[1. Update and discussion on the Angleton Better Living Corporation, Recreation, and Angleton Recreation Center YTD financial statements as of July 31, 2026.]

RIGHT INTO REGULAR AGENDA.

ITEM NUMBER ONE. UPDATE DISCUSSION ON THE ANGLETON BETTER LIVING CORPORATION RECREATION AND ANGLETON RECREATION CENTER YEAR TO DATE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AS OF JULY 31, 2026.

THANK YOU MAYOR AND BOARD AND THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE TONIGHT FOR OUR REGULAR MEETING. AS JOHN HAD MENTIONED, THIS IS AN UPDATE ON OUR CURRENT FINANCIAL STATEMENTS.

YOU'LL SEE IN YOUR PACKETS I'VE INCLUDED ABLC REC DIVISION AND ANGLETON RECREATION CENTER. SO YOU CAN KIND OF SEE WHERE WE'RE CURRENTLY AT. JUST TO HIGHLIGHT A COUPLE OF THE ITEMS ASSOCIATED WITH THOSE. THE BIGGEST ONE BEING SALES TAX. WE DO KNOW THAT SALES TAX IS DOWN FROM WHAT OUR PROJECTIONS WERE.

BUT YOU'LL ALSO SEE IN YOUR PACKET THERE WE'VE INCLUDED THE CURRENT SALES TAX THAT WE RECEIVED FOR THIS MONTH WHICH DOES INCREASE OUR CURRENT STATUS. AND SO AT OUR LAST MEETING I BELIEVE WE WERE JUST UNDER 3%. RIGHT NOW WE ARE JUST UNDER 4%. SO WE SAW A VERY GOOD INCREASE FROM THE MOST RECENT TAX, SALES TAX THAT CAME IN. SO I WANTED TO POINT THAT OUT AS A POSITIVE. STILL TRYING TO STAY CONSERVATIVE AS FAR AS WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR FOR OUR PROJECTIONS.

BUT ANY MORE THAT COMES IN IS OBVIOUSLY GOOD NEWS FOR US. SO THAT IS ONE DEFINITELY TO POINT OUT AS WE ADDITIONALLY GO THROUGH THAT NOTHING MAJOR TO HIGHLIGHT ON THE RECREATION SIDE. THEY ARE FINISHED UP WITH SUMMER CAMP. SO THAT IS ONE OF THEIR MAIN ONES THAT SHOULD HAVE BEEN PROCESSED THE MOST RECENT PAYROLL. SO MOST OF THEIR STUFF AS FAR AS LARGE PURCHASES HAVE ALREADY EXPIRED IF YOU WILL. SO THEIRS IS PRETTY ON TRACK. THEY DO ANTICIPATE STILL HAVING FUNDS LEFT OVER SO GOOD FOR THEM TO BE ABLE TO TRANSITION AND ROLL THAT OVER. THEY DO HAVE A MAX ON THEIR FUND BALANCE AND SO ANYTHING THAT'S CURRENTLY THAT WOULD BE EXTRA FUNDS WOULD ROLL INTO ABLC'S FUND BALANCE. SO JUST WANTED TO POINT THAT ONE OUT. THE REC CENTER A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENT STORY THERE. AS YOU ALL KNOW, THE REC CENTER WAS CLOSED FOR SIX MONTHS FOR THE POOL SPECIFICALLY. SO WE DID SEE A DECREASE IN REVENUE JUST BEING DOWN THAT LONG. THAT IMPACT SOMEWHAT OF OUR MEMBERSHIPS, OUR DAY PASSES AND OUR FACILITY RENTAL. SO THERE WAS AN IMPACT THERE. WE STILL ARE TRENDING IN A POSITIVE DIRECTION THOUGH TO BE ABLE TO HIT SOME OF THOSE NUMBERS. SO I DON'T FEEL IT'LL BE A COMPLETE LOSS EXAMPLE. I'LL GIVE WITH THAT ONE. IF YOU LOOK AT THE UP TO DATE NUMBERS FOR FAMILY MEMBERSHIPS, WE'RE ONLY $30,000 OFF ON THAT ONE. I THINK THAT WE PROBABLY WILL STILL HIT THAT NUMBER.

AND YOU MAY SEE A SIMILAR THING FOR INDIVIDUAL MEMBERSHIPS AS WELL. THE ONES THAT I WILL POINT OUT THAT MOST LIKELY WILL NOT HIT IS OUR DAY PASSES AND OUR RENTALS. BUT DO KEEP IN MIND THAT BECAUSE WE WERE CLOSED, WE WERE NOT PAYING FOR LIFEGUARDS AND THEIR FULL CAPACITY EVEN THOUGH THEY WERE SUPPORTING SOME OTHER OPERATIONS. SO THERE IS GOING TO BE A SAVINGS THERE. SO WE ARE HOPEFUL THAT THERE SHOULD BE ADDITIONAL FUNDS THAT COME OUT OF THAT ONE. SAME IDEA WITH THEIRS. THEY SHOULD HAVE A MAXED OUT FUND BALANCE SO ANYTHING ADDITIONAL THAT THEY HAVE SAVED WILL ROLL INTO ABLCS UNBALANCE. I'LL OPEN UP TO ANY QUESTIONS IF THERE'S ANY SPECIFIC LINES THAT ANYBODY HAS QUESTIONS ABOUT OR ANYTHING I CAN ANSWER ON OUR FINANCIALS.

YOU SAID ANYTHING THAT GOES THAT YOU KNOW HOW WE PUT THE CAP ON THE REC CENTER.

YES.

FUND BALANCE, THE. WHAT DO YOU ANTICIPATE WE COULD POSSIBLY SEE IN SAVINGS? I KNOW THAT THERE ARE SOME ACCOUNTS THAT ARE GOING TO BE OVER BESIDES SOME OF THOSE SHORTFALLS I BELIEVE. I'M TRYING TO PULL IT UP FOR RIGHT NOW THEY HAVE ABOUT $200,000 IN THEIR BALANCE FOR PART TIME. SO IT COULD BE SAFE TO SAY THERE COULD BE ABOUT $100,000 THAT ROLLS OVER KNOWING THAT WE STILL HAVE AUGUST AND SEPTEMBER BUT WE ARE NOW ON NON PEAK HOURS. AND SO AFTER THIS NEXT PAY PERIOD IT IS GOING TO DRASTICALLY REDUCE ON THEIR THE LIFEGUARD PAY. SO IT'S POSSIBLE WE COULD BE AT $100,000 IN SAVINGS. I MEAN LOOKING AT PERSONNEL COST WISE, IT'S TRENDING SOMEWHAT IN THAT DIRECTION.

OKAY. I MEAN YOU CURRENTLY HAVE 100 IN THERE, RIGHT? FOR.

FOR WHAT YOU HAVE.

BECAUSE YOUR CAP IS 100.

YEAH, OUR CAP IS 100.

THAT'S GONNA PUT ANOTHER HUNDRED IN IT.

IT WOULD BE. THAT HUNDRED WOULD GO TO ABLC THOUGH.

RIGHT. BUT I'M JUST SAYING YOU COULD SEE ANOTHER HUNDRED.

YEAH, I COULD SEE POTENTIALLY ANOTHER HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS WITH ERRORS GOING IN BECAUSE OF THAT SIX MONTHS CLOSURE. I MEAN THAT WAS QUITE A BIT. I MEAN IF YOU LOOK

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AT THE YEAR TO DATE FOR PART TIME SALARIES, IT'S ONLY AT 42% AND YOU ONLY HAVE AUGUST AND SEPTEMBER LEFT. AND SO YOU'LL GET A HALF MONTH OF A SUMMER PAY AND THEN YOU'LL HAVE THREE, I BELIEVE THREE PAYCHECKS THAT WILL COME THROUGH FOR OUR NON PEAK SEASON. SO THERE'S GOING TO BE QUITE A BIT OF SAVINGS THAT GOES WITH THAT.

BUT KNOWING THAT IT'S GOT TO OFFSET SOME OF THAT SHORTFALL FOR REVENUE BUT WE'RE STILL TRENDING IN A GOOD DIRECTION.

AND I DON'T SEE IN HERE THE AMOUNTS FOR THE REC CENTER IMPROVEMENTS. WHERE IS THAT? THAT ONE IS PART OF THE TPW.

AND YEAH, THAT ONE'S. THAT'S ALREADY BEEN ALLOCATED TO A SEPARATE ACCOUNT.

IT'S IN THE SPECIAL FUNDS.

YES. SO BECAUSE THAT ONE WAS A DIRECT MATCH, WHAT WE DID WITH THAT ONE WAS SEPARATE THEM BECAUSE IT TIED STRAIGHT TO IT IS WE PUT ALL THE FUNDING INTO ONE FOUR ZERO. I BELIEVE IT WAS WAS THE SPECIAL FUNDS FOR THAT ONE. SO WE ALREADY TRIED TO TAKE THAT INTO ACCOUNT LAST YEAR BECAUSE THERE WAS ADDITIONAL FUNDS FROM ARC FUND BALANCE AND ABLC.

WE WANTED TO SEPARATE THAT TO MAKE SURE THAT MONEY WAS ALREADY ALLOCATED SOMEWHERE ELSE. SO THAT SHOULD SEE IT HERE.

THAT'S WHY I WAS ASKING.

YEAH.

THAT THAT SHOULD NOT IMPACT IN THIS BUDGET.

OKAY.

DO YOU THINK AT THE END WE WILL FULFILL THE $100,000 BE CONTROLLED BY A REC CENTER. POSSIBLY BEING ABLE TO CONTRIBUTE ANOTHER HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS BACK INTO ABLC. ABLC GENERAL BALANCE. OKAY.

YEAH. BECAUSE CURRENTLY ARC AND REC CENTER ARE BOTH AT THEIR CAPACITY FOR FUND BALANCE. SO ANYTHING AS LONG AS WE'RE IN THE POSITIVE, ANYTHING THAT'S IN THE POSITIVE FOR BOTH THOSE IS GOING TO GO BACK TO ABLC.

THAT'S GOOD TO SEE BECAUSE I KNOW ABLC, WE PUT OUT SOME MONEY FOR OTHER THINGS. SO IT'S GOOD TO HAVE MONEY COME BACK IN TODAY CAMP.

ANYBODY HAVE ANY OTHER QUESTIONS ON ONE BEFORE WE GO TO TWO?

[2. Update, discussion, and possible action on Freedom Park Field Project supported by Angleton Better Living Corporation.]

OKAY, ITEM NUMBER TWO. UPDATE DISCUSSION AND POSSIBLE ACTION ON FREEDOM PARK FIELD PROJECT SUPPORTED BY ANGLETON BETTER LIVING CORPORATION.

THANK YOU MAYOR. SO THIS ONE IS AS YOU'LL SEE AS WE GO THROUGH THE PACKET WANTED TO SEPARATE OUT TO GIVE YOU ALL UPDATES ON PROJECTS THAT ARE ASSOCIATED WITH ABLC. SPECIFICALLY OUR LARGE ONES. THIS IS ONE OF THE BIG BIGGEST TOPIC ONES AT THIS POINT. AS YOU RECALL, WE MET BACK ON JULY 28TH TO HAVE A SPECIAL MEETING TO HAVE DISCUSSION ABOUT POTENTIAL FUNDING FOR THIS PROJECT. AS WE'VE BEEN TRYING TO WORK THROUGH SOME ISSUES THAT WE THAT HAVE WE'VE SEEN OUT IN THE FIELD AS WELL AS WHAT WE'RE LOOKING TO DO MOVING FORWARD. SO THIS IS BRIEF RECAP OF THE. THE INITIAL PROJECT. THE INITIAL PROJECT COSTS THAT WERE ASSOCIATED WITH IT. WE WERE OVER BUDGET ON THIS TO START.

WE KNEW THAT GOING INTO IT THAT WE WERE GOING TO BEING ABLE TO LOOK AT AND LEVERAGE DIFFERENT FUNDING TO BE ABLE TO SUPPORT THAT.

WITH THE HOPES OF HAVING ABIGAIL IN A GOOD POSITION.

THAT JULY 28TH MEETING THAT WAS INITIAL TO TALK ABOUT ONE OF THE RECOMMENDATIONS TO LOOK AT THE FIELD DRAINAGE ISSUES AND THE RECOMMENDATION AT THAT TIME WAS TO RAISE THE FIELD. I CAN TELL YOU THAT IS NOT THE ANTICIPATED RECOMMENDATION MOVING FORWARD.

I DO HAVE CLAUDIA HERE WITH BURDETT THAT WILL BE ABLE TO PROVIDE A LITTLE BIT MORE CONTEXT ON THIS AND ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS THAT YOU ALL HAVE.

WE ARE STILL WORKING THROUGH SOME DYNAMICS OF THIS. WE HAVE THEY BROUGHT THEIR ENGINEER OUT ON SITE TO TAKE AN ADDITIONAL LOOK AT WHAT THE CURRENT FIELD CONDITIONS ARE, TO PROVIDE ADDITIONAL RECOMMENDATIONS. WE ARE WAITING ON SOME INFORMATION FROM THE CONTRACTOR FOR THIS FROST CONSTRUCTION.

THEY ARE DOING SOME ADDITIONAL SURVEY WORK TO SEE IF THERE WAS ANY MISINFORMATION THAT WAS FROM THE PREVIOUS SURVEY TO DETERMINE WHAT THE APPROPRIATE PATH FORWARD IS. WE HAVEN'T RECEIVED AT THIS POINT, BUT EVEN WHEN THAT COMES IN, WE ANTICIPATE HAVING A DIFFERENT PLAN OF ACTION MOVING FORWARD. SO HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS ON THIS, BUT LIKE I SAID, I DO HAVE CLAUDIA HERE THAT SHE CAN STEP UP TO THE PODIUM TO ANSWER SPECIFIC QUESTIONS AND PROVIDE AN UPDATE ON WHERE WE'RE AT TO DATE, WHAT OUR HOPEFUL PATH FORWARD IS.

CLAUDIA, CAN YOU GO TO THE PODIUM, PLEASE? GOOD EVENING. CAN YOU GUYS HEAR ME? OKAY, YOU HAVE TO TALK A LOT

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LOUDER THAN THAT.

OH, THAT'S RIGHT. HI, GOOD EVENING. SO, WANTED TO GET JUST A BRIEF BREAK BREAKDOWN OF FROM THE BEGINNING. JASON MENTIONED A FEW OF THE ITEMS THAT ARE BEING APPROACHED AT THE MOMENT, BUT JUST TO GET EVERYBODY ON THE SAME PAGE. SO, AS YOU GUYS ARE AWARE, THERE IS QUITE A BIT OF RAIN THAT CAME THROUGH IN THE TWO MONTHS DURING THE CONSTRUCTION SITE. I SAY TWO MONTHS, BUT I KNOW THAT I DON'T KNOW THE ACTUAL TIME FRAME. IT HAS BEEN SEVERAL WEEKS OF RAIN, AND IT WOULD STOP FOR A FEW DAYS AND THEN GET RAIN AGAIN AND SO ON. SO DURING THAT TIME PERIOD, IT WAS DISCOVERED THAT THERE IS SOME AREAS OF THE FIELD THAT WERE NOT DRAINING CORRECTLY. AND WE'VE BEEN WORKING ON FIGURING OUT IF THERE IS ANY EXISTING CONDITIONS THERE, UNKNOWN CONDITIONS, OR ANYTHING THAT MAYBE CREATING THAT ISSUE.

