[RECONVENE MEETING]
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GOOD EVENING, MY GOODNESS.I WANT THE FIRST MOTION TONIGHT TO BE LET'S SLOW THINGS DOWN.
UH, OUR INVOCATION TONIGHT WILL BE GIVEN BY DR.
RODERICK WILLIAM OF THE INFINITE HOUSE OF PRAISE.
OUR PLEDGES WILL BE LED BY COUNCIL MEMBER BESSIE ADAMS. PLEASE RISE, REVEREND, YOU CAN COME FORWARD RIGHT HERE.
THIS IS THE DAY THAT THE LORD HAS MADE, AND WE ARE CERTAINLY GLAD AND WE REJOICING IT, CELEBRATING THE BIRTH, DEATH, AND RESURRECTION OF OUR SAVIOR.
WE THANK YOU THAT WE'RE ABLE TO EXPRESS THE LIFE THAT YOU'VE GIVEN US EVEN TONIGHT.
EVERY CONGRESSMAN AND WOMAN, GOD, THAT WE'LL BE SHARING ON TONIGHT, I PRAY THAT YOU WOULD ENLIGHTEN THEM.
GOD, GIVE THEM ENERGY TONIGHT TO DO WHAT'S NECESSARY FOR THIS GREAT CITY.
THANK YOU FOR EVERY PERSON THAT MAKES UP THIS CONGREGATION, GOD, IN THIS GROUP.
AND I PRAY THAT EVERYTHING THAT IS DONE TONIGHT, LORD, IS DONE IN DECENCY AND IN ORDER THAT THE THINGS AND THE AFFAIRS OF YOUR WILL CAN BE DONE IN THIS GREAT CITY.
AND WE'LL BE SO CAREFUL TO GIVE YOU ALL THE PRAISE AND GLORY.
IT'S IN HIS NAME AND EVERY BELIEVER SAY AMEN.
PLEASE JOIN US IN THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE, OUR FLAG AND HONOR OUR PLEDGE, PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE, FLAG OF UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AND REPUBLIC FOR WHICH STANDS, ONE NATION OF GOD, LIBERTY, LIBERTY, JUSTICE FOR ALL.
[PRESENTATIONS]
WE'RE DOING SOME ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS AND SOME PROCLAMATIONS.I'VE ASKED COUNCIL MEMBER HUMPHREYS TO READ THE PROCLAMATION, ACKNOWLEDGING CHILD ABUSE PREVENTION MONTH.
UM, APPRECIATE YOU INVITING ME TO READ THIS PRO PROCLAMATION.
I WAS LUCKY ENOUGH TO SPEND SOME TIME ON THE, UH, CHILDREN FIRST COUNSELING CENTER BOARD AND SERVE AS PRESIDENT FOR A FEW A FEW YEARS, AND GOT TO SEE THE IMPORTANCE OF, UM, WHAT CHILD ABUSE PREVENTION IS.
THIS IS A PROCLAMATION, WHEREAS CHILDREN ARE OUR FUTURE AND OUR GREATEST RESOURCE.
AND EVERY CHILD DESERVES A NURTURING FAMILY AND SAFE ENVIRONMENT TO GROW INTO A HEALTHY, PRODUCTIVE MEMBER OF THE COMMUNITY.
AND WHEREAS CHILD ABUSE IS ONE OF OUR NATION'S MOST SERIOUS PUBLIC HEALTH PROBLEMS AND THREAT THREATENS THE SAFETY OF OUR COMMUNITY.
AND WHEREAS IN TARRANT COUNTY AND DALLAS COUNTY COMBINED, 11,034 CHILDREN WERE CONFIRMED AS VICTIMS OF CHILD ABUSE OR NEGLECT IN 2023.
AND CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTERS AND IN OUR COMMUNITY ARE COMMITTED TO PROVIDING TRAUMA-INFORMED SERVICES TO VICTIMS OF CHILD ABUSE.
WHEREAS FINDING SOLUTIONS TO PREVENT CHILD ABUSE IS A COMMUNITY RESPONSIBILITY AND AND DEPENDS ON THE INVOLVEMENT OF OUR OF ALL CITIZENS.
WHEREAS EFFECTIVE CHILD, CHILD ABUSE, PREVENTION, INVESTIGATION, AND TREATMENT PROGRAMS SUCCEED BECAUSE OF PARTNERSHIPS AMONG PUBLIC AND PRIVATE AGENCIES, SCHOOLS, RELIGIOUS ORGANIZATIONS, MEDICAL SERVICES, AND THE BUSINESS COMMUNITY.
NOW, THEREFORE, MAYOR RON JOHN MAYOR RON JENSEN, ON BEHALF OF THE CITIZENS AND CITY COUNCIL OF GRAND PRAIRIE, DO HEREBY PROCLAIM THE MONTH OF APRIL, 2024 AS CHILD ABUSE PREVENTION MONTH IN THE CITY OF GRAND PRAIRIE, TEXAS, AND URGE ALL CITIZENS TO WORK TOGETHER TO SIGNIFICANTLY REDUCE THE CHILD ABUSE AND NEGLECT AND THE YEARS TO COME.
WHEREAS MY HAND, THE MAYOR'S HAND, AND THE SEAL OF THE SEA OF GRAND PRAIRIE ON THIS SECOND DAY OF APRIL, 2024.
COUNCIL MEMBER HUMPHREYS, DO WE HAVE A REPRESENTATIVE FOR THIS ONE? CHIEF LORD? YES.
IT'S ONE OF THOSE ISSUES WE WISH WE DIDN'T HAVE TO DEAL WITH, BUT WE DO.
MR. YOU REMEMBER LINES FOR CHILDREN? YES, I DO.
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THANK YOU.
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AND I'LL SAY IT EVERY TIME WE DO ONE OF THESE, WE WISH WE DIDN'T HAVE TO HAVE SO MANY CHARITIES TO DEAL WITH SO MANY.AND WE SEE A LOT OF THE CHARITIES COMING HERE, AND EVERY ONE OF 'EM, I THINK, WELL, THERE'S ANOTHER ONE.
I'M, I'M JUST BEING HONEST WITH YOU, BUT THEN I LOOK AT IT AND SAY, OH MY GOSH, WE NEED THAT ONE.
SOMETIMES YOU DON'T KNOW YOU NEED IT UNTIL SOMEBODY EXPLAINS THEIR MISSION.
AND BLESS YOUR HEARTS AND YOUR STAFF THAT DEAL WITH THIS, THEY'RE, THEY'RE, THEY'RE PIVOTAL PARTNERS IN OUR FIGHT AGAINST, UH, CHILD ABUSERS.
I, YOU KNOW, I JUST, IT'S IT'S PROBABLY ONE OF THE TOUGHEST JOBS.
COULD WE GIVE YOU OUR PHONE AS WELL? NO, SHE CAN'T.
WE'RE REAL FLEXIBLE, BUT HURRY,
WHAT WE'RE FIXING TO RECOGNIZE, UM, A COUPLE OF GROUPS, MAYBE MORE THAN, BUT WE, WE HAVE A NUMBER OF GROUPS THAT, THAT HELP US WITH AUTISM.
AND, UH, I'VE GOT A COUPLE OF PROCLAMATIONS.
WE'RE ONLY GOING TO READ ONE PROCLAMATION, THEN WE'LL ASK A COUPLE OF THE GROUPS COME DOWN INDIVIDUALS.
WELL THEN MAYBE ALL OF YOU JOIN US TOGETHER.
BUT, UH, COUNCIL MEMBER HEDON, WOULD YOU READ THE PROCLAMATION, PLEASE? PRO PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS GRAND PRAIRIE IS A COMMUNITY OF COMPASSION AND DEDICATED TO BEING A WONDERFUL PLACE TO LIVE AND RAISE A FAMILY.
AND WHEREAS EVERY FAMILY FACES CHALLENGES THAT REQUIRE FAITH, LOVE, AND HOPE.
AND WHEREAS IN THE UNITED STATES, ONE IN EVERY 36 CHILDREN HAVE BEEN DIAGNOSED WITH AUTISM, AND OVER 5.4 MILLION ADULTS TODAY HAVE SOME FORM OF AUTISM, INCLUDING SOME FAMILIES OF OUR OWN CITY.
AND WHEREAS IT IS KNOWN WITH PROPER EDUCATION, TRAINING, AND COMMUNITY LIVING OPTIONS, INDIVIDUALS WITH AUTISM CAN LEAD DISTINGUISHED, PRODUCTIVE LIVES IN THEIR COMMUNITY AND STRIVE TO REACH THEIR FULLEST POTENTIAL.
AND WHEREAS WHILE THERE IS NO SINGLE KNOWN CAUSE OF AUTISM, AN EARLY DIAGNOSIS, EARLY INTERVENTION AND VARIOUS THERAPY PROGRAMS CAN HELP PEOPLE WITH AUTISM LEAD SUCCESSFUL LIVES.
THESE INDIVIDUALS HAVE THE SAME HOPES AND DESIRES AS ALL CITIZENS.
AND WHEREAS EACH YEAR, THE MONTH OF APRIL IS DEDICATED TO EDUCATING THE PUBLIC ABOUT AUTISM, HIGHLIGHTING THE NEED FOR EARLY DIAGNOSIS AND INTERVENTION, ENCOURAGING CONTINUED RESEARCH, AND EMPHASIZING THE IMPORTANT CONTRIBUTIONS OF OUR FELLOW, FELLOW CITIZENS WITH AUTISM.
NOW, THEREFORE, I RON JENSEN, MAYOR OF THE CITY OF GRAND PRAIRIE, HEREBY PROCLAIM APRIL, 2024 AS AUTISM AWARENESS MONTH.
UM, ESMI, YOU WANNA BRING YOUR GROUP UP FIRST? YES.
RICHIE, EVERYBODY RICHIE'S IN WITH THAT GROUP.
WHILE THEY'RE COMING DOWN, I WANNA RECOGNIZE STATE REPRESENTATIVE TERRY MAUS HERE.
SHE DOESN'T HAVE ANY OF OUR CITY ANYMORE, BUT SHE HELPS US OUT ALL THE TIME.
YOU HAD A, YOU HAD THE NORTH GRAND PRAIRIE PORTION OF US FOR QUITE A WHILE, AND YOU ARE ALWAYS, ALWAYS THERE FOR US.
UH, YOU'VE HELPED US GET BILLS THROUGH.
AND ALSO WE HAVE, UH, GLORIA CREO ON THE SCHOOL BOARD.
I THINK THAT'S THE ONLY ELECTED OFFICIALS I SEE OUT THERE.
THEY WANT THE WHOLE COUNCIL DOWN.
WE CAN EVERYBODY IN FRONT OF THE PROGRAM, PRO PODIUM, PODIUM, SOME OF STAND BACK HERE AS READY.
I HAVE, UM, MAY MAYOR, WE WOULD LIKE ON BEHALF OF THE GRAND PRIX HOST LIONS CLUB AND THE GRAND PRIX HOST FAMILY LIONS CLUB, TO
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DO A SPECIAL RECOGNITION TO YOU AND TO ALL THE COUNCIL MEMBERS TONIGHT ON BEHALF OF ALL OF US AS LION MEMBERS.AND, UH, I KNOW OUR PRESIDENT, ISABEL WANTED TO SAY A FEW WORDS IN SPANISH AND THEN MIRIAM WILL SAY IT IN ENGLISH.
I KNOW WE'RE TAKING A LITTLE BIT OF YOUR TIME, BUT PLEASE INDULGE.
UH, THANK YOU GRAHAM, BRADY LIONS HOUSE FAMILY CLUB, APPRECIATE YOU ALL FOR SUPPORT.
ALL THE ACTIVITIES THAT WE'VE BEEN DOING WITH THE COMMUNITY.
WITHOUT SUPPORT, VOLUNTEERS AND DONATIONS, WE CAN DO NOTHING.
THIS YOUNG MAN RIGHT HERE CAN SING.
UH, AND WHEN HE SINGS, I MEAN, OH, IT'S AMERICAN IDOL TYPE SONG.
THAT QUET, REBECCA AND I WENT TO, AND, UH, GEORGE AND I DANCED.
AND, UH, YOU'LL HAVE TO GOOGLE THAT
AND, UH, Y'ALL ALL DO A GREAT JOB.
THANK YOU FOR WHAT YOU DO IN OUR COMMUNITY.
WE ARE HERE TO THANK YOU, BUT WE ALSO WANT TO, AND THANK YOU FOR ALL YOUR SUPPORT, BUT WE ALSO WANNA CHALLENGE YOU TO CONTINUE AND ARE YOU ALREADY DOING IT? 'CAUSE I'VE MET WITH SEVERAL OF YOU AND CHALLENGE YOU TO CONTINUE, ESPECIALLY WITH OUR GROWING YOUNG PEOPLE, UH, YOUNG ADULTS THAT HAVE AUTISM AND SPECIAL NEEDS, DISABILITIES OR DIFFERENT ABILITIES.
IT IS TIME FOR OUR CITY AND OUR DISTRICT, UH, TO DO EVEN MORE.
UH, AND I KNOW YOU ALL ARE PLANNING ON DOING MORE.
I JUST WANT TO REMIND YOU OR WE WANT TO REMIND YOU.
AND WHATEVER US LION CAN DO TO HELP BE PART OF THE SOLUTION, WE WANNA DO IT TOGETHER WITH YOU.
WE ARE GONNA BE HERE AND WE WILL DO WHATEVER WE CAN TO HELP YOU.
BEFORE YOU LEAVE ASME BACK IN 2014 WHEN WE PASSED THE QUARTER CENT SALES TAX TO BUILD THE EPIC, EPIC WATERS AND PLAY GRANT ADVENTURES.
THE, UH, THE FIRST ONE THAT CAME TO SPEAK DURING CITIZEN COMMENTS WAS ESMI.
SHE DIDN'T THANK US FOR THE EPIC.
SHE DID NOT THANK US FOR EPIC WATERS.
SHE THANKED US AND STARTED CRYING, THOUGHT US, THANKING US FOR PLAYGROUND ADVENTURES.
SHE'S JUST ONE OF THE MOST VOCAL ONES AND THE ONE THAT KEEPS SHE
DO YOU HAVE A GROUP WITH YOU? COME ON FORWARD WITH YOUR GROUP PLEASE.
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HERE.LISTEN, A, WE MAY GET A PICTURE WITH, WE'RE GONNA GET ONE WITH DR.
YOU WRITTEN, YOU'VE WRITTEN A BOOK ABOUT THIS, YOUR HEART'S INTO IT.
AND, UH, ANOTHER ONE THAT KEEPS US FOCUSED ON REMEMBERING AND, UH, THE CHALLENGES FACING PARENTS AND RELATIVES AND CAREGIVERS, UM, OF AUTISTIC CHILDREN.
SO THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR COMING TONIGHT.
CALEB'S, CALEB, AND YOU HANDLE IT SO WELL.
PRAISE EM ALL FOLKS HAND ON 1, 2, 1 2.
YEAH, BUT WE, I'VE GOT AN IT PROFESSIONAL HERE, MAYOR, THAT'S GONNA GET US.
UM, MAYOR AND COUNCIL, UM, THIS HARVEST FAMILY LIFE MINISTRIES, UH, PARTNERS WITH OUR COMMUNITY ADVISORY BOARD.
AND THEY DO SOMETHING FOR OUR CITY THAT IS FRANKLY VERY, VERY SPECIAL.
WE HAVE CHILDREN IN OUR COMMUNITY THAT ARE PART OF, UH, CPS THAT DON'T HAVE TYPICAL CHRISTMASES THAT YOU WOULD EXPECT MOST CHILDREN HAVE.
AND SO THESE KIDS GET TO HAVE A, A, A CHANCE TO SEE WHAT CHRISTMAS IS ALL ABOUT.
I'M GONNA SHOW YOU A QUICK VIDEO HERE.
AND THEN I'M GONNA ASK OUR, UH, PARTNERS TO COME JOIN US IF THAT'S OKAY.
FIRST OF ALL, I WANT TO THANK DR.
SCAR FOR BEING OUR HOST, THE BLAKE FAMILY, FOR ALWAYS PUTTING ON SUCH A TERRIFIC SHOT WITH A COP, PARTNERING WITH THE GRAND BREAK POLICE DEPARTMENT.
SO THANKFUL THAT WE HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TODAY TO SHARE TOGETHER IN A COMMUNITY AND SAY WE LOVE YOU.
AND WE LOVE BEING ABLE TO GIVE.
IT'S ALWAYS GOOD SEEING THE JOY THAT THEY GET WHEN THEY GET TO PICK OUT WHAT THEY WANT AND GET TO HAVE A GOOD CHRISTMAS.
WE JUST GONNA BLOW THE BUDGET ON LEGOS.
OR WHAT ARE WE THINKING? PROBABLY, PROBABLY EVERYBODY CAME IN.
