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BAILEY TO GIVE THE APPLICATION. DOCTOR BAILEY.
>> HEAVENLY FATHER, WE WELCOME YOU TODAY AND WE THANK YOU FOR ALL YOU HAVE GIVEN US AND THE MANY BLESSINGS IN OUR LIVES AND COMMUNITY. WE ASK FOR YOUR GUIDANCE AND STRENGTH. SHOW US A WAY TO FILL US WITH COURAGE AND WAS THEM. HELP US TO REMEMBER YOUR LOVE AND GRACE CAN BE FAITHFUL IN YOUR SERVICE AND GIVE US PATIENCE AND UNDERSTANDING TO FACE LIFE'S CHALLENGES WITH GRACE AND WE ASSESS AND ALL OF YOUR NAME.
AMEN. >> AMEN. THANK YOU, DIRECTOR BAILEY. PLEASE STAND AS WE HONOR OUR GREAT COUNTRY AND STATE. I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND TO THE REPUBLIC FOR WHICH IT STANDS, WHEN NATION, UNDER GOD, INDIVISIBLE WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL. HONOR THE TEXAS FLAG. I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO TEXAS, ONE STATE UNDER GOD, WHEN INDIVISIBLE. THIS EVENING WE HAVE A PROCLAMATION AND SUPPORT
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OF VETERANS DAY AND I CALL UPON DIRECTOR LINDA NELSON TO READ THE PROCLAMATION. DOCTOR NELSON.>> THANK YOU, DIRECTOR SNYDER AND I'M SO PROUD TO BE READING THIS. WE HAVE A SACRED TRUST WITH THOSE WHO WEAR THE UNIFORM OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND WHEREAS OUR NATURES SERVICEMEN AND WOMEN ARE OUR BEST AND BRIGHTEST IN LISTING AND PEACE AND SERVING IN A HONOR UNDER THE MOST DIFFICULT CIRCUMSTANCES AND MAKING SACRIFICES THAT MANY OF US CANNOT EVEN BEGIN TO IMAGINE. WHERE AS WE ALSO PRAY TRIBUTE TO ALL WHO HAVE WORN THE UNIFORM HE CONTINUED TO SERVE THEIR COUNTRY. WHEREAS OUR VETERANS CONCEDED THE END FOR THOSE TIMELESS AMERICAN IDEAS OF LIBERTY, SELF-DETERMINATION AND EQUAL OPPORTUNITY AND WHEREAS ON VETERANS DAY, WE ARE THE HEROES WE HAVE LOST AND WE REDEDICATE OURSELVES TO THE NEXT GENERATION OF VETERANS BY SUPPORTING OUR SOLDIERS, SEVERAL YEARS, AIRMEN, MARINES AND COAST GUARDSMEN AS THEY RETURN HOME FOR DUTY.
THEREFORE, WE RESPECT AND HONOR IN RECOGNITION OF THE CONTRIBUTIONS OUR SERVICEMEN AND WOMEN HAVE MADE TO THE CAUSE OF PEACE AND FREEDOM AROUND THE WORLD. THE BOARD OF DIRECT NURSE ENCOURAGE ALL RESIDENTS AND BUSINESSES IN THE WOODLANDS TO RECOGNIZE THE VALOR AND SACRIFICES OF OUR VETERANS THROUGH APPROPRIATE CEREMONIES, PRAYERS AND OTHER EXPRESSIONS OF AFFIRMATION AND PROCLAIM NOVEMBER 11TH, 2023 AS VETERANS
DAY AND THE WOODLANDS TEXAS. >> THANK YOU AND WE WOULD LIKE TO ASK ANY VETERANS IN THE AUDIENCE, AS WELL AS ON THE BOARD, PLEASE STAND SO THAT WE CAN PERSONALLY SAY THANK YOU.
WE ARE SO HONORED TO HAVE YOU HERE THIS EVENING AND THANK YOU
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FOR YOUR GREAT SERVICE TO OUR GREAT COUNTRY. I NOW CALL THE MEETING TO ORDER. IT IS 6:04 AND I DECLARE THAT IN ACCORDANCE TO WHICH STATE LAW WAS POSTED 72 HOURS IN ADVANCE OF THE MEETING.THIS POSTING OCCURRED INSIDE THE BOUNDARIES OF THE TOWNSHIP AT THIS OFFICE BUILDING. STATE LAW REQUIRES THAT AT LEAST FOUR OF OUR BOARD MEMBERSHIP BE IN AN ATTENDANCE TO ESTABLISH A QUORUM FOR CONDUCTING BUSINESS. I ASK EACH BOARD MEMBER TO INDICATE HIS OR HER PRESENCE BY RESPONDING WITH SOME AUDIBLE SOUND OF ACKNOWLEDGMENT THAT THEY CALL ROLE. DIRECTOR BAILEY.
[4. Receive, consider and act upon adoption of the meeting agenda;]
IT SUFFICIENT NUMBER OF MEMBERS IS PRESENT TO DECLARE THAT WE HAVE A WARM. THAT BRINGS US TO AGENDA ITEM 4 TWO ACT UPON THE ADOPTION OF THE MEETING AGENDA. PLEASE REVIEW THE AGENDA AGAIN ON PAGES ONE THROUGH THREE FOR ADOPTION OF THE AGENDA AND I CALL FOR EMOTION AND A SECOND TO ADOPT THE AGENDA.>> SECOND. >> IT'S BEEN MOVED AND SECONDED
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AND ALL OF THOSE IN FAVOR SIGNIFY BY SAYING. OPPOSED.[5. Recognize public officials;]
MOTION PASSES. THAT BRINGS US TO AGENDA ITEM 5 RECORD 19 PUBLIC OFFICIALS. IS MR. LEE MACLEOD. THERE YOU ARE. MR. MACLEOD, HE IS ISD BOARD OF TRUSTEE PRESIDENT AND WE ARE EXCITED TO HAVE YOU HERE AND ALSO, MR. JUSTIN IS ALSO HERE. HE IS THE INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT OF TRUSTEE SECRETARY. ANY OTHER ELECTED OFFICIALS THAT WE MISSED?>> I INVITED VALERIE SWANSON BUT I THINK SHE IS IN SESSION AND OFF IN AND I'M EXPECTING HER STAFF MEMBER. I THINK SHE WENT TO THE WRONG DOOR AND IT WAS LOCKED. SHE'S LOOKING FOR AN
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INJURY. ON THE CENTERPOINT AGENDA ITEM.>> THAT BRINGS US TO AGENDA ITEM 6, PUBLIC COMMENT. PARTICIPATION BY MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC AND OPEN MEETINGS OF THE BOARD OF DIRECT NURSE IS WELCOMED AND ENCOURAGED. PUBLIC COMMON AGENDA ITEM IS INCLUDED AT THE BEGINNING OF ALL REGULAR BOARD MEETING AGENDAS IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE BOARD ADOPTED POLICY TO PRODUCE THE MOST EFFICIENT AND EFFECTIVE PROCESS FOR ALLOWING CONSTITUENTS TO ADDRESS THE BOARD, THE WEAPONS TOWNSHIP BOARD OF DIRECT YOUR ACCEPTS COMMENT WITH THE FOLLOWING GUIDELINES FOR PARTICIPATING IN PUBLIC MEETINGS. ONE, EACH PERSON WISHING TO ADDRESS THE BOARD MUST FIRST SIGN THE SPEAKERS ROSTER PROVIDED BY THE BOARD SECRETARY. NEXT, INDIVIDUALS WHO WISH TO MAKE GENERAL ANNOUNCEMENTS ADDRESS THE TOPIC THAT IS NOT INCLUDED ON THE AGENDA OR WHO WISH TO ADDRESS SPECIFIC AGENDA ITEMS MUST DO SO UNDER PUBLIC COMMENT AT THE BEGINNING OF THE MEETING. NEXT, INDIVIDUALS WILL BE LIMITED TO A TOTAL OF THREE MINUTES REGARDLESS OF THE NUMBER OF TOPICS. SPEAKERS WILL BE TAKEN IN THE ORDER FOR WHICH THEY SIGN UP. ANY SPEAKER ON A SINGLE SUBJECT MAY YIELD HIS OR HER TIME TO ANOTHER SPEAKER ON THE LEFT. STATE LAW PROHIBITS THE BOARD FROM FORMALLY ACTING ON A SPECIFIC ITEM OR PUBLIC COMMENT UNLESS IT APPEARS ON THE POST AT AGENDA. THEREFORE, ANY BOARD DISCUSSION OF ITEMS NOT INCLUDED ON THE POSTED AGENDA IS LIMITED TO QUESTIONS FOR CLARIFICATION OR WHETHER OR NOT THE ITEM SHOULD BE PLACED ON A FUTURE BOARD AGENDA.
>> I BELIEVE WE ARE HAVING TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES ONLINE.
PEOPLE CAN'T HEAR. >> I WAS GOING TO SAY THAT OUR SOUND IS NOT BROADCASTING OVER THE LIVE MEETING AND IT MIGHT BE
GOOD TO TAKE A BREAK. >> OKAY. OKAY. WE ARE GOING TO TAKE A SHORT RECESS UNTIL WE HAVE OUR MEETING ON MINE. I APOLOGIZE. I KNOW THERE IS A LOT OF YOU IN ATTENDANCE. THANK YOU.
OKAY. I'M GOING TO ASK OUR PRESENT CEO TO MAKE A COMMENT AS TO WHERE WE ARE WITH REGARD TO OUR LIVE FEED AND WHAT WE ARE
DOING TO CORRECT IT. >> THANK YOU. THE AUDIO ONLINE
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FOR PEOPLE THAT ARE WATCHING ONLY FROM THERE I FOUND IS WHERE THE AUDIO IS NOT AVAILABLE. ANYBODY JUST WATCHING FROM A HOME COMPUTER OR IN ANDROID DEVICES GETTING THE AUDIO, SO AGAIN, IT SHOWS FROM IPHONES. APPLE DEVICES. ONCE THE ISSUE IS FIXED, IT WILL RETROACTIVELY. THE AUDIO WILL BE THERE WHEN PEOPLE GO BACK AND WATCH IT FROM THERE APPLE DEVICES. IT IS A CURRENT MOMENT THING BUT IT WILL BE FIXED AND AVAILABLE AND THE MAJORITY OF PEOPLE ARE ABLE TO HEAR AND SEE.>> VICKI FOR ADDRESSING THAT AND WE WILL CONTINUE.
>> MADAM CHAIR, CAN I MAKE A COMMENT ROW?? ARE YOU DONE
READING THAT? >> STATE LAW PROHIBITS THE BOARD FROM NORMALLY ACTING ON A CIVIC ITEM OR COMMENT UNLESS IT APPEARS ON THE POSTED AGENDA. THEREFORE ANY BOARD DISCUSSION OF ITEMS NOT INCLUDED ON THE POST DID AGENDA IS LIMITED TO QUESTIONS FOR EDIFICATION WERE WHETHER OR NOT THE ITEM SHOULD BE PLACED ON A FUTURE BOARD AGENDA. SPEAKERS MAY EXPRESS THEIR OPINIONS OR VIEWPOINTS ON AN ISSUE BUT ARE NOT PERMITTED TO PARTICIPATE IN THE DEBATE ON AN ISSUE. SPEAKERS WILL NOT USE PROFANITY. COMMENT FROM SPEAKERS MAY BE MADE TO THE BOARD AS A WHOLE OR TO AN INDIVIDUAL DIRECT YOUR. ALSO I WOULD LIKE TO REMIND YOU TO PLEASE PLACE YOUR CELL PHONES ON THE SILENT MODE.
BEFORE A CALL ON THE NAME -- THE FIRST NAME FROM THE SPEAKER
ROSTER, BRAD. >> I JUST WOULD LIKE, MADAM CHAIR, TO REITERATE THAT WE CANNOT SAY ANYTHING UP HERE AS A BOARD MEMBER TO PUBLIC COMMENT. DOES NOT MEAN WE AGREE OR DISAGREE WITH YOU. WE JUST CANNOT SAY ANYTHING. WAYS, 70 SPEAKERS ARE HERE TONIGHT. FOR EVERYONE TO UNDERSTAND THAT, ALL OF US APPEAR WOULD BE MORE THAN HAPPY TO HAVE SIDEBARS WITH YOU BEFORE OR AFTER THE MEETINGS TO DISCUSS THE ISSUE AND IT'S NOT SOMETHING WE ARE ALL LISTENING TO BECAUSE WE DO LISTEN BUT WE CAN'T RESPOND BACK AND I JUST WANTED TO MAKE SURE IT WAS VERY
CLEAR. >> THANK YOU, DIRECTOR BAILEY AND THAT BRINGS US TO DAVE WELCH. MR. WELCH. I THINK YOU WERE HERE AT 5:15. YOU DESERVE TO BE FIRST. THANK YOU.
>> THANK YOU. MY NAME IS DAVE WELCH AND I'M THE PRESIDENT OF THE TEXAS PASTOR COUNSEL. THANK YOU FOR HAVING ME TONIGHT.
LETTERS HAVE BEEN PROVIDED TO YOU AND I WILL LET YOU READ IT FOR THE RECORD IN THIS MATTER. THE RECENT EXPERIENCE WITH THE BAND GHOST PERFORMING IN THE PAVILION ON SEPTEMBER 2ND, 2023, HAS RAISED THE CONCERN ABOUT THE CLEAR AND EVIDENT LACK OF ANY STANDARDS OF DECENCY AND CONDUCT BY PERFORMANCES IN THAT PUBLIC VENUE. ON BEHALF OF HUNDREDS OF CHURCHES REPRESENTING THOUSAND OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY FAMILIES, WE ARE COMPELLED TO CHALLENGE THIS OVERSIGHT. WHY DO WE ALLOW A KU KLUX KLAN RALLY, EVENT OR ANY OTHER PUBLIC EVENT IN THIS COMMUNITY? AS AN EXAMPLE, THE FOLLOWING LYRICS OF THEIR SONG RITUAL, LED BY VOCALIST POPPA EMERITUS THE FOURTH, WHO WEARS A MASK OF SCHOOL PAID AND APPEARS AS WHAT CAN BE DESCRIBED AS A DEMONIC ANTI-POPE AND I WILL DEFER FROM READING THOSE LYRICS, BUT THOSE ARE IN YOUR LETTER.
THIS IS NOT ENTERTAINMENT. IT IS HATEFUL . THIS ANTI-RELIGIOUS BIGOTRY FEEDING A CULTURE OF HOSTILITY TOWARDS THE CHRISTIAN FAITH AND WORSHIPING HUMAN SACRIFICE. THIS IS AN EXCEPT THE BALL IN EVERY WAY. SINCE THIS VENUE RECEIVES FUNDING FROM THE TOWNSHIP, WE ARE CALLING ON THIS BODY TO ESTABLISH A CODE OF CONDUCT THAT WOULD BE DIRECTLY ATTACHED TO THE DISBURSEMENT OF SUCH FUNDS TO THE TOWNSHIP. WE BELIEVE THERE SHOULD BE SUCH STANDARDS THAT REPRESENT THE UNITY VALUE OF THE MONTGOMERY COUNTY THAT WE SERVE. WE OFFER TO ASSIST IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF SUCH A COLD . SAID EXERCISE PUBLIC INDECENCY IN WORD OR ACTION PROMOTE VIOLENCE, MURDER, RELIGIOUS HATRED OR SATANIC WORSHIP AND HAVE NO PLACE HERE. WE CAN MAKE AND, AS A IS IN THE GROUP OF CLERGY REQUEST FOR THE UP MOST PASSION THAT A STANDARD BE CREATED THAT ASSURES THAT NO SUCH FILE SPIRIT, MATERIALS OR PERFORMANCE AS PART OF A PAVILION AND ITS STELLAR PLACE IN OUR COMMUNITY. ON BEHALF OF OUR CHURCH, I WOULD LIKE TO ASSERT THAT AND TO MENTION THAT MY WIFE AND DAUGHTERS ALL HAPPEN TO BE IN TOWN THAT DAY FOR A LADIES WEEKEND AND IN WALKING OVER IN THE SQUARE NEXT TO IT, WERE VERY CLEARLY SUBJECTED TO
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VULGAR. THIS IS AN OPEN AIR FACILITY THAT WE ARE TALKING ABOUT AS WELL. WE BELIEVE THAT SOMETHING THAT NEEDS TO BE SCRUTINIZED VERY CAREFULLY IN THE STANDARDS APPLY THE LEADERSHIP OF THE CIVILIAN HAS DECLINED, AT THIS POINT, TO DO SO AND WE ARE ASKING, AS A TERMS OF FUNDING, FOR THIS BODY TOCONSIDER THAT. VICKI VERY MUCH. >> THANK YOU MR. WELCH FOR BEING HERE THIS EVENING AT SECOND ON THE LIST, AND LORI NORWOOD.
INGRID HAMILTON. MS. HAMILTON.
>> THIS IS THE FIRST TIME TO SPEAK PUBLICLY BUT I AM HERE BECAUSE I FEEL VERY STRONGLY ABOUT THIS TOPIC AND PASTOR, YOU DID AN EXCELLENT JOB. BUT SAY THAT WE ARE HERE 40 YEARS IN THE WOODLANDS IN THE SAME HOUSE. WE MOVED HERE AND THE HOMETOWN THAT WE LOVE AND HAVE RAISED OUR CHILDREN AND WE KNEW VERY WELL THE VIEW THAT MR. MITCHELL HAD WHEN HE STARTED THIS BEAUTIFUL PLACE THAT WE CALL OUR HOMETOWN AND I THINK HE WOULD NOT APPROVE OF THE VENUE THAT IS A PAVILION NOW. GHOST, IN PARTICULAR. I ALSO THINK THAT WE SHOULD TAKE BETTER CARE OF OUR MONEY. OUR TAXPAYER MONEY. THAT WE SHOULD NOT FUND THE PAVILION TO THE TUNE OF $1.6 MILLION A YEAR. FOR WHAT? WE ARE HERE AND WHY ARE WE SUPPORTING IT? IT SHOULD BE SELF-SUSTAINING, THE TICKET SALES AND WHAT HAVE YOU. THAT IS WHY I AM HERE TO SPEAK ON THAT TOPIC AND I THANK YOU FOR LISTENING.
>> THANK YOU, MS. HAMILTON AND SO NICE TO SEE YOU AGAIN.
>> HELLO. I AM CATHERINE AND I AM A RESIDENT OF CREEKSIDE PARK IN HARRIS COUNTY AND I WAS HERE ABOUT FIVE WEEKS AGO TO BRING ATTENTION TO THE OVER 32 SEPARATE POWER OUTAGES THAT HAVE LEFT THE RESIDENCE OF CREEKSIDE PARK IN THE DARK FOR OVER 78 HOURS IN THE LAST YEAR. I SHARE WITH YOU THAT WE HAD THREE OUTAGES IN SEPTEMBER AMOUNT THAT TOTALED 15 HOURS. I WISH I WAS HERE TO TELL YOU THAT THE PROBLEM HAS IMPROVED. IT HAS NOT. THREE OF THE LAST FIVE WEEKS WE HAVE HAD ADDITIONAL POWER OUTAGES AND OR SURGERIES. THERE WAS ONE WEEK OF SEPTEMBER 25TH. ONE ON OCTOBER 5TH THAT LASTED ABOUT 20 MINUTES AND THEN A SIGNIFICANT SEARCH JUST LAST WEEK. I AMENDED MY REMARKS AND I WAS APPROACHED THIS EVENING BY A REPRESENTATIVE WHO WANTS TO SPEAK TO ME ABOUT WHAT WE HAVE BEEN EXPERIENCING. I APPRECIATE THAT HE HAS DONE THAT AND I LOOK FORWARD TO SPEAKING WITH HIM. I ALSO WANT TO THANK THE TOWNSHIP FOR PROVIDING A PLATFORM LIKE THIS FOR RESIDENTS TO SPEAK UP ABOUT PROBLEMS LIKE THIS. LIVING IN UNINCORPORATED HARRIS COUNTY CAN BE ASSURED AND INTIMIDATING GETTING THE SHEER SIZE AND POPULATION OF THE COUNTY. A LOT OF TIMES YOU REALLY DON'T KNOW WHO TO TURN TO, SO I FEEL VERY THANKFUL TO HAVE THE TOWNSHIP AND ITS BOARD MEMBERS.
SPECIFICALLY DOCTOR SNYDER WHO HAS REALLY LOOKED INTO THE SITUATION FOR WAS THAT BROUGHT IT TO THE ATTENTION OF PEOPLE WHO HOPEFULLY CAN HELP. I APPRECIATE YOU ARE SPEAKING UP FOR RESIDENCE ON OUR BEHALF. TO MAKE YOUR VERY WELCOME, CATHERINE. WITH ALL OF US BUT THANK YOU FOR YOUR KIND WORDS.
LESLIE STOKES. THANK YOU. DAN STOKES. OKAY. RON. I'M SORRY IF I MISPRONOUNCE THAT. I THINK I MASSACRED YOUR NAME. I
APOLOGIZE. >> I'M RON AND I'VE BEEN IN PANTHER CREEK FOR 32 YEARS. I MOVED HERE AND HAVE REALLY ENJOYED THE GROWTH AND ALL THE OPPORTUNITIES THAT THE WOODLANDS HAVE BUT I TOO ATTENDED OR PROTESTED AGAINST THE GHOST
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THING AT THE WOODLANDS AND I QUESTION THE TOWNSHIPS OFFERING $1.6 MILLION OF TAXPAYER MONEY TO ANY ORGANIZATION THAT DOESN'T HAVE THE SAME VALUES ARE UNDERSTANDING THAT WE DO HERE IN THE WOODLANDS. WE ARE A VERY CONSERVATIVE GROUP AND ENJOY FAMILY LIFE AND RELIGIOUS UPBRINGING AND THE GHOST DISPLAY WAS TOTALLY UNCALLED FOR. I THINK THAT IF WE WANT QUATTRO IMPROVEMENT IN THE WOODLANDS AND WE WENT TO FUND IT, I THINK THOSE SHOULD BE BEFORE THE COUNCIL INDIVIDUALLY AND IMPROVE TO ANY ORGANIZATION. I WOULD APPRECIATE IF THERE WAS SOMETHING IN THE LAW THAT WAS PASSED AND MAYBE WE SHOULDCHANGE THAT LAW. >> THANK YOU. THAT BRINGS US -- REMINDED THE PRONUNCIATION OF YOUR LAST NAME. I KNOW WE HAVE
MET AND I APOLOGIZE. THANK YOU. >> THANK YOU, EVERYONE. I AM HERE TO ADDRESS THE INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL TOPIC. I'M BY NO MEANS A PUBLIC A PERSON. ENGLISH IS NOT IN MY FIRST LANGUAGE BUT I FEEL OBLIGED TO SPEAK UP AND MY DAUGHTER. SHE IS NOW A KINDERGARTEN STUDENT OF CREEKSIDE PARK FOREST. SINCE I ONLY HAVE THREE MINUTES, I'M GOING TO SHARE MY PERSONAL FEAR AND EXPERIENCE OF THIS TOPIC. MY WIFE AND I, WE MOVED TO THE WOODLANDS LATE LAST YEAR AND AT THAT TIME WE WERE LOOKING FOR OPTIONS AND FOR DIFFERENT AREAS OF HOUSTON AND WE CHOSE WOODLANDS BECAUSE WE BELIEVE THEY HAVE A GOOD EDUCATION SYSTEM, A LIFESTYLE AND MORE IMPORTANTLY, I THINK, THE GOVERNMENT. WE HAVE A VERY STRONG GOVERNMENT PUT IN PLACE TO MAKE THIS COMMUNITY A GOOD PLACE FOR EVERYONE TO THRIVE.
UNFORTUNATELY, WE BOUGHT A HOUSE IN NOVEMBER. FIVE MONTHS LATER I SAW THIS NEWS, TOM IS GOING THROUGH THIS INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL CHANGE, WHICH IS DIFFERENT FROM WHAT THEY PROMISED IN THE BOND AND THIS WILL TAKE, MY DAUGHTER FOR EXAMPLE, AT LEAST ONE HOUR PLUS TO TRANSPORT BETWEEN MY HOUSE AND THE NEW INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL. I JUST REQUEST EVERYONE HERE TO TAKE A MINUTE AND I THINK ALL OF YOU HAVE BEEN PARENTS OR GRANDPARENTS, IF NOT ALL TO THINK ABOUT THE FUNDAMENTAL PROBLEM OF THIS ISSUE IS PUTTING OUR YOUNG KID, EVERYDAY, ONE HOUR PLUS, GET ON A BUS OR A CAR AND TO A REMOTE AREA. AS A PARENT, JUST SOMETHING THAT I CAN DO THAT. I DON'T KNOW. I'M NOT SPEAKING FOR OTHER PARENTS, BUT BASED ON MY LIMITED CONVERSATION WITH A FEW FAMILIES, EVERYONE SHARED THE SAME CONCERN BUT NOW BASED ON AN EMAIL I RECEIVED TWO WEEKS AGO, IT SEEMS LIKE THE MOTION WAS PUT ACROSS. SO I JUST DON'T UNDERSTAND WHY THIS THING WILL HAPPEN. IT IS IMPRACTICAL AND ILLOGICAL TO ME AND WHAT IS THE REQUEST? I DON'T HAVE A VERY SPECIFIC REQUEST FOR THE BOARD BUT I SEEK YOUR HELP. I SEEK YOUR COLLECT OF WISDOM TO HELP US TO THINK THROUGH WHAT ARE THE POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS. THERE HAS TO BE A SOLUTION TO SOLVE THIS. I DON'T TRUST THE YOU ARE ONLY TELLING US, BUT THERE IS ALWAYS MORE SOLUTION OUT THERE. I DON'T BELIEVE IT. I DON'T SEE ANY FUNDAMENTAL DEAL BREAKERS TO HAVE A JUNIOR PARKS PULL EXPENDED AND HAVE A SPACE FOR
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GRADE 5 AND GRAY SIX. THAT IS JUST MY PERSONAL STATEMENT.THANK YOU. APPRECIATE YOUR TIME.
>> YES, WE ARE THANKFUL THAT YOU ARE HERE. THAT BRINGS US TO MR.
CARL. WELCOME BACK, BOB. >> THANK YOU FOR GIVING ME A FEW MINUTES TO SPEAK WITH YOU. ANNA HAS YIELDED HER THREE MINUTES TO
>> I'M ROB CARL. LAST MONTH ABOUT INTO THE WOODS PAVILION.
THIS ITEM, NUMBER 18 ON THE AGENDA AND THEY FOUGHT FOR IT BEING ON THE AGENDA AND THAT YOU WILL ALL BE TALKING ABOUT IT AND TRYING TO COME UP WITH SOME TYPE OF PLAN ON DOING WITH THEM. AS WE ALL KNOW, THIS CAME IN SEPTEMBER 2ND AND I WON'T NAME ANY NAME BECAUSE I DON'T WANT TO RECORD NICE THEM. THEY ARE ANTI-GOD, ANTI-CHURCH, ANTI-CHRISTIAN VALUES AND THEY MAKE FUN OF OUR CREED THAT WE HOLD DEAR. THEY MAKE FUN OF THE JUDEO-CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY. THE JUDEO-CHRISTIAN COMMITTEE THAT OUR COUNTRY WAS BUILT ON AND THAT THIS IS NOT, SHOULD NOT, BE TOLERATED. I REFER YOU TO THE REVENUE SOURCES PAPER THAT I SUBMITTED TO YOU AND IN THIS IT SAYS THAT THE PROCEEDS OF THE TAX OUGHT TO BE USED ONLY TO SUPPORT CULTURAL EDUCATION IN THE DISTRICT. IF YOU WILL NOTICE IN 2022, THE ACTUAL MONEY THAT WAS RECEIVED IT TO THE TOWNSHIP FROM THE PAVILION WAS $1.9 MILLION AND THE TOWNSHIP GAVE BACK TO THE PAVILION $1.7 MILLION. IN 2023, THE FORECAST IS $1.8 MILLION THAT THE PAVILION IS GOING TO SEND TO THE TOWNSHIP AND THE TOWNSHIP IS GOING TO SEND BACK 1.6. AS I LOOK AT THIS, THIS TAX LEGISLATION IS REQUIRING THEM TO SOME PORT CULTURAL EDUCATION IN THE DISTRICT. NOT HATE GROUPS. NOT HATE GROUPS TO THE CHURCH.
NOT HATE GROUPS TO THE COMMUNITY. TO THE COMMUNITY CHURCHES. NOT HATE GROUPS TO THOSE OF US WHO HOLD OUR FAITH PRECIOUS AND OUR HISTORY. I HOPE THAT THIS EVENING WHEN YOU GUYS LOOK AT THIS AGENDA, THAT YOU TAKE US RESIDENTS SERIOUS BECAUSE LAST WEEK IT WAS SAID THAT THE BOARD DOES NOT HAVE MANY POWER AND AUTHORITY OVER THE PAVILION AND YOU DO AND YOU HAVE A POCKET BOOK AND I'M ASKING, PLEASE, LOOK AT THIS SITUATION. THERAPY WILL HEAR TONIGHT THAT ARE TALKING ABOUT THIS AS WELL. WE ARE WATCHING WHAT'S GOING ON. PLEASE ADDRESS THIS ISSUE AND PUT THE PAVILION ON NOTICE THAT THIS IS NOT GOING TO BE TOLERATED AND IT'S NOT ACCEPTABLE AND WE HAVE CHILDREN IN THIS ROOM TONIGHT AND YOUNG PEOPLE. WHEN THEY WERE HERE, THEY WERE LAST BEAMING AND SINGING THEIR SONGS IN THE FOUL LANGUAGE THAT COULD BE HEARD ALL OVER MARKET STREET. THIS IS NOT CIVIL. THIS IS NOT RIGHT AND IT HAS STOPPED. THANK YOU.
