[Workshop Session - 6:00 P.M. ]
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          WE'RE GOING TO CALL THE ORDER. ORDER! WE HAVE A QUORUM PRESENT. I THINK EVERYBODY'S HERE BUT COUNCIL PERSON BRANDON JONES. WE'RE GOING TO START. WE START WORKSHOP AT 6 P.M. TODAY. I'D LIKE TO REMIND EVERYBODY MICROPHONES ARE ON THEIR LIVE, NO MATTER HOW MUCH YOU WHISPER OR CHAT. THESE WILL PICK UP ABOUT ANYTHING THAT YOU SAY. JUST BE AWARE OF THAT. AND WE'RE GOING TO START WITH LOOKING OVER WHAT OUR AGENDA HAS TO OFFER TODAY. SO REALLY QUICKLY AGENDA ITEM A IS GOING TO BE DISCUSSION OF THE CONSENT AGENDA. I'M SORRY. CONSENT AGENDA ITEMS. WE HAVE A CITY CHARTER REVIEW PRESENTATION COMING UP. WE HAVE AN ENHANCED RESIDENT SATISFACTION SURVEY TOOL AND IMPROVEMENTS PRESENTATION COMING UP. WE HAVE INVOCATION BY COUNCIL MEMBER BOB TROYER. YOU HAVE THE PLEDGE TO THE FLAGS THROUGH COUNCIL MEMBER BRANDON JONES. KRISTEN, CAN YOU DO THAT IF BRANDON ISN'T HERE? YES. THANK YOU. ITEM C PUBLIC HEARING. GO THROUGH THESE PRETTY QUICKLY. PUBLIC HEARING. CONSIDERATION OF ADOPTION OF BUSINESS 121 CORRIDOR PLAN. DISCUSSION. CONCERNS ABOUT THAT. ITEM TWO PUBLIC HEARING. 
          CONSIDERATION OF RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL CERTIFYING THE CITY OF LOUISVILLE AS ELIGIBLE TO RECEIVE GRANT ASSISTANCE. ANYBODY LIKE TO TALK ABOUT THAT BEFORE IN WORKSHOP? OKAY. DO WE REALLY NEED THAT? THAT'S NICE. MY HUSBAND SAYS YES. OKAY. WE TAKE. ITEM D VISITOR FORUM. ITEM E CONSENT AGENDA. IF ANYBODY WOULD LIKE TO PULL AN ITEM FROM CONSENT AGENDA, PLEASE SPEAK UP RIGHT NOW. WE'LL GO THROUGH THOSE ONE AT A TIME. WE HAVE OH CONSENT AGENDA ITEMS. ITEM THREE. CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS. CITY COUNCIL MINUTES. ITEM FOUR. APPROVAL OF AGREEMENT WITH ADVOCACY CENTER. ADVOCACY, ADVOCACY AND CONSULTING, INCORPORATED. THE AMOUNT OF $70,000 ANNUALLY FOR LOCAL RELATIONSHIP SERVICES AND AUTHORIZATION FOR THE CITY MANAGER OR DESIGNATED TO EXECUTE THE AGREEMENT. ITEM FIVE APPROVAL OF PROFESSIONAL SERVICES AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE CITY OF LOUISVILLE AND CEI ENGINEERING ASSOCIATION, INC. 
          FOR PROFESSIONAL ENGINEERING CONSULTING SERVICES. AGENDA ITEM SIX APPROVAL OF A SECOND AMENDMENT TO THE AGENDA AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE CITY OF LOUISVILLE AND GUILFORD CORPORATION FOR MOWING, LANDSCAPING, AND ZONE FIVE. THE AMOUNT OF $51,948. CONSENT AGENDA SEVEN. APPROVAL OF INTERLOCAL AGREEMENT WITH THE LEWISVILLE INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT REGARDING THE CONTINUED IMPLEMENTATION OF ELEMENTARY SCHOOL RESOURCE ROVER PROGRAM. 
          ITEM EIGHT APPROVAL OF RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF LEWISVILLE. 
          APPROVING THE AGREEMENT FOR THE FURNISH THE FURNISHING OF TRAFFIC SIGNAL EQUIPMENT BY MUNICIPALITY WITH THE STATE OF TEXAS ACTING THROUGH THE TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION. 
          QUESTION. YES. SO ON THE MEMORANDUM ON THE FRONT SHEET, IT SAYS 284,000. BUT IF YOU GO TO THE REIMBURSEMENT PAGE, IT SAYS 222,000. DAVID, DO YOU WANT TO CONFIRM THOSE NUMBERS? WE'LL KEEP GOING THROUGH. WILL YOU CONFIRM WHAT NUMBERS THEY ARE? THANK YOU. HOW OLD ARE THESE? WHAT'S THE LIFE EXPECTANCY OF THESE? ALL THE SIGNALS. I MEAN, IF THEY'RE NOT KNOCKED DOWN. 
          WELL, I MEAN, YOU KNOW, SIGNALS CAN LAST FOR, YOU KNOW, 20, 30. OKAY. NOW, SOMETIMES THE EQUIPMENT ITSELF, SOME OF THE COMPONENTS DON'T LAST QUITE THAT LONG. BUT IN GENERAL, I NOTICED WE HAVE SOMETHING NEW ON OUR LIGHTS ALL OVER THE CITY. WHAT IS THAT, LIKE A LITTLE CAMERA THING? I BELIEVE THAT MIGHT BE CHRIS LEE. IS THAT SOMETHING OF YOURS, OR IS THAT. NO. WELL, I KNOW THERE'S BEEN A SHIFT TO CHANGE THE TRAFFIC DETECTION SYSTEMS, AND I BELIEVE THAT'S WHAT YOU'RE YOU'RE DOING. YEAH. WE'RE WE'RE WE'RE WE'RE ACTUALLY CHANGING OUR DETECTION SYSTEM AND THE OLD DETECTION OF THE USE OF BOTH CAMERAS. BUT THE CAMERAS ARE PUTTING OUT THERE NOW. OKAY. 
          OKAY. THAT'S WHAT IT WAS BECAUSE I WAS LIKE, OH, I GOT SOME NEW EQUIPMENT HERE. AND THEN ANOTHER INTERSECTION THAT'S GOT. NO, THAT'S NOT HERE. OH. 2000. OKAY, GREAT. SO DAVID, HE'S SAYING THAT IN SECTION THREE OF THE CONTRACT. IS THAT CORRECT? IT SHOWS 222,000 IS THE MAX. AND THE MEMO IS SAYING IT'S FOR MORE MONEY THAN THAT. WE JUST MAYBE HAVE THAT READY BY THE TIME WE GET OUT THERE TO TALK ABOUT IT. DO WE NEED TO PULL THAT FOR DISCUSSION OUT THERE? THAT'S ATTACHMENT A. DETACHMENT B THE COST ESTIMATE. WE CAN LET'S SEE IF DAVID CAN GET IT BEFORE WE GET OUT THERE. IF NOT, WE CAN PULL IT BEFORE WE GO OUT TO OPEN. AND THEN JENNIFER, I FOUND I FOUND THE I FOUND THE I'M SORRY. I JUST OVERLOOKED IT. ITEM TEN APPROVAL OF RESOLUTION FOR THE ACCEPTANCE OF THE 2025 STATE AND LOCAL CYBERSECURITY GRANT AWARD IN THE $39,000.74. 
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THAT'S WHAT I HAVE. OH, I THINK AN IMPORTANT ONE. ITEM NINE APPROVAL OF A RESOLUTION CALLING FOR THE MAY 3RD, 2025 CITY COUNCIL GENERAL ELECTION. APPROVAL, ELECTION CALENDAR AND AUTHORIZATION FOR THE MAYOR TO SIGN THE ELECTION ORDER. THANK YOU. COUNCIL MEMBER. ANY DISCUSSION ABOUT THOSE ITEMS? ANYBODY LIKE TO PULL AN ITEM? AND WE'LL PUT AN ASTERISK BY THE ONE REGARDING THE DIFFERENCES OF AMOUNTS. THIS IS LIKE JENNIFER IS GOING. OH. WE HAVE TO REVIEW. 
          IT'S GOING TO BE NEEDY. YEAH, IT'S GOING TO BE MEETING. WE'RE GOING INTO REGULAR HEARING. ITEM 11, CONSIDERATION OF ORDINANCE AMENDING THE FEE SCHEDULE OF THE CITY OF LOUISVILLE BY AMENDING FEES RELATED TO SOLID WASTE AND RECYCLING SERVICES, AND PRESENTATION RELATED TO IMPLEMENTATION OF SOLID WASTE CHANGES CITYWIDE. ANY QUESTIONS FOR WORKSHOP? ALL RIGHT. THEN WE'LL GO INTO REPORTS. RETURN TO WORKSHOP. NECESSARY. AND THEN I DON'T THINK WE'LL HAVE CLOSED SESSION THIS TIME, BUT WE DON'T. WE'LL GO INTO THAT. OKAY. OKAY. SO AT THIS POINT LET'S GO THROUGH IF THERE'S NO DISCUSSION OF THOSE ITEMS. LET'S GO THROUGH AND LOOK AT THE CITY CHARTER REVIEW RECOMMENDATIONS. HUMAN RESOURCE DIRECTOR TODD PHILLIPS AND THE CHARTER REVIEW COMMISSION MEMBER STEVE SOUTH WILL PRESENT THE POWERPOINT DOCUMENTATION PRESENTATION. 
          THANK YOU. ALL RIGHT. GOOD EVENING. SO I REALLY APPRECIATE YOU ALL DESCRIBING THIS ITEM AS MEATY. I THINK IT MAKES STEVE AND I FEEL IMPORTANT. SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH. IS THIS THE RIGHT DAY? YEAH. THERE WE GO. SO I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT TO NOTE FOR THIS PRESENTATION TONIGHT, THIS IS FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES FOR YOU ALL. THIS IS FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION. HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS FROM EITHER OF US. WE HAVE COMMISSION MEMBERS HERE TONIGHT AS WELL AS WE GO THROUGH IT. BUT AND I'LL ADDRESS THIS LATER IN THE PRESENTATION. BUT IT'S MEANT FOR AN ACTION ITEM FOR YOU ALL AT A LATER DATE. SO TODAY IS REALLY FOR US TO WALK THROUGH THE RECOMMENDATIONS FROM THE COMMISSION AND SHARE THOSE WITH YOU. SO STARTING OFF, WE REALLY I KNOW WE AS STAFF, I KNOW CLAIRE, LIZ, MYSELF, THOSE OF US THAT WERE INVOLVED IN SPENDING THIS TIME WITH THE COMMISSIONERS OVER RECENT MONTHS REALLY APPRECIATE THE COUNCIL WHO THE COUNCIL SELECTED. THEY WERE WONDERFUL FOLKS TO WORK WITH. WE HAD DEAN STEVE SOUTHWELL, WHO CO-PRESENT WITH ME TODAY, RUSS KIRBO, JAMES MCCLINTON AND GUY HARRIS. AND I KNOW WE HAVE RUSS AND JAMES HERE TODAY WITH US, SO THEY'VE BEEN WONDERFUL TO WORK WITH. WE REALLY APPRECIATE THE TIME OF ALL THE COMMISSIONERS. DO YOU WANT TO GIVE ANY INTRO REMARKS? WELL, I JUST WANT TO SAY THANKS TO CITY STAFF. THEY DID A TREMENDOUS JOB IN GATHERING THE INFORMATION FOR US, AS THEY DO FOR YOU. A LOT OF RESEARCH INVOLVED IN THIS, AND TRACKING DOWN INFORMATION FROM THOSE OTHER CITIES, COMPARISON CITIES. THAT WAS TOUGH WORK. SO THANK YOU FOR THAT. AND THANK YOU, COUNCIL, FOR YOUR FAITH AND TRUST IN US FOR YOUR HARD WORK. SO LET'S LET'S KIND OF SET THE STAGE AND THEN WE'LL GET TO RECOMMENDATIONS FROM THE COMMISSION. SO SETTING THE STAGE. THE CITY CHARTER SECTION 11.22 SPECIFIES THE CREATION OF THIS CHARTER COMMISSION AND THE DUTIES OF THIS COMMISSION. THOSE ARE SPECIFICALLY TO INQUIRE INTO THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THE CITY CHARTER AND DETERMINE WHETHER ANY PROVISIONS REQUIRE REVISION TO PROPOSE, IF DEEMED DESIRABLE, ANY AMENDMENTS TO IMPROVE THE CHARTER AND THEN TO REPORT ITS FINDINGS AND PRESENT ANY PROPOSED AMENDMENTS TO THE CITY COUNCIL. SO THAT THIRD DUTY OF THE COMMISSION IS WHAT WE'RE HERE TO DO TONIGHT WITH YOU ALL. THE PROCESS THAT WE'VE GONE THROUGH, AGAIN, REFERENCING 11.22 OF THE CHARTER, IT DOES SPECIFY THAT A CHARTER COMMISSION IS CREATED ONCE EVERY FIVE YEARS. AND SO YOU ALL APPOINTED BACK IN THE SUMMERTIME. AND SO THE CURRENT COMMISSIONERS, THE GROUP OF FIVE WAS APPOINTED IN THE SUMMERTIME. AND THEIR SIX MONTH TERM AS PER THE CHARTER. SUNSETS THIS NEXT MONTH. AND SO WHAT WE DID OVER THIS PROCESS WAS WE TOOK RECOMMENDATIONS FROM THE LAST TWO CHARTER COMMISSION, AND STEVE AND I WERE JUST COMPARING NOTES. HE THIS IS HIS THIRD CONSECUTIVE CHARTER COMMISSION. SO HE IS THE KING OF CHARTER COMMISSIONS. HE WAS HE WAS HERE FOR BOTH OF THE PRIOR TWO. THE LAST TWO. AND SO WE WENT THROUGH ALL OF THE RECOMMENDATIONS THAT DIDN'T NECESSARILY GO FORWARD ON BALLOTS. REVIEWED THOSE WITH THE COMMISSION. WE ALSO INCLUDED ITEMS THAT WE HEARD THAT COUNCIL MEMBERS MIGHT HAVE HAD AN INTEREST IN, AS WELL AS ITEMS THAT STAFF IDENTIFIED MIGHT HAVE BEEN SOME INCONSISTENCIES OR CHALLENGES THAT WE SAW AS WELL. AND SO THOSE WERE ALL THE INPUTS. AND THEN AS WE GOT INTO THE PROCESS, THEN THE COMMISSIONERS PUT THEIR OWN TOUCH ON THE PROCESS AND IDENTIFIED ADDITIONAL ITEMS THAT THEY WANTED US TO GO LOOK FURTHER INTO AS WELL. FOR THOSE THAT ARE WATCHING AT HOME OR THOSE IN THE ROOM THAT DON'T NECESSARILY ARE NOT HERE FOR THE CHARTER, WHICH I WOULD BE SURPRISED IF YOU'RE NOT HERE FOR THE CHARTER. BUT WHAT IS A CHARTER? IT'S THE FUNDAMENTAL LAW OF A HOME RULE CITY IN TEXAS. SO BASICALLY, WHAT TEXAS 
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LAW ALLOWS IS THAT THE CITY CAN DEFINE ITS CHARTER, IT BUILDS ITS OWN RULES. AND AS LONG AS THOSE RULES AREN'T IN CONFLICT WITH STATE OR FEDERAL LAW, THIS IS WHAT GOVERNS HOW THE CITY OPERATES. SO AS YOU SEE ON THE SCREEN HERE, OUR CHARTER IS DIVIDED INTO A VARIETY OF SECTIONS, INCLUDING HOW THE GOVERNMENT IS FORMED, HOW HOW CITY COUNCIL WORKS. CERTAIN OFFICES, SUCH AS CITY MANAGER AND CITY ATTORNEY, THE ELECTION PROCESS, ETC. EVERYTHING YOU SEE HERE ON THE SCREEN. OURS WAS CREATED IN 1963 AND MOST RECENT HISTORY. THIS IS JUST A RELATIVELY RECENT HISTORY ON CHARTER ELECTIONS. THESE ARE SO THESE AREN'T RECOMMENDATIONS FROM THE COMMISSION. THESE ARE ONES THAT THE COUNCIL HAS ACTUALLY SAID TAKE THESE, PUT THESE ON THE BALLOT. LET'S SEE WHAT HAPPENS. AND SINCE 2000, THERE HAVE BEEN FOUR CHARTER ELECTIONS. IN 2001 AND 2004. EACH WITH A BUNCH OF WITH NINE AND 13 PROPOSITIONS, RESPECTIVELY. OVER THESE FOUR ELECTIONS IN OH ONE, OH FOUR, 17 AND 21, THERE'S A TOTAL OF 26 PROPOSITIONS THAT HAVE GONE TO THE VOTERS, AND 25 OF THOSE 26 HAVE PASSED. THE TWO MOST RECENT ELECTIONS IN 2017. JUST TO REFRESH Y'ALL'S MEMORIES. THERE WERE TWO ITEMS BROUGHT. ONE WAS TO CLARIFY WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THERE'S A VACANCY IN COUNCIL. IF IT WAS MORE THAN A YEAR LEFT IN THE TERM OR NOT, AS WELL AS TO THE CREATION OF RESIDENTIAL DISTRICTS, BOTH OF THOSE PASSED IN 2017. OUT OF THE MOST RECENT COMMISSION IN 2021, FOUR PROPOSITIONS WERE BROUGHT FORWARD, AND THREE OF THOSE FOUR PASSED. THOSE THAT PASSED INCLUDED INCREASING THE COUNCIL SIZE, ADDRESSING SOME BUDGET LANGUAGE POWERS OF THE COUNCIL, AND THEN THE ONE ITEM THAT'S GONE FORWARD SINCE 2000 THAT DID NOT PASS WAS THE QUESTION OF WHETHER A PLANNING COMMISSION MEMBER MUST OWN REAL PROPERTY TO BE ON THE PLANNING COMMISSION, AND THAT ONE FAILED AT 46%. 
          OKAY, SO WE CONVENED IN AUGUST. GOT TOGETHER AND HAD STAFF GO THROUGH SOME OF THIS HISTORY WITH US AND REFRESH SOME MEMORIES, TALK ABOUT WHAT WE HAD DONE IN THE PAST AND JUST KIND OF BRING UP THOSE TOPICS AGAIN. SOME OF THEM WERE BROUGHT BY COUNCIL, SOME OF THEM BY STAFF. 
