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[Trinity River Corridor Local Government Corporation Board on January 17, 2025.]
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WELL, WELCOME TO THE TRINITY RIVER LOCAL GOVERNMENT CORPORATION, UH, BOARD MEETING FOR THIS JAN, OUR FIRST MEETING OF THE YEAR FOR JANUARY 17TH, 20, UH, 2025.
IT IS 10 10:10 AM ON THIS DATE, AND I WANNA CALL THIS MEETING TO ORDER.
UM, WELCOME TO EVERYONE THIS MORNING.
THOSE OF YOU THAT ARE ONLINE AND HERE IN PERSON IN THE BRIEF COUNCIL BRIEFING ROOM.
UM, FIRST ITEM, WELL, SECOND ITEM ON THE AGENDA IS PUBLIC SPEAKERS.
UM, THEN WE'D, I'D LIKE TO, UM, APPROVE, SHARE THE MINUTES.
YOU SHOULD HAVE BOARD MEMBERS, YOU SHOULD HAVE RECEIVED THAT IN YOUR PACKET ON YESTERDAY WITH THE MINUTES FROM NOVEMBER 15TH MINUTES FROM NOVEMBER 15TH, UH, 2024.
AND I HOPE YOU'VE HAD A CHANCE TO REVIEW THEM.
AND IF THERE ARE NO ADDITIONS OR CORRECTIONS, IF YOU DO A LITTLE QUICK REVIEW NOW, THEN I WOULD ENTERTAIN, UH, OUR SECRETARY, UH, GARY TACK IS, COULD NOT BE HERE WITH US TODAY.
AND SO WE WANT TO, UM, WANNA PRESENT THESE MINUTES.
AND I, IF THERE ARE NO ADDITIONS AND CORRECTION, I WOULD ACCEPT A MOTION FROM THE BOARD TO ACCEPT.
UH, SO MOVED, MR. I'LL SECOND IT.
AND SECOND THAT WE ACCEPT THE MINUTES AS PRESENTED, UH, OF NOVEMBER 15TH, 2024.
IT'S BEEN MOVED, SECONDED, AND ACCEPTED.
UM, ITEM NUMBER FOUR ON OUR AGENDA THIS MORNING IS THE ELECTION OF THE 2025 BOARD OF BOARD OFFICERS AND APPOINTMENT OF WORK WORK GROUPS.
UM, WE HAVE SHARED, I SHARED IN OUR LAST MEETING THAT I WAS, UH, I WOULD BE STEPPING DOWN AS THE CHAIR FOR THIS, UH, TRINITY RIVER, LGC.
I'VE SERVED SINCE 2019 AND MY SEASON IS UP
I WANT TO THANK THE CITY STAFF.
YOU GUYS HAVE BEEN SO, UM, UH, HELPFUL AND SUPPORTIVE, AND ESPECIALLY IN THE BEGINNING WHEN I DID NOT KNOW WHAT THE HECK I WAS DOING.
YOU GUYS HAVE BEEN KIND AND I APPRECIATE EACH AND EACH ONE OF YOU.
I HAVE ENJOYED WORKING WITH YOU.
THIS IS, I HAVE ENJOYED LITERALLY THE CHA THIS HAS BEEN A CHALLENGE, UM, FOR ME IN SO MANY DIFFERENT WAYS.
UM, AND I HAVE LITERALLY ENJOYED IT.
THIS PROJECT, THIS IS A GENERATIONAL PROJECT.
THIS IS A PROJECT THAT'S COM TRANSFORMATIVE.
ANYTHING THAT IT'S GONNA TAKE THIS AMOUNT OF WORK TO DO TO GET DONE.
AND IT'S FOLK BEEN TALKING ABOUT IT FOR, I, I SAY, A HUNDRED YEARS, NOT 30 YEARS.
THEN TO BE A PART OF THIS AND TO, FOR ME TO KNOW THAT I HAD SOME LITTLE ROLE IN ITS IN ITS, UH, PROGRESS TOWARD FRUITION.
I'VE ENJOYED WORKING WITH EACH AND EVERY ONE OF YOU.
YOU HAVE MADE ME GIVEN ME MY LITTLE PROPS.
UH, AND I, I APPRECIATE THAT TO THIS BOARD.
I THINK THE MAYOR HAS MADE TR GREAT APPOINTMENTS AND YOU GUYS, AND I, I GUESS I WANNA SAY THE TPC AND TO THE CITY STAFF, THAT THIS BOARD IS WILLING TO STEP UP, UM, AND ARE COMMITTED TO SERVE.
AND I JUST WANNA LET YOU GUYS KNOW THAT.
I HOPE WHATEVER YOU GAVE TO ME, YOU GIVE THEM A LITTLE BIT MORE.
YOU GUYS HAVE DONE, YOU HAVE DONE GREAT FOR ME.
I HAVE A SAYING AT THE CHURCH WHERE I SERVE FOR EVEN GREATER THING, AND I'M LOOKING FOR THAT.
AND I WILL, UH, CHALLENGE WHOEVER'S GOING TO BE THE NEXT CHAIR AND THE NEXT OFFICERS THAT I'M LOOKING FOR SOMETHING DIFFERENT.
UM, I IS A NEW SEASON, CALLS FOR NEW LEADERSHIP AND DIFFERENT STYLE OF LEADERSHIP.
SOMETIMES A NEW SEASON CALLS FOR THAT.
AND I'LL BE DISAPPOINTED IF I GET THE SAME THING.
LASTLY, I'M WILLING TO SERVE THE NEW CHAIR, WHOEVER THAT THAT'S ELECTED, HE ASSUMED.
UM, AND I SERVE AT THEIR PLEASURE.
UM, BUT I, I WILL GIVE THIS LITTLE CAVEAT.
IF, IF I SEE THAT MY PRESENCE IS A DISTRACTION, AND WHEN I SAY DISTRACTION, I MEAN YOU COMING TO ME AND NOT TO THE NEW CHAIR AND YOU LOOKING, YOU KNOW, I TELL YOU, LIKE I, MY PRE MY PREDECESSOR TOLD THE CONGREGATION, WHEN HE STEPPED DOWN, HE SAID, WHATEVER YOU
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TELL ME, I'M GOING TO TELL HIM.UH, AND, BUT IF I, IF I SEE THAT, THAT I MIGHT, MY PRESENCE MIGHT BE A DISTRACTION.
I THINK THAT'S HELPFUL FOR ANY ORGANIZATION OR ANY LEADERSHIP THAT THEY ARE WILLING TO HELP TRANSITION PROCESS.
I AM HERE AND I SERVE AT THE, AT THE PLEASURE OF THE CHAIR.
UM, BUT I ALSO KNOW, YOU KNOW, OLD CHAIRS CAN BE DISTRACTED, AND I DON'T, I DO NOT WANT TO BE THAT, UH, TO THE WORK.
UM, I DID, WE DID THE, IN YOUR PACKAGE, YOU SHOULD HAVE RECEIVED A, UM, A NOMINATION FORM.
WE STARTED THIS A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO.
UM, INSTEAD OF DOING IT PRE IN, PRE PRESENT, I, UH, WE PUT TOGETHER THIS, YOU CAN NOMINATE YOURSELF OR YOU CAN NOMINATE, UH, YOUR, UH, SOMEONE ELSE.
