Recording and progress. I now declare the Plano City Council is convened in open session that all members are present. Our first item this evening is canvasing the election results. Item one. Item one. Good evening, Mayor and Council. Before we begin the canvass, let me let me review some information from the May 3rd general and special elections. The city council city secretary's office maintains full reports of the canvass. And you should have a little packet at each of your seats. Due to the special election, the Collin County Elections Office conducted the election for both Collin and Denton County. So it's all combined into one. Included in the canvasing documents are the summary reports and the resolutions. So just a few quick notes about the canvass report. 179,588 registered voters were eligible to vote. If you see the term contest totals, that indicates the number of voters that cast ballots for this election. There were. 20,593 or 11.46% of the voters cast ballots. Where it says votes cast, it indicates the number of votes actually cast in each race. And it is possible that some individuals only voted in one of the races and did not vote for others. These cast ballots are indicated by undervotes times over voted indicated if a voter selected more than one choice in a race. If this occurs, the ballot board reviews all overvotes to determine if they can prove voter intent, and there were no overvotes in this election. 277 individuals voted by mail or absentee ballots, and provisional ballots were cast, and 16 provisional ballots were cast, and only one of those were counted. So we will start with the resolution, canvasing the returns and declaring the results of a bond election held May 3rd, 2025, in the city of Plano, Texas. The total number of votes cast for each proposition are as follows. Proposition A the issuance of 316,470,000. In general, obligation bonds for street improvements for 14,003 or 352 against 5583. Proposition B the issuance of 1,000,055 155,155,000in general obligation bonds for the police headquarters for 11,894 against 8002. Proposition C, the issuance of 51 million in general obligation bonds for the Police Training Center for 12,134, against 7005 58. Proposition D, the issuance of 37,485,000. In general obligation bonds for public safety facilities. For 12,761 against 6777. Proposition E, the issuance of 45,135,000. In general obligation bonds for fleet services. Operations center for 10,720 against 8005 21. Proposition F 1,870,000. General obligation bonds for improvements to Schimmelpfennig library for 13,068 against 6005 37. Proposition G issuance of 40,795,000. In general, obligation bonds for park and recreational facilities for 14,060, against 505,554. And this concludes the canvas report for the bond election. Thank you. Do I have a motion to accept the bond election results? Okay, Mr. Mayor, I make a motion. We approve the canvasing and the bond election results as presented. Second. Thank you. I have a motion, a second, to approve the bond. Election results. Canvasing. Please vote. Vocals on. Oh. Are we? We're already out. They've already kicked you out. Let's do a hand vote. I was late. Okay. Was there some I thought. Andy. Anthony, you don't have to talk about this vote, but. But we. Yeah, but I, I, I didn't realize you guys have been booted out already. So let me so I have a motion a second to approve the bond election results. All in favor, raise your hand. Looks like all in favor is eight zero. Thank you. Next item. Is this new system. I'm sorry. Okay. Second item. Resolution of the city of Plano, Texas, canvasing the election returns of the special election of May 3rd, 2025. For the election of a member of Council, place number five for an unexpired term until the May 2027 general election. Declaring the results and resolving other matters on the subject. The total number of votes cast for each candidate are as follows Gary Kerry received 8015 votes. Steve Levine received 10,925. This concludes the canvass report for the special election. Okay. You don't have to do that individually. Oh! Oh, the special election. Oh, okay. Hold on. Let me get you. Go ahead. Maria. Motion to approve. I would second that motion. Thank you. I have a motion and a second to approve the canvasing of the special election. All in favor, raise your hand. Motion passes 8 to 0. Thank you. Next item. A resolution of the City of Plano canvasing the election returns for the general election of May 3rd, 2025. For the election of four members of Council places. Two. Place for place six mayor and place eight for a term of four years. Declaring the results and resolving other matters on the subject. The total number of votes cast for each candidate is as follows. Place number two. Ford Car care. Excuse me. Received 10,755 votes. Carson Kay Underwood received 4045 votes and Douglas Reeves received 4514 votes. Place number four Cody Weaver received 8651 votes. Christine Chris Krupa Downs received 10,553 votes. Place number six Mayor John Muns was unopposed and received 14,611 votes. Place number eight Vidal Quintanilla received 10,183 votes, and Haden Padgett received 8711 votes, and this concludes the Council report. Thank you. Mr. Mayor. I make a motion. We approve the resolution on the canvasing of the member Council. Place two, four, six and eight I second. Thank you. Have a motion and second to approve the canvasing of the resolution. All in favor, raise your hand. Motion passes 8 to 0. So now. Congratulations. So now we will take the oath of office for incoming council members. And I will start this thing off. Okay. Oh, yeah. That's true. Thank you so much. I'll turn it on. Lisa's going to do him first. There you go. Do you solemnly swear or affirm that you will faithfully execute the duties of the office of Plano City Council? Member, place six, mayor of the City of Plano, state of Texas. And will to the best of your ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution and laws of the United States and of this state, and the charter and the ordinances of the city. And you further solemnly swear or affirm that you have not directly or indirectly paid, offered, or promised to pay, contributed, nor promised to contribute any money or valuable thing, or promised any public office or employment as a reward for the giving or withholding of a vote at the election at which you were elected. So help you God. I do. Yay! Congratulations. I will get you to sign here. Thank you. All right. I will get you copies in here. Bob. Care. Is here. Are you ready? Ready for years. Here we go. Do you solemnly swear or affirm that you will faithfully execute the duties of Plano City Council? Member, place two of the City of Plano, state of Texas. And will to the best of your ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution and laws of the United States and of this state, and the charter and the ordinances of the city. And furthermore, solemnly swear or affirm that you have not directly or indirectly paid, offered, promised to pay, contributed, nor promised to contribute any money or valuable thing, or promised any public office or employment as a reward for the giving or withholding of a vote at the election for which you were elected. So help you God. I do. All right. Congratulations. Did you decide to? All right. Thank you. Congratulations. Chris. Are you ready? Do you solemnly swear or affirm that you will faithfully execute the duties of the office of Plano City Council member, place four of the city of Plano, state of Texas. And will to the best of your ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution and laws of the United States and of the state, and the charter and the ordinances of the city. And you further solemnly swear or affirm that you have not, directly or indirectly paid, offered, promised to pay, contributed, nor promised to contribute any money or valuable thing, or promised any public office or employment as a reward for the giving or withholding of a vote at the election for which you were elected. So help you God. I do. Congratulations. All right. That, Chris, actually, we're going to do the government. Your back and clean up. I'm ready. Are you ready? Okay. Do you solemnly swear or affirm that you will faithfully execute the duties of the office of Plano City Council member, place eight of the City of Plano, State of Texas. And will to the best of your ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution and laws of the United States and of this state and the charter and ordinances of this city. And you furthermore solemnly swear or affirm that you have not directly or indirectly paid, offered, promised to pay, contributed, nor promised to contribute any money or valuable thing, nor promised any public office or employment as a reward for the giving or withholding of a vote at the election for which you were elected, so help you God. I do. Congratulations. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. Okay. And then if you sign my name. Yeah. Thank you. Thank you. Congratulations. All right. Oh, yeah. Thank you. Thank you. All right. Steve. Are you ready? Do you solemnly swear or affirm that you will faithfully execute the duties of the office of Plano City Council? Member, place five of the city of Plano, state of Texas, and will to the best of your ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution and laws of the United States and of the state, and the charter and the ordinances of the city. And you further solemnly swear or affirm that you have not directly or indirectly paid, offered to, offered or promised to pay, contributed, nor promised to contribute any money or valuable thing, or promised any public office or employment as a reward for the giving or withholding of a vote at the election for which you were elected, so help you God? I do. All right. Congratulations. Thank you. All right. I just need you to sign. Thank you. And right here. Thank you. Sir. And your certificate. Thank you so much. So, before we seat the new council members, it's my honor to hear from our outgoing council members. And just thank them all for all they've done for the city of Plano and become truly good friends to all of us. Especially me. And it's my honor to give you an opportunity to speak and to hear from you. On your way out. So I will start with probably the shortest speech. Anthony Ricciardelli. I'm sorry. There you go. Oh, thank you, mayor. Thank you. So I have a lot of people to thank, but I will keep this brief as brief as I can. I just want to start by thanking the citizens of Plano for entrusting me with this position for eight years. I cannot tell you how much this means to me. Having grown up in Plano like several of you did. I love my hometown and the ability to make an impact and the feeling of the trust of the 290,000 residents of this city has meant the world to me. So thank you for giving me this opportunity, and thank you for making this the City of Excellence, because it's all of us that make this the City of excellence. Secondly, I want to thank this excellent staff. When I came on board the council in 2017, I expected great things from our city staff. But you all have been so far above my expectations, high as they were, that it's just astonishing. I wish that everyone in the city could have the experience that I've had, and gain the tremendous appreciation of this staff that I've had. I want to tell all of the incoming council members. I know you already think highly of City Manager Israelsson and his excellent staff, but no matter how highly you think of them, no matter how high that bar is, I promise you they are going to exceed the high bar of your high expectations for them, this staff is second to none. You will be blown away by their professionalism expertise wisdom, work ethic and integrity. And so to City Manager Israelsson and the whole staff, I just want to say thank you. You know, it's almost a Deion Sanders kind of thing to put a slogan like the City of Excellence up there behind the dais and make it our city motto. If you're going to write a check like that, you had better cash it. And let me tell you, this staff cashes that check every day. I mean, we have a staff that is second to none, top to bottom, to try to keep this somewhat brief. I'm only going to thank our direct reports and our executive assistant extraordinaire. Yeah, we. And let me tell you, most of y'all probably don't know Deedee. Y'all incoming council members will soon if you don't already. She is the best of the best. I mean, I just can't say enough good things about Deedee. Mark, I just want to tell you, you are amazing. I think the best thing that we've done in my eight years on the City council is making you the city manager, after Bruce served us so well before that. So I just want to say thank you, Mark. I could go on and on about you, I really could, y'all know that. But I'm going to take the smart brevity approach. Yeah, I mean, I've proven it right, but no, I'm going to take the smart brevity approach. Mark, you are the goat, the greatest of all