I now declare the Plano City Council is convened in open session. That all council members are present, with the exception of Mayor Pro Tem Maria to Council will now recess into Executive session and Training Room A to hold a closed executive meeting pursuant to the provisions of Vernon's Texas Code Annotated Government Code, chapter 551, the Open Meetings Act in accordance with the authority contained in section 551 o 71 to consult with the attorney to receive legal advice and discuss litigation. And section 551 087 to discuss economic development matters. Thank you. I now declare that the Plano City Council preliminary open meeting is reconvened in open session, that all council members are present, with the exception of Mayor Pro Tem Maria. To. Our first item on the preliminary agenda is consideration and action resulting in executive session. Our next item is the Zoning and Subdivision Ordinance Rewrite module one update. Mayor and council, I'm Christina Day, the director of planning. We're here to give you a brief update on the work we've been doing in rewriting the zoning and subdivision ordinances. Tonight, I am joined by Christina Sebastian, our land records planning manager, and Daniel Harrison of Freese and Nichols, who is our consultant on the project. So just to remind you of the purpose of this project, we have been working to align the regulations that support our comprehensive Plan policy to ensure that the ordinances we're using to implement guidance on land use actually align with that policy guidance that you've established. We also want to simplify the code to make sure that it's clear to all the stakeholders that are part of the development process, and then improve the code. We have an increasing focus on redevelopment and ensuring that code is adequate to the task is another major focus. So what have we been doing so far? Well, this really started back in April of 2024 when we brought you a consulting contract. This is, of course, after funding, we selected Freese and Nichols. In June of 24, you appointed a committee of technical experts, which are known as the Rewrite Advisory Committee, and that then we finished the first phase of the project, where we concluded a diagnostic report looking at our existing ordinances. In December of the same year, one year ago. So that diagnostic report was phase one took about six months. Then we went into phase two, where we're actually looking at four modules of breaking up the code into these kind of what I'll say, bite sized pieces. So we've been looking at those. This is module one that we're bringing to you tonight. And then the final phase will be adoption that we anticipate in late 2026. So what have we been doing with regard to module one. It had a little bit of a detour. And so we actually drafted module one in the first quarter of this year. It was considered by the public and the rewrite advisory committee in the spring and accepted by the rewrite advisory committee. And then things change due to the legislative session. And so we actually pushed pause on this project in order to consider impacts of the legislature to our development codes. You saw those changes and were part of that process. So once those changes were adopted in August, we moved back to module one and incorporated changes from the legislative session. So we had to go back and kind of retool the work that we had done previously. So that's what we did through the fall. Those changes were accepted by the rewrite advisory committee in October, early December. We presented this to the Planning and Zoning Commission. And then we're here before you this evening to present that same work. So Christina Sebastian will be presenting residential terms and land uses, and that will be followed by Daniel Harrison giving an update on zoning districts and nonresidential land uses, and then update on the next steps in the project. So Christina Sebastian. All right. Good evening, Mayor and council. So again, Christina Sebastian, land records planning manager. I'll be discussing the residential terms and land uses with you tonight. So our new unified development code, which just combines our zoning and subdivision ordinances, but is being rewritten as part of this project. We're we're looking at regulating residential land uses pretty significantly differently from how we do today. So our new framework is based on updated terms, looking at building form for those residential uses and then creating some new foundational terms for the residential uses that are then applied to other the actual uses within the use chart. So we will go over what that means. So our current definitions for residential uses currently regulate both form and function. And you see here our definition and example for single family residence detached currently today. And then on the left side we have our example a sample table from our proposed residential zoning districts of our dimensional standards. So the information in red is about maximum number of dwelling units. And the information in green is really whether those uses can be connected or not to other uses or other buildings. So if you take out the the form information in red and green, what you're left with is really just about function. So that's our focus is trying to get our residential uses to to really talk about function and less so about form. So as we think about function more, think about whether a family living in a detached home really is a functionally similar to a family that lives in an apartment or duplex. It's the same family, just in a different space. So different buildings, whether it's a detached home or a townhouse or an apartment building or duplex, those can all really be containing the same use. So for this new residential framework, we have three foundational terms A dwelling is a complete living space. There's a full definition in your packet, but want to be a bit more succinct tonight, a private room is an individually rented room within the dwelling, and then a sleeping quarter is an individually rented bed in the dwelling. So if we take these three terms and we apply them out to other residential uses or actual uses, we have a private residence that has no private rooms and no sleeping quarters. That's probably the majority of the homes in Plano. Once you start adding a private room, if you have 1 to 4, as long as you still have no sleeping quarters, your shared residence, if you have 5 to 8 private rooms and still no sleeping quarters, you're a boarding house. Once you introduce sleeping quarters, any number, or if you have more than 9 or 9 or more sorry, private rooms, you're going to be a residential facility supervised. That's perhaps like a dorm or unsupervised. And then another component is whether care is provided or not. We have a new use called care home, and that's for up to eight total private rooms or sleeping quarters, with care and supervision required. And that is designed to align with our current household care facility use. And it may have an additional two private rooms or sleeping quarters for caregivers. Again, aligning with our current use. And then if you have nine or more private rooms or sleeping quarters with care and supervision provided, that might be like assisted living facility, you'd be a residential care facility. So it's a lot of information, but kind of looking at how those uses might be applied. You take that building form, that detached house, and again, a typical residential house is going to just be a private residence. If they're not renting out any private rooms or sleeping quarters. Once you are, say, subletting a room in your house, then it becomes a shared residence. If it's a care facility, a care home, then it would be a community care home. As long as it falls in that 1 to 8 private rooms or sleeping quarters. When you're looking at an apartment building, you might each each apartment unit in the building might be a private residence or a shared residence, or potentially some other setup, but it'd be a combination, most likely in most apartment buildings. If it was age restricted, it would be considered an independent living residence. So that's a lot of information. There are more scenarios in your packet, but just to summarize, it's it's a new approach to regulating regulating residential land uses. The district standards are going to be regulating the form. But the the function of those uses is going to be regulated by these new definitions and some new standards that will be developed later in this project. Important to note, a variety of residential uses may be permitted in a residential building, and those future use allowances are coming in module four for those individual zoning districts. So we'll get into those details later in the project. And this new framework really is based on the safety, autonomy, control level of privacy and accessibility for the residents. So with that, I will turn it over to Daniel Harrison, who will talk about zoning districts and the nonresidential land uses. Thank you, Mayor and Council. We're happy to be here tonight to talk about this. So I wanted to just do a quick introduction. My name is Daniel Harrison. I work with Freeze and project manager. Also, Dan goes with me here tonight, senior advisor on the project. And so a little bit about the project process. So of course we started with the comprehensive plan providing us direction where we wanted to go and update and really encapsulating that vision into the updated regulations for the zoning and subdivision. And so looking at the comprehensive plan, seeing what we needed to implement, we've also shared our comments online and also with our rewrite advisory committee. That's just sort of a screenshot that you see there. So everyone can see the words and everyone can see everyone else's comments. It's an online platform that we use. And so just some general revisions, common procedures, development standards when we're looking at our zoning districts, removing uncommonly used provisions. We're trying to simplify this and of course, encourage redevelopment. One of the tenets of the comprehensive Plan, replacing other provisions, once again really focusing on redevelopment. Now that we know that we're we're really getting built out. So how are we going to address the redevelopment scenarios? So taking a look at the zoning district, the whole menu choice that we have in the zoning realm, we have 31 districts right now paring that down to 24 zoning district, once again simplifying that, having seven residential, 12 mixed use, three community design and two special districts. We'll look at those here in just a second. So just having just sort of an example, some of our residential districts, of course we'll have some some subdistricts that go along with that. So when we're thinking about our traditional single family neighborhoods, how does that look? And the new development or the new development code? So we can see our different standards here. That's going to be very easily communicated to readers of the document, so they can see the different dimensions or standards that are required. Once again, looking at the function. If we just sort of look at the categories here we have there's our residential districts and our and our names there. So everything starting with the residential district