW THOSE SAME RESTRICTIONS. WHEN WE WERE GOING THROUGH SOME OF THE ISSUES THE PAST COUPLE OF SUMMERS, WE COULD ISSUE CITATIONS AND PROCESS THOSE, I BELIEVE, THROUGH MUNICIPAL COURT. BUT YES, THEY ARE REQUIRED TO DO THAT. BUT IT'S HARD TO ALWAYS POLICE EVERY SINGLE LOT, EVERY SINGLE HOUR OF THE DAY. AND SO YOU SEE THROUGH THE DATA OBJECTIVELY, IT IS HIGHER USAGE, WITHOUT A DOUBT. 
          WITH OUR NEW WATER METERS, WE WILL BE CATCHING THAT. YES, MA'AM. THE ARMY WILL HELP US MONITOR USAGE AT TIME OF DAY. AND WHAT TYPE OF USAGE? A LOT BETTER. YES, MA'AM. SO THAT'S THE REASON YOU'RE SEEING MUCH HIGHER INCREASES FOR THE ACL. SO ON THIS ON THIS SLIDE, WHICH IS A LITTLE BUSY, WE'RE SHOWING THE MONTHLY MINIMUM. SO AGAIN JUST LIKE OUTSIDE JUST LIKE YOUR INSIDE CITY LIMIT CLASS YOUR ACL RATES, THEY ALL PAY THE SAME MONTHLY MINIMUM CHARGE. SO YOU'LL SEE HERE WE'VE GOT THE MONTHLY MINIMUM BY METER SIZE. SO IN THIS CASE WE'RE RAISING THAT MONTHLY MINIMUM BY 77%. SO AGAIN FOR THAT 5/8 INCH METER WHICH IS THE TYPICAL METER FOR A RESIDENTIAL CUSTOMER. THAT'S A $40 INCREASE PER MONTH ON THE VOLUMETRIC CHARGES FOR THE RESIDENTIAL CLASS 76% INCREASE THERE. YOU CAN SEE THAT FOR THAT LOWER TIER THAT IS INCREASING BY ABOUT $5, IT'S GOING FROM 6.92 TO 1221. AND THEN IT CONTINUES DOWN ALL THOSE BLOCKS. SO YOU CAN SEE THAT IF THEY'RE IF THEY CONTINUE TO USE WATER IN THOSE HIGHER AMOUNTS, THEY'RE GOING TO BE PAYING A SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT FOR THAT WATER CONSUMPTION. IT'S JUST HOPE THAT WE DON'T HAVE A 
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LOT OF CONSPIRACY THEORISTS COME OUT THERE. COME OUT, SAY THIS ARMY SYSTEM IS WATCHED AS A WATCH DOG, THAT THEY COULD SAY, OH, LOOK, THE CITY IS WATCHING US. AND THEY COULD SAY, THIS IS WHERE OUR RATES ARE, EVEN THOUGH WE'RE LOOKING AT IT IN A DIFFERENT WAY, WHERE WE'RE TRYING TO CONSERVE WATER, WE'RE TRYING TO MAKE SURE THAT EVERYBODY'S AT THE PEAK FLOW. 
          I'M SURE THEY'RE GOING TO BE SOME PEOPLE OUT THERE SAYING, OH, LOOK WHAT THE CITY IS DOING. 
          THEY'RE WATCHING THE TECHNOLOGY. THEY'RE GOING TO SHUT US DOWN. AND BECAUSE WE'RE USING MORE, THAT'S NOT THE PROCESS. THAT'S NOT WHAT THE POLICY IS ABOUT. SO I MEAN, I'M JUST WAITING FOR THAT TO COME OUT, BUT IT'S ACTUALLY THE OPPOSITE OF THAT. PEOPLE NOW CAN WATCH YOUR CONSUMPTION ON THEIR PHONE AND SEE WHAT THEY'RE ACTUALLY USING. THE OTHER THING IS YOU'RE STILL YOU'RE NOT WAITING TILL THE END OF THE MONTH TO GET YOUR BILL TO SEE THAT YOU GOT A LEAK OR THAT YOU OVERUSED WATER. YOU CAN ACTUALLY SEE IT ON A DAILY BASIS. YOU CAN SEE WHEN PEOPLE ARE WATERING THEIR LAWNS, THEY THEY CAN WATCH WHEN THEY WATER THEIR LAWNS, WHEN THEY'RE TAKING A BATH, EVERYTHING. I MEAN, THE TECHNOLOGY IS SO ADVANCED THAT PEOPLE CAN MONITOR THEIR DAILY WATER CONSUMPTIONS. RIGHT NOW, YOU HAVE TO WAIT OVER A MONTH TO KNOW HOW MUCH WATER YOU'RE USING. SO BY THEN YOU'RE LIKE, OH, I USE TOO MUCH WATER THIS MONTH AND IT'S ALREADY TOO LATE. 
          BUT NO, THE ARMY SYSTEM IS ACTUALLY BETTER FOR THE USER HIMSELF. IT'S GOING TO HELP HIM MAINTAIN AND REGULATE THE AMOUNT OF WATER HE'S USING. SO IT'S GOING TO BE A WIN FOR HIM. YEAH, THAT'S THE MESSAGE THAT'S GOING TO BE PRESENTED. OKAY. I HEAR WHAT YOU'RE SAYING ON THAT END. 
          BUT FOR THOSE OUT THERE THAT, YOU KNOW, HAVE THIS THEORY THAT THE CITY IS GOING TO THIS MORE CONTROLLED WATER SYSTEM, IT IS NOT FOR US TO BE MONITORING TO SHUT YOU OFF OR YOU'RE USING WAY TOO MUCH. IT'S LIKE WHAT COUNCILMAN RIZZO SAYING IS TO HELP MONITOR OUR INFLUX OF USAGE ON YOUR END. SO JUST GOT TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY'RE AWARE IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE MORE REAL TIME SO WE CAN, YOU KNOW, AS AS RESIDENTS KEEP TRACK OF WHAT WATER USAGE WE'RE GETTING. THIS WOULD HAVE SAVED ME A SMALL FORTUNE. SEVERAL YEARS AGO, I DIDN'T REALIZE I HAD A SPRINKLER HEAD BREAK IN MY BACKYARD, SPRAYED WATER FOR GOD KNOWS HOW LONG INTO THE ALLEYWAY, AND HAD NO CLUE UNTIL I GOT MY BILL AND IT WAS LIKE, WELL, THIS ISN'T RIGHT. I HAD TO PAY FOR SOMEBODY FROM THE CITY TO COME OUT AND CHECK IT, AND THEN THEY WERE THE ONES THAT TOLD ME LIKE, NO, ACTUALLY IT IS. AND LUCKILY THEY WERE WILLING TO WORK WITH ME TO SPREAD THAT COST OVER THREE MONTHS. BUT IT WAS IT WAS A SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF MONEY. AND HAD I KNOWN EARLIER, HAD I BEEN ABLE TO BE ALERTED, NOT ONLY WOULD I HAVE SAVED THE WATER, BUT I ALSO WOULD'VE SAVED THE MONEY. WELL, AND WE HAD A BUSINESS THE SAME THING. HAD THE SAME THING BECAUSE OF WHERE THEIR LINE WAS LOCATED, SO CLOSE TO A CREEK BED. IT WASN'T POPPING UP ON HIS PROPERTY, IT WAS ACTUALLY FLOWING DOWN TOWARDS THE CREEK. I MEAN, HIS BILL WAS ASTRONOMICAL. YOU IMAGINE WHAT HE WAS GOING THROUGH. BUT, YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW, WATER CONSERVATION IS NOT A FEEL GOOD THING. IT'S A MONEY THING. SO FOR US, AS YOU KNOW, RESIDENTS, WHEN WE SAVE WATER, WE ACTUALLY ARE SAVING OURSELVES MONEY BECAUSE WE DON'T HAVE TO INVEST IN MORE TECHNOLOGY, MORE WATER RESOURCES. SO, YOU KNOW, THAT OLD WAY OF THINKING THAT WATER CONSERVATION IS JUST A FEEL GOOD THING IS REALLY NOT WHAT WE'RE DOING. WE'RE ACTUALLY DOING THINGS. STEPS TO HELP SAVE MONEY IN PEOPLE'S EVERYDAY LIVES. SO THEIR MONTHLY BILLS KEEPING THOSE DOWN. SO WHEN PEOPLE ARE THINKING ABOUT WATER CONSERVATION, THINK ABOUT IT AFFECTING YOUR WALLET, YOUR WALLET, IT'S ACTUALLY SOMETHING REALLY GOOD FOR YOU. BEFORE, BEFORE I GUESS WE START MOVING TOO FAST. SO THE MULTIFAMILY USES MORE WATER IN THE CITY LIMITS. CORRECT. AND IT DOES PER MONTH LESS THAN RESIDENTIAL. SO THE SLIDES THE SLIDES SHOW, WELL, RESIDENTIAL USES THE LEAST AMOUNT OF WATER ON AVERAGE ON AVERAGE MONTHLY. WELL NO BECAUSE YOU'VE GOT YARDS AND EVERYTHING ELSE. WHEN EVERYTHING THAT WE'VE HAD IN THE PAST, WHAT SHOWS YOU THAT THE BIGGEST CONSUMERS OF WATER IS GOING TO BE RESIDENTIAL, NOT MULTIFAMILY? THAT'S NOT THAT'S THE SLIDES HERE SHOW THAT MULTIFAMILY USES MORE PER MONTH 400KG KILO GALLONS. YEAH. BUT IF YOU LOOK AT THE AMOUNT OF PEOPLE THERE, THAT'S THAT'S WHAT THEY'RE NOT. YOU'RE LOOKING AT PEOPLE OKAY. 
          SO THERE IS AN INCREASE TO USING MORE BIGGER WATER LINE SIZE. THAT'S THAT'S WHAT WE'RE WE'RE DOING THAT IN THE RIGHT PROPORTION INSIDE THE CITY LIMITS. YES. OKAY. YES. WE DID THAT IN THE LAST STUDY. WE DID THE COST OF SERVICE WHERE WE ADJUSTED EVERYONE'S RIGHT RATES INSIDE THE CITY LIMITS TO REFLECT HOW THEY USE YOUR SYSTEM. WE DON'T RECOMMEND WE DON'T NECESSARILY DO THAT COST OF SERVICE ANALYSIS EVERY SINGLE YEAR. WE RECOMMEND THAT WE LOOK AT IT ABOUT EVERY 3 TO 5 YEARS, DEPENDING ON HOW YOUR SYSTEM IS CHANGING, WHICH IS WHY ON THE 
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INSIDE CITY LIMITS SIDE, WE'RE JUST DOING THOSE RATE INCREASES ACROSS THE BOARD. AND THEN I JUST WANT TO GET BACK TO THE OUTSIDE THE CITY LIMIT USERS. I UNDERSTAND THAT WE DO PROVIDE THEM WATER FROM THE CITY. I KIND OF DISTURBING THAT WE DID NOT HEAR BACK DURING THE DURING THE PHASE THREE DROUGHT THAT THERE WAS A LOT OF USE OF WATER OUTSIDE THE CITY LIMITS THAT WAS NEVER REPORTED BACK TO US. AND I KNOW THAT POSSIBLY LIKE YOU SAID, IT'S FINES OR CITATIONS WERE ISSUED, BUT THERE'S ONLY SO MUCH THE CITY CAN DO ON THAT. BUT I THINK AS A COUNCIL, WE'D LIKE TO KNOW WHAT ARE ALL THE ASPECTS THAT THAT WE COULD DO OR, YOU KNOW, PROVIDE BETTER RESULTS FOR DURING DURING THE DROUGHT PERIOD. OKAY. YEAH, I THINK WE GAVE COMPREHENSIVE REPORTS TO THE COUNCIL ABOUT ALL OF THE DIFFERENT ENFORCEMENT ACTIONS WE WERE DOING ACROSS THE CITY, INCLUDING OUTSIDE CITY LIMIT CUSTOMERS. WE PROVIDED THOSE REPORTS. I'M JUST WHAT I'M TRYING TO SAY IS, IF YOU LOOK AT THE AVERAGE CONSUMPTION FOR RESIDENTIAL OR COMMERCIAL ACCOUNTS OUTSIDE OF CITY LIMITS, THEY OBJECTIVELY USE MORE. AND SOME OF THAT IS BECAUSE OF LOT SIZE. SOME OF IT IS BECAUSE THE LEVEL OF GREEN THEY MIGHT MIGHT WANT THEIR THEIR YARDS TO BE AND THEIR, THEIR LACK OF KNOWLEDGE ABOUT WHAT THE, THE RESTRICTIONS ARE. IT'S A LOT OF DIFFERENT THINGS. AND I THINK THERE'S AN AFFLUENCE ISSUE AS WELL AS THE AVERAGE CUSTOMER OUTSIDE OF THE CITY LIMITS, GENERALLY HAS A LITTLE BIT LARGER HOME, A LITTLE BIT MORE AFFLUENT, AND THE COST OF THE WATER AND CONTEXT OF THEIR OVERALL BUDGET IS LESS. AND SO THEY DON'T HAVE AS MUCH ATTENTION TO THAT. AT LEAST THAT'S SOME OF THE DATA THAT WE'VE SEEN. DID THEY HAVE, LIKE ANY HOA RESTRICTIONS THAT THEY HAVE TO HAVE WATER YARDS? I DON'T KNOW ABOUT THAT. WE COULD CERTAINLY LOOK AT THAT FOR YOU, BUT IT'S REALLY JUST IT'S AN EDUCATION THING FOR ALL THE CUSTOMERS. WE JUST ANECDOTALLY, WE'VE HEARD THAT SOME OF THEM DON'T THINK THEY'RE SUBJECT TO THOSE RESTRICTIONS, BUT THEY ARE. AND WE'RE JUST TRYING TO MAKE SURE THAT WE APPLY THOSE EVENLY TO BOTH OUTSIDE CITY LIMIT AND INSIDE CITY LIMIT CUSTOMERS. I DO AGREE WITH YOU THAT SOMETIMES THERE IS AN AFFLUENCE THING. IF YOU'RE WILLING TO SPEND MORE MONEY ON WATERING YOUR GRASS, YOU'RE GOING TO DO IT RIGHT. I MEAN, I'LL WATER MY GRASS BECAUSE AND I GET COUNTY LINE WATER AND MORE THAN REGULARLY MORE THAN MOST OF THE FOLKS WITH THE WATER HOSE. 
          YEAH, WITH THE SPRINKLER SYSTEMS, SOMETIMES THEY'RE ON. THEY DON'T KNOW THEY'RE ON. THEY MAY BE HAPPENING OVERNIGHT. AND SO I THINK THE ARMY TECHNOLOGY GIVES PEOPLE BETTER IDEAS OF WHAT THEY'RE USING. BUT IT'S A LOT OF FACTORS. BUT WE'RE TRYING TO MAKE SURE THAT THE COST THAT WE'RE PASSING INTO THE SYSTEM, THAT THOSE WHO CAUSED THE COST ARE PAYING THE RATES THAT THAT EACH PERSON IS PAYING THEIR PROPORTIONAL SHARE OF THOSE COSTS. AND BY LOOKING AT THE OUTSIDE CITY, LIMIT WATER RATES AND COMING UP WITH THIS, THIS INCREASE, WE'RE GOING TO BE MAKING SURE THAT THEIR COSTS ARE BEING PAID FOR. IF THIS RATE INCREASE ISN'T PASSED AT THIS LEVEL, THEN IT'S A SUBSIDY THAT INSIDE CITY LIMIT CUSTOMERS ARE MAKING TO THOSE COSTS. AND I THIS IS REALLY GOOD TO SEE THIS IN THE DATA. THEN TO HEAR THE EXPLANATION AND SEE THAT WE DON'T WANT TO JUST PASS THE COST TO INSIDE CITY USERS. RIGHT. AND THAT'S A GOOD POINT THAT THAT, YOU KNOW, TO THE EXTENT THAT THE RATES AREN'T ADJUSTED FOR OCO, THEN THAT MEANS YOU'RE INSIDE CITY LIMIT. CUSTOMERS WILL BE SUBSIDIZING THE COST THAT THEY'RE PUTTING, THE COST BURDEN THAT THEY ARE PUTTING ON YOUR SYSTEM. YEAH, THOSE ARE JUST MY THOUGHTS ON IT MOVING FORWARD WITH IT. THANK YOU. SO THE NEXT COUPLE OF SLIDES SHOW THE IMPACT TO THE AVERAGE USAGE USER OUTSIDE THE CITY LIMITS. SO FOR RESIDENTIAL CUSTOMER USING 5500 GALLONS, WE'RE LOOKING AT ABOUT A $71 INCREASE FOR THE OTHER CLASSES. FOR MULTI-FAMILY YOU'RE SEEING AN INCREASE OF ABOUT $11,000 A MONTH. FOR COMMERCIAL IT'S 1800. AND THEN FOR IRRIGATION, $766. SO ON TO WASTEWATER, SO ON WASTEWATER. AS YOU RECALL ON THE GRAPH FOR FY 26, THE SHORTFALL AT EXISTING RATES WASN'T AS GREAT. SO WE'RE RECOMMENDING A LOWER INCREASE FOR INSIDE THE CITY LIMITS, A 6% WASTEWATER INCREASE FOR THE MONTHLY FIXED CHARGES. AGAIN, ALL OF YOUR CLASSES PAY THE SAME MONTHLY FIXED CHARGE IN THIS. IN THIS CASE, THAT MONTHLY FIXED CHARGE IS THE SAME REGARDLESS OF THE METER SIZE ON THE WATER SIDE. SO THAT 6% INCREASE IS ABOUT $1.37 ON THE METER CHARGE. 
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THE VOLUMETRIC RATES ARE INCREASING BY $0.25 FOR RESIDENTIAL AND $0.49 FOR NONRESIDENTIAL. AND JUST A REMINDER FOR YOUR RESIDENTIAL CLASS, THEIR CONSUMPTION. THE BILLED CONSUMPTION IS BASED ON A WINTER AVERAGE, SO IT'S BASED ON THE AMOUNT OF WATER THEY USE IN THE WINTER TIME. SO THIS REFLECTS THE WATER THAT GOES BACK INTO YOUR WASTEWATER SYSTEM AND GETS TREATED FOR RESIDENTIAL, FOR NONRESIDENTIAL. THEY ARE BILLED ON ACTUAL WATER CONSUMPTION THROUGHOUT THE WHOLE YEAR. SO FOR RATE INCREASES ON THE FOR INSIDE CITY LIMIT CUSTOMERS, AGAIN WE'RE USING THAT 5500 GALLONS. THEY WOULD SEE A $2.72 INCREASE FOR RESIDENTIAL AND FOR NONRESIDENTIAL. IT'S ABOUT A $33 INCREASE. SO IN TOTAL, ONCE WHEN WE'RE LOOKING AT BOTH WATER AND WASTEWATER, THE TOTAL BILL FOR YOUR RESIDENTIAL INSIDE CITY LIMIT CUSTOMERS, THEY'RE LOOKING AT ABOUT AN $18 INCREASE FROM EXISTING TO PROPOSED. AGAIN, BASED ON THAT 5500 GALLON AVERAGE. SO THAT'S ABOUT A 15% INCREASE. SO MOVING ON TO THE PROPOSED WASTEWATER RATES, WE'RE SHOWING THE NEED OF FOR A 35% INCREASE TO THE FIXED RATES HERE. WE'RE SHOWING THE RESIDENTIAL NONRESIDENTIAL YOUR SEWER ONLY. AND THEN THERE'S SOME SEWER CUSTOMERS THAT PAY A FLAT RATE. SO YOU CAN SEE THERE THAT THAT'S ABOUT IT'S ABOUT A $10 AND 16 CENT INCREASE BY CLASS. AND THEN THE VOLUMETRIC RATES WILL VARY AGAIN BASED ON THAT COST OF SERVICE THAT WE COMPLETED. FOR RESIDENTIAL, IT'S $1.55 ON THE VOLUMETRIC CHARGE. 
          NONRESIDENTIAL $3.43. AND THEN THE SEWER ONLY $1.24. SO FROM A TYPICAL BILL MONTHLY BILL PERSPECTIVE FOR WASTEWATER RESIDENTIAL, IT'S ABOUT A $22 INCREASE. FOR THE NONRESIDENTIAL, IT'S ABOUT A $230 INCREASE. SO PER MONTH. SO LOOKING AT IT IN TOTAL FOR YOUR RESIDENTIAL CLASS IN OCO, IN TOTAL IT'S ABOUT A $9,094 INCREASE FOR BOTH WATER AND WASTEWATER. SO WHERE DOES ALL OF THIS PUT KYLE IN RELATION TO YOUR OTHER COMMUNITIES. SO YOU CAN SEE THERE THESE ARE THE COMMUNITIES THAT THAT YOU NORMALLY COMPARE TO. COUNTY LINE AND PFLUGERVILLE ARE HIGHER THAN YOUR EXISTING AND PROPOSED BILL. WITH THIS RATE PROPOSAL. AND AGAIN THIS IS INSIDE THE CITY LIMITS. YOU WILL BE HIGHER THAN BUDA WITH THE PROPOSED. JUST WANT TO POINT OUT THAT NEW BRAUNFELS, THE RATE WE'RE SEEING HERE IS THEIR PROPOSED RATE THAT WILL BE CONSIDERED BY THEIR COUNCIL ON JUNE 19TH. SO YOU CAN SEE THAT THAT THEY'RE PRETTY HIGH UP THERE AS WELL. I THINK SOMETHING TO POINT OUT ON THOSE IS THOSE ARE THE RATES THAT WE KNOW RIGHT NOW. ALL OF THESE UTILITIES ARE ALSO GOING THROUGH THEIR BUDGET PROCESS. I KNOW GEORGETOWN IN PARTICULAR IS LOOKING AT A NUMBER OF LARGE COSTS IN THEIR CAPITAL PROGRAM OVER THE NEXT FIVE YEARS AS WELL. SO LIKELY THESE WILL ALL MOVE. I DON'T KNOW EXACTLY HOW FAR THEY'LL MOVE, BUT THEY MOST LIKELY WILL BE GOING UP. IT'S JUST A QUESTION OF HOW MUCH. AND THAT'S A GOOD POINT. GEORGETOWN, I KNOW, HAS SOME SIGNIFICANT WATER SUPPLY INVESTMENTS THAT THEY'RE GOING TO NEED TO BE MAKING SOON. SO YOU'RE YOU'RE RIGHT THAT THEIR RATES WILL PROBABLY BE GOING UP SOON. AND THEN IF I COULD JUST BRIEFLY LOOK AT SAN ANTONIO, THEIR THEIR RATE SEEMS TO BE A LITTLE BIT LOWER THAN ALL. IS IT BECAUSE THEY'RE IN A AQUIFER OR WATER DISTRICT AREA JUST TO KIND OF, WELL, PART OF SAN ANTONIO, OF COURSE, IS JUST THEIR SIZE. 
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THEIR RATES HAVE BEEN GOING UP IN THE PAST. THEIR RATES WERE LOWER BECAUSE THEY WERE PRIMARILY GROUNDWATER. BUT NOW THAT THEY'RE BRINGING IN WATER, THEIR RATES HAVE ALSO BEEN GOING UP. BUT FOR THE MOST PART, THEY'VE BEEN ABLE TO KEEP THEIR RATES LOWER. AND IT'S MORE IT'S MORE BECAUSE OF THE FACT THAT THEY HAVE, YOU KNOW, SO SUCH LARGE COMMERCIAL AND THAT ALSO, YOU KNOW, PUT A BURDEN ON THEIR SYSTEM AND NOT AS MUCH AS THE RESIDENTIAL CLASS. I'M REALLY SURPRISED TO SEE BUTTE US SO HIGH BEING A SMALLER WAY, SMALLER COMMUNITY THAN US. 
          THEY'RE ALMOST AT. WELL, WE'RE GOING TO BE AT THE 120 TO 138. I MEAN, THAT'S THAT'S BOY, THAT'S PRETTY CRAZY TO SEE. THEY DON'T HAVE THE DEMAND THAT WE HAVE BECAUSE THE CITY IS NOT AS LARGE AS OURS, BUT THEY PAY A LOT FOR WATER SUPPLY. DO THEY SUPPLY LIKE IT? YEAH. AND CONSIDERING THAT THERE'S SO MUCH SMALLER, THAT'S WHY THE RATES ARE SO MUCH HIGHER. YEAH, YEAH. SOMETIMES IT'S NOT. BUILDING PUTS MORE BURDEN ON THE RESIDENTS. SO MULTIFAMILY. SO YOU CAN SEE THE EXISTING TO THE PROPOSED. SO YOU ARE MOVING UP TO SECOND BELOW. YOU CAN SEE THERE FROM THE NOTES THAT BUDA DOESN'T ACTUALLY HAVE A SEPARATE CLASSES. SO ALL OF THEIR CLASSES PAY THE SAME RATES. SO THAT'S LIKELY WHY THE MULTIFAMILY IN BUDA IS SO MUCH HIGHER. AND THEN FOR COMMERCIAL THIS WILL PUT YOU ABOVE PFLUGERVILLE ON THE COMMERCIAL SIDE. AND THEN IRRIGATION AGAIN. 
          YOU WERE ALREADY KIND OF AT THAT HIGH END, BUT I THINK THIS REALLY REFLECTS THE PRICING SIGNAL BECAUSE OF THE WATER SUPPLY, YOU KNOW, ISSUES THAT YOU'VE HAD IN THE PAST AND, YOU KNOW, YOU'RE SENDING THAT PRICING SIGNAL THAT, YOU KNOW, THE MORE WATER YOU USE, THE MORE YOU'RE GOING TO PAY. SO. SO OUR RECOMMENDATIONS AGAIN, WE DO RECOMMEND THAT WE EVALUATE YOUR REVENUE NEEDS OVER THE NEXT TWO YEARS. I THINK IN THE NEXT COUPLE OF STUDIES AS WELL, WE PROBABLY WANT TO TAKE A LOOK AT YOUR RATE STRUCTURE, LOOKING AT, YOU KNOW, WHETHER OR NOT THOSE NEED TO BE ADJUSTED. WE RECOMMEND ADOPTION OF THE RATES BASED ON THE COST OF SERVICE AS WELL AS THE ADJUSTMENTS, THE RECOMMENDED ADJUSTMENTS FOR INSIDE THE CITY LIMITS. SO ONE ADDITIONAL ITEM I WANTED TO ADD TO THE DISCUSSION IS AS WE'VE GOTTEN OUR NEW WATER SUPPLY UNDERWAY AND ALL THE WATER UTILITY IMPROVEMENTS THAT WE'RE DOING, WE DO HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO REDUCE SOME OF THE STAGE THREE RESTRICTIONS WILL BE COMING BACK WITH SOME PROPOSALS ABOUT HOW TO DO THAT. THAT WILL THEN CHANGE, PERHAPS SOME OF THE USAGE AND THEN WITH THE RATES. 
          AND SO AS WE LOOK AT FUTURE RATE MODELS, IT'S A MOVING TARGET TO UNDERSTAND EXACTLY WHAT IS THE RATE MODEL DONE, HOW DOES PEOPLE ADAPTED TO THEIR BEHAVIOR. AND BASED ON THE RESTRICTIONS, WHAT ARE THE RIGHT RATES AND THE RIGHT STRUCTURES THAT NEED TO BE DONE AT THAT TIME? SO AS WE GO INTO NEXT YEAR, WE'LL CONTINUE TO COME BACK AND ADDRESS THIS AND LOOK AT TO MAKE SURE YOU HAVE THE BEST RATE STRUCTURE POSSIBLE. RYAN, WHEN WE WERE LOOKING AT THIS, DID WE TAKE INTO CONSIDERATION PEOPLE OVER 65 AND FINDING THINKING ABOUT A WAY WE COULD, YOU KNOW, LOCK IN THE COST THEY'RE PAYING RIGHT NOW BECAUSE THEY'RE ON A FIXED BUDGET? I'M JUST KIND OF THINKING ABOUT OUR WE'VE GOT A SMALL AGING COMMUNITY. I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE THINKING ABOUT, YOU KNOW, BECAUSE AS WE'RE INCREASING, THEIR DOLLARS DON'T INCREASE. 
