e e e e e e for yes you're right we haven't seen each other in the you ready Miss PR we got 30 seconds 9:00 okay there is no Quorum so the meeting can can begin informally yes we're going to start with the pledge please and we'll have Mr cortinez flag of the United States of America and to the rep for it stands indivisible thank you we'll start with with agenda review so we'll start with item number three please good morning good morning debb Olas with the airport item number three is a resolution that the city manager reauthorized to sign a First Amendment um to an agreement between the city and ABM Aviation to increase Office Space by 284 Square F feet for a total of 412 square feet and an increase um to the annual rent of $663 76 for a total of 19930 um 52 annually thank you ma'am thank you good morning mayor proam good morning mayor how are you doing today fine thank you sir item four good morning Shane Brooks with the airport uh item four is a resolution authorizing the city manager to sign an agreement for Professional Services between the city of El Paso and Garver for a project known as as the development of a sustainability master plan for the airport uh for an amount not to exceed $398,900 Grand a piece thank you ma'am item five no item five oh there's the chief thank you thank you good morning good morning Chief how are you doing well thank you go two set the standard for a safe and secure City that the mayor be authorized to sign an interlocal agreement entered into bu and between the city of op pasel and the district attorney of the 34th Judicial District for the disposition of forfeited property in accordance with chapter 59 of the Texas code of crial procedures thank you Chief item six morning mayor council annal CES Municipal Court this is a resolution for the city council to approve an 8% increase in compensation for elected and Appo and appointed judges serving for the city of Al Paso Municipal Court and that would be effective July the 28th this year thank you thank you we have representative Salo here we still don't do not have a quum item seven please now go ahead I'm we have a question on item six uh Miss goas I'm not sure where you went to have a question how do we derived 8% versus any other figure percent 5% I'm sorry so this is for an 8% salary increase but how do we derive at that figure 8% since 2019 they haven't received the digits have not received compens or an increase so it's 2% per year since then so total eight thank you mhm thank thank you for that item seven please good morning mayor again Mary Lis Bosa with the capital uh Capital assets manager for the city of Al Paso item number seven is a resolution authorizing the city manager to sign a possession and use agreement with the Texas Department of Transportation granting the state early access to the property on I 10 and P Del nor thank you ma'am item8 good morning EV nand this Capital Improvement Department this is a resolution to authorize the city engineer to request the relocation of El Paso Electric infrastructure this will accommodate the C project related to the Shan Hagerty Drive Extension thank you ma'am and then uh 9 through 15 are board appointments so we'll skip that then number six is a tax refund greater than 2500 item seven is for notation only it's the P card item eight is by Miss PR 18 I'm sorry yes sir item 18 is a notation of a campaign contribution from a candidate that will be running in the November 5th election this year okay thank you and that's 8 through 18 through 22 are the same type thank You' yes sir so we'll go to 23 good morning Paula sales with purchasing and strategic the Strategic for theem is number six the linkage to the Strategic plan is subsection 6.2 uh we are requesting that the managing director of purchasing and strategic sourcing is authorized to terminate the award of contract number 2 242 0233 R health insurance and benefit administrator this is the uh Cobra portion for default pursuant to attribute 21 article 8 section B of the solicitation documents to healthc Care Service Corporation a mutual legal Reserve uh company DBA Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas and the termination shall be effective as of July 2nd 20 24 this termination again is for default for the Cobra portion and this is due to refusal uh to perform and 24 item 24 there tied with it obviously yes Paul isalis again purchasing and strategic sourcing the sgo for this item is number six set the standard for sound governance and fiscal management the linkage for to the Strategic plan is subsection 6.2 Implement employee benefits and services that promote Financial Security this is the replacement contract and a request for proposal procurement there were a total of 36 viewers online 23 proposals were received non being local no protest received for this requirement and we're requesting the award of uh solicitation 2024 0233 R health insurance benefit administrators to Edna Dental Inc Edna Dental Insurance Company this is the second highest rank offer based on the evaluation criteria for this procurement thank you now items 25 through 27 are Council items anything on that anyone want to discuss go ahead sir thank you mayor um I know item 25 is already towards in front of the um meeting agenda but if we could move it up if it's already there that's already there all right thank you we can move it down oh okay oh good thank you uh good morning this is an agenda review meeting of the El Paso city council for Monday July 1st 20124 it is 9:07 a.m. mayor liser is present and presiding in council chambers along with representative aavo alternate mayor protm molinard representative salido representative Gales mayor protm Kennedy is joining virtually today and representatives Fiero and Riva have requested to be excused on the agenda is the agenda review for the July jly 2nd 2024 regular city council and mass transit Department board meetings and at the conclusion of this meeting we will be convening a council work session we have a quorum thank you mayman at this time also uh if anybody does get up for whatever reason we will lose Quorum oh there's representative ad nund coming up so we'll hold on a minute now we we have a qu anyway okay item 28 Chief good morning mayor council Terry ke director this item is a presentation on the 2023 animal shelter advisory committee uh annual report and this item will be presented by the ASAC uh with the uh the chair will be presenting uh representative Canalis thank you sir which is the chair for the advisory committee thank you uh first readings 29 no there's only one just me Karina R economic and International Development item 29 is the introduction of an ordinance for a contract of sale with VTR Development LLC for city-owned property at pel Del Norte and North Desert Boulevard the purchase price is 18.7 million and other consideration and the public hearing will be held on July 16th and this is formally known as a great will property no comment thank you item 30 good morning wart Spa uh purchasing strategic swording uh strategic goal is number one and the linkage to strategic plan is subsection uh 1.5 we are recommending that the managing director of purchasing and strategic sourcing be authorized to issue purchase orders for solicitation number 2024 0554 automated restroom maintenance to public facilities and services uh for an initial term of three years with the stipulation that the supplier will be required to provide an updated Soul Source letter and Affidavit of each year this contract is necessary to uphold janitorial maintenance services to the excute automated public toilets ensuring optimal operation just start a crossy what's an automated toilet I'm sorry what's an automated toilet uh well this is these are uh public toilets that are I know but what is one just kind of reading that and I'm like wondering what is one good morning everyone uh Roberto tinero from International Bridges Department it's just a a public restroom sir uh that it's uh automated uh it cleans itself there you go see that's that was the question thank you yes no okay thank you I think he had the end uh item 31 please good morning CL with purchasing and strategic seing Department this item addresses strategy call number one create an environment conducive to strong sustainable Economic Development the linkage to the Strategic plan it is subsection 1.4 grow The Core Business of air transportation this was a lit procurement for general aviation R Rehabilitation the word 30 views online one bit was received from a local supplier an inadequate competition survey was conducted no protest has been received for this requirement and we recommending award as indicated to Jordan Foster Construction LLC the lowest responsive responsible beer thank you ma'am now it's 30 31 so 32 good morning D the purchasing and sourcing Department the sh go for is item is goal number two set the standard for a safe and secure City the linkage to strategic plan is subsection 2.3 increased Public Safety operational efficiency this is a competitive s procurement for 2024 0291 fire station 38 there were 25 views online three proposals were received two coming from local suppliers no protests were received for this requirement and we are recommending award as indicated to dantek General Contractors Inc the highest ranked offer based on the evaluation factors for the solicitation the biggest question we was get when will it be ready to open let me go Ahad and defer to the department for that one thank you we get that question every time yes sir we're looking good morning a year construction when a year construction so not until late 25 thank you yes ma'am representative nandz Mr herandez before you walk away um dantex I haven't heard of this company before have they done work with the city of op Pasa dtic yes yes ma'am they've done a pretty significant projects for the city of Al Paso we've worked with them for were they under a different name prior to this name no ma'am okay so it's always been dantex yes ma' got it thank you thank you for that uh 32 item 33 good morning I nandes item number 33 is discussion and action authorizing the city manager to sign an agreement for Professional Services buying between the city of Al Paso and Professional Service Industries this will be for geotechnical services for the El Paso Public Safety and Fire Department headquarters and vehicle maintenance and Logistics Center project this is the academy out in the Northeast the basic Services sorry the amount is not to exceed 744 72030 city engineer is authorized to approve additional basic Services reimbursables additional Services each at 50,000 for a total cost of of El Paso and Decker this is for Design Services um architecture and engineering services for the El Paso Police Department headquarters the amount is not to exceed 4, 58585 the city engineer is authorized for both basic reimbursable and additional Services both at 50,000 each for a total of 4 milon 158 587 thank you ma'am thank you 35 good morning Paula sales with purchasing and sgic sourcing theic offer this item is number two set a standard for safe and secure City the linkage to the Strategic plan is subsection 2.4 improve Motor Safety and traffic Management Solutions this is a non-competitive procurement under local government General exception code section 252 022 a procurement necessary to preserve and protect the public health or safety of the municipality residents we are recommending award to 3H Towing LLC ad recer Service Inc DBA ad Towing and Recovery Raul Fernandez Jr DBA Dependable Towing Camel Towing ink and soul Express Towing ink for 6 months for an estimated amount of $489,999 775 cents this is on a rotation basis and as needed now why um I know we've um these are the vendors we've been using for I GA the last couple years why is it uh a six-month extension instead of a rebid for the contract so we're trying to rebid I did rebid uh this item back in February however it couldn't be awarded so we're reiding again for the second time if uh it's unsuccessful then we'll go ahead and and uh see other what other options we have why was it unsuccessful because they're not submitting all the documentation so I already um we're going we're going to schedule meetings to meet with the all the vendors that have submitted their bids to go over the solicitation uh tell them what they did wrong and what can they can improve when does the original contract expire it expired in December it will expire in December or it did it did but this is the second been talking about that this is a problem and I had a feeling and that's why I'm asking the question that we're waiting too long cuz we bid it in February and then expired in December that's an issue um Colonel Wesson yes sir we're working on on not only the the the backward planning to get ahead of these but in this particular case um a lot of incomplete paperwork so it's going to require us to sit down with all the vendors and go through this we're doing that that now yeah we need to you know we need to put it out for a bit prior to expiration because that creates what we're doing today is uh which is not what I like to see I like to see has prepared and move forward as one expires the other one comes in and this is a perfect example of that's not what we're doing I know we do it a lot of times but then we end up you know if some of these and we've talked about this that if we don't approve it then we got a problem we lose Services you know so now we're extending it so if um if we could really have some type of system in our system that this doesn't happen it would be really helpful for our community thank you yes sir represent nandes thank you mayor for bringing up those concerns because those were the same concerns I had but um secondary to that the the opportunity that you're providing these ad recer companies um and multiple 3 AG these are the same type of concerns I've had with other procurements specifically the health insurance procurement you have demonstrated today that you were giving um biders opportunities to resubmit and when I brought up the issue prior that is fundamentally my concern our processes shift and Vary based on each procurement and I know you're nodding no but that's the perception I have and my constituents have as well and so there is validity in my concern and my concern has been ignored time and time again we need to have standard processes you need to have more support for these companies if there's questions for the procurement um there's questions in documentation you all have weekly meetings are what are you going to make this standard for these companies similar to every other process and every other procurement so yes ma'am our process is standard so the debriefings of course are after the solicitation has the bid opening has occurred all of the evaluation each phase has been concluded then once the bids expire then we do the debriefing process and that's exactly what's happening here uh the bids they were deemed non-responsive so then we don't have to wait all the way till the bids expire the first first solicitation we did wait until we had to wait until the bids expired and so that causes a delay in the rebid because we are waiting so we are looking at we do have a provision that allows us to be able to proceed with csps that was approved by Council competitive seal