starts with an R or mixed use district starts with an M we have our special community design districts that are sort of special districts. And then we also have what's truly our special districts or ag districts and our public park and recreation district. So if you see when we're going through the process of starting with staff and also working with the rewrite advisory committee, what ways could we simplify and combine and eliminate some redundancies that we had in the current code? So really just trying to pare down and to unify the code. So this is just an example showing how we simplified some of the residential districts. Also moving into like our multifamily districts as well, having our, you know, renaming that apartment low rise district and having some standards, of course. Well, with that, with our subdistricts, mixed use districts, just updating that terminology once again, looking back at the comprehensive plan, making sure that we're implementing our land use categories into the into the document as well with our purpose statements and other elements. Continuing on the mixed use district for our different different categories, once again covering our current nonresidential zoning districts, our community design districts, which are one of your newer districts that you have included in your code, making sure that we have a place for them and just once again unifying those. And then of course, our special districts, our agricultural district, and then also adding a new public parks and recreation district to really codify some of those elements. As far as our parks go, the other thing that we did was simplify the use chart. So when we look at the use chart that's allowing, we'll list all the different land use types where those allowed. But when we look at this overall menu, we had over 200. Being able to pare that down to about 110 land use categories. And you can sort of see in a couple of these different charts where we had a lot of very similar use types. No need to list out all the different types of possibilities, but we're able to really capture these into some good terms that we can really see that we're addressing, whether it's a hardware store or a feed store, we don't need to list all these separate ones out when we can have that in our regular retail. So moving on just to a little little summary. Non residential are the new zoning district standards where we have our residential or mixed use, our special and our community design districts. Updating all our land use terms and definitions is what we've been doing in module one. And then of course our new approach to, as Christina showed you with the residential terms and definitions. So looking forward just outreach that we've done. Of course it's been posted online for review and feedback. I mentioned that comment where our members can provide comments and everyone could see those. Same with our public going through that process, different advertisements, through the different social medias and on the website as well. So next steps. So we're getting we're presenting and talk about module one right now a module two is in good shape too. And we'll be presenting that to you pretty soon as well. And then moving into module three and four, that's those the red bars that you see on the screen. And then moving into adoption later later here in 2026. So with that of course, we'll ask you the question whether you would like to accept the draft module of the Unified Development Code as substantially complete. And then with that, of course, we can answer any questions. So is everybody okay with module one moving forward okay. Thank you very much. Next item is item three wage determination tool update. Victoria good evening mayor and council. My name is Victoria Nguyen, director of human resources and risk management. The purpose of today's presentation is to update you on the latest, the tool project that we've been working on for the past two years. The this initiative was a review, a comprehensive review of our pay structure across the city and with the focus of fairness, consistency, competitiveness and long term sustainability. We're at the final phase of this initiative, so the HR team has worked closely with directors across the city during this effort. What we did was review all the employees credentials, experiences, education levels and such. And after the we finalized the process to review process, we inputted that data into the tool. At this point, we have the tool and the results from the credentials that have been entered. See? As you can see here, this slide shows the amounts that are the final numbers for the adjustments that we have found from entering the credentials into the tool. These amounts are within the budgeted funds that the city set aside last year. And as you can see on this slide. Roughly, it's going to be around $5.3 million for this wage tool adjustment. 40% of the employees from the General Plans and Technology Solutions plan Compensation plan, and 60% of the employees will get an adjustment. However, the. Keep in mind that this wage tool did not include certain classes of employees. For example, directors and assistant directors were not included in this wage tool review. For directors and assistant directors, we did a separate salary survey for that. And from that study, we did find that certain adjustments are necessary, and we do have the funds set aside for that, those adjustments as well. So it's within the budgeted and the funds that we have set aside. At this point. Just so you know, if the employees current rate of pay is below the targeted rate, they will get adjustment effective January 12th, 2026. If the employees current pay rate of pay exceeds the target rate that's shown in the wage tool, they will keep that rate of pay. There won't be any decrease in their pay, in other words. And so that's the conclusion of our wage Tool project, this two year initiative. And I can answer any questions if you have any. Mayor and council I just want to reiterate these are already we budgeted for this in the budget this year. These are adjustments that we've been holding off making until we got through that analysis. Now that the analysis is complete, we think it's appropriate to go ahead and move forward, have those adjustments take place. And as Victoria said, we're planning on that for January 12th. And it's for directors, assistant directors and then the general government folks that we have there. But we already have the budget money budgeted aside. So it's in the budget. We want to just make sure that you were aware that we were making those adjustments. January, January 12th. Okay. Thank you. Council member Quintanilla sorry, I do have one question. It's more a curiosity question. So do the numbers. 598 employees were not receiving that adjustment. Were they like the most recent hires? Yes. So per you know I was looking at that too. Yeah. The question was is it more entry level positions? Is it more management? Actually they're scattered throughout. Okay. Some were hired below because of equity issues. We don't want to overhire as compared to their peers. So those employees got adjustments right. And but for those that are properly placed on a compensation plan, they would not be getting an adjustment. Correct. Yeah. Okay. Perfect. Thank you. All right. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. We're going to move on to begin the the regular meeting. And we will come back to item number four. As soon as we do the pledge and and the invocation and the proclamation. So. I now declare the Plano City Council is reconvened in open session that all council members are present, with the exception of Mayor Pro Tem Maria. Two we'll begin tonight's regular meeting with the invocation led by Senior Pastor Eric Coburn with Calvary Chapel Dallas and the Pledge of Allegiance and Texas Pledge, led by Cub Scout Pack one, two, five, nine from Harrington, Houston and Wells Elementary schools. You guys can come on down. Would you please rise, pastor? Let's pray. Father in heaven, we come to you, Lord, in the wonderful name of Jesus and God, I thank you that we live in a country, Lord, where we have these freedoms. And Lord, as your word has said that. That leaders needed to be just. And Lord, you are the the just God. Lord, I pray for your wisdom to be here in this building tonight. That especially for everyone who knows you, Lord God, that you would be magnified in and through them. I pray for wisdom. I pray for counsel and knowledge. Understanding. Lord, like your word says, and God bless this city. And I pray for the citizens of the people too. Lord God, that God that you would protect them. And that during this Christmas season, Lord God, that that you would be known and the truth of of who you are and what Jesus has done for us, and it's in his most precious name that we pray. Amen. Come on. All right. Okay. Okay. Let's get ready with that. Like, okay. Anytime. You're ready, guys. United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Honor the Texas flag. I pledge allegiance to thee. Texas. One state under God, one and indivisible. Thank you. Be seated. Scouts. They told us to wait. The mayor. Mayor. Mayor. Here. I got you something for doing that. What do you say, Scouts? Thank you, thank you. Oh. You're welcome. What a great job. Can you guys take a picture with me? Yeah, sure. Okay, good. All right. Okay. All right, you guys forwards. Come. Come right here. There you go. Oh, that's like a bluff. Okay. You want to step up just a little bit so we can see how you're doing. Good. Can you see us? Okay. You're the tall one. But I want you to get I want to, I want you. Are we good? Okay. Awesome. Thank you guys. