oh hmm um oh oh oh yes yes oh oh oh [Music] oh oh [Music] oh [Music] oh [Music] yes [Music] oh [Music] oh [Music] oh [Music] [Music] yes [Music] oh [Music] [Music] oh [Music] oh [Music] [Music] oh [Music] oh [Music] [Music] hey [Music] yes [Music] [Music] oh [Music] [Music] thank you all and may god bless america and may god bless every one of you thank you without miss prine thank you mayor that brings us to the mayor's proclamations the first proclamation this morning is joe renteria boys and girls clubs of el paso week should we elect mayor potem before we go forward mr pine yes yes mayor with the absence of representative schwartzbein and lisa regal we'll need council to elect a mayor pro tem for this meeting can we have a nomination please represent hernandez okay we have a motion and a second who was the second one who seconded it thank you now we know who there's a motion and a second to elect representative hernandez as a mayor pro temp for this meeting all in favor yes anyone opposed and the motion passes thank you thank you american mayor protein hernandez good morning ms prine good morning mr arena teddy if you could please approach your podium mr interior who's that oh thank you proclamation city of el paso texas whereas el paso native joe renteria grew up in el paso and moved to hollywood to become a successful actor singer writer author and producer but never forgot his humble beginnings in this community with the boys and girls clubs of el paso he moved to pursue his dreams but his heart and mind stayed with his beloved community and whereas he wants to invest and give back to his hometown by bringing hollywood to el paso and start a successful film industry that will develop the latino talent in front and behind the scenes and whereas joe entering is getting the support and investment of other successful latinos such as pepe serna edward james olmos and joaquin de alba to start el paso entertainment company and promote el paso worldwide as a film production city that is ready to write its own story now therefore be it proclaimed by the mayor and council of the city of el paso that the week of june 7 2020 2022 shall be known as boys and girls clubs of el paso week signed the honorable oscar leisure mayor city of el paso [Applause] by the way he looks a little shocked because he didn't know that it's officially jordan daria weak we brought him here under the guise telling him that we're here to support the boys and girls club and as a former club kid he's always about el paso and oh yes i'll be here we'll make sure we're here but it is in his honor because he has done so much for el paso and continues to do so and wants to do many many things for latino children in our community so joe please thank you yes it did come as a surprise but i'm honored to be here and thank you mayor and thank you everyone who's having us here our organization is called the el paso youth cinema and uh what you touched on already in your presentation this morning is exactly where our hearts are at i grew up a few blocks from here and have accumulated a lot of credits on film television and as you mentioned as a singer as well in caesar's palace in las vegas i am particularly proud of the el paso youth cinema because as the mayor was saying earlier this is about helping youth and we would like very much to change the lives of young latinos in particular not only in el paso but across the country i happen to have my heart here because i am from el paso and i am obviously a mexicano my parents immigrated into el paso married here met here and i'm a first generation product of a dream that came through for my parents i would love very much to be remembered not for what you said all those kind words but for the fact that we made an effort to change the lives of some young kids in our particular field we feel that because it is video cinema and as you know all the kids walk around with phones these days take photos images recording their memories we know what that can do to change a kid's life so we want to bring it to el paso and we want to give kids that may never get another chance at touching the film industry and to be touched by individuals who are successful i'm not talking about me i'm talking about the gentleman behind me mr peppa cerna who has accumulated over 300 film credits television credits he's currently on a show called with love for amazon prime he just finished doing a film for eva longoria her first directorial debut pepe is in the film as well and he in the last several years along with edward james olmos and joaquin de almeida have supported me in bringing hollywood to el paso i'm proud to be here and i'm particularly proud to introduce pepe cerna thank you sir congratulations joe it's uh it's very heartwarming to see when the city celebrates their own i was i'm from corpus christi and i was member number seven in 1957. i know i don't look that old but i i am uh but it it was great being a product of the boys and girls club and my whole life has been uh performing since i was three years old and for all of you in the audience and and you are more than welcome to come tonight or tomorrow night at the plaza theater where the documentary on my life uh will be shown and and it's about uh creating stars stars on the rise and it's not about the the typical oh the famous hollywood star the the singer it's not about that at all it's you know when they say i want to make sure that that i reach at least one person in the audience that's that's not it at all we have to reach everybody we have to let every single person know that they are the star i've done motivational work for over 50 years the improvisational workshops and i'd like to tell the kids hey we are all the star writer producer and director of our own life it is we see life through our own eyes without us there is no world so we have to let everybody know that they are important because we have to know that they have to know that they are the ones who are going to choose the future people who are going to be sitting where you're sitting and know why they're voting for them and know why there is there is a conflict that is like because in families everybody has conflict and that's all good it's good to be have an opinion and and fight for it and know why you're fighting for it and uh so thank you so much for for having us and uh if you get a chance tonight or tomorrow night to come out to see pepe life is art you'll see that i've had an incredible life and mainly because they took me to my wife's store the second day i got to hollywood and we've been together 53 years and we've only been apart 20 days and i like to tell everybody you know why because i'm scared of him so anyway i thank you all very much thank you and and i couldn't agree with you more that the children are you know not only will they vote and select us but we're hoping that they will be up here themselves you know they're the future of our city and our country and it's so important that we set a good example for them and you all you know with your leadership to the borders club it's important that uh they have some mentorship and and they have some leadership so i thank you for that because they're they're our future they're the future of our city and our country i did want to tell you something that if i had a documentary of my life i think they would think it's a fairy tale because i've been so blessed by this country and this city that i believe i'm living the american dream for everything i've received from this country so i am born in mexico and came the united states with very humble beginnings that i would think it'd have to become a fairy tale because no one would believe it so thank you for sharing your story and mayor and council before we go we do have some shirts for you in honor of our documentary so kids if you want to come up and bring them their shirts i'd like a small since i'm trying to look like i'm working out if if they did give you the wrong size just let me know but [Applause] thank you very much these are limited edition pepe serna life is art shirts uh honoring his role on scarface thank you very much so thank you representative or councilwoman hernandez for holding that up for us in may thank you sure if you remember your second intro miss pride now we go to representative celcilo yes that brings us to the next proclamation for state farm 100th anniversary recognition day thank you proclamation city of el paso texas whereas state farm is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year and whereas the city of el paso recognizes positive impact the company and its agents have in our community as they have been taking care of customers and whereas state farm was founded in the united states on the 7th of june in the year of 1922 by cj marshall a farmer from myrna illinois and whereas we call upon the residents of the city to observe this day by demonstrating what being a good neighbor is all about through acts of kindness and making people feel welcomed and now there for be proclaimed by the mayor and the city council of city of el paso that june 7 2022 shall be known as state farm 100th anniversary recognition day signed by the honorable mayor leaser oscar lisa thank you man good morning good morning my name is linda and with me are my colleagues dalia jordan and alvaro and we just want to thank you for this recognition today um we're here on behalf of the state farm agents we were they were not able to come they are doing the 100 year celebration so they're at convention but we just want to thank especially the el paso community for allowing state farm to serve you and being able to help you with with your customer needs and just you know sometimes the unexpected happens and we're we're just so happy to be able to serve the el paso community and just through you know different organizations um so thank you so much for for allowing us to be here today thank you who's aaron rodgers i'm sorry where's aaron rodgers aaron rodgers yeah i know and jake from state farm thank you so much yes next 100. and the next proclamation is elder abuse awareness month representative anello please thank you hi y'all good morning so whereas our elders have contributed to the general welfare of the state of texas and the el paso community by helping to preserve customs convictions and traditions and whereas these residents are vital and integral members of our society and their wisdom and experience have enriched our lives and whereas abuse of the elderly in domestic and institutional settings is a widespread problem affecting thousands of people across the country thank you and whereas elder abuse is grossly underreported because the elderly who are being abused find it very difficult to tell anyone and are usually ashamed and afraid as many times the perpetrator is a caregiver or a loved one and whereas elder abuse happens to men and women of all socioeconomic levels all cultural and ethnic groups where they are in good health or incapacitated in some way in poor neighborhoods and in suburbia and whereas many of the cases investigated by adult protective services in texas involve issues of self-neglect and it is our duty as a community to reach out to people in need now therefore be it proclaimed by the mayor and the city council of the city of el paso that the month of june shall be known as elder abuse awareness month signed by the honorable oscar lisa hi all congratulations good morning mayor lisa city representatives and city officials my name is grace ortiz and i'm the faith-based and communication specialist for adult protective services thank you for supporting elder abuse awareness month with a city proclamation adult protective services is a state agency that investigates abuse neglect and exploitation of the elderly and persons with disabilities aps serves texas residents who are age 65 and older or those 18 to 64 that have a disability currently there are 10 000 people who are turning 65 every day across our nation there are nearly 4.1 million texas residents that are 65 years of age or older and 1.7 million people with a disability ages 18 to 64. the aging of the baby boom generation is projected to yield an elder population of 5.9 million or 19.4 percent of the state's total population by the year 2030. at this point one in five people in texas will be over the age of 64 years of age last year aps investigated 3539 people living in their home and found that 2266 of them suffered from either abuse neglect or exploitation self-neglect however was at least one factor for most of these individuals self-neglect is when an individual is unable to care for themselves appropriately either because of age or a medical diagnosis so june is elder abuse awareness month and on june 15 2022 next week it's world elder abuse awareness day we're asking the community to wear purple on this day and to show that you support our cause we will be providing you today with a purple lapel ribbon pin please wear this pin and talk about why you're wearing it it's really important for us make a difference in our community by getting involved be a buddy to a senior we're all connected to somebody who's elderly either a neighbor family friend we ask you to check on them especially in those really hot days that we're experiencing right now ensure that they're well remind them to take medications and run errands for them if possible together we need to be the voice for those individuals can that cannot protect themselves if you suspect anybody who's been abused exploited or neglected please know that you can call adult protective services at 1-800-252-5400 adult protective services is here to help and we want to help and one day it's inevitable all of us in here are going to be older texans my wish is that one day when i'm an older texan someone in the community an individual will have a voice for me thank you i'd like to enter my team to introduce themselves thank you good morning um i'm ram science i'm one of the supervisors with adult protective services thank you good morning my name is cynthia noya and i'm also a supervisor with adult protective services thank you good morning my name is susana and i'm a worker five with adult protective services thank you good morning my name is brenda leyva and i'm an in-home specialist three thank you morning good morning my name is melissa martinez i'm one of the supervisors with adult protective services thank you good morning good morning good morning my name is claudia lloyd and i'm an aps specialist 3 with adult protective services thank you good morning good morning my name is derek ortiz i'm aps specialist one hi got one thank you good morning good morning my name is one of the specialists thank you jesus sanchez supervisor with adult protective good morning thank you thank you thank you again thank you [Applause] now uh miss prine can we go to item 22 please yes mayor item number 22 and then we'll do all at the same time yes item 22 is discussion and action to approve a resolution recognizing and congratulating destination el paso and the el paso association of firefighters iaff local 51 for their efforts to successfully secure el paso as a location for the 2023 texas state association of firefighters convention appreciated so i'm going to move to approve this resolution and if members of the fire association can come forward and destination el paso thank you the resolution reads that follow whereas the texas state association of firefighters was established in 1938 and is texas only professional career firefighters organization representing over 17 000 firefighter members and 173 affiliate locals and whereas the tsa ff objectives are to unify texas professionals firefighters to promote its interest to pass legislation on its behalf defeat legislation harmful to them to provide necessary services to member locals and to establish the right of every texas professional firefighter to bargain collectively and work under a contract and whereas every two years delegates from over 170 locals and texas meet at the convention to elect officers of the tsaaf tsa ff and decide the goals and objectives for the following two years and whereas the el paso association of firefighters iaff local 51 represents el paso within the texas association of firefighters and works diligently to advance the interest of career firefighters within the city and whereas the city of el paso is home to approximately 880 members of the el paso association of firefighters and whereas destination el paso strives to bring new conventions and tourism to the city and whereas a process to secure the 2023 tsa ff convention began more than a year ago by a delegation made up of 12 members of the el paso association of firefighters led by paul thompson president of local 51 and the city of el paso's destination el paso team who traveled to rock wall texas to promote the city of el paso as an outstanding choice for next year's convention and showcase the cities in its unique flavor with the help of local businesses and whereas the city of el paso has not hosted the tsa ff convention for more than 30 years and whereas through their promotion of the city of el paso and all its offerings destination el paso and iaff local 51 are pleased to announce that the texas state association of firefighters will be hosting their next convention in el paso texas in july of 2023 now therefore be resolved by the city council of the city of el paso that we congratulate destination el paso and the el paso's association of firefighters iaff local 51 for their efforts and welcome the 2023 texas state association of firefighters convention to our city soon to be signed by honorable mayor lisa good morning mr thompson mayor city council good morning i want to give a big thank you to representative hernandez and her staff for making this resolution happen and i do have a press release that is about to go out that i would like to share with you please this press release uh was just sent out to all of our media outlets and friends so uh we are proud to stand here and officially announce that the 2023 texas state association of firefighters convention will be here in el paso this was our third attempt in over 12 years and we made sure that we won this time i graduated the el paso fire department academy in the spring of 1998 and was assigned to central fire station downtown for approximately six years downtown el paso has changed greatly since then and we're eager to share today's el paso with texas firefighters this was a team effort and local 51 would like to thank two very important sponsors bernadette sanchez with delectable delights and farmer's insurance in blanca tapote with blanca tapote [Applause] we have to give a big thank you like i said this was a team effort we have to give a big thank you to brooke underwood the executive director for destination el paso and also anthony mancuso director of convention cells and development anthony is no longer with the city but those two were a team that were unstoppable during covid they they um promoted the city of el paso during that that hard time and um they did an amazing job we also would like to thank the previous fire chief and now deputy city manager mario de agustino current fire chief killings and his team and city management for supporting us on this bid we have to also thank the local 51 board of directors and the amazing delegation of firefighters who traveled to rockwall texas last july to ensure we won the bid and especially vice president pete fabella and parliamentarian jay nicholson who drove a truck full of supplies and food to rockwall texas for the bid i now would like to turn it over to brooke underwood to say a few words now i can see him driving that truck too with a supplies it was a big truck we know that the weight of people's hearts is through their stomachs as well so el paso snacks are always a hit um i stand before you today again excited to be working with such an energetic local um willing to go out and uh celebrate our city to others and bring back convention activity for the city obviously it impacts us all in one way or another but we truly had a fantastic and dynamic team uh with paul thompson and it's it's my pleasure and again i take this opportunity to encourage other people that if you belong to an association i want to help we've got a wonderful team standing by valerie garcia our new director of sales is here and willing to step up with you and bring the convention activity um back to the city this is super important i know paul mentioned a couple of other things but the economic impact from this convention will be over half a million dollars actually over six hundred thousand dollars and uh what paul failed to mention and should have bragged about is that we also brought a state board meeting that will take place in april just prior to the july convention so it was really a two for one and they did a fantastic job and and the lions share the work so it's my pleasure to work alongside them and hopefully bring the the um tsaf back to el paso again in the near future thank you very much and i think this is another perfect example of how organizations that uh part of our city and our community working together get things accomplished so uh congratulations to local 51 brooke and your team the city of el paso because again you know working together i think we've shown more than once now that it really very effective and gets things accomplished so um thank you thank you mayor and um i almost forgot i need to give a big thank you to firefighter samson rivera he uh along with a a contingent of firefighters showed up to convention in their cowboy boots and hats and um i think they were the the the piece of the puzzle that put us over the edge so thank you uh representative um thank you thank you uh first of all thank you very much for mr thompson for bringing uh that convention down to el paso it says a lot but there's a common denominator behind you standing behind you is miss underwood and the destination el paso uh i think what you're on the road you just happen to be on a roll and that's the points to our leadership at the helm there uh that's great news to to to hear that they're coming back to el paso it's it has been such a long time i know during my career i didn't see the firefighters here and i know pd only had one convention so hopefully you can uh keep bringing them to el paso and i like what you said about the changing landscape of the downtown area that that council has been working so hard to to to do to have some success and bring these conventions to el paso so i commend you and i think samson we both lived the same huh thank you so much everybody for doing that great job great job everyone thank you so much and um like i said it was a team effort we couldn't have done it with uh without the support of admin and fire admin and city management um they they gave us all all of the tools necessary um to win so thank you so much and also now you can only get your counterparts to do it too yes yes we will work with them and um thank you so much mayor and council thank you thank you and you know i was going to tell you when you walked up i almost didn't recognize you with a new mustache i did not know that issue new luck thank you thank you representative molinar thank you very much mr mayor mr thompson thank you very much for everything at the board ms underwood it's great job it's great to see everybody coming together for the good and the betterment for the city of el paso it's going to make great big strides across the state of texas and we know how big that is people are going to be talking about el paso for a long time for all the great and good things that we do each and every day so my hat's off to the fire association and we look forward there thank you very much thank you thank you again thank you representative hernandez we'll have to go ahead and vote right great job everyone yes there is a motion made by representative hernandez seconded by representative rivera to approve the resolution on that motion call for the vote i need a verbal representative hernandez yes thank you representative lisa i thank you in the voting session and the motion passes unanimously thank you thank you now do you um can we recess to take pictures real quick yes sir thank you there's a motion in a second to recess all in favor anyone opposed and the meeting is in recess at 9 37 a.m in order to take some pictures with this morning's honorees okay uh folks i'm gonna have the boys and girls club meet us outside we're going to take a regular photo and a fun photo so kids start thinking of your funny photo and the rest of the folks are going to start first with the first proclamation and the first two proclamations are the first uh the other two regular proclamations back here in front of the mayor's sign and the fire fighters if right here in front of the mayor's wall of of history three hey eric yeah i think council if you can return to the dais we can reconvene the meeting please yeah i'm i like it council if you'll return to the deus we can get started please motion to reconvene all right we do have a quorum there's a motion to reconvene is there a second there's a motion and a second to reconvene the city council meeting all in favor anyone opposed the meeting is back in session at 9 53 a.m mayor oh sure 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 tempest good morning mrs prine um the proposed revisions for june 7th um item page three item two request excuse absent city council members um that's to excuse representative peter shortline page three item three move to the regular agenda per representative lisa page four item seven revised per economic and international development and that revision is to the term of the agreement and that's to strike out 12 replace with 24 and strike out june 30th 2023 and replace with june 30th 2024 strike out two options and replace with the option page four item eight delete per capital improvement page 8 item 24 revised per representative annella and that revision is to strike out lost dog page 11 item 30 revised per tax office and that's to revise the district from district 8 to district 2. page 12 item 34 postponed two weeks june 22nd per representative schwarzwang page 13 item 35 postponed two weeks per representative shorts fine page 13 item 37 move item to be taken at 10 30 a.m per economic and per economic international and international development excuse me page 14 item 38 postponed two weeks per city manager's office are there any other items members of council yes can we please um move item 33 to immediately follow the mass transit meeting which item 33 let's look i thought that was postponed wasn't it no 38 was postponed let me make sure if you don't mind in a second so it would be page 11 excuse me page 12 item 33 move to immediately after mass transit yeah okay that was postponed two weeks ago correct thank you for that any other items those are all the revisions mrs praying so we have a motion and a second second who's made the motion i made the motion okay thank you there's a motion made by mayor protocol alternate mayor pro tem hernandez seconded by representative rivera to approve the consent agenda as revised on that motion call for the vote representative lisa she said i you're on mute ma'am thank you she's saying i end the voting session and the motion passes unanimously if we can now would you like to take that item that was moved to the regular agenda this is on page three item three and this is discussion in action on a resolution that the city manager be authorized to sign the first amendment to the chapter 380 economic development program agreement between the city of el paso and fly zone llc representative lasaga uh you're still on we can't hear you man we can't hear you man still can't hear you jose lasaga i think yeah it's frozen if you could um log in log out and log back in can you call her in mr pine yes please representatives if you can hear me i'll go ahead and call you back into the meeting and see if that addresses the technical difficulties i'm calling her back into the meeting representative lisa can you hear us i can hear you okay perfect we can hear you now ma'am we can't see you but we