time. And if the Icma maintains a City Manager Hall of Fame, you have got to be a first ballot inductee. Yeah. I mean, if you know, you know, if y'all know Mark, he's the best of the best. And I also want to thank Paige, who unfortunately had to step out. But she is such a fantastic city attorney. It's been fun to bond with her over all things legal, both being lawyers over the past eight years and Chief Judge McNulty, who runs the municipal court. He is doing a fantastic job there. So thank you, Chief Judge McNulty, and thank you again for being such an amazing executive assistant extraordinaire. Could not ask for better. I want to thank you all on the council. Like the mayor said, we're all friends. You all mean so much to me. The excellence that you bring to this role, the tone that you set for this organization through the way that we operate as a council, just like the tone mark that you set for this organization as city manager and the excellence you bring to your role is second to none. And, you know, each of you has done an amazing job. Each of you has become a friend to me. You know, I think that this council asks good questions, listens and accepts input from residents in the staff, and then everyone expresses their own viewpoint and makes the best decision they can make for the city of Plano. And that is such a great thing. I think we have shown this city how to disagree without being disagreeable. I mean, I didn't mean to point at you there, Maria. I mean, I know we've I don't know that we voted differently any more than anyone else has, but, you know, I love you, by the way. You are a great friend. Great friend. But no, in all seriousness, we as a council, all eight of us have shown this city how to disagree without being disagreeable, to have the freedom to express views, to be the one in a 7 to 1 vote and still be friends with everyone afterwards because it's not personal and everyone wants what's best for Plano. And I'm just proud of everyone on this council for having the guts to always do what you think is best. And I would encourage the incoming council members to do that as well. It would be unhealthy and impossible in a diverse city of 290,000 people. For everyone to think the same way about everything. So disagreement is to be expected. Disagreement on important issues is a feature of this system and not a bug. So I would encourage everyone to continue to speak your viewpoints on issues of importance and appreciate that this forum and these council chambers, in which competing views can be expressed and decisions can be made, makes our community stronger. And we always do that with civility. We've invested in relationships, and I'm very blessed to consider each and every one of you a friend. And to the incoming City Council members, I would encourage you to continue what we've been doing, be respectful and listen to everyone. Ultimately make the decision that you believe is in the best interest of the city of Plano. But as Proverbs 15 one says, a gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger. I'm proud that we, as a council, have built consensus in this city instead of stirring up anger. So I'd encourage all of us to continue that. Well, I agree you all deserve a round of applause for that. So. I want to thank my family, my mom and dad. Tom and Laurel are here. They raised me here in Plano, equipping me to serve the way I have for the past eight years. I still hear from people whose doors you knocked on eight years ago during my first campaign. From the time I was small until now, you've supported me and you've been the best parents anyone could ask for. I love you, thank you, thank you, Mom and dad to my wonderful wife, Liesel. She's actually out of town on business. But let me tell you, you guys sitting around this dais all know this. This job takes you away from your family a lot. And she has sacrificed tremendously, like all of our families have with her own busy career, as evidenced by being out of town for work tonight. She has always made time to support me in serving, often being at home without me after a long day at work so that I could be here, or at an event serving our community. And she has made so many amazing contributions in her own right and frankly, could probably do this job better, better than I can. But I just want to thank you all for being my partner through all of this. I love you. And to my kids Ethan, Benjamin, and Catherine who are sitting right there. Catherine's waving. Hey there. Catherine. Hey, Benjamin. Hey, Ethan. You all have spent nights at home without me for those same meetings and events. I know you're excited to get more of me back, and I'm so excited to spend even more time with you, I love you finally, I want to thank God for sustaining me. This this role can be very stressful, as each of you know, especially with the pressure that we sometimes put on ourselves because we want so badly to get this right for the city of Plano that we all love in the challenging times, I've drawn tremendous strength from the Lord. I think of Lamentations chapter three, verses 22 through 23. Because of the Lord's great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. They are new every morning. Great is your faithfulness. Now over the past eight years, I have probably broken the record for words spoken from this dais. I think that's a safe bet, so I thought I would try to make up for it by closing with a haiku, a form known for its brevity. Excellent city. Honored to serve with you all. Don't be a stranger. Thank you, thank you. And there did you decide. Are we going one by one or all together? At the end, we'll go all together. Keep your seat. All right. Council member Casey Prince. Sorry. Dropping the ball. That's. That's all right. Thank you. Well, when I ran for council, I did it because I strongly believed that Plano's best days could be ahead of them, not behind them. And I knew it would take strong and passionate leaders who were willing to make tough decisions, to make sure that that happened. And I just feel really honored to get to play a strong role in that. And I feel like this council has worked together to make some of those difficult decisions that are putting us on that path, to make sure we are going to have a vibrant future. And I'm excited that this next council is going to do the same thing. I just want to thank the citizens for letting me have this opportunity. It's been a great privilege to serve, and I don't take that lightly that you gave me this honor and that you trusted me with this. So thank you. I'd also like to thank our staff. Didi, Lisa, Mark page and everyone else out there that I've had the privilege to work with. Y'all are quick to respond no matter the time of day. And I know y'all all have families and you don't want to hear from us constantly, but you're always quick to respond. You give 110% and Mark especially, I appreciate that you you have a very difficult job working with eight very different personalities and styles, and you've done a fantastic job of making sure everybody's voice was heard and ensuring that everybody felt like they had a seat at the table. And I also want to thank our mayor. Mayor, you do a fantastic job of leading with grace, integrity. You're a fantastic ambassador for our city and community, and you do a great job of making sure everybody, every citizen that comes before us feels like they have a voice. And everybody at this dais feels like you're approachable and that they feel like their voice is heard. So thank you. It's been a privilege to serve with you and to the rest of my colleagues on council. We've had a lot of fun together. I thank you everybody here who has a sense of humor, because sometimes when you're here late at night, you just got to have a sense of humor, right? We've we've had some very difficult things that we've gone through, but we've also had a lot of fun, I think, you know, doing that. So thank you for being open to each other. Thank you for bringing your best, bringing your expertise. I've learned something from every single one of you. And there's I can think of a time where every one of you might have influenced my decision because of a thoughtful insight that you brought. So thank you for that. Then I would like to thank my incredible family. You know, people always ask me, how do you do everything you do? How do you have a job? How are you on council? How do you do have raise kids and do all of this? And there's two ways I do it. First is, is God, I'm a strong person of faith and I couldn't do anything I do without him helping me and giving me the strength I do. I think some of y'all know this, but many of y'all might not know this. That I was born with a congenital heart defect, and my parents were told I wasn't going to live past the age of one. And it's a miracle that I lived past the age of one. And then they were told I would probably not live past the age of 30. So the fact that I'm sitting here today, living out this dream to serve our city to me, is a testament to God and the work that he's done in my life and the strength that he gives me every day. But second to that is my incredible husband, Jesse. I could not be here every day living my dream if he wasn't willing to support that. And so, Jesse, I thank you. You're my biggest cheerleader. You're my biggest defender. On those days when people say unkind things to you, on those days when people are mad the way you vote, you are right there. Every time I came home and I appreciate that, I always knew you would be there supporting me. So I love you and I'm grateful for you. And to my two wonderful boys, Zeke and Josiah, I'm grateful for you. And I love you more than you'll ever know. And I'm grateful that you embrace this journey with us. You came to more events than you probably wanted to. You shook hands with more people than you probably desired to. You always had a smile on your face, and I appreciate you not just showing up, but actually embracing this journey with me. I couldn't be more proud of you, and I hope that something that you take away from this is that you took on the love that I have for serving our community, and that you also embrace the fact that it's important to give back to people around you. And then finally, I just want to say, Chris, I'm so excited for you to take on this role. I know you'll do a fantastic job, and I hope that you'll love serving as much as I've loved it. And I'll just close by saying I believe the best is yet to come for Plano. I'm excited for the future, and I'm looking forward to continuing to serve our city and giving back in new and different ways. And I'm really excited to spend more time with my family, and I hope they're excited to see me more. So thank you very much. Okay, Rick Smith, that's supposed to be last. You want to be last? I'd love to be last. Okay. Shelby, are you okay with that? I'm fine with that. Okay. Well, then. Where did you then? I'm just. I'm just going off the script here. No sweat. Shelby. Go ahead. It has absolutely been my life's honor to serve on this council. And I'm grateful for the Lord for putting me in this position. I'm grateful to the people of Plano for allowing me to serve. And I'm grateful for having been able to serve for the past several years with each of you, including those who are no longer on the dais. I see Councilman Rick Grady there. It has truly been a privilege to serve with all of you. And I think Anthony said it very well where we have exemplified how to disagree agreeably without being disagreeable. And I think, mayor, you've been a large part of that, and you have my gratitude for that. And I think, as we have shown for many years, and as I have felt for many years, unanimity for the sake of unanimity is a disservice to our community. But where we can have robust discussions, dialog, listen to the community, listen to one another, and as a Casey mentioned, influence one another's decisions with our insights and willingness to listen. That's where we bring out our best for the community. And that's that's what's made this so engaging and so fulfilling. I I'm grateful to all of you for that. I'm grateful to our staff, who has fielded hundreds of questions from me over the years easily, and poured tons of time into answering and with excellence every single time. Mark, you and I came into this role, our respective roles, pretty much the same time, and I appreciate the relationship that we've developed. I appreciate all we've been able to do together. I appreciate you. Where'd you go? Thank you. I appreciate you so much. Not only as our much harried admin, but as my fashion consultant, when I don't know what the dress code is for a given function. It's been most valuable. I'm grateful to all the citizens who, for the past many years have. Poured out their hearts, their grievances, sometimes their praise. That's a lot less positive. Reviews are always far less than negative reviews. And for engaging in this city. Most of all, I am grateful for my family who have borne every single hour of this journey as