          SOME OF THEM WE CAME UP WITH. SO WE SPENT THREE MEETINGS KIND OF DOING A DEEP DIVE IN THAT STUFF, ASKING LOTS OF QUESTIONS, BUGGING THE HECK OUT OF STAFF. I WILL SAY WE DID NOT NECESSARILY AGREE ON EVERYTHING. INITIALLY WHEN THINGS WERE BROUGHT UP, BUT WE HAD SOME GOOD CONSENSUS AND I THINK WE'VE GOT SOME THINGS TO PRESENT TO YOU THAT YOU CAN PASS. SO THEN WE HAD A FINAL VOTE IN OUR DECEMBER MEETING AND THAT WAS IT. GREAT COLLABORATION. WE JUST APPRECIATE STAFF SO MUCH ON THAT GREAT TEAMWORK. SO THIS OUT OF THE COMMISSION, WHAT THIS COMMISSION VOTED ON. THIS IS JUST A SUMMARY. IT'S A LITTLE BIT OF A BUSY SLIDE. BUT WHAT IT'S MEANT TO DEPICT IS THE COMMISSION CONSIDERED TEN DIFFERENT ITEMS. OF THOSE TEN ITEMS, NINE OF THOSE WITH THE CHECK MARKS NEXT TO THEM ARE BEING BROUGHT FORWARD FOR Y'ALL'S CONSIDERATION TODAY. THERE'S ONE ITEM AS WE WENT THROUGH, THERE'S A PRIOR ITEM TIED TO 3.07 POWERS OF COUNCIL AND CONTRACTOR BONDING. AND AS WE LOOK CLOSER AT THAT, WE IDENTIFIED AT A STAFF LEVEL THAT WE DIDN'T THINK IT WAS A NECESSARY CHANGE. AND THE COMMISSION AGREED. AND SO THAT IS NOT PART OF THE COMMISSION'S RECOMMENDATIONS. BUT I DO THINK IT'S IMPORTANT TO KNOW WE DO LOOK BACKWARDS AND IDENTIFY THINGS THAT LAST THAT PRIOR COMMISSION'S HAD LOOKED AT. BUT THERE'S A LOT OF NEW IDEAS THAT CAME OUT OF THIS CYCLE. AND SO THE GREEN ON THE RIGHT INDICATES OF THESE OF ALL THE ITEMS CONSIDERED, MANY OF THOSE WERE NEW TOPICS THAT HAD NOT BEEN CONSIDERED BY PRIOR COMMISSIONS. SO OUT OF THE TEN ON THE SCREEN, WHAT YOU SEE ON THE NEXT IS REALLY THE TOPICAL AREAS THAT WE'RE GOING TO DIVE INTO TODAY. 
          THESE ARE THE SIX RECOMMENDED AREAS THAT THE COMMISSION ARE BRINGING FORWARD AS RECOMMENDATIONS TO COUNCIL. AND THOSE ARE. ITEM ONE IS COUNCIL COMPENSATION. ITEM TWO IS PROCEDURES FOR PASSING AN ORDINANCE. ITEM THREE IS THE ROLE OF THE CITY SECRETARY. ITEM FOUR IS FILING FOR OFFICE. ITEM FIVE IS THE CHARTER COMMISSION SIZE. AND THEN ITEM SIX IS ACTUALLY MIXING FOR ITEMS FROM THE PRIOR PAGE. WE'VE GOT SOME IDEAS AROUND SOME POSSIBLE CORRECTION LANGUAGE THAT COULD GET AT A VARIETY OF SMALLER ISSUES. AND WE'LL TALK ABOUT EACH OF THESE IN DEPTH. NOTICE THESE ARE EACH NUMBER HERE. SO AS WE GO THROUGH THE NUMBERS TIE BACK TO ITEMS ONE THROUGH SIX ON THIS PRESENTATION. SO WE'LL TAG TEAM ON EACH OF THESE STARTING WITH COUNCIL COMPENSATION. AND SO ONE OF THE THINGS THE COMMISSION WANTED US TO DO IS WE LOOKED AT HOW MUCH DO OTHER CITIES PAY PAY THEIR CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS. AND SO WE LOOKED AT OUR REGULAR COMPARISON 17 CITIES. WHAT WE LOOKED AT WAS ON A PER MONTH BASIS, OUR CHARTER IS WRITTEN WORK. BOTH THE MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS ARE PAID $50 PER MEETING. BUT BUT TO MAKE APPLES AND APPLES, WE PUT IT ON A MONTHLY BASIS. SO WE SAID APPROXIMATELY $100 A MONTH FOR OUR CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS. AND AS YOU SEE IN THE CHART HERE, 
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THEY'RE SORTED FROM LOW TO HIGH. BUT OUR OUR COUNCIL PAY IS VERY LOW COMPARED TO OUR 17 COMPARISON COMPARISON CITIES. ONE OF THE THINGS WE HEARD FROM THE COMMISSION WAS THEY SAID, WELL, LET'S KIND OF PUSH FORT WORTH AND DALLAS TO THE SIDE. THOSE ARE BEHEMOTHS. THEY'RE A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENT. LET'S IGNORE THOSE TWO AND LET'S FOCUS ON THE REMAINING 15. AND SO WE DID THAT. AND WHAT WE FOUND WAS THE AVERAGE MAYOR PAY FOR THE 15 CITIES WAS $697 PER MONTH. 
          AGAIN, OURS IS $100 TODAY. AND THAT THE AVERAGE COUNCIL PAY PER MONTH WAS $469. AGAIN, OURS IS $100 TODAY. SO WITH THIS INFORMATION, THE COMMISSION LOOKED AT THIS AS WELL AS SOME OTHER THINGS WE PRESENTED AND CAME UP WITH THIS RECOMMENDATION. SO WHAT WE CAME UP WITH BY CONSENSUS IS THE COMPENSATION OF $300 PER MONTH FOR COUNCIL MEMBERS AND 400 A MONTH FOR THE MAYOR, KIND OF RECOGNIZING THERE'S A LITTLE BIT MORE INVOLVED THAN THAT AND JUST TAKING IT AWAY FROM THE PER MEETING BASIS AND JUST SET IT MONTHLY. NOW, WE DID HAVE SOME DISCUSSION, AND STAFF BROUGHT US A GREAT PROPOSAL TO PUT AN AUTOMATIC INFLATOR IN THERE. 
          WITH THAT, THERE JUST WASN'T CONSENSUS TO DO THAT. AND WE WERE A LITTLE WORRIED ABOUT HOW VOTERS WOULD TAKE IT. AUTOMATIC PAY RAISES. SO IT DOES KIND OF KICK THE CAN DOWN THE ROAD A LITTLE BIT. BUT WE THINK THIS DOES KIND OF GET YOU TOWARDS THE MIDDLE OF THE PACK. NOT QUITE TO THE AVERAGE, BUT CERTAINLY BETTER, YOU KNOW. AND I JUST WANT TO SAY FOR THE RECORD, YOU KNOW, NOBODY IN THIS ROOM ASKED US TO COME DO THAT. THERE WAS NO COUNCIL MEMBER SAYING, GIVE ME A RAISE. THIS HAS JUST BEEN A TOPIC THAT'S COME UP IN THE PRIOR CHARTER REVIEW COMMISSIONS. WE THINK IT'S ABOUT FAIRNESS AND EQUITY. AND YOU KNOW, I KNOW NONE OF YOU DOES IT FOR THE MONEY. IF YOU DID, YOU'D STARVE. I THINK YOU'D DO BETTER, YOU KNOW, WORKING IN MCDONALD'S OR SOMEWHERE. BUT ALSO RECOGNIZING THAT FOR THE FUTURE THERE MAY BE COUNCIL MEMBERS THAT, YOU KNOW, CAN'T AFFORD TO SERVE BECAUSE THEY NEED TO MAKE THEY NEED TO WORK OVERTIME OR SOMETHING, YOU KNOW WHAT I'M SAYING? SO I THINK JUST FOR THE FUTURE, THIS IS A GOOD IDEA. 
          AND, YOU KNOW, WE HOPE YOU'LL PUT THAT ON THE BALLOT. SO THAT'S COMPENSATION ITEM ONE. 
          ITEM TWO. THIS IS HOW ORDINANCES ARE PASSED. SO THIS ACTUALLY CAME FROM SOME COUNCIL FEEDBACK PREVIOUSLY. OUR CHARTER HAS UNIQUE LANGUAGE. SO BASICALLY IN 3.11 A IT DESCRIBES HOW COUNCIL CAN PASS AN ORDINANCE. CURRENTLY OUR CHARTER LANGUAGE PLACES COUNCIL IN THE CHALLENGING POSITION OF EITHER DECLARING AN EMERGENCY AS AS DEFINED BY OUR CHARTER OR AN ORDINANCE BEING READ THREE TIMES AND THEREFORE YOU SEE, LIKE THE EXAMPLE ON THE SCREEN, THIS IS A RECENT EXAMPLE OF AN ORDINANCE THAT COMES FORWARD AND AT THE END IT SAYS AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY. 
          THAT'S CONSISTENT WITH WHAT OUR CHARTER SAYS. BUT THAT IS A MEANS BY WHICH THAT THE ORDINANCE CAN COME AFTER ONE READING VERSUS WAITING FOR THREE READINGS. AND SO WE OUR FIRST QUESTION WAS HOW DOES THIS COMPARE TO OTHER CITIES? IS THIS COMMON IN OTHER CITIES? AND WHAT WE IDENTIFIED WAS OF OUR 17 CITIES, THOSE SAME 17 CITIES, AGAIN, 88% REQUIRE A SINGLE READING WITH NO NO, THREE READINGS, NO EMERGENCY LANGUAGE, NOTHING TO THAT EFFECT. WE DID FIND TWO CITIES THAT DO REQUIRE TWO READINGS. ONE OF THEM USES THE EMERGENCY LANGUAGE SIMILAR TO US, THE OTHER DOES NOT AND TYPICALLY TAKES IT TO TWO READINGS. SO OUT OF 17 CITIES, THERE'S ONLY ONE THAT'S PRACTICALLY GOING FOR MORE THAN ONE READING AT A TIME. AND SO WE FOUND THAT THE MARKET DATA ON THIS REALLY CLEARLY INDICATED THAT THERE'S BEEN MOVEMENT OVER TIME OF COUNCILS TO MOVE AWAY FROM THE ADDITIONAL AMOUNT OF TIME REQUIRED TO GO TO THREE READINGS. I THINK, AS YOU'LL SEE WITH SOME OF OUR OTHER RECOMMENDATIONS HERE, THESE PROVISIONS WITHIN THE CHARTER PREDATE THINGS SUCH AS THE TEXAS OPEN MEETING ACT AND OTHER PROVISIONS THAT CREATE TRANSPARENCY AND CLARITY. AND SO OBVIOUSLY, THERE'S A HISTORY THERE. YEAH. SO I MENTIONED THE FIRST TWO. I THINK IT'S ALSO IMPORTANT TO KNOW THAT OUR THREE READING LANGUAGE CURRENTLY IN OUR CHARTER WAS CREATED TO WE BELIEVE IT WAS CREATED TO ASSURE PROPER NOTICE. AND SO THE CHARTER WAS CREATED IN 1963. THE TEXAS OPEN MEETINGS ACT WASN'T EVEN CREATED UNTIL LATER, UNTIL 1967 AND AMENDED THEREAFTER. SO THOSE LAWS ARE WHAT CREATED RULES THAT EXIST TODAY FOR CITIES REQUIRING WRITTEN NOTICE, REQUIRING 72 HOUR NOTICE, ETC. 
          AND IT ALSO SPECIFIES LANGUAGE AROUND EMERGENCY PROVISIONS. AND SO IN THE END, USING ALL THIS INFORMATION, WE BROUGHT THIS TO THE COMMISSION AND RECOMMENDED LANGUAGE AT THE BOTTOM HERE THAT EFFECTIVELY WOULD GET RID OF THE THREE READINGS REQUIREMENT, WOULD GET RID OF THE EMERGENCY LANGUAGE, AND RATHER JUST HAVE ORDINANCES TAKE EFFECT AFTER ONE READING. AS YOU SEE, AT THE MAJORITY OF OTHER CITIES OUT THERE, THIS JUST CODIFIES WHAT YOU ALREADY DO TODAY. I DON'T 
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KNOW IF ANY OF YOU CAN THINK OF THE LAST TIME SOMETHING TOOK THREE READINGS TO PASS. 
          EVERYTHING'S AN EMERGENCY. NOTHING'S AN EMERGENCY. I I'LL JUST TELL YOU ANECDOTALLY FROM PROBABLY THE FIRST TIME I GOT UPSET ENOUGH TO GO TO THE BIG ROOM AND ATTEND A COUNCIL MEETING. I REMEMBER WHATEVER IT WAS THAT I WAS UPSET OVER. THE READING WAS DECLARING AN EMERGENCY, AND I WAS LIKE, WOW, HOW DARE THEY? THAT'S NOT AN EMERGENCY. SO I THINK THERE'S PROBABLY OTHER PEOPLE THAT THAT HEAR THAT GET CONFUSED. THEY DON'T UNDERSTAND. YOU'RE JUST WORKING AROUND THE LIMITATION. I KNOW WE'VE ALSO IN THE PAST HAD COUNCIL VACANCIES OR ABSENCES THAT HAVE MADE THIS PART CHALLENGING. SO I THINK THIS WOULD MAKE THINGS A LITTLE EASIER ON YOU MAKE ONE LESS THING THAT LIZ HAS TO SAY IN EVERY MEETING. SO. AWESOME. 
          THAT'S ITEM TWO PROCEDURES FOR PASSING AN ORDINANCE. ITEM THREE IS CITY SECRETARY. SO THIS WE HAD SOME GOOD DISCUSSION. WE DID SOME OF THE DISCUSSION AROUND THIS WAS CENTERED AROUND THAT THE MAJORITY OF COMPARISON CITIES APPOINT AND MANAGE THE CITY SECRETARY ROLE THROUGH THE CITY MANAGER. WE ALSO ACKNOWLEDGE WITH THE COMMISSION THE ACTIONS THAT THIS COUNCIL HAD TAKEN BY PUTTING THE CITY SECRETARY UNDER THE CITY MANAGER BACK IN THE FALL. AND SO WITH THOSE THINGS IN MIND, AND IT BEING A COMMON PRACTICE, THAT CITY SECRETARY REPORT TO CITY MANAGER, WE DEVELOPED THE FOLLOWING LANGUAGE AT THE BOTTOM TO UPDATE THE ROLE OF CITY SECRETARY ON 4.03 TO MOVE FROM REPORTING TO THIS OR BEING APPOINTED BY THE CITY COUNCIL TO THE CITY MANAGER. SO IF YOU KNOW ME, I'M I'M A COMPUTER PROGRAMMER, AND PART OF MY JOB IS TO TRY TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO ABUSE THINGS AND KEEP USERS FROM DOING THAT WITH THE SOFTWARE I MAKE. AND SO I REALLY LOOKED AT THIS, AND CLAIRE WILL TELL YOU, I PROBABLY DROVE HER CRAZY WITH MY QUESTIONS. HOW COULD THIS SOMEHOW BE ABUSED? AND I JUST COULD NOT POKE A HOLE IN IT? I TRIED, I TALKED TO MULTIPLE PEOPLE. BASICALLY, THIS CODIFIES WHAT YOU'RE DOING TODAY AND PUTS PUTS CLAIRE IN A BETTER POSITION, PUTS THE CITY MANAGER, WHOEVER THAT MAY BE, IN A BETTER POSITION TO BE ABLE TO MANAGE THINGS THAT STATE LAW ALREADY HOLDS THEM RESPONSIBLE FOR. SO. 
          SO IT'S ITEM THREE, ITEM FOUR. THIS IS FILING FOR OFFICE. SO THE NEXUS OF THIS TOPIC WAS REALLY JUST SOME QUESTIONS ABOUT WHAT ARE OPTIONS THAT ARE LEGAL AND VIABLE AROUND CANDIDATES FOR MUNICIPAL OFFICE HAVING SOME SKIN IN THE GAME. SO THAT WAS REALLY THE ASK THAT THAT THIS GROUP LOOK AT THAT. AND SO THE NEXT SLIDE IS SUPER BUSY. BUT I DON'T EXPECT YOU ALL TO READ ALL THAT. I JUST WANT TO SHARE THAT WE PUT SOME REAL TIME AND ENERGY INTO UNDERSTANDING WHAT OUR GUARDRAILS ARE IN STATE LAW AROUND OPTIONS FOR SKINNING GAME, FOR FILING FOR OFFICE. AND THEY REALLY ARE ONE. YOU CAN CREATE A PETITION ONLY WHEREBY THOSE FILING FOR OFFICE NEED TO SUBMIT A PETITION. AND WE'LL GO INTO THE DETAILS OF THAT. OR OPTION TWO IS A PETITION FILING FEE, OPTION ONE OR THE OTHER. AND SO THOSE WERE REALLY THE PRIMARY MECHANISMS WE SAW. AND THAT ARE PREDOMINANT IN OTHER CITIES AS WAYS IN WHICH TO CREATE SOME SKIN IN THE GAME. 
          SPECIFICALLY, STATE LAW TALKS ABOUT WHAT THAT PETITION THRESHOLD LOOKS LIKE. AND SO I'LL GO INTO THE DETAIL OF HOW THAT WOULD BE APPLIED ON THIS NEXT SLIDE. BUT THIS IS ONE WHERE IF YOU LOOKED OUT AT THE COMPARATOR ORGANIZATIONS, OUR OTHER CITIES REQUIRING SOMETHING OF THEIR CANDIDATES, AND IT'S A MIXED ANSWER, IT IS FIVE REQUIRE A FILING FEE OR PETITION IN LIEU OF FILING FEE, FIVE REQUIRE PETITION ONLY, AND SEVEN DON'T HAVE A FILING FEE OR PETITION. 
          SO IT'S VERY MIXED. EVERY CITY IS KIND OF DOING THEIR OWN THING THERE. STEVE WILL TALK ON THE NEXT SLIDE ABOUT THE COMMISSION'S RECOMMENDATION AND PREFERENCE FOR PETITION ONLY, BUT I DID JUST WANT TO SHOW ON THIS SLIDE AND THE REASONS WHY ON THIS SLIDE, IF WE WERE IN THE STATE RIGHT NOW WHERE PETITIONS WERE REQUIRED, HOW THAT WOULD APPLY IS, IS THE STATE LAW SAYS THAT IT'S THE GREATER OF EITHER 25 SIGNATURES OR ONE HALF OF 1% IN TOTAL VOTES RECEIVED IN THE MOST RECENT LOUISVILLE MAYORAL RACE. IN THIS CASE, THAT WAS 5200 VOTES. SO THAT WOULD REQUIRE 27. SO THE GREATER OF 25 OR 27 IS 27. SO THAT WOULD MEAN IF THIS WERE IN PLACE TODAY DURING THIS CURRENT SEASON, EACH CANDIDATE WOULD BE REQUIRED TO SUBMIT 27 SIGNATURES AS PART OF THEIR APPLICATION. AGAIN, THIS IS NOT IN PLACE TODAY, BUT THAT'S JUST USING THAT AS AN EXAMPLE. IF WE MOVE TO THIS SO AND JUST TO JUST TO BACK UP JUST A LITTLE BIT, THERE WAS ONE OTHER ITEM THAT WE TALKED ABOUT AND KIND OF DECIDED AGAINST. AND THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN TO CHANGE THE MINIMUM AGE. AND I BELIEVE STATE LAW WILL LET YOU SET A MINIMUM AGE OF 21 AND THAT'S IT. 