can hear you go ahead represent lasagna hello i'm sorry can you hear me now yes ma'am it could be problems yeah we can hear you ma'am okay i was wondering if i could see the presentation thank you thank you i apologize mrs gibson good morning development if it could please bring up the presentation for item three please good morning the item before you all is the first amendment a proposed first amendment to a chapter 380 agreement that the city of el paso has with flyzone llc this is the ifly located in northwest el paso off of i-10 in the montecio development specifically we're requesting that council consider a first amendment between the city and fly zone to decrease the rebate incentive by five percent as consideration for a proportionate five percent reduction in the total investment so just as a reminder about the agreement and the location of ifly so and this was part of the city strategy strategy to bring in out-of-market entertainment options for our community ifly if you recall came in shortly after top golf it is in the targeted smart code development which is also an infield development montecio a very difficult property to develop largely because of the drainage issues as well as the limited access directly off of i-10 however we were able to secure ifly in 2018. the agreement term is a six-year term there are three annual payments associated subject to the applicant making an investment of just over 12 million dollars in the property in total the grant amount approved by council via the agreement was 162 000 in the form of property tax i apologize sales and use tax rebate there are no property tax rebates associated with this and a one-time construction materials and sales tax rebate in total that 162 thousand dollars represents a little less than 1.6 percent of the overall investment since that time the ifly has been constructed and it has been continuously operating with the exception that it was closed for a period during covid it through our compliance process we found that they were short five percent on their investment so um invested a little over 11.7 million just short of the 12.4 million commitment in the agreement so here as staff were recommending given that the ifly is built it is operating it is a small locally owned business and understanding the struggles that have been faced with respect to covid staff is recommending that we amend the agreement to reduce the investment amount by five percent while as consideration reducing the total incentive by a proportionate five percent amount and with that i'm happy to take any questions thank you representative saga yes thank you representatives will you please turn on your camera ma'am you have to be visible oh i thought i was i'm um i'm on my uh there you are we can see you now okay sorry are you on that dive skydiving deal yes can you see me now i'm so sorry now i'm on my city phone but you are are you able to see me yes yes ma'am okay thank you so much mayor thank you miss prine and and thank you elizabeth for your presentation i just i think it's appropriate to start by saying that i plan to support this amendment today but not necessarily with great enthusiasm i is definitely a destination tourism business that attracts people to el paso from across the region and beyond and i think that the original decision to sign the initial 380 agreement with them was a good one and we'll continue to benefit el paso into the future i removed this item from the council meeting agenda two weeks ago because i had some heartburn with the fact that the company did not meet their minimum required investment under the terms of the 380 agreement despite the fact that they only did so very minimally 380 agreements the incentives they provide are the resulting benefits to the community are already often publicly misunderstood and individual agreements are and should be scrutinized very heavily internally we have an excellent team at the economic development department who is very focused on compliance with the terms of these agreements agreements have been terminated before for significant income non-compliance excuse me it's something that we take very seriously it is important to my decision today that ifly is in perfect compliance aside from this very small deviation from the minimum required investment at the end of the day i feel it would be incredibly harsh to strip them of the full incentive when they are otherwise in good standing with that said i think that we need to have a procedure for addressing this type of minor non-compliance included in our incentive policy for full transparency what i think would be fair in future cases is a reduction of the incentive amount by three times the percentage of non-compliance mirroring the triple fees paid by those out of compliance and planning and zoning cases when i say fair i mean fair to the other businesses with whom we have 380 agreements chapter 380 agreements who work hard to remain in full compliance with the terms they agreed to an amendment to this incentive policy to that effect is something i will work on moving forward so that these situations and the resulting action that we take will be properly codified thank you mayor thank you very much oh sorry because we don't currently have such language in place i think that the proportion proportional reduction we are considering today is appropriate and again i plan to support this item today thank you mayor thank you thank you and and i think it's so important as we go out and earn the business and the trust of companies to invest in our community as we'll talk a little later it's very important to us as a community to make sure that all these businesses that invest in our community and create jobs in the future for our community that we make sure that they're successful and can be successful because if they're not then it really it's an impact on our community so ms trager thank you for standing here in front of us and and letting us know that uh you know covet was very impactful and as we know 80 percent of all the businesses in our community are small businesses and that's been our goal is to make sure that all these businesses continue to be successful and how we can work to make sure that there's a tomorrow for them so thank you for that miss trick and with that with that i i do make a motion to approve the item second thank you there's a motion in a second mr prine yes sir there's a motion made by mayor by representative lee zarga seconded by alternate mayor pro tem hernandez to approve item number three on that motion call for the vote representative thank you in the voting session and the motion passes unanimously council may we have a motion to recess in order to conduct the mass transit department board meeting there's a motion and a second to recess a regular city council meeting all in favor yes anyone opposed the regular city council meeting is in recess at 10 06 a.m good morning this is a meeting of the mass transit department board for tuesday june 7 2022 is 10 07 a.m present in council chambers our board chair lisa and board members anelo hernandez molinar salcido rivera board member lizard is participating virtually and board members schwarzwein and rodriguez have requested to be excused from this meeting we do go to call to the public this morning and we have two members of the community that signed up to speak the first person is judy ackerman and the sacraments by phone ms ackerman if you're in the queue star six please to unmate your telephone judy ackerman miss judy ackerman if you're in the q star six please i don't see mrs ackerman's phone number in the queue we'll go with the next speaker which is raul castaneda mr castaneda's topic is inability to access the new william beaumont army medical center via sun metro to attend medical appointments good morning mr castaneda you'll have three minutes sir good morning nice to see you again morning mayor city council and fellow el pasons we need for you all to approve transportation to william beaumont we've been in existence since july and i can't get it right i'm visually impaired i can't drive anymore i lost my eyesight due to covet and i would really appreciate your teamwork i've done my homework it takes a bus 36 instead of making a left turn you don't need to go to the old beaumont no more because if you're going to the ova you get a ride by the va but to the new beaumont hospital we need sun metro to take us down there they have a sun metro already a little bus stand there waiting for you guys to make it happen i did my homework you make a right turn on fred wilson instead of going up left it takes four and a half minutes to get there at 60 miles an hour and with a two minute stop so that would give you approximately 14 minutes out of your way to help us veterans and if you don't help us you forget i got adult protective services here today okay so we need all your help but honestly uh please uh help us veterans we need to get out to sun metro it's an easy fix i've already spoken to the commanding general there at the uh fort bliss i've spoken to the commander for beaumont they want your help they said please give us a bus going out there thank you very much for your time keep up the good work thank you mr question sir that concludes the call to the public for this agenda thank you that brings us to the consent agenda all matters listed under the consent agenda will be considered by mass transit department board to be routine and will be enacted by one motion unless separate discussion is requested by board 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 the mass transit department board may however reconsider any item at any time during the meeting mayor um mrs brine do we need to add um a revision to this to add representation or was that already added yes you're correct if you can add the revision on item number two to add board member schwarzline to be excused from this meeting okay so moved right is there a second to approve the consent agenda as revised thank you mr rivera there's a motion made by board member hernandez seconded by board member rivera to approve the consent agenda as revised on that motion call for the vote board member lisa uh i can you hear me yes yes thank you in the voting session the motion passes unanimously that brings us to item number four good morning crystal boston number four is discussion in action on the award of solicitation number 2022-0150r fixed route buses to new flyer of america good morning crystal bus with purchasing and strategic sourcing this item is linked to strategical number seven enhanced sustain el paso's infrastructure network the linkage to the strategic plan is subsection 7.3 enhanced regional comprehensive transportation system this is a request for proposal requirement contract there were 39 views online one proposal was received being a non-local vendor an inadequate competition survey was conducted no protests we received for this requirement we are recommending award as indicated to new flyer america the sole highest ranked proposal based on the evaluation factors established for this procurement move to approve there's a motion made by board members nanda seconded by board member rivera to approve item number four on that motion call for the vote board member lisa aye thank you in the voting session and the motion passes unanimously that brings us to the end of the agenda is there a motion i'm sorry what happened to item number three which was under regular agenda right um yeah i think you skipped one i said item number three i apologize item three is an update to provide the council with information on sun metro service modification plan to go into effect june 26th 2022 good morning ellen smythe chief transit officer we wanted to go over the service modifications we have planned for june 26 and of course the most important announcement is that we will be returning some of the sunday service so astrid bunner is here and she'll be making the presentation thank you elena could i bring up the presentation uh good morning mayor and council astrid bunny for sun metro i'm here to present to you on our strategic recovery plan for transit services effective june 26th my next slide as you know we at symmetra have been working very hard to restore our transit system to pre-pandemic levels and we have been actively pursuing competitive funding to improve our transit service so i'm very excited to tell you that during this recovery plan we are going to be adding routes improving connectivity and increasing frequency and next slide the first set of great news that we have is that we have been awarded a 450 000 grant under the american rescue plan act of 2021 and this grant will allow us to conduct a study to enhance transit services stimulate our economy activity around our transit network and attract new users next slide symmetra is committed to our data-driven approach and it has allowed us to strategically strategically grow our ridership back to pre-pandemic levels a review of our data has allowed us to add service and frequency to enhance our customer service experience next slide our transit service is connected to economic development and works to stimulate our economy through transit oriented developments that can provide connectivity and accessibility our transit system supports jobs provides workforce mobility and gets people to their to their place of work uh next slide our second set of good news is that we're bringing our brio's uh lines to sunday service so effective june 26 we will be have we'll be having our our brios running on sunday and we're also adding some supplementary rides um to provide feeder service to the brio lines on sunday we'll be adding the route 44 the sean mc hagerty vm mccombs route 50 on montana route 53 george theater via mountwood route 89 our saragoza bridge circulator and our three brielle lines the mesa alameda and diabrio next slide when we bring back our sunday service that means we'll also be bringing back our holiday service and with our holiday service the first holiday that we we will be serving on will be july the 4th and we'll be running this the sunday service hours during that holiday next slide by this map is a rendering of how the network will work on sunday services which we mentioned will have improved connectivity and added routes for sunday and so we'll be running our brio lines and then the feeder lines to them next slide um this is a breakdown of the services that we've added and the improved connectivity and increased frequency on route 7 we've added a route here we split this route to go from the east side terminal to the trans mountain area and we split the rest of the route that was moving down to the mission valley and we've added a route 87 in order to increase uh frequency to to the el paso community college by averted campus to have us going every 30 minutes on route 8 we've extended service and added our service this line extends now to the saragosa and george theater area route 37 we've also added service we are now servicing the magnetic condo pass echo and moonlight areas on route 53 we've added services and we've also added frequency so this bus will be running now every 35 minutes we've added a bus to it and it's also extending to the bob mitchell in my mouthwood high school area to increase the connectivity to that area we've added um route 54 to extend to the bob mitchell in order to area and cover the mountwood high school area also on route 67 we've added frequency to this route in route 87 like i mentioned this was a new added route route 89 we're also adding service we're extending the hours so it now starts at five in the morning and it ends at eight o'clock at night this is the cerricos uh circulator next slide our data also showed us that our brios are the are the most frequently used lines so starting june 26th another set of good news is that they'll be starting earlier they'll be starting at 5am monday through friday with a frequency of 15 minutes and on saturday they'll also be starting at 8am with a frequency of 20 minutes this is for the for the brio lines the mesa the dire and the alameda next slide our outreach plan to promote our strategic recovery plan for transit services are one-on-one interviews news releases ads and locals newspapers information tables at all transit centers information on shelters handouts inside the buses social media campaign and website notifications and that is the end of our uh presentation if you have any questions do you have any thank you um congratulations on the arpa funding i i think that's really great you know i was a big proponent for this council moving some of our arpa funds to sun metro unfortunately that didn't happen but i am glad that you were able to utilize some of those dollars from the federal government um i'm glad to see that sunday service is coming back but i did want to talk a little bit about saturday service and i guess this is more of a question for ellen since i know she'd been emailing with my office so the question is currently at what time do the brio buses stop running on saturdays right so astrid would be the better one to answer that question she's got all the data at her fingertips okay astrid and while she's looking that up i wanted to make sure each one of you should have received an invitation to our ribbon cutting tomorrow morning at 11 o'clock we received a delivery of 10 of our new um cutaway buses that we use for the ada services at the lift and we're going to have some you know punch and cookies and just you know we don't have any champagne to crack over them but we're going to at least welcome them into the fleet and let um you know our writers know that some of our new units have arrived and 10 more will be arriving later this fall so look for that invitation tomorrow if you haven't seen it it's in your inbox um tomorrow at 11 o'clock at our transit operations center on montana uh representative analo thank you for the kind words and the on the award and uh we we stopped our last run at around 6 p.m on saturdays has that always been the case yes ma'am okay because i was just confused because i had received an email from ellen saying that they were making a modification to saturdays where they were ending the elementa brio at 6 00 p.m and so i just wanted clarification which is why i had originally asked ellen for the information um because it's just it's just we're getting inconsistent information so the brios do stop at 6 pm and i i do hope that we can look at that as our new goal to expand that service to later hours in the future especially in the summers so thank you astrid yes ma'am one other um announcement i'd like to just put on your radar is we are working diligently with cid to complete the montana brio and we're hoping that that will launch november first and as we get through the summer we still are having some delivery issues on some of our electronic components that go into the ticket vending machines and the digital boards and the you know just the control panels on the electrical um so but we're hopeful that we'll be able to launch the montana brio november 1st and we'll give you more information as it gets closer thank you representative hernandez thank you um regarding the modifications um when are your when are you expected to bring additional modifications forward well for sure we have to bring it in october if we're gonna change up to get ready for um for the montana brio this one goes into effect july august september october so probably the next one will be the brio modification okay and um regarding the the gentleman's concerns earlier do you have um an update on where you're at with um what you need from council is it a budgetary request that needs to be made for the access to the new hospital with fort bliss no ma'am we've met extensively with the with the beaumont officials and um we've committed to run the buses as soon as they have a demand of you know 10 10 riders per hour and honestly right now they can't come up with that level of demand we do have like this gentleman we we will contact him and because we are working on a new pilot with transit on demand kind of like an uber service so we we're going to talk to him and see if maybe we can do something for him on that but when we have the ridership as we talked about before route you know 33 it when you have less than 10 riders in an hour if that is not that we as a as a metro it's not good practice to put a full-size 35 or 40 foot unit on that type of a route so our what we're working towards is having these smaller minivans neighborhood circulators to pick up the the less than 10 people and also to offer this transit on demand to be able to bring the riders to the nearest um brillo stops the brios are the most popular lines as astrid mentioned they're that's where our most ridership occurs the other issue with the beaumont hospital is we don't run we have we don't have a bus in that area at all none we just don't go out into that area and so um we it so that just compounds the whole schedule drivers units but well i'm going to call him and talk to him and see what we can do to meet his needs whenever the gentleman came up and spoke miss hernandez i sent an email to ellen and asked her to look into that immediately and then so the objective is to not leave any rider behind so i know that the services that we're providing in terms of a new line and a new connection that that may not be the case given the numbers but we're not going to leave a rider behind and we're utilizing the service as you mentioned the on-demand the uber or the smaller vehicles and that that's our goal and in the process of us working towards that we're going to reach out to these folks and make sure that they get to where they need to get to and not be left behind right thank you no i absolutely agree that we need to to find a solution for that i like the idea of a small neighborhood circulator but of course if there is there is a demand we need to rise to that occasion but thank you for the update um really great work and i think the the welcoming it i think it's going to welcome the new routes so we appreciate you adding that sunday service and we're listening to the community and so i hope we can spread that out to the public as as much as we can through the media because i know that was a big request and so um again thank you for making those adjustments welcome and and again please contact me at any time if you have requests from your constituents because we're always taking in uh the request and then we work to the best of our ability to include it in our next set of service modifications so yeah just keep sending anytime you get a request just send them over thank you thank you for that you know do we have a motion there's no action on this item sir but miss lisa turner would like to speak on this item go ahead okay ms turner good morning you'll have three minutes thank you for allowing me to speak uh yes uh the va will building up we'll be building at least a 500 000 square foot facility out by the hospital so if you haven't planned a route by now do it because you're going to have a lot of people going out there and i have seen buses drive around this town with nobody in them and now you're saying you have to have 10 veterans to make a run excuse me if i find that offensive but i find it offensive when i see empty buses driving up and down our streets and then you turn around and tell me that for a veteran who needs to access that hospital oh you've got to have 10 people that doesn't work there's more than 10 veterans going to that hospital every day there's more than 10 going up there every hour they don't ride a bus because there's none available you've made no effort to go out and say hey this service is coming you've done absolutely nothing so i don't know what the issue is i don't know what the problem is i did know this you need to do something and you need to do it now not next week not next month not a year from now thank you thank you mr turner that concludes yes sir that brings us to the end of the agenda is there a motion to adjourn there's a motion and a second to adjourn the mass transit department board meeting all in favor yes anyone opposed and the mass transit department board meeting for tuesday june 7th 2022 is adjourned at 10 28 a.m and we have a motion to reconvene the regular city council meeting there's a motion and a second to reconvene the regular city council meeting all in favor anyone opposed the meeting is back in session at 10 29 a.m we're on page number 12 to the item that was moved immediately after mass transit this is item 33 and this is a public hearing on an ordinance granting a franchise for elite medical air transport llc dba emergent air to operate a non-emergency ambulance transfer service chief good morning chief again good morning council mayor jonathan killings interim fire chief el paso fire department congratulations again on your appointment sir thank you sir this is a franchise agreement to include elite medical air doing business as emergent air into our franchise this is the same franchise agreement that we currently have with the current private ambulance services that are operating within the city thank you sir any questions go ahead representative anello oh public comment yes mayor we do have some folks that signed up to speak on this item the first person is robert campion followed by debbie baird rachel herrickson rudy gonzalez umberto enriquez thank you good morning mr campion you'll have three minutes sir good morning thank you good morning council my name is rob camp and i'm president of elite medical transport um we've been an ambulance provider here in the city since the late 1990s the past two years have been arguably the most challenging for ems in our entire history the pandemic great resignation and now hyperinflation have taken a tremendous toll on ems providers nationally regardless of whether they're public private or non-profit the financial support and staffing assistance provided to hospitals was not matched to ambulance providers to a great degree we've had to meet these challenges alone and while our services were severely strained we have continued to meet the needs of our community ems saw tremendous disruption in staffing pipelines as training institutions closed during the pandemic and ems providers had to leave the field for a multitude of reasons there is good news however we are in the midst of a steady recovery and continue to see staffing improve more units on the road and a general climb to service levels at or better those pre-pandemic while staffing improves hyperinflation has presented the next major challenge fuel costs have doubled and equipment and supply costs have increased by a minimum of 25 percent we're required to operate more efficiently as expenses quickly outpace reimbursements primarily medicare and medicaid we have to maximize our call volume to remain ready to meet the needs of patients as an advocate to the consumer i would also be remiss not to point out that the rates being proposed by the applicant here today are the highest ever considered by the city council and the specialty care transport rate of five thousand dollars is the single highest base rate ever charged in the united states today you'll be asked to consider a fourth ems provider in the city of el paso i'm asking that a fourth the addition of a fourth provider not be approved today an additional provider will create disruption within a within our recovering ems system and will have a detrimental effect on the high efficiencies necessary at this time an additional ems provider will dilute call volumes rendering all providers to include the applicant struggling to meet the high overhead of ems and will and the approval will also allow a pricing strategy that i believe to be predatory that concludes my comments thank you thank you chief can i ask you a question sir no i'd asked uh chief diagocino i just want to make sure that so if the city of el paso uses this ambulance service regardless of what they do charge they cannot charge any more than the city of el paso charges is that correct that's correct when we call them to back up our our ems uh ambulance providing or our