WE HAVE FOUR POSITIONS, UM, TO BE FILLED TODAY.
UM, I'M THE CURRENT OFFICE HOLDER.
UH, CURRENTLY THE SECRETARY IS CARRIE AK, AND THE TREASURER IS EDDIE ABETA.
UM, AND OF COURSE, THE WORK GROUPS, THOSE ARE NOT ELECTED.
THESE ARE KIND OF SELECTED OR APPOINTED.
AND I'M GONNA SAY RIGHT NOW, I HOPE THAT EACH OF YOU WHO ARE WORKING IN THOSE PARTICULAR COMMITTEES, I LIKE TO CALL 'EM WORK GROUPS, COMMITTEES GET ME ALL I GOT, I GOT TRAUMATIZED BY COMMITTEES.
THEY TOO LONG AND THEY GO ON FOREVER.
UM, AND IT, SOMETIMES IT DOESN'T GET TO WORK.
BUT, UM, THESE FOUR PARK EX EXCELLENCE IN THE OFF AND OPERATIONS AND MAINTENANCE, I'M HOPING THAT THOSE WILL CONTINUE IN THEIR SPOT.
UH, PARK EXCELLENCE IS, UH, DR.
QUICKS SAW DIANE BUTLER, COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT.
STEPHANIE KNIGHT DESIGNING CONSTRUCTION WITH EDDIE BETO AND GARY ACK, AND COMMUNICATIONS AND MARKETING, SARAH JACKSON.
SO, UM, I'LL TAKE NOMINATIONS FOR THE CHAIR.
I, I MOVE TO NOMINATE, UH, ANDREW QUIS.
DO WE NEED A SECOND ON THAT? I WOULD SECOND THAT.
AND SECOND THAT WE, THAT ANDREW QUIS SAW BECOME THE NEXT CHAIR OF THE TRINITY RIVER LOCAL GOVERNMENT CORPORATION.
ALL IN FAVOR? OH, BY SAYING AYE.
THAT INCLUDES THE CHAIR,
UM, I, I AM GOING TO NOMINATE SARAH JACKSON TO BE THE VICE CHAIR FOR THE LGC.
YES, I WILL EVEN MORE ENTHUSIASTICALLY
UM, IT IS BEEN MOVED AND I GUESS ACCEPTED, SECONDED THAT, AND THAT, UH, SARAH JACKSON WOULD BECOME THE VICE CHAIR.
FOR SECRETARY, I'M GONNA NOMINEE I CONTINUE ASK GARY OCK TO CONTINUE AS THE, AS THE, UH, SECRETARY OF THE BOARD, AS WELL AS EDDIE O BETA AS THE TREASURER.
AND NEITHER ONE OF THEM COULD BE HERE TODAY, BUT I'VE TO COMMUNICATE WITH THEM IF THEY WOULD BE WILLING TO SERVE, AND THEY SAID YES.
SO I, GARY ACK AS THE CHAIR, AS THE SECRETARY AND EDDIE O BETA CONTINUE AS THE TREASURER ALL IN.
UM, SO WE HAVE, WE ACTUALLY THOUGH, BEFORE WE MOVE OFF THAT, IF YOU DON'T MIND, I WASN'T MOVING OFF OF THAT, BUT, OKAY.
I JUST WANNA TAKE A MOMENT BEFORE MOVE OFF.
I MEAN, YOU, YOU SAID AGAIN THAT YOU WERE RESIGNING AS CHAIR, BUT WE ARE GRATEFUL THAT YOU'RE STAYING ON LEADERSHIP.
UM, BUT I JUST WANNA TAKE A MOMENT AS SOMEONE WHO WILL BE WORKING WITH OUR NEW CHAIR TO ATTEMPT TO CARRY ON THE MANTLE OF LEADERSHIP THAT YOU ESTABLISHED.
JUST THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR YEARS OF LEADERSHIP IN THIS ROLE FOR THE ONE OF THE ONES WHO BROUGHT ME ON THE BOARD, AND JUST ALL THE GREAT THINGS THAT WE'VE MADE TO DO TO WHERE WE'RE GETTING TO, TO ACTUALLY SEEING MOVEMENT HELP PARK.
SO, JUST THANK YOU, UM, ON BEHALF.
AND I DON'T KNOW IF OTHERS ON THE BOARD WANNA SHARE COMMENTS AS WELL.
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WE, WELL, THANK YOU.AND, AND TO HAVE A TRANSITION TO KEEP YOU ON, UM, VINCENT IS, IS, UM, I THINK WISE AND REALLY WE ARE ALL GRATEFUL FOR YOUR WORK AND SERVICE OVER THE LAST FIVE YEARS.
I, I'M, I THINK I'M THE NEWEST TO THE BOARD, AND PASTOR PARKER HAS BEEN WONDERFUL ABOUT ONBOARDING ME AND, AND SHEPHERDING ME.
AND, UH, I AM SO RELIEVED THAT HE'LL STILL BE ON THE BOARDS BECAUSE WE HAVE GREAT CHEMISTRY AND A, AND A AND A, UH, WILLINGNESS TO REALLY, UH, WORK HARD FOR THIS AMAZING PROJECT THAT WE'RE, UH, PART OF.
SO THANK YOU PASTOR PARKER, AND, UH, AND ANDREW, I WILL, UH, UM, SUPPORT YOU IN ANY WAY I CAN.
I'M SO PLEASED THAT YOU'VE ACCEPTED.
WELL, FIRST I'LL SAY THANK YOU TO THAT, STEPHANIE AND I, I DID WANT TO CHIME IN.
I WAS WARNED MID MEETING HERE BY THE PASTOR THAT HE WAS, UH, SO READY THAT IN THE MIDDLE OF, OF THE AGENDA, HE MAY SEND IT OVER AND I HAVE TO RUN THE REMAINDER, THE AGENDA.
UH, SO I WAS WAITING FOR THAT MOMENT.
BUT I DID WANT TO SAY, UH, I THINK TOGETHER WE PROBABLY HAVE SERVED THE LONGEST ANY PAIRING HERE.
AND IT'S BEEN AN ABSOLUTE PLEASURE.
AND WHATEVER THIS NONSENSE ABOUT GETTING IN THE WAY IS, UH, I DON'T KNOW THAT THAT TRANSLATES TO THIS KIND OF BOARD VERY WELL.
I THINK YOU ARE GONNA BE A HUGE ASSET AND PERSONALLY STEPPING IN HIS CHAIR, I CAN'T, I CAN'T WAIT TO LEAN ALL OVER YOU
UM, IN THAT VEIN OF CONTINUING, I DO NOTE THAT THE NEXT BULLET POINT SAYS, VINCENT T. PARKER
ON AN UPDATE OF AMENDMENT OR NOT.
AND IF I MAY INTERRUPT, PLEASE, I WOULD JUST LIKE TO CHIME IN AS WELL ON BEHALF OF TPC AND OUR BOARD THAT WE TREMENDOUSLY THANK YOU FOR YOUR LEADERSHIP, SIR, IN THE GAP AND THE TRANSITION THAT YOU'VE PROVIDED THIS PROCESS, UM, AS A TESTAMENT TO WHERE WE ARE TODAY.
AND SO I ECHO THE THANKS AND YOUR APPRECIATION SHARED.