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YOU CAN'T GO ANY HIGHER THAN THAT. SO THAT WAS AN OPTION REALLY NO CONSENSUS ON THAT. BUT WE DID THINK THAT PERHAPS HAVING A PETITION IN PLACE TO WHERE IF A PERSON DECIDED THEY WANTED TO RUN FOR COUNCIL, HEY, YOU GOT TO GO TALK TO 27 QUALIFIED VOTERS. THAT'S A PIECE OF CAKE. ANYBODY CAN DO THAT. YOU'D PROBABLY DO IT IN AN AFTERNOON OR TWO. BUT THAT JUST BASICALLY ENSURES THAT YOU'VE THOUGHT IT THROUGH ENOUGH TO BE ABLE TO TALK TO ANOTHER HUMAN BEING ABOUT IT. I THINK, YOU KNOW, IF WE LOOK IN OUR PAST HISTORY AS A CITY, WE'VE HAD SOME PEOPLE SHOW UP AND PUT THEIR NAME IN THE HAT, AND THEN YOU NEVER HEAR FROM THEM AGAIN. SO AND SOME OF THOSE PEOPLE, YOU KNOW, TO THEIR OWN DETRIMENT, THEY'LL END UP WITH ETHICS COMPLAINTS FILED AGAINST THEM BECAUSE THEY DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO. SO I THINK, YOU KNOW, HAVING THIS VERY LOW BAR OF 27 MIGHT PREVENT A LITTLE OF THAT IN THE FUTURE. IT WOULDN'T APPLY TO THIS ELECTION. YOU WOULD HAVE TO GET THIS APPROVED BY VOTERS. BUT SO JUST TO ADD TO THAT, WHEN FOR YOU ALL, AS YOU ALL CONSIDER THIS ONE, YOU COULD HAVE GONE WITH THE PETITION OR FILING FEE. WHY THE PETITION ONLY? YEAH, THAT'S A GOOD POINT. SO WHEN YOU SET A FILING FEE, STATE LAW SAYS THEY CAN DO A PETITION IN LIEU OF A FILING FEE, BUT WE DIDN'T WANT THE MONEY ANYWAY. IT'S NOT ABOUT MONEY. WE DON'T WANT SOMEBODY BUYING A SEAT. I WANT ACTUAL SKIN IN THE GAME. AND I PRESUME THAT'S WHAT YOU GUYS WANT AS WELL. SO REALLY, THE PETITION WAS ALL WE CARED ABOUT. SO THAT'S KIND OF WHERE WE ARE ON THAT. YOU'VE GOT NUMBER FIVE, THE NEXT ONE AS WELL. YEAH. SO CHARTER COMMISSION SIZE, WE INCREASED THE SIZE OF COUNCIL AND THE QUESTION WAS BROUGHT UP, WAS THERE ANY OTHER BOARD TO INCREASE THE SIZE OF CHARTER COMMISSION AS FIVE MEMBERS. AND EVIDENTLY THAT'S THE ONLY BOARD IN THE CHARTER WHERE THE NUMBER IS FIXED BY THE CHARTER. SO ANYTHING ELSE IF YOU GUYS SEE A NEED TO INCREASE OR WHATEVER THE SIZE, YOU CAN JUST DO IT BY VOTE. BUT THIS IS THE ONLY ONE IN THE CHARTER. IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN A LITTLE IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN GOOD TO HAVE SEVEN. I DON'T KNOW IF YOU WANT TO GET ANY BIGGER THAN SEVEN. THAT MIGHT GET A LITTLE UNRULY, BUT IT COULD POSSIBLY LET EACH ONE OF YOU APPOINT SOMEBODY OR DIRECT SOMEBODY FROM A DISTRICT. OR YOU CAN MIX IT UP AND GET DIFFERENT DEMOGRAPHICS OR WHATEVER YOU WANT TO TRY TO DO. SO THAT'S AN OPTION FOR YOU. INCREASE THE SIZE TO SEVEN AND THEN ITEM SIX, THE FINAL ONE IS CORRECTION BALLOT LANGUAGE. SO THIS DISCLAIMER THE LANGUAGE AT THE TOP IS NOT EXPRESSLY WHAT WOULD BE ON A BALLOT, BUT IT'S AN EXAMPLE OF WHAT SOMETHING COULD LOOK LIKE ON A BALLOT. SO IT WOULD SAY SOMETHING TO THE EFFECT OF THE LOUISVILLE CITY CHARTER BE AMENDED THROUGHOUT TO CORRECT NON-SUBSTANTIVE ERRORS SUCH AS PUNCTUATION AND GRAMMAR, HARMONIZE CONFLICTING SECTIONS, UPDATE GENDERED LANGUAGE, AND ELIMINATE REFERENCE TO POSITION TITLES THAT NO LONGER EXISTS. SO I'M GOING TO TACKLE THREE OF THOSE FOUR COLORED AREAS. AND THEN STEVE'S GOING TO TACKLE ONE AS WELL. SO PUNCTUATION AND GRAMMAR I WON'T BORE YOU GUYS ON THE DETAILS, BUT WE DID GET IN AND LOOK AT OXFORD COMMAS AND ALL KINDS OF VERY EXCITING THINGS LIKE THAT. AND BETWEEN THE STAFF TEAM AND THE CITY ATTORNEY'S TEAM, WE'VE IDENTIFIED ABOUT 385 SPOTS WITHIN THE DOCUMENT THAT WE COULD DO SOME CLEANUP ON JUST HOW IT'S HOW THE SENTENCE STRUCTURE WORKS, HOW IT'S FORMED, ETC. NONE OF IT'S PARTICULARLY SUBSTANTIVE. IT'S JUST FOR CLARITY'S SAKE. THE NEXT IS HARMONIZING CONFLICTING SECTIONS. SO TWO ITEMS THAT HAD COME UP AS AS JUST CHALLENGING ITEMS IS ONE IN SECTION THREE, TEN VERSES 301, THE ISSUE CURRENTLY IT'S SPOKEN TO IN TWO DIFFERENT SPOTS ABOUT WHAT IS THE MINIMUM NUMBER OF AFFIRMATIVE VOTES FOR A COUNCIL ACTION TO BE APPROVED. SO IT DOES SAY IN 3.01 THAT THAT IS REQUIRES FOR COUNCIL MEMBERS. BUT THEN ELSEWHERE IN 3.10, RIGHT NOW IT SAYS IT ONLY REQUIRES FIVE FOR A QUORUM AND A MAJORITY OF THE FIVE, WHICH WOULD BE THREE WOULD BE ENOUGH. 
          SO THAT'S WHERE THERE'S CONFLICT WITHIN THE DOCUMENT. 310 OR THE FOUR WAS THE ONE THAT HAS PREEXISTED THE OTHER ONE TIED TO A MORE RECENT ELECTION. AND SO OUR THOUGHTS WERE TO RECONCILE THOSE, TO CLARIFY THAT IT TAKES FOUR AFFIRMATIVE VOTES. THE NEXT IS ON 4.07. THERE'S A SECTION THAT TALKS ABOUT HOW THE CITY COUNCIL CAN. LET'S SEE. OKAY, I THOUGHT I FIXED THE NOTES IN HERE, BUT THEY'RE NOT. SO THE NOTES ARE NOT CORRECT ON THAT BULLET. BUT THE POINT IS THAT ON 4.07 OTHER DEPARTMENTS, IT TALKS ABOUT HOW COUNCIL CAN CREATE OR ADJUST DEPARTMENTS. AND DURING THE LAST ELECTION IN 2021, THAT THAT SPECIFIC ISSUE WAS BROUGHT UP AND THE CITIZENS VOTED TO 
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SWITCH THAT TO CITY CITY MANAGER. SO THIS WOULD CLARIFY THAT AND REMOVE THAT SECTION. 
          THE OTHER THING I WANTED TO MENTION IS JUST THERE'S A COUPLE OF REFERENCES TO A CITY TAX ASSESSOR, WHICH IS A POSITION THAT HASN'T EXISTED FOR A LONG TIME. AND SO THAT LAST THING ABOUT ELIMINATING REFERENCES WOULD REMOVE REFERENCE TO THOSE POSITIONS. AND THEN STEVE WILL TALK ABOUT GENDERED LANGUAGE& SO GENDER LANGUAGE. DO WE HAVE THIS SLIDE WITH THE CITY. YEAH ABSOLUTELY. YEAH. SO JUST TO GIVE YOU AN EXAMPLE, WE'RE NOT TRYING TO DO ANYTHING POLITICAL HERE, BUT GENDER LANGUAGE I THINK. HERE'S AN EXAMPLE. THE CITY CITY MANAGER SHALL APPOINT THE CITY SECRETARY OF CITY SECRETARY SHALL AUTHENTICATE BY HIS SIGNATURE RECORD IN FULL, A BOOK, BLAH, BLAH, BLAH. IT'S JUST LANGUAGE LIKE THAT IS. THAT'S ALL IT IS. WE WOULD CHANGE THAT TO THERE. OR JUST SPELL OUT CITY SECRETARY. SO I'M NOT TRYING TO DO ANYTHING POLITICAL HERE OR WHATEVER, JUST CLEAN UP THE LANGUAGE. I KNOW WE DO HAVE A SECTION IN THE CHARTER. IT'S LIKE A PARAGRAPH. DON'T KNOW WHEN IT WAS ADDED, BUT IT SAYS SOMETHING TO THE EFFECT OF ANY USAGE OF THE MALE. IT APPLIES EQUALLY TO THE FEMALE. THAT WAS KIND OF A PUN. 
          SO IT WOULD BE NICE TO CLEAN IT UP. BUT AS, AS A GROUP, YOU KNOW, WE COULDN'T REACH CONSENSUS ON WHETHER TO RECOMMEND THIS TO YOU BECAUSE THE QUESTION IS THERE, WOULD PEOPLE TAKE THIS THE WRONG WAY IN THE CURRENT POLITICAL CLIMATE? AND IT CAUSED THE WHOLE THING TO FAIL. SO WE'RE GOING TO PUNT THAT TO YOU GUYS, AND YOU CAN TALK IT THROUGH AND DIRECT CITY STAFF HOWEVER YOU WANT. ONE OTHER POSSIBLE IDEA WOULD BE THAT IF YOU DECIDED NOT TO PUT THIS ON THE BALLOT, THEN IN THE SECTIONS WHERE WE ARE TOUCHING THINGS, YOU COULD POSSIBLY DIRECT STAFF TO JUST FIX THOSE SECTIONS. SO WE'RE WE'RE FIXING A SECTION THAT TALKS ABOUT THE CITY SECRETARY. YOU COULD GO AHEAD AND CHANGE THE WORD HIS AT THAT POINT IF YOU WANTED TO, ASSUMING THAT THAT LIZ AND EVERYBODY AGREES THAT'S OKAY TO DO SO ANYWAY. SO TELL ME IF I'M MISCHARACTERIZING THIS, BUT I THINK IT'S FROM THE COMMISSION. WANT TO MOVE OR RECOMMEND MOVING FORWARD WITH CORRECTION BALLOT LANGUAGE AND REALLY JUST KIND OF PUNTING TO THE COUNCIL IF YOU CHOOSE TO GO WITH THAT, WHETHER YOU WANT TO INCLUDE THE GENDER LANGUAGE OR NOT. THAT'S CORRECT. 
          YEAH. ALL THE REST OF THE ITEMS WERE 100% OF GO ON. IT'S THAT LAST ITEM WE WEREN'T QUITE SURE ABOUT, SO DIDN'T WANT TO MISREPRESENT THAT. SO THAT'S ITEM SIX. THOSE ARE OUR SIX ITEMS. SO JUST TO RECAP ONE IS COUNCIL COMPENSATION. THE RECOMMENDATION OF MOVING MAYORAL PAY TO $400 A MONTH AND COUNCIL MEMBER PAY TO $300 A MONTH. ITEM TWO IS TO CLARIFY PASSAGE OF AN ORDINANCE WOULD BE ON A SINGLE READING. THREE WOULD BE TO CLARIFY THE REPORTING RELATIONSHIP OF CITY SECRETARY TO THE CITY MANAGER. FOUR WOULD BE CREATING A PETITION REQUIREMENT FOR FILING FOR OFFICE, FIVE WOULD BE INCREASING THE CHARTER COMMISSION SIZE FROM 5 TO 7. AND THEN SIX WAS THE CORRECTION BALLOT LANGUAGE WE JUST WALKED THROUGH JUST A MOMENT AGO TO JUST CONCLUDE OUR PRESENTATION. HERE WE ARE ON THE 27TH. IT IS A RELATIVELY SHORT TIMELINE. IF YOU ALL WANTED TO MOVE FORWARD WITH A QUICK ELECTION, BUT YOU ALL HAVE THE FLEXIBILITY. HERE'S THE GREAT NEWS YOU ALL CAN CALL ELECTION IN MAY. YOU CAN CALL IT IN NOVEMBER OR NONE AT ALL. YOU CAN TAKE ALL THESE RECOMMENDATIONS, NONE OF THESE RECOMMENDATIONS. 
          IT'S COMPLETELY UP TO YOU. BUT WHAT WE DO HAVE PLANNED IS A REGULAR AGENDA ITEM AT THE MEETING NEXT WEEK, SO THAT YOU ALL COULD DELIBERATE AND CONSIDER WHAT NEXT STEPS YOU WANT TO TAKE, AS FAR AS IF YOU WANT TO CALL AN ELECTION ON WHAT TIMING YOU MIGHT WANT TO CALL AN ELECTION, AND THEN WHICH OF THESE ITEMS YOU WOULD WANT STAFF TO THEN DEVELOP CLEAR BALLOT LANGUAGE AROUND AND SET FOR A FUTURE CHARTER ELECTION? I THINK THAT COVERED IT ALL. YES, PLEASE. IF THEY'RE CALLING, IF THEY WANT TO CALL A MAY ELECTION, WHAT'S THE DEADLINE? OH, YEAH. THANK YOU. IF THEY WANT TO, IF YOU WANT TO CALL A MAY ELECTION, THE DEADLINE IS FEBRUARY 14TH, JUST LIKE THE FILING DEADLINE. SO IF YOU ALL WANTED TO GO QUICKLY WITH THAT, WE PROBABLY WOULD NEED OR WE WOULD NEED TO CALL A SPECIAL MEETING BETWEEN THE FEBRUARY 3RD MEETING AND FEBRUARY 14TH TO ADD THAT TO THE BALLOT FOR MAY. ALL RIGHT. QUESTIONS, COMMENTS, CONCERNS. WE ALL NEED A CONSENSUS. KIND OF DIRECTION. BE INTERESTING TO HEAR WHAT YOUR THOUGHTS ARE RIGHT NOW. MAY LOOKS GOOD TO ME. I THINK WE NEED TO GET IT OVER WITH. BUT THIS GENDER LANGUAGE, I MEAN COME ON, SOME PEOPLE NEED TO USE SOME COMMON SENSE. YEAH, THAT'S BUT I KNOW IT'S I KNOW IT'S A RARITY, BUT IS THERE A WAY TO SAY IT THE WAY TO SAY THAT WITHOUT SAYING GENDERED, IS THERE A WAY TO SAY SOMETHING DIFFERENT THAN SAY THAT WORD? POSSIBLY. WE TOYED AROUND WITH IT. THAT WAS THE BEST ONE WE CAME UP WITH, BUT OPEN TO OPEN TO OTHER IDEAS. ABSOLUTELY. I DON'T SEEM TO BE THE BUZZ WORD OUT THERE. IT'S A GREAT THING. 
          IT'S GRAMMAR. IT'S GRAMMAR. IT'S REALLY NOT. IT HAS NOTHING TO. NEVER MIND. I GAVE MYSELF A 
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WHOLE BOB. ANY THOUGHTS? COMMENTS? I THINK I. I'M IN AGREEMENT. I GUESS I AGREE WITH ALL THE RECOMMENDATIONS. I'M GOOD. SO THAT'S WHAT WE AGREED, I'D SAY CALL THE ELECTION. I'M DEFINITELY IN FAVOR OF CALLING AN ELECTION. YOU KNOW THE ONE FOR COUNCIL. COMPENSATION IS ALWAYS HARD, ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU'RE LIKE, I AM AND I'M UP FOR REELECTION RIGHT NOW. THAT'S THAT'S A DIFFICULT ONE TO SAY THAT I WANT TO PUT ON THE CHARTER. BUT I DO LIKE WHAT YOU SAID ABOUT, YOU KNOW, KIND OF WHERE WE ARE IN COMPARISON. AND REALLY IF THIS IS SOMETHING THAT WOULD BE REPLACING SOMEBODY'S ABILITY TO WORK OVERTIME, I, YOU KNOW, I, I THAT MAKES A LOT OF SENSE TO ME. AND CERTAINLY NO ONE HERE IS DOING IT FOR THE MONEY. NO. MOST PEOPLE THINK THAT WE'RE PAID ANYWAY. YEAH. THEY THINK THAT WE'RE PAID AS FULL TIME EMPLOYEES. YEAH. WE'RE NOT, BUT WE PAY MORE THAN THE $50 A MEETING. THINGS ADD IT ALL UP. SO. RIGHT. I MEAN, I CAN BE SUPPORTIVE OF IT. IT'S JUST IT'S ONE OF THOSE DIFFICULT POSITIONS TO BE IN BECAUSE IT LOOKS LIKE WE'RE, YOU KNOW, RECOMMENDING TO GIVE OURSELVES A RAISE, YOU KNOW, AT A VERY INOPPORTUNE TIME. BUT BUT LOGICALLY SPEAKING, IT MAKES SENSE. SO AND THEN I, ALL THE REST OF THEM, I SOUND GOOD TO ME. COUNCIL MEMBER JONES YEAH, I'M IN SUPPORT OF IT. I THINK WE CAN SIMPLY CLEAN UP THE LANGUAGE. I MEAN, IT'S JUST IT'S JUST GRAMMAR. IT'S JUST ENGLISH. LIKE, YOU KNOW, WE CAN'T DEAL WITH IT. YOU KNOW, CLEAN IT BECAUSE THE CITY MANAGER CAN BE A MALE OR A FEMALE, YOU KNOW. YOU KNOW, IT'S NOT IT'S NOT RESTRICTIVE. SO I THINK WE CAN CHANGE THAT. IF WE CAN WE CAN JUST CLEAN THAT UP. WE'LL TRY TO WORK WITH LEGAL TO SEE IF WE IF WE CAN'T THEN PUT THAT ON THE BALLOT. I HAVE A COUPLE. COUNCILWOMAN KAYE, DO YOU HAVE ANYTHING ELSE TO ADD? I THINK THE CHARTER REVIEW COMMISSION HAS NEVER BEEN AN EASY COMMISSION TO SIT ON, EVER. 