emergency services uh they have to charge our rate uh that's designated by the city of el paso thank you representative but that's the rate to the city not to the correct consumer right and so uh in regards to what we just heard from public comment i had been reached out by actually administrative uh administrators from hospitals in the area that are concerned um about the specialty what is a specialty ground transportation fee that is going to be charged by elite medical i don't know if there's someone who can speak on that um because there is concern throughout the medical community here that that is extremely high yeah and when so whenever a hospital is selecting a private ambulance to to take their transfers they're able to uh evaluate whatever cost that's going to be associated with that and then they choose which provider they would like to have make that transfer so uh just just like shopping around they're able to look at other providers um and and look at a competitor more competitive rate or cost effective rate sure but if this isn't completely inflated fee and you let's say a hospital does determine to use this who's going to pay for that it's going to be el pasoans many who you know we're extremely uh medically underserved community i've had to pay these fees i've had to pay out of pocket for a med flight they're extremely expensive so if you're if i'm having hospitals say this is the highest they've ever seen i can't even imagine what that number looks like and and we're not stopping a hospital from using them but we're passing that cost on to let's be honest low-income communities here right and so my question is why are these prices so inflated for this service versus other services um i don't have sure you can't answer that but if there's someone that can i would appreciate it thank you next uh speaker mitch payne yes ma'am please the next speaker is debbie baird followed by rachel herrickson rudy gonzalez good morning miss baird you'll have three minutes good morning council my name is debbie barrett i'm from germany ambulance and we've been servicing i'll pass this morning for 15 years today you are being asked to approve a franchise ordinance for an additional ambulance provider in the city of el paso under our franchise application it states that the burden of proof shall be upon the applicant to establish that a need in the community exists for their services it has not been related at this point that your current providers dominion ambulance life ambulance and elite medical transport have not been sufficient in meeting the needs of the franchise agreement and in servicing the community it is also stated that to be granted a franchise city council shall grant the franchise or shall refuse to grant it in accordance with the council's findings as to whether considering the public interest will be served currently you have three ambulance providers under the franchise that have been servicing the el paso community well we all have been described by the fire department as working wonderfully together if an additional ambulance provider is granted into the franchise please allow me to give you some insight on what will take place your current ambulance providers will face disruption the market will become oversaturated and result in a dilation of service due to ems personnel staffing pool will cannibalize and each ems provider's call volume will not sustain we need your support and assistance to not let this be the outcome of your three current ambulance providers thank you very much thank you the next speaker is rachel herrickson good morning ma'am you have three minutes yes good morning my name is rachel raxing president of life ambulance we have been serving el paso for 38 years thank you for allowing me to speak today and we would like you to please vote no to item number 33. if emerging air is approved once again emerging air will be charging the highest specialty care rate in the country i haven't been able to find one higher their rate is 5 000 for specialty care they're going to be charging the citizens of el paso 25 a mile which is higher than anyone in the market when a patient experiences an emergency or a major medical event they have no idea what the provider is going to charge them that's why we need to protect citizens from of el paso from this extreme price gouging as an air provider emergent falls under the no surprise billing act this means no additional billing to patients for air transports only emergent ground transport charges for el paso seem to indicate they are trying to make up their air shortfalls by overcharging our economically challenged community this lack of compassion for our community um i cannot believe and i can't imagine that i would be a patient being transported by emerging air have a thirty thousand dollar air bill and then a five thousand dollar ground transport bill and then twenty five dollars a mile poor patient i would like to summarize by reiterating what rob and debbie have said the pandemic has had a major impact on the providers on us serving el paso in fact the whole ems industry has faced a major personnel shortage a force provider will only compound this problem an additional problem provider will dilute the call volume rendering all of the existing providers struggling to meet the high overhead of providing ems we humbly ask council and the mayor to please say no today thank you for my time thank you for your time the next speaker is rudy gonzalez he will be followed by ember umberto enriquez good morning sir you have three minutes good morning mayor lisa good morning good morning members my name is humberto enriquez i'm here on behalf of emergent care with me is rudy gonzalez he's a nurse consultant with the merchant heir and we have the operations manager mr walter coykenko he will be able to answer more specifically some of those questions that you have emergent air has been around for 15 years they split out from elite who's here this morning they kept the air transport services end of the business lee king and dr jorge science have basically operated emerging air in texas and new mexico we're here this morning because the fire department has identified a need for emergent air who's applied for this particular franchise application they've got through it it's been a grueling two years and we're here this morning to answer any of the questions that you may have we're here to help and be partners with the lead we're here to help and be partners with the other three transport services we're not here necessarily just to compete with them or put anyone out of business we're here to to to give el pason's a choice to give all passwords to service uh having said that let me have you uh meet mr uh gonzalez let me have you talk to mr koikendong and answer the questions that you may have mr gonzalez you'll have three minutes sir thank you mayor and council thank you for allowing us the opportunity to come talk to you and i first want to start with the premise of what was said earlier as the council meeting started we got it the city's got to consider what's good what's right and what's good for the citizens now there's been some comments by the other individuals here that don't want this franchise making allegations about they don't know how this can happen etc there was also an indication that proof that there's proof there's proof that emerging errors needed you all have been provided with a list a call list where the ambulance has been requested for transfer individuals and there's been delays not only about half an hour but two or three hours now we're talking about providing the citizens of el paso critical care service that is not actually being provided at this time by this i mean elite air will provide a nurse also a paramedic on transparent individuals that may need specific care such as a chest tube being in a ventilator or respirator and also isolate for the pediatric intensive care children now as stated before by humberto we're not here to try to compete we're here to try to provide the citizens of el paso additional service that can be provided by a merchant air now with respect to the pricing and all that someone else will respond specifically on that that we're not here to try to destroy any company or to try to take advantage of anyone we're here to try to provide the service that is needed there's been numerous calls where individuals are going to be transferred from the hospital to the to the airport to another facility and there's delays this creates a critical problem for those individuals individuals that are citizens of el paso we don't want that to occur we want to be able to provide them that service and we're here to give that service and assist the city of el paso if uh need be to do 911 calls as well and with respect to the pricing that can be corrected and that's not an issue if you have any other questions please ask and we'll be ready to answer but again under the premise that there is proof and that we're asking that the city council consider what's right for the citizens of of el paso and do what's what's right for them provide the service that is needed thank you the final speaker is walter kukendell good morning sir you have three minutes good morning mr mayor council members okay so let me clarify real quick on the on the sct rate so the sct rate provides a nurse a critical care nurse and a critical care paramedic that's something that none of the other providers provide so it is a different it is a different rate and whenever you talk about so that is a different rate we provide that 24 7. so that will there will be a nurse on call 24 7 that will accompany these patients critical care patients which currently i don't believe these guys are are actually are the ones transformed i think the fire department's doing some of that whatever you talk about the facilities themselves the facilities uh create a rate with us and and they'll have an acceptable rate or they wouldn't sign with us so that that would take care of that the other thing is that no balance billing that's going to happen that's happening in there is coming to ground so the citizens of el paso will not see that they won't get a bill they're not going to get an inflated ambulance bill their insurance whatever their insurance pays and their deductible is all that they would pay and that's so that that's coming that's that's already in place for air and it's coming for ground as far as uh interrupting the the employee pool uh we're trying to add to it what we would what we propose to do is create a school um hire people from the community and put them through the training they'll work for us for a while and at that point they would be there would be more emts in the city and we've done this in other places and been successful we are adding more ambulances more expanding the capabilities of the transport service and here by bringing the critical care the critical care ventilators the critical care incubators and things like that we're also going to help bring in more from out of the area more employees by offering a good better benefits better pay better training that's our proposal and that will help expand more employees into the pool also with that you guys were provided with the letters from other ambulance providers for the need we have one of the servers here services here won't even give us an eta they don't take our calls we don't we don't even ride with them the other ones we have five hour delays and at that point um sometimes that interrupt interferes with the weather so if we're trying to fly somebody out we don't have an ambulance we can't get to there then it will delay moving that patient for a day or two days if you watch the weather around texas so that that's a real big big selling point on this is they will no longer have to worry about the airport transfers well we'll handle those ourselves and that was supporting them you also have the list of eta delays of three five six hours on a consistent basis and you guys can see those numbers again our competition native air wrote a letter of support because they have the same challenges of getting ambulances two minutes from the airport to the hospital hospital airport thank you for your time thank you mayor that concludes public comment on this item thank you representing manila yeah i mean i i i none of that public comment i think uh changed my mind about anything i i'm also a little confused i want this conversation about uh critical care nurse on an ambulances i really don't understand what the difference between an actual emt uh who also has ventilators i think there's a lot of conversation happening here there's obviously some infighting in between companies that is none of my business and it's not my concern my concern today are is the community in el paso there there are clearly inflated prices with this company that if a patient has insurance will be covered if they do not they will have to pay for that and i you know we don't have uh the ability to tell hospitals which ambulance service they have to work with but this is where our power is right this is where we can protect the community and unless there was an adjustment in rates i'm not going to support this so thank you thank you representative rodriguez i mean hernandez followed by representative rivera chief killings just a quick question for you um i heard earlier that there was a an application that came forward was that application on behalf of the fire department no so just to be clear we didn't go out and identify a need what it is is the application is made to the fire department uh for them to be part of the franchise agreement and then we evaluate them based on the criteria they met the criteria and then we approve the application now for services outside of the city um or maybe this might be a question for the business uh prior to providing the transport does the person if they're able to communicate are they the ones signing an agreement agreeing to the to the price for transport outside of the city outside of the city of el paso services um i can let me bring up chief uh tavares he's our he's over our ambulance billing and and division he'd probably be able to speak to that a little bit more chief devotees so you said the questions say the transport starts outside the city outside of the city services so service outside city when they fly in that's a two part to the transport there's a the section that fly in that's one part of the transport uh that's one leg of the transport the second leg of the transport would be the ground transport which originates from the airport to the hospital or from the hospital to the airport okay and that's a separate service that there's a service yes and then the service that we're providing to the city of el paso as it relates to the city of el paso is there a current gap in services that the fire department has identified no there's not a current gap there's sufficient support um currently on the ground yes currently the currently the three services are providing that service they provide that service uh in the event that uh because that service is it's it has to be coordinated uh there's uh delivery from the of the patient from the hospital to the airport for wherever they're coming from there's a flight transport and then there's the delivery of the patient from the airport to the hospital so there has to be a lot of coordination in the event that for whatever reason there's no ground transport and they can't get a uh administrative transport because for whatever reason then they call the fire department and we do those transports there's no delays okay so in the event the other three providers are not available the fire department will provide that transport yes uh you know we serve the community uh we do that anytime that uh there's there's a gap um for whatever reason because we understand that uh you know times you know there'll be no ambulance so we'll step in when there's an urgent care for transporting that patient we'll step in and provide that service now there is a limited number of times that we've done that so if we don't have a large number of transports that we've done then we feel that there's no gap in that service right so in the event that everyone is busy you can't the fire department can't do you all if this franchise were to be approved would you all contact this new provider to provide that critical care transport no so the the flight companies so that is a a transfer service so the flight companies they will they will do contracts with those those providers and so they'll do their own agreements as uh they'll schedule their their transports so that is done between them they only call the fire department when there is no ambulance and it's an urgency to get that patient uh when the patient's already on the ground and it's an urgency to get that patient to the hospital that's when they'll call the fire department but any transfers that are done between hospitals or between the airport in the hospital that is the agreement that's done between the providers themselves okay and then without this franchise agreement can this new transport service continue operations yes they can continue operations without a transport agreement yes and this this franchise agreement would only be related to the city services no this franchise agreement is is for private service so this franchise agreement allows that company to provide service to the community uh in the franchise agreement it also allows us the city of our pastor to use that franchise as he back up to the city uh for two things number one in the event that there is uh non-emergency transports they are coming through 9-1-1 calls then each organization each private ambulance is used as a as uh as a private ambulance to respond to those non-emergency calls and they'll transport those patients two in the event that the city needs aid in 9-1-1 responses and those uh private analysis we use as an a uh one example is uh uh august 3rd on that event we need as many ambulances as we as we possibly could uh because we didn't know how many patients were where we're needing services so those franchise ambulances will step up and they will send as many as ambulances as they can to provide that service on the event that we have uh you know we have a major a lot of evidence going on then those samurai services will step up and they'll provide service to the city for that purpose and um or what is the position of the fire department is is this um are you recommending approval for this item today so the the organization has met the criteria as for a franchise so there was no reason to deny him a franchise okay um and so here's here's my position on the matter and and i can address mr gonzalez if you can come forward please you mentioned earlier that um there is there is a concern as it relates to the fee the that whatever the acronym is yes and i wanted to clear that because there was a comment about the citizens of el paso would be responsible for the building no they won't there's no there's not going to be a balance billing and uh it's it's if the insurance pays great if it don't that that's going to be it it's not going to be a balanced billing to charge the citizens of of el paso can you give an example of what that looks like well let's say the insurance will pay uh 3 000 only and the individual the bill would have been let's say 4 500. well that's it whatever the insurance space that's it we're not going to go back to try to collect from the individual um because that's that's no balance billing now as it relates to uninsured patients uh if it's really if it's uninsured they can't pay we're not going to be coming after them the the issue here is not to try to make money and and and get individuals to pay when they can to pay the issue here is to provide the service that is critically needed now in that regard there was a question about uh in fighting about nurses not we're not fighting with anyone we're not we're providing a service that is unlike the services being provided an example what's the difference between an emt a paramedic a nurse and a nurse practitioner simple education okay a nurse is going to have either a two-year degree or a four-year degree an associate or bachelor degree where an emt has six months or possibly a year training the level of of training that is required to attend some of these critical individuals is important for the citizens of el paso because if someone is going to be transferred from the hospital to the ambulance to another hospital in houston with a chest tube it's going to require someone that has training to address the chest to and sometimes paramedics are not trained to take care of that in addition to that medications if there's medication that needs to be given to someone that's having a heart attack and things of that nature a nurse would be able to give specific medications where a paramedic may not be able to because the law does not allow them to do that so in essence it's a a service that would be specific to individuals that need it not not to compete we're not trying to put anyone out of business or compete or trying to you know give exorbitant bills we're trying to provide a service that's unique and that is needed for the citizens of el paso thank you thank you for for that thank you man um i just wanted to share uh with you mr gonzalez my my grandmother actually died for lack of a service to transfer from hospital hospital so i so i take these matters very seriously um i i i believe that this it should not be in the city's position to obstruct business in fact we should promote it um and so i see no reason why to deny that but understand that there are concerns from the community about the pricing but you're saying that you're providing a specialty type of service for this community um with educated licensed nurses right and so so i get that i understand that but when you're when you're working with members of the public they're unable to pay you've set on record that that is not something that you are desiring to do that there are no predatory um requirements here or predatory efforts or intent here and so i appreciate that and so in light of that information and in light of everyone's concerns i get that i get that but i also feel that we should not obstruct business we should elevate businesses we want to welcome your business we we encourage you to hire more el pasoans and provide skilled jobs and if it's a matter about you know the lack of of employment a lack of trained employees well we have borderplex folks in the room we have workforce solutions across the street we need to have educated pipelines prepared for businesses we don't stall business we should elevate it and promote it along with talented employees so i'm happy to to support this today but understand that there are real concerns from the community and my hope is that you all can work together so that we can provide critical medical services for this city but at any rate um thank you for your time thank you thank you very much thank you uh mr gonzalez i just want to and i know that representative but none this was very eloquent and asking but i just want to kind of simplify a little bit you're telling me if you have a patient that needs your services and doesn't have the ability to pay for it you will transport that's correct and merchandise position is that we're here to serve the community and and provide the service that may be needed um with the level of of training that that we can provide a merchandise can provide is that in part in your contract basically that you will provide in the jet care yes sir is this in your contract i believe it is so yes currently with the hospitals hospitals are a pair of last resort they set their rates um to what they feel is comfortable usually it's in line with medicare currently emerging air we do not have a uh a policy in place to pursue people who can't pay we don't have we don't have well i understand that but if you ever get a process in place i'd hate for it to to say well it's not in the contract and we now have a process in place so that's a i want to make sure that statement is you know i understand what you just said to me and that it makes me a little bit nervous so is it part of your contract that you will provide that service and if it's not i think it would need to be because if you do get that process in place then that would create an injustice to the community based on your prior statement sure and we haven't done it so far in the amount of time i get it sure i understand projections to change that yes sir but currently like our contracts with our hospitals yeah we we do not turn down based on ability to pay i just want to make sure that if that is part of the agreement and not part of the handshake because your handshake would create an issue somewhere down the road sure we can we can add that no problem okay and so let's say if i'm home and i call you and i don't have the ability to pay you said from hospital to hospital from about from my home to the hospital would that some service still be provided it would be we would try and help you get ability to pay of course and if if we don't then it shall provide the service we would not turn down service i just want to make sure that's part of the agreement if the council does agree yes sir thank you uh representative duvetta thank you mayor that's that's basically where i was headed have asked the key questions though but my question uh again to the chief do you see this need is there a tremendous gap in this business at the suite so the benefit that's gonna that bringing another ambulance into the franchise agreement brings to the community is it adds another provider to the pool for uh those instances that chief davares was talking about where it's a large-scale incident and we run out of ambulances or we're running low on ambulances and we need a assistance from these uh for backup or for our lower non-emergent calls we have another provider within the within the franchise area that we can rely on to to pick up some of those calls and i think it's also important to mention that uh the franchise agreements are reviewed every two years and with with um with this one we're putting it on a schedule to be reviewed again in april so if they're not meeting the the the the guidelines that that are set forth by council uh and then um the billing um aspects that are set forth by by council they'll be reevaluated at that time and and we can we can remove the franchise that was going to be my follow-up question on the billing if you were going to bring that information to us i'm glad to hear that you are uh is there when and also when you say that you you're giving the el paso rate uh how what's the difference between their old password rate and their rate that they currently use so the el paso rate is 855 dollars and then uh 15 dollars per mile okay other than that everything's been answered thank you very much thank you so much thank you mayor representative sarga followed by representative anela we can't hear you you're not coming across representing the saga you're still on mute ma'am i think miss prince putting you on mute i did not uh you're on mute representative etc can you hear me now yes i'm sorry yes okay i'm so sorry no so i just have one final final question you know do the other companies already under operating under the franchise agreement uh do they do back billing to the customer could somebody answer that for me ms birds coming up yes hi rachel raxing um the reason why we're concerned about the back billing is we're charging our sct rate is eleven hundred um dominions is like seven ninety and um elite ground is like fourteen hundred and so um we do do some billing but our our our excuse me billing is not 5025 um dollars a month but i want to clarify something that walter said to you all if that's okay if i may i don't i don't think we want to get in in the debate if there's something that a city representative has a question yeah i was just interested if if you all do back billing for the custom okay yes but we for the majority of the we also do not emergency and we do 9-1-1 and the um the non-emergency portion the majority of