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Sir. Yeah. Perfect. Thank you. Thank you sir. Merry Christmas yeah. Right. Okay. No. Cheers. There it is. All right. It's my honor to present a proclamation that time of the year. And I wanted to honor the Salvation Army Christmas campaign, which is being recognized for its annual Red kettle and angel trees that provide help to the countless citizens in need. Mageroy Galla Bias, Salvation Army Plano Officer I'd like to also invite Michael Shereen Collin, County Director, Community Relations, and Dominic Know, development Specialist from Collin County. Thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you sir. Thank you. So this is a proclamation for the Salvation Army and all that they do for those of us in the community and all of North Texas, the Red Kettle Christmas campaign, whereas the Salvation Army was founded in Great Britain in 1865. And whereas this organization works throughout the year to help those in need and well known for its Christmas campaign that includes the Red kettle and Angel tree drives. Whereas in 2024, the Salvation Army Corps raised over 81,000 in Plano and nearly $100 million nationwide this year through the Angel tree program at the Plano location, with help, 356 families provide gifts for their 884 children and 41 senior and special needs adults during the holiday season. And Whereas, in addition to the holiday assistance, the Plano location serves as a warming station when needed. Serves youth ages five through 14 with after school care. Provides summer day camp for elementary and middle age schools, middle school age students, and there also serve over 173 families each week from the food pantry. So now therefore, I, John Muns, mayor of the City of Plano, Texas, do hereby proclaim. Tuesday, December 16th, 2025, is Salvation Army Red Kettle Christmas Campaign Day in Plano, and I do thereby encourage all citizens to join me in the Plano City Council in supporting this annual campaign so that all of our families can experience a wonderful and memorable holiday season in the City of Excellence. Congratulations. Thank you. Thank you so much. Thank. Here. Let's take a picture. Okay. Yeah. Let's come this way. Yeah. Put a smile on your painting. All right. One more. Thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you. Okay, we're going to go back to item four on the Pom comprehensive monthly financial report Denise tacky. Good evening Mayor and council I'm Denise tacky I'm the finance director for the city of Plano. And I'm here to present the comprehensive monthly financial report for the month ended September 30th, 2025. This is actually the preliminary results. Our audit is almost complete. So this is the whole year's worth of information. This first slide represents revenues compared to budget by fund. The general fund has revenues of 391.1 million for the fiscal year. This represents 102.9% of the total annual estimated budget. Property taxes are collected in the first half of the fiscal year. That's so. We have had a pretty high property tax number, and so we didn't have a whole lot of change in that. That's 45% of our revenues. Our sales taxes, however, were up substantially there at 131.8 million. That's 105.8% of the estimated budget. The water and sewer fund has 228.7 million in revenues, and that represents 96.5% of the estimated budget. When we look at our expenses by fund, this slide represents expenses compared to budget. The general fund has expenditures of 357.9 million for the fiscal year. That represents 98.5% of the total annual estimated budget. The water and sewer fund has expenses of 204.7 million. That represents 102.7 million of the total annual estimated budget. This slide represents our net change in fund balance for the past three years. It's a very nice to see that bright blue line going up. That means that we have added $16.9 million to our fund balance in our general fund this year. This is much more favorable than the last two fiscal years. This, of course, is due to our cost saving measures that we have taken on, and also we're trying to implement in the as part of the fiscal roadmap, we're wanting to increase our fund balance from 30 days to 60 days. So we've made a concerted effort to get there. The water and sewer fund balance has decreased by 20.7 million. This is less favorable than the last two fiscal years. Our general fund revenues are higher than the prior year by 28.9 million. There was an increase in property tax revenue of 10.6 million. Sales tax revenues have increased by 13.4 million, and licenses and permit revenues have also increased over the prior year by 4.2 million. When we look at our general fund expenses, they're lower than the prior year by 1.4 million. Again, this reflects our concerted effort to take cost saving measures. Our personnel costs decreased by ■$46,000. This was due to the hiring freeze that was placed last year, and we didn't start rehiring until January of this fiscal year. Materials and supplies also decreased by 1.4 million, and equipment replacement technology services charges increased by 1.4 million. There was also an additional million dollars that we sent to transferred to the department for the fiscal year. Our health claims fund had a decrease in fund balance of about 1.6 million. Our fund balance is at 6.4 million. At this point in time. Last year it was at 7.9 million. However, we are increasing our premiums, beginning the effect of the calendar year. So that will help grow the fund balance a little bit more. And that's the premium. Increases are effective January of this year. Unemployment rates in August were we didn't have information for September. So this is August. They were up 4.3%. This is slightly higher than last quarter. But we as Plano still trends below the metroplex, the state and the federal rates. Sales tax comparisons. Our collections are up compared to the prior year by 6.7%. This reflects October's information. So we wanted to give you the latest information. The numbers prior to that, I was talking about the 133.1. That was through September. And of course we're up because of increases in consumer and business spending. Our real estate recap shows the number of days on the market was at 55 in September. This is up from the 30 days that we saw in June. The percent of asking was at 96.9% in September, and that's a slightly lower than the 98.2% we saw in June. More real estate recap the median selling price for a home in Plano was at 510,000 in September. That's exactly what it was at in June. And then the price per square foot in June was 221. It has decreased slightly to 214. Our hotel occupancy tax is up by 146,000 compared to the prior fiscal year. This is our equity and treasury pool. It's where what we have our investments in and how much the investments are owned by each fund. Mark Whitaker, our treasurer, will be presenting after me, so he'll go into I won't spend a lot of time on these next three slides because he'll go into more detail about them. As always, the largest portion of our equity is our capital projects funds, because that's where we deposit our our bond proceeds as we're spending through projects. Again, our investment portfolio maturities, we have a lot of liquidity at 51% in the 0 to 1 year category. And our diversification, as you can see, we're very diversified, diversified with the majority of our our our portfolio being in municipal bonds and local government investment pools. And with that, I'd be happy to answer any questions. Council Member Horne yes, thank you, mayor. And thank you, Denise, for a great presentation. Back on the slide where we were showing the bar charts of of revenue, and I saw that the water and wastewater, we were significantly, no pun intended, underwater on that. Can you give an explanation as to why we were not showing any positive figures on that? It's it all has to do with the weather. So if we had a particularly wet year, people are going to water less. And so that's really what is is pushing those revenues to be down to be lower. So thank you. Thank you Denise. Our next item is quarterly investment report Mark Whitaker. Good evening mayor and council. My name is Mark Whitaker. I am the treasurer here at City of Plano. And I'm going to be going over the quarterly investment report as of 930. And I'll be throwing in a few slightly more recent data that we have. I'm going to touch on the economy and then just go into more details as far as cash management and some diversification of the portfolio. Economic update, the inflation increased in September, 0.3%, and that follows an increase of 0.4% in August, going in the opposite direction that the feds would like it to go. The GDP did increase 3.8% after decreasing in the first quarter. That is mainly due to a decrease of imports with the tariffs, but it is nice to see that increase. And then the labor market stayed unchanged. It has an unemployment rate of 4.3% in September, but there's still trying to get maximum employment. We track the two year treasury because that is our benchmark. It decreased throughout the quarter, beginning at 3.88% and ending at 3.57%. In September, the city's portfolio was ending at 3.68%. The feds did drop rates by 25 basis points in September. They also met in October and December, and additionally, two more rate cuts were done in those months, dropping it down to a target rate of 3.5 to 3.75% currently. This is just the their statement that they put out after their meeting. It states like it has for the last year and a half. Their goal is 2% inflation. It's currently higher than that. And then full employment. They'll wait for data to come in. And that's generally the information that they've stuck to and made their decisions based off of. This is just a graph showing the short term interest rates, the one year, the two year and the five year. Because our portfolio has a five year maximum investment range. As you can see, the five year continues to be lower than the short term rates, which we do expect to change shortly. With all of these rate cuts and possible rate cuts in 2026. This just zeros in from May to September of that same graph. Just want to point out that the green line, which is our portfolio, has surpassed that two year Treasury rate. Now that rates are starting to drop based on those rate cuts. But with our portfolio being in Non-callable bonds, we expect that to stay at the 3.68%, possibly increase over the next quarter or two before it starts to trail off and follow those rate cuts. So we will see that above the two year, hopefully for at least the next year. This just shows the yield curve and how historically it has been inverted. You can see that black line is as of 930 2025. And if you do take that four and a quarter in at the very front down to three and a half, you'll see that it is almost normalizing into a regular yield curve and will be that way for the foreseeable future as they drop rates. Going into the cash management summary, we had just under $114 million in investments mature this quarter, and then we reinvested $119 million. And that's between agencies, CDs and municipal bonds. That increase was due to debt issuances. And. Funds coming in in June, allowing us to make those investments. And as some tax money is coming in in December, we've invested $13 million in the last few weeks trying to get some of those higher yields before the rates start to drop. This is our maturity ladder. Like Denise mentioned, we do have a lot of liquidity. We're at 51% in that 0 to 1 year range. 