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[1. Update]
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>> AT ANGLETON, I DEAL WITH THE LAW ZONING IN CRESCO, AND FUTURE LAND.
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BUT JUST LIKE THAT, LIKE I SAID,[00:13:14]
THIS COULD BE ANYTHING YOU WANT.IF YOU READ SOMETHING YOU DO NOT LIKE. TALK TO THEM ABOUT IT.
DON'T JUST SWALLOW IT AND MOVE ON. THAT'S WHAT THEY'RE HERE FOR.
THEY'RE HERE TO GET WHAT YOUR CITIZENS ARE TELLING YOUR COUNCIL AND CITY STAFF.
>> SOMEONE'S PHONE IS RINGING [LAUGHTER].
>> THE BENEFITS OF IT, IT JUST HELPS GUIDE THE REGULATIONS.
LIKE I SAID, WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS? THIS IS THE REASON FOR DOING THIS.
I'LL HAVE TO SEND YOU THIS LITTLE POWERPOINT.
LIKE I SAID, I DON'T LIKE TO DO MORE THAN THREE POINTS ON SLIDES.
I DON'T LIKE POWERPOINT BECAUSE SOME PEOPLE JUST READ POWERPOINT.
IT'S NOT THE POINT OF THE POWERPOINT.
I'M SUPPOSED TO JOG YOUR MEMORY TO TELL YOU WHAT YOU TAUGHT.
ENCOURAGES PUBLIC PARTICIPATION BECAUSE HOW MANY PEOPLE COME TO YOUR CITY COUNCIL MEETING, REGULAR ATTENDANCE [LAUGHTER].
>> TWO IF YOU COUNT THE REPORTER.
>> [OVERLAPPING] WE HAVE ABOUT TWO.
>> THERE WERE EIGHT THAT LISTENED LAST NIGHT.
>> I JUST WANT TO [INAUDIBLE] [OVERLAPPING].
>> IN SMALL TOWNS, ESPECIALLY ANGLETON [INAUDIBLE].
I'M SORRY, MY WIFE'S MAIN NAME IS ANGLETON.
IT'S SPELLED ALMOST THE SAME [OVERLAPPING] AND EVERYTHING.
I'VE TRIPPED UP EVEN DRIVING OVER HERE THINKING ABOUT IT.
THE BIGGEST THING IS, WHEN YOU'RE LOOKING FOR CONSISTENCY AND YOU'RE ONE MORE PARTICIPATION FROM THE PUBLIC, THIS IS HOW YOU SHOW UP.
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WE WANT TO. WE HAD ABOUT 120 PEOPLE SHOW UP AT THE COUNCIL MEETING THE OTHER DAY, EVERYBODY STREAKING OUT.WHY ARE YOU NERVOUS? THAT'S WHAT WE DO.
I'VE NEVER BEEN NERVOUS WHEN THE CROWDS ARE THERE.
IF YOU ARE, YOU'RE IN THE WRONG JOB.
BUT IT DOES ENCOURAGE PUBLIC PARTICIPATION.
THIS IS YOUR CHANCE TO SHOW THAT YOU CARE ABOUT ACCESS.
>> NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE. LIKE I SAID, WHAT'S CONTAINED IN HERE? ANYTHING YOU WANT, A STRATEGIC PLAN, PULL A FIVE YEAR PLAN OUT OF IT, A DOWNTOWN MASTER PLAN.
WE JUST DID ONE IN WARDEN BECAUSE OF WARDEN, I DON'T KNOW IF YOU'RE FAMILIAR WITH IT.
WE HAVE I69 COMING THROUGH RIGHT NOW THROUGH BUILD 96.
ANYTHING BETWEEN HOUSTON I MEAN, IF YOU REMEMBER SFA ABOUT 20 YEARS AGO, THERE'S NOTHING BETWEEN SFA AND HOUSTON.
THAT'S WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN TO WORK.
WHEN YOU GET HOUSTON ALL THE WAY TO VICTORIA IS ALL GOING TO LOOK THE SAME EVENTUALLY ONE DAY.
BUT THAT DOES NOT DEFINE WHO YOU ARE AS A TOWN.
THAT IS JUST THE INTERSTATE CORRIDOR.
I WANT TO FOCUS ON DOWNTOWN MASTER PLAN TO SHOW THAT WE KEEP OUR IDENTITY, AND WE REALLY WANT TO WORK ON THE DOWNTOWN.
THEN YOU CAN PUT PARKS MASTER PLAN.
THE BEAUTY ABOUT THESE PLANS IS IF YOU DON'T HAVE A PLAN FOR YOUR DOWNTOWN OR YOUR PARKS MASTER PLAN, THE CHANCE THAT YOU GETTING GRANTS FOR THOSE ARE 0-9, BECAUSE GRANTS COME OUT AND THEY GO, YOU HAVE TWO WEEKS TO TURN THIS APPLICATION IN FOR THIS GRANT.
THERE'S NOT ENOUGH TIME TO GET AN ENGINEER TO GET YOU A GRANT PROPOSAL THAT'S WORTH THE SALT AT THAT TIME.
HAVE I DONE IT? YES. DID I GET THE GRANT? YES, BUT IT'S ALSO BECAUSE I WAS ON THE MPO BOARD IN WAIT.
IT WAS SAFE FOR US THE SCHOOL GRAD AND THEN A TRANSPORTATION ALTERNATIVE GRAD.
THEN WHEN I CAME TO WARDEN, THEY TURNED IT DOWN AND GAVE THE MONEY BACK.
IT'S OKAY. IT'S ALL MY RESUME.
ALSO, YOU PUT THE LAND USE PLAN OF COURSE, BECAUSE YOUR LAND USE PLAN IS YOUR MAPPED AS GOVERNED BY THE STATE THAT SAYS WHAT YOU'RE GOING TO DO, HOW YOU'RE GOING TO DO IT WHEN IT COMES TO ESPECIALLY LIKE ZONING.
WE DON'T HAVE ZONING, BUT WE STILL HAVE A LAND USE PLAN.
IT BASICALLY SAYS, WHAT YOU'RE GOING TO USE THAT LAND FOR.
A LOT OF TIMES PEOPLE COME IN TO CHALLENGE, DEVELOPERS WILL COME IN AND THEY'LL CHALLENGE YOUR LAND USE PLAN, AND THEY'LL CHALLENGE YOUR ZONING TO THAT.
IF YOU GET BACK IN LOCKSTEP EARLY PROCESS, YOU'RE GOOD.
MY FIRST MEETING AS CITY MANAGER IN THE CITY OF LORENA WAS ABOUT THIS PIECE OF PROPERTY AND ABOUT THE ZONING.
IT WAS ON THE INTERSTATE CORRIDOR.
BUT THE GUY WHO OWNED THE PROPERTY, HE DEVELOPED A NEIGHBORHOOD OFF THAT PROPERTY.
HE PROMISED THE CITIZENS THAT HE WOULD NEVER USE AS INTERSTATE DEVELOPMENT THAT HE'D ALWAYS KEEP A RESIDENTIAL.
HE WAS WANTING TO SELL THAT PIECE OF PROPERTY TO MAKE IT INTERSTATE.
PEOPLE CAME OUT AS LIKE 30 PEOPLE IN A SMALL TOWN OF 1,800.
I WAS LIKE, WOW, WHO MADE SOMEBODY MAD? [LAUGHTER] GUESS WHAT? MY LAST MEETING, SAME PIECE OF PROPERTY, SAME ISSUE.
DEVELOPER CAME IN, CHALLENGED OUR PLANNING, ARMING OUR ZONING AND SAID, I BELIEVE THIS HAS BEEN ILL MARKED AS R1, AND IT NEEDS TO BE INTERSTATE CORNER.
WHEN YOU'RE A CITY MANAGER OR A PLANNER, JUST SO MUCH YOU CAN AND CAN'T ARGUE.
WHEN HE OPENED THAT DOOR, I WAS LIKE, GOOD.
I SAID, NO, IT'S NOT BECAUSE ONE, THE LANDOWNER HAD EVENTUALLY ORIGINALLY TOLD HIM, THIS IS NOT DEVELOPABLE AS ANYTHING BUT R1.
THEN 2, NOW HE'S TRYING TO GO BACK ON THIS WORLD ON THAT.
I HAD ALL THESE PEOPLE SAY, WHY IS THE CITY LETTING THEM DO THIS? WHY NOT? THIS IS WHAT THE PUBLIC MEDIA IS FOR YOU TO TELL US THAT.
IT WAS JUST WEIRD THAT SURREAL 5.5 YEARS BETWEEN THE MEETING WAS ON THE SAME BEING ABOUT MY FIRST AND LAST PEOPLE [LAUGHTER].
LIKE I SAID, IT'S NOT MEANT TO BE A DOCUMENT CREATED BY CITY COUNCIL.
IT'S NOT SUPPOSED TO BE A DOCUMENT CREATED BY STAFF.
IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE WHAT YOUR CITIZENS WANT THIS COMPREHENSIVE PLAN TO BE, GIVE YOU DIRECTION TO MOVE AS A CITY COUNCIL AND STAFF.
AGAIN, IT'S NOT SUPPOSED TO BE A SHORT TERM PLAN.
YOU WANT TO PLAN OUT 15, 2025, I WOULD LOOK AT 50 AS WELL.
I REALLY WOULD AND YOU DON'T HAVE TO FOCUS ON 15, BUT AT LEAST HAVE IT IN MIND WHERE YOU'RE GOING TO DO WITH THIS.
NOT BE SO RIGID WITH THE DOCUMENT SAID IS LIVING, BREATHING,
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IS MEANT TO SERVE AS A GUIDE FOR EVERYONE. NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE.IT'S THE FUTURE OF YOUR CITY, IN YOUR COMMUNITY.
IN YOUR REGION. EVERY SOMETIMES.
A LOT OF TIMES THE CITY MANAGER, WE THINK WE GET THE TUNNEL VISION OF I GOT WORRIED ABOUT MY CITY.
WELL, IF YOU'RE TUNNEL VISION, THAT'S ALL YOU'RE GOING TO SEE IS THIS MUCH.
YOU HAVE TO OPEN YOUR SPECTRUM.
I TOOK A SAYING WITH ME FROM CENTRAL TEXAS, AND WE HAD THE CITY MANAGER NAME KEVIN EVANS, AND HE WAS ALWAYS CROCHIEST PERSON I'VE EVER MET IN MY LIFE.
BUT WE WERE AT THIS REGIONAL MEETING ONE TIME, AND HE SAID, WE'RE ALL TOGETHER.
WE NEED TO ACT. I THINK REGION.
MY SUGGESTION TO YOU BECAUSE WE'RE ALL TOGETHER, AND WE NEED TO ACT.
THEN IT COULD BE A GREAT PATH FORWARD FOR YOU, OR IT COULD BE A COSTOP, LIKE I SAID, IF STAFF DOESN'T USE IT, THE CITY COUNCIL DOESN'T PUSH IT, IT'S JUST GOING TO GET PUT ON A SHELF AND COLLECT DUST.
THAT'S WHAT YOU DON'T WANT TO HAPPEN.
THIS COULD BE A VERY IMPORTANT DOCUMENT MOVING FORWARD.
IT IS WHAT YOU PUT INTO IT. NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE.
NOW, I'LL OPEN UP YOUR QUESTION.
IF YOU DON'T KNOW WHERE YOU'RE GOING, GO TO END UP SOMEPLACE ELSE.
YOGI BERRA WAS A CATCHER FOR THE NEW YORK YANKEES, AND I THINK HE WAS THE MANAGER FOR THE ASTROS FOR A LITTLE BUSINESS SEASON.
JUST BECAUSE YOU START DOWN THIS PATH TONIGHT, DOESN'T MEAN THAT, LIKE I SAID, YOU'RE GOING TO END UP GETTING EVERYTHING DONE. HOPEFULLY YOU WILL.
BUT JUST REMEMBER, IT'S A GUIDE LIVING BREATHING DOCUMENT THAT YOU CAN MAKE ADJUSTMENTS TO, BUT IT'S FOR YOU AND YOUR PEOPLE, IN YOUR CITY, YOUR COMMUNITY IN YOUR REGION.
NOW I'LL TAKE ANY QUESTIONS FROM ANYBODY.
>> I GOT ONE. YOU SAID YOU'RE IN IT TOGETHER WITH YOUR REGION, BUT YOU LOOK AT WHAT I THINK SOME OF THE PRIORITIES WE'VE LAID OUT HERE ARE ABOUT RETAIL IMPROVEMENTS.
THE FACT OF THE MATTER IS THAT AGAIN FOR LAKE JACKSON OR MANVILLE AT ONE OF THEIR TOWN CENTER COMPLEXES OR THE MALL OR WHEREVER, IS BASICALLY A LOSS FOR US BECAUSE THOSE SAME BUSINESSES WON'T COME HERE, BECAUSE THEY'LL BE ABLE TO COUNT ON OUR FOLKS DRIVING 20 MINUTES AWAY TO GO TO ONE OF THEM.
HAVE WE DISTINGUISH OURSELVES FROM OUR, I GUESS RIVALS? WOULD BE THE BEST WAY TO PUT IT BECAUSE RIGHT NOW, WE'RE LOSING OUT TO THEM.
>> YEAH. QUIT THINKING ABOUT IT, IT'S LOSING.
YOU'RE BRINGING THEM TO THIS AREA.
20 MINUTES ARE AWAY, IT'S NOT THAT FAR AWAY.
WAIT UNTIL THE TRAFFIC GETS OUT OF HERE BEFORE THE.
>> SURE. BUT IF YOU THINK ABOUT IT AS A LOSS, IT'S GOING TO BE A LOSS.
YOU HAVE TO CHANGE YOUR WAY THING HERE.
YOU HAVE TO THINK ABOUT IT DEPOSIT.
IF THEY'RE COMING IN, LET'S SAY IT'S A BIG ATB.
WELL, ATB, I CAN TELL YOU, DOESN'T WANT PEOPLE DRIVING 20 MINUTES TO, BECAUSE KROGER'S POPS UP BETWEEN THEM, THEY'LL JUST GO TO KROGER'S.
YOU PROBABLY HAVE A SMALL ATB PANTRY HERE?
>> THE TWO MEGAS ON EITHER SIDE.
>> I'LL GIVE YOU A PERFECT EXAMPLE. IT'S FUNNY.
IT GOES INTO A STORY, JUST A QUICK STORY ABOUT BEING CHRIS, YOUR FORMER CITY MANAGER.
WHEN I WAS IN LORENA, HE WAS IN ROCK DALE.
WE BOTH PUT IN FOR SANTA FE TEXAS.
WE'RE DOWN THERE. THEY DIVIDE US UP, AND THEY GIVE STORY TO THE TOWN.
THE LADY WHO WAS GIVE ME A TOUR SAID, WELL, THIS ATB IS REALLY SMALL, AND THEY GOT ONE RIGHT DOWN THE ROAD, AND WE NEVER GET ANY ATB.
I SAID, ARE YOU A REALTOR? YOU SPEAK LIKE A REALTOR.
SHE SAID, YEAH. HOW DO YOU KNOW? JUST THE WAY SHE DESCRIBES STUFF.
IT WAS LIKE A REALTOR. I SAID, ATB WILL TELL YOU THAT.
DOESN'T MEAN THAT'S WHAT THEY MEAN.
THEY WANT TO BE THE BIGGEST, THE BEST.
JUST BECAUSE YOU HAVE A 125 MINUTES A WAY, DOESN'T MEAN THAT'S GOING TO BE GOOD ENOUGH FOR THEM IN THE FUTURE.
ATB IS THEY COULD BE AS NICE AS THEY WANT TO BE OR AS DIFFICULT AS THEY WANT TO BE.
I'VE SEEN THEM DO IT BOTH WAYS.
I'LL GIVE YOU A PERFECT EXAMPLE.
COPPERS COVE, IF YOU TURNED RIGHT OUT OF THE MAIN POST OF FORT HOOD, TEXAS, YOU TURNED RIGHT OR YOU TURNED LEFT.
IT WAS ACTUALLY QUICKER TO GET TO COPPERS COVE THAN IT WAS TO THE CITY OF CLEAN.
NOW, YOU WOULD HAVE, I WOULD HAVE WANT EVERYBODY'S MONEY IF WE MADE THAT BET.
YOU JUST SAY CLEAN IS RIGHT NEXT DOOR TO FORT HOOD, TEXAS.
ACTUALLY, IT WAS. COPPERS COVE IS CLOSER.
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THEY GAVE THEM 25 YEAR ABATEMENT.CITY MANAGER AND STAFF SAID, DO NOT DO THAT.
WHAT HAPPENS IS WHEN THEY CLOSE A SMALL ATB OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT, BUILD A NEW ATB, THEY ROLL THAT DEBT OF THAT STORE.
HOW LONG DO YOU THINK IT TOOK? REMEMBER 25 YEAR ABATEMENT.
HOW LONG DO YOU THINK IT TOOK THAT NEW STORE TO TURN A PROFIT TO GET FROM THE RED TO THE BLACK? ANY GUESS? COME ON, MY MAN.
>> ATB, I'M PARKS DIRECTOR AT THE TIME.
I GO TO THE STORE MANAGER WHO'S ON THE CHAMBER BOARD WITH ME.
AS I SAID, HEY, MAN, HERE IS TWO SCOREBOARDS IN OUR PARK.
THEY ARE OLD, THEY DO NOT WORK, THEY'RE BUSTED AND IT SAYS, ATB ON THEM.
DO YOU WANT TO DONATE $5,000 EACH, OR DO YOUR COLORS, ATB WHATEVER YOU WANT ON IT? NOT ON THAT'S WHY I SAID THEY CAN BE GOOD NEIGHBORS.
PROBABLY UP TO ABOUT A YEAR AND A HALF AGO, WOULDN'T SPONSOR ANYTHING AND NOW THEY SPONSOR EVERYTHING.
THEY GIVE $100 GRANT TO THE ROTARY CLUB FOR OUR LAST GALA.
THEY'VE DONE THAT TWO YEARS IN A ROW.
>> IT'S THE MANAGEMENT OF THAT STORY. I REALLY COMES DOWN.
I WAS RAISED IN PETROCHEM I CAN TELL YOU THAT IF THE PLAN MANAGER DO FOLLOW WHEN MY DAD WORKS, WANT SOMETHING HAPPENED, IT HAPPENED.
SAME THING WITH ATB MANAGEMENT.
WHO ROUND FOR. BUT DON'T GET LOCKED IN TO THEY'RE WINNING WE'RE LOSING AS A REGION YOU'RE WINNING.
