Nice to be back up here.

I have been gone for a while, and for those of you that didn't know that there was somebody else ran meetings besides the folks that were doing it before.

Well, I got to come back to the office today and set in the office all by myself and do things.

And it's it's good to be back.

I haven't been to sick like that in my life and don't want to do that again.

But it it's I appreciate all of the concern and might express and prayers and so forth.

Thank you so much.

First item on the agenda is citizens to be heard.

I've got one citizen to be heard, and Mr.

Jeff Hood.

I'll be short.

Um the new site Clean View reported that Rockport was a proposed site for a um data center.

Now Clean View is not a it's not like a news making website.

It's a it's an official site, it's an industry magazine.

It signals to other industries about what is being proposed.

Um the maps don't show actually Rockport is one of the places they're having it, though the report does report it.

And I there's very few things that we all agree on, but I I can tell you that I from what I see we all agree that we do not want a data center in Rockport, Texas.

At least we don't want like generation one.

You know, we need to have like we need to see what happens in other places.

Let other places screw up where they live before we screw up ours.

Like that way, we can environmental studies, it's very sensitive.

And I know that we're limited as a city what we can what we can do because private property rights and things like that, but as a city council in the city, we can pass a resolution, it's non-bind that we do not support data centers in Rockport County or the Ramses County, but then you can also do a moratorium on providing infrastructure, how to be in water, uh proving these.

And I understand that there's a lot of reasons why we may not be the perfect place for a data center.

However, if you have industry that's signaling to each other that Rockport is a potential area for a data center, and we don't want one here, we should we should engage in that same effort and we should signal back to them that says, hey, we don't we don't want we don't want you here.

Um we've seen in too many communities is that this thing will come through the back door and it'll sneak up and you'll have a three to the four it'll split communities, and this is something that I really think like the environment in Rockport is like why we live here in a big way in our quality of life.

Um have some time.

The the data center in Utah, from what I understand, it's gonna raise the ambient temperature at night by 16 degrees.

It's gonna raise the daytime temperature by four degrees.

So there's a lot of the water usage on these things outrages.

We do not know enough about to be making these decisions, and we here like collectively, like we're not smart enough to have this presented to us and make a decision.

We need a lot of run-up and be ready for this.

So instead of being behind the A-ball, instead of having something somebody come in and that they ask you at the last minute, we have to vote on this today because this is the last way.

Let's really plan ahead and get in front of this.

And I think it'll be easier on you guys as elected officials in terms of um pressure that you're felt from certain entities or certain outside groups, and it'll also be like it'll be better on us too, because you can actually have citizens participating in this process.

So I'd love to see like a resolution, and I would love to see a moratorium on uh supplying utilities.

Thank you.

Welcome back, Mayor J.

It's good to see you.

I came on Bro night.

Next item on the agenda is ceremonial matters.

We've got some folks who want to say a few words to us.

Uh Jack Wright and Judith Glassig from the Mav District.

Reverse order, Mayor.

Yeah, I'll come right ahead.

Good evening.

Um

I am uh Judy Melassic, I'm chairman of the Ramses County Navigation District, Commissioners, and with me is Jack Wright, who is our board secretary, and we're here tonight to thank you for your December proclamation and honoring our centennial celebration.

We appreciate it very much.

Uh, as you're aware, if you aren't, I'll tell you, the district which was established by the voters of Randis County in December 1925, has played a vital role in the development of this wonderful county that we all love.

And we and the five commissioners and our staff all take seriously our responsibilities to develop and to manage the harbors, waterwide, waterways, our beaches, and the other facilities that are so important to our community.

Although we don't always agree with the city on every issue, we do appreciate that we both are trying to do the best that we can for our citizens, and we try working together as much as we can.

We do think you are a very valuable partner, and we appreciate everything that you do for the community.

And as part of our celebration, we did have some commemorative art challenge coins uh struck, and we'd like to present one to each of you, and in recognition of your participation and recognition of our 100 year anniversary.

Um Jack, do you have a few words you'd like to

say?

That's okay.

Um we've lived here for 30 years now, and I've never been more proud of the place to live

than here.

It's just

great.