our bills are paid by either private pay or insurance but we do not go back and back bill on the majority of our accounts and it's on the ability for the patient to pay a lot of times we will evaluate their ability to pay but i just wanted to clarify something when when when walter was saying that the hospital is the pair of last resort that means the hospital would be getting the bills it is not writing off that account so i just want to make sure that was clarified so okay did i answer your question i'm sorry i think it yes ma'am thank you representative uh i think we're representing ella thanks and i i really uh appreciate the last speaker because i was going to say there's a lot of this has been a little disingenuous on how the billing process works representative hernandez asked about you know how a patient uh chooses this it's done through the hospital right and there's been a little bit of a disingenuous conversation about what level of trauma that that is being dealt with here and how it's being dealt with um i'd also say if you just go to the uh the the applicant's website it literally says if you do not have insurance your payment is required within 30 days you can google them and they use a collection agency so right this is the conversation this is how words are swayed just because they don't have a mechanism for collecting those bills they use a service for a debt collection to obtain that every business does that that's fine that's not the question the question here is the actual cost if you have one ambulance service that is charging a thousand dollars and they're gonna put that to collection versus one that's charging five thousand again like i have also dealt with this my husband was medvacked 300 miles to a hospital here and then transported to three different rehabs from an icu i've dealt with a lot of this billing i've dealt with a lot of this paperwork and i think a lot of the conversation up here has been disingenuous about how this process works and well this is the last thing i will say your city is asking for this franchise or allowing the franchise saying they'll only use it for emergency events they use the august third shooting as an example imagine that you were in a catastrophic public event you're putting an ambulance taken to the hospital and then you get a five to ten thousand dollar bill for that transport that's the responsibility we have here today is is being able to say these prices are too high for the uninsured underserved medical community that we represent representative if if that scenario was to take place they would be transporting under the agreement that they're following our billing um guidelines through us yeah but through other situations so any any anything any transports that that that we're gonna call uh for backup within the franchise area they'll be following our billing which is the eight hundred dollars okay but i still just don't agree with this cost and again because the hospitals in this community are also concerned we should be taking a moment to say okay well who are they working with and what is going on um the fact that they got up here and said we don't bill if you don't have insurance you can't pay their website says differently um i i did appreciate that you said if this passes you will you'll keep us up to date on that billing and what happens and i'll look forward to that but but again i'm i'm not going to support this and i i think the conversation has been you know very disingenuous from the applicant so thank you very much thank you represent molinar and then we're going to call the question thank you very much mr mayor chief killings so one more time you said it was approximately 855 dollars plus mileage for let's just say motor vehicle accident someone is transported to a local area hospital right any franchise any anything that that takes place within our franchise area whether that's meds uh an iv or anything like that correct but you know since i've been in office we've had constituents call us and so whether they have insurance no insurance their uh have medicare medicaid whatever the situation is but next thing you know they're stuck they're getting this bill from the city and they're trying to find out what do i do now and of course who do they call they call their representative and one of the things that what do you tell these people after you listen to them is like do you eat do you pay your light bill or do you ignore this or you pay half of it or you pay twenty dollars or get a payment plan or something and it's really really hard to listen to these people when you really don't have an answer for that you just don't have an answer to tell them hey ignore that bill you can't do that as a city representative i would be uh i would not be a good city representative if i told these people just a bit they're looking for a way out and it's not about not paying it's just that they cannot pay that bill and you know we're still in coming out of covet we're this is going to be all around for a long time it's just going to be a very difficult thing so that's 855 dollars so at 3 000. thousand dollars uh i can only imagine what that bill would be if they couldn't pay and yes and i understand when the gentleman said they're gonna wipe it off okay they're gonna wipe it off but still that person that customer that person that was transported they're going to feel like what did i do wrong they're going to be re-victimized so i thank you very much appreciate it thank you there's no other questions and i think it's important when we're sitting up here that we get accurate information to make all decisions so thank you for that with that mr prine is there a motion we need a motion on the item anywhere move to approve second there's a motion made by alternate mayor pro tem hernandez seconded by representative lizard to approve item number 33 on that motion call for the vote representative lisa i mayor there's a tie thank you and the voting session and the motion fails with mayor lisa breaking the tie we now go to page number 13. item number 37 that was also moved to the forefront what that what are we on 37 i think we need the break at 10 30 and we've passed it there you are is that what you're coming up for yes item number 37 is discussion in action on a resolution that the city manager be authorized to sign a chapter 380 economic development program agreement between the city of el paso and transperfect translations international inc good morning elizabeth triggs economic and international development could it bring up the presentation please so good morning um the item before you is a resolution between the city of el paso and trans perfect translations international inc to approve a chapter 380 agreement that would facilitate the location of this company in el paso specifically in northwest el paso um with the company's commitment to locate here in el paso comes a 1.56 million dollar investment the creation of 484 new jobs along with a commitment to nearly 650 000 in training um so a little bit about the company originally founded in 1992 transperfect is a business services operation that focuses on translation interpretation and language services they do serve worldwide and are located in more than 100 cities across six continents currently uh they've grown significantly from a two-person operation in 1992 to more than six thousand employees today along with a more than ten thousand network of subject matter experts in the area of interpretation translation language services and i think what's really critical to highlight here about the company's decision to work with el paso and to consider el paso as its next location is that they're really taking advantage and building on our region's competitive strength which is our bilingual workforce when we are out talking to companies that are looking at el paso routinely one of the the things that comes up as being something that is certainly an advantage for us is our ability to speak two languages increasingly in a global market that's really important according to the most recent census numbers el pasoans identify 40 of residents identify as bilingual which makes el paso the most bilingual city in the u.s when we consider that as a proportion of the overall population so that's huge that's a really important competitive advantage we have for our community it makes us a really nice match for transperfect for transperfect so a bit more about the project summary as i mentioned the company is committing to 1.56 million dollar investment primarily in the form of computer furniture fixtures and equipment they are looking at leasing an existing building again in northwest el paso which is currently vacant the following slide will show you a closer look at where the site is and so in addition to that investment however they're creating a significant number of jobs for our community more than 480 jobs over a two-year period so very quick ramp up period um in addition to that being you know more than 480 new jobs for our community what we're looking at there is a nearly 16 million dollar annual payroll what that means for us is that there's an increased spending power within our community that spending then cycles to other local businesses as people are able to purchase their goods and services so it's it's important to consider the project not just from the capital investment aspect but from what it does for the individuals within our community and from the multiplier and spin-off effects it has for other businesses the company is creating quality jobs the average hourly wage starting wage is 15.66 and this is higher than both our median area wage as well as the the local median wage for customer service representatives about 12 percent higher than than the medium wage for customer service representatives here in el paso and then finally committing to 80 health care benefits covered by the employer another important component to this project is that transpar perfect is investing in its workforce and its future workforce here in el paso by committing to nearly 650 000 dollars in employee training dollars over the next two years that's a huge benefit for our community not only are our is our community able to take advantage of positions that promote the existing skill set they have but through this training they're able to grow that skill set which translates to future opportunities in the language interpretation and translation services area and so this is a an image on the left side and ariel of the location again the company is looking at leasing a 43 000 square foot vacant building in northwest el paso located at 1015 belvedere street um this is the former allorica um previous to that west site um with respect to local incentives so so as consideration for transperfect's investment in our community the city is looking at also investing in the project in an amount not to exceed twenty six thousand dollars twenty six thousand four hundred and twenty four dollars over a five year period um this is a performance based incentive it is provided in the form of a 60 rebate on the new property tax revenue generated by the project itself so again requires the company to invest hire train and once those metrics are met then the rebates begin yesterday the county commissioner's court also improved a county incentive capped at twenty four thousand eight hundred and six dollars split between a property tax rebate as well as some assistance in the form of a training grant the total local incentive is just over fifty one thousand dollars again over a five-year period again performance-based uh representing a little bit less than three point three percent of the company's capital investment um which again does not include the training dollars or the commitment to the higher more than 480 employees for our community and so on this slide just very briefly this is a net new tax revenue generator for the city even with our investment over the term of the five-year agreement and the city does generate new tax revenue property tax revenue as a result of the project in the form of just over 17 thousand dollars this does not include the new sales tax revenue that's generated by that increased spending power from the 484 positions created by the company in the nearly 16 million in payroll all other taxing entities also benefit from this project and those those dollars are then reinvested into our community and so just very briefly this final slide summarizes the benefits of this project and our commitment to work with transperfect to to bring a new location to el paso i think importantly it builds on our local bilingual strength and provides the opportunity to grow the the skill set of our community members provides more than 480 quality jobs to our local workforce again with strong wages and and benefits package contributes to the local spending power in the form of of new wages which then results in spin-off effects for other local businesses in el paso and then finally results in new tax revenue for all taxing entities not just the city in the form of new property and sales tax sales and use tax revenue and so with that we are asking council today to consider approving the chapter 380 agreement between the city and transperfect translations international inc in support of a project that will create 480 new jobs for our community and with that i'm happy to take any questions there's no questions or motion i moved here there's a motion made by representative rivera seconded by representative salcido to approve item number 37 on that motion call for the vote representative aye thank you in the voting session and the motion passes unanimously is there a motion to recess second there's a motion and a second to recess the regular city council meeting all in favor yes anyone opposed the meeting is in recess at 11 20 a.m mayor do you want to resist until noon for a call to the public yes yes okay the meeting isn't recess until noon for a call to the public thank you hey you're picking this up hey you're picking this up yes everyone if i could get the council and everyone else to join us back here judge tommy come on come on back thank you i don't know well good morning everyone welcome to yet another jobs announcement that we're very very thrilled to be part of i'm john bodela i am the ceo of the borderplex alliance i'm honored to serve as such and we want to welcome you here on behalf of everyone behind me i'll be serving as your mc today it's my honor to also to do that before we get into the substance of our presentation i want to briefly state that the border plex alliance is our region's economic development and policy advocacy organization and i always have to point out the amazing staff that we have in our organization we were last year recognized as the international economic development organization of the year by 5500 [Applause] by 5500 of our colleagues worldwide so it's a big big deal not only for us but for our region and for el paso so we're very proud of that um joining me uh as part of this organization is our fearless leader uh chairman of the board uh owner of bravo chevrolet cadillac both in las cruces and in el paso we have raymond palacios with us thank you raymond for being here [Applause] and with that we are very very thrilled to announce another world leader another world-class company joining us more details will be forthcoming about this great announcement today and exactly what they'll be doing but at this point it's my honor and my pleasure to introduce the mayor of the city of el paso the honorable oscar leaser [Applause] well good morning and it's a thrill to stand up here in front of you to talk about another company that is going to invest in el paso and you know it's um i want to welcome you all to of course the family of el paso and i don't know how much time you've all spent here but i'm sure you're aware that we get 400 days in a row of sunshine every year and i'll make sure you guys know that so um i said that one day to somebody and after the meeting they came up to me and they said by the way you know there's only 365 days a year but and i do know that but uh no welcome to el paso you can't you know we have wonderful weather but let's you know let's not talk about the weather we all know that we have wonderful people and that's a big difference to people in el paso and as we were listening to miss trigg give that presentation and talk about you know the training dollars the dollars that will train our community and it's really important as we we have come out of kobet and will continue to come out of coba that that a lot of people are making changes in their careers changes in their lives that have a company that will be doing training and continue training to meet their needs and their wants and also the needs and wants of our community which now we all become family it's so important this partnership is as we've talked about we talked about it earlier this morning we'll talk about it again today that when we unite our partnership the city the county the borderplex mr gonzalez and your team it's really important to see what great things can happen mr thank you for the hard work and i know that you know we stand up here and we talk about the things that are happening but it's really important that to know that there's a lot of people behind the scenes people if we could have them all move out of the way you'd probably see them all but we'll leave you all back here with us but you know the city council the county commissioners people that really have worked together to make sure that we continue to provide an opportunity for our community so i want to thank everybody as we work together and we continue to unite our forces and we've seen in you know just a few years how you know speaking with one voice and coming together with one voice creates a lot and today to have this opportunity the they have jobs that pay up to 17 an hour it's so important and um you know i don't know and i wanted to tell you all this i'm not quite sure if you know that i term out at the end of this of 2025 it will be my last time and the scene so i just want to you know you see like a key story look in the seat and put forward and um with that i i'd like to uh just say uh welcome to the family in el paso and um our casa thank you may god bless everyone [Applause] thank you mayor appreciate those comments those heartfelt comments very much appreciated next i'd like to introduce our county judge judge samaniego has been an incredible advocate for our organization and a good friend of economic development and his constituents he works very hard for us and it's my pleasure my honor to introduce the county judge for the county of el paso the honorable ricardo samaniego well as always uh i want to thank the mayor and the great relationship uh you know this company transperfect brings in a lot of things uh economic development is like a puzzle that we're trying to put together to become and when you have border borderplex you know talking to people and trying to get people excited about us we've got the city council we've got the commissioner's court miguel hernandez our economic development person for us and the economic development of the city these things coming together are really important but if you look at some of the things that are important coming out of the pandemic i feel like like we planted a lot of bulbs during the pandemic and now they're beginning to blossom and and transperfect is one of those that is blossoming almost like like a lotus that is blossoming because it helps us you've got a building from the very basic situation you've got a building that was not used that has to be refurbished and is re-energized in a community that that is very good community you've got a building there that's not functioning you can imagine how that looks but look at what happens now so even from that basic the other thing very important to all of us here in el paso is we happen to be the biggest exporters of talent i think in the country we export bilinguals and engineering and science and humanitarian and we export them and it hurts and it's very painful so uh you know steve and your team knowing that uh that we're not exporting that we can keep people here being bilingual here in our community is a is a uniqueness of our community and we get to keep people here to utilize the traits that so often go all over the world and so we're very fortunate with transperfect and raymond thank you for your leadership with borderplex and of course john amazing job that you do so i want to thank you know also the media thank you for being here to allow us to express this is exciting times for el paso we have huge challenges but nothing nothing can offset challenges then productivity and and economic development that people can see and feel for themselves and that challenges a lot of things that are going wrong with our community these are the good things in our community that are going to make us prosperous going forward so once again we really thank everybody that participated in this in this opportunity with transperfect and as i've always said to the leaders it's not just about bringing you in but having try to do everything that we can while you're here to make you successful and you you should come to us just like we came to you wanting you to be here come to us and ask us what do you need to make you successful and i think you're going to find tremendous resources so welcome to el paso thank you [Applause] well thank you judge very very much appreciate your attendance and leadership it really does take a strong partnership as the mayor and the judge did talk about not only the private sector but the public sector and i want to express my deep gratitude to the members of the city council today for unanimously approving this project we thank you for doing that what you've done in creating jobs for your constituents as well i also want to complement elizabeth triggs her staff it's a tremendous honor to work with you and of course michael hernandez over at the county economic development operation as well and the county commission also unanimously approved this project so thank you very much judge for the leadership there and the elected officials that that made this happen and and please express our gratitude to them um and with that uh i am thrilled now to uh introduce the person who is making the engine run as it were economic growth the private sector leader a business guy who's been around this this operation for for a substantial amount of time steve cheeseman is the vice president of contact center operations for transperfect and as many of you have already said that it's it's a world-class company with world-class leadership and stephen is that guy he's been with transperfect now for four years and he has worked in the contact center industry for 30 plus years domestically and internationally he obtained a bachelor of science degree from the university of oregon he is an oregon duck and he also has a six sigma black belt certificate from villanova university just outside of philadelphia and with that it's my honor my privilege let's give a warm el paso welcome to stephen cheeseman [Applause] good morning it's a pleasure to be here again my name is steven cheeseman i'm the vice president of contact center services for transperfect connect at transperfect um first to share a personal note actually i used to live here in el paso about a decade ago and it's great to be back in the community the development with downtown and throughout el paso and overall has really improved and grown over this last last decade so really a lot of congratulations and appreciation for everyone behind me for the efforts they've had in this past decade to have el paso continue to grow and thrive like it is today i'd like to begin by thanking actually the borderplex alliance the county of el paso and the city of el paso for their overwhelming support through this process we have been embraced by this community from the beginning of our search this is a striving and growing community and we know we made the right decision to expand in el paso with transperfect transperfect by the way just to highlight we are the largest translations company in the world over 7 500 employees over 110 offices across the world six continents and i am elated to today announce another location for transperfect here in el paso these incentives certainly were critical in our decision to expand into el paso but as well the talented bilingual smart workforce that spans over 2.5 million people in the metropolitan area of el paso we look forward to creating 500 jobs in the community here of el paso and having a long and mutually beneficial relationship with the city our new center will launch over the phone interpretation employment opportunities initially and then we'll plan to expand with inbound services in spanish and english we'll launch our site within the next month we'll plan to hire 100 employees in this year and continue to grow to a few hundred in 2023 well our site has many amenities for our employees that i'm pretty pleased about we'll have a large on-site lunchroom with canteen services a game room quiet room relaxation room mother's room the building will be pretty much completely renovated with paint carpet and brand new workstations it should be very attractive and great place for employees to come into work every day they'll be free parking with easy access transportation public transportation located on the west side of town and with transperfect there's full benefits 401k match uh incentives for performance and as noted earlier competitive compensation so with that today marks the beginning of transperfect in el paso and as a translations company where is there a better place to be so we look forward to thriving with all of you in a long-term partnership here in this community we're really pleased to be here thank you thank you stephen we uh again want to welcome you uh to be in our wonderful wonderful city and uh the final speaker today will be our city manager uh tommy gonzalez and i just want to thank you personally tommy for the support that you provide the community and to the borderplex alliance whenever we have an issue problem or we need something done we just call tommy and it gets done so thank you so much for that leadership again our final speaker today will be our city manager my honor to introduce tommy gonzalez just to build on what john was saying about the council's support for economic development back in 2015 until now if you look at the numbers because there's a lot of questions that are asked about incentives and how we utilize incentives the council's strategic moves in that area has yielded 268 million dollars to all the other tax taxing entities here in el paso so we talk budget budgets coming up that's a great way not only to create jobs which is a priority for our council but also to increase wages but when you look at 268 million dollars going to the school district going to the county going to the hospital the hospital district going to the city all these different entities that benefit el paso community college that helps keep your taxes low so this is a strategic move on the council's part to utilize incentives in this case incentives with less than two percent of the actual investment it's going to be 16 million dollars annually on payroll so those are great benefits for the community and great ways to underscore also finally what's been talked about today the the bilingual community that we have here we're at 40 percent of our share of our population is bilingual that that that uh pales and comm you know when you look at the other cities that pale in comparison to us uh they're big cities like la is at 33 you got new york to 26 percent so the fact that el paso has got the largest share really underscores what we're about that we're a bilingual community we're a young community and we want to take advantage of that so this is a very strategic move for us and very happy to welcome this company to our to our community thank you john tony ramirez john mesa denise avila for my staff thank you for your hard work day in and day out we appreciate that diligence so much and thank