Feb 21, 2023 City Council

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ALL RIGHT. GOOD EVENING, EVERYBODY, AND WELCOME TO THE SOUTHLAKE CITY COUNCIL MEETING.

[1. Call to order]

BUT ISN'T THIS WEATHER WONDERFUL? ABSOLUTELY AMAZING.

WE'LL TAKE 90 DEGREES OVER 30 DEGREES ANY DAY OF THE WEEK.

THANK YOU FOR JOINING US TONIGHT.

WE ARE GOING TO START AS WE DO EVERY NIGHT, AND THAT IS WITH OUR INVOCATION FROM OUR CITY CHAPLAIN, PASTOR CLAY REED.

SO YOU GUYS PLEASE RISE AND THEN STAND AND KEEP STANDING FOR OUR PLEDGES.

PASTOR REED. THANK YOU, MAYOR.

LET'S PRAY TOGETHER FOR WE GIVE THANKS FOR OUR TIME TOGETHER THIS EVENING.

WE DO GIVE THANKS FOR YOUR GOODNESS TO US AND THE JOY THAT WE HAVE OF KNOWING WHO YOU ARE AND KNOWING THAT WE'RE LOVED PEOPLE.

WE GIVE THANKS FOR SENDING YOUR SON JESUS.

WE PRAY TONIGHT AS WE MEET THAT YOU WOULD GIVE PEACE AND HELP TO EVERY PERSON WHO SPEAKS BEHIND THIS MICROPHONE, THAT YOU WOULD BE WITH OUR COUNCIL AS THEY WORK TOGETHER TO MAKE GOOD DECISIONS ON BEHALF OF THIS CITY.

WE PRAY BLESSING ON THEM.

WE PRAY FOR THEIR FAMILIES.

WE PRAY THAT YOU WOULD BLESS THEM, LORD WE PRAY THAT YOU WOULD PROTECT THIS ROOM AND OUR CITY FROM EVIL.

WE ALSO JUST GIVE THANKS THAT YOU LOVE US.

AT THE END OF THE DAY, WE'RE LOVED.

THAT YOU SO LOVED THE WORLD.

AND SO WE PRAY, BLESSING UPON THIS ROOM, OUR TIME TOGETHER.

AND WE PRAY THAT YOU WOULD BLESS THIS MEETING TONIGHT.

IN JESUS NAME, WE PRAY.

AMEN. AMEN.

PLEASE JOIN US IN THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE.

I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND TO THE REPUBLIC FOR WHICH IT STANDS, ONE NATION UNDER GOD, INDIVISIBLE, WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL.

AND THE TEXAS PLEDGE.

HONOR THE TEXAS FLAG, I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THEE, TEXAS, ONE STATE UNDER GOD, ONE AND INDIVISIBLE.

PLEASE TAKE YOUR SEATS.

THANK YOU, PASTOR REED, AS ALWAYS.

SO TONIGHT'S WORK SESSION, WE'RE GOING TO START WITH A I THINK A PRESENTATION OF SOME ARTWORK CONTEST WINNERS FROM THE SOUTHLAKE SISTER CITIES.

[3. Southlake Sister Cities Membership Mug Artwork Contest Winners]

ARE YOU RELATED TO THE PRESIDENT OF SOUTHLAKE SISTER CITIES, JOHN TERRELL, BY ANY CHANCE ? REALLY? NEVER DONE THIS.

SO.

WE'LL JUST SEE HOW THIS GOES.

THANK YOU. DO I HAVE TO STATE MY NAME OR [INAUDIBLE].

I THINK WE HAVE THAT COVERED.

OKAY. SO, OBVIOUSLY, JOHN, AS PRESIDENT OF THE SISTER CITIES, HE WAS SUPPOSED TO BE HERE, BUT HE GOT CALLED INTO A MEETING.

SO THIS IS A LITTLE IMPROMPTU ON MY PART, BUT I AM NOW ACTUALLY THE SECRETARY OF SOUTHLAKE SISTER CITIES.

AND WE HAVE I DON'T KNOW IF ANY OF YOU KNOW, I WAS UNAWARE, BUT I THOUGHT I'D GIVE YOU JUST A LITTLE BIT HISTORY ABOUT THE CHINESE ZODIAC. SO THE CHINESE ZODIAC IS REPRESENTED BY 12 DIFFERENT ANIMALS, AND THE CHINESE ZODIAC YEARS BEGIN AND END WITH THE CHINESE NEW YEAR EVERY YEAR IN EITHER JANUARY OR FEBRUARY.

2023 IS THE YEAR OF THE RABBIT.

IT STARTED ON JANUARY 22ND AND WILL END ON FEBRUARY 9TH OF 2024.

YOU WERE BORN IN THE YEAR OF THE RABBIT.

IF YOU WERE BORN IN 1927, 1939, 1951, 1963, 1975, 1987, 1999, 2011, OR OBVIOUSLY 2023.

THE RABBIT IS THE FOURTH ANIMAL IN THE 12 YEAR CYCLE OF ANIMALS.

THE SYMBOLIC CULTURAL MEANINGS OF THE RABBIT ARE CLOSELY RELATED TO ITS LIVING HABITS.

THEY INCLUDE INCLUDE VIGILANCE, WITTINESS, CAUTIOUSNESS, DEAFNESS, SELF PROTECTION, AND THE MOON.

AND PEOPLE BORN UNDER THE SIGN OF THE RABBIT ALLEGEDLY ARE GENTLE AND APPROACHABLE, AND THEY HAVE A DECENT, NOBLE AND ELEGANT MANNER.

JUST FOR THE RECORD, I WAS BORN UNDER THE YEAR OF THE RABBIT.

YOU CAN DECIDE FOR YOURSELVES IF ANY OF THOSE ADJECTIVES APPLY.

SO EVERY YEAR WITH THE CHINESE NEW YEAR, THE YOUTH MEMBERS OF SOUTHLAKE SISTER CITIES ARE GIVEN THE OPPORTUNITY TO SUBMIT AN ARTISTIC REPRESENTATION OF THE YEAR.

THIS YEAR WE HAD THREE SUBMISSIONS AND THEN WHAT WE DO IS WE THEN COMMEMORATE THAT ARTWORK ON A COFFEE MUG.

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SO THIS IS THE FIRST SUBMISSION BY SIDHI DEVIREDDY.

IF YOU WANT TO COME UP. WE HAVE A LITTLE CERTIFICATE FOR THEM.

AND [INAUDIBLE] DON'T GO ANYWHERE.

YOU DON'T GET TO I DON'T GET TO LEAVE.

YOU DON'T GET TO LEAVE. EVERYONE'S GIVING SPEECHES, AREN'T THEY? JUST KIDDING. THE SECOND SUBMISSION IS BY JOSIE WOODHAM.

IF YOU'LL COME UP. VERY NICE.

THANK YOU. AND THEN THE FINAL SUBMISSION WAS BY GABRIELLE VELASCO.

AND GABRIELLE VELASCO'S ARTWORK WAS THE ONE CHOSEN TO BE ON THE COFFEE MUG THIS YEAR.

WONDERFUL. SO I THOUGHT, IF IT'S OKAY WITH YOU GUYS, MAYBE WE COULD CALL UP JEFF WANG, THE VICE PRESIDENT OF SISTER CITIES AND BARBARA BIDWELL FROM THE BOARD, AND MAYBE WE COULD ALL TAKE A PICTURE.

THAT WOULD BE GREAT. LET ME ASK A QUESTION FIRST.

WHAT WHAT MEDIUM WAS THE ART DONE IN? IS THIS DIGITAL OR.

OKAY. VERY GOOD. YEAH.

CONGRATULATIONS. THESE ARE WONDERFUL.

YOU GUYS HAVE WAY MORE ARTISTIC TALENT THAN ANYBODY ON COUNCIL.

I JUST WANT TO SAY THAT. RIGHT? OR AT LEAST MORE THAN THE MAYOR, I'LL TELL YOU THAT.

WELL, CONGRATULATIONS, EVERYONE.

LET'S GIVE THEM A ROUND OF APPLAUSE [APPLAUSE].

OKAY. YEAH. LET'S TAKE A PICTURE.

ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU, MISS TERRELL.

THANK YOU TO SOUTHLAKE SISTER CITIES.

AND CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL THE ARTWORK WINNERS.

[4. Southlake Chamber of Commerce Update]

AND WE HAVE MR. CHUCK HEALY. COME ON DOWN, SIR.

TELL US ABOUT EVERYTHING YOU GUYS HAVE GOING ON.

OKAY. OKAY.

ALL RIGHT. THANKS. WELL, GOOD EVENING, EVERYONE.

ON BEHALF OF THE CHAMBER STAFF PRESIDENT MARK GILBERT AND THE BOARD.

I'M GLAD TO BE HERE TONIGHT.

IT'S GOOD TO SEE ALL OF YOU AND GIVE YOU THIS LATEST UPDATE IN OUR 2023 YEAR.

FIRST OF ALL, YOU'RE GOING TO SEE TWO SLIDES, ABOUT TWO RECENT RIBBON CUTTINGS AND WE LIKE TO START WITH THIS BECAUSE THE RIBBON CUTTINGS ARE SO VALUABLE TO THOSE NEW MEMBERS AND THE BUSINESS OWNERS THAT COME INTO OUR CITY AND OPEN THESE BUSINESSES.

THESE ENTREPRENEURS POUR A LOT INTO TO WHAT THEY DO.

AND WHEN PEOPLE SHOW UP, OUR AMBASSADORS PARTICULARLY, AND THEN WHEN NEW CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO SHOW UP, OUR BOARD MEMBERS SHOW UP.

IT JUST REALLY BUILDS THEIR SPIRIT AND IT GIVES THEM A SENSE OF HOPE AND CONFIDENCE AS THEY GO FORTH.

AND SO RECENTLY WE'VE HAD CRISP&GREEN ON SOUTHLAKE BOULEVARD AT KIMBALL, AND THIS IS SORT OF PRO PAINTING.

THIS WAS HELD OF THE CHAMBER OFFICE.

YOU WILL NOT BELIEVE THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE BEHIND THAT WALL YOU JUST CAN'T SEE IN THIS PICTURE.

AND I WANT TO JUST REMARK WITH THIS, TOO.

SOMETIMES WE HAVE JOINT CHAMBER FUNCTIONS FOR RIBBON CUTTINGS.

IT IS UNBELIEVABLE HOW SOUTHLAKE SHOWS UP IN COMPARISON TO SOME OF OUR NEIGHBOR SISTER CITIES.

AND I THINK IT JUST SPEAKS AGAIN FOR OUR AMBASSADORS AND THE COMMITMENT TO THESE TO THESE PROGRAMS. THE RIBBON CUTTING TODAY, BY THE WAY, WAS AT PARLOR DONUTS.

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IT'S PRETTY AMAZING.

AND WHEN YOU HAVE DONUTS AND COFFEE AT 11:30 IN THE MORNING, I MEAN, IT WAS A BIG CROWD.

AND JUST ASK MAYOR HUFFMAN BECAUSE HE HAPPENED TO BE THERE.

SO HE'LL ATTEST TO HOW GOOD IT WAS, ESPECIALLY THE FRENCH TOAST DONUT.

IT WAS ALL DELICIOUS. IT WAS AMAZING.

GREAT JOB. ALL RIGHT. SO THIS IS THE UPCOMING UPCOMING RIBBON CUTTINGS.

WE HAVE HAD FIVE SO FAR THIS YEAR.

THERE ARE SEVEN MORE ON SLATE BY THE END OF APRIL.

AND THIS IS KIND OF MORE OF A SLOW TIME.

SO MOMENTUM WILL PICK UP FROM THAT.

JUST TAKE A QUICK NOTE OF THOSE AND BE LOOKING FOR THAT ON THE ON THE CHAMBER WEBSITE SO YOU CAN KEEP UP WITH THOSE VARIOUS DATES.

HERE'S YOUR BOARD OF DIRECTORS.

I THINK YOU'RE PROBABLY FAMILIAR WITH MOST OF THESE PEOPLE.

I CAN'T TELL YOU WHAT A PLEASURE IT IS TO SERVE ALONGSIDE THIS GROUP IN 2022-2023.

THESE FOLKS ARE NOT JUST VOLUNTEERS OR FIGUREHEADS THAT HOPE TO GET ON A BOARD ONE DAY AND THEN THEY REST ON THEIR LAURELS.

THESE PEOPLE TRULY ENGAGE.

THEY WORK HARD WITH STRATEGY.

VARIOUS REPRESENTATIVES ON OUR VARIOUS COMMITTEES.

I'LL MENTION A FEW OF THOSE NAMES AS WE GO THROUGH THE REPORT.

WHEN WE STARTED OUT THE YEAR BACK IN JULY, THE BOARD FELT IT WAS IMPORTANT TO DEVELOP VALUES.

WE DIDN'T REALLY HAVE A VALUE STATEMENT.

THE CHAMBER HAS A MISSION, BUT WE DIDN'T HAVE A VALUE STATEMENT.

AND SO IN A COLLECTIVE EFFORT AND A UNITED WAY, THE BOARD CAME TOGETHER AND WE ELECTED FIVE KEY TERMS TO PROMOTE OUR VALUES THAT WE HOPE ARE REFLECTIVE IN ALL THAT, NOT JUST THE BOARD, BUT WHAT THE CHAMBER DOES AND WHO THE CHAMBER IS AND THE CULTURE.

AND THOSE FIVE THINGS WERE WELCOMING.

BEING RESPECTFUL WHERE WE RESPECT EACH BUSINESS OWNER FOR WHO THEY ARE, WHAT THEY'VE ACCOMPLISHED, STRUGGLES, TRIALS, TRIUMPHS, WHATEVER IT MAY BE.

WE'RE RESOURCEFUL.

WE WANT TO PROVIDE VALUABLE RESOURCES TO THESE MEMBERS, AND WE'RE COLLABORATIVE.

WE'RE WORK WITH THOSE MEMBERS INDIVIDUALLY, COLLECTIVELY, AND THE SUPPORT WITH THE VARIOUS THINGS THAT THE CHAMBER PUTS ON TO SUPPORT THOSE BUSINESSES.

AND THEN LASTLY, WE ARE UNITED IN WHAT WE DO AND HOW WE PRESENT OURSELVES AND BEHAVE.

SO I HOPE YOU SEE, HOPE THAT YOU SEE THE BOARD REFLECTING THOSE PRINCIPLES AND THAT THAT CULTURE REALLY BEGINS TO DEEPEN AS WE GO FORWARD AS A CHAMBER.

HERE YOU SEE THE NEW MEMBERS SO FAR IN 2023, AND WE'RE ON A PRETTY GOOD PACE.

THIS IS A GROUP OF 20 NEW BUSINESS OWNERS THAT ARE HERE IN SOUTHLAKE, OR AT LEAST THEIR RIBBON CUTTINGS.

THEY MAY HAVE JUST RECENTLY COME IN AND NOT HAD A RIBBON CUTTING.

SOME OF THEM MAY HAVE DROPPED OUT OF THE CHAMBER YEARS AGO AND THEY'RE BACK.

THERE YOU SEE THAT LIST.

AND THEN WE'RE GOING TO COME TO THE JANUARY AMBASSADOR AND NEW MEMBER OF THE MONTH.

AND MAYOR, THANK YOU FOR SPONSORING OUR JANUARY EVENT.

THAT WAS A REAL PLEASURE AND A JOY TO HAVE YOU THERE, AS USUAL.

LOVE HOW YOU SPENT YOUR TIME, BY THE WAY.

THAT WAS REALLY GOOD AND SPOKE WELL OF YOU.

HERE IS OUR JANUARY AMBASSADOR OF THE MONTH, FUNMI FADAYOMI, I'D LOVE TO TELL YOU ABOUT WHAT SHE DOES.

IT'S KIND OF AN UNHERALDED SERVICE.

SHE HAS A COMPANY THAT PROVIDES CAREGIVERS AND ASSISTED LIVING FACILITIES, INDEPENDENT LIVING, ALL SORTS OF SITUATION.

SUPER YOUNG LADY HAD JOINED THE CHAMBER REALLY HIGHLY ENGAGED AND INVOLVED.

I DON'T KNOW WHO THE GUY IS WITH THE BLACK HAT.

YOU KNOW, YOU NEVER SEE HIM AROUND, SO.

LOOKS FAMILIAR. YEAH, IT'LL COME TO ME.

AND THEN OUR JANUARY MEMBER OF THE MONTH VICTORIA AND EDWARD MEAGHER.

THEY'RE SUPER INVOLVED IN CHAMBER AS WELL.

VICTORIA ALWAYS BRINGS A SMILE.

VERY ENERGETIC.

SO THERE WAS OUR AMBASSADOR, NEW MEMBER OF THE MONTH.

OUR LUNCHEON COMING UP HERE AND TWO DAYS.

SPONSORED BY XO MARRIAGE.

THAT'S NOT TIC TAC TOE MARRIAGE THAT IS ACTUAL THEIR THEIR LOGO.

THEY'VE BEEN A GREAT MEMBER AND HERE IT IS SPEED NETWORKING.

SO THAT'S ONE OF OUR MOST POPULAR EVENTS OF THE WHOLE YEAR.

IT'S REALLY WELL ATTENDED.

IF YOU HAVEN'T COME TO THAT ONE, I'D ENCOURAGE YOU TO COME.

STILL NOT TOO LATE TO REGISTER, BUT IT'S HIGHLY ENGAGING BECAUSE EACH MEMBER GETS 30 SECONDS TO PROMOTE THEIR BUSINESS AND THEN IT ROTATES TABLES.

RELATIONSHIP NETWORKING GROUP.

THE CHAIR FOR THIS YEAR IS LISA HARRINGTON, AND SHE'S ASSISTED BY A SCORE, REPRESENTATIVE BOB SILVERMAN.

THEY DO A TREMENDOUS JOB WITH THE TUESDAY MORNING GROUP.

WE CONSISTENTLY HAVE 35, 40, UP TO 45 PEOPLE AT JANE, OVER BY GLORIAS AT SOUTHLAKE BOULEVARD AND CARROLL.

VERY WELL ATTENDED.

WE HAVE PEOPLE OUTSIDE THE CHAMBER, OUTSIDE SOUTHLAKE THAT ATTEND THIS BECAUSE THEY HEAR ABOUT IT.

THEY WANT TO COME AND SPY ON US AND CHECK IT OUT AND SEE WHAT'S GOING ON.

BUT IT REALLY DOES PROMOTE A LOT OF NEW MEMBERSHIP AS WELL.

AND THEN OUR COMMUNITY PRAYER BREAKFAST, PASTOR STERLING SMITH, WHO'S ON THE BOARD, LEADS THIS PRAYER BREAKFAST WITH BIBLE STUDY AND PRAYER.