I'M TALKING ABOUT FROM GIRLS TO BOYS.
THEY CAME IN AND GET APPLE CARDS.
HEY, ALL THE COPS, THEY JUST AMAZING.
IT'S A REAL HONOR AND JOY TO GIVE BACK.
WE GOT SHOT WITH A COP EVENT GOING ON
I THINK THAT BLEW THEIR MIND TODAY.
THEY DON'T REMEMBER THAT FOR LIFE.
UH, BUT YEAH, GREAT DAY, GREAT DAY TO SEE IT ALL BE A PART OF IT.
AS WE GET TO GIVE, IT GIVES INTO YOU AND THEN YOU GET TO GIVE, YOU GET TO THAT POINT WHERE YOU GIVE UNTO OTHER PEOPLE.
AND THE MORE YOU GIVE, THE MORE YOU GIVE.
AND THE MORE YOU GET, THE MORE YOU GIVE.
HEY, GOD'S GOT SPECIAL THINGS FOR YOU GUYS.
THE BIBLE SAYS, GOD SO LOVED THE WORLD THAT HE GAINED.
AND SO CHRISTMAS IS ALL ABOUT THE GIFT.
WHEN I WAS ON THE WAY OVER HERE, I RECEIVED A VERY IMPORTANT PHONE CALL.
I KNOW, I COULDN'T BELIEVE IT EITHER.
I'M COMING IN, I LOOK AT MY PHONE LIKE, HOLY SMOKE, THAT'S SANTA CLAUS.
OF COURSE, TAKE THE CALL, RIGHT? HEY, SANTA, I I CAN'T TALK FOR LONG BECAUSE I'M, I'M GOING TO THE SHOP WITH A COP RIGHT NOW.
HE SAYS, I KNOW THAT'S WHERE YOU'RE GOING.
I WANT YOU TO TELL ALL THE KIDS AT THE SHOP WITH THE COP.
EVERY SINGLE ONE ARE ON THE GOOD LIST.
HE IS OUR SAVIOR, YOUR KING, THE ONE WHO CAME TO RESCUE US.
AND TODAY IS ABOUT HIM HARVEST HOLIDAY WITH
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HEROES.IF WE CAN JUST REACH A CHILD, WE CAN CHANGE A DESTINY.
GOOD TO HAVE PEOPLE THAT CARE, GOOD TO HAVE PEOPLE THAT CARE.
THAT REALLY IS PASTOR BLAKE, DR.
SCAR, REVEREND CARAWAY, BROTHER HORTON.
WOULD YOU ALL PLEASE JOIN ME UP FRONT ALSO, UH, WHILE THEY'RE COMING DOWN, I'M GONNA ASK FOR PRAYERS FOR BISHOP BLAKE.
HE IS, UM, HAVING SOME HEALTH CHALLENGES RIGHT NOW.
CAN I BE HERE? BUT CAN I, I WOULD JUST TELL YOU THAT THE BLAKE FAMILY AND ALL OF OUR CHURCH PARTNERS TRULY HAVE OUR COMMUNITY'S BEST INTERESTS AT HEART.
JOHN'S FIRST BAPTIST, UH, FOR BEING SPONSORS THE LAST TWO YEARS AND OPENING UP THEIR CHURCH FAMILIES TO US.
UM, PASTOR BLAKE, THIS IS YOUR FAMILY'S VISION.
GET ON HERE FOR A DON'T BE SHY PICTURE.
A COUPLE WEEKS AGO WE OPENED UP A, UH, RIBBON CUTTING FOR THE RESOURCE CENTER THERE.
UH, BACK BY IN, IN THE DOWN WORTH COMMUNITY, UH, NINE CHURCHES AND ORGANIZATIONS CAME TOGETHER.
AND REVEREND DAVIS AND OTHERS, DENNY DAVIS WAS THERE SPEAK AT IT.
IT'S A COMMUNITY COMING TOGETHER.
'CAUSE WE KNOW WE CAN DO MORE TOGETHER THAN WE CAN SEPARATELY.
WE NEED THE SEPARATE ENTITIES.
THEY CAN FOCUS ON AUTISM AND CAN FOCUS ON CHILD ABUSE, ABUSE.
BUT THERE'S SO MANY THINGS THAT IF WE WORK TOGETHER, IT MULTI IT IS A MULTIPLIER.
NOT ONLY FOR THIS, BUT THAT OCCASION THE OTHER DAY TOO.
WE'VE GOTTA TAKE A PICTURE WITH MR. YOU'RE THE CHIEF.
MARIA MARYAM, UH, SOME YEARS AGO, MADE A STATEMENT WHERE WE ALL SAID, MAN, GOT ALL THESE CHURCHES OUT IN THE
WOULDN'T IT BE NICE IF YOU JUST ALL COME TOGETHER AND HAVE ONE AND YOU DID IT, MISSED IT.
SOMETHING HE SPOKE AND NOW SAID IT.
LET ME READ THIS AND THEN I'LL COME AROUND AND JOIN YOU.
IN RECOGNITION OF EARNING THE DISTINGUISHED GIRL SCOUT GOLD AWARD, MS. TILLMAN HAS DEMONSTRATED TRUE LEADERSHIP, SINCERE DEDICATION, AND COMMUNITY SPIRIT THROUGH THE FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE GIRL SCOUT GOLD AWARD.
IN ADDITION TO ASSISTING CANCER PATIENTS AND AWARENESS OF TREATMENT TIME, A PROJECT THAT ADDRESSES THE LACK OF ACTIVITIES FOR FAMILIES AND PATIENTS TO UTILIZE THEIR TIME IN AN ACTIVE WAY TO ESCAPE DURING TREATMENTS.
WOW, THAT'S A GREAT, YOU CAN PICK A LOT OF THINGS.
I BET YOU FOUND THIS ONE VERY REWARDING.
THANK YOU FOR DOING IT BY THE AUTHORITY OF ED IN ME.
AS THE MAYOR OF THE CITY OF GRAND PRAIRIE, I HAVE ISSUED THIS HONOR TO YOU THIS SECOND DAY OF APRIL.
JUST GIVE HER A ROUND OF APPLAUSE.
ANYBODY? I'M NOT GONNA KICK ANYBODY OFF THE PICTURE.
TODAY ON UP HERE, COUNCILMAN RES JULY ABRAMS.
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I WAS TRYING TO FIGURE OUT PLACE, JO.BE WHILE YOU'RE STANDING NEXT TO US.
IN RECOGNITION OF EARNING THE DISTINCTLY GIRL SCOUT AWARD, MS. ABRAMS HAS DEMONSTRATED TRUE LEADERSHIP, SINCERE DEDICATION, AND THE COMMUNITY SPIRIT THROUGH THE FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE GOLD GIRL SCOUT GOLDEN AWARD.
IN ADDITION TO CULTURAL AWARENESS PER PROJECT THAT ADDRESSES THE LACK OF CULTURAL AWARENESS LIST AMONG THE STUDENTS, THIS ANNUAL EVENT PROVIDES A WAY FOR STUDENTS DISCIPLINE, LEARN ABOUT DIFFERENT CULTURAL CULTURES AT THE SCHOOL.
THINK THAT WAS ANOTHER GREAT PROJECT.
BOTH OF Y'ALL CHOSE VERY VALUABLE PROJECTS.
[CONSENT AGENDA]
WE HAVE SOME COMMENTS FOR THE CONSENT AGENDA, SO WE'LL GET THOSE IN.THEN WE WILL MOVE ON TO THE CONSENT AGENDA.
KATE, HOW DO YOU SPELL THAT? DUR.
YOU'VE GOT, UH, WE'LL JUST LET YOU DO ALL ONCE YOU'VE GOT 10, 12, 19 AND 24.
SO LET'S START WITH NUMBER TEN FIRST.
ALRIGHT, SO, UH, I JUST WANTED TO CHECK IN ON THIS ONE.
SO IT SAYS THAT WE'RE KIND OF LIKE WE'RE INSTALLING AN IRRIGATION SYSTEM, BUT THE CITY IS FACING A STAGE ONE WATER RESTRICTION DUE TO DOUBT DROUGHTS.
UM, BUT YEAH, I JUST WAS CURIOUS AS TO WHAT, LIKE THE IMPETUS IS FOR INSTALLING AN IRRIGATION SYSTEM FOR A MEDIAN WHILE WE'RE IN THE MIDDLE OF A DROUGHT STILL.
IT'S NOT THE CITY PUTTING IT IN.
IT'S THE PUBLIC IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT FOR THAT AREA.
EACH PI BOARD, EACH PIT HAS THEIR OWN BOARD.
AND, UH, THE WESTCHESTER COMMUNITY IS THE OLDEST PIT.
AND IF YOU DRIVE THROUGH THERE, THEY ALWAYS, THEY MAINTAIN THE TREES AND THE MEDIA AND THINGS AND WATER 'EM TO KEEP 'EM ALIVE.
SO THAT'S WHY THE PIT, WE'RE JUST ALLOWING THEM TO ADJUST THE BUDGET TO DO THIS.
THEY RECOMMENDED THAT ANSWER THAT QUESTION FOR YOU.
SO THIS IS, THIS IS ANOTHER, UH, LIKE CONCERNS BROUGHT UP BY THE PACKET.
UM, SO I DID NOTE THAT THIS SPECIFIC EMERGENCY SEWER LINE REPAIR WAS SPECIFICALLY BECAUSE OF DEBRIS AND HEAVY RAIN RELATED TO THE CREEK THAT IT'S NEARBY.
SO I WAS JUST CURIOUS IF WE HAVE LIKE A WATCH LIST OR ANY KIND OF CONTAINMENT FOR SIMILAR LIKE SEWER LINES THAT COULD RUN INTO THIS ISSUE BASED ON LIKE THEIR PROXIMITY TO CREEKS OR ANYTHING.
JUST BECAUSE I NOTICED THAT IT SAID THAT IT WAS CALLED IN RATHER THAN SOMETHING THAT WE WERE LIKE PREVENTATIVELY CHECKING.
IT WAS DIFFICULT TO SEE IF THAT WAS LIKE A VERBIAGE THING OR WHETHER OR NOT WE'RE LIKE PROACTIVELY CHECKING THINGS LIKE THIS THAT ARE RISKS STAFF.
UM, SO THIS PARTICULAR ONE, WAS THAT AN AERIAL CROSS IN UH, KIND OF SAGGED? SO IT LEAKED.
SO STAFF WENT IN AND TEMPORARILY FIXED IT SHORT, IT STOPPED THE LEAK AND THEN THE CONTRACTOR CAME IN TO FIX IT AND REPLACE ALL THE LINES.
BUT DO WE MONITOR ALL THE LINES? WE DO NOT, WE DO VISUAL INSPECTIONS ON ALL TIMES, BUT MOST OF THE TIME, YOU KNOW, TIMES OCCURS MANY.
WE NEED YOUR EYESIGHT TO TELL US.
AND THEN WE DO HAVE OUR OWN DEPARTMENT ENVIRONMENTAL THAT MAKES SURE THAT THERE'S NOT AN ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUE FOR SURE.
UH, SO THIS ONE WAS ABOUT THE FINANCIAL YEAR BUDGET FOR 2023 TO 2024.
UM, I NOTED THAT ON THE EXPENDITURES IT LISTED PAYING CALVARY BAPTIST CHURCH BACK, OH Y'ALL, I CANNOT SPEAK TODAY.
CALVARY BAPTIST CHURCH UTILITY AND INSURANCE.
UH, AND I WAS JUST, I WAS JUST CURIOUS ABOUT HOW A CHURCH'S UTILITIES AND INSURANCE ARE COVERED BY, AND YEAH.
WELL, YEAH, THAT'S A GOOD QUESTION.
HOW AND WHY NOT? HOW MUCH, HOW AND WHY? YES.
THIS IS A, UM, PROPERTY PURCHASED BY THE CITY'S, UM, HOTEL CORPORATION DEVELOPMENT.
UM, THIS, THE BUDGET INCLUDED THE INSURANCE AND THE UTILITIES TO MAINTAIN A
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BUILDING.SO WHY WERE WE PAYING CALVARY? THEY HAD THE MAIN, WE HAD THE POLICY, WE HAD TO REIMBURSE 'EM.
WHY ARE WE PAYING CALVARY? THAT IS TRUE.
I BELIEVE IT'S JUST LISTED AS CALVARY BAPTIST BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT IT WAS.
THIS IS, THAT'S WHAT IT'S CALLED, CALLED WE OWN THE PROPERTY.
I KNOW, BUT IT, BASED ON WHAT SHE THOUGHT SHE READ, WE'RE PAYING CALVARY.
WE'RE NOT PAYING CALVARY CALVARY.
WE BOUGHT IT, THEY LEASED IT FOR A COUPLE YEARS.
NO, THAT TOTALLY CLARIFIES IT.
SO THE PROPOSAL, SPECIFICALLY THE RESOLUTION THAT, UH, 24 AND 23 ARE REFERRING TO, UM, CALLS OUT LIKE IMPROVEMENTS.
SO AFTER DI UH, AFTER DEMOLITION IMPROVEMENTS FOR LIKE PARKING, UTILITIES, FACADES, A WHOLE BUNCH OF STUFF.
BUT SPECIFICALLY IN THIS PROPOSITION, THE IMPROVEMENTS WERE BASICALLY JUST FACADE IMPROVEMENTS.
UH, IT WAS LIKE THE ONLY PICTURES INCLUDED.
SO I WAS CURIOUS, DOES THAT MEAN THAT AFTER DEMOLITION THINGS LIKE THE PARKING LOT THINGS LIKE UTILITY, THINGS LIKE UM, STUFF FOR TENANTS ISN'T INCLUDED IN WHAT, LIKE PART OF THE REBUILD PLAN? OR IS IT JUST THAT THOSE WERE NOT WORTH MENTIONING AS IMPROVEMENTS IN THE PROPOSAL STAFF? THEY'RE NOT INCLUDED IN THIS REQUEST.
THE APPLICANT IS THE PROPERTY OWNER.
HE'S THE ONLY PROPOSING TO DO A FACADE.
UM, SO, UM, WHETHER OR NOT THE EXTERIOR PARKING LOT LANDSCAPING IS DETERIORATED, WE CAN SUGGEST, BUT WE CAN'T NECESSARILY FORCE THEM TO MAKE THOSE IMPROVEMENTS.
YOU ALSO HAD A QUESTION ABOUT 14 HAROLD WILLIS.
5 3 8 LINLEY, UH, THESE MAILBOXES.
I DIDN'T HEAR EVERYTHING BACK HERE IN THE BACK.
CAN YOU JUST GIMME A QUICK YEAH, WE ASKED ABOUT THIS IN BRIEFING.
COUNCIL MEMBER, DEPUTY MAYOR PRO TIMM CLEMSON DID.
THIS ISN'T IF A CITIZEN RUNS OVER THE MAILBOX AS IF ONE OF OUR TRUCKS OR UTILITY TRUCKS OR IT'S DAMAGED WHEN A THIRD PARTY UTILITY COMPANY IS DOING WORK FOR US AROUND THE CITY AND WE DAMAGE IT.
SO THAT'S JUST THERE TO PAY FOR THE REPLACEMENT IF NECESSARY IS, ISN'T THAT WHAT THE ANSWER WAS? UH, STAFF, I I, UM, IT'S ALSO FOR, UM, OUR UTILITY CREWS.
WHEN WE HAVE A WATER MAIN BREAK OR A SEWER REPAIR, IF WE HAVE TO DIG UP AND DAMAGE A, A MAILBOX GOOD.
IT'S TO PAY FOR A COMPANY TO COME IN AND REPLACE THAT FOR THE HOMEOWNER.
DOES THE, UH, CONTRACTOR ENG AND TAKE ANY OF THOSE COSTS INTO ACCOUNT FOR THEM OR THESE OTHER CONTRACTS WE HAVE? OR IS THAT, SO THIS IS A CONTRACT FOR AN ON-CALL.
IT'S UP TO, IT'S, IT'S ONLY, WE ONLY USE IT IF WE NEED IT.
SO IT'S NOT A A SET WHERE WE'RE GONNA PAY 'EM THIS MUCH.
IT'S, IT'S AN HOURLY OF HOW LONG IT TAKES AND HOW MANY TIMES WE CALL THEM.
SO THAT'S 60 THOUSANDS IS JUST SITTING OVER IN THE CORNER
WHAT ABOUT THE PI DISTRICTS? WE'VE HAD QUITE A FEW SITUATIONS OUT HERE WHERE THE PI PROPERTY HAS BEEN RAN INTO.
UH, SO THIS IS FOR IF, UH, STAFF WHILE DOING REPAIRS DAMAGES A MAILBOX TO REPLACE WHAT WE DAMAGED.
IF A TRUCK RUNS INTO A PIT FENCE, THE PIT FIXES IT.
