[00:00:06] MARK GRACE HAS SOME PRETTY STELLAR ARMS LIKE SERENA WILLIAMS. GOOD, BUT HER FACE IS PRETTY DISGUSTING. SOMEONE PLEASE TELL HIM TO GO BACK INTO HIS CLOSET AND LEAVE US ALONE. BRITTANY'S FACE IS SO STUPID AND I HATE HER SO MUCH. IT'S LIKE A SCIENTIST CREATED HER IN A LAB TO ANNOY HUMANITY AND DIDN'T EVEN DO THAT GOOD OF A JOB. MEGAN REMINDS ME OF A TROLL DOLL THAT CAME TO LIFE INTENT ON KILLING US WITH HER STUPIDITY. WHY IS GRACE'S HEAD SO BIG? IT DEFINITELY HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH HOW SMART SHE IS, AND PROBABLY EVERYTHING TO DO WITH HOW BLOATED SHE IS. HE'S SO FUNNY. JUST KIDDING. WHO WOULD FIND THIS DISFIGURED FLAMINGO FUNNY? NEVER POST A SELFIE OF YOURSELF. YOU LOOK SO UGLY. THE ONLY REASON YOU HAVE SO MANY VIEWS IS BECAUSE WE THINK YOU'RE A FREAK AND WE CAN'T LOOK AWAY. MEGAN IS THE MAIN REASON THAT THE WORLD SUCKS SO MUCH. I WOULD RATHER GET CANCER THAN LISTEN TO ANOTHER TREVOR MORAN SONG. YOU ARE A MISTAKE. YOU SHOULD HAVE NEVER BEEN BORN. DROWN YOURSELF IN A SHALLOW PUDDLE, PLEASE. WOW. I HOPE SHE'S STERILE. THESE REALLY STOPPED BEING FUNNY A LONG TIME AGO. YOU'RE SO MUCH MORE THAN THE THINGS THAT PEOPLE SAY ABOUT YOU. THOSE PEOPLE HAVE NO RIGHT TO SAY CRUEL THINGS TO YOU TO MAKE THEMSELVES FEEL BETTER. IT'S OKAY THAT YOU SOUND DIFFERENT THAN EVERYONE ELSE. THAT'S WHAT MAKES YOU SO SPECIAL. WE WILL NOT TOLERATE IT. WE WILL NOT TOLERATE IT. WE WILL NOT TOLERATE. WE WILL NOT TOLERATE IT. EVERY DAY PEOPLE MAKE ME FEEL LIKE I STAND OUT SIMPLY BECAUSE OF THE WAY THAT I LOOK. EVERY DAY PEOPLE MAKE ME FEEL SMALL. EVERY DAY I FACE THE COUNCIL MEMBER DAVID SALAZAR, JUNIOR. AND COUNCIL MEMBER DAVID WHITE SITTING IN AS ADVISER. CITY MANAGER AND CITY ATTORNEY JOSEPHINE RAMIREZ SOLIS, AND NOW LIVE FROM EDINBURG CITY HALL. THE EDINBURG CITY COUNCIL. GOOD EVENING, EVERYBODY. WELCOME TO TODAY'S MEETING. MY NAME IS RAMIRO GARZA, MAYOR OF THE CITY OF EDINBURG. I WANT TO CALL [1. CALL TO ORDER, ESTABLISH QUORUM] THIS MEETING TO ORDER. I DO SEE VISIBLY THAT WE DO HAVE A QUORUM THIS EVENING. [A. Prayer.] AND WE'RE GOING TO START LIKE WE DO EVERY MEETING WITH A PRAYER. IF YOU COULD PLEASE RISE. TODAY WE HAVE RABBI ASHER HECHT, AND HE'S GOING TO LEAD US IN PRAYER TODAY. GOOD EVENING, EVERYONE. I THINK WE COULD ALL AGREE THAT AS THIS IS AN IMPORTANT NIGHT IN THE CITY OF EDINBURGH, IT SURELY IS AN IMPORTANT NIGHT FOR OUR ENTIRE COUNTRY. AND WE BESEECH GOD'S BLESSINGS AS WE PRAY HERE FOR GREATNESS. FRIENDS, LET US TOGETHER JOIN AND MAKE A PRAYER. ALMIGHTY GOD, WE HAVE ASSEMBLED HERE TODAY FOR THE PURPOSE OF COMMUNAL SERVICE ON BEHALF OF THE RESIDENTS OF OUR BEAUTIFUL CITY. AND WHAT MAKES THIS CITY EVEN MORE BEAUTIFUL IS THE VERY FACT THAT ITS MONTHLY MEETINGS BEGIN WITH YOU, GOD, IN MIND THROUGH THIS VERY PRAYER. BLESS OUR WORK HERE TODAY. BLESS THE WORK OF THE HONORABLE MAYOR, CITY COUNCILORS, CITY MANAGER, CITY OFFICIALS AND ALL THEIR STAFF ALONG WITH ALL OUR FELLOW CITIZENS. BLESS US THAT OUR EFFORTS BEAR GOOD FRUIT, THAT OUR THOUGHTFUL, HONEST AND RESPECTFUL DIALOG LEAD TO CONSTRUCTIVE RESULTS. PLEASE GUIDE OUR HAND AS WE MAKE IMPORTANT DECISIONS FOR OUR COMMUNITY. IN OUR CIVIC SERVICE, WE FULFILL THE MANDATE THAT YOU HAVE BESTOWED UPON US. INSTRUCTED TO NOAH IN HIS DAY AND CONVEYED THROUGH MOSES AT MOUNT SINAI, KNOWN AS THE SEVEN UNIVERSAL ETHICS. ONE TO WORSHIP YOU AND YOU ALONE. TWO NEVER TO CURSE YOUR HOLY NAME. THREE NOT TO COMMIT MURDER, FOUR NOT TO COMMIT ADULTERY, INCEST, OR ANY SEXUAL MISDEEDS FIVE NOT TO STEAL, LIE, OR CHEAT SIX. NOT TO BE CRUEL TO ANY LIVING CREATURE, AND SEVEN. THAT EVERY SOCIETY BE GOVERNED BY JUST LAWS BASED ON THE RECOGNITION AND ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF YOU, O GOD, AS THE SOVEREIGN, RULER, RULER OF ALL HUMANKIND AND ALL NATIONS. AND THIS ASSEMBLY IS DOING RIGHT NOW THIS EXACTLY BY OPENING THIS MEETING WITH PRAYER AS THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORK FOR THIS GREAT CITY, ALL TO MAKE YOUR GARDEN OUR WORLD, WHICH YOU HAVE GIVEN US TO INHABIT A SAFE, MORAL AND CONSTRUCTIVE PLACE, A BEAUTIFUL PLACE, ONE FILLED WITH GOODNESS AND KINDNESS THAT EXPRESSES THE BEAUTY OF THE DIVINE INTENT. ALMIGHTY GOD, IN THE MERIT OF OUR SINCERE EFFORTS. BLESS US ALL WITH GOOD HEALTH. SUCCESS IN ALL OUR ENDEAVORS AND POSITIVE RESULTS FROM OUR WORK. BLESS OUR WONDERFUL CITY AND COMMUNITIES SO THAT IT CONTINUES TO PROSPER AND GROW. [00:05:04] TO BE A MODEL CITY WITHIN OUR GREAT STATE AND OUR BELOVED COUNTRY. ALMIGHTY GOD, BLESS US WITH CLARITY, BLESS US WITH STRENGTH, AND BLESS US WITH PEACE, ESPECIALLY DURING THESE HARD TIMES. NOW LET US SAY AMEN. PLEASE JOIN US FOR OUR PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE. [B. Pledge of Allegiance.] I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AND TO THE REPUBLIC FOR WHICH IT STANDS. ONE NATION UNDER GOD, INDIVISIBLE, WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL. THANK YOU. RABBI. WE'RE GOING TO MOVE ON TO ITEM TWO, CERTIFICATION OF PUBLIC NOTICE. [2. CERTIFICATION OF PUBLIC NOTICE] YES, SIR. THE MEETING IS POSTED IN ACCORDANCE TO TEXAS OPEN MEETINGS ACT. ON NOVEMBER 1ST, 2024 AT 9:45 P.M.. SIR. THANK YOU. ITEM THREE DISCLOSURE OF CONFLICT OF INTEREST. YES. UNDER STATE LAW, LOCAL GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS ARE REQUIRED TO DISCLOSE THE SUBSTANTIAL INTEREST FOR THEMSELVES OR CERTAIN FAMILY MEMBERS AND ABSTAIN FROM VOTING ON MATTERS RELATED TO SUCH A CONFLICT. ARE THERE ANY CONFLICTS TO DISCLOSE ON MATTERS RELATED TO TODAY'S AGENDA? [3. DISCLOSURE OF CONFLICT OF INTEREST] [4. CITY MANAGER'S REPORT] NO NO NO. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. ITEM FOUR IS CITY MANAGER'S REPORT. [A. Community Planting Day] YES. GOOD EVENING, MAYOR AND COUNCIL. FOR THE CITY MANAGER REPORT. WHAT I HAVE TODAY IS A COMMUNITY PLANTING DAY. THAT IS BEING COORDINATED THROUGH OUR PARKS AND RECREATION. THE CITY OF EDINBURG INVITES RESIDENTS TO JOIN US FOR COMMUNITY PLANTING DAY THIS SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 9TH, BEGINNING AT 9 A.M. AT THE PROMENADE PARK AMPHITHEATER. THE EVENT WILL OPEN WITH A BRIEF CEREMONY, INCLUDING A WELCOME MESSAGE AND AN EXPRESSION OF APPRECIATION TO THE APACHE CORPORATION FOR THEIR GENEROUS GRANT OF 200 TREES DONATED TO OUR COMMUNITY. FOLLOWING THE CEREMONY, 150 TREES WILL BE AVAILABLE FOR COMMUNITY MEMBERS TO TAKE HOME WHILE SUPPLIES LAST. IN ADDITION, 25 TREES WILL BE PLANTED AT THE PROMENADE PARK THAT MORNING, WITH ANOTHER 25 TREES SCHEDULED FOR PLANTING AT DE ZAVALA, THE CITY SCHOOL PARK. AND WE'VE INVITED THE EDINBURG 2040 NEIGHBORHOOD PARK'S GREEN SPACE BEAUTIFICATION COMMITTEE TO PARTICIPATE. BUT WE WOULD ALSO LIKE TO WARMLY EXTEND THE INVITATION TO ALL RESIDENTS, COMMUNITY GROUPS AND ORGANIZATIONS TO JOIN US IN ENHANCING EDINBURGH'S GREEN SPACES BY PLANTING OR TAKING HOME A TREE. [5. PROCLAMATION/RECOGNITION] THAT'S ALL I HAVE, MAYOR. THANK YOU. WE'RE GOING TO MOVE ON TO ITEM FIVE. [A. Presentation of Proclamation Recognizing November 4-8, 2024 as Municipal Courts Week. [Maribel Velasquez, Court Administrator]] WE HAVE ONE PROCLAMATION FOR THIS EVENING TO RECOGNIZE MUNICIPAL COURTS WEEK FROM NOVEMBER 4TH THROUGH EIGHTH. I'M NOT SURE IF OUR JUDGES HERE OR MISS MARIBEL. WE COULD COME TO THE PODIUM AND WE'LL READ OUT THE PROCLAMATION. MAYOR. MUNICIPAL COURTS WEEK, NOVEMBER 4TH THROUGH EIGHT, 2024. WHEREAS THE EDINBURG MUNICIPAL COURT HAS EXISTED SINCE AUGUST 24TH, 1926, AND SERVES AS A LOCAL JUSTICE CENTER FOR THE ENFORCEMENT OF LOCAL ORDINANCES AND FINE ONLY STATE OFFENSES THAT PROTECT THE PEACE AND DIGNITY OF OUR COMMUNITY. AND WHEREAS MUNICIPAL COURTS PLAY A SIGNIFICANT ROLE IN PRESERVING PUBLIC SAFETY AND PROMOTING QUALITY OF LIFE IN TEXAS, AND WHEREAS MORE PEOPLE COME IN CONTACT WITH MUNICIPAL COURTS THAN ALL OTHER TEXAS COURTS COMBINED, THE PUBLIC'S IMPRESSION OF THE TEXAS JUDICIAL SYSTEM IS LARGELY DEPENDENT UPON THEIR EXPERIENCE IN MUNICIPAL COURT, AND WHEREAS THE PROCEDURES FOR THE MUNICIPAL COURT OPERATIONS ARE SET FORTH IN THE TEXAS CODE OF CRIMINAL PROCEDURES AND OTHER LAWS OF THE STATE OF TEXAS, AND WHEREAS, THE EDINBURG MUNICIPAL COURT JUDGE AND CLERK CONTINUOUSLY STRIVE TO IMPROVE THE ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE THROUGH PARTICIPATION IN JUDICIAL EDUCATION PROGRAMS, SEMINARS, AND WORKSHOPS. AND WHEREAS, THE CITY OF EDINBURGH IS COMMITTED TO THE NOTION THAT OUR LEGAL SYSTEM IS BASED ON THE PRINCIPLE THAT AN INDEPENDENT, FAIR AND COMPETENT JUDICIARY WILL INTERPRET AND APPLY THE LAWS THAT GOVERN US, GOVERN US AND THE JUDGES. THE COURT PERSONNEL SHOULD COMPLY WITH THE LAW AND ACT IN A MANNER THAT PROMOTES PUBLIC CONFIDENCE IN THE INTEGRITY AND IMPARTIALITY OF JUDICIARY JUSTICE. AND WHEREAS, THE EDINBURG CITY COUNCIL RECOGNIZES THE ACCOMPLISHMENTS OF THE TEXAS MUNICIPAL COURTS AND SALUTES THEIR CRITICAL ROLE IN PRESERVING PUBLIC SAFETY, PROTECTING THE QUALITY OF LIFE IN TEXAS COMMUNITIES, AND CRIMINAL CASES FOR ALL DEFENDANTS, INCLUDING INDIGENT DEFENDANTS, AND SUPPORTS THE EDINBURG MUNICIPAL COURT IN COMPLYING WITH SUCH LEGAL REQUIREMENTS. NOW, THEREFORE, THE MAYOR AND COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF EDINBURG, TEXAS, BY THE POWER VESTED IN THEM BY LAW, DO HEREBY PROCLAIM NOVEMBER 4TH THROUGH EIGHT, 2024, AS MUNICIPAL COURTS WEEK. DURING THIS WEEK, WE ENCOURAGE ALL RESIDENTS TO VISIT THE EDINBURG MUNICIPAL COURT AND GET TO KNOW THE MUNICIPAL COURT STAFF. THANK YOU. MAYOR AND COUNCIL MEMBER MARIBEL VELASQUEZ, COURT ADMINISTRATOR FOR FOR THE MUNICIPAL COURT. HAVE A FEW WORDS JUST TO SAY YOU KNOW, ON BEHALF OF MYSELF AND OF COURSE, MY STAFF, YOU KNOW, WE APPRECIATE EVERYTHING THAT YOU'VE DONE FOR US, BUT JUST WANTED TO SHARE. AS WE OBSERVED MUNICIPAL COURTS, WE PAUSE TO CONSIDER THE ESSENTIAL FUNCTION THE MUNICIPAL COURTS FULFILL IN OUR COMMUNITIES. WE ARE A VITAL COMPONENT OF OUR LEGAL SYSTEM, AND ARE FREQUENTLY THE INITIAL POINT OF CONTACT FOR PEOPLE LOOKING INTO JUSTICE. FROM TRAFFIC INFRACTIONS TO LOCAL ORDINANCES, MUNICIPAL COURT HANDLES A WIDE RANGE OF MATTERS AND PLAY A VITAL ROLE IN GUARANTEEING [00:10:03] THAT THE LAW IS APPLIED JUSTLY AND EQUALLY. COURTS SUPPORT THE PREVENTION OF ORDER, PUBLIC SAFETY, AND CITIZEN ACCOUNTABILITY. THIS WEEK, WE CELEBRATE THE DILIGENCE AND COMMITMENT OF THE JUDGES, CLERKS, AND STAFF WHO MAKE SURE OUR COURTS RUN SMOOTHLY AND FAIRLY. IT IS SHOWN IN THEIR DEDICATION TO UPHOLDING THE LAW AND HOW CONSIDERATE THEY ARE. WE HANDLE COMPLEX LEGAL ISSUES WHILE MAKING SURE THAT EACH PERSON IS HANDLED WITH DIGNITY AND RESPECT. ADDITIONALLY, MUNICIPAL COURTS ARE ESSENTIAL FOR THE COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT BY PROVIDING OUTREACH INITIATIVES, EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES, AND ALTERNATIVE DISPUTE RESOLUTION PROCESS. OFFICE. THEY PROMOTE A CULTURE OF MUTUAL RESPECT AND COMPASSION BY WORKING DIRECTLY WITH LOCAL ORGANIZATIONS TO ADDRESS UNDERLYING ISSUES THAT MAY LEAD TO INFRACTIONS. WE PRIORITIZE REHABILITATION ABOVE PUNISHMENT THROUGH OUTREACH AND EDUCATION. WE HAVE ESTABLISHED RELATIONSHIPS WITH EDINBURG ISD, SOUTH TEXAS ISD, VANGUARD, AND OUR SURROUNDING SCHOOL DISTRICTS. WE HAVE PLEDGED TO KEEP UP OUR COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT BY OFFERING OUR OUTREACH DOCKETS, WHICH INCLUDE A MOBILE COURT AT VARIOUS CITY FACILITIES TO SERVE RESIDENTS AFTER HOURS, AND OUR FIRST EVER CAR SEAT EVENT DURING CHILD PASSENGER SAFETY WEEK IN SEPTEMBER 2024 TO PROMOTE CHILD SAFETY, I AM PROUD TO SAY THAT OUR CONTINUING EFFORTS TO KEEPING EDINBURG RESIDENTS SAFE HAVE CAUSED SUCH AN IMPACT THAT OUT OF OVER 900 MUNICIPAL COURTS IN THE STATE OF TEXAS, OURS HAS BEEN RECOGNIZED. WE HAVE RECEIVED NUMEROUS NUMEROUS AWARDS FOR TRAFFIC SAFETY AND CONTINUE TO WORK TOWARDS UPHOLDING SUCH HIGH RECOGNITIONS AS WE COMMEMORATE MUNICIPAL COURTS WEEK. LET US KEEP IN MIND THAT JUSTICE IS ABOUT MORE THAN SIMPLY PUNISHMENT. IT IS ALSO ABOUT RESTORING BALANCE, ENCOURAGING REHABILITATION, AND CREATING A COMMUNITY THAT IS SAFER AND MORE WELCOMING. LET US PLEDGE TO MAKE SURE THAT THESE VALUES ARE UPHELD BY OUR COURTS GOING FORWARD, ALLOWING EVERYONE TO ACCESS JUSTICE. LET US WORK TOGETHER TO CREATE A SOCIETY THAT IS MORE EQUAL AND JUST. I WOULD LIKE TO USE THIS OPPORTUNITY TO EXTEND OUR GRATITUDE TO CITY MANAGEMENT, THE MAYOR, CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS, AND MOST IMPORTANTLY, OUR MUNICIPAL COURT JUDGE AND PROSECUTOR FOR THEIR COLLABORATIVE EFFORTS TO ENSURE THAT THE LAW IS ENFORCED FAIRLY AND EQUALLY. THAT IS ALL I HAVE. ALSO, I'D LIKE TO EXTEND AN INVITATION. WE ARE HAVING A MUNICIPAL COURTS. ACTUALLY, IT'S DONUTS AND COFFEE WITH MUNICIPAL COURT STAFF ON THURSDAY. SO IT'S AT 10:00 IN THE MORNING. SO WE INVITE EVERYONE, YOU, ALL THE PUBLIC. SO IT WOULD BE NICE TO SEE YOU ALL THAT THAT MORNING. BUT BUT THANK YOU FOR EVERYTHING. AND OF COURSE THANKS TO MY STAFF FOR, FOR EVERYTHING THAT THEY DO. THANK YOU, MISS MARAVILLA AND ALL OF YOU. I JOKE WITH MARAVILLA SAID YOUR STAFF HAS GROWN. I REMEMBER WHEN THERE WAS 3 OR 4 OF YOU A LONG TIME AGO. BUT THANK YOU FOR ALL. YOU ALL DO. WE REALLY APPRECIATE IT. ON BEHALF OF MYSELF AND THE CITY COUNCIL, THANK YOU. THANK YOU FOR ALL. YOU ALL DO. AND WE'LL MAKE SURE WE STOP BY ON THURSDAY. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU SO MUCH. BYE BYE. THANK YOU. WE DO HAVE A LITTLE SOMETHING. I'M SORRY. I FORGOT TO GIVE YOU A BENEFIT. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. SO GET OUT OF JAIL. FREE CARD OR WHAT? GO AWAY. SORRY. GET OUT OF JAIL. FREE CARD OR NO. ALL RIGHT. [6. PUBLIC COMMENTS] WE'RE GOING TO MOVE ON TO ITEM SIX. PUBLIC COMMENTS. THE EDINBURG CITY COUNCIL ALLOWS FOR SPECIFIC PORTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL MEETING TO BE DEDICATED TO PUBLIC COMMENTS. PUBLIC COMMENTS ARE LIMITED TO THREE MINUTES. I WILL BE TAKING TIME. PLEASE NOTE THE PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD IS NOT INTERACTIVE. THE COUNCIL MAY NOT RESPOND TO PUBLIC COMMENTS THIS TIME. COUNCIL. THERE ARE TEN PUBLIC COMMENTS. THE FIRST PUBLIC COMMENT IS FOR CLARITY REGARDING ELECTION DAY. GENTLEMEN, ON THIS DAY, OUR NATION IS DECIDING WHO WILL BE OUR LEADERS ON A GOVERNMENTAL LEVEL. THIS IS MOST IMPORTANT DATE ON THE AGENDA OF THE FREE WORLD. RUSSIA, CHINA AND ESPECIALLY ISRAEL ARE ALL WAITING FOR THE FREE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES TO DECIDE WHO OUR NEW LEADER WILL BE. THE TWO PARTIES HAVE SPENT MILLIONS OF DOLLARS TRYING TO CONVINCE PEOPLE THAT THEY SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO LEAD OUR COUNTRY. MY POINT IS THAT WE THE PEOPLE SHOULD STOP AND PAY ATTENTION TO WHAT IS HAPPENING, BECAUSE THE RESULTS WILL SIGNIFICANTLY IMPACT THE PEOPLE AND THE COMMUNITY. THIS COUNCIL COULD NOT CHANGE THE MEETING DATE SO MORE PEOPLE COULD ATTEND. AND ALSO THEY'RE WORKING TODAY AT THE POLLS. IF THIS WAS THE DATE FOR THE ELECTION FOR NEXT YEAR, I BELIEVE THREE COUNCIL MEMBERS, I BET YOU $100 WE WON'T HAVE THE MEETING ON ELECTION NIGHT, SO THANK YOU. AND FINALLY, I WILL EMPHASIZE THAT A MAJOR PART OF THE REPUBLICAN PLATFORM IS TO LOWER [00:15:05] TAXES, SUCH AS ELIMINATING TAXES ON SOCIAL SECURITY TIPS AND MANY MORE THINGS. MOST BOTH PARTIES RECOGNIZE THAT 20% RATE OF INFLATION IS NOT ACCEPTABLE. GENTLEMEN, NOW COME TO THE GOOD PART SINCE EVERYONE AGREES THAT THERE IS SIGNIFICANT INFLATION, WHAT HAS THIS COUNCIL DONE TO REDUCE THE COST OF LIVING IN EDINBURGH? THE INCREASE IN WATER RATES IS 67%. WILL NOT DO IT. SUPPORTING THE APPRAISAL DISTRICT PROPERTY VALUE INCREASE WILL NOT DO IT. NOTHING THAT THIS COUNCIL HAS DONE WILL REDUCE THE COST OF LIVING IN EDINBURGH. IN FACT, THOSE PROJECTS WILL INCREASE THE COST OF LIVING AND MORE PEOPLE WILL LOSE THEIR HOMES AND BUSINESSES. TONIGHT I NOTICED THAT YOU ALL ARE SITTING IN SOME GORGEOUS CHAIRS. WE GOT FIVE OF THEM AND THEIR LEATHER AND SUPPOSEDLY YOU GOT THEM FOR A GOOD DEAL. BUT I'M SORRY. WHEN OUR PROPERTY VALUES, IF YOU LOOK AT 2025, HAS GONE UP UNMERCIFULLY. SO SHAME ON YOU ALL. AND TONIGHT, I WOULD ALWAYS ALSO LIKE TO ASK EVERYONE TO PLEASE PRAY FOR ISRAEL THAT SHE STANDS AND THAT SHE KEEPS FIGHTING, AND THAT ALL OF THE HOSTAGES CAN BE BROUGHT BACK. AND I PRAY THAT OUR NEW LEADERSHIP WILL LEAD ISRAEL OUT OF THIS WAR. THANK YOU. THANK YOU MA'AM. MISS MCLARTY ALSO HAS QUESTIONS ON ITEM SEVEN A AND EIGHT A. THE NEXT PUBLIC COMMENT IS JOE. REGARDING ITEM SEVEN A. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU AND GOOD EVENING. MY NAME IS JOE HUEBSCH. I'M A GENERAL COUNSEL OF THE BERT OGDEN AUTO GROUP. I'M HERE ON BEHALF OF THE GROUP, MR. BOB BACKER. MR. BACKER WANTED TO BE HERE PERSONALLY TO DELIVER THESE REMARKS, BUT HE HAD A PRIOR ENGAGEMENT WITH UTRGV. I'M HERE TO PROVIDE BERT OGDEN'S OBJECTION TO THE PROPOSED MEDIANS AT ALBERTA AND CLOSNER. I'VE DISCUSSED THE MEDIAN SITUATION RECENTLY WITH THE CITY'S ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT, AND I HAVE RECEIVED A COPY OF THE PROPOSED PLANS. ALSO, I KNOW THAT SEVERAL OF US IN THE ORGANIZATION HAVE DISCUSSED IT WITH CITY PERSONNEL PREVIOUSLY, AND WE JUST RECENTLY DISCUSSED POTENTIAL SOLUTIONS WITH STATE REPRESENTATIVE TERRY CANALES. HE HAS GRACIOUSLY AGREED TO TRY TO HELP US WITH TEXDOT. MY UNDERSTANDING IS THAT THE FIRST CHOICE WAS FOR A TRAFFIC LIGHT, BUT THAT TEX-DOT DECLINED, AND SO THAT THE REMAINING OPTIONS ARE TO INSTALL THE MEDIAN OR JUST TO DO NOTHING. SO FOR OUR GROUP, FOR THE PURPOSES OF TODAY, THE MEDIANS WOULD SIGNIFICANTLY IMPAIR OUR BUSINESS OPERATIONS. I'M SPECIFICALLY REFERRING TO CADILLAC, INFINITI AND THE NISSAN DEALERSHIP AS A FEW EXAMPLES. OUR TRANSPORT TRUCKS USE ALBERTA AND CLOSNER TO DELIVER VEHICLES AND PARTS. THE MEDIANS WOULD CAUSE REROUTING AND SAFETY ISSUES. ALSO, WE'RE CONCERNED THAT TRAFFIC WOULD BE DIVERTED TO THE FRONTAGE ROAD LEADING IN FRONT OF THE DEALERSHIPS, WHICH COULD LEAD TO MORE ACCIDENTS. WE WANT TO PROVIDE OUR CUSTOMERS WITH A SAFE EXPERIENCE DURING TEST DRIVES, AND ALSO WHEN THEY'RE ENTERING AND EXITING THE DEALERSHIPS. IN LIGHT OF THOSE CONCERNS AND THE POTENTIAL TO DISCUSS FURTHER WITH TXDOT, WE JUST ASK THAT YOU POSTPONE ANY DECISION ON THE MEDIANS UNTIL WE'VE HAD A CHANCE TO DISCUSS THE TRAFFIC LIGHT POTENTIAL AND STUDY THE IMPACT THE MEDIANS COULD HAVE ON THE BUSINESSES IN THAT AREA. AND I THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME AND CONSIDERATION. THANK YOU. THANK YOU SIR. THANK YOU. THE NEXT PUBLIC COMMENT IS RAUL GARCIA REGARDING STATE HIGHWAY 68. WE JUST WANT TO SHARE ABOUT HOW THIS IS AFFECTING US HIGHWAY 68 AND OUR PROPERTY. AND I SPEAK OF OURSELVES AND MY NEIGHBORS. EVERYBODY KNEW THAT THE HIGHWAY WAS GOING TO GO PREVIOUSLY FROM 490 EXPANDING US. WE WENT BACK TO AVOID ANY SITUATIONS WITH TEXAS DOT. AND AS SOON AS WE FINISHED OUR PROJECT, TEXAS DOT NOTIFIED US ABOUT, HEY, WE'RE GOING TO MOVE THE HIGHWAY TO THE MIDDLE OF YOUR PROPERTY. SO IT'S DIVIDING OUR AREA. AND WE JUST WANTED TO SHARE SOME THINGS THAT HAS AFFECTED US. AND WITH THIS NEW SITUATION, IT'S GOT US ON STANDBY. WE CAN'T DO NOTHING BECAUSE WE HAVEN'T HAD AN ANSWER OF WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN. SO WE'RE GOING TO READ A LITTLE BIT AND WE CAN GIVE SOME. I'M GOING TO SHARE THE LETTER WE WROTE TO THE MAYOR A FEW WEEKS AGO. THE NEW PROPOSAL OF TEXAS DOT WILL BE AFFECTING US IN MANY WAYS. OUR PROPERTY WOULD BE SPLIT IN HALF, WHICH WOULD CAUSE OUR CURRENT HOME TO BE DESTROYED. WE HAVE INVESTED TIME AND MONEY IN THIS LAND TO MAKE IT OUR DREAM FAMILY RANCH. AS MY HUSBAND BEING A BURN SURVIVOR, TIME HAS BECOME VERY VALUABLE TO US AND OUR [00:20:04] FAMILY. MAKING THE SITUATION HARDER ON US. WE ARE AT A POINT IN OUR LIVES WHERE WE HAVE STARTED TO SETTLE BACK IN OUR REGULAR LIVES, AFTER SO MANY YEARS OF GOING THROUGH HARD TIMES. WHEN WE PURCHASED OUR PROPERTY IN MARCH OF 2021, NEITHER THE REALTOR NOR THE TITLE COMPANY EVER MENTIONED SUCH PROJECT. ABOUT THE PROPERTY. WE GOT OUR CONSTRUCTION PERMIT IN 2022, AND AND THEY ALSO NEVER MENTIONED ANYTHING ABOUT THE FUTURE PROJECT. LATER, AFTER BUYING THE PROPERTY, OUR NEXT DOOR NEIGHBOR, JOE VALE, SAID THAT THERE WAS A PLAN ON EXPANDING FM 490 INTO A FOUR LANE HIGHWAY, WHICH WHICH WOULD HAVE TAKEN ABOUT 300FT FROM OUR FRONT OF OUR PROPERTY. AFTER HEARING THIS, WE DECIDED TO CONSTRUCT OUR HOME BACK APPROXIMATELY 1800 FEET FROM FM 490 TO AVOID HAVING THE PROPOSED HIGHWAY TOO CLOSE TO OUR HOME. AFTER COMPLETING OUR HOME CONSTRUCTION, WE GOT A LETTER FROM TEXAS DOT ABOUT THE REROUTE OF STATE HIGHWAY 68 GOING THROUGH A PROPERTY, DIVIDING IT IN HALF AND DESTROYED, DESTROYING OUR HOME. WE ARE GREATLY IMPACTED. WHEN WE HEARD THIS NEWS, WE TOLD THE NEIGHBORS AND THEY HAD NOT HEARD HEARD ANYTHING ABOUT THIS CHANGE EITHER. WE HAVE BEEN ON STANDBY EVER SINCE THIS ISSUE, WHICH IS HOLDING US FROM CONSTRUCTING OUR FUTURE, FROM CONTINUING OUR FUTURE PLANS. THE NEIGHBORS AND US HAVE HAD SEVERAL MEETINGS WITH TEXAS DOT THIS YEAR, TELLING THEM HOW WE ARE AGAINST IT AND THE WAY IT WOULD AFFECT US. THEY DON'T SEEM TO CARE AT ALL AND DO NOT WANT TO CHANGE THEIR PLANS. THEREFORE, HAVING SAID THIS, WE ARE NOT IN FAVOR OF THE SECOND PROPOSAL OF STATE HIGHWAY 68. MISS GARCIA WE HAVE THREE MINUTES, BUT WE HAVE AN ITEM ON THE AGENDA THAT YOU CAN CONTINUE YOUR COMMENTS. OKAY. THANK YOU FOR THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS. THANK YOU. THE NEXT PUBLIC COMMENT IS DIANA SEPULVEDA WITH QUESTIONS. HI, EVERYBODY. AND I'M GLAD I HAVE THE CHANCE TO BE HERE. MY NAME IS DIANA SEPULVEDA, AND THIS IS MY HUSBAND, RAY SEPULVEDA. WE LIVE ON WEST MEADOWS SUBDIVISION. I DON'T KNOW HOW FAR ALONG THIS PROCESS HAS BEEN GOING ON. I HAVE A FEELING I JUMPED IN ON THE TAIL END AND THAT'S UNFORTUNATE FOR ME AS A AS A RESIDENT OF EDINBURGH AND A TAXPAYER. I WANT MY COMMENTS, MY CONCERNS TO BE HEARD AND THAT'S WHY I'M HERE. I HAD PREVIOUSLY MENTIONED ALL THE APARTMENTS IN EDINBURGH. WOW. IT'S A BIG WOW. APARTMENTS IN EDINBURGH, EVERYWHERE, NORTH, SOUTH, EAST AND WEST. SO MANY APARTMENTS. I CAN WALK TO ALL THE APARTMENTS AROUND THE NEIGHBORHOOD WHERE I LIVE AND AND I WOULD NOT MISS A SINGLE ONE. IT'S CRAZY, CRAZY AMOUNT OF APARTMENTS THAT ARE COMING UP AND YET MORE ARE COMING UP. WHETHER THEY COME UP OR NOT, THEY'RE NOT GOING TO COME UP WITHOUT ME SAYING WHAT I FEEL. I'M WORRIED ABOUT ALL THESE APARTMENTS AND THE PEOPLE THAT WILL MOVE INTO THESE APARTMENTS. CRIME, TRASH, NOISE, TRAFFIC. I LIVE BEHIND THE COUNTY BUILDING ON PERSIMMON AVENUE, AND I HAVE TO DEAL WITH THE AGGRESSIVE DRIVERS FROM THE COUNTY BUILDING THE WORKERS THERE CRAZY DRIVERS, AND THEY'RE NOT EVEN DRIVING THEIR OWN VEHICLES. I KNOW THAT THEY'RE CRAZY DRIVERS. THE ONES FROM GOLD'S GYM ARE JUST AS BAD. I'M ALSO GOING TO SAY THAT CRIME GOES UNREPORTED. MY HUSBAND HERE WORKED FOR EDINBURG PD FOR 30 YEARS, 30 PLUS YEARS AS A POLICE LIEUTENANT. HE RETIRED. I THINK I KNOW A LITTLE BIT ABOUT A LITTLE MORE ABOUT CRIME THAN MOST PEOPLE. AND I'M HERE TO SAY WHAT I BELIEVE IS GOING ON AND WHAT I'VE BEEN RESEARCHING. CRIME IS GOING UNREPORTED. CRIME IS GOING UNREPORTED AT ALARMING LEVELS. WHY? WELL, WE CAN DEBATE THAT, BUT THERE'S NO TIME FOR THAT. I ONLY HAVE THREE MINUTES. RIGHT. SO I INVITE ALL OF YOU TO LOOK INTO HOW AND WHY CRIME IS UNREPORTED, FROM HOMICIDE TO THEFT TO ALL KINDS OF CRIMES, FROM TOP TO BOTTOM. AND HOW DOES THAT AFFECT ME? WELL, I'M RETIRED. I'M RETIRED. I DO SPEND SOME TIME ALONE IN THE HOUSE, AND THE IDEA OF TENANTS AND TENANT BEHAVIOR THAT IS COMING UP SO CLOSE TO ME. THE FACT THAT IT'S GOING TO AFFECT MY PROPERTY VALUE, THE FACT THAT IT'S GOING TO AFFECT THE TAXES, THE FACT THAT IT'S GOING TO AFFECT MY LIFE. I WOULD EXPECT ALL OF YOU UP THERE, AND SOME OF YOU ALL KNOW ME. I WOULD EXPECT YOU ALL TO TAKE IT SERIOUSLY. THIS IS MY LIFE. I HAVE SPENT MANY YEARS LIVING HERE IN EDINBURG PAYING TAXES. I'M NOT A RULE BREAKER. I'M NOT A LAW BREAKER. I WANT THIS TO BE CONSIDERED. THINK ABOUT ALL THE APARTMENTS THAT ARE ALL AROUND OUR NEIGHBORHOOD, JUST AROUND WEST MEADOWS. ENDLESS APARTMENTS. IF YOU CROSS NORTH ON 107, IT'S ENDLESS PLOTS OF LAND, OF APARTMENTS AND MORE APARTMENTS. AND I DO FEEL FOR THE PEOPLE THAT CANNOT BUY A HOUSE LIKE WE CAN. BUT UNFORTUNATELY, THE PEOPLE THAT RENT, THEY BRING PROBLEMS. [00:25:01] PROBLEMS THAT I CAN ONLY DEAL WITH AT A CERTAIN LEVEL, AND I JUST DON'T KNOW IF I'M READY TO HANDLE ALL THAT MIGHT BE COMING TO US. THANK YOU, THANK YOU. AND WE ALSO HAVE AN ITEM ON THE AGENDA THAT YOU CAN EXPAND ON YOUR COMMENTS. THANK YOU. LATER ON, THANK YOU, THANK YOU. THE NEXT PUBLIC COMMENT IS REGARDING ITEMS NINE A, B, AND C. HELLO COUNCIL, MY NAME IS JESSICA PEREZ AND I'VE BEEN HERE SEVERAL TIMES IN REGARDS TO THIS SAME TOPIC. WE HAVE TWO NEW COUNCIL MEMBERS THAT MAY NOT HAVE KNOWN THAT WE HAVE BEEN TALKING ABOUT THIS PROPERTY FOR OVER TWO YEARS, TRYING TO MAKE SURE THAT APARTMENTS WOULD NOT BE IN THE ENTIRE PORTION. SO WE HAVE BEEN TALKING TO THE DEVELOPER AND THE OWNER OF THE PROPERTY, WHICH USUALLY DOESN'T HAPPEN. SO WE'RE VERY APPRECIATIVE OF THAT. JUST TO GO BACK A LITTLE BIT, WE DID HAVE VERY SIMILAR COMMENTS AT THE VERY BEGINNING REGARDING CRIME AND PEOPLE AND EVERYTHING. AND THERE ARE I'M HERE ACTUALLY IN FAVOR OF WHAT THE NEW PROPOSAL IS, BECAUSE WITH THE DEVELOPER, WE HAVE COME TO SOMEWHAT OF AN AGREEMENT TO ALLOW LARGE ESTATE LOTS BORDERING OUR VICTORIA HEIGHTS NEIGHBORHOOD. UNFORTUNATELY, WE COULDN'T GET A BUFFER ZONE JUST TO PUT THE PROPERTY IN THAT AREA. BUT SUPPOSEDLY THERE WILL BE SOME LARGER ESTATE LOTS THERE. AND I KNOW TODAY'S AGENDA IS GOING TO BE TO CHANGE THE DESIGNATION FROM MULTIFAMILY TO SINGLE FAMILY. AS RESIDENTS, I CAN HONESTLY TELL YOU WE WANTED THE WHOLE LOCATION TO BE SINGLE FAMILY JUST BECAUSE OF TRAFFIC. YOU KNOW THAT THERE'S A SCHOOL IN THAT AREA AS WELL, AND IT'S ALREADY AT CAPACITY. SO AT THIS POINT, I KNOW FOR A FACT THAT IT HAS NOT BEEN DEVELOPED AS TO HOW MANY APARTMENTS WILL BE THERE. LUCKILY, WE HAVE BEEN ABLE TO MAKE THE MAJORITY OF THE TOP PORTION COMMERCIAL, AND I THINK THAT'S PART OF THE AGENDA AS WELL. RIGHT NOW MYSELF, WHO BASICALLY LIVES ON THE CORNER OF DUCHESS AND EMPRESS AND HAD AT ONE POINT BEEN ABLE TO SEE ALL THE FIELD WE ARE IN AGREEMENT OF WHAT'S HAPPENING SO FAR. ONE THING THAT WE HAVE A PROBLEM WITH IS MAYBE THROUGH STREETS. AND BECAUSE IT IS A SCHOOL ZONE IN THAT AREA. PEOPLE WHO WANT TO SKIP THAT SCHOOL ACTUALLY WILL GO AROUND UP ON PRINCESS AND THROUGH EMPRESS TO GO TO THE LIGHT, WHICH AGAIN WILL NEED TO BE DISCUSSED AS WELL IN REGARDS TO MAKING THAT A FOUR LANE TURNING WITH A TURNING SIGNAL AND EVERYTHING, BECAUSE HONESTLY, THE LINE CAN GET PRETTY BACKED UP. UNFORTUNATELY, WE CAN'T BECAUSE OF LAND, THERE IS NOT GOING TO BE FOUR LANES IN THAT AREA, AND THAT'S GOING TO BE A PROBLEM IN THE FUTURE. THOSE ARE MY COMMENTS. NOW, I DO I DO BELIEVE THAT THIS IS THE BEST PLAN SO FAR. ORIGINALLY THEY WERE GOING TO DO SECTION EIGHT HOUSING, AND I THINK SOME OF THE RESIDENTS DON'T UNDERSTAND THAT. SO THAT WAS THROWN OUT PREVIOUSLY. AND SO HOPEFULLY IT'LL BE BETTER QUALITY EVEN THOUGH IT'S GOING TO BE APARTMENTS, YOU KNOW. THANK YOU. THANK YOU MA'AM. THE NEXT PUBLIC COMMENT IS DELIA PEREZ REGARDING ITEMS NINE A, B AND C. GOOD EVENING COUNCIL. MY NAME IS DELIA PEREZ AND I AM HERE ALSO TO EXPRESS MY SUPPORT FOR THE REZONING PLANS FOR ITEMS NINE A, B AND C. AS JESSICA MENTIONED, IT'S BEEN SEVERAL YEARS THAT WE HAVE BEEN IN DISCUSSION WITH THE DEVELOPERS AND WITH THE OWNER REGARDING THE DEVELOPMENT OF THIS PROPERTY. AND AT SOME POINT ALONG THE WAY, A THE NEIGHBORS OR THE RESIDENTS IN THE SURROUNDING AREA HAD PROPOSED TO THE OWNER TO FLIP THE ZONING AND TO FLIP THE THE MULTIFAMILY AND RESIDENTIAL ZONING. WHICH IS EXACTLY WHAT HE HAS PROPOSED TO DO HERE. AND SO FOR THAT REASON, I'M HERE TO EXPRESS SUPPORT BECAUSE I FEEL THAT HE HAS ACCOMMODATED A LOT OF OUR REQUESTS ALONG THE WAY. I LIVE RIGHT ON EMPRESS STREET. AND SO FOR ME, IT WAS PARTICULARLY IMPORTANT. I WOULD HAVE HAD A A MUCH LARGER AREA OF APARTMENT BUILDINGS IMMEDIATELY ADJACENT TO MY BACKYARD. AND THE PROPOSAL NOW WILL I WILL HAVE SINGLE SINGLE FAMILY NEIGHBORS RIGHT BEHIND ME. AND THE AREA FOR DEVELOPMENT OF APARTMENTS HAS BEEN REDUCED. SO I DO EXPRESS THE SAME CONCERNS AS JESSICA ABOUT THROUGH TRAFFIC AND AND I WOULD HOPE [00:30:05] THAT THEY WOULD NOT OPEN PRINCESS STREET ALL THE WAY OUT TO MCCALL, BUT OTHERWISE I JUST WANTED TO SHOW MY SUPPORT FOR THE REZONING. THANK YOU MA'AM. THANK YOU. THE NEXT PUBLIC COMMENT IS RICHARD COSTELLO. HAD SOME ITEMS. THIS IS PROBABLY A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENT THAN I THINK THE COMMITTEE THE COUNCIL IS USED TO. CAN I HAND THESE? YES. YES, SIR. YOU MAY. I ACTUALLY BROUGHT THIS UP SEVERAL YEARS AGO, BUT IT WAS ADDRESSED. MAYBE FOR A YEAR OR SO. BUT THIS IS I THINK HAS REALLY BECOME AN ISSUE, ESPECIALLY SINCE WE ARE NOW AN ALL-AMERICA CITY. BUT WHAT I DID IS I OUTLINED ON THE POWERPOINT PRESENTATION JUST SOME BASIC ELEMENTS OF WHAT MS4 IS. AND THE MS4 PROGRAM IS THE MUNICIPAL SEPARATE STORM SEWER SYSTEM. AND WHAT IT DOES IS IT ACTUALLY REQUIRES THE CITY OF EDINBURGH TO ENSURE THAT WE ESSENTIALLY TRY TO CONTROL POLLUTANTS THAT GO INTO OUR STORMWATER SYSTEM. ULTIMATELY, THESE POLLUTANTS END UP INTO THE LOWER LAGUNA MADRE. THEY AFFECT THE FISH. IT'S A REGIONAL ISSUE. IT'S A GLOBAL ISSUE, BUT ALSO IT'S A CITY OF EDINBURG ISSUE. WHEN WE