WHILE WE WERE WORKING THROUGH THAT, THERE WAS ALSO THE. WE HAD. WE WERE UNDER THE UNDERSTANDING THAT THE FIELD GRADING WERE TO THE FINISHED GRADE THAT THEY WERE SUPPOSED TO BE, WHICH I DON'T BELIEVE THEY ARE AT THE MOMENT. THERE'S A LITTLE BIT OF ADDITIONAL SOIL THAT NEEDS TO BE COMPLETED ON THE CORNERS, BUT SO WE'VE BEEN WANTING TO SEE WHAT WERE THE DIFFERENT OPTIONS TO REMOVE THAT ISSUE OF THE DRAIN. EXCUSE ME, THE GRADING ISSUES IN THE CORNERS OF THE FIELDS.

IT WAS ON THE RIGHT FIELD AND THE LEFT FIELD AS WELL. AND WITH THAT, WE STARTED LOOKING AT OPTIONS TO ELEVATE THE FIELD. AND AS YOU START ELEVATING A FIELD, YOU MIGHT UNDERSTAND YOU END UP HAVING TO ADD A LOT MORE SOIL FOR THE ENTIRE FIELD TO BE IN THE ACCURATE SLOPE THAT'S REQUIRED. SO IT ENDS UP BECOMING A LOT LARGER OF A PROJECT THAN IT NEEDED TO REALLY BE. SO I THINK ON THAT END, THE CHANGEHOLDER THAT WE HAD ORIGINALLY REQUESTED HAD MORE COST AND THIN, MUCH MORE COSTS THAN ANTICIPATED. EVEN WITH THE SOILS THAT WERE BEING KIND OF TAKEN FROM THE CITY SIDE AND ALL BECAUSE OF THE TESTING AND ALL OF THE DIFFERENT REQUIREMENTS THAT THE CONTRACTOR WOULD HAVE TO ABIDE BY. BUT THAT WAS A PRETTY LARGE NUMBER TO DEAL WITH. SO WHILE WE WERE GOING THROUGH THAT, WE WERE TRYING TO FIGURE OUT ADDITIONAL WAYS TO MAKE THAT AREA WORK TO WHERE IF IT IS A HIGH RAIN EVENT, IT'S NOT GOING TO BE AN ISSUE ONCE THE FIELD IS COMPLETED.

SO WE WANTED TO EXPLORE DIFFERENT OPTIONS AND HAD OUR ENGINEER AND OTHERS ON STAFF TO REVIEW THE. INSTEAD OF LOOKING AT THE FIELD AS IT'S OWN ITEM, LOOKING OUTSIDE OF THE BEYOND THE FIELD FOOTPRINT AND THE CONSTRUCTION FOOTPRINTS AND LOOKING AT THE DETENTION POND AND SEE IF THERE IS ANY KIND OF ISSUES GOING KIND OF BACKWARDS AND ALL.

BUT REALLY ONE OF THE BIGGEST DISCOVERIES THAT WE'VE HAD THROUGHOUT IS ONCE THE SITE IN THE RAIN, ONCE THE RAIN SUBSIDED AND THE SITE DRIED UP, WE WERE ABLE TO SEE SOME CURRENT CONSTRUCTION ITEMS THAT JUST BECOME PART OF THE ISSUE DURING CONSTRUCTION BECAUSE OF THE CONSTRUCTION ENTRANCES AND THE FENCING, SILT FENCING AND EVERYTHING ELSE THAT GETS TO BE. HAS TO BE PUT INTO PLACE THAT WE BELIEVE IS CREATING SOME OF THE ISSUES AT THE MOMENT. AND SO WE ARE GOING TO BE GETTING THE CONTRACTOR TO FIX THOSE ISSUES, FIRST OF ALL, TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY'RE NOT CREATING THE ADDITIONAL DRAINAGE PROBLEMS THAT WE'RE SEEING. AND ONCE THAT IS CLEANED UP, WE WILL ALSO BE. ONCE WE CONFIRM OR ONCE THE CONTRACTOR CONFIRMS THE ELEVATIONS, IF THE ELEVATIONS ARE AS THEY WERE ON THE SURVEY, WE WILL CONTINUE WITH THE ORIGINAL PLAN TO.

WITH THE GRADING DESIGN. AND THAT WOULD BE IF THERE'S ANY MINIMAL GRADING ITEMS THAT WE

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NEED TO TAKE CARE OF, DEEPENING THE SOIL SLIGHTLY MORE TO ALLOW FOR MORE DRAINAGE OPPORTUNITIES, THEN WE'LL LOOK AT THAT AS WELL.

BUT WE'RE CURRENTLY JUST WAITING TO SEE WHAT THE SURVEY SAYS, MAKING SURE THAT THE BENCHMARKS ARE CORRECT AND ALL OF THE CURRENT ELEVATIONS ARE WHAT THEY WERE ORIGINALLY SURVEYED AS.

SO CLAUDIA, REAL QUICK, SO WHO'S DOING THE SURVEYING FOR THE.

SO IT IS UNDER THE CONTRACTOR'S REQUIREMENT TO ENSURE THAT THE BENCHMARK IS CORRECT. SO THEY'RE DOING.

THEY'RE SURVEYING THE BENCHMARKS TO MAKE SURE THAT THERE'S NO DISCREPANCY.

IS THAT COMING TO US FIRST.

ARE THEY GOING TO SEND THEM OVER TO US SO WE CAN SEE THEM? THEY'LL BE SENDING THEM OVER TO US AS A WHOLE.

YOU'RE REFERRING TO FROST CONSTRUCTION.

YES.

NOW, THE SURVEY IS NO ADDITIONAL COST TO US, CORRECT? NO, THEY'RE SUPPOSED TO BE HAVING THAT INFORMATION FOR US AS PART OF THEIR CONTRACT.

OKAY, THANKS.

THEY DID ORIGINALLY STAKE THE SITE, BUT THERE IS NO INFORMATION, NO WRITTEN INFORMATION OR PHYSICAL INFORMATION. AND SO GOING THROUGH THE QUESTIONING WHERE IF. WHAT KIND OF INFORMATION THEY HAD AVAILABLE, WE FOUND OUT THAT THEY HAD A DIFFERENT BENCHMARK THAT THEY USED. SO WE'RE REQUIRING THEM TO USE THE ACTUAL SURVEYED BENCHMARKS AND GO FROM THERE TO ENSURE THAT THERE ARE NO DISCREPANCIES ON THAT.

SO THE CUT DOWN ON THE RIGHT FIELD SIDE, IT LOOKS LIKE ALMOST LIKE A TRENCH.

WHAT IS THAT FOR? AND IS THAT SUPPOSED TO BE FILLED IN SOMEHOW? SO WHAT. I BELIEVE THAT IS PART OF THEIR CONSTRUCTION APPROACH.

SO THEY. THEY DUG A LARGE HOLE TO REMOVE SOME OF THE WATER FROM.

FROM THE FIELD, BUT THE WATER DID NOT HAVE ANY PLACE TO GO.

IT WAS A TEMPORARY HOME.

YEAH.

THEY MADE A LAKE.

SO. AND SO IF THAT WAS. THAT WAS ONE OF THE PROBLEMS THAT.

AND AGAIN, IT'S A CONSTRUCTION ISSUE THAT WOULD NOT BE IN PLACE DURING. YOU KNOW, ONCE THE FIELD IS COMPLETE, ARE THEY GOING TO HAVE TO COME BACK AND RECUT EVERYTHING SINCE ALL THE GRASS AND EVERYTHING'S GROWN IN.

THERE ARE SOME AREAS IN THE SWALES THAT THEY WOULD NEED TO BE ADDRESSING. THE FIELD ITSELF SEEMS TO BE IN PLACE.

UNLESS THE FIELD ITSELF IS NOT EVEN UP TO THE CONTRACTED ELEVATION.

NOT THE WHOLE FIELD.

CORRECT. THE CORNERS WERE NOT.

BECAUSE THEY WERE NOT ABLE TO GET TO IT BECAUSE IT WAS WET. IT DID NOT GET COMPLETED TO THAT EXTENT.

SO JUST LOOKING BY SIGHT, THAT RIGHT FIELD CORNER, BEFORE THEY PUT IN THE TEMPORARY DRAINAGE, IT SITS PROBABLY 12 TO 18 INCHES BELOW THE GROUND LEVEL.

I'M NOT AN ENGINEER, BUT I THINK I COULD HAVE SEEN THAT PROBLEM COMING. I THINK THAT WE WERE LUCKY THAT IT RAINED BECAUSE WE WERE ABOUT TO BE HANDED A MASSIVE PROBLEM.

AND Y' ALL WERE GONNA WALK AWAY AND SAY, YEP, WE DID OUR JOB.

AND NOW, I MEAN, LAST MEETING, IT WAS STICKER SHOCK, $300,000 TO, AS YOU JUST SAID, ADD OR ELEVATE THE FIELD. THAT APPEARS TO ME, IN THE PROCESS OF PREPARING, Y' ALL REMOVED A LOT OF DIRT.

BUT NOW WE PAID YOU TO REMOVE THE DIRT, AND NOW YOU WANT US TO PERHAPS COME UP WITH A REVENUE SOURCE TO CORRECT THAT AND ADD MORE DIRT.

I DON'T GET THAT. SOMETHING SEEMS AMISS. I'M NOT. AGAIN, IT'S NOT MY FIELD OF EXPERTISE, SOMETHING, SOMETHING WAS AMISS, SOMETHING. THERE WAS A MISCONNECTION THERE. THE FACT THAT WE'RE REMOVING A TON OF DIRT, I KNOW YOU GOT TO LEVEL IT, I KNOW YOU GOT TO ELEVATE, I KNOW YOU GOT TO SLOW.

BUT SOMETHING WAS MISSED. IT SHOULD NOT BE THAT NOW. WE SHOULDN'T HAVE TO BE PAYING TO COME BACK. I DON'T KNOW.

IT'S EXTREMELY FRUSTRATING.

THIS PROJECT I THOUGHT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE DONE BY NOW. WE

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INSTEAD IT LOOKS LIKE TRASH OUT THERE. AND I GET IT, WE'RE AT A STOPPING POINT. I KNOW I'M JUST KIND OF STREAM OF CONSCIOUS HERE IN MY MIND, BUT IT WAS WET IN JUNE, I MEAN TO GIVE CREDIT, IN MAY INTO JUNE, I'M PRETTY SURE WE WERE WELL ABOVE AVERAGE OUR YEARLY RAIN TOTALS AT THAT POINT.

BUT WE BALANCED OUT AT THE END OF JULY AND NOW AUGUST, IT'S BEEN DRY IN THE LAST FOUR WEEKS, FIVE WEEKS, NO PROGRESS IS BEING MADE.

IT'S JUST SITTING THERE.

UNFORTUNATELY, I THINK SINCE WE HAVEN'T GOT RAISED IT TO THE LEVEL THAT WE'VE CONTRACTED FOR, THAT COULD HAVE BEEN DONE IN THE LAST FOUR WEEKS. THAT COULD HAVE BEEN AT LIKE, HEY, LET'S GET THIS TO THE POINT OF WHERE WE'VE ORIGINALLY PLANNED IT AND SEE WHERE WE ARE AND IT'S BEEN DRY ENOUGH TO DO THAT. THEN IF WE HAVE TO MAKE REMEDIAL MEASURES AFTER THAT. OKAY, BUT I DON'T UNDERSTAND THE WHOLE PROCESS.

MAYBE I JUST DON'T GET THE PROCESS BECAUSE JUST LIKE WE DUG A HOLE IN THE GROUND, WE GOT A LITTLE RAIN AND THEN WE REALIZED, OH GOODNESS, THIS IS NOT GOING TO WORK. AND THEN WE JUST STOPPED AND IT JUST SEEMS LIKE WORK COULD SHOULD CONTINUE. AND THEN, YOU KNOW, BECAUSE THERE'S A LOT OF WORK TO BE DONE BEFORE WE EVEN GET TO THE POINT OF WHERE I MEAN THERE'S ELECTRIC, THERE'S.

IT'S JUST, I DON'T KNOW, IT JUST.

TO ME A LOT OF THIS WAS FORESEEABLE AND SOMEWHERE THERE WAS A MISCONNECTION SOMEWHERE WE. AND MY LAST THOUGHT, I KNOW DR. JACKSON WON'T SPEAK, LAST SLIDE IS 300,000 IS, YOU KNOW, 20, 25% OVERAGE.

THAT'S OUTSTANDING.

WE HAVE CHANGE ORDERS ALL THE TIME ON CITY COUNCIL AND THEY'RE NOT THAT MUCH. I MEAN NOT EVEN REMOTELY CLOSE TO THAT MUCH AS A PERCENTAGE. I DON'T KNOW, THAT'S MIND BOGGLING TO ME.

ACTUALLY I WAS GOING TO SPEAK ON THAT. I WAS GOING TO SAY THAT'S LIKE 25% BASICALLY OF THE TOTAL COST IS ADDED ON TOP OF THE TOTAL COST, WHICH DOES CATCH YOU BY A LITTLE SURPRISE. BUT I GUESS MY QUESTION WAS SPEAKING ON PROBABILITY AND POSSIBILITY.

WHAT'S THE PROBABILITY THAT THE SLOPE WOULD BE WITHIN NORMAL LIMITS OR OKAY, WITHIN TOLERANCE IF YOU WERE TO GO AHEAD AND LIKE TRAP SUSPENSION, JUST BUILD IT UP TO THE SPECS IN WHICH IT WAS GOING TO INITIALLY BE AND THEN AT THAT POINT SEE WELL, THE SLOPE WOULD BE OKAY. THE ONLY THING I GUESS THE QUESTION I DO HAVE FOR YOU THOUGH IS IT LIKE BUILDING UP TO MOVE DIRT AND THEN HAVING TO REMOVE AND RE EXCAVATE EVERYTHING AGAIN BECAUSE IS IT MORE WORK TO DO THAT? WOULD IT BE OKAY TO JUST DO THAT AND THEN SEE WHAT HAPPENS AT THAT POINT? WOULD THAT BE CREATE MORE WORK FOR US AS A WHOLE? SO YOU'RE SAYING AS FAR AS TO WHAT IF WE HAD THEM, KEPT EVERYTHING GOING, GET EVERYTHING TO WHERE THE TWO SPECS WERE, THE REQUIREMENTS AND THEN SEE FROM THERE IF THERE'S ANYTHING THAT NEEDS TO BE ADDRESSED? NO, I THINK THAT'S OUR APPROACH TO GET THEM TO ONE CLEAN UP THE AREAS THAT WE SEE ARE AN ISSUE FROM THE CONSTRUCTION FINISH DOING THE GRADES AS PERSPECTIVES AND SEE FROM THERE IF THERE NEEDS TO BE ANY ADDITIONAL IN OUR APPROACH WOULD NOT NECESSARILY BE TO RAISE THE FIELD ANYMORE.

THAT'S SHOWN TO BE A LOT MORE EXPENSIVE THAN IT NEEDS TO BE. SO LOOKING AT IF THERE'S ANY ADDITIONAL DEPTH THAT NEEDS TO BE DIFFERENCE IN ELEVATION THAT NEEDS TO BE DONE, IT WOULD BE DONE THROUGH THE SWALES THAT ARE NEXT TO THE FIELDS, TRENCHING THOSE A LITTLE BIT DEEPER BECAUSE BY DOING THAT THAT WOULD KEEP US ON TRACK TIME WISE AND KEEPING THE TEMPO THE SAME.

PRETTY MUCH LIKE TRAVIS HAD MENTIONED ABOUT THE ELECTRICAL AND CERTAIN OTHER PARTS. HAS THAT BEEN DONE DURING THIS TIME? SO THAT WAY WE JUST GO AHEAD AND KEEP EVERYTHING GOING AND THAT WAY WE CAN ACTUALLY TRACK IT OUT IN MORE STRATEGIC ROLE AND JUST KEEP THINGS GOING AS IT SHOULD BE AT THE SAME PACE.