          AND Y'ALL HAVE DONE A GREAT JOB AND WE APPOINT THE CITIZENS. I THINK WE TAKE OUR CITIZEN'S RECOMMENDATION. NONE OF THEM ARE OUTLANDISH. OUTLANDISH. I MEAN, THEY'RE ALL VERY SENSIBLE. AND WE PUT IT TO THE PEOPLE AND LET THEM DECIDE. YEP. I DON'T THINK WE TAKE ANYTHING OUT. I'M GOING WITH, WITH THE PEOPLE THAT WE INSTILL TRUST IN TO BRING THESE FORWARD. LET'S PUT THEM TO THE PEOPLE. I DID HAVE ONE. SO I'M JUST LOOKING AT THE CHARTER ELECTIONS THAT WE'VE CALLED SINCE 2000. AND, YOU KNOW, IN THE EARLY 2000, WE HAD NINE AND 13. THAT'S A LOT. AND THEN WE KIND OF IT LOOKS LIKE WE ALMOST KIND OF SAID, OKAY, WELL, MAYBE WE NEED TO PULL THAT DOWN SOME. 
          AND SO WE DID TWO AND FOUR. AND WITH THE FOUR ONLY THREE PASSED. I JUST WANTED TO THROW IT OUT THERE AND SEE IS DOES ANYBODY ELSE HAVE ANY ANY THOUGHTS ON THE NUMBER OF PROPOSITIONS WE WANT TO BRING. AND IF WE FEEL LIKE SIX IS A GOOD NUMBER OR IF IT'S TOO MANY? I DON'T THINK IT'S PROBABLY TOO MANY IN THE NOVEMBER ELECTION WE HAVE DEFINITELY STUFF. YEAH. YOU'RE NOT REALLY. IT'S NOT. I CAN'T THINK OF ANYTHING ELSE THAT'S GOING ON. SO EXCEPT THE ISD. SO IT'S NOT I DON'T THINK IT'S THAT TAXING. YOU KNOW. BUT IT MAY BE A PAGE AND A. YEAH, MAYBE JUST PAGE. I CAN'T SEE IT. OTHERWISE WE'RE GOING TO BE WAITING ANOTHER FIVE YEARS JUST TO CLEAN STUFF UP. THERE'S NO BONDS AND THEY HAVE THE DISTRICTS NOW. SO EVERYBODY IN LEWISVILLE IS VOTING ON DIFFERENT. SO IT'S NOT IT SHOULDN'T BE THAT MUCH OF A BURDEN. I THINK YOU'RE GOING TO DO BETTER IN MAY THAN NOVEMBER. YEAH FOR SURE. YEAH I HAVE A I HAVE A COUPLE THOUGHTS I WANT TO PUT IN THE ROOM. LET'S GO TO FEEDBACK ON THAT. SO THE FIRST THE FIRST THOUGHT I HAD AROUND COMPENSATION. IS THERE A WAY TO WORD THAT IN SUCH A WAY THAT IT STARTS CLEAR IN MY HEAD. BUT I'M GOING TO SCREW IT UP. I'M GOING OUT TO WHERE IT DOESN'T TAKE EFFECT UNTIL THE NEXT ELECTION CYCLE. FOR THAT, THAT PERSON THAT I THINK GETS AWAY, THE OPTICS PROBLEM THAT YOU MIGHT HAVE IF YOU'RE RUNNING FOR ELECTION CURRENTLY. SO IT JUST PUTS IT OFF ON THE PEOPLE THAT ARE RUNNING NEXT YEAR THAT. WELL, NO, NO, NO, I'M JUST GIVING YOU A HARD TIME. SO LIKE FOR EXAMPLE, YES, I'M, I'M GIVING YOU A HARD TIME. RIGHT. YEAH. OKAY. JUST CURIOUS ABOUT THAT. ABSOLUTELY. YEAH. WE COULD ADD THAT IN BECAUSE I THINK THAT HELPS WITH THE OPTICS OF THE, OF IT. WHAT ARE YOU SAYING THAT IF YOU'RE ELECTED THIS YEAR THAT YOU WOULD CONTINUE TO GET $50 A YEAR UNTIL, UNTIL THE NEXT UNTIL YOU GO AGAIN, SO YOU'RE REELECTED OR UNTIL THE NEXT TIME 
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SHE CAME UP. NO, NO, I'M SAYING WHEN THE SEAT CAME UP. SO BY WAY OF EXAMPLE, IF WILLIAM HAS TWO YEARS LEFT, THEN THE NEXT TIME HE WOULD BUMP UP, WHEN HE WHEN HE COMES UP. YEAH. ANOTHER OPTION IS YOU COULD JUST DELAY IT A YEAR. YOU COULD SAY, LIKE I WAS THINKING YOU WERE TALKING ABOUT IT'LL GO INTO EFFECT IN 12 MONTHS. KIND OF LIKE. WITH CASTLE HILLS. YEAH. YOU KNOW, A DATE IN THE FUTURE. I THINK 12 MONTHS WOULD BE A GREAT. IT SHOWS YOU'RE NOT LOOKING FOR YOUR INSTANT GRATIFICATION ON IT. NO, NO, THE I'M NOT A BIG FAN OF ANY KIND OF BARRIERS TO FILING FOR ELECTION. PERSONALLY, I KNOW IT'S A SMALL HURDLE, BUT IF IT'S THAT SMALL LITTLE HURDLE, THEN I DON'T EVEN KNOW THAT IT'S WORTH DOING, FRANKLY, I WOULD BE PERSUADED DIFFERENTLY IF WE EVER HAD ELECTIONS WHERE WE HAD TO CALL ELECTION AND WE HAD TO GO THROUGH THE EXPENSE, AND THEN SOMEBODY DIDN'T SHOW UP, AND THAT WAS THE ONLY EXPENSE WE HAD. BUT I DON'T THINK WE'VE HAD THIS SITUATION RIGHT. I DON'T KNOW IF WE'VE HAD I THINK YOU'VE HAD A SITUATION WHERE YOU HAD A CANDIDATE WHO FILED, AND THEN THEY BASICALLY NEVER DID. THEY THEY GHOSTED EVERYTHING. THEY GHOSTED EVERYTHING. BUT I THINK THERE WAS STILL AN ELECTION HELD BECAUSE THERE WAS ANOTHER POSITION. BUT IT GOES TO THAT TOO. RIGHT? BUT I'M SAYING LIKE WE DIDN'T WE WOULDN'T HAVE HAD TO WE WOULDN'T HAVE BEEN ABLE TO CANCEL AN ELECTION. WE DIDN'T SAVE ANY MONEY. WE WOULDN'T HAVE. THE CITY WOULD NOT HAVE SAVED TAXPAYER DOLLARS. IT'S A CONVENIENCE FOR THE INCUMBENT. BUT IF THIS WOULD BE IF THIS WOULD HAVE BEEN IN EFFECT, THE CHANCES ARE BECAUSE THERE WAS ABSOLUTELY NOTHING DONE BUT AN APPLICATION, THERE WOULDN'T HAVE BEEN AN ELECTION BECAUSE THAT PERSON WASN'T GOING TO GO OUT AND WORK ON THAT FOR THAT POSITION THAT THEY WERE VYING FOR. I THINK THAT'S TRUE. BUT I THINK THERE WAS ANOTHER PERSON RUNNING OR THERE WAS ANOTHER ELECTION WE WERE PAYING FOR AT THAT TIME. SO I WOULD THEN BOB. 
          RIGHT. SO BOB, BOB, I WAS, I WAS UNOPPOSED, WAS UNOPPOSED, I THOUGHT THERE WAS A REASON THAT THAT WAS IT. YEAH. I CAN CONFIRM BY THE NEXT MEETING, BUT I DIDN'T THINK THERE WAS. THAT'D BE INTERESTING DATA TO HAVE FOR SURE. YOU KNOW, A LOT OF OTHER PLACES ARE DOING IT, AND THERE ARE SO MANY PEOPLE THAT HAVE THAT FILE, WHICH IT'S THEY'RE PREROGATIVE OF RIGHT TO DO THAT. 
          BUT THEIR FIRST STEPS IN THE CITY HALL IS FILING AND THEY'VE NEVER BEEN TO A MEETING. NEVER. 
          THEY KNOW REALLY NOTHING ABOUT IT. THEY THEY NEED TO DO SOMETHING TO KNOW THAT THEY ARE ACTUALLY GOING TO ACTIVELY SEEK OUT THIS SEAT, WHICH IS WORK. DO WE KNOW HOW MUCH MONEY AN ELECTION COST THE CITY? I THINK OUR LAST ONE WAS, WHAT, 40 SOME ODD 50,000? HOW MUCH? YEAH, IT'S AROUND 20, AROUND 20. AND THAT'S JUST THAT'S JUST THE REGULAR ELECTION. AND THEN IF IT GOES INTO A RUNOFF, IT'S MORE LAST YEAR THE RUNOFF WAS 55, OKAY. BECAUSE WE DIDN'T SHARE IN THE COST. OH RIGHT. SO THE RUNOFF IS EVEN MORE EXPENSIVE IF NOBODY ELSE IS DOING A RUNOFF AS WELL. 
          OKAY. I MEAN, THAT'S REALLY WHAT IT'S ABOUT. YEAH I KNOW IS THE NUMBER OF SIGNATURES IS NOTHING. 
          IT REALLY ISN'T. IT'S JUST THE IT'S JUST SHOWING THAT YOU'RE GOING TO PUT YOU'RE GOING TO PUT THE EFFORT IN. WHAT DID SHE SAY. SKIN IN THE GAME TO PUT THE EFFORT IN TO SEEK OUT CERTIFIED VOTERS I MEAN YEAH YOU TALKED ABOUT YOU TALKED TO 26 PEOPLE BECAUSE YOU IN THEORY SHOULD BE ONE OF THOSE. YEAH, YOU SHOULD BE. YOU CAN OBVIOUSLY SIGN YOUR OWN PETITION. YEAH. BUT IT WOULD BE INTERESTING TO ME TO KNOW FOR SURE IN THE PAST 20 YEARS OR SO, HOW OFTEN WE WOULD HAVE AVOIDED AN ELECTION IF WE POTENTIALLY WOULD AN ELECTION WE HAD THAT HAPPEN, WE ALSO WE DID SO. AND THEN THE LAST THING I'VE GOT TWO MORE THINGS. SO ONE, THE LANGUAGE CHANGES. I'M ALL FOR THAT PROVIDED THAT WE FOLLOW THE GRAMMAR WE ALL GREW UP WITH. AND I THINK THAT GETS AROUND THE WHOLE GENDER CONCERNS. FOR EXAMPLE, I WOULDN'T USE THEY AND THEIR INSTEAD OF HIM AND HER, I'D USE HIM SLASH HER OR THE ACTUAL NAME OF THE POSITION RATHER THAN THE DAYS AND THEIRS. 
          YEAH, I THINK THAT GETS AROUND ANY KIND OF CONCERNS WE HAVE ABOUT ABOUT ABOUT GENDER, I WOULD THINK. YES. AND THEN FINALLY THE I'M ALL FOR A MAY ELECTION. I THINK I TALKED WITH CLAIRE ABOUT THIS EARLIER. I DON'T THINK THERE'S ANYTHING ELSE GOING ON IN NOVEMBER WOULD JUST BE A COST FOR THE CITY. THERE'S NOT A GREAT REASON TO DELAY THAT UNTIL NOVEMBER. ANY ANYBODY ANY OTHER COMMENTS BEFORE WE MOVE ON? AWESOME. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. 
          GREAT WORK. THANK YOU. THANKS. WE HAVE 15 MINUTES UNTIL WE GO IN TO THE BIGGER ROOM. WE HAVE A CITY. WE HAVE THE. ENHANCED RESIDENT SATISFACTION SURVEY TOOL AND IMPROVEMENTS. DO YOU THINK WE CAN DO THIS AT 15. IS THAT IS THAT 200 FOR YOU OKAY. THANK YOU. OH. ALL RIGHT. LET ME GET OUT OF THE WAY HERE. WE'RE GETTING THIS WAY. MY NAME IS ASHLEY CARLISLE. I'M THE BUDGET MANAGER. I'M IN THE CITY MANAGER'S OFFICE. JAMES COOK IS GOING TO BE PRESENTING WITH ME 
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TONIGHT AS WELL. WE'RE GOING TO TALK TO YOU ABOUT A NEW TOOL FOR OUR RESIDENT SATISFACTION SURVEY. WE'RE GOING TO TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT WHAT WE SAW WITH OUR 2024 RESULTS. AND THEN WE'LL TALK ABOUT OUR TIMELINE AS WELL. SO I THINK WE PROBABLY NEED TO START OFF WITH THE WHY. 
          RIGHT. WHY ARE WE INTERESTED IN SURVEYING OUR COMMUNITY. AND I THINK EVERYONE IN THIS ROOM UNDERSTANDS THE IMPORTANCE. BUT FOR THOSE THAT MAY BE WATCHING ONLINE, WE WANTED TO TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE DATA BEHIND SOME OF THIS. SO IN TODAY'S WORLD, ONLY 1 IN 3 AMERICANS HAVE HIGH TRUST IN OUR STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT. NOW, IF YOU COMPARE THAT TO FEDERAL, TYPICALLY YOUR LOCAL GOVERNMENT PERFORMS BETTER THAN YOUR STATE GOVERNMENT AND THEN BETTER THAN YOUR FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AS WELL. GALLUP REPORTED JUST A FEW YEARS AGO, 10% DROP IN AMERICANS TRUST IN LOCAL GOVERNMENT'S ABILITY TO HANDLE LOCAL PROBLEMS. AND THEN LASTLY, OVER ON THE FAR RIGHT THERE, WE SAW A DECREASE IN THE TRUST SCORE FOR GOVERNMENT LEADERS. WHEN IT COMES TO HOW YOU EVALUATE TRUST IN SOCIETAL LEADERS, AND WHAT THEY MEAN BY SOCIETAL LEADERS IS THEY'RE ALSO CONSIDERING CEOS. THEY'RE CONSIDERING JOURNALISTS, SCIENTISTS. THEY'RE ALSO CONSIDERING YOUR NEIGHBORS AND YOUR COWORKERS, TOO. IN THOSE LAST TWO CATEGORIES IN PARTICULAR THAT RANK VERY HIGH IN TRUST, EVEN IF THOSE SAME PEOPLE ARE ALSO YOUR GOVERNMENT LEADERS. SO IF WE WANT TO BUILD TRUST, RIGHT, WE HAVE A FOUNDATION THERE. WE NEED TO ESTABLISH THAT FOUNDATION AND THEN BUILD UPON IT. IN ORDER TO DO THAT, WE HAVE TO UNDERSTAND OUR COMMUNITY'S NEEDS AND THEIR PREFERENCES. WE CAN'T BE EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE, RIGHT? SO WE HAVE TO RELY ON OUR COMMUNITY TO TELL US WHAT ARE THEIR FRUSTRATIONS, WHAT ARE THEIR CONCERNS, WHAT ARE THEIR IDEAS? RIGHT. AND SOMETIMES WE'LL SEE TWO THINGS HAPPEN. WE COULD SEE MINORITY VOICES BEING WATCHED OUT BY THE MAJORITY, OR WE COULD SEE THE OPPOSITE OF THAT TOO. WE COULD SEE A SMALL, PASSIONATE MINORITY GROUP SPEAK LOUDER THAN THE MAJORITY. SO WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE TAKING THAT INTO ACCOUNT WHEN IT COMES TIME TO SURVEY OUR COMMUNITY. SO LET'S TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT CONVENTIONAL WAYS OF COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT. SO YOU'RE ALL FAMILIAR WITH YOUR FORMAL CITY COUNCIL MEETINGS. WHAT WE'RE DOING TONIGHT, PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION, SOME MORE FORMAL TYPE ENGAGEMENT OPPORTUNITIES. AND THEN YOU'VE ALSO GOT YOUR SURVEY METHODS. SO THAT'S YOUR TELEPHONE SURVEY AND THEN YOUR PAPER SURVEYS AS WELL. 
          I WANTED TO POINT OUT THIS CHART OVER HERE ON THE ON MY RIGHT. THIS IS FROM PEW RESEARCH BACK IN 2018. AND WHAT THIS IS SHOWING IS THE DECLINE IN RESPONSE RATES FOR TELEPHONE SURVEYS. I DID TRY TO FIND AN UPDATED CHART FROM THIS. IN FACT, PEW RESEARCH STOPPED DOING RESEARCH ON TELEPHONE RESPONSE RATES IN 2018 2019. MOVING FORWARD, WAS ALL YOUR ONLINE PLATFORM BASED SURVEY METHODS. SO JAMES IS GOING TO TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT DATA RELIABILITY. THANK YOU. SO SURVEY RESULTS ARE ONLY AS EFFECTIVE AS THE DATA THAT YOU COLLECT. AND OUR RESIDENT SATISFACTION SURVEY FOR THE PAST DECADE PLUS HAS BEEN AN OPT IN ONLINE SURVEY. AND I'VE TALKED TO YOU BEFORE ABOUT THE STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES. THEIR WEAKNESS HAS ALWAYS BEEN THAT IT'S NOT SCIENTIFICALLY VALID IN TERMS OF THE RESULTS. YOU DON'T HAVE A BREAKDOWN OF RESULTS THAT MATCH A RESPONSE POOL THAT MATCHES THE POPULATION YOU ARE SURVEYING, AND AS A RESULT, YOU'LL FIND THAT SOME COMMUNITIES WITHIN YOUR COMMUNITY ARE UNDER OR OVER REPRESENTED. FOR EXAMPLE, OUR RESIDENT SATISFACTION SURVEY. 