FAIL TO COMPLY WITH THESE MANDATES THE MANDATES REQUIRE WHAT THEY CALL MINIMUM CONTROL MEASURES. AND I APOLOGIZE, I'VE ACTUALLY TROLLED NOW THAT I'M RETIRED, I ACTUALLY TROLL SOME OF THE CONSTRUCTION SITES ON THE CITY OF EDINBURGH. AND UNFORTUNATELY, YOU SERIOUSLY HAVE A GROSS FAILURE TO COMPLY WITH THESE SPECIFIC MANDATES? SPECIFICALLY, MINIMUM CONTROL MEASURE FIVE, WHICH DEALS WITH CONSTRUCTION SITES, AND MINIMUM CONTROL MEASURE SIX, WHICH IS WHAT WE CALL POST-CONSTRUCTION. WELL, POST-CONSTRUCTION STORMWATER MANAGEMENT, WHAT I DID IS I OUTLINED SOME PICTURES. I'M NOT GOING TO GO THROUGH THESE SPECIFIC PICTURES, BUT ULTIMATELY, IF YOU WALK TO A CONSTRUCTION SITE AND YOU CAN SEE DIRT GOING INTO THE STORMWATER SYSTEM, YOU'RE OUT OF COMPLIANCE. IF YOU SEE, AS WE SEE, FOR EXAMPLE, UNFORTUNATELY ON FREDDIE, IF YOU SEE SILT FENCES THAT HAVE NOT BEEN BURIED IN MINIMUM SIX INCHES, THERE'S AN ISSUE WITH THAT. SO WHAT I DID IS I TOOK SOME PICTURES, I INCLUDED IT SO YOU GUYS CAN LOOK AT THOSE. I DON'T KNOW WHO TO TALK TO. I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE ISSUES ARE, BUT ULTIMATELY THIS ISSUE CAN BE ADDRESSED BY THE CONTRACTOR. WE ALL HAVE CONTRACTORS. WE HAVE REQUIREMENTS FOR CONTRACTORS, AND THEY SHOULD SPECIFICALLY COMPLY WITH THOSE SPECIFIC MANDATES. I'M MORE CONCERNED ABOUT MINIMUM CONTROL MEASURE SIX, WHICH MEANS POST-CONSTRUCTION. AND THE REASON I'M CONCERNED WITH THIS IS BECAUSE MINIMUM CONTROL MEASURE SIX ADDRESSES TWO ISSUES. ONE IS POST-CONSTRUCTION RUNOFF. OKAY. AND THEN NUMBER TWO, IT'S THE FLOODING ISSUES THAT ARE PREVALENT IN THE VALLEY. BECAUSE WHAT IT DOES IS IT REQUIRES OR THE EPA REQUIRES WITH THEIR NEW WITH THEIR NEW STANDARDS TO, TO BASICALLY MR. 95% OF THE STORM SEWER. YOU GUYS DON'T YOU GUYS FAIL TO DO THAT. SO THANK YOU, MR. COSTELLO. THANK YOU SIR. THE NEXT PUBLIC COMMENT IS VIVIAN SANCHEZ. VIVIAN SANCHEZ. THE NEXT PUBLIC COMMENT IS ELIZABETH GOLDBERG OPPOSED DEVELOPMENT OF REZONED AREA. HELLO. I'M SPEAKING ON ITEM NINE A. I HAVE COMMENT FROM RESIDENTS OF THE WEST MEADOWS SUBDIVISION WHO WERE UNABLE TO COME TODAY BUT ARE OPPOSED TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE AREA ON SPRAGUE STREET. AND I WOULD LIKE TO READ THEIR COMMENTS FOR THE COUNCIL. SO THE FIRST ONE COMES FROM ELIZABETH ROGERS, WHO LIVES ON PERSIMMON. SHE IS OPPOSED TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF THIS AREA BECAUSE IT WOULD LOWER PROPERTY VALUE, INCREASE TRAFFIC SPEEDING THROUGH THE NEIGHBORHOOD AND WOULD BE UNSAFE FOR CHILDREN. ANTHONY MATHIEU, WHO LIVES IN THE WEST MEADOWS AREA, IS OPPOSED TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE AREA BECAUSE THE AREA IS ALREADY SUPER POPULATED. TRAFFIC ISSUES AND SAFETY WOULD BE A BIG CONCERN. OLGA CARDOZA VASQUEZ, WHO LIVES ON SABLE, IS OPPOSED TO THIS BECAUSE OF INCREASED TRAFFIC AND INCREASED RISK OF FLOODING BY DEVELOPING THAT FIELD, WHICH CURRENTLY RETAINS A LOT OF THE WATER WHEN IT RAINS. [00:35:03] INDIRA VIRAGA FROM HAWTHORN IS OPPOSED TO THIS BECAUSE OF INCREASED TRAFFIC, FLOODING, LOWER PROPERTY VALUES AND DESTRUCTION OF NATURAL LAND, AND REDUCTION OF POLLINATORS. ELI FALCONE ON WHITEWING AVENUE, SAYS HE IS OPPOSED TO THE PROPOSED REZONING DUE TO CONCERNS WITH INCREASED TRAFFIC, INCREASED FLOODING, LOWER PROPERTY VALUES AND I AM GREATLY CONCERNED ABOUT INCREASED FLOODING. THE WEST MEADOW SUBDIVISION DOES NOT EXPERIENCE FLOODING DURING HURRICANE HANNA. HOWEVER, ONE OF THE FEW BLOCKS IN THE OTHER DIRECTION THERE WAS FLOODED. CURRENTLY, THE WATER THAT WOULD FLOOD OUR NEIGHBORHOOD DRAINS INTO THAT FIELD. THE AREA IS REZONED AND DEVELOPED. WE WOULD ALL EXPERIENCE FLOODING BECAUSE OF WATER AND HAVE NOWHERE TO GO. THIS WOULD CAUSE GREAT HARM TO THE HOMEOWNERS AS WE NEED TO PURCHASE FLOOD INSURANCE AND OUR PROPERTY VALUES WOULD DECREASE FOR SUDDENLY BEING IN THE FLOOD ZONE. THERE IS PLENTY OF FREE LAND TO THE NORTH AND THE AREA NEEDS TO REMAIN A FIELD TO PROTECT US, THE RESIDENTS. AND THEN I MYSELF AM OPPOSED TO DEVELOPMENT OF THE AREA FOR MANY OF THE REASONS THAT WERE MENTIONED BEFORE. THE FLOODING TO THE AREA, AS WELL AS THE AREAS ALREADY VERY POPULATED, THE STREET SPRAGUE ALREADY HAS VERY BAD TRAFFIC BECAUSE OF RESIDENTS GOING TO THE SCHOOL. TREVINO JUST DOWN THE BLOCK. AND THIS WOULD EXACERBATE THE PROBLEM. INCREASING THE TRAFFIC TO THE AREA, MAKING IT UNSAFE FOR OUR CHILDREN. AND SO I JUST WANTED TO BRING ALL OF THAT TO LIGHT THAT. YES, WE DO APPRECIATE THE WORK OF THE DEVELOPER TO REZONE, BUT WE WOULD LIKE TO LEAVE THAT AREA UNDEVELOPED TO HELP PROTECT THE RESIDENTS AND THE NEIGHBORHOOD. THANK YOU SO MUCH. THANK YOU MA'AM. THE NEXT PUBLIC COMMENT IS JONAH GOLDBERG. FIRST, I WANT TO ACTUALLY EXPRESS MY APPRECIATION FOR BRINGING RABBI HECHT HERE TO DO THE PRAYER. IT'S ONE OF THE FEW MEMBERS OF THE JEWISH COMMUNITY HERE IN EDINBURGH. THAT MEANS A LOT. AND YOUR EFFORTS DO NOT GO UNNOTICED. OVERALL, I THINK EDINBURGH IS MOVING IN A GREAT DIRECTION AND YOU SHOULD ALL BE COMMENDED FOR THAT. I AM HERE TO SPEAK ABOUT ITEM NINE A AS WELL, THOUGH I LIVE IN WEST MEADOWS AND I MEAN, I DON'T I DON'T HONESTLY CARE WHAT YOU DO WITH THE REZONING. I'M MOST CONCERNED ABOUT DEVELOPMENT. YOU KNOW, YOU YOU'VE HEARD A LOT OF THE REASONS. I REMEMBER DURING HURRICANE HANNAH WALKING MY DOGS AND BEING LIKE, WOW, WE REALLY DID WELL. AND THEN I'D GO TO OTHER NEIGHBORHOODS AND SAW THEY DID NOT DO SO WELL. WATER NEEDS SOMEWHERE TO GO. AND I KNOW THE BIGGEST ISSUE WHEN WE HAVE LOCAL ELECTIONS, WHETHER IT'S THE CITY LEVEL, THE COUNTY LEVEL, IT'S ALWAYS, YOU KNOW, WHAT ARE WE GONNA DO ABOUT DRAINAGE, DRAINAGE, DRAINAGE, DRAINAGE. AND WE SEE THE PROJECTS AND WE ALWAYS VOTE FOR THAT AND THE BONDS AND IT'S GREAT. I THINK WE'RE MAKING SOME GREAT PROGRESS, BUT THAT'S BASED ON THE INFORMATION AT THE TIME, RIGHT. AND THEN AS WE BUILD MORE AND PUT MORE CONCRETE DOWN AND CEMENT DOWN. WHAT HAPPENS IS THE INFORMATION CHANGES AND HOW MUCH WE NEED TO DO CHANGES. SO I'M GREATLY CONCERNED THAT IF WE DEVELOP THAT PLOT OF LAND, WE'RE GOING TO END UP FLOODING OUR AREA. AND THAT IS NOT SOMETHING I WANT TO, YOU KNOW, THAT I REALLY WANT TO FACE. AND I'M SURE IT'S SOMETHING NOBODY WANTS TO FACE. WE'VE SEEN HORRIFYING PICTURES ELSEWHERE, AND HOPEFULLY WE DON'T GET TO THAT, THAT LEVEL. BUT IT'S SOMETHING THAT WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE AVOID. MY KIDS GO TO TREVINO, WHICH IS RIGHT DOWN THE BLOCK. IT'S FANTASTIC. THE FIFTH GRADE IS ALREADY IN PORTABLES AND THEY CAN'T FIT MORE KIDS. I DON'T EVEN KNOW IF THEY HAVE ROOM FOR MORE PORTABLES, WHICH IS HORRIBLE ENOUGH THAT THEY HAVE TO BE IN THERE. AND I REALIZE IT'S NOT YOU. I KNOW THAT'S THE THAT'S THE SAD THING, BUT, YOU KNOW, THERE NEEDS TO BE SOME COORDINATION THERE BEFORE WE'RE GOING TO BUILD MORE HOUSING IN AN AREA. TALKING WITH THEM AND SAYING, HEY, CAN THE SCHOOLS EVEN HANDLE THIS? BECAUSE I DON'T THINK THEY CAN. I MEAN, WE WE NEED TO BUILD OUT. EDINBURG IS LARGE. WE HAVE A LOT OF GREAT LAND. YOU KNOW, I THINK THIS IS A GREAT OPPORTUNITY TO BUILD THE FOOTPRINT OF EDINBURGH RATHER THAN JUST CONTINUOUSLY PUTTING IN WHERE WE ALREADY HAVE AND THEN JUST MAKING IT TOUGHER WITH FLOODING IN SCHOOLS AND THEN TRAFFIC. RIGHT. YOU KNOW, I DROP OFF MY KIDS AT SCHOOL, THEN I TURN AROUND AND JUMP ON SPRAGUE AND THEN, YOU KNOW, IT'S BACKED UP REALLY FAR AND YOU WAIT MULTIPLE LIGHTS BEFORE YOU CAN GET ANYWHERE. AND I REALIZE WE DON'T HAVE THE SPACE THERE TO EXPAND THE LANE. SO IT IS WHAT IT IS AND THAT'S FINE. YOU KNOW, IT'S IT'S A GOOD SIGN THAT WE HAVE A LOT OF PEOPLE. BUT A FEW MORE MINUTES AT THAT LIGHT, I'M GOING TO BE LATE FOR WORK. SO I REALLY HOPEFULLY WE CAN KEEP THAT AS IT IS. AND THEN, YOU KNOW, 5:00 ALSO YOU'RE COMING BACK IN THE OTHER DIRECTION. IT'S A YOU KNOW, IT'S A GREAT PROBLEM TO HAVE WITH A GROWING CITY. EAST WEST TRAFFIC. BUT WE'RE THERE, RIGHT. SO WE NEED TO WE NEED TO START BUILDING OUT MORE NORTH OR IN THE OTHER AREAS THAT ARE LESS POPULATED, BECAUSE I THINK THAT THAT'S JUST GOING TO BE A BETTER BENEFIT FOR THE ENTIRE CITY AS A WHOLE. THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME. THANK YOU SIR. THANK YOU. HERE ARE NO FURTHER PUBLIC COMMENTS. [7. PRESENTATIONS AND REPORTS] [A. Presentation and Discussion on the Alberta Road Reconstruction Project. [Mardoqueo Hinojosa, P.E., CFM, City Engineer]] ALL RIGHT. THAT BEING THE CASE, WE'RE GOING TO MOVE ON TO ITEM SEVEN A. WE HAVE A PRESENTATION AND DISCUSSION ON ALBERTA ROAD RECONSTRUCTION PROJECT. [00:40:18] GOOD EVENING MAYOR CITY COUNCIL, TOM BRENNAN ASSISTANT CITY MANAGER, ALONG WITH MR. HINOJOSA, OUR CITY ENGINEER. I WANTED TO GIVE YOU AN UPDATE ON THE ALBERTA ROAD ROAD RECONSTRUCTION GOING ON. FIRST, I'D LIKE TO START JUST TO REMIND EVERYBODY THAT WE DO HAVE OUR PROJECT DASHBOARD ONLINE THAT YOU'RE ABLE TO GO AND CLICK ON IT. YOU CAN SEE THE THE LIST RIGHT OFF THE BAT AND ABLE TO CLICK ALBERTA ROAD. IT'LL STRETCH YOU STRAIGHT. TELL YOU TO OUR STORYBOARD WHICH HAS ALL THE SCHEDULES AND THE UPDATES AND WHAT'S ACTUALLY GOING ON, AND THAT IS UPDATED ON A WEEKLY BASIS. SO IT'S A ON TIME ALL THE TIME. SO WE HAVE THAT. SO JUST A LITTLE HISTORY OF THE PROJECT. THIS PROJECT IS GOES FROM WEST CITY LIMITS ALL THE WAY TO INTERSTATE 69. RIGHT NOW WE'RE UNDER CONSTRUCTION AND TWO SECTIONS AND POSSIBLY GOING UP FOR THE NEXT TWO FROM RIGHT NOW, FROM BETWEEN MCCALL AND JACKSON ALL THE WAY TO JUST A LITTLE EAST OF SUGAR. WE'RE GOING TO GO TO A FOUR LANE SECTION BASICALLY EXACTLY THE SAME STYLE THAT WE HAVE NOW FROM JACKSON WEST TO CITY LIMITS. ONCE WE GET PAST THE DRAIN DITCH THERE, CLOSE TO SHALOM ROADWAY, IT'LL GO TO A THREE LANE SECTION. DUE TO THE AMOUNT OF RIGHT OF WAY WITHIN THE WITHIN THE AREA, OUR PROJECT SCHEDULE IS RIGHT NOW FOR THE SECTION THAT WE'RE ALL BETWEEN JACKSON AND AND SUGAR, WE ARE EXPECTED TO BE OUT BY BEFORE THANKSGIVING. BY THE 25TH. THE SMALLER SECTION BETWEEN SUGAR AND THE DITCH WERE EXPECTED TO FINISH THE WEEK BEFORE BY THE 18TH. THEN WE'LL START THE SECTION BETWEEN SHALOM AND ALL THE WAY TO KLAUSNER, AND THEN EARLY SPRING WE'LL START THE SECTION IN BETWEEN KLAUSNER AND EXPRESSWAY. THESE WERE ALL SECTIONS WILL BE UP THREE LANES IN CONSTRUCTION, AND CURRENTLY WE ARE ON THAT SCHEDULE. WHAT WE DID ON THE INTERSECTION, JUST TO GIVE YOU A LITTLE BRIEF HISTORY ON THE INTERSECTION ON KLAUSNER AND ALBERTA, WE DID A TRAFFIC AND A SPEED WARRANT, WHICH BASICALLY THE TRAFFIC STUDY WE DO IS WE LOOK AT A TIME FRAME. SO WE SELECTED A TIME FRAME OF A 24 HOUR FRAME. WE TOOK TRAFFIC COUNTS THROUGH THERE. WE AVERAGED THE SPEED WE COUNT HOW MANY ACCIDENTS WERE IN THE AREA. AND WHAT IS THE ACCESS TO THE AREA? DURING OUR COUNTS, WE DISCOVERED THAT, YOU KNOW, THAT SECTION IS 55 MILE AN HOUR ZONES. THE 85 PERCENTILE SPEED OF THE AREA WAS 54, BUT THE HIGHEST THAT WE DID COUNT WAS 76, GOING 76 MILES AN HOUR IN THE AREA. WE DID IN A 24 HOUR PERIOD, 10,879 CARS PASSED THROUGH THAT INTERSECTION. SO DUE TO THE ACCIDENTS AND THE AMOUNT OF TRAFFIC, IT WARRANTED A STREET LIGHT. SO WE LOOKED AT FOUR DIFFERENT TYPES OR THREE DIFFERENT TYPES OF INTERSECTIONS. WE DID A FOUR LEG INTERSECTION, WHICH IS YOUR STANDARD INTERSECTION. WE DID A THREE LEG INTERSECTION, WHICH IS THE BYPASS INTERSECTION. WE LOOKED AT A ROUNDABOUT AND WE ALSO LOOKED AT NO IMPROVEMENTS. DURING THAT, WE DID SAY SINCE IT WAS WARRANTED, WE PROPOSED A FOUR FOUR SECTION INTERSECTION, A FOUR LEG INTERSECTION, AND WE HAD TO PRESENT THAT TO THE TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION. TEX-DOT. BECAUSE KLAUSNER THAT INTERSECTION DOES BELONG TO THE STATE BECAUSE THAT IS A STATE ROAD. SO WHEN WE MET WITH THEM, THEM, WE HAD WE BOTH HAD SOME ISSUES. WE CAN SHOW THAT THERE'S 200FT THAT LINE UP OR QUEUE IN BETWEEN, FROM THE INTERSECTION TO THE DRIVEWAY. THEN FROM THE DRIVEWAY, ANOTHER 200FT TO THE MEDIAN, AND THEN ULTIMATELY FROM THE MEDIAN THERE WE'RE GOING TO HIT 280FT. THAT ONCE THE CARS ARE APPROACHING, WE'VE DONE A A SMALL SIMULATION, WHICH WE DO NEED TO TWEAK. WE WERE ABLE TO PULL THAT OUT ON WHAT THE INTERSECTION IS ACTUALLY GOING TO LOOK LIKE. AS YOU CAN SEE AT THAT PORTION, WE ALREADY HAVE A LINE QUEUED AT THE BEGINNING. SO AGAIN, THIS IS JUST A SIMULATION. THERE ARE SOME ITEMS THAT WE STILL NEED TO TWEAK, BUT I WANTED TO GIVE YOU ALL AN IDEA ON EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENS WHEN WE SAY THAT THEY QUEUE UP TO 200FT. RIGHT NOW YOU SEE THE TRAFFIC, WHICH YOU PRIORITY WOULD BE NORTH AND SOUTH OF THE INTERSECTION, WHICH THAT GIVES PRIORITY IN TRYING TO MOVE TRAFFIC AT A FASTER RATE AT THAT PORTION. AS YOU CAN SEE, ONCE THE LIGHT CHANGES, THEN YOU SEE PEOPLE COMING OFF THE RAMP, COMING OFF THE OVERPASS ON THE SIDE. AND THAT'S WHERE THE PROBLEM STARTS TO HAPPEN, IS WHEN THEY START QUEUING DUE TO THE AMOUNT OF TRAFFIC THAT DOES COME DOWN. SO ONE OF THE ISSUES THAT THE TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION DID HAVE WAS COMING OFF THE RAMP. IF YOU GET SOMEBODY DOING THAT AVERAGE OR THE HIGH SPEED OF 70 MILES OR 70 MILES AN HOUR, YOU'RE NOT GOING TO HAVE ENOUGH LANE TO STOP [00:45:03] OFF THE RAMP COMING OFF THE END. BUT AGAIN THOSE ARE ITEMS THAT COULD BE ADJUSTED WITH TIMING OR WITH OTHER LOCATIONS. BUT THIS WAS JUST A SIMULATION. SO YOU CAN HELP UNDERSTAND WHAT THE STATE WAS TRYING TO COME ACROSS. WHY DO WE NEED THIS? WELL, WE DID ALSO PROPOSE WAS THE THREE LEG INTERSECTION, WHICH IS THE BYPASS INTERSECTION, WHICH WOULD BE NO CROSS TRAFFIC WOULD BE ABLE TO CROSS ON ALBERTA ONTO KLAUSNER. JUST TO PROVIDE A SAFE ACCESS TO THAT AREA. DUE TO THAT IS THE AMOUNT OF ACCIDENTS THAT HAPPENED DUE TO HIGH SPEED TRAFFIC COMING NORTH AND SOUTH, AND PEOPLE CROSSING EAST AND WEST. SO THIS WAS AN ITEM THAT WE DID SHOW TXDOT. THIS IS THE PREFERRED LAYOUT THAT TXDOT IS SHOWING. AND THERE'S OTHER ITEMS THAT MAY LATER ON, ONCE WE MAKE A DECISION ON EXACTLY WHAT WE CAN DO TO SEE HELP THE SURROUNDING BUSINESSES FOR THAT AREA. SO WE'VE COME UP WITH A DIFFERENT PLAN AT THAT PORTION THAT WE HAVEN'T PROPOSED AS OF YET, BUT THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE WERE HOPING THAT WE CAN GET DIRECTION ON IF YOU WANT US TO PURSUE IN THAT AVENUE. SO THAT'S A BRIEF DISCUSSION OF WHAT WE HAVE ON OUR PRESENTATION. MYSELF OR MR. HINOJOSA ARE AVAILABLE FOR ANY COMMENTS OR QUESTIONS THAT YOU MAY HAVE. ALL RIGHT. JUST A COUPLE OF THINGS REAL QUICK ON THE JUST CAN YOU EXPLAIN REAL QUICK? YOU SAID CAN YOU PUT BACK THE INTERSECTION, NOT THE VISUALIZATION BUT THE SLIDE BEFORE THAT? YES, SIR. WITH THE SIGNAL UP. THERE. THAT ONE. CAN YOU EXPLAIN WHAT DOES IT MEAN BY IT WARRANTED A TRAFFIC SIGNAL? I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE EVERYBODY UNDERSTANDS WHAT THAT MEANS. YES, SIR. DUE TO THE AMOUNT OF COUNTS, DUE TO THE AMOUNT OF SPEED, THE AMOUNT OF TRAFFIC, AND THE AMOUNT OF ACCIDENTS THAT HAVE BEEN IN THE AREA ONE OF THE LARGE ONES THAT WE DID ENCOUNTER WAS THERE WAS A FATALITY AT THAT INTERSECTION, WHICH AUTOMATICALLY WARRANTS A TRAFFIC SIGNAL WITH THAT TO HELP PREVENT ANY FUTURE ACCIDENTS AT THAT POINT. AND SO WHEN IT SAYS WARRANTED, DOES IT MEAN LIKE A FULL INTERSECTION OR DOES IT MEAN WITH A MEDIAN OR I MEAN, IS IT A GENERAL WARRANTING OF AN INTERSECTION THAT WE NEED TO PUT A SIGNAL? THERE'S GOING TO BE SAFETY MEASURES AS A SIGNAL. AND THEN SECOND, CAN YOU GO OVER. WE HAD A MEETING WITH THE STAKEHOLDERS. HOW MANY PEOPLE WERE THERE. AND CAN YOU SHARE WITH EVERYONE WITH THE FEEDBACK? BECAUSE I THINK I WAS THE ONLY ONE THERE. AND I WANT COUNCIL TO BE AWARE OF WHAT YOU KNOW, HE HE GAVE THE PRESENTATION DURING THAT TIME AND THE DATE AND. YEAH, JUST WE HAD A STAKEHOLDER MEETING THE MONTH OF SEPTEMBER AND MAYBE ABOUT 30 RESIDENTS SHOWED UP. WE DID HAVE A COMMENTS FOR OR AGAINST. THERE WERE MORE AGAINST THAN FOR WE PROBABLY HAD 3 OR 4 THAT WERE FOR THE PROPOSAL, AND THE OTHER ONES SAID NO, THAT THEY WEREN'T COMFORTABLE WITH WHAT WE WERE PROPOSING AND MORE A LITTLE LOUDER, I'M SO SORRY. AND MORE FOR THE FACT THAT THEY WERE SAYING NO MORE FOR ACCESS REASONS, MORE THAN THAN ACCIDENT REASONS. AND WHERE ARE THESE RESIDENTS FROM? THEY'RE FROM THAT THAT AREA THAT'S AFFECTED THE FROM THE AREA WE USUALLY USE. YES. SO WE'D SENT THE NOTICES. WE SENT NOTICES TO THE ADJACENT AREAS SO THAT HOW FAR WE GO. BECAUSE USUALLY IT'S 300FT. WE ACTUALLY EVERYBODY THAT GOT AFFECTED BY THE ROAD AND THE ADJACENT NEIGHBORHOOD. SO MORE THAN A 300 FOOT RADIUS. I'M SORRY FOR THE TRAFFIC CONTROL DEVICE. ALL YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT IS TRAFFIC CONTROL DEVICES, WHICH. WHICH ENCOMPASS LIGHTS WHICH ENCOMPASS ENCUMBERS, THE MEDIANS AND SUCH. THIS IS WHAT THEY'RE WHAT THEY'RE SAYING. SO THE QUESTION IS, IS GENERALLY WE SEND 300FT FROM THE PLACE THAT AFFECTED. SO YOU DID EVERYBODY ON ALBERTA ROAD, EVERYBODY ON ALBERTA ROAD AND EVERYBODY ON KLAUSNER AS WELL ON KLAUSNER. HOW FAR UP TO TRENTON? IS THAT NORMAL? WHAT WE NORMALLY DO. WHY IS WHY WE WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT WHY DO WE DO SOMETHING OUT OF THE NORM? WE WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT EVERYBODY THAT'S AFFECTED BY I, THE TRAFFIC RESIDENT, AND I WAS AFFECTED AND I DIDN'T GET A LETTER. NO, YOU KNOW, THAT'S WHAT I'M TRYING TO SAY. I'M I'M ASKING, WHAT IS OUR NORM AND WHY DID WE DEVIATE FROM IT ON? A CONSTRUCTION PROJECT IS DIFFERENT FROM THE REQUIREMENTS THAT WE HAVE FOR REZONING. THE PORTIONS THAT WE DID ON ALBERTA THAT WERE OVER ON THE EAST OR ON THE WEST SIDE, AND WE WENT TO THE CITY LIMITS OF MCALLEN. HOW FAR DID WE SEND THOSE LETTERS ALL OUT? OH, WE ACTUALLY WENT OUT AND PUT PHYSICAL FLIERS ALONG. ALL OF OUR ALL OF ALBERTA, SIR. THERE'S A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN SOMETHING SHOWN IN MY HOUSE AND ASKING ME MY OPINION, AND SOMETHING THAT YOU'RE HOPING I DRIVE BY AND SEE, AND WE ALL KNOW THAT. YES, SIR. WE ACTUALLY HAD A PUBLIC MEETING FOR EACH ONE OF THEM. SO EVERY TIME WE HAVE THAT SECTION, WE GO OUT AND PUT THE FLIERS ON EACH INDIVIDUAL MAILBOX. OKAY, YOU GUYS ARE PLAYING GAMES WITH IT BECAUSE I'VE BEEN TO THE MEETINGS, I'VE BEEN TO THE DIFFERENT STUFF. I'M JUST SURPRISED NOW THAT WE ACTUALLY SEND MAIL TO. [00:50:01] NO, SIR. NOT A MAIL OUT. WE ACTUALLY WENT AND DID THE FLIER, PHYSICALLY WALKED TO ALL THESE HOUSES, AND WE HAD STAFF RESIDENTS WITHIN 300FT OF EVERYTHING FROM, WOULD YOU SAY, JACKSON? JACKSON PASSED. SUGAR PASSED ALL THE WAY TO THE EXPRESSWAY? YES, SIR. OKAY. WE HAD STAFF GO OUT THERE AND PUT THE FLIERS ON EACH ONE. YEAH, AND I THINK THIS IS STRANGE, MAYOR. WELL, AND I THINK COUNCIL MEMBER THE. AND I'M NOT SURE I'M SPECULATING, BUT THE 300FT FOR EVERYBODY'S AWARE COUNCILMAN IS REFERRING TO IS LIKE IN THE REZONING, RIGHT? AND SO OBVIOUSLY, IN THIS PARTICULAR CASE, I WANT TO MAKE SURE EVERYBODY'S AWARE. RIGHT. AND YOU'RE RIGHT. I THINK MAYBE SEND IT OUT TO EVERYBODY RIGHT IN THE COMMUNITY BECAUSE EVERYBODY GOES BY THERE. BUT I THINK I IMAGINE THAT'S WHERE Y'ALL DID THAT, HANDING OUT THE FLIERS THAT EVERYBODY'S AFFECTED. BUT WE DIDN'T MAIL OUT ANY OR ANYTHING BECAUSE I KNOW WE HAD A FULL I MEAN, WE HAD ABOUT HOW MANY PEOPLE WE HAD 20 TO 30. SO THERE WAS PEOPLE THAT SHOWED UP AT THE I GUESS THEY GOT THE FLIERS. SO I'M NOT SURE WHAT HAPPENED THERE, BUT I FEEL LIKE SOMEBODY'S POKING MY EYES. I DON'T KNOW WHY WE DID THIS. I'VE NEVER DONE IT BEFORE. IN THE FIFTH YEAR THAT I'VE BEEN HERE. THIS IS THE FIRST TIME WE'VE DONE THIS MUCH OF AN OUTREACH FOR SOMETHING. SO THERE'S THERE'S SOMETHING JUST DOESN'T FEEL KOSHER. YEAH. AND I THINK COUNCIL MEMBER WHAT I CAN TELL, AT LEAST FROM MY STANDPOINT, I'VE ASKED CITY STAFF TO DO MORE OF ENGAGING IN THE COMMUNITY. YOU KNOW, THERE'S BEEN SO MANY CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS. I, ALONG WITH YOU, ALL GET THE CALLS. AND TO ME, THE MORE ENGAGEMENT WE CAN DO, THE BETTER BECAUSE WE NEED TO LET PEOPLE KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON. YEAH, CHIEF. THIS GOES ALONG THE LINES OF I'M NOT AGAINST IT. I'M JUST WONDERING ALL OF A SUDDEN, WHY NOW? YEAH, WELL, THIS GOES BACK TO WHEN WE STARTED TALKING ABOUT UDC AND HOW OUR NORMAL RADIUS FOR REZONING ONLY AFFECTED A SMALL CIRCLE, AND WE THOUGHT I KEPT ASKING, HOW CAN WE GET A BIGGER POOL? MORE PEOPLE ADVISED THAT'S WHERE WE STARTED PUTTING SIGNS AT PROPERTIES. AND SO STAFF'S REALLY KIND OF JUST FOLLOWING THE DIRECTION OF LET'S GET A GOOD POOL OF PEOPLE FROM THE AREA SO THEY CAN ALL SHOW UP AND EXPRESS. JUST KEEP SUPPORTING MY ARGUMENT. I MEAN, FERN'S HERE RIGHT NOW, AND I THINK FERN HAD ONE. SHE'S QUESTIONED WHY THE 300FT AROUND HER PROPERTY AND THE QUESTIONS WILL BE THERE. NOTHING HAPPENED AND GOT THAT EFFECT. THIS IS THE FIRST ONE I'VE EVER HEARD OF IT. THIS HAS BEEN A DEBATE THAT'S GOING ON THE 300 FOOT RULE. AS FAR AS I KNOW, WE'VE NEVER CHANGED IT ON AN ORDINANCE. I DON'T REMEMBER IT COMING UP TO A VOTE. WE MIGHT HAVE TALKED ABOUT IT, BUT WE DID NOTHING ABOUT IT. AND NOW ALL OF A SUDDEN WE'VE GONE FROM WAS IT TWO, TWO, THREE, THREE AND A HALF MILE, 3.44, SEVEN MILES, SOMETHING LIKE THAT. IN DISTANCE. WE BEAT OUR PEOPLE OUT THERE WALKING THE STREETS TO HAND FLIERS OUT. I'M NOT SURE HOW FAR WE WENT OFF OF ALBERTA. HOW MANY WE GO 300FT, 500FT. HALF A MILE NORTH AND SOUTH OF ALBERTA. NORTH ALBERTA IS AN EAST AND WEST RUNNING STREET. AND WE DO AND I IMAGINE WE WENT UP SUGAR ROAD BECAUSE IF YOU WENT UP, WE WENT ALL THE WAY TO TRENTON ON KLAUSSNER. WE SHOULD HAVE WENT UP TRENTON. BUT THEN FOR THIS PARTICULAR ITEM, WE WENT TO TRENTON. I MEAN, ON A KLAUSSNER UP TO TRENTON AND ALBERTA ROAD EAST AND WEST, UP TO SUGAR AND JACKSON. JACKSON JUST KNOCKED A MILE OFF THAT DIRECTLY AFFECTED OWNER, BUT UP TO SUGAR ROAD UP TO TRENTON IN THE SQUARE AND THEN SOUTH WE GO SOUTH TO. SO SOUTH WE WENT DOWN TO OWASA, NORTH AND SOUTH, EAST AND WEST ALONG THE CORRIDOR. THE LONG FREAKING WAY TO PUT OUR OUR PUBLIC, OUR OUR OUR OUR STAFF OUT WALKING NORMALLY, HAND OUT FLIERS, FOR INSTANCE. ALSO A GREAT EXAMPLE IS WHEN WE DID THE JACKSON ROAD OUTREACH. WE ALSO PUT IT OUT ON THE ON THE WEBSITE, AND WE ACTUALLY WENT OUT AND PUT THEM ALL OUT. ALSO, WE DID INVITATIONS TO TRY TO GET COUNCIL MEMBER ACTUALLY TO, TO SEE IF YOU GOT A MILE AND A MILE, THAT'S TWO MILES AND FOUR MILES AND YOU GO TWO MILES SOUTH. WHAT IS THAT, 16 MILE AND AND YES, SIR. AND WHEN WE DO HAVE A PUBLIC OUTREACH OR A TOWN HALL MEETING, THAT'S WHAT WE ACTUALLY DO. WE GO OUT THERE AND PUT THEM ON THERE. AM I WRONG IN MY MATH IS LIKE 16 MILES. OKAY. JUST MAKE SURE WE GET YOUR CONSTANT WITH IT. YES, SIR. AND THAT IS THAT IS. I'M ONLY ONE VOTE. BUT THIS IS THIS IS COUNCIL'S HERE. IT'S. I FEEL LIKE MY EYES ARE BEING POKED. GUYS. YEAH. COUNCIL MEMBER WHITE, LET ME JUST EXPAND. I DON'T KNOW IF Y'ALL WANT TO COVER THIS, BUT THE OTHER CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS. HAVE Y'ALL BEEN DOING THIS? I REMEMBER A LITTLE SUBDIVISION WHEN WE FIRST GOT ELECTED. DIDN'T WE GO DOOR TO DOOR TO LET PEOPLE KNOW ABOUT THE, YOU KNOW, THE OUTREACH ALSO. WE'VE DONE THAT. WE WENT A RADIUS FROM THE WHOLE THING, THAT SUBDIVISION TO THE SUBDIVISION OVER, BECAUSE EVERYBODY'S AFFECTED BY ANYTHING YOU DO IN THE CITY, BY A CITY STREET, AFFECTS EVERYONE. WELL, THE REASON THE CLUSTER WANTS HER WAS DUE TO THE TRAFFIC SIGNAL, RIGHT? SO THAT IS GOING TO CHANGE THE UDC COVER TRAFFIC SIGNALS AS FAR AS THE RADIUS AND AND. YEAH. CHIEF, ALSO, WHEN WE DID THE THE FIRST TOWN HALLS WE HAD ON THE THE DRAINAGE AROUND THE COURTHOUSE, THEY WENT UP AND DOWN ALL OF KLAUSSNER ALL OF 107, LETTING ALL THE BUSINESSES GO. SO I, I OBVIOUSLY, I LIVE IN THIS EXACTLY WHERE THIS AREA IS AT, SO I'M, I PASS THROUGH THERE EVERY DAY. SO I LIKE THE FIRST DESIGN THAT YOU HAD ORIGINALLY [00:55:01] PUT ON THERE. MY ONLY CONCERN IS THE, THE, THE RAMP THAT COMES OUT, YOU KNOW, THAT WOULD BACK UP TRAFFIC EXTREMELY. AND I THINK THAT'S ACTUALLY THAT WOULD BE A LITTLE BIT MORE DANGEROUS THAN BY HAVING THE LIGHT THERE. I KIND OF LIKE THAT SECOND DESIGN BECAUSE IT STOPS PEOPLE FROM CROSSING. THE ACCIDENTS ARE HAPPENING BECAUSE PEOPLE ARE GOING AGAINST TRAFFIC AND AND I GO, LIKE I SAID, I LIVE THERE, SO SO I SEE THE ACCIDENTS. IT'S HAPPENING ALL THE TIME BECAUSE PEOPLE ARE GOING AGAINST TRAFFIC. SO I THINK THE SECOND DESIGN, AS FAR AS FOR SAFETY, ACTUALLY LOOKS A LITTLE BIT IT LOOKS A LOT MORE SAFER THAN THE FIRST DESIGN BECAUSE OF THAT. MY CONCERN IS THE THAT RAMP THAT'S COMING DOWN WITH THE TRAFFIC. SO, SO IT'S SOMETHING THAT THE COMMUNITY I, YOU KNOW, WE NEED MORE INPUT ON IT, BUT I DEFINITELY THINK THAT THAT RAMP IS DEFINITELY A CONCERN. SO REALLY, IF YOU REALLY WANTED TO, YOU COULD DO THAT AND THEN THEN ABANDON ALBERTA FROM CLOSER TO CLOSER TO THE EXPRESSWAY. YOU HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT THAT INTERSECTION. SO NOW YOU JUST HAVE A NORTHBOUND AND YOU TAKE CARE OF THE SOUTHBOUND, COME BACK AROUND AND THEN THEY TURN. IF YOU'RE GOING TO GO NORTH, YOU JUST GO DOWN SOUTH AND YOU TURN BACK UP ON ON THE TURNAROUND. THERE'S A TURNAROUND ALREADY BUILT INTO THAT. AND WHEN I WAS AN OFFICER, WE WORKED SOME VERY BAD ACCIDENTS THERE. AND I DON'T WANT THAT JUST FOR FOR ONE BUSINESSES IS BUSINESS JUST TO TO THRIVE BETTER. IT'S NOT GOING TO HURT THEM. IF PEOPLE WANT TO GO TO THOSE DEALERSHIPS, THEY'RE GOING TO GO. IT DOESN'T MATTER HOW THEY GET THERE AT THE END OF THE DAY. TO ME, LIKE IT'S A SAFETY CONCERN BECAUSE I LIKE I SAID, I SEE THE ACCIDENTS EVERY DAY AND ESPECIALLY AT 5:00 IT GETS REALLY CONGESTED. AND IT'S ACTUALLY A VERY DANGEROUS CURRENTLY. I THINK WE SHOULD CLOSE ALBERTA RIGHT NOW. I TOLD YOU, THE FACT THAT I TOLD YOU GUYS IN THE PAST THAT I BELIEVE ALBERTA SHOULD BE CLOSED EAST AND WEST FROM FROM FROM CLOSNER, OR IT'S NOT EVEN CLOSE. TO BE HONEST WITH YOU, IT'S BUSINESS HIGHWAY 281. IT'S A PROPER NAME TO EXPRESSWAY JUST TO ALLEVIATE THE ACCIDENTS THAT ARE. NOW, ONE MORE PERSON GETS KILLED IN THAT INTERSECTION OR SERIOUSLY MAIMED. WE SHOULD BE HELD AT FAULT. ON THE FIRST DESIGN, CAN YOU PUT THEM UP ON THE SCREEN? SORRY. JUST SO EVERYBODY CAN FOLLOW WHAT WE'RE REFERRING TO. THEN. YEAH. SO THIS ONE JUST THIS INCLUDES PUTTING THE TRAFFIC SIGNAL RIGHT. ALL THE AND THE INTERSECT DOESN'T INCLUDE LIGHTING SPEED LIMIT REDUCTION ON THE RAMP OR ANY OF THAT NATURE BECAUSE IT'S YOU KNOW, I THINK TEXDOT IS OPEN TO THERE'S AN EMAIL IN OUR PACKET THAT SAYS THAT IF WE HAVE ANY OTHER ALTERNATIVES THAT THEY'RE WILLING TO DISCUSS FURTHER. IS THAT CORRECT? YES, SIR. TEXDOT. SO, COUNCIL, I THINK FOR ME, I MEAN, OBVIOUSLY FROM A SAFETY STANDPOINT, IF WE CONSIDER THIS INTERSECTION OR THIS FIRST DESIGN, OBVIOUSLY WE CAN'T DO IT WITHOUT TXDOT'S INPUT. THAT RAMP BELONGS TO TXDOT, RIGHT? AND SO ANYTHING THAT HAPPENS ON THAT RAMP, WE CAN'T I MEAN, THAT'S TEX DOT. SO I MEAN, I THINK A33 RIVERS, RIGHT. IF GET OFF THE BRIDGE, THERE'S LIKE THE LIGHTING, THE SPEED LIMIT CHANGE AND YOU GO INTO TOWN, RIGHT, YOU SLOW DOWN TO 30 AND THAT'S A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT INTERSECTION OR COMPARISON. BUT I'M JUST TALKING ABOUT THE CHANGE IN SPEED LIMIT AND THE DIFFERENT THINGS. I KNOW TEXTED ORIGINALLY I THINK SAID NO, RIGHT. THEY DIDN'T WANT TO MAKE ANY CHANGES, BUT IT APPEARS NOW THAT THEY ARE OPEN TO THOSE DISCUSSIONS. SO THAT'S JUST MY THOUGHTS. COUNCIL I MEAN, I'M NOT SURE IF Y'ALL BE AMENABLE TO THAT. I THINK IT'S WORTH EXPLORING THE ALTERNATIVES. I KNOW WE DID GET AN EMAIL THAT THE MR. SPOKE, REACHED OUT TO OUR REPRESENTATIVE AND TEXTED, AND I THINK WE SHOULD ALLOW THEM TO SPEAK BEFORE WE MAKE ANY CHANGES. BUT I AM CONCERNED ON THE SAFETY. WHAT CAN WE DO NOW TO SLOW DOWN DETER WHAT'S HAPPENING THERE AND HOPEFULLY AVOID SOME ACCIDENTS WHILE WE GET THIS DISCUSSED? RIGHT NOW IT'S BUILT OUT MAX TO THE MAX AT THIS PORTION WITHOUT US HAVING PERMISSION FROM TEXAS TO CHANGE ANYTHING ALONG KLAUSNER. WE WOULD HAVE TO PROPOSE IT TO THEM. SO ANYTHING WE DO TO SLOW DOWN SIGNS WHATEVER IT HAS TO BE WITH, WITH TEXTILE. AND THAT'S, THAT'S THE ONLY REASON WHY THEY'RE INVOLVED IS BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, LIKE COUNCIL MEMBER WHITE SAID THIS THIS US BUSINESS. 