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ALL[1. Call to Order ]
RIGHT, IT'S SIX O'CLOCK AND WE NEED TO CALL THE MEETING INTO ORDER.THIS IS THE CITY OF FOSTER DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION, THE A BOARD WE HAVE IN ATTENDANCE TONIGHT.
I'LL BE STANDING IN FOR BRIAN WHITE.
SECRETARY BONNIE TYLER, BOARD MEMBER REVEREND GILMORE, AND BOARD MEMBER DEVIN HOLMES.
SO WE HAVE A QUORUM PUBLIC COMMENTS NUMBER TWO.
IS THERE ANYBODY SIGNED UP FOR PUBLIC COMMENTS? ANYBODY SIGNED UP ON THE SHEET? NO.
NOBODY ON THE SHEET FOR PUBLIC COMMENTS.
[3. Presentation on and possible action on a resolution of support regarding the Fort Bend Mobility Bond. ]
AGENDA ITEM NUMBER THREE, PRESENTATION ON AND POSSIBLE ACTION ON RESOLUTION OF SUPPORT REGARDING FORT BEND MOBILITY BOND.UM, WE HAVE HERE WITH US TODAY IKE, OUR ASSISTANT COUNTY ENGINEER FOR FORT BEND COUNTY.
HE WILL BE PRESENTING TO YOU THE DETAILS OF THE FORT BEND MOBILITY BOND, UM, AND WE ARE ASKING YOU TODAY TO CONSIDER, UH, AGREEING TO A LETTER OF SUPPORT.
I KNOW I'M A LITTLE BIT TALL OVER HERE.
SO, YES, ONCE AGAIN, UH, FORT BEND COUNTY ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT HERE, AND GLAD TO PRESENT TO YOU OUR 2023 BOND PROPOSITION.
A UH, SO, YOU KNOW, AS MANY OF US KNOW, FORT BEND COUNTY IS GROWING QUITE A BIT.
UM, AND AS, AS YOU'VE EXPERIENCED IN THIS AREA, THERE IS A LOT OF COMMERCIAL, A LOT OF RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT HOMES GOING UP ALL OVER THE PLACE.
STREETS GOING UP ALL OVER THE PLACE.
SO FORT BEND COUNTY, IN OUR ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT, WE ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE COMPREHENSIVE PLANNING, THE DESIGN, UM, OF PUBLIC ROADS AND PUBLIC INFRASTRUCTURE.
AND OUR MAIN GOAL IS JUST TO ENHANCE PUBLIC SAFETY AND ENHANCE THE QUALITY OF LIFE OF ALL FORT BEND COUNTY RESIDENTS.
I'LL SKIP THIS SLIDE, BUT GOING BACK OVER OUR HISTORY AS FAR AS MOBILITY BONDS, WE STARTED BACK IN THE YEAR 2000 WITH AN $86 MILLION BOND, AND WE PROGRESSED FORWARD TO A HUNDRED FIFTY SIX, A HUNDRED EIGHTY FIVE, TWO HUNDRED EIGHTEEN FOR BOTH 2017 AND 2020, AND NOW ARRIVING TO THIS CURRENT YEAR OF 2023 WITH $712.6 MILLION DEDICATED TO THE MOBILITY BOND PROPOSITION A.
NOW, THE LAST MOBILITY BOND THAT WE HAD WAS 2020, AND WE WERE ABLE TO, UH, GET VOTER APPROVAL ON THAT BY A RATE OF 75% SAYING YES.
SO THIS TIME AROUND, WE HAVE TWO PROPOSITIONS.
THERE'S A MOBILITY BOND PROPOSITION A, WHICH I MENTIONED IS 712.6 MILLION.
AND THEN WE ALSO HAVE THE MOBILITY OR THE, WE HAVE THE PARKS PROPOSITION B, WHICH IS $453 MILLION.
AND THE, THE TOTAL AMOUNT OF THE BOND IS 8 865 $0.6 MILLION.
JUST A QUICK BREAKDOWN OF WHAT WE HAVE.
UM, THE MOBILITY BOND PROPOSITION CAN BE GROUPED AS SUCH.
UH, WE HAVE ABOUT $178 MILLION THAT'S DEDICATED TO PARTNERING WITH CITIES, THE STATE AND LOCAL ENTITIES SUCH AS MUD DISTRICTS.
THESE FUNDS WILL BE LEVERAGED WITH ADDITIONAL FUNDS FROM THESE OTHER AGENCIES, AND THIS WILL HELP US TO GET MORE ROADS CONSTRUCTED WITH THE FUNDS THAT ARE PART OF THE MOBILITY PROGRAM.
WE ALSO HAVE $90 MILLION THAT IS DEDICATED TO ROADWAY IMPROVEMENTS UNDER SOMETHING THAT WE'VE CALLED DREW.
DREW REPRESENTS DESIGN RIGHT AWAY AND UTILITY TASKS FOR A PROJECT ONLY, SO IT EXCLUDES CONSTRUCTION.
SO THESE ARE PROJECTS WHERE WE ARE GONNA BE ALLOCATING FUNDS JUST FOR THESE, KNOWING THAT WE CAN GET THOSE THINGS DONE PROBABLY IN A TIME SPAN OF ABOUT THREE YEARS AND HAVE THEM PRIME FOR WHATEVER MAY HAPPEN NEXT AS FAR AS MOBILITY BOND PROPOSITIONS.
SO THESE PROJECTS TEND TO TAKE THREE TO FOUR YEARS TOTAL.
WE ALSO HAVE PROJECTS THAT ARE, WE CONSIDER ALL IN THESE REPRESENT 120, $112.4 MILLION OF THE BOND.
AND THESE ARE SMALLER PROJECTS THAT WE, WE ESTIMATE THAT WILL PROBABLY GET DONE IN A SHORTER AMOUNT OF TIME.
UM, SO WE ARE ESTIMATING THAT WE CAN COMPLETE THESE PROJECTS OR AT LEAST GET THEM TO CONSTRUCTION BEFORE THAT THREE YEAR MARK.
SO WE'VE INCLUDED CONSTRUCTION DOLLARS INSIDE OF THESE PARTICULAR PROJECTS.
THEN WE HAVE $31 MILLION THAT IS DEDICATED TO TRAFFIC SAFETY.
SO THIS WILL BE FUNDING FOR THINGS SUCH AS TRAFFIC SIGNALS, UH, ADDITIONAL TURN LANES, THINGS THAT ARE JUST GONNA IMPROVE TRAFFIC FLOW THROUGHOUT THE COUNTY.
AND THEN WE HAVE $13 MILLION THAT IS DEDICATED TO PEDESTRIAN SAFETY.
SO WE'RE TALKING ABOUT, UH, SIDEWALKS, WE'RE TALKING ABOUT PEDESTRIAN RENTS, THINGS THAT WILL HELP PEDESTRIANS GET FROM POINT A TO POINT B.
AND THEN WE HAVE $43 MILLION THAT WE'RE DEDICATING TO ROAD REHABILITATION ACROSS THE COUNTY.
THERE ARE SOME NEIGHBORHOODS THAT NEED SOME REHABILITATION.
THERE ARE OTHER PLACES WHERE DRAINAGE
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IS NOT AS GOOD AS IT NEEDS TO BE, AND WE NEED TO MAKE SURE TO IMPROVE THAT.SO THAT IS PART OF THE GOAL WITH THOSE FUNDS.
AND THEN LASTLY, WE HAVE $245 MILLION THAT WE ARE DEDICATING TO WHAT WE CALL EXISTING PROJECTS.
THESE ARE PRETTY MUCH PREVIOUS DREW PROJECTS THAT WE NEED TO FUND FOR CONSTRUCTION, AS WELL AS SOME OTHER ITEMS WHICH I'M GONNA GO OVER NEXT.
SO HERE'S A BREAKDOWN OF THOSE PARTICULAR EXISTING ITEMS THAT YOU SEE ON OUR MOBILITY BOND.
WE HAVE $162 MILLION MILLION DOLLARS THAT WE ARE DEDICATING TO COVER CONSTRUCTION COSTS FOR PREVIOUS DREW PROJECTS.
SO THESE ARE PROJECTS, LIKE I MENTIONED, THAT ARE DESIGNED RIGHT AWAY AND UTILITIES ONLY FROM THE PAST, AND THEY SHOULD BE GETTING CLOSE TO BEING READY FOR CONSTRUCTION THIS TIME AROUND.
AND THEN WE ALSO HAVE $82.8 MILLION THAT WE'RE DEDICATING TO COVERING SOME ECONOMIC INCREASES.
SO AS, AS MANY OF US ARE AWARE, THE COST FOR HOMES HAS GONE UP.
SO THAT MEANS FOR US, AS WE TRY TO ACQUIRE RIGHT OF WAY FOR OUR ROAD EXPANSIONS, WE ARE EXPERIENCING CLOSE TO A 25% INCREASE IN THOSE COSTS.
AND THEN BEYOND THAT, WITH CONSTRUCTION COSTS ALONE, THOSE HAVE INFLATED BY ABOUT 35% OVER THE LAST THREE TO FOUR YEAR PERIOD, PARTIALLY DUE TO THE PANDEMIC.
AND THEN IN ADDITION TO THAT, WE ARE LOOP, UH, WE ARE ADDING IN SOME FUNDS TO COVER ANYTHING LIKE SCOPE CHANGES.
THERE ARE SOME ROADS WHERE WE INITIALLY WERE DESIGNING THEM AS ASPHALT, BUT BECAUSE OF PUBLIC INFLUENCE AND BECAUSE OF WHAT IS GOING ON WITH DEVELOPMENT, WE'VE SELECTED TO GO AHEAD AND DO CONCRETE INSTEAD OF ASPHALT.
SO THAT'S JUST AN EXPLANATION OF THOSE EXISTING PROJECTS.
NOW GETTING TO THE, THE REAL BIG CORE OF THE PROJECTS THAT I'VE MENTIONED, UH, THESE ARE SOME OF THE PROJECTS THAT WE ARE GOING TO DO.
SO I'M GONNA GIVE YOU A COUPLE OF EXAMPLES.
UH, THIS PARTICULAR EXAMPLE IS WHERE WE HAVE AN EXISTING TWO-LANE ASPHALT ROADWAY WITH OPEN DITCHES.