          MORE THAN HALF OF RESPONDENTS HAVE LIVED HERE 20 YEARS OR LONGER. BUT THAT IS NOT THE CASE OF OUR RESIDENT POPULATION OVERALL. ADDITIONALLY, YOU LOOK AT OUR RESIDENT SATISFACTION SURVEY, WE HAVE RESPONSE RATES BELOW 10% FOR BLACK, LATINO AND ASIAN POPULATIONS. BUT ALL THREE OF THOSE ARE MORE THAN 10% OF OUR POPULATION. AND THOSE PERCENTAGES, EVEN THOUGH WE PUSHED HARD TO REACH THOSE POPULATIONS. THOSE PERCENTAGES HAVE NOT GONE UP OVER THE PAST FIVE YEARS. SO WE KNOW THAT IT'S NOT A SCIENTIFICALLY VALID. I CAN TELL YOU ABSOLUTELY, WITH A 3.5% MARGIN OF ERROR THAT THESE NUMBERS ARE CORRECT. WHAT AN ONLINE OPT IN SURVEY DOES TO ACCOUNT FOR THAT IS YOU HAVE A LARGER NUMBER OF RESPONSES FOR A TYPICAL TELEPHONE SURVEY IS 401 OR A CHEAP ONE IS 201. BUT THAT GIVES YOU A BIG MARGIN OF ERROR. A REALLY FANCY SCHMANCY ONE WOULD BE MORE LIKE 601. AFTER THAT, THERE'S NO BENEFIT TO GOING BIGGER. 401 RESPONSES. 
          WE'RE GETTING 1000, SOMETIMES AS MANY AS 1500 RESPONSES. SOME OF OUR SURVEYS. SO YOU'RE HOPING TO GET SO MANY RESPONSES THAT ANECDOTALLY YOU GET BETTER RESULTS. IT'S NOT AN EVEN, YOU KNOW, EVEN EVEN APPLES TO APPLES TRADE. BUT THAT'S THAT'S WHAT YOU TRY AND GET OUT OF THAT. ONE REAL RISK WITH OPT IN ONLINE SURVEYS IS THE CHANCE OF WHAT'S CALLED SURVEY BOMBING. AND WE'VE AVOIDED THIS FOR THE MOST PART. BUT WE HAD AN EXAMPLE WHEN WE DID THE COLLEGE STREET POOL SURVEY. YOU MIGHT REMEMBER A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO, WE WERE LOOKING AT WHETHER TO CONVERT THE COLLEGE STREET POOL INTO THE SPLASH PARK. AND SO WE DID A SURVEY AND THE SURVEY RESULTS CAME BACK VERY, VERY NEGATIVE, SAYING, NO, DON'T TOUCH OUR POOL. I GO THERE ALL THE TIME. 
          BUT YOU LOOKED AT THE RESPONSE DEEPER. YOU SAW PEOPLE TALKING ABOUT SWIM LESSONS AND STUFF AT THE POOL THAT HADN'T BEEN OFFERED THERE IN YEARS. THEY TALKED ABOUT THINGS THAT WEREN'T 
          [00:50:02]
HAPPENING AND YOU SAW DUPLICATED RESULTS, CUT AND PASTE RESULTS WHERE YOU'D HAVE 4 OR 5 DIFFERENT SURVEY RESPONSES THAT WERE WORD FOR WORD, IDENTICAL. SO EITHER THEY WERE ALL CUTTING AND PASTING OFF THE SAME SCRIPT AS A GROUP, OR AS ONE PERSON ENTERING MULTIPLE TIMES. AND THE NATURE OF THE SURVEY, WE COULDN'T TELL YOU FOR SURE WHAT IT WAS, BUT WE COULD TELL CLEARLY THERE WAS A CONCERTED EFFORT TO CREATE THOSE NEGATIVE RESPONSES. NOW, IF YOU LOOK AT THE PUBLIC RESPONSE TO THE SPLASH PARK NOW AND THE PEOPLE USING IT AND THE WAY PEOPLE LOVE IT, EVEN THE PEOPLE LIVING RIGHT NEXT TO IT, THAT SURVEY WAS WRONG. AND IT WAS WRONG BECAUSE A SMALL GROUP OF PEOPLE WHO HAD A STRONG, PASSIONATE VIEWPOINT DELIBERATELY CHOSE TO SURVEY BOMB OUR RESULTS. THAT'S NEVER HAPPENED WITH OUR OUR RESIDENT SATISFACTION SURVEY UNTIL 2024. 
          AND IT DID HAPPEN THERE. THERE'S A LOT OF MATH BEHIND THIS. I WON'T GO INTO THE WHOLE BIT OF MATH, BUT BASICALLY WHAT WE SAW IS WE HAD ABOUT 100 ADDITIONAL RESPONSES BASED ON OUR AVERAGE OVER THE PAST FEW YEARS, AND THOSE 100 RESPONSES WERE OVERWHELMINGLY AND REPETITIVELY NEGATIVE ON EVERYTHING, EVERY SINGLE ISSUE THEY WERE NEGATIVE ON UNTIL THEY GOT HALFWAY THROUGH THE SURVEY WHEN WE STARTED ASKING, HAVE YOU BEEN TO LEILA? AND IF THEY SAID NO, THEY DIDN'T GET THE LEILA QUESTIONS. IF THEY SAID YES, THEY DID. AND ALL OF A SUDDEN THOSE HUNDRED PEOPLE WENT AWAY. AND THE LEILA RESULTS WERE VERY COMPARABLE TO THE PAST. AND THEN WE STARTED ASKING DEMOGRAPHICS, WHO ARE YOU? WHERE DO YOU LIVE? HOW OLD ARE YOU? DO YOU HAVE KIDS? AND THOSE HUNDRED PEOPLE DISAPPEAR. WE HAD THE HIGHEST ATTRITION RATE WE'VE EVER HAD ON THE SURVEY, AND THAT ATTRITION RATE WAS THE NORMAL ATTRITION THAT WE'VE HAD LAST YEAR, PLUS 100 PEOPLE. SO IT WAS 100 SURVEYS THAT DELIBERATELY CREATED NEGATIVE RESULTS IN THE SURVEY. 
          AND WE CAN DOCUMENT HOW THAT HAPPENED. AND AS A RESULT, WHAT YOU SAW WAS STATISTICAL ANOMALIES IN THOSE RESULTS. USUALLY THE ADVANTAGE OF A YEAR TO YEAR ANNUAL SURVEY IS YOU DON'T HAVE BIG CHANGES YEAR TO YEAR UNLESS SOMETHING BIG HAPPENS. FOR EXAMPLE, IF YOU'RE ASKING HOW SAFE DO YOU FEEL IT'S GOING TO BE PRETTY MUCH THE SAME, AND THEN A FEW PERCENTAGE POINTS. BUT IF THE BASELINE TAKES A SURVEY, THE HOUSE NEXT DOOR, THERE'S A SWAT RAID AND THERE'S GUNSHOTS AND THERE'S EXPLOSION. THEY'RE GOING TO PROBABLY HAVE A MUCH LOWER SCORE, RIGHT? BUT OUTSIDE OF THAT, YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE A VARIANCE OF USUALLY 2 TO 3 POINTS YEAR TO YEAR, 4 TO 5 POINTS. IF THAT'S A REAL BIG CHANGE. YOU CAN WATCH TRENDS. 
          THAT'S THE ADVANTAGE. WHAT WE SAW HERE WAS CHANGES THAT WERE THREE, FOUR, EVEN TEN TIMES WHAT THAT NORMAL TREND WOULD BE. AND IT WAS BECAUSE OF THOSE HUNDRED BOMB RESPONSES. SO BASED ON THAT, WE HIT THE POINT NOW WHERE PEOPLE HAVE FIGURED OUT A WAY TO MANIPULATE THE DATA. WE NEED TO FIND A BETTER SET OF DATA. AND AN ONLINE OPT IN SURVEY WILL NOT PROVIDE US BETTER DATA, NOT A WAY TO SECURE IT. AND THAT'S WHERE THE STAFF RECOMMENDATION COMING OUT OF THAT SURVEY TALKING TO CLAIRE, TALKING TO MANAGEMENT NOW, TALKING TO YOU IS WE NEED TO FIND A BETTER TOOL. SO I'M GOING TO HAND IT BACK TO ASHLEY BECAUSE SHE'S GOING TO TALK TO YOU ABOUT THE BETTER TOOL WE BELIEVE WE HAVE FOUND. SORRY. ALL RIGHT. SO IN THE INTEREST OF TIME, I'M GOING TO SKIP OVER SOME OF THESE THINGS AND JUST TALK ABOUT THE HIGHLIGHTS. REALLY WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT HERE IS WHEN IT COMES TO OUR RESIDENTS, WE HAVE U.S. CENSUS BUREAU DATA ON WHO OUR RESIDENTS ARE. WE KNOW THEIR RACE. WE KNOW THEIR ETHNICITY, THEIR AGE, THEIR INCOME, GENDER. 
          WE KNOW ALL OF THESE FACTORS. ON TOP OF THAT, WE ALSO GET ANNUAL UPDATES FROM THE AMERICAN COMMUNITY SURVEY AS WELL. AND THE REASON THAT THAT IS IMPORTANT IS BECAUSE THE TOOL THAT WE'RE DISCUSSING TONIGHT IS CALLED ZEN CITY. THEY CAN TAKE ALL OF THAT DATA INTO ACCOUNT. 
          SO WHEN WE SEE THOSE SMALL CHANGES FROM YEAR TO YEAR, ZEN CITY CAN TAKE ALL THAT INTO ACCOUNT. SO I'M NOT GOING TO TALK A WHOLE LOT ABOUT THE INTERNET USE. I THINK EVERYONE IN HERE KNOWS THAT THE INTERNET IS A THING. THERE'S TWO THINGS I WANTED TO HIGHLIGHT ON THIS SLIDE HERE. THIS BULLET POINT RIGHT HERE, 88% OF PEOPLE 65 OR OLDER ARE USING THE INTERNET, 90% OF THOSE WITH A HIGH SCHOOL EDUCATION OR LESS ARE USING THE INTERNET. SO THE POINT I WANT TO MAKE HERE IS THAT THE MAJORITY OF OUR RESIDENTS ARE USING THE INTERNET, WHICH MAKES IT A REALLY GOOD TOOL FOR THIS CONTINUOUS ENGAGEMENT THAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR. AND THEN AGAIN, THIS IS JUST SOME MORE DATA ON THAT INTERNET USAGE. YOU CAN SEE HERE. THIS GOES FROM 2000 TO 2023. THREE OUT OF THE FOUR AGE GROUPS ARE CLUSTERED AROUND THAT HIGH 90%. AND THEN THAT 65 AND UP THAT I JUST MENTIONED ON THE PRIOR SLIDE. THAT'S THAT LOWER LINE DOWN HERE. BUT YOU CAN SEE IN TERMS OF TRENDING UP THAT THEY'RE SEEING THAT HIGHEST INCREASE YEAR AFTER YEAR. AND THEN AMERICANS CHECK THEIR PHONES ON AVERAGE 96 TIMES PER DAY OR ONCE EVERY TEN MINUTES. 
          I'M SURE IN THE TIME THAT JAMES AND I HAVE BEEN TALKING, SOMEONE HAS CHECKED THEIR PHONE. THEY MIGHT HAVE SEEN AN AD FOR A RESIDENT SATISFACTION SURVEY. SO LET'S TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT WHAT THIS PLATFORM IS. SO WE CURRENTLY USE IN CITY. WE USE SOME OF THEIR OTHER FEATURES. 
          RIGHT NOW WE'RE USING IT TO ANALYZE SOCIAL MEDIA SENTIMENT. WE'RE ABLE TO DO SMALLER SURVEYS. WE CAN ALSO CREATE WHAT ARE CALLED ENGAGE PAGES. THEY'RE BASICALLY HUBS OF ENGAGEMENT, LIKE A LANDING PAGE FOR A CERTAIN TOPIC. AND WE'VE BEEN ABLE TO USE THOSE SMALLER SURVEYS. I THINK WE DID ONE RECENTLY FOR A GRANT APPLICATION FOR NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES. SO THAT'S AN EXAMPLE OF HOW WE'RE ALREADY USING IT. THIS PLATFORM, THIS MODULE IS A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENT. SO THIS IS ESSENTIALLY A TARGETED AD. SO IF YOU'RE SCROLLING ON FACEBOOK FOR EXAMPLE YOU'RE GOING TO SEE AN AD THAT SAYS TELL US MORE ABOUT LOUISVILLE. WE'VE GOT SOME 
          [00:55:04]
EXAMPLES OF THAT HERE IN JUST A SECOND. I'VE ACTUALLY GOT A SCREENSHOT HERE. BUT THE IMPORTANT THING THAT I WANT TO CALL OUT HERE IS THAT ZEN CITY COMPARES THE PEOPLE WHO ARE RESPONDING TO OUR DEMOGRAPHICS, AND THEY CAN SHIFT BASED ON WHO'S RESPONDING. SO IF WE START SEEING AN OVERREPRESENTATION IN OUR OLDER POPULATION OR OUR WHITE POPULATION, THOSE TARGETED ADS SHIFT A LITTLE BIT. AND THEN ON THE BACK END, AS PEOPLE START RESPONDING TO THE SURVEY, THERE'S SOMETHING THAT ZEN CITY CAN DO. IT'S ESSENTIALLY A WEIGHTING FACTOR AT THE END, SO THEY CAN COURSE CORRECT ON THOSE RESULTS AND MAKE SURE THAT AT THE END OF THE DAY, WE'VE GOT A STATISTICALLY VALID SURVEY AND THAT IT REPRESENTS OUR COMMUNITY, AND THEN SOME OF THE OTHER FEATURES THAT IT COMES WITH. SO IT TAKES ABOUT FIVE MINUTES OR LESS. THERE ARE SEVERAL STANDARD QUESTIONS. AND WE'LL TALK A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT THAT IN JUST A SECOND. AND THEN THERE'S ALSO SOME CUSTOM QUESTIONS THAT WE CAN ADD. AT THE END. STAFF GETS ACCESS TO A DASHBOARD THAT HAS LIVE RESULTS. SO WE CAN SEE THOSE AS THEY'RE COMING IN. AND THEN WE CAN ISSUE REPORTS. WE CAN DO IT ANNUALLY. WE CAN DO IT SEMIANNUALLY. WE'LL TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THAT. 
          AND THEN THERE'S ALSO THE ABILITY TO HAVE SOME INTEGRATION IN OUR WEBSITE IN TERMS OF INTERACTIVITY WITH THOSE SURVEY RESULTS. SO LET'S TALK A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT HOW THIS WORKS. 
          BASICALLY WE WORK WITH ZEN CITY TO FINALIZE THAT QUESTIONNAIRE. WE PUSH IT OUT, LET'S SAY OVER A PERIOD OF TWO MONTHS OR SO, WE GET THAT REPRESENTATIVE SAMPLE. THEN WE RECEIVE THAT IN-DEPTH REPORT. SO THAT'S WHEN WE START LOOKING AT, OKAY, WHAT ARE OUR AREAS OF IMPROVEMENT. WHAT'S OUR, YOU KNOW, ACTION ITEMS THAT SORT OF THING. AND THEN WE CAN TAKE A LOOK AT THOSE OPEN ENDED QUESTIONS. AND WHEN WE TALK ABOUT THE OPEN ENDED QUESTIONS AND THOSE CUSTOM QUESTIONS, WE COULD REALLY USE THOSE CUSTOM QUESTIONS TO FOCUS ON HOT TOPICS. SO IF WE WANT TO LEARN ABOUT HOW WHAT RESIDENTS THINK ABOUT OUR BEAUTIFICATION EFFORTS OR OUR BUSINESS. 121 WE CAN USE THOSE CUSTOMIZED QUESTIONS TO BE GEARED TOWARDS THOSE TOPICS. SO IN THE NEXT FEW SLIDES ARE JUST SOME IMAGES OF WHAT THIS MIGHT LOOK LIKE HERE. HERE'S AN EXAMPLE OF AN INSTAGRAM AD I HAD THIS ON A FEW SLIDES BACK. IT JUST SAYS, HOW DO YOU FEEL IN YOUR CITY? AND THEN IT'LL COME UP WITH A QUESTION. AND IN THIS CASE IT SAYS, WHEN IT COMES TO THE THREAT OF CRIME, HOW SAFE DO YOU FEEL IN YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD? I THINK FOR THE PURPOSES OF OUR SURVEY, WE'LL DO A SCALE OF 1 TO 5. OUR PREVIOUS SURVEY WAS 1 TO 4 WITH THE OPTION OF NO OPINION. RIGHT. SO IT'LL BE IT'LL BE PRETTY SIMILAR TO THAT. AND THEN ON THE INTERNAL SIDE, THIS IS AN EXAMPLE OF WHAT THAT DASHBOARD WOULD LOOK LIKE. SO UP HERE IN THE UPPER CORNER HERE WE'D SEE 46% SATISFACTION. THIS IS JUST AN EXAMPLE SURVEY HERE. AND THEN ONE OF THE COOL THINGS IS THAT AGAIN THIS IS GOING TO BE A LIVE FEED. SO WE'RE GETTING THAT DATA IN CONTINUOUSLY. AND WE CAN START DRILLING DOWN SO WE CAN SEE OKAY WHO ARE OUR MOST SATISFIED RESIDENTS. WHO ARE OUR LEAST SATISFIED RESIDENTS. WE CAN DRILL DOWN INTO QUESTIONS. SO THIS QUESTION DOWN HERE, THIS IS QUESTION SIX ON THIS EXAMPLE SURVEY. IT'S ABOUT THE AVAILABILITY OF AFFORDABLE HOUSING. SO THIS IS A REALLY IMPORTANT TOPIC I DON'T WANT TO RUSH YOU THROUGH THIS. I'M GOING TO I WANT TO SUGGEST THAT WE GO OUT AND COME BACK IN AGAIN WHEN WE FINISH. BUT I DON'T WANT TO RUSH THIS TOPIC. IT'S AN IMPORTANT TOPIC. THAT SOUNDS GREAT. OKAY, I'LL OPEN IT AND COME BACK. WE WILL GO OUT AND WE'LL OPEN THE MEETING AND WE'LL SO. ONE OF. THE BETTER. FANTASTIC. GREAT. ALL RIGHT. SO WE'RE GOING TO CALL THE REGULAR SESSION OF THE CITY COUNCIL MEETING TO ORDER. IT IS 7 P.M. 
          [A. Invocation - Council Member Bob Troyer]
WE DO HAVE QUORUM. WE ARE GOING TO DO OUR INVOCATION AND OUR PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE, AND THEN WE'RE GOING TO GO BACK INTO WORKSHOP FOR JUST A FEW MINUTES. YOU ARE WELCOME TO COME INTO WORKSHOP WITH US. WE'RE JUST GOING TO FINISH OFF A QUICK PRESENTATION AND THEN COME BACK OUT AGAIN. SO WE'LL STAND FOR INVOCATION, PLEASE. COUNCIL MEMBER BOB TROYER WILL LEAD US IN INVOCATION. PLEASE STAND. STAND AND JOIN ME IN A MOMENT OF SILENT CONTEMPLATION. 