          I'M JUST WONDERING WHAT WE CAN DO AS A CITY TO MAYBE HELP MITIGATE SOME OF THAT. I MEAN, BECAUSE IT'S A IT'S A BIG LOOK, HONESTLY, IT'S A BIG INCREASE. AND I'M THINKING ABOUT THOSE THAT ARE ON A FIXED INCOME. NO, WE DID NOT DO A RATE BASED ON THAT. I THINK WE ONE OF THE THINGS THE COUNCIL DID DO THIS YEAR IS COME UP WITH A UTILITY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM, AND WE HAVE SOME FUNDING THAT'S EARMARKED FOR THAT PROGRAM. SO THAT'S PERHAPS A WAY THAT WE COULD ADDRESS SOME OF THAT AS WELL, JUST TO MAKE SURE WE HAVE ENOUGH FUNDING. IF PEOPLE HAVE ARE STRUGGLING TO PAY THEIR BILLS OR HAVE SOME, SOME ISSUES, THAT WE DO HAVE A PROGRAM TO ASSIST WITH THEM, THAT'S A WAY TO ADDRESS IT. THAT'S JUST A ONE TIME ONCE A YEAR, RIGHT? HELP. THAT'S WHAT I'M LOOKING AT. BUT I'M JUST KIND OF THINKING ABOUT SOMETHING THAT WOULD BE ON A MONTHLY BECAUSE THIS THIS IS GOING TO AFFECT THE MONTHLY, I MEAN, THROUGHOUT THE YEAR. IT'S SOMETHING THAT I THINK I MEAN, I THINK ABOUT THE LADY THAT CAME BY AND TALKED TO US LAST TIME WHEN WE JUST HAD A SMALL INCREASE. I MEAN, THAT THAT WHEN I'M LOOKING AT THIS, I'M KIND OF PICTURING HER RIGHT NOW THINKING, YOU KNOW, WHAT CAN I DO FOR OUR FIXED INCOME POPULATION? WELL, WE COULD CERTAINLY IF THE COUNCIL WANTS US TO LOOK AT A PROGRAM LIKE THAT, WE COULD DO IT. I DO, IF WE REDUCE REVENUE FROM ONE CLASS OF CUSTOMERS, SOMEONE ELSE IS GOING TO HAVE TO PICK UP THAT THAT BILL. SO THE REST OF THE CUSTOMERS WOULD THEN HAVE A 
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LARGER INCREASE TO MAKE UP THAT DIFFERENCE. AND I WAS GOING THROUGH THAT IN MY MIND. I'M LIKE, IT'S A TOUGH ISSUE. I PROBABLY WOULD WANT TO PAY A LITTLE BIT MORE JUST TO HELP SOMEONE LIKE THAT OUT BECAUSE MY, YOU KNOW, BEING YOUNG ENOUGH, I'M STILL ABLE TO INCREASE MY DOLLARS. YOU KNOW, I MEAN, MONTHLY, YOU KNOW. SURE. BUT AND YOU ALSO HAVE YOU REALLY DON'T HAVE THAT OPTION, RIGHT? AND YOU ALSO HAVE AN OVER 65 EXEMPTION IN PLACE AND A TAX FREEZE IN PLACE ALREADY FOR SENIORS. SO THEY DO HAVE A LOT OF MECHANISMS TO TRY TO MINIMIZE EXPENSES ON THE OTHER SIDE, JUST NOT ON THE WATER SIDE. BUT I DO UNDERSTAND THE POINT. IT'S JUST A TOUGH ISSUE IF YOU DON'T GET THAT REVENUE FROM THAT GROUP OF CUSTOMERS, THEN SOMEONE ELSE HAS TO PAY FOR IT. SO NEXT STEPS ON THE RATE PLAN IS FOR US TO FINALIZE THE REPORT BASED ON ANY FEEDBACK THAT YOU MIGHT HAVE THAT REPORT. YOU KNOW, WE'LL GET THAT TO PERVEZ, AND THEN YOU'RE GOING TO BE CONSIDERING ADOPTION OF THE RECOMMENDED RATES WITH THE BUDGET ON SEPTEMBER 2ND AND SEPTEMBER 16TH. SO ANY OTHER QUESTIONS FOR ME? THANK YOU FOR THE PRESENTATION. IT'S GREAT, VERY INFORMATIVE. WE LEARNED A LOT FROM IT. AND YEAH, THANK YOU FOR THE HARD WORK YOU AND YOUR TEAM DID. SURE. THANK YOU. WE APPRECIATE THE TIME ON THIS ITEM AND THE ONE BEFORE. THERE'S A LOT OF TECHNICAL DETAILS, A LOT OF INFORMATION, BUT A LOT OF EXPENSIVE PROJECTS. AND THIS IS HOW YOU FINANCE THOSE AS WE MOVE FORWARD. THIS WILL BE THE BASIS FOR THE BUDGET RECOMMENDATIONS THAT I BRING YOU IN JULY. SO IF YOU HAVE ANY FEEDBACK TODAY OR IN THE NEXT FEW WEEKS, PLEASE SHARE THAT WITH US AND WE'D BE HAPPY TO TRY TO TAKE A LOOK AT ANYTHING THAT YOU HAVE. YES, MA'AM. JUST TO NOTE, OUR WATER BILLS DO CONTAIN MORE THINGS OTHER THAN JUST WATER AND WASTEWATER. AND ARE WE LOOKING AT ANY INCREASES IN THOSE OTHER ITEMS? WE'VE GOT FLOOD MITIGATION FEES AND TRASH AND YEAH, I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE TRASH IS, BUT PERVEZ, MAYBE YOU CAN LOOK AT TELL US WHAT THE THAT IS. SO THE MONTHLY BILL THAT WE SEND OUT TO OUR CUSTOMERS INCLUDES WATER, WASTEWATER, DRAINAGE FEE AND TRASH. THE CITY'S CONTRACT WITH TDS FOR NEXT YEAR IS INCREASING IT BY ALMOST 2.5%. SO WE'LL HAVE WATER INCREASE, WASTEWATER INCREASE, TDS TRASH INCREASE. AND THE CITY IS CURRENTLY LOOKING AT DRAINAGE FEE AS WELL EXAMINING THAT. SO I TYPICALLY HAVE THE LOWEST WATER BILL AND I'M A SENIOR. BUT MY WATER BILL, THE TOTAL OF IT IS RIGHT AT $100 A MONTH. SO IF WE'RE LOOKING AT AN AVERAGE FOR WATER AND WASTEWATER, 15%, THAT'S $15 A MONTH. NO, BECAUSE THAT ISN'T THE ENTIRE BILL. RIGHT. SO IT WOULD BE PROBABLY $10 A MONTH EXTRA BETWEEN THE TWO. AND THEN ALSO LOOKING AT POSSIBLY THE FLOOD MITIGATION OR DRAINAGE AND TRASH TRASH SERVICES INCREASING BY SOME PERCENTAGE, BUT NOT THAT MUCH. TDS IS BY CONTRACT 2.5% ANNUALLY. THEY GO UP 2.5% ON THE AVERAGE. YEAH, BECAUSE ANYTHING BIGGER THEY HAVE TO BRING BACK TO US AND FOR US TO DO OUR AMENDMENT. SO JUST I REMEMBER PUTTING THAT IN THE CONTRACT. SO BUT IT IS A 2.5 THAT FOR FY 26 IS 2.5. THANK YOU. PRESS. ALL RIGHT. ANYONE ELSE. ALL RIGHT. NEXT UP IS AGENDA ITEM NUMBER THREE. RECEIVE A REPORT. HOLD DISCUSSION. PROVIDE STAFF FEEDBACK REGARDING THE TRANSPORTATION PUBLIC WORKS PROPOSED BUDGET FOR FISCAL YEAR 2526 AND THE FIVE YEAR CIP. MAYOR, CAN WE TAKE A FIVE MINUTE BREAK? YEAH, WE'LL TAKE A BREAK. LET'S WHAT? 1035? IS THAT ITEM. SO GO FOR IT. OKAY. THANK 
          [III.3) Receive a report, hold a discussion, and provide staff feedback regarding the Transportation & Public Works proposed budget for fiscal year 2025-2026 and the five-year capital improvement plan.]
YOU. MAYOR AND COUNCIL, MIKE TRIMBLE DIRECTOR OF TRANSPORTATION, PUBLIC WORKS. 
          I'M PLEASED TO BE HERE THIS MORNING TO GIVE YOU AN OVERVIEW OF THE TRANSPORTATION PUBLIC WORKS PROPOSED BUDGET. BUT I WANT TO GIVE YOU AN OVERVIEW OF THE NEW DEPARTMENT. SINCE IT'S RELATIVELY NEW, I'LL TALK THROUGH THAT AND THEN GIVE YOU AN OVERVIEW OF OUR PROPOSED BUDGET. AND THEN ALSO SOME OF OUR CIP HIGHLIGHTS AS WELL. AND THEN WE'LL KIND OF ANY QUESTIONS YOU HAVE ALONG THE WAY. OF COURSE, YOU KNOW, STOP ME. I HAVE MY LEADERSHIP LEADERSHIP TEAM HERE AS WELL. CHRIS ARNOLD, MY DEPUTY DIRECTOR FOR TRANSPORTATION AND PUBLIC WORKS. 
          WE ALSO HAVE LEON BARBA, OUR ASSISTANT DIRECTOR AND CITY ENGINEER, AND THEN ALSO DEREK DANIELS, WHO'S OVER OUR CIP, SUBBING IN FOR LOSING OUR ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, WHO COULDN'T 
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BE HERE TODAY. ALSO, WHO COULDN'T BE HERE TODAY IS OUR NEW ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OVER TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT AND OPERATIONS, RAVI KOSARAJU VERY EXCITED TO HAVE HER ON BOARD. 
          BUT SHE WAS NOT ABLE TO BE HERE TODAY. SO LET ME JUST GIVE A QUICK OVERVIEW AND ACTUALLY LET ME GO BACK TO THE BEGINNING SLIDE. I JUST WANT TO SHARE THIS REAL QUICKLY. WE HAVE A NEW KIND OF LOGO WE WERE DEVELOPING. WE DEVELOPED. WE HAVE A INTER-DEPARTMENTAL STAFF TEAM THAT GOT TOGETHER AND WE TALKED ABOUT THIS NEW DEPARTMENT. AND HEY, SINCE WE'RE NEW, WE NEED TO START BUILDING SOME IDENTITY AROUND THIS. AND SO THEY CAME UP WITH A MOCK UP OF THIS NEW LOGO, AND WE WANTED TO USE THE LOGO, BUT THEN START TO INCORPORATE SOMETHING THAT WAS DISTINCTLY FOR TRANSPORTATION AND PUBLIC WORKS. SO HERE'S WHAT THE TEAM CAME UP WITH AS PART OF OUR BRANDING. WE CALL IT OUR OUR TRANSPORTATION PUBLIC WORKS BRANDING COMMITTEE. SO WE'RE EXCITED TO HAVE THEM WORK ON THAT. AND THEY ALSO PROVIDED A LOT OF GOOD INPUT ON DEVELOPING OUR MISSION. AND SO OUR MISSION IS TO IMPROVE THE LIVES OF ALL CITIZENS BY PROVIDING A SAFE, RELIABLE TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM AND IMPROVING THE CITY'S INFRASTRUCTURE. AND AGAIN, THERE'S A LOT HAPPENING IN TRANSPORTATION, PUBLIC WORKS. IT'S HARD TO CAPTURE ALL OF THAT, BUT WE THINK THIS REALLY ENCAPSULATES OUR MAIN MISSION. WE COVER A LOT OF GROUND, WE COVER A LOT OF DIFFERENT FUNCTIONAL AREAS IN TRANSPORTATION, PUBLIC WORKS. WE PROVIDE QUALITY, QUALITY CITY OF KYLE ENGINEERING EXPERTISE TO SUPPORT PUBLIC AND PRIVATE PROJECTS IMPLEMENTATION THROUGH OUR CITY ENGINEER, BUT ALSO THROUGH OUR CIP PROGRAM AS WELL. 
          WE DELIVER A SAFE, WELL MAINTAINED AND EFFECTIVELY MANAGED TRANSPORTATION NETWORK. 
          OBVIOUSLY, ALL THE GREAT WORK THAT OUR PUBLIC WORKS TEAMS DO, AND ALSO BUILDING THE CAPACITY IN OUR TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT AND OPERATIONS AREA, WE SUPPORT KYLE SUSTAINABILITY AND RESILIENCY THROUGH EFFECTIVE STORMWATER AND FLOODPLAIN MANAGEMENT. OUR STORMWATER TEAM AND OUR FLOODPLAIN TEAM DO A PHENOMENAL JOB WITH THAT. WE EFFECTIVELY DELIVER CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS FOR KYLE'S ROADS, INFRASTRUCTURE AND FACILITIES. A VERY, VERY GROWING AND BIG AND IMPORTANT PART OF WHAT WE DO IN TRANSPORTATION AND PUBLIC WORKS. WE ALSO ENSURE THE FACILITIES ARE WELL MAINTAINED AND MANAGED THE CITY'S FACILITIES. AND SO AGAIN, A LOT OF GROUND TO COVER THERE AS WELL. WE HAVE ADDITIONAL FACILITIES THAT ARE A PART OF OUR SYSTEM NOW. AND WE'LL BE TALKING A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THAT. AND THEN WE ALSO SUSTAIN CITY OF KYLE OPERATIONS VIA A DEPENDABLE AND WELL-MAINTAINED FLEET OF VEHICLES AND EQUIPMENT. AND THIS IS, AGAIN, A NEW AREA. WE'RE PLEASED THAT WE WERE ABLE TO HIRE ON A FLEET MANAGER THIS SPRING. AND HE'S QUICKLY HIT THE GROUND RUNNING. AND WE'LL BE TALKING TO YOU MORE ABOUT THE WORK THAT'S HAPPENED THERE. AND THEN ALSO KIND OF WHAT WE'RE LOOKING AT GOING FORWARD AS FAR AS OUR FLEET MANAGEMENT APPROACH. BUT AGAIN, A LOT OF AREAS, WE'RE COVERING A LOT OF GROUND TO COVER FOR TRANSPORTATION, PUBLIC WORKS OPERATIONS. AS YOU KNOW, THIS IS A NEW CITY DEPARTMENT, REALLY STARTED IN JANUARY 2025. AS I CAME ON BOARD AND WE STARTED TO PULL TOGETHER SOME OF THE FORMER FUNCTIONAL AREAS THAT WERE FORMERLY A PART OF WATER UTILITY AND KIND OF STANDING ON THEIR OWN. BUT WE BROUGHT IN THE CITY ENGINEER AND PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENTS, AND THEN THAT WAS PART OF THE BASIS OF FORMING THE NEW TRANSPORTATION PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT. AND REALLY, WE WERE CREATED TO PROVIDE THAT MORE STRATEGIC, PROACTIVE APPROACH TO KYLE'S TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM AND ALL THOSE FUNCTIONAL AREAS THAT WE HAVE AND REALLY AN EMPHASIS ON STRATEGIC AND PROACTIVE. WE'RE REALLY TRYING TO BUILD THAT CAPACITY TO LOOK FORWARD. 
          KYLE'S OBVIOUSLY, YOU'VE HEARD, YOU KNOW, AS A THEME IN THE DISCUSSIONS THIS MORNING, WE'RE RAPIDLY GROWING COMMUNITY. AND SO WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE KEEPING PACE WITH THAT, BUT ALSO LOOKING FORWARD TO WHERE WE PROJECT THAT WE'RE GOING AND MAKING SURE THAT OUR TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM, OUR FACILITIES AND OUR INFRASTRUCTURE IS KEEPING PACE WITH THAT AS WELL, AS WELL AS BEING VERY PROACTIVE IN RESPONDING TO ANY OF OUR ISSUES THAT WE'RE FINDING AND THAT YOU PROVIDE TO US AS WELL, AND JUMPING ON THOSE AS WELL. HERE'S OUR ORGANIZATION. AND THESE AREN'T NECESSARILY POSITIONS. THESE ARE FUNCTIONAL AREAS. AND AGAIN, I HAD A LOT OF GROUND TO COVER IN THIS ORG CHART. SO I WANT TO TALK THROUGH THIS. AND THE AREAS IN BLUE ARE THE AREAS THAT REALLY EXISTED AS WE WERE FORMING. AND SO YOU HAVE STREET MAINTENANCE CONSTRUCTION INSPECTION FACILITIES MANAGEMENT, DRAINAGE OPERATIONS. 
          AND BUT THEN YOU ALSO HAVE THAT NEW FLEET MANAGEMENT AREA THAT WE JUST BROUGHT SOMEBODY ON BOARD TO HELP US TO START DEVELOPING THIS SPRING. AND THAT'S ALL UNDER CHRIS ARNOLD, OUR DEPUTY DIRECTOR, AND THEN UNDER ROWLEY, OUR ASSISTANT DIRECTOR FOR TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT AND OPERATIONS. WE HAVE SEVERAL NEW FUNCTIONAL AREAS THAT WE'RE TRYING TO BUILD OUT. AND THIS WILL I'LL BE REFERRING THAT, REFERENCING THAT WHEN WE TALK ABOUT OUR BUDGET PROPOSAL, BECAUSE THAT'S REALLY ONE OF THE AREAS THAT WE'RE LOOKING AT IS HOW BEST TO BUILD OUT THIS AREA, AT LEAST TO TAKE THOSE FIRST COUPLE OF STEPS TO DO THAT. SEVERAL AREAS UNDER THERE, WE'RE LOOKING AT BUILDING OUT MORE EFFECTIVE TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT OPERATIONS FUNCTION AS WELL AS SIGNALS MANAGEMENT. YOU KNOW, WE'VE TALKED ABOUT DEVELOPING SMART TECHNOLOGIES USING ITS. 
          AND WE WANT TO LOOK AT ALL OF THAT, BUT HAVE JUST A REALLY EFFECTIVE MANAGEMENT OF OUR SIGNAL NETWORK AND HOW THEY WORK WITH OUR ROUNDABOUTS AND OTHER INTERSECTION IMPROVEMENTS AND EFFECTIVE SIGNS AND MARKINGS PROGRAM AS WELL A SAFETY PROGRAM, VISION ZERO, WHICH IS BASICALLY YOUR GOAL OF HAVING ZERO CRASHES. WE DON'T WANT ANY CRASHES IN CITY OF KYLE, BUT REALLY BUILDING THAT SAFETY PROGRAM FOR THE CITY, AS WELL AS EFFECTIVELY COORDINATING WITH 
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DEVELOPMENT. AND SO THIS ALSO INCLUDES LOOKING AT OUR TIAS, OUR TRAFFIC IMPACT ANALYSIS, LOOKING AT POTENTIALLY IN THE FUTURE STREET IMPACT FEES, AND THEN JUST HOW WE COORDINATE AND LEVERAGE WITH DEVELOPMENT AS IT'S COMING ONLINE. ALSO, UNDER LIU ZHANG, WE HAVE OUR CIP AND PLANNING AREA. AND AGAIN THIS IS A BUILT ON SOME EXISTING AREAS FOR THAT WERE THERE FOR CIP AND FOR STORMWATER, BUT ALSO BUILDING A NEW AREA UNDER TRANSPORTATION PLANNING. AND SO WE HAVE RIGHT NOW CURRENTLY THE TRANSPORTATION MASTER PLAN THAT'S UNDER DEVELOPMENT, AS WELL AS LOOKING AT OUR UBER PROGRAM. AND SO WE WANT TO BUILD SOME CAPACITY TO MAKE THOSE LIVING, BREATHING INITIATIVES AND ALSO LOOK AT HOW WE IMPLEMENT THOSE GOING FORWARD, BUT ALSO BUILD SOME CAPACITY TO LOOK AT HOW WE PURSUE GRANTS AND FUNDING AND LEVERAGING WITH OTHER AGENCIES SUCH AS TEXDOT, OTHER NEIGHBORING CITIES, HAYS COUNTY, THEY HAVE A LOT OF INVESTMENTS THEY'RE MAKING. THERE'S A LOT OF MONEY THAT GOES ON THE TABLE WHEN IT COMES TO CAMPO, AND I DEFINITELY WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE AT THE TABLE AND SEEKING THOSE OPPORTUNITIES AS WELL. SO I WOULD DEFINITELY WANT TO BUILD SOME CAPACITY THERE. AND THEN WHEN WE MOVE OVER TO THE CITY ENGINEER, AGAIN, SOME EXISTING FUND FUNCTIONS THERE, OUR FLOODPLAIN ADMINISTRATION AND THE PROJECT REVIEWS THAT HAPPEN. BUT WE ALSO WANT TO BUILD SOME CAPACITY FOR INTERNAL IN-HOUSE ENGINEERING DESIGN. WE THINK THAT WE CAN DO EFFECTIVE IN-HOUSE DESIGN OF SMALLER CIP PROJECTS AND THAT HAVE THE RIGHT SCALE VERSUS CONSULTANT USAGE, AND THEN ALSO BUILDING A PAVEMENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AS WELL. AND SO WE'LL TALK THROUGH ALL OF THOSE GOING FORWARD. BUT I WANT TO KIND OF SHOW YOU WHAT THE VISION WAS FOR THE TRANSPORTATION PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT GOING FORWARD. SOME OF OUR ACCOMPLISHMENTS THIS PAST YEAR, AND THEY ARE SEVERAL, BUT WE HAVE SOME OF OUR SPECIAL PROJECTS THAT WE'VE DONE. YOU SEE CENTER STREET, BEEBE ROAD FROM I-35 TO REPUBLIC DRIVE, OUR MILL AND OVERLAY PROJECTS. WE HAVE OUR SANDERS SPEED TABLE THAT'S UNDERWAY. WE ARE DOING OUR ANALYSIS RIGHT NOW ON THE POST OAK SUBDIVISION, AND WE'LL HAVE SOME RECOMMENDATIONS COMING FORWARD FOR THAT. AS I MENTIONED, OUR TRANSPORTATION MASTER PLAN IS UNDERWAY. WE DID RENEW OUR OUR MS4 STORMWATER PERMIT. AND WE'LL TALK A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT THAT HERE IN A FEW SLIDES. A LOT OF WORK ON OUR CURB PAINTING PROGRAM AND OUR SIDEWALK CONSTRUCTION PROGRAM AS WELL. ALMOST 1700 LINEAR FEET OF SIDEWALK CONSTRUCTED. AGAIN, A GREAT WORK BY OUR TEAMS DOING THAT CROSSWALK STRIPING PROGRAM, ABOUT ALMOST 39,000 LINEAR FEET OF CROSSWALK STRIPING. SO AGAIN, A LOT OF GREAT WORK THAT'S HAPPENING ACROSS THE BOARD. AND SO REALLY PROUD OF. SOME OF OUR ACCOMPLISHMENTS. ON THE CIP SIDE, WE HAVE OUR 22 MILE ROAD BOND PROGRAM. AND I KNOW I'VE GIVEN COUNCIL A COUPLE OF UPDATES ON THAT PROGRAM. WE'RE MAKING GOOD PROGRESS. AS I'VE NOTED PREVIOUSLY, WE ARE NEARING COMPLETION ON THE MARKETPLACE PROJECT. WE ANTICIPATE BREAKING GROUND OR DOING RIBBON CUTTING ON THAT TOWARDS THE END OF JULY. AND THEN ALSO WE ANTICIPATE BREAKING GROUND ON THE CROSSING IN BEEBE WEST PROJECT AS WELL IN JULY. AND SO THAT SHOULD BE COMING TO YOU HERE THE JULY 17TH OR JUNE 17TH AGENDA FOR AWARDS. SO WE'RE AGAIN VERY EXCITED ABOUT THOSE PROJECTS MOVING FORWARD. AND WE'LL HAVE SEVERAL PROJECTS THAT WILL BE GOING TO CONSTRUCTION AS WE GET TOWARDS THE END OF 25 WITH THE 22 ROAD BOND PROGRAM. AND THEN OUTSIDE OF THAT, WE HAVE 75 ACTIVE CIP PROJECTS TOTALING OVER 650 MILLION. SO YOUR CIP RIGHT NOW WITH THE ROAD BOND PROGRAM AND A NON-ROAD BOND PROGRAM, CIP, INCLUDING WATER PROJECTS, INCLUDING OTHER ROAD PROJECTS, YOU KNOW, WE'RE GETTING CLOSE TO ABOUT 800 MILLION IN ACTIVE PROJECTS THAT ARE GOING ON. AND SO AGAIN, THAT IS A HUGE CIP. AND AGAIN, I KNOW THE COUNCIL HAS BEEN VERY SUPPORTIVE OF ALL THE WORK THAT WE NEED TO DO TO KEEP UP WITH OUR GROWING COMMUNITY, BUT THAT'S JUST AN INDICATION OF KIND OF ALL THE THINGS THAT ARE IN PLAY TO KEEP PACE WITH OUR ROADS AND INFRASTRUCTURE. 31 OF THOSE ARE IN DESIGN, AND THEN WE WILL HAVE 19 PROJECTS THAT WILL BE GOING INTO CONSTRUCTION THIS NEXT YEAR. SO A LOT WILL BE HAPPENING ON THE CIP FRONT. WE HAVE SEVERAL COMPLETED PROJECTS AS WELL. WE HAVE LA VERDE PARK PARKING LOT THAT'S COMPLETED. WE DID WORK WITH WATER TO COMPLETE THE WATER MASTER PLAN, AND WE ALSO COMPLETED THE SIDEWALK MASTER PLAN. WE JUST GAVE YOU A BRIEFING ON RECENTLY AT COUNCIL AND THEN DAISY LANE IMPROVEMENTS IN FRONT OF CHAPA MIDDLE SCHOOL AND INDIAN PAINTBRUSH DRAINAGE REHABILITATION, TO NAME A FEW. 
          AND AGAIN, SEVERAL MORE PROJECTS THAT WE'LL BE SEEING UNDER CONSTRUCTION AND COMPLETED IN FY 26. SOME OF OUR KEY INITIATIVES IN THIS NEXT FISCAL YEAR. JUST A FEW. SO WE HAVE I MENTIONED ALL THE CIP WORK AND THAT'S THAT'S A THAT'S A HUGE LIFT. BUT ALSO WE WILL CONTINUE TO BUILD OUT OUR FLEET MANAGEMENT PROGRAM. AND SO THERE'LL BE A LOT OF EFFORT ON THAT. WE WILL BE LOOKING TO COMPLETE THE TRANSPORTATION MASTER PLAN, AND I ANTICIPATE THAT WILL BE COMPLETED IN NEXT SPRING. SO IN MARCH, APRIL TIME FRAME A SIMILAR TIME FRAME FOR THE UBER 314 PROGRAM STUDY AND 
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BRING BACK RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THOSE. AND IT'S WORTHY TO NOTE THE TRANSPORTATION MASTER PLAN WILL HAVE A CIP RECOMMENDED AS PART OF THAT. SO YOU'LL HAVE THAT KIND OF NEXT SET OF TRANSPORTATION IMPROVEMENTS TO BE RECOMMENDED COMING OUT OF THAT PROJECT AS WELL. THAT WILL ALSO BE A LEAD IN TO TALKING ABOUT POTENTIALLY A STREET IMPACT FEE AND DOING THAT ANALYSIS. ONCE WE HAVE THAT CIP PROGRAM IN PLACE OUT OF THE TRANSPORTATION MASTER PLAN MENTIONED, WE'LL BE LOOKING AT DOING INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM STUDY, LOOKING AT BETTER SYNCHRONIZATION OF OUR SIGNAL SYSTEM, AND THEN WE WILL BE CONDUCTING A FLEET MANAGEMENT STUDY WHERE WE'RE LOOKING TO START THAT HERE IN THE NEXT COUPLE OF MONTHS. WE BROUGHT THE FACILITIES MASTER PLAN PHASE ONE TO YOU, I BELIEVE, SEVERAL WEEKS BACK, AND WE ARE BEGINNING WORK ON THAT AS WELL. AND THEN LOOKING AT CREATING A PAVEMENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND THEN IMPLEMENTING THE SIDEWALK MASTER PLAN. SO SIDEWALK IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM AS WELL. AND OF COURSE PROGRESS ON THE 2022 ROAD BOND PROGRAM. AND ALSO I MENTIONED WE'RE BUILDING CAPACITY IN OUR TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT AND OPERATIONS AND SEVERAL OF THOSE PROGRAMS THAT WE'RE TRYING TO GET STARTED, THE TRAFFIC SAFETY PROGRAM AS PART OF THAT, LOOKING AT SAFE ROUTES TO SCHOOLS. SO SAFETY AROUND SCHOOLS, WHETHER IT'S SCHOOL CROSSINGS, SCHOOL CONNECTIVITY, WE WANT TO PRIORITIZE THAT AS WE GO FORWARD. I ALREADY MENTIONED TRAFFIC SIGNALS, BUT THEN ALSO LOOKING AT BUILDING A PROGRAM AROUND TRAFFIC CALMING AS WELL. AND WE WANT TO BUILD ALL THOSE PROGRAMS AND THOSE CAPACITIES. WE'RE VERY EXCITED ABOUT THE CAPABILITIES OF OUR NEW ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, KOSARAJU, TO DO THAT, BUT WE'RE HOPING TO GET HER A COUPLE OF RESOURCES TO BEGIN THAT WORK IN FY 26. I HAVE A QUICK QUESTION, IF YOU DON'T MIND ON THAT. WHEN WE'RE LOOKING AT THE TRAFFIC CALMING PROGRAM OR I KNOW THIS HAS BEEN BROUGHT UP MANY TIMES, ESPECIALLY IN SUBDIVISIONS, ABOUT SPEED BUMPS, THINGS LIKE THAT. WOULD THIS BE CONSIDERED PART OF A PLAN OF LOOKING AT SPEED CUSHIONS IN THOSE AREAS AND ALONG WITH TRAFFIC SIGNALS, WHERE ARE WE GOING TO MAYBE EVENTUALLY IN THE NEXT COUPLE OF YEARS, UPDATE SOME OF THE SIGNAGES TO WHERE WE HAVE THOSE SOLAR POWERED SIGNAL LIGHTS TO WHERE AS YOU'RE DRIVING BY IT, IT FLASHES IF YOU'RE GOING TOO FAST AND TOO SLOW AND ALL THAT OTHER STUFF, OR IT'S ACTUALLY TOO FAST. THOSE THOSE WOULD BE ALL THE TOOLS IN THE TOOLKIT TO LOOK AT, AND WE WOULD WANT TO START THAT PROGRAM TO START LOOKING AT THOSE PARTY LOCATIONS BASED ON FEEDBACK WE'RE GETTING FROM THE COMMUNITY, BUT ALSO FROM COUNCIL AS WELL. AND THEN WE'LL BE MORE PROACTIVE IN DOING THAT ANALYSIS AND SEEING WHAT THE BEST SOLUTION IS. YOU KNOW, WHETHER IT'S A SPEED TABLE, WHETHER IT'S A SPEED SIGNAGE, WHATEVER THAT IS, IT COULD BE IMPROVED MARKINGS AS WELL ON THE STREET. 
