Jul 17, 2023 City Council

B, REVIEW AND DISCUSS THE 20 21 20 22 ANNUAL COMPREHENSIVE FINANCIAL REPORT PRESENTATION.

THANK YOU, MAYOR.

WE ARE NOT IN RECEIPT OF ANY PUBLIC COMMENT CARDS IN ADVANCE OF THE 5:00 PM DEADLINE.

AND, UH, I LIKE OVER TO OUR CITY SECRETARY TO SEE IF WE HAVE ANY SPEAKERS.

NO SPEAKERS, MAYOR.

ALL RIGHT.

LET'S GO TO ITEM

[B. REVIEW AND DISCUSS THE 2021-2022 ANNUAL COMPREHENSIVE FINANCIAL REPORT (ACFR) PRESENTATION]

THANK YOU, MAYOR.

MAYOR AND COUNCIL AT, UH, UH, FOUR 30 THIS AFTERNOON.

UH, YOUR AUDIT COMMITTEE MET TO, UH, RECEIVE A REPORT FROM CROW.

UH, UH, KEVIN SMITH AND MICHELLE BUSS ARE HERE WITH US TO, UH, NOW PRESENT THAT REPORT TO THE WHOLE COUNCIL.

AND I WANT TO, KEVIN, I WANNA THANK YOU AND MICHELLE FOR YOUR WORK THIS PAST YEAR.

I KNOW WORKING IN CONJUNCTION WITH OUR TEAM, VERY CHALLENGING YEAR, AND I APPRECIATE ALL THE, UH, EFFORT THAT YOU PUT INTO GETTING US HERE TONIGHT.

I'LL TURN IT OVER TO YOU FOR FURTHER BRIEFING.

IS IT SUPPOSED TO TURN GREEN OR ANYTHING? NO.

UM, IT IS A PLEASURE TO BE HERE TODAY AND, AND AS CITY MANAGER SAID, SOMEWHAT OF A CHALLENGING AUDIT IN THE CURRENT YEAR.

UM, AND I HIGHLIGHT THAT BECAUSE TYPICALLY AUDITS ARE ALWAYS CHALLENGING.

UM, BUT THE CITY OF RICHARDSON HAS ALWAYS BEEN ONE OF THE FIRST, UM, ANNUAL COMPREHENSIVE FINANCIAL REPORTS THAT WE ISSUE ON AN ANNUAL BASIS.

FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO ARE KEEPING KIND OF TRACK WITHIN YOUR CALENDAR, YOU'LL NOTE THAT THIS YEAR HAD HAD SUFFERED A FEW DELAYS.

UH, WHEN I THINK ABOUT KIND OF A PERFECT STORM BETWEEN IMPLEMENTING OF A NEW FINANCIAL SYSTEM, A FIRE, UH, A GA, A NEW GA S B STANDARD, AND A VARIETY OF OTHER THINGS, IT'S REALLY A TESTAMENT TO THE STAFF, THE POLICIES AND PROCEDURES THAT YOU HAVE IN PLACE THAT ALLOWS ME TO BE HERE MID-JULY, UM, TO REPORT WE HAVE ISSUED AN UNMODIFIED OPINION UPON THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS.

THAT'S THE HIGHEST LEVEL OF ASSURANCE THAT WE CAN PROVIDE.

IT MEANS THAT THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS ARE, ARE PREPARED IN ACCORDANCE WITH GENERALLY ACCEPTED ACCOUNTING PRINCIPLES, AS WELL AS SUPPORTED BY THE BOOKS AND THE UNDERLYING BOOKS AND RECORDS OF THE CITY.

WE ALSO PERFORMED AN ENGAGE OR AN AUDIT OF THE FEDERAL FUNDS RECEIVED FOR THE FISCAL YEAR, UH, WHERE WE TESTED TWO MAJOR PROGRAMS OF FEDERAL FUNDING.

WE TESTED BOTH INTERNAL CONTROL AND COMPLIANCE AROUND THOSE PROGRAMS, AND AGAIN, ISSUED AN UNMODIFIED OPINION WITHOUT ANY ISSUES NOTED.

AS IT, AS IT RELATES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS, I'M REQUIRED TO SHARE TWO THINGS.

WE NOTED NO, UM, NO ADJUSTMENTS RECORDED TO THE UNDERLYING BOOKS AND RECORDS TO ARRIVE AT THAT UNMODIFIED OPINION.

HOWEVER, AS IT RELATES TO INTERNAL CONTROL, WE DID NOTE TWO ITEMS THAT HAVE BEEN COMMUNICATED TO MANAGEMENT AS WELL AS THE FINANCE AND AUDIT COMMITTEE, AND HAD ROBUST DISCUSSION RELATED TO THOSE FINDINGS, AS WELL AS JUST AS IMPORTANTLY, MANAGEMENT'S UM, RESPONSE AND ACTION PLAN.

I BELIEVE THAT THE FINANCE AUDIT COMMITTEE HAS FULFILLED THEIR FIDUCIARY RESPONSIBILITIES.

UH, AND AGAIN, HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS THAT AS IT RELATES TO THE FINANCE OR TO THE AUDIT.

THANK YOU, KEVIN.

WE APPRECIATE YOUR OVERVIEW.

UM, IT WAS A LITTLE DIFFERENT BECAUSE WE DID NOT HAVE A QUORUM FOR OUR MEETING THIS AFTERNOON, SO WE HAD TO, INSTEAD OF GOING WITH THE BACK, THE PAST CHAIRMAN RUNNING THE MEETING, WE HAD TO GO WITH A CURRENT QUORUM, WHICH PROVIDED THE NEW COUNCIL MEMBERS.

SO THIS WAS THE FIRST TIME THAT THEY HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO DO THAT.

CURTIS DORIAN WAS, UM, THE MAN OF THE I R HE STEPPED UP AND, UH, BECAME THE TEMPORARY CHAIRMAN.

AND WE'LL LET CURTIS, UH, MAKE A FEW COMMENTS IF YOU WOULD AT THIS TIME, PLEASE.

IT WAS A VERY PRODUCTIVE MEETING.

UM, ACTUALLY, I'VE, UM, AND, AND THANK YOU, THANK YOU ALL FOR, UM, GIVING US AN OVERVIEW ON THIS TONIGHT.

IT WAS VERY, VERY HELPFUL AND, UH, EDUCATIONAL AND BROUGHT US UP TO DATE ON YOUR FINDINGS.

I UNDERSTAND THAT, UH, DURING THE PROCESS THAT WERE ONLY TWO ITEMS THAT WERE FOUND, UM, THAT CREATED A SLIGHT DEFICIENCY, WHICH I THINK YOU'VE COVERED THOSE TONIGHT, SO I APPRECIATE THAT.

UM, I DON'T BELIEVE WE HAD A LOT OF QUESTIONS.

I, I THINK, UH, COUNCILMAN, UM, BARRIOS HAD SOME QUESTIONS ON SOME OF THE DELIVERY AND THE PROCESSES, AND I THINK THAT WE HAD THAT EXPLAINED IN DETAIL.

SO I APPRECIATE THAT VERY MUCH AND, AND ALSO APPRECIATE THE PACKAGE.

UH, Y'ALL DID A VERY NICE JOB IN DELIVERING THIS INFORMATION, SO IT'LL GIVE US AN OPPORTUNITY TO REVIEW IT AND PREPARE FOR THE UPCOMING BUDGET.

ALRIGHT, NOT SEEING ANY, I WILL JUST ADD ONE THING REAL QUICK.

ANYBODY ELSE HAVE COMMENTS OR QUESTIONS FOR KEVIN?

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FROM MY PERSPECTIVE, UM, THE AUDIT WENT VERY, VERY WELL CONSIDERING THE SHORTAGE OF STAFF, CONSIDERING THE EMERGENCY TYPE SCENARIOS WE HAD TO FACE WITH A FIRE AND BEING OUT OF THE BUILDING, CHANGING SOFTWARE AND SYSTEMS AND THINGS OF THAT NATURE.

AND THOSE WERE DUE NOTED, BUT I WANT TO COMPLIMENT OUR STAFF ON THE DUE DILIGENCE WHERE WE FELL A LITTLE BIT SHORT WAS NOT AN ERROR OR A, A FAILURE TO DO THINGS PROPERLY.

AND I THINK THAT'S REAL IMPORTANT.

AND ALL OF THE NUMBERS MATCH ALL OF THE NUMBERS ADD UP, WHICH IS THE CRITICAL PIECE.

SO A FEW OF THE PROCEDURE THINGS HAVE BEEN ADDRESSED AND WE ALREADY ARE ON TOP OF THAT BECAUSE WE NOW HAVE A FULL ACCOUNTING STAFF HIRED AND WE SHOULD BE READY TO MOVE FORWARD.

SO I THINK OVERALL IT'S GREAT NEWS.

I REALLY APPRECIATE CROWE.

THANK Y'ALL VERY MUCH FOR YOUR HELP.

AND PLEASE UNDERSTAND THEY ARE A THIRD PARTY.

THERE IS NOT A SCENARIO WHERE THEY'RE WORKING WITH OUR STAFF.

THEY ARE ANALYZING AND PROJECTING AND LOOKING AT IT, THE NUMBERS, AND THEY REPORT THEIR FINDINGS AND THE FINDINGS.

OVERALL, WERE GOOD.

SO THANK Y'ALL VERY MUCH.

IT'S WONDERFUL HAVING Y'ALL AS A TEAM IN THE SENSE THAT WE KNOW WE CAN COUNT ON YOU TO DO IT PROPERLY.

[C. REVIEW AND DISCUSS NATIONAL PARKS AND RECREATION MONTH]

WE'RE GONNA GO TO ITEM C, REVIEW AND DISCUSS NA, DISCUSS NATIONAL PARKS AND RECREATION MONTH.

THE YEAR FOR ALL OF OUR EVENTS.

MAYOR, THANK YOU.

UH, I WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE, UH, IVAN AUGU AND SEAN ROGERS, WHO'S, WHO ARE OUR ASSISTANT DIRECTORS OF PARKS AND REC, BUT WE ALSO HAVE A NUMBER OF FOLKS, UH, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, UH, IN THE AUDIENCE THAT, UH, KEY LEADERSHIP FROM OUR PARKS AND RECREATION DEPARTMENT.

AND THEY'RE ALL HERE BECAUSE SINCE 1985 IN THE MONTH OF JULY, WE'VE, UH, CELEBRATED NATIONAL PARKS AND RECREATION MONTH.

AND SO I WANNA, AGAIN, THANK YOU COUNCIL FOR ALLOWING ME TO INVITE STAFF HERE TO TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE DEPARTMENT, A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE CELEBRATION, BUT FIRST, UH, FIRST AND FOREMOST TO SHOW THEM SOME GRATITUDE FOR THE GOOD WORK THAT THEY DO EACH AND EVERY DAY.

AND SO THANKS FOR BEING HERE.

UH, AND IVAN, I'LL TURN IT OVER TO YOU FURTHER THE BRIEFING.

OKAY, THANK YOU.

THANK YOU MAYOR DUBBY AND COUNCIL FOR HAVING US HERE.

WE'RE REALLY EXCITED TO SHARE WITH YOU A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT OUR PARKS AND RECREATION DEPARTMENT AND NATIONAL PARKS AND RECREATION MONTH.

UM, AND AS DON MENTIONED, WE'VE GOT SOME STAFF HERE THAT WE WANTED TO RECOGNIZE AND JUST THANK FOR BEING HERE.

UM, THESE FOLKS DO SO MUCH HARD WORK EVERY SINGLE DAY THAT IT'S, IT'S GREAT TO HAVE THEM WITH US.

SO TONIGHT WE WILL DISCUSS OUR VARIOUS SPARKS AND RECREATION, UH, TEAMS THAT WE HAVE.

WE'LL LOOK AT THOSE TEAMS KIND OF AT A GLANCE, UM, AND GO OVER A LITTLE MORE DETAIL OF WHAT THE RESPONSIBILITIES ARE FOR EACH OF THOSE TEAMS. I'LL PROVIDE SOME BACKGROUND INFORMATION ON NATIONAL PARKS AND RECREATION MONTH, AND THEN ALSO SHARE WITH YOU SOME CELEBRATION EFFORTS THAT WE'RE GONNA DO TO THE PUBLIC FOR OUR CUSTOMERS, BUT ALSO FOR OUR STAFF.

AND THIS IS A LIST OF ALL OF OUR VARIOUS TEAMS. THESE TEAMS ARE BROKE OUT BY OUR SUPERINTENDENT RESPONSIBILITIES.

UM, WITH THIS WE HAVE SIX DIFFERENT SUPERINTENDENTS.

SO AS YOU SEE THAT, THAT BREAKDOWN, UH, WE WILL GO OVER THOSE AND TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT WHAT THEY ACCOMPLISH EVERY YEAR.

AND I'D LIKE TO START WITH OUR ADMINISTRATION TEAM.

THIS IS A GROUP, IT'S A, A SMALL TEAM OF TWO, UH, THAT ARE DOING ALL OF THIS WORK.

AND I KIND OF CALL THEM OUR UNSUNG HEROES BECAUSE THEY ARE BEHIND THE SCENES.

THEY DO SO MUCH WORK THAT SUPPORTS OUR DEPARTMENT, AND WITHOUT THEM, WE WOULDN'T BE ABLE TO GET HALF OF WHAT WE GET DONE ACCOMPLISHED.

SO THIS TEAM, UM, HAVE MANY OBJECTIVES, BUT I WANTED TO HIGHLIGHT THE, THE LARGER THREE THAT I FEEL ARE, ARE REALLY IMPORTANT.

AND THE FIRST ONE IS CUSTOMER SERVICE.

THEY INTERACT WITH OUR CUSTOMERS THROUGH EMAIL, UH, THROUGH PHONE CALLS, AND THEN ALSO CONCERNS THAT COME IN AND THEY MAKE SURE ALL OF THOSE CONCERNS GET DISTRIBUTED TO THE APPROPRIATE STAFF.

AND THAT RESPONSES ARE GIVEN BACK TO THOSE CUSTOMERS.

SO THERE'S A, A LOOP THAT'S CLOSED EVERY TIME.

UM, THEY ALSO ASSIST IN MANAGING OUR FACEBOOK AND INSTAGRAM ACCOUNTS.

AND WITH THAT, THAT IS PART OF DEALING WITH ANY COMMENTS THAT COME THROUGH OUR POST, ANY DIRECT MESSAGING THAT HAPPENS.

SO MAKING SURE THAT WE RESPOND BACK TO CUSTOMERS THROUGH THAT MEANS, BUT ALSO CREATING ANY GRAPHICS AND HELPING WITH THE CREATION OF THINGS FOR OUR DEPARTMENT, BUT ALSO FOR INDIVIDUAL LOCATIONS AND PROGRAMS, IF YOU WILL.

AND THAT IS A VERY TIME CONSUMING PROCESS.

BUT I PULLED PAULA IN ON THAT TO HELP WITH THE STRATEGY OF WHAT WE'RE

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GONNA DO EACH MONTH.

AND SO BETWEEN PAULA AND OUR COMMUNICATIONS TEAM, WE HAVE A LOT OF INTERACTION AND YOU CAN SEE WHAT OUR FACEBOOK REACH IS AND OUR INSTAGRAM REACH.

SO IT'S PRETTY IMPRESSIVE.

UM, ALONG WITH THAT IS OUR FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT ASPECT.

THIS TEAM HELPS WITH OUR DEPARTMENTAL PAYROLL, OUR, UH, PO AND PURCHASE REQUEST, ALL OF OUR CREDIT CARDS THAT GO THROUGH.

AND AS YOU CAN IMAGINE WITH OUR DEPARTMENT, THERE'S QUITE A FEW.

UM, AND THEN THIS TO TEAM OVERALL JUST SUPPORTS OUR DEPARTMENT.

AND EVERYTHING THAT YOU SEE LISTED ON THIS SLIDE IS AREAS THAT THEY ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR.

AND NEXT IS OUR ATHLETICS GROUP.

ATHLETICS IS ACTUALLY AQUATICS AND ATHLETICS, BUT YOU'LL SEE I'VE BROKEN THIS INTO TWO DIFFERENT SLIDES BECAUSE ONE, THERE'S A LOT THAT THIS TEAM DOES, BUT AQUATICS CAN KIND OF STAND ON ITS OWN AS WELL WITH JUST THE COMPLEXITY TO IT.

SO FOR ATHLETICS, THIS INCLUDES, UM, OUR YOUTH AND ADULT ATHLETICS, OUR GYMNASTICS, OUR TENNIS CENTER, AND THEN OUR CORPORATE RECREATION PROGRAM.

AND JUST SOME HIGHLIGHTS WITH THAT.

OUR YOUTH ATHLETICS ARE PARTNERED WITH DIFFERENT ORGANIZATIONS WHO RUN THE PROGRAMS, BUT WE PROVIDE THEM THE FIELDS AND THE SPACE TO RUN THOSE PROGRAMS. OUR ADULT, UH, PROGRAMS ARE BOTH PARTNERED AND RUN IN-HOUSE.

SO WE'VE GOT SOME ADULT LEAGUES THAT, UH, WE PROVIDE THE SPACE TO THEM.

BUT THEN YOU'LL ALSO SEE OUR TEAM IS PUTTING ON BASKETBALL PROGRAMS, UM, DISC GOLF, UH, SOFTBALL.

SO THERE'S A, A WIDE ARRAY OF PROGRAMS THAT THEY'RE PUTTING ON.

AND THEN WE ALSO HAVE, UM, LIKE I MENTIONED, THE DISC GOLF PROGRAM.

AND THAT'S SOMETHING THAT FALLS UNDER CORPORATE RECREATION AS WELL.

SO THERE'S SOME CROSSOVER WITH THAT.

AND THEN OUR GYMNASTICS FACILITY, IF YOU HAVEN'T BEEN TO THIS LOCATION, I WOULD HIGHLY ENCOURAGE YOU TO GO CHECK IT OUT.

IT IS DEFINITELY A HIGH QUALITY PROGRAM WITH GREAT INSTRUCTORS.

WE HAVE A LOT OF, UH, PARTICIPANTS THAT START WITH US AT A YOUNG AGE AND WORK ALL THE WAY THROUGH HIGH SCHOOL.

WE'VE HAD SEVERAL STUDENTS WHO HAVE GOTTEN COLLEGE SCHOLARSHIPS, BUT IT'S A A TOP NOTCH FACILITY.

AND THEN OUR TENNIS PROGRAM, WE OFFER WIDE ARRAY ARRAY OF SUCCESSFUL PROGRAMS AND LEAGUES, CAMPS AND DRILLS.

IT'S EXTREMELY ACTIVE FOR THE FACILITY THAT IT IS.

IT'S HEAVILY USED.

AGAIN, WE'VE GOT SOME FANTASTIC PROS AT THAT LOCATION AND THEY REALLY ARE GOOD AT CONNECTING WITH PEOPLE.

AND THEN OUR CORPORATE CHALLENGE AND CORPORATE RECREATION PROGRAMS, THESE ARE FOCUSED ON ENGAGING OUR RICHARDSON CORPORATIONS AND REALLY PULLING THEM INTO OUR COMMUNITY AND MAKING SURE THAT THEY'RE A PART OF WHAT WE DO.

UM, BY PROVIDING THE RECREATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES, WE'RE ALLOWING THEM OPPORTUNITIES TO STRENGTHEN THE COMRADERY WITH THEIR EMPLOYEES, BUT ALSO WHEN THEY PARTICIPATE IN PROGRAMS SUCH AS CORPORATE CHALLENGE, THEY ARE WORKING WITH OTHER COMPANIES AND DEVELOPING THOSE RELATIONSHIPS SO THERE BECOMES A BOND AND AN OPPORTUNITY FOR NETWORKING.

AND WITH THAT CORPORATE CHALLENGE, THIS WILL BE OUR 25TH YEAR.

SO WHEN THE 24 YEARS THAT WE'VE HAD CORPORATE CHALLENGE RUNNING, WE'VE BROUGHT IN 3.1 MILLION FOR SPECIAL OLYMPICS OF TEXAS.

AND THEN AQUATICS, I KNOW YOU'VE HEARD ME TALK ABOUT AQUATICS IN THE PREVIOUS YEARS OR PREVIOUS PRESENTATIONS, BUT WE'VE GOT FIVE FACILITIES.

UM, WITH THAT WE'VE GOT 115 STAFF PLUS ADDITIONAL SEASONAL COORDINATORS AND MANAGERS.

WE OFFER SWIM LESSONS AND SWIM PROGRAMMING.

INCLUDED WITH THAT IS SWIM TEAM AND THEN ALSO POOL REYNOLDS AND PAVILION REYNOLDS, ALL THROUGH OUR AQUATIC FACILITIES.

THE MAJOR ROLE OF THIS DIVISION AS WELL AS RUNNING THE PROGRAMS AND MAKING SURE THE POOLS ARE OPERATING AND, AND OPEN AND SAFE IS MAINTAINING ALL OF OUR PUBLIC POOL STANDARDS.

SO THERE ARE STATE STANDARDS THAT WE, AND NATIONAL STANDARDS THAT WE STRIVE TO MAKE SURE ARE IN PLACE.

SO OUR COMMUNITY IS SAFE WHILE WE'RE RUNNING THESE PROGRAMS. CONNECT IS COMMUNITY EVENTS.

OUR COMMUNITY EVENTS TEAM, IT'S A TEAM OF FIVE STAFF MEMBERS AND THEY COORDINATE, UM, ALL OF OUR LARGE SPECIAL EVENTS, BUT THEY COORDINATE WITH NUMEROUS NONPROFIT GROUPS TO VOLUNTEER AND HELP LEAD PARTS OF OUR EVENTS, THE SMALLER ELEMENTS WITHIN IT.

AND THOSE ARE ESSENTIAL FOR US, BUT THEY ALSO PROVIDE OPPORTUNITIES FOR YOUNG PERFORMERS AND YOUNG ARTISTS.

SO THIS IS SOMETHING THAT WE TAKE A LOT OF PRIDE IN BECAUSE WE'RE CREATING OPPORTUNITIES FOR THESE YOUNG PERFORMERS AND ARTISTS TO ACTUALLY GET EXPERIENCE ON THE STAGE OR DISPLAYING THEIR ARTWORK, SELLING THEIR ARTWORK.

SO TO US, THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT.

IT'S MENTORING OUR, OUR YOUNG AND PREPARING THEM FOR THAT NEXT STAGE.

UM, THEY ALSO WORK WITH, UM, NUMEROUS VOLUNTEERS WITH, UM, WILDFLOWER ALONE, IT'S OVER A THOUSAND VOLUNTEERS, BUT YOU CAN SEE ON THE SLIDE WE'VE HAD 2,750 VOLUNTEERS THAT WE WORKED WITH THROUGHOUT

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AND THEN OUR PARK MAINTENANCE PROGRAM.

I'M NOT GONNA GO INTO A LOT OF DETAIL ON THIS BECAUSE YOU'RE GONNA HAVE A DEEP DIVE IN A LITTLE BIT FROM SEAN.

HOWEVER, OUR PARK MAINTENANCE TEAM IS ESSENTIAL TO OUR DEPARTMENT AND TO THE SU SUCCESS OF OUR DEPARTMENT AND OUR CITY.

UH, THEY ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR ALL THE AREAS THAT ARE LISTED, BUT THEY'RE ALSO HEAVILY INVOLVED IN OUR, UH, SPECIAL EVENTS AND THE PLANNING OF THOSE SPECIAL EVENTS AND IMPLEMENTATION, AS WELL AS VARIOUS CONTRACTS AND LANDSCAPE PROJECTS THAT THEY OVERSEE.

AND THEY TRULY ARE A ROCK FOR OUR DEPARTMENT.

IT, WITHOUT THEM, WE WOULDN'T BE ABLE TO ACCOMPLISH HALF OF WHAT WE PULL OFF.

SO WE ARE VERY GRATEFUL FOR THIS TEAM AND RECOGNIZE THE HARD WORK THAT THEY DO.

OKAY, OUR PARK PLANNING TEAM, AGAIN, THIS IS ANOTHER SMALL TEAM.

WE'VE GOT TWO STAFF THAT ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR ALL THE AREAS ON THE SLIDE HERE.

THEY HAVE A LOT OF HEAVY RESPONSIBILITIES OVERSEEING CONTRACTS, STUDIES, DESIGN PROJECTS, AND THEN CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS AS WELL AS COLLABORATING WITH OTHER DEPARTMENTS.

SO WE MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE WORKING AS CLOSELY AS WE CAN WITH THOSE OTHER DEPARTMENTS TO MAKE SURE THAT COMMUNICATION IS THERE AND EVERYTHING'S IN LINE.

UM, AND I WOULD LIKE TO POINT OUT THAT WE HAVE A NEW STAFF MEMBER THAT WILL BE STARTING IN THIS DIVISION MID-AUGUST.

AND THEN OUR RECREATION IN OLDER ADULTS, THESE ARE PROGRAMS THAT TOUCH EVERY FACET, EVERY AGE GROUP THAT WE HAVE IN OUR COMMUNITY.

UM, THERE ARE THREE RECREATIONAL FACILITIES THAT MAKE UP THIS GROUP AS WELL AS A SPECIAL EVENTS MANAGER WHO OVERSEES NUMEROUS EVENTS THAT ARE SEPARATE FROM COMMUNITY EVENTS.

AND SO THESE ARE EVENTS THAT WE WOULD SAY MORE ARE LOCAL COMMUNITY, UM, BASED OR SMALLER BASED, UM, PROGRAMS THAT WE OFFER.

AND WITH THIS, THEY'RE VERY ENGAGING WITH OUR COMMUNITY.

SO WE HAVE CUSTOMERS THAT COME IN EVERY DAY AND, AND THIS TEAM HAS A RELATIONSHIP WITH THOSE INDIVIDUALS.

THEY ARE VERY CONNECTED WITH THEM.

UM, SO THERE'S A LOT OF PROGRAMS AND EVENTS THAT THEY'RE PUTTING ON, BUT THEY'RE ALSO WORKING WITH OUR OTHER CITY DEPARTMENTS SUCH AS FIRE POLICE, LIBRARY, UM, AND EVEN WITH TRAFFIC.

SO TRYING TO GIVE THAT EXTRA EX EXPOSURE TO THE OTHER DEPARTMENTS AS WELL.

AND SO THAT'S A VERY FAST OVERVIEW OF THAT GROUP.

UM, AND SO WITH THAT, WITH THE MONTH OF JULY BEING DESIGNATED ITS NATIONAL PARKS AND RECREATION MONTH, I DID WANNA GIVE YOU A LITTLE BIT OF BACKGROUND ON WHAT NATIONAL PARKS AND RECREATION MONTH IS.

THIS WAS CREATED IN 1985 AS AN EFFORT TO RECOGNIZE WHAT PARKS AND RECREATIONAL PROFESSIONALS CONTRIBUTE TO THE COMMUNITIES THAT THEY SERVE.

AND OVERALL PARKS AND RECREATION HELP TO BUILD A STRONG AND RESILIENT COMMUNITY.

THEY BRING PEOPLE TOGETHER THROUGH EVENTS, PROGRAMS, AND GENERAL SERVICES.

THEY ALSO CREATE A POSITIVE IMPACT ON INDIVIDUALS MENTALLY AND PHYSICALLY.

UM, SO WE CREATE A STATE OF SENSE OF BELONGING AND PROVIDE A PEACEFUL ENVIRONMENT FOR PEOPLE TO FEEL CONNECTED WITH OTHERS AND WITH NATURE.

AND I CAN'T TELL YOU THE NUMBER OF TIMES THAT WE HEAR PEOPLE TALK ABOUT, I BROUGHT MY KIDS TO THIS PROGRAM, OR I CAME TO THIS PROGRAM AND NOW MY KIDS ARE COMING TO THIS PROGRAM.

AND WE'VE HAD GENERATIONS OF PEOPLE WHO ARE COMING TO PROGRAMS THAT WE OFFER HERE IN RICHARDSON.

SO THAT AGAIN, TALKS TO HOW WE CREATE ST STABILITY WITHIN THE COMMUNITY.

AND SO FOR PARKS AND RECREATION MONTH, SOME OF THE THINGS WE WANT IT TO DO BECAUSE ONE OF THE, THE BIG THINGS THAT WE DO IS WE SERVE OUR COMMUNITY AND, AND WE'RE ALL IN THIS FIELD BECAUSE WE BELIEVE IN SERVICE.

SO WE THOUGHT IT WAS EXTREMELY IMPORTANT TO SERVE OUR COMMUNITY DURING THIS MONTH, EVEN THOUGH IT'S RECOGNIZING US, IT'S OUR OPPORTUNITY TO GIVE BACK A LITTLE BIT MORE.

SO WE KICKED OFF THE MONTH WITH THE FAMILY FOURTH FEST.

UH, WE'VE ALSO CREATED PURPOSELY A DIVE IN MOVIE THAT WE'RE HOSTING JULY 21ST, BUT THEN WE CREATED CUSTOMER APPRECIATION EVENT.