perance okay that was approved by Council to allow us allow the director of purchasing to um what's the technical term blinked to actually reject the to reject the bids and so we do not have that for goods and services so we have to let the bids expire and then we follow the normal process in this case they were all deemed non-responsive so we're able to shorten that time frame were all of them non-responsive or just some okay they didn't they didn't meet the 70 point requirement okay no vendor did okay and so that's why we're able to now do debriefings which is what she explained and then move to the rebid process so you're you're not you're providing debriefings you're not providing like like educational yeah educational okay so you're just providing debriefings do you provide a debriefing after the reward or after it becomes public the solicitation it's after the award after the award okay because I've heard from some that they've been waiting for debriefings they don't get some some do get some some get some before the award some get some after after the award and then this brings me to just a followup for the department heads just want to make sure that all of these uh companies are picking up after all of the debris from crashes um I know that's been uh a point of contention and frustration from residents about the debris and you know the un uh aesthetic pleasing of of all of the debris left behind so I just wanted to make sure that we are reemphasizing that in this next six months and then the next reiteration after the rebid is completed um is that a standard that's that's acceptable yes ma'am yes okay yes we let our staff know when I say staff our officers know that every towing company that responds needs to clean up the the areas that they report respond to and I know 311 and the different departments get our complaints because every time there's a crash we end up making report but it varies right if you call a private tour versus a city's tour is that correct yes sir okay so we I'm not able to distinguish the difference I'm just I just report it and you all can determine if that was a city uh contract or if that was a private Towing C yes ma'am okay um and then finally just my final comments K and Mr Weston and city manager um and all of your management it's time that we get a director for the purchasing department say we yeah we've been through the process I know you've been through the process we have and I feel a strong duty to re remind this this city and hold you all accountable we need to hire a director so that we understand and we've been through the process all the way to the selection of a purchasing director and that that that director did not right that c that candidate didn't move forward so we're going we're continuing to to be more competitive to work with um Head Hunters because it's been almost three years and I think there's been some patience on our side thank you yeah and we're opening up the uh the recruitment for third time thank you for that I know you've only been uh interim for about a year though so thank you for doing that thank you and thank you all thank you representative randz and with that we're on item 36 good morning mayor and Council John Scott with purchasing and strategic sourcing the Strategic goal for this item is number four enhance El Paso's quality of life through recreational cultural and educational environments the linkage to the Strategic plan is subsection 4.2 create Innovative recreational educational and cultural programs and this is a request that the managing director of the purchasing and strategic sourcing Department be authorized to issue purchase orders for 2024-the distributor and the supplier will be required to provide an updated Soul Source letter and affidavit each year thank you sir 36 good morning I'm Jenny SIM swano from the purchasing inst strategic sourcing Department good morning ma'am good morning sir the Strategic goal for this item is strategic goal number four enhance El Paso's quality of life through recreational cultural and educational environments the linkage to the Strategic plan is subsection 4.2 to create Innovative um recreational educational and cultural programs we are requesting that the managing director of the purchasing and strategic sourcing Department be authorized to issue purchase orders to comprise Technologies Incorporated the sole developer and and provider of Sam smart alec smart pay and smart kiosk payment centers for an estimated amount of $2,235 for a three-year term that will provide continued services for PC access management payment management software and internet resources for the libraries Department thank you m this is a great program and and I know U the community's taking full advantage of it so this is incredibly a great great program and great opportunity for our community so thank you for that item 30 eight seven eight 38 like it should be Karina braas Gala economic and International Development items 38 39 and 40 are all related um 38 is the resolution for a chapter 380 economic development program agreement between the city of El Paso and notes live Inc the incentives are in accordance with the term sheet approved by Council on April 23rd so that's a combination of rebates out of a tax increment reinvestment Zone number 11 an 8 million development note out of the Texas Economic Development Fund and then um construction and development fee waivers item 39 is an ordinance so it's public it's public hearing and second reading for an ordinance authorizing the city manager to sign a contract of sale with notes live Inc and this is for contract of sale is just the terminology for the document but this is the conveyance of city-owned property at Cohen and Gateway North Boulevard sorry the conveyance is authorized under chapter 253 of the Texas local government code consideration for the land will be the performance in the 380 and this is development only so it cannot be used for other purposes it's just for that development and item 40 is also public Hearing in second reading of an ordinance approving amendment number three to the final project and financing plan for tax increment reinvestment Zone number 11 um this is to update the financial projections and other information in the plan in accordance with the proposed development of the amphitheater and that's all thank you and I know that um I noticed that on August 11th uh the Ford Amphitheater will be have its uh opening uh in Colorado which is uh have been following it very closely and it's a a great yes great I mean it's incredible so as I see that one moving forward I'm very excited to see this as we're bringing it forward as uh this um so like I said August 11th they they have their opening and they have One Republic yeah um f name it B I don't know no that's fine and I'll note that while all the Agreements are with notes live Inc um that is their kind of doing business name they did recently complete their merger and acquisition so they are a stock exchange they are a publicly traded company going by venue U venu yeah so One Republic is the one I just looked it up I have it on here but no it's U it's incredible to see that uh how fast they're growing and moving forward and uh very exciting to see that they have that grand opening on August 11th sounds great and they they got it sponsored and it's called the Ford Amphitheater um representa nandes MCA thank you for all your work on this I just I just for your are you going to have presentations tomorrow for these second reading yes there'll be a present I haven't reviewed them but I'll take a look today but um if in the event there's not um the existing budgets currently available for the turs and for the Ted fund so all of the funds that we're going to be using could I see the total balance and fund is zero because it's city-owned property so there's currently no tax revenue flowing in but we can provide projections for the Ted fund I think that's also part of budget backup but I know that's hard to reconcile I'm just looking for like the overall balance after you we we pay for these um agreements and then um one thing that I I keep mentioning is the usage of the um facility for the public um have those terms been finalized so it's always been stated that this would be available on non-event days for the public um that's not going to be a negotiated sort of public use rate and that's not the case on other venues examp I'm sorry maybe I'm I'm misrepresenting my question um based on what you said I have a just additional clarification and um specifically for free not for a use so other communities that notes live are in other communities like mcken they have dedicated free spaces for schools to use for graduations things of that nature um and those are according to reports that I read in the media I haven't looked at their 380 agreements additionally parking fee revenues um the city of mcken is sharing parking fee revenues with the city of mckenny and notes live yeah um and so I just want to make sure that on behalf of the constituents and taxpayers that we are achieving the greatest amount of return for our uh residents and so um can you just clarify tomorrow in your presentations of those um availability of access to the facilities is available to the public and the fees will be shared with the city of El Paso those are not included in the agreement now but I'll go over it um in detail tomorrow but those are also not the final terms of the mckin agreement so that's not the case in that one as well but we'll discuss further okay we prepar sounds good thank you let me ask you another question I think she just kind of reminded me so the economic impact to the community is still 5.3 billion and that's again on the conservative end so we're looking at that's what I thought so right that's conservative end would be 5.3 billion to C Paso based on private sector investment correct that's great thank you for that thank you and with that we have item number 41 41 good morning mayor council R Garcia plan inspections hey good morning Serv sir item 41 is the second reading of an ordinance resoning property the C3 commercial this is for property generally located north of thorn and west of Donovan this would uh allow a proposed office self- storage business uh there's no opposition we did receive one email in support uh City plan commission was unanimous approval thank you 42 and 42 also the second reading of an ordinance this one is vacating a uh utility easement located on property at 3312 Martina Place uh uh there were no adverse comments from any of the utilities uh no opposition from the general public CPC was approval on a 7 to one vote thank you sir 43 think we got 43 and 44 there she is good morning ma'am good morning mayor and Council Maria pasas we are deleting item 43 and 44 okay thank you thank 45 and 46 good morning good morning ma'am joseo real estate manager will pass water items 45 and 46 are um we really have the opportunity to brief uh City Council Members item 45 it's an ordinance authorizing the city manager to sign a deed and any other documents necessary to convey approximately 0061 acres of land legally described as portion of section 35 block 779 Township 2 tmpr RR code survey abstract number 2139 city of Al Paso Al Paso County Texas item 46 is an or authorizing the city manager to sign a purchase and sale agreement a deed and any other documents necessary to convey approximately 16.20 acres of land legally described as portion of section 9 Township 27 South South Ranch 3 East New Mexico principal Meridian joh Anna County Mexico thank you one of things I I asked Mr Blue when these items were on the agenda and he did tell me that uh we do control the water rights in the state of Texas but not in New Mexico when we do show New Mexico property in New Mexico that's correct sir thank you thank you item 47 Chief good morning Chief morning mayor morning council members um item number 47 it supports our strategic goal set the standard for a safe and secure City and our subg goal maintain standing as one of the nation's top safest cities this is a resolution authorizing the city manager or disign to submit the fiscal year 25 motor vehicle crime prevention Authority Grant application uh this grant funds Personnel helps us funds Personnel salaries French benefits travel training supplies and other operating expenses for the police department our Auto task force combats motor vehicle thefts burglar of vehicles and other fraud related uh motor vehicle crimes the city of El Paso has um been awarded this financial assistance since 1991 and uh request this year is $2,685 and the cash match of $553,000 uh if we didn't get this grant but it's $53,900 and revolutionizing transportation um short for smart um and we will be asking um for $2 million with no match required for the city from the city and the project would consist of the downtown International ports intelligence systems and design and integration Regional integration project thank you 49 thank you good morning mayor city council Omar Martinez with strategic and legislative affairs item 49 is a resolution izing the submission of a Grant application led by Utah State University and the UTP Aspire NSF uh engineering Research Center to the US Department of energy fiscal year 24 communi taking charge accelerate grant program requesting $2 million with no match required from the city for the wireless integrated rapid energy link electric shuttle service project or Wireless project and authorizing participation from City Vol Paso staff and of airport facilities for the project for planning activities thank you sir thank you and I will'll go to P I mean uh mass transit yes sir mass transit agenda are they here oh there's the colonel turn now we're on item number number three come on up Colonel which number sir I'm sorry item three item three is the board appointment item four uh good morning Dereck Russ with purchase inry sourcing Department the Shure goal for this item is goal number seven enhance and sustain El Paso's infrastructure Network link to subsection 7.3 Elance a regional comprehension transportation system request that the managing director of purchasing and strategic sourcing Department be authorized to issue purchased orders for 2024 0468 hydraulic hoses and fittings to Bridgeton hose power LLC DBA complete safety thank you five good morning uh JIS with purchasing and strategic sourcing Department the Strategic goal for this item is goal number seven enhance and sustain El Paso's infrastructure Network the linkage to the Strategic plan is subsection 7.3 enhance Regional comprehensive transport system this is a request that the managing director of the purchasing and strategic sourcing Department be authorized to issue purchase orders for 2024 0067 voestalpine parts and services to Vestal Pine Railway systems Nord Trak LLC the sole and authorized distributor supplier will be required to provide an updated Soul Source letter and affidavit each year thank you ma'am and that's the end of mass transfit so well do we have a motion to adjourn motion there's a motion in a second to adjourn the agenda review meeting all in favor anyone opposed and the agenda review meeting for Monday July 1st 2024 is adjourned at 9:38 a.m. thank you m p now can we do our work session and thank you all for being here there's a lot of um people