AND I WOULD ALSO LIKE TO BE THE FIRST TO, UM, SAY WELCOME TO A NEW CHAIR AND VICE CHAIR AND THE EXCITEMENT WE, UM, ANTICIPATE AND LOOKING FORWARD TO YOUR LEADERSHIP AS WE CONTINUE TO CARRY WITH THAT MENTOR FORWARD.
WELL, THANK YOU EVERYONE FOR THE TIME WORDS.
AND I'LL ECHO WHAT I SAID EARLIER.
IT'S BEEN A PLEASURE, UM, WORKING WITH ALL OF YOU FROM CITY STAFF.
DEFINITELY YOU GUYS AT TPC, Y'ALL GUYS ARE DOING THE WORK, BUT, AND, UH, AND THIS BOARD, WHICH I THINK IS A GREAT BOARD AND I ANTICIPATE EVEN GREATER THINGS.
SO I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO THAT.
WITH THAT SAID, CAN I MOVE ON NOW?
UM, UPDATE I ITEM NUMBER FIVE THERE, UPDATE ON THE AMENDMENTS TO THE MASTER DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT.
IT HAS BEEN CLEAR FOR A COUPLE OF YEARS NOW THAT WE NEEDED TO MAKE CHANGES IN THE MASTER DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT.
THAT IS THE AGREEMENT, THE CONTRACT BETWEEN THE CITY OF DALLAS AND THIS, THIS BOARD.
AND IT IS THE GUIDELINE, THE FOR THE AGREEMENT BETWEEN, UM, LGC AND OUR PARTNERS, THE, UH, TRINITY PARK CONSERVANCY.
UH, SO THERE ARE TWO DIFFERENT CONTRACTS.
THE AGREEMENT BETWEEN TPC AND LGC IS GUIDED BY THIS MASTER DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT THAT HAS SET US UP, GIVES US THE PARAMETERS OF OUR AUTHORITY, AND GIVES US, UM, GIVES INSTRUCTION TO TPC IN TERMS OF HOW THIS PROJECT IS, SETS OUR BOUNDARIES, SETS THE AUTHORITY THAT IS GIVEN.
AND, AND SO IT'S TREMENDOUSLY IMPORTANT.
THIS DOCUMENT WAS PUT TOGETHER IN 2017.
IT IS OUTDATED TO SAY THE LEAST.
WE HAVE LEARNED, UM, UH, WHAT WORKS AND WHAT WILL NOT WORK, WHAT, WHAT CHANGES, UM, JUST IN JUST SOME GOVERNANCE ISSUES THAT NEED TO CHANGE.
BUT JUST SOME THINGS ON FROM A PRACTICAL STANDPOINT TO MAKE THIS, THE PROCESS OF THIS COMPLICATED PROJECT MOVE FORWARD, UM, IN A SMOOTHER WAY AND AN EASIER WAY.
SO WE DO NEED TO REQUEST TO THE CITY, UM, THAT WE MAKE SOME CHANGES HERE.
ONE OF THE BIGGEST HOLD, UH, HOLD UP HAS BEEN IN THE MASTER DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT.
IT REQUIRES THAT THERE WILL BE AN OPERATIONS AND MAINTENANCE AGREEMENT PLAN IN PLACE.
AND IN ORDER TO DO THAT, WE HAVE BEEN LOOKING FOR, UM, FUNDING FOR THAT.
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THINK WE CAN PUT A PLAN IN PLACE, BUT IT NEEDS TO, IT NEEDS TO BE FUNDED.AND ONE OF THE BIG ISSUES THAT WE HAVE BEEN CHALLENGES THAT THIS WE'RE FACING, BUT WE ARE, AND WE FEEL LIKE WE'RE MAKING HEADWAY, IS IN THIS AREA OF OPERATIONS AND MAINTENANCE.
TONY'S GONNA TALK ABOUT THAT IN A FEW MOMENTS.
BUT, UM, IN ORDER TO MOVE THIS PROCESS FORWARD, SINCE WE HAVE, UM, WE HAVE HAD A DEMOLITION DAY AND WE ARE MOVING TOWARD CONSTRUCTION, THERE'S SEVERAL THINGS NEED TO HAPPEN.
THERE NEEDS TO BE AN AGREEMENT ON LAND ACQUISITION AND, AND TRANSFERRING OF LAND.
THERE NEEDS TO BE AN AGREEMENT, UH, UNDERSTANDING AS IT RELATES TO OPERATIONS AND MAINTENANCE AND WHAT THE CITY MAY BE WILLING TO PROVIDE, WHAT RESOURCES THEY MAY BE ABLE TO PROVIDE IN THAT AREA.
THERE NEEDS TO BE SOME GOVERNANCE, TALKING, UH, CHANGES.
THERE NEEDS TO BE SOME, UM, I KNOW TPC HAS SOME MARKETING THINGS THAT THEY WANTED TO ADDRESS, UM, THAT WERE, ARE IN THE MASTER DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT, I THINK AFTER WHAT, SINCE 17.
SO WE'RE TALKING, WE'RE GOING INTO NINE, YOU KNOW, EIGHT YEARS HERE THAT WE'VE LEARNED A LOT THERE.
AND WE'VE LEARNED WHAT WILL WORK AND WHAT WILL NOT WORK.
AND SOME, WE WANT TO MAKE THESE, WE WANT TO, SINCE WE HAVE TO GO BACK TO THE CITY COUNCIL TO GET THEIR APPROVAL FOR THESE CHANGES, WE WANT TO PUT ALL THESE IN ONE DOCUMENT, MAKE ONE CH THESE, MAKE ONE PASS.
'CAUSE THE PROCESS OF GOING TO THE, UM, CITY COUNCIL IS, IS NOT ARDUOUS.
SO TO BE ONE OF THE NEXT STEPS IN THAT PROCESS HAS BEEN, UM, WHAT WE'VE DONE TODAY.
LET ME, LET ME BACK UP A LITTLE BIT.
THERE'S EACH, THIS BOARD, THERE'S A TPC LIAISON THAT'S REPRESENTED BY TONY MOORE.
THERE'S A CITY OF DALLAS LIAISON, WHICH IS TODAY MAR MODEL CAROL.
AND THEN THERE'S THE LGC LIAISON, WHICH IS THE CHECK.
AND WE MEET REGULARLY OR TWICE A MONTH.
UM, AND WE DISCUSS JUST HOW TO MOVE FORWARD IN THESE AREAS.
AND SO I ASKED, UM, THE CITY LIAISON MOLLY CARROLL, IF SHE WOULD, IF SHE AND HER TEAM, SISTER DEAN OF WOULD REVIEW THE CONTRACT.
I KNOW THAT, UH, DIANE AND ANDREW, YOU'VE DONE BEEN A PART OF THAT PROJECT.
WE'VE BEEN DOING THIS ON AND OFF FOR TWO, THREE YEARS.
UM, SO WE WE'RE TRYING TO GET BEFORE THE COUNCIL BEFORE MAY, IN ORDER TO DO THAT, WE WANTED TO PRESENT SOMETHING TO REVIEW FOR THE CITY ATTORNEY'S OFFICE TO REVIEW.
SO I ASKED, UM, UH, MOLLY, IF SHE WOULD, SHE AND DINA WOULD REVIEW THE CONTRACT FROM THEIR PERSPECTIVE, UH, FROM THEIR SIDE.