281 THAT DOES IS GOVERNED BY THE STATE. SO ANY CHANGES THAT WE HAVE TO SUBMIT TO THEM FOR THEIR APPROVAL? CAN WE CLOSE ALBERTA ROAD WITHOUT TEX DOT'S APPROVAL ON THE INTERSECTION? YES, SIR. YES. SO THERE IS SOMETHING WE COULD DO RIGHT NOW. NEXT TEN MINUTES IF WE WANTED TO. YEP. DON'T LOOK AT THE MAYOR. I'M THE ONE TALKING TO YOU. YES, SIR. YEAH. SO THERE IS SOMETHING WE CAN DO. AND THAT'S WHAT WE'RE PAYING YOU GUYS. TO ANSWER THE QUESTION, THE MAYOR, THE MAN ASKED, IS THERE SOMETHING WE CAN DO? THEY MIGHT NOT LIKE THE ANSWER, BECAUSE THIS ISN'T ABOUT THE BUSINESSES THAT ARE THERE. THIS IS ABOUT THE SAFETY OF OUR COMMUNITY. IT'S THE SAFETY OF THE PUBLIC. IT'S THE SAFETY OF THE LADY DRIVING WITH THEIR CHILD, COMING ACROSS THAT INTERSECTION. THAT'S ALL THIS IS ABOUT. [01:00:01] YES, SIR. BUT IF WE DO CLOSE THAT AREA IF WHEREVER IT REVERTS BACK TO THE PROPERTY OWNERS, IF WE DON'T NO LONGER HAVE THE RIGHT OF WAY, SO THEY COULD USE IT STILL AS A DRIVE. SO IT'S STILL GOING TO CREATE THE SAME ISSUE. THE, THE THE DRIVEWAYS ARE PERMITTED BY THE CITY, CORRECT? YES. OKAY. THEN THE CITY WOULD HAVE TO DECIDE TO MAKE THAT INTO A DRIVEWAY AT THE INTERSECTION AT THAT PORTION, SINCE IT'S GOING TO BE ABANDONED RIGHT OF WAY. THEN IF WE ABANDON IT, IT GOES BACK TO THE OWNERS OF THE PROPERTY. AND THEN IF THEY WANTED TO, IF WE WANTED TO ALLOW THEM TO MAKE THAT INTO IN THERE, WHICH WOULD BE RIDICULOUS IF WE DID INTO A, INTO A ENTRANCEWAY TO THEIR PROPERTY OR EXIT WAY TO THE PROPERTY, THEN WE'RE KILLING OURSELVES, RIGHT? THE OTHER ISSUE THAT WE DO HAVE THERE, WE DO HAVE A LIFT STATION ON THAT AREA. SO THAT IF WE WOULD HAVE TO GO BACK AND THEN REDESIGN AND ASK FOR AN EASEMENT FOR THAT AREA, BECAUSE RIGHT NOW IT IS IN PUBLIC RIGHT OF WAY. THERE'S NOT REALLY A RIGHT ANSWER ON THIS, BUT BUT I DO FEEL, THOUGH, THAT ON THAT RAMP IS EVEN IF WE REDUCE THE SPEED, YOU KNOW, PEOPLE ARE COMING OFF THE EXPRESSWAY. IT'S NOT GOING TO. REDUCING THE SPEED IS NOT GOING TO HELP THE SITUATION. I DEFINITELY THINK A LIGHT THERE IS DEFINITELY NOT THE ANSWER TO STOPPING THAT TRAFFIC. COUNCILMAN WHITE CAN HELP ME ADDRESS THAT. THEY'RE POSTED NOW. THE FASTEST WAS 76 AT A 50 MILES AN HOUR. SO A SIGN IS JUST A SIGN. ALL RIGHT. ANY OTHER COMMENTS? THERE WAS ANOTHER. THERE WAS ANOTHER SLIDE. RIGHT. BESIDES THE FOUR WAY COMING, A TRAFFIC. YES, SIR. THE MEDIAN ONE. SO THIS ONE WILL ALWAYS BE OPEN FOR NORTH AND SOUTH TRAFFIC COMING OFF THE RAMP SO THAT THAT WAY NOBODY IS QUEUING. WHEN YOU'RE COMING ON ALBERTA TO TAKE A LEFT TURN TO GO SOUTH, YOU GO DOWN IN THE MIDDLE AND THEN YOU MERGE INTO TRAFFIC. THIS WILL BE A RIGHT TURN LANE. THAT WAY WE ELIMINATE THE EXACT PROCESS ON THAT OTHER. AND TO ALL OF THEM. THE DEBATE THAT WE HAD ON THIS ONE, OR WE'VE HAD ON THIS ONE, IS THE PUBLIC COMING UP NORTH AND WANTING TO TURN LEFT, GOING NORTH, WANTING TO TURN LEFT OR WEST ONTO ALBERTA ARE GOING TO HAVE TO GO UP ANOTHER 500FT AND MAKE A U-TURN, OR THEY NEED TO COME DOWN TRENTON. THAT'S CORRECT. NEXT, FEAR THAT WE'VE HAD. SO EVERYBODY UNDERSTANDS THAT THIS IS NOT SOMETHING THAT WE WERE LIGHTLY DEBATING, IS NOW THEY'RE GOING TO START MAKING THE U-TURN UP THERE, WHICH A U-TURN IN THE MIDDLE THERE IS CRAZY. OTHER THAN YOU CONTROL IT BY ANOTHER SIGN THAT SAYS NO U-TURNS. CORRECT. BUT BUT THERE'S A THERE'S A LEFT TURN LANE THERE AS WELL. YES, SIR. YOU HAVE TO TURN OFF ALBERTA. THERE'S ALREADY. OH, OKAY. SO. SO THIS THIS. THAT'S THE ONE THEY WORK. YOU HAVE TO WORK YOUR WAY OVER. YES, SIR. THAT IS CORRECT. THIS THIS JASON COUNCILMAN, DYLAN AND I ARE ON. AND SO WE'VE BEEN DISCUSSING THIS FOR QUITE SOME TIME. THE INITIAL PROPOSITION WAS A TRAFFIC LIGHT, AND WE'RE THE ONES THAT BROUGHT UP, LIKE, HOW CAN YOU HAVE A TRAFFIC LIGHT WITH NO SLOWDOWN OF SPEED COMING OFF THE RAMP? AND SO STAFF CONTINUED WITH OTHER OPTIONS. AND WE WE ALWAYS THOUGHT THIS WAS THE BEST OPTION. BUT THEN, OF COURSE, WE ENGAGED THE RESIDENTS AND THE STAKEHOLDERS THERE, AND I DIDN'T I DIDN'T COME TO THAT MEETING EITHER. BUT APPARENTLY THERE WAS BIG OPPOSITION FOR ANYTHING EXCEPT FOR A STOPLIGHT. SO THE THE PROBLEM IS THAT THERE'S NO SLOWDOWN. TEX DOT DIDN'T WANT THE THE TRAFFIC LIGHT. NOW THEY'RE WILLING TO DISCUSS IT. BUT WE ALWAYS FELT THAT THIS WHERE IT DIDN'T IMPEDE ANY TRAFFIC EXCEPT EASTBOUND TRYING TO ACCESS THE EXPRESSWAY THERE, WHICH IS THE BIGGEST ISSUE AND WHERE THE MOST MAJOR ACCIDENTS HAD BEEN HAPPENING. IS THAT SAFE TO SAY? YES, SIR. AND THE ONLY THING THAT ISSUE WITH THE EXPRESSWAY SIDE, IT AFFECTS THE PEOPLE TRYING TO GO SOUTHBOUND, BECAUSE NO MATTER WHAT, IF YOU DID EITHER INTERSECTION, THE NORTHBOUND PEOPLE STILL NEED TO GO DOWN TO OWASSO, COME BACK UP, AROUND TO GO NORTH. SO IT ONLY AFFECTS PEOPLE. AND SO YEAH, INSTEAD OF TRYING TO CROSS THERE, YOU WOULD TURN RIGHT, HEAD SOUTH, GO UNDER THE OVERPASS. THERE'S AN OVERPASS. CORRECT. YOU COME BACK AROUND AND THEN YOU CAN STILL ACCESS THAT EAST ALBERTA SIDE. YOU JUST HAVE TO GO DO A U-TURN UNDER THE OVERPASS. YEAH. YEAH. AND THE ISSUE ALSO, THERE'S CHALLENGES WITH BOTH. I THINK THAT THE OPTIONS WE HAVE HERE, I THINK WITH THE MEDIAN, ALL OF A SUDDEN WE'RE BLOCKING ACCESS RIGHT FROM ONE END OF OUR CITY TO THE OTHER, AND WE KNOW HOW MUCH TRAFFIC THERE IS IN OUR COMMUNITY. AND THAT THAT'S A CONCERN, AT LEAST, THAT I HAVE. BUT BUT I THINK LOOK, I THINK COUNCIL THIS IS MY THOUGHTS. I MEAN, WE SHOULD CONSIDER VISITING WITH TEXDOT. THIS IS A STATE ROAD WITH THEM AND SEEING WHAT OTHER OPTIONS WE CAN COME UP WITH. WE DON'T HAVE MUCH TIME. OBVIOUSLY, WE'RE ALMOST THERE, BUT WE REALLY SHOULD TAKE THEM UP ON THAT. I UNDERSTAND THEY DO WANT TO VISIT WITH US TO EXPLORE THOSE ALTERNATIVES, AND I THINK IT'S WORTH FOR US TO DO SO IF YOU GUYS ARE AMENABLE TO IT. IT'S CHIEF. I THOUGHT I SAW CHIEF AYALA. IS THERE ANY. IS CHIEF AYALA HERE? YES, CHIEF, JUST A QUESTION. [01:05:02] SIR. IF WE WERE ABLE, IF WE WERE ABLE TO TABLE THIS AND GIVE TEXDOT AND EVERYONE A CHANCE TO WORK IT OUT. IS THERE A WAY WE CAN POST SOMEBODY THEIR HELP? SLOW DOWN. ANY ANY ANY SUGGESTIONS ON HOW WE CAN MITIGATE LESS ACCIDENTS THERE? GOOD EVENING. JAIME, L.A. POLICE CHIEF. WE ALREADY WORK THAT AREA WITH THE ENFORCEMENT. OUR TRAFFIC, AS WE DO ACROSS THE CITY. IT WOULD BE VERY CHALLENGING TO BE ABLE TO JUST ASSIGN SOMEONE CONFIRMING THAT THEY ENFORCE THAT. THAT THAT JUST SITS THERE TO MONITOR IT. WE USE SPEED TRAILERS BEFORE, BUT IT'S REALLY THE DRIVING BEHAVIOR THAT WE HAVE TO DEAL WITH AS THEY'RE COMING OFF THAT RAMP ONTO BUSINESS. SO, I MEAN, WE CAN CONTINUE TO MONITOR AND WORK IT AS WE HAVE IN THE PAST, BASED ON THE CRASHES AND SOME OF THE COMPLAINTS THAT WE'VE HAD. THANKS, CHIEF. BUT THAT'S A BAND-AID. THAT'S A TEMPORARY FIX. YEAH, THAT'S I MEAN, WE CAN I CANNOT AFFORD TO DEDICATE ONE PERSON JUST TO THAT INTERSECTION WITH WITH THE WORKLOAD THAT WE HAVE, IT WOULD BE A CHALLENGE, BUT WE WILL DO EVERYTHING WE CAN TO BE PRESENT. YOU GUYS KNOW I KNOW THE HISTORY OF THIS WHOLE THING, BUT WHEN TEX-DOT WAS FIRST BUILDING THIS AND BUILDING THE RAMP THAT INTERSECTION RIGHT THERE WAS JUST BEING BUILT UP TO ALL THAT AREA WAS BEING BUILT UP. WE USED TO HAVE MAJOR ACCIDENTS. WE CLEARED AN ACCIDENT FROM THERE, TURNED AROUND AND CAME BACK AND CLEARED IT. AT THAT TIME, I WAS A PATROL SERGEANT. WHAT WE DID IS WE CALLED TXDOT, SAY, HEY, YOU GUYS GOT TO DO SOMETHING. THIS ISN'T RIGHT. TXDOT TELLS US THAT THERE'S NOTHING WE CAN DO ABOUT IT UNTIL WE HAVE TO GET AN ENGINEER OR SOMEBODY. SO I TOLD THEM, WELL, IT'S TOO BAD. THE CITY OF EDINBURG DISCLOSED THE EXPRESSWAY AND WE CLOSED IT. FROM THAT POINT ON, WE MOVED THE BARRICADES AND THEY FINALLY SENT A CREW OUT AND SAID, IF YOU GUYS ARE CLOSING IT, WE CAN ASSIST YOU BECAUSE OF THE SAFETY OF THE PUBLIC. AND THIS HASN'T CHANGED. THE ONLY THING THAT'S CHANGED NOW THAT WE HAVE MORE LIGHTING IS NOT THE CONSTRUCTION, BECAUSE IT WAS VERY CONFUSING WITH THE INSTRUCTIONS AND THE BARRELS AND ALL THAT STUFF OUT THERE. AND WE WOULD WITHIN 15 MINUTES, YOU CLEAR NEXT TO THE DRIVEWAY AND COME BACK IN AND THEY'RE SERIOUS ACCIDENTS. THAT'S WHY I HAVE A PASSION FOR THIS INTERSECTION. I WAS THE ONE, AND THAT'S THE FIRST EXPERIENCE THAT I HAD TO FIGHT WITH, WITH TEX-DOT. AND FINALLY THEY FIGURED SOMETHING OUT. I THINK THEY HAD CLOSED THAT FOR THE REST OF THE CONSTRUCTION. TOM MAY TOM MAY REMEMBER THAT THEY CLOSED ALBERTA THAT WAY FOR IT. SO THAT'S WHY I KNOW THERE'S A SOLUTION. WE'VE ALREADY HAD IT. AND I WILL SAY JUST I MEAN, ANYTIME THAT WE CAN MINIMIZE THAT AMOUNT OF TRAFFIC, CROSS TRAFFIC, WE'RE GOING TO BE ABLE TO REDUCE ACCIDENTS. IF WE DO NOT MITIGATE THE THE CROSS TRAFFIC, WE'RE GOING TO CONTINUE TO HAVE CONCERNS. THE OTHER THING THAT HAS TO BE MENTIONED THAT CAME UP AT THE AT THE STAKEHOLDER MEETING THAT WE HAD THE PROPERTY OWNER THERE ON THAT BIG TRACK ON THE SOUTH WEST CORNER. THEY'RE PUTTING A WHAT KIND OF OPERATION IS THAT? THERE'S A LARGE TRUCK, LARGE TRUCKING BODY SHOP. BODY SHOP THERE? YES, SIR. SO THERE'S ACTUALLY IT'S UNDER CONSTRUCTION FROM WHAT I WRITE. CORRECT. SO THERE'S GOING TO BE 18 WHEELERS. GOING TO BE, I MEAN, A LOT OF TRAFFIC, I UNDERSTAND ON THAT CORNER AS WELL. IN FACT, THE PROPERTY OWNER WAS HERE AT THE MEETING, I THINK SO. YES, SIR. AT THIS POINT, WE'RE NOT ASKING FOR APPROVAL. WE'RE ASKING FOR YOUR DIRECTION. SO THEREFORE, WHATEVER DIRECTION YOU WANT ME TO SEEK, THEN WE WILL BRING BACK THE ITEM. PROBABLY THE FIRST MEETING OF DECEMBER TO SEE WHICH WAY WE WOULD SWAY. BUT RIGHT NOW WE ARE SEEKING DIRECTION ON WHICH AREAS DO YOU WANT ME TO PURSUE? AND AT THE END OF THE DAY, YOU KNOW, NO ONE WANTS THE MEDIANS IN THE STREETS, I GET IT. LIKE I SAID, I LIVED THROUGH THERE, BUT IT'S NOT ABOUT WHAT WE LIKE, AND IT'S NOT ABOUT WHAT OUR PERSONAL BELIEFS ARE. AT THE END OF THE DAY, THIS IS ABOUT SAVING LIVES. WE'RE A GROWING COMMUNITY, AND A LOT OF PEOPLE DON'T REALIZE WHAT THAT TRAFFIC. WE DON'T LISTEN. IT'S OUR HUMAN NATURE. WE'RE JUST NOT GOING TO LISTEN. YOU CAN PUT THE STOP SIGNS. YOU CAN PUT. YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE TO FORCE PEOPLE TO TURN ONE WAY. AND FOR THE SAFETY REASONS, I DO FEEL THAT THIS CURRENT PHOTO, THE THREE LEGGED INTERSECTION IS PROBABLY THE SAFEST ROUTE. ROOT. I JUST DON'T LIKE THAT ON RAMP. LIKE STOPPING THAT TRAFFIC FROM THAT EXITING FROM THAT EXPRESSWAY. TO ME, THAT JUST SOUNDS VERY DANGEROUS. BUT I CAN ALSO UNDERSTAND THE CONCERNS OF OF OUR STAKEHOLDERS AND OUR RESIDENTS. BUT AS FAR AS SAFETY CONCERNS, THIS IS DEFINITELY THE BEST ROUTE TO GO. IF WE'RE LOOKING FOR DIRECTION. I'LL AGREE WITH JASON. THIS IS THIS THREE LEGGED INTERSECTION. WELL, WE DON'T HAVE THIS FRACTION, DO WE? NO, SIR. SO WE CAN'T JUST DIRECTLY ASKING FOR DIRECTION. WELL, I KNOW, BUT DIRECTION IS TAKING ACTION SO THEY COULD MOVE FORWARD. BECAUSE I DON'T AGREE WITH THAT. THREE LEGGED. NO. SO. NO, SIR. IF YOU WANT ME TO PURSUE THIS ONE AND THE FOUR WAY INTERSECTION, WELL, I. THOSE ARE THE ITEMS. YEAH. I WANT TO EXPLORE WHAT I'M LOOKING FOR. SO I WANT TO EXPLORE THAT. BUT JUST IN CONVERSATION WITH TEXTILE, LIKE, I WANT TO KNOW WHAT IT IS THAT THEY HAD SAID. NO, BUT I UNDERSTAND THEY'RE OPEN NOW TO DISCUSSING CHANGES TO THE RAMP AND ALL THAT. I'D LIKE THAT EXPLORED AT LEAST. SO BEFORE WE MAKE A FINAL DECISION AND KNOW WHAT IT IS THAT THEY COULD DO AT THIS POINT FOR THE FULL INTERCHANGE, YOU KNOW. YES, SIR. SO THEN THERE'S TWO OPTIONS DISCUSSED. [01:10:01] PRODUCTION IS TO BRING BOTH. BOTH OKAY. YES. CAN WE MEET WITH TEXDOT SOON ON THIS? THAT WAY WE CAN GET THAT DIRECTION. AND I WOULD SAY ON BOTH RIGHT ON THE MEDIAN TOO. SO THAT I MEAN YOU CAN GET THAT IMPACT OR FEEDBACK FROM THEM. OKAY. THIS SLIDE SAYS TEXDOT APPROVED. SO IT IS ALREADY APPROVED BY TXDOT. THAT ONE THEY DID APPROVE. DID THEY APPROVE IT THE FOUR WAY TO OVER THIS ONE. NO. BUT THEY'RE STILL OPEN TO SEEING THE FOUR WAY. BUT THEY WOULD PREFER TO SEE THE TEXT THAT. AND SO TOM WHICH WAS TEX DOT'S PREFERRED THIS, THE THREE LEGGED ONE. THE THREE LEGGED ONE. OKAY. BUT AGAIN YOU SEE THE EMAIL AND THEY RECOMMENDED DID THEY HAVE THEIR ENGINEERS CHECK THIS PREFERRED METHOD ON THAT. SO THEY THOUGHT THIS WOULD BE THE SAFEST ONE ACCORDING TO TEX DOT. CORRECT. OKAY. SO THIS IS DRAWN BY US OR BY TEX DOT. THIS IS DRAWN BY US. THIS WAS OUR ENGINEERS THAT PUT IT TOGETHER. OUR CONSTRUCTION ENGINEER. IT LOOKS NICE. AND IF IF THE PRESENTATION IS OVER, IF IF ANYONE HERE IN THE AUDIENCE WANTS TO COMMENT ON THIS ITEM. YEAH, I WOULD. I THINK FERN HAD A SIGN UP, TOO. YEAH. WELL, WE CAN'T TONIGHT. THERE'S ENOUGH FOR ACTION. BUT, YEAH, THE ONE YOU'RE SHOWING UP THERE WITH, THE LITTLE THINGAMAJIGGER WHICH YOU JUST TOOK DOWN. I USED TO LIVE RIGHT HERE FROM THIRD GRADE TILL 1973. SO I KNOW ALL ABOUT THE WRECKS AND EVERYTHING THERE. THIS MEDIAN THING. CAN YOU PUT THIS ONE UP, PLEASE? FERN, DID YOU SEE CHIEF WHITE AT THAT INTERSECTION THERE? MONITORING PEOPLE. BUT HE CERTAINLY NEEDS TO BE THERE. WE GOT MOTORCYCLE POLICE, HE SAID. SINCE 73. GIVE ME A BREAK. I WANT TO KNOW WHEN SOMEBODY CAN SPEED AT. I HEAR IT SAYS 76 MILES AN HOUR. I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW WHO COMES UP THAT RAMP. NOBODY DOES. AND THEN COMES DOWN. AND IF YOU'RE COMING DOWN AT THAT SPEED, THEN WE SHOULD BE MAKING A LOT OF MONEY OFF OF THE TICKETS. ARREST THEM RIGHT THERE. WELL, MY THING IS THIS ONE. AND WE HAD THE THE OWNER OF THE TRUCK RIGHT GOING TO HAVE RIGHT THERE. AND IF YOU I HAVE TROUBLE WITH PEOPLE THAT LIVE IN EDINBURG. MCALLEN DOES A LITTLE BETTER. BUT EDINBURG FOUR WAY STOPS. THEY DON'T GET THE IDEA THAT WHO COMES UP FIRST THE RIGHT AND THEN TAKE TURNS. IT'S WHOEVER CAN GET UP THERE THE FASTEST. AND YOU GO, ALL RIGHT, THIS RIGHT HERE, YOU'RE LOOKING AT AN ARROW COMING OFF OF ALBERTA TURNING AND GOING NORTH, AND YOU'RE FACING TRAFFIC. YOU'RE LOOKING AT CARS. THERE'S TWO LANES THAT ARE GOING SOUTH. YOU CAN SEE AND I KNOW THERE'S GOING TO BE A MEDIAN. WELL, THAT MEDIAN BETTER BE THIS HIGH SO THAT THE CARS CANNOT JUMP IT OR HIT IT. BECAUSE I GUARANTEE YOU COMING TOWARD TRAFFIC IS THE DUMBEST THING I'VE EVER HEARD. AND I KNOW THERE'S ONE IN MCALLEN AND I STILL THINK THAT ONE'S DUMB. BUT MY THING IS CLOSE IT FOR SAFETY. IF THAT'S THE REASON WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT SAFETY OR FIGURE OUT A WAY THAT BECAUSE HERE I SEE IN THE BACKUP IT SAID TEX DOT AND CONSIDERED BY STAFF AND TEX DOT EITHER LEAVE THE INTERSECTION AS IT IS OR IMPLEMENT THE BYPASS. AND NOW YOU'RE SAYING, WELL, THEY'RE KIND OF THINKING THEY MIGHT BE ABLE TO GO WITH THE CITY. THIS IS THE CITY LIMITS OF EDINBURG. I DON'T CARE IF TEX, DOT OR WHATEVER. WE THIS IS NOT KLAUSNER. THIS IS SOUTH 281 AND OUR THING THAT'S BUSINESS 281 AND TO ME WHEN YOU AND YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT GOING DOWN TO THE UNDERPASS AND TURNING AROUND AND COME BACK. HAVE YOU ALL DRIVEN THAT AT EARLY IN THE MORNING OR LATE IN THE AFTERNOON? THEY'RE BUMPER TO BUMPER. WE NEED COPS ON ALL FOUR CORNERS WITH LIGHTS FLASHING. AND THERE'S ABSOLUTELY NO REASON WHY I CANNOT BELIEVE IN THE STATE OF TEXAS THAT THEY DON'T HAVE SOME PROBLEM LIKE THIS WHERE THEY HAVE PUT YOU'VE GOT A FLASHING LIGHT RIGHT OUT OF THIS BUILDING THAT SHOWS THERE'S A STOP SIGN. HOW ABOUT DOING SOMETHING? AND IF TXDOT CAN'T DO THAT, THEN THEY NEED TO CLOSE THE OVERPASS ON THAT THING, BECAUSE THE SAFETY OF THE PUBLIC AND THERE'S BEEN MANY, MANY, MANY OVER THE YEARS, PEOPLE GET KILLED THERE. I PERSONALLY KNOW BECAUSE I HAD TO HELP WITH THE WRECKS AS THE YOUNG WOMAN AND EVERYTHING BUT 76 MILES AN HOUR. ANYBODY THAT'S PULLING THAT NEEDS TO BE ARRESTED. AND THAT'S RIDICULOUS. SO MY TWO CHOICES IS EITHER PUT THE RED LIGHT UP, PUT THE SIGNS UP, THE PEOPLE CAN SLOW DOWN WITH SIGNS SAYING A LIGHT AHEAD OR CLOSE IT FOR THE SAFETY. SO YOU DON'T PREFER THE MEDIAN? NO, I HATE THE THING. I THINK I JUST WANTED TO BE CLEAR. I JUST WANTED TO BE CLEAR WHAT YOUR PREFERENCE IS FOR INTERSECTION. INTERSECTION. YEAH. AND THAT'S WHAT THEY'RE TALKING ABOUT HERE. THE GENTLEMAN THAT WAS HERE THAT NIGHT, THEY'RE GOING THEY'RE GOING TO HAVE THE TRUCKING COMPANY. [01:15:04] YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE AN 18 WHEELER WITH A LONG TRAILER COME OUT OFF OF ALBERTA. AND YOU AND HE EVEN SAID THEY'RE NOT GOING TO MAKE THAT TURN. SO NOW YOU'VE INCONVENIENCED THOSE THAT COMPANY BECAUSE NOW YOU'RE TELLING THEM GO ALL THE WAY DOWN, GET OFF, GO UNDER THE THING. YOU CAN'T DO THAT TO THE PUBLIC. SO YOU TELL TEXDOT, FIGURE OUT A WAY OF PUTTING A RED LIGHT UP THERE. WELL, I'M WITH YOU ON THIS ONE. THANK YOU. ALL RIGHT. YOU SAID THERE WAS OTHER COMMENTS. IS THERE ANY OTHER COMMENTS ON THIS ITEM? IF NOT, I'M GOING TO MOVE ON. THIS IS NOT FOR ACTION TONIGHT, BUT YOU'RE GOING TO PUT THIS ON AT THE NEXT MEETING. CITY MANAGER OR THE PERSON IN THE FIRST MEETING OF DECEMBER. WE CAN MEET WITH TEXDOT, PLEASE. THAT'D BE GREAT. JUST SO WE CAN GET THAT FEEDBACK. SO. YES, SIR. ALL RIGHT. ALL RIGHT. WE'RE GOING TO MOVE ON TO ITEM EIGHT. THIS IS A DISCUSSION DISCUSSION AND [8. OTHER BUSINESS] [A. Discussion and Possible Action Regarding State Highway 68 (SH68). [Myra L. Ayala, City Manager]] POSSIBLE ACTION REGARDING STATE HIGHWAY 68. YES, SIR. MAYOR. WE'RE PRESENTING THIS ITEM TODAY. BASICALLY, FOR DISCUSSION AND POSSIBLE ACTION FOR COUNCIL REGARDING A PROJECT THAT HAS TAKEN PLACE SINCE 2013 FOR STATE HIGHWAY 68. AND I JUST WANTED TO OPEN IT UP FOR DISCUSSION FOR COUNCIL TO SEE IF THEY HAVE ANY QUESTIONS REGARDING THIS PROJECT AND IF THEY WOULD LIKE TO MAKE ANY COMMENTS. WE ALSO HAVE SOME LANDOWNERS THAT I BELIEVE HERE TONIGHT THAT OWN LAND OFF OF FM FOUR 91ST COUNCIL. CAN WE SUSPEND THE RULES JUST SO WE CAN HAVE THAT DISCUSSION? THERE'S NO REASON TO SUSPEND THE RULES. THIS IS A DISCUSSION. WELL, IT SAYS POSSIBLE ACTION. SO NORMALLY YOU ALL HAVE TO MAKE A MOTION A SECOND. WE'VE NEVER DONE IT BEFORE. HAVE TO GO INTO A. WELL I'LL LET OUR LEGAL COUNSEL ANSWER THAT IF WE DON'T HAVE TO. WE WON'T. BUT I DON'T SEE WHY WE. YOU HAVE IT IDENTIFIED AS A AS A DISCUSSION ITEM. SO YOU CAN OPEN IT UP FOR DISCUSSION. OKAY. AND NOT ASK FOR A MOTION. RIGHT. ALL RIGHT. OKAY, GOOD. THAT'S FINE. GO AHEAD. OKAY, SO AS I WAS STATING, THERE ARE SOME LANDOWNERS, LANDOWNERS HERE, I BELIEVE THAT OWN LAND OFF OF FM 490. I BELIEVE SOME OF THEM MAY WANT TO MAKE SOME COMMENTS REGARDING HOW THE NEW ALIGNMENT OF SH 68 WILL BE AFFECTING THEIR LAND AT THIS TIME. WELL, LET'S COUNSEL, OPEN IT UP AND MAKE YOUR COMMENTS. AND THEN AND THEN WE'LL HEAR FROM THE RESIDENTS AS WELL. WELL, ACTUALLY, I'D LIKE TO HEAR FROM THE RESIDENTS. YOU LIKE TO HEAR FROM THE RESIDENTS FIRST. I'M OKAY. I'M FINE WITH THAT. IS EVERYONE OKAY? IS ANYONE HERE WANTING TO SPEAK ON STATE HIGHWAY 68? I KNOW WE HEARD EARLIER IN THE PUBLIC COMMENTS. I KNOW FERNIE SIGNED UP, SO GO AHEAD, MA'AM. YEAH. SOMEONE ELSE. I'LL LET THEM GO FIRST. OKAY. ALL RIGHT. NOT A PROBLEM. GOOD EVENING. MY NAME IS JOE VAIL, AND I OWN THE PROPERTY IN FRONT OF THE AIRPORT. AND EAST OF IT ON THE NORTH SIDE FROM THE BEGINNING, STATE HIGHWAY 68. WE DISCUSSED IT FOR ABOUT EIGHT, TEN YEARS ON 180 ALL THE WAY, WHICH WE WERE IN FAVOR OF. AND ABOUT TWO YEARS AGO, THEY JUST CHANGED THE ROUTE. AND NOW THE THE ROUTE IS GOING TO DIVIDE MY PROPERTY IN HALF. ACTUALLY, THE PROBLEM IS THEY HAVEN'T DECIDED WHAT TO DO. SO THAT CREATES A PROBLEM FOR ME BECAUSE TO BE HONEST WITH YOU. BEFORE THEY CHANGED THE ROUTE, I WAS DEALING WITH TWO COMPANIES FROM SPAIN TO PUT A SOLAR PANEL FARM IN THERE. BUT AT THAT MOMENT THEY CHANGED THE NEW ROUTE CAME OUT, SO THEY DROPPED OUT, YOU KNOW. SO NOW I'M WORKING ON DIFFERENT PROJECTS, BUT WE DON'T STAND STILL BECAUSE NOTHING HAS BEEN DECIDED. I'M IN FAVOR OF THE NEW OF THE OLD ROUTE FOR 90. IT WILL HELP THE THE AIRPORT ACTUALLY. AND THEY WERE TALKING ABOUT THE REASON WHY THEY CHANGED IT IS THAT THEY WERE GOING TO REQUIRE TO PUT A LIGHT AT THE INTERSECTION. AND I DON'T SEE I CAN SEE WHERE WE DON'T EVEN NEED A LIGHT THERE EITHER. YOU KNOW, IF YOU LOOK AT THE HIGHWAY 77 AND 100 GOING TO PADRE ISLAND, THERE'S A STRAIGHT IN AND STRAIGHT OUT. NO LIGHTS ARE THERE. IT'S THE SAME SCENARIO OVER HERE. YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN? THERE WAS THE MAIN REASON WHY CHANGING THE ROUTE TO THE NORTH SIDE. AND I DON'T KNOW WHAT THEY'RE GOING TO PUT A LIGHT ON THE NORTH SIDE OR NOT. YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN? SO I REALLY IN FAVOR OF THE 490. [01:20:04] IT WOULD HELP THE AIRPORT. IT WOULD HELP ME ALSO. AND I CAN SEE WHEN I CAN SEE THE VALLEY IS GROWING. WE NEED WE NEED TO WE'RE NOT AGAINST THE. WE'RE IN FAVOR OF THE PROJECT, YOU KNOW, BUT WE NEED TO HAVE A DECISION MADE SO WE CAN MOVE ON FORWARD. THIS IS NOT A HOUSE. THIS IS OUR HOME. WE LIVE THERE, AND WE CANNOT BE JUST WORRYING ABOUT IT. WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN? YOU KNOW, I MEAN, IT'S BEEN ALREADY 11 YEARS, YOU KNOW? SO WE NEED TO KNOW WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN AND QUICK. BASICALLY, THAT'S WHAT I THANK YOU. THANK YOU, MR. BILL. AND MAYBE, JUST FOR CONTEXT, I SHOULD HAVE DONE THIS COUNCIL AND MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC. THIS STATE HIGHWAY 68, FOR BACKGROUND, THIS IS A NEW ROADWAY BEING PROPOSED BY TXDOT THAT CONNECTS THE INTERNATIONAL PORTS OF ENTRY IN THE SOUTH THROUGH DONNA AND THEN A NEW ROADWAY BEING BUILT TO NORTH OF OUR CITY. IT STARTED. YOU'RE RIGHT. 11 YEARS AGO. AND THE CONNECTION HAS ALWAYS WAS GOING TO BE ON 490 AND THEN RECENTLY GOT IT GOT CHANGED TO BYPASS OUR AIRPORT. AND SO THAT'S WHAT THIS PROJECT IS FOR. YOU HAD A COMMENT? I GUESS I'M SPEAKING FOR SOME OF THE THE PEOPLE THAT HAVE PASSED AWAY SINCE THIS LOOP THAT STARTED AND THEN IT WAS A TOLL ROAD. I'VE BEEN TO MOST OF ALL THE TEX-DOT MEETINGS, SCHOOL BOARDS AT THE SCHOOLS AND STUFF, AND NOW I THINK IT'S BACK TO BEING A LOOP. I DON'T KNOW, BUT OUR THING IS, THIS THING HAS ALREADY COST LIVES. MR. FIKE, I BELIEVE, HAD A STROKE BECAUSE OF THIS, BECAUSE HE FOUGHT FOR HIS HOUSE AND HIS PROPERTY IN HIS LAND. AND THERE'S ANOTHER GENTLEMAN. AND MY THING IS, AGAIN, TXDOT DOESN'T GIVE A TINKER'S DAMN ABOUT ANYBODY. I WATCHED THEM AS THESE PEOPLE BEGGED FOR THEM TO DO ANOTHER WAY. AND HERE YOU ARE COMING IN. NOT YOU, BUT THEM. AND WHY NOW? THEY'VE HAD 490 SINCE THE BEGINNING OF TIME. STARTED AT DONNA. THE BIG TRUCKS ARE GOING TO COME ACROSS. THEN YOU'RE GOING TO COME ACROSS COULDN'T GO DOWN 493 AND MAKE THAT THEY HAVE TO MAKE A NEW ONE COMING INTO EDINBURG, EDINBURGH COMING INTO 490, WHICH I CALL THE HARGILL ROAD. AND NOW, WHOOPS, AFTER ALL THIS TXDOT, YOU CAN'T GET THAT STRAIGHT EITHER. FROM THE VERY BEGINNING, THIS IS NOT SOMETHING NEW. THIS WAS FROM THE VERY BEGINNING. SO I HAVE A PROBLEM AGAIN WITH TXDOT. AND WHY ARE THEY CHANGING THIS? WHO AND WHAT? ALL OF A SUDDEN? BECAUSE THIS AGAIN SOUNDS DIRTY, SOUNDS SUSPICIOUS. AND THE PUBLIC IS WATCHING. AND WHAT WE WANT TO KNOW IS THAT AIRPORTS HAS ALWAYS BEEN THERE. IT'S NOT A SURPRISE TO ANYONE. IF IT'S SURPRISED TO TXDOT, THEN YOU NEED TO GET OUT OF THE VALLEY, BECAUSE THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WAS HERE FROM THE VERY BEGINNING. AND YOU WORRIED ABOUT DONNA. BUT HERE YOU ARE. AND HERE YOU'VE GOT OTHER PEOPLE THAT WANT TO KEEP THEIR HOMES. WE WE PAY TAXES, WE GRIPE ABOUT THE TAXES, BUT THEY'RE OUR HOMES. AND HERE AGAIN, I DON'T KNOW HOW MANY MORE LIVES THEY'RE GOING TO TAKE FOR THIS LOUSY LOOP. THANK YOU. THANK YOU MA'AM. IS THERE ANYBODY ELSE THAT WISHES TO MAKE COMMENTS ON STATE HIGHWAY 68? THIS AGENDA ITEM? I JUST LIKE TO SPEAK TO MY SISTER MYSELF. AND CAN YOU JUST STATE YOUR NAME? FOR THE RECORD? I'M SO SORRY. MY NAME IS ADRIANA VILLANUEVA. OKAY. OR ESCALADE? AND WE HAVE PROPERTY OUT THERE ON 490, WHICH IS ON THE. AND THEY, WE WE'VE GONE TO SOME MEETINGS WHERE THEY'VE INDICATED THAT THE REASON THAT THEY'RE REZONING OR THEY'RE MOVING THE, THE HIGHWAY IS BECAUSE OF THE AIRPORT. BUT IF YOU LOOK AT SAN ANTONIO, THEIR AIRPORTS, RIGHT OFF THE EXPRESSWAY. SO IT'S NOT GOING TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE WHERE THAT LOOP ENDS UP. SO YES, IT'S GOING TO CUT THROUGH OUR PROPERTY. AND SO WE'LL HAVE TWO SECTIONS OF PROPERTY TO SELL OFF, WHICH, YOU KNOW, I GUESS, BUT IF YOU ALL CAN HELP US TALK TO TXDOT, THAT WOULD BE LIKE BENEFICIAL AND HELP US IN RESOLVING THE SOLVING THE SITUATION OR COMING DOWN WITH A SOLUTION TO HELP ALL THE LANDOWNERS IN THE AREA. SO BUT I THINK THAT'S BASICALLY IT. JUST IF YOU ALL CAN HELP US OUT IN DETERMINING WHEN THEY'RE GOING TO RESOLVE IT OR JUST MAKING, YOU KNOW, ALL THE PEOPLE IN THAT AREA WHERE THEIR LIVES, YOU KNOW, EASIER. THANK YOU. BASICALLY. THAT'S IT. THANKS. THANK YOU. IS THERE ANYBODY ELSE THAT WISH TO MAKE COMMENTS ON THIS ITEM? HELLO. WE'RE HERE AGAIN, ROYAL GARCIA. SYLVIA GARCIA LET ME HAND OUT THESE. [01:25:01] I FORGOT TO HAND THEM OUT. AFTER OUR CONVERSATION. THANK YOU. MA'AM. LIKE IT SAYS THERE, WE MOVED THERE IN 2022. WE BOUGHT THIS PROPERTY BECAUSE 21. I'M SORRY. BECAUSE WE WANTED TO LIVE IN A BIGGER AREA WHERE THERE'S A BUNCH OF RANCH COMMUNITIES AROUND THERE. SO IN THE BEGINNING WE BOUGHT IT. REALTOR TITLE COMPANY COUNTY, WHERE WE GOT PERMITS. NOBODY MENTIONED NOTHING ABOUT A HIGHWAY UNTIL WE FINALLY MOVED THERE. OUR NEIGHBOR JOE MENTIONED, HEY, YOU KNOW, THERE'S GOING TO BE A HIGHWAY THROUGH THERE. I WAS LIKE, OH, MAN. NOBODY TOLD US THAT. BUT. ALL RIGHT, WELL, WHAT CAN WE DO? WE'RE ALREADY HERE. WE ALREADY BOUGHT IT. SO TO AVOID ANY ISSUES WITH TEXAS DOT AND EVERYBODY, WE DECIDED TO GO WAY BACK OVER THERE. SO WE THE FIRST PROPOSAL THAT WAS IN THE FIRST 90 EXTENDING FOR 90. SO OKAY, I MEAN WE'RE ALREADY HERE. WE LIKE THE AREA. IT'S A NICE AREA. GOOD NEIGHBORS. SO WE DECIDED LET'S JUST MOVE BACK 1800 FEET. WE'LL WILL BE FAR AWAY FROM THE HIGHWAY. AVOID ANY PROBLEMS. SO ABOUT A WEEK OR TWO LATER, AFTER COMPLETING OUR OUR BARNDOMINIUM, WE GET A LETTER. IT'S LIKE, OH YEAH, WE TALKED ABOUT IT SINCE 2018. I WAS LIKE, WELL, YOU DIDN'T TELL THE PEOPLE. YOU DIDN'T TELL THE CITY. HOW ARE WE SUPPOSED TO KNOW? AND THEY SEND ME THE PICTURE RIGHT ON TOP OF THE BARN. I WAS LIKE, YOU GOT TO BE KIDDING ME. IT TOOK A LOT OF WORK. BORN RIGHT HERE IN THE MIDDLE, SIR. YES, SIR. SOME. THIS ONE RIGHT HERE, WHERE IT SAYS BARNDOMINIUM. THERE'S A LITTLE BLACK ARROW. SO IT GOES RIGHT THROUGH IT. YEAH. AND FOR US, IT SINCE 2016 HASN'T BEEN A PRETTY JOYFUL RIDE BECAUSE OF MY ACCIDENT. BEEN GOING BACK AND FORTH. SURGERIES, THERAPIES. SO WE'RE FINALLY AT A POINT WHERE WE'RE SETTLING IN, HAVING OUR BARNDOMINIUM GETTING OUR FUTURE RANCH FIXED UP AND THEY COME AND SPLIT IT UP. MAKES IT HARDER ON ME AND HER TO HAVING TWO PROPERTIES AND STARTING TO DO THE BARNDOMINIUM AGAIN. AND IT'S BEEN A LOT OF LOT OF WORK TO KEEP IT THE WAY WE ARE, MAKING IT NICER. SO AND ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE'VE HAD SOME MEETINGS WITH TEXAS DOT, THEY HAVEN'T BEEN CLEARED WITH US. THEY'RE LIKE, OH, WE'LL LET YOU KNOW. WE'LL LET YOU KNOW. BUT GOING BACK, THEY'RE HOLDING US BACK FROM GOING FORWARD. WE'RE ON STANDBY. WE JUST WANT TO SEE IF YOU CAN. GUYS CAN HELP US GET A STRAIGHT ANSWER WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN. OR AND IT'S LIKE WE TELL TEXAS DOT, IT'S LIKE THEY COME BACK AND TELL US, WELL, WE'LL BUILD THE BARN AGAIN. WELL, THEY WON'T BUILD IT. THEY'LL PAY IT. AND WE'RE GOING TO HAVE TO DO THE WORK AGAIN. AND THEN IF THAT'S NOT GOING TO HAPPEN EITHER THIS YEAR OR NEXT YEAR, WE'RE GOING TO HAVE TO PUT MONEY IN OUR POCKET TO BUILD ANOTHER HOUSE SO WE WON'T BE IN AN APARTMENT. THAT'S OUR HOME. IT'S NOT JUST THE RANCH. AND IT'S VERY HARD TO JUST BE ON STANDBY. OUR KIDS ARE SMALL. WE WANT TO BUILD A HOME FOR THEM, FOR. WE WANT TO START MOVING BACK AND FORTH. THEY'VE HAD A ROUGH JOURNEY AS WELL BECAUSE OF MY ACCIDENT. SO WE JUST WANT TO JUST STAY THERE. WE'RE AGAINST THE NEW PROPOSAL. WE WANT THE PREVIOUS PROPOSAL WHERE WE AGREED ON, AND TRY TO SEE IF WE CAN GET AN ANSWER FAST, AND ALL OUR NEIGHBORS SURROUNDING US ARE AGAINST IT AS WELL. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. IS THERE ANYONE ELSE WISH TO COMMENT ON STATE HIGHWAY 68? IF NOT, I'LL OPEN IT UP TO COUNCIL. I'LL MAKE A MOTION TO TABLE. SECOND, WE HAVE MOTION AND A SECOND TO TABLE. I JUST HAD A QUESTION. I KNOW WHEN WE TABLE IT, WE TELL STAFF WHAT WE'RE BRINGING IT BACK. DO WE NEED SOME MORE INFORMATION OR WHAT? WHAT DO WE NEED TO TABLE? WELL, I THINK I WOULD LIKE TO GET A LITTLE BIT MORE FACTUAL INFORMATION IF WE GET WITH TEXDOT. I THINK A LOT OF IT RIGHT NOW, IT'S A HEARSAY OR HYPOTHETICAL SITUATION. THEY'RE SAYING THAT THEY'RE EITHER GOING TO PUT A SIGN OR THEY'RE NOT GOING TO. WE DON'T HAVE DIRECT ANSWERS. SO WHAT WE HAVE AND I THINK DISCUSSION I'D LIKE TO DISCUSS IT MORE. YEAH. WE'RE DISCUSSING WE'RE DISCUSSING THE TABLE. TABLE. YOU DISCUSS THE TABLE. WE'RE STILL IN DISCUSSION ABOUT. ALL RIGHT. LET ME GO TO LEGAL COUNSEL. SORRY. GO AHEAD. THERE'S A FIRST. I WITHDRAW MY MOTION. [01:30:01] I JUST THINK THE PUBLIC NEEDS TO KNOW WHY WE PUT IT ON THERE. AND I'M THE ONE THAT PUT IT ON. OKAY. DO YOU MIND WITHDRAWING YOUR. I'LL MAKE A MOTION TO WITHDRAW MY MOTION BEFORE WE CAN DISCUSS. RIGHT. OKAY, SO THE TABLE, THE MOTION TO WITHDRAW HAS BEEN MADE. JUST DISCUSS DISCUSSED THE MOTION. THE MOTION WAS GO AHEAD, GO AHEAD. SIR. SORRY. LOOK, I PUT THIS THING BACK ON THE TABLE, AND THIS IS WHY WE. WE WENT TO A MEETING, AND WE WERE INFORMED BY TEX DOT PETE ALVAREZ TO HELP ME OUT WITH THE NAME. THAT'S RIGHT. GUY INFORMED US. WHAT? WHAT? HE THOUGHT WE WERE ALSO INFORMED BY THE MAYOR. BECAUSE THE MAYOR HAS BEEN INVOLVED IN THIS SINCE. I THINK HE SAID 2013, SOMETHING LIKE THAT, 2014, SOMETHING I MIGHT BE WRONG ON THOSE DATES. AND THEY WERE IN CONFLICT WITH EACH OTHER. AND FROM WHAT WE UNDERSTOOD AT THE TIME WAS THAT 490 WOULD END UP BEING A 490, AN EXPRESSWAY. THE WAY I UNDERSTOOD IT ANYWAYS WAS GOING TO HAVE EASY ACCESS, BUT THERE MIGHT BE AN ISSUE WITH PLANES. SO WE GOT BACK TO THAT. AND I'M TELLING YOU RIGHT NOW, TERRY CANALES ASKED ME TO MEET WITH HIM. I MET WITH TERRY CANALES AND HE BROUGHT UP OTHER ISSUES THAT WE'RE GOING TO HAVE, WHICH IS INCLUDING AIRPLANES LANDING AT OUR AIRPORT. OUR FUTURE WITH THE EDINBURGH AIRPORT IS MORE THAN LIKELY. AND I THINK THE MAYOR CAN CONTEST THAT HIS IS CARGO. I DON'T MEAN CARGO. ON LITTLE CESSNAS IS CARGO CARGOES ON TO FEED FEDEX AND THE OTHER BUSINESSES. WE HOPE TO COME UP TO THE THE NORTH SIDE OF EDINBURG, UP IN THOSE AREAS WHICH THOSE AREN'T THE SMALLER PLANES. AS OF RIGHT NOW, AFTER TALKING TO AIRPORT DIRECTOR WE ARE INCAPABLE OF EVEN LANDING THOSE PLANES. BECAUSE OF THE. OUR CONCRETE RUNWAYS AREN'T STABLE FOR THEM. BUT IF THAT'S WHAT WE WANT TO DO WE NEED TO GET IT ADDRESSED. WE NEED TO HAVE THAT ADDRESSED. WE NEED TO HAVE ADDRESSED THE ISSUE OF HOW HIGH WILL WE BE ABLE TO GO IF WE MAKE 490 INTO AN OVERPASS? THEN THERE WAS TALK ABOUT 490 BECOMING 490 BEING AN OVERPASS AND THEN 281 BEING A UNDERPASS. THE ISSUE WITH THAT IN THE LAW ENFORCEMENT SIDE IS GENERALLY WHEN WE HAVE FREEZES, THE EXPRESSWAY CLOSES AND YOU TRY YOUR ANCILLARY ROLE, WHICH NOW WOULD BE CONSIDERED 490 WOULD STAY AS A ROAD ON THE ON THE GROUND. TOUCHING, TOUCHING SURFACE, TOUCHING SURFACE ALL THE TIME. AND WHICH WOULD BE ABLE TO STAY OPEN DURING MOST OF OUR FREEZES. AN EXAMPLE OF THAT IS CHAPIN ROAD. CHAPIN ROAD RIGHT NOW WHERE WE HAVE A FREEZE. IT'S KIND OF BUILT BACKWARDS THAN ALL THE OTHER OVERPASSES WE HAVE HERE IN THE CITY OF EDINBURGH, WHERE WE END UP WITH MAJOR ACCIDENTS ON THAT OVERPASS WHEN WE HAVE FREEZES BECAUSE WE DON'T CLOSE IT, BECAUSE THE EXPRESSWAY'S CLOSED. SO THOSE ARE THE ISSUES THAT STARTED BEING BROUGHT UP. NOW, MR. CANALES DID WHAT HE DID AND CAME UP WITH A PRESS CONFERENCE WHERE I DON'T AGREE WITH SOME. WE TOLD HIM WE WOULD COME BACK AND WE WOULD DISCUSS AS A COUNCIL, AND SO WE CAN MAKE SURE WE ALL GET THE RIGHT INFORMATION. WE'RE ALL ON THE SAME PAGE AS FAR AS WHAT'S HAPPENED SINCE THAT TIME. WELL, GO BACK TO THE AIRPLANE. SO WE WE'RE GOT TO THINK OF THE FUTURE GROWTH OF OUR AIRPORT AND WHAT WE PLAN ON DOING WITH IT. RIGHT NOW, WE COULDN'T LAND A 737 IF WE DECIDED TO BECOME A COMMUTER AIRPORT. WE CAN'T LAND A PLANE THERE, AND I'M NOT SURE BECAUSE I HAVEN'T BEEN ABLE TO GET FACTUAL INFORMATION FROM THE TEXTILE REPRESENTATIVE HERE. HE DIDN'T GIVE US ANY FACT, OR I KIND OF TAGGED OUR AIRPORT DIRECTOR. THAT SOUNDS LIKE WE CAN GET ABOUT 26FT ABOVE THE EXISTING. AND THESE ARE GUESSTIMATES. I'M NOT TRYING TO HOLD YOU TO IT. IT SOUNDS LIKE WE GET ABOUT 26FT ABOVE WHAT WE ARE, AND THAT'S NOT GOING TO CUT IT IF WE TRY TO DO THE FUTURE GROWTH. I'M JUST IN FAVOR OF THE OF WE NEED TO SIT DOWN AND FIGURE OUT WHAT'S THE FACTS AND WHAT'S GOING ON. WHAT'S THE BEST FOR OUR COMMUNITY? OUR COMMUNITY INCLUDES THE LANDOWNERS IN IT. IT'S CONTINUED STAKEHOLDERS, FUTURE STAKEHOLDERS, EVERYBODY INVOLVED. WE'VE GOT TO FIGURE OUT WHAT'S GOOD. THE GOOD THING THAT CAME ABOUT THIS IS A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW TERRY CANALES WROTE A LETTER ABOUT THIS. SENATOR HINOJOSA WROTE US A LETTER ABOUT THIS. WE ALSO GOT ONE FROM THE FOR MR. WILLIAMS, WHICH IS EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF TEXDOT. THIS IS PROBABLY THE BEST LETTER BECAUSE THIS ONE TALKS ABOUT WE ALL NEED TO GET TOGETHER SO WE CAN ALL GET ON THE SAME PAGE AND GET THIS FIGURED OUT, WHICH WITHOUT EVERYTHING ELSE. WE FIRST STARTED THIS AS AN EXECUTIVE SESSION ITEM, SO, HEY, LET'S ALL GET TOGETHER. I ONLY SPEAK FOR MYSELF. I STARTED THIS AS AN EXECUTIVE SESSION ITEM THAT WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT THIS SO WE CAN GET THIS ON THE RIGHT PAGE. ALL OF US GET TOGETHER. AND THEN IT BLEW OUT TO THE PUBLIC. AND AT THAT POINT ON, I TOLD MY CITY MANAGER, THIS HAS TO COME OUT INTO THE PUBLIC, BECAUSE IF NOT, IT'S GOING TO SOUND LIKE WE'RE TRYING TO HIDE SOMETHING, AND THERE'S NOTHING TRYING TO BE HID HERE BY ANY ONE OF US, I BELIEVE. BUT WE DO HAVE MIXED FEELINGS ON WHAT HAPPENING UP THERE, AND I THINK WE HAVE MIXED FACTS. HOPEFULLY THIS IS A LETTER BY MR. WILLIAMS, WHO'S I BELIEVE MAYOR'S IN COMMUNICATION WITH HIM. [01:35:02] I'M NOT SURE, MAYOR. I MIGHT BE SPEAKING FOR YOU, BUT WITH THE SENATOR AND THE AND THE STATE REP AND THE TAX PEOPLE AND US TO SIT DOWN, AND WE CAN FIGURE OUT WHAT'S FACT INSTEAD OF WHAT WE THINK AND WHAT THEY THINK AND EVERYBODY ELSE THINKS. AND THAT'S WHERE I'M AT WITH THEM HERE. I DON'T HAVE A I DON'T I DON'T PLAN ON TRYING TO MAKE ANY ACTION ON THIS TONIGHT. I REALLY JUST WANTED TO GET THIS OUT TO THE PUBLIC TO UNDERSTAND THIS COUNCIL RIGHT HERE IS DOING OUR BEST TO KEEP YOU INFORMED THE BEST THAT WE CAN. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. THESE PEOPLE THAT CAME AND SPOKE ABOUT YOUR LAND. IT'S IT'S HEARTENING, BUT WE NEED TO SIT DOWN AS A AS A AS A FACT FINDING MISSION TO FIND OUT WHAT IS THE BEST THING FOR THE CITY OF EDINBURGH. AND YOU'RE PART OF IT. SO IT'S NOT LIKE YOU'RE NOT PART OF IT. YOU GOT TO BE THOUGHT UP INTO THE EQUATION OF THE WHOLE THING. AND THAT'S AND THAT'S MY SOAPBOX. MAYOR. THANK YOU. WE JUST NEED TO SIT DOWN AND WE'RE GETTING INFORMATION FROM DIFFERENT PEOPLE. SO WE'RE JUST TRYING TO GET IT ON PAPER, GET OUR FACTS STRAIGHT, SEE EXACTLY WHAT WHAT IS ACTUALLY THE TRUTH AND WHAT IS NOT. BECAUSE LIKE I SAID, WE'VE BEEN TOLD DIFFERENT THINGS. ORIGINALLY THE PLAN WAS AT 490 AND THAT WAS ALWAYS THE PLAN. AND WE GOT IN LIGHT OF NEW INFORMATION, WE HAD TO CHANGE THINGS. SO. SO WE'RE RIGHT NOW WE'RE JUST TRYING TO GO BACK TO THE DRAWING BOARDS LIKE COUNCIL MEMBER WHITE SAID THAT WE'RE JUST TRYING TO DISCUSS IT, BRING EVERYONE TO THE TABLE AND SEE WHAT'S THE BEST OPTION TO FOR THE TRUCK DRIVERS. END OF THE DAY, WE WANT TO KEEP THE TRUCK DRIVERS GOING DIFFERENT ROUTES FOR NOT ONLY FOR TRAFFIC CONCERNS. I KNOW THERE'S A LOT OF TRAFFIC CONCERNS AS OF LATE, BUT IT KEEPS IT SAFER, YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN? THERE'S DIFFERENT ROUTES FOR TRUCK DRIVERS TO GO. SO THAT'S ALSO A CONCERN FOR THE FUTURE OF A REGION OF THE RIO GRANDE VALLEY, NOT JUST EDINBURG, BUT THE RIO GRANDE VALLEY. WHAT'S GOING TO BE BENEFICIAL LONG TERM FOR THE NEXT TEN TO 20 OR 30 YEARS? BECAUSE WE NEED A PLAN FOR THAT GROWTH. THE GROWTH IS HAPPENING, THE GROWTH IS HERE, AND WE NEED A PLAN FOR THAT ACCORDINGLY FOR OUR KIDS. KIDS. YEAH. AND MY COMMENT IS THAT I WANT TO THANK THE RESIDENTS THAT SHOWED UP. I'M NOT IN FAVOR OF ANY REALIGNMENT. THIS ACCESS TO 490 HAS BEEN IN PLACE SINCE 2013. 13. EVERYBODY'S ALWAYS KNOWN THAT THE, THE THE OBJECTIVE WAS TO DECLUTTER THE TRAFFIC FROM THE BORDER. HAVE A ROUTE NORTH TO I-69. AND THAT'S WHERE SH 68 CAME INTO PLAY. AND AT THE SAME TIME, CAPITALIZE ON TRAFFIC THAT MIGHT EXPAND OUR AIRPORT. FROM AN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT STANDPOINT, THAT WOULD GENERATE AN EXPLOSION OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT THERE, NOT ONLY THERE, BUT WE ALWAYS SPEAK ABOUT EMPOWERING THE EAST SIDE, EMPOWERING NORTH OF EDINBURG FROM MONTE CRISTO AND KLAUSSNER ALL THE WAY TO THE AIRPORT, WHICH JUST ALSO EXPERIENCED SUCH GROWTH. AND ALL THE STUDIES EPA, FAA FLIGHT PATHS. IF YOU DON'T THINK THEY'VE DONE IT IN A DECADE WITHIN THE PAST YEAR, ALL OF A SUDDEN IT CHANGED THAT. THERE'S ISSUES. THERE'S BEEN A LOT OF NUMBERS THROWN AROUND. TRAFFIC LIGHT WAS NEVER PART OF THE DISCUSSION THAT JUST CAME TO PLAY IN THE LAST FEW WEEKS. FLIGHT PATHS WAS WAS DISCUSSED IN THE PAST. I DON'T KNOW IF THERE'S. IS THERE ANY ACTUAL FAA DOCUMENTATION? THAT'S TURNED INTO THE TO THE DIRECTOR AS FAR AS AN FAA ISSUE FOR HEIGHT. JUST A YES OR NO IS NO. NO. CORRECT. AND AND RESEARCHING AND ASKING QUESTIONS. TEXDOT HAS ASSURED THAT THEY WILL WORK WITH THE CITY TO HAVE THE BEST POSSIBLE OUTCOME AND MAKE SURE THAT WHATEVER HAPPENS THERE IS GOOD FOR THE NEXT 50 YEARS. COUNCILMAN DELEON WAS SPEAKING ABOUT THE FUTURE THERE, ASSURING THAT IF WE MAINTAIN THAT ORIGINAL ALIGNMENT, THEY WILL MAKE SURE THAT IT WILL BE GOOD FOR AT LEAST 50 YEARS. A LOT OF NUMBERS HAVE BEEN THROWN AROUND. ONE OF THE SUGGESTIONS I DON'T WANT TO TAKE CREDIT FOR THIS, BUT IT WAS A GREAT SUGGESTION. INSTEAD OF SPEAKING ABOUT SPENDING ANOTHER 100 MILLION GOING NORTH. WHY DON'T WE USE THAT MONEY TO FIX OUR AIRPORT? EXPAND THE RUNWAY SO WE CAN SPEED UP THE CARGO, SPEED UP EVERYTHING. WE HAVE THEIR BORDER SECURITY. WE HAVE ALL KINDS OF OPERATIONS THERE. I'D MUCH RATHER THAT MONEY BE USED THERE AND SPUR THE ECONOMIC GROWTH BETWEEN EDINBURGH AND ALL THE WAY UP TO THE AIRPORT. BUT I AM I AM IN FAVOR TO SIT DOWN AGAIN AND MAKE SURE THAT WE GET ALL THE QUESTIONS ANSWERED. NO ONE IS IS TRYING TO STAGGER TRAFFIC OR CREATE AN ISSUE. WE'RE HERE TO TO DO WHAT'S BEST. I WAS ELECTED TO REPRESENT THE CITY AND THE RESIDENTS. AND I THINK IT'S BEST IF WE MAINTAIN THAT ALIGNMENT. AND THAT'S. THAT'S THE WAY I FEEL. ALL RIGHT. ANYBODY ELSE? JUST TO KIND OF JUST FOLLOW UP WITH EVERYBODY ELSE, IT'S OUR DUTY TO THE PUBLIC AND FOR THE CITY ITSELF TO DO OUR DUE DILIGENCE BEFORE WE MAKE A DECISION AND WITHOUT HAVING THE ACTUAL FACTS. AND WE KEEP ASKING, JUST LIKE EVERYBODY ELSE SAID HERE, I WOULD LIKE TO HAVE A DISCUSSION WITH TEXDOT, WITH OUR LEADERSHIP TO THE STATE LEVEL AND WITH ALSO OUR SENATOR, AND PLUS POSSIBLY EVEN SOME OF THE OTHER STAKEHOLDERS IN THE REGION, BECAUSE IT'S GOING TO AFFECT EVERYBODY. SO I WOULD JUST SAY THAT WE JUST KIND OF WAIT AND SEE. WE COULD PUT A MEETING TOGETHER FOR FOR US TO BE ABLE TO GET ALL OUR ANSWERS THAT WE'RE [01:40:04] ASKING. MAYOR, REAL QUICK. YES, SIR. IF WE END UP DOING THIS IN A WORK SESSION, CAN WE MAKE SURE THAT THE RESIDENTS WHO SPOKE HERE GET A GET A LETTER OR A TEXT OR SOMETHING, LET THEM KNOW TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY'RE HERE WHEN WHEN TEXDOT. SO WE'RE ALL HERE. HOPEFULLY WE'LL DO THIS IN THE WORKSHOP. SO WE ALL BE THERE AND NOT JUST A PORTION. WE CAN DO THAT. YES, SIR. THAT WAY THEY DON'T FEEL LOST IN THIS. YES. AND THEY DO REACH OUT TO ME. THEY'VE THEY'VE BEEN IN COMMUNICATION WITH ME. THEY REACHED OUT, WHICH IS HOW THEY KNOW ABOUT THIS MEETING AS WELL. SO WE DO MAINTAIN COMMUNICATION WITH THE LANDOWNERS. YEAH. I'LL TELL YOU RIGHT NOW, MY FEELING ON THE THING IS I'M INDIFFERENT. I FIRST I WAS WITH IT, AND THEN I WAS LIKE, WELL, WAIT A MINUTE, WHAT'S GOING ON OVER HERE? WHAT'S THE OTHER STUFF THAT'S GOING ON? SO MY WHOLE THING HERE IS BE OPEN MINDED. SO I'M NOT EITHER WAY AT THIS MOMENT MYSELF, BUT I HAVE TO LISTEN TO WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN. AND AND THE AIRPORT HAS A LOT TO DO WITH IT. WHAT IS IT? A LOT OF WE GOT TO COME DOWN TO IS THE CITY. AND MYRA, MAYBE YOU CAN COME AND ADDRESS THAT WITH US TOO, IS WHAT'S OUR FUTURE PLAN FOR THE AIRPORT IF WE'RE GOING TO BE A SMALL CARGO PLANE WHERE CESSNA'S CAN COME IN AND WE CAN DO PRETTY MUCH WHATEVER WE WANT. IF OUR FUTURE IS IN THE NEXT 40, 50 YEARS, WHICH PROBABLY WON'T BE AROUND FOR IS THAT WE'RE GOING TO HAVE 757 FROM FROM FEDEX AND UPS LANDING AT OUR AIRPORT. AND THAT'S WHERE THE FUTURE OF IT IS. WE'VE GOT TO MAKE SURE THAT'S TAKEN INTO ADDRESS THE THE BIGGEST PORTION OF THE DECISION WE MAKE. SO I DON'T KNOW HOW LONG IT WOULD TAKE BECAUSE WE ALREADY GOT THE FEDEX FACILITY UP THERE. SO OBVIOUSLY WE'RE TRYING TO CATER TO TO GET THAT PART OF OUR AIRPORT. CORRECT. AND I WILL SAY FROM FROM AN EDC STANDPOINT, WE'VE BEEN PROMOTING THIS SH 68 EVER SINCE ITS INCEPTION. THE ALL THE PLANS JUST RECENTLY WENT TO A BIG COMMERCE TRADE CONVENTION IN MEXICO. AND WE WERE SHOWING THEM THE ALIGNMENT. IT SPURRED IT, SPURRING SO MUCH INTEREST OF BRINGING LARGE COMPANIES TO NORTH EDINBURGH BECAUSE OF ALL THIS. I HAVE TO I HAVE TO SAY AND PLEASE CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG. WE DID NOT KNOW ABOUT THIS ALIGNMENT. THE RESIDENTS SHOWED UP AT CITY HALL AND LET US KNOW THIS WAS HAPPENING. THE CITY OF EDINBURGH WAS NEVER INCLUDED IN ANY ALIGNMENT. IF IT WASN'T FOR THOSE RESIDENTS, WE WOULD NEVER HAVE KNOWN. AND THAT'S WHEN WE FOUND OUT, IS WHEN WE STARTED LOOKING INTO IT AND REALIZED THAT THIS WAS HAPPENING. THE LOCAL OFFICE NEVER INCLUDED THE CITY. WE WERE NEVER IN DISCUSSION OR INVOLVED IN THE POSSIBLE CHANGING OF THE ROUTE UNTIL ABOUT A YEAR AGO, I SHOULD SAY. THAT IS CORRECT 2023. THANK YOU. IT'S MY UNDERSTANDING. MAYOR PRO TEM AS WELL AS COUNCIL. I THINK THE EDINBURG ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION IS ALSO VERY INVESTED IN OUR AIRPORT. AND THEY MAY HAVE, EVEN IF THEY HAVEN'T ALREADY CONCLUDED A MASTER PLAN YOU KNOW, THAT THEY'VE BEEN LOOKING INTO AS WELL, BUT I'LL BE ABLE TO PROVIDE THAT TO COUNCIL AND MAYBE WE CAN ELABORATE AND EXPAND ON IT. LIKE COUNCIL MEMBER WHITE WAS MENTIONING THAT WE, WE DO NEED TO SEE WHAT IS THE FUTURE OF OUR AIRPORT AND HOW WOULD WE LIKE TO SEE IT GROW, WHETHER IT'S CHANGES IN OUR RUNWAY AS, AS YOU MENTIONED. BUT I THINK THOSE DISCUSSIONS DO NEED TO BE HAD SO THAT WE CAN KNOW EXACTLY WHERE WE'RE HEADED. AND I WILL SAY, WITH THE NEW ALIGNMENT THEY HAVE AND I SAID, I'M NOT ON ONE SIDE OR ANOTHER, BUT OF THE ECONOMIC GROWTH OF HAVING MORE FRONTAGE PROPERTY IS HUGE. A LOT OF THESE OWNERS DON'T REALIZE JUST HOW MUCH MORE VALUABLE THEIR LAND IS GOING TO BE BY OWNING FRONTAGE PROPERTY. SO IF THEY GOT THEIR LAND AT PENNIES ON THE DOLLAR, IT'S GOING TO BE WORTH A LOT MORE. SO THERE'S THERE'S ALSO SOME BENEFITS OUT OF IT TOO FOR THE PROPERTY OWNERS. WITHOUT THEM EVEN REALIZING IT, THEY GET FRONTAGE PROPERTY WHERE THE GROWTH IS GOING NORTH TWO SIDES. CORRECT. AND ALONG THOSE LINES, I THINK WE ALSO NEED TO DO AN ECONOMIC IMPACT STUDY OF CURRENT OR THE PROPOSED ALIGNMENT FOR THE PAST DECADE, AND HOW THAT WOULD CHANGE THE DYNAMIC IF IT WAS MOVED TWO MILES NORTH. I THINK WE KNOW HOW HOW THAT WOULD AFFECT THE CITY OF EDINBURG AND THE LOSS OF REVENUE THAT WE MIGHT SUSTAIN OR THE POTENTIAL REVENUE. AND I WOULD JUST LIKE TO SAY, I'M SURE OUR MAYOR AND OUR COUNCIL, WE'RE HERE TO WANT TO ASSURE YOU GUYS THAT WE'RE HERE FOR THE RESIDENTS, AND WE'RE GOING TO TRY TO GET THIS ISSUE RESOLVED IN A TIMELY MANNER AND STOP LIVING IN A STANDBY MODE. THESE ARE THINGS THAT NEED TO COME OUT AND HAVE ANSWERS FOR SO THAT WE CAN STAND FOR YOU GUYS AND ADVOCATE FOR Y'ALL. ANYBODY ELSE? ALL RIGHT. I JUST WANTED TO MAKE SOME COMMENTS ON THIS. I'M COMPLETELY OPPOSED TO THE NEW ALIGNMENT. LET ME JUST STATE THAT I'M IN FAVOR OF THE ORIGINAL ALIGNMENT. THIS COUNCIL, JUST FOR FACTS, HAS ALREADY VOTED ON THIS. WE ALREADY VOTED SINCE 2013. THE PREVIOUS CITY COUNCIL VOTED SO THAT THIS ALIGNMENT GOES ON FOR 90. ALL THESE YEARS IT'S BEEN ON FOR 90 ALL THESE YEARS. AND AS MAYOR PRO TEM DIAZ MENTIONED, THE ONLY REASON WE FOUND OUT ABOUT THIS, BECAUSE RESIDENTS CAME TO US AND TOLD US THAT THEY WERE GETTING LETTERS FROM TXDOT THAT [01:45:03] THEIR PROPERTY WAS BEING BYPASSED. THAT'S THE ONLY REASON WE FOUND OUT ABOUT IT. AND SO THIS COUNCIL, CITY MANAGER'S BEEN KEEPING US UP TO BREAST SINCE, I THINK THIS HAPPENED AUGUST OF 2023, WHICH IS WHEN THIS HAPPENED. AND WE COUNCIL WAS ADVISED ABOUT THAT. WE LOOKED AT THAT. WE ALL AGREED THAT WE SHOULD STAY WITH THE, THE SAME ALIGNMENT. SO THIS HAS BEEN A WORK IN PROGRESS. THIS IS NOT ANYTHING NEW. IT'S BEEN THIS PROJECT HAS BEEN IN THE WORKS FOR A LONG TIME. AND IT'S AS OF LATE AGAIN LAST YEAR THAT WE WERE MADE AWARE OF THIS ALIGNMENT CHANGE. OBVIOUSLY, THIS WOULD BE DETRIMENTAL TO OUR AIRPORT. THE WHOLE REASON FOR THIS STATE HIGHWAY 68 TO CONNECT THE 490, AT LEAST FROM THE CITY OF EDINBURG STANDPOINT, AND I'LL SAY OTHER CITIES WAS SO THAT OUR REGION COULD BENEFIT. NOW YOU HAVE THE INTERNATIONAL PORTS OF ENTRY, THE LAND PORTS OF ENTRY THAT TIE INTO OUR AIRPORT. NOW YOU HAVE ANOTHER MODE OF TRANSPORTATION FOR, YOU KNOW, OPPORTUNITIES FOR BUSINESSES, WHETHER IT'S MANUFACTURING, WHETHER IT'S PRODUCE. OUR AIRPORT WILL BE ABLE TO BENEFIT FROM THAT. BUT BY BYPASSING AIRPORT, THE WAY TEX-DOT SHIFTED THE ALIGNMENT OBVIOUSLY THAT'S GOING TO IMPACT THAT. NOW, TO BE FAIR, THE REASON WE FOUND OUT ABOUT IT LAST YEAR WITH THE LOCAL OFFICE OF TXDOT TOLD US WAS THAT THE THEY WERE PLANNING TO BUILD BRIDGES RIGHT AT THE INTERSECTION OF 480 AND AND 281 TO CONNECT STATE HIGHWAY 68. SO THAT ACTUALLY IS WHAT GOT THEM TO START LOOKING AT, SHIFTING THE ALIGNMENT. SO THAT'S THE REASON THEY SHIFTED IT. PROBLEM I HAVE IS THEY SHOULD HAVE TOLD US RIGHT THERE AND THEN, BUT NONETHELESS, THAT'S WHY THEY HAVE SHIFTED AND CAME UP WITH THIS NEW ALIGNMENT. WE RIGHT AWAY STARTED MEETING WITH TEXDOT. SENT THEM A LETTER THAT WE'RE OPPOSING THIS AND ASKED THEM COME UP WITH ALTERNATIVES, COME UP WITH OPTIONS, JUST LIKE WE WERE TALKING ABOUT THE TRAFFIC SIGNAL. AND THEY ASSURED US THEY WOULD COME UP WITH OPTIONS. BUT UNFORTUNATELY, THE LOCAL DISTRICT OFFICE, THE ONLY OPTION THEY WERE COMING UP WITH WAS TO BYPASS OUR AIRPORT. NONE OF THEM WERE TO MAKE CHANGES TO FORTNITE. NONE OF THEM WERE TO LOOK TO SEE HOW THEY CAN MAKE THAT INTERCHANGE WORK. AND SO MUCH SO THAT I THINK THE LAST PRESENTATION MADE BY TXDOT TO THE COUNCIL WAS ON AUGUST 20TH. I THINK THAT'S WHEN THE THE LOCAL DISTRICT ENGINEER CAME BEFORE US. AND HE PRESENTED ALL THOSE OPTIONS. AND AT THAT MEETING, THOSE OF YOU THAT WERE HERE, I ASKED THEM, IS THERE ANY OTHER OPTIONS? I'M LIKE, THERE'S THERE'S BEEN OTHER CHALLENGES AROUND THE COUNTRY THAT ENGINEERS HAVE FIGURED OUT. HOW DO WE TIE THIS OR HOW DO WE DO THIS? CAN WE LOOK FOR OTHER OPTIONS? AND SO A COUPLE OF WEEKS AFTER THAT, THE DISTRICT ENGINEER MENTIONED TO ME THAT TEXTILE WAS GOING TO STAY WITHOUT ORIGINAL ALIGNMENT. THAT WAS EARLY SEPTEMBER. AND SO I ASKED, WHAT DO YOU NEED FROM US? HE SAID, WELL, JUST SEND US A LETTER THAT YOU WANT TO STAY WITH THAT ORIGINAL ALIGNMENT. AND WE DID THAT. SO YOU KNOW, COUNCIL, THE ONLY THING I'LL ASK IS ANY INFORMATION. ALL THOSE ARE FACTS. I MEAN, CITY MANAGER HAS ALL THAT INFORMATION. FROM MY UNDERSTANDING, CITY MANAGER'S BEEN PROVIDING ALL OF COUNCIL ALL THIS INFORMATION. IS THAT CORRECT? YES, SIR. SO IS THERE IF THERE'S SOMETHING COUNCIL THAT YOU NEED TO KNOW, THERE'S SOME NEW INFORMATION THAT'S BEEN BROUGHT UP RECENTLY, RIGHT, ABOUT A STOPLIGHT THAT HAS NEVER COME UP IN ALL THESE TEN YEARS. NEVER HAVE WE BEEN TOLD THERE'S GOING TO BE A TRAFFIC LIGHT THERE. THAT HAS NEVER COME UP. AND SO WHEN I TALKED TO THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF TEXTILE, MARK WILLIAMS, AND CITY MANAGER WAS PRESENT, I ASKED, CAN WE DO THIS? CAN WE MAKE THIS HAPPEN AT THE A490? AND HE SAID, WE'RE GOING TO EXPLORE OPTIONS ON HOW TO MAKE THIS WORK. THAT'S WHAT WE'RE TOLD. NOW, COUNCIL, I AGREE WE NEED TO KNOW WHAT WHAT DO THOSE DESIGNS LOOK LIKE, RIGHT? I'M NOT SURE WHAT THOSE LOOK LIKE, BUT WE'VE BEEN ASSURED, AND OUR SENATOR HAS BEEN ASSURED THAT THEY ARE GOING TO BE OPTIONS TO EXPLORE. SO I'M IN AGREEMENT. LET'S SEE HOW WE CAN WORK TOGETHER WITH TEXDOT AND SEE WHAT WE CAN COME UP WITH. BUT WE'VE GOT TO STAY WITH THIS ALIGNMENT ON FORTNITE, BECAUSE I THINK THAT'S IN OUR BEST INTEREST FOR OUR AIRPORT, FOR OUR CITY, AND I THINK OUR REGION. SO BUT AGAIN, I ASK COUNCIL, PLEASE, ANY INFORMATION YOU'D LIKE. I'M SURE CITY MANAGER CAN GET IT FROM TEXDOT. THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT. NOT ONLY FOR US, OF COURSE. THE RESIDENTS, THEY NEED TO KNOW IT'S ONLY THEIR RIGHT TO UNDERSTAND WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN. SO HOPEFULLY WE CAN COME UP WITH A SOLUTION THAT COULD WORK FOR EVERYBODY. WE KNOW THERE'S CHALLENGES ON THIS INTERSECTION BECAUSE OF THE LIKE, WE TALKED ABOUT THE OVERPASS RIGHT NOW AND THE EFFECT ON OUR AIRPORT. WE DO NOT WANT OUR AIRPORT TO BE AFFECTED WHATSOEVER. HOPEFULLY WE CAN COME UP WITH SOME OPTIONS AS THEY CONTINUE MEETING, SO. ALL RIGHT. ANYTHING ELSE? [9. PUBLIC HEARINGS] SO IF NOT, IF THERE'S BE NO ACTION ON THIS, WE'LL JUST MOVE ON ON THIS ITEM. ALL RIGHT. WE'RE GOING TO MOVE ON TO THE NEXT ITEM HERE WHICH IS PUBLIC HEARINGS. [A. Hold Public Hearing and Consider the Ordinance Providing for the Rezoning Request from Residential, Primary (RP) District to Residential, Multi-family (RM) District, a Tract of Land Containing 10.397 Acres Situated in the County of Hidalgo, Texas, Being Out of Lot 3, Section 275, Texas-Mexican Railway Company’s Survey, According to the Plat Thereof Recorded in Volume 24, Pages 168-171, Hidalgo County Deed Records, Located at 3000 West Sprague Street, as Requested by Melden and Hunt, Inc. on Behalf of K & Z Developers LTD. [Jaime Acevedo, Director of Planning & Zoning]] ITEM NINE. WE HAVE COUNCIL OR EXCUSE ME, MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC. THE WAY I HANDLE THESE, WE JUST OPEN UP ALL THESE ITEMS A, [01:50:02] B, C, AND D AT THIS TIME. SO IF YOU'RE HERE AND WISH TO MAKE ANY COMMENTS ON ANY OF THESE ITEMS YOU MAY DO SO AT THIS TIME. THE PUBLIC HEARING IS NOW OPEN. AND IF YOU COME TO THE PODIUM, JUST PLEASE STATE YOUR NAME FOR THE RECORD. YEAH. ANYBODY THAT COMES IN. HELLO. MY NAME IS REYNALDO SEPULVEDA. AS SOME OF YOU KNOW ME AND I KNOW MY WIFE SPOKE EARLIER, AND IT'S IN REFERENCE TO THE APARTMENT COMPLEX THAT'S BEING BUILT. I KNOW THERE'S GOING TO THEY'RE GOING TO BUILD HOUSES AND AND STUFF AROUND THERE. NOW, JUST TO MAKE IT CLEAR, MY WIFE DID SAY THAT WE'RE KIND OF AT THE TAIL END OF THIS, SO WE DON'T KNOW IF WE'RE A LITTLE BIT TOO LATE TO CHANGE YOUR DECISION ON NOT DOING ANYTHING ON THE PROPERTY. I KNOW A LOT OF OUR NEIGHBORS HAVE SPOKEN OUT AND THEY DON'T WANT ANYTHING BUILT THERE, BUT THERE'S REASONS WHY WE DON'T WANT THIS. AND I KNOW TRAFFIC HASN'T BEEN BROUGHT UP AND TRAFFIC IS BAD NOW. I MEAN, YOU HAVE PEOPLE DOING TURNAROUNDS ON OUR HALF SEMI SEMI CUL DE SAC THAT WE HAVE THERE IN FRONT OF OUR HOUSE. SO WE HAVE THOSE ISSUES. BUT MY BIGGEST ISSUE IS THE RESOURCES. AS WE CONTINUE TO BUILD APARTMENTS AROUND EDINBURGH, THE RESOURCES THAT ARE THE CITY, RESOURCES THAT ARE BEING USED AS YOU HAVE MORE PEOPLE MOVING INTO THESE PLACES REGULAR NEIGHBORHOODS. YOU HAVE SINGLE FAMILY, BUT AN APARTMENT COMPLEX. YOU HAVE A LOT OF PEOPLE MOVING IN, AND THEY DO EAT UP A LOT OF THE RESOURCES. AS YOU JUST HAD THE POLICE CHIEF COME UP AND SAY THAT HE COULDN'T MANNED AN INTERSECTION FOR AN EXTENDED PERIOD OF TIME BECAUSE OF THE CALL VOLUME. NOW, AS YOU BUILD MORE APARTMENT COMPLEXES, THE THE VOLUME IS JUST GOING TO INCREASE SO MUCH THAT OFFICERS WILL NOT BE ABLE TO RESPOND TO ANY TYPE OF CALLS. AND THIS I KNOW FIRSTHAND KNOWLEDGE. I KNOW MY WIFE MENTIONED EARLIER THAT I RETIRED FROM THE CITY OF EDINBURGH AS A POLICE OFFICER. SO I SPENT 30 YEARS, MOST OF OUR CALLS, AND I CAN'T EVEN GO ON THE WEBSITE TO BACK UP THE FACTS THAT THE WEBSITE FOR THE CITY THAT MOST OF THE CALLS OCCUR AROUND APARTMENT COMPLEXES. SO THIS IS ONE OF THE ISSUES AND ONE OF THE PROBLEMS THAT THAT I SEE AS AND ESPECIALLY THEIR COMING UP CLOSE TO MY NEIGHBORHOOD. I WANT THE CITY TO PROSPER. I WANT THE CITY TO GROW. I KNOW BY BUILDING APARTMENTS YOU HAVE MORE POPULATION, YOU PROBABLY HAVE MORE PEOPLE BUYING THINGS AND THE TAX BASE WILL GO UP. BUT WE ALSO HAVE TO LOOK AT THE SAFETY AND THE ISSUE THAT WE WANT TO FEEL SAFE IN EDINBURG. AND LET'S NOT FORGET THE FACT WITH THAT, THE HOME IS THE AMERICAN DREAM TO OWN A HOME. IT'S NOT TO LIVE IN AN APARTMENT. SO BY ME SAYING THAT WE NEED TO WE NEED TO LOOK INTO BUILDING NEIGHBORHOOD SUBDIVISIONS FOR FOR PEOPLE OUT THERE AND NOT CONCENTRATE SO MUCH ON APARTMENT COMPLEXES. THIS IS HOW I FEEL. ME AND MY WIFE HAD THESE DISCUSSIONS. THIS DISCUSSION ON THE APARTMENT ISSUE. SO I JUST WANTED TO LET YOU ALL KNOW THIS. THANK YOU. THANK YOU SIR. THANK YOU. ARE WE ALLOWED TO SPEAK? NO. WE'D LIKE TO LET THE PUBLIC SPEAK, AND THEN WE COULD OPEN IT UP. COUNCIL MEMBER. THAT'S OKAY. GO AHEAD. MA'AM. GO AHEAD MA'AM. HI. MY NAME IS LAURA SANCHEZ AND I'M HERE TO SPEAK ABOUT ITEM D. SO SINCE WE LAST MET TWO WEEKS AGO, I DID REACH OUT TO THE RESIDENTS. I WAS A LITTLE BIT BUSY. I SET UP A WEBSITE THAT HAD ALL THE DOCUMENTS THAT MR. VASQUEZ HAS SUBMITTED REGARDING THE COMPLEX HE WANTS TO BUILD. I ALSO SET UP A DIGITAL SURVEY FOR RESIDENTS TO GO AHEAD AND PROVIDE ME WITH THINGS THAT THEY ARE CONCERNED ABOUT REGARDING THIS CONSTRUCTION. AND I DID SEND OUT POSTCARDS TO ALL OF THE RESIDENTS WHO ARE IMPACTED IN THAT AREA. TODAY I'M HERE TO REPRESENT 32 RESIDENTS WHO REACHED OUT TO ME, WHETHER IT BE DIGITALLY, VIA MAIL, OR DIRECTLY TO MY DOORSTEP TO TALK ABOUT THIS. THOSE 32 RESIDENTS ARE NOT IN FAVOR OF THIS. I DO HAVE ALL OF MY RESPONSES ON HERE THAT I CAN PROVIDE IN AN EXCEL SPREADSHEET TO THE CITY. I DID ASK THEM, ARE YOU IN FAVOR OF LOT 64 AT THE DEAD END OF ORLANDO TO BE TURNED INTO A 27 HOME SUBDIVISION? 100% OF THE ANSWERS WERE NO. I OFFERED THE SURVEY IN SPANISH AS WELL, SINCE A LOT OF THE RESIDENTS SPEAK SPANISH. I ALSO ASKED THE NEW PROPOSED SUBDIVISION WILL HAVE THE MAIN ENTRANCE ON ROLANDO DRIVE WITH NO OTHER ACCESS ROADS. DO YOU AGREE WITH THIS? AND 100% OF THE RESPONSES WERE NO. I ALSO PROVIDED THEM WITH A PLACE TO PROVIDE ME WITH COMMENTS. [01:55:03] I'M GOING TO GO AHEAD AND SCROLL. AS YOU CAN SEE, THERE ARE QUITE A FEW COMMENTS AND CONCERNS AND THEY ALL ARE KIND OF SIMILAR. THEY'RE ALL REGARDING POTENTIAL FLOODING TO OUR AREA BASED ON A NEW SUBDIVISION BEING CREATED. PROBLEMS WITH OUR WATER LINES BASED ON A NEW SUBDIVISION. PROBLEMS. WITH TRAFFIC, BECAUSE THAT IS A VERY HIGHLY TRAFFICKED AREA ALREADY, AND WE ARE ALREADY STRAINED WITH THE RESIDENTS WE CURRENTLY HAVE THE SURVEY THAT I SENT OUT TO RESIDENTS VIA POSTCARD ALL OF THESE WERE THE POSTCARDS THAT WERE RETURNED TO ME. 100% OF THEM SAY NO, NOT IN FAVOR. IN ADDITION TO THAT, TWO RESIDENTS CAME DIRECTLY TO ME AND GAVE ME THE NOTIFICATION THAT WAS MAILED TO THEM IN OUR AREA. I HAD MENTIONED LAST TIME A LOT OF OUR RESIDENTS, 50% OF THEM ARE MORE ARE DISABLED. SOME OF THEM DON'T HAVE A WAY TO EITHER EMAIL THIS BACK OR MAIL IT BACK TO YOU. SO THESE RESIDENTS PHYSICALLY CAME TO ME AND TURNED THESE NOTICES IN. ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I WOULD LIKE TO MENTION IS I DID LOOK UP SOME OF THE CITY CODES REGARDING THIS. ONE OF THE ITEMS I'D LIKE TO POINT OUT IS WHEN BUILDING A SUBDIVISION, THERE'S AN ITEM ON HERE THAT SAYS PROVIDE FOR SAFE, EFFICIENT, AND CONVENIENT MOVEMENT OF VEHICULAR AND PEDESTRIAN TRAFFIC. THE MAJORITY OF US WHO I'M REPRESENTING BELIEVE THAT THIS IS NOT POSSIBLE UTILIZING ROLANDO DRIVE AND WITH WE ARE NOT ABLE TO SUPPORT A 27 HOME COMMUNITY IN THAT SMALL AREA. IN ADDITION, THERE IS ANOTHER THAT SAYS THAT IF IT'S FOR A MULTIFAMILY DEVELOPMENT, THEY NEED TO CREATE ADEQUATE FOR THE DELIVERY OF CITY SERVICES AND EMERGENCY RESPONSES AND SAFE AND EFFICIENT TRAFFIC CIRCULATION, CIRCULATION, WHICH WE ALSO DO NOT BELIEVE CAN BE PROVIDED VIA ROLANDO DRIVE. JUST THIS AFTERNOON, THERE WAS AN AMBULANCE PICKUP IN OUR AREA, AND I DID GET A PHOTO OF THAT. I KNOW THAT I'M VERY FAR AWAY, BUT AS YOU CAN SEE, THAT BOX AMBULANCE TAKES UP THE ENTIRE ROAD. AND THOSE ARE CARS PARKED AT RESIDENTS. THE RESIDENT THAT THIS WAS PICKING UP HAS BEEN TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL OVER FIVE TIMES, AND THESE WERE LIFE THREATENING. I'D ASK CITY COUNCIL TO STRONGLY CONSIDER THIS. I THINK THAT WE'RE PUTTING ENDANGER THE LIVES OF RESIDENTS. I DID LOOK UP SOME OF THE RESPONSE TIMES FOR THIS AREA. IT TAKES ABOUT SEVEN MINUTES FOR AN AMBULANCE TO GET TO YOU. IT TAKES ABOUT SEVEN MINUTES FOR THEM TO STABILIZE YOU, AND IT TAKES ABOUT 15 MINUTES TO GET TO THE HOSPITAL. IF YOU DON'T GET TO THE HOSPITAL WITHIN 30 MINUTES, YOUR SURVIVAL RATE DROPS BY 50%, AND EVERY MINUTE AFTER THAT, 20%. SO WE HAVE A ONE MINUTE BUFFER. I'M THINKING ABOUT THE LIVES OF THOSE PEOPLE THAT WE'RE THINKING ABOUT FOR THE 2007 HOMES AND ALL OF THE RESIDENTS THAT ARE ALONG PALM CIRCLE, ESPERANZA AND ROLANDO DRIVE WHO WILL BE IMPACTED. THAT'S ALL I HAVE. THANK YOU MA'AM. THANK YOU. THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS. DO I HAVE ANYONE ELSE THAT WISHES TO COMMENT ON ANY ITEMS A, B, C, AND D? YES, SIR. I'LL BE I'LL BE BRIEF. THIS IS IN REFERENCE TO A, B AND C THE SPRAGUE DEVELOPMENT. YES, SIR. I WASN'T GOING TO REHASH ALL OF THE POINTS THAT MY COLLEAGUES HAD ALREADY SUBMITTED, BUT I WAS GOING TO LOOK AT THIS PERHAPS A LITTLE BIT MORE COMPREHENSIVELY. AND THAT IS THE QUESTION, BECAUSE I DRIVE DOWN MCCALL ALL THE TIME. AND I'M SIMPLY ASKING THE QUESTION, WAS THERE EVER A PLAN FOR MCCALL? EXCEPT FOR BASICALLY. PUTTING UP AN APARTMENT COMPLEX OR PUTTING UP A COMMERCIAL ZONING IN EVERY PIECE OF PROPERTY THAT WE COULD? AND THE REASON I BRING THAT UP IS I DON'T WE GENERATE MORE REVENUE FROM BOTH COMMERCIAL AND MULTI-RESIDENTIAL. AND MY CONCERN IS THAT PERHAPS THAT WAS SIGNIFICANT IN MAKING THOSE DECISIONS, WHETHER IT'S ZONING OR NOT. BUT, YOU KNOW, THIS LADY JUST BROUGHT UP SOME KEY POINTS. WAS THAT EVER INCORPORATED OR ARE YOU SIMPLY RELYING ON US TO COME UP AND TELL YOU THAT THERE'S GOING TO BE TRAFFIC? BECAUSE I THINK THAT'S SERIOUS, BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, WE CAN TALK ABOUT IT ALL WE WANT, BUT OUR OUR VOICE IS QUITE LIMITED. BUT I THINK ULTIMATELY THE CITY NEEDS A MASTER PLAN AND CITY NEEDS TO LOOK AND LOOK DOWN AND SAY, WHAT DO WE WANT TO DO FROM A CALL? WHAT DO WE WANT TO DO FOR NORTH MCCALL? I MEAN, THAT THAT THAT WHOLE NOT FOR 90, BUT THE ALBERTA ROAD. I MEAN, ALL OF THIS DISCUSSION WITHOUT EVEN INCORPORATING THE FACT THAT WE'RE GOING TO PUT AN 18 WHEELER MAINTENANCE. IT JUST SEEMED, YOU KNOW WHAT? PERHAPS SOMEBODY MENTIONED WE DEMONSTRATE WE NEED TO LOOK, WE NEED TO DO DUE DILIGENCE, BUT LOOK AT EVERYTHING COMPREHENSIVELY AND LOOK 20 YEARS DOWN THE ROAD, WHAT WE WANT THE CITY OF EDINBURGH TO LOOK LIKE, BECAUSE WE HAVE NOT DONE THAT RIGHT NOW. AND WHAT'S GOING TO END UP HAPPENING IS A HODGEPODGE OF APARTMENTS, COMMERCIAL, NO, RESIDENTIAL, SIMPLY BECAUSE WE DON'T GENERATE ENOUGH [02:00:02] PROPERTY TAXES. AND PEOPLE ARE GOING TO MOVE TO MCALLEN, WHERE IT APPEARS THAT THEY'VE ACTUALLY GOT A PLAN IN PLACE. SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH. THANK YOU SIR. THANK YOU. GOOD EVENING. MY NAME IS EMMA VASQUEZ, AND I WOULD LIKE TO ASK IF I CAN PASS THESE OUT TO YOU GUYS. YES, THAT'LL BE FINE. THANK YOU. FIRSTLY, WE WOULD LIKE TO MENTION THAT LAURA'S ONLINE PETITION TO STOP THE EXPANSION OF THIS SUBDIVISION IS JUST A GOOGLE DOCS FORM THAT ANYONE CAN FILL OUT. NOW, ONLY RESIDENTS OF ROLANDO DRIVE THIS GOOGLE DOCS FORM CAN BE SEEN ON PAGE ONE. PLEASE REFER TO PAGE TWO. HERE'S A PICTURE OF A SIGN SHE PLACED OUTSIDE OF HER HOUSE. SHE IS USING THE PHRASE RESIDENTS ARE GOING TO BE IMPACTED, YET WE ACQUIRED MORE THAN ENOUGH REAL AND IN-PERSON SIGNATURES ON OUR PETITION TO CONTINUE THE EXPANSION OF THE SUBDIVISION FROM THE SAME RESIDENTS, SAYING THAT THEY APPROVE OF OUR PROJECT. HOW MANY? OVER 50. OVER 50 SIGNATURES. 