foreign good morning mayor good morning everyone good morning this is a meeting of the el paso city council for tuesday september 13 2022 present and presiding in council chambers is mayor lisa along with representative vanello representative hernandez representative representative salcido representative rodriguez representative rivera and alternate mayor pro tem lizard mayor pro tem short spine has requested to be excused from today it is 904 am will everyone please silence their electronic devices so as not to disturb the meeting and rise for the invocation delivered by police fire and ministry coordinator for the sheriff's office chaplain san ferroni good morning mayor city council mr city manager it's good to see all of you in person again if you care to join me as i pray please do so heavenly father we give you praise for another beautiful new day the opportunity we have to overcome evil with good and to make a positive impact on the world around us we acknowledge you this morning and may we seek your presence in order to find wisdom grace guidance for whatever lies ahead of us today i thank you for and i pray for my mayor city representatives and all who influence the direction of our city please cover them today with your mighty hand of strength as they work through the agenda of this meeting thank you for the words of proverbs 3 that tells us trust in the lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding but in all your ways acknowledge him and he shall direct your paths may each of us follow this directive so that we follow in your path and not merely our own may we walk in the path of love wisdom righteousness forgiveness please grant your favor over this meeting today and everyone who will participate i ask that you'll bless and watch over all of those who protect our freedoms and who keep us safe god bless el paso and god bless america in the mighty name of the lord i pray amen thank you and god bless you thank you sir it was great to see you in person command sergeant major can you please lead us in the bud sir please allegiance to the fire of the thank you all want to do the texas will you do it for us that would be great thank you very much he can show the texas flag thank you [Applause] and command sergeant major welcome home um it's what an honor to i know that you grew up in el paso and were gone for how many years 27 years and now he's back as the command sergeant major here in el paso for the garrison commander and um he told me he's never leaving again he loves us the city and uh grew up and won the school in anthony and um welcome home sir thank you and with that um i just want to you know we talked about a little bit yesterday and i want to talk about it today that this weekend we remembered 9 11. and it was you know 21 years ago on sunday and it one more year removed but one thing that we talked about and it's really important that um it will never be out of our minds and they'll never be out of our hearts and it's um we made a commitment back 21 years ago that would we would always remember and i got to go to um the school on um friday and i know the superintendent was there also and it really was young kids that um real well they weren't there on 9 11 but yet they're learning about it and continue to learn about it and i thank them because this is one way we will never forget the brave men and women the 343 firefighters the 72 police officers the two fbi agents and federal agents that ran in the building not knowing whether they would come out or not and one thing that needs to be told when they ran in there fourteen thousand americans fourteen thousand people like just you and i were saved and that's important to know and we couldn't thank every police officer firefighter in our community and across the country for your dedication as you know you leave every morning knowing not to what you're going to expect but knowing that you're there for whatever the challenges may be and on 9 11 they were there for the challenge so again we may we will never forget and our hearts will always remember them so with that i'd like to have a moment of silence thank you and may god bless america may god bless every one of y'all ms prine thank you mary that brings us to the mayor's proclamations the first proclamation is epcc hispanic heritage celebration month representatives thank you mayor proclamation for the city of el paso texas whereas national hispanic heritage month is the period from september 15th to october 15th and whereas hispanic heritage month celebrates the long and important presence and contributions of latinos and whereas el paso community college diversity and inclusion programs will present its 21st annual hispanic heritage month celebration entitled unidos inclusivity for a stronger nation and whereas the epcc hispanic heritage month celebration will offer students faculty and staff and the community a fiesta event to highlight hispanic american contributions to education government and culture on september 21st 21st of 2022 and whereas the celebration will present a lifetime achievement award to a local regional and national trailblazer mentor for their contributions to the border city community now therefore be it proclaimed by the mayor and council of the city of el paso that's september 15 through october 15 2022 shall be known as epcc hispanic heritage celebration month signed by honorable mayor oscar lisa good morning good morning good morning uh mayor and city representatives thank you so much for this proclamation uh my name is lee vasquez i'm the coordinator for diversity inclusion programs and with me i have louis de los reyes and david zamora we're here to represent epcc and um this year's hispanic heritage month national theme is unido's inclusivity for a stronger nation and at epcc we strongly believe that you know diversity is very important uh whether it be local personal state or national it it should be at the forefront in everything that we do and el paso community college continues that effort with our programs on here we we did give you a flyer hopefully you get to see it we want to invite you all to our 21st hispanic heritage month fiesta which we collaborated with epcc campus life and student government we've done things virtually for a couple of years now so it's good to kind of come back and and be together of course following all safety protocols um but we're honoring and having our keynote speaker chibi orduna who comes from texas um he was selected from our student government and he talks a little bit about you know what's going on in the in society right now he's up to date and then he does a lot of like spoken word artists so through his art he kind of explains that uh we are honoring donna munoz she's an epcc english instructor as one of our mentors she's written a book and teaches there at epcc and then dr andres muro he's also an epcc director for the community education program so he helps out a lot with like the geds and bringing in money to help students complete their education so they've done a lot for their community and we want to honor them that day we have carla mariscal who's going to be our host for that day so we want to invite everybody to uh join us september 21st at the valle verde campus from nine to two p.m um to join us and then we also have readings on there for our time today all right but thank you and i hope to see you all there thank you [Applause] the next proclamation is gold out for childhood cancer awareness month thank you mayor proclamation city of el paso texas whereas each year many parents hear the devastating words that no parent wants to hear your child has cancer we go that will pass we want families to know that they are not alone during this difficult time and they have our support we will try our hardest to help families in need in any way possible and whereas gold at el paso honors all the children and families affected by childhood cancer we honor all warriors survivors and angels that have courageously fought this battle we want our families affected by childhood cancer because no child should fight alone and whereas gold out el paso will continue to make it its goal that the city of el paso turn gold every september and whereas children fighting cancer should never feel alone and with the help of our community all children fighting cancer will always get the recognition in september for childhood cancer awareness month for our children are the future and whereas we ask the el paso community to join in go that el paso's motto when one fights we all fight when one cries we all cry when one celebrates we all celebrate we are all in this fight together now therefore it be proclaimed by the mayor and council of the city of el paso that the month of september shall be known as gold out for childhood cancer awareness month signed oscar lisa the honorable oscar leisure mayor city of el paso [Applause] good morning mayor and representative thank you for giving us the proclamation again this year we'll be doing this every year as long as we can every child deserves more than four percent of federal funding and the recognition we gotta go gold before it goes pink and we plan to turn the city gold every year and more and we hope that other organizations and um you know yisd i hope that next year they help us turn the district gold as well and the city gold so you know we're not done we're going to keep fighting for the kids thank you you know and i know that cancer when money is raised for cancer 96 of it is determined based on adults and and children 96 percent of it goes to adults because that's the adults that as they try to find research for um for medication and all and four percent goes to children so i had the honor of being the national chair for hyundai for uh hope on wheels and we actually went across the nation and we raised money through all the hyundai dealers and i'm very proud to know that we raised about 15 million dollars a year and that really wasn't enough to try to find a cure for medications for children but i would go in the hospitals and as we gave the donations to the hospital and they would ask me to go see the children and i told him i couldn't because i would cry it would really make me sad to go in and see a child and they told me he says no you don't understand when you go in there and you see them with the iv or the bandages or whatever that means they're getting help and that's really important but i still couldn't do it anyway but uh it's uh it's really important that the you know the september is gold out month and that we you know recognize the children because it's it's very important that we continue to fight and find research and i can tell you that my motto was always one one child that has cancer is one too many so we'll continue to you know advocate and i know that we were able to donate and honor our local children's hospital and we'll be able to do that again this month because it's important that we continue to fight for children so thank you [Applause] yes ma'am and the final proclamation is 915 a week no hold on one second question for one of the representatives from the gold out el paso okay hi good morning so i know i know that um you know my children's school they're doing every friday they're doing yellow and on next friday is gold out for for their school um is that something that you all are inviting all the school districts to do yes ma'am you would really love to do that turn this the whole city gold especially the kids because even if we don't realize that we all know somebody that knows somebody that has childhood cancer and these kids really go through a lot they feel they lose their life they really do we have some of our warriors here present today and they love to see the support and i think if we can get more schools involved the kids don't know that they're not fighting this alone and their peers will understand of what they're going through and it just helps us bring awareness and show them that they're really not alone they have all our support and we would really love to see the whole city the whole districts go gold right now we do have socorro that's helping us a lot and so we just we just want to make it city white okay so i want to actually um the t-shirts that you all are wearing do you all sell them yes ma'am they are on our website at el paso.com okay um and every year we do change designs and the sad part is we do add more names to the back because on the back of our shirt is all our angels warriors and survivors and so yes ma'am okay so you said that's goldoutel paso.com this is our first year shirt actually he's one of our survivors um william hi we're in our first year and if you notice the back of his shirt compared to our shirt which is this year the names have really grown a lot and i appreciate you all being here um you know thank you for your courage the the young warriors that are here and i will be encouraging my sisd to continue supporting you all and and i will let my school know that you all do sell these t-shirts for the parents that want to support you all yes ma'am so go.el paso.com yes ma'am okay thank you [Applause] and now the final proclamation is 915-week thank you so proclamation the city of el paso texas whereas progress 321 is a group of purpose-driven professionals dedicated to making the region the best place to live work and create and whereas we empower and connect professionals across sectors disciplines generations and cultures we bring together emerging leaders with established trailblazers and foster meaningful actionable progress in our region and whereas 915 week is an initiative by progress 321 to reach out to el pasoans to encourage them to show their pride for our community and celebrate our region with various events and whereas el paso everywhere is a three-day conference dedicated to celebrating our community we proudly invite el pasoans abroad to come back and experience the people and projects actively transforming our region we challenge them to give back to the city that made them by creating or participating and give back projects that will continue to progress our region launched in 2019 el paso everywhere showcases unique culture of three states two countries and one beautiful region in whereas launched in 2017 one region one table showcases unique culinary culture of three states two countries in one beautiful region through an elevated multi-course dinner event complete with a cocktail hour live entertainment and a sommelier's choice wine pairing now therefore be it proclaimed by the mayor and city council of the city of el paso that's september 12th through september 18th 2022 shall be known as 915 week signed by the honorable mayor oscar lisa yay good morning and city council representatives and everyone here thank you so much for supporting nonprofits in this proclamation this proclamation is more than what we could have expected for for launching 915 week my name is gracie viramontes i am the president of progress 321 and um thank you representative vanello you pretty much explained what the organization is about and i would like to introduce ivan chavarria he's been working extremely hard um on progress three two one's initiative with nine one five week and while he does that i have a little bit of swag to give you guys um and he is the chair of progress three two one nine one 915 week good morning major and council thank you for having us again um like canelo said um should pretty much cover everything but we're here to invite the community to celebrate 9-1-5 week we have various events throughout the weekend including a fiesta at the convention center on thursday september 15 for 915 day and we're inviting the community to be a part of it to join us for live music vendors artisans and of course many more things right so we encourage all of you to visit 915week.com for a full list of events and if you're interested in purchasing a 915 week shirt you can go into 9115week.com for more information thank you thank you before we go to the next proclamation i know that uh from community college lou had was trying to speak and we kind of didn't i didn't notice it so lou you want to come up please good morning everyone major leaser uh city representatives thank you so much for giving us the opportunity uh it's my pleasure to be here and i just wanted to take the moment to invite you all in the whole community to join us for the second part of our hispanic heritage month festivities which are the readings we will be having uh the readings at the northwest campus library that will be october 4th and uh the second one will be uh at the rio grande campus october 5th so please join us we invite the whole community and thank you very much for your time thank you thank you very much miss prime we're going to go to uh representative reddon next okay representative and this is representative this is for item 19. representative rivera and this is discussion in action on a resolution recognizing the isleta independence school district for being the only a rated district among the city of el paso's largest districts may i call up the east center board please mr javier de la torres the superintendent mr cruz ochoa board president mr charlie bustillo's vice president miss catherine lucero's secretary mr shane haggarty trustee mr sotero ramirez trustee mr mike rosales trustee would you please come to the front please council citizen city of el paso it's my honor to recognize the southern independent school district and present this resolution to you as it reads whereas on monday august 15 20 2022 the sled independent school district earned an a rating for overall academic performance from the texas education agency for the 21 22 school year and whereas you independent school district received 98 percent of its campuses earning top ratings of either a or b for their educational programs and whereas isla independent school district is the only a rated district amongst the city of el paso's largest districts sorry i took the finale again whereas let me read that one again because it's very important that you all understand the importance of this these sledder independent school districts is the only only a rated district among the city of el paso's largest school districts and whereas of nearly the 1200 public school districts in texas that were rated this year a sled independent school district was among only 396 to receive an a rating for its performance in three domains student achievement school progress and closing the gaps and whereas of the 8 451 campuses rated this year only about 28 percent or two thousand three hundred fifty six schools earned an a rating from the tea and whereas in isleta independent school district fifty percent of its campuses earned an a rating including the following 28 28 campuses isleta pre-k center alicia archicon international school