AND WE'VE ALREADY HAD DISCUSSIONS WITH TPC, THEY SUBMITTED LAST YEAR, YEAR BEFORE LAST.
SOME SUGGESTED CONTRACT CHANGES.
SO, UM, LAST WEEK WE, A, I ASKED, UM, MOLLY SUBMITTED FOR INITIAL REVIEW, SOME INITIAL CONTRACT CHANGE.
THOSE, THOSE HAVE TO BE REVIEWED BY THIS BOARD, UM, UH, APPROVED BY THIS BOARD BEFORE THEY CAN GO JUST, JUST BEFORE THEY CAN GO TO THE CITY COUNCIL.
BUT I JUST WANTED TO LET YOU KNOW THE GROUNDWORK THAT IS BEING LAID, UH, FOR THE BOARD, FOR YOUR REVIEW.
UH, FOR OUR REVIEW COMING, UH, COMING FORWARD.
BUT THIS PROCESS, YOU KNOW, THE CITY ATTORNEY, I HAVE NO CLUE HOW LONG THE CITY ATTORNEYS WILL TAKE, UH, TO, TO DO THAT.
HER OFFICE WILL SEND, UM, SHE WILL SEND TO EACH OF THE BOARD MEMBERS A COPY OF WHAT, UH, THOSE CONTRACT CHANGES THAT WERE SUGGESTED THAT IT HAVE BEEN, THAT WERE SUBMITTED TO THE CITY'S ATTORNEY'S OFFICE LAST WEEK AND FOR OUR REVIEW.
AND OF COURSE, IT'S UNDER REVIEW.
IT DOESN'T MEAN THAT'S THE FINAL, THIS BOARD HAS THE FINAL SAY BEFORE IT GOES TO THE COUNCIL.
UM, WE, I RECEIVED JUST A, UH, UH, REQUEST THIS, THIS WELL, YESTERDAY OR DAY BEFORE YESTERDAY FROM, UM, THE CH THE TRANSPORTATION COMMITTEES, UM, CHAIRPERSON, THEIR REPRESENTATIVE, THEY ASKED THAT WE WOULD PUT MAKE PRESENT TO THE TRANSPORTATION COMMITTEE ON MARCH 25TH.
UM, AND, AND SO THEY'RE ASKING THAT WE PRESENT NOW PART OF OUR ROLE, UH, WELL THE, THE ONE COMMITTEE
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THAT WE REPORT TO, OR WE ARE TO GIVE UPDATES ON, WHICH WE HAVE NEVER DONE.MATTER OF FACT, IN THESE SEVEN YEARS THAT THIS, UH, TEAM, THIS COMMITTEE HAS BEEN, THIS BOARD HAS BEEN IN EXISTENCE.
I DON'T THINK WE HAVE EVER REPORTED GIVEN A REPORT TO THE TRANSPORTATION COMMITTEE.
THOUGH THE MASTER DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT STATES THAT WE ARE TO DO THAT.
IT DOESN'T SAY WHEN WE'RE TO DO IT AND THEN DOES NOT SAY HOW OFTEN WE ARE TO DO IT, BUT THAT WE ARE TO.
BUT NOW THAT WE ARE AT A POINT WHERE WE NEED TO GO TO COUNCIL WITH, UH, WITH SOME CHANGES TO THE MA EXCUSE ME, TO THE MASTER DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT.
WE, WE NEED TO, WE NEED TO GO THROUGH THEM AS WELL AS A PART OF THIS PROCESS.
SO, UM, THEY'VE ASKED THAT WE WOULD GIVE THEM WHO WAS GOING, WHO WOULD MAKE PRESENTATION TO THEM, UH, ON THE 25TH.
QUESTIONS, COMMENTS, CONCERNS, PROCESS, TALK TO ME.
SO WHEN CAN WE GET, UM, UM, YOU KNOW, AN UPDATE, I GUESS IN TERMS OF WHAT THE SUBMITTAL IS GONNA LOOK LIKE? VINCENT? UM, OH, MOLLY'S GONNA SEND IT.
SHE SAID SHE'LL SEND THOSE CONTRACT WHAT WE SUBMITTED TO THE CITY ATTORNEY'S OFFICE TODAY.
I WOULD, I KNOW DIANE, YOU AND ANDREW HAVE LOOKED AT THAT.
I DON'T KNOW WHAT NOTES YOU HAD TO PULL UP MY NOTES, BUT THOSE NOTES ARE OLD.
'CAUSE WE HAVE GONE THROUGH THIS A COUPLE OF TIMES.
SO THAT'S PART OF THE, UH, PARK OPERATIONS AND THE EXCELLENCE TEAM THAT THE CONTRACT REVISION COMES UNDER THAT WORK GROUP.
SO WANT EVERYBODY GET A CHANCE TO REVIEW, BUT PARTICULARLY YOU AND DIANE AND YOU AND ANDREW WOULD, WOULD, UM, TAKE A HARD LOOK AT THOSE THINGS AND I'LL, I'LL LEND MY, WHATEVER.
UH, PASTOR ER, CAN YOU SPEAK MORE TO THE REQUEST FROM THE TRANSPORTATION COMMITTEE? WHAT'S, WHAT IS THE EXPECTATION, OBVIOUSLY ATTENDANCE AND PRESENTATION ON THE 25TH, BUT ARE WHAT STAGE IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF A FINAL DRAFT ARE THEY LOOKING FOR AT THAT TIME? WE ARE, THEY'VE NEVER REQUESTED OF US AN UPDATE.
MATTER OF FACT, TONY IS, IF YOU'RE NOT MISTAKEN, WE, I KNOW WE ARE THE ONES THAT ARE CORRECT, UH, ASKING FOR TO GO BEFORE THEM.
UM, WE WANT TO UPDATE THEM ON THE PROGRESS OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE DEPARTMENT.
BUT, BUT THE PRIMARY GOAL AS FAR FROM MY PERSPECTIVE, IS THAT WE PRESENT TO THEM THESE PARTICULAR, THE CONTRACT CHANGES THAT WE NEED TO HAVE IN THE MASTER DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT.
AND PARTICULARLY THE, THE, THE LONGSTANDING ISSUE IS THIS OPERATIONS AND MAINTENANCE PIECE.
UH, TONY'S GONNA TALK A IN A FEW MOMENTS ABOUT WHAT HAS TRANSPIRED IN OUR DISCUSSIONS WITH THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT.
TONY, YOU GONNA TALK ABOUT THAT IN A MINUTE? UPDATE US ON THAT.
BUT THOSE ARE THE PRIMARY THINGS.
'CAUSE WE WANT TO GET TO COUNCIL, AND I DON'T WANNA GET THE COUNT.
WE CAN'T, WE GOTTA GO THROUGH THIS PARTICULAR COMMITTEE, UH, BEFORE WE CAN GET TO COUNCIL AND PASTOR PARKER, IF I MAY JUST ADD ANDREW, JUST A COUPLE OF THE COMMENTS FOR THAT AS FAR AS WHAT'S EXPECTED IN THAT MEETING.
