Jun 20, 2023 City Council Regular Meeting

DO WHAT? RIGHT, LEFT FACE FORWARD MARCH.

IT'S NOT USUALLY MY JOB TO DO THIS.

COMMANDER DISMISSED.

THANK YOU, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN.

WE WILL MOVE NOW TO, UM, INFORMATION SHARING ITEMS, PUBLIC COMMENTS ON AGENDA ITEMS. UH, FIRST I HAVE A GROUP OF CARDS.

ALL RIGHT, WE'RE MOVE.

[PUBLIC COMMENTS ON AGENDA ITEMS (for Non-Public Hearing Items)]

UM, I DO NOT BELIEVE THIS IS FOR A PUBLIC.

IS THIS FOR A PUBLIC HEARING ITEM? THE, UH, THE NOT WISHING TO SPEAK? CORRECT.

SO I'LL HOLD THOSE OFF.

I'M JUST GONNA HAVE, UH, NON AGENDA AND AGENDA ITEMS THAT ARE NON-PUBLIC HEARING ITEMS SPEAK AT THE FRONT OF THE MEETING AS THERE ARE ONLY FOUR.

SO WHEN YOU COME UP, IF YOU'LL STATE YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS FOR THE RECORD, PLEASE.

THERE'LL BE A TIMER FOR YOU TO WATCH.

YOU'LL HAVE THREE MINUTES, UH, AS IT GETS AT 30 SECONDS, YOU'LL HAVE, IT'LL TURN YELLOW, I THINK 10 OR FIVE SECONDS.

IT'LL TURN RED.

SO IF YOU'LL PAY ATTENTION TO THAT, UH, JAZZ CANNON WILL BE THE FIRST ONE.

AND JAZZ, I, I DO SEE THAT YOU HAVE STATED, UH, IN SUPPORT OF, UM, THE MASU DE PROCLAMATION.

AND WE DID ISSUE THAT.

I DON'T KNOW IF YOU'RE AWARE OF THAT.

YES, I WAS AWARE OF THAT, BUT I WASN'T HERE TO THANK YOU PERSONALLY, AND THAT'S WHY I'M HERE.

THE TALIBAN CALLED ON THEIR SOLDIERS TO TARGET PRO-DEMOCRACY VOICES IN AMERICA.

NO, I JUST WANT YOU TO KNOW WE DID.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

AND GOOD EVENING, HONORABLE COUNCIL MEMBERS OF MCKINNEY TEXAS.

MY NAME IS JAZZ CANNON AND I AM AN AFGHAN AMERICAN.

AS WE GATHER HERE TODAY, WE CAN IGNORE THE DIRE SITUATION THAT WOMEN IN AFGHANISTAN ARE FACING UNDER THE TARA'S TALIBAN REGIME.

THE RETURN OF THE TALIBAN TO POWER HAS BEEN A DEVASTATING BLOW FOR WOMEN'S RIGHTS.

TWO YEARS AGO, WHEN THE US SOLDIERS WERE STATIONED IN AFGHANISTAN, WE HAD MORE FEMALE MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT THAN THE UNITED STATES CONGRESS.

TODAY WE HAVE NONE.

TWO YEARS AGO, WE HAD MILLIONS OF WOMEN AND GIRLS IN SCHOOLS.

TODAY, WE HAVE NO WOMEN IN UNIVERSITIES AND GIRLS SCHOOLS ARE SHUT DOWN BY TERRORIST TALIBAN.

TWO YEARS AGO, THE TERRORIST TALIBAN INVADED THE CAPITOL OF AFGHANISTAN, AND THE WORLD DID NOTHING AND REMAIN SILENT.

THEY TOOK AWAY WOMEN'S RIGHTS AND THE WORLD REMAINED SILENT.

THEY SNATCHED AWAY OUR BASIC CIVIL RIGHTS, AND THE WORLD REMAINED SILENT.

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AND EVEN THEN, THE WORLD REMAINED SILENT.

BUT TODAY, BY DECLARING SEPTEMBER NINE AS AHMA, THIS COUNCIL AND THE CITY OF MCKINNEY HAS SPOKEN NO MORE SILENCE.

MCKINNEY HAS PROVEN THAT HAS PROVED THAT THE REAL AMERICA AND THE PEOPLE OF THIS GREAT CITY STAND FOR FREEDOM, FOR DEMOCRACY AND FOR JUSTICE AFGHANISTAN.

THANKS YOU AHMA.

MASU WORKED TIRELESSLY TO PROTECT THE RIGHTS OF ALL AFGHANS, INCLUDING WOMEN.

HE BELIEVED IN A FUTURE WHERE WOMEN COULD PARTICIPATE FULLY IN SOCIETY AND HAVE EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES.

IT IS ALSO IMPORTANT TO REMEMBER THAT MASU WAS AN ALLY OF AMERICA AND A FREE WORLD IN A FIGHT AGAINST TERRORISM.

TWO DAYS PRIOR TO NINE 11 ATTACK, MASU WAS ASSASSINATED BY AL-QAEDA, A TRAGIC LOSS FOR AFGHANISTAN AND THE WORLD.

AS WE REFLECT ON THE CURRENT SITUATION OF AFGHANISTAN AND THE LEGACY OF MAUD, WE MUST CONTINUE TO SUPPORT THE AFGHAN PEOPLE, ESPECIALLY WOMEN AND GIRLS.

SO IN CONCLUSION, LET US HONOR THE MEMORY OF MASSOU BY CONTINUING TO CHAMPION THE VALUES OF LIBERTY, DEMOCRACY, AND HUMAN RIGHTS.

AND LET US REMEMBER SOME OF HIS FINAL WORDS.

WHETHER OR NOT I LIVE THE AFGHAN RESISTANCE WILL CONTINUE ON BEHALF OF LEGEND WHO IS AN AFGHAN AMERICAN VETERAN AND THE FOUNDER OF, UH, VAPOR NRF.

I THANK YOU AND MAY GOD BLESS YOU, AND MAY GOD BLESS THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

THANK YOU, BOB.

KEVIN, MAYOR FULLER TOWN COUNCIL.

THANK FOR IT'S TIME TO SPEAK WITH YOU.

MY NAME IS BOB KENNER.

I RETIRED FROM THE US ARMY AS A SERGEANT FIRST CLASS I DEPLOYED TWICE TO AFGHANISTAN AND I'M ALSO A MEMBER OF VETS FOR N RF.

DURING MY DEPLOYMENTS FOR AFGHANISTAN, I WITNESSED THE GALL OF OUR TROOPS AND OUR ALLIES AND THE UNWAVERING COMMITMENT DEFEAT THE TERRORISTS IN AFGHANISTAN.

ON AUGUST 15TH, 2021, POLITICIANS LOST THE WAR BY TURNING AFGHANISTAN OVER TO TERRORISTS.

THE TALIBAN IS A TERRORIST GROUP.

THE TALIBAN SINCE HAS TURNED IT INTO A SAFE HAVEN FOR TERRORISM.

AND THERE ARE TERRORIST GROUPS, INCLUDING AL-QAEDA AND ISIS ARE CURRENTLY TRAINING IN AFGHANISTAN.

ALTOGETHER ARE CLOSE TO TWO DOZEN TERRORIST GROUPS NOW, TRAINING IN AFGHANISTAN AND THE FACE OF THIS TYRANNY, THE NATIONAL RESISTANCE FRONT OF AFGHANISTAN, LED BY AMMAN BASU COMMANDER AMMAN BASU, WHO IS THE SON OF AM.

MOUNT SHA MAUD IS THE ONLY GROUP LEFT IN AFGHANISTAN NOW THAT IS FIGHTING AGAINST THE TERRORIST TALIBAN REGIME, THE BRAVERY OF COMMANDER MASSUD AND HIS SUPPORTERS.

IT'S AN INSPIRATION TO AMERICAN VETERANS SUCH AS MYSELF, AND WE'RE PROUD TO SUPPORT THEIR FIGHT FOR FREEDOM FOR THE AFGHAN PEOPLE.

BUT DECLARING SEPTEMBER 9TH AS IMMA SHAMA DE MCKINNEY, TEXAS, TAKING A VERY STRONG, VERY BOLD STAND IN STANDING UP FOR FREEDOM AND DEMOCRACY AND OPPOSING TERRORISM, BOTH AS A VETERAN WHO HAS SERVED IN AFGHANISTAN, MYSELF, AND ON BEHALF OF THE 800,000 VETERANS WHO HAVE SERVED IN AFGHANISTAN, PLEASE ACCEPT OUR THANKS, RICHARD BARRETT.

GOOD EVENING, MAYOR FULLER CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS OF MCKINNEY TEXAS.

THANK YOU FOR BRINGING US HERE TONIGHT.

MY NAME IS RICHARD BARRETT.

I'M A HISTORIAN SPECIALIZING IN COUNTERINSURGENCY, AND I'M A PROUD ADVISOR TO VETS FOR NRF.

ON NINE 11 2001, OUR COUNTRY WAS AMBUSHED IN A SAVAGE SNEAK ATTACK THAT BRUTALLY SLAUGHTERED OVER 3000 INNOCENT MEN, WOMEN, AND CHILDREN OF ALL COLORS AND CREEDS.

ONE MAN WARNED US OF THIS SAVAGE SNEAK ATTACK, AND HIS NAME WAS MIME SHA MASSOU.

FOR OVER TWO DECADES, MIME SHAH MASSOU STOOD TALL AGAINST THE FORCES OF TERROR AND TYRANNY, SEEKING TO DOMINATE THE PROUD PEOPLE OF AFGHANISTAN, FIRST AGAINST THE SOVIET COMMUNIST, AND THEN AGAINST THE TALIBAN TERRORISTS AND THEIR AL-QAEDA ALLIES.

AS A BRILLIANT MILITARY AND POLITICAL LEADER, AKHMED SHAH MASSUD SHOWN BRIGHT AS A BEACON OF HOPE AND A TIME OF DARKNESS AND A SYMBOL OF RESISTANCE AGAINST THE FORCES OF EVIL AND SLAVERY.

AND BECAUSE OF THAT, IT MADE HIM A NATURAL ALLY, THE UNITED STATES.

AND BECAUSE HE WARNED US ABOUT THE IMPENDING NINE 11 SNEAK ATTACK, HE WAS MURDERED

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IN COLD BLOOD BY ALQAEDA SUICIDE BOMBERS POSING HIS JOURNALIST AS HISTORIAN.

I COULD TELL YOU THAT THE GLOBAL WAR ON TERROR IS FAR FROM OVER.

TODAY, THE TALIBAN HAVE ENSLAVED 40 MILLION PEOPLE WITH THIS TYRANNICAL RULE OF AFGHANISTAN.

THEY PROVIDE AID AND SUPPORT TO OVER 20 TERROR ORGANIZATIONS WHO ARE USING AFGHANISTAN AS A BASE TO PLOT THE DESTRUCTION.

NOT ONLY THE UNITED STATES, BUT OF OUR ALLIES.

ALL OVER THE WORLD, THINGS LOOK BLEAK.

BUT THE GOOD GUYS THAT HAVEN'T GIVEN UP THE MASSOU DE PROCLAMATION SENDS A POWERFUL MESSAGE OF SOLIDARITY TO THE PROUD FREEDOM LOVING PEOPLE OF AFGHANISTAN AND ALL THOSE WHO ARE FIGHTING FOR FREEDOM AGAINST THE FORCES OF TYRANNY AND TERROR.

BY THE DECLARING SEPTEMBER 9TH, AS ED SHAH MASSOU DE MCKINNEY, TEXAS IS HONORING THE MEMORY OF JESUS LEGACY AND HIS IMPORTANT MESSAGE.

AND THAT MESSAGE IS THAT THE VALUES OF LIBERTY AND JUSTICE ARE UNIVERSAL.

THEY TRANSCEND BORDERS AND THEY TRANSCEND NATIONALITIES.

AND BECAUSE OF THIS FREEDOM, LOVING PEOPLE EVERYWHERE MUST UNITE IN RESISTANCE AGAINST THE FORCES OF EVIL.

ON BEHALF OF RA NRF, WE THANK YOU MAYOR FULLER, AND WE THANK YOU CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS OF MCKINNEY TEXAS FOR GIVING US THIS DAY ED SHA MASU DAY HONORING THIS GREAT MAN.

GOD BLESS YOU.

GOD BLESS ED SHA MASU AND HIS SON, AED SHA MASU AND THE PEOPLE OF AFGHANISTAN.

GOD BLESS HIM WITH KENNY, TEXAS, AND GOD BLESS THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

THANK YOU MICHAEL COCHRAN.

GOOD EVENING, MR. MAYOR, UH, COUNSEL STAFF, THANK YOU FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK BEFORE YOU THIS MORNING.

MY NAME IS MICHAEL RUM, MY WIFE ANGIE AND I LIVE AT 45 0 8 MOONLIGHT DRIVE HERE IN MCKINNEY.

AND WE'VE LIVED IN AND AROUND MCKINNEY FOR, UH, THE LAST 30 YEARS.

BEFORE I STARTED MY OWN CONSULTING BUSINESS FIVE YEARS AGO, I USED TO TRAVEL FOR WORK ABOUT 75% OF THE TIME TO BOSTON, LA, LAS VEGAS, SAN FRANCISCO.

MANY LATE NIGHTS I ARRIVED AT EITHER D F W OR LOVE FIELD AND BEGAN MY LONG DRIVE HOME TO BE REUNITED WITH MY WIFE, CHILDREN, DOGS FOR A LONG, UH, AFTER A LONG WEEK OF TRAVEL, I'M SURE MANY OF YOU HAVE DONE THE SAME.

MY GREATEST PLEASURE THOUGH, WHEN I WOULD COME HOME WAS WHEN I MADE THAT LEFT HAND TURN OFF OF 1 21 ON THE LAKE FOREST DRIVE BEGAN TO DRIVE NORTH, WELCOMED BY THE TRANQUILITY AND TREELINE STREETS OF MY HOMETOWN MCKINNEY, AWAY FROM THE CHAOS AND NOISE OF THE WORLD OUTSIDE.

WHEN I WAS GROWING UP, WE HAD COMMUNITIES THAT WE CALLED BEDROOM COMMUNITIES, PLACES OF REFUGE FROM INDUSTRY.

THESE COMMUNITIES WERE NOT DRIVEN BY COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENT, BY DEVELOPMENT OF FAMILIES, QUALITY SCHOOLS, PARKS, AND SAFE NEIGHBORHOODS.

THAT IS WHY ANGIE AND I CHOSE MCKINNEY FOR OUR HOME, WHICH IN OUR OPINION WAS UNIQUE IN COLLIN COUNTY SEVERAL TIMES OVER THE PAST FEW WEEKS, UH, THE MAYOR HAS STATED IN PUBLIC AND IN THE PRESS THAT WE NEED TO EXPAND THE AIRPORT IN MCKINNEY BECAUSE IT WOULD BE TRANSF TRANSFORMATIVE FOR THE REGION.

THAT IS A BIG AND SUBJECTIVE STATEMENT TO MAKE.

BUT HAVE YOU EVER CONSIDERED THAT THE VOTERS OF MCKINNEY HAVE VOTED NO TO PAYING FOR AIRPORT EXPANSION TWICE IN THE PAST EIGHT YEARS BECAUSE THEY DON'T WANT THEIR COMMUNITY TRANSFORMED? I HAVE HEARD THAT CITY LEADERS COMPARE THE GROWTH OF MCKINNEY TO OTHER CITIES.