>> YOU GOT SALES TAX REVENUE DIFFERENCES?
>> THERE IS. BUT IF YOU'RE BASING YOUR BUDGET ON SALES TAX, YOU'RE GOING TO LOSE ALREADY.
THEY GOT A LITTLE BIG CUSHION THAT WE DON'T BECAUSE THEY'RE THE DOWNTOWN SALES TAX REVENUE.
THAT'S THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN YOU AND THEM. I PROMISE YOU.
>> YOU CAN'T TELL US HOW TO GET DOWN, CAN YOU? [LAUGHTER]
>> BRING THEM TO WAR. BUT STRONG EDC, YOU HAVE TO HAVE A STRONG EDC.
MEAN AND THE EDC DIRECTOR? YOU KNOW EACH OTHER THROUGH ECD TRAINING.
WE ALSO CERTIFIED IN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT.
THAT BE A JACK HALL TRADE ROUGH CITY MAN.
EDC, THEY'LL TELL YOU YOU'RE NEVER TO FIGHT. JUST KEEP FIGHTING.
BUT, IT IS A WIN FOR THE CITY BECAUSE THOSE PEOPLE THAT SHOP AT THAT ATB MAY GET TIRED OF THE TRAFFIC AND WHAT IT TAKES TO TURN RIGHT OR TURN LEFT AND SAY, WHY DON'T YOU GO TO GO DOWN TO THE SMALLER ONE IN.
>> SORRY. I DON'T GO TO THE ONE IN ANGLETON.
>> I THINK THE POINT IS JUST LIKE WE DRIVE IN LAKE JACKSON, IF WE HAVE SOMETHING THAT THEY WANT THE DRIVE HERE.
>> WE GOT TO CONVINCE SOMEONE TO PUT IT HERE, IS THE PROBLEM, THEY LIKE TO KEEP?
>> IT'S A MARATHON. SPRINT. ECONOMIC DEVELOPER WILL TELL YOU ROOFTOP BRINGS COMMERCIALS.
I KNOW HALF THE TIME IS THE COMMERCIAL THAT BRINGS THE ROOFTOP.
YOU CAN FIGURE IT OUT, WRITE A BOOK AND GET A MILLIONAIRE ON IT.
NOBODY ELSE HAS FIGURED IT OUT.
THAT I PROMISE YOU. ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? APPRECIATE YOU LET ME SPEAK TONIGHT.
I DO LIKE CITY GOVERNMENT, AND I DON'T KNOW WHY.
IT IS A VERY HARD JOB SOMETIMES.
>> YOU SAID THAT IT'S BEST TO HAVE THE CONFERENCE HE PLAN BE BY THE CITIZENS AND DRIVE THE COUNCIL.
THE COUNCIL WITHOUT HAVING MUCH INPUT, DOESN'T AGREE WITH IT.
>> I WOULD THINK THAT THE PEOPLE ELECT THE GOVERNMENT, NEED TO TELL THE GOVERNMENT WHAT TO DO, AND THAT'S WHY THEY'RE ELECTED TO DO IT.
BUT YOU MAY NOT GET ELECTED EITHER IF YOU DON'T DO WHAT THEY SAY.
YOU'RE THE REPRESENTATIVE OF THE PEOPLE, WITH THAT.
BECAUSE AS A SIG MANAGER, I'M A POLITICAL.
I JUST HAVE TO DEAL WITH THAT THE NEXT DAY, THE NEXT TWO YEARS.
>> I THINK THAT'S WHY COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT IS SUCH A BIG PART OF THIS PLAN.
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I THINK THE COUNCIL SAYS THAT.I'LL SHOW SOME SLIDES WHERE YOU SEE THAT THERE ARE SOME OVERLAPS, AND THERE IS A VISION THAT'S EMERGING THAT EVERYBODY BELIEVES IN.
I THINK IT CAN HAPPEN, OF COURSE.
>> LIKE A VISION STATEMENT, AND A VISION STATEMENTS.
THEY'RE ALL THEORETICAL, BUT YOU GOT TO USE SOMETHING.
WHEN YOU DO A VISION STATEMENT, I CAN COME UP WITH A VISION STATEMENT TO A LOT OF, ACTUALLY I WENT TO ONLINE.
I ATTENDED OXFORD EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP PROGRAM, AND IT WAS EIGHT WEEKS, AND THEY SAID, I'LL TAKE YOU ABOUT 10 HOURS A WEEK.
IT WAS VERY INTENSIVE, BUT I LEARNED A LOT.
I LEARNED. THE MOST OF WHAT I LEARNED IS WHAT I FORGOT. THAT MAKES SENSE.
IT WAS TO BE CONCISE BECAUSE WE WOULD HAVE READ PROBABLY 80 PAGES, AND YOUR ASSIGNMENT WAS TWO QUESTIONS.
THE FIRST QUESTION WAS, SAY IT UNDER UNDER WORDS.
IT AND HOW IT APPLIES TO YOUR CITY, BUT SAY IT UNDER WORDS.
WHAT IT REMINDED ME OF HIS GRADUATE SCHOOL.
I HAD A FULBER COLONEL, SEX ARMY INFANTRY, ENLISTED.
HE ALWAYS SAID, IT'S CALLED ROUND THE CLOCK BOMBING.
IF YOU CAN'T SAY IT IN A PAGE, YOU CAN'T SAY IT.
I WENT RIGHT BACK TO THAT WHAT I LEARNED IN GRADUATE SCHOOL.
I FORGOT. THE BEAUTY OF THAT, LIKE I SAID, VISION STATEMENT, MAKE IT CONCISE, MAKE IT SHORT.
THAT WAS ONE OF MY ASSIGNMENTS IS, WHAT'S THE VISION FOR YOUR CITY? I WAS LIKE, WHO ARE GO TO LOOK THAT UP BECAUSE I DON'T EVEN KNOW.
I KNOW WHAT'S OUR MISSION STATEMENT? I LOOKED ON EVERY WALL IN THE CITY HALL WHEN I GOT THERE.
I STILL DON'T HAVE IT ON THE WALL.
I'M WAITING FOR THE COMPREHENSIVE CLAIM.
I THINK WHAT I'M NOT GOING TO DO IS WAIT AND COME UP WITH A NEW VISION AND NEW MISSION STATEMENT.
EVERY DEPARTMENT SHOULD HAVE THEIR OWN MISSION STATEMENT, TO BE HONEST WITH YOU.
>> I'M TRYING TO REMEMBER SOME OF THE CITIES.
I'VE BEEN DRAWING A BLANK, BUT THEY HAVE AN ACRONYM: IT'S SPORTS.
IT ENTAILS WHAT AND IT'S EASY TO REMEMBER.
STEVEN BILL, THAT'S THE FIRST THING.
SMILE. GUESS WHO HAD TO SIGN AND SAID THEY WOULD DO THIS.
NOT JUST [INAUDIBLE] IT WAS COUNSEL.
SMILE. THEN THEY JUST HAD TO ACT MET SOMETHING.
BUT YOU BE AMAZED JUST BY SMILING AND LISTEN TO PEOPLE.
I'VE BEEN TOLD THAT. MY MOM WAS 5'5".
WHEN I SPEAK TO PEOPLE, I'LL SAY, DO YOU MIND ME SIT? I UNDERSTAND I'M TALL.
I DON'T YOU THINK I'M STANDING OVER YOU AND SPEAKING TO YOU.
BECAUSE THE LAST THING I WANT TO DO IS COME ACROSS AS A BOY.
YOU SIT DOWN AND TALK. THAT'S JUST DOING YOUR STRENGTHS, THAT'S WHAT THIS IS. ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? UNFORTUNATELY, I CAN'T STAY TO THE END.
I AM A 5:30 F TOMORROW MORNING TO ALBANY, NEW YORK, AND SO I'M GOING TO LEAVE AFTER THIS.
A LOT HAS MORE CONTACT INFORMATION.
IF YOU WANT TO REACH OUT TO ME AT ANY TIME, FEEL FREE.
>> THANK YOU SO MUCH. APPRECIATE THAT HAVE A SAFE FLIGHT.
>> I WILL SAY HALF OF THE PEOPLE ARE HERE.
I SEEMS LIKE WE SO LOOK BETTER ON CAMERA.
>> SO I THINK WE'RE GOING TO MOVE ON.
LIKE I SAID, WE DO HAVE PHIL WHO'S HERE TO TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE SCHOOL DISTRICT INFORMATION AND ABOUT 10-15 MINUTES THAT HE CAN TALK.
>> THANK YOU ALL FOR HAVING ME COME TONIGHT.
WE'LL SAY THE RARELY THE SHORTEST SPEAKERS [LAUGHTER] I MIGHT BE TONIGHT.
I'M GOING TO JUST TALK ON 10 MINUTES.
I'M GOING TO TALK YOU'RE FINE. YOU MIGHT WANT THAT.
I WOULD ASSUME HE WAS SITTING THERE.
I'LL TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT WHAT THE DISTRICT WERE WE WERE THREE, FOUR, FIVE YEARS AGO, WHAT WE LOOK LIKE TODAY, WHAT WE'RE GOING TO LOOK POSSIBLY LOOK LIKE IN THE SHORT TERM FUTURE, AND THEN PROBABLY WHAT LONG TERM PLANS ARE FOR THE SCHOOL DISTRICT AS WE MOVE FORWARD OVER THE NEXT 10, 15, 20 YEARS IN SCHOOL DISTRICT.
SHORT AS 2020, ONLY ABOUT FOUR HALF, FIVE YEARS AGO.
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WE WERE A SCHOOL DISTRICT OF 6,500 STUDENTS AND ANGLETON, I STEVEN A SCHOOL DISTRICT OF 6,500 STUDENTS FOR ABOUT THE LAST 20 YEAR SUMMER BETWEEN 6300, 6500 STUDENTS.COMING OUT OF COVID, WE STARTED TO GET GROWTH.
TODAY, WE SIT AT 7,300 STUDENTS.
AND SO 800 STUDENTS COME INTO OUR SCHOOL DISTRICT OVER THE LAST FOUR YEARS.
YOU'RE GOING TO SEE THAT NUMBER START TO MULTIPLY AND MULTIPLY AND MULTIPLY MANY TIMES OVER THE NEXT THREE, FOUR, FIVE, SIX YEARS AS WE MOVE FORWARD.
ONE OF THE THINGS THAT HAPPENED TO US THIS YEAR, WE DO A DEMOGRAPHIC STUDY.
WE'VE DONE I THINK FOUR NOW IN THE LAST SIX YEARS.
WE HAD A DEMOGRAPHIC STUDY DONE LAST YEAR, AND IT GAVE US A PREDICTION OF WHAT OUR ENROLLMENT IN OUR SCHOOLS WILL LOOK LIKE, AND THAT'S WHAT WE BASED OUR ZONING ON WHEN WE OPENED TWO NEW SCHOOLS, AND IT'S HOW WE FIGURED OUT WHAT ENROLLMENT WOULD LOOK LIKE MOVING FORWARD THROUGH TIME.
WHAT WE HAVE FOUND THAT WHEN WE'VE ACTUALLY LOOKED AT ENROLLMENT THIS YEAR IS ONLY TWO OF OUR SCHOOLS ARE HITTING THAT ENROLLMENT, THAT IS HARTLAND JUNIOR HIGH IN WEST SIDE.
THEY ARE RIGHT AT WHAT THE DEMOGRAPHIC STUDIES SAID THEY WOULD BE.
EVERY OTHER SCHOOL IS FAR EXCEEDING WITH THE.
WOULD BE LIKE ANYWHERE FROM 115%-150%.
HARTLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, WHICH YOU KNOW IS ONE OF THE TWO NEW SCHOOLS WE OPENED OUT OF 521, WAS EXPECTED TO HAVE 350 STUDENTS IN IT THIS YEAR.
IT WAS NOT EXPECTED TO GET TO 500 STUDENTS UNTIL 2030.
IT'S OPERATING WITH 525 STUDENTS TODAY.
FRONTIER JUNIOR HIGH OR FRONTIER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL WAS EXPECTED TO OPERATE ABOUT 275, 280 KIDS THAT ARE OPERATING AT CLOSE TO 400 STUDENTS TODAY.
YOU SEE THE GROWTH IN THE SCHOOLS COMING FROM THE NORTHERN PART OF OUR SCHOOL DISTRICT.
I THINK THE OTHER THING THAT'S REALLY IMPORTANT TO REMEMBER ABOUT THE SCHOOL DISTRICT IS WE ARE A VERY LARGE GEOGRAPHIC SCHOOL DISTRICT.
WE BORDER SANTA FE, ASS COURT, COLUMBIA, ISORIA, DAMON, ALVIN.
WE ALSO BORDER FORT MIN COUNTY.
WE GO ALL THE WAY 521 TO THE COUNTY ROAD.
I'LL TALK A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT THAT BECAUSE THAT IS WHAT THE FUTURE LOOKS LIKE FOR OUR SCHOOL DISTRICT AS WELL.
SO IT'S A VERY LARGE GEOGRAPHIC SCHOOL DISTRICT THAT WE SEE HAPPENING.
THE MAJORITY OF GROWTH WE SEE RIGHT NOW IS COMING FROM WITHIN THE CITY OF ANGLETON.
THAT'S WHERE THE HOME DEVELOPMENTS HAS BEEN, BUT WE'RE STARTING TO SEE THIS NOW OUTSIDE HAPPEN AS WELL.
THE SHORT TERM, WHAT WE LOOK FOR IN THE SCHOOL DISTRICT, IS, A BOND REFERENDUM AND EARLY VOTING STARTS NEXT WEEK.
THAT BOND REFERENDUM, I WON'T BORE YOU.
MOST OF YOU'VE PROBABLY ALREADY HEARD MY 20 MINUTES SPEECH A COUPLE OF TIMES ON HOW AND WHY WE'RE DOING THAT, BUT IF YOU HAVE QUESTIONS, I'LL BE HAPPY TO ANSWER THOSE FOR YOU.
THAT BOND IS TO REPLACE NORTH SIDE, SOUTH SIDE AND ANGLETON JUNIOR HIGH.
NORTH SIDE AND SOUTH SIDE ARE OVER 70-YEARS-OLD.
ANGLETON JUNIOR HIGH IS ALMOST 50-YEARS-OLD.
THOSE ARE SCHOOLS THAT WE POUR A LOT OF MONEY INTO.
WE HAD A FACILITY FACILITY DONE.
WHAT FACIL SHOWED US IS THAT THE MONEY WOULD TAKE TO REPAIR THOSE SCHOOLS, PLUS THE MONEY WOULD TAKE TO CONTINUE TO MAINTAIN THOSE SCHOOLS, PLUS WHAT WE'D HAVE TO REPLACE IN THE FUR IS SO GREAT.
THE BEST COURSE OF ACTION WAS TO LOOK TO REPLACE THEM NOW.
IF THAT BOND WERE TO PASS, WHAT THOSE SCHOOLS WILL MOST LIKELY LOOK LIKE IN THE NEIGHBORHOODS.
SOUTH SIDE AND NORTH SIDE WILL BE BUILT ON SITE, SO ANGLES AND JUNIOR HIGH.
THEY WILL MOST LIKELY LOOK LIKE ONE STORY BUILDINGS, WE BELIEVE TO FIT IN WITH THOSE NEIGHBORHOODS, ANGLETON AND JUNIOR HIGH WILL AGAIN BE BUILT ON THE SAME SITE, BUT WILL MOST LIKELY HAVE A TWO STORY.
POSSIBLY A THREE STORY IS WHAT THAT MIGHT LOOK LIKE.
ANGLETON JUNIOR HIGH IS ZONED TO BE ABOUT 1,200 KIDS.
THAT IS BECAUSE WE HAD A COMMITTEE GET TOGETHER THREE YEARS AGO, SO WE'D LIKE OUR JUNIOR HIGHS TO BE ABOUT THAT LARGE, NO BIGGER THAN 1,200.
THAT'S WHAT RESEARCH SHOWS IS THE BEST PLACE TO PUT THOSE THERE.
CURRENTLY ZONES FOR ANGLETON JUNIOR HIGH RIGHT NOW IS IN THE ZONE RIGHT NOW.
IT WILL NEVER REACH THAT 1,200 STUDENT LIMIT.
YOU'RE GOING TO SEE THE GROWTH COME FROM THE OTHER PARTS OF THE AREA.
NORTH SIDE, WE EXPECT TO BUILD IT PROBABLY AROUND 600 STUDENTS.
IT'S SITTING ABOUT LITTLE OR CLOSE TO 500 RIGHT NOW WITH RIVERWOOD RANCH AND GREYSTONE ZONE.
WE WOULD EXPECT THOSE NUMBERS TO GET THERE.
SOUTH SIDE IS THE INTERESTING ONE IS OUR SMALLEST ENROLLMENT SCHOOL RIGHT NOW A LITTLE OVER 300.
BUT ONE OF THE THINGS WE'RE CONCERNED ABOUT, WE'VE TALKED ABOUT BUILDING A SCHOOL AT 4500 STUDENTS SEATS, PROBABLY WILL BE WHAT WE DO, BUT WE WILL LOOK TO PUT IN WHAT WE CALL BLOWOUT WALLS TO EXPAND THOSE BECAUSE WE ARE HEARING AND SEEING THAT THERE ARE LAND INVESTORS BUYING LAND IN THE SOUTHERN PART OF DOWN BY SOUTH SIDE.
SOUTH SOUTH SIDE IN THAT AREA.
TYPICALLY, HOW DO YOU KNOW HOW THIS GOES, IS INVESTORS COME IN BY THE LAND IN 15 YEARS, THEY SELL IT TO DEVELOPERS, DEVELOPERS COME IN AND DEVELOP IT, SELL IT TO HOME BUILDERS, AND THEY START BUILDING HOMES IN.
WE SEE A POSSIBLE NEED FOR SOUTH SIDE COULD POSSIBLY TO BE BIGGER AT SOME POINT IN THE FUTURE.
I THINK THIS IS ALSO AN INTERESTING.
A LOT OF TIMES WE GET CONFUSED WITH RCS SPORT ISD, WHAT GOES ON THERE.
RCS SPORT ISD IS LOSING STUDENTS, WE'RE GAINING STUDENTS.
THERE LOSING REVENUE, OR GAINING REVENUE.
WE'RE GETTING MORE MONEY FROM INTO OUR SCHOOL DISTRICTS.
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I'VE HEARD THIS CONVERSATION, OR YOU'RE GOING TO END UP CLOSING SOUTH SIDE? WE WILL NOT CLOSE SOUTH SIDE.I DON'T THINK THERE'S IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, WE'RE GOING TO CLOSE.