AND WHAT WE'RE DOING IN SITUATIONS LIKE THIS IS WE ARE UPGRADING THIS ROADWAY TO BE A FOUR-LANE CONCRETE ROADWAY AND HAVE IT WITH A GRASSY MEDIAN IN BETWEEN.
SO BOTH OF THESE ITEMS HELP TO IMPROVE TRAFFIC FLOW AND THEN ALSO TO ENHANCE, ENHANCE TRAFFIC, UH, SAFETY ALONG THAT PATHWAY.
WE ALSO HAVE SOME SMALLER ROADWAYS, UH, THAT 60 FOOT RIGHT OF WAY, WHICH IS A LITTLE BIT TOUGHER FOR US TO DEAL WITH, BUT WE STILL CAN DO THINGS THERE TOO.
SO THIS IS A TWO-LANE PARTICULAR PROJECT, CONSTRAINED WITH THAT 60 FOOT RIGHT OF WAY.
AND WHAT WE DID IS WE WENT IN HERE AND WE DID A THREE-LANE CONCRETE ROADWAY.
NOW THE, THE THING ABOUT DOING THIS WORKING INSIDE A CONSTRAINED RIGHT OF WAY, IS WE HAVE TO MAINTAIN, MAINTAIN TRAFFIC IN BOTH DIRECTIONS.
AND THEN ALONG WITH THAT, AS YOU CAN SEE, AS YOU LOOK AT THE PICTURE ON THE RIGHT, IT'S PRETTY MESSY.
UH, AND SO WE ALWAYS LIKE TO EDUCATE THE PUBLIC AND LET THEM KNOW THAT YEAH, IT'S GONNA GET WORSE, BUT IT'S GONNA GET A LOT BETTER.
SO YOU CAN SEE THE LOT BETTER ON THE LEFT HAND SIDE OF YOUR SCREEN.
AND THEN BEYOND THAT, SINCE WE ARE, UH, RIGHT DOWN THE STREET FROM THIS GREAT PROJECT OF TEXAS HERITAGE PARKWAY ROUNDABOUTS MAKE UP A PORTION OF THE PROJECTS THAT WE ARE GOING TO DO IN THIS MOBILITY BOND.
AND AS YOU ALL KNOW, THESE ARE A GOOD SUBSTITUTE FOR TRAFFIC SIGNALS.
THEY ALSO ENHANCE PUBLIC SAFETY BECAUSE INSTEAD OF HAVING A STOP CONDITION, WHICH WE KNOW THAT YELLOW SOMETIMES MEANS GREEN FOR PEOPLE INSTEAD OF ACTUALLY MEANING TO SLOW DOWN, WELL, THESE ROUNDABOUTS KIND OF CIRCUMVENT THAT THEY ALLOW TRAFFIC TO CONTINUE TO FLOW.
BUT IT JUST ALSO MEANS THAT DRIVERS HAVE TO BE VERY AWARE OF WHAT THEY'RE DOING DURING, THEY HAVE TO MAKE SURE TO TAKE THE RIGHT ACTION AT THE RIGHT TIME.
BUT IN INCIDENCES WHERE THERE IS SOME TYPE OF COLLISION, THE GOOD THING IS, IS IT'S AT A SLOWER SPEED AND USUALLY IT'S A SIDESWIPE RATHER THAN A T-BONE TYPE OF COLLISION.
AND THEN BEYOND THAT, WE HAVE SOME COUNTYWIDE PROJECTS, THE EMERGENCY NETWORK INFRASTRUCTURE MONITORING SYSTEM, THE SMART SIGNAL TECHNOLOGY AND PEDESTRIAN MOBILITY STUDY.
NOW, WHAT WE'RE ABLE TO DO IS WE ALREADY HAVE AN EXISTING CENTER, UH, THAT, THAT WILL BE ABLE TO UTILIZE TECHNOLOGY SUCH AS IN, UH, INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS. SO WE HAVE A PLACE FOR IT, WE JUST NEED TO MAKE SURE WE GET ALL THAT CONNECTIVITY, THE TECHNOLOGY BEHIND IT, ALL THE INFRASTRUCTURE BEHIND IT SO THAT WE CAN GO AHEAD AND OPERATE THAT, UH, ACCORDING TO ITS CAPABILITIES.
AND WHAT I'D LIKE TO SHOW HERE IS THAT WITH THE PARTNERSHIPS THAT I MENTIONED, THE TOTAL AMOUNT BEING 178 MILLION JUST ABOUT, WE ARE ASSISTING MULTIPLE CITIES THROUGHOUT THE COUNTY.
WE HAVE PARTNERSHIPS THAT WE ARE DOING WITH TXDOT, UH, WITH MUDS AND SPECIAL DISTRICTS.
AND JUST LOCAL TO AROUND THIS PART OF THE OF TOWN, WE HAVE 3.9 MILLION THAT WE'RE DEDICATING THE CITY OF SHORE.
AND THEN WE HAVE 3.9 MILLION THAT WE'RE DEDICATING TO KATIE IN PARTNERSHIPS.
NOW, AS FAR AS TIMELINES, 'CAUSE I WANNA GO BACK TO THIS FOR JUST A MOMENT, JUST SO EVERYONE'S KIND OF AWARE OF WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO DO.
UM, WE, WE TYPICALLY START WITH YEAR ONE.
BY THE END OF YEAR ONE, WE WOULD LIKE TO HAVE, UH, EXECUTE ALL OF OUR CONSULTANT AGREEMENTS AND COMPLETED WHAT WE CALL THE P E R, WHICH IS PRELIMINARY ENGINEERING REPORT, AND THEN ALSO COMPLETED THE RIGHT OF WAY MAPS.
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TWO, OUR HOPE IS TO HAVE THE ENGINEERING DESIGN COMPLETE THE P A C AND E PACKAGE, DO ANY KINDS OF WORK WITH STAKEHOLDERS SUCH AS ENVIRONMENTAL PERMITTING, AND THEN ALSO STARTING TO DO THINGS WITH UTILITIES.ONCE WE GET TO YEAR THE END OF YEAR THREE, OUR HOPE IS THAT THE RIGHT OF WAY ACQUISITION AND THE CLEARING CAN BE COMPLETED AT THAT TIME.
SO THIS ENCOMPASSES THE D R U, THE DROOP PROJECTS THAT WE WOULD HAVE.
AND THEN MOVING ON TO THE END OF YEAR FOUR, WE WOULD LIKE TO RELOCATE UTILITIES AND BEGIN CONSTRUCTION ON PROJECTS.
AND THEN BY THE END OF YEAR FIVE, OUR HOPE IS THAT WE CAN COMPLETE CONSTRUCTION ON PROJECTS.
NOW, THIS IS A GENERAL TIMELINE.
WE HAVE FOUND THAT RIGHT AWAY ACQUISITION BY ITSELF SOMETIMES CAN TAKE TWO UP TO THREE YEARS.
UH, AND THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE ARE TRYING TO MAKE SURE TO EXPEDITE AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE.
SO PROJECTS FOR MOST, FOR THE MOST PART, WILL END UP IN THIS FIVE YEAR WINDOW.
I WANNA MAKE SURE TO REMIND THOSE WHO MAY BE LISTENING ONLINE ABOUT VOTING.
UH, THE LAST DAY TO REGISTER, REGISTER TO VOTE IS OCTOBER THE 10TH.
AND THEN EARLY VOTING WILL BE FROM OCTOBER THE 23RD TO NOVEMBER THE THIRD, AND THE ELECTION DAY WILL BE NOVEMBER THE SEVENTH.
AND THEN LASTLY, BECAUSE WE'VE BEEN GIVING OUT INFORMATION TO THE PUBLIC, WE'VE CENTRALIZED WHERE WE PUT THAT INFORMATION ONLINE AT LEAST.
AND SO I JUST WANNA POINT FOLKS TO THIS PARTICULAR WEBSITE WHERE YOU CAN FIND ALL THE DE THE DETAILED LIST CONTAINING ALL OF THE PROJECTS, UH, AS WELL AS THE AMOUNTS AND JUST SOME ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ABOUT THE ELECTION ITSELF AND IMPACTS TO TAX RATE.
SO WITH THAT IN MIND, I DO WANT TO SAY THANK YOU VERY MUCH TO THE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION FOR ALLOWING US TO VISIT WITH YOU ALL FOR SOME TIME.
AND AT THIS TIME, I'D LIKE TO PASS IT BACK OVER TO WHOEVER MIGHT BE NEXT OR WHATEVER'S NEXT ON THE AGENDA, AND I'LL BE AVAILABLE FOR A FEW MOMENTS.
DOES BOARD HAVE ANY QUESTIONS? NOTHING.
UM, SO YOU MENTIONED ONE OF YOUR SLIDES, UH, YOU SPOKE OF, UM, 20%, 25% INCREASE IN REAL ESTATE COSTS, 35% INCREASE IN CONSTRUCTION.
UM, IS THAT ESTIMATION, BUT THEN I NOTICED ON A LATER SLIDE YOU TALKED ABOUT RIGHT OF WAY ACQUISITION NOT ACTUALLY OCCURRING PROJECTED UNTIL 2026 MM-HMM.
SO IS THAT 25% TO BRING AN ECONOMIC INCREASES THAT 82 MILLION, IS THAT TO BRING US UP TO CURRENT LIKE TODAY? OR IS THAT TO BRING US UP TO WHAT YOU'RE PROJECTING IT TO BE IN 2026? SO IT'S, IT'S A MIX OF BOTH.
SO WE HAVE, FOR THOSE EXISTING PROJECTS, WE'VE ESTIMATED PRETTY MUCH RIGHT NOW WHAT WE THINK THE RIGHT OF WAY COSTS ARE GOING TO BE.
AND THEN FOR THE PROJECTS THAT ARE FOR FUTURE THAT ARE ON THE BOND PACKAGE, THOSE, THAT CORE PACKAGE MM-HMM.
SOME OF IT'S GONNA TRICKLE IN BEFORE THAT, AND SOME OF IT MIGHT TRICKLE IN RIGHT AFTER THAT.
IT'LL JUST DEPEND ON THE PROCESS.
AND THEN, UM, I KNOW THAT, UH, SOMETHING THAT WOULD BE VERY, UH, IMPORTANT FOR CHER IS UNDER A PEDESTRIAN SAFETY.
IS THERE ANY PLAN FOR BIKE LANES? WE GOT A LOT OF BICYCLISTS ON 10 93 AND 3 59.