PASTOR PARKER'S, RIGHT? WE HAVE NEVER FORMALLY PROVIDED AN UPDATE ON THE PROJECT AND WHERE THE PROJECT IS IN ITS LIFECYCLE WITH THE EVIDENCE OF THE DEMOLITION DAY AND UPCOMING GROUNDBREAKING, WE THOUGHT THIS WOULD BE THE RIGHT TIME FOR A FULL AND COMPLETE UPDATE.
IN ADDITION TO THAT, AS PASTOR PARKER MENTIONED, THE, AN UPDATE AS IT RELATES TO THE CONTRACT, UM, NEGOTIATIONS AND CHANGES, AND ALSO, UM, MAKING A CASE OF, UM, THE NEED FOR SOME CIVIC SUPPORT AROUND FUNDING AS WELL.
SO THOSE WERE THE BASIC OBJECTIVES THAT WE WOULD SHARE, UPDATE, AND LET ENSURE THAT THIS GROUP WAS FULLY INFORMED IN WHERE WE ARE.
SO PROCEDURALLY, IS THIS AN FYI TO THE COMMITTEE OR IS THIS A, UH, A, AN ASK FOR APPROVAL? OR IS IT AN ASK FOR, UM, UM, THEM TO PERFORM SOME KIND OF FUNCTION FOR US? HELP ME ON THAT PROCESS A LITTLE BIT.
I I DO KNOW THAT ANYTHING THAT, IF WE'RE GOING TO, WE GOTTA GO THROUGH WHATEVER COMMITTEE IN ORDER TO GET TO THE COUNCIL.
COULD YOU HELP ME A LITTLE BIT WITH THE PROCESS? BUT ACTUALLY BEFORE YOU CHIME IN.
JUST TO FURTHER, UH, UNITE'S POINT, THAT WAS EXACTLY WHAT I WAS GONNA ASK AS WELL.
IS THIS MORE OF A, WE WANT A YEARLY FINAL, YOU KNOW, DRAFT, UH, S NOT FINAL TO GO THROUGH, UH, COUNCIL, UM, AS AN FYI SAID, OR ARE WE TRYING TO GET INFORMATION TO FINALIZE OUR
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REVISIONS? ARE WE GONNA GET INFORMATION TRANSPORTATION COMMITTEE THAT'S GONNA INFORM US ON OUR EDITS? I DON'T SEE ANYTHING THAT THEY MIGHT BE INFORMING US OF.UM, IT'S MORE, IT'S MORE THAN THE FYI THINK.
I THINK WE'RE GOING NEED THE APPROVAL, BUT I'M NOT MISTAKEN.
HI, MOLLY CARROLL WITH TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENT.
UM, I THINK THE ENVI WE ENVISION, LET ME JUST BACK UP AND SAY, WE'VE BEEN TALKING A LONG TIME ABOUT THE, THE CONTRACT CHANGES AND THE NEEDED CHANGES TO THE DEVELOPMENT GROUP BETWEEN THE CITY AND THE LGC.
UH, DINA AND I WENT LINE BY LINE, PAGE BY PAGE AND OUTLINED SORT OF SPECIFICALLY WHERE WE THINK, UH, WHAT, WHERE THE UPDATES NEED TO BE MADE.
WE THEN SUBMITTED THAT TO THE CITY ATTORNEY'S OFFICE, AND OBVIOUSLY THEY'RE GONNA BE THE ONES MODIFYING THE CONTRACT AND COMING UP WITH THE ACTUAL SPECIFIC CONTRACT CHANGES.
I, I THINK WHEN WE GO TO THE, THE COMMITTEE, ALL WE REALLY NEED TO BE ABLE TO, TO EXPRESS IS, YOU KNOW, SORT OF BIG ROCKS.
WE NEED TO CHANGE, UM, THE, THE BOUNDARIES OF THE PHASE ONE, THE APP PREMISES, AND IT'S A BIG ONE.
WE NEED TO, UM, HAVE SOME CLARIFICATION AROUND THE MARKETING REQUIREMENTS.
AND SO CLARIFYING THE CONTRACT TO, UM, MAKE IT MORE CLEAR WHAT CAN AND CAN'T BE DONE.
I THINK, UM, ALSO LOOKING AT THIS, THIS CONCEPT AROUND, UH, FUNDING AND, AND ASSISTANCE ON THE O AND M.
SO, SO WHEN WE GO TO THE TRANSPORTATION COMMITTEE, WE'RE NOT GONNA GO AND GIVE THEM, YOU KNOW, A A MARKED UP VERSION OF THE, OF THE CONTRACT.
WE'RE GONNA BE TALKING ABOUT SORT OF HIGH LEVEL, THESE ARE THE THINGS THAT WE ARE LOOKING TO MODIFY WITHIN THE AGREEMENT AND WHY.
AND SO, UH, IN THE MEANTIME, IT, IT, AND THE ATTORNEYS OBVIOUSLY ARE BUSY WITH LOTS AND LOTS OF THINGS, SO WE JUST WANTED TO GET, GO AHEAD AND GET IN THE QUEUE.
SO THAT, THAT'S THE INTENTION OF GETTING THE SUBMITTAL TO THEM, IS TO, YOU KNOW, GIVE THAT PROCESS SOME TIME TO START.
AND, UH, WE'LL SEND YOU WHAT WE, THE, THE CHANGES THAT WE RECOMMENDED.
AND OBVIOUSLY IF THERE'S, THERE'S SOMETHING YOU SEE IN THERE THAT NEEDS TO BE ADDED THAT WE MISSED, UM, WE, WE CAN, WE CAN CHANGE THAT AS WELL.
UM, I HOPE EACH OF YOUR BOARD MEMBERS, YOU, I GOT THIS, I GOT THIS BINDER FROM
ANYBODY REMEMBER THIS THREE INCH BINDER? I DO.
YOU HAVE, YOU STILL HAVE YOURS? AND IT HAS ALL THE, THE DOC, THE ORGANIZATIONAL DOCUMENTS.
UM, YEAH, SO THOSE, THOSE ARE THE MAIN, MAIN THINGS I GUESS.
I GUESS WE, SO IT'S NOT, IT'S NOT, IT'S, IT'S NOT, IT'S MORE THAN THE FYI, BUT IT IS ALSO, UH, IT, IT'S, WE, WE WOULD NEED, WE'RE TRYING TO GARNER THE, THE SUPPORT FOR WHATEVER CHANGES WE NEED TO MAKE.
WE NEED TO, WE NEED EIGHT VOTES IN THE POSITIVE.
NOT THAT IT'S GONNA BE A PROBLEM WHETHER IT'S SOMETHING CONTENTIOUS, BUT WE, THIS IS A PROCESS THAT WE, BECAUSE WE ARE GOING TO NEED EIGHT VOTES TO GET WHATEVER CHANGES TO MAKE IT HAPPEN.
SO IF WE HAVE THE SUPPORT OF THIS PARTICULAR TRANSPORTATION COMMITTEE THAT WE ARE REPORT TO, THEN THAT WE WANT TO INFORM THEM BEFORE WE GO DIRECTLY TO COUNCIL.
THE OTHER PIECE IS WE WANT TO, WE WOULD PREFER TO HAVE A, A JOINT MEETING WITH THE TONY.
HELP ME WITH THE NAME OF THIS.
MS. STEWART COUNCILWOMAN STEWARTS CHAIRS.
THIS PARTICULAR, IT'S, WHAT'S THE NAME OF IT? YES.