THERE'S TOO MANY KIDS COMING INTO THE SCHOOL DISTRICT.
WE'RE GOING TO NEED THE SEATS, AND IT'S NOT ECONOMICAL TO DO THAT.
THE CONCEPT OF REMOVING SCHOOLS IS JUST REALLY NOT IN THE PLAN.
THAT'S WHAT THE SHORT TERM LOOKS LIKE IN ANGLETON ISD, LONG TERM.
THE MAJORITY OF OUR GROWTH, WHERE WE WOULD HAVE TO BUILD NEW SCHOOLS WILL BE IN THE NORTHERN PART OF OUR SCHOOL DISTRICT AROUND THE ROCHER AND BONNY AREA.
AND THAT'S REALLY WHERE WE'RE FOCUSED.
RIGHT NOW, WE'RE TALKING TO DEVELOPERS OUT THERE THAT LOOK TO PURCHASE LAND TO HOLD ONTO SO WHEN THOSE THINGS MAY HAPPEN.
WE EXPECT IF ONCE ANGLETON ISD REALLY GETS BUILT OUT ALONG THAT 288 CORRIDOR, THAT MOST LIKELY ANOTHER THREE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS WILL HAVE TO BE BUILT IN THE NORTHERN PART OF THE DISTRICT.
WE BUILD THOSE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS OF 800 STUDENTS.
YOU CAN SEE THOSE REALLY LARGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS THAT GO THERE.
WE WILL MOST LIKELY HAVE TO LOOK AT THE THIRD JUNIOR HIGH AND VERY POSSIBLY A SECOND HIGH SCHOOL AT SOME POINT.
TIMELINES WHEN WE SEE THAT IS WE DON'T EXPECT TO HAVE TO BUILD AN ADDITIONAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PROBABLY TILL 2030, 2031.
A ADDITIONAL JUNIOR HIGH WILL PROBABLY COME MID 2030S, 2034, 2035.
HIGH SCHOOL, WE DON'T BELIEVE WILL COME IN AND PLAY MOST LIKELY TO THE PAST 2035, 2038.
THE CURRENT HIGH SCHOOL WE HAVE RIGHT NOW CAN HOLD UP TO 4,000 KIDS.
I THINK THE ONE THING THAT MIGHT CHANGE THAT IS THE COMMUNITY MAY LOOK AT A 4,000 STUDENTS. HIGH SCHOOL IS TOO BIG.
I WOULD BE VERY CROWDED THERE, AND LET'S GO BUILD ANOTHER ONE TO FIX THAT THE POLITICAL PRESSURE THAT HAPPENED HIGH.
BUT WE SEE THE MAJORITY OF OUR STUDENTS COMING IN FROM THAT LIKE SAID THE 521-288-1462 QUARTERS.
THE OTHER THING THAT I'VE LEARNED RECENTLY AS JUST WARNS SO FOR MANY MANY YEARS ABOUT THE CRY DELWY COMING THROUGH THE DELWY WILL COME THROUGH THE NORTHERN PART OF OUR SCHOOL DISTRICT.
THEY ARE NOW STARTING TO DO IDENTIFY LAND FOR WHERE THAT WILL BE, AND LOOK FOR HOW THEY'RE GOING TO ACQUIRE THAT LAND, WHETHER IT BE THROUGH WHAT'S THE TERMS IN THE DOMAIN OR IF THEY'RE GOING TO PURCHASE THAT LAND.
THEY'RE GOING TO BUILD UP THE SUPER BELTWAY FROM ALVIN OUT TO THE EAST END.
BUT MY UNDERSTANDING IS ONCE THEY DO THAT, THEY WILL THEN START TO WORK ON CONNECTING FORT BEN OVER TO ALVIN, THAT WILL COME THROUGH THE NORTHERN PART OF OUR SCHOOL DISTRICT.
I WILL TELL YOU THERE ARE TWO LARGE DEVELOPERS WHO ARE HOLDING ON THE LAND RIGHT NOW THAT ONCE THAT THING IS BUILT, THAT THEY WILL THEN COME IN AND REALLY BUILD MUCH LARGER ON DEVELOPMENTS THAT WE SEE, AND THAT I JUST DON'T TELL YOU WHEN THAT'S GOING TO BE AND WHAT'S THAT'S GOING TO LOOK LIKE.
BUT WE KNOW THEY'RE OUT THERE WAITING TO SEE WHAT HAPPENS.
THAT'S THE LAST THING I'LL TALK ABOUT IS JUST REAL QUICKLY, TAX RATE BECAUSE I KNOW THAT EFFECT.
THIS TAX RATE THE DISTRICT SET THIS YEAR WAS DOLLAR TWO.
WE HAVE DROPPED THE TAX RATE $0.42 OVER SINCE 2018, AND THAT IS WHILE DOING TWO BONDS, ONE 19 AND ONE 22.
WE EXPECT THAT WE WILL AT LEAST KEEP THE TAX RATE CONSTANT NOW.
WE ACTUALLY BELIEVE WE'RE GOING TO BE ABLE TO DROP SOME OVER THE NEXT COUPLE OF YEARS DUE TO THE FACT, WE'RE GOING TO USE SOME OF BOND SAVINGS TO PAY OFF SOME DEBT, AND BE ABLE TO LOWER THE TAX RATE EVEN LOWER.
OUR BOARD CONSTANTLY CHALLENGES US TO KEEP THE TAX RATE LOW AND LOWERED AS MUCH AS WE CAN.
I'LL BE HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS, BUT THAT'S WHAT WE SEE GROWTH GOING ON IN THE SCHOOL DISTRICT, WHAT OUR PLANS ARE AS WE MOVE FORWARD.
LESS THING IS I GET A QUESTION SOMETIMES, HOW LONG HAVE YOU REPLACE THESE TWO SCHOOL, HOW LONG DO YOU EXPECT OTHER SCHOOLS TO LAST? YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT SCHOOLS LIKE FRONTIER RANCHO OF WEST SIDE.
OUR AUDIT THAT WE LOOKED AT ON THE FACILITIES, WE EXPECT THOSE FACILITIES MOST LIKELY TO NOT NEED REPLACEMENT.
THEY MUST NOT NOT NEED REPLACEMENT UNTIL 2040 OR BEYOND THAT.
WE LOOK TO KEEP OUR SCHOOLS SOMEWHERE IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD OF 50 PLUS YEARS.
THAT IS A LITTLE BIT LONGER THAN OTHER SCHOOL DISTRICTS DO, BUT THAT'S IN GENERAL, WHAT WE BELIEVE WILL HAPPEN.
IF ANYBODY HAS ANY QUESTIONS FOR ME, I'LL BE HAPPY TO ANSWER.
I KNOW I DIDN'T DO THAT. YES, MA'AM.
>> WE START HAVING THOSE LARGE SUBDIVISIONS COME IN IN THAT 1462 AREA.
THE BUSING AND THE AMOUNT OF CAGE BUSING DOWN HERE START PLAYING A BIG FACTOR IN WHEN THAT ELEMENTARY.
>> IT DOES THE ONE THING THAT THERE'S A LAW IN THE STATE OF TEXAS, AND WE FOLLOW THIS LAW.
IT SAYS, IF YOU LIVE WITHIN 2 MILES OF THE SCHOOL, THAT WE DON'T HAVE TO BUS YOU.
IF YOU LOOK INTO THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS WE HAVE RIGHT NOW, HARTLAND ELEMENTARY, WHICH SITS IN THAT ASHLAND DEVELOPMENT, ONCE THE ASHLAND DEVELOPMENT BUILDS OUT, THAT SCHOOL WILL END UP REZONING SOME THINGS.
THAT SCHOOL WILL MOST LIKELY HAVE ONE BUS THAT GOES OUT THERE.
WE'LL BUS THEM FROM THE HOLIDAY LAKES AREA.
BUT THE MAJORITY OF THOSE KIDS WILL FILL UP THAT SCHOOL. IT'S THE SAME.
WHEN WE TALK ABOUT BUILDING NEW SCHOOLS,
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WE ACTUALLY THE EASIEST AND CHEAPEST WAYS FOR US TO GET THAT LAND IS TO WORK WITH DEVELOPERS BECAUSE WE'RE LUCKY THAT WE HAVE SEVERAL DEVELOPERS WHO WANT TO COME IN, 1462-288, THE BIG 5,000 DEVELOPMENT HOME THERE THAT'S REALLY WHERE WE'RE TALKING TO.IF YOU GO UP 521 RIGHT BEFORE YOU GET TO THE FORT BEND COUNTY LINE.
IF YOU'VE BEEN UP THAT WAY, YOU SEE FORT BEN GOTTEN TO THE COUNTY LINE.
HE'S A DEVELOPER RIGHT OVER THAT LINE HE WANTS TO COME IN DOWN.
WHAT WE'RE ABLE TO DO, WE'VE BEEN PRETTY SUCCESSFUL IS, WE ARE ABLE TO PLAY EACH DEVELOPER OFF OF EACH OTHER AND BRING THE PRICE DOWN ON THE LAND WE BUY.
WE WERE ABLE TO BUY THAT ACREAGE AT MUCH REDUCED PRICES.
BY PUTTING THE SCHOOLS IN THOSE DEVELOPMENTS, WE DON'T HAVE TO GET INTO AS MUCH TRANSPORTATION.
I THINK ONCE THE SCHOOL DISTRICT REALLY GETS TO SAY, 15,000, 20,000, THERE'S BEEN TALK ABOUT WE MAY NEED TO HAVE A HUB OF TRANSPORTATION SETS NOW AND POSSIBLY ANOTHER HUB SOMEWHERE IN THE NORTHERN PART OF TOWN THAT FACILITY.
>> THERE'S TWO IN THAT 1462 THAT SHOW THE LITTLE SQUARES FOR YOU ALL.
>> THEY'VE AGREED TO I MEAN, THEY'RE VERY GOOD TO WORK WITH.
THEY'VE AGREED TO THE PRICE THAT WE OFFER.
WE'VE HAD OTHER DEVELOPERS WHO WILL COME IN, I SOLD IT TO YOU FOR THAT. WE'LL GO SOMEPLACE ELSE.
THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT THE REASON THOSE TWO SCHOOLS ARE OUT THERE RIGHT NOW.
THE OTHER DEVELOPMENT, I CAN REMEMBER THAT'S GOING OUT HAS ABOUT 10 HOMES OUT THERE.
IS WHERE WE INITIALLY HAD NEGOTIATED BUILDS, BUT THEY WANTED THREE TIMES AS MUCH AS WHAT THE DEVELOPER OUT OF ASHLAND WAS GOING TO ASK.
WE WENT WITH ASHLAND BECAUSE IT'S JUST THAT MUCH CHEAPER FOR.
THAT MUCH WE SAVE THAT MUCH MONEY WHEN WE DO THOSE THINGS. ANYTHING ELSE?
>> I MIGHT HAVE MISSED IT, BUT YOU SAID THAT YOU'RE DOING NORTH SIDE, REPLACING ON SITE, CENTRAL REPLACING SOUTH SOUTH SIDE.
SAME WITH THE JUNIOR HIGH. IS THERE A THIRD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL IN THERE?
>> NO, I'M JUST SAYING WHAT WE DON'T EXPECT THE NEXT BUILDING WE WOULD HAVE TO BUILD WOULD BE A THIRD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
WE EXPECT THAT SOMEWHERE AROUND 2030, THAT THAT WOULD HAVE TO BE BUILT MAYBE 2031, JUST DEPENDING ON HOW FAST PEOPLE COME INTO THE SCHOOL DISTRICT? GOT YOU.
>> I MEAN, YOU COME IN AND GIVEN US OF YOUR ANGLE TSD PLAN FOR GROWTH.
IS THERE SOMETHING YOU'D LIKE TO SEE SPECIFICALLY FROM OUR COMPREHENSIVE PLAN THAT WOULD BE ADVANTAGEOUS ANGLETON TONIGHT.
>> I THINK THE BIGGEST ISSUE THAT I WONDER ABOUT AND WE GOT IN TERMS OF DEALING WITH THE CITY IS WHAT UTILITIES, AND HOW IS THE UTILITIES GOING TO BE ABLE TO MANAGE? WE'RE VERY LIKELY NOT TO HAVE TO BUILD ADDITIONAL SCHOOLS IN THE CITY OF AMAND.
THEY'RE MOST LIKELY GOING TO BE BUILT OUTSIDE.
BUT THERE'S GOING TO BE HOMES BUILDING IN THE CITY OF AMAND WE WANT TO MAKE SURE WATER, SEWAGE, ALL OF THAT CONTINUES TO BE ABLE TO WORK AND NOT HAVE PROBLEMS THAT WHEN WHEN WE GET THOSE CITY SERVICES.
I'M SURE YOU'LL HAVE HEARD THAT FROM ANYBODY WHO WALKS IN YEARS TO MAKE SURE THE UTILITIES CONTINUE IT'S THE SAME FOR US AS WELL.
WE HAVE A GREAT RELATIONSHIP WITH THE CITY.
WE WORK VERY, VERY WELL TOGETHER.
WE'VE TALKED ABOUT THESE THINGS.
WE UNDERSTAND WHAT THEY'RE TRYING TO DO AND WHAT THAT IS.
BUT THAT'S REALLY THE ISSUE IS.
I THINK THE OTHER THING I WOULD SAY IS WHAT TRAFFIC PATTERNS LOOK LIKE, ESPECIALLY AROUND SOME OF OUR SCHOOLS.
>> WE'VE KIND OF BECAUSE THE JUNIOR HIGH HAS KIND OF BEEN REDUCED, WE'RE NOT SEEING AS MUCH TRAFFIC AS AN ISSUE AROUND ANGLETON JUNIOR HIGH THAT SAW THE PREVIOUS YEAR, BECAUSE IT'S GOING TO BUT IT'S GOING TO GROW, AND WE'RE GOING TO GET THOSE TRAFFIC PATTERNS.
AGAIN, WE HAVE TRAFFIC ISSUES AT CENTRAL, WE HAVE TRAFFIC ISSUES AT WEST SIDE.
THOSE ARE THE OTHER SCHOOLS THAT I SEE MAKING SURE THAT WE HAVE ROADS THAT ARE AT LEAST MAINTAINED AND POSSIBLY WIDENED SO THAT THEY CAN MANAGE THE TRAFFIC THAT'S OUT THERE.
>> SO THAT WOULD BE WHAT HENDERSON?
>> HENDERSON AND DOWN IN THAT QUARTER THERE.
YOU KNOW, LIGHT STOP LIGHTS AND WE DON'T SEE MUCH OF AN ISSUE WITH STOPLIGHTS IN THE CITY, THAT ISSUES MORE EXIST OUT OF OUR NEW SCHOOLS, AND WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE, AND WE'RE TRYING TO WORK WITH TEXTILE AND GET STOP LIGHTS AND THINGS OUT IN THERE IN THAT AREA.
BUT JUST THE ABILITY OF THE ROADS TO BE MAINTAINED AND TO MANAGE THE TRAFFIC THAT'S GOING TO BE ON THERE.
YOU KNOW, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT'S REALLY INTERESTING THIS YEAR IS THE FIRST TIME I'VE EVER HEARD IT, BUT IT'S ABSOLUTELY TRUE.
YOU KNOW, OUR ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS, WE OPENED THE DOORS AT 7:40 TO LET PEOPLE IN.
I NEVER HAD COMPLAINTS COME TO ME ABOUT I'M DROPPING MY KID OFF, AND I CAN'T GET TO WORK AT 8:00 O'CLOCK.
IT'S A VERY TRUE STATEMENT BECAUSE IF YOU DRIVE THE MORNING AROUND ANGLETON, HEY IF YOU HAVE DROP A KID OFF IN CENTRAL AND I HAVE TO BE SAY AT WALMART, YOU MAY NOT MAKE THAT IN 20 MINUTES IN.
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[OVERLAPPING] AND SO THAT'S A REALITY.WE REALLY HEAR ABOUT HARTLAND AND HERITAGE BECAUSE YOU DROP OFF OUT THERE, THERE'S NO WAY YOU'RE GETTING BACK INTO TOWN.
I MEAN, EVEN WHEN THERE'S A DROP OFF IN PICKUP TIMES, WE ALLOCATE 20 MINUTES TO GO OUT THERE FOR THE TRAFFIC TO GOES AND SO THIS THE TRAFFIC IN THE MORNING.
THAT'S REALLY THE BIGGER ISSUE.
SCHOOL IS A LOT OUT BEFORE TRAFFIC IN THE EVENING GETS GOING.
THAT TRAFFIC 7-8 CAN AFFECT PEOPLE AND HOW WE'RE DOING SCHOOLS AND THOSE KINDS OF ISSUES AS WELL.
>> YEAH, ABSOLUTELY. DO YOU NEED ANYTHING MORE ON SIDEWALKS, OR DOES THAT
>> [OVERLAPPING] SO WALKING IS PRETTY THE KIDS WHO LIVE AND WALK.
WE HAVE A PRETTY GOOD A LOT OF OUR KIDS WALK AROUND THE NORTH SIDE AREA, AROUND THE CENTRAL AREA.THAT LOOKS REALLY GOOD TO US.
>> WE DON'T SEE LOTS OF ISSUES THERE.
KIDS RIDE BIKES, PARENTS PICK UP.
THE OTHER SCHOOLS WE DON'T SEE QUITE THE WALK RATIO A LITTLE BIT, KIND OF GO INTO THAT AREA.
FRONTIER, ACTUALLY, VERY FEW PEOPLE LIVE OUT BY FRONTIER, SO WE DON'T SEE THAT.
I KNOW THE CITY'S DONE A REALLY GOOD JOB ON SIDEWALKS AND SO WE DON'T SEE THAT ISSUE AS MUCH SAY YOU KNOW THE OTHER THING I WOULD SAY IS DRAINAGE ROADS.
YOU GET CENTRAL A HUGE ISSUE FOR US.
AND SO YOU GET BIG RANGE AROUND CENTRAL, THOSE ROADS FLOOD.
IF IT'S PICK UP TIME, THERE HAVE BEEN TIMES WE'VE HAD TO DELAY CENTRAL PICKUP TO LET THE WATER GO OUT SO THAT WE CAN GET CARS IN.
THAT'S WHERE ALL THE COUNTY COURTHOUSE HAS BEEN IN THE INFRASTRUCTURE THERE AND HOW IT MAINTAINS THOSE AS WELL.
IT'S AN OLDER AREA AND SO THE STREETS IN THE DRAINAGE AREA.
WE DON'T SEE THOSE ISSUE IN THE NEWER AREAS.
