this might be in my way take a picture so I can do it e e e e e e e guys are so funny is good morning mayor good morning everyone it's 9:00 a.m good morning this is a meeting of the AL Paso city council for Tuesday May 21st 2024 mayor liser is present and presiding in council chambers along with mayor protim Kennedy representative AO alternate mayor protim molinard and representative Riva it is 9:01 a.m. will everyone please silence your electronic devices so it's not to disturb the meeting and rise for the invocation delivered by El Pas police senior chaplain David Mayfield good morning sir morning mayor council thank you once again for this opportunity to pray for you and our city I invite everyone to join me as I pray Creator God we give thanks for the opportunity to come together in service to our city may we approach our discussions with open minds and hearts Guided by wisdom and a spirit of cooperation let us strive to make decisions that promote the well-being of all our residents and the prosperity of our community we pray also for the well-being of this Council and for the concerned members of the public who attend this morning for it's only by cooperation between the citizens and those who govern that a free Society can prosper we also take a moment to recognize and honor our dedicated Police Department as they celebrate their anniversary we are grateful for their unwavering commitment to ensuring our safety and protecting our community their bravery sacrifice and service do not go unnoticed and we extend our heartfelt appreciation to each and every member of the force may we also remember the families of our police officers who provide them with strength and support enabling them to carry out their duties with courage and integrity as we proceed with our meeting let us be mindful of our responsibilities and the trust placed in Us by those we serve may we act with Integrity fairness and Justice always seeking the greater good amen amen and this morning to lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance we have students from East Point Elementary School we have Kira Esa Nathaniel Ortiz Selena Mendoza Angelique Maldonado Isabella Castaneda Renata Salgado zi Andrade and Madison San I alance to the flag of the United States of America and to the for stands Nation indivisible and justice for all [Applause] Selina andella Jaden and everybody take a picture can we get all the children to Center in front of the seal behind you there you go Dad thank you thank you and for the record representatives ernandez and Gales join the meeting at 9:03 a.m. and representative Fier join the meeting at 9:06 a.m. good morning everyone and um glad to see a lot of people here there's um early voting has begun and uh yesterday was the first day early voting will continue through Friday and election day is on Tuesday please uh exercise your right to vote and um I think it's important every vote does count also um I had the opportunity on Friday uh myself represent molar and mayor proam attended the memorial service for the fallen officers and um Chief pus thank you sir and uh I think it's important that uh and I think while while we're there that a lot of what was said what uh you know we'll never forget the men and women that sacrifice for our community and continue to um be part of our lives and the families were there and I think it was really important to show our support for the families but also for our police department and um again uh the men and women in blue thank you for what you do and I know when you go to the training and when you come out the thing they most prepare you for here's for the unknown and I thank you all for being there day in and day out and giving us the opportunity to go to sleep to know that the best in the country is protecting us so again Chief thank you and um um I'd like to have a moment of silence for the the officers that gave their lives on duty that gave their lives for us to be able to be safe so just little moment silence please thank you and may God bless America and may God bless Al Paso God bless every one of you all thank you thank you mayor that brings us to the mayor's proclamations the first Proclamation is National travel tourism week thank you mayor for the opportunity reading this Proclamation good morning welcome Proclamation city of El Paso Texas whereas destination El Paso celebrates National travel and tourism week and with local awareness activities honoring the travel and tourism industry whereas in 2023 the city of El Paso hosted 3.5 million visitors and whereas Travelers contributed 2.22 billion to the economy in our city and whereas the city Al Paso Hotel occupancy rate was 69% I I understand it's one of the highest in the state it's the highest in the United States oh there well yes always he always the United States where given contribution to the economic social cultural well-being of the citizens of El Paso it is fitting that we recognize the importance of travel tourism and encourage the citizens of El Paso to observe this week by participating with anticipated ceremonies and activities now therefore be it proclaimed by the mayor The Honorable mayor and the Council of El Paso that the week of May 18th through May 25th 2024 shall be known as National travel and tourism week signed mayor Oscar liser thank you and congratulations SEL and um I think um if you look at the numbers uh in the state of Texas is 62.3 and uh in the US is 63% and El Paso just as you mentioned 69.1 so congratulations and um I know that uh one of the things we talked about and we always talk about that you know you all don't do this on your own you do it with a great Community the city of Al Paso and and the team of the city manager and and their staff but also the county you know we work together and we talk with one voice and make sure that our visitors have a unique experience and when they leave they become ambassadors to our community so um I thank you those are great numbers and uh I know we will'll continue to be the shining star in the US so thank you for that thank you Mary thank you City reps thank you art for reading that uh appreciate that um mayor you're absolutely right it's uh uh it's it's a labor of love it's a everyday thing and uh what we what we do is we try our best to to get them to El Paso because it is the uh El Paso Community that really uh helps sell El Paso um some of the other numbers that we like to talk about is uh the 2.2 billion and that's B with a B uh economic impact that tourism has on the city of El Paso um and that that helps uh that helps El Paso households because it takes away from uh additional uh uh tax burden that the households have um because these these tourists these these guests are coming in and they're spending money here um and it's about 3.5 million tourists uh a year and so we're really proud of that um and our Benchmark of 69% occupancy uh again uh we want to inch that up and you know get it closer to 72 75% um and we'll be able to do that uh through meetings and conventions and uh additional Leisure Travel t uh uh tourism um some good news is that uh last week El Paso was ranked number ninth in the country for summer travel destinations um and so being in the top 10 and this is out of uh 75 communities and this was a ranking provided by wallet Hub and so we're really proud of that uh again uh that's not something that destination El Paso can take credit for that's something that is organic to El Paso as it is uh having incredible weather being a value destination having great accessibility a number of different things and so uh we look forward to a healthy uh leisure travel this summer with the help of those rankings um the other good news is that uh uh visit El Paso is a finalist for a Stella award um and uh when we talk about who we're going up against we're going up against other you know big cities with much bigger budgets um and that's a uh that's a in in credit to the the staff that we have um and then I'm going to segue to obviously uh Brooke Underwood is here and I'll ask her to say a few words um Val Garcia our uh director of sales but um last week uh mayor you proclaimed that may six May 16th was Veronica Castro day and so I like to just uh acknowledge Ronica Castro 20 years 20 years working in the industry 20 years with destinational passo uh just a really incredible uh asset to the city of El Paso and and with that I'm going to turn it over to Brooke again mayor City reps much appreciated for the recognition we appreciate you we appreciate working for you uh it is a labor of love and uh continue to to look out for great things coming from this organization thank you so much and I'd like to thank uh City staff as well great Partnerships all along the way thank you good morning and just to note that the proclamations will be limited to 6 minutes for the speakers and you have about 2 minutes 57 second I will not even take the two minutes I want to thank you for your thank you mayor I actually need a little bit of water myself um thank you for your support uh through all these years and obviously we could only do that with the the support from you all and City staff uh trusting us with such a precious commodity uh as the marketing and destination uh of El Paso so super happy to be here uh Veronica celebrates 20 years I've had the pleasure of working with her for 16 um but we've got a great team and Val now joins the the three Amigas um I do want to point out that downtown is quite the Hub of activity right now as we have the border security Expo in town we've just come off a number of other conventions and then we'll roll right into the Texas democratic party where we'll see between 4,000 and 4500 people converge in our city hopefully returning ambassadors to their respective homes so um I think the team is doing a great job but it's only because of great support from our leadership and then of course wonderful Hotel partners and and other attractions so uh thank you and happy National travel and tourism week thank you hey V I was a young man when you started working I just want to let you know that's right I was only 10 thank you all congratulations [Applause] and the next Proclamation is border Patrol's 100th year anniversary thank you very much if I could have the United States border patrol agents move forward please good I'm sorry mayor protim molard we're going to do the pictures correct yes ma'am we're the photo real quick the photo before the next Proclamation okay let's do a quick pictures real quickk we'll send behind okay great I want to give my cup back CU I want you to give me mine I'm give we one more one more thank you I'll give it to you we now proceed with a proclamation for the Border Patrol's 100th year anniversary thank you very much um before I begin this Proclamation I just want to make sure everyone understands El Paso is the birthplace of the United States B border patrol 100 Years celebration Proclamation city of op Paso Texas whereas prior to the formation of the US border patrol the immigration service employed the mounted Watchman also known as the mounted Patrol and and mounted guards representing early efforts to enforce laws between ports of Entry whose foundational work was integral to the development of Border enforcement strategies and it was not until May 28th 1924 following Congressional approval of funding that the immigration Border Patrol was officially established enhancing its land border patrol functions with El Paso playing a pivotal role by becoming the location of one of the first 32 sectors and whereas the modotto honor first is believed to have originated within the op Paso District of the United States border patrol around 1926 encompassing what are now Tucson El Paso and big Ben sectors this model encapsulates the ethos of unfailing courtesy resourceful resourcefulness and self-governance reflecting the Deep pride and integrity with which border patrol inspectors later known as border patrol agents and whereas the US border patrol has been pivotal in safeguarding National Security managing access enemy detention camps during World War II and overseeing vital operations such as the exchange of Bop pigs prisoners this role was underscored in 1961 when under President Kennedy's directive border patrol inspectors ensured the security of commercial flights and in times of natural disasters the US border patrol has consistently extended their mission Beyond border security to offer humanitarian assistance and Aid recovery efforts from responding to the dev devastating San Francisco earthquake to providing relief in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina their actions have been pivotal and helping communities rebuild and recover exemplifying their dedication to service and compassion as whereas the US border patrols 20 sectors continue to enhance our nation's border security efforts developing Innovative and specialized Technologies within the agency to bolster the capability of its agents these advancements ensure that the future of the US border patrol will be as dynamic and impactful as the story passed steadfastly upholding The Motto honor first which has guided its agents since 1924 and whereas the op Paso city council is proud to recognize the unwavering courage integrity and dedication of the United States border patrol for the past 100 years and honor the men and women whose diligence and professionalism keep the United States of America and the citizens safe now therefore be a proclaimed by the mayor and counsel of the city of El Paso that May 28th 2024 shall be known as border Patrol's 100th year anniversary sign The Honorable mayor Oscar liser I want to congratulate you all um I wasn't quite as young when you all started out but um no congratulations and one of the things it's um you know I've been in office since 2013 and really when I took took office again in in 21 when the Asylum Seekers you know you all worked really close with the city you worked really close with the county and everyone else to make sure that um we took care of our Asylum Seekers and they work together and we're very proud of the job we do together from Chief Chavez who in my opinion is a rock star and did an incredible job really working with us and finding solutions that we could all work together to Chief good he's done an incredible job also working with us um that uh today the city of Al Paso because of the cooperation from Chief good uh we don't have street releases where there's no other major city in America today that doesn't have Street releases for us because of the cooperation and the things we've done together and um so I do um want to want to thank you all for you know not only congratulate you on 100 years but thank you for really working with us to make sure that U Al Paso sets the standards what it should be and make sure that people are treated with respect and make sure people have a place to sleep and and have a war meal and because of you all were able to do that so thank you and God bless you guys thank you mayor and distinguished members of the council too I just have something really quick that I wanted to read and I was the uh the first to be a part of my family who actually joined the United States Marine Corps but I was third to join the US border patrol both of my uncles actually started here in the AP Paso sector back in the 7 7s and so on behalf of the El Paso sector and also all the families all the staff and all the Agents of the entire US border patrol thank you for the proclamation celebrating the rich hundred-year history of the US border patrol here in at Paso our motto is where the legend began because El Paso is where like all of you mentioned where Border Patrol was born El Paso was home to the original mounted guards dating back to the early 1900s and the first national border patrol Academy was actually here in El Paso back in the early 1930s we appreciate all the support mayor as you mentioned the coordination the collaboration the partnership with the city of El Paso and all the local and state law enforcement agencies we look forward to that relationship and working together to protect the citizens of ATB Paso but also of the United States to my right I have a newly promoted division chief of specialty programs operational programs Loreno Sandoval he was actually born and raised here in El Paso hopefully he has a good reputation here and then to my left I actually have one of our Stellar supervisors uh Nathan Davis Nathan was actually born in the state of Virginia but I think he's been in El Pasa long longer than he's been in the state of Virginia so uh actually his parents moved up here too and his grandfather so uh we love the city of El Paso um my name is alfredoo for those of you who don't know me uh my nickname in the border patrol is Loi l l o z y they say in the border patrol if you don't have a nickname they don't like you so I have one um I've been here for approximately eight months and I love this city I've I've been here before I I used to drive uh from the real Grand Valley all the all the way over to San Diego uh when I had 3 or 4 days of U of leave from the US Marine Corps during my time so I really appreciate the proclamation today and all the recognition thank you for everybody in the room the community uh I hope to be a long partner uh in this community moving forward so mayor distinguished members thank you so much thank you sir now you gave us your nickname yes sir and I I really do want to know what that means you know what I mean you spelled it for us so we got that down but now what does that mean so loano loano is not a name that's pretty common at least not in the real Grand Valley where I started working actually I started in Laredo uh back and forth there was a lot of Bandits on the border uh they all had radios we had radios and they would memorize your your last name uh sometimes they would call you out they would tell you mean things and so instead of calling me loano to protect my my last name uh one of the senior agents who dates back to about the 80s says we're going to call you Loy from now on that's short for loano so ever since then it's stuck I've had that nickname for over two decades uh and today there's a lot of Chiefs in town there's a lot of agents in town if you ask them who Loi is they'll know it's loano so yes sir but I'm the deputy chief here I support Chief good and and all the agents and all the families and all the staff of the Apostle sector if you ever need anything from us please uh please reach out thank you so much thank you again [Applause] thank you very much we have a parade Saturday you have a parade Saturday yes a parade Saturday Memorial be can you see art sh Lo sh blocking me [Laughter] H right ready one two three thank you [Applause] that brings us to the next Proclamation and this is National cancer survivors month M Henry good morning do we have the proclamation yes thank you all for coming up a you familiar faces here Proclamation city of Al Paso Texas whereas a cancer survivor is an individual living with a history of cancer from the moment of diagnosis through the remainder of their life and whereas there are more than whereas more than 140,000 new cancer cases are expected to be diagnosed in Texas 67,000 in women and 72,000 in men and whereas the overall Survivor rate has gone up by 40% over the past 50 years and currently sits at 68% and whereas helping those with cancer is a top priority through increasing access to Quality cancer screening and Care providing effective prevention strategies and providing services to individuals living with and Beyond cancer and in El Paso Texas we celebrate our uh cancer survivors who have reached their milestones and recognize those who have supported them along the way and whereas the first Sunday in June is recognized as National cancer survivors day and during the month of June we celebrate those individuals who have bravely and successfully batt battled cancer to earn the designation Survivor now therefore it proclaimed by the mayor and Council of the city of Al Paso that the month of June 2024 shall be known as National cancer survivors month signed by our honorable mayor Oscar liser thank you so much Chris and good morning mayor liser city council Colonel Weston um I'm going to miss seeing you up here I've been up here so many times um presenting to this council with you as the lead so this is probably the last time I will be here um but thank you for your service to this community thank you appreciate that my name is Carol boy I am the director of the Rio Grand Cancer Foundation and we are so grateful for today's Proclamation for National cancer survivors month because no one is exempt from the cancer experience we all know someone are related to someone or are the person who has heard heard the news that they have cancer that's who we celebrate this month but cancer survivor month is not just about the celebration of life but an opportunity to bring awareness to the challenges that many of those with a cancer diagnosis face as many survivors will tell you the effects of cancer don't end when treatment does cancer survivors face ongoing often longlasting material and psychological hardships because of their disease including potentially devastating Financial struggles at the Rio Grand Cancer Foundation we are committed to reducing the considerable burden of cancer on those in our community for those living with through and Beyond cancer survivorship is something to celebrate but it's not the end of the story cancer changes your health and your life forever so thank you for the awareness I am joined today by office staff Diane Medina and Cindy Martinez and also the lovely Filipa Solis who is executive director of promus and also a cancer survivor thank you so much you're so correct I um unfortunately I've or fortunately I'm a more than one time Survivor and it's uh and you're right it's very impactful and the first time you ever hear those words you have cancer your life gets turned around all I did was cry you know and then I realized that you don't need to cry There's Hope and people there to help you and be with you and the most important thing is to surround yourself with people with the right attitude and people that will help you go through there I've more than one more than T I'm fortunately but I'm fortunate to be a Survivor and continue to to be able to talk about it uh so um I mean you're so correct about that that uh you know it just that when you first hear those words it's uh it devastates you but it's a beginning of something and don't surround yourself with people that are negative because it's so curable nowadays and the treatment so different that uh you know what we thought would have gotten us years ago it's pretty easy to to fix today so you're right so thank you for that thank you and I don't know if y'all all heard that statistic but there are more people surviving cancer nowadays than those that are diagnosed so that's very exciting news for those that are in the clinical and medical communities thank you so much thank you good morning my name is Diane Medina and I am the program assistant at theand the Cancer Foundation I just wanted to go over a few of our services that we do offer at the Cancer Foundation which is be our which is our pets program our Four Seasons program and our classroom series um through our pets program we do offer financial assistance in the form of a $250 prepaid Master Card that our cancer patients can use towards their co-pays deductibles medication or travel expenses if they're traveling outside of El Paso County for treatment we offer wigs scarves myectomy garments through our Four Seasons program and we offer appointments for fittings Mondays through Thursdays in our classroom component we offer educational nutrition health and fitness classes such as yoga and select days and times uh those who are interested in our services um an additional resources they can request more information directly through our uh can our portal which is the cancer helpc center.org or get more information through rgc f.org thank you good morning I'm Cindy Martinez from the Rio Grande Cancer Foundation morning briefly I want to say of course that uh June is National cancer survivors month and June 1st is actually National cancer survivor day the real good the Cancer Foundation is hosting a give cancer the boot event it'll be Saturday June 1st at se of EA Mall from 12 to two we encourage cancer survivors to come down to the event and they uh dance to a DJ with country western music we also have uh rehearsals the day before and the week before so we do encourage them I'm just going to show you real briefly what it looks like it's just our give cancer the boot event it's our third annual event at se of easta Mall thank you thank you my friend Filipa good morning Mr Mayor and members of city council what a joy it is to be here with you today and to stand beside my incredible friends at Grio Grand Cancer Foundation and when you use the term Survivor I don't like to talk about me I like to talk about all of us and what this organization does and what you do as a city is so vital for not only the survivors or who I call thrivers um but so many member families friends people who are there to hold our hands and make sure that life can continue in a positive fruitful wonderful Direction so it's with Incredible solidarity that we stand before you today with real grand Cancer Foundation and again thank you so much it's so wonderful to work with them even with music with El Paso premus where we provide music to soothe and heal and comfort so all of us in this community working together hand inand to help each other fight cancer and obviously we're going to be giving it the boot on June 1st again thank you so much for your incredible support thank you want to come up one for [Applause] and the next Proclamation is Allison qu I have the proclamation yeah representative nundus good morning ma'am I'm really thrilled and excited to read this resolution um Mrs guad was nominated by our JP uh judge uh Mrs Lucia naha and very honored to see a lot of represent ation from Riverside and it reads the proclamation of the city of Al Paso whereas the Texas state science fair 2024 allowed over hundreds of students to demonstrate their ability to conduct themselves as young scientists engineers and innovators attempting to Grapple with current social environmental and medical issues and whereas Allison guad an intellectual and humble 13-year-old has endured challenges in her life confronting an over coming her obstacles allowed her to present her science project to her peers and teachers and serve as a positive example in her school community and Raz Allison's science fair Journey began in late