THERE IS NOT ANY SPECIFICS ON WHERE THAT MONEY IS GONNA BE DE UH, DEDICATED, BUT THERE IS AVAILABILITY THAT FOR THOSE TO BECOME OPTIONS FOR YOU ALL.
SO I JUST WOULD ENCOURAGE YOU ALL TO EXPRESS THOSE SAME THOUGHTS TO THE ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT AND ALSO TO THE LOCAL PRECINCT OFFICE, AND THOSE CAN BE INCORPORATED INTO THE IMPROVEMENTS.
UM, THE ROAD CONSTRUCTION THAT LET YOU, LIKE WHAT YOU SHOW IS THAT JUST EXISTING ROADS OR THAT BUILDING NEW ROADS? SO WE HAVE A MIX OF BOTH.
THERE ARE SOME PLACES WHERE WE ARE REHABILITATING EXISTING ROADS AND THERE ARE MANY OTHER LOCATIONS WHERE WE'RE BUILDING NEW ROADS.
WE HAVE A PROJECT HERE IN SHORE, THE HARRIS STREET PROJECT.
I DON'T KNOW IF YOU'RE FAMILIAR OFF THE TOP OF YOUR HEAD WITH THAT OR NOT.
IT'S A MAJOR MAKEOVER OF OUR DOWNTOWN.
I DON'T BELIEVE THAT THAT WAS SELECTED AMONGST THE HOMICIDE.
CONVERS JUST SAY NO, BUT, UH,
SO I'M NOT TOO FAMILIAR WITH IT.
BUT, UH, BUT YEAH, THAT, THAT COULD BE SOMETHING THAT COMES TO PLAY LATER ON.
I ENCOURAGE YOU GUYS TO HAVE THOSE CONVERSATIONS.
THAT, THAT'S WHAT I WAS ASKING.
WAS THE EXISTING ROLES GOOD, BUT JUST PERTAIN TO THE EXISTING ROAD OR NEW ROAD THAT THEY'RE TALKING ABOUT BUILDING FOR? UH, FOR WHICH PARTICULAR THING? ALL THE FUNDING.
JUST LIKE HE, LIKE HE WAS TALKING ABOUT THE HARRIS MM-HMM.
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I SEE.SO THERE IS THE, THE ONE PROJECT THAT CITY OF FULCHER, UH, NOT CITY OF CHER KATIE, HAS ON THERE.
AND THEN THERE'S ANOTHER TWO I THINK THAT ARE FOR CITY OF SHORE.
SO I DON'T KNOW ALL THE DETAILS OF THOSE BECAUSE ON THE PARTNER PROJECTS, A LOT OF TIMES WE RELY ON THE CITIES TO GIVE US THE INFORMATION.
AND THEN, SO IT'S JUST INITIAL SCOPING INFORMATION.
AND THEN BASED AFTER THE BOND THAT PASSES, WE DO AN INTERLOCAL AGREEMENT, WE DETERMINE WHO'S GONNA HAVE WHICHEVER COST SHARE.
AND THEN USUALLY THE CITIES WILL DO THE DESIGN OF THAT PROJECT AND THE COUNTY WILL COME IN TO PROVIDE 50% OF THE CONSTRUCTION COSTS FOR THAT PROJECT.
SO WE USUALLY DEPEND ON THE CITIES TO PROVIDE THAT DESIGN PART.
AND THAT WAS KIND OF THE PROCESS THAT Y'ALL WENT THROUGH PREVIOUSLY ABOUT FIVE YEARS AGO WITH THE TEXAS HERITAGE PARKWAY.
WE'RE CURRENTLY IN THAT INTERLOCAL AGREEMENT WITH THE COUNTY, AND EACH E D C IS PAYING ONE THIRD OF THE, THAT TOTAL COST.
AND THE CITY IS PAYING, UM, THE, THE THIRD, THIRD
SO IT ALL JUST KIND OF WORKS OUT AS IT AS IT DEVELOPS.
AND, UM, I NOTICED THAT THE STATEMENT HERE SAYS THAT IT CAN BE IMPLEMENTED WITH NO INCREASE TO THE COUNTY TAX RATE.
WOULD YOU LIKE TO EXPOUND UPON THAT? I WOULD LOVE TO EXPOUND UPON THAT, EXCEPT I WORK IN THE ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT INSTEAD.
AND, UH, AND I WOULD, I WOULD BE WISE ENOUGH TO TELL YOU THAT, UM, I TRUST THOSE WORDS FROM OUR COUNTY AUDITOR, UH, ED.
AND SO THAT'S WHAT HE HAS BEEN OUT IN THE PUBLIC, LETTING PEOPLE UNDER, LETTING PEOPLE KNOW IS THAT THERE'S NOT GONNA BE A INCREASE TO THE TAX RATE.
UH, BUT HE HAS TO SAY THAT THAT DOESN'T MEAN THAT YOUR PROPERTY VALUES ARE GONNA GO DOWN.
SO WITH INCREASING PROPERTY VALUES, WE KNOW THAT ULTIMATELY THE TAX BILL DOES GO UP.
IF THERE'S NO OTHER DISCUSSION OR QUESTIONS, CAN I GET, UH, A MOTION? I MOVE THAT THE A BOARD, UH, PROVIDE A LETTER OF SUPPORT FOR THE MOBILITY BOND? I SECOND.
OPPOSED? WITHOUT FURTHER DISCUSSION OR OPPOSITION? THE MOTION PASSES.
[4. Presentation on the Fulshear gateway signs project. ]
MOVE ON TO AGENDA ITEM NUMBER FOUR, PRESENTATION OF THE SHORE GATEWAY SCIENCE PROJECT.ALRIGHT, AT THIS TIME I WOULD LIKE TO, UH, INTRODUCE, UH, STEPHANIE LEE.
SHE IS THE EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT OF K G A DEFOREST, AND SHE IS HERE TO SHARE WITH YOU THE DETAILS ABOUT, UH, PROPOSED MONUMENT SIGNAGE.
UM, THIS IS A PROJECT THAT THE BOARDS HAD, UM, DISCUSSED IN FISCAL YEAR 23, UH, PREVIOUSLY.
SO, UH, IT WAS PLACED ON OUR BUDGET FOR THIS YEAR AND BUDGETED FOR, UH, TONIGHT.
I JUST WOULD LIKE FOR HER TO SHARE THE DETAILS SO THAT YOU CAN GET FAMILIAR.
UM, THERE'S REALLY NO DECISION TO BE MADE JUST, UM, FOR YOU TO KIND OF, UH, GET YOUR MIND AROUND IT AND THEN WE CAN DECIDE HOW WE WANT TO MOVE FORWARD.
IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS NOW, YOU CAN ASK HER AT THE CONCLUSION OF YOUR PRESENTATION, OR I'LL ALWAYS SEND THEM TO MYSELF OR HAYDEN.
THANK YOU FOR THE INTRODUCTION.
I'M NOT USED TO GETTING MICRO INTRODUCTIONS.
I'M NOT USED TO MICROPHONES EITHER.
UM, AND SO LET ME SEE HOW THIS ONE'S GONNA WORK.
SO, AS SHE SAID, WE HAD STARTED THIS STUDY A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO AND THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION CAME TO US AND WAS LIKE, HEY, WE WANNA DO SOME SIGNAGE ALONG TEXAS HERITAGE PARKWAY SO PEOPLE KNOW WHEN THEY GET IN THE CITY OF SHORE, THERE'S, YOU KNOW, WE'VE GOT ALL THE DEVELOPMENT SIGNS, WE'VE GOT EVERYTHING ELSE GOING ON, BUT NOBODY REALLY KNOWS.
OR WHEN THEY GET INTO COMING TOWARDS SHORE, I SHOULDN'T SAY THE CITY OF SHORE, 'CAUSE THAT WAS THE OTHER TOPIC OF A LOT OF CONVERSATIONS.
DO WE, YOU KNOW, PROPOSE A SIGN AT THE CITY LIMITS? DO WE PROPOSE IT AT THE E T J? LIKE WHERE AT FOCUSING ON TEXAS HERITAGE PARKWAY, WHERE, WHERE'S THAT MOST PROMINENT POINT? UM, AND JUST TO KIND OF GIVE YOU A BROAD OVERVIEW, WE KNOW ON TEXAS HERITAGE PARKWAY, THE DEVELOPERS HAVE FIRST RIGHTS FOR THE MEDIANS, THE ROUNDABOUTS INSIDE THE ROUNDABOUTS.
UM, THEN IT CAME UP, WELL, WHAT HAPPENS IF THE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION WANTS TO DO A SI A SIGN ON THE SIDE OR IN THIS LIKE, BIO SWELL AREA? WELL, THEN THEY WERE LIKE, WELL, WE, THE DESIGN, YOU KNOW, GUIDELINES DIDN'T ACCOUNT FOR THAT.
SO THEN IT WAS GOING BACK TO THE DRAWING BOARDS TO FIGURE OUT, OKAY, WELL IF WE WERE TO DO THIS, WHAT WOULD TEXAS HERITAGE PARKWAY, UM, ALLOW IN THEIR DESIGN GUIDELINES? SO KIND OF WORKING THROUGH ALL THAT, UM,
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WE ENDED UP, WE, WE DID, AND I'LL SHOW YOU IN A SECOND, WE DID COME UP WITH A DESIGN THAT WE PRESENTED TO THE BOARD AND WE KIND OF WENT THROUGH SCHEMATICS AND EVERYTHING AND ENDED UP WITH, UM, SOMETHING THAT WORKED WELL WITH THE CURRENT DESIGN THAT Y'ALL HAD GOING ON AS WELL IN THE DOWNTOWN AREA.AND WE ALSO LOOKED AT, LET ME GO TO THIS NEXT ONE.
YOU CAN JUST, THESE ARE ALL OLD SLIDES YOU CAN DISREGARD.
SO ON THIS SLIDE YOU CAN SEE, LET ME SEE WHEN IT GETS THERE.
UM, I, YOU CAN SEE IT'S GOT ON, IT'S GOT A COUPLE LITTLE VIEWPOINTS.