RANCHO, VELA, ANGLETON JUNIOR HIGH OUT THERE.
WE DON'T HAVE THOSE ONES. ALL MADE IT EASY ON ME.
[LAUGHTER] THANK YOU ALL VERY MUCH.
>> THANK YOU SO MUCH. [BACKGROUND]
>> IF YOU ALL WANT TO TAKE A QUICK BREAK, AND THEN WE CAN CONTINUE.
I KNOW WE'RE RUNNING A LITTLE LATE, BUT I THINK THE SPEAKERS WERE GREAT, PROBABLY IT WAS VERY HELPFUL FOR YOU ALL.
SO IF YOU WANT TO TAKE LIKE A FIVE-MINUTE BREAK AND RECONVENE, THEN WE CAN CHUG ALONG.THANK YOU SO MUCH. YEAH.
>> THANK YOU ALL. SO I'M GOING TO GET MOVING.
WE CAN CHANGE OUR FORMAT A LITTLE BIT EARLIER.
WE WERE THINKING OF BREAKING INTO GROUPS, BUT SINCE IT'S A SMALLER GROUP.
IT'S ALREADY A SMALL GROUP SO WE CAN WORK TOGETHER AND THEN GIVE OTHER PEOPLE OPPORTUNITIES TO CHIME IN LATER.
SO JUST QUICKLY ON WHERE WE ARE, AS YOU KNOW, WE DID A LOT OF WORK DURING THE TIME.
I LOOKED AT THE CURRENT CITY DID SOME FINDINGS, WHICH WE WILL PRESENT TO YOU.
WE WON'T GO THROUGH EVERY DETAIL, BUT JUST KIND OF FOCUS ON THE HIGHLIGHTS BECAUSE THAT WILL HELP YOU WITH THE EXERCISES.
WE ARE DOING VISIONING AND WE'RE WORKING ON THE CURRENT CITY.
AND THEN THE QUESTIONNAIRE IS OUT THERE SO PLEASE ENCOURAGE PEOPLE TO FILL THAT UP.
ON YOUR BINDERS, OTIS DID A GREAT THING.
HE ACTUALLY HAS THIS FLY-ER WITH THE QR CODE.
AND THAT WILL TAKE YOU TO THE QUESTIONNAIRE.
SO PLEASE ENCOURAGE PEOPLE TO DO THAT.
WE ONLY HAVE 53 RESPONSES RIGHT NOW, AND WE NEED TO [OVERLAPPING] 53.
WHICH IS GOOD, BUT STILL WE WANT MORE.
>> WHAT PERCENTAGE OF PEOPLE [NOISE] [LAUGHTER] [OVERLAPPING] 25, 30%
>> EVEN TEN IS GOOD, TO BE HONEST.
YEAH, IT'S VERY HARD TO GET RESPONSES.
THAT'S WHY WE DO SO MUCH OUTREACH.
NOW, HAVING SAID THAT WE HAVE GOTTEN A LOT OF INPUT THROUGH OTHER SOURCES THAT I WILL GO THROUGH.
BUT IT WOULD BE GOOD TO AT LEAST GET 10%.
YEAH. THE BAR IS PRETTY LOW, BUT LET'S GET THAT AND THEN WE CAN RAISE IT UP.
SO THEN, JUST A QUICK SUMMARY, YOU KNOW, WE DID THIS SPAC EXERCISE WITH YOU ALL.
>> [OVERLAPPING] IF WE CAN. BUT LIKE I SAID, WE ALSO LOOK AT ALL THE DATA POINTS WE GET, NOT JUST THE QUESTION.
>> WE CAN'T EVEN BRING THAT OUT FOR ELECTION.
I WAS JUST ABOUT TO SAY THAT [LAUGHTER].
I THINK I LOOKED AT OUR LAST BIG ELECTION.
[BACKGROUND] WE'LL SEE. LIKE I SAID, THAT'S THE P DON'T COME OUT.
>> BUT I THINK LIKE I SAID, WORKING WITH GROUPS Q HELPS A LOT.
YEAH. SO THIS QUICKLY, I WANT TO GO OVER THE SUMMARY OF THE SEAT PACK.
I KNOW WE HAD YOU ALL DO EXERCISES AND THIS VERY QUICKLY.
ALL THIS IS IN YOUR PACKET, TOO, WE TALKED ABOUT RESIDENCY.
A LOT OF YOU ARE EITHER LIFELONG MEMBERS OR LIVED MORE THAN 50 YEARS.
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INTERESTINGLY, CHARACTER AND IMAGE, YOU SEE A THEME EMERGING, WHICH IS REALLY SMALL TOWN FEEL AND CHARACTER THAT'S UNIQUE.AND JUST REMEMBER THAT AS WE GO THROUGH ALL THE RECOMMENDATIONS AND HOW WE DO THAT.
NOW, FOR EXAMPLE, WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT A LARGE ATB, THAT'S ONE THING THAT ATB DOES IS TAKES AWAY FROM THE CHARACTER.
FREDERICKSBURG DOES NOT ALLOW BIG BOX STORES IN THE CITY BECAUSE IT TAKES AWAY FROM SMALL BUSINESSES, AND YOU'LL SEE THAT THEME EMERGE, TOO.
SO YOU HAVE A BALANCING ACT HERE SO JUST WANT TO POINT THAT OUT.
SO I JUST LOOKING AT THE STRENGTH OF THE SMALL TOWN FEEL SENSE OF COMMUNITY, VERY OBVIOUS.
AND WHEN YOU LOOK AT OPPORTUNITIES, PEOPLE FELT THAT WHAT IS INTERESTING IS THEY FOCUSED ON ECONOMIC YOU ALL, FOCUSED ON ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INFRASTRUCTURE IMPROVEMENT.
SO THAT REALLY NOW, AS I SAID, A PATTERN STARTS EMERGING.
LOOKING AT AREAS OF IMPROVEMENT, RETAIL ENTERTAINMENT WAS TOP ON THE LIST WITH ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT.
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT THAT COMBINES RETAIL AND ENTERTAINMENT AND GOOD RESTAURANTS WAS SOMETHING THAT CAME OUT.
AND THEN THE CONCERN WAS BASICALLY JUST LACK OF PLANNING, NEGLECT, AND GROWTH THAT'S NOT BALANCED.
SO HOW DO YOU BALANCE THAT GROWTH AND ALSO AGAIN, CHARACTER AND PUBLIC AMENITY? SO HOW DO YOU BUILD A CITY THAT'S FOR THE CITY OF ANGLETON RESIDENTS? NEXT SLIDE. THEN, LOOKING AT EXISTING USES, PEOPLE LIKE THE PARKS AND GREEN SPACES AND DOWNTOWN.
TWO MOST IMPORTANT THINGS THAT AGAIN WILL REVERBERATE THROUGHOUT THE PROCESS.
THEN IN FUTURE, THE THOUGHT THE QUESTION WAS, WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE TO SEE HUMAN CENTERED MIXED-USE DEVELOPMENTS AND RETAIL AND SHOPS.
AGAIN, YOU SEE DOWNTOWN, RETAIL, AND MIXED-USE DEVELOPMENTS, CREATING A SENSE OF PLACE.
THEN CORRIDOR PURIFICATION, AND THERE WAS SOME DESIRE TO SEE MORE DIFFERENT TYPES OF HOUSING, TOWN-HOMES, AFFORDABLE AND ONE THING THAT WAS CLEAR WAS TO AVOID UNDESIRABLE DEVELOPMENT, SPECIFICALLY, YOU KNOW, MAKE SURE THAT THE DEVELOPMENTS DO CONTRIBUTE TO THE COMMUNITY CHARACTER.
SO AGAIN, GOING BACK TO IF YOU EVER GET A BIG BOX HEB, REMEMBER, YOU CAN ASK WHAT YOU WANT.
AND I HAVE TO TELL YOU THIS HEB IN MONTROSE IMPORTED WOOD FROM SOME OTHER COUNTRY BECAUSE THE RESIDENTS OF MONTROSE DID NOT WANT THAT THEIR TYPICAL HEB.
SO AND PARN DID A LOT WITH HEB TOO, ASKING THEM TO GIVE THEM A SMALL PARK LOT IN THE PARKING LOT.
SO WE WERE JUST TALKING, HEB WILL DO WHAT YOU ASK THEM TO, BUT IF YOU DON'T ASK, THEY WON'T.
>> IN LAKE JACKSON, THEY PRESERVE A LOT OF OATS IN THAT PARK THEY WILL WORK.
>> THEY WILL. SO I THINK WHAT IS HELPFUL IS AS JOSEPH MENTIONED, IF YOU KNOW WHAT YOU WANT, IF YOU KNOW THE CHARACTER, THEN YOU GO TO THE TABLE AND SAY, THIS IS WHAT OUR CITIZENS WANT.
>> SO WITH HEB, IF IT LOOKS GOOD IN A NEWSPAPER COLUMN OR SOMETHING THAT MAKES THEM LOOK GOOD THEY WILL [OVERLAPPING] YEAH, IN PARTICULAR, THEY'LL BE.
YEAH. THEY'LL BE WILLING TO PLAY BALL.
AND THEN MOVING ON, EXISTING LINE, SPECIFICALLY ABOUT HOUSING.
THE VARIETY OF HOUSING AND AFFORDABILITY, AND IS GOING TO TALK A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT THE AFFORDABILITY FACTOR, BUT AND SINGLE-FAMILY, YOU KNOW, LOTS OR HOUSES WERE A PREFERENCE WITH SOME WALK-ABILITY BUILT IN.
IF YOU LOOK AT THAT, 41 PLUS 18% IS LIKE 56% OR 59, ALMOST 60% ARE LOOKING FOR SOME DIVERSITY.
YOU KNOW, NOT JUST SINGLE-FAMILY HOME, COTTAGE-STYLE HOUSING THAT WE LOOKED AT CONDO, SENIOR LIVING, WORK LIVE BY OR UNITS.
AND SO THEN AGAIN, GOING BACK THERE, YOU SEE 12% AFFORDABILITY.
SO IF YOU JUST ADD ALL THAT, THEN THAT REALLY IS A LARGE PERCENTAGE RIGHT THERE.
NEXT, PLEASE. AND THEN, THE NEXT WAS JUST WHAT DO YOU LIKE ABOUT NON-RESIDENTIAL USERS? THIS IS WHERE YOU KNOW THAT ATB DISCUSSION IS IMPORTANT.
HEB WILL NOT BE CONDUCIVE FOR LOCAL BUSINESSES.
AND THAT'S WHAT YOU GUYS HAVE TO COME UP WITH A BALANCE.
THE MINUTE AN HEB OR A BIG BOX COMES IN, THE LOCAL BUSINESSES DO SUFFER.
AND THEN ALSO SCHOOLS AND FAITH-BASED NONPROFIT.
SO THEY'RE LOOKING AT COMMUNITY-BASED, YOU KNOW, USERS, NOT CORPORATE USERS WHEN IT COMES TO THE WHAT THEY LIKE.
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AND THEN FUTURE AGAIN, WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT BUSINESS THAT ALIGNS WITH CITY'S UNIQUE CHARACTER, AND THEY'RE THINKING OF DOWNTOWN TYPE OF CHARACTER.AGAIN, WHAT SHOULD WHAT SHOULD THE BUILDINGS LOOK LIKE WHEN THEY COME IN.
SO THAT WOULD BE IMPORTANT. NEXT, PLEASE.
>> I WAS JUST GOING TO ASK A QUESTION.
WHEN YOU SAY BIG BOX STORES AND WE REFER TO ATB QUITE A BIT, I MEAN, ATB IS A BIG BOX STORE AND IT'S ALREADY HERE.
SO ARE WE TALKING ABOUT LARGER STORES? [OVERLAPPING] LARGE STORES REALLY A BIG BOX BECAUSE THAT IS THE BRAND.
>> [OVERLAPPING] RIGHT. SO WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT TYPICALLY ATBS OR TARGETS OR KROGERS, ALL HAVE THIS BIG BOX FORMAT, RIGHT? THEY JUST BUILD IT LIKE IT DOES A LOT OF TIMES THE STORES BECAUSE OF THE ARCHITECTURE AND THE WAY THEY DO THEIR URBAN DESIGN DOES NOT FIT INTO THE CHARACTER OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD.
WHAT THEY WILL DO IS HAVE A SEA OF PARKING SPACE IN THE FRONT.
SO WHEN YOU'RE DRIVING ALONG THE STREETS, LIKE ALL YOU SEE IS PARKING.
BUT IF YOU LOOK AT OTHER COMMUNITIES, I'LL GIVE YOU MONTROSE EXAMPLE OR OTHER, THEY'LL MAKE SURE THAT THE BUILDING IS BUILT SO THAT IT FITS INTO THE CHARACTER.
SOMETIMES YOU'LL SEE THAT BIG BOX IS BROKEN DOWN INTO SMALLER SECTIONS.
IT HAS MORE GLASS, MORE BRICK, MORE WOOD.
LIKE I SAID, OR THEY CONSERVE TREES.AND FOR CITIES, IF YOU ARE PROUD OF YOUR TREES, THEN TREES IS YOUR CHARACTER, RIGHT? SO START THINKING OF ATBS WILL WORK WITH YOU LIKE US.
>> [OVERLAPPING] I GOT TO I JUST WAS THINKING OF THE TERM BIG BOX.
AND SO I'M THINKING OF THE BRAND ITSELF.
BUT YOU'RE JUST TALKING ABOUT THE DESIGN.
>> THE DESIGN. SO THEY CALL BIG BOX STORES BECAUSE OF THE LARGE FOOT GADGET.
AND SO MORE OFTEN THAN NOT, THE EASIEST PATH OF LEASE RESISTANCE AND THE CHEAPEST WAY TO BUILD IT FOR THEM IS TO JUST LITERALLY BUILD A BOX.
>> IF ATBS IS BUILDING NEW STORE, THEY DO NOT BUILD STORES THE SIZE OF THE ONE THAT YOU HAVE HERE ANYMORE, PRETTY MUCH.
SO IT WOULD BE SOMETHING THAT WOULD BE ON PAR WITH THE SIZE OF YOUR WALMART, PERHAPS NOT QUITE AS BIG, BUT CLOSE.
AND SO THAT'S THE KIND OF SITE AND THE AMOUNT OF PARKING THAT THEY WOULD BE EXPECTING, THEY'RE BUILDING IN YOUR STORE HERE.
>> TO BE FAIR, IF YOU'VE BEEN ON THE EAST SIDE OF THE 35 FOR DOOR, THAT BOX KIND OF DESCRIBES THE CHARACTER [LAUGHTER] OF THE COMMERCIAL SPACE OVER THERE RIGHT NOW.
UNFORTUNATELY, NOT DECAYING BOX WOULD BE AN UPGRADE.
>> I THINK WELL, ALSO, WHAT THE WAY THEY DO THEIR PARKING, AS YOU SEE, IF YOU DON'T ASK THEM TO PUT PEDESTRIAN CONNECTIONS, IT'S REALLY HARD TO PARK YOUR CAR, GET YOUR KID OUT, AND EVEN WALK TO THE FRONT OF THE STORE BECAUSE THE PARKING LOT IS SO BIG, RIGHT? SO THERE ARE WAYS IT CAN BE BROKEN.
THEY DON'T HAVE TO PUT ALL THEIR PARKING LOT IN THE FRONT.
BUT THAT'S THE CHEAPEST WAY FOR THEM TO DO IT.
THEY SAY WHILE THAT AFFECTS THEIR SALES.
AND, YOU KNOW, I'VE HAD SO MANY DISCUSSIONS WITH DEVELOPERS.
I'M LIKE, YOU'RE COMING HERE BECAUSE YOU HAVE A MARKET, RIGHT? AND SO IF THAT'S THE CASE, WHY CAN'T WE GET YOUR BEST DESIGN? WHY ARE WE JUST, YOU KNOW, SETTLING FOR THE CHEAPEST OPTION IN YOUR PLAYBOOK? [OVERLAPPING] RIGHT. I MEAN, YOU ALL KNOW THEY DO HAVE A BOOK, RIGHT? [LAUGHTER]
>> I THINK THIS IS GREAT BECAUSE WE HAVE SO MUCH GROWTH COMING.
AND SO WE DO HAVE SOME LEVERAGE AS IT RELATES TO THE THINGS THAT WE WANT WITH NOT JUST GROCERY STORES, BUT OTHER THINGS.
AND SO I THINK WE CAN BUILD WHAT, FOLKS SAY IN THE SURVEYS.
SO I THINK WE'LL BE ABLE TO HAVE THE LEVERAGE TO DO IT. YEAH. GO AHEAD.
>> YOU HAVE THAT ORDINANCE TO MAKE SURE THEY HAVE THOSE TREES OR HAVE THAT.
>> YES. SO THAT'S WHERE WE WILL COME TO.
ONCE WE GET ALL YOUR INPUT ON SOME OF THE REAL PREFERENCES, THOSE BECOME RECOMMENDATIONS IN THE COM PLAN.
THE NEXT STEP OF THIS GLO PROJECT, THE FUNDING, LIKE JOSEPH MENTIONED, INCLUDES MAKING CHANGES TO YOUR ZONING AND DEVELOPMENT CODES.
SO IF YOU LIKE TREES, WE LOOK BACK AND SAY, AND WE'LL PROBABLY WORK WITH YOUR COMMITTEE OR ANOTHER COMMITTEE, SAY, THIS IS WHAT YOUR ORDINANCE IS NOW.
AND, YOU KNOW, I HAD, I HAVE TO TELL YOU THIS I HAD A CITY COUNCIL MEMBER IN FAIRLAND, WHO WAS ALWAYS WOULD BE LIKE, WHY ARE WE ASKING SO MUCH LANDSCAPING? AND WE HAD REGULATIONS LIKE ONE GALLON SHRUBS AND TWO INCH TREES? AND THEN ONE DAY HE DROVE BY A HAMPTON INN AND HE'S LIKE, WHY DON'T THEY HAVE ENOUGH LANDSCAPING? AND THEY WERE LIKE THEIR LANDSCAPING MEETS THE CODE.
SO WE'LL TRY TO BRING SOME GOOD EXAMPLES AS TO QUANTIFY THESE THINGS, RIGHT? BECAUSE PEOPLE, YOU KNOW, DEVELOPERS COMPLAIN TOO MUCH LANDSCAPING.
BUT REALLY, THAT SHRUB LOOKS SO SCRAWNY.
