WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:09.500 Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the Wednesday, May 12 meeting of the Economic 00:00:09.500 --> 00:00:11.460 Development Partnership Board. 00:00:11.460 --> 00:00:17.460 We're so glad to have everyone available today, and for those looking in from the audience, 00:00:17.460 --> 00:00:20.020 we welcome you as well. 00:00:20.020 --> 00:00:25.500 We have an agenda item with several items, the first of which is to consider the approval 00:00:25.500 --> 00:00:30.000 of the minutes of April 14, 2021. 00:00:30.000 --> 00:00:37.260 And I'll give everyone a chance to take a look and make sure that you have no concerns. 00:00:37.260 --> 00:00:42.860 And once you have reviewed them, please, we would entertain a motion to approve the minutes. 00:00:42.860 --> 00:00:49.140 I move approval of the minutes as presented. 00:00:49.140 --> 00:00:52.480 We have a motion to approve the minutes. 00:00:52.480 --> 00:00:54.440 Do we have a second? 00:00:54.440 --> 00:00:57.980 Jason Tomlinson seconds. 00:00:57.980 --> 00:01:05.100 And now discussion, do we have any discussion of the minutes as presented? 00:01:05.100 --> 00:01:12.640 Any changes, concerns? 00:01:12.640 --> 00:01:17.820 Hearing none, seeing none, we'll do the, we'll do the visual vote. 00:01:17.820 --> 00:01:20.100 Jason Tomlinson, you. 00:01:20.100 --> 00:01:21.100 Yes. 00:01:21.100 --> 00:01:41.220 Tina Albert, I let's see, Jesse Davis, I, Joel Jester, I on a Clark, I Lee Ramsey. 00:01:41.220 --> 00:01:49.100 Now does Dr. Wilson vote, I forget, no sir, neither Pam or Dr. Wilson as ex officio members 00:01:49.100 --> 00:01:50.660 vote, but you do. 00:01:50.660 --> 00:01:52.640 So we'll need your vote. 00:01:52.640 --> 00:01:55.540 John Baines approves the minutes. 00:01:55.540 --> 00:02:02.160 I think we have a unanimous approval of minutes and we'll move on to the next agenda item. 00:02:02.160 --> 00:02:12.060 EDP 21-019, receive a report, hold the discussion and give staff direction regarding an incentive 00:02:12.060 --> 00:02:17.300 application for Dynagrid Construction Group LLC. 00:02:17.300 --> 00:02:20.740 And I believe Erica, you're on board for the presentation. 00:02:20.740 --> 00:02:28.300 Yes, I'm just pulling the presentation up now. 00:02:28.300 --> 00:02:36.300 Thank you. 00:02:36.300 --> 00:02:38.220 Can everyone see the presentation? 00:02:38.220 --> 00:02:40.900 Yes, I can. 00:02:40.900 --> 00:02:42.660 Well, good morning. 00:02:42.660 --> 00:02:46.460 My name's Erica Sullivan and I'm the analyst here at the city's economic development department. 00:02:46.460 --> 00:02:51.700 And I'm going to be presenting an incentive application from Dynagrid and discussing possible 00:02:51.700 --> 00:02:52.700 incentives. 00:02:52.700 --> 00:02:59.220 The company itself, Dynagrid is a civil contractor that provides industry-leading civil construction 00:02:59.220 --> 00:03:04.420 services to renewable and conventional energy markets throughout the United States. 00:03:04.420 --> 00:03:09.300 They're founded in 2012 and have a current annual revenue of 88 million. 00:03:09.300 --> 00:03:14.020 The company is seeking to move their corporate headquarters to Denton from Louisville. 00:03:14.020 --> 00:03:20.900 They currently employ 191 employees and plan to add 82 new jobs over the five-year period. 00:03:20.900 --> 00:03:24.620 Total jobs are estimated at 273. 00:03:24.620 --> 00:03:29.180 They plan to invest in additional equipment and build a new facility here in Denton. 00:03:29.180 --> 00:03:32.940 And they are interested in our Denton location because the numerous suppliers and vendors 00:03:32.940 --> 00:03:39.700 that they have located here, the site location and ability to expand and construct a new 00:03:39.700 --> 00:03:41.200 complex. 00:03:41.200 --> 00:03:46.460 They have the option to add new jobs at their existing location in Louisville, but we prefer 00:03:46.460 --> 00:03:51.980 to build a new facility here in Denton. 00:03:51.980 --> 00:03:56.780 The proposed facility will be at corporate headquarters and will be situated on a 15-acre 00:03:56.780 --> 00:03:59.820 site along Mosh Branch Road. 00:03:59.820 --> 00:04:06.460 Their goals are to reduce the impact of relocation, expansion and site improvement costs. 00:04:06.460 --> 00:04:15.340 They also have a goal of encouraging high-wage job creation through company expansion. 00:04:15.340 --> 00:04:17.640 They're proposing to build two buildings. 00:04:17.640 --> 00:04:21.020 The first is a 30,000-square-foot office building. 00:04:21.020 --> 00:04:23.980 The second is a 10,000-square-foot shop building. 