Council members to please come to the dice so we can go into our next meeting, please.

Get that food off your mouth.

Council members, if you are available, please come so we can start our next meeting.

Thank you.

Is any council members we need two more so we can start our meeting?

They knew it was gonna be a short break.

I mean stop trying to get home.

I know I'd like to call our uh second meeting to order.

Let the record show uh all council members are present.

Council member cobb is on zone.

Can I get a motion to approve the agenda?

Councilmember Solomon.

The agenda.

Councilwoman Gonzalez.

I second that.

All in favor, yes, all opposed, no.

Yeah.

Thank you.

Yes.

One, two, three.

Yes, ma'am.

Motion carries six to zero.

Councilmember Alvarez is in the back.

Madam Secretary, whenever you're in public hearing.

PH 2601.

Hold a public hearing and consider an ordinance authorizing substantial amendment to the annual action plan for program year 2025 through 2026 to reprogram CDBG funds from the reunification center project to the Rosa Hereford Community Center and Senior Wing and Clean Community Center Ballpark Water Reuse Irrigation System Project and the amount of 1,349,445.69 cents.

The caption of the ordinance reads an ordinance authorizing adoption of a substantial amendment to the community development annual action plan for fiscal year 2025 reprogramming community development block grant program funds in the amount of $1,349,445 and 69 cents to the Rosa Hereford Community Center and Senior Wing and to the Clean Community Center Park irrigation system, providing a severability clause and providing an effective date.

Thank you.

So just um really quickly back in the summer of 2025 we talked about the proposed reunification center.

Council provided us a motion to direction of direction to suspend the project until further notice.

We had two sources of funding for that project.

And also the Clean Community Center Ballpark.

And this was what we awarded towards the uh reunification center.

We spent $49,000 of that.

Um CDAC provided us a recommendation in uh November to put the funds towards the Hereford Community Center project and the Killeen Community Center ballpark water reuse irrigation system.

Uh CDAC was presented with uh several options.

One was to purchase unfunded costs for kitchen appliances furniture and IT at the Hereford Community Center, uh funding the community center ballpark, and then finally they were uh offered an option of not to recommend any funding and allowing all the funds to be made available for reprogramming in our next program year or fiscal year 2027.

CDEC members present voted unanimously to recommend the following funding be reprogrammed.

Uh there's a typo here is 349, 445.69 cents towards the Hereford Center of Kitchen Appliances Furniture and IT, and then a million dollars towards uh funding of design and construction of a new reuse water supply at the Colline Community Center ballpark.

We received uh no citizen comments um during the comment period.

Uh we had it available at five locations and online, four locations and online.

Um, next steps.

If this is approved, we will submit the substantial amendment to HUD via IDIS no later than January 16th of this year.

Additionally, staff will present an update to council on January 20th regarding the status of the reunification center project.

Uh staff recommends that council approve the ordinance uh for the substantial amendment awarding uh $349,445.69 cents to the community center for IT kitchen appliances and furnishings and the remaining balance of a $1 million towards the Killeen Community Center Ballpark Water Reuse Irrigation System.

And I have okay.

Thank you.

There are no questions of you.

Public hearing is open, Melissa Brown.

You have three minutes.

I told you so.

Told you the last time the substantial amendment came up that you were rushing to a decision for a project that wasn't gonna qualify.

So let me go ahead and tell you again that this is not the best use for this money.

There is no no place in our CIPs, it's not even in the parks master plan to put a new irrigation system at the community center, much less at the ball fields.

Um we don't have any other money for it.

We just found 100 plus thousand dollars in our CIP money to pay for the design of this new irrigation program now, which leads me to the conclusion that this council had already made the predetermined conclusion you are going to vote in favor of this.

Otherwise, we're paying a whole bunch of money for something we can't afford anyway.

How is it possible we have invoices for all of the furniture, all of the computers and everything at the Rosa Hereford Center and the Bob Gilmore Center, but we couldn't find $300,000 to pay for it, and that was unfunded, so we're gonna use the CDBG money for it now.

Sounds like we're really just trying to reimburse ourselves expenses.

We won't be able to take that $100 plus thousand dollars out of the CDBG money to pay for this because then we are reimbursing ourselves since you approved that spending before you even approved putting it on our plan for the money.