I'M NOT TELLING YOU THAT EVEN HE WAS LIKE, WHY AREN'T WE ASKING FOR LANDSCAPING? SO TRANSLATING SOME OF THESE RECOMMENDATIONS INTO CODES WOULD BE THE NEXT STEP.
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OTHERWISE, IT'S NOT GOING TO HAPPEN.>> AND IT IS PART OF THIS PLAN TO DO THAT, TO TRANSLATE IT.
>> YES. IT'S PART OF THIS GRANT. YES.
>> SOME OF THE THINGS THAT WE HEARD ABOUT MOBILITY, A LOT OF EMPHASIS ON BIKE AND PEDESTRIAN INFRASTRUCTURE, TRYING TO MAKE SURE THAT AGING AND FAILING INFRASTRUCTURE WOULDN'T ADDRESS DRAINAGE.
THEN WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT NATURAL RESOURCES AND COMMUNITY FACILITIES, THERE WERE SOME VERY SPECIFIC THINGS THAT CAME OUT OF THE EXERCISE. NEXT, PLEASE.
I JUST WANT TO POINT THIS OUT.
THIS, I THOUGHT WAS VERY INTERESTING.
WE DID THE SAME EXERCISE WITH THE CITY COUNCIL THAT WE DID WITH YOU.
THOSE PRIORITIES THAT YOU LISTED ARE IN PURPLE, AND THE PRIORITIES THAT THE CITY COUNCIL LISTED ARE IN GRAY, AND YOU CAN SEE THE OVERLAP.
WHICH IS WHAT WE WOULD LIKE TO FOCUS ON.
IF I LOOK AT THIS AND SAY, WHAT ARE THE THREE BIGGEST PRIORITIES, COULD BE WHERE THE OVERLAP IS, STATE IMPROVEMENT, CITY WIDE REVITALIZATION, BEAUTIFICATION, AND THE BALANCED ECONOMIC GROWTH.
NOW, THAT'S NOT TO SAY THAT THE FIRST ONE ON THE LIST, WHICH WAS A UNIQUE IDENTITY, IT'S NOT TO SAY THAT YOU ALL DIDN'T THINK ABOUT IT.
MAYBE YOU DIDN'T ANSWER THAT QUESTION.
WE'LL PAY A LITTLE BIT ATTENTION TO THIS.
I WANT YOU ALL TO LOOK AT IT AS YOUR HOMEWORK AND SEE WHERE ARE SOME MORE OVERLAPS HERE.
THEN ONCE WE DO OUR COMMUNITY SURVEY, WE WILL ALSO SEE HOW THAT FITS IN HERE.
THINGS LIKE UNIQUE IDENTITY AND HOMETOWN FIELD MAY BE THE SAME THING.THAT'S WHERE WE WANT YOU TO DEFINE IT A LITTLE BETTER FOR US. NEXT, PLEASE.
I KNOW THERE WAS A QUESTION THAT WHAT ARE THE THINGS THAT WE'RE PLANNING? SPAC IS GOING TO MEET FOUR TIMES ON YOUR OWN, AND THEN TOWARDS THE END, THERE ARE SOME JOINT MEETINGS THAT'S CUT OFF FROM THIS SLIDE.
BUT WE ARE IN OCTOBER, WE WILL COME BACK IN DECEMBER.
NOW, DECEMBER WILL BE MORE RECOMMENDATIONS.
MEANWHILE, WE WILL ALSO HAVE A COUPLE MORE COMMUNITY EVENTS, PROBABLY THE NEXT MARKET DAY.
THEN THERE IS ANOTHER ONE IN DECEMBER THAT WE MIGHT BE THERE FOR THE HOLIDAY FESTIVAL.
THEN, WE WE WILL KEEP COMMUNICATING WITH YOU, EVEN IF YOU DON'T DO THE MEETING, WE'LL START STANDING STUFF BECAUSE NOW WE WILL ASK YOU FOR YOUR INPUT.
ALL THIS FOR FINDINGS, BUT WHEN IT COMES TO RECOMMENDATIONS, THAT'S WHERE I THINK THE RUBBER MEETS THE ROAD. YEAH.
>> WHEN YOU HAVE THE COMMUNITY EVENTS, ARE THOSE THINGS THAT YOU ALL ARE WANTING REPRESENTATION FROM THIS COMMITTEE TO BE?
I KNOW WE DIDN'T MENTION IT LAST TIME.
IF YOU HAVE TIME, THAT WOULD BE GREAT.
WE JUST NEED INPUT FROM A LOT OF PEOPLE AND THEN SPREAD THE WORD OUT, SPREAD THE EXCITEMENT THAT CITIES DOING THIS.
>> WHEN YOU HAVE THE COMMUNITY EVENTS, THAT QR CODE, OR IS THAT PART OF WHAT YOU'RE DOING IS GET GATHERING INFORMATION THROUGH THE SURVEY OR ASKING PEOPLE TO FILL IT OUT OR?
>> THE QR CODE LEADS YOU TO THE QUESTIONNAIRE.
>> BUT I'M SAYING WHEN YOU HAVE THE EVENTS.
ARE YOU ASKING PEOPLE WHO MAY COME OUT TO THAT TO.
WE HAD LAPTOPS LAST TIME, SOME OF THEM ACTUALLY ACCESS THE CUSTODY TO THE LAPTOP.
CAROL WAS SO HELPFUL IN GETTING PEOPLE IN. THANK YOU SO MUCH.
THEN WE HAD OTHER EXERCISES, SOME THINGS LIKE THIS WHERE WE WERE ASKING THEM QUESTIONS AND ASKING THEM ABOUT WHAT THEY LIKE AND WHAT THEY DON'T LIKE.
I CAN SUMMARIZE WHAT WE HEARD FROM THEM.
>> YEAH. ARE WE DOING THINGS MARKETING WISE TO GET PEOPLE OUT AND TO DO SOME INCENTIVE FOR THEM TO FILL IT OUT, SO SO THAT YOU GET MORE FEEDBACK.
>> THOSE THAT FILLED IT OUT ON THE FAIR, WE GAVE THEM PRALINES, AND YEAH, WE HAD A GIVE THE AMAZING.
>> WE HAD A GREAT LIKE, SO AFTER CHURCH, I WENT BACK I WENT UP THERE SO THAT I COULD HELP OUT BECAUSE I THOUGHT IT WAS IMPORTANT FINDING OUT THAT WE HAD A BOOTH UP THERE.
EVERYBODY WE TALKED TO WAS JUST SO EXCITED THAT WE'RE DOING THIS.
THEY WERE VERY WILLING TO FOLLOW THE SURVEY, BUT THE SURVEY IS REALLY LONG.
I KNOW IT TOOK ME ABOUT 20 MINUTES.
SO WITH A LOT OF PEOPLE, THEY WOULD PULL IT UP AND THEN THEY WOULD START AND THEN THEY WOULD MAKE FACES AND BE LIKE, I WOULD JUST SAY, LOOK, JUST PLEASE FILL THIS OUT AT HOME DO IT TONIGHT, DO IT WHEN YOU'RE LAYING IN BED, DO IT WHENEVER WHEN YOU'RE WAITING IN LINE, PASS IT ON TO YOUR NEIGHBORS, AND EVERYBODY SEEMED REALLY RECEPTIVE.
THE FACT THAT WE HAD, I FEEL LIKE THAT'S PROBABLY AROUND HERE PEOPLE WE TALKED TO.
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MAYBE MORE. THERE TALKING TO PEOPLE AND GETTING PEOPLE TO DO.>> YEAH, SO WE COLLECTED A LOT MORE INFORMATION, NOT JUST THROUGH THE SURVEY, BUT THE EXERCISES.
>> I THINK THAT I THINK THAT'S A GOOD IDEA.
HAVING TARGETING SPECIFIC AREAS FOR EACH OF THESE EVENTS TO HAVE HOW YOU HAD THE HOW ODS MADE THAT TREE, AND YOU KNOW WE THINGS ON THE TREE.
HAVING LITTLE THINGS LIKE THAT TO DO ON SPECIFIC QUESTIONS, SPECIFIC AREAS THAT WE WANT TO FOCUS ON AT THAT TIME, I THINK THAT THAT WOULD REALLY BE BENEFICIAL.
>> THEY HAVE THIS SURVEY THAT THEY CAN DO, BUT THEN IT'S ALSO LIKE HERE'S SOME INSTANT FEEDBACK FOR THESE THREE POINT.
>> YEAH. I CAN SHOW YOU SOME OF THE RESPONSES.
>> THAT'S WHAT I WAS GOING TO ASK BECAUSE YOU'RE SAYING IT'S VERY LONG.
IF A PERSON STARTS THE SURVEY, BUT THEY DON'T HIT THE SUBMIT BUTTON, IS THERE A WAY FOR YOU TO GET THE ANSWERS THAT THEY DID TO LIKE IF THEY GOT A THIRD WAY THROUGH OR A HALFWAY THROUGH?
>> THEY HAVE TO PRESS THE SUBMIT BUTTON, THOUGH.
>> YOU CAN HAVE THE OPTION OF SKIPPING QUESTIONS?
>> WHEN YOU STARTED, IF YOU DON'T FINISH IT, WHEN YOU GO BACK TO IT, ARE YOU STARTING OVER? IF YOU DON'T DO IT IN ONE SETTING?
>> IT DEPENDS ON YOUR BROWSER, I BELIEVE.
I GUESS IT STAYS IN YOUR CACHE FOR SOME TIME.
>> DO WE HAVE ANY IDEA ABOUT HOW MANY INCOMPLETE ATTEMPTS AT FILLING OUT THE SURVEY WE HAVE? BECAUSE IF IT'S NOT A WHOLE BUNCH.
>> IT WOULD ALSO BE AT THE EVENT.
IT'S LIKE ONE PERSON PER FAMILY.
COULD BE PRESENT. SOME FAMILIES.
>> YEAH. BUT I DO THINK IT'S REALLY GOOD ON THESE TARGETED QUESTIONS BECAUSE IF IT IS LONG.
TO SOME PEOPLE IF THEY DON'T HAVE THE TIME TO JUST FINISH IT, IF THERE'S SOME THINGS THAT WE KNOW FOR SURE, WE WANT TO HAVE COMMUNITY INPUT, AND YOU CAN JUST DO BLAST, YOU CAN DO FOUR OUT OF FIVE SURVEYS OR FIVE SURVEYS.
DO ONE AND THEN THEY COMPLETE ONE. MAYBE THEY'LL COME BACK AND DO.
BECAUSE IF YOU HAVE TO START OVER, LIKE YOU SAY, THEN PEOPLE PROBABLY WON'T GET ALL THE WAY THROUGH IT.
BUT IF YOU BREAK IT OUT TO WHERE IT'S FOUR OR FIVE QUESTIONS.
THEN IT SAYS THERE'S A BATTERY OF FIVE, MANY SURVEYS, AND IF YOU COULD COMPLETE ALL FIVE, THAT WOULD BE GREAT.
MAYBE THERE WILL BE SOME BLOOMS AT THE END.
I DON'T AT LEAST THEY WOULD GET THROUGH SOME OF IT.
>> SURE, GET THE DAY. WE CAN DO THAT.
>> YEAH CITY COUNCIL, MAYBE ON A FEW QUESTIONS DO SOME WHAT YOU CALL FACEBOOK POLLS OR SOMETHING WITH THE DIRECTOR.
>> I DON'T KNOW WHAT PEOPLE GO BUT ANYWAY.
>> I THINK I LIKE THE SHORTER SURVEY TO AT LEAST GET WHATEVER.
>> THAT'S HOW WE GOT A LOT OF INFORMATION ON THE COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT.
>> WE COULD DO THE UTILITY BILL THE WATER BILLS.
>> BUT LIKE WHEN WE MAIL OUT WATER BILLS HAVE AN EXTRA FLYER?
MICHELLE, WOULD YOU BE ABLE TO SHARE IT WITH YOUR CHAMBER LIST?
>> YEAH. THEN COULD YOU ASK KRISTIE IF SHE CAN DO A MASS EMAIL TO ALL EMPLOYEES AT AISD BECAUSE THEY WORKED IN ANGLETON?
>> THAT WAY, THEY CAN SEND IT OUT SHOULD HAVE GOT BILL.
>> ACTIVE SOCIAL MEDIA GROUPS, FACEBOOK OR NEXT DOOR OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT.
THAT'S FOR SURVEYS THAT MY FIRM HAS RUN, THAT GETS THAT CAN SPREAD LIKE WILDFIRE IF YOU'RE TRYING TO CONDUCT A POLL.
>> IF YOU COULD WORK FOR THE COUNTY SO AS TO THE EMPLOYEE OFFICE.
>> SCHOOL DISTRICT ALSO WILL SEND OUT FLYERS.
>> THIS IS A FLYER, IT'S JUST TO BE APPROVED A FILL, THEN IT WILL GO OUT TO ALL THE PARENTS.
THAT'S GOING TO BE OUR BIGGEST OBSTACLE IS WHEN PEOPLE STARTED AND THEY'RE VERY EXCITED, BUT ONCE THEY START GETTING THROUGH IT, THEY'RE LIKE, OH, PRETTY INTENSE.
>> WE COULD WE CAN TRY TO SHORTEN IT.
THE THOUGHT WAS NOT TO HAVE TOO MANY OPEN ENDED QUESTIONS BECAUSE IT'S A COMPREHENSIVE PLAN AND WE DON'T WANT TO GIVE THEM THE IMAGE THAT WE CAN SOLVE EVERY PROBLEM THAT THE CITY HAS.
IT'S MORE ABOUT LAND USE AND TRANSPORTATION THAN INFRASTRUCTURE.
>> WHAT I WAS GOING TO SAY THAT IF WE DID THE MINI SURVEYS, IF YOU TITLED THEM.
THEN THE THINGS THAT PEOPLE ARE REALLY CONCERNED ABOUT.
THEY MAY ONLY DO THAT THAT ONE MINI SURVEY, BUT AT LEAST THEY GIVE YOU FEEDBACK ON THE THINGS THAT CONCERNED.
>> WE TALKED ABOUT THAT TO CLICK HERE IF YOU WANT TO MORE INPUT ABOUT HOUSING.
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>> LET'S DO THAT BECAUSE SOME OF THE THEY PROBABLY STOP BECAUSE THEY'RE LIKE I DON'T CARE ABOUT THAT.
>> THIS IS ANOTHER WAY WE ARE REACHING OUT.
SOMEBODY ASKED THE QUESTION. FOCUS GROUPS.
WE HAVE ABOUT 8-10 MEETINGS, AND THESE ARE THE BUSINESSES THAT HAVE BEEN IDENTIFIED NOW, WHICH WE WILL BE COMBINING AND MEETING WITH THEM IN GROUPS OR ONE ON ONE.
IF YOU COULD JUST LOOK THROUGH THIS LIST AND SEE, I MEAN, NOT RIGHT NOW, BUT LET US KNOW IF SOME A CRUCIAL GROUP OR ORGANIZATION IS MISSING, WE CAN DEFINITELY ADD IT.
WE'RE GOING TO START OUR INTERVIEWS NEXT WEEK AND FOR THE NEXT THREE WEEKS WE'LL BE TALKING TO GROUPS LIKE THIS.
THAT'S ANOTHER WAY OF GETTING.
>> THE NUMBERS JUST SHOW HOW WE ARE TRYING TO CLUB THEM TOGETHER BECAUSE WE CAN TALK TO EVERY GROUP, BUT BRING THEM TOGETHER.
IF YOU SEE ANY OTHER SYNERGIES THERE, DEFINITELY WANT TO LOOK AT THAT.
>> CHURCHES. HOW WE GO ABOUT THE FAITH BASED ORGANIZATIONS.
A HOW ARE YOU GOING TO IDENTIFY FAITH BASED ORGANIZATIONS.
>> I THINK WE IDENTIFY THREE RIGHT NOW, IF HAVE TO CONTACT THE COMMISSION.
>> YEAH. STAFF HELPED US GET INTO SOME OF THESE.
>> ARE WE MAKING SURE THAT WE GET EACH DEMOGRAPHIC? I'M THINKING HISPANIC, AFRICAN AMERICAN GROUPS OF PEOPLE THAT HAVE DIFFERENT.
>> NOW, I'VE BEEN TO THAT MEETING BECAUSE I WAS PRESENTING SOMETHING ONCE AND I DON'T KNOW THAT IT REFLECTS GROUPS, I THINK THE CHURCH GROUPS OF.
>> ANYWAY, YEAH, PLEASE SEND US YOUR INPUT.
ONE REASON YOU WON'T SEE SOME GROUPS HERE IS THEY'RE ALREADY PART OF THE CPAC.
I MEAN, IF THEY HAVE ANY INSTEAD OF JUST GOING AND INTERVIEWING THEM, THEY'LL BE WITH US THROUGHOUT THE PROCESS.
BUT DEFINITELY WE WOULD LIKE TO GET SOME INPUT FROM YOU.
>> I MEAN, THE DRAINAGE DISTRICT, BUT WE'VE ALREADY GOT THAT THERE SEPARATELY. YEAH.
>> I THINK DRAINAGE DISTRICT IS SEPARATE FROM THE FLOOD DISTRICT? [OVERLAPPING] THE FLOODPLAIN OFFICE.
[2. Preliminary Findings]
I'M TRYING TO MOVE ON SORRY NO, THAT'S OKAY.ANGLETON MARKET DAYS, LIKE I SAID, WE HAD THAT TREE THAT YOU TALKED ABOUT, THE USE VISION TREE, PEOPLE WROTE WHAT THEY WANTED, AND YOU CAN SEE ALL THE RESPONSES.
ONCE WE'RE DONE WITH OUR OUTREACH, WE'LL COMBINE THEM AND TRY TO CLASSIFY THEM INTO LARGER CATEGORIES.
BUT AGAIN, SOME RECURRING THEMES EMERGE OUT OF THIS. NEXT, PLEASE.
THEN WE HAD THIS THING CALLED NAME THE PLAN, AND WE WERE LOOKING FOR SOME TO TAG LINE.
THIS IS WHERE WE'LL PROBABLY COME BACK TO YOU.
WE'LL SEND THIS TO YOU, HAVE YOU VOTE ON IT, OR IF YOU HAVE ANY OTHER SUGGESTIONS, PLEASE COME UP WITH THAT. MAYBE WE CAN GO.
>> IT WAS REALLY FUNNY WATCHING YOU PLAY OFF OF EACH OTHER.
>> THIS IS ACTUALLY FROM THAT FAIR MARKET DAYS WHERE WE HAD WE CALLED IT THE GREAT WALL OF ANGLETON AND SAID, WHAT DO YOU THINK ARE THE STRENGTHS OF THE CITY LIKE A SWOT ANALYSIS, OPPORTUNITIES, CONCERNS, AND THREATS.
