Mayor PJ Collinger called the workshop to order at 4:00 PM on May 5, 2025. Roll call showed Mayor Pro Tem Daniels absent, with Councilmembers Foreman, Scully, Blackburn, and Robinson present. The agenda was approved with the addition of a closed session motion. The workshop included two new business items: a presentation on the new Emerald Express Trolley and a discussion on delaying the demolition of the Jacob W. Higgs House.
All right. Good afternoon, everybody. Welcome everybody to the let's see, May 5th, 2025 workshop for the Greenville City Council. Mayor PJ Collinger presiding over the council meeting today. Council workshop today. First I'll call the city clerk for the roll call. Okay. Here. Mayor Protown Daniels has let us know she'll not be attending this evening. Councilmember Foreman? Here. Councilmember Scully. Here. Councilmember Blackburn. Councilmember Robinson. Mayor Collie have a point. Thank you very much. Mr. Manager, any recommended changes on the agenda? I have no changes, but the city attorney does. Should we skip over him? Yeah. Hey, it's never a good thing to skip over the attorney. Never. Thank you, I request that council uh consider adding a closed session motion to be read at the end of the meeting right before adjournment. So moved. Second. All right, must be made by Catherine Wells, second by council. All those in favor say I suppose same nay. Let's move on to new business presentation of the new emerald express trolley. No presentation on the new Emerald Express Trolley. So a little update on our existing emerald express trolley. But our trolleys are twenty plus years old. Getting parts for them, very very challenging. So tour assignment has been limited as a result of that vehicle reliability. And that would be based on a three-way cost share system. All right, we've reached out to a vendor uh that's on a contract uh service that we use, Houston Galveston Area Council that vendor specialty vehicles are trolley manufacturer out of uh out of Nevada. So they're on the Usen Galveston Area Council contract, so that meets our procurement process. They're Houston, Gallison, or out of where out of Texas. Well, I thought you sit somewhere else. I was like this contracts out of out of um Texas and that vendor. Okay, okay. I'll I put the two together. I was like, oh my gosh, it's a weird name. So here is the cost of the new vehicle. You Charlie base price is about 250,000. Just short of that. That's pretty cool. All right. Um, based on that um use and galveston pricing, the improvements and upgrades requested by the arts council, an upgraded radio PA system, um, interior lighting, as well as a custom exterior wrap, approaching about $20,000.