[Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] [Music] Okay, good morning everyone. I'd like to call this meeting to order and welcome you to city hall and to our council chambers. Uh this morning our invocation will be given by Reverend William Campbell with Church of Good Sheeperd. Reverend. >> Lord be with you. Let us pray. Almighty God, who has given us this good land for our heritage, we humbly beseech you that we may always prove ourselves a people mindful of thy favor and glad to do your will. Bless our land with honorable industry, sound learning, and pure manners. Save us from violence, discord, and confusion, from pride, and arrogance, and from every evil way. defend our liberties and fashion into one united people the multitudes brought here out of many kindreds and tongues. And you with the spirit of wisdom those to whom in your name we entrust the authority of government that there may be justice and peace at home and that through obedience to your law we may show forth your praise among the nations of the earth. In the time of prosperity fill our hearts with thankfulness. in the day of trouble suffer not our trust in you to fail. And finally, teach our people to rely on your strength and to accept their responsibilities to their fellow citizens that they may elect trustworthy leaders and make wise decisions for the well-being of our society that we may serve you faithfully in our generation and honor your holy name. I ask all this in Jesus name. Amen. >> Amen. Thank you, Reverend. Our pledge of allegiance to the flag of the United States and to the Texas state flag will be led by Michaela Pena. She is a 12th grader at Richard Milbour Academy. Uh she'll complete high school two semesters early and will attend Delmare College to study cosmetology. >> Please join me for the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> Honor the Texas flag. >> I pledge allegiance to thee, Texas, one state under God, one and indivisible. >> Thank you, Michael. Good luck with your studies. Miss Wto, would you please call the role? Mayor Plet Wardo >> present. >> Council members Roland Barera >> here. >> Sylvia Campos >> here. >> Eric Anthu >> here. >> Gil Ernnandez >> here. >> Can we see Mr. Nandis too? Thank you. Kayn Paxton >> here. >> Ever Roy >> here. >> Mark Scott >> here. >> Carolyn Vaughn >> here. >> City manager Peter Zenon >> present. >> City attorney Miles Rizley >> here. >> Mayor and council a quorum of the council and the required charter officers are present to conduct the meeting. >> Thank you. Miss Wera, we'll move on to section E. That is our city manager's comments and update on city operations. Mr. Zenoni. >> Yes, mayor. Great. Thank you, mayor, and members of the council. We have one item on the city manager's report and it is an update on our water supply, but we're going to focus mostly on the evangeline groundwater project. Uh we know that um you know there's some uh some aren't 100% supportive of this project, but we are we staff and we're advancing the project. I wanted Nick uh to speak to the council about it today because a lot is is being done and uh we know it but I don't know if the council knows it. So that's why this is on the uh agenda today. Um we also asked that Chris Noi the project manager from Pape Dawson be here today uh because in my working with him and I think I would attest for Nick as well uh he is an outstanding leader in advancing this project. I'm not sure if we'd be this far if it wasn't for Chris from Pape Dawson. So, he's going to present to the council a little bit today, too, just so you'll get to see him. Uh, he uh worked all through the week of Thanksgiving, him and his team. I think they even worked on Thanksgiving Day, um, to advance the project. A guiding principle of Chris Noi from Pape Dawson is a project like this, you don't stop. You got to keep going. And, uh, that's what we're doing. So, we have a great report today. Um, we're working with the community. working with the leaders of the community, uh, Judge Krebs, Mayor Mary of Cinton, uh, and the and the ranchers, farmers, and property owners. We're meeting with them one-on-one. Uh, we know that, uh, it's a it's a, um, a sensitive issue. It's an emotional issue, uh, groundwater. Uh, but we have a plan to use it appropriately and work with the community, um, as we bring the source online. So, with that, I'm going to turn it over to to uh, Nick, who's going to give us the update, and then Chris will come up as well. Thank you, Peter. Uh Nick Wkelman, interim chief operating officer Corpus Christi Water. And again, I will be uh delivering um large chunk of the presentation today, but I will ask Chris Noey to come up and go through some detailed slides on the Evangelene project. What we'll be covering in this uh in this update will be of course the evangelene groundwater project, the newasis groundwater project, uh brief recap of our wellfield monitoring program, reclaimed water, uh and then also quick update on the inner harbor project and I also want to expose everyone to our new uh water supply project website as well. recap of the Evangelene uh groundwater project. Again, this is located in San Patricio County. Uh the the contract is for the purchase of groundwater rights with existing production permits of 24 million gallons a day. The some of the benefits of the project of course is location and specifically the proximity to the existing Mary roads pipeline that allows for uh conveyance to the Owen Stevens water treatment plant. The construction portion of the project would consist of 22 additional wells. There's two production wells on the property, so it's 24 total. Wellfield water lines of course that connection to the Mary roads pipeline electrical infrastructure controls a pump station and access roads. Where are we at on the agreement? Uh there's a lot of work that has been conducted and continues to be uh forth forthgoing. The final stamped survey is set to be uh complete and furnished to the city on December 10th. Also, the seller has, as you know, a number of things that they have to work on as part of the agreement. They are working towards the completion of the transport permit and the drilling permits. Uh that information is being reviewed by the city by staff with input, but the permits are being submitted by the seller. Uh the seller is also scheduling pre-application meetings with the San Patricio Groundwater District. And then the the city did an independent hydro geologic review of the previous work that was conducted by Entara. Uh that work that was uh conducted confirms uh the previous findings by Enterra that 24 million gallons a day can be uh sustainably pumped from the from the project site. Uh other items, the sellers are working to finalize details of their partnership agreement. As you recall, their agreement is with a number of different families. And with that comes surface use agreements. Those are important because that's where we're going to drill the wells, where we're going to lay the water lines, power line uh access, and of course, operational access. I need to be able to operate and maintain the well pumps. Uh the agreement is not signed yet. Uh largely in part due to the finalizing the partnership agreement, but that doesn't mean that work has not work has stopped. Work continues in earnest and a lot of work has been done. And with that, I'm going to um like to introduce Chris Snowy. Chris is vice president of Pape Dawson Engineers. Pape Dawson is the lead design firm that is leading a team of subconsultants on this project. Uh that team consists of Hansen engineers, of course, Interra. It consists of coordination work with uh HDR as well in regards to the Mary roads pipeline. And uh so I'm gonna ask Chris to come up and go in a little more detail on the work that him and his team are are doing. >> Thank you. >> Thank you, Nick. Uh again, Chris Noi, vice president for project delivery for Pape Dawson. And uh before I get into anything else, uh I'm going to speak on behalf of John Michael here, too. We are very honored and actually uh take this with a lot of responsibility on our our shoulders that this is an important project for this city and uh we're proud to serve you guys in this manner. Thank you very much. The team as uh Nick said is PEP Dawson and under contract with us is Hansen which brings a lot of local but historical background to the project that we need. Interra goes without saying you all got a master class from Steve Young a few weeks ago. uh there's no doubt about his capabilities. Uh and then we do work hand we've been working uh with in a partnership with HDR to understand what how the Mary roads pipeline works and how that affects this project itself uh we we bring in the state of Texas 170 designers in the water space alone that's what our whole team is and out of that team uh that I want to bring out for water is my team which is a project delivery team and what's the purpose of that team well we get involved for the last 10 years I've been leading teams that collaborate between contractors and engineers to move projects faster to take on projects as aggressive as this one has in in in terms of a goal to have water by next year, by November of next year, actually. So, we think we can do it. We have the right team. We've been doing this before. And you're going to hear me talk a little bit about push and schedule and momentum and what that means. Because if we were to be honest with ourselves, if this was a normal public procurement, four years from now would be where you would be to get water. We're talking about getting there, delivering some water in 12 months. And I'm going to hopefully you'll get a little insight of what that takes, what kind of team you need to have, what kind of environment and culture you need to have on that team. Right? So here we go. Let's talk a little bit about the work to date. So what we've been tasked to do under task order one is essentially due diligence. Due diligence just means hey can we do we really understand what it's g how what is the infrastructure that's going to be required on this well site. Nick alluded to it. We talk about where are the well sites going to be what will the wells produce? What size pipes will we need? Where are we going to put a pump station? How are we going to tie that into Mary Road pipeline? Is it landowner? You know do we have agreement from the landowner to do all these things? you need to know all that information, right? And so that's what we're doing. Um, I kind of think about it as like baking a cake. You have all these ingredients. On the right hand side here are all the little ingredients that we need to at the end produce a report that says we've done our due diligence and that this project is a go for you guys in terms of it's designable, it's contractable, and it and it's ready to be you can move forward with it. All those things also have to happen in a very short period of time that we're talking about. We just started the 29th of September and already we're here two months later willing and ready to provide you with an OPCC in a few weeks at the end of this week along with a highle schedule that says here's how you get to where we're at today to possibly you know to delivering some water in November. So on the right hand side is just a scorecard. What I want you to get out of this is that green is good. It says we're on track or ahead of schedule on just about everything. I want to note at the very top, we have a contractual due date to deliver this due diligence report by the 27th of January. Internally, you'll see this is where I start pushing. We're saying we want to deliver it by the 19th. That's eight days ahead of schedule. That's going to have a little bit more significance later on in this conversation, but we're ahead of schedule for that. The two items that are delayed right now aren't showstoppers. it just means we're not where I wanted to be as I push the schedule. So again, we have very high uh expectations within our team and and by and far we meet them. The two red items again have to do with actually uh coordinating with a and coordinating with land owners. Both are just not as far as I wanted them to be, but they're both moving ahead very positively. So none of them are deal dealers. They're not going to ruin anything. It just means I got to report it a certain way in my report. Next slide, please. Oh, I do it. I didn't get that briefing. Okay, here we go. All right, big schedule. We're not going to talk about the the here's the three takeaways from this schedule here. First of all, this is just again the schedule for what we're doing now in this due diligence phase. First thing I want to put out is you'll see at the very top, uh we've been working from day one with Peter, Nick, and Brett handinhand with that leadership. we meet at least once a week if not more to make sure that we're on track and we're moving forward the way that the city would like to move. Second thing is you look at all those things I talked about maybe I made an analogy of baking a cake or making a cake all the ingredients that have to go into it. Well, all those things at the bottom you can see are happening but they're happening concurrently a lot of different moving pieces at one time to get things to happen in a very short period of time. We're talking about coordinating with not just our engineering team, but with the future contractor, with the operations group from both CCW and LNR. We're talking about meeting with the land owners. We're talking about meeting with AP. We're talking about even meeting with Steel Dynamics and getting all this information done. Imagine trying to get everyone on the same page at one time in the time frame that we want. That's a challenge and it's going to continue to be a challenge for us throughout this to be able to build a team to build a culture where it's not like, oh, the engineer does this and and the contractor does this and the city does this. For us to get this done, we're going to have to do it together. And that's what we've been doing. I I went back to I I started with Vista Ridge. It was a project that went very fast. I've done three other ones like that uh since then. And now here we are with this project. I'm confident we can build the team to do this. So, that's what I wanted you to get out of there. The last thing I want to get out of this slide for you guys is if you look at the black diamond on the upper right corner, it says 127 and the word after that is deliverable date. And that's really the contractual date that I talked about before for delivering a report for due diligence. Well, 119, which is just to the left of that, is eight days ahead of that. That's when we expect right now to deliver that report, which means I've moved the schedule up eight days. Why is that significant? Um, that's a lot of time in in what we're talking about in speed to give you a perspective of what's going on. Delivering water in by November is essentially, let's for math, 50 weeks from now, right? Me moving the schedule up eight days, I just gained 2% on my schedule. But likewise, it goes the opposite direction. If we don't keep momentum and we don't keep pushing, eight days is a long time on a schedule. I just push the schedule out at least a week if not more because you just don't start and stop people. So the idea is that we're very sensitive to time. I'm very sensitive to how I develop a team in terms of pushing both the contractor. I will push on the city and I will push on the design teams to push to move this thing forward. But that's what I want you to glean out here is that that is the attitude you need. That is what you need to bring to the table as a leader in this project. So, um I want to move to the next slide, please. Oh, I got Thank you. I'm a little animated, too. That's the way I run my teams. I'm sorry, but u keeps everyone excited. So, here we go. This is an example of a work product for us. And really, we chose this one because it's really it shows the collaboration of the team within a short period of time. So, what we have here is uh in the red the red box is where we originally wanted to put the pump station. And in the blue, we had an alternative spot. And we ended up choosing going with option two because after coordinating with the land owner in a short short period of time, we said, "Hey, could we put this where we ideally want to put it in this this area where the red box is?" And they're like, "No, that's not going to work for us uh for various reasons." So, we moved it to the blue. But again, a lot of coordination happening there. There was even more coordination though to get to if you follow that blue line south down if you want to call it down on the on the page to where the Mary roads u connection point is to get to that point to decide on that point we had to coordinate with HDR. We coordinated with the steel dynamics folks because they wanted to make sure that we were pulling water south of where they draw their water. We wanted to make sure that from a cost perspective that we had the shortest distance from our plant our pump station to the connection point. But at the same time we had to take consider steel dynamics and where we could actually con make sense to construct that across going across the highway there 77 and a railroad. So that's how we came up with that that idea uh where that point is. Uh but my point is there's a lot of collaboration that has to happen and we've already shown it in this short period of time and we'll need to continue to do that way uh to move this project forward. Next uh slide Nick please. Last is this um this really isn't about the well design. So what you're seeing here is this. Uh it is in terms it's what you're seeing here is a oneline diagram for a well site. We have 24 of these to create. We have a a high service pump station to create a set of electrical drawings for. We have to talk about SCADA which is the way all those pumps and wells talk to each other and then talk to LNR and talk to CCW operations. What I want to say about this slide is we know how fast we have to move. This slide here is a little bit about our original scope of work was to say, "Hey, we have to get the electrical demand loads over to a so they understand how much power they need to bring." Going farther into conceptual design like this right now was what I would call prudent spending of our money in time. We're pushing the schedule now. Whether you whether we move forward or not, I've already pushed it forward. I've got time over the Christmas break. I have to work over Christmas break to get us on track, to keep us on track. This is an example of the team teamwork we bring to the city. And um that's what you can expect for the rest of of of this project from us. Anyway, appreciate your time. Thank you very much. >> Thank you, Chris. So, I'd like to just talk about some of the upcoming near future actions associated with this project. So, as Chris mentioned, we've got weekly meetings that are ongoing. Those meetings involve the seller, Evangelene Lagona. We have weekly meetings with them at city staff uh with the sellers and then we have multiple meetings each week with the design teams and it its subconultants as well. I the additional things that we're doing, we're working to set up stakeholder meetings with the land owners. I mentioned earlier there are a number of different families involved. So, we're going to set up meetings in the near future to meet with each of those representatives from the families and to provide more details into the project so that they understand the goals and what we're working to accomplish. Next week for council consideration, we'll have a professional services contract amendment for PE Dawson that will be presented for consideration. That uh contract amendment will be for the full and complete design of the Evangelene Wellfield. We'll also have uh as part of that there'll be a contract for preconstruction services uh that will be uh presented as well. The preconstruction services are critical. so that we get input from contractors so that we can move forward uh in the most efficient manner as possible. Keeping our eye on that partial delivery goal of November 2026. As I stated earlier, we're working to set up a pre-application meeting with the San Patricio Groundwater District. We've got to stay in contact with that district. And then uh as all of you know, we're working towards uh interlocal agreements with the city of Cinton and the St. Paul Water Supply Corporation. That's just one of the water supply projects that we've been working on. So I want to I do want to give you uh for a complete update, I'll give you a quick recap of the other projects that are ongoing. So the newasis groundwater program uh the wellfield uh eastern wellfield is substantially complete. Uh we do have a uh warranty issue with one of the motors that's at well 8 and we're working with the contractor to get that resolved. The expenditures for that wellfield are $16.6 million. The western wellfield there's been quite a bit of movement uh quite a bit of activity. Uh well numbers 9, 10, 11, 12, and 13 have been drilled and completed. Uh the permanent pumping assembly for well 9 is installed and we are awaiting power from NEC permanent power. The pumping equipment for wells 10 and 11 have been designed and that equipment is on order and we're waiting for it to come in. Wellfield piping is continues to be in progress. That work is being conducted by CCW crews and we are we remain we're still on track for that wellfield to be fully operational in May of 2026. The current expenditures for the wellfield are $13.2 million. And then uh we'd like to remind everyone that we're very thankful for uh the $30 million grant uh funded from the state of Texas. And I know we're going to talk about that uh shortly. Uh later on in the meeting, I do want to um uh explain some of the pictures. So the top left or CCW crews, that's uh 24in PVC piping that our crews are installing. The layout and alignment of that piping was done by CCW engineers. Uh we saved a lot of time doing that inhouse. Uh the top right picture, that's the installation of well pump 9. The pump rig is in the background and the the well and the pump are in front. Bottom left is a transformer pad that was poured and we're waiting for NEC to set the electrical transformer. That should be in the next week. And then the bottom right is another picture of CCW crews working to install those water lines. Just a quick reminder to to everyone, especially people who are listening in, we do have a wellfield monitoring program. We want to partner with local well owners. Uh that's in the vicinity of the newasis well fields and also the San Patricio County well fields. Uh this will CCW crews will uh take baseline