THESE ARE SOME OF THE THINGS THAT THEY WROTE THERE.
AGAIN, I'LL HAVE YOU LOOK AT IT LATER.
ONCE ALL THIS IS DONE, WE'LL AGAIN COMBINE THEM INTO LARGER CATEGORIES AND THEN START ADDRESSING THEM.
I REALLY KNOW A LOT ABOUT HEB BECAUSE A LOT OF PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT IT AT THAT.
IT WAS INTERESTING, LIKE THEY WANT LIKE WE DO THEY GO? THEY GO TO LAKE JACKSON FOR THEIR HEB.
SOME PEOPLE WANTED HEB, BUT SOME DIDN'T BECAUSE OF THE TRAFFIC ISSUES.
LIKE I SAID, WE'LL HAVE TO IT'S NOT LIKE THIS COMPLAIN IS NOT GOING TO GET YOU AN HEB.
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>> HOPEFULLY, YOU WILL IDENTIFY A BEST PLACE FOR HEB TO GO IF IT EVER COMES UP SO THAT YOU DON'T HAVE YOU KNOW RESIDENTS ALL UPSET ABOUT IT.
THEN, OF COURSE, A COMMUNITY QUESTION THERE.
LIKE I SAID, WE HAVE 52 RESPONSES.
IT'S STILL ACTIVE ON THE WEBSITE.
WE HAVE NOT COMPILED THE RESPONSES.
IT'S AVAILABLE IN BOTH ENGLISH AND SPANISH. NEXT PLEASE.
>> AGAIN, QUICKLY, I REALLY WANTED TO GIVE YOU A LITTLE BIT MORE TIME TO DO THE EXERCISES.
WE'LL TAKE REALLY FIVE MINUTES QUICKLY TO RUN ONE SECOND A SLIDE.
JUST TO SHARE THIS WITH YOU, WE'RE DOING A LOT OF, EXISTING ANALYSIS.
A LAND USES SHOULD NOT BE A SURPRISE.
CITY IS MOSTLY SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENTIAL COUNTY HAS ABOUT 78% OF THE LAND THAT'S VACANT.
NEXT, AND IF YOU LOOK AT THE LAND USE, WHAT THAT MEANS IS, THAT'S LIKE IN THE ETJ, YOU HAVE 12,500 ACRES OF LAND AND IN THE CITY 1,800, IF THIS ALL GETS DEVELOPED, YOU'RE LOOKING AT IT A POPULATION OF 150 PEOPLE MOVING IN.
KEEP THAT IN MIND, BECAUSE THAT MIGHT HAPPEN SOMEDAY.
WHEN JOE WAS TALKING ABOUT 50 YEARS DOWN THE ROAD, I'M SORRY, BUT PEOPLE ARE COMING, SO.
THEN I'M GOING TO HAVE YOU GOING TO START HERE?
I THINK I'VE TIED JACOBSON WITH CDS.
I THINK IT WAS INTRODUCED EARLIER, BUT WE'VE DONE A LOT OF WORK ON THE EXISTING CONDITIONS FOR MARKET AND DEMOGRAPHICS.
MOVING ON FROM THE EXISTING LAND USES COMMUNITY CHARACTER, ALL CAN READ THAT.
BUT SOME OF THE THINGS WE FOUND LOOKING AT.
WHAT PERCENTAGE OF HOUSING IS SINGLE FAMILY HOMES OR WHAT PERCENTAGE OF HOUSING UNITS OR SINGLE FAMILY HOME? THAT'S A FAIRLY HIGH PERCENTAGE.
MAJORITY HAVE BEEN BUILT PRIOR TO 1980.
THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WILL CHANGE AS WE GO HERE INTO THE FUTURE.
BUT THAT FOR A CITY IN AND AROUND AND WITHIN THE HOUSTON METROPOLITAN AREA, THAT IS AN OLDER HOUSING STOCK, HAVING A MAJORITY OF HOUSING BUILT PRIOR TO 1980.
THE OWNER RENTER SPLIT IS ABOUT 61% TO THAT'S 61-31, THAT MIGHT BE A TYPO THERE. BUT IT'S ABOUT.
>> IT'S ABOUT 60, 40, 45% OF OWNED HOMES ARE FREE AND CLEAR OF MORTGAGE, SO THEY'RE OWNED OUTRIGHT,18% OF HOUSEHOLDS FACE TO HOUSING COST BURDEN AND HOUSING COST BURDEN BEING DEFINED AS SPENDING 30% OR MORE OF YOUR INCOME ON HOUSING, THAT'S MORE COMMON, AS YOU MIGHT EXPECT IN RENTER HOUSEHOLDS THAN OWNER HOUSEHOLDS.
BUT YOUNG HOMEOWNERS ARE PARTICULARLY COST BURDEN AND MOST COST BURDEN OF ALL, AND THAT'S PRETTY COMMON SENIOR CITIZEN RENTERS.
>> WHERE DID YOU GET THIS DATA?
>> THIS DATA IS FROM THE AMERICAN COMMUNITY SURVEY RUN BY THE CENSUS.
>> IT'S BASED ON 2000 TO THE LICENSES.
>> IT IS THE AMERICAN COMMUNITY SURVEY IS ISSUED EVERY YEAR.
THE MOST RECENT AMERICAN COMMUNITY SURVEY THAT'S BEEN COMPILED IS 2023, BUT THEY PROVIDED THE GOVERNMENT STARTS OPERATING AGAIN, THEY WILL PROVIDE UPDATES FROM 2024 EITHER LATE THIS YEAR OR EARLY NEXT YEAR.
THE DATA DOES TRAIL A LITTLE BIT FROM AS IT DOES WITH THE DECENNIAL CENSUS.
THESE, THEY DON'T SURVEY EVERYBODY, OBVIOUSLY, BECAUSE I DON'T KNOW HOW MANY OF YOU FILLED OUT AN AMERICAN COMMUNITY SURVEY FORM, BUT PROBABLY NOT ALL OF YOU OR MOST OF YOU.
IT'S NOT AS ROBUST AS THE CENSUS, AND THEY DO GIVE YOU A MARGIN FOR ERROR, BUT WE'RE DEALING WITH A COMMUNITY LARGE ENOUGH, WHERE THAT MARGIN OF ERROR IS RELATIVELY SMALL.
WHEN WE LOOK AT WHAT DO WE KNOW? LOT SIZES.
THE BULK, ABOUT 60% OF LOTS WITHIN THE CITY ARE, LESS THAN A QUARTER OF AN ACRE, A QUARTER OF AN ACRE OR LESS.
>> AS YOU IF YOU LOOK AT OUT TO THE ETJ, WHERE THERE'S OF COURSE, A LOT OF FEWER HOUSES, WE'VE GOT, ACTUALLY ABOUT AS MANY FIVE OR MORE ACRE LOTS AS THERE ARE LOTS UNDER A QUARTER ACRE.
YOU CAN SEE ON THAT MAP THE CONCENTRATION OF THEM.
THESE ARE SALES FROM THE DATA FROM THE MLS, SO IT'S ANYTHING THAT WENT THROUGH A REAL TRIP.
BOTH OF THAT'S EXISTING HOME SALES, SOME OF THAT ARE NEW, BUT WE'VE SEEN SALES TOP 450 EACH YEAR SINCE 2022.
YOU SEE THE DIP AT THE END OF THAT GRAPH.
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THAT'S ACTUALLY JUST BECAUSE IT WAS YEAR TO DATE SALES.YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT, YOU'RE GOING TO TOP 450, MOST LIKELY, PERHAPS 500 OR MORE THIS YEAR.
THAT'S ABOUT 6-7% OF ANGLETON'S OWN HOUSING STOCK ON AN ANNUAL BASIS BEING SOLD OR TURNED OVER TO A NEW OWNER EVERY SINGLE YEAR SINCE 2022.
PRICING HAS BEEN PRETTY STEADY SINCE 2022.
IT JUMPED AROUND COVID AS PRICES NATIONWIDE DID.
THE MEDIAN DAYS ON MARKET HAS BEEN GIVE OR TAKE A FEW DAYS AROUND 40 PRETTY MUCH EVERY YEAR SINCE 2023, WHICH IS THAT'S NOT BAD, BUT THAT'S A HEALTHY MARKET.
I THINK IS A GOOD WAY TO PUT THAT.
NOT A MARKET WHERE THINGS ARE MOVING TOO QUICKLY, BUT NOT A MARKET WHERE HOMES ARE STAYING ON THE MARKET FOR A LONG TIME.
FOR RENTING, THERE ARE 2,600 RENTING HOUSEHOLDS IN ANGLETON.
THERE ARE 1,900 APARTMENT UNITS.
IT GIVES YOU A ROUGH IDEA OF HOW MANY SINGLE FAMILY HOMES ARE BEING RENTED OUT.
RENT GROWTH HAS BEEN STEADY OVER THE PAST SEVERAL YEARS, PARTICULARLY WITH TWO BEDROOM APARTMENTS.
IT'S A LITTLE MORE STAGNANT WITH ONE BEDROOMS. FOR SINGLE FAMILY RENTALS, AND THIS IS TAKE THE STATE WITH A LITTLE BIT OF GRAIN OF SALT.
IT'S PRETTY MUCH IMPOSSIBLE TO GET ANYWHERE CLOSE TO COMPREHENSIVE DATA ON SINGLE FAMILY RENTALS.
THIS IS STUFF THAT, AGAIN, IT'S RUN THROUGH THE MLS, AND MOST SINGLE FAMILY RENTALS AREN'T UNLIKE MOST HOME SALES.
BUT IT GIVES YOU, I THINK A FAIR IDEA OF THE MARKET, AND THE RENTS ON THAT REALLY HAVE SPIKED IN THE PAST TWO YEARS FOR SINGLE FAMILY HOMES AFTER BEING STEADY IN THE FOUR YEARS PRIOR THAT WE WERE LOOKING AT IN THIS PERIOD.
COMMERCIAL. THERE'S OVER 400,000 SQUARE FEET OF OFFICE, AND ACCORDING TO COSTAR, IT'S QUITE WELL OCCUPIED, THOUGH MOST OF IT IS NOT NEW AS MOST OF THE OVERWHELMING MAJORITY BUILT PRIOR TO 1990.
LEASE RATES HAVE BEEN ABOVE $24 A SQUARE FOOT SINCE MID 2023.
MEDICAL. OF COURSE, I THINK WE ALL KNOW ABOUT THE UTMB, THE ANGLETON DANBURY CAMPUS.
IT'S ONE OF THE LARGEST EMPLOYERS, OF COURSE, IN ANGLETON, HAS 62 STAFFED BEDS, INDUSTRIAL OCCUPANCY.
INDUSTRIAL, WHERE WE'VE SEEN QUITE A BIT OF CONSTRUCTION HERE IN THE LAST 15 YEARS.
ITS OCCUPANCIES ARE HEALTHY AND LEASE RATES HAVE GONE UP CONSIDERABLY SINCE 2020.
WE'VE HAD POSITIVE ABSORPTION IN SEVEN OF THE LAST EIGHT QUARTERS, WHICH GIVEN THE AMOUNT OF SPACE IS QUITE IMPRESSIVE.
>> WHO ARE THE TOP THREE EMPLOYERS IN ANGLETON?
THE TOP THREE EMPLOYERS IN THAT IF I'M NOT MISTAKEN, THE COUNTY SCHOOL.
SCHOOL DISTRICT IN THE HOSPITAL.
YEAH. IF THEY'RE NOT THE TOP THREE, THEY'RE LIKE, THREE OF THE TOP FIVE. OKAY.
>> THAT'S WHAT I'VE ALWAYS HEARD TOO.
>> ADAM WAS GOING TO TALK ABOUT SOME THOROUGHFARE INFRASTRUCTURE ISSUES.
>> OKAY. WE'RE LOOKING AT HERE IS THE LAST COMPREHENSIVE PLAN YOU ALL DID IN 2005 VERSUS THE 2020 MISSOURI ACCOUNT FIS THOROUGHFARE PLAN.
I ZOOMED IN ON THE THOROUGHFARE PLAN A LITTLE BIT TOO MUCH, BUT JUXTAPOSING WHAT WAS PLANNED IN 2020 VERSUS WHAT WAS PLANNED IN 2005, AND YOU CAN SEE WHERE NEW GROWTH IS EXPECTED.
THEY'VE MODIFIED THE PLANNING ACCORDINGLY. NEXT SLIDE.
>> THESE ARE THE GOALS IN THE MISSOURI COUNTY MAJOR THOROUGHFARE PLAN.
AGAIN, WHATEVER WE DO MOVING FORWARD TO LOOK AT THOSE AS WE INCORPORATE THOSE INTO PLAN.
OBVIOUSLY, WHEN WE START THINKING ABOUT GROWTH.
THIS IS TIED TO AS MUCH TO INFRASTRUCTURE AS IS GROWTH.
GRAND PARKWAY, I DON'T KNOW IF YOU'VE ALL BEEN UP ON THE NORTHWEST SIDE, BUT AS SOON AS THAT WENT IN, IT EXPLODED.
WHAT THIS MEANS IS GROWTH, AND THAT IMPACTS ALL THE REST OF THE INFRASTRUCTURE AS WELL.
SAME THING WITH STATE HIGHWAY 35, STATE HIGHWAY 288.
ANY IMPROVEMENTS OF THOSE IS GOING TO BRING IN ADDITIONAL GROWTH AND ADDITIONAL TRAFFIC.
2020-2025, THERE'S 2084 CRASHES, 23 FATAL.
SLIGHTLY DECLINED FROM2024-2025.
AGAIN, WE'RE NOT TO 2025, BUT YOU CAN SEE WHERE THE CRITICAL HOT SPOTS ARE. NEXT SLIDE.
>> THIS IS A SNAPSHOT OF YOUR CURRENT TRANSIT, PEDESTRIAN AND BIKE CONNECTIVITY, AS YOU'LL SEE YOUR TRANSIT NETWORK.
GOES AROUND THE OUTSIDE OF THE MAIN CORRIDORS IN THE BACK DOWN.
GET SIDEWALKS ARE HIGHLIGHTED IN YELLOW, SO YOU CAN SEE WHERE THE NEED FOR SIDEWALKS ARE AND THEN PUBLIC TRANSIT AND BIKE/PED DESTINATION.
YOU CAN SEE WHERE THERE'S CONNECT WHERE THERE'S POINTS, THERE'S NODES, AND WHAT YOU HAVE TO DO TO CONNECT. NEST SLIDE.
>> ARE YOU SURE ON THE GAPS ON SIDEWALKS,
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SOME OF THAT THAT'S HIGHLIGHTED UP LIKE BETWEEN ON HENDERSON SORRY.FOR EXAMPLE, DOWNING FROM HENDERSON TO FREEDMAN PARK IS IN YELLOW, AND THEY'VE GOT A SIDEWALK OR LONG THERE. I'VE WALKED IT.
>> YELLOW IS THE EXISTING SIDE.
OKAY I'M LOOK I'M GOING CRAZY OVER HERE.
>> YES. YOU CAN SEE. YELLOW HIGHLIGHTS THE SIDEWALKS. YEAH.
>> I THINK YELLOW IS WHAT'S THEIR GAPS? WE SHOULD CLARIFY THAT. YEAH. OKAY.
>> SLIDE. YOU SEE WHERE THE COMPUTER PATTERNS ARE RIGHT YOU GOT A LOT OF PEOPLE GOING INTO HOUSTON SO YOU HAVE THIS IS A COMPUTER ROUTE?
>> I SAW EVERY CAR, 80,000 PEOPLE COMING DOWN TODAY WHEN I TOLD [LAUGHTER] NEVER USED TO HAPPEN BEFORE.
>> YEAH. ON YOUR WATER AND WASTEWATER.
THIS JUST GIVES YOU A LITTLE BIT OF THE DATA THAT WE WERE ABLE TO COLLECT.
I THINK HIGHLIGHT HERE IS WE LOOK AT FASTER PLAN, SIMILAR TO A COMPREHENSIVE PLAN RIGHT, THAT'S DIFFER THAN A CIP.
NOT ONLY HIGHLIGHTS THE INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS YOU'RE GOING TO NEED, BUT THE TYPES OF PROJECTS.
PAST THE INFRASTRUCTURE, IT COULD BE THINGS I WOULDN'T NEED TO GO IN WATER RIGHTS, WHEN YOU WOULD HAVE TO SWITCH TO WATER SOURCES RIGHT.
THAT'S WHAT A WATER MASTER PLAN AND A WASTEWATER MASTER PLAN WILL HELP YOU DO.
THOSE WOULD THEN HELP POTENTIALLY FEED INTO A CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM, WHICH IS HOW YOU PROGRAM YOUR PROJECTS.
THEN AGAIN, THAT'S TO A COMM. THE MOST IMPORTANT THING I WANT TO POINT OUT IS STORM WATER FLOODING.
AGAIN, SO IF YOU LOOK, THE MAJORITY OF THE CITY IS NOT IN THE MAP FLOODPLAIN.
THAT IS NOT THE HIGHLIGHT OF FLOOD RISK? IF YOU LOOK AROUND THE COUNTY, LOOK AROUND THE REGION, YOU LOOK AT THE MAP FLOODPLAINS VERSUS WHERE FLOODING OCCURS, BUT THIS IS NOT SHOWING IS WHERE THE STREETS ARE FLOODING.
IT'S IMPORTANT TO LOOK AT WHERE THE FLOODPLAINS ARE, BUT IT'S ALSO IMPORTANT TO RECOGNIZE THAT FLOODING OCCURS EVERYWHERE, NOT JUST IN THE FLOODPLAINS.
WE START THINKING ABOUT INFRASTRUCTURE MOVING FORWARD, WE HAVE TO LOOK BEYOND THE MAP'S FLOODPLAINS AND LOOK AT WHAT RISK ACTUALLY IN SOME PARTS OF THE CITY.
ONE THING THAT WE NEED TO START LOOKING AT IS ATLAS-14.
I DON'T WANT TO BORE YOU WITH THAT, BUT THAT IS THE RAINFALL ESTIMATES.
WHEN WE SIZE INFRASTRUCTURE, WE SIZE IT BASED ON A STORM EVENT.
UNDER ATLAS-14, OUR STORM EVENTS ARE GOING UP ROUGHLY 30%.
A LOT MORE RAIN IS COMING IN THE SAME AMOUNT OF TIME YOU HAVE TO SIZE 14.
ANYTHING THAT WAS BUILT BEFORE ATLAS-14 IS PROBABLY NOT UP TO HANDLING THE CAPACITY.
