We'll begin the meeting in just a moment.

Um, but we'll begin with a prayer and the uh pledge to the United States flag and the salute to the New Mexico flag.

So if you are able and would like to, please stand and we'll have a prayer.

Our Father in Heaven, thank you for the blessings that you give us freely each day.

God thank you for the Clovis and Canada Air Force Base community and the privilege that it is to live and work and serve here.

We thank you for those that you call into service uh and and to defend our our great nation.

We pray your watch care and protection over them.

Uh Lord, we pray for your continued blessing and favor as we um seek to uh reach our potential as a community and invest in our future.

And we we just pray that you'd give us wisdom to do that wisdom tonight as we take up the business in front of us.

Uh thank you for the things that we get to celebrate, the people uh that we get to celebrate uh this evening during uh presentations.

I give you the praise and glory, and I pray these things in the name of Jesus.

Amen.

Join me in the pledge to our country's flag.

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands.

One nation under God, individual with liberty and justice for all.

I salute the flag of the state of New Mexico of perfect tradition among the United Cultures.

We are called to order.

Would the clerk please call rule?

Commissioner Jones?

Here.

Commissioner Cassaus here.

Commissioner Porter?

Here.

Mayor Pro Tem Bryant.

Commissioner Garza.

Here.

Commissioner Tarsen?

Here.

Commissioner Paula here.

Commissioner Zamora.

Mayor Morris.

Present.

Thank you, Miss Reyes.

Um next we would consider approval of the agenda.

Are there any recommendations for rearranging or removing items?

Mayor, if I may, I'd like to remove number two from the consent agenda and put it on the regular.

All right.

Uh let's see.

That item will take to uh we'll make it number one under new business and shuffle everything else down.

Any other recommendations?

Umjections to the agenda with the one change.

Hearing and seeing none, the agenda is adopted, and yes, votes are recorded for each member.

Next, we have approval of the minutes from the August 7th City Commission meeting.

Any objections to how those minutes have been prepared?

Hearing and seeing no objections, the minutes from August 7th are adopted.

Next, we reserve space on the agenda to recognize visitors.

We'll do that briefly.

Thank you for those of you that have joined us in the meeting chamber this evening.

Uh I have a feeling that many of you are here for uh the presentations coming up next.

So we'll we'll keep moving, but thank you for being here and and for your interest in uh tonight's meeting.

We'll move into proclamations, awards, and presentations where we have three planned presentations.

The first is proclamation proclaiming the month of September 2025 as National Preparedness Month in the city of Clovis.

And our emergency management director, Ms.

Ruth Ann Kelly, is here to talk to us about preparedness.

During National Preparedness Month, I encourage the community to individually prepare for any type of disaster that can occur in our community.

Individual preparedness refers to taking personal responsibility for anticipating and planning for emergencies or unexpected situations.

Being prepared significantly improves our chances of staying safe in emergencies like severe weather, floods, fires, or prolonged power outages.

In major disasters, public resources can be overwhelmed.

Individuals who are self-sufficient allow first responders to focus on the most vulnerable populations.

Prepared individuals often help others around them, creating stronger, more resilient communities where people look for out for one another.

Preparedness is a form of empowerment.

It doesn't eliminate risk, but it gives individuals the tools and mindset to manage uncertainty.

Whether you're preparing for a storm or health emergency, the time invested in being ready can make all the difference.

Preparedness preparedness information can be found at Ready.gov or through our Facebook page at Clovis N M OEM.

Um I also encourage everybody to sign up for Hyper Reach Alerts.

Um a lot of those are weather alerts that come out for the community.

Uh you can sign up by texting alerts to 575-218-7100.

Hyper reach alerts.

That's a important tool that people need to be signed up for so that we can get those those timely updates on things happening like severe weather.

So thank you for that, Miss Kelly.

Appreciate you uh being here this evening to share with us about uh preparedness and emergency management.

Um and we're happy to highlight the work that you and your department do uh with the proclamation.

Any other comments?

Thank you.

Yeah, thank you.

All right, let me share the proclamation.

Proclamation, whereas emergencies and natural disasters can strike any home and any family at any place and any time.

And being prepared with plans and supplies is one of an individual's best chances for survival.

And whereas each year since 2004, the Federal Emergency Management Agency uh sponsors National Preparedness Month in September to encourage Americans to prepare for emergencies at home and become more involved in community preparedness.

And whereas the City of Clovis supports preparedness for all hazard emergency situations through detailed planning, training exercises, and equipment appropriations for response citywide.

In addition to collaborating with state, federal, and local agencies for assistance and funding in cases of disaster.

Now, therefore, I'm Mike Morris, Mayor of Clovis, and on behalf of the Commission, declare the month of September 2025 as preparedness month in the city of Clovis and encourage all residents to create a disaster supply kit and create a family emergency plan.

Next, we have a presentation proclaiming the month of September as National Recovery Month.

And we have our guest, Miss Lacey Keith with Mental Health Resources here this evening to share with us about National Recovery Month.

Ms.

Keith, great to see you.

Thank you for being here.

Thank you.

I brought um a couple of heroes to me.

So National Recovery Month recovery, um, it takes many shapes and forms, um, whether that's substance use, mental health, um, or just bouncing back from something that's really tackled you.

Um, so I have brought with me a couple of our peer supports because peer supports are the living walking examples of what recovery looks like and how that can turn into helping others.

So our peer supporters are folks who have lived experience who are using that lived experience to help others in their own mental health or substance use journey.

So welcome guests, and thank you for what you're doing.

So Lisa Agin and Kathleen Daniel.

Thank you, ladies.

And uh Ms.

Keith, thank you for all that you and mental health resources do to serve the not just our community, you serve a large area.

Do you not?

Yes, we serve five counties in New Mexico in eastern New Mexico.

Yeah, well, we're we're grateful for uh for your service um and and the care that you provide in the community and making recovery possible for residents.

Thank you for that.

Mayor Pro Tem Commissioners, any comments before I share the proclamation?

I just like thank you for you know it's important that you are able to reach out and help these people that do need help and provide assistance.

So we appreciate it.

Thanks so much.

Thank you.

Thank you.

No other comments.

Uh proclamation.

Whereas the theme for National Recovery Month 2025 is join the voices for recovery together, we are stronger.

And whereas recovery from substance use and mental health disorders, including jointly occurring disorders, is an essential part of supporting good health and overall wellness.

And whereas prevention of substance use and mental health disorders works and uh treatment is effective and people recover in the city of Clovis and around the nation.

And whereas preventing and overcoming substance use and mental health disorders is essential to achieving healthy lifestyles, both physically and emotionally, and whereas we must all work to recognize the signs of a problem, guide and encourage those in need to appropriate treatment and recovery support services.

And whereas prov uh provisional data from the CDC's National Center for Health Statistics indicate there were an estimated 80,391 drug overdose deaths in the United States during 2024.