September when she began her research taking inspiration from her grandmother and aunt who have an extremely difficult ability to consume their medications in in a pill form her project how does the SP spefication of medication help people with disabilities allowing her to compete in the biomed engineering category and whereas Allison placed in her campus science fair first place which Advanced her to compete at the district level where she placed second this led to being able to participate in regionals at the Sun Country science and engineering Fair her second place there made her eligible to compete at the state level at the Texas science and engineering fair at state State she competed against 40 middle school students in her category working diligently and rehearsing after hours at school and at home Allison earned a third place finish amongst the rest of the hundreds of participants who competed at the science fairs in the state now therefore be proclaimed by the mayor and Council of the city of El Paso that May 21st 2024 shall be known as Allison guer day and it is signed by our honorable mayor Oscar liser congratulations good morning good morning my name is Norma Payne I am the science Affair coordinator and sixth grade science teacher at Riverside Middle School um thank you mayor liser Representatives thank you so much for the honor um there's really how much more I could say um because it was pretty much said uh i' just like to say a couple of words about Allison and what she did have to go through the process of doing the science fair is a very long arduous process they have to first come up with the project that's going to help the community um help the citizens so what she did was again she did a Project based off of trying to help her grandmother who had a stroke and couldn't swallow pills uh I'm sure that many of us at one point in time or other have had that difficulty where we cannot swallow or take pills uh especially the very big ones so what she did was she came up with a process called spherification um if you can think of the Little Boba balls that come in drinks basically that's what she did so she went and she did the whole process of crushing up Smarties um and putting them in and doing it that way to be able to take those pill to to to be able to swallow the pill so she went through that process and again it was a very long process uh she competed with thousands of students from the state of Texas in that division and for her to be able to go in and come in in third place uh was very difficult for her especially for her if we know you met Allison she's a very shy uh softspoken young lady but an incredible young lady at that so thank you I wanted to see if um principal Medina thank you for being here and the parents of Mrs quad if you all had wanted to share a couple words thank you so much for this opportunity to recognize our incredible student at Riverside Middle School um she's a representation of the incredible hard work that we have in the in the valley in the community um and just want to thank you because we have amazing kids down there we have amazing uh staff members who give their all every single day and education is not easy um and it's very very hard especially now we have to compete with our cell phones and um and everything that comes with it um and so just thank you for this opportunity because Allison is a great example of what hard work perseverance and she really makes us so proud and so just thank you for this opportunity thank you guys thank you nison you want to say if you were chison and uh you know you and I have a lot in common we're both softspoken I just want to say thank you to miss Payne and Miss Medina and my parents for supporting me through all of this now thank you and I always say and and you know after listening to representative on this and and listening to the science coordinator and the principal that always say that our future is the youth and you are our future congratulations and thank you thank you [Applause] I'm kidding oh there you go it wasn't me this time thank you thank you thank you very [Applause] and the final Proclamation is El Paso Police Department's 151st annivers AR celebration thank you mayor it's really an honor to present this proclamation to our Police Department having been a member of it as well as Mr represent Proclamation from the city of Al Paso Texas whereas the city of Al Paso Texas was established in May of 1873 via the city Charter that was received by the governor's office on May 16th 1873 and approved on May 17th 1873 and whereas the city Charter section 29 States The Establishment regulation support of Night Watch police and Define the duties thereof and whereas the city Charter section 96 states that at the first city council meeting the council was to elect one city marshal an assistant city marshal or other or assistance uh assistant Marshals and such as police officers as they deem necessary and whereas section 101 states that the city Marshall shall be the chief police officer of the city it furthest states that they shall have powers and execute like Powers Authority and jurisdiction as a sheriff of a County under the laws of state within the city limits and whereas the city Charter clearly defines the existence of police department and that City Marshall was a chief police officer thus establishing the birth date of El Paso Police Department as May 17th 1873 when the city Charter was approved by the governor's office and whereas the city of Al Paso recognizes the dedicated work commitment and sacrifices made by the men and women of the AL Paso Police Department and their families for 151 years the mayor and city council thank those who have served and are currently serving in the police department making El Paso a safe Community now therefore be proclaimed by the mayor and councel of the city of El Paso that may 2024 4 shall be known as El Paso Police Department's 151st anniversary celebration signed by The Honorable Oscar mayor uh mayor Oscar liser good morning sir good morning mayor councel uh appreciate that thank you representative Rivera um uh I know uh Camilo your staff along with Sergeant Zano and officer cincar did a lot of research on the uh birth date of the El Paso Police Department 151 years so this Proclamation uh thank you very much mayor um we have incredible police officers on the department and those that came before us uh literally thousands and thousands of individuals who have taken the the oath of office uh sworn to protect and serve uh the community of Al Paso uh and uh do it very very very successfully you we have a police officers sitting through uh uh out here uh you have the police officers that uh stand watch over city council every every week and uh you have many many more that go out there uh all three shifts uh day and night uh hot and cold um and uh they they do the job we have great police officers on this department um they they keep on exemplifying their Duty and commitment to the community as an example uh a few weeks ago on the west side you had officers running into gunfire to protect those uh citizens living in that apartment complex and uh they they didn't hesitate a single bit we have great cops last week mayor as you just recognized uh we we did have our memorial for 35 police officers who gave up their lives protecting this community and all their families uh that miss them to to this day giving up all their tomorrows so this Proclamation recognizing the birthday of the El Paso Police Department is true appreciated by the men and women of the El Paso Police Department thank you very much thank you Chief one of the things when you talked about just now when you said hot or cold one thing that came to mind Council for example when Co came we went remote a lot of Works went remote you guys didn't have that option you had to be out there you had to be protecting our community you couldn't go remote and I think that's something that very admirable that uh when you talk about that you know and I say and I say it all the time that you prepare for the unknown covid was a big unknown but you didn't have a choice you had to be out there day in and day out so when you said hot and cold that's the first thing that came as you remember we were gone for a long time off the dis but yet you guys were in your cars on your motorcycles on your bicycles and in the neighborhoods every day so thank you very much for that yes sir thank you yeah detective Victor Hernandez and his wife took it upon themselves to make uh bracelets for every police officer and they have some extra ones for you um is that back the blue uh and uh it it has our recruiting campaign along that bracelet so Sergeant saano is going to hand one out to miss Laura Prine and uh everybody here uh on the Das and uh Colonel Weston you and your staff we truly appreciate your support thank you thank you [Applause] if the par individuals if you can join the photo you know while they're coming up I do want to say that uh we're very honored to have you as our police chief and me personally I'm very honored to have you as my friend so thank you sir hey letting it grow out what's that about lieutenant get too close [Laughter] lock we're going to include the park if I fall nobody better look at me e e e congratulations mayor may we take items 16 and 17 next thank you sir item number 16 is discussion and action to approve a resolution recognizing the Riverside High School boys soccer team for reaching the regional final known as the Elite 8 and this item was placed by representative ernandez hi Melissa yes ma'am n this please good morning gentlemen thank you for joining us I'm going to read um the resolution into the record and then we'll take a vote shortly after um the resolution States whereas the Riverside High School School boys soccer team oh I should mention that you you all were nominated by your former principal mariellen who reached out to us so she's very proud of you as well as your current Administration uh resolution reads whereas a Riverside High School boys soccer team the Rangers reached the regional final also known as the Elite 8 at the 2024 University inter Scholastic Le League Texas boys soccer state championship the UIL state championship and whereas the Rangers road to the winner circle at the I state championship was preceded by several tough matchups across the state and whereas the Rangers won the by District title against Midlands Greenwood High School became the area Champions against witcho Falls High School and won the regional quarterfinals against El Paso Buie high school and succeeded at the regional semii final against Fort Worth's Diamond Hills Jarvis high school and whereas El Paso Texas are rich in soccer talent and dur during the UIL state championship playoffs the Rangers played valant but were defeated 1 to Zer by the eventual state champions the sanelli high school Eagles and whereas among over 200 high schools competing in the 4A division of the UIL state championship playoffs the Rangers stood out as one of only a handful of schools to advance to the Regional Championship and whereas this marks the second time in Riverside High School's history that the boys soccer team has reach the Elite 8 and the coaches School administration students and parents are incredibly proud of their team and now therefore be it resolved by the city council of the city of El Paso recognizes and celebrates the athletic achievement of the Riverside High School boys soccer team commending them for their hard work on the field and for representing El Paso admirably with their talent and sportsmanship at the state level and we're incredibly proud and congratulations I move to approve good morning thank you good morning um thank you uh representative Hernandez for that resolution uh first and foremost on behalf of the Riverside High School would like to thank city council and the mayor of Paso for recognizing our soccer team this young men put a lot lot of hours and uh it's a lot of dedication I've been there for 20 years I've been proud to serve that community it's a lot of hard work unlike other schools where you know club team comes to to part a role we have to work with individuals coming from different different parts uh different teams and we make one and um this year was no exception uh the boys succeeded and um very very proud of them um it was a long season but the members will last forever thank you than thank you and I think I want I do want to say something that they don't get there on their own you know they need a great coach and they need a great mentor and you know kids grow up and some of them have the talent but never have the leadership to help them get to the level where these uh young men achieved and I want to congratulate you on the ability to teach and you guys on the ability to learn and the willingness to learn and you know one team still stood in front of you all but you should be very proud of your accomplishments cuz it could have gone either way I um I was listening to it and I I mean I don't usually watch soccer but I kept watching and I was you know just hoping you guys would do it and you did it you did a great job and I'm very proud of every one of y'all for your accomplishment because as coach said not very many people get where y all got and um you should be proud of the memories that uh you know when you get to be this old uh a lot of things that you know the the things we do have and we share as our memories of growing up so congratulations and Coach thank you for being such a great thank you like um I wanted to add one more thing every time we go out I remind the boys we don't only represent uh represent high school with they said School District we represent the city op pasel so thank you thank you youall want to introduce yourselves and then maybe come up front as you do that that way we can take a picture after that yes go ahead sir okay all right uh so before I introduce him real quick I just want to take this time to recognize like you said mayor leiser uh the teachers the coaches the school administrators of the Riverside Community the families the supporters of the Riverside soccer team um you know we owe it to them we owe it to them they are a large reason why we are successful uh and so you know exactly like exactly like you said right um you know coach and myself coach hurado here as well um you know we could we could coach them all you know the whole day the whole week but at the end of the day it's you know it's them putting in the work and it's all the mentors that they've had at Riverside High School Riverside Middle School or whatever other school they had transferred in from uh and so it takes a village it takes a village and education to help mold our young men and so I would like to call them up Kevin Gonzalez Brandon Olivas Angel Chavez Oscar Tavarez Diego Padilla Ricardo arano hared arano Alejandro Marquez Jose Varela Miguel abut Isaak Ro John Paul Martinez Jos figeroa adolo Luhan Angel Morales and Sam hakz thank you hey coach Maybe think that they made you guys look good huh [Laughter] also there thank you so cool we're good can we get this gentleman in the front to come this way just a little bit a little bit less and then can we have the gentleman behind him scoot over so you could just step back there we go perfect and then that's nope we could see him he's good we're good all right ready right this way one two three a couple more one two three all right one two three anybody else thank you I just need to take a picture that prop just oh go hunt that kid down you said that and there was a motion made by representative ernandez seconded by alternate mayor Pro molinar to approve the resolution on that motion call for the vote mayor protm Kennedy hi thank you and the voting session and that motion passes unanimously we continue with item 17 and this is discussion in action to approve a resolution recognizing the El Paso football officials camp this item was brought forth by mayor potim Kennedy good morning mayor Pro come on up this was a camp that was um had Victor F involved with it and before I read this real quickly I just want want to say that I've been a sponsor of this for longer than either one of us want to think about U First with the sports commission and now with the law firm um and this is just just to let everybody know it also generates about 1100 hotel room Nights from this event so that you've spilled past one hotel and now are all over the place whereas the El Paso football officials Camp is sponsored by the El Paso Sports Commission and is owned by zebra Sports LLC Richard Corona and Victor fth and whereas 2024 will be the 20th year of the event taking place annually over Memorial Day weekend May 23rd through 25th this year and whereas initially the purpose of the event was to improve officiating skills of El Paso High School referees officials and to offer college athletic directors and coaches the opportunity to view potential hires and whereas the El Paso football officials Camp has offered partic participants both male and female the opportunity to refine their officiating skills and be evaluated by actual decision makers and whereas the El Paso football officials Camp began with 50 to 60 participants and has now grown to over 200 individuals from all over the United States wanting to take their skills to the next level whereas participants officiate local high school football scrimmage games while receiving onfield instruction and film review and whereas the camp is longest running of its type in the United States and approximately 20% of these attendees are recruited to junior colleges and division one official offici football officiating and several have been hired by the NFL including the first female official in the NFL that came through this Camp whereas last year the NFL designated this Camp as one of only three Elite Training Camps in the United States be it resolved by city council of the city of El Paso that the city of El Paso proudly honors and recognizes the significant contributions from the El Paso football officials Camp to the city of El Paso and the United States of America and may the week of May 20th through 26 20124 be known as El Paso football officials Camp week and I make that motion second good morning sir sir nice to see you again it usually was at the airport but good to see you [Laughter] here you know almost ready to leave um Victor and I start his Camp 20 years ago we used to go to Reno Nevada and go to it and we started here for the local guys it ran for three years for the local officials and then after that it um morphant to what it is today um we're very proud what we've done we've had the NFL here since uh postco they are very very important part of this uh camp um Mr Kennedy Thea Chambers have been with us for plus 15 years have helped us through all of our um things what we needed to do with their generous sponsorship money um we' have never received any money from the CBB or the visit El Paso they've never done anything for us but we sell out the Rison Hotel every year we partnered with coral Independent School District we're using a sack this year uh we used the schools and some El Paso High School School schools but we mainly use all six of the sakur Independent School District Schools uh this year the NFL is sending their executive staff down here uh we'll have everybody from Troy Vincent on down they will be coming in on Wednesday and Thursday you're more than welcome to come to visit us on Thursday afternoon at 12:00 at the Rison hotel for our General Session so you can see what what's going on down there uh we've had replay since last year we had replay last year we really grown it this year so you can see what's going on the replay booth at College levels because they review every play on Friday night Thursday and Friday night we'll be at the sack everything at the sack is filmed the NFL is filming it for us the guys will get immediate input what they're doing right wrong and great on the field and on Saturday we're at one of the we're either going to be at East Lake hotel or we're East Lake High School or we're going to be at the new Sac for the final closing sessions of that but we also like to thank everybody who has supported us to this event and my bear friend friend Victor fth you know I missed the man greatly uh we you know he he's a good friend of mine for 15 years I mean actually 25 years and you know we've done this and uh sylv's not in town I as had asked Sylvia to come and join us but she's out of town right now I I was going to say a shout out real quick to Thea Chambers who yes brought this to the sports commission and said this is event is going to grow um where I first got to talk to you and Victor about this program and people don't understand that you have to be truly one of the Elites for the NFL to say we not only want to come help you with this but we want to take a look at who's refereeing so we can recruit future NFL refs and future division one college when you see him on TV there's a good chance that somebody that came through El Paso is on that television referee and I want to thank you for keeping it in El Paso being not only an El Paso but keeping this in El Paso cuz I do know that there have been other people flirting with this event to take it somewhere else and El Paso should be proud of this this is one of the secret gems we don't know what happens it's kind of behind the scenes but the truth is is if you're in the referee business you know it happens and you can't wait to come to El Paso and I want to thank you for that you're welcome and just to highlight uh Karina Tovar she was hired out of El Paso last year she is the next female referee in the NFL and she will be here this weekend thank you as part of our St to our friend Victor may God bless you thank you with that we have a motion in a second yes mayor the motion was B made by mayor protim Kennedy seconded by alternate mayor Pro mol to approve the resolution on item 17 on that motion call for the vote and the voting session and the motion passes unanimously for the record representative Salo join the meeting at 10:04 a.m. than for thank you m p we're ready yes sir would you like to go back to the consent agenda please ma'am thank you in Council per The Rules of Order no use of personal cellular devices nor personal communication should take place on the day while the meeting is in session once you obtain the floor from the presiding chair you will have up to 10 minutes for debate you may speak twice per item please speak into the microphone and refrain from side conversations at the day as while the meeting is in session for those of you joining virtually please make sure your microphones are on mute to reduce any background noise that brings us to the consent agenda all matters listed under the consent agenda will be considered by city council to be routined and will be enacted by one motion a separate discussion is requested by council members prior to the vote members of the audience may ask questions regarding items on the consent agenda when the vote has been taken If an item has not been called out for separate discussion the item has been approved Council May however reconsider any item at any time during the meeting mayor proen page eight item 21 Revis per economic in and International Development and that revision is to strike out the words US Highway 54 and replace with Gateway boulevart North page 10 item 29 postpone for two weeks per tax office page 10 item 30 postpone two weeks per tax office and also miss PR if we can move Animal Services till after lunch as they have uh the veterinarian is in surgery right now yes sir thank you we do have public comment on the items on on the consent agenda on item number four we have miss Patricia Osman and item four is that the solid waist link on the attachment posted with the agenda be approved good morning Miss Osman you have three minutes good morning again unfortunately I'm here again you know I I had some questions in regards to this one um I was looking at the attachments and it seems as though there for leans on people's residential home is that for cleaning up people's yards and if so uh is there any way that I could request that our Representatives instead of uh expenses for Easter egg hunts in volunteers and snacks for the volunteers to fill eggs could they per chance do some organization where you do some volunteers get togethers and help some of your your elderly citizens some other citizens help clean up these yards so that these people don't incur these leans on their properties because that by what I'm reading and how they're listed in regards to um addresses some some in my district um it appears as though there there leans on personal property is is that how I'm reading that in regards to the solid ways it's a lot of different things M Osman that's just not one thing on that it's not just homes it's properties and and okay but is that for cleanup yes yes ma'am okay so is there any way we could request our Representatives so instead of the wasting expenses on filling eggs for stuff like that maybe really help your citizens and organize some clean up with some of the homes in your areas because there are residents senior citizens and disabled people that don't have the funds to hire somebody go do that and then instead they're going to end up with a lean from the city I'm I'm just hoping that you know put that out there as a nice suggestion to actually help the citizens versus a PR stunt with Easter egg thank you for that M Osman I think you're also on the next item seven Miss Osman yes Miss Osman signed up on item seven which is a resolution that the mayor be authorized to sign an intergovernmental support agreement between the city of El Paso and the United States to provide animal control services through its Department of animal services to Fort Bliss in the city of Al Paso sorry I thought y'all were going to do five and six but so one I find that's a disgrace I don't think the city citizens should and taxpayers should be subsidizing Fort Bliss and the reason being for anybody let me slow you down a little bit but the reason being they're only they're paying our cost to we're not we're not paying it for them that's why it's an but this is the thing is that for Bliss used to have their own Animal Shelter alter and their own regulations for their own um families on base they had higher regulations when they had their own shelter that when they when those families mosed out they didn't just dump these pets into our community which is what's causing a lot of the issue with our shelter in pets on the street and so forth if you're on any of the social media you will see even on Fort Bliss all of these straight pets