THIS IS JUST AS SHE SAID FROM MAILBOXES THAT WE, AND WE HAVE TO TAKE OUT BECAUSE WE'RE DOING A REPAIR UNDERGROUND.
THIS WASTEWATER REPAIR AND REPLACEMENT SERVICES, THIS $4 MILLION, WHERE IS FOR A TOTAL OF $20 MILLION, WHERE IS THIS? WHAT PART OF THE BUDGET IS THIS? $4 MILLION COMING OUT OF? SO EACH YEAR WE HAVE A CERTAIN AMOUNT ALLOCATED OUTTA WATER AND WASTEWATER TO PAY FOR ANY, UM, ANY JOBS THAT WE NEED.
LIKE WE HAVE A MASTER PLAN THAT HAS A LIST OF TASKS.
WE ALSO HAVE A FEW THINGS THAT COME UP.
IT'S KIND OF THAT MEDIAN GROUND WHERE IT'S TOO LARGE FOR STAFF TO DO, BUT TOO SMALL TO BID OUT AS A CAPITAL PROJECT.
NONE OF THIS COMES OUT OF THE GENERAL FUND.
IT ALL COMES OUT
WHAT IS THE POLICY? LIKE? WHAT HAPPENED IN PLANO? WHAT HAPPENED IN GARLAND WITH THESE SEWER MAINS BREAKING? WHAT DO WE HAVE IN THIS CONTRACT IF SOMETHING LIKE THIS WERE TO HAPPEN, HOW QUICKLY WILL THIS CONTRACTOR RESPOND TO THESE TYPES OF SITUATIONS? SO THIS CONTRACT IN PARTICULAR, PLANNED REPLACEMENTS, UH, THE OTHER ONES YOU'RE REFERRING TO ARE EMERGENCY AND WE DO HAVE A LINE ITEM FOR AND A CONTRACTOR, THE ONE WE JUST HAD FOR, UM, EMERGENCY AS WELL.
SO THEY'RE TWO SEPARATE CONTRACTS.
SO THIS, THIS $20 MILLION OF, UM, SO LIKE FOR INSTANCE, IF, UH, THE STREET DEPARTMENT IS REDOING A STREET MM-HMM
UM, THE WATER AND WASTEWATER DEPARTMENT WILL COME THROUGH AND RE REPLACE THOSE LINES SO YOU'RE NOT DIGGING UP THE ROAD AGAIN IN FIVE YEARS.
SO THAT TYPE OF FUNDING, IT COMES OUT OF THIS AND THE CONTRACTOR DOES
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THAT AHEAD OF A STREET PROJECT.AND THEN THERE'S ALSO OTHER PROJECTS THAT ARE ON OUR MASTER PLAN THAT WE NEED TO DO TO REPLACE.
IT'S A, IT'S A REMOVAL AND A REPLACE OF EXISTING INFRASTRUCTURE.
IT'S NOT NEW CAPITAL PROJECTS, IT'S NOT EMERGENCY, IT'S NOT EMERGENCIES.
WHAT ARE SOME OF THE OLDEST SEWER LINES THAT WE HAVE IN GRAND PRAIRIE HAVE IS THIS IS GONNA GO TO REPLACE THE OLDEST LINES.
THIS IS PART OF THESE THAT COULD GO FOR THAT IF THAT'S WHAT'S ON THERE.
BUT WE ALSO HAVE SET, UM, CAPITAL PROJECT LINE ITEMS OKAY.
FOR DIFFERENT PORTIONS OF THE CITY.
BUT AGAIN, THIS IS FOR LIKE REMOVAL AND REPLACE OF, OF EXISTING INFRASTRUCTURE.
YEAH, THAT'S MY CONCERN BECAUSE THE NEWER PARTS OF GRAND PRAIRIE WITH WATER LINES, THE OLDER PARTS OF WATERLINE FORT WORTH IS HORRIBLE WITH ALL THOSE CAST IRON LINES.
SO I DIDN'T KNOW HOW MANY OF YOU WERE ABLE TO TELL US HOW MANY CAST IRON LINES WE STILL HAVE IN GRAND PRAIRIE THAT WE'RE DEPENDING ON? UM, I CAN'T TELL YOU RIGHT NOW, BUT WE DO HAVE IT ON OUR GIS SO I CAN GET YOU THE INFORMATION.
'CAUSE THE OLDER PARTS OF GRAND PRAIRIE WITH THE CAST IRON LINES, SO, AND ESPECIALLY WITH THE SUMMER COMING ON.
NUMBER 16, HAROLD REBUILDING AMERICA INFRASTRUCTURE OF $19 MILLION.
LET'S TALK ABOUT THE REBUILDING AMERICA INFRASTRUCTURE AND ARE WE GONNA GET THIS $20 MILLION? WHO IS GOING TO PAY FOR ALL OF THIS BRIDGE? THIS IS A GRANT.
WE'VE APPLIED FOR A GRANT AND WE DON'T KNOW IF WE'LL GET IT OR NOT.
SO WE'RE COMING BACK TO COUNCIL.
THAT'S WHY IT'S A RATIFICATION BECAUSE THE DUE DATE WAS IN FEBRUARY.
I'M SORRY, YEAH, IN FEBRUARY, LATE FEBRUARY.
THIS IS JUST TO RATIFY THE REQUEST? YES, THAT'S ALL IT IS.
AND WHO BROUGHT US THE REBUILDING AMERICA INFRASTRUCTURE FUNDING CONGRESS.
AND WHO CONTROLS CONGRESS? ALL WE'RE DOING IS WE'RE APPLYING FOR THE GRANT.
WE'RE GONNA APPLY FOR WHETHER FOR GRANT WE CAN, I'M JUST SAYING IT'S INAPPROPRIATE FOR A BUNCH OF REPUBLICANS TO REACH OUT AND GRAB THIS MONEY THAT VOTED NO FOR THIS FUNDING.
SO ARE WE ASSURED OF THIS FUNDING? WHAT HAPPENS IF WE DON'T GET THE FUNDING? NO, WE'RE NOT ASSURED.
YOU'RE NEVER ASSURED OF A GRANT.
WE HAVE TO WAIT AND SEE IF WE WILL BE AWARDED THE FUNDS.
WE'RE ASKING IF WE'RE NOT, IF WE DON'T GET THIS GRANT, WE HAVE SOME DECISIONS TO MAKE.
DO WE LOOK FOR OTHER PARTNERS, OTHER GRANTS, OR DO WE FUND IT OURSELF? BUT WE WANTED TO APPLY FOR THE GRANT FIRST BEFORE WE TRY TO LOOK AT OTHER OPTIONS.
SO I GUESS I'M USED TO STREET BONDS, OTHER TYPES OF FUNDING MECHANISMS, BUT YET WE'RE REACHING OUT TO, THIS IS A LARGE PROJECT AND WE WANTED TO SEE THROUGH THE RAISE GRANT IF IT WAS A POSSIBILITY.
WANNA TRY IT? THE PROJECT? YEAH.
WELL I WANNA MAKE SURE THE REBUILDING AMERICAN INFRASTRUCTURE, YOU KNOW,
AND TELL US A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT THE CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT ADVISORY COMMITTEE PLEASE.
SO THE CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT ADVISORY COMMITTEE, THEY MAKE RECOMMENDATIONS TO CITY COUNCIL ON IMPACT FEES.
UM, OUR COMMITTEE HAS IS P AND Z MEMBERS AND WE HAVE TO HAVE ONE PERSON IN THE ETJ AND ONE PERSON THAT'S, UM, IN REAL ESTATE.
UH, THIS PERSON IS OUR ETJ REPRESENTED.
HE'S, UH, JUST A CITIZEN THAT LIVES IN THE ETJ AND HAS VOLUNTEERED TO BE A PART OF THIS COMMITTEE.
SO ALL OF THE FUNDING MECHANISMS FROM CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT THAT CAN BE STREETS, WHAT DOES THIS INCLUDE? WHAT TYPE OF FUNDING? UH, THESE ARE FOR IMPACT FEES.
SO IMPACT FEES ARE FEES FOR NEW DEVELOPMENT TO HELP.
THEY GIVE US RECOMMENDATIONS BASICALLY TO PAY FOR THE INFRASTRUCTURE THAT WE NOW EITHER HAVE TO PUT IN OR MAINTAIN BECAUSE OF THE DEVELOPMENT.
WHAT ABOUT THE POSSIBILITY OF A CONFLICT OF INTEREST WITH SOME OF THESE INDIVIDUALS? DO THEY OWN PROPERTY THAT WOULD BE BENEFITING FROM THIS? WELL, THAT, THAT'S WHAT THE COMMITTEE, THE COMMITTEES OF ALL THE P AND Z MEMBERS PLUS ONE ETJ MEMBER AND ONE PERSON FROM REAL ESTATE.
BUT, AND IT'S A VOLUNTARY COMMITTEE.
IF THERE'S A CONFLICT, IF THERE'S A CONFLICT OF INTEREST, OUR ATTORNEYS WOULD GET WITH THEM ON EXCLUDING THEMSELVES IF THEY OWN A PIECE OF PROPERTY GOES THROUGH THEIR PROPERTY.
I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE CONFLICT OF INTEREST HAS BEEN A THING I'VE GROWN UP WITH IN WE PRAIRIE
I JUST, I DON'T REVIEW THE PACKET.
I COME DOWN HERE FOR YOU TO REVIEW IT TO ME AS A TAXPAYER.
LET US KNOW A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT THE GRAND PRIX LOCAL GOVERNMENT CORPORATION.
WHO THEY ARE, WHERE DO THEY MEET, WHO ARE THESE INDIVIDUALS? THE LOCAL, I BELIEVE I SAID HDC EARLIER.
THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT, THE LGC LOCAL GOVERNMENT CORPORATION MEETS, UM, PERIODICALLY TO DISCUSS AND DECIDE UPON PROJECTS FOR, UM, DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS THAT THE CITY WOULD LIKE TO ADD TO.
UM, THE CALGARY BAPTIST CHURCH WAS ONE OF THOSE.
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AND THE, THE, IF YOU'RE LOOKING AT THE, UM, THE BUDGET LOOKED AT THE BUDGET, IT ALSO LIST THE BELLA VISTA LOT MOWING.UM, THOSE ARE BOTH CITY OWNED PROPERTIES, UM, THAT WERE ACQUIRED AND THAT WE MAINTAIN.
WHEN DID THE CITY OF GRAND PRAIRIE BUY CALVARY BAPTIST CHURCH? OH, I DON'T KNOW.
FOUR, THREE OR FOUR YEARS AGO.
MAYOR, YOU TOLD ME YOU HAD NO IDEA WHAT THE CITY OF GRAND PRAIRIE PAID FOR THAT PROPERTY NEXT DOOR.
WHAT DID WE PAY FOR THAT PROPERTY? DID WE PAY FOR THAT CHURCH STORE? IT'S A MATTER OF PUBLIC RECORD.
WHAT WE PAID FOR IT, I THINK FIVE POINT SOMETHING MILLION.
IT, IT WAS A, A VOTE ON RECORD.
WE CAN PULL UP THE MOTION, WE CAN GET THAT INFORMATION FOR YOU.
THE TAXPAYERS NEED TO KNOW WHAT WE PAID FOR THAT CHURCH.
I THINK WE PAID, UH, BETWEEN FOUR AND A HALF AND $5 MILLION.
AND NOW THAT, THAT MONEY FOR THAT CHURCH IS SUDDENLY NOW IN SOUTH GRAND PRAIRIE AT PARK HILL PARK CALLED CALVARY WORSHIP CENTER.
THEY SAID IN THE MOVIE, WE, WE DON'T FOLLOW THE MONEY AFTER WE PAY FOR THE PROPERTY.
WE NEVER DO THAT ON ANY PIECE OF PROPERTY WE'VE EVER PAID.
WHAT THEY DO WITH IT, THAT MONEY IS FOR CALVARY BAPTIST CHURCH, WHOEVER SOLD IT AT THE TIME TO DO WITH WHAT THEY WISH.
RIGHT NOW THEY OWN LAND IN AT PARK HILL.
THEY BOUGHT, THEY BOUGHT IT FROM THE SCHOOL DISTRICT.
AND SO THAT MONEY FROM THE CITY COUNCIL TO THE SCHOOL DISTRICT, WE NEED TO KNOW DOWN TO THE PENNY WHAT WE PAID.
OH, WE CAN GET YOU, LIKE I SAID, HAROLD, I DON'T KNOW THE EXACT FIGURE.
IT'S A MATTER OF PUBLIC RECORD.
IT WAS HELD IN AN OPEN MEETING WHEN WE VOTED TO BY IT AND WE CAN GET YOU THAT MOTION IN THE NIGHT.
CAN WE DO THAT FOR STAFF? YEAH.
AS TAXPAYERS, WE HAVE EVERY RIGHT TO KNOW MEETING.
AND EVERYBODY THAT WAS HERE THAT NIGHT KNEW.
ITEM 20, ADVANCED FUNDING AGREEMENT WITH TDOT.
THESE CAMERAS OUT ON 30 AS MAYOR, YOU'RE ON THE REGIONAL TRANSPORTATION COMMITTEE.
UH, MIKE MORRIS SAID OUR FOREIGN INVESTORS EXPECT A RETURN ON THEIR INVESTMENT THAT OWN THESE HOV LANES.
WHAT MONEY IS COMING FROM OUR FOREIGN INVESTORS TO PAY FOR THIS? ARE THEY GONNA PAY US ANY MONEY? WHERE'S THIS MONEY COMING FROM? THESE ARE ON THE FRONTAGE ROAD AND THESE ARE CAMERAS AND DYNAMIC MESSAGE SIGNS WHERE WE CAN CHANGE THEM.
AND THIS IS STATE AND FEDERAL FUNDS PAYING FOR THIS IS ADDITIONAL MONEY BECAUSE THE BIDS CAME BACK HIGHER ON THE CONSTRUCTION.
SO THESE ARE ON THE FRONTAGE ROAD, NOT THE MAIN LANES.
AND THESE ARE FOR US TO LOOK AT THE INTERSECTIONS AND TO GIVE MESSAGES TO MOTORISTS IF THERE ARE INCIDENTS.
THIS IS A CITY AND WE WOULD HAVE VIDEO AND CCTV CAMERAS, BUT IT'S A LONG 30 ON THE FRONTAGE INTERSECTIONS.
SEE, THIS IS WHEN YOU LOOK FROM CAMERAS FROM I 30 TO MACARTHUR.
IT DOESN'T SAY FRONTAGE ROADS.
YOU JUST, YOU KNOW, AS A CITIZEN, YOU'RE THINKING, IS THIS THE HIGHWAY? RIGHT.
IT'S IT'S MORE DETAILED IN THE DOCUMENT.
BUT UM, AND THERE IS A MAP IN THERE AS WELL.
IT IS ON THE FRONTAGE ROADS AT THE INTERSECTIONS.
WE DON'T HAVE ANY SAY OVER THE MAIN LANES.
THE CITY DOES CANDLE, THE INTERSECTIONS, THE FRONTAGE ROADS.
YEAH, I WISH AGAIN, NEXT TIME I REALIZE THOSE, THE FEST THAT AREN'T BACK THERE IN THE AFTERNOON.
MORE EXPLANATION ON THIS, PLEASE.
MORE ADVANCED FUNDING AGREEMENT FROM TEXDOT FOR JEFFERSON STREET TO MAINE.
AND THEN THE OTHER ONE FOR THE, UM, THAT TURNABOUT AND THIS, ARE WE, HOW ARE WE ASSURED THAT THIS ADVANCED FUNDING AGREEMENT FROM TEXDOT THAT WE'RE GONNA GET THIS MONEY? THE MONEY ACTUALLY IS, COMES THROUGH COG THESE, UH, ADVANCED FUNDING AGREEMENTS.
ONCE THIS IS IN PLACE AND FULLY EXECUTED ON THE OTHER SIDE, TEXDOT HAS TO FILTER IT BECAUSE THERE'S FEDERAL AND STATE MONEY INVOLVED.
BUT WE GO THROUGH THE COUNCIL OF GOVERNMENTS.
UM, LIKE WE TALKED ABOUT ON THE COUNCIL THAT WE, THESE ARE ACTUALLY, BOTH OF THESE ARE CMAC, WHICH IS CONDITION MITIGATION AND AIR QUALITY FUNDS.
SO WE SUBMIT A PROJECT TO THEM AND THEY COME BACK WITH HOW MUCH STATE, HOW MUCH FEDERAL, AND IF THERE'S ANY LOCAL MATCH.
AND ON ONE OF THESE, I DON'T HAVE ANY LOCAL MATCH, SO IT'S COMPLETELY FUNDED.
SO THE CITY OF GRAND PRAIRIE WILL PAY NO MONEY ON THESE PROJECTS ON ONE OF THESE.