SO EVERY ONE OF OUR FACILITIES THAT IS CUSTOMER FACING IS OFFERING SOME TYPE OF SPECIAL EVENT WHERE WE ARE JUST LOVING ON OUR CUSTOMERS AND APPRECIATING THEM FOR ALL THE TIMES THAT THEY COME INTO OUR FACILITIES AND, AND JUST THAT RELATIONSHIP THAT WE HAVE WITH THEM.

AND THEN IN ADDITION TO THAT, BECAUSE WE DO WANNA HONOR OUR STAFF, OUR STAFF WORKS EXTREMELY HARD.

SUMMER IS A VERY CHALLENGING MONTH FOR ALL OF US.

UM, OR MONTHS I SHOULD SAY.

SO WITH THIS, WE ARE DOING SOME, UM, SPECIAL RECOGNITION WHERE SEAN AND I ARE GOING OUT TO EACH FACILITY.

UM, WE'VE GOT A TOTAL OF 14 FACILITIES THAT WE'RE DOING, QUE I CAN'T EVEN SAY IT, TREAT SQUAD VISITS.

AND THEN WE'RE ALSO DOING SOME COME AND GO EVENTS.

SO WE'VE GOT AN ICE CREAM SOCIAL COMING UP AND AN APPRECIATION LUNCHEON, WHICH IS SPONSORED BY, UH, CREDIT UNION OF TEXAS.

SO WE'RE

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REALLY EXCITED ABOUT THOSE TWO OPPORTUNITIES TO BE ABLE TO HONOR OUR STAFF AND THANK THEM FOR ALL THE HARD WORK THAT THEY DO DAY IN AND DAY OUT.

SO WITH THAT, UM, OH, ONE LAST THING TOO IS WE ARE ALSO TAKING THE OPPORTUNITY TO HIGHLIGHT ALL OF OUR VARIOUS TEAMS ON SOCIAL MEDIA.

SO IF YOU FOLLOW OUR PAGE, YOU'LL SEE DIFFERENT PICTURES AND POSTS SHARING WHAT OUR STAFF DO AND WHO THEY ARE.

UM, AND JUST GIVING A LITTLE BIT OF INSIGHT.

SO WITH OUR DEPARTMENT, AND I CAN SAY THIS FOR OUR ENTIRE DEPARTMENT, EVERYBODY WHO SERVES IN THIS FIELD, WE'RE ALL VERY PASSIONATE ABOUT WHAT WE DO.

WE LOVE THIS FIELD AND WE LOVE SERVING RICHARDSON.

SO THIS IS JUST A SMALL EFFORT THAT WE'RE ABLE TO GIVE BACK TO OUR TEAM AND ALSO GIVE BACK TO OUR COMMUNITY.

SO I KNOW WE HAVE A PROCLAMATION, UM, THAT WE WANTED TO TAKE PICTURES OF, BUT IF THERE'S NO QUESTIONS, WE CAN MOVE TO THAT.

JENNIFER, JUST COMMENTS.

I WANNA SAY THANK YOU, UM, FOR ALL OF THE WORK THAT YOU DO.

UM, IT'S SORT OF INCREDIBLE THAT WHEN ONE EVENT ENDS, YOU START SETTING UP FOR THE NEXT EVENT AND IT'S NONSTOP.

AND I THOUGHT IT JUST REALLY SPOKE TO THE SPIRIT OF YOUR DEPARTMENT THAT INSTEAD OF JUST CELEBRATING YOURSELVES, YOU TOOK ON ANOTHER EVENT TO CELEBRATE THE PEOPLE WHO COME TO YOUR FACILITIES.

AND IT JUST REALLY SPEAKS TO YOUR HEARTS NOW PROUD OF THE WORK YOU ARE THAT YOU DO.

SO THANK YOU, REALLY CUZ IT'S A YEAR-ROUND NONSTOP PROCESS.

AND I KNOW WHEN I HAD A GRAND IDEA, YOU GUYS JUST JUMPED RIGHT ON AND YOU'RE LIKE, SURE, , WE'LL DO ANOTHER EVENT.

AND IT WAS GREAT.

IT WAS REALLY, REALLY WONDERFUL AND WELL RECEIVED BY THE COMMUNITY.

SO I MEAN, I JUST, I CAN'T SAY THANK YOU ENOUGH.

THANK YOU MR. BARRIOS.

THANK YOU MR. MAYOR YVONNE.

YEAH, MIKE, MY COMMENT, UM, FROM JULY 4TH TO, IT SEEMS LIKE THE LAST COUPLE WEEKS, I'VE HEARD A LOT OF GREAT POSITIVES FROM RESIDENTS AND NEIGHBORS ABOUT THE DIFFERENT THINGS, THE PARKS.

I HAD SOMEBODY REACH OUT TO ME VIA SOCIAL MEDIA TODAY SAYING, YOU KNOW, DAN, YOU SH WE AS A CITY SHOULD CONSIDER THESE, UH, DON'T FEED THE DUCK SIGNS.

I WAS LIKE, WE ALREADY HAVE THOSE, THOSE WERE PUT OUT A HANDFUL OF YEARS AGO.

UH, I KNOW I LIVE RIGHT NEXT TO CONWOOD PARK, SO I SEE 'EM ALL THE TIME.

UM, I HAD, I HAD A FRIEND JOIN ME FOR THE 4TH OF JULY AND THEY'VE LIVED IN RICHARDSON ALMOST 20 YEARS, HAD NEVER BEEN OUT TO THE FOURTH CELEBRATION.

UM, AND THEY'VE LIVED HERE A LONG TIME.

JUST SEEMS LIKE EVERY TIME I HEAR, I HAD SOMEBODY RECENTLY DISCOVER HEIGHTS POOL FOR THE FIRST TIME.

THEY HAD NEVER BEEN THERE.

AND, AND I'M JUST HEARING ALL THESE POSITIVES AND WHILE RICHARDSON HAS A LOT OF GREAT THINGS GOING FOR IT, AND THERE'S MANY, MANY REASONS TO THAT, RICHARDSON IS THE PLACE TO BE AND A GREAT PLACE TO LIVE.

I THINK PARKS REALLY, REALLY STANDS OUT TO MANY RESIDENTS CAUSE IT'S ONE OF THOSE PARTS OF THE CITY THAT A LOT OF RESIDENTS HAVE SUCH INTERACTION WITH.

AND WHAT, UH, THE ENTIRE PARKS DEPARTMENT HAS DONE IS, IS JUST CON CONTINUES TO, UM, IMPRESS ME DAILY.

AND I, I KNOW IT WAS YEARS AGO WHEN MY FAMILY WAS LOOKING AT UP UPGRADING, WE FOR A COUPLE HOURS CONSIDERED MOVING TO THE WEST SIDE OF KUWAIT.

AND REALLY IT CAME BACK TO PARKS FOR US.

AND UH, THAT WAS A VERY IMPORTANT REASONING FOR US TO WANT TO REMAIN IN RICHARDSON.

UM, I THINK A LOT OF RE RESIDENTS FEEL THAT WAY.

SO GOOD JOB.

UM, YOU, YOU GUYS KNOCK IT OUTTA THE PARK EVERY TIME.

REALLY.

THAT'S OFF TO YOU.

THANK YOU MAYOR PROM.

ALRIGHT, THANK YOU MR. MAYOR, AND THANK YOU.

UH, WELL THANK YOU.

THE WHOLE, WHOLE TEAM AND, UH, JUST WANTED TO MAKE SHORT COMMENT THAT YOU ALL HAVE POSITIVE AND WELCOMING ATTITUDE AND WE COULD HAVE LOTS OF FACILITIES, BUT WITHOUT THAT, THINGS SHOULD NOT BE THAT GOOD.

THANK YOU AGAIN.

THANK YOU MR. HU RIDER.

I JUST WANT TO TAG ONTO WHAT EVERYTHING HAS BEEN SAID, BUT I THINK THE PART THAT SO MANY CITIZENS DON'T SEE IS THAT, AND I, AND BECAUSE I'LL, I'LL I'LL JUST USE THE 4TH OF JULY AS AN EXAMPLE.

YOU KNOW, PEOPLE THINK, OH, WELL YOU, YOU KNOW, WE START UP AT SIX O'CLOCK AND IT'S ALL DONE BY NINE 30.

BUT, YOU KNOW, LIVING OUT THERE, I SAW THAT THERE WERE PEOPLE THAT YOUR CREWS WERE STARTING EARLY IN THE MORNING ON THE 4TH OF JULY.

CUZ I, I GET UP, I GOT UP EARLY AND WAS WALKING AND THEY WERE OUT ALREADY PUTTING THE SIGNS UP, DOING SO MUCH WORK BEHIND THE SCENES THAT PEOPLE NEVER REALIZE HOW MUCH Y'ALL DO FOR EVERY EVENT THAT WE HAVE.

UM, AND SO I JUST WANNA SAY THANK YOU, UM, THANK YOUR TEAM, CONGRATULATE YOUR TEAM, AND, AND JUST THANK YOU AND LET PEOPLE KNOW HOW MUCH BEHIND THE SCENES WORK THERE IS THAT'S, THAT'S DONE THAT PEOPLE NEVER SEE OR NEVER PAY ATTENTION TO.

MAYBE THERE'S A BETTER WAY TO SAY IT.

UM, SO JUST WANNA SAY THANK YOU.

GREAT JOB, GREAT PRESENTATION.

AND DO WE WANT TO YES, BRING SEAN UP NOW? UH, YES SIR, IF YOU WANT NO, WE'RE GONNA DO A, OH, WE DO A PICTURE.

JUST DO THAT.

IF YOU, UH, YOU AND THE COUNCIL WOULD LIKE TO JOIN AND GREG IS HERE TO FACILITATE.

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ALL RIGHT, SO LET'S GO AHEAD AND STAGGER BETWEEN, LET'S HAVE YOU HERE.

PLEASE COME FORWARD.

FILL IN A SPOT, FILL IN A SPOT.

YOU'LL LOOK RIGHT HERE.

AND BIG SMILES, BIG SMILES A LITTLE BIT CLOSER.

HEY, ANGLE LENS ALL THE TIME.

THERE'S THE SMILES.

SO SORRY.

OKAY, I'LL GET IT OFF.

THANKS.

WE'VE BEEN EVERYWHERE TODAY, SO GOD ONLY KNOWS WHERE.

UH, YEAH, JUST TALK TO ME.

I'LL, OKAY.

TO ITEM D TO REVIEW AND DISCUSS THE PHYSICAL YEAR, 23, 24 PART MAINTENANCE STRATEGIES.

WE'RE GONNA GO

[D. REVIEW AND DISCUSS THE FY 2023-2024 PARK MAINTENANCE STRATEGIES]

WE PUT UP LOTS OF HOLIDAY DECORATIONS AT SANTAS VILLAGE AROUND THE CIVIC CENTER CAMPUS AND HUFFINES PARK ALL OVER THE PLACE.

MAYOR AND COUNCIL.

THE NEXT THREE BRIEFINGS WILL BE THE CULMINATION OF OUR DEEP DIVES FOR THIS YEAR AS WE, UH, GET, UH, PREPARED FOR OUR BUDGET WORKSHOP NEXT, UH, MONDAY AND TUESDAY EVENING.

AND, UH, SO WHAT SEAN'S GONNA DO IS RUN THROUGH, UH, A LITTLE BIT OF AN ORIENTATION, UH, JUST TO KIND OF DISCUSS, UH, HOW WE GO ABOUT EVALUATING THE, UH, PARKS, MAINTENANCE EQUIPMENT AND THE OTHER ASSETS IN THE, IN THE, UH, IN THE PARKS.

AND THEN, UH, GIVE YOU AN UPDATE ON OUR F Y 20, UH, THREE PLAN AND THEN AN OUTLOOK, UH, FOR FY 24 AND HOW WE PROPOSE TO SPEND THIS ONE.

SO SEAN, THANKS FOR PUTTING THIS GOOD BRIEFING TOGETHER.

I'LL TURN IT OVER TO YOU.

THANK YOU, UH, MAYOR COUNCIL, THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR, UH, FOR THE TIME FOR A VERY PARKS HEAVY AGENDA, BUT, UH, THAT'S THE WAY THEY SHOULD BE, RIGHT .

SO, UM, I'D JUST LIKE TO TALK TO YOU THIS EVENING, UM, GIVE YOU A LITTLE BIT OF A, A SNAPSHOT OF THE PARKS MAINTENANCE DIVISION.

YVONNE ALREADY TALKED ABOUT SOME OF THAT INFORMATION.

UM, WE'LL TALK ABOUT OUR CAPITAL ASSET ASSESSMENT PROCESS THAT WE DO EVERY YEAR.

UPDATE YOU ON SOME OF THE PROJECTS THAT WE'RE DOING THIS YEAR THAT WERE FUNDED THROUGH THE PARKS MAINTENANCE FUND.

UH, TALK ABOUT THE PROJECT WE'RE LOOKING AT DOING NEXT YEAR, THE PARKS MAINTENANCE FUND, AND THEN A, A LONG RANGE OUTLOOK FOR WHAT WE MIGHT DO IN FISCAL YEAR 25 AS WE'VE COLLATED ALL THIS INFORMATION TOGETHER.

SO FIRST ON THE PARKS MAINTENANCE DIVISION, THIS IS KIND OF A, UH, A SNAPSHOT BY THE NUMBERS.

WE HAVE 50 EMPLOYEES WHO MAINTAIN 39 PARKS.

UH, THEY ALSO MAINTAIN 510 ACRES OF MEDIAN AND RIGHT OF WAY, WE HAVE 93 MILES OF TRAIL IN THE CITY THAT OUR STAFF MAINTAINS.

32 PLAYGROUNDS, 27 PEDESTRIAN BRIDGES, 230 ACRES OF SPORTS FIELDS.

WE HAVE 28 RESTROOM BUILDINGS, 32 PAVILIONS AND 13 PONDS AND WATER FEATURES.

AND THAT'S ALL MAINTAINED BY A STAFF OF 50 PEOPLE, WHICH IS FRANKLY AMAZING.

AND THEN A FEW OF THE THINGS THAT WE DO THAT, THAT SOMETIMES PEOPLE DON'T THINK ABOUT, OF COURSE, IF YOU'VE SEEN THE WILDFLOWERS AROUND TOWN IN THE SPRING, WE PLANT ALL THOSE, WE MAINTAIN ALL THE STREET BANNERS THROUGHOUT TOWN THAT ADVERTISE OUR EVENTS OR DIFFERENT THINGS THAT ARE GOING ON IN THE COMMUNITY.

EXCUSE ME.

WE ALSO MANAGE THE CITY STREET SWEEPING PROGRAM AND I'M NOT QUITE SURE EXACTLY HOW THAT ALL GOT, UH, ASSIGNED TO US BACK IN THE PAST, BUT WE'RE HAPPY TO TAKE THAT ON AND UH, I THINK THEY DO A REALLY GOOD JOB OF THAT.

WE ALSO WORK WITH A LOT OF COMMUNITY PARTNERS, HOAS AND NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATIONS, UH, TO DO OUR MATCHING FUND BEAUTIFICATION PROGRAM WHERE THE CITY WILL MATCH FUNDS THAT AN HOA HAS TO DO SOME BEAUTIFICATION IN A NEIGHBORHOOD ENTRYWAY ON A MEDIAN OR SOME OTHER PIECE OF PUBLIC SPACE THAT MAYBE NEEDS A LITTLE BIT OF EXTRA TLC.

WE ALSO HAVE A LOT OF NATURAL AREAS HERE IN RICHARDSON, LIKE A BRECKENRIDGE PARK, SPRING CREEK NATURE AREA, A LOT OF CREEK LINES THAT RUN THROUGH OUR PARKS AND THROUGHOUT THE CITY.

AND WE THINK OF OUR WORK THERE AS BEING STEWARDS OF NATURAL AREAS, WHICH IS VERY, VERY IMPORTANT, ESPECIALLY IN AN URBAN AREA LIKE THIS, TO HAVE THOSE GREEN SPACES THAT ARE UNTOUCHED THAT PEOPLE CAN ENJOY JUST THE WAY NATURE INTENDED.

AS YON POINTED OUT A FEW MOMENTS AGO, WE PROVIDE A LOT OF SPECIAL EVENTS SUPPORT TO THE COMMUNITY EVENTS DIVISION.

IN FACT, I LIKE TO SAY THAT OUR PARKS GUYS WORK FOR COMMUNITY EVENTS ABOUT THREE MONTHS OUTTA THE YEAR AND THEN TAKE CARE OF PARKS FOR NINE MONTHS.

AND IT'S PROBABLY NOT QUITE THAT CLEAR CUT, BUT IT'S PRETTY CLOSE BECAUSE THEY DO A LOT SETTING UP FOR WILDFLOWER, COTTONWOOD SANDERS VILLAGE, HUFFINES, ART TRAILS, ALL OF THOSE EVENTS THAT THEY DO.

AND THOSE GUYS DO A GREAT JOB.

WE HAVE A DEDICATION BENCH PROGRAM WHERE CITIZENS CAN DEDICATE BENCHES OR TREES, DONATE THOSE TO THE CITY TO BE PLACED IN A PARK IN HONOR OF A LOVED ONE OR, YOU KNOW, IN HONOR OF A SPECIAL, UH, CELEBRATION.

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IF YOU SEE HOLIDAY DECORATIONS OUT OF THE CITIES, THEN PROBABLY PARKS GUYS TOUCH THAT STRING OF LIGHTS.

AND THEN WE ALSO MANAGE THE LANDSCAPE ALONG CENTRAL EXPRESSWAY, WHICH REALLY IS KIND OF THE PRIDE OF NORTH TEXAS.

IF YOU'RE DRIVING DOWN CENTRAL, YOU GO FROM DALLAS INTO RICHARDSON AND EVERYTHING CHANGES AND THEN YOU GET TO THE OTHER SIDE, YOU PASS GEORGE BUSH, EVERYTHING CHANGES AGAIN AND OURS LOOKS THE BEST.

I THINK WE ALL KNOW THAT.

SO NOW I'D LIKE TO TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT OUR ASSET ASSESSMENT PROGRAM.

AS YOU SAW ALL THOSE THINGS THAT WE MAINTAIN ABOUT, UM, SIX YEARS AGO OR SO, WE DECIDED WE NEEDED A BETTER WAY TO REALLY COLLECT DATA ON ALL THESE CAPITAL ASSETS WE HAVE IN THE PARKS.

THINGS LIKE PLAYGROUNDS, RESTROOM BUILDINGS, PAVILIONS, KIND OF THOSE BIG TICKET ITEMS. SO EVERY YEAR WE GO THROUGHOUT OUR ENTIRE INVENTORY OF 39 PARKS AND OUR OWN PARK CREW MEMBERS ASSESS EVERY ONE OF THESE ASSETS BECAUSE THOSE ARE THE PEOPLE WHO WORK ON THEM DAY TO DAY.

THOSE ARE THE ONES WHO KNOW THOSE ASSETS BETTER THAN ANYBODY.

SO THE PLAYGROUND CREW ARE THE ONES WHO ASSESS THE PLAYGROUNDS.

THE IRRIGATION CREW ARE THE ONES WHO ASSESS THE IRRIGATION SYSTEMS. SO BASICALLY OUR KIND OF, UH, AVERAGE RUBRIC IS ANYTHING OVER ABOUT $10,000 OR SOMETHING WE WANNA LOOK AT ON AN ANNUAL BASIS TO SEE HOW IS THIS ASSET PERFORMING, WHAT SORT OF STATE IS IN, WHAT CONDITION IS IT IN? AND WE SCORE THOSE ASSETS IN FIVE AREAS, SAFETY, AGE, STRUCTURAL SOUNDNESS, UTILITY AND APPEARANCE.

AND EVERYTHING IS ON A FIVE POINT SCALE FROM FIVE BEING EXCELLENT TO ONE BEING POOR.

AND JUST TO NOTE ABOUT UTILITY, THAT'S 25% OF THAT SCORE.

AND THAT BASICALLY IS JUST, IS THIS ASSET DOING ITS JOB? IS THAT PAVILION PROVIDING SHADE? DOES THAT PLAYGROUND HAVE ENOUGH PLAY EVENTS? IS THIS BRIDGE IS A GOOD PLACE THAT PROVIDES, YOU KNOW, A TRANSPORTATION AVENUE OR YOU KNOW, FOR PEOPLE TO CROSS? IS THAT WHERE IS THIS WHERE IT SHOULD BE? IS IT DOING THE JOB THAT IT SHOULD DO? IS IT BEING USEFUL? AND WE'RE REALLY, REALLY PROUD OF THIS, THIS PROCESS AND IT'S PROVIDED THIS WITH SOME REALLY GOOD DATA OVER THE YEARS.

SO HERE'S A LIST OF THE ASSETS THAT, THAT WE ASSESS EVERY YEAR.

AND YOU'LL NOTICE DOWN THERE MEDIUM LANDSCAPING IS LAST ON THE LIST CUZ THAT'S THE LAST ONE WE STARTED DOING.

WE DIDN'T DO MEDIAN LANDSCAPE THE FIRST YEAR WE DID THIS PROGRAM, BUT WE ADDED IT BECAUSE WE RECOGNIZED THAT THESE ARE FACILITIES, THESE ARE ASSETS THAT WE MAINTAIN.

AND SO WE WANT TO BE ABLE TO GET A GOOD HANDLE ON HOW THEY'RE DOING AND BE ABLE TO PINPOINT WHERE WE NEED TO PUT RESOURCES AS THEY BECOME AVAILABLE.

OH, AND THIS IS JUST AN EXAMPLE OF THE FORM.

WE HAVE ONE FORM FOR EVERY ASSET CLASS, AND THIS IS WHAT THE GUYS TAKE OUT WITH AND WHEN THEY DO THEIR ASSESSMENTS, USUALLY IN JANUARY OR FEBRUARY, AND YOU'LL NOTICE THAT THIS FORM IS FOR, FOR BRIDGES, BUT EVERY ONE IS UNIQUELY TAILORED TO THAT ASSET CLASS.

SO IT ASKS QUESTIONS SPECIFICALLY ABOUT BRIDGES OR PLAYGROUNDS OR THE IRRIGATION SYSTEM.

SO IF THEY KIND OF HAVE THAT IN THEIR MIND WHEN THEY'RE LOOKING AT THESE THINGS, THESE ARE WHAT WE SHOULD LOOK FOR.

AND YOU KNOW, YOU SEE DOWN HERE, HERE'S SOME ITEMS TO CONSIDER AT BRIDGES, STEEL COMPONENTS, WOODEN COMPONENTS, THE APPROACH AREA, MA MASONRY, FOOTINGS AND EROSION AROUND IT.

AND THAT WILL BE A SPECIFIC LIST FOR EVERY ASSET.

LOOK AT THESE THINGS AND JUDGE, MAKE YOUR JUDGMENT IN THIS WAY.

AND SO HERE'S JUST A A BRIEF RUNDOWN OF THE RESULTS WE HAVE THIS YEAR.

UM, OUR STAFF COMPLETED THEIR ASSESSMENTS IN JANUARY AND FEBRUARY.

UM, JEFF AND I COLLATED ALL THE DATA TOGETHER AND STARTED MAKING TABLES, UH, TO SEE WHERE WE ARE.

BUT AS YOU CAN SEE HERE, WE'RE IN PRETTY GOOD SHAPE ON THIS SET.

87% OF PLAYGROUNDS, 92% OF RESTROOMS, 100% OF PAVILIONS, 97% OF TRAILS, 95% OF IRRIGATION SYSTEMS AND 93% OF SPORTS FIELDS ARE RATED THAT'S EITHER GOOD OR EXCELLENT IN THE ASSESSMENT.

AND SO THAT'S A FOUR OR A FIVE IN THE ASSESSMENT PROCESS.

GOING FURTHER, 96% OF LIGHTING SYSTEM IS 90% OF TENNIS COURTS, 70% OF WATER FEATURES 91% OF BUILDINGS, 74% OF BRIDGES RATED AS GOOD OR EXCELLENT.

THEN YOU'LL NOTICE THAT 65% OF OUR MEDIAN LANDSCAPING IS RATED THIS AVERAGE OR GOOD.

AND SO THIS IS SOMETHING THAT'S VALUABLE FOR US TO KNOW.

WHEN OUR FOLKS HAVE GONE OUT AND LOOKED AT THESE THINGS AND SAYING, THESE ARE NOT QUITE AT THE HIGHER LEVEL SOME OF THESE OTHER ASSETS, NOW WE KNOW WE NEED TO DEVELOP A PLAN AND PUT SOME RESOURCING TO THAT TO BRING THOSE BACK UP TO SPACE.

AND A LOT OF THOSE, THOSE MEDIAN LANDSCAPING NODES ARE PROBABLY 40, 50 YEARS OLD.

SO THEY'RE DUE FOR A REFRESH, BUT NOW WE HAVE GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION.

WE KNOW THESE ARE THE AREAS WE NEED TO TARGET TO START BRINGING THAT ENTIRE PROGRAM UP TO WHERE IT SHOULD BE.

AND SO THIS SLIDE IS JUST KIND OF A, A GRAPHICAL REPRESENTATION OF THE TWO AVENUES WE HAVE FOR MAINTAINING OUR PARKS.

SO FIRST IS THE ASSET ASSESSMENT, WHICH I JUST SPOKE ABOUT.

WE DO THOSE ASSESSMENTS IN THE WINTER, THEN THAT FUNNELS INTO THE PARKS MAINTENANCE FUND, WHICH IS ALLOCATED AROUND BUDGET TIME.

AND THEN WE DO PROJECT WITH THAT FUND, WHICH WE CALL OUR PARK MAINTENANCE FUND PROJECTS, BUT ALSO HAVE THE NORMAL OPERATIONS BUDGET PROCESS MARCH THROUGH AUGUST.

WE'RE GETTING THAT READY AND THEN YOU'RE LOOKING AT THAT AND APPROVING IT.

THAT GOES INTO THE OPERATING FUND.

AND THEN THAT'S OUR NORMAL KIND OF DAY TO DAY OPERATIONS AND MAINTENANCE.

WE'LL DO SOME, SOME KIND OF MEDIUM-SIZED PROJECTS AND OPERATIONS LIKE

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OVER THE LAST FEW YEARS WE'VE BEEN WORKING ON PUTTING OUT TRASH RECEPTACLES IN ALL OUR PARTS.

SO WE PUT THOSE STEEL BARRELS INTO RECEPTACLES THAT ARE MADE OUTTA RECYCLED PLASTIC THAT LOOK A LITTLE BIT NICER, HAVE A LITTLE BETTER LOOK FOR THE PARKS.

SO THAT PROJECT COMES OUTTA OPERATIONS.

BUT BIGGER STUFF LIKE REPLACING A RESTROOM OR RENOVATING AN IRRIGATION SYSTEM WOULD COME OUTTA THAT PARKS MAINTENANCE FUND.

AND THEN HERE'S A HISTORY SINCE 2020 OF WHAT THE FUNDING HAS BEEN FOR THE THE PARKS MAINTENANCE FUND.

YOU CAN SEE WE STARTED ABOUT 390,000 IN 2020 AND THAT HAS CREEPED STEADILY UPWARD, UH, USED TO BE A DEDICATED QUARTER PENNY.

NOW IT'S, UH, INDEXED TO 3.5% I BELIEVE.

IS THAT CORRECT? SO, YOU KNOW, A LITTLE BIT INCREMENTALLY EVERY YEAR, A LITTLE BIT MORE, A LITTLE BIT MORE STUFF WE CAN DO TO UH, TO REALLY GET OUR PARKS IN GREAT SHAPE.

AND THEN IT WOULDN'T BE A DEEP DIVE PRESENTATION THIS YEAR IF WE DIDN'T TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT SOME OF THE OPERATIONAL IMPACTS WE'VE HAD FROM COST ESCALATION.

I WON'T GO THROUGH ALL OF THIS LINE BY LINE, BUT YOU CAN SEE IN A LOT OF THE COMMODITIES AND THINGS THAT, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE TO PURCHASE JUST TO DO NORMAL OPERATIONS.

PRICES ARE INCREASING.

I WOULD LIKE TO, UH, TO DRAW YOUR ATTENTION TO THE LAST TWO ON THAT LIST, THE PREFAB RESTROOM BUILDING AND THE PREFAB STEEL BRIDGE.

THESE AREN'T THINGS THAT WE DO ALL THE TIME, ALTHOUGH I'D LOVE TO GET US ON OUR PROGRAM.

WE'RE STARTING TO REPLACE MORE RESTROOMS, BUT EVEN THOUGH THE, THE RESTROOM COST INCREASE IS ONLY 2.1%, UH, PLEASE NOTE THAT THE PRIOR COST OF 174,000 WAS 2020 WHEN WE BUILT A NEW RESTROOM AT BRECKENRIDGE PARK AND THAT WAS A THREE ROOM RESTROOM.

THEN THIS LAST YEAR WHEN WE BUILT A NEW RESTROOM AT CREEK HOLLOW PARK, IT WAS $177,000.

THAT WAS ONLY FOR A TWO ROOM RESTROOM.

SO SMALLER RESTROOM STILL THE PRICE INCREASE.