that were dumped because somebody mosed out so I don't think the city should be doing that the city should force Fort Bliss to open up its own shelter as it once had on the Old Fort Bliss property because we didn't have as much issue and we didn't have the same dumping of pets from families on Fort Bliss when they MOS out whether it's overseas or anywhere else they decide hey I'm a little lonely and that I'm in a town I really don't like I'm going to get a pet as company but then when they leave either to go back home or or whatever else they dump the pets and that's a disgrace and we should not be facilitating them doing that we should force Fort Bliss to open up their shelter again that would help our streets and honestly reduce costs for all the citizens thank you and uh Fort Bliss and Al Paso is one community Al Paso is Fort Bliss and Fort Bliss is Al Paso and they we're not we're not we're charging what it cost us not when it's not okay that is why they have the on Bas try to keep the residents on M will you are talking out an interrupt here and I'm going to respect the same thing or I'll turn your mic phone off because I was very respectful to you now I'm speaking and I and um the uh I would ask you to respect the same way I respected you and Fort Bliss is a good partner and we continue to be good partners with Fort Bliss and theou helps us to be good partners and helps them to be able to do different things which is protect our nation protect our borders and continue to be part of our community there's 35,000 men in women that live in El Paso that proudly call El Paso their home and El Paso is very proud of them and I grew up on base my mom then you know exactly what I'm talking about yes okay and quite frankly a lot of what you're talking about is not exactly the truth no it is the truth Miss Osman thank you though for contradicting the great job and the and I think we have our your time up thank you Miss hman but uh I am proud that Fort Bliss calls El Paso their home and I'm proud that we're great partners and great neighbors and uh we had a great evening on Saturday with Fort Bliss honoring the military so thank you for that and I didn't see you out there missman it would have been great to be out there to celebrate and respect our military on Friday night it was Armed Forces Day so thank you well we haven't had a there was a motion made by mayor protim Kennedy second it by I'm not sure who second at the consent agenda representative ernandez to approve the consent agenda as revised on that motion call for the vote and the voting session and that motion passes unanimously we now continue with the agenda on page number six item number 18 item number 18 is discussion and action to approve a resolution that city council accepts the recommendation from The Parks and Recreation Advisory Board and hereby approves the naming of the multi-purpose recreation center located at 9031 VI count Boulevard within the city of Al Paso Al Paso County Texas as Michelle T aimian recreation center and this item was submitted by representative ernandez mayor B may I be recognized I'm sorry representative londes I was just still thinking about Fort Bliss sorry oh no you're okay um uh so I just wanted to provide a little bit of context to the process of the naming of the multi-purpose Center currently it is um it has uh various amenities within the the multi-purpose Center it has an aquatic center it's a therapeutic pool it's one of the only therapeutic pools that the city has it an inventory um and lots of persons with disabilities including uh senior citizens they they take advantage of it um because it is very uh helpful with with their overall wellness and it does have bars inside the pool and and it's just really um a wonderful asset for that neighborhood and uh it has a basketball court it has conference rooms um and the exterior has a community garden and one of the reasons why the recreation center is so um successful is because of the neighborhood association and their involvement uh which is the cista neighborhood association and in that Community one of our wonderful leaders her name is um Michelle T A jamian she has always been a strong Advocate not only for the users um but for um improving the overall Center um she is she is um also uh the daughter of the president and the vice president of the civista neighborhood association um it is through the neighborhood association and they had uh worked with the residents in the in the neighborhood and they had asked um for that Center to be named it currently does not have a name um and it a lot of people call it the NPC but it but then that kind that word is kind of Taken um that acronym so uh there was a a strong desire in light um of the newly Renovations of that site we're really excited that it's getting ready to open um I'm also pleased to announce that the naming uh will be at no cost to the taxpayer um the generous sponsorship of marathon petroleum to rename that um is underway and all of the signage is on order and so we're really thrilled that this community effort um G garnered so much support and I'll read the resolution into the record you may remember Michelle she has come several times to City counc uh she is a strong advocate for disability rights uh she has served on some of our accessibility um organizations she was a long tenur member there she passed away last year she just celebrated um her Heavenly birthday last month in April and uh their family you really wants to not on honor her Legacy but they want to continue to make sure that they are champions of disability rights the multi-purpose Center is going to be the new home of our adults with disabilities and that uh currently that program is housed out of the viajo community center but because of all of the amenities that this site offers they'll be relocating when once it's open to the public which will be in June um there'll be a public ceremony and we invite um the city council and the mayor to participate as well as the public um the ajamian family is not here Unfortunately they became very ill um and so they are watching online so hello to the aaman family online and I'll read the resolution into the record now now therefore be it resolved by the city council of the city of El Paso that city council accepts the recommendation from The Parks and Recreation Advisory Board and hereby approves the naming of the multi-purpose recreation center located at 9031 vicam Boulevard within the city of El Paso El Paso County Texas as Michelle t a jamian recreation center and that Michelle I jamen applicant oh excuse me Michael I jamen applicant father of Michelle shall incur the customary costs associated with the naming of the park such as installing replacing signs with the park name and any other signs posted and fixed at to a facility any proposed sign shall be reviewed and agreed upon by both Parks and Recreation uh department and applicant and as I mentioned to you before um Marathon will be covering those cost um and so I'm very thrilled and honored to make a motion to approve second thank you yes sir we have Miss Osman that signed up to speak on item 18 good morning again Miss Hernandez I want to thank you for that um my uncle used to be on the board of that um I myself have used the facilities there along with my aunt um after I became became disabled I've not always been this way uh my aunt was the very first non-geriatric full hip replacement in the nation she was 15 um her husband was on the board I'm very familiar with the facility and I'm very glad that it's finally being named there have been upgrades to it so this is actually a thank you for that uh I'm not here to be argumentative always sometimes you know what those people who do good need to be called out for it as well as those who don't so thank you thank you ma'am yes sir there is a motion made by representative ernandez seconded by alternate mayor Pro Molin to approve the resolution on item 18 on that motion call for the vote and the voting session and that motion passes unanimously [Applause] the next item is number 19 item 19 is presentation of the sociable City assessment action plan by the responsible Hospitality Institute with a code enforcement Bureau and the El Paso Police Department good morning mayor and Council Steve Alvarado code enforcement director with Paso Police Department if you all can hear me um well here we are it's been about a year since we were directed to come back to council per your direction and look at uh recommendations that will be presented today on the sociable city um a action plan excuse me so although it says action plan there will be no actions taken it'll be full recommendations only today so um today with us we have members of our transformation team and coordinating team um I would ask if they could come and introduce themselves they put a lot of hours into it a lot of effort um and we're still moving forward so please come and introduce yourself good morning Veronica Lopez um PD code enforcement good morning Danny stto code manager good morning good morning Chief good morning mayor and councel Victor suud executive assistant chief good morning Lieutenant Milner Westside Regional good morning good morning omares Bara night enforcement team supervisor morning good morning Steve Lopez Westside Regional Command Center good morning sir Joe gudenrath downtown Management District yeah with us today is just a small portion we had over 15 participants in this project um many meetings up to 29 meetings both mostly in person and some online um these meetings will continue so this project doesn't stop here today uh we have a meeting tomorrow at the uh Municipal service center located at 7968 San Paulo Drive in between yarboro and Lafayette uh that'll start at 1:00 tomorrow and that's at rhi Summit with the participants but anybody's welcome to participate as well and moving forward June 26 we will have a another meeting with the bar owners restaurant owners uh property owners and residents in our city to continue this process uh TS if you could uh bring up the presentation please thank you and I'd like to introduce Miss Joslyn Kaine with the responsible Hospitality Institute that is a consultant that we retain to look at this project Joslyn hello how are you all today um thanks for having me here um I I'm told I can't control this um presentation so I will just ask for the next slide oh there is so I can fantastic um this slide is in uh is here obviously because you want to know that this work is in alignment with your strategic goals so there they are to set the standard for a safe and secure city um and all of the things things that go with that uh we are a nonprofit again my name is Joselyn Kaine the responsible Hospitality Institute is a mouthful so we like to say rhi we were founded in 1983 um with this mission to assist business and communities to create safe and vibrant places so safety is really important obviously vibrancy is as well so we are great supporters of your city and your nlife um we are the leading American North American source of events and resources and consultations so thank you for bringing us to El Paso um we uh were brought here and while you have a very big city and lots of nightlife oops there we go um we we needed to kind of narrow down a little bit so we really focused on the DMD as well as the Cincinnati uh area uh but we believe that all of our work uh you know pertains Citywide so what we found right I think you can generalize um we did do as an aside and I'm not going to go into detail with it today uh an analysis with city data that was provided to us on sort of storefronts to sort of get a sense right of of where is the social venues where is your uh nightlife and sociability spaces and we were able to sort of get like data drives right lots of change so this is just a little bit of it this shows you kind of the um social venues take up quite a bit of that storefront area in the Cincinnati study area and those borders that we chose and then in the downtown as well right quite a lot of that storefront area is social spaces um when we look at those two together we can see right an occupancy and that is ostensibly right every venue for that's to capacity and so we see however that the majority of your venues are in the downtown and a quarter of them are in Cincinnati but we do hear a lot about the problems right in Cincinnati and the issues and the safety issues um so we wanted to dig in because the numbers don't really aren't matching right the narrative uh so this is really helpful and again there's more data a lot more data that um the code has to work through this and to continue to look at data um just to review uh we came three times this is my fourth time to do really largely a community engagement process we can come to you and say we've done this for 40 years like we know all the ways to fix El Paso but we don't we have to hear from your residents and we have to hear from your community and not just bars and cops we have to hear from everybody so we come and we do meetings and virtual meetings and on-site meetings and more meetings and follow-up meetings with people so there's quite a lot that we did um when we came and I'm going to go through also we stayed out till close and hopefully you guys have been out till close um you know relatively recently and if you haven't it's really important to go out into your social venues even if your better days are behind you in terms of late nights um we have to go out and see right what's really happening so we were out there um we did ride alongs we just hung out we went to Cincinnati and you know we stayed till 3 a.m. um and then we did tour the other clusters of nightlife in the city um this is uh a bunch of the participants but I want you to also look at those those you know categories of how many other people are engaged in this work and in having a socialable city everybody has to be included so it's complicated right it takes a village um so how do we do this work we put a framework around it and we create sort of building blocks and then we work downward from that so governance is you all super important people who who make policy and do enforce but we also want to look at planning for people we want to look at safety in particular indoors inside venues and outside venues and we want to look at what we consider like vibrancy so we break it down even further into what we call these six core measures so Mobility right how do people come and go from your social areas and what kind of issues are we seeing about like because they can't come and go easily right so we can talk about that like quality of life is what it sounds like it's sound and I won't say noise I say sound and that's just my pet peeve um because some people's sound is other people's noise and vice versa uh obviously we look at again Public Safety and venue safety as separate but working together and then we look at how is the public space used and then what are your venues doing and not doing that we think they should be doing So the plan is this pretty document that hopefully you all got a copy of it's very heavy but it's got a lot of pictures so it's not super hard to read it's also online for anybody who's watching uh in a couple of places so you can look it up and uh print it out just read it um just to like start on the uh positive um El Paso is fantastic I'd never been here before and now we've been here quite a few times but uh what a wonderful place diversity of options and dining lots of Mexican food great but all kinds of other food um super Progressive and inclusive love that uh the TR gave us right numbers that there's 1400 food serving businesses that employ 32,000 people I bet there's a lot more in your sociable spaces if we were to do a really robust study uh growth Market we see in daytime not just nighttime so when we talk about sociability we don't constantly want to talk about night life we want to talk about day life as well and events and things that happen in the day and you guys are really rebounding uh we heard earlier about your hotel capacities like your stays are going up and your downtown has rebounded quite a bit uh so that's amazing postco uh again I'm just going to dive into these actions I am aware you guys hopefully have seen some of this and read some of this so I'm not going to spend a ton of time but the actions are on the slides the report has lots of implementation in it so if you dig in and you really want to read how do we do these things we really do spell out like steps to take uh as you want to pursue any of these actions so the first one is to hire what we call an night time economy manager you can call it a sociability economy man you can call it whatever you want to but it's somebody from within the government who's not an enforcement person right who's not Public Safety per se to be the person who can Lea with all of those different folks that we saw on that previous slide to create change to come to policy to figure out what the problem is to dig in right to go through the emotional stuff and get to the heart of the matter we also suggest that you enhance your TABC license review and I'll just go through these relatively quickly um that you elevate what you already have which is a local alcohol license we found right that there's not so many mechanisms to communicate to business is what you expect of them from early on as well as while they're in operation so we feel like that is a place that this could really happen and then being more proactive uh and upfront about businesses that are opening not waiting till they open stumbling on them or having a complaint and then going oh you didn't know this you didn't know this you didn't know this we need to see about the systems as they come to your city to open where are those touch points where you can really build um sort of concierge right type service I hope I'm not are you all good you're following me okay governance in the social economy again enhancing collaboration between TABC venues in the city uh everybody works in silos that's just the way government is but we can try to work to break those silos down and everyone's going to the same place where venues want to thrive they want to make money want to be you want them to be safe you want them to be making Community better not taking away from it so working together as a group on a regular basis uh again we're going to talk about this some more revising your noise ordinance or Sound Ordinance is my uh you know word choice um to mitigate sound proactively again not to wait until you've got problems and complaints but to proactively be clear and consistent about what your expectations are and your enforcement and then uh I know this is on the agenda right revise the outdoor Amplified Sound Ordinance those are different right the noise ordinance and the Amplified Sound Ordinance are two different things sometimes people lump them together but they're not so to look at those loopholes and expand the scope so again you've got tools in your toolbox um Mobility actions really quickly right create a ride Share Hub so that people know right how to get home safely to stop driving the car is a very consistent you know thing here in El Paso we want to get people out of their vehicles if they're not in shape to drive them uh we heard quite a bit and these actions again come from these meetings they didn't come from us they came from the people who live here and work here and use these spaces um to increase the use of the Mesa Street Garage which is there and in proximity uh to Cincinnati area but not used uh as much as it could be um and to strengthen parking enforcement to deter patrons from parking in Kern uh where we have you know we continue to hear complaints uh other issues of expanding notification current in particular residents uh were clear that they would like to know more in advance right about alcohol licensing and Sound Ordinance like applications that come that may in fact impact them and hopefully also maybe to support them as well as weigh in on their concerns and then coordinate more frequent trash pickups this is not rocket science um enhancing uh Public Safety and I think uh we've got lots of uh police brass here to talk about the creation of a specialized Hospitality unit this is already happening here which is so exciting uh to create community policing appropriate community policing for the social clusters not just downtown and and Cincinnati of course but all of your Social clusters um to establish quarterly forums and facilitate right saf safety and venue communication that means talk to the folks that are uh serving alcohol and creating your social economy you you have to stay in communication and particularly with the police being the folks out there at night on a regular basis just have communication what whatever it looks like uh continue the connectivity you have between the city and Fort Bliss because for Bliss does uh provide patrons to your city night life and social spaces uh but they also need to know what is happening with those folks right under their command creating a protocol for police for bar checks that is consistent and again that can be communicated in advance so that everybody knows what happens if it's your turn to get a bar check right what is going to happen not to not consistently do the same thing and then have operators just confused about what is happening and why you're in my venue uh and then if possible to create a no no loitering ordinance uh in in the report it talks about the scoping of that in terms of being very narrow to to facilitate that closing time agess because people standing around sort of because the party outside waiting for the party inside to come outside is a problem so if you can do something like that in a narrow way uh typically it doesn't get challenged legally venue safety pertains to what can the venues do what can the venues do around their own safety personnel so we did not see sort of Baseline safety standards we saw very inconsistent use of security when we went venue to venue because we were critically looking right for this so we want to elevate that job of being a security officer and not say it's a you know the door guy cuz that's not very professional uh we want to like give them right the they are the first point of contact and they communicate what is the way you should act inside this venue they need to be communicating however they do it that this is a safe place and we care about our patrons and everybody needs to act as such or right there you won't be able to stay and then again sexual violence prevention programs for venues there's lots of we we do a women's safety um focus group when we come to a city so we did get a lot of feedback from women specifically about how they feel out in your night life that's not to say there is sexual violence going on in El Paso that is not what I mean just having prevention programs and awareness for venues is really important um The Nightlife uh operators themselves I met with them twice if not three times I met with quite a few uh bar owners and restaurant owners uh to talk to them about the importance of this item which is to create an El Paso night life Association I believe they need a voice not individually coming to you or calling your offices but together they need to put their agenda forward uh and say what it is they need so that you can decide whether you can meet some of those things or meet in the middle promote social venues to visitors some more so engage visit and and all the destination marketing organizations here to not just uh uh go to the hotel and the hotel bar but really push them into all of the parts of your Social economy um and then facilitate some recreational activities for youth because we did hear in some of our groups that kids who can't get into these nightlife establishments are just hanging around and they can cause problems so they need options in the evening hours uh because they're not just going to stay home um public space is what we right consider this the right of way the sidewalk so balance event vibrancy with safety needs and that really means not just saying yes to every event that comes but making sure the events that you permit and have here uh that there's enough resources in your safety personnel to make sure they're safe and really positive uh and you know think about that because we see this quite a bit around the country where people are using events outdoor events to bring their downtowns back but they're not minding the fact that you still need police and fire and coat you need support services to make those events safe and then strategic lighting and parking garage improvements there are like some sort of like dark spots like dead spots that make people sort of stop and turn around when they could keep going to see something else so to enhance that pedestrian experience and I know uh Joe's always looking for probably ways to do that and funding to do that downtown so that is a lot of talking um the again the report is hopefully in your hands and up there in a couple of places uh and then this I don't know Steve you want to jump in on this this is all you I I also just want to say this was such a great coordinating team your code and your police and everyone we worked with was amazing like we don't that's not I don't say that to everybody at all uh they were engaged and they remain engaged and I think there's going to be some really cool stuff so thanks so much thank you Joselyn appreciate that so lot of information to process by all means of course just as a reminder you know there's no action taken no voting today we look towards you for recommendations guidance on how you want us to proceed with this project uh and again this project will continue with multiple meetings um inviting everybody to the table public Bar owners Texas Restaurant Association DMD everybody is welcome um these are some of the staff recommendations uh first one is to enhance the Sound Ordinance that' be an overall you know look at it see where we can improve what can be done uh that'll take some time working with our awesome legal team who has been a wonderful participant in this project as well um expand the notification area for residents so by that we mean currently if a liquor license comes in for a bar restaurant whatever it may be even a Circle K or some some type of fast uh Market um residents within 150 ft have the ability to protest the permit you need 25% of that area so if there's four houses one person has to protest and basically may be declined at that point so we're asking maybe expand that area to the full 300 ft so everybody 300 ft get notified but 150 ft have the ability to appeal or protest the license um again at