21% of that is actual liquid cash, and the other 29% is investments maturing within that one year. Our our funds turn over. We don't have a five year pool of cash. So we target that 2 to 3 to 3 to 4 year range as expenses arise. That is what our investments are targeted towards and that is what we look at, which I'll show you a couple slides here in just a second. This is our revenue streams. Over the next five years, you will see that 45% of that property tax revenue comes in in December to February. Those are those high parts. So we target our investments to mature between that May and August period, because we don't need to target those high revenue months. Here's just a our cyclical expenses. Those are very much more evened out. You will see the spike every September. That is our debt service payment that comes every day on nine one. And it's around $55 million. So that is that spike that we also tie investments to mature around. And when you combine those two we take a look at this and that dip every May to August is where we try to target maturities to offset where our expenses exceed revenue. And on the performance side this shows numbers that I'd like to point out to you. Our quarterly average is 3.63% for the portfolio. We took in $6.2 million in interest dollars this quarter, with $23 million just to the right. That is the year total of interest received. And also on the left side, the Finma bond and the T-bills like to point out those that are under that 1%. Those mature in 2026 will be rolling off the portfolio. Those are from 2021, and those will be reinvested hopefully around a 3.5%, which will also add to the total yield. I'm glad those are finally coming off the portfolio. Performance continue. This just zeros in a little closer to that benchmark two year treasury, with some details as to why it's gone up. And again, our portfolio has surpassed the two year benchmark. Now that rates are dropping, and we are looking forward to maintaining that for as long as we can. The diversification slide again, 21% cash. We have 39% in US agency backed bonds. That's the different agencies you see up there for 614. And then we have 32% in municipal bonds double A or higher. And just a trend of the quarterly book value of the portfolio every quarter for the last several years. With that trend line, you can see it's still increasing in September of 2025, has a year over year increase, which is the trend that we love to see. And based on the cost cutting factors that Denise mentioned, that is why that trend is continuing to stay in that direction. Equity treasury pool. You'll see some numbers on that far right. The debt service fund -55 million. That is that large payment that goes out. It's very cyclical. That is that is expected and planned out. Capital projects spending at 28 million is on par with average spending. So we are spending on the debt that we are issuing. But everything about this slide is very cyclical and is the numbers that should be expected. This year we have eight brokers. We are making no changes to those. We do send out questionnaires to other potential brokers that have reached out and do an analysis. But we are pleased with the work that our brokers do for us. And so we're not suggesting any changes at this point, as well as no changes to the investment policy either. And for any questions. Okay. Thank you Mark. Appreciate it. Next item is consent and regular agendas. Is there any item a council member would like to remove. Any next item is council items for discussion or future agendas. All right. We will go back to the regular meeting and go to comments of public interest. Comments of public interest. This portion of the meeting is to allow up to three minutes per speaker, with 30 total minutes on items of interest or concern, and not on items that are on the current agenda. The council may not discuss these items, but may respond with factual or policy information. The Council may choose to place the item on a future agenda. And we do have, excuse me, six speakers this evening. The first one is Jessie Castillo. Jessie Castillo. Cynthia Reece. Okay, so Lester Nelson. Hello, my name is Lisa Nelson. I'm the mother of Cynthia Reece, a nonverbal, wheelchair dependent young woman with severe disabilities. She's not here tonight because she's under the weather. I am not here tonight to debate guilt. I am here to talk about process protection and accountability and what it is, what it truly means to call Plano a city of excellence. When my daughter was assaulted inside a classroom equipped with video cameras, mistreated, bullied, and failed by the very system entrusted with her care, I did what any parent would do. I reported it, I provided evidence, and I followed every rule. And then I waited. I waited while ten months passed. I waited while evidence was delayed. I waited while I was told by Plano police that if this had happened in a grocery store, there would have been an immediate arrest. But because it happened in a school, it was more difficult. My daughter does not lose her rights because she is disabled. She does not lose protection because she cannot speak. And no family should have to fight this hard just to be taken seriously. I was notified yesterday that this case is now with the prosecutor and a grand jury will review it. I respect that process, but I want to be very clear about something. Process does not replace accountability. A city of excellence does not hide behind silence. It does not delay until families are exhausted. It does not treat disabled victims as less worthy of protection. Excellence means transparency. Excellence means oversight. Excellence means making sure the most vulnerable residents of this city are protected, not minimized, not dismissed, and not ignored. I am asking this council to do what you were elected to do pay attention, ask questions, and demand that the system works the same for disabled families as they do else. Because until this happens, city of just a slogan, not a promise kept. Thank you. Alvin Nelson. Good evening. My name is Alvin Nelson. I'm the father of Sanaa Reese. My wife just addressed the cost of the council. Silence. I'm here to speak about the cost of the city's institutional delays as well. Now, today marks 328 days, nearly 11 months since the case has began. And for 303 of those days, the Plano Police Department held a complete, completed felony case involving a non-verbal disabled child before forwarding it. And it took until yesterday 328 days for the system to simply notify us that a prosecutor has been assigned. This is not progress. This is the bare minimum achieved only after a nearly a year of sustained pressure. The delay now is actually and totally unacceptable, especially when we look at the timeline of justice for other children in Collin County. I'd like to offer these examples here at ISD. A child that was white was arrested in three days for the assault in Celina ISD. The child was also white and there was an immediate arrest. Plano daycare. The child was also white and his immediate arrest within three days as well. Princeton ISD a black child. It took months to reach an indictment. And for Reese, as we mentioned before, our daughter, it's been 328 days just to assign a prosecutor. Now, the three cases involving the white victims, as I read here, saw immediate arrest all within three days. And the only other case that took months involved a black boy. And, of course, my daughter, who is also black and severely disabled, is approaching a full year of waiting just for the prosecutor assignment. Now, you may think, is this a coincidence? But no, this pattern is undeniable. The only difference in these timelines appears to be the race and the disability status of the child. When the victim is black and severely disabled. Seems like the system grants silence, avoidance and 328 days of waiting. And while we have been forced to wait, we have seen this council's response of avoidance. If Plano does claim to be a city of excellence, as a logo sits behind you, it must demonstrate that the life of a non-verbal, disabled black child is worth the same urgency and protection afforded to every other child in Collin County. My daughter cannot speak, and I must speak for her until this city addresses the disparity and grants deny the accountability she does deserve. Thank you. Thank you. Brett Cooper. Good evening, mayor and Council Brett Cooper, a seven year resident of this city that I love. Stars align plans for move to Plano and new revenue streams. This is the headline that I woke up to on the front page of this Sunday mornings Dallas Morning News. The article quotes NHL issued documents, lay bare economic pain points. The stars say, would best be addressed by building an 18,000 seat arena at The Shops at Willow Bend Mall in Plano. This makes me wonder, is this why you chose to potentially sell out our transit riders by calling for this withdrawal election? Are you hiding this behind the veil of executive session? Our most vulnerable residents depend on reliable public transit. Did you also know that if we choose to withdraw from Dart, our paratransit riders look to suffer the most? Yes. You're already signed up for this on the agenda. No, I'm not talking about the report. You're talking about dart, which is the report. The reports about the committee. It's about transportation. I mean, these are just public comments. No. Well, you're you're signed up to be to do those comments regarding the the transportation committee. Yes. This isn't about the committee's work. This is about the election. I have separate comments about the committee. All right. Go ahead. Okay. No matter what alternative we set up in Plano, the paratransit riders would only then get 21 one way trips per year into the Dart service area. That could mean missed appointments, missed chances to see family and friends, etc. What about the single mom who would have to pay two fares to now get to work? Do these people matter less than the Dallas Stars? Our voters deserve to know how much of our tax dollars you would allocate to a replacement service. That ensures we can move as many people as we do now. To do that, you have two choices in the budget cut other services like our nationally recognized parks and libraries or increase property taxes. I'm very sure our voters want neither of those choices. They deserve transparency, something which has been sorely lacking from this council and this city regarding this issue. Let me be transparent. I will do everything in my power over the next four and a half months to spread the true facts about this issue, to either get this election rescinded or over overwhelmingly defeated, and protect our most vulnerable residents who just want to get to work and take care of their daily business. The last speaker is Christopher. I know there's not a lot of people here today that recognize me in the room, but there's at least four of them right in front of me who are scared of me being here because they know that I saw them at a drag show event a couple months ago, and I was rebuking you. You you, Bob, Rick, Julie, Vidal. We're all at a pride show event outside, and I believe your words for me, Mr. Rick, were mosquito. Is that right? Yeah. Well, you know why he called me a mosquito? I'll tell you why. Because I was rebuking him and his friends here for being around kids whenever there was drag queens gesticulating their genitalia in front of kids. You disgusting perverts. Shame on you. You should resign immediately. Jesus Christ held a child in his hands. He says, if you have. If one of these children. If you cause one of these children from coming to me, be better for you to have a millstone wrapped around your neck and tossed into the sea. Than to cause one of these little ones from coming to me. And that's what you've done, you disgusting, pervert, loving, self-serving, wicked people. You have no business being on a city council if you can't control your own bodies and your own families. Senate Bill 12 is very obvious. It says Gesticulation in front of kids is a crime. And you and before me today, I think you're criminals. Maybe these police right here won't arrest you, but you're criminals. Especially in the next life. And this life you need to resign. And since your head's been so far up, drag queens and their skirts, you've have neglected your other duty, which is protecting this city from the Islamic incursion. Disgusting. And you guys should have city permits banning Sharia law just like this state has. And I'm pretty sure you were at the. I'm not going to be sure. I can't say that. I think he looked like he was in drag shows. I have pictures here. If somebody wants to see