this tier elementary school del norte heights elementary school dolph dolphin terrace elementary school del valle elementary school edgemere element international school eastwood heights elementary school eastwood knolls international school east point elementary school glen cove elementary school mission valley elementary school north star elementary school pebble hills elementary school ramona elementary school rel washington international school sage land school scottsdale elementary school tierra del sol elementary school thomas manor elementary school vista hills elementary school rio bravo middle school dubai high school hanks high school by verde early college high school young women's leadership academy plato academy and tejas school of choice now therefore it be resolved that the city council of the city of el paso recognizes the islamic independent school district for being the only a-rated district among the city of el paso and its largest districts and recognizes a sled independent superintendent dr javier de la torre the of the sled independent board of trustees and all faculty staff students and parents for a successful 21 22 school year congratulations [Applause] good morning good morning good morning mayor lisa and good morning city council members i am cruz ochoa i am honored to be the president of the isleta school district as you see behind me is some of the board members that we're here i just want to say that we're very honored to receive this recognition it has been a long rough road as you know for the last three years and to achieve this has been because of the dedication that we have from all our support staff our teachers our admin everybody has pitched in to make this district the best possible and it has been a road full of challenges but we met them all and we've tried to achieve the best for our children because the goal is to educate them to the best of our abilities and here in el paso because we're so far away from everybody else we have to rely on ourselves and i also want to recognize our sister districts they have been working hard just as much as we have i know that in the coming years they will also be rated as an a district because as you can see it on the numbers they are all working hard to bring us together and make el paso the number one city in in texas that will have a lot more a rated districts in the future so thank you very much for this recognition and i'd like to hand over the mic to dr de la torres so he can say a few words thank you right i just don't want to tell you that we're not far away from everyone everyone's far away from us oh as well make sure you know that well thank you just very briefly good morning good morning sure members of the city council he was doing so well until he included other districts i want to take a moment though and recognize that many of the people who are responsible for our school districts academic programs language programs dual credit programs are in the back of the room i also want to make sure to please stand they're wonderful [Applause] our chief academic officer dr brenda chacon has been amazing i want to recognize the principles the leadership at the schools without their leadership much of this would not be possible and then we have to get into the four corners of the classroom and acknowledge embrace the fact that those teachers are the single most important instrument that we have for reaching children and they've just been phenomenal through some very adverse periods of time but for you to take time from your very important meeting to recognize us we appreciate it i'm sure the board appreciates it and i'll finish with this a lot of what we have accomplished in the last nine years or during my tenure would not be possible without the confidence and trust of my school board leadership starts at the top as it does here thank you very much thank you sir thank you and i think it's um i think you kind of said it all when when you talked about and introduced the people that really have worked really hard with you because it's leadership and that makes a big difference when we're talking about mentoring kids and and doing the right thing and we've we've talked about this if we've talked about it once we've talked about it a thousand times that the children are the future of our community and it's up to you all to make sure that uh that they continue to grow and i think with your team and your leadership and everyone here it's very evident that uh our city is in great shape and we thank you for that thank you very much thank you appreciate it representative one second sir hold on hold on gentlemen gentlemen gentlemen all right so hold on gentlemen we're also we're going to be voting on the item as well but i just i also wanted to um share with you all that i have four children um in the east leta school district so i'm a very proud um you sled a parent my children go to ramona elementary which i will say and i know this is like battleground conversation but really one of the most phenomenal schools in the district really care about the children the culture there is incredibly just family oriented and really care about the children so i i couldn't leave without saying that the the the service the education is above greater than i have ever expected my six-year-old is speaking spanish fluently and she also is reading uh in spanish and now she knows how to understand novellas and so so am i like my six-year-old is doing that i could have never phantom that this is the type of education um and the standard and the the level of excellence that i could expect from for my children so i'm very proud of all the work ramona and the school district has put into our children and we're looking forward to the to the much needed upgrades um that the the voters of el paso approve so thank you for your hard work thank you superintendent and and all the teachers everyone who puts the effort into making the the school district the best in el paso thanks and and finally what uh i i know i know representative hernandez and i've had the pleasure of working with trustee bustillos mr rosales miss lucero they always make themselves available to us and dr de la torre you're not that far away you've also been receptive to us and invited us to many events and we appreciate you for that and so um here's just a little something from the city council of the city of el paso proudly recognizes this independent school district uh for being the only el paso school district to earn an a rating from the texas education agency for the year 2021 and 2022 school year congratulations as mr del torres has branded the district i like that thank you so much for everything your many of your many uh the improvements that you made for campuses sir and your vision it's fantastic it kind of reminds me of mr gonzalez here but i think uh wants to say to me representative thank you good morning as a retired educator i just want to really commend you and congratulate you for this a plus rating of all those campuses i was a state mandated testing coordinator as well at the campus i used to work at and i know how hard this achievement that you all have garnished for your school district is and so i just wanted to take a few moments to congratulate you and dr de la torre you said it best when you said teachers are the single most important um factor in this recognition so i thank you for being here and congratulations to each and every one of you for all your hard work and your dedication as our mayor says so often the youth really are the future of our city and so thank you for for this shining star for our city of el paso congratulations thank you okay i make a motion to approve sir there is a motion made by representative rivera seconded by representative molinar to approve item number 19 on that motion call for the vote [Music] in the voting session the motion passes unanimously representative salcido not present we'd like to ask all this morning honorees to please remain in chambers until the recognitions are complete so that city council may have an opportunity to take photos with you mayor you would like to move to item 20 next item 20 is discussion in action to recognize the week of september 12th to september 16th as the 2022 disability voting rights week thank you mayor thank you miss prime i will read the resolution into record so whereas in july people with disabilities and their supporters celebrated the 32nd anniversary of the americans with disabilities act and whereas there are over 61 million people with disabilities of all ages living in communities throughout the united states and whereas the disability community has a critical interest in policies enacted at local state and national levels that affect the in sorry affect the integration of people with disabilities young and old into our communities and whereas getting the disability community involved in influencing people public policies is essential if these policies are to meet the real needs of people with disabilities that live in the community and whereas nonpartisan voting is one way for disability community to exert their influence at local state and national elections and whereas there are multiple efforts to organize people with disabilities and our allies around the issue of voting and whereas rev up register educate vote use your power is an effort to encourage state and local disability communities to organize voting coalitions and whereas members of the national disability rights community are organizing a disability voting rights week that will span from september 12th to september 16 2022 now therefore be it resolved at the city council of the city of el paso that the city of el paso is proud to support the growing involvement of disability community in the nonpartisan political process and recognizes the week of september 12th to september 16th as 2022 disability voting rights week i don't know if there's anyone here oh hi everyone if you all would like to speak but first of all hi hi good afternoon good morning good morning council um thank you for taking the time to do this resolution for us for voting rights it's important that people with disabilities not only people with disabilities encompass a disability vote we also have our neighbors our friends our relatives our communities that represent the disability vote and it's important for us to make sure that people with disabilities and those that support us are registered to vote it is on the national push to register people with disabilities to vote so we do want to encourage others to make sure that you're registered to vote and that you exert that that right you have to elect the people that represent you and have um invested vested uh commitment to improving the lives of people with disabilities here in el paso and around the country thank you thank you do we have a motion thank you everyone for being here um i think as sway said we know that the voting is a challenge in our community and and for individuals that already um have a difficult time we want to make sure as a city that we make voting easy and accessible for individuals with disabilities i know during voting week we make our public transit free so people can get out to vote but we need to be doing more in working with the disability community to understand how we can help you all and how voting can be more accessible on our end so thank you all very much and with that i'll make a motion to approve thank you and thank you all for being here and i think it's important that um we always treat people the way we want to be treated and we'll never be disappointed so thank you for that we have a motion in a second yes so there's a motion made by representative vanello seconded by representative rivera to approve item number 20 on that motion call for the vote and the voting session and the motion passes unanimously mayor you want to move to item 21 next that is discussion and action to recognize september 18 to 24 as the american library association span books week this is the last one i have i promised mayor so whereas in 1982 the annual celebration of banned book week was launched by the office of intellectual freedoms the american library association and the publishing community in order to fight against censorship and celebrate the freedom to read and whereas banned books would be celebrated in order to highlight current and historical attempts to censor books and libraries and schools while also celebrating the freedom to choose as well as the freedom to express one's opinion even if that viewpoint may be deemed unconventional and whereas texas state officials in leadership position last year began questioning books and reading materials in public schools particularly those related to race and sexuality including pulitzer prize-winning books and authors and whereas the books that are being questioned tell the stories of people of color and other stories of the marginally oppressed which should be including the education of all people and whereas we should recognize that the power of words in books is used to open the eyes in the world of younger generations by starting conversations and outlining the perspectives of different groups and individuals and banned books week was established to acknowledge this fact and celebrate the stories that officials in our state are trying to silence and whereas the city of el paso has committed to building a truly equitable community by guaranteeing every citizen has the freedom to read and have access to diversity and information and ywca el paso del norte region's mission is to eliminate racism empower women and promote peace justice freedom and dignity for all and whereas the ywca el paso del norte region and the city of el paso have partnered to create banned book sections in all of the city of el paso public libraries ensuring all community members have access to stories that represent them and that citizens are encouraged to embrace diversity by reading stories about communities other than their own now therefore be it resolved that the city council of the city of el paso recognizes september 18th to 24th as american library association's banned book week hey y'all how are you outstanding um hi i'm sarika barlow i'm the ceo for the ywca excuse me ywbca um thank you so very much city council mayor in march ywca launched the span book initiative and we are so grateful for your unanimous support of putting this in all of our public libraries at the ywca as we've shared and our mission is to eliminate racism and empower women and it is so imperative that we allow the voices of the marginalized black and hispanic asian and indigenous people to be heard and to be represented and it's said that people perish for a lack of knowledge and so it is important that we hear these voices and we allow these stories to be told so that we can learn from them and so that we can grow and so we're so thankful to be part of a community that is willing to grow and to learn and to move forward so behalf of ywca we are thankful for your consideration of this resolution as the national national week is celebrated on the 18th so thank you for your continuous support and in el paso i'm proud to say that every voice matters and this is a great community to be represented in thank you and i want to thank you for your leadership and your commitment and you're doing a great job and and it's um we really want to thank you for stepping in and doing an incredible job yes and congratulations and welcome it's the first city council meeting that you've spoke up in this position and so we're really excited to have you here thank you thank you your emotion [Applause] sorry was there emotion motion second thank you there was a motion made by representative vanello seconded by representative molinar to approve item number 21 on that motion call for the vote in the voting session and the motion passes unanimously next is the mayor's distinguished award to dr ashan shiduri and dr ryan wicker and i'm i'm going to have uh australia escobar read a couple words she had the honor of working with both of them for a long time and has is very proud to be here standing next to him good morning mayor and council estrella escobar chief of staff for mayor lisa on september 2nd the west texas aerospace and defense manufacturing coalition led by the university of texas at el paso's renowned aerospace center and wm keck center in partnership with congresswoman escobar the city of el paso the county of el paso and many other partners announced it had been awarded a 40 million dollar grant as a winner for the department of commerce's buildback better regional challenge along with matches and in-kind contributions this results in more than 80 million dollars for our aerospace and defense manufacturing initiative the city led by the mayor and the city council and a team led by the city manager will contribute nearly 42 million in cash and incline contributions and will take the lead in designing and developing a 250 acre advanced manufacturing district at the el paso international airport to provide a physical space in the necessary support infrastructure for existing and new manufacturers to expand operations in our region the significance of this award for this collaborative partnership is immense it will be transformational for this region and completely revitalize el paso's economic landscape and this partnership started with two individuals dr assan chaduri and dr ryan wicker dr assan chaduri is associate vice president at utep and founding director of the aerospace center in addition to being the mr and mrs mcintosh merchant and chair two in engineering the aerospace center is a premier minority serving research center that explores new technologies and challenges in space aeronautics defense and energy using digital tools and skills that are transforming the way we design build and test systems under dr chiduri's leadership the aerospace center has developed an expansive vision to exponentially expand our nation's talent force by unleashing new opportunities for students from every background and every zip code through cutting edge applied research in aerospace defense and energy he is an internationally renowned expert in aerospace and defense systems and has led the growth of utep's aerospace defense and energy education and research program from its infancy to a program that is nationally recognized the aerospace center has grown from a 3 000 square foot lab employing 30 students as research assistants to over 35 000 square feet in laboratory space and 8 000 acres of test facilities employing 200 students today dr ryan wicker is director and founder of the wm keck center for 3d innovation and america makes satellite center the endowed mr and mrs mcintosh murchison chair 1 professor of mechanical engineering at utep and editor-in-chief and founding