YES, SIR. YES. THE RAISING THAT THE FIELD HAD ITS REASONS.

IT WAS A LOT OF IT HAD TO DO WITH THE NEEDING TO MOVE IT OUT OF THAT FLOODING AREA. BUT

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SINCE WE SEE THERE'S SOME OF THOSE FLOODS AREAS THAT WERE TEMPORARY AND THE OVERALL DESIGN IS STILL IT WORKS BASED ON THE REQUIREMENTS. SO ONCE WE GET A CLEARANCE ON THE SURVEY BENCHMARK, ENSURING THAT ALL OF THAT IS CORRECT, THEN WE WOULD MOVE FORWARD WITH THE OTHERS. WE DON'T WANT TO DO ANYTHING PRIOR TO GETTING THE SURVEY INFORMATION BECAUSE OTHERWISE WE MIGHT BE COMPLETELY DOING SOMETHING WE DON'T KNOW.

HONESTLY, IF YOU LOOK AT THE OLD WHEN IT WAS JUST A FIELD, IT DRAINED JUST FINE. WE NEVER HAD A PROBLEM BEFORE. WASN'T UNTIL THEY STARTED MOVING ALL THIS DIRT THAT WE SUDDENLY HAD A PROBLEM. I MEAN, SO YOU'RE SAYING THEY'RE GOING TO COME IN AND THEY'RE GOING TO FILL IN THESE HOLES AND THEY ARE RAISING IT A LITTLE BIT.

YES, IT'S GOING. I DON'T HAVE THE ELEVATION THAT IT WAS CURRENTLY AT, BUT IT WAS NOT ALL THE WAY TO THE FINISHED GRADE THAT WAS REQUIRED.

AND IT WILL HAVE THE APPROPRIATE CROWN TO IT THAT IT DRAINS OFF.

YEAH.

TO ME, THE GOAL NOT ONLY IS THE FINISH, BUT OBVIOUSLY A FIELD THAT SHOULD DRAIN RELATIVELY WELL. WE SHOULDN'T SET OURSELVES UP FOR FAILURE.

CORRECT.

WE SHOULDN'T GET A NEW PROJECT KNOWING THAT, WELL, IF WE GET A BAD ENOUGH RAIN, WE'RE JUST GOING TO HAVE TO HAVE OUR RIGHT FIELD CORNER UNDERWATER. THAT DOESN'T SEEM LOGICAL. IT DOESN'T HAVE TO BE PERFECT. I THINK WE HAVE TO. I DON'T THINK ANYBODY'S HERE SAYING WE NEED IT DRAINING LIKE A MAJOR LEAGUE BASED OFF STEEL, BUT WE GOT TO DO THINGS TO GET THE WATER OFF THE FIELD BECAUSE, I MEAN, WE RUN BACK INTO THAT SAME ISSUE WHERE, YOU KNOW, HEY, THERE'S 52 WEEKS OF THE YEAR, YOU KNOW, MAYBE 50 ARE GREAT, BUT TWO OF THEM ARE GOING TO BE COMPLETELY UNDERWATER.

IT'S KIND OF WEIRD TO THINK, YEAH, ABSOLUTELY.

AND ESPECIALLY THE HAVING THE ARTIFICIAL TURF PLACED IN, THERE'S A REASON FOR THAT. YOU GUYS HAVE INVESTED IN THIS FIELD TO HAVE A MORE PLAYABLE TIME AS WELL. SO I UNDERSTAND HAVING ISSUES WITH THAT FROM THE GET GO.

IT'S NOT.

WELL, I MEAN, IT CERTAINLY PRESENTS THE LITTLE LEAGUE ITSELF OPPORTUNITIES TO UTILIZE A FIELD THAT HAS A VERY LARGE TURF SURFACE THAT CAN BE ALL LEVELS OF BASEBALL BE USED. SO ALL I'M GETTING AT IS. I MEAN, I DON'T KNOW. I THINK WE SHOULD. IT DOESN'T SEEM LIKE A COMPLICATED DESIGN.

I MEAN, AGAIN, I'M NOT AN ENGINEER, BUT WE JUST GOT TO GET THE WATER OFF THE FIELD.

AND AS WE'RE SAYING. SO THE SURVEY ITSELF THAT WE HAVE, WE'VE HAD SOME QUESTIONS WHETHER IT WAS A FULL TO THE CURRENT GRADES, IF EVERYTHING WAS CORRECT. WE HAVEN'T SEEN ANYTHING CURRENTLY THAT IS AN ISSUE IN DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE EXISTING CONDITIONS VERSUS, WELL, EXISTING GRADES VERSUS THE SURVEY. BUT GETTING THAT BENCHMARK CLARIFIED AND ENSURING THAT IF THERE ARE ANY DISCREPANCIES OR IF THERE ARE NO DISCREPANCIES, WE HAVE A CLEAR WAY FORWARD.

THERE'S NO GOING BACK TO THAT, SAYING, WELL, THE SURVEY WAS WRONG OR THE SITE CONDITIONS WERE DIFFERENT, OR THAT CLEARS ANY OF THAT INFORMATION AND THAT ALLOWS US TO LOOK AT THE OVERALL DESIGN AS INITIALLY INTENDED AND SEE IF THERE'S ANY ISSUES THAT NEED TO BE ADDRESSED IN THAT SENSE OR IF THERE ARE NOTHING, NO ISSUES TO REVISE, THEN MOVE FORWARD WITH THE WHOLE. THE WHOLE DESIGN INTENTION.

I DON'T, I DON'T KNOW AS MUCH ABOUT THIS PROJECT BECAUSE I'M NEW ON THIS, ON THIS BOARD. BUT WHEN Y' ALL STARTED REMOVING THE DIRT, I GUESS MY. I'M TRYING TO UNDERSTAND DID Y' ALL NOT VERIFY OR DURING WERE THE DESIGN ELEVATIONS VERIFIED? SO AS WITH THE. WE GET THE SURVEY AS A DESIGN TEAM, WE GET THE SURVEY. WE DON'T DO SURVEYS. SO WE. WE WORK WITH WHAT WE HAVE ON THE SURVEY ITSELF. AND THEN THE CONTRACTOR IS MEANT TO VERIFY.

SORRY, HOW DID Y' ALL VERIFY THE ELEVATION BEFORE YOU ALL REMOVE THE DIRT? SO WE'RE NOT THE CONTRACTORS.

THE CONTRACTOR WOULD VERIFY THAT. THAT, THAT INFORMATION.

AND THAT'S WHAT WE'RE MAKING SURE THAT THEY GIVE US THAT INFORMATION SAYING THAT THEY VERIFY HOW DID THEY GET THE INFORMATION ON THE ELEVATION.

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SO FOR TWO OF THEM. SO AS CLAUDIA WAS MENTIONING, SO BAKER AND LAWSON DID THE INITIAL SURVEY. SO PRIOR TO A PROJECT, WE HAVE A SURVEY DONE THAT SHOWS THE CURRENT EXISTING CONDITIONS, BUT WE ALSO KNOW THAT THINGS CHANGE.

RIGHT. SO THE SURVEY OR THE CONTRACTOR. SO FROST CONSTRUCTION WAS TO COME IN AND VERIFY THE BENCHMARKS AND GO OFF OF THAT. AND SO THE CONDITIONS WE SAW WHEN YOU GO BACK OUT THERE AND AS LONG AS THEY FOLLOW THE SCOPE AND SO SPECS OF AND THEY VERIFIED THAT ONCE PROJECT WAS COMPLETE, IT SHOULD BE WITHIN LINE.

NOW, WHAT WE'RE NOT SURE OF IS THERE MAY HAVE BEEN DISCREPANCY WITH THEIR BENCHMARK SURVEY AND OURS. AND SO BECAUSE THEY HAVEN'T VERIFIED THAT YET. SO IN THE EVENT OF THERE IS A TREE THAT IS ONE OF THE BENCHMARKS, AND IF THAT IS AT 28.5 AND THEY READ IT AT 26, WE'VE GOT AN ISSUE. SO THEY'RE ALREADY HAVING THAT AND THEY WENT IN ASSUMING AND CUT OUT MORE THAN THEY WERE SUPPOSED TO.

AND SO UNTIL THEY PROVIDE THAT INFORMATION, WE WON'T KNOW IF THERE'S A DISCREPANCY THAT'S THERE. SO THAT'S THE TWOFOLD OF WE PROVIDED IT FROM A PAPER AND LAWSON SURVEY THAT SETS THE INITIAL BENCHMARK. THEY'RE SUPPOSED TO COME BACK IN AND VERIFY THAT BENCHMARK TO BE ABLE TO VERIFY WHERE THE ELEVATION IS. AND SO IT'S.

WE'RE HAVING. WE'VE LEARNED THAT THERE HAS BEEN SOME DISCREPANCIES IN COMMUNICATION THERE OF WHAT THOSE WERE. SO WHEN WE GO BACK TO TALKING ABOUT LIKE RIGHT FIELD AND HOW LOW IT IS, THERE'S ALSO SOME THINGS THAT THEY PUT INTO PLAY LIKE TRAVIS SHOULD MENTION, YOU CAN CLEARLY SEE THAT IT'S LOWER. AND YOU CAN TELL THAT IT'S BECAUSE WE HAD WORK THAT WAS DONE ON THE SWALE TO ADDRESS DRAINAGE FARTHER DOWN TO THE WEST. IT WAS IMPORTANT TO DO THAT.

BUT ONCE THAT RAIN WENT AWAY, IT NEVER WENT IN THE SWALE.

LIKE, IT STOPPED AT RIGHT FIELD AND NEVER LEFT THAT AREA. AND THAT'S ONE OF THOSE THINGS OF MAKING SURE THAT ELEVATION IS APPROPRIATE IS WHERE THAT'S SUPPOSED TO BE. BECAUSE IF IT'S PER DESIGN, YOU SHOULD SEE THAT GO INTO THE SWALE AND THAT IT WILL TRAVEL ALL THE WAY DOWN TO THE WEST SIDE OF THE PROPERTY, AND THEN YOU'LL SEE ALL THAT.

BUT WE CLEARLY SAW IT. I CAN TELL YOU WHEN WE WERE OUT THERE A COUPLE WEEKS AGO, THERE WAS AREAS OVER BY THE RIGHT FIELDS THAT WERE STILL DAMP AND WET, AND THERE'S AREAS ALL THE WAY DOWN TO THE WEST SIDE THAT WERE DRY AND CRACKING, WHICH TELLS YOU THAT THE WATER IS NOT GETTING FROM RIGHT FIELDS INTO THE SWALE DOWN TO WHERE IT NEEDS TO GO.

YEAH, CLAUDIA, MY BIGGEST THING IS WE'VE ENTRUSTED BERTIT WITH THE DESIGN, AND I WOULD EXPECT THAT YOU BE ON THIS AND FOLLOWING ALONG, MAKING SITE VISITS IF YOU NEED TO, BUT WE NEED TO MAKE SURE THAT IT'S HAPPENING ACCORDING TO WHAT Y' ALL DREW UP. AND RIGHT NOW IT HASN'T. SO THAT'S THE FRUSTRATION. AND THEN TO COME TO ABLC AND ASK FOR 300,000 TO RAISE IT. WE SHOULD HAVE HAD YOU IN THE LOOP A LOT SOONER THAN THAT, THAT YOU COULD HAVE EASILY GONE OUT THERE JUST LIKE WE DID, AND SEE SOMETHING'S WRONG, SOMETHING'S NOT RIGHT. I DON'T WANT TO WAIT TILL THAT HAPPENS. NEED TO MAKE SURE THAT BURDETT IS ON SITE, CHECKING UP ON THIS PROJECT. YES, SIR.

BECAUSE, I MEAN, I'VE. I MET MR. BURDETT. HE SEEMS LIKE A GREAT GENTLEMAN. AND I MEAN, HE. HE WENT OUT THERE IN RUBBER BOOTS IN THE BACK AND LOOKED AT EVERYTHING. WELL, THAT'S KIND OF WHAT I WANTED, WAS THAT PERSONAL TOUCH. AND, I MEAN, I DON'T FEEL LIKE WE WERE GETTING THAT.

THAT'S WHAT WE NEED.

UNDERSTOOD.

THIS SPRING, ANECDOTAL EVIDENCE HERE PROBABLY MEANS NOTHING. THIS SPRING, I WENT TO SEE THE SAVANNAH BANANAS PLAY UP IN COLLEGE STATION. I STOPPED BY THE A AND M BASEBALL GAME.

BEHIND THEIR LEFT FIELD FENCE, BETWEEN THE STADIUM AND A PARKING LOT WAS A DITCH. I MEAN, JUST SEEMS LIKE EVEN AT A HIGH LEVEL, ALL THEY DID WAS SLOPE THE WATER OFF THE FIELD, AND THEY JUST KEPT LOWERING IT.

SO AS LONG AS IT'S OFF THE FIELD, IT CAN COLLECT AS MUCH AS IT WANTS OFF THE FIELD. JUST GOT TO GET IT OFF THE FIELD. I DON'T KNOW. I MEAN, JUST SEEMS LIKE A LITTLE PLANNING. AND I KNOW Y' ALL PROBABLY LOOKING AT, WELL, OUR DESIGN WAS OUR.

YOU KNOW, THEY JUST DIDN'T BUILD IT TO OUR DESIGN. WE'RE GOOD, BUT THAT'S NOT WHERE WE ARE. I'M SORRY.

I'M JUST FRUSTRATED.

WELL, AND THE DEAL IS BECAUSE IT'S LIKE, OKAY, WE KEEP SAYING, YOU KNOW, BURDETT IS WHO WE, THE CITY, HAVE A CONTRACT WITH.

DESIGNING, DESIGNING, CONTRACT MANAGEMENT.

RIGHT. AND THEN YOU'VE GOT FROST CONSTRUCTION IN THERE AS WELL. IT'S LIKE, YOU KNOW, WE'RE DOING. WE'RE DOING THE. OUR. OUR CONVERSATION IS WITH VERDICT.

YOU GUYS ARE DOING THE ONES TALKING TO FROST. SO I'M THINKING, YOU KNOW, IT'S KIND OF LIKE, HOW DID WE GET HERE?

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TO ME, IT'S COMING UP. FROST IS COMING UP SAYING, OH, WELL, WE. AND WE DON'T KNOW YET BECAUSE THEY'RE STILL LOOKING AT THE OTHER SURVEYS AND SO FORTH AND SO ON.

BUT I THINK WE'RE STILL WAITING ON THEM TO COME BACK WITH INFORMATION.

IF WE SAY, GO FORWARD, HOW.

WHEN CAN THIS GET STARTED? SO I'M GOING TO DO REAL QUICK. I'LL COME TO THE BACK TO THE TRUCK. SO IN REGARDS TO THAT, YES, YOU'RE SOMEWHAT CORRECT.

BUT I WILL TELL YOU FROM THE CITY PERSPECTIVE, AND I'VE HAD COMMUNICATION WITH CLAUDIA, SAME AS WITH JOHN AND TRAVIS AS WELL, WHEN WE RECOGNIZED THAT THERE WAS ISSUES WITH IT NOT DRAINING.

THIS IS STUFF THAT.

CONVERSATIONS I HAD WITH CLAUDIA TO SAY, WE'VE GOT A PROBLEM. WE'VE GOT TO IDENTIFY THIS. WHAT IS THE SOLUTION? AND SO THAT LAST CHANGE ORDER THAT CAME THROUGH, THAT 300,000 WAS, I THINK, TECHNICALLY CHANGE ORDER SEVEN.

ONE OF THEM WAS A TRENCH DRAINAGE FOR THE DUGOUTS, WHICH WAS DUE TO ELEVATION AND NO DRAINAGE.