00:04:23.980 --> 00:04:26.820 You can see the rendering here. 00:04:26.820 --> 00:04:31.660 The complex will include a shop that will maintain the company-owned equipment and vehicles 00:04:31.660 --> 00:04:34.720 and will be the primary hub for their fleet. 00:04:34.720 --> 00:04:38.100 And the corporate team will be housed in the main building, and this will be comprised 00:04:38.100 --> 00:04:47.420 of accounting, executive, HR, safety and project management departments. 00:04:47.420 --> 00:04:51.620 The main components of their application, they wish to construct and expand a corporate 00:04:51.620 --> 00:04:53.780 headquarters facility. 00:04:53.780 --> 00:04:57.620 The targeted sector in our policy is renewable energy. 00:04:57.620 --> 00:05:02.260 Our new plan, targeted sector, the industry code that falls under that, is poured concrete 00:05:02.260 --> 00:05:05.740 foundation instructor contractors. 00:05:05.740 --> 00:05:12.700 Their projected capital investment is $6 million for improvements and business personal property. 00:05:12.700 --> 00:05:18.900 Jobs, as we discussed, are 191 will be relocated, 82 new jobs. 00:05:18.900 --> 00:05:25.900 Their weighted average wage is $74,277, with a total payroll of $6.1 million. 00:05:25.900 --> 00:05:30.020 It's roughly $1.2 per year. 00:05:30.020 --> 00:05:33.500 So in this table, you will see the job and wage information. 00:05:33.500 --> 00:05:40.340 The jobs are added over a five-year period and will come to 82 when complete. 00:05:40.340 --> 00:05:47.780 The wage data and average wage by job type is included in the table that follows below. 00:05:47.780 --> 00:05:52.100 You will see that the number as well as the percentage is included. 00:05:52.100 --> 00:05:55.180 Their weighted average annual wage, again, is $74,277. 00:05:55.180 --> 00:06:01.780 I want to point out that over 100% of their employees have wages above the Denton County 00:06:01.780 --> 00:06:04.620 average and median wages. 00:06:04.620 --> 00:06:14.580 You can also see that 62% are above the $65,000 wage category, and then another 54% fall under 00:06:14.580 --> 00:06:24.420 our policy's goals of increasing jobs in the $75,000 or more wage. 00:06:24.420 --> 00:06:28.820 In this table, you see the strategic plan alignment. 00:06:28.820 --> 00:06:35.260 You'll see that there's attracting new investment, targeting environmentally conscious businesses, 00:06:35.260 --> 00:06:41.060 and green marketing as well of the city's sustainability goals that are in line with 00:06:41.060 --> 00:06:43.380 this project. 00:06:43.380 --> 00:06:51.700 The incentive policy general provisions and priority considerations are included in this 00:06:51.700 --> 00:06:52.700 slide. 00:06:52.700 --> 00:06:57.780 General provisions, this project creates quality jobs, and the targeted sector is the renewable 00:06:57.780 --> 00:07:03.100 energy as they cater towards this market as well as conventional markets. 00:07:03.100 --> 00:07:08.420 The applicable priority considerations include promoting business and community investment, 00:07:08.420 --> 00:07:14.500 expanding and diversifying the tax base, promoting public-private partnerships, increasing jobs 00:07:14.500 --> 00:07:19.900 with wages above Denton County's median wages, an increasing percentage of jobs paying over 00:07:19.900 --> 00:07:26.620 $75,000, encouraging higher-skilled, knowledge-based jobs, engaging in sustainable practices and 00:07:26.620 --> 00:07:32.500 activities, and generating new customers for municipal activities. 00:07:32.500 --> 00:07:36.820 Also included in the policy under the Chapter 380 program, you will see that they meet three 00:07:36.820 --> 00:07:40.180 of the five provisions. 00:07:40.180 --> 00:07:46.620 Under other considerations and additional considerations, they meet two of those, which we've mentioned 00:07:46.620 --> 00:07:47.620 here. 00:07:47.620 --> 00:07:52.860 And then under the Economic Development Investment Fund, we require that an applicant meet two 00:07:52.860 --> 00:07:54.020 or three criteria. 00:07:54.020 --> 00:08:00.180 They meet two of the three criteria here. 00:08:00.180 --> 00:08:05.300 You'll see a summary of the incentive proposal. 00:08:05.300 --> 00:08:09.940 The first part of the Chapter 380 grant is a relocation expansion grant in the amount 00:08:09.940 --> 00:08:16.580 of $40,000 that's being proposed, and this would allow to pay for reimbursement of relocation 00:08:16.580 --> 00:08:18.820 costs and site upgrades. 00:08:18.820 --> 00:08:25.860 The second is a stratified job-based performance grant, and that totals $109,500. 00:08:25.860 --> 00:08:30.540 And then there's additional consideration for employees living in Denton through a residency 00:08:30.540 --> 00:08:35.860 bonus grant of $19,500 that assumes 75%. 00:08:35.860 --> 00:08:41.460 And then a total Chapter 380 grant of $169,000. 