much as I have my wife Maria, my daughters Valerie, Olivia and Kate. Hi little Kate and my in-laws who are able to join us here this evening. Leanna and Lucia. Thank you. My family has sacrificed so much every bit as much as I have in service to this community, and you have my gratitude and my love. Thank you to our incoming council members. Half of the council is turning over. That's a lot. I don't remember the last time that's happened. I know you all care deeply about this city, else you wouldn't have run. And I have tremendous respect for that. Know that the challenges that we're going to face as a city are very different than the than the challenges we faced before. There's a book about business calling what called what got You here won't get you there. And what we're facing is very different, and that's worth figuring out. It's worth having tough discussions with one another here on the dais to figure out. It's worth having tough discussions with the community. It's worth asking tough questions of staff, and it's worth making mistakes and picking yourself up. Dust yourself off and moving forward. And I know that each of you will do that because you care so very deeply about Plano and what we're going to look like in the future, and the Plano that my kids are going to inherit in the future. So please take good care of it for them. And I'm proud to have begun a couple of traditions on Plano City Council. I hope that the council will continue that one is ringing the bell for the Salvation Army every Christmas time. And another. And Maria, I'm counting on you to hold them to this. Wearing Santa hats on the dais at the last meeting of every year. So I got. I got your number, Maria. I'm counting on you with that. I thank you all so very much for this honor, and I wish the very best for you in this city. Thank you. And finally, Rick Smith. Thank you. Mayor. The best part about being last is you can indeed be brief, because pretty much everything has been said. And I just I have to say, I never write. For those of, you know me, I never write anything down. I always speak from the heart. I wrote things down so I wouldn't forget some important things. Unfortunately, it's everything's pretty much been said. Everybody's been thanked, especially Mark. Again, you took one of my things. I say that the easiest decision we all made when Bruce retired was hiring Mark. And this man has not let this city or us down. So he made our life much easier here. So Mark, thank you very much. And John. Yeah. Didn't know you very well when you first came. You know, came on board PNC and you're all out here. But I want to say you've really filled these shoes. Excellent. You care about this city. I mean, you're everywhere. If there's a checkers tournament, you're going. You're showing up there. You love this city like nobody else. And it's apparent. I think everybody in this city knows it. Probably one of the reasons you had no challengers. I mean, that's that's pretty amazing. On behalf of those of us who had to run for election twice, I really am jealous of that. But I am grateful for the staff, as Anthony said. I mean, it's amazing. Anthony. I ran and got elected together and it's really spooky because we think alike a lot of times. You know, I hopefully tonight won't be an exception. I usually will say a little bit briefer, but you hit on all the main topics that that I wanted to talk about. I mean, we came on board. We were we were like racehorses waiting to get out of the gate. That's the best way to say it. We came out of the gate really fast and then we realized, you know what? We need some more oats. We got to get a little more fuel in us before we can really get up to stride. And we stuck into it. And I'd say, you know, just for those of you who are new, don't feel nervous about this. But it probably took a good year and a half to two years to really get up to speed with everything that we needed to know and how things work, and that made our life a lot easier once we figured that out. So we still had six years left to go and one election to go, and we managed to get through that. But I just want to say, as Anthony did, you know, although my wife and Janet and I haven't lived here our entire life, we have been here almost four decades. So we're originally from Louisiana, but we still Texas is really Texas is our home. Plano is our home. We've been in Plano for, like I say, almost, almost four decades now. And I just I can't express the gratitude that I have for the people of Plano who were kind enough, thoughtful enough, and smart enough to elect us for, you know, for two, two terms. And I will say, though, as much as I have enjoyed serving, and I think we've done some great things, we have the finest public safety of anywhere, anywhere, I think probably anywhere in the country. We have public safety, both fire and police that are that are the envy of everyone. And we've we've worked hard to accomplish that again with our city manager and staff support. We've tried to do this in a cost efficient manner. We managed to have the I think we had the first effective tax rate, if anybody can remember, that is in in the city history that I remember and working with staff, Mark was able to keep us at the new revenue, new revenue rate for years after that. And everything that we do is designed to keep Plano the city of excellent, but at the same time do it in a cost efficient manner. I mean, if you got unlimited pile of money, it's easy to do everything. But when you really you have to balance your budget. Unlike our well, we won't talk about the federal government anyway, unlike the federal government when you have to balance your budget, sometimes that makes it difficult to do the things that you want to do. But Mark's managed to make that happen. We supported him on that, and everyone that lives in this city has benefited from that, in my opinion. So I'm going to miss this very much. But I think hopefully as new council comes in, you'll you'll obviously a lot of you watch how things go on here and the art of really good governance. I think Anthony and Shelby and Casey had mentioned that is you don't always have to agree on everything you take. Our job is to take in all the information, weigh the information, discuss things vigorously at council, and then then we make a decision and we vote. And we don't always vote the same way. We haven't always voted the same way. Miraculously, we have voted a lot of times the same way. But if it doesn't go our way, those of us, we we're a council. We made a decision. We live with it, we move on. That's what you do. That's that's the mark of good governance that we don't fight. We make our decisions and we move on. And so again, we've got 50% new people coming in. I hope that you all will keep that in mind and debate vigorously, but get things done, because the city is depending on you to make that happen. So I want to just say I will miss this. Where's Rick Grady? There's Rick Grady. I told you I was going to steal your line. I will miss this very much. I will miss the family that City council, you know, has has become. My wife won't miss it quite so much because she's been a little bit, as you know, she she really encouraged me to run eight years ago. And over the last year and a half or so, it's gotten a little bit more difficult for her. And so she got where she was always asking me, so how much longer do you have? And I look at I go, you know, it's not that much longer. I say, you know, but, you know, you got to remember, a very smart person really put me up to this. And she goes, who is that? I go, Janet, it was you. And unfortunately, that doesn't end the argument very well. But I still try that anyway. But she's extremely happy that I was able to serve. I'm very grateful for her love and devotion and support for me. Good. Couldn't have done it without her. So anyway, thank you. I'll ask staff to change the nameplates. Council member, stay right there. Anthony, come on up here. Now, this isn't the last opportunity to hear from everybody. So on May 29th, we're having a reception for the outgoing council members. Right here. Is that right? So we look forward to seeing you guys back. And we can really we have all sorts of things to give you. Oh fantastic. But for now we appreciate you being here. Thank you so much. Thank you so much mayor. Thank you. Thank you. Appreciate you. Okay. No, Bob. Welcome. Casey. Come on up. Yes. Oh, yeah. Where are you? What's that? Thank you. Oh, there. Thank you, you had to go to coach baseball. Zeke, where's your phone? He doesn't have one. He's got it. Oh, okay. Okay. Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you so much. Welcome, Chris I look forward to it. All right. Shelby. Thank you so much. Thank you. Turn it this way. Congratulations, Shelby. Oh. Yeah. Come on up, Steve. We'll be in touch. And. Rick. Thank you for everything. You're great. David takes a good picture. Oh. That's true. Thank you, thank you, thank you. It's been great. Great. With all. Rick. Yep. You have your Pin. You want to put that on? Vidal. Oh, give him a second one. I promise you, I got another one. Would you like to have two pins? Sure. I'll probably need multiple pins. Congratulations. Thank you. And I will give you the great secret. Okay. You two magnets to keep. Yeah, I've been doing that. So otherwise they fall off. But here you'll be able to knock down. Sorry. Looks good, my friend. We don't do this very often. I wasn't sure about the word. Okay, so we are going to go into executive session. So for all the families that are here with the new council members, be glad to take pictures before you guys go into executive session. So the council will now recess into executive session and training room to hold a closed executive meeting pursuant to the provisions of Vernon's Texas Codes Annotated Government Code, chapter 551, the Open Meetings Act in accordance with the authority contained in section 551 071, to consult with the attorney and receive legal advice. And section 551 074 to discuss personnel matters. Thank you all for being here. It was truly a great, great night of our our former council and our new council. We offer congratulations to all. I now declare that the Plano City Council preliminary open meeting is reconvened in open session, that all council members are present. Our first item on the preliminary agenda is consideration and action from the executive sessions. For personnel reappointment. Item A for North Texas Municipal Water District board member. Sorry, Rick. Mr. Mayor, I'd like to make a nomination that we have Mayor Phil Dyer continuing his role as our liaison to North Texas Municipal Water District. I'll second that. Okay. We'll just do a hand. So I have a motion and a second to. Reappoint. Mayor Phil Dyer as a member of the North Texas Municipal Water District Board. All in favor, please raise your hand. Motion passes 8 to 0. Thank you. Next item, discussion and direction of the General and Technology solution compensation plans. Welcome, Victoria. Wilson. Mr. Andrea, my name is Victoria Wynn. I'm a director of human resources and risk management. Okay. The purpose of my presentation tonight is to give you an update on the market study, as well as the compensation plan assessment that the city underwent for the past few months. Before I get into the individual aspects of the project, I'd like to give you an overview of what took place in the project. So if you will look at the slide, this will show that since last March, we've been engaging with executive team to look at our comp plan and we continue the project onto the fall. We, our team, the HR team benchmarked roughly 308 jobs to determine whether our position or positions or compensation of our positions are comparable and marketable compared to the industries. And so with that, we continued the process. We also looked at pooled all their employees resumes for the entire city. We looked at the education experience, input that into a wage tool, because part of this process is for us to build out a what's called a wage determination tool that will give us a tool that will help us determine the pay for candidates and new hires, so that our determination is more objective, less arbitrary, and the pay is, I guess, align well with the with the internal group, the existing employees. Okay, we continued this process through the spring, and at this point we've completed the market study. We've gotten the data from our consultant, and we've identified the jobs that need to be realigned based on our results. We are also in the process of finishing out the wage tool. Tonight, I'll be presenting you all the findings from the market study, as well as the assessment of the comp philosophy compensation philosophy. Also, one more thing. The goal of tonight's presentation is to, at the end of the presentation, to seek your guidance and determine if you have any feedback and to gather your thoughts on future steps. Okay. As you note, our goal in HR is always to attract high level quality recruits candidates, and