>> THANK YOU. THAT BRINGS US TO SIMON. LET'S HEAR ABOUT SOCCER.
DIRECTORS, MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC, THE TOWNSHIP STAFF.
THANK YOU FOR ALLOWING ME TO EAT TONIGHT. I'M THE DIRECTOR OF SOCCER OPERATIONS FOR YOUR HOMETOWN PROVIDER FOR YOUTH SOCCER. I JUST WANTED TO GIVE YOU A QUICK DATE ON A COUPLE THINGS THAT ARE GOING ON AT THE MOMENT WITHIN THE CLUB IN OUR LOCAL AREA. WE HOSTING THE GAMES ON A SATURDAY THAT WE BRING IN TEAMS FROM ACROSS THE COUNTRY. THE ELITES OUT OF OUR CLUB IS THE TOP 3 TO 5% OF PLAYERS FROM AND I THINK HIS ABILITY THAT COMPETE ON A NATIONAL LEVEL AND WE HAVE TWO YOUNG LADIES WHO HAVE JUST BEEN SELECTED TO TRAIN AND PLAY FOR THERE WAS ACTIVE COUNTRIES. WE HAVE JASMINE DIAZ WHO IS PLAYING FOR EL SALVADOR AND WE HAVE ASHLEY HERNANDEZ WHO HAS JUST BEEN SELECTED FOR
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VENEZUELA THESE TWO YOUNG LADIESOUR FIELDS FOUR TIMES A WEEK AND THEY PLAYED THEIR RESPECTIVE HOME GAMES ON A SATURDAY AND SUNDAY AGAINST THE BEST COMPETITION IN THE COUNTRY.I WANTED TO RECOGNIZE THE TWO YOUNG LADIES FOR THEIR EFFORT.
SECOND POINT, WE HAVE MADE IT INTO THE MONTH OF OCTOBER AND FOR US, IT'S A BIG MONTH OF PINK SHIRTS ON OUR FIELD AND IT THE BREAST CANCER AWARENESS CAMPAIGN THAT WE DONE FOR THE LAST 10 TO 12 YEARS. WE SOLD ABOUT 1500 SHIRTS ACROSS THE CLUB AND THE MONEY RAISED WILL GO BACK TO HELPING OUR GIRLS ACADEMY MOVE FORWARD, AS WELL AS A DONATION BACK TO THE MEMORIAL HERMANN FOUNDATION AND IN THE PINK OF HEALTH. WE ARE GETTING THROUGH OUR PINK MONTH AND YOU WILL SEE A LOT OF THE SHORT SIDE OF THE FIELD AND IN THE LOCAL AREAS REPRESENTING OUR BREAST CANCER AWARENESS THAT WE ARE VERY PROUD OF GETTING BEHIND FOR THE LAST 10 TO 12 YEARS AND LASTLY, WE ARE FINISHING OFF THE LAST TWO WEEKENDS OF OUR FALL PROGRAM, WHICH HAS ABOUT 1600 LOCAL PLAYERS TO PLAY AND COME OUT AND COMPETE ON A SATURDAY AND WILL BE AT BRUNCH THIS COMING WEEKEND AND WE WILL FOLLOW UP WITH THE WEEKEND AFTER THE CLOSE THE FALL SEASON. THAT PROGRAM IS COACHED BY OUR VOLUNTEER SUPPORT STAFF AND I WOULD LIKE TO GIVE A SHOUT OUT TO ALL OF THOSE VOLUNTEERS WHO HAVE COME OUT TO SUPPORT AND COACH THESE YOUNGSTERS FROM THE AGE OF 3 TO 18. THEY TRAIN ONCE A WEEK WITH A VOLUNTEER COACH AND THEY PLAYED THAT GAME ON A SATURDAY. THAT IS ROUGHING UP AND THEN WE WILL MOVE INTO A CUP LOVE EVENTS IN DECEMBER FOR A TOURNAMENTS THAT WILL ROUND OFF THE FALL SEASON BUT IF YOU ARE EVER AVAILABLE, WANTED YOU TO COME OUT AND SEE WHAT WE DO ON A SATURDAY. PLEASE DO. YOU ARE ALL WELCOME AND THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR SUPPORT AND WE ARE HONORED AND PRIVILEGED TO PLAY HERE IN THE TOWNSHIP AND TO USE THE FIELDS AND THE FACILITIES AND THE FEEDBACK THAT WE DO GET FROM OUR VISITING TEAM IS EXCELLENT IN TERMS OF THE FACILITIES THAT ARE PROVIDED. THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
>> INC. YOU, SIMON. I KNOW HOW MUCH THE AND PEOPLE APPRECIATE ERIC THAT BRINGS US TO MR. KENNEDY. WELCOME.
>> THANK YOU. >> VICKI FOR THE OPPORTUNITY. MY NAME IS ED KENNEDY AND I AM A RESIDENT OF RIVA ROW AND FOR ANYBODY'S PERSPECTIVE, THAT IS DOWN BY THE WATERWAY AND NOT VERY FAR FROM THE VIGIL PAVILION. OUR CONCERN AND THE ITEM THAT I'M GOING TO REQUEST THAT GOES ON THE AGENDA FOR A FUTURE MEETING ARE ISSUES THAT WE HAVE AROUND THE DEVELOPMENT THAT IS ONGOING. SO THERE WAS A GREEN SPACE WHERE THERE WAS A GREEN SPACE ACROSS THE STREET FROM OUR HOMES AND WE ALL KNOW THAT THAT WAS PLANNED FOR DEVELOPMENT AND IT WAS CLEAR AND PUBLICLY DISPLAYED. WHEN WE SAW SOME UPTAKE IN THE ACT BUT HE FOR THE LAST 12 TO 16 MONTH, WE MADE INQUIRIES TO HUGHES INTO THE TOWNSHIP AND SOME OF YOUR PREDECESSORS, ET CETERA. IF WE GET AN ANSWER AT ALL, BECAUSE VERY OFTEN THE RESPONSE WAS SILENCE, BUT IF WE DID GET AN ANSWER THERE WOULD BE, THERE IS NO APARTMENT, DON'T WORRY ABOUT IT. IT'S ALL FINE. UNTIL ABOUT, THINK, MAYBE TWO TO GO WHEN THE SUN WENT UP. HERE IS ONE RIVA ROW AND 13 STORY TOWER, A WALL OF TOWNHOMES IN ALL OF THE SOUTHERN FOR STRUCTURE. WE FOUND OUT THE TIME DAY THAT FOLKS DID IN DALLAS OR SAN ANTONIO, EVEN THOUGH WITH THE 50 FEET AWAY FROM THE DEVELOPMENT AND MUST THAN THE LENGTH OF THIS ROOM IS WHERE THE CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT IS IN A FINE THING WERE DOCTOR SCHNEIDER IS, THAT GENTLEMAN IN THE WHITE SHIRT, THAT IS A DUMP TRUCK AND I CAN HEAR THAT RUMBLE ALL DAY. WE HAVE A MERRY-GO-ROUND OF DUMP TRUCKS DURING THIS CONSTRUCTION PHASE BECAUSE WE HAVE CONCERNS FOR THE FACE. I RECOGNIZE THAT IT IS PRIVATE PROPERTY. AS I SAID, WE KNEW IT WAS GOING TO BE DEVELOPED BUT I DON'T THINK THAT GIVES YOU THE CHANCE TO GO BEYOND THE BORDERS WITH US, TRAFFIC, SAFETY CONCERN AND DUMP TRUCK GOING THE WRONG WAY AND TAKING THE WRONG TURN WHEN THEY GO FROM SIX PINTS TO WOODLANDS PARKWAY. WE HAVE DUST IN OUR HOMES. DUST ON THE WINDOWS. DUST IN OUR VEHICLES. NOT BEING
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CONTROLLED THE WAY THAT IT SHOULD BE WITH WATER SHOWERS AND CANOPIES ON TOP TRUCKS. THEY PUT BARRIERS ON RIVA ROW. THREE FEET. I DON'T KNOW IF THAT IS ALLOWED OR IF THEY ASK ANYBODY FOR PERMISSION TO DO THAT BUT MY OPINION AND SOME OF MY NEIGHBORS OPINION, THAT MEANS THAT IT SHOULD NOT BE A ONE-WAY STREET FROM MANY PASSES SIX PINTS BECAUSE IT'S NOT WIDE ENOUGH FOR TWO WAY TRAFFIC AND PROTECT EARLY WHEN YOU HAVE A CONTINUOUS STREAM OF CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT BACK AND FORTH ACROSS IT. WHY THEY DIDN'T ASSESS THE PLOT, PROBABLY COST BUT THERE DOESN'T SEEM TO BE ANY OVERSIGHT. THEY ARE ALLOWED TO DO WHAT THEY DO AND THEY WILL CONTINUE WITH THEY CAN UNTIL THEY GET PUSHED BACK AND THEY WILL HAVE CONCERNS FOR THE CONSTRUCTION PHASE AND I THINK FROM A POST-CONSTRUCTION PHASE, YOU KNOW, WE ALSO HAVE THE ISSUES OF, HAS ANYBODY LOOKED AT WITH THIS TRAFFIC PATTERN IS GOING TO LOOK LIKE? 263 ADDITIONAL RESIDENTS ON A STREET THAT RIGHT NOW HAS 30 HOMES AND THAT'S GOING TO BE HANDLING ALL THE ADDITIONAL TRAFFIC AND THE ADDITIONAL PARKING AND THE ADDITIONAL PEOPLE. HAS ANYBODY LOOKED AT WITH THIS 13 STORY TOWER WOULD DO TO WIND PATTERNS, NOISE, SHAPE, PRIVACY? I DON'T KNOW IF THAT HAS IN THE THAT AND I ASKED THAT QUESTION TO BE BROUGHT UP ON THE AGENDA FOR THE FUTURE MEETING TO BRING HUGHES HERE OR SOMEWHERE TO ANSWER QUESTIONS OF THE RESIDENTS. RIGHT NOW, THEIR BEHAVIOR, IN MY OPINION IS IMPUTED. THEY ARE BEHAVING AS WE DON'T EXIST I DON'T THINK THAT IS ACCEPTABLE. YOU KNOW, I THINK THEY'VE GOTTEN RID OF THE TREE BARRIER THAT WAS I GOT A BARRIER. IF GOES COME BACK, I WILL BE LISTENING TO THEM IN MY KITCHEN. OKAY? EVEN THEN, DURING THE PHASE AFTER CONSTRUCTION, THINK THAT WE NEED TO UNDERSTAND SOME OF THESE ISSUES AROUND FOR STRUCTURE, TRAFFIC, PLANNING, ET CETERA, ET CETERA. I KNOW THAT ONE WE HAD A DEVELOPMENT OVER ON THE MITCHELL ISLAND, IT WAS ACTUALLY A BRIDGE BUILT. A TEMPORARY BRIDGE TO DIVERGE CONSTRUCTION TRAFFIC AWAY FROM RESIDENCE. I GOT THEM 50 FEET FROM MY FRONT DOOR, AS TO MY NEIGHBORS. WE REALLY FEEL STRONGLY ABOUT IT. WE FEEL LIKE WE ARE BEING IGNORED BY THE HUGHES COMPANY AND WE ASK YOUR ADVOCACY TO PUT ON THE AGENDA FOR FUTURE MEETING. THANK YOU.>> THANK YOU, MR. KENNEDY. THAT BRINGS US, CHRISTINE. OKAY.
THANK YOU. LIAM. WE ARE SO GLAD YOU ARE HERE TODAY, LIAM.
>> HELLO. MY NAME IS LIAM ADAM AND I HAVE BEEN LIVING IN THE WOODLANDS AS I WAS TWO. I LOVE MY SCHOOL BECAUSE IT IS SO CLOSE TO OUR HOUSE AND HAS A LOT OF DIVERSITY. THERE IS 26 LANGUAGES SPOKEN THERE. FIFTH GRADE MY PARENTS ALLOWED ME TO WALK TO SCHOOL ON MY OWN. I LOVE THAT THAT. I WANT MY SIBLINGS TO HAVE THAT FOR AND BECAUSE OF THE NEW FIFTH GRADE SCHOOL AND HOW FAR IT IS FROM OUR HOUSE, THEY WILL NOT HAVE THE SAME PRIVILEGE THAT I DID. I'M HERE TODAY TO TELL YOU ALL THAT YOU SHOULD NOT PUT THE 15 GRADE SCHOOL THERE BECAUSE LOTS OF PEOPLE WILL NOT BE ABLE TO WALK AND HAVE A CLOSE SCHOOL TO THEM. GEORGE MITCHELL STARTED THE WOODLANDS IN 1974 AND WANTED PEOPLE TO BE ABLE TO LIVE, WORK AND PLAY HERE AND MY SIBLINGS DON'T WORK BUT I THINK THEY SHOULD GO TO SCHOOL HERE. THANK YOU YOU FOR YOUR
CONSIDERATION. >> YOU DID A GREAT JOB. DOES IS HELP YOU WITH YOUR MERIT BADGE? WELL, WELL DONE. WELL SPOKEN.
THAT BRINGS US TO THE NEXT SPEAKER, KEITH GOODWIN. MR.
GOODWIN. WELCOME BACK. >> MY NAME IS KEITH GOODWIN AND I MOVED INTO 18 RED HEAVEN LACE NOVEMBER 1ST, 2010. A TREE FROM THE WOODLANDS TOWNSHIP FELL ON MY THIN'S. I ASKED ABOUT IT AND
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THEY SAID, YOU NEED TO TELL US WHEN A TREE IS DEAD AND WE WILL TAKE CARE OF IT. THE SUMMER OF 2022 I NOTIFIED AT LEAST FIVE TIMES ABOUT A 75 FOOT OR LARGER TREE LOCATED 62 FEET FROM MY BEDROOM. IN OTHER WORDS, MY LIFE WAS IN DANGER YOUR AND YOU GUYS CAME OUT, YOU TAG IT AND NEVER CUT IT BEFORE JUNE 21ST, WHEN THAT FELL WITHIN 20 FEET OF MY BEDROOM. OKAY? I TURNED AROUND AND I HAD THE COUNTRY, SO I HAD TO GET SOMEBODY TO TAKE CARE OF IT AND WHEN I TURNED AROUND, HE CAME BACK AND STARTED THE BILLING PROCESS AND I SUBMITTED ALL THE BILLS FOR ITS AND THEN SOMEBODY, KING SOLOMON, COMES OUT AND CUT IT AFTER I SUBMITTED THE BILL. WELL IT WAS 40 FEET OF THE TREE THAT FELL AND THE 35 FEET DIDN'T MEAN ANYTHING TO CUT IT THERE. THE POINT OF BEING IS THAT IT PUT MY LIFE IN DANGER AND THEN I TURN AROUND ABOUT TWO OR THREE WEEKS AGO AND I GET A LETTER FROM AUSTIN SAYING, YOU ARE INDEMNIFIED. I DON'T GET A PENNY. I DON'T THINK THAT'S FAIR. YOU PUT MY LIFE AT RISK AND YOU NEED IT TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT BECAUSE YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT A YEAR THAT YOU PUT A PERSON'S LIFE IN DANGER. THE SECOND SUBJECT IS THE POLICE WHERE I HAPPENED TO TUMBLE UPON TWO 10 LOCATED AT THE SOUTHEAST CORNER OF KIRKENDALL AND WOODLANDS PARKWAY IN THE WOODS.I NOTIFIED THE POLICE, WHO I ASKED YOU NEED TO HAVE A PICTURE. NO, NO, NO, WE WILL SEND A GUY OUT AND I FOLLOWED UP AND ASKED WHAT HAPPENED. THEY DIDN'T FIND ANY TENANT AND I WENT BACK AND FOUND THE TENT'S STILL THERE. I'M SORRY. MY LIFE THAT YOU ARE ALLOWING CERTAIN THINGS TO OCCUR AND I JUST DON'T THINK THAT I'M BEING TREATED FAIRLY AND MY LIFE IS BEING AT RISK BECAUSE THINGS ARE GETTING DONE. I KNOW THAT POLICE HAVE A DIFFICULT JOB, TREMENDOUSLY DIFFICULT. I READ THE REPORTS THAT YOU GUYS GO THROUGH. IT IS DIFFICULT, ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU ARE DEALING WITH FAMILY, VIOLENCE AND OTHER THINGS AND I COMMEND YOU ON THOSE THINGS BUT I CAN'T, IN THE BACK OF MY MIND, JUSTIFY WHEN YOU CAN'T FIND A TENT BECAUSE THERE IS TOO MANY
WOULD THERE. >> THANK YOU, MR. GOODWIN. THAT BRINGS US TO OUR NEXT, DANIELLE. BAILEY.
>> GOOD EVENING. >> GOOD EVENING.
>> MY NAME IS BAILEY AND I'M A MOTHER OF TWO CHILDREN WHO ATTEND THE SCHOOL I'M HERE TO SPEAK ON THE MATTER ON THE AGENDA NUMBER 11. LAST TIME I ATTENDED THE SPORTS MEETING I ASKED FOR HELP IN PROVIDING DISD WITH ALTERNATIVES TO BUILDING INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL IN OUR AREA AND HE SUPPORTED OUR COMMUNITY AND I APPRECIATE THAT. I'M ONCE AGAIN ASKING HER ASSISTED IN PROVIDING SOME REASONABLE SOLUTIONS AND ALTERNATIVES TO THE INNOVATION CENTER LOCATION. TO BE CLEAR, I DO NOT OPPOSE A SCHOOL. I OPPOSED THE LOCATION. TISD HAD A FEASIBILITY STUDY ON THE PROPERTY. IT APPEARS THE COMPANY RELIED ON OLD DATA AND LITTLE TO NO RECENT INFORMATION. UNFORTUNATELY THEY PLAN TO MOVE FORWARD WITH MOVING CHILDREN TO THE LOCATION AND A COUPLE YEARS.
WHAT WAS THE MAIN REASON? SPORTS. LAND. FIELD TO PLAY.
THEREFORE, I AM RESPECTFULLY ASKING TO WORK WITH THEM TO OFFER THEM LAND, SUCH AS THE GOSLING PARK TO WHERE THEY COULD HOST SPORTING EVENTS OR PRACTICES AS NEEDED OR IF THAT DOESN'T WORK, ANOTHER LOCATION PARK AREA THAT THEY COULD USE TO COUNTER THEIR ARGUMENT . TO BE HONEST, I DON'T TRUST THE DATA
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AND INFORMATION COMING FROM THE DISTRICT. WE CAN DO THIS FOR A COMPROMISE FROM THE BOARD . WE CONTINUE TO HEAR THAT THEY DON'T GET ENOUGH EMAILS AND WE CONTINUE TO SHOW UP AND NO MATTER WHAT WE DO, THEY DO NOT LISTEN. WHICH IS NOT ENOUGH FOR THEM. THE CONCERNS REMAIN , AS BEFORE, THE SAFETY ABOUT THE BUSES OF THE CONCERNS ABOUT THE ROAD THE WEATHER IS GOING TO BE AFTER SCHOOL CARE OR WHETHER THE FACULTY WILL REMAIN OR IF WE MERGE WITH OTHER SCHOOLS AND THE FACT THAT THEY APPROVED A BOND THAT WAS MARKETED FOR AN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL AND HAVING CHILDREN IN MULTIPLE SCHOOLS DESPITE THE SCHEDULES AND ENVIRONMENTAL AND HEALTH CONCERNS ARE ALSO A BIG CONCERN OF OURS. AGAIN, JUST AS FOR YOUR HELP IN HELPING US NAVIGATE THIS. WE CANNOT DO IT ALONE. THANK YOU.>> THANK YOU. >> OUR OLDER SIBLINGS ARE NOT HERE TONIGHT BUT THEY WILL BE THE FIRST CLASSES WHO ARE IMPACTED BY THE NEW INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL. IN ADDITION TO MY OWN COMMENTS, I WILL BE WRITTEN COMMENTS FROM MY NEIGHBORS WHO IS, UNFORTUNATELY, CAUGHT UP AND WORK AND I WILL FIRST START WITH HIM AND GO FROM THERE. MARK STATES, I APPRECIATE THAT THE WOODLANDS TOWNSHIP IS TRYING TO HELP THE RESIDENTS IN THIS MANNER. THE DISTRICT HAS MISMANAGED THE BUILD OUT OF CREEKSIDE. A PERFECT EXAMPLE OF THIS IS THAT THEY HAPHAZARDLY REZONED A YEAR AGO BUT NOW PROPOSING TO RECEIVE THEM BACK AND THAT IS NOT LONG TERM PLANNING OR HAVING UPPER DATA FROM THE DISTRICT. MY ASK IS THAT THE WOODLANDS USE EVERY OF BILLABLE RESOURCE TO HELP DEFINE USABLE LAND TO BUILD THE FIFTH AND SIXTH GRADE INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL AT THAT LOCATION. THAT INCLUDES HELP WITH ALL PERMITTING ISSUES THAT THE DISH THINGS THEY WOULD HAVE PROBLEMS WITH AT THAT LOCATION. MR. MACLEOD AT THE LAST MEETING I SEE A MINISTRATION IF WHAT THEY ARE DOING WITH THE INNOVATION CENTER IS THE BEST FOR THE STUDENTS IN THE ADMINISTRATION, ENTHUSIASTICALLY SAID YES.
UNDER THEIR PLANS, THEY NOW DO KINDERGARTEN A GREAT VIEW AND UNDER THE DISTRICT PLANS, THAT IS FOUR SCHOOLS. THAT IS NOT BEST FOR THE KIDS OF THE DISTRICT. PLEASE INTERCEDE ANYWAY THAT YOU CAN. I ECHO WHAT MY NEIGHBOR, MANDY, HAVE SAID ABOUT THE REASONS FOR THIS AND ANOTHER ADDITIONAL REASONS TO CONSIDER IS THAT THIS IMPACTS MOTHERS AND SPECIFICALLY WORKING MOTHERS LIKE MYSELF AND I UNDERSTAND THAT OUR BOARD IS MADE UP OF MEN WITH THE EXCEPTION OF ONE MEMBER, SO THIS DOESN'T IMPACT THEM IN THE SAME WAY THAT IT DOES ME, A WORKING MOTHER WHO WAS TRY TO GET HER KIDS TO SCHOOL, WHICH STATISTICALLY THAT BURDEN FALLS UPON MOTHERS. AS AN IMPACT THEM OR OTHERS LIKE THAT BUT IT'S GOING TO BE DIFFICULT FOR ME AND OTHER MOTHERS WITHIN CREEKSIDE IN ORDER TO FINAGLE THIS. I CANNOT BE IN THREE DIFFERENT SCHOOLS THAT WANT THAT ARE IN OUR HAVE TO WAIVE EACH OTHER. I SIMPLY CAN'T. MY ASKED BOARD IS THAT THE USE ALL THE MEANS IN YOUR POWER UNDER TEXAS LAW TO HELP US WITH THIS MEASURE TO LOOK AT THE FEASIBILITY STUDY THAT, FRANKLY, IS A JOKE. AS MANDY SAID, WAS NOT LOOKED AT WITH PROPER DATA, CURRENT DATA OR ANYTHING. HELP US MOVE FORWARD WITH ANYTHING THAT COULD BE DONE UNDER TEXAS LAW AND BEFORE SHE DISTRESSES MICROPHONE, I WILL BE DONE.
>> THANK YOU AND THAT BRINGS US JANA?.
>> HELLO, JENNA CLAY. I LIVE IN WILDE CREEK. I'M ALSO A WORKING MOTHER. MY HUSBAND TRAVELS A LOT, SO SCHOOL PICKUP IS GOING TO BE ON ME. MY KID STARTS CAN GO TO NEXT YEAR. WITH THAT IN THE WOODLANDS FOR ABOUT EIGHT YEARS. THREE YEARS AGO WE MOVED FROM THE EXCELLENT, WELL RESPECTED CONROE ISD SCHOOL
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DISTRICT TO TOMBALL ISD SCHOOL DISTRICT BECAUSE OF IT EXCELLENT RECORD DICTATION BUT WE MOVED INTO OUR FOREVER HOME. I TOLD MY HAS BEEN, I'M GOING TO DIE THERE. I LOVE IT HERE, DON'T MAKE ME MOVE. LET ME READ PAINT, HANG THE PICTURES. I'M NEVER GOING ANYWHERE. I HAVE NOW CALLED MY REALTOR AND WE ARE LOOKING AT PRIVATE SCHOOLS AND I KNOW A LOT OF OTHER PEOPLE WHO ARE LOOKING AT PRIVATE SCHOOLS. THEY ARE LOOKING AT THE TEXAS SCHOOL CHOICE BILL HOPING THAT IT PASSES. I DON'T WANT TO TAKE THOSE DOLLARS FROM THE SCHOOL DISTRICT. I WANT TO GO TO THE EXCELLENT, WELL RESPECTED SCHOOL DISTRICTS THAT WE HAVE, WHICH IS WHY I LIVE HERE AND PAY A PREMIUM TO LIVE IN THE WOODLANDS THAT I DO NOT REGRET IT. HELP ME STAY. WHAT DO I WANT? I WOULD LIKE FOR YOU TO USE YOUR POWER TO POTENTIALLY DO A LAND AGREEMENT. I WAS VERY UPSET AT THE MOMENT TWO LITTLE GIRLS TO HEAR THAT WE ARE GOING TO HAVE TO BE ON A BUS FOR AN HOUR EACH WAY BECAUSE OF THE FOOTBALL FIELD. I'M NOT GOING TO USE THE FOOTBALL FIELD. I'M FROM MASSACHUSETTS, WE DID NOT HAVE A STADIUM AT ALL AND WE WERE JUST FINE. IT'S VERY UPSETTING AND I WOULD LIKE FOR US TO BE MORE CREATIVE IN OUR PRIORITIES. I ALSO CANNOT MAKE IT -- I WORK AT HP RIGHT NEXT TO THE CAMPUS WHERE A LOT OF OUR MAJOR EMPLOYERS ARE AND I CANNOT MAKE IT BY 5:00 P.M. WITH RUSH HOUR TRAFFIC AND GET ALL THE WAY TO INNOVATION CENTER FOR AFTERSCHOOL CARE BECAUSE MY KIDS ARE GOING TO HAVE TO BE AN AFTERSCHOOL CARE TO MAKE IT ALL THE WAY BACK. IT IS NOT POSSIBLE, SO DO I INVITE CAREER? I'VE TALKED TO A LOT OF MOMS WHO TALKED ABOUT DOING THAT. THAT'S EXPENSIVE. DO I GO TO PRIVATE SCHOOL? THAT'S STRAIGHT OUT OF MY KIDS COLLEGE FUND. THAT'S EXPENSIVE. DO I MOVE AND LEAVE THE TOWN THAT I LOVE? I DON'T WANT TO DO ANY OF THESE, SO PLEASE HELP US AND I THANK YOU FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION.>> THANK YOU. ALAYNA. >> HELLO. HI. JASON MERRITT IS YIELDING HIS TIME FOR ME. YOU CAN CHECK WITH HIM BECAUSE SOMETIMES I SAY HE'S GOING TO DO THINGS AND HE DOESN'T AGREE. HE ACTUALLY LET ME BORROW HIS PHONE SO LET ME READ FROM HERE. HELLO.
MY NAME IS ALANA AND NICE TO ME SO MANY PEOPLE. AND A RESIDENT FOR A LITTLE OVER SIX YEARS. OVER THE PAST SEVEN MONTHS, I HAVE SPENT COUNTLESS HOURS MEETING WITH SOME OF YOU IN PERSON AND MANY OF THE PARENTS HERE THAT I FIRST MET EVEN TONIGHT IN PERSON OR DIGITALLY. DURING THIS TIME THAT I HAVE CONTINUED TO REACH OUT TO THEM TO FIND A COMPROMISE SOLUTION FOR THE INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL IN OUR AREA. WE HAVE PROVIDED THEM 12 ALTERNATIVES. THEY HAVE ONLY ADDRESSED ONE INSUFFICIENTLY.