from uh various City departments and thank you all for being here good morning this is a work session of the AL Paso city council for Monday July 1st 2024 it is 9:38 a.m. mayor liser is present and presiding in council chambers along with representative aavo representative ernandez alternate mayor protim molinard representative salido representative Canales mayor protim Kennedy is joining us virtually good morning sir and representatives Fierro and Rivera have requested to be excused good morning Miss BR good morning sir thank you if we um we'll take item number one and I don't know if uh you noticed um represent us we've uh based on the numbers that have really have gone down quite a bit and uh it's uh been very manageable that uh we have deleted uh uh the emergency item number two based on uh like I said the numbers and everything else and then number one Chief will explain it and that's a lot to be able to to be able to to provide food and um move around some of the uh team members that we put on Chief yes sir good morning Rodriguez with the office of emergency management the ordinance uh that we have that we've had in place uh since the beginning of the M migrant Serv uh has assisted us to do to be in this space u to provide the Staffing for our NGS like the mayor said you know the complement of of services that that we are doing to continue to to manage it so uh but then like the mayor said numbers have been low so we should be able to operate with the existing ordinance thank you and youall have done an great job in in uh making sure that uh like I said it's uh it's been incredible to see that we're really the only major city in America that has no um people on sleeping on the streets on the streets we really um worked really good with the state and the federal government to be able to provide a service that uh it's really for the federal government and we don't uh we don't administer federal law only local law but we've done a great job of making sure that we work with the federal government to do the job for the federal government and uh Chief yagoo thank you for your leadership on that and chief Rodriguez you guys have done an incredible job of uh with leadership and working with uh office of emergency management in the state of Texas to be able to provide roughly about 30 40 million dollar to the city of El Paso to be able to continue to provide that service so thank you all for your and with that we have a motion for number one and item number one is discussion and action on emergency ordinance extending emergency ordinance number 01 9333 authorizing the city manager to assign personnel and resources to assist in addressing the humanitarian and Public Safety crisis resulting from a mass migration through Al Paso there is a motion made by alternate mayor Pro Molin seconded by representative salido to approve the emergency ordinance on that motion call for the vote mayor Pro Tim Kennedy I thank you representative Salo I thank you and the voting session I'm sorry yes ma'am you consent yes ma'am thank you and I think it's important to know that uh if anything was to change that we still have the right to issue an emergency U declaration at any time so thank you for that and the motion passes with the mayor's consent that brings us to item number two and this is presentation and discussion on the neighborhood traffic Management program ntmp FY 2024 update yes good morning mayor and Council good morning ma'am good morning so I'm Olivia mavo Patrick lead planner with streets and maintenance Department think they're pulling up our presentation right now I haven't grown since the last time I was here sorry here we go so there is going to be an update for the neighborhood traffic Management program of the um of the past fiscal year 24 falls under the vision block safe and beautiful neighborhoods under strategic goal number seven the mtmp is an application process for residents to request traffic C me typically they request speed cushion or speed humps um through uh for their residential streets we can also include collector um speedback signs on collector streets there is an application process forward so the quick overview is that they must apply there's a review process a traffic study uh they told if they if they if they're eligible or not there's a design we do a public Outreach when we do the project as well and then after installation we also do after studies to see the effectiveness of the project before they apply we do have pre-qualifications that the street needs to meet and needs to be paved within the City Limits has to be a local or collector street so basically no arterial streets has to have one lane of travel in each Direction the speed limit needs to be between 20 and 35 and it needs to be primary composed of single family or duplex housing and so that's focusing more on our residential areas and so in order to be eligible if they meet those criteria they need to submit the application with the 50 at least 51% residential support of petition signatures from the subject Street and then from then we would contu the um do the traffic study and then from the traffic study there needs to meet a minimum volume of at least 500 cars and then from that 10% of that volume needs to go 5 miles or more over the posted speed limit and so those are the three main criterias that they must reach in order to be eligible for the installation so since fiscal year 19 to 24 we've installed over um 88 projects we're currently on our record year for installations because we have another six issued for this year so we're hopefully to reach like 30 this year part of that this helped with us was with um an process Improvement of removing the additional consent when we ask for the placements of it now we just go to public notification of this is where the projects going go in public right away and then now we've been able to do some of our after studies so we are seeing it Effectiveness those are studies that we projects that were done from 20 to 23 we have seen a reduction of 25% of the volume on those streets and this is an average reduction of 16% of the speed reduction through the 85 percentile so getting them back closer to the back to 30 so from there we are funded since uh scho year 20 from the general funds and it's gone up a little bit each year so we're at um 350 and what we use those funds for is to purchase SE of our materials for this program so we'll do our purchasing of our speed cushion materials and then we'll also use it for our on call Consultants to assist with our traffic studies as well because we do get a back since we lowered the partition criteria that is one of our backlogs that we get and the on calls help us to keep up with the queue and from that just for the um backlog history on it we revised the criteria back in 18 where we lowered it to to a th um from 1,000 cars to 500 we shift the focus from capital projects to focus more on the speed cushions um in 2020 that we started our general funding which helped out we were able to address backlog that we had that was prior to fiscal year 18 also in 20 we also had the pandemic that kind of halt the process for a bit but we were able to adjust our processes and the public Outreach and uh be able to continue it in 22 that's when we lowered the criteria we lowered the petition from 66 to 51% we lowered the speed criteria from the 805th percentile to the 90th and we also backlog that criteria to anyone that we're under review under 2020 so it had a little bit of a backlog created there but moving forward when we move the process of improvement we've been able to address a lot of those as well as you can see this is what our current Q is right now we have 45 elig eligible applications in Q so when they do get their notice they get the list of the projects that they have that are in their queue and we do let them know pending on their place in queue it's about a 1 to threee wait and it's actually getting a little bit under now like getting closer to a couple years depending on their place and you can see the bulk of our requests are on the east side and then they are assigned to area Corral so that's actually helped us out as well with the process with the older process I would be able to focus just on one or two projects at a time now I'm able to focus at least one or two in each Corral and so it keeps the flow of work orders going and then this is just the list right now of the projects in CU we just got a b a batch of traffic studies in so it'll be suay sending out notifications to about 11 of them right now to let them know that they're on the list and also about a few that that didn't make the eligibility list and moving forward we're also collaborating with um C because we're also Under the Umbrella of vision zero and the safe routes to school so some of the things we're going to be looking at is exploring best practices for traffic cing devices within school zones currently we don't install speed cushions within school zones but as something we want to look at and re-evaluate as well at this time so that way we still are you know moving forward with the other um action plans that are moving forward that's what I have for today thank you if there's questions yes ma'am we have a couple people on here or more than a couple now but thank you did a really good job of uh your presentation representative caneles followed by represent thank you mayor um I'm looking at Slide Five shows the the funding since 2020 um in those five years have we expended all of the funds every year um has the funding ever been I won't say ever has the funding in the last few years been a barrier to completing more projects or are we calibrating the funding to the the capacity that we have to do the project it's helping us stay as we are with the pace that we're going with uh if we were going to elaborate to bring back more than just speed cushions then that would be a little harder to cover if we wanted to like try out speed tables or um traffic circles but not the most like robust ones maybe some of the the rubber asphalt ones like to be able to Pilot some of the different types of traffic calming then additional funding would help um with that but for right now the funding helps us keep our inventory and then helps with our backlog with traffic studies okay I guess I mean to ask like do do we do we would we theoretically have greater capacity to do more projects if it was funded um more to be able to bring back more than to do more than just speed cushions that would help with the the capacity so if we just stick with what we're at right now that's kind of where we're at but if we wanted to revise more traffic calming tools then additional funding would be definitely beneficial I'm I guess I'm asking only about speed cushions would would more funding equal more projects more speed cushions or are we at a capacity limit in terms of capacity what we're doing is what we're able to install also within our in inhouse internally with our crews too okay um and then CU that would be Outsourcing if we needed to do additional okay um and I just wanted to emphasize for to the for the public you know we're talking $1.35 Million worth of speed cushion projects over the last five years um that's a significant investment and the crews are out there working all the time um I know that there's uh frustration with some of the backlog and and I understand but I think people think you know that you go out and you drop the speed cushion on the street and it's done in one day but um you know there's asphalt work that goes into it and and the process Isn't So as simple right they have to be secured uh to the street in a way that's more than just dropping them dropping them down on the street and then they're there so um I guess for the public we ask for some patience I'm sure you understand more than almost anyone um uh but uh I commend you on the amount of projects that we've been able to do and the acceleration you know we see a clear trend line up in the number of projects that we're doing every year um and I think that's it's beneficial because as you presented on I think it was slide four we we're seeing the results so thank you thank you thank you thank you represent can represent thank you mayor um so this is um a really good presentation in terms of explaining the process in a few slides which I feel I will use for my constituents to kind of just give them this so I appreciate that in in terms of how we get there um I have a few questions uh similar to representative Gales about the time that it's taking to get these speed cushions so it's really difficult um we are getting constant calls about these either how do you get them or how can uh why is it taking so long stuff like that and like okay well you're you're in a queue and it's probably going to take two years at the very least and that's a really difficult thing to say to constituents from a customer service perspective so it to me where what I'm looking at here is it's great criteria getting there but then once they meet all the criteria and the study is done and all of that it's still taking a long time so how can we make that faster is it um the fact that it's internal and you only have so much capacity and you kind of mentioned that if you were to Outsource it would go faster um so can you kind of explain a little bit about that with Outsource we would probably cost us a little bit more so we would have to work with our crew to see if because what takes time with the project is the surfacing preparation so a lot of it's based on the current condition of the roadway surface so hence the purpose where they do basically a giant pavement cut which adds to about 4 to six weeks average for a project for installation and so but if the street has already been resurfaced it actually goes a lot quicker so the part of that is just the prep work for the speed cushions because they need to be bolted they bolted in they make it a little bit thicker so that would be the area to look into to see if we can help expedite some of that part especially where we have the bulk um but we would need to look explore a little bit more good morning Richard Bristol streets and maintenance another one of our issues over the last few years has been the diligence time it's taken a while over previous years until we made process improvements to run them through our process so one thing that we got ourselves caught up into which delayed us a lot is um where we going to put these things in the back and forth with the constituents when we remove them from that process and we went with the engineer's recommendation where we'll do twice as many cushions in a year so to answer your question um sir and and also for uh Mr Canales um our process is what's driving this it's not the cost of these assets it's our process and our diligence and one thing that we're trying to keep in mind it's a citizen driven process so we're not trying to impose this on the public we're trying to work with the public to help a qualified project become a reality so had it if it were not a constituent G process it would be a lot faster um but because we have those levels of diligence built into our our normal process it has delayed it and what we have done um as was articulated was knocking out about half of the extra diligence process that we didn't think we needed and that