          I KNOW WE'VE DONE A LOT OF WORK ON DAISY DOWNING, FOR EXAMPLE, BUT WE WANT TO BE MORE PROACTIVE IN WORKING WITH OUR COMMUNITIES AND OUR NEIGHBORHOODS TO SEE WHERE THOSE THOSE ISSUE POINTS ARE. THOSE THOSE COVID WAS ONE OF THEM ON THAT STREET. YEAH, YEAH. MIKE, I HAVE A QUESTION OR A COMMENT. SENIOR CITIZENS NEEDS NEED TO BE CONSIDERED WHEN WE ARE LOOKING AT ESPECIALLY INTERSECTION DESIGN, OUR LIMITED ABILITY SOMETIMES TO LOOK TO THE FAR RIGHT OR THE FAR LEFT TO SEE TRAFFIC COMING. 1626 I KEEP BRINGING THAT UP. HOW BAD THAT IS FOR SENIORS, AS WELL AS THE DISTRACTIONS IN THE INTERSECTION. VERY DISTRACTING INTERSECTION AND THE SPEED COMING INTO THE INTERSECTION, WHICH SENIORS HAVE TROUBLE ESTIMATING THE SPEED OF THE ONCOMING VEHICLES. SO THERE ARE ACTUALLY GUIDELINES RELATED TO STREET SAFETY FOR SENIORS THAT I HOPE THAT WE'LL BE LOOKING AT. AARP HAS A GREAT BROCHURE ON THAT, AND I KNOW THAT TRANSPORTATION, THE NATIONAL TRANSPORTATION SERVICE HAS SEMINARS THAT THEY'VE DONE THAT I ATTENDED ONE OF THOSE THAT WAS JUST EXCELLENT, BUT THEY'RE DIFFERENT, A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENT THAN GENERAL INTERSECTION OR STREET GUIDELINES. THEY JUST REQUIRE SOME SPECIAL ATTENTION. SO THANK YOU FOR DOING THAT. ABSOLUTELY, COUNCILMEMBER. WE DEFINITELY WANT TO CONSIDER ALL OF THOSE DIFFERENT ASPECTS OF SAFETY, INCLUDING FOR OUR AGING POPULATION AND ALL OF OUR POPULATIONS, YOU KNOW, A DISABLED POPULATION AS WELL. AND SO WE'LL BE LOOKING AT ALL OF THAT. IN FACT, I ANTICIPATE COMING TO COUNCIL, I THINK, THE NEXT COUNCIL MEETING, AND WE'LL BE LOOKING TO APPLY FOR A SAFE STREETS FOR ALL GRANT TO ACTUALLY DO A SAFETY ACTION PLAN FOR KYLE CAMPO HAS A SAFETY ACTION PLAN. HAYS COUNTY IS FINALIZING THEIR SAFETY ACTION PLAN. SO I ANTICIPATE WORKING ON A KYLE SAFETY ACTION PLAN THAT IS UNIQUELY FOR KYLE AND LOOKING AT THE NEEDS OF OUR RESIDENTS, GREAT, THANKS. SO AS WE WERE LOOKING AT WHERE THE DEPARTMENT IS AGAIN, NEWLY FORMED, WE'RE TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHAT OUR KEY PRIORITIES ARE BASED ON ALSO CONVERSATIONS I'VE JUST HAD WITH YOU AT DIFFERENT COUNCIL MEETINGS AND FEEDBACK I'VE RECEIVED TALKING WITH OUR LEADERSHIP, WE CAME UP WITH SOME SOME KEY STRATEGIC PRIORITIES TO KIND OF FRAME OUR BUDGET PROPOSAL FOR FISCAL YEAR 26. SO 
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OUR PRIORITIES ARE MAINTAINING AN EFFECTIVE TRANSPORTATION AND PUBLIC WORKS SERVICES AND A SYSTEM, FOR THAT MATTER, BUILDING CAPACITY. I'VE MENTIONED THAT QUITE A BIT FOR THE DEPARTMENT BUILDING CAPACITY FOR PROACTIVE IDENTIFICATION OF TRAFFIC, TRANSPORTATION, TRAFFIC AND SAFETY MANAGEMENT NEEDS. ENSURE SUCCESSFUL DELIVERY OF CITY OF KYLE'S 1 BILLION PLUS CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM. AND WE'LL TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THOSE NUMBERS. AND AGAIN THAT'S A FIVE YEAR CIP PLAN LOOKING FORWARD. AND SO WE'RE TRYING TO LOOK AT THAT HORIZON AND MAKING SURE WE HAVE A GOOD CAPACITY FOR THAT. PROVIDING COST EFFECTIVE MANAGEMENT OF CITY'S FLEET RESOURCES, WHICH WE'VE TALKED ABOUT SUFFICIENTLY MAINTAIN THE CITY'S ROADWAY NETWORK TO SUPPORT SAFE, EFFICIENT MOVEMENT OF PEOPLE, GOODS AND SERVICES AND LEVERAGE INTERAGENCY AND GRANT FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES. AND SO, JUST TO START OUT, WHEN WE TALK ABOUT MAINTAINING EFFECTIVE SERVICES. SO I'LL START WITH FACILITIES MANAGEMENT. AS I MENTIONED, WE HAVE I THINK WE HAD TEN, TEN BUILDINGS THAT WERE UNDER INITIALLY UNDER OUR CURRENT STAFFING THAT WE WERE MAINTAINING. AND I THINK NOW THAT HAS GROWN OVER THE LAST YEAR OR 2 TO 13 FACILITIES. AND SO WHAT WE'RE LOOKING AT IS A REQUESTING A COUPLE OF ADDITIONAL RESOURCES, A COUPLE ADDITIONAL STAFF TO HELP US TO ADEQUATELY COVER AND MAINTAIN THOSE FACILITIES. AND WE THINK WE'RE GOING TO GET A COUPLE OF DIFFERENT BENEFITS FROM THAT ONE, OBVIOUSLY MORE RESPONSIVE TO ANY NEEDS THAT COME UP FOR THE FACILITIES, BUT ALSO STAYING ON TOP OF AN EFFECTIVE MAINTENANCE PROGRAM, STAYING ON TOP OF INSPECTION PROGRAM TO MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE ADDRESSING ANY MAINTENANCE NEEDS AS WE GO ALONG, AND AVOIDING ANY MORE EXPENSIVE MAINTENANCE AND EQUIPMENT REPLACEMENT COSTS DOWN THE ROAD. AND AGAIN, TRYING TO KEEP KEEP UP WITH THOSE. CHRIS, I DON'T KNOW IF YOU WANTED TO ADD ANYTHING ELSE ON THE FACILITIES MANAGEMENT PIECE. 
          MORNING, MAYOR COUNCIL. CHRIS ARNOLD DEPUTY DIRECTOR I JUST WANT TO ADD ONE NOTE TO THAT THAT IT'S IMPORTANT TO HIGHLIGHT THE WORK THAT OUR FACILITY STAFF DOES. THEY WORK BEHIND THE SCENES. YOU DON'T SEE THEM A LOT. THEY DO THINGS LIKE THIS, SET UP THIS ENVIRONMENT, THIS SETUP FOR Y'ALL TO DO THIS TODAY AND JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT, YOU KNOW, AS WE GO FORWARD AND WE INCREASE OUR STAFF AND WE INCREASE OUR LEVEL OF SERVICE, THAT WE WANT TO MAINTAIN THE LEVEL OF SERVICE FOR, FOR, FOR Y'ALL. SO HOPEFULLY WE CAN APPROVE THESE REQUESTS. THANKS, CHRIS. AND SO AS I MENTIONED, WE HAVE TWO STAFF THAT WE'RE REQUESTING UNDER THIS REQUEST. 
          AND THEN AS WELL AS TWO VEHICLE, TWO HALF TON EXTENDED CAB WORK TRUCKS, AGAIN TO SUPPORT BUILDING MAINTENANCE STAFF TO GET THAT WORK DONE. ALSO, I MENTIONED THAT WE HAVE SUCCESSFULLY RENEWED OUR MS4 PERMIT, OUR STORMWATER PERMIT FOR THE CITY, BUT WITH THAT COMES A SPECIFIC REQUIREMENTS AND OBLIGATIONS TO MAINTAIN EFFECTIVELY OUR STORMWATER TO ADDRESS THOSE THROUGH OUR MAINTAINING OUR DRAINAGE NEEDS. AND SO I'LL LET CHRIS MAYBE ALSO SPEAK TO THIS AS WELL. BUT THIS REQUEST, THIS VACUUM TRUCK AND THE STREET SWEEPER REALLY GO TO US BEING ABLE TO ADEQUATELY ADDRESS OUR STORMWATER, KEEP THE KEEP THOSE INLETS CLEAN, THEN ALSO KEEP THE DEBRIS OFF THE STREETS. BECAUSE ALL OF THAT, I ACTUALLY SAW A REALLY GREAT DEMONSTRATION BY KATHY, OUR STORMWATER EXPERT, IN-HOUSE, AND SHE ACTUALLY JUST SHOWED HOW AT THE KYLE CITIZENS ACADEMY, THERE'S NOTHING FILTRATING THAT WHEN IT GOES INTO THOSE INLETS, IT GOES RIGHT INTO OUR STREAMS, INTO OUR RIVERS. AND SO IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT FOR US TO MAKE SURE THAT THE THAT THE STORMWATER IS BEING ADEQUATELY ADDRESSED. AND WE'RE CLEANING UP DEBRIS ON THE STREETS AND MAKING SURE THAT THAT WATER IS, IS FREE FROM POLLUTANTS AS POSSIBLE AS IT'S ENTERING THOSE, THOSE INLETS GOING FORWARD. SO THESE VEHICLES WOULD HELP US TO ADDRESS THAT. WE DON'T CURRENTLY HAVE A VACUUM TRUCK, SO THIS WOULD ALLOW US TO ACTUALLY GET ONE ON BOARD. I THINK WE'RE CONTRACTING RIGHT NOW FOR THOSE SERVICES, BUT THIS WOULD ALLOW US TO HAVE ONE IN-HOUSE TO ACTUALLY GET THAT WORK DONE. AND WITH THE STREET SWEEPER, WE HAVE ONE. BUT MY UNDERSTANDING IS IT'S ABOUT SEVEN YEARS OLD AND IT BREAKS DOWN. AND SO WHEN IT'S OUT OF COMMISSION, THEN WE DON'T HAVE A STREET SWEEPER THAT WE CAN USE. AND SO THIS WOULD ALLOW US TO HAVE ANOTHER VEHICLE IN USE THAT WE COULD USE AS KIND OF KIND OF A BACKUP AND HAVE A LITTLE BIT OF REDUNDANCY THERE SO WE CAN ADEQUATELY COVER OUR STREET SWEEPING NEEDS GOING FORWARD. ARE WE ALSO LOOKING AT EDUCATION? YOU SAID SOMETHING A MINUTE AGO THAT REALLY RESONATED WITH ME IS THAT, YOU KNOW, KATHY GAVE THIS GREAT PRESENTATION TELLING YOU HOW THE WATER GOES. 
          I MEAN, THERE'S NOTHING BLOCKING THE POLLUTION GOING INTO OUR STREAMS AND LAKES AND GETTING THAT MESSAGE OUT TO THE RESIDENTS, NOT JUST TO THE SMALL CLASS, TO THE ENTIRE CITY WOULD PROBABLY BE BENEFICIAL. AND THAT WOULD PROBABLY HELP US AS WELL. ABSOLUTELY. IN FACT, IT'S A PART OF THE MS4 PERMIT REQUIREMENTS FOR US TO DO A PUBLIC EDUCATION CAMPAIGN. AND SO KATHY'S BEEN DEVELOPING THAT AND AGAIN, DOING A GREAT JOB. WE'RE LOOKING TO JUST AMPLIFY THAT AS WE'RE GETTING THIS TRANSPORTATION PUBLIC WORKS TEAM TOGETHER. YOU'LL SEE AS PART OF ONE OF OUR OTHER REQUESTS, WE'LL BE LOOKING FOR A PUBLIC COMMUNICATIONS POSITION THAT WILL BE HELPING US 
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IN SEVERAL AREAS, BUT I THINK THAT CAN ALSO HELP US IN THAT AREA AS WELL. TO AMPLIFY THAT. 
          MIKE ON THE STREET SWEEPER, THIS WE HAVE MORE THAN ONE, RIGHT? THIS IS ARE YOU SAYING THAT THE YOU'RE WANTING A STREET SWEEPER SPECIFICALLY FOR A DEPARTMENT? WELL, MY UNDERSTANDING FOR, FOR PUBLIC WORKS, WE ONLY HAVE ONE STREET SWEEPER, CORRECT? CORRECT. YEAH. SO WE HAVE ONE THAT WE USE FOR THIS PURPOSE TO JUST MAINTAIN THE STREETS. AND SO WE'RE LOOKING TO HAVE ONE TO PROVIDE THAT REDUNDANCY BECAUSE THIS ONE, WHEN IT BREAKS DOWN IT GOES OUT OF COMMISSION FOR A COUPLE OF WEEKS. I THINK EVEN MIKE MURPHY MENTIONED WITH THIS LARGER EQUIPMENT, WHEN IT'S OUT, IT'S OUT FOR A COUPLE OF WEEKS. IT TAKES TIME TO REPAIR, RIGHT? FOR SURE. AND SO BUT I GUESS I'M REALIZING SEVEN YEARS OLD, I'M BEING DATED. BUT I WAS HERE WHEN WE BOUGHT THIS BRAND NEW, SO IT'S KIND OF WEIRD. BUT WHEN WE BOUGHT THIS IT WAS TO GO FROM 1 TO 2. SO I GUESS DID ONE JUST FALL OFF? AND THIS IS WE'RE JUST NOW REPLACING IT. WE USED TO HAVE TWO, AS FAR AS I KNOW. MY KNOWLEDGE IS WE ONLY HAD ONE. ALL RIGHT. I GUESS IT MUST HAVE HAPPENED SOME SOME TIME AGO. 
          RIGHT. I CAN CHECK ON IT. MAYBE THIS ONE REPLACED THAT ONE, THE OLDER MODEL THAT WE HAD, BUT I'M NOT FAMILIAR WITH IT. BUT I CAN FIND OUT FOR YOU. DO YOU KNOW WHAT THE EXPECTED LIFESPAN LIKE WHEN YOU SAY THIS ONE'S SEVEN YEARS OLD AND IT BREAKS DOWN, DOES IT MEAN THIS ONE'S ON? SO IF WE BUY ANOTHER ONE, IS THIS ONE BEING DECOMMISSIONED OR ARE WE GOING FROM 1 TO 2? IT IS NOT GOING TO BE DECOMMISSIONED. IT'S GOING TO BE AN ADDITION TO THIS ONE. THE NEW ONE WILL BE. AND TYPICALLY THOSE LIFE EXPECTANCIES ARE 5 TO 10 YEARS. THEY'RE VERY COMPLICATED PIECES OF EQUIPMENT. THEY'VE GOT A LOT OF MOVING PARTS. A LOT OF THINGS CAN GO WRONG WITH THEM. SO WE EXPECT TO GET PROBABLY 5 TO 10 YEARS OUT OF A STREET SWEEPER, AS LONG AS IT'S MAINTAINED PRETTY WELL. AND LIKE MIKE SAID, WE'LL BE TALKING ABOUT THOSE FLEET MANAGEMENT INITIATIVES IN THE FUTURE TO MAINTAIN THIS EQUIPMENT, AND WE MAY EVEN GET MORE LIFE EXPECTANCY ON THOSE IF WE CAN GET THIS MAINTENANCE PROGRAM IN-HOUSE. OKAY. SO THE STREET SWEEPER THAT WE'RE BUYING THERE, THAT'S BEING PROPOSED IN THE IN THE BUDGET, BASED ON WHAT YOU'RE SAYING, REALLY IS SORT OF A REPLACEMENT. YOU'RE PLANNING TO KEEP THIS ONE IN COMMISSION, BUT IT'S AT THE END OF ITS LIFESPAN. THAT'S A FAIR STATEMENT. YES. OKAY. SO IF I COULD JUST ADD ON BOTH WHAT YOU'RE SAYING AND WHAT COUNCILMEMBER IS SAYING, YOU'RE ASKING FOR A NEW VEHICLES, YOU'RE ASKING FOR A NEW STREET SWEEPER. WILL THERE BE A PLAN IN PLACE TO SAY, OKAY, WE'RE GOING TO START DOCUMENTING HOW MANY MILEAGES WE'RE GOING TO KEEP ALL OUR TRUCKS BEFORE WE SAY WE TRADE THEM IN? OR IF THAT'S THE CASE, NUMBER TWO, IS IT GOING TO BE LEASED AND WHERE WOULD THEY BE MAINTAINED? WOULD THEY BE IN-HOUSE OR WILL WE HAVE TO SEND THEM OFF TO A DEALERSHIP WHEN THEY BREAK. BECAUSE I GET IT WHEN OUR TRUCKS BREAK DOWN OR WHEN CRUISERS BREAK DOWN FOR THE SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT OR WHATEVER IT IS, THEY GOT TO GO INTO A SPECIFIC AREA AND THEY GOT A TICKET, AND THEY COULD BE TWO WEEKS BEFORE THEY EVEN GET LOOKED AT, AND IT COULD BE JUST A MINOR PART. SO FOR THESE ITEMS THAT YOU'RE ASKING FOR OR DO, WE'RE GETTING A PLAN IN PLACE TO WHERE ONCE SPECIFIC TRUCKS GET UP TO 90,000 MILES, WHICH COULD, YOU KNOW, BE QUICK OR FOR SOME TRUCKS SIT THERE FOR YEARS, THERE'S A PROCESS TO GET THEM REPLACED. AND THE SAME THING WITH THE STREET SWEEPER TO WHERE WE GET THEM UNDER CONTRACT, TO WHERE WE HAVE THE EXACT PLACE WHERE WE NEED TO TAKE THEM TO GET FIXED AND ALL THAT. RIGHT? JUST JUST TO HIGHLIGHT A LITTLE BIT, WE HAVE SOME MORE IN THE SLIDESHOW TO SPECIFICALLY ADDRESS THOSE QUESTIONS. BUT JUST JUST TO HIGHLIGHT YOUR QUESTION RIGHT NOW, WE DID BRING ON A NEW DIVISION MANAGER FOR OUR NEW FLEET DEPARTMENT, AND HE'S PUT TOGETHER SEVERAL SOPS, MAINTENANCE PROCEDURES, AND ALL OF THESE THINGS THAT WE CAN DO TO PROVIDE PREVENTATIVE MAINTENANCE FOR ALL OF OUR EQUIPMENT. THAT INCLUDES DOCUMENTATION. WE HAVE A NEW PIECE OF SOFTWARE THAT WE JUST IMPLEMENTED ON JUNE THE 2ND, WHERE THESE GUYS HAVE TO DO A 360 WALK AROUND. THEY HAVE TO CHECK THEIR OIL, THEY HAVE TO DO ALL OF THESE THINGS IN AN APP, AND THEY HAVE TO LOG THAT EVERY TIME THEY START THAT VEHICLE IN THE MORNING. SO WITH ALL OF THAT INFORMATION, ALL THAT DATA AND ALL THOSE METRICS THAT WE'RE GOING TO BE ABLE TO ACQUIRE OVER, SAY, JUST THE NEXT SIX MONTHS, WE'LL BE ABLE TO EVALUATE THE FLEET A LOT BETTER AND LOOK AT THOSE VEHICLES THAT ARE IN NEED OF REPLACEMENT. YOU KNOW, WHERE THE MAINTENANCE COSTS ARE MORE THAN THE VEHICLE AND ALL OF THOSE TYPES OF THINGS. YEAH. SO THAT WAY YOU KEEP THEM IN TRACK WHERE THIS VEHICLE IS DUE FOR THE INSPECTION, SEND THEM ALL IN WHERE YOU CAN FIND THOSE LEAKS IN THE TRANSMISSION, LEAKS IN THE TIRES TO WHERE IT DOESN'T CATCH YOU OFF GUARD, TO WHERE YOU GOT TO SEND IT OFF FOR A WHILE. YES, SIR. AND AGAIN, THOSE THINGS SHOULD BE CAUGHT ON EVERY INSPECTION. SO THANK YOU. APPRECIATE IT. AND WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE PREVENTATIVE MAINTENANCE. THAT'S WHAT I WANTED TO TOUCH ON A LITTLE BIT IS BECAUSE WE ONLY HAVE ONE. WE PROBABLY DON'T HAVE THAT TIME TO SIT DOWN AND DO THE PREVENTIVE MAINTENANCE NEEDED BECAUSE IT'S A SWEEPER, RIGHT? IT TAKES IN DUST, TAKES IN EVERYTHING. A LOT OF THE EQUIPMENT, LIKE EVEN OUR SKID STEERS THAT DO THE MILLING THINGS LIKE THAT, HAVE SPECIAL FILTERS IN THEM, MAKING SURE THAT WE'RE ABLE TO CHANGE OUT THE FILTER SYSTEM, EVERYTHING ELSE. HAVING JUST ONE STREET SWEEPER, YOU REALLY DON'T PROBABLY DON'T HAVE TIME TO DO THAT PREVENTATIVE MAINTENANCE YOU'RE LOOKING AT. SO THAT MIGHT GIVE US A COUPLE MORE YEARS OUT OF THE OTHER ONE. NOW HAVING 
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THAT SECOND, WHAT DO YOU CALL IT. STREET SWEEPER. RIGHT. AND FOR EACH SPECIFIC PIECE OF EQUIPMENT, THERE IS A DIFFERENT FORM THAT THEY FILL OUT FOR THOSE DIFFERENT MOVING PARTS. AS I SPOKE OF EARLIER, THAT ARE IN THAT STREET SWEEPER, THEY'LL CHECK THE FILTERS AND THEY'LL DO ALL THOSE THINGS. THEY MAY NOT DO THE FILTERS DAILY, BUT THERE IS A SCHEDULED MAINTENANCE OR SCHEDULED CHECK ON THOSE. AND HAVING THAT SECOND VEHICLE WILL HELP YOU. WELL, TAKE THAT TRUCK IN AND GET IT DONE. SO THAT'S EXACTLY TO MY POINT. THE SECOND VEHICLE IS GOOD. NUMBER ONE, YOU CAN BE RUNNING TWO, YOU KNOW, TWO SWEEPERS AT A TIME, WHICH IS HELPFUL. BUT WHEN DOWN YOU'RE STILL ABLE TO PERFORM THE FUNCTION. RIGHT. SO I GUESS I'M JUST I'M JUST PROCESSING REALIZING THAT WHAT SEVEN YEARS AGO WHEN WE MADE THIS INVESTMENT, WE THOUGHT WE WERE GOING TO WE HAD THIS. IT'S DEJA VU. WE THOUGHT WE WERE HAVING THIS EXACT CONVERSATION ABOUT GOING FROM ONE STREET SWEEPER TO TWO SO THAT ONE COULD BE DOWN, BUT THEN THE OLD ONE GOT DECOMMISSIONED APPARENTLY YEARS AGO, AND WE JUST DROPPED BACK DOWN TO ONE INSTEAD OF IT BEING REPLACED. NOW THIS ONE IS AT THE END, SO IT SEEMS LIKE WE'RE ON A CYCLE OF BASICALLY STILL JUST HAVING ONE STREET SWEEPER. AND WHAT I'M WANTING TO SUGGEST IS THAT WE HAVE A SORT OF AS A POLICY, LIKE IF WHENEVER THIS ONE IS READY TO BE RETIRED, IF WE CAN GET SOME MORE YEARS OUT OF IT, THAT'S GREAT. I'M NOT SUGGESTING THAT WE BUY TWO RIGHT NOW EITHER, BECAUSE WE'RE GOING TO HAVE TO. BUT WHEN THAT ONE IS DECOMMISSIONED, THEN IT HAS TO COME BACK TO US IN THE BUDGET SO THAT WE CAN KEEP THAT. WE CAN KEEP TWO STREET SWEEPERS IN OUR INVENTORY AT ALL TIMES. THAT'S THAT WOULD BE MY SUGGESTION AT LEAST. RIGHT? ABSOLUTELY. GETS DECOMMISSIONED. RIGHT. AND THAT IS A PART OF OUR FLEET MANAGEMENT APPROACH THAT WE'RE LOOKING AT GOING FORWARD IS ACTUALLY TO LOOK AT AGE OF THE VEHICLE, YOU KNOW, USAGE AND THEN ALSO MAINTENANCE SCHEDULES AND ALL OF THAT AND BUILDING THAT INTO KIND OF A REPLACEMENT POLICY. AND SO WE ARE WORKING ON DEVELOPING ALL OF THAT RIGHT NOW. AND THEY'LL ACTUALLY BE A SCORED SYSTEM FOR THAT. SO IF IT'S A TEN YEAR LIFESPAN AND YOU NEED A YOU NEED A FLEET OF TWO, THAT MEANS YOU'RE REPLACING EVERY FIVE YEARS, RIGHT? RIGHT. SO INSTEAD OF IT BEING SEVEN YEARS, IT'S JUST MAYBE WE SHOULD HAVE DONE THIS TWO YEARS AGO IS THE POINT. AND WE CAN BETTER PLAN FOR THAT GOING FORWARD. 
          ABSOLUTELY. JUST LIKE TO SAY MAYBE NOT JUST THIS ITEM, BUT LIKE ALL THE OTHER DUMP TRUCKS, THESE THINGS THAT ARE HIGH DOLLAR AMOUNTS AND THEY GET DECOMMISSIONED, THAT WE SEE THAT IN THE BUDGET CYCLE SO THAT WE'RE, WE'RE WE'RE KEEPING UP WITH THE THAT WE DO GET THE EXTENDED LIFESPAN USE OF THE MACHINERY. AND IF IT IF IT GOES DOWN A FEW YEARS EARLIER, WE'D LIKE TO UNDERSTAND WHY WE'RE REPLACING IT, YOU KNOW, MAYBE PREMATURELY OR BUT ALSO HAVE ENOUGH IN THE PIPELINE TO SERVICE THE COMMUNITY. ABSOLUTELY. AND AS WE DEVELOP THE FLEET MANAGEMENT PLAN AND WE CAN GET SOME OF THESE THINGS IN PLACE, I THINK WE'RE GOING TO BE BETTER ABLE TO GIVE YOU THAT UPDATE ON A REGULAR BASIS. OKAY. FOR OUR NEXT STRATEGIC PRIORITY, THIS IS THE EFFECTIVELY PLAN AND PREPARE FOR KYLE'S TRANSPORTATION NEEDS. AND I MENTIONED THE NEW TRANSPORTATION PLANNING AREA WE'RE TRYING TO BUILD OUT. AND AGAIN THIS IS FOR US TO BE ABLE TO LOOK FORWARD, BUT ALSO LOOK ACROSS AND LOOK AT HOW WE COORDINATE WITH OUR AGENCY PARTNERS. WE MENTIONED THE WORK THAT HAYS COUNTY IS DOING. CITY OF SAN MARCOS, CITY OF BUDA, OUR OTHER PARTNERS, TXDOT AND MORE EFFECTIVELY COORDINATE WITH THEM ON PROJECTS AND IMPROVEMENTS AND ANY ISSUES GOING FORWARD. AND SO AGAIN, WE'RE ABLE TO KIND OF REACH OUT AND WE'RE WORKING ON THOSE NOW, AND WE'RE REACHING OUT AS NEEDED FOR DIFFERENT PROJECTS. BUT THIS REALLY BUILDS OUR CAPACITY TO BE MORE PROACTIVE IN LOOKING FORWARD, PARTICULARLY AS WE HAVE THIS NEW TRANSPORTATION MASTER PLAN. I DEFINITELY WANT TO MAKE SURE WE'RE GETTING THE FULL VALUE OUT OF THAT, OF THAT INVESTMENT THAT WE'RE MAKING. AND TO DO THAT, DEFINITELY HAVING SOME SOME RESOURCES ON STAFF THAT CAN THAT CAN HELP US TO DO THAT AND STAY ON TOP OF THAT, THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THAT AND FOLLOW UP THAT, BECAUSE IT REALLY DOES TAKE A LOT OF FOLLOW UP AND FOLLOW THROUGH TO MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE REALIZING ALL THE POTENTIAL VALUE OF THOSE RECOMMENDED IMPROVEMENTS, THOSE RECOMMENDED ACTIONS THAT COME OUT OF A TRANSPORTATION MASTER PLAN. SO WHAT WE'RE ASKING FOR HERE IS A TRANSPORTATION PLANNING DIVISION MANAGER. AND AGAIN, THIS IS JUST THAT FIRST STEP TO START TO BUILD THAT CAPACITY TO DO THAT AND TO HAVE THAT THAT PLANNING CAPACITY IN THE TRANSPORTATION AREA. AND THEN ALSO I MENTIONED PREVIOUSLY PUBLIC INFORMATION AND MARKETING PROGRAM MANAGER, WHILE IT'S HERE IN THIS AREA, THIS POSITION WE SEE SERVING THE WHOLE DEPARTMENT. AND THIS WOULD SERVE US ALSO ON THE CIP SIDE OF THINGS, HELP US WITH OUR CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT COMMUNICATIONS FOR PROJECTS AS WELL. AND SO WE DEFINITELY COULD LOOK AT CAPITALIZING SOME OF THOSE COSTS AS PART OF CIP, ALSO HELPING US IN SEVERAL AREAS THAT WE'VE ALSO NOTED. AND AGAIN, I THINK THIS CAN HELP US IN THE IN THE STORMWATER SIDE OF THINGS. I THINK IT CAN HELP US ON THE FLEET MANAGEMENT SIDE OF THINGS, BUT REALLY JUST BE A RESOURCE FOR THE DEPARTMENT TO COORDINATE. BACK WITH OUR CORPORATE COMMUNICATIONS TEAM HERE AT THE CITY OF KYLE. AND AGAIN, JUST MAKE SURE WE'RE 
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DOING A GOOD JOB GETTING INFORMATION OUT. FOR EXAMPLE, ONE OF THE THINGS WE'RE WORKING ON RIGHT NOW IS KIND OF A HOW TO ON HOW TO USE ROUNDABOUTS. AND WE'RE WORKING WITH OUR COMMUNICATIONS TEAM ON THAT. WE'RE EXCITED ABOUT THAT. BUT AGAIN, IT TAKES BANDWIDTH FROM OUR SIDE TO WORK WITH THEM. IT TAKES BANDWIDTH FROM THEIR SITE. AND SO WE JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE HAVE SOMEONE WHO CAN CAN STAY ON TOP OF THOSE INITIATIVES. AND FOR ALL THE DIFFERENT COMMUNICATIONS NEEDS THAT WE SEE. AND I'M STILL JUST GETTING A HANDLE OF WHAT ALL THOSE NEEDS ARE FROM A TRANSPORTATION AND PUBLIC WORKS STANDPOINT. GREAT, MIKE. SORRY, I DIDN'T WANT TO JUMP. SO I GUESS JUST JUST MY CONCERN IS JUST LIKE THE COMPENSATION PART OF IT, THAT THESE POSITIONS GET LOOKED AT IN OUR COMPENSATION STUDY TO SEE LIKE THAT, THEY BENCHMARK LIKE WHERE THEY NEED TO BE BEFORE PROPOSING THE AMOUNTS CONSIDERED FOR, FOR THESE TWO. AND I THINK YOU HAD TWO MORE COMING IN FOR MANAGING THE ROADS PROJECT MANAGERS. SO HAVE WE HAVE WE LOOKED AT THAT TO SEE THAT THEY ARE BENCHMARKING WHERE WE NEED THEM, BECAUSE MY CONCERN IS JUST THAT WE GO VERY TOP HEAVY ON THE EXACT SIDE EXECUTIVE SIDE IN THIS BUDGET SEASON. SO I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT, YOU KNOW, WE'RE WE'RE NOT OVERCOMPENSATING IN THESE POSITIONS. WE DID WORK WITH HR AND LOOKING AT WHAT POSITIONS WE THOUGHT WOULD BE NEEDED TO JUST START THESE FUNCTIONS. AND AGAIN, SOME OF THE POSITIONS YOU SEE HERE, I KNOW WE SEE A COUPLE OF DIVISION MANAGERS HERE, BUT THIS IS REALLY JUST TO START THAT FUNCTION. AND SO, YOU KNOW, AGAIN THAT'S WHY WE'RE NOT PROPOSING A FULL BUILD OUT OF STAFF AND ALL OF THAT. WE JUST WANT TO GET SOMEBODY ON BOARD TO HELP US START THESE AREAS AND THEN SEE WHAT THOSE NEEDS ARE, AND THEN COME BACK TO YOU IN FUTURE FISCAL YEARS TO LOOK AT WHAT THOSE NEEDS ARE. YEAH. AND THE OTHER THING I WOULD SAY IS THESE ARE FULLY LOADED NUMBERS. 
          SO WHAT WE MEAN BY THAT IS IT'S THE SALARY PLUS ALL OF THE BENEFIT COSTS THAT THE CITY PAYS FOR THAT EMPLOYEE. SO IT WOULD BE INSURANCE COST, CONTRIBUTIONS TO FICA AND SOCIAL SECURITY AND ALL THOSE DIFFERENT THINGS. SO IT'S A FULLY LOADED NUMBER. BUT EVERY POSITION WE BRING YOU IS BASED ON OUR COMPENSATION AND CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM, AND IT'S BASED ON MARKET DATA. OKAY. JUST IF ANYONE'S LOOKING AT THE NUMBERS AND THINKING THAT THEY'RE HIGH, THE WAY THAT I LOOK AT IS A BRAND NEW POSITION AND SOMEONE IS GOING TO HAVE TO COME IN AND BUILD OUT PROCESS FOR AN ENTIRE POSITION TO FUNCTION LIKE 30, 60, 90 DAY PLANS, ALL KPIS. THAT'S THAT'S AN INVESTMENT IN ITSELF, WHETHER OR NOT IT'S A NEW PERSON OR, OR NEW ROLE OR AN EXISTING ROLE. 