SO THIS IS WHERE I WAS SAYING WE WERE LOOKING AT, YOU KNOW, IS IT ON THE RIGHT HAND SIDE OF THE ROUNDABOUT? IS IT ON, YOU KNOW, BEFORE YOU GET TO THE ROUNDABOUT WHEN YOU'RE TRAVELING THOSE ROUNDABOUTS, WE STARTED FOCUSING MORE IN FRONT OF THE ROUNDABOUT.
SO AS YOU'RE APPROACHING IT, BECAUSE WE KIND OF FIGURE, HEY, PEOPLE NEED TO BE PAYING ATTENTION TO WHAT'S GOING ON, AND WE DON'T WANT PEOPLE LOOKING OFF TO THE RIGHT HAND SIDE AND PAYING ATTENTION TO THE SIGN.
AND IT'S NOT IN THE GOOD VIEW CORRIDOR.
SO KIND OF THROUGHOUT THE STUDY, WE DECIDED IN THE CENTER, IN THE BIO SWELL AREA WOULD BE THE BEST PLACEMENT FOR IT, WHICH IS SHOWN ON THIS SLIDE HERE.
AND THEN THE OTHER GOOD THING WITH THAT IS YOU COULD DO EITHER A TWO-SIDED SIGN.
SO YOU COULD GET NORTHBOUND AND SOUTHBOUND.
YOU COULD HAVE A THANK YOU FOR VISITING OR, YOU KNOW, WHATEVER KIND OF VERBIAGE THAT YOU WANTED TO ADD ON IT, OR JUST SAY, YOU KNOW, NOW LEAVING CITY OF FULL SHORE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION, SORRY,
AND, UM, BUT YOU KNOW, WE DO HAVE THESE OPTIONS.
NOW, WHICH ROUNDABOUT IS THIS AT? UM, WE NEVER REALLY NARROWED.
I MEAN, WE NARROWED IT DOWN OF WHAT WE KIND OF THOUGHT, BUT THAT DECISION WAS NEVER FORMALLY MADE.
AND UM, I KNOW SOME OTHER STUFF IN THE LAST YEAR OR SO HAS HAPPENED LIKE DR.
HORTON, THEY'RE, UM, FINALIZING THEIR ROUNDABOUT SIGN RIGHT NOW AND SOME OTHER THINGS ARE IN MOTION, UM, THAT OUR OFFICE IS WORKING ON AS WELL.
SO I THINK IT'S A GOOD TIME FOR THE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION TO CONTINUE WITH THIS SIGN.
NOW SOME OF THOSE OTHER MOVING PARTS ARE FINALLY KIND OF GETTING ESTABLISHED.
UM, I'M GONNA GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE AND KINDA GET TO THE FUN PART.
SO THIS SLIDE, IT SHOWS WE HAD A BUNCH OF DIFFERENT CONCEPTS.
I DON'T KNOW IF WE HAD, I DON'T KNOW, FIVE, 10 DIFFERENT CONCEPTS AND WE KIND OF, WE LANDED ON THIS IDEA, UM, JUST STILL HAVING THE NEUTRAL TONES, YOU KNOW, NOTHING, YOU KNOW, HAVE A LITTLE BIT OF A MODERN CLEAN EDGE TO IT, BUT NOTHING OVERLY MODERN, KIND OF, YOU KNOW, WE KINDA DO UNDER THE MODERN TRADITIONAL, BUT WE WANT SOMETHING TIMELESS.
UM, SO THIS IS THE CONCEPT THAT WE KIND OF, AT THE END OF THE STUDY FROM LAST TIME, I HAD WORKED WITH THE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION LANDED ON, NOT TO SAY THIS IS THE FINAL DESIGN BY ANY MEANS.
ONE OF THE CONVERSATIONS WAS ON THIS NEXT ONE, IT'S THE SAME EXACT SIGN, BUT WITH THE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION, LIKE TO ADD, YOU KNOW, A WARM WELCOME YOU CAN, IT'S HARD TO SEE ON THIS GRAPHIC, BUT ON THE BOTTOM RIGHT HAND CORNER WHERE THE STONE IS, IT SAYS A WARM WELCOME OR WELCOME, YOU KNOW, TO JUST DO, WE WANNA ADD A LITTLE TAGLINE ON THERE.
YOU KNOW, WE ALSO, WE DO HAVE, YOU KNOW, THE, UM, THE OLD 300, YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU'RE ESTABLISHED.
SO TRYING TO KEEP THIS SIGN SIMPLE 'CAUSE WE DON'T WANNA PUT A LOT OF VERBIAGE ON IT.
UM, BUT JUST WANTING TO GIVE Y'ALL A PRESENCE OF, HEY, YES, WE'RE ON TEXAS HERITAGE PARKWAY WITH EVERY OTHER DEVELOPMENT, BUT WE'RE ALSO GETTING CLOSER TO SHORE.
SO THAT HOPEFULLY WRAPS IT UP IN A NUTSHELL.
DO YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS? WE'RE EXCITED TO SEE IT HAPPEN.
WELL, WE ARE HERE WHEN Y'ALL ARE READY, SO HOPEFULLY KEEP GOING.
[5. Presentation and discussion on the status of the Harris Street project. ]
OKAY, ITEM AGENDA NUMBER FIVE, PRESENTATION AND DISCUSSION OF HARE STREET PROJECT.I'D LIKE TO, UM, CALL OUR, UH, CITY ENGINEER FORWARD, CLIFF.
UM, AS HIS UPDATE RELATES MOSTLY TO THE OPTIONS THAT THE ENGINEERING FIRM CAME BACK WITH AT OUR LAST MEETING.
UM, WE MOST, WELL MEMBERS HAD REQUESTED AN UPDATE AND THE DETAILS SURROUNDING THAT, UM, THE COST, ALL OF THAT.
AND SO CLIFF IS HERE TO PRESENT THE TWO OPTIONS TO YOU ALL.
UM, SO THIS EVENING WHAT I'D LIKE TO DO IS I'D KIND OF LIKE TO WALK THROUGH TWO OPTIONS WITH Y'ALL.
UM, THE, THE GROUP SETTLED ON OPTION ONE AND FOUR.
UH, I KNOW THAT LAST MONTH, UH, TIFFANY WAS HERE AND SHE BRIEFLY TALKED ABOUT THE PROJECTS AND THE CURRENT BUDGET.
AND SO I'D LIKE TO PRESENT TWO OPTIONS TO Y'ALL THAT WE'VE, WE'VE KIND OF SETTLED ON, GIVE Y'ALL AN IDEA OF WHAT THE CURRENT COST ESTIMATES ARE, AND THEN AT THE END OF THIS, LIKE TO KIND OF GET Y'ALL'S
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OPINION ON WHICH OPTION YOU LIKE, BECAUSE WITH THE CONSENSUS OF THE TWO BOARDS, WE'D LIKE TO MOVE FORWARD.WE'RE FINALIZING THE DESIGN AND GETTING THIS PROJECT MOVING.
SO I'M GOING TO ZOOM IN ON THIS, HOPEFULLY KIND OF WALK THROUGH SOME OF THIS A LITTLE BIT.
SO JUST TO GIVE Y'ALL SOME, SOME, A BRIEF IDEA OF THE YELLOW, GRAY OUT AREAS ARE OUR SIDEWALKS.
THE RED LINE KIND OF INDICATES THE NEW ROADWAY ALIGNMENT.
AND THEN YOU'LL ALSO SEE SOME, SOME GREEN LINE HERE, GREEN LINES HERE THAT REPRESENT DRAINAGE STRUCTURES.
SO WHAT, WHAT WE'LL BE LOOKING AT ON THE OPTION ONE THAT WE'RE PRESENTING HERE IS, UH, 11 FOOT LANES, TWO 11 FOOT LANES WITH, UM, ON STREET PARKING.
YOU WILL ACTUALLY SEE SOME PARKING LOCATED ON THE, THE RIGHT HAND SIDE HERE IN THE THREE, THREE SPACES HERE ON THE, THE LEFT HAND SIDE OF THE ROAD.
AND AS YOU GO UP INTO THE NEXT BLOCK, YOU'LL SEE THAT THEY'VE BEEN SWITCHED TO, SORRY, MY MIC'S OFF, UH, TO THE, THE OPPOSITE SIDE OF THE ROAD.
SO ROUGHLY ABOUT, UH, SIX PARKING SPOTS PER BLOCK.
UM, 10 SIDE 10 FOOT SIDEWALKS ON EITHER SIDE OF THE ROAD.
UH, CROSSWALKS WILL BE STAMPED CONCRETE TO GIVE IT A LITTLE BIT OF A MORE, UM, DESIGNATED LOCATION AND ALSO A LITTLE CURB APPEAL IN THOSE LOCATIONS.
BUT THAT DESIGN WILL KIND OF WORK ITS WAY THROUGH THE PROJECT.
LET ME SLIDE THIS OVER 'CAUSE IT'S GETTING OUT OF THE CENTER OF THE SCREEN SO YOU CAN KIND OF SEE IT'S JUST PRETTY, PRETTY STANDARD ALL THE WAY UP THROUGH.
AND THEN WHEN WE GET UP TO FIFTH STREET, WE WILL ENTER INTO A DETENTION POND AREA.
SO THE DETENTION POND AREA IS NECESSARY, UH, IN AN INTERIM STATE BECAUSE THE, THE ROADWAY WILL INCREASE RUNOFF AND SO THE CITY HAS TO ACCOUNT FOR THAT RUNOFF.
THIS, UM, THIS RUNOFF WILL EVENTUALLY BE TAKEN OVER TO THE WALL STREET PROJECT AND INTO THE DETENTION OVER THERE.
WE ACTUALLY HAD A MEETING WITH THOSE FOLKS THIS MORNING, AND WE'RE TRYING TO WORK A WAY THAT WE CAN HAVE THEIR FILL MATERIAL THAT THEY'RE PULLING OUTTA THEIR POND PUT INTO THIS POND TO FILL IT IN AS WE SWITCH THE DRAINAGE FROM THIS PROJECT TO THAT PROJECT.
OR POTENTIALLY IF WE'D LIKE, WE COULD LEAVE SOME SORT OF POND IN THIS AREA.
YOU'LL NOTICE THAT WE'VE CARRIED A SIDEWALK UP ALONG THE SIDE OF THE POND, AND HOPEFULLY THIS WILL ALLOW US TO CONNECT INTO SOME COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENT THAT'LL, THAT'LL HAPPEN UP ON THE GEORGE LANE PROPERTY IN THAT VICINITY RIGHT THERE.