has beded up a lot now we're always looking for options to to speed this up um absolutely um I can tell you it's a staff issue I can tell you it's always going to be a resource issue anything in traffic engineering will be a resource issue because we're we're we're battling many tasks at a time with a lot of the same um a lot of the same experts um however in this case um I'm very pleased with the progress that we've made so I'm here to tell you that yes it is taking a while we have come up with a change that's knocked off half of that time and we got twice as much work done uh we're going to continue that this year and we're going to see where that puts us next year um but I I don't think that throwing a pile of resources will make an En orous difference because the diligence process is still what will be um taking the most of our time thanks for the explanation and um so just based off of what you said um what's coming to mind is maybe more communication with the residents where um on a former street that I lived on the only communication that I got for these speed HPS was that they were happening the installations happening within the next few weeks I didn't even know that that was coming cuz I never signed a petition over came to my house to to tell me if I wanted to sign or anything like that um and I assume they got the 51% and and so there probably happened about a year ago and so once they installed them then it was fine right but I'm thinking more if we're taking one or three years saying hey um this is coming your your number whatever in the queue and we're working on this this is the study that has happened these are the next steps and at least informing the public rather than making them think that it's not happening the other thing that I think um comes up a lot is that some of these streets um the cushions aren't going to be installed because they're you're waiting on the street to be resurfaced or reconstructed which makes complete sense right but I think um like Edgar park I think is one of those and we keep getting calls like we were promised the speed cushions and we keep saying you know Edgar Park is going to you're going to get it U resurfaced or reconstructed I forget which one um but keeping that communication with people I think is really essential no then we do keep updates with their with it's the applicant and when they reach out to us and a lot of times they may not reach out to us directly and they'll go to the rep's office instead of reaching out to us because we put it on their letters reach out to them so there are that we do keep correspondence with and I have a quick shoot where I show them here's the status this is what we've installed you're right here you have about a few more ahead so we do have corresponden with the applicants um but that's also they need to be reaching out to us and we do send update letters as well if we experience delays um when we have backlog and traffic studies we have sent out notices to the applicants knowing that we're going to do it in a bulk and that we'll be getting out notifications of Eligibility over the summer and so it is but the correspondent is mainly with the direct applicant who initially applied Dr Alo one of the things that we'll do just based on the feedback is is we'll improve the process by doing and and Mr Bristol will work through this in terms of um getting a an update to City Council Members so you can get an understanding of the ntmp projects within your districts I agree they do a good job of um communicating back and forth with the applicants but we can improve that by providing a reasonable update to you all on what the statuses are within your districts yeah and I think that would be helpful cuz I think at at the end of the day sometimes the the blame gets put on us and we're trying our best to say you know or keep the the calm in terms of hey this is coming but it's also really difficult to be like well I think another year I think another two years so I think if we have that information in front of us that would also be really helpful for us to disseminate to constituents that are calling about this and then on the on the other slide that I had a question about was um the school zones and putting the speed humps are you going to engage with school districts on this or um it's just too early to kind of know what you're planning for in the future for this right now it's the preliminary and so but we are keeping our partnership with the safe routes to school which has meetings is also with the school districts as well and so we've had like discussions when we've had the open house meetings so or you want to address Randy Garcia with streets of Maintenance so the idea to start looking at the speed placing the speed cushions within School actually came from uh one of the school district school districts reaching out to us to ask us you know what when we see speeding in school districts after hours how are we addressing it we know the school zones take care of that um while school's in session but they're seeing the same effects um after hours so what we're going to look at now is if we do get those requests and not just dismiss them because currently our process is not to place them in school districts in the school zones excuse me so we're going to look at it now we're going to do speed studies after hours see what's going on kind of expand our scope a little bit and try to make that extra step to reach um come to a good conclusion with the school districts and take that extra step so preliminary phase right now determining when and where how it's possible where to place them and all that stuff is is going on right now yeah and and I think that makes sense it's really important to engage with them because I you know when you want new school zones in an area you need a letter from the principal and kind of have that process so I feel like merging those processes would probably make the most sense um as you kind of look at this and the last thing I have is um on the petitions to put the speed humps is there any way to make it Anonymous cuz there's there's a constituent that I have that would like to get the signatures and our office would be happy to help with the signatures but the constituent doesn't want to put a name on the application just in fear of the block being upset at the house or something like that so is that a consideration that we can take into account right now it's a it's it's a public record when they submit and so we do need a point of contact the applicant signs it and then the signatures the petitions themselves has the resident address phone number so it is a public it becomes a public record as soon as they submit it so it is kind of hard to remain anonymous okay no that makes sense that makes total sense I just thought I would ask thank you so much thank you and we do have an update um that's prep that I've already sent to go out through the CR process that's urrent as of today thank you Dr um representative U erandis thank you mayor Olivia thank you for the presentation I've seen a complete Evolution on this project and as you're going into re revising or reviewing the current project just wanted to provide some historical context because I I understand you you were in a different department at the time so maybe you remember um I remember at the time city council had declined to cover skull Zone um speed cushions or traffic calming measures mainly on the on the concern of of resources and that the school districts um were responsible to do their own traffic calming measures in tandem in coordination with the city of El Paso and I get it because we do get a lot of requests around schools and anytime there's some request for like U pedestrian crosswalks things of that nature we always I always invite the school board trustee with me to go meet with the constituent and what we hear often from the streets department is that hey we can't but the school district can request them and we'll work with the school with the school with the school district so they can pay for the signage and the installation or whatnot so I don't think that's like not allowed but constituents can't apply right now on behalf of like a school zone but a school district can do that and so like constituents get really confused and I think we need to clarify that on whatever direction that you go in is that if there's a school zone you got to work with your respective School Board trustee so that their Transit officers or whatever operational role within the school District can make that request cuz that's how we've been able to achieve it in the past but it's not visible on any verbage did you want to add something sorry Randy Garcia again so when we looked at the one we're looking at right now it's actually Deb Lewis by Eastwood High School so we've asked the school district to do the Outreach to that uh community that neighborhood association to discuss what can can be done so when we did the preliminary design we actually altered the the school zone working with the school district of course to let them know what we were doing um and then again we got the complaints you know they're still speeding after hours are speeding they're speeding into this they're speeding into the speed cushion and speeding out you know correct so we can probably change the placement of of those cushions but we'd have to alter the design of the of the school zone so right now we kind of handcuffed by what our process of what was recommended before by Council on what we can or cannot do so we just want to explore different tools or different ways that we can take the applications we have we have the school on there we have the speed cushions on that street we want to see if we can actually kind of alter the design to make it more effic uh more effective yeah no that's perfectly understandable and it should be the traffic engineer making those decisions in tandem with the the school um and but just for purposes of like Visual and reading the document it's it's not entirely clear I was like well it just says no like what's your alternative and that's where we get a lot of calls so just for perspective if you can as you are going along with that want wanted to share that um my our experiences in our office um and then related to the question that representative Canales had mentioned about Outsourcing and and I'm a big proponent of that you know I I agree that in one fiscal year we should be able to achieve all the pending list I mean I've seen our departments move mountains um and I would be a big proponent of Outsourcing out so that we can achieve more number one and then clear out the waiting list because constituents get very frustrated and so there was a period of time where we just stopped doing them during the pandemic coupled with the three-year wait so essentially some residents waited like over six years seven years to get their um installation so you know I I'm I know that the department is incredibly efficient and that you all can achieve this but you need the resources and we're happy to make those budgetary disc have those budgetary discussions this fiscal year but so no surprises and did you I'm sorry I see you encroaching so um just we've looked into preliminarily about what it cost to get rid of like approximately 40 of that we have in Q and it's going to be over $2 million for us to Outsource that to get it done so it's quite expensive and I think with the with the amount of gain we've made about how many how many we've done over the past few years keep on keep on going up and up and up I think we're on the right path and just yeah but like my question is is like for $2 million I can repave several streets I mean what what are we not figuring out here you know I think we need to think outside the box like those installations are incredibly expensive why I mean there're simple installations I understand that you have to excavate like 2 in of the pavement or the the I guess yeah they call it the pavement so that you can install the speed cushions but I cannot Phantom how expensive this is over $2 million for 45 speed cushions like that's ridiculous like go out and look for better Partnerships um or figure out a better process to do it internally so so the notion that oh it's too expensive so therefore we can't isn't acceptable to me I really would like to hear from the Departments to be Innovative and to find a coste effective solution so that our constituents can get these installations a lot faster but that's you know this is for seven years of hearing this since my term and so I wanted to share that tidbit that I just think it's incredibly expensive and we can find a a more cost- effective way to do that but thank you and then one question for you sir um I'm sorry remind me your name r Randy Garcia streets of Maintenance Mr Garcia sorry he's like to get a little noise over here um Mr Garcia when there's an installation of a speed cushion and it deteriorates what's the process to get it replaced that's just for um Regular maintenance calling through the 311 okay so we just need a constituent from the street to call in and it goes into the operation queue for replacement and you don't have to um go through the whole application process over again no no once it's ours we maintain them okay so and it's us never for changing like the old old models kind of installed prior to 2008 when it was I call them the twinkie like the flat model yeah um we we like to look at those and see if it needs to be redesign or work order kind of stuff so we'll look at it that way and then reissue but we have done some stuff where we've go back and readjust older ones as well so or regular maintenance wear and tear the screws get loose the flap comes up flash flood yeah um so that's just a regular 311 que and it goes right into their queue and they address those pretty quickly so awesome yeah they don't wait they don't wait into the installation queue they're just part of the regular maintenance so in my time in being a president of a neighborhood association that's changed so I'm I'm pleased that you could just request it and it just depends on the situation however in the past we have requested what we call like like signage that residents can buy like on Amazon or whatever and they put it and their right away some of them are asked to take it off um and so I'm wondering as part of your reiteration of this traffic calming measure is there something that we can um you know Empower residents to work with their neighborhood association so they can do their own installation of signages and it's like usually like a little kid like a silhouette little kid and it's like drive slow this is our neighborhood and I see a lot of those pop up in neighborhoods and some I've receiv received complaints like hey because it's in the RightWay they're not allowed to install it um and I've also applied for some and I've been declined um from the streets department saying that it's potentially a hazard because the rideway is city property and someone can run into it well you know with new technology and some of these signages you can they can go up and down if you hit it it can just fall flat so would there be an acceptable form of signage that would not not inhibit or make driving less safe where we can ask residents hey these are the standards that we accept you