          SO, I MEAN, THE WAY THAT I LOOK AT IT IS WE'RE GETTING AN ADDITIONAL ADDED VALUE OUT OF THIS FIRST PERSON THAT WE'RE HIRING. LIKE, THIS IS THE CAN'T MISS THAT OF, YOU KNOW, THE WAY THAT WE'RE GOING TO MOVE FORWARD WITH THESE POSITIONS IS THIS ONE IS GOING TO BUILD OUT THE FUTURE FOR SUCCESS IN THIS IN THIS ROLE. WOULD YOU. ARE WE OKAY? OKAY. I TALKED ABOUT THE NEW AREA THAT WE'RE TRYING TO BUILD OUT UNDER TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT AND OPERATIONS. AND SO I MENTIONED WE BROUGHT A ASSISTANT DIRECTOR ON BOARD. AND WE'RE REALLY EXCITED ABOUT HER CAPABILITIES. 
          AS YOU MAY RECALL, WE'VE WORKED WITH HER WHEN SHE WAS AT WGI. AND SO WE'VE DONE A LOT OF GREAT WORK WITH HER. SO SHE KNOWS KYLE VERY WELL. BUT WHAT WE WANT TO DO IS BUILD SOME CAPACITY UNDERNEATH HER TO GET SOME OF THESE INITIATIVES GOING. I MENTIONED THE SAFETY PROGRAM, I MENTIONED COORDINATION WITH DEVELOPMENT, DOING TRAFFIC IMPACT ANALYSIS, BEING ABLE TO REVIEW THOSE SET UP GUIDELINES FOR THOSE I MENTIONED, SAFE ROUTES TO SCHOOLS PROGRAM, THE TRAFFIC CALMING PROGRAM, LOOKING AT OUR SIGNALS AND GETTING GOOD SYNCHRONIZATION OF THOSE, BEING ABLE TO DO SPEED STUDIES ON OUR DIFFERENT CORRIDORS. AND REALLY WHAT I'D LOVE TO DO IS BE ABLE TO BUILD A LITTLE MORE CAPACITY TO LOOK AT A CORRIDOR, NOT JUST SPECIFIC PAIN POINTS, SO WE CAN LOOK AT FULL PERFORMANCE ALONG THE CORRIDORS, HOW THOSE INTERSECTIONS ARE FUNCTIONING, AND THEN EVERYTHING IN BETWEEN, AND THEN COMING UP WITH SOME MORE COMPLETE SOLUTIONS TO BRING TO YOU FOR IMPROVING THOSE CORRIDORS GOING FORWARD. SO FOR ALL OF THAT, THIS IS THESE POSITIONS ARE BEING REQUESTED TO BUILD OUT SOME OF THAT CAPACITY. ONE SIGNAL SYSTEMS ENGINEER AGAIN TO WORK ON ON THE SIGNALS PROGRAM. IT'S ALSO THE TIMING IS GOOD RIGHT NOW TO LOOK AT BUILDING OUT OUR SIGNALS AND TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT OPERATIONS AREA. BECAUSE CAMPO IS ACTUALLY LOOKING AT A REGIONAL TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT OPERATIONS CAPACITY THAT THEY'RE BUILDING OUT. SO THIS REALLY IS A REGIONAL EFFORT. AND I THINK THERE'S AN OPPORTUNITY HERE IF WE CAN BUILD SOME CAPACITY HERE FOR THE CITY, NOT JUST FOR THE BENEFIT OF OUR COMMUNITY, BUT ALSO TO TIE IN THE RESOURCES THAT ARE BEING THAT ARE HAPPENING AND BEING INVESTED AT THE REGIONAL LEVEL. 
          AUSTIN AREA IS INVESTING A LOT. TEX-DOT IS DOING A LOT FOR TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT OPERATIONS RELATED TO ALL THE CAPITAL PROJECTS THAT ARE HAPPENING AND ALL THE COORDINATION IS HAPPENING THERE. SO AGAIN, I JUST THINK THERE'S GOING TO BE SOME OPPORTUNITIES FOR US TO LEVERAGE OUR INTERAGENCY PARTNERSHIPS GOING FORWARD AS WELL. JUST ANOTHER BENEFIT TO BUILDING OUT SOME OF THE CAPACITY. WE MENTIONED THE COORDINATION WITH DEVELOPMENT. 
          SO THAT WOULD BE THE DEVELOPMENT REVIEW ENGINEER POSITION. AND THEN ALSO THE MULTIMODAL SAFETY PROGRAM ENGINEER MANAGER. AND THIS AGAIN, THESE ARE POSITIONS TO GET THESE AREAS STARTED. BUT 
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THEN TO LOOK AT HOW WE MANAGE OUR MULTIMODAL SYSTEMS AND OUR INVESTMENTS, MAKE SURE THAT SAFETY, BUT ALSO PEOPLE ARE ABLE TO MOVE EFFICIENTLY AND EFFECTIVELY AROUND THE CITY. AND THAT REALLY IS JUST THE POSITIONS THAT WE'RE ASKING FOR TO BUILD SOME OF THAT CAPACITY. 
          OKAY. THE BIG ONE, CIP. SO HERE IS A VERY HIGH OVERVIEW OF THE FIVE YEAR CIP PLAN. I'M SORRY I HAVE RECOVERING FROM A RESPIRATORY THING. THAT'S WHY I KEEP ON EATING COUGH DROPS. SO WE WORK WITH OUR FINANCE DEPARTMENT AND OUR PARTNER DEPARTMENTS LIKE WATER AND PARKS, TO LOOK AT WHAT THE FIVE YEAR PLAN IS GOING FORWARD FOR CAPITAL PROJECTS. AND SO I KNOW THE DEPARTMENTS ARE GOING TO BE TALKING TO YOU ABOUT THEIR FIVE YEAR CIP PLANS. MIKE TALKED TO YOU ALREADY ABOUT THE WATER WASTEWATER PLAN, BUT THESE ARE ALL PROJECTS, WHETHER THEY'RE FUNDED OR NOT FUNDED, THAT DEPARTMENTS ARE STARTING TO LOOK AT ON THE HORIZON THAT THEY ANTICIPATE INITIATING OVER THIS FIVE YEAR HORIZON. AND SO, BASED ON LOOKING ALL OF THAT ROLLED UP, WE'RE LOOKING AT A TOTAL OF ABOUT $1.3 BILLION. IF YOU LOOK AT 2025 ALL THE WAY THROUGH OR 26 THROUGH 30. AND SO THAT'S, YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU'RE LOOKING AT THAT KIND OF NUMBER, YOU'RE LOOKING AT AN AVERAGE OF ABOUT $450 MILLION PER YEAR, WHICH IS NO SMALL, NO SMALL FEAT. AND SO AND THAT DOESN'T INCLUDE A COUPLE OF THINGS THAT DOESN'T INCLUDE ANY OF THE PROJECTS THAT WILL BE COMING OUT OF THE TRANSPORTATION MASTER PLAN. THAT DOESN'T INCLUDE ANY PROJECTS THAT MAY BE COMING OUT OF SUBSEQUENT MASTER PLANS. THERE MAY BE OTHER PROJECTS COMING OUT OF THE WATER, MASTER PLAN, OTHER MASTER PLANS AT THE CITY. AND SO AGAIN, THIS IS JUST WHAT WE HAVE ON THE RADAR SCREEN RIGHT NOW FOR TRANSPORTATION PUBLIC WORKS PROJECTS. WE'RE LOOKING AT ABOUT 184 MILLION OVER THAT TIME FRAME. AND THEN FOR THE ROAD BOND ITSELF, AS YOU KNOW, WE'RE LOOKING AT ABOUT 270 MILLION TO FINISH OUT THAT PROGRAM GOING FORWARD. AND AGAIN, THAT IS A LOT OF WHAT IS GOING TO BE HAPPENING IN THE FIVE YEAR PLAN IS TO FINISH OUT THAT ROAD BOND PROGRAM. AND I KNOW I'VE GIVEN YOU A COUPLE OF UPDATES ON THAT. WE HAVE WE'RE GOING TO BEGIN THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE SIDEWALK MASTER PLAN. SO WE'LL BE BUDGETING, I BELIEVE, ABOUT DIRECT DEREK, CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG, BUT IT'S ABOUT 500,000 A YEAR FOR IMPLEMENTATION OF THE SIDEWALK MASTER PLAN. SO HITTING THOSE HIGH PRIORITY SIDEWALK GAPS THAT WERE IDENTIFIED AND YOU WERE BRIEFED ON, WE'LL BE LOOKING AT THE LANGLEY ROAD RECONSTRUCTION. SO PART OF THOSE POST OAK NEIGHBORHOOD REHABILITATION IMPROVEMENTS TO ADDRESS THOSE SEVERE ISSUES OUT THERE WITH THE ROADWAY VIBE, TRAIL IMPROVEMENTS. WORKING WITH OUR PARKS DEPARTMENT, WE'RE HAPPY TO WORK WITH THEM ON ALL OF THEIR PROJECTS AS WELL. THE COLOR'S CROSSING RAILROAD OVERPASS, WHICH IS A MULTI-AGENCY PARTNERSHIP TO GET THAT DONE. AND WE ALSO ANTICIPATE PURSUING MORE GRANT FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES HERE IN THE COMING MONTHS FOR CONSTRUCTION OF THAT AS WELL. SO AGAIN, JUST MAKING SURE WE'RE WELL POSITIONED FOR THAT. AND THEN OF COURSE, WATER PROJECTS. AND MIKE, I KNOW HAS TALKED TO YOU ABOUT SEVERAL OF THE WATER PROJECTS IN THEIR CIP, BUT THAT'S WHAT WE HAVE GOING FORWARD. AND SO AGAIN, BASED ON THE SCALE OF THAT, BASED ON THE FACT THAT WE HAVE OUR CIP DELIVERY CAPACITY FOR THE CITY IN TRANSPORTATION, PUBLIC WORKS, YOU KNOW, WE WANT TO BUILD SOME CAPACITY TO DO THAT. AND RIGHT NOW YOU HAVE FOUR PROJECT MANAGERS MANAGING WHAT YOU ALREADY HAVE. AND I THINK I TALKED TO YOU, YOUR CURRENT ACTIVE CIP PROGRAM IS ABOUT 650 MILLION. AND THAT DOESN'T INCLUDE THE ROAD BOND PROGRAM, WHICH DEFINITELY TAKES BANDWIDTH FROM FROM STAFF AS WELL. AND SO TO ADEQUATELY STAFF FOR THIS, I WOULD SAY YOU'RE PROBABLY YOU'RE ALREADY UNDERSTAFFED. WE ALREADY HAVE OTHER FOLKS THAT ARE NOT PROJECT MANAGERS IN THE CITY MANAGING PROJECTS JUST BECAUSE THERE'S OVERFLOW. AND SO WE HAVE FOLKS IN THE ENGINEERS DEPARTMENT. WE HAVE FOLKS IN PUBLIC WORKS MANAGING PROJECTS. AND SO WE JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE BUILDING SUFFICIENT CAPACITY GOING FORWARD TO MAKE SURE WE SUCCESSFULLY DELIVER ALL THESE PROJECTS. SO EVEN WITH THE CURRENT CIP THAT ACTIVE PROJECTS, YOU KNOW, I WOULD TELL YOU THAT YOU'RE PROBABLY UNDERSTAFFED RIGHT NOW. AND SO LOOKING AT THAT AND LOOKING AT THE FIVE YEAR CIP PLAN, WHAT WE'RE REQUESTING ARE TWO PROJECT MANAGERS AND TWO PROJECT COORDINATORS. PROJECT COORDINATORS ARE BASICALLY ASSISTANT PROJECT MANAGERS. THEY HELP TO DO A LOT OF THE FOLLOW THROUGH ON ALL THOSE DAY TO DAY ACTIVITIES TO MAKE SURE WE'RE MOVING PROJECTS FORWARD, BUT THEY CAN ALSO MANAGE SMALL SCALE CIP PROJECTS. THE OTHER BENEFIT OF HAVING A PROJECT COORDINATOR IS WE'RE STARTING TO BUILD THAT CAREER LADDER. SO WHEN WE START TO RECRUIT FOLKS INTO THE CITY, WE KEEP THEM HERE AND WE HAVE OPPORTUNITIES FOR THEM TO ADVANCE IN THE CIP DELIVERY AREA. AND THEN ALSO WE'RE LOOKING AT PROJECT MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE. AND AGAIN, WE JUST HAD HDR LOOK AT OUR CIP DELIVERY SYSTEM. AND ONE OF THE RECOMMENDATIONS THEY GAVE TO US WAS TO LOOK AT MORE EFFECTIVE MANAGEMENT OF OUR WORKFLOW. PROJECT MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE HELPS US TO DO THAT. SO THAT'S A PART OF OUR RECOMMENDATION AND REQUEST HERE AS WELL. DEREK, DID I MISS ANYTHING ON THE CIP? DANIEL CIP DIVISION MANAGER, MAYOR COUNCIL I THINK MIKE HIT 
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ON THE HDR HAS BEEN COMING IN. THEY GAVE A REPORT OF THEIR PRELIMINARY FINDINGS FOR CIP CAPITAL DELIVERY PROGRAM THAT WAS PRESENTED TO US. AND THEN ALSO THE CITY MANAGER AND HIS OFFICE. I THINK FROM THAT, WE'VE TAKEN A LOT OF THE THINGS THAT WE'VE SEEN CURRENTLY. RIGHT NOW, YOU KNOW, MY POSITION JUST BEING DEVELOPED HERE IN THE LAST YEAR TO LOOK AT MORE STANDARDIZING ACROSS THE BOARDS THAT, YOU KNOW, THE COUNCIL IS MORE AWARE OF THE PROJECT STATUSES. YOU KNOW, WE'RE MORE AWARE OF THE TRACKING OF WHERE THOSE ARE COMING FROM. BUT I THINK ULTIMATELY, YOU KNOW, WHENEVER THAT THAT REPORT GETS DEVELOPED, YOU KNOW, YOU'LL SEE THERE IS, I THINK, SOME LACKING OF OUR CAPACITY AND WHAT WE HAVE, YOU KNOW, WHENEVER WE TALK TO THEM AND THEY SAY, YOU KNOW, PROJECT MANAGERS USUALLY AVERAGE, YOU KNOW, 6 TO 7 PROJECTS ACROSS THE BOARD. AND SOME OF OUR SISTER CITIES AROUND THE CENTRAL TEXAS, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE PROJECT MANAGERS THAT ARE MANAGING TEN, 11, 12 PROJECTS. AND THESE ARE SOME OF THEM ARE VERY LARGE SCALE PROJECTS. AND SO WE'RE JUST HOPING THAT WE CAN KIND OF HELP DIVVY UP THAT WORK. SO WE HAVE BETTER REPORTING, BETTER UNDERSTANDING FROM THE PROJECT MANAGERS AND JUST OVERALL HAVE A CLEANER SYSTEM, YOU KNOW, THAT YOU GUYS CAN BE PROUD OF AND THAT WE CAN, YOU KNOW, EFFICIENTLY DELIVER THESE CIP PROJECTS BECAUSE IT'S A LARGE COST COMING UP. THANKS, ERIC. 
          YEAH. THE THING I DO WANT TO MENTION ABOUT THIS IS WE'VE BEEN WORKING WITH CITY MANAGEMENT AND FINANCE AS WELL. WE THINK THERE'S AN OPPORTUNITY TO CAPITALIZE THESE COSTS BECAUSE THEY ARE A PART OF DELIVERING OUR CAPITAL PROJECTS. AND SO YOU CAN CHARGE BACK BASICALLY TO YOUR CAPITAL PROJECTS, ANY DIRECT AND INDIRECT COSTS ASSOCIATED WITH PUTTING THOSE ASSETS IN PLACE. AND SO JUST LIKE WE CHARGE CONSULTANT DESIGN COSTS BACK TO THE PROJECT, YOU CAN CHARGE PROJECT MANAGEMENT COSTS AND THOSE CIP DELIVERY COSTS. SO WE DO THINK THERE'S AN OPPORTUNITY TO CAPITALIZE THESE COSTS, CHARGE THESE COSTS BACK TO THE CAPITAL PROJECTS AND TAKE THAT BURDEN OFF THE GENERAL FUND. AND SO I KNOW FINANCE IS WORKING ON THAT ANALYSIS RIGHT NOW ON HOW TO DO THAT. AND SO I KNOW THERE'LL BE MORE TO FOLLOW AS PART OF THE BUDGET PROCESS GOING FORWARD. ALSO, WE THINK AND I MENTIONED THIS PREVIOUSLY, WE THINK THERE'S AN OPPORTUNITY TO GET SOME IN-HOUSE STAFF TO MORE EFFECTIVELY DESIGN SMALL CIP PROJECTS. SO WHEN YOU'RE HIRING CONSULTANTS TO DESIGN PROJECTS, YOU KNOW, TYPICALLY THERE'S AN ECONOMY OF SCALE, LARGER PROJECTS, I WOULD SAY PROJECTS THAT ARE MILLION OR ABOVE. TYPICALLY YOU GET YOU START TO GET MORE OF AN ECONOMY OF SCALE OF HIRING A CONSULTANT. YOU KNOW, TYPICALLY THE COST WILL BE WITHIN THAT 10 TO 15% RANGE. ONCE YOU START TO GET SMALLER THAN THAT, THE PERCENTAGE OF DESIGN COST GETS HIGHER BECAUSE IT JUST TAKES A CERTAIN AMOUNT TO BRING A CONSULTANT ON BOARD AND TO DO DESIGN DESIGN FOR ANY PROJECT, REGARDLESS OF WHAT SIZE THEY ARE. SO WE THINK FOR THOSE SMALLER PROJECTS, PARTICULARLY THOSE PROJECTS THAT ARE THAT ARE UNDER A MILLION, WE THINK THERE'S A REAL OPPORTUNITY TO HAVE SOME COST SAVINGS BY HIRING A COUPLE OF STAFF IN-HOUSE TO DO THAT IN-HOUSE DESIGN. AND SO THERE'S A COUPLE OF EXAMPLES HERE. I ALSO DON'T WANT TO STEAL TOO MUCH OF LEON'S THUNDER. LEON, IF YOU WANT TO ADD ANYTHING HERE, BECAUSE THIS WILL BE IN LEON'S AREA. BUT I THINK WE'RE LOOKING AT 200, 300,000 PER YEAR THAT WE COULD POTENTIALLY SAVE ON THIS BASED ON THE NUMBER OF SMALL PROJECTS. 
          THANK YOU. GOOD MORNING. MAYOR, COUNCIL. LEON BARBARA, CITY ENGINEER, MAYOR AND COUNCIL. WE HAVE DESIGN PROJECTS IN-HOUSE. AS A MATTER OF FACT, I'D BE THE FOUNDATION FOR THAT GENERATOR AT PUBLIC WORKS WAS DESIGNED BY ME. SO WE HAVE THE CAPABILITIES TO DESIGN. THE PROBLEM IS THAT WE GET PULLED OFF ON ALL THE OTHER PROJECTS AND ISSUES THAT COME UP. WE ALSO DID THE BENTON CREEK INTERCEPTOR PHASE ONE AND PHASE TWO. THAT WAS A MAJOR PROJECT THAT WAS DONE RIGHT AROUND PANDEMIC TIME. THAT WAS DONE IN-HOUSE, AND NO TELLING HOW MUCH MONEY WE SAVED ON THAT. 
          NOW, WE LOST A LOT OF MONEY BECAUSE OF THE PANDEMIC, BECAUSE OF THE COST THAT WENT UP ON THAT PROJECT. BUT I JUST CAN'T IMAGINE HOW MUCH WE SAVED BY DOING THE ENGINEERING IN-HOUSE. 
          SO THE PROPOSAL BEFORE YOU IS TO AT LEAST HIRE TWO FOLKS TO START A DESIGN TEAM, TO START WORKING ON ON THOSE SMALLER PROJECTS. THE BEST EXAMPLE I CAN GIVE YOU OF THE COSTS THAT ARE RELATED. 
          FOR EXAMPLE, IF YOU LOOK AT THE COLORS CROSSING SIDEWALK AND VETERANS DRIVE SIDEWALK, THOSE WERE THE FEES THAT WE WERE CHARGED TO DESIGN THOSE SIDEWALKS. NOW, THERE'S NOT A WHOLE LOT OF REQUIREMENTS FOR DESIGNING A SIDEWALK, BUT YOU STILL HAVE TO DESIGN IT. YOU HAVE TO MEET ADA AND MAKE SURE THAT THE TOPOS ADDRESS AND ALL THAT KIND OF STUFF. AND WHEN YOU DESIGN A SIDEWALK, BUT TO ACTUALLY BUILD THOSE PUBLIC WORKS, BUILT THOSE FOR LESS THAN $10,000. SO THE FEE WAS VERY EXPENSIVE JUST FOR THAT SMALL PROJECT. THOSE ARE THE THINGS THAT WE COULD DO IN-HOUSE. NOW, WE DO WANT TO MENTION THAT WE STILL NEED TO HAVE A SURVEYOR. 
          SOMEBODY'S GOT TO SURVEY THE PROPERTY FOR US. WE STILL MAY HAVE TO DO SOME ACQUISITIONS. SO THOSE THINGS WE CAN'T DO IN-HOUSE, WE WOULD TRY TO WE'D HAVE TO PROBABLY PUT THOSE OUT FOR CONTRACT. I THINK THOSE ARE GREAT IDEAS, LEON AND MIKE, TO TRY TO BRING IN THE CAPACITY IN-HOUSE FOR THESE SMALLER SCALE OF SCALE PROJECTS. SO THAT'S A GREAT CUTS. THE COST SAVINGS FOR US, FOR SURE. DEFINITELY. NOT ONLY IS IT A COST SAVINGS ON DESIGN, BUT IT SPEEDS THE PROJECT UP DRAMATICALLY. I REMEMBER WHEN WE WERE DOING THE DESIGN ON THE COMMUNITY GARDEN 
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THAT THERE WERE SO MANY STEPS THAT IT WAS FRUSTRATING BECAUSE LEON WAS HAVING TO BRING IN OUTSIDE CONSULTANTS AND THEY WOULD TAKE FOREVER TO DO THEIR WORK. PLUS THEY WERE EXPENSIVE, SO IT ENDED UP THE GARDEN COSTING SO MUCH MORE THAN IT SHOULD REALLY SHOULD HAVE. IF WE HAD HAD OUR OWN IN-HOUSE. ABSOLUTELY, COUNCILMEMBER. AND THAT'S EXACTLY OUR CONCERN, IS THAT, YOU KNOW, WE END UP SPENDING SOMETIMES MORE COST ON CONSTRUCTION COSTS ON THOSE SMALL SCALE PROJECTS THAN ACTUAL CONSTRUCTION. AND SO WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT MONEY IS GOING OUT TO GETTING THOSE PROJECTS CONSTRUCTED AND DONE. AND YOU MENTIONED IT WITH HAVING SOMEONE IN-HOUSE. WE DON'T HAVE TO GO OUT AND NEGOTIATE A SCOPE AND FEE AND GET ALL THAT CONTRACT IN PLACE, AND WE CAN SAVE THAT TIME AND GET THAT THAT WORK MORE RAPIDLY DONE AND HAVE THEM REPORTING DIRECTLY TO US TO GET THAT, GET THAT DONE. THAT'S ANOTHER ONE TO, AGAIN, CAPITAL PROJECT. WE THINK THERE'S AN OPPORTUNITY TO CAPITALIZE SOME OF THOSE COSTS AS WELL GOING FORWARD. AND THEN LEON KIND OF MENTIONED IT. YOU KNOW, WE THINK BECAUSE OF ALL THE NEED WE HAVE, THE LARGE CIP WITH ALL OF OUR DIFFERENT RIGHT OF WAY ACQUISITION NEEDS AND ALL OF OUR NEEDS TO REVIEW SURVEY, WHEN WE'RE LOOKING AT PRIVATE DEVELOPMENT, WE THINK THERE'S A REAL OPPORTUNITY TO ALSO HAVE A COST SAVINGS BY HIRING INTERNAL SURVEY PERSON AS WELL. AND SO THIS THIS IS A REQUEST TO GET A PERSON ON BOARD. AND AGAIN SAVE THAT TIME FROM CONTRACTING OUT THOSE SURVEY SERVICES. I CAN TELL YOU FROM WORKING ON CIP PROJECTS DIRECTLY IN MY PRIOR LIFE, IT TAKES A LONG TIME SOMETIMES TO WORK WITH CONSULTANTS TO GET THAT SURVEY WORK DONE. AND SO HAVING SOMEONE IN-HOUSE WHO CAN HELP US TO DO THOSE REVIEWS, BUT ALSO HELP US ON THE CIP SIDE OF THINGS, I THINK COULD BE A REAL VALUE. AND LEON, AM I MISSING ANYTHING ON THAT? YEAH, SO SIMILAR, SIMILAR BENEFITS TO THE IN-HOUSE DESIGN TEAM. I THINK WE'LL SAVE TIME, HAVE A MORE RESPONSIVE AND AGAIN NOT HAVE TO GO THROUGH ALL THE CONSULTANT PROCESSING. AND THIS IS JUST A TABLE. AGAIN THIS JUST SUMMARIZES WHAT WE'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT. THE POTENTIAL IN-HOUSE SAVINGS, LOOKING AT YOUR DESIGN TEAM AND THEN YOUR SURVEYING TEAM. AND AGAIN A PRETTY SUBSTANTIAL NUMBERS WHEN YOU'RE LOOKING AT AT THOSE PROJECTS. AND AGAIN, FOR THOSE SMALLER SCALE PROJECTS, I THINK THIS JUST MAKES A LOT OF SENSE FOR US TO MOVE THOSE PROJECTS FORWARD AND MORE EFFICIENT WAY. FLEET. OKAY. WE'VE TALKED A LOT ABOUT FLEET, AND WE'RE HERE. I KNOW WE'VE BEEN MENTIONING THE NEXT SLIDES. AND SO, CHRIS, I'M GOING TO TURN IT OVER TO YOU AND LET YOU TALK ABOUT FLEET. ALL RIGHT. HOPE YOU ALL BROUGHT YOUR SEATBELTS FOR A RIDE. FLEET AND FUEL OUR MANAGEMENT APPROACH. SO FLEET AND FUEL CAME ABOUT AS A NEW DIVISION IN 2025 THIS YEAR. 
          AND FORTUNATELY, WE'RE ABLE TO HIRE A NEW DIVISION MANAGER FOR THAT DIVISION. CURRENTLY HE IS A DEPARTMENT OF ONE. HE DOESN'T HAVE ANY OTHER EMPLOYEES AS OF NOW, BUT HOWEVER, HE'S BEEN ABLE TO PUT TOGETHER A LOT OF INFORMATION FOR US AS FAR AS OUR FLEET MANAGEMENT AND OUR MAINTENANCE ACTIVITIES AND THINGS LIKE THAT. SO THAT WAS THE FIRST INITIATIVE UNDERWAY THAT WE HAD PERFORMED WAS TO HIRE THAT DIVISION MANAGER. WHAT WE DID IS HE WENT THROUGH AND HE IDENTIFIED ALL OF OUR CITY OWNED VEHICLES AND OUR EQUIPMENT. HE IDENTIFIED ALL THE LEASE UNITS AND THEIR EXPIRATION DATES. CURRENTLY, WHAT WE'RE WORKING ON NOW IS THE SOPS TO ENHANCE OUR WORKPLACE SAFETY. AND THAT ALSO GOES HAND IN HAND WITH THE CITY, A LARGER CITY OF INITIATIVE WHERE WE'RE ALL WORKING ON SAFETY WITH ALL OF THE DEPARTMENTS IN THE CITY. WE'RE WORKING ON CONDUCTING A COMPREHENSIVE FLEET AUDIT. AS MIKE MENTIONED, WE'RE WORKING WITH A CONSULTANT RIGHT NOW ON A SCOPE OF WORK TO COME IN AND LOOK AT ALL OF OUR FLEET, THE AGE, THE EQUITY AND ALL OF THOSE TYPES OF THINGS IN OUR FLEET ARE AGING FLEET TO SEE WHAT WE NEED TO DO GOING FORWARD WITH THOSE VEHICLES. WE LOOKED AT COST ANALYSIS AND OUTSOURCED MAINTENANCE, AND WE ARE DOING CONSISTENT, AS I MENTIONED EARLIER, PREVENTATIVE MAINTENANCE AND REPAIR PLANS THROUGH VARIOUS MEANS OF DIFFERENT TYPES OF SOFTWARE. 
          CHRIS, ARE THEY ALSO LOOKING AT WHAT DO YOU CALL IT, THINGS ROUND ROCK HAS GONE TO A LOT OF ELECTRIC VEHICLES. SOME OTHER VEHICLES THEY'RE ABLE TO OUTSOURCE. THEY'RE SAVING A LOT OF MONEY ON, YOU KNOW, NONCOMBUSTIBLE MAINTENANCE REPAIRS. SO THEY'RE NOT GOING THROUGH THAT. THE VEHICLES SEEM TO BE HOLDING UP. ARE WE LOOKING AT THOSE ASPECTS AS WELL? YES, SIR. AS PART OF THE AGREEMENT WITH THE CONSULTANT, PART OF THE SCOPE OF THAT IS LOOKING IN THOSE ALTERNATIVE VEHICLES. AND THAT'S GREAT, ESPECIALLY BECAUSE EPA HAS CHANGED A LOT OF THEIR REGULATIONS. AND RIGHT NOW I THINK AUSTIN IS OUT OF CONTAINMENT IN THE AREA AS WELL. 