editor of additive manufacturing journal dr wicker has co-founded three university spin-out companies holds 29 u.s patents and nine foreign patents published hundreds of peer-reviewed articles and has employed more than 500 students and researchers in utep's kent center with many of them becoming leaders in the additive manufacturing industry in total the aerospace center has received more than 60 million in grant funding and the keck center has received over 44 million in grants in the last 10 years not including the most recent grad award the strategic partnership between dr chidori and dr wicker is the seed that grew into the wonderful partnership that resulted in being one of only 21 cities out of 529 in the nation that applied to receive this phenomenal 40 million grant award translating into more than 80 million for our region and becoming the economic and research engine that will transform el paso's future it is for this amazing vision and leadership that the mayor and the city council of the city of el paso award the mayor's distinguished award to dr assan chaduri and dr reinwick thank you and um before we we do the award i want to thank mr gonzalez and his team for recognizing the partnership of dr suduri and dr wicker and what it could bring to the community economic development and it really has made it manufacturing and it's made a huge difference in council also for supporting has we needed to support it to be able to move it forward where the the white house would award these grants so mr gonzalez your team and uh thank you very much for recognizing the great partnership and uh working with utep to be able to have this incredible two gentlemen in front of us doctor and doctor come to speak to us to so we can congratulate you who would like to go first thank you very much for the award mayor and city council my family has been in el paso for over 100 years i went away to school i worked outside of town before i finished my phd but in 1994 i came back to el paso and became a professor at at utep i'm at the time dr natalicio had the vision of us becoming this research university and what we what is my proudest moment is being here today that that vision is becoming a reality we had to work very very hard to develop the research preeminence in order to get competitive research awards at utep and so dr chaderi and i built two independent centers that are globally recognized for what we do mine in advanced manufacturing and more particularly 3d printing additive manufacturing and dr chaduri's in space and the the aerospace center dr chaduri and i after developing that research preeminence came together in 2015 and started focusing on leveraging our research and what we've accomplished to better our community and so we've been spinning out companies and working on these things when i started at utep in 1994 60 of our students were the first in their families to get a college degree i stood up at our commencements and i was tremendously proud of that there's still a majority of those students today over 50 percent of our students are their first and their families to get a a college degree and so i've been at utep 28 years so our vision now is not that we don't feel proud that many of our students are the first in their family to get a college degree but we're going to provide a living wage to our community in stem areas so that potentially over the next two decades we can drive that number down we would love to see that number uh cut in half to where we're raising our all of our students are very very successful in engineering the two centers produce over 300 students they don't graduate every year we employ nearly 300 students in our two centers we we employ dozens of full-time staff and what has paid me as an el paso and is the majority of our students we've been exporting all of our talent and so our vision and now it's coming together and this partnership that has has grown tremendously is we are beginning to see this vision come to fruition so we are so excited of the future and what this grant represents and there will be many more grants to follow uh in in this in these areas and uh we can't wait to see our students graduating and getting eighty thousand dollar job offers elsewhere and getting eighty thousand dollar your job offers here and being able to stay home um there are it's not just us our uh both of us care deeply about our students and so everything we do is really for our students and and the students that we produce and there's many individuals on the backs of which we had to ride in order to get here so we can't recognize everyone but we brought with us our vice president of research who's been vice president and saw us from the growth from very little extra research to being recognized as this carney carnegie one research institution so roberto segeda has been a tremendous influence on the two of us we also brought some new representation for us the future of utep and our new dean dr ken meisner is also here there's also a product of mine a student who's got a bachelor's degree a master's and a phd at utep now a professor at utep so he started this center with me as a student has been with me since 1997 now a professor at utep and becoming a role model is a role model for our future generations and that's professor frank medina who's also here so thank you all very much thank you thank you thank you so much and uh unlike ryan uh i'm only 22 years in el paso this kind community accepted me as one of their own and i i cannot thank you enough such a privilege to be part of this this kind community so as ryan explained that we run a massive research center but working with congresswoman escobar we decided that you're gonna use this pre-maintenance to build el paso a bit differently to me this whole buildback better regional challenge and everything has a really uh it's a singular ask i wanna make sure that we have the fair share of american wealth we want to make sure that our community has a fair share of american prosperity we don't want to be neglected we don't want to be considered as a border community that doesn't know what to do with it with this grant set as a course that we want to make sure that that every piece of defense hardware built sums built in el paso every spacecraft we build that go to moon and beyond moon part built in el paso el paso will rise and this grand is the rise of el paso i cannot thank you all of you enough for i know many of my friends and as such a such immense support we got my special thanks to tommy gonzalez you know the submission process is complicated and he was always stood by and and help us to go through this very difficult process um let's consider this is a journey this is the start of a journey and hopefully uh i will see you a few years later and tell that where we are with that thank you so much thank you and um i'd like to you know as um dr ricker as you were talking about dr nalicio she had a vision and she always you know show his dream big and show us how to vision that today would be a day that she would be very proud of and i know that she's looking down on both of you and can be any prouder to accomplish one of her visions and one of her dreams for el paso so i know we all love dr nalicio and she dedicated her whole life to the students in the city and you all at utep so you know i know that she's very proud of every one of y'all and she's looking down with a big smile i know that and i know she had her hair done just especially for you all this morning to make sure when she looked down on y'all so thank you and um now i'd like to um present um i'm going to go down there and present this award representative bernandez will you help me please uh go down there and present this and mr gonzalez i think you were a big part of this so i'd like for you to go up there with us to present this award to them and um it's important that you continue to be recognized for always give you this one but i'm going to read it first this is to dr sudhuri for your unwavering dedication to students steadfast commitment to research and extraordinary vision for a brighter el paso mr infamous thank you sir for your unwavering dedication for students steadfast commitment to research an extraordinary vision for brighter el paso thank you for your commitment and this award that we're given today is the mayor's distinguished award and its award that is not given very lightly i've been in office again almost two years and this is only the fourth time we've given this award because for people that are committed and dedicated to making el paso a better place so thank you and congratulations [Applause] there's a motion and a second to recess the city council meeting in order to take photos all in favor anyone opposed the meeting is in recess at 10 o'clock a.m council members if i could actually we're gonna this is order and this is for the public as well if you can um follow along we're gonna go ahead and do the mayor's distinction award first we're gonna ask um dr shidori and dr whitaker uh with wicker i apologize dr wicker um to meet us behind here in front of the photographs over here after that we're going to go to epcc the hispanic heritage month celebration then we're going to go to gold out children and then 915 week then we'll jump over to um isleta isd followed by the disability voting rights week followed by um american library association the ywca so we're going to go in that order so if i can get dr shidori and dr wigger in the mail what's my mask huh okay [Music] i think we stand over here great is um here i know hey yes god um uh so foreign yay okay okay there we go all right cool thank you foreign yes all right oh kyle [Music] uh yes uh ready thank you favorites um you're on there all right yes okay okay okay okay are you bye all right um we have sometimes now representative how yesterday no i wasn't here yes mayor we have a quorum is there a motion to reconvene there's a motion and a second to reconvene the city council meeting all in favor yes anyone opposed the meeting is back in session at 10 18 am that brings us to the consent agenda all matters listed under the consent agenda will be considered by city council to be routine and will be enacted by one motion unless separate discussion is requested by council members prior to the vote members of the audience may ask questions regarding items on the consent agenda when the vote has been taken if an item has not been called out for separate discussion the item has been approved council may however reconsider any item at any time during the meeting mayor pro tem lizard i moved to approve the consent agenda with the following revisions page 3 item 1 and that revision is to include the month for the august 30th 2022 minutes page 3 item 2 request to excuse absent city council members and that is to excuse representative peter schwartzwein from today's meeting page four item five delete per capital improvement department page 8 item 18 postponed two weeks per representative sports fine page 8 item 22 delete per representative rivera and finally page 9 item 25 delete per police department second there is a motion and a second to approve the consent agenda miss cassidy has signed up on item 17 carol cassidy i don't see her in chambers the motion was made by representative lee zaraga seconded by representative rivera to approve the consent agenda as revised on that motion call for the vote in the voting session the motion passes unanimously representative anello not present that brings us to page number eight item number 23. and this is an update on the streets and maintenance pothole patching program good morning morning richard good morning sir good morning richard bristol streets and maintenance it could please give up our bring up our presentation thank you um thank you i'm richard bristol with streets and maintenance and i'll be presenting along with sal solis uh our transportation manager over the street maintenance section and i'll be asking him to come in and help with some of these slides as we keep going um if you could please advance the next slide so this is gold team seven um advanced enhanced and sustainable hassles infrastructure network um if you could please advance the next slide so what we want to talk about today uh we're going to touch on our payment maintenance strategy briefly touch on how to report a south's going to walk us through the pothole repair process and we want to make sure you understand some of the things that we've changed in our approach since we used lean six sigma a couple of years ago um sal will also give you an update on present year monsoon season we have a little bit of customer feedback to touch on and then i'll try and uh briefly and efficiently uh tie back with the summary and get to the the presentation uh in a reasonable time if we go to the next slide please so streets matter this has been in all of the chime in surveys it's crystal clear to all of us in the streets and maintenance department and we're actually pleased that it is a priority because we're very serious about streets as well and what we want is the same thing that the public wants we want quality streets if you could please advance the next slide and this this slide right here is one of the most important ones in our presentation because what we want to do is show you how we can align and integrate the capital program with the maintenance program and we start with the investment and if you look at the far left we've got a chart there that shows the resurfaced streets since 2013. it's very close to 500 that that number 479 was a few weeks back we have not stopped uh pavey street since then so that number continues to rise but what that investment reflects is 285 million dollars invested into our streets and that investment has an impact and that impact is reflected in the second chart mr rodriguez gave a very detailed presentation of the council in april about the payment condition indexes and what what i took away from that slide and what we took away as a group is that investment has a lot to do with why our overall pci average has not dropped we've remained relatively steady since 2018 and that is even during a period where we we missed over a year of paving but we believe that has a lot to do with the investment that the council has approved us to make in our streets in the 2015-2023 period and as you can see in 2012 we're at 75. there wasn't a lot of investment between 2012 and 2015 and you can see that reflected in the payment score it dropped by 10 points um we would hope to be in front of you at some point in time with a payment score that is increasing that is our goal but going through these tough periods of these last couple years we're very pleased that we're able to hold where we are and we do thank you for that investment to get us there maintenance plays into this as well and the reason maintenance plays into this is because an investment that's made on the capital side ultimate results in an operational efficiency on the maintenance side um if you look at those streets on that first chart with the 479 all of those streets they were the worst streets in el paso not too long ago and they were the ones that were popping up on the pothole heat maps and on the pci maps as red um after that we paved them we've essentially eliminated thousands of potholes from our annual cube because we knocked out a lot of trouble streets over the last few years while we were doing that more streets continued to develop it to deteriorate and more have fallen into a problematic area and that's why we have a pavement management program so we can continue to deal with these problems now our pothole heat map is what's shown on the bottom right column now the value of that map that shows us where we work during the last year and the the concentrations of yellow and red that shows you the worst parts of town these are things that we take into consideration when we're building things like arpaigo programs for residential streets in addition to the pavement condition in addition to closing out neighborhoods we also look for those areas where we have these problems because what we're trying to also do in our in our maintenance problem is find efficiencies to keep the maintenance program moving by eliminating major problems in the capital program and we've had an effective go at this over the last few years we firmly believe and we're going to make our case as to why there have been years where we've had varying uh levels of pothole repairs since we started this process and if you look at 2020 it's substantial we did 75 000 potholes in that year i can tell you we did 60 and 21 and 41 and 22 and it has gone down a bit but i want to emphasize in 2020 uh we didn't pave that year and we were quite aggressive on our pothole patching program for that reason and we got a lot of work done um so there is some variation on the amount of potholes that are repaired during the course of the year and that has a lot to do not only with investments and not only with our maintenance practice but it also has to do with weather conditions as well which we'll touch on as well in this in the presentation if you could go to the next slide please so just recapping some of our diverse pavement management investments we've got it on the cip there's debt funded for resurfacing and reconstruction hopefully we'll be able to pass the committee's progress bond which would be absolutely critical to keep our to keep the progress moving for the next 10 years frankly but we also have our paygo money that pay go money that you approved for us was an absolute game changer in regards to payment management and on top of that we also have our operating budget these are the operating resources that support these programs and those those are also invested through the general fund so we have various ways that we invest in various programs and it all leads to results if you can go to the next slide please um this is a slide that we tend to put in most of our presentations and the reason i have it on this one is i want to make a point we have over 6 000 streets in el paso we cannot be on 6 000 streets in the course of a week even but the general public is and the general public has proven time and again to be our our most important ally when it comes to reporting problems in the streets whether it's during normal conditions whether it's during a weather event but these are the individuals that are using the streets daily and and they know what they know the driving lines so we we put a very high value on what the public provides to us um and we like to say this at every uh presentation because we're seeing a decrease in our public reported service requests and we just want to make sure that we're capturing everything if we could advance to the next fight please on this slide i want to just show you what has