can go purchase them and you can install them because those signages are like shaming signages that work because it changes your overall mentality and your behavior as a driver so that's just something that's been discussed in the past and there's never been a lot of resolution and I wanted to share that with you as you're thinking about your reiteration thank you thank you thank you repr Salo followed by alter mayor pro mullar thank you mayor and thank you so much for the presentation I have a specific question um the street that runs at where the Beast Urban Park is um is Jason crle a major material or can speed bumps be put in there I would have to look that up because I don't know what off the top of my head from the but does it have houses facing it too or is it the backyard the backyard yeah we usually do this usually for the petition purposes it's a front yard or the side side yard that needs to be present for the signatures of the petition so for longer stretches that have that we can look at it to see if the corner houses can qualify because I know there's some on the far e side you know if we get the corner houses apply we can count for a stretch but it's harder if it's all the backyard and we would need to to look at to see if it is an arterial and to see where we can help out with household counts yeah and I think um uh right above there's some apartments I don't know how we address the apartments do we consider those no um consider the signatures of support come from single family houses and duplexes so multif family uh we don't count that as part of the household count as well so okay thank you okay thank you and I know that um I've had a few concerns about a couple speed bumps that I needed repair and you guys have done it incredibly quickly within probably 12 to 24 hours so thank you for that rep alternate May potim molar thank you very much mayor good morning thank you very much for your presentation gentlemen as well thank you very much um the traffic study I know there's that cable that goes out it's that's only for a one 24hour period correct 48 Hours 40 hours is there any way that could be extended that was extended I think for over a decade it was only 48 hours and so or 24 hours and that just recently got extended a couple years ago to the 48 hours and so we do look for it two the mtmp is the only one that we do for two days I don't want to extend this by years I'm just asking for another day or two and the reason being for example I have a gentleman constituent on the 5100 block of Antonio the gentleman has applied three different times and he specifically States it it's not the cable is not Gathering the data when they see the cars that are speeding and on gwin there's at least three or four speed bumps already so a lot of those people want once they get on to Antonio they are speeding because they need to get to Dyer or the other way around from Dyer onto to get to gwin because that's the only main thorough fair at that point so the gentleman's very frustrated uh he calls our office I mean he just calls our office he's like what can be done representative we need your help we need your help and so yes and I know we have applied and he has applied like I said three different times and I think you probably know who I'm talking about and so as just when he was even more concerned when hey that cable wasn't even there long enough to capture any data and so that's what the reason I'm asking about that but just anyways just wanted to let you know on that one thank you thank you thank you very much uh great job on your presentation Mr brist and your team thank you right thank you Miss PR yes sir that brings us to item number three and this is a presentation on 2022 Community progress Bond proposition B Parks and Recreation facilities the regional community and all abilities playground a good morning mayor and Council danela Casada for Capital Improvement I'm going to be giving you um an overview of the results of phase one of the all abilities playground please feel free to interrupt at any point in the presentation and I'll address your questions um so this is just a quick reminder that this exciting project was part of the 2022 voter approved Community progress Bond um the budget allocated for this is a total of 10 million uh for this first phase which was a planning study we uh spent 150,000 and uh the planning study focused on a robust Community engagement plan to help us determine what the programming and theming of the playground would be as well as a data-driven process for establishing the site selection this is a quick overview of our existing all abilities facilities within the community you can see that five of these are owned by the city and three are owned by the county and they're pretty widespread around uh but this just highlights the the great need for facilities um that meet all abilities the project overview was broken into four phases it was a 7-month process five months of those were dedicated to community engagement um the tail end of the project consists of a really detailed site analysis as well as some highle cost estimates and the last closing uh portion of the project was dedicated to communicating the results to the community in five Regional Community meetings this is a quick snapshot so you could get an idea of exactly how extensive the engagement plan was uh we had multiple focus group meetings uh we were able to also um leverage programming such as the chalk the block event we were able to reach over 300 participants in that event alone we were able to host Community play shops where we were able to gather input from children um and then we had additional public meetings that were all done hybrid to make it as accessible as possible for our community uh you could see here that we also had over 500 surveys that were answered our surveys were all bilingual we had both um a survey for users and a caregiver survey we had over a thousand different points um of input gathered over the 5 months and we were looking at 15 total engagement events and over 30 hours of engaging with the community this is a quick look at the kind of feedback the important feedback and input that we gathered through these events uh for example um we uh heard that we should include emergency phone or emergency kits within the park premises that we should really focus on making this multigenerational so for example grandparents could come and take their kids to the all abilities playground we also heard um great ideas such as providing Lawns for service animals and uh providing um parallel parking for Vans and you can see some of the images here of the play shops of the children providing their input as we observed them um engage with different play materials different sensory um uh simulating objects and then moving on to the site selection again this was a data driven process um it took place in two different stages so the first one was the geospatial parcel analysis um so what the consultant did was look at all over 200,000 Parcels within the city um then we looked at only the city-owned parcels because we did not want to have to spend any project money on land acquisition and then from there we started breaking it down into not just city-owned but Parcels that met the size requirement uh to accommodate the facility so any parcel that was two to 5 Acres uh met the first cut that took us down to 519 Parcels um then we looked at uh further um geospatial criteria such as incompatible uses or location so we did not want to place this in a really high activity commercial area um we also looked at the zoning making sure that the zoning allowed for the use um and also we wanted to prioritize vacant land or Park land so we did not have to um uh do any demolition work that would be additional cost and then from there we move to stage two of the geospatial analysis so at this point we had a list of parameters that we assigned a score to from very high to moderate priority um the kind of uh parameters included proximity to existing all abilities playgrounds um proximity to the disabled person census track data that we received we wanted to be sure that we were targeting our audience adequately um we also measured the social vulner Mobility index if it was centrally located and accessible to everyone if there was uh terrain or slope that would make it uh unfeasible or less accessible and after that stage two we ended with the top five sites being Logan Park Nolan Richardson Wellington chw Park Lomand Park and Cohen um the first one Logan Park unfortunately we had to disqualify for one reason it's in the middle of a high residential area and the parcel just met the two 2 acre portion so we were afraid we weren't going to have enough parking um or sufficient I should say space for off street parking and we would have to rely on on street parking we did not want to disturb the neighborhood um then Nolan Richardson and Wellington chew because they are caddy Corner facilities from each other we actually combined into one site um and then the last site Cohen Avenue uh we also disqualified since we do have the exciting new entertainment venue coming and that would be a very incompatible use for an all abilities playground as far as a neighbor goes so looking then at utilization data um we're able to use this application that we have that relies on cellular data when people volunteer the location of where they're participating in you know family events um our remaining sites you could see that uh Lomand Park uh where Sylvia Caron Rec Center is located had the highest visitation um significantly higher than both Wellington 2 and Nolan Richardson and then further analysis as to the park utilization um really helped us identify where the users live and which existing all abilities Parks they travel to um and a really important key takeaway from this if you look at the red marker and the purple marker the red being Nolan Richardson and the purple being Lomand Park um you could see that we've identified some existing service gaps finally moving beyond the geospatial analysis um we did a deep dive with uh both user department so it was CID parks and wreck and we also asked for comments from the utilities and streets and maintenance um to really look at further analyzing um criteria that had to do with um the qualities of the site Beyond just the site so in other words did it provide a safe environment um did it contribute to the quality of life um and of course constructibility and budget so you could see that after scoring all of those lomin Park actually came out on top with 93 and Nolan Richardson at 88 this is a quick overview so you can get an aerial view of both sites when we did our preliminary cost assessment um the the site that would be the most expensive to to develop was actually Nolan richardon at 9.3 million and the highest scoring site and the site that we are recommended for the final selection lomin Park uh the cost to construct the playground there uh would be $8.5 million um another note on this site uh so when we took the results to the community in the last five Regional meetings um we did not uh make a recommendation then as to which site had been SE selected we let them know of the two top site um to gather any additional input um everyone was very excited with you know either site as both you could see the scores were very close they were both um equally appropriate um just Lomand um scored higher again just based on the data that we gathered and these were the last Regional meetings that we had um they we Tred to do um the repeat meetings so in other words if we had had a public meeting at a certain location we try to go there again uh we had really great turnout um we had uh positive feedback and input from everyone the community is very excited about this project and we're excited to move forward to the next phase so our next steps will be to uh put out the RFQ so this is the solicitation for A&E Services for the park um we would then bring um the contract for approval to council we anticipate that that's going to be this fall um hopefully October that's our Target date um and then we'll move on to the design of the project which we anticipate will take 6 to 8 months to complete at which point then we'll be able to procure for construction and at this point if you have any questions I'll be happy to answer them thank you very much presentation it's hard to have questions when you you all did such a great job briefing us thank you fantastic thank you all there they are representative follow knowledge question go ahead sir yeah I just had a a quick question and this looks really great and I'm excited this happening I I just wanted to dive deeper into more um like equity on the site selection I I see a lot of the criteria there so um how did you use equity for this so during the geospatial analysis and let me actually go back so you can see what I'm talking about um one of the things that we um ranked for it was if you look at the high priority bucket here with my cursor um we had something called the social vulnerability index um this is a metric that Tak take census track data for underserved or historically underserved communities and so we were able to then assign a higher score to the parcels um that scored high on the social vulnerability index so this is one of the ways that we help prioritize um again socially uh I'm sorry um historically underserved communities um and try to create a more Equitable approach in um identifying the parcel uh the other thing we did was also use data from the ensus tracks to make sure that our target audience um was also being prioritized in in the selection um the other thing we did was look at mass transit and accessibility to the site by also ranking uh bus stops within close proximity and also pedestrian and bicycle trails connectivity to the parcels so again trying to prioritize accessibility in the site selection and thereby addressing you know an equitable data driven process and and through the the process where did um South Central rank um so we actually and we'd be happy to walk you through this we still have the gis viewer we could go through any of the sites within um that you know you're curious about but I'll tell you that one of the issues we had with South Central representative was the size of the parcels because we are looking at a minimum of two to five acres to accommodate not just a really great large park space uh but parking and specifically Ada parking which requires a lot of additional space and so for example Logan Park um which was you know pretty Central centrally located um that was one of the reasons we moved away from that site we just could not accommodate um all the all the amenities that we want to see in the park and that was one of the challenges with South Central sites that they were just smaller in nature yeah I I would love to to see that um especially like I'm thinking Washington Park's a pretty pretty big Park and I I just feel that the community down there in South Central has really been what you kind of highlighted historically underserved Etc right and so I I I feel that this would have been ideal in in that area and I know that there's one at ascar but still Yes it just but still I I think really I'm coming more down to the chiad the Washington Delta area um would have been ideal for something