          SO WE'RE LOOKING AT HOW WE CAN REDUCE SOME OF THOSE GREENHOUSE GASES AND SOME OF THE PARTICLES OUT THERE THAT WE'RE PUTTING OUT THERE IN THE AIR. SO IF WE'RE GOING TO KEEP IF WE'RE GOING TO BE MOVING AND SWITCHING OUT VEHICLES, KEEPING AN EYE ON WHAT WE CAN DO TO DO OUR PART FOR OUR AIR QUALITY WOULD BE IMPORTANT. RIGHT. AND I'VE REACHED OUT TO AUSTIN'S FLEET MANAGER AND SPOKE WITH HIM A LITTLE BIT. THEY'VE GONE TO QUITE A FEW ELECTRIC VEHICLES, SO HE HAS PROVIDED ME A LOT OF GOOD INFORMATION ON THE BENEFITS OF THOSE AND HOW TO GO ABOUT LOOKING INTO GETTING 
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GRANTS AND THINGS LIKE THAT. FOR I KNOW THEIR MAINTENANCE ROUND ROCK HAS IT'S IN THE MILLIONS NOW THAT THEY'RE SAVING NOT HAVING COMBUSTIBLE ENGINES IN MOST OF THEIR FLEET. SO THEY'RE DEFINITELY IT'S A COST SAVINGS FOR THE CITY AS WELL. SO ALL OF THESE INITIATIVES CAME TOGETHER BECAUSE CURRENTLY WE DO NOT HAVE A CENTRALIZED WAY TO MANAGE OUR FLEET. ALL THE DIVISIONS, ALL THE DEPARTMENTS, WE'RE JUST KIND OF MANAGING THEIR FLEET ON THEIR OWN. THE MAINTENANCE RECORDS WEREN'T REALLY KEPT UP TO WHAT THEY SHOULD BE. SO AT THIS POINT RIGHT NOW, WE DON'T KNOW A LOT OF THE MAINTENANCE THAT'S BEEN DONE ON OUR VEHICLES, THE FLEET VEHICLES THAT ARE LEASED ARE GENERALLY THE MAINTENANCE RECORDS ON THOSE ARE PRETTY GOOD. BUT THE EQUIPMENT THAT WE OWN ARE NOT. SO THAT'S WHAT THIS INITIATIVE IS HOPEFULLY GOING TO HELP US TAKE CARE OF. ALL RIGHT. 
          SO THIS SLIDE HERE JUST KIND OF BREAKS DOWN A COST ESTIMATE ON ON WHAT WE THINK IN-HOUSE MAINTENANCE VERSUS OUTSOURCED MAINTENANCE. THIS IS A SLIDE THAT WILL SHOW SOME COST SAVINGS IN THAT IT WAS KIND OF EYE OPENING FOR ME WHEN I WAS DOING THIS RESEARCH. SO IF YOU LOOK AT THAT LABOR THAT WE ASSUMED IN-HOUSE WAS A $60,000 A YEAR EMPLOYEE, HE'LL DO ALL THE MAINTENANCE, THE MINOR REPAIRS, AND THEN THE PARTS ESTIMATES WERE ABOUT 100,000 A YEAR FOR FILTERS, BRAKE PADS, ALL OF THOSE TYPES OF THINGS, AND THEN 50,000 A YEAR ALLOCATED FOR TOOLS, LIFTS AND ALL OF THOSE TYPES OF THINGS THAT COME WITH THE AUTO BODY OR AN AUTO REPAIR SHOP, $40,000 A YEAR FOR GARAGE SPACE. THAT NUMBER WOULD LIKELY BE LESS BECAUSE WE'RE GOING TO HAVE A FACILITY HOPEFULLY CONSTRUCTED THAT WILL HOUSE OUR OUR FLEET DEPARTMENT. AND THEN THE DOWNTIME COST AGAIN, 30,000 A YEAR. THOSE WOULD LIKELY BE LESS IN-HOUSE MAINTENANCE BECAUSE THAT WOULD BE OUR GOAL. OUR GOAL WOULD BE TO GET THE EQUIPMENT IN AND GET IT OUT. 
          WHEN YOU LOOK AT OUTSOURCED MAINTENANCE ASSUMPTIONS, LABOR RATE 120 AN HOUR, 100 HOURS PER VEHICLE AND YOU CAN SEE THE DOWNTIME COST WOULD BE $30,000 A YEAR. MOST LIKELY. THAT WOULD PROBABLY BE MORE BECAUSE LIKE SOMEONE SAID EARLIER, YOU PUT A VEHICLE IN AND IT MIGHT BE TWO WEEKS BEFORE THEY EVEN LOOK AT IT TO GET IT OUT. IF WE COULD DO THAT IN-HOUSE, WE'D GET SOMEBODY RIGHT ON IT, WE'D GET IT REPAIRED AND GET IT BACK OUT IN THE FIELD WORKING. SO YOU'RE LOOKING AT ABOUT AN ANNUAL COST SAVINGS. AND THIS, YOU KNOW, KEEP IN MIND THAT THIS IS IF THE PROGRAM IS UP AND RUNNING, THAT'S $1.1 MILLION A YEAR. THAT'S ESTIMATED THAT COULD BE SAVED IF WE DID THE WORK IN-HOUSE. SO LIKE I SAID BEFORE, THIS IS A NEW DIVISION FOR 2025. 
          AND WE DON'T HAVE ANY EMPLOYEES, WE DON'T HAVE ANY EQUIPMENT, WE DON'T HAVE ANY TOOLS. SO THIS IS OUR SUPPLEMENTAL REQUEST TO AT LEAST GET THIS PROGRAM UP OFF THE GROUND AND RUNNING. WE, THE DIVISION MANAGER THAT I HIRED FOR THIS POSITION, HAS ABOUT 15 YEARS OF EXPERIENCE. HE CAME WITH TEX-DOT AND HE ACTUALLY HELPED US BUILD OUT A ORG CHART, A FULLY DEVELOPED DEPARTMENT THAT WE CAN IMPLEMENT TO DO ALL OF OUR MAINTENANCE. WE KNOW THAT THAT'S A BIG ASK FOR NOW. 
          THERE'S A HUGE INVESTMENT THAT'S GOING TO BE INVOLVED IN THIS. THESE THINGS. HERE ARE THE ITEMS THAT THE DIVISION MANAGER DEEMED MOST IMPORTANT. AND THAT WOULD BE FLEET SHOP COORDINATOR. AND BASICALLY HE WOULD COORDINATE ALL THE REPAIRS, WARRANTY, EVERYTHING THAT COMES INTO THE SHOP. AND THEN MOST IMPORTANTLY IS THE FLEET EQUIPMENT MECHANIC. OBVIOUSLY HE WOULD BE THE PERSON THAT WOULD BE DOING HE OR SHE WOULD BE THE PERSON DOING ALL OF THE WORK ON THE ON THE EQUIPMENT. AS FAR AS SPACE GOES, IF YOU'VE BEEN TO OUR PUBLIC WORKS BUILDING, YOU KNOW THAT WE HAVE A LARGE BAY AREA OUT IN THE BACK. WE CAN DESIGNATED 1 OR 2 OF THOSE SPOTS FOR FLEET MAINTENANCE. WE'D HAVE SOME LIFTS, SOME EQUIPMENT, THINGS LIKE THAT THAT CAN BE PUT IN THERE. SO HAVE AN EXHAUST SYSTEM THAT WE CAN INSTALL AND ALL OF THAT. I KNOW IT'S A BIG COST INITIALLY, BUT WHEN YOU LOOK AT WHAT THE YEARLY WILL BE AFTER THAT SAVINGS, I THINK THAT WILL OUTWEIGH THE COST OF, YOU KNOW, THROUGHOUT IF YOU START LOOKING AT IT THAT WAY. YES, SIR. ASIDE FROM THE PERSONNEL, WE'RE ASKING FOR TWO PIECES OF EQUIPMENT. ONE IS A FIELD SERVICE TRUCK, AND THAT WILL BE BASICALLY HAVE EVERYTHING INSIDE IT THAT THEY CAN GO DO REPAIRS OUT IN THE FIELD, OR THEY CAN EVEN USE IT THERE IN THE YARD IF THEY NEED TO DO THAT. SECONDLY, IS A LUBE SERVICE TRUCK. CURRENTLY, WE ARE CONTRACTING OUT ALL OF OUR SERVICE, OUR OIL CHANGE SERVICES, FLUIDS AND ALL OF THAT IS BEING CONTRACTED OUT THROUGH A MOBILE VENDOR OR WE HAVE TO TAKE IT TO A LOCAL OIL CHANGE SHOP TO GET THOSE THINGS DONE. THIS TRUCK COULD DO THOSE TYPES OF THINGS IN THE FIELD. YOU GOT TO SAY THE PAVERS OUT ON LOCATION NEEDS AN OIL CHANGE. 
          THIS UNIT COULD GO OUT AND CHANGE THE OIL IN THE FIELD AND BE VERY LITTLE DOWNTIME. AND THEN OF COURSE THE VARIOUS SPORT COSTS AND EQUIPMENT. LIKE I SAID BEFORE, WE DON'T HAVE ANY EQUIPMENT, WE DON'T HAVE ANY TOOLS. AND THAT'S WHERE THAT MONEY WOULD GO FOR THAT. SO I JUST WANT TO HIGHLIGHT A LITTLE BIT ABOUT OUR LEASED VEHICLES THAT WE HAVE. I DID SOME RESEARCH ON THAT. THAT'S ONE OF THE KEY ITEMS WE WANTED TO IDENTIFY WAS THE LEASE. SO ONE 
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OF THE GOALS OF THIS NEW FLEET DEPARTMENT IS TO MOVE POSSIBLY FROM A LEASED VEHICLE FLEET TO AN OWNED VEHICLE FLEET. CURRENTLY, WE'RE HAVING THE CONSULTANT. THAT'S PART OF THE SCOPE OF WORK IS TO LOOK AT THOSE OPTIONS FOR US AND TELL US FINANCIALLY GOING FORWARD, WHAT'S BEST FOR THE CITY. THERE'S PROS TO LEASING, THERE'S CONS TO LEASING, THERE'S PROS TO OWNING, ETC. CURRENTLY THE CITY HAS WE HAVE 165 LEASED VEHICLES TOTAL THROUGHOUT THE CITY. THAT INCLUDES THE POLICE IN THE CITY, THE CITY OURSELVES. WE ONLY HAVE 96. PD HAS THE REST OF THOSE TOTAL NUMBER OF VEHICLES IS 192. SO JUST THAT LITTLE TIDBIT OF INFORMATION FOR YOU WHERE WE'RE AT, I THINK BACK IN 2017, THE CONTRACT WITH ENTERPRISE WAS SIGNED. SHORTLY THEREAFTER, THEY STARTED GETTING A FEW VEHICLES IN. AND GRANTED, THESE ARE ONLY ONE TON VEHICLES AND LESS. THIS DOESN'T INCLUDE OUR LARGE PIECES OF EQUIPMENT. 2018 THEY GOT SOME VEHICLES IN 1920 COVID HIT, SO IT REALLY PUT A DELAY ON ALL THE VEHICLES AND WE DIDN'T GET A WHOLE LOT THERE FOR A FEW YEARS. 
          WE WERE ACTUALLY STILL GETTING VEHICLES LAST YEAR THAT WE HAD ORDERED BACK IN 2020 INTO OUR FLEET. SO JUST ONE THING I WANTED TO MENTION. SORRY TO INTERRUPT YOU, CHRIS, IS I BELIEVE AMBER AND I BRIEFED THE COUNCIL ON THIS LATE LAST SUMMER. IF I IF I REMEMBER THE TIMING, ONE OF THE THINGS WE WANT TO DO IS TO SET UP A VEHICLE, EQUIPMENT AND VEHICLE AND EQUIPMENT REPLACEMENT FUND. SO SOME OF THE DISCUSSIONS WE'VE HAD ABOUT MAKING SURE WE KNOW WHEN TO REPLACE VEHICLES AND HOW THOSE VEHICLES GET REPLACED, WE'D LIKE TO HAVE A CASH FUNDED SYSTEM ON THAT. SO EVERY YEAR WE'RE PUTTING SOME CASH BACK TOWARDS THE EVENTUAL REPLACEMENT OF THAT VEHICLE OR PIECES OF EQUIPMENT. AND THEN WHEN IT NEEDS TO BE REPLACED, YOU HAVE THE CASH IN HAND TO REPLACE IT. AND IT'S A STANDARDIZED PROCESS THAT WORKS EVERY SINGLE YEAR. IT DOES TAKE TIME, THOUGH, TO TRANSITION OUT OF A LEASED ENVIRONMENT INTO AN OWNED ENVIRONMENT AND TO SET UP A SYSTEM LIKE THAT. THAT'S ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE'RE GOING TO BE WORKING ON AND TRYING TO FIGURE OUT EXACTLY WHERE TO START. AS AS CHRIS MENTIONED, WE HAVE QUITE A FEW VEHICLES AND QUITE A FEW LEASES, AND IT WILL TAKE US A LITTLE TIME TO TURN THAT, THAT SWITCH. SO I JUST WANTED TO MENTION THAT TO YOU AS KIND OF IN CONTEXT OF EVERYTHING ELSE THAT WE'RE BEEN TALKING ABOUT WITH HEAVY EQUIPMENT. IT'S SOMETHING THAT NEEDS TO BE DONE. 
          THERE'S LONG TERM SAVINGS, I BELIEVE, TO THE CITY, AND I WANT TO BE ABLE TO QUANTIFY THAT FOR YOU AND TELL YOU HOW THAT'S GOING TO WORK. I THINK THE NUMBER OF LEASES THAT YOU HAVE ARE PROBABLY FAR DIFFERENT THAN PROBABLY WHAT YOU EXPECTED THOSE TO BE SEVERAL YEARS AGO, PERHAPS WHEN THAT AGREEMENT WAS PUT IN PLACE. AND WE WANT TO MAKE SURE WE'RE MONITORING IT VERY CLOSELY. OKAY. THANK YOU. FOR THE RECORD, I ARGUED AGAINST THE ENTERPRISE LEASE PROGRAM AS HARD AS I POSSIBLY COULD AT THE TIME. IT DIDN'T MATTER. AS AGREES, HE KNOWS HOW MUCH I HATED IT. YEAH. 
          DON'T GO AWAY, CHRIS. YOU'RE BACK ON. SO THIS IS OUR PRIORITY OF MAINTAINING THE CITY'S ROADWAY NETWORK. AND SO WE START WITH PROVIDING EFFECTIVE RESPONSE TO OUR 301 CALLS. WE'RE VERY EXCITED ABOUT THE NEW 301 SYSTEM, AS I KNOW YOU ARE. YOU KNOW, OBVIOUSLY THAT'S GENERATING A LOT OF CALLS FOR SERVICE. AND SO WE JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE WE HAVE ADEQUATE COVERAGE FOR THAT, PARTICULARLY OUR PUBLIC WORKS AREA, AND THEN ALSO BE ABLE TO ALSO ADDRESS THE OTHER PROGRAMS THAT WE HAVE. AND WITH THAT, I'LL LET CHRIS TALK A LITTLE MORE ABOUT THAT. RIGHT. 
          SO AS MIKE MENTIONED, IT'S BEEN A GREAT SUCCESS. THE 311 PROGRAM, WE EXPECT IT TO INCREASE THROUGHOUT THE NEXT FEW MONTHS, YEARS AS CITIZENS BECOME MORE FAMILIAR WITH IT AND, YOU KNOW, GET EDUCATED ON HOW IT WORKS. VERY EASY TO SNAP A PHOTO OR SNAP A PICTURE OF A POTHOLE AND SEND IT INTO 311. SO FORTUNATELY, THAT'S BEEN A BIG SUCCESS FOR US. WE HAVE 48 HOURS TO RESPOND TO POTHOLES, BUT WE USUALLY RESPOND TO THEM IN THE SAME DAY. NOW, WITH THAT SAID, THAT DEPARTMENT ONLY HAS 12 EMPLOYEES THAT WORKS THERE. THOSE EMPLOYEES DO SIDEWALK REPAIR, CURB AND GUTTER REPAIR. THEY TAKE CARE OF SIGNS, SIGNALS, ALL OF THOSE THINGS. SO IN ORDER TO MEET OUR MANDATES FOR THREE, ONE, ONE SYSTEM, IT'S TAKING THE WORK OFF OF SOME OF THE OTHER PROJECTS THAT WE HAVE, THE CORE RESPONSIBILITIES THAT THESE EMPLOYEES ARE DOING. SO WE'RE ASKING FOR THESE TWO ADDITIONAL EMPLOYEES TO HELP SUPPLEMENT THE MAINTENANCE DEPARTMENT, PARTICULARLY TO MAKE SURE THE 311 STAYS AS SUCCESS. AND WE'RE ABLE TO MEET ALL OF OUR OTHER FUNCTIONS THAT THE DEPARTMENT DOES DAILY. AND WITH THAT, ALSO A ONE TON CREW, CREW CAB TRUCK THAT'S GOING TO BE LEASED, PROBABLY. SO ANY QUESTIONS? I'D JUST LIKE TO SAY, YOU KNOW, AS WE'RE LOOKING AT HOW DO WE EVOLVE AND GET BETTER AND PROVIDE BETTER SERVICE IF WE CAN ALSO LIKE THINK ABOUT AUTOMATION DOWN THE ROAD WHERE WE CAN USE A ROBOT OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT HERE IN THE CITY TO BE AHEAD OF, YOU KNOW, WHERE WE'RE GOING IN THE FUTURE. YOU KNOW, CONSIDER THOSE ASPECTS TOO. YEAH, WE DEFINITELY WANT TO LOOK FORWARD AND KEEP PACE WITH ANY EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES OR NEW TECHNOLOGIES THAT WE THINK CAN HELP US BE MORE EFFICIENT. WE'LL KEEP AN EYE ON THAT. YEAH, TECHNOLOGY IS GREAT. LET'S NOT GET RID OF PERSONNEL TRYING TO 
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FIRE PEOPLE, TRYING TO. WE CAN HAVE A ROBOT DO DO A FEW SIMPLE THINGS. THAT'D BE GREAT, RIGHT? BECAUSE YOU DON'T HAVE TO FEED THEM, YOU DON'T HAVE TO PAY THEM. AND YOU CAN JUST KEEP WORKING IT, YOU KNOW, AS THREE, ONE ONE. IT'S GREAT TO HEAR THAT THREE ONE HAS BEEN A SUCCESS AND PEOPLE ARE USING IT TO SEE US ADD SOME PERSONNEL. I'M THINKING TWO EMPLOYEES IS PROBABLY NOT GOING TO BE ENOUGH FOR IF THREE THREE, ONE ONE SUCCESSFUL. PROBABLY GOING TO NEED THREE EVENTUALLY, MAYBE FOUR. BUT IT'S A START FOR THIS YEAR'S BUDGET. BUT YEAH, IT'S GREAT TO HEAR THAT THEY'RE USING THEIR RESOURCES AS WELL. I JUST WANT TO TOUCH ON SOME THINGS REAL QUICK. IMPACT FEES. I'M GLAD THAT WE'RE RELOOKING AT THOSE IMPACT FEES, ESPECIALLY BECAUSE WE HAVE A LOT OF OUR RESIDENTS, RESIDENTS THAT ALWAYS FEEL THAT, YOU KNOW, NEW DEVELOPMENT DOESN'T PAY THEIR WAY. RELOOK. THIS IS THE CITY LOOKING AT THE IMPACT FEES AND MAKING SURE THAT WE ARE HEARING THEM AND TAKING THAT INTO CONSIDERATION AS WELL. THE TRAFFIC CALMING DEVICE. THE LAST THING I WANT TO SAY IS POST OAK. WHEN I WAS DRIVING THROUGH POST OAK LOOKING AT ROADWAYS, I REMEMBER TALKING TO BRIAN AND TELLING HIM, YOU KNOW, POST OAK, SOMETHING I PROBABLY REALLY WANT TO PUT ON THIS YEAR'S BUDGET, HE SAID, WE'RE ALREADY WORKING ON. IT WAS GREAT. THAT SHOWS THE INITIATIVE OF THE CITY AND HOW THE PLAN AND WHERE WE ARE NOW THAT ROADWAYS ARE BEING LOOKED AT IN REAL TIME, YOU KNOW, SO IT WAS GREAT TO HEAR THAT AND GET THAT FEEDBACK. SO I DON'T EVEN HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT PUTTING ON A BUDGET BECAUSE Y'ALL WERE ALREADY WORKING ON IT. SO THANK YOU ALL FOR WHAT Y'ALL DO. THAT'S ALL I WANTED TO FINISH WITH. THANK YOU. OKAY. ALSO IN LINE WITH MAINTAINING A GOOD ROADWAY NETWORK IS ALSO LOOKING AT OUR PAVEMENT MANAGEMENT. I BELIEVE Y'ALL HAD A STUDY A COUPLE OF YEARS BACK WHERE YOU LOOKED AT YOUR PAVEMENT CONDITION. AND SO WHAT WE WANT TO DO IS JUST MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE STAYING ON TOP OF THAT USING THAT INFORMATION, BUT ALSO UPDATING THAT INFORMATION AND PRIORITIZING WHERE THOSE INVESTMENTS GO. AND SO, LEON, YOU WANT TO TALK ABOUT THIS ONE A LITTLE BIT. I JUST DID SOME QUICK CALCULATIONS. BUT THE BOND PROGRAM IS WHAT, $300 MILLION AND IT'S ABOUT 60 LANE MILES IS WHAT I GOT FROM THE CONSULTANT. THAT'S WHAT FIVE. AND ONE OF THE MEASUREMENTS THAT WE USE WHEN WE'RE DOING RESURFACING IS WE USE LANE MILES. A LANE IS TEN FEET WIDE BY A MILE LONG. SO 60 LANE MILES DIVIDED INTO 300 MILLION IS, WHAT, ABOUT $5 MILLION A LANE MILE? THAT'S FOR TOTAL RECONSTRUCTION AND UPGRADING OF THE SYSTEM THAT YOU HAVE OUT THERE. WHEN WE DO A MICRO SERVICING PROJECT, THAT'S $23,000 A LANE MILE. SO IT MAKES SENSE TO TAKE CARE OF YOUR GOOD ROADS. AND THE WAY YOU TAKE CARE OF YOUR GOOD ROADS IS YOU DO PREVENTIVE MAINTENANCE. IT'S THE SAME THING AS YOUR VEHICLE. YOU DON'T HAVE TO CHANGE YOUR OIL IF YOU DON'T WANT TO, BUT IT WOULD BE A GOOD IDEA TO CHANGE IT WHEN IT'S RECOMMENDED, BECAUSE THAT MAKES YOUR ENGINE LAST LONGER AND YOUR VEHICLE LASTS LONGER. SO THAT'S THE PURPOSE OF PAVEMENT MAINTENANCE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM. I'VE BEEN TRYING TO GET THIS IMPLEMENTED FOR THE LAST SEVERAL YEARS, AND THIS IS HOPING THAT WE GET A CHANCE TO START IMPLEMENTING THAT PAVEMENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM. SO WHAT'S THE BIG DEAL ABOUT HAVING A MANAGEMENT SYSTEM LIKE THAT? AS I MENTIONED THE VEHICLES. 
          SUPPOSE YOU HAVE ONE VEHICLE. IT'S EASY TO FIGURE OUT WHEN YOU'RE GOING TO CHANGE THE OIL, WHEN YOU CHECK THE TIRES AND TOP THE FLUIDS OFF AND ALL THAT GOOD STUFF. BUT WHAT IF YOU HAD 100 VEHICLES? HOW WOULD THE HECK WOULD YOU MAINTAIN? KEEP TRACK OF ALL THAT INFORMATION WITH THE 100 VEHICLES, AND WE HAVE OVER 200 CENTERLINE MILES OF STREETS RIGHT NOW. I FIGURED IT WOULD BE IF WE LET EVERY STREET JUST FALL APART TODAY AND JUST DIDN'T DO ANY MORE MAINTENANCE. IT'S ABOUT A $2.4 BILLION EFFORT TO REBUILD ALL THOSE STREETS. THAT'S WE HAVE A HUGE INVESTMENT IN OUR STREETS, AND WE NEED TO KEEP MAINTAINING THOSE. SAME THING AS PAINTING YOUR HOUSE, CHANGING FILTERS. THAT'S THE IMPORTANCE OF PREVENTIVE MAINTENANCE. THAT'S THAT'S WHY I'M REALLY SUPPORTIVE OF A PAVEMENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM TO HELP US MONITOR THAT. ONE OF THE KEY THINGS I LIKE ABOUT THE PAVEMENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM THAT TELLS YOU ALSO, SUPPOSING WE SPEND $1 MILLION A YEAR ON PREVENTIVE MAINTENANCE AS YOU AS YOU GO THROUGH THE PAVEMENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, IT WILL TELL YOU IF YOU KEEP ON THAT TRACK, YOU'RE GOING TO BE ABLE TO MAINTAIN YOUR 82.5 SCORE THAT YOU WANT. IT WILL ALSO TELL YOU IF IT'S NOT ENOUGH MONEY TO MAINTAIN THAT, IT'LL START TELLING YOU IN 510 YEARS, YOU'RE GOING TO BE DOWN TO ABOUT 75 OR 70 OR WHATEVER. SO THAT'S ONE OF THE GOOD THINGS ABOUT PAVEMENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM. IT WILL TELL YOU THAT YOU'RE NOT SPENDING ENOUGH OR YOU NEED TO SPEND MORE. SO IT'LL KEEP YOU ON TRACK OF YOUR PAVEMENT MANAGEMENT NEEDS. ANY QUESTIONS? GREAT EXPLANATION. THANK YOU. THANKS. OKAY. AND THEN ONE OF OUR LAST REQUESTS AND THIS IS KIND OF RELATED BACK TO THAT TRANSPORTATION PLANNING AREA THAT WE'RE THAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT. THIS IS BUILDING THAT CAPACITY TO, TO LEVERAGE FUNDING. YOU KNOW, THERE'S A LOT OF GRANT OPPORTUNITIES IN THE TRANSPORTATION SPACE. I KNOW YOU GUYS ARE VERY AWARE OF THAT. THERE'S A LOT OF CALLS FOR FUNDING THAT GO OUT, BOTH THE FEDERAL AND THE STATE AND REGIONAL LEVEL THROUGH CAMPO. AND SO WE JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE STAYING ON TOP OF THAT. AND AGAIN, THIS IS ABOUT BEING ON THAT PROACTIVE FOOT, NOT THAT REACTIVE FOOT AND TRYING TO CHASE THINGS. AND SO AS I MENTIONED, WE'RE ALREADY 
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GOING TO BE LOOKING AT THE SAFE STREETS FOR ALL GRANT OPPORTUNITY THAT'S ALREADY ACTIVE. WE'LL PROBABLY BE LOOKING AT THE SURFACE TRANSPORTATION BLOCK GRANT PROGRAM. OUR UNDERSTANDING IS THAT CAMPO WILL BE HAVING A CALL FOR PROJECTS COMING UP IN A COUPLE OF MONTHS. BUT AGAIN, IT TAKES IT TAKES SOME RESOURCES AND SOME BANDWIDTH TO STAY ON TOP OF THOSE OPPORTUNITIES. AND ALSO LEVERAGING FUNDING WITH TXDOT AS WE'RE DOING PROJECTS GOING FORWARD, ONE OF THE CORRIDORS WE'RE GOING TO BE LOOKING AT A LOT MORE CLOSELY IN THE TRANSPORTATION MASTER PLAN IS ARM 150 EAST. AND I KNOW WE'VE TALKED A LOT ABOUT THAT. 
          AND SO AGAIN, BEING ABLE TO BE WELL POSITIONED TO LEVERAGE THAT FUNDING, WHETHER IT'S TEX-DOT FUNDING, WHETHER IT'S HAYS COUNTY FUNDING, JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE HAVE SOME BANDWIDTH TO DO THAT. SO THIS IS A REQUESTING A GRANT PROGRAM MANAGER TO REALLY GET THAT EFFORT GOING. SO THEY WOULDN'T ONLY BE LOOKING AT PURSUING GRANT OPPORTUNITIES AND MANAGING THOSE GRANTS, WHAT WE HAVE WHEN WE HAVE THEM. BUT I ALSO SEE THEM AS KIND OF A REGIONAL COORDINATOR POSITION AS WELL AS THEY'D BE REACHING OUT REGULAR TOUCH POINTS WITH OUR REGIONAL AGENCIES, WITH CAMPO STAFF, WITH OUR HAYS COUNTY STAFF AND OTHERS IN CONJUNCTION WITH LEADERSHIP, OF COURSE, TO PURSUE OPPORTUNITIES TO SEE WHERE THOSE PARTNERSHIPS EXIST, AND AGAIN, TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE LEVERAGING THOSE TAX DOLLARS. AND AGAIN, WE'RE TRYING TO BE OUR BEST STEWARDS WITH THE TAXPAYERS MONEY ON THIS. AND SO THAT'S WHAT THIS THIS REQUEST IS ABOUT. MIKE, I REALLY APPRECIATE THAT. FROM BEFORE I CAME ON THE COUNCIL AND I WAS ON PARKS AND REC, I HAD BEEN ADVOCATING TO HAVE SOME INTERNAL GRANT PEOPLE, AND I REALLY FELT LIKE WE WERE MISSING A LOT OF STATE AND LOCAL LIKE COUNTY OPPORTUNITIES BY NOT HAVING SOMEBODY THAT WAS FOCUSED ON THAT. SO I REALLY APPRECIATE SEEING THIS. I HOPE WE'LL ALSO HAVE OTHER DEPARTMENTS SUCH AS PARKS AND REC WILL BE ABLE TO EITHER HAVE THEIR OWN GRANT PROGRAM OR TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THIS. AND OF COURSE, IF WE GET A POSITION LIKE THIS, YOU HAVE SOME OF THAT GRANT'S EXPERTISE. 
