[III.B.(1) A Presentation By Julia Rodriguez Of Family Services Of Southeast Texas Regarding The Programs Available To The Public For A Safer SETX.]

COMMUNICATIONS SPEAKERS. WE HAVE NONE PRESENTATIONS. WE HAVE ONE PRESENTATION BY JULIA RODRIGUEZ OF FAMILY SERVICES OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS REGARDING THE PROGRAMS AVAILABLE TO THE PUBLIC FOR A SAFER SOUTHEAST TEXAS. MISS JULIA, IF YOU WOULD COME NOW, YOU HAVE 20 MINUTES.

THANK YOU. LET ME MAKE SURE YOUR MIC IS ON. YOU HIT THAT BUTTON RIGHT BELOW THAT, RIGHT THERE. OKAY I THINK YES. THERE YOU GO. OKAY. SORRY. HI. GOOD MORNING EVERYBODY. MY NAME IS JULIA. I'M THE PUBLIC EDUCATOR WITH FAMILY SERVICES OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS. I HAVE A VERY SHORT VIDEO THAT I WOULD LIKE TO SHOW THAT GIVES A GOOD INTRODUCTION OF WHO WE ARE AS AN ORGANIZATION AND NONPROFIT THAT SERVES SIX COUNTIES, INCLUDING JEFFERSON. WHEN IT DOESN'T FEEL SAFE AT HOME, KNOWING WHERE TO TURN CAN MAKE ALL THE DIFFERENCE. AT FAMILY SERVICES OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS, OUR EMERGENCY SHELTER PROVIDES A SAFE, CONFIDENTIAL PLACE FOR SURVIVORS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND THEIR CHILDREN TO BEGIN AGAIN. FROM THE MOMENT SOMEONE REACHES OUT, OUR TEAM IS HERE TO HELP. AFTER A PRIVATE INTAKE PROCESS, RESIDENTS ARE WELCOMED INTO A SUPPORTIVE ENVIRONMENT. OUR SHELTER OFFERS SAFE ACCOMMODATIONS, MEALS, BASIC NECESSITIES AND SUPPORT SERVICES, ALL AT NO COST TO THOSE WE SERVE. WE ALSO OFFER

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THESE RESOURCES TO THOSE IN THE COMMUNITY WHO DO NOT NEED SHELTER, BUT FACE OBSTACLES TO SAFETY AND FREEDOM. OUR ADVOCATES WORK ALONGSIDE EACH CLIENT REGARDLESS IF THEY ARE A RESIDENT OR NOT. TO IDENTIFY GOALS, CONNECT WITH RESOURCES, AND CREATE A PATH FORWARD TOWARDS SAFETY AND INDEPENDENCE. IF YOU OR SOMEONE YOU KNOW IS EXPERIENCING DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, SEXUAL ASSAULT, OR HUMAN TRAFFICKING, FAMILY SERVICES OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS IS HERE TO HELP.

THANK YOU. SO I VERY BRIEFLY WANTED TO KNOW IF ANYBODY ALREADY KNEW THAT WE WE EXISTED.

HAVE YOU ALL HEARD ABOUT US BEFORE? AWESOME. I'M SO GLAD TO HEAR THAT. SO WE ACTUALLY HAVE OUR SHELTER. WE HAVE TWO SHELTERS, ONE IN JASPER COUNTY TO SERVE THE EAST TEXAS NEEDS AND ONE IN BEAUMONT THAT SERVES PREDOMINANTLY JEFFERSON, ORANGE AND HARDIN. AND WE CAN SAFELY GIVE SHELTER TO ABOUT 100 PEOPLE ON OUR CAMPUS AND UP TO 90 DAYS AND HELP THEM GET THE DOCUMENTS THEY NEED, HELP THEM GET GO THROUGH THE COURT SYSTEM TO GET THE PROTECTIONS THEY NEED. WE HAVE PARTNERSHIPS WITH EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS TO HELP PEOPLE GET JOBS WITH THE WORKFORCE. OTHER OTHER ORGANIZATIONS TO HELP PEOPLE REBUILD THEIR LIVES. WE ALSO HAVE A MEN'S WING BECAUSE A LOT OF PEOPLE DON'T REALIZE THAT DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CAN ALSO INCLUDE MEN. AND I'VE LEFT A LITTLE PACKET WITH Y'ALL WITH SOME INFORMATION, A BROCHURE IN ENGLISH AND SPANISH, AND I JUST WANTED TO TO REINTRODUCE OURSELVES TO YOU AND TO LET YOU KNOW THAT WE ARE A RESOURCE IN THE COMMUNITY AND THAT WE REALLY WANT TO BE MORE INVOLVED WITH YOU AND YOUR LEADERSHIP. AND IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, I'D BE HAPPY TO TO ANSWER THEM TO THE BEST I CAN. I DON'T HAVE ANY LIGHTS. COUNCILMEMBER GATEWOOD WELL, FIRST AND FOREMOST, THANK YOU FOR THE PRESENTATION. I JUST WANTED TO SEE IF I CAN. I THINK I HAVE INFORMATION IN THIS PACKET. CORRECT YOUR INFORMATION. YES. OKAY. IN THE LETTER IS MY INFORMATION. AND I HAVE MY EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, DEBORAH THOMAS. HER CARD IS IN THERE.

OKAY, PERFECT. I MEAN, THE REASON BEING ON NEXT COUNCIL MEETING, WE HAVE A PRESENTATION THAT'S GOING TO COME FROM JOYCE JAMES. AND SHE'S ACTUALLY WORKING ON AN INITIATIVE RIGHT NOW THAT'S DEALING CLOSELY TO RELATIVELY TO WHAT YOU ALL WORK WITH. AND I THINK IT WOULD BE GREAT FOR YOU ALL TO PARTNER, BECAUSE ONE OF THE THINGS SHE'S FOCUSING ON IS CPS AND CHILDREN BEING REMOVED FROM THEIR HOMES. AND IF THERE'S A SITUATION WHERE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE IS, OF COURSE, A PART TO PLAY FOR THE REASON OF THOSE CHILDREN BEING TAKEN, THEN MAYBE THERE'S A PARTNERSHIP THERE THAT WE CAN CONNECT YOU WITH. SO THAT WAY WE CAN WORK TOGETHER.

ABSOLUTELY. SO WONDERFUL. I'LL CONNECT YOU WITH HER. THANK YOU. AND THANK YOU FOR THE PRESENTATION. NO. OF COURSE, THANK YOU. MAYOR PRO TEM KINLAW. THANK YOU MAYOR. IT'S GREAT, GREAT PRESENTATION. I'VE KNOWN ABOUT YOU GUYS FOR A COUPLE OF YEARS NOW SINCE I'VE BEEN ON COUNCIL. SO. BUT WHAT IS THE WAY THAT INDIVIDUALS CAN CONTACT YOU AND WHAT CAN THE CITY DO TO HELP YOU GET THOSE INDIVIDUALS CONTACTED WITH YOUR AGENCY? ABSOLUTELY. SO I DO HAVE IN YOUR PACKETS AND ALSO AT THE FRONT UP HERE FOR ANYBODY WHO MIGHT WANT THAT INFORMATION, I HAVE WE HAVE HOTLINE CARDS. AND IF SOMEONE IS IN DISTRESS, EITHER IMMEDIATELY OR IF THEY'RE WORKING, YOU KNOW, THEY REALIZE THAT SOMETHING NEEDS TO CHANGE.

THERE'S A HOTLINE CARD AND THEY CAN CALL AND GET LIKE A PLAN IN PLACE. AND IN TERMS OF, YOU KNOW, JUST LIKE KNOWING THAT THAT WE'RE HERE, WE DO HAVE A RELATIONSHIP WITH LIKE THE LOCAL AGENCIES, BUT GETTING CONNECTED WITH OTHER AGENCIES, LIKE I'D LIKE TO, YOU KNOW, GET CONNECTIONS TO THE SCHOOL AND TO THE SCHOOL DISTRICT, BECAUSE I DON'T HAVE ANY CONNECTIONS THERE YET. SO THAT THEIR KIDS, YOU KNOW, BECAUSE UNFORTUNATELY, TEENS EXPERIENCE THIS KIND OF STUFF TOO, VERY UNFORTUNATELY. SO LIKE JUST GETTING, GETTING MORE INVOLVED WITH SOME OF THE ORGANIZATIONS THAT ARE HERE AND THAT ALREADY HAVE A GOOD RELATIONSHIP WITH YOU. I KNOW MY EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, MRS. THOMAS, WOULD REALLY LIKE TO, TO WORK MORE WITH Y'ALL IN A CAPACITY THAT SHE COULD SPEAK TO THAT I COULDN'T, BUT JUST LETTING PEOPLE KNOW THAT THERE IS HELP AND THEY DO NOT HAVE TO BE ALONE, WHETHER IN YOUR INTERPERSONAL LIVES OR JUST LIKE WHEN YOU'RE WHEN YOU MEET RESIDENTS WHO HAVE HAVE THINGS TO SAY OR SHARE WITH YOU IS ALWAYS THE MOST BENEFICIAL. THANK YOU, THANK YOU, AND THANK YOU FOR YOUR PRESENTATION.

THANK YOU, THANK YOU. OH, SO SORRY, COUNCILMEMBER JACOBS. YES, MA'AM. I JUST WANTED TO SAY THANK YOU. THANK YOU FOR YOUR PRESENTATION. FAMILY SERVICES OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS IS

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NEAR AND DEAR TO MY HEART. MY SISTER ACTUALLY WORKED THERE FOR A NUMBER OF YEARS. AND SO I SAW FIRSTHAND SOME OF THE DEDICATED SERVICE THAT IS REQUIRED OF PEOPLE AND THE KIND OF HEART THAT YOU HAVE TO HAVE TO DO THE WORK THAT YOU DO. SO FIRST OF ALL, THANK YOU. BUT SECONDLY, I THINK THAT IT'S PROBABLY NOT LOST ON ANYONE UP HERE THAT HOMELESSNESS IS A CRISIS. AND WHEN YOU GET TO THE ROOT CAUSE OF WHAT CAUSES OUR FELLOW CITIZENS TO BE UNHOUSED, A LOT OF TIMES YOU END UP AT, YOU KNOW, DETERMINING THAT THERE'S SOME ABUSE INVOLVED OR IN DIFFERENT TYPES OF ABUSE, RIGHT? DOMESTIC PARTNER ABUSE, SUBSTANCE ABUSE, ALL THE THINGS.

AND SO WHEN, WHEN CONSIDERING THAT, WHERE DO YOU SEE ROOM FOR PARTNERSHIP WITH A MUNICIPALITY IN PARTICULAR, IN TERMS OF LIKE BRIDGING THAT GAP? SO THERE ABSOLUTELY IS, IS ROOM FOR THAT.

AND I KNOW THAT, AGAIN, I'M SORRY THAT MRS. THOMAS ISN'T ISN'T HERE WITH US, HERE WITH US RIGHT NOW TO ANSWER THAT MORE ELOQUENTLY THAN I CAN, BECAUSE I KNOW PREVIOUSLY TO ONE OF THE MORE RECENT FLOODS, THERE WAS TRANSITIONAL HOUSING. AND WE HAVE PLANS TO GET TRANSITIONAL HOUSING BACK INTO OUR INTO OUR SERVICE PLAN TO HELP PEOPLE GET GET TO THAT NEXT TO THE NEXT STAGE. SO THAT IS PART OF THE PLANS FOR THE ORGANIZATION IS TO HELP BRIDGE BRIDGE THAT GAP. I JUST IN DETAIL, I'M UNFORTUNATELY CANNOT ANSWER THAT. IT'S GREAT TO KNOW THAT THAT'S IN THE PLANS. AND THAT'S SOMETHING THAT YOU GUYS HAVE ALREADY BEEN, YOU KNOW, THINKING THROUGH. SO THANK YOU SO MUCH. YES, MA'AM. AWESOME. OKAY. WE'RE GOING TO MOVE ON. THANK YOU AGAIN. WE APPRECIATE YOU COMING OUR WAY. NUMBER TWO, A PRESENTATION BY

[III.B.(2) A Presentation By Hossein Hariri Asle Of Lamar University Regarding An Overview Of The Southeast Texas Flood Monitoring Sensor Network.]

HOSEN HERRERA OUT OF LAMAR UNIVERSITY REGARDING AN OVERVIEW OF THE SOUTHEAST TEXAS FLOOD MONITORING CENTER NETWORK. AND I KNOW I DID NOT PRONOUNCE YOUR NAME CORRECTLY AND YOU CAN CORRECT IT AT THE MIC. GOOD MORNING, MAYOR, COUNCIL MEMBERS AND CITY STAFF, AND THANK YOU FOR GIVING US THIS OPPORTUNITY TO RAISE THE MIC UP FOR ME A LITTLE BIT. THERE WE GO. IF YOU STATE YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS FOR US. YES, MY NAME IS HUSSEIN. I AM A DOCTOR OF CIVIL ENGINEERING AT LAMAR. I AM SERVING AT THE SOUTHEAST TEXAS FLOOD MONITORING SENSOR NETWORK.

THIS IS ALSO HUSSEIN HUSSEIN, MY ASSISTANT AT LAMAR. OKAY, SO. AND I MAY YOU HAVE PROBABLY 15 MINUTES BECAUSE WE HAVE A PUBLIC HEARING AT TEN. SO WE HAVE TO START AT TEN. SO BUT IF YOU DON'T FINISH, WE'LL COME BACK. WE'LL COME BACK TO YOU. OKAY. TODAY WE WILL KEEP THIS PRESENTATION SHORT AND FOCUS ON FOUR MAIN ITEMS. THE CURRENT FLOOD MONITORING SYSTEM SERVING PORT ARTHUR OPPORTUNITIES FOR FUTURE EXPANSION, THE VALUE OF CONTINUED SERVICE LEVEL SUPPORT THROUGH THE PROPOSED INTERLOCAL AGREEMENT AND THE FUTURE IMPROVEMENTS SUCH AS AUTOMATION, FLOOD MODELING, AND AI ASSISTED ANALYSIS. PORT ARTHUR CURRENTLY HAS THREE ACTIVE FLOOD MONITORING SENSOR SITES CONNECTED TO THE REGIONAL SENSOR AND NETWORK, AND ALL THREE SITES ALREADY INCLUDE RAIN GAUGES. THAT MEANS THE CURRENT SYSTEM PROVIDES BOTH WATER LEVEL INFORMATION AND LOCAL RAINFALL DATA, WHICH IS VERY HELPFUL FOR UNDERSTANDING STORM EVENT CONDITIONS. OUR FOCUS TODAY IS TO EXPLAIN THE NETWORK LAMAR SUPPORT ROLE. THE PROPOSED, AND HOW WE CAN CONTINUE WORKING TOGETHER TO KEEP THIS SYSTEM RELIABLE AND USEFUL. SO SOUTHWEST TEXAS FLOOD MONITORING SENSOR NETWORK IS A LOW COST AND REAL TIME FLOOD AWARENESS SYSTEM. THE. THE. THIS SITE. THIS SITE PROVIDES WATER LEVEL READINGS, RAINFALL INTENSITY AT PORT ARTHUR, CURRENT SITES, CAMERA IMAGERY EVERY DAY, AND THE THRESHOLD BASED INFORMATION THAT HELPS CONNECT WATER LEVEL TO ROAD BANKS, BRIDGES AND OTHER LOCAL DECISION POINTS NEARBY THE SENSOR SITE. THIS INFORMATION CAN SUPPORT CITY STAFF DURING HEAVY RAINFALL EVENTS BY PROVIDING TIMELY AWARENESS BEFORE AND DURING CHANGING FLOOD CONDITIONS, SO THE SYSTEM IS INTENDED TO SUPPORT PUBLIC WORKS, EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT, STORM EVEN DECISION MAKING AND REGIONAL COORDINATION. AND THIS DATA IS BEING TRANSFERRED TO NWS HOUSTON, TRANSTAR AND NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. SO PORT ARTHUR,

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AS I SAID, CURRENTLY HAS THREE ACTIVE SENSOR SITES CONNECTED TO THE ORIGINAL NETWORK, AND ALL THREE SITES ALREADY INCLUDE RAIN GAUGES. THE PROPOSED FULL SERVICE RATE IS 2500 PER ACTIVE SITE PER YEAR, SO THE ANNUAL FULL SERVICE ESTIMATE FOR THE CITY, YOU KNOW, WOULD BE 7500 PER YEAR. THE VALUE IS BROADER THAN ONLY THREE LOCAL SENSORS. PORT ARTHUR REMAINS CONNECTED TO A REGIONAL NETWORK OF 79 ACTIVE SENSOR SITES THROUGHOUT SOUTHEAST TEXAS. SO FLOODING DOES. FLOODING DOES NOT STOP AT CITY OR COUNTY BOUNDARIES, SO UPSTREAM AND DOWNSTREAM INFORMATION CAN BE VERY HELPFUL DURING STORM EVENTS. THAT'S WHY I SAID, YOU KNOW, THIS IS MORE THAN THREE SITES. SO THE PROPOSED INTERLOCAL AGREEMENT IS STRUCK. YOU KNOW, IS THE STRUCTURE THAT ALLOWS LAMAR TO CONTINUE SUPPORTING THE SYSTEM AFTER THE CURRENT PROJECT FUNDING PERIOD. IT HELPS DEFINE THE SERVICE LEVEL, RESPONSIBILITIES, COST STRUCTURE AND LONG TERM PARTNERSHIP. THE GOAL IS NOT SIMPLY TO MAINTAIN A HARDWARE.

THE GOAL IS TO KEEP A RELIABLE OPERATING SYSTEM IN PLACE SO THE DATA IS AVAILABLE WHEN IT'S NEEDED. FULL SERVICE SUPPORT INCLUDES NETWORK MONITORING, TROUBLESHOOTING, MAINTENANCE, BATTERY AND COMMUNICATION SUPPORT, SENSOR CALIBRATION, DATA QUALITY REVIEW, WEBSITE AND DATA TRANSMISSION SUPPORT, QUARTERLY SITE VISIT AND COORDINATION WITH CITY STAFF.

IT ALSO INCLUDES THE INTERNET OR CELLULAR COMMUNICATION SERVICE FOR THE EXISTING SITES.

OVER TIME, FULL SERVICE SUPPORT ALSO GIVES THE ABILITY TO CONTINUE IMPROVING THE SYSTEM THROUGH RAINFALL DATA INTEGRATION THRESHOLD SUPPORT, AUTOMATION RESEARCH, MODELING, AND AI ASSISTED ANALYSIS ANALYSIS. SO THE ANNUAL SUPPORT SHOULD BE VIEWED AS SUPPORT FOR THE FULL OPERATING SYSTEM, NOT JUST AS A REPAIR BUDGET. SO THERE ARE TWO IMPORTANT OPPORTUNITIES FOR OPPORTUNITIES FOR PORT ARTHUR. THE FIRST IS STRENGTHENING THE CURRENT SYSTEM BY MAINTAINING RELIABLE SERVICE FOR THE THREE EXISTING SITES AND FULLY USING THE RAINFALL AND WATER LEVEL DATA ALREADY AVAILABLE FOR THOSE LOCATIONS. THE SECOND OPPORTUNITY IS FUTURE EXPANSION. IF THERE ARE ADDITIONAL FLOOD PRONE LOCATIONS WHERE REAL TIME AWARENESS WOULD HELP CITY OPERATIONS, LAMAR CAN WORK WITH CITY TO EVALUATE THOSE LOCATIONS. THE LONGER TERM VALUE IS MOVING FROM MONITORING TO BETTER INTERPRETATION AND PREDICTION WITH WITH RELIABLE DATA, LOCAL RAINFALL SURVEY THRESHOLDS AND CONTINUE TECHNICAL SUPPORT, WE CAN BEGIN DEVELOPING TOOLS FOR AUTOMATED SYSTEM HEALTH CHECKS, ANOMALY DETECTION, FLOOD MODELING, PREDICTION, AND AI ASSISTED ANALYSIS. SO THIS WOULD NOT REPLACE STAFF JUDGMENT. IT WOULD HELP ORGANIZE THE DATA AND MAKE TRENDS, ALERTS, SENSOR STATUS, AND THE STORM EVENT PATTERNS EASIER TO UNDERSTAND IN REAL TIME. SO THE MAIN REQUEST IS FOR THE CITY TO CONSIDER THE PROPOSED ILA AS PART OF ITS BUDGET AND PLANNING PROCESS FOR NEXT YEAR. FOR THE CURRENT THREE ACTIVE SITES, THE ESTIMATED FULL SERVICE ANNUAL SUPPORT WOULD BE 7500 PER YEAR. THE CITY'S RESPONSIBILITIES UNDER THIS ILA ARE GENERALLY RELATED TO SITE ACCESS AND COORDINATION, SO LAMAR WOULD HANDLE THE TECHNICAL MAINTENANCE, OPERATIONAL SUPPORT, DATA SYSTEMS, COMMUNICATIONS AND RELATED SERVICE NEEDS COVERED UNDER THE AGREEMENT. OUR GOAL IS TO KEEP PORT ARTHUR CONNECTED TO A RELIABLE AND LOW COST AND REGIONAL FLOOD MONITORING PARTNERSHIP, AND TO WORK WITH CITY STAFF ON FUTURE EXPANSION, WHERE IT WOULD PROVIDE OPERATIONAL VALUE. THANK YOU, AND I WOULD BE GLAD TO ANSWER ANY POTENTIAL QUESTIONS. OKAY. COUNCIL MEMBERS HAVE ANY QUESTIONS? WE HAVE ABOUT TEN MINUTES BEFORE. I'M SORRY, COUNCIL MEMBER FRANK. YES.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR PRESENTATION. YOU MENTIONED DURING YOUR PRESENTATION THAT THERE WOULD BE COORDINATION BETWEEN YOU ALL, LAMAR UNIVERSITY AND THE CITY IN HELPING TO RELAY THIS INFORMATION AND TO MAKE DECISIONS. I'D BE INTERESTED TO HEAR OF HOW THAT COORDINATION WOULD WORK. AND HOW HAS IT BEEN USED IN OTHER CITIES TO IN REGARDS TO KEEPING CITIES SAFE

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AND MONITORING THE RAINFALL? SO THE DATA THAT WE PROVIDE IS PUBLICLY AVAILABLE, AVAILABLE THROUGH GOVERNMENTAL WEBSITES, AND THEY ARE USED TO, TO ANALYZE AND PREDICT STORM EVENTS. IT'S NOT THAT WE SPECIFICALLY SHARE THEM. IT'S LIKE WE MAKE THEM PUBLICLY AVAILABLE FOR THE PRIVATE AND PUBLIC SECTOR. AND THEY USE THIS DATA TO PREDICT AND TO RESPOND TO A STORM EVENT. OKAY. YEAH. AS A HOSTING ALREADY MENTIONED, THIS DATA IS BEING TRANSFERRED AND PUBLIC HAVE ACCESS TO THIS DATA. IN ADDITION TO THIS DATA, WE ARE IN CONTACT. WE ARE IN TOUCH WITH WITH CITIES AND COUNTIES AND OTHER PARTNERS THROUGHOUT SOUTHEAST TEXAS. THIS IS A 600 ZERO SQUARE MILES OF, YOU KNOW, NETWORK. AND FROM OUR PREVIOUS EXPERIENCES, THEY WERE IN TOUCH WITH US TO FIND NEW LOCATIONS OF, YOU KNOW, VALUABLE. I MEAN, THE LOCATIONS THAT POTENTIALLY NEED NEW SENSORS. THIS IS ONE COORDINATION. ANOTHER ONE IS, YOU KNOW, MODELING, YOU KNOW, DEVELOPING MODELS TO PREDICT THE FLOOD, YOU KNOW, THE RESPONSE OF THE CANAL OR THE DITCH. AND, YOU KNOW, COMPARED TO, YOU KNOW, IN, IN RAINFALL EVENTS, YOU KNOW, GENERALLY, YOU KNOW, ACTUALLY, I, IF I MAKE IT SIMPLE FOR YOU TO UNDERSTAND, IF WE HAVE, OH, I'M SORRY. SURE. THANK YOU. MAYOR AND COUNCIL. JESSE DEAN WITH THE PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT. SO AS YOU MENTIONED, IT IS A SYSTEM THAT WE CAN MONITOR RIGHT AT OUR SEATS ON OUR COMPUTER IN REAL TIME DURING STORM EVENTS, EVEN WHEN THERE'S NOT A STORM EVENT, WE CAN LOOK AT HISTORICAL DATA AND HOW THESE AREAS DO REACT DURING AN EVENT. AND WHEN A ONE INCH RAINFALL OCCURS. HOW DID THIS AREA REACT? NOW, AS YOU MENTIONED, WE HAVE THREE SITES, WHICH IS PRETTY LIMITED. WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE THE EXPANSE OF WHAT WE HAVE THROUGHOUT THE CITY. SO WE DO SEE A LOT OF BENEFIT AND VALUE OF POTENTIALLY EXPANDING THIS NETWORK TO AREAS THAT HAVE HIGH SENSITIVITY OR HIGH RISK. SOME OF OUR UNDERPASSES UNDERNEATH THE RAIL CROSSINGS AND MEMORIAL AND GULF WAY, WHERE IF THERE'S A PUMP STATION FAILURE AND IT BEGINS TO FLOOD, THERE'S A POTENTIAL FOR SAFETY RISK FOR TRAVELERS. SO BEING ABLE TO DISPATCH FIRST RESPONDERS STREETS TO BE ABLE TO CLOSE THOSE AREAS DOWN MUCH MORE IMMEDIATELY, RATHER THAN WHEN SOMEBODY DISCOVERS IT AND REPORTS IT TO US, WE CAN TRY AND PROTECT HEALTH AND SAFETY A LITTLE BIT FASTER, RESPOND TO THINGS THAT OCCUR MORE IN REAL TIME FROM A MORE CENTRALIZED LOCATION. WE STILL HAVE OUR STAFF OUT TRYING TO ADDRESS THINGS AS THEY GO ALONG, BUT THIS PROVIDES US A MUCH MORE CENTRALIZED AREA TO MONITOR THE CITY AS A, AS A, AS A WHOLE, RATHER THAN INDIVIDUAL THREE SITES, AND THEN STILL DRIVING OUT TO DIFFERENT SPOTS LIKE THAT. SO WE DO SEE THAT VALUE OF BEING ABLE TO MONITOR A LOT MORE SITES COMPREHENSIVELY. AND AS YOU MENTIONED, THERE'S DD SEVEN IS INCLUDED IN HERE. THERE'S OTHER SPOTS. SO WE'RE ABLE TO MONITOR AN ENTIRE SYSTEM RATHER THAN EVEN JUST OUR CITY AS WELL. SO IT IS SOMETHING THAT WE CAN ACCESS ON, ON REAL TIME WHERE OUR THREE SITES. YEAH. ONE IS AT THE MEMORIAL UNDERPASS UNDERNEATH THE RAIL CROSSING 19TH AND KANSAS AT THAT INTERSECTION, RIGHT WHERE THE DITCH WORK THAT WE'VE BEEN DOING. AND THEN ON THE DD SEVEN LEVEE ROAD RIGHT OFF OF THE PROCTOR EXTENSION.

OKAY, SO WE JUST HAVE THOSE THREE SITES RIGHT NOW, BUT THERE'S DEFINITELY A LOT OF SPOTS THAT WE HAVE HIGHER SENSITIVITY FOR STREET FLOODING OR LIKE WE MENTIONED, THE UNDERPASSES TO WHERE IF THERE'S AN ISSUE, THERE'S A POTENTIAL HEALTH AND SAFETY RISK. ONE OF THE POINT OF RECORDING. YEAH, LET ME LET YOU SPEAK IN THE MIC, SIR. SO ONE OF THE POINTS OF COORDINATION WOULD BE, YOU KNOW, FINDING THOSE LOCATIONS THAT JESSE ALREADY MENTIONED. WE HAVE SOME TOOLS. WE DEVELOPED SOME TOOLS IN, IN LAMAR THAT CAN HAVE, YOU KNOW, ACCESS TO POINTS OF INTEREST, YOU KNOW, FOR EXAMPLE, SUSCEPTIBILITY MAP OR, I DON'T KNOW, THE INUNDATION MAPS. WE ALREADY DEVELOPED THESE TOOLS. SO WITH THAT, WITH OVERLAYING THOSE TOOLS, WE CAN FIND THE POTENTIAL LOCATION FOR NEW SENSORS. THIS IS ONE COORDINATION. THE OTHER ONE, AS HE ALREADY MENTIONED, IS GOING TO BE THE THRESHOLD BASED, YOU KNOW, ALERTS. WE HAVE SOME ESTABLISHED THRESHOLDS, FLOOD LEVEL THRESHOLDS. ONCE THE CURRENT PASSES THESE THRESHOLDS, WE CAN SEND AN ALERT TO ALL THE PARTNERS, INCLUDING THE FOR EXAMPLE, CITY COUNCIL, CITY STAFF AND OTHER, YOU KNOW, CONTRIBUTORS. SO, ALL RIGHT, I HAVE A COUNCILMEMBER JACOBS, AND THEN WE GOT ABOUT FOUR MINUTES. THANK YOU. MAYOR.

QUESTION FOR YOU. YOU MENTIONED POTENTIAL EXPANSION OF SITES. AND GIVEN THAT THE INFORMATION WE'VE BEEN PROVIDED TODAY HAS A COST ASSIGNED PER SITE, WHAT KIND OF IS THE THE FORWARD KIND

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OF PROJECTION FOR IF THERE IS ANY EXPANSION, HOW MANY WHAT ARE THE LOCATIONS BEING CONSIDERED? AND THEN ALSO, IF WE WERE TO ENTER INTO AN INTERLOCAL AGREEMENT, OBVIOUSLY IT WOULD HAVE TO BE UPDATED FOR ANY ADDITIONS THAT ARE MADE. SO JUST KIND OF WANT SOME INFORMATION ON THAT. YES, MA'AM. I ASKED THAT VERY SIMILAR QUESTION. OBVIOUSLY THREE SITES AT 2500. IF WE EXPAND, IS THERE A POTENTIAL FOR SOME OF THOSE COSTS TO BE SPREAD OVER? AND LAMAR HAS INDICATED AS MUCH THAT AS WE EXPAND THE SYSTEM, THERE MAY BE AN ABILITY TO NEGOTIATE DIFFERENT COSTS. SO I THINK WHAT WE WOULD DO IS WE WOULD LOOK AT THE SYSTEM, WHERE DOES IT MAKE SENSE TO HAVE THESE SENSORS FIND OUT WHAT THE THE APPROPRIATE AMOUNT OF SENSORS, AND THEN KIND OF HAVE A DISCUSSION AND NEGOTIATION WITH LAMAR ON WHAT THAT APPROPRIATE PRICE POINT WOULD BE BEFORE WE BRING IT TO COUNCIL. OKAY. HAS THERE BEEN ANY PRELIMINARY KIND OF SURVEYING TO DETERMINE LIKE, OKAY, YOU HAVE THREE IN PORT ARTHUR, YOU HAVE THIS MUCH SQUARE MILEAGE AS A CITY. IDEALLY, WE'D WANT TO ADD THIS RANGE, RIGHT? 3 TO 6 OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT. HAS THERE BEEN ANY I HAVEN'T LOOKED AT THE QUANTITY MYSELF. IT WAS GOING TO COUPLE IT A LOT WITH THE RECENT DRAINAGE STUDY THAT WE HAD DONE. TAKE A LOOK AT THAT AND IDENTIFY WHERE OUR HIGH RISK AND HIGH SENSITIVITY AREAS USING NOT ONLY THAT SENSITIVE THAT REPORT, BUT ALSO AREAS LIKE OUR UNDERPASSES WHERE WE KNOW THERE'S THE POTENTIAL FOR AN ISSUE. OKAY. THANK YOU, THANK YOU. I HAVE NO OTHER LIGHTS. THANK YOU GUYS FOR THE PRESENTATION. I APPRECIATE WE APPRECIATE IT.

AND I'M SURE THAT EVERYBODY'S HEARD AND WHAT NEEDS TO BE DONE. THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME AND SUPPORT. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU. COUNCILMAN. WE HAVE ABOUT THREE MINUTES BEFORE WE START OUR PUBLIC HEARING. I DON'T THINK CITY MANAGER, YOUR THE STAFF. I DON'T THINK THEY CAN DO THAT IN.

I DON'T KNOW IF Y'ALL YOU GUYS ARE ABLE TO DO THAT IN THREE MINUTES. ARE YOU. IF NOT DEVELOPMENT SERVICES DEPARTMENT REGARDING CLEAR AND CLEAR THE SHELTERS EVENT. CAN YOU DO CAN YOU DO IT IN THREE MINUTES? NO. OKAY. SO I DON'T WANT TO START ANOTHER. WE'RE GOING TO ALTER THE AGENDA AND MAKE SURE THAT THE C GOES FIRST ONCE WE COMPLETE THE PUBLIC HEARING.

AND THEN WE WILL HAVE THE CITY MANAGER STAFF SO THE STAFF CAN GET BACK TO WORK, AND THEN WE'LL DO THE PRESENTATION BY FREEZING. NICHOLS. OKAY. PUBLIC HEARING CAN'T START TILL TWO MINUTES. AND THEN THANK YOU, ASSISTANT CITY MANAGER. HANDSOME.

YEAH.

EASTERN. BUDGET. BUDGET. AT HOME. I HAVE A COUPLE OF SECONDS. YOUR BUDGET.

NO, YOU GOT IT RIGHT. YEAH, I DID. OH, OKAY. OH, YOU TALKING ABOUT NOW? I DON'T KNOW. NO I KNOW YOU GOT IT FRIDAY, RIGHT? YES. OH, OKAY. COOL. ALL RIGHT. NO NO NO NO NO NO NO. ALL RIGHT.

[IV. PUBLIC HEARINGS – 10:00 AM (1) A Public Hearing To Consider A Request For The Permanent Renaming Of Austin Avenue To Rev. Dr. Luther B. Wade Avenue; And Providing For Related Matters.]