like this well happy to schedule that follow-up meeting with you represent thank you and I think it's important to note that this is I mean you all did a lot of uh good work trying to figure out the best place for it but this is for the whole Community this is not for any given area it but this is how do how do we take a$1 million approval for the budget to be able to do it and maximizing I think came in at 8 points something and but uh this is strictly for the whole community and uh not just for any given area correct we hope it will be a destination park for the region thank you thank you mayor we do have public comment on this item we have Miss Sylvia Caron in the queue Miss Caron star six please to unmute your telephone good morning Miss gon star 6 please to unmute your telephone good morning you have three minutes can you hear me now yes ma'am good morning Miss C good morning mayor and Council uh I was approached uh several weeks ago um we did go to the uh presentation that they had at charot Park and in uh analyzing what she just presented it was presented to us and uh we did uh love adored the idea of Lomand but uh like they stated it's still not a done deal because we still have to vent uh uh look at the other site Nolan Richardson and we understood that Mr Riva was there present at the site and so we we knew that we were up for the bidding uh to get granted there so when I saw the um the announcements um uh and I looked it up and we were selected I'm I'm very pleased um uh the community as you know I'm president of the lomaland neighborhood association as well as the Mission Valley civic association and um this park gets immensely packed with children and we have soccer and flag football and cheerleading and all kinds of things that are going on in the par the all abilities is just going to be an addition to that uh I did mention and I know that Miss Carla was uh to let us know that uh the parking situation and they said yeah we already have that taken care of uh it'll be toward the back and hopefully for the all abilities vehicles and so we are looking famously to to see where this is going to look at the very end um we are blessed as a community the Lord has uh looked upon us as uh uh the feature for the abil the all abilities around and uh I have not advised any of my U members or anything like that because I didn't know whether we were going to get it or not and now if you all say yes and we we're going to go I will be on the emails thank you so much and God bless you all thank you Miss Cardon thank you Miss PR yes that brings us to item number four and this is presentation on the safe routes to school action plan draft good morning mayor and Council W Rodriguez good morning c um today we're going to give you an update on the proposed safe routes to school action plan there was some action taken by Council last year to direct us to really take a close look at safety surrounding our local schools um so over the past six months we've been working closely with various stakeholders and with City departments to develop this action plan to come up with policy recommendations uh and action items to specifically address safety surrounding our schools with that I'm going to hand it over to anamesa zent the city's bicycle and pedestrian program manager who has been spearheading this effort um and done a really great job of making sure we stay on track and that we're sticking to the the timeline um that we originally proposed to council with a public draft available now U for comment and inspection thanks hi good morning everybody uh annaa zent with capital Improvement like w Keen said I'm going to present an update to you guys on our safe routs to school action plan so for some contextual reminders um the origin of this comes from our vision zero action plan which we adopted last summer which is our action plan to reduce roadway fatalities to zero um in our action plan and includes several strategies to where how we might accomplish this including uh strategy number three which is to expand our safe routs to school programs and that that includes several corresponding action items that actually will be accomplished with within this action plan including um identifying priority schools for infrastructure improvements expanding education and Outreach uh as well as developing a formal safe routes to school action plan and then also for some additional context back in October we came and presented um a little bit of a proposed direction and you guys directed us to move forward with with Outreach with the mobility advisory committee so um a summary of where we are to date after we came to Council in October and were directed to move forward we started working with the mobility advisory committee as well as our vision zero task force and our technical Review Committee which is an internal Committee of stakeholders related to Transportation so we used the input that we received from the technical Review Committee Vision zero task force and the TRC technical Review Committee to create a initial action draft and then we Ed that initial action draft actually to funnel back through those aforementioned stakeholders to get even more input to produce a second draft for public input and that's actually where we are at right now so we have a uh public draft available online and it is currently undergoing a public review period so a summary of the Outreach that we've completed to date we shared a survey on local news in school and social media as well as we distributed that with all the aforementioned stakeholders Representatives that we could get in contact with with the school districts uh we received over 300 responses on that also starting in October we did three input sessions with representatives from episd sisd ysd as well as our Mobility advisory committee our technical Review Committee and our vision zero task force um also in October we started doing meetings with different departments that are related like planning inspections streets and maintenance who are very um important in this action plan as well as Sun Sun Metro International Bridges Public Health Community and human development Parks and Recreation and police and fire and then uh last month on July or excuse me on June 15th we held a public public open house where we had a printed version of the action plan for the public to come view as well as poster boards with information for the public to view and ask questions to staff and streets and maintenance was also present for that open house um so that brings us to where we are right now which is our public review period online right now um we posted the action plan in June 15th and that public review period is going to be going on for a month so at July 15th is when we will be closing the public review period and then um as a part of all of this Outreach we've been having ongoing conversations with stakeholders as needed so our our first goals these first four goals were the goals that we Pro excuse me that we presented to Council in October and these goals we have been um running through all of the aforementioned stakeholders and also previewed at our openhouse the first four are to create a connected and comfort comfortable infrastructure Network for children to walk and bike safely to school the second goal is to prioritize areas that are at risk underrepresented and also highly utilized third goal is to provide a clear and implementable pathway for future improvements and the fourth goal is to effectively reduce vehicle speeds through design and compliance so through our Outreach we've identified a fifth goal which is to engage in local Partnerships to expand safety education and Community participation so a preview of um the content that we have in our current action plan draft we have uh section one which is our introduction and background section two which uh we did in collaborations with streets and maintenance which is our inventory in existing conditions this highlights um an inventory of the the existing traffic calming measures that we have currently and um some status on our existing maintenance uh section three is Solutions and strategies this is the bulk of the document it's divided into two sections the first one is infrastructure and so it highlights proposed infrastructure Solutions and strategies and then the other element of it is education and Outreach and this is where we highlight um exciting programs events different types of initiatives that um can expand education and get the schools involved so section four is our implementation metrics this is where we identify key action items as well as performance measures timelines and um stakeholders that are involved and correlate with those action items section five we have legislative priorities and then in section six we have Equity based prioritization which is where we identify our priority school areas and then our in our index is where we have uh survey results and any raw data that might need be necessary to the plan so like I mentioned uh we identified in our action plan priority schools we identified these schools through an analysis where we looked at socioeconomic Trends so we looked at median household income within each school catchment zone we also looked at availability to cars so um we evaluated within each catchment zones using census data which areas of our city don't have uh availabil availability to personal vehicles in their households we also looked at existing walking and biking uh data so areas where students are already walking and biking as well as uh collisions so we looked at historical crash data to identify areas that might be at higher risk because they have a higher concentration of killed or seriously injured collisions in their area and so these are the 11 schools that we identified as priority for infrastructure improvements moving forward so an example of um some of these infrastructure Improv M ments that we are recommending is quick builds and we did a pilot project of a quick build down by Yen and Har um the elementary and middle school so quick builds are infrastructure improvements that can be done with um lowcost Solutions such as paint delineators uh cones things of that nature so we did a quick build project where we did curb extensions of a quick build and you can see on these pictures here so these curb extensions done with paint what they do is they reduce the amount of space that a pedestrian has to cross the street they narrow the street which makes it um by Nature the motorist encourages them to go a little bit slower and then it also increases visibility for um the pedestrians in the area so this is over by Gan middle school and Hart Elementary School and this was the first phase of those quick builds which is why it's just um a singular white paint but moving forward we did a community painting event and this allowed residents in the neighborhood to come out and decorate their own uh their own Street and so it gave um a wonderful opportunity for education and Outreach a lot of the students that go to Boe High School came out and participated so we painted Within These um curb extensions we did a a base kind of color geometric pattern it it corresponded with the buoy high school colors um and then afterwards we had vertical delineators um installed which you can see in this photo here to the left and then we had a local artist painted mural on top of the curb extensions so it increased visibility and then it also was a great opportunity for the community to engage and also um take a little bit of ownership over the project so another example of some of the things that we're proposing in this action plan and this uh focus on focuses on the education and the Outreach element is a community toolbox incentive and so what we're proposing here is that we'll work with the University Medical Center trauma Services because they've already done a little bit of work in this element and we will we will prepare a toolbox of resources curriculum out Outreach events programs and there's some examples here of what that might look like for uh schools that they can come online and easily grab some lowcost incentive materials some guides to implement some programs within their schools and the incentive for the schools to participate in these programs and to implement safety education within their school will be that we will grant them an official safe routs to school designation complete with a plaque and an optional an opt optional tree ceremony um we will do that in collaboration with community and human development as well as Eco Al Paso so another major plan highlight is the school zone routine maintenance program so streets and maintenance has outlined for us and it's included in section two of this action plan a program for routine maintenance it includes uh what they will do annually and is schedule for striping signage um as well as any other routine maintenance that might need to occur within these school zones this also will include uh the development of specific criteria spe excuse me specific criteria so that we can um manage future requests for school zone infrastructure improvements so here's an example of some of the education Outreach different proposed Solutions and strategies that are included in the plan we looked at a lot of other comparable cities in Texas and also in the southwest to see what they were doing with their safe Rost to school in initiatives um and so that's where a lot of these come from there's a lot of fun educational Outreach programs like walking school buses bike bike buses um as well as some more technical infrastructure improvements so an example of one of these more Innovative case studies that we looked at is deferred disposition for school zone citations and this is in Austin Texas essentially what they do in Austin Texas is if you get a citation for distracted driving or speed in a school zone They will defer your ticket and they will actually wave your ticket if you serve in their safe routes to school programs so if you go out and um complete a shift with a crossing guard and what they do is they require you to count people walking um what is it yeah they require you to count people walking and then they also require you to P count cars and they report a 99% positive feedback rating with this program and they've only had one repeat offender so that's just an example of a case study that's included in this plan um some of the creative ideas that we could explore so where we are at currently like I said we are um during in our public review period and July 15th will be the last day of that public review period we will use all of the um input that we received from this monthong period to form a final draft which we will bring at the end of July for adoption the idea is that hopefully before school comes back into session in August that we will have the action plan adopted and we can move forward with some of these education and Outreach programs comes so that is where we are at currently does anybody have any questions no represent Canales no thank you for all the work on this um I think the pilot program uh in District 8 was excellent um I saw a lot of buyin from the community uh there were student artists out there working on uh a lot of the painting uh it was like both fun and beneficial um and I know that there were some folks who were