water levels, provide that to the well owners and we'll also take water quality samples and provide that as well. That's a voluntary program and we're willing and we stand by to assist if the well owner requests it. The contact number there is 361-8261600. Again 361-8261600. And as you know, another uh huge project uh for our water supply is the work that we need to take to offset our demand. And how are we going to do that? We're going to do that by partnering with our large volume users who can utilize effluent wastewater from our wastewater treatment plants that they can use that in lie of our portable water. We are in discussions and negotiations with multiple entities. The goal is um for as shown here is for a draw a use of effluent from the Allison wastewater treatment plant total use of 3 million gallons a day. Greenwood 3 million gallons a day and then OSO 10 million gallons a day. And I do I do want to remind everyone that a part of that project is um the installation of a conveyance line from the OSO wastewater treatment plant to the Greenwood wastewater treatment plant. And we're fortunate to have Ardura on our team and they're working uh very hard to continue the design and alignment of that conveyance line. Quick update on uh the inner harbor seawater project. The memorandum of understanding was signed by the Corpus Christi Del partners in the city on December 4th. City met with the Texas Water Development Board yesterday. That was very productive meeting. And the Texas Water Development Board has their board meeting on December 16th and they will consider our funding deferment requests for the Swift loans. I would like to say that we the conversations yesterday were veryiveative and we do feel thankful. We feel that staff is going to recommend that the board approves that request. Add additionally we'll have uh a as lined out in that memorandum the goal is to provide cost s certain options for council to review and consider. Currently we're targeting the February 17th council meeting for that. And then there's a lot of work that's being done uh with Corpus Christi Del partners again that includes Axiona and Masttec. And then we've got Ardura, the local engineering firm on board as well. Together that team is reviewing the existing work product that has been developed. All of that work product has been furnished to them for review as part of the memorandum of understanding. Uh together we're looking at uh process improvement considerations. Axiona has already provided uh excellent input on pre-treatment options largely in part that comes from their knowledge and experience of operating seawater desalination plants throughout the world. And then of course we are looking for any opportunity for value engineering. The other item I'm I'm pleased to present is uh working with the city communications staff and the CCW communications team. We know that the community wants information. They like information and they do review the information. We know that because when we're at our input sessions, uh we get a lot of great questions. So, we have our water supply project page up website uh that has uh each of our projects for surface water, groundwater, and seawater desalination. Again, all of those efforts are critical if we're going to have a diversified water supply portfolio. The project is also a a landing site. My weekly water supply update memo can be found on there. uh we provide information such as uh logs for our wells. We provide technical documents and data so that people can uh can visit the website and review it. The the website is updated and it will be continue to be updated as new new information is developed and and we can post it to the website. There's a QR code there if anyone in the public wants to uh scan that code. But again, it's securing water.corpuschristx.gov. And with that uh I'll stand by for questions and uh Chris Noi is still here of course and he can answer any questions as well. >> Great. Thank you. Thank you for the great presentation. We appreciate it. And Mr. Noi, we appreciate you being here. Councilman Kentu. >> Thank you, Mayor. Um, Miles, so yesterday on channel 3, um, St. Pat County was thinking about filing a lawsuit against the city. What is that going to do to our time frame of getting water next year? If they do decide to file a lawsuit, >> this item's on executive session, Councilman. Um, if we're going to talk about matters related to litigation, potentially, >> no litigation. He hasn't filed a lawsuit yet. So, I'm asking you in public, what are they going what's what's what's the time frame? >> Um, when it comes to talking about litigation matters, even future litigation matters, I would strongly recommend we talk about those in executive session. Um, simply because they may involve tactics, strategies that that you >> I'm just asking you how long it's going to how long is it going to take. Is is our time fra our time frame going to be extended to another two years? That's all I'm asking you time frame wise. I'm not asking you what's your agenda going to be with the lawsuit and how we're going to respond. I'm asking you time frame. >> Well, that they haven't even sent us a demand letter alleging on some some type of lawsuit. So, I haven't received any type of allegations of a lawsuit that you're talking about. >> I I know Miles, the councilman is just saying, is the timeline affected if there is a laws should a lawsuit be filed based on what was on the news? >> Yeah. Well, I'm I didn't even I I haven't seen what was on the news what you're talking about the you're the the the potential >> even if it was hypothetical. >> It might not affect the timeline at all because there may may or may not be an injunction associated with any such lawsuit. So, it might just be. >> So, what I'm trying to get to, I see a lot of people here from the refineries. I encourage you guys to get with SP County and tell them to be a good neighbor to Corpus Christi. I mean, we're all we're in this together. and them to hold this process up. I think it's BS. So, please get with them because they're holding your water now. You guys need this water. So, please help with that process and and let them know that they need to be a team player and stop making threats. Thank you. >> Thank you, Councilman. Um, let's see. I had a quick question. Let's see. For maybe Mr. Noi or or or Nick, either way on page Well, Mr. know I guess cuz this is where you started page five of the um presentation of the two delayed items you have one and I I guess you both may have touched on it landowner uh routing coordination >> so it's not so much that why is it delayed but Nick you had mentioned that we are going to be speaking to the land owners so so how does that all work in terms of what do you mean by speaking to the land owners and and how does that relate to this particular align item being delayed? >> Right. So, there's a couple of different uh facets there. First, the seller Evangelene Lagona, right? They are working with the land owners to reconfirm their surface use agreements. my the comment I made about our stakeholder uh meetings with the land owners. Uh that's that that is a a meeting so that the land owners understand who we are, what we're doing, who the contacts are. So it's it's once we get past those contractual uh events, we want the land owners to know who we are and how to get in touch with us because uh we'll be neighbors on their property. And then I'll let Chris talk about uh you know the delay shown on here which isn't associated with our the city's uh proposed stakeholder meeting with the land owners. >> But it's not the land owners whose land we are going to drill on or is it or you're saying it is? >> Oh, it is. Yeah, it is. >> So, do they not already know? >> I mean, you're just saying we're going to let them know who we are. Don't >> So, no. Well, they no they they we have not met in specifically in person all those land owners and again they know we're going to drill on their property but we have not uh told them hey the well is designed to be right here. Okay. >> The power is to designed to come through this coordinate across your property and by and we're going to have an access road here. Okay. So those kind of things it's best to be upfront and review uh with the people who live there and that you know they have land operations as well. >> But are they able to have I mean if they have an issue with it you know there there could be and this is No. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. Go ahead. Yeah. >> Yes. Let me explain that this part of the the process. Uh in the surface use agreements it says they do acknowledge we're going to put roads, we're going to put pipe, we're going to put wells on their property. all acknowledged in part of the agreement. It also allows though for us to say we will agree to where we put those these items. They can't say no. They can we talk about where does it need to go. So, you know, they are ranchers out there. They have hunting operations. They have other things. So, what we're doing and we've actually made really good progress just because it's red. Again, that's internally how I drive my team, right? >> Not how I run the rest of the that's to keep us out of the other trouble. We've had a lot of good progress out there. We've met with all the land owners in fact and we are um we're moving forward. But I hope that answers your question. >> It does. Thank you. >> Yeah. Mayor, can I just add to that just so there's no misunderstanding from the viewing public? So the the families as we've referred to them, the welder families, uh they sold the water right, they got money for their water rights. They sold them to the group called Evangeline Laguna. >> So they voluntarily said, "I want to make money and I'm going to sell my water rights to you." The Evangeline group. It's taken the Evangeline Group some time uh to resell these this water and in this case we're the buyer. Uh so the landowner got money on the get-go for the water rights uh selling and they profited and then they'll get money as well from us when we go onto their property, the surface use payments that are made to to the family, right? >> So this is all voluntary on the family. Nobody was coerced coerced or tricked or threatened. uh we're not going onto their property uh you know without their consent. >> They've consented to us or anybody that was to buy this water right project. In this case, we are with a buyer, but uh so it's all it's all already approved by them. What we're talking about is just working out the details, making sure they know who we are, so when Nick calls them up, they know, okay, that's Nick. You know, >> right? >> We wanted that. We asked for it. Uh we know that the Laguna group has been meeting with them one-on-one, but we haven't yet. And so that's a chance for us to build a relationship with long-term partners that will will be with them. >> Thank you for that additional information, Councilwoman Vaughn. >> Well, thank you for meeting with the homeowners be the land owners because that does mean a lot when it's no different than when you drill an oil well on your property. It's negotiating and you need to get to know who they are because they're going to be there and you're going to be working together. So, thanks for doing that. I think this is a dream team. I'm really excited about Hansen Engineering and P Dawson Tura together because if we can get this done, it's going to be done with this team on on time and I believe we can with them leading it. Um I do want to comment to about the water the wells at the river. Representative Denise is in here and had we not had her up there, she worked so hard and so quickly to get that money for us. So the city needs to thank you. Thanks. >> We are very appreciative of the representative. That is for sure. Yes, >> Nick. Thank you so much. I don't see any more questions uh or or comments. And again, Mr. Noi, thank you. Where is he? There he is. Thank you for being here. We appreciate your hard work, too, and and and allowing us to know how it is you are driving your team because, as you mentioned, uh we're on a tight timeline, no room for error. Thank you, Peter. >> Yeah, mayor. Thank you. Just one one final comment. our our final rating agency that's reviewing our credit rating for utility debt. Um Moody's Ken Surgeon, he's watching our meeting today, but I hope this demonstrates to him that um all of these projects we went through several here, they're all advancing um very well. Uh, as we spoke in Austin yesterday to the governor's staff and to the Texas Water Development Board and a few other groups, uh, we're serious about making sure we bring enough water online uh, so that by next November, which is the the now target date, uh, that supply will continue to meet demand and that's going to come through our newas groundwater projects. uh the the Evangeline project, a little bit of the reuse. Those are the immediate projects uh that'll help help stave off or make sure we don't have to enter into curtailment. And then we have some longerterm projects like the inner harbor diesel. The council's still reviewing that. So, right, >> a lot of good information there. We have a committed uh team. I want to thank Nick for working Sunday and and all day yesterday as well and his team as well as Ryan Scbachic who went up to Austin with us yesterday. So, >> yeah. And thank you for that. Thank you for for taking the time to go up to Austin and meeting with the Texas Water Development Board. We appreciate that. >> Okay. Uh let's see here. We're going to move on to uh section F. I'm going to read the script and then we'll go on to our board and appointments. Um so, as we begin today's meeting, I want to make a uh or take a moment to address uh that this council chambers is a place of public business, a forum for civic discussion, decisionmaking, and service to the people of Corpus Christi. It is not a stage for personal attacks, disruptions or vulgarity when we will not tolerate violations of decorum. Uh there have been repeated instances of individuals using profanity, shouting over others and showing blatant disregard for the rules that govern our proceedings. I've allowed space for differing viewpoints and I will continue to welcome respectful disagreement, but I will not allow this council or the public we serve to be disrespected. We're here to do the people's work, so let's proceed in that spirit. If you would like to speak on a specific agenda item during its discussion, you do not need to sign up beforehand. I will ask for public comment when the council considers the item. At that time, you may come up to the podium and speak. And I'll ask city attorney Miles Risley to please review the council meeting rules of decorum. These rules will also be displayed on the television screens above for your viewing. >> All citizens must be courteous, polite, and respectful of one another, including the city council and city staff. The mayor and council members shall be referred to by title and/or title surname. All remarks must be addressed to the mayor and c city council and not to the council members as individuals. Citizens are only permitted to speak on city related subject matter. Speaking on any non city related matter is prohibited. Loud, boisterous, profane or obscene language or behavior is not allowed. Citizens must refrain from any disturbing noise, demonstration, or other act disrupting to the city council business. >> Thank you, Mr. Rley. So, please state your name and the city in which you live before beginning your comments. Citizen comments are limited to three minutes, while non-resident comments are limited to one minute. A visible timer position near the city secretary's desk will manage or help manage the allotted time. And if you have a petition or relevant information, please present it to the city secretary before speaking. So with that said, we will move on to section G. That is our board and committee appointments. Miss Webtham. >> Yes, ma'am. Before we begin, um we could ask for public comment on the board and committee appointments. >> Yes. If if you have public comment on board or any of the board any of the board or committee appointments, this will be your time to step up and make those comments. Hi, I'm Shireen Delus. I live in district 5 and I'm here to express my uh sincere interest to join the parks and recreation advisory committee. And uh you may know me from like for the past 5 years I've been doing public comment on uh bike trails, bike lanes. Uh I see it as something really important especially in Corpus Christi because unfortunately uh it is kind of on the bottom of the list in America for trails and uh I saw this opportunity to be in the parks and recreation advisory committee. I see that there's an opportunity here. Uh, I've learned over the years how the process works and I learned about the tough questions to ask, the uncomfortable questions to ask, and um, I have a cheat sheet so we can get things done. And I looked at this uh, agenda the past uh, five agendas for the parks and recreation advisory committee. Other than the approval of minutes, um, you know, director reports, I see typically one at most two uh, items, agenda items. So, uh, there's an opportunity to talk about, uh, trails, grants. I've learned a lot about, um, how we could get things going. So, there's a real opportunity here. And, um, I, uh, haven't been doing public comments because I've been working behind the scenes, emailing staff, trying to keep them on the timeline, asking them like, uh, hey, have you heard about this grant? Have you applied for that? So, being part of the board will help me follow up better. And uh other than that, I've been doing uh I have a a nonprofit organization. We're Gold Star accredited for transparency from Candid. It's called I Bikecc. And I've been on the public engagement side. I've been offering children uh free bike lessons. Uh I've been organizing bike events. So there's a real opportunity here. And uh other than uh bike lanes and bike trails, I'm a mom of two small kids. And uh being a mom of the parks is a big part of a mom's life. We're always at the playgrounds. And uh I noticed if you look at this roster, uh 90% of uh the roster are older men. Uh no one on the roster is a mom of small children. So that's something to consider because I know that uh maybe you were suggested that you should consider people from uh different districts but we need perspective of uh moms. You know over 60% of Corpus Christie households are families and um uh if I understand there's a lot of people who applied. So I mean if you if you don't vote for me that's okay. But at least when you receive an email from me, I really appreciate if you follow up like on uh the city staff to you know like the when it comes to trails or grants like not just for the email like really follow up and uh help me help you basically. Thank you very much. >> Thank you. Anyone else public comment on our board and committee appointments? Okay, we'll close public comment. Miss Wood, I'll hand it over to you. Yes, ma'am. So, our first board is the airport board. There's one vacancy. >> Okay, we'll go ahead and open >> nominations. Mayor, I'm sorry. I'd like to nominate Christine. >> Okay. Christine Balin. Anyone else? >> John Lens. >> John Lensy. >> John Garcia. >> Okay. Charles Ryber. Okay. We'll close nominations. >> Did you get all that, >> Norma? >> Four nominations. >> Yes. >> Okay. Thank you. >> Okay. So, we are uh appointing one. >> That's right. So, yes, ma'am. We need to start uh we need to vote. So I'll go ahead and start with Councilman >> Kentu Berlin >> and Is Councilman is Councilman Hernandez? >> Yes, he's online. >> Okay. >> Oh, I'm sorry, Mr. Hernandez. >> Do you see Can you see? Oh, I'm sorry, Lindsay. Okay. >> Oh, can we see you? Sorry. To see you. Thank you. Okay, Lindsay. Thank you, >> Lindsay. Okay. >> Oh, she voted. >> Lyn Lyn have a runoff between Berlin and Lindsay. Lyn Limbsy. Sorry, >> Lince Limy. I want to say Lindsay. >> We need five votes. >> The majority. >> So the the high the top two. Okay. Okay. Councilman Bon, we'll start with you. >> Um Hernandez, >> Mr. Hernandez. Probably Lince. Lind Lindy. >> God. >> Lindy. >> Not got you doing it. I'm sorry. I won't say anywhere. >> Biny. Okay, Ben is appointed. Thank you. Next, we have the Marina Advisory Committee. There are five vacancies. Kurt Broomfield, Daniel Harrington, Steve Indra Lunis, and John Murray are seeking reappointment, and their attendance rates are in your packet. >> I move to reappoint. >> Okay. Okay, we have a motion and a second to reappoint five. Um, all in favor say I. >> Reappoint. >> Any oppose say no. >> Reappoint four. Ma'am, >> I'm sorry. Reappoint four. >> Yes, ma'am. >> Any uh against say no. The motion carries. >> Okay, so that leaves us with one vacancy open. >> Okay. >> I >> Oh, Gil, thank you so much. I'm sorry about that. We need to remember because his vote won't count, right? >> To see him. >> Yeah. >> Thank you, Gil. Okay. Thank you. Okay. So, we're going to open nominations for the Marina Advisory Committee. Councilwoman Patson, who >> who reigns? >> Reigns. Uh, any other nomine Oh, any other nominations. >> Mr. Anandas, anybody? No. >> Nope. >> Okay. >> Okay. >> Okay. Yeah. If there's no other nominations, we can close and move to a point. >> We can close it. So, Mr. Reigns. >> Move to a point. >> Okay. All in favor? Yeah, we do need a vote. Yeah. Well, I guess I guess we could do it by acclamation since there's only one nominee actually if I think about it. >> So, by acclamation since there's one nominee, he we will appoint him. >> Okay. Okay. Mr. Reigns. >> Yes, ma'am. >> Reigns the vote. >> All right. So, then we have the parks and recreation advisory committee. Uh there's one vacancy on this committee. >> Okay. Well, open nomination. I'm sorry. Let me let me open nominations real quick just for the formal record. We'll open nominations. >> That is excited. That's good. Okay. Go ahead. >> So, you have >> Okay. Okay. >> Any other nominations? >> Jennifer Wright. >> Okay. All right. Eric. Eric. >> Haramo. >> Haramo. Okay. Any other nominations? Okay. I'm going to close nominations and we'll start with Councilman Kenu. >> Eric. >> Eric votes for Eric. >> Eric. >> Sharon. >> Delus. Oh, delus. >> Yeah. >> Uh, right. Jennifer, right? >> Uh, right. >> Mr. Nandis, >> Elsus. >> Elsus. >> Oh my goodness. Okay. So, it's Delus between Delus and Haramo. Okay. >> Or Eric. >> I'll start um with Councilwoman Vaughn. >> Hold on one second. She's still writing. Give me one second. She writes really fast, but not that fast. Okay, we can start now. Mayor, thank you so much. Okay, so Van and then uh Mr. Nandis >> Delus. >> Okay, we need to see him too. Can't see. That wouldn't count. Okay, thank