AND THEN OPTION FOUR, LET ME, LET ME DO THIS REAL QUICK.
SO OPTION ONE, CURRENTLY THE COST ESTIMATE IS $2.6 MILLION.
SO THAT WILL FALL IN LINE WITH THE, THE BUDGET THAT, UM, THE E D C BOARDS HAVE COMMITTED.
SO THERE WOULD BE NO ADDITIONAL DOLLARS UNDER THIS CURRENT COST ESTIMATE.
UH, ONE THING THAT, LET ME GO BACK AND SEE, I DON'T THINK IT NOTED IT.
THERE'S A LOT OF STREET TREES AND THINGS OF THAT NATURE THAT WILL ALSO BE IN OPTION ONE.
THEY'RE NOT REALLY SHOWN, BUT WE DO HAVE PLANTER AREAS AND ALL THAT ALONG THE ROADWAY THAT WILL ALSO HAVE STREET TREES.
SO WITH OPTION FOUR, VERY SIMILAR, WE'VE GOT 11 FOOT LANES, WE'VE GOT ON STREET PARKING, WE'VE GOT 10 FOOT SIDEWALKS AS YOU GO UP THROUGH HERE.
BUT THE MAJOR DIFFERENCE HERE IS AS YOU GET TO SECOND STREET, WE HAVE BASICALLY TAKEN A HALF BLOCK ON EITHER SIDE OF THAT AND WE'VE CUT OFF THROUGH TRAFFIC AND WE'VE MADE A PEDESTRIAN PROMENADE AREA.
SO THIS WILL BE A KIND OF A MAIN FOCUS OF DOWNTOWN.
UH, IT'LL ALLOW FOR DOWNTOWN VIN YOU KNOW, EVENTS LIKE, UM, UH, FARMER'S MARKETS, THINGS OF THAT NATURE.
BUT ALSO OTHER, OTHER TYPE OF EVENTS.
UH, CROSS STREETS WILL STILL CONTINUE TO HAVE ACCESS, BUT THEY WILL BE AT A SLOWER RATE, LOWER RATE OF SPEED.
UM, I DON'T KNOW IF, WHAT, WHAT IS THE, THE NAME OF THE TOWN? I'M DRAWING A BLANK UP NORTH TEXAS.
THAT, THAT WE KIND OF, OH, BURSON BURSON.
IF YOU'RE FAMILIAR WITH THE BURSON PROMENADE, IT'S GONNA BE VERY SIMILAR IN FEEL, UH, ALL STAMPED CONCRETE IN THE PROMENADE.
YOU'LL SEE ON THE SOUTH END WE HAVE KIND OF A WALKWAY TO GET YOU BACK DOWN TO THE NEXT CROSS STREET.
AND THEN ON THE NORTH END ALSO HAVE A WALKWAY TO GET YOU BACK UP TO THE NEXT STREET.
AND THEN OF COURSE AS YOU GO NORTH FROM THERE YOU WILL
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ACTUALLY HAVE A, A ROADWAY THAT YOU CAN TRAVEL.ALSO A LOT OF STREET TREES, SIDEWALKS, SAME SITUATION AS YOU GO UP AGAIN, STAMPED CROSSWALKS, THOSE TYPES OF THINGS.
AND THEN AS YOU GET INTO THE NORTH END, AGAIN, WE WOULD HAVE THE INTERIM DETENTION THAT WOULD EITHER STAY OR GO DEPENDING ON THE PREFERENCE.
UM, BUT IT COULD BE BACKFILLED AND USED FOR OTHER ITEMS. UM, OR THE DETENTION COULD BE SHRUNK IN EITHER CASE TO GIVE US A LITTLE BIT MORE A PARK ISH FEEL.
BUT AGAIN, THAT DETENTION WILL BE NOT NECESSARY ONCE THE WALL STREET PROJECT UM, HAPPENS.
SO BOTH, BOTH OF THESE OPTIONS, WE'VE KIND OF SETTLED ON ONE OF THESE OPTIONS.
MORE IS ONE IS MORE PRESERVES KIND OF THE, THE NATURAL STREET FLOW WITH THE TRAFFIC ALL THE WAY THROUGH.
THE OTHER ONE IS KIND OF A LITTLE BIT OUT OF THE BOX.
IT KIND OF GIVES US KIND OF A FOCAL POINT IN DOWNTOWN WITH A PEDESTRIAN ONLY AREA.
UM, WE WILL, WE, WE KIND OF HOPE THAT BOTH OPTIONS WILL SPUR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT DOWNTOWN AND OF COURSE THE ALL COMMERCIAL DOWNSTAIRS ON ANY BUILDINGS THAT ARE GOING ALONG THE STRETCH AND WITH POTENTIAL RESIDENTIAL ON THE UPPER FLOORS.
BUT NO RESIDENTIAL ON THE GROUND FLOOR.
BOTH, BOTH ARE IN LINE WITH THE LIVABLE CENTER'S CONCEPTS THAT WERE HAVE BEEN APPROVED BY COUNSEL.
UM, YEAH, SO IF Y'ALL HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, I'D BE HAPPY TO ANSWER THOSE.
YOU DIDN'T GIVE US A NUMBER FOR CALL, SEAN? OH, I'M SORRY.
I THINK IT'S IN THE PACKET, BUT IT'S 2.525.
WHICH MEANS THEY BOTH FALL UNDER THE, CORRECT.
UH, ONE THING THAT THAT MAY ALLOW IS POTENTIAL MORE, UM, STREET ENHANCEMENTS, STREET ESCAPE ENHANCEMENTS, BENCHES, LIGHT, ESPECIALLY LIGHT POLES, THOSE TYPES OF THINGS.
ANYTHING THAT WE FEEL LIKE WE COULD GET INTO THE BUDGET.
SPEAKING OF BENCHES, DID I READ THIS CORRECTLY? WE'RE PAYING $1,600 PER BENCH IN THIS PROJECT AND $1,200 FOR A TRASHCAN.
WE ACTUALLY PULLED ALL OF THAT OUT OF THE COST ESTIMATE AND WE ARE GOING TO, UH, PURCHASE THAT INTERNALLY THROUGH OUR CO-OP.
SO WE'LL GET A MUCH LOWER PRICE ON THOSE ITEMS. YOU JUST MADE ME VERY HAPPY.
SURPRISINGLY, THOSE, THOSE ITEMS ARE REALLY PRICEY.
WELL, I'M, I'M AVAILABLE FOR QUESTIONS IF Y'ALL HAVE ANY.
AND AGAIN, AT THE END, I'D REALLY LIKE TO GET Y'ALL'S OPINION ON WHICH Y OPTION Y'ALL PREFER SO THAT WE CAN, SO, SO WE JUST, YOU JUST WANT OUR FEEDBACK.
WE'RE NOT DOING ANY MOTION, NO MOTIONS.
I'D LIKE THE SECOND OPTION BEST.
SO YOU SAID THAT, THAT THERE'S STREET TREES ON ONE, YOU JUST, THEY'RE JUST NOT, THEY'RE NOT PICTURED, ARE THEY, IS IT ESSENTIALLY THE SAME IN TERMS OF FOLIAGE, THE WHOLE LENGTH FOR A AND B OR ONE AND TWO OR I GUESS, SORRY, I'M USING DIFFERENT NUMBERS.
SO I MEAN IN, IN THE GENERAL DRIVABLE AREA, YES, THOSE STREET TREES SHOULD BE RELATIVELY SIMILAR.
THERE MAY BE ADDITIONAL SHADE TREES AND THAT TYPE OF STUFF.
IN THE PROMENADE AREA, YOU MIGHT GET A LITTLE BIT MORE DECORATIVE TREES OR GREATER NUMBER, UM, IN THOSE AREAS JUST BECAUSE IT IS A MORE PEDESTRIAN, PEDESTRIAN AREA.
BUT IN THE, IN THE ROADWAY AREAS, YES, YOU SHOULD BE PRETTY SIMILAR.
AND THEN A DIFFERENT QUESTION.
WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR FENCING BEHIND THE COMMERCIAL AT THE FAR NORTH END? BECAUSE GENERALLY BEHIND COMMERCIAL BUILDINGS IS THEIR, THE THING YOU WANNA LOOK AT THE LEAST.
SO LIKE YOU HAVE THE SIDEWALK ON THE ONE SIDE OF THE DETENTION POND, BUT WHAT YOU'RE GONNA BE LOOKING AT ON THE OTHER SIDE IS THEIR DUMPSTERS AND ALL THE STUFF THAT THEY DON'T WANT YOU TO SEE IN FRONT OF THE BUILDING.
UH, WE REALLY HADN'T REALLY DISCUSSED THAT, BUT I MEAN IF THAT IS, UH, AN AREA OF CONCERN, THEN WE CAN DEFINITELY LOOK AT IT.
UH, AGAIN, EVENTUALLY THIS, THIS, HOPEFULLY THE DETENTION POND WILL EITHER STAY AND BE MORE DECORATIVE OR BE ELIMINATED COMPLETELY AND ALLOW FOR MAYBE MORE PARK SPACE OR, OR SOME OTHER USE.
AND AT THAT TIME MAYBE WE CAN, YOU KNOW, DO A HEAD SHIELD OR TREE SHIELD OR, YOU KNOW, SOMETHING MAYBE NOT AS UNATTRACTIVE AS A, AS A FENCE.
SO WE HAVE SOME OPTIONS THERE.
I, I LIKE THE SECOND OPTION FOUR NUMBER AS WELL.
UM, WHICH, WHICH IS NUMBER FOUR, THE ONE WITH THE, IS THIS NUMBER FOUR? YES SIR.
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HAS THE PEDESTRIAN AIR ONLY AREA.WELL, EXCUSE ME ON MY QUESTION.
IS IT IS, IT IS GOING TO BE TREES ON BOTH OF THEM, RIGHT? CORRECT.
WHEN YOU DIG THAT DETEN, HOW DEEP DO THOSE DETENTION POND BE? SO I, I THINK THIS DETENTION POND WAS, IT, IT'S NOT VERY DEEP.
WE'VE GOTTA HOLD A FOUR TO ONE SLOPE ON THE SIDES.
AND SO WE'VE, WE'VE ONLY GOT ABOUT, UM, I THINK 50 FOOT WIDE AND THERE'S AN EIGHT TO 10 FOOT SIDEWALK THERE.