apprehensive about narrowing the street and what that would mean um but I think uh and and I haven't seen this measured so I don't know just in my own observation from being down there by the school I've seen slower slower speeds uh children much more easily to CR uh much more easily able to cross at the narrowed uh cross walks uh and again I think it is very aesthetically pleasing as well um so I'm very happy for this to hopefully expand Beyond just the the one location and I really appreciate the the Innovative thinking I think the the Deferred citations for example is a great program that Austin runs um there are things that we can do similar and I'm glad you brought up for example like bike buses and walking school buses um again I've seen those be really successful in other communities and in in some of these schools we have uh very very high proportion of of students who walk to the school I think these kinds of innovative programs will help uh with with a lot of uh a lot of safety improvements and I just you know I wanted to know you you noted you you have 11 priority schools on there I think 1 two 3 four five six seven of them are in District 8 um we have a lot of people who walk to school yeah in District 8 um and so I'm I'm very excited about the impact that this can have thank you all for the work awesome thank you thank you thank you mayor this is really great I um really enjoyed your presentation I think one of the biggest takeaways is trying to see how we can get the safe routes to school program um and talk to M Municipal Court about implementing something like this I think it it would be a big game changer and I think when I've discussed um ideas around municipal court and um the punitive measures that they take in citations I think this is a great idea to do the opposite right so I I would love to um talk to you more about this and how we can make that change to get this going because I think it's it's eye openening to people that are speeding school zones and then they're like okay well now you're going to cross these people uh safely and then I think it really just changes it and seeing the 99 9% positive feedback is is insane and I think um the other thing that I was going to ask is um the school zones have a no passing um it's like 15 M hour no passing right and I feel that that causes some confusion with people I think there's people that might think that it's like no passing 15 M hour rather than no passing the car in front of you right and so how um how can this also incorporate that to make sure that people are not switching lanes in the middle of a school zone because of the danger of that yeah so um it sounds like that kind of goes back to signage and that's an element that we're going to explore in collaboration with streets and maintenance which is um an inventory of our existing signage how effective it is and also signage that we can Implement that will be more successful in implementing the results that we want to see yeah maybe adding a few words to don't pass the car in front of you or something like that so it makes it more clear because I think there is that confusion and I and I've seen it done a lot um especially El Paso High um it it happens all the time on Shuster and so I I think really clarifying that could could help absolutely that is something we will explore thank you and thank you again for your presentation thank you Miss PR yes sir that brings us to item five and this is discussion and action on a resolution authorizing the use of funding from cap capital asset sales to fund that fy2 24 and fy2 local match associated with projects identified in the regional Mobility strategy 2050 Metropolitan Transportation plan and the regional Mobility strategy 2023 2026 Transportation Improvement program and presentation on updates from the pack Capital Improvement department grant funded program good morning mayor and Council H rodrig morning again sir director of the capital Improvement department grant funded program next slide please it so we wanted to give you an overview of our program today an update on um current projects active projects and upcoming projects but also just some background on what we do within the grant funded program at c um and then finally uh we have had numerous conversations with you all and I know uh not only here in Open Session but in brief thingss as well about how we continue to fund this program going forward um to continue to execute these regionally significant projects so in general we manage the ferally and state funded Transportation projects through Cid's Grant funded program the focus really is on projects that are programmed through the Metropolitan planning organization um that's what you all know as the mo and those are projects that have been identified as Regional priorities not just by um City officials and the city folks who are on those boards but those have also been identified by the rest of the transportation policy board um which we'll go into some detail later on what that is but it essentially consists of elected officials and transportation officials um throughout the mo region so all of El Paso County and Southern doniana County we also execute projects that are funded through different state programs through Tech things like the highway safety Improvement program and the highway bridge program these are programs that are uh overseen and managed by Tech but can uh funding that can be used on local roadways we work closely with International bridges on a lot of their projects um one of our project managers is actually dedicated to International Bridges and executing their projects within um their cips we work closely with the discretionary grants uh portfolio that Omar and his team build in executing those grants so that's um specifically right now we have a couple of raay projects that are moving forward we also have other grant program uh other Grant projects funded by the Department of Transportation Federal Highway Administration and the Federal Transit Administration working with Sun Metro in addition to all of that we provide General project management support for CID um we are helping with the larger Transportation projects that were included in the community progress Bond so that's Montwood wrestler and Airway extensions additionally uh we manage the CID portfolio of transportation planning and safety so implementation of our vision zero action plan and complete streets um we do that working closely with not just C but streets and maintenance and our other stakeholders as well next slide please so we wanted to give you an overview on how these projects are selected um the mo goes through a project selection process that is known as the 3C process so it is cooperative comprehensive and continuous but that really relies on two boards the transportation policy board and the transportation project advisory committee um it looks like one name got cut off but essentially that's mayor Oscar liser um Representatives Cassandra Hernandez Isabelle Salo Chris Canales IET Hernandez serves as a city engineer Ellen SMI represents Sun Metro Tony noades represents the airport and interim city manager Carrie Weston whose name got cut off somehow um but I also serve on the tration project advisory committee so that's the committee that advises the TPB on their decision- making um that's myself and uh Claudia Garcia from Sun Metro so every four to five years the mo is tasked with developing a metropolitan Transportation plan and every two years we develop a tip Transportation Improvement program the MTP is a long range document so that is essentially the document that lays out our transportation priorities and how we will fund those and execute them for the next 25 to 30 years that's updated every four to 5 years the tip is what we refer to as our short range document that outlines the next four years of investment essentially for any federal funding in our region to be used on our roadways the project needs to be programmed into those two documents um there's a lot more that goes into that decision-making process um but essentially there's a call for projects every four to 5 years where we update the MTP that's not to say that every four to 5 years we have a new list of projects there are projects that have been on the MTP for 10 to 15 years um that don't make it onto a tip for quite some time so that's essentially the the most basic way of explaining how these projects are programmed I'm happy to go into more detail if you all have questions after the presentation next slide please the funding categories that we focus on out of the 12 total federal and state funding categories really are categories 5 seven and nine um category five is congestion mitigation and air quality improvement program so we are able to use uh Category 5 CMAC funds because the city or the no region is currently in non-attainment for some of the criteria pollutants that the federal government watches for so projects within this funding category have to show a substantive decrease um or Improvement in air quality and a a decrease in congestion so every project within that funding category we have to do what's called a CAC analys analysis we work with our partners at TTI to analyze the project and see what sort of positive impact on air quality and congestion it will have category seven is the surface Transportation program set aside um these are funds that do not necessarily need to be for congestion mitigation they are funds that can be uh executed on local roadways and then category nine is our transportation Alternatives program uh there's multiple calls for this every couple years both at the local and state level but these are projects that are specific to Transportation Alternatives so bike Lanes um and enhanced pedestrian infrastructure next slide please this is a list of our active projects that are managed by the grant funded program team at C I won't go into every project but you can see under construction um either currently active construction or about to start construction we have some large Pro projects like Ro house widening the completion of the Campbell reconstruction uh Sean Hager extension and then some its some active transportation and some uh Transit projects as well we have a number of projects under design you've seen these in one form or another through a design contract or through an advanced funding agreement with tech. but again it's a mix of active Transportation projects um of service Transportation projects um and some Transit projects there working with uh Sun Metro we have a number of projects also under procurement for design um so railroad reconstruction Airway extension as part of the community progress Bond and uh pedestrian improvements at the aseta Port of Entry as funded by uh recent raise Grant next slide please these are some of the projects that we've completed recently um within 2023 and 2024 uh bicycle connectivity Phase 1 and Phase 2 um you see that there are some other shared use path projects uh the roundabout at the Bas Norte U Port of Entry here downtown Delta Bridge reconstructions those were Category 6 Bridge funds and then a few projects working in collaboration with Sun Metro and FTA funds next slide please we wanted to highlight a few of these projects more closely this is the South Campbell Street reconstruction this is actually a locally funded project um due to uh termination of a Contractor on a federally funded project the cbd4 project this project should be wrapping up um this first couple weeks in July this was really to ensure that uh that project didn't remain unfinished for any longer than it needed to so we're happy to see that project moving forward next slide please this project is also wrapping up this first week in July roas widening this is a reconstruction of roas from Loop 375 to Bill Bernett um this project was also identified on the city's High Injury Network um was programmed long before we developed that high injury network but it's good to sort of validate that the projects that are identified at the regional level are also important um to keep in line with our local goals so this project um is expected completion again this first week in July next slide please the it off system project is installation of uh intelligent transformation systems at Boda and the zaragosa ports of Entry this is going to be a huge uh project in terms of getting information and education out to the public of about traffic situations surrounding the ports of Entry um and connectivity to and from the ports of Entry it's really going to tie into to our TMC upgrades project which is a comprehensive upgrade of our traffic Management Center uh making sure that all of those systems are working together to uh reduce congestion as much as possible through informing the public of ongoing concerns next slide please this project should be starting construction soon this is the uh mofen shared use path part of the Basel D nor trail system uh 9ft shared use path on mofen from San Antonio to Cotton the expected completion of this project summer of 2025 next slide please another project working with Sun Metro this project is actually uh benefiting from Project Savings of the larger Mesa RTS project this is a RTS mini station uh at Mesa and argonut that's going to serve the the Mesa Brio system this is the mon RT monio RTS project um that project I believe um is about to start construction uh I believe we're ready to award a Construction contract soon and expected completion should be spring of 2025 next slide please and then finally probably one of the larger projects we have in our portfolio um over the next few years is the Shan Hagerty connection to connect the green belt uh from mcoms to Dyer essentially there'll be a complete connection the project scope is just over the the green belt but the full connection from mcoms to Dyer is going to provide a lot of connectivity benefits for the Northeast area um bids were opened last week we hope to award a contract soon with expected completion date spring of 2027 next slide please I won't go into too much detail here but we wanted to highlight the next uh iteration of the Mo's Transportation Improvement program so this is projects from fy2 to FY 28 um you can see that a lot of the the tip gets dedicated to city of El Paso projects and it's a good mix of both active Transportation projects bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure um surface Transportation projects things like Buffalo Soldier U and Sun Valley Street improvements um as well as things like our TMC upgrades which again it's going to be a comprehensive overhaul of our traffic Management Center next slide please looking further out into FY 27 and FY 28 um you see a lot of the execution of projects that are going to be designed in the next couple years so again you see Buffalo Soldier uh bicycle infrastructure Citywide at Sun Valley um and this shared use path on Sunland Park are some of the highlights there next slide please so in terms of funding history and sort of getting to the core of today's presentation and the ask um we have executed over 150 million from 2018 to 2023 with only around 50 million of City match and local contributions so as you can see it's really a force multiplier for us taking that local match and drawing down as many federal funds as possible to execute these