WE HAVEN'T GOTTEN ANY BIDS OR QUOTES LATELY FOR THOSE RESTROOMS AND I EXPECT THOSE TO KEEP ON INCHING UP.

AND THEN A PREFAB STEEL BRIDGE.

YOU'LL HEAR ME SPEAK IN A MOMENT ABOUT THE, UH, THE NEW BRIDGE WE'RE GONNA BE BUILDING AT COTTONWOOD PARK.

THAT'S SEEN A HUGE INCREASE IN COST.

THE LAST TIME WE BUILT A BRIDGE WAS AT FOX CREEK PARK IN 2017, UH, FOR PRICE PER FOOT WAS ABOUT $1,010 FOR A 12 FOOT BRIDGE.

NOW WE'RE LOOKING ABOUT $1,400 PER FOOT FOR THE BRIDGE THAT WE PROPOSED TO PUT INTO COTTONWOOD PARK.

SO WE ARE, WE ARE ABSOLUTELY LIKE EVERY OTHER INDUSTRY UNDER THE SUN SEEING COST INCREASES IN ALMOST EVERYTHING WE DO.

AND NOW TO UPDATE YOU ON SOME OF THE PROJECTS WE'VE BEEN WORKING ON THIS YEAR FROM THE PARK MAINTENANCE FUND, WE'VE COMPLETED REPLACING THE, UM, EAST BACK OR THE YEAH, THE EAST BACK, THE WEST BACK STOP, EXCUSE ME.

AT HEIGHTS PARK.

WE REPLACED THE WEST BACKSTOP LAST YEAR, BUT BECAUSE OF THOSE COST INCREASES, COULDN'T GET BOTH OF THEM DONE.

SO WE BUDGETED A LITTLE BIT MORE AND REPLACED THIS BACKSTOP THIS YEAR.

THAT WAS ABOUT $55,000.

WE RENOVATED THE IRRIGATION SYSTEM AT CROWLEY PARK THAT WAS IN THE LOWER RATE OF IRRIGATION SYSTEMS IN OUR ASSET ASSESSMENT IN 22.

SO WE WERE ABLE TO GO THROUGH, RAISE A BUNCH OF VALVE BOXES, IMPROVE COVERAGE OF THE TURF IRRIGATION FOR $130,000.

WE'RE JUST GONNA IMPROVE THAT PARK IMMENSELY.

AND WE'VE DONE A LOT OF WORK ON RENOVATING LANDSCAPE ON SOUTH YALE.

THAT ONCE AGAIN WAS ONE OF OUR LOWER RATED, UH, LANDSCAPE ME, UH, MEDIAN LANDSCAPE AREAS.

SO WE HAD $144,000 BUDGETED.

WE INSTALLED MORE HARDSCAPE.

YOU CAN SEE THE, UH, THE FLAGSTONE THERE IN THE PICTURE ENLARGE THE TREE WELLS CUZ WE HAVE THOSE NICE LARGE MATURE TREES IN A LOT OF OUR MEDIANS, BUT MANY TIGHT CASES.

THOSE TREE WELLS ARE REALLY, REALLY NARROW CUZ THAT'S THE WAY THEY WERE BUILT BACK IN THE SEVENTIES.

SO WE MOVED THOSE MOST STRIPS OUT, GIVE THOSE TREES A LITTLE BIT MORE ROOM, REALIGN THEM, PUT MORE JASMINE IN A LITTLE BIT OF ROCK ON THE OUTSIDE AND THEY LOOK REALLY, REALLY SHARP.

I KNOW OUR FRIENDS IN IN NER PARK ARE VERY, VERY HAPPY TO HAVE THOSE IN.

NOW THIS IS A PROJECT WE'RE STILL, UH, WORKING THROUGH.

SO OUT AT BRECKENRIDGE PARK WHERE THE TWO PONDS ARE UNDER RENER, UM, ROLLETTE CREEK RUNS RIGHT THROUGH THE MIDDLE OF BOTH OF THOSE PONDS.

THERE'S ACTUALLY A FILL TUBE THAT FILLS THE EAST POND.

WELL, THAT FILL TUBE FAILED AT SOME POINT LAST YEAR, OUR STAFF NOTICED THAT THE POND LEVEL WAS DOWN, WENT OUT TO INVESTIGATE AND, UH, FOUND A HUGE SINKHOLE LIKE VOLKSWAGEN SIZE SINKHOLE RIGHT THERE.

SO WE BROUGHT IN OUR FRIENDS IN CAPITAL PROJECTS TO COME UP WITH A SOLUTION.

THEY WERE ABLE TO GET A DESIGN DONE.

UM, THE BIDS HAVE COME IN, I THINK THOSE ARE STILL BEING REVIEWED RIGHT NOW, BUT HOPEFULLY WE WILL HAVE A GOOD DESIGN, BE ABLE TO LEVERAGE THIS $130,000 THAT WE WE BUDGETED TO GET THAT REPAIRED.

IT'S NOT ON THE AREA THAT SEES ANY TRAFFIC AT ALL.

WE MAKE SURE WE KEEP IT ALL, UH, UH, CORDONED OFF SO THAT NOBODY GETS IN THERE.

BUT, UH, WE HAVE TO GET THAT FIXED VERY SOON.

AND THEN, AS I MENTIONED EARLIER, WE'RE GONNA BE BUILDING A NEW BRIDGE AT COTTONWOOD PARK ON THE SOUTH CROSSING RIGHT NOW, AS YOU KNOW, THERE'S KIND OF THAT LOW WATER CROSSING THAT ALWAYS GETS INUNDATED, ALWAYS IS MUDDY, ALWAYS HAS DEBRIS ON IT.

SO WE'RE ACTUALLY GONNA BUILD 120 FOOT BRIDGE TO GO OVER THE POND RIGHT THERE, KEEPING THE ALIGNMENT OF THE TRAIL PRETTY CLOSE TO WHERE IT IS.

IT'S GONNA VEER A LITTLE BIT MORE TO THE NORTH ON THE WEST SIDE OF THE POND, BUT IT'S GONNA BE A REALLY, REALLY GREAT ASSET TO THE PARK AND MAKE TRAVERSING THAT A LOT EASIER FOR PEOPLE WHO LIKE TO WALK THE TRAIL OUT THERE.

IT'S GONNA BE ABOUT A $416,000 PROJECT AND THAT'S OUT FOR BID RIGHT NOW.

WE ACTUALLY HAD THE PRE-BID MEETING EARLIER TODAY,

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UH, TO TALK TO THE CONTRACTORS WHO WERE INTERESTED IN THAT.

AND SO CIRCLING BACK A LITTLE BIT TO THE ASSET ASSESSMENT WE DID THIS YEAR, THESE ARE THE PROJECTS WE'RE PROPOSING TO DO WITH THE PARKS MAINTENANCE FUND IN THE COMING YEAR.

SO ONE THING THAT'S REALLY, REALLY IMPORTANT, UM, AT THE AN INCLUSIVE PLAYGROUND AT COTTONWOOD PARK IS APPLICATION OF WHAT'S CALLED A ROLL COAT TO THE SAFETY SURFACING.

NOW THAT'S THE ONLY PARK WE HAVE IN TOWN THAT HAS THAT PORT IN PLACE SAFETY SERVICING, WHICH IS VERY, VERY ACCESSIBLE AND VERY, VERY GREAT.

BUT THE BEST PRACTICE FOR THESE IS TO APPLY BASICALLY ANOTHER COAT OF ADHESIVE THAT BINDS THAT RUBBER MATERIAL TOGETHER TO THE TOP OF IT EVERY 18 TO 24 MONTHS.

AND THAT PROVIDES A WEAR COAT TO THE SURFACE OF THAT.

SO WE'VE DONE THAT TWICE SINCE THE PLAYGROUND WAS PUT IN.

EACH TIME THE CONTRACTOR SAID, WE'VE NEVER SEEN A A PORT IN PLACE SURFACE THAT LOOKS THIS GOOD.

IT'S BECAUSE YOU'RE DOING THIS AS YOU SHOULD IN REGULAR INTERVALS.

SO THAT'S SOMETHING WE WANNA DO AGAIN THIS YEAR.

IT'S BEEN ALMOST 24 MONTHS SINCE WE'VE DONE IT AND IT'S TIME TO DO THAT AGAIN.

AND THAT'S GONNA BE ABOUT $33,000 BASED ON PREVIOUS YEAR COSTS.

WE'D LIKE TO DO SOME MORE IRRIGATION UPDATES.

UM, THIS YEAR WE'RE GONNA TARGET RENTER LINEAR PARK AND PR, EXCUSE ME, PRAIRIE CREEK PARK.

NOT A HUGE PROJECT, BUT AN OPPORTUNITY TO IMPROVE COVERAGE, MAKE SURE ALL OF OUR VALVES AND EVERYTHING ARE ARE IN GOOD SHAPE.

AND GOING BACK TO THAT UTILITY METRIC, MAKING SURE THEY'RE DOING THE JOB.

THEY'RE SUPPOSED TO BE KEEPING PLANTS ALIVE AND MAKING SURE WE DON'T HAVE CRACKS AND THINGS, ESPECIALLY AT PRAIRIE CREEK PARK.

THE CONTRACTOR WORKING ON THE ROAD THERE IS GOING TO COME THROUGH AND REPAIR ANYTHING THAT THEY DAMAGE.

BUT SINCE THERE WILL BE SOME DISRUPTION, SOME DISTURBANCE, YOU KNOW, THEY'RE GONNA BE BORING AND AND TRENCHING FOR NEW, UH, NEW DRAINAGE THROUGH THE PARK, WE EXPECT THAT DRAINAGE THAT COMES OVER THE TOP OF THE GROUND NOT TO BE THE WAY IT WAS BEFORE.

THIS IS A GREAT OPPORTUNITY FOR US TO MAKE SURE THE IRRIGATION SYSTEM IS REALLY DIALED IN.

AND LIKEWISE AT RENER LINEAR PARK, A LOT OF NICE SHADE TREES THERE WHERE PEOPLE LOVE TO, TO WALK AND RUN, BUT THAT SHADES OUT THE TURF.

WE WANNA MAKE SURE THE IRRIGATION SYSTEM IS REALLY DOING ITS JOB THERE SO THAT WE'RE, UH, WE'RE MAXIMIZING THAT PARK.

WE'D ALSO LIKE TO SPEND ABOUT $15,000 TO DO SOME AIRIFICATION ON VARIOUS SPORTS FIELDS.

WE'RE STILL WORKING ON TARGETING EXACTLY WHICH FIELDS WE WANT TO DO THIS IN, BUT DEFINITELY THOSE ARE GONNA BE HIGHLY PROGRAMMED FIELDS WHERE WE SEE A LOT OF USE.

AIRIFICATION IS JUST A, A BEST PRACTICE WHEN IT COMES TO MAINTAINING TURF.

LOOSEN UP COMPACTION, WHICH IF YOU HAVE SOCCER PLAYED ON A FIELD, THERE'S GONNA BE TONS OF COMPACTION FROM PEOPLE RUNNING BACK AND FORTH, BACK AND FORTH ALL THE TIME.

IT GETS MORE AIR DOWN INTO THE ROOTS, JUST LOOSENS EVERYTHING UP AND IT'S REALLY A GREAT THING TO DO TO PROMOTE VIGOROUS TURF GROWTH.

AND THEN WE'D LIKE TO REPLACE THE, UH, THE TREE LIGHTING SYSTEM AT COTTONWOOD PARK.

THAT'S A GREAT ASSET TO THAT PARK, ESPECIALLY WHEN WE HAVE EVENTS LIKE COTTONWOOD THERE THAT IS REALLY, REALLY BEAUTIFUL.

THE WAY IT LIGHTS THOSE TREES.

THIS SYSTEM IS JUST OLD.

UM, WE DON'T ACTUALLY KNOW THE AGE OF IT'S OVER 20 YEARS OLD.

UM, WE, WE KNOW THAT, BUT IT'S TIME FOR THAT TO BE REPLACED.

THERE'S STARTING TO BE SOME FAULTS IN THE WIRING AND THINGS LIKE THAT.

SO WE'RE GONNA HAVE A CONTRACTOR COME IN AND REPLACE THE ENTIRE THING.

AND THEN THIS IS A PROJECT THAT I'M REALLY EXCITED ABOUT, IF FA FAMILIAR WITH THE POND AT FIRE STATION FIVE.

UM, IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE RENOVATION OF THAT FACILITY, UH, JIM AND HIS TEAM HAVE HAD THEIR ARCHITECT COME UP WITH A DESIGN TO CONVERT THAT POND INTO A BIOSWALE.

SO IT WON'T HOLD WATER ANYMORE, BUT IT WILL FILTER WATER THAT RUNS THROUGH THERE.

IT'LL BE A MUCH MORE PLEASANT, UM, ATMOSPHERE TO LOOK AT, GONNA HELP US IMPROVE THAT DECKING AND STUFF THAT'S ON THE FRONT OF THE BUILDING.

AND JUST OVERALL BE A BETTER SOLUTION FOR THAT.

THAT POND HAS A, HAS A LEAK THAT WE HAVEN'T BEEN ABLE TO TRACK DOWN THAT LOSES WATER AND IT'S SOMETIMES JUST AN EYE SOURCE.

THIS IS GONNA BE A MUCH, MUCH BETTER WAY TO, UH, TO ADDRESS THAT LANDSCAPING IN THE FRONT OF THE BUILDING.

SO WE'RE GOING TO FUND THAT THROUGH THE PARK MAINTENANCE FUND.

THE DESIGN WILL BE DONE WHEN THE BUILDING GOES UNDER RENOVATION.

THIS WILL HAPPEN AT THE SAME TIME.

AND THEN OUR STORAGE BUILDINGS, UM, THIS IS A PICTURE OF THE GREENHOUSE BUILDING, UH, OVER AT HANS PARK.

NEEDS A LITTLE BIT OF WORK, UM, OVER 20 YEARS OLD, BUT THERE'S SOME ROT AND WATER DAMAGE THAT WE'D LIKE TO REPAIR BETWEEN ABOUT $75,000 TO KEEP THAT BUILDING IN GOOD SHAPE.

AND THEN THIS IS A PROBLEM THAT CAME TO LIGHT, UM, A FEW MONTHS AGO.

THIS IS THE BRIDGE AT MCCAINY SPRING PARK.

AND YOU KNOW, FIRST AND FOREMOST THE BRIDGE ITSELF IS IN FINE SHAPE.

THIS IS JUST THE, THE STONE FASCIA AND THE RAMP THAT IS ON SOLID GROUND THAT LEADS UP TO THE BRIDGE.

BUT WE SAW THIS FAILURE IN THE, THE FASCIA THERE.

UM, THOSE ROCKS HAVE COME OUT.

UM, ONCE AGAIN, BOY, WE ARE LEANING ON CAPITAL PROJECTS A LOT, BUT THEY HAVE, UH, HELPED US BRING IN A CONSULTANT TO COME UP WITH A DESIGN TO REPAIR THAT.

AND THEN ONCE THAT IS CO COMPLETED, THEN WE WILL FUND THAT THROUGH THE PARK MAINTENANCE FUND.

WE'RE ESTIMATING ABOUT $170,000 TO REPAIR THAT WALL SHORE UP THE, THE TRAIL TO MAKE SURE THAT NOTHING HAPPENS WITH IT AND IT'S IN FINE SHAPE RIGHT NOW, BUT JUST TO PREVENT PROBLEMS ON DOWN THE LINE, UH, TO GET THAT BACK INTO GOOD SHAPE.

AND SO HERE'S KIND OF A SUMMARY OF THE, THE WORK PLAN WE HAVE RIGHT NOW.

LIKE I SAID, WE'RE STILL DIALING IN SOME OF THE NUMBERS THAT THAT WE'RE GONNA NEED.

WE THINK OUR ESTIMATES ARE ARE PRETTY CLOSE.

UM, AND WAITING ON THE FINAL, UH, FINAL NUMBER FOR WHAT, UH, WILL BE INDEXED FOR THE PARK MAINTENANCE FUND.

SO WE MIGHT HAVE A LITTLE BIT OF WIGGLE ROOM THERE.

WE CAN ALWAYS PUT, UH, WHAT WE HAVE LEFT IN CONTINGENCY FOR THESE PROJECTS IN

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CASE WE NEED THAT.

UH, THAT'S ALWAYS NICE TO HAVE THAT IN CASE THINGS GO A LITTLE BIT, UM, DIFFERENT FROM WHAT WE, WE THINK THEY WILL.

AND SO HERE'S A MAP OF THOSE PROJECTS SPREAD OUT THROUGHOUT THE CITY.

UH, SO YOU CAN SEE THE IMPACT IS REALLY SPREAD OUT FAIRLY WELL, UM, THROUGHOUT THE NEIGHBORHOODS IN THE CITY.

AND THEN THIS IS JUST A LOOK AT THE THINGS WE THINK WE MIGHT BE LOOKING AT IN FISCAL YEAR 25 BASED ON THE ASSET ASSESSMENT THIS YEAR.

THESE ARE SOME OF THE ASSETS THAT DIDN'T QUITE MAKE THE THE CUT FOR NOW, BUT WE THINK NEXT YEAR MIGHT BE A GOOD, A GOOD OPPORTUNITY.

UM, WE DO WANNA LOOK AT A NEW RESTROOM VENDOR.

WE'VE BEEN BUYING PREFAB RESTROOMS, WHICH HAS BEEN A GREAT WAY TO REPLACE A RESTROOM BUILDING IN A PARK, BUT IT HAS SOME TROUBLES WITH THE ONES WE'VE USED IN THE YEARS PAST.

SO WE WANT TO CAST A LITTLE BIT WIDER NET AND SEE WHO ELSE MIGHT BE OUT THERE THAT CAN PROVIDE THOSE SERVICES WITH A LITTLE BIT BETTER PRODUCT.

UM, AND THEN YOU'LL SEE THERE'S A ROLL CODE THERE FOR THE BRECKENRIDGE PARK PLAYGROUND THAT'S ACTUALLY UNDER CONSTRUCTION RIGHT NOW.

THE NEW PLAYGROUND BY KEPLER FIELDS.

AND THAT CALLS FOR HAVING A PORT IN PLACE SAFETY SURFACING AS WELL.

SO THIS IS GONNA BE IN OUR FUTURE PROBABLY EVERY YEAR IF WE'RE SWAPPING OFF BETWEEN THOSE TWO, DO ONE ONE YEAR AND THE OTHER, THE NEXT KEEP ON THAT 24 MONTH CYCLE OF GETTING THAT WEAR COAT DOWN.

AND THEN WE REALLY, YOU KNOW, LIKE I MENTIONED EARLIER, WANT TO EMPHASIZE RENOVATING OUR MEDIUM LANDSCAPING.

THIS IS SOMETHING THAT WE'RE DEVELOPING A PLAN ON AND WE PLAN NEXT YEAR TO PUT A LITTLE BIT MORE MONEY INTO THAT SO THAT WE CAN START GETTING THOSE THINGS BACK INTO THE SHAPE THAT OUR CITIZENS ARE ACCUSTOMED TO.

AND THAT COMPLETES MY PRESENTATION, BUT I'D BE HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS IF THERE ARE ANY.

SEAN, GREAT PRESENTATION.

THANK YOU MR. DORIAN.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

THAT WAS REALLY A GREAT PRESENTATION AND THANK YOU AND INVALUABLE.

I I LOVE SEEING ALL THE PROJECTS THAT YOU'RE WORKING ON.

I, UM, WANTED TO ASK, UH, JUST A, I GUESS PERSONAL QUESTION ON THE PROCESS OF CONVERTING THE BIO WELL THE POND, UH, WHAT IS THE PROCESS OF CONVERTING THAT? SO, UM, I, ON THE 30,000 FOOT LEVEL, WE'RE GONNA FILL IT IN A LITTLE BIT, BUT KEEP GENERALLY THE SAME CONTOUR AND THEN PLANT THAT WITH, WITH NATIVE PLANTS.

AND THEN THERE'LL BE SOME PROBABLY ROCK THAT GOES THROUGH THERE, KIND OF ALMOST LIKE A, A DRY RIVERBED LOOK, BUT THERE STILL WILL BE SOME DRAINAGE THAT COMES THROUGH THAT AREA, YOU KNOW, FROM THE NORTH AND ACROSS THE PARKING LOT THERE.

SO THERE'S A DRAIN THAT'S RIGHT OUT THERE ON WINTER ROAD THAT WILL BE PRESERVED AT ITS CURRENT ELEVATION I BELIEVE, SO THAT ANY, ANY SURFACE DRAINAGE WILL MOVE THROUGH THAT.

SOME OF IT WILL HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO FILTER DOWN TO PREVENT IT FROM GOING INTO THE STORM DRAIN, BUT WHAT IT DOES MAKE IT THROUGH WILL GO RIGHT INTO THAT DRAIN.

SO RAISING THE BOTTOM UP A LITTLE BIT AND THEN PLANTING THAT SO THAT, UH, SO THAT IT DIFFUSES THAT STORMWATER A LITTLE BIT.

THAT'LL JUST BE CREATED LIKE FOR WASTEWATER.

JUST WA OR DRAIN OFF RIGHT? JUST STORM WATER RUN OFF STORM FROM THE NORTH.

WELL I I LIKE THAT IDEA BY THE WAY, WAY.

JUST, UM, TWO THOUGHTS REAL QUICK AND, AND ONE MAYBE MORE DIRECTED TO YOU DON.

COULD WE AT THE, MAYBE AT AN UPCOMING HOA PRESIDENT'S MEETING, COULD WE TALK ABOUT THE MATCHING FUND BEAUTIFICATION AND ALSO THE DEDICATION BENCH PROGRAM? I'M THINKING BACK OVER THE LAST FOUR YEARS, I DON'T REMEMBER THAT WE'VE BROUGHT THAT UP AND IF WE HAVE, IT'S PROBABLY BEEN A, A WHILE AND I'M NOT SURE THAT THE HOAS ARE ALWAYS MINDFUL OF THAT.

SO I THINK IT'D BE REALLY GOOD IF WE COULD TALK ABOUT THAT AT, AT AN UPCOMING DEFINITELY HOA PRESIDENT'S MEETING.

CUZ I THINK THAT GETS SOMETIMES LOST IN ALL THE, ALL THE DETAILS.

YEAH, THOSE ARE BOTH GREAT TOPICS.

AND THEN THE, THE SECOND THING IS, AND I'LL, I WANNA LOOK AT KENT FOR A MOMENT.

IS THERE ANY OPPORTUNITY TO BULK BUY THE IFICATION WITH A GOLF COURSE AND BE ABLE TO DO THAT ALL AS ONE PACKAGE? CUZ THEY HAVE TO DO THE IFICATION OUT THERE, JUST LIKE WHAT SHAWN'S TALKING ABOUT AND I'M JUST WONDERING IF WE COULD, WE COULD CONTRACT WITH ONE VENDOR AND SAVE SOME MONEY AND MAKE THAT HAPPEN.

I THINK THAT'S CER UH, CERTAINLY SOMETHING WE COULD LOOK AT.

WE'VE DONE THAT ON OTHER THINGS.

I THINK SEAN FERTILIZER CERTAINLY KIND OF CHEMICALS AND SO FORTH.

ABSOLUTELY SOLY, I THINK THAT'S SOMETHING WE COULD LOOK AT.

YEAH, JUST HIT ME WHILE I, WHILE I WAS HEARING THAT I'M LIKE AIR WAIT A MINUTE, I KNOW ABOUT AIRIFICATION SCREWS UP THE GOLF COURSE.

NO, I'M JUST KIDDING.

OTHERWISE, GREAT PRESENTATION.

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE HARD WORK MS. JUSTICE.

UH, THANK YOU MAYOR.

UH, THANK YOU SHAWN FOR THE PRESENTATION.

UH, I WANNA JUST APPLAUD THE EFFORTS ON THE, THE MEDIANS, UH, AND BRING UP THE FACT THAT I THINK THIS YEAR MORE THAN ANY, WE RECEIVED A LOT OF EMAILS ABOUT PEOPLE THAT WERE SUPER PROUD OF THE WILDFLOWERS IN THE CITY AND A LOT OF THOSE ARE IN THE MEDIANS.

AND SO, YOU KNOW, I I THINK I WAS DRIVING DOWN RENER THIS YEAR AND I TEXTED DON, IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN LAST YEAR, AND JUST THESE RED POPPIES, I MEAN, THEY WERE AMAZING AND I WAS JUST LIKE, I MEAN I HAD TO, I HAD LIKE STOP AT HER STOPLIGHT, SORRY, CHIEF TITTLE AND TEXT AND, AND SAY, THESE LOOK AMAZING.

LIKE, I MEAN, IT'S, IT'S REALLY, REALLY INCREDIBLE.

SO IT GOES, UH, YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW, OFTENTIMES IT'S, YOU KNOW, PEOPLE DON'T STOP TO THINK ABOUT IT, BUT THIS YEAR THEY, THEY REALLY HAVE, WE RECEIVED A LOT OF CORRESPONDENCE ABOUT IT, SO, RIGHT.

THANK YOU FOR THAT.

AND THEN TO ECHO UH, COUNCILMAN HUTCHMAN WRITER'S COMMENT ABOUT THE MATCHING FUND, UM, YOU KNOW, I I THINK WE SHOULD LET OUR HO OUR ACTUAL HOA FRIENDS KNOW THAT THOSE FUNDS ARE AVAILABLE FOR PUBLIC RIGHT OF WAY, UM, SORT OF SITUATIONS.

UH, THERE'S AN ISSUE WITH USING

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PUBLIC FUNDS ON PRIVATE LAND, BUT, UM, THERE ARE WAYS THAT WE MAY BE ABLE TO PARTNER WITH THEM, UM, IF THERE ARE PUBLIC RIGHT OF WAY, UH, AREAS.

SO I THINK IT WOULD BE GOOD TO, TO BRING UP AT A MEETING AGAIN.

THANK YOU MR. BARRIOS.

UM, THANK YOU MR. MAYOR.

I HAVE A QUESTION, UH, ABOUT THE SPRING PARK, BRI WELL I HAVE A COUPLE QUESTIONS.

ONE SPRING PARK BRIDGE REPAIR.

SO, AND I KNOW YOU'RE CURRENTLY DE IT'S CURRENTLY BEING DESIGNED.

SO IS THE IDEA, DID THAT I GUESS GIVE WAY, IT LOOKS LIKE SOME BRICK FELL OUT THEN YOU HAD SOME OF THE UNDERFILL FOR, YOU KNOW, LACK OF, I DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU WOULD CALL THAT, BUT THE UNDERFILL KIND OF CAME OUT, RIGHT? SO DO YOU HAVE TO BUILD A WHOLE NEW RAMP THERE? I DON'T THINK WE'LL HAVE TO BUILD A WHOLE NEW RAMP.

I THINK WE CAN, CAN MUD JACK THAT OR, OR FOAM JACKET OR SOMETHING TO MAKE SURE IT'S, IT'S STABLE AND THEN PUT THAT, THAT STONE VENEER BACK ON.

PART OF THIS IS GONNA BE FIGURING OUT WHY THAT FAILED IN THE FIRST PLACE AND THAT'S WHEN THE CONSULTANT'S GONNA WORK ON.

UM, BUT I, I DON'T THINK IT WILL ALL HAVE TO BE REBUILT, BUT THAT WOULDN'T, THAT WOULDN'T ENTAIL REBUILDING THE BRIDGE.

THAT'S JUST A, YOU KNOW, THE RAMP THAT COMES UP TO IT BASICALLY.

UM, QUESTION ABOUT COTTONWOOD PARK BRIDGE? CAUSE I KNOW I'M GONNA GET QUESTIONS ABOUT THIS, UM, SINCE THAT'S MY BACKYARD THERE.

UM, WILL, SO WERE THAT CURRENT BRIDGES THAT ALWAYS FLOODS OVER AND MM-HMM.

IS CLOSED EVERY TIME IT RAINS.

UM, WILL THAT BE REMOVED AND IS THE IDEA IS TO KIND OF MAKE THAT STONE WATERFALL FEATURE KIND OF EXTENDED OR IS THAT GONNA BE AN OPEN AREA? WILL THAT OLD BRIDGE BE REMOVED? PRETTY, SO THE CONCRETE WILL STAY OKAY.

THE RAILING WILL BE REMOVED, THE TRAIL WILL BE BIND SO THAT IT DOES NOT LEAD UP TO THAT, THAT CURRENT CROSSING.

UM, IT WILL, IT WILL MOVE A LITTLE BIT FOR THE NEW BRIDGE, SO THERE WON'T BE A, A PATH RIGHT THERE TO IT, IF THAT MAKES SENSE.

AND THEN AS PART OF THIS PROJECT, WE'RE NOT DOING ANYTHING WITH THAT, BUT WE HAD TALKED ABOUT, DEPENDING ON WHAT THE, THE IMPACT OF THE POND LEVEL MIGHT BE, IS GOING AHEAD AND PUTTING MORE ROCK ON TOP OF THAT JUST TO EXTEND THAT LOOK, UH, RIGHT THERE THAT WE, WE DON'T KNOW EXACTLY HOW THAT'S GONNA LOOK AT THIS POINT.