to motivate and retain our employees. We work very hard to make our pay competitive benefits competitive, and for that we do very frequent. At this point, our philosophy is to do every other year or market study. So we determined through this process that our approach of median plus 5% is still a valid and sound approach. So we will not change our approach in determining the pay for employees. So that's great news. The consultant also came back with a couple of recommendations. They recommended that for grades one through 26, which is more entry level positions, that we should have a shorter or mirror more narrow bandwidth of 40%. What that means is that is that employees would get more money early on for professional positions from grades 27 on up, then our bandwidth should be 50%, which means that money will be stretched out further. And the goal of that is to retain employees, to encourage them to stay longer with the city for the lower entry level positions. The goal of that, of course, is to attract them to come to the city with a larger, higher pay. Again, in this process, 50% of our job roles were reviewed and benchmarked against other 14 peer cities. We use public data and also private sector information in the percentage of 70% and 30% in weighing what the patient be as compared to the market. The cities that we use to identify and compare our general plan and RTS plans are as identified in the green. Those are the 14 cities we used to compare to Plano. And for fire, you see that list in yellow and then for police in blue. At the end of the study, our recommendation is to identify certain revised pay plans. So instead of the old pay plans with the 40% 45% bandwidth, we are recommending that we go with the 40% and 50% as previously discussed. And then we will with that information. If you are comfortable with the approach, we will take that information and put it into the wage tool and build that out so that that could be a tool for us to implement and use next year. And of course, we will conduct ongoing equity reviews within departments to make sure that employees pay or are equitable and align properly so that there's not compression within a certain group of people. And lastly, the implementation date that we're projecting to go forward with this, if with your approval is June 2nd of this year. So again, with your approval and any feedback you may have, we're ready in HR to implement and make the new pay grades effective June 2nd. Again, the cost to realign these pays that are below minimum is equivalent is around $287,000. And we do have money in our budget to cover that. Okay. That's it. Do you have any questions? I do, so I understand. Yep. This calculation thing. Obviously math is not my strongest suit. So this 40 and 50% bandwidth. So can you just give me a very concrete example like let's say the median salary is $100,000. So how do you what is this 40% and 50%. What does that mean. That's a thank you for that question. It's a great question. So if you were looking at positions that are between 1 and 26. So for example, lifeguards, more entry level positions. The minimum to the maximum is the. Includes 40% of the between the minimum and the maximum. So the there are fewer grades in between in the sense that you're compressing the pay. You're getting more money up front as an employee. Okay. And for labor jobs, maintenance jobs, for example, we've been experiencing difficulties attracting or recruiting people. So with the 40% bandwidth where we're moving the money toward the beginning positions, you're paying more money at the front. I still don't understand this 40%. So I need concrete examples. So for example, you're saying, okay, the life saver lifeguards, lifeguards. So the norm out there is what so many so much money per hour. So or do they have like a salary. No. Okay. Let me explain another way. The bandwidth just is a fan shape in how you allocate the increases. As far as the pay, what we're doing, we're saying city of Plano's pay 5% median plus 5%. Exactly. Yes. So what we did with the 14 cities, we took the median, their pay. Right. Then we made our midpoint. It would be median plus 5% is what our midpoint would be. So to the left and to the right of that you would have the prorated ranges leading up, you know, and you've got the minimum and the maximum. How far the minimum and the maximum go depends on the 40%. But it gets so complicated with the 40 and 50%. It's a fan shaped design, but essentially at the bottom, I mean, at the end of the day, it's just the median plus 5%. Okay. Yeah. So the length the length of the range. Mayor pro tem, if you look at the absolute minimum dollar amount versus the maximum dollar amount, that's the 40%. And so it's oh, so that's the 40% spread okay. And the professional ones is 50%. That's correct okay I get it. Thank you. Okay. Thanks. Yes. Could you show the previous slide here where we talked about the financial impact. Yes. Yeah. You're sitting here talking just right there. You mentioned that the 2425 budget impact. You're saying that the estimated cost is for the partial year will be 287,000 change. And that for the full year that will be from from July to July, I assume would be for 862,000. That's on top of what we already have estimated for the what we had approved in our budget. Is that correct? No, sir. The 287,000 would take us to the end of September. And for example, the would be October 1st to the end of September next year would be the full cost for 12 month period. The City Council has set aside, I believe, $4.8 million for increases such as this. Last fall. It was for the market study. Yep. So you're saying starting on October 1st with this medium plus 5%, we're going to have an additional 862,000 on the 4.2 million. It will come out of it. It'll come out of the 4.2 million. Okay. So the 4.2 million is going to be set. It it's already been set by council. This will this will come out of that. And so it's already been set aside as as funding for us. So it's covered through council's previous actions. Well under the previous council meetings you know we've we've we've trying to keep our, our tax rate the same. We've had challenges with the medium plus 5% because as soon as we do it, our cousins to the north and south, they match. And you know, and it's just escalates. It just keeps escalating. There's some time we're going to have to and I hate to say this, but we're going to have to make a tough decision on that. That number 5%. I just hate having to say that. But we got to live within our means and we have to balance the budget. I think if we did last year, we had a hiring freeze to cover that, that that difference. Right. It was like a partially, yes, a partial hiring freeze. So I just want to just kind of think that we're going to have to revisit that somehow when it comes time for budget time. Understood. Yeah. Thank you. Bob. Yes. The question I have is this for all departments? No, sir. This one is for the General Plans and technology services. We, the police and fire and 911 they have separate plans and those plans have steps. So they're quite a little different than the general plans. But the review was so far just for the general plan and the technology services. Thank you. Yep. All right. Okay. Mayor, mayor and council, what we'd like to be able to do is, is leave you with this and then we'll come back the next council meeting. So we actually have another council meeting before June 2nd. We know it's a lot and we know that y'all are again getting your feet wet with your council meeting tonight. So let you ponder this. We will bring you this back on the Pom for the 27th to revisit this. But what we're looking to do is implement as, as Victoria mentioned on June 2nd. So any other questions that you have between now and the next council meeting, please send them in. The staff will be happy to answer those. But if we'd like to have that that direction and concurrence to go ahead and implement June 2nd and get that direction from you on the 27th. Sounds good. Thank you, thank you. All right. Item three is consent and regular agendas. Is there an item a council member would like to remove? There? Mr. Mayor, I'd like to pull item I for individual consideration. Okay. Any other item okay. Oh, there we go. Go ahead Steve. Thank you. I wanted to oh well that was it I okay. Sorry okay. No it's okay. It's all right, all right. So we removed item I. So item four is council items for discussion action on future agendas. All right. So mayor, real quick I just wanted to mention to council, especially in light of pulling item I, we do intend to have a council work session during a preliminary open meeting to really talk about the implementation of the performing arts or of the arts master plan. Excuse me. We want to make sure that we understand the priority of what council wants to get done and what we can afford in a systematic way. We have not done that with council yet, so it's important that we bring that back and really kind of break down the plan and how we intend to implement that, but we intend to do that in a work session here, hopefully in the month of June, where we set aside time to, to be able to do that. So tonight it's more the adoption of the plan of acceptance of it, but understanding that we still have implementation to go. So just wanted to mention that. Very good. All right. We'll take a recess and return at 7:00. I now declare the Plano City Council is reconvened in open session that all members are present. We'll begin tonight's regular meeting with the invocation led by Pastor Zacharias Patterson with one community church and the Pledge of Allegiance and Texas Pledge, led by Boy Scout Troop 999, charter organization of the Grace Presbyterian Presbyterian Church. Please rise. Thank you for the opportunity. Let us look to God, gracious and sovereign God. We pause at this moment and acknowledge your presence and seek your wisdom. Thank you for the gift of community and for the opportunity to serve people, specifically the people of this great city of Plano. God, we lift up every leader, every council member, every city employee, every resident. Grant the counsel, discernment and wisdom, clarity and compassion as they make decisions that will shape the lives of many. May they lead with integrity and humility and a deep sense of responsibility. God help them to remember the blessing and the burden that comes with the position that you have elected them and elevated them to. We ask for unity amidst diversity, strength in the face of challenge, as well as peace in the midst of uncertainty. God, we pray that you would protect and bless our neighborhoods, our schools, our businesses, and our first responders. Responders. Above all, God. May. May we seek and have justice, kindness, respect, and may it guide every conversation that is had tonight. Be in the midst of every decision that is made tonight. We offer this prayer with gratitude and hope. In Jesus name we pray. Amen. Amen. Please join me in the Pledge of Allegiance, followed by the Texas Pledge. 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. Texas flag. I pledge allegiance to thee. Texas. One state under God, one and indivisible. Be seated. What? Thanks, God. Thanks for being here. These are my little keychain tokens and a welcome. Thank you guys for doing this. Thank you. Okay, can we take a pic? Yes. All right. Pleasure to be here. Nice to be here. Okay. Let's go. Let me let me squeeze in just between you guys. Okay. All right. Thank you. Thank you guys. Thank you. Yes, sir. So we have a few proclamations. Our first proclamation is National Public Works Week, which is May 18th through the 24th, where we recognize the professionals who manage the infrastructure of the city. So I'd like to call up. Oh. They're coming. Abby Owens. Public works director. Andrea Park, community services. And all the employees present who have been named employee of the year. So let's give them a huge round of applause. Y'all come on up. So I I'm going to read the proclamation. So whereas public works professionals focus on street and traffic infrastructure, water supply and quality, fleet and environmental services that are all vital to the importance to sustainable and resilient communities and to the public health, high quality of life and well-being of the people of Plano. Whereas it is in public interest for the citizens, leaders and children in Plano to gain knowledge and maintain ongoing interest and understanding of the importance of public works. And Whereas the year 2025 marks the 65th Annual National Public Works Week sponsored by the American Public Works Association. Canada Public Works Association. So now, therefore, I, John Muns, mayor of the City of Plano, do hereby proclaim May 18th through the 24th, 2025 as National Public Works Week in Plano and do thereby encourage all citizens to join me and the Plano City Council to pay tribute to our public works professionals, engineers, managers and employees, and to recognize the substantial contributions they make to protecting our national health, safety and quality of life in the City of Excellence. Congratulations. Oh. Thank you. That's okay. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you sir. I was just going to say really quickly, I'm the Public works director, and I love working alongside over 300 employees in public works. And not all of them could be here tonight. But I did want to recognize. So Dustin Howard's in our streets department. Or when Hickson and our drainage department, Cindy is in asset management and Josh Olvera is in our meter shop. Kenneth is in traffic and rusty is one of our in our fleet group. So just want to recognize some of the professionals that can make it. Right moment. Yeah. Here we are. Scoot down just a little bit and then we'll just kind of. Oh okay. Never mind. Okay. Thanks. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you. Appreciate you. Thank you for staying. So our next proclamation, we as a city council will meet the day after Memorial Day. So we want to celebrate those that observe Memorial Day as a day to honor all who have died while serving the country in the armed forces. So I'd like to read this proclamation. Whereas Memorial Day, first known as Decoration Day, began after the Civil War with ceremonies for soldiers who had fallen in battle and is observed on the last Monday of May honoring the men and women who died while serving in the US military. And whereas Memorial Day is meant for remembering and honoring military personnel who died in the service of their country, particularly those who died in the battle or as a result of the wounds sustained in battle. It is a holiday steeped in somber American history and tradition, and gives us the opportunity to remember the patriots who gave their lives in the service of America, in the service of freedom and in the service of justice. We are free because they were brave, and our nation is forever grateful. Whereas in 2005, the Plano City Council passed a measure to add a veterans memorial to Plano's existing memorial park. With the park officially reopening in 2008 and later in 2021. Plano City Council approved funding for the Donor recognition plaza at Memorial Plaza memorial Park, creating a space for donors to honor military service members through the installation of personalized brick pavers to display a more lasting tribute to those whom who we seek to honor. Now, therefore, I, John Muns, mayor of the City of Plano, Texas, do hereby proclaim. Monday, May 26th, 2025, as Memorial Day in Plano. And I do thereby encourage all citizens to join me in the Plano City Council in recognizing the sacrifice of those who died for this country, and expressing our most heartfelt appreciation for their strength and valor in defending our nation. Thank you. We will have a ceremony on May 26th, Memorial Day, in the evening at Memorial Park, and we'd love for all of you who are available to join. I think I'll. Our next proclamation is May is National Historic Preservation Month, a time to encourage the saving of American historic treasures. So I'd like to invite Nancy Baldwin, Heritage Commission chair Deborah Barrios, Heritage Commission member Janet Moss, the Texas Pool Foundation, Malou Hinton Heritage Farmstead Museum. Sohaila Rashidian Museum of Contemporary Visual Art, Mr. Mike Korman, Museum of contemporary visual Art, Graciela Katzer, Plano International Festival, Mr. Drew Bronner, comprehensive planning manager, miss Raha Pilatti, lead planner. And Mr. Bhavesh Mittal, heritage Preservation officer. Welcome all. So the proclamation. Is the National Historic Preservation Month, May of 2025. So whereas historic preservation is an effective tool for revitalizing neighborhoods, fostering local pride, and maintaining community character while enhancing livability. Whereas it is important to celebrate the role of history in our lives and contributions made by dedicated individuals in helping to preserve the tangible aspects of the heritage that has shaped us as a people. So whereas Harnessing the power of Place is the theme for National Preservation Month 2025, and it's supported by all these entities National Trust, Texas Historical Commission, Collin County Historical Commission, Plano Heritage Commission, Museum of Contemporary Visual Arts, Plano International Festival, Plano Conservancy for Historic Preservation, North Texas Masonic Historical Museum and Library, the Texas Pool Foundation, Heritage Farmstead Museum, the Plano African American Museum, and Plano Asia Fest. Now, therefore, I John Muns, mayor of the City of Plano, Texas, do hereby proclaim May of 2025 as National Historic Preservation Month in Plano, and I do thereby encourage all citizens to join me in the Plano City Council, calling upon the people of Plano to join their fellow citizens across the United States in recognizing and participating in this special observance we all benefit from, because we are aware of our heritage and history. Congratulations, Nancy. Want to say a few words? Thank you. I think I speak for everyone on the commission when I say that it is a pleasure not only to be a member of this great community, but also to have the opportunity to recognize, promote and foster heritage within the City of Excellence. And I would also like to take this moment to thank the members of staff and the other members of these other historic organizations for the efforts that they take to promote heritage within the City of Excellence. Thank you. Congratulations. Okay. Hi, dear. How are you? Good. Come on in. Okay. You come in here. Thank you guys so much. Thank you very much. Thank you. And finally, this was a highlight of my week. I got to participate in a bike ride with those in Parks and Rec and a lot of other friends that rode with me. So this I would like to call for Renee Jordan, Park planning manager, Doug Bradshaw, trail system partner planner David Angeles, assistant director of parks Susie Hagen Rader, assistant director of recreation Ron Smith, director of Parks and Rec. Don Wendell, who rode with me, Plano bike ambassador. And Kay Wendell, Plano bike ambassador. Warren Castile, who was also on the ride, Plano bike ambassador. And Carolyn Walsh, Easy Rider Cycling Club. So we have we have a grand reputation of being a very bike centric, loving community, and we have over a hundred miles of bike trails in Plano. So this is a real honor to be a part of this proclamation bike. To Work Day and Bike month. So whereas for more than a century, whereas the bicycle is an economic, economical healthy convenient environmentally sound form of transportation and an excellent tool for recreation, enjoyment of plano's scenic beauty. And whereas bicycle groups throughout the city, state and nation are promoting greater public awareness and practicing the five steps to safe Riding. Follow the rules of the road. Obey. Obey all traffic and control devices. Be visible and wear brightly colored clothing. Be predictable. Ride in a straight line. Anticipate conflicts. Be aware of the traffic around you, and wear a helmet that fits on top of your head and replace it when it's damaged if you can, whereas Plano is growing and thriving community with increasing transportation and recreational demands, bicycling supports a healthy environmentally friendly lifestyle which also alleviating pollution and traffic in our city. Now, therefore, I. John Muns, mayor of the City of Plano, Texas, do hereby proclaim May 16th, 2025 as Bike to Work Day and May of 2025 as Bike Month in Plano. And I do by thereby encourage all citizens to join me and the Plano City Council in bicycling to work and urging our friends and neighbors to do the same. Congratulations. Come on over, guys. Okay, we'll do this. We'll take this right here. Good to see. Do we need. Are we okay? Thank you guys. Thank you. Appreciate it. John thanks for being here. Appreciate it. Thank you. Good to see you. Thanks, Warren. Good to see you. Okay. It's moving on to comments of public interest. Comments of public interest. This portion of the meeting is to allow up to three minutes per speaker, with 30 total minutes on items of interest or concern, and not on items that are on the agenda. The council may not discuss these items, but may respond with factual or policy information. The council may choose to place the item on a future agenda, and we do have a handful of speakers signed up. The first one is Josh Frazier, who is going to be on zoom. Just Josh. Okay, we will move on to the next one. Okay. Alan Eastwood. See you on zoom. He's supposed no one is on zoom. Oh. So. Okay. Alan, are you here? Alan. Okay. All right. Then we will move on to Denise Laughlin. Mayor. Muns, city council, congratulations on your election. And again, I'm here to speak further on the epic city projects. And again, I assert that absolute litigation project privilege. This relates to ongoing litigation. At this time. Doctor Yasir Qadhi has not been entirely forthcoming with the counsel with the city of Plano, with the state of Texas. Doctor Cody also belongs to the Fiqh Council of North America. He's in charge of fiqh, which is the jurisprudence of Sharia, how it applies to North America. Since April 28th, the last time I was here, Doctor Cody has been very, very busy. He's. It's been revealed that Doctor Cody has been very active on site at multiple university campuses. Supporting speaking to pro-Palestinian student protests. It's remarkable. He he's got a number of things he said about Governor Abbott sending mobs of violent police, the army, the troops that here at the University of Texas who tore hijabs off women. Doctor Cody, as the chairman of fiqh. Speaks actively that through Sharia law they support BDS through Sharia law. They they want students to boycott any company, any employer who supports Israel. Clearly all against U.S. Law. The entire epic city development is far more than 402 acres. It's a multiple 1500 acre development. The Community Capital Partners is the for profit development developer of Epic City, yet fully controlled by epic, which is a tax exempt religious nonprofit. Now you have Doctor Cody, who says he's a cleric. Only now he's going around the United States and Canada advocating for Sharia law to usurp and overtake Texas law and the US Constitution, the US law. 20s. All right. I will further I will go further with this. But again, Mayor Muns, you have a great deal of explaining to do with how you've facilitated Sharia law and the Sharia enclaves that exist here. And one last thing, Mayor Muns. You proclaimed 100 year celebration of Turkey. I'd like the city council and the mayor of Plano to do something to celebrate the blessed return of Eden. Alexander released from Hamas. Today, if you can celebrate Turkey and the Muslim Brotherhood, sir, we certainly can celebrate the return of a hostage. Thank you. The next speaker is Amna Mohamed. Good evening, City Council members. My name is Amna. I'm a third generation Palestinian American Muslim. And I'm a resident of Plano. I'm here tonight to urge this council to take a stand for justice for humanity and for the values values that we claim to uphold here in Plano. As a global economic leader. I'm asking you to make Plano the second city in the United States to boycott Israel in response to its ongoing genocide against the Palestinian people. Now, this would be the second city after Hamtramck, Michigan, who has officially done so. As we sit here right now. Children, babies, adults, everyone are being buried under the rubble in Gaza, beheaded, starved. Burnt. Alive. Entire families have been wiped off the map. Hospitals, schools, mosques have been bombed, journalists targeted, and food has been blocked from entering the city for over 70 days. This is not a conflict. It's not about taking sides. It's a humanitarian catastrophe, a genocide just like the one in South Africa, and one that our government and we in Plano are funding. Our city may not be dropping bombs, but we cannot claim neutrality if we are doing business with companies that profit from occupation, apartheid or weapons used against civilians. Our dollars here in Plano are funding this genocide. This is not just something to be handled at a federal level. When I registered my comment, I got a call from a gentleman asking me for more details about what I wanted to talk about, and he told me that in our city, we focus on what's happening here and the safety and well-being of our residents. Well, I'm here to tell all of you that that's actually why I'm bringing this issue forward, because many in our community feel that our tax dollars and our partnerships should reflect our shared values, especially when it comes to human rights. We believe it's a local concern when our city does business with companies that our own residents strongly oppose. Beyond Amtrak, cities around the US have themselves passed ceasefire resolutions in response to the genocide. We the people have power here to make an impact from a city level, and we must. We cannot be Plano, the City of Excellence, while being complicit in the genocide. I began circulating a petition around Plano and residents are signing it. People who believe that our city should not be complicit. We have about 98 signatures so far. We're asking you to draft and pass a resolution to condemn Israel's actions in Gaza and the West Bank. Refuse to contract with or invest in companies that support the occupation, or supply arms used against innocent civilians, and call for a permanent ceasefire and an end to U.S. Military aid. This isn't about religion or politics. It's about moral clarity. Plano has the opportunity to be on the right side of history. 