          I'M SURE THEY'D BE HAPPY TO WORK WITH OUR PARTNER DEPARTMENTS AS WELL ON THOSE GRANT OPPORTUNITIES. AND SO HERE'S OUR BUDGET REQUESTS. AND SOME OF THESE ARE LUMPED TOGETHER. BUT I WANTED TO KIND OF SHOW THE PRIORITY. AND AGAIN, ALL OF THESE I THINK WE STATED THE NEED AND THE PRIORITY FOR ALL OF THESE REQUESTS. IT'S VERY HARD FOR ME TO RANK THESE. NOT AN EASY JOB. BUT AGAIN, I WOULD SAY PROBABLY SOME OF THE HIGHEST PRIORITIES RIGHT NOW IS TO BUILD SOME CAPACITY AND KEY AREAS WHERE WE JUST DON'T HAVE IT RIGHT NOW. AND THEN ALSO MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE WE ARE EFFECTIVELY BUILDING CAPACITY TO DELIVER THAT THAT CIP PROGRAM THAT ALREADY IS A PRETTY SIZABLE CIP PROGRAM FOR THE CITY, BUT ALSO LOOKING FORWARD, MAKING SURE THAT WE HAVE SUFFICIENT CAPACITY. BUT AGAIN, ALL THESE I WOULD SAY ARE VERY HIGH PRIORITIES FOR THE DEPARTMENT. I THINK WE'VE TALKED ABOUT THE DIFFERENT NEEDS IN DIFFERENT AREAS. AND SO AND THAT'S WHY WE'RE BRINGING THEM FORWARD. I DO WANT TO MENTION THIS IN THIS TABLE YOU'LL SEE THE PROJECTED SAVINGS. AND AGAIN THESE ARE PROJECTED SAVINGS TO THE GENERAL FUND. BECAUSE AGAIN WITH THE CIP PROJECTS WITH CIP PROJECT MANAGEMENT SURVEYING AND DESIGN TEAM, WE THINK WE'LL BE ABLE TO CAPITALIZE SOME OF THOSE COSTS. AND I MENTIONED WE'RE WORKING WITH THE FINANCE DEPARTMENT TO SEE HOW TO DO THAT. WE MENTIONED THE FACILITY STAFFING. AGAIN, WE THINK THERE'S AN ANNUAL COST SAVINGS FROM DEFERRED MAINTENANCE THERE AS WELL. SAME FOR FLEET MANAGEMENT. CHRIS DID A GREAT JOB TALKING ABOUT HOW WE CAN SAVE COSTS BY BRINGING SOME OF THOSE RESOURCES IN-HOUSE AND DOING A BETTER JOB OF STAYING ON TOP OF THAT AND AVOIDING SOME OF THOSE LARGER EQUIPMENT REPLACEMENT COSTS GOING FORWARD. AND THEN WITH TRANSPORTATION PLANNING, THERE'S WE THINK THERE'S A COST SAVINGS WITH THAT GRANT POSITION. AGAIN, BRINGING FUNDING IN AND LEVERAGING FUNDING WILL MAKE OUR DOLLARS GO FURTHER. SO WE THINK THERE IS A SAVINGS OPPORTUNITY THERE AS WELL. SO WE THINK, YOU KNOW, RIGHT NOW WE'RE JUST ESTIMATING ABOUT 2.5. I THINK IT ACTUALLY COULD BE MORE THAN THAT. BUT WE THINK THAT'S THE TYPE OF SAVINGS THAT WE CAN PROVIDE BACK TO THE GENERAL FUND BASED ON WHAT WE'RE REQUESTING AND SOME OF THE CAPACITIES WE'RE LOOKING TO BUILD OUT THROUGH THROUGH THIS REQUEST. AND THEN JUST AN OVERVIEW OF OUR BUDGET. AND AGAIN, YOU CAN SEE OUR APPROVED BUDGET AND THEN OUR PROPOSED BASE. WE ALREADY HAD SOME ADJUSTMENTS BASED ON SOME SOME NEW POSITIONS THAT WE ALREADY BROUGHT IN IN THE CURRENT FISCAL YEAR. AND THEN OUR SUPPLEMENTAL BUDGET REQUEST, I THINK OUR NUMBER IS A LITTLE OFF. WE'LL HAVE TO RECONCILE THAT WITH FINANCE, BECAUSE I THINK WE HAVE 5.9 FOR ALL OF OUR REQUESTS. SO WE'LL FIGURE OUT WHAT THAT IS. BUT AND THEN OUR TOTAL PROPOSED BUDGET, WE ARE RECOMMENDING 20 NEW STAFF IN THIS. AND I KNOW THAT'S A HUGE ASK. BUT AGAIN WE TALKED ABOUT THE DIFFERENT AREAS. AND I THINK YOU CAN SEE SOME OF THE DIFFERENT NEEDS AND PRIORITIES. AND AGAIN, NEW DEPARTMENT, WE'RE TRYING TO JUST BUILD SOME CAPACITY TO GET SOME THINGS STARTED IN A COUPLE OF KEY AREAS. SO THAT'S KIND OF THE BASIS FOR OUR PROPOSED BUDGET AND OUR REQUEST TODAY. AND WITH THAT ANY QUESTIONS. THAT WAS PRETTY THOROUGH. THANK YOU MIKE. 
          [III.4) Receive a report, hold a discussion, and provide staff feedback regarding the Parks and Recreation proposed budget for fiscal year 2025-2026 and the five-year capital improvement plan.]
THANK YOU. APPRECIATE IT. ALL RIGHT. LAST BUT NOT LEAST AGENDA ITEM NUMBER FOUR RECEIVER REPORT. HOLD DISCUSSION. PROVIDE STAFF FEEDBACK REGARDING THE PARKS RECREATION PROPOSED BUDGET FOR 2526 AND THE FIVE YEAR CIP. MR. LOPEZ, I CHECK MY WATCH. GOOD MORNING, HONORABLE MAYOR AND COUNCIL. THE WORST THING ABOUT BEING THE LAST DEPARTMENT UP IS YOU WONDER IF THERE'S 
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ANYTHING LEFT FOR YOU. ALL THE DOLLARS ARE SPENT. IT'S ALL GONE QUICKLY. I'D LIKE TO ACKNOWLEDGE A FEW TEAM MEMBERS I HAVE HERE WITH ME THIS EVENING WHO WERE INSTRUMENTAL IN THIS BIG BUDGET LIFT A LOT OF SLEEPLESS NIGHTS. CHRIS, DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF PARKS AND RECREATION AMY GARCIA, ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF PARKS AND REC, AND TAMARA KENO, OUR BUSINESS AND STRATEGIC PLANNING MANAGER. ALL RIGHT, QUICK OVERVIEW. WE'RE GOING TO TALK ABOUT OUR MISSION AND VISION, THE ORG CHART, SOME PERFORMANCE MEASURES, SOME ACCOMPLISHMENTS THAT WE'RE PROUD OF, THE GOALS FOR 2025, A SUBMITTAL OVERVIEW SUMMARY OF OUR FTES. THE NEW ORG CHART FEES AND REVENUES, A QUICK BUDGET OVERVIEW AND CIP. OUR RECENTLY ADOPTED MISSION AND VISION STATEMENT MISSION TO BE A PREMIER AND SUSTAINABLE PARKS AND RECREATION SYSTEM THAT BUILDS COMMUNITY AND PROMOTES HEALTH, CONSERVATION AND INCLUSIVITY FOR ALL. OUR NEW VISION IS WE ENVISION A THRIVING, INCLUSIVE NETWORK OF PARKS AND RECREATION WHERE NATURE AND COMMUNITY COME TOGETHER TO ENHANCE QUALITY OF LIFE AND ESTABLISH KYLE AS THE PREMIER REGIONAL STANDARD. AND WE WANTED TO FEATURE THE COUNCIL VISION BECAUSE WE FELT LIKE IT WAS VERY PARK CENTRIC. THANK YOU ALL. KYLE IS THE UNDISPUTED REGIONAL LEADER IN VEHICULAR AND PEDESTRIAN MOBILITY, STATE OF THE ART PARKS AND INFRASTRUCTURE, AND QUALITY OF LIFE RETAIL WHICH AUGMENT A DIVERSE, VIBRANT, EQUITABLE, THRIVING COMMUNITY THAT FAMILIES, NEIGHBORS AND BUSINESSES ARE PROUD TO CALL HOME. THIS IS OUR CURRENT ORG CHART COMPRISED OF 62 FTES. 
          THERE ARE THREE MACRO DIVISIONS AND ABOUT SEVEN SUBDIVISIONS. THE LARGEST DIVISION IS OUR PARKS TECH DIVISION, WHICH IS OUR TRAILS ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION, OUR PARKS DIVISION. THAT ALSO INCLUDES PLANNING. AND THEN WE HAVE OUR CARES DIVISION, WHICH IS COMMUNITY AQUATICS, RECREATION EVENTS AND SENIOR SERVICES, AND ALSO OUR ADMINISTRATIVE DIVISION. QUICK HIGHLIGHT PERFORMANCE MEASURES. THERE'S A LOT MORE THAT WE ACTUALLY TRACK, BUT THESE ARE SOME QUICK HIGHLIGHTS THAT WE'RE THAT WE'RE PROUD OF. OUT OF 42 TOTAL PROGRAMS, WE WERE ABLE TO SERVE OVER 5000 PARTICIPANTS. THE TOTAL PARKLAND AREAS THAT WE'VE ADDED INTO OUR MAINTENANCE CYCLES THIS YEAR, BELIEVE IT OR NOT, IS OVER 100 ACRES. A LOT OF THAT IS NATURAL AREA. AND SO WE'RE ABLE TO CURB SOME OF THE COSTS AND DEMAND BY SOME OBJECTIVES AND GOALS THAT I'LL TALK ABOUT A LITTLE LATER WITH OUR CONSERVATION DIVISION. THE TOTAL ESTIMATED ACRES OF LANDSCAPE THAT THE NEW LANDSCAPE AND OUR NATIVE AND HORTICULTURE TEAM TAKES CARE OF IS 144. WE'VE HAD 35 SPECIAL EVENTS WITH ALMOST 25,000 ESTIMATED TOTAL ATTENDEES AND COUNTING. ALSO, WE'VE REMOVED OVER 1,500 POUNDS OF LITTER FROM PARKS AND RIGHT OF WAYS. OKAY, SO I'M JUST GOING TO PLUG A PULL A COUPLE OF THESE ACCOMPLISHMENTS FROM THIS CURRENT FISCAL YEAR THAT WE'RE ESPECIALLY PROUD OF. WE'VE RECEIVED THE TRAPPS LONE STAR LEGACY AWARD FROM MARY HARTMAN PARK. WE WERE FEATURED IN THE JANUARY 2025 EDITION OF NPPA FOR SOME OF THE CHANGES WE'RE DOING WITH UPGRADING OUR PARK SYSTEM, WE'VE LAUNCHED 311 IN CARTEGRAPH. WE'VE ADOPTED THE 2025 PROS MASTER PLAN, WHICH IS GOING TO SERVE OUR CITY FOR THE NEXT TEN YEARS AND BEYOND. WE WERE ABLE TO EXTEND POOL HOURS THIS YEAR WITHIN OUR EXISTING RESOURCES WITH SOME ECONOMIES OF SCALE. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. WE'VE INSTALLED LIGHTNING DETECTION FOR AQUATICS FACILITIES, SOME COST CONTAINMENT STRATEGIES. AS I MENTIONED EARLIER, ONE OF THOSE IS OUR VOLUNTEER EFFORTS. AND SO WE'VE GOT, I THINK, A RUNNING TOTAL OF 13 NEW VOLUNTEER OR PARK BEAUTIFICATION AGREEMENTS THAT HAVE TOTALED AN ALMOST $12,000 IN SWEAT EQUITY. THESE ARE VOLUNTEERS THAT ARE GIVING BACK TO THE PARK SYSTEM, ENHANCING THE PARK SYSTEM AND MAINTENANCE. AND THESE ARE IN-KIND SERVICES. I'LL TALK MORE ABOUT SOME OF THOSE OTHER DONATION OPPORTUNITIES. WE WERE ABLE TO HAVE A COST AVOIDANCE OF $765,000. THIS IS REALLY SIGNIFICANT. I MEAN, BY THE END OF THE YEAR, IT MIGHT BE CLOSER TO A MILLION BY OUR TWO IN-HOUSE ELECTRICIANS WITH SOME PROJECTS LIKE REPUBLIC DRIVE, FOR EXAMPLE. IN THAT PROJECT ALONE, WE SAVED ALMOST $400,000 BY PERFORMING THAT IN-HOUSE. WE PAID $32,000 IN MATERIAL ON A $400,000 QUOTE. AND THESE GUYS DID IT ALL IN-HOUSE, DID AN AMAZING JOB. WE'RE GOING TO HAVE A RIBBON CUTTING ON THAT FACILITY SOON, AND YOU'RE GOING TO SEE THE TREMENDOUS WORK THEY ACCOMPLISHED. WE EXPANDED OUR GROW ZONE AREAS, OUR NATURAL AREAS, OUR PRAYER AREAS. WE HAVE 165 TOTAL ACRES RIGHT NOW, WHICH AMOUNTS TO $277,000 IN COST AVOIDANCE. ALL RIGHT. SOME PROCESS IMPROVEMENTS WE'RE PROUD OF. WE'VE DEVELOPED STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES FOR EVERY SINGLE DIVISION IN PARKS AND RECREATION, INCLUDING OUR RECREATION DIVISION. WITH THEIR STANDARDS OF CARE PROGRAM. WE HAVE SMARTSHEET THAT WE USE FOR TRACKING OUR AGENDAS AND SOCIAL MEDIA REQUESTS. THERE'S A LOT GOING ON IN THE WORLD OF PARKS AND RECREATION. WE ARGUABLY HAVE MORE COMMITTEES AND BOARDS THAN THAN ANY OTHER DEPARTMENT, AND IT IS A IT TAKES EVERYBODY MOVING IN THE SAME DIRECTION, PULLING THE SAME DIRECTION. BUT WE REALLY LEVERAGE TECHNOLOGY TO, TO BE SUCCESSFUL IN THAT. WE IMPLEMENTED A FERAL HOG 
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ABATEMENT STRATEGY, AND THAT'S BEEN, PARDON THE PUN, AGAIN, WILDLY SUCCESSFUL. AND WE'VE HAD 100% ABATEMENT ON THAT. AND AS WELL AS ALL OF OUR CORE FUNCTIONS, I THINK IN GRAFFITI ABATEMENT WE'RE OVER 90% COMPLIANT FOR ABATING GRAFFITI WITHIN 24 BUSINESS HOURS OF REPORTING. DAVID, WILL YOU TAKE A BREATH? I AM REALLY CONCERNED ABOUT OUR RIGHT OF WAY MOWING, HOW MUCH OF THAT WE'RE DOING. AND I'M REALLY PLEASED TO HAVE THE NATIVE PLANTING EMPHASIS THAT WE HAVE. I THINK WE CAN DO A WHOLE LOT BETTER ON OUR RIGHT OF WAYS BY USING THAT TEAM TO CONVERT THEM TO NATIVE PLANTINGS INSTEAD OF GRASS. THANK YOU, DOCTOR HARRIS. THAT IS SOMETHING THAT WE'RE ACTIVELY WORKING ON WITH SOME OF OUR GATEWAY BEDS, DECREASING OUR MAINTENANCE DEMANDS AND ALSO EXPANDING OUR POLLINATOR CORRIDORS, MAYBE REDUCING SOME HEAT ISLAND EFFECT. WE DO HAVE ONE THING THAT WAS PART OF OUR HIGHLIGHTS THAT I DIDN'T EXPOUND UPON WAS WE NOW HAVE THREE TIERS OF RIGHT OF WAY MOWING. AND SO OUR HIGH VISIBILITY CORRIDORS WE MAINTAIN ON A WEEKLY BASIS AS MOST COMMERCIAL TRAFFIC, MOST OF OUR VISITORS SEE THAT. AND SOME OF OUR OUTLYING AREAS WE MOW ON A MONTHLY OR QUARTERLY CYCLE. AND SO THAT'S THAT'S LESS WEAR AND TEAR ON THE MOWERS. BECAUSE OF THAT FREQUENCY, WE'RE ABLE TO PUT MORE FOCUS ON SOME OF THOSE HIGH VISIBILITY AREAS AND BUILD UP OUR RIPARIAN ZONES AND HELP SOME OF OUR DRAINAGE WAYS. OKAY. 
          BUT WE'RE GOING TO BE LOOKING TO EXPAND THAT AS WELL. DOCTOR HARRIS, ONE THING THAT YOU'LL SEE IN OUR SUPPLEMENTAL LIST IS SOME OF OUR CONSERVATION PROGRAMS FOR, AS JOHN SAYS, LANDSCAPES THAT THAT PAY US RATHER THAN COST US. SO THESE ARE OUR GOALS FOR NEXT FISCAL YEAR. I'LL TOUCH ON THEM A LITTLE MORE, BUT WE'VE TAKEN ON TAKEN MORE OF A LEAD ROLE IN GRINCH FEST AND CITY FEST. WE'LL BE TALKING ABOUT POSSIBLY EXPANDING KYLE FAIR. WE WANT TO LAUNCH SOME IN-HOUSE SWIM LESSONS. WE'RE GOING TO TALK ABOUT BRINGING CPR TO THE CITY, DOING IT FULLY IN-HOUSE, JUST LIKE WE BROUGHT LANDSCAPE FULLY IN-HOUSE THIS YEAR AND ACTUALLY SAVED MONEY AND GOT A MUCH BETTER PRODUCT. BUT ALL OF THESE GOALS ARE TIED TO SOME FUNDING REQUESTS THAT WE ASK FOR. SO OF COURSE, IF THAT DOESN'T SHAKE OUT THE WAY WE WOULD LIKE TO SEE IT, THEN SOME OF THESE GOALS WOULD WOULD LIKELY DROP OFF. SO THIS IS OUR SUPPLEMENTAL LIST. 
          THERE'S 27 IN TOTAL. BUT EVERYONE YOU SEE WITH THE GREEN CHECKMARK BY IT DEMONSTRATES HOW WE ARE ACCOMPLISHING SOME SHORT OR LONG TERM PROS MASTER PLAN GOALS. ALREADY. THERE'S A TON ALREADY IN THE WORKS. WE TALKED ABOUT US HEDGING THAT MASTER PLAN. WE WERE GATHERING THAT THAT PUBLIC INPUT AND THE YOU SEE, THERE'S QUITE A BIT WE PROBABLY COULD HAVE CHECKED OFF ALL, BUT WE TRIED TO BE MORE REALISTIC AND CONSERVATIVE. THE FIRST ONE UP AND THESE ARE ALL ALL RANKED IN ORDER WOULD BE THE DAISY LANE OPERATIONS WITH A NEW FACILITY THAT'S OVER 10,000FT■!. 
          IT WOULD TAKE SOME SOME TEAM AND SOME OPERATING COSTS TO RUN THAT. AND SO WITHIN THIS THERE'S A SUPERVISOR ROLE AS WELL AS A COUPLE OF PART TIME STAFF, SO THAT THIS COULD BE AN 11 TO 12 HOUR FACILITY WHERE WE'RE MANAGING A LOT OF ROOMS. THERE'S A LOT OF MOVING OF WALLS, MOVING OF FURNITURE, CONVERTING THINGS OVER. WE REALLY WANT TO MAXIMIZE THE UTILIZATION OF THAT. THERE'S GOING TO BE SOME OPPORTUNITIES FOR SOME REVENUES THAT COME OUT, NOT QUITE ENOUGH TO OFFSET IT, BUT THOSE WILL BE FACTORED IN. A SPECIAL EVENTS COORDINATOR WAS REALLY HIGHLY RANKED FOR US, WITH A LOT OF THE PROGRAMING WE HAVE WITH THE HERO MEMORIAL PROGRAMING. TALKED TO RECENT COUNCIL MEMBER EVEN ABOUT SOMETHING LIKE A LIKE A BUBBLE FEST. THERE'S A LOT OF GREAT IDEAS THAT WE THINK WOULD SERVE THE COMMUNITY, BUT WE'RE ALREADY UNDERSTAFFED WITH OUR COORDINATOR AND TAKING ON ALL OF THESE ADDITIONAL EVENTS. AND SO THIS IS REALLY IMPORTANT FOR US. 
          A BUCKET TRUCK REPLACEMENT. THIS IS THIS IS PROBABLY MORE CORRECTLY CALLED A BUCKET TRUCK SUPPLEMENTAL. WE HAVE A BUCKET TRUCK THAT CURRENTLY DOESN'T REACH OUR NEW LIGHTING STANDARDS THROUGHOUT THE CITY. SO AS WE'RE ADDING NEW RIGHT OF WAY, NEW LIGHTING, THIS BUCKET TRUCK DOESN'T REACH HIGH ENOUGH. WE'D LIKE TO KEEP IT IN COMMISSION BECAUSE IT COULD SERVICE THE EXISTING LIGHTING, AND PUBLIC WORKS OCCASIONALLY WILL BORROW OUR BUCKET TRUCK, AND IT'S ADEQUATE FOR THEM. BUT THEN WE HAVE OUR LANDSCAPE PARK TECHNICIAN. I MENTIONED EARLIER, WE WERE OVER 100 OF NEW ADDITIONAL ACRES OF PARKLAND THAT WE BROUGHT INTO SERVICE. 
          AND WITH THAT, WE'VE BROUGHT IN SOME NEW LANDSCAPES. THERE'S NEW ROUNDABOUTS THAT ARE COMING INTO SERVICE IN FY 26. WE'VE GOT DAISY FACILITY THAT HAS A LOT OF ORNAMENTAL BEDS. AND SO WE'RE GOING TO NEED A LANDSCAPE PARK TECHNICIAN TO HELP WITH SOME OF THOSE ADDED RESPONSIBILITIES. 
          CURRENTLY, THE EVERY LANDSCAPE BED GETS A FULL MAINTENANCE SERVICE ON A WEEKLY BASIS. 
          THAT'S ANOTHER THING WE'VE ACCOMPLISHED WITHIN THIS FISCAL FISCAL YEAR, IS ALL OF OUR CORE FUNCTIONS NOW HAVE A SERVICE LEVEL AGREEMENT. WE CAN TELL YOU THE FREQUENCY FOR EVERY SERVICE BY TRADE AND FUNCTION. SO OUR GUEST SERVICES COORDINATOR POSITION THIS IS THIS WOULD BE HOUSED AT 1500 AC TO HELP WITH SOME OF THE CHECK INS AND THE RESERVATIONS FOR THAT BUILDING. 
          BUT THIS WOULD HELP SERVICE RESERVATIONS CITYWIDE. CURRENTLY OUR MANAGEMENT ASSISTANT HELPS 
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WITH RESERVATIONS. AND QUITE FRANKLY WE'RE A LITTLE A LITTLE UNDER SERVING IN THAT REGARD BECAUSE SHE SPREAD IN A THOUSAND DIFFERENT DIRECTIONS. AND SO TO IMPROVE CUSTOMER SERVICE ALSO, WE'RE GETTING MORE RESERVATIONS AS WE'RE, YOU KNOW, ENHANCING OUR MAINTENANCE AND OUR FACILITIES. AND WE'RE GOING TO BE LOOKING TO RENOVATE SOME EXISTING FACILITIES, GOING TO BE A LOT MORE OF THAT. AND THEN ALSO HELPING WITH OUR MARKETING AND COMMUNICATIONS, WHICH IF YOU GUYS FOLLOW OUR SOCIAL MEDIAS, WE GET RESPONSES ALL THE TIME. THERE'S A LOT OF INTERACTION. 
          PEOPLE ARE EXCITED ABOUT WHAT PARKS IS DOING, BUT WE DON'T QUITE HAVE THE BANDWIDTH SIMILAR TO WHAT PUBLIC WORKS TALKED ABOUT EARLIER, TO ENGAGE AND TO PROMOTE ALL OF THE GREAT THINGS THAT WE'RE DOING IN PARKS AND RECREATION. SO THIS WOULD BE LIKE A UTILITY INFIELDER POSITION. THE CAL FARE ENHANCEMENT, AS MENTIONED, TO TRY TO GET SOME HIGHER QUALITY PERFORMERS, HELP WITH MORE BRANDING AND IMPROVED LOGISTICS. THERE'S A LOT OF MEAT ON THE BONE WE FEEL WITH KYLE FAIR. ONE BIG QUESTION THAT WE'VE TALKED ABOUT WITH CITY MANAGEMENT IS REALLY, YOU KNOW, WHO DO WE WHAT'S OUR BIG GOAL FOR KYLE FAIR? WE'RE GOING TO BE COMING WITH PRESENTATIONS ON SPECIAL EVENTS AND IN OUR ANNUAL DIDWELL DO BETTER PROCESS. AND SO YOU ALL WILL HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO GIVE MORE FEEDBACK ON THAT VISION. SPECIALIZED CONSERVATION EQUIPMENT DOCTOR HARRIS MENTIONED EARLIER THIS IS THE THESE ARE THE IMPLEMENTS THAT ARE GOING TO HELP WITH ESTABLISHING MORE CONSERVATION ZONES, MORE WILDFLOWER AREAS, AN OPTIMAL TRACTOR FOR A SEED DRILL THAT WE'RE GOING TO PURCHASE WITHIN THIS BUDGET YEAR FOR SEEDING THE COMMERCIAL TREE MAINTENANCE CONTRACT. SO RIGHT NOW YOU'VE GOT A LOT OF LARGER CANOPY, ESPECIALLY ON A RIPARIAN AREAS. THINK ABOUT STEEPLECHASE, THINK ABOUT WATER LEAF AND THOSE TREE AREAS. AND THEY HAVEN'T GOT MUCH MAINTENANCE AT ALL. AND SO YOU'VE GOT A LOT OF RISK IN THOSE AREAS. THINK ABOUT MARY HARTSON WITH TREES. SO THIS WOULD BE TO CORRECTLY AND RESPONSIBLY PRUNE OUR TREE CANOPY SO YOU DON'T HAVE THOSE SAFETY THREATS, BUT ALSO FOR PROPER TREE CARE. THIS COULD BE AIR SPADING OF THE ROOTS TO COMPACT THE SOILS, MAYBE TO HELP WITH SOME NUTRIENTS SO THAT WE CAN PROLONG THE LIFE OF SOME OF OUR MOST PRECIOUS ASSETS IN THE PARK SYSTEM. ALSO, WE'RE LOOKING AT SPECIALIZED MOWING EQUIPMENT FOR LIKE I THINK OF AREAS LIKE THE VERDE PARK OR MARY HARTSON OR HEROES MEMORIAL. SO ACTUALLY GETTING REAL MOWERS IN THOSE TIGHT, CONFINED SPACES WHERE WE CAN MOW ON A HIGHER FREQUENCY, MAINTAIN THE GRASS AT A AT A SHORTER HEIGHT AND JUST GET AN OVERALL BETTER QUALITY CUT ON THOSE THINGS. WE'RE USING THESE LARGER MOWERS NOW, AND IT'S NOT REALLY A ONE SIZE FITS ALL METHOD. IF YOU KNOW ABOUT TURF MANAGEMENT, YOU'RE GOING TO DO MORE DAMAGE THAN GOOD GETTING IN THERE WITH HEAVY MACHINERY. 
          YOU'RE GOING TO DAMAGE YOUR IRRIGATION. YOU'RE GOING TO CREATE MORE RUTS. YOU MIGHT DAMAGE SOME OF YOUR PERMANENT FIXED ASSETS. WE'RE GOING TO ALSO LOOK AT CAMP KYLE KYLE CAMP RIGHTSIZING. SO WE'VE SEEN A SIGNIFICANT INCREASE IN COST AND FACILITY RENTALS FOR CAMP IN ONE CASE 100% SPIKE. AND WE HAD TO SCALE BACK OUR CAMP AND SOME OF OUR OFFERINGS BECAUSE IT COSTS MORE FOR US TO RENT SOME OF THESE SPACES FROM THE SCHOOL DISTRICTS. AND SO THAT'S GOING TO, YOU KNOW, THAT'S $174,000 ASK. IT'S THIS IS A SERVICE BACK TO THE COMMUNITY. WE PROBABLY GET SUPPLEMENTED ON OUR WE'RE PROBABLY SUBSIDIZING 60% OF OUR CAMPS RIGHT NOW JUST TO, TO KEEP THOSE COSTS OF ENTRY DOWN FOR OUR PARTICIPANTS. HAVE WE HAD ANY CONVERSATIONS WITH SCHOOL DISTRICTS ABOUT THOSE COSTS? ONE REASON IS THAT, YOU KNOW, THESE ARE THEIR STUDENTS. I MEAN, THE PEOPLE IN THESE CAMPS ARE ACTUALLY STUDENTS OF THE SCHOOL DISTRICT. MAYBE HAVING THAT CONVERSATION WITH THEM AND REMINDING THEM, YES, SIR. COUNCILMEMBER RIZZO, WE WE'VE WE'VE HAD SOME CONVERSATIONS. WE MAY NOT BE HAVING THEM AT THE RIGHT LEVEL. THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT WE TALKED ABOUT. WE'RE SERVING THE SAME. WE'RE WE'RE SERVING THE SAME CUSTOMER AND WHAT WE'RE DOING. AND, YOU KNOW, THE FUNDING THAT'S USED TO PAY FOR THESE SCHOOLS AND THESE FACILITIES, WHAT WE'RE SERVICING THEM IN THE SUMMER MONTHS WHEN THEY'RE OFF AND THEY NEED SOMETHING TO DO, THEY NEED SOMETHING CONSTRUCTIVE. SO WE THINK OUR GOAL IS ALIGNED. AND THERE'S PROBABLY OPPORTUNITY TO BECAUSE IT'S A WIN FOR THEIR STUDENTS. RIGHT. SO CORRECT. YOU KNOW WHETHER THE CAMP IS MAYBE SOMETHING EDUCATIONAL OR SOMETHING JUST FOR PHYSICAL, YOU KNOW, REQUIREMENTS AS WELL. IT'S STILL GREAT FOR THE KIDS. YES, SIR. ATTENDING HAZY ISD. YES, SIR. AND TO BE FAIR, WE DON'T BECAUSE WE HAVEN'T HAD THOSE CONVERSATIONS. WE DON'T KNOW WHAT THEIR HOW THEIR COST OF MAINTENANCE HAS INCREASED AND MAYBE THEIR ACCOUNTING HAS IMPROVED. SO BUT WE ARE LOOKING INTO THAT. ALSO THE CPR JUNIOR LIFEGUARD PROGRAM THAT I ALLUDED TO EARLIER, THIS WOULD ACTUALLY BE A, A POTENTIAL REVENUE FOR THE CITY TO WE WOULD BE ABLE TO NOT ONLY DO THIS IN-HOUSE FOR OUR GUARDS, BUT ALSO EXPAND THE PROGRAM CITYWIDE TO ALL CITY EMPLOYEES SO THEY CAN ALL BE CPR CERTIFIED. SEASONAL CAMP EXPANSION. CURRENTLY WE HAVE A SUMMER AND SPRING CAMP. THIS WOULD ENABLE US TO DO A FALL AND WINTER CAMP FOR STUDENTS. THAT WOULD BE REALLY HELPFUL TO THE PARENTS AS WELL. DURING THE TIME WHEN THE KIDS ARE OFF AND PARENTS HAVE TO WORK AND HELP TO CONTROL SOME OF THOSE ADDITIONAL COSTS ASSOCIATED. A TURF AERATOR 
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IS REALLY IMPORTANT FOR A TURF MANAGEMENT PROGRAM AS WELL. YOU'VE GOT YOUR ATHLETIC FIELDS, AS I MENTIONED, THOSE THOSE HIGH TRAFFIC LAWN SPACES, YOU GET A LOT OF SOIL COMPACTION. IT'S REALLY BAD FOR THE TURF AND AERATOR WITH NUTRIENTS AND INTRODUCING OXYGEN. OXYGEN AND DECOMPOSITION IS ESSENTIAL FOR ANY TURF MANAGEMENT PROGRAM. SUPPLEMENTAL MOWING CONTRACT FOR I-35 CORRIDOR. SO CURRENTLY TEXDOT I MEAN, AS YOU ALL KNOW, TEXDOT IS SCALING BACK MORE AND MORE ON WHAT THEIR MOWING SCHEDULES ARE. YOU'VE GOT THE WILDFLOWER SEASON WHERE THEY'RE NOT DOING ANY MOWING. WE'RE DOING SELECTIVE MOWING DURING THAT SEASON. CURRENTLY WE'VE WE'VE WE'VE GOT FIVE MOWINGS YEAR ROUND TO SUPPLEMENT THE TWO THAT THEY'RE DOING. SO SEVEN TOTAL. WE'D LIKE TO TAKE THAT TO REALLY ROUND OUT THE GROWING SEASON TO AN ADDITIONAL THREE CYCLES PER YEAR. THIS FUNDING WOULD ALLOW US TO DO THAT. THIS WOULD. WE'RE NOT GETTING THE AMOUNT OF COMPLAINTS WE GOT. I REMEMBER WHEN I FIRST STARTED, THERE WERE SO MANY ON THAT I-35 CORRIDOR WITH TXDOT. I PROBABLY GOT AN EMAIL FROM EVERYBODY HERE AT SOME POINT IN TIME ON THAT, AND I'VE SEEN THAT DROP SIGNIFICANTLY BECAUSE OF THAT. WE THINK THERE'S STILL OPPORTUNITY TO IMPROVE ON THAT. A LOT OF IT WAS, YOU KNOW, VISION. SO PEOPLE TRYING TO GET ONTO THE HIGHWAY FROM SOME OF OUR ROADWAYS WAS REALLY HARD FOR THEM. BUT THE GRASS WAS OVER SIX FOOT TALL. I MEAN, IN TEXDOT WAS ALL THE WAY IN GEORGETOWN TELLING US IT'D BE THREE MONTHS BEFORE THEY GOT HERE, IF EVEN THAT IT WAS A SERIOUS SAFETY ISSUE. WE AGREE. ALL RIGHT. SO SOME SPECIALIZED TRAIL EQUIPMENT WE'VE ADDED, I THINK, BY AS WE COME TO SERVICE FOR THE COMING FISCAL YEAR, WE'RE GOING TO HAVE AN ADDITIONAL SEVEN MILES OF TRAIL. THIS IS A HYBRID OF LIKE OUR SINGLE TRACK SOFT SURFACE TRAIL AS WELL AS SOME PAVED TRAIL. BUT THIS EQUIPMENT WOULD HELP US TO MAINTAIN THOSE. IT'S BASICALLY LIKE WALK BEHIND PROBABLY LIKE ROUGHLY LIKE 40 INCH MOWER DECKS. IT WOULD YOU COULD WALK BEHIND OR BE PULLED BEHIND TO GET TO THOSE TIGHT SINGLE TRACK TRAIL AREAS. THAT WOULD ACTUALLY CREATE AN EFFICIENCY RIGHT NOW. BELIEVE IT OR NOT, SOME OF THOSE AREAS HAVE TO BE WEEDED BY STAFF. OKAY, IN EVENT EQUIPMENT, TRAILER IS FOR OUR MOBILE RECREATION OPPORTUNITIES OR SPECIAL EVENTS. SO THIS WOULD BE A FIXED INVENTORY WITHIN A WRAP, A WRAPPED AND BRANDED TRAILER THAT WOULD HAVE AN INVENTORY OF CHAIRS, BETTER SPEAKERS, TABLES, FLAGS, OR WHAT WE CALL CELL BANNERS. AND THIS WOULD WITH EVERY SPECIAL EVENT THEY KNOW THIS EVENT TRAILER PULLS UP. IT'S GOING TO BE A GOOD TIME. 