WELL, COUPLE OF THE QUESTIONS THAT I WAS GONNA ASK WAS, HAS ALREADY BEEN ASKED, BUT I'LL ASK THOSE QUESTION AGAIN BECAUSE I'M, YOU KNOW, I HOPE TO GET A LITTLE MORE DETAILED ANSWER ON THAT.

PROBABLY.

YOU DON'T HAVE THAT LITTLE DETAILED ANSWER ON THIS YET, BUT AT LEAST YOU CAN THINK ABOUT IT WHEN MOVING FORWARD.

UH, NUMBER ONE, THE FAILURE THAT HAPPENED ON THAT, UH, THE SPRING, UM, MCKAY SPRING, MCEE SPRING, THAT, UH, THAT AREA, UH, YOU KNOW, HOPEFULLY, YOU KNOW, LESSON WILL BE LEARNED AND TO AVOID THIS THING MOVING FORWARD.

UH, BECAUSE I HAVE SEEN THAT KIND OF, YOU KNOW, ROCK OR STONE FAILURE, DIFFERENT OTHER PLACES.

MAYBE THE GLUE HAS A QUESTION.

SO, ANYWAY, THAT'S, UH, THAT'S ONE THING.

AND, BUT THE OTHER THING ON THE COTTONWOOD PARK, THE BRIDGE, UH, WHAT KIND OF BRIDGE YOU ARE LOOKING AT THE STEEL STRUCTURE OR WOODEN STRUCTURE, IT'S, IT'S A SEAL STRUCTURES, STEELS STRUCTURE.

BUT THE COST YOU HAVE IS, UH, $1,400 PER LINEAR FEE.

THAT'S WHAT THE, THE ENGINEER'S ESTIMATE CAME BACK AT.

BUT ON THAT ONE, LOOKS LIKE YOU HAVE, I DON'T KNOW IF I DID THE MATH WRONG, IT WAS OVER $3,000 PER LINEAR FEET CAME OUT.

120 FEET.

THAT'S, THAT'S THE ENTIRE PROJECT, NOT JUST FOR THE BRIDGE.

OH, OKAY.

THE EARLIER COST WAS JUST, YOU KNOW, TO PURCHASE THE BRIDGE, IT'S ABOUT $1,400 PER, PER LINEAR FOOT.

SO THAT DIDN'T INCLUDE INBUT MONTHS OR THE TRAIL WORK OR GRADING OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT.

THAT'S GOOD.

SO THIS, YOU'RE GONNA HAVE LITTLE MORE THINGS ON IT AND RIGHT.

BUT THE OTHER QUESTION THAT THE EXISTING BRIDGE THAT YOU HAVE, YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW, IT WOULD BE NICE IF, UH, YOU ALREADY SAID THAT, YOU KNOW, IT COULD PROBABLY MAKE IT LIKE WATERFALL FEATURES, UH, MAYBE VERY INEXPENSIVE WAY.

IT CAN BE DONE SOMETHING IMMEDIATELY.

BUT, UH, MAYBE LONG TERM YOU CAN HAVE DIFFERENT PLAN.

UH, YEAH.

AND, AND WE'RE GONNA LOOK AT AT OPTIONS ON THAT FOR, FOR SURE.

JUST BECAUSE IT'S, IT'S BASICALLY LIKE THAT, LIKE I SAID, A LOW WATER CROSSING, SO THERE'S NO RAY STRUCTURE THERE.

UM, I, I'M NOT SURE WHAT IMPACT THAT MIGHT HAVE ON THE POND LEVEL OR, OR THE FLOOD PLAIN, EVEN IF WE START BUILDING UP RIGHT THERE.

SO WE'RE GONNA HAVE TO LOOK AT THAT TO SEE WHAT'S GONNA BE THE BEST WAY.

PROBABLY YOU HAVE TO LOOK AT THE, UH, MODEL AND SEE IF THAT'S CHANGING ANY, MAYBE YOU CAN PUT SOME WE ARE TYPE THINGS THAT WILL OH, YEAH.

ANYWAY, JUST A, JUST A THOUGHT.

INVESTMENT WE HAVE, WE'RE REALLY STARTING TO MOVE THE NEEDLE AND BRING SOME LARGE PROJECTS LIKE HE'S OUTLINED HERE.

OKAY, SEAN, THANK YOU.

AON, THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

WE APPRECIATE YOU AND YOUR TEAM COMING.

YEP.

MAYOR, JUST JUST ONE COMMENT BEFORE WE MOVE ON.

UM, I, I THINK THIS IS A GREAT EXAMPLE OF WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO ACCOMPLISH IN A NUMBER OF REALMS. IF YOU LOOK AT THE $2 MILLION THAT'S BEEN REINVESTED OVER FIVE YEARS, IT'S NO COINCIDENCE THAT AS YOU LOOKED AT ALMOST ALL OF THOSE CATEGORIES, YOU'RE SEEING HIGH, HIGH, 75, 80, 90% NOW BEING IN A GOOD AND A, UH, SUPERIOR OR A, UH, GOOD AND, AND A, UH, SUPERIOR, UH, RATING OR GOOD AND GREAT RATING.

AND I THINK THIS IS, YOU KNOW, WHAT WE ASPIRE TO DO IN MANY OF THESE DIFFERENT REALMS. AND IT'S THIS ANNUAL REINVESTMENT THAT ALLOWS US HERE TO CATCH UP.

AND NOW, UH, WITH SHAWN'S, UH, AND, AND, UH, PLANNING EACH EACH YEAR, NOT ONLY CATCH UP AND KIND OF PROTECT THE

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SO, THE COUNCIL, THIS IS, THIS IS YOUR WORK.

UH, AND, AND THIS IS WHAT AGAIN, WE ASPIRE TO DO IN ALL THESE AREAS.

STREETS, ALLEYS, DRAINAGES, WE'LL TALK ABOUT IT.

IT'S THIS CONTINUOUS REINVESTMENT.

IT'S REALLY STARTING TO PAY DIVIDENDS.

WELL SAID.

SO, WELL, THANK Y'ALL AND THANK Y'ALL FOR SHARING YOUR NATIONAL PARKS MONTH WITH US, AND Y'ALL ARE DOING AN AWESOME JOB.

WE APPRECIATE EVERYTHING.

UM, I GUESS I SHOULD GIVE A SHOUT OUT TO NOTICE YOU HAD PARKS COMMISSIONER, MR. FALSE WAS HERE.

HE JUST SLIPPED OUT THE DOOR.

BUT WE WANT TO THANK HIM FOR CELEBRATING WITH Y'ALL AS WELL.

SO, THANK Y'ALL.

Y'ALL HAVE A GREAT EVENING.

APPRECIATE IT.

AND AT THIS TIME, WE'RE GONNA

[E. REVIEW AND DISCUSS THE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY WORK PLAN]

REVIEW AND DISCUSS THE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY WORK PLAN, MR. MAGNER, GREAT MARIN COUNSEL, UH, DAN STEGE, UH, OUR, OUR, UH, CHIEF INFORMATION OFFICER, AND EDS NALY, OUR DEPUTY CHIEF INFORMATION OFFICER HERE TO JOIN US TONIGHT.

UM, YOU KNOW, I'M REALLY PROUD OF THE INVESTMENT AS WELL AS IN IT NOW, ALMOST, UH, 5 MILLION A YEAR, AS YOU'LL SEE BETWEEN THE TWO FUNDING SOURCES.

UH, REALLY STARTING TO REACH A LEVEL OF SUSTAINABILITY, UH, THAT'LL ALLOW US TO CONTINUOUSLY RE UH, REFRESH OUR TECHNOLOGY, WHICH IN AS LITTLE AS SOMETIMES THREE YEARS OR ON LONG TIME, UH, FIVE YEARS ON THE LONG END, UH, NEEDS TO BE ADDRESSED ABOUT, PARTICULARLY, AS YOU'LL SEE.

AND PLEASE DO FOCUS ON SO MUCH PUBLIC SAFETY.

CAUSE A LOT OF TIMES WHEN WE GO THROUGH THE BUDGET PROCESS NEXT, UH, UH, NEXT WEEK, AND WE START TALKING ABOUT THAT, THAT GETS LOST IN HOW MUCH TECHNOLOGY, UH, THOSE TWO, UH, POLICE AND FIRE SERVICES REALLY REQUIRE.

AND SO, DAN, I APPRECIATE YOU AND, AND ED PUTTING THIS TOGETHER, AND I'LL TURN IT OVER TO YOU FOR FURTHER BRIEFING.

TO CALL A DIVORCE WITH THE, UH, PROVIDER, I WANNA MAKE SURE THAT WE, WE CAN GET OUR DATA BACK IN A FORMAT THAT'S USEABLE FOR US THAT WE CAN TRANSFER TO, YOU KNOW, YET ANOTHER APPLICATION.

THANK YOU, MR. MAGNER, MR. MAYOR, COUNSEL, APPRECIATE THE OPPORTUNITY TO, UH, PRESENT THIS EVENING.

UH, SO LEMME START WITH KIND OF THE OVERVIEW.

UH, SO REALLY WE'RE GONNA GO INTO THREE DIFFERENT, UH, BIG, UH, MAJOR AREAS, IF YOU WILL.

UH, STARTING WITH OUR IT DEPARTMENT OVERVIEW.

UM, THEN WE'LL MOVE INTO CURRENT ACTIVITIES, AND THAT'S REALLY BOTH THIS YEAR AS WELL AS THE LOOK FORWARD, UH, TO NEXT YEAR.

UH, AND THEN WE'LL REVIEW OUR, UH, LEGACY SYSTEMS, UH, AND OUR MIGRATION TO OUR NEW ENVIRONMENT AND HOW WE'RE DOING THERE.

SO, GUIDING PRINCIPLES, UH, AGAIN, I WON'T GO THROUGH ALL THESE BULLET POINTS CUZ UH, EACH OF THE, UH, SUBSEQUENT SLIDES THAT ARE COMING UP WILL, UH, DIVE DOWN INTO, UH, TO THE, THESE.

SO STARTING WITH INTEROPERABILITY, UH, AND AS I WAS GOING THROUGH THIS, I WAS TRYING TO THINK OF WHAT WAS A GOOD EXAMPLE.

UH, ORIGINALLY I HAD THIS HR EXAMPLE, AND I, I SAID, YOU KNOW, PROBABLY SOMETHING THAT'S MORE RELATABLE IS MAYBE EMAIL, RIGHT? IN OUR MICROSOFT ENVIRONMENT.

SO, UH, AS I TALK ABOUT INTERACTION ACROSS MULTIPLE DEPARTMENTS, WE DON'T WANT EACH DEPARTMENT TO GO OUT AND SET UP THEIR OWN EMAIL, UH, ENVIRONMENT, RIGHT? AND THEN WE'D HAVE ISSUES WITH TRYING TO COMMUNICATE FROM ONE SYSTEM TO THE OTHER.

UH, SO WE UTILIZE MICROSOFT'S EXCHANGE PART OF OUR OFFICE 365 PACKAGE, UH, ACROSS ALL OF OUR, UH, DEPARTMENTS.

UH, THE NICE THING ABOUT THAT IS MICROSOFT HAS INTEGRATION BUILT IN, AS YOU CAN IMAGINE, WITH THEIR PRODUCT SETS.

SO, UH, WHERE WE GET OUR EMAIL AND OTHER ATTRIBUTES, AS WE CALL IT, UM, UH, IT COMES FROM A COMMON REPOSITORY CALLED ACTIVE DIRECTORY.

UH, AND IT ALLOWS YOU TO DO THINGS LIKE, AS YOU'RE PUTTING TOGETHER AN EMAIL, YOU KNOW, AND YOU BRING IT UP IN OUTLOOK, AND YOU START PUTTING IN THE USERNAME, UH, YOU KNOW, THE PERSON YOU WANNA SEND THE EMAIL TO, UH, IF YOU'VE EVER NOTICED, YOU'LL HIT, YOU KNOW, I'M GONNA HIT E AS I'M SENDING AN EMAIL TO ED, AND IT'LL BRING UP A LIST OF, UH, PEOPLE THAT BEGAN WITH E THAT I CONVERSE WITH, AND I CAN JUST SELECT THAT SO THAT, THAT GETS INTO THE, YOU KNOW, HAVING THE DATA IN ONE PLACE AND DOING THE AUTO POPULATION, UH, SCENARIOS.

UH, THE OTHER THING WE TRY TO ASPIRE TO IS, UH, GETTING TO WHAT WE CALL SINGLE SIGN-ON.

UH, SO THAT'S BEING ABLE TO USE ONE USER ID PASSWORD COMBINATION ACROSS MULTIPLE APPLICATIONS.

WE, WE CALL IT A UTOPIAN STATE.

IT'S A STATE WE WOULD LIKE TO GET TO.

UH, IT'S VERY CHALLENGING TO GET TO THAT WITH OTHER APPLICATIONS, BUT AS WE FIND AS YEARS GO ON, MORE AND MORE THIRD PARTIES ARE, UH, DOING INTEGRATIONS WITH ACTIVE DIRECTORY.

SO WE ARE GETTING A LITTLE BIT CLOSER, UH, I GUESS EACH, UH, YEAR AND MAKING THAT HAPPEN.

SO DIVING INTO, UH, CLOUD BASED OPPORTUNITIES.

SO WE WANNA TAKE MORE OF A CLOUD FIRST MENTALITY, AND I THINK WE'VE DONE MORE AND MORE OF THAT.

UH, WHAT THAT HELPS US WITH IS WE DON'T HAVE TO GO BUILD THE INFRASTRUCTURE EVERY TIME.

SO IF I'M SETTING UP A NEW APPLICATION, I DON'T HAVE TO GO OUT AND BUY ALL THE SERVERS AND THE, UH, STORAGE AND SO FORTH.

UH, WE LEVERAGE THE CLOUD PROVIDER, THEY HAVE THAT INFRASTRUCTURE, AND WE'RE BASICALLY LEASING THE USE OF THEIR APPLICATION ON THEIR INFRASTRUCTURE.

SO WE'RE NOT LOOKING AT ANNUAL REFRESHES EVERY FIVE YEARS AND, AND DOING IT.

ADDITIONAL INVESTMENT IN, IN THAT, UH, ALL THE PATCHING, UH, FIRMWARE UPGRADES, THE APPLICATION DEVELOPMENTS, THAT'S ALL HANDLED BY THE CLOUD PROVIDER.

UH, SOME OTHER KEY POINTS, THOUGH, WE RETAIN OWNERSHIP OF OUR DATA.

SO WE MAKE SURE ANYTIME WE'RE DOING THESE AGREEMENTS THAT WE, UH, TALK TO THE THIRD PARTY, MAKE SURE WE OWN OUR, OUR DATA, AND ALSO IMPORTANTLY, WE MAKE SURE THAT WE HAVE THE ABILITY TO RECOVER OUR, OUR DATA, RIGHT? IF WE HAVE A LI I LIKE

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AND THEN THIS LAST BULLET.

SO I, I, I WILL TELL YOU, MORE THAN LIKELY IN MY TENURE AS THE CIO HERE AT THE CITY, WE WILL PROBABLY ALWAYS BE IN A HYBRID MODEL.

AND WHAT A HYBRID MODEL IS, IS I DON'T HAVE ALL OF MY SYSTEMS OR ALL MY APPLICATIONS LOCAL, NOR DO I HAVE ALL MY APPLICATIONS IN THE CLOUD.

I'M, I'M SOMEWHERE IN BETWEEN.

I HAVE SOME ON PREMISE AND SOME IN THE CLOUD, AND WE'RE, WE'RE MOVING MORE AND MORE TOWARDS THE CLOUD.

SO OUR, OUR PERCENTAGE IN THE CLOUD IS GREATER THAN OUR PERCENTAGE, UH, ON SITE.

AND I DO YOU EXPECT THAT TO CONTINUE TO INCREASE.

BUT, UH, AGAIN, I DON'T THINK WE'LL GET TO A POINT WHERE WE'RE ALL ONE WAY OR, OR THE OTHER.

SO, SECURITY, THE FIRST THING I'VE GOTTA SAY ABOUT SECURITY IS SECURITY'S NOT JUST AN IT RESPONSIBILITY.

UH, CERTAINLY WE HAVE A BIG PART IN IT, BUT IT'S EVERYBODY'S CITY-WIDES RESPONSIBILITY.

UH, BECAUSE I, I CAN'T BE IN EVERYBODY'S SEAT GOING TO A WEBSITE OR RESPONDING TO AN EMAIL.

UH, EVERY INDIVIDUAL HAS TO BE READY TO DO THAT AND BE AWARE OF THE CONSEQUENCES OUT THERE.

UH, BUT FROM AN IT PERSPECTIVE, WE DO CONSIDER SECURITY IN EVERYTHING WE DO, WHETHER IT'S IMPLEMENTING HARDWARE, NEW SOFTWARE PACKAGES, OUR PROCESSES.

AND SOME OF THE THINGS THAT WE'VE TRIED TO DO TO ENHANCE THAT IS LEVERAGE, UH, MULTIFACTOR AUTHENTICATION.

SO NOT JUST HAVING A USER ID PASSWORD COMBINATION, BUT ANOTHER MECHANISM THAT DOES THE AUTH AUTHENTICATION.

UH, WE CERTAINLY TRY TO KEEP UP WITH ALL OF OUR PATCHING AND, AND UPDATES.

UM, WE PUT IN VARIOUS MONITORING SYSTEMS TO, YOU KNOW, TRY TO DETECT WHAT'S GOING ON IN THE ENVIRONMENT AND WHERE POSSIBLE, UH, AS, AS IT ALERTS TO SOMETHING, HAVE IT TAKE AUTOMATED ACTION TO CORRECT THE ISSUE.

UM, OR IF WE DON'T HAVE AN AUTOMATED ACTION TO SEND A, A MESSAGE TO THE APPROPRIATE, UH, ENGINEER SO THAT PERSON CAN TAKE, UH, THE REQUIRED, UH, ACTION.

AND THEN OF COURSE, IT ALSO PLAYS INTO, UH, VARIOUS, UH, AUDIT AND COMPLIANCE REQUIREMENTS.

ONE OF THE BIG ONES FOR US IS, UH, UH, CGI AND MAKING SURE THAT WE HAVE THE APPROPRIATE AUTHORITY TO ACCESS PUBLIC SAFETY DATA.

SO FROM A CUSTOMER SERVICE PERSPECTIVE, UH, WE'RE NOT HERE TO DO IT JUST FOR THE SAKE OF IT.

YOU KNOW, I DO HAVE A LOT OF, UH, BITTEN URGE AS I LIKE TO CALL 'EM, MYSELF BEING ONE OF THEM, UH, THAT LIKES TO DABBLE IN TECHNOLOGY.

BUT WE'RE NOT HERE TO DO TECHNOLOGY JUST BECAUSE WE LIKE TECHNOLOGY.

WE TRULY NEED TO SERVICE THE NEEDS OF OUR CUSTOMER.

AND OUR CUSTOMER ARE ALL THE INTERNAL, UH, DEPARTMENTS, RIGHT? SO, SO WE WANT TO ENABLE THEM TECHNOLOGY-WISE, SO THAT THEY CAN TURN AROUND AND THEN SERVICE THEIR, THEIR CUSTOMERS.

SO IT'S ALL ABOUT EMPOWERING THE END USER.

AND WITH THAT COMES A LITTLE BIT OF A CULTURAL CHANGE, RIGHT? AGAIN, I DON'T WANT PEOPLE TO BE DEPENDENT ON IT.

IF SOMEBODY WANTS TO RUN A REPORT FROM A FINANCIAL APPLICATION, I DON'T WANT THEM TO HAVE TO GO TO IT TO RUN THAT REPORT.

I WANNA EMPOWER THEM SO THEY HAVE THE ABILITY TO RUN THE REPORT THEMSELVES.

AND IT DOESN'T BECOME A BOTTLENECK.

IT'S NOT THAT WE WOULDN'T BE HAPPY TO DO IT, WE'RE DEFINITELY HAPPY TO, TO ASSIST, BUT WE DON'T WANT US TO BE THE BOTTLENECKING, UH, FOLKS GETTING THEIR WORK DONE.

SO ALSO, WE WORK IN THE NOW, BUT WE NEED TO PROJECT INTO THE FUTURE, RIGHT? SO, SO WE NEED TO LOOK AT THOSE THINGS, YOU KNOW, ON THE HORIZON, WHAT'S HAPPENING.

AND ONE OF THE THINGS THAT YOU HEAR A LOT ABOUT TODAY IS, UH, ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE.

AND I, I'LL TELL YOU, IT, NOT ONLY IS IT HERE, IT IT'S BEING USED TODAY.

UH, MICROSOFT IS A BIG INVESTOR IN CHAT G PT, WHICH IS ONE OF THE POPULAR PLATFORMS THAT'S OUT THERE.

THEY'RE INTEGRATING AI INTO, UH, BING, WHICH IS THEIR, UH, UH, UH, BROWSER TECHNOLOGY, THEIR SEARCH ENGINE TECHNOLOGY.

UM, SO IT, IT, IT'S HERE.

SO FOR US, IT, IT'S, WELL, HOW DO WE ALIGN? HOW DO WE ADAPT THAT TECHNOLOGY AND UTILIZE IT, UH, AND BE READY FOR IT, UH, IN THE FUTURE? WE ALSO NEED TO LOOK AT MULTI-YEAR PLANNING.

SO, UH, NOT ONLY ARE WE GONNA LOOK AT COSTS, OBVIOUSLY ONE OF THE REASONS WHY WE'RE HERE TODAY, UH, BUT TIMING, WHEN'S THE RIGHT TIME TO DO THAT PROJECT OR THAT EFFORT? AND IN WHAT SEQUENCE DO WE NEED TO DO IT? SO THOSE ARE ALL THINGS THAT WE HAVE TO, UH, CONSIDER AS WELL, UH, FROM A PROGRAM AND PROJECT MANAGEMENT PERSPECTIVE, WHICH IS NEAR AND DEAR TO ED'S HEART AS THIS, UH, FALLS IN HIS AREA OF RESPONSIBILITY.

UH, CURRENTLY IN OUR PORTFOLIO, WE HAVE 34 PROJECTS THAT WE ARE ACTIVELY ENGAGED IN TODAY, WHICH IS QUITE A BIT, UM, UH, AND WE GET TIED INTO SO MANY DIFFERENT ASPECTS.

SO EVEN IF IT IS NOT THE DRIVER OF A PROJECT, WE HAVE SO MANY PROJECTS OUT THERE THAT HAVE AN IT COMPONENT THAT WE HAVE TO BE ENGAGED IN THE PROJECT AS WELL.

UH, WE ALSO LOOK TO REFINE OUR IT SERVICE DEL OUR IT PROJECTS BY STANDARDIZING OUR SERVICE DELIVERY.

AND WHAT WE MEAN BY THAT IS WE NEED TO HAVE A CONSISTENT WAY IN WHICH WE DELIVER PROJECTS SO THAT WE'RE NOT DOING IT ONE WAY, ONE TIME IN A DIFFERENT WAY, ANOTHER TIME.

UM, ALSO WITH THE MILESTONES, WE NEED TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE, WHETHER YOU CALL 'EM MILESTONES OR GATEWAYS, WE'RE ACHIEVING THOSE IN ACHIEVING 'EM IN THE RIGHT ORDER.

SO, UH, WE DON'T WANNA BE IN A SCENARIO WHERE WE'RE DOING THE SOLUTION BEFORE WE GET THE REQUIREMENTS, RIGHT, BECAUSE YOU NEED THE REQUIREMENTS FULLY BEFORE YOU CAN UNDERSTAND WHAT THE TRUE SOLUTION NEEDS TO LOOK LIKE.

AND THEN ALSO, FROM A GO

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LIVE PERSPECTIVE, EVEN IF THE SYSTEM'S READY TO GO LIVE, WE NEED TO MAKE SURE THE PEOPLE ARE READY TO GO LIVE AS WELL ON THAT SYSTEM.

AND WE NEED TO DO THAT THROUGH, UH, TRAINING AND, AND AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE, SOME HANDS-ON EXPERIENCE.

SO, UM, THAT'S VERY IMPORTANT AS WELL.

SO, WITH THIS SIDE CHART, , UH, SO WHAT I'M TRYING TO PROVIDE HERE IS JUST KIND OF THE, THE SCOPE IN VARIOUS AREAS.

UM, I, I CERTAINLY WON'T GO THROUGH ALL THESE ITEMS, UH, BUT I DO WANNA BRING YOUR ATTENTION TO, UH, OUR DESKTOP AND LAPTOPS SCENARIOS, AS WELL AS OUR TABLETS AND SMARTPHONES, AND WHAT WE'RE SHOWING HERE.

AND HONESTLY, I PROBABLY SHOULD HAVE HAD A TREND, UH, ANALYSIS WITH THIS, BUT WE'RE, WE'RE MOVING MORE AND MORE TO MOBILITY.

SO LAST YEAR WAS KIND OF A UNIQUE YEAR FOR US WHERE WE ACTUALLY GOT TO A POINT WHERE WE HAD MORE LAPTOPS THAN DESKTOPS.

WE HAD 52% LAPTOPS IN AN ENVIRONMENT VERSUS 48% DESKTOPS.

UH, NOW, ESPECIALLY WITH THE, UH, FIRE IN, IN OUR REPLACEMENTS THAT WE'VE HAD TO DO, UH, WE'VE MOVED EVEN FARTHER DOWN THE MOBILITY ROUTE.

SO NOW WE'RE AT 62% LAPTOPS AND 38% DESKTOPS.

UM, ALSO WITH OUR, UH, TABLETS, WE'VE INCREASED THE NUMBER FROM 300 TO THREE 13.

SO, UM, MORE MOBILITY THERE.

AND ANOTHER BIG AREA WHERE WE'VE DONE THAT IS WITH OUR, OUR SMARTPHONES.

SO WE'VE, WE'VE GONE FROM, UH, 363 TO 425 SMARTPHONES.

SO AGAIN, ALL THAT PLAYS INTO THE, UH, UH, MOBILITY.

SO CURRENT ACTIVITIES, UH, AGAIN, WE'LL TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT, UH, FUNDING SOURCES.

UH, AND THEN I, I GET ACTIVITIES BROKEN DOWN, REALLY BETWEEN BOTH GENERAL GOVERNMENT AND PUBLIC SAFETY, AS, AS DON WAS, UH, NOTING.

UH, SO WE, AGAIN, WE'LL SHOW ACTIVITIES THAT ARE CURRENT AS WELL AS ACTIVITIES WE HAVE, UH, COMING UP FOR THE NEXT YEAR.

OPERATING SOURCES, OR, I'M SORRY, FUNDING SOURCES.

UH, SO WE GET OUR, OUR FUNDING FROM OBVIOUSLY OPERATING, UH, SO GENERAL, UH, UH, EXPENSES, UH, COST REPLACEMENT OR CAPITAL REPLACEMENT, I SHOULD SAY.

UH, INTERNAL SERVICE FUNDS.

SO OUR IT, UH, TRAFFIC FUND WOULD BE AN EXAMPLE OF A, UH, UH, INTERNAL SERVICE FUND AND GO INTO MORE DETAILS, UH, REGARDING THAT HERE IN A FEW MINUTES.

AND THEN WE ALSO, UH, GET, UH, FUNDING FROM TIME TO TIME FROM, UH, GRANTS.

SO AN EXAMPLE OF THAT WOULD BE THE, UH, CARES ACT.

UH, WE CERTAINLY LEVERAGE THAT.

SO GOING INTO OUR, OUR IT FUNDING, UM, THE, AGAIN, I TALKED A LITTLE BIT ABOUT CAPITAL.

SO, UH, AS YOU CAN SEE, BE, WHEN WE MADE THE TRANSITION FROM 21, 22 TO 2223, WE, WE CHANGED FROM DOING, UH, CEOS OR CERTIFICATES OF OBLIGATION TO, UH, UM, UH, MORE OF A PAY AS YOU GO, UH, TYPE MODEL.

UM, SO, UH, THAT'S WHERE YOU SEE THE JUMP FROM, UH, THE 1.2 TO THE 1.395.

UM, SO PART OF THAT IS BASED OFF OF, UH, UH, PROPERTY VALUATIONS.

SO AGAIN, YOU'LL SEE A LITTLE BIT OF A VARIABLE COST AND, AND PART OF THE REASON WHY YOU'RE SEEING AN INCREASE, UH, AS WE GO INTO FY 2324, UH, TO THE 1.45 MILLION, UH, CLOUD COMPUTING.

UH, ONE THING TO CALL OUT HERE IS, UH, AGAIN, YOU SEE THE INCREASE FROM 1 MILLION TO THE 1 MILLION, UH, 146,000.

THAT'S MAINLY DUE TO OUR MICROSOFT EA AGREEMENTS.

SO OUR EA AGREEMENTS UP, IT'S A THREE YEAR AGREEMENT.

UH, SO WE'VE GOT SOME INITIAL PRICING FROM THEM.

UH, THEY, THEY TOLD US TO EXPECT AT LEAST A 25% INCREASE.