you. >> Delusio. >> All right, Mr. Hadio is appointed. Okay, next we have uh the planning commission and the airport zoning commission. So we discuss these committees together because the members of the airport zoning commission serve three-year terms and they align with the term each member serves on the planning commission. So in other words, the members of the planning commission and the airport zoning commission are identical. So we do have two vacancies. >> Mayor, I'd like to nominate Jason Jackson. Okay. Okay. >> Erin Goldstein. >> Alex Garcia. Okay. >> Ortiz. >> Joe Ortiz >> and Richard. >> Well, let's see. Do we have two vacancies? Yeah, you can do that. Yes, you can do that. So, it's Shelton also. >> So, who are >> ma'am? You need them up there, Norma. >> So, we have Jackson, Esparza, Goldstein, Ortiz, and Shelton. >> Is that everybody? >> And that's for two >> and Garcia. Alex Garcia. That was Miss Compos's nomination. >> Okay, I'll start with Councilman. Can you pick your two? >> Yes. Two, ma'am. Jackson and Shelton. >> Jackson and Sparza. >> Jackson and Goldstein. >> Jackson and Shelton. Hold on, Mayor. Jackson and Goldstein. Go ahead. Did >> you get mine? Uh, >> Jackson and Shelton. Okay Mr. >> Esparza and >> Jackson and Esparsa. >> Okay, thank you. >> Jackson and then did you catch Miss Vans? Miss Von, can you repeat your >> Okay. Okay. So, we're gonna There you go. Jackson and There's two, Norma. >> Esparza. >> So, it's Jackson and Esparza would be in the runoff. Okay. Okay. >> No, no, no. Shelton and >> Oh, I'm sorry. Isn't it four under Esparza? >> No, but Jackson got six, >> right? Oh, I see. I'm sorry. Uh, okay. Yeah, she's right. Esparza and Shelton. Yes, because one got it out right. >> All right. So, we'll start with Councilwoman Vaughn. >> Yes. >> Hold on one second. She's Let her write it down real quick. >> Okay. Are you ready, Norma? She's ready. Okay. Please proceed. >> Okay. Mr. Hernandez. >> Sparta. >> Sparta. >> Sparta. Shelton. >> Shelton. >> Esparza. >> Esparza. >> Shelton. [Laughter] >> All right. So, Sparza, thank you. And that's to u the planning commission and the airport zoning commission. All right, last but not least, we have the water, shore, and beach advisory committee. There are five vacancies representing the following categories, their preferred but not required categories, which are four at large and one environmentalist. Robert Allen, Glenn Duhan, and Melanie Holland are seeking reappoint, and their attendance rates are in your packets. >> Okay, we second. >> We have a motion and a second. All in favor say I. >> I. Any oppose say no. >> Councilman Hernandez. >> Mr. Hernandez. >> I >> I >> Okay. Thank you. Thank you, Mayor. Okay. So, then we have that leaps. >> Hang on. The motion carries. >> Sorry. Now I'm doing it. Sorry, Mayor. >> Slow down. >> Now tell me to slow down. >> Good one. >> I'm joking. >> I tell you're on the ball. She's on the ball. Okay. So then, um, that leaves us with two vacancies open. Barb. >> Oh my goodness. >> Okay, we're going to open nominations. What was the nomination? >> Chapman and Pitman. >> Chapman and Pitman. >> Well, there's only one spot. >> No, there's two. There's two spots. So, she can do two. >> Any other nomination? >> Yes, ma'am. She can do that. >> No. So, we have two nom two nominations for two open spots. >> By Okay. >> Yeah, we can do it by acclamation if we want. Yeah. Because Pitman. >> Okay. >> Okay. Thank you very much. >> Okay. Thank you. Okay. Moving on to section I, our consent agenda items 3 through 20. Uh any requests from C Well, I'm going to pull item number six, but any requests to pull an item for discussion from council members >> 11. >> Item number 11. Anything else, ladies or gentlemen? >> Okay. >> Mayor Mayor, when you pull six, you're going to recognize seven as well. Six and seven. The two grants. >> Yes. Oh, yes. Thank you. >> Yeah, >> we'll pull seven, too. >> Okay. Six and seven. >> Councilman Hernandez, I'm sorry. What was your request? >> Number 12. >> 6, 7, 11, and 12. Okay. Any request from the public to make public comment on items 3 through 20? >> 11. >> 11. you can come up. >> Joshua Frederick, city of Corpus Christi. Um, I appreciate Councilman Roy pulling item 11. I was going to do it if he wasn't going to. Uh, but really it's it's for the same reason. I just want to um to make sure that we remind the engineers that we're awarding this contract to to be very mindful of the space at Bler Park. uh you know, the city's worked really hard on it, but so has a lot of the uh the public members. You know, we really put in time at that park to make it nice from what it used to be. And um I think reminding them of that and having having them be very diligent and mindful of that space would be greatly appreciated. Um not to make them paranoid, but there will be people watching every step of the uh of the way along there, and they're going to have binoculars out. They're looking at birds, but I guarantee they're also going to be watching every single thing they do in that park. Thank you. >> Great. Thank you, Mr. Frederick. Anyone else? Okay, we'll close public comment on items 3 through 20. Uh, I will entertain, let's see, I'll entertain a motion to approve consent agenda with the exception of items 6, 7, 11, and 12. >> Second. >> Okay, we have a motion and a second. All in favor say I. >> Any oppose say no. >> And Mr. Hernandez also. >> Oh, I'm sorry, Mr. Hernandez. Yes. >> You approve consent, Mr. Mr. Nendus >> I >> Okay, great. Thank you, >> Mayor. This This includes the amended minutes. >> Oh, >> the minutes. Yeah, because we >> But it's the amended minutes. >> Yes, the ones posting. So, we did include uh we properly reflected your vote on consent agenda as a whole last time. And then of as we explained on four, we we >> put you absent. Yes, sir. >> Thank you, Councilman. Um Okay. All in favor say I. >> I. >> I. >> Any oppose say no. Motion carries. Uh let's see. Item number six and seven. Um I pulled and I'd like to invite Ryan Scbaric and our state representative Via Lobos to come down. I just want to um Ryan give us a little background on it and just to thank you. I'll give you a chance to get here. Sorry. Uh we we want to thank you, Representative. This was your very first legislative session and you knocked it out of the park and you really proved, you know, how you are working for our community, our region. Really, our region. So, and I'll I'll leave the rest for you to make statements on, but we're very very very grateful. Ryan, if you'd like to introduce just a little bit of background. >> Yeah, happy to. Uh, thank you, Mayor and Council. Ryan Scbar, director of intergovernmental relations. And I have to say before I start, my son's going to be thrilled I'm talking on items six and seven. So I have to say that as a parent. Thank you, Representative. Yeah. And that's a thing with the kids. But uh really it it is um I just want to stress for council obviously and and Councilwoman Vaughn started us off and it's already been echoed by multiple from the dis um how impactful this is. But to help the council understand the context in which this happened, and I've heard the representative tell the story a number of times, but this is this this was not a usual legislative session. And I think that bears repeating. The the Texas Trabune actually ran a story on this and the legislature this session appointed five times more in direct appropriations to water projects than they have ever done in recent years. In the time that I have worked in and around the legislative process, uh it's it almost never happens with the exception of maybe a special project in the chairperson's district of uh Senate Finance and Senate appropriations. So there was a unique recognition by the legislature this session that water projects were important and having worked around the process uh I have to admit you know we talked with our delegation frequently leading up to the budget appropriation process about the opportunity that might exist there and candidly there wasn't a lot of optimism because it hadn't been done and the legislature operates a lot on persistence and maybe in that case it takes a freshman in the legislature with the gumption to kind of seize the reins and go, I recognize there's an opportunity. And so when we got the call on the night of the deadline for writers um and Representative Vobos had asked us to draft one and so that she could submit it and then work that through the process obviously in coordination with our delegation, but it takes a it takes an individual to file that and make it uh come to fruition. It really was um a unique opportunity and also a huge win for the rateayers of Corpus Christi to see this because we we these are emergency projects that we would have had to do regardless and the state taking that financial burden on is is is a is a great impact and hopefully um uh a symbol of things to come in in the way that the state can continue to step up but it takes somebody to be first. So with that I'll just echo my thanks. I can do nothing as uh no one at the city can do anything in the legislature without our delegation and so all of the thanks go to them and so um I'm happy to participate in uh expressing how grateful we are. Representative >> Hello. Uh I'm State Representative Denise Vil Lobos from House District 34. Uh I serve on the appropriations committee uh specifically uh the subcommittee 678 which actually oversees TCQ, Tex DOT, the water development board and many other state agencies. Um so I was on the initial committee that approved uh water projects throughout the state of Texas and I've had a lot of different representatives come to me asking for money for their regions. Um, as Ryan was saying, it was kind of unorthodox uh what had happened uh this past session just because of the amount of sure surplus we had in the budget. And the city of Houston was the first one to come to me to actually say, "Hey, we have this pump in Houston that's single sourced that uh one runs water to all of our refineries and if that goes out, Houston is out of all their refineries." And and so they asked us and the my me and my committee uh for half a billion dollars. And I was like, whoa, what? You can ask for money like that? Well, Corpus Christie has a ton of emergency water projects on the deck right now that I would love to ask for money for. And so, literally in the 11th hour, I was able to work with the Corpus Christie water department. Nick's not here. Uh but Drew Molly at the time. Oh, he's right there. There he is. uh and and your public affairs department, Ryan Scorbaric. And in the 11th hour, like literally I think they had like eight hours to work on it before the deadline, we were able to submit a request for three different projects for $50 million. Uh the state ended up approving two projects and $46 million to bring back to Corpus Christie to help with water security to push that deadline from August of 2025 all the way to November of 26. Uh and we're here today. Uh I I'm very happy of what we were able to accomplish together and I look forward to helping y'all uh secure water in the next legislative session and the next budget cycle. Thanks. >> Thank you, state representative. You've done an amazing job. We're so grateful and we just we really want you to know that and thank you for being here. We really appreciate that. I know we've got some comments here. Councilman Roy, >> Representative, I would stand up and clap for you, but I don't want to break the quorum because um that would come back to in five-fold uh uh later on. But I I just want to thank you uh from district one uh everyone um for what you've done and just being a stellar representative. Uh and uh thank you for just keeping um in front of us and and working with us and being so easy to access. Uh we're very very proud of you and um again I really think I would stand up but uh and clap but I don't need the mayor giving me a hard time. >> Thank you. >> Thank you Councilwoman Vaughn. >> Well thank you Nick and Ryan for working with Denise so quickly. I know that was tough. I shouldn't say this but I'm going to because I can't help myself. So I'm going to brag on you a little bit. her very first year, she brought more money back to the our county and city than Abel Herrerero ever did the entire time he was there. Good job. You need me on your campaign trail. Thank you, >> Councilman Scott. Mayor, I think there's a couple. This is a this is an amazing story. Uh the fact that you did what you did, the fact that Ryan was in the right place at the right time and the guy never leaves. And we we've talked about this. Oh, if you want to meet the world, go stand with Ryan in the Capitol because they all come to him. That's really interesting. But then Nick and and your your entrepreneurial spirit and and bringing these drillers in and getting them going and find, you know, at one point somebody said, "Well, you guys are spending a ton of money on drilling these wells and you know, there's a better deal." All right. They called me about two weeks ago later went, "Oh my word, how did you get that agreement and are able to drill those wells at that price?" And so I mean it's really interesting that it's it's a success all the way around. And my last comment would be do me a favor. When you're drive back to the office today, glance at the cars you pass and it pass you and know that you have positively impacted their lives. What you did in the legisl legislative session impacted everybody's life in this room and all the tens and hundreds of thousands of people you will never meet. You made a difference and for us, thank you so much. Thank you, Councilman. Councilwoman Petta, >> Councilwoman, >> Councilman, not call you, >> Representative. Um, as you've often heard me say, I think it's the best race I ever lost. You know, um I I I have to, you know, um the the chief executive for the Texas Chemistry Council, one of the things that he said is the rock star of the Texas Legislature. And I mean, I firmly believe in him. I know the date of my election and the butt whipping that I des that I got. You're one of the first people that text me that night and it just meant to me that you're a supporter no matter no matter what side of the aisle stands that you stand on. You're a supporter for solutions and for whatever the region needs for all its citizens. And I it's a pleasure to call you my friend. Thank you and thank you for the great job you're doing. Councilwoman Paxton, >> Representative, thank you for being here this morning with us. Um, when I saw these come across the agenda, the first reading, I was very excited because it is not lost on me and there's a lot of individuals who it is not lost on that this was no small feat. This incredible, incredible effort on your behalf that was successful really did help us launch into a successful plan for water for this region. and and I know this is your home area and and we just can't be more thankful and proud that you're in Austin representing us and we're looking forward to continuing that relationship. But from the bottom of our hearts, thank you for thinking of us, putting us first and and making sure that we could have a strong step forward. >> Thank you, state representative, for being here. We appreciate you. And with that, I'd like to make a motion to approve items six and seven. You got a second. Okay, Rebecca, do you have it loaded on? Yep. Thank you, Mr. Nundis. >> I >> Okay, thank you. >> Uh, Councilwoman Paxton, thank you. Um, I don't know if that was planned or not, but can we turn this into a moment where we can get a picture with the representative and our water team so we can celebrate this because that would sure mean a lot to us. And I think it is in order to stand up and clap. Okay, the motion carries. Thank you. [Applause] >> Uh, is he coming? >> Is he coming? >> Yeah, they'll come. Come on down here. Okay, guys. Let's I guess if everybody >> Yeah, probably come down because our photographers on their way. So, >> yeah, let's come down. If everybody could just push their chair just push your chairs in. >> Yes, ma'am. >> Neatly. That was [Music] not here. All right. >> And I have this whole group just come this way real quick. >> Perfect. All right, everyone. Look right here. Big smiles on three. One, two, three. One more time. One, two, three. [Applause] Thank you. >> There we go. Okay. >> Okay. >> Where are we? Okay. Great. So, continuing on, we are going to go to item number 11, which was pulled by Councilman Hernandez. This is >> Oh, did you? >> I'm sorry, Councilman Roy. Um, oh, he did 12, did he? Councilman did 12. Okay. And then you did. So, uh, item 11 pulled by Councilman Roy. This is a motion authorizing amendment number one to a professional services contract with LJ8 Engineering. Councilman Roy. >> Thank you. Um f first of all uh this is an important project and you know there is a lot of history behind Bucher Park and a lot of the things that we've done and I've been working on and a lot of the community members you know that from a a standpoint that it's probably it's interesting location and and a history but it's developed uh into a kind of a a bird sanctuary and um there's a lot of people that come kids uh you know uh school kids and u people from all over and visit that park. So again, I just want to make sure that um during the process of making the improvements that we do everything we can to be cognizant um uh cognitive making sure that we take care of that park and um I'm sure you will. But I just wanted to make sure that we stated that I know that there are a lot of people in the community that have reached out to me and I just wanted to uh express that concern and at the same time this is a necessary project. I'm looking forward to it and the improvements that it will bring to the area. Thank you. >> AB: Absolutely, Councilman. And if I if I could just add this is a to remedy what we call a confirmed capacity constraint that was identified in our wastewater system as part of the consent decree. And because of that capacity constraint over, you know, previously we've had a number of what's called sanitary sewer overflows in the park. So this project will remedy that and also improve the wastewater system. And again, it's it's part of our 15-year plan with the consent decrees. So, we have we absolutely have to be mindful of the park and and the importance to the community. >> Going to make a motion. >> With that, I'd like to make a motion to approve. >> Okay. We have a motion. >> Oh, Councilwoman, I'm sorry. Comment. >> Sure. Again, I just wanted to also add um my appreciation and uh for this area uh that it is now being hopefully taken care of like you know uh Councilman Ever Roy just mentioned that it has become or has been really an icon for our our bird um you know I guess uh community but really for all of us. Um, I remember when I first came, uh, was first elected, I toured that park and they, you know, they had countless volunteers going in there and picking up that trash. So, again, it's it's a a project that's long overdue and and we appreciate that. So, thank you. And I fully support it. So, I can't wait to vote for it. >> Second. >> Okay, we have a motion and a second. Councilman Bond, >> it's for you. Since you mentioned it, it's part of the consent decree. So, we're spending a lot of money. I do want at some point to bring forward how much money we have spent so far on that because I've never and I know you said it's it's difficult, but we we need to know how much we've spent. >> Yeah. I I would like to I would like to to set aside a briefing and go through all of that. We we can talk uh large numbers uh in a session like this, but I absolutely want to go into the details with you, councilwoman, and and the whole >> we can work to schedule that. >> Yeah. >> The whole that's a lot of money. So, and it's been going on for years. >> I want to know, are we anywhere close? >> Yeah. >> Well, it was a 15-year agreement, but we'll we'll we'll do a briefing in January, maybe the first meeting in January. Uh we had a welllaid out plan and we know exactly how much we spent and what we've done and what's left to do as well. So we'll put that on. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> Thank you. >> We have a motion in a second. So please submit your vote. >> And then Mr. Nandis. >> I >> Councilman, are you coming on? >> Yeah, he already came up. Mayor >> Oh, he did? Yes, he did. He voted. >> I didn't see him. Okay. Sorry. Okay. Item number 12, and this was Mr. Hernandez, uh, his item. This is a motion authorizing the approval of change order number three with Central Air and Heating Service of Harlingen, Texas, uh, for dehumidifiers at the Hillyard Center. Councilman Hernandez. >> Yes. Thank you, Mayor. And uh I can't see if Jeff is here, but I'd like to ask kind of an understanding of there is some mention of trying to capture the condensate from from the HVAC system and first it was the H it wasn't the HVAC system, it was the um dehumidifiers, but then in this uh in the in the agenda memo, it refers it back to the air handlers. So, I'm a little confused as to what actual system we're using to try and capture the uh the condensate. >> Okay. Um so, Jeff Edmonds, director of engineering services. Uh so, as as part of this effort after the the chillers uh were awarded and you you might remember uh there's been three steps that we've taken already on this. So, uh, this was a series of urgent mechanical upgrades that we needed to make at, uh, the Hillyard Center. Um, at the time OVG came in, this was one of the things that they identified as, as being an urgent need. Uh, the chillers, we were working on one chiller. Uh, we were um our air handlers were um not our air handlers, our um cooling towers uh were very deteriorated. uh and uh we were working on one dehumidifier. Uh so the city procured about $3 million worth of equipment. We went out to buy board and we bought the new chillers and we bought the dehumidifiers. This is about $3 million worth of equipment to expedite the installation. So uh the uh contract to install the chillers came to city council. That was the current contractor. Uh, and this was a phase two part to put in the dehumidifier. So, we we actually put this out for bid. Uh, we only got one bid and it was $1.5 million which exceeded the budget and uh uh we entered in some discussions with this contractor and they agreed to do it for for much less money. So, this is just installation of the equipment that that we have purchased. Now, Mr. Hernandez brought this up about condensate recycle when uh we were taking the contract to to install the chillers and we said that that that would need to be uh a future effort. Um and we completed a study. We did an engineering study and uh we do believe there is uh some advantage to doing a project to try and recover as much of the the condensate that's produced uh in not not only the arena but the convention center and try and take it to a central point uh take it to a treatment skid and uh then use it for makeup water in the cooling towers because in the cooling towers you're bringing in hot water, you're blowing air through it uh to cool it and it comes in at 90°, it goes out at like 80° and in the process of heating up the water, you have evaporative losses. It's just a necessary part of it. And uh modern cooling tower is designed in such a way that you uh minimize the amount of water that you lose to just spray and that sort of thing, but you you're going to have evaporative losses. So, uh, we think that it's possible to, uh, recover up to a third of that makeup water with a condensate recovery project. So, what we're currently contemplating is folding that in, including that in the project where we replace the chillers and the cooling towers at the convention center. Were you able to follow me on that, Mr. Hernandez? Okay, I understand that. But where is actually the condensate coming from? And I mean, what is your timeline? I mean, I don't even see a CIP page on on trying to do this project. So, where I mean, are you going to be putting that forward or so we can make an amendment to the the CIP? What what's the status? Well, so uh there there are currently projects underway to take the art museum, uh the Science and History Museum, uh and the Harbor Playhouse off of that central cooling plant at the convention center. So, we're proposing that you incorporate this into the convention center project. Uh I don't know if that currently has a CIP page, but th those others do. And that was first step is get those others off of the convention center and then upgrade the convention center system. and we think that would be the appropriate time to uh do this project. Uh it's going to require some facility mods and and you know there's for example there's 13 air handlers within the arena uh as well as these two um dehumidifiers and and I think I made a an erroneous statement in my um agenda memo I want to correct. So, I said that you don't get a liquid condensate stream out of the dehumidifiers. You do because there's some pre- chillers. It it goes over um uh chilled water um uh heat transfer and it will create some condensation just like your AC at the house. But then it's further dried with this desicant uh material that is then regenerated with a hot air stream from fired by natural gas that you won't won't recover. But there will be liquid water from these units. And then all of the air handlers do create condensate, but it's not worth taking all of that condensate from all of those units. Some of them are too far away. You've got to do too much damage and trying to plummet back to a central location. But we think there's some subset of these that makes sense to try and capture. And then the the best use that the engineer recommended was to use it for makeup water in the cooling towers. Okay, Jeff, I appreciate all that information. It's but it it doesn't mean anything if we don't have it documented as to when we do this. So, uh, uh, city manager, if you can please put this on your list of things to make sure that we have as a plan to capture this condensate. I mean, considering our water situation, we need to make sure we do every effort to try and capture and this would be a lot of water from these size HVAC units. >> Yeah, Councilman, just Yeah, we we're working on it. I was I toured the facility last week so I could get a better understanding of these units. and uh on site Jeff and I talked about what he just talked to the council about and so and I hear you. We'll put this in the form of a of a project proposal that'll be brought to council either in the form of a memo or eventually a CIP amendment page. Um and so we'll do that. We planned on doing it last week. Uh we know that uh this water could be used as Jeff said for makeup water or for landscaping at the Hillard Center. Uh we we know we did a $3 million landscaping project that needs water. So, uh, was supportive of it. It's just now putting it together and and we'll do that. It's on my list already. >> Yeah. >> Okay. Well, we ordered these HVAC system. We hadn't pre-ordered this thing a year in advance. I think it's been over a year. So, I mean, we kind of had the idea that this was coming uh, and to prepare for it. And we're still at the same in the same place. So, I know these things are needed, but >> a little bit. >> Okay. Well, let's get the documentation. Let's put it on the plan so we can we can capture this water. >> We need a copy of that engineering report that uh just went final last month. So, we can distribute that with memo to council. >> Okay. Thank you. And uh with that, I make a motion to approve. >> Okay. We have a motion in a second. Councilman Kent. >> Yeah. Um I just I just want to make some comments. Um, we get raped every day on these contracts. Like crane service, $166,000. Another crane service, $80,000 just to get a crane. We might as well just buy our own crane. Like, that's that is just crazy how the taxpayers get screwed all the time. all these big bills. It amazes me. I mean, it's just crazy. Like, it just blows my mind on prices. I know every everybody says, "Oh, it's cost five times more with the city because we're crazy. We don't we don't speak up and we don't we don't we don't find good local people to do it." I mean, it's just ridiculous. >> Well, council member, we we put this out for bid. I know, but there's a lot of small businesses in Corpus Christi that can't even figure out how to bid, all the documentation that you guys need. I mean, just the loopholes just to do a bid. I mean, there's a lot of good small businesses that will help us save taxpayer money. I mean, 166,000 and $80,000 for a crane service. That's crazy. >> Well, council member, um, >> might as well put the Vaseline right here. It's crazy, man. It's a lot of money. >> I would argue that we're getting a pretty good deal because we we put this out for bid and we received one bid and that was for 1.87 million. The the engineers estimate was $1.7 million for this work and this contractor is agreeing to do it for $693,000. So, >> it's a lot of money. We got we got a lot of money. >> That's a lot of money. >> Yeah. I mean, to help you all understand these things, uh, there's two of these units, and they weigh about 25,000 lbs each, and they're they're about the size of a shipping container, probably a little bigger than that. And they're way up like a threetory elevation in the building, and they've got to be installed in there. And there's all sorts of plumbing and electrical supply, gas supply that that needs to be uh attached to this. We've got to modify the building so that we can be able to get them in and then restore the building after you get them in. And uh so there are going to be cranes out there. They're going to have to be out there for an extended period of time. Um it's not a simple project. >> Go ahead. Just just one last thing. If if you if you if you if you get this if you if you ask them to do the same work for a small business owner versus a city, I guarantee you it will not be that price. I mean, that's just they see dollar signs when they mess with the taxpayer money. And I just I just I don't agree with it. I think it's a I think it's pirate robbery. It's we just pay too much money for everything. I mean, that's just just crazy to me. But that's my opinion. Nothing against you. I'm just saying that just we we need to really figure something else out because just for crane services, I mean, you could buy a crane, a used crane for three $400,000. You might as well just buy one for the city fleet and have it have it in stock when we need it. So, thank you. >> Okay. Thank you, Councilwoman Vaughn. >> First off, it's not your fault and we know that. Um, but this has long been a problem for me, too. So, I'm glad he brought it up because I was going to bring it up next year. I think we have to have a review of what we're paying because I look at what these architects are making. It's ridiculous what some of them are making from this city. And I just do not believe that those are the going rates. I think we are getting raped on a bunch of the things that we do. No fault of yours. But why don't we do a comparison to maybe some of the other cities? What's going on? Are we being overcharged by the services that we're doing? Well, is it too hard for other people to apply because of the way we've got it set up? I just think we need to look at it. Will you think about that for the next >> do that? Yeah, we'll put together something to bring back. >> I know I've given you a lot of work today. >> It's no problem. We'll we'll Yeah, get let us get organized and we'll we'll tell you when we can bring something. >> Sure, Councilwoman Gumples. >> Thank Thank you, Mayor. Um, thank you, Councilman Bon, for mentioning about, you know, the the contracts that we do um constantly do. Uh, one of the things is the con the architect. Um, did we in fact hire an architect for the city? Don't we have an architect that is overseeing these projects or not? >> Yeah, we do, Councilwoman. We have a city I created the position and uh and council approved it and we have a city architect. >> That's what I thought. Okay. So, hopefully the architects is also looking into some of these projects. So, right. I mean, >> he's involved in Yeah. >> works with Jeff. Yeah, he's involved in most many of them. Most of them. Yeah. >> Okay. And I just also wanted to just thank again um Councilman Arnandez for reminding us about what we have um asked for the city every time that we have these types of of opportunities to reuse the water to save water to you know so again yes you know we need to do everything possible that we you know we can do so I'm I'm glad that he brought that issue up and hopefully we'll be able to hear more information as this project, you know, >> continers indicate that it it it would be worth it. They're estimating like an 8-year payback of capital cost. >> I believe it would be. Okay. Thanks. Thank you. We have a motion in a second on item number 12. Please submit your vote, >> Mr. Nundis. Mr. Nundis. No, there he is. >> Hi. >> Okay. a little frozen, but we'll take it. [Applause] Okay, the motion carries. That's consent. I I do want to give a little quick shout out to Flint Hills and Oxycm. They both and we've passed this in the consent, but they both gave a great donation of 10,000, roughly a little over 10,000 each, and that went to our public safety, our um fire department for hazmat sensors and response vehicles. So, thank you to them. I know Kira was here. I apologize for uh not bringing that up sooner, but thank you to our partners in Flint Hills and Oxycm for those donations. Okay, section uh K is our public hearing. Uh items 21 through 23. Item 21 is zoning case number ZN8908, Big Fish Enterprises LLC. >> Okay, I'm sure that PowerPoint's coming up. Good afternoon, council members, mayor. Appreciate being in front of you again to today. My name is Andrew Deus, assistant director of development services over land development, having three zoning cases on this afternoon's agenda. Beginning with case ZN8908 Big Fish Enterprises. It is located within district 2 at 645 Everheart Road. This is roughly the portion of Everheart between Alama and South Staples. The request is from the single family 6 district to the CN1 neighborhood commercial district. Uh as you can see on the map, there have been several zoning cases over the years as properties have converted from former single family homes to now commercial uses. This is very common on stretches of airline, Everheart, and Williams. So this is just another example of uh one of those conversions. It is surrounded on two sides by other commercial uses. There is, of course, the row of single family homes to the rear. The uh project is consistent with of course our comprehensive plan. Moving on to public notifications of the 27 notices sent out, we received zero in favor and zero in opposition. And as I mentioned through our analysis and recommendation and of course presenting to the planning commission, uh the project is consistent with the comprehensive plan. The one amendment would be an update to the future land use map. On the map today, it still shows it as a single family residential future land use designation. That of course will be updated to match the surrounding commercial corridor. Uh the project is consistent with the character of the neighborhood and as I mentioned, it's that style of conversion from former single family residences to now commercial businesses. Uh with that, planning commission and staff recommend approval of the resoning and I'm happy to address any questions. I don't have an issue. I don't have an issue with it. So, I move for approval. >> Okay. >> Second. >> Okay. We have a motion in a second. Um, let's see here. >> Yeah. Public Yeah, we need to open public hearings. Is there no one anyone in the audience that would like to make comment on item number 21? Okay. There being no one, we'll close public hearing and please submit your vote. Hey, >> Mr. Nundis. Mr. Oh, there you are. Okay. You said I right. Okay. >> I >> Thank you. >> Okay. The motion carries. >> I >> Okay. And Mr. Scott, for the record, also voted I. >> Item number 22, zoning case number ZN8874, Pasadena Land Holdings. Okay, for the record again, Andrew Deus with Development Services. Our second case of the afternoon again is Pasadena Land Holdings, KZN8874. The request is located in district 4 from the FR Farm District to the RS4.5 single family district. It is located on Woolridge. This is just south of the intersection of Woolridge and NS Jocelyn. As mentioned, the surrounding land uses is either vacant as this is a portion uh one of the last remaining portions of FR zoning in that part of the city. Uh adjacent to it is zoning that is similar of also the RS4.5 district. So it is consistent with the comprehensive plan and the future land use map moving forward. Of the 66 notices mailed out, we received two in opposition which is roughly 1.86%. 86%. The opposition focused more on increased traffic and drainage uh which are common comments that we receive on many zoning cases. Based on our analysis and recommendation presented to the planning commission, uh as mentioned, the case is consistent with the comprehensive plan. It is consistent with the future land use map. It is consistent with the area development plan. It is extending an existing neighborhood that is located to the east and to the south. So, planning commission along with staff are recommending approval of the resoning. Happy to address any questions. >> Councilwoman Paxton. >> Thank you, Mayor. Um, were both of those um opposition letters the same because I only saw the one in the packet? >> Yes, they were duplicates. I believe it was a husband and wife, but we do count them as two just to make sure that the public gets their uh their voice heard. >> Okay. Oh, I see. I see what you're saying. Um and then that area, could you explain just for the record how that change in um density is from the surrounding neighborhood that that is adjacent on both sides of this property, what how that contrasts from what this planned development is. >> It it will uh ironically be exactly the same. The same density of roughly nine units per acre for the adjacent neighborhood that is RS4.5 will be reflected on this subdivision as well. They have submitted their first uh preliminary plat along with a phase one which is identifying 56 single family homes as part of phase one. The biggest thing they'll have to work on is number of access points since the fire code says once you reach 100 units you have to have two roads at access. So that's why they're starting roughly about half that requirement. Two is drainage. Uh that is one of the ditches you can see on the lower right hand side of the map. To access that ditch, they have to cross through an intermediary property, which means more than likely you will have a detention pond or some means of holding water on site before it discharges. That takes up real estate, which drops the number of units, >> but the same density, >> but it should be the same density. >> It'll be exactly the same density. >> Okay. And do you foresee there being an issue with those um with the entrance exit routes addressing the concerns that we received back in opposition >> as moving to phase two? The developer will have to show how those additional points of access so long as they stay under roughly about 100 units. They're only required to have one point of access. But as they progress in size, that is where you will see development of additional roads which will alleviate the traffic concerns and allow circulation. >> Do you know if they've made contact with any of these of the um the letters in opposition? >> We do forward oppositional letters to the developers. So they have uh the ability to reach out. Uh we didn't hear confirmation if they did indeed pursue reaching out to those two opposition members. >> And so this is just the first reading. We'll come back. >> Correct. And this is primarily for their first phase of 56 units. >> Okay. If we were to pass this today, could we have them come back at the at the second rating and report that they've addressed some of those concerns with the area? >> That would be that would be ideal because I I understand that it's still only in phase one, but if the density is is equal to what's in the in the surrounding area, I think it's fair to show, you know, 100 plus homes, that is a lot in that area. And so for them to be able to communicate how they plan to handle those hurdles. >> Understood. >> Okay. Thank you, >> Councilman Roy. >> Um I'm in favor of this. I I just u on the same note though, um can you tell me at this site, did you use the I call them the yard sign version of notices? These are the new uh newly approved larger 8 square foot signs. >> You did I don't know if this is too much to ask, but when you do your PowerPoint presentation, can you do us a favor and just take a snapshot of of the sign? >> Sure. >> I've got a lot of people whether it's this project or other projects that say, "I didn't see any signs." And so I just think it would be great um and it would be just proactive on our part if you could take a snapshot of that. That >> No problem. Thank you, sir. >> Thank you, Andrew. I'm going to go ahead and open public hearing. Is there anyone in the audience that would like to make a comment on item number 22? >> Okay, there being no one, we'll close public hearing and I'll entertain a motion to approve the item. We have a motion in a second. Please submit your vote. >> Mr. Hernandez, >> are you there? >> Yes. I >> can we see him? I >> Okay. >> I >> Thank you. >> Okay. The motion carries. Item number 23 is uh zoning case number ZN8741 Creian Troy Lewis LVG Trust. >> Motion to approve. >> Okay. >> Mr. D Mr. Deus, would you like to just tell us? >> Sure. The short briefing of what >> the short version is is a planning new development. It is consistent with our area development plans, future land use map, and the comprehensive plan for 11 town houses over three phases. There will be also community amenities of uh boat slips, a deck, a dock, a pool, and I believe pickle ball courts. So, it is ideal what we see in planning developments, especially on the smaller scale. >> Okay, >> we recommend approval. >> Wonderful. We'll open public hearing now. Is there anyone in the audience that would like to make comment on item number 23? Okay, there being no one, we'll close public hearing. We have a motion in a second. Please submit your vote. >> Mayor, we didn't hear the second. Who seconded Miss Paxton's motion? >> Okay, thank you. >> Councilwoman Compos. >> Okay, Councilman Hernandez. Bye. Who was it? Oh, right. Okay. The motion carries. >> Uh, next is section L. And that is >> for the record, Mr. Mr. Roy is here. He he wants his vote to will reflect the for that his vote um he voted I. >> Yes. >> Thank you. >> Okay. Section L is recess uh to the Corpus Christie Housing Finance Corporation meeting item number 24. So at this time we will recess the council meeting to hold the CCHFC meeting and Councilman uh Roy will preside. >> Let you hit the button. Ready. >> This meeting of the Corpus Christi Housing Finance Corporation is called to order. Mrs. Warter, would you please call the role? >> President Everett Roy, >> present. >> Vice President Roland Bera, >> here. >> Council member Sylvia Compos. >> Eric Anu >> here. >> Plet Wardo. Giler Nandez. >> Mr. Hernandez >> here. >> Okay. Kaylin Paxton >> here. >> Mark Scott >> here. >> Carolyn Von >> here. >> Okay. We have a quorum present to conduct the meeting. >> Thank you. Uh would anybody like to make public comment regarding the housing finance corporation? >> Mrs. Wer, have you received any public comment? >> No written comment, sir. >> Okay. Um with that, I'd like to move on. Um are there any corrections to the minutes? Seeing that there none for >> approval have second >> I have a motion and a second. All in favor say I. >> I. >> The motion carries. Thank you >> Mr. Nandis. >> I >> thank you. >> Thank you. We have a resolution amending the Corpus Christie Housing Finance Corporation list of authorized representatives for the Texas Local Government Investment Pool Transactions and author authorizing execution of related documents by the president. >> Thank you, Mr. President. Um, Stoan, director of finance and procurement. Uh, this is a housekeeping item. The, uh, this item is for a resolution for text pool to update the authorized signers. Uh text pool does require a resolution uh approved by the housing finance corp. Text pool is a local government investment pool that the that the investors investment officers used to invest the funds of the housing finance corp. Uh the changes we're making is we are adding the assistant finance director, the city city's controller as well as updating the city treasur's uh name and thank you. >> We have a motion and a second. Uh are there any questions? Seeing that there are none, all in favor? >> Opposed? >> Mr. Nandez. >> I. >> Thank you. >> Thank you. The motion carries. >> Next, we have a resolution concerning the sale of Costa Terona and Costa Terona 2 apartments at 2020 uh 2240 and uh 3302 North Powder Island. Good afternoon. I'm Jennifer Buckston, assistant director of planning and economic development. With me today is John Bell. Um we're going to talk about the Costa Teragona 1 and two sale. This is the property that we're looking at at North P and um 37. Costa 1 is at 2240 NP. Costa Terona 2 is at 3302 and you can see the breakdown there. The