ONE OF THEM WAS AN INFIELD DRAINAGE. ONE OF THEM WAS AN OUTFIELD DRAINAGE. AND THERE WAS A LIKE. SO THERE WAS MULTIPLE ONES ON THIS THING.

AND SO THAT CONVERSATION WENT BACK AND FORTH. WE JUST WEREN'T SEEING THE RESULTS OF ACTUALLY FIGURING OUT WHERE THE ISSUE WAS COMING FROM TO GET THE WATER OFF THE FIELD AND FIGURE OUT HOW THAT NEEDED TO GET DONE. NOW THAT WE'RE IN A DRY SPELL, WE CAN CLEARLY SEE WHERE SOME OF OUR ISSUES ARE AND SOME THINGS THAT NEED TO BE CLEANED UP. SO TO ANSWER YOUR POINT THERE, GARY, IF WE GIVE THE OKAY TO MOVE FORWARD, I MEAN, AS SOON AS WE GET THAT OUT, THAT SURVEY IN TO VERIFY, BECAUSE THAT'S HONESTLY MY CONCERN AT THE MOMENT IS THEY AREN'T ABLE TO CORRECTLY IDENTIFY THE BENCHMARKS AND WHAT THE BENCHMARKS USED WERE TO BE ABLE TO STATE THE FIELD, IT CONFIRMED EVERYTHING OFF.

SO KIND OF TO TRAVIS'S POINT, IF THEIR BENCHMARKS WERE INCORRECT, THEY COULD HAVE DUG MORE OUT THAN THEY WERE SUPPOSED TO.

AND IF THAT'S TRUE, THAT'S NOT ON THE CITY TO BE ABLE TO GO BACK IN AND ADD THAT DIRT BACK IN.

THEY HAVE TO VERIFY THAT THE BENCHMARKS WERE ACCURATE AND THAT THEIR READINGS WERE ACCURATE. BECAUSE IF YOU HAVE YOUR BENCHMARK APPROPRIATE, THEN WHATEVER THEY GET FOR THEIR FIELD READINGS, WHEN IT'S SCOPED AND PLANNED APPROPRIATELY, IT IS GOING TO BE AT THE LEVEL AND GRADE IT'S APPROPRIATE SUPPOSED TO BE. BUT WITHOUT HAVING THOSE ACCURATE READINGS FOR THE BENCHMARKS, WE'RE NOT GOING TO BE THERE.

SO UNTIL WE GET THAT INFORMATION, THEY HAVE SAID THAT THEY'RE SUPPOSED TO HAVE A SURVEYOR ON SITE THIS WEEK. AND SO AS LONG AS EVERYTHING COMES BACK IN THE POSITIVE, WE SHOULD BE ABLE TO MOVE FORWARD WITH THIS IN THE NEXT WEEK.

SO AS THE DIRT WAS BEING REMOVED, WAS THE ELEVATION BEING CHECKED? CHECKED? YEAH, BECAUSE THAT SHOULD TELL YOU RIGHT THERE AT THE TIME YOU'RE REMOVING THAT DIRT, YOU SHOULD HAVE ALREADY NOTICED IF YOUR ELEVATION WAS GOING LOWER THAN WHAT THE DESIGN SPECS WERE SAYING.

IN REALITY, SOME OF THAT WOULD HAPPEN ANYWAYS BECAUSE THEY'RE REMOVING THAT TOP LAYER TO BE ABLE TO COME WITH IT FRESH AND THEY'VE GOT TO ADD IN TOPSOIL AND THEY'VE GOT TO ADD A LITTLE BIT MORE TO IT. SO THAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN. AND SO THEN WHEN WE SAY WE'RE NOT AT FULL GRADE YET, THAT'S BECAUSE THEY DID HAVE A LITTLE DIGGING THAT THEY DID.

BUT IF THEY WERE OFF AND SO IF THEIR BENCHMARK WAS OFF, THEY WERE ALREADY GOING OFF OF A NUMBER BUST, IF YOU WILL. AND SO IF THEY READ AND THEY. THEIR BENCHMARK THEY THOUGHT WAS APPROPRIATE AND IT WAS OFF, YOU KNOW, 2, 3 INCHES, WHEN THEY DO THEIR READING ON THE FIELD, IT'S GOING TO BE 2, 3 INCHES LOWER BECAUSE THEIR ELEVATE, THEIR BENCHMARK IS ALREADY OBSOLETE, IF YOU WILL. AND IF WE DIDN'T TAKE INTO ACCOUNT THE BEGINNING, IT WOULDN'T HAVE BEEN CAUGHT THROUGHOUT. SO THEY COULD HAVE BEEN GOING THROUGH AND SAYING, YEP, IT'S ACCURATE BECAUSE THE BENCHMARK THEY READ WAS WHAT THEY THOUGHT IT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE. AND IF THAT'S NOT THE CASE, THEN THE FIELD COULD BE OFF BECAUSE OF THAT.

I GUESS MY THING IS STILL WHO'S OUT THERE WATCHING TO ENSURE OR WHO'S ENSURING THAT AS THAT DIRT WAS BEING REMOVED, THAT THEY WERE DOING THE INITIAL FIRST STAGE CORRECTLY? THAT'S REALLY, I GUESS, WHERE MY POINT IS GOING.

YEP.

SO I'D LIKE TO JUST ADD TO THAT. I FEEL LIKE IT'S IN THE ABLC'S BEST INTEREST TO PERHAPS MAYBE LOOK INTO IN CITIES HAVE OUR OWN INDEPENDENT SURVEY OF THE PROPERTY.

WELL, I MEAN IT KIND OF GOES BACK TO WHERE THERE'S, THERE'S KIND OF TWO WAYS THIS CAN GO. I THINK IT'S LIKE BECAUSE WE DID THE BAKER AND WATSON SURVEY SO WE'VE ALREADY PAID FOR A SURVEY SO NOW FROST HAS COME IN THERE AND STARTED DOING CONSTRUCTION AND MAKING CHANGES AND SO FORTH. NOW IF, AND AGAIN IT GOES BACK TO WHAT IT SAYS IN HERE THAT IF THEY GO BACK AND THEY FIND OUT THAT THEY DIDN'T DO IT IN ACCORDANCE WITH THAT SURVEY THEN THAT'S ON THEM.

BUT IF THEY DID DO EVERYTHING IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE SURVEY, YOU KNOW IT'S A FIRM TAKES PRICE CONTRACT SO THEN IT, THEN IT'S ON US, YOU KNOW THE PAID FOR THAT BAKER LAWSON SURVEYOR. SO IT'S KIND OF WE NEED THE INFORMATION BACK ON WHETHER THEY YOU KNOW HAVE MET THOSE BENCHMARKS ACCORDING TO THE SURVEY THAT WE PURCHASED OR IF THEY WENT OFF

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OF THEIR OWN SURVEY. AND THAT'S DRASTICALLY DIFFERENT.

AS LONG AS THERE'S NO CONCERN ON WHETHER THE JOB IS SORT OF LIKE UNDER BID AND THEN JUST KNOWING THAT TO BUILD UP AND TO GET THINGS TO SPEC THAT IT WOULD BE AN ADDITIONAL COST DOWN THE ROAD. SO AS LONG AS EVERYTHING'S LIKE JUST FAIR PLAY AND THIS HAS JUST HAPPENED, IT'S ONE OF THOSE THINGS THAT HAPPENED BUT WE JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE THERE WASN'T LIKE AN UNDER BIDDING SITUATION THAT HAPPENED AND ALL OF A SUDDEN LIKE WHERE WE KNEW THEY KNEW THEY WERE GOING TO SURPRISE TAG FOR ANOTHER 25% MORE. SO.

I MEAN I CAN'T SAY FOR OBVIOUSLY IT'S A FULL CERTAINTY BECAUSE IT WASN'T THE ONE THAT BID ON IT. BUT LOOKING AT THE PLAN SET I WOULDN'T SAY THAT THAT WAS NECESSARILY THE CASE.

I DON'T THINK THEY WOULD HAVE HAD THE FORETHOUGHT OF SAYING LIKE WITH THEIR CURRENT CHANGE ORDER BASED ON THEIR DESIGN THEY'RE GOING TO NEED 12 MORE INCHES OF DIRTS AND THAT'S JUST GOING TO BE MONEY IN THE BANK FOR US. I THINK THAT THEM GOING INTO IT, I THINK THEY PROBABLY WOULD HAVE HAD MORE CAUTION GOING IN IF THEY DIDN'T LIKE THE DESIGN AND SAY THIS IS NOT A PROJECT THAT WE WANT TO BE PART OF BECAUSE IT'S NOT A GOOD LOOK FOR THEM IF PROJECTS DON'T GO WELL EITHER. RIGHT. BECAUSE FOR THEM IT'S A BUSINESS AND IF PEOPLE HEAR PROJECTS DON'T GO WELL AND YOU HAVE A BAD EXPERIENCE. IT'S ALL. IT'S A LOT OF TIME GOING TO GO BACK TO THE CONTRACT YOU WORK WITH.

AND SO I DON'T THINK THEY WOULD WANT TO BE IN THAT KIND OF POSITION.

IT SEEMS LIKE THERE'S A PLAN FORWARD ON WHAT'S THE NEXT STEPS. SO I GUESS WE JUST HAVE TO SEE WHAT HAPPENS TO THE NEXT STEPS.

YES, I NEED TO SEE THE CITY BESIDES SWIPES WITH THAT ADDITIONAL COST IF IT WASN'T REALLY. I MEAN, OF COURSE WE CAN'T TELL UNTIL THE SURVEYS COME BACK OR THE SURVEY COMES BACK OR WHATEVER AND THEY REVIEW IT.

BUT I KNOW MISTAKES HAPPEN.

THEY HAPPEN LOTS OF THINGS IN LIFE.

BUT THAT'S A HUGE COST TO ABLC AT THIS POINT. AGAIN, I'M RELATIVELY NEW TO.

TO THE BOARD AND TRYING TO UNDERSTAND THE MOVEMENT OF THIS PROJECT. I JUST THINK MAYBE SOME THINGS WEREN'T FORESEEN FOR SURE.

BUT YOU KNOW, THAT TOO FALLS ON THOSE WHO TOOK ON THIS CONTRACT TO ENSURE THAT ANY, I MEAN, ANY CONSTRUCTION ISSUES, YOU TRY TO ENSURE THAT YOU'RE DOING THE BEST YOU CAN TO KEEP THEM TO THE MINIMUM SO THAT WE'RE NOT HAVING TO PUT OUT MORE MONEY.

CONTRACTS ARE JUST CONTRACTS LIKE THAT. WHENEVER SOMEONE BIDS WITH A CONTRACT, WHENEVER THEY HAVE A CONTRACT PERIOD, YOU'RE GOING TO GO FOR THAT X AMOUNT OF DOLLARS.

AND SOMETIMES THERE'S GOING TO BE THINGS THAT AS A BUSINESS OWNER THAT I'M GOING TO ABSORB MYSELF BECAUSE, HEY, I'M ACCEPTING THESE PLANS, SO I MIGHT AS WELL JUST ABSORB IT.

SO SOME THINGS, LIKE IN THAT CASE WITH BERTIE, I'M SURE THEY'RE GOING TO BE LIKE, WELL, WE JUST HAVE TO ABSORB FROST. WE HAVE TO ABSORB SOME PORTION OF IT OURSELVES. EVEN THOUGH WE FEEL LIKE WE COULD HAVE MAYBE DONE SOMETHING DIFFERENT. SO IT'S LIKE IT SHOULDN'T ALL BE JUST ON A, B OR C. EVEN IF IT WERE TO BE A SITUATION WHERE WE HAD TO GO AHEAD INCREASE 25%, WE SHOULDN'T REALLY HAVE TO FOOT THE ENTIRE BILL. I THINK IF ANY.

I WISH SOMEBODY FROM FROST WERE HERE.

WE CAN HAVE THEM COME TO THE NEXT MEETING IF YOU'D LIKE.

BUT AT WHAT CHASE. BUT YEAH, CAN WE JUST KEEP MOVING THIS CAN? YEAH, YEAH. AND THIS FLAG GETS PLANTED. THE GOAL POST MOVEMENT.

I WILL SAY IT LIKE THIS.

FROST IS THE HAS THE CONTRACT AND THEY ARE DOING THE CONSTRUCTION WORK. AT THE END OF THE DAY, THEY ARE GOING TO GO BASED ON WHAT THE DESIGN IS. THEY MAY COME BACK. SO I'LL USE AN EXAMPLE. SO THE FIRST CHANGE ORDER WE GOT WAS FOR A TRENCH STRAIN THAT WAS $72,000. AND I CAN TELL YOU THE FIRST THING I SAID WAS THAT'S NOT REALLY A REALISTIC OPTION FOR US. YOU HAVE TO COME UP WITH A BETTER PLAN. BECAUSE I KNEW WE WERE OVER BUDGET BY $100,000 AND HOW AM I GOING TO GO ASK FOR ANOTHER $72,000? RIGHT.

BECAUSE THAT WAS FROST COMING AND SAYING, HEY, WE'VE GOT THIS FIX FOR YOU.

AND I SAID, THANK YOU FOR CATCHING THIS. HOWEVER, WHAT IS ANOTHER FIX? BECAUSE $72,000 IS NOT THE FIX THAT I WANT TO HEAR. RIGHT. AND SO SOME OF THAT'S THAT BACK AND FORTH, BUT THEY'RE ALWAYS GOING TO GO TO DESIGN. SO IF WE TOLD THEM TODAY, MOVE FORWARD, YOU TAKE WHAT THE DESIGN IN THERE AND YOU, AS LONG AS IT IS TO DESIGN THE SPECS, THAT'S THEIR ROLE. AND SO SOME OF THAT THAT COMES IN IS ASKING THOSE RECOMMENDATIONS. AND TO YOUR POINT AS WELL, OF BEING IN THE DRY SEASON, I TRIED TO LOOK AT THE GLASS HALF FULL ASPECT. I'M GLAD THAT IT DRIED OUT FOR US BECAUSE IT ACTUALLY SHOWED A LOT MORE OF WHAT WE WERE DEALING WITH IN THAT SECTION THAT'S OVER BY WRIGHT FIELD AND THAT SWALE THAT'S THERE AND THE IMPACT THAT IS THERE BECAUSE THAT AREA

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OVER THERE NEEDS WORK AND NEEDS TO BE ADDRESSED.

LIKE YOU MENTIONED THAT DITCH, IF YOU CLEAN UP THAT AREA, WE SHOULD BE ABLE TO JUST.

THAT WATER SHOULD JUST ROLL INTO THAT SWELL. AND EVEN IF IT STAYED THERE, I THINK WE'D PROBABLY BE OKAY WITH THAT BECAUSE YOU CAN PLAY IN THE FIELD. RIGHT.

BUT THERE IS SUCH A DISCREPANCY AT RIGHT FIELD BETWEEN THAT AND THE SWALE THAT IT'S NOT EVEN GETTING TO THE SWALE TO NOT EVEN MOVE FROM THAT POINT JUST TO THE SWALE. RIGHT. AND SO BY DRYING OUT AND THEIR ATTEMPT TO DIG A TRENCH, IF YOU WILL, WASN'T ENOUGH TO ACTUALLY GET IT OFF THE FIELD TO BE ABLE TO CREATE THAT. AND SO BY IT BEING DRIED OUT, IT'S ACTUALLY SHOWN US A LITTLE BIT MORE. SO LIKE WHEN WE WERE ON SITE, WHEN I COULD WALK DOWN AND SAY, YOU KNOW, WE HAVEN'T HAD RAIN IN WEEKS, IT'S STILL WET OVER HERE, BUT YOU GO DOWN THE OTHER SIDE AND IT'S CRACKING.