nighttime economy Ambassador manager mayor uh whatever we would like to uh term that person um create a ride Share Hub we're already working on this already uh we're looking at creating a ride Share Hub in the Cincinnati uh area um so specifically people can just go catch your Uber instead of watering the street stopping traffic going into traffic we don't want that as well um something that we recommended and we could take action on uh create a specialized Hospitality unit that's kind of being done already but we're looking towards long-term um placement of that team uh also create an administrative civil citation process currently we issue notices of violations as code officers we're not peace officers so we do not issue Class C citations only peace uh Law Enforcement Officers can do that um this is an alternative these are just tools recommendations that we're providing right now U some of the actions that we did take already within code enforcement that didn't require Council approval was to a notification system on any license renewal or new application so the powers that be Police Department of Code Enforcement knows that a new liquor license is going in at this location it may be a bar maybe something uh you know uh gas station something along that convenience store um that's yeah that's our we go thank you next slide um so from report to action already underway TABC aloh license renewal on premise that was the email uh One-Stop shop was critical on this thanks to uh Philip and his team Tony for making this happen Brenda kentu was instrumental so that allows us the notification that a new liquor license has coming in to a certain address so we know beforehand what we're finding before was uh coming across a bar that's opening and nobody knew from law enforcement's perspective or Fire Marshals that this was coming and actually Fire Marshals did get a plan check on that so they had some notification uh Fort Bliss has extended an open invitation for the cities to attend for all the newcomers so PD is working with them to do presentations I think they're looking at a video presentation as well um hey Welcome to our city these are the the places to go enjoy yourself but this is how we should be um you know participating and you know getting along with the neighborhood if you will um also we also had the cross functional team police code Fire Health TABC the DMD um we want to continue that like I said this doesn't stop here today tomorrow we have the rhi summit um and then June 26 we're going to have continued meetings at the blue Fame building downtown on the 17th floor um for all the participant public is welcome to attend that as well um that was a scheduled meeting with there uh The Hub proved that the right Share Hub that's been proposed vetted and you know of course near-term actions and near Sound Ordinance revisions and Council guidance as previously stated we look towards you for guidance and Direction and we'll take it from there at this time I open enough to any questions that uh you may have thank you and um great presentation thank you for this you can see all the work you've done and all the thoughts and and how you've U you've you know given us a lot of food for thought to look at so I thank you for that can you expand a little bit on the Fort Bliss partnership because I think that's really really important to us certainly um Lieutenant Miller yes Lieutenant Milner was been appoint of contact for good morning good morning may your question was the the Fort Bliss partnership can you explain the partnership and how we're going to move forward with it so we've been um speaking with Fort Bliss we've been holding quarterly meetings with Fort Bliss uh Fort Bliss actually works with us in a lot of the social venues um every weekend they've been instrumental they've been out there uh those those issues that come up in the entertainment or excuse me social venues they don't uh that don't require an arrest then Fort Bliss has been instrumental in taking those soldiers out of the area and so we've been meeting with them quarterly is there any charts to the city as they work with us to come out here and work with us are they charging us no no sir a partner it's called a partnership partnership yes and and we have an ongoing partnership with them and this is DoD police and military police and they lit they drive the area um every weekend that's great that's that's really good to hear it's been very very good for them to work with us because they're able to do things that we cannot enforce thank you very much represent fural uh thank you mayor thank you very much for the presentation um and thank you all and your team for visiting with us um on our briefing with our office it was it was very informative couple of questions for you um I really appreciate app that that this is a living document and you're giving the opportunity not only the council the city manager City attorney but also to the stakeholders to continue to have input and continue to to shape it into what we want or anticipate in the future it's um were you comfortable just couple just questions and you don't have to be specific or but were you comfortable with the part participation from the community and the stakeholders up to this point it's a great question representative fto um I would like to see more participation we were comfortable we had a great participation very diverse different perspectives um different conversations which we all learn from um and we want to continue this we hope that more bar owners um more property owners and more residents come out so we can continue this conversation uh it was a great turnout I'm not disappointed at all but um I'm always a person of perspective we could always do better I can always do better so um we we'll continue this and strive for more participation thank you so much and and I like to take this opportunity to challenge um the community the the the the restaurants the bar owners to to participate and to shake the trees up you know really get in there have their voices heard I'm sure as you were visiting the different locations different bars you were met with some negativity um I'm sure it wasn't all positive and and sparklers and and cheers can you share some of the the negative comments or or input you've got from received from the restaurants and bars yes of course um we're not out to get anybody I want to make that clear we're not here to shut down any business we want the business Community to thrive as well as our residents so we're looking for that Common Ground where we could all just coexist um a lot of times the bars they feel that we are after them targeting them and just trying to get them in citation if they're under the deciel LI limit of 70.0 we just keep on going you know we're not here to sight anybody um but we we do issue sites I'm not going to deny that but uh and we'll continue to do it we're out there Wednesday through Saturday nights till 2 a.m. um on Friday nights Friday and Saturday nights so um we want to continue this participation part of these meetings what I envision uh with the bars resurant owners uh Community participation is having you know presentations okay this is code this is how we use our sound meters this is how we calibrate it every night we calibrate our sound meters um so if you're under so we were hoping that maybe they'll do some self- policing get their own meters and maybe the door man can say hey we're at 72 let's lowered a little bit so we we don't get a violation so and and that's what I Envision I'm hoping to get to th that that point at some time in the future as as you're making these these visits have you received any um any input that you've implemented into the plan have the bar owners restaurant owners come up with ideas that they have in place that can help um other other bar owners and restaurants so sir thank you lieutenant yes sir so on that uh yes we we've had uh we we began meetings so many of the things that rhi is proposing we're already doing those things um and so some of the bar owners did meet with us and ask us a little bit about different ways of providing training to their staff safety for the patrons uh we can go into Pat downs and looking through property well to look at purses Pat Downs so forth so yes a lot of those things are already being implemented thank you lieutenant um just a couple more questions and and I know that I'm getting probably used at least 2 minutes of my 10-minute time so I need to speed up a little bit can you share in just in closing as we're moving forward can you share the data that you're receiving for for example the new uh licenses the bar licenses are that are being requested uh through the city and through TABC can you share them with councel as as they come up um to give us a heads up that they're movie that they're going to potentially open in our district um and then as as we move forward other data that you you're coming across um have you seen um the complaints drop have you seen them increase those are all that's information I think could be very helpful to us as a council certainly as far as the first question representative fto um sharing the data that's already in process so we had a couple Representatives say can we separate it by district and I found out we can do that so there's a ticket in place with our it Department to make that happen so if you receive emails about a new um convenience store coming in it's going to be a LC number um that's that's the acronym they use for a liquor license um you'll be seeing that shortly hopefully within the next few weeks or so that'll be coming to your email box so you'll know what's coming in um previous Trends uh from 2019 to 2023 we had multiple teams from a code enforcement perspective going out so it' be in Vol a volunteer overtime so we had different officers going out so we sometimes get different results when you have different people since we've created the nighttime enforcement team in June of last year it's been the same team members very consistent um same Protocols are followed uh followed and also making relationships with all the bar owners um so we want to continue those relationship so we'll have a team swap coming this June we'll have a new nighttime enforcement team with new members coming on board but they'll be assigned there for a year um moving forward so the consistency is what's important building relationship so they're seeing the same faces they know who to call supervisor or senior code officer or the code officers directly um and we hope to bring that to the meetings as well so introduce you know we're we're not here to get you we're here to help you if that makes sense thank you and lastly mayor um when you all came to our our community meeting thank you very much it was a great presentation but one of the things you emphasized was our partnership with Fort Bliss and how the MPS or the military police were were there to help to guide to help with the the young soldiers um and to work with our community right sir so if I can expand on that um when we did the town hall meetings what we were what we were trying to let you all know is that we do have a great working relationship with Fort Bliss Fort Bliss right now is uh doing courtesy patrols and that's them having some senior officers come out they're at the social venues on the weekends just to make sure that they address anything before issues before they become incidents and then second one of the things that we're already doing and we're actually um getting ready to begin briefings for Bliss soldiers come in on a weekly basis and they have the newcomers briefing and we'd like to be part of that explain what the city of El Paso has to offer some of the nice places to go and those issues that we're seeing and right Shar I mean everything that we're doing we're we're going to be able to explain it to them thank you very much mayor I'm going to defer my 8 minutes to my next question thank you thank you for that you know one of the things as represent here was talking it kind of thought of one of the things we kept hearing was the Bas the noise the base on noise that you can do the meter and it won't show the decb that's required to turn it down but it yet carries a lot further and bounces off the wall so we determine how to work with that so that is one of the recommendations mayor um currently we enforce the a um on the noise ordinance so treble mid-range uh bases along the sea level one of the recommendations in this report is to include a a CA enforcement um once we're given the direction we we'll get the research we'll find out what that number should be and then we'll come back to you and and present it at that time but that is one of the recommendations for the base as base travels different from the other frequencies a and 's also a z rating as well thank you for that cuz I know that's been something that gets be below the radar basically as you would say sure thank you for that creating the vibration that you so representative Canales followed by representative vavo thank you mayor um yeah I've I've read very carefully through the through the report um there are a lot of really excellent recommendations uh that rhi has put together and that the entire team have have put together um and again it's a it's a thick it's a thick report 90 90 plus page 93 Pages um so there's there's a lot of information uh to digest and an action plan that I think uh again not an action plan it's it's a set of recommendations that I think we can develop into a really effective action plan um so thank you for everybody who worked really hard on it and everybody from the community um who turned out to the meetings who Who provided their input and and um worked on on this plan um I will say that I feel like there is one piece that is missing um I'm looking back at the the award of the solicitation when when the council first uh awarded this to rhi um and one of the things that was uh included in that was recommendations for noise remediation and standards um and I I don't necessarily feel that we have gotten back the proposed standards uh by that I mean numbers in a Sound Ordinance um I I I understand that now that falls on us there are not recommendations for uh noise ordinance adjustments it recommends that we make adjustments but doesn't give us the recommended adjustments and so I understand that's on us um thank you to Mr Alvarado I asked him if I could borrow a uh a decel reader how's that working sir it's working and it's working great so i' I've had it for the last few days I plan to go around and take a lot of ambient readings um in in preparation for hopefully quickly coming back uh with an implementation plan for a lot of the recommendations from from rhi but also potentially based on what the readings show and and IDE do want to base it on readings and a scientific process um recommendations for a potential adjustment to the noise ordinance um I've been doing a lot of uh a lot of reading about noise ordinances in both major cities across the country and similarly sized and positioned cities across the country um you know I think they they some easy ones to look at that aren't necessarily super comparable but even in large cities where a lot of noise is probably expected um the Lev the levels are significantly lower or at least somewhat lower than what we allow here in New York City the noise limit is 65 DB during the day and 55 at night and La it's 50 during the day and 40 at night in Chicago it's 55 during the day and 50 at night and then again I looked at other similarly sized to us um in Tucson for example 70 I what we have today but only until 10 p.m. and then 62 after 10 p.m. uh Colorado Springs uh 55 during the day and 50 at night Albuquerque uh also similar uh I believe it's 55 during the day and 50 at night we have 70 a 70 dbel limit across the board it puts El Paso right near the top of of uh what's permissible in municipalities across the country um and I think that has a lot to do with some of the The Strife that we've seen between residents and uh you know so social establishments and the the kind of social clusters that have emerged across the city um a lot of them in really close proximity to to uh Residential Properties um a lot of that is in my district just uh by The Quirk of our of our districts you know I have Cincinnati area the entirety of the Mesa Corridor I have downtown and I have half of five points these are a lot of the places where these these conflicts are happening um and I I do think not a not nothing nothing crazy nothing overly done but I think there are sensible reductions or changes to the to the deciel limits that we could uh that we could Implement that will make sense and again I I I plan to go out and maybe I'll be wrong I'll do my readings and I won't see that but I I do want to do a pretty comprehensive Ive survey of of at least the areas in my district um it looked like you wanted to respond I'll give you some of my do because I felt like um so I think it's like very the very end of the report like 86 87 there's there was like a a whole appendix to try to because it's a right a complicated thing but that there is no magic numbers and what I want you to think about um from my perspective is not what other cities number look like but what is it you're trying to preserve what is it you're trying what are the goals you're trying to reach and then what is it that in particular right is the nuisance you're trying to Abate as opposed to suggesting that all of El Paso should be under the same number I I just want you to be mindful that like so Austin's 85 let me say and then also where they have places of music and vibrancy they want to protect and preserve those um and to empower folks with a number across the city um is a dangerous way to move so that you might think about like more finely tuning of course how you um use the Sound Ordinance for the particular goals that's all yeah and I I actually really love the idea of uh variable limits uh depending on the the different types of approximate zoning districts and if you can work with the enforcement folks so that this becomes something consistent and easy enough because that's the other piece of this it's one thing to have a a law and then it's another what does it look like an implementation so that you can move together towards can you implement it if we do it this way is this going to be harder right and and again from this space of no one's right and no one's wrong but the compromises are in the center and everyone's a little mad but no one's a winner and a loser in this game because we all have to live together and these are right our cities and our venues and our neighborhoods yeah of course and I I agree with you um I I just I I still do feel that again 70 puts us right at the top near the top of the range um I'm looking you know the the CDC the EPA the hearing Health Foundation they all they all list 70 as the upper limit for safe uh safe deciel uh readings for for people's hearing um I think pegging our our upper limit to the very upper limit of what's considered safe for people's hearing is is not necessarily the the best practice um but again I I I want to make sure that what we propose is reasonable um I think there are some of the social clusters that function much better than others now and we need to look at why those ones uh are causing much fewer problems um than some of the ones where we a lot more of the problems and again a lot more of the citations ultimately being being issued there as well um so again I I um plan to come back quickly I two two weeks probably isn't enough time um but I'm going to work on this to make sure that we come back with a with a clear direction for for staff with a an implementation plan for a lot of what's in the in the book here uh but also potentially a a change and again I think we'll have to Workshop it as a as a council in that meeting and make sure that we come up with something that's reasonable for everybody so thank you again for all the hard work and for rhi for being here uh many times over the last few months um I thought we had a really excellent uh community meeting with with uh people in my district and residents who were there and uh bar owners were there and other folks too uh it was really productive so it was good to see that kind of Engagement thank you thank you representative and just to build off of the the tier system that's one of the recommendations in this action plan is to depending on the proximity to residentials motels hotels whatever it may be um maybe the sound deciel limit is different if you're 500t away or if you're in an industrial Zone maybe it's different at that time but we look towards Council for guidance on that matter thank you absolutely thank you thank you and uh repres Canalis um you know it is important to go out there and understand what's going on and I had the opportunity to go out there and start around midnight stayed out there till about 2: in the morning and kind of see exactly what was going on and toward the Cincinnati area and then I went out to the downtown area so it's important to be out there and understand what y'all are doing and how it's working so I I agree with you it's handson and not secondhand information it's a lot it's very important so thank you for that thank you represent followed by represent Mard thank you mayor uh I appreciate all the work that went into to this and um I know we we met and we kind of went in different tangents during our meeting and so now that I've gotten an opportunity to completely read the the report I had a few questions and kind of wanted to pick your brain on on those um including the consultants if if you want to come up at any time that you think there's an answer you might have but one one thing that I was looking at was um revising the noise ordinance and doing the violations more as an administrative thing like a parking ticket and so kind of how do you envision that let's say somebody gets five of these administrative violations and they don't pay them or then they get 10 cuz he said it's a bigger success rate that they'll have to pay more as more kind of hang on or or pile on I'm sorry and so I kind of wanted to get that perspective on certainly so I could give you from experience coming from California it's pretty much a given there um it just depends how the ordinance is going to be written so first violation typically in San Antonio it's done this way too um typically in California was $100 a first violation 200 second violation third violation and everything after that is $500 every each violation per day um after 30 days if it's not paid the violation find doubles so 100 becomes 200 200 becomes 400 well we all know the math 500 becomes 1,000 um it goes against a person so it's a civil action so if you you site Steve Alvarado um it's going after me it's not going after the business as in itself um so and I have the opportunity to appeal that'll be written into the ordinance uh if we do move forward with it depending on Council guidance um so if I do want to appeal I pay the bond money up front so I'm going to pay the $100 fine up front it goes to a third party third party hearing officer um who is retained by City and we also processed all these citations through a third party um uh citation processing center that we we used in California they charge us a certain amount per citation so there's a whole process built into it um each day is a new fine each day is a new violation and it currently exists now so we give a notice of violation each and every day you know so sometimes I've seen where you know 11:00 we we issue a citation for noise violations and we come back at 1:00 1:0 in morning they're still in violation that's a separate violation believe it or not so it's a new day so that's how we envision it if we do move forward um but these are some of the things that are pretty commonly used in California City of San Antonio also uses it in in their meth one of their tools as well so if I can just add um this system is simpler uh it's it's quicker and it doesn't include a court system that requires a attorneys or individuals who are considered um Witnesses right the way it works now is burdensome to everybody uh and what you're really trying to do is change Behavior this is not about fines or making money this is about do the right thing because we don't really want to mess with this um but it's Nimble way more Nimble than citations that pile up that go to a judge who right has other things to do or like looks at them as a whole um the more quickly you bring a venue to attention if you will the more they see you you you see them and then they tell their friends like this is not a joke this is real they respect each other right and they listen to each other even if they're working on trust with the city quickly is really important so having them adjudicate quickly is really important if that makes sense yeah it does um with the nighttime Association um I I guess part of this I I kind of want under I wanted to understand um what kind of Outreach she did to Bar owners to make it to these almost 30 meetings that happened in the last months well the coordinating team did a really good job and I think uh Joe Gooden wrath helped quite a bit in trying to get the list of everyone we could get and then I did two meetings specifically excluding City I didn't want the city at these meetings with these Bor owners because I wanted a really honest conversation right I didn't want any fear in there about what if I say this what if I say that and and that is U those two meetings I think I don't know I talked to 30 40 I mean I talked to quite a few folks who have also multiple locations so one person doesn't mean one venue it could mean four um and try to be clear that we're not talking about creating a whole new association with dues or anything like that just simply or organize yourself in some way um whether it's a Facebook group could be that simple to not just also like push back against things but really again what's our agenda do we want to raise the level of bar service do we want to raise the level of security service do we want to get something from the city do we want to neg go right so it's a little rabble rousing in some way it's a little bit of like be an advocate for yourself don't be a victim um but but again I think we reached out and we used the Texas Restaurant Association as well Don Larios was part of our uh transformation team so you know we did as much as we could in terms of trying to get people uh again without fear that the city was going to be there to retaliate in some way to come and engage this conversation and stay together and I think I don't know Joe are you going to get the