THIS AND BOARD MEMBER BENSON CHARCOL AND METHODIST HOSPITAL, ONE OF OUR SPONSORS AND BOARD MEMBERS, SPONSORS THIS PARTICULAR EVENT.

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IT GOT BLIZZARD OUT WITH THE ICE THE EARLY PART OF FEBRUARY.

BUT WE'RE LOOKING FORWARD TO ANOTHER HIGH ATTENDANCE IN MARCH.

AND BY THE WAY, IF YOU COME, YOU GET SOME GREAT FOOD FROM METHODIST HOSPITAL SO SEE YOU AT THAT ONE.

AND THEN OUR NEXT BUSINESS INSIDERS LUNCH.

AGAIN, AMY B GOT ICED OUT AS WELL SO SHE'LL BE PRESENTING IN MARCH.

AND THAT IS THE FIRST THURSDAY OF EVERY MONTH FROM 11:45 TO 1:00 AT WILDWOOD.

SHORT SIMPLE EVENT PAY $16 BUCKS I THINK IT IS AND REGISTER.

IT'S BEEN SELLING OUT FOR THE LAST FEW MONTHS.

WE CAN EXPECT THAT TO CONTINUE.

HERE'S OUR NEXT BUSINESS EXCHANGE.

AND THIS IS A SUPER EVENT.

IF YOU'VE NEVER BEEN I ENCOURAGE YOU TO COME TO THAT.

I THINK MOST OF YOU PROBABLY HAVE BUSINESSES FROM ALL OVER WILL COME TO THIS EXCHANGE NETWORKING TIME.

WE TALK ABOUT CHAMBER EVENTS COMING UP.

THEY GET A CHANCE, NEW MEMBERS GET A CHANCE TO INTRODUCE THEMSELVES.

EVERYBODY GETS TO MAYBE MEET A BOARD MEMBER OR CITY COUNCIL PERSON.

AMBASSADORS AND SO FORTH.

NEXT EVENT IS AT HARBOR CHASE, AND I THINK YOU'RE ALL FAMILIAR WITH WHO THEY ARE.

ALL RIGHT. BINGO.

PRICES ARE A VERY REASONABLE $75.

THIS IS ONE OF THE MAJOR CHAMBER SPONSORSHIP EVENTS THAT HELPS RAISE MONEY FOR OUR CHAMBER BUDGET.

IT'S COMING UP THE END OF MARCH ON THE 30TH AT THE MARQ.

THERE ARE SPONSORSHIPS, OPPORTUNITIES AND AGAIN, GO TO THE CHAMBER WEBSITE.

YOU'LL SEE ADVERTISEMENTS ON THAT.

AND THEN THIS YEAR, THE LEADERSHIP SOUTHLAKE CLASS PROJECT SOUTHLAKE LEADERSHIP PRESENTS BOOTS AND BARBECUE.

AND THIS IS GOING TO BE AT CLASSIC CHEVROLET.

DORIAN JIMENEZ IS ANOTHER ONE OF OUR BOARD MEMBERS.

HE'S HELPING SPONSOR THIS EVENT BY HOLDING IT THERE.

LOVING LONG EARS IS THE PROJECT.

I THINK MAYBE MOST OF YOU FAMILIAR WITH THAT.

THEY'RE RAISING MONEY AND SUPPORT FOR A TRAILER TRUCK TO HELP SUPPORT THESE ANIMALS.

AND YOU CAN LEARN MORE ABOUT THAT AGAIN BY GOING TO THE CHAMBER WEBSITE OR ASKING ONE OF US ABOUT IT.

ALL RIGHT. AWARDS BANQUET.

SOUTH STONE LAST YEAR.

SOME OF YOU REMEMBER THAT EVENT.

WELL, THIS YEAR IT'S A SPEAKEASY AND I'M GOING TO SAVE THE DRAMA FOR THE UNKNOWN BECAUSE SOME GREAT THINGS ARE PLANNED FOR THAT.

THE STAFF DOES A TREMENDOUS JOB PUTTING ON THE AWARDS BANQUET.

AND OF COURSE, WE HAVE SOME VERY GOOD FILMING STARS IN THAT EVENT AS WELL.

THAT COMES UP JUNE 23RD, SPONSORED BY AC PROS.

OKTOBERFEST. IT NEVER STOPS.

THE NEXT YEAR IT STARTS PLANNING THE DAY AFTER OKTOBERFEST.

AND I CAN'T EVEN TELL YOU THE AMOUNT OF WORK THAT GOES BEHIND THIS.

IT'S UNBELIEVABLE AMOUNT OF WORK AND TIME AND ENERGY.

THE NUMBER OF VOLUNTEERS THAT COME IN TO THIS EVENT TO MAKE IT WHAT IT IS ONE OF THE VERY TOP IN THE NATION, CERTAINLY THE TOPS IN TEXAS.

AND SPONSORSHIPS ARE AVAILABLE FOR THAT NOW AS WELL.

AND LASTLY, LET ME JUST MENTION THAT JUST LIKE A LOT OF BUSINESSES, THE CHAMBER HAS STRUGGLES WITH BUDGETS AT TIME.

WE'RE IN GOOD SHAPE FINANCIALLY, WE'RE VERY HEALTHY, BUT AT THE SAME TIME WE'VE GOT TO FIND WAYS TO WORK ON THE STRATEGY OF OUR BUDGET AND IN TERMS OF REDUCING EXPENSES, BECOMING MORE PROFITABLE WITH CERTAIN EVENTS.

WE HAVE ACTUALLY CUT BACK A COUPLE OF EVENTS THE LAST FEW YEARS IN ORDER TO TRY AND BE BETTER AT WHAT WE'RE DOING AND PROVIDE MORE VALUE WITH THOSE THOSE EVENTS.

SO THAT'S A BIG PART OF THE CHAMBER BOARD'S STRATEGY OR WORK RIGHT NOW IS ON THE STRATEGIES OF OUR BUDGET AND ESPECIALLY MARK GILBERT'S BEEN WORKING HARD ON THAT ALONG WITH OUR CHAIR OF FINANCE, WHICH IS PASTOR STERLING SMITH.

AND THEN I WANT TO JUST SAY THAT, YOU KNOW, SO AS A BOARD AND AS A CHAMBER, WE DON'T LOOK TO PROVIDE SUCCESS TO BE SUCCESSFUL OURSELVES.

WE LOOK TO PROVIDE VALUE SO THAT THE BUSINESS OWNERS CAN BE SUCCESSFUL.

AND IF THEY'RE MORE SUCCESSFUL THEN OUR CITIES MORE SUCCESSFUL.

SO THAT CONCLUDES MY PRESENTATION.

EXCELLENT. WELL, THANK YOU SO MUCH, CHUCK AND MARK, AND APPRECIATE ALL YOU GUYS.

YOU'LL DO A PHENOMENAL JOB.

ANY QUESTIONS FROM THE CHAMBER GUYS? WELL, WE'RE EXCITED ABOUT EVERYTHING COMING UP.

IT'S GOING TO BE A LOT OF FUN. IT'S GOING TO BE A GREAT YEAR.

ALL RIGHT. WITH THAT, WE'LL MOVE ON TO WORK SESSION, AGENDA ITEM NUMBER FIVE.

[5. Employee Appreciation Week and Employee Performance Awards]

GOOD EVENING, MAYOR AND COUNCIL.

WELL, AS MAYOR SAID, I HAVE THE PRIVILEGE TODAY TO TALK TO YOU ABOUT OUR EMPLOYEE APPRECIATION WEEK AND SOME OF THE AWARDS WE HONOR OUR EMPLOYEES WITH THIS YEAR.

AND AS YOU KNOW, WE DO THIS EVERY YEAR.

IT'S A REALLY GREAT WAY FOR US TO PAUSE AND TAKE A MINUTE TO THANK OUR GREAT EMPLOYEES FOR DOING SUCH A GREAT JOB FOR THE SOUTHLAKE COMMUNITY.

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SO ONE OF THE THINGS WE TRY TO DO WITH EMPLOYEE APPRECIATION WEEK IS INFUSE SOME FUN.

SO THIS YEAR, THE PLANNING COMMITTEE CAME UP WITH THIS GREAT IDEA TO HAVE EACH DEPARTMENT COME UP WITH THEIR OWN SUPERHERO.

AND YOU CAN SEE PICTURES HERE ON THE SCREEN.

THEY WERE TASKED WITH GUIDING THEIR SUPERHERO THROUGH A JOURNEY WITH OUR VALUES.

SO EACH DAY THEY SUBMITTED A PICTURE OF THEIR HERO TAKING ON A FEAT OF INTEGRITY, ACCOUNTABILITY, COMMITMENT TO EXCELLENCE, TEAMWORK, INNOVATION, ALL OF THOSE DIFFERENT THINGS. SO IT WAS A REALLY GREAT, FUN WAY TO REINFORCE OUR VALUES.

SO YOU CAN SEE SOME OF THOSE EXAMPLES AND THERE ARE LOTS OF PICTURES OUT THERE.

SO A GREAT WAY TO GET THE TEAM EXCITED WITH SOME CREATIVITY.

BUT OF COURSE OUR MAIN EVENT IS THE EMPLOYEE APPRECIATION WEEK BREAKFAST AND AWARD CEREMONY.

AND YOU CAN SEE AGAIN, A SUPERHERO THEME THERE ON THE SCREEN.

IT'S A GREAT WAY FOR US TO RECOGNIZE THE ACCOMPLISHMENTS OF THE TEAM AND GIVE THOSE AWARDS OUT.

AND THIS YEAR, THE EVENT WAS EMCEED BY TWO OF OUR RISING STARS.

YOU CAN SEE THEM IN THE SUPERHERO CAPES.

THEY'RE DYLAN WELCH AND JAKE COLDREN WERE THE EMCEES TO GUIDE US THROUGH A SUPERHERO ACADEMY WHERE THEY WALKED US THROUGH OUR VALUES AND REALLY HIGHLIGHTED THOSE AWARD WINNERS TO DEMONSTRATE THE PERFORMANCE WE'RE LOOKING FOR THROUGHOUT TEAM SOUTHLAKE.

IN ADDITION TO THIS, WE ALSO CELEBRATE OUR AWARD WINNERS THROUGH CONGRATULATORY VIDEOS ON SOCIAL MEDIA SIGNAGE IN DIFFERENT CITY FACILITIES.

AND IF YOU LOOK AROUND TOWN SQUARE RIGHT NOW, YOU CAN ACTUALLY SEE OUR AWARD WINNER NAMES ON THE POLE BANNERS.

ANOTHER WAY TO REALLY TAKE A MINUTE TO CELEBRATE THOSE HONOREES PUBLICLY.

SO TODAY I WANT TO TAKE JUST A MINUTE AND RECOGNIZE THOSE FOLKS.

WE ALSO DO PAUSE TO RECOGNIZE INDIVIDUALS WHO REACH THOSE 10 YEAR MILESTONES AND THE 5 YEAR MARK.

THIS YEAR, WE HAD 34 EMPLOYEES ACHIEVE THOSE 10 YEAR MILESTONES AND WE HAD 11 OF THOSE EMPLOYEES HIT THE 5 YEAR MARK.

AND YOU CAN SEE THOSE NAMES THERE ON THE SCREEN.

WE PROVIDE THOSE EMPLOYEES WITH A REALLY NICE SERVICE PIN THAT THEY CAN HAVE A COLLECTION THROUGHOUT THEIR CAREER WITH SOUTHLAKE.

WE ARE HONORED TO RECOGNIZE 5 EMPLOYEES WHO HAVE REACHED 10 YEARS OF SERVICE AND THEN 10 EMPLOYEES WHO REACHED 15 YEARS OF SERVICE.

OF COURSE, OUR MILESTONES DON'T STOP THERE.

WE ARE VERY PROUD TO RECOGNIZE THREE EMPLOYEES WHO HAVE SERVED FOR THE CITY FOR MORE THAN 20 YEARS.

ITS CHIEF CONSTRUCTION INSPECTOR, MARK CISNEROS, OUR JUDGE CAROL MONTGOMERY, AND SRO RODERICK PAGE.

AND THEN WE ALSO HAD 5 EMPLOYEES REACH 25 YEARS OF SERVICE.

LANDSCAPE ADMINISTRATOR KEITH MARTIN.

RECREATION MANAGER RYAN MCGRAIL.

FIREFIGHTER/PARAMEDIC TONY PEYTON.

FIRE CHIEF MIKE STARR, AND MEDIUM EQUIPMENT OPERATOR KENNY WRIGHT.

SO A LOT OF GREAT TENURE THROUGHOUT THE CITY.

BUT THEN THAT BRINGS US TO OUR ACTUAL EMPLOYEE AWARDS AND THE FIRST CATEGORY OF WORDS I'D LIKE TO HIGHLIGHT THIS EVENING ARE A VALUE AWARDS.

AND OUR CITY VALUES ARE AT THE CORE OF WHAT WE DO THAT REALLY ARE THE FOUNDATION OF OUR WORK.

AND IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT TO US TO RECOGNIZE THOSE EMPLOYEES WHO GO ABOVE AND BEYOND IN THOSE CONFORMANCE WITH THOSE VALUES.

AND WE ACTUALLY ASK OUR EMPLOYEES TO NOMINATE INDIVIDUALS FOR THESE AWARDS.

AND WE GO THROUGH THE NOMINATIONS AND CITY MANAGER YELVERTON AND ASSISTANT MANAGER ORTOWSKI MAKE SELECTIONS.

AND TONIGHT I'LL HIGHLIGHT THOSE AWARD WINNERS FOR YOU.

FIRST UP FOR INTEGRITY IS MALIA BELK.

MALIA WORKS AS OUR HOSPITALITY AND SALES ASSISTANT AT LEGENDS HALL.

AND OF COURSE, SHE DOES A GREAT JOB FOR THEM.

BUT NOTABLE FOR HER AWARD NOMINATION WAS THAT THIS LAST YEAR SHE DID SEE SOME UNUSUAL ACTIVITY IN ONE OF OUR CITY P CARDS, AND SHE TOOK ALL OF THE RIGHT ACTION TO MAKE SURE WE GOT THAT CORRECTED. SO WE REALLY WANTED TO TAKE A MOMENT AND RECOGNIZE HER FOR HER INTEGRITY.

A FAMILIAR FACE JAKE COLDREN WAS RECOGNIZED FOR INNOVATION.

THE THING THAT STOOD OUT FOR HIM AND HIS NOMINATION, WHICH WAS SEVERAL PAGES LONG, WAS THAT HE RECOGNIZED THAT A LOCAL FITNESS FACILITY DID CLOSE THEIR DOORS.

HOWEVER, THEY HAD A VERY POPULAR INSTRUCTOR.

HE WENT AFTER THAT INSTRUCTOR, GOT THEM TO COME ON BOARD AS ONE OF OUR INSTRUCTORS, AND THEN 100 NEW MEMBERS JOINED CHAMPIONS CLUB TO FOLLOW HER.

SO REALLY GREAT OUTSIDE THE BOX THINKING THAT JAKE IMBODIED THERE.

MARK CISNEROS, OUR CHIEF CONSTRUCTION INSPECTOR, WAS WAS RECOGNIZED FOR HIS COMMITMENT TO ACCOUNTABILITY.

HE WAS PROMOTED THIS LAST YEAR, PARTLY BECAUSE OF THIS ACCOUNTABILITY THAT HE HAS DEMONSTRATED FOR MANY YEARS.

HE WAS THE CONSTRUCTION INSPECTOR FOR THE WHITE CHAPEL WIDENING PROJECT, AND HE WORKED CLOSELY WITH ALL OF THOSE STAKEHOLDERS INVOLVED TO REALLY MAKE SURE HE WORKED HARD TO GET THAT PROJECT DONE AS QUICKLY AND EFFICIENTLY AS POSSIBLE.

OUR PURCHASING MANAGER, TIM SLIFKA, IS A VERY LONG TENURED EMPLOYEE AND HE BRINGS EXCELLENCE TO WORK EVERY SINGLE DAY AND HE GOES ABOVE AND BEYOND AS HE WORKS THROUGH HIS ISSUES. BUT PARTICULARLY EVIDENT THIS YEAR WAS THE SUPPLY CHAIN CHALLENGES THAT WE'VE ALL EXPERIENCED.

AND HE WORKS TIRELESSLY TO MAKE SURE OUR EMPLOYEES HAVE THE EQUIPMENT, SUPPLIES AND VEHICLES THEY NEED TO DO THEIR JOB SUCCESSFULLY.

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AND THIS YEAR WAS A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENT.

WE ACTUALLY RECOGNIZED 43 EMPLOYEES FROM ACROSS THE CITY.

THEY WORKED TO TAKE ON A HUGE, UNEXPECTED PROJECT OF HAVING TO MANUALLY READ A NUMBER OF WATER METERS.

AND BY A NUMBER I MEAN LIKE 8,000.

SO THEY WORKED VERY HARD TO TIRELESSLY MAKE SURE ALL OF OUR CUSTOMERS HAD THEIR UNINTERRUPTED, EXCEPTIONAL SERVICE THAT THEY EXPECT FROM US EVERY DAY.

AND IT TRULY TOOK THIS LARGE TEAM.

IT INVOLVED EMPLOYEES FROM PUBLIC WORKS, UTILITY, BILLING, I.T.

AND PARKS. AND YOU CAN SEE ALL OF THEIR NAMES THAT ARE ON THE SCREEN.

SO THIS TEAM REALLY WORKED WELL ACROSS DEPARTMENT LINES TO COME TOGETHER ON A PROJECT.

AND THEN OUR ONE OF THE THINGS WE TRY TO LOOK AT WHEN WE TALK ABOUT OUR FIVE VALUES IS WHEN YOU REALLY LIVE THOSE ALL TOGETHER EVERY SINGLE DAY.

WE CALL THAT THE SPIRIT OF SOUTHLAKE.

SO ALL FIVE VALUES ALL THE TIME.

AND THIS YEAR THE NOMINATION THAT REALLY STOOD OUT WAS FROM THE FIRE DEPARTMENT AND IT WAS REWARDED TO KEVIN BARRY, NIC MILES, DANIEL LYONS AND ALLEN MORENO.

THIS IS A REALLY INTERESTING STORY BECAUSE THEY RECEIVED A CALL FROM AN ELDERLY RESIDENT WHO NEEDED SOME ASSISTANCE, BUT UPON ARRIVAL TO THEIR HOME THEY REALIZED THE RESIDENT HAD FALLEN AND WAS UNABLE TO GET BACK UP.

HE WAS UNINJURED BUT REQUIRED ASSISTANCE AND WHEN THEY STARTED TO ASSIST HIM, THEY REALIZED THAT, OH NO, HE HAS SOILED HIMSELF.