AS WE BUILD FORWARD, WE HAVE TO ACCOMMODATE.
NEXT SLIDE. RESILIENCY AND SUSTAINABILITY.
AGAIN, THIS WHOLE AREA IS GROWING.
STATE HIGHWAY 288 IS A MAJOR EVACUATION ROUTE, BUT WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE AMOUNT OF GROWTH THAT'S HAPPENING ALONG THAT CORRIDOR, AND YOU THINK ABOUT THE AMOUNT OF PEOPLE THAT ARE TRYING TO GET OUT, WE HAVE TO START ACCOUNTING FOR THAT.
EVEN WITHIN THE CITY, EVEN WITHIN THE MAJOR THE LOCAL COLLECTORS, HOW ARE PEOPLE GETTING OUTSIDE OF THE CITY TO THESE OTHER EVACUATION ROUTES.
WE START LOOKING AT BEING RESILIENT.
PART OF IT'S GETTING OUT, AND THEN PART OF IT'S COMING BACK.
DURING BERYL, THERE WAS A TOTAL OF $4.5 MILLION IN FEE ASSISTANCE REGISTRATIONS, SO 3.5 MILLION RENT OWNER, $1 MILLION RENTERS.
BERYL HIT US HARD. NEXT SLIDE.
THE HAZARD MITIGATION PLAN, SO PART OF THIS GRANT IS TYING THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN TO THE HAZARD MITIGATION PLAN.
LOOKING AT THE CITIES AND ALSO LOOKING AT THE COUNTIES.
WE START LOOKING AT THINGS RELATED TO INFRASTRUCTURE, WE HAVE TO HOLD THE GOALS FROM THOSE MITIGATION PLANS WITH RESPECT TO INFRASTRUCTURE AS WELL AS RESPECT TO HOUSING AND OTHER ASPECTS.
BUT THESE ARE SOME OF THE MAIN GOALS AND OBJECTIVES THAT ARE RELATED TO INFRASTRUCTURE THAT INFRASTRUCTURE COULD HELP ACHIEVE.
SAME THING WITH MISSOURI COUNTY HAS A MITIGATION PLAN.
SIMILAR, BUT REALLY WITH RESPECT TO INFRASTRUCTURE, THEY'RE HYPER FOCUSED ON THE FLOODPLAIN AND PROTECTION, WHICH MAKES SENSE.
BUT AGAIN, AT THE CITY AT THE COUNTY LEVEL, THAT MAKES SENSE, BUT AT THE CITY LEVEL, WE HAVE TO LOOK AT MORE LOCALIZED FLOOD EVENTS.
>> THANKS, ADAM. ONE THING THAT WE WILL ALSO DO, LIKE I SAID, IS ONCE WE GET THE RECOMMENDATIONS IN, WE'RE GOING TO LOOK AT ALL YOUR DEVELOPMENT CODE.
WHAT WE HAVE PRELIMINARILY IDENTIFIED ARE SOME KEY ISSUES THAT EXIST.
WE'LL GET TO THE BOTTOM OF IT IN OUR PHASE TWO OF THIS PLAN.
I JUST WANTED TO POINT THAT OUT.
SO THAT THERE ARE SOME ISSUES THAT HAVE BEEN ALREADY IDENTIFIED.
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THEN JUST TALKING A LITTLE BIT ABOUT COMMUNITY PROFILE, YOU WANT TO.>> SURE I'M BACK FOR MY ENCORE.
COMPARED THE CITY OF ANGLETON [LAUGHTER] TO BRAZORIA COUNTY IN SEVERAL KEY DEMOGRAPHIC CATEGORIES, AND I BELIEVE WE'LL DO SOME MORE OF THIS, OF COURSE, BEFORE THIS WORK IS OUT.
SOME OF THE STUFF WE SHOWED YOU EARLIER, WE'LL HAVE SOME MORE COMPARISONS TO PUT IT IN CONTEXT, BUT THE MEDIAN AGE IS PRACTICALLY IDENTICAL.
THERE'S A HIGHER SHARE OF THE POPULATION OVER THE AGE OF 65 COMPARED TO THE COUNTY, LOWER SHARE OF THE POPULATION AGE 46 TO 64.
THE SHARES ARE PRETTY COMPARABLE IN OTHER AGE GENERAL AGE RANGES.
IT'S QUITE SIMILAR TO THE COUNTY AND OVERALL DEMOGRAPHIC PROFILE, AND I HIGHLIGHTED THE HISPANIC LATINO POPULATION THERE BECAUSE THE CHAIR WAS IDENTICAL.
THE DIVERSITY INDEX MEASURE IT'S A STATISTIC THAT I PARTICULARLY LIKE WHEN I DEAL WITH THIS BECAUSE IT'S BASICALLY THE CHANCE THAT IF YOU TOOK TWO RANDOM PEOPLE FROM, HERE WITHIN THE CITY OR WHEREVER YOUR GEOGRAPHY IS, THE CHANCE THAT THEY WOULD BE OF DIFFERENT ETHNICITY.
AMONG THE MAJOR ETHNICITIES THAT ARE TRACKED BY THE CENSUS.
IT'S NEARLY 60% IN THE CITY OF ANGLETON.
IT'S NEARLY 70% IN BRAZORIA COUNTY.
MUCH OF THAT'S DRIVEN BRAZORIA COUNTY ON THE WHOLE HAS A HIGHER SHARE OF ASIAN AND I THINK IN MULTI-ETHNIC PEOPLE WHO SAY TWO OR MORE RACES POPULATION COMPARED TO ANGLETON, PARTICULARLY WITH I THINK THE ASIAN SHARE.
THE EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT WAS FAIRLY SIMILAR.
THERE ARE A BIT LOWER ON THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE WHO ARE SHARE OF PEOPLE WHO HAVE COMPLETED SOME LEVEL OF HIGHER EDUCATION, BUT THERE IS A HIGHER SHARE OF RESIDENTS WHO HAVE AN ASSOCIATES OR TECHNICAL DEGREE, CERTIFICATES, TYPES OF POST SECONDARY EDUCATION THAT FEED INTO BLUE COLLAR, OFTENTIMES ARE HELPFUL OR REQUIRED FOR HIGHER PAYING HIGHER END BLUE COLLAR JOBS.
MEDIAN HOUSEHOLD SIZE WAS ABOUT THE SAME AND MEDIAN INCOME WAS SLIGHTLY LOWER.
THE RECENT POPULATION GROWTH HAS BEEN FAIRLY STEADY AND HAS RAMPED UP REALLY EVEN SINCE 2020.
I THINK WHAT WE SAW WITH WHAT WE HEARD FROM THE SUPERINTENDENT, WOULD BACK UP THESE ESTIMATES THAT WE SEE FROM THE CENSUS.
>> ONE INTERESTING THING IS THE RATE OF GROWTH IN HOUSEHOLDS HAS BEEN HIGHER THAN THE POPULATION GROWTH.
THE HOUSEHOLD SIZE IS SHRINKING, AS IT IS IN MOST PLACES.
BUT IT'S AN INTERESTING PHENOMENON TO NOTE, BECAUSE YOU MAY NOT SEE AS MUCH POPULATION GROWTH IN THOSE NUMBERS AS YOU MIGHT EXPECT.
BUT IF YOU HAVE MORE HOUSEHOLDS, THAT'S WHERE HOUSING DEMAND IS GOING TO BE DRIVEN.
I THINK IT WAS THE HOUSTON CHRONICLE HAD THIS BIG SHOCKING ARTICLE ABOUT AN AREA IN THE MIDDLE OF THE LOOP OF HOUSTON WHERE THE POPULATIONS DECLINED, AND THEY'VE ADDED THERE'S 15% MORE HOUSEHOLDS THAN THERE WERE A DECADE AGO AND YET THE POPULATIONS DECLINED BY 15%, BECAUSE OF THE NATURE.
THAT'S AN AREA WHERE THE CHANGE IS QUITE RAPID, BUT YOU CAN SEE AN AREA WHERE POPULATION ISN'T GROWING, IN FACT, IT MAY BE STAGNANT OR DECLINING.
BUT YOU WILL STILL NEED NEW HOUSING, WE'LL STILL NEED NEW DEVELOPMENT TO HOUSE TO PUT THE PEOPLE.
>> WELL, PHIL ACTUALLY TALKED AT THE CHAMBER THIS MORNING, TOO, WE WERE TALKING ABOUT HOUSING, HOW NOW YOU MIGHT HAVE TWO FAMILIES ACTUALLY LIVING IN THE SAME HOME NOW.
WITH THE GROWTH WITH YOUR MULTI LEVEL, YOUR PARENTS MIGHT BE LIVING WITH COMING BACK TO THAT.
>> WHICH IS SOMETHING THAT MAY REVERSE THAT TREND BECAUSE THE CENSUS IS GOING TO CLASSIFY ONLY ONE OF THE ONLY GOING TO CLASSIFY A HOUSEHOLDER IN THAT SITUATION.
SO THAT'S SOMETHING THAT MAY REVERSE THE TREND.
SO I THINK WE'LL SEE IT'LL BE INTERESTING TO WATCH IN THE FUTURE.
COVID IS SOMETHING THAT EXPLODED A LOT OF THOSE THINGS, AND WE SAW AN ENORMOUS GROWTH IN HOUSEHOLDS AFTER COVID COMPARED TO POPULATION GROWTH, LIKE WE HAD NOT SEEN QUITE SOME TIME.
AND OBVIOUSLY, THAT'S CALMED DOWN A LOT.
SO THAT WE MAY BE SEEING SOME A SLOWING IN THAT BECAUSE OF MULTI GENERATION HOUSEHOLDS.
PEOPLE BEING WILLING TO BE ROOMMATES.
>> EVEN SOME OF THE NEIGHBORHOODS HERE IN ALTON ARE BUILDING HOUSES THAT ARE MULTI GENERAL ISSUE. YES.
>> THERE'S ABSOLUTELY A GRAY MARKET FOR THIS.
SO FOR LOOKING AT THIS IS DATA FROM A CENSUS SOURCE CALLED LONGITUDINAL EMPLOYER HOUSEHOLD DYNAMICS LHD, WHICH GIVES US A SENSE.
I THINK IT OFTEN UNDERCOUNTS JOBS, BUT I DO THINK IT'S A GOOD SOURCE FOR LOOKING AT WHERE JOBS ARE LOCATED, AND WE SEE OBVIOUSLY CONCENTRATIONS ALONG THE ALASKA STREET CORRIDOR ON STATE HIGHWAY 35 UTMB.
[01:40:04]
MISSOURI COUNTY AS A WHOLE, ADDED NEARLY 14,000 JOBS, BUT JUST BETWEEN 2020-2024, A NEARLY 12% INCREASE JUST IN THOSE FOUR YEARS.IN ANGLETON, SPECIFICALLY, OUR TOP INDUSTRIES, HEALTHCARE, RETAIL ACCOMMODATION AND FOOD SERVICES.
YOU COMBINE THAT WITH PUBLIC SERVICE, WORKING WITH THE GOVERNMENT, AND YOU'VE GOT 60 + PERCENT OF THE JOBS ARE WITHIN JUST THOSE FIVE CATEGORIES.
OVER 50% ARE IN THE FOUR LISTED HERE.
STILL LOOK AT HOTELS. FIVE IN THE CITY LIMITS.
THE RATES HAVE BEEN RISING FASTER THAN WE COMPARED IT TO SOME NEARBY CITIES HERE, LAKE JACKSON, LUTE.
OCCUPANCY HAS RECOVERED TO PRE 2020 LEVELS.
THAT WAS, OF COURSE, 2020 HOTEL DATA IS NOT FUN TO LOOK AT. I DON'T RECOMMEND IT.
BUT IT'S RECOVERED HERE AND IT'S RECOVERED HERE PROBABLY ABOUT AS FAST AS ANYWHERE THAT I'VE SEEN IN THE HOUSTON REGION.
WE'RE GOING TO LOOK AT LOCATION OF JOBS.
THIS IS MORE DATA FROM THAT CENSUS LHD SOURCE.
AGAIN, I THINK THEY UNDERCOUNT THE JOBS.
WHEN I SAY, LESS THAN 700 ANGLETON RESIDENTS ARE EMPLOYED WITHIN THE CITY LIMITS.
IT'S PROBABLY I THINK IT'S PROBABLY A BIT MORE THAN THAT, BUT I THINK THESE PERCENTAGES ARE PROBABLY NOT TOO FAR OFF, 92% OF EMPLOYEES, PEOPLE WHO LIVE AT ANGLETON COMMUTE OUT OF THE CITY.
NOW THEY MIGHT NOT COMMUTE FAR OUT OF THE CITY.
THOUGH IF WE'RE LOOKING AT, I HAD DATA, I THINK IN THE REPORT ON SPECIFIC DESTINATIONS.
HOUSTON IS A TOP DESTINATION, LAKE JACKSON IS A TOP DESTINATION.
>> GALVESTON AROUND TOWN, BUT YOU ALSO HAVE THE PEOPLE WHO DO WORK HERE SEVERAL THOUSAND PEOPLE WHO WORK WITHIN THE CITY OF ANGLETON, 85% OF THOSE DON'T LIVE IN ANGLETON.
THIS IS THE THING WHEN MY FIRM DOES A LOT OF HOUSING STUDIES.
THIS IS ALWAYS GREAT OPPORTUNITY.
IF YOU'RE LOOKING TO ADD HOUSING, YOU'LL GET IT PROBABLY REGARDLESS, BUT SOME OF THESE TOWNS, NOBODY CAN PROVE HOUSING DEMAND.
THIS IS A GREAT WAY TO PROVE HOUSING DEMAND.
IF YOU HAVE PEOPLE COMING TO YOUR CITY TO WORK AND THEY DON'T LIVE THERE , IT MAKES YOU ASK WHY? I FOUND THAT TO BE AN INTERESTING STATISTIC WITH THIS.
>> I DON'T KNOW. LIKE A COUNTY'S A BIG EMPLOYER, UTMB IS A BIG EMPLOYER.
BUT I WANT TO LIVE IN LAKE JACKSON BECAUSE THAT'S MY HOME WHERE I GREW UP, AND IT'S NO BIG DEAL TO DRIVE 15 MINUTES.
SURE 15, 20 MINUTES DOWN THE ROAD.
>> I MEAN, THE PEOPLE HAVE REASONS, BUT IT'S ALL THINGS LIKE YOU TAKE 5% OF THE PEOPLE WHO WORK IN YOUR CITY AND DON'T LIVE IN YOUR CITY, AND THEY MOVE HERE AND THAT'S DEMAND FOR HUNDREDS OF HOMES WITH A VERY SMALL PERCENTAGE.
>> I TELL YOU, I'VE SEEN IT A THE COUNTY OVER AND OVER PEOPLE GET EMPLOYED IN THE COUNTY OUT OF HOUSTON, AND EVENTUALLY, THEY DECIDE THEY WANT TO MOVE IN THE COUNTY, BUT THEY NEVER WANT TO COME DOWN HERE TO ANGLETON.
THEY WANT TO GO TO PEARLAND OR THEY WANT TO HIT SOMEWHERE IN BETWEEN IN THE IOWA COLE MANVILLE AREA, FOR SOME REASON, BEING THIS CLOSE IS JUST TOO FAR FOR THE BIG CITY TO MAKE THAT LEAP.
>> WELL, AND YOU SAY IF UTMB IS A BIG EMPLOYER.
A LOT OF THE DOCTORS AND STUFF THAT COME TO THIS AREA.
THERE'S QUITE A FEW OF THEM NOW IN LAKE JACKSON AREA.
THEY'RE PASSING ANGLETON TO GO DOWN THERE, BUT THEY'RE STILL GOING BACK THAT WAY NORTH AREA.
THOSE THAT ARE WORKING LIKE A UTMB, MOST OF THOSE DOCTORS ARE PROFESSIONALS DO NOT LIVE IN ANGLETON.
THAT'S A BIG EMPLOYER, SO THAT'S A BIG.
>> THERE'S THERE'S ALMOST A SIGMA LIVING DOWN HERE, EVEN IF YOU WORK DOWN HERE, I DON'T KNOW IF IT'S JUST A SPILLOVER FROM THE FOLKS THAT WORK AT THE PLANTS AND DON'T WANT TO LIVE NEXT TO THE PLANTS OR WHAT, BUT EVERYONE LOOKS AM LIKE I'M CRAZY FOR LIVING THERE.
>> BUT I G SAID, AND THEN THE OTHER PART OF THE EMPLOYER, PEOPLE LIVE HERE AND THEN WORK DOWN THERE.
YOU SAID GOING TOWARDS HOUSTON, BUT A LOT OF PEOPLE WHO LIVE IN ANGLETON WORK IN FREEPORT. THEY EITHER WORK AD.
>> IT WAS ABOUT, I WOULD SAY ABOUT EVEN I MEAN, IT'S MORE WHO GO TOWARDS HOUSTON, SOME OF THE CITIES UP THERE, BUT OBVIOUSLY IT'S A VERY SIZABLE PERCENTAGE WHO GO TOWARDS LAKE JACKSON, FREEPORT, ETC.
>> WE PLANTS ARE. THAT'S WHAT THEY'RE DOING.
>> IT'S A TWO WAY COMMUTE OUT OF TOWN, WHICH IS AGAIN.
>> WE'RE GOING TO FIX THAT. I'M GOING TO MAKE ANGLETON SO ATTRACTIVE.
>> I THINK MAYBE THE TYPE OF HOUSING PEOPLE ARE LOOKING FOR.
WE DID SOME STATISTICS ON HOUSING AGE, AND A LOT OF HOUSING IN ANGLETON IS OLDER.
>> A MAJORITY WAS BUILT BEFORE 1980, WHICH MAN IN FOR A HOUSTON AREA.
>> PEOPLE ARE LOOKING FOR NEWER HOMES, LARGER HOMES.
I DON'T KNOW. I'M JUST GUESSING, BUT WE'LL GET INTO THE DEAL.
>> THE REASON I ALWAYS HEAR IS WE'RE NOT CLOSE TO ANYTHING.
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WHICH ALWAYS EQUATES TO, LIKE RETAIL, DRILL DOWN.>> BUT IT'S CHANGING. IT WILL AS MANVILLE KEEPS GOING DOWN.
I MEAN, LIKE SO MANY PEOPLE ARE COMMUTING TO HOUSTON ALREADY.