him, they're all there. It's all on social media. There's video to so Islam is a religion for you drag show lovers. Okay, just to let you know, it says this in their book fight Those who Disbelieve in Allah. It's a terroristic threat to humanity. Get your hands on a drag queen skirts and wake up. Here's the Koran right here. Fight those who disbelieve in Allah. Fight those who don't uphold Sharia law. That's the next one. It says two right after that. And nine. Your time's up. Thank you. Follow the Islamic religion. Your time is up, sir. Your time is up. All right. Moving to the consent agenda. Consent agenda? The consent agenda will be acted upon in one motion and contains items which are routine and typically noncontroversial. Items from this items may be removed from this agenda for individual discussion by a council member, the city manager, or any citizen. The presiding officer will establish time limits based upon the number of speaker requests. Council member Horne. Mr. mayor, I move. We approve the consent agenda as presented. I second. Thank you. I have a motion and second to approve the consent agenda. Please vote. Motion passes 7 to 0. Thank you. By the way. On on that. Just to let you know, Doug Bender is on the appraisal district. So just FYI and Jason Ross. But I know we all know Doug. Okay. Next item items for individual consideration. Items for individual consideration. Public hearing items. Applicants are limited to 15 minutes presentation time with a five minute rebuttal if needed. Remaining speakers are limited to 30 total minutes of testimony time, with three minutes assigned per speaker. The presiding officer may amend these times as deemed necessary. Non public hearing items. The Presiding Officer will permit public comment for items on the agenda not posted for a public hearing. The Presiding Officer will establish time limits based upon the number of speaker requests, length of the agenda and to insure meeting efficiency, and may include a cumulative time limit. Speakers will be called in the order the requests are received until the cumulative time is exhausted. Item number one consideration to name the center court at High Point Tennis Tennis Center, located at 421 West Spring Creek Parkway, the Ken Summer center Court. Location. Director. Hello. Thank you. Yeah, and I did want to share this opportunity with you. It was brought to our attention by a citizen several months ago of for us to consider this action. We did convene a naming committee appointed by the mayor. And the consideration was for naming the center court at the High Point Tennis Center after Ken Sumrow, the Ken Sumrow Center Court. Mr. Sumrow has been the only tennis pro and manager of the facility since it opened in 1977. Prior to that, he served as a tennis coach for the Plano School District starting in 1972. Mr. Sumrow, over his 47 year career, has been the recipient of many impressive accolades, the most recent being induction into the Texas Tennis Hall of Fame. His retirement reception is tomorrow afternoon. The committee recommends this. The city staff, or Parks and recreation also recommends this, and I'm here to answer any questions. Thank you. Ron, I can't think of any more deserving than Mister Sumrow, so I will make a motion to approve this consideration. Deputy mayor, when Carpenter Middle School PTA had a fundraiser to get pickleball courts, Mr. Sumrow was very generous to donate some paddles, and it was our first kind of effort into growing pickleball in Plano. So that was the first opportunity I had to meet him. And I'm very happy to second that motion. Terrific. Council member Katia. No I don't okay. Well, with that being said, we have a motion and a second to name the center court at High Point Tennis Center Tennis Center, the Ken Row Center Court. Please vote. Motion passes seven to no thank you. Okay. Item number two, item two. Approval of RFQ 2025. Dash 450 Dash B for architectural services for the Public Safety Campus. For special projects projects to DLR Group, Inc. of Texas in the estimated amount of $14,496,593, and authorizing the City Manager to execute all necessary documents. Good evening, Council Peter Bradshaw, director of Special Projects. The Public Safety Campus is the two bond referenda that was in May that was approved by the voters to construct, build, design and construct the new police headquarters and the new fire station. 14 DLR was selected after a vigorous process. Representative from DLR is here. We also have Hamad, Mr. Hamad from my group, who is going to be the construction manager for this project. So if you have any questions, that fee is representing about 10% of the entire project, which is well within industry standard. So Peter, what is the timeline for for them and when, when if we obviously got started the first of the year or somewhere in there. Right. How long will that that schedule is 12 months. Okay. And hopefully we can get some construction work prior to that. But yes. Wonderful okay. I don't I'm sorry mayor. The design full design is 12 months. The contract goes on through the end of construction for general questions and changes and things like that. Understand? I don't think this is requiring a vote. Is that right? We I think it was to inform us and it doesn't require. But if you have any questions or. No, it does. It does require a vote. Yes. All right. So this is for the architectural services of the new public safety campus there at Almond Park. Council member Horn yes. Thank you. Mayor, I have experience with DLR. They've done some great work with the previous firm I was with. They are well recognized both from the from police headquarters but also fire stations. So I think this is an outstanding selection here. I know you went through a rigorous process to get that. So with that, I'd like to make a motion that we approve. Item number two as presented. Okay. I'd like to second please. All right. Thank you. Any other comments? All right. I have a motion and a second to approve. Item number two, please vote. Motion passes 7 to 0. Thank you. Thanks, Peter. Item number three Collin County connects committee report. I'd like to welcome Mayor Dyer. Thank you, sir, for being here. Thank you very much. Thank you for your service. As always. My name is Phil Dyer, resident of Plano for 41 years and honored to be here tonight. Obviously, we're here to talk about the C-4 Committee, and I thank you. I see several of the members of the committee in the audience, and I think you'll be hearing from most of them later on, if not all of them. First of all, we obviously were on a very compressed timeline trying to get a lot of work done in a very short period of time. And I have to salute the the staff, the finance area with Denise Tacky and City Attorney's office. Jill and Page were terrific. A special recognition to Shelly Seaver. She was terrific. And as you'll see in a minute, an extra special shout out to Andrew Fortune, who really carried the heavy load during these meetings and did an absolutely outstanding job. I salute you for bringing this committee together. As always, you're trying to seek public input on matters of importance to the city, and you did it again. And I thank you for calling the committee together. As you're aware, the committee consisted of 14 citizens who are deeply involved with public transit, either through their personal usage of transit or their involvement with groups that are dependent upon public transit. They brought significant experience, knowledge and passion to the issue, that's for sure. All of that knowledge and experience and passion was valuable during our discussions, and which, oh, back. Sorry. And so that all of that knowledge and those discussions kind of supported the work being done on the first item, first bullet on this list. And we had some challenges in there. But I will tell you, I am grateful to each and every one of them for their involvement and their role in the discussions. It was our discussions were actually quite productive. Good information came out of those discussions that you and the staff can use as you move forward. So it was it was worth the time. The specific objectives that we were focusing on were repeated numerous times. The objectives, your charge were clear, limited and specific. Assume there is an election on May 2nd, assume that the citizens vote to withdraw from Dart. Identify and prioritize what transit services the city should have available to our citizens. On May 3rd, an interview and ranked potential transit vendors to provide these services on May 3rd, clear repeated numerous times. The committee did have productive discussions beyond that, though several members of the committee declined to submit their ranking. Instead, they have submitted comments which I believe you now have in your packet, your very large packet, and everything was brought to you. Nothing was held back. It's all there. The document, most recent document in your packet comes from some members of the committee. Not all of them. It was revealed. This document was revealed at the very end of our last meeting. The fourth meeting, as we were literally wrapping up in. About to adjourn. So this item that you have was not reviewed or discussed as a committee. In addition, it discusses topics that are outside the scope of the committee as we were instructed, and it is not to comply with the direction from the City Council and the staff. It was a good group of people, great group of people passionate about transit in Plano. I'm grateful for them. And as I said, I think there's work that came out of the committee that you can use going forward. Again, these were the list of things that we wanted to talk about continuity of service, community input, connectivity inside and outside of Plano, prioritizing schedule, modernize operations, and educating the public on the new system, which obviously will be critical. We're not going to go into the more technical part of the presentation. So I do want to call down Andrew Fortune, take over from here. Thank you again for the opportunity. It was challenging, but nevertheless I think it was productive. Thank you very much. Thank you mayor. Good evening, mayor and Council. Andrew Fortune, Director of Policy and Government Relations. Thank you, Mr. Chair. So I will run through some of the mechanics that the committee utilized during the process. So as we mentioned in our initial meeting on the 24th of November, each committee member received a survey asking them to rank, you know, in areas of importance, those different categories listed on the screen. That was not to say that any one category was unimportant, but it was meant to help the committee have a good starting point for a discussion. And we did leave an opening on number ten, and a committee member actually suggested adding marketing. And so we we made that adjustment. So that was considered as well. So on the question of vendors, we spent two of our evenings together looking at different vendors. As you can see there via as one of those options. It's described as a one stop shop for micro transit and paratransit services. So kind of a wraparound. They have their own fleet. They bring in those vehicles currently partner with Arlington, Grand Prairie, Dcta and Trinity Metro. Ride and spare both are more of a software. So