Well, that's an incredibly large number.

It appears to have been a decrease from uh 26 uh or a decrease of 26.9% from 11,037 deaths estimated in 2023.

So progress, I suppose.

And whereas to help people achieve and sustain long-term recovery, the city of Clovis invites all residents to educate themselves regarding the dangers of substance abuse and support those in need.

Now, therefore, I Mike Morris, mayor of Clovis, and on behalf of the commission to hereby proclaim the month of September 2025 as recovery month in Clovis.

Thank you so much.

Successful?

I think so.

And now on to why it is that we have shovels and rakes in front of the dais this evening.

Uh we have presentation of the 2025 Yard of the Summer Awards, and for this I'll yield the floor to Commissioner Megan Paula.

Thank you, Mayor.

So this summer we instead of having uh multiple month awards every month, we decided to do a yard of the summer.

And I'm very excited for some of these award winners because I drove by and they do have beautiful yards.

Nicole, do you have a presentation or slideshow or anything?

Okay.

Uh I believe in front of you, you all have a certificate of your uh winner from your district.

And if they're here, if they would please come forward.

And you can pick one of these shovels or rakes as your prize.

And these were donated by Lowe's, so we're very grateful to our um hometown Lowe's for this donation.

And let me turn it over to District One, who's gonna go first.

I believe I have the first one.

Yes, thank you, Commissioner Paula.

Um Yard of the Month uh for District One, one of them is or I'm sorry, Yard of the Summer is Eddie Atkins, one in our actions court.

Um so he is not here this evening, he happens to be my neighbor.

So I'll take him with certificate.

Commissioner Garza.

Uh yes, thank you, Commissioner.

I have uh Asalin Hughes from uh 316 Russwood.

I forgot the other.

Yes, be sure and take all the gifts.

Yes.

How's it going?

You take the shovel or the rake?

Looks like you've got a shovel.

I think it's okay with the shovels and the rig behind them.

Congrats again to District One.

Very good.

Let's move to District Two.

Commissioner Tarsen.

Thank you, Commissioner Paula.

I have the privilege to recognize the District Two Yard of the Month for Lissandro Sanchez.

Do we have Lissandro here?

Congratulations.

Great job, it looks great.

Well, here, you get to hold it, so thank you.

Congratulations.

Commissioner Porter, do you have our next one?

I do, thank you.

Um for District Two Five year yard of the summer.

I'm honored.

I know this yard very well.

I I get to drive by it quite often.

Um Fidel and Teresa Perez, three hundred six East Ninth Street.

Are they here?

Yes, right there.

Very nice.

Congratulations.

All right, next we have District Three and Commissioner Cassals, I think you have both award winners, correct?

Yes, I do.

Okay.

Thank you, Commissioner.

For District Three, we have Floyd Bynum.

Congratulations.

Thank you.

And Melissa doesn't want to come forward.

Good move.

Thank you.

Congratulations.

Congratulations.

All right, last but not least, District Four, and I'll turn it over to Commissioner Bryant.

Thank you, Commissioner Paula.

Uh Keith and Susan Bassett at two seventeen Mariposa.

She wants to give her husband credit for this one.

Congratulations.

Congrats again.

Okay, before I announce the last winner, I do want to remind all the winners that tomorrow morning at eight thirty.

Okay, before I announce the last winner, I do want to remind all the winners that tomorrow morning at 8 30, uh myself and Commissioner Bryant are delivering along with some of the city staff will be delivering signs to your yards.

So if that's okay with you, we're gonna put a yard of the summer sign in your yard.

So if you see um people wandering in your yard tomorrow morning, it's us.

Hey, last uh for district four, this is one of my favorites on the list.

Every time I drive by their house, it's warm, it's cozy, it's cheerful, and uh the inside is equally warm and cozy and cheerful.

So I'd like to award the yard of the summer to Sean and Barbara St.

John.

Joke girls.

Thank you, y'all.

Congratulations once again to each of the winners of Yard of the Summer.

Uh, truly it's it's our joy to celebrate you for making our community look so nice.

Thanks for what you do.

Uh, one more round of applause for all of them.

Uh that being said, um that concludes presentations, and now we receive we move into receipts of petitions and communications are often referred to as public comment.

So if you're here and have something you would like to share with the commission, whether it's pertaining to an item on the agenda or not, we would welcome you to do that and give you a couple of minutes each.

Um if you were here mostly just for the presentations, it's all right if you want to leave now as well.

They want to go play with the new tools.

Thank you all.

Great job, everyone.

Later.

Yeah.

Evening, sir.

Did you have uh communication to share with the commission?

Oh, yes, sir.

If you would uh please uh give us your name and address, and then we'll give you a few minutes.

Okay, hi.

My name is Allah Jehovah Jones.

I live at 2605 Getting Street, and I came here because I had an encounter with your police to um this week.

Uh one of them, that's one of them right there.

And um I'm coming in because basically I had a threat online, and I reported it to uh what is it called?

Curry County first, before I even came to Clovis.

Being Curry County, like instructed me over the phone.

I read them the exact message, and they said, Yes, that's a threat.

Go take it to Clovis because you're in city limits.

So I get to Clovis and the first officer I dealt with just had a flat out attitude problem because uh made a mistake in mention that um I have a pending lawsuit against a police station for lying on me back in Oklahoma.

And uh mentioned that like that's why I'm not really too comfortable with them because I get tired of the lies, and a lot of people don't really look at the situation, they just see badge and not person.

And I was humble.

I explained to them my mental health situation because of prior military service, and that wasn't enough.

I still got jerk from the first officer.

So then the second officer comes that one back there, and it wasn't really like he just basically regurgitated the same thing the first officer said, like they were sticking to a script or something like that.

So it didn't sit so it didn't sit well with me, but with that particular one, um, as he was walking off, he made a smart outlet comment, which made me have to make a smart alley comment.

So I'm wondering, is that something normal?

Because think about it.

If someone tells you that they have PTSD in their bipolar, you think it's wise to like upset them, especially considering they're coming in like reporting something, like there's nothing I did wrong.

So then I um finish with him, and while I'm waiting for the lieutenant, the first officer, I go outside to smoke a cigarette, and the first officer I see, he had a training guy, but he makes it his business because I was complaining on him to the lieutenant to load his shotgun in front of me.

So I'm thinking, okay, so it's I'm thinking, okay, so it's like that.

Is that how y'all want it?

Because that's how someone, like, I don't know what they're trained in, but what I'm trained in is if someone presents a hostile situation, what you want now.

And that's what he was presenting when he loaded that shotgun.

So then I'm talking to uh I go back inside, and mind you, they had hit the excuse that the lieutenant gave was he was teaching the rookie how to holster a shotgun in the car.

Now let's all keep in mind Clovis P D has a huge staging area in the back.

I'm pretty sure you guys know about it because you pay the property taxes for it.