kind of changed in our approach to patching potholes over the last many years um back before 2016 we had a completely different process what we were doing back then was we were driving with service requests essentially service requests drove our process and not only did they drive the process the older service requests were prioritized when we were following that method we found ourselves having a lot of time traveling throughout the city going from one location to another essentially going from one service quest to another when they're doing that they could have been driving over a pocket to get to the next one what we changed was now our work is driven through our patching zones and sal's going to explain that in detail in a minute but what it is is we're working larger groups of employees in small concentrated areas and by staying in a small concentrated area we're not driving around and wasting the day getting from point a to point b we're within a smaller geographic region less travel and that's given us the time to do more pothole work another benefit that we had from that lean six sigma project was data we changed how we did data we were doing it manually before and we started doing it electronically on this project we've rolled out electronic data management throughout the department and what we've found is we've got better data and having better data is helping us make better decisions um the result of when we're chasing these service requests was we're getting less than 20 000 potholes done a year and every year since 2016 we've either doubled or tripled that number um but what we what we really are more proud of is the fact that our service requests coming from the outside have not only stabilized but they remain low and when the public is not calling them in that makes us uh want to verify because we're assuming our processes work and we want to verify it too if you go to the next side please so our street maintenance division is one of several within the department mr solis is our transportation manager overseeing the division and the five handsome gentlemen to the right are our supervisors at our outlying corrals sal will go into how we have set up this program but what i would like to add is the group collectively has about 130 years of experience and they are backed up by our management team here in the office myself and our three deputy directors we have we bring another 116 years of experience in oversight to assist these gentlemen um right now i'd like to ask sal to take over the presentation and walk us through the next few slides all right thank you mr bristol uh good morning everyone mayor console uh i'm the transportation manager overseeing the five names corrals as you can see here every corral is assigned to an area supervisor and corresponding personnel i want to before i move on i do want to reiterate what mr wrist to say these gentlemen right here are completely knowledgeable of the trade they know what they doing and they're very serious about what they do they do have a high level of ownership next slide as an overview of the pothole repair process we need to understand the city is geographically divided into five main series each area is equipped with an average of two poho patching units that because of monsoon crews are being deployed to work six days per week furthermore each section each area is subdivided into areas of focus that we call patching zones or grits next slide so as you can see in the map to the left uh each corral has been subdivided in four sections we call these again uh zones or patching zones our comprehensive approach is by having crews stay on task on each one of these grades they reduce travel time cover more ground and improve time match this next slide in south i could if you should go backwards so what it's getting at is it just if you look at the east side for example you see the four sections that are in green on a monday and i'm not sure which day um you've got them aside but assuming monday they're in east a they don't leave that area in each day so therefore they're not going from areas of ec to east b to east d looking for service requests they stay in that concentrated zone for that day which is scouted previously by the supervisor so we know where the potholes will be and then the next day they'll move on to another grid i'm sorry sorry i wanted to make sure we had that expressed no problem thank you so much the next slide put the last stage in front of that so some different some different types of roadway deficiencies we see in this include cracking potholes base failures and sinkholes uh krakens is our least severe problem but we still respond to these deficiencies through our crack scene program below that if you can see the picture in the corner to the left we have potholes i mean bajos are perforations in the surface of the street usually caused by excessive moisture from rain or other factors like age of the road or stress that the payment has been receiving uh base failures if you see the top right are pretty much failed or deteriorated areas underneath the pavement that reflect into the pavement as as the surfaces or these layers start moving uh you know vertically or horizontal and in a more extreme situation we have sinkholes as you can see in the middle picture to the right this is when roadways washes away causing cavities they're large enough to swallow a car and lastly we have payment cuts although this is not quite a payment failure payment cuts are part of the industry's improvement work normally compromising the integrity of the street and we as the cd permitting authority it is very important through our permitting data that we ensure proper restoration because our primary uh maintenance concern is public safety and preserving the infrastructure next slide in an effort to take care of the deficiencies we introduced two methods to address power repairs a long-term approach and a temporary report to define the difference between them coal mix is used when the ground is wet regardless of the surface temperature whereas hot mix is a long-term solution but it's not recommended during low temperatures or over oversaturated ground next next slice okay so the picture on the top illustrates the coal mix application process its benefits the material can be transported in pickup trucks it also helps prevent issues from spraying quickly this is a much faster process compared to the long term because it doesn't have to deal with demolition and removal of the wheat the pictures in the bottom illustrate the long-term approach the even benefits is that it's a long-term you don't have to worry that for that long it protects all of the motorists and pedestrians because it's not an issue and is usually placed by the use of puffle patches and so if i could add something to this um the reason we do the cold mix during periods like a monsoon season is potholes emerge fast and when it comes to potholes timelessness is everything if you don't get on a pothole fast two things are going to happen it's not going to fix itself it's going to continue to grow into a costlier and more complex problem but in addition to that you can see there's an obstruction in the roadway a car tire could easily get into that and cause damage so if you see us out there doing the cold mix the name of the game on that is to go through a corridor and to apply cold mix everywhere we're seeing an obstruction and then what we do is we turn that data and then they can be scheduled for a proper patch with a pothole patcher at a later date so please don't assume that because we're using the temporary patch that we don't go back and do a final patch on it we do the temporary patch so we're not causing damage to cars and so we're not continuing damage to our infrastructure and so it's a stopgap method so that we continue with the proper patches now the proper patches will come in time but they take a lot more time to do so so i just want to make sure that was out there as well so thank you next slide so this is the pothole service request slide and our takeaway from this slide is this is what's happened to the public initiated service requests since we started working in the grid system so we rolled out this process and the service requests have decreased our target is to keep 90 of the work self-initiated that would mean our process is finding ninety percent of the work uh last year we were able to get to uh 93 um but that that would be our goal we do have upticks and we want the upticks we want the public reporting things because that's that's how we know we're getting everything but we believe our process is showing signs of working um simply by the reduction of service requests if you go to the next slide please so these are the potholes in the present fiscal year um the blue graph represents the potholes it's a reduction from the previous year um as you can see at the beginning of the year uh up until about november i think what we were doing was those were all potholes from the monsoon season previously where we're we're basically tying up all those loose ends around november and december are two things one it's going back with the hot mix and getting all the areas that we had to use cold mix during the monsoon season but we also had some moisture events in january and february which also produced a little bit of an uptick in potholes then it kind of dried out and stabilized for a little while we have the clouds over the month of august because that's when we really started seeing uh the profound effects of uh the monsoon season this year whereas last year we started seeing the effects of monsoon season very early in in july if you go to the next slide please so quality control oversight through the pavement cut permits this is a very sensitive issue and the reason it's sensitive is because this is something that is very complicated to control um last year during the course of the year there were 6084 perma cuts that were issued city-wide the reason there's a lot of them right now is because well there is five um fiber optic buildups going on 5g builds within our neighborhoods in addition to that there are two small cell builds going on throughout the community so there's a lot more permitting going on um right now supporting those projects um the goal of permitting for payment cuts is real simple we want to protect our pavement with the quality restoration um a lot of the utility companies they do have assets in our streets within the street routeaway you'll find the gas lines you'll find water lines storm water lines and waste water lines um within the parkways you're going to find the telecommunication lines the fiber optic companies are working within telecommunication lines but that's still part of our right-of-way um our ordinance governs this governs this process um section uh chapter 1304 of the municipal code and the real purpose of payment cuts at the end of the day for us we want to know who is working in our pavement so that we can hold them accountable to a proper restoration so that we don't have pavement failures later on that have resulted from a haphazard or unacceptable backfill and repair and restoration of a pavement type okay if we go to the next slide please so this requires a lot of ongoing coordination and and sometimes it's a lot of painful communication but working with these five telecon companies has been an experience for us we have coordination meetings with all of them now it's taken a lot to get our process improved over the last few years and we did have some help we weren't quite ready for the storm of these telecom build-outs a couple years back but now we're in a position where we're much better able to produce during it now there is a present project uh a lean six sigma project that's examining payment cuts and it's being done in conjunction with the water utility and if you look at that bottom cut that's that's a water utility cut right there they're probably as far as the utilities that that would cut into the pavement the most it would be the water utility um and as mentioned their water line and their assets do exist in the pavement what we need to find is a way that we can communicate and coordinate better so that we're not cutting into newly paved streets that's the name of the game when we get a street paved we would like to establish it so it's not getting cut into immediately sometimes it does happen because people do have connect service connections or there could be a line break um but we do believe that there's a lot of opportunity for improvement here through something as simple as communicating coordinating better and we think that lean six sigma is going to help us find a better avenue and a better process of handling this educating the industry on payment cuts has been a challenge and it's been a challenge primarily because a lot of the companies that are coming into town to do the subcontracted work for for a lot of the telecoms they aren't from here um i'm told in our communication meetings our coordination meetings often by them that other communities in texas do not require permits or handle their permits the same way we do but one thing that we like to make it very clear to the companies that do business in el paso is one we are very serious about safety we do not want any el paso in or anyone period getting injured or worse in a permanent traffic zone and we take that very seriously as a vision zero community and the second thing is we take our payment very seriously we cannot afford to have additional damage to our pavement if it's unnecessary and that's why we're making the extra attempt to try and bring in some of these payment cuts that we're working on with our utility partners a little more control through coordination communication if you go to the next slide please so some of the risks associated with not responding to issues like this uh in a promptly way uh it's unsafe conditions for the street users we also have an increase in insurance claims and property damages an impaired pothole will just continue to deteriorate and it will develop into a larger pothole then it will need a paving and restoration project to satisfy its repairs next slide please okay so just a brief comparison uh between last year's monsoon year and this current one last year the monsoon came in early and with a lot of and many damages about nine streets require comprehensive pavement repairs as you can see in the pictures you can see the level of destruction that some of these streets receive can you go over the next slide and this year so far we have seen some issues with washouts with slope erosion many of this silt material stays in the road becomes a problem and obstruction to motorists so we have to respond and we clean up assessment we use our machines to carry all this debris out of the way so we could eliminate the obstacle and we bring our sweepers so they can finish the job so they can clean and make it better next slide please for the past two three months we have removed over 130 cubic yards of degree we also have swept over 1500 curb miles as you can see in the picture to the right you can see whenever we're patching we see these issues there you see the material from that medium and then up in the middle of the street so we need uh sweepers so we can start removing that material at the same time that we patch in potholes we also uh during these three months we have been patching over 8 000 potholes so we're moving along last night we got a rain and some areas so we're right now mitigating some of these issues next slide these are some of the customer feedback that we've gotten not all of our customers have negative uh comments for streets when people call the street department it's generally because there's a problem that they need dealt with and we understand that and we're very happy to jump on those problems but we do get a lot of compliments and we do get a lot of positive feedback from the public um in addition to these i've heard stories of people actually um giving our patching crews water ice cream and a lot of people are go out of their way to thank them some people stop and thank them while they're working it's a bit of distraction for the employees sometimes but i think it's very nice that that happens i'll give you a second on this slide and then i'm going to move to the next one and i'll try and wrap up the presentation thank you so in summary a lot of the actions that are producing results for pavement management are in place we have a very aggressive maintenance operation as we've had a chance to go through right now we have a continuous resurfacing program we continue to resurface streets we're not paving today because of the rain but we're paving weekly quality can throw control through permitting again the permitting process is very important because we need to know who's cutting into our right of way and we need to hold them accountable for a proper restoration the ongoing investment is there this council has invested over 285 million dollars since 2013 in our street pavement and that has had an impact on our payment conditions and periodic assessments of our conditions are very important because they guide our decisions um we're very interested to see where we are in the next payment assessment and we're very optimistic that we want to cut in to that 65 and hopefully we can start moving the numbers in the other direction equipment investments are also absolutely critical the pictures to the right are two of the four brand new pothole patching units that were delivered in the current year the staff thanks you very much we have a fifth one that is on order it's not quite delivered yet we can assure you we we use the equipment we beat up the equipment we don't not take care of it we take very good care of it because we rely on it but we use it a lot and we really uh we really appreciate the opportunity to get new equipment because this is our lifeblood and it really does make a difference for us and then the other pillar there is new sources of funding and investments and that's the potential for the community progress bond and if the community progress bond passes that will keep this momentum moving for at least the next decade and that will put us in a very good position to continue to to attack these street and pothole problems so this was our last slide um sal and i will stick around for any questions that you have this time um members of council we put this together because it was very timely and then also just there's a lot of questions we get on on potholes and we felt like it was good information for us to share with you so you know what the process was i know that we gave previous presentations where the numbers went up dramatically like from 12 000 a year to 76 76 000 bottles a year there's been a lot of work though y'all have been doing with respect to