ON THE OTHER ONE, THERE MIGHT BE A LO THERE MIGHT BE A LITTLE SMALLER LOCAL MATCH, BUT TYPICALLY, UM, MORE THAN 80% OF IT IS STATE AND FEDERAL FUNDED.
SO I GUESS I DON'T THE TRANSPARENCY OF TDOT, I DON'T TRUST REPUBLICANS IN AUSTIN RIGHT NOW.
THEY PULL THE MONEY, WHATEVER.
WHAT GUARANTEE DO WE HAVE FROM TDOT, THE REPUBLICANS IN AUSTIN.
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AT AT THROUGH THE CITY STAFF.WE DON'T HAVE A GUARANTEE THAT IS GONNA BE APPROVED BY RTC.
SO TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTION BLUNTLY, WE DON'T KNOW YET.
I GUESS IT'S VERY FRUSTRATING BECAUSE MY GREAT STATE OF TEXAS HAS WHAT, $32 BILLION IN RESERVE AND WE'RE SPENDING 10, $20 BILLION ON OPERATION LONE STAR TO KEEP MEXICANS OUTTA TEXAS.
SO WE COULD TAP INTO THAT FUNDING TO HELP PAY FOR THIS IN TDOT DIFFERENT POT OF MONEY.
I FEEL CONFIDENT THAT COG WILL APPROVE THIS IN TDOT.
WE'VE BEEN IN NEGOTIATION WITH THEM FOR YEARS.
BUT TO ANSWER YOUR SPECIFIC QUESTION, IT HASN'T BEEN DONE YET.
AND IT DOESN'T AND IT MAY NOT GET DONE.
WILL YOU BRING THIS BACK BEFORE COUNSEL FOR A PRESENTATION TO TELL US WHEN THE FUNDING WAS APPROVED? AND I DON'T KNOW IF THAT'S GONNA BE REQUIRED OR NOT.
NO, IT'S IN THE TIP, WHICH IS HOW THEY SCHEDULE THE FUNDING.
AND I'VE GOT THAT, THAT, THAT WASN'T THE QUESTION.
WELL, WHAT DOES IT COME BACK TO US FOR? VOTE YES OR NO.
THIS IS SETTING UP THE FUNDING AGREEMENT AND THEN ONCE THE PROJECT DOWN THE ROAD STARTS, WE SUBMIT, IF THEY GIVE US SUBMIT, SUBMIT FOR REIMBURSEMENT, IF THEY GIVE MONEY, THIS HAS ALREADY GIVEN US THE AUTHORIZATION TO DO IT.
IT WILL NOT BE COMING BACK TO US.
ANY PARTICULAR TIMELINE ON THESE CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS, BUT, UM, AS SOON AS THESE FUNDING AGREEMENTS ARE IN PLACE, WE HOPE TO HAVE BOTH OF THESE 22 AND 21 TO BE BIDDING OUT BEFORE THE END OF THIS YEAR.
JUST WHEN YOU HEAR ABOUT ADVANCED FUNDING AGREEMENT, YOU'RE USED TO, AGAIN, THESE TYPES OF PROJECTS BY BOND MONEY OR OTHER GENERAL REVENUE FUND OR CERTIFICATES OF OBLIGATIONS FROM THE TAXPAYERS.
AND IF WE'RE REACHING OUT TO THIS MONEY, GREAT.
BUT SINCE IT'S A COMBINATION OF FEDERAL AND STATE MONEY, AND AGAIN, WHO'S PROVIDING THIS MONEY FOR US? IT IS.
I KNOW THEY JUST HIT ON THIS WHILE AGO, BUT I'D JUST LIKE TO KNOW WHO IS R CORNELIUS? EAST.
THAT IS THE LLC OF THE PROPERTY OWNER FOR THE, THE LOCATION.
RASHAD, IS THIS PART OF THE FUNDING WE HAVE SET ASIDE TO HELP IMPROVE OLDER AREAS? YES.
IT'S AN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM CALLED THE RETAIL REDEVELOPMENT PROGRAM.
HOW MUCH MONEY DID WE PUT IN THAT ACTUALLY WE'VE USING FUNDING FROM THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CIP.
UM, BUT WE'VE KIND OF ALLOCATED ABOUT 200,000.
IT'S A, IT'S A DECISION THIS COUNCIL MADE OVER A YEAR AGO TO HELP.
WE HAVE A LOT OF OLDER PARTS IN THIS TOWN, WHICH YOU'RE WELL AWARE OF.
AND SO THIS IS TO DO SOME GRANTS FOR THEM TO HELP UNIFY THEIR SPACE.
BUT SIR, WHAT IS THE BUILDING AT 60 0 2 NORTH STATE HIGHWAY 1 61.
WHAT IS THAT PREP CURRENTLY? WHAT IS THAT? DO WE KNOW WHAT THAT IS? THAT IS THE SUBJECT PROPERTY.
THAT IS THE, A STRIP CENTER THAT IS BEING, UH, REDEVELOPED.
THE FACADE IS BEING UPDATED AND, UM, HE'S REMOVING, I DON'T KNOW THAT WE KNOW WHAT'S IN THERE RIGHT NOW.
THIS IS JUST THE PROPERTY OWNER WHO LEASES TO WANT, WANTS TO, UH, UPGRADE HIS YES.
SIMILAR TO WHAT WE DID MAIN STREET YEARS AGO, WE ALLOCATED $2 MILLION AND ANOTHER MILLION FOR SOME MATCHES TO GET MAIN STREET UPGRADED.
THIS DOESN'T GO TO INDIVIDUAL, UH, TENANTS.
THIS GOES TO THE PROPERTY OWNER TO REDEVELOP.
IS THIS CURRENTLY AN EMPTY SHELL OR ARE THEY PAYING PROPERTY TAX OR SALES TAX TO GRAND PRAIRIE? RIGHT NOW THE BUSINESSES, IF IT'S A PROPERTY, IT'S YEAH, THEY'RE ON THE TAX ROAD.
IT'S EXISTING, EXISTING BUSINESSES.
DO WE KNOW THE NAMES OF THESE EXISTING BUSINESSES? EVEN IF THERE'S NO EXISTING BUILDING BUSINESSES THERE, THEY'RE PAYING PROPERTY TAXES.
I DON'T THINK RASHAD KNOWS THE TENANTS OR IF EVEN IF IT HAS TENANTS.
EITHER WAY IT'S GOING TO ADDRESS COUNCILMAN, DEPUTY MAYOR, PROTEIN LI IF YOU'D LIKE TO TALK ABOUT IT AFTERWARDS.
THERE'S A HAIR PLACE, THERE'S A PIZZA PLACE.
THERE'S A GAS STATION THERE, UH, IS A GOLDEN STONE AND MAYBE A DONUTS AT COLD SINK DONUTS DRIVE BY THERE TONIGHT.
I JUST THINK IT WOULD BE APPROPRIATE FOR THE APPLICANT R CORNELIUS, EAST, LLC TO STAND BEFORE THE COUNCIL.
IF WE'RE GONNA BE PROVIDING THIS FUNDING, THEY SHOULD HAVE A REPRESENTATIVE OR SOMEONE DOWN HERE TO BE APPRECIATED.
THEY'VE MADE PRESENTATIONS TO OUR STAFF BEFORE THIS RECOMMENDATION CAME TO US, BUT THAT PRESENTATION SHOULD BE MADE TO THE CITIZENS IN AN OPEN FORUM.
IT WAS DONE AT CITY COUNCIL, UH, COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT, UH, COMMITTEE, WHICH IS AN OPEN MEETING, WHICH IS AN OPEN MEETING.
BUT MY POINT IS IN THE CITY COUNCIL CHAMBERS DISCUSSED HERE, THAT'S WHERE IT SHOULD BE BROUGHT FORWARD AND DISCUSSED A LITTLE BIT MORE IN DEPTH WHO THESE INDIVIDUALS ARE GETTING OUR MONEY AND GREAT.
IS THAT IT FOR THE CONSENT AGENDA? YEP.
UH, AS YOU NOTED, THE AGENDA HAS BEEN POSTED AS, UM, REQUIRED BY THE STATE.
UM, ANYONE WISH TO SPEAK ON ANY ITEM? PLEASE
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COMPLETE A SPEAKER CARD GIVEN THAT I MAKE A MOTION THAT WE APPROVE ITEMS NINE THROUGH 24 AS NOTED ON THE AGENDA.SECOND BY DEPUTY MAYOR PRO TIMM CLEMSON.
[25. Action Items Resulting from Staff Presentations: 1) Consider removing the Peninsula as an option for the Lake Ridge Community Center and begin the process of reviewing other options 2) Consideration of Cesar Chavez / Dolores Huerta Holiday]
ITEM 25.FIRST ITEM UP THAT WE'LL CONSIDER REMOVING THE PENINSULA AS AN OPTION FOR THE LAKE RIDGE COMMUNITY SENATOR AND BEGIN THE PROCESS OF REVIEWING OTHER OPTIONS.
WE HAVE SOME SPEAKERS TO GET TO, SO WE'LL HEAR ALL SPEAKERS, THEN WE WILL ENTERTAIN A MOTION.
THERE'S ABOUT SIX OR SEVEN OF YOU EACH.
ONE OF YOU HAVE FIVE MINUTES, BUT AS USUAL, IF YOU WANNA COME UP HERE AND SAY SAME AS WHAT HE SAID.
I I'M, I'M GOOD WITH THAT TOO.
HOWEVER YOU WANNA USE YOUR FIVE MINUTES.
I GUARANTEE YOU WE, WE'D LOVE SOME JOKES.
MAYOR JENSEN AND CITY COUNCIL, THANK YOU FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK TO YOU ABOUT THE PROPOSAL TO NOT BUILD A COMMUNITY CENTER WITHIN THE GRAND PENINSULA.
I DO NOT SPEAK AS A REPRESENTATIVE FOR THE COMMUNITY, BUT AS A CONCERNED CITIZEN.
THIS PROJECT, ALTHOUGH WELL INTENDED, HAS NOT RECEIVED A VERY WARM WELCOME IN OUR NEIGHBORHOOD, AS EXPRESSED BY QUITE A FEW OF THE HOMEOWNERS AT SEVERAL TOWN HALL MEETINGS, SURVEYS AND PETITIONS.
AS YOU'RE AWARE, THERE WERE TO BE SEVERAL MEETINGS WITH COMMUNITY LEADERS, HOWEVER, ONLY ONE OF THOSE TWO WAS HELD AND NOT ALL COMMUNITY LEADERS WERE AVAILABLE TO ATTEND THE FIRST MEETING.
AND IF THEY WERE TO ATTEND, I'M NOT SURE HOW THEY WOULD BE ABLE TO ADEQUATELY EXPRESS THE DESIRES OF THE REPRESENTATIVE COMMUNITIES.
FOR THERE WAS NO OUTREACH SURVEY OR ANY OTHER MEANS TO COMPLETE, UH, TO GAUGE HOW THEY FELT FROM THE BEGINNING OF THIS PROPOSAL.
THERE WAS NO CLEAR PICTURE OF THE PURPOSE OF THE COMMUNITY CENTER, NO CLEAR UNDERSTANDING AS TO WHAT WILL BE BUILT, WHAT WOULD BE DEVELOPED, WHAT SERVICE IT WILL PROVIDE.
IT IS ALSO UNCLEAR AS TO WHO OR HOW ACCESS AND USE OF THIS CENTER WILL BE HANDLED.
THE CITY AND THE COMMUNITY MAY HAVE BEEN BETTER SERVED IF THERE HAD BEEN SOME FORM OF OUTREACH, A STUDY ANALYSIS TO DETERMINE THE NEEDS OF THE COMMUNITY AND MOST IMPORTANTLY, THE IMPACT.
IN SHORT, THE CITY DID NOT DO THEIR HOMEWORK.
RESIDENTS HAVE EXPRESSED THEIR CONCERNS ABOUT ADDITIONAL AND UNWANTED TRAFFIC NOISE FROM A PROPOSED CONCERT VENUE.
AND THE LIKELIHOOD THAT THIS WOULD CREATE A GATHERING POINT OF FOR FOLKS AND MAY LEAD TO WAN UNDESIRABLE ACTIVITIES.
RESIDENTS HAVE LOCATED TO THIS AREA TO GET AWAY FROM THOSE THINGS AND ENJOY THE SERENITY AND QUIET ATMOSPHERE.
RESIDENTS ARE ALSO VERY CONCERNED ABOUT THE OVERDEVELOPMENT IN THIS AREA, AND THIS WOULD ADD TO THAT TRAFFIC HAS ALREADY DRAMATICALLY INCREASED WITH EACH NEW DEVELOPMENT.
AND THERE IS GREAT CONCERN THAT THIS WILL ONLY ADD TO THAT ALREADY.
CONGESTED ROADWAYS AS MENTIONED EARLIER, THERE HAS BEEN SEVERAL COMMUNITY EFFORTS TO EXPRESS THEIR CONCERNS THROUGH A PETITION AND A SURVEY PERTAINING TO THE PROPOSED COMMUNITY CENTER.
THESE EFFORTS SHOW THAT A MAJORITY DO NOT FEEL THAT THIS CENTER MAY NOT BE FOR THE BETTERMENT OF OUR COMMUNITY, AND IN FACT, SHOW THAT RESIDENTS DO NOT SUPPORT THIS COMMUNITY CENTER.
IT IS NOT MY ATTEMPT TO SAY, NOT IN MY BACKYARD, BUT TO REQUEST THAT PRIOR TO BUILDING COMMUNITY CENTER ANYWHERE, TO COMPLETE A SURVEY AND COMMUNITY OUTREACH TO HELP DETERMINE WHAT THE COMMUNITY NEEDS AND WANTS.
UH, MAYBE REVIEW OTHER LOCATIONS TO SERVE MORE OF THEIR SURROUNDING COMMUNITIES AND NOT IN THE MIDDLE OF A RESIDENTIAL AREA.
IF OPTIONS ARE STILL POSSIBLE FOR THIS LOCATION, MAY I SUGGEST THAT THE CITY USE AND KEEP THIS LOCATION AS A GREEN SPACE.
THERE'S A LOT OF NEW APARTMENTS AROUND HERE, A LOT OF PEOPLE WITH DOGS.
I APPRECIATE YOU TAKING THE TIME TO LISTEN AND THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME AND THE OPPORTUNITY TO EXPRESS MY POSITIONS.
ANY QUESTIONS YOU MADE, YOU MADE YOUR STATEMENT PERFECTLY CLEAR.
I AM GOING TO READ MY PREPARED STATEMENT.
GOOD EVENING, HONORABLE MAYOR JENSEN AND COUNCIL MEMBERS.
I SERVE AS PRESIDENT OF THE LAKE PARKS, HOA, WHEREBY THERE ARE OVER 400 HOMES.
I COME HERE TODAY TO VOICE MY SUPPORT OF THIS ITEM.
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I BELIEVE THAT OTHER LOCATIONS IN SOUTH GRAND PRAIRIE, UH, WOULD BE MORE IDEAL FOR A COMMUNITY CENTER OTHER THAN THE PENINSULA, AS HE HAS EXPRESSED, ESPECIALLY DUE TO THE FACT THAT SO MANY RESIDENTS DOWN THERE DO NOT WANT IT.NEIGHBORHOODS SUCH AS HAWK LAKE PARKS, WEST LAKE PARKS, EAST LAKE PARKS, NORTH SHEFFIELD VILLAGE,
SPACE REC CENTER OR COMMUNITY CENTER.
ME, LAGOS AND GRAND PRAIRIE GRAND PENINSULA BOTH HAVE CLUBHOUSES AND MEETING SPACES.
MANY OF THESE RESIDENTS USE OTHER FACILITIES IN THE AREA, ESPECIALLY DUE TO THE FACT THAT RESIDENTS DO NOT WANT IT.
NEIGHBORHOODS SUCH AS HIGH HAWK, AS I PREVIOUS MEN MENTIONED, THE OTHER, UM, COMMUNITIES.
I HUMBLY ASK THAT YOU VOTE IN FAVOR OF THIS ITEM AND REVIEW OTHER SITES IN SOUTH GRAND PRAIRIE THAT WILL BE BETTER SUITED TO SERVE MORE RESIDENTS AND NEIGHBORHOODS.
THANK YOU FOR ALL THAT YOU DO AND YOUR SERVICE.
ANITA HARRIS, GOOD EVENING EVERYONE.
THANK YOU SO MUCH JUNIOR, FOR ALLOWING ME TO COME HERE TONIGHT AND LETTING ME KNOW THAT THIS WAS GOING TO BE ON TODAY'S AGENDA.
I STAND ON BEHALF OF THE PENINSULA AS A RESIDENT FOR OVER 20 YEARS.
I WANT TO SPEAK, UH, ABOUT REMOVING LAKE RIDGE AT OFF THE AGENDA, UH, AS ONE OF THE LOCATIONS FOR THE COMMUNITY CENTER TO BE BUILT.