HAS ANYONE STOPPED TO CONSIDER THAT THE PEOPLE OF MCKINNEY ARE WELL AWARE OF THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN MCKINNEY AND THOSE OTHER CITIES AND HAVE CHOSEN MCKINNEY? NOT IN SPITE OF THOSE DIFFERENCES, BUT BECAUSE OF THOSE DIFFERENCES.

ON MAY 6TH, MORE PEOPLE CAME OUT TO VOTE ON THE AIRPORT BOND THAN ANY OTHER CITY ISSUE ON THE BALLOT.

THE UNDERCOUNT ON PROP A WAS ABOUT 400 OUT OF 22,000 VOTES CAST IN DISTRICT FOUR MORE PEOPLE VOTED AGAINST PROP A THAN VOTED FOR RICK FRANKLIN WHO RAN UNOPPOSED.

MORE PEOPLE LIKELY VOTED AGAINST THE BOND THAN FOR MICHAEL JONES.

YET THIS COUNCIL CONTINUES TO SPEND MONEY TO PURSUE AN AGENDA THAT IS NOT CLEAR THAT A MAJORITY IN MCKINNEY WANTS OR NEED.

MR. MAYOR COUNCIL MEMBERS, I RESPECTFULLY ASK YOU TO GET ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF THIS ISSUE.

I'M ASKING YOU TO CALL FOR A VOTE OF THE PEOPLE ON COMMERCIAL PASSENGER SERVICE, SPECIFICALLY AT MCKINNEY T K I THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME, SIR.

[CONSENT AGENDA]

NEXT ITEM IS CONSENT AGENDA ITEMS. THESE ITEMS CONSIST OF NON-CONTROVERSIAL OR HOUSEKEEPING ITEMS REQUIRED BY LAW ITEMS MAY BE CONSIDERED INDIVIDUALLY BY ANY COUNCIL MEMBER MAKING SUCH REQUEST PRIOR TO A MOTION AND VOTE ON CONSENT ITEMS. IS THERE ANY CONSENT ITEM THAT COUNCIL WOULD LIKE TO PULL DOWN OR ANY MEMBER WOULD LIKE TO PULL DOWN? AND IF NOT ENTERTAIN A MOTION.

I MAKE THE MOTION THAT WE APPROVE EACH AND ALL OF I'LL SECOND.

THAT MOTION WAS MADE BY COUNT, UH, MAYOR PROAM PHILLIPS AND SECOND BY COUNCILMAN FRANKLIN.

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JENNIFER ARNOLD, DIRECTOR OF PLANNING.

ALL IN FAVOR? AYE.

OPPOSED? WE'LL MOVE TO REGULAR AGENDA PUBLIC HEARING ITEMS

[Conduct a Public Hearing to Consider/Discuss/Act on a Request to Rezone the Subject Property from “RG 18” - General Residence District, “RS 60” - Single Family Residence District, and “TMN” - Traditional McKinney Neighborhood Overlay District to “PD” - Planned Development District and “TMN” - Traditional McKinney Neighborhood Overlay District, Generally to Allow for Multi-Family Residential Uses and to Modify the Development Standards, Located on the South Side of Fitzhugh Street and on the East and West Sides of South Murray Street, and Accompanying Ordinance]

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CONDUCT A PUBLIC HEARING TO CONSIDER AN ACT ON REQUEST TO RAISE ON SUBJECT PROPERTY FROM RRG 18 GENERAL RESIDENCE DISTRICT, RS 60, SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENCE DISTRICT AND TMN TRADITIONAL MCKINNEY NEIGHBORHOOD OVERLAY DISTRICT TO PD PLAN DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT AND T M N TRADITIONAL MCKINNEY NEIGHBORHOOD OVERLAY DISTRICT GENERALLY TO ALLOW FOR MULTIFAMILY RESIDENTIAL USES AND TO MODIFY THE DEVELOPMENT STANDARDS LOCATED ON THE SOUTH SIDE OF FITSU STREET AND ON THE EAST AND WEST SIDES OF SOUTH MURRAY STREET.

JENNIFER.

THANK YOU MR. MAYOR.

AS YOU READ, THIS IS A REQUEST TO REZONE THIS SUBJECT PROPERTY TO ALLOW FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF MULTIFAMILY USES.

UM, MANY OF YOU'RE, UH, QUITE FAMILIAR WITH THIS.

UH, THIS IS A PROPERTY OWNED BY THE MCKINNEY HOUSING AUTHORITY AND IS CURRENTLY DEVELOPED FOR, UM, MCKINNEY HOUSING AUTHORITY UNITS.

UH, THE REQUEST TO REZONE WOULD ALLOW FOR THE REDEVELOPMENT OF THIS PROPERTY.

UM, I BELIEVE THAT THEY'RE REFERRING TO IT AS REMNANTS OF GREENWOOD, UH, PHASE ONE OR TRACT ONE WITHIN THE REZONING REQUEST.

THE PROPERTY IS COMPRISED OF TWO SUBTRACTS TRACKED A ON THE WEST SIDE OF MURRAY STREET AND TRACKED AT B OR TRACT TWO ON THE EAST SIDE OF MURRAY STREET.

COLLECTIVELY, THE RE OR THE REZONING OF THE PROPERTY WOULD ALLOW FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF COTTAGE STYLE MULTI-FAMILY UNITS WITH A MAXIMUM OF TWO STORIES AND SIX UNITS PER BUILDING AND A MAXIMUM OF 50 TOTAL UNITS ACROSS, UH, BOTH TRACKS.

UM, WITH THE REQUEST, UH, THE APPLICANT IS PROPOSING TO DEVELOP THIS AS SORT OF A COMPREHENSIVE, UH, DEVELOPMENT, UH, WITH SOME REDUCTIONS IN SETBACKS FOR TRACK ONE AND TRACK TWO, WHICH ARE OUTLINED IN YOUR STAFF REPORT.

GIVEN THE, UH, BUILDING HEIGHTS AND THE COTTAGE STYLE MULTIFAMILY THAT'S BEING PROPOSED HERE, STAFF, UH, HAS REVIEWED IT AND IS OFFERING OUR FAVORABLE RECOMMENDATION.

THE PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION ALSO CONSIDERED THIS ITEM AT THEIR MEETING AND RECOMMENDING APPROVAL AS WELL.

IT IS ON ALIGNMENT WITH THE CITY'S, UM, COMPREHENSIVE PLAN AND I BELIEVE ALSO WITH THE AFFORDABLE HOUSING, UM, DIRECTION THAT WE ARE TRYING TO PURSUE.

AND I'M HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTION AS AS OUR APPLICANT.

ANY QUESTIONS FOR JENNIFER? OKAY.

APPLICANT, MR. MAYOR, MEMBERS OF THE COUNCIL, MARTIN SANCHEZ, 2000 NORTH MCDONALD'S SUITE 100 HERE IN MCKINNEY, TEXAS.

MR. MAYOR, YOU'RE TONIGHT YOU'LL SEE THIS CASE AND THE ADJOINING CASE, UM, THAT ARE REALLY A CULMINATION OF 20 SOME ODD YEARS OF PROGRESS IN THE AFFORDABLE HOUSING ARENA HERE IN MCKINNEY, TEXAS.

IF YOU RECALL, A FEW YEARS AGO, ABOUT FIVE OR SIX YEARS AGO, WE HELPED, UH, TO REDEVELOP THE PROPERTY, UH, THAT WE REFER TO AS NEWSOM OVER ON HIGHWAY FIVE AND MCMAKIN.

ABOUT THREE YEARS AGO, WE REDEVELOPED THE, UH, PROPERTY ON TENNESSEE KNOWN AS MERIT.

AND THESE TWO THAT YOU SEE TONIGHT, UM, ARE THE LAST REMAINING TWO OF THE ORIGINAL 1940S SLASH 1950S ERA AFFORDABLE HOUSING.

THE, UH, STRUCTURES SHOULD HAVE BEEN, UH, REMOVED A LONG TIME AGO.

THEY HAVE OUTLIVED THEIR USEFULNESS AND WHAT WE ARE ATTEMPTING TO DO AT THIS POINT, SIR, UH, ALL OF YOU COUNSEL, IS TO REDEVELOP THESE PROPERTIES AND TO GIVE BACK TO THE COMMUNITY DIGNIFIED AFFORDABLE HOUSING.

THIS HAS BEEN A LONG ROAD TO GET HERE.

UH, MANY OF YOU HAVE BEEN THROUGH THIS PROCESS WITH US ALL.

AND, UH, WHEN, WHEN IT'S ALL SAID AND DONE WITH, I BELIEVE THAT THE RESIDENTS, UH, ARE REALLY THE BIG WINNERS, OUR MOST VULNERABLE POPULATION WILL BE ABLE TO HAVE, UH, MORE DIGNIFIED HOUSING.

AS WE'VE UPDATED THIS, THERE'S A LOT OF TECHNICAL DETAILS, BUT MS. ARNOLD COVERED THOSE VERY, VERY WELL, SIR.

UH, AND COUNSEL, IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, I'D BE GLAD TO ANSWER ANY OTHERWISE, I'D, UH, RESPECTFULLY ASK FOR YOUR, UH, FAVORABLE APPROVAL.

I HAVE QUESTIONS FOR THE APPLICANT.

WELL, WHAT IS THE, UH, THRESHOLD ON THE PERCENTAGE OF A AAMI, SIR? THESE ARE PART OF BOTH.

UH, THEY'RE ALL, THEY'RE BOTH BOND DEALS.

AND SO THERE'S GOING TO BE A MIXTURE OF AAMI OF BOTH, UH, UH, 80 AND BELOW.

UH, AND THE WHOLE GOAL IS TO REPATRIATE ALL THE RESIDENTS THAT ARE THERE NOW, UH, ONCE WE'VE REDEVELOPED THE PROPERTY AND, UH, WE CAN BRING 'EM BACK HOME.

IT SAYS PUBLIC HEARING AND I DO HAVE TWO CARDS.

UM, I HAVE, UH, AND I BELIEVE THAT YOU WANNA SPEAK.

IF YOU DON'T, YOU'D LIKE ME JUST TO READ YOUR POSITION.

I'LL DO THAT AS WELL.

BUT, UH, ROBERT MCGEE IN SUPPORT OF AND, UM, FANTASIA GARRETT HAVE SPEAKING IN SUPPORT OF AS WELL.

IS THAT CORRECT? NO, THANK YOU.

IS THERE ANYONE ELSE THAT WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK TO THIS ITEM?

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WOULD YOU LIKE TO? SO I DON'T HAVE ANOTHER CARD IN THE ITEM, BUT YOU'RE WELCOME TO.

SHE'S IN THE NEXT ITEM ON RIGHT NOW.

OH, YOU WANNA SPEAK TO THE NEXT ITEM? YES.

IS THERE ANYONE THAT WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK TO THIS ITEM? SEEING NONE ENTERTAIN A MOTION.

MAKE A MOTION THAT WE CLOSE THE PUBLIC HEARING AND APPROVE THIS ITEM.

[Conduct a Public Hearing to Consider/Discuss/Act on a Request to Rezone the Subject Property from “RG 18” - General Residence District and “TMN” - Traditional McKinney Neighborhood Overlay District to “PD” - Planned Development District and “TMN” - Traditional McKinney Neighborhood Overlay District, Generally to Allow for Multi-Family Residential Uses and to Modify the Development Standards, Located on the Northwest Corner of Drexel Street and Throckmorton Street and on the Southwest Corner of Drexel Street and Throckmorton Place, and Accompanying Ordinance]

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CONDUCT A PUBLIC HEARING TO CONSIDER AN ACT ON A REQUEST OF REASON ON THE SUBJECT PROPERTY FROM R G 18 GENERAL RESIDENCE DISTRICT AND TRADITIONAL MCKINNEY NEIGHBORHOOD OVERLAY DISTRICT TO PLAN DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT AND TRADITIONAL, UH, MCKINNEY NEIGHBORHOOD OVERLAY DISTRICT GENERALLY TO ALLOW FOR MULTI-FAMILY RESIDENTIAL USES AND TO MODIFY THE DEVELOPMENT STANDARDS LOCATED ON THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF DREXEL STREET, ROCKPORT STREET, AND ON THE SOUTHWEST CORNER OF DREXEL STREET, ROCKPORT PLACE.

JENNIFER.

THANK YOU MR. MAYOR.

UH, JENNIFER ARNOLD, AGAIN, DIRECTOR OF PLANNING.

UM, SO THIS ONE GETS A LITTLE BIT TRICKIER, UM, TO, UH, WALK THROUGH.

UM, FOLLOWING THE COMPLETION OF THE PACKET, UH, THERE WERE SOME ADDITIONAL CHANGES PROPOSED WITH THE REZONING REQUEST THAT, UM, ACTUALLY ALIGNS BETTER WITH STAFF'S, UM, POSITION ON THE CASE.

SO I DO WANNA HAND THOSE OUT TO THE, UH, COUNSEL AND I WILL WALK THROUGH THOSE WITH YOU.

SO AS YOU NOTED, THIS IS A REQUEST TO RAISE ON THE SUBJECT PROPERTY, WHICH IS, UM, ABOUT TWO AND A HALF ACRES IN SIZE IN TOTAL, UH, TO ALLOW FOR, UH, DEVELOPMENT OF MULTIFAMILY USES.

AGAIN, UH, THIS IS ONE OF THE LAST REMAINING, UM, UH, MCKINNEY HOUSING AUTHORITY, UM, DEVELOPMENT WITHIN THE CITY.

AND THIS WOULD, UH, SORT OF CLOSE OUT THAT REDEVELOPMENT EFFORT THAT THEY'VE HAD UNDERWAY FOR THE LAST SEVERAL YEARS.

SO WITH THE REQUEST, UH, IT WOULD ACTUALLY, UM, AS REQUESTED IN YOUR PACKET, UM, THEY WERE LOOKING TO REZONE THE PROPERTY TO ALLOW FOR THREE STORY MULTIFAMILY ACROSS THE ENTIRETY, UM, OF THE TRACKED.

SO WE'VE GOT TRACKED ONE AND TRACKED TWO.

UM, STAFF WAS, UM, IN SUPPORT OF THE REDEVELOPMENT FOR THE THREE STORIES ON TRACK ONE, BUT WE HAVE BEEN, UH, WORKING WITH THE APPLICANT ON THE REDEVELOPMENT OF TRACK TWO, WHICH IS THIS SMALL TRACK HERE TO ALLOW FOR THREE STORIES.

STAFF'S ORIGINAL CONCERN WITH THIS REQUEST WAS THAT, UM, THE PROPOSED THREE STORIES ON TRACK TWO ALONG WITH THE REDUCED SETBACKS THAT WERE OUTLINED IN YOUR STAFF REPORT WOULD NOT BE COMPATIBLE WITH THE ADJACENT NEIGHBORS.

UM, SINCE THAT TIME WE HAVE WORKED WITH THE APPLICANT AND AS YOU SEE IN THE RED LINES, UM, BEFORE YOU, THEY HAVE REQUESTED TO MODIFY THE REQUEST.

AND ACTUALLY THEY WILL DROP DOWN, I THINK I CAN, HERE, THERE WE GO.

UM, THEY WOULD PROPOSE TO DROP DOWN THE BUILDING HEIGHTS ON TRACK TWO FROM THREE STORIES DOWN TO TWO STORIES.

UM, AND WITH THAT, THEY WOULD INCREASE THE BUILDING HEIGHT ON TRACK ONE FOR ONE OF THE BUILDINGS TO GO FROM THREE STORIES TO FOUR STORIES.

SO THE OVERALL DEVELOPMENT, UM, FOR THIS PROJECT WOULD ACTUALLY HAVE A FOUR STORY BUILDING HERE, THREE STORY BUILDING HERE.