if you think of a general contractor model, they are able to tap into existing fleets and partners, whether that be a Lyft, Uber, Z-trip, paratransit services. ET cetera. And so their model is a little different. But again, you can see their whom they currently partner with. Spare is actually the current vendor used by dart. And so all three of these though have been vetted through the competitive bidding process. And so they came to us pre-vetted through all of the the federal and state guidelines, etc. but definitely wanted to make note that, you know, they have already engaged in the procurement process with staff. So that's that's pretty standard across the board for any of the contracts and things we bring forward to you all. I know that, and we'll talk about that. There were concerns from the committee about wanting to get into the budgetary elements, the pricing, etc. I'm advised by the procurement team that a lot of those, as we go through this process, are confidential until you move forward. The competitive pricing process. So I can confirm that all three vendors are aware of and have communicated that they are able to meet the financial constraints that the council currently has in place. With the $4 million budgeted moving forward. So rankings. This was just a tool meant to again, identify priorities that can be helpful not only in the event, as the chair mentioned, of withdrawal election, but also that can be provided to Dart now. And so we've already communicated that to dart that we we plan to submit all this feedback so that they can they're still providing services. Now. I think they could benefit from hearing what this committee shared with everyone. But really we asked them to to really evaluate these vendors based on continuity of service tied to those survey priorities. So again, that starting point, how did they do tied to your initial priorities. And ideally these are going to help reflect community input on those areas. We also collected plenty of written feedback. I think we have over 100 pages in the document that we sent out to you all. We encourage any and all feedback to be included. So on the ranking, as the chair mentioned, half of the the C4 members participated in the rankings. The other half did not. In addition to that, the two alternates that you appointed, we didn't get. We really let everybody participate. So we wanted to make sure their thoughts were included as they were there with us each of the four nights. But as you can see there, we had some who participated, some who did not. But I do believe that everyone submitted written comments. And so again, I think that's going to be valuable both for staff and for you all. And the different perspectives are welcomed and important for us. So ranking results again, this was ranked from 1 to 5, five being the best. This certainly doesn't mean that you know any one service area couldn't be improved upon. But this was that initial feedback from the committee and the community of how each of these different providers did so spare and via emerged as as the vendors with the highest ranking priorities. But also the C4 members were asked to look at our fares and fare prioritization. So what we heard from many of the vendors is they have flexibility. Should the city wish to offer a more discounted rate to one citizen group versus another? Or do you know a senior month with whatever transit option they offer? And so staff had a survey that really measured, you know, again, is that seniors is that paratransit? What is what is the lower fare? If we had those options, where would those go? I want to clear up confusion in case there is any. It was not ranking, you know, the importance of of those particular riders above one another really was again back to how did that fare structure work? If we have those options, we'd like to know from the community where they'd like us to exercise those rather than us just deciding. So committee feedback again, you'll see in your packet. Some members expressed frustration with the scope of the committee. Staff tried to keep to the lanes, as did the chair, and we're grateful to the chair for keeping us on track. And members did want to dive deeper into those costs and the procurement elements. And some members wished for council to reject alternative transit altogether in favor of of Dart and pulling down the election. So you'll see that also recorded in your feedback. And five of those members, as the chair mentioned, submitted their own observations report along with the two alternates that's included in your packet. I've gotten some news since we've sent in this that there may be another one who wanted to join in on that feedback. We're trying to confirm that with them, but I wanted that certainly reflected in our comments this evening. So alternative transit in action. We touched on this in previous reports and certainly during the committee itself. But we're really on three paths with potential outcomes as a city. One, you know, that we're working fervently on and have some meetings actually, this week on is a successful negotiation with Dart. You know, and if that moves forward, you know, the proposal, as you know that's before dart that they're evaluating would include some of those funds coming back for transit related purposes. Again to be clear that money is not a free check. It is transit specific. And so in that instance, we would still want to look at some of these alternative transit options, perhaps to complement service. Certainly, if the vote moves forward and voters vote to stay in Dart, we have these priorities feedback, information. We could still utilize that to complement. But of course, if voters move forward to leave Dart, we want to make sure continuity of service is there and that we can have a product that those, especially those who rely most on transit, are able to utilize. So the timeline again, this will probably look familiar to you. We are in the bolded section there on the 16th. The next step is to continue through this procurement process that our procurement team has set up for us to continue taking this feedback in its entirety and using that as we ask thoughtful questions of staff to continue to vet the vendors. We have a tentative date of January 26th to bring back a recommendation. After we've we've had this time to go through the procurement process for council to evaluate and look at should council at that time say, hey, we have more questions. We're not satisfied. We of course have more time. I just again, we are running up against a deadline, so we want to make sure that we provide enough time on the earlier side. Certainly February would be a lofty goal. What we've talked about with the committee is perhaps a six month structure for a contract that can start, you know, the April time frame to do education pilots moving into the actual election. If we get there, you know what? What is that outcome and ending nicely with the end of the fiscal year. So council will have the opportunity to see whatever this alternative is in action and understand as you make budgetary decisions, are there areas you want to invest more in? Are there areas where you want to renegotiate? Do we want a different vendor at the end of this period? It provides a six month window for that. So with that, I threw a lot at you. Happy to answer any questions or invite the chair back up as well. We'll, we'll we'll listen to speakers and and then we'll let you guys ask questions at the end. Great. We have 27 speakers. We are asking you to limit it to one minute each. And this is a report and information only tonight. So this is not a there's not an action item on on this particular item. We are receiving that report and information. So. We are we are going to ask you to limit it to one minute. So let's get started. All right. The first speaker excuse me is Amber Chafin followed by Sudeep Singh and Austin Meek. And if you're in line, please kind of move forward. My speech has completely changed, so please bear with me while I try to collect my thoughts for one minute. For a council that seems to really value democracy. Nodding, not allowing people to speak about this issue any further, not hosting any town halls, not being on the dart and talking to riders every day like I am. Shame on you. I'm not going to get as crazy as that guy did. I also left my Bible up there, but I really did leave my Bible up there. Anyway, I have, I understand, like y'all are not doing what the residents asked. You know that you have the facts. I have come to you with facts upon facts upon facts, but you don't care. And that's perfectly fine. I have come to terms that the City Council does not represent our citizens, that this City Council represents business. And you guys seem to think that that's the best way to play this. We will show up, and we will prove to you that your biggest mistake was not withdrawing this ballot. Sudeep Singh. Good evening guys. I also came here to speak about dart. It's honestly when I first heard about this in the news, it was kind of. I found this kind of really silly that you guys even are even considering doing this, because especially how you guys just opened the you had dart build a silver line to to two stations in the city. So it's really stupid to do that. And also, you know, like dart has been with Plano for 40 years, so I don't think it's. Good feeling 20s for anybody to withdraw. So in order to and I feel that if you keep dart and you see walking away is not the solution. You I know you have frustrations with dart and but it's best to, you know, somehow work with them. And I don't know how that's going right now and expand it. And if you want more amenities in the city like the Dallas Stars venue, because they really like transport, like they really consider places. Thank you, thank you. Austin Meek. And he will be followed by Joshua McNair, Brett Cooper and Evan Ward. Since this first started, I have heard the reason why Plano is attempting to leave Dart is because apparently dart does not offer adequate services for what we are paying. Let's speak about those services that Dart currently gives me as a citizen. For $126 a month, I have access to the Greater Dallas area. I can get to work. If I am called to jury duty, I can get all the way to downtown straight there on the on the rail. When I want to go out and hang out with my friends 20s dart and be there with under an hour. Dart is the best option. And if you say anything else, you are lying about the stated reason you are attempting to leave dart. Thank you. I'm more curious why that guy was at the drag show in the first place. Kind of makes you wonder a little bit. My name is Joshua McNair from Garland, Texas, coordinator for Sunrise Movement, user of dart. As I can't drive due to epilepsy and a frequent visitor of Plano, the Collin County Connects Committee, which is appropriately named C4 as this is bound to blow up in our faces in which committee members who voted a majority to make dart a vendor were told they weren't following Robert's Rules and that consensus was irrelevant, their input was ignored, and the heavily controlled vendor vote is the only thing the city wanted. Every vendor said themselves that everything across the board will be worse. Overall, there is no scenario where withdrawing from Dart benefits