So there's no reason because you mean to tell me we have officers that can't read the room and see somebody stressed out outside, and next thing you know, he wants to like because we have words try and intimidate me, and that's really why I'm here because like I don't take too kindly to intimidation methods at all.

And I'm happy one of them is here because he can go spread the word.

Like I'm trying my hardest to be nice about this, but the the intimidation thing I'm not really with because then when I did the complaint um process, the same officer that tried the intimidation, he comes and interrupts the complaint.

And I'm thinking to my is that normal for your officers, like the one that's being complained on to try and look around to see, oh, is he really bold enough to do it?

Then I um do an open records request a day later.

And um when I do that open records request, like we're on our third coincidence now, where one of your officers that came across like that same shotgun one drove past my house as I was coming in from seeing the going across to the city government um building.

And um, it just so happened that the uh the cops in that area happened to come to the house because I had called to get information about what happened, and none of those cops, there were three different cars, and none of them came like they they all admitted they weren't the ones ones that drove past, but it happened during that particular officer shift.

So, like I'm basically coming here to point out like I've already um filed a complaint, which FYI, the complaint process takes entirely too long because this isn't even a really big issue yet.

We're going on like almost a week of not hearing anything back.

Sir, I'm uh appreciate you coming in and communicating.

Um I I hear that I heard you say that you have filed a complaint.

Uh so I you know I'm confident that that our police department will follow up on that uh properly and and get you where you need to be on that.

Uh as far as you know the uh the details of of what you've had to say here, we we wouldn't want to discuss that uh here.

Yeah, I didn't come to I didn't come for a back and forth, I mainly came so that it doesn't get overlooked because if someone is like take the officer behind me.

If someone is humbling themselves and going as far as explaining their mental issue, they don't expect to hear that nonsense.

And frankly, I'm not a big fan, I don't care about bad day.

We all have them, so let's stop letting them cry about bad days.

Okay, sir.

I'm gonna I'm gonna let's find a place to wrap up and want to thank you for bringing this to our attention.

Uh, it sounds like that your your complaint is in and and and will be handled, but we will also uh want to follow up on that and and ensure that uh that that your complaint is addressed.

That's exactly why I came to make sure thank you, sir.

Thank you.

You have a good evening, Mayor.

Sir, can we have your name again?

I'll spell it for you.

A L A H E H O V A H.

Last name Jones.

Thank you.

Thank you, ma'am.

Is there anyone else here that would like to give public comment?

While we're still in um communications, is there uh anything that Mayor Pro Tim uh you or any of the commissioners have to share uh in the form of communications?

All right, we'll move on to the consent agenda.

Um you have the opportunity to deal with um nine items if you if you wish in the proposed consent agenda.

Item one is request for approval of budget transfer and the amount in an amount not to exceed 120,000 dollars from designated fund 63 recreation for improvement projects at Roy Walker.

Uh youth recre at the youth recreation building and Potter Pool and Hillcrest Sand Volleyball Court.

Item two is request for approval of agreement agreement to contract City of Clovis GIS services with consensus planning in an amount not to exceed 46,551 or excuse me, 46,451 dollars.

Item three, request for approval to apply for excuse me, request for approval for 2025-2026 air quality reporting for the Clovis Regional Waste Facility.

Item 4, request for approval of scope and fee with HDR to provide professional engineering services for Martin Luther King Jr.

Boulevard and Norris Street Railroad Crossing Improvements.

Item five, request for approval of replat of Norris Street Business Park Unit 2, Lots 9 and 10.

Item 6 is request for approval of conditional use at 921 Willow Street for a group child care home.

Item 7, request for approval of funding agreement with BNSF for Norris Street and MLK Junior Boulevard Railroad Crossing Project.

Item 8, request for approval of scope and fee with Bahannon Houston for ponds and wastewater improvements at Hillcrest Park and Colonial Park Golf Course.

Item nine, request for approval of budget transfer in an amount not to exceed 200,000 from Fund 61 Special Parks Cash Reserve for a project at Hillcrest Park Zoo.

That is your proposed consent agenda.

Is there a motion?

So moved.

Motion for approval comes from Commissioner Jones.

Second comes from Commissioner Garza.

Please vote.

Who is the I'm not coming up?

Okay.

It's the mayor pro tem.

We're gonna use acclamation.

All those in favor, please say aye.

Aye.

Aye.

Those opposed, the same sign.

The motion carries unanimously.

The items have been placed.

I would now entertain a motion to approve or acknowledge all items.

So moved.

Motion comes from Commissioner Jones.

Second.

Second comes from the mayor pro Tim.

All those in favor, please say aye.

Aye.

Those opposed, the same sign.

The motion has carried and the consent agenda has been approved.

We're on to introduction and adoption of resolutions and ordinances.

Request for approval.

Item one is request for approval of adoption of resolution number 3334-2025 authorizing the submission of a New Mexico Community Development Block Grant Program Application to the Department of Finance and Administration Local Government Division.

This is for a sewer line replacement on 2nd Street between Delta and Hull Streets and authorizing the mayor to act as the authorized representative in all matters pertaining to the City of Clovis's participation in the community development block grant program.

Project request includes a match of $64,600, which would come from Fund 10 Wastewater to advise Mr.

Logan O'Brien.

Our grants coordinator.

Mr.

O'Brien, great to see you this evening.

Yeah, of course.

Mayor, Mayor Pro Tem, Commissioners.

So City of Clovis is wanting to apply for the this year's uh community development block grant.

Uh previously, y'all had selected the project of the sewer line replacement on second street from Delta to Hull.

The total cost of the project is going to be 646,000, which has a 10% match, meaning Clovis will be putting up 64,600.

And we already have those planned from fund 10.

And I uh recommend you approve the resolution.

Appreciate that.

What discussion or debate is there on this item?

I move for approval to do second.

Motion for approval coming from Commissioner Garza.

Second from Commissioner Jones.

Further discussion or debate on this item.

Hearing and seeing none, it's been properly moved and seconded that you would approve resolution number 3334-2025 as described.

All those in favor, please say aye.

Aye.

Those opposed, the same sign.

The motion is carried unanimously.

Thank you, Mr.

O'Brien.

Thank you.

Appreciate the work you're doing.

The second item in this uh section of the agenda is request for approval of adoption of resolution number 3335-2025 calling for the submission of the question of imposing a 0.125% municipal gross receipts tax to all qualified voters at the regular local election to be held on November 4th, 2025, providing for the filing of election resolution with the Curry County Clerk, authorizing and directing officers and employees of the city of Clovis to coordinate with and assist the Curry County Clerk with respect to the election, prescribing other details in connection with such election, and ratifying action previously taken in connection therewith.

This is an item uh that is quite familiar as we've been working uh for a a time now, uh a good while now, in uh concert or in coordination with the county.

I want to mention that the chairman of the county commission is here, Chairman Bender.

Thank you for being here.