IT'S KATHY STEWART'S, UH, PARKS TRAILS IN THE ENVIRONMENT THAT HAS SOME OVERSIGHT FOR PARKS.
SO WE THOUGHT, AS DID COUNCILMAN, UM, NAVAR THAT IT WOULD BE BEST IF BOTH COMMITTEES COULD HEAR THE UPDATE AT ONE TIME.
AND WE'RE NOT REQUIRED, THE BOARD IS NOT REQUIRED TO UP, TO, TO REPORT TO OR UPDATE THE, THAT PARTICULAR COMMITTEE.
BUT WE, IT'S PARKS AND WE'RE, WE'RE DEVELOPING A PARK.
SO WE, THE COUNCILMAN NAVAREZ SUGGESTED THAT WE DO THAT IF HOPEFULLY IT CAN HAPPEN AT THE SAME TIME.
UM, AND I PUT IN A REAL QUICK, MOLLY PUT IN A REQUEST FOR ME TO, TO MEET WITH COUNCILWOMAN STEWART.
UM, I HAVEN'T RESPONDED 'CAUSE I KNEW THIS DAY WAS COMING.
UH, DR. KNIGHT, I HATE TO BELABOR THE POINT, BUT I'M STILL NOT CLEAR ON, UH, THE PROCESS.
SO, UH, WE ARE GONNA TAKE A, A, A DO A VERSION OF THE DOCUMENT THAT HAS BEEN APPROVED BY VARIOUS GROUPS TO
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THE TRANSPORTATION COMMITTEE, AND WE ARE GOING TO UPDATE THEM ON THE CHANGES IN THIS DOCUMENT.ARE THERE EXPECTATIONS THAT, IF THEY HAVE INPUT OR CHANGES THAT WE WILL ACCOMMODATE THAT? OR ARE WE GIVING THIS PRIMARILY AS AN UPDATE AND NOT INVITING, UH, CHANGES BECAUSE THAT WILL CHANGE THE WAY THAT WE APPROACH THIS? GREAT QUESTION.
AND I, I, I DON'T HAVE AN, I DON'T HAVE A GOOD ANSWER FOR THAT.
I, I WOULD, I WOULD SAY JUST IN GENERAL, FROM GENERAL, WHATEVER WE WOULD PRESENT TO AFTER THIS BOARD WOULD PRESENT THE TRANSPORTATION, THAT IF THEY HAD SOME IMPACT, SOME INPUT FOR SUGGESTED CHANGES AS WELL, THEN WE WOULD INCORPORATE THOSE BEFORE WE WENT TO COUNCIL.
IF, IF I MAY, PASTOR PARKER, I, YOU HAVE THE HISTORY HERE, WHICH IS WHY I THINK THAT WAS DIRECTED TOWARDS YOU FOR SURE.
THAT AND IN MY OPINION, UNTIL AT LEAST 11:00 AM YOU'RE STILL CHAIR, BUT
UH, BUT I'LL, I'LL GIVE MY OPINION ON, ON THAT.
UM, AND DEAN KNIGHT, THAT WAS ACTUALLY THE QUESTION I WAS ASKING AS WELL.
SO THANK YOU FOR, FOR FRAMING THAT PROBABLY A LITTLE BIT BETTER.
UH, I LIKE HOW YOU RESPONDED TO THAT, WHICH IS, WE'RE PROBABLY NOT BEHOLDEN IN ANY WAY, BUT I THINK ONE GOOD REASON TO TRY TO GET IT DONE IN MARCH IS SO THAT IF WE HEAR SOMETHING AND, AND WE CAN, AND WE DECIDE AS A GROUP TO ACCOMMODATE, AND WE STILL HAVE TIME TO DO IT BEFORE IT GOES ON TO THE, THE COUNCIL.
SO, UM, I THINK I WOULD RESPOND TO THAT AS SAYING, I, I DON'T THINK THERE'S ANY REQUIREMENT, UH, IGNITE, BUT I THINK BY OUR PROCESS, WE HAVE GIVEN OURSELVES THE OPPORTUNITY TO ACCOMMODATE OUR GOOD SUGGESTIONS WHEN WE MEET.
THANK YOU BOTH WITH, BOTH WITH TRANSPORTATION AND THE PARK.
SEE, WHEN THEY WORK, WHEN YOU WORK AT UNIVERSITIES, THEY BE TALKING ABOUT PRESTON
WE'VE BEEN IN THOSE SITUATIONS BEFORE.
UH, ANY OTHER QUESTIONS FOR ME? I'M, I'M GOOD.
I THINK, UH, JUST BASICALLY TWO QUICK UPDATES.
UM, AND WHERE THE PROJECT IS, I THINK 2025 WILL LOOK BACK TO SAY THAT THIS WILL BE ONE OF THE MOST SIGNIFICANT YEARS IN THE LIFE OF THE PROJECT, JUST BECAUSE A LOT OF SIGNIFICANT THINGS WILL BEGIN TO HAPPEN AND, AND HAS ALREADY BEGUN.
AS PASTOR PARKER MENTIONED, ON OCTOBER 20, UH, 22ND OF LAST YEAR, WE STARTED WHAT WE TERMED THE DEMOLITION DAY.
AND WHAT THAT WAS, WAS THE START OF THE OFFICIAL CLEARING OF THE SITE.
AND AS MASTER PARKER MENTIONED, A 30 YEAR, UM, WINDOW OF FATIGUE.
IT WAS A VERY SYMBOLIC MOMENT THAT SOMETHING PHYSICAL HAD STARTED.
UM, IN ADDITION TO THAT, WHILE THE SITE'S BEING CLEARED, WE ARE WORKING WITH MARCUS SCHROCK, OUR VICE PRESIDENT OF, UH, UH, PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT IN DESIGN.
AND ONCE THE SITE HAS CLEARED, WE WILL START WITH WHAT WILL BE THE OFFICIAL GROUNDBREAKING, UM, AT THIS MOMENT.
THE OFFICIAL GROUNDBREAKING SCHEDULE FOR, UM, THIS IS FIRST PUBLIC STATEMENT OF THIS APRIL 8TH.
AND SO BRIAN LAPITA, OUR MARKETING AT OVERSEAS, OUR MARKETING, A CHIEF MARKETING OFFICER IS GOING TO START WITH A SERIES OF COMMUNICATION TO ALL OUR STAKEHOLDERS FROM A SAVE THE DATE TO AN ACTUAL INVITE THAT WILL GO OUT.
BUT THIS IS VERY SIGNIFICANT IN THE LIFECYCLE OF THIS PROJECT THAT WE ARE GETTING TO PUTTING GOLDEN SHOVELS IN.
AND FROM THERE, MR. SHR, SHAR WILL, ALONG WITH OUR GENERAL CONTRACTOR, UM, BECK WILL MOVE THE PROJECT ALONG.
THIS IS ONE OF THE REASONS WHERE THE, UH, AMENDMENTS TO THE MASTER AGREEMENT IS IMPORTANT.
'CAUSE THIS WILL THEN ALLOW THE CITY, UM, TO CLOSE AND VACATE ON SOME PARCELS OF LAND THAT'S WITHIN THE MASTER PLAN OF THE 22 ACRES.
AND SO THAT'S ANOTHER REASON TO, UM, UM, GETTING THIS, UM, AGREEMENT WORKED OUT.