20s to speak when so many to silence your constituents are watching and we are asking you to act. Thank you. The next speaker is Tisha Vaidya. Good evening, mayor, council members and residents of Plano. My name is Tisha Olavarria, and I am honored to stand before you as a proud citizen of Plano and as a volunteer of the Baps charities. Baps charities is a worldwide charitable organization operating in nine countries across five continents. Each year, over 100,000 dedicated volunteers contribute more than 12,000,000 hours in selfless service, supporting communities locally and globally. Baps charities addresses critical issues in areas such as healthcare environmental sustainability, disaster relief and community services. With over 50 years of experience in North America, Baps charities is a respected name in the world of nonprofit service, committed to uplifting individuals, families and communities. After a 22 year journey of organizing walks across different cities in North Texas and the Dallas Metroplex, benefiting several local nonprofit organizations, we are excited to host our annual Baps Charities Walk in Frisco for the very first time. This community driven event will take place in Kaleidoscope Park in Frisco on Sunday, June 1st, 2025. We are proud to announce this year's local beneficiary, the American Legion. The American Legion is the largest US veterans organization with more than 1.6 million members who strengthened the nation through programs, services and advocacy for those who have served in the US Armed Forces. Youth and communities. We warmly invite the mayor, council members, and all residents of Plano to save this event on your calendars, as your presence and support would mean the world to us. By participating, you're not only embracing a healthier lifestyle, but also planning, but also joining a community dedicated to the spirit of service and helping others. Your involvement is crucial, and every step you take makes a difference. To learn more about Baps charities and to register for this event, please visit Baps charities. Org. On behalf of Baps charities, I sincerely thank you for allowing us to share this exciting news tonight. Thank you. Thank you. Our last speaker is Corey Riniker. Good evening, Mayor and Council members. First, congratulations to all the newly elected members and a heartfelt thank you to those who are concluding their service. Your dedication and contributions to our community are deeply appreciated. I also want to thank everyone involved in the recent bond propositions, the staff, volunteers and especially the voters. Your support is a vital investment in Plano's continued success and our shared high quality of life. With that in mind, I'd like to share a few thoughts on two bills currently moving through the legislature that would impact Dart funding. After following this discussion closely over the past year, I remain concerned about the direction our city leadership is taking. I'd like to highlight three key points that I believe are central to the issue. First, sales tax is an imperfect mechanism for funding transit. It has little relation to actual transit needs, making it a flawed proxy on which to base service allocations. Second, our region urgently needs high quality reliable reliable mobility options beyond single occupancy vehicles. The population center of the region is shifting northward. Plano is no longer an edge city. We are increasingly central. Simply put, adding more lanes or tweaking traffic signals won't be enough to meet our growing transportation needs. Third, there is a regional imbalance in how we fund and benefit from transit. Member cities like Plano shall shoulder the full financial burden of a system that benefits the wider region, while nonmember cities benefit without contributing. Much has been said about donor and donee cities, but the real inequity lies between Dart member and nonmember cities. Unfortunately, HB 3087 and its center counterpart fall short. They don't address the core issue of the sales tax structure. They overlook the will of the voters who originally supported this funding model. They failed to strengthen the system or offer a sustainable path for broader regional participation. The bills offer only short term solutions to long term challenges. I urge the Council, and especially our new members, to take a fresh look at this issue. Let's work with our regional partners to reimagine transit in North Texas. We need a truly regional system, one that shares both cost and benefits fairly, and that provides a compelling alternatives to car dependency. To paraphrase a recent comment from Michael Morris at the Council of Governments, if we don't address these issues, there is not enough money on Earth to solve the congestion problems that are on their way. Thank you. Thank you. I signed up to speak tonight. I have a confirmation. Okay. Oh, oh, I just I'm not sure. I'll give you. I'll give you one minute. Why would I only get one minute? Because you weren't registered. I did sign. I mean, I signed up. It's, you know, maybe there was a clerical error, but I definitely signed up. I would appreciate if you allowed me the three minutes of time. I don't see what the big deal is. I'll give you one minute. All right. Well, this is a perfect way to start this meeting off. You know, there's it's there's people talking about boycotting Israel, boycotting Palestine. And this is just showing Texas is turning blue. You know, right here they won't even let me speak for three minutes. Fortune 100 companies are taking over Texas. They're all moving here. We have situations like Carmelo Anthony going on. We got this lady coming to expose the epic city. Texas is falling apart from within. We're passing $2.5 billion to make movies. And Hollywood, we have the highest property taxes coming this year. We have situations like the Carmelo Anthony one. People moved to North Texas to get away from this. You know, I, I can't believe that you are really limiting me to one minute. It just really just shows how you guys don't serve the community. The whole reason why I'm here is because you started off disrespecting your firefighters. You guys are acting like dictators and you don't even support you. Take a pledge of allegiance to the United States flag and the Texas flag. And none of you even serve the oath to the Constitution. I'm a whistleblower here telling you that my rights are being violated and none of you care, and now you limit my time. I'll make sure I sign up correctly next time. This is unbelievable. Thank you. Yeah. Okay. Moving on to the consent agenda. The consent agenda. The consent agenda will be acted upon in one motion and contains items which are routine and typically noncontroversial. Items may be removed from this agenda for individual discussion by a council member, the city manager, or any citizen. The presiding officer will establish time limits based upon the number of speaker requests. I think I actually we're we're removing item I. But I'll go ahead and let you say that Council member Horn. Mayor, I'd like to make a motion. We approve the consent agenda. With the exception of item I, to be pulled for individual consideration, I second. Okay. Does everybody understand that? So I have a motion and a second to approve the consent agenda with the exception of item I. Okay. Please vote. Oh, we're not there yet. Okay. No problem. Okay. So I have a motion and a second to approve the consent agenda, with the exception of item I. All in favor? Raise your hand. Okay. Motion passes 8 to 0. Okay, go ahead and read item I for us, please. Item I to approve the cultural arts plan. Is that it? Oh, sorry. Sorry I apologize, I thought. Okay. Do you need a minute? Ready? I'm ready. Okay. Go ahead. Oh, I had you. All right. Thank you. Lisa. You caught me off guard. I usually hear this. This long introduction into. I wanted to pull this for several reasons. It's too important of a plan to be buried into consent agenda. And I just wanted to kind of bring up some points. First of all, I think it's a very good plan. I have no qualms at all with the plan. Every great city throughout history has a vibrant art scene. Plano should be no different. We need a plan for a path forward that showcases both the visual and performing arts, while getting more citizens to participate in the arts, both from a participation perspective, but also to come out and enjoy the artists and what they produce. The cap is a good plan and a nice place to start. It would be a difficult path for Plano to travel without a good map, to show a clear direction to meet the end goals as stipulated in the plan, but with the map, there are always side trails to travel, to explore new and find new discoveries, so that it must be understood that while the cap as it was presented is a ten year master plan, we have the freedom to modify it as we progress through these ten years through the city grants, programs funded by the hotel occupancy taxes, the Council, supported by the Cultural Arts Commission, has fully endorsed both the visual and performing arts and will continue to do so. But as you're aware, that's not enough money to cover all the arts programs. And certainly there's been challenges in doing that. The city has also supported the Heritage Commission, Parks and Recreation and the library, which provides arts and cultural programing free or at a low cost for the residents. But let me remind you that the Cap also calls for government, the city government, to be a facilitator for developing a cultural arts center, adding a 500 to 800 seat venue downtown, develop an office for creative life to consolidate the existing arts and cultural functions. Create a director's position to oversee the office of Creative Life, coordinate programing ideas and updating policies on city facilities and promotion of available arts and cultural activities. Though I and I suspect these, the Council supports this plan, we must be aware that our costs to be borne to achieve these goals laid out in the cap this past year, I must you must remember that Council made tough decisions to meet the balanced budget requirements to run the city. That was a hard discussion this past summer to get that done, to create the Office of Creative Life, we will not only need to hire or assign a director, that position will also call for additional support staff. I am not here to fix or offer solutions to that. We will be working on those solutions in a workshop that's becoming this June. But I must remind you that for us to add an 800, 500, 800 seat venue will be a challenge, both for the cost of fund and for the design and construction of this facility. But it will have to be actively used for this venue to be operating at a profit. So I didn't feel like I needed to have this just pass on consent. I had to make my points known. I support the plan, but we will be working with this in the June workshop, so thank you. Council. Council member Levine I haven't had to say that. So congratulations. Go ahead. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. I have been engaged in the cultural arts planning process as a member of the Plan Advisory Committee, and I appreciate the work of the Collaborative Arts of Plano for helping to initiate this process and the Cultural Arts Commission for their support and ideas. And the city staff, particularly Michelle Hawkins, for shepherding us through this process. Many of the suggestions from the Plan Advisory Committee were incorporated into the plan, and I've had further discussions with members of that committee, many of whom were past commission members of the. The Arts Commission. And they have other suggestions. And I know that the collaborative arts groups also have additional thoughts. And the Plano Symphony has some concerns that we need to address. I recommend that the council accept the plan today, recognizing it as an important milestone while also committing to the further review as we've discussed. And Councilman Horn has suggested, especially around the implementation strategies, a council workshop could possibly be followed by a collaborative workshop that brings together the key stakeholders such as the collaborative Arts, the Advisory Committee, the Cultural Arts Commission, the symphony, schools, businesses and all of the others who will help us refine and prioritize the next steps, especially those that could be implemented and begun immediately. As Council Member horn mentioned, it's a ten year plan with a three year ramp up to figure out how we're going to do this. And I think there are some things that we can do more immediately. Also, with the addition of the four new council members, this would be a great and good time to suggest the council have another chance to submit questions and suggestions before the workshop. So with that in mind, I would like to move that we accept the plan and commit to further review and refinement before we consider adopting it as city policy. Rick, I will second that motion. Any other comments? All right. So I have a motion and a second. Is it working or do you know okay, I have a motion and a second to approve item I. And part of that would be to further work in a work a workshop in June to understand the plan and how it's implemented. So with that being said, I have a motion to second to approve item I. All in favor, raise your hand. All all opposed. Okay, so I have 7 to 1. Right okay. Items for individual consideration. Items for individual consideration. Public hearing items. Applicants are limited to 15 minutes presentation time with a five minute rebuttal if needed. Remaining speakers are limited to 30 total minutes of testimony time, with three minutes assigned per speaker. The presiding officer may amend these times as deemed necessary. Nonpublic hearing items presiding officer will permit public comment for items on the agenda not posted for a public hearing. The Presiding Officer will establish time limits based upon the number of speaker requests, length of the agenda and to insure meeting efficiency, and may include a cumulative time limit. Speakers will be called in the order the requests are received until the cumulative time is exhausted. Item number one consideration to approve RFB 2025 0205B for sewer improvements Dallas North Trunk Phase two, project number 7469 for the Engineering Department to S J Lewis Construction of Texas Limited in the amount of $16,139,315, and authorizing the City Manager to execute all necessary documents. All right. Good evening. My name is Caleb Thornhill. I'm the director of engineering, and tonight I'll be presenting this. I really just got the one slide. Just to give you a little bit of background on the project. The project is the orange line that's shown on here. This is a recommended for an award tonight for just over $16 million. It is a as you can see from the green and the blue, a part of a massive renovation that we're doing along the corridor, the blue line at the very eastern end of the page, or on your right, is a project that has already been completed that was completed earlier this year. The green is actually under construction today. That is between those two, just right around 6,000,014 million. And then this is to complete that sewer line through that area. I'll be happy to answer any questions you may have. So this is a continuation of that. That sewer project that started way over there. And this is part of that 21 bond the money or will this be the new this water and sewer. Water and sewer. Excuse me I'm sorry okay. So we put this on individual consideration because of the cost and just wanted to make sure that everybody understood what it was being used for. Go ahead. Want to know? Obviously this is a continuation of all the projects that we've done previously. Right. So is this the last part of this construction or is this just the middle of the. So for this section, I don't know that answer. I need to go back and look. I believe it is the last one, but I would have to double check that to make sure it seems like it's a lot shorter than the other couple projects that we have. The one is the orange one, the other one's the green one. And we're talking about the blue one right. No, no, no, this is the orange one. The orange one is we're talking we're talking about. Yeah. The blue one has already been completed. Okay. I'm confused. I'm colorblind. So. So this is the one that is the longest. And therefore that's the reason why it's costing more it in a sense, yes. It is a little bit longer than the other ones. It will be running down the middle of Plano Parkway where the green one was running along essentially the parkway. We did get easements for that one, but this one will have some pavement replacement as well. It's just right under 7000 linear feet. Got it. And so after this is fixed, is there is it going to go further west in in our sewage reconstruction. So that's a number I'm going to need or design I'll have to check. We do not have anything currently in design, but I'll have to check with our team to see if there's future plans for that. Is that where all the orange cones are currently located? Or just this one? No, it is not. All right. Thank you. Talk about that. Okay. Bob? Yeah. I have a quick question. Is this repair or is this preparing for the future and for expansion? It is the existing line is undersized based on the current flow. So we're not adding any flows to the existing system. But we are experiencing surcharging throughout this. So this is upsizing the existing system for that. So it will support any, any further growth that may happen along that route. So there's not any planned growth for this area if it's currently zoned that that's what it will carry. So I need a motion for item one. Go ahead Mr. Mayor I make a motion. We approve item one as presented second okay. All right I have a motion and a second to approve. Item number one. Please vote. Raise your hand, please. Motion passes eight zero. Thank you, thank you. Next item is item two. Public hearing and consideration of a resolution to approve the use or taking of a portion of City of Plano public parkland known as Hoblitzelle Park, pursuant to chapter 26 of the Texas Parks and Wildlife Code, to abandon an existing sanitary sewer easement at the dedicated parkland and replacing it with a revised permanent sanitary sewer system for the Russell Creek Interceptor Pipeline Rehabilitation Project, authorizing the City Manager, or his designee to execute all necessary documents and providing an effective date. Thank you. Good evening, Mayor and city council. My name is Ron Smith. I'm your Parks and recreation director. This is a chapter 26 hearing. This is a requirement in the Texas Parks and Wildlife Code. Whenever a portion of public park land is going to be used for something other than park use for the public, there needs to be a hearing. This is a requirement. These hearings. There are two specific items that the council will find as a result of this hearing. For this project to be approved, the first thing that the council will find is that there is no feasible and prudent alternative to the use or taking of this land. And second, that the project includes all reasonable planning to minimize harm to the parkland. We do have the applicant here to the North Texas Municipal Water District. Their director of engineering, Mike Simon, will make the presentation and speak to the specifics to the project, and staff will be available to answer any questions. Hold on. Mike, let me I'll open the public hearing. Go ahead. Mike. All right. You're up there. You're ready to go. Yeah. Good evening, mayor and council. So this is an interesting project because this is actually a pipeline that started City of Plano built, and then the district took ownership of it. And so now we're doing some rehabilitation of the line. So as Mr. Smith talked about, this is chapter 26 hearing. So what we're trying to do here is show that there was no feasible, feasible or prudent alternative and that we need reasonable planning to avoid harm. So the Russell Creek Interceptor is located kind of north Plano. And as you can see, it runs through part of Hoblitzelle Park. And it was originally constructed by the city of Plano. And then the district took it over in 1996. So we've been doing condition assessments throughout our system for some time. We've identified segments along this area that we need to do some repair, and this particular repair for this, this section we're going to do with internal lining of the pipe. So we're not actually going to excavate the pipe from the ground for this particular one. So this is a direct corrosion and some other issues there. So access to the pipeline is necessary in order to do that. And you know if we were to not do the repair the pipeline, we would have potential for line failure. So or something within the park. So this shows kind of a map of the pipeline. You can see the overall easement area is about three and a half acres. And what I want to show highlight here is the blue line is the existing pipeline easement as originally conveyed to the city of Plano. And if you look at the yellow dashed line, that's the easement we would like to acquire. So when we were doing the engineering on this, we determined that the pipeline is not actually in the easement that was originally awarded to the city of Plano. So in a few areas there, you can see how they're kind of misalignment. So we're just trying to go back and make sure that the pipe is actually in the defined easement. And then for the purposes of that we would like to widen the easement slightly in many areas, because our kind of standard is to have 30ft so that we can work alongside the pipe if we ever have to come back and do repairs. This is an extension of that same area. And you can see there's a couple of spots there where the two alignments are really misaligned quite a bit, but then they come back together. And so we're requesting this also to be 30ft. And then we will abandon the existing easement that exists in favor of the new easements. And that's sort of what we're requesting. So chapter 26 requires that easement dedication is considered a taking for the purposes of the defined hearing. So we'd like to show is there is really no feasible prudent alternative, the assets already in the ground. So we really can't remove it and put it back somewhere else. And then this particular project doesn't include any removal of trees. And actually we don't anticipate to do any regular excavation. We will enter the area, the easement area, with some equipment in order to deploy the lining material that we do. So it's sort of a big spool that you would see and you put a sort of a you pull the polymer through the pipe and then you blow it up, and then you run steam through there and it melts on the inside of the pipe. It's kind of a neat process. So, so the existing easement was misaligned. And so we're just trying to get this aligned. And without that it would be kind of difficult for us to do the necessary rehabilitation because we wouldn't really be to get to the pipe. We might be outside the easement. And so we would be working outside the area that we have, and then we would propose to widen it so that if there's any future rehabilitation or work that's necessary, that it would be centered over the line or within the alignment, so that we would have room to mobilize in the future. So there will be no trees disturbed, as I mentioned, the ground will be restored. We'll have to access the areas and the contractor will only mobilize once we actually have all the material and documentation. So we'll have them submit their their methodology and their submittals and everything. Once we get that approved, then we'll we'll plan. We'll work with the city of Plano to figure out what the access looks like and the timing. Then we would mobilize and put up like trail closed signs for those areas where we may be crossing the trail system that's there, complete the rehabilitation and maintenance. And so this whole project, the whole project costs about $4.3 million. The work within Russell Creek Interceptor itself is just a segment of that. There's actually 17 areas within Plano that we'll be working on, including manhole repairs, but there's just six segments within the park itself that we would like to address. And if this were to pass tonight, we would plan to begin work on this sometime later this summer, and hopefully we would complete the work. Now when it says July 2027, that's the overall project. And so we'll have to phase the work according to, you know, what's most convenient for the park as well as for when the contractor gets that mobilized as well as the other segments. There may be reasons why he wants to mobilize in other areas outside the park first, whether that's because of excavation or availability of material. So again, it is an existing asset. There's an existing easement there, pipelines mostly in the existing easement a little bit outside. So really no prudent alternative to this other than to go back and reconstruct the whole line. And amending that would have made it very difficult and allow us to work on that. So what we'd like to do is amend the easements to provide access. And so in reasonable harm. And, you know, there's no trees going to be removed. In the case of this, the ground will be restored back to its original condition. We'll wait to mobilize when we actually have the materials on site. And then then we'll post, you know, a