AND WITH THEIR UNRIVALED CUSTOMER SERVICE AND THEIR SPIRIT TO OUR VALUES, THEY SAID, WE WILL HELP YOU.

SO THEY GOT HIM CLEANED UP, PUT HIM BACK IN BED, DID HIS LAUNDRY, TOOK CARE OF IT ALL.

SO IT'S REALLY A GREAT DEMONSTRATION OF THE WORK THAT THEY DO, TRULY THAT SELFLESS SERVICE THAT WE EXPECT.

AND THEN THAT BRINGS US TO OUR DIRECTORS AWARDS.

I'M SORRY. THIS BRINGS US TO OUR CUSTOMER SERVICE AWARDS.

SO CUSTOMER SERVICE IS REALLY ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE EXPECT FROM OUR EMPLOYEES EVERY SINGLE DAY.

AND THIS YEAR, OUR EXTERNAL CUSTOMER SERVICE AWARD WAS GIVEN TO, OF COURSE, LAUREN LANEAVE.

MANY OF YOU HAVE WORKED WITH HER.

SHE DOES A GREAT JOB WORKING WITH OUR EXTERNAL CUSTOMER SERVICES AND REALLY TAKES IT FROM A PLACE OF CARE AND CONCERN.

SO SHE TRULY CARES ABOUT OUR CUSTOMERS AND WORKS HARD TO MEET THEM WHERE THEY'RE AT.

FOR INTERNAL CUSTOMER SERVICE, THIS WAS GIVEN TO POLICE OFFICER DAVID ALDRIDGE.

DAVID DOES A REALLY NICE JOB OF WORKING WITH HIS INTERNAL POLICE OFFICERS TO DELIVER THEM THE SERVICE THAT THEY NEED.

ONE OF HIS RESPONSIBILITIES IS TO MAKE SURE EVERY OFFICER HAS THE UNIFORMS AND EQUIPMENT THEY NEED TO BE SUCCESSFUL, AND HE DOES THAT WITH A LOT OF CARE AND CONCERN, SIMILAR TO LAUREN, BUT REALLY THAT ATTENTION TO DETAIL MAKE SURE THAT THEY HAVE WHAT THEY NEED.

SO HE WAS NOMINATED BY HIS COWORKERS FOR THIS AWARD.

AND THEN FINALLY, OUR LAST CATEGORY OF WORDS ARE THE DIRECTORS AWARDS.

AND THESE ARE GIVEN BY THE DIRECTOR TO AN INDIVIDUAL IN THEIR DEPARTMENT WHO HAVE GONE ABOVE AND BEYOND IN THE LAST YEAR.

THE FIRST AWARD I'D LIKE TO HIGHLIGHT IS FOR ADMINISTRATION.

THIS WAS GIVEN TO MICHELLE DEVOSS IN THE SECRETARY'S OFFICE.

SHE'S OUR RECORDS MANAGER, AND HER SECRET WEAPON IS HER ABILITY TO EXCEL WITH MULTIPLE SPECIAL PROJECTS ALL AT ONE TIME.

SHE'S ALSO RESPONSIBLE FOR ENSURING OUR RECORDS ARE IN LINE AND PROPERLY MAINTAINED, AND SHE MANAGES OUR PUBLIC INFORMATION REQUEST PROCESS.

SHE DOES A GREAT JOB AND ALWAYS GOES THAT EXTRA MILE WITH A SMILE ON HER FACE.

CHRIS TRIBBLE SELECTED TERRY LEE FOR HIS DIRECTOR'S AWARD.

HE IS A PARK SUPERVISOR IN THE PARKS DIVISION, HAS BEEN AT THE CITY SINCE THE YEAR 2000.

WHERE TERI SHINES IS IN HIS LEADERSHIP WITH HIS TEAM.

HE WORKS DILIGENTLY TO ESTABLISH A POSITIVE CULTURE WHERE THE TEAM GETS EXCITED TO COME TO WORK EVERY DAY.

AND AS HE AND CHRIS AND THE WHOLE TEAM SAYS, THEY TAKE PRIDE TO MAKE SURE THE PARKS ARE GREEN, CLEAN AND SAFE.

SO ALL THREE OF THOSE ARE AT THE FOREFRONT OF THEIR MIND.

AND TERRY REALLY WORKS TO MAKE THAT HAPPEN WITH HIS TEAM.

MOVING ON TO THE FINANCE AND IT DEPARTMENT CFO SHAREN JACKSON SELECTED DEEP RAJANI FOR THIS AWARD.

DEEP IS OUR SENIOR APPLICATION DEVELOPER, AND HE'S REALLY HELPING US MOVE THE ORGANIZATION INTO THE 21ST CENTURY USING TECHNOLOGY.

HE'LL TAKE A REQUEST FROM A CUSTOMER AT THE FACE VALUE AND THEN SAY, WAIT, WE CAN DO BETTER, AND HE'LL DIG INTO IT AND REALLY TRY AND MAKE IT BETTER.

GOING THAT EXTRA MILE ALL ON HIS OWN WITH HIS INITIATIVE, REALLY HELPING US USE OUR TECHNOLOGY TO ITS FULLEST.

FIRE CHIEF STARR SELECTED NIC MILES FOR HIS DIRECTOR'S AWARD RECIPIENT AS A FIREFIGHTER PARAMEDIC.

NIC TRULY EXEMPLIFIES THAT SERVANT LEADERSHIP MODEL IN EVERYTHING THAT HE DOES.

HE CARES ABOUT THE CITY AND THE DEPARTMENT AND YOU CAN SEE IT IN HIS WORK.

HE TAKES TIME TO STUDY WITH THE NEW RECRUITS.

HE'S EVEN GONE OUT TO LOCAL COLLEGES TO HELP US RECRUIT NEW FIREFIGHTER PARAMEDICS.

AND HE'S ALWAYS LOOKING FOR WAYS TO IMPROVE OUR LEVEL OF SERVICE TO THE CUSTOMERS.

OUR NEXT AWARD IS ALWAYS A FAMILIAR FACE TO MANY.

OUR PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR DENNIS KILLOUGH SELECTED SEANTAY CARPENTER.

SEANTAY IS ONE OF OUR BEST AMBASSADORS TO THE CITY.

HE'S OUT THERE ALWAYS DOING THE GOOD WORK.

HE BRINGS HIS BEST SELF TO WORK EVERY DAY.

HE REALLY IS THE ONE WHO CAN BE READY TO HELP IN EVERYONE.

BUT THIS LAST YEAR, SOMETHING THAT MAKES HIM STAND OUT.

HE WAS THE FIRST ONE ON THE TEAM TO TAKE ON THE NEW CHALLENGE TO BECOME A CERTIFIED DRONE PILOT.

SO HE'S ACTUALLY OUT THERE GETTING SOME GREAT DRONE FOOTAGE FOR US THROUGHOUT THE CITY.

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POLICE CORPORAL MICAH DAVIS WAS SELECTED BY CHIEF BRANDON AS THE POLICE DEPARTMENT'S AWARD WINNER.

CORPORAL DAVIS HAS SERVED MANY DIFFERENT ROLES THROUGHOUT THE DEPARTMENT WITH HIS CAREER HERE.

HE SERVES AS OVERSEEING THE FTO PROGRAM.

HE IS PART OF THE HIRING BOARD TO BRING ON NEW CANDIDATES TO THE SOUTHLAKE.

AND HE RECENTLY MOVED FROM PATROL TO THE CORPORAL FOR THE SRO DIVISION.

HE ALSO HAS A REALLY GREAT TALENT FOR COMMUNICATING EFFECTIVELY.

NO MATTER WHAT THE SITUATION, HE'S ABLE TO COMMUNICATE PROFESSIONALLY AND DE-ESCALATE EVERY SITUATION QUICKLY.

SO HE'S A GREAT ADDITION TO THE TEAM.

AND THEN OUR FINAL AWARD WINNER TO HIGHLIGHT THIS EVENING IS ZAYNE HUFF FOR THE PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT.

ROB COHAN SELECTED ZAYNE BECAUSE HE HAS REALLY STEPPED UP THIS LAST YEAR TO HELP THE DEPARTMENT IMPLEMENT A NEW SOFTWARE SOLUTION.

HE ACCEPTED THE CHALLENGE AND WENT AFTER IT FEARLESSLY.

HE HAS A POSITIVE ATTITUDE AND A STRONG DETERMINATION AND HE HAS REALLY SHOWN US WHAT AN ASSET HE IS, NOT JUST THE DEPARTMENT BUT THE CITY AS A WHOLE.

SO THIS LAST YEAR'S AWARD RECIPIENTS TRULY HIGHLIGHT THE SPIRIT OF SOUTHLAKE, AND IT REALLY SHOWS THE CARE AND CONCERN WE HAVE NOT JUST FOR EACH OTHER AS EMPLOYEES, BUT ALSO THE COMMUNITY AS A WHOLE.

AND WE ARE SO, SO PROUD OF THE WORK THAT THEY DO.

AND I'D LIKE TO OFFER ALL OF THEM MY HEARTFELT, HEARTFELT CONGRATULATIONS.

AND IF YOU WILL, PLEASE JOIN ME IN GIVING THEM A ROUND OF APPLAUSE [APPLAUSE].

WITH THAT, I'D BE HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS YOU MIGHT HAVE.

WELL, THANK YOU, DIRECTOR BLACK.

AND, YOU KNOW, AS I'M WATCHING YOUR PRESENTATION, I OBVIOUSLY, WE'RE WE'RE SO THANKFUL FOR FOR THE EMPLOYEES OF THE CITY OF SOUTHLAKE AND HOW MUCH THEY GIVE TO OUR TO OUR CITY, TO OUR RESIDENTS, TO OUR TAXPAYERS AND CITIZENS.

I'M REALLY THANKFUL FOR YOU AND YOUR TEAM AND HOW INTENTIONAL YOU GUYS ARE ABOUT THESE AWARDS.

LIKE THEY'RE SO WELL THOUGHT THROUGH AND YOU PUT IN SO MUCH EFFORT TO HONOR THESE FOLKS.

IT'S REALLY SPECIAL.

LIKE, THESE AREN'T JUST KIND OF, YOU KNOW, AFTERTHOUGHTS AND SAY, OKAY, HERE'S SOME AWARD.

I MEAN, THESE ARE SO INTENTIONAL AND SO SPECIAL.

AND YOU CAN TELL THAT THESE EMPLOYEES REALLY APPRECIATE THE RECOGNITION.

AND BUT BUT WE KNOW THAT THEY DON'T DO IT FOR THE RECOGNITION.

THEY DO IT BECAUSE THEY TRULY LOVE BEING HERE.

SO THAT'S VERY SPECIAL.

COUNCIL ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS? YES, MAYOR I'LL JUST I'LL ECHO YOUR COMMENTS IN THAT I'VE SPENT A CAREER IN THE CORPORATE WORLD, AND IT'S SO FUNNY.

I GO THROUGH A PRESENTATION LIKE THIS, AND I HAD SEEN THIS AWARD PRESENTATION, I GUESS, LAST WEEK WHEN IT HAPPENED.

AND IT OCCURS TO ME THAT HOW WELL WE DO IT.

AND WHEN I SAY WE, I MEAN YOU AND THE OTHER DIRECTORS AND SHANA AND AMY AND SO FORTH.

BUT JUST THERE'S A LOT OF CORPORATIONS THAT COULD LEARN FROM THE CITY OF SOUTHLAKE HOW TO RECOGNIZE THEIR EMPLOYEES AND HOW TO HAVE AN ENGAGED WORKFORCE AND SO FORTH.

SO I REALLY WANTED YOU GUYS TO HEAR THAT IT'S OUTSTANDING.

BUT AS I AS YOU WENT THROUGH EACH ONE, IT'S SO FUNNY.

I CAN'T SAY THAT I KNOW EVERYONE BUT THE VAST MAJORITY OF THEM I DO.

AND LITERALLY ON EVERY ONE YOU'RE GOING, YEP.

YEAH, I GET THAT.

I SEE WHY THAT IS. YEAH, THERE'S NO SURPRISES.

I MEAN, THESE ARE GOOD, GOOD FOLKS.

SO. YEAH. CONGRATULATIONS.

NO, THANK YOU.

ABSOLUTELY. THANK YOU, DIRECTOR BLACK.

GREAT JOB, EVERYBODY.

CONGRATULATIONS. OKAY, WELL, THAT WE'LL MOVE ON TO WORK SESSION AGENDA ITEM NUMBER SIX, WHICH IS A DISCUSSION OF EVERYTHING WE HAVE ON THE CONSENT AGENDA TONIGHT.

[6. Discuss all items on tonight's agenda. No action will be taken and each item will be considered during the Regular Session.]

ITEM 4B EXCUSE THE ABSENCE OF COUNCIL MEMBER RONELL SMITH FOR FROM THE FEBRUARY 21ST, 2023 REGULAR CITY COUNCIL MEETING.

ITEM 4C RESOLUTION NUMBER 23-03 APPOINTING A MEMBER TO FILL A VACANCY ON THE LIBRARY BOARD.

THIS ITEM IS ON BECAUSE ONE OF OUR LIBRARY BOARD MEMBERS [INAUDIBLE] TAN, HAD TO RESIGN TO FIGHT FOR SCHOOL BOARD.

HE HAS SINCE WITHDRAWN HIS CANDIDACY FROM THE SCHOOL BOARD RACE.

AND SO MY SUGGESTION IS WE REAPPOINT HIM AND LET HIM CONTINUE TO SERVE.

ITEM 4D RESOLUTION NUMBER 23-004 APPOINTING A CHAIR OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF TAX INCREMENT REINVESTMENT ZONE NUMBER ONE FOR THE 2023 CALENDAR YEAR.

AND I BELIEVE MAYOR PRO TEM WILLIAMSON HAS DRAWN THAT PARTICULAR STRAW, SIR.

AND DO WE NEED TO, ARE VOTING ON VICE CHAIR? YEAH, I NOTICED IN THIS AND MAYBE WE CAN GET ADVICE TO THE CITY ATTORNEY ON THIS.

IT'S MISSING THE VICE CHAIR MOTION FOR, DR.

JACKSON IS SAYING, NO, WE DON'T NEED TO VOTE ON THAT.

WE DON'T NEED TO VOTE ON THAT. SO COUNCIL JUST NEEDS TO APPROVE THE CHAIR.

PERFECT. YOU'RE UP, SIR.

THANK YOU. ITEM 4E, APPROVE AN ENCROACHMENT AND JOINT USE AGREEMENT FOR A MASONRY STRUCTURE WITHIN THE UTILITY EASEMENT LOCATED AT 100 RIVER OAKS DRIVE.

AND 4F AUTHORIZE THE CITY MANAGER TO ENTER INTO AN AGREEMENT WITH A LEGAL FIRM TO REPRESENT THE CITY OF SOUTHLAKE TO ADDRESS CONSTRUCTION DEFECTS.

COUNCIL, IS THERE ANYTHING ELSE WE WANT TO PUT ON CONSENT FOR TONIGHT? YES. MAYOR COUNCIL. I WOULD SUGGEST THAT WE CONSIDER MOVING FROM THE REGULAR AGENDA TO OUR CONSENT AGENDA AND APPROVING THIS ITEM.

IT'S ITEM 9A APPROVING AN EXPENDITURE TO LIFESCAN WELLNESS CENTERS FOR THE ANNUAL PHYSICAL EXAMS FOR OUR POLICE AND FIRE PERSONNEL.

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CHIEF BRANDON'S GOING TO GIVE US A BRIEF SUMMARY OF WHY WE DIDN'T PUT THIS ON CONSENT TO BEGIN WITH.

CHIEF. GOOD EVENING, MAYOR AND COUNCIL.

TO GIVE YOU SOME QUICK BACKGROUND, THIS IS AN EFFORT BY THE CITY TO ADDRESS THE THINGS THAT POLICE OFFICERS INCUR IN THE COURSE OF THEIR CAREERS THAT CAUSE THE NATIONAL AIDS THAT WE DIE OUT TO BE 57 YEARS OLD.

SO FIRE HAS UNDERGONE THESE KIND OF EXAMS FOR YEARS.

THIS IS NEW FOR THE POLICE DEPARTMENT.

THE COST OF THIS CAME IN ABOUT $35,000 OVER WHAT WAS BUDGETED FOR IT.

IT WILL STILL BE PAID OUT OF THE POLICE DEPARTMENT'S GENERAL FUND BUDGET.

IT JUST EXCEEDS THAT LINE ITEM.

SO YOU STILL HAVE THE MONEY. YOU JUST ARE MOVING UP FROM ONE ITEM TO ANOTHER.

COUNCIL ANY QUESTIONS? SOUNDS GOOD, SIR. I APPRECIATE YOU ADDRESSING THIS AND GET IN FRONT OF IT.

AND 9B, I BELIEVE IS TABLED.

PUT THAT ON CONSENT FOR TABLE.

OKAY COUNCIL ANYTHING ELSE? ALL RIGHT. WELL, THAT'S OUR CONSENT FOR TONIGHT.

AND WITH THAT, I WILL CALL THE REGULAR SESSION TO ORDER TONIGHT.

[1. Call to order.]

[2. A. Executive Session:]

SECTION 551.072 TO DELIBERATE REGARDING REAL PROPERTY MATTERS.

SECTION 551.074 TO DELIBERATE REGARDING PERSONNEL MATTERS AND SECTION 551.087 TO DELIBERATE REGARDING ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT NEGOTIATIONS.

AND WE SHOULD BE BACK.

MR. YELVERTON 7:15 7 TO 7:15.

OKAY. ALL RIGHT.

7:05 AND WE ARE GOING TO RECONVENE OUT OF EXECUTIVE SESSION.

COUNCIL, IS THERE ANY ACTION NEEDED OUT OF EXECUTIVE SESSION? NO, MAYOR. MRS. YELVERTON, DO WE NEED TO TAKE ANY ACTION ON THE ENGAGEMENT LETTER? WE'RE GOOD. OKAY, PERFECT.

ALL RIGHT. WE'LL MOVE ON TO OUR REGULAR SESSION AGENDA.

ITEM NUMBER 3A, WHICH IS MAYOR'S REPORT.

WE HAVE NOTHING SCHEDULED. SO MOVING ON TO 3B CITY MANAGER'S REPORT, AND I WILL INTRODUCE CITY MANAGER SHANA YELVERTON FOR HER REPORT.

[3.B. City Manager's Report]

COME ON UP CHRIS ON MEMBERSHIPS AND HOW THINGS ARE GOING OUT THERE.

GO AHEAD, MAYOR.

MEMBERS OF THE CITY COUNCIL, IT'S MY PLEASURE TO INTRODUCE A FEW OF OUR EMPLOYEES TO YOU THAT ARE GOING TO COME UP.