downtown operators together again because uh we did one specific specifically right within DMD um so I mean that's what this is just organizing right and and were they open to the self-organizing on creating this Association I think so I mean again like um they have to understand if they don't have a voice then they lose and if you're not at the table you're on the menu and that is how we have phrased it and that's what happens a lot there's there there has to be trust building and communication with the city or else the city's just a gotcha entity and that's not good for anybody so yeah I think so I think that leadership is really a big deal and if somebody doesn't step up to say yeah I got the time I could figure out how to be a leader and it doesn't really work so amongst them and maybe again if DMD is inclined as a neutral party I mean the other thing is if you think about hiring sort of a nighttime economy manager or a night mayor or whatever you want to call it Ambassador that could also be a part of their work is to try to right um have quarterly meetings or whatever but they're not a wearing a badge they're someone who's sort of neutral to see who's rising to the top in terms of leadership these guys are my favorite people to work with but they're like radically independent as as operators of venues they all they do is spend time in their venue and try to figure out how to make it work and they barely ever go to their neighbors venues or like across town they're not joiners it's like hurting cats but someone needs to WR get to like get organize them and then a leader will evolve yeah and I kind of have the same thought on the nighttime economic manager um being a liaison between whatever Association may form and I think self-organized is is a good thing yeah but I think one of the other things that I wasn't completely clear clear on was that there were advantages to um not having them at the city but then there was also disadvantage of of having them at at the DMD just because it's downtown and this would be Citywide so what could be a good proposal that kind of meets everything moving forward or is that the million dollar question I'm not exactly sure I understand that question like a Citywide uh Association so it set the nighttime manager would not if there was pros and cons to having them work for the city there were pros and cons to being at the DMD so what is a good solution that kind of comes together in the middle I I had this job right I did that job for 15 years for the city of San Francisco so my opinion and I what I've seen and I we've done studies on lots of cities that put them in different places is that inside a city manager's office inside a more neutral but higher level uh City job is a better place for them because they need to be able to pick up a phone when they need fire uh stats or they need you know like something maybe out of the box sewer like I don't know whatever and get a phone call back if you put them in a public safety space that doesn't work very well cuz they're not trusted right as being not just safety concerned and then you're right if it's the only issue right is funding so putting it in the DMD or having the DMD be part of it was just like a it's a baby step because not all the cities have like the luxury and you're going to go into your budget cycle soon enough uh to put a position like this I I advocate for the purposes I think you understand of of neutrality as well as a level of authority to put it in a place that right is outside of a safety agency but inside the city government and I guess okay we'll come back to you sir okay may can I make one comment on that real quick sir um I when we looked at this overall plan and I had staff take which is a very comprehensive plan and put it into something more actionable in terms of priorities one of the things that resonated with me the most I think in looking at the the actions was what we're having a conversation about right now and that is call call the individual that you want whether it's a nighttime economy manager whether it's an ombuds person when we've done this in the city and other areas and we've created this individual like we've done UDS persons and planning and inspections and it really reaped us a lot of benefits and working with you know areas where we are having some problems um within the development community and actually saw measurable improvements I agree that that this is probably one of the bigger actions that I want to take from this plan to put this in place because I think then you're doing a couple couple things you're establishing a point of trust within the within these social settings and someone that's really focused on it but you're also creating an expectations of standards as well and so you actually have somebody there that's that's focused on doing that so you know I think it's it's a really important step it's something from a budget standpoint that I think that you know we'll we will um prioritize and make recommendations as we come forward I don't think that's a real heavy lift and looking at the actions that uh Mr Alvarado and his team have have extracted I think we can we can certainly focus our attention on those as well as some of the other uh feedback that we'll get from you on the council thank you represent mul we'll come right back to you sir thank you very much mayor um Mr Al ma'am thank you very much for your presentation and speaking uh right now call it the night manager the mayor the edsman whatever what actual Authority would that person have the authority you give them um I think ultimately it isn't really about like again it's not an enforcement role by any stret nor is it even compliance it's more um to leas because cities are siloed right and because if you have some a complaint or a problem that comes to you in your office and then you go to one agency and they go it's there and then it's there it avoid it it's basically bringing people together to get to do engagement if they come from a uh like right under City management or something like that I mean the question isn't really like what kind of hammer can they pull like right like Authority is what you give them as Authority but it isn't the issue the issue is really having the right conversations with the right people and quickly does that make sense does that answer your question uh to me not really but let me move on man cuz I'm limited on my time okay sorry okay so to me it's uh having been a police officer for 28 years uh a lieutenant LT on scene uh perhaps you'll have a senior Sergeant supervisor on scene if TABC of course TABC does their own thing and of course in conjunction with everything that's happening but to me if you have an LT that person should be the ranking officer the person that makes the final decisions every police officer every peace officer who's assigned whatever part of that Cincinnati Entertainment District he or she has the full authority to affect arrests issue citations stop possible activity that's happening there so if are we trying to just yes or no are we trying to take that away from them no okay thank you and so to me it's kind of like a duplication of effort I don't see the I know Colonel Weston you mentioned certain things right now but um you're there to do what you need to do okay so well sir I'd like to clarify that just from from how I'm viewing it I'm viewing it from the standpoint this is a this is not an enforcement person this is a person that can coordinate to get people to do the right thing it's a person that it's a customer service related role it's a lot it's allowing us to get better visibility of potentially different problem areas different challenges that business might be businesses might even be having from a resource standpoint so it's a totally different role from a from a law enforcement type role it's much more focused on clarifying standards expectations and customer service okay thank you very much for that clarification however uh in a nutshell where are the working hours for this person so we need to define the role uh what the duties and responsib abilities are to be for this person um first we start there um I agree with city manager uh um assessment is that this person is going to be if I have a code enforcement issues at Steve's Bar I'm going to call this uh Ombudsman Ambassador whatever we we deter mayor thank you mayor manager nightm not night mayor night mayor night mayor yes uh whatever this person's title is called what we have that that uh conversation if you will so hey I'm having problems at this location please give them a call let them know that you know they need to cease whatever the the violation is and let's set up a meeting to follow up with them to discuss these concerns that we keep getting from and the reason I'm asking that question is you need this person boots on the ground yes uh you don't need them stuck in an office Monday through Friday 8 to 4: not that person needs to understand hey they're going to be working to 2 3:00 in the morning perhaps even to 6:00 or later it's going to impact that quality of life if that person's married has a family and other things but they need to be aware of what the job description is going to be moving on uh have you seen a increase or decrease in security officers here at any of the uh locations there bars restaurants let me defer to PD since they're out there the boots on the ground Lieutenant Milner please quickly well I mean hey I got 10 minutes I got 10 minutes I thank you lieutenant uh sir as far as U security many bar owners have been trying to beef up security and so forth however we still see that there needs to be training for those um you want to call them bouncers security or just the doormen like um like she said so uh we have we have seen a decrease in a lot of the violent crime and and that is partly because we are there uh at at the scene and so as as to your previous question um PD does not need to be the agency that's always called and so this nighttime manager mayor as a liaison is a really good thing because often times we get called and it's a code enforcement Health Department fire marshal issue so many times we don't need to be there okay thank you yes sir appr get that information and so uh Mr Alvarado earlier you mentioned that there's going to be future meetings if you could have that your office share that with us at City Council Members absolutely sir and my last thing I noticed uh you do have this presentation on the city website for the El Paso Police Department do you will be you uh be doing a Spanish version that's a great question uh I'll work with our team to see if we can get that translated into Spanish okay I really feel that you do need need one um I know it's a lot of a lot of documents to be translated but uh we live in the city of op Paso so I would say yes yes sir and that concludes my questions thank you thank you sir representa thank you mayor I um was kind of thinking um off of what R Molina's questions were in in terms of something that I didn't really see in here was um best practices on getting violence in bars or in the bar areas mitigated and I'm kind of hearing that more police presence has has helped mitigate that but in any of this study did that come up at all like these are the hotpots where the violence is always happening and this is what we want to do instead or absolutely sir uh so we like we did the town hall meetings for All City Council representatives and um their associations uh we have seen a a decline but again it's because of police presence and the military constantly helping us out and being there um but did I answer your question yeah I guess is that the only practice to do we didn't get any other better practices or best practices that came out of this study so out of the study and and like I said since we've been out there boots on the ground for the last couple of years because we've identified hotpots we data driven agency uh because we've identified those hotpots we've been out there we've been going out in advance before the bars open to make sure that we're educating people we've been communicating with them on several levels to see if they're going to have a special event if we need to beef up our security so yes there has been many discussions okay yes sir and in terms of this nighttime blank whatever it's going to be called um I'm I'm kind of hearing from you and your previous response to rep mad that this is kind of helping you get freed from being at all these things because you could be doing other things that are critical things that the police should be doing so critical events I guess I I did get an opportunity to go to Dallas and Austin and I was able to speak with several nighttime managers various cities Sacramento so forth and this person not being authoritative not having the uniform that is often intimidating to some people um their liaison and they can get things going on all sides being neutral and so I I don't feel like it would be taking Authority from me because when it's my opportunity I'm going to do whatever it is that I need to enforce regardless but it would allow you to to go address like emergencies rather than going to a bar for a bar call that maybe the Fire Marshals need to absolutely and that's so that would be correct to say yes absolutely okay and then um I'm going to just jump in really really fast page 78 starts uh some really specific things you can and resources for you so I want to make sure that you um go back when you have a minute to look at um we have giv you right uh web links to ve venue best practices guides opening guides right how to run bar like there's tons of resources in here and it's a lot so uh I just want you to see that and there's Copper Star certification programs there's really a lot the venues can do to up their game and we've given you all of that in here yes thank you I also saw um I I don't know who this question is for but um I know that probably at least for the last two decades there's been efforts to put a bridge over Mesa in the Cincinnati area and I saw that suggestion in this and this may be a a big Tech stock question right but I know in my District we are um getting rid of some bridges in the in the future cuz people aren't really using the bridges anymore and there's other technology putting lights on the road and stuff like that that are helping um kids cross alamaa for example right so um did those conversations happen with Tex do and a bridge was recommended or this is just a suggestion that came out of this it was a conversation we had internally through this process Tex do was not part of that conversation but they those are several recommendations as people had concerns Crossing Mesa at nighttime um we talked about the lights we talked about the bridge um but it's something we can look into if directed to yeah I I think that would be good just to have their perspective on it because ultimately mes is theirs and it's going to be um difficult if they're not on board or they have other suggestions for safety and so one of the other safety suggestions was ride share in put putting it in a strategic location so that pedestrian foot traffic is able to get to that location and we mitigate pedestrian fatalities and things like that yes sir so that's part of the r share safety and the last thing I have I'm sorry for taking up so much time I did not mean to have this these many this many questions but um I'm thinking about what was said earlier about noise levels depending on where they're at and I think that that's really appropriate and I didn't see um the Pedas Street area above um Grant consider in this not the Five Points area but after you cross the train tracks North and there's a lot of residential there and there's a bars like the Kiki area has a few bars and stuff like that um and they're taking up a lot of space in the neighborhoods and stuff that is is impacting my constituents so I feel that when we're thinking about noise levels depending on where we also kind of need to think about what parking and what matters can be addressed in that and that's something that I also didn't see in here and again repres representative this is going to be Citywide applicable so whatever U is determined if it's a tiered system dep depending on the proximity to residential then it'll be applicable Citywide so um Cincinnati DMD Five Points Sosa it'll be Citywide sir you sure thank you sir we do have a public comment yes mayor we do have miss Patricia Osman so I did read through this uh thank you for the be us area uh during that that walk through that happened Mr uh Rick thoro while we were out there in front of my house actually witnessed some drug deals in the parking lot behind Kies um so yeah there there are a lot of issues when you go up past the Bohemian block or which youall five points but uh part of what what I didn't see addressed in here and it is part of the safety issue because uh I have sent all of y'all information in the past in regards to concerns that are happening in bars regarding the prostitution okay you've got a lot of bars here in town that are entertaining and having having events with BDSM prostitutes and basically that is just sexual assault prostitution where they are Recruitment and solicitation events okay so you get these people in these bars all riled up with the events that they're putting on and then you let them out into the community okay and not everybody that's being sexually assaulted by these people are consenting quite frankly a lot of the issues that are happening out throughout all these bars and if we're since you did open the window in regards to Fort Bliss I'm going to state if we did the numbers properly because it it seems from what I've heard it seems as though a lot of a lot of what's going on whether it's Fort blissard whatever it's keeping statistics safety statistics off actually some some of these incidents off the safety statistics are we really a safe City I seriously doubt because our numbers have been reported for a very long time but I'd like to find out what sort of procedures are going to be in place in both the hospitality and these restaurants so that for training so that they can mitigate if prostitutes are working out of their establishment for stronger fines if they are because we shouldn't have a thing called the angel shot where women have to go up to the bartender to ask for this so that they could be safely escorted out because some guy we have too many women that end up dead in our community assaulted found in the desert not found at all but also as far as Fort Bliss yes if we did the numbers as to the citizens going on Fort Bliss drunk driving and killing they enlisted in their family as versus the other way around I don't think that's a really good partnership because we have too many soldiers and Brack was not a good thing for El Paso we have too many soldiers coming into the community drunk driving shooting at bar getting too drunk and shooting up bars killing our citizens so yeah something does need to be done thank you ma'am nandes sorry I keep pushing the wrong one U Mr Al thank you for the presentation for everyone's hard work and to the Consultants um and law enforcement thank you the I I I reviewed the the study I think it's definitely a good first step there is lwh hanging fruit that we can immediately address within departments I'm not sure if you need to make any title changes or any ordinance changes however from the planning component I really do believe that we need to start considering and I had this conversation um on my briefing with you all looking at placing overlays over the social venue clusters and in those overlays to require a higher standard of not only pedestrian access but the recommendations of ride shares putting an emphasis on safe driving as a result of our nightlife um our infrastructure is currently not set up like that in the four five different clusters that you have throughout the city not including downtown I I do believe downtown should be held to a different standard that is why I support it um for the carv out to the noise ordinance because how are you going to get the ballpark to comply under the noise ordinance and so I have serious concerns about noise and and in the downtown area however in the other areas that are very in close proximity to Residents if you were to place an overlay these planning overlays similarly to how you do a smart code overlay and any new establishment that opens if we can require them to put together planning and infrastructure requirements like a dedicated space if you're budding a street a dedicated space for ride shares and other uh ideas to that that are here in the in the program I think that is where the city will have the most teeth and enforcement opportunities is with new development how do you change the overall culture and behavior and the development of that space now I know there's you know some caveats in our Cod that if a bar closes and you know a new Bar opens and then there's like a period of time where you know they can jump in and and not have to be grandfathered in if you will but you know those are our self-imposed rules we can go back and we can reconsider those just like how we require landscape on new development at the core of the city and and any new development within the city limits we could also require a higher level of planning for that specific establishment or restaurant um I'm also very concerned with um our high numbers of drunk driving you we see all the videos on social media they're leaving either House Parties or social venues and it is resulting to Deaths um I had had a conversation a couple weeks ago uh with some of our finance folks to try to determine how can we set aside dollars so that we can actually Implement some of these recommendations in this study I don't want just a study to sit on a shelf we do that too many times with our planning documents really would love for actionable implemented policies and funding to back that up because I believe it's unacceptable to be Drafting and doing mandatory overtime for our police officers at these social clusters when there are high priority One calls that need to be a priority in our city and so um I know that everyone has a priority in the city I just get concerned when you're putting multi-million dollars of law enforcement without the understanding of the social component which is the behavior you can't just always have enforcement you need to have proactive measures and that starts from the planning process of of allowing to issue a new uh certificate of occupancy to a new establishment um the density if we if other cities are able to do overlays for density for short-term rentals and that has been established in every other community but El Paso then we can have a conversation about density and the high number of clusters of social venues that are opening by right right next to another establishment that is attributing to high levels of noise nuisance and now unfortunately uh irresponsible driving on our roadways I would like for us to also consider those overlays for density requirements to have a distance between one business opening to another business that is how we change the overall planning and development of these social venue clusters Citywide we don't go retroactively and and hurt business but when there is a new establishment opening is should trigger a very thorough TABC liquor involvement public process involvement and of course having our inspectors and our planning department view the site to ensure it complies and it's going to help save lives um ultimately that that is how I'd like to see this planning document move forward bring us back some recommendations on how to change our planning codes how to establish a new overlay and how to reduce the density of the number of these social venues opening up right next to each other I am also concerned with one area of my district which is on Airway we have real concerns about traffic and not having enough parking spaces go back look at the code for parking to have that many bars right next to each other because as a consequence now they're parking across Airway at a curve into another shopping center and and pedestrians are crossing the street there's there's not enough lighting there is no pedest safety axes I have taken the streets department out there you have bars in that area who are asking for more pedestrian improvements and how concerned they are with pedestrian Crossing Airway that is where I think we have the most opportunity to make a change here is by looking at our internal uh planning and parking requirements for these establishments uh overall I think like I said earlier this is a good first step um and I'm really appreciative of all the work that the the department and all of the community stakers stakeholders have put into this thank you thank you representative hernand appreciate that um given the direction we will Circle back and work with our planning division traffic engineering um to look into the overlays and also traffic concerns along that line um once it comes to that point so thank you sir M PR that's it yes sir thank you thank you sir you wanted to move on to item 35 35 item item 35 is discussion and action on a resolution authorizing the submission of an application to the US Federal Railroad Administration Consolidated rail infrastructure and safety improvements competition requesting funds in the amount of 22,89125 38,400 or 7.5% match required from the city for the Saragosa rail grate separation project move to approve we do have public comment on this item from commissioner Elana I thought I was going to have to come up and convince you and beg and plead so instead I'll just say thank you very much for your consideration m p there's a motion in a second yes the motion was made by representative Retta seconded by representative FAL to approve item 35 on that motion call for the vote in the voting session and that motion passes unanimously welcome to the chambers representative G and we'll validate your parking thank you I know you guys do that for us at the county so thank you I know I'm trying to change that thank you mayor thank you Council thank you ma'am uh I don't want to go to 20 because that's going to take more than 11 minutes so if we could um go to First readings yes sir these are the first the introduction of ordinances items 20 1 to 24 there is a motion made by representative Rea second and by representative Federal to approve the first reading of ordinances these are items 21 to 24 on that motion call for the vote in the voting session and that motion passes unanimously next item the next item is number 25 item 25 is discussion and action on a resolution authorizing the city