I know you're fascinated by city government and you wanted to come out and and uh observe our meeting.

I kid, I know he's here on uh in particular interested in this item.

Um as I say, we're all familiar with it.

However, uh Mr.

Howalt is going to provide us with uh some direction.

Thank you, Mayor, Mayor Pro Tim and Commissioners.

Uh, we actually wanted to see who could have a longer title on each one of their resolutions, and I think it was a draw this evening, but you did close.

Yeah, you did a great job getting through all of those.

So obviously the city and the county have been meeting over the last several months uh to try and uh get a uh indoor sports complex for our community.

Um you guys are all traveled uh throughout uh the state of New Mexico or to various cities, and it's become quite the popular asset for communities to have and to provide the quality of life to the to the communities.

Um thing that we recognized along the way is that a uh individually, each one of our entities would not be able to do it alone, and so it was definitely important for us to come together uh to try and uh provide this uh particular facility for our um community.

Uh, the other thing that uh both of the organizations definitely recognized is that based off of our current operating budgets and our revenues coming into each one of our entities individually, that it wasn't something that uh we could either one of us could afford within our current budgets.

And so um based off of that information, of course, we started looking at various options on how to fund not only the uh construction uh and capital costs for the uh facility itself, but also for the operational costs for the facility.

Uh so this last uh in over the course of these conversations, uh it was ultimately determined that uh curry county would look at trying to fund the debt service for the capital improvements of it.

The city of Clovis obviously already has a parks and recreation department, so it just made sense for us to be able to expand our parks and recreation departments.

Uh and so what we're proposing obviously would go towards the operational expenses uh for the facility itself.

Uh this last uh Tuesday, uh the Curry County Commission uh did pass the resolution to increase or propose to take to the voters a question to increase uh their gross receipts tax uh of 0.13 percent.

Uh and then uh the question in front of you this evening is whether or not to take the city of Clovis's proposed gross receipts tax of 0.1225 percent uh to the voters uh as well.

Uh we have been working with RBC uh with Eric Harrigan on the uh financial aspects of this and what that could look like.

Uh we've also worked with Curie Smearhead uh with the Badral Sparling Law Firm.

Uh he's the one that put together the resolution for us as well as drafted the question for us.

Um and so they are on the line if there's any questions that you may have for them this evening.

Uh in particular to the city of Clovis uh as part of your uh packet, uh you'll notice that we included the fiscal impact for the city's portion of the increased gross receipts tax and how that would impact the purchases of uh various levels of goods on the low end of five dollar uh cost of a good at our point one two two five percent is less than a penny, so point zero zero six uh cents.

Um the high end of that, a thousand dollars.

The increase of uh point one two two five percent uh is equivalent to a dollar and twenty-two cents twenty-three cents increase for the purchase of that goods.

Uh the question itself, uh also within your packet, and which would be proposed to the citizens themselves simply states shall the city of Clovis impose a municipal gross receipts tax in the amount of one thousand two hundred twenty-five ten thousands of one percent, the revenues of which shall be used for funding capital improvements, maintenance, operations, and debt service for the city parks and recreation facilities inclusive of an aquatic center.

So simply voting yes or no is what would be proposed uh to the citizens.

If this is something that was approved uh by the citizens and then ultimately uh passed by this the city commission per ordinance uh and submitted uh to the state, the imposition of the tax would start uh uh July 1st of 2026.

Um with that, I'm happy to answer any questions that you may have.

Thank you, Mayor.

Yeah, I appreciate that.

Mr.

Howalt, I think it's so important to just restate um for the public's benefit, um, and perhaps for the Eastern New Mexico news's benefit, uh, if grants out there.

Um we're not we're not passing a resolution to increase gross receipts tax uh here this evening.

This is simply um the if if the resolution were to pass, we would uh be asking the voters if they approve of this uh financing tool uh to finance uh the construction of a youth recreation center in our community, and as Mr.

Howalt said, uh the the county and the city have worked together, understanding that neither could do it alone.

Um and as a matter of fact, uh the two of us can't do it as it is with with the revenue streams that that we have and with the lack of availability of grant funding, right?

Because when we do big things, uh we use grant funding.

Think our airport terminal building, crisis triage center, arterial streets and roads in the city.

Uh we we have to go out for grant funding.

Well, as we've dreamt uh and and and um uh cast the vision with this or of this along with our partners at the county, uh we we we began to dream about a very large project with a very large uh price tag uh and knew that we would need to go outside.

We've not had success in receiving or even finding grant opportunities, much less receiving grant funding.

So we we kind of end up at this place where we say, well, we we need to consider, you know, does the public we know the public wants this facility because there was the surveys that uh that that were conducted, um, but does the public want us to finance it this way is is really uh the question, right?

And and so approving this resolution would simply give that question to the voters on the next ballot.

What uh discussion or questions do you have?

Understanding you said Mr.

Muirhead and Mr.

Harrigan are on.

Okay, great.

Understanding we have our our uh our experts uh uh on to answer any questions.

What questions are there?

Mayor, I don't have a question, I do have a comment.

Uh I support I do support this.

Uh I think the big thing about this is how we market this and let the community know exactly what it's being used for and what is the actual cost is gonna be towards it.

Uh I think that's the biggest thing.

I think and on the county is the same thing.

I think we're gonna have to reach out to the community and let them know exactly what we're doing with this with this increase.

Yeah, great great point.

Uh if approved and understanding that the county has approved theirs, uh, we have a lot of work to do in the way of voter education uh between now and election day.

Commissioner Paula, you wanted the floor.

Yeah, Mayor, I just wanted to clarify something that you said earlier.

Um you mentioned that this would be a youth recreation facility.

I didn't know.

Yes, it will.

I did say that.

I also want to clarify that it is for the entire community, uh, for adults and youth alike, and there's uh opportunity inside this recreation facility.

I've seen the the drawings that the county has had has done, they're incredible, and it is for adults and kids alike, and I think it's an incredible opportunity.

Yeah, I appreciate you uh clarifying that.

That's that's that's great.

I guess I think of it benefiting our youth, and so that came out.

But you're right, it's a it's a recreational center, not just a youth recreational center.

Uh other questions, comments, or debate.

Mayor, I I would just like to make a comment.

And that is uh so we're we want to take it to our constituents and let them decide.

But if we don't fund it here, so it's really a question of do we want this facility or do we not want this facility as a quality of life factor in our community?

Because if we don't get if it doesn't get approved on the ballot by the citizens, it won't happen.

Because we don't have a another source.

So again, it's part of the education, but I want people to be clear that it's really a question of do you want this or do you not want this for our our community and the quality life thereof, which also is part of what not only draws people to our community, but it also hopefully maintains people or keeps people wanting to stay in our community.

So I just want to add that little note.

No, I appreciate that.

And and I mean I think you're right uh that that it is really yes or no, that the the constituents would or the voters would really be voting do they want the facility or not, because this is how it would get done outside of a big donor.