SO THAT'S BAKED INTO THAT, UH, VALUE, UH, HARDWARE, YOU ACTUALLY SEE A DROP SLIGHTLY IN HARDWARE.

AND THE REASON FOR THAT IS, UH, PD, UH, THE POLICE DEPARTMENT CURRENTLY USES A, UH, UH, MOBILE PRINT DEVICE, UH, CALLED AN INTERMIX.

UH, THEY'RE LOOKING AT MOVING FROM THAT, UH, PLATFORM TO ANOTHER PLATFORM.

SO WE DID NOT INVEST THE, UH, MAINTENANCE DOLLARS, UH, TO SUPPORT THAT.

AND WE DECIDED THIS YEAR WHAT WE WOULD DO IS JUST THE TIME AND MATERIAL IF SOMETHING WERE TO BREAK.

UH, AND THEN SOFTWARE AND PROFESSIONAL SERVICES HAVE, HAVE STAYED FAIRLY, UH, FAIRLY FLAT.

SO, MOVING INTO, UH, SOME OF OUR, UH, INITIATIVES, UM, UH, SO REALLY I WANT TO KIND OF TOUCH MORE ON THE, UH, UH, TECHNOLOGY EFFORTS ASSOCIATED WITH THE CITY HALL FIRE.

AND I'M NOT GONNA GO THROUGH ALL THESE BECAUSE WE, WE'VE VETTED QUITE A BIT OF THOSE ALREADY.

BUT, UH, ONE OF THE THINGS WE ARE LOOKING FORWARD TO AND, AND HAVE STARTED GEARING UP FOR IS THE TECHNOLOGY SET UP IN THE INTERIM CITY HALL LOCATION, WHAT I LIKE TO CALL CITY HALL 3.5, SINCE WE'RE TENDED TO BE THERE BETWEEN THREE AND FOUR YEARS.

UH, I, I'M TRYING TO COIN THAT PHRASE.

I, I DON'T KNOW HOW MUCH SUCCESS I'M HAVING AT IT, UH, THAT .

I'M GLAD YOU APPRECIATE THAT.

UM, AND THEN WE, WE'VE TODAY HAVE RECEIVED OVER 1.7 MILLION FROM INSURANCE FOR IT, E EQUIPMENT, UH, REPLACEMENT, UH, CONTINUING ON WITH SOME ADDITIONAL, UH, ITEMS HERE.

UH, SO ON OUR ANNUAL CITYWIDE, UH, REFRESH, UH, EFFORTS, ONE OF THE THINGS I TALKED TO YOU ABOUT A FEW MONTHS AGO WAS THE SIP PROJECT.

UH, I CAN TELL YOU WE WERE MAKING REALLY GOOD PROGRESS WITH SIP.

MATTER OF FACT, IN THE NEXT COUPLE

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WEEKS, UH, I EXPECT, UH, SOMETHING THAT'LL TIE INTO THE, UH, UH, INTERNET CAPACITY INCREASE.

UH, SO WE HAVE ONE CIRCUIT THAT WE MOVED FROM ONE GIG TO FIVE GIG, BUT WE DON'T HAVE REDUNDANCY BECAUSE OF THE FIRE.

UH, IN A COUPLE WEEKS, WE SHOULD HAVE OUR SECOND INTERNET CIRCUIT IN PLACE, WHICH GIVES US ANOTHER FIVE GIG.

AND THAT'S NOT A ACTIVE PASSIVE, THAT'S WHAT WE CALL ACTIVE ACTIVE.

SO WE'LL HAVE AN AGGREGATE, IF YOU WILL, OF 10 GIG OF BANDWIDTH AVAILABLE.

UM, AND THEN WITH, UH, CYBERSECURITY, UH, SO COMPLETE OUR ANNUAL CYBERSECURITY TRAINING.

UH, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT, UH, WAS LEFT AT YOUR, UH, DESK, UM, TODAY WAS OUR ANNUAL LETTER TO, UH, INITIATE THE, UH, ANNUAL CYBERSECURITY TRAINING.

SO TOMORROW MORNING, YOU SHOULD BE GETTING AN EMAIL FROM NOBI FOUR, WHICH IS OUR, UH, VENDOR THAT WE USE FOR, UH, DOING THE CYBERSECURITY TRAINING.

AND, UH, UH, ESSENTIALLY YOU'LL HAVE A MONTH TO, TO COMPLETE YOUR, YOUR TRAINING.

UH, AGAIN, IT'S ALL ONLINE, UH, AND IF FOR SOME REASON YOU DON'T GET THE MESSAGE, UM, BY ALL MEANS, REACH OUT TO US AND WE'LL GET YOU SET UP.

UM, BUT, BUT YOU SHOULD RECEIVE THAT.

AND THEN ONE OF THE OTHER THINGS WE'VE DONE FROM A, UH, CYBERSECURITY PERSPECTIVE, UH, FOLLOWING THE, THE STATE'S, UH, DIRECTION IS WE'VE, UH, BLOCKED ACCESS TO, UH, TIKTOK.

SO, AS WE MOVE INTO KIND OF OUR, UH, F Y 24, UM, VIEW, I'M NOT GONNA TALK ABOUT THE FIRST FOUR BULLETS.

UH, WE'LL TALK ABOUT TYLER TECHNOLOGIES A LITTLE BIT LATER.

UH, BUT AS I ALLUDED TO, ONE OF THE BIG THINGS WE'RE DOING IS WE'RE GONNA DO THE NEW MICROSOFT EA AGREEMENT OR ENTERPRISE, UH, AGREEMENT.

UM, AND THEN, UH, I'VE ALREADY TALKED ABOUT THE CYBERSECURITY, UH, AWARENESS THAT THAT'S GONNA BE A CONTINUOUS THEME.

YOU, YOU'LL SEE IT THROUGHOUT.

AND THEN, UH, FOR FY 24, UH, IN THE GENERAL GOVERNMENT SPACE, ONE OF THE BIG THINGS THAT WE'RE GONNA BE FOCUSED ON, THEY'RE GONNA BE SEVERAL, BUT ONE OF 'EM IS TO RESTORE OUR NETWORK REDUNDANCY IN THE CORE.

UM, SO NOT ONLY ARE WE GONNA HAVE THE REDUNDANCY WITH THE INTERNET, BUT IN OUR CORE RING RIGHT NOW, WE JUST HAVE ONE SE SEGMENT OF THE RING IN PLACE, AGAIN, DUE TO THE FIRE.

UH, SO, YOU KNOW, IT IS VERY CRITICAL FROM OUR PERSPECTIVE TO GET THAT REDUNDANCY BACK IN PLACE SO THAT IF WE DO HAVE A CUT IN OUR FIBER RING, UH, WE HAVE THE ABILITY TO BACKTRACK AND KEEP THINGS UP AND, AND FUNCTIONAL ON THE PUBLIC SAFETY SIDE OF THE HOUSE.

UH, SO ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE'VE DONE FOR BOTH, UH, PD AND, AND FIRE, UH, IS WORKED ON DOING THE REPLACEMENT OF THEIR MOBILE COMPUTER TERMINALS.

UH, ALSO ON THE PD SIDE, UH, SOMETHING ELSE IS CRITICAL, AND AGAIN, GOES ALONG IN THE CYBERSECURITY ROUTE, IS, UH, WE COMPLETED THE PD FIREWALL TECHNOLOGY, UH, REFRESH.

UH, AND THEN I'VE ALSO GOT BEGAN IMPLEMENTATION OF RADIO SYSTEM REPLACEMENTS.

AND I KNOW THAT, UH, JUST CAME TO YOU LAST WEEK FOR OUR, OUR, UH, NEARLY 17 MILLION SPEND ON THE RADIO SYSTEM.

I, I WILL TELL YOU, THAT'S BEEN A TWO YEAR PROCESS OF GOING BACK AND FORTH BETWEEN THE, UH, CONTRACT AND ALL THE, UH, PRICE QUOTES TO TRY TO GET US THE, UH, BEST PRICING POSSIBLE.

AND, AND TO MOTOROLA'S CREDIT, THEY DID, UH, HONOR PRICES FROM A FEW YEARS AGO.

UM, SO WE, WE DID, I GUESS AT THE END OF THE DAY, UH, COME TO AN AGREEMENT ON, ON A GOOD CONTRACT AND A GOOD PRICE, UM, MODEL.

UH, SO AS WE LOOK INTO THE FY 24, AGAIN, THE BIG PROJECT IN THE PUBLIC SAFETY SPACE IS GONNA BE RADIO, UH, RADIO, RADIO, RADIO.

UH, ALTHOUGH WE DO HAVE OTHER EFFORTS THAT ARE, ARE MOVING ALONG IN PARALLEL, UH, WITH OFFICE OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT, WE'RE ALSO REPLACING ALL THE, UH, LAPTOPS, UH, THAT THEY CURRENTLY STORE OUT THERE FOR EMERGENCY SCENARIOS.

SO THOSE WILL ALL BE NEW.

SO LET'S MOVE INTO OUR LEGACY SYSTEM, UH, MIGRATIONS.

UH, SO STARTING WITH BACKGROUND, AND I KNOW FOR SOME OF YOU THIS IS A REHASH, BUT, UH, CERTAINLY WANTED TO, UH, PRESENT THIS FOR OUR NEW COUNCIL MEMBERS.

UH, WE UTILIZE A THIRD PARTY, UH, COMPANY CALLED SKIS.

UH, WE'D USED SKIS IN THE PAST FOR SEVERAL OTHER, UH, EVENTS, UH, SUCH AS OUR STRATEGIC PLAN AND, AND AN ENTERPRISE APPLICATION STUDY.

SO WE HAD A VERY GOOD, UH, LEVEL OF COMFORT AND, UH, UH, TRUST IN SCHEMES AND THEIR ABILITY.

UH, SO THEY HELPED US, UH, NOT ONLY WITH THOSE EFFORTS, BUT YEAH, AS WE WERE LOOKING TO DO OUR ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING, UH, SUITE OF, UH, PRODUCTS REPLACEMENT.

UH, THEY WERE KEY, UH, IN THAT AS WELL.

SO, PART OF WHAT WE REVIEWED WITH THEM, UM, AGAIN, I WON'T GO THROUGH ALL THESE, UH, THAT ARE BULLETED HERE.

I WILL TELL YOU THE ONES THAT HAVE THE CHECK MARKS NEXT TO 'EM ARE THINGS THAT WE'VE ALREADY ADDRESSED.

UH, THE ONE THAT HAS THE FOUR DIAMOND BULLET, UH, ARE THINGS THAT ARE IN PROGRESS RIGHT NOW.

AND THEN WHERE WE HAVE THE ARROWS, THOSE ARE, UH, UP NEXT.

AND THEN THE, UH, REST OF THE BULLETS ARE THINGS THAT WE'RE GONNA DO A LITTLE BIT, UH, LATER.

UH, THE ONE OTHER THING I'LL, I'LL POINT OUT ON THIS, UH, SLIDE, THE VERY LAST BULLET THERE.

SO, UH, WHEN WE DID THE ASSESSMENTS, UH, FIRE HAD A RECORDS MANAGEMENT SYSTEM IN

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PLACE THAT WAS ADEQUATE.

UH, IT WAS WITH A, UH, COMPANY CALLED FIREHOUSE.

UM, THEY SOLD OFF THE COMPANY.

SO WE, WE WERE KIND OF THRUST INTO A SCENARIO WHERE WE NEEDED TO MAKE A MIGRATION TO A NEW PLATFORM.

AND, UH, WE, WE DID WORK WITH, UH, FIRE TO MAKE THAT HAPPEN THIS LAST YEAR.

UM, SO WE MOVED TO A, A PRODUCT CALLED FIREWORKS, UH, AND FIRE HAS BEEN VERY, UH, HAPPY WITH THAT PRODUCT THUS FAR.

OTHER MAJOR SYSTEMS THAT WE LOOKED AT.

SO, AS WE WENT THROUGH THESE, AGAIN, THESE WERE ALL IN, IN GOOD SHAPE.

UM, AGAIN, I'LL CALL OUT TRAFFIC.

UH, WE'VE BEEN WORKING WITH TRAFFIC, UH, IN GETTING THEIR CENTRAL SOFTWARE UPGRADED AND MOVING TO A, A SAAS OR CLOUD, UH, SOLUTION, UH, WHICH WAS ALSO VERY SUCCESSFUL.

SO, LET ME MOVE OVER INTO TYLER TECHNOLOGIES.

UH, THAT'S THE COMPANY WE CHOSE TO GO WITH FOR OUR NEW E R P, UH, PLATFORM.

UH, THERE ARE SEVERAL REASONS WHY WE, WE CHOSE TYLER.

UH, NUMBER ONE, THEY'RE THE BIGGEST PLAYER IN THE, UH, GOVERNMENT E R P SPACE.

UH, SO OBVIOUSLY THEY'VE HAD SOME SUCCESS.

UM, AND ONE OF THE STRATEGIES WE HAD WAS WE WERE TRYING TO GET AS MANY PRODUCTS UNDER ONE UMBRELLA, AS I'D LIKE TO SAY, UH, SO THAT WE HAD THOSE INTEGRATION POINTS.

UH, THE CHALLENGE YOU HAVE, IF YOU GO WITH BEST OF BREED, UM, IT IS IF THEY'RE FROM ALL VARIOUS COMPANIES TRYING TO TIE THOSE, UH, APPLICATIONS TOGETHER AND USING WHAT WE CALL APIS OR APPLICATION, UH, INTERFACES.

UM, IF ONE SIDE OR THE OTHER MAKES A CHANGE, YOU'LL HAVE SOMETHING THAT BREAKS, AND THEN YOU'RE TRYING TO FIGURE OUT, WELL, WHERE DID THE BRAKE HAPPEN? UH, SO IT'S REALLY KIND OF A NIGHTMARE TO TRY TO, UH, TO SUPPORT.

UH, SO BY, AGAIN, BY HAVING ALL THESE, UH, ELEMENTS UNDER ONE UMBRELLA, UH, YOU'LL HAVE TIGHTER INTEGRATION, HOPEFULLY WITHIN TYLER.

UH, AND THEN TYLER, WITHOUT QUESTION, HAS THE, UH, THE MARKET LEAD, UH, NOT ONLY IN TEXAS, BUT, UH, NATIONALLY.

SO, AGAIN, WE FELT GOOD WITH, UH, MAKING THAT MOVE.

UM, SO WE, WE COMPLETED THE AGREEMENTS, UH, IN THE END OF MAR OR MARCH OF, UH, 2020.

AND NO SOONER DID WE COMPLETE THE AGREEMENT AND GET STARTED THAN THE PANDEMIC HAPPENED.

UH, SO THAT, THAT CERTAINLY BECAME ONE OF THE CHALLENGES THAT WE HAD TO OVERCOME.

UH, IT DID SLOW THINGS DOWN FOR US A LITTLE BIT, UH, AS PART OF THE, THE FALLOUT FROM THE PANDEMIC.

WE SUFFERED TURNOVER.

UM, BUT NOT ONLY DID WE SUFFER TURNOVER IN THE CITY, UH, TYLER WAS SUFFERING TURNOVER AS WELL.

UM, SO WE, WE BOTH HAD A LITTLE BIT OF A CHALLENGE THERE.

AND AGAIN, IT HAD A LITTLE BIT OF AN IMPACT ON THE, UH, THE TIMELINE.

SO, AS FAR AS OUR IMPLEMENTATION STATUS, UH, NUMBER ONE, I CANNOT SAY KUDOS ENOUGH TO ALL THE VARIOUS DEPARTMENTS, UH, THROUGHOUT THE CITY.

I, THE LEVEL OF COOPERATION WE'VE, WE'VE GOTTEN, UH, FROM, WHETHER IT'S FINANCE OR HR OR COURTS, UH, UH, NOT ONLY, YOU KNOW, WITHIN IT, IT, IT'S BEEN FANTASTIC.

I, I WOULD CALL OUT OUR IT FOLKS, BUT I DON'T THINK IT'S FAIR TO THE OTHER DEPARTMENTS.

IF I CALL OUT INDIVIDUAL NAMES HERE AND I DON'T RECOGNIZE OTHERS, AND, AND BELIEVE ME, I, THERE'S SO MANY PEOPLE WHO ARE INVOLVED IN THIS, I WILL DEFINITELY FORGET SOMEBODY.

UM, ONE OF THE OTHER THINGS WE NOTED WITH, UH, TYLER WAS THEIR WILLINGNESS TO, UH, ADJUST THEIR SCHEDULES.

UH, SO AS WE'VE RUN INTO THESE ISSUES, SOMETIMES THERE WERE ISSUES ON OUR SIDE.

SOMETIMES THERE WERE ISSUES ON THEIR SIDE, BUT THEY'VE ALWAYS BEEN, UH, UH, I WOULD SAY, FOCUSED ON HELPING US ADJUST THE SCHEDULE.

UH, AS YOU KNOW, WE NEEDED.

AND THE VERY FIRST SYSTEM THAT WE BROUGHT ONLINE WAS OUR COURT SYSTEM.

UH, I WILL TELL YOU, COURT SEEMS TO BE VERY, VERY HAPPY WITH THE SYSTEM, UH, AND THAT, UH, MIGRATION WENT VERY WELL.

SO THAT WAS IN NOVEMBER OF 2021.

RIGHT AFTER THAT, UH, WE CHANGED, UH, OUR DIRECTION A LITTLE BIT.

WE WANTED TO MAKE SURE WE GOT OUR BIWEEKLY, UH, PAY IN PLACE ON OUR CURRENT, UH, E R P PLATFORM.

UH, AND WE WERE USING THAT AS A PREDECESSOR STEP, UH, STEP PRIOR TO, UM, GETTING INTO THE ACTIONS I'LL TALK ABOUT HERE IN A FEW MINUTES.

UM, AND THEN IT'S HARD TO BELIEVE THAT FINANCE, THE FINANCE COMPONENT WAS DONE A YEAR AGO.

WE'VE ACTUALLY BEEN LIVE ON FINANCE.

UH, UH, AND WHEN I SAY FINANCE, I'M TALKING ABOUT THE ACCOUNTING, PURCHASING AND, UH, BUDGET AND INVENTORY, UH, COMPONENTS.

UH, SO WE'RE, WE'RE STILL A LITTLE BIT IN THE SHAKEOUT PHASE, IF YOU WILL.

THERE'S STILL SOME THINGS THAT, UH, WE COME ACROSS THAT WE HAVE TO, UH, TO RESOLVE, BUT, UH, BY AND LARGE, I WOULD SAY THAT'S BEEN SUCCESSFUL.

SO, WHAT ARE OUR NEXT STEPS WITH, UH, TYLER? UH, WELL, COMING UP THIS OCTOBER, WE'RE ACTUALLY GONNA BE MOVING OUR PAYROLL AS WELL AS OUR HR AND TIME ENTRY, UH, SYSTEMS OVER TO, UH, TO TYLER.

UM, AND THEN NO SOONER DO WE GET THAT IN PLACE.

THEN WE'RE GONNA START UTILITY BILLING IN, UH, JANUARY.

AND, UH, WE HAVE AN EXPECTED GO LIVE DATE OF MARCH 20, UH, 2025 FOR THAT BEING COMPLETED.

AND THEN, UH, ALONG THE WAY, WE'RE ALSO GONNA PICK UP THE ENTERPRISE PERMITTING AND LICENSING, WHICH IS REALLY OUR BUILDING EXPE AND INSPECTION COMPONENT.

UH, AGAIN, WE'RE LOOKING AT KICKING THAT OFF IN APRIL OF 2024, WITH THE GO LIVE OF APRIL OF 2025.

AND AS WE GO THROUGH ALL THIS, WE'LL CONTINUE TO MONITOR

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BOTH ON THE TYLER SIDE AND OUR SIDE.

ARE THINGS GOING WELL? ARE WE, ARE WE WHERE WE NEED TO BE, UH, BEFORE WE MAKE THAT NEXT, NEXT JUMP INTO, UH, A PRODUCTION ENVIRONMENT, SO TRAFFIC AND IT FUNDING.

SO WE WANTED TO TAKE FUNDING, UH, ESPECIALLY WITH THESE LARGE PROJECTS, AND HAVE IT DEDICATED AND FOCUSED, UH, IN THIS AREA.

SO WE SET UP A, UH, A FUNDING SOURCE THAT INCLUDES 1.85 MILLION, UH, FROM THE, UH, OPERATING TAX RATE AND $200,000 THAT COMES FROM, UH, WATER AND SEWER FUND.

UH, IT ALLOWS FOR WHAT WE CALL, AGAIN, A PAY AS YOU GO, UH, FUNDING MODEL ALLOWS FUND BALANCES TO BUILD UP, UH, AND TO BE USED, UH, IN, IN FUTURE YEARS.

UH, THE OTHER THING TO NOTE, ONCE WE DO GET FULLY IMPLEMENTED, UM, WE WILL TRANSITION THAT OVER TO OPERATING FUNDS.

UM, SO THERE WILL BE A TRANSITION THERE.

UM, AND THEN IT ALSO HELPS MINIMIZE THE USE OF CAPITAL FUNDINGS.

AGAIN, YOU KNOW, WE'RE TRYING TO GET AWAY FROM US PAYING FOR THE, UH, INFRASTRUCTURE AND HAVING TO DO CONTINUOUS, UH, REFRESH AND, UH, UH, GO TO MORE OF A, UH, CLOUD SUBSCRIPTION BASED MODEL.

SO, AGAIN, AT A VERY HIGH LEVEL, FROM THE FUNDING, AS I STATED, WE HAVE THE 1.85, UH, MILLION, UM, FROM THE GENERAL FUND AND THE $200,000 FROM THE, UH, WATER AND SEWER, UH, THE IT LINE AT THE BOTTOM SHOWS OUR, UH, SPEND, UM, OVER THOSE YEARS.

AND, UH, THE NEXT SLIDE WILL ACTUALLY BREAK THAT DOWN.

SO IN THIS SLIDE, REALLY WHAT WE'RE SHOWING ARE A COUPLE THINGS.

ONE, WHERE YOU SEE, UH, AN UPTICK IN, IN COSTS.

UH, SO IF WE LOOK AT, UH, WHETHER WE'RE LOOKING AT COURTS OR, UH, LET'S LOOK AT COURTS.

SO IN FY 21, YOU SEE THE $325,550.

UH, THAT WAS OUR INITIAL IMPLEMENTATION.

SO AS WE GO THROUGH THE IMPLEMENTATION, UH, WE HAVE TO PAY THE IMPAT IMPLEMENTATION COST AT THAT POINT IN.

HENCE THE REASON WHY YOU SEE THE INCREASE IN PRICE WHEN YOU SEE F Y 23, THE 168, AND THEN IT'S REPETITIVE.

THAT'S WHERE WE GET INTO IMPLEMENTATION IS DONE.

AND NOW WE'RE JUST DOING THE, THE ONGOING, UH, SUBSCRIPTION FEE, UH, WHERE YOU SEE THE BUMP BETWEEN 24 AND 25.

SO WE HAVE THE CONTRACT SET UP, UH, WITH AN INITIAL FIVE YEAR AGREEMENT AFTER THE FIVE YEARS, WE DO A, UH, UH, AUTOMATIC 5% INCREASE, UH, FOR THE NEXT FIVE YEARS OF THE AGREEMENT.

SO THAT, THAT'S REALLY THE, UH, BREAKDOWN, UH, IF YOU WILL, OF, OF ALL THE VARIOUS MODULES, UH, THAT WE'RE LOOKING TO IMPLEMENT WITH, UH, WITH TYLER.

AND WITH THAT, I'LL TAKE ANY QUESTIONS, DAN.

GREAT PRESENTATION.

DO WE HAVE ANY, MR. DORIAN? YES, DAN, THANK YOU FOR YOUR PRESENTATION.

UH, IT WAS VERY NICE AND, AND VERY EDUCATIONAL AND, AND WOW, , IT'S A LOT.

UM, AND I'M SURE WE'LL BE VERY APPRECIATIVE ONCE ALL THIS IS, UH, PULLED TOGETHER.

BUT I HAVE A COUPLE QUESTIONS.

ONE, CAN YOU EXPLAIN HOW THE ENTERPRISE, UH, PERIAN LICENSING, UH, PLATFORM WILL WORK? IS IT GONNA, IS IN A, WITH WHAT WE CURRENTLY HAVE IN PLACE, YOU KNOW, WE CAN COME IN AND TAKE CARE OF PERMITTING OR LICENSING, AND, UH, A LOT OF IT'S NOT NECESSARILY DONE ONLINE, BUT, YOU KNOW, WE'RE ABLE TO EMAIL INFORMATION.

HOW'S THAT GOING TO CHANGE THAT, THAT PROCESS? WELL, SO I THINK YOU HIT ON A KEY ELEMENT, UH, TODAY.

A LOT OF TIMES PEOPLE HAVE TO BRING IN MANUAL PLANS.

WELL, WE WANNA GO TO AN ELECTRONIC SCENARIO WHERE YOU DON'T HAVE TO BRING IN A MANUAL PLAN.

SO, SO I, I WOULD SAY THAT'S PROBABLY THE, THE KEY, UH, CHANGE THAT WILL TAKE PLACE.

YEAH, I KNOW SOME OTHER CITIES HAVE THAT IN PLACE ALREADY, AND I, I KNOW WE USE IT PERSONALLY, SO, UM, THAT'S GREAT.

AND, UM, I WAS GLAD TO SEE THE COMMENT ABOUT TIKTOK AS WELL, JUST, UH, ON A SIDE NOTE, BUT THANK YOU FOR YOUR PRESENTATION.

Y'ALL DID A GREAT JOB.

NEED TO HAVE, UH, FOLKS GO OUT AND IDENTIFY WHERE'S THE FIBER LOCATED, SO THAT HOPEFULLY THEY DON'T CUT THE FIBER.

COUNCILMAN BARRIOS.

THANK YOU, MR. MAYOR.

UH, THANK YOU.

UM, I, UH, LEARNED QUITE A FEW THINGS HERE.

I DO HAVE TWO QUESTIONS.

UH, ONE, JUST PERSONAL KNOWLEDGE HERE.

I LEARNED A NEW WORD HERE THAT ACTUALLY GOOGLED WHILE YOU WERE USING.

IS THAT PRONOUNCED PETABYTE OR PETABYTE? PETABYTE.

PETABYTE.

WOW, THAT'S A LOT.

UM, PETABYTE, THAT'S, I HAD TO GOOGLE WHAT THAT WAS.

I DIDN'T KNOW WHAT THAT WAS.

UM, SO THE REAL QUESTION I HAVE HERE ON, ON SLIDE 13, YOU CALL IT PROFESSIONAL SERVICES, ON, AND ON THE LAST SLIDE, YOU USE A TERM OUTSIDE SERVICES.

WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE AND WHAT IS PROFESSIONAL SERVICES IS, I'M GUESSING THAT'S OUTSIDE CONTRACTORS WE PAY TO DO SOME OF THE STUFF WE CAN'T DO INTERNALLY.

AM I CORRECT ON THAT OR CAN YOU KINDA EXPLAIN A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THIS? YEAH, SO IN, IN OUR OPERATING, UH, SCENARIO, WE, WE REALLY HAVE TWO ELEMENTS.

WE HAVE CONSULTING AND WE ALSO HAVE A COMPONENT CALLED PROFESSIONAL SERVICES.

UH, PROFESSIONAL SERVICES, THERE ARE THINGS LIKE FIBER LOCATES.

SO IF WE'RE GONNA GO DO A BUILD, WE

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UM, SO PART OF THAT FUNDING COMES OUT OF THAT, UH, WHEN YOU SAW THE OUTSIDE SERVICES, UH, RELATED TO THE PROJECT, THAT'S ANYTHING FROM, AS WE, UH, UH, DELIVER, UH, THINGS WE WANNA TAKE TIME TO CELEBRATE A LITTLE BIT.

SO WE USE SOME FUNDING FOR THAT.

WE USE IT FOR TRAINING, WE USE IT FOR, UM, OKAY.

CONFERENCES, UH, THOSE TYPE OF ELEMENTS.

THANK YOU, MR. MAYOR, AND THANK YOU FOR, YOU KNOW, GREAT PRESENTATION.

UH, QUESTION, UH, YOU STILL HAVE 16 BASIC CELL PHONE.

UH, IS THERE ANY BENEFIT HAVING THAT 16 BASIC CELL PHONE INSTEAD OF HAVING ALL SMARTPHONES? YEAH, JUST THE, THE STANDARD CELL PHONES MM-HMM.

SO IN THOSE CASES, THEY REALLY CAN'T JUSTIFY THE UPCHARGE FOR IT TO BE A SMARTPHONE.

THEY, THEY REALLY JUST NEED, YOU KNOW, FOR SAKE OF A BETTER TERM, A DUMB PHONE TO, UH, JUST TAKE A CALL.

I THOUGHT THE COST WAS PROBABLY MORE FOR THE BASIC PHONE NOW.

YEAH, THERE'S, I WANNA SAY IT'S $15 VERSUS 30 OR $35.