you for being here with that that concludes the formal part of our presentation but i do want to add just a couple more quick quick points our organization as you know is the lead economic development recruiter for this region but we have never been more busy and i said just a few short months ago more announcements are on the way and i fundamentally feel uh that we will be making some more announcements thanks to the folks behind me and the hard work done by many i think we and i know that we will have a very very strong second half of the year for jobs announcements i am very very certain of that and i'm excited about the possibilities down the road but we can't get it done except for the support of the individuals behind me so we again i want to thank each and every one of you for the leadership and making sure that we get these things accomplished for the betterment of our community and with that that concludes the formal part of our presentation some of us will be available for questions one-on-one and individually from the media and we'll make ourselves now available for that again thank you for being here members of the media thank you so much for your attendance as well and we look forward to talking with you about this great opportunity oh so uh okay i am i'm honest okay we need one more for quora downtown thank you councilman we have a motion to reconvene there's a motion in a second to reconvene the regular city council meeting all in favor anyone opposed the meeting is back in session at 1203 pm we now go to call to the public the el paso city council is a local government body charged with serving all of the citizens and these meetings must be focused on the meeting at charge the city council meetings are public meetings under the texas open meetings act public comment is an accommodation and not a requirement of city council all persons in attendance are expected to display civility and decorum that is respectful to other persons without the use of insulting profane threatening or abusive language public comment will not be used for personal attacks against a person or group's character or integrity which are not pertinent to city business nor may any member of the public use this 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 11 members of the public that signed up to speak the first person is miss wally scheck i don't see her in there no don't you miss we'll move to carlos science i'll call her followed by elizabeth berkeley brandon carrillo sharon boehner efrain saucedo mr sein's topic is wellington chew senior center i don't see mr science okay we'll move to elizabeth berkeley is liz beth berkeley if you'll unmute your telephone you can press star six to do so miss berkeley's topic is pat o'rourke recreation center reopening good afternoon miss berkeley you have three minutes ma'am good afternoon can you hear me yes ma'am okay all right thank you yes this is elizabeth berkley i'm a member of the el paso high neighborhood improvement association and um today like you mentioned we would like to address the cattle work city rec center closures um this center within walking distance of my house and for many years i have been a user of the weight room and a kind of yoga classes and other things until it closed two and a half years ago obviously that was because of the pandemic and we've been waiting now for it to reopen as many of the rec centers in the area have you know it's very busy there when my kids were younger we frequently use the pool in the summer oh my goodness it was just packed um i use the weight room year-round i'm now a senior and so there's all of the services for seniors too and in the summer they people folks would go there to cool off this neighborhood which el paso high is our neighborhood really has no other facilities and not having access to pedal work leaves an escaping wound in this neighborhood it just it feels abandoned and and we have as an organization tried to contact not the folks in the city a phone call which would never return to uh and then a letter which was almost two months ago two mayors miss berkeley you're back on mute star six will and mutual go ahead ma'am i'm sorry is my friend no you you still have a minute left okay i just wanted to address that we did send a letter and not just the el paso high improvement association but we contacted the downtown church connection sunset heights neighborhood association houston park current place sunrise civic group all of these organizations co-signed a letter on the 25th of april we never got an answer we sent it again and never got an answer to that so then we re-sent it uh finally got an answer and i one of the folks on this call will probably tell you exactly who it was from but it was very um a packed answer you know it's closed because you can't afford staff um so all the other rec centers that have reopened i think they'll be able to afford staff and i would just like to say that we really would like the city to address this we missed our neighborhood association and they missed having us placed together thank you thank you miss berkeley the next speaker we have uh mr science just walked in okay mr carlos signs thank you ma'am good afternoon mr science you will have three minutes on your topic of wellington chew senior center good afternoon sir go ahead sir well first let me say god please give me the patience and calm me down a little bit uh in this request or talking to you ladies and gentlemen uh i am here representing wellington elderly uh center in request and in petition for our safety in hopes that we can get the work done in a timely manner we have been requesting this work to be done now for about seven months and working with each supervisor director and so on so forth nothing has been done we made this petition four months ago and which i believe and also i believe each one of you has a copy of the petition and a letter in front of it and it has about i think about 200 signatures on there uh please take a hard look at it and read it please give us a response in a timely manner or have this and and have this taken care of us for us as our city representatives now on a personal matter behind this petition behind me coming and talking to you i also hope that i am not harassed or worse intimidated by bringing this manner and other matters in the near future from to city council from parks and recreation okay there's another thing which i also strongly believe that the elderly centers and the parks recreation should be divided and under different roofs different directors being that there's too much things going on that are very improper okay and there's been some recent changes but in particular one person was in charge of the elderly center and some other department which is entertainment i guess and uh this person shouldn't be there period he should not be there i'm led to believe there was an investigation going on with him and yet he's being promoted all over the place so please and i'm referring back to the cameras now uh we really need them i'm led to believe they're doing a survey for something that's common sense they should be implemented the two cameras should be implemented in both parking areas because there's where people have been cars been vandalized people have fallen have gotten hurt not able to get up from between the cars and it's happened to me that i had to help go out and help a lady help pick her up in between there now if the cameras were there we'd have a better idea not only who's fallen but who's gotten hurt okay and go out there and help them immediately so thank you very much for your time and there's any questions no thank you mr science thank you thank you we'll move on to miss sharon bonart her topic is thank you to our police department good afternoon ma'am you have three minutes good afternoon uh thank you mayor and council uh i'm sharon bernard i'm also a member of the women's club of el paso on may 27th the remains of a vagrant squat were found at the side of the woman's club building a call was made to the police department two officers answered the non-emergency call there was fresh filth evidence of vagrant habitation on the riverside side a river street side of the building at 1400 north mesa this is an area with el paso country day school the women's club building and cathedral high school all of which are vacant at night leaving these buildings at risk of trespass vagrancy destruction and arson although these buildings are not in the downtown historic area two of them cathedral high school and the women's building are historic cathedral high school was built in 1925 and the women's club building is on both state and federal registers as a historic place the officers not only arrived quickly but they also offered to help load the leavings of the vagrant squat into one of our members trucks because we were informed by waste management that they would not pick up the trash and remains of human function for a week the person contacted at waste management also stated that they were seeing an increase of vagrant squats this is not the first time nor the last time this type of trespass has happened in this area again i want to thank the police officers who put on rubber gloves and help move the waste and garbage their response and assistance are sincerely appreciated thank you to our police department for hiring and retaining community oriented officers thank you council thank you dr monarch thank you the next speaker is efrain saucedo i don't see him we'll move on to wesley lawrence mr lauren star 6 to unmute your telephone wesley lawrence his topic is thank you mayor lisa good afternoon sir you have three minutes thank you and good afternoon members of council and of course mary lisa i'd like to start off by thanking you merely sir for showing true examples of good governance and listening to your constituents who overwhelmingly fully elected you to be our mayor in november of 2020. your courage for vetoing the city manager's contract extension twice as much appreciated by myself but also the majority of el paso i can confidently say this as a member of many organizations throughout the city of el paso who have reached out to voters and constituents throughout the city to ask them their feelings about the city manager's contract and extending it i know this wasn't an easy decision for you to make as vetoing things typically can be blamed on politics but i knew it would also bring criticism from members of council and we are now seeing that now i would also like to thank you for staying through the end last night at a town hall meeting and listening to the hours of constituents who are willing to fight for gun reform in the state of texas after many senseless tragedies have came not only to el paso but to our state as well i only wish that other members of council had the opportunity to be there to learn about the different things that our state can and cannot do and i uh again i thank you for that lastly mayor lisa members of council i would like to ask you to please consider forming a task force a committee or even simply just having a round table at the city level to evaluate gun violence in our community and to come up with the reasonable steps to address that thank you and have a nice day everybody thank you and the next speaker is lisa turner followed by jason jones elena lopez veronica carrillo vanessa johnson ms turner's topic is failure good afternoon miss turner you have three minutes thank you failure failure rules that you have set down for yourselves you have a code of conduct for the behavior of city council yesterday it was not followed mrs pryon here before anybody starts before we start talking she goes through these things that what can and cannot be said and basically there's two sets of rules if you come up here you have to be nice and behave yourself and civil if you sit up there as we saw yesterday with the district one rep oh they can attack anybody i saw him viciously attack my mayor i heard him make an accusation without proof and over here said an assistant city attorney and the city manager and over here was someone from the city clerk and they were quiet it was like no sound whatsoever could be heard when somebody should have spoke up nobody over here spoke up because they work for who mr gonzalez who works for you one set of rules for everybody or there are no rules nobody's asking for anything special just follow the rules no more personal attacks from say district one on to the mayor we don't that's unacceptable looked like a two-year-old child yesterday who should have been set over in the corner and for time out until he cooled down i don't like reading what i read what was it kvia that the accusation he made against the mayor all i know is this you got an accusation you failed to report it didn't happen if it was important you would have reported it but it comes down to this you got a set of rules please enforce them i expect more from you all i expect you all to set the standard for everybody else in here to follow that's your all's responsibility and if you can't get the people who should be passing it down because you're not allowed to speak interact with staff anymore everything has to go through our city manager that's how the it was set up something has to change no more this double standard the council member cannot behave himself then they need to leave just like if i couldn't behave myself you'd escort me out of this building that's the way it should be thank you miss turner thank you mr turner the next speaker is jason jones followed by elena lopez mr jones's topic is noise ordinance good afternoon sir you have three minutes good afternoon again sir um i'm here again talk about uh noise ordnance and talk a little bit more about a weight versus sea weight and how the city uses a weight and how a weight just cancels out the sounds that are prevalent from bars they use sub base which is very low frequency completely cancelled out by a weight okay so i'm going to read to you guys well and first off i'll say there's about a 20 decibel difference between a weight and c weight at my in my backyard okay so if it's 55 decibels it's 75 decibels in c weight in my backyard where there's no reading in my bedroom for a weight there's 50 55 decibels of reading in my bedroom with c weight thump thump thump thump all night long till 2 a.m can't sleep there anymore so with that i'm going to read to you guys a little bit of documentation i have and so for instance it's extremely important at sound level measurements are made using the correct frequency weighting usually a weighting for example measuring a tonal voice tonal noise of around 31 hertz will result in a 31 decibel error if using c weight instead of a weighting that's the difference i mean this is this is real c weighting is usually used for peak measurements and also in some entertainment noise measurement where the transmission of base can be a problem obviously there's a problem where i live sound levels can be measured using frequency weighted filter which provides more suitable indication of low frequency content for the purpose of evaluating bass sound which they travel which may travel and penetrate farther than treble sound sounds measured in this way are designated in units of c weighted decibels and this is from the national institute of health i'll read a couple things here high levels of low frequency noise may excite vibrations in the human body particularly the chest region which resonates at a range of 50 to 80 hertz very low there's also a 30 to 40 hertz resonant frequency in the forehead and face and 80 to 90 hertz frequency response in the back of the skull try to go to sleep with that so my daughter flew in today she's here for the summer it would be really nice to sit out in the backyard in the evening and not have to listen to rap music that pertains to fornication fornication fellatio and really really really wet vaginas i'm tired of it i'm tired i don't want to hear any more of that give us we need some peace here in el paso thank you thank you the next speaker is elena lopez elena lopez we'll move on to veronica carrillo this carrillo star sixth place to a mutual telephone veronica carrillo star sixth place to unmute your telephone this garrio's topic is newly reorganized association good afternoon ma'am you have three minutes hi thank you yes um i my topic is um hello from the el paso high neighborhood improvement association and also to address what libby had mentioned about the pad or work recreation center we've tried contacting the city to find somebody who can help us advocate for the reopening of the power work recreation center we sent our first communication on april 27th like livy had mentioned and it was signed on by the downtown church connection the houston park neighborhood association the current police neighborhood association civic center sunrise civic group and also the sunset heights neighborhood improvement association we've made six attempts to um to contact somebody who can work with us to reopen the powderworks center but it took us until april 25th to hear back from the parks and rec center and we were really hoping to work with our city representative city representative district 8 we'd like to to sit down and find a way to reopen the powderworks center for the summer we understand the reasons that have been given for why the the power work center has been closed since march 2020 of course started because of pandemic other centers have reopened as libya inventions and the reasons that we were given for why the power work center hasn't reopened is because it can't be staffed it's hard to find people to staff and we're as a neighborhood very um much interested and willing to offer any support we can to help stop um the powder work center to get it open the second reason that we've been told that it's closed is why it will remain closed until january february or march of 2023 is because it's going to over it's going to undergo minor renovations our ask and what we want to work with somebody with and sit down and have a conversation about is how the those minor reservation renovations to the power work center can be delayed um just push back the low push back a little bit they're supposed to be taking place i think starting in in july but if that can be pushed back a little bit so that the power works center can be open at least for the rest of the summer that would be a huge benefit to our neighborhood my contact information is on file with the neighborhood services like i said our neighborhood association was recently recognized so you can find my contact information also libby's with the neighborhood services department and we really look forward to hearing um from somebody who can help us in our efforts to open the powderworks center before july 1st we're eager and we're immediately available to jump in on this and to partner with whomever can help us with this issue and we really look forward to hearing from you soon thank you thank you the next speaker is vanessa johnson ms johnson's topic is pat o'rourke senior center afternoon good afternoon you have three minutes yes can you hear me yes my name is vanessa johnson and i would like to also address the continued closure of the powderworks city rec center in our rio grande el paso high neighborhood and i'm speaking today both as the mother of two children who are five and ten as well as an as an advisor of the neighborhood the el paso high neighborhood improvement association so since this census city opened this rec center i've faithfully used its facilities principally the swimming pool and the gym and i've also observed all the other activity and my neighbors who have used it for basketball games children's sport leagues yoga classes meetings as a cooling center as libby pointed out for games and activities for seniors and as a general spot to meet in the neighborhood and during the months that school is out the center was always particularly critical in providing a healthy and a social outlet for teenagers who didn't have other places to go and it was also an important venue for families with young children who wanted to teach their children to swim or just beat the heat during our 100 degree plus days right now and we are entering the third summer that this rec center has been closed despite many others throughout the city having reopened i actually approached representative lisadaga's office in march with a phone call and i was told that they would investigate why it hadn't reopened and that they would get back to me and i never received a response by email or phone and our neighborhood coalition as you've heard right now has repeatedly reached out as well and if the city is saying that it's going to remain closed for some work to be done i just want to respectively ask the city on record today to reconsider this decision and to delay the work until the fall so that the community can have the benefit of this facility for what promises to be a very hot summer we are a critical neighborhood bordering downtown that is underserved by the city and we are currently organizing to have a stronger political voice on behalf of our residents and on behalf of those who don't have the time or the ability to come down here to speak thank you and have a great day thank you and the final speaker submitted his comments to be read into the record from this is from brandon carrillo which reads the paddleworks center in district 8 has been closed for years and our neighborhood would love for it to open again this summer please consider postponing renovations until the winter so we can have an air-conditioned place to swim exercise and play basketball indoors thank you mayor that concludes call to the public thank you very much if we may return to the top of the regular agenda yeah representation yeah mary i just wanted to see if we could take number item number 23 they have a presentation yesterday i'm waiting thank you thank you item 23 you'd like to go to that next that is discussion in action following a presentation by moms on board regarding the request for the parks and recreation department to provide additional all abilities playgrounds shade structures restrooms and other family friendly amenities this item was placed by representatives lisa raga and salcido good afternoon good afternoon thank you mayor lisa lisa council members and the city manager along with his team for all you do for this community my name is adrian moody and i am the executive director for a lovely organization called moms on board or as the community calls us the mob i am also here with my amazing partner leila the chief operating officer next slide please oh it's not on it will you please bring up the presentation for item 23 and go to slide 2 please mob is many things but one of the biggest things we are proud of is fostering an online networking pla platform of over 11 000 family members in el paso oh we could do it with the down button okay our members help share resources and make mob family for families for el paso a safe place to navigate family issues some would say it takes a village to raise a family but these days we say it takes a mob mob has had so much success working with city in the past and we are excited to be here today leila and i are here because we want to talk about our favorite topic parks next slide oh okay you know what's so amazing about parks it's where it all begins it's where we learn to become community members parks are the microcosm of our society children develop fundamental skills at the playgrounds such as social emotional physical cognitive and communication skills if you think about it children first develop these skills at the playgrounds when children start playing at parks all these skills begin to form parks are an important pillar of our society they are one of the building blocks we need to have a thriving community parks are where you learn to socialize you learn teamwork you learn how to take risks you learn to stand up for yourself but most importantly you learn to get up and dust yourself off again i was at the park the other day with my son preston and he said to me mom let's clean up this park so we can keep my earth healthy i thought how sweet that he had a chance to learn something at school and bring it to the park that day they had a lesson on earth day and i'm sure that goes for many children parks help children put their skills to use parks are where families celebrate it's where memories are formed it's where you get to know your neighbor neighbors and develop lifelong relationships it's one of the biggest resources for physical and mental health where did everyone run to when kovit was at its peak they went to the parks where does an over-exhausted parent go when they just need a break the park where does a kid go to escape the challenges of a broken home a park council what are your fondest childhood memories i bet some of them could possibly be at the park i asked our facebook group of 11 11 000 el paso family members what they thought about their neighborhood parks not only have we been posting about it but we've had various community meetings and received community input what we are here to tell you is that the community loves its parks but families can't enjoy them to the fullest when basic needs aren't met they want more shade they want more restrooms and more all-ability designs where every child can play they are also asking for more parks with unitary surfacing it's mob's dream to have the sand and wood chips a sign of the past yes parks are where it all begins and planning our parks is also planning the future for our children but are we generally considering all children studies have found that children with disabilities are excluded are excluded from place significantly more often than their peers without disabilities however it has been shown that children will play with children with disabilities if they can engage in activities together without significant changes to the player environment mindfully planning and choosing to create an inclusive play space benefits the entire community because it recognizes everyone as an important member who is valued inclusive playgrounds become a space for everyone to enjoy socialize create healthy bodies and experience meaningful fun together for every body an inclusive playground environment offers many benefits including a safe place where children with and without disabilities can be challenged and have the option to choose how they engage in play increased overall participation and usage in play and community recreational places a place where no one is left out where all children regardless of ability can feel included and play side by side a better atmosphere to meet the whole child's development needs including physical cognitive sensory and social development a multi-generational place where children and families can play together here is what mob is requesting for council to consider upgrade two to three playgrounds at neighborhood or community parks to all rubber surfacing per budget cycle add shade structures to two to three existing neighborhood or community parks in each district in the highest utilized playgrounds per budget cycle add restrooms in all community and regional parks start with the ones that already have plumbing infrastructure in place create a pr campaign highlighting the park partners program and educating communities on how to take ownership of their neighborhood parks create psas highlighting this program a relationship with the parks and recs department and mob to provide opportunities for community meetings with the mob community parks and rec to update their website with a grading system that lists the amenities at the parks to include shade restrooms water fountains and the unitary surfacing with all these requests we would like for you all to consider adequate staffing and allocating the proper amount to maintenance dollars mob is requesting that these items be considered for this year's budget and future budgets and finally mob would like council to begin the planning process to ensure that there is one all abilities playground in each district preferably located at community or regional parks we have