Yeah, right.

You know, maybe donor or two, right?

Cor corporate sponsorship, uh, you know, donations, those kinds of things, uh grant programs that we just don't have yet, right?

The the the that don't exist yet.

But if you uh reasonably you're right.

I mean, this is how this would happen.

There's there's not going to be money falling out of the sky to to construct this facility, nor to pay for the OM.

So we we would need a new revenue stream like this.

Um questions, comments, debate?

We're I'll move for approval.

Second.

Okay, motion for approval comes from Commissioner Jones.

We have a second from Commissioner Porter.

Further discussion or debate.

Okay, I'm gonna we're gonna try and use the voting system.

If we if it if it does not work, I I want to do a roll call on this, Ms.

Reyes, just so you know.

Uh but it's been properly moved and seconded that you would approve adoption of resolution number three three three five dash two thousand twenty-five.

Um putting a question on the ballot in November regarding a municipal gross receipts tax increase.

Please vote.

Miss Reyes, please uh call the roll on this.

Commissioner Porter.

Yes.

Mayor Pro Tim Bryant.

Yes.

Commissioner Garza.

Yes.

Commissioner Tarsen.

Yes.

Commissioner Paula.

Yes.

Commissioner Jones?

Yes.

Commissioner Cassals.

Yes.

We have a unanimous vote, and the motion is carried.

The resolution is approved, and so we'll do the work of getting that question on the ballot.

I'd like to thank Mr.

Muirhead and uh Mr.

Harrigan for their time uh being available uh this evening uh and appreciate the work that you gentlemen do on our behalf.

We're gonna move now to new business where our first item is request for approval of budget transfer in the amount not to or in an amount not to exceed $70,000 from fund 61, which is special parks cash reserve uh for restroom repairs at Hillcrest Park.

Uh Commissioner Paula, you you asked that we take this out of consent so that we can have discussion around it.

Mr.

Hooper, our parks director, is here and he's chomping at the bit to talk about it.

So Mr.

Hooper will we'll give you the floor.

Mr.

Mayor Commissioners, uh Commissioner Paul, I appreciate the opportunity to address this up front.

So uh no, what it is is y'all I I don't know how well y'all remember about a year and a half ago we had the restrooms repaired because of some damage vandalism in them.

Um it was opened up for two weeks, and this is at Hillcrest Park at the restroom next to the splash pad.

It was opened up for two weeks, and apparently people went in there with baseball bats or something and just completely destroyed all the porcelain.

Uh we've been working on getting quotes.

Uh we finally got one together.

Uh I got a quote for porcelain that was 25 grand to replace again to last a couple weeks.

Then we had this uh quote and it came out to just under 70,000 to replace it.

They can put all porcelain fixtures in there.

Does that mean it's vandal-proof?

No.

Does it mean they're gonna have to work real hard?

You know, obviously everything can be messed up.

What what it what is the material in the 70,000 dollar quote?

Stainless steel.

Stainless steel.

Okay.

All right.

So they're gonna have to get in and jump on it and really more than any idea.

Yeah.

No, um, and so but it but it is more vandal-proof, and that's the object of it.

Uh I don't I didn't know what other questions you might have, but that's kind of where we're sitting.

Uh we've had a lot of requests now that we've gotten the playgrounds and everything else opened up to get those restrooms back up, and we just wanted to do it at this time.

Wow.

When you think about all of the needs around the community and and uh money uh everything everything that that we wish we could accomplish uh to to fix things up, it's too bad we're having to spend thousands and thousands of dollars over and over again to fix restrooms that are vandalized.

Yes, sir.

That's too bad.

Commissioner Paula, you wanted to talk about this, I think.

So thanks, Mayor.

I I pulled this off the agenda or the consent agenda for two reasons.

One, I wanted the public to be aware of what we're having to spend for vandalism in our town.

Um seventy thousand dollars will build another basketball court around town, seventy thousand dollars will build another skate park, and we're not able to do that for our community because somebody wanted to go in there and have fun with a baseball bat.

Um it it just is maddening to me.

Um second of all, I I don't know where we're at with the ability or the um at some point locking restrooms when the parks are obviously during the day we need to keep them open.

Um but I think at some point I would like to look at locking the bathrooms in the evening.

Um I know during the winter we winterize them so they're locked full time.

Um I'm not gonna tell, I don't want to tell the parks department, you know, how they need to do it and when they need to do it, but I just would like the parks department to have the ability if they choose to lock these bathrooms at some point, because I don't want to see this happen over and over again.

Because I don't want to see this happen over and over again.

This happened out at uh Ned Houk Park.

We had somebody go in and blow up a bathroom with fireworks.

And we spent, I don't remember, $100,000 repairing bathrooms out there.

So, you know, we're $170,000 in because we're not, you know, able to keep these people out of the bathrooms.

Um there's some ability to lock bathrooms via just a remote lock that at a certain time it locks.

I understand there can be some tampering with that ability.

Um I understand it's very expensive to send two men out or women out to lock bathrooms uh when the park closes and then unlock them in the morning.

I don't know what the answer is, but I want to explore the opportunity or the ability to do something to protect our assets for the city.

Um we're more than willing to look into any of that stuff.

Uh I know where I've been before, they've done things with like say automatic locks that lock at certain times.

Uh the problem can be well, all I can do is prop the door open and then they have a different sensor that if the door is propped open, will the light on the outside comes?

Well, then I need the police to go by to see that that lights on.

So I mean there are some options, but they can get complicated.

Um my other problem, I think, and hate to tell you the last two were both done during the day.

Hillcrest was tore up during the day, and then Ned Howick was on the weekend.

So it's now if I could predict when they're gonna happen, I'll be glad to go by and lock.

But no, I'll be more than willing to explore options and come up with some numbers and and bring it to whichever committee you'd like me to.

Well, I'm gonna move for approval because we definitely need to get these bathrooms fixed.

But I also want to add that to the second there.

Thought pressure yes.

Yes, ma'am.

If I may question so uh we have uh a motion uh for approval coming from Commissioner Paula, a second from Commissioner Garza further debate, Commissioner Porter.

Um I just real quick, I I mentioned this a while back, and you know, I I don't think anybody is thrilled about having to spend that kind of money to to repair and repair again.

Um I would love to see one of the options uh to explore to be um some security cameras.

Um obviously you don't put those in the bathroom, but we could put them near the bathrooms.

Um we could locate them in a in a in a in a space where we could potentially catch the vandals and uh and provide the community with some justice for that kind of stuff.

And at $70,000 of repair, I would think that cameras can become fairly uh cost effective.

Thank you.

That's it.

Yeah, thanks, Commissioner Porter.

Uh further discussion.

I was gonna also with the Commissioner Porter's comments, that was my same thought was looking at possibility of cameras and that in those areas to where we can you know uh know who's go going in and out.

Be glad to look into that.

