* This transcript was created by voice-to-text technology. The transcript has not been edited for errors or omissions, it is for reference only and is not the official minutes of the meeting. [00:00:18] SO THEY DON'T, AND LAWNMOWERS ARE LIKE, OH MY GOD. LIKE YOUNG MAN. YOU SEE HIM ON TV? YES, EXACTLY. WELL, HE, HE PLAYS WITH THE MEN HERE. LIKE HE PLAYED IN THE OPEN DIVISION AND SHOOTING. GREAT. LIKE, HE WENT YESTERDAY HERE TO THE PARK AND HE GOT A HOLD THAT I GET LIKE IN FOUR, FIVE. HE GOT IT AT TWO. WOW. JUST, I MEAN, HE REVVED IT OUT THERE AND ON THE OTHER DOORS, I'M LIKE, OH MY GOSH, HE'S BURNING. YOU KNOW, I USED TO, WHEN I WAS IN PRE MILITARY ACADEMY FIRST TIME, AND OUR CLUB HAD RESPONSIBILITY FOR THAT PARK. HE ADOPTED A SPOT PROGRAM AND THE COURSE WAS, THAT WOULD'VE BEEN 10 YEARS AGO. THE COURSE PRETTY GOOD SHAPE. IS IT HOLDING UP? I MEAN, ALL THE STUFF. NO, IT WAS DIFFERENT FROM 10 YEARS, 2009. I FOUND FOOTAGE, YOU KNOW, AROUND THE PARKING LOT AND AROUND. I REMEMBER THAT ALLIGATOR, ALLIGATOR. WE LOOK FORWARD TO HEARING WHAT Y'ALL GOT. WE CAN MAKE IT HAPPEN. GOOD LUCK, MY SON. BE AN AUTOGRAPH WHEN YOU WORK FAMOUS. OH, YEAH. IT WASN'T READY FOR, [00:10:07] YOU [00:10:07] KNOW, I, SO I CALLED LIKE I TALKED TO THE KID AND HE'S LIKE, WHY IS SHE BOTHERING ANYBODY? BECAUSE I MEAN, WE'VE GOT, ALL RIGHT. GOOD AFTERNOON EVERYONE, AND WELCOME TO THERE WAS, YEP. IT'S WORKING A WHILE AGO. THERE YOU GO. IF YOU STOP ME, TELL HER. CALL ME. COME SEE ME. COOL. ALRIGHT. THERE WE GO. SORRY ABOUT THAT. TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES. WELCOME EVERYONE TO THE HARLINGEN CITY COMMISSION MEETING. THE TIME IS NOW 5:36 PM WE'LL CALL THIS MEETING TO ORDER. IT HAS BEEN POSTED, UM, AS REQUIRED BY STATE LAW. WE HAVE A QUORUM OF THE COMMISSION AS EVERYONE IS PRESENT, IF YOU WILL PLEASE STAND SO WE CAN BEGIN WITH THE INVOCATION. DEAR LORD, THANK YOU FOR ALLOWING US TO BE HERE TOGETHER TO DO THE WORK OF OUR COMMUNITY. I ASK THAT YOU GUIDE US. HELP US MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE MAKING THE DECISIONS THAT ARE BEST SERVING THE ENTIRE COMMUNITY AND NOT JUST ONE INDIVIDUAL, UH, PERSON. SO, THANK YOU AND WE, AND GUIDE US IN MAKING SURE THAT WE MAKE THOSE RIGHT DECISIONS. IN JESUS NAME, AMEN. AMEN. AMEN. NOWLEDGE I'D THE ALL REGION TO THE FLAG OF UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND TO THE REPUBLIC FOR WHICH IT STANDS. ONE NATION UNDER GOD, INDIVISIBLE, LIBERTY TO THE I JUSTICE FOR ALL UNDER STATE LAW. A CONFLICT OF INTEREST EXISTS OF A COUNCIL MEMBER OR CERTAIN MEMBERS OF THAT PERSON'S FAMILY HAS A QUALIFYING FINANCIAL INTEREST IN AN AGENDA ITEM. MEMBERS WITH A CONFLICT OF INTEREST CANNOT PARTICIPATE IN THE DISCUSSION NOR VOTE ON THE AGENDA ITEM. ARE THERE ANY KNOWN CONFLICTS OF INTEREST TO DISCLOSE AT THIS TIME? NONE. NONE. NONE. NOPE. NONE. NONE. ALRIGHT. AND NOW WE WILL MOVE TO CITIZEN COMMUNICATION. COMMUNICATION. AT THIS TIME, THE PUBLIC IS ADVISED TO ADDRESS THE CITY COMMISSION ON ANY MATTER, NOT SPECIFICALLY LISTED FOR PUBLIC HEARING ELSEWHERE IN THIS AGENDA. PLEASE NOTE THAT THE CITY COMMISSION MEMBERS MAY NOT RESPOND TO COMMENTS OR DELIBERATE ON TOPICS ADDRESSED. MAYOR, WE HAVE FIVE CITIZENS THAT SIGNED UP, ALTHOUGH THEY ARE PERTAINING TO, UH, PUBLIC HEARING ITEM NUMBER THREE. SO WE WILL NAME, NAME THEM AT THAT TIME. OKAY. AND SO FOR THOSE OF YOU THAT HAVE SIGNED UP, WE DO HAVE YOU HERE AND THERE ARE FIVE INDIVIDUALS, ANYONE THAT SIGNED UP THAT WISHES TO SPEAK. NOW, UM, INSTEAD OF AT THE PUBLIC HEARING, PLEASE RAISE YOUR HAND. NOPE. ALRIGHT, WELL THEN WE'LL MOVE RIGHT ALONG. MOVING ON. OKAY. ITEM NUMBER ONE, PRESENTATION BY THE PARKS AND RECREATION DEPARTMENT STAFF ON PARKS PROJECTS. YES. GOOD EVENING, MAYOR CITY COMMISSION. UM, I'M GONNA GO THROUGH A, A QUICK PRESENTATION, UM, THAT WE CREATED BASED ON THE LAST MEETING THAT WE HAD, OR WORKSHOP THAT WE HAD. UM, I KNOW SOME OF THE, THE INFORMATION THAT Y'ALL WERE, WERE ASKING FOR WAS, UH, THE USERS OR THE, THE, UM, THE PEOPLE WITHIN A, UM, CERTAIN RADIUS OF THE PARKS. AND SO THIS TABLE HERE, UM, SHOWS THAT, AND SO WHAT, UM, WHAT ANA DID WAS SHE, SHE, UH, RANKED THEM OR, OR SHE CATEGORIZED THEM BASED ON, YOU KNOW, HIGHEST TO LOWEST. UH, AS FAR AS POPULATION WISE, UH, SO PENDLETON HAS THE HIGHEST NUMBER OF PEOPLE, UH, WITHIN A 10 MILE WALK, WHICH IS A HALF A MILE FROM THAT PARK. UM, AND THEN YOU GO DOWN TO CITY LAKE, UM, WITH 3,600 CB WOOD, 3000, AND THEN TRAVIS, 2,800, UM, AND THEN A ROYAL PARK 2,800. AND THEN BONHAM 28 15. [00:15:02] UM, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE, THAT SHE DID, SHE PULLED UP THIS INFORMATION. SO THIS IS A, A EXHIBIT OF, UH, WHERE SHE GOT THE DATA FROM. AND SO, UM, THAT GREEN AREA IS THE PARK, AND THEN THE YELLOW AREA IS, IS THE, UM, THE 10 MINUTE OR THE, THE FIVE, THE HALF A MILE. UM, AND THEN THERE'S A BREAKDOWN HERE, UH, DETAILED BREAKDOWN AS FAR AS THE CHILDREN, ADULTS, AND SENIORS. UM, AND THEN THEIR INCOME. UM, AND SO WE HAVE THIS FOR ALL THE, THE PARKS THAT WE IDENTIFIED IN THE LAST, UH, WORKSHOP THAT WE PRESENTED. UM, I'M NOT SURE THERE'S ANY OF 'EM THAT Y'ALL WOULD WANT TO GO, UH, THROUGH IN DETAIL. , UM, WE GOT CITY LAKE, UM, AND I'M JUST GONNA GO THROUGH 'EM. DO YOU ALL Y'ALL HAVE A, A, UH, COPY OF THIS IN FRONT OF YOU? UM, BUT I WANTED TO KIND OF GO DOWN, UM, WHICH IS, I THINK THE INFORMATION THAT WE WANT TO KIND OF ADDRESS TONIGHT. SO, UM, THESE ARE ONE OF THE THINGS THAT, THAT, UH, I BELIEVE THE MAYOR ASKED FOR IS, UM, WHAT PROJECTS HAVE WE COMPLETED FROM THE PARK MASTER PLAN, UH, 2015 MASTER PLAN. AND SO THIS TABLE HERE SHOWS THAT. AND SO OFF ON THE FAR RIGHT HAND CORNER ARE THE PROJECTS THAT WE HAVE COMPLETED, UM, BASED ON, ON, UM, OR WITHIN CERTAIN PARKS, RIGHT? SO BONUM, FOR EXAMPLE, UH, WE'VE ALREADY COMPLETED ADDITIONAL PARKING. UM, THE, UM, THERE'S TWO IN FOR SOME REASON. OKAY, WE GOT THE IRRIGATION. AND THEN, UM, LET'S SEE, WHAT ELSE DID WE DONE? WE DID THE, THE, THE, UH, PLAYGROUND AS WELL. UM, AND THEN WE ADDED EXERCISE EQUIPMENT ALONG THE, THE 25TH STREET HIKING AND BIKE TRAIL. UM, CB WOOD, UH, WE ADDED IRRIGATION AND WE ALSO, UM, ADDED A PLAYGROUND, UH, STRUCTURE THERE. UM, AND THEN WE GO DOWN TO GUTIERREZ. UM, WE DID INSTALL SOME LIGHTING THERE AND THE TREES, AND SO THAT'S PARTIAL. UM, WE DID HAVE A IRRIGATION SYSTEM THAT'S ALSO INSTALLED AT, AT RE UH, HUNTER, OF COURSE, WE'VE, UH, REPLACED THE PLAYGROUND, UH, REPLACED THE PICNIC, UH, PAVILION. UH, WE ADDED A DRINKING FOUNTAIN AND THEN IRRIGATION ON THAT ONE. UH, LON HILL, OF COURSE, WE CONSTRUCTED IT ALL INCLUSIVE PLAY AREA. UM, WE ADDED VOLLEYBALL COURTS. UM, AND THEN WE ADDED THE LARGE PAVILION AND THEN THE, UM, THE WALKING TRAIL, UM, MOVING ON TO MCKELVY. UM, WE RENOVATED THE ELECTRICAL SERVICE THERE FOR SPECIAL EVENTS. UM, AND THEN WE ALSO ADDED, UH, EXERCISE EQUIPMENT, UH, TO COMPLEMENT THE TRAIL ON PENDLETON. UH, WE'VE A, UH, EXTENDED THE TRAIL, UM, THERE AT PENDLETON, UH, WHICH IS THE, UM, UM, I FORGET THE NAME OF THAT. WE CALL IT THE, UM, HARINGTON HOMETOWN HEROES TRAIL. UM, AND THEN WE ADDED THE LIGHTED BASKETBALL COURT. UM, AND THEN, UH, THE, UH, THE TENNIS, UH, WE ADDED THE, UH, PRO SHOP, UM, RANGER. UM, WE, WE DID UPGRADE, UM, THE PAVILION. UH, WE ADDED A, A NEW PAVILION THERE, UH, A FEW YEARS BACK. UM, AND THEN HARINGTON SOCCER, UH, WE'VE IMPROVED THE WALKING TRAIL, UM, PARTIALLY. AND THEN, SO, UM, I SEE TOM WILSON NELSON VEST. UH, WE'VE ADDED, UM, THE PARKING LOT. WE'VE ADDED SOME OR IMPROVED THE PARKING LOT. UM, WE'VE ADDED BLEACHERS. UM, AND THEN FOR THE PLAYERS. AND THEN, UH, WHAT ELSE? WE'VE ADDED THE PLAYGROUND WITH SURFACING. UM, AND THEN VICTOR, ALL THESE ITEMS ARE FROM WHAT WE'RE, WHAT WE'VE APPLIED FOR IN THE, IN THE, UH, THE LAST GRANT FROM TEXAS PARKS AND WILDLIFE. UH, SO IT'S ADDRESSING ALMOST ALL OF THOSE ITEMS. AND THEN WINDSOR, UM, WE HAVE REPLACED THE, THE SURFACING AT THE, UH, FOR THE PLAYGROUND. WE RENOVATED THAT PLAYGROUND. UM, IT WAS AN OLDER ONE, AND WE, WE DID GET, UH, CDBG FUNDING FOR THAT. UM, AND WE DO HAVE, UH, IRRIGATION SYSTEM THERE. IT'S NOT FROM, UM, HARING AND WATERWORKS, BUT IT'S FROM, UH, IT'S DOMESTIC WATER FROM THE HARINGTON. UH, I MEAN, I'M SORRY, IT'S NOT THE CANAL WATER. IT'S FROM, UH, HUNTINGTON WATERWORKS. UM, AND THEN, UH, WE DID CONSTRUCT ONE PICNIC PAVILION. UM, THERE, HERE IT SHOWS TWO, UM, BUT WE ONLY, WE ONLY BUILT ONE. UM, AND SO I'M GONNA MOVE ON TO, UM, WHAT STAFF RECOMMENDED, UM, [00:20:01] FOR, FOR US TO CONSIDER TO APPLY TO TEXAS PARKS AND WILDLIFE. AND THIS IS BASED ON, UM, THE, UM, THE AMOUNT OF PEOPLE WITHIN THE AREA AND ALSO, UH, WHAT WE FEEL, UH, IS A, IS A GOOD PROJECT AND WE GET MOST POINTS FOR. UH, SO THE FIRST ONE WE HAVE, AND THEY'RE NOT IN ANY PARTICULAR ORDER, UM, CB WOOD. UH, AND THESE ARE THE ITEMS THAT WE, WE CAME UP WITH, UH, IS EXTENDING THE LOOP TRAIL, UH, TO CONNECT TO THE EXISTING, UH, HIKE AND BIKE TRAIL, UH, AT A BASKETBALL COURT. UH, ADD SENSORY PLAY EQUIPMENT, UH, BIRD BLINDS. JAVITA, IF I COULD JUST INTERRUPT REAL QUICK. YES, SIR. JUST FOR A MINUTE. UH, THE PROJECTS THAT JAVIER'S GONNA GO OVER, UM, WITH THIS PART OF THE PRESENTATION ARE IMPORTANT BECAUSE WE HAVE AN ACTION ITEM LATER AND A PUBLIC HEARING TO ACTUALLY GET A RECOMMENDATION FROM THE COMMISSION AS TO WHAT PARKS TO APPLY FOR. SO JUST AS AN FYI. SO, UM, I DON'T DUNNO IF YOU WANT ME TO GO THROUGH EACH ONE OF THOSE. UM, BUT IT'S, AGAIN, THE, THE GRANT, UM, WE'RE APPLYING FOR, UM, IS, IS MAINLY, UM, ADDRESSING RECREATION, UH, ELEMENTS. AND SO IT'S VERY IMPORTANT THAT WE DO THAT. AND SO, UM, WHEN SPEAKING, WHEN WE HAD THE TRAINING, UH, ABOUT TWO MONTHS AGO WITH TEXAS PARKS AND WILDLIFE, UH, WE MENTIONED THE CB WOOD AND WE MENTIONED A ROYAL PARK. AND THOSE TWO PROJECTS, UH, THEY REALLY LIKED A LOT BECAUSE ONE, IT WAS, IT WAS, UM, WE WERE CONNECTING TO A WATER RESOURCE OR NATURAL RESOURCE, WHICH IS THE ARROYO TO AN EXISTING TRAIL THAT THAT TRAIL CONNECTS SEVERAL PARKS TO. UM, AND SO THEY REALLY LIKED US CONSIDERING THOSE TWO. UM, BUT SO ANYWAY, THESE, THESE ITEMS HERE, UM, IF WE ADD THESE, WE WILL GET POINTS. UM, AND SO OF COURSE THE PARKING LOT EXTENSION RESTROOMS, THERE'S NO RESTROOMS AT CB WOOD. UM, DIRECTIONAL WAY, FINDING SIGNS, UH, HYDRATION STATION AND IN ENLARGED PAVILION. UM, AND THEN AGAIN, ADDITIONAL ACCESS TO THE HIKE AND BIKE TRAIL. UM, SECOND ONE WE GOT IS A ROYAL PARK. UM, AND THIS IS ALSO ADDING, UM, IMPROVING THE, UM, ACCESSIBILITY TO THE, UM, A ROYAL HIKE BIKE TRAIL, UH, ADDING BACKSTOPS, RENOVATING THE BASKETBALL COURT, UM, RENOVATING THE EXISTING PLAYGROUND, UH, ADDING, ADDING A CHALLENGE COURSE FOR THE YOUTH. UM, A COVERED A LARGE COVERED PICNIC PION, UH, AUTOMATED IRRIGATION SYSTEM, UH, HYDRATION STATION, UH, SPORTS LIGHTING FOR FIELDS, UH, TWO, AND I MEAN THREE AND FOUR. UH, THERE ARE SOFTBALL FIELDS THAT WE HAVE OUT THERE. UM, AND THEN ADD COVERED BLEACHERS FOR THE, FOR THE, UM, FOUR ATHLETIC FIELDS. ADD PARKING, UM, HYDRATION STATION AND A BIKE REPAIR STATION. AND THEN, UH, BIRD BLINDS. THIS ONE, UH, WE'VE COME UP WITH AN ESTIMATE OF 945,759. YES. GOING BACK, UH, IF WE CAN GO BACK 13, WHAT IS THAT? UM, WHAT THEY ARE IS THEY'RE, UM, THEY'RE PEDESTALS AND THEY HAVE DIFFERENT TOOLS ON 'EM. UH, YOU EITHER CAN AIR UP YOUR BIKE OR YOU CAN CHANGE A TIRE. UM, AND, UM, SEVERAL TRAILS AROUND, UM, THE STATE, OF COURSE. UH, BUT OTHER CITIES HAVE 'EM ON THEIR TRAILS, I THINK. I THINK BRASWELL HAS SOME COMMISSIONER. YEAH, I'VE NEVER HEARD OF 'EM. THAT'S AWESOME. AND GOING BACK, UH, TO SLIDE ONE, PLEASE. UH, IF YOU LOOK AT NUMBER TWO, WILL THAT BE LIT? YES. COOL. YEAH. THANK YOU. AND THEN VISTA PARK, WE HAVE, UM, A WALKING TRAIL, UH, SPLASH PAD, UH, BASKETBALL COURT, THE, UM, SHADE FOR THE BLEACHERS, UH, AND THEN A MONUMENT SIGN FOR THE ENTRANCE. AND THEN, UH, EXTEND THE, THE, UH, PARKING LOT. AND THAT ONE HAS A COST OF 753,709. UH, YEAH. MONUMENT SIGN IS NOT THE $250,000 ONE, RIGHT? NO, SIR. AND I'LL SHOW YOU . NO, AND I'LL, I'LL SHOW YOU. I HAVE IT. I DON'T THINK I HAVE IT ON THIS PRESENTATION, BUT I HAVE IT ON THE OTHER, UM, YOU'RE SCARING OUR AUDIENCE. . UM, SO, UH, GUTIERREZ PART, UM, WE WANTED TO, UM, REVITALIZE THAT ONE. AND, UM, SOME OF THE IDEAS THAT WE HAD WAS ADDING A PICKLEBALL COURT, UM, WALKING TRAILS OR PATHS, UH, A WATER FEATURE, [00:25:01] SOMETHING SIMILAR TO CY HILL. UM, A, UM, COMMUNITY GARDEN OR BUTTERFLY GARDEN, UH, SHADED PICNIC AREAS. UH, A UH, PERMANENT STAGE, A, UH, PUBLIC ART AREA, UH, LIGHTING AND ACCENT LIGHTING, UH, LIKE FOR THE TREES AND WHERE WE CAN DO SIMILAR TO WHAT WE DID AT, UM, UH, MCKELVY PARK. UM, AND THEN WE'D ADD LAND, UH, NATIVE LANDSCAPING RESTROOMS. UM, AND THEN A CURB EXTENSION. UH, THAT ONE, UM, THE, OUR ESTIMATED COST IS 1 MILLION, 180 4 500. WHEN YOU LOOK AT NUMBER 12, I PAUSE REAL QUICK. WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY CURB EXTENSION? IT FULLY CURVED, I'M GONNA HAVE TO DEFER TO LUIS ON THAT ONE. CURB EXTENSION. SO I, I THINK IT WAS EXTENDING THE CURB AND THAT'S WHAT THE PROPOSED, UH, THAT'S WHAT WAS PROPOSED. UH, OR IT MAY BE THE, THE COURT, THE, THE CURB STOP FOR THE CARS. UH, UM, I, I WASN'T VERY SURE WHAT WHAT THAT WAS, UH, FOR EITHER, UM, THAT I DIDN'T PROPOSE IT, WAS IT MAYBE TO, LIKE, IF WE WERE TO CLOSE THE STREETS, YOU KNOW, WE'RE TALKING ABOUT CLOSING THE STREETS. YEAH. IS THAT WHAT THAT IS? OKAY. SO WHEN WE WERE, WHEN WE WERE TALKING ABOUT THIS, UM, THE IDEA WAS TO DO THE, THE PARKING THAT SLIDE PARKING ALONG THE, UH, THE OPPOSITE SIDE. 