created direct links to the conversations we've been having so that you can review them later please read these comments so you can understand what the community members feel about their parks you will also come to the same conclusion we love our parks but we need more amenities here are a couple of quotes i pulled from our mob facebook page we would love to use our parks more however there's no cover so on hot days it's too hot for my kids to use it because the playground is boiling hot and there's no restrooms which means that my daughter who is three absolutely peed herself either at the park or on her way home because she cannot make it back the couple of blocks another quote comment my children have burned their legs using the slides in the summer another one restrooms and shade a lot have porta potties but nowhere to wash your hands but try using a porta potty in this heat with children with little kids another one restroom and shade are my number one during hot summer times i feel like i have to limit my time at the park to last to the last evening hours because of the equipment is too hot to even touch without shade even when we can go on go with shade lack of a restroom will cut us short nine times out of ten lack of shade it's it's way too hot and the sun is killer literally we live right across from a park and the equipment and zip line are maybe less than a minute walk but we only have a small time frame in the day to complete to use it comfortably throughout the day when we can see from our wind our window kids try to play at the playground but they won't and jump right off because the metal and seats are probably burning them they are very well maintained but shade can go a long way council mob's membership represents the largest core user group for parks and families with children in el paso our members use parks every day and as a result we are the eyes and ears for what they need at parks and for what they want this community is asking for the bare minimum at public parks they are asking that their city tax dollars be used to meet these basic needs while incremental progress has been made over the years there are still many parks that are lacking lacking basic infrastructure even the parks that have good playgrounds need these basic amenities to be fully enjoyed it doesn't serve our community in any way if citizens don't use their parks to the fullest and with that we would just like to take this time to thank parks maintenance for a great job we know maintaining the 300 parks is no easy task and as it's been mentioned they have been doing a wonderful job thank you all for your consideration and we trust that you will serve our community well thank you thank you both for being here and thank you for what you all do i know it's very important to our community and i had the opportunity to go to one of your ground breakings and see what y'all do and it's so important our community and thank you again for your volunteer time and and how many uh i know youtube but how many actual people do you have that work with you all that are volunteers well volunteers fluctuate with what we need we can call on our members on our facebook page and say we need this come to this community meeting we have a board and about three committees so every month there's about 20 of us just working on um these issues and making sure everything's progress well amazing and thank you for what you guys do and i know i told you that last time i thought you were sisters originally i know everyone thinks that too thank you i'm going to start with representative nosada thank you mayor thank you i won't say too much i think the excellent presentation from monza largely speaks for itself i want to say thank you to moms on board to adrian and layla for presenting today and also to their entire membership for the suggestions and feedback they provided this has been a great collaborative process between moms on board my office representative salcedo's office and the parks department i'm glad that they have arrived at a set of requests that i think are reasonable and accomplishable and that will make the amenities at our parks more accessible and enjoyable for el paso families with that i'd like to make a motion to direct the city manager and staff to develop a plan to fund these requests including but not limited to the possibility of utilizing a combination for the fy23 capital plan and budget and other future year budgets for the ongoing expenditures and or potential general obligation bond issue and to return with draft options and recommendations either before or during the plan fy23 budget hearings and i i believe representative selcido wanted to say something thank you mayor she was trying to second it yes okay second to see go ahead now representative thank you for all those great comments and thank you for moms on board and adrian and leila for for here to be presenting to us um i think you all are doing a great job in hearing what the moms want to see in these parks families and it brings a lot of people together so it's just the bare minimum that we spoke about that we want to talk about that we want to enhance the parks and i think the all abilities is very important so that we don't exclude anybody from these parks and everybody can enjoy them so so i great presentation i also would like to support this item and for us to look at ways that we could you know fund these these small ask and also include the all abilities playground and thank you so much for all your hard work thank you thank you representative associate of representative thank you mayor um thank you both for being here this is a great presentation um i've just lost my train of thought uh i think this is a this is a really good conversation you know you all brought up uh shade structures to us a few years ago evan is really the first time we heard from you know users of playgrounds because mostly we think of children um and they're not really you know at that age not engaging counsel yet um but i i you know it's really important to consider other users than just your child when you're talking about playgrounds right and and i'll be honest i never thought of that and so i've always been really grateful to you all for doing that and opening up a network that we can communicate with um openly it's a really great resource to have and i think it's well past time that we do this i know you were all very successful on your all abilities playground on escarate congratulations you should be very very proud of that but that's now a standard and we're well behind because of the work that you did and so right it's time that we we catch up on that and i would also i don't know um representative of the saudi if you would be open to this if this is the the right time to do it to amend it but i also want to um look at our standards for playgrounds right for new builds as well uh and i'll tell you because when i when i spoke with um moms on board last month we talked about the designs of playgrounds um right and so i started googling playgrounds and then i've like since been kind of driving around the city like our playgrounds are kind of um yeah it's like a slide in a swing and what they're doing in other cities is really incredible and each park has kind of a different system and i remember growing up like that right like i don't want to go to the park down the street i want to go on a couple blocks away today um because it's a little different and that was a different time or just walk by myself to a playground um but you know i think it is time that we also revisit kind of what our standards are um when it comes to replacing or just in general our existing playgrounds we really need to up our game moms on board has done a better job than us at their one playground and we are a uh you know public governmental agency we really need to to level up and get on your level um and be doing as good as work as you were all doing so representative lozada i was just asked to add that into the motion to um uh i guess look or i don't i said it perfectly the first time but now i can't think of it yeah i just wanted to tell you that we are working on a future item to address park design standards and we'll be happy to include you then yeah that'd be great we can just wait for that then thank you okay um but thank you all again for the presentation i'm happy to support this and and work with you all moving forward we're excited to work with you too thank you thank you representative molinard thank you very much mayor ladies thank you very much for your presentation great job um mr gonzalez or mr fife if you're on the call by any chance just uh does anyone have a ballpark figure no pun intended as far as what this may incur as far as you know adaptable playground equipment uh canopies and things like that so i'll let ben had anything that i'm he he may feel like i left out but we have done a lot of work with regard to shade structures in in our community in our in our playgrounds excuse me in our parks also on our playgrounds we have rated d and f playgrounds we did several of them several years ago but now it's time to do more we've also have new amenities that we didn't have before and spray parks and water parks those are heavily used i think also by families but i don't disagree with the rep the with the recommendations and the presentation we're woefully behind have been for decades in the parks area in a lot of other departments as well so we've had that conversation with the council during various budget updates not only in only with the parks but also with streets and public safety but we've made a lot of progress and and i think we can come back with a plan um to see what we can do for this next year we also recently if y'all remember the council approved all the basketball all the courts to be resurfaced i think 84 throughout the city so there's a lot there's a lot to do and there's still more to do so yeah that's a very strong recommendation and one which will work on a plan and bring back the council for consideration okay well right i would like to add if i may uh just first of all i want to thank mom's on board uh i also want to just thank both the offices of representatives salcido and lisa for really starting these conversations uh we met and had conversations with mobs on board several times including the community forum these were really good constructive conversations and i talked to our staff beforehand to say we're going in understanding that we all want to be better and so it was really entered into in that spirit i think what was really exciting was a lot of the ideas are things that we're already working on and so you know as the city manager mentioned over the last five to eight years we have upgraded over 50 playgrounds and canopies throughout the system keep in mind there are 177 playgrounds throughout the entire system we also uh and i hope everyone will be excited about this and will remind everybody the all-abilities playground at a scottish they will be very exciting but we've already got three that we are working on right now uh joey barasa and vino the all abilities playground there should be finished next month and we have two additional ones uh one for east side sports complex and one for chaver park that are in design right now uh these were playgrounds that we are leveraging funding from the state to be able to do so and so i will say you know one of the things that we work really hard at with our colleagues from capital improvement is figuring out alternative sources to be able to utilize whenever we have these challenges ahead of us um so we're excited for these conversations and to be able to come back to the council with more plans on this and representative molinar i'm a little hesitant to give you prices right now on everything just because every day there seems to be escalations but we'll work with the cid department to be able to uh provide the council that when we come back with a plan sir all right yes so mayor i just wanted to address joe's question because the motion is just to ask staff to develop a plan and to come back to us with a plan which will include those dollar figures so thank you joe yes brian thank you thank you very much representatives another quick question do you guys uh endorse or help out d.o.b do we endorse what d-o-b dad's on board oh sure absolutely it's a very inclusive group no you got to have some levity here but anyways thank you very much ladies appreciate everything and mr pfeiffer yes you are absolutely correct uh the climate of our economy changes left and right and so yes uh we look forward to the presentation coming back as far as items from mr gonzalez and to parks and recreation thank you sir thank you ma'am thank you ladies thank you thank you representative hernandez thank you mr molyneux good thank you representative and cecile for for sponsoring this item i just wanted to take a moment because i know you all have been waiting all day to say thank you the way that we bring change is through the power of our constituents and residents and you all are doing such an amazing job i know it's a lot of sacrifice to do what you're doing and so but also congratulations on your new roles uh on the board and so super proud of you um excited to support this today let us know how we can help your um any endeavors that you have any projects that you have i know that this body is really supportive of moms on board and thanks to to your advocacy good job thank you thank you thank you for done this uh representative rivera thank you mayor i just want to say thank you for the presentation as well that was great it's uh really enjoying to see that you guys are cool getters aggressive and just want to make the the park parks that better than others just as we do sorry excuse me but thank you very much for the presentation thank you so much so much for your time today thank you thank you so much yes sir we have miss lisa turner that signed up to speak on this item thank you again for being here good afternoon miss turner good afternoon good afternoon america good afternoon mrs turner i think this is a just a fine ideal and i'm looking forward come budget session to see money in the parks budget for taking care of all those items i do not find any one of them to be a stretch or outside of the realm of the city's power to do you can do anything if you want to you just have to want to do it uh the mob i got to tell you i love it i love it i i just see i can see somebody coming up and knocking on say mr gonzalez's door the mayors or one of the city reps the mob is here to see you and then they're diving out the window thinking that there's you know 500 people out the door or what is it 11 000 11 000 and change so uh no it's a good thing especially for those of us well i'm a little on the ground side but uh who are children who have disabilities i mean something as simple as this sidewalk out here is like a 50-foot concrete wall when you're disabled and you have difficulty walking or if you're in a wheelchair you're just done for their children they deserve the right to go and play at the park as any other child so i really hope to see that money come budget session available because i don't see anything unreasonable about this i don't see anything that would prevent you from doing it other than a lack of will thank you thank you mr turner and with that ms prine yes mayor there is a motion made by representative lizarraga seconded by representative salcido has read into the motion into the record by representative lizadega to direct the city manager and staff to develop a plan to fund these requests including but not limited to the possibility of utilizing a combination fy 23 capital plan and budget other future year budgets for the ongoing expenditures and or a potential general obligation bond issue and to return with a draft plan on options and recommendations either before or during the planned fy 23 budget hearings on that motion call for the vote voting session is open i'll need a verbal representative hernandez yes thank you representative lisa i thank you in the voting session the motion passes unanimously we now go to item number 21 which is discussion and action on a resolution condemning the may 24 2022 attack at robb elementary school in novaldi texas and expressing condolences and deepest sympathies to those lost injured and impacted by the horrific tragedy tragedy this item was submitted by representatives rivera hernandez and schwarzwein representative please thank you mayor thank you thank you uh just just to see how we all light up when we talk about children is really uh amazing it's it's a it's one of those precious gifts in life that that we as parents uh enjoy and remember most and always claim to be the best thing in our lives which is true unfortunately this is a sad uh resolution that that i had i placed we decided to place and i thank my co-sponsors representative hernandez and representative schwartzvine and i know if i was allowed to ask the whole council they would have signed up as well but this item was placed on the agenda for pastor to stand united with the wilde texas during the trying times that it's extremely unfortunate that we are now linked as a communities of mass shootings not since sandy hook elementary has a united states of america been so united as far as gun reform um after our own horrific tragedy here in el paso and our texas governor abbott promises reform laws and in instead signed hb 1927 into law removing uh the safety net of licensing and training to carry a handgun in the state i know as elected officials it is our duty to continue to advocate for immediate legislative actions to be taken at all levels of government for stricter and reasonable measures that limit access to assault weapons and implement processes and procedures to prevent further gun violence we must do more to protect our texas citizens as well as other communities especially our children children who as they as they stated and as we all know really couldn't defend themselves at that situation that uh those that survived experienced and those that didn't are grieving by their being grieved by their families as we speak so early in life this this item also is a message for us to send to the community of our love thoughts and prayers of being with them as from our own experience to the first responders to the medical providers to the community members and thank them for doing everything they can to support one another up there just like we went through that same experience here in el paso um i understand miss turner was going to speak on this but before she does uh i i'd like to have you come up and say something if you want to i see you signed up for it you know before as mrs turner comes up here you know we keep talking about that it's time now time was a long time ago you know what it's time now to do is to stop talking about it and acting and this is one of the things that you know our lawmakers continue to talk about it and don't act on it so the time is long overdue and you know i did hear representative ortega last night talk about she said that after the the massacre here in el paso in 2019 we really believed that something was going to happen and again it didn't so the time has come now for our elected officials and i think i said that earlier today that it needs to become a non-partisan and then we need to come together and it's time to stop talking about it and actually doing something about it right and and i'm glad you mentioned representative ortega because i still remember her being visibly upset in her interview and saying how the governor turned his back on us on el paso right on that's after that incident and uh there's a lot of pressure going on for gun reform which we all agree uh and most of the talk is of course up in the age of 21 and extensive background checks so yeah i'm sorry mr go ahead and i'll come back national mr speaks if you really want to do something if you really truly want to do something then you're going at it the wrong way as it stands now we have politicians on the left and the media on the left raising cain about those on the right then those on the right respond nothing will ever get done because the money is going to the left and right on this issue the money the media gets from the revenue and all this by running it all day long it they're not going to give it up they're not going to give up the free face time on tv this is an issue that can be solved first off poverty now you tell me what kid is going to look out there and see like the drug dealers have all the money they have it and what do you think they're going to do they're going to pick a life of crime you're going to pick a life of violence talent is easily distributed opportunity is not as elected representatives it's your responsibility to make sure opportunity is there not just for the rich folks over there on the west side or the well-off ones on the east side everybody everybody right now there's a child multiple children going hungry in this community we talk about oh let's get the guns children are going hungry what do you think that says to a child when nobody cares about them when they're going hungry every single day in this world a child dies from hunger every six seconds 75 of those deaths are children under five we talk about guns that's just an easy solution the solution is going to take hard work it don't get us time on tv and if we can't get time on tv and we can't get money for our campaign coppers we're not going to do it you talk about raising the age the average age of soldiers killed in vietnam was 20. we send 18 year olds off to war to fight and die i'm of the belief that if you can send an 18 year old off to fight and die for this country they have every right to buy a long gun they have every right to sit down and have a beer they're not chattel to be sent off and sacrificed in a war not some 18 year old not some 19 year old not some 20 not some whatever that won't solve the problem you say take away the guns you don't solve the issue the issue is somebody who feels like it's okay to take life that's where the issue is that's what the starting point is that happens to be addressed thank you mr turner and with that mayor i'm glad to say that we live in a country where we can make our choices and uh in this case we don't live in a country where we're mandated to we we used to be drafted back in the days and so nowadays here in america you of course if they want to go military they go military perfect support them they don't they decide to go to college support them but uh you yourself i caught a bit of that on the news media last night where you were you were at and uh people are afraid and right now is a time to unite with our our fellow community involved in texas not by not in a celebrate celebratory way but also but in a in a way that's uh we had no choice el paso didn't plan to be part of that group so uh i'll pass it to my colleague see what she you know before she starts one of the things she said there was a teacher there last night it was very touching and she said her um her kids asked her mom and my my grandmother said they asked her this what would you do if an active shooter walked into your room she's a kindergarten teacher she said i'd give my life for those kids and that was very that was very impactful yes representative nunes um thank you thank you mayor i know we know the hurt too too far well um we share this unfortunate kinship with um the city of yuvalde and um just so time and time again these shootings are happening and sadly this time innocent children young children children who had the world in front of them and so you know we want to send our our heartfelt sadness and our love to the children to the teachers to the family members our house hearts go out to them these incidents of terror they're happening far too often these painful events they leave injury they leave long-term physical injury long-term mental and emotional concerns for for all we have teachers who are scarred we have children and parents who are traumatized my children were trying to plan a walk out you know i have a six-year-old who's saying what can we do to make sure that our state electeds and governor and representatives are putting our lives as a priority over this so quote-unquote need for um these these weapons of war and so um unfortunately you know our thoughts our resolutions our our prayers um social media postings is not enough we need change we need change today we needed before buffalo we needed it before santa fe we needed before el paso we need it now and unfortunately um that's not happening and so we're hoping that through this through this message through the work of our state delegation that we can bring change if our if our federal elect electeds do not come forward with a bipartisan solution to end shootings it'll keep happening over and over again we've seen it this weekend um and so we we urge and we call to action that you all call your elected officials and hold every single person accountable get involved this discussion should not end today we we need to take proactive measures locally so that we can support not only our children but folks who are shopping at a grocery store nightclubs everybody in in this community should feel safe and unfortunately that is a sentiment now as texans is that they're starting to feel unsafe but we want to thank the men and women who protect us on the streets who are serving in the el paso police department and our fire department we know that your job is not easy but we are asking for support for you so that you can return to your homes safely and so that our citizens can feel safe but at any rate today we want to honor and always remember those those children and those and every single person who has died from gun violence in our community and across this nation thank you thank you representative thanks mayor representative hernandez mentioned a lot of what i wanted to bring up but i'm actually going to talk about myself a little bit which i know i don't do that often um i actually left council early that day and the reason is i have a very very good friend who is a teacher in uvalde who has a three-year-old daughter in school there i did get word that they were okay he teaches at a different school but it was a lot for me right and so i did leave early it was a lot for my husband almost 20 years ago a good friend of mine was murdered at virginia tech and then in 2019 we had our situation and people who know me really well know that i don't like crowds i have a lot of anxiety i don't go out a lot and this is a part of it and this is something our community deals with uh it's something our state deals with it's now something children are having to deal with right there are strong repercussions and uh well i don't necessarily agree with what ms turner said sorry miss turner i i do agree that there are other things that we need to look at too the long-term trauma that is caused in our community when something like this happens is important to talk about we have a state delegation that after august 3rd cut our mental health funding across the state almost in half right so when we're talking about reform for guns we also have to remind them that they have a duty to help the children and the people in communities who have dealt with this and we need to put funding into places to help people grieve because when something like this happens you know in uvalde people in el paso are impacted you know they they feel that again in a way that maybe a community who has not had a shooting deals with um and and so i just i i want to thank you know everyone i wasn't able to be at that meeting last night um thank our state delegation i know that they have fought very hard for this community um you know even stepping up in light of this incident uh you know obviously sending all of the support to to anyone in uvalde um impacted directly or not but reminding that the individuals at the state that we we need to respond to the children who are dealing with trauma and i'll add one more anecdotal thing our new superintendent for episd had a program called hopes and dreams where she put teachers