          AMEN. THANK YOU. COUNCIL MEMBER. TROYER. COUNCIL MEMBER JONES, WILL YOU PLEASE LEAD US IN THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE? PLEASE JOIN ME IN THE PLEDGE TO THE AMERICAN AND TEXAS FLAG. 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. HONOR THE FLAG. 
          I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THEE. TEXAS. ONE STATE UNDER GOD, ONE INDIVISIBLE. AT THIS TIME WE'RE GOING TO ADJOURN. BACK OVER, NOT ADJOURN. WE'RE GOING TO GO BACK INTO THE WORKSHOP SESSION, AND YOU'RE WELCOME TO JOIN US AGAIN. WE'RE JUST GOING TO BE 
          [01:01:15]
FOR QUALITY OF LIFE IN LEWISVILLE, FOR EXAMPLE, NATIONALLY, 62% COHORT WOULD BE CITIES LIKE US. SO WE WOULD WORK WITH ZEN CITY TO DEFINE WHO OUR COHORT IS AND THEN OUR SCORE, IN THIS CASE 32%. THAT'S REALLY LOW, RIGHT? SO THAT TELLS US WE'VE GOT SOME THINGS TO WORK ON. SO THAT'S JUST AN EXAMPLE. YOU CAN SEE DOWN HERE. HERE'S A LOT OF THOSE STANDARDIZED QUESTIONS. AND IT MAKES IT REALLY EASY TO IDENTIFY THOSE GAPS WHEN YOU'RE LOOKING AT YOUR NEIGHBORING CITIES AND THEN NATIONALLY AS WELL. AND THEN JUST TO KIND OF TIE THIS ALL UP, THIS IS THE TIMELINE THAT WE'RE LOOKING AT RIGHT NOW. SO TONIGHT WE'RE PRESENTING TO YOU AS SOON AS TOMORROW WE CAN START WORKING ON FINALIZING THIS QUESTIONNAIRE, GETTING IT SET UP. THEN IN MARCH WE COULD LAUNCH THIS SURVEY, KEEP IT OPEN FOR, YOU KNOW, TWO MONTHS OR SO. 
          WE WOULD IMMEDIATELY GET A REPORT COME MAY 2025. AND THAT'S WHEN WE COULD START LINING OUT OUR ACTION ITEMS, THINGS THAT WE NEED TO TWEAK FOR NEXT TIME, THAT SORT OF THING. AND THEN IF WE DESIRE IN FALL OF 2025, WE HAVE THE OPTION TO DO A SIX MONTH SURVEY. SO WHAT THAT WOULD LOOK LIKE IS IT WOULD BE THOSE SAME STANDARDIZED QUESTIONS, BUT THEN WE'D STILL HAVE THOSE OPEN ENDED QUESTIONS AND WE'D HAVE THOSE FIVE CUSTOMIZED, FLEXIBLE QUESTIONS AS WELL. SO IF THERE'S ANOTHER HOT TOPIC THAT WE WANT TO GET SOME FEEDBACK ON, WE HAVE THAT OPPORTUNITY. THEN IF WE DESIRE. AND I BELIEVE THAT ACTUALLY WRAPS UP OUR PRESENTATION. SO I HAVE A QUESTION. DID YOU RAISE YOUR HAND. OH OKAY. SO THIS IS. PRIMARILY SORRY. THIS IS PRIMARILY PUSHED OUT ON SOCIAL MEDIA RIGHT. IT COULD ALSO BE THROUGH GAMES LIKE CANDY CRUSH FOR EXAMPLE. IT COULD BE THAT KIND OF APPLICATION AS WELL. BUT YEAH, PRIMARILY SOCIAL MEDIA OKAY. SO WHAT IF WHAT HOW DO WE CAPTURE PEOPLE WHO AREN'T REALLY ON SOCIAL MEDIA? OR. I MEAN, HONESTLY, SOCIAL MEDIA HAS GOTTEN SO VOLATILE LATELY, I FEEL LIKE PEOPLE ARE LEAVING. 
          SO, YOU KNOW, HOW DO WE HOW DO WE CAPTURE HOW DO WE MAKE SURE WE'RE CAPTURING PEOPLE WHO AREN'T ENGAGED ON SOCIAL MEDIA? I DO THINK, YOU KNOW WHAT WE WERE TALKING ABOUT EARLIER. WE DO SEE A LARGE PERCENTAGE OF THE POPULATION USING INTERNET. SO EVEN IF IT'S NOT, YOU KNOW, FACEBOOK OR INSTAGRAM, IT COULD ALSO BE ON NEXTDOOR. RIGHT? AND IT COULD BE ON THOSE OTHER APPLICATIONS ON YOUR PHONE TOO. ANYTIME YOU SEE AN AD ON ANY OF THOSE OTHER APPLICATIONS, WE COULD UTILIZE THAT THROUGH ZEN CITY. SO WE HAVE OTHER AVENUES. SO YOU COULD LIKE PUT IT ON WORDLE AND CANDY CRUSH AND ALL THAT STUFF. RIGHT. QUESTION. SO CAN SOMEBODY CAN SOMEBODY MANIPULATE THE SYSTEM TO PUT LIKE 100 FAKE FAKE RESPONSES IN HERE? I'M GLAD YOU ASKED THAT QUESTION. SO ZEN CITY HAS THE CAPABILITY OF IDENTIFYING THAT THERE'S A LITTLE BIT OF AN AI COMPONENT ON THE BACKGROUND. SO IT FLAGS THOSE. SO WE CAN GO IN AND WE CAN LOOK AT THOSE RESPONSES, AND WE CAN MAKE THAT DETERMINATION IF WE WANT TO INCLUDE IT IN THE DATA SECTION OR THE DATA SET OR REMOVE IT, IT'S HIGHLY POSSIBLE. YEAH. WHERE ARE THOSE USUALLY TURN UP IS IN OPEN ENDED QUESTIONS. THAT'S HOW WE IDENTIFY THEM IN THE SPLASH PARK SURVEY. AND ZEN CITY WILL BE ABLE TO DO OPEN ENDED QUESTIONS AND DO THE ANALYSIS ON IT, SOMETHING WE'RE NOT ABLE TO DO WITH THE FULL 1000 RESPONSE SURVEY. BUT THEY ONCE YOU LEARN TO SPOT THEM, THEY'RE PRETTY EASY TO PULL OUT. I HAD A SIMILAR QUESTION I WAS GOING TO ASK CHRIS IF YOU LOOKED INTO THIS AS WELL, BUT I'M ASSUMING THIS IS A LINK. IT'S GOING TO TAKE YOU TO A WEBSITE. 
          IS THERE SOME SORT OF GUIDE OR COOKIE OR SOMETHING AT THE END OF THAT LINK? SO I KNOW THAT IF SOMEBODY HAS ENTERED 4 OR 5 TIMES, IT'S ALL THE SAME, THEN I DO NOT KNOW, SIR. YEAH, I CAN FIND OUT. BUT I MEAN, WILL IT, WILL IT CATCH BOTS THAT HAVE BEEN SPECIFICALLY LIKE SOMEBODY HAS BOUGHT 7500 BOTS? YEAH, WELL, THAT WOULD BE PART OF THIS AI ALGORITHM THAT SHE'S REFERENCING. BUT AS IT PERTAINS TO HOW IT TRACKS IT, IF IT'S COOKIES. I'M NOT POSITIVE ON 
          [01:05:03]
THAT ONE, SIR. I'LL GIVE THAT INFORMATION TO AND THIS IS ALL ONLINE. THERE'S NO TELEPHONE COMPONENT. LET ME ASK YOU THIS QUESTION. IN THE LAST THE LAST CAMPAIGN THAT WE HAD IN NOVEMBER, I SAW A DISTURBING TREND WHERE SURVEYS WERE MASQUERADING. POLITICAL ADVERTISING WAS MASQUERADING AS SURVEYS. SO YOU GO TO TAKE A SURVEY, AND THEN IT BECOMES VERY CLEAR THAT IT'S ACTUALLY A POLITICAL AD, BUT THEY'RE WORKING A LOOPHOLE. HOW DO WE LET PEOPLE KNOW THAT WHEN THEY GO TO THE SURVEY, IT'S ACTUALLY A LEGIT SURVEY FROM OUR CITY AND NOT SOME OTHER SURVEY? I HAD THAT SAME QUESTION. I THINK WE COULD DO SOME COMMUNICATION. 
          JAMES AND I CAN WORK TOGETHER ON THAT. WE CAN PUT SOME INFORMATION OUT AHEAD OF TIME. 
          RIGHT. WE'RE LAUNCHING THIS NEW SURVEY. HERE'S WHAT IT'S GOING TO LOOK LIKE. HERE'S AN EXAMPLE OF WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE ON YOUR PHONE ON YOUR COMPUTER, THAT SORT OF KIND OF EDUCATION CAMPAIGN. IS THERE ANYTHING YOU WANT TO ADD ON THAT. SO IT WILL BE BRANDED TO THE CITY. WHEN YOU SEE THE AD OR CLICK ON IT, IT WON'T SAY TAKE A CITY SURVEY. IT SAY CITY OF LOUISVILLE WILL HAVE OUR BRAND. WE'RE GOING TO CHECK ON WHAT THE URL WILL SAY BECAUSE PEOPLE ARE LOOKING AT URLS. NOW WITH CYBERSECURITY CONCERNS. BEYOND THAT, WE HAVE THE OPTION, THE ABILITY TO PUT THINGS OUT WITH SOME SCREENSHOTS AND SAY, IF YOU SEE THESE KINDS OF THINGS, THESE ARE LEGITIMATE. 
          THE RISK OF THAT IS SOMEBODY WHO REALLY, REALLY IS EAGER TO BE A BAD ACTOR COULD TRY TO DUPLICATE THAT, OR THEY HAVE TO REALLY WANT TO. SO WE THINK THE BRANDING WILL HELP A LOT. THERE ARE THOSE OUT THERE THAT REALLY WANT TO THAT REALLY HAVE THERE ARE, YES. WE BELIEVE THE BRANDING WILL HELP A LOT. WHEN PEOPLE SEE THE LOGO AND THEY SEE THE CITY BRAND, THE CITY, THE WHOLE SCHEME IN THERE, I DON'T KNOW, IS GOING TO GO THROUGH OUR UI OR OR THEIRS. WE'RE GOING TO FIND OUT. YEAH. ARE YOU ALL WILL BE BETTER. I THINK WE CAN DO THAT IF THEY CAN DO THAT. YES. 
          RIGHT. YEAH. I HAD THE SAME QUESTION TOO, JUST BECAUSE I THINK THE REASON THAT PEOPLE STOP TAKING PHONE SURVEYS IS BECAUSE I JUST GET ALL SORTS OF SPAM ON, YOU KNOW, THROUGH EVERY SINGLE DAY. IT'S JUST SPAM CALLS ALL DAY LONG. AND, YOU KNOW, THAT'S NOW WE'RE STARTING TO GET INTO THAT WITH ALL THE POP UPS AND THINGS. AND SO HOW DO PEOPLE KNOW IF THIS IS LEGIT AND I CAN TRUST THIS? IT'S NOT SOMEBODY TRYING TO GET ME TO CLICK SOMETHING SO THAT THEY CAN, YOU KNOW, INSTALL SOME MALWARE ON MY DEVICE. YEP. OTHER QUESTIONS. COUNCILMAN. NO, NO. DO YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, CONCERNS? COMMENTS? I, I GUESS THE FIRST THING THAT POPPED INTO MY MIND IS, IS THERE AN ADDITIONAL COST ON THIS OR WHAT'S THE WHAT IS THE IS IT COVERED AND DO WE HAVE IT COVERED ALREADY IN OUR BUDGET OR. YEAH, THERE IS AN ADDITIONAL COST AND WE ARE ABLE TO ABSORB IT THIS YEAR. COUNCILMEMBER MEREDITH, DO YOU HAVE ANYTHING ABOVE AND BEYOND WHAT YOU'VE ALREADY TALKED ABOUT? NO. OKAY. SO. IT DOES LOOK LIKE YOU HAVE THE ABILITY TO CUSTOMIZE THE URL. AND SO WE SHOULD BE ABLE TO MAKE THE SURVEY SPECIFICALLY THERE'S AN ILLEGITIMATE URL. 
          THEN THEY'LL GET KICKED OUT. IF YOU SEE THE SAME URL COME IN TWICE WITH A TOKEN AT THE END OF IT, YOU'LL KNOW IF SOMEBODY'S DUPLICATING. YEAH. AND WE DO OWN THE LEWISVILLE TEXAS.GOV DOMAIN NOW OKAY. SO IF WE WANTED TO LEVERAGE THE.GOV TO ENSURE IT'S COMING FROM AN OFFICIAL BODY, WE COULD DO THAT AS WELL SIR. AWESOME. ALL RIGHT. ANY OTHER THOUGHTS. QUESTIONS. JUST NOT ON THIS BUT ALSO ON THE ON THE AGENDA. THE ITEM THAT COUNCILMAN MEREDITH BROUGHT UP EARLIER, THERE IS A TYPO IN THE MEMO THAT THE AGENDA IS POSTED CORRECTLY, BUT IT IS 222,000 APPROXIMATELY, NOT THE 285. WAS THAT 284 284 THAT WAS LISTED? THE CATCH? SO UNLESS YOU WANT TO PULL IT OKAY. 
          ANY OTHER THOUGHTS? COMMENTS. OKAY. LET'S GO BACK OKAY, WELL, WE'LL JUST LET MY WIFE TAKE A SEAT. THANK YOU. IT'S. ALL RIGHT. PUBLIC HEARING C1 CONSIDERATION OF ADOPTION OF 
          [C. Public Hearing]
BUSINESS. 121 CORRIDOR PLAN. IN 2023, THE CITY COUNCIL DIRECTED STAFF TO BEGIN PLANNING EFFORTS FOR THE BUSINESS. 121 CORRIDOR TO PURSUE AN ACTUAL PLAN TO IMPROVE SAFETY, ESTHETICS AND ECONOMIC VITALITY IN THE CORRIDOR. THE PLANNING PROCESS INVOLVED DATA COLLECTION AND ENGAGEMENT WITH A VARIETY OF STAKEHOLDERS. THE BUSINESS. 121 CORRIDOR PLAN HAS 72 ACTIONABLE STRATEGIES WITHIN THREE KEY THEMES OF MOBILITY IMPROVEMENTS QUALITY OF PLACE, QUALITY OF PLACE IMPROVEMENTS, AND ECONOMIC VITALITY POLICIES. THE CORRIDOR VISION STATEMENT ANTICIPATES THAT THE BUSINESS. 121 WILL REMAIN A VITAL TRANSPORTATION CORRIDOR FOR THE REGION, WILL BE A VIBRANT PLACE TO LIVE AND DO BUSINESS, AND WILL SERVE AS A PROUD GATEWAY TO LOUISVILLE. THE PLANNING ZONING COMMISSION RECOMMENDED UNANIMOUS SEVEN ZERO 7 TO 0 ADOPTION OF THE PLAN ON DECEMBER 3RD, 2024. IT'S THE RECOMMENDATION THAT THE CITY COUNCIL ADOPT THE BUSINESS. 121 CORRIDOR PLAN AS SET FORTH IN THE CAPTION ABOVE, WE HAVE A PRESENTATION FROM MICHELLE BERRY AND TAKE IT AWAY. GOOD EVENING COUNCIL. SO I'M REALLY EXCITED TO BE HERE TONIGHT TO PRESENT TO YOU THE BUSINESS 121 CORRIDOR PLAN. WE ARE A LITTLE BEHIND WHERE WE HOPE TO HAVE THIS PLAN EXECUTED. BUT WE DID. WE DID. I THINK THE CONSULTANT TEAM HALF AND THEIR SUB CONSULTANTS, I THINK, PUT TOGETHER A GREAT PLAN. WE TRIED TO KEEP THE PLAN CONDENSED. THERE ARE ONLY FOUR 
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CHAPTERS. THE FIRST CHAPTER IS THE PLANNING CONTEXT. THE SECOND CHAPTER IS THE CORRIDOR FRAMEWORK. THE THIRD LOOKS AT SPECIFIC, OH, I'M SORRY, THIS ISN'T PROJECTING UP THERE. GIVE ME JUST A SECOND TO FIX THAT. 
          THERE WE GO. NOW YOU CAN SEE MY PRESENTATION. SO THE THIRD IS LOOKING AT SPECIFIC CATALYTIC SITES ALONG THE CORRIDOR. AND THE FOURTH IS REALLY LOOKING AT THE IMPLEMENTATION. MOST OF THE ACTUAL DATA THAT SUPPORTS ALL OF THIS IS IN THE APPENDICES, WHICH IS HOW WE KEPT THE PLAN ITSELF A LITTLE BIT MORE REDUCED IN LENGTH. SO THE RECOMMENDATIONS ARE LOOKING AT THE FUTURE DEVELOPMENT AND THE VISION. SO THIS IS KIND OF A MAP EXPLORING THE POTENTIAL FUTURE LAND USES WITHIN THE STUDY AREA TO GIVE GUIDANCE FOR FUTURE DEVELOPMENT. THIS IS THE CORRIDOR CONCEPT PLAN. IT DEPICTS THE RECOMMENDED LOCATIONS FOR MOBILITY AND SAFETY IMPROVEMENTS, NEIGHBORHOOD INVESTMENTS AND CONVERSIONS, COMMERCIAL VIBRANCY, EFFORTS WITHIN THE STUDY AREA. AND THEN WE HAVE THREE MAIN STRATEGIES THAT CAME OUT OF THIS PLAN QUALITY OF PLACE, ECONOMIC VITALITY AND MOBILITY. THESE ARE ALL INTERRELATED, AND MOBILITY IS WHERE WE REALLY CAPTURE THE SAFETY COMPONENTS. THERE ARE 12 PLAN GOALS THAT I DON'T NECESSARILY WANT TO READ THROUGH, BUT THEY SUPPORT ALL OF THESE VISIONS. AND THE KEY, THE THREE KEY THEMES, AND THOSE ARE BROKEN DOWN FURTHER INTO DIFFERENT STRATEGIES. BUT AND WE'LL GO KIND OF THROUGH THOSE. BUT THOSE ARE THE STRATEGIES. THOSE ARE KIND OF MORE OF THE ACTION ITEMS THAT STAFF WILL BE WORKING ON. THERE WERE THREE CATALYTIC SITES THAT WE LOOKED AT. ONE IS WHERE MILL STREET IS BEING REALIGNED WITH BUSINESS. 121 ONE WAS SOUTHWEST PARKWAY. 