'CAUSE THERE'S SOME IN THE BACK ALREADY, RIGHT? SO IS THAT WHAT THAT'S FOR? MAYBE COULD BE. OKAY. WELL, BECAUSE THEN THE COST ISN'T GOING TO BE, UH, WELL, BECAUSE, AND IT'S IMPORTANT TO KNOW, BECAUSE WE TALKED ABOUT AT THE LAST MEETING THAT WE WANNA TACKLE THE PROJECTS THAT ARE THE MOST COSTLY. SO HAVING ALL OF THE ITEMS ON THERE, DO YOU KNOW, THEY'RE BASICALLY, YES. THEY'RE BASICALLY, SO WHAT WE PROPOSING IS THE CURB EXTENSIONS ARE LIKE BUMP OUTS AT THE INTERSECTIONS, AND THAT'S JUST TO EXTEND THE, THE FOOTPRINT OF THE PARK. AND SO IT ALSO MAKES THE INTERSECTION SAFER. AND, UM, AND IT WOULD ALLOW US TO ACTUALLY DO THE ANGLE PARKING ON CERTAIN STREETS. AND THEN WE WOULD HAVE TO HAVE THAT COST IN HERE TOO, RIGHT? FOR THE ANGLE PARKING THAT'S NOT IN HERE IS IT IS NOT IN THERE. BUT YEAH, I DON'T THINK IT WOULD BE, UM, A HUGE EXPENSE FOR, OH, YEAH. WELL, SO IF YOU WERE TO THINK, AND I DON'T KNOW IF ANY OF YOU GUYS HAVE BEEN THERE RECENTLY, ROBERT, WHERE IN PORT ISABELLE, WHERE THEY HAVE THE LIGHT TOWER OR THE, THE LIGHTHOUSE? MM-HMM. THEY HAVE. IS THAT WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT? THOSE THINGS RIGHT THERE ON BOTH SIDES OF IT? ARE THEY LIKE BOLLARDS? IS THAT WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT HERE? I CAN SHOW YOU A PICTURE OF IT ON GOOGLE MAPS. YEAH, GOOGLE. OR IT MIGHT BE BETTER TO SHOW THEM, RIGHT? LIKE RIGHT WHEN YOU GET OFF THE CAUSEWAY, THEY HAVE THE DISTILLERY TO THE RIGHT, BUT THERE'S, IT'S THIS LIKE EXTENDED CURB THERE. OH, WE HAVE THAT ON JACKSON, DON'T WE? ISN'T THE SAME THING WE HAVE IN JACKSON. UM, THAT'S NOT BLOCKING TRAFFIC. . MY VAN WHITE'S THE BEST I CAN DO, GUYS, WITH THE LITTLE SCREEN I HAVE. KEEP YOUR DAY JOB COMMISSIONER. THANK YOU, MA'AM. APPRECIATE THE LOVE. I, I ASSUME THERE'S A MODIFICATION TO THE CURB, BUT, BUT NOT TO, TO A CERTAIN EXTENT. UM, WELL, THANK YOU ANNA . UM, WE'LL FIGURE I, SO I'M ASSUMING THAT IT'S AN PART OF THAT THEN, RIGHT? THE PARKING. THIS IS WHAT I, BECAUSE I, I REMEMBER YOU MENTIONED WHEN WE TALKED ABOUT POSSIBLY, YOU KNOW, DEPENDING ON WHAT WE HAVE THERE, RIGHT? IF WE HAVE FOOD TRUCKS, WE WOULD CLOSE OFF THE STREETS TEMPORARILY. MM-HMM. . UM, THOSE ARE THE STREETS THAT RUN, UH, NORTH AND SOUTH. MM-HMM. , WOULD YOU, WOULD THAT BE PERMANENT OR JUST TEMPORARY? TEMPORARY. OKAY. JUST DURING THE VISIT, IT PROBABLY WOULDN'T BE THAT COMMISSIONER. RIGHT. I THINK THAT, THAT WHAT THE COMMISSION HAD MENTIONED, UH, IF I REMEMBER, WAS YOU, DANIEL, ABOUT CLOSING IT PERMANENTLY, CORRECT. THE STREET. YEAH. IF WE, IF THE, WE'D HAVE TO GET PUBLIC INPUT RIGHT. FROM THE BUSINESS OWNERS AND THE PROPERTY OWNERS DOWN THERE. BUT THE THOUGHT WAS, IT'S D AND EI THINK ARE THE TWO MM-HMM. . MM-HMM. STREETS. SO, BUT THAT WOULD EXTEND ALL THE WAY ACROSS THE STREET, CORRECT? CORRECT. BUT THAT'S WHY I WAS WONDERING WHAT THAT WAS. WE, WE CAN ALSO DO BOLLARDS AND THEY WON'T BE AS EXPENSIVE AS THAT. YEAH. WHATEVER YOU, BUT I WOULD LIKE TO MAYBE GRASS, WHATEVER WE CAN GET TO IT LATER. WELL THEN DO YOU NEED TO DO THAT? THERE'S, WHAT HE WAS TALKING ABOUT IS LIKE AN ISLAND, BUT EXTENDING ALL THE WAY ACROSS ONE SIDEWALK TO THE OTHER. MM. SO IT BLOCKS TRAFFIC. IT'S GOT THE CURB GUTTER. MM-HMM. . BUT IT'S ALSO GOT A GREEN AREA THAT YOU CAN PLANT, RIGHT? YEAH. SOMETHING LIKE THAT. SO I KNOW THAT, UM, LIKE FOR EXAMPLE, AT LONGE HILL, WE'D HAVE THESE, AND EVEN AT MCKELVY THERE ARE THESE BALLARDS THAT YOU LAY DOWN. UH, LET'S SAY IF YOU DO NEED TO USE IT FOR WHATEVER REASON OR ACCESS IT, UM, YOU PULL OUT A PEN AND YOU LAY IT DOWN AND YOU JUST LOCK IT. UM, BUT, UM, SO WHEN [00:30:01] WE PREPARED THIS, THIS WAS BEFORE OUR CONVERSATION WITH, WITH, UH, TEXAS PARKS AND WILDLIFE. WE DID GET A CALL BACK THIS AFTERNOON. AND SO A COUPLE OF ITEMS THAT SHE WAS RECOMMENDING THAT WE DO NOT INCLUDE IN THE APPLICATION WAS THE COMMUNITY GARDEN AND BUTTERFLY GARDEN. UM, AND SO, UH, THEN THEY TALKED ABOUT THE LIGHTING. OF COURSE IT NEEDS TO BE, UM, SUSTAINABLE. SO THEY'RE SUGGESTING LED OR, OR, UM, SOLAR LIGHTS. UM, AND THEN THEY WERE, THEY WERE RECOMMENDING THAT WE DO INCLUDE NATIVE LANDSCAPING, UM, AND THE, UM, WATER FEATURE. SO IF IT'S A SPLASH PARK, THEY'RE REALLY RECOMMENDING THAT PLUS A PICKLEBALL COURT. AND ALL OF THAT CAN BE DONE AT GURES PARK. UM, I THINK IF WE DESIGN IT RIGHT, WE COULD, BECAUSE IT'S TWO ACRES, RIGHT? RIGHT. IT'S TWO AND A HALF ACRES. SO, UM, THE ONLY THING I DON'T SEE ON HERE IS WE TALKED ABOUT, UH, SAND VOLLEYBALL COURT, MAYBE INSTEAD OF THE COMMUNITY GARDEN. MM-HMM. WE COULD, SO I KNOW THAT, UH, I THINK ON OUR, I ESTIMATE WE INCLUDED IT WITH, UH, THE PICKLEBALL COURT. SO IT WAS PICKLEBALL SLASH UM, SO TWO VOLLEYBALL, AT LEAST LIKE TWO PICKLEBALL COURTS, AND YES, MA'AM. TWO SAND VOLLEYBALL. IS THAT POSSIBLE? WELL, I DON'T KNOW IF WE CAN FIT TWO OR ONE OF EACH, RIGHT? YEAH. I'M SHOULD SAY THAT BARRY DOESN'T SEEM THAT BIG TO ME. ONE, ONE OF EACH? YEAH. OKAY. BECAUSE WE HAVE TWO AT, UH, CY HILL, TWO VOLLEYBALL COURTS. SO I WAS GONNA ASK THAT BECAUSE I, UM, I KNOW THAT, SO I, I, UM, I, I SHARED ON SOCIAL MEDIA A POTENTIAL OF MAYBE WE CAN DO A REC CENTER AND TALKING ABOUT DIFFERENT THINGS. AND, UM, THERE WAS SOME, SOME COMMENTS ABOUT NOT HAVING ANY VOLLEYBALL COURTS IN HARLAN. AND I REMEMBER YOU MENTIONING THAT WE DO. SO THE ONES IN CY HILL ARE, ARE THEY HIDDEN? I CAN'T EVEN THINK OF WHERE THEY'RE AT. THEY'RE, THEY'RE RIGHT NEXT TO THE, THE LON HILL POOL. OKAY. WHAT IT HAS IS WE HAVE THIS WINDSCREEN THAT'S WRAPPED AROUND IT UHHUH, SO YOU CAN'T REALLY SEE IT. OKAY. UM, BUT THAT'S, THAT'S WHERE WE HAD THE SAND VOLLEYBALL CORD. AND THEY'RE ACCESSIBLE TO THE PUBLIC. YES, MA'AM. OKAY. UM, ALL RIGHT. SO DO YOU, BASED ON THE ADDITIONAL ITEMS, HOW MUCH, HOW, WHAT WOULD THAT NUMBER LOOK LIKE IN TERMS OF THE TOTAL COST, LIKE FOR THE, THE PARKING AND THEN THE GREEN SPACE? UH, IF CLOSING THE STREET, YOU SAID YOU WANTED TO BE THEM TO HAVE LIKE A LITTLE COURTYARD AREA, RIGHT? THE BUSINESS IS, YEAH. MY THOUGHT WOULD BE TO, IF WE, IF WE WERE TO GET APPROVED FROM THE PUBLIC, STRETCH OUT, THAT CURB THE SIDEWALK A LITTLE FURTHER. SO NOW THEY HAVE LIKE, UH, LIKE A BISTRO LIKE TYPE OF SEATING. MM-HMM. . AND THEN THE REST OF IT, TURN IT INTO GREEN SPACE SO THAT WE COULD ADD MORE PICKLEBALL COURTS OR WHATEVER. MM-HMM. , I, I'VE GOT A QUESTION. UH, AGAIN, IT'S A POLICE QUESTION, BUT THE CHIEF ISN'T HERE TO ANSWER IT. IS, UH, GUTIERREZ PARK, UH, STILL A, UM, A CRIME PLACE, MEANING PROSTITUTES? I MOVED HERE IN 81 AND I WAS TOLD THIS WAS ALL PROSTITUTES. AND IN THE PAPER OVER THE DECADES, LOTS OF ARRESTS THERE. WELL, I THINK THAT'S THE REASON, THAT'S SOME OF THE REASON WHY WE WANNA DO THESE IMPROVEMENTS. 'CAUSE WE WANT TO KIND OF DRIVE THAT, THOSE TYPE OF ACTIVITIES OUT FROM THE PARK. WE HAVE A BIGGER ISSUE WITH HOMELESS THERE, NTS. UM, THE POLICE DEPARTMENT HAS HAD QUITE A FEW STINGS FOR PROSTITUTION, SO THAT'S GONE DOWN. UM, BUT AGAIN, UM, THE HOMELESS POPULATION HAS BEEN AN ISSUE THERE. AND I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT AS A, AS A COMMISSION THAT IF THOSE ARE THE ISSUES AS YOU EXPRESSED, THEN WE NEED TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT. AND THAT'S WHAT THIS IS, IS TRYING TO REIMAGINE THAT SPACE INTO A PARK BECAUSE IT IS A PARK. AND FOR FAMILIES TO FEEL COMFORTABLE, UH, VISITING THE PARK. I KNOW THAT ONE OF THE BUSINESS, UM, OWNERS IS, IS HERE THAT I WENT TO GO CHAT WITH. AND, UM, YOU KNOW, I SAT AND I, I, I THINK I WAS THERE FOR, I DON'T KNOW, 10, 15 MINUTES. AND, UH, SEEING WHAT SHE'S OBSERVING WHILE SHE'S THERE IS, IT'S JUST NOT ACCEPTABLE. AND WE NEED TO DO SOMETHING TO, TO, TO, TO CHANGE THAT. AND I THINK THIS IS AN OPPORTUNITY AND IT CAN'T BE JUST, YOU KNOW, UM, PAINTING OR ADDING, UH, A FIXTURE OR ANY OF THOSE THINGS. 'CAUSE THAT'S NOT GOING TO CHANGE IT. IT HAS TO BE A TOTAL REVAMP. AND I THINK THAT THAT'S WHAT THIS IS. AND I, AND I WAS, AND I, AND I MET WITH JAVIER AND, AND HIS TEAM, AND I WAS A LITTLE DISAPPOINTED BECAUSE I SAW THAT IN 2000, WERE YOU HERE IN 2008? [00:35:01] NO, NO. 2000 AND 2008. I THINK THEY STARTED HAVING CONVERSATIONS ABOUT DOING SOMETHING AT, UM, GUTIERREZ PARK. AND THEN IN 2010 THEY HAD A TASK FORCE. THE COMMISSION, UM, HAD A PRESENTATION. THERE WERE STUDENTS FROM THE UNIVERSITY. THERE WERE COMMUNITY STAKEHOLDERS, PEOPLE THAT, UH, REALLY PUT IN MANY, MANY HOURS ON SUGGESTIONS ON WHAT WE COULD DO. AND, AND THEN THAT WAS PRESENTED TO THE COMMISSION IN 2010. AND NOTHING CAME. NOTHING, NOTHING HAPPENED. AND, AND THAT'S DISAPPOINTING. AND I DON'T WANT THAT TO CONTINUE WITH THIS COMMISSION. AND SO I THINK THIS IS AN OPPORTUNITY AND IF WE CAN GET GRANT MONEY TO BE ABLE TO DO IT, I THINK THAT, THAT, THAT'S DEFINITELY A WIN-WIN FOR, FOR EVERYONE. LET, LET ME INTERJECT ON SOMETHING HERE THAT'S, THAT'S BEEN GOING ON BEHIND THE SCENES. UM, I, I HAVE BEEN REACHED, UM, I HAD A COUPLE OF PASTORS REACH OUT TO ME AND THEY HAVE BEEN ABLE TO SECURE NOT ONE, BUT TWO TRAILERS FOR SHOWERS. THIS IS ONE OF THE THINGS THAT, UH, THE PASTORS HAVE DEALT AND, AND WORKED WITH SOME OF THE HOMELESS. AND WHAT THEY, TWO THINGS THEY REQUESTED WAS SHOWERS AND HAIRCUTS. THEY HAVE SECURED THE TRAILERS AND AS WE SPEAK, THEY'RE STILL TRYING TO GET A MEETING SET UP WITH A, WITH THE CITY OF HARINGTON AND THE PASTURES TO GET TOGETHER, MAKE SURE THAT THOSE SHOWERS WHICH ARE MOBILE CAN BE, WE FIND A GOOD LOCATION AND THERE'S ABLE, THEY'RE ABLE TO USE THOSE SHOWERS, MAKING SURE THEY'RE UP TO CODE WITH WHAT THE CITY WANTS. UNFORTUNATELY, THE TWO MEETINGS THAT WE'VE HAD IN THE PAST, THE PASTORS HAD NOT BEEN ABLE TO ATTEND. SO IT'S NOT ON THE CITY, IT'S ON IT, IT'S ON THIS BEING WORKED OUT. SO THOSE LOGISTICS ARE IN THE PROCESS. UH, WE HAVE, I HAVE MET WITH A COUPLE OF PEOPLE FROM CODE ENFORCEMENT AND PEOPLE FROM THE, UH, UH, PLANNING AND ZONING. SO THAT'S IN THE PROCESS. ONCE WE HAVE THAT MEETING, I'LL KNOW WE'LL BE ABLE TO KNOW MORE. AND I THEN WE CAN SHARE WITH EVERYBODY WHAT CAN AND CANNOT BE DONE. THAT'S AWESOME. I THINK THAT'S A GOOD IDEA. UM, I DEFINITELY WANNA AS MANY RESOURCES AS POSSIBLE, BUT I THINK THAT'S STILL NOT GOING TO SOLVE, UH, THE, THE BIGGER ISSUE. BUT IT WILL PROVIDE RESOURCES TO THE HOMELESS POPULATION THAT I THINK IS, IS, IS WONDERFUL. SO ANYTHING THAT YOU NEED FROM, FROM ME, LET ME KNOW. AND I'M SURE THAT, ARE YOU MEETING WITH GABE OR I I MET WITH, I'VE STARTED WITH, WITH A PLANNING AND ZONING AND SOME OF THE ZONE, UM, THE, UH, CODING FORCES. I KNOW THAT GOOD IN OTHER CITIES OR BIGGER CITIES. UM, I HAD, I HAD READ SOMETHING ABOUT THAT PROVIDING MOBILE, UM, AREAS AND THEN KIND OF LIKE A POPUP STORE WITH HYGIENE ITEMS AND THINGS LIKE THAT. SO THAT'S, THAT'S GREAT. UM, BUT GOING BACK TO, TO THIS, DO YOU THINK THAT THAT'S GOING TO ADD TO THE COST? UM, NO. UH, I WAS TALKING TO MOTHER RIGHT NOW. SO THE, THE I, WHAT I RECALL IS WHAT THE MOST EXPENSIVE PART OF BUILDING THAT, UH, SAND VOLLEYBALL. 'CAUSE WE DID IT IN-HOUSE. MM-HMM. WAS THE SAND. OKAY. RIGHT. SO IT TAKES SPECIAL SAND. UM, BUT THE CLOSING OF THE STREET AND THE PARKING AND ALL THAT. YEAH. YEAH. I MEAN THAT'S NOT GONNA, THAT'S NOT GONNA TAKE A LOT. OKAY. IT'S 400,000. SO THEN THE NUMBER, IF YOU HAD TO ADD TO IT WOULD BE APPROXIMATELY JUST AN ESTIMATE. SO ON THE SAND VOLLEYBALL, UM, WE ESTIMATE ABOUT 10,000, UH, FOR THE SAN JOSE, WE DID IT IN HOUSE. UM, I'M NOT SURE WHAT THE COST WOULD BE AS FAR AS THE, UM, THE CURB EXTENSIONS OR THE, UM, BUT THAT'S INCLUDED RIGHT? IN THE COST OF CURB EXTENSIONS? YES. WE HAVE 25,000 IN THE CURB EXTENSIONS. OKAY. SO, UM, Y'ALL MIND IF I CONTINUE WITH, DID YOU HAVE ANY OTHER QUESTIONS ON GUTIERREZ? NO, I'M ACTUALLY SHOWING THEM LAND THAT'S FOR SALE NEARBY AND YOU CAN JUST, UH, THAT YOU CAN, YEAH, WE CAN MAKE SOME IMPROVEMENTS. IT, IT WASN'T PART OF, UH, YEAH, IT WASN'T PART OF THAT. OH, OKAY. OKAY. HAVE A QUICK QUESTION. YES. I'M LOOKING, WHEN I WAS LOOKING AT THE PARK AREA DEMOGRAPHICS, I NOTICED ON THE WILSON SPORTS COMPLEX, YOU HAVE NO INFORMATION. WHY IS THAT? YEAH. UM, SO ON THE APP, UM, THAT WE GOT THE DATA FROM, IT DOESN'T SHOW, UH, ANYTHING FOR WILSON. IT DOES, IT SHOWS IT AS A PARK, BUT IT DOESN'T GIVE US ANY DATA. FOR SOME REASON WE DON'T, WE DON'T KNOW WHY. SO DID THAT PLAY A REASON WHY IT WAS MAYBE NOT INCLUDED IN ONE OF THESE, UM, PROJECTS OR WHAT? BECAUSE I MEAN, THERE'S LITERALLY A HUGE NEIGHBORHOOD ADJACENT, WELL, YOU KNOW, RIGHT NEXT TO THE PARK, RIGHT DOWN ON THE TRAIL, THERE'S LIKE A HUGE NEIGHBORHOOD THAT'S RIGHT THERE. AND YOU KNOW, IT'S SURROUNDED BY OTHER NEIGHBORHOODS. THEY MAY BE COUNTY, BUT THEY'RE STILL [00:40:01] NEIGHBORHOODS AND ALL THAT. WELL, I MEAN, AND, AND BASED ON THE IMPROVEMENTS THAT WE SHOWED IN THE, UM, UH, FROM THE LAST MEETING, UM, I MEAN THERE'S A LOT YOU CAN DO AT, AT THE WILSON UH, SPORTS COMPLEX, YOU KNOW, AS FAR AS FIELDS AND TRAILS, UM, BASKETBALL COURTS, UH, ITEMS LIKE THAT, THAT ARE DEFINITELY RECREATION ELEMENTS. OKAY. YEAH. 'CAUSE I WAS GONNA MENTION THAT. 'CAUSE I KNOW THE HARDING AND SOCCER COMPLEX IS GETTING AN INFUSION OF MONEY THAT WE GOT FROM, WELL, THANKS TO DANIEL AND SOME OTHER STUFF THAT WE GOT FROM, WAS IT THE ROTARY? ROTARY? ROTARY? WELL, ROTARY'S THE ONE THAT'S YEAH, WELL, YEAH. TAKE ALL THE CREDIT. YEAH, WE'RE GETTING SOME MONEY FROM THE ROTARY CUP, SO WE'RE GETTING INFUSION ON THERE. AND I DON'T SEE ANYTHING FOR THE, THE WILSON SPORTS COMPLEX. AND I WAS ACTUALLY WALKING THERE, UH, JOGGING. I'M WALKING . UH, WHY DON'T WE, WHY DON'T WE SPLIT THE DIFFERENCE HERE? SPEED WALKING. ALRIGHT. , WE GO. UM, ON MONDAY OR TUESDAY? ON TUESDAY. I THINK THAT'S FUNNY. AND WHEN I WAS GOING AROUND THERE, I NOTICED THAT THE TRACK IS IN DESPERATE NEED OF HELP. I KNOW. UM, IT WAS, YOU KNOW, THERE'S AREAS WHERE THE GRASS HAS GROWN OUT AND YOU COULD TELL WHERE THE TR WHERE THE, YOU KNOW, HOW YOU USED TO HAVE THE LITTLE, THE, WHAT ARE THEY CALLED, THE LITTLE WOODEN PIECES THAT ARE ON THE SIDE. RIGHT. THE RAILINGS, I GUESS WHATEVER THEY'RE CALLED. THEY'RE NOT THERE ANYMORE. AND THERE'S PIECES WHERE WHEN YOU'RE WALKING THE TRAIL, IT DOESN'T EVEN LOOK LIKE A TRAIL ANYMORE. IT'S JUST BASICALLY MAYBE A FOOT LENGTH THAT'S NOT COVERED IN GRASS AND IT'S, IT'S IN NOT, IT'S IN HORRIBLE SHAPE. RIGHT. SO I KNOW, AND I KNOW WE COULD USE SOME MONEY THERE. SO, UH, IF YOU DON'T MIND ME JUMPING IN HERE, WHAT ARE YOU THINKING ABOUT FOR THAT TRUCK? DO YOU WANT TO LIKE, SO THE ONE YOU JUST WALKED IN MY DISTRICT ON HILL, WE PUT CONCRETE OR DO YOU WANT, UH, CRUSH GRANITE? LIKE WHAT WE CURRENTLY HAVE? YEAH, LIKE ON YOUR PLAN, LIKE FOR THE ONE FOR VEST PARK. THAT'S WHAT I WAS THINKING, LIKE THAT SOMETHING LIKE CRUSH GRANITE OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT. BECAUSE I'VE ALSO, I, 'CAUSE I MADE A POST ON THAT REGARDING LIKE THE TRAIL, THE NEW TRAIL, AND PEOPLE WERE POSTING LIKE, OH, THE RUNNING ON CEMENT IS BAD ON YOUR KNEES AND STUFF. AND SURE ENOUGH, THE NEXT DAY I WAS SORE AGAIN. SO, UM, 'CAUSE I WAS JOGGING, BUT, UM, BUT YEAH, SOMETHING LIKE THAT BECAUSE THE, IT DOES NEED SOME HELP. IT DOES NEED SOME MAJOR HELP. AND I KNOW I'VE BEEN IN CONTACT WITH THE, WITH SOME OF THE MEMBERS OF THE SOFTBALL COMMUNITY THAT THEY'RE PLAYING THE PARKS AND, AND THEY, BY THE WAY, THEY WANTED ME TO EXTEND THEIR, THEIR, THEIR THANKS BECAUSE THEY, THEY KNOW YOU HELPED A LOT WITH THE, WITH THE FIELDS BY ADDING SOME DIRT. SO THAT WAS GREAT. BUT THEY HAVE SOME ISSUES WITH THE LIGHT. AND I KNOW THE BASKETBALL COURTS COULD NEED A LITTLE BIT OF MORE RENOVATION, STUFF LIKE THAT. AND WE HAVE A LOT OF LAND. WHAT ARE WE DOING WITH THAT LAND THAT'S NEXT TO IT? YOU KNOW, WHERE WE HAVE THE SOFTBALL FIELDS, I NOTICED LIKE ON THE TRAIL THERE'S LIKE A BIG EMPTY SPOT. RIGHT. WHERE DO WE DO WITH THAT? AND, AND SO THAT WAS THE, THE, WELL, I DON'T, I CAN SHOW YOU LATER, BUT, UM, ON THE, UM, IMAGES THAT I SHARED, SHARED WITH Y'ALL, UM, I, I, UH, I THINK IDENTIFIED THREE MULTIPURPOSE FIELDS THAT WE CAN BUILD BACK THERE. UM, AND THAT'S BEHIND THE, UH, THE SOFTBALL COMPLEX BETWEEN, I DON'T, I DON'T KNOW WHAT STREET THAT IS IN THE BACK, UH, WHERE YOU COME IN, I THINK IT'S CHESTER PARK. AND THEN YOU COME IN, I THINK IT'S LAFAYETTE, ISN'T IT LAFAYETTE? YEAH, LAFAYETTE. YEAH. YEAH. SO IT'S BETWEEN THE SOFTBALL FIELDS IN LAFAYETTE. UH, AND THEN THERE'S TWO AREAS. THERE'S TWO FIELDS THAT ARE UPFRONT THAT, UH, PEOPLE USE FOR, YOU KNOW, UH, FOR PICKUP ON, UM, EITHER FOOTBALL OR SOCCER OR WHATEVER. UM, AND THOSE HAVE LIGHTING, BUT IT'S JUST FROM A EP RIGHT. IT'S NOT SPORTS LIGHTING. UM, SO THE IDEA WAS TO IMPROVE THOSE AS WELL AND THEN BUILD A RESTROOM UP FRONT. UM, BECAUSE RIGHT NOW THERE'S ONLY ONE RESTROOM AND SO PEOPLE HAVE TO GO FROM THE FRONT ALL THE WAY ACROSS TO THE, TO THE RESTROOM BY THE PAVILION. AND SO, UH, THERE'S MOTHERS THAT, THAT ARE WORRIED RIGHT. TO SEND THEIR KIDS OFF BY THEMSELVES TO WALK ACROSS THE PARK. MM-HMM. . SO THEY ASKED IF THERE WAS SOMETHING THAT WE CAN DO. AND SO ANYWAY, I I ADDED IT TO THIS, TO THAT CONCEPT. YEAH. 