AS MANY OF OUR RESIDENTS HAVE ALREADY MADE IT VERY PLAIN AND CLEAR.
I HAVE 452 RESIDENTS THAT ARE AGAINST THIS COMMUNITY CENTER BEING BUILT IN THE PENINSULA.
I HOPE THAT YOU ALL WOULD CONSIDER THAT.
I WOULD BE MORE THAN HAPPY TO SHARE THAT INFORMATION WITH YOU AND I AM TOTALLY AGAINST THAT BEING BUILT.
I'VE COME, I'M HERE AS A CONCERNED CITIZEN AS WELL.
UM, I'VE LIVED IN GRAND PRAIRIE MY ENTIRE LIFE AND WE MOVED OUT TO MAR LAGOS TO KIND OF GET AWAY FROM THE, THE HUBBUB OF THE CITY, EVEN THOUGH I LOVE GRAND PRAIRIE.
UM, WHEN THIS COMMUNITY CENTER CAME TO MY ATTENTION, I WAS CONCERNED ABOUT IT BECAUSE THERE'S A LOT OF NEIGHBORHOODS IN GRAND PRAIRIE WHO WOULD BETTER BE SERVED OR BE BETTER SERVED BY THIS THAN US.
WE ALREADY HAVE A COMMUNITY CENTER, WE DON'T NEED IT.
UM, I AGREE WITH EVERYTHING THAT KEVIN AND ANITA AND EVERYBODY SAID.
THANK YOU ELDER WILLIAM HORTON.
MY NAME IS ELDER WILLIAM EARL HORTON.
I RESIDE AT 26 50 WINSLOW DRIVE, GRAND PRAIRIE, TEXAS.
IN THE OCALA ADDITION, I LOOK AT IT AS THIS WAY WE HAVE TO GO FAR OUT TO GET TO A RECREATION CENTER.
SO I WOULD LOVE IT IF YOU WOULD KEEP IT IN THE SOUTH RANGE OF THE OCALA AREA.
WE HAVE NOT ONLY WE HAVE THE PARK OUT THERE THAT WE'D LIKE TO SEE SOME MORE ITEMS IN THAT, BUT THIS WOULD GIVE US AN OPPORTUNITY TO HAVE A PLACE WHERE YOU COULD HOLD AN EVENT AND YOU WOULDN'T HAVE TO TIE UP THE STREETS WITH, UH, UH, CARS WHEN PEOPLE ARE PUTTING ON SOMETHING.
THEY WOULD HAVE SOMETHING THAT THEY WOULD BE ABLE TO SCHEDULE THAT EVENT IN VERSUS, UH, RIGHT NOW THAT YOU'RE ONLY GOING TO SHOT WELL, UH, UH, CHARLIE TAYLOR OR UH, BACK OVER TO DALWORTH AND IT WOULD GIVE US ANOTHER OPTION TO BE BE ABLE TO HAVE THAT.
SO I WOULD SAY, UH, IF YOU CAN I ASK THE COUNCIL, BE CONSIDERED OF LOOKING INTO THE OAK COLLINS, SHEFFIELD AREA.
IF WE CAN GET IT CLOSE ENOUGH TO THEM, THAT WILL SERVICE US.
AND I'VE BEEN IN GRAND PRAIRIE SINCE 1958.
I'VE LIVED AS FAR NORTH AS YOU CAN GO.
AND NOW I'M A MIDPOINT CONSIDERING.
YEP, YOU WERE, YOU WERE ALMOST UNNERVING.
KIT BRAUN, GOOD EVENING MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL.
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MY NAME'S KI RON.UM, IT'S IN THE MIRROR LOGOS GROUP JUST DIRECTLY IN FRONT OF, UH, THE WONDERFUL STATION 10.
AND I'M ACTUALLY ASKING THAT THE CITY DOES NOT TAKE THIS, THE LAKERIDGE AREA OFF THE LIST.
UM, I'VE LIVED THERE SINCE 2009.
I'VE SEEN A LOT OF CHANGE IN THAT AREA AND WE MOVED DOWN THERE WHEN I HAD A FIELD BEHIND ME AND EVERYTHING ELSE.
SOME OF THE DEVELOPMENT DOWN THERE, YES.
NOT IN FAVOR OF THIS IS NOT ONE OF THEM I'M DEFINITELY IN FAVOR OF.
THAT'S A GREAT LOCATION FOR COMMUNITY CENTER.
UM, WHEN I HEARD THAT THAT'S WHAT THAT AREA WAS GONNA BE USED FOR, I WAS ECSTATIC BECAUSE WE'VE SEEN GAS STATIONS, LIQUOR STORES, APARTMENTS, EVERYTHING ELSE.
PLACES THAT ARE NOT WELL MAINTAINED OR IN A, IN A COUPLE YEARS WILL NOT BE WELL MAINTAINED OR WILL CHANGE HANDS.
THE CITY WANTS TO PUT A PIECE OF PROPERTY JUST LIKE STATION 10 VERY WELL MAINTAINED.
I KNOW WHAT I'M GONNA HAVE FOR THE NEXT MANY, MANY YEARS.
I DO HAVE YOUNGER KIDS AS WELL.
I'M ALSO THE CUBMASTER, UH, FOR THE PACK THAT'S LOCAL IN THAT AREA.
AND I'LL TELL YOU, IT'S VERY HARD TO FIND A PLACE TO HAVE MEETINGS.
UM, YES, MAYOR LOGOS DOES HAVE A COMMUNITY CENTER.
YES, GRAND PENINSULA DOES HAVE A COMMUNITY CENTER.
THEY'RE COMPLETELY FULL ALL THE TIME.
I GET THESE WONDERFUL BROCHURES FROM THE CITY OF GRAND PRAIRIE ALL THE TIME SHOWING ALL THE GREAT EVENTS, ALL THE SPORTS.
WE'VE TRIED TO COMMUTE UP TO THE NORTH SECTION OF GRAND PRAIRIE TO UTILIZE THOSE SPORTS.
AND WE'VE HAD TO END UP GOING OVER TO MARY LOW OR TO, UH, MANSFIELD AND ALL THE WAY OVER PAST 2 87 TO THAT COMMUNITY CENTER, TO THAT AREA BECAUSE NOTHING'S AVAILABLE DOWN THERE.
WOULD LOVE TO HAVE BASKETBALL COURTS DOWN THERE.
WOULD LOVE TO HAVE A COMMUNITY CENTER THAT THE KIDS CAN WALK TO.
UM, IT'S A BONUS AREA TOO, BECAUSE IT BACKS UP TO THE ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS PROPERTY.
LOTS OF USAGE CAN BE DONE FOR, INSTEAD OF PEOPLE DUMPING ALL THEIR TRASH IN THAT AREA, YOU COULD PUT PATHS IN THERE.
WOULD LOVE TO BE ABLE TO TAKE MY SCOUTS HIKING THERE RATHER THAN HAVING TO GO INTO MANSFIELD OR UP TO CEDAR HILL TO ALL THE DIFFERENT, UH, AREAS FOR HIKING AND STUFF.
SO I DO ASK THAT THIS DOES NOT GET REMOVED.
I DO UNDERSTAND SOME OF THESE OTHER COMMUNITIES THAT DO WANT COMMUNITY CENTERS AS WELL.
IT'S, YOU KNOW, DEFINITELY PROOF THAT THIS IS WELL NEEDED IN ANY COMMUNITY.
BUT THAT AREA DOWN THERE, I KNOW MAYOR, YOU DO A LOT OF CYCLING DOWN THERE.
UM, THIS RIGHT NOW A CYCLIST PARK AT DALTON.
THIS WOULD BE A PRIME SPOT FOR EVERYBODY TO MEET.
THIS WOULD BE A PRIME SPOT TO START LINKING ALL OF THE PATHS THAT ARE ALREADY DOWN THERE INTO A GREAT AREA.
SO I DO ASK, I THINK THERE'S A LOT OF MISINFORMATION BEING GIVEN ON THIS.
UM, I DON'T THINK THAT THE COMMUNITY DOES KNOW OR UNDERSTAND EXACTLY WHAT A BROING COMMUNITY CENTER DOWN THERE IS.
UM, I ASK THE CITY TO GIVE MORE INFORMATION TO HAVE THOSE PUBLIC MEETINGS, AS THEY WERE SAYING, TO GIVE THE TRUE INFORMATION TO THE COMMUNITY SO THEY CAN ACTUALLY, UM, UNDERSTAND WHAT THIS COMMUNITY CENTER WOULD INVOLVE.
SO I APPRECIATE YOUR CONSIDERATION.
GOOD EVENING MAYOR AND COUNCIL.
IT'S SO GREAT TO SEE SOME OF YOU AGAIN.
ALTHOUGH YOU MAY NOT WANNA SEE ME, BUT I AM SPEAKING IN OPPOSITION OF HAVING THE COMMUNITY CENTER IN MAYOR LAGOS AND GRAND PENINSULA.
AS I HAVE STATED AT THE TOWN HALL MEETINGS.
AS WE HAVE ATTENDED PRIOR COUNCIL MEETINGS, MY POSITION HAS NOT CHANGED.
UM, WE DO NOT NEED THE COMMUNITY CENTER.
YOU CAN BOOK GRAND PENN AND MAR-A-LAGO SWELL IN ADVANCE IF YOU PLAN ACCORDINGLY.
UM, TRAFFIC IS ALREADY TERRIBLE IN THE AREA.
WE DID MOVE DOWN THERE ABOUT EIGHT YEARS AGO TO ESCAPE 7 5 0 5 0 BECAUSE IT WAS GETTING REALLY CONGESTED.
SO WE DID ESCAPE DOWN THERE TO HAVE MORE ACCESS TO NATURE, TO THE LAKE, TO THE BEAUTIFUL WALKING TRAILS.
I DON'T WANNA SEE ANYTHING ELSE DEVELOPED IN OUR AREA.
I THINK WE ARE PERFECT THE WAY WE ARE.
UM, WE ALSO DON'T NEED A WORMING CENTER.
WE JUST NEED ATMOS NOT TO CUT OUR GAS NEXT TIME.
WE ALSO DON'T NEED A CONCERT VENUE OR THE WALLS THAT WOULD OPEN UP TO ALLOW FOR THAT NOISE POLLUTION IN OUR QUIET NEIGHBORHOOD.
WE ALSO DON'T NEED, I THINK AT ONE POINT THERE WAS A MOBILE LIBRARY.
WE HAVE GREAT GRAND PRAIRIE LIBRARY.
YES, WE ARE CLOSE ENOUGH TO MANSFIELD TO USE THEIRS TOO.
UM, ALSO, I'M ALSO CONCERNED ABOUT WHO WOULD FUND THE MAINTENANCE.
THE PIT ALREADY PAYS FOR SO MUCH.
I DON'T KNOW IF IT WOULD BE FUNDED BY THE PI FOR MAINTENANCE OR COUNCIL OR A GENERAL FUND.
YEAH, ANY REC CENTERS THAT THE CITY BUILDS, WE DO ALL THAT.
SO, UM, SO THAT'S GOOD TO KNOW.
UM, AND THEN ALSO, I KNOW THAT OUR REPRESENTATIVES HAD SAID THAT THEY HAD CANVASSED OUR NEIGHBORHOOD OR SPOKEN TO PEOPLE.
I GUESS THEY SKIPPED TO MY HOUSE THAT DAY.
I DON'T KNOW BECAUSE THE FIRST TIME I DID MEET OUR WONDERFUL INDIVIDUALS WAS AT A TOWN HALL MEETING.
OTHER THAN MS. CLEMSON AND JUNIOR, I'VE SEEN THEM BEFORE AND INTERACTED WITH THEM BEFORE.
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SO WE DON'T WANT IT.WE HAVE THE PETITION THAT SAYS WE DON'T WANT IT.
WE'VE MADE OUR VOICES HEARD AT TOWN HALLS AND AT COMMUNITY MEETINGS AND MEETING WITH OUR REPRESENTATIVES.
SO OVERALL AS A WHOLE, WE DO NOT WANT IT.
WHAT I WOULD LIKE TO SEE THERE, BECAUSE I ALWAYS BELIEVE IN PROPOSING A SOLUTION, NOT JUST A PROBLEM, DEFINITELY KEEP IT GREEN SPACE DOG PARK.
YOU COULD HAVE THOSE WALKING TRAILS THAT WOULD SERVE THE TROOPS LIKE KIP SAID.
UM, BUT PLEASE LEAVE IT AS A GREEN SPACE.
I DON'T WANT ANOTHER LIQUOR STORE.
I DON'T WANT ANOTHER GAS STATION OR MORE APARTMENTS.
IT'S JUST, IT'S BEAUTIFUL THE WAY IT IS.
PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE KEEP OUR BEAUTIFUL GRAND PRAIRIE WITH THE TREES AND THE LAKES AND ALL THE WONDERFUL THINGS THAT MAKE GRAND PRAIRIE HOME.
AND THAT HAS BEEN MY HOME SINCE I WAS SIX MONTHS OLD.
I WILL HOPEFULLY DIE AND BE BURIED HERE, SO PLEASE KEEP IT THE TRUE GRAND PRAIRIE THAT I KNOW AND LOVE.
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR TIME.
HAROLD WILLIS, 5 3 8 LINLEY AND OUR 1984 PUBLIC SAFETY BOND COMMITTEE.
IT WAS BROUGHT OUT BY, FOR PUBLIC SAFETY.
THAT INTERSTATE 20 IS THE GEOGRAPHICAL CENTER OF GRAND PRAIRIE, NOT MAIN STREET, NOT 3 0 3, BUT I 20.
THAT'S THE CENTER OF GRAND PRAIRIE, TEXAS, SINCE WE'RE SO MANY MILES LONG THAT IT'S KIND OF A GOOD THING AND A BAD THING.
BUT WHAT DID THE CITY OF GRAND PRAIRIE PAY FOR THIS LAND AND WHAT WAS THE FUNDING USED TO PAY FOR THIS? THIS IS WHAT, SEVEN ACRES? WHAT WAS IT? UM, DO Y'ALL RECALL? TWO, TWO POINT SOMETHING? UH, THERE, THERE AGAIN, IT'S A MATTER OF PUBLIC RECORD AND, AND, UH, 2.7.
AND WHAT'S THE TOTAL ACREAGE OF THIS PROPERTY? NINE ACRES.
NINE ACRES ABOUT, GIVE OR TAKE, SEVEN.
JUST, I KNOW THE FOLKS THAT LIVE CLOSER OUT THERE.
I'M A LITTLE BIT NORTH, BUT SOMETIMES IT'S QUICKER TO GO SOUTH DOWN LAKE RIDGE THAN IT IS TO COME UP HERE.
SO THIS IS JUST PART OF THE COMPLEXITIES OF A CITY THAT IS SO LONG AND WE'RE GOING INTO THREE DIFFERENT COUNTIES, FOUR DIFFERENT COUNTIES.
SO A LOT OF STUFF TO BE OUT THERE.
WE HAVE ADDITIONAL CARDS THAT DO NOT WISH TO SPEAK, UM, BUT WE WILL RECORD YOUR OPPOSITION OR SUPPORT.
UM, ARE WE READY FOR A MOTION? I'D RECOGNIZE COUNCILMAN ZANU FOR A MOTION.
AND, UM, THANK YOU TO THE RESIDENTS THAT HAVE, UH, COME OUT TO SPEAK TODAY, BOTH IN OPPOSITION AND FOR THIS MOTION.
AND, UM, I THINK I WANNA SPEAK FOR COUNCIL TO SAY THAT WE SUPPORT A COMMUNITY CENTER, UH, AND I, I HOPE TODAY WHEN WE MAKE THIS, WHEN WE VOTE ON THIS, THAT WE VOTE IN FAVOR OF THE COMMUNITY AND, UM, CONSIDER PUTTING THIS COMMUNITY CENTER AT A DIFFERENT LOCATION.
SO I WILL THEN MOVE TO APPROVE REMOVING THE PENINSULA AS AN OPTION FOR THE LAKERIDGE COMMUNITY CENTER AND BEGIN THE PROCESS OF REVIEWING OTHER OPTIONS.
SECOND, WE HAVE A MOTION, A SECOND.
I'D LIKE TO AMEND THAT MOTION.
I'D RECOGNIZE COUNCIL MEMBER JOHNSON.
I'D LIKE TO SUBSTITUTE THE MOTION AND TO SUBSTITUTE A MOTION WITH, UH, TO TABLE THIS ITEM AND TO STAFF HAS HAD TIME TO DO THE SURVEY THAT WE'VE GIVEN THEM DIRECTION ON IN THE PAST, AND IT'D BE IN KEEPING WITH OUR WORD THAT WE'VE GIVEN TO THE COMMUNITY THAT, UM, WE'RE GONNA DO A SURVEY TO FIND OUT EXACTLY WHAT THEY WANTED.