first part of the property has 250 units and the second part of the unit property has 96. Costa 1 and two are both low-income housing tax credit projects 346 units. Costa 1 was placed in service in 2008. Costa 2 was placed in service in 2012. because they're low-inccome housing tax credit projects and they have reached an age, the tax credit investor is um exiting the the um is exiting the deal. This is common at the end of the tax credit benefit period. However, the extended use period continues. So, Corpus Christie Housing Finance Corporation have your light on. Corpus Christie Housing Finance Corporation also issued 10.8 8 million in multif family revenue bonds for Costa Terona 1 and the Housing Finance Corporation granted ground leases to both properties which granted property tax exemptions. In addition to that, the city of Corpus Christi um made home investment partnership loans for Costa 1. There was a total in loans of $550,000 and Costa 2 um almost $778,000. So, the sale timeline, this isn't the first time we've been talking about this. We've been working on this sale since July 2024. Again, Costa Terona 1 came online in 2008. Costa Terona 2 came online in 2012. The Special Limited Partner triggered the sale in July of 24. We came to the Housing Finance Corporation board to set some terms of future participation in January, January of this year. and then we assigned ground leases and approved the letter of intent in July of this year. We're here today to approve continued participation based on the previously set terms. Um amend the ground leases and authorize the prepayment of the bonds. And John Bell is going to talk about those options or those items. Um anticipated closing based on TDHCA approval will be December 29th with the payment of the multif family revenue bonds being January 2nd. The con affordability will continue. There's an additional 15 years extended use period for low-income housing tax credits. There are um in Costa 1 and Costa Terona 2, one, two, and three bedrooms. You can see the breakdown there. Who we're serving is persons at or below. Households at or below 60% AMI. A household of four, that's going to be $49,620 per year. Um, if they rent a three-bedroom, their rent plus tenant paid will be 1,290. You can see the breakout for the one, two, and three. All all property units are at 60% and below area median income. The fiscal impact to the Housing Finance Corporation, the sales price was 17 uh purchase price is 17.1 million. We're making $80,000 worth of credit so we can sell it asis. Um, that's less than 1% of the sales price. The buyer's Costa Terona Apartments LLC, it's HKSK Corp and related entities. Approximately $1.2 million in cash um minus closing costs should come to the Corpus Christie Housing Finance Corporations Corporation. They're still putting together um the closing statements. So, we'll see what happens there. And then as we participate in the future deal as the general partner and issue the ground lease, there'll be an annual payment to the housing finance corporation of 15% of the property tax payment increasing by 2% annually. It's estimated to be about $400,000 over the course of the 10 years. And then we'll receive 2% of future sales proceeds. Um not impacting the housing finance corporation, but in terms of a repayment to the city home loans. the city home loans. Um the loan payoffs there will be over $2 million and then John's going to cover the resolutions for consideration. >> Good. Good afternoon. John Bell uh with the Corpus Christie Housing Finance Corporation that I've had the privilege of uh working with since it was formed in 1979, which I was a very young lawyer at the city of Corpus Christie at that time, but I have a bit of a history with this project. And it's it's good that it's coming to resolution. um because of the extra 15 years of affordability at 60% AMI, it's not a marketable uh project to live on its own without some incentive. And so we're doing uh the first resolution is uh authorizing our participation with the purchaser in order to maintain the property tax exemption in the way it's been maintained in the past. But unlike some of the deals that have you know blew up the whole market a few years ago, this is 100% of the units are limited to 60% or below area median income. In contrast to other units which would have uh their affordability was limited to 110% of AMI for half of the project and the rest of the project was market rate which is not really that affordable but uh it only cash flows with some continued participation. And so the first resolution under 6A is for uh we formed a new entity similar to what was formed for one and two called the CCHFC coast to Teragona Apartments LLC which the this entity the Corpus Christie Housing Finance Corporation is a sole member and controller of that entity that insulates you from any liabilities related to the project as we've done in the past and is is done all around the country quite frankly. uh but it's our way of exercising the control required but nevertheless insulating the housing finance corporation from any liabilities associated with this uh this apartment complex and uh we outlined the terms of the participation. We will get a payment in lie of taxes to the city at a percentage that will um go go up each year and then when we terminate this deal after all the affordability covenants are gone we'll get an exit fee based on resell is a market project. We're also uh this was done as two different projects with two different ground leases. We're combining it finally into one ground lease with one project just coast to teragona. And so the second element to this resolution is approving an amended restated ground lease. The ground lease went to gosh I was uh 2095 or a long time. Lenders always want a real long ground lease uh longer than the term of the mortgage loan and everything just to make sure it's there. Is a practical matter. The this thing is going to unwind not too long after the affordability covenants all worn out. Then it'll be a market rate project. And I'm assuming those of us those of you who will be here at the time will finally launch it off into the market rate world and it'll go go its own peaceful way. But this gets us for the next 15 16 years to get through the remaining affordability covenants. U but that's the first resolution. the second resolution. Oh, well, and this is the structure of uh the the buyer entity. Uh the Costa Co Costa Apartments LLC is a new limited liability company and it it's a a family in New York and Florida that has a lot of low-inccome tax credit properties around the country. uh they were the provided the best bid when we put this on the market and came in and so they're the ones that are the real players in interest providing all the capital. The CCHFC coast of Teragona Apartments LLC is the one entity there uh on the third one from the left that will be the general partner as part of this and the HFC this body is the 100% sole member of that but they have some other investor limited partners as well. Now the second resolution 6B pertains to Costa Terona 1. In order to make that deal work initially, we also issued multif family revenue bonds that have another 10 years on them, but they're secured by a mortgage in the property. The buyer is getting commercial market financing. Um, and so there won't be any bonds or anything associated with this new transaction, but we will be uh paying the bonds off early. Since uh they're being re they're being paid in advance, we have to set up an escro agreement with the trustee where the proceeds from the sale will go uh to the trustee and used to pay off the bonds. But uh this is not a short sale in any respect. There'll be money left over coming to the HFC of a little over a million dollars at the end of the day and all the bonds will be paid off in full. And uh Mr. Clay Benford at Macall Paren Horton is the bond attorney taking care of all this and has this is his resolution by the way. Um, since he's kind of doing this because it's not a new bond issue, uh, we I told him he could stay home and we'd cover it here today since we're just paying off the bonds. But Clay's a great guy. I'm sure you all have met him before. If you have any questions though, I'd be happy to answer them. But otherwise, we'd need your approval of these two resolutions. And then I'd like to visit with Mr. Roy sometimes before we leave before the building because u I'd love your autograph. >> Thank you. Okay. Uh, seeing that there are no questions, I'd like to entertain a motion. >> So move. >> Second. >> We have a motion and a second. All in favor? >> Opposed? >> Mr. Nundis. >> Begrudgingly, I >> and that's for 6 A and B. That vote was for both. >> Yes. And uh just real quick, if we can ask Jennifer to give us the the updated list on all the projects that are similar to this, you know, the low-inccome housing projects that the c the city is involved in. >> Uh yes, sir. This is Jennifer. I have not forgotten that request. We're working through it. There turned out to be over 3,000 charitable properties on the Noises County list with exemptions. I'm through the G's. >> Okay. Thank you. All right. Thank you. We have a um motion and second. All in favor? >> I I >> opposed. Mr. Ernandis had voted I on that on 6. >> Yes, we did it. We did it. But it's all good. >> All right. Uh seeing that there's no other business, this meeting's adjourned. >> I Okay. Um, it's 133. So, the council is going to go into executive session on items 28 through 30 per Texas government code sections 551.071,551.072 and 551.087. And we will return shortly. Okay, we're going to go ahead and reconvene our meeting and we left off at section um N individual consideration items numbers 25 and 26. Item number 25 is a resolution authorizing tax agreements with the city of San Antonio, Texas via the city uh public service board for the Barney Davis and New Aces Bay Power Plant properties. Is someone presenting on this? Peter. >> Um, well, we have the legal department as a representative, but um, this one here, we worked with city I'll I'll do the talking while staff's coming in, but um, as Sergio had, this one we presented to city council recently in executive session, >> right? >> And so, as we know, CPS Energy, which is a um, which is a power company in San Antonio, uh, bought the two power plants that are in our region, the Barney Davis and the Newasis Bay power plants. CPS Energy is a is basically a non nonfor-profit entity so that they're tax exempt. Uh so upon the closing of the properties, which I think was in this tax year, they they could have paid the city zero dollars because they don't have to pay property tax. Uh Rudy Garza, the CEO from uh CPS Energy, has had numerous conversations with myself, the mayor, I'm not sure about other council members, but uh put together a three-year Councilman Hernandez put um put a three-year step down payment plan in place recognizing that the city can benefit uh from those tax revenues. And so kind of uh instead of a cold turkey zero, a step down of of 100% 75, 50, 25%. I I recommend we we accept that that deal uh from CPS, the being a good neighbor by doing that because they could just pay us zero dollars, >> right? >> So, it's on the council's agenda today for consideration because uh CPS would like to get some conclusion on it uh so they can they can respond by the end of this year. >> I make a motion to to approve. Second. >> Okay, we have a motion and a second. I'm going to um ask for public comment. Is there anyone in the audience that would like to make comment on item number 25? Okay, there being no one, we'll close public comment. Please submit your vote. [Applause] Okay, the motion carries. Item number 26 is a resolution authorizing execution of an interlocal cooperation agreement with newis county for property assessment and collection for white public improvement district number one. >> Thank you, mayor. This uh item here is a contract with the uh Noises County specifically for the uh Noises County Tax Assessor Collector Services uh for assistance with uh billing and collecting of the White Cap PID special assessment. Um the tax assessor's office does have the the resources and experience on collecting special assessments and it would be beneficial also to the white cap residents where they would receive one bill. Their uh property tax bill plus the white cap hit special assessment will be on that bill as well. Uh staff recommends approval and I'll stand by for any questions. >> Motion to approve. >> Second. >> Okay, great. We have a motion and a second. Uh would anyone in the public like to uh make a comment on item number 26? Okay, there being no one, we'll close public comment. Councilman Hernandez. >> Hey, I just want to um mention that this was part of our policy discussion and making sure that this was collected through the taxes uh as opposed to >> uh having them collected separately. I think this was uh this is in line with our own policy. So, uh totally this is this is how I envisioned it. >> Yes, sir. All >> righty. Thank you. >> Okay, we have a motion in a second. Please submit your vote. Okay, the motion carries. >> Thank you. >> Thank you. Item number 27 is a 2050 Metropolitan Transportation Plan presentation by the Corpus Christie Metropolitan Planning Organization. Be right back. So >> suddenly he's interested. >> It is. Good afternoon. Mayor stepped out. Council members, I'm Robert McDonald, the director of the Corpus Christie Metropolitan Planning Organization. I have props I'll talk about in a little bit. So, if you wanted to guess, these are million-dollar bills representing $1 billion. So, bottom line, I'll talk about a little bit later. The mayor gets one vote at the MO to allocate transportation dollars worth about a billion dollars. So, that's the headline. So, let me give you the details. So, NPOS's um if you haven't heard of NPOS, u they're a creature of the federal government. The federal government 50, 60 years ago decided they did not want to talk to every city, county, town, district in the country about what their transportation priorities are. So, they set us up to weave together all the transportation priorities. So, I'm going to ask you all eventually uh tell us what your priorities are. So, in Texas, there are 25 MPs. We cover the big cities, the small cities, and everywhere in between. And if it's not covered by an tech stock covers it in their planning. So I will get my device. So that's the MO. Again, you can see the all the logos of our partner agencies. Starting at the top are federal partners, federal highways, federal transit, tech. So these are the folks that give us eventually about a billion dollars to spend on things in this region. So you may have heard of a harbor bridge. Oh yeah. The MO decided years and years and decades ago that was a priority. So we needed to fund it. Text dot funded it. Got it done. Isn't it nice? Looks great. So the question becomes now that that's done, what's the next billion dollar project or projects we need to do? So this group on screen, these are the voters. Uh this this they represent the cities, counties, towns, and text coast of Ben Cog. they eventually get to decide how the how the money gets allocated. So, I'm not going to leave this money with you, but eventually we will decide this group. Uh, and so as the elected officials, >> here, pardon me. Um, one of the council members has a question, so you're going to have to >> Absolutely. >> Council member Paxton. >> Thank you, Mayor Portim. You're right. What's our next big project? And I have your first suggestion. It's our second causeway to the to Padre Island. That's a huge project. It's an it's emergency management. It's it's it's got a lot of support. So, that would be the top of your list. >> It's it's on the list. Text studying it as we speak. >> Fabulous. That's the best news yet. Thank you. >> Yes. >> Councilman Nandez also has a question. Okay. So, >> hi, Council Member. >> You know what I'm gonna say, right? >> Yes. >> What is it? >> You've got a new project, >> the regional parkway, right? Right. >> It's all it's all >> same same thing. Right. >> We keep changing the name of this project. People are going to not get it. But second crossing regional parkway. >> Yes. Project being studied. Text dots been added a year. They've got all our information from our forecasting models. They're going after it. >> Okay. The regional parkway also included a section that that traversed Oso Creek at Rodfield. So is that part of that that I'm assum it's part of the regional parkway. >> Yeah. So um once upon a time when we first talked about the extension of Rodfield Road across the OSO down to what was then regional parkway of vintage 2017. That segment is an option to connect because you can't just have regional parkway go from the island to 37. Doesn't connect to Southside and and some other places. In this case, it it would be connecting to 286 only sections A and B that actually get actually get done. But >> so we're going to we're going to erase A and B sections and Text's doing a whole new study. And so they will they they have the former study, but they're doing a new study. They have different alignments that they're studying. Part of it does have connections up to into the south side of the city. Okay. >> But I won't talk on behalf of text except that they're leading that effort. Uh it's been a while since they've had a public meeting, but I would expect soon they will bring it back. Uh they have a website. You can go to our website. So if I don't say 10 times, go to the no website. You can find all these projects and you have links to like text dot studying not only regional parkway but state highways 361 on the island. >> So this this stemmed from the funding that was provided that uh Todd Hunter was able to secure for us for the study on the regional parkway. And we had that meeting over at uh that um >> the event center. >> The event center. Uh I forget what it's called. >> That was about a year ago. >> Yeah. It's the u the one there on SP. >> Yes. >> The the mansion mansions or something like that. >> Mhm. >> La man or something. Uh and there was some discussions about the different types of routes that were going through there and we all submitted information via website u on the recommendations or input. Did that is that what you're referring to that's come out? Did the tech shop publish that? >> They have not published that. So all the information from that public meeting about a year ago that's on the website link should be on our no website. >> Okay. But they haven't gotten a result or >> no results. No. >> They're still doing the environmental study. >> Uh nope. They are doing the environmental clearance as part of the the current step. So they have the money to do the envirma clearance and preliminary design period. The funding for that could be from this stack and the MO and other sources I'll tell you about in a little bit. >> Okay. Thank you, >> Council Member Boy. >> Uh, sir, I I just have a some basic questions. >> Sure. >> How large is your staff here locally? And then do you have like the majority of the MO? Are they out of I mean is your headquarters or whatever you want to call it in Austin? Maybe you can just I'm just curious on how you're structured. >> It was gonna be my next slide, but Oh, uh, >> I'm sorry. I didn't mean to steal your thunder there. >> Oh, that's okay. So, the MO, we have six staff positions and we're 100% federally funded. So, we are here >> and you office in the R RA >> RTA building. Yes. >> Yeah. >> Yes, we're Yeah. third floor of the RTA building. And so, we're here. Uh, we don't have another headquarters. This is the only headquarters. So, other NPOS's Yeah. They're all over the state. big cities, small cities, other regions. Text dot has their headquarters in Austin, >> but there's not one big no that you feed all into that you feed into. >> No, there's not. There are 200 uh I'm sorry, 440 NPOS in the US, 25 in Texas. We have associations, but we are all independent. We decide how to spend our money and other folks like Dallas, they get into the multi-billions and Houston get in the multi-billions of dollars. But again, the MO there, same function here, find out the need, find out the way to fund all the needs as many as you can, and then go ask more money from federal government, state government or local. And so we are small staff, but we interact with all those agencies, uh, the acronyms and the logos that I just showed you. >> Okay. Thank you. >> Sure. >> I'll continue on. >> Okay. >> So, uh, we're not the only folks. As I said, we interact with your staff. So, we probably interact and pay attention to not only your agenda, but planning commission, park and wreck, anyone that has anything to do with transportation. We look at your agenda to try to document number one the need, but number two things that you've done to put forth some projects. And so I'll talk about one you had on your agenda today. So we use the technical staff from all those agencies as well. They're part of the three-headed decision-making. The the policy side, which is our elected officials, the technical side, which is the group you see on screen, but also the the public. We go out and do an extensive public comment discussion with any and everybody. So I've been out to all our local governments. You are the the final one of this first round. And this is to document number one, what are your needs? Come join our process. Eventually, we're going to allocate money, but please go to our website, join our process because we want to understand the needs from the city of Corpus Christi. So, uh, our planning area boundary is a little strange. It's created by US Census. They decide how to do it every 10 years. And it's a it looks like a high water line. It's a jagged line based on population densities based on the US census. I could spend an hour talking about it, but I won't. Come and talk to me offline if you want to hear about all the details. Your staff knows a little bit about it. Uh, but you can imagine a lot of the transportation data, population data comes at the county level, but we have to put our funding, our funding is determined by the the purple area, and we can spend our money into the yellow area. Again, there are strange little boundaries. It's not all of the city. It's not all of the city of Portland. It's not all of the county. Again, US Census, it's a strange line, but just know that we got it covered. We have our boundary, and we have to report and update that every couple of years. So, here's our here's our plans. We have a 25-year plan. Wow, that's hard for people to digest. You can imagine 25 years, we're all going to be retired, right? So the decisions we're making about 25 years out, we write it down, we