WHILE I WON'T REVISIT THE ISSUE ITSELF, WHAT I WILL HIGHLIGHT THE FAITH I HAVE IN THE TOWNSHIP TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT. I'M NO LAWYER BUT I HONORED MY SEVENTH GRADE TEXAS HISTORY TEACHER TODAY AND SPENT SOME TIME LOOKING UP THE TEXAS EDUCATION STATUTE OF THE TEXAS CONSTITUTION AND THE RIGHTS THAT YOU GUYS HAVE AS A TOWNSHIP IN THE MUNICIPALITY. AS THE TOWNSHIP BOARD OF DIRECTORS, YOU HAVE THE ABILITY TO, ACCORDING TO SOME STATUE, WHICH I WILL EMAIL YOU LATER, FUNDED SCHOOL FACILITIES IN TEACHER COMPENSATION OF SCHOOL, WHICH MEANS THAT YOU CAN HELP US DEVELOP PROGRAMS OR PAY FOR PORTABLES THERE AS PART OF THE TOWNSHIP, MUCH LIKE YOU HAVE LAID FOR THE POLICE OFFICERS THAT HAVE KEPT OUR STUDENTS SAFE, WHICH, BY THE WAY, WE HAVE HAD FOUR STUDENTS HIT BY CARS ALREADY THIS YEAR. THAT IS A DIFFERENT TOPIC. YOU CAN FILE AN INJUNCTION ON BEHALF OF THE RESIDENTS OF CREEKSIDE PARK. YOU CAN EXERCISE YOUR RIGHT ACCORDING TO STATUTE 37307 AND THIS IS IMPORTANT THAT YOU GUYS REQUIRE A REPRESENTATIVE OF THE WOODLANDS TOWNSHIP BOARD OF DIRECT VERSUS IT ON THE SCHOOL BOARD. THIS IS YOUR RIGHT AS THE TOWNSHIP BOARD OF DIRECTORS BECAUSE YOU HAVE A CERTAIN NUMBER OF RESIDENTS THAT RESIDE WITHIN THE ISD AND YOU MAY ALSO ENTER INTO A REASONABLE DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT WHICH MAY INCLUDE PROVIDING LAND OR OTHERWISE HELD BY THE TOWNSHIP. YOU CAN ALSO HELP US REMIND TST THAT EVERYTHING THEY ARE DOING HERE GOES AGAINST THE FUNDAMENTAL FOUNDATIONS THE EDUCATION STATUTES OF THE TEXAS CONSTITUTION THAT PARENTS ARE SUPPOSED TO BE FULL PARTNERS WITH EDUCATORS AND THE EDUCATION SYSTEM AND WE HAVE TRIED AND HE
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CONTINUES TO FAIL. WE JUST WANT COMPROMISE AND FINALLY, THE MOST VAST AND POSSIBLE THING THAT YOU CAN DO AS A TOWNSHIP IS INCLUDED THE ANNEXATION OF CREEKSIDE PARK INTO CONNOR ISD, WHICH WILL BRING YOU AN ADDITIONAL 33 PLUS MILLION DOLLARS A YEAR IN TAX REVENUE. THE SCHOOL BOARD AND ADMINISTRATION WILL TELL YOU THAT THERE IS NOTHING LEFT TO DO. THAT WHAT IS DONE IS DONE AND CHANGES HARD AND THEY ARE RIGHT. CHANGE IS HARD, BUT EVEN WITH THE INSTALLATION OF A DISTRICT REZONING COMMITTEE, WHICH MET FOR THE FIRST TIME TODAY, THE FUNDS HAVE NOT YET BEEN APPROVED BY THE SCHOOL BOARD TO BUILD A T ISD, SO IT'S NOT DONE YET AND EVEN THEN AND EVEN NOW, I TRULY BELIEVE A COMPROMISE CAN ALWAYS BE FOUND, SO THANK YOU.>> THANK YOU, ALANA. >> THAT BRINGS US TO JASON.
>> HEALED IT. >> OKAY. THAT BRINGS US TO
LAURA ALEXANDER. >> GOOD EVENING, BOARD MEMBERS.
MY NAME IS LAURA ALEXANDER AND I AND A RESIDENT FOR OVER 10 YEARS. I'VE LIVED IN AUTUMN BRIDGE, STERLING RIDGE AND IN 2020, I MOVED TO CREEKSIDE, SPECIFICALLY FOR THE SCHOOLS. IT IS TRULY A DESTINATION DISTRICT BUT POOR DEMOGRAPHIC PLANNING HAS MADE OUR SCHOOLS OVERCROWDED AND I AM VERY ACTIVE AND I HEARD THE FRUSTRATION IT IS WOMEN FROM NUMEROUS PARENTS OVER THE PROPOSED INTERMEDIATE LOCATION. THIS LOCATION IS AT THE INNOVATION CENTER LOCATED AT FM 2920 AND SN 2978, WHICH IS ROUGHLY EIGHT MILES AWAY. THE LOCATION IS NOT ACCEPTABLE TO THE RESIDENTS OF CREEKSIDE. THE TOWNSHIP WAS FOUNDED AS A MASTER-PLANNED COMMUNITY CONCEPT OF HAVING EVERYTHING YOU NEED NEARBY. THIS LOCATION WILL CHANGE THE WAY OF LIFE THAT WE HAVE SOUGHT OUT WHEN WE PURCHASED HOME HERE, ESPECIALLY IN CREEKSIDE, WALKING AND BIKING TO ELEMENTARY AND JUNIOR HIGH.
AT DISMISSAL TIME, YOU WILL SEE THE HUNDREDS OF CHILDREN AND THEIR FAMILIES WALKING AND BIKING FROM SCHOOL. IF THIS INTERMEDIATE LOCATION GOES THROUGH, I STRONGLY BELIEVE PROPERTY VALUES WILL DROP. PEOPLE WILL MOVE. CURRENTLY STUDENTS THAT LIVING CREEKSIDE WHO RIDE THE BUS AND ATTEND, WHICH IS AT THE SAME LOCATION AS THE INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL, WE HAVE BEEN TOLD THAT THEY HAVE AN HOUR-LONG COMMUTE ON A BUS EACH WAY. IT'S ONE THING TO SEND HIGH SCHOOL AGE STUDENTS ON A COMMUTE THAT LONG BUT IT IS NOT OKAY TO SEND IN INTERMEDIATE AGED CHILD, EVEN IF THE DISTRICT IS SOMEHOW ABLE TO GET THE REQUIRED NUMBER OF BUSES AND DRIVERS WITH FACTORING IN THE EXTRA TRAFFIC BY ADDING OVER 700 STUDENTS GOING IN THAT DIRECTION. THE DRIVETIME WILL BE CONSIDERABLY WORSE. FIFTH AND SIXTH GRADE CHILDREN SHOULD NOT BEEN 10 HOURS A WEEK ON A BUS. SAFETY IS THE OBVIOUS CONCERN AND OFF OF BUSES ON A TWO LANE ROAD FOR TWO HOURS EACH DAY INCREASES THE RISK OF A SIGNIFICANT SAFETY ACCIDENT. ALSO AFTERSCHOOL ACTIVITIES, FISCAL CAUTION AND BULLYING ON THE BUS ARE AMONG THE LIST OF OTHER CONCERNS ERIC RESIDENTS PRESENTED THE T ISD BOARD WITH THE ULTIMATE PROPOSAL BUILDING ONTO THE PROPERTY THEY CURRENTLY OWN IN CREEKSIDE PARK JUNIOR HIGH. AFTER FEASIBILITY STUDY WAS A PITY, THE TWO BIGGEST FINDINGS THEY COULD COME UP WITH TO GET THE BUILDING WORK, IT WOULD REMOVE THE PRACTICE MILLS AND COST ROUGHLY $10 MILLION MORE THAN A RECENT INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL THAT THEY ARE CURRENTLY STARTING TO BUILD. THIS DOESN'T EVEN ACCOUNT FOR THE ACTUAL OTHER PROPOSED ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, SO IT IS APPLES TO ORANGES. THEY HAVE NEVER EVEN ASKED THE PARENTS OF CREEKSIDE IF WE CARED ABOUT HAVING PRACTICE FIELDS AT THE JUNIOR HIGH LOCATION. WHERE I GREW UP, SCHOOLS HAD ONE TRACK IN A FIELD AND WE ALL SURVIVED AND LOOKS OUT AT SPORTS. IT IS A DISTRICT OF INNOVATION. I URGE YOU TO HELP US FIND AN INNOVATIVE SOLUTION TO KEEP THE SCHOOL LOCAL TO CREEKSIDE THIS TOWNSHIP WAS FOUNDED ON THE PORTABLE COMMUNITY AND IS COMMITTED TO PROTECT THE WELL-BEING AND THE SAFETY OF ITS RESIDENTS AND PROVIDING SERVICES THAT ENHANCE PROPERTY VALUES.
THIS WILL LOCATION WILL GO AGAINST ALL ABOUT. I'M ASKING THAT AS A REPRESENTATIVE ON THIS BOARD, YOU WILL SERVE AS OUR POLITICAL VOICE. HELP US STOP THE VOTE TO FUND THE INTERMEDIATE WITH THIS LOCATION. WE NEED YOU TO ENGAGE THE SCHOOL DISTRICT AND EXPRESS, REINFORCE AND ADVOCATE FOR THE VALUES THEY HOLD AND HELP THE MEDIA SOLUTION TO THE PROBLEM AND HELP PRESERVE THE VITALITY THROUGH COMMUNITY INVESTMENT. THANK YOU. EMILY.
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AM THE PARENT OF TWO ELEMENTARY AGE STUDENTS AND HAVE A PRESCHOOLER THAT GOES TO A CUTE LITTLE PRESCHOOL HERE IN TOWN AND I'M ALSO A KINDERGARTEN TEACHER AND WHAT WAS ONE OF THE SUPERINTENDENTS SHINING STARS I'M HERE ADVOCATING FOR MY OWN CHILDREN AND ALL OF THE CHILDREN OF CREEKSIDE BECAUSE I KNOW A LOT OF THEM. I LIVED HERE ORIGINALLY BUT WE DECIDED THAT CREEKSIDE WAS DEFINITELY GOING TO BE THE PLACE WHERE WE WANTED TO RAISE OUR FAMILY. WE DECIDED TO BUILD THE HOUSE ON THE WEST SIDE OF THIS FOR THAT PURPOSE, WHERE WE COULD WALK OUR KIDS TO CLICK VIEW AND WE COULD HELP THEM GET TO CREEKSIDE PARK VERY EASILY INSTEAD OF PURCHASING A HOME ON THE SIDE THAT WAS A LITTLE BIT MORE REASONABLY PRICED. WE KNEW IT WOULD BE CONVENIENT IN THE BEST INTEREST OF OUR KIDS TO LIVE IN WALKING DISTANCE. SOMETHING THAT NEITHER MY HUSBAND WERE I HAD GROWING UP AND WE WANTED THAT FOR OUR CHILDREN. RIGHT? THAT'S WHAT WE WANT FOR OUR KIDS. I VOTED FOR QUITE ON THE 2021 THAT I'M SURE A LOT OF YOU VOTED FOR TOO THAT WAS MARKETED AS AN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL OMA WHICH WOULD ALLEVIATE A LOT OF THE CROWDING AND THIS IS GREAT AND THE TEACHERS ARE GOING TO LOVE THIS AND WE ARE GOING TO HAVE SMALLER CLASSES. I VOTED FOR THAT BOND. I DECIDED, YOU KNOW WHAT, THIS IS NOT JUST GOING TO HELP MY CHILDREN, BUT IT'S GOING TO HELP ALL OF THE CHILDREN IN CREEKSIDE PARK. I EVEN WROTE RETHINKING, LIKE WOW. THIS IS A TERRIBLE LOCATION TO HAVE AN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL I'M GLAD MY KIDS ARE GOING TO GO THERE AND I DON'T THINK I WOULD EVER WANT TO WORK THERE. IT IS SO COMMERCIALIZED AND IT DOESN'T HAVE A GREAT FEEL TO IT. SO HERE I AM. MY KIDS ARE GOING TO BE GOING THERE BECAUSE THE ADMINISTRATION CHANGED THEIR MINDS ABOUT HOW TO ALLOCATE 466 MILLION TO -- $100 MILLION. FOR A BOND THAT I WOULD HAVE NOT HAVE VOTED ON IF IT WAS MARKETED AS AN INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL. THE BOARD IN THE SENIOR ADMINISTRATION HE BECAME TO THE QUICKVIEW CAMPUS AND PRESENTED TO THE PTO AND MARKETED AT AS IN A MONTH OR SCHOOL AND THAT WAS VAGUE AND IT WAS DECEITFUL AND WRONG. HERE IS WHAT WE NEED YOU TO COME IN AT. THEY REPORTED THAT THE INTERMEDIATE IS FEASIBLE UNDER CREEKSIDE PARK JUNIOR HIGH PROPERTY, BUT IT COMES DOWN TO MONEY. LIKE ALL THINGS. WE NEED YOU TO HELP TUMBLE ISD FINALLY FOR PRACTICE FIELD AND HELP FIGURE OUT THE TRAFFIC FLOW AND SENSORS ALONG CREEKSIDE GREEN NOW WAS A ATHLETE AND MY HUSBAND WAS TOO AND SPORTS IS IMPORTANT TO US AND MY KIDS ARE MORE IMPORTANT AND ALL OF THE KIDS THAT CREEKSIDE PARK ARE MORE IMPORTANT THAN A COUPLE OF PRACTICE FIELDS. THANK YOU.>> THANK YOU, EMILY. >> HI. MY NAME IS JULIE. I DO NOT HAVE ANYTHING NICELY WRITTEN OUT LIKE MY PREDECESSORS DO, BUT I AM ALSO A MEMBER OF CREEKSIDE PARK AND I WAS ONE OF THE FIRST PEOPLE TO MOVE IN ON THE WEST SIDE OF KIRKENDALL AND THE FIRST SUBDIVISION BUILT, HAMLIN LAKES, AND WE THOUGHT WE HAD A FINE WHEN MY HUSBAND AND I BOUGHT THAT HOUSE. RIGHT BY THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, REALLY CLOSE TO THE JUNIOR HIGH AND WE, LIKE SOMEBODY ELSE SAID, DECIDED THAT WE ARE NEVER GOING TO MOVE. WE WILL DIE IN THIS HOUSE. WE EVEN ADDED A BEDROOM ONTO THE HOUSE, WHICH WE DID SO WITH YOUR APPROVAL SO THAT WE COULD STAY IN THE HOUSE. ALL MY FRIENDS KNOW HOW HARD THAT BEDROOM EYES.
WE DID ALL OF THAT BEFORE THIS INNERVATION CENTER CAME UP AND THAT'S WHAT I'M HERE TO TALK ABOUT. PEOPLE HAVE MENTIONED FEASIBILITY REPORT AND I HAVE A COPY HERE AND FROM MY UNDERSTANDING, THE DISTRICT HAS TOLD US THAT IT IS NOT FEASIBLE TO BUILD THE PROPERTY AT THE JUNIOR HIGH BUT IF YOU LOOK THROUGH THE REPORT AND I KNOW YOU HAVE SEEN IT, THEY SAY THERE IS GOING TO BE CONSTRUCTION. WE LIVE IN CREEKSIDE PARK AND IT'S BEEN UNDER CONSTRUCTION FOR THE 10 YEARS THAT I HAVE LIVED THERE. THEY SAY THERE IS GOING TO BE TRAFFIC CHALLENGES. I MEAN, EVERYONE HAS SPOKEN TO THE TRAFFIC CHALLENGES THAT WILL BE OCCURRING IF THIS GIVE THIS IS PUT ON 2920 AND 2978. IF THEY ARE WILLING TO ENTERTAIN THE LOCATION AT A JUNIOR HIGH, I'M HOPING THAT YOU ALL CAN HELP US WITH THE TRAFFIC CHALLENGES AND IN THE FIELDS. LIKE EVERYONE HAS HAD, THE BIGGEST CONCERNS ARE THE FIELD BUT I WANT TO BE CLEAR THAT WE ARE NOT TALKING ABOUT THE COMPETITION FIELD. WE ARE TALKING ABOUT A PRACTICE FIELD AND FOR MY KIDS TO HAVE TO TRAVEL TWO HOURS ON A BUS EACH DAY BECAUSE OF A PRACTICE FIELD JUST SEEMS NOT THE REASON THAT I
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LIVE IN THE WOODLAND AND MY ASK FOR YOU IS LIKE EVERYONE ELSE, TO HELP THEM FIND A SOLUTION FOR OUR PRACTICE FIELDS AND MAYBE THE SOLUTION COULD EVEN BE, YOU CAN PRACTICE ON THE COMPETITION FIELD. MAYBE THE SOLUTION CAN BE, THEY CAN PRACTICE AT CREEK VIEW WERE AT ANOTHER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL OR WESTWOOD PARK IS RIGHT ACROSS THE STREET AND Y'ALL ARE GOING TO ASTROTURF THAT, I HEAR, AND MAYBE THEY CAN PRACTICE THEIR. THEY CAN USE MY BACKYARD. I MEAN. THIS JUST DOESN'T SEEM LIKE A REASON TO MOVE EVERY SINGLE CHILD IN CREEKSIDE PARK THAT FAR. I HAVE A QUESTION FOR YOU THAT I KNOW YOU CAN ANSWER BUT MAYBE YOU CAN GET TO IT LATER. I WOULD BE INTERESTED TO KNOW HOW TISD HAS COMMITTED WITH YOU BECAUSE THEY TOLD US THAT THEY WERE COMMITTED WITH WORKING WITH ALL OF YOU TO FIND A SOLUTION TO KEEP OUR SCHOOL AND CREEKSIDE PARK. IF LATER YOU COULD ADDRESS THAT, THAT WOULD BE VERY HELPFUL TO US AND MY OTHER ASK IS IF THERE IS ANYTHING YOU CAN DO TO STOP THE VOTE OF THE FUNDING BECAUSE LIKE SOMEBODY ELSE SAID, THEY ARE PLANNING THIS. I DON'T CARE. THE VOTE FOR THE FUNDING HAS NOT HAPPENED. ANYTHING YOU CAN DO.THANK YOU VERY MUCH. >> THANK YOU, JULIE. THAT BRINGS US JOSH AND DANIEL YIELDED HER THREE MINUTES FOR.
>> GOOD EVENING. >> NICE TO SEE YOU GUYS. I'M COMING TO YOU TONIGHT AS A CONCERNED PARENT OF THE WOODLANDS. RECENTLY THEY HAVE PROPOSED ADDRESSING PROPOSAL THAT WOULD TAKE OVER WOODLANDS CHILDREN OUT OF OUR COMMUNITY FOR 45 PLUS MINUTE TRIP, MINIMUM, AND RUSH-HOUR TRAFFIC % EACH DAY. SPINNING TWO HOURS ON THE ROAD IS NOT GOOD FOR OUR CHILDREN, ESPECIALLY SINCE MOST WALK OR BIKE TODAY. IT IS WELL DOCUMENTED THAT ACT OF COMMITTING TO SCHOOL, LIKE WALKING OR BIKING, INCREASES A CHILD'S HEALTH, WHICH IS DIRECTLY RELATED TO HIGHER TEST SCORES. THIS INFORMATION WAS SHARED WITH THE BOARD. ACCORDING TO THE TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION STUDY APPROVED BY THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS IN TEXAS A&M REVIEW BOARD, ACTIVE COMMUTING RESULTS IN 26% HIGHER SELF-ESTEEM. 36% INCREASE IN POSITIVE EMOTIONAL STATE AND A 28% ELEVATED LEVEL OF SOCIAL MODELING, WHICH IS LEARNING BY WATCHING OTHERS. IT'S INTELLECTUAL CURIOSITY, WHICH IS SO CRITICAL FOR CHILDREN TO HAVE AND DEVELOP AND LEARN.
ADDITIONALLY, ACCORDING TO BLOOMBERG, LONGER COMMUTES TAKE A SUBSTANTIAL TOLL ON STUDENTS SLEEP, EXERCISE AND HEALTH IN THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION STATES THAT SAFETY ON A SCHOOL PLAYS A ROLE IN EDUCATIONAL SUCCESS ACCORDING TO THE EPA SCHOOL CITING DIAL LINES, WHICH WERE PUBLISHED IN 2015. OLD REVIEW OF THE SCHOOL SITE AND MEANINGFUL PUBLIC INVOLVEMENT IS RECOMMENDED BY THOSE GUIDELINES. TUMBLE ISD ITSELF HELP A THOUGHT EXCHANGE FOR THEM WHERE OVER 60% OF THE 600+ COMMENT, NOT ALL OF WHOM ARE CREEKSIDE RESIDENT AND 60% OF THOSE, ROUGHLY, WAS THE WISH FOR A SCHOOL CLOSE TO THEIR COMMUNITY. CLOSE COMMUNITY SCHOOLS ARE IMPORTANT TO ENCOURAGE PARENTAL INVOLVEMENT, AS WELL AS FACILITATE STUDENT SUCCESS. IT TAKES A VILLAGE TO RAISE A CHILD. PROVERB'S 29:15 SAYS THE ROTTEN REPROOF. GIVE WISDOM BUT A CHILD LEFT TO HIMSELF BRINGS SHAME TO THE MOTHER. COMMUNITY IS A BIBLICAL CONCEPT. THROUGHOUT SCRIPTURE, WE ARE SHOWN AND THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING IN COMMUNITY. GOD CREATED US FOR COMMUNITY. ECCLESIASTES FOUR:9-12 SAY TWO
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OR BETTER THAN ONE BECAUSE THEY HAVE A GOOD RETURN FOR THEIR LABOR. IF ANY OF THEM FALL DOWN, WHEN CAN HELP THE OTHER UP BUT KATIE ANYONE WHO FALLS AND HAS NO ONE TO HOPE THEM UP. WHO IS GOING TO HELP OUR CHILDREN UP AN HOUR AWAY? THAT IS WHAT WE ARE ASKING. FOR OUR CHILDREN'S COMMUNITY TO BE CONTINUED AND WOODLAND RESIDENTS BUT TO THAT AREA FOR ENGAGEMENT TO BE PART OF THAT SPECIAL COMMUNITY. THE PLAN THREATENS TO DESTROY THE VILLAGE OF FURTHER HURT THE NUCLEAR FAMILIES THAT EXIST, WHICH WE ALL KNOW ARE ALREADY A DYING THIS NATION. RELATED TO TAX RATES, A PLAN TO KEEP PROPERTY VALUES HIGH IS IN THE BEST INTEREST OF THE WOODLANDS. IT IS IN THE BEST INTEREST OF HARRIS COUNTY AND ALL IMPACTED IN THE SURROUNDING AREA.CURRENTLY, THERE IS A READ ONLY COMMUNITY BEING PLANNED RIGHT OUTSIDE OF THE WOODLANDS THAT THIS POOR HAS PREVIOUSLY DISCUSSED AND KEEPING THE VALUE OF THAT AREA HIGH WITH ACCESS TO PARKS AND/OR RESOURCES IS ALSO IMPORTANT FOR HARRIS COUNTY. WE TALK ABOUT COUGH. IF IT IS $10 MILLION MORE TO BUILD A SCHOOL, I WOULD ENCOURAGE US ALL TO LOOK AT THE GRANT FUNDING AVAILABLE FOR CREATIVE SOLUTIONS, WHICH I PERSONALLY HAVE ASSISTED THEM WITH. MORE TO COME ON THAT THOSE GRANTS COME OUT LATER THIS YEAR.
PHYSICALLY IT'S IMPOSSIBLE TO BE IN TWO PLACES AT ONCE. AS MUCH AS OUR HEARTS WENT TO BE. WE ASKED THAT THE WOODLANDS TOWNSHIP, HARRIS COUNTY AND HOWARD HUGHES BE OPEN TO CREATIVE SOLUTION TO SUPPORT THE CHILDREN IN THE COMMUNITY, NATURE PRESERVATION AND THE WELL-BEING OF THEIR CONSTITUENTS. NOT ONLY DOES THIS PLAN THREATEN WHAT'S IN THE BEST INTEREST FOR THEIR TAX RATES, BUT IT THREATENS OUR CHILDREN'S EDUCATION AND QUALITY OF LIFE. HOWEVER, THE MOST DAMAGING PART OF THAT PLAN IS THAT IT THREATENS OUR HEART, WHICH ARE TWO LITTLE FEET WHO WOULD BE PLACED EVERY DAY IN OUR AWAY FROM THEIR MOST SUPPORTIVE ASSET, THEIR COMMUNITY AND THEIR
PARENT. >> THAT BRINGS US, MR. ALLEN.
MARCUS. WELCOME BACK. >> GOOD EVENING. I'M LISTENING TO THE GROUPS TONIGHT AND ALL THE THINGS THAT DEAL WITH OUR YOUTH AND THE MORALITY CHALLENGES IN OUR COMMUNITY AND THEY ARE A GREAT ENCOURAGEMENT TO ME. FROM THOSE WHO CAN BARELY TALK TO THOSE WHO ARE IN SCHOOL AND PARENTS THAT ARE PASSIONATE AND I JUST REALLY APPRECIATE THAT AND I REALIZE TO THAT AND ALSO BEING GREETED BY WHAT OF THE DIRECTORS TONIGHT WITH THE NEAR QUOTE OF, DID YOU COME HERE TO YELL AT US AGAIN TONIGHT. I REALIZED THAT LAST WEEK, MY PASSION FOR, NEIGHBORHOOD MUST HAVE OVERWHELMED WHO I NORMALLY AM, SO I APOLOGIZE FOR BEING SO DIRECT AND I KNOW THAT TONIGHT I WAS REMINDED THAT THERE IS A NUMBER OF THINGS THAT YOU WOULD LIKE TO FIX RIGHT AWAY BUT YOU CAN'T INVENT I WAS PLEASED, VERY PLEASED, TO SEE OUT OF THE THREE MEDICATION THAT PRECINCT 3 CANNOT CONTROL, THAT ONE OF THEM ARE ON THE AGENDA TONIGHT ABOUT CENTERPOINT AND FOR THE CENTERPOINT PRESENTATION, I AM A RESIDENT THAT LIVES AT THE BOUNDARY WHERE WE HAVE A MINING OPERATION UNDERWAY AND EAST OF OUR PROPERTY BETWEEN US AND JOSTLING FOR A DETENTION POND BUT YOU'VE HEARD FROM THE RESIDENTS ABOUT OUR POWER OUTAGES AND NOW OUR CONCERN IS WITH US BEING ON THE END OF CENTERPOINT'S DELIVERY SYSTEM WITH THE ADDITION OF ANOTHER COUPLE HUNDRED RESIDENCES RIGHT BEHIND OUR PLACE AND THE
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COMPLETE BUILDOUT ALLOWING GOSLING AND WHAT IS IN THE PLAN TO NOT JUST RECTIFY THE POWER OUTAGES WE ARE EXPERIENCING NOW, BUT HOW ARE WE GOING TO PREVENT THAT FROM REOCCURRING IN THE FUTURE WITH SO MUCH GROWTH IN OUR AREA? I WANT TO THANK THE DIRECTOR FOR KEEPING CRETE SIDE PARK ON THE AGENDA WITH THE SELECTRIC ITEM AND ALSO WITH CONCERNING, FOR SO MANY OF THE RESIDENTS ABOUT WHAT TO BASE IN EARLY SEPTEMBER ABOUT THE GHOST BAND AND I WAS SHOCKED TO LEARN HOW MUCH EFFORT WAS PUT IN BEFOREHAND TO PREVENT THAT FROM HAPPENING AND WE DO HAVE THE RIGHT EARS, I GUESS, AND SO WHEN I THINK ABOUT THE YOUNG FOLKS IN OUR AUDIENCE AND THE PASSERSBY AND THE GUEST OF THE PAVILION, IT IS JUST DISHEARTENING BECAUSE IT IS DAMAGING TO THE SOUL BUT IT DOESN'T REFLECT WHAT THE WOODLANDS IS ABOUT.>> THANK YOU. >> I KNOW IT IS A TIMEOUT, BUT IT'S WANTED TO THANK MR. BAILEY, DIRECTOR BAILEY, FOR THE INVITATION TO MEET WITH HIM BECAUSE I THINK THERE IS A LOT OF THINGS THAT MAYBE I CAN LEARN BUT ALSO SHARE WITH HIM ABOUT THE DEVELOPMENT BEHIND OUR HOUSE. THANK YOU.
>> THANK YOU. THAT BRINGS US TO OUR NEXT. NATOSHA. DID I MISS PRONOUNCE YOUR FIRST NAME? THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE.
>> DEAR BOARD OF DIRECTORS, THEY CAN SO MUCH IN ALLOWING US TO COME AND TALK. I WANT TO THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME AND HEARING THE DESPERATE PLEAS OF THE PARENTS OF CREEKSIDE PARK. I'M HERE TO HUMBLY AND DESPERATELY ASKING FOR YOUR ASSISTANCE IN KEEPING OUR KIDS, THE WOODLANDS KID, IN CREEKSIDE PARK FOR INTERMEDIATE FIFTH AND SIXTH GRADE. IF CREEKSIDE IS FORCED TO SEND IT 100% OF OUR KIDS LONG DISTANCES FOR TWO SCHOOLS, WHICH INCLUDE THE HIGH SCHOOL, IT WILL INFLICT SEVERE CONSEQUENCES ON THE FAMILY UNIT, EDUCATIONAL OUTPUT FROM OUR STUDENT, AFTER SCHOOL ACTIVITIES AND OTHER EDUCATIONAL ENRICHMENT AND IT WILL DEGRADED THE ENJOYMENT OF LIVING IN LIFE IN THE WOODLANDS, WHICH WAS VOTED THE BEST PLACE TO LIVE OR WHAT OF THE TOP THREE PLACES TO LIVE IN AMERICA FOR CONSECUTIVE YEARS. FOR MYSELF PERSONALLY, I WILL HAVE TO BE ON THE ROAD BETWEEN FOUR TO FIVE HOURS A DAY JUST TO TAKE TWO CHILDREN TO SCHOOL AND YOU KNOW MANY OF OUR FAMILIES HAVE MANY MORE CHILDREN. 4 TO 5 HOURS A DAY. THIS IS SUBURBAN AMERICA AND NOT SOME THIRD WORLD COUNTRY WHERE WE ARE WILLING TO TAKE OUR THAT THEY CAN LEARN HOW TO READ.