THEY'D HAVE A COMMUNITY CENTER AND SOME OTHER ANCILLARY USES HERE, AND THEN TWO STORIES HERE.

SO WE WOULD BE FOUR, THREE, AND TWO, UM, TO ALLOW FOR A MAXIMUM OF 60 UNITS ACROSS THE ENTIRETY OF, UH, THE PROJECT.

WITH THE CHANGES THAT ARE BEING PROPOSED NOW, STAFF IS MUCH MORE COMFORTABLE WITH THE REQUEST, OBVIOUSLY IN THE STAFF REPORT BEFORE YOU, UM, OUR ORIGINAL RECOMMENDATION WAS DENIAL, AND WE'VE NOT OFFICIALLY CHANGED THAT, BUT WITH THE, UM, DROPDOWN ON TRACT TWO AND THE INCREASE IN BUILDING HEIGHT TO TRACT FOUR, WE ARE VERY COMFORTABLE WITH THAT, UM, CHANGE AND WE WOULD BE COMFORTABLE SUPPORTING THAT IF WE'D HAD TIME TO UPDATE THE STAFF REPORT FOR YOU AND FOR WHAT IS NORTH OF THAT FOUR STORY BUILDING.

NOW.

SO THIS, THERE'S A PRETTY HEAVY TREE LINE HERE, AND THERE IS THE SPHINX AT THROCKMORTON PROJECT THREE THAT OKAY.

YEP.

WHICH IS A THREE STORY MULTI-FAMILY, UM, RIGHT DEVELOPMENT THERE.

UM, GIVEN THAT THAT, THAT FOUR STORY BUILDING, IT'S TUCKED ON THE NORTH SIDE OF THIS PROPERTY, IT'S, UM, ABOUT A HUNDRED FEET AWAY FROM THE NEAREST SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY.

UM, WE, WE DO FEEL LIKE IT'S MUCH MORE APPROPRIATE THAN WHAT WAS ORIGINALLY PROPOSED WITH THAT THREE STORIES AND 10 FOOT SETBACK.

UM, OKAY.

SO THE SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENCE IS ON THE EAST SIDE OF ROCK BORTON OR SOUTH OF THIS FOUR STORY BUILDING, CORRECT? THEY WOULD BE, WELL, TECHNICALLY EAST, THIS IS NOT ORIENTED TO THE NORTH.

YEAH, I KNOW IT'S NOT, BUT, BUT THEY'RE ON THE EAST SIDE OF THROCKMORTON, THAT'S CORRECT.

RIGHT? MM-HMM.

THE APPLICANT COME UP, MR. MAYOR, MEMBERS OF COUNCIL MARTIN SANCHEZ, 2000 NORTH MCDONALD'S SUITE 100 HERE IN MCKINNEY, TEXAS.

AND, UH, OKAY.

AND, AND THEY'RE, THEY'RE FURTHER SOUTH ON THE EAST SIDE OF THROCKMORTON.

UM, THEY'RE NOT DIRECTLY ACROSS THE STREET YES.

FROM FOUR STORY BUILDING.

SO, AND WE, THIS AERIAL MAY BE A BETTER LITTLE VIEW HERE.

UM, SO WE'VE GOT THE UNITS THERE, THE SINGLE FAMILY, AND THE FOUR STORY BUILDING WOULD BE TUCKED BACK HERE.

, ANY OTHER QUESTIONS FOR JENNIFER?

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UH, MS. ARNOLD DID A GREAT JOB OF REALLY KIND OF, UH, COVERING THE DETAILS, UH, MR. MAYOR AT P AND Z, WE WERE FACED WITH A VERY DIFFICULT PRESENTATION OF, UH, TRYING TO SQUEEZE ALL OF THESE VARIOUS, UH, UH, ITEMS IN A TRUNCATED SCHEDULE TO MEET FEDERAL, FEDERAL FUNDING ISSUES, STATE FUNDING ISSUES, THE CITY MCKINNEY'S REGULATIONS, ET CETERA.

UH, WITH THE LEADERSHIP, QUITE FRANKLY, OF CHAIRMAN COX AND WITH JENNIFER, UH, ARNOLD'S LEADERSHIP AS WELL, WE TOILED AND TOILED AND WE'RE ABLE TO COME UP WITH A DIFFERENT SOLUTION.

AND THAT'S WHAT YOU SEE BEFORE YOU, BUT ULTIMATELY WHEN IT COMES DOWN TO IT, AGAIN, WE ARE, WE ARE REDEVELOPING THESE, THESE VERY OLD, UH, DEVELOPMENTS THAT, UM, THAT I THINK MERITS THE, THE CONSIDERATION.

SO WITH THAT, I'LL ANSWER ANY SPECIFIC QUESTIONS.

I WILL ADD ALSO THAT, UH, MS. MILLER, THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF, UH, MCKINNEY HOUSING AUTHORITY AND HER LEADERSHIP, SHE WENT OUT AND CANVASSED, UH, THE RESIDENCE AROUND TRACK TWO, THE ONE THAT WAS THE ONE THAT IN IN PARTICULAR OF DISCUSSION, SPOKE TO THE NEIGHBORS, UH, RESOUNDLY.

THE, THE FEEDBACK SHE GOT, WHICH I FORWARDED TO MS. ARNOLD, WAS ALL VERY POSITIVE, EVEN UNDER THE OLD SCENARIO, BECAUSE THE REALITY IS WHAT YOU HAVE TODAY VERSUS THE DIFFICULT CHOICES WHEN IT WAS GONNA BE A THREE STORY.

NOW WE'VE MADE IT EVEN BETTER BY IT BEING A TWO STORY.

SO, UH, WITH THAT, I'LL STAND FOR ANY QUESTIONS FROM COUNSEL.

WHAT WAS THE INITIAL HESITATION FOR DOING THAT? BECAUSE I KNOW WE'VE TALKED ABOUT SOME OF THE CONCERNS WITH THAT BEING A SINGLE FAMILY, ONE STORY BUILDING AND POTENTIALLY A THREE STORY BUILDING THERE.

WHY WAS IT A PARKING ISSUE THAT WAS THE PROBLEM, AND HOW DID WE CIRCUMVENT THAT TO GET TO WHERE WE ARE RIGHT NOW? THE, THE, THE UNFORTUNATE ANSWER, UH, WITH THAT COUNCILWOMAN, UH, FELTUS IS THAT IN MAKING THE SAUSAGE, THERE'S A WHOLE LOT THAT GOES INTO IT.

AND WE HAVE HAD A VERY TRUNCATED SCHEDULE, UH, MS. ARNOLD'S OFFICE IN MY OFFICE, MCKINNEY HOUSING AUTHORITY, ET CETERA, HAVE PROCESSED WHAT NORMALLY WOULD TAKE US NINE MONTHS TO A YEAR INTO ABOUT SIX TO EIGHT WEEKS, UH, WITH MAYOR'S LEADERSHIP, COUNCILMAN BEARD'S LEADERSHIP, TRYING TO, FOR GET US ALL TOGETHER TO PATH FORGE THIS PATH FORWARD.

SO IN HINDSIGHT, IT'S EASY TO SAY, WHY DIDN'T YOU GUYS THINK OF THAT? AND THE REALITY IS, WE HAVE TO SAY MEPA, THAT WE WERE TRYING TO GET SO MUCH DONE SO FAST THAT WE WEREN'T ABLE TO GET THERE FAST ENOUGH.

AND THEN IN THE LAST TWO WEEKS OR THE LAST WEEK, WE WERE ABLE TO COME UP WITH AND CARVE OUT THIS, THIS ADDITIONAL CONCEPT, AND THAT TOOK ARCHITECTURE, ENGINEERING, THE CITY, ET CETERA, ALL SAYING, HEY, IS THERE ANOTHER WAY TO FIGURE OUT THIS MOUSETRAP? AND I, I THINK WE, THAT'S, THAT'S HOW WE GOT THERE.

IT, IT TRULY WAS NOBODY'S MAL INTENTION AS MUCH AS JUST TRYING TO DO A LOT OF WORK IN A FAIR SHORT AMOUNT OF TIME.

AND ONE MORE QUESTION.

THE CLUBHOUSE CENTER, HOW MANY STORIES, WHAT'S THE HEIGHT ON THAT? UH, ONE STORY, I BELIEVE, UH, IN THAT CLUBHOUSE, AGAIN, TO MEET FUNDING GUIDELINES IS NOT JUST YOUR TYPICAL CLUBHOUSE THAT YOU WOULD SEE ON A MARKET RATE DEAL.

THAT'S A, IT'S A CLUBHOUSE, IT'S AN OFFICE, IT'S A LEARNING CENTER FOR CHILDREN.

IT, IT'S PROGRAMMED TO HAVE MORE ASPECTS THAN IT JUST BEING, LET'S SAY A, YOU KNOW, WHERE YOU SIGN A LEASE AND GO TO THE POOL.

UM, UH, IT FUNCTIONS VERY MUCH AS A COMMUNITY CENTER, IF YOU WOULD, FOR, FOR THAT AREA.

AND THAT'S WHAT WOULD BE JUST ACROSS THE STREET WEST? YES, MA'AM.

THAT WOULD, WOULD BE ACTUALLY RIGHT IN THAT DOT RIGHT THERE, GENERALLY SPEAKING.

FOUR STORY PRODUCT UP HERE IS THAT THERE ARE NO POWER LINES THERE.

YES, MA'AM.

ANY OTHER QUESTIONS FOR MARTIN? UM, MARTIN, FORGIVE ME, THIS MAY BE A JENNIFER QUESTION.

ANYONE CAN TAKE IT THOUGH.

MY UNDERSTANDING AFTER LOOKING AT THIS, AND BY THE WAY, I'M VERY GLAD WE GOT THAT SITUATION SOLVED WITH THAT TRACK TWO, BUT ON TRACK ONE, DO WE NOT HAVE A SETBACK ISSUE WITH RESPECT TO THE POWER LINES OUT THERE? AND IF WE DO HAVE THAT ISSUE, WHAT ARE THE OPPORTUNITIES TO MITIGATE THAT TO MAKE SURE THIS THING GETS MOVED FORWARD? SO IT'S MORE OF A ME QUESTION THAN IT IS A MS. ARNOLD, DID YOU SEE THAT LOOK ON HER FACE? ? SO THE DISCUSSION THAT WE'VE HAD WITH THE FIRE MARSHAL'S OFFICE, AGAIN, TRYING TO COORDINATE WITH ALL OF THESE DIFFERENT DEPARTMENTS IS THAT THE FIRE MARSHAL HAD CONCERNS WITH A THREE STORY HEIGHT NEXT TO OVERHEAD POWER LINES, UH, FULLY KNOWING THAT THAT WAS PART OF THE DISCUSSION ALONG WITH THE ADJACENCY OF SINGLE FAMILY, RESIDENTIAL, ET CETERA.

THAT'S REALLY WHAT KIND OF FINALLY PUSHED US OVER THE EDGE OF SAYING, GUYS, TAKE A STEP BACK, HIT THE RESET BUTTON, HOW DO YOU GET THERE? AND HOW DO WE MAKE IT WORK? UM, AND SO THE TWO STORY SCENARIO, THE FIRE MARSHAL DOES NOT HAVE THAT, THAT SAME CONCERN.

THE REASON THAT WE ARE PUSHING FOR THE F UH,

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AND I CAN USE, UH, AN INTERNAL FIRE LANE TO DEAL WITH FIRE ACCESS.

THE CHALLENGE HERE IS THAT BECAUSE THIS IS AN INFILL DEVELOPMENT, MUCH OF THE FIRE ACCESS IS COMING FROM THE STREETS.

AND SO THAT'S WHEN THE OVERHEAD POWER LINES NOW COME INTO PLAY.

IN A TYPICAL NEW DEVELOPMENT IN A CORN FIELD, WE DON'T HAVE THAT SAME ISSUE BECAUSE EVERYTHING'S HAPPENING WITH FIRE LANES INTERNAL TO THE SITE.

THIS IS THE CHALLENGE WITH REDEVELOPMENT.

NOTHING IS EASY.

AND WE'RE KIND OF PLAYING WITH THE CARDS THAT, THAT WE HAVE.

DOES THAT ANSWER YOUR QUESTION, SIR? IT DOES, BUT DO WE, SO IT, IT MAY BE MY PREMISE WAS WRONG THEN.

SO WE FEEL THAT ISSUE HAS BEEN MITIGATED AND IT'S BECAUSE MY CONCERN WAS, I THOUGHT WE STILL HAD THE FIRE, THE POWER LINES IN FRONT OF THE THREE STORY, AND I THOUGHT THERE MIGHT BE A HURDLE COMING UP, BUT YOU'RE SAYING THAT'S NO LONGER THE CASE? WELL, I STILL HAVE LOTS OF HURDLES AND, AND TO BE PERFECTLY CANDID, COUNCIL MEMBER, UH, IT'S, AS I TOLD P AND Z AS WE GET THROUGH THE ENTITLEMENT PHASE, OKAY, I'M NOT DONE WITH, WITH MY PROBLEMS WITH MY CHALLENGES, I STILL HAVE TO FINISH PROCESSING A SITE PLAN THAT WORKS FOR ALL DEPARTMENTS.

I STILL HAVE TO PROCESS ARCHITECTURE.

WE ARE IN THE THROES OF PLATTING, ALL OF WHICH MS. ARNOLD AND HER TEAM HAS BEEN KIND ENOUGH TO ALLOW US TO SUBMIT AND TRACK IN PARALLEL.

BUT I'M ADDRESSING ALL THESE ISSUES AS FAST AS, AS WE CAN.

WE ARE SCHEDULED TO MEET WITH THE FIRE MARSHAL'S OFFICE TO DISCUSS THE REST OF ANY OF HIS CONCERNS THAT HE MAY HAVE.

AND ONE WAY OR ANOTHER THROUGH THE DESIGN PROCESS, IT'S LAND DEVELOPMENT, WE'LL FIGURE IT OUT.

AND I, I WILL SAY THOUGH THAT, YOU KNOW, I, I'M VERY COGNIZANT THAT THERE'S A LOT OF FOLKS WHO NEED THIS.

THERE'S, THESE FOLKS NEED TO BE MOVED OUT TEMPORARILY.

WE'VE GOT THAT PROBLEM.

EVIDENTLY WE'VE GOT A HANDLE ON THAT.

AND IF SOMETHING WERE TO GET MESSED UP HERE, THEN WHO KNOWS HOW LONG IT COULD TAKE.

SO, UM, UH, THANK YOU VERY MUCH, MARTIN? YES, SIR.

OKAY, SIR, THIS IS A PUBLIC HEARING ITEM.

I BELIEVE THAT THE CARDS NAMES I READ BEFORE ARE IN SUPPORT OF THIS ITEM, BUT IF YOU'D LIKE TO SPEAK, YOU CAN, IF NOT, I WANT TO REGISTER YOUR, UH, YOUR SUPPORT FOR THIS ITEM.

AGAIN, FANTASIA GARRETT.

CORRECT.

WAS THERE ANYONE ELSE HERE PRESENT THAT WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK TO THE ITEM? I'M SORRY.

THEY HAVE CARDS ALSO.

OH, OKAY.

SO I MIGHT BE, YOU CALL IT MIGHT BE MISSING.

HOLD ON A SECOND.

CHECK THOSE OUT.

THAT IS, SORRY.

IT WAS MIXING WITH ANOTHER, ANOTHER GROUP.

UM, REBECCA BLACKMAN AND ROSALYN MILLER.

THAT ABOUT A DUMB STORY THAT ISN'T EVEN REAL.