students and community advocates together to figure out what they wanted for their schools in the number one request from teachers and students was mental health support right they children understand that they are being impacted like this and it is going to affect their entire lives and so i i just want to acknowledge that this is something we should also be advocating is is the return to funding to help our communities heal so thank you very much uh representative rivera uh hernandez and i know that representative schwartzman's not here but he also signed on to it thank you thank you with that mayor i'd like to read the resolution and i'll pass it off to my uh colleague mid term there uh mid paragraph resolution that i'm asking for uh why would be making a motion to prove reads as follows whereas on may 24 2022 an 18 year old armed with an assault weapon which he purchased a day after his 18th birthday and another rifle purchased three days later murdered 19 innocent children and two teachers and injured 17 others during a mass shooting at robb elementary school in a walden texas and whereas the united states has seen more than 200 mass shootings and 22 alone with 27 occurring at schools and whereas firearms are now the leading cause of death for american children according to recently released data from the centers for disease control and prevention and whereas on august 3rd 2019 the city of el paso and our sister cities without forest faced a horrendous strategy that shocked the city state nation and world when a gunman when a gunman traveled 11 hours to texas just to to to an el paso walmart store killing 23 and injuring 23 others with semi-automatic rifling and uh representatives whereas the city of el paso and waiver and lead condemns the senseless act of on yuval de texas and all mass shootings throughout the nation and whereas the city of el paso strongly affirms the urgency for immediate legislative actions to be taken at the local state and federal level for reasonable measures that limit access to assault weapons and implement procedures to prevent future gun violence incidents and whereas the city of el paso extends its compassion support and prayers to the families and loved ones of the victims and the entire community of valdez texas now therefore be it resolved by the city council of the city of el paso that the city of el paso condemns the may 24 2022 attack at robb elementary school in uvalde texas and expresses condolences and deepest sympathies to those lost injured and impacted by the horrific tragedy pass and approve this day of june 7 2022 signed to be signed by honorable mayor oscar lisa and with that i make a motion to approve second and then let's probably do that motion a second and you know thank you all for for putting the item on the agenda and there should never be any teacher that feels that they have to give their life up to protect any child and we should you know again and i'll repeat what i've said many of times no parent should ever have to bury a child and it's our responsibility as elected officials to protect our citizens young and old to make sure that this never happens again so thank you again representative representative hernandez thank you for putting this on the agenda and with that we have um representative molina thank you very much mr mayor so many of you already know that i served in the el paso police department also worked for the sokoto independent school district police department and so i did work in the schools and it's very different working in schools going from let's say being on the regular police department and going into the schools and having to serve a community if you will built on four walls and i can only imagine and really i can't even i'm sorry i don't i can't imagine the absolute that a nine-year-old a ten-year-old is living while they're inside that classroom and there is a shooter there and to see and i'll stop being graphic about it but you know when i go to bed at night i say pray for those children those two educators that died in the line of duty you know we need to do more that uh everything that we possibly can and we talk about different things about guns but you know there are laws in the state of texas that protect us let's just say firefighters peace officers when they're in the line of duty i'd like to see some type of legislation pass that when a teacher an educator a counselor a volunteer lunch room monitor that if they should pass while doing their duty their job that they do get some type of compensation for their loved ones for their families and things like that and so i'll be reaching out to my representative representative lena ortega to try and pass some type of legislation for that and it's really need to be done but we can talk about gun violence all day long but unfortunately this weekend is just horrific here in sokoto we had five different shootings involving young youth and it's not acceptable so i will be supporting this resolution thank you thank you thomas prine yes there is motion made by representative rivera seconded by representative hernandez to approve the resolution on that motion call for the vote representative lisa i thank you in the voting session and the motion passes unanimously that brings us to item number 24 and this is discussion in action formalizing the name of the city of el paso open space preserved to read naplan nature preserve you represent vanilla oh thanks mayor um yeah this is just i know there uh had been a lot of planning on this with frontera land alliance i know there's been conversation with parks and with the name that they finalized with public input was the naplan nature preserve and so we just wanted to finalize that an official process by putting it on council i will make a motion to approve okay we do have a public comment yes sir we have mr rick bonart that signed up to speak on this item dr bernard uh thank you mayor and council for letting me speak on this item i actually signed up when lost dog was included on this but i can also address this a little bit um i would have not been contacted at all regarding lost dog and would have some input as to what i think the name should be and i think that when you're naming these things you want to make sure that you name them so that marketing of these in a eco-tourism standpoint will be easy for the public that does not live here or even the public that lives here to find these facilities to that end you know like i've said i named my veterinary clinic belvedere animal clinic because i was located on belvedere street so when you would name something you might want to include the activities that are available at that site i would also urge you and have urged in the past that the open space advisory board actually have a web page in the city's web pages so that when people from out of town come here they can search for activities that they might like to do you're bringing conventions here i can tell you one of the choices that i look at when i go to a city to do a convention to maintain my veterinary license is what am i going to be able to do there and these things are widely advertised within these conventions so the naming although it may sound trivial is not it helps you market what you're trying to do and el paso is relatively new to this and i think this would be a big help to you to create these items as i mentioned to someone else earlier today say i want to go ice climbing for instance if i i know where i'm going to go now i don't have to put in euray colorado ice climbing i can just google ice climbing and uray will pop up it would be nice if i wanted to go mountain biking if i put in mountain biking that el paso texas might come up that lost dog trails would come up that the nap properties might come up so properly naming will help you with that thank you thank you dr monarch mr prine yes mayor there was a motion made by representative angelo seconded by representative molina to approve item 24 on that motion call for the vote representative lisada hi thank you in the voting session and the motion passes unanimously that brings us to item number 25 and this is a presentation and update from home a texas municipal housing authority formerly known as the housing authority of the city of el paso good afternoon everybody i want to say thank you so much for allowing me to stand before you uh i know you guys were saving the most important things for the last part of the day so uh thank you for for all of that um i wanted to go through a bunch of stuff that's happening within housing and with home to kind of give you a state of kind of where the city is right now also regarding our construction and a couple other things i think are very very pertinent to you and your constituents in every single one of the districts across the city so one of the things i did want to chat with you about kind of goes into your last conversation about law enforcement as you know the housing authority is very active in assisting law enforcement with training so the housing authority as we did a lot of the construction has found itself in possession of many units that can be used for swat training bomb training uh fire department training and so we've used we've let law enforcement utilize our facilities if they break it it's okay because we're going to fix it anyway and we've been doing this for like the last eight years we also employ about 40 off-duty officers and we're looking at trying to increase our budget to almost 600 000 a year that is not compensated by the federal government but more cops on the streets to help not only home but the surrounding areas so i just want to let you know that uh law enforcement very important to us we think that the community policing is a critical thing amongst our communities a lot of our officers have been with us for like 17 years so they know the families and it's and it's quite nice so i want to chat with you about uh 500 new jobs because that's what we're going to create over the next three years i'm going to talk to you about about 130 million dollars in new monies coming to el paso uh about 700 families that are gonna have housing that currently don't have housing and then ultimately the state of housing uh that we find ourselves in as pertains to the to the to the plan so if uh if if i might as you know we currently have six percent of the total population of el paso we have about 45 000 people right now uh majority are unwed single mothers lots of kids a lot of them are working whereas i'll miss a mis-idea that somehow our people are not doing much that's not true a lot of elderly don't work based upon their age um and we house currently about 20 000 people in what had been traditional public housing about 25 000 with 4 000 uh landlords that work with us so i'd like to talk to you about the good stuff let's chat about the new stuff we just finished and the 127 million dollars in quality affordable housing that we're bringing to el paso if we could put the video up real quick i'd appreciate it so the first video here is jackie robinson on the west side this is actually in the shadow of the top golf this is about a 20 million dollar project this is currently under lease we actually picked the colors so it's similar to what jackie robinson wore uh when he was playing baseball and this is a a development in 1970s it's completely gutted and rehabbed as you can see we put a lot of money into the ada so that everybody can get around we fixed all the sidewalks brand new roofs brand new everything and so this is an example of the kitchen this is actually what we've been doing across the entire city this is actually a demo unit as you can see it's a beautiful community refrigeration air with energy star appliances throughout so this is right across the street this is machuca right on the corner of sunland park and i-10 this is 146 units that is currently abandoned we have it we have it boarded up we have competed with and won 20 million dollars to redo this particular facility uh this is this is in the shadow of the best buy right there off of sunland park amazing development around it great access to schools coronado zach white elementary it's going to be a great opportunity as you can see it's a tired property it needs a lot of work and we're going to step up and do that for that community this is what we tore down over at no western senior right in the corner of montana and campbell this is what was there uh and this is the site of our new community it's been called nuestra senora so this is what it looks like right now this is really this is catered cornered to the new episd headquarters this is going to be 80 units with off street parking for 65 units access as you can see the the access to downtown this is going to be approximately 200 families that we'll be putting within five blocks of downtown for those amenities patriot place is brand new construction right on the corner of hondo pass i'm sorry of kenworthy in diana right next to suyum park this was the bridge to nowhere which is now a bridge to somewhere uh and it's me painted military green uh it's it's brand new it looks just like the the same architect on the west side that behind the coals and it's uh this is but phase one of we believe three phases to provide affordable housing because it's right across the community college right down the street from walmart sam's club access to 54 with with great opportunity pulley you might remember it was one of the ones that we fought about for a nine percent this is one of the ones that we were really worried about right in the shadow of the medical center that is 120 units for elderly and disabled families this is what it looks like right now and so inside uh from 1964 when it was built uh this is this is the the current conditions that we're gonna fix we raised 20 million dollars to build that and this is something that's fascinating and really gets my heart going this is a stem facility that right now was the old headquarters to the housing authority built in 1938 a trust building that with cdbg money will provide science technology engineering and math to the kids in the chamazol and in segundo barrio working with utep and the philanthropic organization and the community foundation to take care of the kids and hopefully get them up and out of their current conditions and become amazing and productive members within our society this is what it's going to look like at the end with solar panels and everything else and here one of the most challenging ones is salazar when you come over paisano right at the bottom as you come towards bowie high school you see this community this is big it's over 300 units really really tired uh in a in a challenging area right where we built about 400 units across the street but the greatest opportunity to provide a significant number of houses uh for people in need and so we we competed in one over 50 million dollars to make this a reality and to fix this now there's a problem as there always is as there's a housing authority involved you can go ahead and stop the video so as you know the housing authority uh we do great stuff but we're not like normal developers right no more developers maybe fred astaire but we're ginger rogers right we're doing it back backwards and high heels because what we have to do the regulation we have to go for the lack of rents that we can charge make everything so much more difficult in order to do this now we're very successful i'm not going to say we aren't but it's also very very difficult to make this thing happen and the reason why i say that this is a challenge right now is that the fair housing department of hud has determined that machuca on the corner of sunland park and i-10 and western senora right on campbell and montana and sun point which is in the angels triangle are unfortunately too hispanic i know i'm not that's that's not a drum roll or for for a laugh that is actually legitimately what they've said they said that unfortunately because we're putting we're putting minorities in a minority majority population that unfortunately fair housing under the 1964 civil rights act should kick in and so the census track on machuca for example is the area right around saint jude's so you know saint jude's right out the back door right there off of donovan is an area that is predominantly hispanic as all of el paso is and it's it's a relatively poor census tract even though everything on the other side of donofin is 300 000 houses plus everything by best buy is all market rate hud is determined that it's not a good area even though it goes to coronado and it goes to zach white which are two fantastic schools in el paso they've denied our application same thing has happened with sun point even though there's been great development you guys built an amazing transportation facility just down the street we're building patriot place you've got community colleges the federal government has determined that again it's too hispanic so not that we're saying everything is lost because we don't believe it is we believe that we're going to get there we believe that you know as we always do as we deal with all this like hud tried to shut down our rad program in the very very beginning that we will persevere and we will do fantastic things but i wanted you to know and i wanted to thank the mayor for his letter of support for the strategic plan that you guys passed regarding housing remember the bubble map and everything else where you said listen this is where we want to go so your salazars you know western senora all fall into those areas of town that you said you want to revitalize we are using what you have passed and we have used what the mayor has written as support for us not to mention the downtown management district and all of their work and other areas of town in order to show that these are fantastic areas that this is a lot of money remember none of this money is taxpayer money all of this money that we're raising this 130 million dollars that's going to put 500 jobs on the street we're all done through public-private partnerships with no taxpayer money so we believe we're going to be successful but i just wanted you to know that right now that these are challenged now one of the other concerns we have is the cost of construction is going up at two percent a month and so with the pandemic with everything stopping us and with the escalation our bonds are burning off as early as august so some of these monies that are competitive it's not like we go to austin and they just give it to us that they might be lost if we can't get hud to move by a particular time all right now to make a shift the state of housing there's something you all need to know it's bad out there and as bad as you think it is it's a lot worse for the people who are poor people you're hearing from are probably not the forty thousand people that i have on my waiting list i have forty thousand people just on the waiting list for one bedrooms forty thousand people i house 45 000 total of that let me just make it worse for you people wait three to four years to get a voucher but when they get that voucher they have 120 days to find an apartment right now 60 of them cannot find a place to live and they lose the voucher so they wait four years to get a chance to have a place to live to stabilize a house for their children go to a good school district and they can't even find a place to live because there's no apartments i don't know if you know but there's a lot of people moving to el paso that are that are taking up some of the housing opportunities that used to be here back when we did a housing study we said that there we were 3 000 affordable housing units short by 2025. those numbers are now woefully short the amount of housing that you need has increased precipitously i will let you know just for example not there's anything wrong with this i just want to say it but the greatest number of people moving to texas from california are coming to el paso they're not going to austin they're not going to dallas they're coming here that's one of the reasons why your housing crunch is happening is one of the reasons why you're seeing a massive changes as quickly as they're happening now home can only do so much we only have so many resources these 700 units that we're trying to build are additional units that we've been able to create through rad the only reason why we can do a pulley for example this is the only benefit to a pandemic is that everything shut down and the federal government gave us money for public housing that we couldn't convert and that money is going to be used to address the financing shortages on the bonds otherwise pulley couldn't even be a reality so as i talked to you we are statutorily obligated because we are a government entity as a housing authority inside the city to provide you information as to what is occurring inside the jurisdiction that you all oversee so i am going to work with hrna again to do another study for housing for el paso and i would like to bring that to you and i would hope that we could probably have further conversations about what the needs are for el paso and how we can look at it because a lot of the housing and the demand is not just uh what you're seeing but at the lower level it's it's getting critical for example you have a home ownership plan in the city and it's for basically houses under 150 000 160 000 with the housing authority they can actually use a voucher to help pay that mortgage with the with the amount of stock that's out there it won't even pass the environmental they even have the ability to even buy a house our our housing acquisition um for for home ownership is basically zero so we're going to try to alleviate what we can how we can but we are limited in what we can do we're a non-taxing entity we can only do what we can do through public-private partnerships uh i would ask that that as you move forward with strategic planning uh future budgeting uh that we could we could have these conversations see what other cities do to try to address the particular need because uh it is uh it is significant so we got great stuff happening federal government's trying to you know make a little more difficult but we'll get there and uh we'll have amazing things occurred just like we did with opening all the umc clinics at our elderly facility in a partnership and mayor thanks for coming and speaking at it uh the county judge was there and so was mr cintron to take health care from the hospitals and put it right where the people are living and with that i'll open myself up to questions thank you thank you i just want to make a few comments um i um i think you and i had this conversation before it's not affordable housing it's quality homes quality housing and i mean by that pictures you showed us it's very evident that it is quality housing and that's what our citizens deserve and then one of the good news that you know you always say there's a problem and i knew it wouldn't be you without a problem so i'm glad you didn't let me down here for a minute but uh the good thing is that um the price of lumber is the lowest it's been in 2022 and we're in june so it looks like the trend and while you were talking i was making sure of my information and it looks like the trend is going in the right direction when it talks to you know the price of homes because the lumber is starting to adjust a little bit and it is the lowest it's been all year so that's good news see we do have good news for you we do thank you mayor appreciate it thank you and thank you for what you do and thank you for for um working really close with us absolutely sir representative molinar followed by representative i should say mayor pro tem at nunes thank you very much mr mayor jerry thank you very much presentation great use of the drones and so a couple of things so i just want to make sure i don't think representative and i representative and i heard correctly we're i'm going to talk about the sun point apartments for those who don't know approximately uh 4700 block of hondo pass and it's right on the dividing line between district two and district four but the purpose that the federal government is giving you is what so it was denied based upon it it being too hispanic too hispanic and then the census tract they they talked about the poverty rate um and because they they came back to us back and forth and i mean obviously with the new development with the walmart opening with a lot of opportunity being placed there with the the transportation quarter created by the city um i i think it's a great area to build i mean access to 54. and so we're very optimistic um we are partnering with penrose on that we have all the financing lined up we've got all the money people lined up we're ready to go we just need hud to say yes and we'll probably start construction the next day and so what what do you need from the federal government for them to finally say yes they need to re take a look at so we we resubmitted our our application for the site neighborhood standards which is under fair housing and have them review it and say yes that it is a great uh it's a great community and we should build it and what is the timeline on that more or less so that one is that one's challenging because as so it gets really really complicated but you have to be placed in service by january 31 which means you basically have around 18 months to do all the construction 18 months to do all the construction on a rehab because you have to gut it down to the studs you have to get rid of all the asbestos all the lead-based paint and then rebuild everything you're looking at a very tight time frame and so i'm thinking if we can't get up and going in the next 60 days 70 days that it's going to be a a challenge to get across that finish line okay let's move on to patriot place um i know you mentioned right now phase one do you have a tentative date for a grand opening celebration or anything like that ribbon cutting so yes by the end of this year patriot place will be will be beginning leasing and open hopefully the waitlist will open in the next 30 days and uh that one's on track it's on schedule uh obviously the budget with lumber and everything else is difficult uh with the other ones remember with the say the cost of commodities comes down the cost of money is going up right so as interest rates go up unfortunately it's costing more even though the cost of the product itself is going down so patreon place will be open by january 1 of next year sir thank you and last question is uh can you give us an update brief update at the 5200 block of lou brock that's located in district four off sean haggerty or russian the address 5200 block of lou brock i don't know what that community's name is do you have a community name it was a baseball player but it's over in district four like near rushing and sean hagerty no what's the name of the community the name of the community i don't um i believe it's um or jose um oh cisneros yeah sisters oh yeah so uh that one hud made us split we had together with gonzales which is another community over by uh the twig reservation uh we were the federal government refused to let us do it as one transaction which had been a lot cheaper and a lot easier because of proximity so we had to break the transaction into two and we should be getting construction on that uh probably the next 60 days how many days 60 60 days all right thank you sir thank you so much uh hernandez thank you um so uh just wanted to say thank you for being here um i i think that the housing authority is doing nothing short but remarkable in this community you all have done amazing transformations and giving opportunities for families the same opportunities that everyone else is afforded to um i i just wanted to ask regarding the statistics you mentioned 3000 by 2025 do you have updated numbers on the shortage of of housing rentals i don't that's why we're gonna go back out and do another study okay um there was another statistic um that went beyond 2025 do you remember what that shortage was for i believe there was a longer term statistic i don't remember uh i can pull that information and get it and get it back to you if you want