OUR CHILDREN SHOULD NOT BE FORCED TO TRAVEL AN HOUR TO SCHOOL AND IN OUR HOME JUST FOR AN EDUCATION IN SUBURBAN AMERICA, MUCH LESS HERE IN THE WITH THINGS. I KNOW MY TRAVEL NUMBERS ARE CORRECT BECAUSE WE HAVE ACTUALLY INPUT OUR BEST ROUTE INTO THE WEBSITE, WHICH SAYS FROM MY HOME TO THE PROPOSED INNOVATION CENTER, IT IS THAT THE MINUTES ONE-WAY AND THAT IS JUST WITH A FEW STUDENTS TRAVELING THAT TO THE STAR ACADEMY, WHICH IS WORTH IT TO THEM BECAUSE THEY ACTUALLY GET A COLLEGE DEGREE AT ABOUT. OUR CHILDREN WILL JUST GO FOR FIFTH AND SIXTH WITH NO ADDITIONAL SUPPORT OR ANYTHING ELSE COMING FROM IT. SO ONCE WE ADD 700 TO 800 CHILDREN TRAVELING THAT ROUTE AT THE EXACT SAME TIME, I'M SURE THOSE BUS ROUTES WILL BE A LOT LONGER. IN ADDITION, IS THAT THE ONLY WAY TO GET THERE IS A TWO LANE ROAD. WHEN WOULD THIS WAY ONE-WAY THAT WAY WHAT IS GOING THEY SHOULD SOME OF THE ENTIRE WAY, SO THERE IS NO, LET ME TAKE A SHORTCUT. TRAFFIC IS BACKED UP THIS WAY, SO I'M GOING TO GO AROUND IT. THERE IS NO WAY AROUND IT AND THAT'S WHAT MAKES IT MORE DIFFICULT. IF A BUS BREAKS DOWN OR THERE IS AN ACCIDENT OR THAT ROAD FLOODS, WHICH IT REGULARLY DOES COME I'M SURE MANY OF THE FAMILIES WOULD JUST TURN AROUND AND TAKE THEIR KIDS HOME FOR THE DAY AND THEREFORE MISSING ADDITIONAL EDUCATION. IF I DRIVE MY KIDS TO SCHOOL, I WILL HAVE TO WIT MY
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JOB. I CANNOT WORK A FULL-TIME JOB AND BE ON THE ROAD FOUR TO FIVE HOURS A DAY ADDITIONALLY, SO THAT WILL DEFINITELY PUT A STRAIN ON OUR FAMILY FINANCIALLY. I REFUSE TO PUT MY 10-YEAR-OLD LITTLE GIRL ON A BUS FOR TWO HOURS A DAY. THERE IS A SINGLE BUS DRIVER ON THEIR AND IF SHE IS WATCHING WITH THE KIDS ARE DOING, SHE IS NOT WATCHING THE ROAD. THERE ARE ÷10-÷12 AND SHOULD NEVER BE UNSUPERVISED FOR TWO HOURS A DAY. I WOULD NEVER PUT MY DAUGHTER IN THE PHYSICIAN WORK SHE COULD BE SEXUALLY ASSAULTED. WHERE SHE COULD BE EXPOSED TO PORNOGRAPHY, EXPOSED TO BULLYING, FIGHTS AND MUCH MORE AND MY DAUGHTER IS MUCH MORE VALUABLE AND PRECIOUS TO ME AND I SEE MY CHILD FOR TWO HOURS A DAY WILL NEVER HAPPEN. TOMBALL ISD HAS IGNORED OUR PLEAS AND SOLUTIONS. THERE IS A 14 ACRE PARK IN CREEKSIDE THAT CAN HOUSE OUR INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL, BUT THE REASON JIM ROSS GAVE US AT THE TOMBALL ISD SCHOOL BOARD MEETING IN APRIL OR MAY, THE REASON WHY HE SAID THAT WOULD WORK, EVEN THOUGH 14 ACRES IS MORE THAN ENOUGH TO BUILD THE SCHOOL. HE SAID, BECAUSE THE PLOT IS WRITTEN ANGULAR AND THEY REFER SOMETHING MORE SQUARE. SO THAT JUST PROVES THAT THEY ARE NOT BEING INNOVATIVE. THAT THEY ARE NOT EVEN TRYING TO CONSIDER ANY SOLUTIONS TO KEEP OUR CHILDREN CLOSE TO HOME AND THIS WAS SERIOUSLY THE BEST EXCUSE THAT THEY COULD COME UP WITH. I'M ASKING YOU AND OUR CHILDREN ARE BALANCING A GIANT AND I'M ASKING YOU FOR YOUR HELP. THE LAST COMMENT IS THAT MANY OF MY NEIGHBORS HAVE SAID, THEY ARE TIRED. THEY ARE TIRED OF THIS FIGHT AND THEY ARE OUT. THEY PLAN ON MOVING. THEY PLAN ON GOING TO PRIVATE SCHOOL FOR MANY OF THEM HAVE SAID, WE KNOW HOW VALUABLE OUR HOME IS, WE PLAN TO RENT IT OUT AND LEAVE THE WOODLANDS ALTOGETHER, THEREFORE TURNING CREEKSIDE INTO ANOTHER RUNDOWN RENTAL COMMUNITY AND THAT NOT ONLY AFFECTS CREEKSIDE, IT WILL AFFECT ALL OF THE WOODLANDS. THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR TIME.>> NEXT SPEAKER IS ADRIAN. THERE YOU ARE.
>> I'M FROM THE WOODLANDS AT CREEKSIDE. THANK YOU FOR ALLOWING ME TO TALK. I'VE BEEN HERE IN THE WOODLANDS ABOUT 12 YEARS AND WE MOVED TO CREEKSIDE IN 2015. I WILL START OFF BY SAYING THAT I AGREE WITH EVERYTHING THAT THE FAMILIES HAVE SAID IN CREEKSIDE 100%. I'M WITH THEM AND I MOVED TO CREEKSIDE BECAUSE THE WOODLANS IS UNIQUE. I'VE BEEN FORTUNATE TO GO TO A LOT OF PLACES IN THE WORLD AND THE WOODLANDS TO ME, IS WHEN OF THE BEST PLACES TO LIVE, PERIOD. I HAVE THREE KIDS NOW AND THEY GO TO OUR SCHOOLS AND WHAT'S HAPPENING WITH TOMBALL ISD HAS TO STOP. WE HAVE TO FIND A SOLUTION. I'M ALL FOR BUILDING EDUCATION CENTERS. EDUCATION IS WHAT OUR PEOPLE NEED. BUT MORE SCHOOLS. GREAT. DON'T MOVE THEM 8 TO 10 MILES DOWN THE ROAD. MAKE THEM TRAVEL FOR AN HOUR. WE ARE SAYING IN OUR. TOMBALL ISD WILL TELL YOU THAT IS 20 MINUTES. IT'S NOT.
PEOPLE GO THERE AND PEOPLE KNOW THAT IT TAKES AN HOUR, SO I WILL GET STRAIGHT TO THE POINT ABOUT WHAT MY AGENDA IS HERE. TO ASK YOU AND TO PLEAD WITH YOU BECAUSE WE PLED WITH TOMBALL ISD TO FIND A SOLUTION FOR OUR FAMILIES. WE HAVE INVESTED IN TOMBALL. I HAVE INVESTED MY LIFE SAVINGS TO LIVE IN THE WOODLANDS. THIS IS THE AREA THAT WE WANT TO LIVE. WE WANT TO STAY FOREVER. FIND A SOLUTION. WHATEVER WE CAN DO. IF IT MEANS SUBSIDIZING AND WORKING WITH TOMBALL ISD TO BUILD SOMETHING BECAUSE IT CAN BE BUILT. WE CAN BUILD IN CREEKSIDE BUT I THINK WHAT HAS BEEN TUNNELED LEGEND IS BUILDING THIS HUGE COMMUNITY
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CENTER WITH TOMBALL INNOVATION AND OF ACTUALLY THINKING ABOUT THE FAMILIES. BUILD THIS SOLUTION FOR TOMBALL BUT DON'T MOVE HUNDREDS OF FAMILIES THROUGH THE COUNTRY THROUGH BOTTLENECK ROADS AND DANGEROUS CROSSROADS. TRANSPORTATION IS AN ISSUE. LONGEVITY IS AN ISSUE. IT'S GOING TO AFFECT A LOT OF FAMILIES IT'S GOING TO AFFECT FAMILIES WHO DON'T EVEN GO TO SCHOOL. IT'S ALREADY CONGESTED AND TRYING TO GET THERE, SO THIS IS A PLEAD, AS A PARENT, THAT SOMEBODY WHO LOVES THE WOODLANDS AND IT'S WHEN OF THE BEST PLACES TO LIVE IN THE WORLD AND LET'S KEEP IT THAT WAY. WE ARE NOT BEING DIFFICULT, THE TOMBALL FAMILIES WERE CREEKSIDE FAMILIES. WE ARE A VOICE FOR OUR CHILDREN. THAT IS WHAT WE ARE DOING. WE ARE EXERCISING THAT AND WE ARE LOOKING TO TUMBLE TO WORK. THANK YOU.>> THANK YOU. I APOLOGIZE FOR MY MISPRONUNCIATIONS. SOMETHING FOR YOU ARE HERE. THAT BRINGS US TO ELIZABETH RICARD. WELCOME
BACK. >> GOOD EVENING. I HAVE BEEN A RESIDENT FOR 23 YEARS MEMORIZING FOUR BOYS AND ONE IN THE NAVY IN ONE IN COLLEGE AND HERE AT COLLEGE PARK. I'M HERE TO TONIGHT, ALSO, ABOUT THIS BAND NAMED GHOST AND I WILL NAME THEM AS YOU DO NEED TO KNOW WHAT EVIL WE HAVE AMONG US. YOU ALREADY KNOW THAT HE IS PARADING AROUND AS POP THEM MARRIAGES. FOR ME, AS A CATHOLIC, THAT IS A PLAY ON OUR LEADER OF OUR FAITH. HE IS A DEMONIC -LOOKING POLICE. HE WEARS UPSIDE DOWN CROSSES, DRESSES AND RELIGIOUS VESTMENTS AND HATS KNOWN TO BE WORN BY CATHOLIC CLERGY AND RELIGIOUS AND ALL OF THIS IS SOMETHING THAT I WOULD NEVER LISTEN TO, MUCH LESS PAY MONEY TO GO AND SEE IF SUPPORT. HERE LIES THE PROBLEM. THE MONEY THAT YOU COLLECT DOTS. PERFORMANCES AND INSIGHT IMMINENT, LAWLESS ACTION, HATE SPEECH, USE OF AFFINITIES ANYTHING AGAINST OUR CHRISTIAN FAITH SHOULD NOT BE ALLOWED, NOT HERE, NOT IN THE WOODLANDS. THEIR MUSIC IS OPEN HATRED AND MARKING OF MY CATHOLIC FAITH AND I WANT IT UNDERSTOOD. I'M NOT CENSORING MUSIC OR COME ASKING THAT WE AS A COMMUNITY AND USE A TOWNSHIP OR, NOT USE ANY OF THE TAX FILERS WERE REVENUE COLLECTED THE PAPER GO MANY CULTURE ARTS THAT MOCK OUR CHRISTIAN FAITH.
LAWLESS ACTION TO GET OUR CATHOLIC FAITH OCCURRED LAST YEAR DURING MOTHER'S DAY WEEKEND WHEN CATHOLIC CHURCHES WERE TARGETED, DEFACED AND VANDALIZED AND WEST HOUSTON AT ST. MARK'S, THE TABERNACLE WAS STOLEN TO CATHOLICS AND NON-CATHOLICS.
THIS WOULD BE DESCRIBED AS AN ORNATE BOX, WHICH IS FRONT AND CENTER WITHIN OUR CHURCH UNLOCKED BECAUSE WITHIN THAT BEAUTIFUL CONTAINER IS STORED, WHAT WE BELIEVE IN KNOWN TO BE, THE BODY OF CHRIST AND THE EUCHARIST. OUR LORD WAS STOLEN AND TO THIS DAY, HE WAS NOT RECOVERED AND THE USE OF THIS PRECIOUS PIECE OF CHRIST IS UNKNOWN. TO MY UNDERSTANDING, THE REVENUE COLLECTED FROM THE EVENT TAX, 10% IS RETAINED BY THE TOWNSHIP TO HELP FUND CULTURAL EVENTS OR PROJECTS APPROVED BY THE TOWNSHIP BOARD AND I ASKED THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS, THE PAVILION, TO STOP HOSTING PERFORMERS AND ASK TO PROMOTE AND INCITE HATE OR VIOLENCE AMONG CHRISTIANS OR OTHER GROUPS. LIVE NATION WANT OBLIGE BECAUSE I BELIEVE THAT'S WHO THEY USE TO FIND TALENT, PLEASE HIRE A DIFFERENT COMPANY.
WHATEVER INFLUENCE YOU HAVE AMONG THE PAVILIONS, BOARD OF DIRECTORS, I ASKED THAT YOU USE IT THERE ON THE BEHALF OF THE RESIDENCE THAT YOU REPRESENT. THANK YOU.
>> THANK YOU, ELIZABETH. OKAY. NEXT. I'M NOT QUITE SURE. IT'S EITHER KEATON . OKAY. ANNOUNCER NAME. I APOLOGIZE. I WAS GOING TO SAY, IT LOOKS LIKE MY DAD AND HE IS A DOCTOR BUT I DIDN'T WANT
TO BE AND SALTING. >> A WAS EITHER AN ENGINEER OR A DOCTOR AND I DECIDED TO BE AN ENGINEER.
>> I APOLOGIZE. >> THANK YOU FOR GIVING ME AN OPPORTUNITY. I LIVE IN CREEKSIDE PARK. LIKE MANY OF MY NEIGHBORS WHO ARE HERE TODAY, I'M HERE TO TALK ABOUT THE NEW PLAN FOR THE
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INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL. I THINK YOU HAVE HEARD OF LOTS OF EXCELLENT REASONS ABOUT LIFE WE THINK IT IS A BAD IDEA. I THINK THAT WILLIAM GAVE YOU SOME FIRST-HAND PERSPECTIVE OF THE BENEFITS OF WALKING TO SCHOOL. I WILL SAY, I WAS FIRST INTRODUCED TO THIS TOPIC BY SPRING. THERE WAS A SOUNDING FORM AT CREEKSIDE PARK JUNIOR HIGH AND DOCTOR SCHNEIDER, YOU WERE GENEROUS ENOUGH TO ATTEND. DOCTOR Z, MR. MCLEOD, YOU GUYS WERE THERE AS WELL. THERE ARE OVER 200 PARENTS THAT WERE THERE AND THE BIG TAKE AWAY FOR ME FROM THAT SESSION IS THAT THERE WAS A COMMITMENT FROM T ISD TO WORK WITH US TO FIND IT ALTERNATE SOLUTIONS. THERE WAS A COMMITMENT TO INVOLVE THE COMMUNITY OF WHICH YOU ARE A PART. YOU ARE A PART OF OUR COMMUNITY. THERE WAS A COMMITMENT FOR TRANSPARENCY AND HERE WE ARE. WE FOUND OURSELVES IN THE SAME SITUATION. WE FIND OURSELVES WITH ZERO OPTIONS. WE FIND OURSELVES WITH THE REDISTRICT ZONE COMMITTEE MEETING TODAY THAT HAD TWO OPTIONS FOR THE INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL AND NONE OF WHICH HAD ANY OPTIONS FOR CREEKSIDE PARK.RIGHT? HOW IS THAT POSSIBLE? HOW IS IT THAT AN INNOVATIVE COMMUNITY LIKE OURS, THE NUMBER ONE PLACE TO LIVE, RIGHT? THAT'S WHAT BROUGHT ME HERE TO WOODLANDS. I'M NOT FROM TEXAS. I GREW UP IN JERSEY. RIGHT? TWO YEARS AGO WE MOVED IT TO THE WOODLANDS AND WE MOVED TO CREEKSIDE PARK BECAUSE WE COULD WALK AND BIKE TO OUR SCHOOLS AND BECAUSE WE HAD PARKS NEARBY. HOW IS IT THAT WE FIND OURSELVES IN A SITUATION WHERE THERE ARE ZERO ALTERNATIVES. THERE IS NO LAND. SORRY, BUT THIS IS TEXAS.
EVERYTHING IS BIGGER IN TEXAS. I'M SURE THAT WE CAN FIND LAND.
YOU KNOW? THE TRAFFIC THAT YOU GUYS TALK ABOUT, THERE'S NOT EVEN A TRAFFIC STUDY DONE AT THE NEW LOCATION, SO ALL I ASKED FOR YOUR HELP HERE IS TO BRING US TOGETHER. YOU CAN CLEARLY SENT THAT PARENTS ARE WILLINGTO DO WHAT WE NEED TO DO TO HELP. YOU CAN ALSO SENSE A LACK OF TRUST AND FRUSTRATION WITH TOMBALL ISD AND WE ARE ASKING YOU GUYS TO HELP BRING US TOGETHER. LET US KNOW WHAT WE CAN DO FOR OUR KIDS. WE ARE HERE. THANK YOU.
>> THANK YOU. WELL DONE. LAST BUT NOT LEAST, KENDRA TAYLOR.
>> HI. GOOD EVENING. I AND KENDRA TAYLOR, AND I'M PART OF THE GROUP. YOU HEARD THE PASSIONATE CRIES FROM THE PARENTS AND ALTHOUGH CHALLENGES AND PROBLEM AND, AGAIN, WE ASK IN YOUR SUPPORT AND COMING TOGETHER AND FUNNY THE RESOLUTION AND THERE IS NO OTHER END GOAL IN MIND OTHER THAN TO KEEP THE KIDS IN CREEKSIDE PARK. THERE ARE SOLUTIONS. THERE IS A NUMBER OF THEM. MANY OF THEM COST NO MONEY. RIGHT? WE CAN DO SOME REZONING. WE CAN GET A COUPLE OF PODS AND THROW IT OUT THERE. WE DON'T REALLY NEED ANYTHING FANCY. WE ARE ONLY TALKING ABOUT 150 KIDS THAT IS THE NUMBER THAT WE ARE TRYING TO ACCOMMODATE HERE, SO THERE ARE PLENTY OF SOLUTIONS OUT THERE AND LIKE ALL THE OTHER PARENT SAID, WE JUST FEEL LIKE OUR VOICES HAVE GONE TOTALLY UNHEARD AND END OF STORY, THEY ARE GOING TO GO DO WHAT THEY WANT TO DO WHEN WE ASKED FOR YOUR HELP ONCE AGAIN AND I DO WANT TO REITERATE THE PROPERTY VALUE THING. I MEAN, I LIVE IN A COMMUNITY THAT HAS FAMILIES THAT LIVE THERE THAT DON'T HAVE CHILDREN BUT THEY ARE ALSO VERY WORRIED ABOUT THEIR PROPERTY VALUES BECAUSE WE ALL MOVED HERE FOR THAT COMMUNITY BY AND WE LOVE THE WOODLANDS AND FAMILIES BEING CLOSE TO THE THE FOLKS THAT DON'T HAVE CHILDREN HERE, THEY LOVE SEEING ALL OF THE KIDS RIDING THEIR BIKE TO SCHOOL EVERYDAY AND I PERSONALLY BACK TO SCHOOL EVERY SINGLE DAY WITH MY KINDERGARTNER IN FIRST GRADER NOW AND WE LOVE IT. SHE LOVES IT IN THE ONE DAYS WHEN WE CAN'T BIKE, SHE COMPLAINS BECAUSE SHE'S LIKE, I WANT TO BIKE TO SCHOOL. SO FUN. SHE SEES ALL OF HER FRIENDS AND HER TEACHERS AND YOU GET SOME EXERCISE AND IT IS SUCH A WONDERFUL PART OF BEING IN THIS COMMUNITY AND, PERSONALLY, MY PROPERTY TAXES HAVE GONE UP 70% IN TWO YEARS.
THAT IS GOING TO NOSEDIVE IF WE DON'T FIND A PROPER SOLUTION TO KEEP THESE KIDS AND FAMILIES HERE BECAUSE I DON'T KNOW IF VALERIE SWANSON OR HER REPRESENTATIVE IS HERE BUT SCHOOL CHOICE COMING DOWN THE PIPELINE, WE ALL WANT IT. YES, WE WANT IT. WE WANT THE POWER BACK WITH OUR PARENTS BECAUSE OTHERWISE WE HAVE NOTHING TO GO WITH AGAINST THE SCHOOLS. WE HAVE TO LET THAT MONEY FOLLOW THE KIDDOS, SO PARENTS CAN MAKE THE RIGHT CHOICE FOR THEIR KIDS AND WE CAN DO THE RIGHT THING. I DO WANT TO REITERATE THAT WE LOVE THE WOODLANDS AND WE WANT TO BE HERE AND WE WANT THAT SOLUTION AS WELL. PLEASE. WE
WANT YOUR HELP. THANK YOU. >> THANK YOU. THANK YOU. THAT
[7. Receive, consider and act upon reports from Village Association representatives;]
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CONCLUDES PUBLIC COMMENT. SO WE WILL GO TO AGENDA ITEM SEVEN. WE WILL SHARE WITH YOU THAT TISDIS ON OUR AGENDA TO DISCUSS THAT THIS EVENING. AGENDA ITEM 7, RECEIVE, CONSIDER AND ACT UPON REPORTS FROM OUR VILLAGE ASSOCIATION PERSONS WHO SAID THAT THEY WILL BE VERY BRIEF SO WE CAN MOVE ON. WE WILL START WITH MARIANNE TO BRIDGE. THANK YOU, MARIANNE, FOR BEING HERE.GIVE YOU AN UPDATE THIS EVENING. OUR LAST MEETING WAS ON TUESDAY, OCTOBER 10TH. WE RECEIVED THE LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORT FROM SPECIALIST MISSED AND HE TOLD US THE MANY FIRES OCCUR ON THANKSGIVING WHEN MANY PEOPLE ARE COOKING FOR THEIR FAMILIES AND FRIENDS AND HE SHARED THE BEST WAY TO QUICKLY REACT TO A SMALL STOVETOP FIRE BEFORE CALLING 911. THIS WEEK WE ARE GOING TO LOOK AT THE SPOOKIEST HOUSE NOMINATIONS AND WE WILL BE MAKING THE AWARDS FOR THE GUESTHOUSE JUST BEFORE HALLOWEEN. WE ARE REALLY BUSY PLANNING OUR FALL FESTIVAL ON NOVEMBER 4TH AT LAKESIDE PARK FROM 1:00 UNTIL 4:00 P.M. IN OUR SPONSORS ARE CHICK-FIL-A, KROGER, HGB AND HELLO WOODLANDS.
USE KITCHEN, ONE OF OUR NEWEST SPONSORS WILL BE SHARING TAMALES WITH THE RESIDENTS AT THE FESTIVAL. WE WILL HAVE ENTERTAINMENT FOOD AND FUN FOR EVERYONE AND THE MONTGOMERY SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT WILL BE DOING A K-9 MISTRUST FOR US. FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION, GO TO OUR FACEBOOK PAGE AND SIGN UP FOR OUR MONTHLY NEWSLETTER. LET'S BRING YOUR FAMILY AND FRIENDS AND THE EVENT IS FREE FOR ALL RESIDENTS. A QUICK REMINDER THAT THE CONCERT WILL BE FEATURED AS THE AUDIT BRIDGE NIGHT. PLEASE JOIN US. TICKETS ARE FREE AND OUR MEETING ON SEPTEMBER 14TH, MISTY HERNDON, THE PRESIDENT AND CEO WILL BE OUR SPEAKER AND SHE WAS TO SHARE SOME HISTORY WITH THAT SOME OF US KNOW HOW WE CAN HELP FAMILIES DURING THE HOLIDAYS BY VOLUNTEERING IN THE COMMUNITY. WE MEET ON THE SECOND TUESDAY OF EACH MONTH AND OUR MEETINGS BEGIN AT 6:30 P.M. AND ALL RESIDENTS ARE AIR INVITED AND ENCOURAGED TO ATTEND AND THAT
CONCLUDES MY REPORT. >> THANK YOU, MARIANNE. YOUR FESTIVAL IS ALWAYS A GREAT TIME. THAT BRINGS US TO COCHRAN'S
CROSSING. TRICIA. >> THANK YOU, CHAIRWOMAN SNYDER AND DIRECTORS. WE HAD OUR LAST MEETING ON OCTOBER 17TH AND I WERE VERY BIG FALL FESTIVA THIS PAST WEEKEND AND IF YOU WEREN'T THERE, YOU MISSED OUT AND IT WAS A LOT OF FUN AND A HUGE SUCCESS AND I WANTED TO THANK EVERYONE FOR ATTENDING AND ENJOYING EVERYTHING THAT WE HAD, PARTICULARLY DIRECTOR SPRINGS WHO MIGHT BE DOING AXE THROWING. DIRECTOR CHAIRWOMAN SNYDER AND LINDA NELSON AS WELL FOR COMING. WE REALLY APPRECIATE YOUR SUPPORT. WE HAVE MORE THAN 70 VOLUNTEERS SHOW UP TO DONATE THEIR HOURS. I WANTED TO THANK OUR BOARD MEMBERS WHO WORKED TIRELESSLY TO PLAN THE EVENT AND MICHELLE WHO SOLD SO MANY VENDOR TABLES. I WANTED TO THANK OUR SPONSOR KROGER WHO I THINK MANY PEOPLE IN THE COMMUNITY DON'T REALIZE ALL THAT KROGER DOES FOR US AND WE COULDN'T HAVE THIS TYPE OF EVENT WITHOUT THEM. WE WERE ABLE TO RAISE ALMOST $7000 FOR STUDENT SCHOLARSHIPS BECAUSE WE SOLD 28 VENDOR TENTS. THAT WAS THE HUGE SUCCESS OF OUR EVENT AND I'M VERY PROUD OF THAT. I WANTED TO CONGRATULATE THE WINNERS OF OUR HALLOWEEN DECORATING CONTEST. WE HAD A TOTAL. PLEASE SEE OUR WEBSITE, COCHRAN'S WEBSITE, FOR THE LIST OF WINNERS. WE HAVE SOME VERY CREATIVE PEOPLE IN OUR COMMUNITY. WE ARE LOOKING FOR BUSINESSES TO PARTNER WITH US THE CBA FOR COMMUNITY SPIRIT NIGHT. IF YOU MIGHT BE INTERESTED, PLEASE REACH OUT TO US VIA OUR WEBPAGE AND I WANTED TO CONGRATULATE THE STERLING RIDGE VILLAGE ASSOCIATION FOR A SUCCESSFUL BARBECUE ON SATURDAY AND THEY DID A GREAT JOB AND THINK THE TOWNSHIP STAFF FOR A SUCCESSFUL NATIONAL NIGHT OUT ON SEPTEMBER 8TH AND I PARTICIPATED FOUR DIFFERENT PARTIES AND EACH
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OF THEM HAVE LARGE GROUPS OF INDIVIDUALS AND THEY WERE VERY WELL DONE. I WANTED TO INVITE MEMBERS OF OUR COMMUNITY TO JOIN OUR BOARD. WE ARE A GREAT WAY TO GET INVOLVED IN THE COMMUNITY AND WE HAVE A LOT OF FUN. OUR NEXT MEETING WILL BE HELD ON NOVEMBER 28TH AT 6:30 P.M. HERE AT THE TOWNSHIP OFFICES. IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS OR CONCERNS, PLEASE REACH OUT TO US.COCHRAN'S CROSSING.ORG WILL COME ONTO OUR FACEBOOK PAGE. THANK
YOU. >> THANK YOU, TRICIA AND YOUR FESTIVAL TOO WAS VERY, VERY WELL DONE. THAT BRINGS US TO CREEKSIDE PARK. NANCY BECKER. WELCOME.
>> GOOD EVENING. WELL, LET ME START OUT ON A GOOD NOTE 1ST BEFORE I GET TO THE MEAT OF THE MATTER . PLANNING HAS STARTED FOR OUR ANNUAL WINTER FESTIVAL AND CHILI COOKOFF, WHICH WILL BE HELD ON SATURDAY, JANUARY 20TH, 2024 FROM 1:00 UNTIL 4:00 P.M.
UNTIL ROLF REMAINED LARGE. THIS IS A MEMORABLE EVENT RAIN OR SHINE AND OUR SIGNATURE SO HILL WILL CAUSES OVER $5000 AND THEY GET FOR OUR INCREASE IN TOWNSHIP FUNDS. WE DEFINITELY APPRECIATE THE INCREASE. WE WILL ALSO HAVE INFLATABLE'S, TRACKLESS TRAIN, BALLOON ARTIST AND FREE HOT DOGS AND CHILI. MARK YOUR CALENDARS NOW. TRICIA AT THREE TOWNSHIP DIRECTORS COME TO HER FESTIVAL.