THAT.

THAT DOESN'T EQUATE TO THE SAME THING FOR ME.

RIGHT. AND SO WE KNOW THAT THERE'S SOME. THERE'S AN ISSUE AT THAT POINT THAT NEEDS TO BE ADDRESSED. SO.

SO NO, NO ONE WANTS TO PLAY RIGHT FIELD IN THE RAIN.

APPARENTLY NOT RIGHT NOW.

WELL, I MEAN, IT'S KIND OF.

WE GOT OUR OWN BALL IN THE HOLE FIRST.

WHAT IS THAT? THE DIAMONDBACKS HAVE THE POOL.

YEAH, JUST ON THE FIELD, NOT OFF THE FIELD.

RIGHT.

SO I DO HAVE TO ASK THIS QUESTION. IF I UNDERSTAND YOU CORRECTLY, FROST IS PAYING FOR THEIR OWN SURVEY, OR ARE THEY DOING THEIR OWN SURVEY? SO THEY DON'T. THEY'RE NOT IN THE BUSINESS OF DOING SURVEYS. THEY HAVE A THIRD PARTY COME OUT TO DO THE SURVEYS. YES. AND THAT IS ON THEM.

BECAUSE THEN SEEMS LIKE THERE IS AN OPPORTUNITY THERE.

ALMOST GRADE YOUR OWN HOMEWORK.

AND SO I JUST.

BEFORE WE ACCEPT THEIR RESULTS, WE MAY WANT BAKER AND LAWSON TO COME BACK AND LOOK AT IT, COMPARE THE TWO, BECAUSE WE HAVE TO HAVE SOMEBODY WORKING ON OUR SIDE.

AND SO, I MEAN, CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG, BUT, I MEAN, WE COULD. SO THE REAL EXAMPLE IS THE BENCHMARKS.

CORRECT. AND SO I COULD GET WITH THEM. I MEAN, WE HAVE A VERY GOOD RELATIONSHIP WITH THEM. AND SIMPLY ASK THEM TO VERIFY THEIR BENCHMARKS, BECAUSE THAT'S TRULY THE STARTING POINT IS TO VERIFY WHERE THE BENCHMARKS ARE AT.

AND THEN, YOU KNOW, IF ONCE THEY'RE OUT THERE, WE CAN. I CAN MEET THEM OUT THERE AND ASK IF THEY HAVE ANY AREAS OF CONCERN THAT MIGHT BE ADDED.

WE COULD DEFINITELY DO THAT.

JASON? YES.

DO YOU HAVE A TIMETABLE ON WHEN THAT MIGHT HAPPEN? WITHIN A WEEK OR TWO WEEKS.

AS FAR AS THE SURVEY PIECE.

WELL, THAT BENCHMARKS, ALL THAT STUFF.

SO THE ORIGINAL BENCHMARKS ARE ALREADY THERE, AND SO THAT'S PART OF THE ORIGINAL SURVEY. THEY.

FROST HAD NOTIFIED US TODAY THAT THEY WERE WORKING AND GET IT DONE THIS WEEK. IF I GET WITH BAKER AND LAWSON, I'M CONFIDENT THAT WE CAN GET THEM OUT HERE THIS WEEK AS WELL.

YEAH, THEY'RE USUALLY A PRETTY QUICK TURNAROUND FOR US. THAT WOULD BE MORE MINIMAL COST TO US THAN DOING AN ENTIRE SURVEY.

IF THEY CAME OUT AND DID NOT SAY IT'S SUPER EXPENSIVE, BUT AN ENTIRE SURVEY IS A COUPLE THOUSAND DOLLARS COMPARED TO IF THEY JUST COME OUT WITH VERIFIED BENCHMARKS.

WILL WE NEED TO HAVE ANOTHER EMERGENCY MEETING WHEN THAT COMES AVAILABLE? I WOULDN'T ENVISION IT, AS LONG AS THAT COMES BACK FAVORABLE AND WE'RE ABLE TO LOOK AT DESIGN AND MOVE FORWARD IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION THAT IT DOESN'T COME WITH THIS $300,000 COST, BECAUSE THERE IS FUNDING, IF YOU WILL, THAT'S AVAILABLE. THE REASON WE CAME FOR THAT EMERGENCY MEETING WAS BECAUSE WE DIDN'T HAVE THE FUNDS WITHIN OUR MEANS TO BE ABLE TO APPROVE THAT.

BUT IF IT'S, YOU KNOW, SIGNIFICANTLY LOWER AMOUNTS, THAT'S SOMETHING THAT MYSELF AND CITY MANAGER CAN GO THROUGH TO APPROVE BECAUSE IT'S WITHIN BUDGET THAT'S ALLOCATED.

SO IT JUST. WHEN THIS ONE WAS MORE BASED ON HAVING TO USE ABLC FUND BALANCE. I DON'T HAVE THE AUTHORITY TO MAKE THAT DETERMINATION.

OH, DID YOU SAY THAT BURDEN DID THE DESIGN. SO DID YOU.

DID THE BOARD REVIEW THE DESIGN AS WELL? DID Y' ALL SEE ANY FLAWS IN THE DESIGN? I'M NOT ONE.

I MEAN, I WOULDN'T KNOW WHAT.

NOW, HARLEY, BEFORE ALL THAT, ASIDE FROM DIGGING UP, WE SHOULD HAVE PUT MORE DIRT ON THAT.

I WAS A LITTLE SURPRISED WHEN WE. WHEN I FIRST WENT OUT THERE, JUST BLUNTLY HONEST, THAT THEY WERE DIGGING DOWN. I THOUGHT IT WAS ALWAYS GOING TO GO THE OTHER WAY. I THOUGHT WE'D BE PILING IN DIRT TO ELEVATE SO WE WOULD JUST NATURALLY SLOPE OFF.

RIGHT. WHICH. WHICH IS.

THAT'S WHAT I THOUGHT. SO INSTEAD WE WERE DIGGING DOWN.

BLEW ME AWAY.

I MEAN, IN A WAY, I'M LOOKING AT IT AS IF THE DESIGN WAS ALTERED TO. TO CREATE MORE OF A FLATTER FIELD. IF IT ALREADY HAD THE SLOPE, WHY DID YOU TAKE THE SLOPE? SLOPE. I GUESS THAT'S A VERDICT QUESTION.

I DON'T THINK IT WAS.

I DON'T THINK IT WAS SLOPED.

I MEAN, YOU PROBABLY JUST HAD UNLEVEL GROUND. BUT THAT'S WHY

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I THOUGHT WE WOULD JUST FILL IN AND ELEVATE UP AND NOT DIG DOWN. I DIDN'T GET THAT. I'M NOT AN EXPERT. SO I JUST SAID, HEY, OKAY, THEY KNOW WHAT THEY'RE DOING.

SO I WAS JUST GONNA SAY, I THINK THAT'S KIND OF WHAT.

WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT, WHERE WE'RE AT IS IT. IS THAT THE DESIGN WAS BASED OFF OF DATA THAT THEY GOT FROM THE BURDEN LAWSON SURVEY GIVEN OVER TO FROST. SO FROST IS THE ONE THAT'S COMING IN HERE AND SAYING, YEAH, WE'VE GOT PROBLEMS. SO IS THAT PROBLEMS BASED ON GOING BACK ALL THE WAY TO THE DATA THAT DESIGNED IT, YOU KNOW, WHICH. WHICH BASICALLY SHAPED THE SCOPE? BECAUSE AGAIN, WE COULD SAY, NOPE, YOU GOT THE SCOPE, DESIGN IT. AND THEY COULD SAY, OKAY, HERE YOU GO. AND THEY DESIGN THE FIELD, LIKE TRAVIS ALLUDED TO. NOW WE'VE GOT A BIGGER PROBLEM BECAUSE IT'S GOT THAT. OR WE CAN SAY, OH, WELL, WE'RE GLAD THAT YOU CAUGHT THIS. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. AND WE COULD MAYBE THEN CONSIDER, YOU KNOW, DOING THAT.

BUT THEN MY CONCERN ALSO IS, IS THAT, YOU KNOW, AND DON'T THROW OUT ANY OTHER NAMES OR ANYTHING, BUT IF THERE WERE OTHER BIDDERS OUT THERE THAT HAD COME IN THERE AND SAID, HEY, WE'VE GOT A. WE CAN DO THIS, BUT WE CHOSE SOMEBODY THAT WAS CHEAPER, THEY MIGHT HAVE ACTUALLY KNOWN MORE OF THE.

THE REALISTIC OF WHAT THEY'RE GOING TO BE GETTING INTO. YOU GOTTA WAIT TILL WE FIGURE OUT WHAT'S COMING BACK ON THE SURVEY DATA FROM FROST, COMPARED TO WHAT WAS IN BAKER LAWSON. SEE, IF THERE'S. WAS IT DONE PER THAT OR WERE THERE MISTAKES OR CHANGES THAT WERE MADE ALONG THE WAY? WHEN DID WE EXPECT IT? DID I MISS THAT? WHEN THEY EXPECTED RESULTS FROM THE SURVEY.

THEY'RE SUPPOSED TO DO THEM.

THE SURVEY. THAT'S WHAT WE'RE TOLD, AT LEAST.

AND I'M ON BOARD WITH WHAT I GUESS. JOHN, WHAT THEY WERE SAYING EARLIER ABOUT FRAUD'S GOING TO GET THEIR OWN SOMEONE TO SURVEY, EVEN THOUGH IT'S A THIRD PARTY.

IT'S LIKE YOU START THINKING ABOUT VERTICAL INTEGRATION WHEN YOU HAVE ONE COMPANY AND THEY GET THEIR OWN PERSON TO DO SOMETHING. SO WITH VERTICAL INTEGRATION, YOU HAVE TO BE CONCERNED BECAUSE I THINK IT'S REALLY WISE IN THIS CASE TO ACTUALLY HAVE A THIRD PARTY.

IT'S NOT THEIR. IT'S NOT THEIR SURVEY CREW.

IT'S A THIRD PARTY.

IT'S A THIRD PARTY SUBCONTRACTOR. I MEAN, FROST IS CUTTING IN THE CHECK. YEAH.

I'M JUST SAYING.

YEAH.

AND AGAIN, I HAVE NO PROBLEM DOING THE VERIFICATION BECAUSE IF IT'S JUST BENCHMARK, IT'S A SUBCONTRACT. AND SO, LIKE, WE CAN DEFINITELY LOOK INTO THAT. BECAUSE IF IT'S JUST A BENCHMARK, IT'S NOT AN EXTREME COST TO US.

YEAH.

JUST TO VERIFY THAT PIECE, BECAUSE AS LONG AS WE HAVE THAT VERIFIED, WE SHOULD, IN THEORY, BE WHERE WE NEED TO.

DANIELLE'S GOING TO MENTION IT'S ON THE CURRENT SURVEY, WHICH I PULLED OUT FOR Y', ALL COUPLE WITH THAT.

THIS.

I MEAN, THIS FIELD IS MUCH LARGER THAN WHAT WAS OUT THERE FOR THE PRACTICE FIELD. AND SO YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT A CROWNING THAT IS MUCH DIFFERENT. BUT FROM THE SURVEY, IF I RECALL, AS YOU GOT TOWARDS THE CENTER.

IT DID.

IT HAD A RAISE IN ELEVATION, SO THERE WAS ALREADY A NATURAL ATTRITION FOR THAT RIGHT FIELD TO DRAIN OUT, BUT IT KIND OF LEVELED OUT IN THE CENTER AND LEFT FIELD.

AND SO THERE WAS JUST IMPERFECTIONS, IF YOU WILL, WHEN YOU'RE PUTTING A NEW FIELD IN THAT WE JUST HAVE NOW CAUGHT NOW THAT WE'RE GOING THROUGH SOME OF THOSE PROCESS.

BUT I THINK IT'S FAIR TO SAY THAT WE CAN ASK FROST.

IN THE END, THIS IS GOING TO BE A REALLY NICE FIELD.

IT IS GOING TO BE AN AMAZING FIELD. YES, ABSOLUTELY.

I THINK IT'S FAIR TO SAY THAT WE CAN ASK FROST TO USE BAKER LAWSON.

WELL.

AS THEIR SURVEYOR.

PROBABLY GET THEM BOTH BECAUSE THEY HAVE THEIR OWN.

WELL, NO, THAT'S WHAT I'M SAYING. WE WOULD RATHER THEM USE THE ONE WE'VE USED IN THE PAST. THAT.

WHERE WE. IS THAT OUT OF LINE? WELL.

OR BASICALLY I MEAN, THAT'S THE PROBLEM, I THINK, IS WHAT I DON'T KNOW.

WE DON'T HAVE THE CONTRACT WITH FROST.

WE HAVE. WE HAVE THE CONTRACT WITH FROST.

WE DO.

CITY DOES, YES.

VERDICT IS FOR THE DESIGN AND THEN THE MANAGEMENT OF THE CONTRACT.

OKAY, SO THEY'RE NOT A SUBCONTRACTOR.

THEY'RE NOT A SUBCONTRACTOR.

THEY ARE THE CONTRACT FOR THIS.

THEN WE CAN DEFINITELY BRING THEM IN.

SO, CLAUDIA, HOW MUCH TIME DO YOU SPEND OUT THERE ON THE SITE? LATELY, NOT. EXCUSE ME, LATELY, NOT AS MUCH BECAUSE OF THE STALL ON THAT.

BUT WE HAVE BEEN MEETING ON SITE REGULARLY AND WE HAVE WHAT IS REGULAR.

ARE YOU THERE EVERY OTHER DAY? ARE YOU THERE? NO, MA'. AM. NO. SO WE HAVE BI WEEKLY MEETINGS AND BASED.

EXCUSE ME, IS THAT BY ZOOM? YES, WE HAVE BI WEEKLY MEETINGS IN TEAMS. AND WHEN WE HAVE SPECIFIC SITE VISITS THAT TO COME TO, WE SCHEDULE THOSE BASED ON.

SO YOUR SITE VISITS THAT YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO BE DOING.

YES, SO WE SCHEDULE THOSE SITE VISITS AS NEEDED.

WHY AS NEEDED? THAT'S USUALLY NOT A LOT TO REVIEW ON CONSTRUCTION SITE. BUT IS IT YOUR JOB AS A PROJECT MANAGER TO BE THERE? I MEAN,

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THIS IS A BIG PROJECT. THIS IS A MILLION DOLLAR PROJECT. I MEAN, AS A PROJECT MANAGER, I WOULD ASSUME THAT YOUR RESPONSIBILITY IS TO ENSURE THAT EVERYTHING THAT NEEDS TO BE DONE IS BEING DONE PROPERLY AND TO THE SCALE AND SCOPE OF WHAT WAS ASKED FOR IN THE EVENT THAT THE CITY PUT OUT.

SO TO ANSWER THAT QUESTION, MY THING IS YOU SHOULD PROBABLY BE THERE A LITTLE MORE OFTEN.

YES, MA'. AM. SO AS I SAID EARLIER, I'LL ENSURE THAT WE ARE ON SITE MORE REGULARLY. BUT IT'S NOT NECESSARILY SO. I'M NOT THE CONSTRUCTION MANAGER, SO I CAN'T NECESSARILY. WHEN I'M THERE ON SITE, I CAN'T TELL THE CONTRACTORS WHAT TO DO.

THAT IS THEIR. I CAN. I CAN OBSERVE AND SAY IF SOMETHING LOOKS OFF OR TO THAT EXTENT.

SO WHO DOES CONSTRUCTION MANAGER REPORT TO? THE CONSTRUCTION MANAGER. SO THAT WOULD BE FROST'S CONTRACTORS. THE CONTRACTOR FROM FROST WOULD BE THE CONSTRUCTION MANAGER. AND THEY WOULD TAKE. FROST REPORTS TO THE CITY, NOT THEY REPORT TO CITY. AND. AND WHEN THEY SEE ANY ISSUES WHICH THEY HAD ON THE.