          IT'S GOING TO BE A GREAT PRODUCT. MOST SUCCESSFUL SPECIAL EVENT DEPARTMENTS. YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE AT LEAST ONE OF THESE ALSO TENTS, POP UP TENTS THAT ARE BRANDED AND LOGOED SEASONAL PART TIME AQUATIC TECHNICIAN. BELIEVE IT OR NOT, WE HAVE ONE AQUATIC TECHNICIAN AND SO WE HAVE TO HAVE OTHER STAFF WHO ARE, YOU KNOW, THEY'RE INVOLVED IN, LIKE SAFETY RELATED JOBS TO ACTUALLY LEAVE THOSE SAFETY RELATED JOBS FROM SOME SHORT JUNCTURE TO GO AND HELP MAINTAIN SPLASH PADS, TO HELP MAINTAIN FOUNTAINS. AND SO THAT OUR OUR AQUATIC TECHNICIAN, HE'S WORKING LIKE SEVEN DAYS A WEEK IN THE SUMMERTIME. AND SO THIS WOULD GIVE HIM SOME REPRIEVE BY HIRING A SECOND TECH. WE DON'T NEED THEM YEAR ROUND. SO JUST DURING THOSE SUMMER MONTHS WHEN IT REALLY MATTERS SO WE CAN CONTROL THOSE COSTS. AND THEN JAMES ADKINS FURNITURE REPLACEMENT, THIS WOULD PUT OUR FURNITURE, YOU KNOW, OUR FURNITURE, OUR CHAIRS LIKE $700 A POP. AND THEY'VE GOT TO BE REPLACED EVERY THREE YEARS. A RECURRING COST OF $10,000 WOULD ALLOW US THE PROPER REPLACEMENT PLAN. THREE YEAR REPLACEMENT PLAN? HOW LONG HAVE THE FURNITURE BEEN THERE? RIGHT NOW THAT WE'VE WE'RE COMING TO THE END OF USEFUL LIFE. SO WE IMMEDIATELY NEED THE 10,000 JUST FOR THE REPLACEMENT FOR NEXT SEASON. IT'S PROBABLY BEEN THERE LONGER THAN THREE YEARS. YEAH, I'M NOT SURE HOW LONG SOME OF IT, BUT IT LOOKS LIKE IT HAS. YEAH. YOU SHOULD GO THERE ROBERT ONE DAY AND SIT IN THOSE CHAIRS. YEAH. THEY'RE THERE. I DRIVE BY THERE AND TAKE A LOOK. YOU KNOW, YOU SHOULD GO AT LEAST ONCE A WEEK AND EVERYTHING LOOKS LIKE IT'S THE SAME. IT LOOKS LIKE THE SAME CHAIRS THAT HAVE BEEN THERE FROM THE 70S. LOOKS LIKE TEN YEARS, ACTUALLY. YEAH. ALL RIGHT, I AGREE, AS I MENTIONED, AND EXPANDING THE TRAIL SYSTEM ADDITIONAL SEVEN MILES, WE'RE LOOKING TO GET AN ADDITIONAL TRAILS AND TRAILS ARE REALLY TRICKY AND DIFFICULT. I'VE ALWAYS SAID NOT ALL PARK ACRES ARE CREATED EQUALLY. THE MOST DIFFICULT ACRES OF PARKLAND TO MAINTAIN ARE GOING TO BE YOUR TRAILS AND YOUR RIGHT OF WAYS, BECAUSE EVERYTHING'S LINEAR AND YOU GOT TO TRIM EVERYTHING OUT AND YOU GOT TO GO TWO DIRECTIONS FOR MAINTAINING IT. AND SO SEVEN MILES ADDITIONAL PARK TECHNICIAN WOULD ALLOW US TO KEEP OUR EXISTING CYCLES. IF IN THE EVENT WE DIDN'T GET THESE POSITIONS, FULL DISCLOSURE, WE'D HAVE TO LOOK AT OUR EXISTING SERVICE LEVELS AND SOME PARKS THAT ARE ON A SEVEN DAY CYCLE, ESPECIALLY EVEN HIGH VISIBILITY WOULD HAVE TO GO SOMETIMES TO A 14 DAY CYCLE. IT'S GOING TO CREATE A LOT MORE WEAR IN YOUR EQUIPMENT. IT'S GOING TO DECREASE LEVEL OF SERVICE. THERE'S GOING TO BE A PERCEIVED SAFETY RISK TO IT. YOU ALL UNDERSTAND HOW THAT IMPACT TRICKLES DOWN. PLACE YOUR I IT'S NOT REALLY GOING TO SOLELY BENEFIT PARKS, BUT WE WERE DELEGATED TO BE THE CHAMPION OF THIS ENDEAVOR. SO THIS WILL ALLOW US TO GET REALLY RELIABLE METRICS ON ALL OF OUR EVENTS, ALL OF OUR PROGRAMS AT PLACER I IS CROWDSOURCING TECHNOLOGY. THAT'S GOING TO TELL YOU HOW 
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LONG PEOPLE STAYED AT AN EVENT, WHERE THEY TRAVELED TO WHERE THEY WENT TO EAT AFTER THE EVENT. IT'S REALLY COOL STUFF, BUT THIS IS SOMETHING THAT ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CAN USE. 
          AND THEY CAN THEY CAN SHARE WITH A POTENTIAL BUSINESS PROSPECTS. THIS IS SOMETHING THE PLANNING DIVISION COULD DO FOR NEW DEVELOPMENTS. WE THINK THAT THIS WOULD BE SOMETHING YOU OUGHT TO BE INTERESTED IN, JUST TO SEE THE IMPACT OF EVENTS AND WHERE YOU WANT TO INVEST. A MOWER REPLACEMENT IS REALLY WHERE WE WERE. WE'VE GOT A LOT OF AGING EQUIPMENT, BUT WE FOUND SOME EXCESS AS WE STREAMLINE SOME OF OUR PROCESSES. AND SO IN THIS CASE, WE HAVE FOUR MOWERS THAT ARE ENDING APPROACHING THE END OF THEIR USEFUL LIFE. WE ACTUALLY THERE WERE FIVE. WE REALLOCATED ONE TO THE TRAILS TEAM. AND THEN WITH THESE ADDITIONAL FOUR WE SAID, YOU KNOW WHAT? THESE ARE AGING OUT. THEY'RE NOT THE BEST IN PERFORMANCE. WE FEEL LIKE WE'VE GOT A HEALTHY POOL OF THINGS. LET'S TAKE THESE FOUR. LET'S TURN THEM IN AND PURCHASE A NEW MOWER WITH NEWER TECHNOLOGY. AND WE'LL GET ANOTHER 5 TO 7 YEARS OF USEFUL LIFE OUT OF THE EQUIPMENT. AND WE GET SOME TRADE BACK VALUE. AND SO THAT COST IS CONTAINED AT JUST A LITTLE OVER $5,000. WITH IN-HOUSE SWIM LESSONS. THIS IS ANOTHER OPPORTUNITY FOR SOME REVENUE. 
          THIS WOULD RIGHT NOW WE'RE WE'RE PAYING A SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT FOR SWIM LESSONS. BRINGING THEM IN-HOUSE WOULD ACTUALLY BE A REVENUE OPPORTUNITY. AND WE'D SEE A SURPLUS OF $4,000 GOING BACK TO HELP OFFSET THE GENERAL FUND COMPETITIVE SWIM TEAM. THIS WOULD BE LIKE A FEEDER PROGRAM FOR SOME MORE COMPETITIVE SWIM. RIGHT NOW WE'VE GOT THE ENTRY LEVEL RECREATION PROGRAM. AND SO THIS WOULD JUST JUST ALLOW US TO OFFER OUR SERVICE EXPANSION A VOLUNTEER ENGAGEMENT PROGRAM. AS I MENTIONED, WE GOT A LOT OF VOLUNTEERS TO DATE THERE. THEY'VE GIVEN US $12,000 IN OFFSET. THEY'RE HELPING US BUILD COMMUNITY PROFILES. THEY'RE REALLY BECOMING STRONG PART ADVOCATES FOR US. THERE'S SO MANY INTANGIBLES THAT COME WITH THAT. AND TO HELP RECRUIT EVEN MORE VOLUNTEERS AND RETAIN OUR EXISTING VOLUNTEERS, WE WANT TO GIVE THEM SOME ACKNOWLEDGMENT, HELP THEM WITH MORE SUPPLIES AND TOOLS. AND SO THAT'S GOING TO BE A LITTLE OVER $9,000. WE THINK THAT'S GOT A HUGE RETURN ON INVESTMENT, EVEN JUST BY THE IN-KIND SWEAT EQUITY ALONE. 
          YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT A $3,000 RETURN. BUT WE THINK THIS COULD BE SIGNIFICANTLY MORE. THE IPM VEHICLE REPLACEMENT. THIS IS FOR OUR INTEGRATED PEST MANAGEMENT TECHNICIAN. THAT'S ALSO A NEW SERVICE THAT WE'RE WE'RE PROVIDING THIS YEAR WITH OUR OUR OUR WEED CONTROL, OUR FERTILIZATION, OUR AERATION THAT I MENTIONED EARLIER. THAT'S A LOT OF EQUIPMENT THAT'S GOT TO BE HAULED LIKE SPRAY RIGS, LIKE WALK BEHIND OR RIDE BEHIND HOPPERS. AND HE HAS A REALLY DATED VEHICLE. SO THIS WOULD BE REPLACING IT DEPENDING ON HOW THE CONVERSATION CONTINUES WITH THE LEASE VERSUS THE BUY MIGHT CHANGE THIS. BUT CURRENTLY WE'RE LOOKING AT THE LEASE. WE HAVE AN OLD VEHICLE NOW TRADING THAT IN. IT'S IN REALLY BAD SHAPE TRADING IT IN FOR. AND THAT ANNUAL LEASE OBLIGATION WOULD BE ALMOST $15,000. ALSO A TRAILER FOR THE IPM PEST, THE IPM TECHNICIAN AS WELL AS OUR LANDSCAPE TEAM, THE TRAILERS WE CURRENTLY USE, THEY'RE IN REALLY POOR SHAPE AND THEY'RE HAULING SOME. THEY'RE HAULING A LOT OF EQUIPMENT AND PLANT MATERIAL ON A DAILY BASIS AND THEN EXPANDING CITY FEST PROGRAM. THIS HASN'T BEEN SOMETHING WE'VE TALKED ABOUT, BUT IN OUR OUR BRIEF CONVERSATIONS, WE'RE TALKING ABOUT GROWING OUT THAT PROGRAM, MAYBE GROWING OUR REACH AND IMPACT. AND SO THERE'S A COST ASSOCIATION OF $135,000 WITH THAT. I DON'T SEE ANYTHING IN HERE. AND INCREASING THE UTILIZATION AND ACTIVITIES AT LA VERDE PARK. WE'VE GOT THAT GORGEOUS PAVILION, AND WE'RE USING IT IN THE SUMMER MONTHS, ONCE A MONTH. YES. WHICH IS, I THINK, REALLY INADEQUATE. I THINK THAT WE'VE GOT A LOT OF MUSICIANS THAT WOULD LOVE TO BE PLAYING THERE THAT ARE LOCAL, NOT HIGH COST, THAT WOULD DRAW OUR COMMUNITY. THAT'S SOMETHING WE COULD LOOK INTO IF THAT'S A PRIORITY FOR THE COUNCIL TO MAXIMIZE PROGRAMING THERE. I AGREE WITH YOU. IT'S MAYBE IT IS UNDERUTILIZED, ESPECIALLY WITH ALL THE TURF MANAGEMENT THAT WE'VE GOT, REALLY MANAGING THAT LAWN THE RIGHT WAY AND MAXIMIZING THE WAY WE UTILIZE IT. YEAH, WE'D LOVE TO SEE THAT. WE'D LOVE TO SEE THAT. ANYTHING ELSE BEFORE WE ADVANCE? YEAH. I JUST WANTED TO GO BACK TO THE, WHAT DO YOU CALL IT, THE FESTIVAL AND THE SPRING FEST, MAKING SURE THAT WE GO BACK. WE HIRED A TEAM TO DESIGN THIS AND IMPLEMENT THIS FESTIVAL. IT'S SOMETHING WE WORKED ON FOR ALMOST FOUR YEARS, AND WE'VE NEVER REALLY FOLLOWED THROUGH ON ALL THAT. THAT TEAM HAD ASSESSED AND RECOMMENDED TO US. I MEAN, WE'RE STILL LACKING A LOT ON ON THE HISTORY PART OF IT, SHOWCASING OUR HISTORY OF KYLE, THE MARKETING, THE BRANDING. WE'RE STILL NOT GETTING EVERYTHING THAT WE HAD TALKED ABOUT ORIGINALLY. I THINK WE'VE ALREADY GOT A GOOD BLUEPRINT THERE. WE'RE JUST NOT THERE YET. 
          BUT THIS WAY. BEFORE YOU WERE HERE, DAVID, A LOT OF YOUR TEAM AND WE'VE ACTUALLY LOST SOME 
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FOLKS THAT WERE A PART OF THAT. SO GOING BACK AND MAYBE RESEARCHING THOSE NOTES AND WHAT THAT TEAM, MAYBE EVEN REENGAGING THAT FIRM THAT WE HIRED BECAUSE WE'VE ALREADY PAID FOR THIS INFORMATION TO PAY FOR IT TWICE. AND REALLY SEEING WHAT THE BACKBONE OF THE SPRING FEST WOULD BE, IT'S GOING TO BE IMPORTANT. AND THAT'S SOMETHING WE I THINK WE JUST NEED TO REALLY REVIEW, BECAUSE I THINK WE JUST DO A WAY BETTER JOB IN THE FUTURE WHEN IT COMES. AND NOT SAYING WE'RE DOING A BAD JOB, BUT IT'S STILL NOT THE VISION THAT THAT TEAM PUT TOGETHER FOR US. YES, SIR. THANK YOU. IF I COULD GO BACK TO NUMBER 20, AND JUST TO REITERATE THE PLACE WHERE I. OH, NO, NOT THAT ONE. I'M SORRY. THE WHERE WAS IT? NUMBER 12 ON THE CAMPUS. 
          IT'S SOMETHING THAT WE ALSO UNDERSTAND FROM THE SCHOOL POINT. THE SCHOOL DISTRICT'S POINT OF VIEW IS THAT A LOT OF THESE CAMPUSES HAVE SUMMER SCHOOL GOING ON UNTIL THE END OF JUNE. SO IF WE'RE EXPECTING TO TRY TO UTILIZE THEIR SPACE, WE'RE GOING TO BE SHARING IT WITH THEM ALONG WITH CONSTRUCTION. THAT HAPPENS BECAUSE I REMEMBER WHEN THERESA WORKED AT TOM GREEN, AS SOON AS IT WAS, SCHOOL WAS OUT THE NEXT DAY. TEACHERS, YOU GOT TO GET ALL YOUR STUFF OUT OF THERE BECAUSE THE MAINTENANCE IS COMING IN TO REDO THE FLOORS, REDO THE PAINT, AND SO YOU JUST HAVE CONSTANT CONSTRUCTION AND REMODELING GOING ON DURING THE SUMMER. SO I KNOW WE WANT TO BE ABLE TO UTILIZE A LOT OF THAT SPACE AND EXPAND OUT, BUT UNFORTUNATELY WE'RE JUST KIND OF SOMETIMES OUR HANDS MIGHT BE TIED DEPENDING ON THE CAMPUS THAT IT NEEDS TO GO TO, BUT I THINK IT'S ALL OF THEM THAT THAT'S THE TIME OF THE YEAR WHERE MAINTENANCE CAN GO IN THERE AND UTILIZE THAT, BECAUSE WE'RE DOING RIGHT NOW IN FRONT OF BEEBE ROAD, RIGHT. AND SO WE'RE DOING THAT ROAD DONE. BUT WE DIDN'T REALIZE THAT SCIENCE HALL ACTUALLY HAD SUMMER SCHOOL GOING ON AT THE SAME TIME. SO IT WAS A MATTER OF THOSE PARENTS AND THOSE TEACHERS HAVING TO WORK AROUND OUR CONSTRUCTION, BUT IT'S GETTING DONE. BUT MAYBE SOMETHING TO REALLY CONSIDER, MAYBE THE REASONS WHY WE MAY NOT GET THAT FULL COOPERATION FROM THE DISTRICT IN CASE IN POINT, THAT THAT IMPACTED THIS, THIS, THIS EXISTING SEASON WITH THE WORK AT WALLACE. YEAH. ANYTHING ELSE? ALL RIGHT. SO QUICK RECAP OF OUR THE FTES FIVE IN TOTAL FOR ALMOST $600,000, THE RECREATION SUPERVISOR, THE RECREATION COORDINATOR, THE PARKS TECHNICIAN, THE GUEST SERVICES COORDINATOR AND THEN THE PARKS TECHNICIAN FOR TRAILS. 
          AGAIN, THIS IS OUR THE ORG CHART I SHOWED YOU ALL EARLIER JUST BY WAY OF REFRESHER 62 FTES. AND THEN YOU SEE THE ADDITIONAL FTES PROPOSED IN THE RED BOXES. BRINGING WOULD BRING US TO A TOTAL OF 67 FTES. SO KIND OF BALANCED ACROSS THE DEPARTMENT. FEES. SO STARTED LOOKING AT FEES EARLIER THIS YEAR AND SEEING ANY OPPORTUNITIES FOR THINGS THAT WE'RE MISSING, AS WELL AS ANY UPDATES OR REVISIONS TO EXISTING FEES. AND SO WE FOUND A LOT OF OPPORTUNITY WITH THIS, WITH THE NEW FACILITIES THAT ARE COMING ON BOARD, LIKE DAISY, LIKE REPUBLIC DRIVE, WE NEEDED TO HAVE AN HOURLY ROOM RATE FOR MULTI-PURPOSE AREAS FOR BOTH FACILITIES, ALSO FOR KITCHENS FOR DAISY AND NOW KRUG. THAT WILL BE THAT ONCE THE ONCE THE CAST MEMBERS MOVE COMMUNITY GARDEN PLOT FEES. THIS IS SOMETHING THAT WAS IT WAS A BRIEF MORATORIUM ON THIS ONE BECAUSE WHEN THE FEES WERE DECIDED BY THE COMMITTEE LAST YEAR, WE WERE ALREADY WELL ADVANCED INTO THE BUDGET YEAR. AND SO THESE ARE JUST BRINGING BACK WHAT WAS ALREADY AGREED UPON LAST YEAR. THERE'S A ZERO LINE ITEM, AND I WANTED TO BRING YOUR ATTENTION TO THAT FOR GARDEN PARTNERS. AND SO RIGHT NOW WE'RE TRYING TO INCENTIVIZE INDIVIDUALS TO PARTNER WITH US ON THE GARDEN, THOSE TO TAKE CARE OF THE COMMON AREAS TO HELP WITH, WITH TURNING OVER OF MATERIALS, TO HELP TAKE LEAD WITH ORIENTATION. AND SO WE WANTED TO INCENTIVIZE THEM BY WAIVING THEIR FEE FOR CERTAIN PLOTS. DAVID. YES, I WOULD PREFER THAT THE ADA PLOTS NOT BE MORE EXPENSIVE THAN THE REGULAR GARDEN PLOTS. THEY'RE SMALLER THAN THOSE PLOTS ARE, AND I WOULD HATE TO PUT AN ADDITIONAL BURDEN ON PEOPLE WHO ALREADY, OBVIOUSLY. BUT FROM THE USE OF THE ADA PLOT, HAVE SOME HANDICAPPING CONDITION. WE CAN MAKE THAT CHANGE. THIS WAS A SUGGESTION FROM THE FROM THE GARDEN COMMITTEE LAST YEAR, BUT I THINK WE WOULD AGREE. AND THOSE ARE ANNUAL FEES. IT'S NOT A LOT, BUT WOULD YOU LIKE TO SEE IT CLOSER TO THE FOUR BY EIGHT? YEAH. THE SAME OKAY. THANK YOU. HEY DAVID. ONE WOULD BE A GOOD TIME TO BRING UP A QUESTION 
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REGARDING EVENTS PROGRAMING FOR NEXT YEAR. YOU CAN BRING IT UP. NOW WE ARE GOING TO BE TALKING ABOUT EVENTS IN ANOTHER PRESENTATION DURING THE DIDWELL ANNUAL DIDWELL DO BETTER EVALUATION, BUT YOU COULD BRING THAT UP ANY TIME. ALL RIGHT. SO I GUESS I'LL JUST DO IT NOW. 
          ABOUT TWO YEARS AGO, YOU WEREN'T HERE THOUGH. WE TOOK A VOTE TO CREATE A PRIDE MARKET DAYS FOR JUNE. AND THIS YEAR IT WASN'T IT WASN'T DONE. AND IT I KNOW WE TALKED ABOUT IT AT ONE POINT, BUT I ALSO DON'T SEE IT IN ANYTHING AND HAVEN'T HEARD ABOUT IT. IS THERE A REASON? WAS THE VOTE WE TOOK NOT SOMETHING THAT WAS GOING TO RECUR ON A YEARLY BASIS, AND THAT IT HAD TO BE TAKEN ON A YEAR TO YEAR BASIS? I DON'T KNOW THE HISTORY ON THE VOTE. I KNOW REALLY QUICKLY, LIKE THE JUNETEENTH THEME TOOK OVER FOR MARKET DAYS THIS YEAR. SO I'M THINKING MAYBE NOT BECAUSE LIKE TYPICALLY WHEN WE VOTE TO CREATE, YOU KNOW, WHEN THE CITY WE DON'T TAKE A YEARLY VOTE ON DOING JUNETEENTH, YOU KNOW. YEAH, IT'S A RECURRING. SO IS THAT SOMETHING WE CAN FIGURE OUT OF HOW TO INCLUDE THAT INTO THE CALENDAR. SO IT'S NOT A DEBATE THAT NEEDS TO TAKE PLACE PUBLICLY ON A YEARLY BASIS. I FEEL LIKE WE'RE AT THE POINT NOW WHERE IT'S SOMETHING WE SHOULD BE DOING, LIKE, YES, SIR. SO WHEN WE DO OUR EVALUATION OF DID WELL DO BETTER IN ALL OF OUR EVENTS AND PROGRAMS, WE CAN LOOK AT WHAT WE'RE CURRENTLY OFFERING AND SOMETHING THAT WE WANT TO BE A PERENNIAL OFFERING FOR EVERY OTHER YEAR, AND FUNDING ASSOCIATED AND RESOURCES, ETC. 
          AND THEN MAKE IT AN ONGOING TEMPLATE. I SEE WHAT YOU'RE GETTING AT BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, IN THE PAST WE'VE ALWAYS HAD TO LIKE VOTE. LET'S DO RED, WHITE AND BLUE MARKET DAYS AND WE ALL HAVE TO VOTE ON THAT. I REMEMBER COUNCIL MEMBER DANIELLA PARSLEY WANTED TO BRING THAT IN JULY, AND THEN WE ALSO HAVE HISPANIC HERITAGE MONTH IN SEPTEMBER THAT THOSE THOSE CONVERSATIONS WOULD HAVE TO COME UP. AND I THINK AT TIMES IT FELT LIKE COUNCIL HAD TO MAKE THOSE AGENDA ITEMS IN ORDER FOR THOSE THINGS TO HAPPEN VERSUS THE CITY PLANNING THESE THINGS OUT RIGHT OFF THE BAT. 
          AND I THINK ANOTHER EXAMPLE WHICH DID HAPPEN, I'M THANKFUL, IS THE MEMORIAL DAY CELEBRATIONS THAT YOU OR THE REMEMBRANCE THAT YOU THAT YOU DID, THE CITY TOOK THAT ON ON ITS OWN AND GOT WITH LOCAL GROUPS TO MAKE IT HAPPEN. IT'S THE SAME THING WITH THE PARADES, SAME THING WITH EVERYTHING ELSE. I THINK THAT'S KIND OF DIRECTION I BELIEVE WE WANT TO GO WITH TO WHERE THE CITY ALREADY HAS THESE THINGS LINED UP VERSUS US HAVING TO COME OUT AND BRING IT FORWARD BECAUSE IT CAN GET MAYBE A LITTLE HAIRY IN THAT SENSE, TO WHERE IF WE'RE BRINGING IT UP, IF IT'S ALREADY IMPLEMENTED, THAT YOUR CITY STAFF IS ALREADY GOING TO RECOGNIZE ALL THE HOLIDAYS THAT ARE EVEN IF IT'S SAINT PATRICK'S DAY OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT, YOU KNOW, THAT KIND OF THING, THAT GOING FORWARD OR WE WANT TO SET THE THEMES FOR MARKET DAYS AND SET THE THEMES GOING FORWARD OF WHAT IT IS. IT SEEMS TO BE LIKE THERE'S A LITTLE FLEXIBILITY RIGHT NOW, OR AT LEAST THAT'S THE PERCEPTION WITH THE MARKET DAYS. BUT IF WE WANT THESE TO BE PERENNIAL OFFERINGS, YEAH, BECAUSE ONCE WE VOTE ON SOMETHING, WE DON'T HAVE TO DO IT EVERY YEAR. YEAH. 