necessary trail closure and work with City of Plano to provide access where necessary or detours. And with that I'll entertain any questions. Rick. Thank you. Thanks for the explanation here. But let me see if I got this right. You're basically going to be you're not slip lining, but you're going to be lining the pipe internally. So you'll need to have access to those pipes to implement the material to do that. Correct. Yeah. So it's similar to slip lining. Slip lining I guess in the engineering term is you actually push the pipe in there. This in this case it's a just a liner that inflates and then it melts. So the question I have here now the reason you need the there's two reasons you need to have the land for the easement. One is the existing pipe. Not in that easement. Is that correct. It's just outside of it in some areas. In some areas it's not there. And second, you need about 30ft wide section just to continue the work. Is that correct? Yeah. So the existing easement, it varies in width but it's right around 20ft. So in most cases we're asking for an additional ten feet. So that in the future if we have to mobilize for actual repair we can work alongside the pipe. So we don't put the burden on the pipe itself. Okay. So that's really, really all the questions I was getting at two elements. Are some of the pipes not in existing easement. And then the second you need additional 30ft, you need 30ft wide to get the work done. Right. Correct. Thank you. Any other questions Mike. All right. Thanks. I'll close the public hearing and confine the comments to council. Mr. Mayor, go ahead. Mr. Mayor. I move that we find there is no feasible and prudent alternative to the use and taking of this the land. I also move that we find that the project includes all reasonable planning to minimize harm to the land as a park resulting from the use and taking. So therefore I also move to approve the resolution as presented. And this is based on the presentation of the staff. I'll second that. Okay. Thank you. I have a motion. And second for item number two. We still down. All right. All in favor please raise your hand. Motion passes 8 to 0. Thank you. Item number three. Item number three. Public hearing and consideration of a resolution to approve the use or taking of a portion of City of Plano public parkland known as legacy Green Bay Green Belt Trail. Pursuant to chapter 26 of the Texas Park and Wildlife Code. To approve a permanent sanitary sewer and access easement at the dedicated park parkland for a manhole replacement project authorizing the City Manager or his designee to execute all necessary documents and providing an effective date. Good evening Council. This is the second of two of these public hearings for chapter 26. Also, the North Texas Municipal Water District is the applicant here. This is for that sanitary sewer easement along the Legacy Greenbelt Trail. The same findings will be required for this public hearing as the previous, that there is no feasible or prudent alternative, and that all reasonable planning to minimize harm has taken place. I failed to mention during the previous, but will mention for this one that both of these items have been presented to the Parks and Recreation Planning Board, and the board approved these to move forward to council. So I wanted to make that clear as well. And again, Mister Mike Simon will be presenting for the district. Thank you. I'll open the public hearing. Okay. This is another interesting, another interesting taking again sort of involves assets that are already in the ground. In this case we're doing some rehabilitation of an asset. And then in the course of kind of investigating the area and looking at, at how the, the different pipelines that come in to Preston Road lift station reach the actual lift station, we determined that some of our records showed the easements didn't extend all the way to the asset and get it covered, and then also, we don't really have any official easement to access the manhole that we're looking to repair. And so we're trying to remedy those two things right now. So again, we're here to show that. That it is a taking the request for an easement, but that there's no feasible and prudent alternative. And we've taken every effort to avoid to make reasonable unreasonable harm there. So what we see here, you see press release station and it carries most of the flow from, from most of the west side of Plano to 121 Force Main. We actually were here. We're actually at the, at the library the last time where we got the one, the easements for the 121 force main on the north side of legacy Trail Greenbelt. So here you see the manhole and there's both district pipelines as well as City of Plano pipelines that come into that manhole. And that's that represents most of the flow that comes in from that direction into the lift station. And you can see the lift station is located on the east side of the creek. And so from an access perspective, if we're at the lift station and we want to get to the manhole, we would have to travel through the creek. And so we're looking to avoid that. The other thing I would point out is that that manhole itself, the way the pipelines come into it, when we went back and pulled the historical documentation, all the easements didn't match up with each other. And so we're trying to remedy that with this. And so we need to address some of the deteriorating condition of that manhole. And then we would like to get proper easements for future maintenance of that asset. So there's a kind of a blow up of the actual area with the aerial. And you can kind of see the big red dot as the manhole we'd like to replace. And the other manholes for the pipelines that come into Preston Lift station. And this is an example of what we would be putting in place, sort of an example of a fiberglass manhole. Many of our existing manholes might be of concrete, which does have a less limited life because of it's exposed to the corrosion that's present in the wastewater. And so this is kind of become our standard for many assets that we're looking to address. And with this particular case, we'll have to do some bypass pumping. And reason I mentioned that. Now as you'll see we're asking for some time. We're going to we're requesting a special use permit for some mobilization area near that manhole. So this is an extreme blow up of the drawing. But you can see and one of the interesting things here, you can see kind of the purple shaded area and the light green. You can see it doesn't all extend together. And so and then off to the to the left of the screen there for me you can see the kind of the, the tan colored area. That's the permanent access that we'd like to get for that manhole in the future. And then the special use permit area, you can see there are some trees to be removed in the area that we're proposing to work around the manhole, but for the most part, we tried to avoid any damage by protecting the trees that are in the existing pipeline easements. So there are three trees that we've identified would need to be removed that are eight inches and larger. Those trees would not be replanted after construction due to their existence over the top of a pipeline or its proximity to the manhole. But as part of our negotiation for the easements, we compensate City of Plano for the damages in the easement and then all trees that would be removed from that permanent easement would be hauled off and disposed, and any easement that are within them would be removed unless they could be protected. So this is kind of another drawing of it. It shows the different entities that have easements in the area. And you can see kind of the green area with the little dots in it is an easement from the district, but you can see it doesn't extend all the way to where the pipes join together. So we're trying to make sure it does that. And then our easement would overlay the city of Plano and the district's easement to encompass the manhole. Since the asset there is actually ours. Right. And then we're we're working on getting permanent access. So part of that is requesting City of Plano provide permanent access across the parkland property. And then the special use permit areas. And then we're speaking with private landowner about getting direct access to that area. So again easement is a taking of parkland. And so we're here to show there's no feasible or prudent alternative. And we've done a reasonable planning to minimize harm. So the manhole replacement is necessary. This devoid of sanitary sewer overflow in that area. It is very close to white Rock Creek. So as we take extra care with that, there is a limitation both in the records that we could find as well as the ones we did find. The coordinates just didn't match up. So we're trying to make sure that that our records for the easements and what we've granted with the city of Plano has granted us, and what we've compensated City of Plano for are fully covering all the pipelines. And there are some space constraints. And it's a little insufficient for us to do work on that. So that's one of the reasons why we're asking for an easement around the manhole. And then and then the direct access easement we're asking for to the West. That's primarily because we can't access from the east due to the existence of the creek. And then we're trying to minimize impacts. So no trees are being removed within the actual banks of the creek or anything like that. And we're not impacting the trail area at all in this particular work. So to minimize harm, we're proposing that the access easement it follows. So if you actually go over to the site, the route that we've we've proposed for the permanent access easement, it is it is kind of a route that, that both the city of Plano and the district have used historically. There's kind of a gap in the trees there from the property that's to the west. So we're just trying to make sure that we request city planning to make sure that it's all proper and correct. And so the nice thing about that is that kind of access area is already limited in terms of the amount of tree coverage. So we don't have to remove anything to create that. And then we're trying to utilize the existing easements as much as possible, just trying to make sure that the coordinates match up. And then any disturbed areas would be restored back to the condition that we found them. And then again, there's no impact to the actual legacy trail itself. So we estimate that the manhole repair is mostly due to bypass pumping is about $200,000. And again, we would like to try to do that work in the summer. It's low flow season for us, so it's less for us to have to pump around. And with that, I think so we repeat this again, but the manhole replacement is necessary. There was inadequate documentation, so those easements would have to be corrected one way or the other. And then we've done some reasonable planning to minimize the work that was necessary to try to avoid removing trees as much as possible, preserve the bank along the creek, and then the damages as a result of the trees that we did have to remove would be incorporated in the easement cost, similar to what we negotiated as as part of the 121 force main project that we did through the Legacy Trail Greenbelt previously, and that's under negotiation with the city right now. And with that, I'll entertain any questions. Any questions for Mike. At all? I do have one question. Sorry about that. I do have one question and maybe I missed it, but is there a completion date or an estimated completion date? I saw a start date, but I didn't see an estimated completion date. Yeah, I think they anticipate they should be able to complete the work in about three months. Three months? Okay. Is that why it was left off? Yeah. Well, I mean in theory, right. They should be able to do it right. And in a few weeks. Right. But the concern would be if you excavate down and then you, you block off the other pipelines any delays and encounter something else. So I think when we when we bid it out to the contractor, we give them roughly three months because there's some lead time for them. From a contract point of view, there's some lead time for them to get materials and everything to the gotcha. Thank you. All right. Thanks. Thank you. I'll close the public hearing. Confine the comments to the council. Maria. No. Julie. Julie. Sorry. Thanks, mayor. Like the previous item for individual consideration, we find that there is no feasible and prudent alternative to the use and taking of the land. We also find the project includes all reasonable planning to minimize harm to the land as a park, resulting from the use and taking. I move approval of the resolution as presented. I second. Thank you. I have a motion and a second to approve item number three. All in favor, raise your hand. Motion passes 8 to 0. There being no further business, we're adjourned. Fun and energetic demonstrations of yoga. Riverside's line dance, memory exercises, and more. Register in advance for these classes at Plano