PAM. ASSISTANT CITY MANAGER LANGFORD 10:00. WE'RE GOING TO MOVE ON NOW TO THE PUBLIC HEARING. IT SAYS WE'RE GOING TO LET ME READ THAT A CAPTION. WE'RE GOING TO MOVE IT TO 10:00 WHERE IT SAYS PUBLIC HEARING. A PUBLIC HEARING TO CONSIDER REQUEST FOR THE PERMANENT RENAMING OF AUSTIN AVENUE TO REVEREND DOCTOR LUTHER B WADE AVENUE AND PROVIDING FOR RELATED MATTERS AT THIS TIME. ASSISTANT CITY MANAGER. YES, MA'AM. GOOD MORNING MAYOR. GOOD MORNING, COUNCIL MEMBERS OF THE DAIS. WE ARE HERE TO HOLD A PUBLIC HEARING TODAY REGARDING A STREET RENAMING PROPOSAL OF AUSTIN AVENUE TO LUTHER B WADE, REVEREND DOCTOR LUTHER B, WADE

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AVENUE. THE PURPOSE OF TODAY'S PUBLIC HEARING IS TO CONSIDER. CONSIDER WHETHER TO APPROVE THE PERMANENT STREET NAMING IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE CITY STREET RENAMING POLICY ADOPTED BY RESOLUTION NUMBER 87-220. ON DECEMBER 10TH OF 2025. MISS TAWANNA CLARK, THE DAUGHTER OF THE LATE REVEREND DOCTOR LUTHER B WADE, CONTACTED THE CITY REGARDING A POSSIBLE STREET RENAMING. A WRITTEN REQUEST WAS FILED ON DECEMBER 11TH, 2025, AND AFTER DISCUSSIONS WITH THE CITY MANAGER'S OFFICE, IT WAS REFERRED TO THE OFFICE OF PLANNING AND ZONING ON JANUARY 13TH OF 2026. INITIALLY, THE FAMILY SUBMITTED A REQUEST FOR A CEREMONIAL STREET DESIGNATION THROUGH EASTERN STAR BAPTIST CHURCH. STAFF LATER MET WITH MISS CLARK AND EXPLAINED THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN CEREMONIAL AND PERMANENT STREET RENAMING, INCLUDING LEGAL REQUIREMENTS AND IMPACTS ASSOCIATED WITH THE OPTIONS. DURING THOSE DISCUSSIONS, STAFF REVIEWED IMPORTANT CONSIDERATIONS ASSOCIATED WITH THE PERMANENT STREET RENAMING, INCLUDING IMPACTS TO ADJACENT PROPERTY OWNERS GIS AND MAPPING UPDATES, EMERGENCY RESPONSE ROUTING, COMMUNITY SUPPORT, HISTORICAL CONTINUITY AND OVERALL IMPLEMENTATION COST. AFTER CONSIDERING THESE FACTORS, THE WADE FAMILY ELECTED TO PURSUE A PERMANENT STREET RENAMING. THE PROPOSED RENAMING INCLUDES THE PORTIONS OF AUSTIN AVENUE EXTENDING FROM 19TH STREET TO FOURTH STREET. THIS IS APPROXIMATELY THE 300 BLOCK THROUGH THE 2000 BLOCK. THIS SECTION IS APPROXIMATELY 5400FT IN LENGTH, WITH AN AVERAGE RIGHT OF WAY WIDTH OF 70FT. THE CORRIDOR CONTAINS APPROXIMATELY 26 STREET NAME SIGNS THAT REQUIRE REPLACEMENT. THERE ARE 14 STRUCTURES ON AUSTIN AVENUE, CONSISTING OF TEN COMMERCIAL AND FOUR RESIDENTIAL PROPERTIES.

THE COMMERCIAL PROPERTIES DO INCLUDE TWO FACILITIES OWNED BY THE CITY OF PORT ARTHUR FOR FACILITIES OWNED BY MOTIVA ENTERPRISE. OTHER COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENTS AND THERE ARE APPROXIMATELY FOUR RESIDENTIAL. THE SURROUNDING AREA ALSO INCLUDES APPROXIMATELY 76 PLATTED LOTS IMMEDIATELY ADJACENT TO AUSTIN AVENUE. THERE. UNDEVELOPED PROPERTIES.

BUT THERE ARE PLATTED LOTS. THE PROPOSED STREET NAME HONORS THE LATE REVEREND DOCTOR LUTHER B WADE, WHO FAITHFULLY SERVED AS THE PASTOR OF EASTERN STAR BAPTIST CHURCH FOR APPROXIMATELY 29 YEARS. ACCORDING TO CHURCH RECORDS. THE FAMILY SUBMITTED SUPPORTING DOCUMENTATION DESCRIBING REVEREND WADE'S LEGACY OF LEADERSHIP, FAITH, COMMUNITY SERVICE AND COMMITMENT TO THE CITIZENS OF PORT ARTHUR. STAFF VERIFIED THAT THE PROPOSED STREET NAME DOES NOT DUPLICATE ANY EXISTING STREET OR PUBLIC FACILITY WITHIN THE CITY LIMITS.

STAFF REVIEWED THIS REQUEST USING THE CRITERIA ESTABLISHED IN THE STREETS RENAMING POLICY.

SPECIFICALLY, STAFF CONFIRMED THE REQUEST WAS SUBMITTED IN WRITING. AUSTIN AVENUE IS CLASSIFIED AS A MINOR STREET AND NOT CONSIDERED A MAJOR THOROUGHFARE. THE EXISTING STREET NAME DOES NOT POSSESS HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE BEYOND BEING NAMED AFTER A MAJOR CITY IN THE STATE OF TEXAS. REVEREND DOCTOR WADE IS DECEASED AND THEREFORE SATISFIED THE CITY'S NAMING CRITERIA, AND THE PROPOSED STREET SEGMENT REPRESENTS A LOGICAL PORTION OF THE ROADWAY. THE POLICY ALSO REQUIRES AN IMPACT REPORT AND PUBLIC HEARING PRIOR TO THE CITY COUNCIL TAKING ACTION, I HAVE PROVIDED THE DAIS WITH A COPY OF THAT IMPACT REPORT. AND OF COURSE, WE ARE CURRENTLY CONDUCTING THE PUBLIC HEARING. IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE CITY'S NOTIFICATION PROCEDURES, STAFF COMPLETED AN EXTENSIVE PUBLIC OUTREACH EFFORT. THE LEGAL NOTICE WAS PUBLISHED IN THE PORT ARTHUR NEWS ON JULY 22ND OF 2026. THE PUBLIC HEARING WAS ALSO ADVERTISED ON THE CITY'S OFFICIAL WEBSITE AND SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS. IN ADDITION,

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THERE WERE 116 CERTIFIED LETTERS THAT WERE MAILED TO PROPERTY OWNERS LOCATED WITHIN A 2200FT OF THE PROPOSED STREET RENAMING, INCLUDING ALL PROPERTY OWNERS IMMEDIATELY ADJACENT TO AUSTIN AVENUE. TO DATE, STAFF HAVE REVIEWED RECEIVED ONE WRITTEN LETTER OF OPPOSITION TO THE PROPOSED CHANGE. AND I DO HAVE THAT LETTER, AND THAT LETTER HAS BEEN MADE PART OF YOUR PACKET WITH THE IMPACT ANALYSIS. NO ADDITIONAL WRITTEN COMMENTS WERE RECEIVED PRIOR TO TODAY'S PUBLIC HEARING, WITH THE EXCEPTION OF LETTERS OF SUPPORT FROM EASTERN STAR BAPTIST CHURCH, THE WADE FAMILY AND MR. WARNER CLARK, THE DAUGHTER OF REVEREND WADE. STAFF PREPARED THE REQUIRED IMPACT ANALYSIS EVALUATING THE OPERATIONAL EFFECTS OF A PERMANENT STREET RENAMING. AGAIN, APPROXIMATELY 26 STREET SIGNS WOULD REQUIRE REPLACEMENT. THE ESTIMATED MATERIAL AND PRINTING COST IS $1,495.52. INSTALLATION WOULD REQUIRE TWO CITY SIGN AND PAINTING TECHNICIANS, WITH AN ESTIMATED LABOR TIME OF TEN HOURS, AT A COST OF APPROXIMATELY 550 $550.80 FOR STAFF TIME. ADDITIONAL COORDINATION WOULD OCCUR WITH JEFFERSON COUNTY 911GIS AND MAPPING DATABASES, EMERGENCY RESPONDERS, THE UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE, UTILITY PROVIDERS AND OTHER GOVERNMENTAL AGENCIES. THESE ADMINISTRATIVE UPDATES ARE STANDARD FOLLOWING AN APPROVED STREET RENAMING IF YOU MOVE FORWARD. A PERMANENT STREET RENAMING ALSO CREATES RESPONSIBILITIES FOR ADJACENT PROPERTY OWNERS AND OCCUPANTS. PROPERTY OWNERS WOULD BE RESPONSIBLE FOR UPDATING INFORMATION WITH NUMEROUS AGENCIES AND ORGANIZATIONS, INCLUDING THEIR DRIVER'S LICENSES AND STATE IDENTIFICATION CARDS, BANK AND FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS, INSURANCE PROVIDERS, MORTGAGE LENDERS, DEEDS AND LEGAL DOCUMENTS, UTILITY COMPANIES, EMPLOYERS, SCHOOLS, PROFESSIONAL LICENSES, SUBSCRIPTION SERVICES, AND FILING AN OFFICIAL ADDRESS CHANGE WITH THE POST OFFICE.

ALTHOUGH THESE UPDATES INVOLVE SOME INCONVENIENCES, THEY ARE CUSTOMARY WHEN DOING A PERMANENT STREET RENAMING. IN CLOSING, STAFF BELIEVES THE CITY HAS COMPLETED THE PROCEDURAL REQUIREMENTS NECESSARY FOR CONSIDERATION OF THIS REQUEST. TODAY'S PUBLIC HEARING SATISFIES THE FINAL PROCEDURAL REQUIREMENT BEFORE COUNCIL ACTION. THIS DOES CONCLUDE MY PRESENTATION, AND I WOULD BE HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS THAT YOU MAY HAVE.

HAVE ANY COUNCIL MEMBERS THAT HAVE QUESTIONS, ANY QUESTIONS FROM COUNCIL MEMBERS? MAYOR PRO TEM KINLAW. THANK YOU, MAYOR PAM. I'M LOOKING AT THE REQUIRED NOTIFICATIONS. WHO'S RESPONSIBLE ON THE CITY SIDE TO NOTIFY ALL THESE AGENCIES WITH THE NAME IF WE APPROVED THE NAME CHANGE, MISTER DEREK HOLLAND WOULD BE THE RESPONSIBLE PARTY. OUR G. I S COORDINATOR OF CONTACTING THE UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE AND 911 OF THE PERMANENT STREET NAME CHANGE. WE WOULD. I WOULD SEND A COMMUNICATION TO THE UTILITY PROVIDERS INFORMING THEM OF THE CHANGE. SO IT IS A COLLECTIVE EFFORT AMONGST STAFF. AND DO WE HAVE TO DO IT BY A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF TIME? WE WOULD DO IT IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING THE CHANGE TO ENSURE THAT THERE IS COORDINATION, APPROPRIATE TIME FRAME AND COORDINATION WITH THAT. THAT CHANGE AND A TOTAL COST IS ABOUT TWO $2,000, RIGHT? THAT IS CORRECT. THANK YOU MAYOR.

ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU, COUNCIL MEMBERS. ANY OTHER LIGHTS THIS TIME I'M GOING TO ASK IF WE HAVE ANY COMMENTS FROM THE AUDIENCE. YES. IF YOU STATE YOUR NAME AND YOUR ADDRESS, PLEASE. GOOD MORNING. I'M LUCILLE AUMENTAR. I LIVE AT 4509 FOREST DRIVE. IN 1895, ARTHUR STILWELL FOUNDED OUR CITY OF PORT ARTHUR, NAMED IT FOR HIMSELF. HE BROUGHT THE KCS RAILROAD FROM KANSAS CITY TO OUR PORT, AND HE WAS THE ARCHITECT FOR THE LAYOUT OF OUR STREETS AND NAMED EACH ONE PROCTOR STREET, NAMED FOR PROCTOR AND GAMBLE. AUSTIN AVENUE, NAMED FOR STEPHEN F AUSTIN, THE FATHER OF TEXAS, AUSTIN AVENUE, WHO HAS BEEN.

AUSTIN AVENUE FOR 126 PLUS YEARS. IT'S BEEN SUGGESTED THAT THE NAME BE CHANGED TO DOCTOR

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REVEREND DOCTOR LUTHER B WADE OF THE EASTERN STAR BAPTIST CHURCH, WHICH IS ACTUALLY LOCATED AT 548 15TH STREET. THAT'S OUR OFFICIAL NAME. CHANGING THE NAME OF THIS HISTORICAL STREET WILL BE VERY COSTLY AND TIME CONSUMING FOR MANY ENTITIES. ALL THE SIGNS WILL HAVE TO BE CHANGED. AS YOU'VE POINTED OUT, THE CITY AND THE COUNTY MAPS MUST BE CHANGED. ALL STREET AND U.S. MAPS MUST BE CHANGED. GOOGLE AND WAZE MUST CHANGE ALL THEIR MAPS AND DIRECTIONS AS WELL. ZILLOW MUST ALTER THEIR WEBSITE TO ACCOMMODATE THIS CHANGE.

REPRINTING MAPS IS EXPENSIVE AND TIME CONSUMING. CHANGING STREET NAMES CAN BE CONFUSING TO PEOPLE COMING TO THIS CITY WHERE THEY HAVE PREVIOUSLY LIVED. ON THEIR WEBSITE, MOTIVA STATES THAT THEIR NEW HOME IS MOTIVA ADAMS BUILDING AT 448 AUSTIN AVENUE, PORT ARTHUR, TEXAS, AND THEY'RE GOING TO MOVE IN WITHIN THE NEXT COUPLE OF MONTHS. IT IS MY UNDERSTANDING THAT MOTIVA THAT THEY WILL MOVE IN BEFORE THE END OF THE YEAR. I FEEL QUITE CERTAIN THAT THEY ALREADY HAVE THIS ADDRESS ON THEIR LETTERHEAD, THEIR ENVELOPES, AS WELL AS DIRECTIONS TO REACH THEIR NEW HOME. PLEASE CONSIDER ANOTHER WAY OF HONORING DOCTOR REVEREND WADE. NAME A BRAND NEW STREET AFTER HIM, AS WE DID WITH JIMMY JOHNSON BOULEVARD.

PLACE A TEXAS HISTORICAL MARKER AT THE SITE OF THE CHURCH, REMEMBERING REVEREND WADE AS A.

AS THIS HISTORICAL MARKER IS IN FRONT OF JANIS JOPLIN'S HOUSE ON 32ND STREET, OUR MOST FAMOUS RESIDENT. AND MY FAVORITE IS PUT A SMALL SIGN ABOVE THE STREET MARKER SAYING REVEREND DOCTOR LUTHER B WADE WAY, AS YOU HAVE DONE ON HONEYWOOD TRAIL FOR HAGI FAYE SAVOY ON THE CORNER OF NINTH AVENUE AND TURTLE CREEK DRIVE. THIS IS MUCH LESS COSTLY AND STILL HONORS THE PERSON. THANK YOU, THANK YOU. WE HAVE ANYONE ELSE THAT WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK TO THIS PUBLIC HEARING. GOOD MORNING, GOOD MORNING, GOOD MORNING. I AM PASTOR LLOYD SCOTT, RETIRED PASTOR OF THE EASTERN STAR CHURCH, SERVED THERE FOR 33 YEARS. REVEREND WADE WAS CALLED TO EASTERN STAR IN 1959, BUILT A CHURCH ON 17TH STREET. BUT BECAUSE OF EXPANDING GROWTH NEXT TO THE RAILROAD TRACK, THEY WERE THE SECOND CHURCH TO MOVE ACROSS THE TRACKS FROM THE WEST SIDE, THE SECOND BLACK CHURCH TO MOVE FROM THE WEST SIDE TO THE EAST SIDE. REVEREND WADE SERVED EASTERN STAR FOR 29 YEARS, RETIRED IN 1988 AND PASSED IN 1989. I AM HERE IN SUPPORT OF THE CHANGING OF THE STREETS, IN HONOR OF A MAN WHO HAS LED THIS COMMUNITY WELL FOR SO MANY YEARS. THANK YOU SO MUCH. THANK YOU SIR. YOU MAY APPROACH AND GIVE ME YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS, PLEASE. THANK YOU. SORRY ABOUT THAT. THANK YOU. GOOD MORNING.

GOOD MORNING MAN. I SEE A LOT OF CHANGE HERE. I REMEMBER COMING BEFORE THE CITY COUNCIL.

IT WASN'T LIKE THIS. I'M EXCITED. I APPRECIATE WHAT'S GOING ON. AND I WANT TO ASK YOU A QUESTION. CAN I ALSO BE A RESIDENT OF BEAUMONT AND PORT ARTHUR? I CAN'T, YOU COULD BE A RESIDENT OF PORT ARTHUR OR BEAUMONT. WELL, THERE ARE SOME THINGS. I'M GOING TO NEED SOME HELP FROM YOU, MA'AM. AND I LIKE THE WAY YOU DO THINGS. I'M GOING TO BE QUESTIONING YOU, BUT NOT ABOUT THIS. THIS, THIS GOING TO BE. IT SHOULD BE A LAY DOWN BECAUSE MY DADDY DID A LOT OF GOOD WORK HERE. BUT THERE ARE SOME THINGS. I NEED SOME HELP. I'M DOING YOUR NAME FOR ME. I SEE, REVEREND, I SEE, I SEE WHY BECAUSE IT GET IT MESSED UP. I SEE M WADE WADE.

OKAY. AND I'M I'M A MEMBER. I WAS A MEMBER OF EASTERN STAR, AND I HOPE THEY HAVEN'T TAKEN ME OFF THE ROAD BECAUSE I STILL WANT TO BE A MEMBER. BUT LIKE I SAID, THIS CITY COUNCIL CHANGE IS GOOD. YEAH, I, I HAD A BARBER NAMED CARL JONES. I SEE YOU RAISING YOUR HAND. CHANGE IS ALWAYS GOOD. AND, AND GOOD CHANGE. YOU CAME DOLLARS AND CENTS. DON'T DON'T MAKE NO GOOD CHANGE WHEN WHEN YOU MAKE A CHANGE THAT'S GOING TO BE HELPFUL FOR THE COMMUNITY AND

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ON LIFT THINGS UP. ME $1 MILLION WOULDN'T BE TOO MUCH TO SPEND TO HAVE THINGS DONE SO.

AND I KNOW THE CITY OF PORT ARTHUR, I KNOW YOU'RE DOING WELL, BUT LIKE I SAY, MAMA MOSES, I, I, THERE ARE SOME THINGS THAT I'M DOING IN BEAUMONT AND I'M GOING TO CALL AND ASK FOR YOU ALL HELP. DON'T Y'ALL FORGET ME. I MIGHT SEE ANYWAY, I DO A LITTLE REAL ESTATE AND I DO INSURANCE AND I DO DIFFERENT THINGS. BUT MOST OF ALL, I'M A MAN OF GOD. I LOVE GOD, AND HE IS MY. ALL IN ALL, MY DAD LOVED GOD. AND WHATEVER IS DONE, THAT'S FINE.

BUT HE WOULDN'T BE CONCERNED ABOUT HIS HIS NAME BEING ON A STREET SIGN. REALLY, WHAT HE WOULD BE CONCERNED ABOUT IS WHY EASTERN STAR SPLIT. THAT'S WHAT HE WOULD BE CONCERNED ABOUT.

I'M CONCERNED ABOUT IT. AND THAT'S WHAT WE WE WE WE WANT TO GET PEOPLE SAVED. WE WANT TO GET PEOPLE DELIVERED. WE WANT TO GET PEOPLE IN HEAVEN AND WE MAKE A LITTLE MONEY AND DO LITTLE THINGS HERE. BUT THAT'S MY ULTIMATE GOAL. AND THIS SIGN, IT MAY IT MAY HELP. AND IF YOU DON'T APPROVE IT, THAT'S FINE TOO. HE GOING TO STILL BE BEING LUTHER WADE AND HE GOING TO STILL THE THINGS THAT HE ACCOMPLISHED. AND YOU CAN'T BLOW THEM OUT. YOU CAN'T TAKE THEM AWAY. SO WE'RE JUST ASKING Y'ALL JUST OFFERING TO SIT DOWN, I SAID. I KNOW AND WE I'M A MINISTER. SO I LOVE TO TALK. WE UNDERSTAND WHAT'S GOING ON. BUT MAYOR AND BOY, I'M THIS CITY COUNCIL. I'M SHOCKED BACK IN THE DAY. I'VE BEEN BEFORE AND HAD THINGS TO DO BECAUSE I GOT A PROBLEM. I HAVE A 600 ZERO ZERO $0 QUESTION. I'M LIKE, Y'ALL, I NEED YOUR HELP. OKAY, I SEE WAY I SEE Y'ALL NEED MY ADDRESS. YOU SEE? NO, SIR. I WAS IN THE BEGINNING. THAT'S OKAY. NOW SHE ALWAYS RUN MY LIFE. YES, SIR. SO. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU.

I'M REALLY IMPRESSED NOW, BUT I'M GOING TO BE IN CONTACT WITH YOU AND THE CITY COUNCIL. YES, SIR. BECAUSE I NEED YOUR HELP. YES, SIR. ALL RIGHT, ALL RIGHT. HOW Y'ALL DOING? YES, MA'AM. IF YOU'LL JUST STATE YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS, PLEASE. MY NAME IS TAJUANA CLARK, 4501 SMITH ROAD.

I'M THE DAUGHTER OF REVEREND WADE. YES. I REQUESTED THIS. THIS NAME CHANGING BECAUSE IT MEANS A LOT TO ME AND MY FAMILY, MY KIDS, MY NEPHEWS. YOU KNOW, WE WERE REAL. I WAS YOUNG WHEN MY DAD DIED, SO I DIDN'T GET TO, YOU KNOW, GET WITH MY BROTHER, GOT, YOU KNOW, GET TO KNOW HIM.

BUT ALL OVER THE COMMUNITY AND EVERYBODY THAT TALKED TO ME TOLD ME, YOU KNOW, WHAT ALL HE DID FOR THE PEOPLE AND FOR THE CHURCH, IT WOULD MEAN SO MUCH TO ME FOR THE STREET TO BE RENAMED FOR MY CHILDREN TO SEE, FOR MY CHILDREN TO KNOW THE LEGACY THAT MY FATHER HAD. AND I WOULD REALLY APPRECIATE IT. AND YES, I THINK IF HE WAS LIVING, HE WOULD LOVE TO HAVE IT RENAMED AFTER HIM THAT, YOU KNOW, SHOW THE LOVE THAT HE DISPLAYED UPON UPON THE COMMUNITY AND UPON HIS CHURCH. AND HE SAVED A LOT OF SOULS. AND I THANK GOD FOR HIM BECAUSE THROUGH HIM, MY CHILDREN, IS IN MINISTRY. AND I JUST THANK GOD. I APPRECIATE Y'ALL HEARING ME, I. YEAH, YEAH, OKAY. I, I REALLY DIDN'T WAIT, WAIT A MINUTE. I NEED TO KNOW WHO STEVIE CLARK, STEVIE CLARK AND, AND YOUR ADDRESS, 4501 SMITH ROAD. OKAY, LET'S GO AHEAD. I REALLY DIDN'T GET TO KNOW HIM. LIKE, SHE REALLY DIDN'T EVEN GET TO KNOW HIM. BUT I'M JUST GRATEFUL THAT MY MOM GETS TO SEE HIS LEGACY MOVE ON. AND MY UNCLE, AND THAT'S I JUST THANK THANKFUL. THANK YOU. ALL RIGHT. AUTUMN CLARK. OKAY. AND I LIVE IN BEAUMONT, TEXAS, 450 ON SMITH ROAD. AND I WOULD REALLY LOVE TO SEE MY GRANDFATHER LEGACY JUST CONTINUE. I HEAR A LOT OF STORIES FROM MY UNCLE, MY MOM, EVEN MY GREAT, GREAT FAMILY MEMBERS. BUT I JUST WOULD LIKE TO SEE HIS LEGACY MOVE ON. OKAY. THANK YOU SO MUCH. WE HAVE THE FLOOR OPEN TO THE TO MEMBERS OF THE IN COMMUNITY. I'M SORRY THAT WE DON'T HAVE ANY MORE. I HAVE LIGHTS ON FROM THE DAIS. I NEED TO ACKNOWLEDGE. SO. ALL RIGHT. COUNCIL MEMBER FRANK. YES, MISS CLARK, CAN YOU COME BACK FOR A MOMENT, PLEASE? THANK YOU. AS A LITTLE BOY, I KNEW YOUR DAD GREW UP IN THE PORT ARTHUR COMMUNITY. OF COURSE. AND HIS MINISTRY DID IMPACT THIS COMMUNITY IN SUCH A TREMENDOUS WAY. I'M INTERESTED IN KNOWING IN THE DECISION MAKING. HOW DID

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YOU WHAT WAS THE DECISION MAKING CONCERNING DECIDING TO GO FOR A PERMANENT CHANGE AS OPPOSED TO A CHANGE WHERE WE HAVE NORMALLY HONORED INDIVIDUALS BY PUTTING CEREMONY? YOU WAIT JUST A MINUTE. LET ME. I UNDERSTAND, BUT LET ME ACKNOWLEDGE HIS LIGHT. WE'RE GOING TO ACKNOWLEDGE ONE LIGHT AT A TIME. COUNCIL MEMBER JONES. YEAH. SO ARE YOU UNDERSTANDING? AND COUNCILMAN JONES IS RIGHT IN USING THAT WORD. HOW DID YOU MAKE THE DECISION TO TO SEEK A PERMANENT CHANGE, AS OPPOSED TO THE WAY IN WHICH WE HAVE DONE IN OTHER OPPORTUNITIES OF CEREMONIALLY PLACING THE NAME ABOVE THE NAME WITHOUT IMPACTING RESIDENTS AND ALL THE OTHER IMPACTS THAT THEY HAVE? YES, SIR. WELL, I SPOKE WITH MISS LANCASTER AND SHE EXPLAINED TO ME THE DIFFERENCE. AND I SPOKE WITH I GOT WITH MY FAMILY AND I TOLD THEM THE DIFFERENCE AND THE SIGNIFICANCE, YOU KNOW, OF THE, THE CEREMONIAL VERSUS THE, YOU KNOW, THE PERMANENT. AND WE DECIDED THAT CEREMONIAL. YEAH. THAT'S, YOU KNOW, THAT'S FINE. YOU KNOW, IT'S A FOR A TEMPORARY FIX. BUT WE FELT LIKE OUR DAD, HE WAS IN TEMPORARY, HE WAS PERMANENT.

ANYTHING HE DID, HE DID, YOU KNOW, AT HIS BEST. SO I MEAN, YOU KNOW, MY KIDS GO TO SCHOOL HERE, GRADUATED HERE FOR THEM TO PASS AT LAMAR, FOR THEM TO PASS BY AND SEE A STREET NAME TO OUR OF OUR MY DAD, THEIR GRANDFATHER. I THINK IT JUST HOLDS A SIGNIFICANT VALUE MORE THAN JUST A CEREMONIAL. YEAH. MY DAD MIGHT NOT BE FAMOUS AS A LADY SPOKE EARLIER, BUT YOU KNOW WHAT? IT'S NOT ABOUT FAMOUS. IT'S ABOUT WHAT YOU BRING TO THE COMMUNITY. IT'S ABOUT THE LOVE, THE LIVES YOU CHANGE. AND I. AND THE AMOUNT OF MONEY IS NO AMOUNT OF MONEY THAT CAN THAT CAN RECTIFY THAT. AND THE $2,000 COST OR WHATEVER IT MAY BE, WE'LL PAY IT. YOU KNOW, WE DON'T MIND PAYING IT, YOU KNOW, BECAUSE GOD IS GOD HAS BEEN GOOD TO US. AND WE JUST WANT SOMETHING TO, YOU KNOW, FOR, FOR EVERYTHING. I JUST WANTED TO HEAR. YES, SIR.

THANK YOU SO MUCH. THANK YOU. OKAY, NOW YOU CAN COME BACK TO THE MIC, BUT YOU CANNOT SPEAK FROM THE AUDIENCE, SIR. YOU CAN COME BACK TO THIS. FINE. THIS FINE. OKAY. YOU CANNOT YELL FROM THE AUDIENCE. IF YOU WANT TO GET UP AND SPEAK, YOU HAVE TO COME TO THE MIC. YEAH. DO YOU STILL NEED ME UP HERE? NO, MA'AM. IF HE NEEDS TO SPEAK, HE CAN SPEAK IN THE MIC. LOOK, WE WE DON'T WANT TO CREATE A PROBLEM. NO, NOBODY IS PUSHING THAT MY DADDY NAME SPEAK FOR HIMSELF. THERE WERE THINGS WE DON'T NEED TO CHANGE. NO NAME IF YOU DON'T WANT TO. WE'RE NOT GOING TO EVEN ARGUE WITH YOU. IF YOU DECIDE THAT YOU DON'T WANT IT, THAT'S THAT'S UP TO YOU. BUT I BELIEVE IN THE COMMUNITY. HE LEFT A LEGACY AND HE HELPED CREATE THINGS AND MADE THINGS HAPPEN. HE. HE WASN'T LOOKING FOR THE THE RICH. AND I SEE ALL YOU ALL. AND WE AS A BLACK PEOPLE WILL COME FROM A LONG WAY. THERE WAS NO CITY COUNCILMAN. THAT'S WHY I SAY THIS CITY COUNCIL LOOKS SO DIFFERENT TO ME. I'VE DONE A LOT OF BUSINESS IN BEAUMONT.

I'VE DONE A LOT OF BUSINESS IN PORT ARTHUR. AND THIS THIS IS THIS IS AWESOME TO ME AND I APPRECIATE THAT. AND SO DON'T PUT I DON'T WANT YOU TO GET UPSET AND DON'T THINK IF IT'S GOING TO COST YOU TOO MUCH MONEY TO CHANGE HIS NAME AND ALL THAT. IF IT'S GOING TO COST YOU TOO MUCH MONEY, WE WE DON'T WANT YOU, WE DON'T WANT THE CITY BUDGET TO, WE DON'T WANT TO EXPAND NO BUDGETS OR BREAK NO BUDGETS OR MAKE THINGS TERRIBLE. BUT I THINK I THINK A LOT OF PEOPLE HAVE GOT INTRODUCED TO CHRIST. HIS MINISTRY BROUGHT ABOUT A LOT OF CHANGE. THE EASTERN STAR CHURCH WENT FROM A SMALL CHURCH INTO THE. THEY. THEY BECAME. HE WAS TREASURER OF THE STATE EVANGELICAL BOARD. AND I'M NOT I'M NOT THROWING HIS NAME ON WHAT HE DID OUT THERE, BUT IT SPEAKS FOR ITSELF. SO I KNOW YOU READY FOR ME TO GET AWAY ONCE I START TALKING? I LOVE TO TALK. YES, SIR. WE GO. THANK YOU SO MUCH. WE APPRECIATE IT.

I HAVE SOME MORE LIGHTS HERE ON THE COUNTER UNDER THERE. YES, SIR. I LIKE WHAT'S GOING ON.

YES, SIR. AND I HAVE A QUESTION. I NEED YOUR HELP. OKAY. THANK YOU. COUNCILMEMBER FRANK, ARE YOU DONE? YES, MA'AM. OKAY. COUNCILMEMBER GATEWOOD AND THEN COUNCIL MEMBER JONES. THANK YOU.

MAYOR. I ACTUALLY WAS SUPPOSED TO TURN MY LIGHT OFF. COUNCILMEMBER FRANK ACTUALLY ASKED A QUESTION THAT I WAS GOING TO ASK AS WELL. OKAY. BUT JUST TO JUST TO RE REAFFIRM THIS FAMILY, IT'S NOT ABOUT AN ARGUMENT OR GOING BACK AND FORTH. AND IT'S NOT ABOUT, OF

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COURSE, PAYMENT. IT'S MORE SO JUST GETTING THE UNDERSTANDING AS TO WHAT WAS THE DIFFERENCE.

WHY DID YOU ALL CHOOSE TO GO WITH THAT VERSUS THE CEREMONIAL? AND ESPECIALLY AFTER HEARING WHERE YOU ALL STAND WITH IT, IT IS A BUDGETARY COST TO US TO DO THIS. AND IF THE CEREMONIAL WAS, WAS, WAS AN OPTION TO SEE IF THAT WOULD BE CONSIDERED AS WELL. BUT YOU ANSWERED THAT QUESTION. SO THANK YOU. THANK YOU SO MUCH. I REALLY APPRECIATE YOU ALL. Y'ALL HAVE A GOOD EVENING. ALL RIGHT. SO SIR, SIR, SIR, ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT. I THINK THEY'VE STATED THAT ALREADY IN THE IN THE PRESENTATION. OKAY. CITY MANAGER CAN YOU JUST ANSWER THAT QUESTION FOR ME. ABSOLUTELY. THE COST ASSOCIATED WITH THE STREET NAME SIGNS IS APPROXIMATELY 1500. FOR STAFF TIME. IT'S APPROXIMATELY 500. SO WE'RE LOOKING ON AVERAGE $2,000. AND THAT WOULD BE FOR CEREMONIAL AS WELL AS A PERMANENT. OKAY. AND THEN YOU GUYS WILL COME BACK WITH A RESOLUTION LATER ON THE NEXT MEETING FOR US TO VOTE ON. SO IT'S NOT WE'RE NOT VOTING ON IT TODAY. THAT IS CORRECT. OKAY. THANK YOU MA'AM. OKAY. MISS ARMATURE, THIS WOULD I WOULD LIKE I WOULD LIKE TO SAY THAT I REALIZE THAT IT PROBABLY DOES NOT COST A, YOU KNOW, THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS TO CHANGE THE STREET SIGNS, BUT JUST THINK ABOUT WHAT THAT CAUSES GOING FORWARD FOR EVERYBODY THAT DOES MAPS, GOOGLE MAPS, WAZE, MAPS, ALL OF THOSE THINGS. IT'S, IT'S, IT'S MORE THAN JUST WHAT OUR CITY. IT IMPACTS EVERYBODY, NOT JUST OUR CITY. AND I'M NOT AGAINST THAT. I LIKE THE, YOU KNOW, WHERE YOU'RE REMEMBERING SOMEBODY. I THINK THAT'S A GREAT THING TO DO. WE APPRECIATE YOU. YOU'VE STATED TO US AND WE TAKE IT. WE GOT IT. THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH. IF THERE'S NO ONE ELSE TO SPEAK TO THIS PUBLIC HEARING, COUNCILMEMBER JONES, YOU HAVE YOUR LIGHT ON. THANK YOU. MAYOR, GIVE ME A CHANCE TO SPEAK. MISS CLARK, I KNOW YOUR DAD VERY WELL. I WENT TO ALL THE CHURCHES EVERY SUNDAY. I WAS IN SOMEBODY'S CHURCH VISITING, YOU KNOW, WORSHIPING. SO WHETHER IT BE CEREMONIAL, WHETHER IT BE A PERMANENT, THE COUNCIL WILL DECIDE THAT. BY THE WAY, REVEREND WADE. AND AND THE COST WE GO TO THE SIDE THERE. DON'T WORRY ABOUT THAT. THERE'S NOTHING ON YOUR SKIN ON YOUR BACK. BUT WE'RE GOING TO DO SOMETHING ONE WAY OR ANOTHER.