I DON'T HAVE A LOT OF TIME TO SPEAK ABOUT THIS, BUT I, I WILL DO WHAT I CAN BECAUSE I JUST GOT HERE, UH, HOME.

I MEAN, I JUST GOT HOME.

IT, IT, UH, HITS ME IN THE FACE EACH TIME I SAY THAT I WAS 18 IN THE LIFE SITUATION.

I WAS IN SIX MONTHS INTO IT, I'D SEEN AN OVERDOSE TWO GUNFIGHTS A FIRE, WHICH I DON'T REMEMBER, SORRY.

THAT WAS A LOT.

THE THINGS I'VE BEEN THROUGH WOULD SHOCK PEOPLE IF I OFTEN INTRODUCE MYSELF TO THOSE I'VE JUST MET BY SPEAKING ABOUT IT.

IT'S CONSIDERED AGAINST SOCIAL NORMS TO REMINISCE IN SUCH TRAGEDY AS IT'S DIFFICULT TO EMOTIONALLY HANDLE PEOPLE DISLIKE TRAUMA DUMPING.

I WAS 18.

I SHOULDN'T HAVE HAD THAT TRAUMA.

IT'S SCARY TO RECOGNIZE THAT MY FAMILY LOOKED INTO THE EYES OF A LITTLE GIRL WHO WAS MALNOURISHED TO THE POINT OF LOSING COHESIVENESS, SEVERELY EXHAUSTED AND HAD THE EYES OF SOMEONE WHO HAD SEEN PEOPLE AS THEY PASS ON.

THOUGH THIS WAS SO FEW AND FOREIGN BETWEEN BECAUSE THEY RARELY SAW ME, AND WHEN THEY DID, IT WAS SHORT-LIVED.

IT'S NOT THEIR FAULT YET THEY WEREN'T THE ONLY PEOPLE IN THE WORLD TO LOOK AT ME AND WONDER WHY I HADN'T JUST GOTTEN A JOB.

NOBODY WHO LOOKS THE WAY I DID DURING THAT SITUATION WOULD WILLINGLY LIVE THROUGH IT IN FAVOR OF WORKING A JOB TO GET OUT.

SIX MONTHS INTO IT, I WAS THE SAFEST.

I HAD BEEN IN MONTHS AT AN AIRBNB WITH A BED AND FOOD.

IT WAS PAID FOR.

DURING THOSE THREE WEEKS, I DISCOVERED THE GAME.

LIFE IS STRANGE AND WAS ENTHRALLED BY IT.

BUTTERFLIES BECAME IMPORTANT TO ME DUE TO THEIR PROFOUND SYMBOLISMS. THAT'S WHY THIS INCREDIBLY MAKESHIFT SUIT JACKET WAS DECORATED LIKE THIS AND ALSO UNFINISHED BECAUSE I WAS AFRAID OF MESSING IT UP IN THE MIDDLE OF THE STRUGGLE.

THERAPY, TALKING PEOPLE WITH NO MATERIAL POSSESSIONS OR GOALS OF MY OWN DIDN'T SAVE MANY LOSS WAS OUTTA MY CONTROL.

I DON'T BLAME MYSELF FOR THOSE.

I LOST AND GRIEVED FOR LEARNING THEIR NAMES.

BUT WHEN I SPOKE ON THIS GAME TO PEOPLE WHO DIDN'T KNOW OF ITS EXISTENCE, IT LIT THEM UP.

I WAS OFTEN TOLD THROUGH AMAZEMENT, YOU ARE 18, TALKING LIKE

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MANY PEOPLE TOLD ME THAT MY INTEREST MADE THEM REGAIN SOME WILL TO LIVE.

TO THIS DAY, I HAVEN'T PLAYED THE GAME YET.

THIS GAME IS SAVING MY LIFE TO THIS DAY.

I MEAN, I'M WRITING A FAN ANIMATION, SO OBVIOUSLY GOOD THINGS HAPPENED SINCE THEN.

BUT THE THING IS, IT WASN'T JUST GETTING A JOB AND JUST PUSHING THROUGH IT.

THAT GOT ME A HOME WHERE I CAN SET UP A WORKSPACE TO DO MY WRITING.

WHAT GOT ME HERE WAS A FINANCIALLY ACCOMMODATED APARTMENT THAT ALLOWED ME THE PROPER SAFETY AND TIME BECAUSE I NEEDED IT.

NOT EVEN MY OWN FAMILY TOOK ME THAT SERIOUSLY.

IN MY SCRIPT, I HAVE WRITTEN MAX CAULFIELD SAYING THE WORDS, I'VE GIVEN EVERYTHING.

I HAVE EVERYTHING IN THE WORLD, AND I STILL NEED MORE.

I AM DOING EVERYTHING WITHIN MY POWER TO SAVE AND BEYOND THAT.

AND IT IS NOT WORKING.

THIS IS AN 18 YEAR OLD GIRL IN THE STORY WHO I RELATE TO HER WORDS.

I WAS HER AGE FEARING FOR THE SAME SIGHT OF REPEATED DEMISE, FAILURE, PAIN, AND HURT AT A QUANTITY THAT NO PERSON AT ANY AGE SHOULD HAVE TO SEE EVER.

I GOT TOLD BY MANY STRANGERS, YOU DON'T LOOK LIKE YOU BELONG OUT THERE.

AND IT MADE ME FEEL NOT ASHAMED OR WEAK, BUT WORRIED FOR MY HOMELESS FRIENDS, BECAUSE WHO DOES BELONG OUT THERE? FEW PEOPLE WANT THAT.

THE REASON WHY I DIDN'T LOOK LIKE IT WAS BECAUSE I LOOKED AS SCARED AND SAD AS SOMEONE OUT THERE SHOULD BE.

I DIDN'T PRESENT ALL ROUGHED UP AND HARDENED AT THE FACT THAT I LOOKED SCARED AND YOUNG AND TALKED ABOUT THE SAME GAME FROM 2014 ABOUT A GIRL WITH TIME.

TRAVEL POWERS LIKE AN EXCITED CHILD IS WHAT GAVE ME THE MERCY TO GET OUT OF MY SITUATION.

IT'S WHY I GOT AN AFFORDABLE HOME.

EVERYBODY OUT THERE NEEDS THAT MERCY.

A THREE MINUTE STORY ISN'T MUCH TIME TO SPEAK ABOUT A STRUGGLE THAT COULD END UP BEING BEING AN ENTIRE LIFE.

SO DO WITH THAT INFO WHAT YOU WILL.

WHICH WAY DO I GO? YES, SIR.

BACK TO MY SEAT.

GOOD EVENING, MAYOR COUNCIL MEMBERS, MR. PAUL GRS, AND I WANNA SAY A SPECIAL THANK YOU TO MS. KIM FLO.

I WANTED TO STAND AND JUST TAKE A MOMENT TO SAY THANK YOU TO THE CITY COUNCIL FOR EVEN HEARING OUR REQUEST.

THIS INSTALLMENT HAS BEEN A 10 YEAR, 10 YEAR ADVENTURE FOR THE MCKINNEY HOUSING AUTHORITY.

THE MCKINNEY HOUSING AUTHORITY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS AND RESIDENTS CAME TOGETHER AND DECIDED THEY WANTED TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT THEIR PROPERTIES.

WE DIDN'T HAVE THE MONEY.

WE WERE A TROUBLED AGENCY, BUT HUD GAVE US AN OPPORTUNITY THAT WE COULD LATCHED ONTO AND TOOK ADVANTAGE OF.

WE'VE HAD DEVELOPERS TO COME ALONG THE FIRST, THE FIRST GROUP, WE WERE THE TEST BABIES, SO THEY WERE LOOKING FOR ANYBODY WE JUMPED ON, COME ON, TAKE US THIS LAST GROUP.

WE'VE HAD TO LOOK AROUND.

WE TRIED TO BUY LAND TO THE NORTH.

WE TRIED TO BUY LAND TO THE SOUTH.

WE TRIED TO TALK TO OUR NEIGHBORS, TO THE, UH, WEST OF US TO BUY LAND.

AND WE WERE UNSUCCESSFUL IN DOING THAT.

SO THESE SMALL PARCELS THAT WE HAVE LEFT, OR THE RESIDENTS THAT ARE HERE WHO HAVE BEEN HERE FOR A LONG TIME, HAVE GOT TICK AND HIS WIFE SITTING OUT THERE.

THEY'VE GROWN UP IN MCKINNEY ALL THEIR LIVES.

UM, MISS RAYNA, SOME OF OUR ELDERLY FOLKS WHO'VE BEEN THERE FOREVER, I KNOW THIS CONFIGURATION HAS BEEN TIGHT, AND YOUR STAFF HAS BEEN TREMENDOUS.

THEY HAVE BEEN KICK BUTT.

THEY'VE BEEN JUMPING ALL OVER MARTIN AND HE'S TAKEN IT.

BUT THEY HAVE WORKED TIRELESSLY TO GET US TO THIS POINT.

AND WE JUST WANNA TAKE A MOMENT TO SAY THANK YOU FOR EVEN CONSIDERING IT.

AND I WANNA TAKE A MOMENT TO SAY THANK YOU FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO SERVE, TO SERVE THE FAMILIES WHO DON'T COME.

FAMILIES WHO'VE NEVER COME TO CITY COUNCIL.

THEY'VE COME BECAUSE THEY WANNA SUPPORT THEIR HOME.

I WANNA SAY A SPECIAL THANKS TO MS. KIT BECAUSE THERE ARE HOMELESS PEOPLE OUT THERE WHO HAVE DEVELOPMENTAL CHALLENGES, ELDERLY, DISABLED, WHO NEED THIS DESPERATELY.

YOU ASK ABOUT THE UNITS THAT WERE AT 30% OF AAMI, ALL 51 UNITS THAT WE ARE DEMOLISHING, ALL 51 WILL COME BACK PAYING ONLY 30% OF THEIR, UH, ANNUAL GROSS ADJUSTED INCOME.

THE OTHER 46 UNITS WILL STILL BE YOUR AFFORDABLE UNITS.

AT THE END OF THE DAY, MCKINNEY HOUSING AUTHORITY CURRENTLY ONLY HAS 792 TOTAL UNITS IN THE CITY OF 200,000 PLUS.

THAT'S FOR VETERANS, FOR SENIORS, ELDERLY, DISABLED, AND THE MAJORITY OF OUR SINGLE MOMS WORK.

THE MAJORITY OF THEM WORK.

THEY'RE EMPLOYED, TAKING CARE OF THEIR FAMILIES.

AND SO FOR THEM TO BE ABLE TO HAVE DIGNITY AND QUALITY OF LIFE IS TREMENDOUS.

AND WE WANNA APPRECIATE EACH AND EVERY ONE OF YOU FOR CONSIDERING IT.

AUTHORITY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS.

THANK YOU, MAYOR HODGES, UH, MAYOR AND, UH, CITY COUNCIL.

THANK YOU FOR THIS OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK TODAY.

UM, I'VE WRITTEN A SPEECH, BUT IT'S, IT'S, IT'S BEEN ERASED.

BUT I STAND HERE AS A RESIDENT OF MCKINNEY AS A PARENT, UM, AND ALSO AS A MEMBER OF THE MCKINNEY HOUSING

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UM, I REALLY DO APPRECIATE THIS OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK TO YOU TODAY.

UM, KNOWING OF COURSE THAT HOUSING IS A BASIC HUMAN RIGHT, UM, AND THAT AFFORDABILITY CONTINUES TO BE A CHALLENGE ACROSS OUR NATION, BUT CERTAINLY IN OUR CITY.

UM, I HOPE THAT THE, THE VOTE ON THIS IS GONNA BE FAVORABLE.

UM, AS YOU'VE ALREADY HEARD, UM, THIS AFFECTS, UH, MANY MEMBERS OF OUR COMMUNITY.

UM, AND THIS WOULD BE BENEFICIAL FOR US TO BE ABLE TO ADD TO THE AFFORDABLE HOUSING, UH, INVENTORY, UM, IN OUR CITY.

SO, UM, I'LL KEEP IT SHORT, BUT I APPRECIATE THIS TIME AND THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

UH, AL TERRELL.

TERRELL, GOOD EVENING.

HOW Y'ALL DOING TODAY? UH, MY NAME IS AL TERRELL.

I, I AM A, UH, FSS COORDINATOR HERE AT THE MCKINNEY HOUSING AUTHORITY.

AND, UH, MY TIME HERE HAS, UH, BEEN SHORT, BUT HAVE I HAVE LEARNED A LOT.

I'VE SEEN A LOT.

AND SEEING THESE INDIVIDUALS COMING UP HERE, UH, I FEEL LIKE I DON'T DO THE CAUSE JUSTICE, BECAUSE NOT ONLY HAVE THEY LIVED HERE, UH, ENDURING, UH, AND NOT ONLY THAT, ADVOCATING FOR THEMSELVES, UH, THEY'RE WANTING BETTER FOR EVERYONE.

AND AT THE SAME TIME, UH, TRYING TO MAKE IT IN TODAY'S SOCIETY, AS YOU ALL KNOW, IT IS VERY, UH, IS A VERY, UH, VIGOROUS ECONOMY THAT WE LIVE IN RIGHT NOW.

AND, UH, ANYONE WHO PAYS RENT, WHO PAYS MORTGAGE KNOWS, UH, IS VERY TOUGH FOR ANYONE TO COME ACROSS, UH, AFFORDABLE HOUSING WITHIN OUR ECONOMY RIGHT NOW.

AND THESE HOUSING, UH, THESE DEVELOPMENTS, UH, THERE WAS SOMETHING, UH, THAT WAS SAID EARLIER, A SENSE OF PRIDE IN WHERE YOU LIVE.

UM, THAT'S WHAT THEY'RE BRINGING TO THESE INDIVIDUALS.

A SENSE OF PRIDE, A SENSE OF COMMUNITY, A SENSE OF I BELONG, A SENSE OF WE MATTER, A SENSE OF, Y'ALL SEE US.

UM, IT IS VERY HARD FOR PEOPLE TO COME UP HERE AND SPEAK, LET ALONE SHOW THEIR HEARTS, BECAUSE THIS IS, AT THE END OF THE DAY, THIS IS WHERE THEIR HEARTS LAY.

THEY LAY IN A PLACE WHERE THEY FEEL LEFT OUT.

BUT YOU HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TODAY, YOU KNOW, TO HELP IMPROVE THEIR FUTURE.

NOT ONLY THE PARENTS, BUT THE KIDS.

AND I SAY THIS EVERY TIME I COME UP HERE.

WHEN YOU LOOK AT THOSE KIDS AND YOU SEE WHERE THEY'RE AT, YOU CAN'T DO NOTHING BUT PUSH TO TRY TO GIVE THEM A BETTER, A BETTER SPOT TO BE AT, A BETTER, A BETTER PLACE TO LIVE.

UH, THE DEVELOPMENT TEAM, WHEN I HEAR THE CONTINUAL, UH, ADJUSTMENTS THAT THEY MAKE, IT'S, IT WONDERS ME BECAUSE THESE PEOPLE ARE REALLY, REALLY PUT IN THEIR NECK.

AND WHEW, MAN, WHEN I TELL YOU, I COULD NOT SEE HOW QUICKLY THEY DO THESE TURNAROUNDS WITH THESE ADJUSTMENTS, IT'S, IT'S COMMENDABLE.

IT'S, UH, IT'S INSPIRING.

I CAN'T SAY IT ENOUGH BECAUSE I, I LOOK AT THESE KIDS.

I GO OUT THERE LAST WEEK, THIS WEEK, THEY'RE DOING SOMETHING SPECIAL.