publish it, and then we update it every two to five years. We do it all over again. And we have other byte-size plans, a 10-year plan. I'll show you some of this, but again, the 25-year plan is a thousandpage document. I'm not going to read any I'm going to show you the the overview of it, but I'm not going to tell you much more about it. So the other one we do is a something more realistic. uh transportation improvement program. Four years, four years. And I'll show you the money, but there's a local commercial that puts up four. Four four44. We have about $444 million in our four-year plan. Do you have any transportation needs that you need? Just asking. That's what we want to start in in this process. So, the four-year plan really gets serious. That's when you're going to start seeing barrels and cones and detours, right? Everyone loves those, but it's a necessary evil. But so if you're in our four-year plan, that's when the projects get real. We also have our work program. As I said, we're a creature of the federal government. Our work program is our scope of services with the federal government. It's about a million dollars a year to do all our planning. And that's separate from this billion dollars. We get to decide or our elected officials get to decide how to spend that. We have our congestion management process, ongoing process. Where's the congestion now? And more importantly, where's it going to be in the future? And finally, what are we going to do about it? There are different strategies to help reduce congestion. We have a whole methodology that we share with your staff, the public, and others. Again, go to our website. You can read that uh document. It is probably five, six00 pages. So, read it at your leisure. There's summaries. So, we have executive summaries and other things. and we're happy to come out and talk staff, any of you, the public, whenever you want to talk more details, we're happy to do it. So, this is a little bit of an eye chart. I know this was in your packet, but if you come to our website, you can zoom in. If you go to the far right, drop down to the bottom, that 444 million, that's the dollars we're talking about in four years. On the left side, the column is all those funding categories that we do an estimate with Tech DOT and the RTA and everyone else that has money. This is mostly federal state money. This is how much money we have. If you look on the far left, the text dot 10-year plan is $101 billion. We want to share that. And so there are special categories like category 12. We can compete statewide for some of that money. Some of the safety money we can compete statewide. But other categories, we the MO in this very room decide how to spend some of these categories. uh categories 2, four, 7, 9, 10CR. Categories don't mean much unless you look at the definition, but no, it's combination of federal, state money. So, this is our four-year plan. These are where the the projects are going to be done sooner than later. If you look closely on the list, you can see one of your projects. I believe you had, let me check it, one, two, fourth down from the top. It's like an eye chart. So on your agenda today, you had a little extra money going to Northwest Boulevard that we call 624. Text dots doing that project. The county provided some money. You all provided some money. Text dot says thank you. We say thank you. Make that project better. Wonderful. It's in our list. So you're adding money to a project that's about to be bid and built. So we like to we like to see that. Our goal at the MO is get the projects funded and then find out what's next. So, uh, some of the projects, uh, again, go to our website. We carry over projects. So, when people were seeing the Harbor Bridge being built, they didn't see it in any of our plans except for the what we call a rollover section. So, when people see barrels and cones out there, whether it's text or city or county, they should come to our website. We show every project whether it's funded by anybody. So, we also put in the RTA. So RTA funding on the bottom of this slide, all their funding, this is just one snippet. This is one fiscal year. So all the money they have for their buses and programs and guess what they just got? They got a $50 million maintenance facility. Congratulations. That's going to be put into our plans uh in the next couple months. So uh we talk about the 10-year plan. Techot does something called uh UTP, unified transportation program. We say what are the 10 years worth of projects on this list. you will also see 624. So it's not only on the 10-year, it's on the fouryear. So Northwest Boulevard going to get built. And so we we show all the projects Tex is leading. We try to link those projects on our website and everyone can go look at it, see the details. Again, the NO won't speak on behalf of our member governments. We will direct you to their project websites and you can get all the up-to-date information on those sites. So as I said, we look at your agendas. We look at your pro budgets. We look at your capital programs. Thank you for developing all those. We take them into our process. So things that you do, your roadway master plan, $1.5 billion over 10 years of what you all say that you need for growth and development, we say thank you. We'll put it in our list as a need. If you say it's funded, we'll say congratulations, it's funded. We don't question that. So all those projects come into our plan. If you fund it, we say it's funded. So you also have your bond program. We follow all your bond programs every year going back. So we put it on our list. So any anyone any of the residents come to our website, they can see not only what you do, but what Tex dot and the counties and RTA and even the port, what are they doing? And so we list everything. Uh interesting to note here, you you've only got small amounts of money through our process. couple of uh hike and bike trails and pedestrian crossings. That's it. So, we'll ask you and your staff, please tell us if there are other projects you want to get into our process. As I said, we also look at the port. Now, the port obviously everything they do on their port property in the channel. Again, they had a billion dollar project deepening widen the channel. Congratulations. They got federal funds for it. comes into our planning process. So the federal government can check off the box. Are you in the regional plan? Everyone said that's a priority. Great. Here comes the federal money. So not only do they need inside the port, they need to connect to the outside world. They they they have the water covered, but they also have to connect to the highways, state highway system, local roadways. They have to connect to the class one railroads. There's three class one railroads operating in this region. We talk to the railroads. talk to the port, we say, "What do you need to connect there?" So, we take what they're studying and we build it into our plans and they can apply for our money as well. So, couple of projects, this is one is affects y'all, the city because it crosses city land. So, near downtown, they're going to connect, >> you know, into the port facility and that's going to go through a neighborhood that where the harbor bridge is and where you're all building some parks and trails. So that that's a project also came through part of that through the no. This one from the port is a big one. Uh a rail facility inland port uh how's 2,000 rail cars grab you as a impact to this part of the city and region. So we track it. This the port does all the analysis. We say thank you if you get it funded. It comes into the funded side of our plan. Everyone knows what's going on. But then we say how do we connect up all this railroad to all the commodities to be shipped out of it. So as I said we update this uh often no later than 5 years. So we're asking everyone to come into our process tell us what you're thinking what is the need and it's anything from transit. We we've had people talk about the airport so you know they want more air service and so anything transportation we welcome that discussion. we'll bring it into our discussion and eventually prioritize all those needs in in one in one place. Uh I told you about the thousand pages. This is just a snippet on our website. You can go click on all these chapters, all these different appendices, and you can read all about our safety plan, which I'm going to talk about in just a minute. We also have an active transportation plan, which is where all the bike facilities need to be. How about pedestrian crossings? You have any needs? Of course, we we hear from your staff, there are needs. So, we want to get all that need into our plan and then eventually try to get it all funded, but we don't start from zero. So, if you look at what we've done just a couple years ago, we're going to build off of this and move forward to the next five years out. So, one of the more curious things that we do as NPOS's, we do a forecast of population and employment. This comes from the state demographer and they do every MO cities, counties, they inform the water development board of what is the population of your region going to be and they do it by county. So we take their number, we bring it into our process and then we suballocate the population employment because you can imagine where people work and where they live connecting them and the businesses that's a transportation need. That's what we want to try to quantify. So we look at this growth and we don't challenge it. But the state demographer, they presented twice to our MO board to say, "Here's our process. We update it. If you have any information, please tell us." And we're happy to incorporate that into their projections. More than just the numbers, we map out. And so for the public and for our partner agencies, we show where the growth is going. So this one is from the census 2020. We literally located every house and every business that was built in a four-year time period. Probably not surprising to y'all, we're growing out. And so we're going to the southside, London. We're doing the west side, but also growing up in Portland. We're growing in San Patricio County. So we are going to allocate where we think that population growth out to 2050, they're going to live and work. So that takes a long process. We have a task force that includes EDC, chambers of commerce, local governments, any school districts. So, anyone that has an idea of how they're planning for growth, whether they're building schools or they're building roads or development, we also have all your development plans. So, if you've approved a development plan at any time, we've brought that into our process. So, you've got you've got more development plans than we've got people. And so as people fill those development plans, there's going to be a transportation demand. So we talk to our RTA partners, please think about providing service to those areas. Do we need anything else? Do we need roadways there? Do we need uh safety projects there? So any and all of that comes from this development. So let me shift gears on you. One of the big things that we have and you all have is safety. Safety is number one for text for most of our cities, counties, and towns. You all approved resolution talking about vision zero. So vision zero is to get to zero fatalities by 2050. Texttock calls it the road to zero. Same same concept. Uh the county also supports vision zero. So the MO what do we do about it? We created a safety task force. We developed this thousandpage document. This is our safety action plan. Number one, we analyze the five years worth of data on our website. You can go to this uh dashboard right now. It covers five years 17 to 21. We're about to launch in the next couple weeks the updated version of this. This comes from the state Chris database. So, we had an engineering consultant analyze the 75,000 crashes, fatality, serious injury, and came up with the trends. It's a it's it's a horrible number to report, but for the city in the five years, 322 people died on roadways in our region in the city. So that's a huge number. We're on pace to do 40 45 fatalities a year. As I said, to get to vision zero, we need to get rid of those 40 to 45 over a 25-y year period. If you implement projects, which this plan talks about and I'll show you, if we save two lives a year over 25 years, we'll get to zero. Can I guarantee that? Heck no. We're talking about human behavior. But the goal is to try to reduce where we can. Of those locations, we know their issues. So, in our plan, we we documented the top 32 locations that can be improved by putting some design features in. I'll leave it at that. They're called proven countermeasures, but how about just design features? So, we have a list on our website for this document, all 32 locations. Uh, some of which you are really small change the signal timing. Again, we've given this document and your city staff was part of the development of this safety action plan. So, they have a few projects that are being implemented. Tex has a few uh one of the ones that you have is at Mardell and Staples, $400,000 project. That's number 21 on the list. That's being done by the city. So, thank you. You're we've got that project covered. Check. We get that. We want to do another project. Uh some of the other projects that Texot's doing, Rodfield Road from SBI down to Saratoga, there's a $20 million project Tex's studying right now to implement safety improvements, lighting, medians, whatever is going to be the final solution. That's on our list, too. That's about a 20 to $25 million project. We want to implement all these projects, and we think once implemented, it will save lives. and not just a list. We have $40 million at the MO to implement these projects. So, as city staff and text are looking to implement these, they're looking at the consultant report, the engineering analysis. The city staff will decide on their own if these projects are worth moving forward. If you do, please come ask for funding because we have literally $40 million set aside for safety improvements. I'm not going to go through all the list. Uh you can go to our website. We are about to update this plan by doing something called a safe system plan. It's taken this to the next level. The next 5 years of data analyze all the crashes. Why are they crashes? Are they signal timing? Are they design? Are they human behavior? So you can you can imagine we have a whole uh slate of intersections that are coming forward. Um I leave my contact information. As I said, happy to talk to you today, answer questions, meet with you offline, send me an email, call me. We want to gauge first what are your need and we're going to do that over the next six, eight months. Then we're going to develop the plan and eventually we're going to fund as many projects as we can. I'll leave it there. >> Great. Thank you, Rob. Uh Kieran Vaughn. >> Well, clearly they have some money and we should clearly start trying to get some projects to them, especially our districts. Ever. There's lots of parks out in district one. Goth just saying lots of parks they do amenities. >> Yeah. >> But my other question was this. The main question the county um FM 624 to county road center that has been they told us that back in 2014 it's been 11 years. So when are they really going to do it? >> I think they're getting ready to bid it. They they just asked for and got your money and I know they got Nois County money. >> Yeah. About four years ago they did the same thing. We had a big opening out there and we went and they said they were getting ready to bid it. Nothing non and now we were just backed up with traffic. It's terrible. It just makes more sense that they do it when it wasn't busy. They just let it gradually get bigger and bigger. So you have any idea though? Is it this year, next year, 10 years down the road? Nothing >> within less than four years because that's when they have their money. So uh yeah, I can't answer for textile, but I know they're looking to move it as fast as they can. Money's there. They just need to finish design and get it done. >> Boy, that's got to be a really good design because they didn't sign it for a lot of years. I'm just saying it's not your fault, but it's really frustrating >> for the people out there. Thank you, >> Councilman Scott. >> Thank you, Mayor. So, um, somebody needs to distract them and let's make a run for the money. Um, it's hard to talk to you. Just you got the eye candy. Definitely. I have a couple of questions. Number one, I'm looking at your website. Um I didn't realize that uh you have this huge not you that there's this huge interchange being designed and developed or built in Gregory. >> Yeah. The Gregory interchange. >> Oh my word. >> Help industry. >> Wow. You guys should go on the website. I mean it's it's impressive. All right. So um when you so when you say you and I should know all this by the way it's been a while. Apologize. Sam Rankin. Y >> somebody's going to improve that. I didn't realize that that's going to be an 18-wheeler road down to the port, right? Is that what I heard you say, which I should have already heard. And and I've been told, I just didn't hear. Um, so if there's improvement on a a street and we're building parks on the street, which I I knew about the parks, but I didn't know about the is is there are we working with somebody on the street improvement? Is that a port project? >> Sam Ranken. Yeah, we're not we're also co-unding it. the same rank and improvement. >> Yes, sir. Oh, >> yeah. So, I I I forget if it was uh I think it's a little under five million, but in our 2024 B four bond program, uh we um we co-unded it so they would be eligible for the award for the text money. >> Got it. And so they're I mean we're we're doing this all just thinking that somebody's going to approve a big road street in front of our park. We want to make sure it you know it's all done together. So, >> right. That's why we're part we're partners with them. Yeah. Um Kent Britain approached us a couple of years ago and said, "Hey, we the we're eligible to get money, but we need some matching money and can participate with us." And we said, "Absolutely." Because it's a leverage match where we bring multi-millions for our, you know, lesser investment >> and that's a great way to leverage the federal money. Usually the federal money is 20% match. And so, but when we when we talk about we we kind of troll your website looking for projects. We pull down your park master plan and we say where are all the new parks going and we look for school districts. Where are all the schools going? So, one of our programs is safe routes to schools or connect parks with sidewalks. We look at the RTA bus stops and say where don't you have sidewalks connecting some of your bus stops? So we pull all that information and we synthesize blend it together and say here's the state of transportation and again we ask what's missing are we have critical missing links or do we really want to connect this neighborhood to this park as a priority do we want to go along drainage channels we already have an active transportation plan that did all this so again I invite you to and your staff already has been to our website to see that plan of where the future bike pedestrian facilities ought to be Well, I was laughing because I'm I'm at your website and you got amazing plans, but they have a lot of words in them. You know, they're they're a lot of there's a lot of paperwork involved. I mean, they're god dog at 60 80 pages, 100 pages. >> We That's why we come out and talk to you. >> So, what I'm looking for is a map because I'm a you know, I'm a third grader. I need you to uh to send me an interactive map I can look at. In all sincerity, if if you can steer me to to locations to look at maps and areas I'm mentioning. Yeah, we have a link on our website to our our GIS section that shows all the projects. >> All right, I'll do that. And then um so the last I heard the southside like the Parkway Yeah. >> project we we had somebody studying three different >> uh locations generally speaking, right? >> Yeah. Three or more even. Yeah. One >> can can somebody tell me the timeline on on that? I mean, not today if you don't know it and I'm being lazy. I steer you in the right direction. >> It's a long long lead project. There's no there's a lot of funding has to be identified. >> Sure. >> A lot of permits have to be acquired. >> It is. But the first step is funded to do the environmental clearance to look at the alignments. >> That's the word alignment. And so at some point four alignments and text studying every one of them. uh you know and I I'll I'll reach out to them, see if they have an update that we can they can share. Sometimes at our no board meeting, they like to share projects that they're working on. So, sounds like time to bring that forward. >> I think it's I would tell you it's great time to bring bring that project back. Um and the 361 passing lanes, the passing lane, additional passing lanes on the way to Portoanis, right? Isn't that part of that's a one of the projects? >> Uh that's not a funded project. It was on our unfunded list. It's been on there for a number of years, but currently Texot is studying 361 from Park Road 22 on the island up to Port A. And so they had a again about a year ago, they had a public meeting looking at the preliminary ideas. >> So what do they do about safety? Is it more lighting? Is it right turn lanes, left turn lanes, a center barrier, widening the road? So all those options they're looking at. Somebody said that there might even be a stoplight or two put in on that. >> Those are some of the ideas that were suggested. >> Okay. And so if I wanted to go learn more about that, what would I where would I go? >> Well, uh, we'll send you the link. Text dot's got a project page on their website. >> I'd appreciate that. >> But we try to link it on our NO so you can come to our website and jump over to theirs, but I can send it back through city staff and get it to y'all. >> Thank you for being here. Merry Christmas to you. >> My pleasure. Merry Christmas. >> Thank you, Mayor. Uh, >> Councilman Hernandez. You know, last time I seen you, I'd hooked you up with uh Robert Dodd of our parks department so we can look at at getting grants for some trails. Did that ever come to fruition? >> Uh we had the meeting, great meeting. And so again, we we borrowed the adopted park and recck plan. So we bring all we brought all that into our active transportation plan. And so if they have I haven't met with them in a while, but >> if we see anything new on their website, happy to talk to them about maybe they've articulated projects that they want to move forward. >> Okay. So uh the whole point was to facilitate