I'M IN SUPPORT OF IT. I'M ALSO IMPRESSED WITH THE REVEREND LORD SCOTT. HE WAS THERE 33 YEARS. HE SUPPORTED MOST. MOST PEOPLE WOULD HAVE BEEN JEALOUS. I'VE BEEN THERE 33 YEARS. WHY MY NAME? NOT ON THE STREET, BUT REVEREND SCOTT AND SUPPORT SUPPORTED THE IDEA. I APPRECIATE THAT THAT SHOW LOVE AND SUPPORT FOR FOR REVEREND WADE. BUT YOU KNOW WHAT? MY HOUSE, MY HOT BUTTON WAS STREET NAMING. AND YOU ALL KNOW THAT UP HERE I HAD THREE NAMES TURNED DOWN BEFORE STREET NAMES. BUT I TOLD MY SON, MY CHILDREN, I SAID, I WANT TO NAME THE STREET BEHIND SOMEBODY THAT WE COULD RELATE TO IN THE FUTURE. WHO KNOWS SOMETHING ABOUT GEORGE WASHINGTON, LINCOLN, DUNBAR, D WALK THAT BEEN THERE 150 YEARS. WE KNOW NOTHING ABOUT THOSE PEOPLE WE KNOW. REVEREND. WAIT, SO IT'S TIME TO KIND OF, YOU KNOW, LOOK BACK AND SEE KIND OF A NEW DAY. JUST PUT SOME NAMES OF PEOPLE WE CAN RECOGNIZE, PEOPLE WE KNOW, PEOPLE WE CAN RELATE TO. AND I JUST, YOU KNOW, AND I TRY TO GET REVEREND CLARK COMO NAMED.

TO RENAMED THE STREET RENAMED THAT WAS TURNED DOWN. FRED BALLOU, ROY BRUNO, YOU KNOW, SO BUT I WANT TO BE CONSISTENT. WE START RENAMING STREETS. BE FAIR TO EVERYBODY. IT'S NOT JUST CHERRY PICK SOMEBODY. EVERYBODY. THANK YOU. ALL RIGHT. WE'RE GOING TO AT THIS TIME MOVE THAT THAT THIS PUBLIC HEARING BE CLOSED. WE'VE HEARD FROM THE DAIS AND FROM THE AUDIENCE. AND SO WE WILL COME BACK, I GUESS, IN OUR NEXT MEETING WITH THE THE RESOLUTION TO VOTE IT EITHER UP OR DOWN. THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH. AT THIS TIME, WE'RE GOING TO CLOSE OUR PUBLIC

[III.C. City Manager’s Staff Reports Development Services Department Regarding “Clear The Shelters” Event To Be Held At The Animal Services Center on August 29, 2026.]

HEARING AT 10:30 A.M. WE'RE GOING TO MOVE NOW TO UNDER NUMBER THREE, PETITIONS AND COMMUNICATIONS CONTINUE. WE'RE GOING TO ASK THAT THE CITY MANAGER'S STAFF REPORT THE DEVELOPMENT SERVICES DEPARTMENT REGARDING CLEAR THE SHELTERS EVENT TO BE HELD AT THE ANIMAL SERVICES CENTER ON AUGUST 29TH, 2026, IF THEY WOULD COME UP NEXT. AND THEN I'M GOING TO GO BACK TO NUMBER THREE, A PRESENTATION BY FRIESEN. NICHOLS WILL COME AFTER THIS STAFF REPORT. GOOD MORNING. THANK YOU, MAYOR. GOOD MORNING. MY NAME IS ANTHONY MITCHELL.

I'M THE SUPERVISOR OF THE CITY ANIMAL SERVICES BUILDING. AND WE'RE HERE TO SPEAK ON THE THE

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CLEAR THE SHELTER EVENT. THIS IS ONE OF THE GUYS WE BROUGHT UP THAT'S AVAILABLE FOR ADOPTION. HEY. OKAY, OKAY. THIS IS MISS REED. SHE'S THE KENNEL TAG. SHE CAN TELL YOU MORE ABOUT THE LITTLE DOG WE BROUGHT UP. COME ON. HE NOT BEING NICE. OKAY, TIME. HE SAW A CAT. GOOD MORNING. MY NAME IS SANAA. THIS IS RIMSHOT. OKAY. HE'S A SCHNAUZER MIX. HE'S ABOUT SEVEN, EIGHT MONTHS OLD. HE'S VERY FRIENDLY. ENERGETIC, OKAY. LOOKING FOR A FOREVER HOME. AND HE IS CURRENTLY AVAILABLE FOR ADOPTION. I'M TRYING TO GET HIM PLACED SOMEWHERE. OH. HE'S BEEN SO GOOD ALL THIS TIME. HE'S BEEN WAITING. HE'S TIRED. HE SAW. HE SAW A COW. AND THAT'S WHAT HAPPENED. SO I WANT TO TELL YOU A LITTLE BIT ABOUT CLEAR THE SHELTERS, CLEAR THE SHELTERS, A NATIONWIDE PET ADOPTION AND DONATION CAMPAIGN. IT STARTED ABOUT 2014 IN NORTH TEXAS. AND THE MISSION OF IT IS SIMPLE TO FIND. FIND FOREVER HOMES, REDUCE SHELTER OVERCROWDING, INCREASE ADOPTIONS, AND CONNECT ANIMALS WITH LOVING FAMILIES, AND SAVE LIVES. THIS IS A LOCAL EFFORT WITH THE NATIONAL PURPOSE. IT'S DONE ALL OVER THE UNITED STATES AND CLEAR THE SHELTERS BECAME A NATIONAL CAMPAIGN IN 2015, AND SO FAR OVER A MILLION ADOPTIONS HAVE HAPPENED THROUGH THE CLEAR SHELTERS PROGRAM. AND SO WE ARE EXCITED TO HOLD OUR SHELTER'S EVENT ON AUGUST 29TH, SATURDAY, AUGUST 29TH FROM 9 TO 3 P.M. AT 3615 GATES BOULEVARD, OUR NEW ANIMAL SERVICES CENTER. AND ALSO, IF ANYONE IS INTERESTED IN DONATING, THEY CAN CONTACT THE OFFICE. THE NAME IS ON THE FLIER. IT'S ON SOCIAL MEDIA OUT THERE EVERYWHERE. YOU CAN DONATE SUPPLIES, BLANKETS, FOOD, LEASHES, THINGS LIKE THAT, OR WE'LL ACCEPT MONETARY DONATIONS AS WELL. IT TAKES A LOT OF SUPPLIES TO TAKE CARE OF THE ANIMALS THERE. WE HAVE PUPPIES AND KITTENS AND ALL KINDS OF BREEDS THAT YOU COULD ONLY IMAGINE. WE GET EVERYTHING GREAT PYRENEES, WHAT ELSE DO WE GET? OH, WE HAVE A GOAT NAMED TYRONE RIGHT NOW. TYRONE IS THERE. CALL TYRONE. SOMEBODY COME GET TYRONE. TYRONE. AND JUST ALL ALL SORTS OF PETS THAT NEED A FOREVER HOME. SO WE'RE JUST ASKING THE COMMUNITY TO COME BY, SAY HI AND TAKE HOME A LOVING PET. GIVE SOMEONE A FOREVER HOME. THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME. YOU GUYS ARE WELCOME.

I'M SERIOUS. THIS CALL TYRONE IS JUST OKAY. OH, WOW. OKAY. THANK YOU ALL SO VERY MUCH.

SOMEBODY ADOPT THAT CUTE PUPPY RIGHT THERE, MAYOR. OH! OH. NOT HAPPENING. ALL RIGHT. AWESOME.

[III.B.(3) A Presentation By Freese and Nichols Regarding The Main Wastewater Treatment Plant Improvement - Construction Progress Update.]

THANK YOU SO MUCH. THANK YOU. COUNCIL. ALL RIGHT. AT THIS TIME, WE'RE GOING TO GO BACK TO NUMBER THREE PRESENTATION BY FRIESEN NICHOLS REGARDING THE MAIN WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT IMPROVEMENT CONSTRUCTION PROGRESS UPDATE. GOOD MORNING. GOOD MORNING MAYOR. CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS. MY NAME IS CHAD COMEAU. I'M A PRINCIPAL AT FRIESEN NICHOLS, LOCATED IN OUR PEARLAND AND HOUSTON OFFICES. MOST IMPORTANTLY, I'M A NATIVE OF PORT ARTHUR, TEXAS.

THROUGHOUT THE YEARS AND GOING AT LEAST 60 PLUS YEARS, OUR FIRM HAS HAD A HISTORY WITH THE CITY OF PORT ARTHUR AND IN RECENT YEARS SINCE 2013. WE APPRECIATE THE OPPORTUNITY TO PARTNER WITH YOU ALL IN IMPLEMENTING YOUR GIS SYSTEM, DEVELOPING THE DOWNTOWN, AND THE COMPREHENSIVE PLANS AS WELL. THIS MORNING, WE'RE HERE TO GIVE A PRESENTATION ON THE MAIN WATER WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT, SOME CONSTRUCTION UPDATES. THAT PLAN IS VERY IMPORTANT. IT SERVES APPROXIMATELY 73% OF THE COMMUNITY. SO IT'S VERY IMPORTANT TO THE HEALTH AND SAFETY OF RESIDENTS. SO I HAVE WITH ME TODAY MATT CARTWRIGHT AND KYLE JONES COLLEAGUES, AND THEY'LL TAKE IT FROM HERE. THANK YOU, THANK YOU. THANK YOU, CHAD. THANK YOU, MAYOR AND COUNCIL, FOR GIVING US THE OPPORTUNITY TO KIND OF GIVE A BRIEF UPDATE ON THE PROJECT AND A LITTLE BIT OF A BIT OF BACKGROUND AS WELL. I ABLE TO I

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DON'T KNOW THAT WE'RE ABLE TO, I THINK A POINT, SORRY, I THINK IT'S A HERE WE GO, HERE WE GO, THERE WE GO. LIKE I SAID, WE'LL GIVE A QUICK BACKGROUND ON THE PROJECT AND A FEW DRIVERS. SO A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE PROJECT. OVERALL, THE INTENT OF THE PROJECT WAS WAS TO ADDRESS THREE MAIN AREAS. THE MAIN OUTFALL LIFT STATION, WHICH RECEIVES ALL THE WASTEWATER FROM THE CITY, THE FOREST MAIN THAT TRANSFERS IT FROM THE FROM THE LIFT STATION OVER TO THE PLANT. AND OF COURSE, THE MAIN FOCUS, WHICH WAS THE MAIN WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT. A LITTLE BIT OF HISTORY ON THE PLANT. ORIGINALLY, THE PLANT WAS BUILT IN 1960 WITH A MAJOR EXPANSION IN 1991, AND THERE WAS SOME SLIGHT MODIFICATIONS THAT WAS THAT WERE COMPLETED BACK IN 2010. BUT FOR THE MOST PART, THERE'S BEEN NO MAJOR REHABILITATION FOR THE LAST 25 YEARS. KEYNOTE OVER TO THE RIGHT. THIS THIS TREATMENT FACILITY SERVES ABOUT 73% OF THE POPULATION OF PORT ARTHUR. A COUPLE OF THE MAJOR DRIVERS FOR FOR THIS THIS THIS RETROFIT AND IS THE AGING OF THE INFRASTRUCTURE. YOU CAN SEE A FEW PHOTOS HERE THAT KIND OF SHOW THE CONDITION OF THE PLANT. WHENEVER WE FIRST STARTED DOING THE EVALUATION, THE SECOND THE SECOND PAGE SHOWS SOME OF THE IMPACTS OF STORMWATER TO THE TO THE FACILITY OUT THERE, THE STORMWATER UPLIFT ON ON STRUCTURES OF, OF THE VARIOUS STORMS THAT WE'VE EXPERIENCED OVER THE YEARS. SO THE MAIN, THE MAIN DRIVER FOR, FOR THIS PROJECT AGAIN, WAS A T, C, Q ENFORCEMENT ORDER BACK THAT STARTED BACK IN 2009. THERE WAS A FINAL JUDGMENT THAT, THAT THAT OCCURRED. AND IT LED TO THREE MAIN OBJECTIVES FOR THIS PROJECT ONE, CONDUCTING AN EVALUATION OF THE EXISTING FACILITY TO KIND OF DETERMINE WHAT WHAT NEEDS WOULD BE, WOULD NEED TO OCCUR TO GET THIS PROJECT BACK IN COMPLIANCE, INITIATE ENGINEERING AND FINANCIAL PLANNING FOR THE PROJECT. AND LAST IS EXECUTE THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE PROJECT.

A FEW A FEW MAIN ITEMS TO NOTE HERE. THIS WAS A DESIGN BUILD, PROJECT, DESIGN, BID BUILD PROJECT AND THE CITY OBTAINED A LOAN THROUGH TEXAS WATER DEVELOPMENT BOARD. CLEAN WATER, THE CLEAN WATER STATE REVOLVING FUND, AND THE AMOUNT OF. INITIALLY, AN AMOUNT OF 66.9 MILLION. THE DESIGN WAS COMPLETED IN OCTOBER 2021. WE. WE ADVERTISED THE PROJECT.

OCTOBER 20TH, OCTOBER 15TH, 2021 AND OPENED BIDS ON JANUARY 12TH, 2022. THE CONTRACTOR. THE SOLE CONTRACTOR. THE ONLY CONTRACTOR TO PLACE A BID ON IT WAS ALCO IN THE AMOUNT OF 73.6 MILLION. A COUPLE OF OTHER ADDITIONAL ITEMS FROM A FUNDING STANDPOINT, YOU KNOW, AS MENTIONED BEFORE, THE CITY CITY. HAD A LOAN FROM TEXAS WATER DEVELOPMENT BOARD, BUT THERE WAS SOME OTHER ADDITIONAL FUNDING SOURCES THAT WERE OUT THERE. THE THE TOTAL FUND OR TOTAL LOAN FROM WATER DEVELOPMENT BOARD WAS FOR CONSTRUCTION COST WAS 56.3 MILLION. AND THERE WAS A GRANT FOR 4.2 MILLION AS WELL, WHICH WE. WE RECEIVED A TOTAL OF 60.5 MILLION FROM FROM WATER DEVELOPMENT BOARD. THE THE, THE GRAPH TO THE RIGHT KIND OF SHOWS A. WHAT, WHAT THOSE FUNDS WERE USED FOR FROM FINANCIAL SERVICES, THE ENGINEERING AND CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT, AND THE PRE-PURCHASE OF EQUIPMENT, WHICH LED US TO TO REMNANT OF $56.2 MILLION WITH THE THE 2.2 2.1 MILLION FOR CONSTRUCTION PHASE SERVICES FROM THE ENGINEERS DURING DESIGN TO ANSWER RFIS AND SHOP DRAWINGS AND WHATNOT, AS WELL AS SOME PARTIAL CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT AND PARTIAL INSPECTION FOR 2.1 MILLION. AND THIS WAS TO GET US ABOUT FOUR YEARS THROUGH THE PROJECT. WE WORKED WITH WITH ALCO AND CITY TO KIND OF WORK THROUGH SOME VALUE ENGINEERING OF THE PROJECT TO THE TUNE OF ABOUT 6.4 MILLION TO GET US

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DOWN TO WHAT THAT THAT, THAT OVERALL DOLLAR AMOUNT WAS. BUT WE HAD THE, THE WATER DEVELOPMENT BOARD LOADING GRANT FOR 56 MILLION. AND THEN WE HAD AN ARPA GRANT FOR 17 MILLION, WHICH BROUGHT US UP TO ABOUT THE CONTRACT VALUE THAT WAS THAT WAS PRESENTED BY ALCO.

WITH THAT, I'LL TURN IT OVER TO KYLE TO KIND OF RUN THROUGH SOME OF THE UPDATES ON CONSTRUCTION. AND WE'LL WRAP IT UP HERE IN A MINUTE. THANK YOU MATT. I'LL TAKE US THROUGH THE CONSTRUCTION. OKAY. BASICALLY, THE NOTICE TO PROCEED FOR ALCO WAS GIVEN ON JUNE OF 2022 WITH AN ORIGINAL CONTRACT DURATION OF 1580 DAYS. OVER THE LAST FOUR YEARS, THAT CONTRACT HAS BEEN EXTENDED FOR JUST A LITTLE BIT OVER A YEAR, AND THE PRIMARY DRIVERS FOR THAT EXTENSION HAVE BEEN, LIKE MATT MENTIONED PREVIOUSLY, THE FAILING INFRASTRUCTURE WITHIN THE FACILITY AND ALSO THE FAILED FORCEMAIN IN BETWEEN THE MAIN OUTFALL LIFT STATION AND THE MAIN WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT. BOTH OF THOSE EXTENDED THE DURATION OF THE CONTRACT. A LITTLE BIT ON CONSTRUCTION UPDATES, KIND OF WHERE WE'RE AT. THIS IS A PHOTO ON THE LEFT OF CONSTRUCTION PROGRESS AT THE MAIN OUTFALL LIFT STATION. THE PHOTO ON THE RIGHT IS HOW IT LOOKS. NOW, THIS BYPASS PUMPING WAS REQUIRED BECAUSE THE PUMPS IN THE MAIN OUTFALL LIFT STATION FAILED MIDWAY THROUGH THE CONSTRUCTION PROJECT. THAT NECESSITATED THE BYPASS PUMPING, WHICH OCCURRED FOR APPROXIMATELY SIX MONTHS. NOW. THE THE MAIN OUTFALL LIFT STATION IS IN SERVICE. IT'S BEEN IN SERVICE FOR A LITTLE OVER THREE MONTHS NOW. THIS IS A PHOTO ON THE RIGHT OF THE NEW NEW INFLUENT PUMPS, ALONG WITH THE VARIABLE FREQUENCY DRIVES THAT WERE INSTALLED IN THE LIFT STATION. AT THE HEADWORKS. THE PHOTO ON THE RIGHT IS AT THE GROUNDBREAKING. THE PHOTO ON THE LEFT IS THE NEW SCREENING FACILITY, ALONG WITH GRIT CHAMBERS AND THE WASHER COMPACTOR SYSTEM. RIGHT NOW, THE CURRENT PROGRESS ON THAT.

THE ELECTRICIANS ARE PULLING THE LAST OF THE WIRE AND GETTING READY TO TERMINATE THAT AND PUT THAT INTO SERVICE. ALSO INCLUDED IN THE PROJECT WAS NEW PRIMARY CLARIFIERS SHOWN IN THIS PHOTO. BOTH OF THOSE CLARIFIERS ARE ALMOST COMPLETE WITH ONLY A LITTLE BIT OF MINOR CONSTRUCTION LEFT. THERE IS A SMALL PIECE OF DUCT BANK MISSING ON THIS, SO WE STILL NEED TO PULL WIRE TO THESE NEW STRUCTURES AND GET THOSE COMMISSIONED. THIS PHOTO IS OF THE NEW FLOW SPLITTING AND FILTRATION STRUCTURES, THE FLOW SPLITTING, THE MULTI-PURPOSE LIFT LIFT STATION SPLITS, WET WEATHER FLOWS BETWEEN THE EXISTING AERATION BASIN AND THE NEW DISC FILTERS. THERE'S ALSO A BRAND NEW SOUTH ELECTRICAL BUILDING WAITING ON ENTERGY TO PROVIDE PRIMARY SERVICE TO THIS LOCATION. AND THEN FINALLY, AT THE TAIL END OF THE PROCESS, THERE WERE CHEMICAL FEED IMPROVEMENTS ALONG WITH THE NEW SOUTH ELECTRICAL BUILDING TO FEED THOSE IMPROVEMENTS. AND THOSE ARE ALMOST COMPLETE. ALL THE WIRES HAVE BEEN PULLED THERE, AND THOSE ARE READY TO BE COMMISSIONED. SO THE NEXT STEPS, THE NEXT STEPS ARE REALLY THE MOST COMPLICATED PART OF THE PROJECT. FIRST, WE NEED TO COMPLETE THE CONSTRUCTION ACTIVITIES. THE MAJOR ACTIVITIES THAT ARE THAT STILL NEED TO BE COMPLETED INCLUDE YARD PIPING, ELECTRICAL DUCT BANKS, THE TRICKLING FILTER, EFFLUENT COLLECTION BOX, AND THEN INSTRUMENTATION AND CONTROL UPGRADES. ONCE ALL OF THE EQUIPMENT. ONCE ALL THE EQUIPMENT IS IN PLACE, WE'RE GOING TO GO THROUGH EACH PIECE OF EQUIPMENT AND DO FUNCTIONAL TESTING WITH THE MANUFACTURER'S REPRESENTATIVES TO ENSURE THAT ALL THE EQUIPMENT IS OPERATING AS IT WAS INTENDED. ONCE THAT'S COMPLETE, WE GET A BRAND NEW SCADA SYSTEM. THIS IS THE FIRST TIME THAT THIS PLANT HAS EVER HAD SCADA SYSTEM, SO WE HAVE TO INTEGRATE THAT NEW SCADA SYSTEM WITH THE MECHANICAL EQUIPMENT AND CHECK THAT OUT. SO THAT'S CALLED THE SYSTEM TESTING.

CONCURRENT TO THAT WILL BE OWNER TRAINING ON BOTH SCADA SYSTEM AND THE NEW MECHANICAL EQUIPMENT. THEN WE'LL HAVE A PUNCH LIST, SUBSTANTIAL COMPLETION, AND THEN ULTIMATELY FINAL COMPLETION ON THE PROJECT. BUT THIS IS KIND OF A CIRCULAR KIND OF PROCESS THAT WE GO THROUGH WITH EACH NEW SYSTEM AND EACH NEW PIECE OF EQUIPMENT AS WE BRING IT ONLINE. SO WE'LL BE DOING THAT OVER THE NEXT 13 MONTHS AS WE WORK THROUGH THE ENTIRE PLANT. I'LL TURN IT BACK OVER TO MATT TO FINISH UP WITH SOME LAST MINUTE MONEY TALK. YEAH. THANK YOU. KYLE. YEAH.

THE LAST SLIDE WAS JUST A BRIEF SUMMARY OF SERVICES. ORIGINALLY, THE ORIGINAL CONTRACT FOR CONSTRUCTION PHASE SERVICES WAS FOR GENERAL REPRESENTATION AGAIN, WHICH WAS OUR ENGINEER TO SUPPORT THE PROJECT DURING CONSTRUCTION, AS WELL AS SOME PARTIAL CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT,

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PARTIAL INSPECTION. WE WORKED WITH WITH CITY THROUGH. THROUGH THE PROCESS TO KIND OF IDENTIFY AND IDENTIFY WHERE AREAS OF OPPORTUNITY TO, TO UTILIZE CITY STAFF, ENGAGE CITY STAFF TO HELP MAKE THE PROCESS MORE EFFICIENT. BUT IN THE TABLE BELOW, THE 2.1 MILLION WAS WAS ANTICIPATED FOR FOUR YEARS OF SERVICES GOING FROM JUNE 2022 TO JUNE 2026. THE AMENDMENT TWO, WHICH WAS RECENTLY PASSED, I THINK A COUPLE OF COUNCILS AGO, WAS GOING TO BRING THE THE CONTRACT VALUE FROM FROM JULY 2026 TO TO OCTOBER 2027 FOR ABOUT 900,000. AS KYLE MENTIONED BEFORE, THERE'S A HEAVY LIFT TO GET THE GET THE PLANT INTO OPERATION, WHICH WHICH WILL HAS BEEN ONGOING FOR, I THINK A COUPLE OF MONTHS NOW WITH THE MAIN OUTFALL LIFT STATION COMING ONLINE. BUT A COUPLE OF THINGS THAT I WANTED TO TO NOTE THAT'S THAT'S LISTED BELOW. WE, WE WERE ABLE TO, TO UTILIZE SOME OF THE, SOME OF THE REMNANT FUNDS FROM THE PLANNING AND DESIGN PORTION OF, OF THE PROJECT. AND I BELIEVE THERE WAS SOME COMPONENTS OF THE GRANT GRANT FUNDS THERE AS WELL. AND THEN THE SECOND PROBABLY MORE THE IMPORTANT NOTE DOWN BELOW WAS FOR A PROJECT THIS SIZE, TYPICALLY THE COST TO EXECUTE THE CONSTRUCTION PHASE SERVICES, ABOUT 7%, WHICH WOULD SHOULD BE ABOUT $4.8 MILLION. BUT WE WERE WORKED WITH WITH STAFF TO RIGHTSIZE THE PROJECT FOR THE BUDGET THAT WAS THERE. AND WE WERE SITTING ABOUT ABOUT A MILLION AND A HALF LOWER THAN WHAT'S TRADITIONALLY ANTICIPATED FOR SERVICES OF THIS, OF THIS KIND. AND WITH THAT, WE'LL OPEN IT UP FOR ANY QUESTIONS. AND AND YEAH, IF THERE ARE ANY. THANK YOU. COUNCILMEMBER JACOBS. THANK YOU.

MAYOR. THANK YOU, GENTLEMEN, FOR COMING TODAY TO GIVE THIS PRESENTATION. THIS IS THE KIND OF STUFF I LIKE TO HEAR ABOUT. I GUESS MY MAIN QUESTION, AND THIS MIGHT BE KIND OF A RANDOM QUESTION FOR YOURSELVES AND SOMEONE WHO REPRESENTS THE CITY, BUT GIVEN THAT KEY DRIVER AND THANK YOU FOR CALLING THAT OUT. RIGHT. THE KEY DRIVER OF THE CONTRACT DURATION EXTENSION OF A LITTLE OVER A CALENDAR YEAR. WHEN IT COMES TO LIKE THE, THE DEVELOPMENT OF THIS SCOPE, WHAT ROLE DID YOU ALL PLAY IN IT AS LIKE, IT SOUNDS LIKE YOU KIND OF HAD A HYBRID OF BEING PROJECT ENGINEERS AS WELL AS PROJECT MANAGEMENT. WOULD THAT BE KIND OF A CORRECT ASSESSMENT? YES, MA'AM. YES, WE WE WORKED AND WE'VE WORKED. CAN YOU SPEAK INTO THE MIC FOR ME, PLEASE? YES, SIR. WE'VE WE'VE WORKED WITH CITY STAFF OVER THE LAST, YOU KNOW, OVER THE LAST FOUR YEARS TO, TO, TO RIGHTSIZE THE SERVICES WITH THE, THE EBB AND FLOWS OF THE PROJECT. SO WHENEVER SERVICES WEREN'T NEEDED, WE CERTAINLY, WE CERTAINLY WERE NOT OUT ON SITE AND KIND OF PUSHED SOME OF THOSE, THOSE FUNDS FORWARD. SO WE'VE WORKED WITH CITY STAFF, WE UTILIZE CITY STAFF TO HELP SUPPLEMENT SOME OF OUR INSPECTION TIME AS WELL ON SITE.

SO IT'S IT'S BEEN A CERTAINLY BEEN A TREMENDOUS EFFORT AND A TREMENDOUS GROUP EFFORT TO GET TO WHERE WE'RE AT RIGHT NOW. OKAY. DID THAT ANSWER YOUR QUESTION FROM FROM YOUR PERSPECTIVE? YES, BUT I'D LIKE TO HEAR FROM DOCTOR. GOOD MORNING. GOOD MORNING MICHAEL.

A LITTLE BIT CLOSER TO YOU AND NICHOLS WERE THE DESIGN ENGINEERS ON THE PROJECT. AND ONCE THE DESIGN WAS COMPLETED AND APPROVED BY THE TCEQ, WE DID ACTUALLY AN RFQ TO HIRE THE CONSTRUCTION MANAGERS. AND THEY WERE THE WINNERS OF THAT RFQ. THE REASON WE DID RFQ IS BECAUSE WE WERE ABLE TO USE 14.7 MILLION OF ARPA FUNDING FOR THIS PROJECT. SO TO MAKE SURE THAT EVERYTHING IS DONE BY FEDERAL RULES AND REGULATIONS, WE DID THAT RFQ. THEN WHEN IT CAME TO THE CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT, LIKE MATT SAID, THE ESTIMATED COST FOR THE CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT OF THAT PROJECT WAS AROUND $4.8 MILLION. SO WE SAT DOWN AT THE BEGINNING OF THE PROJECT WITH NICHOLS AND NEGOTIATED THEM TO A $2.1 MILLION CONTRACT WITH THE CITY STAFF AND MYSELF, ALTERNATING ON SOME OF THE INSPECTIONS AND THE WORK THEY WERE GOING TO BE DOING DURING THOSE FOUR YEARS. SO WE WERE ABLE TO ACCOMPLISH THE FIRST FOUR YEARS AT A 2.1 MILLION. NOW, THE NEXT 13 MONTHS, THE COST OF THAT 899,000 IS DUE TO THE INABILITY OF STAFF TO DO THE WORK THAT IS NEEDED DUE TO EXPERIENCE. SO AT THE END OF THE PROJECT, FREESE

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AND NICHOLS ARE REQUIRED TO BE MORE ON THE SITE. THEY'RE GOING TO HAVE TO DO A LOT OF THE WORK THAT WE CANNOT DO, AND THAT'S WHY YOU SEE THE 889. BUT AT THE END OF THE DAY, FROM THAT 7%, WE'RE ABLE TO DO THIS WORK AT 4.7%. AND AT THE END OF THE DAY, WE'RE DOING THIS WORK AT $1.5 MILLION CHEAPER THAN WHAT IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN DUE TO CITY STAFF'S INVOLVEMENT. RIGHT.

YOU'VE NOW RAISED ANOTHER QUESTION. SO MY FIRST CONCERN IS THAT. GIVEN THE THE THE CITED CAUSE OF THIS PROJECT EXTENSION NEARLY A YEAR, I'M NOT EVEN LOOKING AT THE DOLLAR AMOUNT BECAUSE IT'S GOT TO HANDLE THE PROCESS BEFORE YOU CAN TALK ABOUT THE FISCAL IMPACTS. SO. THE CITED COST IS PRIMARILY DUE TO FAILING IN PLANT EQUIPMENT AND OUTFALL FORCEMAIN REPLACEMENT. NOW, I DON'T KNOW ALL THE TECHNICALITIES OF THAT. I CAN SEE WITHIN THIS PRESENTATION SOME OF THOSE COMPONENTS, BUT MY CONCERN IS THAT THE PRECIPICE OF THIS PROJECT SEEMS TO HAVE BEEN THIS RIGHT FILLING IN PLANT EQUIPMENT, THINGS THAT WERE OUT OF COMPLIANCE PER T, E, Q AND WHAT OTHER OTHER REGULATORY BODIES. AND SO TO ME, THIS SOUNDS LIKE A HUGE MISS, RIGHT? A HUGE MISS IN OUR SCOPING. IF THE CAUSE FOR THE PROJECT BEING EXTENDED X X NUMBER OF DOLLARS AS WELL AS NEARLY A YEAR WAS DUE TO AN OVERSIGHT OF THE SCOPE. IN ADDITION. HOLD ON. IN ADDITION TO THAT. AND MAYBE I DON'T KNOW IF I HEARD YOU INCORRECTLY, BUT IT SOUNDS LIKE THERE WAS JUST A TRADE OFF. WE CAN'T SAY THAT WE VALUE ENGINEERED THE PROJECT DOWN 70% WHEN WE ACTUALLY DON'T HAVE THE COMPETENCY TO DO THE WORK, BECAUSE WE'RE GOING TO GET WE'RE GOING TO PICK UP THAT COST AND CHANGE ORDERS ON THE BACK END. AND THAT IS OBVIOUS IN THAT THIS PROJECT HAS HAD TO BE EXTENDED 390 DAYS. AND IF I COULD GET TO THE PAGE FAST ENOUGH TO SEE WHAT THE ADDITIONAL PROJECT COST IS, LIKE, YOU SAID, $900,000. AND SO IF YOU DO THE MATH. IT'S, IT'S ALMOST EQUIVALENT. AND SO I THINK THAT, AND THIS IS A NOTE FOR US CITY MANAGER IN GENERAL, MY, MY QUESTIONS WILL ALWAYS BE THE SAME. WE NEED TO BE PRUDENT WITH OUR SCOPING. THE CITY WILL LOSE EVERY TIME IF WE ARE NOT PRUDENT WITH OUR SCOPING. BECAUSE IF YOU DO NOT SCOPE A PROJECT APPROPRIATELY, YOU WILL GET HIT OVER THE HEAD WITH CHANGE ORDERS. AND ONCE YOU NET THE AMOUNT OF THOSE CHANGE ORDERS, THEY WILL EQUAL WHATEVER YOU THOUGHT YOU WERE VALUE ENGINEERING OUT ON THE FRONT END. SO WE NEED TO BE MORE PRUDENT AND DILIGENT WITH THIS. I WILL CONTINUE TO BE THE EYES ON IT. I DO APPRECIATE FREESE AND NICHOLS FOR BEING HERE AND PROVIDING THIS LEVEL OF DETAIL, BECAUSE IT IS NECESSARY, BUT TO ME, IT ALSO POINTS AT A HUGE GAP IN OUR CONTRACT MANAGEMENT PROCESS. AND SO. YEAH, I'M NOT SURE IF I EVEN HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, HONESTLY. THANK YOU. I WILL LET TERESA NICHOLS EXPAND ON THE SCOPING PART. BUT THERE ARE TWO DRIVERS THAT CAUSE SOME OF THESE CHANGE ORDERS. ONE OF THEM IS WHEN THE PROJECT WAS DESIGNED AND COMPLETED, IT TOOK US ABOUT 2 TO 3 YEARS TO SECURE THE FUNDING TO BE ABLE TO GO TO CONSTRUCTION. AND THE SECOND PART IS THEY'RE SCOPING WAS BASED ON ON THE INFRASTRUCTURE THAT THEY CAN SEE. AND A LOT OF THE UNKNOWNS WERE DISCOVERED DURING CONSTRUCTION THAT WAS HIDDEN UNDERGROUND THAT THEY COULDN'T SEE. AS FAR AS THE VALUE ENGINEERING, THE REASON THE VALUE ENGINEERING WAS DONE FOR THIS PROJECT WAS TO BRING IT DOWN TO THE AMOUNT OF MONEY WE HAD AVAILABLE TO AWARD THE PROJECT, BECAUSE IF WE DIDN'T AWARD IT, WE WERE GOING TO HAVE A SERIOUS DISCUSSION WITH THE COO AND THE ATTORNEY GENERAL THAT WE DID NOT WANT TO HAVE.

SO WE KNEW THAT WE'RE GOING TO ADD SOME OF THAT SCOPE BACK INTO THE PROJECT AS WE GO. AND IF YOU LOOK AT OUR BUDGETS IN THE LAST THREE, FOUR YEARS, WE'VE BEEN ADDING MONEY TO OUR CAPITAL PROGRAM, TO THE WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT IMPROVEMENTS TO BRING SOME OF THAT WORK BACK. BUT THE VALUE ENGINEERING WAS THE PURPOSE OF THE VALUE ENGINEERING WAS TO BRING IT DOWN TO A NUMBER WE CAN AWARD, BECAUSE WE COULDN'T AWARD A PROJECT WITHOUT THE FUNDING AVAILABLE, WITH THE PLAN TO BRING IT BACK UP. THE PROJECT'S ORIGINAL NUMBER WAS $73 MILLION. TODAY, WE'RE IN THE 70 MILLION TOTAL. WE'RE STILL MINUS IN THE CHANGE

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ORDERS IN TERMS OF THE TOTAL SCOPE OF THE PROJECT. SO WE DID NOT EXCEED THE BID AMOUNT.