Yeah.

Yeah, thanks.

Thanks, Mr.

T.

Thanks, Mr.

Hooper and Commissioner Paula for pulling that off for this discussion.

I think it's been great.

Uh it's been moved and seconded uh that you would approve the budget transfer and the amount not to exceed $70,000 from fund 61 for the repair of the restrooms at Hillcrest Park.

All those in favor, please say aye.

Aye.

Those opposed, the same sign.

All in favor, the motion is carried unanimously.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thanks, Mr.

Hooper.

Next item under new business is request for approval of proposal from S Resource Incorporated to conduct a position classification review, health insurance, premium, and compensation plan study, Mr.

Howalt.

Thank you, Mayor, Mayor, Pro Tim and Commissioner.

So the last compensation study that we completed was back in 2022.

And obviously, since that time, uh some change in the market have occurred, uh minimum wage has increased.

There's been upward pressure on various uh departments.

Still can't hear?

Okay.

And so there's been on various positions.

I mean, uh public safety, there's been upward pressure on because of things that like the state of New Mexico has done.

Um there's in the IT world, uh, in the wastewater world and dispatch, uh, there's just been upward pressures on on the market.

And so one of my goals has been as a city manager is to make the city of Clovis uh be the uh organization that everybody wants to come and work for.

And as part of that is making sure that we have a strong compensation package and being competitive uh not with only within our community but with other municipalities as well.

And so I reached out uh to uh Vincent Yermall and he's the one that put the proposal together for us to re-look at our compensation study.

And so that's what you have in front of you this this evening.

Uh he's broken it down into three phases uh of the work.

It's gonna take uh over 18 about 18 weeks to complete this.

Uh the first phase, of course, would be the informat information gathering and the position classification review.

Uh, and then phase two would be the salary and the health insurance survey.

And so the health insurance survey is something that I've requested that him to do uh as well.

So back in I want to say in 2017 when we did the compensation study, we looked at our at our benefits packages, but we looked at them and compared percentages uh that we have versus what other communities have.

And so, for example, the city of Clovis pays 90% of our employees and employees' families uh health insurance coverage, and so we may look at that compared to another community, and they're paying 90%, um, but it may be 90% of something else.

And what I'm really interested in as part of this is the city of Clovis has a fantastic health insurance plan, and so it's not um uh inexpensive plan, and so that's what he's gonna be gathering for this.

So our 90% is 24,000 for family coverage that we're paying into on the city of Clovis for that employee.

And so that how does that 90% compare to another municipality's plan is that 12,000 because they have a lesser uh quality of a plan, and so uh that's something that I'm interested in because total compensation to our employees counts.

Uh so that's something that I've asked him to do as part of this study as well.

And then, of course, the final phase of the project itself would be the position classification recommendations that he would make to us.

Uh the total uh fee for this is uh $18,000 or $19,237 with gross receipts tax.

It would come from fund one, our cash reserves.

Uh, and so with that, I'm happy to answer any questions that you may have.

I guess one more thing before you have any questions.

Uh is that this does take 18 weeks to complete.

My uh plan is to uh propose some salary adjustments uh for our employees prior to when this work is completed.

It once it is completed, that'd give us an opportunity to go back and look at uh where we currently stand and make any additional uh changes based on whether or not we affordability and whether we could implement them if we needed to.

So my goal is to go ahead and get salary adjustments made prior to this being conducted or finished.

So with that, I'm happy to answer any questions.

Yeah, thanks for that, Mr.

Howant.

What questions do we have?

I don't have any questions.

I move for approval.

Second motion for approval comes from Commissioner Jones.

Second from Commissioner Porter.

Further discussion or debate.

It's been moved and seconded that you would approve the proposal from S Resource Incorporated for the compensation plan study as described by the city manager.

All those in favor, please say aye.

Aye.

Those opposed, the same sign.

The motion is carried unanimously.

Thanks.

Next is request for approval of budget transfer in an amount of 207,274 dollars from fund 77 cash reserves for the purchase of a mobile stage and establishing rental rates.

Uh, Mr.

Hooper, our parks director is uh back at the podium.

Mr.

Hooper, the floor is yours.

Yes, Mayor Commissioners.

I appreciate the opportunity again to get up here.

Um I think this started out, it seems like four or five months ago.

Um, Commissioner Gars had brought to us the option or the thought of a process that the community needs a mobile stage, something we can that would be an improvement over what we currently have with our stage.

Um Parks Direct Department created a committee.

Um excuse me, we had eight members on it, a couple of commissioners, uh Stephanie, our resident singer in-house singer from the zoo, and uh we just sort of looked at these things.

Uh we looked at a company that would could provide the equipment.

We looked at the various stages they made, then we sort of went through the options, the processes, found what we thought would work best for us, and this is kind of what we narrowed it down to.

Um, I left y'all a brochure of the the picture of the mobile stage in color.

Um, what we're looking at is a 14 by 36 stage.

Uh where it basically works out.

You hook it up, you drive it up, it's got hydraulic lifts, everything opens up all enclosed.

You can kind of see with some of the open pictures, there's graphic options, there's lighting options, there's all sorts, there's some structural options.

So on the other sheet that I gave y'all that had the quote that we've actually received, you can kind of see the items we picked.

Some of those, like I said, I felt we need to have, such as an ADA lift.

We're a city, we're a municipality, we need to have something like that.

Um, some of the hydraulic levelers, just because I can't see my guys out there with a hand crank trying to make this thing work right.

Uh, there was a package for erosion and uh surfacing on it, so we felt that would upgrade would be not good.

So those are some of the packages you see.

There's a lighting option.

We upgraded the electrical.

Uh basically we tried to get everything we felt we would need to have it covered at once.

Um, there's still gonna be some speaker options and some lighting things in the future that may have to come up, but we can figure those out.

This is a I guess let you all also know this is a I think they said six to twelve months, which we know means nine to twelve months uh on the on the return.

So it's something we're looking at by the end of next year if this is approved.

Got it.

Awesome.

Thanks, uh, Mr.

Hooper.

I I do have a question.

Um the images here show you know banners, uh signage.

I imagine that the shell of the trailer is something that could be wrapped.

With the committee talk about the possibility of you know having sponsors to offset the cost of this.

Yes, sir.

Um we discussed the sponsors.

Um, and basically, since the graphics package is one of the last things, once we start on it, we have that option.

We'll have obviously six at least six months to tell them what we want.

There's stickers on there's an interior package where there might be one behind the the performers, there's ones for the outside of it.

Um, if you notice some of the banners that hang, basically, what we kind of decided to do was I'll get the brackets and then we might get the banners locally.

Uh, there's a skirting around the bottom.

Well, do we want it to say to do Clove is smoke on the water?

Pull that one off and put a different one on that says pioneer days.

So there's some of those options.

Same thing with the banners on the side.

We can kind of work it out.

I think a lot of things can be purchased locally.