SO HOW OFTEN ARE THEY REPORTING ISSUES? WHENEVER THERE ARE ISSUES, THEY'LL REPORT PRETTY QUICKLY.

AND SO AS JASON MENTIONED EARLIER, WE HAVE BEEN WORKING.

I HAVE TO ASK, AND YOU'RE NOT THE PERSON TO ANSWER THIS QUESTION. THIS IS WHY I WISH FROST WERE HERE.

HOW DID THEY JUST START DIGGING AND NOT SEE THIS COMING? I MEAN, THEY WERE MOVING UPWARDS OF PROBABLY 5 TO 6 INCHES ON THE LOW SIDE.

ON THE HIGH SIDE, THEY WERE PROBABLY DIGGING OUT EVEN MORE. IT'S ALREADY SITS. THERE'S A TRACK, IT'S ELEVATED, THERE'S A DITCH LINE, FALLS BELOW THAT, AND THEN IT ELEVATES BACK UP. I JUST DIDN'T SEE HOW THEY DIDN'T SEE A BOWL COMING.

SO TO ANSWER THAT, THEY FOUND THE AREA THAT WAS.

IT APPEARED THAT THE SWALE WAS A LITTLE HIGHER THAN THE ELEVATION OF THE CORNER OF THE FIELD. THEY MENTIONED THAT TO US, AND WE REVIEWED IT AND PROVIDED INPUT ON THAT END. AND WHAT I BELIEVE HAS NOT BEEN ADDRESSED YET, BECAUSE DURING THAT SAME TIME AS WHENEVER THE RAINS WERE COMING. SO THEY HAVE NOT ADDRESSED THAT CORNER TO THE FINAL ELEVATION, BUT THEY HAVE BEEN. I'M PRETTY SURE WE DRAIN JASON, WITH ALL THE BACK AND FORTH AND CONVERSATIONS AND REVIEWS THAT WE ARE CONSTANTLY WITHIN WORKING WITH ON CUMBO.

SO IS IT COMMON PRACTICE FOR FROST TO REQUEST A LUMP SUM OR A CHANGE ORDER LIKE THIS? I KNOW YOU CAN'T REALLY SPEAK ON IT, BUT I HAVE TO PUT THIS OUT THERE BEFORE DOING THE BARE MINIMUM OF WHAT COULD HAVE BEEN DONE, WHICH IS, HEY, LET ME JUST GET A SUMP PUMP TO PUMP THIS WATER OUT SO I CAN AT LEAST ADDRESS THIS.

THAT WAS THE BIGGEST ISSUE.

YOU KNOW, AS A CONSTRUCTION MANAGER MYSELF, IF I SEE AN ISSUE ON A PROJECT, I'M GOING TO PUT THE FLAG UP. LIKE, HEY, STOP WORK. LET'S CHECK THIS OUT. LET ME BRING THE PEOPLE THAT WE NEED TO BRING HERE AS OPPOSED TO.

AND IT'S WET OUTSIDE. LET ME WAIT FOR THE WATER TO STOP.

OH, IT'S MUGGY OUTSIDE. OH, IT'S AN HOUR AND A HALF AWAY.

OH, IT'S TOO LATE NOW. WE GOT A WHOLE POND BACK THERE.

THAT WAS THE BIGGEST DIFFERENCE.

THAT'S.

THAT.

THAT'S.

THAT'S THE PART THAT GETS TO ME THAT WAS THE BIGGEST DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ABIGAIL AND FREEDOM IS THE GROUP AT ABIGAIL, THEY GOT OUT THERE AND THEY GOT THAT DRAINED. THEY USE A SUMP PUMP.

THEY.

THEY DRAINED IT. SO THEY KEEP WORKING.

AND THAT'S JUST MY QUESTION, IF THIS IS COMMON PRACTICE FOR THEM. THE PART THAT I'M CURIOUS ABOUT IS, IS THIS A QUESTION IN CONCERN WITH BIRDED? THE JOB HASN'T BEEN COMPLETED, AND THEN YOU'RE HERE ASKING FOR MORE MONEY.

QUESTION FOR FUTURE.

AND UNFORTUNATELY, CLAUDIA, YOU'RE THE ONE THAT'S HERE AND YOU'RE GETTING THE.

YOU'RE CATCHING UP THE.

YOU'RE GETTING THE FULL PANEL.

YOU KNOW, YOU'RE GETTING EVERYONE HERE.

THOSE ARE JUST THE QUESTIONS THAT WE HAVE IS JUST, HEY, LOOK, FROST, IF AS A CONSTRUCTION MANAGER, I JUST TALKED WITH MY BROTHER ABOUT THIS TODAY. IF I'M NOT THERE ON A DAILY BASIS. AND I'M EXPECTING SOMEONE ELSE TO PICK UP THE SLACK AND LET ME KNOW HOW IT'S GOING. I'LL HEAR WHAT.

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I'LL HEAR WHAT THEY WANT ME TO HEAR. I'LL HEAR WHAT THEY WANT TO TELL ME. BUT UNTIL I'M ACTUALLY OUT THERE, THAT'S THE DIFFERENCE MAKER. I UNDERSTAND AS THE ENGINEERING FIRM, YOU DON'T NECESSARILY HAVE TO BE HERE EVERY DAY.

IT LOOKS GREAT.

IT WOULD LOOK GREAT ON ALL OF US. AND FOR THE CITY TO HAVE YOU HERE EVERY DAY.

I WOULD LOVE TO BE HERE.

RIGHT, RIGHT, RIGHT.

BUT AS A CONTRACTOR, I'M VERY INVOLVED WITH THE LITTLE LEAGUE IN THE CITY.

RESPECTFULLY. I TALK TO THE.

TO THE CONTRACTORS MOVING THE DIRT MORE THAN I EVER SAW ANYONE FROM FROST. AND I DON'T EVEN KNOW IF THEY HAVE VEHICLES, LIKE PLACARDS ON THEIR VEHICLES OR. YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN? AND I NEVER ONCE GOT THAT APPROACH FROM ANYONE, ASIDE FROM OFFERING THE GUYS THAT WERE DOING THE EARTH MOVING AND THE DIRT WORK, OFFERING THEM SOME WATERS.

HEY, HOW'S IT GOING? AND THAT'S JUST COMING FROM ME SEEING IT ON A DAILY BASIS, YOU KNOW? YEAH. SO THAT'S JUST MY VENTING ON IT. IT'S JUST YOU MIGHT WANT TO SEE IF WE CAN MAYBE DISCUSS WITH FROST WHAT'S GOING ON THERE. I CAN TELL YOU THIS.

WE GO TO DIFFERENT JOB SITES.

GUESS WHAT WE BRING. IF IT'S AN HOUR AND A HALF AWAY, TWO HOURS AWAY. WE GOT A LITTLE PORTABLE TRAILER WITH AN AIR CONDITIONED UNIT.

THE WI FI HOTSPOT THING.

YOU'RE HERE WATCHING IT.

HEY, JASON, WAS FROST INVITED TO BE HERE TODAY? THEY WERE NOT.

OKAY.

SO MUCH APPRECIATED YOU'RE HERE. MUCH APPRECIATED YOUR RESPONSES THAT YOU'RE GIVING.

SO.

SO TO THE BOARD, WE'VE BEEN ON THIS FOR ABOUT 45 MINUTES ON THIS ONE ITEM. I THINK WE'VE GIVEN THEM CLEAR DIRECTION. I THINK.

THINK.

HAVE WE DONE THE SURVEY THAT WE SHOULD HAVE DONE OR THE BENCHMARKS THAT YOU SAID YOU WERE GOING TO DO? YOU WERE GOING TO MAKE SURE THAT YOU'RE OUT THERE A LOT MORE OFTEN.

THE OTHER THING I THINK WE GOT ASKED WAS ABOUT GETTING THOSE ELEVATIONS.

ONCE WE GET THE BENCHMARKS, THEY CAN GET ROLLING AGAIN.

THE. WAS THERE ANYTHING ELSE I MISSED? I THINK THOSE ARE THE THREE MAIN ONES. DO WE STILL WANT FROST TO COME BACK TO A FUTURE MEETING? HOPEFULLY, UNLESS WE HAVE A SPECIAL WILL BE DONE BY THAT POINT. TO YOUR POINT, THE ONE THAT I WANT TO BRING UP, AS FAR AS CLAUDIA MENTIONED, ONE OF THE RECOMMENDATIONS THAT WE'RE GOING TO ASK THEM TO DO IS MOVE THEIR CONSTRUCTION ENTRANCE AND ADDRESS THAT SWALE.

THANK YOU.

AND SO THAT.

SO THEY CAN GET RID OF THEIR BLOCK THEIR ROAD THAT BLOCKS THE DRAINAGE.

YES.

AND SO THAT WE'RE GOING TO EXPLORE WHAT THAT IS. SO THAT. SO WE CAN GET THE PROPER ELEVATION. AND AS WELL DOING WHAT IT'S SUPPOSED TO DO.

BECAUSE THAT'S GOING TO GET FULL INDICATION OF WHERE THAT SHOULD BE AT.

GRANTED WE SEE ANY RAIN LIKE WE DID THIS TIME AROUND.

BUT YES.

OKAY.

ANYBODY HAVE ANYTHING ELSE BEFORE WE MOVE ON TO THE NEXT ITEM? SO WHAT'S THAT? I MEAN THAT'S NO MONEY.

YEAH, THERE'S NO MONEY ASKED.

CAN WE ASK MORE QUESTIONS? I MEAN WE COVERED JUST ABOUT EVERYTHING.

I'M. WE'RE NOT ASKING FOR ANY ADDITIONAL MONEY ON THIS.

I THINK ALL THE QUESTIONS WE GOT ARE MORE FOR FROST.

RIGHT. VERDICT CAN ANSWER. GO ON THE NEXT ONE.

[3. Update, discussion, and possible action on Abigail Arias Park Project supported by Angleton Better Living Corporation.]

ALL RIGHT, THANK YOU, CLYDE.

NUMBER THREE UPDATE DISCUSSION.

POSSIBLE ACTION ON ABIGAIL ARIAS PARK PROJECT. SUPPORTED BY ANGLETON BETTER LIVING CORPORATION.

THANK YOU, MAYOR. SO THIS IS AN UPDATE FOR ABIGAIL ARIAS TO PROVIDE YOU ESTABLISHED REPORTS ON WHAT WE ARE CURRENTLY DOING OUT THERE. WHAT YOU SHOULD BE SEEING. IF YOU HAVEN'T HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO DRIVE BY. THERE ARE SOME PICTURES IN YOUR PACKET HERE THAT YOU HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO TAKE A LOOK AT.

BUT I CAN SAY THIS PROJECT IS DEFINITELY MOVING ALONG. YES, THERE WAS IMPACTS FROM THE SPRING FROM THE RAIN AS WELL, WE KNOW THAT.

BUT DEFINITELY NOT TO THE SAME EXTENT OF WHAT WE'RE SEEING FOR THE PREVIOUS PROJECT.

BUT JUST TO GO RUN THROUGH A COUPLE THINGS THAT YOU SHOULD BE SEEING OUT THERE AS FAR AS HOW THE PROJECT IS MOVING ALONG. WE HAVE HAD THE PARKING LOT POURED. SO THAT'S ALREADY IN PLACE. THEY HAVE STARTED TO DO THE SIDEWALKS UP HERE RECENTLY. SO THERE'S A SECTION OF THE SIDEWALKS THAT HAVE BEEN COMPLETED CLOSEST TO THE PARKING LOT. CURRENTLY THEY HAVE ALSO BEEN LAYING THE FOUNDATION, THE REBAR FOR THE ADDITIONAL SIDEWALK.

THAT'S TO GO THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE PARK PROJECT AQUA UNDERGROUND HAS BEEN THE INSTALLER FOR THE SPLASH PAD.

THEY SHOULD BE COMPLETE WITH THIS SPLASH PAD

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BY THE END OF THIS WEEK. SO THAT IS THE HOPE AND GOAL FOR THERE. SO THAT'D BE EXCITING TO HAVE THAT IN THE PLAYGROUND. WOULD BE SHORTLY TO FOLLOW AFTERWARDS.

THEY HAVE FINISHED THE INSTALLATION OF ALL THE FEATURES FOR THE PLAYGROUND. THE ONLY THINGS TO COME FOR THAT IS THEY ARE FINISHING UP SOME OF THE EXTERIOR BORDER WHERE WAS THEIR CONSTRUCTION ENTRANCE AREA. SO THEY'RE FINISHING UP THAT BORDER THERE. THEY HAVE TO LAY THE FOUNDATION FOR THE PLAYGROUND DESIGN.

WELL AND THEN THE FOREIGN FLIGHT SERVICE. SO THAT ONE'S STARTING TO MOVE ALONG AS WELL. AND THEN AS FAR AS THE TURFING FOR THE BERM HAS TO GO IN AS WELL. SO A COUPLE OF COSMETICS IF YOU WILL.

BUT THE STRUCTURE THEMSELVES ARE IN PLACE. SO DEFINITELY EXCITED ON THAT SIDE. THE FOUNDATION FOR THE PAVILION HAS BEEN POURED, SO THAT'S IN PLAY AS WELL. SO ALL THE UNDERGROUND UTILITY TIE IN PIECES HAVE BEEN DONE. ONCE THAT'S COMPLETE AND HAS SETTLED, THEY WILL START AN UPRIGHT STRUCTURE. SO EXCITED TO GET THAT UNDERWAY AS WELL.

WE ARE CONTINUING TO WORK WITH TEXAS, NEW MEXICO TO OFFICIALLY GET THE UTILITIES TIED TO THAT LOCATION. THE LAST REALLY BIGGEST ITEM IS THE SANITARY SEWER LINE. SO WE'RE STILL DETERMINING WHAT LOCATION THAT IS GOING TO BE TO. WE'VE GOTTEN INFORMATION BACK ON THE NORTHERN PORTION OF THE PARK AS WELL AS THE SOUTHERN PORTION OF THAT. AND WE'RE TRYING TO FINALIZE SOME MEETINGS THIS WEEK TO BE ABLE TO HAVE AN OFFICIAL DIRECTION FORWARD ON THAT. SO THE SANITARY SEWER LINE PORTION OF THE PAVILION CAN BE ADDRESSED AND WE CAN MOVE FORWARD THERE.

SO DEFINITELY MOVING FORWARD ON THIS. EXCITING WITH THE NEW THINGS TO COME.

SO IT'S DEFINITELY TAKING SHAPE. AS I MENTIONED, THERE ARE PICTURES IN YOUR PACKETS. BUT I'M HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY SPECIFIC QUESTIONS YOU MAY HAVE ON THIS PROJECT.

WHAT'S THE TIME FRAME? THE MOST RECENT UPDATE THAT WAS PROVIDED, IT'S CONTINGENT ON THAT SANITARY SEWER LINE.

BUT WE'RE PROBABLY LOOKING LATE OCTOBER, NOVEMBER AT THIS TIME. SO LAST I HEARD IS I HAVE TO HAVE IT DONE BEFORE THE END OF MAY OR BEGINNING OF MAY OF 2020.

I THOUGHT THIS WAS SUPPOSED TO BE DONE SOMETIME AROUND SEPTEMBER.

IT WAS, BUT BECAUSE OF THE WEATHER DELAYS THAT THEY HAD FOR INITIAL SAME THING.

THERE'S ONE AS EXTENSIVE AS THE TWO MONTHS WE SAW FOR THE OTHER PROJECT. BUT THAT SEWER LINE IS THAT OTHER ONE.