YOU'RE GOING TO SEE A CHANGE ORDER COMING UP IN THE NEXT ITEM, WHICH SHOWS THAT WE'RE IN THE NEGATIVE. AND I'M GOING TO LET TERESA NICHOLS EXPAND A LITTLE BIT MORE ON THE SCOPE.

ONE THING I WANTED TO SAY, WHEN YOU SEE THE ARPA FUNDING THERE, I THINK RON WILL REMEMBER WE TOOK ALL THE ARPA FUNDING FROM EVERYONE AND PUT IT IN AN ACCOUNT BECAUSE WE HAD TO AWARD THE 73 MILLION. FROM WHAT I UNDERSTAND FROM THE LAW DEPARTMENT, WE HAD TO AWARD THE BID, AND THEN WE HAD TO DO THE VALUE ENGINEERING TO GET THE PRICE DOWN TO SOMETHING THAT WE HAD THE OUR FUNDS IN WATER UTILITIES COULD COULD GO WITH BECAUSE EVERYBODY WANTED THEIR ARPA MONEY BACK. WE WERE NOT ALLOWED TO KEEP EVERYBODY'S ARPA MONEY. BUT TO DO THE AWARD.

RON, LET US PUT IT ALL IN ONE ACCOUNT, AWARD THE JOB, DO THE VALUE ENGINEERING TO GET IT DOWN SO THAT ALL THE OTHER PROJECTS THAT THE CITY WANTED TO DO COULD BE DONE. I DIDN'T KNOW IF Y'ALL KNEW HOW ARPA MONEY FLOWED. I'LL TURN IT OVER. I'LL BE VERY BRIEF. ORIGINALLY, THIS PROJECT WAS SCOPED IN 2014. YOU KNOW, 12 YEARS AGO, THREE YEARS OF DELAY TO GET THE FUNDING TO SECURE THE FUNDING AND THEN ULTIMATELY START THE PROJECT. THE CONTRACTOR ON THIS PROJECT HAS REALLY BEEN A PARTNER TO THE CITY IN, AND THE CITY STAFF HAS TRIED TO BALANCE THE EXPENDITURE OF CAPITAL FUNDS TO MAINTAIN EQUIPMENT VERSUS, YOU KNOW, WAIT FOR OUR NEW EQUIPMENT TO BE IN PLACE. SO IT'S A VERY DELICATE BALANCING ACT ACROSS THE ENTIRE PROJECT. BUT OUR CONTRACTOR HAS WORKED WITH US HAND IN HAND TO KEEP THE PROJECT ONLINE AND TO KEEP THE PLANT ONLINE AND WITHIN PERMIT. SO IF A PIECE OF EQUIPMENT, EXISTING CITY EQUIPMENT FAILS IN A CERTAIN AREA, OUR CONTRACTOR MOBILIZES TO THAT AREA TO HELP THE CITY TO TRY AND GET THAT EQUIPMENT EITHER SERVICED OR GET A MECHANIC OUT THERE TO TRY AND FIX IT, WHATEVER THEY CAN DO TO HELP US OUT. SO THAT THAT'S BEEN A LITTLE BIT OF THE DELAY.

IT'S JUST THE CONSTRUCTION. SEQUENCING HASN'T BEEN IDEAL. IT HASN'T REALLY FOLLOWED THE THE PLAN THAT WAS LAID OUT IN THE SCOPING DOCUMENTS BECAUSE THINGS FAILED ALONG THE WAY.

AND WE HAD TO MOBILIZE TO TRY AND SOLVE THOSE PROBLEMS. THE FORCE MAIN IS AN EXCELLENT EXAMPLE OF THAT. WE TRIED TO PUT THE LIFT STATION INTO SERVICE. THE FORCE MAIN FAILED IMMEDIATELY. SO AGAIN, WE HAVE TO MOBILIZE TO REBUILD THAT FORCE MAIN FROM THE MAIN OUTFALL LIFT STATION TO THE WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT, OR ELSE WE'RE IN. WE'RE IN DESPERATE TROUBLE. SO THAT'S REALLY BEEN THE PROCESS THROUGHOUT THE WHOLE THING.

IT'S TAKEN QUITE A LONG TIME. AND AND WE'RE ALMOST TO THE END. WE ARE VERY CLOSE TO THE END.

WE'RE READY TO GET THESE SYSTEMS ONLINE. WE'RE READY TO COMMISSION OUR NEW SCADA SYSTEM AND REALLY IMPROVE THIS ENTIRE PROCESS. AND THANK YOU. THANK YOU, GENTLEMEN, FOR THOSE EXPLANATIONS. AND I DON'T WANT TO BE MISCONSTRUED AS AS DISMISSING THE AMOUNT OF WORK AND COMPETENCY THAT IT HAS TAKEN FOR YOU TO GET TO THIS POINT IN THE PROJECT. BUT I WILL MAINTAIN MY POSITIONING THAT WE NEED AS A CITY. SO THIS IS NOT A NOTE FOR YOU ALL AT FREESE AND NICHOLS, BUT WE NEED TO DO A BETTER, MORE PRUDENT JOB OF CONTRACT MANAGEMENT. I WILL MAINTAIN THAT STANCE. I LEARNED SOMETHING NEW JUST NOW. IS THERE ANYTHING AND I THINK I DON'T KNOW IF THIS IS FOR THE CITY MANAGER, DOCTOR HANEY, BUT IF WE HAD A SCOPE DEVELOPED IN 2014, WHAT HELD US FROM BEING ABLE TO GET AN UPDATED SCOPE FOR WORK THAT DID NOT COMMENCE UNTIL HALFWAY THROUGH THE YEAR 2022? THERE WAS AT LEAST EIGHT YEARS, RIGHT? WE HAD A NOTICE TO PROCEED ISSUED IN JUNE 2022, AND A SCOPE WAS DEVELOPED IN 2014. WHATEVER THAT WAS, IT WAS OBSOLETE AT THIS POINT, CONSIDERING ALL THE FACTORS ECONOMIC CONDITIONS, THE COST OF GOODS, EVEN JUST THE LANDSCAPE, THE POLITICAL LANDSCAPE, AND ALL OF THE IMPLICATIONS THAT THAT HAS ON REGULATIONS, EVEN HOW COULD THAT SCOPE HAVE BEEN RELEVANT FOR IMPLEMENTATION OR FOR, FOR US TO BE GUIDING OURSELVES BY IN 2022, THE SCOPE ACTUALLY GREW WITH THE PROJECT BECAUSE THIS PROJECT WAS BUDGETED AT $49 MILLION WHEN THE ORIGINAL SCOPE WAS CREATED. BUT AS THEY WENT INTO THE DESIGN PHASE AND THEY DISCOVERED MORE ITEMS THAT NEEDED TO BE ADDRESSED, WE ENDED UP AT THE $73 MILLION PROJECT, SO WE DIDN'T DEVELOP A SCOPE IN 2014 AND STUCK TO IT. WE ACTUALLY INCREASED THAT SCOPE AS WE WENT INTO THE DESIGN AND FINAL PHASES. BUT THE BIGGEST CHALLENGE WITH THIS PROJECT WAS TO KEEP A PLANT

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RUNNING, TRYING TO MEET THESE PERMIT LIMITS AND REGULATIONS WHILE WE ARE REHABBING IT. AND THAT CAUSED DELAYS BECAUSE LIKE THE FREEZE AND NICOLE'S TEAM SAID, WHEN A PIECE OF EQUIPMENT FAILS AND WE NEED TO ADDRESS IT IMMEDIATELY SO WE CAN CONTINUE TO OPERATE, WE HAVE TO STOP THIS AND GO TO THAT. SO IT WAS A VERY CHALLENGING PROJECT. CAN WE DO BETTER? THERE'S ALWAYS ROOM FOR IMPROVEMENT, NO DOUBT. BUT THE SCOPE DID GROW WITH THE PROJECT AND THAT'S WHY IT ADDED ANOTHER $24 MILLION TO THE SCOPE. NOW, OUR OTHER ALTERNATIVE THAT WE STUDIED DURING THIS DESIGN PHASE WAS TO ACTUALLY BUILD A BRAND NEW PLANT INSTEAD OF REHAB THE EXISTING ONE. THAT WAS AN ADDITIONAL $37 MILLION FOR REMEMBER CORRECTLY. SO WE CHOSE TO REHAB AND SAVE THE 37 MILLION. ALL RIGHT. AND THANK YOU FOR THAT, DOCTOR HANEY. AND I'LL AGAIN, JUST ONE MORE TIME SAY THAT I MAINTAIN MY STANCE ABOUT PRUDENCE WITH SCOPE DEVELOPMENT. BECAUSE IF THE CAUSE OF THIS PROJECT, THE PRECIPICE OF THIS PROJECT WAS IN FACT THAT WE HAD FAILING EQUIPMENT, FAILING EQUIPMENT SHOULD NOT BE THE REASON AND THE CAUSE FOR CHANGE ORDERS. AND YOU JUST SPOKE OF IT YOURSELF. THE SCOPE WAS NOT INFLEXIBLE. THE SCOPE WAS SUBJECT TO FURTHER UPDATING. RIGHT. AND CHANGES. AND SO IT WOULD BEHOOVE US ON ANY PROJECT MOVING FORWARD, NO MATTER HOW BIG OR SMALL, NO MATTER HOW IMPACTFUL IT IS, WE NEED TO ENSURE THAT, ESPECIALLY IF WE'RE HIRING THIRD PARTY PROFESSIONALS, DESIGN PROFESSIONALS WHOSE EXPERTISE ARE THESE SPECIFIC THINGS TO COME IN, WHATEVER KIND OF GEO TESTING, GEO SUBSURFACE TESTING, WHATEVER TYPES OF SURVEYING THAT NEEDS TO BE DONE, IT NEEDS TO BE DONE. I DON'T FOR ME, AS WE GET FURTHER INTO THIS CONVERSATION, IT BECOMES MORE AND MORE GLARING ABOUT HOW UNACCEPTABLE IT IS. AND I'M JUST BEING FRANK BECAUSE THE REASON FOR A PROJECT SHOULD NOT BE THE SAME REASON THAT THE PROJECT IS BEING EXTENDED. WE KNEW THE INFRASTRUCTURE THERE WAS FAILING. Y'ALL HAVE Y'ALL HAVE PHOTO EVIDENCE OF OF THE THE EQUIPMENT CRUMBLING. AND SO I KNOW THAT THERE ARE ALWAYS THE UNKNOWNS AND THE UNPREDICTABLE WITH PROJECTS, BUT THAT SHOULD NOT BE THE POST IN WHICH WE LEAN. THAT SHOULD NOT BE THE POST IN WHICH WE LEAN, ESPECIALLY WHEN IT COMES TO MANAGING PROJECTS THAT ARE FUNDED WITH PUBLIC MONIES. YES, MA'AM. AND I CONCLUDE MY COMMENTS. I'M GOING TO REQUEST FREESE AND NICHOLS PROVIDE US A REPORT OF THE ITEMS THAT WE HAD TO CHANGE ORDER BECAUSE WE TOOK OUT TO MAKE THE MONEY AVAILABLE, AND THE ITEMS THAT CAME UP THAT ACTUALLY WERE CHANGED ORDER AND WERE NOT FROM THE ORIGINAL SCOPE. SO WE CAN ALL LOOK AT IT FROM A PERSPECTIVE OF WHAT HAPPENED ON THE GROUND, AND THEN WE CAN MAKE A BETTER DECISION. IF THE MANAGEMENT WAS BAD, THE SCOPE WAS BAD. SO WE KNOW WHERE TO IMPROVE AND NOT IMPROVE. THANK THANK YOU. THANK YOU, COUNCILMEMBER. THANK YOU, MAYOR, AND THANK YOU. ALSO, YOU ACTUALLY JUST BROUGHT UP A POINT THAT I WAS GOING TO ASK TO SEE MOVING FORWARD. AS WE HAVE PROJECTS OF THIS, OF THIS MAGNITUDE, IT'S NOT A SECRET THAT OUR INFRASTRUCTURE IS THE WAY THAT IT IS. AND AS WE CONTINUE TO GO ALONG WITH OTHER PROJECTS, WE'RE GOING TO HAVE TO WORK WITH WHAT INFRASTRUCTURE WE HAVE WHILE ALSO FIXING THE PROBLEMS. AND SO I APPRECIATE YOU SAYING THAT THAT WAS GOING TO BE THE FIRST THING I WANTED TO OFFER IS TO SEE HOW WE CAN TAKE THIS SITUATION AND MANEUVER FROM IT SO THAT WE'RE MOVING FORWARD.

WE DON'T COME INTO THESE SAME EXACT THINGS. AND I KNOW FOR ME, AS I WAS JUST READING OVER THE AGENDA, THIS IS CHANGE ORDER NUMBER TEN. THAT'S A LOT OF CHANGE ORDERS. AND COUNCILMEMBER JACOBS BROUGHT UP A VERY INTERESTING POINT THAT I THINK YOU ALL ANSWERED, BUT WE SHOULD TAKE INTO CONSIDERATION WHEN THE WHEN THE ORIGINAL SCOPE WAS DONE SO LONG AGO, WE HAVE TO GO BACK AND LOOK AT THOSE THINGS TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE STILL IN LINE WITH WHAT WHAT WAS INITIALLY SUPPOSED TO HAPPEN, BUT ALSO TO PREPARING FOR THE UNKNOWN. WE SAW THAT.

WE SAW THE PICTURES OF THE INFRASTRUCTURE. THAT WAS SOMETHING THAT WE COULD HAVE PREPARED FOR WAY BEFORE. SO THAT WAY WE COULD HAVE CIRCUMVENTED MOST OF THESE CHANGE ORDERS. ONE OF THE QUESTIONS I DID HAVE WAS REALLY JUST GETTING THE UNDERSTANDING OF WHEN THE SCOPE MODIFICATIONS WERE REQUESTED. WAS IT REQUESTED BY THE CONTRACTOR, OR WAS IT WAS THIS SOMETHING THAT WAS BROUGHT UP BY OUR FREEZER? NICHOLS FOR THE SCOPE CHANGES, YOU SAID, YES. THE CHANGE ORDERS. YES. NOW, PLEASE NOTE THAT WE DID 6.6, $6.7 MILLION OF VALUE ENGINEERING OF THIS PROJECT TO MAKE THE MONEY WORK, TO AWARD THE JOB, KNOWING THAT THOSE ITEMS, A LOT OF THEM HAD TO BE ADDED BACK TO THE PROJECT. SO YOU SEE A LOT OF CHANGE ORDERS BECAUSE EVERY YEAR WE'RE PUTTING MONEY TO BRING THOSE ITEMS BACK IN BECAUSE WE COULDN'T AFFORD THEM AT THE BEGINNING OF THE JOB, AND WE COULDN'T AFFORD NOT AWARDING THE JOB. NOW SOME OF THE ITEMS ARE BROUGHT BACK, BUT ALSO SOME OF THE ITEMS LIKE THIS JOB

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STARTED FOUR YEARS AGO. SO DURING THOSE FOUR YEARS, THERE WERE ITEMS THAT WERE FUNCTIONING AT THE PLANT THAT DID NOT WE DID NOT WANT TO SPEND MONEY ON LIKE A VALVE, BUT NOW THE VALVE IS NOT WORKING. SO WE HAD TO CHANGE ORDER THAT VALVE, JUST TO GIVE YOU AN EXAMPLE. SO IT'S NOT JUST THREE YEARS AFTER THE DESIGN WAS COMPLETED. WE GO TO CONSTRUCTION. NOW WE'RE FOUR YEARS IN, AND THAT EQUIPMENT THAT WE DEPENDED ON TO STILL BE IN GOOD SHAPE IS TURNING OUT TO BREAK DOWN. AND WE DIDN'T WANT TO REPLACE IT BECAUSE IT WAS IN GOOD CONDITION. SO LET ME ALSO ASK THIS, THIS QUESTION. THIS WILL BE MY LAST QUESTION. ARE THERE ANY MORE CHANGE ORDERS TO EXPECT MOVING FORWARD? AND ABOUT HOW ABOUT HOW MANY MORE? IT ALL DEPENDS ON THE UNKNOWNS THAT YOU KNOW THAT CAN TAKE PLACE. I CANNOT GIVE YOU A NUMBER, BUT I CAN TELL YOU RIGHT NOW, WITH $3 MILLION UNDER THE BID ITEM FOR THIS JOB, SO ALL THE CHANGE ORDERS WERE DONE. IT'S STILL -3.4%, I BELIEVE. SO WHEN WHEN IS WHEN IS THIS PROJECT EXPECTED TO BE COMPLETED? 13 MONTHS FROM JULY. SO OCTOBER NEXT YEAR. OCTOBER OF NEXT YEAR. YES, SIR. ALL RIGHT. I'M JUST ASKING BECAUSE IT SEEMS LIKE WE'RE GOING TO HAVE A CHANGE ORDER EVERY MONTH. UP UNTIL THAT DAY. AND THAT MAY BE MY FINGERS CROSSED. NOT GOING TO BE EVERY MONTH. I'M HOPING SO. AND WHAT WHATEVER WORK COULD BE DONE BEFORE SO THAT WE CAN START GROUPING THESE THINGS TOGETHER OR SEEING, SEEING WHAT WE CAN DO TO RECTIFY THEM. LET'S SEE WHAT WE CAN DO, BECAUSE RIGHT NOW WE'RE IN BUDGET SEASON, AND I KNOW FOR A FACT I GET CALLS FROM CONSTITUENTS ALL THE TIME WHO LOOK AT OUR AGENDAS AND THEY SEE BIG NUMBERS AND THEY DON'T UNDERSTAND. AND ALSO TO MYSELF, BECAUSE THAT'S NOT MY LINE OF WORK, OF UNDERSTANDING HOW THESE THINGS PLAY A PLAY IN EFFECT. AND TRANSPARENCY IS SOMETHING THAT WE'RE GOING TO HAVE TO BE VERY, VERY PRUDENT OF AS WELL. SO THAT WAY THEY UNDERSTAND THE NEED BEHIND IT FIRST AND FOREMOST, BUT UNDERSTAND WHAT, WHAT, WHAT'S AT STAKE FOR THEM. BECAUSE THIS IS VERY LIKE I SAID, IT'S ALARMING WHEN YOU SEE THE AMOUNT OF DAYS THAT WE'VE SPENT ON THIS PROJECT. I MEAN, JUST READING IT AFTER THIS CHANGE ORDER, THIS WOULD BRING THE TOTAL CONTRACT TO 1900 DAYS, AND WE STILL HAVE TIME TO GO.

SO WE'RE JUST GOING TO HAVE TO BE VERY, VERY PRUDENT AS AS COUNCILMEMBER JACOBS SAID, ON MAKING SURE THAT WE'RE GETTING THIS DONE, BUT ALSO TO IN A VERY EFFICIENT BUT ALSO TRANSPARENT WAY FOR, FOR EVERYONE, CONSTITUENT CITY AND ALSO OURSELVES. AND HOPEFULLY THIS IS A LEARNING LESSON, AS I SAID, BECAUSE WE'RE GOING TO HAVE OTHER PROJECTS THAT WE'RE GOING TO BE DEALING WITH DILAPIDATED INFRASTRUCTURE WHILE TRYING TO MAKE IMPROVEMENTS. SO LET'S TAKE ALL THAT WE CAN FROM THIS EXPERIENCE TO MAKE SURE THAT OUR NEXT EXPERIENCE WON'T BE LIKE THIS. YES, SIR. AND ON THAT TIME, WE ALSO HAD A TIME RESTRICTION BECAUSE WE WERE USING SOME ARPA FUNDING. SO WE KNEW FROM THE BEGINNING, THIS PROJECT CANNOT BE COMPLETED IN THE TIME ALLOTTED TO IT, BUT WE HAD TO STICK WITH THAT TIME DUE TO THE ARPA FUNDING. AND IN ORDER TO SPEND THE ARPA FUNDING UPFRONT, WE PUT ALL THE ARPA MONEY INTO THE EQUIPMENT WE WERE BUYING FOR THE FOR THE JOB. SO WE ONLY I THINK LAST TIME I CHECKED, WE HAD 100 000 LEFT OF ARPA FUNDING TO SPEND. SO WE CAN DO IT WITHIN THE TIME WE HAVE TO SPEND IT IN. OKAY, I HAVE NO MORE LIGHTS. THANK YOU GUYS FOR COMING. THANK YOU TO FRASER NICHOLS FOR THE UPDATE, AND I'M SURE THAT IT'S BEEN RECORDED. AND EVERY CITIZEN WILL BE ABLE TO GET TO SEE WHAT THIS PROJECT ACTUALLY HAS. THIS INFRASTRUCTURE, THIS WATER PLANT WAS IN ONE OF THE WORST SHAPES I'VE EVER TOURED AND SAW WHEN I WAS ON COUNCIL IN 20 AND 2017 AND TOURED IT. IT WAS IN A HORRIFIC SHAPE. AND SO I'M JUST THANKFUL THAT WE'LL HAVE A NEW WATER PLANT. THANKFUL TO THE STAFF AND TO YOU ALL FOR THE WORK THAT YOU'VE DONE. THANK YOU SO MUCH. WE'RE GOING TO MOVE NOW TO REPORTS AND ITEMS OF COMMUNITY INTEREST COUNCIL MEMBERS. IF YOU HAVE ANY THING THAT YOU WOULD LIKE TO COMMENT ON OR EXPRESS, CONGRATULATIONS OR CONDOLENCE, YOU MAY DO SO AT THIS TIME. CITY MANAGER MAY. I THOUGHT THERE WAS A RELATED ITEM TO THE WATER PLANT THAT THERE'S A RELATED ITEM ON THE WATER PLANT. OKAY, BUT IS IT OKAY? LET'S BRING IT UP. I'M SORRY, I THINK I THOUGHT THAT WAS RELATED TO SOMETHING ON

[VIII.A.(8) P.R. No. 25055 - A Resolution Authorizing The City Manager To Execute Change Order No. 10 For The Main Wastewater Treatment Plant (WWTP) Improvement Project With Allco, LLC. Of Beaumont, Texas, For An Increased Cost Of $57,268.43 For Various Change Proposals, Resulting In A New Total Contract Amount Of $70,923,709.27, And A 10 Day Extension Of The Contract Time; Funding From CIP Account No. 405-40-000-8516-00-00-000, Project No. WS0023.]

PAGE NUMBER NINE. NUMBER EIGHT. YEAH. OKAY, LET ME BRING THAT UP. NUMBER EIGHT, PR NUMBER 25055. A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE A CHANGE. ORDER NUMBER TEN FOR THE MAIN WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT. WWTP IMPROVEMENT PROJECT WITH ALCO LLC OF BEAUMONT, TEXAS, FOR AN INCREASED COST OF $57,268.43 FOR VARIOUS CHANGE PROPOSALS, RESULTED IN A NEW TOTAL CONTRACT AMOUNT OF 17,000,923, $709.27, AND A TEN DAY EXTENSION OF THE CONTRACT TIME FUNDING FROM CIP ACCOUNT NUMBER 4054000085160000000. PROJECT NUMBER WS0023. MAY I

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GET A MOTION FOR APPROVAL? SECOND, IT'S BEEN MOVED AND SECONDED, ANY DISCUSSIONS? ALL IN FAVOR, SAY I I ANY NOS? THE AYES HAVE IT. THE RESOLUTION PASSES. OKAY. DO YOU HAVE TWO RELATED TO THIS? LET ME SEE WHICH ONE IS. I DON'T THINK IS THAT IS NUMBER TWO ON PAGE EIGHT RELATED TO THIS AS WELL. I'M JUST ASKING CITY MANAGER NUMBER TWO ON PAGE EIGHT. IS THAT RELATED TO THE WASTEWATER. NO, IT'S A YES. IT'S JUST WATER. OKAY. PR NUMBER 24953. A

[VIII.A.(2) P.R. No. 24953 – A Resolution Ratifying The Emergency Contract With Allco, LLC. Of Beaumont, Texas, For The Main Outfall Lift Station 42-Inch Force Main Replacement Project; Approving A Decrease In The Contract Amount Of $245,256.00, From $5,650,000.00 To A Final Contract Amount Of $5,404,744.00; Accepting The Project Completion Documents And Authorize The Release Of Retainage In The Total Amount Of $270,237.20; Funding Is Available In Retainage Account No. 405-00-000-2050-00-00-000.]

RESOLUTION RATIFYING THE EMERGENCY CONTRACT WITH ALCO LLC OF BEAUMONT, TEXAS, FOR THE MAIN OUTFALL LIFT STATION. 42 INCH FORCE MAIN REPLACEMENT PROJECT, APPROVING A DECREASE IN THE CONTRACT AMOUNT OF $245,256 FROM 5,000,650 $650,000 TO A FINAL CONTRACT AMOUNT OF $5,000,404 $744. ACCEPTING THE PROJECT COMPLETION DOCUMENTS AND AUTHORIZE THE RELEASE OF RETAINAGE IN THE TOTAL AMOUNT OF $270,237.20. FUNDING IS AVAILABLE IN THE RETAINAGE ACCOUNT NUMBER 405000002050-00-00-000. CAN I GET A MOTION FOR APPROVAL? SO MOVED. SECOND. IT'S BEEN MOVED IN. SECOND. ANY QUESTIONS? CITY MANAGER. JACOBS. CITY MANAGER. MR. MATTHEWS, COULD EITHER OF YOU PROVIDE JUST A LITTLE ADDITIONAL CONTEXT ON ITEM NUMBER TWO? THE MAY NOT FOLLOW STATION IS ON. THE PRESENTATION WAS IT'S WHERE ALL THE FLOW GOES. IT'S PUMPED TO THE TREATMENT PLANT. IT'S ABOUT 4000 A LITTLE OVER 400 ZERO FEET AWAY FROM THE MAIN TREATMENT PLANT. IT ORIGINALLY HAD A 36 INCH FORCE MAIN AND A 30 INCH FORCE MAIN. THE BYPASS SETUP WAS ON THE 30 INCH FORCE MAIN. THE. THEY WERE INSTALLED AT THE VERY BEGINNING, I THINK IT WAS IN 81 WHEN THIS WAS BUILT. IT'S ALL UNDERGROUND. NO WAY TO INSPECT IT BECAUSE THEY'RE IN SERVICE 24 OVER SEVEN. WHEN THE BYPASS PUMPS WERE ENERGIZED, THE 30 INCH FORCE MAIN SPLIT, WE HAD A VERY LARGE. OVERFLOW INTO THE DD7 EXCESS OF 2 MILLION GALLONS OF SEWAGE. THE TC WAS NOT HAPPY.

AND THIS IS ONE OF THE ITEMS THAT ACTUALLY CAUSED THE, IN MY OPINION, CAUSED THE ATTORNEY GENERAL TO FINALLY ACT AGAIN BECAUSE THE 2009. THE CITY'S INFRASTRUCTURE WAS IN BAD SHAPE, SO THE AG GOT INVOLVED. WE LOOKED AT WHAT WE HAD TO DO. WE HAD. WE. CONVERTED IT OVER TO THE 36 INCH. THERE WAS A FAILURE IN THE 36 INCH. WE WERE ABLE TO FIX THAT FAIRLY QUICKLY, BUT IT. THERE WAS A VERY BAD WHERE IN THE 36 WHERE WE REPAIRED IT, WE HAD TO KEEP IT IN OPERATION. WE WERE AFRAID WE COULDN'T INSPECT IT. SO KNOWING THE TC CAME AT US AT THIS POINT AND SAID, YOU SHOULD HAVE USED BLUE HOSE. THIS IS A VERY LARGE PUMP STATION. YOU CANNOT USE BLUE HOSE TO GO 4000FT. WE WE HAD A WC DO A QUICK STUDY ON IT. THEY CONFIRMED THAT IT COULDN'T BE DONE, SO WE HAD NO ALTERNATIVE BUT TO HAVE A SECOND FORCE MAIN. IF THE 36 FAILED BECAUSE IT TAKES MONTHS AND MONTHS TO PUT IN A. SOME KIND OF BYPASS SYSTEM. SO RON APPROVED AN EMERGENCY MEMO AND WE STARTED CONSTRUCTION WITH ALCO. THIS WAS BROUGHT TO COUNCIL IN 24 AND WAS ACTUALLY BROUGHT TWICE BECAUSE INITIALLY IT WAS GOING TO BE A CHANGE ORDER TO ALCO'S CONTRACT. THE LAW DEPARTMENT SWITCHED, WANTED IT TO GO AS AN EMERGENCY MEMO.

WE SWITCHED IT TO AN EMERGENCY MEMO WITH A SEPARATE CONTRACT, AND NOW WE FINISHED THE JOB AND WE'RE CLOSING THE. JOB, BASICALLY. OKAY, OKAY. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. OKAY. ALL IN FAVOR, SAY AYE. YES. COME ON UP TO THE PODIUM. GOOD EVENING. HAROLD DOUCETTE, 5180 CAMBRIDGE

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STREET, PORT ARTHUR, TEXAS. WE JUST BOUGHT TWO ITEMS UP ON THE AGENDA, AND IT DIDN'T SEEM LIKE WE KNEW WHY WE WERE BRINGING THESE ITEMS UP OUT OF ORDER. YOU KNOW WHAT? NO MOTION. AND YOU ALL DIDN'T EXPLAIN TO US OTHER THAN THEY WERE MOVING THEM. YOU KNOW, THERE'S A PROCEDURE THAT WE FOLLOW WITH THIS PARTICULAR ITEM HERE. IT BROUGHT UP BECAUSE IT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE PART OF THE. WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT. THIS ITEM SAYS WE ARE RELEASING RETAINAGE FEE AND APPROVING THE DOCUMENTS, ACCEPTING THE DOCUMENTS FOR COMPLETION. SO THE WATER TREATMENT PLANT AIN'T GOING TO BE DONE UNTIL NEXT YEAR. SO IS THIS PART OF A WATER TREATMENT PLANT? NOT OUR FAULT. SO I'M CONFUSED JUST BY WHAT I'M HEARING AND WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING. SO WHAT IS IT? IT'S A SEPARATE PROJECT, I KNOW. AND I DON'T KNOW WHY WE'RE BRINGING IT UP OR WHY WE DEALING WITH THIS, BUT THIS SAYS COMPLETION. SO IT'S OBVIOUS THAT THIS PROJECT IS NOT PART OF WATER TREATMENT PLANT. AND THE OUTFALL IS NOT.

ALL IN FAVOR, SAY I ANY NOS. THE AYES HAVE IT. THE RESOLUTION PASSES. LET'S MOVE

[V. REPORTS / ITEMS OF COMMUNITY INTEREST]

BACK NOW. COUNCIL MEMBERS, IF YOU HAVE ANYTHING THAT YOU'D LIKE TO SPEAK ON TWO MINUTES OR YOU HAVE TWO MINUTES TO EXPRESS CONGRATULATIONS, CONDOLENCES OR ANYTHING AT THIS TIME.

COUNCILMEMBER GATEWOOD THANK YOU. MAYOR, I WANTED TO TAKE THIS OPPORTUNITY TO HIGHLIGHT SOMEONE VERY SPECIAL WHO LIVES IN DISTRICT ONE, WHO IS NOT ONLY PUTTING ON FOR THE CITY, BUT ALSO PUTTING ON FOR DISTRICT ONE, BUT PUTTING ON FOR PORT ARTHUR ISD AS WELL.

AND THAT'S NONE OTHER THAN MISS YVETTE ROGERS. SHE WAS NAMED REGION FIVE SECONDARY TEACHER OF THE YEAR, AND SHE IS NOW IN THE RUNNINGS OF BEING A NOMINEE FOR TEXAS TEACHER OF THE YEAR STATEWIDE. SO DEFINITELY WANTED TO HIGHLIGHT THAT BECAUSE ANY TIME THAT WE GET A CHANCE TO SHOWCASE WHAT WE'RE DOING GREAT HERE, IT IS DEFINITELY A REFLECTION OF OUR COMMUNITY. SO SHOUT OUT TO YOU. AND I ALSO WANT TO TAKE THIS TIME AS WELL TO ACKNOWLEDGE THE OPPORTUNITY THAT WE HAVE AS COUNCIL MEMBERS HERE. SO FOR ANY CONSTITUENT WHO IS LISTENING TO THIS, IF YOU HAVE SOMETHING THAT YOU WOULD LIKE TO HIGHLIGHT FOR ME TO HIGHLIGHT DURING THIS, DURING THIS PARTICULAR TIME, BE IT SOMETHING CELEBRATORY OR SOMETHING THAT WE NEED TO KNOW, YOU CAN DO SO BY EMAILING ME AT TAYLOR DOT GATEWOOD AT PORT ARTHUR, TEXAS.GOV. SO JUST WANT TO MAKE THAT INFORMATION KNOWN AS WELL. THANK YOU MAYOR. YOU'RE WELCOME. OKAY. WE'RE GOING. COUNCIL MEMBER JACOBS AND THEN COUNCILMEMBER FRANK. THANK YOU. MAYOR. KIND OF ECHOING SIMILAR SENTIMENTS OF TRUSTEE GATEWOOD. WANT TO ALSO TRUSTEE. EXCUSE ME. MY GOODNESS.