WE ARE NOT SURE IF WE HAVE EVER HAD THREE TOWNSHIP DIRECTORS
>> YOU DO. THE GAUNTLET IS THERE. JUST SAYING. YOU HAVE PLENTY OF TIME. WHILE OTHER VILLAGES GIVE OUT SCHOLARSHIPS, CREEKSIDE PARK GIVES MONEY TO THE FOUR PUBLIC SCHOOLS THAT LIE WITHIN OUR BOUNDARIES. THIS YEAR, DUE TO OUR EFFORTS OF FUNDRAISING, WE ARE FORTUNATE TO BE ABLE TO DONATE $1500 TO EACH OF THE SCHOOLS. OF COURSE, NONE OF THIS MONEY COMES FROM TOWNSHIP FUNDS. I WANT TO THANK THE TOWNSHIP FOR SPENDING OVER $130,000 ON 560 TREES THAT ARE NOW LOCATED BETWEEN THE REAR PROPERTY LINE OF WILD CREEK AND THE NEW NON-WOODLANDS DEVELOPMENT ON GOSLING ROAD. I UNDERSTAND, FULLY, THAT THIS IS NOT WOODLANDS PROPERTY IN THAT PRECINCT 3, TOM RAMSEY'S OFFICE AND HARRIS COUNTY ARE TAKING THE LEAD ON THIS DEVELOPMENT.
HOPEFULLY IN THE NEAR FUTURE, A DIALOGUE CAN HAPPEN BETWEEN THE TOWNSHIP, COMMISSIONER RAMSEY'S OFFICE AND THE NEW DEVELOPMENT TO ESTABLISH A GOOD WORKING RELATIONSHIP. NOW I KNOW THEISDIS ON THE AGENDA TONIGHT. CREEKSIDE PARKS PARENT ARE VERY UNHAPPY ABOUT THE DECISION TO SEND THE FIFTH AND SIXTH GRADERS TO THE NEW SCHOOL TO BE LOCATED OUTSIDE OF CREEKSIDE PARK. YOU HAVE HEARD FROM THE PARENT TISD. YOU HAVE HEARD FROM THE PARENTS.
HOPE EVERYBODY WAS LISTENING. WHILE THE PHYSICAL DISTANCE IS NOT THAT GREAT, IT IS ANTICIPATED TO BE A LONG COMMUTE DUE TO AN ADVOCATE ROADS AND TRAFFIC. I HOPE THAT TISDWILL PAUSE THE DECISION AND SERIOUSLY CONSIDER ALTERNATIVES BEFORE MOVING FORWARD. THIS TIME THE DISTRICT REALIZES THAT THERE IS NO LONGER A ONE-SIZE-FITS-ALL. AREAS WITHIN THE DISTRICT NEED TO BE TREATED DIFFERENTLY AND THIS IS THE CASE HERE AT CREEKSIDE PARK. I WOULD APPRECIATE ANY HELP THE TOWNSHIP COULD PROVIDE WORKING THROUGH THIS SITUATION AND, FINALLY, THE BIGGER ELEPHANT, LOGICAL RELIABILITY AND CREEKSIDE PARK AND MANY OF YOU KNOW THAT I HAVE LIVED IN, GRINS CROSSING BEFORE MOVING. IT IS THE LOGICAL PROVIDER THERE. EVEN DURING IKE AND THE DAYS THAT FOLLOWED, WE WERE WITHOUT POWER FOR LESS THEN THREE DAYS WHERE I LIVED. CREEKSIDE PARK WAS BRAND-NEW AT THE TIME IN THE AREA THAT IT LISTED WAS WITHOUT POWER FOR TWO WEEKS, AS WELL AS THE AREA OF STERLING RANCH THAT WERE SERVICED BY ENERGY. THAT WAS 15 YEARS AGO. FAST FORWARD TO 2011, THE DROUGHT. YES, MANY TREES DIED AND THEY FELL. WE HAD A GREAT MEETING WITH CENTERPOINT AT THE GEORGE MITCHELL LIBRARY AND A PLAN WAS PROMOTED AND IMPLEMENTED IN ELECTRICITY BECAME MUCH MORE RELIABLE THEN THINGS STARTED GETTING RELAXED AND HERE WE ARE AGAIN. THE RESIDENTS, PARTICULARLY ON THE SET ARE FED UP. FROM WHAT I UNDERSTAND, WE ARE SERVED BY THREE SUBSTATIONS IN THE SUBSTATION THAT SERVES THE MAJOR
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PART OF THE EAST SIDE SEEMS TO BE THE WEAKEST LINK. THE WIND BLOWS AND THE RESIDENTS HOLD THEIR BREATH THAT THEIR POWER WAS NOT THE WHEN THAT WENT OUT. I'VE LINKED AND I KNOW SOMEBODY ELSE LOST POWER, CATHERINE. ONE RESIDENT EVEN CONTACTED ME TO TELL ME THAT HER EMPLOYER ASKED HER TO MOVE AS SHE WAS WORKING FROM HOME AND ELECTRICAL SERVICE WITH INTERRUPT DID SO OFTEN.CENTERPOINT, WE NEED TO FIGURE THIS OUT. I KNOW THAT DIRECTORS FRANKS AND BAILEY HAS HAD FOR LUMINARY MEETINGS AND I APPRECIATE YOUR EFFORTS AND WISH TO STAY CONNECTED WITH THE IN THE FUTURE. OUR NEXT CREEKSIDE PARK MEETING IS ON MONDAY, NOVEMBER 6. THIS IS DUE TO ELECTION DAY BEING TUESDAY. WE WILL HAVE SERGEANT JEFF LEE MAKE A PRESENTATION ON INTERNET SAFETY IN CHILDREN. THIS IS UP ON OUR FACEBOOK PAGE. WE DID THIS THREE YEARS AGO AND HAD JUST A FEW PARENTS ATTEND. IT WAS AN EYE-OPENER AND I REALLY ENCOURAGE YOU TO MAKE AN EFFORT TO BE THERE. THIS IS A PARENTS ONLY PRESENTATION AND IT'S A VERY IMPORTANT ONE. A FEW YEARS AGO A CREEKSIDE PARK RESIDENT WAS ARRESTED ON CHILD PORNOGRAPHY CHARGES AND RIGHT AFTER HE DROPPED OFF HIS CHILDREN AND EYEWITNESS THIS AS WELL. I DID A LITTLE RESEARCH AND HE WAS CONVICTED AND SENT TO TO 10 YEARS IN PRISON. THIS PRESENTATION WILL HELP PARENTS UNDERSTAND THE SCOPE OF THIS ISSUE AND OFFER RECOMMENDATIONS ON HOW PARENTS CAN PROTECT THEIR CHILDREN. IT WILL BE AT 7:00 P.M. AT THE RECREATION CENTER AT ROB FLEMING NOVEMBER 6TH.
FINALLY, I WOULD LIKE TO CONCLUDE ON A POSITIVE NOTE, ONE OF OUR FESTIVALS ANSWERS, THE REFUGE, IS OPENING A NEW FAMILY-FRIENDLY RESTAURANT WHERE THE FORMER FUDDRUCKERS WAS. IT WILL BE CALLED SOUTHERN ICE:WE THOUGHT THEY WERE OPENING LAST WEEK BUT HARRIS COUNTY PERMITTING GOT ANYWAY. SO IT'S COMING THE BEGINNING OF NOVEMBER AND HOLD ON A LITTLE LONGER AND ANOTHER ONE OF OUR SPONSORS, WHO IS ALSO HAD A FEW EMPLOYMENT ISSUES WILL BEGIN TO REOPEN ON SUNDAYS BEGINNING THIS WEEK.
PLEASE CONSIDER CROSSING THE CREEK AND COMING DOWN TO CREEKSIDE PARK, AK THE NATURE VILLAGE. THANK YOU.
>> THANK YOU, NANCY. I HOPE YOUR CHILI IS AS GOOD AS STERLING RIDGES. OKAY, TOM. CAN YOU BEAT THAT?
>> IT EVENING, BOARD MEMBERS, STAFF, PEOPLE OUT IN THE AUDIENCE. I DO WANT TO THANK YOU FOR COMING OUT HERE. IT REALLY MEANT A LOT WHEN MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY COME OUT AND EXPRESS THEIR OPINION. PUBLIC OPINION IS RARE. PEOPLE ONLY COME OUT WHEN
THEY WANT TO COMPLAIN. >> I'M SORRY. I DIDN'T MEAN IT.
>> SOMETIMES OUR DIRECTORS NEED SOME FEEDBACK. MY NAME IS TOM SCHWARTZ. I AM THE PRESIDENT AT STERLING RIDGE. I'M GOING TO GIVE A VERY BRIEF UPDATE ON STERLING RANCH. AFTER HEARING ALL OF THE COMPLAINTS THAT ARE GOING ON IN CREEKSIDE PARK, WE ARE GOING TO RENAME STERLING RIDGE, THE LAND OF MILK AND HONEY. WE HAD A BARBECUE THIS WEEK.
>> IT WAS GREAT. IT WAS GREAT. >> ONLY TWO DIRECTORS SHOWED UP.
>> I WAS THERE. IT WAS DELICIOUS.
>> OKAY. WHAT HAPPENED TO ME, THERE WAS A FESTIVAL RIGHT BEFORE YOURS AND I THOUGHT IT WAS YOURS AND WE WENT AND WE SPENT THE ENTIRE HE TWO HOURS THERE.
>> IN THE LAND OF MILK AND HONEY, WE HAVE A RULE, NO EQUIVALENT. LEVELERS BY THE FIRST BEER. ANYWAY.
>> THE QUESTION, DID YOU GET TO TASTE THE CHILI THIS YEAR SINCE
YOU DID IT LAST YEAR? >> THIS YEAR I HAD TWO BITES OF
ONE RED. >> THANK YOU FOR SHARING THAT.
>> IT WASN'T MUCH BUT IT WAS GOOD CHILI AND IT WAS GOOD BARBECUE AND IT WAS A GOOD EVENT. WE RAISE MONEY FOR THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND GIVE OUT SCHOLARSHIPS. I DON'T WANT TO COMPETE WITH THE OTHER VILLAGES. WE GIVE OUT JUST AS MUCH AS EVERYONE ELSE. THAT'S ALL I HAVE. WE ARE A BORING VILLAGE.
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>> MILK AND HONEY. >> THE LAND OF MILK AND HONEY.
>> YOU GOT YOUR WORK CUT OUT FOR YOU. GOOD LUCK.
>> THANK YOU, TOM. >> ALL RIGHT. GOOD NIGHT.
>> THANKS, TOM. >> SO I ASKED THEM FOR A MOTION AND SECOND TO RECEIVE AND FILE THE REPORT.
>> IT'S BEEN MOVED AND SECONDED. ALL OF THOSE IN FAVOR. OPPOSED.
[ CONSENT AGENDA]
THAT WAS ENTERTAINING. A MOTION PASSES. NEXT BRINGS US TO THE CONSENT AGENDA. THE CONSENT AGENDA ITEMS ARE NONCONTROVERSIAL AND HOUSEKEEPING ITEMS REQUIRED BY LAW AND WILL BE CONSIDERED FOR APPROVAL AS A GROUP WITH ONE MOTION. NO DISCUSSION WILL TAKE PLACE ON ANY OF THESE ITEMS UNLESS THE ITEM IS REMOVED FROM THE CONSENT AGENDA PLACED ON THE REGULAR AGENDA BY ANY BOARD MEMBER PRIOR TO TAKING A VOTE ONTHE MOTION. IS THERE A MOTION? >> SO MOVED.
>> SECOND. >> IT'S BEEN MOVED AND SECONDED.
ALL OF THOSE IN FAVOR A POST. MOTION PASSES. THAT BRINGS US TO
[9. Receive, consider and act upon Administrative Reports for Law Enforcement and Community Policing for September 2023;]
-- YOU ARE A HARD ACT TO FOLLOW, TO AGENDA ITEM NUMBER NINE. YOU CAN REFER TO PAGES 36 TO 40. IT'S VERY DETAILED. THIS REPORT FROM THE MONTGOMERY COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE IN THE HARRIS COUNTY CONSTABLE'S OFFICE PRECINCT 4 PROVIDES AN OVERVIEW OF MONTHLY LONG ENFORCEMENT ACTIVITIES. IF YOU WANT TO COME ON UP TOO. WE WILL DO IT ALL. OKAY. THANK YOU.>> MADAM CHAIR, THANK YOU VERY MUCH. WE WILL TRY TO BE RESPECTFUL OF YOUR TIME AND I KNOW IT'S BEEN A LATE EVENING FOR YOU BUT AN OPPORTUNITY FOR A LOT OF OUR RESIDENTS TO PROVIDE FEEDBACK, SO I JUST WANTED TO PRESENT TO YOU, THE OCTOBER -- AM SORRY. THE SEPTEMBER STATS. THESE ARE THE STATS FOR THE MONTH OF SEPTEMBER AND IS GOING THROUGH THOSE COME I WON'T BORE YOU WITH THE SIDES, BUT WE ARE TRENDING AS WE SHOULD. WE ARE STARTING TO TREND DOWN IN CERTAIN AREAS. OUR TRAFFIC ENFORCEMENT STILL MAINTAINS AT THAT LEVEL THAT IT NEEDS TO BE TO ENSURE IF TRAFFIC SAFETY WHILE WE ARE ADDRESSING ISSUES AND WE'VE HAD SEVERAL OF THEM POP UP IN THE CAPSTONE AREA ALONG RESEARCH FOREST IN THE MORNING, AS WELL AS A LONG RESOURCE FOR US JUST WEST OF I BRIDGE CROSSING. WHEN WE GET TO OUR COMBINED QUALITY-OF-LIFE CRIME INDEX, WE ARE PLEASED TO REPORT TO YOU THAT WE ARE STABLE, MEANING THAT OUR PROJECTION FOR THE LAST 12 MONTHS ARE STATIC, WHICH ARE GOOD. WE HAVE ACTUALLY BEEN ABLE TO MAKE SOME ARREST THIS MONTH AND I WILL TALK ABOUT THOSE IN JUST A MINUTE. WHILE THEY ARE DOWN, WE HAD A SPIKE IN THE MONTH OF OCTOBER. WE HAVE ALREADY MAY 9 ARREST SO FAR THIS MONTH AND WE ARE GOING TO TALK ABOUT WHERE SOME OF OUR CRIMINALS RESIDE AT AND WHAT MAKES THE WOODLANDS A TARGET. THAT'S AND AUTO THEFTS ARE LIKEWISE DOWN AND CRIMINAL MISCHIEF AND ROBBERY, THE ONE ROBBERY, WAS ACTUALLY AN INCIDENT THAT INVOLVED A SHOPLIFTING GONE WRONG WHERE HE FORCE WAS USED AGAINST THE PERSONNEL AND OUR DWIS ARE UP AND WE ARE SEEING AN INCREASE IN PEOPLE WHO ARE CHOOSING NOT TO USE SOME SORT OF TRANSPORTATION METHOD, RATHER THAN GETTING BEHIND THE WILLS AND ENDANGERING THE LIVES AND SAFETY OF OTHERS, SO WE ENCOURAGE PEOPLE, ESPECIALLY THOSE WHO ARE CHOOSING TO DRINK ADULT BEVERAGES, TO MAYBE FIND A RIDE-SHARE COMPONENT OR GET SOMEONE ELSE THE KEYS. CRISIS INTERVENTION, WE ARE BECOMING TO YOU TO TALK ABOUT THAT PROGRAM BUT THOSE CALLS FOR SERVICE MAINTAIN AT A HIGHER LEVEL THAN WHAT WE WOULD LIKE WHEN WE SEE PEOPLE IN THE MENTAL HEALTH CRISIS. WHAT YOU HAVE BEFORE YOU IS A MAP OF THE 2023 OF THE NUMBER OF ARRESTS MADE IN THESE ARE REST MADE BY DEPUTIES IN THE WOODLANDS TOWNSHIP THESE ARE WHERE THE PEOPLE ACTUALLY RESIDED AT THAT WE HAVE TAKEN INTO CUSTODY FOR CRIMES OF BURGLARY OF A HABITATION, BURGLARY OF A BUILDING AND BURGLARY OF A VEHICLE. WHAT YOU ARE STARTING TO SEE IS, WITH THE EXCEPTION OF THE TWO YOUNG MEN THAT WE RECENTLY ARRESTED THAT LIVED OFF OF WOODLANDS PARKWAY AT AN APARTMENT IN THE BACK, MOST ALL THE PEOPLE WHO ARE COMMITTING CRIMES IN THE WOODLANDS ACTUALLY LIVE OUTSIDE OF THE TOWNSHIP AND THAT IS NOT A SHOCK TO US, EXCEPT THAT WE
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ARE FINDING THAT THEY WERE ACTUALLY OUT ON BOND. WE STRUGGLED WITH THAT BECAUSE THEIR INABILITY TO PUT REASONABLE RESTRAINT ON PEOPLE WHO COMMIT CRIMES IN THE JURISDICTION OF HARRIS COUNTY AND THEN ALLOWING THEM BACK ON THE STREET WHERE THEY COME UP AND TRY TO FURTHER VICTIMIZE FOLKS. THE GOOD NEWS IS, SHERIFF'S HENDERSON BED-AND-BREAKFAST IS STILL OPENING AND RUNNING AND WE HAVE A DISTRICT ATTORNEY WHO WILL PROSECUTE JUDGES WHO HOLD THEM ACCOUNTABLE AND WE HAVE FOLKS WHO ARE IN JAIL RIGHT NOW, BUT WE ALSO NEED THE COMMUNITIES HOPE IN A COUPLE OF AREAS. ONCE, YOU WERE GOING TO CHOOSE TO EXERCISE YOUR SECOND AMENDMENT RIGHTS, DON'T ADVERTISE BY BUYING AND PUTTING A STICKER ON THE BACK OF YOUR CAR TO TELL CRIMINALS WHAT WEAPON IS INSIDE OF IT. YOU CERTAINLY HAVE THAT RIGHT BUT WITH EVERY RIGHT COMES A RESPONSIBILITY AND THAT IN COURT MAKING SURE THAT YOU ARE GOING TO SECURE THE WEAPON BECAUSE THE LAST THING WE WANT IS THAT WEAPON TO GET INTO THE WRONG HANDS AND TAKING INNOCENT LIFE AND WE HAVE TO GO NOTIFY THE FAMILY MEMBERS OF THE LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER THAT THEIR LOVED ONE WON'T MAKE IT HOME BECAUSE YOU DIDN'T SECURE WITH A WEAPON. WE ASKED PEOPLE THIS.WHILE YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO HAVE THAT WEAPON TO DO THE DUE JOHNSON AND TO THE PROPER SAFETY PROTOCOLS, TO NOT ONLY SECURE IT FROM CRIMINALS BUT SECURE FROM CHILDREN WHO SOMETIMES GET ACCESS TO WEAPONS IF THEY ARE NOT PROPERLY SECURED. WE ENCOURAGE PEOPLE. YOUR SHERIFF'S OFFICE HAS ARRESTED 40 PEOPLE SO FAR THIS MONTH ALONG AND CHARGE THEM WITH BURGLARIES THE
>> REPORTER: EMERY COUNTY AND OF THOSE 40, NINE WAS ARRESTED IN THE WOODLANDS AND THE PROBLEM IS, IN ORDER FOR US TO MAKE ARRESTS, THERE HAS BEEN CRIMES AND WE HAVE PEOPLE WHO HAVE BEEN VICTIMIZED THAT MAY BE THE JUDGES DONE THEIR JOB AND PLACED REASONABLE BOND TO MAYBE THESE FOLKS WOULD BE OUT TO VICTIMIZE PEOPLE HERE IN MONTGOMERY COUNTY. JUST MY TWO CENTS. JUST THANK YOU FOR THAT AND I WILL CLOSE WITH, WE HAVE THE MONTGOMERY COUNTY SHERIFF'S APP AND UP AT THE QR CODES UP THERE AND YOU CAN GET ALERT AND WE PASS THINGS ALONG AND DIFFERENT THINGS THAT ARE GOING ON AND I PUT BOTH THE GOOGLE PLAY AND THE APPLE AND SNAPPED A PICTURE AND YOU WILL GET THOSE ALERTS AS WE SEND THEM OUT. WITH THAT SAID, I WENT OVER MY THREE MINUTES. ARE THERE ANY QUESTIONS WE CAN ADD TO THE BOARD? WOULD YOU REITERATE? THE OTHER EVENING I WAS GETTING TEXT MESSAGES FROM SOME RESIDENTS SAYING WHAT YOU SHARED WOULD BE BETTER THAN TO TEXT US WHEN THERE WAS SOMEBODY JUMPING THERE FENCE.
>> ABSOLUTELY. ANYTIME, AND I KNOW AS DIRECTORS, YOU ARE TRULY THE TIP OF THE SPEAR FOR THE COMMUNITY AND COMMUNITY MEMBERS, I REACH OUT TO YOU, BECAUSE THEY KNOW YOU AND YOU HAVE A PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP. WHAT THAT DOES, THAT PUTS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF A RESPONSE AND EVERY LINK WE ADD TO THE CHAIN, THEY TEXT MESSAGE YOU A NEW TEXT MESSAGE ME AND I THEN HAVE TO GET THE INFORMATION AND WHAT HAPPENS IS, A RESPONSE TIME COULD BE EXTENDED BY FIVE OR 10 MINUTES AND FOR LAW ENFORCEMENT, IT'S CRITICAL FOR US TO GET A FAST RESPONSE BECAUSE THESE CRIMINALS ARE HERE AND GONE AND WHAT WE ASK RESIDENTS TO DO IS, IF YOU SEE SOMETHING, SAY SOMETHING. CALL DISPATCH. WHETHER IT IS BECOME RE-COUNTY OR HARRIS COUNTY, SO THAT WE CAN GET A DEPUTY OUT. WE ARE SAYING NOT TO NOTIFY THEM, WE ARE JUST TRYING TO CALL US FIRST AND LET US GET SOMEBODY IN ROUTE 1ST AND THEN WE CAN TALK LATER. THANK YOU FOR BRINGING THAT UP. ANY OTHER QUESTIONS I
CAN ADDRESS? >> IF NOT, SORRY. I'M SORRY. DID
YOU HAVE SOMETHING? >> HE'S LAUGHING.
>> I WILL SEND YOU THAT QR CODE.
>> CAN YOU SEND IT TO MINE TOO?
>> I DO HAVE A QUESTION. HOW WAS THE RECRUITING OF THE NEW
OFFICERS COMING ALONG? >> THE RECRUITING IS GOING WELL AND WE ACTUALLY HAVE THE RECRUITING PROCESS GOING ON NOW AND WE ARE FORTUNATE THAT WE ARE REALLY GETTING SOME GREAT QUALIFIED MEN AND WOMEN FROM OTHER AGENCIES FROM OUR SOUTH WHO WANTED TO COME UP TO THE WOODLANDS, THE LAND OF MILK AND
HONEY. >> THAT'S RIGHT. THAT'S RIGHT.
>> I'M JUST KIDDING. WE ARE TRULY GETTING THEM AND NOT ONLY ARE WE HOLDING A DECK LESS THAN ONE IS ABOUT TO GRADUATE NEXT MONTH, BUT WE ARE ABOUT TO START ANOTHER RING AND WE ARE HIRING MEN AND WOMEN WHO HAVE ALREADY GONE THROUGH THE ACADEMY AND WE WILL BE COMING BACK TO YOU ASKING YOU ABOUT STARTING SOME OF THOSE POSITIONS EARLIER THAN JANUARY 1ST.
>> WE WERE VERY PROUD TO HIRE FOR NOT ONLY MONTGOMERY COUNTY
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SHERIFF'S OFFICE, BUT ALSO HARRIS COUNTY PRECINCT 4 IN MONTGOMERY COUNTY PRECINCT 3. PUBLIC SAFETY IS IMPORTANT.>> HOW MANY ARE GRADUATING? >> I WANT TO SAY 19 OR 20.
>> EXCELLENT. >> I DON'T KNOW THAT ANSWER. I
APOLOGIZE. >> IT IS ABOUT 20 IN THE TYPICAL GRADUATING CLASS AND IT WILL BE NOVEMBER 5TH AND I WILL GET YOU
AN INVITATION. >> EVEN, DIRECTOR. HOW ARE YOU?
>> GOOD TO SEE YOU WHILE. IT HAS BEEN VERY, VERY BUSY THIS PAST THIRD QUARTER, AND IF I YON AT ALL, FORGIVE ME. WE ARRESTED INDIVIDUAL THIS MORNING THAT WAS TRYING TO FACILITATE HIS SEVEN-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER OR EIGHT-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER FOR SEX, SO I HAVE BEEN UP SINCE 3:00 THIS MORNING. I'M PLEASED TO SAY THAT WE HAVE DONE QUITE A BIT. LET'S TALK ABOUT IT. ALL RIGHT.
IN THIS QUARTER ALONE, THERE HAS BEEN A CASES ASSIGNED AND 15 SEARCH WARRANT. ALSO SEARCH WARRANTS OF DEVICES AND SOCIAL MEDIA ACCOUNTS AND WE PROCESSED 21 DEVICES AND THOSE COULD BE CELL PHONES, TABLETS, COMPUTERS AND WE ARE LOOKING SPECIFICALLY FOR CHILD PORNOGRAPHY ON THOSE. 48 COURT ORDERS AND NINE FELONY CHARGES FILED. THAT IS NINE FELONY CHARGES IN REFERENCE TO PEOPLE WHO ARE IN POSSESSION OF CHILD PORNOGRAPHY OR TRYING TO HAVE SEX WITH CHILDREN. WE HAD A VERY MOTIVATED DETECTIVE. HER NAME IS ASHLEY WALKER AND THANKFULLY THE BOARD HERE HAS GIVEN US MORE AND WE REALLY APPRECIATE YOU GUYS SO MUCH. WE
APPRECIATE THAT. >> WE APPRECIATE ALL THAT YOU
DO. >> A NOTABLE CASE FROM THIS PAST QUARTER, A FORMER FIRE CHIEF FROM JEFFERSON COUNTY TEXAS WAS ARRESTED FOR POSSESSION OF CHILD SEXUAL USE MATERIAL AND SOLICITATION STUDENTS AND A TEXAS IDENTIFY THE REST OF THE DEFENDANTS AND THE DEFENDANT WAS PREVIOUSLY ARRESTED IN JEFFERSON COUNTY FOR THE SAME OFFENSES AND HE WAS OUT ON BOND AND AFTER THE INITIAL REST, THE FAMILY MOVED TO THE WOODLANDS.
>> AS FAR AS SAFE HARBOR, IN THE PAST QUARTER, THEY HAD 33 NEW CASES ASSIGNED. YOU KNOW THE RULES ARE THE CASES FOR CHILD ABUSE, WHETHER THEY BE TOUCH CASES OR PHYSICAL ASSAULT, PHYSICAL ABUSE CASES. 90 TOTAL CASES WERE OPENED -- NINE TOTAL CASES ARE OPENED NOW IN GENERAL AND IN THE QUARTER, SEVEN FELONY CHARGES FILED. THOSE ARE SEXUAL ASSAULT OF A CHILD, INJURY TO A CHILD IN THOSE TYPES OF CHARGERS. AS YOU CAN SEE, IF YOU COMPARE THE TOTAL CASES ASSIGNED IN 2022 APPEARED AS THIS YEAR, WE ARE ONLY THE THIRD QUARTER IN AND I BET THAT WE ARE GOING TO SURPASS LAST YEAR AS FAR AS THE TOTAL AMOUNT OF CASES. I CAN'T EVEN TELL YOU. LOOK AT THE AMOUNT OF COURT ORDERS AND JUST THIS QUARTER VERSUS ALL OF 2022. THIS ONE QUARTER, WE NEARLY DOUBLED THE AMOUNT OF QUARTERS WE DID IN THE PAST YEAR.
>> DO YOU THINK THAT'S BECAUSE THERE IS MORE BAD ACTIVITY OR DO
YOU HAVE MORE RESOURCES NOW? >> IS A COMBINATION OF THINGS. I CAN'T SAY IT'S THIS ONE THING. IS PASSIONATE DETECTIVE WORK. IT IS RESOURCES. IT IS TECHNOLOGY UPDATES THAT WE HAVE AND ABLE TO DO, ACCESS TO DIFFERENT TYPES OF SOCIAL MEDIA ACCOUNTS THINGS THAT WE ARE ABLE TO DO. DIFFERENT INVESTIGATION TECHNIQUES. SO MANY THINGS. I CAN'T TO SAY, THIS ONE BUT I CAN TELL YOU, MORE RESOURCES HELP A LOT. THAT FINALIZED MY REPORT BUT IF YOU HAVE GUYS WITH ANY QUESTIONS, MORE THAN WELCOME TO
ENTER THEM. >> I DO. SERGEANT, YOU HEARD NANCY BECKER MENTIONED THAT THEY ARE ABOUT TO HAVE SOME SORT OF A PARENT TRAINING OPPORTUNITY FOR INTERNET SECURITY FOR PARENTS.
DO WE OFFER SOMETHING LIKE THAT FOR PARENTS HERE IN CI SD?
>> ABSOLUTELY. >> WHAT DO YOU CALL IT?