manager to sign an agreement for Professional Services between the city of Al Paso and consor Engineers LLC for a project known as engineering and design services for the wrestler Boulevard extension project move to approve there is a motion made by representative ernandez seconded by representative pi to approve item number 25 on that motion call for the vote in the voting session and that motion passes unanimously Miss PR I noticed that um on item 21 if we miss Osman would you like to speak on that I can reconsider that item if you'd like you know what I yeah I just had a couple of quick questions not necessarily opposition all right can we reconsider just item 21 please second there's a motion in a second to reconsider the introduction of the ordinance on item 21 all in favor I anyone opposed motion passes item 21 is an introduction of a Ordnance authorizing the city manager to sign a contract of sale with n life Inc a Colorado Corporation for the sale of approximately 17 Acres of property located at the northeast corner of Cohen Avenue and Gateway Boulevard North in Al Paso Texas 79924 go ahead and like I said I'm not here to always argue but I I did have some questions I I noticed when this was announced uh the private public partnership a few weeks back it was never stated that the property was going to be for sale I don't recall that was that when youall did the press conference was it stated that it was going to be for sale yeah she'll explain that to you because it's part of the package okay but in when y'all did the press conference at that time because everybody was really happy that yall switch from that MPC and the issue at Union Depot to Northeast that really does need revitalization now let me clarify one project has nothing to do with no I understand that okay I understand that but um when y'all did do the press conference after executive session and then y'all did the press conference that day I don't recall at any point anybody stating that the property was going to be sold and when I read this agenda it seems as though that's what we're doing that's what the city is doing right yes ma'am yes ma'am she'll explain that to you Karina brasgalla economic and International Development so as uh believe it was in the Public Presentation it's in the posted backup for the term sheet that was approved on April 23rd and mentioned at the press conference part of the public private partnership and the incentive package is the conveyance of city-owned property that is what this introductory ordinance is for so we'll be conveying it's going to be approximately 17 Acres the final determination will be based on the parking and traffic study so that we have the final boundaries and lay out of that um so it's conve when I talk about that senator bco and representative oras uh went to the state legislators and got the state to allow us to be able to do uh convey land to be able to do a deal like this and uh they're the ones that uh brought it forward in one in the Senate one in the in the state and um they led the Char and we were able to do that and and that's where and I know that I thank them for their leadership because without that we wouldn't have been able to do this absolutely this will no longer be City L correct correct it will be sold and it will be held by notes live there's extensive clawback Provisions in the contract of sale to return the property to restrict the uses to what was approved in the incentive agreement um and then again boundaries are under final confirmation of the survey well it's not exactly be sold because it's part of the the full package it's part of the package I make sure it will no longer now be the owners of the property yes ma'am yes thank you ma'am of course with that do we have a motion in a second there's a motion made by representative Reta seconded by representative Federal to approve the introduction of the ordinance for item 21 on that motion call for the vote and the voting session and the motion passes unanimously the next item is number 26 item 26 is discussion and action on a resolution authorizing the city manager to sign an agreement for Professional Services between the city of Al Paso and conso Engineers LLC for a project known as Northeast Advanced manufacturing development Phase 1 design Bill owners representative briging documents approve there is a motion made by alternate mayor Pro Molin seconded by representative P to approve item number 26 on that motion call for the vote and the voting session and that motion passes unanimously item number 27 is a public hearing on an ordinance granting special permit to allow for infield development with reductions to minimum lot area and minimum average lot width at 50 204 Sun Valley Drive thank you very much mayor so um this item was introduced several weeks ago and they were going to put a uh duplex on this property um I had some concerns number one I don't believe it was uh follows the characteris characteristics of this entire neighborhood and so putting a duplex there where mostly have single family homes to me was not really acceptable at that time a gentleman I believe Mr Samora I did ask if he could provide the information on how many other duplexes were there within a 2-m radius and still have not received that information at all okay anyway subsequent to that I did go to make a site visit there at 5204 Sun Valley and whoa to my surprise there's already a duplex fully constructed wow and this is before special permits are allowed so this item went before the City Planning Commission has approved but I have a problem with how let's go back this Builder this developer this owner obviously had to go to the City Planning and inspections and file his plan is that correct and seek permits pay for those permits there's a file someplace and I'm sure in this age of Technology if an inspector went out there he could probably access all that information from an iPad tablet cell phone whatever other electronic device and surely he's going to say you know what this is happening here uh this is a duplex but it doesn't have the special permits and to allow it to be fully constructed without the special permits I I have a serious problem with that okay so I continued and like I said I didn't get the information on the U on the duplexes so I continued in that area and I found another duplex this duplex is at 5100 Kodiak now I'm very familiar with that area there and this house or I should say this land on Kodiak had been vacant for many years I way before I was a city councilman uh whoever built that property that duplex I'm sure they followed all the requirements it wasn't my purview to say yes or no or how it came out to be in city council but that's something else different so it's just very different for me to understand how is it that when someone applies they have to do those plans they have to seek permits and then yet the foundation is laid the plumbing is there electrical is there the HVAC is there but the inspectors that go out surely they know that hey this does not meet code because they need special permits to establish the width for a duplex in this land I'd like an answer good morning sir uh mayor it's afternoon already 11:59 okay I'm looking at the clock sir but thank you though for the input okay good morning uh Philip 2way planning and inspections so there are two things here um that we need to clarify I think one of the best policy that the city council has is the infill development policy which allows you know diversity of housing so the the the reason we're here is because the events the sequence of event that took place so things happened the way they were not supposed to happen that's the reason we're here the duplex itself is a permitted use in that zone District right the only reason that this Cas is before you is because of the lot size that they didn't meet so if they had made the lot size they wouldn't be here before you they would have gone and got the um uh and received the bill and permit approval submitted billing uh plans completed the inspections and get the CEO and they'll be done in this casee the the sequence of event was wrong so he submitted a building permit that allowed him to build a single family housing for that property then he kind of discovered that you know the owner said you know what I would like to have a duplex that this Zone District does allow me to have a duplex so he started you know putting a demising wall between you know you know in in the middle of the the um structure that's when when City uh inspector caught him and say no you can't do that because your plan does show that you're are here to to build a single family home so we stopped it and that's been stopped for almost a year now until he came in and we decided that you know will um allow him to process he submitted an application for a special permit to reduce the load size so we allowed him to uh submit that application and that application is the one that is before you today so again the the issue we have today is the sequencing he he jumped the gun he decided that he would you know he was permitted to do that so he put the demising W there and that's the reason we're here but the policy that you have in place to allow diversity of housing is a very good policy and that's what we were following okay but I'm not questioning the policy also can it if you could U show the different photographs that are on the backup as well and so to it's uh those photos I took them like I said I did the site visit and um it was just very surprising and yes you only received one letter in opposition of it but to me it's like it just changes everything okay it just absolutely changes everything in this neighborhood and yes there is one more house on Kodiak but that's that's something that we're not even going to really talk too much about it but I found that house on Kodiak no one else found that house and so is there any other repercussions to this person that this applicant that can say Hey you is there a fine because he didn't follow policy is there some type of a a batement that says hey you did not follow polic and I don't know if this is the first time he's ever built a house or not I don't know I don't even know the gentleman I don't know the owners I don't know anything like that but it's in my district and so to me I'm fighting for that one person correct again so the consequence is that this this property itself this structure has not received AO so this this structure has been vacant for almost a year now to get through this process of um special perit approval so that's one the other one is that his plan that we approve so when we do the um inspections again we'll have to charge him for that the law does not allow us to Triple fee or do anything because he built it with perit if he hadn't built a with permit then we'll triple fee him and so if you're going to find this gentleman there isn't it better to find him and get that money before we approve it to find him well the inspections he still has to pay for the inspections he hasn't pay for the inspections because we have not allowed further inspections on this property until this process if we give Grant a special permission and then what happens if he doesn't well he has to we won't have his coo on that property he can occupy the property okay all right thank you very much Mr Mr right thank you sir representative Canales thank you mayor I just had a couple questions it it looks like the special permit is only for uh the uh minimum lot size and and lot width correct so not uh not setbacks no okay um how much of a reduction do they need for the minimum lot size and width is about, th sareet th square feet on the sorry 1,000 square F feet to uh lot minimum lot size and then what about the lot width about 10 ft lot width reduction are there any are the surrounding Lots also on special permits for reduced uh lot width and planning inspections so Mr molinard is correct there aren't other existing duplexes however in very close proximity to this property there are lots that have the size that have the width the depth that could simply uh very easily convert to a duplex simply with a a building pyrit yeah I'm just I'm looking at both the photos and the aerial it looks like some of the neighboring properties have very small setbacks and they look like they're maybe less lower width than that's because of the single family use has a right smaller required lot size yes yes it does require her smaller however again there are especially those Cesc Lots there's other lots that would meet the the minimum requirements as mrto stated the use is not the issue that's permitted by right in the R4 it's just the dimensional standards just the dimensions okay do you uh by chance I'm sorry if it's in the backup uh know the lot size the square footage of of the lot so it's a th about 1,000 foot reduction what is the actual lot size requires 7,000 it's about 6,000 give or take okay yeah 60 requires 70t wide it's about 60t wide again 100% in line with what um Council looked at in terms of the overall uh infill policy that was approved last year the letter of opposition was that from the one of the adjacent neighbors uh somewhere else across the street um it is important to note over over 50 notices went out to over 50 Property Owners we did get that one one comment okay but they're not on the same side of the street so they wouldn't be necessarily directly impacted by the the the law in fact s Val ism major arer so yeah on the other side of the Val okay that's all my questions thank you sir thank you very much so is there a motion at all either way I'll make a motion to deny the applicant is pral permitting Z second we have a motion in a second to deny the motion was made by alternate mayor Pro molinar second by representative ASO and this is to deny the special permit on that motion call for the vote and the voting session or mayor we have a tie no thank you and the voting session and the motion to deny fails Representatives ASO molinar Sal the voting I Representatives Kennedy Rivera Canales voting n that motion fails second there's there is no motion at this point are you making the motion there is no motion at this point there's no motion at this point approve there is a motion made by representative Canales seconded by representative Riva to approve the special permit on that motion mayor I'd like to speak about this motion pardon me I requested to speak about this motion go ahead sir thank you mayor um yeah I just want to be clear clear again I think staff put it fairly clearly but a duplex is allowed in this zoning District already by right um the applicant received the building permits correct so the building permit for the duplex is still uh contingent on the special permit today okay so they built they constructed the duplex on a permit that allowed them to only build a single family home correct yes sir uh and despite that we're not able to Triple fee because they are within an allowed zoning District despite Building without the correct permit has to do with with the building code regulations right M Mr Canalis they built it with a permit the only thing they did was to put a wall while um in the process of inspections so the the single family structure was built with a permit the the permit was issued to them by by the city so the only reason we're here again is the sequence of events uh because they uh went ahead of themselves and started you putting a demising wall and started constructing a duplex without the uh proper approval of a special permit so now the the duplex is is there um in order to allow the duplex to continue to exist will mean that we have to have a u Council approval of that special permit If you deny it then the wall needs to be taken down in the middle and make it a single family home okay understood I I was under the impression that they already were had been issued the building permit not for the duplex for the duplex yeah they submitted but that permit hasn't been issued until councel approves that special permit right but they constructed without they constructed the dividing wall correct to make it a duplex with obtaining that perit first and that was discovered by the inspector and then and then subsequently the CO's been held for almost almost a year so so representative mullar is correct um you know that wasn't what what the they came in with the permit for construction of a single family home which was which was approved and then in the process when they put the the wall in to make it a duplex they were not in compliance at that time until it was discovered and through a long process now over the course of about a year correct going back and forth they have to they have to remediate by doing certain things to meet the requirements for a duplex and that's what the approval is but but he's correct they didn't do it appropriately from the beginning Goa right and again it's just the lot the lot width and and minimum lot size requirements don't correct they they're not in compliance because the the Improvement is now dup correct okay in that case I'll actually withdraw my motion did you still want to speak sir huh okay represent M thank you very much mayor so to me it's like this um the person filed a plan for a single family home period okay Grant him that he he can move forward but at some point who builds a single family home with two driveways two front entrances uh knowing that I don't want to say he's he did something not right I'm going to say in my sole opinion in that same area once again because I know that area at the 5400 block of Edmonton 5400 block of Edmonton there is a single family home with two front doors I know that owner I've even asked her I've been to her house I said who built your house and of course whatever she did you know she said in the night late 1950s but that house has two front doors but it's a single family home and she lived there and has lived there for practically all of her adult life so I could see if the gentleman did that and wanted two front doors okay no big deal that's what his choice but to me this is initially a duplex he built a duplex and he should have known better we have a motion in a second correct the motion was to approve was withdrawn sir withdrawn yes sir okay so we have no motion motion fails due to no motion correct thank you we'll go to call to the public please thank you that brings us to call to the public the El Paso city council is a local government body charged with serving the citizens of the city and the meetings must be focused on the meeting at charge the City Council meetings are public meetings under the Texas open meetings ACT public comment is an accommodation and not a requirement of city council all persons and attendance are expected to display Civility and decorum that is respectful to other persons without the use of insulting profane threatening or abusive language public comment will not be used for personal attacks against a person or group's character or Integrity which are not pertinent to City business nor May any member of the public use this foreign for political statements or campaigning please note that during call to the public the city council may not deliberate or decide any subject that is not on the agenda however Council May propose that a topic brought forth be posted on a future agenda this afternoon we have four four people that signed up to speak the first person is Elizabeth Crawford topic is International Day of the missing child and the 1-3 generation gone good afternoon Miss Crawford star 62 and mute your telephone good afternoon thank you so much good afternoon um I would like to speak about National missing children's day um this month it's C it's honored on May um it it said that in Generation so-call generation x um very possibly one out of three of that generation is missing not due to kidnapping but due to abortion um I would argue that in in subsequent Generations it may even um be higher possibly even closer to 50% when we consider um the abortion pill is being use the morning after pill that in some cases can cause a very early abortion um one of the most interesting places I've gotten to serve in our nation is Jackson Mississippi there's a desolation in that City a Gloom of heaviness the city has a long history of racial tension um but more there's more to it than that there there's a hardness there in my months there if dawned on me one day where are all the kids there is definitely an absent of of children there very few children as I gradually got to know the people there and had more conversations and they started to trust me in spite of my white skin I realized what was going on they did not have a hidden Abortion Center on the outskirts of town they had a bright pink Abortion Center strategically located by a white owner in the heart of a primarily black City the owner who we had an opportunity to converse with on occasion SM Miss Diana d durus a white lady from Alabama who considered was considered by many to be an abortion hero I'm thankful to say that the pink house which was at the center of the dosky overturning Roby Wade is now closed in Jackson Mississippi The Pink House and Jackson are gone but the scars are not I'm sad to say as many of you may be aware it has reopened its doors in Los Cruz's New Mexico they moved to New Mexico to find quote a more welcoming environment and instead of black Americans another minority group to Target Hispanic Americans and no doubt Hispanic migrants in spite of all the darkness of hearts and desolation in the city of Jackson there is something awesome going on there Christ is building his church in a way I've never seen anywhere else many many young people College age young adults are coming to know Christ and knowing a beautiful transformation of Life while I was in Jackson I was invited each week to church meetings and bible studies by the kids there in the midst of a city with racial tension so thick you could cut it with a knife I watch black and white students loving on each other and together enthusiastically being a light of the Gospel in a city marked to a large extent by desolation and hatred a number of those young people have scars from abortion I heard I heard stories but by God's grace thank you Miss Crawford you've reached the three minute limit thank you thank you ma'am the next speaker is Ron KOMU Mr kom's topic is animal services and Animal Services advisory committee good afternoon Mr Kom good afternoon ma'am well I guess we'll start off by saying this is a a mythical shelter and a mythical AAC a ASAC committee let me just read this speech on public issues occupies the highest wrong of the hierarchy of the First Amendment values and is entitled to special protection uh when animal lives are at stake so um I would like for somebody to explained to the mythical ASAP committee that they can't stop Animal Advocates from speaking at call to the public and they can't block them the next thing I'd like to discuss with our mythical shelter is we've been told for years that we are running under the no kill equation no kill equation does not support any form any type anything of any type of managed intake period not maybe not if the the finder to Foster program which has been a major failure for the city of El Paso is part of this limited intake which was acknowledged by the people in charge of the shelter We are following processes finder to Foster which should have been removed a long time ago when I talked to going into a different subject I asked about the number of Rays it went up missing for finder to Foster in our mythical asack meeting the mythical director said that he didn't remember how many Strays he lost I got to ask you just did this program you just figured out how many you lost do we have a health issue where we have no memory or do we just not know how to tell the truth okay and that's a problem the other thing we apologize I'm just four years next month I've been doing this four years of trying to get the shelter fixed four years of incompetent running of our makeb believe shelter but that kind of goes along with our make believe director we talked about how in the shelter reports we discussed the the number of owner youth in ASAS and how in in 22 we had a total of 10 for the year in 23 we had more than that every month and I was told well it works out the number of Strays that disappear in this mythical shelter has increased and increased I've been told it works out well I'm glad I didn't hold my breath because I'd be dead the shelter in this mythical city has been run improperly it has been run incompetently and until we get a competent qualified director that's a personal attack yeah it sure is on on a mythical shelter it's not appropriate sir it's a mythical shelter Hey Ron yeah you know that you did that on purpose and we talked pardon me we've talked and all of a sudden you guys I know that your time's up I I'll talk to you but we've asked you not to do this and you felt it was okay because you weren't going to stop and that's not proper sir and you know that and um well neither is what he's doing I know that sir but you you and I meet every week or every other week and for you to do what you just did was not proper sir to attack somebody the way you did okay what about the 800 for sir we're we're done talking sir yeah you're right thank you the next speaker is Steven Strummer Mr strummer's topic is we need a six state conference on water usage due to severe drought in El Paso and to thank Council for route 74 he will be followed by Patricia Osman good afternoon Mr Strummer afternoon Nora hey thank you all for the bus shelter for the route 74 at uh George steer at Petty Connell um I'm asking you to have a six state conference on water drought uh water drought in the state of Texas I do not know if any of you know this mayor sir honorable um they are running dry in the Rio Grande Valley for citrus uh there is a considerable um thought that we will run out of water for the Citrus industry the sugar cane industry is going to stop in Texas first time in 51 years it was on the Texas Standard from Kut Austin I am asking that we have a conference on water use um I know it's a very touchy subject but it is our lifeblood um we must look at this North Texas the cotton industry is the Cotton is shriveling up it's a special type it was in the Wall Street Journal this year uh we have a very serious problem in the state I really believe um I know this is tough we had a man from the county one time came in absolutely shrill over water usage waste uh in our community from Sierra Blanca it's now or never otherwise we're going to be losing uh we won't have if we continue the SPO boiled child way of using water uh we are going to be losing a lot our life