AND THERE THEY ARE BEHIND ME.

THEY SWITCHED ON ME.

AMY BENNETT IS OUR ASSISTANT RECREATION MANAGER, SO SHE OVERSEES KIND OF THE OPERATIONS OF CHAMPIONS CLUB.

AND CRYSTAL MADALENA IS OUR OUR HOSPITALITY AND SALES MANAGER WHO OVERSEES THE LEGENDS HALL END AT THE MARQ.

AND ALSO WITH THEM TONIGHT IS EMILY WOOD.

EMILY IS OUR SALES SPECIALIST.

AND THEY'VE GOT SOME REALLY GOOD NEWS TO SHARE WITH YOU TONIGHT.

I'D LIKE TO ASK THEM TO COME FORWARD AND DO THAT.

ALL RIGHT, COME ON DOWN.

SO HI, GUYS. SO THANK YOU FOR HAVING US TONIGHT TO COME OUT AND TALK ABOUT.

I'M TALKING ABOUT THE CHAMPIONS CLUB SIDE AND THEN CHRIS WILL TALK ABOUT THE [INAUDIBLE] SIDE.

YOU GUYS JUST KEEP MOVING AROUND ON US.

SO SO WE WANT TO TALK THROUGH OUR CHAMPIONS CLUB JANUARY MEMBERSHIP CAMPAIGN.

SO A LITTLE BIT OF BACKGROUND ON OUR CAMPAIGN ITSELF.

SO WE'RE VERY STRATEGIC WITH HOW WE COME THROUGH WITH OUR MEMBERSHIP CAMPAIGN FOR CHAMPIONS CLUB.

OBVIOUSLY WITH THE MARKETING COST CREDIT FACILITY, WE HAVE TO BE COGNIZANT OF WHERE OUR REVENUE TARGETS ARE AND HOW WE'RE BUILDING OUR MEMBERSHIP NUMBERS TO GET THERE.

SO WE ACTUALLY TALK ABOUT MEMBERSHIP CAMPAIGNS WAY BACK IN APRIL WHEN WE DEVELOPED THE BUDGET ITSELF.

SO WE IDENTIFY WHERE WE ANTICIPATE GROWING.

WE NEED TO FIND MONTHS THAT WE PLAN TO RUN A CAMPAIGN VERSUS MONTHS THAT WE DON'T AND HOW MANY CAMPAIGNS WE CAN DO THAT THROUGH THE ENTIRE YEAR.

WE THEN SIT DOWN WITH OUR COMMUNITY RELATIONS DEPARTMENT SOMETIME IN SEPTEMBER AND ACTUALLY TALK THROUGH, OKAY, LET'S UPDATE THE MARKETING PLAN.

LET'S IDENTIFY WHAT WE WANT TO DO.

AND THEN AS WE GET CLOSER TO THAT CAMPAIGN DATE FOR US, NOVEMBER, DECEMBER, WE SIT DOWN AND SAY, OKAY, HERE'S OUR TACTICS, HERE'S WHAT WE WANT TO DO, HERE'S THE THINGS THAT HAVE WORKED, WHAT ARE OUR GOALS, WHERE WE WANT TO GO FROM THERE? AND THEN WE ACTUALLY HAVE CAMPAIGN KICKOFF ON JANUARY 1ST OF THIS YEAR.

SO AS FAR AS THE NEW YEAR CAMPAIGN.

SO A COUPLE OF NUMBERS FOR YOU GUYS.

SO WE ACTUALLY TARGET THE WHOLE MONTH OF JANUARY.

WE JUST DO JANUARY 1ST TO THE 31ST.

OUR GOAL WAS TO SELL 275 MEMBERSHIP UNITS.

SO CHAMPIONS CLUB EATS MEMBERSHIP, WHETHER IT'S A FAMILY OR AN ADULT AS A UNIT.

AND SO JUST LOOKING TO SELL 275 SALES, WE LOOK AT A BUNCH OF DIFFERENT TACTICS.

SO BETWEEN PAID ADS, E BLASTS, ACCOUNT OF EVENTS, NEW JOIN INCENTIVES, REFERRALS.

WE BASICALLY COME UP WITH A VARIETY OF DIFFERENT TACTICS IN ORDER TO SELL OUR MEMBERSHIPS.

AND IT'S NOT JUST ON THE MARKETING SIDE.

SO WE HAVE OUR COMMUNICATIONS TEAM AND THEY'RE PHENOMENAL.

AND WE ALSO HAVE OUR BASICALLY CHAMPIONS CLUB SIDE, WHICH IS LIKE OUR GUEST SERVICE SUPERVISOR, OUR MEMBERSHIP SERVICES COORDINATOR.

AND SO THEY WORK TO DO STAFF TRAININGS, WE DO MEMBERSHIP REFERRALS, WE DO TOUR INCENTIVES FOR OUR STAFFING.

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AND THE ONE FUN THING TOO, IF YOU GUYS ACTUALLY SCAN THAT QR CODE, IT IS A LINK TO OUR YOUTUBE AD THAT WAS SOMETHING NEW THAT WE DID FOR THIS CAMPAIGN.

WE HADN'T DONE YOUTUBE APPS BEFORE, SO IT WAS KIND OF NEAT TO BE ABLE TO DO THOSE AND WE SAW A PRETTY GOOD RETURN ON THEM.

SO AS FAR AS THE OUTCOME, ULTIMATELY WHAT MATTERS.

SO WE HIT 289 MEMBERSHIP UNITS SOLD, SO WE OBVIOUSLY EXCEEDED OUR GOAL THERE.

A COUPLE OF FUN TARGETS TO TALK ABOUT.

WE HAD A 2.3% MEMBERSHIP GROWTH, WHICH WAS DEFINITELY WITHIN OUR TARGET FOR WHAT WE WANTED TO ACCOMPLISH.

WE HAD A 64% CONVERSION RATE, WHICH WAS OUR BEST CONVERSION RATE WE'VE EVER HAD FOR ANY MONTH AT ALL.

SO THAT WAS REALLY NEAT AND THAT WAS REALLY CREDIT TO, LIKE I SAID, OUR MEMBERSHIP SERVICES COORDINATOR, MARIANNE BURTON, SHE DID A FANTASTIC TOUR TRAINING WITH OUR STAFF BEFORE THE CAMPAIGN KICKED OFF AND THEN SHE HELPED RUN A TOUR INCENTIVE FOR OUR STAFF THAT, HEY, IF YOU KNOW, IF YOU'VE GOT A CERTAIN CONVERSION RATE, YOU'VE GOT DIFFERENT PRIZES BASED ON THAT FOR EACH WEEK OF THE CAMPAIGN AS WELL AS FOR THE FULL CAMPAIGN ITSELF, WE HAD OVER 200,000 IMPRESSIONS IN OUR PAID ADS.

WE HAD OVER 15,000 TARGETED EMAIL SENT AND HAD A 50, 50, 67% OPEN RATE, WHICH IS REALLY GREAT FOR BLAST.

IT'S ACTUALLY BETTER THAN THE AVERAGE THERE.

AND THEN FOR OUR WEBSITE VIEWS, WE WERE ACTUALLY PRETTY IMPRESSED WITH THAT TOO.

WE HAD OVER 2500 WEB PAGE VIEWS, WHICH IS ACTUALLY 106% INCREASE FROM LAST YEAR.

SO WE'RE REALLY IMPRESSED TO SEE THAT INCREASE.

AND LIKE I SAID, A LOT OF THAT IS DUE TO OUR WORK FOR OUR COMMUNICATIONS TEAM AS WELL.

AND THEN ULTIMATELY, WHAT DOES THIS MEAN? AND SO, YOU KNOW, THE GOOD THING FOR THAT IS THAT AS OF JANUARY 31ST, WE WERE AT 303,366 MEMBERSHIP UNITS FOR CHAMPIONS CLUB.

WE'VE RECOGNIZED AROUND $972,000 IN REVENUE, AND THAT'S JUST FOR MEMBERSHIPS FOR CHAMPIONS CLUB.

AND THAT PUTS US OPEN ABOUT 5% OF OUR ABOVE OUR TARGETED BUDGET FOR THE YEAR SO FAR.

SO WE'RE IN A GREAT SHAPE, NOT EVEN ABOUT A THIRD OF THE WAY THROUGH THE YEAR.

WE'RE 45% AHEAD OF WHAT WE PLAN TO DO.

SO IT WAS A GREAT CAMPAIGN FOR US.

WE'RE ALREADY TALKING ABOUT OUR MAIN CAMPAIGN.

THAT'S GOING TO BE OUR NEXT ONE.

SO AT THE END OF EACH CAMPAIGN, OBVIOUSLY, WE SIT DOWN AND WE TALK ABOUT WHAT WORKED, WHAT DIDN'T WORK, YOU KNOW, WHAT WE'D LIKE TO SEE IN THE FUTURE, WHAT MAYBE NEW THINGS WE'D LIKE TO TRY ON.

SO THAT'S KIND OF WHERE ABOUT READY FOR MAY SO.

I'VE GOT A QUICK QUESTION FOR YOU ON THAT SLIDE.

CAN YOU DEFINE A MEMBERSHIP UNIT? SURE. SO IT'S IT'S BASICALLY WHETHER IT'S FAMILY SORRY, WHETHER A MEMBERSHIP IS A FAMILY OR AN ADULT, THAT'S ONE UNIT.

RATHER THAN TRYING TO COUNT INDIVIDUAL MEMBERS.

WHAT'S THE AVERAGE SIZE OF OUR UNITS RIGHT NOW? IS IT? I BELIEVE IT'S ABOUT FOUR LIKE AN AVERAGE FAMILY OF FOUR.

SO ABOUT 12,000, 13,000 ACTUAL MEMBERS.

YEAH, I'D HAVE TO RUN THE REPORT, BUT I WOULD SAY THAT'S A FAIR GUESSTIMATE.

GOT IT. ONE MORE QUESTION, TOO, AND I HATE TO PUT YOU ON THE SPOT BECAUSE IT MAY NOT BE SOMETHING YOU KNOW, RIGHT NOW.

WHAT'S THE TYPICAL ATTENDANCE CHECK IN NUMBER OF CHECK INS? I MEAN, I KNOW IT'S BUSIER PROBABLY ON CERTAIN DAYS.

AND THAT'S A GREAT QUESTION.

SO FOR THE FIRST WEEK OF JANUARY, WE SAW A REALLY GREAT CHECK INS.

WE WERE AROUND 8000 CHECK INS PER WEEK WAS OUR FIRST WEEK OF JANUARY.

WOW. OBVIOUSLY, THAT SLOWS DOWN A LITTLE BIT YEAH. SO NOW NOW WE'RE CLOSER BY ABOUT LIKE 7200 OR SO CHECK INS, WHICH IS HIGHER THAN WE WERE IN THE FALL.

AND THE FALL, WE WERE AVERAGING AROUND 5800 CHECK INS PER WEEK.

7000 IS ABOUT WHERE WE WERE LAST SUMMER FOR THE MOST PART.

AGAIN, WE HAVE PEAKS AND VALLEYS WITH MEMBERSHIP CHECK INS, AND SO THAT'S KIND OF TYPICAL FOR US, BUT IT'S DEFINITELY AN INCREASE.

SO WHICH MAKES SENSE FOR THE NUMBERS THAT WE'RE UP TO.

THANK YOU. YEAH, YEAH.

IS IT BY A PRETTY HIGH MAJORITY OR.

I'D HAVE TO DOUBLE CHECK. BUT I WANT TO SAY WE'RE ABOUT 80%, IF NOT MORE THAN THAT, MAYBE 80%.

I WANT TO DOUBLE CHECK ON THAT.

THAT'S INTERESTING. YEAH, THAT'S GOOD.

THAT'S GOOD. SO, QUESTION, WE'RE COMING UP ON FIVE YEARS WITH THE MARQ, RIGHT? IS THAT FOUR YEARS OPEN IN 19? WHAT HAVE YOU GUYS STARTED TO LOOK AT UTILIZATION LIKE WHAT AREAS ARE GETTING THE MOST USE, WHAT AREAS ARE LACKING? OR LIKE DO YOU GUYS EVALUATE THAT ON AN ONGOING BASIS? WE DO. SO WE HAVE AN ONGOING BASIS OF JUST BASICALLY WHAT SPACES ARE BEING ANALYZED, WHAT SPACES AREN'T BEING UTILIZED.

WE HAVE A FACILITY SCHEDULE THAT WE SIT DOWN WITH OUR COORDINATORS AND OUR SUPERVISORS BASICALLY EVERY SEASON BECAUSE PART OF THAT GOES INTO PLAY AS TO HOW WE'RE USING IT FOR OUR PROGRAMING AS WELL.

SO WE SIT DOWN ON A DAILY BASIS, WE EVALUATE WHAT'S OUR MEMBERSHIP USAGE, WHAT'S OUR PROGRAMING USAGE, WHICH ARE OUR RENTAL USAGE, AND WE MAY ADJUST DEPENDING ON WHERE THE USAGE IS OR MAYBE A SPACE THAT'S UNDERUTILIZED.

CAN WE FOCUS PROGRAMING THERE? CAN WE READJUST HOW EQUIPMENT IS SPACED OUT TO TO REACH THAT AS WELL? YEAH. AWESOME. ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? YEAH, REALLY GREAT DATA. THANK YOU VERY MUCH AND CONGRATULATIONS ON THE SUCCESS.

THAT'S AWESOME. PERFECT. THANK YOU.

WELL DONE. ALL RIGHT.

ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE BUILDING.

SO LEGENDS HALL, OBVIOUSLY THAT'S WHERE WE DO ALL OF OUR PRIVATE EVENTS, WEDDINGS AND ALL THOSE FUN CELEBRATIONS AND DIFFERENT THINGS LIKE THAT.

IF YOU WERE NOT AWARE, WE ARE CURRENTLY IN THE MIDDLE OF ENGAGEMENT SEASON, SO WE ARE ACTUALLY RUNNING AN ENGAGEMENT SEASON PROMOTION.

AS YOU CAN SEE ON THE SLIDE, MOST ENGAGEMENTS TAKE PLACE BETWEEN THANKSGIVING AND VALENTINE'S DAY, ALL THE HOLIDAYS, ALL THE FEELINGS.

SO STARTING JANUARY, WE LIKE TO RUN A PROMOTION.

WE OFFER 10% OFF OF OUR SILVER RECEPTION PACKAGES AND HIGHER AS OF THE END OF JANUARY.

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SO THAT'S A SIGNIFICANT SAVINGS FOR THEM BECAUSE WE GENERALLY DO NOT DISCOUNT OUR PACKAGES BECAUSE THEY ARE ALREADY DISCOUNTED AND THEN WE PROMOTE THIS.

WE CROSS-PROMOTE THIS THROUGH OUR BRIDES OF BRIDES OF NORTH TEXAS AND OUR 360 WEDDING, WHICH ARE OUR SOCIAL ACCOUNTS.

WE PUT THOSE OUT.

WE ARE ALSO HIGHLIGHTING SOMETHING NEW THAT WE'VE JUST STARTED.

IT SAYS FEBRUARY 6TH IS WHEN WE DID IT.

IT WAS ORIGINALLY SCHEDULED FOR JANUARY.

THANK YOU. ICE STORM.

WE GOT TO MOVE THAT.

WE STILL HAD A GREAT TURNOUT.

SO WHAT WE'VE IMPLEMENTED IS A LEGENDS HALL TASTING SERIES.

WE HAVE PREFERRED CATERERS, WE HAVE A PREFERRED CATERERS LIST THAT WE ENCOURAGE OUR CLIENTS TO USE.

AND WE WERE ABLE TO PARTNER WITH FERAH FOR OUR FIRST ONE, THE LOCAL LOCAL RESTAURANT HERE.

THEY'VE BEEN FABULOUS PARTNERS.

WE HAD THEM OUT ON THAT MONDAY.

WE HAD 83 RPS AND ABOUT 60 ATTENDEES, SO THAT WAS A GREAT RETURN RATE AND THEY WERE ALL ABLE TO CHAT WITH THE CHEFS AND SAMPLE THE FOOD AND MEET WITH THEM ON A ONE ON ONE BASIS.

WE DON'T HAVE ANY HARD NUMBERS, BUT WE'VE HEARD OF AT LEAST FIVE OR SIX THAT ARE DEFINITELY INTERESTED IN USING THEM, WHICH WE'RE VERY EXCITED ABOUT BECAUSE THEY BRING NEW CUISINE TO OUR CLIENTS, ESPECIALLY WITH THE SOUTH ASIAN CUISINE THAT WE HAD BEEN LACKING PREVIOUSLY.

AND THEN FERAH, TO HELP US OUT, ALSO OFFER A CROSS PROMOTIONAL OFFER FOR A PERCENTAGE OFF OF LEGEND'S HALL CLIENTS . SALES AS OF JANUARY SO JANUARY, YOU CAN SEE THE BIG, BOLD PRINT THERE.

JANUARY WAS OUR LARGEST SALES THAT WE HAVE EVER HAD IN THE HISTORY OF LEGENDS HALL.

WE HAVE BEEN OPEN SINCE 2015.

WE DID ALMOST $110,000 IN SALES JUST IN JANUARY ALONE.

SO THAT KIND OF EQUATES YOU CAN SEE ON THE LEFT THERE ALL THOSE NUMBERS, 252 INQUIRIES, INQUIRIES ARE PHONE CALLS, WALK INS, EMAILS, CLICKS ON VARIOUS WEBSITES THAT EMILY GETS TO RESPOND TO EACH AND EVERY ONE.

THAT'S 163% INCREASE OVER THE SAME TIME LAST YEAR, 36 TOURS WERE GIVEN.

THOSE ARE CLIENTS THAT HAVE STEPPED INTO THE BUILDING, TAKING THE TIME TO WALK THROUGH, TALK ABOUT THEIR EVENT.

WE HAD 28 EVENTS BOOKED.

78% OF THOSE TOURS DID IN FACT BOOK THEIR EVENT WITH US, AND 26 OF THE EVENTS BOOKED IN JANUARY ARE TAKING PLACE IN FISCAL YEAR 23. AS YOU CAN IMAGINE, A LOT OF EVENTS BOOK QUITE FAR OUT WITH YOUR WEDDINGS AND DIFFERENT SOCIAL EVENTS.

SO TO HAVE THAT MANY WITHIN JUST THIS FISCAL YEAR IS GREAT.

AND THEN AS YOU CAN SEE, OUR TOTAL SALES $109, WE'LL CALL IT $110,000 FOR THE MONTH, JUST IN RETROSPECT.

SO YOU CAN SEE WE DID $72,000 IN SALES THE SAME TIME LAST YEAR.