SOME OF THESE FOLKS HAVE BEEN AT THE MEETINGS AND I HAVE SAID TO THEM THERE, IF THE COMMUNITY DOES NOT WANT THE COMMUNITY CENTER WITH ACCURATE INFORMATION THAT WAS BEEN SENT OUT TO EVERYONE, WE WILL NOT BILL THE COMMUNITY CENTER THERE.
SO WE'RE JUST TRYING TO GET THE MOST ACCURATE INFORMATION THERE.
SO MY SUBSTITUTE OF MOTION IS TO TABLE THIS UNTIL, UH, STAFF HAS HAD TIME TO DO THEIR RESEARCH.
SECOND, WE HAVE A MOTION TO SECOND BY COUNCIL.
WE HAVE A MOTION TO SECOND BY COUNCIL MEMBER DEBOSKY, MAKE YOUR POINT OF ORDER.
ARE YOU ABLE TO TABLE SOMETHING INDEFINITELY OR DO YOU HAVE TO GIVE A WE HAVE A MOTION IN A SECOND'S.
READY? YOU HAVE TO GIVE A SPECIFIC WE HAVE A MOTION.
I, I'M GONNA AN ANSWER HIS QUESTION.
WE CAN TABLE IT EXACTLY HOW HE SAID THAT'S A YES, ISN'T IT? YES.
WE HAVE A MOTION IN A SECOND THAT WE'RE GONNA, FOR THE TABLING THAT WE'RE GONNA TAKE CARE OF FIRST.
IF THIS MOTION PASSES, IT WILL BE TABLED.
IF IT DOESN'T PASS, WE'LL TAKE UP THE ORIGINAL MOTION AND VOTE UP.
THIS IS NOT AN EASY DECISION, BUT THEN AGAIN, IT IS.
WE INSTRUCTED STAFF A FEW MONTHS AGO, AND I WAS REMINDED THAT TONIGHT IN BRIEFING TO GO OUT AND GET US MORE DATA.
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WE HAVE BEEN, SOME OF THE COUNCIL HAVE BEEN GOING OUT INSTRUCTING THE CITIZENS OF THAT DIRECTION AND STAFF MADE US AWARE OF THAT TONIGHT.AND I HAD FORGOTTEN IT AND MEGAN AND STAFF AND TOLD US THAT WE HAD GIVEN THEM THAT MOTION.
I HAVE CHANGED MY MIND ON THE VOTE TODAY BECAUSE OF THIS NEW INFORMATION.
I WAS ORIGINALLY GOING TO VOTE IN FAVOR OF THE ORIGINAL MOTION, AND I STILL MAY DO THAT IN THE FUTURE, BUT SINCE WE, IN THE MATTER OF PUBLIC RECORD DIRECTED OUR STAFF TO GET US MORE INFORMATION, I THINK IS PREMATURE FOR US TO VOTE TONIGHT.
SO I WILL BE VOTING TO TABLE IT.
ALL IN FAVOR OF THE TABLING, SAY AYE.
THE MOTION CARRIES SEVEN TO TWO WILL COUNCIL MEMBER ZANU AND COUNCIL MEMBER HUMPHREYS VOTING NAY.
AND LADIES AND GENTLEMEN HERE, WE UNDERSTAND THAT WE UNDERSTAND THE ISSUES.
UM, AND, BUT HAD WE NOT GONE AND TOLD PEOPLE, WELL, I'VE ALREADY SAID WHY WE VOTED WHAT WE'VE, HOW WE VOTED TONIGHT.
SO LET'S MOVE ON TO, UH, ITEM 22.2 COUNT.
AND YOU READ THE SPEAKERS TERRY MESA, STATE REPRESENTATIVE MESA
THANK YOU FOR ALLOWING ME TO SPEAK EVEN THOUGH I'M NOT A RESIDENT OF GRAND PRAIRIE.
DID I SAY SOMETHING THAT MEANT I WASN'T ALLOWED TO SPEAK? DID I MAKE A MISTAKE? I WASM JOKING.
YOU SAID YOU WEREN'T LIVING HERE WHEN I WAS ELECTED IN 2018.
UH, GRAND PRAIRIE WAS ONE THIRD OF MY DISTRICT, AND I MADE A PROMISE AT THAT TIME THAT I WOULD WORK TO BUILD BRIDGES, NOT WALLS.
NOT AN ORIGINAL STATEMENT FROM ME, BUT STILL I BELIEVED IN IT.
AND SO I'M HERE TONIGHT TO CONTINUE AND KEEP THAT PROMISE THAT I MADE TO THE CITY OF GRAND PRAIRIE BACK IN 2018 TO SPEAK IN SUPPORT OF THE, UH, CONSIDERATION OF CESAR CHAVEZ.
I DON'T HAVE A PERSONAL BEAUTIFUL STORY OF BEING AN IMMIGRANT.
I'M NO MORE AN IMMIGRANT THAN ANYBODY ELSE IS AN IMMIGRANT HERE.
BUT, UM, MY PARENTS, UH, WORKED ON THE FAMILY FARM.
MY BUT WELL GRANDPARENTS ON BOTH SIDES HAD FARMS. AND SO, UH, WE DO COME FROM THAT FARMING BACKGROUND.
UH, ONE TIME WHEN MY MOTHER AND FATHER HAD VI VISITORS OVER, I CAME THROUGH THE LIVING ROOM IN A BAD TIME AND, AND THE WOMAN ASKED MY MOTHER, UH, HAS THERESA EVER THERESA'S MY REAL NAME? HAS THERESA EVER PICKED COTTON? AND MY MOTHER SAID, NO.
THE ONLY COTTON SHE EVER PICKED WAS A BLOUSE OFF A RACK AT A STORE, WHICH I THOUGHT WAS A GOOD ANSWER, BUT IT'S TRUTHFUL.
SO I DON'T HAVE THAT BACKGROUND, BUT MANY PEOPLE IN MY AGE GROUP DO.
UH, I HAVE FRIENDS AND FAMILY MEMBERS WHO WERE MIGRANT FARM WORKERS IN THE FIFTIES AND SIXTIES.
THEY TRAVELED WITH THEIR PARENTS.
WHATEVER SHACKS THE FARM, UH, PROVIDED, UH, INCLUDING LIKE A TROUGH OUT IN FRONT WITH A PUMP, YOU HAD TO GO OUT WITH A BUCKET TO GET WATER.
CAN YOU IMAGINE THAT IN THE FIFTIES AND SIXTIES? SOUNDS LIKE SOMETHING OUT OF AN OLD WEST MOVIE.
THE CONDITIONS WERE NOT GOOD FOR FARM WORKERS.
AND THAT'S WHAT GAVE THE RISE TO THE IMPORTANCE OF CESAR CHAVEZ TO FIGHT FOR THE BETTER WORKING CONDITIONS FOR FARM WORKERS.
SIMILAR TO MARTIN LUTHER KING IN THE SOUTHEAST FIGHTING FOR CIVIL RIGHTS, CESAR CHAVEZ IN THE SOUTHWEST WAS WORKING FOR THE RIGHTS OF FARM WORKERS.
THEY BOTH BELIEVED IN THE POLICIES OF, UH, MOHAT MA GANDHI DOING NONVIOLENT PROTESTS.
AND THEY BOTH FOLLOWED THAT I'M OLD ENOUGH TO REMEMBER SEEING HIM ON THE NEWS AND EVEN SEEING ROBERT KENNEDY WITH HIM WHEN HE DID A HUNGER STRIKE FOR FARM WORKERS.
I, UM, BELIEVE THAT THIS IS IMPORTANT BECAUSE THE FARM WORKERS ARE STILL HAVING TO FIGHT FOR GOOD WORKING CONDITIONS, EVEN TODAY, UH, WITH THE PESTICIDES IS THE BIG CONCERN NOW.
SO, UM, WHAT HE DID WAS IMPORTANT THEN.
NOW HE'S IMPORTANT IN OUR COMMUNITY.
IT ALSO INCLUDES DOLORES HUERTA CHAVE WAS KIND OF THE FACE OF IT, BUT SHE WAS THE HARD WORKER BEHIND THE SCENES AND YOU'VE ALREADY HONORED HER WITH A STREET NAME VERY APPROPRIATELY OVER THERE BY THE FARMER'S MARKET.
SO I WOULD LIKE TO SEE YOU CONTINUE THAT AND, UH, JOIN WITH YOU IN CELEBRATING DIVERSITY IN GRAND PRAIRIE.
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APPRECIATE WHAT YOU DO DOWN IN AUSTIN, AND I KNOW YOU'RE ALWAYS HELPING US MOVE OUR BILLS ALONG.I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO THE RIBBON CUTTING FOR THE CONVENTION CENTER THAT WE WORKED ON.
YOU HELPED PUSH IT ACROSS THE LINE.
CREOLE, I'M SORRY, MISPRONOUNCING CREOLE SCHOOL BOARD MEMBER.
GLORIA, THANK YOU FOR COMING TONIGHT.
MY NAME IS GLORIA CARILLO, 45 36 FRIARS LANE, HERE IN THE CITY OF GRAND PRAIRIE.
AND I AM ABSOLUTELY IN FAVOR OF THIS RESOLUTION.
UH, DOLORES HUERTA AND CESAR CHAVEZ ARE, ARE HERO TO ME.
UH, LIKE, UM, UH, TERRY SAID A WHILE AGO, SHE, SHE WAS NOT A MIGRANT WORKER, BUT MY HUSBAND WAS, HIS FAMILY WERE MIGRANT WORKERS.
AND I KNOW THAT IN TALKING TO HIM, THE CONDITIONS THAT THEY WORKED UNDER, THE HOUSING THAT THEY HAD, THE EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES FOR THEIR CHILDREN, UH, WERE DEPLORABLE.
SO I AM ABSOLUTELY IN FAVOR OF THIS, THIS RESOLUTION.
I KNOW THAT THEY BOTH WORKED TOGETHER FOR OVER 30 YEARS, UH, TOGETHER AS LABOR AND CIVIL RIGHTS ICONS.
UH, I ALSO, UH, WAS PRIVILEGED TO WORK WITH, UH, MR. HILLS AND, UH, COUNCILMAN DELBOSQUE AND LOPEZ WITH REFERENCE TO THE NAMING OF THE STREET THETA HERE IN THE CITY OF GRAND PRAIRIE.
SO I'M REALLY PROUD OF OUR, OUR COMMUNITY.
UH, AS A MEMBER OF THE SCHOOL BOARD IN, UH, SEPTEMBER OF, UH, 2018, WE PASSED A RESOLUTION, UH, HONORING THE LOTES HUERTA AND, AND CESAR CHAVEZ.
AND THE, THE RESOLUTION SAYS THAT THE G-P-I-S-D BOARD OF TRUSTEES ENCOURAGES OUR STUDENTS TO OBSERVE THIS DAY AS A DAY ON AND NOT A DAY OFF.
AND THEY'RE ENCOURAGED TO IMPLEMENT AND PARTICIPATE IN SERVICE LEARNING PROJECTS BASED ON THE LIFE, THE WORK, AND THE VALUES OF THE LOTES HUERTA AND CESAR CHAVEZ.
SO I'M IN FAVOR OF THIS RESOLUTION AND I THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR ALLOWING ME TO BE HERE WITH YOU, YOU THIS EVENING.
THANK YOU FOR WHAT YOU DO FOR OUR COMMUNITY.
NOT ONLY ON THE SCHOOL BOARD, BUT YOU KNOW, WHAT I THINK OF YOU AND WHAT WE THINK OF YOU FOR WHAT YOU DO IN THE COMMUNITY.
THANK YOU SO MUCH AND THANK YOU SO MUCH.
I LIVE AND WORK AND PLAY IN THIS COMMUNITY AND I'M SO PROUD.
YEAH, YOU MOVED YOUR OFFICES HERE.
GOOD, GOOD TO HAVE YOU HERE DOING IT ALL.
GROWING UP WITH FOLKS THAT HAD MOVED UP HERE FROM THE RIO GRANDE VALLEY TO WHY ARE YOU EATING TONIGHT? BECAUSE OF THE UNITED FARM WORKERS WATCHING CAESAR CHAVEZ ON THE HUNTLEY BRINKLEY REPORT AND WALTER CRONKITE.
REMEMBER WHEN THEY DID THE, UH, BOYCOTT THE LETTUCE AND I HAD A FRIEND OF MINE THAT WAS MEXICAN AND EXPLAINED ALL THAT TO ME.
I WOULD ASK THAT YOU WATCH THE 1955 MOVIE GIANT.
THAT IS A CLASSIC WATCH THAT SCENE IN THE MOVIE GIANT ROCK HUDSON TAKES HIS GRANDSON IN TO GET HIM SOME FOOD.
HIS SON, DENNIS HOPPER IN THE MOVIE, THE MOTHER WAS MEXICAN IN THAT LITTLE DINER, YOU'LL SEE IN THE MOVIE THAT HE'S SIMPLY WANTING TO FEED HIS SON.
AND THE BIG OLD WHITE CHEF COOK COMES OUT AND POINTS TO THAT SIGN, NO DOGS AND NO MEXICANS.
WASN'T THAT CHRISTIAN BACK THEN IN 1955.
THE SYMBOLISM OF HOLLYWOOD TO PUT THAT IN THE MOVIE TO SHOW WHAT WAS GOING ON BACK THEN, I WOULD ASK THAT YOU APPROVE THIS BECAUSE WE'RE A MINORITY MAJORITY CITY.
WE'RE A MINORITY MAJORITY STATE, AND OF RECOGNITION OF THE SACRIFICE OF THESE FOLKS THAT BROUGHT US WHERE WE ARE.
AND THIS ALSO SHOWS ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF THOSE EIGHT HORRIBLE IMMIGRANTS IN BALTIMORE, MARYLAND WORKING AT NIGHT FIXING ON THAT BRIDGE.
THE REPUBLICAN PARTY TELLS US THEY'RE POISONING OUR BLOOD.
THEY'RE VERMIN, THEY'RE BAD PEOPLE.
STAND UP TO TRUMP AND THE REPUBLICANS AND APPROVE THIS.
WE HAVE ADDITIONAL CARDS, UH, FOR CITIZENS WHO DO NOT WISH TO SPEAK, BUT WE WILL RECORD YOUR SUPPORT.
THANK YOU ALL FOR COMING AND RECORDING YOUR SUPPORT TONIGHT.
I'D, UH, RECOGNIZE COUNCIL MEMBER MIKE BOSKY.
WE NEED THIS FOR OUR COMMUNITY, FOR GRAND PRAIRIE EARLIER TODAY, UH, ALONG WITH OUR STATE REP, TERRY MESSA, MAYOR PRO TEMP JOHN LOPEZ AND COUNCIL
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MEMBER, UH, UM, JUNIOR ANA.WE WERE AT A FUNCTION, A ROUND TABLE WITH OUR CONGRESSMAN MARK ESE TALKING ABOUT THIS SUBJECT HERE ABOUT IMMIGRANT WORKERS COMING, HOW THEY PLAY A VITAL PART IN OUR COMMUNITY, WHETHER IT'S LOCAL OR AROUND, SUCH AS MR. WILLIS SAYS UP IN BALTIMORE, THE SACRIFICE THEY GIVE AND THEY GAVE FOR A BETTER LIFE FOR US.
MY FATHER, UH, FROM MACLE, UH, COTTON PICKER WORKED THE FIELDS.
UM, SO THAT BEING SAID, I'D LIKE TO, UM, MOVE TO APPROVE AN AMENDMENT TO THE CITY CALENDAR TO ACKNOWLEDGE SUSAR CHAVEZ AND DOLORES HUERTA AS A RECOGNIZED HOLIDAY ON MARCH 31ST, ADDING, UH, AN ADDITIONAL HOLIDAY, BEGINNING THE FISCAL YEAR OF 2025.
WE HAVE A MOTION TO SECOND IT BY COUNCIL MEMBER ADAMS. AND, UH, WE HAD GREAT DISCUSSION ABOUT THIS IN BRIEFING.
SO THIS JUST FOR YOU Y'ALL TO KNOW, UH, WE HAVE 11, OUR OUR EMPLOYEES HAVE 11 HOLIDAYS NOW, AND THIS WOULD ADD A 12TH.
WE HAVE GREAT EMPLOYEES AND, UH, I THINK WE'RE ALL IN FULLY SUPPORT OF THIS.
AND SECOND, ALL IN FAVOR SAY AYE.
MAYOR PRO TEM, UH, LOPEZ, I'D RECOGNIZE YOU FOR THE TABLING OF SOME ITEMS. NO, THANK YOU MAYOR.
AND, AND WHAT WE'VE DONE TONIGHT IS, IS, IS, IS A PERFECT EXAMPLE OF HOW WE ARE AS A CITY.