SO YEAH, IT MAKES A LOT MORE SENSE TO, IF THEY TRULY DON'T NEED THE SMARTPHONE CAPABILITIES, DOESN'T MAKE SENSE TO PAY THAT EXTRA.

ALL RIGHT.

AND, UH, OTHER QUESTION THAT, UH, YOU HAVE THAT CLOUD COMPETITION THEN VERSUS SOFTWARE.

YOU HAD TWO SEPARATE PI ITEM THERE.

NOW, WHAT KIND OF SOFTWARE WE ARE TALKING ABOUT? I SAID, I THOUGHT THAT MOST OF THE SOFTWARE, UH, COMES WITH THE MICROSOFT, RIGHT? SO, WELL, WE, SO WE HAVE, AS I ALLUDED TO WITH THE TYLER TECHNOLOGIES, THAT'S NOT A MICROSOFT COMPANY, RIGHT? THAT'S OUR WHOLE ERP SUITE OF PRODUCTS.

UM, SO THAT WOULD BE AN EXAMPLE OF A NON-MICROSOFT PRODUCT.

UH, BUT WE DO BOTH MICROSOFT AND TYLER IN THIS CASE, IN THE CLOUD, UM, AS, UH, SAAS SOLUTIONS, AN EXAMPLE OF AN ON-PREMISE, UH, SOLUTION.

SO PD CAN, UH, THEY'RE WHAT WE CALL CAD OR, UH, COMPUTER AIDED DISPATCH SYSTEM IS ONE THAT WE HOST HERE ON ONSITE.

SO WE HAVE A DATA CENTER RIGHT HERE IN THIS FACILITY WITH THE BACKUP AT OUR EMERGENCY CENTER.

AND THAT APPLICATION RESIDES ON SERVERS THAT WE HOST, WE MANAGE, UH, ONSITE.

SO I THOUGHT THAT TYLER WAS A SEPARATE COST FOR, YOU KNOW, TYLER IS, YEAH.

SO WE HAVE, BUT THE SOFTWARE WAS LIKE ANOTHER LINE ITEM.

I SAW THAT THERE'S, THAT WAS, UH, UH, SO THERE'S PROBABLY WHAT, A HUNDRED LINE ITEMS TO MAKE UP SOFTWARE THERE? THERE'S A LOT.

NOW IS THAT, UH, YOU KNOW, I, YOU KNOW, YOU ARE ALSO CHANGING THAT TO, YOU KNOW, THE CONSULTANT OR CONTRACTOR TO UPLOAD FILES INSTEAD OF BRINGING THE PLAN, RIGHT? THAT'S SOMETHING THAT YOU'RE LOOKING AT IN THE MOVING.

SO, SO FOR AS FAR AS LINE ITEMS IN, IN THE BUDGET GO, THOSE ARE TWO SEPARATE LINE ITEMS. OKAY.

THEY MAY, THEY MAY CROSS OVER, RIGHT? WE MAY BRING IN A CONSULTANT TO HELP US DO DATABASE WORK OR WHATEVER.

UM, SO THAT, THAT WOULD HIT THE PROFESSIONAL SERVICES LINE ITEM FOR THEIR, UH, FOR THEIR SERVICES.

NOW, THIS IS, UH, JUST A QUESTION THAT I KNOW THAT STATE HAS MANDATED, UH, THE CYBERSECURITY TRAINING MM-HMM.

IS, HAS STATE GIVE US ANY FUNDING FOR THAT? NO, NO FUNDING? NO.

WE, NO, WE DON'T GET FUNDING AND IT'S A RELATIVELY LOW COST.

UH, TO BE HONEST WITH YOU, UM, HONESTLY, WE BUDGET $14,000 FOR OUR FROM NOBI FOR THAT'S A GOOD, GOOD THING.

I MEAN, WE NEED TO HAVE THAT ANYWAY.

UH, NOW, UH, OTHER QUESTION THAT I'M NOT AT IT VERSION, THIS IS SOMETHING THAT I HEARD THAT THE, THE, THE PROTECTION PASS CYBERSECURITY, THAT YOU ACTUALLY HAVE A KEY PHYSICAL KEY TO PROTECT THE PASSWORD.

MM-HMM.

, YOU COULD NOT JUST PUNCH IN THE PASSWORD AND ACCESS, YOU HAVE TO HAVE A PHYSICAL KEY TO GET, HAVE, I MEAN, DO YOU HAVE ANY? SO, UM, I DON'T WANNA GO INTO TOO MUCH DEPTH, BUT JUST SHORT TWO SENTENCES, BUT, UH, SO THAT, THAT'S WHEN I TALK ABOUT MULTIFACTOR AUTHENTICATION.

YEAH, THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT.

SO WE HAVE SOMETHING THAT WE CALL A UB KEY THAT'S AN INDUSTRY LEADER.

UM, AND THAT'S PART OF THAT MULTIFACTOR AUTHENTICATION PROCESS.

WE HAVE DONE ALMOST EVERYBODY, UH, WITH A FEW EXCEPTIONS, UH, CITY COUNCIL BEING THE LAST ON THE LIST.

SO IT, IT'S COMING.

THAT'S GOOD.

I THINK THAT'S, IF WE CAN MONITOR THAT KEY ALSO THROUGH GPS, SO IF WE LOSE THAT, WE CAN TRACK IT.

UH, NOW THE OTHER QUESTION, THAT 1.7 MILLION QUESTION THAT YOU HAVE RECEIVED, UH, FOR THE IT FROM THE INSURANCE, THAT'S NOT PART OF THE, I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE AMOUNT THAT WE HAVE RECEIVED.

IS THERE SOMETHING THAT WE CAN'T TALK TODAY OR, UH, WE, WE ARE STILL IN ACTIVE NEGOTIATIONS.

UH, SYSTEM? I MEAN, HOW THAT'S GONNA WORK ONCE WE HAVE THE NEW CITY HALL THAT'S, UH, THAT'S 1.7 THAT WE'VE EXPENDED ALREADY TO, UH, HELP US REACTIVATE AND GET BACK TO FULL, FULL OPERATIONS.

UM, I'M HOPING, UH, THAT THOSE ARE WINDING DOWN.

THERE WERE SOME BIG TICKET ITEMS THAT I THINK THAT, UH, JIM AND CHARLES HAVE BEEN NEGOTIATING, BUT, UM, STILL PROPRIETARY IN THE SENSE THAT WE'RE NEGOTIATING NOW MOVING FORWARD, THAT 1.7 MILLION, ARE WE USING THAT NOW FOR ANY,

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SO IN THE FOUR DIFFERENT LOCATIONS WE'RE IN NOW WITH THE NEW CITY THAT BUILD, WE NEED TO HAVE SOME ADDITIONAL, SO THAT'S GONNA BE DIFFERENT FUNDING COMING FOR THAT PURPOSE.

YEAH, I MEAN, MOST OF, UH, MOST OF THE TECHNOLOGY THAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT HERE WILL BE FOUR, IF NOT MAYBE FOUR AND A HALF YEARS OLD BY THEN.

SO WE'LL MAKE, YOU KNOW, GOTCHA.

REPLACEMENT SCHEDULES, LIKE AM I LA THAT FOR INSTANCE? I MEAN, YEAH, YEAH, YEAH.

IT MAY LINGER INTO THAT, OR IT MAY BE REPLACED BEFORE.

THANK YOU COUNCILWOMAN JUSTICE.

THAT'S WHY I DIDN'T REALIZE THAT THE CITY HALL MIGHT TAKE LONGER THAN TWO YEARS.

ANYWAY.

UH, THANK YOU MAYOR.

UH, THANK YOU FOR THE PRESENTATION, DAN.

UH, GOOD LUCK HURTING THE COUNCIL CATS ON THAT, THAT WHOLE TOKEN ISSUE.

THAT'LL BE FUN.

UM, BUT I JUST, I WANNA GO BACK TO THE COMMENT THAT YOU MADE EARLY ON, UM, YOUR MODEL OF MAKING SURE THAT YOU CAN GET OUR DATA BACK.

UM, AND I, I THINK THAT YOU, UH, DEMONSTRATED THAT REALLY WELL WITH THE FIRE, RIGHT? THERE WERE A COUPLE OF DAYS WHERE WE WEREN'T SURE IF WE WERE GONNA BE ABLE TO GET ONLINE.

ARE WE GONNA BE ABLE TO, YOU KNOW, ANSWER OUR PHONES? ARE WE GONNA BE ABLE TO PAY OUR WATER BILLS? RIGHT? UM, SO I JUST WANNA COMMEND YOU AND YOUR TEAM FOR HAVING THOSE SYSTEMS IN PLACE WITH THE HYBRID AND, UH, YOU KNOW, THE, THE, THE HARD STUFF.

UM, AND BEING ABLE TO ACTUALLY BE ABLE TO GET THINGS WITHIN 48 HOURS BACK ONLINE SO THAT WE COULD ANSWER CITIZEN CONCERNS AND QUESTIONS AND, YOU KNOW, TAKE PAYMENT FOR WATER BILLS AND, UM, YOU KNOW, ALL GET BACK ONLINE FOR ALL OF OUR, OUR SERVICES.

UM, I MEAN, IT WAS A SORT OF, UH, INTERESTING TIME NOT KNOWING, UH, HOW IT WAS ALL GONNA WORK, BUT THAT'S, THAT REALLY GOES TO, UH, THE EFFORTS OF YOU AND YOUR TEAM AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OF ALL WORKING TOGETHER AND CAPITAL PROJECTS TO, UM, YOU KNOW, TO REALLY GET THAT ALL GOING IN A VERY SHORT, UH, AMOUNT OF TIME.

SO I'M JUST REALLY PROUD OF ALL THE WORK THAT YOU DID.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH ON BEHALF OF THE IT TEAM, BECAUSE IT CERTAINLY WASN'T JUST DAN.

UH, IT WAS A GREAT TEAM EFFORT AND NOT ONLY WAS IT A GREAT TEAM EFFORT WITHIN IT, UH, BUT WITH ALL THE VARIOUS OTHER DEPARTMENTS, UH, AGAIN, THE LEVEL OF COOPERATION WE GOT ACROSS THE BOARD WAS FANTASTIC.

YEAH, I THINK THAT'S TRUE.

IT'SS SORT OF A DEPARTMENT THAT, THAT TOUCHES EVERY ASPECT OF WHAT WE DO IN OUR CITY.

AND SO I'M JUST, I'M GONNA SAY THAT YOU GUYS ARE UNSUNG HEROES, RIGHT? YOU KEEP OUR CITY GOING.

SO I JUST WANNA SAY THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR AND KEEPING US CONNECTED, UM, FOR, FOR THE WORK THAT YOU AND YOUR TEAM DO.

I APPRECIATE IT.

COUNCILMAN HUTCHIN RIDER.

AND WE, WE LIKE TO BE, UH, THE UNSUNG HEROES BEHIND THE SCENES.

DID GIVE, UH, GET, UH, KEN TO, UH, GIVE UP THE GREEN SCREEN SO HE, HE'S READY TO PROGRESS SOMETHING.

UM, DAN, GREAT, GREAT PRESENTATION AND GREAT WORK YOU GUYS DO ON A DAY-TO-DAY BASIS.

CAN YOU TALK JUST A LITTLE BIT, BECAUSE IT LOOKS LIKE TO ME THAT YOU'VE GOT KIND OF A, UH, FROM A REDUNDANCY, YOU'VE GOT IT SET UP WHERE YOU'VE GOT CERTAIN PARTS, CLOUD-BASED, CERTAIN PARTS, SERVER BASE.

SO CAN YOU JUST TALK THROUGH A LITTLE BIT AS FAR AS THIS SECURITY AND THE REDUNDANCY THAT YOU'VE GOT, THAT YOU'VE GOT SET UP THROUGH THOSE TWO DIFFERENT VEHICLES? SURE.

SO ONE OF THE NICE THINGS WHEN WE LOOK AT CLOUD-BASED SOLUTIONS IS MOST OF YOUR PROVIDERS HAVE REDUNDANCY BUILT IN.

SO THEY'LL HAVE THEIR SYSTEM, I'M SORRY, NOT ONLY LOCATED IN ONE DATA CENTER, BUT THEY'LL ALSO HAVE IT PAIRED WITH AT LEAST ONE OTHER, IN SOME CASES, MULTIPLE OTHER DATA CENTERS WHERE THEY REPLICATE THE DATA AROUND.

UH, SO IF YOU LOSE ONE SITE, THE OTHER SITES ARE THERE AVAILABLE TO PROVIDE THE, UH, THE UPKEEP.

EVEN IN OUR TYLER SCENARIO, THEY HAVE REDUNDANT DATA CENTERS.

SO IF WE WERE TO LOSE ONE, WE WOULD BE, WE WOULD BE ABLE TO GET, UH, ACCESS VIA THE OTHER DATA CENTERS.

UH, THEY PROVIDE, UH, INTERNALLY, UH, AGAIN, PART OF THE CHALLENGE WE HAVE IS TO PROVIDE THAT LEVEL OF REDUNDANCY IS PRETTY EXPENSIVE.

SO WE NEED TO DO IT AT MULTIPLE LAYERS.

UH, WE NEED TO DO IT FROM THE NETWORK PERSPECTIVE.

SO YOU'RE ABLE TO GET FROM POINT A TO POINT B, AND IF I CUT A PATH, YOU CAN BACKTRACK AROUND.

UH, PRIOR TO THE CITY HALL FIRE, WE ACTUALLY ABSOLUTELY HAD THAT IN PLACE.

UH, BUT BECAUSE OF THE CITY HALL FIRE, WE LOST PART OF OUR LEG.

UH, WE HAVE PLANS, MATTER OF FACT, PART OF THE 1.7 MILLION SPEND WAS TO GET THE EQUIPMENT THAT WE NEEDED TO, UH, REESTABLISH THAT, UH, WE'VE IDENTIFIED A NEW SITE FOR THAT TO HAPPEN.

UH, IN THAT CASE, IT, IT WASN'T JUST REPLACING ONE SIDE.

THEY HAVE TO BE LIKE SYSTEMS ON BOTH SIDES.

SO WE'RE GONNA HAVE TO REPLACE BOTH, WHICH MEANS WE'RE GONNA HAVE TO SCHEDULE AN OUTAGE.

UM, SO AGAIN, THAT'S FROM THE NETWORK SIDE.

THEN YOU LOOK AT THE DATA AND THE APPLICATION SIDE OF THE HOUSE.

UM, THE VAST MAJORITY WE REPLICATE, UH, AS WELL.

AND, AND FOR OUR DATA BACKUPS, NOT ONLY DO WE DO ONSITE, UH, BACKUPS WITH OFFSITE STORAGE, WE ALSO KEEP TERTIARY BACKUPS IN THE CLOUD.

SO WE REALLY HAVE THREE COPIES OF THE DATA, UH, TO RECOVER.

THAT'S GREAT.

AND THEN YOU SAID WE'RE DOING AWAY FROM WITH SYSTEMS ALL THE WAY BACK TO 1989.

SO DOES THAT MEAN KENT HAS TO GIVE UP HIS COMMODORE 64 AT THIS POINT IN TIME? I'M JUST ASKING CUZ HE SEEMS TO BE A LITTLE NERVOUS ABOUT THAT TONIGHT.

I TRIED TO HIDE THAT.

HE'S TALKING ABOUT IT EARLIER, BUT, BUT OKAY.

NEVERMIND.

WE WON'T ASK THAT, THAT QUESTION TONIGHT.

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DAN, THANK YOU.

GREAT PRESENTATION.

THAT ONE THING THAT I, I THINK I WOULD LIKE TO ADD TO TIE ON TO, UM, WHAT MS. JUSTICE WAS TALKING ABOUT, THE HEAVY LIFTING Y'ALL DO ACROSS THE ENTIRE CITY THROUGH EVERY DEPARTMENT, AND THE COMMON PERSON PROBABLY HAS NO IDEA THAT Y'ALL WORK 24 7, 7 DAYS A WEEK.

UM, WHETHER IT'S OUR POLICE THAT NEED YOUR ABILITY, YOUR HELP IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT, YOU KNOW, Y'ALL DO AN AMAZING JOB AND WE, I WANT TO THANK YOU FOR THAT AND UM, LET YOU KNOW HOW MUCH THE COUNCIL COLLECTIVELY UNDERSTANDS THAT AND BELIEVES IN Y'ALL.

BUT I'VE GOTTA ASK THE ONE QUESTION THAT I GET ASKED, I'VE BEEN ASKED PROBABLY A DOZEN TIMES, AND YOU PROBABLY CAN'T ANSWER ALL OF IT BECAUSE OF SECURITY AND THOSE TYPE THINGS, BUT HOW ARE WE GUARANTEED THAT WE'RE NOT GONNA BE AT DALLAS CITY OF DALLAS THAT HAPPENED LIKE THAT? I GET THAT QUESTION A COUPLE TIMES A WEEK RIGHT NOW.

SO I JUST, IS THERE ANY WORDS OF WISDOM YOU COULD THROW UPON US? WELL, YOU PROBABLY WON'T LIKE MY FIRST REACTION, UNFORTUNATELY, THERE IS NO GUARANTEE.

UM, WE'RE, WE'RE ONLY AS GOOD AS OUR WEAKEST LINK.

AS THE SAME GOES.

UM, WE'VE RECOGNIZED AS THE INDUSTRY RECOGNIZED, OUR PEOPLE ARE ABSOLUTELY THE MOST IMPORTANT PART OF THIS PROCESS AND WE HAVE TO KEEP THEM EDUCATED.

WE DO SIMULATION TESTS, AS YOU ALL KNOW.

UM, SO, AND THAT'S REALLY IT.

IT'S NOT BECAUSE WE WANNA TRIP PEOPLE UP, BUT IT, IT, IT'S BECAUSE WE TRULY NEED TO HAVE THAT CONSTANT REMINDER.

UM, FROM A TECHNOLOGY PERSPECTIVE, I WILL TELL YOU WE HAVE ALL KINDS OF MEASURES IN PLACE.

IS IS IT FOOLPROOF? NO.

UM, HAVE WE DONE EVERYTHING THAT WE THINK THAT WE CAN WITHIN OUR DUE DILIGENCE? UH, I THINK WE ABSOLUTELY HAVE DONE THAT.

WE'RE CONSTANTLY LOOKING AT HOW CAN WE IMPROVE.

UM, THE, THE ONE THING I'M ALWAYS VERY CAUTIOUS OF IS I DON'T WANT TO GIVE TOO MUCH INFORMATION AWAY.

UH, CUZ I DON'T WANT TO GIVE, YOU KNOW, THE BAD FOLKS OUT THERE.

UM, ANY THOUGHT AVENUE TO GET, YOU KNOW, INTO, INTO OUR NETWORK.

SO, UH, UM, BUT WE BELIEVE ME, WE, WE, IT'S PROBABLY MY TOP PRIORITY, MY TOP CONCERN EVERY SINGLE DAY IS SECURITY.

WELL, AWESOME.

YOU'RE DOING AN AWESOME JOB.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH DAN AND ED, WE APPRECIATE YOU.

TO ITEM F TO REVIEW AND DISCUSS THE PHYSICAL YEAR 20 23, 24 DRAINAGE UTILITY PROGRAM STRATEGIES.

AT THIS TIME WE'RE GONNA GO

[F. REVIEW AND DISCUSS THE FY 2023-2024 DRAINAGE UTILITY PROGRAM STRATEGIES]

UM, WE ALSO WORK WITH, UH, LIKE I SAID, THE STATE AND LOCAL AGENCIES AND TRY TO PARTNER WITH I, WE'VE GOT A PROJECT ON OUR BOOKS RIGHT NOW WITH UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS.

MAYOR AND COUNSEL.

UH, OUR DIRECTOR OF ENGINEERING AND CAPITAL PROJECTS.

UH, JIM LAC IS MAKING HIS WAY TO THE PODIUM, AND, UH, NICK, UH, KOCH IS HERE WITH US AGAIN.

NICK IS ASSISTANT DIRECTOR AND, UM, YOU KNOW, DRAINAGE IS NOT, OR STORM WATER.

STORM WATER IS NOT SOMETHING A LOT OF OF PEOPLE THINK ABOUT UNTIL IT'S AN ISSUE.

AND I, I JUST RE REMIND YOU, OVER THE LAST NUMBER OF YEARS, WE'VE HAD SOME STORMS THAT HAVE GENERATED A GREAT DEAL OF, OF RAIN AND RESULTED IN SOME PRETTY, UH, TENUOUS SITUATIONS THROUGHOUT OUR CITY.

AND SO, YOU KNOW, THE DRAINAGE FUND IS DESIGNED TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE CONTINUING TO REINVEST IN OUR STORMWATER INFRASTRUCTURE.

AND JIM'S HERE TO TELL US ABOUT HOW HE'S DOING THIS YEAR WITH THE, UH, F Y 23 IMPLEMENTATION.

THEN I LOOK FORWARD, UH, TO NEXT YEAR'S PROGRAM.

JIM.

THANK YOU MR. MAGNER.

WE GREATLY APPRECIATE THE OPPORTUNITY TO GIVE YOU THE UPDATE ON OUR STORMWATER UTILITY PROGRAM THIS EVENING.

UH, WE'LL TOUCH A LITTLE BIT ON THE BACKGROUND OF THE DRAINAGE SYSTEMS WITHIN OUR CITY.

TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT OUR PROGRAM ELEMENTS, LOOK AT OUR WORK PLAN FOR THIS CURRENT YEAR AND PROJECT OUT TO NEXT YEAR AND, AND TALK ABOUT THE FUNDING FOR THIS OVERALL.

UH, RICHARDSON, ALL OF OUR WATER EVENTUALLY, IT ULTIMATELY DRAINS INTO, UH, THE TRINITY, BUT IT GOES THERE, UH, IN A NUMBER OF DIFFERENT WAYS.

WE RELY ON DRAINAGE, UH, INTO LAKE RAY HUBBARD.

WE RELY ON DRAINAGE THROUGH GARLAND AND DUCK CREEK TO GET INTO, UH, THE EAST FORK JUST SOUTH OF LAKE RAY HUBBARD.

AND THEN MOST OF THE WEST SIDE OF OUR TOWN, COTTONWOOD CREEK, FLOYD JACKSON, BRANCH LIA, THEY ALL ACTUALLY DRAIN INTO WHITE ROCK CREEK AND MAKE THEIR WAY DOWN TO THE TR TO THE TRINITY THAT WAY.

SO, UH, WE'VE GOT ABOUT 44, 40 AND A HALF, 5, 44 0.5 MILES OF CREEKS, ALMOST 11,000 INLETS THAT ARE OUT THERE COLLECTING ALL OF THIS STORMWATER TO PUT IT INTO ALMOST 600 MILES OF STORM DRAIN PIPES THAT ARE UNDERNEATH OUR ROADS AND OUTFALL INTO THOSE CREEKS THAT, THAT CARRY EVERYTHING OUT OF, OUT OF OUR TOWN.

OUR PROJECTS AND THE WORK THAT WE DO WITHIN OUR STORMWATER UTILITY PROGRAM ARE FUNDED A NUMBER OF DIFFERENT WAYS.

WE RELY NOT ONLY ON THE CAPITAL PROGRAMS AND THE DRAINAGE UTILITY PROGRAM.

UH, WE'VE ALSO SUPPORTED DRAINAGE PROJECTS THROUGH SUPPLEMENTAL ANNUAL CO PROGRAMS THROUGH SOME OF OUR PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS WITH DEVELOPERS AND WITH OTHER STATE AND LOCAL AGENCIES.

AND AS SEAN MENTIONED EARLIER, WE EVEN LEAN ON THE PARKS DEPARTMENT SOMETIMES TO, TO HAVE THEM HELP US TAKE CARE OF SOME OF THE NEEDS THAT THEY HAVE WITHIN THEIR FACILITIES BECAUSE WE DO A LOT OF OUR DRAINAGE FACILITIES, UH, OVERLAP, AS SEAN WAS MENTIONING EARLIER, WITH MANY OF OUR PARKS AND OUR GREEN SCAPES.

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WE WORK A LOT WITH DALLAS COUNTY, UH, AND EVEN THE TEXAS WATER DEVELOPMENT BOARD FROM TIME TO TIME.

THE STRANDED UTILITY PROGRAM WAS ESTABLISHED ABOUT 12 YEARS AGO, UH, 2011 IN NOVEMBER, UH, THE FOLLOWING YEAR WE BEGAN COLLECTING THAT FEE FOR THE VERY FIRST TIME.

THE PURPOSE OF THAT FEE WAS REALLY TO HELP US MEET SOME OF THE REQUIREMENTS WERE WERE BEING, UH, IMPOSED UPON US THROUGH, UH, THE CLEAN WATER ACT THROUGH THE EPA.

UM, THROUGH OUR PERMITS, UH, WE GO THROUGH EVERY YEAR WE WILL TRY TO UPDATE AND MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE REACHING OUT TO THE PUBLIC AND TEACHING THEM ABOUT STORMWATER POLLUTION PREVENTION.

UH, WE WANT TO LOOK FOR AND FIND ANY OPPORTUNITIES OR PLACES WHERE THINGS THAT SHOULD NOT BE GETTING INTO OUR STORMWATER, WHETHER IT'S FROM COMMERCIAL BUSINESSES OR FROM, UH, SOME OF OUR OWN UTILITIES AND FEATURES FROM, UH, SANITARY SEWER LINES, UH, ILLICIT DISCHARGE DETECTION AND ELIMINATION IS WHAT THAT'S CALLED.

UH, BUT WE GO AROUND AND WE LOOK FOR THAT.

OUR HEALTH DEPARTMENT HELPS US A LOT WITH THAT.

UH, WE ALSO DO A LOT WITH CONSTRUCTION, STORMWATER PERMITTING.

ALL OF THE WORK THAT WE HAVE UNDER CONSTRUCTION RIGHT NOW.

WE, WE TRY TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE MINIMIZING THE, THE RUNOFF FROM, UH, THOSE PROJECTS WHEN WE EXPOSE SOIL AND, AND KEEP IT FROM GOING INTO OUR STREAMS AND TO INTO OUR PONDS.

AND THEN, UH, LAST, UM, MOST IMPORTANTLY, WE, WE HAVE OUR FLOOD PLAIN MANAGEMENT PROGRAM THROUGH THE NATIONAL FLOOD INSURANCE PROGRAM.

UH, WE WORK DILIGENTLY WITH THE N F I P TO MAKE SURE THAT RESIDENTS IN THE CITY OF RICHARDSON HAVE ACCESS TO THAT IMPORTANT INSURANCE.

UH, WE ALSO, UH, MAKE SURE THAT OUR DRAINAGE FEE THAT WE, UM, ALLOCATE THOSE COSTS OF SERVICE, UH, EQUITABLY AMONG ALL OF THE PROPERTY OWNERS.

SO, UH, WHETHER IT'S COMMERCIAL OR RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY.

UH, LAST YEAR WE WERE, UH, FORTUNATE ENOUGH TO GO THROUGH A 50 CENT INCREASE ON THAT.

UH, IT NETTED US ABOUT AN EXTRA $385,000 THIS YEAR, WHICH WE'RE PUTTING TO GOOD USE ON OUR PROJECTS AND HELPING US MAKE UP ON SOME OF THAT GROUND THAT WE'VE LOST TO A LOT OF THE INFLATION THAT YOU'VE HEARD SO MUCH ABOUT OUR OVERALL OPERATIONS THAT ARE COVERED BY THE VARIOUS ASPECTS OF THE STORMWATER UTILITY PROGRAM.

UH, WE HAVE CITY OPERATIONS, WHICH INCLUDING, AS SEAN MENTIONED EARLIER, WITH THE PARKS DEPARTMENT, SOME OF THAT STREET SWEEPING THAT HE MENTIONED, WE ACTUALLY REIMBURSE THROUGH GENERAL ADMINISTRATION, UH, REIMBURSEMENTS TO THOSE DEPARTMENTS.

THE COST OF MA MAINTENANCE IN WITHIN THOSE, UH, WHETHER IT'S FOR THE SERVICES THAT THEY PROVIDE US FROM AN ACCOUNTING PERSPECTIVE OR FOR THE PARKS, HELPING US WITH MANY PROJECTS THAT THEY DO, UH, OR WITH THE TCE E Q PERMIT COMPLIANCE.

UH, SO WE WORK CLOSELY WITH ALL OF THE DEPARTMENTS AND HELP COVER STORMWATER RELATED OPERATIONS WITHIN THE CITY OPERATIONS CITYWIDE.

IT IS A PARTNERSHIP THAT WE HAVE WITH MULTIPLE DEPART MULTIPLE DEPARTMENTS.

OUR CONTRACT SERVICES WE ARE WORKING ON, WE DO OPEN CHANNEL MAINTENANCE, WE DO LITTER ABATEMENT.

WE RELY ON A LOT OF OUTSIDE VENDORS TO HELP US WITH THAT.

WE ALSO RELY, I MENTIONED STREET SWEEPING.

WE HAVE AN IN, IN-HOUSE STREET SWEEPER THAT THE PARKS DEPARTMENT RUNS.