securing additional funding so that we can have pay-as-you-go dollars on an annual basis as well as just a commitment with the bond program that uh have been put in place again by by all of you so the execution of that has really helped with the condition of the streets uh but we still have a lot of potholes that we get after and we just want to make sure you all know what the process was we're also working on the crm process which is a customer relations management software that i think that we've reached out to to a couple of you if not several of you to be involved in that so that that can stream in as well in terms of getting calls not only on potholes but other different complaints that we get from your uh constituents in your respective districts thank you representative hernandez followed by representatives thank you mr bristol um thank you sal really nice to see faces to the department really appreciate everything you're doing in the community and i know that you are struggling with personnel but still managed to do all the work that you're doing just a couple of questions i'm really first a comment i really am pleased that you are in coordination with other utility companies i think it's only going to make our processes better i'm happy to hear about you all looking at how to make processes more efficient and i'm curious um you know anytime we go through like using an example um anytime we go through like a rezoning process there is a checklist if you will before any rezoning or any development happens that goes through the city plan commission is the streets department consulted anytime there is a request for a special permit or a special privilege to determine what kind of groundwork we're going to have to do for that respective plan development for the future and then if in the event that you are consulted could you all look at if you're not already can you all look at how we can improve the process to make sure that the applicants are aware that there is a process to go through and maybe we can find efficiencies to save time for not only the development or the improvement um in tandem to what the requirements are for the streets department so i'm just i i hear a lot of concerns about the efficiency and like hey there's a lot of things that we can be doing on the front end instead of the back end i'm just curious what kind of system you all have in place as it relates to any underground work street cuts and all of this comes to to council or to the city plant commission before he answers richard let me let me jump in real quick before he answers i just like to say that uh one of the things that we looked at several years ago was how many streets have been completed and how many street cuts have been taking place and the response that we got back was very troubling in that if we had like 174 new streets we had over 100 street cuts that took place on those streets so back then we said let's work on getting all these different groups together it's going to include us making changes to the franchise agreements with utilities is going to include us looking at permitting and how that takes place and is going to also include very close coordination with the water department relative to what their improvements are underground and in what we're doing as a city and it's going to be a big lss project it's going to make every one of the other ones we've done pale in comparison to include the the one we did on bridges the one we did on bridges included over 40 stakeholders so bristol with that richard i'll let you answer a question um yes sir so we don't regulate and control every one of these process but we are involved in the reviews so when it comes to the subdivisions we're obviously reviewing for the um planning department in the building inspection department but how we're involved is we're part of their process because there are reviews that we do for traffic engineering there are reviews that we do for street lights because there's electrical lines running through these streets there are reviews that we do for street maintenance and like harold our pavement engineer will take a look at uh whether or not um there's a maintenance concern with any of these changes or such so our involvement is as part of the process but we're an ancillary role in our assignment is to review plans and review information that are part of applications that are under mr etherway and mr smith over in the bpni department so we support them in that process but they do have us involved and that's great i i i i'm sorry did someone say something yeah i apologize representative uh sam rodriguez chief operations officer richard if you can touch on the right-of-way permits that you process specifically at streets and maintenance traffic control permits and right-of-way permits because i think that's there's two types of permits special privileges as well as runaway permits that cover pavement carts utility cuts those go directly through your department if you can cover that as well absolutely i'd be delighted to so the first one are traffic control permits um within section chapter 12 of the ordinance uh pavement a traffic control is addressed anytime you're working within the street right away you're required to have a permit and you're required to have proper closures and simply for safety this is a public safety issue and this has been a challenge for us uh to uh last over the last five to ten years to get this uh moving the community was not as aggressive or the city was not as aggressive on this until maybe six or seven years ago and so we handle all the child control permits so that's literally anytime anybody is going to do work that's going to require them to be inside our street right away and that does include sidewalks we do require permits for sidewalk closures because pedestrians need a route just the same way that that vehicles did now the other permits then by the way that does include inspections um the site inspections for traffic control we can roll up and we'll ask to see the trial control plan we'll do an inspection to make sure that it is compliant with what is set up in the field is consistent with what's on the permit um we can't get to all of them because of resources but traffic control is simply for this purpose of public safety and the second one is the payment cut permits which we touched on earlier so our role in that permit is again we want to make sure we know who is working in our right of way so that we can hold them accountable for a proper restoration so those are the two permits that we handle directly here at streets and maintenance and through the other processes we have an ancillary role where we just provide plan review we provide comments and we provide the information that they require us great thank you and and as part because i know you all do like traffic impact analysis as part of your review i'm also looking for as part of your review pavement cuts why because often when i see things come to city plan commission by the time you're ready for construction it's like down the road but we've already paved the street and then they go in and cut it and so that's the kind of coordination i'm hoping for because there's nothing worse than seeing a brand new street repaved and then cut as a result of a few of a development because they either need utility or they need um you know lines of you know whatever underground lines but also you see a connection to the water utilities so i'm always seeing these cuts from different utilities it has nothing to do with the city but there's got to be a way that we can red flag that at the onset during the city plan commission as part of the streets department review just things to look at as you are exploring how to make the department more efficient and how to ensure that we are restoring and keeping our streets uh stable and with you know we want to make sure that they're structurally stable but at any rate thank you for all that you're doing really happy to hear that i do have several questions about you know the the department overall but i'll let mike i'll turn it over and yield my time to my colleagues thank you for sending on this representative you better thank you mayor thank you mr briscoe my my questions are going to be on the payment cuts first of all you said they're working when they work on right of ways they have to have permits you specified that do those permits indicate the measurements those cuts can be made and or or do they come back to you on that no they have to provide a plan sir and we review the plan our our permitting section will review whatever plan they're submitting uh and they have to be very specific because we're making decisions based on the information that they're giving us it's the same thing we have a problem with uh to travel control as well we're trying to make a decision on what's the safest and most most reasonable action for the city but we need good information to do so so we do require as much information as possible on these payment cut permits so we have sufficient information to make a decision and locations and exactly what they're doing are very very important exactly especially on the main right uh roadways um and then they use these metal covers do you have a specificity on on what they have to to uh measure with i mean uh the middle themselves the metal plates they lay down and how do they secure them well a lot of these planks yes and they have to meet they have to make an metc standard um i i'm sorry i do not know the thickness and the weight of that and and we can probably find that and circle back through the cr process with that okay i'm sorry maybe i didn't make myself clear i i made to i meant to say uh when they lay them down for security purposes do they uh do the society require them to be secured in certain ways or absolutely absolutely they have to be secure with the edges being uh lined with asphalt absolutely we want them secured because we don't want them knocking off when we have a lot of rain and a lot of traffic going over them they tend to move which can cause problems and so uh and you you let into my next question so how often do you check and make sure they haven't moved well when we have something major like we had one on on lee trevino during the course of this year we were checking it daily and checking on the progress daily but it moved a few times and we and we did have it repaired and i believe um well i probably uh there have been many incidents where we've had to issue citations to people for having and i'm glad you brought that up because that was one of the major uh projects that i we got called on several times regarding that so uh how how long do you give those these companies to go out there and and fix that when the plate moves well i i actually have uh mr uh jose picciares if you don't mind jumping in and providing uh some help on that answer he runs our permits section and there you go yes yourself good morning mayor my name is jose gutierrez i'm one of the transportation managers overseeing the permit operations and inspections within the group uh basically the the permit holder whoever applies for the permit is responsible for securing these metal plates uh we'll be out there looking at them inspecting them and making sure that everything is properly done but as far as the quality control and quality assurance and making sure that everything remains safe relies heavily on the applicant on the permit applicant if it's going to be the utility company or one of their subcontractors they're responsible to follow the design standards for construction and have a even uh and safe transition for the public either if it's going to be pedestrians or motorists going through the right-of-way okay so when they lay them down and are they supposed to notify the city and uh you you all go out and check it check the there's their work yes sir there's going to be follow-up inspections either if it's going to be a backfield 2 sec asphalt concrete okay and i know that that was great on the fact that mr bristol brought it up himself um we had gotten a lot of calls on leech arena because some of those plates did move people were so afraid to drive over it that they were sometimes nearly causing accidents and moving over to the next lane so i appreciate that the the the fact that you all go out and check there so um we've sent we've sent you out several emails on that as well regarding that if we could do that i know we have another one on george theater that's kind of the leery with the asphalt part of the asphalt being washed away with the on par one of the edges so um thank you for that information and that way i can relate that to the uh it's also important to add to your answer that this the study that the city manager was mentioning they're going to be dressing all these things in in very very uh granular detail okay so all of these will be part of the comprehensive uh review that's going on right now okay thank you so much because uh like you said earlier i hate to have the city liable for one of these places caving in and then there goes a vehicle and so i appreciate you staying after that uh because that's one of the biggest calls that we get in our office thank you sir thank you mayor thank you representative said more than not thank you very much mayor uh mr bristol thank you very much for your presentation and sound like same thing as well a couple of questions so do you have or is there an optimum time to repair a pothole let's say for example there's a rainfall and i guess the street needs to dry out of course you're going to have the puddles there things like that but is there like an optimum time period to wait until a pothole is started as soon as you see it i'm sorry pothole once it opens as soon as we see it we got to get on sir okay when a pothole opens it's not going to repair itself it's only going to continue to deteriorate and just become a more complex and more expensive problem so the sooner the better timing is everything on the potholes okay and uh mr bristle how many uh i'm going to call them a pothole repair truck how many are do we have in our fleet we have ten so pretty much two assigned to each of the five maintenance corrals do um are these an aging fleet or they're fairly new uh no sure uh it was years ago um but the council has been pretty generous with this we we received delivery on four brand new units this year we have one pending delivery and in 2017 you replaced three of them so we're very fortunate to have good equipment and we take our equipment very seriously because it's our lifeblood so sal's team is very good on preventative maintenance okay those are good good words of encouragement and miss neiman have a question for you so every year currently right now when you register a vehicle in el paso county you're charged two fees one is a ten dollar fee and the other one is another ten dollar fee one of those ten dollar fees specifically goes to el paso county roads and bridges and i know last city council we were talking about potentially adding a third fee but that has to be approved by the state legislature so let's just stay with the first 20 or ten of the twenty dollars is there any way that we could leverage from this county of el paso to get some of that ten dollar fee at five dollar fifty percent two dollars and fifty cents per vehicle or anything like that i think that we've had discussions with the county along those lines uh we can certainly continue having that discussion we would need to go back and see how the money is being distributed because i believe also it is used through the mpo process i think we really need to work on that because every citizen here that owns a car has to register their car in the city county well the county of el paso and they're paying twenty dollars right now and so um i just just really believe that we the city within the city limits are not being um receiving our fair share in that part and that's local here in el paso so thank you ma'am thank you um miss bristol and your team thank you and i think you know the magic word to show is preventative maintenance which becomes a lot cheaper and easier to continue to the the do so thank you for that thank you sir mr prine yes mayor that brings us to item number 24 and this is a presentation and discussion on el paso animal services animal protection officers good morning chief good morning council terry capsule for the record animal services director i'm gonna have a presentation today along with gina ramirez she's our field operations manager i'm bringing this uh to you all this morning to discuss animal protection officers apos just like any other organization in the city or across the nation we use a lot of terminology and acronyms that sometimes people don't understand so i wanted to bring this forward to you just so you get a little bit more understanding of our field operations the officers that work out there again they're animal protection officers and we also referred them to them as apos could have the next slide there so there we go um so prior to 2016 before our reform and look at everything our apos they were known as simply as dog catchers and that's pretty much what they were they would get called out a stray at large animal they would pick them up to take them straight to the shelter go through their emancipation period depending if it's an owned animal or unowned and then if nobody claimed it most likely it was euthanized after our reform and working sorry okay thank you after our reform and and looking at our operations and where we want to be at what do we want to be as a community um with our you know working towards the live release rate of 90 or more we had to look at those life-saving activities so to better align we renamed them to the animal protection officers which is more than just capture and take to the to the shelter they also go through extensive training one of those trainings is is a aco training which is animal care officer training these standards are set by the state department of state health services so they all get that training which allows them to also enforce our state laws and local ordinances another training that they do receive is euthanasia training this is a last resort because we do response animals have been hit by vehicles may have been attacked by another animal and they're at such a state that we want to end their suffering so we do have that training so that we can do that in the field again this is the last resort that we that we provide city of el paso our animal shelter is the only municipal shelter for the entire county of el paso but when it comes to the field operations we have partners throughout the the county and other municipalities here in the city so we have we work really closely with all of them all these are our strategic partners um they're all uh on