00:08:41.460 --> 00:08:45.820 This would be accomplished through a Chapter 380 agreement with the Economic Development 00:08:45.820 --> 00:08:50.380 Investment Fund as its source of funds, and the agreement would include a limit on the 00:08:50.380 --> 00:08:54.420 term and cap on the funding amounts. 00:08:54.420 --> 00:08:58.380 This application, it would also be possible to nominate them to the Texas Enterprise Zone 00:08:58.380 --> 00:09:04.340 program if they wish to pursue that. 00:09:04.340 --> 00:09:08.700 In this table, you'll see the incentive in more detail and the project revenue that would 00:09:08.700 --> 00:09:10.900 be generated from the project. 00:09:10.900 --> 00:09:15.180 So again, it's broken down into the different components of the grant, so the expansion 00:09:15.180 --> 00:09:20.900 grant, typically a one-time grant of $40,000, then you would have a job-based grant as jobs 00:09:20.900 --> 00:09:29.260 are added over the five-year term, followed by the residency bonus for a total of $169,000. 00:09:29.260 --> 00:09:33.540 And then in the table that follows, you see the estimated city revenue generated by the 00:09:33.540 --> 00:09:34.540 project. 00:09:34.540 --> 00:09:40.380 And the first is the existing taxable value, which is land, and that comes to $75,670 over 00:09:40.380 --> 00:09:45.380 a 10-year term, and the revenue from improvements to building and business personal property 00:09:45.380 --> 00:09:49.180 would come to another $277,510. 00:09:49.180 --> 00:09:54.860 So the total property tax value over the 10-year term would be $353,180. 00:09:54.860 --> 00:10:02.180 What you'll see here is the proposed contractual cap for job-based positions. 00:10:02.180 --> 00:10:07.100 You'll also see the different categories that these are broken into, and the amount of grant 00:10:07.100 --> 00:10:10.380 per job, which increases as the salary increases. 00:10:10.380 --> 00:10:16.580 Again, it would be $109,500, projected total jobs of $51,000, and these could come on at 00:10:16.580 --> 00:10:23.380 different times as long as they don't exceed the term or the cap. 00:10:23.380 --> 00:10:27.780 Over the benefits, the qualitative benefits of this project include quality jobs created 00:10:27.780 --> 00:10:32.940 and investment in human capital, the pipeline for university training programs and reduction 00:10:32.940 --> 00:10:37.600 of brain drain, recruitment and expansion of a company, and diversifying and expanding 00:10:37.600 --> 00:10:39.460 the tax base. 00:10:39.460 --> 00:10:43.900 The quantitative benefits include the 10-year total property tax revenue, which is estimated 00:10:43.900 --> 00:10:53.580 at over $350,000, with a rate of return of 30.4%, and the payback period would be 3.4 00:10:53.580 --> 00:10:55.460 years. 00:10:55.460 --> 00:10:59.820 The summary and staff recommendation is a five-year performance-based incentive, again 00:10:59.820 --> 00:11:03.260 with a cap not to exceed $169,000. 00:11:03.260 --> 00:11:08.880 This is broken up into the expansion grant of $40,000, a stratified job-based grant for 00:11:08.880 --> 00:11:18.300 new jobs up to $109,500, the residency bonus of $500 per employee for a total of $19,500, 00:11:18.300 --> 00:11:22.740 and then this would be funded via a Chapter 380 agreement using the Economic Development 00:11:22.740 --> 00:11:27.280 Investment Fund, and then if they wish to pursue the Texas Enterprise Zone program, 00:11:27.280 --> 00:11:30.860 we could nominate them as an enterprise project. 00:11:30.860 --> 00:11:36.500 So the options and recommendations before the board today are to proceed with and recommend 00:11:36.500 --> 00:11:42.300 the staff recommendation, to modify or create a new incentive recommendation, or to offer 00:11:42.300 --> 00:11:45.940 no incentive recommendation. 00:11:45.940 --> 00:11:47.460 Be happy to entertain questions. 00:11:47.460 --> 00:11:52.940 I'll take this down now. 00:11:52.940 --> 00:11:56.540 So Erica, what is the staff recommendation? 00:11:56.540 --> 00:12:05.140 The staff recommendation is the $169,000 grant, composed of the expansion grant of $40,000, 00:12:05.140 --> 00:12:10.940 the stratified job-based grant in the different categories of $109,000, and then we're estimating 00:12:10.940 --> 00:12:16.880 the residency bonus to be another $19,500. 00:12:16.880 --> 00:12:17.880 Thank you. 00:12:17.880 --> 00:12:23.180 Do we have any other questions from the floor, questions or comments? 00:12:23.180 --> 00:12:25.700 Jill Jester is being recognized. 00:12:25.700 --> 00:12:26.780 Thank you. 00:12:26.780 --> 00:12:32.700 And who is here representing the entity to answer questions today, may I ask? 00:12:32.700 --> 00:12:37.780 We have Charlie Ferreira, which is the CEO and President of Dynagrid, and then Don Clark, 00:12:37.780 --> 00:12:39.180 the site work manager. 