me to no i think it's really important right now as we're going into the budget season and we're trying to understand what the what the housing crisis is because i do understand there's a shortage i am hearing from the public that you know rent is going up and uh there's just no availability um within the proximity to their neighborhoods and so they're having to go beyond their neighborhoods um so just to have an understanding of that i know that we partnered with you in the past and so i would like to see something in tandem with with the city to to get that information because it is critical for our community but at any rate thank you for all the work that you're doing very remarkable work thank you thank you representative hernandez uh officer annella hey jerry uh so you just told representative molinar that if you don't have funding for the location of hondo pass or you don't start construction in 60 days uh you think it's going to be a problem this is the first we're hearing about it yeah they just got they just denied it it just happened in the last 14 21 days is the property owned dire also impacted by this i'm sorry i couldn't hear you is the property on dire also impacted so no the operating dire is something completely different okay and so that one we're we're gonna try to fund and do it and do something different with okay i mean we've been waiting on that property uh since 2017 when for some reason the former district four representative and the mayor decided to pull that even though they didn't represent the area so still a little uh impatiently waiting on that yeah we're we're still working and as you know with with development it's very very difficult things keep changing especially when you're dealing with with the federal government it gets it gets difficult but again we're still committed to redoing the entire parcel we've torn down that uh old bar that was dilapidated um it was it was it was very problematic we've also provided security at night so between 8 pm and 4 every morning we have a security guard on site at that location at siesta gardens okay um well good for us that the new regional hud secretary grew up in the northeast so i'm sure that you have reached out to her uh for some assistance on this yes i've seen her in person yeah okay um well eager to see these projects i also um would love to get some updates on the new portions of district two and some of the housing authorities uh south central that are now residing in my district so we'll reach out sure thing thank you absolutely thank you representative saucillo thank you mayor and uh thank you jerry for such a great presentation um i i definitely have actually seen some of the projects that you've rehab and they look great i grew up in the eisenhower's and i don't recognize them anymore so you all really do put a lot of investment and making them actually look better and and they look a lot nicer from what i remember so i think you all are doing a great job in uh addressing that in our community i know you mentioned that you want to talk a little bit more about um doing a study yes so i mean as you know so housing is a critical part it's not just critical to from an affordable housing perspective right because once you're once you're rent burdened you'll never get out of poverty i mean if all of your money is going to rent like i mean it gets really difficult especially if you're jumping from place to place trying to find an apartment destabilizing your kids but there's a second thing housing is also economic development they go together that's why if you look at the amazon location that there's all this multi-family housing being built next to them and then from that also spurs all kinds of different economic development in in the area right from restaurants and and eateries and other different things right and so as we think about housing we need to think about housing and economic development as a symbiotic relationship that ultimately drives other things and with that so for example right you're you're working on housing in downtown obviously it's difficult to do housing downtown as you know blue flame was very very difficult parking is difficult there's a lot of different issues but uptown is not very far away but as you start to do it as the city starts to put infrastructure it makes more and more sense to do multi-family housing where before you couldn't do so but some of the properties like this one called the western senora is very expensive to do almost more difficult to do than blue flame and so as we think about housing and as we think about the economic development that surrounds housing we also have to think about the overall cost and the impact on the developers in order to make this a reality because there's only so many dollars right there's only so much that you can do with the money that you can raise in rents but but a relationship between public-private partnerships even even more like a municipal partnership for whether it's a tiger grant with parking or whatever can alleviate a lot of the burden that would go in upon doing housing which would then spur different locations for example another amazing location that you have is 911 rainer at five points you've already got an organic living area around it and that could be augmented with parking and with multi-family in the particular area right it's these type of things that as we as we have these conversations that can lead to great economic impact not only uh not only for the individual restaurants but for also the tax base and also for the community as a whole great no those are great suggestions um i'm actually like you mentioned looking forward to sitting down with you talking a little bit more what what you kind of see housing authority expanding also more particularly district five kind of seeing the needs of district five if there's any and um yeah just having a conversation with you about further i'm available at any time ma'am thank you so much thank you with that we appreciate your time sir thank you so much thank you for everything you've done thank you for all of your time if anybody needs me just feel free call over at the housing authority i'm the only or home i'm the only jerry there so all right thank you thank you so much take care everybody that brings us to item number 26 on the agenda and this is a council briefing from the bond overview advisory committee and this is jerry murray are you sure improvement he wasn't the only jerry in the room anyway the chair of the bond overview advisory committee is here today to brief counsel on the progress on meeting our quality of life issues i should also mention that another black member is also in the audience dr richard bonard and thank you this is rudy barba from thank you council district members i appreciate your time i appreciate your service um if we could bring up the presentation please thank you good afternoon sir thank you as jerry said i'm here to represent the black the bond over you overview advisory committee the presentation is broken up into four basic parts as you all know in 2012 the governing resolutions for the boac are for us to advise and help city staff for expenditures and implementation of the program and this is a current list of black members i'll leave it up there for for a couple of seconds this is a summary by by category basically by department of the funds for the budget and and contracted work that has been completed expenses and the balance that's left to date there's been 169 projects completed the history of those projects is is shown on this graph along with the funding that has gone along with those projects to date it's just over 248 million or almost 249 million with 169 projects there's a long list so i've got a few pages of projects listed i won't bother reading them as pictures are worth a thousand words there's a lot of pictures for these projects there's more images of the projects that have been completed around the city continuing the list of 169 there's more photos of the different projects the list continues here are other images of different projects across el paso continued with more photos and if you haven't seen some of these facilities or been in some of them you ought to they're amazing facilities you all have done a lot of really good work i have to compliment city staff that we work with at our boac meetings and all across the city that that have allowed these projects to continue here's a quick snapshot of where we're at today with the projects again we've spent the 248 million we've got one project on hold under construction there's 23 projects worth just over 92 million excuse me let me get my glasses and there are five projects in bidding at almost three million dollars worth of value and the projects in pre-design and design are 27 at almost 35.4 million here's a few other images of some of the projects there's a partial list of the the 25 projects that are in in pre-design or in design that city staff is currently working on there's a approximately the second half of that list and down at the bottom the project that's on hold again currently the five projects that are in the bidding phase and the projects that are currently in construction one point that we wanted to bring out is how much the city has done in the last couple years this is a list of projects completed in 2021 and 2022 and representing the boac the boac wanted to make sure you all knew how well city staff has been doing their their abilities to pivot and to effectively make the decisions on the funding that that we have for these projects there's a summary here i don't want to bore everyone reading them um a couple of highlights um at the peder recreation center looking at what's actually happening and what's actually being used and and taking funds from the racquetball courts to focus more on the pool and improvement areas there's different issues like that throughout throughout the program that they've been able to to better serve our community and there are another few examples and there's many more than than what's listed here and as you know we've all been affected by covet many different ways some more serious than others for the city bottom line there's a lot more cost that's that's been brought on by covid you all know it as much as anyone else does a few of the recent recommendations that barak has made we requested of city staff that they take three million from the quality of life acquisition fund to purchase the 1100 acres of land at northeast el paso um we have had a lot of discussions on the mountain to river trail and trying to focus so that we get the best value and instead of spending money on paving trying to keep some natural terrain let's see there's a few other examples here the city listened to us when we ask them to redesign the bear ridge trailhead they've done best possible they keep listening to boac it's basically listening to the community and with that that's the end of the presentation to give you an update from the boac is there any questions we have no questions and we do appreciate your time and your service thank you any public comment yes mayor we have two individuals that sign up to speak the first person is miss lisa turner no she says no no then we'll go with mr rick bohnert he says no huh no i said i'm going to keep you here another hour and it will need the elmo dr bonart will will be using the elmo for this presentation welcome back dr bonit thank you for your time um i think the overarching theme that you hear from everybody that makes presentations here is how scamp the dollars are and how important it is to spend those dollars responsibly and to get the biggest bang for the buck and to that end i would like to make a little presentation to you most of the of recommendations that you saw on one slide i think i can do a better job of maybe honing in on what those recommendations are how they would benefit the community and why there's money already available to do them as long as we spend those dollars wisely so the first slide if you'll uh highlight turn on the elmo i guess it's interesting yeah is so um i guess one of my complaints too is long going that we can't submit powerpoints to you guys as the members of the public which is kind of sad because this is what you're reduced to seeing if you can read that one of the most important parts of what we're supposed to do is to provide you information regarding project expenditures and implementation of the projects and um this is from the bond ordinance itself and i want to highlight a couple of things in there for some reason the use of the money has been transformed from trails and trailhead expenditures to paved trails nowhere in this ordinance or in what people voted for in 2012 was only for paved trails now i don't have a problem for the for the things that you've already done i'm not asking you to rebate those dollars but what i would like to do is use some of the remaining funds and concentrate on some amenities that are natural that other user groups might like and so these were the recommendations that you were presented to earlier i won't go over them but i'll deal with them one at a time which was of course the three million dollars for the northeast it's kind of a moot point at this time so we need to reprogram those funds to some other open space opportunities the second issue is um the mountain to river trail i believe if you'll pull the next slide up and um go ahead that's it right there and this is this was a presentation that showed the natural um open space through that area that's available to be used and for us to concentrate on this is what the recommendation was now what i'm concerned about is which shows what you're actually trying to do is still concentrating on a paved trail why are we going after money for a paved trail thank you other opportunities thank you sir thank you there that concludes public comment on this item thank you mayor um i'd like to have a motion to suspend the rules to give dr boehner some more time you know i think we ought to be careful when we do stuff like that because then that becomes the rule and not the exception okay i think we've got to be real careful when when we do that dr bonad i think we how much longer do you have left just a very few minutes that's all minutes or seconds three three minutes huh three three more minutes yeah i don't think you should do that either that from now on we need to give everybody in the public six minutes all right well thank you thank you that's that brings us to the first reading of ordinances these are items 27 to 30. second there's a motion and a second to approve the first reading of ordinances these are items 27 to 30. on that motion call for the vote representative lisada hi thank you in the voting session and the motion passes unanimously representative salcido not present we now turn to page number 11 item number 31 and this is discussion in action on the award of task order 6v dash 1 for solicitation 2021-0811 fire station 21 renovation to release company llc move to your proof just praying there is a motion made by representative hernandez seconded by representative molina to approve item number 31 on that motion call for the vote representative zaraga aye thank you in the voting session the motion passes unanimously representative salcido not present item number 32 is discussion in action on the award of solicitation 2022-0574 call demolition to alamo environmental inc dba alamo one mayor i just have a quick question um and i'm sorry if this was already repeated can um are how are the the facilities already selected for this contract or is this just an on-call contract jared mural with capital improvement this is strictly an on-call contract typically it's used for buildings that are falling down or insecure they call them bored and secured and the building commission typically recommends demolition of those buildings then we try we cover the cost through either a lien on the property or directly from the owner this action doesn't approve the demolition of those facilities it just approves it it approves the contract for demolition but it does not approve any facilities no but the list of facilities is that um already predetermined no it is not okay thank you move to approve this brian there is a motion made by representative hernandez alternate mayor potem hernandez seconded by representative rivera to approve item number 32 on that motion call for the vote representative lisada aye thank you in the voting session and the motion passes unanimously representative salcido not present the next item is number 36. and this is discussion in action on a resolution that the city manager be authorized to sign a chapter 380 economic development program agreement between the city of el paso and chaplain cable texas corporation a wyoming corporation mrs gibson welcome hello sir elizabeth triggs with economic and international development the item before you is the the second resolution today authorizing the city manager to sign a chapter 380 agreement between the city of el paso and champlain cable if it could bring up the presentation please thank you so under this agreement um champlain cable is looking to expand its high performance wire and cable cable manufacturing capabilities in our region by expanding their wire mill facility located in the mission valley area of el paso what this does for us is it it not only adds jobs to our region a new investment to our region but it also adds to the supply chain within the advanced manufacturing industry cluster strategy that council has taken a number of actions on recently to really push forward the growth of that industry cluster in our region um including authorizing our participation in a regional bid for a 100 million dollar grant to advance the gross growth of that cluster with a focus on aerospace and defense manufacturing and as you'll see in this presentation champlain cable is a really unique company for our region the majority of the work that they do here in el paso supplies auto and commercial vehicle manufacturers with a focus on electric vehicle manufacturers and so having that that supplier here in el paso does a lot for us when we're looking to attract companies that are also involved in electric vehicle manufacturing in addition champlain cable supplies the navy with the communications wiring necessary for its naval ships so again another another place where there's opportunity for growth especially in the defense manufacturing area for us so a little bit more about the company it was originally founded in 1955 it currently has a total of 227 employees company-wide all of their products are manufactured in the u.s about 70 of those 227 employees are located here in el paso as i mentioned before they're a manufacturer of high performance wire and cable service serving markets they serve the ev manufacturers including several such as tesla they're also military specifically the navy supplier as well as other commercial vehicle rail and data communication wiring and cabling needs and they are one of only two companies in the world that produce this type of high performance wire which can withstand very heavy heats again really critical for several different industries including automotive commercial vehicle and military manufacturers as i said before all products are produced in the u.s across four locations they do have two locations both in the mission valley area here in el paso they have one location that they recently acquired in houston and then the other location is where their headquarters and r d capabilities are located in the northeast u.s they are a quality employer providing their employees insurance and health care benefits in addition they provide 401k opportunities tuition assistance and a safety equipment allowance and i think one of the things that i i saw when i visited the company is that they are very strongly aware of safety requirements within their within their facilities and and really careful about that with their employees so again a good strong employer for our community so champlain cable again originally established themselves here in el paso in 2007 they've since expanded a couple of times looking at another expansion um this time under the chapter 380 agreement they are committing to a minimum investment of 5.686 million dollars the majority or 85 of that going to machinery again it's a it's a manufacturing um facility um they use very large machinery and so that that is where the the significant portion of their investment will go along with some building improvements to the building that they are leasing as well as computers this is a wire mill expansion again growing that supply chain capability for el paso and the advanced manufacturing industry cluster with respect to employment through the agreement they agree to retain the existing 70 full-time employees that they have here in el paso over the term of the agreement while also adding 29 new ftes and bringing them on at a starting hourly base of 15 dollars per hour which does exceed our meeting median county area wage with respect to the the local incentive so as consideration for this investment and and this company's commitment uh to retain and create new positions in el paso um the city is looking at performance-based incentives capped at 285 thousand dollars over a 10 year period these again are performance based primarily in the form of property tax rebate over years 1 through 10 on a proportion on a portion of the property tax revenue generated as a result of the project's investment in our community the county is also approving a chapter 381 agreement um capping the total rebate based incentive at 54 000 again this is a rebate for years one through five on 50 of the county's portion of new property tax generated as a result of the project so in total we're looking at a local performance-based incentive of just over 339 000 over a 10-year period and this represents about six percent of the overall investment of the company so again um a very large return on investment for us in addition to the the employment considerations and this this investment for the city does represent um a net new uh uh property tax revenue for us even during the term of the agreement and we can expect to increase our property tax revenue by 144 000 as a result of the project all of the other taxing entities again as a result of our our commitment to this project and as a result of the company's commitment to our community will also see increases to their property tax revenue which is then reinvested into the community and so just to to close this presentation i think a few project benefits to highlight here first that this company is is now one of our own they've been in our community for many many years um and so when we think about this project rather than thinking about it as just as simply a business retention and expansion project where we're thinking about making a commitment um to a company that is here in el paso and has done a lot of good for our region third company expansion in our community over the last couple of decades retaining 70 quality quality jobs and adding 29 new jobs for a total of 99 positions here in el paso secondly this this does contribute significantly to our larger strategy of advancing the advanced manufacturing industry cluster for our region and specifically i think you can see that this is a strong supplier for for the types of companies that we are also going after and then in addition once you see this company start to grow there are opportunities for them to contract with local businesses here already in el paso contributing to their growth as well supporting local small to mid-sized business this is although it is located in a couple locations across the u.s it is a small business we can see that we're we're supporting them by our investment and and as i said before there are multiple effects that are produced as a result of their growth here in our community as well and then finally we're strengthening an existing community relationship there are opportunities down the road for us to to continue to help make this company successful and for them in return to make our our community successful as well and so with that i'm happy to take any questions there is no question is there a motion motion approved tech thank you mr crying yesterday there's a motion made by representative riveto seconded by representative hernandez to approve item number 36 yes i'm sorry representative aniello motion made by representative rivera seconded by representative anello to approve on that motion call for the vote representative hi thank you in the voting session the motion passes unanimously representative salcido not present that brings us to item number 38 well that was postponed two weeks item 39 is discussion in action that the city manager be authorized to sign an advance funding agreement amendment number one between the city of el paso and the state of texas for the sean haggerty drive extension project move to approve second representative i'm sorry i haven't had an opportunity to look at the background um what is the source of funding is there any matching dollars from the city of oklahoma i don't know for sure i'd have to find that out um yes the government participation amount is 1.4 million dollars correct so what is the part where is the funding coming from the funding is primarily through txdot so no i'm saying this this cities funding is through our mpo match it's our mpo match dollars are those certificate of obligation dollars yes they are thank you thank you representatives with that mr price yes there's a motion made by representative molina seconded by representative rivera to approve item 39 on that motion call for the vote representative lisa hi thank you in the voting session the motion passes unanimously representative not present that brings us to executive session is there a motion to retire there's a motion and a second to retire into executive session all in favor aye anyone opposed and the city council of the city of el paso may return to executive session pursuant to section 3.5 a of the el paso city charter in the texas government co chapter 551 sub chapter d to discuss executive session item one city attorney and city manager annual performance evaluations matter number 21-1043-688 under 551.071 consultation with attorney and 551.074 personnel matters it is 2 15 pm haven't looked at it is you know uh is um and i'm sure there you go oh is there it is so it's like this okay 8-21 um don't waste any time so foreign okay oh and when it does um bc what can we do in our society to where people felt it was okay okay all the recipes yes is my opportunity it showed you the talent i mean i felt bad or yesterday why are you in here you have no choice and open them up somebody told them oh there is one story up there again um um do it yourself is this is and i didn't cut her ears hey this is yes so last summer 26 tomatoes basically um uh september yeah she came over and started talking to me back there for a long time i think we're ready i'm just calling uh representative lee zaraga back into the meeting move to recovery okay i.t council is getting ready to reconvene thank you is there a motion to come out of executive session there's a motion and a second to come out of executive session all in favor anyone opposed the meeting is back in session at 3 40 p.m we're on executive session item one mayor and we do have public comment on this item when council is ready please let's can we take it please yes sir we have miss turner signed up to speak monkey pox good afternoon miss turner you have three minutes right after you okay since i wasn't privy to the conversation oh there's no action oh i thought he was being real no okay well if you're not going to take any action oh there's my earring ah [Laughter] yeah i must have jumped off my ear which one i've lost the other one too okay no thank you alternate mayor pro tem ex-1 no action thank you there's no action on ex1 is there a motion to adjourn second there's a motion and a second to adjourn the regular city council meeting all in favor yes anyone opposed and the regular city council meeting is adjourned at 3 41 pm