COUNCILMAN GATEWOOD, I ALSO WANT TO HIGHLIGHT A COLLEAGUE AND RESIDENT OF DISTRICT FOUR, DOCTOR CHRISTY LEWIS, WHO IS THE ASSISTANT SUPERINTENDENT OF ELEMENTARY LEADERSHIP AND A BUNCH OF OTHER TITLES THAT I CANNOT REMEMBER FOR THE PORT ARTHUR INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT. ON HER ACCOMPLISHMENT AS PRINCIPAL OF THE YEAR FOR REGION FIVE, AND ALSO IN THE SAME VEIN OF EDUCATION, THE PORT ARTHUR INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT STARTS SCHOOL TOMORROW, AND SEVERAL OTHER AREA SCHOOLS AND SCHOOL DISTRICTS START SCHOOL THIS WEEK. AND SO JUST ANNOUNCING THIS AS A GENERAL NOTICE OF THE COMMUNITY, BUT ALSO JUST WISHING ALL OF OUR STUDENTS, ESPECIALLY JUST THE STUDENTS OF PORT ARTHUR, THE MOST SUCCESSFUL AND SAFE SCHOOL YEAR POSSIBLE, PRAYING FOR ALL THE EDUCATORS AS WELL AS THE ADMINISTRATORS OUT THERE. IT'S A IT'S A BUSY TIME, BUT IT'S ALSO A VERY EXCITING TIME FOR THE BRILLIANT MINDS OF OUR CHILDREN TO BE OPENED AND NEW THINGS POURED IN. SO I JUST WANT TO WISH BEST WISHES FOR THE CHILDREN OF PORT ARTHUR AS THEY EMBARK UPON A NEW ACADEMIC YEAR. COUNCILMEMBER FRANK MAYOR, I WANT TO TAKE AN OPPORTUNITY FOR A SHAMELESS PLUG FOR THE NEW HOPE BAPTIST CHURCH, OF WHICH I HAVE BEEN THE PASTOR FOR THE PAST 23 YEARS. WE ARE GOING TO BE CELEBRATING OUR 120TH CHURCH ANNIVERSARY AND OUR FAMILY AND FRIENDS DAY THIS COMING WEEKEND. IT'S GOING TO BE A WONDERFUL TIME OF CELEBRATION. THE NEW HOPE BAPTIST CHURCH IS THE OLDEST AFRICAN AMERICAN BLACK BAPTIST CHURCH IN PORT ARTHUR, TEXAS. ISRAEL CHAPEL IS THE ONLY

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CHURCH ON THE HISTORIC WEST SIDE THAT IS AN OLDER CHURCH, BUT NEW HOPE AND ISRAEL CHAPEL COMBINED FORCES MANY TIMES TO HELP FAMILIES DURING HURRICANES AND DURING OTHER TRAGEDIES AND SITUATIONS IN OUR CITY. AND THEN WE ARE WELL AWARE AS WELL OF NEW HOPE'S IMPACT DURING HURRICANE HARVEY AS WELL. IT SERVED AS A HUB FOR OUR COMMUNITY, AS MANY CHURCHES DID.

BUT WE ARE GRATEFUL THAT GOD HAS ALLOWED OUR CHURCH TO STAY OPEN FOR 120 YEARS. THROUGH ALL OF THE HARD WORK OF PREVIOUS PASTORS AND INDIVIDUALS. AND SO I WANTED TO ACKNOWLEDGE THAT AND INVITE INDIVIDUALS TO GO AND SHARE WITH NEW HOPE. ON SUNDAY, THE MAYOR WILL BE THERE.

SHE WILL SIGN YOUR CHURCH PROGRAM. WHEN YOU WHEN YOU'RE THERE ON SUNDAY. SO PLEASE COME AND SHARE WITH US. THANK YOU MAYOR. YOU'RE WELCOME. GET MY AUTOGRAPH. RIGHT? ALRIGHT THEN I'LL BE TALKED ABOUT. BUT ANYWAY, ITEM SIX UNFINISHED BUSINESS. NONE. ITEM SEVEN.

[VII. CONSENT AGENDA]

WE'RE GOING TO GO TO OUR CONSENT AGENDA. COUNCIL MEMBERS, IF YOU HAVE ANYTHING OR ANY ITEMS OR RESOLUTIONS OR THAT YOU'D LIKE TO WITHHOLD, IF YOU WOULD PUT YOUR LIGHTS ON, I WILL ACKNOWLEDGE YOU OR ACKNOWLEDGE SO THAT WE CAN WITHHOLD THOSE ITEMS. SO YOU HAVE ABOUT THREE SECONDS. OH, GOSH. OKAY. NUMBER. COUNCILMEMBER FRANK. ITEM NO, I'M SORRY, COUNCILMEMBER JACOBS, I HAVE ITEMS EIGHT AND 11 THAT I WOULD LIKE FOR US TO PULL UP.

OTHER DISCUSSION. OKAY. COUNCILMEMBER GATEWOOD, I HAD THE SAME, BUT I ALSO HAD ITEM NUMBER SIX. ALL RIGHT. OKAY, COUNCIL, WE'RE GOING TO MOVE FOR A MOTION OF APPROVAL, WITHHOLDING ITEMS FOR OUR CONSENT AGENDA, BUT WITHHOLDING ITEM NUMBER SIX AND EIGHT ON PAGE FIVE. OH YES, SIR. WHAT WHAT? I WOULD LIKE HAROLD TO SET UP 5180 CAMBRIDGE STREET. I WOULD LIKE TO COMMENT OR ASK QUESTIONS ON ITEM IS PR25079. COUNCILMAN I YEAH I DON'T THINK ANY COUNCIL MEMBER PULLED THAT ITEM. SO WE THEY'VE PULLED SIX ITEM NUMBER EIGHT. YES. AND THEN ITEM NUMBER 11. YEAH. THAT'S WHY I CAME BEFORE YOU BECAUSE ANY ITEM YOU'RE GOING TO CONSIDER THAT I WISH TO SPEAK ON I CAN SPEAK. THAT'S CORRECT. THEN THAT'S THE TIME I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT I LET YOU KNOW BEFORE YOU VOTE. WHICH ONE, WHICH ITEM IS THAT I'M GONNA PULL? YOU SAID 79. THAT'S A NINE, RIGHT? 202 Z 22509250925079. MAYOR I'D LIKE TO PULL NUMBER 13. PR NUMBER 25079. GOOD QUESTION. THANK YOU. SO COUNCIL MEMBERS WE'RE GOING TO MOVE FOR APPROVAL BUT WITHHOLDING FROM OUR CONSENT AGENDA ITEM NUMBER SIX ON PAGE FIVE, ITEM NUMBER EIGHT ON PAGE FIVE. ITEM NUMBER 11 ON PAGE SIX. ITEM NUMBER 13 ON PAGE SIX.

CAN I GET A MOTION FOR APPROVAL? SO MOVED. MAYOR. IT'S BEEN MOVED IN SECOND. ANY QUESTIONS? ALL IN FAVOR, SAY I, I ANY NOS. THE AYES HAVE IT. THE CONSENT AGENDA PASSES WILL NOW GO BACK

[VII.C.(6) P.R. No. 25048 – A Resolution Authorizing The City Manager To Execute A New Non-Exclusive Intercity Bus Service Agreement Between The City Of Port Arthur, Acting By And Through Port Arthur Transit, And Greyhound Bus Lines, Inc., Flix North America, Inc., And FlixBus, Inc., For the Operation Of Intercity Bus Services At The Port Arthur Transit Terminal For An Initial Term Of Three (3) Years, With An Option To Renew For Two (2) Additional Years; Authorizing The Termination Of Prior Agreements Covering The Same Subject Matter.]

AND HANDLE THE INDIVIDUAL ITEMS. WE'RE GOING TO GO TO ITEM NUMBER SIX, COUNCILMAN GATEWOOD.

OKAY. I THOUGHT YOU HAD YOUR LIGHT ON. THANK YOU. MAYOR. COUNCIL MEMBER 6PR NUMBER 25048.

A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE A NEW NON-EXCLUSIVE INTERCITY BUS SERVICE AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE CITY OF PORT ARTHUR, ACTING BY AND THROUGH PORT ARTHUR TRANSIT AND GREYHOUND BUS LINES INCORPORATED, FELIX NORTH AMERICA INCORPORATED AND FLIXBUS INCORPORATED FOR THE OPERATION OF INTERCITY BUS SERVICES AT THE PORT ARTHUR TRANSIT TERMINAL FOR AN INITIAL TERM OF THREE YEARS, WITH AN OPTION TO RENEW FOR TWO ADDITIONAL YEARS. AUTHORIZING TERMINATION OF PRIOR AGREEMENTS COVERING THE SAME SUBJECT MATTER. MAY I GET A MOTION FOR APPROVAL? SO MOVED. SECOND, IT'S BEEN MOVED. AND SECOND, ANY QUESTIONS? COUNCILMEMBER GATEWOOD? THANK YOU, MAYOR, CITY MANAGER, CITY MANAGER. YOU HAD YOUR LIGHTS ON. NO I'M SORRY. OKAY. COUNCILMEMBER GATEWOOD, THANK YOU. I JUST WANTED TO GET ONE CLARIFICATION ON THIS AGREEMENT. JUST WANTED TO SEE WILL THIS CONTRACT, AN AGREEMENT, GENERATE SOME FUNDING FOR US, AS THEY WILL BE AS WE ENACT THIS AGREEMENT? IS

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IT GOING TO GENERATE SOME FUNDING? DOES. OKAY. ABOUT HOW MUCH WOULD YOU SAY? IN A FEW TENS OF THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS. AND IT'S NOT A GREAT AMOUNT OF MONEY, 30, $40,000 THEREABOUTS.

OKAY. BECAUSE BASICALLY WHAT THEY USE, THEY JUST USE OUR TRANSIT TERMINAL. YEAH. YOU KNOW, PEOPLE COME IN AND GO OUT. YEAH. IT'S NOT A GREAT AMOUNT OF MONEY, BUT IT DOES. OKAY. I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE WE'RE GONNA MAKE SOME MONEY FROM IT. BUT ALSO TO SECONDLY, I HAD MY, MY SECOND QUESTION IS, OF COURSE, WITH, WITH THAT MUCH MORE TRAFFIC COMING IN, WOULD THEY BE RESPONSIBLE FOR ADDING SOME EXTRA SECURITY THERE? I'VE HAD I'VE HAD THE OPPORTUNITY OF RIDING A FLIXBUS BEFORE, AND I TOOK OUT OF BEAUMONT TO GO TO NEW ORLEANS. AND I WOULD JUST SAY, YOU HAVE AN ASSORTMENT OF PEOPLE WHO RIDE THAT BUS FOR MANY DIFFERENT REASONS. AND SO JUST WANTED TO, TO, TO BE SURE THAT WE UP OUR SECURITY AND IF THEY WOULD BE PROVIDING THAT WHEN THIS DEAL HAPPENS, I, I THINK WE PROVIDE OUR OWN SECURITY OUT THERE AS WELL.

I'VE SEEN THAT THE TRANSIT DEPARTMENT IS 80 TO 90% FUNDED BY THE FTA. SO WE WE DO PROVIDE OUR OWN SECURITY. SO WE. GOOD. YES. OKAY. OH, YEAH. YEAH. THOSE AGREEMENTS HAVE BEEN IN PLACE FOR A NUMBER OF YEARS, YOU KNOW, SO WE'VE BEEN PRETTY GOOD AT IT. OKAY, PERFECT.

THANK YOU. AND IT'S ALSO GOOD TO SEE THAT WE'LL HAVE SOME MORE TRAFFIC DOWN THAT WAY. OF COURSE, THAT FALLS IN DISTRICT ONE. THAT'S MY BABY. BUT IT'S GOING TO BE GOOD TO SEE THAT IT'S GOING TO PICK UP SOME TRAFFIC, BUT JUST WANTED TO MAKE SURE ON THE TAIL END THAT WE ARE, OF COURSE, YOU KNOW, BEING BEING DUE DILIGENCE ON, ON THINKING AHEAD OF WHAT COULD HAPPEN IN A RISE AS WE BRING MORE PEOPLE AND MORE TRAFFIC INTO THE CITY. ABSOLUTELY. ALL RIGHT. ALL IN FAVOR, SAY AYE. AYE. ANY NOS. THE AYES HAVE IT. THE RESOLUTION PASSES NUMBER

[VII.C.(8) P.R. No. 25056 – A Resolution Rescinding A Portion Of Resolution No. 26-053 To Withdraw The Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Subrecipient Award To Catholic Charities Of Southeast Texas In The Amount Of $30,000 From The 2025 – 2026 Community Development Block Grant Program Following The Subrecipient’s Declination Of the Award; Reallocating Said Funds To The City Of Port Arthur Housing Assistance Infrastructure Project; Authorizing the City Manager To Execute All Necessary Documents (Account Number 105-13-033-5470-00-40-000; Project #CD24118)]

EIGHT. PR NUMBER 25056. A RESOLUTION RESCINDING A PORTION OF RESOLUTION NUMBER 26-053 TO WITHDRAW THE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT. CDBG RECIPIENT AWARD TO CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS IN THE AMOUNT OF 3000 FROM THE 2025 2026 COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT PROGRAM. FOLLOWING THE SUB RECIPIENTS DESIGNATION OF THE AWARD ALLOCATING FUNDS TO THE CITY OF PORT ARTHUR HOUSING ASSISTANCE INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECT.

AUTHORIZING CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE ALL NECESSARY DOCUMENTS. ACCOUNT NUMBER 105-13-033. DASH 5470-00. CAN Y'ALL MUTE THOSE PARTICIPANTS DASH 40-000? PROJECT NUMBER CD24118, CAN I GET A MOTION FOR APPROVAL? SO MOVED! SECOND, IT'S BEEN MOVED IN. SECOND QUESTIONS COUNCIL MEMBER JACOBS YES, MA'AM. THANK YOU. MAYOR. I WANTED TO PULL THIS. I GUESS MORE SO JUST FOR.

THE RECORD, FOR US TO HAVE A FULL UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT ACTUALLY TRANSPIRED HERE WITH THE THE INITIAL NAME RECIPIENT AND THEN THE SUB RECIPIENT DECIDING TO DECLINE. SO THE CITY MANAGER OR WHOMEVER THE APPROPRIATE PERSON IS, CAN JUST PROVIDE THAT CONTEXT ON THE RECORD. YEAH. HELLO, MY NAME IS MARY ESSEX. CAN YOU HEAR ME? YES, MARY, WE CAN HEAR YOU.

GREAT. THERE. WHAT HAPPENED IS WE'RE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT RECIPIENTS ARE REQUIRED TO FOLLOW THE REGULATIONS THAT HUD MAKES THE CITY FOLLOW. AND THIS IS A NEW REGULATION WHERE WE HAVE TO USE A VERIFICATION SYSTEM FOR ALL THE PARTICIPANTS IN THE CBD PROGRAM. THE CITY HAS TO FOLLOW IT AS WELL AS OUR SUB RECIPIENTS. IT WAS A NEW ITEM INCLUDED IN OUR GRANT AGREEMENT, AND WE MADE EACH OF THE SUB RECIPIENTS AWARE OF IT. AND CATHOLIC CHARITIES DECLINED IT. THEY SAY THEY PREFER JUST PROVIDE THE SERVICE AND NOT GO THROUGH THE VERIFICATION SYSTEM. AND SO WE HAVE THE FUNDS AVAILABLE AND WE JUST REPROGRAM IT TO A CITY PROJECT. OKAY. THANK YOU, MISS ESSEX. COUNCILMEMBER GATEWOOD, THANK YOU. JUST ONE QUICK QUESTION ON THAT AND THANK YOU FOR FOR EXPLAINING THAT AS WELL. THAT MAKES IT MUCH MORE EASIER TO UNDERSTAND. BUT I DID HAVE A QUESTION AS WELL. SO WHEN WERE WE NOT ABLE TO ALLOCATE THE THE REMAINDER FUNDS TO MAYBE ONE THAT WE ALREADY HAD ON THE LIST TO GIVE THEM POTENTIALLY A LITTLE BIT MORE? THE REASON WHY I'M ASKING IS BECAUSE WE HAVE I SEE LIKE ON HERE, WE HAVE THE REALLY THE WILLY CARTER COMMUNITY OUTREACH CENTER THAT DEALS WITH MENTAL HEALTH. AND I KNOW WITH THE FUNDS THAT HE'S BEEN ALLOCATED, HE'S USING THAT

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HE WILL BE UTILIZED FOR, OF COURSE, A NUMBER OF INDIVIDUALS. BUT IF WE WERE ABLE TO EXPAND THAT THAT MONEY, WE WOULD BE ABLE TO REACH A LITTLE BIT MORE. IS THAT AM I IS THAT MAKING SENSE? YES. YES, SIR, IT DOES MAKE SENSE. AND GO BACK TO THE CDBG PROJECT PROCESS. AT THE BEGINNING. WE GO BEFORE COUNCIL AND COUNCIL ALLOCATES. THE FUNDS WILL BE USED TO WHICH ORGANIZATION BASED ON THEIR APPLICATION AND THE AMOUNT. AND IT IS POSSIBLE, INSTEAD OF ALLOCATING IT TO THE HOUSING DEPARTMENT, WE CAN GO THROUGH ANOTHER PROCESS TO REALLOCATE THE FUNDS. HOWEVER COUNCIL APPROVED. THIS IS ONLY A SUGGESTION. OKAY. THANK YOU.

YOU'RE WELCOME. OKAY. THANK YOU, CITY MANAGER. I'M SORRY. I WAS JUST ABOUT TO SAY WHEN MARY SAID THEN WE. THE ITEM STILL HAS TO COME BACK TO THE COUNCIL AGAIN. THEY'RE DECLINING IT. WE HAVE TO BRING IT TO COUNCIL SO THAT YOU APPROVE OF IT. THEN WE COME BACK AGAIN TO DO IT. OKAY.

SO TO REALLOCATE. OKAY. YES, YES. SO THIS IS JUST ONLY TO DECLINE. AND THEN AT THE NEXT ONE WE WILL BE ABLE TO DECIDE WHAT WE WANT. OKAY. PERFECT. YEAH, YEAH. THANK YOU FOR THAT CLARIFICATION. ALL RIGHT. GREAT. MR. DOUCETTE. HAROLD, YOU SAID 5180 CAMBRIDGE, PORT ARTHUR, TEXAS, THE 300 $0 IS PART OF THE CGCDG FUND THAT WAS APPROVED BY COUNCIL IS 15%. 15% OF THE FUNDS MUST GO TO NONPROFITS. THE $30,000 THAT WAS AWARDED TO CAPTAIN CATHOLIC CHARITIES IS ACTUALLY A NONPROFIT THAT'S NONPROFIT MONEY. THE 30,000 IS APPROXIMATELY MORE THAN 25% OF THE TOTAL THAT WE AWARDED TO THE NONPROFITS. SO IF CATHOLIC CHARITIES CANNOT ACCEPT OR DECLINE THAT MONEY, THAT 30,000 SHOULD BE REALLOCATED, ALL OF IT TO NONPROFITS, BECAUSE HUD REQUIRES 15% OF THAT MONEY TO BE DEDICATED TO NONPROFIT.

THAT'S NOT COUNCIL'S DECISION. WE HAVE TO SPEND 15% TO NONPROFITS, AND THAT 30,000 PART OF THAT 15%. SO WHEN YOU DO REALLOCATE THESE THIS MONEY, IT SHOULD GO TO NONPROFITS. AND IN REFERENCE TO BRINGING SOMETHING BACK, THIS RESOLUTION HERE IS TO APPROVE THIS MONEY GONE TO IDLE. SO THANK YOU. I DON'T SEE HOW THAT HAD ANYTHING TO DO WITH THIS ONE. BUT THAT $30,000. I JUST LIKE TO BRING IT TO COUNCIL'S ATTENTION MUST GO TO NONPROFITS. I LIKE TO SAY SOMETHING. YES, MARY. GO AHEAD. WHAT YOU SAID IS CORRECT. CDBG ALLOCATION, AT LEAST 15% HAS TO GO TO NONPROFITS, BUT IT CANNOT EXCEED. SO WE CAN DO LESS THAN. WE CAN'T ALLOCATE LESS THAN 15%, BUT IT'S REALLY UP TO COUNCIL. HOWEVER THEY WOULD LIKE TO ALLOCATE IT. WE CAN BRING IT BEFORE YOU AGAIN AND MAKE A DECISION HOW TO ALLOCATE THE 30,000, BUT WE JUST CANNOT EXCEED 30%, CANNOT EXCEED 15% FOR THE ALLOCATIONS. THANK YOU. OKAY, SO WE'RE DECLINING THE MONEY. THIS RESOLUTION IS DECLINING. THE DOLLARS FROM THE COMMUNITY, FROM CATHOLIC CHARITIES. AND THEN WHAT ARE WE DOING IN HERE? BECAUSE IT SAYS IT'S GOING TO GO TO THE HOUSING ASSISTANCE INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECT. YES. SO DO WE NEED TO AMEND THIS RESOLUTION? THERE IS NO THERE IS NO NEED TO AMEND IT. AS MARY SAID, YOU KNOW, WE CAN'T DO LESS THAN 50%. HOWEVER, REMEMBER THE HOUSING INFRASTRUCTURE PROGRAM WE HAVE PEOPLE LIKE. WHAT'S THE NAME OF THAT NONPROFIT THAT WORKS WITH US ALL THE TIME? LEGACY, LEGACY, WORKING WITH IT. OKAY. YOU KNOW, SO THEY CAN WORK WITH THEM. YES, WE, WE HAVE A MOTION AND WE HAVE A SECOND. WE'RE IN DISCUSSION. WE NEED TO KNOW WHAT TO DO. OKAY. MAYOR, I, THIS IS MY SECOND TIME SPEAKING.

I KNOW I WAIT FOR YOU TO ACKNOWLEDGE ME. GO AHEAD. THANK YOU. I JUST WANTED TO BE SURE BECAUSE WHAT WAS JUST EXPLAINED A FEW SECONDS AGO WAS THIS WAS ONLY ABOUT THE DECLINE. AND THEN AT THE NEXT MEETING, WE WILL HAVE WE WILL MAKE THE DECISION AS COUNCIL AS TO WHERE WE WANT THIS MONEY TO GO. HOWEVER, THIS RESOLUTION DOES NOT READ AS SUCH, SO THERE MAY

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NEED TO BE AN AMENDMENT. WE NEED TO HAVE AN AMENDMENT TO THIS RESOLUTION SO THAT WE CAN AMEND IT. I HEARD THE MANAGER SAY IT DIDN'T NEED TO BE AMENDED, BUT THE WAY IT'S READ IS ASSIGNING THE MONEY TO PORT ARTHUR HOUSING INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECT. SO WE'RE GOING TO AMEND THIS TO GO TO I KNOW LEGACY IS A NONPROFIT, AM I CORRECT? SO THAT WILL BE GIVING THE MONEY TOWARD THE HOUSING INFRASTRUCTURE, TO LEGACY, TO THE PROJECT. SO IF THEY WANT TO MOVE THAT MONEY, IT WOULD BE BY RESOLUTION IN THE NEXT MEETING FROM LEGACY TO ANOTHER NONPROFIT. BUT IT HAD TO BE DONE BY RESOLUTION. SO WE WANT TO BE CLEAR, AND WE WANT TO MAKE SURE WE'RE DOING WHAT WE NEED TO DO IN THIS MEETING TO MAKE SURE WE HAVE CLARITY ON WHERE THE MONEY IS GOING. WE KNOW WHERE IT'S COMING FROM. NOW LET'S WHERE ARE WE GOING TO AMEND THIS TO GO SOMEWHERE ELSE? OR ARE WE GOING TO, BUT WE GOTTA WE HAVE TO MAKE AN ACTION ON THIS. WE HAVE A MOTION AND WE HAVE A SECOND. IT'S ON THE FLOOR AND DISCUSSION. WE'VE TALKED ABOUT IT. MARY TOLD US WHAT WE CAN DO. WHAT, WHAT, WHAT ARE WE DOING? WE'RE GOING TO BRING IT BACK AND ALLOCATE IT TO SOMEWHERE ELSE. WE GOT TO DO AN AMENDMENT. I SAY LET'S AMEND IT TO ACCEPT THE THE, THE DECLINE OF THE, THE, THE GIFT, AND THEN COME BACK AT OUR NEXT COUNCIL MEETING. OKAY, SO I NEED A, I NEED AN AMENDMENT. MAYOR MOSES, I MAKE THE AMENDMENT. I MAKE A MOTION TO AMEND THE. THIS RESOLUTION, OF COURSE, TO ACCEPT ONLY THE THE DECLINE OF THE CBD GRANT CDBG GRANTS FROM CATHOLIC CHARITIES, FROM CATHOLIC CHARITIES. OKAY, THERE WE GO. I NEED A SECOND. I GOT A MOTION. I NEED A SECOND. I GOT A SECOND. SECOND. OKAY, NOW I GOT A QUESTION ON THE AMENDMENT. YES. COUNCILMEMBER JACOBS AND SO THANK YOU, MAYOR.

MY QUESTION IS THAT FOR THIS IS FOR CITY MANAGER, WE CAN BE PROVIDED PRIOR TO OUR NEXT MEETING, PROVIDED WITH A LIST OF. OF ACCEPTABLE ORGANIZATIONS OR ORGANIZATIONS FOR CONSIDERATION FOR THAT REALLOCATION. NONPROFITS. YES. THE LIST OF OPTIONS THAT WE DO HAVE FOR THE REALLOCATION FOR OUR CONSIDERATION. YES. THANK YOU. ALL RIGHT. ALL IN FAVOR, SAY I, I ANY NO'S ON THE AMENDMENT. THE AYES HAVE IT. THE AMENDED RESOLUTION PASSES.

ALL RIGHT. NOW DO I HAVE TO GO BACK TO THE ORIGINAL AND DO ANYTHING WITH THAT CITY SECRETARY AND LEGAL. OKAY. WE'RE DONE. ALL RIGHT. LET'S MOVE TO NUMBER NINE. NO

[VII.C.(11) P.R. No. 25059 – A Resolution Authorizing The City Manager To Execute An Easement Agreement With Kinder Morgan Pipeline Company, LLC, For The City Of Port Arthur To Acquire A 20-Foot-Wide Permanent Easement And A Temporary Workspace Across The Same Easement Area Of Approximately 2.20 Acres Of Land, More Or Less, Being Part Of Lots 6 And 7, Block 13, Range M, Port Arthur Land Company Subdivision, Jefferson County, Texas, Located Along FM 365, For The Purpose Of Constructing, Installing, Operating, Maintaining, Repairing, Replacing, And Accessing A Sanitary Sewer Force Main, For The Total Amount Of $26,173.00. Funding Is Available In CIP Account No. 405-40-000-8516-00-00-000, Project No. WS0012.CON.]

APPROVED NUMBER NINE. LET'S GO TO NUMBER 11 ON PAGE NUMBER SIX. SO WE'RE CLEAR THAT THE WHAT WE JUST DID ACTION WAS DECLINING THE MONEY FROM CATHOLIC CHARITIES. WE'LL COME BACK WITH A LIST OF NONPROFITS TO ALLOCATE THOSE DOLLARS TO A NONPROFIT. OKAY. THANK YOU. NOW LET'S GO TO NUMBER 11, PR NUMBER 25059, A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE AN EASEMENT AGREEMENT WITH KINDER MORGAN PIPELINE COMPANY, LLC FOR THE CITY OF PORT ARTHUR TO ACQUIRE A 20 FOOT WIDE PERMANENT EASEMENT AND A TEMPORARY WORKSPACE ACROSS THE SAME EASEMENT AREA OF APPROXIMATELY 2.20 MILES OF LAND, MORE OR LESS BEING PART OF LOT SIX AND SEVEN. BLOCK 13 RANGE M, PORT ARTHUR LAND COMPANY SUBDIVISION, JEFFERSON COUNTY, TEXAS LOCATED ALONG FM 365 FOR THE PURPOSE OF CONSTRUCTING, INSTALLING, OPERATING, MAINTAINING, REPAIRING, REPLACING AND ACCESSING A SANITARY SEWER FORCE MAIN FOR THE TOTAL AMOUNT OF $26,173. FUNDING IS AVAILABLE IN SIP ACCOUNT NUMBER 405-40-000-8516-00-00-000. PROJECT NUMBER WS0012 DOT COMI GET A MOTION FOR APPROVAL. SO MOVED. SECOND. I NEED A SECOND DISCUSSION. QUESTIONS? YES THANK YOU MAYOR. SO MY QUESTIONS ARE. AND OF COURSE Y'ALL KNEW I WAS GOING TO HAVE QUESTIONS ABOUT THIS ONE, BUT WHEN IT WHEN IT COMES TO THE REQUEST TO PURCHASE A PERMANENT EASEMENT. AND I'M LOOKING AT THIS ON THE MAP, I CAN'T QUITE TELL IT'S WHERE THIS IS. I KNOW IT'S ON 365 ON THE KINDER MORGAN. THEY HAVE A FACILITY ON THE SOUTH SIDE OF 365, AND THEY HAVE A WHOLE BUNCH OF. IT'S VERY CLOSE TO THE WATER TOWER. IF YOU'RE LOOKING. THERE'S A WATER TOWER AND THEN GOING WEST, THERE'S A THERE'S A COW PASTURE. WALMART'S OVER HERE ON THE SOUTH SIDE, AND THEN THERE'S A, A GAS FACILITY OF SOME KIND. IT'S SHUT DOWN, BUT IT'S STILL MAINTAINED. AND THEN THEY'RE

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KIND OF ACROSS ON THE SOUTH SIDE. SO THE WATER TOWERS ON THE NORTH SIDE, THIS IS ON THE SOUTH SIDE. OKAY. AND DOES THIS TO YOUR KNOWLEDGE, TIE IN THIS THIS KINDER MORGAN PROPERTY, DOES IT TIE IN TO THE CURRENT EASEMENT THAT THEY HAVE FOR THE PROJECTS THAT ARE ONGOING ALONG.

THE HIGHWAY 73 AT 365, LIKE BEHIND THE PALOMAR ADDITION AND THROUGH THE CROSSING INTO MORGAN HAS PIPELINES ALL OVER THE CITY. YES, THEY'RE BUILDING NEW PIPELINES. THIS THIS EASEMENT RIGHT HERE. THEY ACTUALLY HAVE A FACILITY. WHAT THEY DO IN THAT FACILITY, I HAVE NO IDEA. THEY HAVE A WHOLE LOT OF PIPELINES COMING IN. AND WE WE HAD TO SWITCH OUR PIPELINE TO THE SOUTH SIDE BECAUSE OF SOME INTERFERENCES ON THE NORTH SIDE. AND WE WE MOVED. IT'S MAINLY THAT GAS FACILITY BECAUSE WE HAD TO KEEP THE EXISTING SEWER RUNNING. SO WE. BECAUSE THERE'S REALLY NO WAY TO BYPASS IT. AND SO THIS GOT A NEW. AND I WOULD LIKE TO GIVE KUDOS TO THE LAW DEPARTMENT. BY THE WAY, I JUST HATE ME. THEY NEGOTIATED THE THE. BECAUSE WE'RE A CITY CAN THE. MORGAN, WITH THEIR LAW DEPARTMENT'S URGING CUT THE RATE IN HALF. SO THEY SAVED US. THIS SHOULD HAVE BEEN DOUBLED. IF WOULD HAVE BEEN A PRIVATE INDUSTRY. THEY WERE ABLE TO SAVE US HALF. BUT THE. THE REASON THERE'S A PERMANENT AND TEMPORARY. WHEN YOU DO DIRECTIONAL DRILLING, YOU HAVE TO WALK ABOVE THE DRILLING HEAD ON THE SURFACE WITH A MACHINE THAT TELLS YOU EXACTLY WHERE THE DRILLING HEAD IS, DEPTH AND LEFT AND RIGHT. SO YOU HAVE TO HAVE A TEMPORARY EASEMENT TO WALK ACROSS THEIR PROPERTY WHILE YOU'RE DRILLING IN THE PERMANENT PIPE. I DON'T KNOW IF I ANSWERED YOUR QUESTION. NO, YOU ABSOLUTELY DID. AND THEN MY LAST MY FINAL QUESTION RELATED TO THIS IS. WHICH PORTIONS, I GUESS, WHICH RESIDENTIAL AREAS DOES THIS? DOES THIS REPAIR KIND OF BENEFIT THE THE PUMP STATION? IT'S ON THE NORTH SIDE BETWEEN THE TOWER AND 96. BUT THIS I DON'T THE SUBDIVISION BEHIND THE AIRPORT. YES. OKAY. IT HANDLES THAT. IT HANDLES THE WHAT DO YOU CALL THAT? THE CHICKEN PLACE? YEAH. THE WALMART THE AND THE APARTMENT COMPLEX ON 96. YEAH. THE HOSPITAL FLOWS BY GRAVITY TO THIS LIFT STATION. SO BASICALLY EVERYTHING OVER THERE. OKAY.

AND THEN WHEN YOU GET DOWN TO THE ALMOST TO WEST PORT ARTHUR ROAD, THERE'S ANOTHER LIFT STATION THAT CURRENTLY ALL THE FLOW GOES TO THAT LIFT STATION. IT'S PUMPED. THIS NEW JOB WILL TAKE IT ALL THE WAY TO THE GRAVITY SEWER ON WEST PORT ARTHUR ROAD. AND WE'RE GOING TO TAKE THAT EXISTING STATION AND INJECT IT IN THIS FORCEMAIN, BECAUSE THE FORCEMAIN THAT CROSSES THE LNVA, WHERE WE GET OUR DRINKING WATER IS STARTING TO FAIL. OKAY. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU. OKAY. ALL IN FAVOR, SAY I, I ANY NOS. THE AYES HAVE IT. THE RESOLUTION PASSES. LET'S

[VII.C.(13) P.R. No. 25079 – A Resolution Authorizing The City Manager To Enter Into A Contract With Pavecon, Ltd., Of Houston, Texas, Buyboard Cooperative Contract No. 800-26, For The Sabine Avenue Asphalt Overlay Project For The Amount Of $77,175.50. Funds Are Available In Account No. 410-40-220-5470-00-00-000. Project No. ST5115.]

MOVE TO NUMBER 13 ON PAGE NUMBER SIX, PR NUMBER 25079. A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO ENTER INTO A CONTRACT WITH PAVE CON LIMITED OF HOUSTON, TEXAS BY BOARD COOPERATIVE CONTRACT NUMBER 800 DASH TWO SIX FOR THE SABINE AVENUE ASPHALT OVERLAY PROJECT FOR THE AMOUNT OF $77,175.50. FUNDS ARE AVAILABLE IN ACCOUNT NUMBER 410-40-220-5470-00-00-000. PROJECT NUMBER ST5115. I GET A MOTION FOR APPROVAL. SO MOVED, I GOT A MOTION AND A SECOND, ANY THE QUESTIONS I OKAY. COUNCILMEMBER PENA, I HAD SOME QUESTIONS FOR DOCTOR HANEY. DOCTOR HANEY SO I WANTED TO KNOW ON THIS ON THESE STREET REPAIRS. DO WE HAVE A WARRANTY BOND IN PLACE WITH THIS COMPANY? YES. EVERY COMPANY HAS TO PROVIDE A BOND AND ONE YEAR WARRANTY. OKAY. HOW MANY YEARS IS THE BOND FOR THE WARRANTY IS FOR ONE YEAR? WELL, THE WORKMANSHIP. OKAY, SO IT'S THE ONE YEAR. OKAY. IT. HAVE Y'ALL NEVER DONE WARRANTY BONDS FOR THREE YEARS OR FIVE YEARS OR IT'S STRICTLY ARE THEY ALWAYS ONE YEAR? THE BOND, THE BOND AND THE WARRANTY ARE TWO DIFFERENT THINGS. YEAH. SO THE WARRANTY BOND IS WHAT I'M ASKING ABOUT BECAUSE THE WARRANTY BOND DO YOU HAVE ONE

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IN PLACE OR OR YOU DON'T. BECAUSE I KNOW THE WORKMANSHIP IS ONE YEAR. I SEE THAT HERE.