00:12:39.180 --> 00:12:44.500 Well, I want to thank you both for coming here today to make yourselves available to 00:12:44.500 --> 00:12:45.500 us. 00:12:45.500 --> 00:12:48.300 I mean, obviously, the numbers are the numbers. 00:12:48.300 --> 00:12:52.740 It looks like a great opportunity to improve the quality of life here in Denton. 00:12:52.740 --> 00:12:57.900 I do have a question, though, you know, it takes a village to make Denton a great place 00:12:57.900 --> 00:13:02.860 to live and work in, and jobs are not the only way to contribute to the quality of life 00:13:02.860 --> 00:13:10.420 in Denton, but I didn't see in the application or presentation is any kind of community involvement 00:13:10.420 --> 00:13:12.740 or incentive to be involved in a nonprofit. 00:13:12.740 --> 00:13:17.100 I saw that you're not a member of the Chamber of Commerce as a fairly large business here 00:13:17.100 --> 00:13:22.300 in Denton, but is there some kind of sponsorship or some kind of incentive? 00:13:22.300 --> 00:13:30.300 You know, for those nonprofits that help our parks, help our elderly, help young people, 00:13:30.300 --> 00:13:36.100 help businesses, et cetera, can you kind of give us a little idea of what has happened 00:13:36.100 --> 00:13:41.500 and what's your vision in the future for that? 00:13:41.500 --> 00:13:47.760 Sir, I think you may be muted. 00:13:47.760 --> 00:13:52.500 I see you talking, but I can't hear you myself. 00:13:52.500 --> 00:13:53.500 Hold on. 00:13:53.500 --> 00:13:54.500 Okay. 00:13:54.500 --> 00:13:55.500 Can you hear me now? 00:13:55.500 --> 00:13:56.500 Okay. 00:13:56.500 --> 00:13:57.500 No issues being part of the Denton community. 00:13:57.500 --> 00:14:06.340 Obviously, we've become part of the economic plan with you guys, and we will embed ourselves 00:14:06.340 --> 00:14:12.140 into the community like we have in Lewisville. 00:14:12.140 --> 00:14:18.500 I help out with the North Texas Food Bank on a monthly basis. 00:14:18.500 --> 00:14:25.860 Have no issue helping people, you know, get a better life or help people less fortunate. 00:14:25.860 --> 00:14:31.620 And I think one of the things that has always been important to me is being a business owner, 00:14:31.620 --> 00:14:37.500 and especially a business owner of a company like this, it's not all white collar jobs. 00:14:37.500 --> 00:14:38.500 It's everybody. 00:14:38.500 --> 00:14:43.660 You know, you don't need a college education to make $100,000 a year in this company. 00:14:43.660 --> 00:14:51.940 You can make money, and it's important that everybody has the opportunity to succeed and 00:14:51.940 --> 00:14:55.860 not necessarily have a college degree or a higher degree. 00:14:55.860 --> 00:15:02.420 We have a lot of employees that have done very well with this company, and you can see 00:15:02.420 --> 00:15:09.940 by the average salaries that, you know, our workforce is probably comprised of 25% white 00:15:09.940 --> 00:15:17.340 collar, 75%, you know, operators, foremen, superintendents, craft, craft people. 00:15:17.340 --> 00:15:24.580 Well, I hope you all will consider joining the Chamber of Commerce as we try to lift 00:15:24.580 --> 00:15:29.460 up each other and explore other ways to get involved, and I know any of us would be happy 00:15:29.460 --> 00:15:33.740 to have lunch or a cup of coffee to chat about those opportunities. 00:15:33.740 --> 00:15:34.740 Thank you very much. 00:15:34.740 --> 00:15:35.740 >> Thank you. 00:15:35.740 --> 00:15:36.740 >> Absolutely. 00:15:36.740 --> 00:15:42.500 >> Now, who was that that was just speaking? 00:15:42.500 --> 00:15:43.500 I see one name. 00:15:43.500 --> 00:15:45.340 I see Don Clark, but I see two people. 00:15:45.340 --> 00:15:46.340 I wasn't sure. 00:15:46.340 --> 00:15:47.340 >> I think that's really Ferreira. 00:15:47.340 --> 00:15:48.340 >> All right. 00:15:48.340 --> 00:15:49.340 I was speaking. 00:15:49.340 --> 00:15:50.340 >> Okay. 00:15:50.340 --> 00:15:54.060 So, Don Clark was speaking or Ferreira? 00:15:54.060 --> 00:15:55.060 >> Ferreira. 00:15:55.060 --> 00:15:56.060 >> Oh, okay. 00:15:56.060 --> 00:15:57.060 Mr. Ferreira. 00:15:57.060 --> 00:16:00.340 >> I don't know who that is. 00:16:00.340 --> 00:16:02.660 >> Well, please forgive me. 00:16:02.660 --> 00:16:05.740 I heard the names, but I only saw one name on the screen. 