51 SIGNATURES IN FOUR DAYS. WE DIDN'T HAVE ENOUGH TIME TO. YEAH, LIKE THE REST OF THE PEOPLE WEREN'T THERE OR THEY WERE BUSY. FURTHERMORE, THE ONLY PEOPLE THAT WOULD BE IMPACTED FROM THIS PROJECT IS HER AND HER FATHER'S BUSINESS, WHICH IS LOCATED AT THE ENTRANCE OF THE SUBDIVISION. PLEASE REFER TO PAGE THREE, FOUR AND FIVE. HERE YOU CAN SEE INFORMATION ABOUT THIS BUSINESS LOCATED AT 924 EAST PALM CIRCLE DRIVE. THIS LOCATION IS DIRECTLY AT THE ENTRANCE OF THE SUBDIVISION, WHICH CAN BE SEEN ON THE ON A GOOGLE MAPS IMAGE ON PAGE SIX. THE REASON THIS WOULD BE THIS WOULD IMPACT THEM IS BECAUSE SINCE THERE WAS NO TRAFFIC GOING THROUGH THE SUBDIVISION FOR OVER 20 YEARS. THEY USE THE AREA IN FRONT OF THE EMPTY SUBDIVISION FOR PARKING. IMAGES OF THIS CAN BE SEEN ON PAGES SEVEN AND EIGHT. TO CONCLUDE, WE WOULD LIKE TO ADD THAT LAURA IS THE ONLY PERSON AGAINST THIS PROJECT AND IS TRYING TO PORTRAY A NEGATIVE VIEW ON IT BECAUSE SHE IS THE ONLY PERSON THAT WOULD BE IMPACTED FROM THIS. THANK YOU. OKAY. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. ANYBODY ELSE WISH TO MAKE COMMENTS? HI, IT'S LAURA AGAIN. I WOULD JUST LIKE TO LET YOU ALL KNOW MY FATHER HAS BEEN RETIRED FOR OVER THREE YEARS. HE'S 76 YEARS OLD. CUSTOM DOORS WAS MOVED TO SAN JUAN OVER 15 YEARS AGO, WHERE WE DO HAVE A COMMERCIAL WAREHOUSE FOR THAT. SO THAT'S ACTUALLY JUST BEEN OUR HOME RESIDENCE FOR MANY YEARS. ALONG WITH THE LINKS TO THE SURVEY, I DO HAVE A QR CODE THAT PROVES THAT THEY ARE UNIQUE ACCESS CODES. SO THAT MEANS THAT IF I SCAN IT AND YOU SCAN IT, IT SHOWS THAT 1 OR 2 PEOPLE SCANNED IT. NOT THAT I FILLED OUT ALL 16 OF THESE SURVEYS. IN ADDITION TO THAT, I'D LIKE TO SHED LIGHT ON THE FACT THAT THEY WERE RETRIEVING SIGNATURES OFF OF SUNDANCE. AND IF YOU LOOK AT THIS DIAGRAM THE IMPACTED RESIDENTS ARE GOING TO BE PALM CIRCLE, ROLANDO AND ESPERANZA DRIVE. AND THERE'S REALLY NO IMPACT TO SUNDANCE. THERE'S 11 PROPERTIES IMPACTED ON SUNDANCE. AND THERE'S A SIGNIFICANTLY MORE AMOUNT THAT ARE GOING TO BE IMPACTED BY THE USE OF ROLANDO AS WELL AS PALM CIRCLE. SO I WOULD LIKE THAT TO BE VERIFIED. JUST BECAUSE THE USE OF THOSE SIGNATURES FROM SUNDANCE, THOSE RESIDENTS, ARE NOT IMPACTED THE WAY THAT THE RESIDENTS OF PALM CIRCLE, ESPERANZA AND ROLANDO ARE. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. GO AHEAD. SIR. I GOT I GOT A VIDEO RIGHT HERE. MY MY MY CELL PHONE WHEN HE STARTED DOING BUSINESS, AND HE STILL DOING BUSINESS THERE, AND HE USED TO USE THIS PARK AND MAYBE I. WHY? WHY DO YOU THINK SHE'S THE ONLY ONE COMPLAIN AND THEY TRY TO CONFUSE THE PEOPLE. LET ME KNOW THEY'RE GOING TO IMPACT. IT'S GOING TO BE LIKE BLAH BLAH BLAH. BUT THAT'S NOT TRUE. SO I GOT MORE THAN 50% TO APPROVE IN JUST FOUR DAYS. AND I THINK IF I STILL WANT TO GET 80, 85%, THEY'RE THE ONLY ONE COMPLAIN BECAUSE I KNOW THEY GOING TO IMPACT THEM FOR THE BUSINESS. THEY STILL RUNNING THE BUSINESS. AND I KNOW YESTERDAY WAS THE PAINTING GUY. AND TO PAINT THE THE DOORS OR WHATEVER, LIKE I KNOW THEY STILL RUNNING THE BUSINESS. [02:05:04] THAT'S WHY THEY WANT TO IMPACT THAT BUSINESS. THANK YOU, SIR. ANYBODY ELSE? SO, JESSICA, AGAIN, I JUST WANT TO PUT OUT SOME FACTS. SO FIRST OF ALL I WAS THE ORIGINATOR OF A WHATSAPP GROUP. WE HAVE 142 RESIDENTS. AND YES, SOME OF THE PEOPLE THAT CAME TODAY OR WERE LATE TO KNOW SOME OF THE INFORMATION. WE WERE DEFINITELY AGAINST APARTMENTS IN THIS AREA BEHIND VICTORIA HEIGHTS, OFF OF SPRAGUE AND MCCALL. BUT WHAT I THINK THAT PEOPLE ARE NOT UNDERSTANDING IS THAT IF WE DO NOT AGREE TO MAKE THIS A SINGLE FAMILY AREA, THEN WE'RE GOING TO HAVE THAT WHOLE AREA TO BE APARTMENTS, AND THAT'S NOT WHAT WE WANT. YES, WE'RE GOING TO BE IMPACTED BY TRAFFIC. YES, WE'RE GOING TO BE IMPACTED BY H-E-B. LUCKILY IT'S EXPANDING I HERE IN 2025. BUT I BELIEVE THAT. UNLESS THE CITY WOULD LIKE TO PURCHASE IT, THEN THE DEVELOPER NEEDS TO DO SOMETHING WITH HIS OWN LAND. HE OWNS THE LAND. WE CAN'T STOP HIM FROM DEVELOPING SOMETHING. AND LIKE I SAID, IF WE DON'T AGREE TO CHANGE THIS AREA TO SINGLE FAMILY HOMES, THEN WE WILL BE IMPACTED BY MORE APARTMENTS THAN THEY UNDERSTAND. THANK YOU. THANK YOU MA'AM. GOOD EVENING. MAYOR. COUNCILMAN REUBEN JAMES DEJESUS WITH MAULDIN HUNT. I'M TALKING ON BEHALF OF ITEM NINE A, B, AND C, AND ONE THING I WOULD SAY AND I COULD APPRECIATE IS THE NARRATIVE IS VERY DIFFERENT FROM WHEN I WAS UP HERE A COUPLE YEARS AGO. I HAD ABOUT 30 OR OVER 30 PEOPLE OPPOSITION TO THIS ITEM. AND BUT THAT'S, THAT'S JUST TO ATTEST TO THE WORK THAT WE'VE BEEN WORKING WITH THE COMMUNITY AND ALSO WITH THE OWNER. I THINK HE HAS REALLY GONE ABOVE AND BEYOND AND REACHING OUT TO THE LANDOWNERS OVER THE LAST FEW YEARS, AND ONE WITH THE PROPERTY THE WAY IT'S BEEN FOR YEARS. HE HASN'T BEEN ABLE TO DEVELOP OR SELL THE PROPERTY. I THINK WHAT WE'RE PRESENTING TODAY AND THE WAY WE ARE, THE ZONING THAT WE'RE TRYING TO DO, IT KIND OF APPEASES THE CURRENT RESIDENTS THERE AND THE THE NEIGHBORING SUBDIVISIONS. ONE THING THAT WE ARE TRYING TO COMMUNICATE IS, I DO KNOW THAT THERE'S ISSUES AS FAR AS TRAFFIC AND FLOODING THAT WERE MENTIONED TODAY, BUT NONE OF THAT WILL BE ALLEVIATED IF NO DEVELOPMENT EVER IS DONE IN THAT HARD CORNER. PART OF THE PROCESS OF DEVELOPING LAND, WE HAVE TO ABIDE BY DRAINAGE REQUIREMENTS, STREET REQUIREMENTS LIGHTING ACCESS POINTS. AND THAT'S ALL PART OF THE ENGINEERING SUBDIVISION DEVELOPMENT THAT WE WORK WITH HAND IN HAND WITH STAFF. SO ONE THING THAT I'M HERE TODAY JUST TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS TO GIVE A LITTLE INSIGHT ON WHAT WE'RE DOING AND IF THERE'S ANY SPECIFIC THINGS THAT WE CAN ANSWER, I'M HERE TO. I'M MORE THAN HAPPY TO SHARE THAT WITH YOU. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. REUBEN, SOME QUESTIONS JUST REAL QUICK. JUST REAL QUICK. COUNCIL, CAN WE HAVE A DISCUSSION BEFORE WE CLOSE THE PUBLIC HEARING? I JUST WANT TO BE FAIR, BECAUSE COUNCILMEMBER DE LEON BROUGHT THAT UP FIRST AND RECOMMEND THAT YOU CLOSE THE PUBLIC HEARING FIRST AND THEN MOVE ON TO THE ITEM. YEAH. JUST TO BE FAIR TO COUNCIL MEMBER. OKAY. NO PROBLEM. ANYBODY ELSE HAS ANY OTHER COMMENTS. AND THEN WE'LL CLOSE THE PUBLIC HEARING. AND YEAH GO AHEAD MA'AM. HI. SORRY LAURA. AGAIN IF THE SIGNATURES THAT I HAVE OBTAINED REGARDING MY, CAPTURED RESPONSES ARE BEING CALLED TO QUESTION. I'D LIKE TO BE GIVEN A CHANCE TO SPEAK WITH THESE RESIDENTS BECAUSE THEY DID PROVIDE ME THEIR INFORMATION. ALL OF THESE POSTCARDS CONTAIN ADDRESS NUMBERS, SO I CAN GO AND REACH OUT TO THEM AND ASK THEM TO PROVIDE ME A SIGNATURE, IF THAT'S WHAT WE'RE ASKING FOR, SINCE THE CREDIBILITY OF THESE RESPONSES IS BEING CALLED TO QUESTION. I WOULD ALSO ASK THAT THE SIGNATURES THAT HE OBTAINED CONTAIN AN ADDRESS SO THAT WE CAN BETTER WEIGH THE IMPACT TO WHICH RESIDENTS WERE DISCUSSING HERE. THANK YOU MA'AM. THANK YOU. ALL RIGHT. IS THERE ANYBODY ELSE THAT WISH TO COMMENT ON ANY OF THE PUBLIC HEARING ITEMS TONIGHT? IF NOT, I WILL CLOSE THE PUBLIC HEARING AND WE'LL TAKE THEM ONE BY ONE AT THIS TIME. JUST FOR THE RECORD, A, B, AND C HAVE TO DO WITH THE SAME PROPERTY AREA. SAME PROPERTY OWNER. SO. BUT, COUNCIL, WHAT IS YOUR WISHES? MOTION TO APPROVE ITEM EIGHT. [02:10:02] WELL, WE HAVE TO DO ALL. OR CAN WE DO A, B AND C? I'LL GO AHEAD AND READ IT. NO. GO AHEAD. I'M SORRY. SHE HAS TO READ IT. BUT. YES, SIR. WE'LL TAKE ITEM A, WE'LL TAKE. CONSIDER THE ORDINANCE PROVIDING FOR THE REZONING REQUEST FROM RESIDENTIAL PRIMARY DISTRICT TO RESIDENTIAL MULTIFAMILY DISTRICT. A TRACT OF LAND CONTAINING 10.397 ACRES SITUATED IN THE COUNTY OF HIDALGO, TEXAS. BEING OUT OF LOT THREE, SECTION 275 TEXAS MEXICAN RAILWAY COMPANY SURVEY ACCORDING TO THE PLAT THEREOF. RECORDED VOLUME 24, PAGES 168 THROUGH 171 HIDALGO COUNTY DEED RECORDS LOCATED AT 3000 WEST SPRAGUE STREET, AS REQUESTED BY MILTON HUNT ON BEHALF OF K AND Z DEVELOPERS. ONE. ONE MOMENT. DO YOU HAVE A SECOND? THERE'S A MOTION. WE'VE GOT TO GET A SECOND. SECOND, WE HAVE A SECOND. GO AHEAD. SIR. I'M SORRY. I'M JUST TRYING TO BE FAIR TO EVERYBODY. SO THIS THIS HAS BEEN GOING ON FOR A LONG TIME. AND SO I JUST WANTED TO ASK FOR P AND Z. THIS ALL THREE ITEMS A, B AND C WERE TAKEN TOGETHER BECAUSE FROM WHAT I UNDERSTAND FROM THE DEVELOPER AND THE ENGINEER STANDPOINT THAT IF THE IF ONE DOESN'T GET APPROVED, THEN THEY DON'T WANT TO PROCEED WITH THE OTHERS. SO WE TOOK THEM ITEM BY ITEM. IT MIGHT CHANGE THE PLANS FOR THE ENTIRE. YEAH. I WAS TOLD BY OUR CITY ATTORNEY THAT WE CAN VOTE ON ALL THREE ITEMS TOGETHER. SO IF THAT IS A CONCERN, WE CAN DO THAT. IS THAT CAN ANYBODY COMMENT ON THAT? THAT'S CORRECT. YOU CAN SUSPEND THE RULES AND DELIBERATE ON ALL THREE IF YOU CHOOSE TO. BUT AS FAR AS WHAT HAPPENED AT PLANNING AND ZONING, I BELIEVE THEY WERE TAKEN UP INDIVIDUALLY. YES. OR THEY WERE INDIVIDUALLY, YES. DOES ANYONE WANT TO COMMENT ON THAT? AS FAR AS THE THREE ITEMS? YES. MR. DIAZ, THE ONE THING THAT WE ARE ASKING IS THIS FIRST ITEM, ITEM A IS WHAT WE HAVE AS OUR CONTINGENCY. SO THAT WOULD BE THE THE MIDDLE ZONING THAT WE'RE ASKING WOULD BE A MULTI-FAMILY. AND KIND OF WHAT I WAS KIND OF ALLUDING TO IS THE SECOND READING WOULD BE THE RESIDENTIAL ONE, THAT WE'RE THE CURRENT MULTIFAMILY, THAT WE'RE CHANGING TO SINGLE FAMILY. SO IF WE CANNOT GET THIS FIRST ZONING, THEN WE WOULD WITHDRAW THE OTHER TWO. CORRECT. AND JUST FOR BACKGROUND, THE WE'VE HEARD THE LIKE MISS PORTER SAID, THIS HAS BEEN ONGOING. THERE'S BEEN SEVERAL PROJECTS THAT HAVE BEEN PRESENTED AND HAVE BEEN BEEN SHOT DOWN BECAUSE OF RESIDENTS AND THEIR CONCERNS. ONE THING WE'VE SAID, LIKE THE OTHER ITEM D WE TELL DEVELOPERS, PLEASE TALK TO THE RESIDENTS, GET THEM ON BOARD. LET'S GET LET'S GET A CONSENSUS. AND AND THAT HAS BEEN DONE. IN THINKING OF THIS, THERE'S ONE PARTICULAR ROW OF HOMES ON EMPRESS THAT STAND TO BE IMPACTED THE MOST BECAUSE CURRENT ZONING BEFORE THIS COUNCIL, I WOULD, I WILL SAY THE BACKYARD OF THOSE HOMES ON EMPRESS, WHICH IS A PROBABLY I DON'T KNOW WHAT IS IT, 18 HOMES. THEY WOULD IF WE DO NOT CHANGE ANYTHING. THE CURRENT ZONING ALLOWS THE DEVELOPER TO PUT APARTMENTS RIGHT BEHIND THEIR HOMES. THIS WAS THIS PLAN, ALTHOUGH IT HAS A LOT OF APARTMENTS IN THE MIDDLE. AND TO ANSWER THE OTHER GENTLEMAN'S POINT ON MCCALL IS COMMERCIAL. THIS PLAN WOULD ENSURE THAT THE RESIDENTS ON EMPRESS WOULD GET A SINGLE FAMILY HOME BEHIND THEIR BACKYARD, AND THEREFORE THE ONLY SINGLE RESIDENT HOMES THAT WOULD BE IMPACTED BY ANY APARTMENTS OR WHOEVER DECIDED TO BUY THOSE NEW LOTS AND AND BUILD THERE. I THINK THAT FOR THEM, THIS IS THE BEST CASE SCENARIO, BECAUSE IT ENSURES THAT THE CHANGING IN ZONING WOULD HAVE THEM HAVE SINGLE FAMILY HOMES TO THEIR BACK YARD, AND I DON'T KNOW ANYBODY WHO WOULD WANT APARTMENTS OUTSIDE YOUR FENCE IN THE BACKYARD. THAT BEING SAID, I KNOW THAT THERE'S A CONCERN WITH THE NUMBER OF APARTMENTS IN THE CENTER. IN DISCUSSING THIS, I KNOW THEY'RE TRYING TO MINIMIZE THE NUMBER. AND IT'S ALSO, THERE'S THERE'S SOME ISSUES THERE WITH POWER LINES. IT KIND OF LESSENS THE NUMBER. AND I JUST THINK THAT THIS IS A TOUGH DECISION ALL THE WAY AROUND BECAUSE THERE'S, THERE'S SOME IF YOU LIVE ON EMPRESS, YOU'RE GOING TO BE FOUR HOMES BEHIND YOUR HOUSE. AND IF YOU LIVE IN THE OTHER AREAS, THE CONGESTION THAT WILL BRING ALL THE POINTS THAT ALL THE RESIDENTS BROUGHT UP ARE GOOD POINTS AS FAR AS THE SCHOOL AND EVERYTHING. I DO KNOW THAT SPRAGUE WOULD BE WIDENED. RIGHT. COULD YOU COULD YOU SPEAK ON THAT, AT LEAST IN THAT AREA? YES. SO DURING THE SUBDIVISION PROCESS WE WOULD HAVE TO EXPAND SPRING ROAD FOR WHATEVER IS BEING DEVELOPED. AND THEN ONE THING THAT I KNOW WE'RE WORKING WITH THE OWNER AND WITH STAFF, IS CURRENTLY CONSIDERING DEDICATING THE FULL RIGHT OF WAY FROM OUR WESTERN LIMITS [02:15:01] TO MCCALL, AND THAT WOULD BE A SEPARATE DEDICATION PRIOR TO PLATTING ANY PROPERTY WHICH WILL THEN GIVE THE CITY ANY FUTURE PLANNING IF NEED BE, PRIOR TO OUR DEVELOPMENTS. AND WHAT WHAT WOULD THAT EXPAND SPRAGUE IN THAT AREA? AT LEAST TO ME. PROBABLY AN ADDITIONAL LANE. SO YOU WOULD BE IF I REMEMBER CORRECTLY, THIS WOULD PROBABLY TURN INTO AN 80 FOOT RIGHT OF WAY. SO YOU'D PROBABLY BE ABLE TO MEET IF I REMEMBER CORRECTLY, IT'S ABOUT A 54 FOOT LANE. AND I KNOW I THINK YOUR TRAFFIC ENGINEERS HERE, BUT YOU COULD PUT AT LEAST A LEFT TURN AND A AND A RIGHT TURN AND MODIFY THE FIND THE INTERSECTION ON GOING EASTBOUND. SO. WELL, I KNOW THE WAY IT IS NOW. WE DO HAVE A LEFT. THE LAST MODIFICATION INCLUDED A LEFT TURN. STRAIGHT AND RIGHT TURN. SO YOU'RE SAYING IT IT WOULD ADD ANOTHER LANE FOR EASTBOUND. YOU WOULD DEDICATE PROBABLY ANOTHER LANE GOING EASTBOUND. DO YOU AGREE WITH THAT, MR. AZEVEDO? RIGHT. WE INITIAL CALCULATIONS SHOW THAT YOU'LL BE ABLE TO GET ONE ADDITIONAL LANE. OKAY, SO THAT ANSWERS ONE OF THE OTHER QUESTIONS I HAVE. AND THEN THE OTHER QUESTION THAT IS ALSO VERY IMPORTANT. LIKE I SAID, I DON'T THINK ANYBODY IS IN FAVOR OF ANY, ANY PUNCH THROUGH ON THE BACK OF WHAT IS THAT, PRINCESS, THAT WOULD ACCESS MCCALL AND INCREASE TRAFFIC COUNT IN THAT NEIGHBORHOOD? DO THE CURRENT PLANS BYPASS THAT? AND DO THEY DO THEY HAVE ACCESS TO MCCALL AND SPRAGUE TO NOT JUST INUNDATE SPRAGUE ALONE? SO I KNOW THAT WE PROVIDED A SCHEMATIC. AND WHAT WE'RE DOING WITH THE SINGLE FAMILY PROPOSED LOTS. IT IS NOT YOUR TYPICAL 50 BY 100. THIS IS GOING TO BE ALMOST A QUARTER AN ACRE. LOTS. AND SO THAT WOULD BE RESTRICTED AS FAR AS TRAFFIC COUNTS. THE NUMBER OF UNITS I THINK WE'RE PUTTING IN, AND I HAVE IT HERE, 12 ON EACH SIDE, A TOTAL OF ABOUT 24. SO THAT WOULD LIMIT US TO JUST ONE ACCESS POINT. SO WE WOULD BE ABLE TO JUST ACCESS OFF OF SPRAGUE. SO WE WOULDN'T NEED ANOTHER ACCESS POINT ON THE BACK SIDE. SO ANYTHING THAT WE DO WORK WITH WOULD BE ON THE PROPOSED MULTIFAMILY AND THE COMMERCIAL TO MAYBE HAVING TWO ACCESS POINTS. AND WHERE WOULD THAT SECOND ACCESS POINT GO TO MCCALL? TO MCCALL? YEAH, BUT NOT NOT INTO THE NEIGHBORHOOD, NOT TO ANY EXISTING RESIDENTIAL. OKAY. THAT'S THE ONLY THAT'S THE ONLY QUESTIONS I HAD. COUNCILOR. ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? NO. REUBEN, I JUST WANT TO THANK YOU. AND I KNOW I BELIEVE THIS PARTICULAR PROPERTY HAS BEEN IN TALKS SINCE EVEN FROM THE PREVIOUS COUNCIL. SO I KNOW THIS HAS BEEN AN ONGOING PROJECT. I DO SEE A LOT OF COMPROMISE ON THIS NEW PROPOSED ZONING MAP, AND I'M VERY IMPRESSED IN HOW CREATIVE YOU ALL MADE THIS HAPPEN. AND UNFORTUNATELY, NOT EVERYONE IS GOING TO BE HAPPY. BUT I DO KNOW THE RESIDENTS THAT WERE ORIGINALLY. IS THAT ON WHAT WAS THE STREET CALLED? THE. EMPRESS. EMPRESS. THE HOMES, I BELIEVE THAT'S A HUGE WIN FOR THEM. NOT EVERYONE'S GOING TO BE HAPPY. BUT I DO THINK THAT OVERALL, THIS IS THE BEST OUTCOME THAT THE RESIDENTS CAN, CAN RECEIVE. AND I DO COMMEND YOU ON, ON COMING UP WITH SUCH A GREAT NEW PROPOSED MAP. SO THANK YOU ON THAT. AND I DO THINK THIS IS A GREAT COMPROMISE. WE DO APPRECIATE STAFF AND COUNCIL AND ALSO THE THE OWNER I KNOW DOES APPRECIATE THE US WORKING WITH THE RESIDENTS. I KNOW. AND KIND OF GOING BACK TO YOUR COMMENT, MR. DIAZ, ON THE LAYOUT, YOU DO SEE AN ACCESS POINT TO BACK TO VICTORIA HEIGHTS, BUT WE COULD MODIFY THAT. SINCE WE ARE UNDER THAT THRESHOLD OF 30, WE SHOULD ONLY BE REQUESTED ONE ACCESS POINT. SO WE COULD LIMIT ANY ACCESS TO THE MULTIFAMILY. SO WE COULD DEFINITELY RESTRICT THAT. AND IF WE DO A PRIVATE DEVELOPMENT, THEN THAT CAN ALSO ACCOUNT FOR THAT WHERE WE DON'T HAVE CROSS ACCESS BACK OVER TO. AND THE REASON YOU NEED THAT IS IF YOU'RE ABOVE THAT FOR A DIFFERENT ACCESS POINT FOR FIRE SAFETY. RIGHT. AND SO THE OTHER CONCERN I HAVE IS IF WE WERE TO APPROVE THIS, COULD YOU PUNCH THROUGH THAT NEIGHBORHOOD WITHOUT APPROVAL OR WITHOUT HAVING TO COME TO COUNCIL OR CITY AGAIN? SO ANYTHING THAT WE WOULD PROPOSE GOING FORWARD IS THE SUBDIVISION PLOTS, AND THAT WOULD BE PRESENTED TO PNC AND CITY COUNCIL. SO YOU WOULD SEE OUR LAYOUTS PRIOR TO APPROVAL, A PNC. THAT'S RIGHT. BUT IN REGARDS TO AS IT IS TODAY, WE COULD AND I THINK WE'RE BEYOND THAT. BUT IF IF WE WERE TO LEAVE THE THE ZONING THE WAY IT IS TODAY, THERE'S CERTAIN THINGS THAT CAN BE MOVED FORWARD WITHOUT THE PURVIEW OF THE COUNCIL OR THE OR PNC. AND THAT'S NOT WHAT WE WANT TO DO. [02:20:01] CORRECT. AND AND THE OTHER QUESTION I HAVE THE LAST MEETING YOU HAD WITH WITH ALL THE STAKEHOLDERS THERE HOW MANY SHOWED UP AND WHAT WAS THEIR THEIR GENERAL SENTIMENT DURING THAT MEETING? SO I KNOW THAT OUT OF THE I, THERE'S A GROUP CHAT OF OVER ABOUT OVER 100 PEOPLE. I KNOW THAT AT THE MEETING THERE WAS A HEADCOUNT OF MAYBE LIKE TEN, WHICH KIND OF WERE CHOSEN TO BE THERE AND DECIDED TO BE THERE. I THINK FROM THAT MEETING IT WAS WE WERE COMPLIMENTED ON ON WHAT WE'RE PROPOSING. AND THAT'S KIND OF WHY WE'RE HERE TODAY. I THINK THIS IS PROBABLY THE BEST USE OF THE LAND AND THE THE LISTENING TO THEIR CONCERNS. AND WHAT WE'RE PROPOSING IS I THINK IT'S A WIN WIN FOR BOTH PARTIES. ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? I WOULD JUST LIKE TO THANK MRS. WATERS FOR SHOWING UP, BECAUSE IT'S NOT USUALLY THE PUBLIC SHOWS BACK UP TO SUPPORT SOMETHING THEY'VE BEEN FIGHTING FOR, BECAUSE IT WAS A THERE WERE SOME CONTENTIOUS MOMENTS ON THE SUBDIVISION. AND FINALLY, YOU KNOW, IT'S JUST THE WAY WE LIKE TO SEE OUR GOVERNMENT WORK. WE ASKED THE DEVELOPER AND WE ASKED THE THE RESIDENTS TO GO BACK AND WORK TOGETHER. THEY CAME BACK WITH A PROPOSAL. SO HOW CAN WE SAY NO? THIS IS MY FEELING, BUT YOU GOTTA THANK BOTH OF YOU GUYS, YOUR YOUR YOUR BUILDER AND YOUR YOUR COMPANY. AND THIS IS A GROUP THAT WAS A BIG GROUP. YES, SIR. THANK YOU, THANK YOU. JUST MADE MY JUST MADE MY VOTE EASY. THAT'S ALL I'M TELLING YOU BECAUSE. YEAH. AND THE APPROVAL. THOSE ARE GOOD FRIENDS OF MINE. BUT THEY SHOULD HAVE BEEN HERE EARLIER IN THE FIGHT. THEY WOULD HAVE PROBABLY HAD A BETTER SIDE OF IT. SO YEAH, AND I DO WANT TO SAY THAT I WANT TO THANK YOU TO THE LANDOWNERS. THE DEVELOPERS WE'VE ALWAYS SAID INVOLVE THE RESIDENTS. THIS HAS HAPPENED IN THE PAST WHERE WE HAD A LARGE DENSITY AND THEY TALKED TO EVERYONE. THERE WAS A COMPROMISE AND THEY CAME SMALLER AND SOMETHING, YOU KNOW, NOT EVERYONE GETS WHAT THEY WANT, BUT THEY TRY TO MEET IN THE MIDDLE. AND I WANT TO THANK EVERYONE INVOLVED FOR FOR DOING THIS. IT TAKES A LOT OF WORK. I KNOW MISS PEREZ WORKS DAY AND NIGHT, AND AS YOU CAN SEE, SHE'S STILL IN SCRUBS. HERE TO REPRESENT, I WILL TELL YOU THAT OF THE 142 PEOPLE THAT ARE ON THERE, ONLY 13 PEOPLE. SO, I MEAN, IF ANYBODY ELSE HAVE COMMENTS, THEY HAD ACCESS TO THE MEETING AND SO ON, BUT ALSO HOW COMPLIMENTARY THIS IS. MY WIFE TOLD ME THAT JESSICA IS GOING TO BE HERE TODAY AND I'M LIKE, OH. AND THAT'S A COMPLIMENT, BY THE WAY. THAT'S A COMPLIMENT. WELL THANK YOU. YEAH. NO. THANK YOU. COUNCILMAN. AND AND I'LL SHARE WHAT COUNCIL HAS BEEN SAYING. THANK YOU EVERYBODY THAT I KNOW. THIS HAS BEEN COMING UP QUITE A BIT. SO I APPRECIATE ALL ALL THE WORK BEHIND THIS. TRUE, TRUE. DEMOCRACY IN ACTION HERE. ABSOLUTELY. BUT BUT ANYWAY. BUT MY MY ONLY COMMENT, AND WE'RE ON ITEM A, BY THE WAY, THIS IS THE ONE JUST GOING BACK TO THE ITEMS HERE. THIS ITEM HAS TO DO WITH CHANGING AN AREA FROM RESIDENTIAL TO MULTIFAMILY. SO CURRENTLY IT'S, IT'S SINGLE FAMILY, SO IT'S BEING CHANGED TO MULTIFAMILY. AND IT'S JUST MY PERSONAL OPINION. I WOULD JUST LIKE TO SEE SINGLE FAMILY THERE. BUT AGAIN, I APPRECIATE THE YOU KNOW, COMING UP WITH OPTIONS. OKAY. I'LL TAKE A VOTE ON ITEM EIGHT. THIS IS TO CHANGE THE ZONING FROM A SINGLE FAMILY TO MULTIFAMILY. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR, PLEASE RAISE YOUR RIGHT HAND. ALL OPPOSED. SAME SIGN. MOTION CARRIES. ITEM B. MAKE A MOTION TO APPROVE B AND C SECOND. WE'LL JUST GO AHEAD AND READ IT FOR THE RECORD. CONSIDER THE ORDINANCE PROVIDING FOR THE REZONING REQUEST FROM RESIDENTIAL PRIMARY [B. Hold Public Hearing and Consider the Ordinance Providing for the Rezoning Request from Residential, Primary (RP) District to Commercial, General (CG) District, a Tract of Land Containing 5.196 Acres Situated in the County of Hidalgo, Texas, Being out of Lot 3, Section 275, Texas- Mexican Railway Company's Survey, According to the Plat Thereof Recorded in Volume 24, Pages 168-171, Hidalgo County Deed Records, Located at 2900 West Sprague Street as Requested by Melden and Hunt, Inc. on Behalf of K & Z Developers LTD. [Jaime Acevedo, Director of Planning & Zoning]] [C. Hold Public Hearing and Consider the Ordinance Providing for the Rezoning Request from Residential, Multi-family (RM) District and Commercial, General (CG) District to Residential, Primary (RP) District, a Tract of Land Containing 11.689 Acres Situated in the County of Hidalgo, Texas, Being Out of Lot 3, Section 275, Texas-Mexican Railway Company’s Survey, According to the Plat Thereof Recorded in Volume 24, Pages 168-171, Hidalgo County Deed Records, Located at 3100 West Sprague Street, as Requested by Melden and Hunt, Inc. on Behalf of K & Z Developers LTD. [Jaime Acevedo, Director of Planning & Zoning]] DISTRICT TO COMMERCIAL GENERAL DISTRICT. A TRACT OF LAND CONTAINING 5.196 ACRES SITUATED IN THE COUNTY OF HIDALGO, TEXAS, BEING OUT OF LOT THREE, SECTION 275 TEXAS MEXICAN RAILWAY COMPANY SURVEY ACCORDING TO THE PLAT THEREOF RECORDED IN VOLUME 24, PAGE 168 TO 171. HIDALGO COUNTY DEED RECORDS LOCATED AT 2900 WEST SPRAGUE STREET, AS REQUEST BY MILTON AND HUNT ON BEHALF OF DEVELOPERS. ALL RIGHT. AND IF YOU COULD READ ITEM C, THERE WAS A MOTION FOR BOTH. PLEASE CONSIDER THE ORDINANCE PROVIDING FOR THE REZONING REQUEST FROM RESIDENTIAL MULTIFAMILY DISTRICT AND COMMERCIAL GENERAL DISTRICT TO RESIDENTIAL PRIMARY DISTRICT, A TRACT OF LAND CONTAINING 11.689 ACRES SITUATED IN THE COUNTY OF HIDALGO, TEXAS, BEING OUTLOT THREE SECTION TO 75 TEXAS MEXICAN RAILWAY COMPANY SURVEY ACCORDING TO THE PLAT THEREOF RECORDED IN VOLUME 24, PAGES 168 THROUGH 171. HIDALGO COUNTY RECORDS LOCATED 3100 WEST LAKE STREET, AS REQUESTED BY MILTON HUNT ON BEHALF OF KMC DEVELOPERS LIMITED. ALL RIGHT. WE HAVE A MOTION AND A SECOND ON THE FLOOR. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR, PLEASE RAISE YOUR RIGHT HAND. ALL OPPOSED? [D. Hold Public Hearing and Consider the Ordinance Providing for the Rezoning Request from Agriculture and Open Space (AO) District to Residential, Primary (RP) District, a 6.00 Acre Tract of Land Out of Lot 64, Kelly-Pharr Subdivision, Hidalgo County, Texas, as Per Map Recorded in Volume 3, Pages 133-134, Deed Records of Hidalgo County, Texas, Located at 5313 Rolando Drive, as Requested by Jesus Vazquez on Behalf of Jose Dolores Vazquez Solache and Angel Torices. [Jaime Acevedo, Director of Planning & Zoning]] SAME SIGN. MOTION CARRIES. ITEM D COUNCIL, CONSIDER THE ORDINANCE PROVIDING FOR THE REZONING REQUEST FROM AGRICULTURE AND OPEN SPACE DISTRICT TO RESIDENTIAL PRIMARY DISTRICT. A SIX ACRE TRACT OF LAND OUT OF LOT 64, KELLY-PHARR SUBDIVISION, HIDALGO COUNTY, TEXAS. AS PER MAP RECORDED IN VOLUME THREE, PAGES 13321 34 D RECORDS OF HIDALGO COUNTY, TEXAS, [02:25:03] LOCATED AT 5313 ROLANDO DRIVE, AS REQUESTED BY JESUS VASQUEZ ON BEHALF OF JOSE DOLORES VASQUEZ AND ANGEL TORRES, COUNSEL. MOTION TO APPROVE. SECOND. MOTION AND A SECOND TO APPROVE. ANY OTHER DISCUSSION? BEFORE THAT MOTION, I WAS GOING TO SUGGEST A TABLE JUST TO GIVE BOTH PARTIES A CHANCE TO VERIFY SIGNATURES, AS THERE WAS A LITTLE CONTENTION ON ON THE VALIDITY. THAT'S THE ONLY COMMENT I HAVE. I MEAN, IS THERE A WAY TO TABLE IT TWICE OR DOES IT? YEAH. AND JUST FOR THE RECORD, THIS WAS TABLED AT OUR LAST MEETING. AND I THINK ON OUR AGENDA SUMMARY. IT WAS TABLED SO THAT THE, THE APPLICANT CAN GO VISIT WITH THE, THE PROPERTY OWNERS. AND THAT HAS HAPPENED, RIGHT. I GUESS AS WAS MENTIONED. BUT NOW THERE'S ALSO BEEN A PROPERTY OWNER THAT HAS DONE A SURVEY OF THEIR OWN. YEAH. SO THAT'S CORRECT. MAYOR. THIS ITEM WAS TABLED AT THE PREVIOUS MEETING. IN SPEAKING TO THE APPLICANT, HE DID NOT ENGAGE IN A CONVERSATION WITH THE OTHER PERSON THAT'S IN OPPOSITION HERE TONIGHT. HE WENT OUT AND GOT SIGNATURES. I BELIEVE HE GOT 49 OF THE 94 SIGNATURES THAT WERE SUBMITTED. AND HE GOT THEM, BASICALLY. HE GOT THE THE OWNERS TO SIGN OFF NEXT TO THEIR ADDRESS NEXT TO THE PROPERTY THAT THEY OWNED. SO HE WENT DOOR TO DOOR AND THAT'S IN OUR PACKET BECAUSE THAT WAS IN THE PACKET. I COULDN'T OPEN THAT. SO ON JUST ON THIS ITEM IN PARTICULAR, WAS THERE PEOPLE THAT SUBMITTED WITHIN THE 2 OR 300FT? THAT'S IN THE PACKET. RIGHT. I SEE THAT'S ATTACHED. THE OWNER NOTIFICATION LIST REPORT. IS THAT DID THAT TAKE THE PLACE OF THE HE KIND OF USED THAT. OKAY. GOT IT AS HIS PETITION. CORRECT. GOT IT. AND AND BUT DOES IT SAY ANYWHERE? OKAY. ON THE TOP. IT DOES SAY THAT THEIR FAVORITE THAT THEY WERE IN FAVOR OF. YEAH. COUNCIL JUST FOR THE RECORD THAT NORMALLY THERE'S THAT FORM THAT THEY FILL OUT WHAT THE APPLICANT DID THE, THE LIST OF I GUESS NOTIFIED RESIDENTS. RESIDENTS. THAT'S WHERE THEY ALL SIGNED, I GUESS IN FAVOR. BUT ANYWAY. ALL RIGHT, WELL, THERE IS A MOTION A SECOND. I'M ALSO IN AGREEMENT. I WOULD LIKE TO VERIFY, BUT THERE'S ALREADY A MOTION A SECOND TO APPROVE IT. SO YOU KNOW, I WOULD LIKE TO GIVE THAT OPPORTUNITY, BUT WE'VE ALREADY TABLED IT, TO BE FAIR TO THE APPLICANT TO PREVIOUSLY, BUT. YEAH, BUT ANYWAY, ALL THOSE IN FAVOR OF THE MOTION FOR APPROVAL SIGNIFY BY RAISING YOUR RIGHT HAND. ALL THOSE OPPOSED? SAME SIGN. MOTION CARRIES. WE'RE GOING TO MOVE ON TO ITEM TEN A. I'VE BEEN ADVISED THAT THIS ITEM IS BEING PULLED. [A. Consider Ordinance Providing for a Temporary Special Use Permit for the “University Drafthouse Beerfest 2024” to be Held on Saturday, November 16, 2024, at the Edinburg Amphitheatre Area Located at 201 W. McIntyre Street as Requested by Sony Rego and Ronnie Larralde. [Jaime Acevedo, Director of Planning and Zoning]] IS THAT CORRECT? YES, SIR. I BELIEVE THE EVENT WILL BE RESCHEDULED. I'M NOT SURE IF WE HAVE SOMEONE HERE FROM THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, BUT I WOULD JUST LIKE TO TO MAKE THAT NOTE. SO THERE'S NO NEED TO TAKE ACTION AT THIS TIME. THAT IS CORRECT. OKAY. ALL RIGHT. DO THEY HAVE A DATE OR NO ON THE RESCHEDULING. BUT IT WON'T BE ON NOVEMBER 16TH. ALL RIGHT. AT THIS TIME, IT'S MY UNDERSTANDING THAT THEY MAY NOT HAVE A DATE SCHEDULED YET. ALL RIGHT. ALL RIGHT WE'RE GOING TO MOVE ON TO ITEM 11, AWARDING OF BIDS, [11. AWARDING OF BIDS] [A. Consider Authorizing the Purchase of Premium Fabric Stacking Chairs and Haul Away Chair Trucks (dolly) for the Edinburg ACE Building Ballroom from Hertz Furniture Through the Local Government Purchasing Cooperative (BuyBoard) Contract No. 667-22, in the Amount of $55,502.50. [Tomas D. Reyna, Assistant City Manager]] ITEM EIGHT. CONSIDER AUTHORIZING THE PURCHASE OF PREMIUM FABRIC STACKING CHAIRS AND HOLLOWAY CHAIR TRUCKS. DOLLY FOR THE EDINBURGH ACE BUILDING. BALLROOM FROM HERTS. FURNITURE THROUGH THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT PURCHASING COOPERATIVE BOARD. CONTRACT NUMBER 667 22. IN THE AMOUNT OF 55,502 AND $0.50. MOVE! WE HAVE A MOTION. IS THERE A SECOND? SECOND. WE HAVE A SECOND. ALL IN FAVOR, RAISE YOUR RIGHT HAND. ALL OPPOSED? [B. Consider Awarding RFP No. 2024-021, 2024 Holiday Lighting and Decorations for the City of Edinburg’s Promenade Walkway, Promenade Park, and City Hall to Sixto Garza Jr. Enterprises, LLC] SAME SIGN. MOTION CARRIES. ITEM B CONSIDER AWARDING RFP NUMBER 2024 021 2024 HOLIDAY LIGHTING AND DECORATIONS FOR THE CITY OF EDINBURGH PROMENADE WALKWAY, PROMENADE PARK AND CITY HALL TO SIXTO GARZA JUNIOR ENTERPRISES LLC, THE HIGHEST RANKING PROPOSAL IN THE AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED 70,000, AND AUTHORIZE THE CITY MANAGER TO ENTER INTO A PROFESSIONAL SERVICES AGREEMENT PURSUANT TO THE CITY'S ORDINANCES AND PROCUREMENT POLICIES. SO MOVE. WE HAVE A MOTION. IS THERE A SECOND, SECOND, SECOND? ANY DISCUSSION? IF NOT. ALL IN FAVOR, PLEASE RAISE YOUR RIGHT HAND. ALL OPPOSED? [C. Consider Authorizing the Purchase of One (1) WEMCO Grit Pump and Motors from Lewis Electric Motors and Pumps, Inc., Through the Local Government Purchasing Cooperative (BuyBoard) Contract No. 672-22 in the Amount Not to Exceed $49,997.72. [Gerardo Carmona Jr., P.E., Director of Utilities]] SAME SIGN. MOTION CARRIES. ITEM C. CONSIDER AUTHORIZING THE PURCHASE OF ONE WIMPOLE GRIT PUMP AND MOTORS FROM LEWES ELECTRIC MOTORS AND PUMPS THROUGH THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT PURCHASING COOPERATIVE BY BOARD CONTRACT NUMBER 672 DASH 22. IN THE AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED 49,997 AND $0.72. SO MOVED. WE HAVE A MOTION AND A SECOND. ANY DISCUSSION? IF NOT, ALL IN FAVOR, PLEASE RAISE YOUR RIGHT HAND. ALL OPPOSED? SAME SIGN. MOTION CARRIES ITEM D, CONSIDER RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO SUBMIT A GRANT APPLICATION TO THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, BUREAU OF RECLAMATION UNDER FISCAL YEAR 2025 WATER, SMART WATER AND ENERGY EFFICIENCY GRANT PROGRAM AND TO EXECUTE GRANT DOCUMENTS RELATED THERETO. [02:30:03] ALL RIGHT. IS THERE A MOTION? MOTION TO APPROVE. SECOND. AND WE HAVE A SECOND. ANY