'CAUSE THE, THE, THE ONE THAT YOU SHARED WITH US LAST TIME, UM, SO WOULD THAT HAVE SCORED NOT AS MANY POINTS AS THE ONE FOR THE SPORTS COMPLEX? I THINK IT WOULD, OR THE SOCCER COMPLEX OR WHAT? I KNOW YOU THINK, UM, UH, THAT ONE FOR WILSON? YEAH. I WAS JUST LOOKING AT IT. I THINK IT'S FIVE KIND. YEAH. BUT IF WE DID IN PHASES, RIGHT? UH, IF WE, IF WE PICK SOME OF THE ELEMENTS, I THINK IT WOULD, I THINK IT WOULD SCORE HIGH. OKAY. I WAS JUST RECOMMENDING IT. 'CAUSE I NOTICED THAT, AND I KNOW THEY'RE GETTING MONEY ALREADY, AND I JUST THINK THAT ONE'S BEEN NEGLECTED FOR A LONG TIME. AND SO WE, WE HAVE IMP WE, WE HAVE, UH, OUTTA THE LAST THREE OR FOUR YEARS, WE'VE IMPROVED SECTIONS OF THE TRAIL. I'M NOT SURE IF YOU'D LIKE, ON THE NEIGHBOR'S SIDE, WHEN YOU'RE DRIVING INTO THE PARK ON THE LEFT SIDE, WE BUILT WHAT, LIKE, UH, THE CURB ABOUT 1300. YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT THE CURB FEET? YES. WE BUILT CURBS AND THEN WE, WE BROUGHT IN CALICHE AND THEN WE BROUGHT IN CRUSH GRANITE BECAUSE THE, THE OLD SECTION OF THE TRAIL, ALL IT HAD WAS THESE BOARDS, UH, ON THE SIDE. AND THAT WAS CONTAINING THE, THE, HOW LONG AGO WAS THAT? UM, I THINK, I THINK WE GOT FUNDING LIKE TWO OR THREE YEARS AGO FOR THAT. OKAY. 'CAUSE A LOT OF THAT DISAPPEARED. SO WE GOT IT IN TWO PHASES. OKAY. YEAH. 'CAUSE A LOT OF THAT DISAPPEARED, LIKE [00:45:01] WHEN I WAS WALKING THIS WEEK. OKAY. OKAY. COOL. IS THERE, OTHER THAN THE, THOSE, UH, THAT LAND IN THE BACK WHERE YOU'RE GONNA ADD MORE FIELDS AND THEN THE TRAIL THAN THE LIGHTS, RIGHT? THOSE ARE THE BIG, BIG THINGS. OR IS THERE ANYTHING ELSE YOU WANNA ADD? WELL, THE TRAIL, THE LIGHTS, AND I'D LIKE TO ADD HONESTLY, SOMETHING ELSE. UM, 'CAUSE THAT DOES SUPPORT A, A BIG, I KNOW IT DOESN'T SAY HERE, BUT DOES, THERE'S A BIG POPULATION THERE. SO, UM, I DON'T KNOW WHAT ELSE WE COULD DO. MAYBE, I MEAN, I, I I KIND OF, I KIND OF REALLY LIKE PICKLEBALL AFTER I PLAYED IT . SO, UM, YOU KNOW, MAYBE SOMETHING THERE OR ADD SOMETHING. WELL, WE COULD DO IT NEXT TO THE BASKETBALL COURTS. RIGHT? SO I HAD SUGGESTED THAT WE ADD TWO MORE COURTS THERE. UM, AND THEN, BUT THOSE COULD BE PICKLEBALL COURTS. UH, ONE THING THAT WE DIDN'T ADD TO WILSON WAS, UM, UH, SPLASH PAD. I MEAN, BECAUSE THAT COULD, WE'RE WE'RE DEF WE HAVE A DEFICIT IN SPLASH PADS IN THE, IN THE, IN THE CITY. SO, AND REAL QUICK, 'CAUSE I KNOW THERE'S PROBABLY GONNA BE SOME PEOPLE AT HOME WATCHING THIS. UM, AND I KNOW WE'VE TALKED ABOUT IT, ABOUT HOW THE WATER'S VERY, THE LEVEL MM-HMM. OF THE WATER'S VERY LOW ON THE LAKE. BUT CAN YOU EXPLAIN WHY? BECAUSE I KNOW YOU TOLD ME, BUT I WANT THEM, IF THEY'RE WATCHING THE VIDEO, I WANT THEM TO UNDERSTAND WHY. 'CAUSE I KNOW I'VE SEEN POSTS ONLINE WHERE PEOPLE ARE LIKE, WOW, THE WATER'S SO LOW, THE CITY'S NOT DOING ANYTHING ABOUT IT. BUT I WANT YOU, IF YOU CAN JUST ELABORATE ABOUT THAT. YEAH. SO, SO WE, WHAT WE DO IS WE, UM, WE GET WATER FROM THE IRRIGATION DISTRICT. AND SO, UH, THE IRRIGATION DISTRICT HAS, UM, CUT US OFF, UH, NOT IN A BAD WAY, BUT THEY JUST, YOU KNOW, THEY CAN'T PROVIDE US WATER ANYMORE BECAUSE OF THE DROUGHT, UH, CONDITIONS. AND SO, UM, SO THEY GAVE US WATER ABOUT TWO MONTHS AGO, AND IT SAYS, THIS IS ALL WE'RE GONNA GIVE YOU. UM, YOU NEED TO FIND OTHER, OTHER, UH, SOURCES OF, OF GETTING WATER. SO RIGHT NOW WHAT WE'RE WORKING ON IS, IS TRYING TO GET A PURCHASE ORDER TO, UH, TO DIG A WELL. SO WHAT WE'LL DO IS PULL WATER FROM THAT WATER WELL AND FILL UP THAT LAKE. UM, AND THEN WE CAN USE THAT FOR IRRIGATION. SO THE, THE SOURCE OF WATER THAT WE'RE GETTING, THAT WE WERE GETTING BEFORE, WHICH WAS THE IRRIGATION DISTRICT WATER, UM, THERE'S, THERE'S NO MORE. SO IF YOU'RE GOING TO DIG A WELL, WHAT'S YOUR TOTAL DISSOLVED, UH, SOLVENT SALTS? WELL, IT WOULD, YOU KNOW, THIS PART OF HARLINGEN, IT'S LIKE 33% SALT WATER AND COMBS AND PRIME PRE META, IT, IT'S LIKE 15, 12, 15%. BUT IT ALL NEEDS TO BE TREATED WITH REVERSE OSMOSIS. SO YOU CAN'T USE THAT FOR IRRIGATION. AND, AND THE SALT AND THE WATER WILL KILL EVERYTHING AROUND IT. WHAT, AT WHAT DEPTH DO YOU KNOW AT, UM, THIS WATER LEVEL, THIS SALT LEVEL IS, UH, IT, THERE THERE ARE DIFFERENT, UH, PP GRAVEL GRAY, UH, LAYERS AND SAND LAYERS. AND THAT'S WHERE THE WATER LIES. NO, I DON'T KNOW THE EXACT, BECAUSE WE'VE, WE'VE, WE'VE RECEIVED, UH, DIFFERENT QUOTES, UH, FROM DIFFERENT WATER DRILLERS, I GUESS YOU'D CALL 'EM. UM, BUT SOME HAVE RECOMMENDED 75 FEET, A HUNDRED FEET. THIS ONE CONTRACTOR, WHICH WE ARE LOOKING AT, IS GONNA BUILD OR DRILL 250 FEET. UM, AND SO, UM, THEY'RE TELLING US IS THAT'S WHERE WE WANT TO GO, IS GET, GET THAT WATER. THEY'RE NOT TELLING YOU THE QUALITY OF THE WATER. NO, BECAUSE THEY DON'T, THEY DON'T KNOW YET. RIGHT. BUT, UM, THEY HAVE HISTORICAL DATA, RIGHT. WHERE OTHER, WHERE THEY'VE DRILLED WELLS IN, RIGHT IN THE AREA. RIO HONDA WATER DEPARTMENT HAS SOME WELLS UP NEAR COMBS AND PRETTY META. AND YOU'RE TALKING $40 MILLION FOR THE SIZE OF THEIR WELLS AND THE REVERSE OSMOSIS TO MAKE THE WATER POTABLE. MM-HMM. WELL, THEY CAN DO THAT. UH, ON THE NOTE OF, UH, WELLS FOR CONSERVATION, HAVE YOU, UH, LOOKED INTO, UH, TRYING TO GET PARKING LOTS TO CONSERVE, UH, WATER INSTEAD OF MAKING THEM JUST STRAIGHT CEMENT TO WHERE IT'S ROCKED THAT, UH, PERCOLATES DOWN TO WHERE WE COLLECT THE WATER, IT'LL BE USED LIKE AT THE SOCCER COMPLEX AND LET THE WATER STREAM INTO THE AKAS? WELL, THE WAY THAT THE DRAINAGES AT THE, AT THE SPORTS, AT THE SOCCER COMPLEX, IT DOES DRAIN INTO THE LAKES, THE TWO LAKES THAT ARE THERE. UM, SO THE DRAINAGE SYSTEM THAT'S DESIGNED, THAT WAS DESIGNED, UH, BACK THEN, IT COLLECTS IT AND THEN IT DRAINS OUT INTO THOSE LAKES. SO BASICALLY WATER THAT FALLS ON THE, UH, ON THE PARKING LOT WILL STREAM TOWARD THE, UH, OKAY. YES. FROM, AND SO THERE'S NOT JUST IN THE PARKING LOT, BUT ALSO IN THE FIELDS, BETWEEN FIELDS. WE DO HAVE DRAINAGE AND WE HAVE INLETS, UM, WHERE WE [00:50:01] COLLECT WATER THERE AND IT DRAINS OUT TO THOSE LAKES. OKAY. CAN WE MOVE ON? YES. SO THE NEXT PROJECT, UM, WE CAME UP WITH IS MCKELVY PARK. UM, AND SO WE ARE IN NEED, DESPERATE NEED OF ADDITIONAL PARKING THERE. 'CAUSE WE DO HAVE SEVERAL, UH, EVENTS THERE. UM, AND THEN, UM, WE WANT TO DO IS, IS, UH, THERE'S A, THERE'S A HILL AREA, RIGHT WHERE WE HAVE SOME, THE PLAYGROUND, WE HAVE A LITTLE PAVILION. UM, AND THEN WE HAVE LIKE A LITTLE PICNIC SHELTER. SO WE WANTED TO BUILD THIS KIND OF LIKE AN AMPHITHEATER TYPE, UM, SETTING. AND THEN USE THAT HILL WHERE WE CAN SEAT, LIKE HAVE, CREATE LIKE TIERED SEATING, UM, ON THE SIDE OF THAT HILL. UM, WANNA RENOVATE THE, UH, THE PLAYGROUND AND THEN, UM, CREATE ACCESSIBILITY TO IT. 'CAUSE RIGHT NOW, UM, THERE'S NO ACCESS FROM THE PARKING LOT OR FROM THE TRAIL TO THAT PARK TO THE PLAYGROUND. UH, SO WE'D HAVE TO CREATE, UH, SIDEWALKS. UM, WANTED TO ADD, UH, PICNIC AREAS. UM, A WATER FEATURE. UM, OF COURSE WE TALKED ABOUT THE PARKING LOT. UH, A MONUMENT SIGN. THERE'S NO SIGN, UM, THERE EXCEPT FOR THAT LITTLE WOOD SIGN THAT THE OLD ONES. UM, SO WE WANNA CREATE A, A NICE MONUMENT SIGN THERE. UM, NATIVE LANDSCAPING, UM, BIRD BLINDS, UH, HYDRATION STATION, UM, A TRAIL HEAD AND THEN LIGHTING. UM, AND THEN RENOVATE THE, THE RESTROOMS. UM, AND THEN ACCESSIBILITY FOR THE PLAYGROUND AND PAVILION. THAT ONE IS, UH, $1,026,950. UM, AND THEN THIS IS THE HARINGTON SOCCER COMPLEX. UM, WE, IN THE IMPROVEMENT, UM, CONCEPT, WE, WE DID, UH, COME UP WITH ADDING THREE NEW SOCCER FIELDS. UM, THE FIELD RENOVATIONS, IMPROVE THE EXISTING WALKING TRAIL, UH, ADD SPORTS LIGHTING TO THE UNLIT FIELDS, UH, WHICH IS 3, 4, 5, AND SIX. UM, AND THEN ADD COVERED BLEACHERS, HYDRATION STATIONS, UM, A PARKING LOT EXTENSION AND RESTROOMS. AND THAT WAS 3 MILLION, 13,000. UM, SO IF I, IF I MAY GO BACK, UM, YOU ALREADY HAVE TALKED WITH THE HARLINGEN ROTARY CLUB. WE'RE RAISING $150,000 TO BUY COVERED BLEACHERS. YES SIR. OKAY. SO THE CITY WILL BUY MORE COVERED BLEACHERS. CORRECT. IN THIS PLANT. RIGHT. AND SO THE OTHER THING THAT WE HAVE IN, IN THESE COST ESTIMATES IS SIDEWALKS. RIGHT. SO WE WANT TO CREATE, UH, ACCESSIBILITY TO THOSE FIELDS. YEAH. UH, MAYBE LIKE SEVEN OR EIGHT MONTHS AGO, JETTE AND I MET WITH JOSEPH ALSBURY, ALBERRY ALBERRY AND ROBERT RODRIGUEZ, WHO'S ALSO IN YOUR ROTARY CLUB. MM-HMM. . AND WE HAD A WHOLE MEETING TO MAKE SURE THAT THERE WAS NO OVERLAP. THAT WE COMPLIMENT EACH OTHER. IS YOUR CLUB DOING SOMETHING? UH, NOT THIS YEAR. I DON'T KNOW. I WAS JUST AT THE MEETING LAST NIGHT, BUT I, THIS YEAR. OKAY. SO THIS IS SORT OF A SUMMARY OF UM, WHAT WE CAME UP WITH. UM, THE NON-URBAN OUTDOOR GRANT, UH, THE MAXIMUM PROJECT AMOUNT IS 1.5. UM, THE INDOOR IS 3 MILLION, UH, WITH THE, UM, UM, MAXIMUM GRANT AMOUNT, 750, UM, AND 1.5. SO THESE ARE THE PROJECTS THAT WE CAME UP WITH. THE ESTIMATED COST. UM, FIRST ONE WE HAVE IS CB WOODS 505 ROYAL PARK, 945 VEST OF 753,000. GUTIERREZ IS 1.1. MCKELVY IS 1,026,000. AND THEN THE SOCCER COMPLEX IS 3 MILLION. UM, AND SO THEN OFF TO THE RIGHT, UH, THAT TABLE, WHICH IT SHOWS YOU, UM, WHAT OUR MATCH WOULD BE, ARE THEY RANKED IN THE ORDER WITH LIKE THE HIGHEST POINTS? NO. OKAY. DO WE KNOW, IF WE WERE TO RANK THEM, WHICH ONE WOULD SCORE THE BEST? HOW WOULD THAT LOOK? WHAT DO YOU THINK ANA COULD REALLY BE AND, AND ALSO JUST GO AHEAD BECAUSE YOU SAID CB PARK AND A AURORA PARK, UH, TEXAS PARKS WILDLIFE REALLY LOVE THAT, RIGHT? YES. AND SO WE ARE THINKING, ANNA AND I ARE WAS MAYBE, UM, LOOKING AT ANOTHER SOURCE FOR GUTIERREZ. UM, BECAUSE THERE'S NOT A LOT OF OF, OF RECREATION ELEMENTS THAT WE CAN PUT TO IN THAT PARK, UM, OTHER THAN THE ITEMS THAT WE, WE BROUGHT UP. RIGHT. WE JUST DON'T KNOW IF IT'S GONNA BE VERY COMPETITIVE, UH, WHEN WE, UM, SUBMIT THAT GRANT. [00:55:01] YEAH. TO ME, I THINK WE DO WHATEVER'S THE MOST COMPETITIVE. IDEALLY FOR ME, THE, IF WE COULD, I WOULD PUT HARLAND AND SOCCER COMPLEX 'CAUSE THAT'S THE BIGGEST TICKET ONE, RIGHT? THAT $3 MILLION, THEN I'LL DO THAT PARK IN MACKEL. BUT IF YOU'RE SAYING THAT WON'T WORK, THEN DO A ROYAL PARK. 'CAUSE THAT'S THE THIRD HIGHEST. ANNA, WHAT I WAS GONNA, CAN YOU COME UP HERE JUST SO THAT WAY AND, AND JAVIER DON'T LEAVE JUST SO THAT YOU'RE BOTH UP HERE. WHAT I WAS GONNA SUGGEST IN ALL HONESTY WAS I WAS GONNA SUGGEST REPLACING THE HARINGTON SOCCER COMPLEX WITH THE WILSON SPORTS COMPLEX. THE REASON I'M DOING THAT, 'CAUSE I DON'T THINK IT WAS FAIRLY MEASURED SINCE IT DIDN'T HAVE ANY OF THE METRICS. AND LIKE, I KNOW YOU SAID THAT SOME OF THE REASON, UM, THAT WAS LEFT OFF WAS ALSO BECAUSE OF THE COST OF 5 MILLION, I THINK. BUT LIKE, I'M LOOKING AT WHAT YOU FROM LAST TIME, IF WE WERE JUST TO TAKE OUT THE 372 ADDITIONAL PARKING SPACES RIGHT THERE, THAT WOULD SAVE US LIKE ABOUT 1.5 MILLION, GIVE OR TAKE. SO THAT WOULD GIVE US BASICALLY THE SAME RANGE AS A HAR AND SPORTS COMPLEX. PLUS THE SPORT, THE WILSON SPORTS COMPLEX. I THINK, UM, UM, UH, HOW DO YOU SAY IT SERVES MORE OF THE POPULATION THAN THE HAR THAN THE HAR AND SOCCER PLA COMPLEX, WHICH IS WAY OVER THERE BY THE LANDFILL. AND THIS ONE'S LIKE RIGHT SMACK AND MIDDLE OF NEIGHBORHOODS AND IT'S A COMMUNITY PARK THAT'S RIGHT BY THE EXPRESSWAY. SO I THINK THAT WOULD BE BETTER THAN THE RG AND SOCCER COMPLEX. THAT'S MY TAKE ON IT. SO I'M SURE THERE'S MORE BACK AND FORTH. BUT BEFORE, UM, ANA, I, I, SINCE YOU'RE THE ONE THAT'S GONNA BE WORKING ON THESE GRANTS AND, UH, SUBMITTING THEM, I, I KNOW THIS ENTIRE COMMISSION REALLY VALUES YOUR, YOUR OPINION. SO BASED ON YOUR OPINION, IS THERE A PROJECT HERE THAT WOULD SCORE, UH, IN YOUR OPINION, HIGHER THAN OTHERS? LIKE IF YOU WERE GOING WITHOUT COMMISSION, I KNOW IT'S DIFFICULT, BUT DON'T LISTEN TO ANY OF THESE GUYS. JUST, YOU KNOW, PUT YOUR, YOUR, YOUR GRANT HEAD ON, UH, HAT ON. AND IF YOU WERE GOING TO SUBMIT ONE THAT YOU FELT, THIS ONE, I FEEL STRONGLY BECAUSE THIS ONE CHECKS ALL THE BOXES AND, AND I HAVE A HIGHER LIKELIHOOD OF BEING GRANTED, WHICH ONE WOULD THAT BE? SO, I, I JUST WANTED TO, BEFORE I ANSWER THE QUESTION, SO FOR THE HARLINGIN SOFTWARE, JUST DROPPED THE MIC A LITTLE BIT. YEAH, SORRY. THERE YOU GO. THANK YOU. SORRY. UM, SORRY TO PUT YOU ON THIS SPOT. NO, THAT'S FINE. SO BEFORE I ANSWER THAT QUESTION THOUGH, I WANTED TO, I WAS HOPING THAT JAVIER WILL MENTION THIS 'CAUSE WE DISCUSSED IT. UM, THE HAR LYNCH AND SOCCER COMPLEX IS 3 MILLION. SO THAT AUTOMATICALLY, IF WE KEEP IT, IF WE KEEP IT AS IT IS, IT'S, IT'S NOT GONNA WORK OUT BECAUSE WE, THE MAXIMUM PROJECT COST THAT WE POINT KIND OF NEED TO SHOOT FOR IS 1.5. CORRECT. SO ANYTHING, ANYTHING ABOVE THAT WOULDN'T BE A GOOD PROJECT. AND SO, 'CAUSE THEN THAT MEANS THAT WE NEED TO OVERMATCH SIGNIFICANTLY A LOT MORE. SO, MM-HMM. THAT WOULDN'T WORK OUT. BUT I THINK ANY OF THE PROJECTS, ANY OF THE PARKS THAT ARE NEAR THE ARROYO ARE PROBABLY THE MOST COMPETITIVE, UM, PROJECTS. MARY, THE, THE PROJECTS THAT SHE'S LISTED. MM-HMM. THERE ARE AN ORDER OF PRIORITY? I DON'T THINK SO. THEY ARE, YES. OR, OR IT'S OKAY IF THEY ARE. YEAH. AND NOBODY'S GONNA GET UPSET . AND IF THEY DO, IT DOESN'T MATTER. IT IT JUST, BECAUSE AT THE END OF THE DAY, YOU KNOW, I THINK IT'S GREAT THAT WE WORK AT THE SOCCER COMPLEX OR AT WILSON OR ROYAL OR GUTIERREZ OR PENDLETON OR ANY OF THOSE, BUT NOBODY WINS IF WE DON'T GET THE GRANT. RIGHT. RIGHT. SO, UM, IF THAT'S THE ORDER, THEN IT LOOKS LIKE CB WOOD, UM, AND THEN ARROYO PARK. BUT IF I'M LOOKING AT THEM IN ORDER OF PRIORITY, THEN THAT'S GREAT IF THAT'S THE CASE. BUT HOW CLOSELY WOULD YOU RATE CB WOOD PARK AND AR ROYAL PARK? BECAUSE, UM, OBVIOUSLY THERE'S THE HIGHER AMOUNT THAT WE CAN GET WOULD BE, WOULD BE BETTER. RIGHT. BUT IF THEY'RE SO FAR APART, THEN IT WOULD MAKE SENSE FOR, FOR CB WOOD. SO, UM, I THINK THE LIST WAS REARRANGE A LITTLE, BUT CB WOOD PARK, ARROYO PARK AND UM, KELBY PARK WE'RE PROBABLY THE HIGHEST, I THINK, IN MY OPINION. UM, I THINK BASED ON THE CONVERSATION THAT JAVI HAD TODAY, WHICH THIS WAS BEFORE WE PUT THE LIST