SO YOU'RE, YOU'RE LEFT WITH ABOUT 40 FEET.
SO AT THE MOST IT COULD BE 10 FOOT DEEP AND I BELIEVE WE HAVE AN EIGHT FOOT BOTTOM.
SO IT'S, IT'S RELATIVELY, IT'S GONNA BE RELATIVELY SHALLOW.
YOU KNOW, LIKE WHEN YOU HAVE EVENTS AND YOU HAVE WATER LIKE THAT, THE SAFETY OF CHILDREN, BUT YOU DON'T DOING RIGHT DOWNTOWN, YOU KNOW, BECAUSE YOU WOULDN'T HAVE A TENDENCY TO TO THAT IT WOULD'VE BE ANYTHING AROUND IT OR TO JUST BE OPEN.
WE HAVEN'T, AGAIN, WE HAVEN'T REALLY DISCUSSED THE, THE FINER DETAILS OF THAT, BUT WE CAN DEFINITELY, IF SAFETY IS AN ISSUE, WE CAN LOOK AT POTENTIALLY FENCING THAT OFF SOMEHOW OR PROTECTIVE BARRIER.
I WILL SAY THAT IN MOST OF YOUR MASTER PLAN COMMUNITIES, THEY HAVE WALKWAYS AND SIDEWALKS NEXT TO, NEXT TO PONDS.
UH, THERE IS USUALLY A LITTLE BIT OF GREEN SPACE BEFORE THE PONDS, SO THIS IS KIND OF VERY CLOSE.
SO THAT MAY BE SOMETHING THAT WE DO NEED TO DO, NEED TO CONSIDER.
NUMBER FOUR, IT'S ALSO TWO BLOCKS NORTH OF THAT YEAH.
AREA WHERE PEOPLE WILL CONGREGATE, SO.
UM, THE, YOU SAID THERE'S ABOUT SIX PARKING SPACES PER BLOCK.
IS THAT IN LINE WITH THE INITIAL HARRIS STREET CONCEPT? THAT JUST DOESN'T SEEM LIKE VERY MUCH PARKING.
I KNOW THERE'S BEEN TALK ABOUT OTHER PARKING FACILITIES, BUT THAT, THAT, THAT SEEMS VERY LIMITED.
UM, SO I, I DON'T THINK IT'S OUT OF THE QUESTION OF WHAT WE HAD CONSIDERED IN THE PAST.
SO THAT'S, THAT'S, THAT'S ABOUT IN LINE, IT'S ABOUT RIGHT.
UM, JUST 'CAUSE I'M COMING IN A LITTLE BIT ON THE TAIL END.
AND THEN, UM, SO ON OPTION FOUR, THE PROMENADE IS SORT OF HALF OF A BLOCK AND THEN HALF OF A BLOCK.
SO ARE THERE PARKING SPACES YOU WILL LOSE THOSE PARKING SPOTS IN THAT AREA? IT WILL BE, NO, NO VEHICLE TRAFFIC.
SO THAT FEELS, I KNOW THERE'S NOT A LOT OF PARKING AND WE, WE ARE TRYING TO DECREASE THAT, BUT THAT'S, THAT'S REMOVING 12 OR CAN I DO MATH? YEAH, 12 SPACES
UM, AND WHEN THERE'S REALLY ONLY 24 32 SPOTS TOTAL, LIKE THAT'S, THAT'S A PRETTY DECENT PERCENTAGE OF SPOTS WE'D BE LOSING.
UM, AND THEN MY OTHER, SO WHILE I LIKE THE IDEA OF SORT OF IT NOT BEING A FULL BLOCK, TAKING UP, YOU KNOW, TWO HALVES, UM, I GUESS IS THERE CONCERN ABOUT THAT THROUGH STREET EITHER FROM, TO THE POINT OF CHILDREN, CHILDREN RUNNING ACROSS THAT STREET IF THERE IS AN EVENT, I WOULD IMAGINE THAT IF THERE'S TRULY AN EVENT THAT HAS A LARGE AMOUNT OF PEOPLE THAT WOULD PROBABLY END UP BLOCKING THAT SECTION OFF ANYWAYS, WHICH THEN THAT IS AN OPTION HURTS THOROUGHFARE.
SO I MEAN, DOES IT MAKE MORE SENSE TO JUST PUT IT ON A BLOCK AND NOT HAVE IT BE BECAUSE WE'RE REALLY IMPACTING TWO FULL BLOCKS WITH IT THIS WAY? UM, I DEFINITELY HEAR YOUR CONCERN.
PARKING IS AN ISSUE, BUT I THINK IF YOU'RE LOOKING AT THE BIG PICTURE AND ADDITIONAL SIX SPOTS WOULDN'T SOLVE THE PARKING ISSUE AND, BUT IT COULD MOTIVATE US TO MOVE FORWARD ON A PARKING STRUCTURE AND ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THAT, UM, THAT PEDESTRIAN GATHERING SPACE WOULD PROMPT, YOU KNOW, MORE OF A, A COMMUNITY TYPE OF GATHERING SPACE THAT WE COULD HOST THOSE EVENTS DOWNTOWN AND UM, THOSE SORTS OF THINGS.
YEAH, I DO LIKE THE, THE COMMUNITY GATHERING SPACE.
I THINK MY, MY SECOND QUESTION WAS REALLY MORE ABOUT IT CROSSING THAT THROUGH STREET AND JUST IMPACTING THE FLOW OF TRAFFIC DURING THOSE EVENTS.
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UM, PEOPLE THAT ARE USED TO BEING ABLE TO TURN THERE WOULDN'T BE ABLE TO TURN.UM, THAT COULD JUST POTENTIALLY CAUSE SOME FRUSTRATION.
YEAH, I MEAN I WOULD, I WOULD ASSUME IF IT'S A LARGE EVENT, WE WOULD PROBABLY, WE WOULD PROBABLY WARN THEM ON THE CROSS STREETS THAT THEY, IT'S NOT EITHER THROUGH OR DETOUR TRAFFIC TO ANOTHER YEAH.
UH, ANOTHER THING IS FOR THE SAFETY OF THE PEDESTRIANS, WE WILL WORK ON TRAFFIC CALMING IN THAT AREA TOO.
WHETHER IT BE A BASICALLY AN INTERSECTION SPEED TABLE WHERE YOU'VE, YOU KNOW, YOU'VE GOT AN ELEVATION CHANGE OR OTHER TYPE OF, YOU KNOW, TRAFFIC CONTROL, UM, TRAFFIC CALMING IN THIS AREA TO MAKE SURE THAT SPEEDS ARE LOW AS THEY CUT THROUGH THIS AREA THAT COULD BE POTENTIALLY, UH, PEDESTRIAN, MORE PEDESTRIAN FRIENDLY.
AND THEN I KNOW WE, YOU KNOW, WE'RE STILL LOOKING FOR, FOR BUSINESSES TO COME IN TO THIS AREA.
DO WE HAVE ANY CONCERN ABOUT BUSINESSES THAT DON'T WANT THEIR STOREFRONT TO BE IN THAT PEDESTRIAN AREA OR DO WE, DO WE FEEL LIKE THAT COULD POTENTIALLY IMPACT INTEREST OF BUSINESSES PARKING OR NOT EVEN NECESSARILY THE PARKING, BUT JUST AS I THINK OF LIKE IF THERE IS SOME SORT OF FAIR OR SOMETHING THERE.
YOU COULD HAVE A WHOLE BUNCH OF PEOPLE IN FRONT OF YOUR STORE, BUT THAT DOESN'T MEAN THAT PEOPLE ARE COMING INTO YOUR STORE.
I MEAN, IT MIGHT BE GREAT AND ALL THAT CROWD MIGHT COME INTO YOUR STORE AND IT, YOU KNOW, JUST DEPENDING ON WHAT YOUR STORE IS MM-HMM.
YES, I DEFINITELY UNDERSTAND YOUR CONCERN THERE.
UM, IN MY PREVIOUS ROLE WITH THE CITY OF HUNTSVILLE, WE WORKED WITH THE BUSINESS OWNERS TO TRY AND PREPARE FOR THAT AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE.
GIVING THEM, YOU KNOW, A YEAR ADVANCE OF THE CALENDAR OF EVENT SCHEDULE.
AND THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE COULD DO HERE, MAKE POSTERS THAT THEY CAN HANG IN THEIR STOREFRONTS AND THEN FIND CREATIVE WAYS TO BRING THOSE PEOPLE INDOORS IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THEM.
SO THAT'S HOW I WOULD APPROACH, UM, MAKING SURE THAT PEOPLE HAVE A REASON TO STEP INSIDE THAT, YOU KNOW, WE'RE TRYING TO EXPAND THEIR CUSTOMER BASE, MAKE MORE PEOPLE AWARE OF WHAT THEY HAVE TO OFFER INSTEAD OF MAKING IT DIFFICULT FOR ONE BUSINESS DAY, YOU KNOW, OUT OF THAT MONTH OR, OR WHAT HAVE YOU, WHATEVER THE FREQUENCY OF EVENTS IS.
BUT I THINK KNOWING THAT AHEAD OF TIME, HAVING A PLAN, ESTABLISHING A GOOD POINT OF CONTACT AND HAVING THAT COMMUNICATION WOULD HELP TO ALLEVIATE ANY KIND OF POTENTIAL NEGATIVE EFFECT OF THAT.
WHAT, WHAT, WHAT KIND OF TIMELINE FROM BEGINNING TO END WE'RE TALKING ABOUT, I KNOW WE HAVE BAD WEATHER AND YOU KNOW, THINGS CAN INTERRUPT, BUT WHAT, WHAT KIND OF TIMELINE WE'RE ESTIMATING A, UH, ROUGHLY 12 TO 18 MONTH CONSTRUCTION
IS THAT SECTIONED OUT? LIKE, OR ARE YOU GONNA TEAR UP THE ROAD IN BETWEEN THIS CHURCH'S PARKING LOT AND THEIR CHURCH FOR 18 MONTHS? OH, NO, NO.
WE'LL DEFINITELY HAVE TO LIKE GO AND PHASE IT WHERE WE DON'T DISRUPT, DISRUPT BUSINESSES AND YEAH, OF COURSE NOW IF WE COULD CLOSE THE WHOLE STREET DOWN AND DO IT ALL AT ONCE, WE'D GET IT THAT MUCH FASTER.