SO VERY SIGNIFICANT FOR THE PROJECT AND THE FACT THAT WE WILL HAVE GOLDEN SHOVELS AND THE PROJECT START VERY SIGNIFICANT FROM A CIVIC POINT OF VIEW, VERY SIGNIFICANT FROM A STAKEHOLDERS AND PUBLIC TRUST POINT OF VIEW, THAT THE PARK IS PHYSICALLY MOVING ALONG.
AND FROM THERE, THE EXCITEMENT AS MR. SHR SHIRE WORKS, THE SOIL AND THINGS START TO BECOME, UM, VERTICAL AND TANGIBLE.
OUR BOARD AND OTHER STAKEHOLDERS THAT HAVE SUPPORTED US ALONG THE WAY, INCLUDING THIS GROUP HERE HA ARE EXCITED ABOUT THIS AS WELL.
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TIED TO ALL OF THAT WOULD BE A VERY AGGRESSIVE FUNDRAISING CAMPAIGN BECAUSE, UM, WE'RE ABOUT 170 OF A $325 MILLION CAMPAIGN, AND THAT'S SIGNIFICANT.BUT AS WE GET INTO CONSTRUCTION, WE GET INTO REAL BILLABLES AND, UM, WITH OUR, OUR GENERAL CONTRACTOR AND OUR SUBS.
AND SO WE ARE, WE'RE, UM, THIS IS THE YEAR THAT WE WILL RECALL THAT THIS PART, THIS PROJECT REALLY MAKES A MASSIVE TURN INTO COME TO FRUITION.
UM, WHAT HAS BEEN, UM, UM, A, A PATH OF TRAVEL AS WE POSITION OURSELVES FOR THIS MASSIVE PUBLIC PRIVATE INITIATIVE IS THE PARTICIPATION CIVICALLY IN THE ASSISTANCE THAT THE, THE, UM, PRIVATE, PHILANTHROPIC COMMUNITY WILL RECEIVE IN BRINGING THIS PARK TO FRUITION.
AND WE'VE NOT, WE'VE BEEN, UM, WE'VE NOT BEEN SHY IN SAYING THAT A PROJECT OF THIS SCALE, UM, REQUIRES THE, THE, THE PARTICIPATION OF THE CITY.
AND, UM, WITH THAT SAID, UM, JUST A BRIEF UPDATE WITH WHERE WE ARE.
WE'RE IN THE PROCESS AND WORKING WITH THE OFFICE OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN SUBMITTING AN APPLICATION THAT WILL PROVIDE SOME ASSISTANCE, UM, TO THIS PROJECT.
WE'RE EXCITED ABOUT THIS, THIS OPPORTUNITY.
THIS IS, UM, UH, UH, SIGNIFICANT PROGRESS IN AS, AS THE CITY CONTINUES TO HELP AND SUPPORT THIS MOVE ALONG.
AND SO, UM, THIS WILL TAKE SOME TIME.
UM, OBVIOUSLY WE WOULD LOVE FOR THIS TO COME TO FRUITION BEFORE, UM, THIS CURRENT, UM, COUNCIL LEAVES OFFICE.
AND SO WE'RE WORKING CLOSELY WITH OFFICE OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT TO MOVE THAT ALONG.
AND SO, AGAIN, JUST A FINAL STATEMENT HERE.
2025, IT'S GONNA BE A SIGNIFICANT YEAR.
THIS IS THE YEAR THINGS BECOMES VERY TANGIBLE AND TPC ALONG WITH OUR BOARD, WE'RE TRULY EXCITED AND OPTIMISTIC.
AND THE OUTLOOK QUESTION DOES, COULD YOU JUST SHARE A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT THE SUBMITTAL TO THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT? UM, I KNOW IT WAS A VERY, I KNOW IT WAS A VERY GENERAL PIECE, BUT WOULD YOU SHARE WITH THE BOARD A LITTLE BIT ABOUT IT? SURE.
AND SO WE'RE STILL HAVING A SERIES OF CONVERSATIONS WITH OFFICER OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND WHAT THAT WOULD LOOK LIKE, AND CERTAINLY DEPENDING ON THEIR LEADERSHIP IN DETERMINE THE BEST PATH THAT WILL GO FORWARD.
WE'LL HAVE A LOT OF ASSISTANCE FROM, UH, MR. ISSA GONZALEZ AND OTHERS AS WE MOVE THIS ALONG AND JUSTIFYING AND MAKING A CASE FOR OUR, UM, NEED.
UM, WE HAVE ALSO PRESENTED OPPOSITE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT THAT WE DO HAVE SOME, UM, COMMITMENTS ON OUR OWN AS FAR AS SKIN IN THE GAME, IN TERMS OF THE O AND M IN TERMS OF, UM, AN ENDOWMENT THAT WAS PLEDGED, UM, FOR 40 MILLION, AND THE DRAW THAT WILL COME OFF THAT IN ADDITION TO FUNDS THAT WE WILL GENERATE.
AND SO THE OFFICE OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IS LOOKING AT SEVERAL DIFFERENT BUCKETS THAT COULD RANGE FROM TIFF, A, PID, UM, AN MMD TO EVEN PERHAPS THE GENERAL FUND.
AND SO WE'RE WAITING FOR THEIR FINAL, UM, UH, DESIGNATION IN THE STRATEGY AND WHERE THAT WILL GO.
BUT, UM, WE'RE VERY OPEN AND, AND EXCITED THAT DIFFERENT OPTIONS THAT'S BEING LOOKED UPON AT THIS POINT.
AND LET ME BE CLEAR TO THE BOARD, THIS IS A VERY GENERAL, THAT ONE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ASKED TPC TO SUBMIT THIS APPLICATION.
TWO, IT'S, IT WAS NOTHING SPECIFIC.
THERE WAS NO SPECIFIC ASK IF I'M CORRECT.
SO IT WASN'T LIKE, WE WANT $10 MILLION FOR THIS, OR WE WANT $2 MILLION FROM THIS PARTICULAR BUCKET.
IT WAS A GENERAL, THAT'S APPLICATION THAT EVIDENTLY IS NORMAL FOR THEM.
AND THERE WAS NO SPECIFIC ASK IN TERMS OF AN, WE MIGHT HAVE GIVEN IT AN AMOUNT OF GENERAL, BUT IT WAS HOW IT'S, HOW IT WOULD BE DONE, WHAT THEY WOULD CHOOSE TO DO IS, OR OFFER IS STILL UP IN THE AIR AND WITH FAIRNESS TO THEM.
THEY'RE CONSIDERING EVERYTHING AT THIS POINT.
AND SO I WOULDN'T WANT TO PREMATURELY SAY WHERE IT'S COMING FROM, BUT YES, SIR, THEY'RE LOOKING AT A LOT OF DIFFERENT OPTIONS AND HAVE BEEN VERY COLLABORATIVE AND, UM, WE JUST, YOU KNOW, REMAIN EXTREMELY HOPEFUL THAT WE WILL HAVE SOMETHING MORE SPECIFIC HERE IN A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME.
SO I JUST WANTED TO BE CLEAR TO THE BOARD THAT, THAT WE HADN'T, THAT YOU HADN'T SUBMITTED A, A SPECIFIC ASK THAT WE WERE NOT AWARE OF, THAT'S ALL.