in line with us on the life uh saving procedures so we have we work with the animal welfare at the county socorro the tiguas and we also have other strategic partners one of the biggest ones that we work with almost daily is the el paso police department and their animal cruelty unit so we work really closely with them the texas parks and wildlife and again with the texas department of state health services on our training and care of animals so to look a little bit at some of our numbers some of their duties is they provide permits and licenses to different businesses in the community for example the groomers so we do inspect the groomer facilities and we make sure that they're compliant with their trainings to make sure that again that their safety is insured the animal safety is insured first aid there's no set standard on training so we make sure that we as an organization that they do cover certain things again first aid for animals the other thing that we require to make sure that animals are are being handled properly is when they're in there they have to either have a live live feed for the customer to watch their pet being groomed or the window so we make sure that those those types of things are up and running we also do permits for things such as foul some people like to have roosters so we make sure that they're in compliance with those those types of things we respond to calls of service vast majority of those come from 3-1-1 this year we've responded to over 21 000 of those types of calls and they range from stray animals nuisance calls you name it last year we've responded to over 29 000 stepping back a little bit again to where we used to be we used to be again call for service pick up the animal take it straight to uh animal services now we the officers are equipped with tools and resources to try to find uh the animal's home so first off obviously is we they carry the microchip scanners they check for the chip if they do find it this is our rto a return to owner success story they we get them back to their family they don't have to go to the shelter they're not exposed to any diseases or anything else so we quickly get them if they're not a chip in there we still continue to canvas the neighborhood we'll drive around see if we see somebody looking for their animal many times we find that or once we show up to as well we also search social media social media is a very good tool that we use nowadays and many of our officers are very keen at using that and they can look up it quickly and see if there's somebody you know using social media to find their animals so with that i'm going to turn it over to gina ramirez good morning members of the council gina ramirez for the record good morning i'm going to be touching a bit about our animal protection team and the operations and what we consist of our animal protection team are public service we work diligently every day to ensure that the safety of the community and their pets remain our top priority el paso once known as the rabies capital of the nation has since then declined significantly due to several improved factors in our animal control practices some being our effective leash laws another one being our power of engagement and public awareness on our vaccination programs and of course our enforcement on quarantine and dangerous dog animals some of the duties that consist of for our animal protection officers are going to be responding to 311 calls as our director kip shaw mentioned earlier they range from traffic hazards animals loose on the freeway wildlife investigation of cruelty nuisance and exposures our officers also are involved in our career events public engagements and events and mega events for the vaccination and the microchip clinics they are also part of our very own epa's prime epa's prime's main goal is to ensure that we are keeping pets with families unfortunately there's times when owners are not able to reclaim their pets at the shelter whether it's due to [Music] lack of transportation mobility or often times they don't have family members to get them there our officers will jump into action and deliver their pets right to the very own doorstep um some of our tools as mentioned earlier again by director capshaw are going to be an array of tools and equipments that we provide our officers to ensure that they're out there providing the best quality to our pets in our community some are going to be our digital thermostats for our cruelty cases for canines that are left in vehicles um others will be our scanners our digital distance readers and of course laptops laptops are going to be used in every call that they respond to they utilize those laptops to research microchip and tag information they'll also utilize that to research case history calls that they're currently investigating so they're able to find out what they're about to investigate what the disposition of current calls at that location were and if there's any um caution that they need to take for instance if there's a call where the dog keeps getting loose and jumping out our officers are able to take that precaution and be prepared our officers are more than just dog catchers they are investigators they are at times educators and problem solvers we work hard to make sure that we continue providing our officers the tools and trainings that they need so we can continue with the unyielding customer service that we can provide both internal and external to our pets and our care and in our community some of the trainings that we provide them are going to be the fundamental the fundamentals of report writing situational awareness de-escalation training animal cruelty and dangerous dog investigations and preparation for our prosecution cases just to name a few but there's a lot it's important to note that we also try to provide them with as many tools that they can to help better service the community oftentimes the officers will find a pet with no tags or microchips and through the power of canvassing and door knocking they're able to reunite that pit back home they're also equipped with microchips so when we're able to reunite them back home they're able to microchip on the spot and get that pet in the system increasing its chances from getting back home in the event it gets lost again and our changes in our field so historically animal protection officers would literally just do roundups and that's exactly what they would do they would go to a certain area and round up every animal that they were able to impound without ever making any effort to reunite those pets back home now we are their voice we are their advocates and we will make every effort to reunite that pet back home our community loves their pets and often times they put their pets needs before their very own i'm going to touch real quick on about a story that's really close to my heart promise not to get emotional um but we were reached out by our strategic partners the animal cruelty unit regarding an individual they came across at a 7-11. his name is brian brian fell on two hard times and became one of our houseless pet uh houseless community members alongside with his four-year-old fawn pitbull by the name of fred we quickly jumped into action our resource rovers and our protection team and we were able to meet with brian um brian in conversation often went hungry just to make sure that fred's needs were met before his and it was important for us to lift that burden off of brian's shoulders to make sure that he got that warm mail and he no longer had to worry about how he was going to feed brian so we're able to provide him with the pet resources that he needed we continue in communication with him and all of our members in the community um and the message we give out is regardless of your financial status everyone deserves to be seen and everyone deserves to own a pet and we will help in doing so this is a picture of ryan and fred with our resource rover team and that that i'll leave it for any questions i don't believe there are any questions but thank you very much for your presentation and all the information keep up the good work thank you all we did have a speaker on this item but i don't see mr komu in the room so that brings us to the first reading of ordinances these are items 26 to 28 item 25 was deleted with the revisions move on the first reading of ordinances second there's a motion made by mayor pro tem lizard seconded by representative salcido to approve the first reading of ordinance ordinances these are items 26 to 28. on that motion call for the vote and the voting session the motion passes unanimously representative rodriguez not present that brings us to item number 29 and this is discussion and actually did we probably comment on item 24 did we call that on item 24 we have mr como sign up i didn't see him in chambers oh okay i just wanted to make sure yes ma'am item 29 is discussion in action on the award of solicitation 2022-0697 allison proprietary parts and services rebit to stewart and stevenson llc dba stuart and stevenson power products llc there's a motion made by representative rivera seconded by representative molinar to approve item 29 we do have public comment but i don't see miss cassidy in the room either on that motion call for the vote in the voting session and the motion passes unanimously item number 30 is discussion in action on the award of solicitation number 2022-0386 janitorial services for el paso museums to ace government services llc there's a motion made by representative molinar seconded by representative salcido representative i had requested to speak i'm sorry representative anello thank you i have a clarification question if there's someone on the line yes ma'am thank you i'm sorry i can't see the screen um so this is a 97 increase from the previous year that was last year correct uh yes from the previous solicitation for these services the the increase is primarily from an increase in the hourly rate that the that is due to the um the employment mark okay and can you tell us what that hourly rate what the difference is sorry i think you're on mute i'm sorry can you hear me yes we can hear you now sorry about that i apologize uh the previous rate was 11.25 the rate for this solicitation is 1850. thank you so much i appreciate the clarification thank you yes the motion was made by representative molinar seconded by representative rodriguez to approve item number 30. on that motion call for the vote in the voting session and the motion passes unanimously item number 31 is discussion in action that the purchasing director be authorized to issue a purchase order for the award of contract 2022-0767 massdom armed polls re-bid to tri-state electric limited motion to approve there's a motion made by representative rivera seconded by representative molinar there is public comment from miss carol cassidy on this item good afternoon miss cassidy you'll have three minutes ma'am yes hello there glad to be here i just uh left yandell the j-hop we are reading the bible in english and in spanish for over our beautiful city just for your information on satellites it's being broadcast throughout the world that is the strength and the glory of el paso miss cassidy you must speak on the item you signed up yes i'm speaking on it i want to know this is a non-competitive uh how come are you guys spending your own money or the city money and is this on the record i want it on the record is this your own money or this or the people's money that's being spent for this it says it's a non-competitive bid so that's my question you good folks here why is it non-competitive if this is the city's the taxpayers money that's being spent why wasn't this put out so we can see uh how many are bidding on this contract and hopefully uh trying to save a little money in this city where my god i just looked at the preliminary budget for i think 2023 it's 1 billion 100 000 and uh and but the assets of the city are only only about seven hundred thousand so are you guys trying to uh i mean the bankruptcy is imminent of course we're going into a depression probably worldwide so i'm asking you the question who can answer it why is this a non-competitive bid you're here it's coming from the general fund but i believe mr gonzalez can you help us out on that or mr i mean it says non-competitive so mr city manager what about this good morning gladiators say what purchasing strategic sourcing may i respond yes ma'am okay so the reason why this uh recommendation it is an uncompetitive is because we uh did it competitively twice and according to our policy after two attempts we can start negotiations if we didn't get any responses of prior uh procurements competitive procurement so we did solicit twice for these goods and services contract well for we the people here that are paying and and are in debt now i believe it would be five thousand dollars for every taxpayer every small business owner in our beautiful city of el paso you guys have an obligation to make sure you get a competi get some more bids all right i mean it's it's just insidious i mean i'm standing up now with the county and with my school district and of course the county hospital i mean they want to impose uh taxes without us voting it's criminal anyway all the good people here um i'm uh i'm here doing the best that i can and uh representing uh myself of course there's a lot of people behind me we're the majority in the nation anyway that's what i'm asking you and i think it behooves you thank you miss cassidy you've reached the three-minute list yes i have thank you and i have a gift for you i'm going to give it to you thank you miss cassidy was made by representative rivera seconded by representative molinar to approve item number 31 on that motion call for the vote in the voting session and the motion passes unanimously item number 32 is discussion in action on the award of solicitation 2022-06 janitorial services city one two three and four and mcat upt to ace government services llc there is a motion made by representative molinar seconded by representative rivera to approve item number 32 on that motion call for the vote and the voting session and the motion passes unanimously item number 33 is a public hearing on an ordinance changing the zoning of a portion at 541 schwabe street from r3 residential and rf branch and farm to r5 residential motion to approve there's a motion made by representative rivera seconded by representative rodriguez to approve there is no public comment on item 33 on that motion call for the vote and the voting session and the motion passes with six affirmative votes representative molinar the motion does pass that brings us to item 34 and this is a public hearing on an ordinance changing the zoning at 6519 south angora from our four residential to ao apartment office there's a motion made by representative molinar seconded by representative salcido to approve there's no public comment on this item on that motion call for the vote and the voting session and the motion passes unanimously item 35 is a public hearing on an ordinance removing a condition placed on the property at 1426 george dieter drive which imposed a condition motion made by representative rodriguez seconded by representative rivera to approve item number 35 there's no public comment on that motion call for the vote and the voting session and the motion passes unanimously item 36 is a public hearing on an ordinance changing the zoning at 1681 joe battle boulevard from r3 residential to c3 commercial proof there's a motion made by representative rodriguez seconded by representative salcido to approve item 36 there's no public comment on that motion call for the vote voting session is open representative rivera thank you in the voting session the motion passes with six affirmative votes representative anello voting nay the motion does pass item 37 is a public hearing on an ordinance changing the zoning from rf ranch and farm to c4 commercial and imposing conditions at nine 121 railroad drive second there's a motion made by representative molinar seconded by representative rodriguez to approve item 37 there's no public comment on that motion call for the vote and the voting session and the motion passes unanimously item 38 is a public hearing on an ordinance changing the zoning of several parcels at 5510 will ruth drive from our for residential and our force sc residential special contract and this is two our four residential and r4sc residential special contract second there's a motion made by representative molinar seconded by representative rodriguez to approve there's no public comment on that motion call for the vote this is item 38 the voting session is open sometimes minecraft i representative molina thank you mayor approach emily zara aye thank you in the voting session and the motion passes unanimously item 39 is a public hearing on an ordinance changing the zoning from c1 commercial to gmu general mix use and approving a master zoning plan and amending the master zoning plan at 201 shadow mountain drive motion to approve second there's a motion made by mayor protego seconded by representative rivera to approve item 39 there's no public comment on that motion call for the vote in the voting session the motion passes with six affirmative votes representative molinar voting name the motion does pass item number 40 is discussion in action on an appeal by the property owner of 1121 terrace court el paso texas in the sunset heights historic district regarding a decision rendered by the historic landmark commission in hlc case phap 22-0022 on june 6 2022 to deny a certificate of appropriateness for the reference property i believe there's public comment ivan lopez is here you have any comments on the description the gentleman can go first okay yes ma'am thank you would you like to speak would you like three minutes or thank you he would like to wait so certain emotion or well i know we've discussed it a few times yes yeah i did have some comments i just wanted to say that my comments would be similar to my comments from two weeks ago i want to thank again the staff city staff ms velasquez and the historic land commission for their hard work in considering this case and making their recommendations in cases like this in which staff recommends against approval and the hlc voted against approval it is very difficult for me to overturn that on appeal i also received a letter from the sunset heights neighborhood improvement association urging the city council to deny this appeal i believe that letter was sent to all of you in order to do so i would need to see very compelling new information based on the information i have seen this applicant is a property owner who is effectively asking us to let him off the hook for changes to his property that he didn't get proper permission for from the hlc can