If we do it later and decide to go through the company, we can always do that.

Yeah.

No, I like the idea of local.

I appreciate your consideration on that.

I was just curious if we had discussion around that.

You know, there's a lot of opportunity there for uh, you know, great community partners that like to have uh their names on on things that are at community events.

So um, some some of our sponsorship question came into do I put a permanent sticker on it or sell it per event per event or annually or yeah.

No, I I I got it.

I was just curious how the car dealerships feel about that sponsorship opportunity that they're but you know, I'm just saying it there isn't those possibilities.

Can we get a contract drawn up real quick?

We've got it, he just needs to sign it.

Okay.

Um questions, uh comments, debate on this item.

Mayor, I I do have a question.

Commissioner, so in part of the uh reviewing this possibility, a couple of questions I have is one who is our customer that's gonna be renting this out, and how often do we get that type of request?

Um currently, and that'll take me into because I didn't discuss the rates and the fees yet that we'd kind of discussed.

Um currently it is the city in a lot of cases.

There's also uh some of the city events, like uh, like say Pioneer Days, uh the parades, Christmas, stuff like that would be considered city events.

We do have a couple of different people that rent our current stage for corporate events for stuff like that two or three times a year.

Our current, all it is the flat platform, as you as you might know.

Um, this is more of a performing stage.

So we feel like there's more options.

I've talked to the city of Lubbock uh Midland uh Wichita Falls, I believe is the third one.

They're written them out every other week.

So there it's I mean it's fairly option.

Umce we get people that are aware that it is an option, we think it'll be more.

Um I can't predict though how often.

I think it's important to have an understanding of your return on investment if we're gonna invest this kind of money to have an idea of the potential of how long, how many customers we might have, and it's hard to compare us to which tough halls.

Correct.

And Mayor, Mayor Pratim and Commissioner Tarson.

And so one of the other things, I mean, there obviously we don't know what the market is for somebody that's gonna rent from a stage standpoint.

Yes, Lubbock, Wichita Walls, much larger populations do rent out.

Um, I've seen them in smaller towns than ours where they have had these set up for street festivals, and they've been utilizing them.

Uh one of our other thought processes is being able to bring in more entertainment into our parks.

And so as part of this package, we're we're looking at the uh movie screen and projector, so where we could have movie nights in the parks, and so just trying to expand opportunities uh for our recreation department uh to do more things with our parks themselves.

And so uh like I said, I from a return on an investment and us renting this out three times a year, and it's gonna take us X number of years to recoup the funds for that.

Uh the funding source for this that we have proposed is lodgers tax, the non-promotional side of it.

And so it's not necessarily coming out of our local tax dollars, it's coming out of obviously folks that are staying in our hotel rooms, uh, which which lodgers tax purpose is to be able to enhance uh events and tourism within the community.

And so uh I think it's an opportunity um for us to accomplish that uh in utilizing those funds.

So we're seeing this more as an enhancement to quality of life entertainment to draw people not so much as something to rent out and make our money that way on it.

Correct.

Um okay, and when you said lodgers tax, but the two hundred and seven thousand dollars that we're talking about buying this, that's not coming out of lodger's tax.

That's coming out of Lodger's tax.

Yes, ma'am.

Cash reserves.

Yes, ma'am.

Okay, so there's two sides of colour lodgers tax.

There's a promotional side of lodgers tax that we're required to set aside, and which the lodgers tax advisory board gives out, and then there's the non-promotional side of lodgers tax, and so it'll come out of those cash reserves.

Okay, got you.

Thank you.

Great questions, Commissioner, Mayor Pro Tim.

Commissioners, other questions?

Mayor, I just want to make a statement.

I I I like the idea of the stage.

Um I I can certainly see private groups using this.

I can even see churches um reaching out to to rent this.

Uh and so I I absolutely like it, and I'd like to move for approval.

Second.

I guess the last thing I did like to say because I didn't cover it, was we talked about rental fees.

Um, these may be adjusted later on, but right now we're looking at again based on some of the other cities and going around, is having a thousand dollar deposit set up and a thousand dollar per rental set up.

Um, I've started writing an agreement that's you know 20 lines long that you know defines all the responsibilities that they would have and the responsibilities we'd have.

But I think if we go ahead and get this included, if we need to adjust it a year from now, it's easier than starting from a new revenue review board to start working on what we would charge for that.

Okay.

Okay.

Mayor Yes.

Your comment just led me to a question.

When you say thousand dollars for rental, are you talking per day?

Per day.

Yes.

I'm sorry, I thought I'd are we are we asking to approve the thousand dollars a day.

We're not we're not approving rates.

Thank you.

Are we approving rates?

Yes, yes.

This is the agenda.

Well, so hold on.

Let me state we have we have a proper motion from Commissioner Porter for approval and a proper second from Commissioner Jones.

Is there further discussion and and debate on this item?

Yes, Mayor.

I don't I don't want to re approve rates today.

I don't I don't think that's what we need to do yet.

I think the rates need to be determined after.

Yeah.

Okay.

And so and so Mayor Mayor put some and totally understood.

It just so some background, the thousand dollars, we didn't arbitrarily make that number up.

Uh that rental rate did come.

I think Lubbock, that is what their rental rate is for that stage.

And so just a data point there for you.

Thank you.

But understand.

Mayor, I have a question.

Yeah, Commissioner.

My question is um, I would like to see a contract before I approve anything regarding what the thousand dollars is gonna cover.

Yeah, I mean, are they gonna provide their own insurance?

Are we gonna use our insurance?

I mean a thousand dollars a rate doesn't tell me nothing.

Because I don't know what that covers.

Okay, yeah, and Mayor Mayor, uh we've got like uh Mr.

Hooper stated it's this is a nine-month lead time before it's actually in-house, and so we definitely have time to establish rates and work on those contracts.

Okay, so all of that being said, um if there's not the appetite to approve uh the the motion and second um as it is, I would entertain a motion to amend the motion on the the floor um to remove the rates uh and and and not approve rates uh in this uh in this action that we're taking tonight.

Can I have that motion?

I make the motion.

Okay, motion to amend comes from Commissioner Cassals.

Second, second comes from Commissioner Garza.

All those in favor, please say aye.

Aye.

Thank you.

The motion is carried.

Uh now we're back to the main motion, which is the motion for approval, uh, excluding the rates, uh, which came from Commissioner Porter, and the second from Commissioner Jones.

All those in favor, please say aye.

Aye.

Those opposed, the same sign.

The motion has carried.

Thank you.

Thanks, Mr.

Hooper very much.

Uh I'm imagining a battle of the bands at Hillcrest Park.

Moving nights, yeah.

Uh item three, request for approval to apply for grant funding in the amount in an amount not to exceed one million dollars from the uh Department of Finance Administration FY25 Capital Development Program Fund for the Clovis Animal Shelter and to accept those funds if awarded, Mr.