WE ALSO WORK WITH A CONTRACT COMPANY THAT DOES THE BULK OF OUR LOW OVERALL, UH, STREET SWEEPING THROUGHOUT OUR CITY.

UM, WE DO STUDIES AND ASSESSMENTS WITH THESE CONTRACT SERVICES AND, UH, RELY HEAVILY ON, ON THOSE VENDORS TO HELP US KEEP OUR CHANNELS CLEAN AND, AND, UH, LOOKING GOOD.

UH, OUR PROJECTS ARE THE LAST COMPONENT THAT WE FUND.

UH, MOST OF THOSE PROJECTS THAT WE FUND FALL INTO EITHER A FLOOD PREVENTION RELATED PROJECT OR EROSION PROTECTION.

OUR CURRENT WORK PLAN, UH, WE'RE WORKING ON WATERSHED STUDIES THIS CURRENT YEAR, UH, WE'RE WORKING ON THE, FINISHING UP THE LOWER DUCK CREEK PORTION OF, OF OUR WATERSHED STUDY.

UH, AND WE'RE LOOKING FORWARD NEXT YEAR IN FY 24 TO GOING UP AND AND ANALYZING SPRING CREEK.

WE'VE REALLY FOCUSED, AS YOU CAN TELL, ON THE WEST SIDE OF TOWN, SOME OF OUR OLDER PARTS OF THE NEIGHBORHOODS, TRYING TO MAKE SURE THAT WE UNDERSTAND HOW THOSE OLDER SYSTEMS WERE DESIGNED AND OPER ARE OPERATING, UH, MAKING SURE THAT WE'VE IDENTIFIED THOSE MOST, MOST AT RISK AND MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE FIXING THOSE PROBLEMS, UH, AS, AS QUICKLY AS WE CAN AND FOLLOWING A PRIORITY.

UH, OUR CURRENT WORK PLAN FOR OUR OPEN CHANNEL MAINTENANCE, WE ACTUALLY ARE IN THE WRAPPING THE WORK UP JUST NOW.

UH, WE'VE GOT SOME GOOD BEFORE AND AFTER PHOTOS HERE FOR YOU.

WORK THAT WE DID FROM SEDIMENT REMOVAL AT SHARP'S FARM ON THE UNDERNEATH THE CULVERTS ON THE UPSTREAM AND DOWNSTREAM ENDS OF THAT CULVERTS.

UH, WE'VE ALSO DONE A CONSIDERABLE AMOUNT OF VEGETATION REMOVAL ON GIAN BASKETS UP AND DOWN THE WEST FORK OF COTTONWOOD CREEK, AND WE'VE ALSO DONE SOME SELECTIVE TRIMMING AND CLEARING ON THE WEST FORK OF, OF COTTONWOOD CREEK BETWEEN CAMPBELL AND ARAPAHOE.

THAT'S ONE OF OUR AREAS THAT WE HAVE A LOT OF HIGH WATER INCIDENCES, AND SO WE TRY TO MAKE SURE THAT WE KEEP THAT SECTION OF THE CHANNEL FREE AND CLEAR OF OBSTRUCTIONS AS BEST WE POSSIBLY CAN.

MOVING FORWARD INTO FY 24, WE'RE LOOKING FORWARD TO CONTINUING DOING SEDIMENT AND CHANNEL, UH, CLEANING, UH, IN THE WEST FORK OF COTTONWOOD CREEK AS WELL AS ON THE TEXAS CHANNEL, UM, TO MAKE SURE THAT THOSE CREEKS ARE, ARE PERFORMING AND OPERATING AS OPTIMALLY AS WE CAN KEEP THEM, UH, IN AN LITTER ABATEMENT.

NOT ONLY DO WE DO THE STREET SWEEPING TO HELP KEEP LITTER FROM GETTING INTO OUR CREEKS, BUT WE ACTUALLY HAVE THESE CATCH BASINS WITHIN ABOUT 190 OF OUR CURRENT OF STORM DRAIN INLETS.

WITH THOSE CATCH BASINS ACTUALLY HAVE LITTLE BASKETS WITH, WITH FILTER FABRIC INSIDE

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OF THEM, AND THEY CAPTURE A LOT OF SEDIMENT, LEAVES, DEBRIS, AND TRASH.

UM, AND WE DO A GREAT JOB OF, OF CHECKING THOSE THINGS TOO, SOMETIMES THREE TIMES THROUGHOUT THE YEAR, AND WE ACTUALLY MEASURE THE AMOUNT OF DEBRIS THAT WE REMOVED FROM THAT.

UH, IN LAST YEAR IN 2022, WE REMOVED ABOUT 36,000 POUNDS OF DEBRIS FROM THOSE 190 INLETS.

WE'RE ACTUALLY ON TRACK THIS YEAR.

WE ACTUALLY, UH, ARE LOOKING TO INSTALL A FEW MORE INLETS AND, UH, WE'RE ON TRACK RIGHT NOW.

WE'VE GOT JUST OVER 31,000 TO DATE.

WE'RE PROJECTING ABOUT 45,000 POUNDS OF DEBRIS REMOVED FROM THESE INLETS AS WELL THIS YEAR.

BUT THAT'S A GREAT PROGRAM AND, AND WE'RE GONNA CONTINUE TO, TO EXPAND AND GROW THAT PROGRAM AS AS MUCH AS WE CAN.

AND THEN DOING INSPECTIONS WITHIN OUR PIPES AND MAKING SURE THAT WE UNDERSTAND WHAT THE CONDITION OF THOSE PIPES ARE AND THAT THEY'RE FLOWING AND FREE OF, OF, OF OBSTRUCTIONS.

UH, IN 22, WE'VE, UH, INSPECTED ABOUT 22,000 LINEAR FEET.

THIS YEAR WE'RE PROJECTED TO ACTUALLY COMPLETE ABOUT 31,000 LINEAR FEET OF PIPE.

A LOT OF THAT VARIANCE JUST DEPENDS ON, ON THE AMOUNT OF TIME IT TAKES AND HOW MUCH DEBRIS THEY RUN INTO, HOW DIFFICULT IT IS FOR THE CLEANING, UM, OF THAT PIPE.

SO SOMETIMES WE, WE END UP HAVING TO DO A LOT MORE CLEANING TO GET THE CAMERAS IN THERE, AND SOMETIMES WE CAN MAKE IT THROUGH.

UH, THIS YEAR WE'VE BEEN MAKING GOOD PROGRESS, BUT THIS IS A GOOD EXAMPLE IN THOSE PHOTOS OF A BEFORE AND AFTER OF WHAT KIND OF DEBRIS AND, AND THINGS WE RUN INTO INSIDE OUR PIPES.

OUR CURRENT CAPITAL PROJECTS WORK PLAN, UH, WE'VE ACTUALLY COMPLETED A FEW PROJECTS THIS YEAR, OUR WEST FORK COTTONWOOD CREEK'S DETENTION, UH, PROJECT THAT WE'RE, WE'RE WORKING ON WITH U T D.

WE'RE IN THE PROCESS OF FINISHING THAT PROJECT UP RIGHT NOW.

THAT WAS A 2021 BOMB PROGRAM PROJECT FOR CONSTRUCTION, BUT WE FUNDED THE DESIGN OUT OF THAT GOING INTO THE 21 BOND PROGRAM USING THE DRAINAGE UTILITY PROGRAM DOLLARS, UH, CHERRY WOOD AND BELT AND AND DRIVE AND BELTLINE CULVERTS AND AT HUNT BRANCH ON THE WEST SIDE OF TOWN OVER BY COIT.

UH, THAT CONSTRUCTION IS, UH, WE'RE OUT TO BID RIGHT NOW AND WE'RE LOOKING FORWARD TO STARTING CONSTRUCTION ON THAT THIS FALL.

THAT PROJECT IS A FAIRLY LARGE PROJECT THAT'S FUNDED BY NOT ONLY THE DRAINAGE UTILITY PROGRAM BY CO BONDS, BUT ALSO BY 2015 GEO BONDS.

LOWEST BRANCH FLOOD PREVENTION STUDY IS ONE THAT WE'RE, UH, CURRENTLY WORKING THROUGH.

WE'VE ACTUALLY BEEN STUDYING IT FOR THE LAST YEAR, YEAR AND A HALF.

UM, WE'RE LOOKING FORWARD TO CARRYING THAT PROJECT TO A 30% COMPLETION ON DESIGN.

UH, WE ARE GOING TO WORK THROUGH THAT THIS FALL.

UH, IT'S BEING FUNDED ENTIRELY OUT OF THE DRAINAGE UTILITY PROGRAM, AND I'LL TALK A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT THAT IN A MINUTE.

UH, TWO OF THE PROJECTS THAT CAME OUT OF OUR 21 STORM FROM BACK IN MAY OF 21, UH, 28 0 1 WYNDHAM AND 300 THOMPSON DRIVE WERE TWO LOCATIONS THAT WE HAD HIGH WATER INCIDENCES, AND WE'VE COMPLETED THE, THE, THE DRAINAGE IMPROVEMENTS AT BOTH OF THOSE LOCATIONS TO RESOLVE THE, THE DRAINAGE AND FLOODING CONDITIONS AT BOTH OF THOSE LOCATIONS.

UH, WE'VE ALSO STARTED DESIGN ON LAWN MEADOW DRIVE DRAINAGE RELIEF.

WE'LL BE GOING OUT TO CONSTRUCTION ON THAT THIS FALL.

AND THE RENTER ROAD BRIDGE REPAIRS OVER PRAIRIE CREEK.

WE'VE COMPLETED, UH, IN BRECKENRIDGE PARK AT RENTER ROAD EROSION CONTROL.

THAT'S ACTUALLY ONE THAT WE, THAT SEAN MENTIONED EARLIER.

WE'RE COORDINATING WITH PARKS MAINTENANCE ON.

THIS IS JUST A MAP OF THE LOCATION OF THOSE VARIOUS PROJECTS.

UM, A COUPLE OF BEFORE AND AFTERS OF SOME OF THE WORK THAT WE'VE DONE WITH SOME OF THE WEST FORK GIAN REPAIR PROJECTS THAT WE'VE COMPLETED.

AND THE BACK BRANCH STORM DRAIN EROSION REPAIR THAT WE COMPLETED LAST FALL.

THIS IS A PICTURE OF SOME WORK THAT WAS DONE.

THIS IS ACTUALLY THE FOUR PIPES THAT WERE CROSSING WATERVIEW COMING OUT OF THE BIG DETENTION POND OVER AT U T D.

UM, THE PROJECT PURPOSE OF THIS PROJECT WAS TO DECREASE THE OVERALL FLOODING THAT, UH, WAS HAPPENING JUST DOWNSTREAM.

AS I MENTIONED, THAT SECTION OF WEST FORK OF COTTONWOOD CREEK FROM CAMPBELL TO ARAPAHOE IS SOME OF OUR MOST SENSITIVE AREAS WHERE WE HAVE HIGH WATER INCIDENCES.

AND THIS DETENTION POND WAS CONSTRUCTED TO HELP US MITIGATE AS MUCH OF THAT FLOODING AS WE POSSIBLY COULD WITH DETENTION UPSTREAM.

UH, WE'RE COMPLETING THAT AND WE EXPECT THAT TO BE WRAPPING UP THIS SUMMER.

TWO OTHER PROJECTS THAT I MENTIONED, BELTLINE AT HUNT BRANCH DRAINAGE, UH, THAT PROJECT IS, IS A FAIRLY LARGE PROJECT THAT WE LOOK FORWARD TO COMPLETING AND, UH, GETTING UNDERWAY THIS FALL AND COMPLETING NEXT YEAR.

UH, WE ACTUALLY HAD A CAR ONE OF MY FIRST YEARS THAT WE BEGAN WORKING HERE IN EARLY TWO THOUSANDS, WE HAD A CAR WASH OFF OF COTTONWOOD DRIVE INTO COTTONWOOD PARK, AND SO WE'RE REAL EXCITED ABOUT FINALLY GETTING SOME OF THESE HIGH WATER CONDITIONS ADDRESSED AND TAKEN CARE OF.

UH, LAWN MEADOW DRAINAGE IS ALSO A PROJECT THAT WE'RE TAKEN CARE OF, AND THIS IS ACTUALLY FUNDED, UM, THROUGH OUR, OUR GENERAL SPECIAL PROJECTS DEPARTMENT DIVISION AND FUNDING.

UM, THIS PROJECT IS OVER IN THE, UH, CANYON CREEK NEIGHBORHOOD, JUST SOUTH OF THE RAILROAD TRACKS ON THE WEST SIDE OF CUSTER ROAD.

UH, WE'RE WRAPPING UP DESIGN THIS SUMMER.

WE EXPECT TO GO OUT TO BID THIS FALL AND HOPEFULLY BE UNDER CONSTRUCTION IN THE WINTER JANUARY, FEBRUARY TIMEFRAME OF 2024.

LOIS BRANCH, AS I MENTIONED EARLIER, WE'VE BEEN STUDYING IT FOR THE LAST YEAR, YEAR AND A HALF.

THIS IS COMING OUT OF THAT SAME MAY 16TH, 2021 STORM WHERE WE HAD SOME SIGNIFICANT HIGH WATER INCIDENCES FLOWS IDENTIFIED IN THIS AREA.

UH, WE'VE BEEN STUDYING THIS.

WE'VE, WE'VE STARTED OFF THINKING WE WOULD IDENTIFY THREE ALTERNATIVES.

IT WAS ACTUALLY, I'VE IDENTIFIED SIX.

UM, WE'RE LOOKING FORWARD TO, UH, TRYING TO FI FIND THE BEST SOLUTION.

WHAT WE FOUND

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ON THIS IS WE REALLY DON'T HAVE A GOOD SCALABLE SOLUTION THAT ALLOWS US TO PHASE THIS WORK OVER MULTIPLE YEARS AND KEEPING IT WITHIN THE, THE, THE CAPABILITIES AND CAPACITIES OF THE STORMWATER UTILITY PROGRAM.

WE DO BELIEVE THAT THIS IS GONNA BE A LARGER PROJECT THAT WE'RE GONNA CARRY FORWARD INTO A FUTURE BOND PROGRAM FOR CONSIDERATION.

OUR OVERALL FUNDING, AS I MENTIONED, THOSE THREE CITY OPERATIONS CONTRACT SERVICES AND PROJECTS BUDGETS.

UH, OUR CITY OPERATIONS ACCOUNT FOR JUST UNDER A MILLION DOLLARS OF, OF OUR OVERALL, UH, 3.3 MILLION.

OUR CONTRACT SERVICES, UH, THE CURRENT YEAR, ABOUT 1.1 MILLION GOING UP TO ABOUT 1.3 LARGELY DUE TO SOME OF OUR COST INCREASES ON A LOT OF THOSE CONTRACT SERVICES.

AND FOR OUR PROJECTS, UH, WE'RE TRYING TO STAY AND KEEP THOSE PROJECTS COMING.

UH, WE HAD A GOOD YEAR THIS YEAR WITH SOME OF OUR PROJECT FUNDING AND SOME OF THAT INFLATION AID INTO A LITTLE BIT OF THAT.

UH, WE, WE DO PROBABLY, UH, WANT TO TALK IN THE FUTURE AGAIN ABOUT HOW WE CAN DO A BETTER JOB OF KEEPING UP WITH SOME OF THAT INFLATION.

BUT ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE ARE LOOKING AT THIS FALL IS GOING TO BE A NEW, UH, PERMITTING PROCESS, UH, THROUGH THE TCE E Q AND THAT, UM, THE EPA REQUIREMENTS AS WE GO THROUGH A NEW PERMITTING PROCESS IN, IN THE JANUARY SPRING TIME OF NEXT YEAR, WE'LL HAVE A BETTER HANDLE THEN ON WHAT THOSE NEW REQUIREMENTS WILL BE, AND WE'LL BE COMING BACK TO YOU THIS TIME NEXT YEAR, UNDERSTANDING THOSE REQUIREMENTS A LITTLE BIT BETTER, PROBABLY OUTLINING SOME OF THOSE ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS AND WHAT IMPACTS THOSE MIGHT HAVE ON OUR PROJECTS AND FUNDING.

JUST TO SUMMARIZE AGAIN, WHERE WE'RE AT ON OUR CITY OPERATIONS, WE'RE GONNA CONTINUE TO MAINTAIN OUR, OUR SYSTEMS AND STORM, UH, PREPARATION AND RESPONSE WORK WITH THAT PERMIT COMPLIANCE FOR, WITH THE T C E Q, KEEP OUR FLOODPLAIN MANAGEMENT PROGRAM IN GOOD SHAPE.

UH, WE'LL BE WORKING THOSE CONTRACT SERVICES WITH PARKS DEPARTMENT AND OTHER DEPARTMENTS AS WELL AS OURSELVES WORKING TO KEEP THOSE CHANNELS CLEAR AND FREE OF DEBRIS AS BEST AS POSSIBLE.

CONTINUING OUR WATERSHED STUDIES AND WORKING ON THOSE CAPITAL PROJECTS THAT WE DISCUSSED, WE'LL BE LOOKING AT A COUPLE OF DESIGNS UNDER NEW LOCATIONS OF THOSE CAPITAL PROJECTS.

UM, WE'VE GOT SEVERAL IDENTIFIED THROUGH THOSE PRIOR STORMWATER SHED ASSESSMENTS THAT WERE PERFORMED.

UH, WE'RE GONNA BE LOOKING AT EDITH CIRCLE, UH, WESTWOOD DRIVE AT THOMPSON DRIVE.

THAT'S VERY CLOSE TO WHERE WE FINISHED THE, THE IMMEDIATE CAUSE OF THE DRAINAGE ISSUE THAT WAS THERE.

UM, BUT WE, IN THE PROCESS OF DOING THAT, IDENTIFIED ANOTHER LOCATION THAT WE'RE GONNA GO BACK AND, AND WORK ON.

UM, 3 0 7 3007 TAMLO.

CHAND IS AN AREA THAT WE'RE GONNA BE LOOKING AT IMPROVING SOME DRAINAGE, UH, AS IT GOES FROM TAMO CHANTER OUT TO THE GOLF COURSE THERE.

UH, RIDGEDALE AT THOMPSON DRIVE, JUST DOWNSTREAM OF THAT.

WESTWOOD AT THOMPSON DRIVE.

THOSE ARE TWO LOCATIONS THAT WILL PAIR TOGETHER AND DO SOME WORK TO IDENTIFY WAYS TO GET WATER OFF OF THOMPSON AND INTO THE CREEK A LITTLE BIT MORE EFFICIENTLY.

UH, WE'VE GOT CHEYENNE AT NAVAJO.

AGAIN, THAT'S AN AREA THAT'S IN THAT SECTION OF LITTLE WEST FORT COTTONWOOD CREEK THAT I MENTIONED, THAT WE HAVE A LOT OF HIGH WATER.

WE'RE GONNA BE STUDYING THAT AND SEEING WHAT WE CAN DO TO IMPROVE DRAINAGE SITUATION.

THERE.

WE HAVE CANYON VALLEY DRIVE CULVERT.

UH, IT'S IN CONJUNCTION WITH SOME OF THE CANYON VALLEY STREET AND ROADWAY IMPROVEMENTS THAT WERE BEING, UH, DESIGNED RIGHT NOW AND ARE ABOUT TO GO UNDER CONSTRUCTION.

WE'RE GONNA BE MAKING SOME IMPROVEMENTS TO ENHANCE THE DRAINAGE THERE AND MAKE SURE THAT THOSE, UH, SYSTEMS FUNCTION, UH, MORE OPTIMALLY AND, AND DON'T RESULT IN SOME OF THE EROSION AND SCOUR THAT WE'VE BEEN SEEING AT THAT LOCATION.

AND THEN THE, THE LOWEST BRANCH FLOOD PREVENTION STUDY, WE'RE GONNA TAKE THAT TO 30% DESIGN, AS I MENTIONED, SO THAT WE CAN HAVE BETTER COST AND, UH, AND DESIGN INFORMATION FOR CONSIDERATION ON A FUTURE BOND PROGRAM.

IF THERE ARE ANY OTHER, UH, QUESTIONS, I'LL BE GLAD TO SEE THOSE.

TAKE YOUR QUESTIONS RIGHT NOW.

WE'LL RECEIVE THE, YOUR INPUT ON ANY OF OUR CURRENT WORK PLAN, CONTINUE THE EXECUTION OF OUR, OF OUR WORK PLAN THIS YEAR, AND MOVE ON TO NEXT YEAR AND, UH, WORK ON THAT RENEWAL OF OUR APPLICATION FOR OUR TCE E Q PERMIT NEXT YEAR.

UM, IF THERE ANY OTHER QUESTIONS, PLEASE LET ME KNOW.

JIM, THANK YOU FOR THE PRESENTATION.

WE HAVE MR. BARRIOS.

THANK YOU, MR. MAYOR.

UM, JIM, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR, UM, YOUR TIME AND EXPLAIN, I WILL SAY, UM, AND MY RECENT ELECTION, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT PEOPLE WANTED TO TALK ABOUT WAS, UM, COTTON, WHEAT CREEK, BUT OTHER, YOU KNOW, DRAINAGE AND WHERE WATER GOES.

AND I KNOW, UM, THERE WAS SOME CONCERN RECENTLY AND THE PREVIOUS COUNCIL WHEN THE, UH, ABOUT WATER DRAINAGE AND KIND OF OVER-ENGINEERING THE FLOOD PLAIN THAT IS, UH, AT ARAPAHOE AND WEST SHORE ALONG THE EAST SIDE OF CONCRETE.

MM-HMM.

, UM, IN SAYING ALL THAT, I GUESS I WAS LOOKING AT YOUR SLIDE.

I THINK PEOPLE ARE INTERESTED IN THIS, SO, SO ANYTHING YOU CAN SPEAK TO AND KIND OF PROVIDE CLARIFICATION WOULD BE GREATLY APPRECIATED.

CAN I, I THINK THAT AS, I GUESS AS WE LOOK AT, I THINK FOR LIKE 3.1 OR 3.2% UNDEVELOPED, A LOT OF THESE POCKET PROJECTS ARE GONNA BE KIND OF LIKE WHAT WAS APPROVED THAT, YOU KNOW, WE'RE, WE'RE LOOKING AT THESE DEVELOPMENTS AND SOME AREAS THAT MIGHT BE FLOODPLAIN AND THEN WHERE'S THE WATER DISPLACED TO.

AND

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OBVIOUSLY THAT IS AN AREA THAT YOU'VE IDENTIFIED, I KNOW, UH, THAT YOUR TEAM HAS BEEN WORKING ON, UH, ALONG CO CO COTTONWOOD CREEK, BETWEEN ARAPAHO AND CAMPBELL.

CAN YOU SPEAK TO SLIDE EIGHT WHERE YOU SHOW CURRENT WORK PLAN STUDIES AND ASSESSMENTS CUZ SHOWING ALL THAT'S BEEN IN BLUE HAS BEEN COMPLETED.

CAN YOU KIND OF TELL US WHAT THAT PROCESS IS? THE KIND OF THINGS YOU LOOK LIKE YOU LOOK AT WHEN STUDYING WATER FLOW? CUZ I JUST, I THINK WE, JUST AS WE APPROVE MORE OF THESE PRO LOOK AT MORE OF THESE POCKET PROJECTS AND INFILL PROJECTS, THIS BECOMES A BIGGER DEAL MOVING FORWARD, I THINK AS WE'RE RUNNING OUTTA LAND.

SO, UH, DRAINAGE BECOMES BIGGER.

AND SO, SO JUST SO THAT WE CAN HAVE THAT KIND OF LOOKING AHEAD, I THINK MYSELF AND, AND A LOT OF MY CONSTITUENTS WANNA MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE LOOKING AHEAD AND PLANNING AHEAD, NOT JUST FOR CURRENT FLOODING, BUT WHAT MIGHT HAPPEN, UH, IN THE FUTURE.

UH, AND SO I DON'T KNOW IF THAT COULD BE ANSWERED BY WHAT YOU'VE STUDIED, BUT IF YOU CAN SPEAK TOWARDS WHAT YOU'VE STUDIED AND HOW THAT PROCESS LOOKS LIKE, I'D APPRECIATE IT.

I'D BE GLAD TO.

UH, WHEN WE GO IN AND DO A WATERSHED STUDY, WE LOOK AT SEVERAL THINGS.

WE LOOK AT, UH, HOW MUCH RAINFALL IS ACTUALLY GONNA HIT THE GROUND.

SO WE LOOK AT THE HYDROLOGY, AND THEN ONCE THAT WATER HITS THE GROUND, WE STUDY THE HYDRAULICS AND WHERE DOES THAT WATER GO? AND SO, UH, THERE ARE TWO MODELS THAT WE RELY ON HEAVILY, UH, THE HYDROLOGY COMPONENT THAT TELLS US HOW MUCH WATER IS HITTING THE GROUND, AND THEN THE HYDRAULICS COMPONENT, WHICH ALLOWSS US TO UNDERSTAND WHERE IS IT GONNA GO ONCE IT'S ON THE GROUND, WHETHER IT'S A SURFACE FLOW IN A CREEK OR IS IT IN A PIPE.

AND ONE OF THE GREAT THINGS THAT HAVE BEEN HAPPENING OVER THE LAST 20 YEARS WITH THE EVOLUTION OF ALL THE SOFTWARE THAT, UH, DAN WAS JUST TELLING YOU ABOUT, UH, IS TWO DIMENSIONAL ANALYSIS.

AND SO THAT'S ACTUALLY SOMETHING THAT WE'VE BEEN USING ON ALL, ALL OF THESE, UH, WATERSHED STUDIES, UH, IS HELPING MAKE SURE THAT WE UNDERSTAND HOW WATER GETS INTO OUR STORM DRAIN SYSTEMS. AND THEN THE COMBINATION OF THE SURFACE DRAINAGE COMPONENT AND THE UNDERGROUND COMPONENT, HOW THEY DYNAMICALLY WORK TOGETHER.

AND WE LOOK AT THAT, UM, AND IDENTIFY PLACES WHERE WE SEE PONDING THAT GOES OUTSIDE OF THE RIGHT OF WAY WHERE WE SEE PONDING OR WATER THAT GOES THROUGH PRIVATE PROPERTY WHERE IT SHOULDN'T BE GOING THROUGH PRIVATE PROPERTY AND, AND RESULTS IN FLOODING.

AND SO THOSE I, THOSE IDENTIF PLACES ARE IDENTIFIED IN OUR WATERSHED STUDIES.

WE IDENTIFY AND RECOMMEND IMPROVEMENTS AT THOSE LOCATIONS AND WE RANK THOSE AND PUT THOSE IN CONJUNCTION WITH A LOT OF OUR OTHER IMPROVEMENTS THAT ARE BEING CONSIDERED.

THE ONES THAT WE PRESENTED THIS EVENING ARE ONES THAT WERE ALL MORE OR LESS RANKED HIGH OR RESULTED IN HIGH WATER CONDITIONS AS A RESULT OF THAT RECENT STORM THAT WE HAD IN 21.

UM, SO WE DO TRY TO LOOK FORWARD AND TO BETTER TRY TO ASSESS HOW YOU, UH, QUESTION.

WHEN WE LOOK AT DEVELOPMENT, WE ASSUME FULLY DEVELOPED CONDITIONS.

UH, WE, SO WE HAVE AN EXISTING CONDITIONS MODEL THAT TELLS US IF WE HAVE GRASS SOMEWHERE, HOW MUCH OF IT'S ABSORBING INTO THE GROUND AND, AND NOT RESULTING IN RUNOFF, UH, BASED ON THE ANTECEDENT MOISTURE CONDITIONS THAT ARE THERE.

BUT ALSO, UH, IF WE REPLACE THAT WITH PARKING OR WITH ROOFTOPS AND WE CONNECT THAT WATER DIRECTLY TO OUR STORM DRAINS, IT RESULTS IN HIGHER FLOW RATES AND RUNOFF.

AND SO WE ASSUME A FULLY DEVELOPED CONDITION BASED ON THE APPROVED ZONING THAT WE HAVE AT THE TIME.

THAT'S THE BEST INFORMATION WE HAVE.

AND WE USUALLY RESULTS IN A, IN A HIGH PERCENTAGE IMPERVIOUS SERVICE AREA.

AND WE SEE WHAT HAPPENS IN THOSE MODELS, AND THAT'S THE FLOWS THAT WE USE TO IDENTIFY WHERE WE HAVE THOSE PINCH POINTS AND FLOODING CONCERNS IN OUR WATERSHED STUDIES.

I DON'T KNOW IF THAT, SO, SO JIM, THAT'S, THAT'S, THAT'S A GREAT FOUNDATION.

SO WHAT HAPPENS THAT, THAT'S THE ASSUMPTIONS WE MAKE.

YEP.

WHAT HAPPENS WHEN A ZONING CHANGE REQUEST COMES IN, LIKE FROM COMMERCIAL TO RESIDENTIAL, FOR INSTANCE? EXPLAIN HOW YOU USE ALL OF THAT INFORMATION TO ASSESS THAT ZONING CHANGE REQUEST AS WELL.