the city of Plano. I have no idea why this received a unanimous council vote to put this to a public vote. 20s we do, because what I see is not necessarily this council Plano the City of Excellence, but more so Andrew Fortune and friends, you follow everything he says as per Tex and his handling of filtering your emails and your decisions are based on this. Addison put it well, you know, leaders versus followers, you all can be leaders. You don't have to. Am I done? Okay. Thank you. Mayor, mayor and council. I'm going to ask that that the audience does not attack staff members at this point. Personal attacks in this. Staying focused on the topic is welcome, but attacking staff is not. So those are our council rules and we're going to ask that you abide by those. Thank you. Okay, Scott, why don't you give them one minute. Let them talk when she arrives. Sir, would you like to leave? Okay. I just want to make a point. Enough. Am I good? You're good. Okay. Because I knew our speaker time would likely be limited. I want to let you know I sent all my full comments in your email tonight. First, I want to say thank you for the opportunity to be thoughtful and consider alternative options for our citizens. This committee never reached consensus due to a lack of information stonewalling by staff. When we asked for some information to do our job in a chaotic and compressed timeline, it should be very telling for the public, as you saw on that screen, that over half the committee did not rank any vendor for a variety of reasons. I didn't rank any vendor because I don't believe any of them can actually meet the needs of our residents as stated. And are commuting workers better than Dart does. When this committee attempted to have a discussion on a recommendation and vote on it, we were shut down by staff. I have not been on any city committee where I've seen it function the way this committee did. Lastly, this committee should not have been prioritizing who should be stranded when withdrawal happens on May 2nd, because we cannot provide continuity with $4 million for the same services. We're not accountable to the voters. You are. Thank you for your time. Hello? Hello. Can you all hear me? My name is Evan Ward. I've been in Plano for four months now. Relatively new member to Dallas, but I have a few questions for y'all. How many of you guys have worked for a rideshare company as a driver? Okay, so none of you guys, nobody understands that the apps actually notify people when you're picking someone up from a Dart station. As someone who's worked as a driver for these apps and a writer from this dart go pass, the drivers treat you different and they're aware that they're not getting compensated us as greatly as they would be. If it's a regular ride until this has changed, and there's actually data showing the effectiveness of this service, there's no reason we should make any decision based on the vibes of those reports. That's not data, that's vibes. That's not government. The next speaker is Jessie Castillo, followed by Kevin Bartholomew by Bartholomew and Jeff Sameshima. Jessie. Jessie Castillo or Kevin Bartholomew. Hello, everyone. I'm Kevin Bartholomew, resident of Plano. I have prepared nothing. I'm just going to say a couple of lines and head out. Just by hearing the outcome of the C4 report. I think it's just very good of me just to say, I think this is an extremely short timeline for such a complex restructuring. And I think that choosing to go or stay, stay in dart or leave dart should be put on more of a longer timeline to allow time to discover and figure out new ways of doing the transit system. Thank you. That's all I want to say. Thank you. Hi there. I'm Jeff Sameshima, Plano resident and dart rider. Following the conclusion of the Collin County Connects Committee, I continue to be concerned about this council's approach to transit Plano. The committee was only given three vendors, only one of which with fleet capability and a total of six hours to make a recommendation on the best solution for the city. These vendors were unable to provide vital answers to the to address the committee's self ranked priorities. The inability to provide those answers falls on the council, who did not or could not provide information to those vendors in advance of their presentations. Mr. fortune also stated that services provided by these vendors would be more efficient in time and money, but we simply can't know that to be true. When the vendors provided no Plano specific metrics to the committee and were prohibited from discussing finances despite it being one of the core tenets of the committee. My last point is that the committee presented their findings today, December 16th, which is just 92 days from the last day. The city can rescind the May 2nd vote. Mr. fortune stated that the alternative option would be in service months in advance. Per the timeline provided to the committee, the service would start almost exactly one month from that March 18th deadline, which he stated tonight is a lofty goal. I continue to be shocked and disappointed at the level of disregard being shown to this monumental decision. Thank you, thank you. The next speaker is Darrell Evans, followed by Kathryn Walsh and Nathaniel Adam. Hello. Good evening. My name is Darrell Evans. I'm here tonight to show my support for keeping Dart in Plano. I want to also say clearly that we are mobilizing and organizing. There are so many groups and organizations working together right now to rally voters and make sure people get to the polls to protect Dart in Plano, and I'm here to help. I'll be in the lobby after this meeting to register folks to vote and recruit more volunteers. If you care about keeping Dart in Plano, come and see me. Let's get organized. Let's grow this effort and let's win. Thank you. Good evening. Catherine Walsh, downtown Plano resident of nine years. I'm speaking tonight to express my concerns with a micro transit replacement to the current transit system, whether this is through a proposed Ala to Dart or after a withdrawal. I hear a lot about empty busses, and I wanted to call out that these individual observations and rhetoric they lead to may be misleading. According to an October 25th Plano ridership profile by Dart and Cog, the Q3 numbers for Plano were 208,000 on busses, 238,000 on light rail, 20 K on paratransit and 85 K on go link. It's unclear to me that Micro Transit could handle these volumes. I'd also like to point out that the busses numbers close to light rail, so I'm not sure why we're so eager to lose the busses. And I'd encourage you all to take a ride on the bus some morning and see the folks that might be affected. Thank you so much. Thank you. Hello, my name is Nathan Adam, and I was a member of the C-4 representing Transit riders. I was one of the members who chose not to rank or recommend any of the vendors. I believe that we have not been given enough information to meaningfully differentiate between them. Some of the top priorities that we have identified service coverage and access, reliability and wait times and service hours and frequency rely solely on what you require the vendor to do and how much money you give them to do it, not which vendor you pick. Without knowing what your plans are for key factors such as service hours, reliability targets, fares, and how many trips each vendor can provide. Given all of these requirements, I remain unconvinced that there will be there will be continuity of service with the budget that you have. We all want better transit, but this extremely rushed plan will give us worse transit than what we currently have. People will be stranded if we leave dart, and I do not want to be the one that who decides how. Thank you, thank you. The next speaker is Curtis Garrison, followed by Warren Pena and Josh Peterman. Hello. My name is Curtis Garrison and I'm just a little blown away. We only have a minute. And the way this thing started I just got to say that please stop inviting the Boy Scouts scouting America here because I'm a survivor. I'm one of 517 in the ten council in the Plano area alone that are in the bankruptcy that were abused. And we have to watch this. And we mentioned to you guys online to stop having them introduce you. I mean, any daycare or whatever that had, these guys would never be invited. Why is this happening? All right, moving on. Not everybody gets to travel internationally. I've been fortunate. Major cities in Canada, Japan just came back a week ago from China going Beijing, Xi'an. And I'm just going to let you know, long term intelligent engineering and transit oriented development is what you guys need to be doing. And not having petroleum interests or corporate taking private interests instead of public services as a priority. Our country, our city and state is getting blown away globally. Thank you, thank you. Hi, my name is Warren Pena, 19 year resident of City of Plano and a homeowner here daily rider of Dart. I attended all four meetings of the foresee. I didn't see any solutions that were presented to make lives better for the residents of Plano. Paratransit is going to lose access to most of DFW. We're going to have commuters moving in and out of the city. Now we'll have to pay two fares, and we'll have to make a transfer in what used to be a direct, direct trip. And we're just no longer going to have the integration that we have today with the rest of the region. I just don't see any solutions presented to make lives better for the City of Excellence. So what I see here is an excellence. It's regression. I wish we could stop this. Go back, figure out how to make dart better with the rest of the cities. Thank you, thank you. Josh Piterman. The next speaker is Adam Kolodny, followed by Jeremy Matthews and Alex Flores. Your honor, members of the city council. My name is Adam Kolodny. My wife and I have been residents of Plano since 1994. Thank you for pointing me to the C4 committee. Dart offers local services that connect riders to the destination at low cost or for free to a Dart station. They integrate smoothly with the DFW Regional Transit network. The city has not considered the impact of withdrawal from Dart on commuters. Seniors, riders with restricted mobility and possibly others that we haven't even had time to consider, such as citizens with special needs. The vendors we interviewed stated that a 4 to 6 months of planning would be required for successful launch of a new service, yet the city hasn't even defined what constitutes success. The process that we have witnessed thus far has been rushed, illogical, obfuscated and utterly void of compassion. The city has failed to provide a vision and is entrusting the vendor we contract with to figure it out. The risk to the most vulnerable in the population is untenable. Dart performance is not an issue, and we know that the service replacement will be more costly of lower quality. Thank you. Burdensome to the current ridership, the city's lack of preparation for Dart withdrawal is indicative of how it will treat public transportation in the future. Thank you. You'll see that there's no other way. Mr. Kolodny, can you hear me? Total population did not turn up the. Thank you. My name. My name is Jeremy Matthews and I live in Plano. If you read my email to you sent on Sunday, then you