CORRECT. I CAN LET CLIFTON ANSWER THAT QUESTION BECAUSE HE HANDLES THAT PART. HE HANDLES THE BOND PARTS OF THE PROJECT SO HE'LL KNOW MORE ABOUT IT THAN ME. OKAY. THE ONLY BONDS THAT WE REQUIRE ON THESE PROJECTS IS PAYMENT AND PERFORMANCE BONDS, DEPENDING ON THE COST. BUT AS FAR AS WARRANTY BONDS. WELL, I TAKE IT BACK, WE HAVE HAD IN THE PAST ON CERTAIN STREETS THAT I DON'T KNOW IF IT'S CALLED A WARRANTY BOND, BUT THERE WAS A BOND FOR THE STREETS. I CAN'T REMEMBER HOW MANY YEARS IT WAS. I HAVE TO GO BACK AND LOOK AT THE CONTRACT. SO YES, OCCASIONALLY WE DO PUT THOSE BONDS IN THERE FOR THE WORK. OKAY, SO THIS PARTICULAR ONE YOU SAID IT'S A THEY DO HAVE A ONE YEAR WARRANTY BOND OR. YES. NOW THIS WAS MORE DONE THROUGH THE ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT BECAUSE SINCE IT WAS THROUGH BY BOARD, THEY DID MORE THAN NEGOTIATING ON IT AND I JUST OVERSEEING IT. IT WAS A VALID CONTRACT THROUGH BY BOARD. BUT BASED ON THE QUOTE THAT I'M TRYING TO REMEMBER, THAT I SEEN THAT THE ONLY THING THAT WAS REQUIRED ON THIS ONE BOND WISE WAS A PAYMENT BOND. OKAY. AND THE REASON I ASK, BECAUSE SOMETIMES AFTER THEY DO REPAIR OUR STREETS WITH ASPHALT, YOU KNOW, IT'S RIGHT AFTER A YEAR THERE, THEY GET DAMAGED. AND THEN AFTER THAT, IT SEEMS LIKE THE CITY GETS STUCK WITH REPAIRING THAT. IS THAT RIGHT? AND THAT'S WHY I I'VE ALWAYS BEEN, YOU KNOW, I'M A GENERAL CONTRACTOR AND I'VE ALWAYS WANTED TO HAVE A WARRANTY BOND FOR 3 OR 5 YEARS. AND, YOU KNOW, WE'RE PAYING THESE COMPANIES BIG MONEY AND THEY SHOULD, YOU KNOW, THEY SHOULD BE RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS FOR A FEW YEARS. I MEAN, PERSONALLY, I HAVE NO OBJECTION TO THAT. LIKE I SAID, WHEN IT COMES TO THAT, I, I GENERALLY GO BY THE SPECS THAT THE ENGINEERS SEND TO ME TO INCLUDE THAT. BUT THAT'S SOMETHING WE CAN HAVE A CONVERSATION ABOUT IN FUTURE, BECAUSE I JUST FEEL WE'RE LETTING THEM OFF THE HOOK AFTER ONE YEAR, AND THEN THE CITY GETS STUCK WITH IT. AND THAT'S WHAT I'M I'M JUST TIRED OF, OKAY, WE'VE BEEN DEALING WITH THIS FOR YEARS. OKAY. SO IT'S DEFINITELY GOING TO BE SOMETHING THAT WE ARE GOING TO BE DISCUSSING IN THE FUTURE. AND THEN I HAD ANOTHER QUESTION FOR DOCTOR HANEY AGAIN. AND THANK YOU, CLIFTON. SO WHO'S THE ONE THAT DECIDES WHETHER WE SHOULD INSTALL CONCRETE OR ASPHALT? THE ENGINEERING STAFF WILL GO OUT THERE ON THESE PROJECTS AND EVALUATE THE CONDITION OF THE ROAD. AND IF IT'S EXISTING ASPHALT, IN MOST CASES, WE'RE GOING BACK WITH ASPHALT BASED ON TRAFFIC COUNTS AND THE KIND OF VEHICLES THAT ARE DRIVING ON THESE ROADS. IF IT'S A REINFORCED CONCRETE ROAD, THEN WE'RE GOING BACK WITH REINFORCED CONCRETE. THE CONTRACTS WE ARE PUTTING OUT ARE MAINLY ASPHALT REHABILITATION CONTRACTS. YEAH.

AND JUST SO YOU CAN INFORM THE COUNCIL, WHAT IS THE COST COMPARISON BETWEEN CONCRETE AND ASPHALT? I CAN PROVIDE YOU SOME NUMBERS. INSTEAD OF SHOOTING FROM THE HIP, I'LL PROVIDE YOU A TABLE THAT COMPARES THESE COSTS TOGETHER. I JUST HATE SHOOTING NUMBERS FROM THE HIP.

WOULD YOU? I MEAN, IT IS 1,015% DIFFERENCE. IT'S PROBABLY SOMETHING A LITTLE BIT MORE THAN THAT. AND THE DIFFERENCE THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN CONCRETE AND ASPHALT IS ASPHALT IS EXPECTED. LIFE IS TEN YEARS. CONCRETE CAN GO UP TO 20, 25 YEARS. SO THERE'S A PLUS AND A MINUS ON THAT. BUT IF WE GO AROUND AND START REPLACING ASPHALT STREETS TODAY WITH REINFORCED CONCRETE STREETS, WE WILL NOT BE ABLE TO DO AS MANY STREETS AS WE ARE DOING. WELL, BECAUSE YOU SAY THE THE LIFE EXPECTANCY OF ASPHALT IS TEN YEARS, BUT I'VE SEEN IT AFTER 1 OR 2 YEARS, AND THEN WE DON'T HAVE NO WARRANTY BEHIND THAT. SO I MEAN, THAT DOESN'T MAKE SENSE TO ME. THE IDEA YOU HAVE IS GREAT. WE WILL DEFINITELY LOOK INTO IT AND SEE IF WE CAN EXTEND THESE WARRANTIES TO 3 TO 5 YEARS. AND WHAT IS THE LEGAL APPROPRIATE METHOD TO DO SO? OKAY. AND I KNOW JUST ONE OF THE DOWNSIDES ABOUT CONCRETE IS THAT IT TAKES A LITTLE BIT LONGER, BUT I WOULD PREFER TO HAVE MORE CONCRETE ROADS, EVEN THOUGH IT TAKES A LITTLE LONGER, BUT THEY'RE GOING TO BE PERMANENTLY FIXED FOR 25 YEARS IN THE MAIN THOROUGHFARES.

THAT'S THE IDEAL WAY TO GO. BUT WHEN YOU GO INTO THE RESIDENTIAL STREETS, IT JUST DOESN'T MAKE SENSE TO GO WITH THE REINFORCED CONCRETE. OKAY. AND LET'S SEE. OKAY. AND THOSE ARE ALL MY QUESTIONS. THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU, COUNCILMEMBER FRANK. YES. YOUR LIGHT ON. YES. THANK YOU. COME. CAN YOU COME TO THE PODIUM REAL QUICK? COWBOY HAT. OH IT'S

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MARTIN. YEAH. HE PUT IT ON TO. MARTIN FLOOD. I'M SORRY, I WAS HAVING I WAS HAVING A MOMENT.

MARTIN. I COULDN'T SEE YOUR MOMENTS. RIGHT. YEAH. HAVING A SENIOR MOMENT. THAT'S WHY.

THAT'S WHY I PROMISE ATTRIBUTED TO YOU THAT I COULDN'T REALLY. I HAD A SENIOR MOMENT. I'M 70.

ALMOST ALRIGHT. A WHILE BACK WHEN I FIRST GOT ON COUNCIL, WE TALKED ABOUT. AND THE REASON WHY I'M CALLING HIM HERE, WE, WE, WE HAD AN OPPORTUNITY MAYBE SEVEN YEARS AGO TO DO SOMETHING DIFFERENT WITH OUR ROADS. THERE WAS A COMPANY OUT OF ARIZONA. YOU REMEMBER THAT COMPANY'S NAME? YES. TELL TALK TO US ABOUT THAT JUST VERY BRIEFLY ABOUT BECAUSE AS HE WAS ASKING THE QUESTION ABOUT ROADS AND CONCRETE AND ALL OF THAT, WE HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO LOOK AT SOMETHING DIFFERENT THAT WAS BEING DONE AT THAT TIME TO ASSIST OUR ROADS. BUT IT WAS A IT WAS A IT WAS AN IDEA THAT I THINK HAD COME TOO EARLY. TALK TO US ABOUT THAT FOR JUST A FEW MOMENTS. IT WAS A PRODUCT THAT THIS COMPANY CAME IN CALLED LITEX, AND IT WAS A PRODUCT THAT THEY WAS TRYING TO GET OUT ON THE MARKET TO ADD TO LIFE, SUSTAIN TO, TO STREETS. THEY WAS TRYING TO GIVE A LONG LIFE TO THE STREETS AND TO ME. I WENT AND LOOKED AT THIS PRODUCT BEING INSTALLED, AND I THINK IT WAS IN KIMA. YEAH, I THINK IT WAS IN KIMA. AND MY OBSERVATION WAS IT WAS JUST A PRODUCT OF OUR. CEMENT THAT ADDED TO IT, BUT IT WAS A PRODUCT THAT WAS WORKING. USUALLY WHEN NEW PRODUCTS LIKE THAT COME ON THE MARKET, IF TEX-DOT DON'T APPROVE THOSE PRODUCTS, WE DON'T WANT TO LOOK AT THEM AT ALL. BUT IT IS SOMETHING THAT WE COULD HAVE LOOKED AT AND POSSIBLY USED. I DON'T KNOW IF IT WOULD ADD ANY KIND OF LIFE SUSTAINING TO OUR STREETS. I DON'T THINK IT WOULD HAVE BEEN ANYTHING DIFFERENT THAT WE COULD HAVE USED IN PORT ARTHUR. THAT WOULD HELP US OUT ON GETTING A LONGER LIFE OUT OF OUR STREETS. SO TEX-DOT ULTIMATELY DID NOT, I THINK, EVENTUALLY DID START USING THIS PRODUCT. I CAN'T GIVE YOU THE NUMBER ON IT. WHAT THEY WHAT THEY PUT THAT PRODUCT IN AS.

AND I CAN'T SAY FOR SURE THAT THEY'RE USING IT RIGHT NOW, BUT THEY DID LOOK AT THAT PRODUCT AND STARTED THINKING ABOUT USING IT AT ONE TIME. AND AS FAR AS I GOT ON LOOKING INTO THIS PRODUCT, BUT IT WOULDN'T BE SOMETHING THAT I THINK WE CAN USE IN OUR STREETS RIGHT NOW BECAUSE OF THE COST THAT IT WAS COMING, COMING OUT AT ONE TIME, IT STARTED AT A LOW COST.

AND AS IT STARTED GETTING INTO IT, IT GOT MORE AND MORE. SO THAT'S NOT THAT I THINK WE WANT TO LOOK INTO AND FORGIVE ME FOR JUST THAT. THAT SENIOR. NO, NO, THAT'S OKAY. I THINK WE CAN GET SOME GOOD LIFE OUT OF OUR STREETS ONCE WE START TO IMPLEMENT OUR PRODUCT IN RIGHT, OUR MATERIALS IN. RIGHT. AND I THINK WE'RE GOING TO WE'RE DOING A PRETTY GOOD JOB RIGHT NOW WITHIN NEW ENGINEERS THAT WE GOT ON BOARD. SO I THINK WE'RE GOING TO DO A PRETTY GOOD JOB IN THE NEXT YEAR OR TWO. THANK YOU SIR, I APPRECIATE IT. OKAY, COUNCILMEMBER, MR. DOUCET.

AT 5180 CAMBRIDGE STREET. I JUST WANTED TO MAKE THE COMMENT AND ASK QUESTIONS ABOUT THAT PARTICULAR ASK THE COMPANY THAT ON THE 13TH STREET PROJECT AND THE RED BIRD PROJECT, IN WHICH WE ASKED STAFF TO COME BEFORE COUNCIL AND THE CONSULTANT AND THE EMPLOYEE BOTH SAID THAT A PORTION OF THAT CONTRACT WAS NOT COMPLETED, AND IT WAS NOT COMPLETED BECAUSE THE CITY AND THE CONTRACTOR DECIDED THAT THAT WAS NOT NO NEED TO DO IT ALL. BUT THE QUESTION WAS ASKED OF COUNCIL, WHAT ABOUT THE MONEY? THE 18000 COUNCIL IS STILL NOT ANSWERED. SO THIS IS THE SAME FIRM. SO MY QUESTION TO COUNCIL IS WHY ARE WE BIDDING THIS OUT? I MEAN, WHY ARE WE NOT BIDDING IT OUT? THIS COMPANY CAME IN AND GOT A JOB THROUGH BY BOARD. THE NEXT PROJECT WENT THROUGH BY BOARD. AND NOW THIS PROJECT THROUGH BY BOARD. THIS PROJECT COULD HAVE BEEN IDENTIFIED LONG AGO. I DON'T SEE WHY WE CAN'T DO IT, BUT IF THERE'S A PARTICULAR REASON WHY THE CITY CAN'T DO IT, I UNDERSTAND THERE'S SOME STREET WE NEED TO CONTRACT OUT.

BUT THAT JOB, IF YOU GO AND LOOK AT THE HISTORY OF THAT JOB, THAT STREET WAS DONE. ALL OF THE SEWERAGE AND WATER WORK WAS DONE. AND THAT CONTRACT, WHOEVER DONE IT, THEY WENT BACK IN. THEY USED ASPHALT WHEREVER THEY TOLD THE STREET UP, THEY THEY PUT ASPHALT BACK DOWN. AND IF YOU GO DOWN THAT STREET TODAY FROM GULFWAY DRIVE TO 13TH STREET IS ALREADY MILLED.

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SO EVIDENTLY SOMEBODY IS FITTING TO REPAIR IT. SABINE AVENUE FROM GULFWAY DRIVE TO 13TH STREET RIGHT NOW IS MILLED AND THE ROAD NEEDS TO BE FIXED. BUT WHY DON'T WE BID IT OUT? WE KEEP TALKING BY BOARD AND THEY KEEP COMING UP HERE SAYING, SOMEBODY'S GOING TO DO THIS OR DO THAT, OR THEY'LL GIVE ME THE BEST PRICE. CAN SOMEBODY STAND UP HERE AND TELL YOU SOMEBODY'S GOING TO GIVE YOU A BETTER PRICE, AND THEY'RE THE ONLY ONE PRICE. CHAPTER 252 REQUIRES US TO REQUEST BIDS BY BOARD IS A METHOD THAT IS AVAILABLE TO MUNICIPAL AND ALL LEVELS OF GOVERNMENT TO USE IF IT'S AN EMERGENCY OR IF IT'S TIME CONSUMING. BUT THIS IS NOT NOTHING FOR US TO GO AWAY FROM BIDDING. HOW DO PEOPLE HOW THE LOCAL PEOPLE GOING TO GET A CHANCE TO BID? WE NEED TO START BIDDING, NOT ACCEPTING. IT'S QUICKER. I THINK WE'RE DOING THIS BY BOARD NOW BECAUSE SOMEBODY DON'T WANT TO DO THE BID PROCESS AND GO THROUGH THE PROCESS FOR WHICH WE ARE GOVERNED TO DO. WE NEED TO BID THEM AND SOMEBODY SAYS EMERGENCY, AND WE NEED TO TAKE A LOOK AT WHAT PEOPLE CALL EMERGENCY. BUT THAT STREET RIGHT NOW IS BEING WORKED ON FROM GULFWAY DRIVE TO 13TH STREET. IF WE'RE DOING THAT, THEN WE SHOULD BE ABLE TO DO THE REST OF IT. I THINK COUNCIL NEED TO GO AND HAVE STAFF TO TELL YOU EXACTLY WHAT'S GOING ON WITH THAT STREET. WHAT'S WORK IS BEING DONE RIGHT NOW AND WHY WE CAN'T BE THIS OUT, OR WHY THE CITY CAN'T DO IT. BEFORE YOU ALLOW THIS CONTRACTOR APPROVE THIS CONTRACT. THANK YOU. YEAH THANK YOU, DOCTOR HANEY. BECAUSE I'VE HAD CITIZENS I KNOW YOU GUYS DID WATER. I WROTE DOWN THE STREET. I HAVE PICTURES IN MY PHONE OF SABINE AVENUE. AND WE HAVE HAD CITIZENS CALL THIS MYSELF. I COULDN'T I HAVE HAD A.

ONE CITIZEN WHO LITERALLY STOPPED ME AT SEVERAL DIFFERENT EVENTS JUST HERE IN THE LAST WEEK. WHEN ARE YOU GOING TO GET THIS STREET FIXED? THEY'VE HAD WATER, OF COURSE. YES. YOU SEE THE WORK MAIL WORK BEING DONE BECAUSE THEY'VE HAD A WATER SEWER. THEY'VE HAD SOME WATER LINES UNDERNEATH THERE THAT THE WATER DEPARTMENT HAD TO GO IN AND REPAIR SOME THINGS. BUT THESE, THESE EVERYONE ON THAT STREET, I'VE HAD A CALL FROM EVERY SINGLE CITIZEN IN THE LAST SIX MONTHS ON THAT STREET IN PARTICULAR. AND SO THEY ARE UPSET THAT IT HADN'T BEEN DONE.

THE WATER INFRASTRUCTURE WORK THAT WAS DONE ON IT WAS DONE LAST YEAR. AND SO IT'S BEEN A IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN A TOP PRIORITY TO GET IT PAVED QUICKER THAN IT IS RIGHT NOW.

THEY'VE BEEN WAITING ALMOST A YEAR OR TWO TO GET THAT STREET PAVED. AND IF MY BOARD IS A BETTER METHOD FOR US TO TAKE. BUT I'M GOING TO LET YOU SPEAK, DOCTOR HANEY. THAT'S MY OPINION.

I HAVE THE VIDEO. I'VE BEEN DOWN THERE. I'VE SPOKEN WITH THEM. I'VE DRIVEN THE STREET.

I'VE BEEN ASKED ABOUT THE STREET. AND IT HAS BEEN WAITING FOR NEARLY 2 TO 3 YEARS SINCE WITH THAT WATER STREET BEFORE, BEFORE 22 TO BE REPAIRED. SO, DOCTOR HANEY, IF YOU'LL EXPLAIN FURTHER, BUT THAT'S MY PERSONAL EXPERIENCE WITH SABINE AVENUE. IT NEEDS TO BE DONE. YEAH. YES, MA'AM. FIRST ON RED BIRD, THE CITY MANAGER REQUESTED WE DO A PRESENTATION NEXT MEETING TO RESPOND TO THE STATEMENTS THAT WERE MADE REGARDING SPENDING MONEY. THAT WAS NOT THE WORK WAS NOT DONE FOR. WE WILL PROVIDE YOU THAT DATA AND THE FACTS ON THAT ONE NEXT MEETING.

AS FAR AS BY BOARD, A FEW YEARS AGO, THE COUNCIL WAS NOT TOO HAPPY WITH THE NUMBER OF STREETS THAT WERE BEING COMPLETED AT. IN A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF TIME, WE WERE BIDDING PROJECTS AND THEY WERE GIVING THE CONTRACTORS 3 TO 4 YEARS TO ACTUALLY COMPLETE THESE PROJECTS. SO WE DECIDED TO BREAK UP THAT WORK INTO TWO PIECES. ONE PIECE IS A BIDDING PIECE, AND THE OTHER PIECE IS GO THROUGH BY BOARD AND GIVE COMPANIES THROUGH BY BOARD DIFFERENT STREETS SO WE CAN DO MORE STREETS AT THE SAME TIME. BECAUSE WHEN WE BID THESE JOBS, THERE'S ONLY ONE COMPANY IN THIS AREA THAT'S CONTROLLING THE MARKET AND WINNING ALL THESE BIDS, WHICH IS DELAYING THE PRODUCTIVITY. AND THE REASON WE'RE STILL BIDDING HALF OF THEM IS WE CAN DO THEM IN A FASTER AMOUNT OF TIME, AND THEN WE HAVE A PRICE. WE CAN COMPARE THE BID, THE BY BOARD PRICES TO, TO MAKE SURE THE BY BOARD NUMBERS MAKE SENSE. FOR EXAMPLE,

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THE LAST STREETS WE GOT PRICES FROM THE UTILITIES COST WAS TWO AND A HALF TIMES MORE THAN THE BIDDING COST. SO WE WOULD NOT AWARD IT UNTIL THEY ADJUST THESE COSTS. SO TO IN ORDER TO MAKE MORE STREETS HAPPEN FASTER, WE ARE GOING TO THESE DIFFERENT COMPANIES ON BY BOARD WHO CANNOT WIN A BID, AND ALSO BIDDING. SO WE CAN HAVE FIXED NUMBERS TO KNOW TO COMPARE TO THE PURPOSE OF EXPEDITING IT AND GOING THROUGH BY BOARD IS BECAUSE COUNCIL DIRECTED US TO TRY TO DO MORE WORK. AT THE SAME TIME, I'M GOING TO LET STAFF ANSWER THE QUESTIONS ON SABINE, BECAUSE I HAVEN'T BEEN INVOLVED IN THE CONSTRUCTION PART OF IT. SO WHO'S IN STAFF WORKING ON SABINE? GOOD MORNING, MAYOR AND COUNCIL. SO WE. SABINE AVENUE WE ARE FINALLY GETTING TO IT RIGHT NOW. THIS IS THE PROJECT WE ARE. WE HAVE THERE WERE VARIOUS REASONS IT GOT DELAYED. SO I THINK IT'S TIME WE MOVE ON AND FIX IT. THE. THE WORK THEY HAVE. CITY STAFF HAS DONE SOME WORK WHERE YOU CAN SEE THEY HAVE MILLED IT, BUT WE NEED NOW TO PAVE IT. SO WE HAVE PICKED THE PAVEMENT TO PAVE THE WAY FOR US, YOU KNOW, SO AS SOON AS THIS IS AWARDED, AWARDED, WE WILL MOVE ON ON THIS PROJECT. OKAY. YEAH. COUNCILMEMBER WOOD THANK YOU MAYOR. I TOO, JUST LIKE YOURSELF, HAVE RECEIVED SEVERAL PHONE CALLS ABOUT THAT THAT SAME STREET SINCE I'VE BEFORE I EVEN GOT ONTO COUNCIL, BEFORE I COULD EVEN TAKE MY OATH, I WAS GETTING PHONE CALLS ABOUT IT. BUT JUST TO ANSWER THE QUESTION A LITTLE BIT MORE DIRECTLY FOR ME, PLEASE. I KNOW YOU EXPLAINED THE BY BOARD AND WHY WHY WE HAVE GONE WITH THAT ROUTE, BUT IN INSTANCES SUCH AS STREETS LIKE THIS THAT HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR SO LONG, WHAT IS OUR OUR GAME PLAN AND OUR STRATEGY AS IT RELATES TO BALANCING OUT, BUT MAKING SURE THAT WE'RE GETTING TO THEM AT A, AT A PARTICULAR TIME. SO NORMALLY WE WAIT FOR THE LIKE THIS WAS A WATER MAIN RELATED WORK, YOU KNOW, SO IT WAS NOT REALLY A STREET PROJECT. SO ONCE THEY FINISHED THEIR PART, WE MAKE IT DRIVABLE RIGHT AWAY. THAT'S KIND OF THE GOAL. BUT THEN THERE'S TWO FACTORS IN THE PROCESS. SO WHEN WE APPROVE THE BUDGET, WE HAVE A LIST OF STREET WE PROVIDE THAT CITY STAFF IS GOING TO WORK ON IT. THEN WE HAVE THESE SURPRISES.

WE HAVE TO ADD MORE WORK TO OUR WORK THAT THROWS OFF THE SCHEDULE WHAT THEY ARE WORKING ON. THAT INCLUDES THE THE WATER RELATED WORK AS WELL. WHEN THOSE PROJECTS ARE ADDED, THE ACTUAL PROJECT GOAL WE HAD, LIKE IN THE BEGINNING THAT WE WANT TO DO THIS STREET PER THE COUNCIL DIRECTION. NO, WE ARE ADDING A LITTLE PROJECTS HERE AND THERE THAT THROWS OFF THE SCHEDULE, SO WE HAVE TO REALLY SEE WHERE WE ARE ON THAT SCHEDULE. WE HAVE TO REALLY LOOK AT IF THE WORK DONE BY THE WATER CONTRACTOR, IF THAT IS COMPLETED. SOMETIMES WE ARE WAITING BECAUSE THEY'RE MAKING CONNECTIONS TO THE SERVICE LINES. SO YOU HAVE THIS MAIN MAIN PROJECT WHERE THEY ARE FIXING THE MAIN, AND THEN YOU HAVE TO BRING. IF THEY HAVE REPLACED THE WHOLE MAIN, THEN THEY'RE MAKING CONNECTIONS. SO THERE ARE VARIOUS REASONS WE ARE WAITING FOR THAT TO BE COMPLETED. IT'S NOT JUST LIKE WE ARE SITTING AROUND DOING NOTHING. SO THERE'S, THERE ARE ALWAYS SOME REASONS WHY WE WAIT FOR THESE, YOU KNOW. SO THANK YOU. YOU'RE WELCOME SIR. COUNCILMEMBER JACOBS. THANK YOU MAYOR. SO I HAVE A COUPLE OF, I GUESS, KIND OF GENERAL COMMENTS BECAUSE COUNCILMAN HAS COMMENTS AS WELL AS SOME OF THE REMARKS MADE. I WANT. AND THIS IS MORE SO FOR THE CITIZENS. I WANT CITIZENS TO UNDERSTAND THAT MY BOARD IS NOT AN ENEMY. MY BOARD IS A COOPERATIVE THAT IS USED BY MUNICIPALITIES AND OTHER REGULATORY BODIES ALIKE. THAT HELPS TO STREAMLINE THE BIDDING PROCESS. EVERYTHING IS STILL LEGAL, AND PERHAPS THE CITY COULD CONSIDER A HYBRID APPROACH, WHEREAS WE HAVE SOME OF THE PROJECTS OPEN FOR LOCAL COMPETITIVE BIDDING. BUT OTHER PROJECTS PERHAPS WE GO THROUGH BY BOARD. AND THAT'S NOT TO INSINUATE THAT LOCAL VENDORS CANNOT PARTICIPATE IN BY BOARD, BECAUSE IF THEY APPLY AND GO THROUGH THE VETTING PROCESS WITH BY BOARD, THEY CAN ALSO BE CONSIDERED FOR ENGAGEMENT VIA THAT ROUTE. SO I WANT TO BE CLEAR WITH CITIZENS, THERE IS NO CIRCUMVENTION OF OF LEGALITY HERE. WHEN WE'RE USING BY BOARD IS FOR THE REFINEMENT AND THE STREAMLINING OF THE PROCESS. THANK YOU. NUMBER TWO EXPLANATION. YES, YES. THANK YOU. NUMBER TWO, THOUGH, WE ARE USING IT FOR THAT STREAMLINING ONCE AGAIN, DILIGENCE WITH CONTRACTUAL MANAGEMENT IS OF UTMOST IMPORTANCE WHEN WE'RE LOOKING AT OUR VENDORS. IF WE

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ARE INDEED DISSATISFIED AS A MUNICIPALITY WITH A VENDOR, I THINK WE COULD PROBABLY BEAR TO HAVE A REVIEW OF SOME OF OUR GC'S THAT WE HAVE ENGAGED TO WORK ON STREETS, BECAUSE IF THEIR WORK IS IS, IS LESS THAN SATISFACTORY, THEN PERHAPS WE NEED TO CONSIDER REMOVING THEM FROM THE LOT OF CONTRACTORS THAT WE'RE CONSIDERING TO COUNCIL MEMBER PENA'S POINT ABOUT. THE LENGTH OF THE WARRANTY BONDS IN PLACE. THAT IS ANOTHER FACTOR FOR CONSIDERATION, RIGHT? IF IF A POTHOLE IS BEING PATCHED OR A STREET IS BEING REPAIRED AND WE ONLY HAVE ONE SINGLE YEAR BY WHICH WE CAN HOLD THEM ACCOUNTABLE FOR THE THE QUALITY OF THEIR OUTPUT, WE ARE WE'RE REALLY LIKE A HAMSTER RUNNING IN A WHEEL, RIGHT? AND IF WE KEEP ENGAGING THE SAME SUBSTANDARD VENDORS OR VENDORS WHO ARE PUTTING OUT SUBSTANDARD PRODUCT, THEN WE'RE GOING TO KEEP FINDING OURSELVES, HAVING THESE CYCLICAL CONVERSATIONS.

THE NEXT PIECE IS. I THINK WE COULD PROBABLY, IN ADDITION TO REVIEWING THE VENDORS FOR SATISFACTION, WE SHOULD PROBABLY CONSIDER REVIEWING THE CONTRACTS TO ENSURE THAT THOSE CLAUSES, WHICH BENEFIT THE CITY THE MOST ARE IN THERE. BECAUSE ONCE AGAIN, IF WE'RE HAVING REPAIR WORK DONE, AND SOMETIMES IN LESS THAN A YEAR, THE. EVERYBODY HAS SEEN IT. THE POTHOLE REAPPEARS, RIGHT? THE DEPRESSION IN THE ROAD REAPPEARS AND THE CITIZENS FEEL IT THE MOST BECAUSE THEY'RE THE ONES HAVING TO BRING THEIR CARS IN TO GET REPAIRED. TIRES HAVE, YOU KNOW, BUBBLES ON THEM, AXLES BROKEN, ALL THE THINGS. I THINK IT WOULD SERVE US WELL FROM THE HEAT THAT WE RECEIVE FROM THE PUBLIC AS WELL AS IT WOULD BENEFIT THE PUBLIC, WHICH WE ARE ALSO MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC. TO REVISIT THESE CONTRACTS, TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY ARE MAXIMALLY BENEFICIAL TO THE CITY. I DON'T THINK THAT WILL CHANGE OUR STANDING WITH BY BOARD TO BE ABLE TO STILL TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE BLANKET CONTRACTS WHICH ARE ALREADY IN PLACE, BUT WE HAVE TO DO WHATEVER WE CAN TO ENSURE THAT THE MONEY IS BEING SPENT, ARE BEING SPENT ON SUSTAINABLE REPAIRS. IT MAKES NO SENSE FOR US TO HAVE TO KEEP REVISITING.

WE. IT'S HARD TO GET TO NEW STREETS IF WE'RE BUSY CYCLICALLY REPAIRING THE SAME POTHOLES ON THE SAME STREETS. I DRIVE DOWN NINTH AVENUE. I KNOW THAT'S YOUR TERRITORY, BUT I DRIVE DOWN NINTH AVENUE, BACK AND FORTH EVERY DAY, ALL DAY, AND YOU LEARN WHICH POTHOLES TO LIKE, HOW TO AVOID THE POTHOLES, AND THEN THE POTHOLES REEMERGE. THAT IS NOT VERY. IT'S NOT VERY ENCOURAGING, VERY EFFICIENT. THAT IS NOT VERY ENCOURAGING TO, TO ENCOUNTER THAT OVER AND OVER AGAIN. AND SO I GUESS JUST AS A MATTER OF THIS DISCUSSION THAT WE'RE HAVING HERE TODAY, I THINK IT WOULD BEHOOVE US TO REVISIT THE LIST OF VENDORS THAT WERE WERE CONSTANTLY BECAUSE OBVIOUSLY, WE'VE SEEN THESE NAMES REGULARLY REVISIT THE LIST OF VENDORS THAT WE ARE ENGAGING, AND THEN ALSO REVISIT THOSE CONTRACTUAL CLAUSES THAT HAVE GIVEN US THE MOST TROUBLE.

RIGHT? AND SO MAKING SURE THAT THEY INCLUDE LANGUAGE THAT IS MAXIMALLY BENEFICIAL TO THE, TO THE CITY AND TO COUNCILMAN PENA'S POINT ABOUT ENSURING THAT THE APPROPRIATE AMOUNTS OF TIME FOR WARRANTY BONDING IS ALSO IN THOSE CONTRACTS. OKAY. YES. OKAY. THANK YOU, COUNCILMAN MAYOR PRO TEM KINLAW. HEY, THANK YOU MAYOR. AND JUST IN LIGHT OF ALL THE COMMENTS THAT'S BEEN MADE TODAY, ONE OF THE THINGS I THOUGHT, YOU KNOW, OUR CITY WAS GOING TO LOOK AT AFTER, YOU KNOW, TACKLING THESE ROADS FOR A LONG PERIOD OF TIME AND COUNCIL APPROVING SO MANY MILLIONS OF DOLLARS TO IMPROVE OUR STREETS. WE SAID AT ONE TIME, AND I SEE MARTIN OUT THERE, WE'VE HAD A LOT OF CONVERSATIONS ABOUT THIS AS WELL. BUT WE ALSO SAID ABOUT DOING THE SAME THING WE WERE DOING WITH VALUE ENGINEERING, HAVING THE VENDORS LIST THAT WE COULD DEPEND ON THOSE INDIVIDUALS THAT WERE IN OUR COMMUNITY DOING A GREAT WORK AND MAKING SURE THAT, YOU KNOW, WE KIND OF GIVE THEM DIBS, FIRST DIBS. AND WE SAID, WELL, ARE WE GOING TO TRY THAT WITH STREETS AS WELL? WHEN WE HAVE COMPANIES COME IN AND WORK ON OUR STREETS AND DO AN EXCELLENT JOB. SO HOW DID WE GO AWAY FROM THAT? BECAUSE THAT'S THE THING THAT WE HAVE TO REALLY UNDERSTAND. YOU KNOW, WE CAN WE'RE DOING SOME OF THE IN-HOUSE WORK. I TOTALLY UNDERSTAND AND AGREE WITH THAT. BUT WHEN WE HAVE PEOPLE THAT

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ARE DOING MULTIPLE STREETS JOBS IN EACH DISTRICT AND WORKING, WHY CAN'T WE HOLD ON TO THESE PEOPLE INSTEAD OF DOING THE SAME PROCESS OVER AND OVER, WHERE THAT WE CAN COMPILE A LIST AND SAY, WELL, LOOK, FRANK'S CONSTRUCTION IS DOING AN EXCELLENT JOB. LET'S PUT THEM ON THE LIST BECAUSE THEY HAVE DONE SIX STREETS IN OUR NEIGHBORHOODS, IN OUR COMMUNITIES, AND IT'S WORKING, BUT IT SEEMS LIKE WE DO THE SAME THING AND IT TAKES SO LONG.

AND I DO AGREE, IT'S SO MANY POTHOLES OUT THERE. I JUST CALLED LAST WEEK ABOUT 11 STREET THAT'S RUNNING ALL THE WAY FROM GILLIAM CIRCLE, RUNNING ALL THE WAY DOWN. WHY CAN'T WE JUST DO THAT WHEN WE HAVE GOOD PEOPLE? WHY WE LET HIM GO? THAT'S THE QUESTION. IF SOMEBODY CAN EVER ANSWER THAT QUESTION, WHY DO WE LET THEM GO WHEN WE HAVE, WE HAVE THE MONEY.