projects but in terms of past funding for that local match we've historically be been funded by cosos a 7.7 million issuance in 2017 and 10.9 in 2018 but the grant funded program has not received a direct influx of funds uh since 2019 so we've essentially been operating on uh project savings uh investment interest other alternative sources of funding to make sure that we can keep up with our local match commitments next slide please so with that said we've really come to the point where we've exhausted those Alternative forms of funds uh in FY 24 really the Highlight for us is the Shan Hagerty extension where we do not have a current source of local funding for that um and then an FY 25 you see the list there of projects where um what's highlighted in green is essentially the local match contribution that we uh that we still need so that is that is sort of our our funding need for those two years um I also wanted to make sure that we highlight in FY 26 that that funding need continues so the action that we're proposing today will cover us for FY 24 and 25 but that funding need and the need to keep up this local match and contribution doesn't match Ally go away after that we still need to work closely um with you all and with Mr cortinez and his team so that we're looking at FY 26 and coming up with a more sustainable plan to keep up with the local match requirements um to ensure that we're getting uh Federal funding for our region um essentially if if the city doesn't draw down that Federal funding it goes to the other communities within the mo region and out to the county of Al Paso um so you can you can see that that would have a significant impact on a lot of different things like uh growth within our region if Investments are being made outside the city limits um and not being able to keep up with the infrastructure needs here within the city as well next slide please so our requested Council action is to authorize the use of funds from Capital asset sales to fund the mo match for fy2 24 and 25 in the amounts shown there I'm happy to answer any questions you have on on the details of that um but essentially that is um the ask today and happy to answer any questions on the rest of the presid presentation as well repres nandes thank you mayor yes ma'am talking um I'm supportive of of this request and I did want to um just add some discussion points as we go into the uh budget cycle for fiscal year 25 um you know I I just don't see this as a sustainable form of Revenue so that we can use this as matching dollars I also am very proud of the the Grants Department and all of the accomplishments we've been able to Gar but a lot of those are without any matching dollar requests so there is really a need um from this Council to really put forth funding for Mo match dollars and historically we have used because Capital asset funds are are very limited we have utilized um certificate of obligations specifically for Capital needs critical infrastructure needs not wasteful spending but needs that are important for the city and these no dollars if we don't have them set de side then we lose multi-million dollars of revenues at a time when infrastructure Investments it's at its peak from the federal government and so we really need to capitalize on that and so my hope is that we go into this budget year allocating dollars because we have seen growth in the amount of funds we are receiving from the state of Texas and texto and we need to be prepared to put skin into the game and and that that doesn't always have to be funding it could be a form of of turs and we've had this discussion before CFO and city manager um putting aside tur dollars um trz dollars excuse me uh transport Transportation reinvestment Zone dollars so that we can reallocate to Big Ticket items and projects and and new highways and roadways specifically going to the Northeast and so um like I like I've mentioned these dollars could have gone to supplement other budgets for other needs within Capital budgets that are either um underfunded or you know 's a change order request or city council wants to expand the scope of that project so so although this is an eloquent response for now uh we really need to earmark future funding for Grant matching and we could do that by restricting the funds um putting those towards uh our rainy day fund and restrict them and we only draw down when we get a match or we only draw down when we get a grant um and so at any rate um I'd like to is this the action request today yes okay I'd like to make the motion to authorize the funds of the capital asset sales to pay for the n match dollars for fiscal year 24 and 25 representative Hernandez um just want to to say that the budget recommendation that we're making this year does include the the funding that's required for the matches coming this next budget cycle but I do concur that that's one-time money and um you know to get ourselves out of a pattern of finding onetime money going into the f future we do have to look at options for something that's much more recurring in terms of a revenue source to be able to do that but I just wanted to let the entire Council know that the recommendations that will be making on this budget cycle do it does include the the $1 million for matches this next year I'm sorry thank you representative none this representative um alternate Pro mullar thank you very much mayor good um W thank you very much for your presentation I'm looking at slide 16 uh specifically item number one on hagy Drive extension and that's in District 4 so that's near to my heart but the thing is you know we this has been going on since 1985 1985 uh we're not even closer to where we're at now and I understand there's different things that are happening and not happening but I can tell you so now we have tur 13 there and it was originally x amount of acres to 1,39 acres I believe and then all of a sudden it jumped to a huge more area to include the Sean Hagerty momes Dyer and gor Loop so there's several businesses there of course I have no um no way of knowing what exactly the funding is there but and I know there's a board that decides how that money is going to be managed but we have something there and there's new businesses that are happening there in that whole area us54 momes up and down momes there's different businesses that are happening so that money is there I don't know how much money but we need to divide some divert some of that money into these projects in future use as well so I'll just add we we did open bids publicly last week for Sean Hagerty so that project with today's action will be fully funded and moving forward to Construction okay thank you very much thank you representative Canalis thank you sir thank you mayor I just wanted to clarify is the the Motions to approve the the motion on the floor is to approve the resolution that's included okay I second there's a motion in a second is there um before we go to that um colon Weston Mr cortinez is there additional funding and on this funding I know that we got three years there but uh for fy20 for this First Financial year I'd like to know where we're on the funding so with the item that's on the agenda tomorrow for the sale of the property to VT that'll bring in another $18.7 million into the funding we have in the capital asset proceeds and so total we will have 33.3 million there's a request on this item for 18.1 million so that will leave a remaining balance B of 15.2 million after 2025 so we're funding the current year FY 2025 and then as W mentioned there's an additional 12.3 million that would be needed in FY 26 we would have additional funds available to cover that amount if that would be the option however I think you know we all hear loud and clear and this was a discussion we had during the strategic planning session of identifying an ongoing source of Revenue to be able to fund this because obviously as Colonel West mentioned as well this is onetime revenue that we're utilizing but it is providing the opportunity for us to be able to to bridge the next few fiscal years perfect thank you for that I think that was really important that I have and with that M PR yes mayor there was a motion made by representative atanda seconded by representative Gales to approve the resolution on item five on that motion call for the vote mayor protim Kennedy I thank you representative have S though I thank you and the voting session and that motion passes unanimously M protm Kennedy how do you do that without moving your lips it's a very careful exercise that I learned it m Prim do you have a motion to retire into executive session yes ma'am there's a motion in a second to retire to Executive session all in favor anyone oppose Clos and the city council of the city of Al Paso will retire into executive session pursuant to section 3.5a of the AL Paso City Charter and the Texas government code chapter 551 sub chapter D to discuss any of the following executive session item one Guadalupe Ramirez at all versus city of Al Paso in the state of Texas 4 41st District Court cause number 2007- 2568 under 551.071 executive session item two Robert barley versus city of Al Paso 171st District Court CA number 2020 dcv 1553 under 551.071 executive session item three edmundo Calderon versus city of Al Paso 2023 DCB 4372 under 551.071 executive session item four petition for review of Municipal raid action of city of Al Paso's show cause order regarding Texas Gas Service Company a division of one gas inks collection of revenues for an interm rate adjustment for calendar year 2021 d0 - 23-1 14883 on HQ number utility 551.071 executive session item five application of Al Paso Electric Company for approval of a distribution cost recovery Factor HQ number utility d37 under 551.071 executive session item six discussion on economic development opportunities in northeast El Paso Texas HQ number 24-24 38 55107 72 and 55108 7 and executive session item 7 discussion on purchase exchange lease or value of real property located northwest El Paso Texas HQ number 24- 2106 under 551.071 these matters are taken into executive session under 551.071 consultation with attorney 551.071 deliberation regarding real property and section negotiations it is 11:09 a.m. e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e M Prime we have a motion to reconvene and a second there is a motion and a second to reconvene the work session all in favor I anyone opposed and the work session is back in Open session at 1:2 p.m. alternate mayor protim ex1 ex1 motion July 1st 2024 motion made second carried that the city attorney's office and consultation with the city manager be authorized to enter into a settlement agreement in the case of wupe ramz and all others versus the city of El Paso cuse number 27-25 68 and matter number 07-15 d001 and to take all steps necessary including the execution of any required documents in order to effectuate this Authority second there is a motion made and read into the record by alternate mayor PO molad on ex1 second it by representative Salo on that motion call for the vote you're not LED in alternate mayor um excuse me mayor protm Kennedy I thank you representative Salo I thank you in the voting session and that motion passes 4 to1 representative ASA voting a Representatives Kennedy molinar salido Canales voting I and representative ernandez not present that brings us to ex2 ex2 motion July 1st 2024 motion made second carried that the city attorney's office in consultation with the city manager be authorized to enter into a settlement agreement in the case of Robert Bartley versus the city of Al Paso cause number 2020 dcv 1553 and matter number 20-1 06-12 91 and to take all steps necessary including the execution of any required documents in order to effectuate this Authority mayor uh Kristen Kum from the city attorney's office if I may correct on the agenda there is a t missing it is Bartly b a r t l e y thank just correcting on the agenda there is a typo oh okay thank you thank you I CAU that but I didn't want to tell you is there a second okay thank you there is a motion made and right into the record by alternate mayor proon it by representative Salo this is on ex2 on Robert Bartley on that motion call for the vote mayor protim Kennedy I thank you representative Sal I thank you and the voting session and that motion passes 5 to1 representative Canales voting n Representatives Kennedy ACO ernandez molinar salido voting I the motion does carry EX3 motion July 1st 2024 motion made second carry that the city attorney's office in consultation with the city manager be authorized to reimburse the City attorney for legal expenses incurred by the City attorney in the amount of $45 in connection with edmundo ceron versus the city of El Paso case number 2023 DCB 4372 that Council consents to the selection of her Council and approves reimbursement in connection with the city's obligations under the City attorney city attorney's employment agreement second there's a motion made and read to the record by alternate mayor po mol second by representative Canales on EX3 on that motion call for the vote mayor protim Kennedy I thank you representative Salo I thank you in the voting session and that motion passes unanimously EX4 motion July 1st 2024 motion made second carried that the City attorney in consultation with the city manager be authorized to file a motion for re-hearing and the petition for review of Municipal rate action of the city of op pasel show cwat regarding Texas Gas services companies collection of revenues for an interim rate adjustment for calendar year 20 21 with the Railroad Commission of Texas docket number os 23-14 883 and matter number utility -13 and to take all steps necessary including the execution of of any required documents in order to effectuate this Authority second there's a motion made and right into the record by Alter mayor Pro molar seconded by representative Canales on EX4 on that motion call for the vote mayor Pro Tim Kennedy I thank you representative Salo I thank you and the voting session and that motion passes unanimously ex5 ex5 motion July 1st 2024 motion made second carried that the City attorney in consultation with the city manager be authorized to file a motion for rehearing in the application of a Paso Electric Company for approval of a distribution cost recovery factor with the Public Utility Commission of Texas under docket number 56425 and matter number utility d37 and to take all steps necessary including the execution of any required documents and in order to effectuate this Authority I just wanted to state that I received $750 from the El Paso employee pack op pass Electric employee pack sorry now we have a motion and a second do we have a second second there's a motion made and read into the record by alternate mayor poinard seconded by representative Canales on ex5 on that motion call for the vote mayor protim Kennedy I thank you representative Salo I thank you in the voting session and that motion passes unanimously ex6 no action thank you ex7 no action thank you that brings us to the end of the agenda motion to adjourn there's a motion in a second to adjourn the work session all in favor anyone opposed I and the work session for Monday July 1st 2024 is adjourned at 1:10 p.m. thank you Council and tomorrow the same council members will also be out yes start