NOT AT, NOT AT THIS TIME, SIR.
IT WAS A GENERAL, A GENERAL APPLICATION PROCESS THAT I UNDERSTAND, JOHN.
YOU KNOW, IT WAS VERY GENERAL, SEVERAL PAGES AND IT WAS, I DON'T KNOW, IT'S,
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IT WAS LIKE A SUBMITTAL FROM MY UNDERSTANDING.IT WAS LIKE A SUBMITTAL AND, UH, FOR, FOR FUNDING, AND WE'LL LEAVE IT TO YOU HOW YOU WANNA DO IT KIND OF THING.
BUT TREMENDOUS PROGRESS FROM WHERE WE'VE EVER BEEN IN THIS DIALOGUE, THIS CONVERSATION.
AND SO, AGAIN, I, I KEEP REPEATING.
WE'RE EXTREMELY HOPEFUL, UM, AND THANKFUL TO THE OFFICE OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FOR THEIR, UM, SUPPORT.
AND, UM, HOPEFULLY IN A SHORT ORDER WE'LL BE ABLE TO SEE WHERE THIS GOES.
ANY OTHER QUESTIONS FOR TONY? ANY OTHER UPDATES? OUTSIDE DISTRACTED TABLE WAS HELPFUL.
UM, DID THE, DID YOU END UP GROUNDBREAKING? YEAH, WE, UH, REITERATED THAT, UM, AGAIN, THE SUCCESS OF DEMOLITION DAY AND, AND NOW THAT THE SITE'S BEING CLEARED.
UM, APRIL 8TH IS THE GROUNDBREAKING DATE, AND, UM, AND WE WILL, IT WILL BE HELD ON THE SITE AND, UM, WE WILL SEEK, UM, LOOK FORWARD TO, UH, SAVE THE DATA AND, UH, AND MORE INFORMATION TO COME IN THAT THERE'S ANOTHER PIECE THAT, THAT I KNOW WE TALKED ABOUT AMONG THE LIAISONS, AND IT, IT WILL, IT WAS HELPFUL TO ME TO UNDERSTAND PART OF THIS PROCESS AND WHERE TPC IS IN THE CONSTRUCTION, AND MARCUS TALKED ABOUT IT.
THERE'S LIKE THREE, I DON'T KNOW YOU WANT TO USE PARCELS? PARCELS, YES.
I, I'LL BE FRANK WITH YOU, I WAS CONCERNED ABOUT HAVING A GROUNDBREAKING BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, WE HADN'T HAD ALL THESE CONTRACT CHANGES YET, BUT THE, THE PAR, UM, PARCELS IS THE WORD THAT YES, SIR, THAT'S WAS USING PARCEL, THE THREE PARCELS THAT HE TALKED ABOUT, THE FIRST TWO PARCELS, UM, COULD BE HAND MOVE.
WE COULD DO THAT WITHOUT, UM, THAT PROCESS COULDN'T MOVE FORWARD WITHOUT THESE PARTICULAR CONTRACT CHANGES THAT WE WOULD NEED.
WHEN WE GET TO PARCEL NUMBER THREE, THEN WE, WE GOT AN ISSUE.
AND SO, UM, I, I FELT A LITTLE BIT MORE CONFIDENT IN, IN THE GROUNDBREAKING, YOU KNOW, TPC HAS HAD TO HEAR ME BE A LITTLE HESITANT ON SOME OF THESE PUBLIC EVENTS.
'CAUSE I, I'M AFRAID THAT WE MIGHT GET AHEAD OF OURSELVES, BUT AT THE SAME TIME, I THINK THEY'VE BEEN HELPFUL, AT LEAST THE DEMOLITION THAT WAS HELPFUL BECAUSE IT, YOU'VE GOT THIS PUBLIC EVENT, I THINK IT ADDS, YOU KNOW, PEOPLE SEE SOMETHING IS ACTUALLY HAPPENING.
IT ALSO, UH, INCREASES OBVIOUSLY THE IN INVISIBILITY AMONG, AMONG OUR, UH, OUR CITY COUNCIL AND MAYOR TO GARNER THEIR SUPPORT, BUT ALSO TO LET THEM KNOW THIS IS JUST NOT, WE'RE JUST NOT TALKING ABOUT, WE ARE HERE, WE'RE TRYING.
AND SO I THINK THAT'S HELPFUL IN THIS PROCESS AS WE MOVE FORWARD TO THE CONTRACT, YOU KNOW, THIS MASTER DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT AND THE CHANGES THAT ARE NECESSARY.
AT THE SAME TIME, THERE'S JUST SOME THINGS THAT HAVE TO HAPPEN.
AND SO WE'RE PLAYING THIS, THIS BALANCING GAME, UH, TO BE RESPECTFUL OF, WELL, WE HAVE TO NOT BE RESPECTFUL OF THE CONTRACT.
WE, WE HAVE TO OPERATE BY THAT.
AT THE SAME TIME, WE STILL WANNA MAKE PROJECT PROCESS PROGRESS.
AND PASTOR PARKER, IF I MAY, JUST A POINT OF CLARITY ON, ON THE PARCELS.
SO, UM, AS WE CONTINUE TO CLEAR, UM, THE SITE AND TO CREATE THE, THE BOUNDARIES, UM, THE, THE, THE PROCESS OF THAT'S TIED INTO THE PACKAGE ONE AND TO PACKAGE TWO.
THE STATEMENT I WANT TO MAKE THOUGH, PACKAGE THREE IS WHERE THINGS REALLY START FROM A CONSTRUCTION POINT OF VIEW, START TO BE FULLY ENGAGED.
AND AT THAT POINT, UM, PART OF THE STRATEGY THAT MR. SHR SHARE HAS DEPLOYED IS THAT, THAT POINT, THIS WOULD BE THE OPPORTUNITY THAT OUR GC WILL WORK WITH ALL THE SUBS AND THERE'LL BE AN OPPORTUNITY FOR SUBS THROUGH OUR REQUIREMENTS OF HAVING ACCESS TO MINORITIES AND WOMEN OWNED COURT, UM, ENTITIES TO HAVE A PART AND AN OPPORTUNITY TO PARTICIPATE.
BUT THAT'S WHERE THE HEAVY LIFT OF THE PROJECT REALLY STARTS AND THE FUNDING OF THE PROJECT REALLY STARTS.
AND SO, UM, AS WE CONTROL THAT TIMELINE, SIR, THAT WILL COME AFTER, UM, THE, UH, THE GROUNDBREAKING OBVIOUSLY.
AND SO WE HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO MANAGE THAT TIMELINE.
BUT DO WANT TO SAY THAT'S THE POINT IN WHICH THE FULL ENGAGEMENT FROM THE TRADES COMMITTEE AND THE OPPORTUNITY TO INVOLVE OTHER, UM, ENTITIES AND OTHER SUBS IN THE, IN THE PROJECT AND A VERY IMPORTANT PART THAT WE'RE LOOKING FORWARD TO.
ANY OTHER QUESTIONS, COMMENTS, UM, THEN DO NOR THE PUBLIC SPEAKERS, I PRESUME
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IF NONE, THEN I HEAR CRICKETS.IF THEY'D BE NONE, THEN IT'S 10 55.
THIS MEETING IS OFFICIALLY ADJOURNED AND INTO THE HANDS OF DR.