THE MAJOR THING WHEN I CAME ON COUNCIL, THE BIGGEST THING, WE DIDN'T HAVE THE MONEY. NOW WE HAVE THE MONEY AND WE STILL CAN'T GET IT GOING AND GETTING IT RIGHT. THAT'S THE THING.

IT'S SO FRUSTRATING TO PEOPLE THAT'S UP HERE ON THIS COUNCIL, THIS DIOCESE, BECAUSE THE BIGGEST THING YOU GOT TO HAVE THE MONEY, WE HAVE THE MONEY, BUT WE CAN'T FIND THE PEOPLE TO ACTUALLY DO THE QUALITY WORK. CLIFFORD, I KNOW YOU'RE GOING TO STEP IN. WE'VE TALKED LAST WEEK ABOUT IT. HELP ME OUT, CLIFF. WELL, FIRST, BECAUSE OF THE COST OF THESE PROJECTS, BY LAW, YOU HAVE TO BE AT THE PROJECT HOURS. SO WE CANNOT JUST HAVE APPROVED LIST THAT. I JUST WANT TO CALL SUCH AND SUCH TO COME DO THE WORK, BECAUSE HE DID A GOOD JOB LAST TIME. IT WOULD BE GREAT IF WE COULD, BUT WE WOULD HAVE TO BID IT OUT NOW. SOME OF THE ADJUSTMENTS THAT WE CAN MAKE, IF WE WANT TO TALK ABOUT IT IS, IS INSTEAD OF BIDDING BY JUST THE COST ITSELF, I MEAN, WE CAN DO MAYBE MORE RFP TYPE CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS WHERE IT'S JUST ABOUT COST.

IT'S THE OVERALL PERFORMANCE OF THE CONTRACTOR. WE CAN LOOK AT DOING THINGS LIKE THAT, THAT YOU GET MORE QUALIFIED INSTEAD OF THE CHEAPEST GUY. IF WE FEEL THAT THEY'RE NOT DOING THE DOING THE QUALITY JOB, WE THAT'S THINGS WE CAN LOOK AT DOING. AND YOU'RE RIGHT, THE CONVERSATION WE HAD, AND YOU'RE RIGHT, I'M NOT SAYING THAT WE JUST AUTOMATICALLY GET WITH THOSE VENDORS. ALL I'M SAYING THAT'S VENDORS APPROVED LIST. LET'S GIVE THEM CONSIDERATION WHEN THEY'RE APPLYING BECAUSE WE'RE THE COUNCIL. WE WANT THE BEST PRODUCT FOR OUR CITIZENS AND FOR OUR NEIGHBORHOODS. THAT'S THAT'S ALL I'M SAYING WHAT I'M SAYING. AND LET ME SAY, WE DO HAVE A LIST OF PEOPLE. SO I HAVE A LIST OF PEOPLE THAT WE, WE SEND TO THAT WE FEEL ARE QUALITY. OKAY. LIKE I SAY, WHERE THE OBSTACLE THAT WE RUN INTO IS BECAUSE OF THE COST, AND WE HAVE TO PUBLICLY BID AND ADVERTISE THAT ANYBODY WHO I'M GOING TO USE THE WORD APPLIED, AND THAT APPLIES TO SUBMIT A BID PACKAGE. IF THEY END UP WINNING THE BID AND THEY HAVE THE QUALIFICATIONS ACCORDING TO THE SPECS THAT WE HAVE, WE HAVE TO AWARD IT TO THEM IF THEIR LOWEST BID. THAT'S WHY I SAY WE JUST CAN'T HAVE A LIST THAT IF CLIFF'S CONTRACTING IS OUTSTANDING AND HE ENDS UP BEING $50,000 MORE THAN THE LOW BIDDER, I JUST CAN'T GIVE IT TO HIM BECAUSE I SAID HE DID A GREAT JOB LAST TIME. THE ONLY EXCEPTIONS WE CAN DO THAT IS IF CLIFF'S CONTRACTING WAS ON A COOPERATIVE. BECAUSE HE'S ON A COOPERATIVE, THEN I CAN. SO THOSE ARE ALSO CONSIDERATIONS. SO THOSE ARE ALSO OTHER REASONS THAT, YOU KNOW, I CAN SAY I'M THE ONE THAT SUGGESTED START DOING THE COOPERATIVE THINGS WHEN WE WANTED MORE, BECAUSE THERE WAS A THING ON THE COUNCIL THAT WE WANTED. YOU KNOW, I'M EXAGGERATING A LITTLE THING, BUT IT WAS WANTED. WE WANTED LIKE TEN CONTRACTORS OUT HERE WORKING, KNOCKING THESE STREETS OUT. RIGHT. AND BECAUSE OF THE BIDDING PROCESS, AT THE MOST WE WOULD PROBABLY GET IS TWO CONTRACTORS, JUST BASED ON THE SIZE AND AMOUNT OF CONTRACTS WE BECAUSE A LOT OF PEOPLE FROM HOUSTON AND STUFF DO NOT WANT TO COME TO PORT ARTHUR AND BID ON PROJECTS, AND I'M JUST STATING THAT'S A FACT, I AGREE. SO WE WERE LOOKING AT ALTERNATE WAYS TO FIND CONTRACTS. SO THAT'S WHY WE'VE LOOKED INTO COOPERATIVE ROUTE THAT BECAUSE A PAID CON, AS IN HOUSTON, DOES NOT BID ON OUR PROJECTS, THEY DON'T WANT TO COME AND BID. BUT IF WE AWARD THEM SOME THINGS THROUGH THE COOPERATIVE, THEY'LL COME DOWN HERE AND DO WORK. AND THERE ARE SOME OTHER CONTRACTORS THAT WE ALSO ARE LOOKING AT UNDER COOPERATIVE THAT WE WANT TO BRING IN THERE. BUT TO ANSWER, BUT GOING BACK TO THE ORIGINAL QUESTION IS WE CAN LOOK AT ALTERNATE BID ITEMS OR BID ALTERNATIVES TO BRING IN PREVIOUS WORK AS AN EVALUATION TOOL TO MAYBE GET BETTER CONTRACTORS. AND I'M GOING IN WITH THIS, BUT THANK YOU FOR THAT. I KNOW WE JUST TALKED ABOUT IT AND DOC, BUT I DO WANT TO ALSO SAY THIS. YOU KNOW, WE HAVE VENDORS THAT'S COMING OUT HERE DOING CRAPPY WORK. AND YOU'VE TOLD ME THAT DOC BEFORE, YOU KNOW, AND I DON'T LIKE IT. I JUST DON'T LIKE THAT THEY UNDERBID OR BID LOWER. THEY GET THE THEY GET THE JOB AND IT'S CRAPPY. LIKE SOME OF THE COHORTS SAID OVER HERE ON THIS DIOCESE THAT, YOU KNOW, YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT THREE MONTHS DOWN THE LINE, YOU GET THE SAME POTHOLE. I CAN'T STAND THAT. IT JUST DRIVES ME CRAZY. I SEE A FRESH PAVED STREET AND A COUPLE

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OF MONTHS DOWN, YOU SEE INDENTATION IN THE STREET, AND THAT'S CRAPPY. AND THEN WE HAVE NO WAY OF HOLDING THEM ACCOUNTABLE FOR THE THINGS THAT THEY'RE DOING. AND THEN WE HAVE TO GET CITY EMPLOYEES TO GO BACK. LIKE I'VE TALKED TO RON IN THE PAST TO GO AND TAKE CARE OF THAT MAN. WE HAVE TO REALLY LOOK INTO THOSE ONES. IF THE COUNCIL HAS TO TAKE CHARGE OF THAT AND SAY, HEY, WE'RE NOT GOING TO USE THIS COMPANY AGAIN BECAUSE YOU'RE DOING CRAPPY WORK. OKAY. SO TO ANSWER THAT QUESTION, WE DO HAVE AN OPTION TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT THAT. NOW, AGAIN, A LOT OF THIS AND THIS COULD BE A CONVERSATION MAYBE OR A THING WE CAN DO, I'M SORRY, WHAT YOU CALL IT WHEN WE COME AND JUST TALK TO. YES. THANK YOU. MAYBE IT'S A WORKSHOP. WE CAN HAVE A CONVERSATION ON THIS, BUT A LOT OF THIS IS GOING TO GO INTO THE WORDS CONTRACT MANAGEMENT. OKAY. THAT'S BEEN BROUGHT UP THING. NOW I CAN PUT THINGS IN PLACE ON A ON A BIDDING LEVEL TO DO IT, BUT THE CONTRACT MANAGEMENT ON THE DEPARTMENTS WOULD HAVE TO COME IN TO GIVE US THE DETAILS AND INFORMATION AND THE WRITE UPS TO SAY THAT THIS IS A CRAPPY CONTRACTOR. YES, SIR. OKAY. BECAUSE WE BECAUSE THE WHERE THE ISSUE CAN COME IN IS. AND I JUST WANT TO BE CAREFUL WHEN WE GO TOO FAR ON THIS IS IF WE FEEL THAT THEY DID A CRAPPY JOB AND WHATEVER ISSUES WITH THE STREET AND THEN WE SAY, WE DON'T WANT TO USE YOU ANYMORE BECAUSE YOU'RE A CRAPPY CONTRACTOR AND THEY CAN COME BACK AND SUE US AND SAY, WELL, IT WASN'T BECAUSE OUR WORK IS BECAUSE HOW IT WAS DESIGNED OR ANYTHING ELSE. SO WE IT HAPPENS.

I'M JUST SAYING, YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW, THIS. SO WE JUST HAVE TO DO A GOOD JOB OF DOCUMENTING THIS TO, YOU KNOW, TO VERIFY THAT THE WORK WAS DONE AT THE TIME, YOU KNOW, BECAUSE WHERE WE GET IN TROUBLE IS JUST SOMETHING IT'S HARD TO SAY TO SOMEBODY THAT'S A CRAPPY CONTRACTOR. IF WE CLOSE IT OUT AND SAY THEY DID FINE, RIGHT? I MEAN, THAT THIS SO A LOT OF CONTRACT MANAGEMENT IS GOING TO HAVE TO COME IN AND DOCUMENT ALL THESE ISSUES THAT WE HAVE.

AND THEN WHEN THESE STREETS DO POP UP, WE HAVE TO, ESPECIALLY IF IT'S LESS THAN A YEAR, WE NEED, YOU KNOW, WE NEED TO JUMP ON THAT AND TAKE CARE OF IT. SO WE, WE, LIKE I SAID, WE CAN HAVE A WORKSHOP ON THIS TO DISCUSS CONTRACT MANAGEMENT TO MAKE SURE OF THIS BEFORE WE GO.

SO DRASTIC. BUT I AM IN AGREEMENT. IF THE CONTRACTOR IS NOT PERFORMING, WE DO NEED TO DO WHAT WE CAN TO BRING IN BETTER THINGS, BUT IT'S GOT TO BE A COLLECTIVE EFFORT BY EVERYBODY. OKAY? OKAY. COUNCIL MEMBERS, LET ME REMIND EVERYBODY WE HAVE TWO MINUTES TO SPEAK ON A TOPIC. YOU'LL GET TWO TIMES TO SPEAK AND YOU HAVE TWO MINUTES AT THAT SECOND TIME.

WE'VE BEEN ON THIS TOPIC ALMOST 30 MINUTES. OKAY. SO YEAH, I JUST HAVE ONE MORE COMMENT.

COUNCILMEMBER PENA YEAH, SO I JUST WANT TO LET EVERYONE KNOW THAT THE REASON THAT THE COUNCILWOMAN JACOBS HAS SAID THAT POTHOLES KEEP APPEARING IS BECAUSE THEY ARE JUST GETTING PATCHED UP TEMPORARILY. AND I THINK WE NEED TO SOLVE THAT PROBLEM. HANEY. I THINK WE NEED TO START DOING THE JOB RIGHT, FIX IT PERMANENTLY INSTEAD OF FILLING IN A POTHOLE AND MAKING IT WORSE. AND WE'RE HAVING TO PASS THROUGH THIS EVERY DAY, WE HAVE TO DO THE CUTOUT, PUT THE REBAR. WE NEED TO POUR THE CONCRETE. IT HAS TO BE DONE RIGHT. YOU KNOW, BECAUSE WE HAVE TEMPORARY POTHOLES THAT HAVE BEEN TEMPORARY FOR A YEAR OR TWO. AND THAT'S WHAT OUR PROBLEM IS. SO THAT'S WHAT WE'RE GOING TO YOU KNOW, I THINK WE HAVE TO START HOLDING SOMEONE ACCOUNTABLE FOR THAT BECAUSE IT'S GOING ON LIKE NINTH AVENUE IS YOU HAVE ABOUT 15 OF THOSE TEMPORARY FOR LIKE A YEAR OR TWO. YEAH. WE NEED TO SEPARATE POTHOLES FROM REHABILITATION. POTHOLES IS BEING DONE BY CITY STAFF AS A TEMPORARY FIX, BUT IT'S A TEMPORARY ONE YEAR, TWO YEAR FIX. AND THAT'S THE PROBLEM. SO I DO UNDERSTAND SEPARATING IT.

BUT WE'RE FAILING IN BOTH SIDES. YEAH. OKAY. WE'RE GOING AT THIS TIME COUNCIL MEMBERS.

COUNCILMEMBER JONES YES. THANK YOU MAYOR. I WE'VE GONE THROUGH THROUGH THREE TWO ENGINEERS. I SERVED SIX YEARS ON COUNCIL IN THE PAST DISCUSSING POTHOLES SIX YEARS AGO, DISCUSSING POTHOLES. THIS IS OUR THIRD ENGINEER DISCUSSING THE SAME THING. POTHOLES. THEY'RE HERE.

IT DON'T TAKE A ROCKET SCIENTIST, YOU KNOW, HAVE A ROCKET SCIENTIST TO KNOW.

THERE'S PROBABLY GOING TO BE AROUND A WHILE. GUYS KNOW WHY? IF I WAS THE CONTRACTOR, I'LL BE GLAD TO BID ON THE STREETS. YOU KNOW WHY I'M GOING TO TAKE THE JOB, TAKE THE CONTRACT.

KNOW I'M GOING TO COME WITH CHANGE ORDERS. I NEED MORE TIME. BECAUSE WHY EVERY CONTRACT IN AMERICA DOING THE SAME THING? THE PROBLEM. THE PROBLEM IS NOT JUST HERE IN PORT ARTHUR. IT'S

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CROSSES THE UNITED STATES. WE HAVE THIS STREET PROBLEMS AND THE CONTRACTOR IS IS TAKING ADVANTAGE OF IT. THEY'RE GETTING THESE CONTRACTS KNOWING THEY'RE NOT GOING TO FINISH THE JOB ON TIME. NO ONE COULD BE TRAINED FOR THIS. NO ONE COULD BE EXTENSIONS. AND NO, WE CAN'T GO NOWHERE ELSE. WHY? BECAUSE EVERY CONTRACT DOING THE SAME THING, WE CAN'T SEE THIS. SO STOP BLAMING THE ENGINEERS. STOP BLAMING THE STAFF, THE CONTRACTORS DIDN'T SEE ON PURPOSE. GUYS. THEY KNOW WHAT THEY'RE DOING. OKAY, SIX YEARS AGO, WE DISCUSSED THE SAME PROBLEM. STREETS BACK HERE, SAME THING. STREETS. IT'S NO EASY FIX. WE NEED PATIENT AND NEED TIME AND AND BETTER CONTRACTORS DOWN THE LINE. SIMPLE. ALL RIGHT. CITY MANAGER, YOU HAVE YOUR LIGHT ON. YEAH. MAYOR. LAST THING WE HAVE 1234567 PEOPLE. WE HAVE ADDED TWO MORE PEOPLE AS SUPERVISORS OF THEIR INSPECTORS. YEAH. IF NEXT YEAR WE'RE HAVING THAT SAME DISCUSSION, ALL OF US NEED TO GO, INCLUDING THE CITY MANAGER. I'M TELLING YOU, ALL OF US NEED TO GO 123, FOUR, FIVE, SIX. AND HOW MANY MORE IN THE FIELD? AGAIN, THAT'S ALL I'M GOING TO SAY. THANK YOU. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU. WE'RE GOING TO ALL IN FAVOR SAY I ALL IN FAVOR. SAY I ANY NOS. THE AYES HAVE IT. THE RESOLUTION PASSES. OKAY. LET'S MOVE OVER

[VIII.A.(1) P.R. No. 24918 – A Resolution Authorizing Change Order No. 2 To The Contract With Construction Zone Of Southeast Texas, LLC, For The Construction Of The New Port Arthur Animal Services Center, Located At 3615 Gates Boulevard, Decreasing The Contract Amount By $110,845.84 To A New Contract Total Of $7,680,739.50; Accepting The Project As Substantially Completed; Authorizing Final Payment And Release Of Contract Retainage In An Amount Not To Exceed $384,036.98; Authorizing The City Manager To Execute All Documents Necessary To Close Out The Project; Providing Funding Is Available In Account No. 307-00-000-2050-00-000-00; Project No. BU0008.]

TO ITEMS REQUIRING INDIVIDUAL ACTION A RESOLUTIONS NON CONSENT PR NUMBER ONE. PR NUMBER 24918. A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING CHANGE ORDER NUMBER TWO TO THE CONTRACT WITH CONSTRUCTION ZONE OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS, LLC FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE NEW PORT ARTHUR ANIMAL SHELTER ANIMAL SERVICES CENTER LOCATED AT 3615 GATES BOULEVARD, DECREASING THE CONTRACT AMOUNT BY $110,845.84 TO A NEW CONTRACT TOTAL OF $7,680,739.50. ACCEPTING THE PROJECT AS SUBSTANTIALLY COMPLETED, AUTHORIZING FINAL PAYMENT AND RELEASE OF CONTRACT RETAINAGE IN THE AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $384,036.98. AUTHORIZING CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE ALL DOCUMENTS NECESSARY TO CLOSE OUT THE PROJECT. PROVIDING FUNDING IS AVAILABLE IN ACCOUNT NUMBER 307 DASH 00-000-2050-00-000-00. PROJECT NUMBER BU0008. MAY I GET A MOTION FOR APPROVAL? SO MOVED. SECOND. CAN I HAVE A MOVE? AND SECOND, ANY QUESTIONS? COUNCILMEMBER JACOBS? YES, MA'AM. THANK YOU. MAYOR. CITY MANAGER I GUESS THIS IS GOING TO BE A COMMENT FOR YOU. I THINK THIS IS MY THIRD MEETING WHERE I'VE MENTIONED THAT WE NEED PHOTOGRAPHIC EVIDENCE OF COMPLETION OF PROJECTS PRIOR TO BEING REQUESTED TO RELEASE RETAINAGE, AND I THINK THAT'S ONLY FAIR. AND SO THIS IS YET ANOTHER PROJECT. THANKFULLY, I WILL SAY THAT I HAVE SEEN THE SITE MYSELF, BUT IN GENERAL, WHEN WE ARE SUGGESTING THAT A PROJECT IS SUBSTANTIALLY COMPLETE AND WE ARE REQUESTING THE RELEASE OF RETAINAGE, WE NEED PHOTOGRAPHIC EVIDENCE, AND I WILL EXTEND THAT A LITTLE FURTHER TO SAY THAT IT MAY ALSO BE HELPFUL. TO RECEIVE SOME TYPE OF CONFIRMATION THAT CHECKLIST ITEMS OR PUNCH LISTS, RATHER, PUNCH LIST ITEMS HAVE BEEN ADEQUATELY HANDLED AND THAT THERE ARE NO ITEMS PENDING.

AND THAT'S SPECIFIC TO RETAINAGE. YES, MA'AM. THAT'S EXHIBIT A, J OR WHATEVER IT IS.

YES. EXHIBIT J OF THE RESOLUTION HAS PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE PREVIOUS SHELTER, AS WELL AS THE COMPLETION OF THE FORM. I MEAN THE CURRENT SHELTER. YES, MA'AM, AND I STAND, I STAND CORRECTED. I'M SORRY, I'M NOT. I DON'T HAVE MY MY BINDER HERE WITH ME TODAY, SO I'M GOING TO APOLOGIZE FOR THAT. I OVERLOOKED IT DURING MY REVIEW. SO I'LL GO ON THE RECORD WITH THAT APOLOGY. BUT THANK YOU FOR IMPLEMENTING THAT REQUEST, BECAUSE I THINK IT'S NECESSARY FOR US TO DO OUR DILIGENCE. WE DO ACT SWIFTLY. COUNCILMEMBER GATEWOOD. THANK YOU. I JUST HAD JUST A QUESTION BECAUSE IT SAYS EVERYTHING IS COMPLETED, CORRECT? YES. OKAY. I JUST WANT TO BE SURE BECAUSE I KNOW IT SAYS ACCEPTING THE PROJECT AS SUSTAINABLY COMPLETE. I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT THAT IS THAT THAT'S WHAT IT MEANT. THAT'S THAT WAS ALL. OKAY. ALL IN FAVOR, SAY AYE. AYE. ANY OPPOSED? THE AYES HAVE IT. THE RESOLUTION PASSES WITH A MOVE.

NOW TO NUMBER THREE ON PAGE EIGHT. PR NUMBER 24971. A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY OF PORT

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ARTHUR, TEXAS, APPOINTING MEMBERS AND ALTERNATE MEMBERS TO THE CITY'S INDUSTRIAL DISTRICT CONTRACT COMPLIANCE COMMITTEE TO ASSIST IN NEGOTIATING TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR NEW INDUSTRIAL DISTRICT AGREEMENTS. CAN I GET A MOTION FOR APPROVAL? SECOND.

SO MOVED. AND SECOND. ANY QUESTIONS? ALL IN FAVOR, SAY AYE. ANY NOSE. THE AYES HAVE IT.

MAYOR, ARE YOU ON? I'M SORRY. WE DON'T HAVE THE NAMES OF THE COMMITTEE MEMBERS YET. WE THOUGHT WE WOULD HOLD THIS UNTIL AFTER EXECUTIVE SESSION. OKAY. AND THE SAME WOULD BE TRUE FOR NUMBER FIVE. OKAY, SO TWO AND FIVE WILL GET THE NAMES FOR THESE TWO IN EXECUTIVE SESSION AND THEN COME OUT AND DO THAT. YES, MA'AM. WE'LL THANK YOU. WE'LL HOLD THESE TWO ITEMS, NUMBER THREE AND NUMBER FIVE UNTIL AFTER EXECUTIVE SESSION. I NEED TO GET A MOTION.

DO I NEED A MOTION TO HOLD THOSE JUST FOR EXAMPLE. YEAH. IT'S LISTED FOR DISCUSSION AND IDEAS AND PIPELINE IDEAS ARE LISTED FOR DISCUSSION. SO WE'LL JUST MOVE ON. WE'RE JUST GOING

[VIII.A.(4) P.R. No. 25010 – A Resolution Authorizing The City Manager To Enter Into A Contract With Entergy Systems Texas, Through Sourcewell Cooperative Contract No. 092222-GNR To Purchase A Generator For The Fleet’s Maintenance Building Located At 103 H.O. Mills Boulevard, In An Amount Not To Exceed $127,581.00; Funding Is Available In Project ES0001.CON Within Account No. 307-13-037-8525-00-10-000.]

TO HOLD. OKAY. LET'S GO TO NUMBER FOUR. ITEM NUMBER FOUR PR NUMBER 25010. A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING CITY MANAGER TO ENTER INTO A CONTRACT WITH ENTERGY SYSTEMS TEXAS THROUGH SOURCEWELL COOPERATIVE CONTRACT NUMBER 092222-GNR. TO PURCHASE A GENERATOR FOR THE FLEET'S MAINTENANCE BUILDING LOCATED AT 103 HOE MILLS BOULEVARD, IN AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $127,581.

FUNDING IS AVAILABLE IN PROJECT S0001-CON, WITHIN ACCOUNT NUMBER 307-13-0378525-00-10-000.

CAN I GET A MOTION FOR APPROVAL? SO MOVED. SECOND, IT'S BEEN MOVED AND PROPERLY SECONDED.

ANY QUESTIONS? ALL IN FAVOR, SAY I, I ANY NOS. THE AYES HAVE IT. THE RESOLUTION PASSES.

[VIII.A.(6) P.R. No. 25053 - A Resolution Authorizing The City Manager To Execute One-Year Contracts, With An Option To Renew For One (1) Additional Year, With Ferguson Waterworks Of Humble, Texas And Coburn Supply Co., Inc. Of New Caney, Texas, For The Purchase Of Repair Clamps For The Water Utilities Department; With A Total Projected Budgetary Impact Of $262,566.09 With Funding Allocated From Water Utilities Accounts: $132,566.09 In Account No. 410-40-215-5315-00-00-000, Water System Maintenance ($32,566.09 For FY26 And $100,000.00 For FY27); And Account No. 410-40-220-5313-00-00- 000, Sewer System Maintenance ($30,000.00 For FY26 And $100,000.00 For FY27), Subject To City Council's Annual Appropriation And Approval Of The Budget.]

LET'S GO TO NUMBER SIX. ON PAGE NUMBER NINE. PR NUMBER 25053. A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE ONE YEAR CONTRACTS WITH AN OPTION TO RENEW FOR ONE ADDITIONAL YEAR WITH FERGUSON WATER WORKS OF HUMBLE TEXAS AND COBURN SUPPLY COMPANY INCORPORATED OF NEW CANEY, TEXAS, FOR THE PURCHASE OF REPAIR CLAMPS FOR THE WATER UTILITIES DEPARTMENT WITH A TOTAL PROJECTED BUDGETARY IMPACT OF $262,566.09, WITH FUNDING ALLOCATED FROM WATER UTILITIES ACCOUNTS $132,566.09 IN ACCOUNT NUMBER 410-40215-5315-00-00-000. WATER SYSTEM MAINTENANCE $32,566.09 FOR FY 26 AND $100,000 FOR FY 27. AND ACCOUNT NUMBER 410-40220-5313-00-00-000. SEWER MAINTENANCE SYSTEM MAINTENANCE $30,000 FOR FY 26 AND $100,000 FOR FY 27, SUBJECT TO CITY COUNCIL'S ANNUAL APPROPRIATION AND APPROVAL OF THE BUDGET. MAY I GET A MOTION FOR APPROVAL? IT'S BEEN MOVED AND PROPERLY. SECOND. ANY QUESTIONS? ALL IN FAVOR, SAY AYE. ANY NO'S. THE AYES HAVE IT. THE RESOLUTION PASSES NUMBER SEVEN. PR NUMBER

[VIII.A.(7) P.R. No. 25054 - A Resolution Authorizing The City Manager To Execute A Contract With Utility Service Co., Inc. Of Perry, Georgia, Through Buyboard Cooperative Purchasing Contract No. 761-25, For The Rehabilitation Of Three Pressure Tanks Utilized By The Water Utilities Department In The Amount Of $270,623.00; Providing For Funding From Capital Improvement Account No. 405-40-000-8516-00-00-000, Project No. WS0035.OTH.]

25054. A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE A CONTRACT WITH UTILITY SERVICE COMPANY INCORPORATED OF PERRY, GEORGIA THROUGH BY BOARD COOPERATIVE PURCHASING CONTRACT NUMBER 761-25 FOR THE REHABILITATION OF THREE PRESSURE TANKS UTILIZED BY THE WATER UTILITIES DEPARTMENT IN THE AMOUNT OF $270,623, PROVIDING FOR FUNDING FROM CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT ACCOUNT NUMBER 405 DASH 40-000-8516-00-00-000. PROJECT NUMBER WS0035 DOT OTH. CAN I GET A MOTION FOR APPROVAL? SO MOVED. SECOND, IT'S BEEN MOVED.

AND SECOND, ANY QUESTIONS? ALL IN FAVOR, SAY I. ANY NOS. THE AYES HAVE IT. THE RESOLUTION PASSES. WE'RE GOING TO SKIP. WE'VE ALREADY VOTED ON NUMBER EIGHT. WE'RE GOING TO MOVE NOW

[VIII.A.(9) P.R. No. 25071 - A Resolution Appointing A Member To The Planning And Zoning Commission Of The City Of Port Arthur To Fill An Unexpired Term Created By A Voluntary Resignation Expiring October 30, 2030; And Providing For Other Matters Related Thereto.]

TO NUMBER NINE. PR NUMBER 25071. A RESOLUTION APPOINTING A MEMBER TO THE PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF PORT ARTHUR TO FILL AN UNEXPIRED TERM CREATED BY VOLUNTARY RESIGNATION EXPIRING OCTOBER 30TH, 2030 AND PROVIDING FOR OTHER MATTERS RELATED THERETO. MAY I GET A MOTION FOR APPROVAL? SECOND, IT'S BEEN MOVED. AND SECOND.

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ANY QUESTIONS? ALL IN FAVOR, SAY AYE. AYE. ANY OPPOSED? THE AYES HAVE IT. THE RESOLUTION PASSES AND WE HAVE A NAME. CITY SECRETARY MICHAEL DICKSON. MICHAEL DICKSON. OKAY. THANK

[VIII.A.(10) P.R. No. 25073 – A Resolution Appointing And/Or Reappointing A Member Or Members To The Beautification Commission. (Requested By Councilmember Jacobs and Councilmember Getwood)]

YOU. NUMBER TEN PR NUMBER 25073. A RESOLUTION APPOINTING AND REAPPOINTING A MEMBER OR MEMBERS TO THE BEAUTIFICATION COMMISSION REQUESTED BY COUNCIL MEMBER JACOBS AND COUNCIL MEMBER GATEWOOD. I NEED A MOTION FOR APPROVAL. SECOND, IT'S BEEN MOVED AND SECONDED.

ANY QUESTIONS? ALL IN. OKAY. YES, MA'AM. MAYOR, I WILL. MAYOR AND CITY ATTORNEY. I WOULD LIKE TO WITHDRAW THE NAME THAT I SUBMITTED FOR THIS ITEM. OKAY. AND COUNCIL MEMBER GATEWOOD, YOU HAVE A NAME? PATRICIA GREEN. OKAY. AWESOME. ALL IN FAVOR, SAY I. I. AND HE

[VIII.A.(11) P.R. No. 25074 – A Resolution Appointing And/Or Reappointing A Director Or Directors To The Port Arthur Economic Development Corporation. (Requested By Councilmember Jacobs, Councilmember Getwood and Councilmember Jones)]

KNOWS THE AYES HAVE IT. THE RESOLUTION PASSES. LET'S MOVE OVER TO NUMBER 11. PR NUMBER 2507 FOR RESOLUTION APPOINTING AND APPOINTING A DIRECTOR, A DIRECTORS TO THE PORT ARTHUR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION REQUESTED BY COUNCIL MEMBER JACOBS, COUNCIL MEMBER GATEWOOD AND COUNCIL MEMBER JONES. MAY I GET A MOTION FOR APPROVAL? SO MOVED.

ANY I GET A SECOND. THANK YOU. ALL IN FAVOR? ANY QUESTIONS? NAMES, PLEASE. COUNCIL MEMBER.

JACOBS. CHRISTINE. REYNOLDS. COUNCILMEMBER. GATEWOOD. GUIDRY. COUNCIL MEMBER. JONES. DEPUTY.

RAYMOND. ALL IN FAVOR, SAY AYE. AYE. ANY OPPOSED? THE AYES HAVE IT. THE RESOLUTION PASSES

[VIII.A.(12) P.R. No. 25075 – A Resolution Appointing A Member Or Members To The Pleasure Island Advisory Commission. (Requested By Councilmember Jacobs)]

NUMBER 12. PR NUMBER 25075. A RESOLUTION APPOINTING A MEMBER OR MEMBERS TO THE PLEASURE ISLAND ADVISORY COMMISSION REQUESTED BY COUNCIL MEMBER JACOBS. CAN I GET A MOTION FOR APPROVAL? SO MOVED. SECOND, IT'S BEEN MOVED. AND SECOND. ANY DISCUSSION? COUNCIL MEMBER JACOBS, YOU HAVE A NAME? MRS. MICHELLE ■EDWARDS. OKAY. THE NAME HAS BEEN SUBMITTED. ALL IN FAVOR, SAY AYE. ANY KNOWS? THE AYES HAVE IT. THE RESOLUTION PASSES. PR NUMBER 25076. A

[VIII.A.(13) P.R. No. 25076 – A Resolution Appointing A Member And/Or Members To The Charter Advisory Committee. (Requested By Councilmember Jacobs).]

RESOLUTION APPOINTING A MEMBER AND OR MEMBERS TO THE CHARTER ADVISORY COMMITTEE REQUESTED BY COUNCIL MEMBER JACOBS COUNCIL. MAY I GET A MOTION FOR APPROVAL? IT'S BEEN MOVED AND SECOND.

COUNCIL MEMBER JACOBS, YOU HAVE A NAME? KENDRA GREEN AND GWENDOLYN DAVIS. GWENDOLYN KENDRA GREEN, KENDRA GREEN, AND GWENDOLYN DAVIS. OKAY. ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? COUNCIL MEMBER DOUCET. 5180 CAMBRIDGE STREET. Y'ALL KILLING ME. THIS IS A RESOLUTION DEALING WITH THE CHARTER CHANGE ADVISORY COMMITTEE. THIS IS NOT A COMMITTEE THAT IS PART OF THE CHARTER. THIS IS A COMMITTEE THAT WAS APPOINTED BY THE COUNCIL, AND IT WAS APPOINTED THROUGH A RESOLUTION, A RESOLUTION BEING 25-061, WHICH YOU REFER TO HERE, IN WHICH EACH COUNCIL MEMBER WERE GIVEN THE OPPORTUNITY TO APPOINT TWO PEOPLE TO THIS ADVISORY COMMITTEE. THIS ADVISORY COMMITTEE WAS SUPPOSED TO SERVE FROM THE TIME WE APPOINT THEM, AND THEY SAID THEY'RE GOING TO MEET ON OCTOBER 13TH. ACCORDING TO THE RESOLUTION, ONLY THROUGH DECEMBER THE 8TH, 2026, THOSE NAMES WERE APPROVED BY THE COUNCIL PER RESOLUTION. THIS RESOLUTION ALSO STATED THAT THE MEMBERS CAN BE REMOVED BY THE MAJORITY OF COUNCIL. I WENT BACK, I SHOULD HAVE PULLED IT, BUT I DIDN'T REALLY HAVE TO GO THAT FAR. MY QUESTION TO THE COUNCIL IS. IF YOU'RE GOING TO REMOVE TWO PEOPLE, THAT SHOULD BE THE RESOLUTION. CITY ATTORNEY THIS RESOLUTION HAS BEEN PASSED AND APPROVED BY COUNCIL. IT SAYS ANYBODY BEING REMOVED SHOULD BE REMOVED BY A MAJORITY OF COUNCIL. IF YOU REMOVE SOMEBODY, THEN YOU HAVE VACANCIES. RIGHT NOW YOU DON'T HAVE VACANCIES. THAT RESOLUTION FILLED ALL POSITIONS AND I'M SORRY, AND WAS VOTED ON BY ALL COUNCIL MEMBERS. THE PEOPLE WERE NOTIFIED. OF THE NAMES THEY WERE ASKED TO SERVE. SO WE NOTIFIED THEM. THEY AGREED. COUNCIL MEMBERS APPOINTED THEM.