DISCUSSION? IF NOT. ALL IN FAVOR, RAISE YOUR RIGHT HAND. ALL OPPOSED? SAME SIGN. MOTION CARRIES. ITEM 12. [13. BUDGET] RESOLUTIONS. ITEM 13. BUDGET. CONSIDER APPROVING THE FISCAL YEAR 2024 2025 BUDGET TRANSFERS FOR THE FOLLOWING. WE'RE SKIPPING. SORRY, I SKIPPED ONE. YEAH. OKAY. SO WE SKIPPED. WE ACTUALLY SKIPPED D. THAT'S MY FAULT, MA'AM. YEAH. SO WE GOT TO GO THROUGH ITEM D. [D. Consider Authorizing the Installation of a Forcemain at the Airport from Southern Trenchless Solutions, Through the Local Government Purchasing Cooperative (BuyBoard) Contract No. 730-24, in the Amount Not To Exceed $189,999.79. [Gerardo Carmona Jr., P.E., Director of Utilities]] YES. OKAY. SO I READ ITEM D CONSIDER AUTHORIZING THE INSTALLATION OF A FORCE MAIN AT THE AIRPORT FROM SOUTHERN SOLUTIONS TO THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT PURCHASING COOPERATIVE BY BOARD, CONTRACT NUMBER SEVEN, 30, 24. IN THE AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED 189,997 AND $0.79. MOTION APPROVED. WE HAVE A MOTION. IS THERE A SECOND, SECOND AND A QUESTION? WE HAVE A SECOND. GO AHEAD. SIR. YEAH, THIS IS FOR A SEWER FORCE MAIN UP THERE. DO WE HAVE SEWER UP THERE NOW, OR IS THIS TO REPLACE SOMETHING OR FIX SOMETHING OR. GOOD EVENING, MAYOR AND COUNCIL, GERARDO CARMONA, DIRECTOR OF UTILITIES. SO WE CURRENTLY DON'T HAVE SEWER OUT THERE. BUT WE HAVE FINISHED THE THE PLANS FOR THE FOR A PROPOSED LIFT STATION THERE AT THE, AT THE AIRPORT. SO WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO DO IS THIS THE SERVICE, THE AIRPORT. YES, SIR. SO IT'S ONE OF THE INITIATIONS TO EVENTUALLY INSTALL SEWER THERE IN FOR THE AIRPORT. OKAY. BECAUSE THAT'S THE ONLY REALLY LAND WE HAVE UP THERE, RIGHT? IS THE SEWER. IS THIS GOING TO BE TRY TO BE FED TO SOMEWHERE ELSE? THE QUESTION I'M ASKING IS BECAUSE WHEN WE GOT INTO THIS AIRPORT STUFF, I ASKED TOM THE OTHER DAY IF WE HAVE, I THINK IT WAS TOM ASKED SOMEBODY IF THE AIRPORT HAS SEWER, AND THE NEXT THING THIS ONE POPPED ON THE LINE ABOUT THE SAME TIME. SO I WAS CURIOUS. SO THIS WILL BRING US SEWER TO THE AIRPORT AND WHAT ELSE WILL IT SPUR OFF OF? SO. YES, SIR. SO RIGHT NOW WE'RE GOING TO DO IS ON THE WEST SIDE. WE'RE GOING TO START WE'RE GOING TO INSTALL THE, THE FOR THE FORCE MAIN FOR FUTURE LIFT STATION THAT WE WOULD CONSTRUCT THE EXPRESSWAY SIDE ON THE WEST SIDE. YES. WILL THIS HELP FAYETTEVILLE THERE? THE LAND WE HAVE IN FAYETTEVILLE. RESIDENTS. FAYETTEVILLE. I THINK IT'S FURTHER SOUTH OF THAT. YEAH, BUT I MEAN, THAT'S WHAT THE FORCE IS GOING TO FORCE IT TO. WE DON'T HAVE A WE DON'T HAVE A PLANT UP THERE. RIGHT? NO, SIR. SO THE ON THE ON THE FORCE MAIN, WE DON'T ALLOW FOR PEOPLE TO CONNECT BECAUSE IT'S PRESSURIZED. SO THEN IT WILL START GOING INTO PEOPLE'S HOMES. BUT. YES, SIR. YES, SIR. FAYETTEVILLE HAS IT. SO THEY'RE CONNECTED TO THE STATION. OKAY. I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE. IS THIS SOMETHING THAT'S GOING TO IMPROVE THE WHOLE AREA, OR IS IT JUST THE AIRPORT? SO WHAT, IT'S GOING TO PROVE THE WHOLE. YEAH. SO BASICALLY THE LIFT STATION WILL BE ABLE TO HANDLE NOT JUST THE AIRPORT BUT OTHER OTHER DEVELOPMENT. FAYETTEVILLE. OR IS IT JUST GOING TO HELP THINGS TO THE NORTH. TO THE NORTH. SIR, WE DON'T HAVE ANYTHING TO THE NORTH. NO. SO WE WOULD ACTUALLY HAVE TO EXTEND THE PLANS THAT WE CURRENTLY HAVE RIGHT NOW IS THAT WE WOULD INSTALL THE OR CONSTRUCT THE LIFT STATION ON THE NORTHEAST SIDE OF THE AIRPORT, AND THEN WE WOULD HAVE TO RUN ENFORCEMENT ALL THE WAY DOWN TO CIBOLO. OKAY, BUT IF WE'RE PUTTING IT WAY UP THERE, WHAT IS IT? WHAT'S ITS FUTURE? THERE'S GOT TO BE A FUTURE INTENTION. IF YOU'RE GOING TO PUT ON THE NORTH SIDE OF FORT, YOU'RE GOING TO PUT IT AT 490 AND NORTH SIDE OF THE AIRPORT. THAT'S WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT, CORRECT? YES, SIR. RIGHT. SO WHAT'S THE FUTURE USE FOR IT? BECAUSE IF IT WAS JUST FOR THE SOUTHERN PART, YOU WOULD DO A FORCE MAIN SOMEWHERE FARTHER SOUTH TO PULL FROM THE AIRPORT AND PUSH PUSH DOWN. SO SOMEBODY'S GOT SOME PLANS FOR SOMETHING THAT'S GOING TO GO ABOVE 490. RIGHT. SO RIGHT NOW, AGAIN WITH THE INTENT WITH THIS PROJECT WAS JUST TO PROVIDE SEWER FOR THE FOR THE AIRPORT. I MEAN, THIS GOES BACK TO THE QUESTIONS I HAD ABOUT THE AIRPORT AND THE EXPRESSWAY. YES, SIR. AS PART OF THE CONVERSATION I HAD WITH WITH WITH TERRY WAS THE FACT THAT ABOUT ANNEXATION OF LAND UP IN THAT AREA. SO IS THIS PART OF SOMETHING THAT WILL FIX UP IN THAT AREA? NO, SIR. THIS IS SOLELY INTENDED FOR THE AIRPORT. THAT WAY, WE CAN PROCESS IT AS PART OF OUR MASTER PLAN TO GROW THE AIRPORT, TO ADD ADDITIONAL HANGAR SPACE, ADD MORE CARGO AREA FOR THAT AREA. THAT WAY WE CAN DEVELOP THAT AREA FOR THE GROWTH OF THE MASTER PLAN. THE QUESTION IS, WE NEED A LIFT STATION JUST FOR THE AIRPORT. YES, SIR. UNFORTUNATELY, SINCE IT'S SUCH A LARGE RUN FROM EL PUEBLO, WE WOULD NEED IT. WE WON'T HAVE ENOUGH DEPTH TO GET IF THEY START DEVELOPING, WHICH IS MORE LIKELY TO DEVELOP DOWN BY THEY WOULD NEED TO MAKE THE NECESSARY IMPROVEMENTS TO GET THAT FORCE DOWN THAT WAY TO. THEY WOULD HAVE TO EXTEND IT THAT I JUST WANT TO FIGURE WITH THE WITH THE PURPOSE OF THIS IS BECAUSE REMEMBER I ASKED YOU AND YOU SAID, NO, WE'RE ON SEPTIC. ALL OF A SUDDEN THIS POPS UP. RIGHT NOW WE ARE ON SEPTIC. WE WE JUST GOT AWARDED A GRANT FOR THAT. [02:35:03] SO I HAVE TO START PREPARING FOR THOSE TERMINAL UPGRADES. AND ONE OF THEM IS IS SEWER. THAT WE WOULD HAVE TO. OKAY. THANK YOU. MARK. ANY OTHER DISCUSSION? IF NOT, ALL IN FAVOR, PLEASE RAISE YOUR RIGHT HAND. ALL OPPOSED? SAME SIGN. [A. Consider Resolution Authorizing the City Manager to Submit a Grant Application to the U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation Under the Fiscal Year 2025 WaterSMART Water and Energy Efficiency Grant Program and to Execute Grant Documents Related Thereto. [Gerardo Carmona Jr., P.E., Director of Utilities]] MOTION CARRIES. ITEM 12 A RESOLUTIONS. THANK YOU. I READ RESOLUTION. SORRY, I CAN READ IT AGAIN. CONSIDER RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO SUBMIT A GRANT APPLICATION TO THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, BUREAU OF RECLAMATION, UNDER THE FISCAL YEAR 2025 WATER, SMART WATER AND ENERGY EFFICIENCY GRANT PROGRAM AND TO EXECUTE GRANT DOCUMENTS RELATED THERETO. YES, SIR. MOTION TO APPROVE. YEAH. DID JUST DID WE APPROVE THIS ONE ALREADY? MOTION TO SECOND. BUT WE NEED A VOTE. THERE WAS A MOTION IN SECOND AND WE VOTED FOR IT. ALREADY VOTED FOR. I WON'T ASK FOR A VOTE, BUT. OKAY. DO WE VOTE FOR IT? OKAY. ALL RIGHT. NO. IT'LL BE REFLECTED IN THE MINUTES. IF SO. ALL RIGHT. MAYOR, THERE WAS A MOTION BY DAVID. SECOND BY JASON. BUT DID I CALL FOR A VOTE, OR DID I JUST GO BACK TO. I DON'T RECALL YOU CALLING FOR A VOTE JUST FOR JUST. OKAY. YES. YEAH. I THINK I DIDN'T CALL FOR A VOTE BECAUSE I WENT BACK. CORRECT. SO IF YOU COULD JUST CALL FOR A VOTE, JUST FOR THE RECORD, PLEASE. ALL RIGHT, LET ME JUST. OKAY. ALL IN FAVOR, PLEASE RAISE YOUR RIGHT HAND. [A. Consider Approving the Fiscal Year 2024-2025 Budget Transfers for the Following: [Ascencion Alonzo, Director of Finance]] ALL OPPOSED? SAME SIGN. MOTION CARRIES. ALL RIGHT. WE'RE GOING TO MOVE ON TO ITEM 13. BUDGET A, CONSIDER APPROVING THE FISCAL YEAR 2024 2025 BUDGET TRANSFERS FOR THE FOLLOWING NUMBER ONE. HOTEL OCCUPANCY TAX FUND FROM UTRGV ATHLETICS MACHINES AND EQUIPMENT MAINTENANCE TO BUILDING AND STRUCTURES IN THE AMOUNT OF 26,185. ALL RIGHT. COUNCIL MOTION TO APPROVE. SECOND. MOTION AND SECOND. ALL IN FAVOR, PLEASE RAISE YOUR RIGHT HAND. I'M SORRY. SORRY ABOUT THAT. GO AHEAD. SIR. ATHLETIC MACHINES AND EQUIPMENT FOR UTRGV. DO YOU HAVE A FUND THAT FUNDS THEM? IS THERE A QUESTION? SO. FROM UTRGV ATHLETICS. MACHINES AND EQUIPMENT. MAYOR AND COUNCIL. DIRECTOR OF FINANCE. THERE WAS AN ITEM THAT THAT WAS BUDGETED THAT THAT WE WILL NO LONGER BE SPONSORSHIP FOR THE UTRGV ATHLETICS. THERE ARE TWO SEPARATE ITEMS, SIR. OKAY. THEY'RE SEPARATE. IT'S NOT LIKE WE WERE. NO. CORRECT. WE'RE NOT. WE'RE NOT TRYING TO FUND THEIR MACHINES AND EQUIPMENTS. NO, SIR. OKAY. IT'S GOING FROM FROM FROM THAT BUDGET ITEM TO I GOT IT. I GOT I DIDN'T SEE THE. YES, SIR. THE COLON. ALL RIGHT. THEY CALL FOR A VOTE. NO. SOMEBODY KEEP TRACK OF ME NOW! YES, SIR, I AM. OKAY. ALL RIGHT, ALL THOSE IN FAVOR, PLEASE RAISE YOUR RIGHT HAND. ALL OPPOSED? SAME SIGN. [14. CONSENT AGENDA] MOTION CARRIES. WE'RE GOING TO MOVE ON TO ITEM 14. COUNCIL'S CONSENT AGENDA. WE HAVE A, B, C, D AND E MOVE TO APPROVE A THROUGH E. I'D LIKE TO PULL B THROUGH C OKAY. YOU'D LIKE TO. OKAY. SO THERE WAS NO MOTION. SO IS THAT A MOTION OR ARE YOU OKAY WITH. IT'S NOT THAT BIG OF A DEAL. I'M JUST KIND OF CURIOUS HOW HOW MUCH MONEY WE'RE GIVING. NOW, LET'S JUST GO WITH JASON'S. YEAH. DO YOU WANT TO SECOND HIS MOTION? I'LL SECOND IT. OKAY, BUT YOU COULD STILL DISCUSS IT, SIR. I MEAN, CONSENT. I MEAN, ALL RIGHT. ALL RIGHT. MOTION AND A SECOND TO APPROVE ITEMS A, B, C, D, AND E. I WOULD JUST LIKE TO THANK STAFF FOR WORKING WITH. I SEE BOBBY CALVILLO HERE FROM AFFORDABLE HOMES. I WAS GOING TO CALL MCALLEN AFFORDABLE HOMES. THAT'S THE OLD NAME. BUT THANK YOU, STAFF. AND TO COMING UP WITH A SOLUTION. LOOK FORWARD TO THE PROJECT BEING FINALIZED. SO. ALL RIGHT. ALL IN FAVOR, PLEASE RAISE YOUR RIGHT HAND. ALL OPPOSED? SAME SIGN. MOTION CARRIES. UNDER OTHER BUSINESS COUNCIL, IS THERE ANY ITEMS? I'D LIKE AN ITEM THAT SO ESPECIALLY WITH LIKE THE COMMENT THAT FERN MADE TO THAT WE'LL TAKE. MAYBE IT NEEDS TO BE AN ORDINANCE THAT WE DO NOT HAVE MEETINGS ON ELECTION DAYS. YES, MA'AM. WE HAVE THE PRIMARY. WE HAVE THE GENERAL. I'M TALKING ABOUT THE THE MAJOR ONES. NOT LIKE THE SCHOOL OR SOMETHING, JUST THE SCHOOL. BUT LIKE WHEN WE HAVE THE PRIMARY ELECTIONS AND THE, THE GENERAL, WE CAN DO SOME WAY ORDINANCE THAT WAY. WE DON'T HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT THAT BECAUSE I ALSO DON'T WANT LIKE THE COMMENT MADE, THAT IT SOUNDED LIKE IT COULD BE SOME POLITICAL THING. NEXT TIME WHEN THREE PEOPLE ARE UP TO RIGHT, WE DON'T NEED TO PUT OURSELVES INTO THAT. SO WE JUST DO AN ORDINANCE SO WE JUST DON'T HAVE IN THOSE DAYS, WE COULD SKIP IT TO ANOTHER DATE. NO, WE COULD PUT IT IN THE ORDINANCE. WE HAVE IT THE WEDNESDAY THE THE FOLLOWING. WE COULD I THINK AT THIS TIME WHAT I WOULD ASK, I WOULD BE IN AGREEMENT WITH THAT. I WOULD ASK IS OUR CITY SECRETARY GIVE US A CALENDAR OF ALL THE THINGS COMING UP, AND YOU ALL INSERT ITEMS IN THERE FOR US TO CONSIDER APPROVING WHETHER WE'RE GOING TO HAVE A MEETING OR NOT, FOR EXAMPLE, DECEMBER NEXT MONTH. RIGHT. THERE'S WHEN'S THE SECOND MEETING? IN DECEMBER LAST YEAR. WE LAST YEAR WE CANCELED IT OR WE MOVED IT. I THINK WE MOVED OR COUNCIL MEMBER SO WE CAN DO IT. I'M, I MEAN, YOU KNOW, DECEMBER 3RD AND THEN DECEMBER 17TH. [02:40:04] YEAH, THAT'S PROBABLY NOT GOING TO APPEAR WITH CHRISTMAS. SO ANYWAY. BUT YEAH, IF Y'ALL COULD JUST MAYBE BRING BACK A CALENDAR SO THAT WE CAN LOOK AT IT AND SEE WHAT ITEM, WHAT MEETINGS WE'D LIKE TO. AND I'M REALLY THINKING ABOUT I MEAN, WE REALLY THOUGHT ABOUT IT AFTER THE COMMENT WAS MADE THAT THAT WE WON'T HAVE AN ELECTION, WE WON'T HAVE A MEETING. AND NEXT TIME WHEN THREE PEOPLE ARE UP AND IT'S KIND OF RIGHT. SO WHY DON'T WE JUST TAKE THE POLITICS OUT OF IT, THAT WE JUST DO IT? THAT'S ALL I'M ASKING. YEAH. OKAY. YES, SIR. AND THEN I JUST LIKE AN ITEM ON THIS REPORT TODAY ON MS4 THERE THAT THAT COMPLIANCE. STORMWATER. YES, SIR. COMPLIANCE. IF I JUST LIKE THAT LOOKED INTO IT AT ALL. OKAY. ALL RIGHT. THERE'S NOTHING ELSE. IS THERE A MOTION TO GO INTO? EXECUTIVE. SO MOVED. SECOND. A MOTION AND A SECOND. ITEMS A THROUGH E OR CITY SECRETARY. WILL WILL READ OFF. ALL IN FAVOR? GOING EXECUTIVE RAISE YOUR RIGHT HAND. ALL OPPOSED? SAME SIGN. IT IS 839, AND WE'RE NOW GOING INTO EXECUTIVE SESSION ITEM A CONSULTATION WITH CITY ATTORNEY. ITEM B DELIBERATION REGARDING REAL PROPERTY. ITEM C. PERSONNEL MATTERS ITEM D DELIBERATION REGARDING ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT MATTERS. PROJECT ITEM E DELIBERATION REGARDING ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT MATTERS. YES. COUNCIL MEMBER DAVID SALAZAR JR AND COUNCIL MEMBER DAVID WHITE SITTING IN AS HIS ADVISERS, CITY MANAGER MYRA AYALA AND CITY ATTORNEY JOSEPHINE RAMIREZ SOLIS, AND NOW LIVE FROM EDINBURG CITY HALL. THE EDINBURG CITY COUNCIL. GOOD EVENING EVERYBODY. WELCOME TO TODAY'S MEETING. MY NAME IS RAMIRO GARZA, MAYOR OF THE CITY OF EDINBURG. I WANT TO CALL THIS MEETING TO ORDER. I DO SEE VISIBLY THAT WE DO HAVE A QUORUM THIS EVENING. AND WE'RE GOING TO START LIKE WE DO EVERY MEETING WITH A PRAYER. IF YOU COULD PLEASE RISE. TODAY WE HAVE RABBI ASHER HECHT, AND HE'S GOING TO LEAD US IN PRAYER TODAY. GOOD EVENING, EVERYONE. I THINK WE COULD ALL AGREE THAT AS THIS IS AN IMPORTANT NIGHT IN THE CITY OF EDINBURGH, IT SURELY IS AN IMPORTANT NIGHT FOR OUR ENTIRE COUNTRY. AND WE BESEECH GOD'S BLESSINGS AS WE PRAY HERE FOR GREATNESS. FRIENDS, LET US TOGETHER JOIN AND MAKE A PRAYER. ALMIGHTY GOD, WE HAVE ASSEMBLED HERE TODAY FOR THE PURPOSE OF COMMUNAL SERVICE ON BEHALF OF THE RESIDENTS OF OUR BEAUTIFUL CITY. AND WHAT MAKES THIS CITY EVEN MORE BEAUTIFUL IS THE VERY FACT THAT ITS MONTHLY MEETINGS BEGIN WITH YOU, GOD, IN MIND THROUGH THIS VERY PRAYER. BLESS OUR WORK HERE TODAY. BLESS THE WORK OF THE HONORABLE MAYOR, CITY COUNCILORS, CITY MANAGER, CITY OFFICIALS AND ALL THEIR STAFF ALONG WITH ALL OUR FELLOW CITIZENS. BLESS US THAT OUR EFFORTS BEAR GOOD FRUIT, THAT OUR THOUGHTFUL, HONEST AND RESPECTFUL DIALOG LEAD TO CONSTRUCTIVE RESULTS. PLEASE GUIDE OUR HAND AS WE MAKE IMPORTANT DECISIONS FOR OUR COMMUNITY. IN OUR CIVIC SERVICE, WE FULFILL THE MANDATE THAT YOU HAVE BESTOWED UPON US, INSTRUCTED TO NOAH IN HIS DAY AND CONVEYED THROUGH MOSES AT MOUNT SINAI. KNOWN AS THE SEVEN UNIVERSAL ETHICS. ONE TO WORSHIP YOU AND YOU ALONE. TWO. NEVER TO CURSE YOUR HOLY NAME THREE. NOT TO COMMIT MURDER FOUR. NOT TO COMMIT ADULTERY, INCEST, OR ANY SEXUAL MISDEEDS FIVE. NOT TO STEAL, LIE OR CHEAT SIX. NOT TO BE CRUEL TO ANY LIVING CREATURE, AND SEVEN. THAT EVERY SOCIETY BE GOVERNED BY JUST LAWS BASED ON THE RECOGNITION AND ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF YOU, O GOD, AS THE SOVEREIGN, RULER, RULER OF ALL HUMANKIND AND ALL NATIONS. AND THIS ASSEMBLY IS DOING RIGHT NOW THIS EXACTLY BY OPENING THIS MEETING WITH PRAYER AS THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORK FOR THIS GREAT CITY. ALL TO MAKE YOUR GARDEN OUR WORLD, WHICH YOU HAVE GIVEN US TO INHABIT A SAFE, MORAL AND CONSTRUCTIVE PLACE. A BEAUTIFUL PLACE, ONE FILLED WITH GOODNESS AND KINDNESS THAT EXPRESSES THE BEAUTY OF THE DIVINE INTENT. ALMIGHTY GOD, IN THE MERIT OF OUR SINCERE EFFORTS. BLESS US ALL WITH GOOD HEALTH, SUCCESS IN ALL OUR ENDEAVORS AND POSITIVE RESULTS FROM OUR WORK. [02:45:02] BLESS OUR WONDERFUL CITY AND COMMUNITIES SO THAT IT CONTINUES TO PROSPER AND GROW. TO BE A MODEL CITY WITHIN OUR GREAT STATE AND OUR BELOVED COUNTRY. ALMIGHTY GOD. BLESS US WITH CLARITY, BLESS US WITH STRENGTH, AND BLESS US WITH PEACE, ESPECIALLY DURING THESE HARD TIMES. NOW LET US SAY AMEN. PLEASE JOIN US FOR OUR PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE. I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AND TO THE REPUBLIC FOR WHICH IT STANDS. ONE NATION UNDER GOD, INDIVISIBLE, WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL. THANK YOU. RABBI. WE'RE GOING TO MOVE ON TO ITEM TWO, CERTIFICATION OF PUBLIC NOTICE. YES, SIR. THE MEETING WAS CLOSED IN ACCORDANCE TO THE TEXAS OPEN MEETINGS ACT, ON NOVEMBER 1ST, 2024 AT 9:45 P.M.. SIR. THANK YOU. ITEM THREE IS DISCLOSURE OF CONFLICT OF INTEREST. YES. UNDER STATE LAW, LOCAL GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS ARE REQUIRED TO DISCLOSE THE SUBSTANTIAL INTEREST FOR THEMSELVES OR CERTAIN FAMILY MEMBERS AND ABSTAIN FROM VOTING ON MATTERS RELATED TO SUCH A CONFLICT. ARE THERE ANY CONFLICTS TO DISCLOSE ON MATTERS RELATED TO TODAY'S AGENDA? NO NO NO. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. ITEM FOUR IS CITY MANAGER'S REPORT. YES. GOOD EVENING, MAYOR AND COUNCIL. FOR THE CITY MANAGER REPORT. WHAT I HAVE TODAY IS A COMMUNITY PLANTING DAY. THAT IS BEING COORDINATED THROUGH OUR PARKS AND RECREATION. THE CITY OF EDINBURG INVITES RESIDENTS TO JOIN US FOR COMMUNITY PLANTING DAY THIS SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 9TH, BEGINNING AT 9 A.M. AT THE PROMENADE PARK AMPHITHEATER. THE EVENT WILL OPEN WITH A BRIEF CEREMONY, INCLUDING A WELCOME MESSAGE AND AN EXPRESSION OF APPRECIATION TO THE APACHE CORPORATION FOR THEIR GENEROUS GRANT OF 200 TREES DONATED TO OUR COMMUNITY. FOLLOWING THE CEREMONY, 150 TREES WILL BE AVAILABLE FOR COMMUNITY MEMBERS TO TAKE HOME WHILE SUPPLIES LAST. IN ADDITION, 25 TREES WILL BE PLANTED AT THE PROMENADE PARK THAT MORNING, WITH ANOTHER 25 TREES SCHEDULED FOR PLANTING AT DE ZAVALA. THE CITY SCHOOL PARK. AND WE'VE INVITED THE EDINBURG 2040 NEIGHBORHOOD PARK'S GREEN SPACE BEAUTIFICATION COMMITTEE TO PARTICIPATE. BUT WE WOULD ALSO LIKE TO WARMLY EXTEND THE INVITATION TO ALL RESIDENTS, COMMUNITY GROUPS AND ORGANIZATIONS TO JOIN US IN ENHANCING EDINBURGH'S GREEN SPACES BY PLANTING OR TAKING HOME A TREE. THAT'S ALL I HAVE, MAYOR. THANK YOU. WE'RE GOING TO MOVE ON TO ITEM FIVE. WE HAVE ONE PROCLAMATION FOR THIS EVENING TO RECOGNIZE MUNICIPAL COURTS WEEK FROM NOVEMBER 4TH THROUGH EIGHTH. I'M NOT SURE IF OUR JUDGE IS HERE OR MISS MARIBEL. IF YOU COULD COME TO THE PODIUM AND WE'LL READ OUT THE PROCLAMATION. MUNICIPAL COURTS WEEK, NOVEMBER 4TH THROUGH EIGHT, 2024. WHEREAS THE EDINBURG MUNICIPAL COURT HAS EXISTED SINCE AUGUST 24TH, 1926, AND SERVES AS A LOCAL JUSTICE CENTER FOR THE ENFORCEMENT OF LOCAL ORDINANCES AND FINE ONLY STATE OFFENSES THAT PROTECT THE PEACE AND DIGNITY OF OUR COMMUNITY. AND WHEREAS MUNICIPAL COURTS PLAY A SIGNIFICANT ROLE IN PRESERVING PUBLIC SAFETY AND PROMOTING QUALITY OF LIFE IN TEXAS, AND WHEREAS MORE PEOPLE COME IN CONTACT WITH MUNICIPAL COURTS THAN ALL OTHER TEXAS COURTS COMBINED, THE PUBLIC'S IMPRESSION OF THE TEXAS JUDICIAL SYSTEM IS LARGELY DEPENDENT UPON THEIR EXPERIENCE IN MUNICIPAL COURT, AND WHEREAS THE PROCEDURES FOR MUNICIPAL COURT OPERATIONS ARE SET FORTH IN THE TEXAS COURT OF CRIMINAL PROCEDURES AND OTHER LAWS OF THE STATE OF TEXAS, WHEREAS THE EDINBURG MUNICIPAL COURT JUDGE AND CLERK CONTINUOUSLY STRIVE TO IMPROVE THE ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE THROUGH PARTICIPATION IN JUDICIAL EDUCATION PROGRAMS, SEMINARS, AND WORKSHOPS. AND WHEREAS, THE CITY OF EDINBURG IS COMMITTED TO THE NOTION THAT OUR LEGAL SYSTEM IS BASED ON THE PRINCIPLE THAT AN INDEPENDENT, FAIR AND COMPETENT JUDICIARY WILL INTERPRET AND APPLY THE LAWS THAT GOVERN US, GOVERN US AND THE JUDGES. THE COURT PERSONNEL SHOULD COMPLY WITH THE LAW AND ACT IN A MANNER THAT PROMOTES PUBLIC CONFIDENCE IN THE INTEGRITY AND IMPARTIALITY OF THE JUDICIARY. JUSTICE. AND WHEREAS, THE EDINBURG CITY COUNCIL RECOGNIZES THE ACCOMPLISHMENTS OF THE TEXAS MUNICIPAL COURTS AND SALUTES THEIR CRITICAL ROLE IN PRESERVING PUBLIC SAFETY, PROTECTING THE QUALITY OF LIFE IN TEXAS COMMUNITIES, AND CRIMINAL CASES FOR ALL DEFENDANTS, INCLUDING INDIGENT DEFENDANTS, AND SUPPORTS THE EDINBURG MUNICIPAL COURT IN COMPLYING WITH SUCH LEGAL REQUIREMENTS. NOW, THEREFORE, THE MAYOR AND COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF EDINBURG, TEXAS, BY THE POWER VESTED IN THEM BY LAW, DO HEREBY PROCLAIM NOVEMBER 4TH THROUGH EIGHT, 2024, AS MUNICIPAL COURTS WEEK. DURING THIS WEEK, WE ENCOURAGE ALL RESIDENTS TO VISIT THE EDINBURG MUNICIPAL COURT AND GET TO KNOW THE MUNICIPAL COURT STAFF. THANK YOU, MAYOR AND COUNCIL MEMBERS. MY NAME IS MARIBEL VELAZQUEZ, COURT ADMINISTRATOR FOR FOR THE MUNICIPAL COURT. HAVE A FEW WORDS JUST TO SAY YOU KNOW, ON BEHALF OF MYSELF AND AND OF COURSE, MY STAFF, YOU KNOW, WE APPRECIATE EVERYTHING THAT YOU'VE DONE FOR US, BUT JUST WANTED TO SHARE. AS WE OBSERVED MUNICIPAL COURTS, WE PAUSE TO CONSIDER THE ESSENTIAL FUNCTION THE MUNICIPAL COURTS FULFILL IN OUR COMMUNITIES. WE ARE A VITAL COMPONENT OF OUR LEGAL SYSTEM, AND ARE FREQUENTLY THE INITIAL POINT OF CONTACT FOR PEOPLE LOOKING INTO JUSTICE. FROM TRAFFIC INFRACTIONS TO LOCAL ORDINANCES, [02:50:01] MUNICIPAL COURT HANDLES A WIDE RANGE OF MATTERS AND PLAY A VITAL ROLE IN GUARANTEEING THAT THE LAW IS APPLIED JUSTLY AND EQUALLY. COURTS SUPPORT THE PREVENTION OF ORDER, PUBLIC SAFETY, AND CITIZEN ACCOUNTABILITY. THIS WEEK, WE CELEBRATE THE DILIGENCE AND COMMITMENT OF THE JUDGES, CLERKS, AND STAFF WHO MAKE SURE OUR COURTS RUN SMOOTHLY AND FAIRLY. IT IS SHOWN IN THEIR DEDICATION TO UPHOLDING THE LAW AND HOW CONSIDERATE THEY ARE. WE HANDLE COMPLEX LEGAL ISSUES WHILE MAKING SURE THAT EACH PERSON IS HANDLED WITH DIGNITY AND RESPECT. ADDITIONALLY, MUNICIPAL COURTS ARE ESSENTIAL FOR THE COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT BY PROVIDING OUTREACH INITIATIVES, EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES, AND ALTERNATIVE DISPUTE RESOLUTION PROCESS. THEY PROMOTE A CULTURE OF MUTUAL RESPECT AND COMPASSION BY WORKING DIRECTLY WITH LOCAL ORGANIZATIONS TO ADDRESS UNDERLYING ISSUES THAT MAY LEAD TO INFRACTIONS. WE PRIORITIZE REHABILITATION ABOVE PUNISHMENT THROUGH OUTREACH AND EDUCATION. WE HAVE ESTABLISHED RELATIONSHIPS WITH EDINBURG ISD, SOUTH TEXAS ISD, VANGUARD, AND OUR SURROUNDING SCHOOL DISTRICTS. WE HAVE PLEDGED TO KEEP UP OUR COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT BY OFFERING OUR OUTREACH DOCKETS, WHICH INCLUDE A MOBILE COURT AT VARIOUS CITY FACILITIES TO SERVE RESIDENTS AFTER HOURS, AND OUR FIRST EVER CAR SEAT EVENT DURING CHILD PASSENGER SAFETY WEEK IN SEPTEMBER 2024 TO PROMOTE CHILD SAFETY, I AM PROUD TO SAY THAT OUR CONTINUING EFFORTS TO KEEPING EDINBURG RESIDENTS SAFE HAVE CAUSED SUCH AN IMPACT THAT OUT OF OVER 900 MUNICIPAL COURTS IN THE STATE OF TEXAS, OURS HAS BEEN RECOGNIZED. WE HAVE RECEIVED NUMEROUS NUMEROUS AWARDS FOR TRAFFIC SAFETY AND CONTINUE TO WORK TOWARDS UPHOLDING SUCH HIGH RECOGNITIONS. AS WE COMMEMORATE MUNICIPAL COURTS WEEK, LET US KEEP IN MIND THAT JUSTICE IS ABOUT MORE THAN SIMPLY PUNISHMENT. IT IS ALSO ABOUT RESTORING BALANCE, ENCOURAGING REHABILITATION, AND CREATING A COMMUNITY THAT IS SAFER AND MORE WELCOMING. LET US PLEDGE TO MAKE SURE THAT THESE VALUES ARE UPHELD BY OUR COURTS GOING FORWARD, ALLOWING EVERYONE TO ACCESS JUSTICE. LET US WORK TOGETHER TO CREATE A SOCIETY THAT IS MORE EQUAL AND JUST. I WOULD LIKE TO USE THIS OPPORTUNITY TO EXTEND OUR GRATITUDE TO CITY MANAGEMENT, THE MAYOR, CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS, AND MOST IMPORTANTLY, OUR MUNICIPAL COURT JUDGE AND PROSECUTOR FOR THEIR COLLABORATIVE EFFORTS TO ENSURE THAT THE LAW IS ENFORCED FAIRLY AND EQUALLY. THAT IS ALL I HAVE. ALSO, I'D LIKE TO EXTEND AN INVITATION. WE ARE HAVING A MUNICIPAL COURTS. ACTUALLY, IT'S DONUTS AND COFFEE WITH MUNICIPAL COURT STAFF ON THURSDAY. SO IT'S AT 10:00 IN THE MORNING. SO WE INVITE EVERYONE YOU, ALL THE PUBLIC. SO IT WOULD BE NICE TO SEE YOU ALL THAT. THAT MORNING. BUT BUT THANK YOU FOR EVERYTHING. AND OF COURSE, THANKS TO MY STAFF FOR FOR EVERYTHING THAT THEY DO. THANK YOU, MISS MARIBEL AND ALL OF YOU. I JOKE WITH MARAVILLAS THAT YOUR STAFF HAS GROWN. I REMEMBER WHEN THERE WAS 3 OR 4 OF YOU A LONG TIME AGO. BUT THANK YOU FOR ALL. YOU ALL DO. WE REALLY APPRECIATE IT. ON BEHALF OF MYSELF AND THE CITY COUNCIL, THANK YOU. THANK YOU FOR ALL. YOU ALL DO. AND WE'LL MAKE SURE WE STOP BY ON THURSDAY. ALRIGHT. THANK YOU SO MUCH. BYE BYE. THANK YOU. WE DO HAVE A LITTLE SOMETHING. I'M SORRY I FORGOT TO GIVE YOU ALL THIS, BUT THANK YOU. THANK YOU. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. SO GET OUT OF JAIL. FREE CARD OR WHAT? I DON'T KNOW WHAT. SORRY. GET OUT OF JAIL. FREE CARD OR NO. ALL RIGHT. WE'RE GOING TO MOVE ON TO ITEM SIX. PUBLIC COMMENTS. THE EDINBURGH CITY COUNCIL ASKED FOR A SPECIFIC PORTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL MEETING TO BE DEDICATED TO PUBLIC COMMENTS. PUBLIC COMMENTS ARE LIMITED TO THREE MINUTES. I WILL BE TAKING TIME. PLEASE NOTE THE PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD IS NOT INTERACTIVE. THE COUNCIL MAY NOT RESPOND TO PUBLIC COMMENTS AT THIS TIME. COUNCIL. THERE ARE TEN PUBLIC COMMENTS. THE FIRST PUBLIC COMMENT IS FOR CLARITY REGARDING ELECTION DAY. GENTLEMEN, ON THIS DAY, OUR NATION IS DECIDING WHO WILL BE OUR LEADERS ON A GOVERNMENTAL LEVEL. THIS IS MOST IMPORTANT DATE ON THE AGENDA OF THE FREE WORLD. RUSSIA, CHINA AND ESPECIALLY ISRAEL ARE ALL WAITING FOR THE FREE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES TO DECIDE WHO OUR NEW LEADER WILL BE. THE TWO PARTIES HAVE SPENT MILLIONS OF DOLLARS TRYING TO CONVINCE PEOPLE THAT THEY SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO LEAD OUR COUNTRY. MY POINT IS THAT WE THE PEOPLE, SHOULD STOP AND PAY ATTENTION TO WHAT IS HAPPENING BECAUSE THE RESULTS WILL SIGNIFICANTLY IMPACT THE PEOPLE AND THE COMMUNITY. THIS COUNCIL COULD NOT CHANGE THE MEETING DATE SO MORE PEOPLE COULD ATTEND. AND ALSO THEY'RE WORKING TODAY AT THE POLLS. IF THIS WAS THE DATE FOR THE ELECTION FOR NEXT YEAR, I BELIEVE THREE COUNCIL MEMBERS, I BET YOU $100 WE WON'T HAVE THE MEETING ON ELECTION NIGHT. SO THANK YOU. [02:55:02] AND FINALLY, I WILL EMPHASIZE THAT A MAJOR PART OF THE REPUBLICAN PLATFORM IS TO LOWER TAXES, SUCH AS ELIMINATING TAXES ON SOCIAL SECURITY TIPS AND MANY MORE THINGS. MOST BOTH PARTIES RECOGNIZE THAT 20% RATE OF INFLATION IS NOT ACCEPTABLE. GENTLEMEN, NOW COME TO THE GOOD PART SINCE EVERYONE AGREES THAT THERE IS SIGNIFICANT INFLATION, WHAT HAS THIS COUNCIL DONE TO REDUCE THE COST OF LIVING IN EDINBURGH? THE INCREASE IN WATER RATES IS 67%. WILL NOT DO IT. SUPPORTING THE APPRAISAL DISTRICT PROPERTY VALUE INCREASE WILL NOT DO IT. NOTHING THAT THIS COUNCIL HAS DONE WILL REDUCE THE COST OF LIVING IN EDINBURGH. IN FACT, THOSE PROJECTS WILL INCREASE THE COST OF LIVING AND MORE PEOPLE WILL LOSE THEIR HOMES AND BUSINESSES. TONIGHT I NOTICED THAT YOU ALL ARE SITTING IN SOME GORGEOUS CHAIRS. WE GOT FIVE OF THEM AND THEIR LEATHER AND SUPPOSEDLY YOU GOT THEM FOR A GOOD DEAL. BUT I'M SORRY. WHEN OUR PROPERTY VALUES, IF YOU LOOK AT 2025, HAS GONE UP UNMERCIFULLY. SO SHAME ON YOU ALL. AND TONIGHT, I WOULD ALWAYS ALSO LIKE TO ASK EVERYONE TO PLEASE PRAY FOR ISRAEL THAT SHE STANDS AND THAT SHE KEEPS FIGHTING, AND THAT ALL THE HOSTAGES CAN BE BROUGHT BACK. AND I PRAY THAT OUR NEW LEADERSHIP WILL LEAD ISRAEL OUT OF THIS WAR. THANK YOU. THANK YOU MA'AM. MISS MCLARTY ALSO HAS QUESTIONS ON ITEM SEVEN A AND EIGHT A. THE NEXT PUBLIC COMMENT IS JOE BUTCH. REGARDING ITEM SEVEN A. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU AND GOOD EVENING. MY NAME IS JOE HUEBSCH. I'M A GENERAL COUNSEL OF THE BERT OGDEN AUTO GROUP. I'M HERE ON BEHALF OF THE GROUP, MR. BOB BACKER. MR. BACKER WANTED TO BE HERE PERSONALLY TO DELIVER THESE REMARKS, BUT HE HAD A PRIOR ENGAGEMENT WITH UTRGV. I'M HERE TO PROVIDE BERT OGDEN'S OBJECTION TO THE PROPOSED MEETINGS AT ALBERTA AND CLOSNER. I'VE DISCUSSED THE MEDIAN SITUATION RECENTLY WITH THE CITY'S ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT, AND I HAVE RECEIVED A COPY OF THE PROPOSED PLANS. ALSO, I KNOW THAT SEVERAL OF US IN THE ORGANIZATION HAVE DISCUSSED IT WITH CITY PERSONNEL PREVIOUSLY, AND WE JUST RECENTLY DISCUSSED POTENTIAL SOLUTIONS WITH STATE REPRESENTATIVE TERRY CANALES. HE HAS GRACIOUSLY AGREED TO TRY TO HELP US WITH TXDOT. MY UNDERSTANDING IS THAT THE FIRST CHOICE WAS FOR A TRAFFIC LIGHT, BUT THAT TEX-DOT DECLINED, AND SO THAT THE REMAINING OPTIONS ARE TO INSTALL THE MEDIAN OR JUST TO DO NOTHING. SO FOR OUR GROUP, FOR THE PURPOSES OF TODAY, THE MEDIANS WOULD SIGNIFICANTLY IMPAIR OUR BUSINESS OPERATIONS. I'M SPECIFICALLY REFERRING TO CADILLAC, INFINITI AND THE NISSAN DEALERSHIP AS A FEW EXAMPLES. OUR TRANSPORT TRUCKS USE ALBERTA AND CLOSNER TO DELIVER VEHICLES AND PARTS. THE MEDIANS WOULD CAUSE REROUTING AND SAFETY ISSUES. ALSO, WE'RE CONCERNED THAT TRAFFIC WOULD BE DIVERTED TO THE FRONTAGE ROAD LEADING IN FRONT OF THE DEALERSHIPS, WHICH COULD LEAD TO MORE ACCIDENTS. WE WANT TO PROVIDE OUR CUSTOMERS WITH A SAFE EXPERIENCE DURING TEST DRIVES, AND ALSO WHEN THEY'RE ENTERING AND EXITING THE DEALERSHIPS. IN LIGHT OF THOSE CONCERNS AND THE POTENTIAL TO DISCUSS FURTHER WITH TXDOT, WE JUST ASK THAT YOU POSTPONE ANY DECISION ON THE MEDIANS UNTIL WE'VE HAD A CHANCE TO DISCUSS THE TRAFFIC LIGHT POTENTIAL AND STUDY THE IMPACT THE MEDIANS COULD HAVE ON THE BUSINESSES IN THAT AREA. AND I THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME AND CONSIDERATION. THANK YOU. THANK YOU SIR. THANK YOU. THE NEXT PUBLIC COMMENT IS JOEL GARCIA REGARDING STATE HIGHWAY 68. WELL, WE JUST WANT TO SHARE ABOUT HOW THIS IS AFFECTING US, HIGHWAY 68 AND OUR PROPERTY. AND I SPEAK OF OURSELVES AND MY NEIGHBORS. EVERYBODY KNEW THAT THE HIGHWAY WAS GOING TO GO PREVIOUSLY FROM 490 EXPANDING US. WE WENT BACK TO AVOID ANY SITUATIONS WITH TEXAS DOT. AND AS SOON AS WE FINISHED OUR PROJECT, TEXAS DOT NOTIFIED US ABOUT, HEY, WE'RE GOING TO MOVE THE HIGHWAY TO THE MIDDLE OF YOUR PROPERTY. SO IT'S DIVIDING OUR AREA. AND WE JUST WANTED TO SHARE SOME THINGS THAT HAS AFFECTED US. AND WITH THIS NEW SITUATION, IT'S GOT US ON STANDBY. WE CAN'T DO NOTHING BECAUSE WE HAVEN'T HAD AN ANSWER OF WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN. SO WE'RE GOING TO READ A LITTLE BIT AND WE CAN GIVE SOME. I'M GOING TO SHARE THE LETTER WE WROTE TO THE MAYOR A FEW WEEKS AGO. THE NEW PROPOSAL OF TEXAS DOT WILL BE AFFECTING US IN MANY WAYS. OUR PROPERTY WOULD BE SPLIT IN HALF, WHICH WOULD CAUSE OUR CURRENT HOME TO BE DESTROYED. WE HAVE INVESTED TIME AND MONEY IN THIS LAND TO MAKE IT OUR DREAM FAMILY RANCH. [03:00:02] AS MY HUSBAND BEING A BURN SURVIVOR, TIME HAS BECOME VERY VALUABLE TO US AND OUR FAMILY. MAKE MAKING THE SITUATION HARDER ON US. WE ARE AT A POINT IN OUR LIVES WHERE WE HAVE STARTED TO SETTLE BACK IN OUR REGULAR LIVES, AFTER SO MANY YEARS OF GOING THROUGH HARD TIMES. WHEN WE PURCHASED OUR PROPERTY ON IN MARCH OF 2021, NEITHER THE REALTOR OR THE TITLE COMPANY. EVER MENTIONED SUCH PROJECT ABOUT THE PROPERTY. WE GOT OUR CONSTRUCTION PERMIT IN 2022 AND AND THEY ALSO NEVER MENTIONED ANYTHING ABOUT THE FUTURE PROJECT. LATER, AFTER BUYING THE PROPERTY, OUR NEXT DOOR NEIGHBOR, JOE VALE, SAID THAT THERE WAS A PLAN ON EXPANDING FM 490 INTO A FOUR LANE HIGHWAY, WHICH WHICH WOULD HAVE TAKEN ABOUT 300FT FROM OUR FRONT OF OUR PROPERTY. AFTER HEARING THIS, WE DECIDED TO CONSTRUCT OUR HOME BACK APPROXIMATELY 1800 FEET FROM FM 490 TO AVOID HAVING THE PROPOSED HIGHWAY TOO CLOSE TO OUR HOME. AFTER COMPLETING OUR HOME CONSTRUCTION, WE GOT A LETTER FROM TEXAS DOT ABOUT THE REROUTE OF STATE HIGHWAY 68 GOING THROUGH A PROPERTY, DIVIDING IT IN HALF AND DESTROYED, DESTROYING OUR HOME. WE ARE GREATLY IMPACTED. WHEN WE HEARD THIS NEWS, WE TOLD THE NEIGHBORS AND THEY HAD NOT HEARD HEARD ANYTHING ABOUT THIS CHANGE EITHER. WE HAVE BEEN ON STANDBY EVER SINCE THIS ISSUE, WHICH IS HOLDING US FROM CONSTRUCTING OUR FUTURE, FROM CONTINUING OUR FUTURE PLANS. THE NEIGHBORS AND US HAVE HAD SEVERAL MEETINGS WITH TEXAS DOT THIS YEAR, TELLING THEM HOW WE ARE AGAINST IT AND THE WAY IT WOULD AFFECT US. THEY DON'T SEEM TO CARE AT ALL AND DO NOT WANT TO CHANGE THEIR PLANS. THEREFORE, HAVING SAID THIS, WE ARE NOT IN FAVOR OF THE SECOND PROPOSAL OF STATE HIGHWAY 68. MISS GARCIA WE HAVE THREE MINUTES, BUT WE HAVE AN ITEM ON THE AGENDA THAT YOU CAN CONTINUE YOUR COMMENTS. OKAY. THANK YOU FOR THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS. THANK YOU. THE NEXT PUBLIC COMMENT IS DIANA SEPULVEDA WITH QUESTIONS. HI, EVERYBODY. AND I'M GLAD I HAVE THE CHANCE TO BE HERE. MY NAME IS DIANA SEPULVEDA, AND THIS IS MY HUSBAND, RAY SEPULVEDA. WE LIVE ON WEST MEADOWS SUBDIVISION. I DON'T KNOW HOW FAR ALONG THIS PROCESS HAS BEEN GOING ON. I HAVE A FEELING I JUMPED IN ON THE TAIL END AND THAT'S UNFORTUNATE FOR ME AS A AS A RESIDENT OF EDINBURGH AND A TAXPAYER. I WANT MY COMMENTS, MY CONCERNS TO BE HEARD AND THAT'S WHY I'M HERE. I HAD PREVIOUSLY MENTIONED ALL THE APARTMENTS IN EDINBURGH. WOW. IT'S A BIG WOW. APARTMENTS IN EDINBURGH, EVERYWHERE, NORTH, SOUTH, EAST AND WEST. SO MANY APARTMENTS. I CAN WALK TO ALL THE APARTMENTS AROUND THE NEIGHBORHOOD WHERE I LIVE AND AND I WOULD NOT MISS A SINGLE ONE. IT'S CRAZY, CRAZY AMOUNT OF APARTMENTS THAT ARE COMING UP AND YET MORE ARE COMING UP. WHETHER THEY COME UP OR NOT, THEY'RE NOT GOING TO COME UP WITHOUT ME SAYING WHAT I FEEL. I'M WORRIED ABOUT ALL THESE APARTMENTS AND THE PEOPLE THAT WILL MOVE INTO THESE APARTMENTS. CRIME, TRASH, NOISE, TRAFFIC. I LIVE BEHIND THE COUNTY BUILDING ON PERSIMMON AVENUE, AND I HAVE TO DEAL WITH THE AGGRESSIVE DRIVERS FROM THE COUNTY BUILDING THE WORKERS THERE CRAZY DRIVERS, AND THEY'RE NOT EVEN DRIVING THEIR OWN VEHICLES. I KNOW THAT THEY'RE CRAZY DRIVERS. THE ONES FROM GOLD'S GYM ARE JUST AS BAD. I'M ALSO GOING TO SAY THAT CRIME GOES UNREPORTED. MY HUSBAND HERE WORKED FOR EDINBURG PD FOR 30 YEARS, 30 PLUS YEARS AS A POLICE LIEUTENANT. HE RETIRED. I THINK I KNOW A LITTLE BIT ABOUT A LITTLE MORE ABOUT CRIME THAN MOST PEOPLE, AND I'M HERE TO SAY WHAT I BELIEVE IS GOING ON AND WHAT I'VE BEEN RESEARCHING. CRIME IS GOING UNREPORTED. CRIME IS GOING UNREPORTED AT ALARMING LEVELS. WHY? WELL, WE CAN DEBATE THAT, BUT THERE'S NO TIME FOR THAT. I ONLY HAVE THREE MINUTES. RIGHT. SO I INVITE ALL OF YOU TO LOOK INTO HOW AND WHY CRIME IS UNREPORTED, FROM HOMICIDE TO THEFT TO ALL KINDS OF CRIMES, FROM TOP TO BOTTOM. AND HOW DOES THAT AFFECT ME? WELL, I'M RETIRED. I'M RETIRED. I DO SPEND SOME TIME ALONE IN THE HOUSE, AND THE IDEA OF TENANTS AND TENANT BEHAVIOR THAT IS COMING UP SO CLOSE TO ME. THE FACT THAT IT'S GOING TO AFFECT MY PROPERTY VALUE, THE FACT THAT IT'S GOING TO AFFECT THE TAXES, THE FACT THAT IT'S GOING TO AFFECT MY LIFE. I WOULD EXPECT ALL OF YOU UP THERE AND SOME OF YOU ALL KNOW ME. I WOULD EXPECT YOU ALL TO TAKE IT SERIOUSLY. THIS IS MY LIFE. I HAVE SPENT MANY YEARS LIVING HERE IN EDINBURG PAYING TAXES. I'M NOT A RULE BREAKER. I'M NOT A LAW BREAKER. I WANT THIS TO BE CONSIDERED. THINK ABOUT ALL THE APARTMENTS THAT ARE ALL AROUND OUR NEIGHBORHOOD, JUST AROUND WEST MEADOWS. ENDLESS APARTMENTS. IF YOU CROSS NORTH ON 107, IT'S ENDLESS PLOTS OF LAND, OF APARTMENTS AND MORE APARTMENTS. AND I DO FEEL FOR THE PEOPLE THAT CANNOT BUY A HOUSE LIKE WE CAN. BUT UNFORTUNATELY, THE PEOPLE THAT RENT, THEY BRING PROBLEMS. [03:05:04] PROBLEMS THAT I CAN ONLY DEAL WITH AT A CERTAIN LEVEL, AND I JUST DON'T KNOW IF I'M READY TO HANDLE ALL THAT MIGHT BE COMING TO US. THANK YOU. MR.. AND WE ALSO HAVE AN ITEM ON THE AGENDA THAT YOU CAN EXPAND ON YOUR COMMENTS. THANK YOU. LATER ON. THANK YOU, THANK YOU. THE NEXT PUBLIC COMMENT IS JESSICA PORRAS REGARDING ITEMS NINE A, B, AND C. HELLO COUNCIL, MY NAME IS JESSICA PORRAS AND I'VE BEEN HERE SEVERAL TIMES IN REGARDS TO THIS SAME TOPIC. WE HAVE TWO NEW COUNCIL MEMBERS THAT MAY NOT HAVE KNOWN THAT WE HAVE BEEN TALKING ABOUT THIS PROPERTY FOR OVER TWO YEARS, TRYING TO MAKE SURE THAT APARTMENTS WOULD NOT BE IN THE ENTIRE PORTION. SO WE HAVE BEEN TALKING TO THE DEVELOPER AND THE OWNER OF THE PROPERTY, WHICH USUALLY DOESN'T HAPPEN. SO WE'RE VERY APPRECIATIVE OF THAT. JUST TO GO BACK A LITTLE BIT, WE DID HAVE VERY SIMILAR COMMENTS AT THE VERY BEGINNING REGARDING CRIME AND PEOPLE AND EVERYTHING. AND THERE ARE I'M HERE ACTUALLY IN FAVOR OF WHAT THE NEW PROPOSAL IS, BECAUSE WITH THE DEVELOPER, WE HAVE COME TO SOMEWHAT OF AN AGREEMENT TO ALLOW LARGE ESTATE LOTS BORDERING OUR VICTORIA HEIGHTS NEIGHBORHOOD. UNFORTUNATELY, WE COULDN'T GET A BUFFER ZONE JUST TO PUT THE PROPERTY IN THAT AREA. BUT SUPPOSEDLY THERE'LL BE SOME LARGER ESTATE LOTS THERE. AND I KNOW TODAY'S AGENDA IS GOING TO BE TO CHANGE THE DESIGNATION FROM MULTIFAMILY TO SINGLE FAMILY. AS RESIDENTS, I CAN HONESTLY TELL YOU WE WANTED THE WHOLE LOCATION TO BE SINGLE FAMILY JUST BECAUSE OF TRAFFIC. YOU KNOW THAT THERE'S A SCHOOL IN THAT AREA AS WELL, AND IT'S ALREADY AT CAPACITY. SO AT THIS POINT, I KNOW FOR A FACT THAT IT HAS NOT BEEN DEVELOPED AS TO HOW MANY APARTMENTS WILL BE THERE. LUCKILY, WE HAVE BEEN ABLE TO MAKE THE MAJORITY OF THE TOP PORTION ARE COMMERCIAL, AND I THINK THAT'S PART OF THE AGENDA AS WELL. RIGHT NOW MYSELF, WHO BASICALLY LIVES ON THE CORNER OF DUCHESS AND EMPRESS AND HAD AT ONE POINT BEEN ABLE TO SEE ALL THE FIELD WE ARE IN AGREEMENT OF WHAT'S HAPPENING SO FAR. ONE THING THAT WE HAVE A PROBLEM WITH IS MAYBE THROUGH STREETS. AND BECAUSE IT IS A SCHOOL ZONE IN THAT AREA. PEOPLE WHO WANT TO SKIP THAT SCHOOL ACTUALLY WILL GO AROUND UP ON PRINCESS AND THROUGH EMPRESS TO GO TO THE LIGHT, WHICH AGAIN WILL NEED TO BE DISCUSSED AS WELL IN REGARDS TO MAKING THAT A FOUR LANE TURNING WITH A TURNING SIGNAL AND EVERYTHING, BECAUSE HONESTLY, THE LINE CAN GET PRETTY BACKED UP. UNFORTUNATELY, WE CAN'T BECAUSE OF LAND, THERE'S NOT GOING TO BE FOUR LANES IN THAT AREA, AND THAT'S GOING TO BE A PROBLEM IN THE FUTURE. THOSE ARE MY COMMENTS. NOW, I DO I DO BELIEVE THAT THIS IS THE BEST PLAN SO FAR. ORIGINALLY THEY WERE GOING TO DO SECTION EIGHT HOUSING, AND I THINK SOME OF THE RESIDENTS DON'T UNDERSTAND THAT. SO THAT WAS THROWN OUT PREVIOUSLY. AND SO HOPEFULLY IT'LL BE BETTER QUALITY EVEN THOUGH IT'S GOING TO BE APARTMENTS, YOU KNOW. THANK YOU. THANK YOU MA'AM. THE NEXT PUBLIC COMMENT IS DELIA PEREZ REGARDING ITEMS NINE A, B AND C. GOOD EVENING COUNCIL. MY NAME IS DELIA PEREZ AND I AM HERE ALSO TO EXPRESS MY SUPPORT FOR THE REZONING PLANS FOR ITEMS NINE A, B, AND C. AS JESSICA MENTIONED, IT'S BEEN SEVERAL YEARS THAT WE HAVE BEEN IN DISCUSSION WITH THE DEVELOPERS AND WITH THE OWNER REGARDING THE DEVELOPMENT OF THIS PROPERTY. AND AT SOME POINT ALONG THE WAY. THE NEIGHBORS OR THE RESIDENTS IN THE SURROUNDING AREA HAD PROPOSED TO THE OWNER TO FLIP THE ZONING AND TO FLIP THE THE MULTIFAMILY AND RESIDENTIAL ZONING WHICH IS EXACTLY WHAT HE HAS PROPOSED TO DO HERE. AND SO FOR THAT REASON, I'M HERE TO EXPRESS SUPPORT BECAUSE I FEEL THAT HE HAS ACCOMMODATED A LOT OF OUR REQUESTS ALONG THE WAY. I LIVE RIGHT ON EMPRESS STREET. AND SO FOR ME, IT WAS PARTICULARLY IMPORTANT. I WOULD HAVE HAD A MUCH LARGER AREA OF APARTMENT BUILDINGS IMMEDIATELY ADJACENT TO MY BACKYARD. AND THE PROPOSAL NOW WILL I WILL HAVE SINGLE SINGLE FAMILY NEIGHBORS RIGHT BEHIND ME. AND THE AREA FOR DEVELOPMENT OF APARTMENTS HAS BEEN REDUCED. SO I DO EXPRESS THE SAME CONCERNS AS JESSICA ABOUT THROUGH TRAFFIC AND AND I WOULD HOPE [03:10:07] THAT THEY WOULD NOT OPEN PRINCESS STREET ALL THE WAY OUT TO MCCALL, BUT OTHERWISE, I JUST WANTED TO SHOW MY SUPPORT FOR THE REZONING. THANK YOU, MA'AM. THANK YOU. NEXT PUBLIC COMMENT IS RICHARD COSTELLO. HAD SOME ITEMS. THIS IS PROBABLY A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENT THAN I THINK THE COMMITTEE AT THE COUNCIL IS USED TO. CAN I HAND THESE? YES. YES, SIR. YOU MAY. I ACTUALLY BROUGHT THIS UP SEVERAL YEARS AGO, BUT IT WAS ADDRESSED. MAYBE FOR A YEAR OR SO. BUT THIS IS I THINK HAS REALLY BECOME AN ISSUE, ESPECIALLY SINCE WE ARE NOW AN ALL-AMERICA CITY, BUT WHAT I DID IS I OUTLINED ON THE POWERPOINT PRESENTATION JUST SOME BASIC ELEMENTS OF WHAT MS4 IS. AND THE MS4 PROGRAM IS, IS THE MUNICIPAL SEPARATE STORM SEWER SYSTEM. AND WHAT IT DOES IS IT ACTUALLY REQUIRES THE CITY OF EDINBURGH TO ENSURE THAT WE ESSENTIALLY TRY TO CONTROL POLLUTANTS THAT GO INTO OUR STORMWATER SYSTEM. ULTIMATELY, THESE POLLUTANTS END UP INTO THE LOWER LAGUNA MADRE. THEY AFFECT THE FISH. IT'S A REGIONAL ISSUE. IT'S A GLOBAL ISSUE. BUT ALSO IT'S A CITY OF EDINBURG ISSUE. WHEN WE FAIL TO COMPLY WITH THESE MANDATES THE MANDATES REQUIRE WHAT THEY CALL MINIMUM CONTROL MEASURES. AND I APOLOGIZE, I'VE ACTUALLY TROLLED NOW THAT I'M RETIRED. I ACTUALLY TROLL SOME OF THE CONSTRUCTION SITES ON THE CITY OF EDINBURGH, AND UNFORTUNATELY, YOU SERIOUSLY HAVE A GROSS FAILURE TO COMPLY WITH THESE SPECIFIC MANDATES? SPECIFICALLY, MINIMUM CONTROL MEASURE FIVE, WHICH DEALS WITH CONSTRUCTION SITES, AND MINIMUM CONTROL MEASURE SIX, WHICH IS WHAT WE CALL POST-CONSTRUCTION. WELL, POST-CONSTRUCTION STORMWATER MANAGEMENT, WHAT I DID IS I, I OUTLINED SOME PICTURES. I'M NOT GOING TO GO THROUGH THESE SPECIFIC PICTURES, BUT ULTIMATELY, IF YOU WALK TO A CONSTRUCTION SITE AND YOU CAN SEE DIRT GOING INTO THE STORMWATER SYSTEM, YOU'RE OUT OF COMPLIANCE. IF YOU SEE, AS WE SEE, FOR EXAMPLE, IN FORTUNATELY ON FREDDIE, IF YOU SEE SILT FENCES THAT HAVE NOT BEEN BURIED IN MINIMUM SIX INCHES, THERE'S AN ISSUE WITH THAT. SO WHAT I DID IS I TOOK SOME PICTURES. I INCLUDED IT SO YOU GUYS CAN LOOK AT THOSE. I DON'T KNOW WHO TO TALK TO. I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE ISSUES ARE, BUT ULTIMATELY THIS ISSUE CAN BE ADDRESSED BY THE CONTRACTOR. WE ALL HAVE CONTRACTORS, WE HAVE REQUIREMENTS FOR CONTRACTORS, AND THEY SHOULD SPECIFICALLY COMPLY WITH THOSE SPECIFIC MANDATES. I'M MORE CONCERNED ABOUT MINIMUM CONTROL MEASURE SIX, WHICH MEANS POST-CONSTRUCTION. AND THE REASON I'M CONCERNED WITH THIS IS BECAUSE MINIMUM CONTROL MEASURE SIX ADDRESSES TWO ISSUES. ONE IS POST-CONSTRUCTION RUNOFF. OKAY. AND THEN NUMBER TWO, IT'S THE FLOODING ISSUES THAT ARE PREVALENT IN THE VALLEY. BECAUSE WHAT IT DOES IS IT REQUIRES OR THE EPA REQUIRES WITH THEIR NEW WITH THEIR NEW STANDARDS TO, TO BASICALLY MR. 95% OF THE STORM SEWER. YOU GUYS DON'T YOU GUYS FAIL TO DO THAT. SO THANK YOU, MR. COSTELLO. THANK YOU SIR. THE NEXT PUBLIC COMMENT IS VIVIAN SANCHEZ. VIVIAN SANCHEZ. THE NEXT PUBLIC COMMENT IS ELIZABETH GOLDBERG OPPOSED DEVELOPMENT OF REZONED AREA. HELLO. I'M SPEAKING ON ITEM NINE A. I HAVE COMMENT FROM RESIDENTS OF THE WEST MEADOWS SUBDIVISION WHO WERE UNABLE TO COME TODAY BUT ARE OPPOSED TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE AREA ON SPRAGUE STREET. AND I WOULD LIKE TO READ THEIR COMMENTS FOR THE COUNCIL. SO THE FIRST ONE COMES FROM ELIZABETH ROGERS, WHO LIVES ON PERSIMMON. SHE IS OPPOSED TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF THIS AREA BECAUSE IT WOULD LOWER PROPERTY VALUE, INCREASE TRAFFIC SPEEDING THROUGH THE NEIGHBORHOOD AND WOULD BE UNSAFE FOR CHILDREN. ANTHONY MATHIEU, WHO LIVES IN THE WEST MEADOWS AREA, IS OPPOSED TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE AREA BECAUSE THE AREA IS ALREADY SUPER POPULATED. TRAFFIC ISSUES AND SAFETY WOULD BE A BIG CONCERN. OLGA CARDOZA VASQUEZ, WHO LIVES ON SABLE, IS OPPOSED TO THIS BECAUSE OF INCREASED TRAFFIC AND INCREASED RISK OF FLOODING. BY DEVELOPING THAT FIELD, WHICH CURRENTLY RETAINS A LOT OF THE WATER [03:15:04] WHEN IT RAINS. INDIRA VIRAGA FROM HAWTHORNE IS OPPOSED TO THIS BECAUSE OF INCREASED TRAFFIC, FLOODING, LOWER PROPERTY VALUES, AND DESTRUCTION OF NATURAL LAND, AND REDUCTION OF POLLINATORS. ELI FALCONE ON WHITEWING AVENUE, SAYS HE IS OPPOSED TO THE PROPOSED REZONING DUE TO CONCERNS WITH INCREASED TRAFFIC, INCREASED FLOODING, LOWER PROPERTY VALUES AND I AM GREATLY CONCERNED ABOUT INCREASED FLOODING. THE WEST MEADOW SUBDIVISION DOES NOT EXPERIENCE FLOODING DURING HURRICANE HANNA. HOWEVER, ONE OF THE FEW BLOCKS IN THE OTHER DIRECTION THERE WAS FLOODED. CURRENTLY, THE WATER THAT WOULD FLOOD OUR NEIGHBORHOOD DRAINS INTO THAT FIELD. THE AREA IS REZONED AND DEVELOPED. WE WOULD ALL EXPERIENCE FLOODING BECAUSE OF WATER AND HAVE NOWHERE TO GO. THIS WOULD CAUSE GREAT HARM TO THE HOMEOWNERS AS WE NEED TO PURCHASE FLOOD INSURANCE AND OUR PROPERTY VALUES WOULD DECREASE FOR SUDDENLY BEING IN THE FLOOD ZONE. THERE IS PLENTY OF FREE LAND TO THE NORTH IN THE AREA NEEDS TO REMAIN A FIELD TO PROTECT US, THE RESIDENTS. AND THEN I MYSELF AM OPPOSED TO DEVELOPMENT OF THE AREA FOR MANY OF THE REASONS THAT WERE MENTIONED BEFORE. THE FLOODING TO THE AREA AS WELL AS THE AREA'S ALREADY VERY POPULATED. THE STREET SPRAGUE ALREADY HAS VERY BAD TRAFFIC BECAUSE OF RESIDENTS GOING TO THE SCHOOL. TREVINO JUST DOWN THE BLOCK, AND THIS WOULD EXACERBATE THE PROBLEM INCREASING THE TRAFFIC TO THE AREA, MAKING IT UNSAFE FOR OUR CHILDREN. AND SO I JUST WANTED TO BRING ALL OF THAT TO LIGHT THAT. YES, WE DO APPRECIATE THE WORK OF THE DEVELOPER TO REZONE, BUT WE WOULD LIKE TO LEAVE THAT AREA UNDEVELOPED TO HELP PROTECT THE RESIDENTS IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD. THANK YOU SO MUCH. THANK YOU. MA'AM. THE NEXT PUBLIC COMMENT IS JONAH GOLDBERG. FIRST, I WANT TO ACTUALLY EXPRESS MY APPRECIATION FOR BRINGING RABBI HECHT HERE TO DO THE PRAYER. IT'S ONE OF THE FEW MEMBERS OF THE JEWISH COMMUNITY HERE IN EDINBURGH THAT MEANS A LOT. AND YOUR EFFORTS DO NOT GO UNNOTICED. OVERALL, I THINK EDINBURGH IS MOVING IN A GREAT DIRECTION AND YOU SHOULD ALL BE COMMENDED FOR THAT. I AM HERE TO SPEAK ABOUT ITEM NINE A AS WELL, THOUGH I LIVE IN WEST MEADOWS AND I MEAN, I DON'T I DON'T HONESTLY CARE WHAT YOU DO WITH REZONING. I'M MOST CONCERNED ABOUT DEVELOPMENT. YOU KNOW, YOU YOU'VE HEARD A LOT OF THE REASONS. I REMEMBER DURING HURRICANE HANNAH WALKING MY DOGS AND BEING LIKE, WOW, WE REALLY DID WELL. AND THEN I'D GO TO OTHER NEIGHBORHOODS AND SAW THAT THEY DID NOT DO SO WELL. WATER NEEDS SOMEWHERE TO GO. AND I KNOW THE BIGGEST ISSUE WHEN WE HAVE LOCAL ELECTIONS, WHETHER IT'S THE CITY LEVEL, THE COUNTY LEVEL, IT'S ALWAYS, YOU KNOW, WHAT DO WE DO ABOUT DRAINAGE, DRAINAGE, DRAINAGE, DRAINAGE. AND WE SEE THE PROJECTS AND WE ALWAYS VOTE FOR THAT AND THE BONDS AND IT'S GREAT. I THINK WE'RE MAKING SOME GREAT PROGRESS, BUT THAT'S BASED ON THE INFORMATION AT THE TIME. RIGHT. AND THEN AS WE BUILD MORE AND PUT MORE CONCRETE DOWN AND CEMENT DOWN. WHAT HAPPENS IS THE INFORMATION CHANGES AND HOW MUCH WE NEED TO DO CHANGES. SO I'M GREATLY CONCERNED THAT IF WE DEVELOP THAT PLOT OF LAND, WE'RE GOING TO END UP FLOODING OUR AREA. AND THAT IS NOT SOMETHING I WANT TO, YOU KNOW, THAT I REALLY WANT TO FACE. AND I'M SURE IT'S SOMETHING NOBODY WANTS TO FACE. WE'VE SEEN HORRIFYING PICTURES ELSEWHERE, AND HOPEFULLY IT WOULDN'T GET TO THAT THAT LEVEL. BUT IT'S SOMETHING THAT WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE AVOID. AND MY KIDS GO TO TREVINO, WHICH IS RIGHT DOWN THE BLOCK. IT'S FANTASTIC. THE FIFTH GRADE IS ALREADY IN PORTABLES AND THEY CAN'T FIT MORE KIDS. I DON'T EVEN KNOW IF THEY HAVE ROOM FOR MORE PORTABLES, WHICH IS HORRIBLE ENOUGH THAT THEY HAVE TO BE IN THERE. AND I REALIZE IT'S NOT YOU. I KNOW THAT'S THE THAT'S THE SAD THING. BUT, YOU KNOW, THERE NEEDS TO BE SOME COORDINATION THERE BEFORE WE'RE GOING TO BUILD MORE HOUSING IN AN AREA. TALKING WITH THEM AND SAYING, HEY, CAN THE SCHOOLS EVEN HANDLE THIS? BECAUSE I DON'T THINK THEY CAN. I MEAN, WE WE NEED TO BUILD OUT. EDINBURG IS LARGE. WE HAVE A LOT OF GREAT LAND. YOU KNOW, I THINK THIS IS A GREAT OPPORTUNITY TO BUILD THE FOOTPRINT OF EDINBURGH RATHER THAN JUST CONTINUOUSLY PUTTING IN WHERE WE ALREADY HAVE, AND THEN JUST MAKING IT TOUGHER WITH FLOODING IN SCHOOLS AND THEN TRAFFIC. RIGHT. YOU KNOW, I DROP OFF MY KIDS AT SCHOOL, THEN I TURN AROUND AND JUMP ON SPRAGUE AND THEN, YOU KNOW, IT'S BACKED UP REALLY FAR AND YOU WAIT MULTIPLE LIGHTS BEFORE YOU CAN GET ANYWHERE. AND I REALIZED WE DON'T HAVE THE SPACE THERE TO EXPAND THE LANE. SO IT IS WHAT IT IS AND THAT'S FINE. YOU KNOW, IT'S IT'S A GOOD SIGN THAT WE HAVE A LOT OF PEOPLE. BUT A FEW MORE MINUTES AT THAT LIGHT, I'M GOING TO BE LATE FOR WORK. SO, YOU KNOW, I REALLY HOPEFULLY WE CAN KEEP THAT AS IT IS. AND THEN, YOU KNOW, 5:00 ALSO WHEN YOU'RE COMING BACK IN THE OTHER DIRECTION, IT'S A, YOU KNOW, IT'S A GREAT PROBLEM TO HAVE WITH A GROWING CITY, EAST WEST TRAFFIC. BUT WE'RE THERE, RIGHT. SO WE NEED TO WE NEED TO START BUILDING OUT MORE NORTH OR IN THE OTHER AREAS THAT ARE LESS POPULATED, BECAUSE I THINK THAT THAT'S JUST GOING TO BE A BETTER BENEFIT FOR THE ENTIRE CITY AS A WHOLE. THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME. THANK YOU SIR. THANK YOU. THERE ARE NO FURTHER PUBLIC COMMENTS. ALL RIGHT. THAT BEING THE CASE, WE'RE GOING TO MOVE ON TO ITEM SEVEN A. WE HAVE A PRESENTATION AND DISCUSSION ON ALBERTA ROAD RECONSTRUCTION PROJECT. [03:20:20] GOOD EVENING. MAYOR, CITY COUNCIL, TOM BRENNAN ASSISTANT CITY MANAGER, ALONG WITH MR. HINOJOSA, OUR CITY ENGINEER. I WANTED TO GIVE YOU AN UPDATE ON THE ALBERTA ROAD ROAD RECONSTRUCTION GOING ON. FIRST, I'D LIKE TO START JUST TO REMIND EVERYBODY THAT WE DO HAVE OUR PROJECT DASHBOARD ONLINE THAT YOU'RE ABLE TO GO AND CLICK ON IT. YOU CAN SEE THE THE LIST RIGHT OFF THE BAT AND ABLE TO CLICK ALBERTA ROAD. IT'LL STRETCH YOU STRAIGHT. TELL YOU TO OUR STORYBOARD WHICH HAS ALL THE SCHEDULES AND THE UPDATES AND WHAT'S ACTUALLY GOING ON. AND THAT IS UPDATED ON A WEEKLY BASIS. SO IT'S ON TIME ALL THE TIME. SO WE HAVE THAT. SO JUST A LITTLE HISTORY OF THE PROJECT. THIS PROJECT IS GOES FROM WEST CITY LIMITS ALL THE WAY TO INTERSTATE 69. RIGHT NOW WE'RE UNDER CONSTRUCTION AND TWO SECTIONS AND POSSIBLY GOING UP FOR THE NEXT TWO FROM RIGHT NOW, FROM BETWEEN MCCALL AND JACKSON ALL THE WAY TO JUST A LITTLE EAST OF SUGAR. WE'RE GOING TO GO TO A FOUR LANE SECTION BASICALLY EXACTLY THE SAME STYLE THAT WE HAVE NOW FROM JACKSON WEST TO CITY LIMITS. ONCE WE GET PAST THE DRAIN DITCH THERE, CLOSE TO SHALOM ROADWAY, IT'LL GO TO A THREE LANE SECTION. DUE TO THE AMOUNT OF RIGHT OF WAY WITHIN THE WITHIN THE AREA, OUR PROJECT SCHEDULE IS RIGHT NOW FOR THE SECTION THAT WE'RE ON BETWEEN JACKSON AND AND SUGAR, WE ARE EXPECTED TO BE OUT BY BEFORE THANKSGIVING. BY THE 25TH. THE SMALLER SECTION BETWEEN SUGAR AND THE DITCH. WE'RE EXPECTED TO FINISH THE WEEK BEFORE BY THE 18TH. THEN WE'LL START THE SECTION BETWEEN SHALOM AND ALL THE WAY TO KLAUSNER, AND THEN EARLY SPRING WE'LL START THE SECTION IN BETWEEN KLAUSNER AND EXPRESSWAY. THESE WERE ALL SECTIONS GOING TO BE UP THREE LANES IN CONSTRUCTION. AND CURRENTLY WE ARE ON THAT SCHEDULE. WHAT WE DID ON THE INTERSECTION, JUST TO GIVE YOU A LITTLE BRIEF HISTORY ON THE INTERSECTION ON KLAUSNER AND ALBERTA WE DID A TRAFFIC AND A SPEED WARRANT WHICH BASICALLY THE TRAFFIC STUDY WE DO IS WE LOOK AT A TIME FRAME. SO WE SELECTED A TIME FRAME OF A 24 HOUR FRAME. WE TOOK TRAFFIC COUNTS THROUGH THERE. WE AVERAGED THE SPEED WE COUNT HOW MANY ACCIDENTS WERE IN THE AREA. AND WHAT IS THE ACCESS TO THE AREA? DURING OUR COUNTS, WE DISCOVERED THAT, YOU KNOW, THAT SECTION IS 55 MILE AN HOUR. ZONES. THE 85 PERCENTILE SPEED OF THE AREA WAS 54, BUT THE HIGHEST THAT WE DID COUNT WAS 76, GOING 76 MILES AN HOUR IN THE AREA. WE DID, IN A 24 HOUR PERIOD, 10,879 CARS PASS THROUGH THAT INTERSECTION. SO DUE TO THE ACCIDENTS IN THE AMOUNT OF TRAFFIC, IT WARRANTED A STREET LIGHT. SO WE LOOKED AT FOUR DIFFERENT TYPES OR THREE DIFFERENT TYPES OF INTERSECTIONS. WE DID A FOUR LEG INTERSECTION, WHICH IS YOUR STANDARD INTERSECTION. WE DID A THREE LEG INTERSECTION, WHICH IS THE BYPASS INTERSECTION. WE LOOKED AT A ROUNDABOUT AND WE ALSO LOOKED AT NO IMPROVEMENTS. DURING THAT, WE DID SAY SINCE IT WAS WARRANTED, WE PROPOSED A FOUR FOUR SECTION INTERSECTION, A FOUR LEG INTERSECTION, AND WE HAD TO PRESENT THAT TO THE TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION. TEX-DOT. BECAUSE KLAUSNER THAT INTERSECTION DOES BELONG TO THE STATE BECAUSE THAT IS A STATE ROAD. SO WHEN WE MET WITH THEM, WE HAD WE BOTH HAD SOME ISSUES. WE CAN SHOW THAT THERE'S 200FT THAT LINE UP WERE QUEUE IN BETWEEN FROM THE INTERSECTION TO THE DRIVEWAY, THEN FROM THE DRIVEWAY, ANOTHER 200FT TO THE MEDIAN, AND THEN ULTIMATELY FROM THE MEDIAN. THERE WE'RE GOING TO HIT 280FT THAT ONCE THE CARS ARE APPROACHING, WE'VE DONE A A SMALL SIMULATION, WHICH WE DO NEED TO TWEAK. WE WERE ABLE TO PULL THAT OUT ON WHAT THE INTERSECTIONS ACTUALLY GOING TO LOOK LIKE. AS YOU CAN SEE AT THAT PORTION, WE ALREADY HAVE A LINE QUEUED AT THE BEGINNING. SO AGAIN, THIS IS JUST A SIMULATION. THERE ARE SOME ITEMS THAT WE STILL NEED TO TWEAK, BUT I WANTED TO GIVE YOU ALL AN IDEA ON EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENS WHEN WE SAY THAT THEY QUEUE UP TO 200FT. RIGHT NOW. YOU SEE THE TRAFFIC, WHICH WOULD PRIORITY WOULD BE NORTH AND SOUTH OF THE INTERSECTION, WHICH THAT GIVES PRIORITY IN TRYING TO MOVE TRAFFIC AT A FASTER RATE AT THAT PORTION. AS YOU CAN SEE, ONCE THE LIGHT CHANGES, THEN YOU SEE PEOPLE COMING OFF THE RAMP, COMING OFF THE OVERPASS ON THE SIDE. AND THAT'S WHERE THE PROBLEM STARTS TO HAPPEN, IS WHEN THEY START QUEUING DUE TO THE AMOUNT OF TRAFFIC THAT DOES COME DOWN. SO ONE OF THE ISSUES THAT THE TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION DID HAVE WAS COMING OFF THE RAMP. IF YOU GET SOMEBODY DOING THAT AVERAGE OR THE HIGH SPEED OF 70 [03:25:01] MILES OR 70 MILES AN HOUR, YOU'RE NOT GOING TO HAVE ENOUGH LANE TO STOP OFF THE RAMP COMING OFF THE END. BUT AGAIN THOSE ARE ITEMS THAT CAN BE ADJUSTED WITH TIMING OR WITH OTHER LOCATIONS. BUT THIS WAS JUST A SIMULATION. SO YOU CAN HELP UNDERSTAND WHAT THE STATE WAS TRYING TO COME ACROSS. WHY DO WE NEED THIS? WELL, WE DID ALSO PROPOSE WAS THE THREE LEG INTERSECTION, WHICH IS THE BYPASS INTERSECTION, WHICH WOULD BE NO CROSS TRAFFIC WOULD BE ABLE TO CROSS ON ALBERTA ONTO KLAUSNER. JUST TO PROVIDE A SAFE ACCESS TO THAT AREA. DUE TO THAT IS THE AMOUNT OF ACCIDENTS THAT HAPPENED DUE TO HIGH SPEED TRAFFIC COMING NORTH AND SOUTH AND PEOPLE CROSSING EAST AND WEST. SO THIS WAS AN ITEM THAT WE DID SHOW TXDOT. THIS IS THE PREFERRED LAYOUT THAT TEX-DOT IS SHOWING. AND THERE'S OTHER ITEMS THAT MAY LATER ON, ONCE WE MAKE A DECISION ON EXACTLY WHAT WE CAN DO TO SEE HELP THE SURROUNDING BUSINESSES FOR THAT AREA. SO WE'VE COME UP WITH A DIFFERENT PLAN AT THAT PORTION THAT WE HAVEN'T PROPOSED AS OF YET, BUT THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE WERE HOPING THAT WE CAN GET DIRECTION ON. IF YOU WANT US TO PURSUE THAT AVENUE. SO THAT'S A BRIEF DISCUSSION OF WHAT WE HAVE ON OUR PRESENTATION. MYSELF OR MR. HINOJOSA ARE AVAILABLE FOR ANY COMMENTS OR QUESTIONS THAT YOU MAY HAVE. ALL RIGHT. JUST A COUPLE THINGS REAL QUICK ON THE JUST CAN YOU EXPLAIN REAL QUICK? YOU SAID CAN YOU PUT BACK THE INTERSECTION, NOT THE VISUALIZATION, BUT THE SLIDE BEFORE THAT WITH THE SIGNAL. THERE. THAT ONE. CAN YOU EXPLAIN WHAT DOES IT MEAN BY A WARRANTED A TRAFFIC SIGNAL? I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE EVERYBODY UNDERSTANDS WHAT THAT MEANS. YES, SIR. DUE TO THE AMOUNT OF COUNTS, DUE TO THE AMOUNT OF SPEED, THE AMOUNT OF TRAFFIC AND THE AMOUNT OF ACCIDENTS THAT ARE HAVE BEEN IN THE AREA ONE OF THE LARGE ONES THAT WE DID ENCOUNTER WAS THERE WAS A FATALITY AT THAT INTERSECTION, WHICH AUTOMATICALLY WARRANTS A TRAFFIC SIGNAL WITH THAT, TO HELP PREVENT ANY FUTURE ACCIDENTS AT THAT POINT. AND SO WHEN IT SAYS WARRANTED, DOES IT MEAN, LIKE A FULL INTERSECTION OR DOES IT MEAN WITH A MEDIAN OR. I MEAN, IS IT A GENERAL WARRANTING OF AN INTERSECTION THAT THAT WE NEED TO PUT A SIGNAL THAT'S GOING TO BE SAFETY MEASURES AS A SIGNAL. AND THEN SECOND, CAN YOU GO OVER. WE HAD A MEETING WITH THE STAKEHOLDERS. HOW MANY PEOPLE WERE THERE AND CAN YOU SHARE WITH EVERYONE THE FEEDBACK? BECAUSE I THINK I WAS THE ONLY ONE THERE. AND I WANT COUNCIL TO BE AWARE OF WHAT HE GAVE THE PRESENTATION DURING THAT TIME AND THE DATE AND. YEAH, JUST WE HAD A STAKEHOLDER MEETING THE MONTH OF SEPTEMBER AND MAYBE ABOUT 30 RESIDENTS SHOWED UP. WE DID HAVE A COMMENTS FOR OR AGAINST. THERE WERE MORE AGAINST THAN FOR WE PROBABLY HAD 3 OR 4 THAT WERE FOR THE PROPOSAL, AND THE OTHER ONES SAID NO, THAT THEY WEREN'T COMFORTABLE WITH WHAT WE WERE PROPOSING AND MORE A LITTLE LOUDER, I'M SO SORRY. AND MORE FOR THE FACT THAT THEY WERE SAYING NO MORE FOR ACCESS REASONS, MORE THAN THAN ACCIDENT REASONS. AND WHERE ARE THESE RESIDENTS FROM? THEY'RE FROM THAT THAT AREA THAT'S AFFECTED THE FROM THE AREA WE USUALLY USE. YES. SO WE SENT THE NOTICES. WE SENT NOTICES TO THE ADJACENT AREAS SO THAT HOW FAR WE GO. BECAUSE USUALLY IT'S 300FT. WE ACTUALLY EVERYBODY THAT GOT AFFECTED BY THE ROAD AND THE ADJACENT NEIGHBORHOOD. SO MORE THAN THE THREE TRAFFIC CONTROL DEVICE. DICE. I'M SORRY FOR THE TRAFFIC CONTROL DEVICE, BECAUSE ALL YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT IS TRAFFIC CONTROL DEVICES, WHICH WHICH ENCOMPASS LIGHTS WHICH ENCOMPASS ENCUMBERS MEDIANS. AND SUCH IS WHAT THEY'RE WHAT THEY'RE SAYING. SO THE QUESTION IS, IS GENERALLY WE SEND 300FT FROM THE PLACE TO THE AFFECTED. SO YOU DID EVERYBODY ON ALBERTA ROAD, EVERYBODY ON ALBERTA ROAD AND EVERYBODY ON KLAUSNER AS WELL ON KLAUSNER. HOW FAR UP TO TRENTON IS THAT NORMAL? WHAT WE NORMALLY DO. WHY IS WHY I WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT WHY DO WE DO SOMETHING OUT OF THE NORM? WE WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT EVERYBODY THAT'S AFFECTED BY I. I'M A RESIDENT AND I WAS AFFECTED AND I DIDN'T GET A LETTER. NO. YOU KNOW, THAT'S WHAT I'M TRYING TO SAY. I'M I'M ASKING WHAT IS OUR NORM AND WHY DID WE DEVIATE FROM IT ON A CONSTRUCTION PROJECT IS DIFFERENT FROM THE REQUIREMENTS THAT WE HAVE FOR THE PORTIONS THAT WE DID ON ALBERTA THAT WERE OVER ON THE EAST OR ON THE WEST SIDE, AND WE WENT TO THE CITY LIMITS OF MCALLEN. HOW FAR DID WE SEND THOSE LETTERS ALL OUT? OH, WE ACTUALLY WENT OUT AND PUT PHYSICAL FLIERS ALONG ALL OF OUR ALL OF ALBERTA, SIR. THERE'S A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN SOMETHING SHOWN IN MY HOUSE AND ASKING ME MY OPINION, AND SOMETHING THAT YOU'RE HOPING I DRIVE BY AND SEE, AND WE ALL KNOW THAT. YES, SIR. WE ACTUALLY HAD A PUBLIC MEETING FOR EACH ONE OF THEM. SO EVERY TIME WE HAVE THAT SECTION, WE GO OUT AND PUT THE FLIERS ON EACH INDIVIDUAL MAILBOX. OKAY, YOU GUYS ARE PLAYING GAMES WITH IT BECAUSE I'VE BEEN TO THE MEETINGS. I'VE BEEN TO THE DIFFERENT STUFF. I'M JUST SURPRISED NOW THAT [03:30:02] WE ACTUALLY SEND MAIL TO. NO, SIR. NOT A MAIL OUT. WE ACTUALLY WENT AND DID THE FLIER PHYSICALLY WALKED TO ALL THESE HOUSES. WE HAD STAFF RESIDENTS WITHIN 300FT OF EVERYTHING. FROM WHAT YOU SAY, JACKSON. JACKSON PASSED. SUGAR PASSED ALL THE WAY TO THE EXPRESSWAY. YES, SIR. OKAY. WE HAD STAFF GO OUT THERE AND PUT THE FLIERS ON EACH ONE. YEAH. AND I THINK THIS IS STRANGE, MAYOR. WELL, AND I THINK COUNCIL MEMBER THE. AND I'M NOT SURE I'M SPECULATING, BUT THE 300FT EVERYBODY'S AWARE COUNCILMAN IS REFERRING TO IS LIKE IN THE REZONING, RIGHT? AND SO OBVIOUSLY IN THIS PARTICULAR CASE, WE'LL MAKE SURE EVERYBODY'S AWARE. RIGHT. AND YOU'RE RIGHT, I THINK MAYBE WE SEND IT OUT TO EVERYBODY RIGHT IN THE COMMUNITY BECAUSE EVERYBODY GOES BY THERE. BUT I THINK I IMAGINE THAT'S WHERE Y'ALL DID THAT, HANDING OUT THE FLIERS THAT EVERYBODY'S AFFECTED. BUT WE DIDN'T MAIL OUT ANY OR ANYTHING BECAUSE I KNOW WE HAD A FULL I MEAN, WE HAD ABOUT HOW MANY PEOPLE WE HAD 20 TO 30. SO THERE WAS PEOPLE THAT SHOWED UP AT THE I GUESS THEY GOT THE FLIERS. SO I'M NOT SURE WHAT HAPPENED THERE, BUT I FEEL LIKE SOMEBODY SPOKE IN MY EYES. I DON'T KNOW WHY WE DID THIS. I'VE NEVER DONE IT BEFORE. IN THE FIFTH YEAR THAT I'VE BEEN HERE. THIS IS THE FIRST TIME WE'VE DONE THIS MUCH OF AN OUTREACH FOR SOMETHING. SO THERE'S THERE'S SOMETHING