00:16:05.740 --> 00:16:08.380 I wanted to kind of reiterate just a little bit. 00:16:08.380 --> 00:16:17.660 I think it's having lived in the Denton community since 1983, having been a businessman here 00:16:17.660 --> 00:16:26.460 in Denton since 1986, I think one of the things that I have seen that's really important is 00:16:26.460 --> 00:16:33.620 we like for our companies to do well, but we also like for them to contribute to the 00:16:33.620 --> 00:16:43.060 community and as Jill was saying, the nonprofit and organizations and memberships and that 00:16:43.060 --> 00:16:49.260 type of thing, and even though this particular application did not seem to address a lot 00:16:49.260 --> 00:16:54.560 of that, I think it would be good if maybe as an addendum, you would kind of give us 00:16:54.560 --> 00:16:59.220 an idea of some of the things you would like to do and your company would like to do. 00:16:59.220 --> 00:17:02.700 I think we're all about helping. 00:17:02.700 --> 00:17:07.420 So anything you would like to do to help the community, we would love to do work with you 00:17:07.420 --> 00:17:08.420 on that. 00:17:08.420 --> 00:17:12.480 So we would love to hear from you. 00:17:12.480 --> 00:17:17.220 >> I would love the opportunity to go to your high schools and explain to kids that they 00:17:17.220 --> 00:17:22.340 don't have to go to college if they don't want to because college isn't necessarily 00:17:22.340 --> 00:17:29.540 for everybody and you can have a good life and a good career without having to go to 00:17:29.540 --> 00:17:30.540 college. 00:17:30.540 --> 00:17:34.140 >> You know, one of the -- we have an organization that I represent that's called the Denton 00:17:34.140 --> 00:17:40.340 Black Chamber of Commerce, as well as I'm a member of the Denton Chamber as well. 00:17:40.340 --> 00:17:47.020 And one of the programs we've been pushing is getting back into the trades. 00:17:47.020 --> 00:17:52.260 And because a lot of folks -- and hopefully nobody is hearing this and taking it the wrong 00:17:52.260 --> 00:17:58.100 way, you can spend a lot of money and maybe not get as much return on your investment 00:17:58.100 --> 00:18:03.140 as you might like in the educational process. 00:18:03.140 --> 00:18:07.940 And so we want to see more folks win. 00:18:07.940 --> 00:18:13.100 And I think this type of opportunity would certainly do that where you have, you know, 00:18:13.100 --> 00:18:20.380 the job opportunities that don't require a college degree and more training. 00:18:20.380 --> 00:18:24.780 And I'd like to hear a little bit, too, about the renewable energy. 00:18:24.780 --> 00:18:27.780 Tell us a little bit about that. 00:18:27.780 --> 00:18:34.320 >> We do a significant amount of work in the renewable energy market. 00:18:34.320 --> 00:18:39.860 We're large in the solar wind markets, battery storage. 00:18:39.860 --> 00:18:46.620 We build the battery storage stations where they collect the energy and redistribute it. 00:18:46.620 --> 00:18:51.980 You know, the wind farms, the foundations, we do the civil portion of that. 00:18:51.980 --> 00:18:57.440 But we're heavily involved with that across the country, not just Texas, but with a number 00:18:57.440 --> 00:18:58.440 of major places. 00:18:58.440 --> 00:19:06.580 We work with Encore, you know, Brazos Electric, the municipal, the city of Garland, a lot 00:19:06.580 --> 00:19:11.660 of local agencies, American Electric Power, Vistra Energy. 00:19:11.660 --> 00:19:15.940 So, you know, we have great relationships in the space. 00:19:15.940 --> 00:19:19.860 And that type of work has been significantly increasing over the years. 00:19:19.860 --> 00:19:27.980 And we're, you know, considered a major player in our space for what we do for those markets. 00:19:27.980 --> 00:19:32.540 So, you know, we do what we can to help expand those. 00:19:32.540 --> 00:19:37.180 We're looking at utilizing solar power for some of our external lighting things in our 00:19:37.180 --> 00:19:40.980 new facility to practice what we preach as well. 00:19:40.980 --> 00:19:48.420 But we're a major player in those markets, especially battery storage and solar. 00:19:48.420 --> 00:19:49.420 Thank you for that. 00:19:49.420 --> 00:19:55.300 My ears peaked up when we talked about the renewable energy, but I wasn't sure what that 00:19:55.300 --> 00:19:56.300 meant. 00:19:56.300 --> 00:20:00.220 And I'll give the ground to any others that would like to ask questions, because I tend 00:20:00.220 --> 00:20:07.460 to talk a lot, so please forgive me. 00:20:07.460 --> 00:20:14.580 Any other questions from the floor? 00:20:14.580 --> 00:20:21.860 Hearing none, we'll entertain a recommendation, a motion on the recommendation of staff. 00:20:21.860 --> 00:20:23.260 Lee Ramsey? 00:20:23.260 --> 00:20:27.780 Yeah, I make a recommendation. 00:20:27.780 --> 00:20:34.900 We go with the staff's recommendation and move forward with the process and nominate 00:20:34.900 --> 00:20:39.420 them for the Texas fund. 00:20:39.420 --> 00:20:41.900 Thank you guys for considering Denton Move Your Business. 