BUT
THE PORTION THAT'S GONNA BE CLOSED DOWN FOR PEDESTRIAN USE ONLY, I GUESS YOU COULD ALMOST SHUT THAT DOWN BECAUSE IT'S GOING TO ONLY BE PEDESTRIANS.
SO, BUT UM, DO WE HAVE ANY RESPONSIBILITY TO, I GUESS THAT'S RE'S FIRST METHODIST WITH THEIR PARKING LOT BEING ON THE OPPOSITE SIDE.
HOW DOES ALL OF THAT, I KNOW THEY'VE BEEN IN CONVERSATION, I CAN LET HAYNER AND NAIL SPEAK TO THAT.
WE SHOWED THEM THE, THE PLANS A FEW MONTHS BACK AND JUST KIND OF GAVE THEM A HEADS UP THIS MIGHT BE COMING AND WE FULLY PLAN ON HAVING THOSE CONVERSATIONS WITH THEM AND KEEPING, KEEPING THEM UP TO SPEED ON THE TIMELINE OF ALL THAT.
I KNOW IT'S BEEN DISCUSSED AT THE ENTRANCE TO THEIR LOT WOULD JUST HAVE TO SHIFT, UM, TO THE OTHER SIDE STREET.
THERE'S ANOTHER, YOU MAY NOT KNOW AN ANSWER TO THIS, BUT DO YOU KNOW ON THE MAP THERE'S ANOTHER NEW CHURCH BEING BUILT IN THERE? WHERE IS THAT IN LOCATION TO THAT POND? UH, THRIVE.
THRIVE, IT IS NORTH OF THERE AND I'M ACTUALLY VERY, VERY WELL AWARE.
YEAH, IT'S ON, IT'S ACTUALLY ON WALLACE STREET TO THE WALLACE STREET.
SO DID YOU HAVE A PREFERENCE? WE ALL SAID FOUR.
UM, YEAH, I MEAN I, I DEFINITELY LIKE
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THE IDEA OF THE PEDESTRIAN AREA.UM, YEAH, I GUESS I'M A LITTLE CONCERNED ABOUT IT COVERING OR GOING OVER A A THROUGH STREET, BUT, UM, BUT YES, IF, IF PICKING BETWEEN ONE AND FOUR, I WOULD PICK PICK FOUR.
[6. Economic Development Report ]
SIX, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT REPORT NOW.YES, I'LL START WITH OUR E D C WEBSITE.
WE, UM, ACTUALLY HAD A TRAINING EARLIER TODAY WITH, UH, COSTAR, WHICH YOU ALL APPROVED AT LAST MONTH'S MEETING.
SO WE'RE JUST, UM, MAKING THE FINAL TOUCHES ON SOME OF THAT WEBSITE CONTENT AND MAKING SURE THAT COSTAR IS, UM, OR READY TO BE INTEGRATED AND ALL OF THAT.
SO WE ARE LOOKING AT POTENTIALLY THE 20TH NEXT FRIDAY FOR A LAUNCH DATE.
WE WILL KEEP YOU ALL POSTED AND THE, THE SAME APPLIES KIND OF FOR THE LINKEDIN.
WE, UM, WHILE WE COULD JUST GO AHEAD AND CREATE THAT PAGE, WE WOULD LIKE TO HAVE THEM, UH, LAUNCH ON THE SAME DAY.
SO AS SOON AS THE WEBSITE IS READY, WE'LL GO AHEAD AND, UM, LAUNCH THE LINKEDIN PAGE AS WELL.
UM, THE THIRD ITEM ON THE REPORT IS OUR RETAIL COACH UPDATE.
UM, AS THIS IS OUR FIRST TIME MEETING, UH, SEPARATELY, WE KIND OF FALL INTO THAT ROUTINE OF THE THIRD WEEK.
SO WE DON'T HAVE THE TYPICAL, UM, MEMO THAT HE SENDS READY FOR YOU ALL THIS WEEK, BUT WE WILL MAKE SURE TO HAVE THAT FOR YOU ALL READY AT THE NEXT MONTH'S MEETING.
UM, ITEM NUMBER FOUR, SCARECROW FEST UPDATE.
THAT IS JUST OCTOBER THE 28TH AND IT'S THREE TO 6:00 PM AT THRIVE CHURCH.
WE WILL HAVE, UM, E D C PRESENCE THERE, UH, AS WE CONTINUE TO WORK WITH THE CHAMBER TO MAKE SURE THAT GOES WELL.
UM, AND THEN LASTLY, NUMBER FIVE, OUR, UH, T E D C CONFERENCE IS THIS WEEK, SO HIDDEN AND MYSELF WILL BE ATTENDING THAT WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY AND FRIDAY.
I THINK THERE'S SOMETHING TO LEARN FROM ALL THE SESSIONS THAT ARE ON THE AGENDA, BUT, UM, I'M, I'M VERY MUCH LOOKING FORWARD TO, UM, A SESSION ON PERSONAL BRANDING AND HOW TO ESTABLISH THAT TRUST, CONNECTION AND OPPORTUNITY TO DRIVE THE BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT WHERE WE NEED IT.
UM, ESPECIALLY AS YOU KNOW, WE ARE CONSTANTLY TALKING ABOUT OUR BRANDING WITH THE WEBSITE AND ALL OF THE INFORMATION THAT WE'RE SHARING WITH THE PUBLIC, FINDING MORE WAYS TO, UM, JUST KEEP THEM UP TO DATE IN A TIMELY WAY AND BE TRANSPARENT ABOUT HOW THEIR DOLLARS ARE BEING SPENT.
UM, AND THAT IS ALL I HAVE FOR MY UP UPDATE TODAY.
ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? GO AHEAD.
ON THE RETAIL COACH UPDATE, UM, IS THERE ANY INTENTION TO ASK IF IN THE FUTURE WE CAN MOVE THAT UP? I GUESS MY CONCERN IS THAT IF, IF WE'RE GETTING IT, WE'RE GETTING IT, YOU KNOW, A MONTH AFTER THE FACT.
AND THAT, THAT WILL NOT HAPPEN AGAIN.
UM, I DON'T THINK AARON REALIZED THAT IT WAS THIS MONTH THAT WE WERE SPLITTING.
UM, WE ACTUALLY HAVE A CALL SCHEDULED WITH HIM NEXT WEEK, UH, NEXT TUESDAY.
SO WE'LL HAVE EVEN MORE UPTODATE INFORMATION AND HE IS ALSO TEACHING A LESSON OR TEACHING A LESSON.
HE'S, HE'S DOING A SESSION AT T E D C NEXT WEEK AS WELL.
SO IT, IT'LL BE BACK ON THE NORMAL CADENCE.
THERE'S, THERE'S A COUPLE THINGS IN THIS AGENDA THAT YOU'LL SEE, UM, ARE KIND OF OUT OF WHACK THIS MONTH.
THIS IS A KIND OF A, A, A GROWTH PERIOD, THIS, THIS TIME.
UM, BUT IT SHOULD BE BACK TO NORMAL NEXT MONTH.
ANY ELSE? QUESTIONS, RIVER? NO.
[7. Consideration and action on financials and payables for the Corporation for the period ending August 31, 2023. ]
NUMBER SEVEN ON THE AGENDA, CONSIDERATION AND ACTION ON FINANCIALS AND PAYABLES PERIOD ENDING AUGUST 31ST.UH, IS THERE ANYTHING CHANGED? ANYTHING WE NEED TO KNOW ABOUT? THERE'S, THERE'S THE SALES TAX REPORT, UM, IS THE SECOND ITEM.
OUTSIDE OF RETAIL COACH THAT, THAT IS USUALLY NOT READY UNTIL THE END OF THE MONTH.
SO THAT'S NOT, UH, BONNIE WITH THE RETAIL COACH.
MAKING SURE WE'RE ON THE SAME PAGE.
THE REPORT ISN'T GENERATED UNTIL THE END OF THE MONTH, SO WHAT WE'RE GONNA HAVE TO DO IS JUST, YOU KNOW, IT'S ALREADY TWO MONTHS IN THE REAR, SO IT'LL JUST BE THREE MONTHS AND WE'LL MAKE THAT AVAILABLE TO YOU ALL.
CAN I GET A MOTION TO APPROVE FINANCIALS AND PAYABLES FOR AUGUST? I MOVE, I MOVE TO APPROVE FINANCIALS AND PAYABLES FOR AUGUST.
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AGENDA ITEM[8. Consideration and action on minutes of the Corporation for the September 18, 2023, meeting. ]
NUMBER EIGHT, CONSIDERATION AND ACTION ON MINUTES OF THE CORPORATION FOR SEPTEMBER 18TH MEETING.ANYTHING ON THERE, HAYDEN OR ANELLE THAT WE NEED TO BE AWARE OF? NO SIR.
DO WE JUST NEED A MOTION TO ACCEPT MM-HMM.
I'LL MOTION TO ACCEPT THE MINUTES FROM OUR LAST MEETING.
FUTURE AGENDA ITEMS FOR FUTURE MEETINGS.
[9. Consideration and possible action on the adoption of a contract with The Cannon for services related to the Fulshear Business and Innovation Hub. ]
NINE, CONSIDERATION AND POSSIBLE ACTION ON THE ADOPTION OF A CONTRACT WITH THE CANNON FOR SERVICE RELATED TO FULL SERVE BUSINESS AND INNOVATION HUB.TELL ABOUT THE NAME CHANGE? YES.
SO HERE, UH, WE HAVE ATTACHED THE CONTRACT FOR YOU TO REVIEW.
THIS HAS PREVIOUSLY BEEN APPROVED BY OUR LEGAL TEAM, UH, WITH JUST THE, THE ATTENTION I GUESS TO THE METRICS AND ALL OF THAT.
UM, WE DID HAVE JOHN LAMBERT ATTEND OUR, UM, PREVIOUS MEETING TO KIND OF HELP EXPLAIN WHAT THOSE METRICS ARE TO YOU ALL.
UM, AND AGAIN, THIS CONTRACT HERE IS, IS A RESULT OF A LONG PROCESS.
IT WAS A STEP FORWARD IN THE RESPONSE TO THE 2019 STRATEGIC, UH, PLAN FOR ECONOMICS DEVELOPMENT.
UM, AND SO HERE WE ARE TONIGHT, UM, ASKING FOR YOUR APPROVAL TO MOVE FORWARD.