          THERE'S A LOT OF INVESTMENT HAPPENING THERE WITH GLORY PARK AND A COMPLETE STREET PROJECT ON SOUTHWEST PARKWAY. AND THE OTHER WAS THE LAKELAND AND BEL AIR PLAZA. THERE'S JUST SO MUCH VACANT PARKING LOT THERE. WE WANTED TO GIVE IDEAS FOR HOW THAT COULD POTENTIALLY BE REDEVELOPED IN THE FUTURE, THROUGH ADDING ADDITIONAL USES THAT THE MARKET SUPPORTS, AND MAYBE SOME GREENERY AND OPEN SPACES THAT ALSO FURTHER OUR LEWISVILLE 2025 PLAN. SO WE HAVE 72 TOTAL STRATEGIES THAT ARE ACROSS 12 GOALS. THE TIME FRAMES ARE SHORT TERM, MEDIUM TERM AND LONG TERM. THEY HAVE SOME ORDER OF MAGNITUDE COSTS ASSOCIATED WITH THEM. AND THEN THEY ALSO HAVE SOME OTHER PARAMETERS THAT ARE ASSOCIATED WITH THEM. SO THAT IMPLEMENTATION MATRIX LOOKS LIKE THIS. THERE ARE SOME STRATEGIES THAT WERE IDENTIFIED BY THE CORRIDOR REVIEW COMMITTEE AND THE COUNCIL, AND THE PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION AS PRIORITY STRATEGIES, AND THOSE ONES ARE BOLDED. SO THROUGH THE PLAN, YOU CAN SEE THOSE THAT DOESN'T NECESSARILY CORRESPOND WITH THE TIME FRAME. IT'S JUST THESE ARE THINGS THAT WE'RE VERY IMPORTANT TO THE COMMUNITY AND TO THE DECISION MAKERS. SO WE HAVE THOSE BOLDED THROUGHOUT THE PLAN. SO THIS PLAN DID GO TO THE PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION. THEY DID RECOMMEND APPROVAL. SINCE THEN, WE ACTUALLY TOOK IT BACK TO ALL OF THE DEPARTMENT DIRECTORS JUST FOR THEIR FINAL TAKE TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE GOOD TO GO ON IMPLEMENTATION OF THIS PLAN. AND THERE WERE A FEW TWEAKS THAT WERE MADE FROM WHAT WENT TO THE PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION. ONE WAS THE TIME FRAMES. SO SHORT TERM IS 0 TO 5 YEARS INSTEAD OF 0 TO 2 BECAUSE WE NEED THAT EXTRA TIME. MEDIUM TERM IS 5 TO 10 INSTEAD OF 2 TO 5, AND LONG TERM IS OVER TEN YEARS INSTEAD OF FIVE YEARS. 
          JUST BECAUSE THERE ARE 72 THINGS TO DO, THAT'S A LOT TO DO. WE ALREADY HAVE A LOT OF OTHER THINGS TO DO, SO WE NEED A LITTLE MORE WIGGLE ROOM. AND THERE WERE A FEW STRATEGIES THAT WERE A LITTLE BIT REDUNDANT. SO WE COMBINED THOSE. AND THOSE ARE LOOKING AT FUTURE ALTERNATIVE ROADWAY SECTIONS. ONE WAS REALLY A SPECIFIC MECHANISM TO DO THAT. SO WE COMBINED WHAT WAS ORIGINALLY 12.2 AND 12.3. AND THEN THERE WERE TWO STRATEGIES THAT REALLY THE STATE KIND OF PREEMPTED US IN TAKING THOSE STEPS FURTHER. SO WE JUST DROPPED THOSE FROM THE PLAN ALTOGETHER. AND THOSE WERE MOSTLY AS RELATED TO MOBILE HOME PARKS AND DIFFERENT THINGS FOR THOSE. SO OUR NEXT STEPS TONIGHT ARE WE'RE HOPING THAT TO GET THIS PLAN ADOPTED AND THEN STAFF WILL BEGIN WORKING ON IMPLEMENTATION. WE'RE GETTING A KEY GROUP TOGETHER TO WORK ON IMPLEMENTING THIS PLAN, SO THAT WE CAN START TO SEE SOME OF THIS WORK COME TO FRUITION. SO WITH THAT, THIS IS A PUBLIC HEARING. AND STAFF'S RECOMMENDATION IS TO ADOPT THE BUSINESS. 121 CORRIDOR PLAN. WITH THE CHANGES SINCE IT WAS PRESENTED TO THE PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. WE HAVE RICHARD LUKE, OUR PLANNING DIRECTOR, AVAILABLE FOR COMMENTS AND QUESTIONS AS NEEDED. CITY SECRETARY, ARE THERE ANY COMMENT CARDS? YES. THANK YOU. ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS FROM FROM COUNCIL? I DO. MAYOR, OUR MAYOR PRO TEM. THIS IS Y'ALL HAVE THIS HAS BEEN SEVERAL YEARS NOW IN THE MAKING. IT WAS ONE OF MY GOALS TO GET DONE. AND I'M SO PROUD OF OUR 
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STAFF. Y'ALL HAVE DONE BLOOD, SWEAT AND TEARS AND WE'VE HAD NUMEROUS, NUMEROUS MEETINGS. THE CITIZENS CAME OUT AND A GREAT MAJORITY OF THEM TO HELP ON THE PLANNING OF THIS, AND I'M READY TO GET THIS BALL ROLLING. BUT WITH THAT SAID, I'D LIKE TO CLOSE THE PUBLIC HEARING. SO POINT OF ORDER HERE. I OVERLOOKED THE SPOT WHERE I OPENED THE PUBLIC HEARING FOR THE PUBLIC HEARING IS OPEN. IF THERE'S ANYBODY IN THE IN THE IN THE AUDIENCE WHO WOULD LIKE TO MAKE A COMMENT. THANK YOU. NOW WE'LL ENTERTAIN A MOTION TO CLOSE THE PUBLIC HEARING. I MOVE TO CLOSE THE PUBLIC SECOND, ENTHUSIASTICALLY. SECOND. THAT MOTION. OKAY. COUNCIL. PLEASE VOTE. I ASSUME I'M NOT VOTING HERE. RIGHT? YOU CAN VOTE, I CAN VOTE. FANTASTIC. OKAY. MOTION PASSES SIX ZERO. ABSOLUTELY. PLEASE DO. I WANTED TO JUST MAKE ONE COMMENT. I KNOW THAT ALL OF COUNCIL HAS BEEN IN GREAT SUPPORT OF THIS, BUT I DO WANT TO THANK COUNCIL MEMBER JONES IN PARTICULAR. THIS WAS I REMEMBER FIRST COMING TO THE CITY MANAGER'S OFFICE, YOU KNOW, A LONG, LONG TIME AGO. AND BRANDON JONES WAS THE ONE WHO BASICALLY WAS LIKE, WE GOT TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT BUSINESS. 121 AND SO PUTTING THIS IN FRONT OF YOU GUYS BUDGET WISE, WAS DIRECTLY RELATED TO THAT REQUEST YEARS PRIOR. WE JUST GOT THE CAPACITY TO BE ABLE TO DO IT IN THIS IN THIS LAST YEAR. SO I WANTED TO THANK COUNCILMAN JONES. THANK YOU, THANK YOU. WELL, THANK THANK THE STAFF BECAUSE THE STAFF DID ALL THE HEAVY LIFTING ON THIS. THIS WAS SOMETHING BECAUSE WHEN I, WHEN I WAS ON ACTUALLY ON PNC AND GOT ON COUNCIL, IT WAS ONE OF THE THINGS LIKE WE WERE LIKE, GOTTA GET OLD TOWN, GOOD GUY, GET OLD TOWN TOGETHER. AND IT WAS, IT WAS A, IT WAS BASICALLY A ROLLING A BOULDER UPHILL. AND I LOOKED I'M LIKE, WELL IT'S STARTING TO COME OVER THE TOP. WE NEED TO THINK ABOUT BUSINESS. 121 TWO AND SO I JUST THANK THE STAFF FOR THEIR EFFORT. AND SORRY IF I DROVE YOU GUYS CRAZY OVER THE YEARS. BUT YOU KNOW, WE'RE GETTING IT GOING. NOBODY'S HAPPIER TO SEE THIS THAN ME. AND I MOVE WITH THAT. IF THERE ARE NO ANYTHING ELSE I'LL MAKE A MOTION TO APPROVE THE MOTION. I SECOND, SECOND, SECOND. OH, YES. 
          MOTION PASSES SIX ZERO. ALL RIGHT. IT'S OKAY TO CLAP. IT'S WORTH APPLAUSE. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. OKAY, NOW TO THE PUBLIC. HEARING IS NOW OPEN. ITEM TWO PUBLIC HEARING. CONSIDERATION OF A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF LEWISVILLE, TEXAS, CERTIFYING. AND I'M SORRY, I'M GONNA START OVER AGAIN. CONSIDERATION OF RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF LEWISVILLE, TEXAS. CERTIFYING THE CITY OF LEWISVILLE IS ELIGIBLE TO RECEIVE GRANT ASSISTANCE. ACCEPTING A GRANT AWARD FROM THE TEXAS PARKS AND WILDLIFE DEPARTMENT, DESIGNATING THE DIRECTOR OF PARKS AND RECREATION TO ACT ON BEHALF OF THE CITY OF LEWISVILLE RELATING TO THE GRANT AWARD AND PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE. LEWISVILLE PARKS AND RECREATION DEPARTMENT SEEKS APPROVAL TO SUBMIT A GRANT APPLICATION TO THE TEXAS PARKS AND WILDLIFE DEPARTMENT TO KPD TO PARTICIPATE IN THE BOAT ACCESS GRANT PROGRAM TO REDESIGN AND CONSTRUCT BOAT RAMP NUMBER TWO. THE GRANT PROVIDES 75% MATCHING FUNDS FOR THE PLANNING AND CONSTRUCTION OF PUBLIC BOAT RAMP FACILITIES. MATCHING FUNDS ARE AVAILABLE AND HAVE BEEN EARMARKED WITHIN CITY CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS. FUNDS. STAFF IS WORKING WITH HALF ASSOCIATES TO PREPARE A GRANT APPLICATION THAT WILL MAXIMIZE SCORING OPPORTUNITIES. IN THIS APPLICATION, IT'S RECOMMENDED THAT THE CITY COUNCIL APPROVE THIS RESOLUTION AS SET FORTH IN THE CAPTION CITY SECRETARY, DO WE HAVE ANY COMMENT CARDS? YES. THANK YOU. COUNCIL. ANY QUESTIONS? THANK YOU. I DID OPEN THE PUBLIC HEARING. I DID THIS TIME. YEAH. THANK YOU, COUNCILWOMAN GREEN. KEEP ME STRAIGHT. THANK YOU. YEP. WELL, IF THERE'S NO DISCUSSION, NO QUESTIONS, COMMENTS, DISCUSSION. OKAY. ALL RIGHT. MOTION TO CLOSE PUBLIC HEARING. I WILL MOVE TO CLOSE THE PUBLIC HEARING A SECOND. SECOND. OKAY. VOTE, PLEASE. PASSES SIX ZERO. ITEM D VISITORS FORM. THAT WAS JUST CLOSED. OH I'M SORRY, I'M SORRY. OKAY. THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU. MOTION SECONDED. OKAY. LET'S VOTE. MOVE TO APPROVE THE DESIGNATION AS SET FORTH IN THE SECOND. SECONDED BY BRANDON JONES. PLEASE VOTE. MOTION PASSES SIX ZERO. NOW, I'D LIKE TO THANK COUNCIL FOR HELPING ME UP HERE. THIS IS MY FIRST TIME DOING THIS. THANK YOU 
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SO MUCH FOR STAFF AND COUNCIL FOR KEEPING ME STRAIGHT HERE. YOU'RE DOING A GREAT JOB. 
          [D. Visitors Forum]
VISITOR FORUM ITEM D SPEAKERS MUST ADDRESS THEIR COMMENTS TO THE MAYOR RATHER THAN INDIVIDUAL COUNCIL MEMBERS OR STAFF. SPEAKERS SHOULD SPEAK CLEARLY AND STATE THAT THEIR NAME AND ADDRESS PRIOR TO THE BEGINNING. PRIOR TO BEGINNING THEIR REMARKS, SPEAKERS WILL BE ALLOWED FIVE MINUTES FOR TESTIMONY, SPEAKERS MAKING A PERSONAL, IMPERTINENT, PROFANE, OR SLANDEROUS REMARKS MAY BE REMOVED FROM THE MEETING. UNAUTHORIZED REMARKS FROM THE AUDIENCE, STAMPING OF FEET, WHISTLES, YELLS, CLAPPING, OR SIMILAR DEMONSTRATIONS WILL NOT BE PERMITTED. IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE TEXAS OPEN MEETINGS ACT, THE CITY COUNCIL IS RESTRICTED FROM DISCUSSING OR TAKING ANY ACTION ON ITEMS NOT LISTED ON THE AGENDA. ACTION CAN ONLY BE TAKEN AT A FUTURE MEETING. MY UNDERSTANDING IS WE HAVE ONE SPEAKER CARD. MR. JENKINS, YOU HAVE OPTED TO NOT NOT SPEAK. IS THAT ACCURATE? ARE YOU STILL WITH US? YEAH. HE LEFT. OKAY. 
          [E. Consent Agenda]
FANTASTIC. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU. I'M HERE. OKAY WITH THAT? I GUESS WE MOVE ON TO CONSENT AGENDA. ALL THE FOLLOWING ITEMS ON THE COUNCIL ON THE CONSENT AGENDA ARE CONSIDERED TO BE SELF-EXPLANATORY BY THE COUNCIL, AND WILL BE ENACTED WITH ONE MOTION. THERE WILL BE NO SEPARATE DISCUSSION OF THESE ITEMS UNLESS A COUNCIL MEMBER OR MEMBER OF THE PUBLIC. SO REQUEST A MEMBER OF THE PUBLIC TO REQUEST REMOVAL OF AN ITEM. A SPEAKER, CARD OR COMMENT MUST BE FILLED OUT AND SUBMITTED TO THE CITY SECRETARY. CITY SECRETARY. ARE THERE ANY COMMENT CARDS? NO THANK YOU. OKAY. WE NEED A MOTION TO APPROVE THE CONSENT AGENDA. MOTION TO APPROVE THE CONSENT AGENDA. WE HAVE A SECOND. SECOND. PLEASE VOTE. MOTION PASSES 6060. ITEM F 
          [F. Regular Hearing]
REGULAR HEARING 11. CONSIDERATION OF AN ORDINANCE AMENDING THE FEE SCHEDULE OF THE CITY OF LEWISVILLE BY AMENDING FEES RELATED TO SOLID WASTE AND RECYCLING SERVICES, AND PRESENTATION RELATED TO IMPLEMENTATION OF SOLID WASTE CHANGES CITYWIDE, CITYWIDE. THE CITY COUNCIL APPROVED AN EXCLUSIVE FRANCHISE AGREEMENT FOR SOLID WASTE AND RECYCLING COLLECTION AND DISPOSAL WITH REPUBLIC SERVICES FOR LEGACY LEWISVILLE THAT BECAME EFFECTIVE JANUARY 1ST, 2021. FOLLOWING THE ANNEXATION OF CASTLE HILLS AREA, THE CITY ASSUMED AN EXCLUSIVE FRANCHISE AGREEMENT FOR RESIDENTIAL SOLID WASTE AND RECYCLING COLLECTION AND DISPOSAL WITH COMMUNITY WASTE DISPOSAL. CW CITY COUNCIL DIRECTED STAFF TO TRANSITION SOLID WASTE AND RECYCLING COLLECTION FOR THE CASTLE HILLS AREA TO REPUBLIC SERVICES. 
          EXCLUSIVE FRANCHISE AGREEMENT, MAKING THE SERVICE CONSISTENT THROUGHOUT LEWISVILLE. THE CW CONTRACT IS SET TO EXPIRE ON JANUARY 31ST, 2025, AT WHICH POINT REPUBLIC WILL ASSUME ALL SOLID WASTE AND RECYCLING COLLECTION AND DISPOSAL AS OUTLINED IN THE CURRENT EXCLUSIVE FRANCHISE CONTRACT. THIS ORDINANCE WILL REMOVE THE SOLID WASTE AND RECYCLING FEES SPECIFIC TO THE PREVIOUSLY ANNEXED AREA OF LEWISVILLE, SERVED BY CW. D STAFF HAS NEGOTIATED A TRANSITION PLAN WITH CW AND REPUBLIC THAT CONSIDERS CHALLENGES FOR BOTH CUSTOMERS AND PROVIDES PROVIDERS IN THE CASTLE HILLS AREA. IT'S RECOMMENDED THE CITY STAFF APPROVE THE ORDINANCE AS SET FORTH IN THE CAPTION. I'D LIKE TO CALL DIRECTOR PUBLIC SERVICES AARON RUSSELL TO GIVE A PRESENTATION. THANK YOU. THANK YOU, MAYOR PRO TEM. GOOD EVENING, MAYOR PRO TEM AND COUNCIL. SO AS YOU READ INTO THE RECORD, WE HAVE, WE'RE IN THE MIDDLE OF A TRANSITION FROM BRINGING IT, CONSOLIDATING THE SOLID WASTE AND RECYCLING SERVICE, ALL UNDER REPUBLIC SERVICES. SO I JUST WANTED TO GIVE YOU A QUICK OVERVIEW OF THE EFFORTS THAT STAFF HAS MADE TO LEADING UP TO THIS MOMENT. SO AS YOU AS YOU ARE AWARE, A LITTLE OVER A YEAR AGO, COUNCIL WAS PRESENTED SEVERAL OPTIONS WITH RESPECT TO THIS TRANSITION. 