AND I UNDERSTAND THAT THERE ARE SOME ISSUES THAT MAY ARISE, BUT THEY ARE WORKING TOOTH AND NAIL TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY OVERCOME ANY OF THOSE OBSTACLES.

SO, AGAIN, I ALSO WANT TO THANK THE DEVELOPMENT TEAM BECAUSE YOU ARE WORKING VERY HARD, AND THAT IS SOMETHING THAT A LOT OF PEOPLE REALLY DO NOT SEE BEHIND CLOSED DOORS.

AND ALSO TOO, MS. MILLER AS WELL, BECAUSE A LOT OF THIS STARTED WITH HER.

AND SHE IS A VERY STRONG WILLED PERSON WHO IS, I LIKE TO CONSIDER FROM WHAT I'VE SEEN, A BIT OF A BACKBONE TO THIS COMMUNITY.

SO IF SHE'S REALLY, UH, PUSHING FOR THIS DEVELOPMENT, THEN YOU SHOULD KNOW THAT SHE HAS THE COMMUNITY BACK IN HER.

AND THAT LOOKS LIKE THAT'S MY TIME.

SO I INCLUDE MY TIME UP HERE.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR, UH, UH, EARS TODAY.

MAY I ASK HOW OLD YOU ARE, MR. RELL? HOW OLD ARE YOU? 25.

NOT SURE THAT YOUR, UH, HUMILITY IS NOT OUTWEIGHED BY YOUR WISDOM FOR SUCH YOUNG MAN.

HOW, HOW DOES IT FEEL TO BE 25 YEARS OLD AND BE THE VOICE FOR ALL OF THESE PEOPLE YOU JUST SPOKE BEFORE? I'M NOT NECESSARILY THE CREDIT.

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SO THANK YOU FOR WHAT YOU'VE DONE FOR THESE FOLKS THIS EVENING.

YOU, YOU MADE A DIFFERENCE.

I APPRECIATE IT.

UM, THIS DOES NOT, THIS CARD DOES NOT HAVE THE ITEM NUMBER ON IT.

UH, SO IT'S, IT MAY OR MAY NOT BE FOR, UM, THIS ITEM, BUT DEREK, UH, KUTCHER OR CRUTCHER, NO.

IS IT NOT FOR THIS ITEM OR YOU JUST WANNA REGISTER? SUPPORT? OKAY.

THANK YOU, SIR.

ALL RIGHT.

THAT IS ALL THE CARDS THAT I HAVE.

UM, IS THERE ANY DISCUSSION I'M AT, LET ME, LET ME MAKE A COMMENT AS WELL TO EVERYONE THAT SPOKE TODAY.

YOU KNOW, FOR US UP HERE, RIGHT? WHEN AN ITEM COMES UP, UM, WE'LL, WE REVIEW THE ITEM, DRIVEN OUT, WE SEE THE PROPERTIES, WE SEE THE CONDITION, WE SEE, WE, WE LOOK AT IT AND, AND HAVE A PERSPECTIVE THAT MOST PEOPLE DON'T, RIGHT? IN THE, IN THE CITY.

SO PEOPLE WATCHING AND PAYING ATTENTION TO CITY COUNCIL MEETINGS, UM, THEY, THEY, YOU KNOW, SEE US SITTING UP HERE.

THEY, THEY DON'T KNOW THE, THE PERSPECTIVE WE HAVE.

THEY'RE NOT, THEY'RE NOT AWARE OF THE, OF MAYBE THE DUE DILIGENCE OR, OR WHAT WE KNOW AND, AND WHAT WE COME TO THE TABLE IN OUR VOTE, UH, WITH.

SO WHEN, WHEN A GROUP, UH, GETS UP LIKE YOU ALL HAVE TODAY AND SPEAK AND GIVE THAT PERSPECTIVE, UM, IT'S REALLY, UH, IT'S ADVANTAGEOUS.

IT'S CERTAINLY ADVANTAGEOUS FOR ALL OF US UP HERE.

BUT IT, IT'S ALSO ADVANTAGEOUS FOR THE COMMUNITY TO HEAR AND, AND, UH, AND HEAR THAT PERSPECTIVE AND, AND MAYBE HAVE A LITTLE BIT BETTER, BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF, UM, WHAT WE DO AS A COUNCIL, UM, IN OUR VOTE AND WHATNOT.

CAUSE I HAVE A STRONG SUSPICION HOW THIS VOTE IS GONNA GO.

AND, AND YOU, UH, YOU PROVIDE A PERSPECTIVE THAT'S REALLY, REALLY IMPORTANT.

AGAIN, NOT JUST FOR THE PEOPLE IN THIS ROOM, BUT FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE COMMUNITY THAT, UH, THEY'RE JUST SEEING WORDS ON, YOU KNOW, A PIECE OF PAPER AND, AND HEARING OUR, OUR VOTE IN A PRESENTATION VERY SHORT.

THEY DON'T, UNDERSTANDABLY, THEY'RE NOT IN THE SHOES, RIGHT? OF THE PEOPLE THAT, UM, THESE THINGS ARE IMPACTING.

SO THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE.

THANK YOU FOR, UM, SHARING ALL THAT YOU HAVE SHARED, CUZ AGAIN, IT'S, UH, IT'S AN IMPORTANT THING TO DO.

SO WITH THAT, UM, MR. MAYOR, MR. MAYOR, CAN I SAY SOMETHING? YES, YES, PLEASE.

IT, IT WAS MENTIONED A COUPLE TIMES, BUT I THINK I SHOULD TELL A LITTLE BIT OF THE STORY OF IT.

IN 2012, THERE WERE TWO THINGS THAT HAPPENED TO THE MCKINNEY HOUSING AUTHORITY THAT CHANGED ITS TRAJECTORY.

IT WAS A, A CRITICIZED, UM, AUTHORITY AT THAT TIME.

BUT, UM, ONE RANDOM EVENING, A GENTLEMAN WALKED IN AND SAID, HUD HAS A NEW PROGRAM CALLED RENTAL ASSISTANCE DEMONSTRATION, AND THIS HOUSING AUTHORITY IS PERFECT FOR IT.

AND ABOUT TWO MONTHS LATER, MCKINNEY HOUSING AUTHORITY HIRED ROSALYN MILLER AS THE FULL-TIME EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR.

AND THOSE TWO THINGS HAVE, HAVE, HAVE CHANGED THE TRAJECTORY OF, OF NEWSOM HOMES, MERIT HOMES, AND NOW TO BE, UM, LOYAL AND SOME CORO HOMES.

AND, AND MS. MILLER, WHAT YOU'VE DONE FOR THIS COMMUNITY AND THIS HOUSING AUTHORITY AND THIS, THE, THE RESIDENTS AND, AND THE PEOPLE I IT IS, CAN, CAN, UM, NOT BE OVERSTATED.

YOU, YOU HAVE WORKED TIRELESSLY TO BRING THIS ABOUT THROUGH MULTIPLE DEVELOPERS, THROUGH MULTIPLE BOARD MEMBERS, THROUGH, UM, MULTIPLE RENDITIONS OF THIS.

AND, AND YOUR EFFORTS ARE GOING TO RESULT IN, UM, 200 MODERNIZED STATE-OF-THE-ART RENOVATED PUBLIC HOUSING TYPE UNITS, VOUCHER UNITS, AND 220 ADDITIONAL LOW INCOME HOUSING, UM, TAX CREDIT UNITS IN, IN EAST MCKINNEY.

AND THE MEANING THAT THAT HAS FOR THIS COMMUNITY AND IS JUST IT, IT IS FANTASTIC.

SO I JUST WANT TO THANK YOU FOR, FOR YOUR WORK IN THIS.

IT IS A 10 YEAR JOURNEY, AND I KNOW YOU STILL HAVE A LOT OF HURDLES TO GET OVER, AND I KNOW YOU WILL GET OVER THEM IN, IN THE WAY YOU ALWAYS DO.

BUT THANK YOU FOR THE WORK YOU'VE DONE.

MR. MAYOR, I MAKE A MOTION.

WE CLOSE THE PUBLIC HEARING AND WE APPROVE THIS ITEM.

SECOND, I THINK GUSMAN OR MAYOR PROAM HAD A COMMENT TO ME FIRST BEFORE I CALLED VOTE.

I JUST GONNA SAY, UH, MR. SANCHEZ, UH, THE MAYOR AND I HAVE WATCHED YOU WORK YOUR TRIFECTA, AND I KNOW YOU'RE NOT THROUGH YET, AND CONGRATULATIONS MAYBE A LITTLE EARLY.

BUT, UH, WE WATCHED YOU REBUILD THESE PROJECTS HERE IN MCKINNEY, AND THIS GOES ALONG WITH THE MCKINNEY HOUSING AUTHORITY THAT YOU FOLKS HAVE NOT JUST PROVIDED HOMES, BUT YOU'VE GIVEN PEOPLE A LOT OF DIGNITY.

AND I, I WANT YOU ALL TO KNOW THAT, AND I APPRECIATE YOU ALL SO VERY MUCH.

BEFORE I CALL FOR THE VOTE, JUSTIN, YOU'VE BEEN, UM, YOU'VE BEEN A REAL PART OF, OF ALL OF THAT AS WELL.

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AND, UM, MM-HMM.

, YOU, YOU SERVE FOR MANY, MANY YEARS AND, UH, AND HAVE BEEN A TREMENDOUS FORCE.

SO YOU NEED TO BE RECOGNIZED AS WELL, CORRECT.

WHAT YOU SAID IS, THAT'S OF COURSE, EXTREMELY TRUE ABOUT ROSALYN, BUT YOU HAVE ALSO BEEN A, UH, A REAL ASSET TO THE COMMUNITY, UH, ON THAT BOARD, SPECIFICALLY, UH, BEING A LEADER.

SO, THANK YOU.

ALL IN FAVOR SAY AYE.

OPPOSED? THE MOTION PASSES UNANIMOUSLY.

SETTLE DOWN.

HAS BEEN REQUESTED, UH, AS THERE'S REQUEST TO BE TABLED AS, UH, ITEM 23 0 0 ONES U FOUR, CONDUCT A PUBLIC HEARING TO CONSIDER AN ACT ON A SPECIFIC USE PERMIT REQUEST TO ALLOW FOR A UTILITY SUBSTATION.

THE NEXT ITEM

[Conduct a Public Hearing to Consider/Discuss/Act on a Specific Use Permit Request to Allow for a Utility Substation (Oncor Bloomdale Switch Station), Located Approximately 1,300 Feet East of U.S. 75 and North of Shawnee Drive, and Accompanying Ordinance (REQUEST TO BE TABLED)]

THE ENCORE BLOOMINGDALE SWITCH STATION LOCATED APPROXIMATELY 1300 FEET EAST OF US, 75 AT NORTH OF SHAWNEE DRIVE AND ACCOMPANYING ORDINANCE.

UM, JENNIFER, I KNOW THEY'VE REQUESTED TO BE TABLED.

YES, SIR.

THEY HAVE REQUESTED TO TABLE THE ITEM TO THE JULY 18TH CITY COUNCIL MEETING.

SO THIS ITEM HAS BEEN TABLED TO THAT MEETING.

I DO THOUGH HAVE A NUMBER OF PEOPLE THAT HAVE, UM, WELL, SOME ARE NOT MARKED WHETHER THEY WISH TO SPEAK OR JUST HAVE THEIR COMMENTS READ.

UH, IT IS, EVEN THOUGH IT'S BEEN REQUESTED TO BE TABLED, IT'S A PUBLIC HEARING.

IF YOU'VE MADE THE TRIP DOWN HERE, CERTAINLY WANT TO GIVE YOU THE OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK IF YOU WANT TO, OR OF COURSE, YOU COULD WAIT UNTIL THE, UH, ITEM IS HEARD.

UM, SO I'M GONNA CALL NAMES AND JUST LET ME KNOW IF YOU, IF YOU'D LIKE TO, UH, SPEAK, REGISTER AN OPPOSITION OR SUPPORT, UH, OR WAIT UNTIL THE MEETING WHEN THE ITEM IS HEARD.

SAM ST.

STRIKER.

HELLO, MAYOR AND, UH, MCKINNEY CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS.

UM, MY NAME IS SAM STRYKER AND I'M AT 10 20 EVERS DRIVE IN THE BEAUTIFUL CITY OF MCKINNEY.

UM, FIRST AND FOREMOST, I'M ASKING, UH, THAT, UH, THE REQUEST TO TABLE, UH, ITEM 20 3001 U FOUR BE DENIED.

UM, I KNOW THAT IT IS CUSTOMARY THAT, UM, USUALLY, UM, AN ITEM CAN BE TABLED ONE TIME IN GOOD FAITH, UH, BECAUSE, UM, THERE MAY BE ADDITIONAL INFORMATION.

HOWEVER, WE BELIEVE THAT, UM, UH, THEY HAVE ALREADY HAD THEIR OPPORTUNITY TO HAVE THIS TABLED.

AND, UM, WE DON'T BELIEVE THERE'S ANY, THERE'S VERY MUCH GOOD FAITH LEFT IN, UM, THIS SO FAR, UH, THAT COMES FROM THE, UM, THAT COMES FROM THE FACT THAT THEY ARE NO LONGER COMMUNICATING WITH THE CITY ATTORNEY.

THEY'RE NO LONGER COMMUNICATING WITH THE, UM, THE COMMUNITY AND WITH ACORN RIDGE PECAN RIDGE, SORRY.

UM, AND, UH, THE LAST MOVE IN GOOD FAITH WAS A MEETING THEY HELD FOR THE COMMUNITY MEMBERS IN PECAN RIDGE, UM, ON MAY 8TH, I BELIEVE.

AND THAT WAS BASICALLY POSED AS A COME AND WE'LL TRY TO FIND A MIDDLE GROUND.

AND WHEN WE SHOWED UP, THEY SAID, THIS IS A DONE DEAL, UH, AND MAYBE WE CAN MOVE THE ROAD FOR YOU.

UM, SO SECONDLY, AND MOST PRIMARILY, I WOULD REALLY LIKE US TO FOCUS ON DENYING, UH, THEIR SPECIAL USE PERMIT.

UM, WE, I GAVE OUT A PAMPHLET, I DON'T KNOW IF THAT WAS HANDED OUT.

UM, UH, AND IF YOU LOOK AT PAGE ONE, YOU'LL SEE THE CURRENTLY, UH, ZONED AR THE CURRENTLY PROPOSED AREA.

UM, AND IF YOU GO TO PAGE TWO, YOU'LL SEE, UM, AN ALTERNATE, ALTERNATE OPTION.

A, UM, THIS HAS BEEN APPROVED BY CIVIL AND, UH, ELECTRIC ENGINEER.

UM, ENCORE WILL SAY THAT THE FLOODPLAIN IS AN ISSUE.

WE KNOW THAT'S CLEARLY NOT AN ISSUE.

IT HASN'T BEEN FOR A LONG TIME FOR PEOPLE WHO HAVE BEEN BUILDING ON FLOODPLAINS FOR YEARS.

UM, ENCORE, UH, WILL ALSO SAY THERE'S A, THERE WAS A TIME TO RESPOND AND THAT NOW IT'S TOO LATE.

UM, I'LL RESPOND TO SAY THAT, UM, THE SCHOOL AND THE COMMUNITY WAS IMPROPERLY NOTIFIED AND, UM, IF THIS IS FINAL, I BELIEVE THIS IS, UM, SOMEWHAT OF AN OVERSTEP BY THE STATE.

UM, WE WERE ONLY TOLD THAT WE WERE NO LONGER AFFECTED BY THE POWER LINE PLACEMENT WHEN THEY WERE LOOKING AT TAP OPTIONS.