some text grants, right? >> Yeah. >> For parks ha have those been applied for by the city? >> I do not know. the the only ones that came through our process. We have a process that you all won $5 million back in 2022. Uh council action a month or two ago. You approved the advanced funding agreement with text dot to do those projects, but there's no additional projects that have been for forth. We will later next year uh probably about midsummer do a call for projects for that kind of projects for hike and bike trails and pedestrian projects. and we have a couple million dollars that is up for grabs. >> Okay. Uh Peter, this is this is uh something that we really need to be proactive on in terms of trying to get funding for these hike and bike trails or for any of these park improvements that we can have that is available through text or uh whatever state agency there that's available. I just don't think we've uh done a good job of of uh maximizing those efforts. you know, we've we've got limited dollars, so we need to try and maximize that if there's, you know, that was a whole reason of putting him together with with uh Robert, our parks director, >> uh to try and get that done if he >> Right. I was unaware of that that setup, but yeah, I'll follow up with you. I'll follow up with him with Robert. >> Okay. >> Okay. I guess Dan again has an update. I was unaware, Councilman. I didn't know that they had met. We we're aware of the the the cycle the next kind of submitt for projects. So I have been working with Sergio and Sergio has a really good list going of some candidate projects and when we also have candidate projects from our area development plans from across the city that we'll kind of work through and see what are good scoring categor. Uh we'll kind of work through that and pick which ones we think will score well with the um you know the staff and the categories that they wait you know how they score the project. So, >> do we even know when these these grants are available? What the the the application dates are? I mean, >> the the category 9. So, yeah. Whenever when whenever that >> next summer for the >> we know the we know the timeline. >> Yeah. So, yeah, we haven't put out the timeline, but around next summer for what we call category 9 hike and bike trail type money. And we have a few million dollars at the MO, but separately text has a separate process. Once we get that call for projects, we send it to all our local governments. And the result of that city was very successful with the trestle project, right? Crossing over a $13 million project. You won in that statewide process. It wasn't our no process, but text does a statewide process. Soon as that call projects come, >> that that was what planning did, right? You guys did that, right? The trestle that not parks didn't do that. >> So what what I want to get across here is >> they worked together, Councilman. Yeah, >> I I got you. >> Engineering. Yeah. >> All right. But I mean, we the last time we did not apply for a grant because apparently we weren't ready. But now we we've done all this this work because we put a bond package together for some hike and bike trails, >> right? >> We're going to have some, you know, planning. We we're going to have the engineering done. We're going to have all that stuff done. We just got to apply for these grants. And I want to make sure that, you know, if we have the resources, let's go ahead and apply for them. I don't want to hear excuses later on. Okay. Thank you, >> Councilman Bonetta. >> Um, thank you, Mayor. Hey, Robert. You know, first off, I you know, I think um I I think we don't capitalize on you enough. I know, you know, the relationship that you have with a cog and and and and Dan is on your technical committee right now. How long have you been on it long? >> Five years. >> Since five years. Yeah. And I think sometimes we don't give a lot of prioritization that I'm going to give you a little bit of history lesson and bore everybody so they can take a nap right now or go to the restroom. Um, so so in 2006 I I chaired the RTA and I actually served on the board with uh Port Chairman Ruben Bonia, a trailblazer. Uh uh um what is it? Um uh Judge Lloyd Neil. I consider a trailblazer. Uh what is it? um um Henry Garrett, Mayor Henry Garrett, you know, at the time. And I was just I think I might have been Eric's age, you know, so it was a long time ago. Um and you know, I think that was a thing that I think at the time the RTA was using a lot of that, but that's because of their CEO, Ricardo do Sanchez, was very conscientious about that. And and I think, you know, Peter, I think that's just some things. And I know we're if it doesn't have if it doesn't have anything to do with water, chances are, you know, it's just it's it's it's not necessarily back burner, but it's just our resources are limited. And and I think that's a thing that we need to capitalize. And I I want to say not like I'm trying to take any credit of it, but it was those trailblazers that at that time they were talking about the Harbor Bridge, you know, and they worked with Senator No's office. And by the way, 624 was also an item that uh Betty Gene Longoria was back then. That was a big deal back then. And so and and at that time, of course, and it seems like unfortunately we're going back to where it was. It was this uh there was sometimes this turf war amongst a lot of the the the the groups with regard to the smaller projects and uh I I don't think we necessarily have that here but um I think that's the thing we we've we've got a big challenge of being really big minded like the Harbor Bridge or like you know the the the the parkway or what whatever it is the other the other that you know all those well all those other big projects And I think there's a lot of times that we're just leaving stuff on the table. >> We uh well, Councilman, we just so you know, we Dan Mcan and and um and myself attend every MO meeting. >> Yeah. >> And as a city manager, I don't have to, but I make sure I'm involved with the MO. So, we actually do I go to the meetings, not just show up and wonder what's going on. So, Dan and I pre-brief for an hour, two hours before the meeting. >> Uh so, we're we're aware of what's on the docket. uh we meet with Robert uh independently of you know board meetings so we're engaged in the MBO and we'll take small or big projects >> and I appreciate that and I think the challenge that we face is that our turnover is so we turn over so quickly >> yeah at the council >> and then a lot of times you know when you put this into the capital improvement plan that's 8 10 years away >> sometimes you know our priorities change and I I just I just I don't know if there's a way to figure that out so I wasn't trying to >> okay >> I wasn't trying to come off on that I think the challenge is that I think it's more of a political problem than it is an administrative problem. >> Okay, good. >> You know, >> misreading it. Sorry about that. >> Yeah. Yeah, no worries. No worries. And I think that's what it is is that what happens and like I said, what happens is that you prioritize what we prioritize sometimes. And I maybe that's it. So I I hope it didn't come off that way. >> Thank you. >> Yeah. All right. But uh yeah, and and I don't know what that is. I know we had those challenges back then and and uh what is it? Uh I just I just think uh uh because who's the chair right now? crabs. Just crabs. Just crabs. Yeah. So, you know, and I'm sure, you know, they're looking as to all the development that they have over there in SE County. Anyway, thank you. Appreciate the work all you guys do. It's it's not appreciated enough. >> Thank you, >> Councilwoman Compass. Thank you, Mayor. Um, talk about trails, pathways, and bike trails and such. Uh we have a uh advocate, you know, an advocator that uh was here earlier, Shireen Delus, who I believe um you know, kept asking and and kept sending information to Dan McN's office about you know upcoming trails. I I just want to make sure that at least, you know, District 2, I know one of I think it was already on a 10-year plan, I hope, uh which is the Bronner Parkway. Um, do can you answer that, Dan? Is that still project that we were going to put like cuz we we already started we started with the sidewalk plan in a section of Broner Parkway from Castor I think to Carol Lane and you know it it just lends to itself that it should continue that development. Do you know if that's part of the no or >> it it's in our area development plan for the for the Bayside and so I believe it was captured as part of the active mobility plan that they recently adopted as well. >> Okay. I just don't want to miss out on you know on the upcoming dates that are coming up because we don't get that chance very often and so I just want to make sure because I didn't see it on here. I I'll verify, but I'm I'm pretty sure we went we went through in most of the those parkways, those kind of drainage systems, >> we included trail systems within those. >> Okay. Well, and again, I think we we are missing a lot of uh funding through the no and I'm, you know, I just started attending um the COG meetings and you know, it's totally different than what I mean, I guess, uh our needs are compared to what all these other counties need. So I know it the message gets lost for us. So I just wanted to make sure that at least the Broner Parkway gets included. >> Thank you. >> Yeah. Just one other quick point. We we do scour your area development plans. >> Anytime you update a plan like the island mobility plan. Yeah. >> One of the more recent ones. So you have elements within that we bring into our revised draft active transportation plan to show what you're thinking, what your preference is. So we're trying to capture your need. >> We'll then get to prioritizing it for funding. >> Okay? >> But we we share far and wide when we do a call for projects. >> Okay? And and you know, again, I don't know if it's part of your expertise or part of your plan, but you know, I brought this up before about having some kind of alternative way to get from I, you know, some railway or something. Does it from San Antonio to Corpus Christie? I brought this up before. Is that anywhere in the horizon at all? At all? >> It is in the horizon. Uh so uh I sit on a statewide freight committee representing all the NPOS's. Yeah. Yeah. >> So part of that freight advisory committee, we look at any and all the studies like Amtrak was until recently studying highspeed rail from Fort Worth to Houston. >> I remember >> and so all those quarters text has and they have they have a a rail element. So they they've got it captured. Uh it's probably on their website somewhere. I can try to locate it, send a link back through city manager and share it with y'all. Um, but we locally don't have passenger rail in our horizon. >> I know. I mean, >> Texas does. >> I I just don't get it. I mean, I just traveled from New Orleans, you know, to Corpus and the traffic is so bad, you know, and if we had rail, you know, that would offset some of the automobile traffic. So, again, we really do need rail. So, thank you. >> Okay, I think that's all the comments, questions. Rob, thank you so much for being here. >> Sorry. Yes, >> I did just to Councilwoman Bon's question on Northwest Boulevard 624. So, I I asked Ernie just recently about it as well and I texted him so I have the answer. So, the project's 100% design. Uh Texot is putting it out or MP Text is putting it out to bid in January. this January. It'll be out for bid and then they expect to award the construction contract by March. Yes. So, it's coming up finally. Yeah. And I went to those open houses they had as well. It's been a long time, but it's it's going up to bid January. Award construction in March and construction should start soon thereafter. >> Yes. Okay. >> Okay. Thank you, Peter. >> Thank you, Rob. >> Sure. >> We appreciate it, >> council. See you soon. >> Okay. All right. Thank you. Okay. Okay. Well, there being no further business, this meeting Oh, it's recess. >> We're going to recess. This meeting is in recess um until 5:30. Okay, we're going to come back from our recess and start our public comment period. First person up is Susie Salana. >> Mayor Miss Salana um asked to be removed from the list. Yeah, >> be removed. Yes, she won't. Isabella Risa. Is Isabella Risa with us? Okay, Adam Rios. Adam Rios, take out your earbuds. You're up. >> You are up. >> Play the Price is Right. Music. >> Be really excited. >> Before I get before I begin, I just want to let everybody know if you sign up the day before, you get up here quicker. Okay, give me one second because I was literally scribbling all this down before I got up here. Okie dokie. Three minutes. Here we go. I just want to talk about Corpus Christi and uh just some things I wrote down about recent trip I had to Florida and how your name and city, please. >> Oh, yes. Adam Rios Corpus Christi. Uh want to talk about Corpus. Uh I love that we're a city that moves in color. A city where culture is uh isn't just an accessory. It's a pulse. Uh you can feel it in the murals that bloom on downtown walls, in the hands of our sculptors and painters, in the hum of live music drifting off the bayfront. You can feel it in the way our community shows up, not just to watch art happen, but to make art happen. I'm speaking specifically to ArtWalk uh that just happened uh this past Friday. Uh while we were in Florida, we were in a beautiful little coastal town and everywhere I went, you know, when I introduced my wife and I would introduce, oh, we're from Corpus Christie, they would they would actually genuinely smile and they would talk about our beaches and the food and the surf and I guess sharing that kind of coastal community. Of course, we talked about the skate scene because I got to go to every skate park in every city that I visit. And uh but we did talk about our arts community and how it's really gaining momentum. And it reminds me that sometimes you have to step away from home to kind of see how brightly that the light can shine on it from other people's perspective. Um, I got a real big uh truth bomb when I went to the Visit Corpus Christi Gallery recently. Uh, and you could really see how this girl the cultural spirit was was on display. Uh, I wanted to thank them, take a moment to thank them and anybody involved for acknowledging my wife and her dedication to the arts. uh not just the art that you hang on the wall, but uh specifically the art that you place uh into the hands of children and the next generation. Uh the kind of art that lifts communities, that reaches neighborhoods that are sometimes too often overlooked. Uh her work with the Texas Women for the Arts especially, has always been rooted in the belief that culture shouldn't be reserved for just a few. And I love that she made that point when she was giving her her speech that uh it should be accessible to every corner of Corpus Christi. Uh no matter what your socioeconomic level is, everybody deserves the same chance to create and imagine and express and that's the spirit that's going to shape the next generation of this city. Uh I also wanted to take a moment uh to say with the season coming up with the Christmas season uh to please anybody listening support local uh support the small businesses the makers the chefs the musicians the crafters the creators who carry the identity of Corpus into every product every stage and every storefront if we're lucky to get our uh stuff into that storefront. And please also this Christmas season support local nonprofits. They are the quiet engines of compassion in this city. They do so much work that goes unseen, but it certainly never goes unfelt. I was going to talk about XG games, but I bore y'all to death with that. I just wanted to say that our our our city might not be growing at a pace uh that suits everyone. uh but our culture is rising and I think that together we can make a place where all these different things uh can really come together in a community and move everybody in the right direction. Thank you all very much. >> Thank you Mr. Ras. Charles Gifin. >> Good evening. I'm Chuck Gifin uh with Texas State Roofing. I live down the street at 901 South Staples. Uh I'm not prepared to talk and it's the exact opposite of what Adam had to say. I'm sure uh the situation's just not not getting fixed. I had a lot of help from the city manager, but I don't think y'all know what's going on down the street. Uh the other morning there was a a new lady that had moved to Corpus with her kids and she's been going to the bus station at the bus stop which is at my office at my request. Um and there's a guy out there with a knife and on the children out there in the schools and we have to call 911. That's not untypical. I don't think you would have your child dropped off on the 900 block of Staples at 8:00 in the morning and have kids people out there, homeless people. They're always out there. It's horrible. and and I don't know what to do about it. They vandalize my building. They take shits on my front sidewalk. They do horrible things. They they run around like it's just it's insane. The station church needs to be relocated somewhere else. I don't know if y'all have anything to say, but Ed Rashelle's property across the street from me is in violation of the code ordinances right now. The grass is over 12 in and it's over the sidewalks. It's horrible. The house across the next door to that is a problem. Code enforcement is not doing their job. I don't know how to deal with the homeless people. And y'all obviously don't know what to do with the homeless people. But something's got to be done. Send them to Palm Beach or somewhere. I don't care. But this cannot continue to go on. There are children's lives at stake. My property is at stake. I've asked y'all to come out to meet with me before and you just stood me up. I need people to know what's going on in the neighborhood and I need someone to address it and try to fix it. Code enforcement is a major part of it and code enforcement doesn't exist in this town. They came to my office and fined me $7,000 and I had to spend $1,000 attorney's fees so they only have to pay $500 and it was someone that was playing a joke on me. It was not fun. It's stupid. It's insane. But if you care about this city, they care about it. We're not going to need any water if we don't have any decent people to live here. Let's get this code enforcement. It's been ignored for years and years and years and years and years. Someone actually walked into my office after I found I found this out when Chuck Anastos was the architect there. Sat in the conference room while he was there with Mr. Gates. I took a in the chair. >> Sir, we >> So, we've got to do something about this problem. I'm not using >> We can't use objection. >> I know, but we can't use that, Mr. Can't use that language. >> Well, I understand that, but maybe we use a different word. >> Probably be better. Yes. >> I think I probably said enough. I don't know what y'all are going to do about it. Probably nothing. But, um I wish you would. I spent the entire weekend down at the marina trying to do something for the community and then I come back to that on Monday morning where there's kids out there whose lives are states and I don't know that you care but thanks. >> Thank you Mr. Gin. Okay but can you Peter make a list of we need to get somebody. Thank you Nicole Ciss. >> Hello my name is Nicole Cis. I'm originally from Houston, Texas, and I live here in Corpus Christie. I've lived here most of my life. My father's family is from here. I work also for Texas State Roofing Company. And um I help run the office like I communication. Uh I go to local church. I have my whole life. So I'm very involved in ministry locally. I agree with local supports local for all occasions. And I love Corpus Christi. I've had lots of friends leave. And I agree with going to school and helping thrive, but I agree with also coming back to where, you know, you were born and helping here and helping Corpus and building it up and thriving, especially with education. But like I said, I've been part of a lot of different ministries and going to work to help support my family. I work uptown on Staples and I work downtown in the marina as well. It's just not safe. And um Mr. Gifin has a big heart and he's my boss and I love the fact that he did he moved those kids and he moved that bus stop in front of our location. He built flower boxes so they can have a safe place to sit. And when the weather's bad or it's cold or there's someone out there harassing, which is usually every week, I let them know that they're allowed to come in our forier and they're allowed to sit because I want them to have a safe place to wait for the bus cuz I don't want them to quit school cuz that's kind of where a lot of kids drop off is middle school and the beginning of high school and it's just a lot of circumstances, but I don't want them not having a safe place just to sit. And Mr. Gin and I usually there by ourselves and we have project managers, etc. in and out going to job sites, but we're there. I make sure the door is locked, but every morning when I go outside and I clean up the area, I find things that I'm not going to mention, but also weapons. And it's just things that are not sanitary and I hose down even though I might not be allowed real quick because there is different things there that I don't want the kids to be around because it's probably not safe health-wise. And I just wanted to say um I really hope that y'all, you know, put this at the top of the agenda to do something about maybe we can get something going over the Christmas break to make sure that we maybe we just have more police presents, less weapons, and just to let people know that, you know, we're not going to take that in Corpus. And I hate people that um have that circumstance in their life to where maybe they don't think they have a choice. But maybe we can offer more choices, maybe more jobs or even just community service for them to have somewhere safe to hang out that's a designated area because, you know, everybody's a human being. But we just want to make sure that our kids are safe so they don't want to leave and go to bigger cities where they have more opportunity. We want them to stay here and thrive and go to our universities. My son graduated from Kingsville&M. He got a bachelor in social work. I'm really proud of him and the fact that he's using that here to help in this community. Thank y'all. Thank you, Miss Elise. Jennifer Nunes. Hi, my name is uh Jennifer Nius and I'm from Corpus Christi, but most I'm a case manager at Dismiss Charities Recovery Center. We're at 121 Agnes. We're in the hub there. Um, we are requesting your support available under