>> BASICALLY WE WILL TEACH KIDS INTERNET SAFETY, AND GENERAL,
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AND DURING NATIONAL NIGHT OUT, WE GO OVER THAT WITH KIDS BUT IF ANY OF THE DIRECTORS HERE WOULD SPECIFICALLY LIKE US TO VISIT SOMEWHERE, PLEASE REACH OUT TO US AND WE WILL SEND SOMEONE WHEREVER YOU WOULD LIKE US TO GO.>> SUFFOLK A REALLY GOOD IDEA. THANK YOU.
>> YOU ARE FINE. MINUS REAL TRICK. MOST OF MY CITIZENS ARE HERE. YOU WANT TO MEET ME. RESIDENCY, WITH CAPTAIN HOLLIFIELD, WE WERE THE LITTLE BLUE STUFF AT THE BOTTOM AND WE TRULY ARE THE LAND OF MILK AND HONEY. THERE IS JUST A COUPLE , BUT WE ARE TRYING TO CORRECT THOSE NOW. I DID GET SOME PRICING THINGS AND WE WERE SPEAKING TO FOUR IT THAT WERE CLOSE TO BEING HIT OR HIT SOMETIME IN THE LAST YEAR AND I'M DEFTLY GOING TO HAVE TO GET CAUGHT UP ON THAT BUT BY RUNNING TRAFFIC AND IT TALKED WITH NANCY AND EVERYTHING ELSE AND 275 CONTACTS IN THE LAST MONTH AND I PLAN ON BRINGING THAT EVEN MORE FOR THE KIDS SAFETY, AS WELL AS THE DRIVERS AND THE RUNNERS.
MILLIONS OF THEM WE HAVE RUNNING EVERYWHERE BUT AS FAR AS CRIME, A BIG STEP RIGHT NOW. THAT'S OUR BIGGEST. THE LAST TIME I WAS APPEAR, I TOLD YOU TO WATCH YOUR TELEPHONE CALLS, YOUR CREDIT CARD USE ON YOUR INTERNET AND STUFF LIKE THAT. AS NANCY WAS SAYING, JEFF IS GOING TO COME TALK ABOUT CYBERSECURITY. HIS WONDERFUL. IT WOULD BE VERY INTERESTING IF YOU COULD COME OUT AND MAKE IT AS WELL. OTHER THAN THAT, LIKE I SAID, IT'S NICE. IF YOU NEED ANYTHING, I'M ALWAYS HERE IN OUR THE MORNING SHIFT MONDAY THROUGH FRIDAY AND IF YOU EVER NEED ANYTHING, CALL.
I WILL COME OR SEND SOMEBODY TO DO IT FOR ME. IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS OR COMPLAINTS, ESPECIALLY MY GUYS THAT ARE OUT THERE, REACH OUT, PLEASE. OPEN DOOR ALWAYS. OTHER THAN THAT, I DON'T HAVE ANY MORE TO REPORT TO YOU.
>> WE APPRECIATE YOU BEING HERE AND THANK YOU VERY, VERY MUCH.
>> THE TWO DEPUTIES THAT YOU DID APPROVE THAT ARE BEING HIRED AND
TRAINED. >> GOOD. WE WERE HOPING YOU
WOULD OFFER THAT. >> YES, THEY ARE IN THE WORKS
NOW. >> JUST A MOMENT TO REFLECT HERE, WE HAVE FIND POLICE FORCES HERE AND WE ARE BLESSED TO HAVE YOU GUYS AND I CAN'T THANK YOU ENOUGH. 70 TIMES YOU
GET IN HARMS WAY. >> WE APPRECIATE IT VERY MUCH.
>> IT'S A GREAT COMMUNITY BOND. I MEAN, THE TEXT WE GET FROM CAPTAIN HOLLIFIELD ON THINGS THAT ARE HAPPENING TO NOTIFY US, REALLY, IT IS REMARKABLE. THERE MAY BE FLIES IN THE HONEY OR WHATEVER YOU HAVE HERE, BUT WE HAVE TO STEP BACK SOMETIMES AND LOOK AT A REMARKABLE COMMUNITY WE HAVE.
>> I WILL BE FIRST TO TELL YOU, WONDERFUL , WONDERFUL.
>> WE ARE GLAD YOU ARE BACK. >> VICKI VERY MUCH. I APPRECIATE
>> IS THERE A MOTION AND ACCEPTANCE? ALL OF THOSE IN FAVOR. A POST. MOTION PASSES. THAT BRINGS US TO AGENDA ITEM
[10. Receive, consider and act upon an update from CenterPoint Energy regarding power outages;]
10. YOU CAN REFER TO PAGE 41 IN YOUR BOARD PACKET. WE ARE VERY FORTUNATE TONIGHT TO HAVE COLBY HERE TO PRESENT AN UPDATE REGARDING THE POWER OUTAGES AND CREEKSIDE PARK, AS WELL AS A PORTION OF STIRLING BRIDGE AND THAT ALSO HAS CENTERPOINT. THE DIRECTOR OF ELECTRONIC DISTRIBUTION AND IS HERE TO HELP US SOLVE WHAT HAS BEEN HAPPENING. IT'S ALL YOURS.>> I WILL INTRODUCE MYSELF AGAIN. COLBY, DIRECTOR FOR LOCAL DISTRIBUTION OF THE SERVICE AREA. RECENTLY MOVED TO THIS AREA AROUND THE APRIL TIMEFRAME, SO I WON'T BE ABLE TO SOLVE ALL OF THOSE ISSUES THAT SHE JUST TALKED ABOUT AND WHAT I WILL
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TELL YOU IS, THERE ARE LOTS OF ISSUES, SO MORE IMPORTANTLY, LET ME BEGIN BY SAYING, I APOLOGIZE TO ALL OF YOU THAT HAVE BEEN AFFECTED BY THE AMOUNT OF OUTAGES, THE DURATION OF THE OUTAGES AND LET ME FURTHER DEDICATE THAT I WILL MAKE SURE THAT WE FIGURE OUT WHAT'S GOING ON, WHAT WE NEED TO ADDRESS, GET THEM ADDRESSED IN THE MOVE FORWARD WITH PLANS AND TRY TO MITIGATE THAT FROM CONTINUING TO HAPPEN. AS I MOVED INTO THIS AREA AROUND THE SPRING TIMEFRAME, RECOGNIZED THAT YOU EXPERIENCE OUTAGES OF LAST YEAR AND GOING BACK AND TRYING TO UNDERSTAND WHAT ALL WE ADDRESS AT THAT TIME AND WHERE WE WERE WITH THOSE PLANS AND TO FINISH THEM ALL AND ALL OF THAT STUFF, I HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO MEET WITH DIRECTOR BAILEY AND DIRECTOR SCHNEIDER TO TOUCH THROUGH SOME OF THAT STUFF. WHAT WE'RE DOING AND ALL OF THAT. I COULD READ THROUGH THE MULTIPLE PAGES OF THINGS THAT WE HAVE FOUND AND TRY AND HELP FOLKS UNDERSTAND THAT THE ELECTRIC GRID AND THAT MIGHT BE DIFFICULT AND I DON'T WANT TO GIVE A SENSE OF FOLKS IN THE ROOM AREN'T EXTREMELY SHARP BECAUSE I KNOW BETTER THAN THAT. WHAT I WILL TELL YOU IS, TREES, AND YOU ARE HEARING ABOUT THE TREES, THAT IS ONLY A PORTION OF THE PROBLEM. I DON'T THINK YOU WILL WANT TO HEAR ABOUT TREES AND ALL THAT STUFF. YOU WANT TO HEAR ABOUT OTHER THINGS WE ARE DOING TO ADDRESS SOME OF THE PROBLEMS OUT THERE. THERE ARE MANY. EVEN AS EARLY AS THIS AFTERNOON ABOUT 4:30. I RECEIVED ABOUT SIX DIFFERENT DEVICES THAT WE DEPLOYED INFRARED CAMERAS TO TRYING GO AND FIND AND IDENTIFY POTENIAL SPOTS FOR FAILURE THAT ARE GETTING HOT AND WE HAVE SIX OF THOSE OFF OF ONE OF THE CIRCUIT THAT FEED INTO THE AREA AND THE WIND THAT FEED INTO CREEKSIDE PARK. WE WILL BE ADDRESSING THOSE STARTING TOMORROW THROUGH FRIDAY OF NEXT WEEK, BUT THOSE ARE ONLY A FEW OF THE THINGS. ADDITIONALLY, WE TRIMMED ONE OF THE OTHER FOUR CIRCUITS, SO I SEE NANCY AND, NANCY, I HAVEN'T HAD A CHANCE TO PERSONALLY MEET YOU BUT WE CAN CONTINUE TO BUILD A LITTLE BUT A RELATIONSHIP AND I WILL BE THE PRIMARY CONTACT AND WE WILL EXTREME THINGS.>> I HIGHLY ENCOURAGE YOU TO GET TO KNOW NANCY.
>> YES. YOUR REPUTATION PROCEEDS YOU, NANCY. BETWEEN MY SELF INGESTING, WE WILL STILL CONTINUE TO WORK AND WE WILL RESOLVE THE ISSUE. AND OBVIOUSLY IT'S MY JOB AND I'VE BEEN WITH THIS COMPANY FOR 26 YEARS AND I VALUE WHAT WE DO AND WHAT WE ARE CAPABLE OF AND I RECOGNIZE THAT'S NOT WHAT HAS BEEN PROVIDED TO YOU ALL AND WE ARE GOING TO FIX THAT AND RECTIFY IT BECAUSE IT'S NOT FUNNY TO ME TO HEAR THAT SOMEONE'S EMPLOYER ASKED THEM TO MOVE. THAT'S EMBARRASSING. I'M HERE. MY FACE IS PROBABLY TURNING RED AS WE ARE TALKING ABOUT IT NOW AND IT'S EMBARRASSING BECAUSE WE ARE
BETTER THAN THAT. >> PROVE IT.
>> I KNOW YOU WILL BELIEVE THAT TODAY BUT WE WILL GET THERE AND I WILL MAKE YOU BELIEVE THAT BUT WHAT I WANT TO SHARE WITH YOU IS THAT IT IS A FOCUS OF HOURS. WE ARE GOING TO CONTINUE TO WORK FOR IT AND A SERVICE THAT YOU DESERVE THAT IS UNINTERRUPTED AND RELIABLE AND I CAN'T ALWAYS SAY AT A JUNE STORM EVENT THAT WE ARE GOING TO BE ABLE TO KEEP THE LIGHTS ON. A HURRICANE COMING FROM THE NORTH IS GOING TO CREATE PROBLEMS FOR US BUT I THINK WE CAN DO BETTER IN COMMUNICATING AT THE BARE MINIMUM AND I FELT WE HAD AN OPPORTUNITY THERE AS WELL.
WORKING WITH THE TOWNSHIP AND WORKING WITH NANCY, BETTER COMMUNICATION IS JUST A SMALL PORTION OF WHAT WE CAN PROVIDE TO GIVE SOME ANSWERS AND TIMELINE AND REAL-TIME INFORMATION ABOUT WHAT'S REALLY HAPPENING AND I WILL SHARE THAT THERE WAS A GIANT PINE TREE OVER SOME OF THE TRANSMISSION LINE THE FED THE ENTIRE SUBSTATION, NOT JUST THE CIRCUITS THAT FEED HERE AND THAT CREATED ADDITIONAL DIFFICULTIES FOR US, BUT I DON'T THINK THAT ANYBODY HERE LET'S TALK ABOUT OUTAGES THAT HAPPENED THROUGH THE STORM. WE WANT TO TALK ABOUT WHY ARE THEY HAPPENING TODAY AND THERE WAS NOTHING GOING ON AND I HAD A CHANCE TO TALK AND UNDERSTAND THE AMOUNT OF OUTAGES THAT SHE IS EXPERIENCING OVER THE COURSE OF 12 MONTHS, BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY, THE ONES THAT HAVE HAPPENED HERE OVER THE LAST FOUR OR FIVE MONTHS AND I WILL BE FOLLOWING UP WITH HER DIRECTLY TO TALK ABOUT EACH ONE. CREEKSIDE PARK IS PRETTY LARGE AND YOU UNDERSTAND A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE FEED IN THOSE OF YOU THAT HAVE BEEN IN HERE. WE HAVE FOUR DIFFERENT CIRCUITS THAT FEED IN HERE AND IT'S REALLY DIFFICULT FOR ME TO TRY TO BROADLY SPEAK ABOUT THE PROBLEMS THAT ARE OCCURRING BECAUSE IT DEPENDS ON WHERE YOU LIVE IN DIFFERENT PROBLEMS ARE HAPPENING
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TO DIFFERENT AREAS AND THEY ARE NOT ALL RELATED AND THEY ARE NOT ALL TREES AND LET ME TELL YOU A LITTLE BIT ABOUT WHAT I DO THINK YOU WANT TO HEAR ABOUT OUTSIDE OF US IDENTIFYING AND REPAIR WHAT IS HAPPENING TODAY AS WE SPEAK TODAY. WE ALSO WANT TO TALK ABOUT WHAT ARE WE DOING DOWN THE ROAD TO TRY AND RESOLVE SOME OF THESE ISSUES AND SOME OF THE EXPOSURE. IN 2024, WE USUALLY TRY AND HAVE OUR DISTRIBUTION PLANS COMPLETED IN THE FIELD AND CONSTRUCTED BY JIM BEFORE WE GET INTO PEAK LOADING AND THINGS LIKE THAT. WE WILL BE BRINGING INTO ADJACENT CIRCUITS IN HERE SO THAT WE DON'T HAVE SO MUCH EXPOSURE AND CONTINGENCY ON THAT WOULD SUBSTATION THAT FEED INTO THE AREA AND THAT WILL GIVE US ADDITIONAL AVAILABILITY AND WE ARE ALSO GOING TO REPLACE SOME OF OUR POLLS AND LIMITING SOME OF OUR EXPOSURE AND I KNOW THAT IS A HEADSHAKE AND I JUST WARN YOU THAT THAT'S NOT ALWAYS THE BEST OF METHODS TO DO THINGS. IT MAKES SENSE WHEN WE ARE RUNNING WIRE THROUGH THE WOODS BUT WHEN YOU HAVE A DROUGHT YEAR, IT USUALLY TAKES A PRETTY GOOD BEATING AS WELL AND AS WE TALKED THROUGH SOME OF THESE THINGS AND JUST RECOGNIZE THAT IT BRINGS NEW ISSUES. ADDITIONALLY, WE HAVE OPPORTUNITIES TO REHAB AND RE-CONDUCT SMALL WIRE AND LARGER WIRE AND THAT WILL HELP WITH SOME OF THE LOADING ISSUES AS YOU WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP IN THE AREA. WE WILL ALSO BE BRINGING IN SOME ADDITIONAL INTELLIGENT GRID DEVICES, WHICH ALLOW US TO ISOLATE AND MOVE AROUND QUICKLY WITHOUTA TRIP LINK HERE TO MANUALLY DO IT. THERE ARE ISSUES WITH SOME OF THAT AND THAT'S HAS LED TO SOME OF THE OUTAGES THAT HAVE BEEN EXPERIENCED BY FEAR SO FAR WE HAVE LOST THE MEDICATION AND WE'VE HAD A DEVICE THAT BEGAN TO MALFUNCTION AND I HAVE IDENTIFIED THREE OF THOSE THAT WE ARE IN THE PROCESS OF PREPARING IN TWO OF THEM ARE PREPARING AND WANTED THEM, WE WERE MADE THE INTELLIGENT GRID PROPORTION AS OF NOW AND OPERATING AS A MANUAL DEVICE OUT THERE. THERE TRULY IS A LOT GOING ON AND LIKE I SAID, I DON'T NECESSARILY THINK THAT YOU ALL WANT ME TO START TALKING TO YOU ABOUT ALL OF THE PAGES AND PAGES OF THINGS THAT WE HAVE FOUND, BUT I WOULD BE GLAD TO TALK TO YOU SPECIFICALLY, EACH AND EVERYONE OF YOU THAT EXPERIENCED IT, SO I CAN MAKE SURE THAT OUR TEAM IS HITTING THE NAIL ON THE HEAD. FOR INSTANCE, THE LAST OUTAGE THAT SHE REFERENCED. HER LIGHT ARE ON AND HER NEIGHBORS ACROSS THE STREET ARE OFTEN IT'S MUCH MORE LIMITED. I NEED TO LOOK DIFFERENTLY. WHAT I RECOGNIZE THAT OUR TEAM IS BEEN DOING SO FAR, IT'S KIND OF FOCUSING ON A MUCH LARGER PICTURE AND WE HAVE LOTS AND LOTS OF WIRE THAT BREAKS OFF OF THAT AND LOTS OF WIRE THAT GOES UNDERGROUND. ANYONE OF THOSE SPOTS ARE POTENTIAL FAILURE POINTS AND I DON'T KNOW IF I WANT TO SEND APPEAR AND TELL YOU THAT WE'VE DONE OUR BEST JOB OF INSPECTING ALL OF THOSE OTHER THINGS BUT THOSE OTHER THINGS ARE CREATING OUTAGES FOR YOU ALL TOO AND THEY ARE SMALLER IN SCALE BUT AS AGGRAVATING. ON TOP OF THAT, MOVING INTO A LOT OF REALLY NEAT TECHNICAL DASHBOARDS THAT WE CAN UTILIZE AND SOME OF THEM IN THE PAST I THINK THAT WE HAD DIFFICULTIES RECOGNIZING WHEN YOU WALK HAVE A DIMMING OF LIGHT OR AN OUTAGE OF THE LAST 59 SECONDS OR LESS AND WE WEREN'T REALLY SEEING IT IN YOU MIGHT TELL US, HEY, IT WENT OUT. I BELIEVE YOU. I KNOW BETTER. IF WE CAN'T FIND IT, IT MAKES IT HARDER FOR US. WE'VE RECOGNIZED SOME OF THOSE OPPORTUNITIES AND CREATED WAYS SO THAT WE COULD SEE ALL OF THAT INFORMATION. I LOOKED AT THE RECENT INFORMATION THAT DOCTOR SCHNEIDER AND I TALKED ABOUT ON ONE ADDRESS AND YOU CAN SEE EVERY SINGLE THING THAT WAS LISTED ON THE OUTAGE LIST THAT WAS PROVIDED TO US AND THAT IS GOING TO HELP US CONTINUE TO DETERMINE. I CAN'T SAY IT'S GOING TO BE FIXED TOMORROW. WHAT I CAN TELL YOU IS THAT WE WILL FIX IT, WITHOUT A DOUBT. TIRELESSLY, WE WILL BE HERE MONITORING IT IN LISTENING TO YOU AND TRYING TO FIND IT BEFORE IT HAPPENS USING SOME OF OUR TECHNOLOGY DEVICES AND CAMERAS AND ULTRAVIOLET CAMERAS AND THINGS OF THAT NATURE THAT CAN ALERT US TO POTENTIAL FAILURE POINTS ON THE GRID. VEGETATION HAS BEEN A CONCERN.YOU ALL KNOW WHERE YOU LIVE. I LIVE AND IT LOOKS THE SAME AND IT'S BEEN A ROUGH YEAR ON THE VEGETATION BUT THAT IS STILL OUR CONCERN. WHICH IS TO BE OUT HERE FINDING IT, TRIMMING IT, TAKING DOWN THE TREES THAT ARE OUTSIDE OF THE EASEMENT WHERE CUSTOMERS ALLOW US TO THAT ARE GOING TO FALL AT THE FIRST OUT OF A 20 MILE-PER-HOUR WIND AND WE STILL OWN IT AND IT DOESN'T MATTER IF IT'S A TREE OR AN ELIGIBLE COMPONENT. WE ON THE ABILITY TO GO OUT THERE AND ADDRESS IT WHEN IT'S INTERFERING WITH OUR LIVES.
IT DOESN'T ALWAYS AT THAT PARTY AFTERWARDS. WE DO OUR BEST TO GET ON IT AS FAST AS WE CAN, BUT I CAN TELL YOU, WE HAVEN'T DONE OUR BEST JOB TO THIS POINT. WE WILL CHANGE THAT AND I WILL
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DEDICATE MYSELF AND MY STAFF TO MAKE SURE THAT WE MAKE OURSELVES AVAILABLE AND WE CAN WORK TOGETHER ALONG WITH THE TOWNSHIP AND CREATE A LITTLE BIT OF AN EASIER METHOD TO UNDERSTAND WHAT'S HAPPENING BUT, MORE IMPORTANTLY, SO THAT WE CAN COMMUNICATE WHAT WE ARE DOING AND I THINK THAT'S WHAT PEOPLE WANT TO UNDERSTAND. WHAT ARE WE DOING ABOUT IT? WHAT HAVE WE DONE ABOUT IT? WHAT ARE WE PLANNING IN THE FUTURE? WITH THE TOWNSHIP'S HELP, WE CAN FIND A CLEAR CHANNEL TO COMMUNICATE CORRECTLY AND STILL HAVE A VISIBILITY ON THE SECURITY OF YOU ALL AND AS RESIDENTS WITHIN THE AREA AND NOT EXPOSE WHEN YOUR LIGHTS ARE UP TO THE PEOPLE CAN COME IN AND DO HARM TO YOUR PROPERTY. THAT'S WHAT I CAME TO SHARE.>> APPRECIATE THAT AND I THINK SOME OF THE BOARD MEMBERS HAVE COME IN TO QUESTIONS, PERHAPS, BUT I WANT YOU ALL TO KNOW, HE REACHED OUT TO ME AND SAID, WE NEED TO FIX THIS. WE NEED TO FIX THIS AND HIS NEW POSITION AND WE MET AT LENGTH AND I KNOW HE MET AT LENGTH ALSO AND THEY WANT TO FIX IT. WE ARE MOVING HOWARD ON
THAT. >> IT DOESN'T JUST STOP. THIS HAS THEIR ATTENTION . I HAVE LUNCH THIS WEEK WITH PAUL LOCKE AND THEY ARE VERY WELL AWARE, EVEN DOWN IN HOUSTON, THAT THIS IS A PROBLEM AND IT IS REFRESHING TO SEE SOMEBODY TAKE OWNERSHIP AND TO ACCEPT THE WORD PROBLEMS AND SHORTCOMINGS THAT NEED TO BE ADDRESSED AND WE APPRECIATE YOU COMING HERE AND MAKING THAT CLEAR AND BEING COMMITTED TO SOLVING.
>> ABSOLUTELY. >> I WILL SAY, CATHERINE, IT WAS YOUR COMMENTS DURING A BOARD MEETING THAT WE KEPT HEARING IT AND WE ARE LIKE, WHAT'S GOING ON. THIS IS OBSCENE WORK IN MY REAL JOB THAT ACTUALLY PAYS ME. I WORK WITH JEFF AS VICE PRESIDENT OF STATE REGULATORY AFFAIRS AND AUSTIN A BUNCH AND HE CONNECTED WITH ME WITH PAUL LOCKE IN AUGUST AND YOU ARE SITTING IN OUR CONFERENCE ROOM MEETING WITH OUR CHIEF OFFICER, OUR CEO AND EVERYTHING ELSE THAT WE COULD FIT IN THERE AND YOU BEEN GREAT SINCE THEN AS FAR AS BEING REACHING OUT TO US AND TELLING US WHAT'S GOING ON. OBVIOUSLY YOU HEARD AN EARFUL TONIGHT AND THERE'S NOT MUCH MORE THAT WE CAN ADD TO IT. I REALLY HIGHLY ENCOURAGE YOU TO GET WITH NANCY. SHE IS A GET STUFF DONE PERSON BUT SHE CAN BE YOUR BEST ADVOCATE. MAKING SURE THAT YOU ADDRESS THE PROBLEMS AND WHAT IT IS. I LIVED IN CLEARLAKE FOR A LONG TIME IN A VERY WELL DEVELOPED NEIGHBORHOOD WITH OVERHEAD LINES AND BIGOTRIES. AT CENTERPOINT THERE FOREVER. WE NEVER HAD AN YOU ARE DOING KEY TEST OF STUFF AND THAT'S I THINK. WE HAVE BEEN HEARING TREES, TREES, TREES FOREVER AND YOU AND MEETING THAT IS MORE THAN TREES IN THAT YOU ARE LOOKING FOR REAL THINGS TO FIX IS COMMENDABLE AND URGENT BECAUSE YOU CAN'T BE LIVING LIKE THIS RIGHT NOW.
>> I LIKE TO SAY THAT THE EVIDENCE ON THIS REALLY FOCUSED ATTENTION WAS WHEN OF THE MEETINGS THAT WAS HELD A MONTH OR SO AGO AND THE REACTION WERE VERY GOOD ABOUT COMPING UP THINGS TO THE APPROPRIATE LEVEL WHERE YOU COULD COME AND MAKE THOSE KINDS OF COMMITMENTS TONIGHT, SO REALLY STARTED WITH THE FOLKS BRINGING TO ATTENTION EVERYONE, THE ENTIRE LISTING OF ISSUES AT THAT MEETING AND CONVERSATIONS WITH CHRIS AND OTHERS THAT ALLOW THAT TO COME TO THIS POINT.
>> I WANTED TO ADD MY THANK YOU FOR YOU COMING TODAY AND I HAVE STATE REPRESENTATIVE HERE. HER NAME IS VICTORIA AND VICTORIA IS KNOWLEDGEABLE ABOUT, SHE HEARD EVERYTHING THAT YOU DID TONIGHT AND STATE ROUTES PRESENTED THIS SWATHS AND ALSO SPOKE WITH MR. JEFF BOTTOM AT THE STATE LEVEL, VICE PRESIDENT OF SAID AFFAIRS FOR CLEARPOINT AND THEY ARE VERY COMMITTED IF YOU WOULD TAKE THE MICROPHONE AND SAY A WORD TO THE COMMUNITY ON BEHALF OF THE
DIRECTOR. >> JUST A MINUTE. IS A MINUTE
LEGAL COUNSEL. >> I DON'T THINK THAT COULD
HAPPEN. >> IT IS A POSTED ITEM. DO YOU HEAR FROM VALERIE SWANSON'S REPRESENTATIVE? UP WITH THAT YOU
WOULD. SHE'S HERE. >> I DON'T WANT TO CAUSE ANY
PROBLEMS OR ANYTHING. >> THAT'S OT TRUE. YOU ARE CERTAINLY WELCOME TO SPEAK IN ANY STATE REPRESENTATIVE IT
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WOULD LIKE TO COME AND SPEAK TO US AT ANY TIME OR THEIR STAFF IS WELCOME TO SPEAK. THIS ISSUE IS POSTED. YOU CAN SPEAK ON APOSTED ITEM. >> DIRECTOR GIBBS, WE ARE GOING
TO DEFER TO LEGAL COUNSEL. >> YOU ARE TRYING TO CANCEL ME AGAIN. I CONSTANTLY GET CANCELED WHENEVER I TRY TO BRING SOME INFORMATION TO THIS GROUP AND I THINK IT IS RIDICULOUS.
>> IT'S ADMITTED THAT THERE ARE RULES AND REGULATIONS OR IT'S
NOT. >> THAT'S NOT TRUE. SHAME ON Y'ALL FOR NOT HAVING PEOPLE HERE FROM AN ELECTED OFFICIAL.
>> WE HAVE A PROCESS. >> I WOULD LIKE TO ASK LEGAL
COUNSEL >> ANYBODY CAN SPEAK TO PUBLIC COMMENT. THERE WAS A TIME TO SPEAK AT PUBLIC COMMENT. THE PROBLEM IS, WE DO NOT POST AN ITEM ASSOCIATED WITH INPUT FROM LOCAL STATE REPRESENTATIVES ON THIS TOPIC. IT WAS POSTED FOR CENTERPOINT TO PROVIDE AN UPDATE. THIS IS NOT AN UPDATE FROM CENTERPOINT AND WE CAN'T ALLOW IT, OTHERWISE WE WILL HAVE PEOPLE COMING UP HERE FROM BRANDON CREIGHTON'S OFFICE, FROM STEVE TOTES OFFICE AND TALKING ON ANY TOPIC AND THAT IS MY
OPINION. >> IS ON THE TOPIC. IS POSTED.
>> THANK YOU. >> I'M SURE SHE DOESN'T HAVE
ANYTHING THAT I NEED TO HEAR. >> YOU DON'T KNOW.
>> WE ARE HONORED THAT YOU WERE HERE. I WOULD LOVE TO VISIT WITH
YOU. >> I PROMISE CATHERINE KNOWS
MORE ABOUT THIS ISSUE. >> THANK YOU, MR. GRAVITT FOR COPING HERE AND IS THERE A MOTION AND SECOND TO ACCEPT THE
REPORT? >> SECOND. BEEN MOVE IN SECONDED TO ACCEPT THE REPORT. ALL OF THOSE IN FAVOR SIGNIFY I THINK.
A POST. MOTION PASSES AND WE ARE HONORED THAT YOU CAME. THANK
YOU. >> THANK YOU TO THE BOARD.
[11. Receive, consider and act upon an update regarding Tomball Independent School District;]
>> WE WILL SEE YOU SOON. THANK YOU. THAT BRINGS US TO AT 12, WHICH WE WILL RECESS THE REGULAR MEETING OF THE BOARD.
>> ITEM 11, CHAIRMAN. >> 11 I'M SORRY.
>> HOLY COW. WHILE. >> I WAS JUST GOING TO SAY IF
YOU WERE GOING TO CATCH THAT. >> NICE TRY. NICE TRY.