WE WERE NO, WE WERE NOT TOLD THAT THERE WAS GONNA BE A SUBSTATION PUT IN, UM, 400 FEET FROM A SCHOOL, UM, ENCORE AND THE PUC CHOSE THE EASIEST PLACE WITH LITTLE CONSIDERATION TO THE COMMUNITY AND DENYING THEM THE SPECIAL USE PERMIT WILL FORCE ENCORE TO MOVE THE SUBSTATION FURTHER NORTHWEST TO A GOOD LOCATION.

UH, A REROUTING OPTION WOULD SIMPLY KICK THE CAN DOWN THE ROAD, AND WE DON'T WANT THAT.

UM, AND AT THE END OF THE DAY, WE REALLY JUST WANT THE SUBSTATION MOVED AWAY FROM THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL AS WE THINK IT, IT POSES MANY SAFETY HAZARDS AND IS NOT A GOOD LOOK FOR MCKINNEY.

IT'S NOT A GOOD LOOK FOR THE COMMUNITY.

SO THANK YOU.

I'M HAVING A HARD TIME READING.

UH, I'M SORRY,

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UH, THE NAME, THE LAST NAME IS READY.

HI EVERYBODY.

GOOD EVENING.

I'M SATYA AND I STAY AT 61 12 OSAGE DRIVE MCKINNEY.

UH, WELL I CONCURRENT WITH MY PREVIOUS SPEAKER AND EVERYBODY ELSE, AND THIS IS NOT THE FIRST TIME SPEAKING, UM, LET ME AGAIN, COLLATE THE POSITION WE ARE IN.

HOW MANY PLACES IN TEXAS? WE HAVE A PASS STATION THAT IS COMING JUST BESIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL WHERE KIDS PLAY AROUND FOR EIGHT HOURS AROUND THE DAY AND WHOLE COMMUNITY.

THE SCHOOL IS ALMOST IN THE VISITING OF THE PASS SUBSTATION, WHICH WAS NOT COMMUNICATED EARLIER.

ALL WE HAD WAS A SMALL SIGN BOARD, WHICH WAS IN EFFECT US.

IT WAS VERY LATE FOR US.

IT WAS COMMUNICATED, AND THAT IS ONE ISSUE WHERE WE HAVE TWO PEOPLE HAVE TO SIGN AUTHORITY THANKS TO AUTHORITIES OF ARREST OF THE PEOPLE THAT WE SIGNED THE DECLARATION.

EVERYBODY HAS SIGNED IT AND SAY THAT WE DON'T WANT THE POWER SUBSTATION THERE AND LEAVE ABOUT THE MULTIPLEX ISSUES OUT.

UH, THE RESIDENTIAL COMMUNITY, WHICH WAS, IT WAS PROBABLY DENIED DUE TO THE SOIL STUDIES OUT, BUT OUR CONCERN IS WHY WE NEED TO HAVE A POWER STATION INSIDE THE VERY COMMUNITY.

THERE ARE ENOUGH LOCATIONS OUTSIDE TEXAS, IT'S A LARGE STATE.

WE CAN HAVE IT AT A, IN THE, ANY OF THE INDUSTRIAL AREAS.

WHY IN IT WAS EVEN CONSIDERED AS A PROPOSAL AN ISSUE.

WE, WE DON'T HAVE ANY SPECIFIC REASONS FOR IT.

PEOPLE SAID IT'S REGULATORY AND ALL THAT, BUT I SAY I'VE, LAST TIME I SUBMITTED A REPORT WHERE A SIMILAR INCIDENT IN FREE SCOPE AROUND IN 2016, I SUPPOSE THE SAID PROBABLY I JUST SUBMITTED THE ARTICLE ALSO THAT THEY DISAPPROVED THE SAME CASE.

AND THAT WAS IN 2016 AROUND AUGUST.

THIS WAS IN FRISCO VISA.

THAT WAS, IT DENIED A SPECIFIC USE PERMIT FOR THE PROPOSED ONCO LOCATION.

AND THIS WAS AROUND IN THE LEGACY DRIVE.

I HAVE ALREADY SUBMITTED DOCUMENT LAST TIME TO A COUPLE OF PEOPLE THERE.

WE CAN NOTE A REFERENCE OF IT.

AND THIS, I'M COMING TO THE VIEW THAT IN SHE ANCO SAID THAT IT IS IRREVOCABLE, THIS WAS DENIED, AND WE HAVE A PROOF OF THAT WHICH BEEN SUBMITTED ALREADY.

AND THAT ON THE GROUND, IT'S SCIENTIFICALLY PROVED THAT IN THE VISITING OF THAT AREA, IT'S NOT AROUND THE RESTRICTION OF THE 300 METERS.

AS LOT OF STATES HAS DENIED THE PERMISSION FOR SET UP THE LAST POWER PLANTS LIKE THAT, IT HAS AN IMPACT ON THE KIDS, ON THE HEALTH, ON THE HARMLESS CHANGES ALSO, IT, IT HAS BEEN PROVED, ESPECIALLY THE EMF, THE RADIATION AND ALL THAT, IT'S, IT'S NOT VERY CONDUCIVE AND LEAVE ABOUT THE DEPRECIATION OF THE REAL ESTATE PROPERTIES AROUND THIS AREA.

ONCE THE RIGHT COME UP, PEOPLE, KIDS ARE ON THE SAME AREAS, WILL NOT BE ABLE TO COME UP BECAUSE ONCE YOU SEE THAT STRUCTURE IN PLACE, PEOPLE WON'T EVEN LIKE IT.

AND THE, THIS IS ONE OF THE OTHER REASONS ALSO THE PART, IT, IT IS A COMBINATION OF HEALTH FACTOR, AESTHETICS, REDUCTION IN THE REAL ESTATE AND WE DON'T WANT TO LOSE THE GREEN BELT.

THAT'S CRITICAL.

PEOPLE MODE IT.

SO THIS IS WHAT WE RAISED ALL THE CONCERNS IN ALL THE PREVIOUS SESSIONS AND I HOPE BOARD MEMBERS AND EVERYBODY WILL CONSIDER OUR DECISION.

UM, JOHN WILSON, OPPOSITION, UH, THOMAS PATTERSON.

THANK YOU SIR.

PAT RILEY, UH, DAVID, AARON, PAT, UH, PAT RILEY DID REGISTER OPPOSITION, UH, OF THIS ITEM.

UM, DAVID AARON, UH, IS REGISTERING OPPOSITION TO THIS SWITCH STATION.

UM, MARY EVAN, YES.

OPPOSITION, OPPOSITION.

I HAVE AN OPPOSITION AND IF I READ YOUR NAME AND YOU WANT TO SPEAK, PLEASE LET ME KNOW.

OTHERWISE, I'LL, I'LL GO THROUGH THESE CARDS AS I AM.

UM, LORI ENGLISH IS REGISTERED OPPOSITION.

OPPOSITION? UM, GARY LANG? I'D SAY SO, YES SIR.

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SO MY NAME IS, UH, MY NAME'S GARY LANG.

I LIVE IN 7 0 8 O SAINT DRIVE.

UM, I, MY HOME BACKS UP TO THE GREEN BELT THERE.

WHEN THIS FIRST STARTED, FOR MOST OF US, ALL WE KNEW WAS ABOUT THE ROAD.

I HAD NO IDEA ABOUT THE SUBSTATION.

I HAD NO IDEA ABOUT THE PREVIOUS RUN OF, UH, POWER LINES OFF OF BLOOMVILLE BECAUSE OF THE NOTIFICATIONS.

ONLY 600 FEET, WELL, 600 FEET FROM WHERE THIS PROPOSED, UH, POWER STATION IS GONNA BE, INCLUDES ABOUT THREE HOMES OF OUR NEIGHBORHOOD, BUT YET IT AFFECTS THE WHOLE NEIGHBORHOOD.

THAT'S WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR IS JUST A LITTLE COMMON SENSE BECAUSE WE FEEL THAT BIG ELECTRIC HAS HOODWINKED US, YOU KNOW, IN DOING THE VERY MINIMUM TO TRY AND NOTIFY EVERYBODY THAT WOULD BE AFFECTED.

YES, WE WANT 'EM TO HAVE THEIR FIRE STATION.

WE JUST WANT IT, WANT 'EM TO, TO, WELL THERE'S SEVERAL OPTIONS.

MY NEIGHBORS HAVE TOLD YOU THIS.

THERE'S SEVERAL OPTIONS.

WE WANT 'EM TO GO ON TO OPTION B, OPTION C, EVEN OPTION D IF THAT'S WHAT IT TAKES.

BUT THERE'S PLENTY OF OPPORTUNITY, THERE'S PLENTY OF LAND AVAILABLE IN THAT GENERAL NEIGHBORHOOD THAT IS YET TO BE DEVELOPED THAT THEY COULD PUT THIS FIRE STATION.

THEN IF SOMEBODY WANTED TO COME IN AND BUILD AROUND THAT FIRE STATION, THEN THEY HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO DO SO.

IT'S BACKWARDS FOR US.

WE ALREADY HAD THAT.

AND I DRIVE BY THE SCHOOL EVEN ON THE WEEKENDS AND I SEE KIDS OUT THERE IN THE PLAYGROUND OF THAT SCHOOL.

NOW, I DON'T KNOW ABOUT YOU GENTLEMEN, BUT I THINK IT'S SAFE TO SAY AS KIDS, WE ALL PROBABLY VENTURED INTO PLACES WE SHOULDN'T HAVE BEEN DONE.

SOMETHING WE SHOULDN'T HAVE DONE.

THAT'S ONE OF THE THINGS, YOU KNOW, THE CURIOSITY IS GONNA GET TO ONE OF THESE KIDS.

IT MIGHT BE 20 YEARS DOWN THE ROAD AND IT MIGHT BE, YOU KNOW, SOMETHING THAT GIVES THEM A LITTLE CUT OR SOMETHING TRYING TO, TRYING TO CLIMB A FENCE.

BUT THAT DANGER IS THERE AND IT CAN BE REMOVED SIMPLY BY MOVING IT AWAY FROM THE NEIGHBORHOOD.

AND THAT'S ALL WE'RE LOOKING FOR.

LIKE I SAID, WE, WE FEEL, YOU KNOW, AND, AND, AND TO BE PC THESE GUYS HAVE MISLED US.

THEY SAID, OH, THIS IS A DONE DEAL.

WELL, IF IT WAS A DONE DEAL, WE WOULDN'T BE HERE SPEAKING TO YOU GUYS ABOUT IT.

I GUESS THEY FORGOT ABOUT THE FEDERALISM DEAL, RIGHT? AUSTIN RUNS YOU GUYS.

I DON'T THINK SO.

SO ALL WE'RE LOOKING FOR IS YOUR, IS YOUR CONSIDERATION, YOUR COMMON SENSE AND BASICALLY PUTTING YOURSELF IN OUR SHOES.

WOULD YOU WANT THIS RIGHT BESIDE YOUR HOUSE AND YOUR KIDS AND GRANDKIDS, AND EVEN JUST YOUR NEIGHBOR'S KIDS? SO THAT'S WHAT WE'RE AFTER IS YOUR COMMON SENSE AND YOUR, AND YOUR, UH, CONSIDERATION.

BETTER, BETTER PLACES, MANY BETTER PLACES TO PUT THIS.

THANK YOU SIR.

BILLY CLINTON.

UH, MY NAME IS BILLY CLINTON.

I LIVE ON 1112 EVERS DRIVE AND HAVE LIVED IN MCKINNEY FOR SINCE 2004.

AND THEY'VE SAID A LOT.

I DON'T HAVE A LOT OF DIFFERENT THINGS TO SAY, BUT I WOULD JUST, I'M IN OPPOSITION TO IT.

UH, MY HOME BACKS UP THERE TO THE GREEN BELT.

IT'S A WONDERFUL PLACE.

UH, WHEN YOU COME ACROSS THE HILL AND YOU LOOK DOWN AT THE SCHOOL AND YOU SEE, UM, THE HOMES AND YOU SEE THE COMMUNITY, YOU SEE THE PARK, YOU SEE THE SCHOOL.

UM, IT'S ENOUGH TO MAKE THE ONE OF US EASTSIDERS PROUD.

I MEAN, CUZ YOU KNOW, THERE'S SOME THINGS WE DON'T GET, BUT WE HAVE THAT FOR US.

AND, UM, I HAVE A THIRD GRADER WHO GOES TO SCHOOL.

ALL MY KIDS HAVE GONE TO PRESS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL AND THEY'VE EXPRESSED THE, UH, THE SAFETY CONCERN THERE.

BUT I JUST, I DON'T, I JUST DON'T THINK IT'S COMMON.

I'VE LIVED IN MCKINNEY SINCE 2004.

I I DON'T THINK IT'S COMMON TO HAVE A SUBSTATION LIKE THIS NEXT TO A PARK.

I DON'T THINK IT'S COMMON TO HAVE A SUBSTATION LIKE THIS NEXT TO A SCHOOL.

NOW, I, I HAVEN'T DONE A LOT OF RESEARCH TO KNOW IF THAT'S THE CASE, BUT JUST DRIVING AROUND MCKINNEY, I DON'T SEE IT.

AND THIS WOULD BE A SUBSTATION NOT ONLY RIGHT NEXT TO A PARK, BUT A SCHOOL PARK COMMUNITY.

BOOM.

IT'S GONNA MESS UP EVERYTHING THERE.

JUST THE BEAUTY OF IT, THE SAFETY OF IT, AND THEN THIS ROAD COMING THROUGH.

I CAN TELL YOU THAT WHEN YOU HAVE A GREEN BELT RIGHT BEHIND A PARK, YOU HAVE A HALF MILE LOOP.

I UNDERSTAND THAT THE PARK ENDS AND THAT GREEN BELT IS NOT NECESSARILY PART OF THE PARK, BUT THINK ABOUT THE FAMILIES THAT CONSIDER IT.

THEY WALK TO THE CREEK, THEY FLY KITTS THERE.

I'VE DONE ALL OF THAT WITH MY KIDS.

AND NOW THERE'S GONNA BE A ROAD THERE IF THIS GOES THROUGH, AND THEN THERE'S GONNA BE A SUBSTATION, SO A ROAD THAT MAYBE NOT WELL TRAVELED, BUT IT'S NOT GONNA BE VERY FAR AWAY FROM THE HALF MILE LOOP.

AND SO IT'S JUST, IT DOESN'T MAKE A LOT OF SENSE.

THERE'S DEFINITELY A

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AND TOTALLY AGREE WITH THE LACK OF COMMUNICATION.

I HAD TO HEAR IT, UH, FROM OTHER, UH, NEIGHBORHOOD MEMBERS, UH, UH, NEIGHBORS AND OR I WOULDN'T HAVE KNOWN ABOUT THIS.

AND THEN THEY TOLD US BACK HERE WHEN WE CAME A FEW, UH, I GUESS ON IN MAY, EARLY MAY, LATE APRIL, WHENEVER IT WAS, THAT THIS WAS ALREADY A DONE DEAL AND WE REALLY, THEY SAID IT IN A NICE WAY, BUT THIS WAS A DONE DEAL AND WE FOUND OUT OTHERWISE.

SO WE'VE BEEN MISLED TO SAY THE LEAST.

AND, UM, JUST WANT TO, I DON'T KNOW IF I'LL BE ABLE TO MAKE IT JULY 18TH OR NOT, BUT I WANT TO EXPRESS MY OPPOSITION VERBALLY.

SO THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME.

THANK YOU, SIR.

UH, JEAN AKA MAYBE.

GOOD EVENING MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS.

MY NAME'S JEAN STROKE AND I LIVE AT EIGHT 12 SAGE DRIVE.