will know that I attended all four Collin County Connects meetings as an observer. My takeaway from the meetings was that the city has done little planning for an alternative to staying in Dart. Committee members had little to go on for making recommendations. Planning for an alternative is so much in order and should have started months ago. It would involve things like analyzing current Plano Dart ridership and estimating the ridership that would be in an alternative system. It would involve examining use cases, such as how an alternative system would connect riders to Dart to continue on their way to Dallas, and to the rest of the metroplex. It should involve estimating how much congestion would be added to our roads. There are many questions. What would be the fairest for riders? Would there be any subsidy by the city? How much would the alternative really cost? Plano how is the city going to advertise to and educate current riders on how to shift to alternative system? If we are still going to have a referendum, then Plano citizens should be properly informed about the alternative system. Right now there is no there is so much unknown that is that it is unwise to have a referendum in May, if at all. Thank you. Alex Flores, lifelong Plano resident and transit reliant individual. Personally, I am addressing the city council in front of me, but I highly doubt any of you are really listening, since it is very clear by the committee that you're not really willing to listen to us, because if you did, you would have thought about the many different things that are still in question when it comes to this replacement, for example, service hours. That's a pretty broad statement. Are you guys going to operate on Sundays? Because if you don't, that's going to mess me up with my work schedule. Are you going to have limits for paratransit rides? It's not exactly the cheapest service to provide, and given that you have no financial budget set in place yet, there's a lot of questions that still need to be answered. 20s what we're asking for is for you to communicate about what is going on, and I recognize that a lot of that has to be done behind closed doors, but we do eventually need some answers the closer we get, because you're going to end up with citizens like me who are going to have to make some really hard decisions about, can I stay in this city? I've lived here my whole life. I don't want to leave. Thank you, thank you. The next speaker is David Leath, followed by Robert Morrison and William Cravens, who will be on zoom. Thank you. My name is David Leath, lived in Plano for 30 years. The reason why the C-4 committee is very simple. We don't need dart one point. Only 1.2% of the people who live in Plano, according to the last census, don't have at least two cars. Everything is empty because nobody needs dart. Sure, the paratransit people got to have something for them, but Dart must not be $110 million entitlement for the few thousand people that use it, many of which don't even live in Plano. They pick it up later. So what I ask is we deserve a vote. It is our constitutional right. This thing can only happen every six years. We must have a vote. And the people that pay the taxes have a right to have their voices heard. Not the vast majority of people here that many don't even live in Plano. Thank you much up here. Yeah. You have one? Yeah. Okay. That'd be good. Okay. You're not on an island. Thank you. Robert Morrison. Hello, my name is Robert Morrison. I've been in Plano for two years and I've lived in surrounding cities for 13. I've always really appreciated the fact that we have such a robust public transit system. And I often take the Dart to downtown Dallas and other areas in the metroplex from Plano stations. I'm a researcher at UT Dallas, and when the Silver Line opened up, I was thrilled that I could basically get from my front door to my work all entirely by train. I can also go straight to DFW airport and by extension, basically anywhere in the world, all via Dart from Plano. I think this makes Plano very unique, and I believe that the quality of our public transit system should be a major source of public pride for the city. If we were to leave the Dart system, I think we'd be taking a huge step backwards. It would make a less accessible, less attractive to potential residents and businesses, and it would cut us off from our neighbors in the rest of DFW and by extension, the world. Since we have DFW airport, I'm in favor of Plano staying within the Dart system. Thank you for letting me speak here tonight. Thank you. The next speaker is William Cravens, who is on zoom. Mr. Cravens, if you can unmute and turn your camera on. He's on. Good evening. Council members and mayor, one of the things that concerns me as of many of the other speakers have mentioned, is the rapid approach to this change. Many of things, many things may include some unintended consequences when I'm not sure have been properly evaluated. The one thing that I would like for the citizens to understand is they're not going to save any money out of this for the near future. In fact, for possibly as long as ten years. And the only way that the city is going to be able to replace anything they're taking away when they lose dart is from the city coffers. The sales tax will not go back to the city, and the city's going to have to start raising taxes, which I don't think the. Thank you. Thank you. William Pierce Cravens. Go ahead. Good evening. Council and mayor. My name is William Pierce Cravens, Plano resident, 1028 17th Street. Sorry, that was my fault. Hold on. We'll get him back. There we go. Sorry we lost you. Go ahead and start over. Start over? Sure. Hi. Council and mayor, thank you so much for having me this evening. My name is William Pierce Cravens, Plano resident residing at 1028 17th Street. Was thankful to be on the committee, the C-4 Committee, and grateful to staff and Mayor Dyer's efforts on that committee, as long as well as the other panelists as well. One of the things that we were entrusted to try to evaluate was continuity of service. And I think that that should also include continuity of experience. The city has invested heavily in transit oriented experiences, and downtown is a representation of that. And I would hate for the the city's efforts and investments to be stymied and just want that to be in consideration as the council moves forward in selecting whichever vendor it feels would be necessary. I was among the the individuals who thought that we did not have enough information to to make a suggestion. Thank you, thank you. The next speaker is Corey Riker, followed by Shaolin, Shaolin Zhu and Carol Johnson. Good evening, mayor, Council members and staff, thank you for the opportunity to serve on the C-4 Committee and to contribute to the future direction of transit in Plano. The vendors we reviewed all have the experience, capability, and capacity to provide whatever system we desire and are willing to pay for. I was unfortunately, unable to provide a ranking of the vendors that presented to the committee. We were not allowed to pursue the comprehensive set of core goals drafted to guide our work. Rather, we received marketing pitches and asked general questions. Any ranking based on that information cannot provide meaningful distinction between the vendors. Despite this lack of substance, I did gain some insights. The vendors conveyed that alignment between vision and needs is critical. Sufficient time must be set aside for planning, and a single zone door to door Microtransit solution for a large city like Plano is not advisable. You're invited to use our ranked priorities and hopefully draw useful insights from our work. Thank you, thank you. Dear member, dear Mayor and Council members. My name is Joe. I'm a private citizen. My husband and I have been homeowners in Plano for 31 years, the longest that we have ever lived in any other place in our lives. We raised our two children here in Plano. We value the blend of quiet suburban life and accessibility of cultural scene in Dallas and Fort Worth. Apparently, more people recognize the value of living in Plano. In recent years, a lot of people have moved into the city and the roads are getting more congested all the time. Highway 75 is no longer having any rush hour. Seems like every hour is rush hour. Because of all of that, in the past two years we have been riding the dart to downtown downtown downtown Dallas, and it has been really blessing for us in less stressful. We hope that Plano will stay in dart work with Dart to make the system better. It will be much better for the life of our citizens here in this this city. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Carol Johnson. Ian Graham. And then the last speaker will be Payton Bryant. Hello. My name is Ian Graham. I'm an electrical engineer at Texas Instruments. And I've lived in downtown Plano for three years. Every day I take the dart to work and back. I don't own a car. And while I've lived in Plano, I haven't needed one. I appreciate that Plano wants to ensure alternate transit is available in the event of a dart pullout, but without a firm plan to evaluate. I can't say how the alternate transit that is offered will affect my commute to work. If Dart is shut down and replaced with a bus service, it would still likely increase my commute, possibly to the point where I'd be forced to move further south along the Dart to City Line Bush or Gallatin Park. The priority most important for me for Plano's transit plan is connectedness with the existing Dart line that leads to my place of employment. I live in Plano. I shop in Plano. My dentist is in Plano. I don't want to have to move. I don't want to have to uproot everything, but I have to prioritize my job. Thank you, thank you. Payton Bryant. Hi, my name is Payton Bryant and I'm a resident of Plano today. I'm not here to debate the decisions that are being made. I'm here to state the facts of what is happening in our city. I am a sister to my little brother. Before I am anything else and to any anything else, to anyone. And what he needs in his sister is to know that when she sees something wrong, she fights. And saying that a little about myself. I'm 18 years old as of August 22nd and both of my parents are dead. They died within a year of each other, and the people that I was trusted with did not do well by me. They put me in a situation that was not even close to being as good as I was before, and I used art as a way to get around, whether that be to different stores, events or work, etc. and the idea of taking dart out of Plano shouldn't even be a question. It's wrong. I recently got an opportunity to get an electric bike. It's getting cold. Not a good idea. And what about the people that don't have that option? The people that need dart? I hope that every day y'all wake up and y'all are able to drive yourself to the gas station, the store, or to even pick up your children. You think about the people that are not that are now not able to do any of that. Thank you, thank you. Okay, so that's the last of our speakers. As as you saw in the the calendar, we will continue this conversation and, and and further delve into the options that we have. And we plan on doing that in January. That there being no further business. We're adjourned.