UM, HOPING TO LAUNCH THIS AT THE END OF NOVEMBER.
AND JUST IN THE PROCESS TO WORK OUT ALL THE DETAILS, UM, WITH THE CANON AND THEIR STAFF.
I KNOW PREVIOUSLY IT WAS EXPRESSED, UH, THERE WAS SOME CONCERN WITH THE AMOUNT OF TIME THAT STAFF WOULD HAVE TO DEVOTE TO THIS PROJECT AND WHETHER WE HAVE THE CAPACITY TO HANDLE THOSE DUTIES.
UM, HAY AND MYSELF ACTUALLY VISITED, UH, THE CANNON IN HOUSTON AND GOT, UH, TO MEET, UM, THE PERSON THAT WILL BE ASSIGNED TO FULL SURE WHO WILL BE HERE, UM, PART-TIME, UM, IN
AND THAT PERSON WILL TAKE ON THE ROLE OF REALLY DOING MOST OF THE WORK THAT IS REQUIRED HERE WITH JUST MEETING WITH US IN ORDER TO MAKE SURE THAT THE GOALS THAT, YOU KNOW, WE SET FORTH AND Y'ALL APPROVE, UM, ARE WHAT WE'RE WORKING TOWARDS.
AND THEN REPORTING THOSE METRICS.
SO WE, WE FEEL PRETTY COMFORTABLE THAT IT WON'T ADD, YOU KNOW, AN UNREASONABLE AMOUNT OF WORK TO, TO OUR DAY-TO-DAY SCHEDULE AND NAME CHANGE.
SO THIS UH, PROJECT HAS ALWAYS KNOWN, BEEN KNOWN AS THE FUL BUSINESS, UH, AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP DEVELOPMENT HUB OR ANOTHER COMBINATION OF ALL THOSE WORDS,
UM, AND SO WE WERE, WE'VE UH, BEEN IN TALKS WITH UH, JOHN AND HIS TEAM TO RENAME IT FULL SURE FAST TRACK.
UM, JUST KIND OF AS A LITTLE NOD TO OUR HISTORY, UM, OF RACE, UH, RA HORSE RACES AND A RAIL.
UM, AND THAT'S KIND OF JUST SOMETHING SIMPLE AND EASY THAT PEOPLE CAN REMEMBER AND SAY AS THEY'RE REFERRING TO IT AS THEY'RE VISITING THE WEBSITE.
I THINK WE'VE PRETTY MUCH DISCUSSED THIS ONE AT AUM FOR EIGHT MONTHS.
CAN I GET A MOTION TO APPROVE THIS? I WILL MOTION TO APPROVE THE CONTRACT WITH THE CANNON.
[10. Future agenda items (Part 1 of 2) ]
CAN GO TO NUMBER 10, FUTURE AGENDA ITEMS AND UM, I WILL SET THIS, I'LL TEE THIS ONE UP FOR YOU.UM, LEGAL IS GOING TO GIVE US A PRESENTATION NEXT MONTH, RIGHT? MM-HMM.
UM, SO THAT'S COMING AND AN OVERVIEW OF
WHAT A CAN DO AND CAN'T AND USED TO BE ABLE TO AND ALL THAT.
SO WE'RE BASICALLY GOING BACK TO A AND B BOARD.
WOULD IT BE WITH THE SAME REGULATION? EXCUSE ME? WOULD IT BE WITH THE SAME REGULATION THAT WE HAD ALSO THAT THAT SOME OF THE YES SIR.
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ABLE TO PARTICIPATE ON THE B ITEMS. ALRIGHT.ANELLE, ARE WE, SINCE LEGAL'S COMING TWICE A MONTH NOW, ARE WE PAYING EXTRA? UM, NO, BECAUSE IT'S A TIME-BASED, SO ARE MEETINGS WOULD BE SHORTER.
UM, WE'VE, WE LOOKED AT THE AMOUNT THAT WAS BUDGETED FOR OUR LEGAL, IT WOULD STILL FALL EVEN DOUBLING WHAT WE, WHAT WE HAD PAID LAST YEAR.
IT STILL, IT WOULD BE COVERED WITHIN WHAT WAS BUDGETED.
SO
AND WE SPEAK ABOUT, UH, CITY COUNCIL UPDATES.
WE'LL, WE'LL MAKE SURE TO HAVE, UM, A, A REPORT FOR, UM, COUNCIL FROM JOEL TO PRESENT TO YOU ALL SINCE WE DON'T HAVE A COUNCIL MEMBER ON THIS BOARD SINCE WE'LL STILL GET AN UPDATE.
ANYTHING ELSE YOU GUYS HAVE? ANYTHING ELSE YOU'RE GONNA, YOU KNOW, THAT'S GONNA BE ON THERE? UM, I UH, DID RECEIVE AN EMAIL FROM RAMONA.
I THINK I HAD MENTIONED THAT THIS AT LAST MEETING REQUESTING TO COME BEFORE THE BOARD, UM, TO FOLLOW UP ON THE ENTERTAINMENT FOR FARMER'S MARKET.
UM, SO THAT'S AN OPTION FOR YOU ALL.
IF YOU'D LIKE TO ADD THAT TO THE AGENDA, LET US KNOW.
AND THEN, UM, WE ARE LOOKING RIGHT NOW, WE DID VISIT WITH CHARLEY DREAM GOAL, WHO STEPPED IN, UM, AS INTERIM DIRECTOR BEFORE I GOT HERE TO, UM, WORK WITH US ON UPDATING THE STRATEGIC PLAN AND REVISITING THAT.
SO WE ARE HOPING TO START WORKING ON THAT AND BRING IT ALL FOR, FOR YOU TO CONSIDER AND GET YOUR INPUT AT NEXT MONTH'S MEETING.
SO THAT WILL BE ON THERE AS WELL.
ANYBODY ELSE GOT ANYTHING? NOTHING.
DO WE WANT TO REQUEST TO HAVE RAMON COME TOP? I WASN'T PART OF THAT DECISION SO I DON'T FEEL LIKE I CAN SPEAK TO IT.
CAN YOU CAPITALIZE IT, GIVE 'EM A CLIFF NOTES? 'CAUSE THEY WERE GO AHEAD.
I I HEARD YOU LAST WEEK BUT I DON'T MM-HMM.
I WASN'T PART OF THE DECISION TO GIVE THE MONEY INITIALLY, SO I DON'T NECESSARILY FEEL LIKE I CAN SPEAK TO THAT.
UM, YES, IT WAS A A TWO-PART, UM, PARTNERSHIP WITH THE FULCHER FARMER'S MARKET.
UM, WENT TO ADD PLANNERS AND IRRIGATION AND THE OTHER TO SPONSOR $300 PER WEEKEND FOR LIVE ENTERTAINMENT AND THEY, YOU KNOW, JUST SHARED HOW MUCH LIFE THAT BRINGS TO THE FARMER'S MARKET.
PEOPLE TRAVEL FROM OUTSIDE TO COME HERE.
A LOT OF OUR LOCAL MAKERS SELL HERE.
UM, AND THAT'S REALLY IT IN A NUTSHELL.
SO, UM, SHE'S WOULD ONLY BE COMING TO Y'ALL TO REQUEST THROUGH THE NEXT FISCAL YEAR FOR THE ENTERTAINMENT PORTION.
THERE WOULDN'T BE ANY OTHER ASK.
AND JUST AS A REMINDER THAT'S ALL REIMBURSED.
SO IF THEY GET RAINED OUT, IT DOESN'T COST US ANYTHING.
YES, OUR FEEDBACK WOULD BE YES, BRINGER.
WE'LL BE GLAD TO, WE'LL ADD IT TO THERE.
YEAH, I'D LIKE, I MEAN, PERSONALLY I'D LIKE TO SEE SOME NUMBERS.
HAVE THE NUMBERS GONE UP? WE DONE, IF THEY'VE DONE A BAND EVERY WEEK, YOU KNOW, HAVE WE SEEN SOME CHANGES IF WE'VE SEEN SURE.
YOU KNOW, IF SHE HAS THOSE NUMBERS, THAT'D BE GREAT.
AND I'LL ALSO TRY TO GET SOME PHOTOS OF THE PLANNERS THAT WERE ADDED AND ALL OF THAT FOR YOU ALL.
AND, UM, IF YOU WOULD JUST BE THINKING PART OF THAT WAS ALSO, UM, JUST GIVING CREDIT AND RECOGNITION TO THE A D C.
SO IF YOU DO HAVE A SPECIFIC WAY THAT YOU WOULD LIKE HER TO RECOGNIZE YOU, THEN YOU CAN SHARE THAT OF THE NEXT MEETING AS WELL.
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NUMBER 11.I GOT ON ONE ANNOUNCEMENT ON, UH, OCTOBER THE 22ND.
GREATER ZACHARY, UH, BAPTIST CHURCH WILL BE CELEBRATING 131 YEARS AND WE'LL, UH, INVITING EVERYONE.
WE'LL ALSO GET IT ANNOUNCED AT THE, UM, AT THE CITY, UH, CITY COUNCIL MEETING.
IT'LL BE, UM, THAT MORNING, IT STARTS AT 10 O'CLOCK AND WE'D BE MORE THAN HAPPY TO SEE YOUR FACES IN THE BUILDING.
WHAT WAS THE NAME OF THE, THE DATE AGAIN? UH, OCTOBER THE 22ND SUNDAY MORNING AT, UH, 10, 1 31 YEARS.
IT'S A COUPLE BEEN THERE BUDDY.
ANYTHING ELSE? I'M GONNA BACK UP
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TO AGENDA ITEM NUMBER 10 AND JUST MAKE A SUGGESTION FOR PROCEDURE IN THE FUTURE.I THINK IT'D BE GREAT FOR US AND FOR THE PUBLIC IF WHEN WE SET WHEN WE TALK ABOUT FUTURE AGENDA ITEMS,
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WE SET A TENTATIVE DATE AND PUT THAT IN PUBLIC RECORD.SO WHAT'S OUR TENTATIVE DATE FOR NEXT MONTH? TONIGHT? THANKS.
NOVEMBER 13TH OR 13TH? 6:00 PM ANYBODY? ANYTHING ELSE? ARE WE DONE? CAN I GET A MOTION TO ADJOURN? SO MOTION TO ADJOURN.