TOGETHER, MM-HMM. , UM, GUTIERREZ ALSO HAS A GOOD CHANCE. AND SO IN ALL HONESTLY, ALL OF THEM ARE COMPETITIVE. THE HARLINGEN SOCCER COMPLEX IS THE ONLY ONE THAT IS LIKE 3 MILLION. I DON'T KNOW, I DON'T KNOW HOW WE CAN CONDENSE IT AND STILL MAKE IT, YOU KNOW, COMPETITIVE. BUT I THINK OUT OF ALL OF THE ORIGINAL LISTS WHICH WAS PRESENTED TO YOU GUYS, UH, AT THE LAST MEETING, I MEAN, THESE ARE PROBABLY THE, THE TOP. SO WE HAVE A GOOD CHANCE AND NONE OF THESE ARE, ARE STAND OUT ONE MORE THAN THE OTHER. THEY ALL HAVE THEIR STRENGTHS. AND SO YOU'RE ACTING LIKE A LAWYER, ANNA ? NO, I'M SERIOUS. I MEAN, IT'S, IT'S, IT'S SUBJECTIVE, YOU KNOW. OKAY. AND SO, UH, EVEN THOUGH THEY HAVE A RUBRIC, IT'S STILL SUBJECTIVE. AND SO, BUT I THINK THAT IT WILL BE VERY EASY TO TELL THE STORY ABOUT THOSE PARKS THAT ARE NEAR THE ARROYO. OKAY. BUT I DON'T KNOW IF THAT'S A PRIORITY FOR YOU GUYS. AND THIS IS WHERE YOU GUYS COME IN. SURE. NO, WHAT THIS IS, IS SCREW THE POLITICS, RIGHT? OKAY. MM-HMM. THREE OF US ARE UP FOR ELECTION [01:00:01] IN NOVEMBER. SCREW THE POLITICS. WELL, WHAT THIS IS, IS A PROBABILITY EVENT. MM-HMM. . AND WE NEED TO PLAY THE PROBABILITY GAME. YEAH. AND WE NEED TO VOTE ON THE ONES THAT HAVE, IN YOUR OPINION, NO GUARANTEE YOUR GUESSTIMATE, YOUR OPINION HAVE THE HIGHEST PROBABILITY OF GETTING FUNDING SO THAT WE COULD SAVE THE TAXPAYERS SOME MONEY WHILE IMPROVING THE CITY. RIGHT. AND JUST BECAUSE WE DON'T CHOOSE, YOU KNOW, I MEAN YOU CAN ONLY CHOOSE ONE. RIGHT? RIGHT. AND, AND SO IT DOESN'T MEAN THAT WE DON'T FOCUS ON ALL THE OTHER PARKS WITH OTHER AVENUES OF FUNDING, OTHER GRANTS AND OTHER OPPORTUNITIES. BUT HERE IT'S WHAT IS GONNA MAKE US MOST COMPETITIVE FOR THIS SPECIFIC GRANT. AND IF THAT MEANS THAT, AND WHAT I'M HEARING IS, IS THAT SOMETHING CLOSE, SOMETHING THAT IS CONNECTED TO THE ARROYO WILL PROVIDE US MORE OPPORTUNITY TO BE SELECTED. SO HAVING SAID THAT, THAT WOULD BE MCKELVY PARK, UM, CB WOOD PARK AND ARROYO PARK. YES. YES. OKAY. AND SO THEN IF WE DO PROCESS OF ELIMINATION, IT LOOKS LIKE THE BIGGEST TICKET ITEM IS MCKELVY PARK, RIGHT? YES. OKAY. SO THOSE ARE MY THOUGHTS. UM, I DON'T, YOU KNOW, I DON'T KNOW WHAT EVERYBODY ELSE THINKS, BUT I JUST, YOU KNOW, WE WANNA MAKE YOUR JOB EASIER. I DON'T WANT, I WANT GUTIERREZ PARK TO BE RE I THINK I SPENT A LOT OF TIME WITH THE BOTH OF YOU. AND WE STILL NEED TO BE COMMITTED TO DOING THAT AND LOOK FOR OTHER, I MEAN, UNLESS I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE COMMISSION'S GONNA DO, ADDITIONAL FUNDS. AND IF NOT, WE NEED TO BE THINKING AS A CITY AND AS A COMMISSION, MAYBE WE NEED TO ABSORB THOSE COSTS AS A CITY TO BE ABLE TO MAKE THOSE CHANGES BECAUSE THEY'RE LONG OVERDUE. BUT IF WE'RE GONNA APPLY FOR IT AND NOT GET SELECTED, THEN THE, YOU KNOW, NOBODY WINS. GUTTA PARK DOESN'T WIN AND NEITHER DOES, UM, THE CITY AS A WHOLE, BECAUSE WE LOSE OUT ON THAT, ON THOSE FUNDS. UM, SO MCAL, MCKELVY PARK IS, UNLESS I'M READING IT WRONG, THAT IS THE, THE ONE THAT IS CLOSEST TO THE CAP, RIGHT? MM-HMM. TO THE 1.5. OKAY. SO IS THERE ANY OTHER, YEAH, SO THIS GRANT YOU'RE APPLYING FOR, IT'S ONE SHOT ON ONE PARK? YES. ONE APPLICATION? MM-HMM. . OKAY. AND WHAT IS THE MAXIMUM, UM, ALLOWABLE? 1.5. 1.5. YOU SAID? 1.5. 1.5 BECAUSE IT'S A 50% MATCHING GROUND. OKAY. SO WE COULDN'T DO CB WOOD PARK AND THE ROYAL PARK TOGETHER. IT'S JUST ONE ONE PARK, ONE SHOT. YEAH. YEAH. ONE PARK, ONE PROJECT. MM-HMM. . OKAY. I'LL MAKE THE MOTION TO, UH, THIS IS JUST A PRESENTATION. YEAH. THIS IS JUST A PRESENTATION, BUT I THERE IS AN ITEM TO DO THAT. AND WE HAVE A PUBLIC HEARING YEAH. LATER ON IN THE AGENDA. SO, UM, ANY OTHER QUESTIONS FOR ANA OR JAVIER? I, GO AHEAD. YOU WERE GONNA SAY SOMETHING? GO AHEAD. I WAS JUST GONNA, THERE'S TWO MORE SLIDES THAT I WANNA SHARE WITH YOU, UM, KIND OF RELATED TO PARKS, BUT, BUT GO AHEAD, COMMISSIONER. SO AT THE END OF THE DAY, UH, CB WOOD OR ROYAL PARK AND UH, UM, MCKELVY, THOSE ARE THE ONES WE HAVE A BETTER SHOT AT. JUST BECAUSE OF THE LOGISTICS ON THE CLOSEST TO THE ARROYO, PEOPLE CAN GET TO IT. I CAN SEE THAT. I CAN SEE THAT IN CB WOOD. I DEFINITELY CAN SEE THAT IN THE ROYAL PARK. AS A MATTER OF FACT, THERE'S A RUN THAT'S GOING ON AT ROYAL PARK AS WE SPEAK. YES. AND THERE WAS ONE THE LAST TIME WE MET, WE HAD A MEETING HERE, SO THAT HAS QUITE A BIT OF TRAFFIC, GENTLEMEN AND LADIES, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN. UM, UM, BUT IT'S ONE PARK, NOT TWO AND, AND IT JUST WE'RE STUCK WITH ONE MM-HMM. . THE OTHER THING I THINK TO, I'M SORRY, WERE YOU DONE? GO AHEAD. THE OTHER THING TO CONSIDER, AND THIS IS, YOU KNOW, IN FAVOR OF YOUR PARK, IN ROYAL PARK IS, UM, I'M, I I, WE'RE LEAVING OUT THE, THE USE, UH, PARK, UH, PART OF IT. AND ROYAL PARK DOES HAVE, YOU KNOW, IT IS A RIGHT SMACK IN THE MIDDLE OF A, A NEIGHBORHOOD. AND I THINK IF WE LOOKED AT THE NUMBERS, UH, MORE OF A LOW INCOME, UM, WHEN I WAS GOING OVER THAT WITH, UH, WITH ANA. AND SO IT SERVES A, A GREATER, A, A GREAT POPULATION. MCKELVY IS ONE THAT'S USED THROUGHOUT THE CITY. UM, SO THEY'RE BOTH NEEDED. AND SO MAYBE THAT THEY'RE PRETTY, THEY'RE A LITTLE CLOSE IN, IN, IN UH, DOLLAR AMOUNT. SO THAT'S ANOTHER THING TO TO CONSIDER. ALL THREE OF THOSE ARE CONNECTED THROUGH THE TRAIL. RIGHT. BY THE WAY, BUT, AND I THINK I SAID THIS AT THE LAST MEETING TOO. EVERY TIME THAT I'VE GONE TO ROYAL PARK, THERE HAS BEEN KIDS THERE PLAYING, WHETHER IT'S, YOU KNOW, SUPER HOT OUTSIDE OR OR NOT IN THE BASKETBALL, UH, DOING BASKETBALL OVER AT THE TRAILS, BIKING KIDS AND [01:05:01] PARENTS PAYING IN THAT GREEN SPACE. AND NOW WITH THE PUMP TRACK, RIGHT. UM, I THINK THERE'S GONNA BE EVEN MORE. I THINK YOU HAD PEOPLE IN THERE BEFORE IT WAS EVEN OPEN . WE COULD, SO, UM, BUT DID YOU HAVE SOMETHING ELSE, COMMISSIONER? WELL, THE, THE ONLY THING I'M GONNA SUGGEST, UM, FOR THOSE PARK AND THE REST OF THE PARKS THAT NEED A, A SECOND SET OF RESTROOMS AND CONCESSION STANDS, LET'S GET THE PUBLIC WORKS TO LOOK INTO TRYING TO, UH, DO GET A DESIGN SET UP. 'CAUSE THAT'LL BE A LOT CHEAPER THAN TRYING TO BUY SOMETHING, PUT IT THAN, THAN INSTALLING ONE. RIGHT. THAT ALSO MEANS GET THE HIGH SCHOOL KIDS ONCE THEY'RE BACK ON BREAK AND SEE WHAT THEY CAN DO. ALRIGHT. BUT THAT'S CONCESSION STANDS AND RESTROOMS AND WE CAN BREAK THAT UP ANY WAY YOU WANT. REDUCE OUR COST AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE. ARE YOU DONE WITH YOUR PRESENTATION ? YES, SIR. WELL, I JUST WAS GONNA SHARE WITH YOU A COUPLE OF MORE. I KNOW THAT, UH, WHEN WE HAD THE MEETING, UH, MAYOR, YOU HAD MENTIONED THAT, UM, UH, AND IT WASN'T JUST, IT'S NOT JUST YOU, RIGHT. BUT THERE'S BEEN SEVERAL, UM, COMPLAINTS RIGHT? ABOUT THE, UM, ABOUT THE CONDITIONS OF THE PARK. AND SO YOU, YOU, WE TALKED ABOUT, YOU KNOW, WHAT THE DAY-TO-DAY THINGS THAT WE DO, UM, THE MORNINGS THAT WE COME IN THAT WE OPEN THE RESTROOMS AND WE DO A REAL QUICK CLEAN OF THE RESTROOMS AND THEY DON'T GET SERVICE UNTIL THE, UNTIL THE EVENING, UM, WHEN THEY GO AND CLOSE THEM. AND SO WHAT I DID WAS, UM, THIS, THIS PICTURE HERE IS A, UH, EXCERPT FROM THE, UH, 2024 NATIONAL RECREATION PARK ASSOCIATION, UH, PERFORMANCE REVIEW. AND SO THEY SHOW NATIONWIDE THAT, UM, WE SHOULD HAVE 10.5 FULL-TIME EMPLOYEES FOR EVERY 10,000 RESIDENTS. UM, SO IF YOU CALCULATE THAT WE HAVE 70,000, IF WE, UH, MULTIPLY THAT TIMES, UH, DIVIDED BY 10 AND THEN WE MULTIPLY TIMES 10.5, WE SHOULD HAVE ABOUT 70 EMPLOYEES. UM, POPULATION OF 80,000 WOULD BE MORE ACCURATE. SO, I MEAN, CONSERVATIVE. SO, UM, SO ANYWAY, I JUST WANNA SHARE THIS WITH YOU. UM, AND UM, HOLD UP, HOLD UP SINCE YOU BROUGHT IT UP. HOW MANY EMPLOYEES DO YOU HAVE RIGHT NOW WORKING ON PARKS? WE HAVE 28 GOING THERE. WE HAVE 28 EMPLOYEES AND WE HAVE 26 PARKS. HMM. NOBODY OUGHT TO TAKE VACATION OR GET SICK. . SO YOU, YOU, YOU WANNA KEEP GOING . SO THE NEXT ITEM I HAVE IS A RECOMMENDATION. UM, SO EVEN IF WE DON'T DO THE, THE, THE OFFICE CLERK, UM, WE WOULD NEED, UM, SIX OR NOT NEED, WE WOULD REQUEST SIX GROUNDSKEEPERS, UH, AT 31,000. UM, THAT'S, UH, WITH FRINGE. AND THEN, UH, THAT'S 189,000. AND THEN WE WOULD, WE WOULD REQUEST THREE MAINTENANCE TECHNICIANS, UM, AT 52,000 WOULD BE 156,000, AND THEN ONE OPERATION SUPERVISOR, UH, AT 50,000. AND THEN THIS IS THE EQUIPMENT. SO THE PART OF THIS SIX, PART OF THE SIX, UH, GROUNDSKEEPERS ARE THE, THE CREW THAT I HAD TALKED ABOUT BEFORE. RIGHT. WHAT, WHAT I WANTED TO DO IS CREATE A, UM, A, UH, CREW THAT ALL THEY WOULD DO IS FOCUS ON SPORTS FIELDS. UM, AND SO WE'D HAVE TO BUY 'EM THE, THE PROPER EQUIPMENT, AND THEN THEY WOULD OF COURSE, UH, HAVE THESE FIELDS ON A MAINTENANCE SCHEDULE, UH, WHERE THEY WOULD HERBICIDE, UH, FERTILIZE, UM, AND OF COURSE IRRIGATION, EVERYTHING ELSE. AND SO, SO THAT WAS MY IDEA. SO IT'D BE, UH, A NEW CREW. UM, SO WE SUBTRACT FROM THAT. OOPS. FROM THE SIX. WHAT'D I DO? OKAY. UM, WE HAVE IT IN OUR PACKET. WE, WE HAVE, UM, JUST, JUST TO POINT OUT TO THE COMMISSION, THIS IS A DISCUSSION ON PARKS ONLY. WE HAVE BUDGET WORKSHOPS COMING UP NEXT MONTH WHERE WE CAN TALK ABOUT ALL THIS IN GREATER DETAIL. ARE YOU OKAY, GABE? YOU LOOK , SO YOU DO LOOK CAREFUL. WE DO HAVE A NERVES HERE THAT'LL ASSIST YOU. WELL, I'LL JUST SAY THIS AND, AND WE CAN, WE CAN, UM, WRAP, WRAP IT UP, BUT YES, WE DO. THAT'S SOMETHING TO, TO BRING TO, TO GABE FOR THE, AND TO THE ENTIRE COMMISSION RIGHT? FOR ON, ON THE, ON OUR WORKSHOPS. AND I KNOW YOU'RE STILL TRYING TO WORK THROUGH, WORK THROUGH THAT TO MAKE SURE THAT IT'S, [01:10:01] WE GET THROUGH THE BUDGET PART OF IT AND MAKING SURE EVERYTHING'S IN BUDGET. UM, BUT I THINK IT'S, IT'S, IT'S, IT'S CRUCIAL. IT'S IMPORTANT FOR THE COMMUNITY AT LARGE TO UNDERSTAND THAT, UM, THE AMOUNT OF STAFF THAT WORKS IN THE PARKS DEPARTMENT, THEY DO THE BEST THAT THEY CAN. THEY ARE WORKING TIRELESSLY EVERY SINGLE DAY. AND IT'S ALMO, IT'S IMPOSSIBLE FOR IT'S HUMANLY IMPOSSIBLE TO TOUCH EVERY SINGLE PARK EVERY DAY. AND SO, AS A COMMUNITY, IF WE CAN WORK TOGETHER TO KEEP OUR PARKS CLEAN AND DO WHAT WE CAN AS A COMMUNITY TO HELP, THAT IS ALSO GOING TO, TO, TO GO A LONG WAY. AND SOME OF THE THINGS THAT WE TALKED ABOUT AND WE CAN, UM, SHARE AT A LATER TIME IS GETTING CLEANUP, UH, CREWS, RIGHT? AND GETTING VOLUNTEERS FROM THE COMMUNITY TO SEE HOW WE CAN ENSURE THAT WE'RE KEEPING OUR, OUR PARKS, UH, CLEAN AND UPGRADES AND THINGS LIKE THAT, THAT WE CAN INVOLVE COMMUNITY MEMBERS. UM, AND THIS GOES HAND IN HAND WITH LIKE KEY PAR LUNCH AND BEAUTIFUL. AND SO WE ARE LOOKING TOWARDS, TOWARDS DOING THAT, AND WE'RE GONNA COLLECTIVELY MAKE SURE THAT THE PARKS GET THE ATTENTION THAT THEY NEED. BUT PARKS DOES NEED, UM, SUPPORT IN TERMS OF EQUIPMENT AND SOME ADDITIONAL HANDS. UH, AND, AND THAT IS SOMETHING HOPEFULLY WE CAN, WE CAN TOUCH ON, UM, WHEN WE'RE DOING THE BUDGETS. OKAY. DON'T WORRY. I ALREADY TALKED TO ROBERT ON WEDNESDAY ABOUT MAKING SURE WE GET YOU GUYS THE SUPPORT Y'ALL NEEDS. NO, DON'T BE TALKING TO ROBERT . HAVE TO GO AROUND GABE ON THIS ONE, MAN. YEAH. YOU KNOW, I, IT'S LIKE MIKE SAYS ALL THE TIME, AS LONG AS WE, IF WE HAD A ALL WE NEEDS MONEY, ALL WE NEED IS MONEY. YES. IT'S NOT EASY. UM, BUT, BUT WE, WE UNDERSTAND. WE APPRECIATE YOU AND WE, WE ARE GONNA DO WHAT WE CAN TO BE ABLE TO SUPPORT YOU. SO NOW MOVING ON, UM, MELINDA, OKAY. TO ITEM TWO, PUBLIC HEARING AND POSSIBLE ACTION TO APPROVE, PRIORITIZE SELECTIVE PARK PROJECTS. MR. SO AT THIS TIME, WE WILL BEGIN THE, THE PUBLIC HEARING. OKAY. UM, AND I'LL, AND I'LL INTRODUCE THEM FOR YOU. OKAY. UM, SO I KNOW THERE'S A LOT OF NEW FACES. SO WELCOME TO OUR, OUR MEETINGS. OUR MEETINGS ARE USUALLY THE FIRST AND THIRD WEDNESDAY OF EVERY MONTH, AND WE INVITE YOU TO COME ALL THE TIME SO THAT YOU CAN BE PART OF OUR MEETINGS. IT'S NICE TO SEE NEW FACES. UM, THE WAY THIS WORKS IS YOU'LL COME TO THE MIC AND YOU HAVE THREE MINUTES TO SPEAK. AND ONCE YOU, UH, APPROACH THE MIC, YOU JUST STATE YOUR NAME AND WHAT DISTRICT YOU, YOU LIVE IN. AND UNFORTUNATELY, I, I THINK THIS IS A PUBLIC HEARING, SO THERE CAN BE ENGAGEMENT, RIGHT? MM-HMM, . OKAY. UM, SO THE CITIZEN COMMUNICATION PART, YOU COMMISSIONERS CANNOT, CANNOT SPEAK, BUT IN THE PUBLIC HEARING YOU CAN. SO THIS MAY BE A LITTLE DIFFERENT THAN IN, UH, FUTURE MEETINGS IF YOU HAVEN'T BEEN TO A MEETING BEFORE. AND I KNOW THERE ARE SEVERAL FACES HERE THAT ARE ALWAYS HERE. SO WELCOME TO Y'ALL TOO. . UM, NOW WE'LL START WITH, UH, ALEXANDRA PERALTA. LEXI, RIGHT? YES. OKAY. IS THAT WHAT I LOOK AT FOR THE TIMER ? I WAS LIKE, 'CAUSE I TALK. SO JUST LOOK AT THAT. OKAY. ALL RIGHT. UM, MY NAME'S LEXI. UM, I DO HAVE A STOREFRONT RIGHT IN FRONT OF RES PARK, WHICH IS THE PARK THAT I AM DISCUSSING TODAY. UM, I DO DO WANNA BRING UP THAT, YES, WE DO HAVE A PROSTITUTION PROBLEM. WE DO HAVE A DRUG USE PROBLEM. WE DO HAVE A MICROPLASTIC PROBLEM. WE DO HAVE A FIGHTING PROBLEM. UM, AND I MEAN, PHYSICAL FIGHTING WITH PEOPLE OUT THERE. THIS IS A VERY NEGLECTED AREA. WE ARE TALKING ABOUT 20 PLUS YEARS. I WAS BORN AND RAISED HERE, AND I WAS NEVER ALLOWED TO GO TO THAT PARK. IT IS DISAPPOINTING THAT 20 YEARS LATER, IT IS STILL LIKE THAT. UM, TODAY, JUST TODAY, THAT'S WHY I DON'T EVEN HAVE MY NOTES. I WAS ALL PREPARED WHEN, WHEN YOU CAME, AND I HAVE NONE OF MY NOTES BECAUSE MY DAY, UH, CONSISTED OF CALLING THE POLICE, UH, TWICE. UM, BECAUSE THERE WAS PHYSICAL FIGHTING GOING ON IN THE PARK. AND THE SECOND TIME IT WAS SO BAD THAT THE GUY ON THE GROUND WAS ACTUALLY BLEEDING ALL OVER HIS FACE. THIS IS NORMAL. I CAN'T CALL THE COPS EVERY DAY FOR THIS PARK. UM, I'M JUST ONE PERSON AND I HAVE MY OWN JOB THAT I COULDN'T DO TODAY BECAUSE OF THAT. UM, AND I, I THINK IT'S JUST VERY IMPORTANT THAT WE DO HAVE AN IMPORTANCE IN THIS AREA. THIS IS A VERY NEGLECTED AREA OF HARLINGEN, AS YOU GUYS KNOW, AS OUR COMMISSIONER, DANIEL, YOU SHOULD DEFINITELY KNOW, OR I'M NOT SURE WHO'S IN THE POSITION FOR THE PARKS, BUT WE KNOW THAT ALL THESE BUILDINGS ARE ABANDONED, AND THERE'S A REASON IT'S 20 YEARS OF THIS. UM, SO I'M JUST HERE JUST SAYING WE CANNOT GIVE UP ON THIS PARK JUST BECAUSE IT'S LESS POPULATED. IT'S TINY, IT'S WHATEVER. WE NEED TO FIGURE OUT A SOLUTION. AND I DON'T THINK WE NEED MORE CEMENT ON THAT PARK. I DON'T THINK THAT'S GONNA DO JUSTICE BECAUSE OF THE PODIUM. WE ALREADY GATED IT. WE REALLY NEED TO THINK OF, UM, VOLLEYBALL, PARKS, PICKLEBALL COURSE, DOG PARKS. WE HAVE ONE IN HARLINGEN, PROBABLY. OH, DO I STILL? OKAY. UM, SO I, I JUST THINK THAT'S REALLY IMPORTANT. UM, YOU KNOW, WHEN I CALLED THE POLICE EARLIER TODAY, THE MAN WHO STARTED TWO DIFFERENT PHYSICAL FIGHTS, SOMEBODY ELSE BLEEDING THAT HAD TO GO TO THE HOSPITAL, UM, HE STAYED THERE EATING PIZZA. THAT'S WHAT HAPPENED. HE DIDN'T GET ARRESTED. [01:15:01] I DIDN'T KNOW, YOU KNOW, THAT WAS OKAY. WE ALSO NEVER GOT LIGHTS. I'M NOT SURE WHY THAT IS ON THE LIST. WE HAVE ONE LIGHT THERE. AND I KNOW BECAUSE I'VE BEEN THERE ONE YEAR, I