SO WHEN WE GET THOSE ZONING REQUESTS IN, WE WORK CLOSELY WITH DEVELOPMENT SERVICES, WE'LL GO BACK AND LOOK AT THOSE PINCH POINTS TO MAKE SURE THAT IF WE HAVE PROBLEMS IDENTIFIED THAT WE'RE ADDRESSING OR FIGURING OUT WHAT IMPACTS THOSE IMPROVEMENTS WOULD HAVE ON THOSE AT THE TIME, AND WE'LL MAKE SURE THAT THOSE BECOME A HIGH PRIORITY IN OUR CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS.

UH, WE'LL UPDATE AND MAKE SURE THAT WE ASSESS THE, THE DRAINAGE, UH, CONDITIONS THERE.

UM, OR, OR YOU'LL REQUIRE THE DEVELOPER TO DO IT, OR WE PARTNER WITH THE DEVELOPER, UH, PRO RATHA FOR FOR THEIR DEVELOPMENT.

THAT'S CORRECT.

SO FOLLOW UP QUESTION AND WELL, ONE QUICK ONE.

UH, THESE STUDIES THAT YOU'VE COMPLETED, ARE THESE AVAILABLE ONLINE TO THE PUBLIC? SO IF I HAD SOMEBODY WHO REALLY WAS QUESTIONING, I CAN DIRECT THEM TO OUR WEBSITE.

IS THAT ONLINE OR IS THAT, SO THESE TWO, TWO DIMENSIONAL MODELS, THE MAPPING AND EVERYTHING ASSOCIATED WITH IT ARE FAIRLY, UH, DENSE AND, AND DATA.

WE DON'T HAVE THE MAPPING AND THE, AND THE MODELS FOR THOSE THAT TAKE SPECIAL SOFTWARE AVAILABLE TO THE PUBLIC.

WHAT MAPPING WE DO HAVE AVAILABLE ONLINE IS THE FLOOD INSURANCE INFORMATION, THE FLOOD PLAIN MAPPING.

BUT ANYONE IS WELCOME TO CALL OUR DEPARTMENT AND WE ARE GLAD TO GO AND WORK WITH THE ENGINEERS THAT HAVE DONE THESE WATERSHED STUDIES FOR US THAT ARE HOSTING THAT DATA AND WORK WITH THEM TO PROVIDE THAT MAPPING AND, AND THE INFORMATION THAT WE HAVE.

UM, QUICK QUESTION, AND I DON'T KNOW, DON, IF THIS IS

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A QUESTION FOR YOU.

UM, YOU MENTIONED IN MY PREVIOUS QUESTION, UH, BASED ON CURRENT ZONING, I KNOW WE'RE GOING THROUGH THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN RIGHT NOW THAT MAY BE CHANGING SOME ZONING DEPENDING ON WHAT THE FINDINGS ARE.

DO WE AS A CITY, AGAIN, THINKING THAT KIND OF HOLISTICALLY, RIGHT? KNOWING THAT AS A COUNCIL WE'RE GONNA MAKE SURE THESE KINDS OF DECISIONS AND FUTURE DECISIONS BASED ON, UH, DEVELOPMENT.

DO WE, WHEN WE LOOK AT CHANGING THE ZONING, UH, BASED ON WHAT WE'RE GONNA FIND A COMPREHENSIVE PLAN, ARE WE GONNA KIND OF RUN THAT THROUGH JIM AND HIS DEPARTMENT PRIOR TO MAKING THOSE CHINA CHANGES? LIKE IS HE PART OF THAT PROCESS? ABSOLUTELY.

YEAH, DEFINITELY.

OUR ENGINEERS WORK CLOSELY WITH THE DEVELOPMENT REVIEW COMMITTEE AND ALL OF THE ASPECTS OF THE DEVELOPMENT THAT WE DO.

SO WE AS A COUNCIL PRIOR TO ADOPTING OR CHANGING ANY, ANYTHING ON ZONING BASED ON COMP, ANY CHANGES THAT MIGHT BE HAPPENING BASED ON A COMPREHENSIVE PLAN MM-HMM.

WE'LL GO THROUGH AND WE'LL BE ABLE TO LOOK AT THAT HOLISTICALLY PRIOR TO YEAH.

WHETHER IT'S CITY, REGARDLESS OF WHETHER IT'S CITY INITIATED ZONING OR, OR YOU KNOW, PROPERTY OWNER ZONING.

WE WILL RUN THE, UH, ZONING IMPLICATIONS OF THE ZONING CHANGE REQUEST THROUGH THE SAME PROCESS SO THAT WE KNOW, UM, AND, AND, AND IF THERE ARE IMPROVEMENTS ASSOCIATED WITH THAT ON OUR END, LIKE FOR INSTANCE THROUGH ONE OF THE SPECIAL STUDY AREAS, WE WOULD, WE WOULD ACKNOWLEDGE THAT AND, AND DISCUSS THAT UPFRONT.

GREAT PRESENTATION, GOOD EXPLANATION.

WELL I THANK YOU AND I KNOW THIS IS AN AREA THAT, UH, ELISE, TO ME IT'S BEEN BROUGHT UP, UH, MULTIPLE TIMES IN CONCERN OF SOME COMMUNITY.

SO I APPRECIATE YOU, UH, SHARING THAT WITH US.

AND THEN, YOU KNOW, ALSO FIELD ANY QUESTIONS THAT MAY HAPPEN IN THE FUTURE, IF, UH, UH, AS PEOPLE ASK ME THOSE QUESTIONS, I'LL GLADLY SEND 'EM YOUR WAY.

THIS IS ACTUALLY JIM'S PASSION.

THIS IS WHAT HE STARTED DOING HERE.

AWESOME.

YEAH, I I'M PROBABLY TAKING MORE TIME THAN, THAN THANK YOU.

UH, YOU KNOW, TOO LITTLE BUDGET, YOU KNOW, THAT DOLLAR FIGURE I SEE THAT'S REALLY VERY INSIGNIFICANT.

UH, YOU CAN IDENTIFY THE PROBLEM, BUT YOU HAVE TO HAVE THE MONEY TO FIX IT.

AND THERE ARE, YOU KNOW, LOTS OF FIXING NEED TO BE DONE.

UH, AND ALSO THE MANPOWER, YOU KNOW, I'M, I'M, I'M GLAD THAT YOU ARE COLLECTING THOSE DEBRIS FROM THE INLETS, BUT IT'S VERY CHALLENGING.

I KNOW THAT BECAUSE IT'S MANUAL, YOU HAVE TO REMEMBER WHAT THINGS BEEN INSTALLED AND COLLECT THOSE ON TIME.

SO I, YOU KNOW, THIS IS REALLY SOMETHING AWESOME JOB YOU'RE DOING.

NOW.

QUESTION.

LET ME UNDER, YOU KNOW, JUST TO UNDERSTAND MYSELF AND MAYBE SOME OTHER COUNCIL MEMBERS, THEY WILL UNDERSTAND, YOU KNOW, OUR POPULATION HAS CHANGED AND IT'S OVER A HUNDRED THOUSAND IS AT THAT TIME HAD ANYTHING TO DO WITH OUR, UH, REQUIREMENT CHANGE FROM THE T C E Q FEMA.

WE WERE INITIALLY A PHASE TWO CITY, WHICH ALLOWED US TO SUBMIT, UH, OUR FIRST PERMIT LATER THAN MOST LARGER CITIES UP.

UM, AND WITH OUR SIZE NOW, YES, UH, NEXT YEAR WITH THIS NEW PERMIT WE'RE GOING TO BE TREATED JUST LIKE THE PHASE ONE CITIES.

SO, GREAT.

SO THAT'S ONE THING, EVEN THOUGH NOW THAT'S THE FOLLOW UP QUESTION THAT WE MIGHT, COUNCIL MIGHT SAY, YOU KNOW, WE'RE CHANGING THIS ZONING BASED ON THE REQUEST AND ALL THIS, BUT THAT DOESN'T MEAN THAT IF THE ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENT IS NOT MADE, THE, THE DOUBLE OFFER WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO BUILD THAT BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, EVEN THOUGH IT'S BEEN ALLOWED BY ZONING, BUT BECAUSE OF THE OTHER CONDITION, LIKE THE FLAT PLANE, UH, INCREASING THE WATER LEVELS BECAUSE OF THOSE KIND OF THINGS, THE PROJECT WILL NOT GO MOVE FORWARD.

IS THAT, I MEAN, AM I EXPLANATION? I MEAN, THE QUESTION MAKES SENSE.

I THINK ITS FAIR TO SAY THAT WE WOULD MAKE SURE THAT ANY DEVELOPMENT MOVING FORWARD WOULD BE IN COMPLIANCE WITH OUR, OUR FEDERAL AND, AND STATE AND LOCAL REGULATIONS.

I, I, LET ME, I THINK THE NUANCE MAY BE ARE WE, WE WE'RE STILL TRYING TO FIGURE OUT EXACTLY ALL THE DIFFERENT MANDATES OR REQUIREMENTS THAT MIGHT COME WITH THE NEW, UH, LEVEL OF PERMITTING THAT WILL BE REQUIRED.

SO I THINK THE QUESTION IS, I THINK THE ANSWER TO THE QUESTION IS WE DON'T KNOW YET FULLY IF THERE WOULD BE ANYTHING THAT COULD POTENTIALLY IMPEDE FUTURE DEVELOPMENT NOW THAT WE'RE AT THIS NEW LEVEL VERSUS A LOWER LEVEL.

THE, THE THAT'S CORRECT.

WE'RE THE FIRST STEP OF OUR NEW PERMIT IS GOING TO BE GOING IN.

AND IT'S A VERY GOOD QUESTION CUZ THERE VERY WELL COULD BE, WE JUST DON'T FULLY UNDERST I DON'T THINK WE FULLY APPRECIATE YET WHAT, UH, T C Q WILL REQUIRE OF US SINCE WE'RE MOVING TO THIS HIGHER LEVEL.

THAT'S CORRECT.

EVERY PERMIT IS A FIVE-YEAR PERMIT.

FIRST YEAR OR TWO IS USUALLY IDENTIFYING WHAT STEPS ARE NEEDED TO CHANGE TO BECOME COMPLIANT.

AND THEN YOU SPEND MOST OF THAT FIVE-YEAR PERMIT PERIOD BECOME FULLY BECOMING FULLY COMPLIANT WITH THOSE CHANGES.

UH, SO THAT A NON-ENGINEER CAN UNDERSTAND MORE EASILY.

WELL, DUE ON THE UNDERSTAND AS A NON-ENGINEER, I'M JUST TRYING TO SEE HOW WE CAN ASK, ASK QUESTION,

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UH, I KNOW THE CONCERN IS THAT OKAY, IF YOU ALLOW THIS SMALL DEVELOPMENT TO HAPPEN, THAT'S GOING TO CREATE FLOODING IN THE UPSTREAM AREA OR IN THE, IN THIS AREA, UH, UH, THAT'S NOT REALLY TRUE ALL THE TIME.

UH, EVEN THOUGH YOU ARE ALLOWING THE DEVELOPMENT, UH, BECAUSE SOMETIMES CREATING A DETENTION POND COULD BE A PROBLEM FOR THE DO YOU KNOW MM-HMM.

SYSTEM BECAUSE YOU ARE HOLDING THE WATER AND RELEASING THE WATER DURING THE PEAK TIME.

CORRECT.

SO THAT'S ONE OF THE REASON HAVING A NICE GOOD MODEL IS IMPORTANT BECAUSE YOU CAN PLAY WITH THE MODEL AND IT'S NOT PUBLIC INFORMATION.

I MEAN, IT'S A PUBLIC INFORMATION COULD BE, BUT THE THING IS, RUNNING THOSE SOFTWARE IS NOT, YOU KNOW, IT'S LIKE, IT'S NOT A MICROSOFT BOARD.

THOSE ARE SPECIAL SOFTWARE.

CORRECT.

SO, UM, I HOPE THE BUDGET WOULD ALLOW TO HAVE YOU ENGINEER ON TIME.

I MEAN ON, ON BOARD.

UH, THEY CAN WORK FULL TIME TO MAKE SURE THAT WE RUN THOSE MODEL MM-HMM.

, UH, AND MAKE SURE THAT, YOU KNOW, WE UNDERSTAND EXACTLY HOW THE WATER IS GOING, GOING TO BE MOVE, YOU KNOW, WILL MOVE FORWARD.

UM, AND I KNOW THAT IT'S, IT'S VERY COMPLICATED BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, SOME OF THE AREA, YOU SEE THAT THE, THE STREET GETS FLOODED MM-HMM.

AND EVENTUALLY IT DRAINS OUT.

UH, IT MAKES PEOPLE NERVOUS WHEN YOU SEE THE WATER STANDING, BUT SOMETIMES THINGS ARE DESIGNED IN THE PAST TO HOLD THE WATER IN PLACE.

MM-HMM.

, UH, MOST LIKELY THERE IS NO REASON TO BE, YOU KNOW, TO, TO BE WORRY ABOUT THAT SOMETIMES, NOT ALL THE TIME, BUT SOMETIMES IT'S, IT'S ALL RIGHT THAT IT'S GOING, IT'S NOT GOING TO FLOOD.

SO I DON'T KNOW.

I MEAN THERE IS, IF THERE IS A WAY YOU COULD COMMUNICATE THIS THING MORE, UH, EASILY WITH, UM, RESIDENTS SO THEY UNDERSTAND, UH, ESPECIALLY DURING THE RAINY SEASON, WE SEE THAT THING POSTING, YOU KNOW, THANKS TO THE SOCIAL MEDIA, UH, WE SEE PICTURES, VIDEO LIVE, BUT NOT NECESSARILY, UH, IF YOU KNOW THE END RESULT, YOU ARE NOT SCARED BECAUSE YOU KNOW THAT THIS IS GOING TO THE SYSTEM, BUT PEOPLE DON'T KNOW EXACTLY HOW DOES GRANT END.

WE, WE UPDATED OUR MANUAL, UH, LITERATURE ONLINE, UH, COMING OUT OF THAT MAY 21 STORM THAT TRIED TO HELP MANAGE THOSE EXPECTATIONS, ESPECIALLY IN SOME OF OUR OLDER NEIGHBORHOODS.

IT IS ALARMING WHEN YOU SEE A, A STREET THAT HAS WATER OVER ITS CURBS, BUT IT'S STILL IN THE RIGHT OF WAY.

THAT'S HOW IT WAS DESIGNED TO FUNCTION.

IT DOESN'T MAKE IT LESS ALARMING, BUT, BUT THAT IS HOW IT WAS DESIGNED AND BUILT ORIGINALLY.

DO WE, DO WE HAVE ANY KIND OF MAPPING SYSTEM? I MEAN, NOT EXACTLY THE SAME MAP.

I'M TALKING ABOUT MAYBE JUST A GIS MAP LAYER THAT, YOU KNOW, IF, IF WE HAVE FIVE YEARS RAIN EVENT, THIS PLACE WOULD LOOK LIKE THIS.

IF WE HAVE 25 YEARS, THIS PLACE WOULD LOOK LIKE THIS.

WE DO HAVE RASTER MAPPING COMING OUT OF ALL OF THESE WATERSHED STUDIES.

WE COULD WORK ON TRYING TO SIMPLIFY SOME OF THOSE MAPS AND, AND THE CHANGING THE RESOLUTIONS, BUT WORKING ON EITHER SOME OF THE COMMON 2, 5, 10 OR 25 YEAR EVENTS AND EVEN THE A HUNDRED YEAR, UH, THAT, THAT WE EVALUATE, UM, WE COULD WORK ON MAKING, MAKING THAT DATA AVAILABLE, UH, MORE READILY.

ABSOLUTELY.

THAT MIGHT HELP.

BUT NOW MOVING FORWARD, WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THAT THREE POINT SOME MILLION.

THAT'S NOT REALLY MUCH.

WHAT'S THE PLAN? I MEAN, 10 YEARS, YOU KNOW, THE BUDGET, THE FUNDING THAT WE ARE GONNA NEED.

THE A HUNDRED YEAR EVENT, BUT WE WERE ALSO TRYING TO FIND SOME SWEET SPOTS WHERE IT BENEFITED IN 25 TO 10 YEAR EVENTS.

WHERE IS THE MAGIC? WELL, I, YOU KNOW, WE, WE, WE, FOR THE FIRST TIME IN THE PROGRAM'S HISTORY LAST YEAR, WE INCREASED THE DRAINAGE FEE.

AND, UM, I THINK THE CHANCES THAT NEXT YEAR WE, WE, WE MOVE INTO THIS, UM, HIGHER CATEGORY OF PERMITTING AND WE DON'T HAVE ANY MANDATES THAT WILL REQUIRE MORE FUNDING WILL BE ALMOST NONE.

I MEAN, THERE'S A REASON WHY WE'RE MOVING UP IS IT'S GONNA REQUIRE MORE OF US.

AND SO I DIDN'T WANT TO, UH, RECOMMEND ANOTHER INCREASE THIS YEAR.

I WANTED TO KIND OF WAIT AND FULLY ANTICIPATE, UM, WHAT, WHAT THE NEW MANDATES MIGHT BE AND THEN FACTOR THAT INTO AN ADDITIONAL INCREASE.

BUT YOU'RE ABSOLUTELY RIGHT.

I MEAN, THE INFLATIONARY PRESSURES IN THIS REALM OF CONSTRUCTION ARE NO DIFFERENT THAN THE ONES THAT WE VISITED ELSEWHERE.

THE OTHER THING I THINK WE HAVE TO BE MINDFUL OF AND, AND BE, UM, OPEN TO IS IN, IS INCLUDING MORE DRAINAGE IN BOND PROGRAMS. UM, I MEAN MANY OF THESE PROJECTS ARE, ARE SIGNIFICANT PROJECTS THAT WOULD TAKE, UH, 3, 4, 5 YEARS OF ALL OF THE DRAINAGE FUNDING TO BE ABLE TO COMPLETE OTHERWISE.

AND SO, YOU KNOW, I THINK IN THE FUTURE WE LOOK TO A BIGGER COMPONENT OF OUR BOND PROGRAMS HAVING, UH, DRAINAGE COMPO, YOU KNOW, DRAINAGE FOCUS AND UM, THAT'S ANOTHER WAY WE CAN START KIND OF, UH, UH, OKAY.

GREAT.

UH, NOW MY FINAL QUESTION HERE.

UH, THE DETENTION POND OR RETENTION POND THAT YOU ARE GOING TO HAVE IN THE U T D PROPERTY AREA, CAN YOU JUST IN A LIKE COUPLE SENTENCE, WHAT'S THE DESIGN CRITERIA FOR THE DETENTION POND? SO THE DESIGN CRITERIA, WE REALLY FOCUSED ON TRYING TO BENEFIT

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SOME OF THOSE LESSER, UH, EVENTS BUT ARE MORE FREQUENT IN OCCURRENCE.

UM, IT'S A, IT'S A DIFFICULT BALANCE BECAUSE OUR GOAL IS TO MAKE SURE THAT WE PROTECT PEOPLE FROM FLOODING DOWNSTREAM.

UM, BUT THAT'S THAT DESIGN STORM IN THE A HUNDRED YEAR EVENT, THAT DETENTION POND, UH, JUST DOWNSTREAM OF CAMPBELL THROUGH THAT UPPER PORTION OF WEST FORK OF COTTONWOOD CREEK LOWERS THE WATER SURFACE, ELEVATIONS ABOUT NINE TO 10 INCHES, POSSIBLY 11 INCHES IN SOME PLACES, WHICH REALLY CAN ABSOLUTELY MAKE A DIFFERENCE ON, ON THE, THE STORMWATER THAT'S TRYING TO GET INTO THAT CREEK, CUZ THAT'S SOME OF THE OTHER FLOODING THAT WE SEE AROUND THAT AREA.

LIKE WE'VE MENTIONED ON THAT CHEYENNE LOCATION AND SOME OF THE OTHER STORMWATER PROBLEMS THAT WE SEE ON EDITH CIRCLE, IT'S WATER TRYING TO GET INTO THAT CREEK DOWNSTREAM OF, OF CAMPBELL.

WE'RE REALLY LOOKING FORWARD TO SEEING THAT DETENTION MAKE THAT, THAT DIFFERENCE.

UM, BUT THAT, THAT, UH, THE WEIR THAT THE WATER SPILLS INTO INSIDE THE, THAT WHERE NORTH AND SOUTH WATERVIEW SPLIT, UH, YOU CAN SEE THAT LARGE BOX AND THE WEIR THAT WHEN THAT CHANNEL WATER BUILDS UP, IT SPILLS INTO THAT WEIR FILLS UP THE POND.

UH, AND IT HOLDS IT JUST LONG ENOUGH TO GIVE US A, A NICE LITTLE BREAK THERE ON, ON THE 25, 10 YEAR EVENTS.

UM, AND, AND THE A HUNDRED YEAR, SO IN OTHER SIMPLE WORD, RESIDENTS LIVING DOWNSTREAM OF CAMPBELL, OTHER SIDE OF CAMPBELL, THEY WILL SEE BENEFIT LIKE LESS WATER WITH HIGHER RAIN EVENTS WITH A HIGHER RAIN EVENTS.

THAT'S CORRECT.

UM, IN THE STANDARD INCH OF RAINFALL THAT WE MIGHT SEE.

NOT PERIODICALLY THROUGHOUT THE YEAR, UH, THEY PROBABLY WON'T NOTICE THAT HAPPENING.

UM, MUCH OF A DIFFERENCE.

BUT CERTAINLY IF WE GET TWO TO FOUR INCHES OF RAIN OR MORE, UM, THEY'LL DEFINITELY SEE A DIFFERENCE IN HOW IT PERFORMS. SOME OF THESE IMPROVEMENTS, JIM? UH, I'M NOT AN ENGINEER.

SOME OF THESE IMPROVEMENTS ARE INTENDED TO SLOW THE WATER DOWN TOO.

I MEAN, EROSION IS A HUGE ISSUE, PARTICULARLY IN THIS AREA THAT WE'RE DESCRIBING NOW.

I MEAN, THERE'S A LOT OF LAND BEING LOST WITH THE, WITH THE SPEED AND VELOCITY OF THE WATER.

AND SO I THINK SOME OF THESE IMPROVEMENTS ARE INTENDED NOT ONLY TO RAISE THE LEVEL, BUT ALMOST KIND OF CONTROL A LITTLE BIT OF THE SPEED.

SOME OF OUR IMPROVEMENTS ARE OUT THERE TO DO THAT.

UH, THIS POND FOR UTD THAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT IS, IS MORE FOCUSED ON, ON CAPTURING THE, THE HIGHER, UH, PARTS OF THAT STORM.

BUT, BUT FURTHER, YES, FURTHER DOWN, WE'VE, SOME OF THE IMPROVEMENTS WE MAKE ARE TRYING TO, TRYING TO MITIGATE AND, AND, AND PROTECT THOSE FLOWS.

I KNOW THE, THE POND THAT EVERYBODY LIKES THERE OFF OF RENNER, UM, JUST NORTH OF RENNER, OFF OF PRAIRIE CREEK COMING THROUGH CANYON CREEK GOLF COURSE.

THAT LARGE POND THERE IN SPILLWAY THAT THE SOLE PURPOSE OF THAT POND IS TO CONTROL FLOWS IN THE MORE FREQUENT, UH, ONE TO TWO YEAR EVENTS.

IT'S ACTUALLY FULL BY THE TIME YOU GET TO THE TWO YEAR EVENT.

UH, BUT IT'S MADE A HUGE DIFFERENCE ON THE EROS IN THAT CHANNEL.

THANK YOU, MR. HUDSON.

RIDER.

THANK YOU, MAYOR.

UH, JIM, CAN YOU GO BACK TO THE SLIDE YOU WERE ON JUST EARLIER? SLIDE EIGHT.

JUST A REALLY SIMPLE QUESTION.

YOU'VE GOT TWO AREAS THAT ARE BASICALLY WHITE, UM, A SMALL AREA DOWN MM-HMM.

BY ABRAMS, AND THEN BASICALLY THE, THE PANHANDLE AREA.

SO ARE WE TO ASSUME THAT WATERSHED STUDIES DON'T NEED TO BE DONE IN THOSE TWO AREAS, OR WE JUST HAVEN'T GOTTEN TO 'EM YET? WE HAVE NOT GOTTEN TO THEM YET.

AS FAR AS, WE DO HAVE SOME DRAINAGE, UH, LARGE DRAINAGE PIPES THROUGH THERE, UH, THE RICHLAND PARK COMMUNITY.

UM, BUT AS FAR AS FLOODING AND HIGH WATER INCIDENCES THAT WE'VE HAD REPORTED OVER THE YEARS, UH, IT, WE HAVEN'T HAD ANYTHING IN MY KNOWLEDGE, UH, THAT'S IDENTIFIED OR TRIGGERED US.

WE GOTTA GO DOWN THERE NOW.

UH, BUT IT'S CERTAINLY SOMETHING THAT WE WILL GET TO AND THEY'RE FAIRLY SMALL, SO WE SHOULD BE ABLE TO GET TO 'EM PRETTY QUICKLY.

SO THAT TALKS ABOUT THE SOUTH, WHAT ABOUT THE PAN PANHANDLE AREA? THE PANHANDLE WE HAVEN'T GOTTEN TO YET EITHER OF THOSE.

WERE SOME OF OUR NEWER NEIGHBORHOODS BUILT TO BETTER STANDARDS THAN MUCH OF OUR OLDER PORTIONS OF THE TOWN.

NO FURTHER QUESTIONS, JIM.

GREAT PRESENTATION.

UH, ITEM G REPORT ON ITEMS OF COMMUNITY INTEREST, COUNCILMAN AND WOMEN.

GREATLY APPRECIATE IT.

APPRECIATE YOU STAYING UP WITH US.

ALL RIGHT.

WE'RE GONNA MOVE TO,

[G. REPORT ON ITEMS OF COMMUNITY INTEREST]

DO Y'ALL HAVE ANY COMMUNITY INTERESTS THAT YOU'D LIKE TO REPORT MR. BARRIOS? THANK YOU, MR. MAYOR.

UM, IT WAS A BUSY WEEK.

UH, LAST THURSDAY THE 13TH.

I, THE RICHARDSON CHAMBER HELD A NONPROFIT FAIR, OR AT MY CHURCH FIRSTHAND METHODIST RICHARDSON.

UM, THEY USED THE SPACE THERE WHERE A BUNCH OF, I DON'T KNOW THE NUMBER, BUT IT WAS AT LEAST PROBABLY A COUPLE DOZEN NONPROFITS FROM THE RICHARDSON AREA WERE PRESENT.

AND RESIDENTS COULD COME AND LEARN ABOUT NONPROFITS AND SIGN UP TO VOLUNTEER OR TO SUPPORT, OR, I, I SPOKE TO A FEW PEOPLE, NONPROFIT, VARIOUS NONPROFITS.

THEY SAID PE PEOPLE FROM AREA BUSINESS WERE COMING, WANTING TO KNOW HOW THEY CAN GET INVOLVED.

I THINK IT WAS AN EXCELLENT EVENT BY THE RICHARDSON CHAMBER WHEN I,

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I LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING AGAIN AND CONTINUE TO GROW.

CAUSE I THINK IT'S, UH, WE'RE WE'RE, UH, LUCKY, LUCKY AND BLESSED TO HAVE MANY GREAT NONPROFITS IN RICHARDSON, AND I THINK IT WAS A GREAT SHOWING.

SO I REALLY ENJOYED VISITING WITH THEM ON THAT.

THAT SAME EVENING, THE CITIZENS POLICE ACADEMY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION PRESENTED SCHOLARSHIPS TO, AND I BELIEVE COUNCILMAN DORIAN, I SAW YOUR NAME ON THE, UH, YOU WERE PART OF THE, I GUESS THE JUDGING OF THAT OR THE AWARDING COMMITTEE.

AND I, I SAW YOUR NAME ON THAT, SO, UH, THANK YOU FOR YOUR WORK ON THAT.

BUT, UH, THE C CP AAA AWARDED SOME OFFICERS, UH, SCHOLARSHIPS OFFICERS, UH, CHILDREN AND THOSE, AND TODAY I KNOW SOME OF THE, THE, UH, REST OF THE COUNCIL HAVE TOURED KIDS.

U ONE OF THE NONPROFITS I MET AT THE CHAMBER WAS KIDS U AND I KNOW THEY HAVE A PARTNERSHIP WITH LAINA APARTMENTS.

SOME OF COUNCIL THAT SAT ON THE PREVIOUS COUNCIL, UM, HAD VISITED.

BUT I GOT A PRIVATE TOUR TODAY OF, UH, WHAT THEY'RE DOING OUT THERE.

AND IT WAS REALLY NEAT TO SEE, UH, THE AMAZING WORK THIS NONPROFIT IS DOING IN THOSE APARTMENTS.

UH, THEY'RE OFFERING SUMMER CAMP AFTER SCHOOL PROGRAMS. AND IT WAS JUST REALLY NEAT TO LEARN ABOUT RIGHT IN MY BACKYARD.

AND I REALLY ENJOYED THAT.

AND IT'S GOOD TO KNOW, SEE PEOPLE HELPING OUR NEIGHBORS.