>> OKAY. SO NEXT ON OUR AGENDA IS TO RECEIVE, CONSIDER AND ACT UPON AN UPDATE REGARDING TOMBALL INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT. I REFER ALL OF YOU TO PAGE 42. STAFF WILL PROVIDE AN UPDATE FROM THE TOMBALL INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICTS DISCUSSION REGARDING THE SITE OF AN INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL CAMPUS TO PROVIDE ENROLLMENT RELATED FOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS. I CALL UPON START STEPHENS, ASSISTANT TO PRESENT. HE ATTENDED YOUR LAST TOMBALL A INDEPENDENT SCORED MEETING.
>> GOOD EVENING, BOARD. I AM GOING TO GIVE A QUICK UPDATE OF RECENT ACTIVITY THAT HAS OCCURRED AT THE MOST RECENT MEETING TO UPDATE THE BOARD AND THE ISSUES THAT YOU GUYS HAVE BEEN WELL AWARE OF IN THE RESIDENCE HAD INPUT ON THIS EVENING ERIC I WILL GO BACK AND GIVE A QUICK REMINDER THAT IN APRIL THIS YEAR, TOMBALL ISD FAMILIES WERE NOTIFIED THAT THE PROPOSED CAMPUS FOR AN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL AT THE TOMBALL INNOVATION CENTER WAS GOING TO BE SWITCHED IN INTERMEDIATE GRADES FIVE OR SIX SCHOOL AND THEN A TOWN HALL WOULD BE OFFERED FOR KRISTIN FEEDBACK ON APRIL 17TH. CHAIRMAN SNYDER AND STAFF ALSO ATTENDED THE MEETING. FOLLOWING THE FEEDBACK THAT THE BOARD HAD HEARD FROM RESIDENCE AT THAT TIME AND DOCTOR SCHNEIDER'S FEEDBACK FOR THE TOWN HALL MEETING, THIS BOARD RELEASED TOMBALL ISD WITH LETTERS SIGNED BY ALL MEMBERS OF THE BOARD EXPRESSING THE CONCERN ABOUT THE DECISION TO REALLY QUOTE THE SCHOOL WERE TO CHANGE THE SCHOOL DESIGNATION AND ASKED THEM TO WORK WITH US TO RECONSIDER THAT OPTION AND APPOINTED CHAIRMAN AS THE BOARDS LIAISON AND ACTIVITIES RELATED TO THAT MATTER. ON MAY 2ND, THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES HELD A SPECIAL MEETING TO HEAR RESIDENTIAL CONCERNS OR THE ISSUES THAT CAME OUT OF THAT MEETING WITH THE POTENTIAL TO DO A FEASIBILITY STUDY OF CITING A INTERMEDIATE CAMPUS AT THE CREEKSIDE PARK JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL. THAT FEASIBILITY STUDY OCCURRED OVER THE SUMMER AND AT THE OCTOBER 10TH MEETING, THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES RECEIVED THE REPORT, WHICH INDICATED THAT AN INTERMEDIATE CAMPUS WAS NOT VISIBLE AT THAT LOCATION AND THAT TOMBALL INNOVATION CENTER LOCATION WOULD CONSIDER THEM FORWARD. WHAT WERE SOME OF THE FEASIBILITY STUDY FINDINGS?! YOU HEARD MANY OF THEM TODAY FROM THE RESIDENCE BUT IT WAS SIGNIFICANT CROWDING IN A DIMINISHING OF THE CREEKSIDE
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PARK JUNIOR HIGH HIGH SCHOOL CAMPUS. THERE WOULD BE A LOSS AT THE JUNIOR HIGH PRACTICE FIELD. I RESTRICTED ACCESS TO THE COMPANY SHE FELT, AS WELL AS LIMITATION ON OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES FOR INTERMEDIATE AND JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS. SOME OF THE DIRECT PROBLEMS THAT WERE RAISED WERE TRAFFIC ISSUES, UTILITY CAPACITY ISSUES, DRAINAGE, AND STRUCTURED DRAINAGE WILL BE REQUIRED IN THE PERMITTING REQUIREMENTS FOR FLOOD AND OTHERTYPES OF BUILDING PERMITS . >> THE CURRENT PLAN WOULD BE TO MOVE FORWARD WITH THE INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL.
>> OKAY. QUESTIONS, DISCUSSION FROM BOARD MEMBERS TO MR.
STEVENS. >> ARE WE GOING TO HAVE THE TOMBALL ISD REPRESENTATIVES TO SPEAK?
>> I THINK THAT IS VERY APPROPRIATE. THEY ARE HERE.
THEY'VE BEEN SITTING HERE ALL EVENING. 2 1/2 HOURS.
>> LEGAL COUNSEL. >> ONCE AGAIN, THIS ITEM IS POSTED FOR AN UPDATE REGARDING TOMBALL INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT, SO IF THAT IS PART OF AN UPDATE, THAT IS ACCEPTABLE.
>> I WOULD LOVE TO HEAR FROM THEM.
>> SO IF WE ARE -- THERE WERE TWO BOARD MEMBERS HERE EARLIER.
HERE. >> WE ARE HERE LISTENING.
>> WOULD YOU COME TO THE MICROPHONE AND SURE THAT, PLEASE. WE WOULD APPRECIATE IT AND WE ARE VERY HONORED THAT YOU
CAME TO MR. MACLEOD. >> GOOD EVENING. MACLEOD, CURRENT PRESIDENT OF THE SCHOOL BOARD AND WE ARE GRATEFUL TO BE HERE TO LISTEN TO PARENT CONCERNS. I HAVE NO COMMENT. I CAN'T SPEAK ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD TONIGHT. ALL THE FEEDBACK IS HELPFUL. THAT'S ALL I CAN SAY. ANOTHER TRUSTEE IS HERE AND WE ARE GRATEFUL FOR THE REPORT. ALL OF WHAT HE HAS REPORTED IS
ACCURATE. >> THANK YOU. CAN WE SCHEDULE A WORKSHOP WITH YOUR BOARD IN OUR BOARD AND THE SUPERINTENDENT WHO JUST GOT SUPERINTENDENT OF THE YEAR? COME VISIT WITH DOCTOR ZAMORA AND I WILL DO A PULSE CHECK WITH THE VICE PRESIDENT
AND THAT'S A CONSIDERATION. >> I REALLY BELIEVE IN PARTNERSHIPS WE DO IT ALL THE TIME HERE IN THE WOODLANDS. YOU JUST HEARD FROM PUBLIC SAFETY FROM TWO DIFFERENT COUNTIES AND A CONSTABLE'S OFFICE THAT IS A PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP. WE WORK IN TANDEM. WE BELIEVE THAT HEARING THE WOODLANDS. THERE HAS TO BE A SOLUTION TO THIS. IF WE NEEDED TO COME IN AND GET CREATIVE AS WE HAVE MORE PARKS FOR ANYBODY IN THE UNITED STATES, IF WE HAVE TO GET CREATIVE, I WANT TO LOOK AT EVERY OPPORTUNITY TO DO THIS BECAUSE PUTTING THESE CHILDREN IN BUSES FOR AN HOUR AND A HALF OR TWO HOURS A DAY IS JUST NOT RIGHT AND WE HAVE TO FIGURE OUT A WAY TO MAKE THIS WORK. I WOULD LIKE TO SEE A JOINT BOARD WORKSHOP WITH THE SUPERINTENDENT AND ADMINISTRATION AND LET'S DISCUSS IDEAS. LET'S GO ON A FIELD TRIP. LET'S LOOK. WE WILL FIGURE A WAY OUT BUT THIS INNOVATION CENTER IS NOT INNOVATIVE. AN INNOVATIVE.
>> WE WANT TO BE PARTNERS. >> FOR SURE.
>> I WOULD ALSO LIKE TO ASK YOU, SIR, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR SITTING WITH US TONIGHT IN YOUR WISDOM TO US TONIGHT, BECAUSE IT IS THROUGH THIS COMMUNICATION AND CONSTANT LOOKING AT PROBLEMS MULTIPLE DIFFERENT WAYS THAT WE FOUND A SOLUTION AND I WOULD ALSO LIKE TO ASK YOU TO INVITE. IT WOULD BE POSTED IN THE WAY THAT ALL ATTORNEYS WOULD AGREE WITH THAT WHEN WE HAVE THIS WORKSHOP, THAT WE CAN INVITE OUR STATE REPRESENTATIVE REPRESENT AND WHO CAN BRING LOTS OF DIFFERENT INFORMATION ABOUT APPROPRIATIONS THAT HAPPENED AT THE STATE LEVEL AND REGULATIONS PEOPLE WERE MENTIONING. WHAT OF THE LADIES HAD A LOT OF INSIGHT ABOUT RULES AND REGULATION AT THE STATE LEVEL AND ALL OF THIS NEEDS TO BE BROUGHT IN SO THAT WE CAN COME OUT WITH A WONDERFUL SOLUTION FOR THE FAMILY AND PARENT.
>> SOONER THAN LATER, WE ARE READY.
>> ESTHER MACLEOD, THANK YOU AND THANK YOU, DOCTOR Z FOR BEING
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HERE TONIGHT. WE REALIZE THAT YOU CANNOT SPEAK ON BEHALF OF THE WHOLE BOARD WITHOUT THE GOING TO THE BOARD AND HAVING THE BOARD MAKE THAT DECISION BUT YOU HAVE SEEN FROM US THAT ANYTHING THAT WE CAN DO TASTE THE OTHER DAY SHOULD YOU ALL -- THEY HAVE THE AUTHORITY IF WE ARE WILLING TO WORK AND SAY WHAT WE CAN DO TO HELP BUT WE TRUST THAT THEY TOO WANT TO DO WHAT'S BEST FOR YOUR CHILDREN AND TOMBALL IS AN EXEMPLARY DISTRICT AND HAD THE BEST SUPERINTENDENT OF THE YEAR. SHE IS A KEEPER.>> BEST TEACHERS. BEST TEACHERS. >> IS TEACHERS. YEAH. THAT TOO.
THAT TOO. >> THANK YOU. WITH THAT, IS
>> OKAY. WE WILL WAIT TO HEAR FROM YOU. IT HAS BEEN MOVED. IS THERE A SECOND? IT HAS BEEN MOVED AND SECONDED. TO ACCEPT THE REPORT FROM ALL OF THOSE IN FAVOR. A POST. MOTION PASSES.
[12. Recess the regular meeting of the Board of Directors; ]
THANK YOU, MR. STEVENS. NOW, AGENDA ITEM 12. WE WILL ANNOUNCED THAT IT'S NECESSARY TO RECESS THE REGULAR MEETING OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS TO CONDUCT THEY PUBLIC HEARING RELATED TO TOWNSHIP PER QUARTER 01909. IT IS A COLD 37. I REFER[13. PUBLIC HEARING: Convene and conduct a Public Hearing regarding proposed amendments to Township Park Order 019-09, related to use of the park, recreation and open space areas of the Township;]
YOU TO PAGES 43 TO 59, DIRECTORS, AND I CALL UPON JOHN MCGAVIN, DIRECTOR OF PARKS AND RECREATION TO PRESENT.>> THANK YOU. THIS IS IN GARZA PROPOSED AMENDMENTS TO THE PARK ORDERS THERE WERE 19-09. LIKE AT THIS POINT, TO CONVENE AND HAVE A PUBLIC ACE THIS WAS POSTED LAST WEEK FROM OUR MEETING LAST WEEK TO THE PEOPLE SAYING THE PROPOSED AMENDMENTS AND FOR THE PUBLIC TO HAVE A PUBLIC HEARING.
>> ARE THERE QUESTIONS? THERE IS NO ONE WHO SIGNED UP FOR PUBLIC COMMENT. KNOW THAT ALL OF THE INFORMATION WAS GIVEN TO YOU
EXTENSIVELY ON PAGES 43 TO 59 . >> YES, AND IF THERE IS ANY
QUESTIONS. >> I THINK WE'VE BEEN BRIEFED.
[14. Reconvene the regular meeting of the Board of Directors;]
>> OKAY. >> OKAY. I RECONVENE THE REGULAR MEETING OF THE BOARD AT 8:38 AND THAT BRINGS US TO AGENDA ITEM
[15. Approve the proposed revisions to the park, recreation and open space areas of the Township and related amendments to The Woodlands Township Order No. 019-09; ]
15. IT IS TO APPROVE THE PROPOSED REVISIONS TO THE PARK RECREATION AND OPEN SPACE AREAS OF THE TOWNSHIP TO RELATED AMENDMENT TO THE WOODLANDS TOWNSHIP ORDER 01909. IS THERE A[16. Receive, consider and act upon the financial report;]
>> SECOND. >> IT'S BEEN MOVED AND SECONDED AND ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SIGNIFY BY SAYING. OPPOSED. THE MOTION PASSES. NOW WE ARE READY FOR SOME GREAT NEWS. AGENDA ITEM 16.
YOU CAN REFER TO PAGE 60 TO 76 . KELLAN SHAW, OUR DIRECTOR OF FINANCE WILL PROVIDE THE FINANCIAL REPORT FOR THE NINE-MONTH ENDING SEPTEMBER 30TH, 2023.
>> THAT'S ALL HER NAME. IT'S KELLAN "GOOD NEWS" SHALL.
>> THANK YOU. THIS EVENING, WILL BE PRESENTING THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE NINE MONTHS THROUGH SEPTEMBER. OKAY. FOR THE NINE-MONTH ENDING SEPTEMBER 2023, THE BUDGET REVENUE WAS 100 THREE-POINT $1 MILLION. THE YEAR-TO-DATE ACTUAL COLLECTED REVENUE IS $113.5 MILLION. FOR YEAR-TO-DATE FAVORABLE VARIANCE OF $10.4 MILLION. THE MAIN COMPONENT OF THE FORBEARANCE IS GOING TO BE THE HIGHER THAN ANTICIPATED TAX COLLECTIONS AND HIGHER THAN BUDGETED INTEREST REVENUE, PROGRAM REVENUE AND GRANT REVENUE. THESE AMOUNTS ARE OFFSET BY AN UNFAVORABLE VARIANCE IN PROPERTY TAX AND HOTEL TAX TRANSFERS. THE NEXT
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SLIDE IS THE YEAR-TO-DATE EXPENDITURES. THE YEAR-TO-DATE BUDGET IT IS 80 THREE-POINT $1 MILLION. YEAR-TO-DATE ACTUAL IS $81.9 MILLION FOR YEAR-TO-DATE FAVORABLE VARIANCE OF $1.2 MILLION. ALL OF THE CATEGORIES OF THE PERMITS ARE SHOWING A FAVORABLE VARIANCE WITH THE EXCEPTION OF COMMUNITY SERVICES AND THAT IS PRIMARILY DUE TO THE TREE REMOVAL WITH OUR CONTRACTED SERVICES AND THERE IS ALSO HIGHER THAN BUDGETED EVENT AND MISSION SALES TAX PAYMENTS IN THE UNBUDGETED STORM CLEANUP.NEXT SLIDE IS OUR HOTEL OCCUPANT THE TAX DEPOSIT. THIS REPORT IS ALSO THROUGH SEPTEMBER. THE YEAR-TO-DATE BUDGETED A $6.5 MILLION. THE YEAR-TO-DATE COLLECTED A SEVEN-POINT $1 MILLION. FOR FAVORABLE VARIANCE OF ALMOST $539,000. THAT IS A .2% OVER BUDGET AND ABOUT 30.3% MORE THAN WHAT IS COLLECTED IN 2022. THE SALES TAX REPORT IS THROUGH OCTOBER. THE YEAR-TO-DATE BUDGETED IS $55.4 MILLION AND I THINK THE ACTUAL COLLECTED IS $61.2 MILLION FOR A FAVORABLE VARIANCE OF 51 $8 MILLION WERE 10 1/2% OVER BUDGET IN THOSE ROUGHLY $5.5 MILLION MORE COLLECTED THAN 2022. THAT'S ALL I HAVE.
>> GOOD. >> MAKE MORE. SPEND LESS.
>> CORRECT ME IF I AM WRONG, WE HAVE THE HIGHEST MONTH OF TAX IN A ONE-MONTH RED COLLECTED. IS THAT RIGHT?
>> I'M SORRY. WHAT IS THE QUESTION?
>> WAS JULY THE HIGHEST MONTH COLLECTED? NICK WAS TELLING ME THAT. IS IT COMING UP HERE SOON? THEY SAID OCTOBER WAS A BANNER
MONTH. >> WE WILL SEE THAT FOR OCTOBER AND WE WILL SEE THAT IN NOVEMBER.
>> IT'S GOOD. WE WHACK LIKE WE DIDN'T KNOW IT NEXT TIME YOU
COME IN. >> DON'T STEAL MY THUNDER.
>> IS IMPORTANT THOUGH. OUR HOTEL TAXES ARE IMPORTANT FOR US AND A LOT OF PEOPLE DON'T REALIZE ALL OF THE EVENTS OF
THINGS THAT WE HAVE HERE. >> YES, IT TAKES HIM UP FOR US
>> SO THE TICKET TAX THAT WAS REFERENCED SEVERAL TIMES OVER THE TICKET TAX WAS ALSO CALLED THE AMMUNITION TAX. CAN YOU POINT TO THE REVENUE THAT COMES TO
>> OKAY. THAT'S GOING TO BE -- WELL, I DON'T HAVE THE EXACT AMOUNT, BUT IT'S IN OUR OPERATING REVENUES AND IT IS ADMISSION TAX. IT HAS ITS OWN LINE ITEM AND WHAT WE COLLECT, THE PAVILION COLLECTS THOSE TAXES AND THEY SUBMITTED TO THE TOWNSHIP AND THEN WE SUBMIT BACK 90% TO THE PAVILION AND THEN WE RESERVE THE 10% FOR CULTURAL ECONOMIC.
>> HOW LONG HAVE WE BEEN COLLECTING THAT TICKET TAX?
>> OH MY. MONEY, CAN YOU HELP ME THERE?
>> 2011. >> YOU HAVE ANY IDEA? WE ARE UP TO $1.8 MILLION. I SAW THAT FOR THIS YEAR ESTIMATED WERE PROJECTED AT 11 $8 MILLION FOR NEXT YEAR AS WELL BUT IT SEEMS TO HAVE GROWN EVERY YEAR, SO DO YOU THINK THAT THEY SHOULD YOU HAVE ANY IDEA HOW MUCH MONEY WE HAVE ACTUALLY PAID TO THE CYNTHIA WOODS PAVILION SINCE WE STARTED THIS?
>> THAT'S NOT A NUMBER HAVE ON THE TOP OF MY HEAD BUT I CAN
BRING THAT BACK TO YOU. >> I CAN ANSWER THAT. WE HAVE KEPT MOST OF THAT MONEY IN RESERVE, SO RIGHT NOW WE HAVE ABOUT ONE POINT $3 MILLION IN RESERVE. DILETTANTE THAT WE TAKE ANYTHING OUT OF THAT, IT'S AFTER ONE OF THE HURRICANES AND MAYBE HURRICANE IKE WHERE THERE WAS SIGNIFICANT DAMAGE TO THE COVER OF THE PAVILION AND THE TOWNSHIP USED SOME OF THOSE FUNDS IN ORDER TO HELP WITH PACE MOTION OF THE CAPITAL BUILD.
>> YOU HAVE ABOUT $1.3 MILLION, THAT IS THE 10%. IF YOU SAY WHAT IS 90% MORE THAN THAT, THAT WOULD BE HOW MUCH?
>> THE $1.3 MILLION IS CUMULATIVE SINCE 2011.
>> I'M TALKING ABOUT THE MONEY THAT ACTUALLY WENT BACK TO THE
PAVILION. >> I WOULD HAVE TO GO LOOK.
>> RIGHT. >> THAT'S A LOT OF MONEY AND THAT IS REALLY WHAT I'M INTERESTED IN COMING UP AND WANTED THE NEXT ITEM. IF YOU CAN GET THAT FIGURE FOR US BEFORE ITEM 18, I WOULD APPRECIATE IT. THANK YOU.
>> OKAY. I CALL FOR A MOTION AND A SECOND TO ACCEPT THE
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>> SECOND. >> IT'S BEEN MOVED AND SECONDED.
ALL OF THOSE IN FAVOR. A POST. MOTION PASSES. THANK YOU, AS ALWAYS. WE APPRECIATE THAT. OKAY. THAT BRINGS US TO AGENDA
[17. Receive, consider and act upon enhanced Woodlands Express service to the 2024 Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo BBQ Cook-off (C-2015-5229A10);]
ITEM 17, TO RECEIVE, CONSIDER AND ACT UPON THE ENHANCE WOODLANDS EXPRESS SERVICE TO THE 2024 HOUSTON LIVESTOCK SHOW AND RODEO BARBECUE COOKOFF. YOU HAVE THE INFORMATION IN YOUR BOARD PACKETS. 77 PAGE 78. STAFF IS ASKING US TO CONSIDER APPROVAL OF TWO NEW OPTIONS FOR THE WOODLANDS EXPRESS FOR THE 2024 RODEO BARBECUE COOKOFF, INCLUDING THURSDAY. SERVICE DURING SPRING BREAK. WE ARE VERY FORTUNATE TO HAVE RUTH, WHO IS OUR DIRECTOR OF TRANSPORTATION AND THE CHURCH ARE TO PRESENT.>> GOOD EVENING, BOARD OF DIRECTORS. SO SINCE 2019 THE WOODLANDS EXPRESS RIGHT HAS BEEN OFFERING SERVICE TO THE HOUSTON LIVESTOCK SHOW AND RODEO . YOU CAN SEE THAT RIDERSHIP OVER THE THREE COMPLETE YEARS OF SERVICES WE HAVE PROVIDED AND WE'VE BEEN ABLE TO BRING DOWN THE NET COST PER YEAR DUE TO THAT HIGHER RIDERSHIP. THE PROGRAM IS SUCCESSFUL AND WE SELL OUT MANY OF OUR DAYS AND MANY OF OUR RUNS AND A LOT OF THE FEEDBACK THAT WE HAVE RECEIVED FROM WRITERS IS WE WANT MORE TO SPECIFICALLY, ADDING ON MORE DATES DURING THE WEEK BECAUSE THERE ARE QUITE A LOT OF CONCERTS TO COME IN ON THE WEEKDAYS, AS WELL AS THE SPRING BREAK WEEK I MANY CHILDREN, FAMILIES AND THEY ARE OUT OF SCHOOL LOOKING FOR SOMETHING TO DO, SO WE CAN QUITE A FEW REQUESTS FOR THOSE TYPE OF WEEKDAY SERVICES AND WE BRING TO YOU THE TWO POTENTIAL SERVICE ENHANCEMENTS TO ADD ON TO THE PRE-RODEO COOKOFF THAT WE ALREADY RUN IN FEBRUARY, AS WELL AS THE FRIDAY, SATURDAY AND SUNDAY THAT IS ALREADY PART OF THE SCHEDULE, SO WE WILL BE ADDING -- REQUESTING ADDING OPTION A, WHICH IS THURSDAY EVENING RODEO SERVICE WITH AN ANTICIPATED NET COST OF A PROXIMATELY $8322 AND OPTION B, WHICH IS SPRING BREAK SERVICE DURING THE RODEO, SO THAT WOULD BE MONDAY THROUGH THURSDAY AND THEN ADDITIONAL FRIDAY MORNINGS, SINCE WE ARE ALREADY OFFERING FRIDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING SERVICES AND THAT WOULD BE AN ADDITIONAL COST OF $11,596. SO OUR RECOMMENDATION IS TO PROCEED WITH ADDING OPTION A AND B TO THE SCHEDULE AND AUTHORIZE OUR PRESIDENT EXECUTE ANY NECESSARY
AGREEMENTS. >> AND GO BACK TO THE FIGHT BEFORE. WE ARE LOOKING AT THE FAIR REVENUE AT $15. DO WE FEEL THAT IS THE SWEET SPOT? DO WE FEEL LIKE IF WE WENT UP TO 20,
WE WOULD LOSE THE RIDERSHIP? >> PRETTY FEDERAL TRANSIT ADMINISTRATION, WE ARE REQUIRED TO CHARGE THE SAME AMOUNT FOR OUR DAY-TO-DAY PARKING RIGHT SERVICE, AS WE DO THIS, AS IT IS NOT A SPECIAL SERVICE, IT IS AN ENHANCEMENT. IT IS A CONTINUATION AND ADDITION AN EXTENSION OF OUR TYPICAL SERVICE, SO IN ADDITION TO THAT, WE HAVE TO HAVE IT OPEN TO ANY PUBLIC THAT WOULD LIKE TO WRITE SO THAT WE CAN'T -- THOSE ARE
TWO OF THE REQUIREMENTS. >> WE HAD TO LEAVE THE BUBBLE BUT THIS IS A WAY DELETED IF YOU CAN. SO EASY TO GET DOWN THERE.
>> THERE ARE A LOT OF DRINKING THAT GOES DOWN AT THE RODEO. I'M
ALL IN FAVOR OF THIS. >> ME TOO.
>> ANY OTHER COMMENTS? >> I THINK IT IS A GREAT IDEA AND IT WORKS WELL FOR A LOT OF PEOPLE.
>> ONLY VOTING ON LETTER A OR B? >> OUR RECOMMENDATION WOULD BE TO ACCEPT LETTER A AND B BUT IT'S UP TO THE BOARD TO DECIDE
WHICH, BOTH, NEITHER. >> I MOVED TO ACCEPT LETTER A AND B. I DON'T KNOW IF YOU NEEDED THE MOTION BUT I MOVED TO
ACCEPT OPTION LETTER A AND B. >> THANK YOU.
>> SMARTER, PASSING FOR $20,000 WHEN WE JUST GOT THE FINANCIAL REPORT. WELL-PLACED AGENDA ITEM.
>> IT IS A GREAT THING THOUGH. IT'S A GREAT SERVICE.
>> OKAY. IT'S BEEN MOVED AND SECONDED AND WITHOUT FURTHER DISCUSSION, UNLESS THERE IS SOME COME ALL IN FAVOR. OPPOSED.
MOTION PASSES. THAT BRINGS US TO AGENDA ITEM -- THANK YOU. YOU
[18. Receive, consider and act upon an update regarding performances/performers at Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion (as requested by Director Sekula-Gibbs); ]
ALWAYS DO A GOOD JOB. >> THANK YOU.
>> THAT BRINGS US TO AGENDA ITEM 18, TWO RECEIVE, CONSIDER AND ACT UPON AN UPDATE REGARDING PERFORMANCES, PERFORMANCE AT THE CYNTHIA WOODS MITCHELL PAVILION, AS REQUESTED BY DIRECTOR GIBBS.
REFER TO PAGE 79 AND STAFF WILL PROVIDE AN UPDATE REGARDING THE CYNTHIA WOODS MITCHELL PAVILION AND TODD STEVENS WHO IS OUR DIRECTOR OF INTERGOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS, ASSISTANT TO THE
PRESIDENT, WILL PRESENT. >> THANK YOU, AGAIN, CHAIRMAN
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SNYDER. JUST A QUICK UPDATE ON THIS ITEM. SO THE CYNTHIA WOODS MITCHELL PAVILION IS A 501(C)(3) NONPROFIT CORPORATION OWNED AND OPERATED BY THE CENTER FOR THE PERFORMER ARTS AT THE WOODLANDS AND IS A SEPARATE ENTITY FROM THE TOWNSHIP. AS YOU KNOW, THE SPECIAL-PURPOSE DISTRICT AND DOESN'T HAVE AUTHORITY, OTHER THAN ON PROPERTIES RELATED AND DIRECTLY OWNED BY THE TOWNSHIP.THE RESPONSE ABILITY OF THE PAVILION, SCITUATE, IS TO PROVIDE CULTURE AND PERFORMING ARTS EDUCATION AND EVENTS FOR OUR COMMUNITY AND WHAT OF THE REASONS I DO THAT, THEY ALSO PROVIDE, OFFICER, COMMERCIAL CONCERTS AND THEY DO THAT IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE CONTRACT OF LIVE NATION WHO IS WHEN OF THE COUNTRY, IF NOT THE WORLD'S LARGEST PROVIDERS OF PROMOTION CONCERTS TICKETING SERVICES FOR COMMERCIAL PROVIDERS AND THE COMMERCIAL REVENUES, PROFITS GENERATED FROM THE PROMISES OF VARIOUS TYPES, COUNTRY, JAZZ, ROCK AND SOME OF THE ONES YOU HEARD ABOUT THIS EVENING ARE REINVESTED TO PROVIDE THE SERVICES AND SOME OF THOSE SERVICES THAT WE OFFER TO OUR RESIDENTS THROUGHOUT THE SUMMER AND DIFFERENT TIMES OF THE YEAR AS CULTURAL ENHANCEMENTS FOR OUR COMMUNITY, SO ON AN ANNUAL BASIS, THE PAVILION OF BETWEN 50 TO 55 SHOWS BOTH COMMERCIALLY AND FOR CULTURE AND PERFORMING ART SERVICES.
>> OKAY. THANK YOU, MR. STEVENS. BEFORE WE DETERMINE ACTION, WE ARE GOING TO ALL TALK AND I'M GOING TO LET THE DIRECTORS.