staff please give us your interpretation of and recommendation about the new information that the property owner provided since this item was postponed two weeks ago um good afternoon providencia vasquez historic preservation officer um the property owner did submit um information as you can see it's about 40 pages and what he submitted are basically uh copies of applications that he got back in about 2000 to 2005 for work on the roof windows and things like that but nowhere in that application or should say in that submission is uh approval or permit for any of the work that he's done illegally including the canopy the pergola and the balcony so our decision is still the same we do not recommend that you approve his appeal we ask that you uphold the hlc's decision to deny it because this does not meet any code um it was done illegally and he had four years uh to stop the process and to contact us and he did not so we're asking that you uphold the hlc's decision and to deny this person his appeal thank you very much and miss velasquez was this information provided to the historic land commission at their hearing or is it completely new no amendment was not provided to the historic landmark commission at their meeting um it's not completely new because we did have it in our files uh but again the historical commission and staff noticed that he never got a permit for the work he was cited in 2018 for construction but he just kept doing the work and didn't come in to take care of it so after he completed construction and after he'd been sitting there for about four years he came in and tried to get a permit and after that it was just too late the structures were done illegally there was absolutely no approval there was no review whatsoever and again we're just asking that you'll pull the hlc's denial thank you miss velasquez i believe ivan lopez is here now and i believe he had comment public comment on this item that's correct mr lopez did sign up good morning mr lopez you have three minutes sir good morning mayor council um thank you very much for having me here um i'm speaking as a citizen of el paso per the hlc meeting it was evident that the owner mentioned that they had not received a permit for several of these items and i i did see the the last uh council meeting i think it was the one prior because um it had been postponed um and it seemed that the owner and the representative were trying to disguise the fact that they didn't have a permit for this by showing previous permits from other years that really showed i i mean i i guess just seeing the difference from an hlc meeting to a city council meeting and trying to express or disguise the fact that there was no permits prior to try to convince the city council to vote in favor of an appeal just doesn't seem right so because of that um i just wanted to clarify that you know per the historic limit commission meeting the owner did express that these items were not did not have a permit um so i think it's important that everybody knows that um and i think everything else has been explained by the historic preservation office um i just wanted to come in and say that um as part of one of the citizens of the city of el paso and understanding what what happened within the two different meetings um so i appreciate your time [Music] on this thank you sir thank you mayor anyone else mayor may i may i speak carla niemann for the record yes i'm sorry uh representative replies there is an item in the backup that's a motion that we prepared out of our office for purposes of today's hearing if if if i may you could also just ask that the motion is to uphold the hlc denial of the case that's a shorter version but then we could also use that as part of the record thank you so yes so i i moved to deny the appeal and uphold the decision of the historic land commission and to deny the applicant's request for its certificate appropriateness after the fact a motion in a second all right there is a motion made by mayor pro tem lizard seconded by representative annelo and this is to uphold the denial of the historic landmark commission yeah hold on one second please do you want to talk sir before we take the vote yes yes sir i thought i'd asked but i better check again thank you uh you have three minutes sir good morning to everyone i we did send the uh the packet as council can see this house has not dilapidated us many uh homes around the area i think we submitted pictures of the homes directly in front of my client's property he's kept his property looking clean he's made some work or he's paid to have some work on his property including the uh the fencing including uh the uh pergolas and we uh submitted proof that he did request a permit for the windows and the roof so that the fact that uh the historic uh commission is saying that he did not request any uh any permits is is really not true he we provided those to you it has the stamp of the historic landmark commission uh he's trying to make his property better uh they do comport to two standards including the uh the the railing the uh fence that he put up uh 42 inches according to the international building code that's that's the appropriate uh height and he did get permission for those the historical landmark commission is complaining that the windows don't have uh the little squares on them as they should they're brand new windows look at the windows of the property right in front which ones look cleaner which ones look better that's what he he was able to afford and he did a request apartment nobody went over there and told them those are not permitted until now that he requested a permit for the pergola years later now the historic landmark commission comes and says oh well this is not done correctly this is not done correctly and this other stuff is not done correctly that's not fair to any property owner much less my client thank you i was looking at the timer up there i don't know if that's the correct one that's correct okay so we would ask you to consider upholding his appeal and letting them keep that those improvements we submitted a proof of how much it would cost for him to replace whatever the historic landmark commission was replaced and a short extraordinary amount of money to replace those we would in the alternative we would ask you to consider basically letting them keep everything but but the pergola so uh those are our requests this morning thank you thank you representative um one second please sir representative um thank you mayor i just have a couple of questions good morning um i saw the backup so there is no permit for the pergola correct he he did request it after the fact he didn't request it before yeah it's not been approved has it been approved it was not approved and then for the windows were they compliant um to the standards of the hcl commission i believe that uh the squares the type of window the design of the window is not again it's not uh comporting to standards of the historic landmark commission okay so it's not so standard okay thank you so were the permits for the window approved they were good afternoon mayor council this is sony the laplacian i'm available to answer any questions you may have regarding the permitting of uh that word that was submitted as part of your package so one one thing to note the window permit that was issued that is being discussed currently that window permit was issued in the early 2000s uh as the owner's representative stated the windows had been approved to match uh the operation and the grid pattern at that time window permits expire after six months of uh after they finished so this permit while the permit was issued was issued give or take 20 years ago for the newer windows that have been installed he permanently was not able to be found within our system and that was none was provided within the package so the windows were replaced at one time then replaced again later at a different time so i want to make that clear that while the permit was obtained back in 2002 2003 that permit does not extend for 20 years later thank you sir yes sir uh sir your i think your client would like to speak sir yes hi good morning uh will you uh state your name for the right regardless i'm the owner of 1121 terrorist court thank you sir been there for 28 years in this paper right here in the agenda it says promote the visual image of el paso please go around and see my street it's about the only house that looks that has a nice image around there that's all i have to say that's what it says right here thank you sir thank you anyone mayor i just wanted to say that um that i'm very sorry that and it's very unfortunate that it's come to this i do really want to stay true to our city's processes and procedures and while i welcome that you are taking the initiative to improve your home um not only as your your your primary residence but for others i do need to respect the the historic landmark commission and our procedures and so my vote will reflect that but know that i hope that regardless of what the outcome is today that you continue to continue to make investments and we welcome that we just hope that you consider our processes because the minute that we set a precedence then um it could it could get out of control um so we want to stay true to historic preservation we want to stay true to the intent but i just wanted to say i'm very sorry that that you and your family will have to go through this and in all this process but but ultimately my vote will reflect making sure that we are preserving the integrity of our code thank you thank you representative thank you uh similar to what representative hernandez said i do want to talk a little bit about a process right i hear you saying um that you you built this uh this patio and pergola without a permit but it wasn't until you went to apply for a new permit that you've been having to deal with it that is our process um that is a process for anyone right unfortunately we don't our staff does not have the manpower to go out into every neighborhood and say this person is doing work without a permit we're going to stop it right we don't find that out a lot of times until they do come in later for a permit and we say hey this is out of regulation and i think as to what representative hernandez was saying these permits and this process is in place for safety right you know there are a lot of people that do work you know we see people targeted very much in this community that will have electrician like electricians do work in their home that didn't get a permit and didn't do it properly and that becomes a safety issue i know that you're saying that you have drawings and those things were done safely but there is a precedent to be set with that and we cannot make exceptions because when we do that we're then allowing other people to end up in a potentially hazardous situation for their home and their families and so again i i'm sorry that you're going to have to reverse some of this work um i think that we can get this uh in line with the historic commission in the future and we do encourage you to go through that process and do it properly because you know we want you to live in a home that you're comfortable in i know that you said you have airbnbs um you know that is a legally allowable business um in your home and we want you to be able to do that successfully but we just ask that you follow the process correctly all right thank you representative rodriguez thank you so really quick probey um i know that the gentleman here is saying that he purchased the home 20 years ago sir is that correct yes 20 28 20 2-0 28 years ago and i know that this is this has always been an issue when people purchase historical homes when they want to renovate it and something as simple that you might think hey i just want to update the windows has to go through a different process because it is a historical home when these homes are being sold specifically these historic homes in these historic neighborhoods are we doing any type of education to the homeowners to let them know hey you know we understand that you might want to be coming into this to do an investment but there is a it's a stricter process and there's stricter guidelines to do so um actually it's not as if we individually reach out a lot of times people do my homes and say later on that they didn't know that they were in historic district the city does however reach out we do conduct workshops and we do conduct community meetings and we certainly attend them and we're invited so we're always trying to let people know that they're in a historic district and there are certain rules that have to be followed with regard to this case the property owner knew very well back in 2002 when he got one of his permits that he was in a historic district um he had gotten a few permits but as you can see from the windows he didn't follow them and in 2018 when he started construction he was cited by code enforcement he just refused to stop he just constructed three structures on his property without getting permits without getting approval from zoning without getting approval from the city's building and permits department to see that these structures are structurally sound so what he has done he's done illegally he did it completely with full knowledge knowing that he's in historic district and certain rules and regulations had to be followed and he refused to follow him so that's where we are at this point this person is constructed a lot on his property legally it is setting a very bad example for everybody else's neighborhood and as much as he claims that his property looks very nice as i'd like to say these are not certificates of pretty there's certificates of appropriateness and there's a reason why for that i'm also asking you to not reward him for doing work illegally because that sends a very very bad message to everybody else in the historic districts that we have here that means that they will then ask for forgiveness instead of permission we're asking everybody to ask for permission first so we can guide them thank you probably and and i'm in complete agreement with you um you know i have a a really profound appreciation for historical preservation and like i said you know i i com it's very admirable when somebody wants to take on investment um for historical home or historical building however she is correct that there is a process and the reason for it is to preserve that historic character that this home once had and so you know i believe that absolutely you could do anything that you want to do on your on your property you should be able to but unfortunately you do live in a historic home and so i think that your investment could also go a long way if you were to just stick to the historic um character of it the historic nature of it and i also think that you know there's a lot of resources with our historic landmark commission that they can help you to kind of guide you to say hey you know how to update those windows so that they're not fully out of compliance or how to change the door even like how to change the color you know i don't think that some of these gates that i'm seeing here were initially part of the home when it was first built but somebody was able to add them and if you were to want to update things like that i'm sure that you could um but unfortunately i do need to go with the recommendation of the hlc and i again would hope that you continue to invest on your property but doing it in a responsible way to the historic um commission thank you thank you probably i just got one question if he tore down the pergola based on all the permits issued and being that he's been there 28 years would be would he be in compliance based on a permit issued or he'd still be out of compliance um well he's done so much work on the property sir that he's pretty much out of compliance uh the windows are not what we approved originally um the balcony has to go the pergola would have to go um the canopy would have to go there's a fountain in the rear yard that we also never approve so there's a lot there that you're not really seeing um and a lot of as i said before it's just not in compliance okay yes sir uh just for the record i if you call anybody from the peregolas i mean they left that in two days or less uh so no they didn't sign me and then i kept working i would i wouldn't do that i promised that thank you but yeah i'm willing to take down the program i mean if we can stop this i'll take it out okay thank you no other questions miss pride yes mayor there's a motion made by mayor pro tem lizard seconded by representative anello and this is to uphold the historic landmark commission's decision on june 6 2022 of denial for the certificate of appropriateness on that motion call for the vote in the voting session the motion passes with six affirmative votes representative molinar voting the motion does pass thank you and sir i know that we tried and that's why we kept postponing and postponing it because we did want to work with you and we appreciate you coming in front of us and if we can continue to work with you we want to continue to work with you sir and also thank you for being here and we i know that um the landmark commission will work with you and continue to work with you to hopefully make some of some things so you don't have to go through everything that's listed on there for you but this council tried and gave you know the benefited out all the way through and that's why we kept postponing it to try to see if there was a way we could work with you and hopefully we will moving forward thank you mayor thank you city council thank you sir thank you both of you item number 41 is discussion in action on a resolution that the city reviewed and approves the issuance of the unlimited tax bonds series 2022 by paseo de leste municipal utility district number two second there is public comment on this item mayor we have miss carol cassidy who signed up good morning miss cassidy you'll have three minutes yes hello there uh back again and oh my gosh i didn't really realize that this is unlimited what kind of a utility is this is this electric or water miss cassidy you may go ahead and use up your minutes and then uh counsel me direct staff to respond after your comments are completed okay well it's kind of vital to this issue but in any case it's unlimited and tax bonds oh my gosh maybe you guys didn't hear but i believe that the corporate bond market is actually collapsing in the united states so how dare anybody impose anything for the taxpayers here in this great city called el paso uh that's unlimited uh i believe i passed you out a paper the wicked flea when no man pursues but the righteous are bold as a lion well i'm standing up as a lion right now for this great city that i've moved to on my own volition in any case el senor is in charge