SO THAT'S A 51% INCREASE ALONE.

SO JANUARY WAS AN EXTREMELY BUSY MONTH FOR EMILY AND EVERYONE THAT WAS ANSWERING THE PHONES AND RESPONDING TO EMAILS AS WELL.

OUR HIGHEST RECORDED SALES PRIOR TO THIS WAS LAST FEBRUARY, RIGHT AROUND $81,000, AND WE STILL INCREASE THAT BY 34%.

SO JANUARY WAS A VERY BUSY MONTH.

JUST TO KIND OF GIVE YOU A LITTLE BIT OF AN IDEA.

PULLING SOME NUMBERS, THEY'RE NOT ON HERE, BUT JANUARY OF LAST YEAR, I THINK WE HAD 11 EVENTS.

THIS YEAR WE HAD 21 FEBRUARY OF LAST YEAR, WE HAD 4 EVENTS ON THE BOOKS.

FEBRUARY IS HISTORICALLY A SLOWER MONTH.

THIS YEAR WE HAVE 26.

SO A LITTLE BIT OF AN INCREASE.

THAT'S GREAT. SO THINGS ARE MOVING ALONG WELL AT LEGENDS HALL, AND THEN AS OF JANUARY 31ST, WE HAVE COMPLETED 83 EVENTS AND THIS IS FROM OCTOBER ONE. WE CURRENTLY HAVE 189 EVENTS BOOKED, PROBABLY MORE.

SHE'S BOOKED MORE SINCE WE PULLED THESE NUMBERS.

CURRENTLY WE'RE AT $521,000 IN OUR REVENUE BETWEEN OUR RECEIVED AND OUR DEFERRED, AND THAT ACTUALLY PUTS US $28,000 OVER OUR BUDGETED REVENUE FOR THE YEAR SITTING IN Q2. SO WE ARE FEELING FAIRLY CONFIDENT THAT IT'S GOING TO BE A GREAT YEAR AND IT'S DEFINITELY GOING TO BE OUR HIGHEST YEAR OF SALES AND EVENTS AT LEGENDS HALL.

I HAVE A QUICK QUESTION. YES, MA'AM.

DID WE RAISE PRICING AT ALL FROM LAST JANUARY TO THIS JANUARY? WE DID NOT RAISE PRICING PER SAY.

WE DID A SHIFT IN OUR PACKAGES.

SO EVERYTHING THE PRICES STAYED THE SAME.

WE JUST SHIFTED OUR PREMIUM AND NON PREMIUM DAYS.

WHAT WE DISCOVERED AND THIS CAME THROUGH WITH FEE SCHEDULE, SO YOU'VE PROBABLY ALL SEEN THIS BEFORE.

WHAT WE DISCOVERED IS THAT WE WERE HAVING A LOT OF PEOPLE TAKE ADVANTAGE OF A LOWER RATE ON SUNDAYS, BUT IT WAS STILL COSTING US JUST AS MUCH TO PUT ON THOSE SUNDAY EVENTS AS A SATURDAY EVENT. SO WE SIMPLY SWITCHED.

SO OUR PREMIUM DAYS ARE NOW SATURDAY AND SUNDAY, NON PREMIUM DAYS ARE MONDAY THROUGH FRIDAY.

SO IF YOU HAD BOOKED A EVENT WITH US ON A SUNDAY PREVIOUSLY AND THIS WAS JUST FOR PACKAGES THIS DID NOT, NO HOURLY RATES CHANGED.

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BUT WE DIDN'T ACTUALLY CHANGE THE PRICES.

WE JUST SHIFTED SOME THINGS AROUND.

GREAT. THANK YOU. QUESTION WHEN YOU SAY YOU HAVE $109,000 IN REVENUE IN JANUARY, IS THAT BOOKED REVENUE OR IS THAT? THAT IS SALES.

SO THAT'S CONTRACTS SIGNED, CONTRACTS SIGNED.

SO THAT DOESN'T MEAN THE EVENTS HAVE OCCURRED? NOT YET, NO. HOWEVER, I THINK WHEN WE DID PULL SOME OF THE NUMBERS, OVER 80% THAT SOUND GOOD WERE OCCURRING IN THIS FISCAL YEAR.

SO THAT'S WHY I KIND OF DIFFERENTIATE BETWEEN THAT RECEIVED AND DEFERRED, OBVIOUSLY, WITH EVENTS.

I MEAN, WE'VE GOT SOME EVENTS BOOKED.

SO A YEAR OUT, I WAS GOING TO SAY.

SO 20% ARE IN THE NEXT FISCAL YEAR.

THEY'RE BOOKING THAT FAR OUT.

YES, WE'VE HAD INQUIRIES.

WE HAD AN INQUIRY FOR 2026 YESTERDAY.

WOW. THAT'S AMAZING.

THAT'S THAT'S GREAT PLANNING.

YEAH. OH, YEAH.

SERIOUSLY, THAT BOGGLES THE MIND.

WELL, CONGRATULATIONS.

THANK YOU. THIS IS GREAT. THANK YOU.

ANY QUESTIONS, COUNCIL? YEAH. WELL DONE. YOU GUYS ARE DOING A PHENOMENAL JOB.

GREAT JOB ON BOTH SIDES OF THE HOUSE.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH. ABSOLUTELY.

THANK YOU FOR THE UPDATES.

YEAH. THIS CONTINUES THE THEME OF US DEMONSTRATING TO YOU AND THE PUBLIC HOW HARD THESE FOLKS ARE WORKING OUT IN THE DEPARTMENTS AND THE GREAT WORK THAT THEY'RE DOING.

AND I THINK IT'S OBVIOUS THAT AMY, EMILY AND CRYSTAL ARE DOING A FANTASTIC JOB OUT THERE AT THE MARQ.

THANK YOU. AND IT DEMONSTRATES TO THE TAXPAYERS THAT WE'RE FOLLOWING THROUGH ON OUR COMMITMENT TO MAKE SURE THE BURDEN ON THEM FOR THESE FACILITIES IS AS LOW AS POSSIBLE.

SO REALLY EXCITING. THANKS.

THANKS AGAIN. OKAY.

WITH THAT, WE'LL MOVE ON TO OUR CONSENT AGENDA.

[CONSENT AGENDA]

YES, MAYOR AND COUNCIL. I MOVE THAT WE APPROVE ITEMS 4A-4F OUR CONSENT AGENDA AND NOTING THE FOLLOWING WE'RE GOING TO BE WITH REGARDS TO ITEM 4C WE'LL BE APPOINTING [INAUDIBLE] TO LIBRARY BOARD WITH REGARDS TO ITEM 4D APPOINTING RANDY WILLIAMSON, CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE TERZ FOR ONE MORE YEAR.

WITH REGARDS TO ITEM 4F, WE'RE FINDING THE FOLLOWING.

THERE'S A SUBSTANTIAL NEED FOR THE LEGAL SERVICES PROVIDED BY GRAVELEY PC AND THE CITY OF SOUTHLAKES, THE MARQ COMPLEX CONSTRUCTION AND DESIGN DEFECT CLAIMS. SECOND, THAT THE LEGAL SERVICES CANNOT BE ADEQUATELY PERFORMED BY ATTORNEYS AND SUPPORTING PERSONNEL OF THE CITY OF SOUTHLAKE.

THIRD, THE LEGAL SERVICES CANNOT REASONABLY BE OBTAINED FROM ATTORNEYS IN PRIVATE PRACTICE UNDER A CONTRACT PROVIDING ONLY FOR THE PAYMENT OF HOURLY FEES WITHOUT REGARD TO THE OUTCOME OF THE MATTER. BECAUSE OF THE NATURE OF THE MATTER FOR WHICH THE SERVICES WILL BE OBTAINED OR BECAUSE THE CITY OF SOUTHLAKE DOES NOT HAVE FUNDS TO PAY THE ESTIMATED AMOUNTS REQUIRED UNDER A CONTRACT PROVIDING ONLY FOR THE PAYMENT OF HOURLY FEES.

AND FINALLY, NUMBER FOUR, THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE CITY OF SOUTHLAKE OR ITS GOVERNING BODY AND THE ATTORNEY OR LAW FIRM BEING RETAINED IS NOT IMPROPER AND WOULD NOT APPEAR IMPROPER TO A REASONABLE PERSON.

AND THEN FINALLY, WE'RE ALSO ADDING ITEM NINE A MOVING IT FROM REGULAR AGENDA TO CONSENT, HAVING HEARD ON THAT ITEM DURING OUR WORK SESSION AND WE'RE ALSO MOVING ITEM NINE B, WE'RE GOING TO BE TABLING.

SO WE'RE MOVING FROM REGULAR AGENDA TO CONSENT AND IT'S THEIR REQUEST TO TABLE THIS ITEM, I BELIEVE, TILL OUR MARCH 7TH MEETING.

IS THAT CORRECT, TO MARCH 7TH MEETING? THAT'S IT. DO WE HAVE MOTIONS PLEASE CAST YOUR VOTE. PART CONSENT AGENDA PASSES 6 TO 0.

WITH THAT WE'LL MOVE ON TO ITEM NUMBER FIVE, WHICH IS OUR PUBLIC FORUM.

SO THE PUBLIC FORM ALLOWS THE PUBLIC TO BRING ITEMS TO OUR ATTENTION THAT ARE NOT ON THE AGENDA.

DO WE HAVE ANYBODY WISHING TO SPEAK ON PUBLIC FORUM TONIGHT? SEEING NONE. WE'LL CLOSE THE PUBLIC FORUM AND MOVE ON TO ITEM NINE C, WHICH IS SV23-001 SIGN VARIANCE FOR BOBA CHICKEN LOCATED AT 2801

[9.C. SV23-0001, Sign Variance for Boba Chicken located at 2801 E. Southlake Blvd., Suite 100, Southlake, Texas.]

YOU'RE UP. THANK YOU, MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL.

THIS PROPERTY IS LOCATED AT 2801 E SOUTHLAKE BOULEVARD AND IS A REQUEST FOR A VARIANCE TO ALLOW A LARGER THAN PERMITTED LETTER HEIGHT, LOGO HEIGHT, SIGN AREA, LOGO AREA, SIGN TYPE AND THE ILLUMINATION COLOR.

THIS IS THE LOCATION OF THE PROPERTY.

IT SHARES A TUTORING FACILITY THAT ALSO HAS A JOINT USE AS A CHURCH AND THEN A POKEWORKS RESTAURANT FACILITY HERE.

AND THEN THIS SPACE IS LOCATED JUST ON THE WEST SIDE OF THE BUILDING.

THIS IS A SITE PLAN EXHIBIT SHOWING DISTANCE FROM THE SOUTHLAKE BOULEVARD PAVEMENT.

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LETS SEE SIGN SHOWN IN BLUE.

AND THIS IS THE PROPOSED SIGN THAT WAS PRESENTED TO THE SIGN BOARD.

IT IS ALSO THEIR OPTION ONE SIGN AND JUST RUNNING THROUGH THE VARIANCES OR DEVIATIONS FROM THE CITY SIGN ORDINANCE.

THIS PROPOSES A 36 INCH OVERALL LETTER HEIGHT, WHICH MAXIMUM PERMITTED GIVEN THAT DISTANCE IS JUST UNDER 31 INCHES.

THAT LETTER HEIGHT INCLUDES THIS CLOUD AREA AROUND IT, WHICH IS ALSO PART OF THE SIGN TYPE VARIANCE LOCATED DOWN HERE AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS COLUMN.

THIS IS ESSENTIALLY A CHANNEL CUT CAPSULE SIGN SIMILAR TO A BOX SIGN THAT'S CLOUDED AROUND THE LETTER SIZES.

THIS WOULD BE INTERNALLY LIT AND WOULD APPEAR IN ORANGE COLOR WHEN LIT AT NIGHT AND WHITE LETTERING AT NIGHT. AND THEN, OF COURSE, DAYTIME VIEW WOULD BE SIMILAR.

LOGO HEIGHT ON THIS IS 48 INCHES WHICH ORDINANCE PERMITS JUST OVER 38 INCHES.

SIGN WIDTH IT IS IN LINE WITH THE ORDINANCE.

AND THEN ON SIGN AREA 61 SQUARE FEET PROPOSED JUST UNDER 29 INCHES OR EXCUSE ME, 29 SQUARE FEET IS PERMITTED.

AND THAT'S JUST BASED ON THE LEASE SPACE WIDTH OF THE RESTAURANT SITE.

LOGO AREA ALSO LIMITED TO 5.7 SQUARE FEET.

THIS LOGO SIZE IS JUST OVER 18 SQUARE FEET.

ONCE AGAIN MENTIONING THE SIGN TYPE, THE ORDINANCE REQUIRES THAT SIGN LETTERING BE INDIVIDUALLY CHANNEL CUT LETTERS WITH A NEUTRAL COLOR IF LIT AND THE SIGN TYPE BEING PROPOSED HERE IS ESSENTIALLY A CAPSULE TYPE SIGN, BUT IS CHANNEL CUT TO FOLLOW THE SHAPE OF THE LETTERS.

IT WOULD BE BASICALLY A SOMEWHAT FLAT FACE, COMPLETELY INTERNALLY LIT FOR THE WHOLE SIGN AREA.

THE LOGO SIGN TYPE IS PERMITTED, COLOR IS PERMITTED BE USED ON THE LOGO.

SO IN THIS CASE, IT'S SIMPLY THE LOGO SIZE THAT IS OUT OF COMPLIANCE WITH THE WHAT THE SIGN ORDINANCE.

SIGNBOARDS RECOMMENDATION SOMEWHAT LENGTHY.

I'LL I'LL TRY TO CAPSULIZE IT A BIT.

THEY WERE GENERALLY OKAY WITH THE SIZE OF THE SIGNS AS THEY WERE PERMITTED.

THEY THEY DID NOT CARE FOR THE SIGN TYPE IN PARTICULAR OR THE COLORATION OF THE SIGN IN PARTICULAR BEING LIT AT NIGHT AND CONTAINING THE ORANGE COLOR.

THEY WANTED THE APPLICANT TO BRING ADDITIONAL OPTIONS IF THEY MOVE THIS FORWARD TO CITY COUNCIL, WHICH THE APPLICANT HAS DONE AND WILL GO THROUGH ONE BY ONE, THEY PROVIDED THREE ADDITIONAL OPTIONS TO CONSIDER.

AND IN PARTICULAR, IN GRANTING VARIATION TO THE LETTER SIZE, THEY PRIMARILY WANTED LEAN TOWARDS THESE BEING INDIVIDUALLY CUT CHANNEL LETTERS, AND THAT THEIR RECOMMENDATION MOVING FORWARD WAS TO ALLOW THE 27 INCH LETTERS AND THEY WERE IN FAVOR OF ALLOWING A LARGER THAN PERMITTED LOGO MOVING FORWARD.

IF THE PROPOSED SIGN OPTION CAME FORWARD USING THE INDIVIDUALLY CUT CHANNEL LETTERS.

SO HOPEFULLY I CAPSULIZED THAT ACCURATELY.

OPTION TWO, WHICH WHICH THE APPLICANT HAS BROUGHT FORWARD, REPLACES THE CAPSULIZED TYPE SIGN WITH A SIGN BACKER.

THIS WOULD BE INDIVIDUALLY MOUNTED CHANNEL LETTERS TO A ORANGE COLORED BACKER PLATE WHICH WOULD BE FLAT AND NON LIT OTHER THAN WHAT LIGHTING MIGHT REFLECT BACK OFF OF THE INTERNALLY LIT CHANNEL LETTERS AND INCLUDES A SLIGHTLY SMALLER LOGO.

SO THE VARIANCES PERTAINING TO THIS WOULD BE LETTER SIZE.

AND I'LL POINT OUT THAT THE LETTER SIZE THAT'S IDENTIFIED IN NONCOMPLIANCE WOULD BE THE CLOUDED AREA OF THE BACKER PORTION OF THIS

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THE LOGO HEIGHTS IN COMPLIANCE SIGN WIDTHS AND COMPLIANCE DEVIATIONS OCCUR HERE WITH THE SIGN AREA LOGO AREA.

AND THEN THE SIZE DOESN'T PERMIT A BACKER PLATE.

BUT IN THIS CASE, DIFFERENCE BETWEEN SIGN OPTION ONE AND THIS IS THIS IS SIMPLY A BACKER PLATE, NOT A LIT CHANNEL CUT CAPSULE.

OPTION THREE.

SOMEWHAT SIMILAR HOWEVER, IT GOES TO A LARGER LOGO HEIGHT AND A SMALLER CHANNEL CUT LETTER.

ONCE AGAIN PLACED AGAINST A BACKER PLATE AND SIGN AREAS BOTH FOR SIGN AND LOGO ARE STILL NON-COMPLIANT IN THIS CASE.

OPTION FOUR LAST AND FINAL OPTION BROUGHT FORWARD.

THESE ARE CHANNEL CUT LETTERS, FULLY CONFORMING [INAUDIBLE], OR AT LEAST CONFORMING WITH THE SIGN TYPE AND NO BACKER PLATE HERE. THE VARIANCES PERTAINING TO THIS OR THE LETTER HEIGHT, THIS IS ASKING FOR ROUGHLY ONE INCH INCREASE IN PERMITTED LETTER HEIGHT.

ROUGHLY SIX INCH INCREASE IN LOGO HEIGHT AND THEN SIMILAR SIGN AREA AREA VARIANCES AS PERTAINED TO THE OTHER OTHER OPTIONS THAT WERE PROPOSED.

WITH THAT I'LL BE GLAD TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS YOU MAY HAVE AND TURN IT OVER TO THE APPLICANT WHEN YOU'RE READY.

OKAY COUNCIL ANY QUESTIONS? YES, DIRECTOR KILLOUGH.

THE BACKER PLATES ON OPTIONS TWO AND THREE.

THOSE ARE PART OF THE VARIANCE, RIGHT? THOSE AREN'T NECESSARILY PERMITTED.

THAT'S PART OF THE VARIANCE.

THAT WOULD BE PART OF THE VARIANCE.

YEAH. THE BACKER PLATES NO LONGER PERMITTED IN THE CITY SIGN ORDINANCE.

IN OPTION ONE SEEMED LIKE THAT THE TWO NAYSAYERS ON SIGN BOARD HAD A PROBLEM WITH THE THE BOX LOOK RATHER THAN THE INDIVIDUAL CUT LETTERS? CORRECT YES.

AND YES SO TO PIGGYBACK ON THAT, OPTION ONE IS THE ORANGE.

WHAT IS THE ORANGE? IS IS IT JUST THE GLOW OF THE ORANGE COMING OUT OR THERE'S NO BACKER PLATE, OR IS THERE? AM I.

CORRECT IT'S NOT A BACKER PLATE.