JUST DOESN'T FEEL KOSHER. YEAH. AND I THINK COUNCIL MEMBER WHAT I CAN TELL, AT LEAST FROM MY STANDPOINT, I'VE ASKED CITY STAFF TO DO MORE OF ENGAGING IN THE COMMUNITY. YOU KNOW, THERE'S BEEN SO MANY CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS. I, ALONG WITH YOU, ALL GET THE CALLS. AND I, TO ME, THE MORE ENGAGEMENT WE CAN DO, THE BETTER BECAUSE WE NEED TO LET PEOPLE KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON. YEAH. CHIEF, THIS GOES ALONG THE LINES OF. I'M NOT AGAINST IT. I'M JUST WONDERING ALL OF A SUDDEN, WHY NOW? YEAH, WELL, THIS GOES BACK TO WHEN WE STARTED TALKING ABOUT UDC AND HOW OUR NORMAL RADIUS FOR REZONING ONLY AFFECTED A SMALL CIRCLE, AND WE THOUGHT I KEPT ASKING, HOW CAN WE GET A BIGGER POOL? MORE PEOPLE ADVISED. THAT'S WHY WE STARTED PUTTING SIGNS AT PROPERTIES. AND SO STAFF'S REALLY KIND OF JUST FOLLOWING THE DIRECTION OF LET'S GET A GOOD POOL OF PEOPLE FROM THE AREA SO THEY CAN ALL SHOW UP AND EXPRESS. JUST KEEP SUPPORTING MY ARGUMENT. I MEAN, FERN'S HERE RIGHT NOW, AND I THINK FERN HAD ONE. SHE QUESTIONED WHY THE 300FT AROUND HER PROPERTY AND THE QUESTION'S GOING TO BE THERE. NOTHING HAPPENED AND GOT THAT EFFECT. THIS IS THE FIRST ONE I'VE EVER HEARD OF IT. THIS HAS BEEN A DEBATE THAT'S GOING ON. THE 300 FOOT RULE. AS FAR AS I KNOW, WE'VE NEVER CHANGED IT ON AN ORDINANCE. I DON'T REMEMBER IT COMING UP TO A VOTE. WE MIGHT HAVE TALKED ABOUT IT, BUT WE DID NOTHING ABOUT IT. AND NOW ALL OF A SUDDEN WE'VE GONE FROM WAS IT TWO, TWO, THREE, THREE AND A HALF MILE, 3.44, SEVEN MILES, SOMETHING LIKE THAT IN DISTANCE. WE PUT OUR PEOPLE OUT THERE WALKING THE STREETS TO HAND FLIERS OUT. I'M NOT SURE HOW FAR WE WENT OFF OF ALBERTA AND HOW MANY WE GO 300FT, 500FT, HALF A MILE NORTH AND SOUTH OF ALBERTA. ALBERTA IS IN EAST AND WEST RUNNING STREET, AND WE DO. AND I IMAGINE WE WENT UP SUGAR ROAD BECAUSE IF YOU WENT UP, WE WENT ALL THE WAY TO TRENTON ON KLAUSSNER. WE SHOULD HAVE WENT UP TRENTON. BUT THEN FOR THIS PARTICULAR ITEM, WE WENT TO TRENTON. I MEAN, ON A CLUSTER UP TO TRENTON AND ALBERTA ROAD EAST AND WEST, UP TO SUGAR AND JACKSON. JACKSON JUST KNOCKED A MILE OFF THE DIRECTLY AFFECTED OWNER, BUT UP TO SUGAR ROAD UP TO TRENTON IN THE SQUARE. AND THEN SOUTH WE GO SOUTH TO. SO SOUTH WE WENT DOWN TO OWASA, NORTH AND SOUTH, EAST AND WEST ALONG THE CORRIDOR. A LONG, FREQUENT WAY TO PUT OUR PUBLIC, OUR OUR, OUR STAFF OUT WALKING NORMALLY, HAND OUT FLIERS, FOR INSTANCE. ALSO A GREAT EXAMPLE IS WHEN WE DID THE JACKSON ROAD OUTREACH. WE ALSO PUT IT OUT ON THE ON THE WEBSITE, AND WE ACTUALLY WENT OUT AND PUT THEM ALL OUT. ALSO, WE DID INVITATIONS TO TRY TO GET COUNCIL MEMBER ACTUALLY TO TO SEE IF YOU GOT A MILE AND A MILE, THAT'S TWO MILES OR FOUR MILES AND YOU GO TWO MILES SOUTH. WHAT IS THAT, 16 MILE AND AND YES, SIR. AND WHEN WE DO HAVE A PUBLIC OUTREACH OR A TOWN HALL MEETING, THAT'S WHAT WE ACTUALLY DO. WE GO OUT THERE AND PUT IT ON THERE. AM I WRONG IN MY MATH IS LIKE 16 MILES. OKAY. JUST MAKE SURE WE GET YOUR CONSTANT WITH IT. YES, SIR. AND THAT IS THAT IS. I'M ONLY ONE VOTE. BUT THIS IS THIS IS COUNCIL'S HERE. IT'S. I FEEL LIKE MY EYES ARE BEING POKED, GUYS. YEAH. COUNCIL MEMBER WHITE, LET ME JUST EXPAND. I DON'T KNOW IF Y'ALL WANT TO COVER THIS, BUT THE OTHER CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS. HAVE YOU ALL BEEN DOING THIS? I REMEMBER A LITTLE SUBDIVISION WHEN WE FIRST GOT ELECTED. DIDN'T WE GO DOOR TO DOOR TO LET PEOPLE KNOW ABOUT THE, YOU KNOW, THE OUTREACH ALSO. WE'VE DONE THAT. WE WANT A RADIUS FROM THE WHOLE THING, THAT SUBDIVISION TO THE SUBDIVISION OVER BECAUSE EVERYBODY'S AFFECTED BY ANYTHING YOU DO IN THE CITY, BY A CITY STREET, AFFECTS EVERYONE. THE REASON THE CLUSTER WANTS HER WAS DUE TO THE TRAFFIC SIGNAL, RIGHT? SO THAT IS GOING TO CHANGE THE UDC COVER TRAFFIC SIGNALS AS FAR AS THE RADIUS AND AND. YEAH. CHIEF, ALSO, WHEN WE DID THE THE FIRST TOWN HALLS WE HAD ON THE THE DRAINAGE AROUND THE COURTHOUSE, THEY WENT UP AND DOWN ALL OF KLAUSSNER ALL OF 107, LETTING ALL THE BUSINESSES GO. SO I, I OBVIOUSLY, I LIVE IN THIS EXACTLY WHERE THIS AREA IS AT, SO I'M, I PASS THROUGH THERE EVERY DAY. SO I LIKE THE FIRST DESIGN THAT YOU HAD ORIGINALLY [03:35:04] PUT ON THERE. MY ONLY CONCERN IS THE, THE, THE RAMP THAT COMES OUT, YOU KNOW, THAT WOULD BACK UP TRAFFIC EXTREMELY. AND I THINK THAT'S ACTUALLY THAT WOULD BE A LITTLE MORE DANGEROUS THAN BY HAVING THE LIGHT THERE. I KIND OF LIKE THAT SECOND DESIGN BECAUSE IT STOPS PEOPLE FROM CROSSING. THE ACCIDENTS ARE HAPPENING BECAUSE PEOPLE ARE GOING AGAINST TRAFFIC. AND AND I GO, LIKE I SAID, I LIVE THERE. SO SO I SEE THE ACCIDENTS HAPPENING ALL THE TIME BECAUSE PEOPLE ARE GOING AGAINST TRAFFIC. SO I THINK THE SECOND DESIGN, AS FAR AS FOR SAFETY, ACTUALLY LOOKS A LITTLE BIT IT LOOKS A LOT MORE SAFER THAN THE FIRST DESIGN BECAUSE OF THAT. MY CONCERN IS THE THAT RAMP THAT'S COMING DOWN WITH THE TRAFFIC. SO, SO IT'S SOMETHING THAT THE COMMUNITY I, YOU KNOW, WE NEED MORE INPUT ON IT, BUT I DEFINITELY THINK THAT THAT RAMP IS DEFINITELY A CONCERN. WELL, REALLY, IF YOU REALLY WANTED TO, YOU COULD DO THAT AND THEN THEN ABANDON ALBERTA FROM CLOSER TO CLOSER TO THE EXPRESSWAY. AND YOU HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT THAT INTERSECTION. SO NOW YOU JUST HAVE A NORTHBOUND AND YOU TAKE CARE OF THE SOUTHBOUND, COME BACK AROUND AND THEN THEY TURN. IF YOU'RE GOING TO GO NORTH, YOU JUST GO DOWN SOUTH AND YOU TURN BACK UP ON ON THE TURNAROUND. THERE'S A TURNAROUND ALREADY BUILT INTO THAT. AND WHEN I WAS AN OFFICER, WE WORKED SOME VERY BAD ACCIDENTS THERE. AND I DON'T WANT THAT JUST FOR, FOR ONE BUSINESS IS BUSINESS. JUST TO TO THRIVE BETTER IS NOT GOING TO HURT THEM. IF PEOPLE WANT TO GO TO THOSE DEALERSHIPS, THEY'RE GOING TO GO. IT DOESN'T MATTER HOW THEY GET THERE AT THE END OF THE DAY. TO ME, LIKE IT'S A SAFETY CONCERN BECAUSE I LIKE I SAID, I SEE THE ACCIDENTS EVERY DAY AND ESPECIALLY 5:00 IT GETS REALLY CONGESTED AND IT'S ACTUALLY A VERY DANGEROUS CURRENTLY. I THINK WE SHOULD CLOSE ALBERTA RIGHT NOW. I TOLD YOU, THE FACT THAT I'VE TOLD YOU GUYS IN THE PAST THAT I BELIEVE ALBERTA SHOULD BE CLOSED EAST AND WEST FROM FROM FROM KLAUSNER, OR IT'S NOT EVEN CLOSE. TO BE HONEST WITH YOU, IT'S BUSINESS HIGHWAY 281. IT'S A PROPER NAME TO EXPRESSWAY JUST TO ALLEVIATE THE ACCIDENTS THAT ARE. NOW, ONE MORE PERSON GETS KILLED IN THAT INTERSECTION OR SERIOUSLY MAIMED. WE SHOULD BE HELD AT FAULT. ON THE FIRST DESIGN, CAN YOU PUT THEM UP ON THE SCREEN? SORRY. JUST SO EVERYBODY CAN FOLLOW WHAT WE'RE REFERRING TO. YEAH. SO THIS ONE JUST INCLUDES PUTTING THE TRAFFIC SIGNAL RIGHT. ALL THE AND THE INTERSECTION DOESN'T INCLUDE LIGHTING SPEED LIMIT REDUCTION ON THE RAMP OR ANY OF THAT NATURE BECAUSE IT'S YOU KNOW, I THINK TEXDOT IS OPEN TO THERE'S AN EMAIL IN OUR PACKET THAT SAYS THAT IF WE HAVE ANY OTHER ALTERNATIVES THAT THEY'RE WILLING TO DISCUSS FURTHER. IS THAT CORRECT? YES, SIR. TEXDOT. SO, COUNCIL, I THINK FOR ME, I MEAN, OBVIOUSLY FROM A SAFETY STANDPOINT, IF WE CONSIDER THIS INTERSECTION OR THIS FIRST DESIGN, OBVIOUSLY WE CAN'T DO IT WITHOUT TEX DOT'S INPUT. THAT RAMP BELONGS TO TEX DOT, RIGHT? AND SO ANYTHING THAT HAPPENS ON THAT RAMP, WE CAN'T I MEAN THAT'S TEX DOT. SO I MEAN I THINK A33 RIVERS. RIGHT. YOU GET OFF THE BRIDGE, THERE'S LIKE THE LIGHTING, THE SPEED LIMIT CHANGE, AND YOU GO INTO TOWN, RIGHT? YOU SLOW DOWN TO 30 AND THAT'S A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT INTERSECTION OR COMPARISON. BUT I'M JUST TALKING ABOUT THE CHANGE IN SPEED LIMIT AND THE DIFFERENT THINGS. I KNOW TEXAS HAD ORIGINALLY, I THINK, SAID NO, RIGHT? THEY DIDN'T WANT TO MAKE ANY CHANGES, BUT IT APPEARS NOW THAT THEY ARE OPEN TO THOSE DISCUSSIONS. SO THAT'S JUST MY THOUGHTS. COUNCIL I MEAN, I'M NOT SURE IF Y'ALL BE AMENABLE TO THAT. I THINK IT'S WORTH EXPLORING. I ALTERNATIVES. I KNOW WE DID GET AN EMAIL THAT THE MR. SPOKE, REACHED OUT TO OUR REPRESENTATIVE AND TXDOT, AND I THINK WE SHOULD ALLOW THEM TO SPEAK BEFORE WE MAKE ANY CHANGES. BUT I AM CONCERNED ON THE SAFETY. WHAT CAN WE DO NOW TO SLOW DOWN DETER WHAT'S HAPPENING THERE AND HOPEFULLY AVOID SOME ACCIDENTS WHILE WE GET THIS DISCUSSED. RIGHT NOW, IT'S BUILT OUT MAX TO THE MAX AT THIS PORTION WITHOUT US HAVING PERMISSION FROM TEXAS TO CHANGE ANYTHING ALONG KLAUSNER WE WOULD HAVE TO PROPOSE IT TO THEM. ANYTHING WE DO TO SLOW DOWN SIGNS OF THE STATE HAS TO BE WITH THE TEXTILE. AND THAT'S. THAT'S THE ONLY REASON WHY THEY'RE INVOLVED IS BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, LIKE COUNCIL MEMBER WHITE SAID, THIS THIS US BUSINESS. 281 THAT DOES IS GOVERNED BY THE STATE. SO ANY CHANGES THAT WE HAVE TO SUBMIT TO THEM FOR THEIR APPROVAL? CAN WE CLOSE ALBERTA ROAD WITHOUT TEX DOT'S APPROVAL ON THE INTERSECTION? YES, SIR. YES. SO THERE IS SOMETHING WE COULD DO RIGHT NOW. NEXT TEN MINUTES IF WE WANTED TO. YEP. DON'T LOOK AT THE MAYOR. I'M THE ONE TALKING TO YOU. YES, SIR. YEAH. SO THERE IS SOMETHING WE CAN DO. AND THAT'S WHAT WE'RE PAYING YOU GUYS. TO ANSWER THE QUESTION, THE MAYOR, THE MAN ASKED, IS THERE SOMETHING WE CAN DO? THEY MIGHT NOT LIKE THE ANSWER. THIS ISN'T ABOUT THE BUSINESSES THAT ARE THERE. IT'S ABOUT THE SAFETY OF OUR COMMUNITY. IT'S THE SAFETY OF THE PUBLIC. IT'S THE SAFETY OF THE LADY DRIVING WITH THEIR CHILD, COMING ACROSS THAT INTERSECTION. THAT'S ALL [03:40:03] THIS IS ABOUT? YES, SIR. BUT IF WE DO CLOSE THAT AREA IF WHEREVER IT REVERTS BACK TO THE PROPERTY OWNERS, IF WE DON'T NO LONGER HAVE THE RIGHT OF WAY, SO THEY COULD USE IT STILL AS A DRIVE. SO IT'S STILL GOING TO CREATE THE SAME ISSUE FOR THE THE DRIVEWAYS ARE PERMITTED BY THE CITY, CORRECT? YES. OKAY. THEN THE CITY WOULD HAVE TO DECIDE TO MAKE THAT INTO A DRIVEWAY AT THE INTERSECTION AT THAT PORTION, SINCE IT'S GOING TO BE ABANDONED RIGHT OF WAY. THEN IF WE ABANDON IT AND IT GOES BACK TO THE OWNERS OF THE PROPERTY, AND THEN IF THEY WANTED TO, IF WE WANTED TO ALLOW THEM TO MAKE THAT INTO IN THERE, WHICH WOULD BE RIDICULOUS IF WE DID INTO A, INTO A NATURAL WAY TO THEIR PROPERTY OR EXIT WAY TO THE PROPERTY, THEN WE'RE KILLING OURSELVES, RIGHT? THE OTHER ISSUE THAT WE DO HAVE THERE, WE DO HAVE A LIFT STATION ON THAT AREA. SO THAT IF WE WOULD HAVE TO GO BACK AND THEN REDESIGN AND ASK FOR AN EASEMENT FOR THAT AREA, BECAUSE RIGHT NOW IT IS IN PUBLIC RIGHT OF WAY. AND THERE'S NOT REALLY A RIGHT ANSWER ON THIS, BUT BUT I DO FEEL, THOUGH, THAT ON THAT RAMP IS EVEN IF WE REDUCE THE SPEED, YOU KNOW, PEOPLE ARE COMING OFF THE EXPRESSWAY. IT'S NOT GOING TO REDUCING THE SPEED IS NOT GOING TO HELP THE SITUATION. I DEFINITELY THINK A LIGHT THERE IS DEFINITELY NOT THE ANSWER TO STOPPING THAT TRAFFIC. COUNCILMAN WHITE CAN HELP ME ADDRESS THAT. THEY'RE POSTED NOW. THE FASTEST WAS 76 AT A 50 MILES AN HOUR. SO A SIGN IS JUST A SIGN. ALL RIGHT. ANY OTHER COMMENTS? THERE WAS ANOTHER. THERE WAS ANOTHER SLIDE. RIGHT. BESIDES THE FOUR WAY COMING, A TRAFFIC. YES, SIR. THE MEDIAN ONE. SO THIS ONE WILL ALWAYS BE OPEN FOR NORTH AND SOUTH TRAFFIC COMING OFF THE RAMP SO THAT THAT WAY NOBODY IS QUEUING. WHEN YOU'RE COMING ON ALBERTA TO TAKE A LEFT TURN TO GO SOUTH, YOU GO DOWN IN THE MIDDLE AND THEN YOU MERGE INTO TRAFFIC. THIS WILL BE A RIGHT TURN LANE. THAT WAY WE ELIMINATE THE EXACT PROCESS ON THAT OTHER AND ALL OF THEM. THE DEBATE THAT WE HAD ON THIS ONE OR WE'VE HAD ON THIS ONE, IS THE PUBLIC COMING UP NORTH AND WANTING TO TURN LEFT, GOING NORTH, WANTING TO TURN LEFT OR WEST ONTO ALBERTA. WE'RE GOING TO HAVE TO GO UP ANOTHER 500FT, MAKE A U-TURN OR THEY NEED TO COME DOWN TRENTON. THAT'S CORRECT. NEXT FEAR THAT WE'VE HAD. SO EVERYBODY UNDERSTANDS THAT THIS IS NOT SOMETHING THAT WE WE'RE LIGHTLY DEBATING IS NO, THERE'S THEY'RE GOING TO START MAKING THE U-TURN UP THERE WITH A U-TURN IN THE MIDDLE. THERE IS CRAZY. OTHER THAN YOU CONTROL IT BY ANOTHER SIGN THAT SAYS NO U-TURNS. CORRECT. BUT BUT THERE'S A THERE'S A LEFT TURN LANE THERE AS WELL. YES, SIR. YOU DON'T HAVE TO TURN OFF ALBERTA. THERE'S ALREADY. OH, OKAY. SO. SO THIS, THIS. THAT'S WHEN THEY WORK. YOU HAVE TO WORK YOUR WAY OVER. YES, SIR. THAT IS CORRECT. THIS THIS JASON COUNCILMAN AND I ARE ON PACK, AND SO WE'VE BEEN DISCUSSING THIS FOR QUITE SOME TIME. THE INITIAL PROPOSITION WAS A TRAFFIC LIGHT, AND WE'RE THE ONES THAT BROUGHT UP, LIKE, HOW CAN YOU HAVE A TRAFFIC LIGHT WITH NO SLOWDOWN OF SPEED COMING OFF THE RAMP? AND SO STAFF CONTINUED WITH OTHER OPTIONS. AND WE WE ALWAYS THOUGHT THIS WAS THE BEST OPTION. BUT THEN, OF COURSE, WE ENGAGED THE RESIDENTS AND THE STAKEHOLDERS THERE, AND I DIDN'T I DIDN'T COME TO THAT MEETING EITHER. BUT APPARENTLY THERE WAS BIG OPPOSITION FOR ANYTHING EXCEPT FOR A STOPLIGHT. SO THE THE PROBLEM IS THAT THERE'S NO SLOWDOWN. TEX DOT DIDN'T WANT THE THE TRAFFIC LIGHT. NOW THEY'RE WILLING TO DISCUSS IT. BUT WE ALWAYS FELT THAT THIS WHERE IT DIDN'T IMPEDE ANY TRAFFIC EXCEPT EASTBOUND TRYING TO ACCESS THE EXPRESSWAY THERE, WHICH IS THE BIGGEST ISSUE AND WHERE THE MOST MAJOR ACCIDENTS HAVE BEEN HAPPENING. IS THAT SAFE TO SAY? YES, SIR. AND THE ONLY THING THAT ISSUE WITH THE EXPRESSWAY SIDE, IT AFFECTS THE PEOPLE TRYING TO GO SOUTHBOUND, BECAUSE NO MATTER WHAT, IF YOU DID EITHER INTERSECTION, THE NORTHBOUND PEOPLE STILL NEED TO GO DOWN TO OWASSO, COME BACK UP, AROUND TO GO NORTH. SO IT ONLY AFFECTS PEOPLE TRYING. AND SO YEAH, INSTEAD OF TRYING TO CROSS THERE, YOU WOULD TURN RIGHT, HEAD SOUTH, GO UNDER THE OVERPASS, THERE'S AN OVERPASS, CORRECT. YOU COME BACK AROUND AND THEN YOU CAN STILL ACCESS THAT EAST ALBERTA SIDE. YOU JUST HAVE TO GO DO A U-TURN UNDER THE OVERPASS. YEAH, YEAH. AND THE ISSUE ALSO THERE'S CHALLENGES WITH BOTH. I THINK THAT THE OPTIONS WE HAVE HERE, I THINK WITH THE MEDIAN, ALL OF A SUDDEN WE'RE BLOCKING ACCESS RIGHT FROM ONE END OF OUR CITY TO THE OTHER. AND WE KNOW HOW MUCH TRAFFIC THERE IS IN OUR COMMUNITY. AND THAT THAT'S A CONCERN, AT LEAST, THAT I HAVE. BUT BUT I THINK LOOK, I THINK COUNCIL THIS IS MY THOUGHTS. I MEAN, WE SHOULD CONSIDER VISITING WITH TEXDOT. THIS IS A STATE ROAD WITH THEM AND SEEING WHAT OTHER OPTIONS WE CAN COME UP WITH. WE DON'T HAVE MUCH TIME. OBVIOUSLY, WE'RE ALMOST THERE, BUT WE REALLY SHOULD TAKE THEM UP ON THAT. I UNDERSTAND THEY DO WANT TO VISIT WITH US TO EXPLORE THOSE ALTERNATIVES, AND I THINK IT'S WORTH FOR US TO DO SO IF YOU GUYS ARE AMENABLE TO IT. IT'S CHIEF. I THOUGHT I SAW CHIEF AYALA. IS THERE ANY. IS CHIEF AYALA HERE? YES, CHIEF, JUST A QUESTION. [03:45:04] IT, SIR. IF WE WERE ABLE, IF WE WERE ABLE TO TABLE THIS AND GIVE TEXDOT AND EVERYONE A CHANCE TO WORK IT OUT. IS THERE A WAY WE CAN POST SOMEBODY THEIR HELP? SLOW DOWN. ANY ANY ANY SUGGESTIONS ON HOW WE CAN MITIGATE LESS ACCIDENTS THERE? GOOD EVENING, JAIME AYALA, POLICE CHIEF. WE ALREADY WORKED THAT AREA WITH THE ENFORCEMENT, OUR TRAFFIC, AS WE DO ACROSS THE CITY. IT WOULD BE VERY CHALLENGING TO BE ABLE TO JUST ASSIGN SOMEONE CONFIRMING THAT THEY ENFORCE THAT AREA, THAT THAT JUST SITS THERE TO MONITOR IT. WE'VE USED SPEED TRAILERS BEFORE, BUT IT'S REALLY THE DRIVING BEHAVIOR THAT WE HAVE TO DEAL WITH AS THEY'RE COMING OFF THAT RAMP ONTO BUSINESS. SO, I MEAN, WE CAN CONTINUE TO MONITOR AND WORK IT AS WE HAVE IN THE PAST, BASED ON THE CRASHES AND SOME OF THE COMPLAINTS THAT WE'VE HAD. THANKS, CHIEF. BUT THAT'S A BAND-AID. THAT'S A TEMPORARY FIX. YEAH, THAT'S I MEAN, WE CAN I CANNOT AFFORD TO DEDICATE ONE PERSON JUST TO THAT INTERSECTION WITH WITH THE WORKLOAD THAT WE HAVE, IT WOULD BE A CHALLENGE, BUT WE WILL DO EVERYTHING WE CAN TO BE PRESENT. YOU GUYS KNOW I KNOW THE HISTORY OF THIS WHOLE THING, BUT WHEN TEX-DOT WAS FIRST BUILDING THIS AND BUILDING THE RAMP THAT INTERSECTION RIGHT THERE WAS JUST BEING BUILT UP TO ALL THAT AREA WAS BEING BUILT UP. WE USED TO HAVE MAJOR ACCIDENTS. WE CLEARED AN ACCIDENT FROM THERE, TURNED AROUND AND CAME BACK AND CLEARED IT. AT THAT TIME, I WAS A PATROL SERGEANT. WHAT WE DID IS WE CALLED TXDOT. SAY YOU GUYS GOT TO DO SOMETHING. THIS ISN'T RIGHT. TXDOT TELLS US THAT THERE'S NOTHING WE CAN DO ABOUT IT UNTIL WE HAVE TO GET AN ENGINEER OR SOMEBODY. SO I TOLD THEM, WELL, IT'S TOO BAD THE CITY OF EDINBURGH JUST CLOSED THE EXPRESSWAY AND WE CLOSED IT. FROM THAT POINT ON, WE MOVED THE BARRICADES AND THEY FINALLY SENT A CREW OUT AND SAID, IF YOU GUYS ARE CLOSING IT, WE CAN ASSIST YOU BECAUSE OF THE SAFETY OF THE PUBLIC AND THIS HASN'T CHANGED. THE ONLY THING THAT'S CHANGED NOW THAT WE HAVE MORE LIGHTING IS NOT THE CONSTRUCTION, BECAUSE IT WAS VERY CONFUSING WITH THE RESTRICTIONS AND THE BARRELS AND ALL THAT STUFF OUT THERE, AND WE WOULD WITHIN 15 MINUTES TO CLEAR AN ACCIDENT DRIVEWAY AND COME BACK IN. AND THEY'RE SERIOUS ACCIDENTS. THAT'S WHY I HAVE A PASSION FOR THIS INTERSECTION. I WAS THE ONE. AND THAT'S THE FIRST EXPERIENCE THAT I HAD TO FIGHT WITH, WITH TEX-DOT. AND FINALLY THEY FIGURED SOMETHING OUT. I THINK THEY HAD CLOSED THAT FOR THE REST OF THE CONSTRUCTION. TOM. TOM MAY REMEMBER THAT THEY CLOSED ALBERTA THAT WAY FOR IT. SO THAT'S WHY I KNOW THERE'S A SOLUTION. WE'VE ALREADY HAD IT. AND I WILL SAY JUST I MEAN, ANYTIME THAT WE CAN MINIMIZE THAT AMOUNT OF TRAFFIC, CROSS TRAFFIC, WE'RE GOING TO BE ABLE TO REDUCE ACCIDENTS. IF WE DO NOT MITIGATE THE THE CROSS TRAFFIC, WE'RE GOING TO CONTINUE TO HAVE CONCERNS. THE OTHER THING THAT HAS TO BE MENTIONED THAT CAME UP AT THE AT THE STAKEHOLDER MEETING THAT WE HAD THE PROPERTY OWNER THERE ON THAT BIG TRACK ON THE SOUTH WEST CORNER. THEY'RE PUTTING A WHAT KIND OF OPERATION IS THAT? THERE'S A LARGE TRUCK, LARGE TRUCKING BODY SHOP TYPE BODY SHOP THERE. YES, SIR. SO THERE'S ACTUALLY IT'S UNDER CONSTRUCTION FROM WHAT I WRITE. CORRECT. SO THERE'S GOING TO BE 18 WHEELERS. GOING TO BE, I MEAN, A LOT OF TRAFFIC. I UNDERSTAND ON THAT CORNER AS WELL. IN FACT, THE PROPERTY OWNER WAS HERE AT THE MEETING, I THINK SO. YES, SIR. AT THIS POINT, WE'RE NOT ASKING FOR APPROVAL. WE'RE ASKING FOR YOUR DIRECTION. SO THEREFORE, WHATEVER DIRECTION YOU WANT ME TO SEEK, THEN WE WILL BRING BACK THE ITEM. PROBABLY THE FIRST MEETING OF DECEMBER TO SEE WHICH WAY WE WOULD SWAY. BUT RIGHT NOW WE ARE SEEKING DIRECTION ON WHICH AREAS DO YOU WANT ME TO PURSUE? AND AT THE END OF THE DAY, YOU KNOW, NO ONE WANTS A MEDIANS IN THE STREETS, I GET IT. LIKE LIKE I SAID, I LIVED THROUGH IT EVERY DAY. BUT IT'S NOT ABOUT WHAT WE LIKE, AND IT'S NOT ABOUT WHAT OUR PERSONAL BELIEFS ARE. AT THE END OF THE DAY, THIS IS ABOUT SAVING LIVES. WE'RE A GROWING COMMUNITY, AND A LOT OF PEOPLE DON'T REALIZE WITH THAT TRAFFIC WE DON'T LISTEN. IT'S OUR HUMAN NATURE. WE'RE JUST NOT GOING TO LISTEN. YOU CAN PUT THE STOP SIGNS. YOU CAN PUT. YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE TO FORCE PEOPLE TO TURN ONE WAY. AND FOR THE SAFETY REASONS, I DO FEEL THAT THIS CURRENT PHOTO, THE THREE LEGGED INTERSECTION IS PROBABLY THE SAFEST ROUTE. I JUST DON'T LIKE THAT ONRAMP LIGHT. STOPPING THAT TRAFFIC FROM THAT. EXITING FROM THAT EXPRESSWAY. TO ME, THAT JUST SOUNDS VERY DANGEROUS. BUT I CAN ALSO UNDERSTAND THE CONCERNS OF OF OUR STAKEHOLDERS AND OUR RESIDENTS. BUT AS FAR AS SAFETY CONCERNS, THIS IS DEFINITELY THE BEST ROUTE TO GO. IF WE'RE LOOKING FOR DIRECTION. I'LL AGREE WITH JASON. THIS IS THIS THREE LEGGED INTERSECTION. WELL, WE DON'T HAVE THIS FRACTION, DO WE? NO, SIR. SO WE CAN'T MR. ASKING FOR DIRECTION. WELL, I KNOW, BUT DIRECTION IS TAKING ACTION SO THEY COULD MOVE FORWARD. BECAUSE I DON'T AGREE WITH THAT. THREE LEGGED. NO. SO. NO, SIR. IF YOU WANT ME TO PURSUE THIS ONE AND THE FOUR WAY INTERSECTION. WELL, THOSE ARE THE ITEMS. YEAH. I WANT TO EXPLORE WHAT I'M LOOKING FOR. SO I WANT TO EXPLORE THAT. BUT JUST IN CONVERSATION WITH TEXDOT, LIKE, I WANT TO KNOW WHAT IT IS THAT THEY HAD SAID. NO, BUT I UNDERSTAND THEY'RE OPEN NOW TO DISCUSSING CHANGES TO THE RAMP AND ALL THAT. I'D LIKE THAT EXPLORED AT LEAST. SO BEFORE WE MAKE A FINAL DECISION AND KNOW WHAT IT IS THAT THEY COULD DO AT THIS POINT FOR THE FULL INTERCHANGE, YOU KNOW. YES, SIR. SO THEN THERE'S TWO OPTIONS. [03:50:04] ONE IS TO BRING BOTH. BOTH. OKAY. CAN WE MEET WITH TEXDOT SOON ON THIS? THAT WAY WE CAN GET THAT DIRECTION. AND I WOULD SAY ON BOTH RIGHT ON THE MEDIAN TOO. SO THAT I MEAN YOU CAN GET THAT IMPACT OR FEEDBACK FROM THEM. OKAY. THIS SLIDE SAYS TEXDOT APPROVED. SO IT IS ALREADY APPROVED BY TXDOT. THAT ONE THEY DID APPROVE. DID THEY APPROVE IT THE FOUR WAY TO OVER THIS ONE. NO. BUT THEY'RE STILL OPEN TO SEEING THE FOUR WAY. BUT THEY WOULD PREFER TO SEE THE TEXT. AND SO TOM WHICH WAS TXDOT'S PREFERRED THE THREE LEGGED ONE. THE THREE LEGGED ONE. OKAY. BUT AGAIN, YOU SEE THE EMAIL, AS THEY SAY THEY RECOMMENDED. DID THEY HAVE THEIR ENGINEERS CHECK THIS PREFERRED METHOD ON THAT. SO THEY THOUGHT THIS WOULD BE THE SAFEST ONE ACCORDING TO TEX DOT. CORRECT. OKAY. SO THIS IS DRAWN BY US OR BY TEX DOT. THIS IS DRAWN BY US. THIS WAS OUR ENGINEERS THAT PUT IT TOGETHER. OUR CONSTRUCTION ENGINEER. IT LOOKS NICE. AND IF IF THE PRESENTATION IS OVER, IF IF ANYONE HERE IN THE AUDIENCE WANTS TO COMMENT ON THIS ITEM. YEAH, I THINK FERN HAD A SIGN UP, TOO. YEAH. WELL, WE CAN'T TONIGHT. THERE'S ENOUGH FOR ACTION. BUT, YEAH, THE ONE YOU'RE SHOWING UP THERE WITH, THE LITTLE THINGAMAJIGGER WHICH YOU JUST TOOK DOWN. I USED TO LIVE RIGHT HERE FROM THIRD GRADE TILL 1973. SO I KNOW ALL ABOUT THE WRECKS AND EVERYTHING THERE. THIS MEDIAN THING. CAN YOU PUT THIS ONE UP, PLEASE? FERN, DID YOU SEE CHIEF WHITE AT THAT INTERSECTION THERE? MONITORING PEOPLE. BUT HE CERTAINLY NEEDS TO BE THERE. ALRIGHT, WE GOT MOTORCYCLE POLICE SAID SINCE 73. GIVE ME A BREAK. I WANT TO KNOW WHEN SOMEBODY CAN SPEED AT. I HEAR IT SAYS 76 MILES AN HOUR. I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW WHO COMES UP THAT RAMP. NOBODY DOES. AND THEN COMES DOWN. AND IF YOU'RE COMING DOWN AT THAT SPEED, THEN WE SHOULD BE MAKING A LOT OF MONEY OFF OF THE TICKETS. ARREST THEM RIGHT THERE. WELL, MY THING IS THIS ONE. AND WE HAD THE THE OWNER OF THE TRUCK. RIGHT. GOING TO HAVE RIGHT THERE. AND IF YOU. I HAVE TROUBLE WITH PEOPLE THAT LIVE IN EDINBURG. MCALLEN DOES A LITTLE BETTER. BUT EDINBURG FOUR WAY STOPS. THEY DON'T GET THE IDEA THAT WHO COMES UP FIRST THE RIGHT AND THEN TAKE TURNS. IT'S WHOEVER CAN GET UP THERE THE FASTEST. AND YOU GO, ALL RIGHT, THIS RIGHT HERE, YOU'RE LOOKING AT AN ARROW COMING OFF OF ALBERTA TURNING AND GOING NORTH, AND YOU'RE FACING TRAFFIC. YOU'RE LOOKING AT CARS. THERE'S TWO LANES THAT ARE GOING SOUTH. YOU CAN SEE AND I KNOW THERE'S GOING TO BE A MEDIAN. WELL, THAT MEDIAN BETTER BE THIS HIGH SO THAT THE CARS CANNOT JUMP IT OR HIT IT. BECAUSE I GUARANTEE YOU, COMING TOWARD TRAFFIC IS THE DUMBEST THING I'VE EVER HEARD. AND I KNOW THERE'S ONE IN MCALLEN AND I STILL THINK THAT ONE'S DUMB. BUT MY THING IS CLOSE IT FOR SAFETY. IF THAT'S THE REASON WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT SAFETY OR FIGURE OUT A WAY THAT BECAUSE HERE I SEE IN THE BACKUP IT SAID TEX DOT AND CONSIDERED BY STAFF AND TEX DOT EITHER LEAVE THE INTERSECTION AS IT IS OR IMPLEMENT THE BYPASS. AND NOW YOU'RE SAYING, WELL, THEY'RE KIND OF THINKING THEY MIGHT BE ABLE TO GO WITH THE CITY. THIS IS THE CITY LIMITS OF EDINBURG. I DON'T CARE IF TEX, DOT OR WHATEVER. WE THIS IS NOT CLOSNER. THIS IS SOUTH 281. AND OUR THING THAT'S BUSINESS. 281 AND TO ME WHEN YOU AND YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT GOING DOWN TO THE UNDERPASS AND TURNING AROUND AND COME BACK. HAVE YOU DRIVEN THAT AT EARLY IN THE MORNING OR LATE IN THE AFTERNOON? THEY'RE BUMPER TO BUMPER. WE NEED COPS ON ALL FOUR CORNERS WITH LIGHTS FLASHING. AND THERE'S ABSOLUTELY NO REASON WHY I CANNOT BELIEVE IN THE STATE OF TEXAS THAT THEY DON'T HAVE SOME PROBLEM LIKE THIS WHERE THEY HAVE PUT YOU'VE GOT A FLASHING LIGHT RIGHT OUT OF THIS BUILDING THAT SHOWS THERE'S A STOP SIGN. HOW ABOUT DOING SOMETHING? AND IF TXDOT CAN'T DO THAT, THEN THEY NEED TO CLOSE THE OVERPASS ON THAT THING. BECAUSE THE SAFETY OF THE PUBLIC AND THERE'S BEEN MANY, MANY, MANY OVER THE YEARS, PEOPLE GET KILLED THERE. I PERSONALLY KNOW BECAUSE I HAD TO HELP WITH THE WRECKS AS THE YOUNG WOMAN AND EVERYTHING BUT 76 MILES AN HOUR. ANYBODY THAT'S PULLING THAT NEEDS TO BE ARRESTED AND THAT'S RIDICULOUS. SO MY TWO CHOICES IS EITHER PUT THE RED LIGHT UP, PUT THE SIGNS UP, THE THAT PEOPLE CAN SLOW DOWN WITH SIGNS SAYING A LIGHT AHEAD OR CLOSE IT FOR THE SAFETY. SO YOU DON'T PREFER THE MEDIAN? NO, I HATE THE THING. I THINK I JUST WANT TO BE CLEAR GOING. I JUST WANTED TO BE CLEAR WHAT YOUR PREFERENCE IS TO THE INTERSECTION. FOUR WAY INTERSECTION. YEAH. AND THAT'S WHAT THEY'RE TALKING ABOUT HERE. THE GENTLEMAN THAT WAS HERE THAT NIGHT, [03:55:04] THEY'RE GOING THEY'RE GOING TO HAVE THE TRUCKING COMPANY. YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE AN 18 WHEELER WITH A LONG TRAILER COME OUT OFF OF ALBERTA. AND YOU AND HE EVEN SAID THEY'RE NOT GOING TO MAKE THAT TURN. SO NOW YOU'VE INCONVENIENCED THOSE THAT COMPANY BECAUSE NOW YOU'RE TELLING HIM, GO ALL THE WAY DOWN, GET OFF. GO UNDER THE THING. YOU CAN'T DO THAT TO THE PUBLIC. SO YOU TELL TEXDOT, FIGURE OUT A WAY OF PUTTING A RED LIGHT UP THERE. WELL, I'M WITH YOU ON THIS ONE. THANK YOU. ALL RIGHT. YOU SAID THERE WAS OTHER COMMENTS. IS THERE ANY OTHER COMMENTS ON THIS ITEM? IF NOT, I'M GOING TO MOVE ON. THIS IS NOT FOR ACTION TONIGHT, BUT YOU'RE GOING TO PUT THIS ON AT THE NEXT MEETING. CITY MANAGER OR THE FIRST IN THE FIRST MEETING OF DECEMBER. WE CAN MEET WITH TEXDOT, PLEASE. THAT'D BE GREAT. JUST SO WE CAN GET THAT FEEDBACK. SO. YES, SIR. ALL RIGHT. ALL RIGHT. WE'RE GOING TO MOVE ON TO ITEM EIGHT. THIS IS A DISCUSSION DISCUSSION AND POSSIBLE ACTION REGARDING STATE HIGHWAY 68. YES, SIR. MAYOR. WE'RE PRESENTING THIS ITEM TODAY BASICALLY FOR DISCUSSION AND POSSIBLE ACTION FOR COUNCIL REGARDING A PROJECT THAT HAS TAKEN PLACE SINCE 2013 FOR STATE HIGHWAY 68. AND I JUST WANTED TO OPEN IT UP FOR DISCUSSION FOR COUNCIL TO SEE IF THEY HAVE ANY QUESTIONS REGARDING THIS PROJECT AND IF THEY WOULD LIKE TO MAKE ANY COMMENTS. WE ALSO HAVE SOME LANDOWNERS THAT I BELIEVE HERE TONIGHT THAT OWN LAND OFF OF FM FOUR 91ST FIRST COUNCIL. CAN WE SUSPEND THE RULES JUST SO WE CAN HAVE THAT DISCUSSION? THERE'S NO REASON TO SUSPEND THE RULES. THIS IS A DISCUSSION. WELL, IT SAYS POSSIBLE ACTION. SO NORMALLY YOU ALL HAVE TO MAKE A MOTION A SECOND. WE'VE NEVER DONE IT BEFORE. HAVE TO GO INTO A. WELL I'LL LET OUR LEGAL COUNSEL ANSWER THAT IF WE DON'T HAVE TO. WE WON'T. BUT I DON'T SEE WHY WE. YOU HAVE IT IDENTIFIED AS A AS A DISCUSSION ITEM. SO YOU CAN OPEN IT UP FOR DISCUSSION. OKAY. AND NOT ASK FOR A MOTION. RIGHT. ALL RIGHT. OKAY, GOOD. THAT'S FINE. GO AHEAD. OKAY. SO AS I WAS STATING, THERE ARE SOME LANDOWNERS, LANDOWNERS HERE. I BELIEVE THAT OWN LAND OFF OF FM 490. I BELIEVE SOME OF THEM MAY WANT TO MAKE SOME COMMENTS REGARDING HOW THE NEW ALIGNMENT OF SH 68 WILL BE AFFECTING THEIR LAND AT THIS TIME. WELL, LET'S COUNSEL, OPEN IT UP AND MAKE YOUR COMMENTS. AND THEN AND THEN WE'LL HEAR FROM THE RESIDENTS AS WELL. WELL, ACTUALLY, I HEAR FROM THE RESIDENTS. YOU LIKE TO HEAR FROM THE RESIDENTS FIRST. I'M OKAY. I'M FINE WITH THAT. IF EVERYONE. OKAY. IS ANYONE HERE WANTING TO SPEAK ON STATE HIGHWAY 68? I KNOW WE HEARD EARLIER IN THE PUBLIC COMMENTS. I KNOW FERNIE SIGNED UP, SO GO AHEAD, MA'AM. YEAH. SOMEONE ELSE. I'LL LET THEM GO FIRST. OKAY. ALL RIGHT. NOT A PROBLEM. GOOD EVENING. MY NAME IS JOE VAIL, AND I OWN THE PROPERTY IN FRONT OF THE AIRPORT. AND EAST OF IT, ON THE NORTH SIDE. FROM THE BEGINNING, STATE HIGHWAY 68. WE DISCUSSED IT FOR ABOUT EIGHT, TEN YEARS ON 180 ALL THE WAY, WHICH WHERE WE WERE IN FAVOR OF. AND ABOUT TWO YEARS AGO, THEY JUST CHANGED THE ROUTE. AND NOW THE THE ROUTE IS GOING TO DIVIDE MY PROPERTY IN HALF, ACTUALLY. THE PROBLEM IS THEY HAVEN'T DECIDED WHAT TO DO. SO THAT CREATES A PROBLEM FOR ME BECAUSE TO BE HONEST WITH YOU. BEFORE THEY CHANGED THE ROUTE, I WAS DEALING WITH TWO COMPANIES FROM SPAIN TO PUT A SOLAR PANEL FARM IN THERE. BUT AT THAT, AT THAT MOMENT, THEY CHANGED. THE NEW ROUTE CAME OUT. SO THEY DROPPED OUT, YOU KNOW. SO NOW I'M WORKING ON DIFFERENT PROJECTS, BUT WE DON'T STAND STILL BECAUSE NOTHING HAS BEEN DECIDED. I'M IN FAVOR OF THE NEW OF THE OLD ROUTE FOR NOW. ALL RIGHT. WE'RE NOW BACK FROM EXECUTIVE SESSION. CAN WE GET A MOTION TO RECONVENE MOVED. SECOND. MOTION TO SECOND. [16. EXECUTIVE SESSION] ALL IN FAVOR, PLEASE RAISE YOUR RIGHT HAND. ALL RIGHT. JUST WANT THE RECORD TO REFLECT THAT THERE WAS NO ACTION TAKEN IN EXECUTIVE SESSION. I BELIEVE THERE'S A COUPLE OF ITEMS THAT DO NEED ACTION. [B. Deliberation Regarding Real Property. (§551.072. Deliberation Regarding Real Property; Closed] YES, MAYOR. ON ITEM 16, BE RECOMMENDED. MOTION TO PROCEED AS DIRECTED. AS DISCUSSED IN EXECUTIVE SESSION. SO MOVED. SECOND. MOTION AND A SECOND. ALL IN FAVOR, RAISE YOUR RIGHT HAND. ALL OPPOSED? SAME SIGN. MOTION CARRIES. [D. Deliberation Regarding Economic Development Matters - Project Joe. (§551.087. Economic Development Negotiations; Closed Meeting)] [04:00:03] AND ON. ITEM 16, D RECOMMENDED MOTION TO APPROVE AN AGREEMENT AS DISCUSSED IN EXECUTIVE SESSION. SO MOVED. SECOND, WE HAVE A MOTION A SECOND. ALL IN FAVOR, RAISE YOUR RIGHT HAND. ALL OPPOSED. SAME SIGN. MOTION CARRIES. [17. ADJOURNMENT] ANY OTHER? NO OTHER ACTION ITEMS. VERY WELL. IS THERE A MOTION TO ADJOURN? SO MOVED. MOTION SECOND. ALL IN FAVOR, RAISE YOUR RIGHT HAND. WE'RE NOW ADJOURNED. THANK YOU. WHERE ARE WE GOING? * This transcript was compiled from uncorrected Closed Captioning.