>> WELL, THE CENSUS CAN'T TELL US, BUT WHERE ANGLETON IS PROBABLY ATTRACTIVELY PLACED, AND WE SEE THIS IN SOME CITIES IS DOES YOU HAVE A COUPLE AND ONE WORKS WORKS IN HOUSTON.
THIS IS A VERY APPEALING PLACE TO LIVE FROM THAT STANDPOINT.
>> I CAN'T SAY, AGAIN, IS WE'RE LOOKING FORWARD AS A MILLENNIAL WHO LIVES IN HOUSTON, MOST OF US ARE LOOKING TO GET OUT BECAUSE THE ATTRACTIVENESS OF HOUSTON IS FADING, BECAUSE OF ALL THE ISSUES THAT THEY DO HAVE.
AS YOU ALL LOOK TO PROVE, AS YOU ALL LOOK TO GROW AND GROW RESPONSIBLY, THAT'S ALSO GOING TO BE ATTRACTIVE IS GOING TO BRING PEOPLE HERE THAT THE CRAZY LOOK THAT YOU'RE GETTING NOW IN FIVE YEARS.
IT WON'T BE. CRAZY PEOPLE ARE GOING TO BE THE ONES THAT ARE STAYING.
>> THEY'RE SAYING, OH, NO, YOU DON'T HAVE TO STAY IN THE HOUSTON, WHY DON'T YOU JUST GO PAN? PAIR LANDS RIGHT THERE. [OVERLAPPING]
>> LIVE NEXT TO THE BIG BOXES.
THEY DON'T WANT TO LIVE NEXT TO THE HIGHWAY ORDER.
THEY WANT SMALL TOWN FEEL, WHICH IS WHY YOUR RESIDENTS HAVE SAID THAT THAT'S WHY THEY'RE HERE.
THAT'S GOING TO START DRAWING PEOPLE LIKE MYSELF, LIKE THERE'S MY AGE AND YOUNGER DOWN.
>> HOW MANY HOUSES YOU LIVE IN AT DOWN THERE? [LAUGHTER]
>> AS YOU GO PAST THE IOWA COLONY.
I LOVE THIS DRIVE DOWN TO SIDE BEACH ALL THE TIME. I LOVE THE BEACH.
AS SOON AS YOU GET PAST IOWA COLONY, BEAUTIFUL.
UNFORTUNATELY, I CAN'T LIVE YET AWAY FROM THAT.
>> THE LAST THING WE HAVE IS JUST HAD WE WERE TRACKING 16 ACTIVE SUBDIVISIONS DEVELOPING 735 LOTS IN 2024, BUT THERE'S AN ADDITIONAL 19 PLANNED WITH 12,000 LOTS THAT WE BELIEVE WILL BE PUT ON THE GROUND HERE IN THE NEAR FUTURE.
AND LOOK AT THE SCHOOL DISTRICT DATA.
THERE WAS A PARTICULARLY SIGNIFICANT INCREASE IN THIRD TO SIXTH GRADE STUDENTS IN 2023, BUT JUST SUGGESTING WHO IS MOVING INTO THESE HOUSES? PEOPLE WHO ARE OF AGE TO HAVE KIDS, PARTICULARLY KIDS IN THAT 8-12-YEAR-OLD RANGE.
[3. CPAC engagement and input exercises]
I TALKED ABOUT SOME OF THE COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT EVENTS WE'LL BE HAVING.WE DO HAVE AN EXERCISE FOR YOU, AND, I DON'T WANT TO PUSH YOU TOO MUCH, BUT IF YOU HAVE LIKE 15 MINUTES, IT'LL BE QUICK.
THE FIRST EXERCISE WAS ABOUT THE VISIONING, BUT WHAT WE'LL DO IS WE'LL DO IT.
I'LL SEND IT TO YOU SO THAT YOU HAVE A LITTLE BIT MORE TIME TO THINK ABOUT IT.
BUT THESE ARE MAP EXERCISES THAT WE CAN TALK ABOUT NOW.
WHAT WE HAVE IS WE HAVE FIVE STATIONS OR MAPS, AND YOU CAN JUST GO FROM ONE STATION TO THE OTHER AND BASICALLY TIME TO IDENTIFY THIS ONE, FOR EXAMPLE, MOBILITY CONCERNS.
WHAT ARE SOME OF THE AREAS? WE WANT TO BE HEARD FROM YOU, BUT WE WANT TO SEE ON THE MAP, WHICH YOU THINK ARE SOME OF THE CONCERNS INFRASTRUCTURE.
THAT'S REALLY IMPORTANT ASKING ABOUT WHAT ARE THE CHARACTERISTICS THAT YOU LIKE AND WHAT LAND USE AND I'LL BE THERE TO HELP YOU OUT.
IF YOU JUST WANT TO GO FROM MAP TO MAP AND YOU USE THE PINS, WILL EXPLAIN TO YOU WHAT THE EXERCISE.
[01:50:21]
>>BUT WE WOULD LIKE TO SEE SOME PAGES LIKE WORK UNITS.
OBVIOUSLY, THEY WOULDN'T BE APPROPRIATED OF THE SUBDIVISIONS, BUT ARE THEY MORE APPROPRIATE ALONG CORRIDORS, THINGS LIKE THAT.
WHAT ARE THE CORRIDORS THAT YOU WOULD LIKE TO GET IMPROVED? YOU CAN PUT THAT.
WHERE DO YOU THINK ARE THE GATEWAYS TO THE TOWN THAT CAN BE BEAUTIFIED. THEN ALSO TALK.
WHERE DO YOU THINK LIKE THE SMALL LAKE WOULD BE HELPFUL.
PEOPLE CAN GO, GRAB SOME MILK.
>> A LOT OF THOSE LITTLE TOWNS HAVE REALLY PRETTY GATEWAYS, LIKE THEY PIN.
THEY'VE HUGE THINGS ON THEIR OVERPASSES OR STATUES OF GIANT SPURS.
[01:55:02]
[OVERLAPPING]>> WHAT SPEEDS NEED TO BE IMPROVED, DO YOU THINK YOU CAN PUT SETS I YOU KNOW, SO IF YOU HAD LIVING THAT'S WERE JUST TALKING ABOUT.
CLOSE TO THE STORE WHERE THEY WOULD HAVE FOR WOULD BE A BETTER PLACE BECAUSE THAT'S ALWAYS ONE THING THAT YOU KNOW IT'S RESIDENTIAL, BUT IT'S NOT THAT CROSS THE RAILROAD.
BECAUSE I THINK SOMEBODY MENTIONED THAT THESE ALL CAME FROM WHAT WE HEARD THAT YOU ALL WANTED NOW THE QUESTION IS, I HEARD THAT THEY WERE MAYBE GOING TO DO ON DEVELOP GOING ALL THE WAY THROUGH TO MULAN MIAN DEVELOPER HERE THAT'S COMING IN SINGLE FAMILY HOME.
THEY WERE TRYING TO MAKE THAT WE CAN GET RID OF THE HOMES HERE.
YOU KNOW, YES. YOU KNOW, MALKIN IS FOR SALE.
AFTER THEY DID ALL THAT RE NOW THEY'RE CLOSED TO HIM.
TOWN PUSHING TOWN CENTER, WE KEEP SAYING TOWER 44.
WE GOT YOUR TOWN CENTER TO DO THAT.
I I BE A BIG LIKE A WHOLE JO NICE. THAT'S RIGHT. WE'D BE DIFFERENT.
THERE'S NOT ONE OF THEM DOWN HERE.
I LIKE ALL THESE TWO, BUT I DON'T NEVER GO DOWN THERE ON I STAY IN THE ANGLE MOST OF THE TIME.
ORDINANCES UNDERSTAND HAD TO HAVE TREE TO BE PURPLE.
THAT HAS TO GO BACK SURE IT DEPENDS I CAN GO BACK, CITIES ARE CONFORMING REGULATION CHANGE AND THE SOME CLAUSES WHERE IF YOU EXPAND, MORE THAN 20%, THEN YOU NEED TO BRING THE ENTIRE SITE TO COMPLIANCE SOME CITIES NO MATTER WHAT IN FIVE YEARS, YOU HAVE TO PLAN ALL THE 50% OF THE COMMUNITY.
TYPICALLY, THEY DON'T LIKE TO GO BACK AND FINALIZE THE PROPERTY OWNER.
[02:00:02]
MY ARGUMENT HAVE THE REGULATIONS.REBUILD RIGHT'S TOTAL CONSTRUCTION OR MORE.
YES, IT WILL. AND THE RETAIL LIST COME BACK EVERY SO OFTEN AND GO $1 BILLION.
WE'RE GOING TO ANOTHER 2 BILLION.
THEY STILL HAVE THE ABILITY TO PUT ADDITIONAL DOES.
BUT YOU JUST HAVE A G. YOU GOT A GUARANTEE BRING BILLION DOLLAR.
CODE TO BE COMPETITIVE WHEN THEY HAVE TO SIT THERE AND BUT AGAIN, LOWER RENTS RENT. COMPREHENSIVE.
RETAIL. SO THEY START CHURCHES I BELIEVE YOU MENTIONED A THREE CHURCHEE IT SEEMS LIKE A F.
I HAVE SOME? I THINK THE ROSES HOW ARE YOU GOING TO DO? GO IN DIFFERENT PLACES ENGAGEMENTS OR YOU JUST SEND E MAILS.
UH, IT DEPENDS ON HOW THEY PREFER, BUT WE START OFF WITH GIVING 23 DAYS.
VIRAL AND THE FORMAT WILL BE 1 HOUR.
AND THE FIRST 5 MINUTES WILL BE A VIEW BECAUSE THEY MAY NOT BE AWARE OF THE.
SO WE WILL HAVE THE SHORT OVERVIEWS.
AND AFTER THAT, IT WILL BE IT WILL BE THESE QUESTIONS.
BECAUSE I DO KNOW DIFFERS TARGET IN AND I DO WANT TO MAKE SURE I I'M WORKING ON IT, BUT YOU KNOW THEY STOP.
SO THAT'S WHY I WAS SAYING IF I THERE'S TWO, QUESTION, AND I WILL ALSO TRY TO DO IF THE SECTIONS A POSSIBILITY FIVE SECTIONS I SKIP QUESTION BECAUSE I I CARE ABOUT CARELESS.
I DO WANT TO ONCE WE HAVE THAT, IF YOU ARE GOING TO DO, JUST LIKE YOU HAVE IN THE COMMUNITY EVENTS, HAVE SOME KIND OF ROAD SHOWS WHERE YOU GO IN TO DIFFERENT GROUPS OF PEOPLE KIND OF INVITE US TO SOME OF THOSE ESPECIALLY THE ONES HAVE TO GET THEM TO REALLY COME.
THEY THERE. BODY. ENCOURAGE EVERYBODY HERE YOU GOT TO COME THEY DO.
EPI FOCUS GROUPS, IF YOU IDENTIFY SOME OF THE GROUPS, YOU CAN REALLY HELP GATHER.
WE WILL START WITH THE WE CAN KNOW HOW MUCH I HAVE, WHATEVER I DO HAVE, I WILL LEND IT TO THIS PARTICULAR.
[02:05:07]
THIS COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT PROCESS AND COMING UP WITH A PLAN THAT IS ENDORSED BY THE COMMUNITY ABLE TO CHECK THAT BOX, WHICH IS THE FIRST HERE.THEY WANT YOU TO SHOW COMMUNITY SUPPORT FOR THAT PROJECT.
AND SO JUST HAVING THINGS IN A COMPREHENSIVE PLAN IS ONE OF THE. YEAH.
AND AGAIN, IF YOU HAVE A MOBILITY MASTER PLAN CALLED A COMPREHENSIVE PLAN, YOU CAN GO GET FUNDING FOR THAT. FOR THAT.
CREATE THE MOBILITY MASTER PLAN.
AND THEN WHEN YOU IDENTIFY PROJECTS IN THAT, NOW YOU CAN GO GET FUNDING FOR THOSE INDIVIDUAL PROJECTS.
SO IT BECOMES A SELF SUSTAINING CYCLE TO A CERTAIN.
UPDATED. WHAT? WATER WASTEWATER MASTER PLAN FOR YOU ALL DRAINAGE MASTER PLAN IS KIND OF BRINGING EVERYBODY'S DRAINAGE SCHEMES TOGETHER.
SO ANYTIME A DEVELOPER COMES IN AND DOES A DRAINAGE PLAN FOR THEIR OWN DEVELOPMENT, GO TO TRY AND INTEGRATE THAT INTO A MUCH LARGER TO ENSURE THAT ANYBODY BUILDING UP HERE IS NOT FLOODING THE PEOPLE DOWN HERE OR VICE VERSA.
PUSHING EVERYTHING FOR THE COMPETING MASTER PLAN WAS DISPLAYED LAST NIGHT.
SO PLEASE LOOK AT THE PRESENTATION OF THE WATER.
AND THEN THEY WILL GO BACK AND INCORPORATE WHAT IS INTERESTING IS LIKE WE TALKED ABOUT THE FUTURE IN USE PLAN.
ALL THESE OTHER UTILITY PLANS RELY ON THE FUTURE IN USE PLAN FOR FUTURE PROJECTIONS, RIGHT? THAT'S WHY IT'S SO IMPORTANT TO THINK ABOUT THIS AND THINK IN THE FUTURE SO THAT YOU'RE DESIGNING YOUR SYSTEM TO TAKE CARE OF THE LINE USES THAT YOU WOULD LIKE TO SEE.
SO I'LL BE INTERESTED TO SEE WHAT THEY HAD PREDICTED FOR THE FUTURE AND HOW FAR IT WILL WE DO THE MET HDO.
WHAT CAN DO IS WE CAN SEND THIS INFORMATION I YOU SAID YOU NEEDED MORE TIME.
SO AT YOUR LEISURE, YOU CAN LOOK AT IT AND THEN WORK IT UP AND SEND IT BACK.
WE'LL SEND IT TO ALL PUT IN YOUR HOUSE THAT CLOSE TO THE HIGHWAY.
I'VE SEE FOLKS. ON THE CITY STREETS.
WHATEVER YOU PREFER, WE'RE GOING TO DEFINITELY START COLLECTING WE'VE DONE SO FAR FOR YOU SO YOU CAN PUT IN THERE, YOU CAN DO THAT FROM THE WEBSITE AT YOUR OWN TIME IF YOU WANT TO DO THAT AS WELL.
BUT IF YOU WANT TO TAKE THEM AND BRING THEM BACK, WE'LL CONTINUE TO LOAD THEM UP.
HAVE YOU SEEN THE SUMMARY OF THE LAST CA ONE YOU HAVE, RIGHT? SO THAT'S ON THE WEBSITE WE GO BACK AND SEE SUMMARIZE WHAT PERCENT ONE THAT WE HAVE NOW.
I KNOW THE G THAT SPOKE TO SAN THEY WERE 95%.
SO THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN YOUR COMPREHENSIVE PLAN WAS DONE A LONG TIME 2000 2005.
I THINK THEY'VE BEEN F. I IT'S BEEN PUT ON THE SHELF OF SOME.
WHEN YOU GO THROUGH IT HOW MUCH OF IT WAS MY QUESTION.
IT DIDN'T MATCH THE VISION THE CURRENT VISION.
BUT IN OUR REPORTS, WE STILL REFER TO THE LAND USE RECOMMENDATIONS, WHETHER OR NOT IT'S CONSISTENT OR NOT. IN MANY CASES.
I SHOULDN'T THE LEVY I THINK THEY'RE TALKING ABOUT WHERE ASHLAND IS.
THAT'S WHY WE ADD FRESH INFORMATION. YEAH. IT CROSSES IT.
IT STRADDLES YEAH, THEN THE COMMERCIAL WILL BE INSIDE THE LEVY.
IT'S ON THE DEVELOPMENT SERVICES.
THEY HAD TO PAY EXTRA TO COMPREHENSIVE.
OKAY. TO REINFORCE THE LEVY WHERE THEY'RE GOING TO HAVE ROADS. REAPPROPRIATE.
BUT I'LL SEND YOU A LINK. TYPE IT IN THE SEARCH BAR TO.
ONE OF THE PROBLEMS AT THE CITY WANTED US TO LOOK.
THEY KEEP BURNING SO MUCH ALL THOSE TREES THEY BURN DOWN AND THEY WAIT UNTIL TO START THEIR FIREARMS SO THAT YOU CAN'T SEE THE SMOKE.
THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN DOES THAT MEAN PRETTINESS LIKE MONUER ENTRY.
YOU WOULD HAVE AN IDEA ON HEARTS.
[02:10:01]
THERE WE GO. THERE WE GO.I THINK WE'VE GOT A GRAND GRAND TOTAL TWO SUBDIVISIONS THAT HAVE COORDINATED PLACEMAKING.
SO CANNON WITH THOSE OAKS OVER THE DRIVE AND THEN IF YOU GO UP THERE.
I'LL SEND OUT A POLL FOR THE DECEMBER THERE.
WHATEVER THIS WEIRD LITTLE NEIGHBORHOOD IS WITH ALL THE BROC BAND.
BRONCO BAND. THAT'S WHAT I'M HEARING SO FAR. I'LL SEND A POLL.
I MEAN, WE GOT THE PEOPLE LIKE THOSE. OKAY.
I'LL SEND A PO WANT MORE OF THAT OR WANT TO IDENTIFY WITH THE PAIR ONCE WE GET THE DETAILS OUT, WELL THAT OUT TO THE COMMIT SIGNS LIKE THAT, BUT THEY A STAR BESIDE THE AGO.
WE WILL PROBABLY DO SOMETHING FOR THE SENS HALFWAY TO SOMETHING.
I GUESS THAT'S OUR SELLING PART. WE'RE HALFWAY.
YEAH, EITHER DIRECTION, WHETHER THEY'RE TRYING TO GET A PARA DOWN TO THE COAST.
SO YEAH, THEY'RE RIGHT IN THE GATEWAYS I'M JUST GOING TO BE ALONG HERE.
AND THIS ONCE YOU GET SOUTH OF HERE IS ABOUT 20.
ACTUALLY GET TRAFFIC, BUT I WASN'T SATURDAY, I'M LIKE, I'M WILLING TO DO IT, AND I'M SURE OTHERS BUT TO JUST OPTION.
BUT IF YOU COMMIT I DO A CHRISTMAS, IT'S DARK SATURDAY.
LIGHTS ALL OUTSIDE AN WE GOT TO FIGURE THAT.
WELL, THANK YOU ALL. WE'LL GO AHEAD AND CONSIDER THE MEETING ADJOURNED.
IS THAT OKAY, MADAM CHAIR? YES. THAT'S RIGHT.
* This transcript was compiled from uncorrected Closed Captioning.