00:20:41.900 --> 00:20:43.300 We know there's a big cost to that. 00:20:43.300 --> 00:20:45.260 It's not cheap to move your business. 00:20:45.260 --> 00:20:47.700 And that's way more than these incentives. 00:20:47.700 --> 00:20:50.980 It's, yeah, we just want to do a little part to welcome you to Denton. 00:20:50.980 --> 00:20:51.980 Thanks, guys. 00:20:51.980 --> 00:20:52.980 Thank you. 00:20:52.980 --> 00:20:53.980 Thank you. 00:20:53.980 --> 00:20:54.980 We have a motion. 00:20:54.980 --> 00:20:56.300 We have a motion on the floor. 00:20:56.300 --> 00:20:57.580 Do we have a second? 00:20:57.580 --> 00:21:00.100 John, I'll second that, Lee. 00:21:00.100 --> 00:21:01.100 Great motion. 00:21:01.100 --> 00:21:02.100 Absolutely. 00:21:02.100 --> 00:21:03.100 I agree. 00:21:03.100 --> 00:21:04.660 It's an important move for us. 00:21:04.660 --> 00:21:06.500 Mark, thank you so much. 00:21:06.500 --> 00:21:08.660 We have a motion and a second. 00:21:08.660 --> 00:21:15.820 Do we have any further discussion? 00:21:15.820 --> 00:21:24.260 Hearing none and seeing none, we're going to do the visual again. 00:21:24.260 --> 00:21:25.260 Jason? 00:21:25.260 --> 00:21:26.260 Aye. 00:21:26.260 --> 00:21:27.260 Tina? 00:21:27.260 --> 00:21:28.260 Aye. 00:21:28.260 --> 00:21:29.260 Jesse Davis? 00:21:29.260 --> 00:21:30.260 Aye. 00:21:30.260 --> 00:21:31.260 Jill Jester? 00:21:31.260 --> 00:21:32.260 Aye. 00:21:32.260 --> 00:21:34.740 Tony Clark? 00:21:34.740 --> 00:21:36.060 Aye. 00:21:36.060 --> 00:21:39.060 Lee Ramsey? 00:21:39.060 --> 00:21:40.060 Aye. 00:21:40.060 --> 00:21:41.060 Steve Edgar? 00:21:41.060 --> 00:21:42.060 Aye. 00:21:42.060 --> 00:21:43.060 Mark McClellan? 00:21:43.060 --> 00:21:44.060 Aye. 00:21:44.060 --> 00:21:52.260 John Baines also gives an aye, so we have a unanimous approval of staff recommendation. 00:21:52.260 --> 00:21:56.260 And we'd like to thank you, gentlemen, for considering Denton. 00:21:56.260 --> 00:21:57.260 I'm sorry. 00:21:57.260 --> 00:21:59.380 Mr. Baines, did we get Mayor Hedspeth? 00:21:59.380 --> 00:22:04.020 He's not on the screen, but he is in the meeting. 00:22:04.020 --> 00:22:05.020 Oh. 00:22:05.020 --> 00:22:06.020 No. 00:22:06.020 --> 00:22:07.020 Yeah. 00:22:07.020 --> 00:22:08.020 No. 00:22:08.020 --> 00:22:12.940 I'm late to the party, and I'm an aye as well. 00:22:12.940 --> 00:22:13.940 Okay. 00:22:13.940 --> 00:22:15.740 Lee, how are you? 00:22:15.740 --> 00:22:16.860 All right. 00:22:16.860 --> 00:22:18.820 We also have Mayor Hedspeth. 00:22:18.820 --> 00:22:19.820 Welcome. 00:22:19.820 --> 00:22:20.820 Welcome, Mayor. 00:22:20.820 --> 00:22:21.820 My apologies. 00:22:21.820 --> 00:22:33.300 So, we have a unanimous recommendation for the incentive package to be given to Dynagrid 00:22:33.300 --> 00:22:35.820 Construction LLC. 00:22:35.820 --> 00:22:39.940 And we extend the hardest of welcomes to you and look forward to working with you for many 00:22:39.940 --> 00:22:40.940 years to come. 00:22:40.940 --> 00:22:41.940 Thank you, sir. 00:22:41.940 --> 00:22:42.940 Thank you very much. 00:22:42.940 --> 00:22:43.940 We look forward to it as well. 00:22:43.940 --> 00:22:44.940 Appreciate the opportunity. 00:22:44.940 --> 00:22:45.940 You're welcome. 00:22:45.940 --> 00:22:52.620 All right, we're moving on to the next agenda item. 00:22:52.620 --> 00:22:53.860 And thank you, Erica, for that presentation. 00:22:53.860 --> 00:22:55.540 That was a good presentation. 00:22:55.540 --> 00:22:56.540 Thank you. 00:22:56.540 --> 00:23:06.180 EDP 21-018, receive a report, hold a discussion, give staff direction regarding the annual 00:23:06.180 --> 00:23:08.340 business awards. 00:23:08.340 --> 00:23:10.900 All right. 00:23:10.900 --> 00:23:16.340 It's hard to believe that it has been a year almost since we've done the last business 00:23:16.340 --> 00:23:17.340 awards. 00:23:17.340 --> 00:23:23.460 But I'm going to turn it over to Kay Brown-Patrick, our business development administrator, to 00:23:23.460 --> 00:23:27.580 give a presentation, and will give us one second because Erica's actually at the control. 00:23:27.580 --> 00:23:35.060 So Erica will pull it up and then Kay will present. 00:23:35.060 --> 00:23:41.300 Good morning, everyone. 00:23:41.300 --> 00:23:44.980 Good morning. 00:23:44.980 --> 00:23:46.420 I have it pulled up on my screen as well. 00:23:46.420 --> 00:23:51.260 So let me pull it down because it's trying to show my presentation. 00:23:51.260 --> 00:23:58.540 So I wanted to come and Jessica, thank you for the opportunity to present this to discuss 00:23:58.540 --> 00:24:01.820 with you all the annual business awards. 00:24:01.820 --> 00:24:04.240 Next slide, Erica, please. 