SO THAT WAS THE MOST RECENT I WAS PROVIDED.

BUT WE ARE WORKING THROUGH WITH THEM BECAUSE THE PROJECT CONTINUES TO MOVE ALONG. THEY DO ENVISION THAT THERE MAY BE OPPORTUNITIES TO. AS LONG AS THE WEATHER COOPERATES, WE SHOULD BE ABLE TO SHADE SOME OF THAT DOWN.

SO.

AND THIS IS A POUR AND PLAY PLAYGROUND.

POUR AND PLAY, YEAH. SO YOU'LL HAVE A TRANSITION STRAIGHT FROM THE SIDEWALK TO THE SPLASH PAD AND THE PLAYGROUND.

BUT NO COVER.

NO COVER AT THIS TIME.

YEAH, THEY WERE MAKING PRETTY GOOD PROGRESS BEFORE THAT RAIN CAME IN. IT STOPPED EVERYBODY.

AND I MEAN THEY CONTINUE TO MOVE ALONG A LOT OF THEIR SITE DEVELOPMENT STUFF AS MUCH AS THEY COULD BECAUSE THERE ARE SECTIONS. SO THE. THE LARGE GREEN AREA THAT YOU SEE THAT'S ON THE EAST SIDE OF THE PROPERTY THAT IS FOR DETENTION. SO THAT IS DESIGNED TO BE WHERE THE WATER IS SUPPOSED TO FLOW TO BEFORE IT FOLLOWS A SWELL THAT WOULD GO DOWN INTO THE STORM DRAINS.

BUT SO IN HEAVY RAINS, YOU WILL ACTUALLY SEE WATER STAY THERE FOR A PERIOD OF TIME.

BUT YEAH, I MEAN, THEY MADE PROGRESS ON THIS PRETTY QUICK. AND THEN OVER THE PAST TWO, THREE WEEKS, WE'VE SEEN PROGRESS DEFINITELY PICK UP QUITE A BIT FROM HERE. ONE OF THE THINGS I FAILED TO MENTION, I APOLOGIZE, IS THE ADDITION OF THE EXTRA GARDEN AREA THAT'S IN A PARTNERSHIP WITH TANDEM GLOBAL AND PHILLIPS 66.

PHILLIPS 66 IS FULLY FUNDING AN ADDITIONAL GARDEN THAT'S GOING TO COME RIGHT OFF THE T SPOT FOR WHERE YOU ENTER THE PARK FROM THE SIDEWALK. AND KIND OF ON BOTH SIDES OF THAT, THEY'RE GOING TO BE INSTALLING SOME NATIVE PLANTINGS AND WILDFLOWERS AND DOING A BEAUTIFICATION UPTAKE THERE.

PREVIOUSLY, IT WAS JUST GOING TO BE MEADOW MIX, BUT THEY'RE PLANTING ABOUT 03,500 PLANTS IN THAT AREA TO ADD AN ADDITIONAL PIECE.

BUT THAT IS A TALL AT THE COST OF PHILLIPS 66, SO NO ADDITIONAL COST TO US.

WE'RE STILL DOING OUR ANNUAL EARTH DAY TREE PLANTINGS.

SO THIS YEAR WE'RE ACTUALLY PARTNERING WITH THIS TO MAKE THIS OUR PLANTING THIS YEAR.

SO THERE'LL BE OTHER YEARS.

THERE'LL DEFINITELY BE OTHER YEARS. I MEAN, THERE'LL BE TREES PLANTED AT ABIGAIL. BUT WE THOUGHT THIS WAS A GOOD TIE IN TO REALLY THE COMMUNITY TO DO PART OF THIS GARDEN.

SO ANY OTHER CORPORATE SPONSORS INTERESTED? NOT AT THIS TIME.

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SO PARKS MEETING, WE SAID WE WOULD WANT TO DO THIS AROUND NOVEMBER, OCTOBER FOR THE TREE FOR THE NOVEMBER. NOVEMBER.

IT'S A PRETTY GOOD.

PRIOR TO KNOWING THAT WE WERE GOING TO GET PUSHED BACK TO APRIL.

OH, FOR THE EVENT. NO, MY REFERENCE FOR MAY WAS SIMPLY BECAUSE OF AN INDIVIDUAL THAT'S ROLLING OFF COUNCIL. SO IF IT'S NOT, AND BY THAT TIME I'M GONNA HAVE A JOB. NO, WE DID. WHEN I HAD MENTIONED TO JOHN THAT THE NOVEMBER TIMELINE AT THAT TIME, I DID NOT KNOW FOR THE PARKS BOARD MEETING THAT NOVEMBER WAS OUR TIMELINE FOR THAT. WE ENVISIONED SEPTEMBER, OCTOBER. AND SO THIS ACTUALLY MIGHT LINE UP WELL BECAUSE THERE WERE CONCERNS OF THAT GARDEN AREA BEING LEFT, YOU KNOW, IN ITS NATURAL STATE OR PREPPED IN GOING A COUPLE WEEKS WITHOUT THE PLANTINGS GOING IN.

BUT THIS ACTUALLY MIGHT LINE UP PRETTY WELL FOR IT. SO.

THAT'S SOME PRETTY GOOD VIEWS BECAUSE FROM THE ROAD FROM.

YOU CAN'T REALLY TELL HOW BIG IT IS. ALL YOU SEE IS THAT BIG PARKING LOT, YOU KNOW, AND YOU SEE SOME OF THE PLAYGROUND STUFF.

BUT YEAH, CAN'T GO OVER THERE. WELL, I'VE SEEN PEOPLE OUT THERE WALKING WAY OUT FROM AROUND, AROUND.

I HOPE THOSE ARE CONSTRUCTION WORKERS OUT THERE.

THEY WERE COMING FROM THE APARTMENT.

NEXT TIME YOU SEE THEM, STOP AND ASK THEM IF THEY'RE FROM THE APARTMENTS. I'D LIKE A TALLY ON THE NUMBER OF THEM USING IT OR READY.

WELL, I DO WANT TO LOOK INTO.

THEY WERE WAY IN THE BACK.

I WOULDN'T GO TALK TO THEM.

CONNECT THE. WHAT'S THE STREET THERE? NOT ANDERSON.

YES.

THANK YOU. SIDEWALK TO THE ONE THAT'S ALREADY ON CEMETERY.

OKAY.

ON THE NORTH SIDE, THERE'S A CONNECTION. OH, ON THE PROPERTY LINE ON THE SOUTH SIDE, WE NOW OWN THE PROPERTY.

OKAY.

SO ON THE.

WE SHOULD HAVE. IT SHOULD BE CONNECTED ON ALL SIDES.

THE WEST SIDE, WE'RE TALKING, RIGHT? EAST SIDE.

YES. ALL RIGHT. YES, YES.

WEST SIDE OF THE ROAD.

WEST SIDE OF ANDERSON. EAST SIDE OF THE PROPERTY. YES.

THANK YOU.

YES.

SO THE PROPERTY PART THAT WE OWN NOW, THAT PARCEL, WE WANT TO GET SIDEWALK THERE.

CORRECT. I THINK THERE MIGHT BE SOME MONEY IN THE CITY'S BUDGET.

ORC'S BUDGET? WELL, BOTH.

I MEAN, I THINK WE HAVE. I THINK WE HAVE A SIDEWALK.

YEAH.

WE RAN IN LAKESIDE PARK. YOU KNOW, WITH LAKESIDE. YOU KNOW, THERE WAS A CONNECTION THAT HERITAGE OAKS COULD NOT REALLY WALK INTO LAKESIDE PARK. SO, YOU KNOW, WE MET WITH THE HOMEOWNER ASSOCIATION.

SO FINALLY THAT WAS TAKEN CARE OF. SO THIS IS A DIFFERENT SITUATION BECAUSE THIS IS ALL CITY AND THERE'S NO SUBDIVISION INCLUDED. SO, LIKE.

LIKE THE GUYS SAY, SINCE ABLC HAS MONEY, I GUESS WE CAN AFFORD TO PAY FOR SIDEWALK.

WELL, I'M JUST. IT'S AN IDEA TO EXPLORE SOMETIME. WE NEED TO WORK ON CONNECTING THAT.

THAT PORTION.

THAT PORTION IT IS. THERE ARE LOTS OF HOMES ON SOUTH ANDERSON, AND THEY'RE ON BOTH THE EAST SIDE.

BUT THE WEST SIDE, THERE'S AS WELL. AND SO SEEMS ODD THAT YOU WOULD EITHER MAKE KIDS WALK THROUGH FIELDS OR CROSS OVER TO THE EAST SIDE, THEN HAVE TO RETRACT AND COME BACK TO THE WEST SIDE TO GET TO THE PART.

SO WE'RE ALL FOR CONNECTIVITY AT SOME POINT.

IT'S JUST THE IDEA WE NEED TO START UP.

WE NEED MORE CONNECTIVITY BETWEEN OUR PARKS.

ANYTHING ELSE FOR ABIGAIL PARK? ALL RIGHT, MOVING ON.

JOHN'S GONNA RUN A TROLLEY OFF OF IT.

[4. Update and discussion on current Angleton Recreation Center renovations.]

UPDATE DISCUSSION ON CURRENT ANGELS AND RECREATION CENTER RENOVATIONS. I CAN'T HEAR YOU.

THANK YOU, MAYOR. SO THIS ONE IS AN UPDATE ON THE ANGLETON RECREATION CENTER TO PROVIDE YOU A CURRENT STATUS AS FAR AS PROBABLY PROJECT GOES THERE.

AS YOU ALL KNOW, WE WERE ABLE TO OPEN THE POOL JUNE 1ST.

THAT WAS OUR FIRST PRIORITY.

SO IT KIND OF GIVES YOU A BREAKDOWN OF ALL THE THINGS WE DID THERE. I KNOW THERE'S A LOT OF QUESTIONS THAT COME OF WHAT IMPROVEMENTS WENT INTO THE REC CENTER WE KNOW THAT WE HAD SOME DELAYS DUE TO ENSURING THAT WE WERE MEETING APPROPRIATE COMPLIANCE.

BUT THE PRETTY EXHAUSTIVE LIST OF THINGS THAT WE'VE ALREADY INVESTED INTO TO MAKE SURE THAT THAT FACILITY IS, YOU KNOW, A STAPLE FOR THE COMMUNITY FOR THE LONG HAUL. SO THINGS INCLUDING THE PLAY NOOK INSTALLATION, KEEP IN MIND THAT PRICE DOES NOT INCLUDE WHEN WE PURCHASED IT PRIOR. SO THERE WAS FUNDING PROVIDED FROM ABLC IN PREVIOUS YEARS TO PURCHASE THE EQUIPMENT THAT DOESN'T INCLUDE THAT THIS IS JUST FOR THE INSTALLATION. WE HAD THE POOL RE PLASTERED. WE HAD

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THE SPA REPLASTERED GUTTER AND DECK GRADING REPLACEMENT, DECK RESURFACING SLIDE STAIR TEXTURE TILE AND CLEANING AND REPAIRS.

ADDITIONAL SLIDE APPEARANCE UPTICK NATATORIUM PAINTING FOR INSIDE. WE HAD THE RESTORATION OF THE SLIDE ITSELF. WE HAD SOME PILLARS THAT NEEDED TO BE TAKEN CARE OF. WE HAD SOME SUPPORT BEAMS THAT WERE ADDRESSED THE DECKING REPAIR SPECIFICALLY IN THE ADA CHAIRLIFT REPLACEMENTS. THOSE ARE ALL PROJECTS THAT MINUS ONE OF THEM. I WILL SAY THERE IS THE OVERFLOW GRADING NEEDED. A SPECIAL MOLD PIECE PUT IN THAT WE'RE STILL WAITING ON DID NOT IMPACT OUR OPERATIONS.

BUT OTHER THAN THAT THE REST OF THESE HAD BEEN COMPLETED.

SO DEFINITELY EXCITED THERE YOU CAN SEE THE TOTAL THAT'S BEEN DEDICATED TO THE POOL. AS I MENTIONED, POOLS ARE AN EXPENSIVE THING AND CONTINUE TO BE. SO THIS GRANTS AN ADDITIONAL FUNDING FROM FUND BALANCES AND THE BOND WAS DEFINITELY NEEDED TO BE ABLE TO SUPPORT THE OPERATIONS HERE.

ALSO PROVIDED A LIST OF THINGS THAT WE ARE CURRENTLY WORKING ON TO CONSIDER FOR ADDITIONAL FUNDING TO BE ABLE TO SUPPORT. AS YOU CAN SEE THERE ARE SOME THINGS ON HERE THAT ARE QUITE EXPENSIVE. AND SO THIS GRANT DOES PROVIDE US THE OPPORTUNITY TO ADDRESS THOSE WHERE IT DOESN'T IMPACT OUR DAILY OUR REGULAR OPERATING BUDGETS.

SOME OF THE THINGS THAT WE'RE LOOKING AT FOR THERE IS GETTING INTO COMPLIANCE TO MAKE SURE WE HAVE THE APPROPRIATE EMERGENCY STOP FOR OUR SPA. REPLACING ONE OF OUR MOTORS FOR THE SLIDE.

LOOKING AT REPLACEMENT FOR OUR HEATERS. THEY ARE THE ORIGINAL HEATERS FOR THE FACILITY. SO WE ARE AT 20 YEARS FOR THOSE THAT WAS THE ISSUE WITH THE POOL OR THE SPA BEING DOWN WAS THE HEATER WENT DOWN.

AND BEING 20 YEARS OLD, IT'S BEING MORE DIFFICULT TO FIND THE PARTS FOR THAT.

ALSO LOOKING AT MEDIA REPLACEMENT. SO WE DO HAVE SAND FILTERS THAT DO REQUIRE US TO CHANGE OUT THE SAND IN THOSE ON A REGULAR BASIS. SO THAT WOULD HELP COVER THOSE COSTS.

AND THEN WE ARE ALSO LOOKING TO DO OUR GARAGE DOOR REPLACEMENT.

THOSE SAME THING IN THAT ENVIRONMENT. THEY JUST DO NOT LAST. AND SO THAT'S SOMETHING WE'RE LOOKING TO EXPLORE AS WELL. AND SO WITH THAT WE'RE TRYING TO HOPEFULLY WRAP UP THOSE PROJECTS SO WE CAN START TO LOOK AT OTHER PART OF THE PARTS OF THE FACILITY.

WE HAD THE INITIAL PLAN TO ADDRESS THINGS IN THE WEIGHT ROOM, THE LIGHTING, THE FACILITY, THE MULTI PURPOSE ROOM. WE HAVE SHIFTED OUR FOCUS SLIGHTLY.

WE'RE GATHERING INFORMATION FOR REPLACEMENT OF OUR H VAC. H VAC HAS BECOME A VERY BIG ISSUE FOR US AND IT'S COSTING US A LOT OF MONEY YEAR OVER YEAR AT THIS POINT. AND RATHER THAN CONTINUING TO DUMP, YOU KNOW, TENS OF THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS INTO THOSE UNITS, WE'RE TRYING TO SEE WHAT THOSE COSTS ASSOCIATED WITH THAT ARE TO SEE IF WE CAN LEVERAGE THAT TO UTILIZE THE GRANT FUNDING FOR THAT. WE'RE HOPEFUL TO IT GETS FAVORABLE COSTS ON THAT.