FACE, I HAVE THREE WINDOWS THAT FACE DIRECTLY THE PARK. SO I'M THERE 12 TO 14 HOURS A DAY. THAT IS MY VIEW. SO I AM VERY, I KNOW I STAY THERE OVERNIGHT ALL THE TIME. UM, WE DON'T HAVE, WE HAVE ONE CURFEW SIGN, BUT THAT'S NOT ENFORCED. I DO NOT SEE POLICE EVER DRIVING THEIR WILLINGLY UNLESS I CALL THEM OR SOMEBODY ELSE DOES. UM, SO CURFEW DEFINITELY NEEDS TO BE PAID. LIKE THAT NEEDS TO BE ENFORCED. UM, BUT I AM JUST ASKING, PLEASE DO NOT BRING A BATHROOM THERE. PLEASE DO NOT BRING CEMENT THERE. IT'S NOT GOING TO HELP. IT REALLY NEEDS TO BE VOLLEYBALL, PARKS, DOG PARKS. IT NEEDS TO BE SOMETHING WHERE PEOPLE HAVE A REASON TO DRIVE THERE, BECAUSE PEOPLE AREN'T GONNA WALK THERE. JUST LIKE THESE BIGGER PARKS THAT ARE, ARE A BIG PRIOR PRIORITY. NO, THIS IS A HIGH CRIME AREA. IT'S A NEGLECTED AREA OF HARLINGEN. WE CAN'T, AND A LOT OF PEOPLE ASK, WHY DID YOU CHOOSE THAT AREA? IF, YOU KNOW, THE BIGGER QUESTION IS, WHY HAVE WE NEGLECTED IT FOR 20 YEARS? THAT'S THE BIGGEST QUESTION. SO, THANK YOU GUYS. THANK YOU. THANK YOU, LEXI. WE APPRECIATE YOU, UM, COMING TO BE HERE WITH US. I KNOW, UM, I'M SORRY FOR YOUR EXPERIENCE TODAY, BUT I KNOW, UM, COMMISSIONER LOPEZ WILL PROBABLY BE REACHING, REACHING OUT. WE TALKED A ABOUT, A LITTLE BIT ABOUT YOU, ABOUT YOU EARLIER IN, IN THE WEEK. UM, AND, AND WE'LL DEFINITELY GET WITH THE CHIEF TO SEE WHAT WE CAN DO TO HELP, UM, WITH, WITH THOSE, WITH THOSE ISSUES. BUT THANK YOU, UH, FOR, FOR SHARING THAT. AND LEXI HAS PLANS. SHE ALREADY DREW OUT THE GRAPHICS, AND SO SHE CAN, SHE CAN ASSIST JAVIER . UM, OKAY. AND THEN WE ALSO, NEXT WE HAVE, LEMME SEE IF I GET THIS CORRECT. LEONI, IS THAT RIGHT? IV? NO, LEON. ALL RIGHT, GO AHEAD. SAY THAT. LEON QUARTER NOW. OKAY. . JESSICA WAGNER. JESSICA WAGNER. OKAY. IAN GUTHRIE. IAN GUTHRIE, ROY MAGGARD. ALL RIGHT. ROY MAGGARD, DISTRICT TWO, DANIEL LOPEZ. I SPOKE TO INDIVIDUALS FROM ALL WALKS OF LIFE AT THE PARK, AND THEY WANT THE CITY TO DO THE FOLLOWING. PURCHASED THE PURPLE VACANT ADULT DAYCARE BUILDING ACROSS THE STREET AND NAME IT COMMUNITY OUTREACH RESOURCES AND ALLOW DIFFERENT ORGANIZATIONS TO UTILIZE IT TO DO OUTREACH AND PROVIDE ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS MENTAL HEALTH COUNSELING TO INDIVIDUALS IN A PRIVATE SETTING, INCLUDING HIV AIDS TESTING ACROSS THE STREET AT LIEUTENANT GUTERRES PARK. THEY WANT BATHROOMS, CRISIS INTERVENTION BOARDS, A SAFETY ZONE FOR INDIVIDUALS BEING HARASSED BECAUSE OF THEIR LIFESTYLE. MORE WATER FOUNTAINS AND OUTLETS FOR CELL PHONES. CONSTRUCTION OF A PARKS PAVILION FOR LOCAL CHURCHES TO FEED THE HOMELESS ON WEEKENDS BECAUSE LOWS AND FISH IS CLOSED. AND THE HOMELESS WANTS SHELTER FROM THE RAIN AND SUN, WHEELCHAIR, CEMENT, PICNIC TABLES, PLAYGROUND EQUIPMENT FOR SPECIAL NEEDS CHILDREN. A LITTLE LIBRARY CONVERT GAZEBO INTO AN AMPHITHEATER FOR MUSICIANS TO PERFORM CONCERTS, CEMENT MURALS FOR ARTISTS TO PAINT GRAFFITI CEMENT WALLS WITH A WALKING TRAIL, SORT OF LIKE AN OUTDOORS MUSEUM. THE WORLD WAR II MEMORIAL MUST REMAIN AT LIEUTENANT GUTIERREZ MEMORIAL PARK. AS THERE ARE RUMORS, SOME INDIVIDUAL GROUPS WANT TO MOVE IT TO PENDLETON PARK. THANK YOU FOR LISTENING TO MY COMMENTS, MAYOR. DISTINGUISHED CITY COMMISSIONERS. THANK YOU, SIR. THOSE ARE ALL OF THE, THE FORMS THAT I HAVE. DID ANYONE ELSE SIGN UP? YEAH, THERE'S SOME PEOPLE THAT ARE HERE THAT WANNA SPEAK, BUT THEY DIDN'T SIGN UP. OKAY. SO, SO TYPICALLY, WHAT IS YOUR NAME? UH, MY NAME IS SCOTT MCFARLAND. OKAY. UM, I AM ACTUALLY NOT CURRENTLY A RESIDENT IN HARLINGEN. I DID GROW UP HERE TILL I WAS 11 YEARS OLD, LIVED ON BUCHANAN STREET. UH, I'M HERE ACTUALLY TO SPEAK [01:20:01] A LITTLE BIT ON DIXIELAND PARK. UM, I KNOW THAT I WAS LISTENING TO DISCUSSIONS HERE. THERE'S SO MUCH DIFFERENT PLANNING AND SO MANY DIFFERENT THINGS THAT ARE GOING ON IN THE PARKS, BUT WE, AND, UH, UH, SOME OF THE OTHER MEMBERS OR SOME OF THE OTHER DISC GOLFERS HERE IN THE, IN THE LOCAL COMMUNITIES, YOU KNOW, COMING FROM AROUND THE CITIES, UH, WE REALLY CHERISH THIS PARK. IT'S ACTUALLY ONE OF THE OLDEST, AND I, I DO BELIEVE IT IS THE OLDEST, UH, ACTIVE DISC GOLF PARK, YOU KNOW, HERE IN THE VALLEY. IT'S ACTUALLY, I DON'T KNOW HOW FAMILIAR YOU ARE WITH THE SPORT OF DISC GOLF. IT HAS BLOWN UP SINCE, UH, COVID BECAUSE IT IS ACTUALLY ONE OF THE ONLY, UH, SAFE, UH, SPORTS THAT YOU CAN PLAY DURING THESE TIMES, YOU KNOW? SO, UH, I LIVE IN WESTCO NOW, BUT MACALLAN HAD THEIR COURSES OPEN DURING COVI. UH, I SPOKE WITH SOME PEOPLE THAT WERE STILL PLAYING, AND I SAID, ARE YOU KIDDING ME? WE CAN STILL GET OUT AND STILL GET EXERCISE. SO I CALLED, UH, THE CITY OF WESCO, AND THEY OPENED THE PARK THERE. AND I KNOW THAT THEY'VE BEEN, YOU KNOW, OUT HERE PLAYING OVER HERE IN HARLINGEN. UH, I'VE BEEN PLAYING THIS AREA SINCE 20 2009, I BELIEVE. UM, AND IT REALLY HAS GROWN IT. IF YOU GET OUT THERE AND YOU SEE, YOU HAVE PEOPLE FROM WINTER TEXANS TO, UH, THE YOUNG, TO THE OLD, WE HAVE PEOPLE THAT ARE, THAT ARE, UH, RETIREES THAT ARE OUT THERE, AND THEY USE THAT TO GET THEIR STEPS. AND YOU GET A LITTLE DYNAMIC MOVEMENT, AND YOU ALSO GET TO, YOU KNOW, TO, UH, TO HAVE YOUR FRIENDS OUT THERE. YOU KNOW, WE SPEND A LOT OF TIMES, I MEAN, WE SPEND BIRTHDAYS OUT THERE. WE SPEND ALL SORTS OF, OF, OF DIFFERENT THINGS, YOU KNOW, FUNDRAISERS, CELEBRATIONS. SO WHEN YOU'RE LOOKING AT WHAT YOU'RE DOING WITH DIXIELAND PARK, I JUST, I ASK THAT YOU, UH, TAKE INTO CONSIDERATION, REALLY TAKE INTO CONSIDERATION, UH, HOW IT'S, HOW IT CAN, UM, BETTER THE DISC GOLF COMMUNITY AND, AND KEEP THIS PARK. IT'S ONE OF THE STAPLES. YOU KNOW, YOU ACTUALLY HAVE A APPLICATION ON THE PHONES NOW CALLED U DISC, LIKE U LIKE UNIVERSITY DISC, AND IT'S ACTUALLY LISTED. DIXIELAND PARK IS LISTED ON THERE. AND THIS IS AN APPLICATION THAT PEOPLE CAN SEE, WHOEVER HAS IT IN DIFFERENT, EVEN COUNTRIES, YOU KNOW, YOU HAVE PARKS IN MEXICO THAT ARE LISTED AS WELL. SO THIS IS SOMETHING PEOPLE CAN TRACK, YOU KNOW, IT WILL GIVE 'EM DIRECTIONS HERE, TELL 'EM THE LAYOUT OF THE PARK, YOU KNOW, GIVE THEM A LITTLE BIT OF HISTORY ON THE PARK. SO, UM, THERE'S TOURNAMENTS THAT COULD BE PLAYED THERE. IF YOU'RE LOOKING AT SOMETHING THAT COULD BRING, YOU KNOW, UM, MAKE THIS A DESTINATION POINT, YOU DO HAVE TOURNAMENTS THAT COULD BE THROWN THERE, THAT WILL BRING, BRING, BRING PEOPLE FROM ALL AROUND. UH, I KNOW THAT WE'VE BEEN VERY ACTIVE IN IT, AND WE HAVE PEOPLE THAT PLAY EVERY MORNING, YOU KNOW, SO I JUST WANTED TO SAY, YOU KNOW, I DO REALLY APPRECIATE IT. I WAS VERY EXCITED WHEN THEY TOLD US THAT, THAT THERE'S GONNA BE SOME KIND OF INTEREST IN, UM, WHETHER IT BE REDESIGNING A LITTLE BIT OF THE PARK OR, YOU KNOW, JUST FIXING UP. I APPRECIATE THAT. I KNOW THAT YOU'RE FIXING UP THE BASKETS OUT THERE, AND I JUST APPRECIATE IT. AND I JUST WANT TO THANK YOU ONCE AGAIN. MY NAME'S SCOTT MCFARLAND. I REPRESENT, UM, THE WESTCO AREA AND THE VALLEY DESK GOLF STORE. AND WE'RE HERE AT YOUR SERVICE. ANYTHING THAT YOU NEED, IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, UH, I KNOW WE HAVE A WHOLE GROUP OF PEOPLE THAT WOULD BE WILLING TO, TO HELP YOU OUT THERE, HUH? THANK YOU. BEFORE YOU SIT DOWN AND HAVE YOUR SON STAND UP AND BRAG ABOUT HIM A MINUTE. OKAY. . SO, YEAH, THIS IS MY SON, JOKI MCFARLAND. UH, HE'S BEEN PLAYING, I MEAN, WE, UH, WE DO A LOT OF PRACTICING, OF LOT OF HIS PRACTICING AND DEVELOPMENT HERE AT THE MCCALL AT, UH, THE HARLAN ENGINE, UH, DIXIELAND COURSE. HE'S ACTUALLY GOING TO COMPETE IN ABOUT TWO WEEKS. HE'S GOING TO TULSA, OKLAHOMA TO COMPETE IN JUNIOR WORLDS, UH, FOR PDGA. SO HE'S COMPETING AGAINST KIDS FROM THE LAST TIME WE WENT IN 2022. THERE WAS 15 DIFFERENT COUNTRIES THERE. SO THAT WAS, UH, AS I SAID, YOU KNOW, RIGHT AFTER COVID IS REALLY WHEN IT TOOK OFF. UM, THIS IS THE THIRD TIME HE'S GOING OUT THERE AND HE USES DIXIELAND PARK AS HIS PRACTICE AREA. HE GETS A LOT OF TRAINING OUT THERE, BUT I'LL LET MY SON SAY HI. AND HE'S NOT THE TALKER. I'M SORRY. I'M THE TALKER. UM, HEY, MY NAME IS QUIN MCFARLIN, AS YOU KNOW. UM, THAT'S MY DAD. AND, UM, I'M GOING TO, YEAH, UM, I'M GOING TO JUNIOR ROLES AND I'M REALLY HAPPY TO, UM, GO TO THE PARK HERE AND TRAIN AND, UH, WHAT ELSE TO SAY TO BRAVO? YOU ARE ADORABLE. AND WE, WE ARE SO EXCITED THAT I HOPE YOU TELL EVERYBODY OUT THERE THAT YOU PRACTICE IN, IN, IN HARLINGEN AND, AND THAT YOUR COMMISSIONER OVER HERE IN DISTRICT FIVE IS GONNA MAKE SURE THAT WE MAKE ALL THE IMPROVEMENTS NEEDED. I KNOW WHEN WE WENT OUT THERE, THERE WERE PEOPLE PLAYING AND, AND I HAD NEVER, I HAD, YOU KNOW, I'M GUILTY. I HAD NEVER REALLY GONE OUT THERE MYSELF. I KNOW MY HUSBAND'S, UH, HAS SOME FAMILY THAT THEY MOVED DOWN FROM, FROM AUSTIN, AND THEY, THAT'S A BIG THING OVER THERE. AND SO THEY, THEY'RE THE ONES THAT TOLD ME, HEY, THESE ARE THE THINGS THAT YOU NEED TO DO AT THE PARK. AND, AND, AND THAT'S KIND OF WHAT SPARKED MY, MY INTEREST IN, IN, [01:25:01] IN FINDING OUT MORE. BUT I DIDN'T EVEN REALIZE THERE WAS A BIG COMMUNITY, SIMILAR TO PICKLEBALL. THERE IS THE, YOU KNOW, Y'ALL HAVE THE APPLICATIONS AND, AND, AND, AND IT, AND IT, IT, IT, AND ENCOURAGES CAMARADERIE, CAM CAMARADERIE, COMRADERY, SORRY, WITHIN THE COMMUNITY. I DIDN'T HAVE COFFEE THIS MORNING, , UM, 'CAUSE I HAD TO GO TO EARLY MEETINGS, . BUT, UM, SO IT'S, IT'S AWESOME THAT, THAT YOU ALL ARE FINDING A HOME HERE IN HARLINGEN. GOOD EVENING, MAYOR, COMMISSIONERS. UH, MY NAME IS JOSHUA AL, LOCAL RESIDENT HERE IN HAREN IN THE DISTRICT. I DUNNO THE NUMBER, BUT THE ONE EZ IN CHARGE OF THIS GUY. OH. SO, UM, WE DO, UH, PLAY AT DIXIE VERY OFTEN. A LOT OF US HERE ARE FROM THE DISC GOLF COMMUNITY. A LOT OF THE NEW FACES THAT YOU SEE, UM, WE DO AS LOCAL DISC GOLF PLAYERS. WE DO, UH, LOCAL MAINTENANCE. WE CLEAN UP THE TREES THERE TO ASSIST. WE DO UNDERSTAND THAT THE PARTS AND REST IS, IS UNDERSTAFFED. SO WE DO WORK OUT THERE ON THE PARK, UM, AMONGST EACH OTHER'S PLANNING TO KEEP THE PARK, UH, UP TO PAR. SO IT IS PLAYABLE. UM, I WANT TO THANK, UH, THE COMMISSIONER AND JAVIER FOR TAKING THE TIME EARLIER THIS WEEK TO LISTEN TO SOME OF OUR SUGGESTIONS FOR THE PARK. UM, UH, WE PROPOSED A LAYOUT TO THEM. WE DID, I DID EMAIL IT EARLIER, UH, TODAY, AND IT, THAT WAS WITH THE, UH, HOW DO I PUT IT? UH, COLLABORATION WITH, UH, THE ORIGINAL COURSE DESIGNER OF DIXIE LAND. UH, SO WE DO HAVE EXHIBITS AND I JUST WANTED TO LET THE COMMISSION KNOW THAT IF THERE'S ANYTHING THAT WE CAN DO TO DONATE FOR, REGARDING SURVEYING SERVICES, UH, MINOR EXHIBIT PLANNINGS, ET CETERA, THAT IS WHAT I DO ON A DAILY BASIS. AND WE AS A COMMUNITY, THE DISC GOLF COMMUNITY ARE WILLING TO WORK TOGETHER TO DONATE ANYTHING THAT WILL REDUCE COSTS FOR THE IMPROVEMENT. SO THE CITY WHERE IT'S CONSTRUCTION STAKING, UH, ANYTHING RELATED TO SURVEY AND SERVICES, AND AGAIN, ANYTHING MINOR CIVIL PLANS THAT MAY NOT REQUIRE, UH, A LICENSED CIVIL ENGINEER FOR LIKE CON CONCRETE TEA PADS, ET CETERA. UM, SO I JUST WANTED TO JUST, UH, TAKE VOICE MYSELF. UH, AS A LOCAL RESIDENT, WE MEET, THE GROUP IS VERY BIG EVERY SATURDAY, AND THERE'S SOME OF THE LOCAL PLAYERS EVERY DAY, UH, MEETING AT EIGHT. UM, AND WE LOVE THAT PARK. IT'S A GEM. IT'S A BEAUTIFUL SPOT. PEOPLE GO TAKE, UH, GRADUATION PHOTOS. MM-HMM, . THERE'S DUCKS. THE WATER FEATURE THE HILL NOW WITH THE SOFT PARK, SOFTBALL PARK THERE. WE CAN HEAR THEM PLAYING IN THE EVENINGS. IT'S REALLY COOL. WE CAN HEAR THE MUSIC, SOME OF THE ATIONS THAT, THAT ARE BEING PROPOSED. A BASKETBALL COURT. IT WOULD JUST BE PERFECT, UM, IN SOME OF THE LOCATIONS THAT WE PROPOSE IN THE EXHIBIT, JUST TO OVERSEEING ON THE HILL OFF THE ROAD. AND IT'S JUST A BEAUTIFUL LOCATION IN THE GYM IN HAREN. AND I THINK WE SHOULD, UH, LOOK INTO CONTINUE RENOVATING. THANK YOU EVERYBODY FOR YOUR TIME. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. I'LL SAY WHEN, UM, WHEN WE WENT OUT THERE, IT WAS REALLY CLEAN. I WAS REALLY IMPRESSED. AND YOU, YOU, I THINK I TOLD YOU, YOUR STAFF DOES AN AMAZING JOB. IT WAS, IT WAS, UM, IN MY VIEW, EXCEPT FOR, I THINK WE TALKED ABOUT THE RESTROOMS, BUT OTHER THAN THAT, EVERYTHING WAS, WAS PERFECT. I AM, I'M TRACY DEADMAN. UH, I'M PART OF DISTRICT FIVE, UH, COMMISSIONER RAZ. AND I WILL NEVER COMPLAIN ABOUT DIXIE BEING MOWED AGAIN. UM, SORRY MAN, I HAD NO IDEA YOU GUYS WERE THAT SHORT STAFFED. UM, AND SINCE SCOTT, I'M ALSO AN AVID DISC GOLFER, BUT SINCE SCOTT GOT TO BRAG ON HIS, I WILL, I'LL LET YOU GUYS KNOW A LITTLE HISTORY ABOUT DIXIE LAND. UH, MY SON GRADUATED, OR MY STEPSON GRADUATED HERE IN 2018, I BELIEVE IT WAS 2019. AND HE DECIDED TO NOT GO ON A FULL TRACK SCHOLARSHIP TO UT UH, RGV. HE DECIDED INSTEAD TO MOVE TO, TO SAN ANTONIO AND BECOME A PRO PROFESSIONAL DISC GOLFER. HE ACTUALLY LEARNED HOW TO PLAY AT DIXIELAND. HE, HE RECONFIGURED THE COURSE INTO A SAFARI COURSE. SO IT ACTUALLY MADE IT MORE DIFFICULT. HE STARTED PLAYING ALL THROUGHOUT STATE OF TEXAS. HE'S NOW ONE OF THE TOP TOURING PLAYERS ON THE DISC GOLF PRO TOUR IN THE US. WOW. AND SO WE'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT JUST LIKE GOLF COURSES, RIGHT? YOU, YOU CAN'T LEARN TO PLAY BETTER GOLF UNLESS YOU PLAY AGAINST A BETTER COURSE. UM, THE, THE CHANCE THAT WE HAVE NOW TO ACTUALLY IMPROVE THIS COURSE MEANS A LOT TO US, AND ESPECIALLY OUR KIDS, BECAUSE THE BETTER COURSE THAT THEY CAN PLAY ON, THE MORE COMPETITIVE THEY CAN BE AND, YOU KNOW, RECONFIGURE IT TO ACTUALLY MAKE IT A BETTER PLACE FOR THESE PEOPLE TO LEARN HOW TO PLAY THE SPORT WILL ONLY DO MORE TO INCREASE THE PEOPLE COMING OUTTA THE VALLEY ACTUALLY DOING THIS FOR A LIVING. I MEAN, YOU WOULDN'T THINK THAT A KID FROM HARLINGEN, TEXAS IS MAKING SIX FIGURES OUT THERE IN THE WORLD, SLINGING A PIECE OF PLASTIC. [01:30:01] BUT THAT'S WHAT HE DOES FOR A LIVING. HE'S BEEN ONE OF THE TOP 30 IN THE WORLD FOR THE LAST THREE YEARS. SO, UM, I DO APPRECIATE COMMISSIONER PEREZ, YOU, YOU PULLED US IN. UH, YOU GUYS LISTENED TO US ON TUESDAY, SOME OF THE THINGS THAT WE WANTED TO ADJUST OR WORK WITH THE CITY. AND I'M JUST GLAD TO SEE THE CITY THAT'S IS ACTUALLY MOVING IN THE DIRECTION OF IMPROVING THEIR PARKS AND, AND ASSIST, ASSIST HIM WITH THIS. SO THAT'S ALL I GOT. THANK YOU. THANK YOU, SCOTT. AND WE NEED TO GET YOUR SON IN HERE, AND YOU AND COMMISSIONER'S REALLY GOOD AT, AT RECOGNIZING AND, AND, AND DOING PROCLAMATIONS AND AWARDS. AND WE'D LOVE TO HONOR YOU AT A COMMISSION MEETING FOR ALL THE WONDERFUL WORK THAT YOUR SON IS DOING AND, AND YOURS. AND I'M SURE THERE'S OTHER KIDS IN THE MIX, PLEASE LET US KNOW. 