system it affects every last one of us it's important uh it can't wait year after year after year it would be historic and why not bring it up here why not say it to our Representatives why not we are using for example the um car washes Car Wash do we have to do it every week no but we want to that's the difference we want to and where does that stuff go so um I'm asking I don't know if it'll ever come but um we couldn't have a Northeast Joel without water you have to have it um so I don't see elala water utility as a great great big dragon I believe in them I know uh maybe we can think about this thank you for hearing me thank you sir for your time and the final speaker is Patricia Osman Miss osman's topic is ethics violations Lies by individuals paid by tax dollars as well as solicitations and other City issues Miss Osman I'll caution you to refrain from personal attacks and you'll have three minutes good morning ma'am good afternoon I'm going to go ahead and read this so that we don't waste time I'm going to tell you I have traveled across this country driven cross it back and forth more than three times by rail flight I've been to almost every state in this nation when I tell people from where I'm fromont half the half of them Wonder they're they're asking about the immigrants the other ones are oh you speak English some of them think we're Mexico all right so that's the impression a lot of people across the us if you haven't traveled as much across the state this nation as I have maybe you don't know the impression we really do have across but the thing is is that even East Texas looks at us as um a drug and migrant Hub hence why only leaving our area are there Border Patrol checkpoints not in the rest of Texas but when htis our sister City's own mayor's home is being raided by federales and our own City officials are investigated by the FBI City paid individuals put lies on the record for the public to witness the brazenness it's proof of why our city is seen by the rest of the nation and other people in other countries as a hub for crime and no different than Mexico and I'm going to tell you I I blame the migrants not those who are walking thousands of miles to get here for a better life but they Elite Rich migrants that have come into our city and corrupted it by purchasing property and people that is the issue but this is a thing you know what uh thanks to miss uh Miss Crawford her her responses every week uh in in how these meetings are addressed and opened that forc those those forc faked religious beliefs upon everybody in this room well in in in the course of freedom of religion I'm wondering can I can I ask every call on every Palo and brera in this city to cleanse all the demons out of the people that work for the city and get paid because quite frankly something needs to be done or should I hex and curse with my dying breath all of your descendants because quite frankly your current actions in greed are making their world inevitable that it doesn't succeed but quite frankly your actions what would be the point for me to do that you're doing it for them anyway mayor that concludes call to the public thank you ma'am would you like to continue on the agenda I would like to do um Animal Services now please yes sir that's on page number seven yes sir item number 20 on page seven is a presentation and discussion on Al Paso animal services medical operations it if you'll please bring up the presentation for item 20 so we it can be presented all right good afternoon Council uh I am Dr chakon and I am here to give an overview on the animal services medical Department as well as a distemper update okay I am joined by my veterinary technician Mr Wesley Walker who will be presenting alongside me um so let's begin uh they'll bring it up they'll bring it up okay um so we'll start off by um how our medical team is composed so it's myself a vet tech supervisor uh two senior techs and um 11 Veterinary technicians who are my eyes and ears that's how we manage 800 plus animals okay um on J yeah um so they have uh a wide array of experience some have come from the large animal sector uh others have come from specialty centers emergency clinics uh we've got Pima graduates and those that have worked their way up within the uh within the shelter itself um so I'm going to pass it along to Mr Walker who will talk about our surgeries uh good afternoon uh my name is Wesley walker uh been at the shelter nine years veterinary technician uh I eat sleep and breede the shelter and God willing I will draw my last breath there and I won't ever retire um but moving along so surgeries uh next excellent so surgical procedures uh recently uh this past September uh we did finally open up uh the lowcost no cost spay neuter clinic for the public down at our Soro facility um that is a daunting Endeavor for one veterinarian who has to divide his time between the shelter and that location So currently we do it um every Monday and we're booked out months in advance um it's flat fee $50 uh includes this spay neuter vaccines rabies and the corresponding medication um since opening in September Dr jaon has performed 860 procedures uh for publicly owned animals uh via this booking um so that's a lot and that's not including what he's done at the shelter at the shelter uh We've currently expanded our surgery operations to include special procedures such as uh femoral head ostectomies uh which is a new uh skill set that he has learned through uh uh learning from and cooperating with other veterinarians who have rolled through the shelter um some of which out of state uh some of which are next door neighbor at the Humane Society um to kind of recap uh surgery procedures at the shelter in 20123 um we have knocked out 10,555 total surgical procedures that includes General spay neuter and special procedures uh amputations uh for moral head ostectomies and nucleations and tropon repairs um anything and everything that we can do to try to help animals that can be helped are veterinarian and our contract and volunteer veterinarians are doing currently um 2020 uh for 20123 Dr chakon alone performed 5,413 of those procedures uh year to date 2024 uh we're looking at 3,385 total surgical procedures of which Dr Chon himself has performed 1,761 so the sky the limit for 2024 um other common treatments that we address at the shelter GI upset par parasitic uh infections um they're common here uh fleas ticks you name it round worms tapeworms hookworms uh it's pretty common here uh in the desert Southwest we also deal with upper respiratory infections in both cats and dogs examples of impact so this is oatmeal oatmeal is a husky Shepherd cross that arrived with uh severe laceration wounds to the four limbs um pretty bad uh very underweight um Dr Chone performed the surgical repairs um oatmeal was on the road to recovery and actually oatmeal is out in Foster right now Foster to adopt banjo uh farle photo on death's door arrived with a severe infection and swelling to the face second uh photo there is his uh intake photo um with some loving care antibiotic treatment and there's banjo on the far right made a full recovery and adopted he's left the shelter uh volunteers uh Dr Chon had had mentioned that uh we do get Puma graduates um but uh we do get Puma students we get Eldorado High School uh vet science students Pebble Hills Leta Clint um all of those uh hopeful veterinary science students we partner with those school districts and they spend time here at the shelter um they assist in surgery they assist us in tending to the animals in our care um having that sheer amount of uh of student volunteer help is priceless and they're an invaluable asset to the shelter and at the same time they're learning a lot of the valuable tools and skills needed to get them where they need to be uh recently uh well two years running uh we've been awarded education empowerment by the sisd partners in education for our partnership with Pebble Hills High School vet science students um and in uh 2018 as well 2023 we got the business partner of the Year award um so our cooperation with our uh local school districts um the fruits of that are paying off with the amount of students that are coming into the shelter to get that experience with us um and now this is very near and dear to my heart our resources are expanding at the shelter um with uh with your help in approving our budgets each year we're now able to allocate our resources to uh acquire new uh materials and equipment that will allow us to better perform our duties and serve the animals at the shelter um a lot of these items you think are common place but we've been lacking them for years as long as I've been there since 2015 we've been just treating and triaging animals based on symptoms just treating what we can see um we recently acquired uh through an idex agreement a hematology analyzer we can now look at blood chemistry to get a deeper picture of what's going on with an animal internally and we now have a set of three brooders and incubators um which we can uh Place respiratory compromised patients for 20 30 minute breathing sessions to help them breathe better and help them recover um so a lot of our patients uh puppies kittens feline small dogs have access to this and we're seeing great Improvement in the quality of care that they're receiving uh Community cap program uh right now everything is in flux at the shelter given all the construction with the HVAC renovation but once everything stabilizes we're looking to expand our Resources with Community cap program by expanding Mass trapping with uh uh access to contract and relief veterinarians donating their time to us um accommodating Community cat surgery days at the shelter for our local community cat advocacy groups um so promoting that Community cat involvement with the public hopefully we can get those um more uh of those those volunteer Trappers to bring those cats into us get them sterilized and released in a in a more timely fashion um currently we have mass trapping uh surgery days at the scor two to three times a month we're looking to expand that with veterinarian help and that's the most important thing is getting that Veterinary help um so I'm going to kick that back to Dr Chon all right we're going to move back to disease management so this is a simplified chart uh showing the presence of panopia and parvo uh the past few months uh you can see sort of a downward Trend in both of those uh in April last month we had zero panleucopenia cases which was great uh unfortunately with kitten season arising um it hit late this year but it did hit us uh those panuco cases have gone up which is not shown here okay okay key components of disease management so first thing first uh before an animal even steps foot in the shelter they are immediately vaccinated so they're not fully protected but it provides partial immunity it's not until a week after the second vaccination that they would be fully protected okay uh any animal with suspicion of infectious disease is immediately isolated uh and tested for um the third one here is the one that the shelter struggles with the most and always has struggled with which is overcrowding so I'm going to get back to this point uh later on in the presentation uh but that is that is the key component that we'll we'll focus on um foster homes for the most vulnerable so elderly uh uh dogs and cats puppies kittens those where their immune system isn't up to par we try to get them out as soon as we can um to prevent them from from acquiring these diseases and of course uh sanitation and biocurity uh all staff are to wear gloves when handling animals uh and we have strict disinfection protocols in each area and in those highrisk areas we even wear full-on suits okay all right so I want everyone to take a moment and look at this distemper chart that we have here uh this is very important um so I'll describe the chart in a second but as you can see there is a very large Peak there starting around January um so on the horizontal xais that represents time uh going back from May to May of last year to present time okay and on the Y vertical axis we have the amount of disease so the orange bars represent upper respiratory infections okay and the purple line represents distemper infections now if we remember the relationship between upper respiratory infections and distemper infections is that distemper will usually present as an upper respiratory infection so in other words any animal with coughing sneezing nasal discharge uh needs to be isolated and tested to Ru out distemper okay so the big question is well how did this happen so what what changed what what uh was different around that January time to cause this this big spike uh and that is when we began to operate beyond our capacity okay we had switch from managed intake to open intake and what we had to do we we had to fit in two dogs per run at the main shelter and alongside an inadequate intake facility as well as an inadequate isolation facility uh that has led to a highly dense population and a prime environment for infectious disease okay um so remember this shelter was built as a kill shelter in 2004 um and uh it was never designed to hold 800 plus animals which currently to date we have 818 I believe um so since transitioning to a no kill shelter there's always been one thing that we have always struggled with for six seven years from 2016 to 2022 and that was properly controlling infectious disease okay and it wasn't until 2023 where we started testing for distemper and using managed intake where we were able to keep disease very low and it worked worked quite well when we operate it within our capacity all right uh so how do we fix this issue once again and I think you know what I'm alluding to is basically using the methods available to us such as managed intake when needed and that is what I'm proposing um and how do we know this this intake model is effective well we used it from May to December and those levels were extremely low very very low um so we have the data to show to show that um and another example is dogs next door here at the Times building they are housed one dog per run per kennel so when you do that you significantly reduce the risk of transmission between each dogs and as a result there is little to no distemper at the time compared to the main shelter um because we're operating within our capacity at the time building um so I'm going to throw out some hypothetical so what if we don't take any big action to try and correct course we stay at these levels we continue as is what are the consequences uh well the first consequence is the high cost of testing so at these current levels we're projected to need about 350 to 4 $400,000 per year okay if we compare that to the levels of last year we would roughly need about 25 to $50,000 per year okay um another consequence is we lose adopters and fosters because they come to the shelter to adopt a young healthy puppy and if that puppy Falls ill to distemper uh and dies it's quite a traumatizing experience for them um and will they come back to adopt from us maybe maybe not um we'll lose rescues and transports if we end up sending a distempered dog out of states will they continue to do business with us probably not um so that will further harm our our reputation um and of course all the many more animals that would have to be euthanized for distemper or those that fall ill to upper respiratory infections but we don't have space for isolation right um so we need a system that works for us that is why managed intake is um is a method that we need to be able to utilize if disease is high okay and that's my professional recommendation to city council and to City management uh in order to avoid Rising disease and to avoid another shutdown okay um and I also like to quickly address the community in terms of in letting them know what we can do or what animal services can do in terms of protecting their own pets uh from these infectious diseases and what we've done is we've plotted the location of the distemper positive dogs that we suspect got it from the environment and not from within the shelter itself and what we're able to do is um Target those underserved communities uh with vaccination clinics right so last year uh we vaccinated 2500 owned pets uh this past uh in April we did a vaccine clinic uh over 500 pets and we're doing another one next month okay so the long-term plan is community immunity right as all these infectious diseases are fully preventable if we vaccinate our pets okay all right uh that concludes our presentation thank you for your time thank you very much thank you all for what you do I know that um it's not easy at all times but um those pictures were great that uh but openme looked pretty cool but no thank youall I appreciate it than and I know representative Canalis I know you're uh you're the representative for City Council on Animal Services thank you for that and with that Miss PR yes sir that brings us to item number 28 this is on page 10 item 28 is a public hearing of an ordinance amending Title 5 chapter 5.03 Amplified sound permit section 5.3.1 0 compliance required to remove the downtown Management District exemption and to amend section 5.03 .020 definitions to amend the definition of a residential property motion to approve second is there any uh public comment yes sir we do have public comment from Mr W thank you I know we've changed him and I leave so I know he's going to agree with us right Joe good afternoon I was GNA say I know why wouldn't the mayor be the first nightmare come January I what I'm saying uh good afternoon Joe gudenrath um executive director of the downtown Management District I think this was alluded to earlier as as a loophole in the The Outdoor amplification permit um the reason we came here five years ago to ask for this is be because the the noise ordinance as well as the permit itself does recognize that there are times places where outdoor amplification should be allowable um the noise ordinance uh identifies High School stadiums and then the outdoor amplification permit does allow any business to come and apply for for this exempt for the opportunity to have outdoor amplification between 10 and 12 12 we came here because we believe downtown El Paso should be one of those areas where amplification under the 70 dbel limit between 10 and 12 should be considered acceptable it was kind of referred to earlier as almost a tiered system I think we're kind of along the same lines there and then with that with that consideration we also believe that downtown businesses should be allowed to have outdoor amplification below 70 DB uh between 10 and 12 without requiring the cost and action of a permit and then on the other side the downtown Management District does recognize the need for regulations uh does need to recognize that we do have some actors in the community who will exceed whatever Authority or or opportunity is given to them and so we do support um the the penalties in accordance with the law against those businesses that do exceed the 70 DB and exceed the 12 a.m. um Cur few even with a permit or or without the permit in the case that we were operating unfortunately what we were asking for at that time seemed to make a lot of sense to me but turned into a loophole um I don't know how to correct that and I think that's what you're considering here today but again we look at the downtown uh Management District or our downtown area especially uh the center of the city as an area where where nightlife social activity uh is very important and and we also recognize that we cannot we have to balance those entities so as you consider this I hope um uh whatever action you take that we can address those problem locations those problem bars those problem venues that are being A disruption to the other community without putting an undue burden on other small businesses again I appreciate your help earlier with the with the rhi study and appreciate your consideration of this to thank you thank you and and I think this ordinance is really important that uh we we do this because we've had um quite a bit of uh talk with u people that have invested millions and millions of dollars in downtown and we keep talking about downtown and we talking about Investments and people are leaving downtown and they don't want to stay downtown because at 34 in the morning they can't people are checking out and the surveys have been very I mean they brought me I can't tell you how many service so it's important that we listen and that we make sure that uh we ask people to invest in our community that uh we become proactive and make sure that U we do do the right thing because uh you know we we talk about hotel stays we talk about night St we talk about being number one that can go away in a hurry if we're not proactive and we turn our back on something like this um representative F thank you mayor I'm not sure whose item this is oh oh there you go no not them the expert good afternoon Mr Mayor Representatives Tony lacus planning and inspections Mr lus uh question for you what what the gentleman mentioned undue burdens on on small businesses or businesses do we do we have a definition of that what what was he ref of my knowledge sir okay um the second thing is with this loophole that we have now how would how we holding the businesses the Bad actors as they were described accountable and and how successful have we been so overall and I'll probably need uh Steve Alvarado's help on this one overall the PD code enforcement team is responding to any of the nuisance violations in downtown I sure that they can give you different properties with large numbers of Enforcement cases on those so those would be filed under the noise nuisance Title 9 uh a notice of violation is issued by one of Steve's uh Enforcement Officers those notices of violation in turn are filed with the municipal court that notices of violation do they affect their liquor licensees in any shape manner or form no sir not to the best of my knowledge and wouldn't that be the way to really get somebody to listen or to follow or stop being a bad actor that would require coordination with TABC to see if that's a appropriate mechanism for them to revoke such a license or or suspend correct so this would be step one into getting the Bad actors to be good actors well part of the component of Title 5 is that also it does allow to impose higher penalties so where Title 9 allows them to do a $500 per uh event I guess per citation the title five will actually go can go up to 2,000 um with putting this into into um into moving forward with it with this um removing the the um the uh yes thank you exemption uh it's because um Philip walked in distracted me um by reming uh removing the distraction doesn't that this give uh the city code enforcement law enforcement more opportunity to to get people in line to start moving together to be to be good um neighbors it does provide additional enforcement capabilities uh like I said the title 5 does allow for up to 2,000 a $2,000 violation of course that's up to the municipal court judge versus a $500 violation for Title 9 thank you may thank you so much I'm not sure you all need more opportunity I think you got plenty right now don't you Mr Alvarado I'm sorry sir he said that gives you more opportunities I think you got plenty don't you we have plenty they're still appable to you don't need any more you could always take more sir thank you representative Canales thank you mayor um I I wasn't in office when the last revision was made to the outdoor amplification permit ordinance um but I I I'd be lying if I said that I I thought it was the best solution uh then and also 5 years ago when the when the uh ordinance was first created and the DMD was first Exempted um but I I've been okay in in the inter intervening time to kind of let it ride and see how the interactions have happened between the hospitality businesses downtown and everybody else um and I think we've seen a lot of conflict uh between bars and I don't want to unfairly pick on bars right businesses with Amplified sound and other businesses with downtown residents with other with uh with hotels for example um and so I think that this is the the common sense change then um I I don't you know I I understand um actually I'll quote it from here I think um I'm looking still at the sociable City plan uh that was presented to us earlier um and they they call out specifically that they um they understand the the downtown business's desire to um continue to to promote night life in the downtown area and I completely understand that but I do think that we have to find the right balance and I I don't think it's an undo burden um to require an outdoor Amplified sound permit and again I want to clarify this is only to continue to to amplify sound Outdoors between the hours of 10 p.m. and midnight um you know I I I think during those hours it it makes sense that we have a better idea of where businesses will be amplifying the sound the locations of their speakers and any uh sound mitigation uh that they have and their entire sound uh management plan I think it makes sense for the city to understand where that sound will be coming from and and what it will look like between 1 p.m. and midnight um again we'll keep looking at it right if we make this change um and it causes a problem that we didn't anticipate I think I mean I I can Comm in now I'll personally be open to revisiting this uh as that time comes up but I I do think that right now knowing what we know and seeing what's happened uh uh downtown over the last five years and then since the last revision a few years ago um it it makes sense to adopt this change for the moment so thank you for the work that's got into it I know we gave you Direction not too long ago and you've turned it around very quickly uh so thank you to you all and to uh Miss Neiman and the legal department you all have turned this around quickly for us thanks thank you Shar with that M PR yes sir and we also received a statement from an jenu which I've shared with Council there was a motion made by mayor protim Kennedy seconded by alternate mayor protim molinard to approve item 28 public comment has been taken on that motion call for the vote and the voting session and the motion passes unanimously representative ernandez not present Miss P I think we um and Miss hman I think we skip you on item 20 would you like to speak on that there was no action so don't read I I understand but there was a few things that I did want to bring up by what I was listening to that seemed i' rather ra rather off on 20 pardon me I I said there was a few things in his presentation that I would like to speak on it seems somewhat off