UM, IT WAS IN MY UNDERSTANDING IN SPEAKING WITH ONE OF THE MEMBERS OF THE PLANNING AND ZONING COMMITTEE THIS WEEK THAT ENCORE WANTED TO HAVE THIS ITEM TABLED YET ONCE AGAIN, AND THAT NO ACTION SHOULD BE TAKEN UNTIL JULY 18TH AT THE NEXT CITY COUNCIL MEETING.

THIS ITEM WAS UNANIMOUSLY VOTED DOWN SEVEN TO ZERO AT THE MAY 23RD PLANNING MEETING.

AFTER EXTENSIVE DISCUSSIONS BY BOTH ENCORE PLANNING AND ZONING AND THE RESIDENCE OF PECAN RIDGE, THE RESIDENTS EVEN OFFERED AN ALTERNATIVE LOCATION AS A SOLUTION.

THIS PROPOSAL WAS REVIEWED BY P AND Z AND ENCORE P AND Z AT THAT TIME ADDRESSED QUESTIONS TO ENCORE AFTER REVIEWING THIS PROPOSAL THAT WAS DONE BY SAM STRYKER AND WERE TOLD THAT ENCORE SAID IT COULD NOT BE DONE.

UM, LAST WEEK I EMAILED THE MAYOR AND EACH ONE OF THE COUNCIL MEMBERS ASSIGNED PETITION FROM PECAN RIDGE SAYING THAT THEY UNANIMOUSLY DID NOT WANT THIS SUBSTATION BUILT IN THAT LOCATION.

AND THEN IT WAS ALSO PROVIDED TO P AND Z COMMITTEE AT OUR LAST MEETING, ALONG WITH SAM STRYKER'S PROPOSAL TO INCREASE THE DISTANCE FROM THE SCHOOL AND THE PARK.

I AM ASKING THAT WE DO NOT EXTEND THIS VOTE TO JULY.

AND THE REASON BEING THAT IS UNFAIR TO THE RESIDENTS.

MANY OF THE RESIDENTS WHO HAVE CHILDREN IN, UH, THE SCHOOL ARE CONSIDERING MOVING THEIR CHILDREN OUT OF THAT SCHOOL, WHETHER IT BE TO ANOTHER SCHOOL OR TO A PRIVATE SCHOOL.

AND THIS IS NOT GONNA GIVE THE PARENTS SUFFICIENT TIME TO MAKE THIS DECISION.

IF WE POSTPONE THIS TILL JULY AND IT'S DOING THEM AN INJUSTICE, UM, WE DON'T WANT THE SUBSTATION SO CLOSE TO THE SCHOOL, TO THE PARK, OR TO OUR COMMUNITY.

THIS IS WHY P AND Z VOTED THIS DOWN UNANIMOUSLY SEVEN TO ZERO.

I AM A REALTOR.

UH, SO I AM GONNA MENTION THIS.

IN MOST COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE TRANSACTIONS, THE BUYER WOULD HAVE A CONTIN CONTINGENCY CLAUSE IN THEIR CONTRACT THAT WOULD STATE IF THIS PROPERTY COULD NOT BE REZONED.

THEY DID NOT HAVE TO PROCEED WITH THE CONTRACT.

HOWEVER, IN DOING SOME RESEARCH, I NOTICED THAT ENCORE PURCHASED THIS BACK IN NOVEMBER OF 2020, AND IT WAS, THEY SOLD IT.

THEY, THEY BOUGHT IT OUTRIGHT.

THEY OWN THE LAND.

SO TO ME, THAT MEANS ON COURT THOUGHT THAT THIS WAS A DONE DEAL.

NOBODY WAS GONNA FIGHT BACK ABOUT THIS.

NOBODY WAS GONNA RAISE ANY CONCERNS.

WELL, THEY SHOULD THINK AGAIN BECAUSE WE ARE RAISING CONCERNS.

LET ACORE DO THEIR DUE DILIGENCE AND PUT THIS IN A LOCATION THAT IS MORE CONDUCIVE TO EVERYONE.

PUT IT IN AN AREA WHERE IT WILL NOT BE AN EYESORE.

CAUSE POSSIBLE HEALTH CONCERNS AND ALLOW FOR A MORE DIRECT PATH TO PROVIDE THE ENERGY THAT WE ALL UNDERSTAND WE CURRENTLY NEED.

DUE TO THE EXTENSIVE GROWTH IN THIS AREA, LET'S NOW PUT THE CART BEFORE THE HORSE, SHALL WE? LET'S PLAN ACCORDINGLY.

THE FUTURE OF MCKINNEY AND WORK TOGETHER TO ACCOMPLISH THIS.

THIS COMMUNITY WANTS TO PUT THIS TO A VOTE TONIGHT AND HAVE ENCORE STOPPED DRAGGING THIS ON AND STALLING TACTICS.

REMEMBER MCKINNEY'S MOTTO MCKINNEY, UNIQUE BY NATURE.

LET'S TRY AND KEEP THIS WAY.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR TIME.

WELL, I, I'VE GOT A QUESTION.

I DO NOT HAVE ANY OTHER CARTS.

UM, IF SOMEBODY FEEL YES SIR, I'M A DO YOU WANT ME, UH, YEAH, JUST LET ME, UM, IS THERE ANYONE ELSE LIKE TO SPEAK TO THIS ITEM? OKAY.

APPLICANT, PLEASE COME UP.

YEAH, THANK YOU MAYOR AND COUNCIL.

MY NAME'S, UH, SETH SAMPSON.

I'M A SIGHTING SPECIALIST FOR ENCORE, UM, HERE TO REPRESENT ENCORE TONIGHT.

AND YEAH, WE'RE SIMPLY ASKING FOR THIS TO BE TABLED TO THAT JULY 18TH MEETING.

UM, AS WE, WE'VE HEARD FEEDBACK FROM THE COMMUNITY, WE'VE HEARD IT FROM THE CITY, AND WE'RE WEIGHING OUR OPTIONS.

WE'RE CON CONSIDERING, UM, WHAT THOSE OPTIONS LOOK LIKE.

WE, WE SIMPLY JUST NEED MORE TIME.

UM, THEY'VE, YOU KNOW, THEY'VE ASKED US TO DO OUR DUE DILIGENCE.

THAT DOES TAKE TIME.

SO THAT'S, THAT'S WHAT WE'RE ASKING FOR ON THE TABLING, UM, OF THE ITEM TONIGHT TO, UH, TO GIVE US MORE TIME TO LOOK INTO OUR OPTIONS.

AND I'M HERE TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS THAT YOU, YOU GUYS MAY HAVE FOR US.

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WHAT WOULD YOUR UNIVERSE OF OPTIONS B OTHER THAN WE PROPOSE TO LEAVE IT HERE? WE PROPOSE TO MOVE IT BECAUSE IF WE VOTE DOWN TO PUT IT HERE, THEN THE OPTIONS ARE STILL AVAILABLE.

RIGHT? WELL, ALL THE OTHER ONES ARE EXCEPT THAT ONE, WHICH WOULD HELP GIVE 'EM MORE FOCUS.

UM, SO SURE.

I I I CAN'T IMAGINE A WORLD THAT EXISTS WHERE NEXT MONTH YOU COULD SAY SOMETHING THAT WOULD MAKE ME VOTE YES ON THIS.

SO I'M SAYING WHY BOTHER TABLING IT? YEAH.

SO THE OPTIONS ARE LOOKING AT THE VIABILITY ON OTHER LOCATIONS ON OUR SITE.

WE DO OWN THE ENTIRE PROPERTY.

IT'S A LARGE PROPERTY WE'RE LOOKING AT SEEING ON WHERE WE CAN ADJUST THOSE, UM, AND THINGS THAT WE CAN SHIFT AROUND THE ENGINEERING TAKES A SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF TIME.

IT'S, BUT THAT, THAT WOULD REQUIRE ANOTHER SUBMISSION MARK, WOULD THAT NOT, I MEAN, IN OTHER WORDS, THEIR SUBMISSION OR THEIR REQUEST TODAY IS TO PLACE A STATION HERE, OR IS IT WE HAVE BEEN IN CONVERSATION, WHICH I'M DEBRIEFING YOU GUYS LATER TONIGHT.

AND IT MAY OR MAY NOT REQUIRE, WELL MARK, IF I VOTE THIS DOWN, THEN DOES THAT HURT THEM MOVING IT SOMEWHERE? I, I'M TRYING TO FIGURE OUT THE DOWNSIDE OF YEAH, I, I WOULD RECOMMEND THAT WE DISCUSS AND CLOSE SESSION.

WOULD YOU RECOMMEND THAT WE TABLE IT? YES.

THE CURRENT LOCATION, RIGHT? PAGE TWO IS THE, THE ONE THAT'S BEEN PROPOSED.

WELL, I, I'M JUST GONNA MAKE A REMARK THEN.

YOU KNOW, FOLKS, I'M NOT IN YOUR DISTRICT, BUT I HEAR YOU.

THERE'S NO CHANCE I'M GONNA VOTE FOR THIS THING TO BE WHERE IT IS, BUT MY, MY ELECTING TO TABLE IT SHOULD BE REFLECTED AS I'M CONSIDERING THAT IT'S JUST TO LISTEN TO OUR ATTORNEY TO SEE WHAT THE MOVING PARTS ARE.

BUT YOU MAKE VERY COACHING, YOU MAKE VERY COGENT POINTS HERE.

SEEMS LIKE YESTERDAY MY GIRLS WERE ALL IN VALLEY CREEK ELEMENTARY.

MAN, I'D HAVE BEEN LIVID, YOU KNOW, AND IT WASN'T YESTERDAY, IT WAS, YOU KNOW, 25 YEARS AGO.

SO I'M WITH YOU, BUT, UH, I MAY, I NEED TO TALK TO OUR, MY ATTORNEY, I GUESS IS WHAT LOOKS LIKE, OR WE NEED TO TALK TO OUR ATTORNEY, ASK A SUBSTITUTE.

UM, I'VE BEEN SITTING HERE LOOKING AT A, A MAP OF THE AREA AND I NOTICED THAT WHERE A LOT HOW PARKWAY TURNS BACK TO THE NORTH.

YOU HAVE A SUBSTATION RIGHT THERE, AND IT'S, MY GUESS IS LESS THAN A MILE AWAY.

UH, SO WHAT IS THE ENGINEERING REASON WHY YOU WOULD NEED ANOTHER SUBSTATION SO CLOSE TO ANOTHER SUBSTATION? SURE.

SO, UM, I KNOW YOU SAID YOU'RE IN LAND ACQUISITIONS.

SORRY, CAN YOU ANSWER THAT QUESTION? YEAH.

SO THE, AS FAR AS THE EXPERTISE, AS FAR AS, UM, LOW DEMANDS AND GROWTH DEMANDS, I'M NOT THE EXPERT IN THAT FIELD.

BUT, UM, AS FAR AS THIS LOCATION, UH, THIS IS, THIS WAS, UH, REGULATED BY THE PUC IN PARTNERSHIP WITH RAYBURN, UM, ELECTRIC.

SO THAT'S, THAT'S HOW WE CAME TO THIS LOCATION.

AS FAR AS, UM, YOU KNOW, THE PROXIMITY OVER, OVER OTHER STATIONS, I'M, I'M NOT THE SUBJECT MATTER EXPERT ON THAT, BUT YEAH, I'M NOT EITHER.

, I WAS HOPING YOU COULDN'T ENLIGHTEN ME.

I THINK I CAN HELP A LITTLE BIT ON THAT QUESTION.

YOU GOT A SMART FIRST MAYOR .

UM, SO THIS, THERE ARE DISTINCTIONS BETWEEN SUBSTATIONS AND SWITCHING STATIONS.

AND SO WHILE ENCORE IS THE OWNER OF THE SITE, THIS, THIS SUBSTATION IS A SWITCH STATION THAT WOULD, UM, RUN A LINE FROM THIS LOCATION TO SERVE RAYBURN EAST.

SO IT'S ACTUALLY A, IT'S A, IT'S NOT AN AREA WHERE WE'RE REGULATING THE AMOUNT OF POWER THAT'S RUNNING ALONG THE LINE.

IT'S WHERE WE'RE ACTUALLY SHIFTING POWER AT THAT STATION SO THAT IT CAN RUN A NEW LINE FURTHER TO THE EAST OVER TOWARDS NEW HOPE.

WE'RE REROUTING.

YOU'RE, WE'RE, I DON'T KNOW IF REROUTING IS THE CORRECT TERM, BUT YES, GENERALLY SPEAKING, IT'S COMING OFF OF THIS SUB, THIS SUBSTATION TO SWITCH AND THEN WE'RE ON A NEW LINE EAST.

YEAH.

AND I JUST LIKE, UM, SHE DID A GOOD JOB OF EXPLAINING THE, THE, THE GENERAL BACKGROUND OF THE PRO PROJECT, BUT WE NEED TO CAREFULLY CONSIDER, UM, THE TERMINOLOGY WE USE AND, AND WHO'S SPEAKING FOR ENCORE AND RAYBURN RIGHT NOW.

I'M NOT GONNA HOLD YOU TO IT, MR. ENCORE, , I HAD, I HAD A QUICK QUESTION.

THIS ALTERNATIVE SITE THAT THEY PROPOSED, IS THAT ON YOUR LAND? I'M NOT FAMILIAR WITH THAT.

THAT WASN'T PRODUCED BY US, SO I, I DON'T, I WOULDN'T COMMENT ON THAT.

DO YOU, DO YOU KNOW WHICH LAND? I'M TRYING TO SEE FROM LONG WAYS AWAY, BUT I, NO, I DON'T KNOW WHERE THAT'S AT, BUT I, THIS, THIS IS WHERE YOU HAVE IT RIGHT NOW.

CAN I, MAYBE YOU CAN LOOK YOUR JONES CHIEF OR COUNCIL ONE FELTUS.

IT LOOKS LIKE YOU'RE ON THE FIRST PAGE.

IS THAT, ARE YOU ON PAGE ONE OR, I WAS ON PAGE TWO.

PAGE TWO.

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YEAH, THAT, SO AGAIN, THAT'S NOT PROPOSED BY US, BUT THAT'S GONNA BE CLOSE TO THE PROPERTY WHERE, WHERE OUR PROPERTY LINE IS WITHOUT OUR PROPERTY LINE BOUNDARY.

I CAN'T SEE THAT, BUT OKAY.

IT'S, IT'S, IT'S GONNA BE CLOSE.

I'M GONNA MAKE A SUGGESTION, UM, CUZ I'M PRETTY SURE THAT I'M GONNA BE SPEAKING FOR LEAST CONSENSUS IF NOT EVERYONE, THAT, UM, THE COMMENTS THAT COUNCILMAN YE MADE ARE PROBABLY REPRESENTATIVE IN, IN GREAT PART BY COUNCIL MEMBERS HERE.

AND CERTAINLY THERE WOULD NOT BE A SUPER MAJORITY, WHICH WOULD BE NEEDED AT THIS POINT.

SINCE PNC UM, VOTED IT DOWN, IT WOULD REQUIRE SIX OF SEVEN VOTES.

UH, HOWEVER, I THINK I ALSO SPEAK FOR EVERYONE HERE WHERE WE, UM, HAVE, UH, GREAT RESPECT FOR OUR CITY ATTORNEY AND HE HAS SUGGESTED THAT WE TABLE TO HAVE DISCUSSION.

SO I'M GONNA SUGGEST THAT'S WHAT WE DO AND, AND AGAIN, NOT HAVE IT BE INTERPRETED ANY REASON OTHER THAN WHAT YOU JUST HEARD.