>> THEY CAN VERY MUCH. WHAT I WOULD LIKE TO DO AND I'VE HANDED OUT TO THE BOARD MEMBERS AND OUR STAFF THIS EVENING, IS TO GIVE A LITTLE BACKGROUND AND OFFER A MOTION THAT WOULD NOT BE AN ALTERNATE AT ALL, SO IT DOESN'T TRANSGRESS OUR LOT OF ORDINANCE MAKING ABILITY, BUT AS I'VE PRESENTED TO YOU ON PAGE 87 OF IT WITH THE TOWNSHIP BUDGET, THE TOWNSHIP FORECAST THAT THE EVENT TICKET TAX OR THE ADVENT ADMISSION TAX WOULD GENERATE ABOUT ONE $20 MILLION DEBT WOULD THEN BE GIVEN 90% TEST CYNTHIA WOODS MITCHELL PAVILION AND THEY ARE DOING VERY WELL. THEY ARE EXTREMELY SUCCESSFUL, WHICH IS WHAT YOU JUST SAID, MR. TODD STEVENS, AND I APPRECIATE THAT AND I'M GRATEFUL FOR THEIR SUCCESS AND THE FACT THAT THEY WERE SO MANY GOOD THINGS TO THE WOODLANDS, BUT NOT EVERYTHING THAT THEY BRING TO THE WOODLANDS IS GOOD. AS WE HEARD FROM ANY OF THE RESIDENCE TONIGHT, ON SEPTEMBER 2ND, THERE WAS A SIN TANNIC BAND WHO WAS HIRED TO COME TO THE WOODLANDS AND THAT'S INTENDED BAND IS NAMED GHOST.
THERE WERE PROBABLY ALMOST 100 PEOPLE OUTSIDE OF THE ENTRANCE OF THE CYNTHIA WOODS MITCHELL PAVILION AND I WAS ONE OF THEM AND WE WERE PRAYING AND OFFERING SONGS AND AN ANTIDOTE TO SOME OF THIS SIN TANNIC HATE SPEECH THAT CAME OUT AND IT CAME OUT LOUD AND STRONG BECAUSE YOU COULD HEAR IT ALL OVER THE MARKET STREET AREA. SATURDAY BOARDED THERE WAS ALSO A PROTEST AND I ATTENDED THAT AS WELL AND IT IS VERY CONCERNING WHENEVER A GROUP LIKE GHOST COMES TO A COMMUNITY BECAUSE IT INDICATES THAT THE COMMUNITY EXCEPT AND SUPPORTS THAT KIND OF HATE SPEECH AND MESSAGING AND WE DO NOT DO THAT HERE IN THE WOODLANDS. GHOST IS AN INTERNATIONALLY RECOGNIZED GROUP THAT PROVIDES HATEFUL AND EVIL SONGS IN THEIR LYRICS, AS A ALSO ARE KNOWN TO SCREAM OBSCENITIES AND BLAST CURSES AGAINST GOD AND HIS DEFINED HIS SON JESUS CHRIST, THE SAINTS AND AGAINST CHRISTIANS IN GENERAL.
THE GHOST PERFORMERS ARE DEGRADING OF CHRISTIANITY. THEY ARE DEGRADING OF HUMANITY. HATE SPEECH IS NOT ART. IT NEVER HAS BEEN AND WE AS BOARD MEMBERS NEED TO RECOGNIZE THAT AND NOT ALLOW GROUPS LIKE THAT TO DEGRADE OTHER GROUPS AND CREATE SCAPEGOATS AND PROMOTE VIOLENCE AGAINST OTHER GROUPS IN OUR TOWNSHIP. IT WOULD NOT BE TOLERATED IF THAT HATE SPEECH WAS DIRECTED AGAINST OTHER GROUPS AND WE KNOW THAT MANY OF THE GROUPS ARE PROTECTED, BUT CHRISTIANS ARE NOT AND IT SEEMS THAT WE HAVE TO DRAW A LINE IN THE SAND AND SAY, NO. WE ARE NOT GOING TO HAVE THIS IN A COMMUNITY THAT WAS ESTABLISHED BY GEORGE MITCHELL TO BE A PLACE WHERE PEOPLE CAN, FOR GENERATIONS, LIVE, WORK, WORSHIP, LEARN AND PLAY.
RESIDENTS OF THE WOODLANDS, I THINK, WOULD BE SHOCKED IF THEY
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KNEW HOW MUCH MONEY THEIR TAX MONEY IS GOING TO THE CYNTHIA WOODS MITCHELL PAVILION EVERY YEAR. THAT IS 1.6 MILLION DOLLARS, SO I'M ASKING TODAY THAT THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS AT THE PAVILION STOP HOSTING PERFORMERS THAT ACT AND PROMOTE HATE SPEECH ON VIOLENCE AGAINST CHRISTIANS OR ANY GROUP AND IF THERE CONTRACTOR, LIVE NATION, CANNOT ACCOMMODATE THAT, THEN THEY SHOULD HIRE A DIFFERENT CONTRACTOR, SO I MOVE AND I DOUBT THAT I WILL GET A SECOND, BUT I MOVE THAT THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS STOP GIVING TAXPAYER MONEY TO THE CYNTHIA WOODS MITCHELL PAVILION OR ANY NONPROFIT THAT DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY SUPPORTS HATE OR VIOLENCE TOWARDS ANY GROUP OF PEOPLE AND THIS SHOULD BE DONE UNTIL THEY CAN PROVE THAT THEY WILL NOT DO SO IN THE FUTURE AND I WOULD ASK FOR A SECOND.>> I WOULD LIKE TO HAVE SOME DISCUSSION.
>> I WOULD TOO. >> I WOULD LIKE TO SAY
SOMETHING. >> I THOUGHT YOU WERE GOING TO RECUSE YOURSELF BECAUSE YOU ARE THE MEMBER F THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS. HE SAID THAT LAST TIME. NO, BUT YOU SAID THAT.
>> I DON'T NEED YOU TO TELL ME WHAT I SHOULD DO AND WHAT I SHOULDN'T DO. I'M NOT LEAKING ON BEHALF OF THE PAVILION. SPEAKING AS A BOARD MEMBER AND A CITIZEN. OKAY? AS A CHRISTIAN, I'M, AGAIN, BUT MANY PEOPLE WHO ARE IN THIS ROOM, INSULTED AND CERTAINLY DISLIKE WHAT HAPPENS AT THE CYNTHIA WOODS MITCHELL PAVILION BUT I WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK TO SOME OF THE GOOD THINGS THAT THE CYNTHIA WOODS MITCHELL PAVILION DOES, NOT ONLY FOR THIS COMMUNITY AND FOR OUR SCHOOL DISTRICT. THE CYNTHIA WOODS MITCHELL PAVILION PROBABLY HOSTED AROUND 40 TO 45 CONCERTS THIS YEAR AND YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT WHAT CONCERT, AGAIN. IT'S IMPORTANT AND I'M APPALLED BY IT AND I VOICED MY CONCERN SEPARATELY AS A BOARD MEMBER OF THAT ORGANIZATION AND DISORGANIZATION BUT YOU WERE TALKING ABOUT 2.3% OF THE CONCERTS THAT HAPPENED AT THE CYNTHIA WOODS MITCHELL PAVILION.
I'M NOT MAKING IT AN EXCUSE, GIVING YOU A FAT. JUST RECENTLY, THE PAVILION HOSTED 8500 STUDENT FROM THE INDPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT. 25 SCHOOLS FOR A FINE ART EDUCATION DAY AND TICKET TAX AGREEMENTS, I WILL SPEAK TO AND I WILL DEFER TO OUR ATTORNEY TO SPEAK TO THAT IN THAT RELATIONSHIP AND WHAT THE LEGAL BOUNDARIES ARE WITHIN IT BUT THEY HOST AS MANY CHILDREN EVENTS AS THEY DO ROCK CONCERT IN COLLABORATION WITH LIVE NATION AND THEY GIVES AWAY TENS OF THOUSANDS IN HUNDRED OF THOUSANDS TO HELP THEM ATTEND COLLEGE AND HELP THEM PURSUE THEIR POTENTIAL LEFT CAREER AND PERFORMANCE ARTS. THEY PARTICIPATE IN CULTURAL COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT WITH OTHER ART ORGANIZATIONS WITHIN THE COMMUNITY AND WITH OUR PROGRAMS WITHIN THE SCHOOLS AND THEY SUPPORT ALL OF THE CIS THE SCHOOLS IN MANY OTHER WAYS, INCLUDING SCHOOL CONCERT AND GRADUATION CEREMONIES. AGAIN, THE GHOST CONCERT, I BELIEVE, IS NOT SOMETHING THAT SHOULD BE HELD AT THE PAVILION BUT I DON'T WANT YOU TO NOT THINK ABOUT ALL OF THE GOOD THINGS THAT THE PAVILION DOES FOR THIS COMMUNITY. OKAY? YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT, AGAIN, TO .3% OF WHAT REPRESENTS THE NUMBER OF CONCERTS AND EVENTS THAT THEY HOST EACH YEAR IN THIS COMMUNITY TO SUPPORT PEOPLE AND I THINK BETTER THAN TRYING TO SEEK A MOTION THAT TELLS US WHAT WE TELL ANOTHER NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION TO DO WITH THE MONEY, I BELIEVE THAT IT WOULD BE BETTER TO ENGAGE WITH THEM AT A LEVEL TO HAVE A DISCUSSION ABOUT EVENT PLANNING IN THE FUTURE AND WORK WITH THEM TO PREVENT FUTURE EVENTS LIKE THIS BEING HELD AT THE CYNTHIA WOODS MITCHELL PAVILION. AGAIN, I'M NOT GOING TO SPEAK TO THE TAX AGREEMENT. THAT'S UP TO OUR ATTORNEY, BUT I THINK THERE IS MANY MORE THINGS THAT WE CAN DO THAN TRY TO JUMP TO THE CONCLUSION OF SANK, YOU KNOW, ONE POINT A MILLION DOLLARS IS SOMETHING THAT WE SHOULDN'T PARTICIPATE IN WHEN YOU DON'T THINK ABOUT ALL OF THE OTHER ECONOMIC CONTRIBUTIONS, THE 43 EVENTS, NOT COUNTING GRADUATIONS IN SCHOOL CONCERT BRING INTO THE BODY OF THIS COMMUNITY FROM A CULTURAL PERSPECTIVE AND ALSO A BUSINESS PERSPECTIVE AND THAT'S REALLY WHAT I WOULD LIKE TO SAY ABOUT THIS AT THIS TIME.
>> THANK YOU. >> I APPRECIATE THAT. I AGREE WITH YOUR THOUGHTS AND SENTIMENTS. IT'S AWFUL. I'M A BELIEVER, A HUSBAND, A FATHER, AND IS NOT SOMETHING THAT I WANT TO HEAR. IS NOT SOMETHING THAT I WANT IN OUR COMMUNITY AND I THINK THAT EVERYONE OF US AGREES THAT IS NOT SOMETHING THAT WE
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WOULD EXPECT TO BE HERE IN NOR DO WE WANT IT TO BE HERE AND IT SHOULDN'T BE HERE AND IT SHOULDN'T BE THERE AGAIN, SO I AGREE WITH YOU. I THINK THERE ARE A FEW ITEMS OF VERIFICATION THAT NEED TO BE MADE. ONE, WHEN WE SAY OUR TAX DOLLARS ARE GOING, THESE ARE NOT OUR TAX DOLLARS THAT ARE GOING TO THE PAVILION. THESE ARE TAX DOLLARS THAT COME AND IT IS A TICKET TAX AND IT'S A PAVILION AT LIVE NATION AND THEIR DRAW TO BRING IN THAT TICKET AND WE HAVE THE ABILITY TO GET A PIECE OF THAT AND WE GIVE 90% OF THAT PIECE BACK, SO IT'S NOT LIKE THESE ARE GENERAL FUNDS THAT ARE RECEIVED AND THEY ARE NOT TAX DOLLARS THAT WE ARE GETTING AND THEN WE ARE CHOOSING TO GIVE IT TO THE PAVILION, SO I THINK THAT THAT IS A POINT OF CLARIFICATION.CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG. THE OTHER THING TO REMEMBER IS, THERE ARE LEGALITIES IN HERE WE HAVE A COMMITMENT AND AGREEMENTS THAT WE HAVE TO HONOR. NOW, I AM ALL FOR WHEN THOSE AGREEMENTS ARE EITHER TERMINATED OR EXPIRE THAT WE CAN TAKE THIS ISSUE UP AND DETERMINE HOW WE PROCEED IN THE FUTURE. WHAT PERCENTAGE OF TICKETS TAX, IF AT ANY. WHAT CONDITIONS ARE TREATED TO THAT? I AM FULLY FINE WITH THAT, ME PERSONALLY. I WILL SAY THAT I DON'T BELIEVE IN YOUR INTENTIONS ARE HERE AND I THINK THEY ARE HONORABLE AND I AGREE WITH THEM AND I DON'T THINK THAT WE CAN HAVE A BLANKET MOTION THAT HAS SO GENERAL AND AMBIGUOUS THAT IT WOULD HAVE ANY TEETH OR LEGS TO DO ANYTHING. WHILE I AGREE WITH YOU IN CONCEPT, I DON'T THINK THE MOTION BEFORE US, EVEN IF IT WERE GRANTED, DOES ANYTHING BECAUSE IT'S SO AMBIGUOUS. WE ARE NOT TALKING ABOUT SPECIFIC MONEY OR A SPECIFIC CAUSE OR 501(C)(3), AND WE DO HAVE A PROCESS FOR THAT. WE GO THROUGH THAT WHEN IT COMES UP WHEN WE DO THAT IN BUDGET TIME AND I WILL TELL YOU THIS, FROM A DIFFERENT STANDPOINT, I KNOW MANY OF US HAVE TALKED TO PEOPLE ON THE PAVILION BOARD ABOUT THIS. THEY ARE WELL AWARE THAT WE ARE UNHAPPY AND THAT OUR COMMUNITY IS UNHAPPY AND THEY HAVE LET LIVE LAYSHA NO THAT WE ARE UNHAPPY. AND I MAY BE WRONG AND IT'S NOT IN WRITING ANYWHERE BUT I WOULD BE VERY SURPRISED IF WE HAVE GHOST COME BACK TO THIS COMMUNITY OR SOMETHING SIMILAR.
>> I AGREE. >> THAT'S WONDERFUL TO HEAR.
>> LET US ALL FINISHED. >> I WILL TURN IT BACK TO YOU.
AFTER YOU ARE SPOKEN I TOO HAVE SMALL CHILDREN AND IT SOMETHING THAT IT WAS AWFUL AND ALL OF THE DIRECTORS HAVE SAID NONE OF US APPROVE OF THAT, SO I REACHED OUT TO MR. JERRY MCDONALD AND TOLD HIM OF OUR GRAVE, GRAVE CONCERN TO HAVE A PERFORMER SUCH AS GHOST COMING TO THIS COMMUNITY. GRAVE CONCERN. WE TALKED AS A DIRECTOR ABOUT ALL THE WONDERFUL THINGS ABOUT THE PAVILION AND WE APPLAUD YOU ON THAT. WE DO NOT APPLAUD YOU ON HAVING SOMEONE SUCH AS THIS PERFORMER AND I'M GOING TO, QUOTE/UNQUOTE,. I ASKED HIM. AFTER A LENGTHY DISCUSSION HE SAID, THEY WILL ADDRESS THIS ISSUE WITH LIVE NATION AND THEY HEARD, NOT ONLY THE COMMENTS THAT OTHERS HAVE GIVEN TO THEIR BOARD MEMBERS, BUT I THINK DIRECTOR MILNER CAN SPEAK TO THAT, BUT ALSO, THAT HAS COME HERE. I'M SURE THAT THE DIRECTOR, AS IF THE SIX OF US HAVE REACHED OUT TO THE BOARD AND TO THE HEAD OF THE STAFF AND THEY HEAR OUR CONCERN THAT WE DO NOT WANT THEM BACK AND THEY ALSO VALUE.
>> WHY WOULD ANYONE LIKE THEM? IT'S JUST A GENRE. DEATH-CALLED
MUSIC. >> GOODWIN. THANK YOU, SHELLEY.
THAT NOT EVERYTHING A PERSON ON THIS BOARD WAS NOT JUST DISGUSTED WITH THE ACT THAT WAS CHOSEN. THERE WAS NO DOUBT. I CAN TELL YOU, PERSONALLY TALK TO TWO DIFFERENT LEADERS FROM THE TOP TWO GUYS AT THE PAVILION ABOUT THERE IS A PROBLEM WITH THIS. I WAS SUPPORTED THE PROTEST THAT WERE DONE IN A VERY PEACEFUL MANNER, BUT LIKE CARL HARVEY SAYS, YOU ARE NOT TELLING
THE REST OF THE STORY. >> I'M TELLING EVERYTHING THAT I LEARNED. TWO LET ME FINISH. I GAVE YOU YOUR TIME. LET ME HAVE MY TIME I CAN TELL YOU THAT YOU WERE LOOKING AT WHEN THE CASE SAMPLE ERIC YOU ARE LOOKING AT ONE THING. WISH THAT REVEREND
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WILL WAS HERE BECAUSE OF HE WENT TO THE MEMBER OF HIS CHURCHES, HE WOULD FIND OUT THAT EVERY EASTER, THE PAVILION GIVES THE WHOLE ENTIRE FACILITY TO OUR LOCAL CHURCHES THE BAPTIST CHURCH, THE METHODIST CHURCH, THE WOODLAND CHURCH, ACROSS THE BOARD. EVERY SINGLE YEAR AND IT IS WONDERFUL. I INTO SEVERAL CHRISTIAN CONCERTS THERE. CHRIS TOMLIN GOT HIS START HERE AT THE METHODIST CHURCH. IT'S NO THE NUMBER ONE RECORDED ARTIST IN THE COUNTRY HE COMES BACK AND PLAYS THE PAVILION. I MEAN, THINK THAT'S A GREAT THING. YOU COLLECT TICKET TAX OFF CHRISTIAN THINGS THAT GO ON. AS BOB DID, AND THANK YOU, BOB AND, BOB, THANK YOU FOR STANDING UP AND GIVING THE FACTS OUT BUT OVER 8000 STUDENTS WERE THERE THIS WEEK GETTING ART EDUCATION , THAT IS A GREAT THING. THAT IS AN OUTSTANDING THING BUT A CASE OF ONE SAMPLE, YOU WANT TO BRING THE HOUSE DOWN.>> NOT AT ALL. YOU ARE OVERSTATING.
>> I'M OVERSTATING? YOU ARE PULLING THE ENTIRE TAX BECAUSE OF ONE ACT THAT WE ALL HAVE SAID, THIS IS DEPLORABLE. IT IS
NOT RIGHT. IT IS WRONG. >> FINISHED THE SENTENCE, BRAD OR WHEN THEY PROVE THEY WILL NOT DO SOMETHING.
>> I'M NOT DONE. I'M NOT DONE. LET ME FINISH. YOU WANT TO BURN
THE HOUSE DOWN. >> NO, I DON'T.
>> JUST LIKE YOU DID WITH CORPORATION AND OTHER THINGS THAT YOU WANT TO BURN IT DOWN YOUR KID GOES TO A SENSE OF YOUR
JUDGMENT. >> BRAD, OKAY. I WANT TO REITERATE THAT HE DID NOT FINISH THE SENTENCE. I SAID, I MOVE THAT THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE WOODLANDS TOWNSHIP STOP GIVING TAXPAYER MONEY TO THE CYNTHIA WOODS PAVILION THAT DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY SUPPORTS HATE OR VIOLENCE TOWARDS ANY GROUP OF PEOPLE OR UNTIL THEY PROVE THAT THEY WILL NOT DO SO IN THE FUTURE AND DOCTOR SNYDER HAS ALREADY ADDRESSED THAT AND I DID TRY TO TALK WITH MR. MCDONALD. HE DID NOT CALL ME BACK. I TALKED TO OTHER STAFF BEFORE THE CONCERT. BEFORE THE CONCERT. I WAS TOLD, THIS IS ART AND THAT THERE IS NOTHING THAT THEY CAN DO ABOUT IT, WHICH, OF COURSE, IS NOT ART.
IT'S HATE SPEECH. IT'S VIOLENT SPEECH. I'M NOT MISJUDGING YOU, BRAD. I'M JUST SAYING, YOU DID NOT FINISH THIS AND IF THEY WILL GIVE IT TO US IN WRITING, WHICH YOU SAID YOU WERE NOT ABLE TO GET, BUT IF THEY WILL, THEN ALL IS GOOD. ALL IS GOOD AND I THINK THE PEOPLE OF THIS COMMUNITY WOULD BE VERY HAPPY WITH THE DIRECTION THAT WE GO IN THE FUTURE.
>> THANK YOU, AND DIRECTOR FRANK.
>> I WOULD LIKE TO SAY, WE ARE ON AGREEMENT THAT THAT IS NOT THE TYPE OF ENTERTAINMENT WE WOULD HAVE IN THE PAVILION AND VERY GOOD TIPS HAVE BEEN TAKEN IN ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF US WORKING IN COLLABORATION WITH OUR PARTNERS IN THE COMMUNITY TO BRING ABOUT THE RESULTS THAT WE WANT TO HAVE AND I'M GOING TO TAKE IT IN GOOD FAITH FROM THE CONVERSATIONS THAT CHAIRMAN SNYDER HAS HAD AND BOB HAS HAD AND OTHERS HAVE HAD, THAT THE PAVILIONS CAN ADDRESS THIS AND I WOULD BE VERY, VERY SURPRISED THAT THIS IS AN ISSUE THAT COMES UP AGAIN.
>> OKAY. THERE IS A MOTION ON THE FLOOR. IS THERE A SECOND? IF NOT, IS THERE A MOTION TO ACCEPT THE REPORT?
>> IT'S BEEN MOVED AND SECONDED TO ACCEPT THE REPORT FROM MR. STEVENS. ALL OF THOSE IN FAVOR SIGNIFY THE. THE POST. THANK
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YOU. THANK YOU FOR BRINGING IT TO OUR ATTENTION. THAT BRINGS US TO AGENDA ITEM 19, BUDGET AMENDMENT. YOU ALL MAY KNOW THAT THE DRAFT, WE HAVE ADDITIONAL TREE REMOVAL THAT NEEDS TO BE DONE. WE ARE BUDGETING TO 600,000 IN OUR BUDGET. STAFF WOULD LIKE ANOTHER 680 USING THE 2023 UNDESIGNATED FUND BALANCE FOR TREE REMOVAL DUE TO DROUGHT CONDITIONS AND APPROVED TREE REMOVAL CONTRACTS WITH MONSTER TREE SERVICE, CYPRESSWOOD TREE SERVICE AND BEST CHOICE TREE SERVICE TO EXECUTE IN THE NECESSARY AGREEMENT AS APPROVED IT TO THE FINAL FORM BY TOWNSHIP LEGAL COUNSEL. THERE ARE NO QUESTIONS FOR THE DOCTOR, IS>> OKAY. IT'S BEEN MOVED AND SECONDED. DISCUSSION? IF NOT, ALL OF THOSE IN FAVOR. OPPOSED. MOTION PASSES. THAT BRINGS US TO
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AGENDA ITEM 20. >> GREAT REPORT. GREAT REPORT.
>> YOU CAN REFER TO PAGE DAY SHOULD
>> SOME OF YOUR BEST WORK. TWO WELL DONE. TWO YOU SHOULD HAVE
ASKED FOR SEVEN.. >> THAT BRINGS US TO DIRECTOR
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FRANKS. >> YES, MA'AM. WITH HAD A VERY GOOD MEETING. THE LAST MEETING WE HAD AN HOUR THE CENTER WAS JENN KARLMAN. HE WENT THROUGH, AND VERY RATE DETAIL, THE NEW PROGRAMS AND SWITCHED THE COMMUNITY CENTER. HE POINTED OUT INTERESTING THINGS. I WILL BE BRIEF AS WE'VE BEEN HERE FOR A LONG TIME. ONE, THAT THEY MADE EVERY ATTEMPT, NOT ONLY CUES, BUT OTHER FOLKS MADE AN ATTEMPT. IT IS NOT. THEY ARE, HOWEVER, HOPEFUL THAT THEY WILL GET A SPECIALTY GROCER IN THEIR AS A BUTCHER SHOP OR BAKERY OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT. THEY ARE MOVING AHEAD AT FULL STEAM. THEY WILL BE REVISING AND WE KNOW THE ENTIRE SHOPPING AREA. IT WILL HAVE THE GRAND BALLROOM IN THE CHILDREN'S LIBRARY SECTION AND A HIGH QUALITY STATE-OF-THE-ART DIGITAL LIBRARY SYSTEM AS WELL, SO I THINK THAT WE SHOULD ALL BE VERY PLEASED AND WE ARE OBVIOUSLY VERY WILLING TO WORK WITH US AND FOLKS AT THE VILLAGE ASSOCIATION FOR THE FARMERS MARKET, SO IT WAS VERY WELL RECEIVED IN PLEASE THAT WE HAD EITHER THE PRESIDENT OR THEIR DESIGNATED REPRESENTATIVE TO GET THE MEETING THAT TIME AND THEY HAD A DISCUSSION AND NOT ONLY ABOUT THEM BUT SEVERAL OTHER THINGS AS ONE MIGHT IMAGINE. WE ALSO DISCUSSED THE IDEA AND THERE HAS BEEN MUST INTEREST IN THE COMMUNITY ABOUT GARAGE SALES, BUT IT WAS PRETTY CLEAR FROM THE DISCUSSION OF THE PRESIDENT THAT THEY ARE NOT INCLINED TO TAKE THAT RESPONSIBILITY OVER. I HOPE THAT PERHAPS THE VILLAGE ASSOCIATION WOULD TAKE A LOOK AT THAT. VERY LOW NUMBERS. ALSO, CHRISTMAS. WE ARE ABLE TO ANSWER SPECIFIC QUESTIONS ABOUT THINGS GOING ON IN THE CAN UNITY AND WE PRESENTED TO THEM, THE VERY GOOD REPORT THAT CHRIS DOES EVERY MONTH ON ACTIVITIES FOR THEM TO SHARE. ANYTHING ELSE WE MISSED?
>> IS BEEN A GREAT IDEA. I THINK GETTING ALL OF THE VIGIL JUST TOGETHER ONCE A MONTH AND WE CAN DISCUSS THINGS AND WAS PRACTICES. I THINK IT'S BEEN A GREAT JOB AND YOU WERE THE ONES THAT BROUGHT IT TO THE GROUP. GOOD JOB.
>> AND IF THERE ARE ANY QUESTIONS.
>> I WILL TAKE THAT AS A MOTION.
>> SECOND. >> ALL OF THOSE IN FAVOR. A
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POST. MOTION PASSES. THERE IS NO NEED FOR EXECUTIVE SESSION AND SO THAT BRINGS US TO AGENDA ITEM 23, TO CONSIDER ITEMS TO BE PLACED ON THE AGENDA FOR NEXT MONTH'S MEETING.>> RESPONDING TO AND KENNEDY'S AND DIRECTOR FRANKS COMMENTS, I THINK IT IMPORTANT FOR US TO GET A REPORT AND ASK HOWARD HUGHES CORPORATION THE PLEASE COME AND SHARE WITH US.
>> NO. >> NO, TONIGHT. NO, THE NEXT BOARD MEETING. IS A LOT OF INFORMATION IS PRIVATE. THAT'S WHAT THEY ARE DOING. THEY ARE A PRIVATE PROPERTY OWNER AND IT WOULD BE WONDERFUL WE CAN ASK THEM TO COME AND MAKE SURE WE
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PERFECT CORRECTLY SO THEY CAN SPEAK, ATTORNEY. THANK YOU.>> ANY OTHER? IF NOT, THAT BRINGS US TO AGENDA ITEM 24, BOARD ANNOUNCEMENTS. A REMINDER, VETERANS DAY WILL BE CELEBRATED ON NOVEMBER 11TH, NORTH SHORE PARK, FROM 3:00 UNTIL 5:00 AND WE WELCOME EVERYONE TO ATTEND. ALSO, FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO DO NOT KNOW, THIS MONTH CELEBRATE THE 50TH YEAR OF OUR WEAPONS FIRE DEPARTMENT AND CHIEF BUCK IS UP THERE AND WE ARE VERY FORTUNATE TO HAVE THE CHIEF AND HIS ENTIRE TEAM OF FIREFIGHTERS DOING EVERYTHING THAT THEY DO, SO THANK YOU.
>> REALLY IMPRESSED WITH THIS FINAL HOUR OF FOLKS HERE. THE NEW REALLY GO INTO A NEGATIVE SESSION AND IF YOU ARE NOT PAINTED TO THIS, YOU'RE NOT HERE. THIS IS REFRESHING. I THINK SOME OF YOU ARE GODS OR SPOUSES PUTTING KIDS DOWN AND YOU ARE LIKE, NO, MEETINGS RUNNING LONG. I KNOW THE TRICK.
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WALNUT AND HAVE A DRINK. >> IT IS NOT:15. IS THERE A
MOTION TO ADJOURN? >> SO MOVED.
>> SECOND. >> IT IS MOVED AND SECONDED.
IT'S BEEN MOVED AND SECONDED. ALL OF THOSE IN FAVOR SIGNIFY.
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