          AGAIN, I MEAN, I'VE TALKED ABOUT, YOU KNOW, IN THE PAST THE FLAGS FOR OUR, YOU KNOW, VETERANS DAY, MEMORIAL DAY, YOU KNOW, HAVING TO PICK UP THE PHONE, MAKE A PHONE CALL. I MEAN, THOSE THINGS WE SHOULDN'T HAVE TO BE DOING YEAR BY YEAR. I MEAN, WE VOTE ON SOMETHING IT SHOULD ALREADY BE IN PLACE, SHOULD BE MOVING FORWARD AND NOT HAVING TO CONTINUE TO STAY ON IT. WE'VE GOT A BIGGER STAFF AND THIS IS WHY WE'RE INCREASING. STAFF IS SO THAT WE DON'T HAVE TO VOTE ON THINGS ALL THE TIME AND TO MAKE PHONE CALLS, EVERYTHING ELSE. THIS IS WHAT WE'RE LOOKING AT AS THE INVESTMENT IS THE CITY MAKING SURE THAT WE'RE DOING WHAT NEEDS TO BE DONE, AND WE HAVE THE STAFF TO DO IT. WE'RE NOT ASKING. WE DON'T WANT TO OVERWHELM ONE STAFF MEMBER WITH A LOT OF WORK. WHAT WE'RE SAYING IS LET'S ADD THE STAFF. BUT LET'S KEEP IN MIND THAT THERE'S THINGS THAT SHOULD BE RECURRING EVERY YEAR, AND IT DOESN'T TAKE COUNCIL HAVING TO VOTE ON IT. I MEAN, IT'S A WASTE OF TIME FOR EVERYBODY. UNDERSTOOD. YEAH, WE CAN MAKE SURE WE LOOK AT THAT AND INCLUDE THAT IN OUR PROGRAM GOING FORWARD. ABSOLUTELY. ON ON THE ROOM RATES, WHICH IS NEW FEES PROPOSED, I AM CONCERNED ABOUT, ESPECIALLY FOR THE MULTI-PURPOSE ROOM RATES OF $40 AN HOUR. I THINK THAT IF WE'RE TALKING ABOUT SMALL NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS LIKE THE SCOUTS OR MASTER NATURALISTS OR SOME OF THOSE GROUPS, THAT'S NOT AFFORDABLE, THEY BASICALLY HAVE NO BUDGETS. AGREED. THAT'S AND ONE THING, IF IT'S NOT FEATURED HERE, THERE IS ONE THING THAT WE'VE WE'VE TALKED ABOUT FOR HAVING A THERE YOU GUYS ARE 
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WE'VE TALKED ABOUT HAVING A DISCOUNTED RATE TO ADD TO THE FEE SCHEDULE FOR LIKE LOCAL LOCALLY SERVING CIVIC GROUPS, 501 C THREES. IF THEY'RE GIVING BACK TO THE CITY MAYBE TWICE PER MONTH, HAVING LIKE A $10 PER RESERVATION RATE FOR THOSE GROUPS, ALSO FOR PARK PARTNERS, THAT'D BE GOOD. AND I LIKE THAT YOU TOOK IN MIND THE RESIDENTIAL NONRESIDENTIAL RATES. THAT'S IMPORTANT. BUT YEAH, JUST MAKING SURE WE'RE WE'RE KEEPING IT AFFORDABLE BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, OUR TAXPAYERS ARE ACTUALLY PAYING FOR THESE FACILITIES. SO MAKING SURE THAT THEY'RE, YOU KNOW, NOT PAYING TWICE. SO THAT'S THAT'S IMPORTANT. BUT KEEPING THE RATE DOWN LOW IS I'M GOOD WITH THAT. AND THEN BUT FOR OUR 501 C THREES. YEAH WE DEFINITELY NEED TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE DOING WHAT WE CAN TO HELP THEM. BECAUSE I MEAN MOST OF OUR 500 1C3 GIVE BACK TO THE CITY. THAT'S RIGHT. YES SIR. SO THANKS DAVID. AND I WAS THINKING ESPECIALLY OF THE NEW AMERICAN CENTER THAT WANTS A PLACE TO HAVE ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE CLASSES. AND FOR THEM, YOU KNOW, A $40 FEE. THE ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE CLASSES NEED TO BE MORE THAN EVEN ONCE A WEEK. SO HELP HELPING THOSE RESIDENTS INTEGRATE INTO OUR COMMUNITY MORE EFFECTIVELY WOULD BE UNAFFORDABLE. AND THERE'S REALLY, WE KNOW, SO FEW ROOMS AVAILABLE. THE LIBRARY HAD AVAILABILITY ONCE A MONTH, WHICH WOULD BE INADEQUATE FOR SOMETHING LIKE THAT. I'D LIKE TO REALLY BE ABLE TO FACILITATE THOSE RESIDENTS. UNDERSTOOD. ALL RIGHT. SO THESE ARE EXISTING FEES THAT WE'RE PROPOSING AN INCREASE TO. SOME AREN'T VERY SIGNIFICANT. OPEN SWIM WOULD BE JUST MOVING UP BY MAYBE ANYWHERE FROM 1 TO $4, DEPENDING ON THE AGE GROUP, YOU KNOW, FOR CHILDREN, MUCH LESS, FOR SENIORS, MUCH LESS. ALSO JUST MAKING THE. VIP, VIP FEE A LITTLE MORE OF A PASS THROUGH. BUT MAYBE ALSO THERE'S OPPORTUNITY TO ENHANCE THAT EXPERIENCE. ANY QUESTIONS ON THE EXISTING FEE INCREASES? ALL RIGHT. AND SO THE OVERALL PROJECTIONS FOR REVENUE FOR THIS. SO WE HAVE OUR ACTUAL TO DATE IN THE THIRD COLUMN. BUT WE PROJECTED OUT TO END OF YEAR BECAUSE WE STILL HAVE ANOTHER A QUARTER LEFT. AND THEN WE FACTORED THAT AGAINST OUR ESTIMATED REVENUES WITH THE NEW INCREASES OR NEW FEES. AND SO FOR THE RECREATION REVENUE PROJECTIONS, WE'RE ANTICIPATING AN ADDITIONAL $31,500 FROM THIS YEAR TO NEXT FOR THE SPECIAL EVENT PROJECTIONS, ANTICIPATING ANOTHER $20,000 IN REVENUE FOR MAKING THOSE CHANGES. AND THEN $4,500 FOR THE AQUATICS. SO MAYBE 55,000 IN TOTAL ADDITIONAL REVENUES WITH THOSE CHANGES. AND THEN A QUICK OVERVIEW. SO YOU SEE THAT. THE BASE BUDGET, THERE'S FROM 8.6 MILLION. WE'RE GOING TO 12 MILLION. THAT'S THAT'S SIGNIFICANT INCREASE. BUT SOME OF THAT WAS RIGHT SIZED IN BETWEEN FOR AN INCREASE IN COST FOR OPERATIONS TO RIGHT SIZE. 
          THE BUDGETS ALSO THE SUPPLEMENTALS THAT WE JUST WENT OVER AND I THINK ONE BIG TICKET ITEM WAS MOVING THE CHRISTMAS LIGHTING INTO INTO OUR BUDGET AS WELL. INSTEAD OF KEEPING IT IN CIP. SO THAT WAS HALF $1 MILLION. ALL RIGHT. OR WELL, ARE THERE ANY QUESTIONS ON ON THIS BEFORE I MOVE TO CIP? OKAY. DRUM ROLL PLEASE. OKAY. SO THE METHODOLOGY THAT WE HAVE ESTABLISHED FOR CIP IS TO INVEST TOWARDS HIGH QUALITY, INNOVATIVE PARKS THAT SET OUR CITY APART AND ENHANCE COMMUNITY, IDENTIFY IDENTITY. THIS IS IN LINE WITH THE PROS MASTER PLAN GOALS AS WELL AS YOUR STRATEGIC STRATEGIC VISION. CURRENTLY WE HAVE A FIVE YEAR CIP. WE ARE IN YEAR. WE'RE MOVING INTO YEAR TWO OF THAT FIVE YEAR CIP. BUT THIS IS SOME PLANNING TERMINOLOGY THAT WE'LL BE THROWING AROUND. WE THROW WE THROW AROUND ALL THE TIME. BUT JUST BY WAY OF REMINDER, STARTING OUT WITH FEASIBILITY, THIS IS SUCH AN IMPORTANT PROCESS. SOMETIMES WE LIKE TO JUMP FROM STEP ONE, SOMETIMES TO STEP SIX, OR JUST JUMP RIGHT INTO STEP SIX. BUT WE'VE SEEN IN OUR SYSTEM, MAKING THAT JUMP IF WE'RE NOT CAREFUL CAN CAN BE VERY COSTLY LIKE IN THE MILLIONS WITHOUT PROPER PLANNING. AND SO GOING FROM FEASIBILITY AND DUE DILIGENCE TO OUR MASTER PLAN AND CONCEPTUAL TO SCHEMATIC TO DESIGN DEVELOPMENT, YOU ALL ARE VERY FAMILIAR WITH THAT. YOU'VE GOT SOME BIG PROJECTS UNDER YOUR BELT, AND WE'VE HAD SOME RECENTLY WITH DAISY AND MOVING 
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THROUGH THESE PHASES. OKAY. SO WITH OUR CURRENT YEAR CIP, WE HAVE 28 ACTIVE PROJECTS. I REMEMBER PUBLIC WORKS, I THINK IT WAS PUBLIC WORKS TALKING ABOUT LIKE THE WORKLOAD OF A PROJECT MANAGER. WE HAVE ONE PROJECT MANAGER WITH 20 ACTIVE PROJECTS. SOME OF THAT PHILOSOPHY OR SCHOOL OF THOUGHT VARIES BY THE AMOUNT OF FUNDING PER PROJECT. BUT THIS WE HAVE WILL AND CHRIS HELPS OUT A LOT, BUT THAT'S A LOT THAT THEY'RE WORKING THROUGH NOW. EVERYTHING THAT YOU SEE. AND SO THAT TOTAL OF RUNNING PROJECTS RIGHT NOW IS A LITTLE NORTH OF $3 MILLION, WHICH YOU SEE IN THE RED ARE THE IS NOT CONTAINED WITHIN THAT 3 MILLION, BUT WE'RE ACTIVELY WORKING ON THEM. SO THOSE ARE COMING FROM CO BONDS TERS HOT. ALL RIGHT. LET'S SEE HERE WE HAVE. SO HERE'S A SUMMARY OF THAT. NOW MOVING INTO YEAR TWO OF THE FIVE YEAR CIP. AS YOU CAN SEE SOME OF THESE PARKS IN BLUE THERE'S A LOT OF CARRYOVER. SO YOU'RE LIKE OKAY WHERE ARE WE WORKING ON THE SKATE PARK. BUT IT WON'T FULLY COME INTO SERVICE UNTIL THE NEXT FISCAL YEAR. AS WELL AS THE GREG CLARK PARK, ALL THE PRELIMINARY DESIGN PROJECTS THAT YOU ALL JUST APPROVED WITHIN THE PAST FEW WEEKS. EVERYTHING'S JUST LEANING TOGETHER RIGHT NOW FOR ME. AND THEN WHAT'S WHAT I WANTED TO POINT OUT TO IS YOU ALL PROBABLY NOTICED MOVING INTO FY 2627, WE HAVE SPLASH PADS ON THERE. THAT'S A PLACEHOLDER. WE'RE WE'RE PREPARING FOR WORSE, BUT HOPING FOR THE BEST. WE'RE DOING EVERYTHING TO KEEP THESE OPERATIONAL. BUT THESE SPLASH PADS ALREADY NEED NEED SOME LOVE TO MY POINT EARLIER ABOUT THE DESIGN PROCESS. BUT WE'RE DOING EVERYTHING TO KEEP THEM RUNNING. AND IF EVERYTHING GOES GOOD, WE'RE GOING TO SHIFT SOME OF THOSE PROJECTS FROM FY 2728 OVER TO. AND WE'RE KEEP MOVING THAT ALONG. SO JUST KEEP REPLACING IT. BUT WE JUST WANTED TO HAVE THAT FRONT AND CENTER BECAUSE NO SURPRISES. THIS SORT OF OUR GOAL I WANT TO REITERATE THE SPLASH PADS ARE THEY WERE A GREAT IDEA. I MEAN, WHEN I SEE THE YOUNG FAMILIES OUT THERE AND THE PARENTS AND EVERYBODY WITH THEIR KIDS, IT'S PRETTY AMAZING. THE ONLY ISSUE I EVER HAD WAS THAT WE BUILT LESSER OF A PAD WE SHOULD HAVE BEEN BUILDING FOR THE QUALITY OF WHAT WE HAVE THE STANDARD HERE IN KYLE, SOMETHING THAT IS GOING TO BE FUNCTIONAL, THAT'S GOING TO BE ABLE TO MAINTAIN AND RUN FOR A LONG TIME. AND THAT'S SOMETHING THAT I THINK THESE SPLASH PADS, UNFORTUNATELY, I THINK WE KIND OF NEED TO MAKE A PRIORITY BECAUSE THE PEOPLE ALREADY EXPECT THEM. AND ANYTIME I OPEN UP, YOU KNOW, AN APP AND SAYS SPLASH PADS ARE DOWN. I MEAN, I KEEP THINKING ABOUT THE YOUNG KIDS THAT WERE PROBABLY THINKING ABOUT GOING OUT THERE THAT DAY. SO MAKING SURE THAT WE MAKE IT MAYBE A LITTLE HIGHER PRIORITY, BRIAN, WOULD BE SOMETHING THAT I'D LIKE TO SEE HAPPEN, BECAUSE, I MEAN, TO SEE THE YOUNG PEOPLE THERE ENJOYING THE SPLASH PADS IS SOMETHING I LIKE WATCHING THE FAMILIES BEING OUT THERE INTERACTING, NOT HAVING THAT, ESPECIALLY IN THE HOT SUMMER MONTHS, IS KIND OF A DETRIMENT TO US. THE CITY, ESPECIALLY BECAUSE WE'VE ALREADY PUT THEM OUT THERE. SO I'D LIKE TO SEE IT PRIORITIZE A LITTLE MORE. THANK YOU. YEAH, I THINK PARKS AND RECREATION SHARES YOUR CONCERNS. 
          I MEAN, IT'S YOU WANT TO TALK ABOUT. I MEAN, ONE OF OUR BIG GOALS FROM THE MASTER PLAN WAS TO LOWER BARRIERS TO ENTRY. AND THERE'S REALLY NO BARRIER TO ENTRY FOR THESE. THEY'RE FREE. 
          JUST LIKE PLAYGROUNDS, FREE FOR EVERYBODY. YOU DON'T HAVE TO THINK ABOUT ADMISSIONS, BUT IT', YOU KNOW, SAFE AND FUN, COOL ACTIVITY DURING THE HOT SUMMER MONTHS. I WOULD JUST LIKE TO SAY, YEAH, RIZZO, THANK YOU FOR BRINGING THAT UP. WHEN THESE WERE APPROVED, I THINK THEY WERE UNDER BUDGETED, AND WE TRIED TO DO THE BEST TO STRETCH THE DOLLARS THAT WE HAD. I WISH IT WOULD HAVE BEEN RECOMMENDED AT THE TIME BY MORE THAN JUST MYSELF, TO INCREASE THAT BUDGET AMOUNT. THAT WAS SOMETHING WE SHOULD HAVE DONE, BECAUSE IT'S BETTER TO DO IT RIGHT THE FIRST TIME WITH BETTER QUALITY AND BETTER VISION MATERIALS. RIGHT? SO WHAT WE'RE SEEING NOW IS JUST THE BREAKDOWN, THE LOSS OF THE TIME. AND I DO AGREE WE NEED THEM OUT THERE. THEY THEY PROVIDE A GOOD QUALITY OF LIFE FOR, YOU KNOW, KIDS THAT CAN'T SWIM, BUT THEY'RE ABLE TO, YOU KNOW, ENJOY THEM. AND IT'S SAFE FOR THE PARENTS SITTING THERE. SO I AM GLAD TO SEE THIS. BUT I THINK THAT, YOU KNOW, WE SPENT MORE MONEY TRYING TO DO IT A CHEAPER WAY. AND THAT'S THE RESULT OF THIS. SO DEFINITELY WE DON'T WE DON'T WANT TO CONTINUE TO DO THIS AGAIN IN BIG PROJECTS, ESPECIALLY WHEN WE'RE LOOKING AT. KENSINGTON OR, YOU KNOW, ANY OF THESE NEWER PARKS. 
          WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE PUT THE RIGHT AMENITIES IN THERE THE FIRST TIME. AND, COUNCILMEMBER, THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT I WAS ALLUDING TO WHEN I MENTIONED, LIKE, PROPER PLANNING COULD SAVE YOU MILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN THE LONG RUN. IT'S A SMALL IT'S YOU'RE TALKING 10 TO 15% OF PLANNING BUDGET THAT COULD HAVE A HUGE RETURN AND AVOID THESE SITUATIONS. YEAH. AND I KNOW IT'S A LOT FOR YOU TO DO IN YOUR BUDGET. I KNOW THAT WHEN WE LOOKED AT THE PARKS MASTER PLAN, YOU WERE THE ONE DEPARTMENT THAT NEEDS, LIKE THE MOST PERSONNEL FOR THE SIZE AND FOR THE ACRE OF PARKS THAT WE HAVE. SO I AM GLAD TO SEE SOME OF YOUR YOU'RE ASKING FOR THE NEW POSITIONS 
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WHICH WHICH I BELIEVE THEY'RE GOING TO BE STRATEGIC IN THERE, BUT I STILL THINK THAT WE NEED TO INCREASE YOUR YOUR DEPARTMENT TO NOT OVERBURDEN THE, THE EMPLOYEES AND STAFF THAT WE HAVE, ESPECIALLY WITH THE WITH THE OUTREACH AND THE COMMUNITY EVENTS. THOSE ARE REALLY TOUGH. 
          THANK YOU. THANK YOU. AND SO JUST SO YOU DON'T THINK THAT CHRIS WILL AND I PULLED A FAST ONE ON YOU, YOU DO SEE AT THE END OF THE FIVE YEAR PROGRAM, WE LAND CLOSER TO 27 MILLION. BUT WE DO SEE GRANT OPPORTUNITIES ALONG THE WAY TO BRING US BACK TO 25. JUST. ALL RIGHT, I'LL, I'LL, I'LL WAIT FOR NEXT YEAR. BECAUSE I'M GETTING THINGS ALREADY. NOW WE'RE GETTING THINGS HERE. WE'RE GETTING NUMBER SIX. AND THEN WE'RE ALSO LOOKING AT ALSO GETTING THE COURT FITNESS COURT. BUT IF WE COULD SOMEHOW PUT IN THE WISH LIST TO START LOOKING AT VISTA PARK BECAUSE I KNOW IT'S NOT BUDGETED HERE, WHICH IS FINE, IT'S OKAY. EVERYTHING'S THERE, BUT IT'S SOMETHING TO LOOK DOWN THE ROAD FOR THAT PARK. THAT BECAUSE WHEN WE SHOWED THE POSSIBILITIES FOR THAT AREA, I HAD ABOUT 2 OR 3 FAMILIES FROM INDIAN PAINTBRUSH WERE JUST LIKE, WOW, THAT LOOKS PERFECT. MAYBE WE MIGHT GET A SWIMMING POOL ON THIS SIDE OF TOWN, BUT I HAVE TO REALLY THINK ABOUT OUR BUDGET, WHERE OUR MONEY'S AT, AND FUTURE PROJECTS DOWN THE ROAD. YOU KNOW, IF IT'S SOMETHING WHERE THAT COULD BE IN IN THE IN THE WISH LIST FOR A COUPLE YEARS FROM NOW BECAUSE I KNOW IT'S IN THE FIVE YEAR IT'S ALREADY LAID OUT. BUT IF THERE'S LIKE YOU SAID, GRANT MONEY, FUNDING MONEY OR CERTAIN AMOUNT OF PARKS MAY NOT COST AS MUCH, YOU KNOW, WE CAN THROW IF IT'S A MILLION HERE SAVED OR $2 MILLION THERE JUST TO KIND OF START PUTTING IT ON THE BACK BURNER. BECAUSE WHEN WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE CIP PROJECTS AND I KNOW LEON'S GONE ALREADY, HE KNEW I WAS GOING TO SAY THIS, BUT WE'RE STILL WAITING FOR SUNFLOWER CIRCLE TO GET PAVED. BUT THAT'S THAT, THAT STREETS, THAT CITY STREET THAT THAT IS IN THE VISTA PARK AREA. BECAUSE I'VE BEEN PROMISING THOSE PEOPLE IT'S COMING. IT'S COMING FOR THREE YEARS NOW. SO BUT I UNDERSTAND THAT THERE'S OTHER PRIORITIES AHEAD OF US. WELL, THE BACK BURNER IS THE NEXT SLIDE OVER BECAUSE WE DO MENTION A LITTLE MORE ON ON KYLE VISTA. IS THAT WHAT YOU'RE REFERRING TO? WE DO MENTION A LITTLE MORE ON THAT ON THE NEXT SLIDE BEFORE I ADVANCE THAT NEXT SLIDE. I DID WANT TO POINT OUT AS WELL THOSE PROJECTS ARE SPLIT INTO MULTI PHASES. AND SO WE KNOW WE'RE I MEAN 25 MILLION BECAME REAL CHRIS IS REALLY CHOMPING AT THE BIT TO INTERRUPT YOU AND I COUNCIL MEMBER TO POINT THIS OUT. BUT WE ARE SHOWING PHASE ONE. AND SO THOSE ARE JUST A MAYBE HALF OF THE COST FOR A TOTAL RENOVATION OF THOSE PARKS. WHEN YOU LOOK AT LAKE KYLE OR YOU LOOK AT GREG CLARK PARK, AND AS YOU CAN ENVISION FOR WHAT THESE PLANS ARE GOING TO SHOW IS WHAT THESE PARKS SHOULD AND COULD BE. AND THERE'S THERE ARE BIG INVESTMENTS. SO JUST JUST TO MENTION, WE ARE LOOKING AT SOME POTENTIAL PARTNERSHIPS AND FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES FOR CAL VISTA. WE'LL BE BRINGING THAT TO COUNCIL IN THE NEAR FUTURE, AND COULD ADDRESS SOME OF THE POINTS THAT YOU'VE MENTIONED FUNDING FOR MAKING PARK IMPROVEMENTS, AS WELL AS SOME FACILITY OPTIONS OUT THERE. SO WE'LL BE LOOKING AT THAT AND BRINGING IT FORWARD. 
          WE DO THINK THAT'S A GREAT PIECE OF PROPERTY AND HAS A LOT OF OPPORTUNITIES TO BE DEVELOPED. 
          AND MIKE, YOU HAVE NO MORE CITY DOLLARS. DISTRICT SIX HAS GOTTEN A LOT OF THE ROAD BOND AND EVERYTHING ELSE. DISTRICT TWO. DISTRICT FOUR. IT'S BEEN A LONG TIME COMING. IT'S BEEN A LONG TIME COMING. YEAH. NO IT'S GREAT. AND YOU'VE BEEN A GREAT ADVOCATE FOR YOUR DISTRICT. IT'S GREAT. AND I'M AN ADVOCATE FOR DISTRICT TWO NOW. IT'S DEFINITELY STILL SEE THE IMPORTANCE OF GREG CLARK PARK AND THE ROADS THAT ARE COMING IN AS WELL. ONE OF THE THINGS I DO WANT TO MENTION, DAVID, IS JUST MAKING SURE THAT WE'RE CONTINUING DOWN THE ROAD IN THE PATH YOU ALL ARE DOING. I LOVE THE WORK CHARTS. I LOVE YOUR PRESENTATION TODAY. IT'S GIVEN US A LOT OF INSIGHT, BUT I THINK, YEAH, I'M GLAD FOR THE NEW ADDITIONS AND ONE REASON WHY I WAS HERE WHEN WE OUR TRAIL SYSTEM WAS BEING BUILT BY TWO PEOPLE WITH A CHAINSAW AND A WEED EATER. I MEAN, THAT'S WHAT OUR TRAIL SYSTEM CONSISTED OF BACK IN THE DAY, TO SEE WHERE WE ARE NOW AND LOOKING AT THE NEW IMPLICATIONS, IT'S GOING TO BE GREAT. I MEAN, I'M REALLY EXCITED ABOUT WHERE WE ARE, WHERE WE'RE DOING. BRIAN, GREAT JOB. YOU AND JESSE, SOME OF THE GREAT PARK STAFF AND MOVING US FORWARD. SO THANK YOU. THANK YOU FOR SAYING THAT. SO KENSINGTON IS NOT ON THE CIP AT ALL. SO ALL THAT'S HANDLED IN A DIFFERENT BUDGET. IT IS. IT'S ON THE NEXT SLIDE BECAUSE IT DOESN'T COME OUT OF THE 25 MILLION. IT'S JUST SLATED TO BE BOND FUNDED, WHICH THERE IS ANOTHER SLIDE, DOCTOR HARRIS THAT WE'LL TALK ABOUT SOME OF THOSE. SO JUST A QUICK RECAP OF THE 25 MILLION AND WHAT'S CONTAINED. SO IF THIS WERE A REALLY VERTICAL SLIDE IT 
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WOULD SHOW UP THIS WHEN THE YELLOW IS WHAT'S ABOVE THE LINE AND WHAT'S IN THE ORANGE IS WHAT HAS FALLEN BELOW THE LINE. NOT INCLUDED IN THE $25 MILLION. SO, YOU KNOW, THERE COULD BE PROJECTION TO EXTEND THE FIVE FOR 25 YEARS, OR JUST THINKING ABOUT SOME THINGS THAT COULD MAYBE BE REPLACED FROM FROM THE YELLOW TO THE ORANGE. THERE IS FLEXIBILITY INVOLVED, BUT WE WANTED TO BRING TO YOUR ATTENTION THESE HIGHLY IMPORTANT PROJECTS THAT ARE NOT CURRENTLY FUNDED. COUNCIL. THAT'S NOT TO SAY THAT THOSE PROJECTS ARE OFF THE LIST. THAT'S JUST WITHIN THE 5 MILLION OVER THE NEXT FIVE YEARS THAT THEY'VE FALLEN PAST THAT. YEAH. WE UNDERSTAND. TRUST ME. I'LL BE ADVOCATING FOR GREG CLARK PARK, BUT I'M GETTING TO SKATE PARK ALREADY, SO I'M GOING TO I'VE GOT A WIN ALREADY. YOU'VE GOT THE PARK, YOU GOT THE POOL. YOU GOT THAT? OH, I'M JUST SAYING. OKAY, I'M JUST SAYING WE'RE COMPARING PARK SLIDES NOW. GOT TO FIGHT FOR THEM. YOU CAN TELL WE'VE BEEN IN A MEETING NOW FOR 4.5 HOURS WITHOUT STOP. THANK YOU. DAVID, THIS IS THE LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL. LAST SLIDE BEFORE WE START TAKING ANY ADDITIONAL FEEDBACK. 
          BUT, DOCTOR HARRIS HERE WOULD SEE THE LAKE KENSINGTON AND THE 2020 BOND PROJECTS AND EVERYTHING. NOT INCLUDED IN THAT $25 MILLION. AT THIS TIME. I'LL TAKE ANY ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS. 
          YOU ALL HAVE. ALL RIGHT. I HAD A LITTLE ELF SEND A MESSAGE TO ME YESTERDAY. CHRISTMAS. HOW DOES THAT LOOK? ANY DECORATIONS, ANYTHING NEW, ANYTHING THAT'S ON THE HORIZON. WE'LL BE BRINGING A PRESENTATION BACK ON CHRISTMAS AS WELL. AS YOU ALL KNOW, WE DIDN'T UTILIZE THE FULL HALF A MILLION LAST YEAR. AND SO WE'RE LOOKING AT THE EXISTING CONTRACTS CAPACITY, SOME OF THE EXISTING FEATURES THAT WE HAVE NEED SOME MENDING. WE MIGHT BE ABLE TO GET ANOTHER YEAR OUT OF THEM BEFORE WE GOT TO SPEND MONEY ON REPAIRS. BUT WE I SAY ALL THAT TO SAY WE THINK WE CAN STILL DELIVER THE PRODUCT TO YOU GUYS WANT WITHIN THE HALF A MILLION. BUT WHETHER IT'S AN ADMINISTRATIVE INCREASE TO THE OLD CONTRACT BECAUSE IT WAS UNDER THE 500,000, OR LOOKING AT PUTTING OUT ANOTHER RFP, THOSE ARE ALL ON THE TABLE. AND WE'LL BRING THAT BACK TO YOU ALL AT A LATER DATE. AS A STRUCTURE ON THE TREE. THAT'S WE'VE HAD IT THERE FOR ABOUT A COUPLE OF YEARS NOW. IS IT STILL PRETTY SOUND AS FAR AS THE DURABILITY ON IT? THE RIBBON TREE IS ONE THAT WE'RE LOOKING AT LIKE SOME REFURBISHMENT ON IT, BUT WE THINK WE'VE GOT ANOTHER YEAR IN MOST OF OUR OUR PIECES BEFORE WE REALLY HAVE TO THINK MUCH COST INTO THAT. ALL RIGHT. SOUNDS GOOD. THAT'S ALL I GOT. ALL RIGHT. LONG DAY. THAT'S IT. YEAH. AND JUST JUST REAL QUICK ON THE CHRISTMAS THING. THE ORIGINAL CONVERSATION HAPPENED THAT WE WOULD BE ABLE TO DRIVE FROM FROM THE GATEWAY OF KYLE ALL THE WAY DOWN TO GREG CLARK PARK AND HAVE HOLIDAY DESIGNS. 
          THAT'S INCLUDING LIGHTING UP THE WATER TOWER AS WELL. SO MAKING SURE WE REMEMBER THE FULL SCOPE OF THAT WORK. YES, SIR DAVID. AND JUST LAST THING, ALSO ON THE PARKS THAT, YOU KNOW, WE'D LIKE TO SEE THE PLANS FOR THE FIELDS, LIKE THE BASEBALL FIELDS, SOCCER FIELDS AS WELL. WHEN YOU DO BRING THOSE CONSTRUCTION DESIGNS AND ANYWHERE THAT YOU CAN INCORPORATE AUTOMATION, I'LL SAY THE SAME THING TO YOU WHERE WE CAN USE LESS MANPOWER, YOU KNOW, TO BE MORE EFFICIENT IN THE TAKING CARE OF THESE PARKS AND STUFF, TO CONSIDER THAT. YES, SIR. THANK YOU. ROBOTS. SO JUST ONE, WE'LL LOOK FOR ANY OF THOSE THAT WE CAN FIND. JUST ONE MORE COMMENT BEFORE WE WRAP UP. THIS IS THE LAST OF OUR SATURDAY WORK SESSIONS WITH YOU BEFORE WE PRESENT THE BUDGET. I BELIEVE IT'S JULY 26TH, IF I REMEMBER, IS OUR NEXT BUDGET WORK SESSION THAT WE'LL HAVE. I'LL BE PRESENTING MY RECOMMENDED BUDGET TO YOU. AT THAT TIME. WE'VE GIVEN YOU A LOT OF MATERIALS TODAY. WE'VE TAKEN A LOT OF NOTES ON THE FEEDBACK THAT WE'VE GOTTEN FROM THE COUNCIL. IF YOU HAVE ANY OTHER FEEDBACK THAT YOU WANT TO PROVIDE TO US, PLEASE SHARE THAT WITH US. BEFORE WE PUT TOGETHER THOSE RECOMMENDATIONS, WE'LL BE BRINGING THAT BACK TO YOU ON THE 26TH. THEN YOU'LL HAVE A LOT OF DISCUSSION. THAT WILL BE A VERY FULL PRESENTATION, LOTS OF MATERIALS FOR YOU TO GO THROUGH ABOUT THE BUDGET. AND THEN WE'LL BE ASKING YOU TO CONSIDER ADOPTING THE BUDGET IN SEPTEMBER. SO THAT'S KIND OF THE PROCESS A LITTLE BIT. WE CAN CERTAINLY DO MORE WORK SESSIONS AFTER THAT POINT. WE COULD DO MORE SATURDAYS IF YOU WANT, AFTER THAT, TO GO THROUGH MORE THINGS IN DETAIL. IT WOULD REALLY BE KIND OF UP TO YOU TO TELL US WHAT ADDITIONAL CONVERSATIONS YOU WANT TO HAVE, BUT WE APPRECIATE YOUR TIME TODAY, AND HOPEFULLY THIS PROVIDES A GOOD OVERVIEW OF THE KEY ISSUES. THERE'S A LOT OF ASK AND A LOT OF NEEDS, AND THE NEEDS ARE ALWAYS GOING TO BE MORE THAN THE FUNDING THAT WE HAVE. SO I THINK IT'S ALL ABOUT PRIORITIZING THINGS. THE BUDGET TO ME IS ALL ABOUT CHOICES. WHAT CHOICES DO YOU WANT TO MAKE? WHAT ARE THE RIGHT PRIORITIES? AND AGAIN, WE'VE GOT A LOT OF GOOD FEEDBACK FROM YOU TODAY, BUT HOPEFULLY YOU CAN SEE SOME OF THE THOUGHTS THAT WE HAVE AND HOW WE'RE KIND OF TRYING TO PUT THIS TOGETHER. SO AGAIN, THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME TODAY I APPRECIATE IT I KNOW IT'S A LONG WE GOT YOU TWO SATURDAYS IN A ROW. I KNOW YOU HAVE BETTER 
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PLACES TO BE AND LOTS OF OTHER THINGS TO DO. YES, SIR. THANK YOU. ALL RIGHT.
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