I MEAN, YOU KNOW, I THINK IT'S, IT'S A GREAT EXAMPLE OF WHO WE ARE.
SO APPRECIATE EVERYBODY'S UNANIMOUS SUPPORT OF THIS ITEM.
I MEAN, SO THANK Y'ALL FOR THAT.
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WE MOVE ON TO THE NEXT SECTION ITEMS FOR, UM, TO TABLE, WHICH IS WE BE ITEMS 26 27, WE'LL MAKE A MOTION THAT WE TABLE, WE HAVE A MOTION AT THE TABLE.ITEMS 26 AND 27 BY MAYOR PRO TIM LOPEZ.
SECOND BY COUNCIL MEMBER HEDEN.
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ITEM 28, SAVANNAH.AND COUNSEL, I'LL BE PRESENTING THE NEXT TWO ITEMS TOGETHER.
CAN WE MOTION THEM TOGETHER? CAN WE VOTE ON IT? YEAH, WE CAN, WE CAN TAKE ACTION ON 'EM TOGETHER.
SO THIS IS FOR THE LOCATION OF A 21 MACARTHUR BOULEVARD.
WE ARE DOING A COMPREHENSIVE PLAN AMENDMENT AND A ZONING CHANGE.
SO THE UH, PROPOSED LOCATION IS OUTLINED IN BLACK.
ON THE SCREEN, YOU CAN SEE THE YELLOW DESIGNATES THE FUTURE LAND USE MAP AS LOW DENSITY RESIDENTIAL.
UH, PORTION OF THE APPLICANT'S PROPERTY IS CURRENTLY ZONE COMMERCIAL AND THEY'RE PROPOSING TO REZONE THE REMAINING PORTION TO COMMERCIAL.
UM, SO THIS, UH, FIRST COMPONENT IS TO AMEND THAT FUTURE LAND USE MAP DESIGNATION FROM LOW DENSITY RESIDENTIAL TO COMMERCIAL RETAIL OFFICE TO ALIGN WITH WHAT THEY'RE PROPOSING.
UH, ON THE SCREEN YOU CAN SEE THE EXISTING ZONING.
AGAIN, I WANTED TO NOTE THAT THE MAJORITY OF THE APPLICANT'S PROPERTY IS ZONED COMMERCIAL.
IT'S THIS YELLOW STRIP RIGHT HERE THAT IS REALLY, UH, DRIVING THIS REQUEST.
SO THE ZONING COMPONENT OF THIS REQUEST IS TO REZONE A PORTION OF THE PROPERTY FROM SINGLE FAMILY.
FOUR MM-HMM
HERE'S THE EXISTING ZONING AGAIN.
UH, THE APPLICANT IS, UH, THE PROPERTY IS CURRENTLY BEING USED AS COMMERCIAL.
AGAIN, THEY'RE JUST WANTING TO REZONE THAT PORTION THAT IS NORTH OF THE CEMETERY TO MATCH THE REMAINDER OF THEIR PROPERTY.
SO THE MAJORITY OF THE SUBJECT PROPERTY IS ALREADY ZONED FOR COMMERCIAL.
UH, AGAIN, WE'RE JUST TALKING ABOUT THAT NARROW STRIP OF YELLOW.
IT'S BEEN HISTORICALLY USED FOR INDUSTRIAL TYPE USES AND WOULD LIKELY NEVER DEVELOP AS A SINGLE FAMILY HOME.
ON MARCH 11TH, THE PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION RECOMMENDED APPROVAL BY A VOTE OF FIVE TO ZERO.
THE, UH, FUTURE LAND USE MAP DOES NOT MATCH WHAT THEY'RE PROPOSING.
HOWEVER, THE REQUEST IS COMMER, UH, IS CONSISTENT WITH THE COMMERCIAL LAND USE NORTH OF THE SUBJECT PROPERTY, AND THE PARTY IS CURRENTLY BEING USED FOR COMMERCIAL USES.
THIS CONCLUDES MY PRESENTATION.
I CAN ANSWER QUESTIONS AT THIS TIME.
ANYBODY HAVE ANY QUESTIONS FOR SAVANNAH? THANK YOU.
AND THEN I ONLY HAVE ONE CARD TO READ INTO THE RECORD.
I GUESS I'M GONNA ASSUME THAT THEY'RE GOING TO DO THE SAME BUSINESS THAT WAS THERE BEFORE.
SO THE IMPETUS BEFORE IS TO APPLY FOR A SPECIFIC USE PERMIT FOR, UM, MINOR AUTO REPAIR.
UM, THEY'RE WANTING TO EXPAND THE BUSINESS AND DO IT A LITTLE BIT MORE INTENSE AT WHAT IS CURRENTLY BEING OPERATED.
UH, THEY COULD CONTINUE TO OPERATE THIS SAME BUSINESS AS A LEGAL NON-CONFORMING
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USE, BUT THEY ARE WANTING TO INTENSIFY IT A LITTLE BIT AND IN THE FUTURE APPLY FOR A SPECIFIC USE PERMIT.SO COUNCIL MEMBER HUMPHREYS, I'M ASSUMING THAT EVEN IF WE PASS THIS, IT DOESN'T, WE'RE NOT TELLING 'EM THEY GET THE SUP THAT WOULD BE A SEPARATE VOTE? YES.
AND SO YOU UNDERSTAND MY THOUGHT AND, UH, NOT AT THE SURFACE NOT LIKING THIS.
THIS, I, I, UM, I WANT HOMES BUILT AND I WANT TO ENCOURAGE MORE HOMES BEING BUILT.
AND, UM, ADDING AN AUTO, AN IARB TO THAT AREA, UM, WOULD NOT GO OVER WELL.
UM, BUT THAT'S MY INITIAL THOUGHTS RIGHT NOW.
SO COUNCIL MEMBER HUMPHREYS, MAYBE I MISUNDERSTOOD.
I THOUGHT THEY'RE OPERATING RIGHT NOW.
THERE'S A BUSINESS, UH, AN A COMMERCIAL BUSINESS OPERATING THERE TODAY AND WE CAN'T SHUT 'EM DOWN.
WELL, THEY'VE, I JUST WANNA MAKE WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE OPERATING IN WHAT IS COMMERCIAL AND OPERATING IN WHAT IS NOT COMMERCIAL? THEY'VE BEEN DOING THE SAME ON BOTH TYPES, BOTH ZONING PROBLEMS. CORRECT.
THERE'S BEEN A, A COMMERCIAL BUSINESS OPERATING IN THE PROPERTY.
WHY ARE THEY ALLOWED TO OPERATE THERE IF THEY'RE NON-CONFORMING? BECAUSE THEY WERE AT ONE POINT ISSUED A PERMIT AND THEY'VE BEEN THERE FOR, FOR DECADES.
SO, SO THE IDEA IS I'M NOT KICKING 'EM OUT, BUT I, I DON'T, I I WANT TO ENCOURAGE LOW DENSITY HOMES BEING BUILT ALONGSIDE THERE.
IT WOULD BE TOUGH FOR ME TO ENCOURAGE.
BUT THEY'VE BEEN THERE FOR A WHILE, HUH? THAT'S A TOUGH ONE, COLE.
'CAUSE EVEN IF WE VOTE NO, SO AERIAL, THEY'RE GONNA, THEY CAN STAY THERE.
AND IF I CORRECT, I, I APOLOGIZE.
CAN YOU REPEAT THAT? EVEN IF WE VOTE NO, THEY CAN STAY THERE.
AND I DO WANNA POINT OUT THAT THE AREA SHOWN IN YELLOW IMMEDIATELY SOUTH AS A CEMETERY, SO THERE WOULD BE NO HOMES THERE BEING DEVELOPED THERE.
SO WE'RE REALLY JUST TALKING ABOUT THIS NARROW STRIP.
THAT'S CURRENTLY BEING USED FOR COMMERCIAL USES.
THAT'S ALL WE'RE TALKING ABOUT.
THEY'RE WANTING TO EXPAND THAT RED TO THAT BLACK LINE AND THE ONLY REASON THEY'RE WANTING TO EXPAND IT SO IT'LL MAKE 'EM LEGAL.
AND THEN THEY CAN APPLY FOR AN SUP.
THE CEMETERY BEING THERE DOES MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN MY THOUGHT.
I, I'M GLAD WE DISCUSSED IT, BUT JUST FOR A POINT OF ORDER, WE APPROVE IT, MAKE SOME LEGAL, NOT NON-CONFORMING ANYMORE, BUT THEY STILL HAVE TO COME TO US TO EXPAND WITH AN SUP, WHICH WE CAN VOTE UP OR DOWN IF WE VOTE THE SUP DOWN, THEY COULD STAY DOING WHAT THEY'RE DOING.
BUT DID THAT CLARIFY EVERYTHING? BUT IF THEY'RE PERFORMING NOW AS AN A RB, ARE, ARE WE THEN, THEN REQUIRING THEM TO GET AN SUP FOR AN A RB
SO WHAT MAKES THEM HERE? THEY CAN'T APPLY FOR THE SUP TO EXPAND UNLESS THEY'RE IN THE, UNLESS THEY COMMERCIAL COME INTO COMPLIANCE FIRST.
THIS IS THAT, THAT'S THEY HAVE TO BE IN COMPLIANCE TO EXPAND.
THEY'RE CLEANING IT UP SO THEY CAN PROCEED WITH THEIR THAT'S EXACTLY RIGHT.
AGAIN, THEY CAN STAY DOING EXACTLY WHAT THEY'RE DOING FOR AS LONG AS THEY WANT TO.
EVEN IF WE DON'T TAKE ANY ACTION.
FOR THEM TO BE LEGAL, THEY HAVE TO GET THIS APPROVAL.
THE SUP WAS WHAT WOULD GIVE THEM THE EXPANSION.
WE HAVE ONE CARD TO READ INTO THE RECORD COUNCIL BEFORE THAT.
UM, SAVANNAH AND STAFF, DO WE HAVE AN IDEA AS TO WHAT THEIR EXPANSION PLANS ARE? ARE THEY CHANGING THEIR BUSINESS MODEL OR ARE THEY JUST EXPANDING, TAKING UP MORE SPACE? SO THE THE SPACE WILL NOT MOVE AT ALL.
THEY WANNA CHANGE WHAT THEY'RE DOING.
SHE SAID YEAH, THEY'RE WANTING TO GO TO A MINOR AUTO REPAIR, WHICH REQUIRES A SPECIFIC TRIGGERS.
AND THE REASON THEY'RE NOT ABLE TO APPLY, APPLY FOR THAT SUP TODAY IS BECAUSE IT'S NOT A NARROW STRIP IS ZONED SINGLE FAMILY.
MIGUEL GURA, HE JUST, HE DOESN'T WILLING TO SPEAK.
YOU'RE JUST THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE.
WHILE I DON'T THINK WE HAVE ANY QUESTIONS FOR YOU, COLE.
I THINK YOU ARE, ARE THE TWO ITEMS ABLE TO BE DONE IN THE MOTION? YES, BUT I HAVE TO, I HAVE TO PAUSE YOU.
I, I WROTE IT DOWN, BUT MEL JUST REMINDED ME THIS IS A PUBLIC HEARING AND EVEN IF YOU HAVE NOT FILLED OUT A CARD, YOU CAN COME SPEAK ON THIS ITEM RIGHT NOW.
UM, SO I JUST WANT TO SAY THAT THE PROPERTY NOW IS, UM, ABOUT THREE, FOUR FEET
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BELOW THE CEMETERY.UM, I'M NOT DOING ANYTHING DIFFERENT.
UM, I DON'T HAVE TO BUILD ANYTHING.
THE CURRENT BUILDING IS STILL THERE.
UM, I THINK WE HAVE A REAL CLEAR UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT YOU'RE TRYING TO DO.
I JUST WANT TO TELL YOU, JUST EVEN IF WE APPROVE THIS TONIGHT, DOESN'T MEAN WE'LL APPROVE THE SUP THAT WILL HAVE TO STAND ON ITS OWN MERITS.
BUT I, I I THINK WE HAVE A CLEAR UNDERSTANDING OF SAVANNAH'S DONE A GREAT JOB EXPLAINING IT TO US.
I MOVE THE APPROVAL OF ITEM 28 AND 29 AS PRESENTED BY STAFF.
SECOND BY DEPUTY MAYOR PRO, TIM CLEMSON.
KEEP OPERATING AND, UH, GET WITH STAFF AND BRING FORTH THE SUP AND WE'LL VOTE IT UP OR DOWN.
[30. TAM-24-02-0003 - Text Amendment - Article 4: Permissible Uses. An Ordinance of the City of Grand Prairie, Texas, Amending Article 4: Permissible Uses of the Unified Development Code to change the listed use TV Station to TV Station/Media Studio and allow it by right in the Central Area zoning district; Repealing all Ordinances or Parts of Ordinances in Conflict Herewith; Containing a Savings Clause and a Severability Clause; and to become effective upon its passage and approval (On March 25, 2024, the Planning and Zoning Commission recommended approval by a vote of 8-0)]
A TEXT AMENDMENT.WE DO HAVE YOU FIRST, THEN I'LL GET TO OKAY.
WHO WANTS TO SPEAK ON IT? THIS IS A TEXT AMENDMENT TO ARTICLE FOUR PERMISSIBLE USES AND THE PURPOSE IS TO CHANGE TV STATION TO TV STATION SLASH MEDIA STUDIO.
REALLY THE, THE PURPOSE OF THIS IS TO HAVE THE USE CATEGORY MORE REFLECTIVE OF TODAY'S INDUSTRY, UH, TO ALLOW DIFFERENT MEDIA TYPES.
UM, SO ON THE SCREEN YOU CAN SEE THE PROPOSED LAND USE CHART.
AGAIN, THE MODIFICATION FROM TV STATION TO TV STATION SLASH MEDIA STUDIO.
WE'RE ALSO PROPOSING TO ALLOW IT BY RIGHT IN THE CENTRAL AREA.
UM, AGAIN, BETTER, UH, ALIGNED THE LAND USE DESIGNATION WITH THE OPERATIONS OF A MEDIA COMPANY.
WE CURRENTLY HAVE A MEDIA COMPANY THAT'S RELOCATING TO DOWNTOWN GRAND PRAIRIE MEDIA.
JUICE STUDIOS IS A FILM AND TELEVISION PRODUCTION STUDIO.
IT'S CURRENTLY BASED IN DALLAS.
YOU CAN SEE THE THINGS THAT THEY SPECIALIZE IN ON THE SCREEN.
UH, THEY HAVE PURCHASED THE PROPERTY AND ARE PROPOSING TO EXPAND AND RELOCATE THEIR PRODUCTION FACILITIES FROM DALLAS TO GRAND PRAIRIE.
UM, SO AGAIN, THIS, UH, LAND USE CATEGORY BETTER REFLECTS THE INDUSTRY, BUT IT ALSO HELPS, UM, UH, UH, MEDIA JUICE RELOCATE TO GRAND PRAIRIE.
AND ON MARCH 25TH, THE PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION RECOMMENDED APPROVAL BY A VOTE OF EIGHT TO ZERO STAFF RECOMMENDS APPROVAL AS WELL.
ANYBODY HAVE ANY QUESTIONS FOR SAVANNAH? GO AHEAD AND READ.
I'D JUST LIKE TO KNOW A LITTLE BIT MORE.
WHO IS MEDIA JUICE AND EXACTLY? IT'S SIX 10.
IS THAT CLOSE TO THE UPTOWN THEATER OR IS IT IT'S FURTHER EAST OF THAT, A LITTLE WEST OF BELTLINE.
THERE'S A CHASE BANK DIRECTLY ACROSS THE STREET.
BE BEFORE YOU GET TO THE BELTLINE BRIDGE.
OH, IS THAT IN THE OLD M AND M ENGINEERING BUILDING? YES.
THEY HAD SOME TV CREWS OUT THERE THE OTHER DAY.
UH, WHO, WHO IS, WHO IS MEDIA JUICE? ARE THEY, WHO ARE THESE FOLKS? ARE THEY, IT IT'S A MEDIA STUDIO COMPANY THAT'S CURRENTLY LOCATED IN DALLAS.
THEY'RE MOVING TO GRAND PRAIRIE AGAIN.
THEY HAVE HAVE DIFFERENT, UH, SPECIALTIES, PROMOTIONAL VIDEOS, DOCUMENTARIES, UH, BEHIND THE SCENES CONTENT.
AGAIN, THEY'RE PURCHASED THE PROPERTY AND ARE IN THE PROCESS OF RELOCATING GREAT LOCATION FOR 'EM.
BASICALLY SQUARE FOOTAGE WISE.
WHAT ARE WE LOOKING AT IN THERE? IN THIS BUILDING? I, I THINK 13 K.