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THE FULL COUNCIL APPROVED IT. SO IF ANYBODY'S GOING TO BE TAKEN OFF THE LIST, IT SHOULD BE A RESOLUTION TO REMOVE SOMEBODY OFF THE LIST. AND THE COUNCIL SHOULD AT THAT TIME, LET THE CITIZENS AND EVERYBODY KNOW, WHY ARE WE TAKING THESE PEOPLE OFF THE LIST? SO EVIDENTLY, WE HAVE DISCUSSIONS ABOUT REMOVING IT. AND THEN WHEN YOU GO BACK TO THE LATTER PART OF YOUR RESOLUTION SPEAKING ABOUT APPOINTING, IT'S BEEN DONE ALREADY. THE NAMES HAVE BEEN APPROVED. YES. HE WAS ASKING YOU A QUESTION. YES, MA'AM. IT'S A 2 IN 1 IN THIS RESOLUTION. I MEAN THE LANGUAGE ACTUALLY INCLUDES THAT THERE. WE'RE WISHING TO. THE COUNCIL'S WISHING TO REMOVE RAYMOND SCOTT AND GLORIA SANCHEZ. WE COULD DO IT AS TWO SEPARATE RESOLUTIONS.

WE TYPICALLY DON'T DO THAT TO AVOID NAMING PEOPLE THAT ARE BEING REMOVED. BUT IF THE COUNCIL WANTS TO DO IT WITH TWO RESOLUTIONS, WE CAN. BUT WE DO HAVE TWO AND ONE, BECAUSE THIS COUNCIL, THE NEW COUNCIL, HAS A RIGHT TO APPOINT TWO PEOPLE FROM. AM I CORRECT OR AM I WANT TO. WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE. BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT THE CITY COUNCIL HAS THE RIGHT WITH ITS ADVISORY BOARD TO REMOVE AND APPOINT PEOPLE AS WE DEEM NECESSARY. OKAY, SO WE'RE REPLACING TWO COUNCIL MEMBERS AT THE REQUEST OF THESE NEW COUNCIL MEMBERS WITH TWO PEOPLE TO SERVE ON THE CHARTER COMMITTEE. CORRECT. BUT I HEAR COUNCIL MEMBER DOUCETTE SAYING WE SHOULD HAVE ITS OWN RESOLUTION REMOVING RAYMOND SCOTT AND GLORIA SANCHEZ, AND THAT COULD BE DONE. BUT WE TYPICALLY DON'T DO THAT TO AVOID HAVING TO FOLLOW. OKAY.

WELL, THANK OKAY. SO WE'RE GOING TO JUST VOTE ON THIS AND THIS WILL REPLACE THOSE.

CORRECT. ARE WE LEGALLY ARE WE LEGALLY DOING CORRECT. THIS IS WHAT I WANT TO KNOW IS HOW WE'VE DONE IT IN THE HOW WE'VE DONE THIS IN THE PAST. THIS IS HOW WE'VE ALWAYS DONE IT. OKAY.

THANK YOU MAYOR. I'VE BEEN I'VE BEEN ON COUNCIL FOR NINE AND A HALF YEARS. WE HAVE NEVER DONE ANYTHING LIKE REMOVING AND APPOINTING ON ONE RESOLUTION. OKAY. MR. DOUCET, MR. DOUCET, LET ME THE WAY WE HAVE DONE THIS IS WHAT WE'RE DOING RIGHT NOW, AND THAT IS TO REPLACE, AS WE'VE DONE WITH THE PLEASURE ISLAND ADVISORY, AS WE'VE DONE WITH THE PORT ARTHUR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION, AND AS WE'VE DONE WITH THE BEAUTIFICATION COMMITTEE. SO THERE'S NO DIFFERENCE IN THIS COMMITTEE THAN THE OTHER COMMITTEE. SO WE'RE GOING TO GO TO A VOTE. WELL, WE'RE GOING TO GO TO A VOTE, MAYOR STATED. ARE YOU DONE WITH YOUR STATEMENT? NO, I DON'T WANT TO BE RUDE. DON'T INTERRUPT, I CAN I AM THE CHAIR OF THE MEETING. YEAH. BUT YOU, SIR, AND YOU SPOKE ALREADY, MAYOR, SO YOU CAN HAVE A SEAT. I'M NOT I'M NOT THROUGH SPEAKING, I, I GOT A QUESTION. THE QUESTION DID NOT ADDRESS. SHE ANSWERED THE QUESTION? NO, YOU ASKED THE QUESTION TO THE CITY ATTORNEY. CITY ATTORNEY, ARE YOU DONE? OKAY, OKAY, I HAVE A COMMENT. AND I'M STILL SPEAKING ON THIS ITEM. THIS ITEM, AND I'LL SAY IT AGAIN, THIS ITEM SAYS IF YOU READ THE RESOLUTION, YOU DON'T YOU DON'T NEED TO BE AN ATTORNEY. THE RESOLUTION SAYS, BUT YOU ASKED THE ATTORNEY AND THE ATTORNEY RESPONDED TO YOU. YOU ASKED THE ATTORNEY, AND THE ATTORNEY RESPONDED, MAYOR, DON'T, DON'T DON'T YOU DON'T TELL ME WHAT DON'T POINT OUT OF HERE. OKAY, WE HAVE MAYOR POINT OF ORDER, PLEASE. AND YOUR POINT, I CAN ACKNOWLEDGE YOUR POINT. WHAT'S YOUR POINT? THE ATTORNEY MADE A LEGAL DECISION, GAVE LEGAL ADVICE. SHE MADE A DECISION. SHE GAVE HER ORDER TO THE MAYOR. THE MAYOR IN CHARGE OF THE MEETING. COUNCIL. DO SIT. LET'S NOT GO DOWN THAT ROAD AGAIN. PLEASE, HAROLD. LET'S NOT GO DOWN THE THROUGH. HAROLD. HAROLD, NO! WAIT. NO. DO SIT. MAYBE LET'S VOTE. NO. IT'S CALLED A VOTE. LAST. LAST TIME I CAME IN TO SPEAK, I HAD 20 MINUTES. ARE YOU GUYS CALLING? I ONLY SPOKE 13 BECAUSE YOU ALL SAID THEY'RE NOT FOLLOWING WHAT'S WRITTEN. SIR, THE COUNCIL HAS MOVED TO SAY WE'RE GOING TO GO TO A VOTE TO COMMENT. I JUST READ WHAT? SAID THE ATTORNEY. WE HEARD YOU. I CAN COMMENT ON AN ITEM. JUST BECAUSE HE THREW. I'M NOT THROUGH COMMENTING. YOU DID. AND SHE RESPONDED, SIR, WE'RE GOING TO GO TO A VOTE. NO, I'M NOT THROUGH COMMENTING. NO, SIR, I'M NOT COMING BACK TO YOU. I DIDN'T ADDRESS YOU A SECOND TIME. I DIDN'T ASK YOU TO SPEAK THIS SECOND TIME. OH MY GOD. OKAY. YOU CAN WE'RE GOING TO GO TO A VOTE NO, I COUNCIL MEMBER ARE YOU READY? OKAY. ALL IN FAVOR, SAY I, I ANY NOS. THE

[VIII.A.(14) P.R. No. 25077 – A Resolution Authorizing The City Manager To Execute Change Order No. 5 To The Contract Between The City Of Port Arthur And Brystar Contracting, Inc., Of Beaumont, Texas, For The Stonegate Drainage Improvements Project, Increasing The Contract Amount By $55,996.00, To A New Contract Amount Of $18,033,616.15. Account 154-00-000-8515-00-10-000. Project No. DR1P04.CON.FEF.]

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AYES HAVE IT. THE RESOLUTION PASSES. LET'S GO TO NUMBER 14. PR NUMBER 25077. A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE CHANGE ORDER NUMBER FIVE TO THE CONTRACT BETWEEN THE CITY OF PORT ARTHUR AND BRIGHTSTAR CONTRACTING INCORPORATED OF BEAUMONT, TEXAS, FOR THE STONEGATE DRAINAGE IMPROVEMENT PROJECT, INCREASING THE CONTRACT AMOUNT BY $55,996 TO A NEW CONTRACT AMOUNT OF $18,000,033, $616.15. ACCOUNT NUMBER 154-00-000-8515-00-10-000. PROJECT NUMBER DR1, PO4 DOT CON DOT FEF. CAN I GET A MOTION FOR APPROVAL? SO MOVED, IT'S BEEN MOVED AND PROPERLY. SECOND, ANY QUESTIONS? I HAVE A QUESTION FROM MAYOR PRO TEM KINLAW. ALL RIGHT, GUYS, YOU ALL KNOW THIS THIS PROJECT THAT I'VE BEEN TRACKING. SO AND I'VE READ THE BACK BACKGROUND WORK AGAIN, CAN YOU BRIEFLY JUST TELL THE CITIZENS IN THIS AREA, I'VE BEEN TRACKING THIS PROJECT AND YOU GUYS KNOW THAT. SO CAN YOU GIVE ME THE HISTORY JUST A LITTLE BIT MORE HISTORY ABOUT THIS? AND WHY ARE WE AT THIS POINT? YES, SIR. THIS PROJECT HAS BEEN COMPLETED. IT IS SERVING THE PURPOSE IT WAS DESIGNED FOR IN TERMS OF REMOVING THE RAINWATER OFF JIMMIE JOHNSON AND NINTH AVENUE AND THE SUBDIVISION EAST OF NINTH AVENUE. WHAT WE NEED TO REMIND THE CITIZENS OF THIS PROJECT WAS DESIGNED FOR 100 YEAR STORM, WHICH MEANS IT CAN HANDLE 28IN OF RAIN WATER WITHIN A 24 HOUR PERIOD. SO WHEN WE GET FOUR INCHES OF WATER WITHIN AN HOUR, THERE IS GOING TO BE SOME WATER HELD ON JIMMIE JOHNSON, AND THEN IT'S GOING TO DISSIPATE VERY QUICKLY.

THIS IS WHAT HAPPENED DURING THAT LAST RAIN EVENT COUPLE MONTHS AGO. YES, SIR. WE HAD FOUR INCHES OF WATER ROUGHLY WITHIN ONE HOUR. AND TO DESIGN FOR THAT KIND OF SYSTEMS, IT WILL COST A TREMENDOUS AMOUNT OF MONEY. THE STANDARD DESIGN RIGHT NOW THAT WE'RE FOLLOWING IS FOR 100 YEAR STORM. SO NINTH AVENUE AND JIMMIE JOHNSON HAS ALWAYS BEEN A COMPLEX DRAINAGE ISSUE THAT WE'VE ALWAYS HAD. MY THING IS THIS IS ANYTHING ELSE WE CAN DO. I KNOW WE HAVE A NATURALLY GRAVITY FED FLOW OF WATER THAT'S COMING IN THAT AREA, AND IT'S ALWAYS TURNING INTO A BOWL EFFECT. YOU AND I HAVE HAD MANY CONVERSATIONS ABOUT THAT. EVEN WHEN I WAS IN DISTRICT THREE, THAT MONEY THAT WE SPENT ON DRAINAGE, $16.9 MILLION, THAT IS THAT HAVING DIFFICULTIES TYING INTO D SEVEN, GETTING THIS WATER OUT OF HERE. SO THE WAY THIS PROJECT WAS DESIGNED, WE'RE BRINGING ALL THE WATER TO THE PONDS ON THE GOLF COURSE, WHICH NOW ARE ACTING AS DETENTION PONDS, AND WE ARE FIXING TO BID THE REPLACEMENT OF THE TWO PUMP STATIONS THAT ACTUALLY DRAIN THESE PONDS. AND ONCE THESE PUMPS, RIGHT NOW WE HAVE WORKING, FUNCTIONING PUMPS, WE MONITOR THEM REGULARLY. WE PUMP THESE PONDS MANUALLY BEFORE A RAIN EVENT. SO WE INCREASE THE CAPACITY OF STORAGE. BUT ONCE THESE PUMP STATIONS ARE BUILT, EVERYTHING IS GOING TO BE AUTOMATED. AND WE WILL HAVE A MUCH BETTER, FASTER CONTROL ON THE RAIN EVENTS. AND WHO MAKES THE DECISION ON HOW FAR WE WE PUMP THESE THESE PONDS DOWN THREE FOOT, FOUR FOOT. IT JUST BASED UPON WHAT WE ARE LOOKING AT, THE WEATHER CHANNEL OR WHATEVER, WHO MAKES THE DECISION, HOW FAR IT GOES DOWN, THE WAY IT IS GOING TO BE DONE IS THERE IS A BASELINE WHERE THESE PONDS CAN BE PUMPED TO. WHEN A RAIN EVENT IS COMING, REGARDLESS OF THE MAGNITUDE OF THE RAIN EVENT. SO WE WILL ALWAYS BE PUMPING THEM DOWN TO THAT LEVEL. AND THEN THE STORAGE WILL BE AVAILABLE. OKAY. ALL RIGHT, DOC, YOU KNOW, I'M ON THIS THIS PARTICULAR AREA RIGHT HERE. AND IT JUST, YOU KNOW, I GET CALLS ALL THE TIME.

YOU KNOW, WE HAD THIS RAIN EVENT, YOU STATED IT EARLIER A COUPLE OF MONTHS AGO, AND IT JUST KIND OF CRUCIFIED US. I COULDN'T GET IN MY OWN HOUSE AS WELL. SO LET'S, LET'S WORK HARD.

LET'S JUST MONITOR THIS, MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE DOING EVERYTHING TO ENSURE TO THE CITIZENS THIS DRAINAGE AREA IN NINTH AVENUE, JIMMY JOHNSON IS GOING TO BE OKAY. AND STAFF EVALUATED THAT RAIN EVENT, WENT IN THE FIELD AND IDENTIFIED A COUPLE OF POINTS THAT WE NEED TO IMPROVE THE DRAINAGE ON, AND THEY'RE WORKING ON THAT AS WELL. THANK YOU. THANK YOU MAYOR.

THANK YOU. ALL IN FAVOR? I'M SORRY, CITY MANAGER, DID YOU HAVE YOUR LIGHT ON? ALL IN FAVOR, SAY AYE. AYE. ANY OPPOSE? THE AYES HAVE IT. THE RESOLUTION PASSES NUMBER 15. PR

[VIII.A.(15) P.R. No. 25083 – A Resolution Authorizing The City Manager To Execute Change Order No. 5 To The Contract With BDS Constructors, LLC, DBA MK Constructors, LLC, Of Vidor, Texas, For The Woodworth Boulevard Streetscape Improvements Project From Lakeshore Drive To State Highway 87 (Gulfway Drive) For The Adjustments To Existing Bid Item Quantities And The Addition Of New Bid Items As A Result Of Design Revisions & Field Conditions, And Add Forty-Five (45) Calendar Days For The Increased Amount Of $476,605.78; For A New Contract Amount Of $14,536,741.19. 2025 Series Of Certificates Of Obligations: Woodworth Boulevard Streetscape Improvement Project Account 307-21-053-8517-00-10-000. Project No. ST4014.OTH.]

NUMBER 25083. A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE. CHANGE ORDER NUMBER FIVE TO THE CONTRACT WITH BDS CONTRACTORS LLC. DBA M-K CONTRACTORS, LLC OF TEXAS FOR THE WOODWORTH BOULEVARD STREETSCAPE IMPROVEMENTS PROJECT FROM LAKESHORE DRIVE TO

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STATE HIGHWAY 87 GULFWAY DRIVE. FOR THE ADJUSTMENTS TO EXISTING BID ITEM QUANTITIES AND THE ADDITION OF THE NEW BID ITEMS AS A RESULT OF DESIGN REVISIONS AND FIELD CONDITIONS, AND ADD 45 CALENDAR DAYS FOR THE INCREASED AMOUNT OF 476,000. GOD BLESS YOU. $605.78 FOR A NEW CONTRACT. AMOUNT OF $14,536,741.19. 2025 SERIES OF CERTIFICATES OF OBLIGATIONS.

WOODWORTH BOULEVARD STREETSCAPE IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS. ACCOUNT NUMBER 307 DASH 21-053-8517-00-10-000. PROJECT NUMBER ST4014 DOT OTH. MAY I GET A MOTION FOR APPROVAL? SO MOVED, I NEED A SECOND. SECOND? IT'S BEEN MOVED AND PROPERLY SECOND DISCUSSION. AND I THINK THE GROUP AWS HAS A PRESENTATION WANT TO COME UP AND MAKE COMMENTS FOR THIS PROJECT? IF YOU WOULD. YOU GUYS CAN COME TO THE PODIUM RIGHT NOW. YES, MA'AM. YES, SIR. GOOD AFTERNOON, MAYOR COUNCIL. GOOD AFTERNOON. MY NAME IS DEREK GRAFFAGNINO WITH ARSENAL WILSON AND COLE, THE PROJECT MANAGER ON THIS PROJECT. I WANTED TO GIVE A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE PROJECT. I KNOW WE HAVE SOME NEW COUNCIL MEMBERS, SO I WANTED TO GIVE A KIND OF OVERALL GOAL OF WHAT THE PROJECT WAS, KIND OF EXPLAIN WHAT IT INCLUDED. AND THEN I WAS GOING TO, WE'RE GOING TO PLAY OUR VIDEO, WHICH KIND OF GIVES AN UPDATE ON WHERE THE PROJECT IS CURRENTLY. OKAY. AND I'LL KIND OF RUN THROUGH THAT AND NOTHING TOO EXTRAVAGANT.

BUT JUST ON A PERSONAL NOTE, I MEAN, OUR, OUR FIRM IS, WAS ESTABLISHED AND BASED IN PORT ARTHUR. ME PERSONALLY, MY, MY FAMILY, MY GRANDPARENTS MOVED HERE IN PORT ARTHUR AND MY PARENTS BOTH GRADUATED FROM THOMAS JEFFERSON HIGH SCHOOL. AND I REMEMBER EVEN AS A LITTLE KID, WHEN MY MOM WORKED FOR TJ, GOING TO THE FOOTBALL GAMES. AND THAT'S STILL THE FIRST FIGHT SONG I KNOW IS IS TJ SONG. SO SO THIS PROJECT DOES MEAN A LOT. SO I JUST WANTED TO POINT THAT OUT. OKAY. THANK YOU. BUT THE THE PROJECT'S OVERALL GOAL AND INTENT WAS TO PROVIDE IMPROVEMENTS FOR THE ROADWAY RECONSTRUCTION. IT'S GOING TO TIE IN EXISTING DRAINAGE WITH PROPOSED DRAINAGE. OBVIOUSLY, THE GOAL WAS TO MAXIMIZE THE OVERALL APPEARANCE BY TRYING TO UTILIZE SOME STREETSCAPE, WHICH YOU CALL STREETSCAPE QUANTITIES. AND WHAT WE HAVE IS IT PROMOTES SAFETY FOR PEDESTRIAN CROSSING FOR MULTI-USE PURPOSES, NOT JUST FOR TRUCK TRAFFIC. AND WHAT THAT ALSO INCLUDES IS USUALLY LANDSCAPING. YOU HAVE TREES, YOU HAVE UPLIGHTING, YOU HAVE IRRIGATION, YOU HAVE ELECTRICAL. WHERE WE'RE COMING THROUGH, TAKING EVERYTHING ABOVE OVERHEAD AND PUTTING IT UNDERGROUND. BRAND NEW STREET LIGHTS, DECORATIVE STREET LIGHTS THAT WE'VE COORDINATED WITH. ENERGY INCLUDES SEVERAL DIFFERENT AND A VAST ARRAY OF, OF DIFFERENT OF DIFFERENT ITEMS. SO TO DATE, THE PROJECT IS ABOUT 79% COMPLETE. WE'RE IN PHASE, I THINK SIX OF SEVEN COMPLETED. THE ONLY SECTION WE HAVE LEFT IS THE PROCTOR STREET INTERSECTION, WHERE WE'VE GOT ABOUT TWO WEEKS LEFT, I THINK IS WHAT WE'RE ANTICIPATING. TWO WEEKS. TWO WEEKS? YES, SIR. OKAY. SO WE'VE WE'VE KIND OF GOT A VIDEO THAT GOES THROUGH.

IT SHOWS SOME PICTURES BEFORE, SOME PICTURES AFTER SHOWS, SOME SIDE BY SIDE COMPARISONS. IT ALSO HAS SOME RENDERINGS THAT KIND OF SHOWCASES THE BAND STAND THERE AT THE END BETWEEN PROCTOR AND LAKESHORE AT THE VERY END, BUT THE PROJECT LIMITS START AT GULFWAY DRIVE AND END AT LAKESHORE, BUT I GUESS IT'S ALREADY BEEN PLANNING FOR IT TO PLAY. IT'S BEEN PLAYING, IT'S BEEN PLAYING. SORRY IT HASN'T BEEN PLAYING. NO, SIR. YOU READY? KEEP IN MIND IT'S CURRENTLY UNDER CONSTRUCTION, SO. YOU SEE THE BRICK PAVERS AT EACH CROSSING.

KIND OF HIGHLIGHTS THE WIDER SIDEWALKS, WHICH WILL BE USED FOR PEDESTRIAN AND FOR BIKE TRAILS AS WELL. PROMOTES MORE COMMUNITY INTERACTION. YOU ALSO HAVE BRAND NEW SIGNALS AT BOTH SEVENTH STREET AND AT THOMAS. AND YOU'LL KIND OF SEE SOME SIDE BY SIDES HERE IN A SECOND

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OF SOME PROBLEMATIC AREAS THAT HAD SOME DRAINAGE PATTERNS THAT NEED TO BE IMPROVED. WE DROPPED IN SOME INLETS, KIND OF CAPTURED SOME OF THAT, CLEANED IT UP. AND WHAT YOU HAVE IS A MUCH BETTER OVERALL PROJECT. THE INTENT WAS TO MAKE THIS A MAIN CORRIDOR LEADING IN TO PORT ARTHUR, TO KIND OF SHOWCASE, YOU KNOW, ALMOST I KIND OF COMPARE IT TO LIKE BOSTON AVENUE AND KIND OF WHAT NEDERLAND HAS, WHICH IS KIND OF SHOWCASE TYPE OF STREET.

HOWEVER, THIS IS MUCH LARGER SCALE. THIS IS FIRST OF ITS KIND IN PORT ARTHUR. I THINK THAT'S A BIG ACCOMPLISHMENT. I KNOW WE GAVE THE RENDERINGS AND WENT OVER THE INITIAL WITH THE COUNCIL, PROBABLY IN 2022 WHEN WE STARTED THE PROJECT, STARTED MEETING WITH THE CITY. SO WE HAD RENDERINGS, AND I THINK AT THE END YOU KIND OF SAW SOME OF THOSE, BUT OKAY. ALL RIGHT, MR. GRIFFIN, ARE YOU DONE? YES, MA'AM. OKAY, LET ME SEE IF I HAVE ANY LIGHTS. COUNCIL MEMBER GATEWOOD HAS LIGHT ON. YES, I DO SO AS IT AS IT RELATES TO THE CHANGE ORDER THAT'S ON THE TABLE TODAY. CAN YOU JUST GIVE ME SOME INFORMATION ON IT? ON WHICH ONE? THIS THE CHANGE ORDER. YES. THIS CHANGE CHANGE ORDER NUMBER FIVE INCLUDES. WE HAD SOME MODIFICATIONS ON THE MEDIAN FOR THAT. WE COORDINATED WITH THE CITY. WE WORKED WITH THE CITY ENGINEER AND PUBLIC WORKS AND THE MARDI GRAS COMMITTEE. AND WHAT IT WAS IS FOR TO ACCOMMODATE THE TURNING RADIUSES FOR THE LARGEST FLOATS THAT'S GOING TO BE COMING THROUGH. IT WAS SOMETHING THAT WASN'T ACCOUNTED FOR INITIALLY. SO IT WAS SOME MODIFICATIONS WE MADE FOR THAT. SO THAT'S SOME OF THE ITEMS YOU HAVE HERE. WE ALSO REPLACED SOME ELECTRICAL CONDUIT THAT WAS REQUIRED. IT WAS A REQUEST TO THE CITY TO ADD IN SOME NEW CONDUIT FOR ALL THESE LOCATIONS TO KIND OF PUT IN BRAND NEW CONDUIT. SO YOU DON'T HAVE THAT ISSUE FOR THE ELECTRICAL. AND THEN WE HAD SOME WE HAD TO ADJUST SOME QUANTITIES BOTH FOR DRAINAGE AND FOR ROADWAY. THAT'S PRETTY COMMON AS A PROJECT GOES ALONG WHERE WE ADJUST QUANTITIES GIVEN FIELD CONDITIONS DEPENDING ON WHAT WE SEE, IF WE SEE WATER LINES, SEWER LINES, AND THE WAY THINGS LIKE THAT.

OKAY. MAYOR PRO TEM KINLAW, THANK YOU. MAYOR, I'M GLAD THAT YOU BROUGHT THAT UP ABOUT THE TURNING RADIUS OF THOSE LARGE FLOATS, BECAUSE I KNOW IT'S MY UNDERSTANDING THAT THE RENDITION STATED THAT YOU'D HAVE PARKING IN THE MEDIANS. CORRECT. WE HAVE ANGLED PARKING, RIGHT. SO AN AVERAGE WIDTH OF A STREET. WHAT IS THAT, 14, 15, 12 TO 14, 12 TO 14. SO WE DIDN'T HAVE TO CRUNCH DOWN ON THAT AT ANY POINT TO ACCOMMODATE WITH THAT PARKING THAT'S IN THE MEDIAN BASED UPON YOUR RENDITIONS. NO, SIR. OKAY. IT DIDN'T AFFECT THE ANGLED PARKING OR THE STREET ITSELF. IT WAS MORE OR LESS THE END RIGHT THERE AT LAKESHORE AND SEAWALL. REALLY. RIGHT, RIGHT, RIGHT. IT'S THAT TURNING RADIUS COMING FROM WHERE THE FLOATS WOULD COME FROM, AS THEY ALWAYS HAVE FROM SEAWALL DOWN, HEADING NORTH. AND THAT WOULDN'T HINDER ANYTHING BASED UPON. CORRECT. WELL, WE HAD IT. IT EXTENDED FURTHER OUT. THIS ALLOWS THE TURNING RADIUS OF A LARGE SEMI AND. YES. YES MA'AM. IT WAS CHANGED. I'M SO GLAD TO HEAR THAT. THANK YOU SO MUCH. THANK YOU. MR. DOUCET. HAROLD, YOU SAID 5180 CAMBRIDGE STREET.

ONCE AGAIN, THE RESOLUTION FOR. THIS PARTICULAR PROJECT, RIGHT DOWN THE. THE TOTAL COST IS $14,536,741.19. THAT'S NOT INCLUDING THE ARCHITECT DESIGN AND ENGINEERING. IF ALL OF THAT IS ADDED, THE TOTAL IS 15,000 $368,644.19. THAT'S HOW MUCH WE PUT INTO THIS BOULEVARD. NEW COUNCIL MEMBERS. YOU ALL CAMPAIGNED. ONE OF THE THINGS PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT, I KNOW YOU HEARD ABOUT, WAS THE MONEY WE SPENT ON WOODWARD BOULEVARD, BUT I'LL JUST GO WITH THE FIRST TOTAL, 14,536,000. THE COUNCIL HAS ONLY AUTHORIZED 14 MILLION AND $200,000 FOR THIS PARTICULAR PROJECT. SO HOW CAN YOU APPROVE PAYING MORE THAN 14.2 MILLION? YOU ONLY PUT 14.2

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MILLION IN THE BUDGET IN THE BUDGET FOR THIS PROJECT. NO ITEMS SUPPOSED TO BE PLACED ON THE AGENDA UNLESS THE FUNDING IS AVAILABLE. AND IF YOU FOR THOSE NEW COUNCIL MEMBERS, IT STATED RIGHT HERE IN YOUR RESOLUTION, WHERE THE 14.2 MILLION WAS APPROVED. SO THERE SHOULDN'T BE ANY QUESTION ABOUT HOW MUCH MONEY YOU HAVE IN THE BUDGET FOR THIS PARTICULAR PROJECT. SO WHERE ARE YOU GOING TO GET THE REST OF THE MONEY YOU'RE APPROVING? 14.5 SOMETHING MILLION, BUT YOU ONLY HAVE 14.2 MILLION IN THE BUDGET. THAT'S WHY WE KEEP ASKING ACCOUNT FOR OUR MONEY. YOU GOT 14.2 MILLION. YOU'RE GOING TO APPROVE SOMETHING FOR MORE THAN 14 MILLION. WHERE'S THE REST OF THE MONEY? OKAY. CITY MANAGER, YOU LIKE FINANCE TO ANSWER THAT OR YOU WANT TO? LYNN, THANK YOU FOR. THANK YOU. GOOD AFTERNOON. MAYOR. COUNCIL MEMBERS. YES.

THE QUESTION OF WHERE THE ADDITIONAL COMES FROM IS YOUR AUTHORITY FOR AMENDMENT. AND FROM THE 2025 COB THAT WE RECEIVED, I BELIEVE THAT ONE WAS THE 18 MILLION AND PORTION OF THAT CAN BE ALLOCATED FOR THIS. AND THAT IS WHERE THE ADDITIONAL IS COMING FROM. THE 14.2 WAS FROM THE COBS. PRIOR TO THAT WE HAD. AND THEN THESE NEW AMOUNTS ARE FROM THE NEW COB IN WHICH WE'RE ABLE TO USE THESE FUNDS FOR THIS PARTICULAR PURPOSE. OKAY. THANK YOU, COUNCIL MEMBERS. ALL IN FAVOR, SAY AYE. ANY NO'S. THE AYES HAVE IT. THE RESOLUTION PASSES

[VIII.A.(16) P.R. No. 25093 - A Resolution Appointing A Member To The Zoning Board Of Adjustment Pursuant To Appendix A: Zoning, Section 5.04 Of The City Of Port Arthur Code Of Ordinances. (Requested By Councilmember Jacobs)]

NUMBER 16. PRT NUMBER 25093. A RESOLUTION APPOINTING A MEMBER TO THE ZONING BOARD OF ADJUSTMENT PURSUANT TO APPENDIX A ZONING SECTION 5.04 OF THE CITY OF PORT ARTHUR CODE OF ORDINANCES REQUESTED BY COUNCIL MEMBER JACOBS. I GET A MOTION FOR APPROVAL. IT'S BEEN MOVED IN SECOND. ANY QUESTIONS? UNNAMED COUNCIL MEMBER JACOBS DANITA JONES. OKAY. ALL RIGHT.

OKAY. IT'S BEEN NOTED THAT WE HAVE DOCTOR DANITA JONES INTO THIS POSITION ALL IN. OH WE'VE DONE THAT ALREADY. DID WE SAY ALL IN FAVOR? NO. ALL IN FAVOR SAY AYE. AYE. AND HE KNOWS THE

[VIII.B.(1) P.O. No. 7438 – An Ordinance Authorizing The Separation And Transfer Of Ownership Of Police Canine Athena To Officer Tiffany Williams, Finding That The Established Purchase Price Has Been Satisfied.]

AYES HAVE IT. THE RESOLUTION PASSES. WE'RE GOING TO GO TO ORDINANCES B WE HAVE ONE ORDINANCE PL NUMBER 737438. AN ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING THE SEPARATION AND TRANSFER OF OWNERSHIP OF POLICE. CANINE ATHENA TO OFFICER TIFFANY WILLIAMS, FINDING THAT THE ESTABLISHED PURCHASE PRICE HAS BEEN SATISFIED. MAY I GET A MOTION FOR APPROVAL? SO MOVED IT'S BEEN MOVED. AND SECOND, ANY QUESTIONS? ALL IN FAVOR, SAY AYE. AYE. ANY OPPOSED? THE

[IX. *CLOSED MEETING (EXECUTIVE SESSION)]

AYES HAVE IT. THE RESOLUTION PASSES. WE'RE NOW GOING TO VOTE TO MOVE GO INTO EXECUTIVE CLOSED SESSION TO HANDLE THE FOLLOWING ITEMS. THE CITY COUNCIL WILL GO INTO EXECUTIVE SESSION TO HANDLE NUMBER ONE. SECTION 551071 LITIGATION CITY OF PORT ARTHUR, TEXAS, VERSUS THREE M COMPANY ET AL. CIVIL ACTION NUMBER 223 CV 0560RMG. IN THE US DISTRICT COURT OF SOUTH CAROLINA, CHARLESTON DIVISION NUMBER TWO, SECTION 551071 LITIGATION IN THE MATTER OF ARBITRATION BETWEEN THE PORT ARTHUR POLICE ASSOCIATION AND THE CITY OF PORT ARTHUR, TEXAS.

TRIPLE A, CASE NUMBER 01-24-0007-9088. SECTION 551071. LITIGATION. THIS IS NUMBER THREE STATE OF TEXAS VERSUS CITY OF PORT ARTHUR, TEXAS. CAUSE NUMBER D1GN25-001285. IN THE 201ST DISTRICT COURT OF TRAVIS COUNTY, TEXAS, SECTION 551071 LEGAL ADVICE INDUSTRIAL DISTRICT AGREEMENTS. SECTION 551071 LEGAL ADVICE PIPELINE. INDUSTRIAL DISTRICT AGREEMENTS.

NUMBER SIX, SECTION 551071 LEGAL ADVICE CONTRACT FOR THE STUDY DESIGN, PERMIT, CONSTRUCT AND OPERATE A SALE THAT WILL RECEIVE WASTE THAT IS NOT PERMITTED UNDER THE CURRENT CITY OF PORT ARTHUR LANDFILL PERMIT REQUEST BY COUNCIL MEMBER FRANK AND NUMBER SEVEN, SECTION 551071 LEGAL ADVICE SABINE-NECHES NAVIGATION DISTRICT OF JEFFERSON COUNTY, TEXAS VERSUS DILIGENCE OFFSHORE SERVICES, LLC. CAUSE NUMBER 26DCCV AS IN VICTOR 0948 IN THE

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172ND JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT OF JEFFERSON COUNTY, TEXAS. CAN I GET A MOTION TO MOVE INTO EXECUTIVE SESSION IN A SECOND? IT'S BEEN MOVED IN. SECOND, ANY DISCUSSIONS ON ANY OF THE ITEMS THAT I'VE CALLED OUT? ONE THROUGH SEVEN COUNCIL MEMBERS? IF NOT, WE NEED A MOTION TO.

ALL IN FAVOR, SAY AYE. AND ANY NOS. THE AYES HAVE IT. WE WILL NOW MOVE TO GO INTO EXECUTIVE CLOSED SESSION AT 1:01 P.M. THANK YOU.

* This transcript was compiled from uncorrected Closed Captioning.

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