and e-l it means god in hebrew so i'm speaking that out just to make sure i gave you a copy of the ten commandments which i'm going to give to the county and of course uh the the canadian school district my gosh thou shalt not covet thou shalt not steal from the good taxpayers the small business owners here that's what i have to tell you guys so that's better beyond the record and uh yeah i want someone to explain what's this unlimited we don't give anybody authority for unlimited when it concerns taxpayers the hard-working small business owners of which how many have collapsed in this great city i think i'm done thank you thank you where's the council i answer the question so unlimited tax bonds these are municipal bonds that are guaranteed by the full faith and credit of a local government and so these bonds are being issued by municipal utility district number two this is not city debt this is uh these are bonds that will be fully funded through the taxpayers that live within this utility district now it's a series 2022 and it's only for for that series correct correct so this is so unlimited it's not right unlimited is not every year from now on no sir that's just that's why i wanted to make sure correct and that's the description for you municipal bonds where is where is pasella the municipal utility where is that that's on the east side off of pista that's correct and so this has a pretty long history uh back in 2007 the voters approved up to 17 million dollars of bonds to be issued for water wastewater and drainage projects with this issuance they would have only issued 9.5 million dollars and so they're still well below what was approved by the voters back in 2007 to be issued for those projects and again this isn't debt issuance for the city of el paso it's just for that specific district so furthermore under state law they're required to provide notice on a local government's agenda and they choose our agenda to place these notices on so again it's it's a mere formality that the state requires of them i i my sorry my only last question on on this this is within city limits correct it's not county well the county we're we're within the county okay the the city of el paso is the council and that's what i'm trying to ask is if this is district 6 or if this is in the county area i don't know the boundaries we can certainly get you the boundaries can you also repeat the years robert when it was approved 2007 was when the voters approved up to 17 million dollars of bonds to be issued for water wastewater and drainage projects and so with this issuance of 2.75 million it will only bring their total of what they've issued or will have issued to 9.54 million and so they're still well below the authorized voter approval amount of 17 million i think they chose a poor name in the unlimited tax bond series 2022 that's the name of the bond right so they could have used a better word than unlimited okay and robert you don't have the specific boundaries right not a product but i continue the help i can find the boundaries that send it to the council it is outside the city limits it is outside yes okay and robert will send that to you once he gets the actual boundaries okay thank you and again it does not affect the city issuance no sir it's not a city of el paso right dead issuance border district number two it is not right it's one of district number two without do we have a motion there is a motion made by representative molinar seconded by representative hernandez to approve item number 41 on that motion call for the vote in the voting session and the motion passes unanimously mayor did you want to go continue with the last item yes ma'am thank you item 42 is discussion in action to adopt a resolution that endorses the vision zero goal of eliminating traffic deaths and serious injuries on city of el paso streets with an emphasis on protecting the most vulnerable users of our transportation system move to proof second there's a motion made by representative hernandez seconded by representative anello we do have public comment mayor we have mr scott white i don't see scott white there he is he was hiding on me they were hiding on me good afternoon mr white you'll have three minutes my writing buddy and you're hiding on me gotta make it fun good morning council mr mayor staff i really want to thank you all for this for the record my name is scott white and i am part of the conspiracy to end traffic deaths not just here in el paso but across texas for too long we spent a lot of time uh just trying to edge around the issue of how serious trafficking traffic crashes are and i'm glad that i've been whispering for almost eight years that we need to adopt vision zero and we're getting really close now and this is an important thing um because if we just look at the math for what these traffic crashes cost us for the past four years just the direct costs is almost 1.8 billion dollars to this to the city to the community to the victims of these crashes and it's even worse if we look at the extended cost which is almost uh and these are all conservative estimates of 1.78 billion dollars for the four years of what it's cost our community and its residents for the crashes that recite the numbers that were cited in the backup material that's a huge difference to our community but that's not even what people feel the families who've suffered these losses and so moving forward with this and getting to the point where we're going to actually reach zero traffic deaths that's going to make a great deal it's going to mean a great deal to the people of this community and i appreciate you moving to this point i hope to see this project completed and i thank you for your time thank you mr white this primary motion in a second yes mayor the motion was made by representative hernandez seconded by representative anello to approve item 42 on the motion call for the vote and the voting session and the motion passes unanimously the final item on the agenda is number 43 this is discussion and action on a resolution to authorize the city manager or his designee to submit a letter of support to the el paso metropolitan planning organization in support of an application for fy 2022 ss-4a discretionary grant program to develop a comprehensive regional safety action chip roof second and we do have public comment from mr white on this item that's coming up and by the way i did see your mom the other night she looks great well we have a running joke that people know me as pat's mom and other people know her is scott's dad uh scott's mother so i know you as pat's son yeah pat son and so again i appreciate your support moving forward with this uh with adopting vision zero and it's really important that every community in this in this region really adopts it and i know that the mpo is really leading this charge but the county is moving on this thank you all for the city moving on this dona ana county is moving on this and this federal funding i hope is really going to inspire the entire region to really embrace vision zero wholeheartedly and you also know me as your writing buddy that's right thank you thank you so much and you know i know you you you know bike safety and first time i got to meet mr white was i um we went out riding i'd never met him before and these guys were going on a long ride and it was my first time ride and i got tired about maybe halfway out i'll i'll give myself ben for that we were halfway out and i said to turn back and he actually wrote back with me to make sure i was safe and there wasn't one guy driving by himself so he does believe in safety and it makes a big difference so thank you for that we have motion in a second there was a motion made by representative rivera and i didn't catch the second hernandez representative hernandez thank you to approve item number 43 on that motion call for the vote in the voting session and the motion passes unanimously may or may we go to call to the public now police man thank you the el paso city council is a local government body charged with serving the citizens of this city and the meetings must be focused on the meaning of charge the city council meetings are public meetings under the texas open meetings act public comment is an accommodation and not a requirement of city council all persons in attendance are expected to display stability and decorum that is respectful to other persons without the use of insulting profane threatening or abusive language public comment will not be used for personal attacks against a person or group's character or integrity which are not pertinent to city business nor may any member of the public use this form for political statements or campaigning please note that during call to the public the city council may not deliberate or decide any subject that is not on the agenda however council may propose that a topic brought forward be posted on a future agenda this afternoon we have four members of the public that signed up to speak the first person is miss wally scheck her topic is right or wrong save america good afternoon sheik you have three minutes good day hello ms sheck god bless every one of you may god save america and i'm here today to tell you that in september the 27th is my 350 appearance at agenda i reached my goal and yes sir and mayor lisa please bring your wife because behind every good mayor and good man is a good wife and your family makes sacrifices for us the people because you are the mayor of the people and i trusted you in two 2013 and may god bless you for what you do for the city and on the 27th of september it's 10 years that i'm a widow because of the city and this is going to be on heard of it what i'm doing on under 27 because i love el paso and red el paso reign not only to the nation but globally there is not one world war second bride that came to el paso in 52 and accomplished what i have accomplished and you find out all of you god bless you and god bless america no time limit for me on the 27th okay i'm the boss thank you thank you and meshech uh we're not gonna slow down at 350. we want to make it to 500 times so don't slow down yet i said we're going to make it the 500 times showing up okay so we'll keep it the time limit but you'll get three minutes another 150 times yeah you will not regret it i'll be watching you on television but i won't be here after the next i'm getting too old to go bypass thank you thank you we love seeing you and the next speaker is joseph bartz and his topic is fast and furious driving endangerment good morning sir good morning council i want to talk about a topic that i'm sure every one of us is experiencing right now sir may you will you get close to the microphone please thank you i want to talk about a topic that i'm sure everybody in this room is experiencing every day i don't care whether you're on a loop on 54 i10 going through town there's way too many people driving way beyond the speed limit they're not even you can't even call us speeding this is hyper speeding driving dangerous it's going to raise our insurance rates it's just going to create more hate and discontent on the road it's going to show that this community is not a loving community and it plays right into this gentleman mr white's concerned about the traffic lights and crosswalks and all that stuff but i talked to my neighbors and stuff like that and everybody's seeing this it's just way too much speeding by these big vehicles sports cars super cars in fact this morning i took my wife over to the clinic we were coming back and there was this bmw super sports car that passed us going 70 miles an hour or more just three weeks ago i was driving on the loop i was looking at my right mirrors nobody behind me and i pulled out to pass another car and it was going slow but there was this motorcycle coming down that road going twice as fast as a speed limit of course that's my estimation but the way he passed it was pretty obvious so my question is when are we going to start doing something about this every facet of our society would benefit from stricter controls of this excessive and what i call fast and furious and loud cars and driving and i do understand we have a noise ordinance in the city i think it reads something to the effect that if it's louder than your refrigerator it's too loud correct me if i'm wrong well anyway i just wanted to get that off my chest i want to bring this up to you and i want to thank you for your time any questions thank you sir for being here thank you the next speaker is jerry hallbark jerry halper don't see ms helper coming forward the next speaker is richard hanetta mr hinata's topic is rumors heard about council action good afternoon sir you have three minutes good afternoon mayor council my name is richard henetta i hope you're at least vaguely familiar with the work i do i host a humble little podcast called the el paso beat i watch every city council work session every city council meeting i've even seen this check every time that she's been up here and over the course of the last two years doing work for this podcast i've made a list of friends connections sources here and in inside and outside of city hall it is through these sources that i've heard a rumor that i'd like to address with you today this rumor states that one of the representatives who voted against representative vanello and representative rivera's ordinance to instruct our police department to de-prioritize abortions okay let's not we can't take this political we need to make sure that it's not a foreign campaign sir it's not a campaign this is a rumor that i've heard that that's something that's coming let's not go down that road i think it's really important we don't this is not a political forum out here all right yeah i'm sure you'll have your opportunity sir the item's been voted on and i was just here to challenge the representative to if they are i'm going to ask you not to do that if you continue we're going to ask you to stop okay please use your three minutes to address the full council and not any particular item like that okay well i'm not going to step on any toes i'm just going to go ahead and yield my time thank you all for giving me the opportunity have a good one thank you sir mayor that concludes call to the public motion to adjourn this meeting so we need to we need to cancel this meeting and then come to the next meeting yeah we need to adjourn this during this meeting there's a motion and a second to adjourn the regular city council meeting all in favor aye anyone opposed and the regular city council meeting for tuesday september 13 2022 is adjourned at 12 19 p.m motion to reconvene we need council we'll need about five minutes to return to yesterday's conference id so those and teams if you'll exit today's conference id and join yesterday's conference id we can reconvene can you make it 10 do you want 10 minutes [Music] council we have a we have one less item to discuss with you an executive but the item that does need to be discussed first our lawyers on uh are on a schedule to go to a hearing on that case so if we could get into executive as expeditiously as possible they need to be at a hearing at 1 30. so we need to cover that with you beforehand so miss prime can we reconvene the meeting while you are back at 1 30. we just we just need to switch over to yesterday's conference id i'm just asking gee do we have to wait to recommend the meeting for you to do that or do we need to reconcile yes we need to wait for it to to get on yesterday it just takes five minutes to boot up we just need five minutes please remember ms nieman said this was gonna be a quick executive session oh that was a good game why oh mayor we're ready there's a motion and a second to reconvene the work session from september 12 2022 on september 13 2022 at 12 23 p.m all in favor yes anyone opposed the meeting is back in session we were on the executive session items is there a motion to retire second there's a motion and a second to return to executive session all in favor anyone opposed and the city council of the city of el paso may retire to executive session pursuant to section 3.58 of the el paso city charter in the texas government code chapter 551 sub chapter d to discuss any of the following sure executive session item one claim of zonar systems inc matter number 22-1007-29 under 551.071 executive session item 2 emma bauer versus city of el paso chief allen at all matter number 21-1026-11849-551.071 executive session item three joanna kanglowski at all versus city of el paso matter number 18-1026-9235 under 551.071 executive session item 4 discussion of potential economic development opportunities in east el paso matter number 22-1007-2961 under 551.072 and 551.087 and executive session item 5 discussion on potential economic development opportunities in northwest el paso matter number 20-1004-1140 under 551.072 and 551.087 these matters are taken into executive session under 551.071 consultation with attorney 551.072 deliberation regarding real property and 551.087 deliberation regarding economic development negotiations it is 12 24 pm do we have a motion to reconvene yet [Music] there's a motion and a second to come out of executive session all in favor yes anyone opposed the meeting is back in session at 1 28 pm mayor pro tem lizard we're on ex1 yes thank you miss prine motion september 13 2022 motion made and carried that the city attorney's office in consultation with the city manager be authorized to accept the claim of zonar systems incorporated in matter number 22 dash mrs brown is that item number two i think number one was no action no this is item number one i believe yes item one did have action mayor sonar i thought it was the one item one is on there okay in matter number 22-1007-290 and to take all steps necessary including the execution of any required documents in order to effectuate this authority i need a second second there's a motion read into the record by mayor pro tem lisa seconded by representative rivera on ex1 let me let me start to start the motion again on that motion call for the vote who is representative rodriguez representative hernandez yes thank you representative rivera thank you in the voting session and the motion passes unanimously ex2 it was deleted may we have a motion to delete second there's a motion made by representative anello and this is to delete item number ex2 as it was not discussed in executive session on the motion to delete call for the vote representative hernandez yes thank you thank you rodriguez yes thank you ribera thank you in the voting session the motion to delete passes unanimously ex3 thank you ex4 ex5 thank you there's a motion and a second to adjourn the work session all in favor anyone opposed and the work session for monday september 12 2022 is adjourned on tuesday september 13 2022 at 1 31 pm thank you