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The Corpus Christi City Council convened on December 9, 2025, for a full-day session beginning at 11:30 AM. The meeting included a major update on water supply projects, board and committee appointments, zoning public hearings, a special meeting of the Housing Finance Corporation, a briefing on the 2050 Metropolitan Transportation Plan, and executive sessions on legal matters. The evening public comment period featured emotional testimony from residents advocating for homeless services and criticizing recent council decisions.
Okay, good morning, everyone. I'd like to call this meeting to order and welcome you to City Hall and to our council chambers. Uh this morning, our invocation will be given by Reverend William Campbell with Church of Good Shepherd. Reverend Lord be with you. Let us pray. Almighty God who has given us this good land for our heritage. We humbly beseech you that we may always prove ourselves a people mindful of thy favor and glad to do your will. Bless our land with honorable industry, sound learning, and pure manners. Defend our liberties and fashion into one united people, the multitudes brought here out of many kindreds and tongues. And you with the spirit of wisdom, those to whom in your name we entrust the authority of government, that there may be justice and peace at home, and that through obedience to your law we may show forth your praise among the nations of the earth. In the time of prosperity fill our hearts with thankfulness in the day of trouble, suffer not our trust in you to fail. And finally, teach our people to rely on your strength and to accept their responsibilities to their fellow citizens, that they may elect trustworthy leaders and make wise decisions for the well-being of our society, that we may serve you faithfully in our generation and honor your holy name. I ask all this in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. Thank you, Reverend. Our Pledge of Allegiance to the flag of the United States and to the Texas State flag will be led by Michaela Pena. She is a twelfth grader at Richard Millburn Academy. Uh she'll complete high school two semesters early and will attend Delmar College to study cosmetology. Please join me for the Pledge of Allegiance. Council members Roland Baretta. Sylvia Campos. I'm not sure if we'd be this far if it wasn't for Chris from Pape Dawson. So he's gonna uh present to the council a little bit today, too, just so you'll get to see him. Uh he uh worked all through the week of Thanksgiving, him and his team. I think they even worked on Thanksgiving Day to advance the project. A guiding principle of Chris Snowy from Pape Dawson is a project like this, you don't stop. You gotta keep going, and uh and that's what we're doing. So we have a great report today. Um we're working with the community, working with the leaders of the community, uh Judge Krebs, Mayor Mary of Senton, uh, and the and the ranchers, farmers, and property owners. We're meeting with them one-on-one. Uh we know that uh it's a it's a um a sensitive issue, it's an emotional issue, uh groundwater, uh, but we have a plan to uh use it uh appropriately and work with the community um as we bring the source online. So with that, I'm gonna turn it over to uh Nick, who's gonna give us the update, and then Chris will come up as well. Thank you, Peter. Uh Nick Winkleman, interim chief operating officer Corpus Christie Water. And again, I will be uh delivering uh large chunk of the presentation today, but I will ask Chris Snowy to come up and go through some detailed slides on the Evangeline project. What we'll be covering in this uh in this update will be of course the Evangeline Groundwater Project, the New Oasis Groundwater Project, uh brief recap of our well field monitoring program, reclaimed water, uh, and then also a quick update on the Inner Harbor Project, and uh also want to expose everyone to our new uh water supply project website as well. Recap of the Evangeline uh groundwater project. Again, this is located in San Patricio County. Uh the contract is for the purchase of groundwater rights with existing production permits of 24 million gallons a day. The some of the benefits of the project, of course, is location and specifically the proximity to the existing Mary Roads pipeline that allows for uh conveyance to the Owen Stevens water treatment plant. The construction portion of the project would consist of 22 additional wells. There's two production wells on the property, so it's 24 total. Well field water lines, of course, that connection to the Mary Roads pipeline, electrical infrastructure controls, a pump station, and access roads.