BUT IS THERE A MOTION TO TABLE THIS ITEM? ENCLOSE THE PUBLIC HEARING MOTION.

WE TABLE THIS ITEM, CLOSE THE PUBLIC HEARING, WE'RE TABLING IT TO THE NEXT, UH, THE JULY 18TH MEETING MEETING.

AND I'LL SECOND.

ALL IN FAVOR SAY AYE.

AYE.

OPPOSED? WE'LL MOVE TO 23 0 5 27.

[Consider/Discuss/Act on a Resolution Identifying the City’s Intent to Annex Approximately 127 Acres of Land Identified Herein Having a Population of Less Than 200 Persons Located in the John Emberson Survey - Abstract Number 294, and the Meredith Hart Survey - Abstract Number 371, and Including Adjacent Portions of FM 543 and CR 202, and Authorizing the City Manager to Execute Development Agreements in Association with the Proposed Annexation]

CONSIDER AN ACT ON A RESOLUTION IDENTIFYING THE CITY'S INTENT TO ANNEX APPROXIMATELY 127 ACRES OF LAND IDENTIFIED HEREIN HAVING A POPULATION OF LESS THAN 200 PERSONS LOCATED IN THE JOHN EMPRESS SURVEY, ABSTRACT NUMBER 2 94, AND THE MEREDITH HART SURVEY, ABSTRACT NUMBER 30, UH, 3 71, AND INCLUDING ADJACENT PORTIONS OF APP 5 43 AND CR 2 0 2 AND AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENTS AND ASSOCIATION WITH THE PROPOSED ANNEXATION.

JENNIFER, HOW ARE YOU? THANK YOU, MR. MAYOR.

JENNIFER ARNOLD, DIRECTOR OF PLANNING.

UM, THIS ITEM, AS YOU READ, IS TO INITIATE THE CITY ANNEXATION PROCESS FOR APPROXIMATELY 127 ACRES, UM, LOCATED, UH, NEAR TRINITY FALLS ALONG, UM, FM 5 43 AND COUNTY ROAD 2 0 2, UM, BOTH NORTH AND SOUTH OF FM 5 43.

UM, IN THE NEW WORLD OF CITY ANNEXATION, IT IS REGULATED BY SUB CHAPTER C4, UM, WHICH I HAVE SOME OF THE HIGH LEVEL PROCEDURES HERE BEHIND ME ON THE SCREEN.

IN ORDER TO BEGIN THIS PROCESS, THE VERY FIRST THING THAT WE DO REQUIRE, UM, FROM STATE LAW IS A APPROVAL OF RESOLUTION FROM CITY COUNCIL, UM, AUTHORIZING, UH, US TO PROCEED WITH THIS ANNEXATION, UM, IN THE, UH, NEW WORLD OF ANNEXATION.

UM, IT IS ONLY GOING TO BE, UM, OR THE PROCESS DOES REQUIRE CONSENT FROM, UH, 50% OR MORE OF, UM, PROPERTY OR PROPERTY OWNERS REPRESENTING 50% OR MORE OF THE LAND AREA PROPOSED TO BE ANNEXED.

UM, SO WITH THIS FOLLOWING, UH, UH, UH, POTENTIAL FAVORABLE ACTION ON THAT RESOLUTION, UH, STAFF WILL MOVE FORWARD WITH PROVIDING ALL OF THE REQUIRED WRITTEN NOTICE TO PROPERTY OWNERS AND RESIDENTS WITHIN THE PROPOSED ANNEXATION AREA, IDENTIFYING, UM, THE ANNEXATION PROCESS, A WHAT'S CALLED A PETITION PERIOD WHERE THEY HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO VOTE YES OR NO, OR MARK YES OR NO ON THAT PETITION TO WHETHER OR NOT THEY ARE IN AGREEMENT WITH THE ANNEXATION.

AND ONCE WE, UM, ARE CLOSED THAT PETITION PERIOD, WE'LL BE ABLE TO REVIEW WHETHER OR NOT IT MET THAT 50% THRESHOLD TO PROCEED TO THE NEXT STEP WITH THAT ANNEXATION.

UM, SO THAT IS WHERE WE ARE HERE TONIGHT.

INCLUDED WITH THAT, AN RESOLUTION IS NOT ONLY THE AREA INTENDED TO BE ANNEXED, BUT AN OUTLINE OF THE PROPOSED SERVICE AR OR SERVICE PLAN, UM, FOR THAT ANNEXATION AREA.

UM, I DO WANNA HIGHLIGHT THAT BECAUSE THAT IS ALWAYS SOMETHING THAT, UH, COMES INTO QUESTION WITH THE CITY ANNEXATION.

UM, THAT SERVICE PLAN ESSENTIALLY OUTLINES THE, UH, LEVEL OF SERVICE THAT THE CITY WOULD PROVIDE, PROVIDE TO ANY PROPERTY WITHIN THE CITY LIMITS THAT ARE, IT'S OF A SIMILAR DEVELOPMENT TOPOGRAPHY AND POPULATION.

SO, UH, TYPICALLY IN THE CITY, UM, UH, THE, UM, EXTENSION OF WATER AND SEWER WOULD COME WITH DEVELOPMENT.

UM, AND ANYTHING THAT WAS IN THE GROUND AT THE TIME OF ANNEXATION WOULD TYPICALLY STAY THE SAME.

AND SO WE DO WANNA HIGHLIGHT THAT WITH THAT PROPOSED SERVICE PLAN.

THAT IS WHAT WOULD BE PROPOSED FOR THIS ANNEXATION AREA.

UM, AND ANYTHING THAT IS ANNEX EXTENDED, THE CITY IS OF COURSE ELIGIBLE FOR A CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS PROGRAM, UH, FUNDING AND, AND, UM, PLANNING AHEAD AS WELL AS ALL THE OTHER RELATED CITY SERVICES THAT WE WOULD TYPICALLY PROVIDE TO ANYBODY IN THE CITY LIMITS.

UM, WITH THAT, I'M HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS.

THIS IS NOT A PUBLIC HEARING ITEM, IT IS JUST A CONSENT FROM THE COUNCIL, UH, TO LET US MOVE FORWARD WITH THAT CITY ANNEXATION.

ANY QUESTIONS FOR JENNIFER? UH, JUST FROM MY KNOWLEDGE, IF A PETITION IS NOT RECEIVED, UH, IN THIS INSTANCE, A NO YES OR NO, NO VOTE.

DO DO WE CONSIDER IT A YES? WE WE WOULD CONSIDER THAT A NO.

UM, AND WE HAVE TO, WE COUNT ONLY THE FAVORABLE ONES.

SO IF, IF WE GET A NO RESPONSE, THEN THAT'S A NO.

IS THERE A MOTION? I WOULD MAKE A MOTION

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THAT WE APPROVE THE RESOLUTION OF INTENT TO ANNEX THE PROPERTIES DEPICTED IN THE AGENDA.

I WILL SECOND.

ALL IN FAVOR? AYE.

AYE.

OPPOSED? THANK YOU, JENNIFER.

THANK

[Consider/Discuss/Act on an Ordinance Increasing the Homestead Exemption for Residents Over Age 65 and the Disabled]

YOU.

ITEM 23 0 5, 28.

CONSIDER AN ACT ON ORDINANCE INCREASING THE HOMESTEAD EXEMPTION FOR RESIDENCE OVER AGE 65 IN THE DISABLED.

MR. HOLLOWAY, YOU WALKED IN THAT DOOR RIGHT AT THE RIGHT TIME.

, I WAS WATCHING RIGHT FROM OUTSIDE.

THERE'S A TIME TO LAY OUT THERE.

HOW ARE YOU DOING THAT? MAGIC? I JUST KNEW .

UH, GOOD EVENING, MAYOR.

COUNCIL MARK HOLLOWAY, CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER, UM, AT THE JUNE 6TH WORK SESSION, UH, BROUGHT TO COUNSEL, UH, A, UH, PRESENTATION ON THE OVER 65 AND DISABLED TAX EXEMPTION.

ALSO TALKED A LITTLE BIT ABOUT, UM, OTHER TYPES OF EXEMPTIONS THAT ARE AVAILABLE.

UH, WE'VE COME TO THE PART OF THE YEAR WHERE AS IS TRADITION, WE KIND OF HAVE THIS TALK AND, AND DISCUSS WHETHER OR NOT YOU WOULD LIKE TO, UH, CHANGE ANY OF THOSE EXEMPTIONS.

AND IF, IF YOU'D LIKE, I CAN WALK BACK THROUGH THE PRESENTATION OR IF YOU'RE READY, WE CAN, UH, HAVE A DISCUSSION AND MOVE FORWARD.

I DON'T WANNA SPEAK FOR EVERYONE ON THAT, BUT WE DID JUST HAVE THIS PRESENTATION.

SO UNLESS SOMEBODY IS NEEDING A REFRESH, I THINK, I THINK WE ALL ARE UP TO SPEED ON THE, OUR HISTORY AND, AND WHAT OUR OPTIONS ARE TODAY.

AM I CORRECT IN THAT? YEAH.

I'LL REQUEST ONE THING, MR. MAYOR.

UM, MARK, YOU, YOU HAD SHOWN SOMETHING FOR EVERY 5,000, WE INCREASE THE EXEMPTION THAT TRANSFERS X NUMBER OF TAX TO OTHER, OTHER HOMEOWNERS.

IF YOU COULD REFRESH THIS WITH THAT, PLEASE.

SURE.

UM, I CAN TELL YOU THAT FOR EVERY 5,000 AND I'LL, I'LL SHOW IT UP HERE, UH, IT'S $23.

UM, SO RIGHT NOW AT OUR CURRENT EXEMPTION, UM, LEVEL, WHICH IS 80,000 FOR THE, UH, OVER 65 AND DISABLED, THAT'S ABOUT $51, UH, THAT, UH, THAT NON-ELIGIBLE HOMEOWNERS WOULD PAY.

AND SO IT'S FOR EVERY 5,000, IT'S $3 AND 34 CENTS FOR EVERY 5,000, UM, THAT YOU DO INCREASE IT, IT WOULD BE $23 LESS TO THE, UH, THE PER THE PERSON RECEIVING THE EXEMPTION.

ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? ALL RIGHT.

DISCUSSION.

UH, I VOICE MY CONCERN OVER THE LEGISLATURE AND THE EFFECTS OF WHATEVER THEY MAY PASS IN AUSTIN.

AND CONFESS ALSO THAT I DON'T KEEP UP WITH AUSTIN LIKE I SHOULD.

UH, BUT I WOULD FEEL COMFORTABLE MOVING THE EXEMPTION UP TO SUM OF $90,000 PER YEAR.

UM, I, I APPRECIATE THE INPUT I'VE RECEIVED FROM CITIZENS ON THIS AND I WANT TO, I I, I'VE OUTLINED MY THOUGHTS AND IT'S ALL FOR FOYER REQUESTS AND PUBLIC RECORD MY EMAILS.

BUT THIS IS NOT A TAX BREAK.

IT'S TAX TRANSFER.

WE'RE THE CITY'S GOING TO GET THE MONEY IT NEEDS TO OPERATE.

IT'S JUST A QUESTION OF WHERE DO WE GET IT.

WE BASICALLY GET OUR MONEY IN THREE MAIN WAYS.

WE TAX HOMES, WE TAX COMMERCIAL PROPERTY, WHICH INCLUDES BUSINESSES, IT ALSO INCLUDES APARTMENTS, AND WE GET SALES TAXES.

UM, I WOULD MAKE THE CASE HUMBLY THAT THE BEST WAY TO GET THE TAXES IS SALES TAXES, RIGHT? WE'D LOVE TO HAVE EVERYBODY FROM PLANO DRIVE UP HERE AND BUY EVERYTHING THEY CAN.

FOR YEARS I DROVE TO PLANO, TO COSTCO AND HELPED THEM.

UH, YOU KNOW, BUT, BUT SO SALES TAXES ARE THE BEST.

WE'VE DECREASED THE TAX RATE PRETTY SIGNIFICANTLY, UH, OVER THE LAST NUMBER OF YEARS, BUT I KNOW YOUR HOME VALUES HAVE GONE UP.

UH, BUT, BUT WHAT WE'RE DOING, AND I'M GOING TO ADVOCATE FOR A 5,000 INCREASE, BUT I KNOW WE'RE PARSING HERE WITH, WITH, UM, THE MAYOR PRO TEM, BUT WE ARE TRANSFERRING THAT TAX AND, UH, A TAX FREEZE FOR SENIORS.

WE, WE KIND OF HAVE SOME BLUNT TOOLS LIKE WE COULD DO A TAX FREEZE FOR SENIORS.

WHAT A FREEZE MEANS IS THAT EVERYONE OVER 65 AND DISABLED, THEIR TAXES ARE FROZEN.

NOW WHAT, EARLIER IN THE COUNCIL MEETING, WE SAW TAX CREDIT HOUSING AND WE TALKED ABOUT AAMI AREA, MEDIAN INCOME AND, AND THAT'S WHO THE TAX CREDIT HOUSING IS FOR PEOPLE BELOW THE AREA.

MEDIAN INCOME, 80% OR BELOW, UH, A FREEZE FREEZES EVERYBODY.

IT'S A BLUNT TOOL.

WHETHER YOUR HOUSE IS WORTH 300,000, 800,000 OR 3 MILLION, UH, I DON'T HAVE AN APPETITE TO TRANSFER THE TAXES ON SOMEONE WITH A 6, 700, 800, $900,000 HOUSE, 3 MILLION HOUSE TO THE TO OTHER FOLKS JUST DON'T HAVE AN APPETITE TO DO IT.

AND I'M PRETTY CLOSE TO BENEFITING FROM THIS EXEMPTION.

UH, THE OTHER THING COUNCILMAN

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PHILLIPS SAID WAS, WHAT IS AUSTIN GOING TO DO? MY UNDERSTANDING IN AUSTIN IS, AND THIS IS AN AREA OF FRUSTRATION FOR ME, SO I'M GONNA BE A LITTLE BIT OF A SOAPBOX.

FOUR YEARS AGO, AUSTIN HAD A 4 BILLION SURPLUS.

HOW MANY, HOW MUCH PROPERTY TAXES AUSTIN COLLECT? ZERO.

WHERE DO THEY GET THE MONEY? SALES TAXES, WHAT DID THEY DO FOUR YEARS AGO? INCREASE THE NUMBER OF THINGS THAT ARE SALES TAXABLE.

WHAT'S THE SURPLUS NOW? GREATER OR LESS THAN 4 BILLION? 29 BILLION.

SO WHAT THEY'RE TALKING ABOUT DOING IS USING SALES TAXES TO SEND MONEY BACK TO PROPERTY OWNERS TO MITIGATE PROPERTY TAXES.

AND WHAT I HAVE READ IS THAT HOMEOWNERS SHOULD EXPECT SOMEWHERE IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD OF ABOUT A THOUSAND DOLLARS OF BENEFIT FOR THAT IN TERMS OF A REBATE FOR THE I S D TAXES, WHICH ARE THE BULK OF IT.

I DON'T WANT TO INCREASE TAXES ON FOLKS WHO ARE SENIORS WITH HOMES THAT ARE AT 80% OR LESS THAN THE AREA MEDIAN VALUE OF A HOME.

SO I'M GONNA ADVOCATE FOR A $5,000 INCREASE, BUT I HAVE A FEELING THAT PROPERTY TAXES ARE GOING TO GO DOWN ACTUALLY THIS YEAR BECAUSE OF WHAT AUSTIN'S GOING TO DO, ALBEIT IN A VERY PECULIAR WAY.

UM, SO THOSE ARE MY THOUGHTS, MR. MAYOR.