IT'S THE ENTIRE SIGN IS ESSENTIALLY A CAPSULE OR BOX SIGN.

IT'S JUST IT'S NOT DONE IN EITHER AN OVAL OR A RECTANGULAR FORM.

THEY'VE CHANNEL CUT IT TO KIND OF CREATE A CLOUD AROUND THE LETTERS THAT WOULD BE MADE PART OF THE SIGN FACE BUT ARE ESSENTIALLY FLAT ON THE SIGN.

DO WE HAVE THAT ANYWHERE ELSE IN SOUTHLAKE? NOT THAT I CAN THINK OF, NO.

AND THEN ONE MORE QUESTION.

JUST COMPARATIVELY SPEAKING, HOW LARGE ARE THE LETTERS AND HOW BIG IS THE SIGN AT POK EWORKS RIGHT NEXT DOOR? I BELIEVE THAT IS THE POKEWORKS SIGN.

IT IS MAXIMUM HEIGHT ON IT IS 29 INCHES.

THIS WAS BOTH THESE SIGNS WERE FULLY CONFORMING, AS WAS SOUTHLAKE TUTORING ACADEMY.

NOW, THE LIGHTING OF THIS, I THINK IT'S REVERSE CHANNEL LIT, SO IT'S NOT FACE LIT.

SO THE ACTUALLY I THINK THIS FELL WITHIN A MUTED ENOUGH COLOR.

IT WAS CONSIDERED A NEUTRAL COLOR.

THIS SIGN IS CONFORMING AND I THINK IS REVERSE CHANNEL IT.

CAN YOU PUT UP OPTION FOUR AGAIN? I THINK THAT'S THE ONE I'M MOST COMFORTABLE WITH.

I THINK JUST THE LOOK OF TWO AND THREE KIND OF LOOKS LIKE NUMBER ONE.

AND SINCE BACKER PLATES, YOU KNOW, IT SEEMS LIKE A WAY TO TRY TO GET AROUND THAT PROBLEM.

BUT I THINK THIS IS THIS IS ONE I LIKE THE LOOK OF THE BEST.

AND I THINK I'M FINE WITH GOING ABOVE THE ORDINANCE, GIVING A LITTLE BIT OF THE VARIANCE ON OR GIVEN THE VARIANCE REQUESTED ON THE LOGO AND LETTER HEIGHTS.

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MY THOUGHTS ARE FOR NUMBER FOUR AS WELL.

BUT I WAS GOING TO SUGGEST THAT WE MAKE THE LETTERS A LITTLE SMALLER AND OR THE LOGO ONLY BECAUSE THAT POKEWORKS SIGN IS SO SMALL.

SO I FEEL LIKE THEY'RE GOING TO LOOK OUT OF SYNC, BUT THAT'S JUST MY TWO CENTS ON IT.

I KIND OF GO BACK TO THAT SIGN WE LOOKED AT ON THE LEARNING CENTER THAT HAD THE MONKEY OR SOMETHING ON IT.

WHAT WAS THERE? YEAH, THEY HAD A LOGO.

WITH THE BALLOONS. YES.

BUT IT WAS SOMETHING LIKE THE ELEPHANT.

AND IT WAS AN ELEPHANT.

ELEPHANT. THAT'S WHAT IT WAS WHIMSICAL.

AND WE KIND OF GOT THEM TO PULL THAT OFF AND GO WITH MORE WORD STUFF.

AND I KIND OF FEEL THE SAME WAY ABOUT THIS ONE.

I'M NOT A HUGE FAN OF JUST THE LOGO PIECE ON THIS.

I THINK THE WORD SAY WHAT IT IS AND GIVE US THAT.

I'D BE FINE WITH A BACKER AND BIGGER LETTERS AND NO LOGO.

I THINK IT WOULD LOOK CLEANER NEXT TO POKEWORKS AND THE LEARNING CENTER VERSUS THAT.

LET ME PUT THAT LOGO ON THE WINDOW OR SOMETHING.

BUT THAT'S JUST MY THOUGHTS ON THAT.

I DON'T KNOW WHAT OTHER PEOPLE THINK ABOUT THE LOGO ITSELF.

I'M OKAY WITH THE LOGO BECAUSE I DIDN'T REALLY KNOW WHAT IT MEANT.

I MEAN, I GUESS I KNOW WHAT BOBA IS AND CHICKEN.

I STILL AM NOT SURE BECAUSE DO CHICKENS DRINK BOBA TEA? I'M JUST NOT SURE. ARE WE TALKING ABOUT A BOBA TEA SHOP? ALL RIGHT. IS THE APPLICANT HERE? COME ON DOWN, SIR.

UNDERSTAND YOU WILL BE ASKED SOME QUESTIONS ABOUT YOUR LOGO AND WHAT THE CHICKEN IS DRINKING.

AND PLEASE EXPLAIN TO [INAUDIBLE].

17 YEARS OF SOUTHLAKE RESIDENT.

THANK YOU. AND STATE YOUR ADDRESS FOR THE RECORD AS WELL, SIR.

YOUR ADDRESS FOR THE RECORD, PLEASE.

YOUR ADDRESS. ADDRESS, ADDRESS.

OH 2801 E SOUTHLAKE BOULEVARD.

THANK YOU. [INAUDIBLE] WONDERFUL.

WELL, THANK YOU, GUYS, FIRST OF ALL, FOR BRINGING THIS BUSINESS TO SOUTHLAKE.

CAN YOU EXPLAIN A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE BUSINESS AND THEN TALK TO US ABOUT WHERE YOU'RE COMFORTABLE WITH AS FAR AS THE SIGN GOES? THIS IS OUR FIRST BUSINESS, AND THEN WE DECIDE TO STAY FOR IN SOUTHLAKE.

AND THEN THIS IS THE LOGO IS A CHICKEN DRINKING BOBA TEA.

WE'RE SELLING ASIAN STYLE WITH KOREAN, CHINESE OR EVEN JAPANESE FRIED CHICKEN WINGS.

AND THEN MIX AND [INAUDIBLE] WITH BOBA TEA AS WELL, BECAUSE THOSE ARE VERY POPULAR FOODS FOR AND ALSO THERE'S NOT MANY RESTAURANTS ON SOUTHLAKE SELLING FRIED CHICKEN WINGS LIKE ASIAN STYLE AND BOBA TEA AS WELL.

I KNOW THERE'S A [INAUDIBLE] TEA ON A STREET, RIGHT.

[INAUDIBLE] BUT THEY JUST OPENED THIS YEAR, I BELIEVE.

RIGHT. SO, YEAH, THAT'S WHY WE MOVED TO WE DECIDE TO DO IN THIS BUSINESS IN SOUTHLAKE.

AND FOR THE LOCAL AS THE PLAN SAYING THE DISTANCE WE FAR AWAY FROM THE STREET.

SO WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THE CUSTOMER OR ANYONE PASSED BY THE STREET CAN SEE A CLEARLY, EVEN ESPECIALLY AT A NIGHTTIME EVEN ITS NOT A NEUTRAL COLOR, BUT IT WILL GRAB PEOPLE'S ATTENTION.

AND AS THE GENTLEMAN SAY, HE DOESN'T WANT THE LOGO ON THE FRONT, BUT IT'S PRESENT.

OUR RESTAURANTS LIKE YOU DON'T EVEN REMEMBER MCDONALD'S LETTERS, BUT YOU REMEMBER THE M, SOMETHING LIKE THIS.

SO IT DOESN'T MATTER.

YOU CAN FORGET THE NAME OF PAPA CHICKEN, BUT YOU CAN REMEMBER THE LOGO WITH A BOBA TEA IN CHICKENS HAND.

IT IS A VERY MEMORABLE LOGO, NO DOUBT.

YES, IT IS. WELL, AND I GOT TO TELL YOU, MY MY DAUGHTERS SEEK THIS STUFF OUT.

AND SO YOU'RE GOING TO BRING A LOT OF THEIR DOLLARS.

THEY'RE GOING TO GRAPEVINE OR COLLEYVILLE FOR THIS [INAUDIBLE] YOU'RE GONNA BRING IT BACK TO SOUTHLAKE, WHICH I APPRECIATE.

SO AS FAR AS THESE DIFFERENT OPTIONS, DO YOU HAVE A PREFERENCE OR YOU GUYS GOOD WITH WHATEVER WE KIND OF GO WITH HERE.

THE, THE THE THE FIRST ONE PREFER IS THE, THE OPTION ONE THE ORIGINAL ONE THAT WE PREFER.

BUT I KNOW IT'S EVERYTHING IS OUT OF OR OUT OF ORDERS.

YEAH. THE LAST ONE.

I THINK I PREFER THE NUMBER FOUR.

[INAUDIBLE] YOU KNOW, THE FIRST ONE OPTIONS.

WE REALLY LIKE THE NUMBER ONE, BUT ONLY THING SAME TIME I SEE THERE IS SOME I PUBLIC COMPLIANCE ISSUES RIGHT.

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YES YOU KNOW THEY DID I LOOK THE RECORDS YOU KNOW THE TEN YEARS AGO THEY DID ALSO DO THE YOU KNOW THE SIGN VARIANCE AND THEN THEY CHANGED THE HEIGHT FOR THE YOU KNOW, THE FOR THE LETTER FROM THE THE MAXIMUM IS BE 14.

THEY CHANGED TO 42 AND THE MAXIMUM THE AREAS I THINK SQUARE.

LET ME LOOK HERE. IS 28 SUPPOSED SQUARE FEET, BUT THEY CHANGED TO 70.5.

BUT THE ONE THING YOU HAVE TO REMEMBER IS THEY ARE SO CLOSE TO THE STREETS RIGHT THEN COMPARED TO US.

AND THEN ACTUALLY THE OTHER DAY WE WENT TO THERE TO EAT.

WE TALKED TO THE MANAGER, VICTOR AND ALSO AMANDA.

THEY SAID, OH, WE COULD BE TEN YEARS AND SAY WE DID GREAT YOU KNOW, EVERY YEAR WE GROW THE BUSINESS A LOT.

AND THEN AND THEN WE TALK ABOUT THAT AND SAY, OH, THEY SAID, MAKE SURE YOU GET A SIGN BIGGER, YOU KNOW.

THAT'S THE ONE THING I THINK THAT'S SOMETHING WE NEED TO DO.

I UNDERSTAND. YEAH. ANOTHER THING IS FOR LIKE POKEWORKS I REGRET A LITTLE BIT, YOU KNOW, WHEN WE'RE DOING THE SIGN.

I DIDN'T KNOW WE CAN CHANGE THE SIGN SIZE.

I WAS GOING TO ASK YOU THAT. SO YOU DID NOT ASK FOR A VARIANCE ON THAT, SO I DIDN'T KNOW IT.

YEAH, I DIDN'T.

I DIDN'T KNOW WE HAVE. YEAH.

I MEAN, MY THOUGHTS ARE THE THIS SIGN SIZE IS MORE APPROPRIATE FOR THAT SPACE.

AND I WOULD EVEN I MEAN, I KNOW IT'S EXPENSIVE, BUT I'D BE OPEN TO EVEN CONSIDERING POKE WORKS.

IF YOU WANT TO LOOK AT AN EXPENSE TO MAKE THAT SIGN A BIT BIGGER TO CONFORM TO THE ONE NEXT DOOR, I MEAN, THAT'S A DIFFERENT CASE ALTOGETHER, BUT TO ME IT LOOKS TOO SMALL.

I AGREE. THE VERY SMALL, YOU KNOW, REMEMBER, WE OPEN UP A ONE HALF YEARS, WE GROW LIKE 30 TO 40%.

BUT I LOOK AT THE, YOU KNOW, THE SOME ANALYSIS, BUT MOST OF THE ALMOST LIKE THE GROWTH IS EVERYTHING FROM ONLINE TO DO IT BUT NOT THE PEOPLE WALK IN BECAUSE THE PEOPLE COULDN'T SEE IT.

EVEN A LOT OF DRIVERS, THEY COULD SAY, WHERE ARE YOU GUYS? SURE, SURE. THIS IS SOMETHING I HOPE YOU GUYS CAN HELP US TO MAKE A A SIGN BIGGER AND THEN WE CAN BE HAVE A DO BETTER.

SO YOU GUYS PREFER OPTION ONE, BUT YOU'RE OKAY WITH OPTION FOUR IS WHAT I'M HEARING.

YES. YES. OKAY.

ALL RIGHT. THANKS. Y'ALL HAVE A SEAT.

BUT WE MIGHT CALL YOU BACK UP DEPENDING ON WHAT HAPPENS.

I APPRECIATE YOU GUYS.

OKAY, WELL, THIS ISN'T A PUBLIC HEARING, SO WE'LL JUST KEEP CHEWING ON THIS.

I TEND TO AGREE WITH COUNCILMEMBER WILLIAMSON.

THIS IS A THIS IS A TOUGH LOCATION.

I THINK POKEWORKS IS SMALL AS WELL.

I DON'T HAVE A PROBLEM WITH A LOGO.

I MEAN, THEY CAN HAVE A LOGO BY RIGHT.

JUST A SMALLER LOGO.

MY VIEW IS THIS IS A STARTUP BUSINESS AND WE SHOULD GIVE THEM A CHANCE TO SUCCEED IN A TOUGH SPOT.

SO I'M GOOD WITH OPTION FOUR PERSONALLY, I DON'T KNOW THAT I WOULD CHEW ON IT ANY MORE.

WHAT DO YOU GUYS THINK? I'M GOOD WITH OPTION FOUR.

LOOK GOOD. GOOD ENOUGH.

OKAY OPTION FOUR GOING TO BE GOOD ENOUGH, GUYS.

I SEE SOME THUMBS UP.

SO IT'S NOT A PUBLIC HEARING. SO IF THERE IS A MOTION, WE'LL TAKE IT.

YES MAYOR AND COUNCIL, I MOVE THAT WE APPROVE ITEM 9C.

OTHERWISE REFERRED TO AS SV23-0001 SIGN VARIANCE FOR BOBA CHICKEN LOCATED AT 2801 E SOUTHLAKE BOULEVARD, SUITE 100 SOUTHLAKE, TEXAS.

SUBJECT TO THE STAFF REPORT DATED FEBRUARY 14TH, 2023, AND NOTING THAT WE ARE APPROVING OPTION FOUR AS REPRESENTED THIS EVENING. IS THAT CORRECT, DENNIS? IS OPTION FOUR IN THE STAFF REPORT.

YES, SIR. OKAY. SO OPTION FOUR OF THE STAFF REPORT.

SECOND, PLEASE CAST YOUR VOTE.

AND ITEM 9C PASSES 6 TO 0.

CONGRATULATIONS, GUYS. WELCOME TO SOUTHLAKE.

WITH THAT, WE'LL MOVE ON TO OUR FINAL AGENDA ITEM, WHICH IS 10A AND I'M GOING TO RECOGNIZE DIRECTOR OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND TOURISM, MR.

[10.A. Performance Management discussion relative to Event Management Process Improvements.]

HOW ARE YOU, SIR? VERY GOOD.

THANK YOU, MAYOR. TAKE IT AWAY.

SO AS THE CITY MANAGER CAN PROBABLY CONCUR WITH ME, I'VE BEEN REALLY EAGER TO BRING THIS TO THE CITY COUNCIL AND I JUST COULDN'T WAIT UNTIL THE WINTER WORKSHOP THAT'S BEEN RESCHEDULED A COUPLE OF TIMES ALREADY.

SO I WANTED TO BRING THE COUNCIL UP TO DATE ON SOME OF THE THINGS WE'VE BEEN WORKING ON AND RECEIVE SOME FEEDBACK AND SOME DIRECTION FROM THE COUNCIL ON WHERE WE'RE GOING WITH OUR EVENT MANAGERS MANAGEMENT PROCESS IMPROVEMENTS.

SO OF COURSE I'LL PRESENT TO THE COUNCIL SOME PURPOSE AND BACKGROUND.

ALSO TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE CHALLENGES WE'VE BEEN EXPERIENCING WITH SOME OF THE NEWER EVENTS THAT HAVE COME ONLINE, WHAT WE'RE THINKING IN TERMS OF PROCESS IMPROVEMENTS, HOW WE'RE CONSIDERING SUPPORT IN THE FUTURE, AND THEN HAVE THE COUNCIL AN OPPORTUNITY TO HAVE SOME DISCUSSION AND PROVIDE US SOME DIRECTION.

SO OF COURSE WE WANTED TO BRING THIS TO THE CITY COUNCIL TO TO REALLY UPDATE YOU ALL ON THE STREAMLINING OF PROCESSES THAT WE'RE GOING TO BE IMPLEMENTING HERE FOR COMMUNITY

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BUT WE ALSO WANT TO GET THE CITY COUNCIL'S PERSPECTIVE IN TERMS OF OUR FINANCIAL SUPPORT AS WELL FOR COMMUNITY EVENTS.

OF COURSE, THE QUESTION IS ALWAYS COMES UP WHY DO WE CARE ABOUT EVENTS IN GENERAL? IT BUILDS COMMUNITY AND DEVELOPS LOCAL CULTURE.

I THINK THAT'S PROBABLY ONE OF THE BIGGEST THINGS THAT IS RECOGNIZABLE WHEN WE DO EVENTS .

OF COURSE, IT HELPS SUPPORT A LOT OF OUR LOCAL BUSINESSES BECAUSE THEY END UP SUPPORTING A LOT OF THE EITHER THROUGH SPONSORSHIPS OR THROUGH PROVIDING FOOD OR RETAIL SERVICES AT EVENTS. OF COURSE, THERE'S SOME SECONDARY BENEFITS THAT THE CITY RECEIVES IN TERMS OF INCREASED SALES TAX.

IT HELPS US LEVERAGE LOCAL TALENT, LOCAL TALENT AND SUPPORT.

AND I THINK ONE OF ONE OF OUR EVENT ORGANIZERS, MISS CHRISTINE KEMP, IS JUST A FINE EXAMPLE OF THAT.

IT ALSO PROVIDES AN OPPORTUNITY FOR US TO BUILD RELATIONSHIPS, STRONGER RELATIONSHIPS WITH OUR BUSINESSES AND A LOT OF OUR RESIDENTS HERE IN TOWN.

IT HELPS US GROW OUR BRAND AS THE COMMUNITY.

AND OF COURSE, LASTLY, AS THE TOURISM DIRECTOR HERE, IT HELPS DRAWS VISITORS HERE TO THE COMMUNITY.

SO CURRENTLY WE HAVE REALLY FOUR MAIN EVENTS THAT REALLY OCCUR HERE IN SOUTHLAKE TOWN SQUARE THAT ARE KIND OF WHAT WE CALL THE FOUR BIG ONES THAT ARE LISTED THERE ON TOP.