00:24:04.240 --> 00:24:09.220 As you all may know, each year the board recognizes local businesses in the categories currently 00:24:09.220 --> 00:24:15.660 of small and large business for the recognition of awards, and on top of the city departments 00:24:15.660 --> 00:24:18.500 that recognize businesses as well. 00:24:18.500 --> 00:24:24.020 What staff is seeking direction in is extending and adding additional business recognition 00:24:24.020 --> 00:24:31.180 categories in order to extend the recognition opportunities and also to redefine qualifying 00:24:31.180 --> 00:24:35.860 businesses the numbers that will determine whether they are under the small and large 00:24:35.860 --> 00:24:37.660 business recognition awards. 00:24:37.660 --> 00:24:41.180 So I want to make sure that I point out, we're not getting rid of the small and large business 00:24:41.180 --> 00:24:56.220 recognition categories, we're wanting to add additional categories. 00:24:56.220 --> 00:25:02.220 So okay, you're seeking direction, how do you want that communication? 00:25:02.220 --> 00:25:03.900 I have some additional slides. 00:25:03.900 --> 00:25:07.900 So when I walk through, I'll propose the categories and then the numbers. 00:25:07.900 --> 00:25:10.900 All right, thank you. 00:25:10.900 --> 00:25:18.220 So currently, the category that you all utilize, the current categories is for small, they 00:25:18.220 --> 00:25:22.640 are less than 100 employees, and for large, it's over 100 employees. 00:25:22.640 --> 00:25:28.540 So as you can see there in the city of Denton, the numbers of the businesses that fall in 00:25:28.540 --> 00:25:31.940 each one of those pockets of employee numbers. 00:25:31.940 --> 00:25:38.360 And so as you can see, the over 100 employees, 102 businesses, so only 102 businesses qualify 00:25:38.360 --> 00:25:45.120 currently to fall into the large category, and then almost 5,900 are in the small category. 00:25:45.120 --> 00:25:52.260 So we're wanting to propose to redefine what qualifies a small business. 00:25:52.260 --> 00:25:57.940 And so we'll let you all determine that, but as you can see, the numbers, the numbers there, 00:25:57.940 --> 00:26:04.260 I think we would recommend small 1 to 49, and then adding additional, the 50, the over 00:26:04.260 --> 00:26:10.060 50 to the large, it'll only add 119 business, but then it will also provide some additional 00:26:10.060 --> 00:26:12.780 options in the large category. 00:26:12.780 --> 00:26:15.860 Next slide, please. 00:26:15.860 --> 00:26:20.440 Also the proposed categories that we would like to add to the business awards is business 00:26:20.440 --> 00:26:25.620 ally award, minority woman veteran owned business of the year award, and an entrepreneur of 00:26:25.620 --> 00:26:26.620 the year. 00:26:26.620 --> 00:26:34.780 And the coming slides will help define what will qualify these businesses. 00:26:34.780 --> 00:26:39.700 Currently this is the business awards criteria for the small and large business recognition 00:26:39.700 --> 00:26:40.700 awards. 00:26:40.700 --> 00:26:44.600 We will keep that criteria for all with the exception of the business ally award. 00:26:44.600 --> 00:26:49.420 Each of the proposed awards will have this general criteria plus any applicable criteria 00:26:49.420 --> 00:26:55.220 that we will discuss in the following pages. 00:26:55.220 --> 00:26:59.500 For the business ally award, this business must be a business or organization that has 00:26:59.500 --> 00:27:04.580 served as an ally in the community and supporting the business community. 00:27:04.580 --> 00:27:09.380 Their proposed criteria will be business support and connections, public or private education 00:27:09.380 --> 00:27:11.580 partnerships, and community relations. 00:27:11.580 --> 00:27:15.940 For business support and connections, what we're looking for there is that they support 00:27:15.940 --> 00:27:21.820 city policies and programs that support business businesses, they provide business education 00:27:21.820 --> 00:27:27.340 opportunities, they are developing new programs, even partnering with our public and private 00:27:27.340 --> 00:27:31.780 education partners regarding workforce, higher education. 00:27:31.780 --> 00:27:37.220 I know you guys just mentioned in the previous discussion about being involved in the community, 00:27:37.220 --> 00:27:41.980 and so that is also in addition to that, their level of commitment and involvement in the 00:27:41.980 --> 00:27:47.220 community as well. 00:27:47.220 --> 00:27:51.980 For the minority women veteran-owned business of the year, it's for a small business that 00:27:51.980 --> 00:27:57.220 is owned by an ethnic minority, a woman, or a U.S. armed force veteran serving as the 00:27:57.220 --> 00:27:58.420 majority owner. 