you know unfortunately they're gone but you can make comment and then we can refer it back to them um that's fine I would like to make comments so that you all actually consider it I'm I'm going to wing it apparently because I can't find my notes um in part of his statistics what was disturbing although he what if y'all didn't catch that I my my second fiance was an accountant and I almost became a CPA is what his statistics weren't stating is that you know what less less intake and that less distemper no what it's stating is that if you have more intake you're going to see the disease that's out in the community and how it's affecting and that is what we need to know that's a safety concern to make sure that there is more intake and we do see those high levels because that that is a concern for all citizens everybody who has own private pets because of those Strays that are out there that that is what's telling us is that the stays that are being left on the street are are very high in disease and you only find discover that when you bring them in so we we need to make sure that our own pets our own responsible pet owners we're walking around whatever taking our pets for walks that we know that there are high levels not just leave them out don't oh we need the we're going to falsify the statistics reduce those numbers by not bringing them in and KN knowing what the actual diseases out in the the community is what that presentation stated which is completely wrong and as far as the strace especially the cats okay another safety concern that I have brought up to Mr oo is I really do hope that there's more of a plan more more more funding to more free spay and neuter funding okay not just low cost but free okay because quite frankly if you get on any other social media next door and some other ones you've got somebody that's that's considered the evil man of Campbell Street because he's brutalizing cats you've got cats that are being dismembered in body parts on the west side and you have the same thing that's happening in central you have people in our district too if you see that that the at least six poisoned cats recently and that is not just an animal issue that is a safety human issue because there are Psych out there any criminal justice person who has done the studies will tell you that the first person that the first trigger to find out of some psycho that's going to mass murder is where they were they killing pets so you got people out in our community and doing that that is not just a pet issue that is a human safety issue in our city that you all and nobody is addressing so yes more needs to be done please thank you thank you thank you ma'am and apologize for uh skipping you on that thank you m PR yes sir that brings us to item 31 and this is discussion and action on a resolution authorizing the submission of an application to the US Department of energy local government energy program Community sparking investment in transformative energy requesting funds in the AM amount of $3 million with a 5% match of $160,000 from the city for the baso Del Norte Port of Entry micr GD project move to approve second there is a motion made by alternate mayor protim molinar seconded by representative Riva to approve item 31 on that motion call for the vote in the voting session and the motion passes unanimously Representatives Kennedy and ernandez not present item 32 is discussion and action on a resolution authorizing the submission of an application to the US Environmental Protection Agency clean ports program climate and air quality planning competition requesting funds in the amount of $3 million with no match required from the city for the sleta international Port of Entry and Santa Fe Rail Yard project development study second there is a motion made by representative Riva seconded by alternate mayor Pro Molin to approve item 32 hold on one second I'm sorry representative uh Canales mayor can we just see the hear the quick presentation on this item go ahead was there everyone briefed on this yes I'm sorry did you brief everybody on this not on this one in particular sir okay thank you no good afternoon mayor council om Martinez for the record uh with uh strategic and legislative affairs I also have with me uh Dr Santiago who works with UTF and the Aspire NSF Research Center who are our partners in this uh application and are helping us uh write the technical components of the application and so I'll go over the the specific details on what the scope of work is and why this is a great opportunity for the city as was mentioned in the resolution language there is no match required from the city uh this program does require coordination with with the m and also um the council auction required today will be for a preliminary submission and if awarded we will come back to city council to discuss a contract with the EPA for implementation we're also uh hosting this uh project in partnership with BNSF rail who have uh who are working we're negotiating the language on a letter of support and so the EPA clean gr uh clean ports program is uh focuses on emissions reduction and so as you've heard in in conversations like on the preliminary climate action plan the federal government is very interested in electrification and making infrastructure improvements so that we target uh the causes of emissions emissions um whether it's through Transportation whether it's through energy use and buildings improve M things like that and so in this opportunity in particular uh the EPA designated the Santa Fe rail yard that is located in in downtown El Paso right next to the El Paso Norte uh Port of Entry and as the only eligible project for this funding opportunity so it's pretty much tailor made for us and it does require participation from the property owner in this case BNSF rail which we've already um we're already working on if Council approves the the application deadline is on May 28th and so we're going to talk a little about Partnerships as I said UTP would be is our primary partner and we have Dr Santiago there's going to be a couple of slides as she'll go over Aspire NSF engineering Research Center is our technical consultant as well and then we are considering Texas A&M Transportation Institute as another technical consultant we normally use Texas A&M um for our benefit cost analyses in all of our projects uh other partners include no and Tech doot and then the state delegation should uh this planning work uh be be successful and we get awarded as part of the State Legislative uh brighter process we're hoping to request uh money for implementation so to build what this program would end up uh designing we're also working withes and Chihuahua to make sure that there's coordination on both sides of the border so now I'm going to pass uh the presentation over to Dr Santiago who's going to talk about the NSF engineering Research Center and their extensive Partnerships with the city it's more than one project they're working with us on multiple projects good morning Mr Mayor and distinguished council members ion Santiago I'm associate professor of civil engineering at UTEP and also co-director of the Aspire engineering Research Center which is for advancing sustainable power and roadway electrification and U Aspire is headquarter at Utah State University but of course Utah is a key partner cuz I'm here as well so we have 10 Affiliated University and over 60 industry partners and you know with a partners that you know of that Ford and others uh that are um G gardering efforts towards electrification and and electric vehicles uh I'm not going to talk too much about the center other than we have the technical capability over 400 members uh faculty staff uh we participate in actual Pilots Across the Nation we have uh collaborations with the central Florida Expressway for roadway electrification project uh the Inland port at Utah uh for another electrification project with uh UPS uh with electrified fleets uh from Provo to Logan that's in progress um in Indiana as well so we do we do have research projects but we also have what we call Beyond research projects in applied research uh like this one that we're proposing to collaborate with the city next the keyboard o sorry okay and um Equity is one of those components that is important to us and in this specific project what we're seeking is to enhance Port operations um with environmental sustainability and also reduce emissions build a foundation towards zero emissions operations and reduce emissions of mobile sources near Port uh near the ports and specifically uh engaging disadvantaged communities and we'll be working with communities like chawita Park and seio in this efforts and I'll leave it at that because I know I'm holding you from lunch but if you have any questions I'll be happy to answer thanks thank you the one thing I do want to add is Dr Santiago's team their technical assistance uh they do a lot of the electrification mathematics and they bringing technology transfer from other regions it leads to money savings we don't have to hire Consultants to develop some of the more difficult Grant projects because they help us figure out the the the the technical side of these and so the scope of work involves again developing technical documents to expand and increase resiliency at the East Lea Port of entance and increase efficiency at the Santa fa rard uh ultimate the goal is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions of both ports the end result are documents that then we use uh they're fully designed by Engineers to then request funding for construction and so uab's lead is going to be on creating a a an inventory of those assets that can be electrified so replaced from like diesel engines uh to be able to um reduce greenhouse gas Emissions on the chiita neighborhood because it's know it's surrounded by Thea port and the by by the BNSF rail yard and then up to the to the West is also op Paso Waters Water Treatment Plant which means they are in a in a very unique situation where they have uh pollution emissions all all around them and then uh benefit cost analysis I said before this is a technical document that's required for us to be able to apply for construction and implementation so what you see here is the estimated budget no caution share is required and the if if approved by Council we would intend to Sub sub Grant UTP 1.4 million to develop their technical components the city uh would keep uh the remainder to focus on the SLA Port of Entry expansion uh tasks the the application uh on this one the deadline is really tight if approved by Council we would submit this project by May 28th we've already coordinated everything else to be able to submit and then once submit we we do our usual we Advocate on DC on our trips to make sure that well to get get a better chance that make sure that we get funded we would know by the end of this year if we receive the funding or not and so again that the action required is authorization to submit the application and then authorize the city manager to sign the documents we need to get the application in if awarded we'll bring it back to city council to approve the contract happy to answer any questions m p yes sir there was a motion made by representative Rea seconded by alternate mayor protim molard to approve item number 32 on that motion call for the vote in the voting session and the motion passes unanimously representative erand is not present thank you the next item thank you very much is number 33 and this is disc discussion and action on a resolution authorizing the mayor to sign an interlocal agreement between the city of Al Paso and Texas Department of Motor Vehicles to allow the municipal Corp to transmit vehicle information regarding outstanding arrest warrants to the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles for Statewide flagging and holds approve second got a motion in a second yes the motion was made by representative Canales thank you mayor um I want to say I know we we had a couple of weeks ago the conversation about not the same program a very similar program in in omnibase um omnibase of course uh creates driver's license renewal holds for uh folks who owe uh fines or fees to to the municipal court and this program uh creates a vehicle registration hold in partnership with the county um you know routed through the county um and and doesn't allow uh people who owe uh fines or fees to re-register their vehicles um I have a lot of the same concerns with this program that I have with the other um and what I truly have yet to see is data that shows the effectiveness of this program um I I don't want to sound like a broken record repeating the things I said last time um but there are there is data available from other cities that we can compare against that show that there's not a real difference in collection rate between the cities that have this type of of scafa program and the cities that don't um and so what I would really like to see is some sort of analysis uh performed on on our own our own data to see if uh folks who are receiving a a Scofflaw registration hold are indeed paying more of Their fines and fees it it doesn't seem like they are or at least the data doesn't prove out to me what I what I've seen of the data doesn't prove that out to me um and so basically I I'm very convinced of the potential drawbacks I think the drawbacks are very obvious to see it can make it very difficult for someone who needs to get to work to earn the money to pay the fines and fees if they're not able to drive um but I I'm not convinced of you I I can see the drawbacks clearly but I I'm not convinced necessarily of the positives and it makes it hard to make a decision um I'm I'm not saying in any way that I'm beyond convincing here but I I need to see the justification of continuing the program I don't want to say yes and approve something blindly when there are clear drawbacks and not proven out uh positives and so it would be my preference that we hold off on renewal of the program that we do a much more in-depth look at whether or not this is beneficial whether our data shows that it's been beneficial over the past many years that we've participated in this um but again with with without that I I won't be able to to support it today I may get there if we're able to do more of an analysis um again I think we owe it to our citizens who are uh having these restrictions placed on them um to figure out if this is actually helpful or if it's purely punitive without actually seeing the benefits that we hope it it creates um in terms of payment and getting people back out on the road uh I'll limit my comments there but I I just want to make sure that it's it's clear I don't think that we have the the data to prove that this works thank you mayor thank you represent sorry okay thank you mayor um so I I really appreciate you meeting with me on this one and I know we've had several meetings and I know there's disagreement and I I think that we have handled it um in know in a better way and we're building that relationship to have that understanding that we can agree to disagree on on this matter and and I think overall on on this one I I do see it very similar to the other program um Omni base just in a different setup right and and I think where I'm coming at it from is that I'm not really seeing significance in the data that has been presented for example on this one on slide 10 in the backup uh there's there's less than 50% that have been closed thanks to um the scoff law being implemented so I I don't see um how that is is coming to fruition with that data right and that's why I I've been trying to make this u a data data like informed decision um with omnibase and I see this very similarly where I think this has been so we've been so used to it um we've had it for 20 years now where it's become this thing where we've always done it this way so why are we going to change it now and this is just another tool that we have and having a lot of different tools um is is really great because then well then we could go to the next tool but sometimes if the tools are not necessarily working and we're not evaluating how those tools can be improved um whether it be with data or kind of really analyzing to say okay um we have reached the definition of insanity doing something over and over again expecting a different result and that's kind of where I feel that we have um really gotten to this point here where we're just kind of doing it every single time just because this is what we always do without actually taking a step back and seeing how we can improve things to get people to call the municipal court right and Omni based example or do something else to to kind of figure this out so um as we continue these conversations I mean I feel that we have started that and we we had some good conversations on how we can move forward with possibly other tools looking at it different ways so I really do appreciate you um accepting that and we'll set up more meetings to discuss this but I'm not going to support this today thank you thank you for that thank you representative fedal thank you mayor um first and foremost I I think we owe it to the citizens who are paying their citations on time to to vote for this today and and um there's a motion in a second mayor thank you there's a motion in a second Miss PR yes mayor the motion was made by representative FAL seconded by representative Riva to approve item 33 on that motion call for the vote and the voting session and that motion passes Representatives Kennedy molinar Fierro Rivera voting I Representatives ASO Canales voting a Representatives Hernandez salido not present that brings us to the final item this is number 34 and this is presentation discussion and action on the city of Al Paso legislative agenda for the 89th regular session of the Texas state legislature good afternoon sir good afternoon mayor and councel uh Ian VG strategic and legislative affairs right so I'm here to talk to you about the first phase of our legislative agenda process uh I want to take a moment to thank Council I was able to meet with every one of you individually to get some feed back on this what's in the presentation today is the priorities that we've been able to gather from over 19 departments uh and so more than we've been able to talk to in the past uh pretty comprehensive list but uh we're hoping to grow it this is Phase One what we'd like to do is take some time between uh today and mid July to have further discussions with Council to capture some Council priorities uh so what I'm showing you today is mostly for the sake of allowing my team to go out and meet with our delegation and start working on some of those funding uh priorities that we've discussed so with that let me jump into this um so as I mentioned this is a process uh we we've moved very quickly to try to get some priorities to our uh State delegation so that we can have those discussions so that we can start writing writers uh We've identified some key areas but we anticipate that we'll be coming back to council uh and over the course of uh the next couple of months we'll be hearing more from the state in terms of what their priorities are we've heard from the lieutenant governor and from the Speaker of the House what the charges are uh and now uh we've had a chance to look through some of those uh to see what kind of impact we can anticipate for the city uh the first section I'll highlight are just some hot topics uh we know that the border is going to continue to be a political Topic at the State uh operation lanar uh is likely to continue to be funded uh we've seen what that impact is for us uh we have had both uh this m migration situation to deal with but also the slowdowns at the border uh one of the opportunities that we're going to be looking at in terms of funding our uh security for our border crossings that would actually allow that traffic to speed up uh we're also looking at energy grid resilience the state has made energy the grid uh very important part of the next session two areas caught our attention uh one is the Texas energy fund which will be providing uh grants and loans for projects that do generation transmission uh and distribution both within OT and outside of OT uh the program for within OT has launched we're anticipating the outside of urot program will launch in the next couple months and that could create a lot of opportunities for our community to go after more generation hopefully in a kind of generation that we can all be on board with we're taking a look at potential preemption threats coming out of the state okay taxes are going to be a big topic again this year the the charge coming out of the Senate is to eliminate property taxes we don't anticipate that will happen uh but we have to monitor the situation we whatever property tax elimination proposals come out uh could create issues for us at the city the other area that we're keeping an eye on is arpa the charges coming out of the Senate are to take a look at programs like the universal basic income uh programs out of Austin Houston but there's also a provision in there to take a look at at uh how cities how these programs align with State policy and that's very concerning to us so we'll continue to monitor whether the state is looking to get involved and whether municipalities can go after federal grants or not we're also tracking resource opportunities Texas has a major mental health problem uh funding problem in particular and so both the house and the Senate are going to be looking at providing more funding and we need to be aggressive about going after that funding uh transportation is a big opportunity for us this go around as well there's going to be 500 million set aside for ports of Entry uh we fought hard for that there's no guarantee we'll see $1 of it if we don't go out and advocate for it so what we've done is we've taken a look at some of these resource opportunities and we've looked at what we're doing uh what our needs are at the department level and we've grouped them into three areas that we see as major funding opportunities for us if we go aggressive and those three funding areas are infrastructure public health and safety and Workforce I mentioned the port uh of Entry funding so that will be a major Focus for us on the writers front there's going to be increase there's always funding that we can go after more aggressively on flood prevention and storm water uh they we've traditionally gotten uh some funding out of dag for military installations we'll go after that again and Broadband access under public health and safety we are anticipating very expensive uh the impact of the new rulings coming out of the EPA on forever chemicals so we'll be asking for funding particularly on both equipment replacement and Disposal uh there's more money that we're going to go after for Emergency Management as I mentioned with the operation Lone Star we're going to need uh whatever assistance that we can get on Workforce we've had a strong focus on Advanced manufacturing uh we haven't gone after as much money at the state as we could so we see that as a major opportunity and we also see an opportunity to go after existing Workforce money but specifically for municipalities and then just a little primer on writers so you've seen our team go after Appropriations at the federal level pretty aggressively so this is the state equivalent it's a different process we have to identify an agency at the State uh where the money would pass through and we have to work with our state delegation just to get our foot in the door uh representative district 6 can certainly give us a lot of uh insight into that process uh we've gotten one writer in the last five years I believe uh for the its technology for report and we really need to be more aggressive as a city and we plan to be more aggressive as a city for going after these just to give you a sense of the timeline so once we once we compl compl this process we'll start talking to our delegation but we're also going to start talking to those agencies where we've identified a number of groups that our departments work with uh around the state we'll try to form Partnerships with them we'll try to identify uh Partners within other cities delegations to go after some of our priorities that work will continue throughout uh from now until the start of the session uh when the session starts we're going to probably partner again with uh a community nonprofit to go to Austin and uh show a strong force from the city uh make sure that they know that El Paso is going to be asking for more support this go around uh but we'd like to we'd like to organize with our Council going more frequently than just once we really need to be seen very regularly at commissions we need to be seen regularly testifying in front of uh house committees Senate committees we need to be a constant presence in order to get some of our funding priorities through and in order to fight some of the policy issues that have really plagued Us in the past so we were originally going to ask for a resolution we'd actually like to hold that off until we have that opportunity to integrate Council priorities instead I'd like to meet read a a motion into the record for uh Council to consider just one moment and that would be a motion to direct the city manager or design to deliver the initial city of El Paso legislative agenda and priorities for the 89th legislative session to the El Paso State delegation so moved second no someone needs to make a motion he can make one someone make a motion oh okay didn't hear you you might turn on your mic please but I didn't hear you so it's a motion in a second Miss pan there's no one on the Queue that's correct mayor the motion was made by representative Canales seconded by representative salido second and the motion is to direct the city manager or design to deliver the initial city of Al Paso legislative agenda and priorities for the 89th legislative session to the AL Paso State delegation on that motion call for the vote in the voting session and that motion passes unanimously representative ernandez not present thank you thank you and I I look forward to to watching you all as you go forward and I know this is probably one of the earliest I've seen us start working on an agenda which is really good and uh you know even though they don't go in the session till January I I I look forward to being very prepared for next year so thank you all for that second there's a motion and a second to adjourn the regular city council meeting all in favor I anyone opposed I and the regular city council meeting for Tuesday May 21st 2024 is adjourned at 1:31 p.m. thank you Council he IE that b of