          OPTION THREE WAS THE OPTION THAT WAS PREFERRED BY CITY COUNCIL, WHICH INCLUDED CONSOLIDATING THAT SERVICE UNDER REPUBLIC SERVICES. SO THAT MAKES ALL OF EVERYONE'S COLLECTION ONCE A WEEK. WHERE PREVIOUSLY CASTLE HILLS WAS TWICE A WEEK. THE OTHER PART TO THAT OPTION THAT IS RELEVANT IS A REROUTING OF A GOOD PORTION OF THE CITY TO MAKE THE DIFFERENT ZONES HAVE EVEN DISTRIBUTION. AND THE REASON THAT'S IMPORTANT IS WE DON'T WANT TO HAVE A REALLY HEAVY ZONE WHERE THEY'RE WORKING LATE INTO THE NIGHT AND THEN HAVING A LIGHT ZONE THE NEXT DAY. SO WHEN YOU HAVE EVEN DISTRIBUTION, IT JUST MAKES IT MORE EFFICIENT AND REALLY IMPROVES THE SERVICE TO THE CUSTOMERS. SO THIS IS A SLIDE THAT WAS PRESENTED AS PART OF THE OPTIONS. YOU CAN SEE IN THE PURPLE THIS THIS IS THE PARTS OF THE CITY THAT ARE AFFECTED. ALL OF CASTLE HILLS OF COURSE IS AFFECTED BECAUSE THEY'RE TRANSITIONING FROM CW SERVICE TO REPUBLIC SERVICE. BUT IN ADDITION TO THAT, 31% OF CURRENT REPUBLIC CUSTOMERS WILL HAVE THEIR SCHEDULE CHANGED. SO BECAUSE OF THAT, STAFF HAS HAD A FAIRLY ROBUST COMMUNICATION CAMPAIGN TO GET THE WORD OUT AND MAKE SURE THAT THE CUSTOMERS KNOW THAT THE CHANGE IS HAPPENING. SO JUST TO REVIEW THAT IN NOVEMBER, WE STARTED WITH A MEDIA RELEASE. WE HAD AN ARTICLE IN THE E! HORIZONS NEWSLETTER, AND THEN WE RAMPED THAT UP IN DECEMBER WITH WEEKLY SOCIAL MEDIA POSTS. WE ADDED 
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SOME VIDEOS, SOME SHORT VIDEOS TO THAT AS WELL, AND THEN ADDITIONAL NEWSLETTERS AND AN INFORMATIONAL PAMPHLET. WE BASICALLY CONTINUED THAT IN JANUARY, BUT THEN WE'RE ADDING ANOTHER A EVERBRIDGE CALL, WHICH IS A CALL WHICH WILL BE A CALL TO ALL OF OUR CUSTOMERS THAT ARE IN OUR DATABASE ON JANUARY 29TH. THAT WILL INCLUDE THE PERTINENT INFORMATION. SO WE'RE REALLY TRYING TO HIT HIT IT FROM ALL DIFFERENT ANGLES, THOSE THAT THAT WANT TO READ IT, THOSE THAT WANT TO WATCH THINGS IN VIDEOS. AND THEN WE'RE ALSO GIVING THEM A PHONE CALL AS WELL. SO MORE PARTICULAR IN THE DIGITAL AND THE SOCIAL MEDIA AREA, WE USE NEXTDOOR, FACEBOOK AND INSTAGRAM. WE ALSO MADE REALLY GOOD USE OF OUR WEBSITE AS WELL. WE HAVE AN INTERACTIVE MAP THAT I'M GOING TO SHOW YOU THAT THAT MAP AT THE END OF THE PRESENTATION, WHERE YOU CAN LOOK UP YOUR PARTICULAR ADDRESS TO SEE WHAT ZONE YOU'RE IN. AND THEN, LIKE I MENTIONED, WE HAD DIRECT ACCESS THROUGH MAILERS AND WE'LL HAVE THAT CALL THROUGH EVERBRIDGE. SO MOVING FORWARD WE'VE GOT A BUSY WEEK THIS WEEK. SO THE NEW SERVICE DOES START FEBRUARY 3RD. THIS WEEK WE ARE TRADING OUT CARTS. SO THE NEW CARTS ARE BEING DELIVERED IN CASTLE HILLS. I WAS TOLD EARLIER THIS EVENING THAT THEY DELIVERED ABOUT 2000 CARTS TODAY, SO THEY STARTED THAT WORK TODAY. THEY'LL CONTINUE THROUGH THIS WEEK. SO BASICALLY REPUBLIC IS DELIVERING THE NEW REPUBLIC CARTS IN CASTLE HILLS. THE CASTLE HILLS RESIDENTS WILL BE ABLE TO SET OUT THEIR THEIR GARBAGE CART WITH THEIR GARBAGE. WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY THROUGH THE MONTH OF FEBRUARY, WE DON'T WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY UNDERSTAND THAT IT NEEDS TO BE EMPTY, AND THEN REPUBLIC WILL ACTUALLY PICK THAT CART UP THE RECYCLING CART THAT IS OWNED BY CW WILL BE COLLECTED WITH THEIR FINAL COLLECTION THIS WEEK. SO ALL THE CW CARTS WILL GO AWAY THIS WEEK. WELL, THE RECYCLING CARTS WILL GO AWAY AND THE NEW REPUBLIC CARTS WILL BE DELIVERED. AND THEN THE OLD CW GARBAGE CARTS CAN BE PICKED UP THROUGH FEBRUARY. THEY CAN START SETTING THEM UP NOW, BUT THEY'RE GOING TO CONTINUE THAT SERVICE THROUGH FEBRUARY. SO WITH THAT, I'LL JUST SKIP OVER HERE. HAVE A LOOK AT THE WEBSITE. IT'S REALLY SIMPLE. SO THIS IS FROM OUR WEBSITE. AND YOU CAN SEE THE DIFFERENT DAYS OF THE WEEK FOR COLLECTION. IF YOU GO IN THE UPPER RIGHT HAND CORNER HERE, YOU CAN TYPE IN YOUR ADDRESS. IT SHOULD VALIDATE FIND ACTUAL ADDRESSES. YOU CLICK ON ONE. IT WILL ZOOM INTO YOUR ADDRESS, SHOW YOU WHERE THAT IS, AND THEN YOU KNOW WHICH ZONE YOU'RE IN. 
          SO FAIRLY SIMPLE PROCESS. AND WE WILL BE DIRECTING PEOPLE WITH THE CALL TO EVERBRIDGE CALL. WE WANT TO DIRECT THEM TO THIS WEBSITE SO THEY CAN LOOK THAT UP. WITH THAT, I'D BE HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS. COUNCIL QUESTIONS. CONCERNS. THOUGHTS. SO I HAVE A COUPLE OF THINGS HERE ON MY MIND. SO FIRST OFF, IN ADDITION TO THE GREAT JOB THAT THE CITY HAS DONE BY PUTTING THE WORD OUT, I'VE SEEN REPOSTS BY CITIZENS ACTUALLY HELPING GET THE WORD OUT AS WELL. SO WE'VE HAD CITIZENS ENGAGEMENT WHO'VE REPOSTED NEWS STORIES. THE VIDEO I SAW AT LEAST ONE VIDEO THAT WAS ACTUALLY ENTERTAINING TO WATCH, AND I SAW PEOPLE REPOST THAT AS WELL. SO THAT WAS VERY NICELY DONE. THE FOR CLARITY, IF YOU HAD PURCHASED, YOU CAN PURCHASE ANOTHER TRASH CAN IF YOU WANTED TO. RIGHT? YES. SO IF YOU HAD CONCERNS THAT ONCE A WEEK WAS GOING TO OVERFLOW YOUR TRASH CAN, YOU CAN PURCHASE A SECOND CART THAT'S AVAILABLE. IF YOU HAD PURCHASED A SECOND CART THROUGH CDD, YOU WILL HAVE TO PURCHASE ANOTHER SECOND CART THROUGH PUBLIC. UNFORTUNATELY, THAT IS CORRECT. I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE ON THAT. THAT'S EVERYTHING I HAVE. SO WE NEED A MOTION. COUNCILWOMAN GREEN, WE NEED A SECOND. I MOVED TO APPROVE THE ORDINANCE AS SET FORTH IN THE CAPTION. SECOND, PLEASE VOTE. OH, I AM SO SORRY. 
          YES, THIS IS A LITTLE BIT CITY ATTORNEY. WOULD YOU PLEASE READ? THIS IS AN ORDINANCE OF THE LOUISVILLE CITY COUNCIL AMENDING THE FEE SCHEDULE OF THE CITY OF LOUISVILLE BY AMENDING FEES RELATED TO SOLID WASTE AND RECYCLING SERVICES, PROVIDING REPEALER SEVERABILITY AND AN EFFECTIVE DATE, AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY. OKAY. PLEASE VOTE. MOTION PASSES SIX ZERO. OKAY. 
          [G. Reports]
REPORTS ITEM G REPORTS ABOUT ITEMS OF COMMUNITY INTEREST REGARDING WHICH NO ACTION WILL BE TAKEN. WE WILL START WITH. WE'LL START WITH COUNCILMAN MEREDITH, PLEASE. OKAY. MAYOR PRO TEM, I HAVE SOME LIBRARY ACTIVITIES FOR THE WEEK. CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP FOR ADULTS. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 29TH, 630 TO 730 AT THE CRAWFORD MEETING ROOM. REGISTRATION IS 
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REQUIRED. VITA. INCOME TAX PREPARATION FOR ADULTS EVERY THURSDAY, JANUARY 30TH THROUGH APRIL 10TH, 4 TO 6:30 P.M. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 1ST THROUGH APRIL 12TH, 9:30 A.M. TO 1 P.M. 
          AT THE COMPUTER LAB AND NO REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. THIS IS A PRETTY GOOD SERVICE OFFERED THROUGH THE UNITED WAY, SO I WOULD HIGHLY RECOMMEND SOMEBODY TO TAKE TO USE THIS SERVICE. 
          IT'S A IT'S A GREAT TOOL AND THAT'S ALL I'VE GOT. THANK YOU. I'M UP. I'LL TRY TO TRY TO SPEAK HERE. I HAVE SOME ITEMS FOR THE LOUISVILLE GRAND THEATER FOR THE NEXT MONTH. FIRST, EXCUSE ME FIRST OF ALL. CAPACITANCE. CAPACITANCE PIANO CONCERTO NUMBER FOUR, FEATURING. CHUNG TIEN, PRESENTED BY THE LEWISVILLE LAKE SYMPHONY ON JANUARY 31ST. TEXAS TUNES BRUCE ROBISON, PRESENTED BY THE CITY OF LOUISVILLE ON FEBRUARY THE 8TH. HELLO, DOLLY! PRESENTED BY THE CHRISTIAN YOUTH THEATER OF DFW FEBRUARY 23RD THROUGH THE 20TH FEBRUARY 21ST THROUGH THE 23RD, AND FEBRUARY 28TH THROUGH MARCH 2ND. TWO SHOWS ON FEBRUARY 22ND AND MARCH 1ST. AND AS ALWAYS, ACOUSTIC JAM SESSIONS EVERY FRIDAY NIGHT AT THE PRESENTED BY THE VISUAL ART LEAGUE OF LOUISVILLE. THERE ARE TWO EXHIBITIONS GOING ON. FIRST OF ALL, 2025 FOR ARTISTS EXHIBITION NAM, BRUNO, LEE AND LEE, PRESENTED BY THE CITY OF LOUISVILLE THROUGH MARCH 4TH AND STRICTLY ABSTRACT EXHIBITION PRESENTED BY THE VISUAL ART LEAGUE OF LOUISVILLE THROUGH FEBRUARY 1ST. AND THAT'S MY REPORT. THANK YOU, CITY ATTORNEY. SECRETARY. I DO HAVE AN INFORMATIONAL ITEM. OUR CONTRACTOR, ACCESS CONSTRUCTION, IS GOING TO BEGIN CONSTRUCTION ON WEST COLLEGE STREET IN MID-MARCH. I MEAN, MID FEBRUARY. AND SO TOMORROW EVENING IN THIS ROOM, WE'RE GOING TO BE HAVING A RESIDENT MEETING FOR THE PEOPLE WHO WILL BE DIRECTLY AFFECTED BY THAT CONSTRUCTION. THANK YOU FOR LAKE LEVEL. I DO HAVE THE LAKE LEVEL, 89.3% FULL, 519.7FT. 3.81 GREEN. I JUST WANTED TO SAY REALLY QUICKLY, I GUESS, WAS THAT LAST WEEK WE HAD THE CLEANUP OUT OF AT THE CHAMPION MACEDONIA CEMETERY FOR MLK DAY. IT WAS FREEZING OUT THERE. THIS IS THE FIRST TIME I WAS MY SCHEDULE ALLOWED ME TO GO, AND I WAS A LITTLE NERVOUS ABOUT IT BECAUSE I THOUGHT IT'S GOING TO. I MEAN, IT WAS GOING TO BE 20 DEGREES, BUT WE WENT OUT THERE, WE DID A LOT OF HARD WORK, AND I SAW SOME OF THE PICTURES OF WHAT IT LOOKED LIKE THREE YEARS AGO. 
          SO, YOU KNOW, THAT JUST THE HUGE DIFFERENCE THAT'S BEING MADE IN THE COMMUNITY. BUT THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE, THERE WERE ALL SORTS OF DIFFERENT GROUPS THERE. IT WAS SO REFRESHING AND HEARTWARMING TO SEE ALL SORTS OF DIFFERENT GROUPS OF PEOPLE COMING TOGETHER TO REALLY JUST DO SOMETHING GOOD FOR THE COMMUNITY AND PRESERVING OUR HISTORY. AND IT WAS JUST A REAL HONOR TO BE PART OF THAT. I WANTED TO SAY THANK YOU TO THE PEOPLE WHO ORGANIZED THAT EVENT. IT WAS VERY, VERY GOOD AND DEFINITELY WORTH THE ALLERGY FLARE UP THAT I GOT AFTERWARD FROM ALL THE POLLEN THAT WAS OUT THERE, BUT I BELIEVE THEY'RE GOING TO BE DOING IT AGAIN NEXT YEAR. GO. IT'S TOTALLY WORTH IT. 
          THAT'S ALL I HAVE. SO YEAH, THAT WAS JACKIE SHAW AND HER VOLUNTEERS FROM WESTSIDE BAPTIST CHURCH THAT PUT THAT TOGETHER. I'M LIKE, YOU MADE ME THINK OF THAT FIRST YEAR, BECAUSE I REMEMBER PATRICK CAME OUT WITH A SHORT SLEEVED SHIRT AND HE PAID THE PRICE HE GAVE. HE GAVE UP A LOT OF BLOOD AND SWEAT ON THAT. ON THAT ONE. I JUST WANT TO DOUBLE DOWN ON THE VOLUNTEER TAX IF YOU IF YOU'RE IN NEED OF THAT. I GREW UP IN COLLEGE DOING THAT AS AN ACCOUNTANT AND DID IT AFTERWARDS. IT'S A GREAT PROGRAM. IF YOU DON'T PAY ANYTHING, THEY FILE YOUR TAXES FOR YOU. IT'S A GREAT EVENT. AND THEY MOVED UP BECAUSE IT WAS ONE DAY A WEEK LAST YEAR. AND SO 
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MAKE SURE YOU TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THAT. SO WE IF WE NEED THAT HELP, WE CAN GET MORE HELP NEXT YEAR FROM FROM UNITED WAY. AND THAT'S ALL I HAVE. GREAT SEGUE INTO THE UNITED WAY. WHAT AN AWESOME WEEKEND. GOOD. WE DON'T KNOW THE FULL NUMBERS YET, BUT I UNDERSTAND WE'RE LIKE 11% OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT OVER LAST YEAR'S. SO THAT IS AWESOME. AND I THANK YOU TO EVERYBODY THAT CAME OUT AND THOSE THAT VOLUNTEERED. IT WAS IT WAS A IT WAS A GREAT NIGHT TO BE HAD A LITTLE TIRESOME. BUT THAT'S OKAY. YOU DID GREAT. PATRICK I'D LIKE TO SAY THAT TODAY IS JANUARY 27TH AND THE UNITED NATIONS GENERAL ASSEMBLY DESIGNATED THIS DAY THE ANNIVERSARY OF THE LIBERATION OF AUSCHWITZ, AS THE INTERNATIONAL HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE DAY. IT'S A TIME TO REMEMBER THE 6 MILLION. PROBABLY PLUS JEWISH VICTIMS OF THE HOLOCAUST AND THE MILLIONS OF OTHER VICTIMS OF NAZI PERSECUTION DURING THAT TIME. AND I WOULD SAY, AND LET'S GO AHEAD AND REMEMBER THE PERSECUTION OF THE JEWISH COMMUNITY WORLDWIDE TODAY, BECAUSE IT IS STILL RUNNING RAMPANT. AND FOR SOME REASON, IT JUST SEEMS LIKE THAT FIRE IS SPREADING AND I DON'T UNDERSTAND IT. HUMANITY COMES A LONG WAY. YOU CUT US, WE ALL BLEED RED, SO IT MAKES NO SENSE. SO I'D LIKE FOR US TO REMEMBER THAT DAY AND EVENTUALLY GET A PROCLAMATION, IF WE CAN. ON THAT. YEAH, ABSOLUTELY. THANK YOU. COUNCILWOMAN GREEN CITY MANAGER. 
          SO REAL QUICK. SO I WANT TO SECOND THE DANCING WITH THE STARS OR DANCING WITH OUR STARS, I GUESS IS WHAT IS CALLED FOR COPYRIGHT REASONS. THAT WAS A LOT OF FUN FOR THOSE WHO CAME OUT. WE'RE TRYING TO FRANTICALLY NOMINATE SOME PEOPLE PROVING KIND OF HARD. WE'RE GOING TO NOMINATE SOME PEOPLE NEXT YEAR AND IT'S WELL WORTH THE EFFORT GUYS. SO PLEASE, IF YOU GET TAPPED ON THE SHOULDER, CONSIDER CONSIDER DOING IT. I ALSO WANT TO TAKE A QUICK, QUICK MINUTE HERE TO REMIND EVERYBODY IT'S OUR CENTENNIAL. IT'S OUR IT'S OUR IT'S ALL YEAR 100TH YEAR ANNIVERSARY BIRTHDAY OF LEWISVILLE TEXAS OUR GREAT CITY GO OUT TO LEWISVILLE TEXAS 100.COM. YOU WILL SEE A LIST OF ALL THE EVENTS HAPPENING, EVEN THE EVENTS THAT WE ALWAYS DO. 
          THERE'S SPECIAL THINGS GOING ON IN THERE. JUST SO MUCH HAPPENING IN THE CITY RIGHT NOW. IT'S A GREAT TIME TO BE PART OF LEWISVILLE. AND AGAIN, I WANT TO SAY THIS CLOSE TO EVERY EVERY MEETING FOR THIS YEAR. LIVE IN YOUR CITY, DON'T EXIST IN YOUR CITY. THANK YOU SO MUCH. OKAY. 
          WITH THAT? I GUESS WE WILL. WE DON'T HAVE ANY CLOSED SESSION. WE'RE NOT RETURNING TO WORKSHOP AND I GUESS WE'RE ADJOURNED. IS THAT RIGHT? YEAH. DO WE NEED A MOTION FOR THAT OR ANYTHING? NO. 
          ALL RIGHT. CA
* This transcript was compiled from uncorrected Closed Captioning.