BUT WE DO KNOW THAT IT'S GOING TO IMPACT SOME OF THE THINGS WE WANTED TO DO. HOPEFULLY THE GOAL WOULD BE THAT MAY ONLY IMPACT OUR LOCKER ROOM RENOVATIONS IS ONE OF THE THINGS WE WERE. WE WERE HOPING TO BE ABLE TO DO. IF THAT'S SOMETHING WE HAVE TO EXPLORE IN FUTURE YEARS, I'D RATHER MAKE SURE WE HAVE H VAC FOR OUR FACILITY VERSUS DOING A LOCKER ROOM ENHANCEMENT AT THIS TIME. SO HAVE PICTURES HERE AS WELL THAT SHOW YOU THE PROGRESS THAT WAS MADE THROUGHOUT THE PROJECT AND THE FINISHED PRODUCT. AS FAR AS WHAT'S IN THE POOL. BUT HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS YOU ALL HAVE ON THE REC CENTER.

THE GARAGE DOOR, THE COST OF.

YEAH, 70 TO 90,000.

I WOULD TELL YOU IF I HAD DESIGNED THE POOL I PROBABLY WOULDN'T GONE SUCH A LARGE GARAGE DOOR AND ALSO I PROBABLY WOULD HAVE HAD GARAGE DOORS THAT WERE ALL THE SAME SIZE.

OURS ARE NOT. SO WHEN YOU DO THAT YOU DON'T YOU HAVE TO GO GET A CUSTOM DOOR.

YEAH, THEY'RE NOT CHEAP. NO, I CAN IMAGINE.

IS THAT JUST ONE DOOR? NO, THAT WOULD BE REPLACING ALL FOUR.

ALL FOUR? YEAH, THAT WOULD BE ALL FOUR.

WELL, ALL FOUR. I GUESS THAT'S NOT A.

NOT A TERRIBLE PRICE.

MORE EXPENSIVE THAN YOU WOULD THOUGHT. BUT WE ARE, I WILL SAY WITH THAT ONE TOO.

WE ARE LOOKING AT THE OPTION RIGHT NOW. OURS ARE CURRENTLY MOTORIZED AND SO WE HAVE LIKE A PUSH BUTTON TO BE ABLE TO DO THAT OVER TIME. THOSE HAVE FAILED.

SO WE'RE ACTUALLY LOOKING AT OPTIONS THAT ONES THAT MIGHT BE EASIER. JUST A MANUAL LEVER ON IT. YOU KNOW, TECHNOLOGY HAS CHANGED AND SO THERE MIGHT BE OPPORTUNITY TO SAVE A LITTLE BIT ON COST.

BECAUSE ANYTIME YOU ADD ELECTRONIC COMPONENTS TO A POOL AREA YOU JUST ASSUME THAT THEY'RE GOING TO FAIL AT SOME POINT.

THAT'S NOT GOING TO PUT TOO MUCH WORKLOAD ON THE STAFF THOUGH, RIGHT? IF IT WAS THE CURRENT DOOR, YES. THE CHAIN THAT WE HAVE FOR THAT, IT COULD TAKE YOU 15, 20 MINUTES TO OPEN THE DOOR

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HALFWAY.

I'M LOOKING OUT FOR THOSE GUYS BECAUSE NOT MUCH SPINNING. THE CHAIN DOESN'T DO TOO MUCH.

SPIN THAT CHAIN, AND IT WILL GO ABOUT A MILLIMETER A MINUTE.

HEY, AT LEAST YOU WON'T PULL A MUSCLE.

BUT THERE ARE NEWER ONES. I CAN TELL YOU. THERE'S DIFFERENT DOOR STYLES THAT YOU CAN GO THROUGH, AND THEY'RE MUCH EASIER. AND SO JUST THE DESIGN INSPECTS ON SOME OF THOSE MADE IT A LITTLE BIT MORE DIFFICULT.

BUT YEAH, YEAH, SAME THING.

WE'RE LOOKING OUT FOR THEM AS WELL, BECAUSE WHEN THEY'RE DOWN NOW, IT IS. IT TAKES THEM A WHILE JUST TO OPEN ENOUGH TO. AND AS YOU ALL KNOW, OUR POOL IS NOT H VAC. AND SO THOSE GARAGE DOORS IS ACTUALLY WHAT ACTUALLY CREATES THAT AIRFLOW TO REMOVE THE CHEMICALS OFF THE SURFACE OF THE POOL.

AND SO WE'RE SUPPOSED TO HAVE OUR GARAGE DOORS OPEN TO CREATE AIRFLOW. DOESN'T ALWAYS EXCITE PEOPLE IN THE WINTERS, BUT THAT'S THE ONLY WAY WE'RE ABLE TO CREATE THAT AIRFLOW IN THERE.

SO I DON'T SEE THE. IN THE FUTURE IMPROVEMENTS. I DON'T SEE SAUNA LISTED.

THAT'S. YEAH, YOU KNOW, I SAW SOME S WORDS. I SAW SPA. I SAW SPA AGAIN. I NEVER SAW SANA.

THAT MUST BE LIKE THAT NEXT ITEM DOWN THERE.

WELL, THAT'S WHY THEY WANT YOU TO PULL THE CHAIN ON THE GARAGE DOOR.

THAT'LL GET YOU.

YOU KNOW WHAT? WE COULD COME UP WITH A. I THINK WE HAVE IT IN OUR. A CHARTER SOMEWHERE THAT IF SOMEBODY WANTS TO MAKE A DONATION, WE WILL NAME THEM. SO IF THEY'RE. I DON'T KNOW, WE COULD HAVE THE DR. JACKSON SPA JUST CUT US A NICE CHECK, AND WE'LL MAKE IT HAPPEN.

PEDAL, PEDAL.

THAT SOUNDS GOOD.

OR WHATEVER.

I MEAN, I'M PRETTY SURE THAT THE POOL WAS DESIGNED.

I MEAN, THERE'S SPACE AROUND THAT. THERE ABSOLUTELY IS. YEAH, THERE ABSOLUTELY IS.

HE'S THINKING ABOUT IT, DON'T THEY.

YEAH, I JUST.

YOU CAN LEAVE A LASTING LEG.

ANOTHER LASTING LEGACY.

YOU KNOW WHAT? YOU KNOW, BECAUSE WITH THIS ESTEEMED BOARD THAT'S HERE, I CAN TAKE DONATIONS AND PUT THEM TO MY ACCOUNT, AND I'LL BE MORE THAN HAPPY TO DONATE THE DONATIONS THAT I GET FROM THESE GUYS.

FUNDRAISING. I LIKE IT. YOU SAID YOU'RE GONNA BE IN CHARGE OF FUNDRAISING.

THERE COULD BE A MATCHING GRANT.

THAT'S THE OPTIMAL WORD RIGHT HERE.

JUST SERIOUSLY, THOUGH, WHAT WOULD THE COST OF A SPOT? I MEAN, A SAUNA.

I MEAN, IT REALLY JUST DEPENDS ON WHICH ONES.

WHAT IS THE SPACE, THOUGH? WHAT'S THE FOOTPRINT.

HOW MANY PEOPLE WOULD YOU HAVE NOWADAYS? LIKE WHEN YOU. WHEN YOU THINK ASANA LIKE IT HAS CHANGED.

THE ONE IN LAKE JACKSON, THAT WAS LIKE A 10 BY 10.

YEAH. THEY DON'T EVEN.

THEY'RE LIKE ELECTRONICALLY.

THEY'RE REALLY NOT THAT EXPENSIVE. OKAY. SO THE MANAGEMENT THAT COMES WITH IT AND THE UPKEEP. THE OTHER PART IS I WOULD HAVE TO CHECK ON THIS. I DON'T KNOW HOW THEY DO IN THE EXTERIOR LIKE IN THE OUTDOOR CLIMATE BECAUSE WE DON'T HAVE.

THAT WAS WHERE I WAS ABOUT TO GO NEXT. THAT'S WHERE.

AND SO THE ONLY AREA I COULD SEE THAT GOING IS THEN THE ONE GARAGE DOOR SPACE THAT'S OPEN TO THE OUTSIDE. I JUST DON'T KNOW HOW IT WOULD DO.

YOU KNOW, THE CONCERN WAS EARLIER WAS BECAUSE OF JUST THE VISIBILITY AND BECAUSE OF THE PLACEMENT IT WOULD HAVE TO LIKE WE WOULD HAVE HAD TO REMOVE A LIFEGUARD STAND.

AND SO THAT WAS ONE OF THE CONCERNS FOR THE EARLY.

BUT SINCE THERE'S BEEN REDESIGN OF THE POOL AREA AND NOW THIS MAY BE MORE OF A POSSIBILITY.

AS A MATTER OF FACT, IT MAY BE MORE PROBABLE.

I WOULD HAVE PROBABLY CONCERNS ON ADA SPACING. YEAH. I DON'T KNOW IF OUR POOL DECK HAS IT BUT LIKE I SAID, THE GARAGE DOOR AREA JUST.

I CAN'T GO IN THAT LITTLE. IS IT A PATIO AREA? YEAH, THEY. THAT'S WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT. THEY BROUGHT ONE OF THE GARAGE DOORS HAS LIKE A LARGER OPEN SPACE.

IT SHOULD REALLY BE INDOORS.

IT SHOULD BE LIKE WHERE THE LOCKERS ARE.

WELL, THAT WAS GOING TO BE MY QUESTION. COULD AND ALSO BECAUSE COULD TRY AND REDESIGN THE LOCKER ROOM SO THAT THERE WAS A MALE SAUNA AND A FEMALE INDEPENDENT SAUNA. I KNOW THEY MAKE INDIVIDUAL SAUNAS NOW. THEY COME IN KITS, IF YOU WILL, FOR LACK OF. SO I MEAN I'M NOT SAYING SERIOUSLY IN THEORY, YES, THAT WAS THE ORIGINAL INTENSE.

BUT THE LOCKER ROOM, WE DO IT AT THE NEXT MEETING FALL OFF BECAUSE OF THE COST.

DO WE SPEND A LOT OF TIME ON NUMBER ONE TO STUDY HOW MANY PEOPLE ACTUALLY USE THE LOCKERS ON A REGULAR BASIS.

SO I WILL HONESTLY TELL YOU, IF WE WERE TO RENOVATE THE LOCKER ROOM, WE WOULD NOT PUT THE AMOUNT OF LOCKERS BACK IN THAT WE HAVE. AND SO THERE.

THERE COULD BE OPPORTUNITY.

YEAH.

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SO WE FOUND THE SPACE. NOW DR. JACKSON, YOU KNOW, YOU'RE GETTING EXCITED OVER HERE.

SO. SO I CAN PASS IT ON TO THOSE GUYS, YOU KNOW, IN THE MORNING TIME. THERE'S A COUPLE OF GUYS, ONE IN PARTICULAR WHO ALWAYS ASK ABOUT THAT SAUNA. HE SAYS, HOW'S THAT SAUNA COMING? I'M LIKE, HEY, I'M WORKING ON IT.

TWENTY YEARS IN THE MAKING.

YEAH, IT'S A BOARD THING.

IT'S A BOARD THING. IT'S NOT JUST ME GET THERE.

WORKING ON IT.

MAYBE THE NEXT GENERATION WILL PLANT THE TREES NOW FOR THE NEXT GENERATION.

YES, THANKS.

I'LL PUT IT IN MY NEXT REPORT.

MAYBE YOU CAN CHECK INTO THE FEASIBILITY OF THAT.

I DON'T KNOW IF YOU KNOW, WE CAN GET A MAYOR ON BOARD.

WE COULD NAME IT THEM.

HOW ABOUT JUST.

HOW ABOUT I'M DOING THIS? HOW ABOUT JUST PUTTING A WOODEN FENCE AROUND THAT LITTLE PATIO AREA AND SAY, HERE'S YOUR SPA. IT'S 110. 10 DEGREES OUTSIDE HUMIDITY.

IN REALITY, THE POOL IS NOT COLD BY ANY MEANS. SO, LIKE, OUR POOL IS KIND OF LIKE A SAUNA ALREADY.

LIKE. LIKE THOSE ARE GOOD SELLING POINTS I CAN TAKE BACK TO THIS YOUNG GENTLEMAN, BUT I'LL MAKE SOME NOTES ON THAT AND MENTION THAT TO HIM.

I WAS GONNA SAY OPTION TWO IS WHAT IF WE GOT HEATERS AND FACE THEM STRAIGHT DOWN OVER THE BLEACHERS.

TOO MUCH LIABILITY THAT YOU'RE ABOUT TO TOSS THEM IN THE POOL.

I JUST DON'T QUITE UNDERSTAND NEEDING TO SWEAT AROUND HERE. I MEAN, IF YOU WANT TO SWEAT, YOU'RE GONNA GO OUTSIDE, YOU'RE GONNA SWEAT GOING TO YOUR CAR.

BUT THEY WANT DRY SWEAT.

YEAH, DRY SWEAT.

DRY SWEAT, YEAH.

I HEAR ADDICTS WORK REALLY WELL RIGHT NOW.

YOU DON'T HAVE TO GET EVEN UNDER THEM. YOU CAN JUST GO SIT ON TOP OF THEM, BUT.

BUT DIRECT SOONER DOESN'T HAVE AN APP. THAT'S THE ONLY ISSUE.

I WILL TELL YOU, OUR ROOF IS JUST AS HOT AS AN ATTIC. I WOULD GLADLY TAKE YOU UP THERE, BUT.

BUT THERE'S NO STAIRS.

THERE'S A LADDER, BUT IT'S NOT SAFE.

WE GO UP THERE ALL THE TIME.

YOU WANT TO SWEAT, YOU GET SWEAT GOING UP.

ALL RIGHT, ANYBODY HAVE ANYTHING ELSE ON

[5. Discussion on updated preliminary budget for Parks, Recreation, Angleton Recreation Center, and Angleton Better Living Corporation division budgets for fiscal year 2026-2027.]

THE RECREATIONS AND RENOVATIONS? ALL RIGHT, I'M GONNA GO TO NUMBER FIVE.

DISCUSSION ON UPDATED PRELIMINARY BUDGET FOR PARKS, RECREATION, ANGLETON RECREATION CENTER AND THE ANGLETON BETTER LIVING CORPORATION DIVISION BUDGETS FOR FISCAL YEAR 2026, 2027.

THANK YOU, MAYOR. SO, AS YOU KNOW, WE'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT BUDGET FOR THE PAST COUPLE MONTHS.

WANTED TO BRING THE MOST UP TO DATE BUDGETS AS FAR AS PARKS, RECREATION, ANGLETON BETTER LIVING CORPORATION AND RECREATION AND ANGLETON RECREATION CENTER. SO YOU'LL SEE THE BREAKDOWN FOR THE DIFFERENT DEPARTMENTS IN YOUR PACKETS. A COUPLE OF THINGS JUST TO HIGHLIGHT HERE. AS FAR AS THE MAJOR CHANGES THAT WERE FROM THE PREVIOUS BUDGETS. I'LL START WITH RECREATION AND THE REC CENTER FIRST. THE ONLY CHANGES THAT REALLY ATTRIBUTED TO THOSE ONES FROM WHAT YOU HAD PREVIOUSLY SEEN WAS THE INCREASE THAT WAS GIVEN FOR FOR SALARY. THE SALARY RAISES IN KAPLAN CLASS STUDY JUSTIFICATION THAT CITY COUNCIL APPROVED AT THEIR MOST RECENT BUDGET WORKSHOP. SO THOSE WERE THE BIGGEST COMPONENTS THAT WERE ASSOCIATED THERE. SIMILAR THING FOR YOUR PARKS. BUT TO POINT OUT FOR THE PARK SIDE THERE WERE A COUPLE OTHER ITEMS THAT WERE APPROVED FOR FUNDING. SO WITH THAT FUNDING SPECIFICALLY WE WERE LOOKING AT GETTING A TRACK LOADER THAT WAS GOING TO COME WITH A GRAPPLE, A BRUSH MOWER, A MULCHER, A MOWER AS WELL AND A TRAILER.