BUT OF COURSE, SINCE REALLY THE ONSET OF THE PANDEMIC, WE STARTED EXPERIENCING GREATER REQUESTS FOR EVENTS OCCURRING HERE AND SPECIFICALLY IN SOUTHLAKE TOWN SQUARE.

THOSE THREE BEING, OF COURSE, FIESTA HOSTED BY [INAUDIBLE] SOUTHLAKE, DIWALI FEST BY THE SOUTHLAKE FOUNDATION AND SPRING FESTIVAL AS WELL.

OF COURSE, WHENEVER WE HOST EVENTS OR WHENEVER WE HAVE FOLKS THAT WANT TO CONDUCT EVENTS HERE IN SOUTHLAKE, THAT PRESENTS A UNIQUE SET OF CHALLENGES.

WHILE WE'RE VERY USED TO AND WE WE'VE HAD GREAT EXPERIENCE WORKING WITH THE WOMEN'S CLUB AND THE SOUTHLAKE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE TO HOST SOME OF OUR LARGER EVENTS IN TOWN.

THESE SMALLER EVENTS KIND OF PROVIDED A LITTLE BIT OF A CHALLENGE.

BECAUSE, ONE, THEY'RE NOT ASKING FOR A LOT OF SUPPORT OF THE CITY.

BUT WHAT THEY REALIZED VERY QUICKLY WHEN THEY START DOING THESE EVENTS IS THAT THERE'S SOME UNIQUE CHALLENGES THAT ARE PRESENTED TO THEM.

AS FAR AS THE CITY TYPE OF CHALLENGES, OF COURSE, OUR CONCERN IS SOME OF THE SAFETY AND SECURITY AND SOME HIGH HIGHER LEVEL THINGS SUCH AS RESTROOMS, CLEANUP AFTER THE EVENT, TRASH COLLECTION.

OF COURSE, WE HAVE TO CONSIDER KITE WHENEVER WE HAVE EVENTS HERE IN SOUTHLAKE TOWN SQUARE, THOSE ARE THINGS THAT, GENERALLY SPEAKING, AREN'T ALWAYS AT THE TOP OF MIND, PARTICULARLY FOR SMALL EVENT ORGANIZERS.

BUT IT'S STILL ENDS UP BEING ITEMS THAT WE PRESENT TO THEM AS SERVICES THAT ANY EVENT GOERS WOULD PROBABLY WANT TO HAVE.

IN ADDITION TO THAT, THE SMALL EVENTS ORGANIZERS ARE TYPICALLY FACED WITH CHALLENGES OF THEIR OWN.

THEY HAVE LIMITED FUNDS FOR SPONSORS.

THEIR VOLUNTEER BASE IS SMALL, ESPECIALLY IF THEY'RE KIND OF A GRASSROOTS TYPE FUNCTION.

THERE'S TONS OF DIFFERENT INSPECTIONS BETWEEN THE CITY AND COUNTY.

THEY'RE DEALING WITH MULTIPLE DEPARTMENTS AND UNANTICIPATED HIGH COST.

I MEAN, THERE'S JUST THINGS THAT KIND OF COME UP, SUCH AS WATER BARRIERS THAT MAY COME UP DURING A CERTAIN EVENT BECAUSE IT'S BETTER FOR SAFETY OF THE EVENT GOERS.

YOU KNOW, THERE'S LIMITED EXPERIENCE.

AND LASTLY, ONE OF THE CHALLENGES THAT WE NOTICED RIGHT AWAY IS THAT THERE'S NOT REALLY A CENTRAL HUB OF COMMUNICATION.

SO AS COUNCIL MEMBER TALLEY COULD PROBABLY ATTEST TO, YOU'RE WORKING WITH A LOT OF DIFFERENT DEPARTMENTS IN DIFFERENT CAPACITIES AND THERE'S NOTHING CENTRALIZED.

AND SO WHAT WE'RE LOOKING TO DO HERE IS KIND OF CENTRALIZE EVERYTHING AND HAVE A POINT PERSON AND A PROCESS THAT'S UNDERSTANDABLE NOT JUST TO THE EVENT HOSTS, BUT TO THE CITY AS WELL. SO OF COURSE WE WORKED WITH NOT JUST INTERNALLY WITH DEPARTMENTS, BUT WE ALSO WERE ABLE TO LEVERAGE THE EXPERTISE SUCH AS COUNCIL MEMBER TALLEY HAS PROVIDED TO US, AS WELL AS CHRISTINE KEMP AND MARK GILBERT OF THE CHAMBER.

WHEN WE WORKED THROUGH SOME OF THE CHALLENGES THAT WE HAD IDENTIFIED THROUGH THIS PROCESS.

SO THE CITY IDENTIFIED A LOT OF INTERNAL NEEDS AS WELL.

BUT AT THE END OF THE DAY, WE WANTED TO DO WHAT CAN THE CITY DO TO EASE THIS PROCESS FOR BOTH PARTIES ALIKE.

AND SO THAT'S WHERE WE ENDED UP WITH THIS KIND OF HIGH LEVEL WORKFLOW.

AND ESSENTIALLY THIS MAY LOOK A LITTLE BIT FAMILIAR TO THE COUNCIL, AS YOU SAW IN THE MEMO, BUT THIS EFFECTIVELY FOLLOWS A LOT OF THE APPLICATION PROCESSES THAT WE HAVE ALREADY EXISTING IN THE CITY.

SO AND I'LL JUST GO AHEAD AND USE THE PLANNING DEPARTMENT BECAUSE THOSE ARE THOSE ARE MY ROOTS HERE IN THE COMMUNITY.

BUT TYPICALLY WHAT HAPPENS WHENEVER ANYONE WANTS TO HOST AN EVENT OR EVEN SUBMIT AN APPLICATION FOR ZONING CONSIDERATIONS, SIGN PERMIT OR SO FORTH IS THEY COME AND THEY WORK WITH US.

FIRST THEY HAVE A CONVERSATION.

SO WHAT WE WOULD DO THEN IS KIND OF PROVIDE THEM SOME DIRECTION AND SOME IDEAS OF KIND OF WHAT TO EXPECT.

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AT THAT POINT, THE HOST WOULD OF COURSE START BEGINNING THEIR INTERNAL PROCESSES.

WHAT THAT WOULD TRIGGER FOR US, IN EFFECT, IS WE WOULD GO AHEAD AND START DOING A CURSORY REVIEW OF ALL THE THINGS THAT ARE BEING REQUESTED OR THE THE LAYOUT ESSENTIALLY OF THE EVENT AND ALL THE ACTIVITIES THAT THEY HAVE PLANNED SO THAT WE CAN PROVIDE COMMENTS AND FEEDBACK FOR THE EVENT ORGANIZERS AS WELL.

OF COURSE, WITH LARGER EVENTS SUCH AS ART IN THE SQUARE AND OKTOBERFEST, IT'S A FAIRLY WELL STREAMLINED PROCESS AND WE HAVE SOME EXPERTS RUNNING THOSE EVENTS.

SO THOSE WOULDN'T NECESSARILY BE KIND OF IN THIS CATEGORY, THOUGH THEY WOULD STILL BE FILING AN APPLICATION JUST SO THAT WE HAD THE INFORMATION ON RECORD, BUT IT WOULD ULTIMATELY HELP SOME OF THE SMALLER EVENT ORGANIZERS GET TO WHERE THEY NEED TO.

AT THE END OF THE DAY, WE'LL GO AHEAD AND PROVIDE SOME COMMENTS BACK TO THE EVENT ORGANIZERS AND THEY WOULD GO AHEAD AND FOLLOW THROUGH ON SOME OF THE REQUIREMENTS OR THEY'LL HAVE EVERYTHING EFFECTIVELY ITEMIZED THAT'S REQUIRED BY THE CITY.

WHAT THIS DOES IN TURN, AS I MENTIONED EARLIER, IS THIS KIND OF STREAMLINES THE PROCESS FOR EVERYONE.

WE WOULD HAVE ONE POINT PERSON, REGARDLESS OF WHETHER IT'S A 5K RUN AT BICENTENNIAL PARK OR IT WOULD BE A MASSIVE PARADE HERE IN SOUTHLAKE TOWN SQUARE.

EVERYTHING WOULD BE CENTRALIZED THROUGH OUR EVENT AND FESTIVAL COORDINATOR DILLON [INAUDIBLE] AND HE WOULD COORDINATE WITH.

ALL THE NECESSARY PARTIES INTERNALLY WITH THE CITY TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY HAVE ALL THE ITEMS THEY NEED TO MAKE THE EVENT AS SUCCESSFUL AS POSSIBLE.

SO THAT'S ONE COMPONENT.

PROCESSING OF EVENTS WAS WAS A HUGE CRITICAL THING THAT WE'VE BEEN CHALLENGED WITH OVER THE LAST 18 MONTHS OR SO.

BUT OF COURSE, THERE'S ANOTHER COMPONENT TO THIS AS WELL.

HOW DO HOW DOES THE CITY EFFECTIVELY SUPPORT EVENTS THAT ARE HELD BY EXTERNAL ORGANIZATIONS HERE IN THE CITY? AND WE HAVE A TOOL IN PLACE.

IT'S CALLED OUR COMMUNITY EVENTS PARTICIPATION POLICY.

THIS WAS CREATED BACK IN 2008 AND IT WAS UPDATED MOSTLY DUE TO LANGUAGE IN 2019 AND TO ALLOW THE CITY MANAGER TO TO ALSO APPROVE THESE POLICY AGREEMENTS.

BUT IT WAS DEVELOPED BECAUSE THERE WAS AN ALIGNMENT WITH THE CITY'S STRATEGIC PRIORITIES OF PARTNERSHIPS AND VOLUNTEERISM.

AND OF COURSE, THERE'S BENEFITS TO THE CITY THAT WE RECEIVE WHENEVER WE HAVE THESE EVENTS OCCUR WITHIN THE COMMUNITY.

BUT OF COURSE, THE CEPP AS IT CURRENTLY STANDS, IT'S NOT PERFECT.

THERE ARE LIMITATIONS TO IT.

I CAN TELL YOU, YOU KNOW, THE EVALUATION CRITERIA, WE HAVEN'T REALLY KIND OF REALLY DONE A GOOD DEEP DIVE INTO IT SINCE IT WAS ORIGINALLY CREATED IN 2008.

IT IS EXPECTED, AS COUNCILMEMBER TALLEY CAN PROBABLY ATTEST TO, IT'S AN IN-KIND PARTICIPATION, SO THINK OF IT ALMOST AS A MATCHING FUNDS PROGRAM.

AND UNFORTUNATELY, AS WE'VE ALL BEEN HIT WITH INFLATION, ESPECIALLY IF WE'RE BUSINESS OWNERS, AND I KNOW COUNCILMEMBER TALLEY CAN OF COURSE, ATTEST TO THIS AS WELL.

YOU KNOW, $10,000 IN 2008 DOES NOT EQUAL $10,000 IN 2023.

SO THAT FUNDING CAP HAS BEEN IN PLACE SINCE 2008 AND WE HAVE NOT INCREASED IT SINCE THAT TIME.

AND OF COURSE, THE OTHER LIMITATIONS IS JUST THE AVAILABILITY OF FUNDING.

AND OF COURSE, AS ANY BUSINESS OWNER KNOWS AND THE CITY KNOWS AS WELL, THERE'S STAFFING CHALLENGES THAT GO ALONG WITH IT.

SO THERE'S TWO ITEMS HERE THAT I'M PRESENTING TO THE GROUP.

SO WE HAD, WHEN WE EVALUATED THE COST, LOOKING AT WHAT ARE THE SMALL EVENTS KIND OF BRINGING TO THE TABLE, WE HAD TO EVALUATE IT FROM THE STANDPOINT OF THERE'S INEXPERIENCE AND THEY NEED OUR HELP IN MANY RESPECTS.

SO WHEN WE WORKED INTERNALLY, WE SAID, YOU KNOW, WHAT ARE SOME OF THE MOST BASIC ITEMS THAT SOME OF THESE EVENTS NEED THAT TYPICALLY ARE SOME OF A LOT OF THE EVENT'S ORGANIZERS ARE NOT TYPICALLY THINKING ABOUT? AND THAT'S WHERE WE CAME UP WITH THIS, WITH THESE SIX ITEMS. AND WE CAME UP WITH AN ESTIMATE OF WHAT A STANDARD ONE DAY, EIGHT HOUR EVENT WOULD APPROXIMATELY BE.

$5,500 IS THE ESTIMATE WE CAME WITH.

AND THAT'S WITH RATES THAT THE CITY IS CURRENTLY CHARGED WITH.

AND THAT'S SOMETHING THAT IF WE WERE TO ENTER INTO A CEPP AGREEMENT, THAT COULD POTENTIALLY BE, IF COUNCIL IS OPEN TO IT, SOMETHING THAT WE COULD HELP SUPPORT LOCAL EVENT ORGANIZERS DO.

THAT, OF COURSE, WOULD MEAN WE WOULD NEED TO UPDATE OUR COMMUNITY EVENTS PARTICIPATION POLICY.

SO WITH THAT, THERE'S TWO ITEMS THAT I'M LOOKING FOR CONSIDERATION FROM COUNCIL TODAY AND TO PROVIDE US DIRECTION.

ITEM ONE IS DOES THE PROPOSED PROCESS MEET THE CITY COUNCIL'S DESIRED LEVEL OF SERVICE BY THE CITY FOR EVENT ORGANIZERS? DO YOU FEEL SO FAR WITH THE WORK THAT WE'VE ESTABLISHED AND THE PROCESS THAT I'VE KIND OF OUTLINED TO COUNCIL, DOES THE COUNCIL FEEL THAT THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE SHOULD CONTINUE

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OF COURSE WE WOULD WORK WITH EVENT ORGANIZERS SUCH AS COUNCIL MEMBER TALLEY TO MAKE SURE THAT WE DELIVER THE BEST PRODUCT POSSIBLE.

AND THEN, OF COURSE, ITEM NUMBER TWO, WHAT LEVEL OF SUPPORT SHOULD THE CITY PROVIDE FOR OUTSIDE EVENT ORGANIZERS, AND IS THE COUNCIL WILLING TO CONSIDER RAISING THE CAP UNDER THE CEPP, WHICH IS CURRENTLY SET AT $10,000? I DON'T HAVE THE AMOUNT FOR FOR COUNCIL TODAY, AND A LOT OF IT WILL BE BASED ON BUDGETING.

AND IF WE DO PROPOSE AN INCREASE IN THE CEPP FROM THE $10,000 TO A HIGHER AMOUNT THAT WOULD BE PROPOSED DURING THE BUDGET PROCESS.

IS THAT 10,000 TOTAL FOR THE ENTIRE YEAR? TOTAL. GOTCHA.

THE ENTIRE YEAR. SO YOU'RE SAYING THAT $10,000 DOESN'T DOESN'T PAY FOR WHAT THIS IS ACTUALLY COSTING THE CITY TO HOST THESE EVENTS? SO FOR THE SMALLER EVENTS, IT WOULD IT WOULD DEFINITELY COVER.

BUT AS WE LOOK AT THE CEPP CURRENTLY, WE ONLY WE ONLY HAVE TWO IN EFFECT RIGHT NOW.

RIGHT. RIGHT NOW WE DON'T HAVE AGREEMENTS WITH THE SMALLER ORGANIZERS, BUT IF WE MODIFY THE INSTRUMENT, WE WOULD BE ABLE TO HELP THE SMALLER ORGANIZERS OUT.

IN ADDITION, THE $10,000, AS I WAS MENTIONING EARLIER, I DON'T KNOW THAT IT.

THE $10,000 IN 2008 IS NOT NOT EQUAL TO KIND OF THE FUNDS THAT WE'RE LOOKING AT THIS YEAR.

SO WHAT WE'RE THINKING IS IF WE WERE TO PROVIDE ADDITIONAL SUPPORT AND THE REALITY IS, IS THE EVENTS HAVE GROWN AND HAS DRAWN MORE TOURISTS WOULD HELP MARKET AND PROMOTE THE EVENT A LITTLE BIT BETTER SO THAT OF COURSE, WE CAN HAVE GREATER PATRONAGE.

AND OF COURSE WE SEE THE SECONDARY BENEFITS THROUGH SALES TAX AND SO FORTH.

ALL OF THIS, YOU KNOW, IF THERE'S A QUESTION ABOUT FUNDING, WE WOULD LOOK AT VARIOUS FUNDING SOURCES, BUT PRIMARILY IT WOULD LIKELY BE THROUGH OUR HOTEL OCCUPANCY TAX.

SURE. THAT WE WOULD FUND IT.

SO IT WOULD BE AN APPROPRIATE USE OF FUNDS.

SO I THINK ON ITEM ONE, ON THE PROPOSED PROCESS, I'D PROBABLY ASK OUR RESIDENT EXPERT ON EVENT PLANNING, COUNCIL MEMBER TALLEY WHAT SHE THINKS.

SO BEFORE I GET TO THAT SORRY, DO YOU WANT TO GO FIRST, JOHN? BECAUSE I HAVE A LOT.

I FIRST OF ALL, I THINK THIS IS GREAT THAT THIS IS HAPPENING.

SO BASED ON MY EXPERIENCE AND INVOLVEMENT, IT WAS DISCOVERED KIND OF AS WE WENT ALONG.

AND SINCE I'VE BEEN ON COUNCIL THAT THAT THERE ARE A LOT OF PEOPLE IN THE CITY THAT THAT HOST PIECES OF EVENT INFORMATION.

AND SO CENTRALIZING IT I THINK IS CRITICAL AND I THINK IT'S GOING TO BE MAKE EVERYTHING MORE SUCCESSFUL FOR SURE.

I HAVE SOME QUESTIONS ABOUT I FEEL LIKE SO IF THOSE ARE THE CITY RATES $5,500 SEEMS LOW TO ME BUT SO LET ME TRY TO ENCAPSULATE THIS. SO I THINK I FEEL LIKE PD AND FIRE SHOULD BE ON YOUR LIST.

THAT ONLY HAS SIX.

AS AN EXAMPLE, OUR OUR PD FIRE BILL FOR LAST YEAR'S FESTIVAL WAS $27,000.

WOW. NOW THAT'S OVER A TWO AND A HALF DAY EVENT.

BUT THAT'S STILL THAT'S ASIDE FROM TENTS.

THAT'S OUR BIGGEST EXPENSE.

YES, MA'AM. IT'S A NECESSARY EXPENSE.

WE HAVE TO HAVE THAT. SO I THINK THAT MIGHT BUMP THAT $5,500 UP A LITTLE BIT.

I DIDN'T SEE POWER ON HERE.

ELECTRICITY. WE SPENT $25,000 ON ELECTRICITY.