the HHSP general set aside fund. This funding will allow us to convert temporary interventions into permanent solutions. So, I hope we're looking for solutions today. In just the past few months since starting this position, the urgency and impact of our model are already clear. I have personally housed 15 individuals who are literally homeless, who were literally homeless, moving them directly into their own apartments, whether it be public housing or private market rentals. Three of these um clients of mine were veterans, and are now in um a stable apartment. Housing retention starts with sobriety. To achieve this, I have moved over 50 individuals out of the drop-in center, the dismiss drop-in center into essential treatment programs and supportive sober living communities. Coordinating this complex linkage is one is a part of the HHSP eligible case management function that we are already doing every single day there at Dismas. Our case management doesn't end when the lease is signed. I currently visit my housed clients to conduct wellness checks, ensuring they are maintaining their medications, managing their utility bills, and staying connected with their work. Furthermore, I'm already beginning the process of assisting clients with their reertification process through the public um housing authority, locking in their long-term housing stability. Council members, I am successful because I have been willing to fill in the gaps. Often relying on so on local resources, I have reached out to local churches to ask for deposits for rent and light connections. This system of relying on local charity is unsustainable for the scale of the crisis that we're in here locally at Corpus. The HHSP grant is our opportunity to formalize, stabilize, and maximize that impact. We have optimized a budget to dedicate directly to homeless assistant deposits. This allows us to triple the capacity funding deposits for 50 literally homeless clients, hopefully 30 into public housing, and 20 into stable market rate housing. This removes a financial barrier that blocks clients from moving out of temporary shelters and sleeping in the streets into their own home. We will we will commit a portion of this grant to essential client support including IDs, birth certificates that clients need for any application, jobs or housing applications. Essential services also covers vehicle maintenance and local transportation assistance to get them to work and to appointments like the social security office appointments, DPS appointments. Um, we sent in a letter from EB Foundation, um, that we provide, you know, slow showers and laundry um, which give them dignity. I'm already done. Um, but thank you for hearing me out. >> Thank you. I'm sorry, sir. There's there's no clapping. I know it's passion. It is, but we've got to keep to quum. If you will, please. Thank you, Miss Nunes. Claudia Delphin. >> My name is Claude Delpine and I am a resident here at Corpus Christie. Good evening, mayor, members of the city council and city staff. My name is Claudia Elpin and I serve as the director of uh the dismiss recovery resource center at 121 Agnes. I'm here today to make the case that the RSC is not a strong candidate that is a very strong candidate for the homeless housing and services program of the HHSP. For the past two years since I uh helped open the dismiss recovery resource center, we serve people lowbear and non-judgmental sanctuary for people who are in house along with co-occurring disorders of mental health and substance use. We restore dignity. We break stigma. We provide showers and laundry access every day and also giving the unhouse the digness to pursue work and housing. We are peerdriven. Everybody from director all the way to all the peer coaches and case managers are living experience. We help uh people possess you know uh provide continuous drug and alcohol rehabilitation support that transitions a client from crisis to commitment. We also have a public diversion program. We operate with the u cor we partner with the corpus Christie police department and the crisis intervention response team. So in other words in that diversion program officers are safely to bring clients and divert individ individuals experiences crisis such as public intoxication away from drunk tanks or incarcerations and directly into our case management services. We in the past year we've served 200 clients on on the public diversion program. We also uh encourage our clients to get employment and empowerment. Uh we partner with EB foundations to place these clients into jobs and commit um basically and even uh transport them or give them bus cards and build that self-efficacy and more self-efficacy for individuals from dependency and or tax paying status. Also, we have housing stability assurance. Our case managers maintain close communication with partners like Navaro apartments and the housing authority. The Navaro the Navaro management verifies that our case managers go above and beyond to intervene on the behalf of our clients and current residents when they face evictions due to mental illness or learning disabilities, guaranteeing the long-term success of the city housing placement investment. Dismiss recovery resource means investing in a proven model that integrates recovery, reduces crime, guarantees compliance, and delivers uh delivers an audible outcome. moving the literally homeless from the streets of Corpus Corpus Christie into permanent housing. We've served over 400 unduplicated clients. They come in from Austin, Houston. What drives them is the beach. Uh I've been doing this work for the past 17 years in El Paso. I worked in Recovery Alliance. I've worked in San Antonio, Open Kasone Ministries, and I moved here as Dismas employ me to open this recovery resource center. It is a drop-in center. We are open from 7:30 a.m. to midnight. We used to be 24 hours, but now due to fun funding cuts, we uh kind of diminished hours, but not employees. So, thank you so much. >> Thank you, Miss Deline. Jesse Lewis. Hello, my name is Jesse Lewis. I'm a client over at Dismiss Charities. I'm writing to ask you to fund Dismiss Charities. They're the reason that I have a home today. They've helped get me off the streets. They've they've helped me a whole whole bunch. I was on the streets for about three and a half years. I've been going over there to Dismiss Charities since November of 2023 because I needed the help. I started working closely with my case manager in March of 2024. I was struggling with my addiction and my mental health issues. And slowly, my case manager helped me believe I could have a real life again, especially so I could get a place off the streets, permanent place. My case manager connected me to a recovery coach while I was going there and got me into treatment in February 2025. Taking care of my addiction and my mental health was the most important thing going on that I needed to get taken care of. In 2024, my case manager started the hardest part. Getting my papers, getting all my credentials, everything that I needed to get my housing. Without those documents, I couldn't apply for anything. Of course, we applied for housing back in May of 2024, and because of my recovery work, I was selected in April 2025 for housing. Dismiss assisted me with all the footwork for the application fees and the security deposit that I needed to afford to move in. I moved into my apartment in Navaro Apartments in May of 2025, and it's a huge relief to finally have a safe place off the streets. Dismissance doesn't stop when you get the key. They still do house checks and wellness checks to make sure that I'm up to date with everything that I need. I am I am currently working part-time because of DISM. They help me get me a job over at the EB Foundation and I know that I'll be able to keep my home because support uh DISM continues to support me. All in all, this center gives hope to people who have nothing left. And all I can really do is ask that y'all award dismiss charities with this grant so more clients like me and others like me can get into homes and stay st uh stay stable. And that's all. >> Thank you, Mr. Lewis. Shireen delus Shireen uh Fatima Geta Rashidi Miriam Geta Rashidi Alio Varela. Hello everybody. Uh, first of everything I want to say. I came here to Corpus. >> Can you state your name and city, please? I'm sorry. >> My name is Ailio Varela. I'm from Laredo, Texas. I The reason I came to Corpus uh is to change my life and find some resources. to find some resources and uh dismiss charities open since they open the doors to me. They make me feel confidence on me because uh they help me not only with counseling uh they help me I have a problem with dyslexia. So for me it's hard for me to get like my GED. So they helped me get my my diploma. Uh I'm trying to get my diploma so I can So for me to for me to wanting to stop doing all the things that I used to do is believe in myself and my hometown. It's there's no I feel there's no more like resources. When I came to Tisma Charities, they opened uh the doors to me and thanks to my case manager, Miss Jennifer Nanas um she means a lot to me because uh she makes me feel like I don't Oh, whenever I uh I need somebody, they're like my emergency number or everything. And every day I have to work for for to maintain myself, clean and sober. I from being on the streets and wanting to change my life to them making me feel that I'm someone and I can be someone later on in life. I want to have like uh they made me feel so confident there. They give me showers. They uh but now I have my own uh I have worked my own way up with my low self-esteem and now I work uh EB foundations and I try to keep uh Corpus Christie beautiful like by cleaning the beaches and picking up trash. Every day it's a it's a it's it's a a battle every day. Um, they have helped me a lot and they help me out with my medications. Uh, that's all I have to say. Thank you very much. And I love Corpus Christi, Texas. They have a lot of resources and yes, they can go out and help a lot of people out there because man, it's just wanting to want the help because it's awesome. There's a lot of resources out here and I love Corpus Christi. >> Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Varela. >> Eli Mccay. Well, it's certainly hard to come next after hearing such moving stories. I hope that all of your hearts were touched by the work that Dismiss is doing. My name is Eli McKay and I live in beautiful Uptown Corpus Christi in District 1. Uh I came today to remind you all of the importance of the decisions of the decisions that you make every day and how they have a ripple effect on the entire city. Some decisions might seem insignificant. Yet when you look deeper, all of the things have significance and impact the quality of life here in our city. The majority of our city is working class and we have a poverty rate of 17% which is 5% higher than the state averages. The general public doesn't have the capacity to worry about who you as a body decide to appoint to all of the many city boards and committees that there are. The hope would be that you as elected officials would think about the bigger picture and put people on boards and committees who are invested in progress for all or impacted by historic neglect. We've seen you do that recently on the library board. Thank you. However, instead, and all too often, the reality of who we see appointed tends to be friends of y'all's, local nepo babies, or even an enemy that you don't want to face in an upcoming election. Having the wrong people serve on boards and committees stifles pro the process and it causes unneeded headaches for city staff who I believe want to see progress before they retire. Sometimes, and I've seen this happen, we even lose great staff when a board of selfserving individuals brings important projects to a screeching halt. So, that's really all I have, but I hope that you take this comment to heart, and I hope that it sticks in your mind for the next week. I hope that it haunts your dreams for the next week actually because y'all have a very important decision to make next week. Nomas Nepo babies. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Thank you. Mayor Prom Christina English, District 1. Last week, nearly the entire council defended a church's buffer zone against a bar requesting a variance. To that, the mayor said, "We're essentially going against our own ordinance." I feel like Hillrest also was supposed to have a buffer zone. Their concerns were great because they'd not spoken to the city, the mayor said about this church. Hillrest also has great concerns and complaints about the city's communication. The mayor discussed the character of the neighborhood and said, "We want to build neighborhoods." Uh that that corridor is in desperate need of revitalization. And goes on to explain that the church was bought during a time where there were already several bars in that area. Well, there were zero de cell plants in Hillrest when my neighbors bought their homes. But this mayor is still hellbent on pleasing Daddy Abbott for forcing this project into the worst possible location, even the worst possible location for its own success. Back when we redlined, we forced our black neighbors into segregated communities. Shamefully, having seen the success of some of these communities, we now do everything in our power to break them down. In Greenwood, we used fire. In Hillrest, we use industry. But it's all the same. I applaud this one little church and its congregation being front of mind when making decisions about its neighborhood. And I appreciate representatives of that church being heard and respected. I point out that Pastor Henry Williams is here all the time advocating for his community. So is Mona Lidle. So is Tina Butler. So are many, many others. And they're here every week. Council person Carolyn Vaughn said that she just knew the churches had been praying these bars away. Well, I know that Brooks AM has also been praying because I've sat in those pews. I've prayed with them. I wonder, the mayor mentioned, having visited the other church, I wonder how much time she spent at Brooks. Sadly, we don't have to wonder what the difference is between those two churches. We know that the majority of this council just doesn't care about black people. I'm not a Christian, but I am a huge fan of canon Jesus. And I think that he would think that you suck. I think that he would flip tables in these chambers. And I think that some of you know deep down that when given a choice between your own religious principles and money, you've chosen money. I can't help but wonder what destroying a vulnerable neighborhood and killing a congregation, both literally and figuratively, would do to a person's place in heaven. Also, I think it's wild to sit up here and thank Denise Via Lobos for bringing money to this district. Uh Denise Vilobos who championed school vouchers at a time when Corpus Christi is on the brink of closing se seven public schools. Get wrecked Denise. Thank you Christina Marilena Garca. Marina Garza, District 1. I'm here to talk about the cold weather, homelessness, and what it really means for human lives in our city. We often talk in numbers, but I want to begin with a person that I met recently named Jennifer. She's new to Corpus and currently houseless. I saw her walking along the seaw wall recently, carrying everything she owned, just like so many others. I pulled over and used American Sign Language to ask if she was hungry. She nodded yes. When she came over to my car, she told me she had been so hungry she was praying for food. And then I showed up. That moment reminded me what is at stake. We're talking about real people. People that just came up and spoke to you guys. People who are cold, hungry, and trying desperately to survive nights outdoors and weather that many of us only experience between warm homes and heated cars. On the night of the 2024 point in time count, our coastal bin reported 491 people experiencing homelessness in Oasis County. Nearly half were newly homeless. These are people who will face dangerous, even fatal cold temperatures. Nationally, cold exposure killed 1,024 people in 2023. Many of those deaths happen in situations just what we see here, people sleeping outside because they have nowhere else to go. Last winter when the city activated emergency shelters, it cost roughly $25,000 a day. It also showed that we that when we choose to respond, we can save lives. However, it also showed how expensive last minute responses really are. Investing in yearround low barrier shelters is not just more humane, it's more cost-effective and predictable. For comparison, incarcerating a person in Texas costs around $75 to $90 per day. I hear it's on the higher end here. And that doesn't count hospital cost or emergency calls that often happen when people are left outside. Preventing even one cold related emergency, can pay back a shelter bed many times over. We know what works. Low barrier shelters, ones that don't require sobriety, identification, or complicated intake, similar to dismiss. Get people inside quickly, reduce harm, and help people stabilize. Cities that invest in housing and accessible shelter see reductions in violent crime and improvements in community safety. This is evident-based, not theoretical. I'm asking you to prioritize year round low barrier shelter capacity so people like Jennifer never have to wonder if they're going to freeze outside. Winter weather readiness that activates before the crisis, not during it. Rapid rehousing and outreach because stability is cheaper and safer than emergency response. When Jennifer told me she's she had been praying for food, I realized something. People experiencing homelessness are often praying for us. Praying that we will see them, value them, and fight for their survival. We have the opportunity to answer those prayers. Answer them. >> Thank you, Mr. GarcA. Uh, Robin Cox. Hi, I'm Robin Cox, District Three. And I first I want to say I heard all these people talk about need for homelessness and money. Um maybe the $2 million you spend on giving to TUR's money for people who already have money, lots of money, could help some of these people. And um maybe if you could get your people to donate to some of their campaigns, they'd listen to you because I saw some of your heads down. Which leads me to what I'm about to talk about, our tax money and where it's gone to and a home word sweet that's going on. Many of my friends have called me because they don't understand it. And I'm by no means an investigator. Um don't have a law degree, but it just takes a little bit of looking at the city website to figure it out. It's actually quite entertaining. If all of you would go to the city website and look at February 20th and you can see who gave for the home word suits, it's all tied to FEMA. It's saying that um refers to $2 million received for the cost associated with the FEMA flood zone. Goes on and on about this. Fast forward two months later. Nope. The website refers to 2 million for the cost associated with street leveling, retail, public space. If you look at the deposition, certain people on the council say, "This hotel is going to be fabulous. People are going to come from miles just to see this hotel." Each of the depositions are actually quite entertaining. When you go to the second reading, though, they forget to take out the video attached to it, which clearly states it's for FEMA. You can sit there on the video and watch as secret squirrel Mike Puzzley is trying to argue with Sylvia Compost to distract why a certain mayor on there is whispering in another council member's ear. It's actually embarrassing to see what's going on. And I feel glad for the ones of you who weren't on council at that time because it's an embarrassment when you go to this. You wonder why all of this money for Homer Sweets. Well, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure it. You go to the owner of Homeward Suite, one of the Q LLC, and you look at who the donors are, and it you never want to give more than a certain amount of money because it's suspicious. So, it's better to take that $10,000 and go, "Baka, Baka, more Bakta, another Bakta." Even Gonzalez, who's the Baka secretary, gave some money. It went on and on with Baka Baka money. I started to wonder if phto the bakta's dog was going to give some money. Then you go to Roland Betta Bakta Bakta and if you look at some of the depositions for have to go to someone's home to be their friends. I have a lot of friends that I've never been to their home. I consider some of you my friends but I haven't been to your home. So I think when we look at this we need to look at each and every one of what role they played and why they wanted so desperately for homeward suits to get this money. Thank you so much. >> Thank you, Robin Cox. Melanie Sanchez, Melanie Sanchez, a lifelong resident of Corpus Christi. I don't really have anything prepared today cuz what I'm speaking about uh makes me very emotional. It makes me um feel a lot of things. So, uh, what I want to touch on today is just making sure that we have some kind of plan ready to go for when the emergency for when the weather drops, for when the temperatures start to get cold or for when there are other extreme weather things occurring because um, a few weeks ago I participated in an event where you sleep outside for a night and uh, it was very uncomfortable to say the least. Uh, the coldest it got that night was about 68° and I was shivering. That is not considered emergency weather and yet I was shivering. Currently we are looking at 50°. Last few nights have been 40°. It is going to to get colder than that. And it doesn't sit right with me that um I can't tell you as a resident of Corpus Christi what the emergency protocol is. And it bothers me even further because I have had the honor of being an educator for going on six years now. I have had the honor of working with children who are couch surfing, who are sleeping in cars, who do not know where they're going to be the next night. And how do you h how how are you able to go about your day and go to sleep at night in your own bed knowing that your students are not so fortunate? So like I said, I I couldn't really prepare this because it's too emotional for me to prepare, but just have that on your radar, guys. you know, have something in writing so that when it does come up, we're not scrambling after the fact to get people safe. That's all I really have. Thank you. >> Thank you, Melanie. Uh Jerry Sinclair. >> Okay. He's not online, sir. >> He's not online. And I don't see Chris Quay here. And >> Jason Hail's not on the list. >> No, >> not okay. I just wanted to confirm. So all right then the meeting's adjourned. Thank you very much.