Logan Bryant O'Brien.

Yes, I am back.

Mayor, Mayor Pro Temic Commissioners.

Um, as I'm sure you know, the city of Clovis is working on building an animal shelter.

And it is a fairly expensive project, uh costing over six million.

We currently have 3.5, um, some of which comes from capital outlay, among other funds that we have set aside for this.

Um, this program is to cover the last 20% of a project that a city is doing.

Um, the animal shelter would qualify as one of the infrastructures uh for this, and the matching fund would be the 80% of the project that we already have, so it would not be any additional funds than what we already have set aside.

Um we are currently looking for uh additional money as well since uh to get the full million, the project would not be able to exceed five million dollars, and the animal shelter is over that.

So we're actively looking for more funds to cover it or looking at phasing the project different differently so we can get the most amount of money from this grant uh to make an operational phase, if not the entire animal shelter be built.

Thanks, Mr.

O'Brien.

By the way, you're doing a wonderful job.

Thank you.

I appreciate the the work that you're doing.

Uh we're all aware uh that we are looking for funding for our animal shelter, and so we appreciate uh Mr.

O'Brien and the city continuing to look for those funds.

What questions or debate is there, or is there a motion?

Mayor.

Yes, Commissioner Cassals.

I just want to make a statement.

I I I love the idea.

I think we really really needed.

Um I don't know if you know that paws across the borders or something like that is going to be doing a span neuter here in a couple of months, and they're uh they have five to six hundred animals that they are going to span neuter.

So the sooner we get this animal shelter done, the better.

I think it'll be for the city.

And I move for approval.

Second.

Motion for approval comes from Commissioner Cass.

Second from Commissioner Jones.

Any further discussion?

It's been moved and seconded that you would approve uh the application for the grant as described by Mr.

O'Brien.

All those in favor, please say aye.

Aye.

Aye.

Those opposed, the same sign.

The motion is carried unanimously.

Thank you.

We'll get on to report uh reports of boards, officers, and committees.

Planning and zoning commission uh met on Wednesday the 13th.

Is there a report?

Yes.

Very brief uh meeting.

Uh happy to say that uh uh the property on Norris Street that is being developed is uh continue to move.

And uh that's pretty much it.

Very good.

Thank you for your service there and for that report.

Uh is there a report from Parks Recreation and Beautification Committee meeting on Monday the 18th, or have we covered parks this evening?

Commissioner I still have more parks is on fire.

Okay.

So we did approve uh several things tonight.

We're gonna work on sprucing up the YRB and Potter Pool.

The sand volleyball courts is going to receive some padding around the concrete um barriers there, which I think will be nice.

We're gonna fix those bathrooms at Hillcrest Park and remove a lot of trees at the zoo.

Obviously, we're gonna get a new mobile stage, which is going to allow for um some fun recreation in our in our community.

We re heard a annual report on the wing shooting complex uh north of town, which is going great.

Uh we've got uh some let's see, we've got we're doing the city's doing lots of mosquito spraying, so we're trying our best to uh offset those little critters flying around.

The uh parks and rec department has received a forestry grant of sixty thousand dollars to plant um and irrigate some more trees in our community.

We've received a five hundred thousand dollar grant for a new parking lot out at Ned Halk Park.

We've received a $20,000 grant for some trails at Ned Hauk Park, and we're also applying for some grant money to uh begin some of our NedHouk Master Park Planning.

The Aquatic Center has water aerobics every Tuesday and Thursday at 10 a.m.

And if anyone out there is a lifeguard, the city is still in need of some casual lifeguards.

Uh Roy Walker has some new doors.

We have a coed volleyball league beginning in early September, and on Tuesday nights at Roy Walker, we have free Zumba classes.

Our summer youth program ended, and we had on average about 20 to 25 kids each week.

The zoo had uh Christmas in July and had over 950 people attend and go through our zoo.

And on September the 13th, Stephanie at the zoo is going to host a zoo beautiful.

I have attended a few of these.

They're actually a lot of fun.

She's got music playing.

And if anybody out there, any organizations out there would like to volunteer at the zoo beautification event on September 13th at 10 a.m.

Give Stephanie a call at the zoo.

That is all, Mayor.

You are correct when you say that uh parks, recreation and beautification is on fire.

There's always so much going on.

So uh thanks for that report and and your leadership of that committee.

Um next we'll ask for the monthly investment report, Ms.

Melancin.

Thank you, Mayor Mayor for Tim and Commissioners.

So first month of the new year.

We started the month with 85.3 million, ending with 84.2 million.

Uh overview of a few of the funds, fund one general, 19.2 million, solid waste fund two, 2.7 million.

Our wastewater fund 10, 3.5 million, fund 64, economic development 8 million funds 65, our capital outlay 5.7 million, our water quarter percent fund 66, 8.6 million, special streets fund 75, 1.9 million, and our American Rescue Plan Fund 94, 2.1 million.

We have 21.8 million in local banks, our 10 million dollars CD, and 52.3 million in the state pool.

Our C D did renew today.

Um we are going to just renew for a six-month period at 4.36, and then see where life takes us at the end of that six months in making that decision.

And we earn 256,000 this month in interest, and compared to last year at this time of 309,000.

State pool was 4.31% compared to last year of 5.13 and last month of about 4.31.

So we're staying fairly steady on that one.

And the rate at citizens is comparable to what we're currently receiving in our overnight rate at the local government for the pool.

And our gross receipts, we are 4.41% above last year at this time with an 8.75 percent compared uh four-year average.

We are 7.16% above our actual compared to last year and almost 24% above budget.

We had 6,299 active reporters compared to 6,082, so 217 additional for this year compared to last year.

So we're staying steady and happy to answer any questions.

Thank you for that report, Ms.

Melancin.

Are there any questions?

Very well.

We will uh move on to future agenda items.

And as we think about future agenda items, uh just as a reminder, we will have one city commission meet in the month of September and it will be on the 11th.

Burrows, do you have or Ms.

Reyes?

I'm sorry.

Do you have future agenda items?

We will have a quarterly report from the Civic Center.

Um September lodger tax disbursements and uh parks, planning and zoning, and library board vacancies will be on the next agenda.

Outstanding, thank you for that.

Um upcoming uh board and commission meetings, uh public works committee.

It's been canceled.

Thank you.

Uh City Hall will be closed.

Is that still on?

The City Hall will be closed on Labor Day.

Uh City Hall will be closed on September 1st for observance of Labor Day.

Uh Lodgers Tax Advisory Board will meet at 5 30 p.m.

on Tuesday, September 9th.

Economic Incentive Board will meet at 8 30 a.m.

on Wednesday, September 10th.

And the uh next city commission meeting will be at 5 15 p.m.

on September 11th.

Again, that will be the only commission meeting in the month of September.

And that's due mostly in part to the annual conference for Municipal League later that month.

With that, we are adjourned.

Thank you.