'CAUSE WE WANT TO SHARE YOUR STORY AS A CITY. I'M, I MEAN, I LEARNED SO MUCH JUST IN THESE LAST FEW, FEW MINUTES, SO THANK YOU. CAN ONE OF YOU POP UP HERE REAL QUICK? ONE OF THE SPEAKERS, YOUR TOURNAMENTS ABOUT LIKE, HOW MANY PLAYERS COME TO PLAY AT ONE OF THOSE TOURNAMENTS? DEPENDS ON WHAT TIME OF THE YEAR YOU HAVE. UH, THE, USUALLY THE BUSIER TIME FOR, FOR DISC GOLF TOURNAMENTS AND WHEN PEOPLE ARE COMPETING AWAY IS USUALLY AROUND THE SUMMERTIME. SO YOU'LL HAVE LESS TOURNAMENTS AROUND NOW. UH, AROUND THE FALL TIME WHEN IT GETS NICE AND FRESH OUTSIDE USUALLY END UP WITH LIKE, IT COULD BE ANYWHERE FORTIES TO THE SIXTIES OF PEOPLE. I THINK THE LARGEST TOURNAMENT WE HAD DOWN HERE, UH, THAT WE ACTUALLY HOSTED, UH, WAS 70, UH, 70 PLAYERS. AND NOW WHEN YOU'RE SPEAKING OF 70 PLAYERS, YOU'RE NOT ONLY SPEAKING ABOUT 70 PLAYERS HERE, WE'VE ACTUALLY, WE HAVE PEOPLE THAT COME FROM, UH, MONTEREY. WE HAVE PEOPLE THAT COME FROM MEXICO AND THEY'LL COME AND PLAY OUR TOURNAMENTS OVER HERE. WE HAVE PEOPLE THAT COME FROM CORPUS DOWN HERE. UH, WE'VE HAD PEOPLE THAT COME FROM SAN ANTONIO, AUSTIN. UH, WE HAD A, UH, A PERSON THAT WAS TRAVELING AND HE WAS ACTUALLY FROM FRANCE, AND HE ACTUALLY CAME DOWN HERE AND PLAYED NICE, SOME OF OURS. SO IT'S, IT'S REALLY, IT REALLY VARIES ON THE TYPE OF PEOPLE THAT COME OUT TO PLAY THE TOURNAMENTS. BUT IF YOU'RE ASKING A NUMBER, UH, BETWEEN 40 TO 60, BUT DEPENDING, I MEAN, AS, AS TRACY WAS MENTIONING, THE PARK, YOU KNOW, IF THE PARK, UH, OR RIGHT NOW IT'S A GREAT PARK. MM-HMM. , YOU KNOW, IF THERE'S LITTLE ADJUSTMENTS AND, AND IT GETS TO BE MADE A LITTLE BIT MORE CHALLENGING, MORE PEOPLE WILL COME. WHY? BECAUSE THEY'RE WANTING THAT CHALLENGE. DISC GOLF IS, IS ALL ABOUT THAT. SO THERE'S DEFINITELY OPPORTUNITY. I HOST, UH, THE NATIONAL AMATEUR DISC GOLF TOUR, UH, TOURNAMENTS. AND THEY, IT'S HELD, THE FINALE IS HELD IN AUSTIN, YOU KNOW, EVERY YEAR, ONE, ONCE A YEAR. AND YOU'RE BRINGING PEOPLE FROM ALL OVER THE UNITED STATES FOR THAT. I'VE ALREADY, UH, HOSTED ONE OF THE TOURNAMENTS. I'M GOING TO BE HOSTING TWO MORE TOURNAMENTS. AND I'D HOPE, UH, THAT DIXIELAND WOULD BE, WOULD BE READY TO, YOU KNOW, I, IT DOES TAKE ABOUT A TWO MONTH PLANNING PERIOD FOR ME TO GET ONE OF THESE, UH, OUT THERE. BUT, UH, YOU'D BE SEEING PEOPLE FROM DIFFERENT, 'CAUSE THEY'RE GETTING THE OPPORTUNITY TO COMPETE. UH, IT'S ONLY BY INVITATION ONLY THE NATIONAL AMATEUR DISC GOLF TOUR. SO, UM, DEFINITELY POSSIBILITY FOR, FOR A LOT OF TOURNAMENTS TO COME UP. UM, SHOULD WE, WE BE ABLE TO HAVE DIXIELAND PARK, YOU KNOW, BE NICE AND COMPETITIVE AND PLAYABLE. AND SO LIKE, HOW MANY WOULD YOU SAY TOTAL WITH FAMILY MEMBERS? TWO, 300 PEOPLE? OH YEAH. OH YEAH. FAMILY MEMBER. OF COURSE. FAMILY MEMBERS. YOU KNOW, YOU USUALLY HAVE THE PLAYER THERE, BUT THE FAMILIES COME WITH THEM AND, AND THEY'RE EATING AT A LOT OF PLACES HERE. IN FACT, AS WE MADE MENTION, YOU KNOW, IN SOME OF THE, THE TOURS THAT WERE GOING IN IN TULSA, OKLAHOMA, AND WE WENT TO EMPORIA, KANSAS. IF, IF ANYBODY'S BEEN TO EMPORIA, KANSAS, UH, IT'S A TINY, TINY PLACE. HOWEVER, THEY HAVE DISC GOLF COURSES ALL OVER. SO, UM, WHENEVER THEY HOST THESE, THESE MASTERS TOURNAMENTS OR JUNIOR WORLDS, I MEAN, THEY BRING IN, UH, MY SON'S COMPETING AGAINST 144 PEOPLE JUST IN HIS DIVISION. GOSH. SO YEAH, TULSA OKLAHOMA'S GONNA BE HIT REALLY BIG AS FAR AS THAT GOES. AND HOPEFULLY SOMEDAY WE CAN GET SOMETHING LIKE THAT HERE. IT DOES TAKE COURSES. IT DOES TAKE, UM, I MEAN, UH, THE, THE, THE COMMISSIONERS OVER THERE IN THE CITY OVER THERE, THEY'RE, THEY'RE IN ON THESE DISC GOLF. 'CAUSE IT BRINGS A LOT, IT, IT HAS AN OPPORTUNITY TO BRING A LOT OF PEOPLE FROM AROUND THE AREA. YOU HIT THE NAIL ON THE HEAD RIGHT THERE. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. THANK YOU. ONE OF THE REASONS I ASKED THEM TO COME AND, AND SPEAK, BECAUSE I SEE, I KIND OF SEE THIS AS LOW HANGING FRUIT. MM-HMM. BECAUSE WHEN WE SAT WITH THEM ON TUESDAY, WE TALKED ABOUT 'EM, I LET THEM KNOW ABOUT WHAT, WHAT I WAS HOPING TO DO THERE AT DIXIELAND PARK. AND SOME OF THE SUGGESTIONS, I MEAN, A LOT OF THE STUFF THAT THEY'RE, THAT THEY WANT DO, LIKE, UM, JOSH SAID EARLIER, THEY'RE WILLING TO DONATE THEIR SERVICES, WHICH WOULD, WHICH WOULD, UM, LOWER THE COST. AND RIGHT NOW I HAVE JAVIER'S DOING SOME ESTIMATES, BUT PRELIMINARY ESTIMATES WOULD BE LIKE, ABOUT, IT WOULD COST US, WHAT WAS IT? OR WHERE'S MANO? IT WAS ABOUT 25, 30,000, GIVE OR TAKE. RIGHT. RIGHT. SO THAT'S LIKE LOW HANGING FRUIT. THAT'S THE SMALL COST. AND IT CAN HAVE A LARGE BENEFIT FOR THE COMMUNITY ECONOMICALLY AND ALSO FOR THE PEOPLE AROUND THE SURROUNDING AREA. AND I, I THINK ESPECIALLY LIKE DIXIELAND PARK, I THINK, THINK, I KNOW I WAS SPEAKING TO NORM ABOUT THIS, I THINK IT'S GOOD THAT WE HAVE PARKS WHERE, LIKE SAY FOR [01:35:01] EXAMPLE, EVERY PARK IN OUR CITY HAS LIKE A LITTLE NICHE. MM-HMM. . AND THEN FOR DIXIELAND PARK, THAT COULD BE THE LITTLE NICHE. OKAY. IT'S DIXIE, IT'S, YOU KNOW, IT'S, UM, GOLF, DISCUS, THEY CAN COME OVER HERE, HAVE THESE LITTLE TOURNAMENTS AND STUFF. AND IT WOULD, I THINK IT WOULD JUST BE VERY BENEFICIAL TO THE COMMUNITY. AND THIS IS SOMETHING I'M GONNA HIT UP 'CAUSE I KNOW THIS HAS MEANT FOR THE GRANTS. UM, AND, BUT THIS IS SOMETHING WHERE I'M GONNA HIT UP GABE. UM, DURING, DURING THE, UM, ONCE WE START DOING THE BUDGET, I'M GOING TO HIT YOU UP JUST LETTING YOU KNOW, UM, FOR THE FUNDING. BECAUSE LIKE I SAID, THIS IS LOW HANGING FRUIT AND IT COULD MAKE A BIG DIFFERENCE IN OUR COMMUNITY. I THINK IT'S FANTASTIC. 'CAUSE WHEN THEY WERE SPEAKING, IT REMINDED ME OF LIKE THE, THE ORGANIZATION THAT'S WORKING ON THE BUMP TRACK IN FRANK'S DISTRICT. RIGHT. LIKE THEY'RE THE ONES DOING THE WORK. MM-HMM. . AND THEY'RE BRINGING IN THE SPORT THAT NORMALLY WE WOULD NEVER HAVE THOUGHT OF PICKLE BALL. WE WERE OUT THERE ON WEDNESDAY. I KNOW YOU WENT LAST YESTERDAY. THAT'S ANOTHER ONE OF THOSE LIKE YOU CALL LOW HANGING FRUIT THAT WE CAN KIND OF INVEST IN AND WE JUST SEE THE DIVIDENDS PAY RIDE IN. YEAH. I'M JUST SO EXCITED THAT THE COMMUNITY IS SO ACTIVE, RIGHT. AND IN ALL THESE DIFFERENT, DIFFERENT SPORTS. SO I THINK WE CAN MAKE IT HAPPEN. UH, YOU HAVE A COMMISSION THAT'S EAGER AND EXCITED TO SUPPORT YOU. AND I KNOW THAT COMMISSIONER PEREZ IS GONNA FOLLOW THROUGH, BUT WHAT I'M GONNA ASK OF YOU IS, YOU SAID IT'S JUST TWO MONTHS THAT YOU CAN PUT A TOURNAMENT TOGETHER. SO WE'LL DO ALL THAT. BUT WE WANT, WE WANT A TOURNAMENT IN HARLINGEN. OH, OKAY. BECAUSE I WANT PEOPLE IN, WHAT WAS IT, KANSAS OR WHAT DID YOU SAY? YEAH. FOR THEM TO BE SAYING, OH, YOU HEARD, HEARD ABOUT HARLINGEN. THIS IS WHAT THEY'RE DOING IN HARLINGEN. . YES, SIR. HI. UH, JUST A, JUST A COUPLE OF COMMENTS. UH, MY NAME'S GUILLERMO GURA. I DON'T LIVE IN HARLINGEN. I LIVE IN SAN BENITO, BUT I, I DO CONSIDER, UH, DIXIELAND MY HOME DISC GOLF COURSE. THAT'S WHERE I STARTED TO LEARN, UH, WHAT I WANT TO SAY ABOUT THE DISC GOLF COMMUNITY IS THAT, UM, SORRY, A LITTLE NERVOUS IS THAT THIS COMMUNITY, WHEN WE GO OUT THERE, WE ACTUALLY PICK UP TRASH, UHHUH , WE CLEAN UP, YOU KNOW, UM, WATER BOTTLES, UM, YOU KNOW, WHATEVER, UH, PAPER PLATES, WHATEVER TRASH WE FIND. WE DO LEAVE THE PARK A LOT CLEANER THAN WHAT WE FOUND IT. UH, I KNOW SOME OF US, WE REPAIR POLES ON THE SIGNS. OH, WE COULD? YEAH. SO WE, UH, REATTACH THE SIGNS AFTER THEY, THEY'VE BEEN TAKEN DOWN. SORRY. SO YEAH, I'M A LOT NERVOUS. SO, UH, SO WE LOVE THE COURSE AND THIS, THIS GOLF IS A SPORT THAT IF YOU WANT TO PUT IN MORE TREES, GO FOR IT. YOU KNOW, THE MORE DIFFICULT, THE BETTER. IF YOU DO BUILD A NEW PARK, LEAVE THE TREES IN THERE. YOU KNOW, ALL YOU GOTTA DO IS CUT SOME FAIRWAYS, A LITTLE MINIMAL INVASIVE, UH, YOU KNOW, CLEAN UP. UH, SO IT'S ACTUALLY BENEFICIAL BECAUSE IT'S NOT CONCRETE. IT'S NOT ALL FLAT LAND. WE WANT THE HILLS, WE WANT THE OBSTACLES. UM, AND I JUST WANT TO MENTION THAT. THANK YOU. ANYTHING ELSE UNDER AMERICAN LAW? I THINK Y'ALL CAN ENGAGE WHENEVER YOU WANT, BUT AS THE MAYOR INDICATED, THIS IS A JUNCTURE. UH, OR YOUR STAFF CAN ALSO ENGAGE. UM, MAYBE DUE TO MY AUDITORY ABILITY, I WANTED TO ASK, UH, Y'ALL OR JER, IF THE RESTROOMS ARE CLEANED UPON THE ABOUT TO CLOSE, THAT'S WHEN YOU SERVICE THEM. WHEN THEY OPENED IN THE MORNING, BUT NOT AT NIGHT, RIGHT? NO. OKAY. THE MORNING COMES IN. WELL, HE ANSWERED THE QUESTION I HAD, AND I APPRECIATE THE OPPORTUNITY. THANK YOU, MR. LOZANO. GOOD AFTERNOON. UH, MY NAME'S FOREST SCA. UM, I'M HARLINGEN. UM, I'VE BEEN PLAYING DISC GOLF AT DIXIELAND FOR UNDER A YEAR NOW. AND, UH, I HAVE MET A GROUP OF PEOPLE, AND THIS IS JUST NOT EVEN HALF THE PEOPLE THAT WE'VE MET. UM, DOING THIS FOR A YEAR, LESS THAN A YEAR. UM, DIXIELAND ISN'T ONLY DISC GOLF, THERE'S ALSO A LAKE FOR FISHING. UM, I WOULD THINK A WALKING TRAIL JUST AROUND THE ACTUAL PARK WOULD BE AN EASY UPGRADE OF IMPROVEMENT FOR EVERYBODY. NOT EVERYBODY'S TOO EAGER TO GO INTO THE ROYAL PARK TRAILS. FEAR OF GETTING HURT, UH, MUGGED ANYTHING. SO WHEN YOU'RE AT AN ACTUAL PARK WITH A WALKING TRAIL AROUND IT, PEOPLE FEEL A LOT SAFER. STROLLERS, THINGS OF THAT NATURE. UH, LIKE I SAID, THERE'S A LAKE WHERE PEOPLE FISH. SO DIXIELAND ISN'T ONLY, UH, DISC OFF. THERE IS OPEN FIELD FOR PEOPLE THAT ARE PRACTICING FOR BASEBALL THAT THEY SHOW UP PLAYING BASEBALL, FOOTBALL, AND SOCCER. SO IT'S NOT JUST DISC GOLF PEOPLE. THERE'S A BUNCH OF OTHER PEOPLE THAT SHOW UP FOR OTHER ACTIVITIES AS WELL. UM, SO OF COURSE I WOULD LOVE TO PUSH FOR DIXIELAND, BUT THERE IS A LOT OF OTHER PARKS THAT NEED OTHER THINGS TOO. AND LIKE YOU MENTIONED AT THE BEGINNING, WE HAVE TO MAKE THE RIGHT CHOICE FOR THE RIGHT FOR, FOR, FOR A WHOLE COMMUNITY. SO WITH THAT SAID, UH, LISTENING TO MS. LEXIE, I BELIEVE, UM, IS UNACCEPTABLE. [01:40:02] I DON'T THINK IT TAKES MUCH MONEY TO ENFORCE THE LAWS THAT WOULD STOP THAT HAPPENING WHERE EVERYBODY DRIVES BY. I DRIVE BY THAT PARK DAILY. UM, ENFORCING THE LAWS DOES BURDEN OUR POLICE AND BURDEN OUR, UH, PRISON SYSTEMS. BUT THESE PEOPLE ALREADY KNOW THEY GET A FREE PASS. SHE SAID THAT THE GUY WAS EATING PIZZA AFTER BEING IN TWO FIGHTS. UNACCEPTABLE ENFORCE THE LAWS AND THAT PARK WOULD BE CLEANED UP IN NO TIME. LITTLE TO NO MONEY SPENT WITH, WITH JUST ENFORCING THE LAWS. AS FAR AS DIXIELAND GOES AND ALL THE OTHER PARKS, I UNDERSTAND EVERYONE WANTS A PIECE OF THE PIECE OF THE PIE. UM, DIXIELAND DOES DRAW PEOPLE. I DRIVE TO WESTCO AND BROWNSVILLE TO GO PLAY DIXIELAND. SO WHEN I GO OVER THERE, I'M SPENDING MY MONEY THAT I EARNED HERE IN HARLINGEN, IN THEIR TOWNS. SO WHEN THEY DRIVE FROM THEIR TOWNS TO OUR TOWN, I WANT THEM SPENDING THEIR MONEY HERE. SO IF WE CAN IMPROVE THE, OUR PARKS, ALL THE PARKS, IT, IT'S BETTER FOR EVERYBODY. BUT AS THE DISC GOLF COMMUNITY, WE LOVE THAT PARK. WE WOULD LOVE TO SEE IT EXPAND AND GROW. AND I IMPLORE ALL OF Y'ALL TO COME OUT AND TRY IT ONE DAY. IT'S VERY EASY AND VERY ADDICTING. THANK Y'ALL AND APPRECIATE EVERYTHING. THANK YOU. OKAY, I'LL BE SHORT. I'M ISAAC ZALES. UH, I LEARNED TODAY I'M IN DISTRICT FIVE, UM, . UM, I, UM, I'M PART OF THE WAVE FROM COVID. UM, UH, FORMERLY, WELL BEFORE I WAS VERY COMPETITIVE AND ACTIVE, OBVIOUSLY IN HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS. AND THEN YOU GRADUATE AND YOU GO TO COLLEGE AND UNFORTUNATELY DON'T GET THE OPPORTUNITY TO PLAY COLLEGE BALL. BUT THEN YOU COME ACROSS DISC GOLF AND NOW YOU HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO PASSIONATELY PURSUE SOMETHING WHILE I'M STILL HAVING MY CAREER AND MY, YOU KNOW, MY LIFE THAT THAT'S, THAT I, THAT I HAVE. UM, MY, I INTRODUCED MY WIFE TO PLAY, SO NOW SHE PLAYS AND SHE'S ACTUALLY BEAT ME. I'M NOT PROUD OF IT, BUT I AM PROUD OF IT AT THE SAME TIME. UM, THAT JUST KIND OF GOES TO SHOW HOW CONTAGIOUS THE GAME IS. LIKE HOW, UH, UH, ALSO YOU CAN TELL WE ALL KNOW EACH OTHER, THE COMRADERY. I CANNOT, UH, STRESS ENOUGH HOW GREAT THAT IS. UM, WE CLEAN THE COURSE AND WE GIVE FEEDBACK, OF COURSE. 'CAUSE WE WANT THE BEST AND CLEARLY, UH, WITH WHAT WAS DISCUSSED TODAY, YOU GUYS HAVE A LOT OF INTEREST, A LOT OF OUR INTEREST IN MINE. AND, AND I WANT TO SHARE MY GRATITUDE TOWARDS THAT. UM, AND, UM, GOING BACK TO PICKING OFF OF PICKING BACK OFF OF, UM, MY FRIEND TRACY. UM, HE IS ALSO A SPONSORED PLAYER. HE DIDN'T SHARE THAT 'CAUSE I DON'T KNOW WHY, BUT HE'S A SPONSORED PLAYER AND HE, WE, YOU KNOW, WE, WE PLAY RELIGIOUSLY THERE. SO THEN WE GET THE OPPORTUNITY TO MEET HIS SON, HIS SON OR HIS SON GETS TO SHARE, UH, YOU KNOW, TIPS AND, AND GOOD INFORMATION FOR US TO GET BETTER. AND THAT'S JUST THE COMRADERY IN THE COMMUNITY THAT IT BUILDS. THERE'S A, THERE'S A CLUB IN HAR UM, IN, UH, MCALLEN'S, A CLUB IN BROWNSVILLE. I REALLY ENJOY DIXIELAND BECAUSE, UM, WE'VE TRIED TO ESTABLISH A CLUB. WE HAVEN'T REALLY FOLLOWED UP ON IT, BUT WHAT I LOVE ABOUT DIXIE IS IT'S JUST THIS REALLY NICE MIDDLE AREA WHERE EVERYBODY COMES AND THEY CAN EXPECT THAT COMMUNITY, THAT CAMARADERIE AMONGST ALL OF US. AND IT'S REALLY ENJOYABLE. SO, UM, I GUESS ANOTHER THING IS, IF THERE'S EVER FUTURE PROJECTS OR, UH, SPACES THAT YOU'RE POTENTIALLY TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHAT TO DO WITH IT, PLEASE CONSIDER MORE DISC GOLF. BUT THANK YOU. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. HELLO. UH, MY NAME IS ALFRED GOMEZ, UH, DISTRICT FIVE. I'M COACH GOMEZ'S, YOUNGEST BROTHER, I CAN TELL. BORN AND RAISED HERE IN ARLINGTON. AND ON THE WEST SIDE. UM, WE RAN AROUND DIXIELAND, UH, MIDDLE SCHOOL. THAT'S WHERE WHY THEY TOOK US TO RUN. BUT THERE WAS ALWAYS A STIGMA ABOUT DIXIELAND. AS A YOUNG KID, YOU WERE TOLD NOT TO GO OVER THERE. MM-HMM. . MM-HMM. . THIS GENTLEMAN CAME UP TO ME AND TOLD ME ABOUT WHAT HE USED TO DO WHEN HE WAS DO, UH, BACK IN THE DAY, , THAT WAS ME. AND HE, AND HE LAUGHED, RIGHT? AND I UNDERSTAND WHY, BECAUSE THEY'RE STILL DOING IT. BUT THIS IS DURING THE DAY IN THE MORNINGS, UH, PERVERTED OLD MAN WAITING FOR ANOTHER PERVERTED OLD MAN TO COME AT THE BATHROOMS. , THIS PLACE IS GORGEOUS, BUT THIS IS WHAT MAKES IT DISGUSTING. AND IT'S NOT LAUGHABLE. YOU KNOW, THIS IS WHAT'S HAPPENING. YOU KNOW, SOMETHING TO MAKE IT CLEAN UP REAL QUICK. PUT MORE TRASH CANS. THERE'S THREE TRASH CANS IN THAT PARK. PUT 'EM ALONGSIDE THE ROAD SO PEOPLE CAN DRIVE AND JUST THROW THE TRASH INTO THE PARK, INTO THE CAN BECAUSE IT'S LEFT ON THE SIDE OF THE ROAD. PEOPLE GO FISHING TRASH. PEOPLE EAT TRASH ON THE ON SIDE. WE PICK IT UP, WE WALK BY, THERE'S SOMETHING WE PUT, I PUT IT IN MY POCKET, PUT IT IN MY CART. WE WERE WASTING, WE'RE SPENDING MONEY TO GO PLAY THIS GAME. I SPENT UP TO ALMOST $500 IN BUYING DISC CARTS. UH, YOU KNOW, JUST TO GO AND HAVE FUN. THREE MONTHS I'VE BEEN PLAYING THIS GAME, I'VE [01:45:01] LOST PROBABLY 25 POUNDS. I GOT HEART PROBLEMS. I'VE HAD TWO HEART ATTACKS. AND THAT WAS THE REASON I PICKED UP MY DISC, WAS TO JUST TO GO LOSE WEIGHT. ALL THESE GUYS ARE MY FRIENDS NOW. THEY JUST CAME UP TO ME, SAID, YOU WANNA PLAY WITH? I WOULD GO PLAY BY MYSELF. AND NOW ALL THESE GUYS ARE MY FRIENDS. AND WE SHOW UP EVERY MORNING AND WE PLAY AND WE TAKE CARE OF THAT PART. I JUST WISH Y'ALL DO THE SAME. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. YES. WELL, UM, YOU HAVE A BIG GROUP. ANYONE ELSE? WE GOOD. WELL, THANK YOU SO MUCH, UM, EACH AND EVERY ONE OF YOU FOR SHARING YOUR, YOUR THOUGHTS. WE APPRECIATE IT. THEY ARE DEFINITELY SOMETHING THAT, YOU KNOW, YOU'VE GIVEN US A LOT TO, TO THINK ABOUT, TO CONSIDER, UM, BEFORE, UH, WE'LL GO AHEAD AND CLOSE THIS PUBLIC HEARING AT THIS TIME. UM, HOWEVER, I DO WANNA SAY A FEW THINGS. UM, YOU KNOW, I KNOW A LOT, UM, MOST OF YOU HERE IS THE FIRST TIME THAT YOU'RE HERE, SO WE WANNA INVITE YOU TO COME BACK AND, AND PARTICIPATE IN, IN OUR COMMISSION MEETINGS. UM, BUT I DO WANNA LET YOU KNOW THAT THIS IS A UNIQUE WAY OF US INTERACTING. AND PUBLIC HEARINGS ARE MUCH DIFFERENT THAN CITIZEN COMMUNICATION. SO WHEN YOU COME FOR CITIZEN COMMUNICATION, YOU SIGN UP AND, AND WE DON'T ENGAGE BECAUSE WE'RE, WE'RE BASICALLY, WE'RE NOT ALLOWED TO UNDER THE OPEN MEETINGS ACT. HOWEVER, UM, IN PUBLIC HEARING, WE HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY AND THEN WE DO, WE HAVE WORKSHOPS WHERE THERE'S OPPORTUNITY TO ENGAGE AS WELL. BUT I, UM, DEFINITELY WANNA STRESS FOR THOSE OF YOU, I KNOW THAT WE'VE GOT SOME FOLKS FROM DISTRICT TWO, DISTRICT FOUR, DISTRICT FIVE. UM, REACH OUT TO YOUR COMMISSIONERS. EACH ONE OF THESE GUYS THAT ARE UP HERE ARE VERY ACCESSIBLE AND WANT TO HEAR WHAT IT IS THAT YOU, YOU KNOW, WHAT YOU WOULD LIKE TO SEE IN YOUR RESPECTIVE DISTRICTS. AND EVEN THOUGH THERE WILL BE ONE PARK SELECTED FOR THIS SPECIFIC GRANT, IT'S NOT THE ONLY GRANT THAT WE GET THROUGHOUT THE YEAR. YOU'RE ONLY HEARING OF THIS ONE BECAUSE THIS IS WHAT'S ON THE AGENDA. BUT THERE ARE OTHER SOURCES OF, UH, THERE ARE OTHER SOURCES OF GRANTS AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR US TO LEVERAGE TO MAKE THESE IMPROVEMENTS. AND LIKE YOU HEARD, UM, FROM SEVERAL OF THE COMMISSIONERS HERE, THERE ARE LOW HANGING FRUIT, WHAT WE CALL THINGS THAT, UH, IN A CITY BUDGET ISN'T, ISN'T THAT MUCH. YOU KNOW, I KNOW 20 OR 30,000 IS A LOT OF MONEY, BUT WHEN YOU'RE LOOKING AT THE CITY OF HARLAN, AND THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE CAN CARVE OUT TO BE ABLE TO MAKE THESE IMPROVEMENTS IN, IN THE PARKS. AND, UM, YOU KNOW, YOU WERE VERY ELOQUENT IN, IN AND AND PASSIONATE ABOUT WHAT YOU SAID IN TERMS OF CRIME AND THE ISSUES THAT ARE HAPPENING IN GUTIERREZ. AND, AND I AM LISTENING. I KNOW EVERYBODY IS LISTENING HERE AND WE ARE GOING TO HAVE SOME SERIOUS CONVERSATIONS ABOUT THAT. I WASN'T AWARE, WE DIDN'T TALK ABOUT THAT WHEN, WHEN I WAS THERE WITH YOU. UM, IF WE HAD, THEN DEFINITELY I WOULD'VE, UH, HAD SOMETHING ELSE TO, TO ADD TO THAT CONVERSATION. BUT IT IS TROUBLESOME AND WE'LL MAKE SURE, AND I'LL BE REACHING OUT TO YOU. AND I'M SURE THAT THAT DANIEL WILL AS, AS, AS WELL. UM, BUT LIKE I SAID, JUST BECAUSE ONE PARK IS PICKED DOESN'T MEAN THAT THE OTHERS WILL NOT BE, UH, GIVEN THE ATTENTION THAT THEY NEED. WE ARE ALSO GONNA PRIORITIZE PARKS SO THAT WAY WE CAN TACKLE ALL OF THEM. THE GOAL HERE IN HARLINGEN IS THAT WE WANT TO HAVE A COMMUNITY WHERE THERE ARE GREEN SPACES AND OPPORTUNITY FOR EVERY SINGLE PERSON IN EVERY NEIGHBORHOOD TO HAVE ACCESS WITHIN WALKING DISTANCE TO A PARK. AND THAT'S A BIG GOAL. BUT THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE'RE COMMITTED TO DOING AND ENSURING THAT OUR TRAILS ARE CONNECTED. AND I REALLY LIKE THE IDEA OF HAVING THE WALKING TRAILS. IT'S SOMETHING THAT THE COMMISSION HAS ALREADY DISCUSSED OF HAVING WALKING TRAILS WITHIN EACH OF THE PARKS FOR FAMILIES TO BE ABLE TO SEE THEIR KIDS PLAY, BUT ALSO PARENTS TO GET SOME, SOME EXERCISE, RIGHT? WE'RE ALL GETTING OLDER HEALTH ISSUES AND CONCERNS AND, AND THAT'S AN OPPORTUNITY FOR US TO PROMOTE HEALTH AND WELLNESS. SO I HOPE THAT GIVES YOU AT LEAST SOME PEACE OF MIND THAT IF DIXIELAND ISN'T CHOSEN OR GUTIERREZ ISN'T CHOSEN OR ANY OF THE OTHER PARKS, IT'S NOT THAT, THAT'S IT. YOU KNOW, WE'RE, WE'RE NOT GONNA FOCUS ON THOSE. WE'RE GONNA ABSOLUTELY FOCUS ON ALL OF THEM. ALRIGHT. I JUST WANNA MENTION ON THE TRAIL, THAT'S SOMETHING I'M ACTIVELY WORKING ON BECAUSE FOR THOSE OF YOU THAT MAY NOT KNOW THE, THE, WHAT'S THE ROYAL BIKE HIKE TRAIL? IT'S ALSO THE, THE FRANK BOGUS TRAIL. IT'S LITERALLY LIKE WITHIN IT'S CLOSE. YEAH, IT'S SUPER CLOSE. SO MY, MY GOAL IS TO IS TO EVENTUALLY GET A TRAIL AROUND DIXIELAND PARK AND TO CONNECT IT. SO THAT'S SOMETHING THAT I'M, I'M ACTIVELY WORKING ON AND HOPEFULLY THAT WE'LL BE ABLE TO GET. AND LIKE THE MAYOR SAID, THERE ARE OTHER ADDITIONAL FUNDING, UM, SOURCES AND THERE'S ONE THAT JUST RECENTLY THAT GOT WE DIXON'S GETTING RECOMMENDED FOR. AND IT'LL COME TO US NEXT WEEK AND HOPEFULLY IF EVERYTHING WORKS OUT, THEY'LL GET APPROVED AND YOU'LL BE SEEING SOME CHANGES AT DIXIELAND PARK, UM, SOON. THANK YOU. SAID DIFFERENT THIS TIME, BUT WE ARE MISSING A BASKET AT, UH, DISNEYLAND. IT'S NOT, YOU KNOW, AMONGST THE COMMUNITY. THEY'RE FIXING, GETTING, YOU KNOW, HEARSAY, HEARSAY, HEARSAY. I PERSONALLY TAKE MINE EVERY TIME THAT I GO TO PLAY PLACE [01:50:01] IT AND, UH, ANYONE THAT'S THERE, THERE'S MORE THAN WELCOME TO USE A BOX THERE. BUT ONCE I LEAVE, I'M PACKING IT UP. SO, UH, IT, IT HAS BEEN MISSING FOR A WHILE. I THINK THAT'S ONE OF THE ONES, JAVIER, THAT YOU GUYS ARE REPAIRING OR REDOING? YEAH. 'CAUSE IT'S, THEY DID REACH OUT TO ME ON THAT ONE AND LET ME KNOW ABOUT THAT ONE. BUT THAT'S ONE THAT THEY'RE ACTUALLY REPAIRING BECAUSE A COUPLE WEEKS AGO, UM, UH, WHEN THE MAYOR AND I WERE CR WALKING THE PARK, UM, THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE NOTICED. WE REACHED OUT TO PARK. SO THAT'S WHAT THEY'RE DOING RIGHT NOW. THEY'RE ACTIVELY WORKING THAT IF EVERYTHING WORKS OUT WITH THE OTHER DURING THE BUDGET AND WE'RE ABLE TO GET THAT ADDITIONAL FUNDING FOR WHAT WE WANT TO DO WITH THE REDESIGN, UM, THAT WILL EVENTUALLY, HOPEFULLY , WE'LL BE ABLE TO REPLACE ALL THOSE, UM, DIFFERENT, UM, BASKETS. OKAY. OKAY. AND IF I MAY, YEP. UH, YESTERDAY I, I ATTENDED A, A MEETING AND THE PEOPLE THAT I MET WITH WAS CALLED BROWNFIELD BROWNFIELD. THEY'RE OUTTA KANSAS. THEY WORK IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE TECQ, THE STATE, UH, EDC, THE RAILROAD COMMISSION AND OTHER GROUPS TO DO EXACTLY WHAT WE'RE LOOKING AT ON PARKS. THAT CANNOT BE, UH, THAT WILL NOT BE PART OF THIS, THAT CAN BE TIED IN. UH, MR. GOMEZ, I, I KNOW YOU MISSED IT. I GIVE MS, UH, HERNANDEZ SOME INFORMATION. THAT'S WHAT I GAVE HER, BUT IT'S NOT JUST, IT DOESN'T DEAL JUST WITH PARKS. THERE'S A WHOLE SLEW OF OTHER THINGS THAT WE CAN WORK ON. THAT IS ANOTHER AVENUE IN TRYING TO GET FUNDING FOR PARKS AND FOR THE LOW, UH, LOW TO MODERATE INCOME AREAS THAT NEED A LOT OF ATTENTION. THIS IS SOMETHING THAT WAS PROVIDED TO ME, UH, AS FAR AS AN OPTION TO BE ABLE TO ATTEND BY OUR LOCAL STATE REP. SO I TOOK ADVANTAGE OF THAT, WENT TO LAGUNA VISTA AND PARTICIPATED IN THAT, IN, IN THAT, IN THAT DISCUSSION, IN THAT LEARNING PROCESS. AND GUESS WHO ELSE WAS THERE BESIDES OUR STATE REP, OUR EDC PEOPLE. SO THIS IS NOT GONNA BE SOMETHING THAT WE'RE JUST LOOKING AT, JUST THIS PROJECT. THERE'S GOING TO BE OTHERS AND IT WILL BE ADDRESSED. HOPEFULLY IT'LL BE A LOT SOONER AND FASTER THAN SOME OF THE OTHER MATERIALS THAT I'VE BEEN TRYING TO, TO GET THROUGH. BUT THIS IS NOT GONNA GO AWAY. THIS WILL BE ADDRESSED. YOU WILL HAVE SOLUTIONS. I PROMISE YOU THAT. THE QUESTION IS HOW SOON WILL IT TAKE A WEEK? WILL IT TAKE A MONTH? WILL IT TAKE A YEAR? BUT YOU WILL GET SOLUTIONS THAT YOU WILL. THANK YOU. OKAY, SO WE HAVE, UH, CLOSED THE PUBLIC HEARING IF THERE'S NO OTHER, OKAY. UM, ON THIS ITEM, IS IT PRIORITIZE TO PRIORITIZE THE PARKS? IS THAT CORRECT? UH, THAT'S CORRECT. THIS IS JUST A PUBLIC HEARING. UH, THE NEXT TWO ITEMS ARE ALSO PUBLIC HEARINGS THAT WE NEED TO HAVE FOR THE FOLLOWING, UH, ACTION ITEMS. OKAY. DO YOU WANT, SO NUMBER THREE ON HERE, YOU HAD PRIORITIZED SELECTED PARK PROJECTS, YOU'RE NOT GOING TO DO THAT. UM, OR THAT, THAT'S WHY I WAS ASKING. WELL, THIS IS ONLY FOR PART OF THE PUBLIC HERE. YEAH. ONLY FOR UPCOMING PROJECTS, BUT WE CAN DISCUSS THOSE FURTHER WHENEVER WE HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY. OKAY. UH, THAT'S PROBABLY GONNA COME UP DURING THE BUDGET PROCESS, WHAT PRO UH, PARKS YOU WANT US TO FOCUS ON. OKAY. AND THEN WE HAVE SEVERAL AVENUES THAT WE CAN LOOK AT, UH, GENERAL FUND, UH, AND ALSO MAYBE THE, THE FOUR B AS WELL. SO WE CAN TALK ABOUT ALL THOSE POSSIBILITIES ON ANY OTHER PROJECT THAT YOU WANT US TO CONCENTRATE ON. OKAY. IT DOESN'T HAVE TO BE HERE TONIGHT. GET READY, GABE. SO THEN WE'LL MOVE ON TO ITEM THREE. YES. ITEM THREE, PUBLIC HEARING ON THE SUBMISSION OF A GRANT APPLICATION TO THE TEXAS PARKS AND WILDLIFE NON-URBAN OUTDOOR RECREATION, LOCAL PARK GRANT PROGRAM, PARKS AND RECREATE. SO AT THIS TIME, WE'LL OPEN THE PUBLIC HEARING. I DO BELIEVE EVERYONE HAS SPOKEN. UM, THIS IS THE PUBLIC HEARING FOR THE GRANT OF THE APPLICATION OF THE TEXAS PARKS AND WILDLIFE. IS THERE ANYONE HERE WISHING TO SPEAK ON THIS SPECIFIC ITEM? OKAY. HAVING NO ONE HERE TO SPEAK ON THIS ITEM WILL CLOSE THE PUBLIC HEARING. OKAY. ITEM NUMBER FOUR, PUBLIC HEARING ON THE SUBMISSION OF A GRANT APPLICATION TO THE TEXAS PARKS AND WILDLIFE NON-URBAN INDOOR CREATION LOCAL PARK GRANT PROGRAM. OKAY. THIS IS A, ALSO A PUBLIC HEARING FOR A GRANT, BUT THIS IS FOR INDOOR RECREATIONAL FACILITIES. IS THERE ANYONE HERE TO SPEAK, UM, IN, ON THIS ITEM? OKAY. HAVING A WIND HERE. WE'LL CLOSE THE PUBLIC HEARING. OKAY. MOVING ON TO ITEM NUMBER FIVE, CONSIDERATION AND POSSIBLE ACTION TO APPROVE A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE SUBMIT, AUTHORIZING THE SUBMISSION OF A GRANT APPLICATION TO THE TEXAS PARKS AND WILDLIFE NON-URBAN OUTDOOR RECREATION LOCAL PARK GRANT, SPECIAL PROJECTS DIRECTOR. OKAY, SO THIS IS SO [01:55:01] THAT WAY IT CAN BE IDENTIFIED, CORRECT? YES. THIS WAS FOR THE, UH, SIX PROJECTS THAT WERE PRESENTED, UH, EARLIER BY STAFF TO THE COMMISSION, UH, THAT INCLUDED CB WOOD, MCKELVY, ROYAL SOCCER VEST, AND GUTIERREZ. UH, WE ARE ASKING THE COMMISSION TO PICK ONE THAT WE WOULD SUBMIT FOR, UH, FUNDING TO THE PARKS AND WILDLIFE, UH, FOR A POSSIBLE GRANT APPLICATION UP TO 1.5 MILLION. ANNA, I HAVE A QUESTION. WHEN'S THIS, UH, GRANT DUE? JULY 30 TO APPLY. WE TELL EVERYONE JULY 31ST, BUT IT'S TECHNICALLY AUGUST 1ST, BUT I'D LIKE TO SUBMIT IT BEFORE THE DAY BEFORE YESTERDAY. CERTAINLY, YES. OKAY. UM, QUESTION. SO HAVE HAD, HAVE WE CONSIDERED THE FACT THAT MCKELVY FLOODS WHEN WE HAVE A PRETTY BAD FLOOD COMPARED TO CB WOODS AND, UM, THERE'S SUCH A OF ISSUES? YEAH. SORRY. ONE OF MY, SOMEONE TEXTED ME RIGHT NOW AND HE WAS LIKE, HEY, HAVE THAT BROUGHT UP THAT CONCERN? I THINK IT'S A GOOD ONE. I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE THAT WHATEVER MONEY WE PUT INTO IT, UH, YOU KNOW, STAY, NOT STAYS THERE BUT UH, ISN'T DESTROYED NEXT TIME WE HAVE A BIG RAIN OR WHATNOT. RIGHT. SO THE, THE AREA THAT FLOODS IS, IS WITHIN THE FLOODWAY. RIGHT? SO, UM, WE DO HAVE THE LIGHTING, THE ARROYOS, SOMETIMES WE'LL PUT THE STAGE DOWN OR BLUES ON THE HILL, WE'LL PUT THE STAGE DOWN ON THE BOTTOM, BUT JUST DEPENDING ON THE WEATHER, RIGHT? SO, UH, IT DOESN'T HAVE TO COURSE NECESSARILY RAIN HERE, BUT IF THEY RELEASE WATER UP UP THE VALLEY, IT'LL STILL COME AND FLOOD, UH, THAT AREA. BUT THE AREA WHERE WE WANNA DO THE IMPROVEMENTS ARE UP, UP ABOVE THE FLOODWAY. SO IT'S WHERE, LIKE, WHERE THE PAVILION IS? YES. UH, AND THEN THE, THE PLAYGROUND AND, UH, THERE'S SOME PICNIC AREAS. AND THEN DEPENDING ON WHERE WE CAN BUILD A PARKING AREA, RIGHT. IS IS EITHER ON THE, BEHIND THE RESTROOMS OR OVER HERE TOWARDS THE, UM, WHERE THEY CALL THE EBONY FOREST. OKAY. GABE, I GOT A COUPLE OF QUESTIONS FOR YOU. UH, WE'RE SOON TO BE GOING INTO BUDGET, UM, CALCULATIONS AND REQUESTS. YES. AND IF MY MEMORY'S CORRECT, LAST YEAR THERE WAS 11 MORE, $11 MILLION MORE REQUESTED THEM ALL THE DIVISIONS WITHIN THE CITY THEN WE COULD FUND, CORRECT? RIGHT. OKAY. SO, UM, OUR STILL CASES HERE TOO. YEAH, I KNOW EVERYBODY ASKED FOR EVERYTHING, BUT, UH, WITH, WITH ER HERE, YOU KNOW, WE'RE, WE'RE LIKE 50 EMPLOYEES SHY OF MAINTAINING PARKS. UM, SO, UM, SO WITH THAT QUESTION, WE APPLY FOR ONE OF THESE AND THEN CB WOOD IS A HALF A MILLION DOLLARS. WOULD YOU BE COMFORTABLE, UM, TO FUND THAT WITHOUT A GRANT APPLICATION? AND YOU DON'T HAVE TO ANSWER THAT NOW. OKAY, GOOD. YEAH, YOU'RE NOT ON THE SPOT. BUT, BUT THINK ABOUT IT FOR THE BUDGETARY PROCESS. SURE. AND THERE'S, THERE'S, THERE ARE A FEW POSSIBILITIES TO FUND, SAY CB WOOD. UH, SOME OF THE IMPROVEMENTS AT, AT DIXIELAND THAT WE TALKED ABOUT EARLIER. UH, THERE ARE AVENUES TO ACTUALLY GET SOME OF THOSE FUNDED THAT DON'T NECESSARILY HAVE TO BE THROUGH THE GENERAL FUND. YEAH. AND, AND SO IT'S NOT ALL OR NONE. RIGHT. OKAY. BECAUSE, UM, WITH THIS DISC, THIS DISC GAME, MAN, I LEARNED SOMETHING TONIGHT, , I APPRECIATE IT. UH, IT SEEMS TO ME WE COULD PUT IN A SECOND COURSE SOMEPLACE AND SOMEBODY SAID IT COSTS 25,000. SO, SO THAT WOULD BE, UH, YOU KNOW, THINK ABOUT THAT TOO. WE CAN ALWAYS DO THAT ON ANOTHER PARK ON THE WEST SIDE. YES. OR THE OTHER DISTRICTS . SO, OKAY. UM, AND, AND, AND THAT'S AN IMPORTANT, THAT'S AN IMPORTANT, UH, POINT. THERE'S A SEVERAL THINGS, AND I THINK WE'RE KIND OF VEERING OFF, BUT COVERED BLEACHERS AND ALL THOSE THINGS, WE STILL WANNA DO ALL OF THAT. AND SO LET'S NOT FORGET ABOUT THAT WHEN WE ARE LOOKING THROUGH THE BUDGET. BUT WE HAVE A DECISION, UH, HERE TO, TO MAKE. SO IF WE COULD FOCUS ON WHAT THAT, WHAT THAT IS. IS THERE A MOTION OR IS THERE FURTHER DISCUSSION, UH, ON A SELECTION OF A PARK? I'M IN FAVOR OF WHATEVER ANNA BELIEVES HAS THE BEST CHANCE. ANNA DID NOT WANT TO PULL THE TRIGGER ON ANY OF THOSE BECAUSE SHE DOES NOT FEEL COMFORTABLE SAYING THAT IN FRONT OF, UM, THIS COMMISSION. BUT I, I, I AGREE WITH, WITH, AND I THINK, AND, AND I DON'T THINK YOU NEED TO BE CONCERNED 'CAUSE EVERYBODY RESPECTS YOUR OPINION. SO IF, IF YOU HAVE ONE THAT YOU THINK THAT YOU WOULD LIKE TO WORK ON, THIS IS THE TIME FOR YOU TO ASK AND YOU SHALL RECEIVE. NO THANK YOU. NO, THANK YOU. THE SAME BACK. NO, I'D BE ALL OVER IT. I MEAN, I, I STAND BY WHAT [02:00:01] I SAID EARLIER. THEY'RE ALL EQUALLY, EQUALLY. THEY'RE SOLID. WE CAN MAKE A GOOD CASE. EACH OF THE PARTS HAVE STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES. MM-HMM. . AND, UH, IT'S OUR JOB TO MAKE IT COMPETITIVE. SO, SO I'M GONNA SAY THIS, OKAY. SO IF THAT IS, IF IF ALL THINGS BEING EQUAL, THEN I WOULD REALLY STRESS TO THIS COMMISSION THAT GUTIERREZ PARK NEEDS IT BECAUSE OF THE ISSUES THAT WE HEARD TODAY, BUT IT'S NOT CONNECTED TO THE ARROYO. SO I WANT TO RESPECT WHAT YOU ARE PROPOSING OR WHAT YOU ARE, YOU KNOW, CONVEYING TO US. AND, AND I DON'T WANT TO, AND I, I DON'T WANT TO STAND BEHIND THAT. IF YOU THINK THAT IT IS NOT THE STRONGEST PARK TO GET TO GET FUNDED, I THINK THERE'S OTHER GRANTS THAT MAYBE WILL BE MORE FITTING TO THE NEEDS OF GUT. OKAY. SO WE'VE CHECKED THAT ONE. YES. THANK YOU. SO WE'RE STICKING WITH THE ARROYO, WHAT'S CONNECTED TO THE ARROYO. AND SO IT SEEMS THAT THE ONE THAT GETS THE MOST USE FROM MY VIEW, AND I HAVE, I GO TO MCKELVY, I GO TO ARROYO PARK. I HAVEN'T BEEN TO THE CB WOOD. CB WOOD, SO I DON'T KNOW THE AMOUNT OF PEOPLE, BUT I WILL JUST SAY, I, I SAY THIS ALL THE TIME AND I TELL JD THAT THERE'S ALWAYS A TON OF FAMILIES OUT AT A, AT A ROYAL PARK. AND IT NEEDS, IT NEEDS SOME, IT NEEDS SOME HELP. I WOULD BE COMFORTABLE MAKING A RECOMMENDATION, UH, FOR YOU TO APPLY FOR A ROYAL PARK. IS THAT A MOTION? THAT'S A MOTION. I SECOND THAT. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY AYE. AYE. AYE. OPPOSED? MOTION CARRIES UNANIMOUSLY. NICE. OKAY. OKAY. THANK YOU ANNA. MM-HMM. . OKAY. MOVING ON TO ITEM SIX MM-HMM. CONSIDERATION AND POSSIBLE ACTION TO APPROVE A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE SUBMISSION OF A GRANT APPLICATION TO THE TEXAS PARKS AND WILDLIFE NON-URBAN INDOOR RECREATION LOCAL PARK GRANT PROGRAM. SPECIAL PROJECTS DO FOR, UM, MAYOR, UH, THIS REALLY IS FOR REC CENTER. SO WE ARE ASKING THAT, UH, STAFF BE GIVEN THE AUTHORIZATION TO APPLY FOR A GRANT TO DO A FEASIBILITY STUDY FOR THE, UH, RECREATION CENTER FOR THE CITY. IS THIS, DID YOU WANT TO DO THIS STUDY OR IS THIS YOU WANT NO. RIGHT. SO ANNA? YEAH. SORRY. JUST SIT UP HERE. YEAH, SO SORRY. UM, SO IT COULD BE EITHER WAY. MM-HMM. . SO IF YOU FEEL THAT YOU HAVE A LOCATION, AND THAT WAS ONE OF THE DISCUSSIONS THAT WE HAD LAST TIME. MM-HMM. , UH, WE CAN GO AHEAD AND DO THE SIGN IN CONSTRUCTION. SO I THINK BASED ON OUR CONVERSATIONS, UM, AND WE SPENT A LOT OF TIME TALKING ABOUT THIS, I THINK THAT BASED ON LAND AVAILABILITY, IT SEEMED THAT PENDLETON PARK WAS THE BEST SITUATED TO EXTEND, UM, WHERE THE POOL IS. IS THAT CORRECT? AND DO YOU WANNA EXPLAIN A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THAT? YES, MA'AM. SO, UM, THE IDEA WAS THAT WE WOULD CONNECT THE, UM, THE REC CENTER TO THE, UH, THE POOL TO PENDLETON POOL. AND SO SIMILAR TO A-Y-M-C-A, UM, WE WOULD HAVE THE REC CENTER CONNECTED. UM, AND SO THERE'S AREA ON THE, UM, WEST SIDE OF, OF PENDLETON WHERE WE CAN MAKE THAT HAPPEN. UM, AND THEN THERE'S ALSO LAND THERE WHERE WE CAN ADD PARKING, UH, IF NECESSARY. SO, UM, THAT WOULD BE MY, MY RECOMMENDATION, UH, IS THAT WE SELECT PENDLETON, UH, FOR THIS GRANT. OKAY. AND, AND THEN QUESTIONS GABE? YES. UH, THE BUILDING ON MADISON. WHAT, WHAT, WHAT BUILDING IS THAT BY MADISON COMMUNITY COMMUNITY. THAT'S A COMMUNITY CENTER. COMMUNITY CENTER, YEAH. AND THEY'RE, UH, THEY'RE FROM THE FIFTIES, THE, UH, SHUFFLE BOARD. MM-HMM. , UH, IN, IN THE TILE. UH, AND OF COURSE NOBODY'S PLAYED SHUFFLEBOARD FOR 45 YEARS. OR SO BEAUTIFUL. NO , . UM, YOU KNOW, IT'S ONE OF THE, ONE OF THE FEW THINGS I DON'T DO IN MY LIFE. , BUT WHAT ABOUT PUTTING IN THE PICKLEBALL COURTS THERE INSIDE? WE, WE ALREADY HAVE PICKLEBALL PLAYED IN THE COMMUNITY CENTER. YES. UM, SO THAT'S HAPPENING ALREADY. OKAY. BUT IS IT DEDICATED TO PICKLEBALL? NO. NO, IT'S NOT. BECAUSE WE ALSO RENT OUT THE COMMUNITY CENTER FOR OTHER USES. OKAY. AND SO, UM, REMEMBER WE USED TO HAVE THE, UH, FEAST OF SHARING THERE, UH, AND THEY MOVED OUT. THEY'RE USING THE COMMIT CENTER NOW. OKAY. SO, OKAY. JUST, JUST A QUESTION. WE'RE WE'RE, WE'RE VEERING OFF TOPIC AGAIN. I HAD A QUICK QUESTION FOR GABE REAL QUICK. YES, SIR. WOULD, WOULD IT BE POSSIBLE TO LIKE REPURPOSE ONE OF OUR BUILDINGS THAT WE HAVE FOR THAT PURPOSE FOR LIKE A PICKLEBALL? LIKE SO WE CAN HAVE IT INDOOR TO, TO MAKE IT, TO MAKE IT PERMANENT? YEAH. UM, WE, UNTIL SHUFFLEBOARD COMES BACK, WE, WE, WELL, NO SH SHUFFLEBOARDS NEVER COMING BACK. . OH, YOU'RE CRUSHED ME. WE, WE WOULD, WE TALKED ABOUT CAA MISTA, RIGHT? AND SO I THINK, WELL, YEAH, BUT THAT WOULD NOT BE A GOOD LOCATION TO MAKE IT PERMANENT BECAUSE A LOT OF PEOPLE USE CASA DEAT. FOR, FOR WEDDINGS, FOR [02:05:01] RAS, WE WOULD HAVE TO PICK A FACILITY. UH, IF WE WERE TO PICK ONE, PROBABLY WOULD BE THE COMMUNITY CENTER TO MAKE IT PERMANENT FOR, FOR SHUFFLEBOARD. I'M SORRY FOR YOU GOT ME THINKING ABOUT THAT FOR PICKLEBALL. YEAH. SO, SO I, I, I, I'VE ASKED, UM, UH, JAVIER, AND MAYBE YOU CAN SHARE IT WITH THE ENTIRE COMMISSION, I ASKED FOR, UH, THE COST OF WHAT THE REVENUE IS FOR ALL OF THE BUILDINGS, SO THAT WAY WE KNOW HOW MUCH IS COMING IN FOR KATA. UM, THE COMMUNITY CENTER AND ALL OF THOSE TODAY AS WE SIT HERE, THE COMMUNITY CENTER HAD TO CANCEL THEIR, UM, PICKLEBALL, UH, UH, SESSION. MM-HMM. OR DRILLS, WHICH IS WHAT I LEARNED THE MOST POPULAR OUT OF ALL THE CLASSES THEY DO THURSDAY AND FRIDAY THROUGH, THROUGH ENTA FOR BEGINNERS LIKE RAINY AND I, UM, TO LEARN. AND IT'S JUST FULL OF PEOPLE. AND SO WE'RE REALLY TAKING THAT AWAY FROM THEM EVERY FRIDAY BY CLOSING. SO I THINK THAT WE DO NEED A, A DEDICATED SPACE, BUT, UM, I THINK GABE NEEDS TO LOOK TO SEE IF THE NUMBERS, WHAT'S THE BEST, BEST LOCATION, UH, TO BE ABLE TO, TO DO THAT SO THAT WAY THEY ARE NOT BEING MOVED. BUT AT THE SAME TOKEN, I MEAN, SPIN GETS CANCELED. UM, THE PILATES, LIKE ALL OF THOSE. AND SO I THINK, YOU KNOW, THEY'RE ALL IMPORTANT BECAUSE WE WANNA GIVE A, A HEALTHY COMMUNITY. YEAH. SO I'VE ALREADY TALKED, GOING TO YOUR POINT, I MIGHT, I TALKED TO STAFF MAYBE LIKE THREE MONTHS AGO, TWO MONTHS AGO ABOUT PUTTING PICKLEBALL EXACTLY WHERE YOU SAID, BECAUSE A GENTLEMAN APPROACHED FORD AND I, WHEN I DID OUR PICKLEBALL EVENT THERE, UH, I THINK IT CAME OUT TO LIKE TWO. HE ALREADY, HE ALREADY HAD IT DESIGNED. YEAH. SO IT CAME OUT TO LIKE 200,000 DRIVE, 300,000. RIGHT. SO I, I INCLUDED THAT IN THE, THE POWERPOINT FROM LAST WEEK. YEAH. AND SO, UH, THE TOTAL COST OF CONSTRUCTION FOR THAT WAS 321,600. THAT'S TO BUILD EIGHT COURTS BEHIND THE COMMUNITY CENTER USING THE SHUFFLEBOARD COURTS. SO WE WOULD, WE WOULD, UM, REPURPOSE THOSE. AND THEY'D BE OUTDOOR COURTS, RIGHT? YES. AND THEN THEY'RE THE INDOOR AND INSIDE, RIGHT. THEY WOULD BE LIGHTED. UM, AND THEN IT WOULD ALSO INCLUDE SEATING, COVERED SEATING OUT THERE IN THE BACK. SO THAT'S, IT WAS, UH, CONSTRUCTION OF THE COURT LIGHTING AND THEN THE PLANS, THE SHADED SEATING AND THEN THE ENGINEERING FOR THE, FOR THE PLANS. RIGHT. FOR THE FOUNDATION. WOULD THERE BE ANY TYPE OF LIKE KIND OF COVERING FOR WHEN THEY'RE ACTUALLY PLAYING? NO. UH, IT WOULD, THE ONLY THING WE WOULD COVER IS JUST THE SEATING FOR THE, UH, FOR THE PLAYERS BECAUSE IT'S HOT. BUT, BUT YOU WOULD, YOU SAID YOU WOULD INSTALL SOME WINDSCREENS, RIGHT? RIGHT. YEAH, WE, WE COULD, WE COULD RAISE 'CAUSE THE WALLS ARE, ARE COMPLETELY BRICKED. RIGHT. AND SO IT BLOCKS, BUT IF WE GO HIGHER, WE CAN PUT WINDSCREENS ABOVE THAT. WELL, HAVING, HAVING, HAVING UM, SPOKEN TO THE, THE PLAYERS THERE, A LOT OF THEM WERE SAYING THAT THE REAL PICKLEBALL IS OUTDOORS. MM-HMM. LIKE THAT. AND, AND I DIDN'T REALIZE, I MEAN, I WOULD PREFER INDOORS 'CAUSE I'M NOT LIKE A GOOD PLAYER 'CAUSE, AND IT'S HOT. BUT, UM, THEY WERE SAYING THAT THAT MOST OF IT, RIGHT, MOST OF THE, THE COURTS ARE, ARE OUTDOORS. BUT IT WOULD BE NICE TO HAVE SOME KIND SHAPE THEY WANTED OUTDOOR INDOOR. OUTDOOR. INDOOR. YEAH, THAT WAS, THEY WANTED AN OUTDOOR PARK. I MEAN A COURT, BUT INDOORS. THE, THE FLOORS. SEE, BUT WE HAVE, WE COULD DO THAT AND MAKE IT WORK. AND WHAT, I'M SORRY, AT THE COMMUNITY CENTER. SO WE COULD DO THAT OUTDOOR AND INDOOR AND MAKE IT WORK. NO, HE'S, HE'S SAYING OUTDOOR, UH, COVERED. YEAH, THEY SAY OUTDOOR INDOOR, BUT THEY MEANT INDOOR. THEY WANT IT INDOOR, BUT WITH THE FLOORS, THE WAY THAT THEY ARE OUTDOORS, LIKE A TENNIS COURT INSIDE. OH, OKAY. OKAY. RIGHT. YEAH. THAT DIDN'T MAKE SENSE. INDOOR OUTDOOR . UM, I THOUGHT IT WAS OUTDOOR, BUT INDOOR MEANING THAT IT WAS COVERED. THAT'S OKAY. LIKE, IT'S LIKE WE WERE PLAYING YESTERDAY AND NORMA COULDN'T GET OVER THE NET EITHER. , SHE'S CONFUSED. WELL, SHE, HEY, THAT'S BETTER BECAUSE WHEN I PLAYED WITH HER ON WEDNESDAY, SHE WAS MISSING THE BALL COMPLETELY . SHE WAS WI HAPPENING. THAT'S STILL HAPPENING. OH, THAT STILL KEPT HAPPENING. WELL, I WILL JUST SAY THAT, UM, THERE WAS A, A, A WINNER AND A LOSER AND I THINK I WAS THE WINNERS. SO ALWAYS THE WINNER. UH, ANYHOW. UH, BUT YEAH, NO, I AM, I'M, I'M HIDEOUS. BUT IT, THERE IS, THERE ARE GREAT, UH, PLAYERS OUT THERE IN OUR COMMUNITY. UM, BUT AGAIN, WE ARE, WE ARE VEERING OFF. AND SO IN THIS, UM, PROPOSE OR, OR THIS GRANT WE ARE LOOKING AT USING PENDLETON. 'CAUSE THAT IS THE ONLY SPACE THAT WE HAVE WITHIN THE CITY THAT WOULD BE, UH, THAT WOULD COVER FOR THIS GRANT RIGHT. AT THIS TIME. CORRECT. HOW BIG IS IT? LIKE I HAVE YOU, DO YOU HAVE DESIGNS? DO YOU HAVE, LIKE WHAT'S GONNA BE IN IT? DO WE HAVE ANY OF THOSE QUESTIONS? NO, WE HAVEN'T LOOKED AT, UH, WHAT THAT WOULD LOOK AT, LOOK LIKE. BUT ONE THING THAT I WAS SHARING WITH THE MAYOR WAS THAT WHEN I WAS AT THE COUNTY, WE BUILT A, UM, UH, CENTER OVER AT BROWNIE ROAD AT PITA PARK, WHICH IS THE BOB CLARK, UH, COMMUNITY CENTER. AND SO THAT [02:10:01] WAS, WE BUILT A, UH, KITCHEN, COMMERCIAL KITCHEN, HAD CLASSROOMS ON THE SIDE, UM, AND OF COURSE BIG LOBBY. AND THEN IT ALSO HAD AN EXERCISE ROOM WHERE PEOPLE WOULD GO AND EXERCISE. AND THE REASON THAT WE DESIGNED IT AND BUILT IT OUT THERE WAS BECAUSE A LOT OF THOSE PEOPLE COULDN'T, UH, THEY DIDN'T HAVE TRANSPORTATION TO, TO COME TO THE CITY. SO WE BUILT IT OUTSIDE BY THE AIRPORT. SO PEOPLE FROM THAT COMMUNITY WOULD ACTUALLY GO TO THE CENTER FOR THE SERVICES. UM, AND SO WE WOULD CONTRACT WITH DIFFERENT AGENCIES TO BE ABLE TO BRING THOSE SERVICES TO THE COMMUNITY. WHEN I, BEFORE I LEFT, THEY BUILT A, UM, WE ADDED ON A, UH, BASKETBALL COURT TO THE BACK END OF IT. MM-HMM. . SO, UM, SO RIGHT NOW IT HAS A BASKETBALL COURT AND IT HAS ALL THE THINGS. SO THAT WAS MY IDEA WAS RIGHT, THAT WE'D BUILD A COMMERCIAL KITCHEN, MAYBE SOME CLASSROOMS AND THEN, UH, A, UM, A GYM IN THE BACK OR SOMEWHERE. MM-HMM. . AND THE GYM COULD ALSO SERVE AS, UM, SHELTER. A SHELTER. SO HOW MUCH IS THIS GRANT FOR? UH, I THINK IT'S 1.5 MILLION UP TO 1.5, BUT IT'S A MATCHING GRANT. 3 MILLION. AND SO THE THING IS THAT IT, UM, OPENS UP FOR INDOOR AND ONLY EVERY COUPLE OF YEARS. RIGHT. AND SO THE IDEA WITH THIS IS, I THINK YOU WERE GOING TO GET WITH, UM, WHOEVER YOU SAID HELPED WITH VICTOR, VICTOR PARK. IS THAT RIGHT? TO BE ABLE TO DESIGN AND TO HAVE EVERYTHING. BUT WE TALKED ABOUT THE THINGS WOULD BE SIMILAR TO LIKE A-Y-M-C-A THAT IT WOULD HAVE, UH, IT WOULD BE ATTACHED TO WHERE THE POOL IS. AND THEN YOU HAVE THE TENNIS COURTS THAT ARE ALREADY THERE THAT YOU'D HAVE A BASKETBALL COURT, INDOOR, SOME WEIGHT OR EXERCISE. MM-HMM. ROOMS AND DEF AND THE COMMERCIAL KITCHEN WOULD SERVE AS A PLACE TO HAVE NUTRITION CLASSES AND ALL THE THINGS THAT THEY'RE ALREADY DOING, BUT THEY'RE ALL SPREAD OUT THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE CITY. SO THEY'D HAVE, THEY'D HAVE, UM, DEDICATED SPACES TO THOSE CLASSES AND HAVE PICKLEBALL COURT INSIDE OF THE, THE FACILITY AS WELL AS, WHAT WAS THE OTHER ONE? BASKETBALL COURT BASKETBALL, INDOOR BASKETBALL. UM, AND THEN YOU COULD ALSO HAVE VOLLEYBALL AS WELL. A UH, WE, WE WERE TALKING ABOUT THE WAY THAT SPORTS PALACE WAS BEFORE IN THE DAY WHERE IT HAD THE INDOOR WALKING TRACK, UM, AND HAD RACKETBALL HAD RACKETBALL, BUT INTO RACKETBALL WOULD BE PICKLEBALL. SO SOME SIMILAR, SOMETHING SIMILAR TO THAT, BUT WITH A NUTRITION AND, AND HEALTH COMPONENT TO IT TO BE ABLE TO HAVE THOSE CLASSES. 'CAUSE I KNOW THEY TRIED TO DO SOME OF THEM AND THEN THERE WAS JUST NO KITCHEN. UH, AND SO WE DID THEM AT THE COMMUNITY CENTER, BUT WITH THE RECIPES ALREADY. RIGHT. UM, LIKE PRE-MADE. RIGHT. AND WE WOULD HAVE TO, UM, USE SOME OF THE CHURCHES. UH, WE'D GO TO THEM AND, AND THEY WOULD LEND US THEIR, THEIR KITCHEN. RIGHT. THE, THE HANDOUT THAT YOU, THAT YOU SENT ME SAID THAT THE MAXIMUM PROJECT AMOUNT IS 3 MILLION, BUT THE MAXIMUM GRANT AMOUNT IS 1.5 MILLION. IS THAT, IS THAT STILL CORRECT. OKAY. DOES THAT COVER DESIGN AS WELL? YES. SO DESIGN AND BUILD FOR 3 MILLION CAN'T BE TOO BIG? WELL, I DON'T, I THINK THAT THAT IS, UM, FROM THE GRANT, BUT THERE WOULD BE MORE FROM, FROM THE CITY. THAT'S A MATCHING GRANT. BUT THERE MAY THAT, I DON'T KNOW THAT THAT'S GOING TO COVER EVERYTHING. IS THAT CORRECT? RIGHT. AND, AND THE, UH, THE ROOF AT THE POOL HAS TO BE COMPLETELY REPLACED. CORRECT. YEAH. AND I DID PROVIDE A BUDGET WITH THAT ONE TOO. AND THE OTHER THING THAT WE WANTED TO ADD, BUT OF COURSE IF WE ADD THE, THE, UM, THE WRECK, UH, WE'D HAVE RESTROOMS IN THAT. UH, BUT I WANTED TO ADD, UH, SHOWERS TO THE, UH, TO THE POOL, REPLASTER THE POOL, AND THEN REPLACE THE ROOF. COULD ALWAYS BE A SMALLER, UM, REC CENTER IF, YOU KNOW, COMING UP WITH THE OTHER, THE MATCHING PART IS, IS OF ISSUE. AND WE DID TALK ABOUT, I THINK AT THE LAST MEETING, GOING TOWARDS DOING SMALL LITTLE REC CENTERS, UM, THROUGHOUT, THROUGHOUT THE COMMUNITY. AND PENDLETON WOULD PROBABLY JUST BE THE, THE FIRST ONE TO SEE WHAT THAT WOULD THAT LOOK LIKE. THEY CAN WORK WITH THE, THE DESIGN. I THINK THEY STILL NEED TO FLESH THAT OUT WITH, UH, THE PERSON THAT HELPED HIM WITH VICTOR PARK. IS THERE ANY OTHER QUESTIONS FOR JAVI? I'M SAYING YOU WANT A MOTION TO DO WHAT? TO ALLOW THEM TO APPLY FOR THE GRANT FOR RED SEVEN. THAT'S A $1.3 MILLION GRANT. 1.5. 1.5. YES. BUT IT'S A MATCHING GRANT, SO WE HAVE TO MATCH IT. SO WE'LL, WE [02:15:01] WOULD MATCH IT WITH SEVEN 50, NO, 3 MILLION, 1 50, 1 50. I'M SORRY, 1.5. ONE FIVE. IT'S A $3 MILLION GRANT. SO IF WE GET THIS ONE, WE GET 1.5. AND THEN WOULD, IF WE GET, LET'S SAY IT'S NOT MC, IF WE DID MCKELVY RIGHT, THEN WE'D ALSO HAVE TO PAY THEM ANOTHER SEVEN 50. SO TOTAL ARROYO, IF WE WERE BLESSED AND GOT BOTH, WE WOULD BE PUTTING IN 2.25. BUT, AND ALSO REMEMBER, AND, AND I THINK ANA DID A REALLY GOOD JOB OF THIS, THE OTHER, UH, LAST MEETING, UH, THIS TAKES TIME. SO EVEN THOUGH THEY GET, EVEN THOUGH THEY GET, UM, AWARDED, FUNDED, AWARDED, UM, YOU'RE NOT GETTING FUNDED UNTIL MUCH MORE DOWN THE ROAD. SO IT'S GOOD FOR, LIKE I SAID, THESE, THEY'RE OPENING UP. IT'S GOOD. GIVE THEM THE OPPORTUNITY TO, TO APPLY FOR THE GRANT BECAUSE WE WON'T, WE WON'T BE GETTING THAT OPPORTUNITY AGAIN FOR THE NEXT FEW YEARS. AND THEN YOU WON'T BE ABLE TO GET THE MONEY TO BE ABLE TO DO IT FOR ANOTHER TWO YEARS. RIGHT. POTENTIALLY. SO THIS IS JUST STUFF TO, TO GET THE BALL. TO GET THE BALL ROLLING. GO FOR IT, MIKE. SO I'LL MAKE A MOTION TO, UH, TO AUTHORIZE THE CITY TO APPLY FOR THE GRANT APPLICATION TO TEXAS PARKS AND WILDLIFE NON-URBAN INDOOR RECREATION LOCAL PARK GRANT PROGRAM. SECOND. SECOND. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY AYE. AYE. OPPOSED? MOTION CARRIES. AND THAT IS ALL WE HAVE. WE ARE ADJOURNED. THANK YOU. THANK YOU ALL FOR JOINING US. * This transcript was created by voice-to-text technology. The transcript has not been edited for errors or omissions, it is for reference only and is not the official minutes of the meeting.