SO JUST FOR COMPARISON, FOR A LARGE EVENT, I KNOW OKTOBERFEST EXPENSES ARE ARE GREATER.

THEY HAD THEY PAY FOR A VERY LARGE TENT WE DON'T PAY FOR.

BUT I WAS LOOKING IT UP A WHILE AGO.

OUR LOGISTICS EXPENSES WERE OVER $100,000 FOR FOR A TWO AND A HALF DAY EVENT.

SO WE ARE TALKING TWO DIFFERENT TYPES OF EVENTS.

BUT I THINK SOME OF THESE EVENTS THAT WE'VE HAD THAT ARE SMALLER ARE A FEW HOURS, SOME ARE LIKE 8 HOURS.

SO I THINK THAT'S SOMETHING TO DIVE INTO AS WELL IN TERMS OF WHAT CREDIT TO GIVE THEM.

SO YEAH, WE WE RECEIVED THE MAXIMUM AND I'M SURE OKTOBERFEST DOES AS WELL OF $10,000 CREDIT AND THAT TURNS UP IN A FORM OF TAKING $10,000 OFF OF OUR [INAUDIBLE] BILL, WHICH IS HUGE. THAT'S HUGE FOR US.

WE'RE TRYING TO RAISE MONEY FOR CHARITY.

SO BUT IT HASN'T BEEN IT HASN'T GONE UP IN A LONG TIME.

SO JUST JUST KIND OF FOR PERSPECTIVE IN TERMS OF WHAT OUR EXPENSES ACTUALLY LOOK LIKE.

AND WE ARE CHEAP.

WE DON'T WANT TO PAY FOR ANYTHING UNLESS WE HAVE TO.

I MEAN, WE WE REALLY IT IS WHAT IT IS.

SO THE $10,000 IN THE CEPP, THAT'S A MAX, RIGHT.

PER PER EVENT. THAT'S, THAT'S AN ANNUAL CAP AND, AND COUNCILMEMBER TALLEY, I DIDN'T WANT TO MAKE IT SEEM THAT $5,500 IS DEFINITELY WHAT, WHAT THE EVENT WHAT THE WAY WE CAME UP WITH THE ASSESSMENT AS I MET WITH THE TEAM AND I SAID OKAY AT A FUNDAMENTAL BASIC WHAT ARE SOME OF THE THINGS THAT WE COULD IN THEORY KIND OF PROVIDE TO THE EVENT ORGANIZERS? AND SO THOSE ARE JUST FUNDAMENTAL THINGS THAT AT THE BASE, YOU KNOW, YOU'RE GOING TO NEED TO HAVE RESTROOMS, YOU'RE GOING TO NEED TO HAVE SOMEONE CLEAN UP AFTERWARDS.

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AND THOSE ARE ALL THE THINGS THAT WERE APPARENT TO US WHEN THESE SMALL EVENT ORGANIZERS CAME TO US THAT WE KIND OF GOT THE DEER IN THE HEADLIGHTS LOOKS OF LIKE, OH MY GOD, WE DIDN'T DIDN'T REALIZE WE HAD TO COME UP WITH ALL THESE THINGS.

AND SO THOSE WERE DEFINITELY AND DEFINITELY UNDERSTANDING AND NOTED.

THE DIRECTION DEFINITELY FROM COUNCIL THAT I'M LOOKING TO GET TODAY IS WE DON'T KNOW WHAT THAT NUMBER WILL BE.

AND DEFINITELY FOR THE LARGER EVENTS, WE DEFINITELY NEED TO REEVALUATE BECAUSE AS YOU MENTIONED, $10,000 IS DEFINITELY NOT ENOUGH, BUT WE DEFINITELY NEED TO ASSESS OR ASSESS THEM SEPARATELY WHEN WE GO THROUGH THE CEPP REEVALUATION, WHICH IF I DO GET A GREEN LIGHT FROM COUNCIL TODAY OR SOME DIRECTION ON MOVING FORWARD, THAT'LL BE WHAT WE WORK WITH YOU SPECIFICALLY ON AND WITH MARK GILBERT AS WELL, BECAUSE WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WHATEVER WE DO END UP PROVIDING A SUPPORT, MAKE SENSE FOR THEM AND FOR THE CITY AS WELL. WELL, I THINK I THINK I THINK IT WILL BE IMPORTANT.

ONE OF THE ONE OF THE THINGS IN HERE IS THAT IT'S EXPECTED THE EVENT ORGANIZERS MATCH OR EXCEED THE FUNDING BEING PROVIDED BY THE CITY.

I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT THAT I WOULD HOPE YOU WOULD REQUIRE THESE EVENTS TO PROVIDE BUDGET AND BUDGET AND ACTUAL. AND THAT'S BEING DONE RIGHT NOW.

AND SO I THINK THAT'S IMPORTANT.

WE'RE A NONPROFIT.

WE'RE HAPPY TO PROVIDE THAT.

AND I'M SURE THE CHAMBER IS AS WELL.

AND I MEAN, I KNOW THEY'RE NONPROFIT, BUT I THINK IT MIGHT BE GOOD TO LOOK AT THIS AMOUNT IN TERMS OF MAYBE AS A PERCENTAGE OF EXPENDITURES ON LOGISTICS.

JUST JUST SOMETHING TO CONSIDER.

I DON'T KNOW WHAT THAT I MEAN, OBVIOUSLY FOR US $102,000, WHICH IS MOST OF THESE I MEAN, PD, FIRE, ELECTRICITY, WATER, ALL OF THOSE THINGS, IT JUST ADDS UP SO QUICK. CAN I JUMP IN HERE A MINUTE? AND JUST BACK IN 2008, WHEN WE ORIGINALLY BROUGHT THIS POLICY FORWARD, PART OF THE CONTEXT THEN WAS PEOPLE WERE DOING EVENTS AND THEY WERE PAYING ALL THE COSTS, ALL OF OUR COSTS, ALL OF THE COSTS.

AND SO THE THOUGHT PROCESS BEHIND IT WAS THE CITY SHOULD COVER SOME OF THE POLICE AND FIRE COSTS AS AN EXAMPLE, BECAUSE IT'S AN EVENT IN OUR TOWN AND WE PROVIDE POLICE AND FIRE SERVICE.

AND SO WE LOOKED TO USE THE HOTEL OCCUPANCY TAX FUND AS A WAY OF FUNDING CERTAIN COSTS THAT MIGHT TYPICALLY BE BORNE BY THE CITY AS A SERVICE.

AND THAT THAT WAS PART OF THE CONTEXT FOR THE ORIGINAL POLICY THAT WAS PUT INTO PLACE.

AND THE OTHER THING THAT WE WERE MINDFUL OF WAS WHAT COSTS ARE ELIGIBLE, ESPECIALLY AS IT RELATES TO THE HOTEL OCCUPANCY TAX FUND, BECAUSE THERE IS CRITERIA THERE THAT WE HAVE TO BE MINDFUL OF.

THAT'S JUST HISTORY.

WE CAN MOVE FORWARD HOWEVER WE SEE FIT AND WE CAN MAKE IT WORK AS DANIEL MENTIONED WITH THE BUDGET, IT MAY BE THAT IF WE WANT TO COVER SOME COSTS, WE NEED TO LOOK AT THE ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA AND JUST SEE WHERE THAT PROPERLY FITS.

THE OTHER THING THAT I WOULD SAY IS THAT AS WE CONSIDER HOW WE WANT TO MOVE FORWARD, WE NEED TO TRY TO NAIL DOWN WHAT WE'RE GOING TO PARTICIPATE IN. AND IN MY PERFECT WORLD, WE HAVE A LIST OF APPROVED EVENTS BECAUSE IT'S VERY DIFFICULT WITH THE STAFF OF BASICALLY TWO AND A HALF FOR EVENTS AND THEN SUPPORT FROM OTHER DEPARTMENTS.

BUT IT'S KIND OF DIFFICULT TO TAKE ON EVERY NEW IDEA THAT COMES UP, ESPECIALLY IF IT'S IN THE MIDDLE OF A BUDGET YEAR.

SO DO WE HAVE A CRITERIA OR ARE YOU PROPOSING A CRITERIA TO CREATE THAT APPROVED LIST BASICALLY? RIGHT. AS WE WORK THROUGH THIS AND WE UNDERSTAND THE MODERN NEEDS FOR EVENTS BECAUSE THINGS HAVE CHANGED A LOT, ESPECIALLY IN THE LAST COUPLE OF YEARS.

I THINK THAT WHAT DANIEL WOULD DO IS WORK WITH THE COUNCIL TO UNDERSTAND WHAT ARE YOU TRYING TO ACHIEVE.

AND THEN WE WOULD COME UP WITH A PLAN OF HOW TO PLUG THINGS IN TO GET YOU THERE.

IS THIS SOMETHING WE CAN INVOLVE ACE WITH? MAYBE AS YOU DEVELOP CRITERIA THAT AN EVENT MIGHT MEET TO GET ON THIS APPROVED LIST, MAYBE SOMEONE HAS TO AND A FEW A IN THE PARKS BOARD WHERE ACE MAKES A RECOMMENDATION TO COUNCIL TO PUT A PROGRAM, AN EVENT ON THE LIST.

IS THAT SOMETHING WE CAN LOOK AT OR? I THINK IF WE DEFINED WHAT WE WERE LOOKING FOR FROM THEM IN THE CONTEXT OF WHAT THEY WERE FORMED TO DO, YEAH, THAT SEEMS NEBULOUS.

I KNOW AS AN ANSWER, BUT WE PROBABLY WOULD ALSO WANT TO LOOK AT OTHER BOARDS AND SEE IF THERE ARE PIECES OF IT THAT THAT THEY WANT TO HAVE INPUT ON. SO TO ME, IF YOU GUYS CAN SHARE, I REALLY APPRECIATE COUNCILMEMBER TALLEYS INPUT AND MAYBE YOU JUST WANT TO WORK WITH THIS ON THIS GOING FORWARD, BUT I FEEL LIKE IF WE CAN UNDERSTAND THE OBJECTIVE, THEN WE CAN GO PUT THE PIECES OF THE PUZZLE TOGETHER AND SAY, THIS IS A THOUGHT AND YOU GUYS CAN TELL US WHAT YOU THINK.

WELL, WHY DON'T YOU? I'LL DO THAT. WHY DON'T YOU PLAN A CIRCLING UP WITH COUNCILMEMBER TALLEY AND MARK GILBERT

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AND THEN TO TO OUR CITY MANAGER'S POINT, WHAT'S REALLY ALLOWED IN TERMS OF COMPENSATION, THAT'S NOT THE RIGHT WORD, BUT REIMBURSEMENT.

REIMBURSEMENT. THANK YOU. YEAH.

AND ARE THERE STATISTICS? I'M SURE THERE ARE.

OBVIOUSLY, EACH EVENT THAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT IS NOT APPLES TO APPLES ART IN THE SQUARE AND OKTOBERFEST ARE TOTALLY IN A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN, COMPARATIVELY SPEAKING TO THESE NEW EVENTS THAT HAVE COME ON.

SO YES, IN THE LIST OF APPROVED EVENTS, BUT HOW MUCH HOW MUCH REVENUE HAS BEEN BROUGHT TO THIS CITY BY ART IN THE SQUARE? RIGHT, COMPARATIVELY SPEAKING.

SO THEY GOT $10,000 AND THEN AN EVENT THAT JUST HAD MAYBE 2,000 PEOPLE IN A SIX HOUR PERIOD ALSO WAS ELIGIBLE FOR $10,000.

SO THE SCALABILITY OF THAT, I MEAN, I THINK THERE'S A LOT OF DISCUSSION TO BE HAD THERE.

AND JUST TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE CLEAR ON WHO CAN APPLY.

I THAT WAS MY MAIN CONCERN COMING OUT OF THIS IS WE KEEP SEEING ALL THESE NEW EVENTS COME ON AND AND WHAT ARE WE WILLING TO HOST AND CONTRIBUTE TO AND WHAT ARE THE CRITERIA THAT THAT CAN BE DEVELOPED TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE MAKING THE BEST USE OF TAXPAYER DOLLARS AND BRINGING REVENUE TO THE CITY AND ASSISTING GOOD COMMUNITY PROJECTS AND HAVING GREAT EVENTS.

SO AND CURRENTLY THERE'S NO FINANCIAL SUPPORT FOR THE SMALLER EVENTS.

OKAY. THE ONLY CEPP THAT WE HAVE IN PLACE ARE WITH THE WOMEN'S CLUB AND WITH THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.

AND THERE IS DEFINITELY A CRITERIA THAT ESTABLISHES WE'RE NOT WE'RE NOT REALLY ALLOWING ONE OFFS TO COME ON BOARD.

AND I MEAN, THEY NEED TO BE PROVEN THAT THEY ARE SUCCESSFUL EVENTS, AND THAT'S WHAT WE'RE SEEING.

IF FIESTA WOULD HAVE JUST DONE THE EVENT ONCE AND IT WAS A ONE TIME THING, DIFFERENT CONSIDERATION, BUT NOW THIS IS BECOMING AN ANNUAL THING.

SO WE HAVE DIFFERENT THINGS TO CONSIDER AND THERE'S A POTENTIAL FOR GROWTH AS WELL.

SURE. BECAUSE IF ANY OF YOU WENT TO DIWALI THIS LAST YEAR, I GOT TO SAY THEY HAVE OUTGROWN THE SPACE.

SO THERE'S THERE'S OPPORTUNITY THERE AS WELL.

AND I IMAGINE THEY'RE BRINGING IN A TON OF FOLKS FROM ALL OVER DFW.

I THINK TO THAT POINT AND TO YOUR POINT AS WELL AS YOU'RE DIGGING INTO THIS, I'D BE REAL CURIOUS TO KNOW HOW WELL WE CAN TRULY MEASURE THE IMPACT, BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, IT'S OCCURRED TO ME SOMETIMES WE WILL HAVE HUGE EVENTS, BUT I'M NOT ALWAYS SURE HOW MANY PEOPLE ACTUALLY GO ALONG OUR SHOPPING CORRIDOR AND GO IN.

I THINK RESTAURANTS ARE DEFINITELY IMPACTS, BUT MOST OF THESE BIG EVENTS, THEY'RE SELF INCLUSIVE.

THE FOOD'S THERE, THE DRINKS ARE THERE, THERE'S A LOT THAT YOU CAN DO IN THAT LITTLE BUBBLE.

SO I THINK THAT'S PART OF THE DECISION IS HOW MUCH TRULY IS ADDED TO OUR ECONOMY AS A RESULT OF THAT EVENT, TOO.

WELL, I'M REALLY GLAD THAT YOU ASKED THAT.

LIKE, YOU MAY HAVE AN ANSWER, BUT THIS LAST FISCAL YEAR, WE ACTUALLY PURCHASED A IT'S AN EFFECTIVELY AN ROY CALCULATOR FOR EVENTS.

BUT ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE REALIZED RIGHT OFF THE BAT WITH THE EVENTS IS, ONE, WE'RE NOT THE ONES HOSTING IT, SO WE DON'T HAVE A LOT OF THE INFORMATION.

WHAT WHAT THIS WILL DO WITH THIS NEW PROCESS DOES IS WE'RE OBTAINING INFORMATION FROM THE EVENT ORGANIZERS, I WILL BE ABLE TO COME BACK AND SAY, YOU KNOW, COUNCILMEMBER WILLIAMSON, YOU KNOW, FOR THIS EVENT WE HAD AN R Y OF X, DEPENDING, YOU KNOW, AND THAT ALL DEPENDS ON HOW MUCH IS INVESTED, HOW MUCH THE ORGANIZERS PUT INTO IT, HOW MUCH THE CITY PUT INTO IT AND SO FORTH. BUT RIGHT NOW WE'RE KIND OF DEALING WITH ONE.

WE'RE GOING OFF OF EXPERIENCE AND NEBULOUS DATA, RIGHT? AND IT'S A LITTLE DISJOINTED, AS I SAID.

BUT ALL OF THIS, THIS PROCESS, THE INTENT IS TO KIND OF STREAMLINE ALL OF THAT AND TO REALLY GET GOOD DATA OUT THERE.

THERE MAY ALSO BE A NEED FOR AN SUP WITH SOME OF THESE EVENTS.

AND I THINK THAT THE APPLICATION PROCESS WAY UP FRONT WOULD HELP DETERMINE THAT.

SOMETIMES IT FEELS LIKE WE'RE SORT OF CATCHING UP AND THEN THE EVENT ORGANIZERS MIGHT BE SURPRISED BY SOMETHING ALONG THE WAY.

AND I THINK WHAT WE COULD DO WITH THIS PROCESS IS REALLY LAY OUT CERTAIN CRITERIA, BECAUSE IF YOU'RE HAVING AN EVENT, YOU HAVE TO PROVIDE RESTROOM FACILITIES, WHATEVER THOSE BASIC REQUIREMENTS WOULD BE, AND, YOU KNOW, REALLY SET THAT EXPECTATION UP FRONT.

AND THEN AS THEY GO THROUGH THE PROCESS, EVERYBODY'S IN SYNC ALL ALONG THE WAY.

YES. WHICH WOULD BE VERY HELPFUL ON BOTH SIDES.

YEAH. THIS CLOSES A KNOWLEDGE GAP.

IT'S GOING TO BE SUPER HELPFUL, ESPECIALLY FOR THE ONE OFF EVENTS.

OKAY. SO DIRECTION FROM COUNCIL CONTINUE TO WORK WITH COUNCILMEMBER TALLEY STAFF AS NEEDED.

IT SOUNDS LIKE YOU'RE ON THE RIGHT TRACK WITH THE PROCESS AND CONTINUE TO DEVELOP THE DATA TO DEMONSTRATE THE LEVEL OF SUPPORT NEEDED TO BRING THAT UP.

ABSOLUTELY. AND I'M GUESSING THE CAP THE COUNCIL IS WILLING TO RAISE THAT TOO.

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NOW, I THINK I'M OPEN TO INCREASING IT I ALWAYS HAVE THIS HUGE DISCLAIMER THAT SAYS PROVIDED THAT FUNDS ARE AVAILABLE.

YEAH, OF COURSE. ANY OBJECTION TO RAISING IT? OKAY. YEAH, I THINK WE'RE GOOD.

AND WE CAN BRING A SCALABLE OPTION TO YOUR POINT.

I LIKE THAT. SO. OKAY, YOU GOT WHAT YOU NEED, DANIEL.

ABSOLUTELY. YES, SIR. AWESOME.

APPRECIATE IT, SIR. THANK YOU FOR YOUR HARD WORK.

AND WITH THAT, THAT'S OUR FINAL AGENDA ITEM.

SO THIS MEETING IS ADJOURNED. THANK YOU ALL.

* This transcript was compiled from uncorrected Closed Captioning.