DO WE HAVE ANY IDEA HOW LONG IT WILL TAKE FOR THEM TO CONVERT THIS AND GET INTO PRODUCTION? WHAT I SAW IN OUR TERRAS MEETING TO HELP THEM WITH MO UM, ASBESTOS REMI REMEDIATION WAS THERE'S TWO PHASES.
FIRST PHASE WILL BE MOSTLY OFFICES.
AND THE SECOND PHASE, WE'LL OPEN THAT UP TO A LARGER STUDIO.
WILL THIS COMPANY WORK WITH THE GRAND PRAIRIE SCHOOL DISTRICT ON THEIR AUDIO VISUAL AND DOWN AT DUBISKI TO INCORPORATE THEM TO AGGRESSIVELY PROMOTE THEM WITH THE SCHOOL DISTRICT? THE KIDS WHO AT THE FOOTBALL GAMES AND OTHER EVENTS THAT ARE BROADCASTING CAN'T MANDATE, YOU CAN'T MANDATE THEM TO WORK WITH THEM.
REALLY ENCOURAGE THEM TO HOPEFULLY BE COMMUNITY PARTNERS AND PARTNER.
RASHAD HAS A, AND I DO BELIEVE THEY HAD NOTED THAT THEY INTEND TO DO THAT AS WELL AS OF COURSE EMPLOY, UH, I WANNA SAY NINE, NINE PEOPLE AT A MINIMUM SALARY, 55,000.
SO, UM, IT'S ALL ON TOP OF THAT, YOU KNOW, JUST REHABILITATING THE BUILDING ITSELF, WHETHER THEY GO IN OR NOT.
THERE'S A MACHINE SHOP SHEET METAL SHOP, RIGHT.
I'VE BEEN, I'VE BEEN IN THERE FOR YEARS.
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YES.WE DEFINITELY WANT THEM HERE THOUGH.
'CAUSE I THINK THERE WOULD BE A BENEFIT TO NOT ONLY GRAND PRAIRIE, ISD BUT THE BUSINESSES AS WELL.
'CAUSE THEY CAN DO COMMERCIALS AND THINGS OF THAT NATURE.
I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE THAT THE RELATIONSHIP WITH THE CAREER CENTER AT DUBISKI, THAT THIS IS HAND IN HAND.
THEY'LL BE WORKING IN THE CASE.
THESE KIDS CAN SEE HERE'S A, HERE'S A FUTURE JOB.
THANK YOU SO MUCH WORKING WITH THE SCHOOL DISTRICT.
NO, I ALREADY ASKED FOR THE PUBLIC HEARING.
THAT'S WHEN THE GENTLEMAN CAME FORWARD.
MAYOR, SINCE MEDIA JUICE IS IN DOWNTOWN, I'LL GO AHEAD AND MOVE THE APPROVAL OF ITEM 30.
THIS WAS FOR ITEM 33 THINGS I, I TELL YOU WHAT? OH YEAH.
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SISTER COMMENTS.KATE DMO 43 65 ASHLEY LANE, GRAND PRAIRIE.
I'M HERE TONIGHT TO CALL ON YOU CITY COUNCIL TO PASS A CEASEFIRE RESOLUTION.
TO THAT END, TODAY WE'RE GONNA BE TALKING ABOUT SOMETHING A LITTLE CLOSER TO HOME POSITIONALITY.
FOR REFERENCE, I PAY MY BILLS AS A RELIABILITY ENGINEER.
SO I TELL PEOPLE WHAT ARE THE ODDS THEIR SYSTEM WILL FAIL AND WHAT WE CAN DO TO FIX IT.
I BRING THIS UP BECAUSE IN RELIABILITY ENGINEERING, A COUPLE THINGS ARE UNEXPECTEDLY VERY IMPORTANT, LIMITED IN QUALITATIVE DATA DEFINITIONS AND FEEDBACK LOOPS TO NAME A FEW.
WE'RE GONNA BE TALKING ABOUT ALL THREE.
FIRST, LET'S TALK ABOUT FEEDBACK LOOPS.
THEY CAN TELL YOU WHAT'S IMPORTANT IN A SYSTEM AND IN THIS CASE A CONVERSATION.
AND I'VE RECEIVED TWO PIECES OF FEEDBACK RECENTLY THAT I THINK IS HELPFUL TO BRING HERE TODAY.
THE FIRST IS THAT THE GRAND PRAIRIE CITY COUNCIL DOES NOT HAVE A POSITION ON THE ONGOING GENOCIDE.
THE IAN PALESTINIAN PEOPLE, WHICH HAS CLAIMED OUT FOR 4,000, SORRY, 40,000 LIVES AND HAS KILLED MORE CHILDREN THAN THE LAST FOUR YEARS OF WORLD CONFLICTS.
AND TWO, ASK FOR SOMETHING ACTIONABLE.
WE'LL TALK ABOUT SOMETHING ACTIONABLE AT THE END.
BUT LET'S START WITH THE FIRST PIECE STATING THAT GRAND PRAIRIE CITY COUNCIL DOES NOT HAVE A POSITION, IS COUNTERFACTUAL AND KEEPS US FROM REALLY SEEING REALITY AS IT IS.
THERE ARE TWO WAYS TO DEFINE THE POSITION OF AN INSTITUTION.
FIRST, THE POSITION OF AN INSTITUTION IS AN AVERAGE OR A WEIGHTED AVERAGE OF THE POSITION OF ITS MEMBERS IN POWER.
SO LET'S TALK ABOUT OUR DATA POINTS.
COUNCIL MEMBER IS YANU HAS SIGNED A POSITION CALLING FOR A CEASEFIRE.
MANY OTHERS HAVE SHOWN VARYING LEVELS OF SUPPORT.
ALL OF YOU PAY AT LEAST $25 IN TAXES THAT DIRECTLY FUND THE GENOCIDE, AS DO WE ALL.
AND MAYOR JENSEN IS THE CEO OF CPCA COMPANY THAT SUB CONTRACTS FROM GENERAL DYNAMICS AND LOCKHEED MARTIN.
IMPORTANT TO NOTE IS THAT LOCKHEED MARTIN AND GENERAL DYNAMICS ARE BOTH ACTIVELY BENEFITING FROM THIS CONFLICT AS THE UNITED STATES KEEPS SENDING MISSILES AND BOMBS OVER TO ISRAEL SO THEY CAN KEEP BOMBING CIVILIANS.
AS YOU CAN PROBABLY GUESS, THIS IS FAR FROM NEUTRAL.
EVEN IF EVERY SINGLE ONE OF YOU OFFSET YOUR CONTRIBUTIONS TO THIS ETHNIC CLEANSING, IT WOULD STILL BE PUTTING COUNCIL MEMBERS SIGN A PETITION AGAINST GENOCIDE AGAINST MAYOR RENS.
AN ENTIRE BUSINESS THAT PROFITED FROM GENOCIDE ON A SCALE AS AN AGGREGATION OF ITS PEOPLE, THE GRAND PRAIRIE CITY COUNCIL BENEFITS FROM AND VERY MUCH SUPPORTS THIS ACT OF GENOCIDE.
BUT HOLD ON, KATE, YOU MAY BE THINKING WE HAVE A SECOND DEFINITION, SO LET'S TALK ABOUT THAT ONE.
TWO, THE POSITION OF AN INSTITUTION IS DEFINED BY ITS ACTIONS RELATIVE TO THE ISSUE AT HAND.
GRAND PRAIRIE FEATURES BENEFACTORS OF GENOCIDE RIGHT ON YOUR WEBSITE.
BOTH LOCKHEED MARTIN AND SIEMENS ARE FEATURED HEAVILY AND POSITIVELY.
EVEN SOME MILITARY AND GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS AREN'T COMFORTABLE WITH ISRAEL'S USE OF US FUNDED WEAPONS GOING SO FAR IS TO SEE IF THEY CAN BE D OR REBRANDED.
NOT GRAND PRAIRIE CITY COUNCIL, THOUGH, EVEN IN TIMES OF ETHNIC CLEANSING, THIS BODY STANDS SILENTLY AND RESOLUTELY BESIDE ITS WEAPONS MANUFACTURERS.
BUT THAT'S ANOTHER THING IN ITSELF.
ARCHBISHOP DESMOND TUTY EXPLAINS IT WELL, IF YOU ARE NEUTRAL IN SITUATIONS OF INJUSTICE, YOU HAVE CHOSEN THE SIDE OF THE OPPRESSOR.
IF AN ELEPHANT HAS ITS FOOT ON A TAIL OF THE MOUSE AND YOU SAY THAT YOU ARE NEUTRAL, THE MOUSE WILL NOT APPRECIATE YOUR NEUTRALITY.
THE GRAND PRAIRIE CITY COUNCIL BENEFITS FROM AND STILL SUPPORTS THE GENOCIDE OF THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE.
FOR WHAT IT'S WORTH, I DON'T BRING THIS UP TO BROWBEAT LECTURE, RECOGNIZING REALITY IS IMPORTANT.
MAKING DECISIONS FROM LIES, MISINFORMATION, OR JUST MISUNDERSTANDINGS, BLOWS UP ROCKETS, BREAKS DOWN BRIDGES AND ENDANGERS THE PEOPLE AROUND US.
OH, AND SOMETIMES IT ENDANGERS PEOPLE HALFWAY AROUND THE WORLD.
IT MATTERS WHETHER OR NOT YOU STAND WITH THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE.
IT MATTERS WHETHER YOU STAND AGAINST GENOCIDE.
WE HAVE ESTABLISHED THAT GRAND PRAIRIE CITY COUNCIL HAS A POSITION.
WE HAVE THE DATA, SO WE NEED TO TAKE ACTION.
YOU SHOULD PASS A CEASEFIRE THAT SAID, REMEMBER THAT FEEDBACK FROM EARLIER.
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FEEL THAT YOU AREN'T READY.YOU HAVE WONDERFUL CONSTITUENTS AND COMMUNITY MEMBERS THAT ARE HAPPY TO HELP.
BUT IF YOU'RE NOT THERE YET, I HAVE ANOTHER TOOL TO ADD TO YOUR TOOLBOX.
IT'S A FORM OF ROOT CAUSE ANALYSIS.
BUT ALL THAT MEANS IS THAT IT TAKES A LARGE ISSUE AND BREAKS IT DOWN INTO SOMETHING SPECIFIC, MEANINGFUL AND ACTIONABLE.
YOU START WITH A PROBLEM STATEMENT AND ASK WHY FIVE TO SEVEN TIMES TO GET YOU STARTED.
HERE'S YOUR PROBLEM STATEMENT.
THE GRAND PRAIRIE CITY COUNCIL HAS NOT PASSED A CEASEFIRE RESOLUTION.
I'LL EVEN GIVE YOU YOUR FIRST QUESTION.
WHY HAS THE GRAND PRAIRIE CITY COUNCIL NOT PASSED A CEASEFIRE RESOLUTION? THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME.
I WANNA START OFF WITH, UH, GOT THIS IN THE MAIL, OUR COUPONS, TRINITY BASIN ACADEMY.
WHEN YOU'RE ADVERTISING CHARTER SCHOOLS WITH YOUR SPRING CREEK BARBECUE AND YOUR CAR WASH HOUSTON, YOU GOT A PROBLEM? THESE ARE OUR TAX DOLLARS.
WHAT I WANT TO GET AROUND TO THE GRAND PRAIRIE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE IS SUPPORTING TRINITY BASIN ACADEMY, THE GRAND PRAIRIE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.
I CALL IT THE CHAMBER OF CHARTER SCHOOLS.
ALL OF THESE CHARTER SCHOOLS IN GRAND PRAIRIE.
THERE'S A TIE IN BETWEEN THE CHAMBER AND THE CHARTER SCHOOLS.
THE HARMONY SCHOOL OF INNOVATION.
WHO OWNS THAT? A FOREIGN COUNTRY.
OUR TAX DOLLARS ARE GOING TO A FOREIGN COUNTRY.
HE'S IN PENNSYLVANIA, BUT HARMONY SCHOOLS, CHARTER SCHOOLS TO A FOREIGN COUNTRY RIGHT NOW, THE GRAND PRAIRIE INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT.
I WISH GLORIA WAS HERE RIGHT NOW.
HOW MANY SCHOOLS ARE WE CLOSING IN GRAND PRAIRIE? WHAT ARE WE DOING WITH TEACHERS? WHAT ARE WE DOING? THOSE OF YOU WHO REPRESENT THE ARLINGTON SCHOOL DISTRICT, ARLINGTON IS LAYING OFF 250 TEACHERS CLOSING SCHOOLS.
WHAT ARE THEY DOING IN FORT WORTH? SHUTTING DOWN SCHOOLS.
WHAT ARE THEY DOING IN DENTON? SHUTTING DOWN SCHOOLS.
WHAT DO WE GET FROM THE TRUMP REPUBLICANS? MORE CHARTER SCHOOLS.
AND IT ISN'T JUST A REPUBLICAN ISSUE.
ALSO, THERE IS A AFRICAN AMERICAN BLACK LADY IN SAN ANTONIO.
ALSO, CHARTER SCHOOLS ARE SCAMS. YOU'LL SEE WHAT THEY'RE GONNA DO IN OKLAHOMA.
WE CAN'T LET THE OAKIES BEAT US.
THEY SAID NO TO THESE CHARTER SCHOOLS THAT WOULD BE INVOLVED WITH RELIGIONS.
THIS IS THE ANGER THAT I HAVE AT THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.
I WOULD ASK THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.
NO, DON'T DO A GRAND OPENING FOR TRINITY BASIN ACADEMY.
WHO'S TRINITY BASIN ACADEMY? THAT'S OUR TAX DOLLARS WHEN THEY WERE DOWN HERE A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO AND I CONFRONTED THAT INDIVIDUAL OUT THERE.
WHO'S YOUR FUNDING? WHERE'S THE MONEY COMING FROM? THAT IS NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS, NONE OF YOUR CONCERN.
WE'RE OUT ON HIGHWAY 360 IN OUR LITTLE NICE OFFICE BUILDING, GETTING THE TAXPAYER'S MONEY AND CLOSING PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
I HAVE A LOT OF GRUDGES AGAINST THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE IN 1985.
LEE CORN AND I, WHAT'S THIS GUY WITH AN AFRO AND THE WHITE GUY FROM AVON VILLAGE? TICK, TICK, TICK, TICK, TICK.
NOW MAKE FUN OF LEE ALCORN AND I 60 MINUTES PUBLICLY EXPOSED US.
I BEGGED THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.
WE NEED A FIRE DEPARTMENT PARAMEDIC PROGRAM.
WE DON'T HAVE ENOUGH COPS ON THE STREET.
1989 GRAND PRAIRIE FIRE CHIEF JAMES ROBERTSON.
HE AND HIS WIFE JULIA, 1957 GRADUATES OF GRAND PRAIRIE HIGH SCHOOL.
WE COULDN'T GET AN AMBULANCE TO THE FIRE CHIEF'S FATHER-IN-LAW.
HOW'S THAT FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT? EVERY MAJOR PRINT MEDIA IN THE NEWS, IT WAS ALL THERE.
WELL, WE GOTTA SUPPORT DALLAS-FORT WORTH MEDICAL CENTER.
THAT'S OUR BIGGEST CONTRIBUTOR.
WE DIDN'T HAVE DFW MEDICAL CENTER.
YOU KNOW WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT, MAYOR, BECAUSE WAYNE HANKS WAS ON THAT BOARD.
YOU'VE BEEN ON THAT BOARD AT DFW MEDICAL CENTER.
YOUR INVOLVEMENT WITH THE CHAMBER IS VERY DEEP.
I HAVE NOTHING AGAINST MICHELLE, BUT IN GRAND PRAIRIE, TEXAS POLITICS LIKE COACH KEN MURRAY, BALLROOM DANCING IS A CONTACT SPORT IN GRAND PRIX, TEXAS.
GOING BACK TO MIKE LEWIS, JERRY DEBO, IT'S HELMET TO HELMET, COLLISION SPORT, IT'S TARGETING.
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INTO IT OUT THERE AT LAST COUNCIL MEETING, NOTHING WILL COMPARE.WHEN TOM HART AND I GOT INTO IT AND STEVE DYE WAS GONNA BREAK US UP, WE WERE GONNA PLAY THE FREE BIRDS AND THE VON ERICKS AT TEXAS STADIUM.
BUT I WOULD ASK THAT YOU WHEN WHAT YOU TOLD ME OUT THERE, MAYOR PUT IT IN A PRESS RELEASE.
YOU HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH MICHELLE'S CAMPAIGN.
YOU'RE NOT FINANCING HER WHEN YOU GOT IN MY FACE.
PUT THAT IN THE PRESS RELEASE AND LET US KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON.
THAT'S THE LEAST YOU CAN DO AND THERE'S JUST TOO MUCH CONFLICT OF INTEREST FROM THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE IN THIS COUNCIL.