00:27:58.420 --> 00:28:05.340 They will have the general awards criteria we mentioned earlier, plus they must be recognized 00:28:05.340 --> 00:28:08.460 by the state as a MWBE or HUB certified business. 00:28:08.460 --> 00:28:13.220 So in addition to the general awards criteria that was listed earlier, this is in addition 00:28:13.220 --> 00:28:19.140 to the criteria for this particular award. 00:28:19.140 --> 00:28:24.300 And then lastly, for the proposed entrepreneur of the year, an individual or group of individuals 00:28:24.300 --> 00:28:29.660 who have demonstrated a high level of entrepreneurial spirit, leadership, and determination and 00:28:29.660 --> 00:28:34.440 creativity in the community, and this award will have the same general awards criteria 00:28:34.440 --> 00:28:38.060 as the small and large business recognitions. 00:28:38.060 --> 00:28:42.020 Also wanted to add, Erica, you can go to the next slide, also wanted to add the chamber 00:28:42.020 --> 00:28:48.260 does have their awards as well, but this is just an extension to that, and the criteria 00:28:48.260 --> 00:28:54.660 is different, and also some of the chamber awards, you must be chamber members for some 00:28:54.660 --> 00:29:00.180 of those, and this is citywide, our business community at large. 00:29:00.180 --> 00:29:04.620 So the direction we're seeking is does the board want to amend the definition of large 00:29:04.620 --> 00:29:09.420 and small business or the small and large business recognition award categories, and 00:29:09.420 --> 00:29:14.940 then do you all want to add the additional proposed award categories? 00:29:14.940 --> 00:29:17.980 Ms. Kaye, I have a question. 00:29:17.980 --> 00:29:18.980 Yes. 00:29:18.980 --> 00:29:27.060 So just to kind of clarify the amendment, are you saying or are you seeking then from 00:29:27.060 --> 00:29:32.460 50 employees and higher is large business, is that what you're asking, just to clarify 00:29:32.460 --> 00:29:33.460 that? 00:29:33.460 --> 00:29:39.300 Is the board's, whatever the board would like, our recommendation would be that it would 00:29:39.300 --> 00:29:42.620 only add 119 businesses, but yes. 00:29:42.620 --> 00:29:48.020 Okay, I see, so you're redefining from 1 to 49 be small business, 15th grade or be large 00:29:48.020 --> 00:29:49.020 business. 00:29:49.020 --> 00:29:50.020 Yes. 00:29:50.020 --> 00:29:51.020 I understand. 00:29:51.020 --> 00:29:52.020 Okay. 00:29:52.020 --> 00:29:53.020 I just wanted to clarify. 00:29:53.020 --> 00:29:55.860 So how does a business be considered for an award? 00:29:55.860 --> 00:30:03.380 The process, so there's two different categories, so we have the city departments, they recommend 00:30:03.380 --> 00:30:08.780 some businesses that they've worked with throughout the community that they want to recognize. 00:30:08.780 --> 00:30:15.540 The EDP board for small and large recognition, they propose some businesses, and then also 00:30:15.540 --> 00:30:20.760 sometimes staff may nominate businesses, and what takes place is we bring those nominations 00:30:20.760 --> 00:30:25.420 to the board, and then there's a discussion held amongst the board in regards to that. 00:30:25.420 --> 00:30:29.580 There's a sheet that's provided to you all in regards to that general award criteria 00:30:29.580 --> 00:30:34.100 that was listed to make sure that those businesses meet that criteria. 00:30:34.100 --> 00:30:39.180 Staff will contact those businesses and get information in regards to those questions. 00:30:39.180 --> 00:30:40.780 How many jobs have you created? 00:30:40.780 --> 00:30:44.900 What is your level of involvement in the community, and then we bring all that information package 00:30:44.900 --> 00:30:45.900 back to the board. 00:30:45.900 --> 00:30:47.980 Okay, I see. 00:30:47.980 --> 00:30:54.580 So businesses have to actually, I don't want to say apply, but provide information for 00:30:54.580 --> 00:30:55.580 your proposal? 00:30:55.580 --> 00:31:01.380 Yes, we will collect that information for your discussion. 00:31:01.380 --> 00:31:09.300 Just for the sake of reference, I believe, I know that Jimmy Mejia's company has received 00:31:09.300 --> 00:31:10.860 an award. 00:31:10.860 --> 00:31:17.700 Have any of the other individuals on this board, have their companies received an award? 00:31:17.700 --> 00:31:23.540 Yes, I think that was when I met Tina last year, was when I was presenting her with an 00:31:23.540 --> 00:31:34.740 award for Peter Builds, and I believe Lee has, Martino Group has, no, or Lynx has received 00:31:34.740 --> 00:31:41.780 one, and I think that may be all who's on the call, but Jimmy is on the call with us 00:31:41.780 --> 00:31:42.780 now. 00:31:42.780 --> 00:31:43.780 He was able to join us. 00:31:43.780 --> 00:31:52.740 Yeah, I would say, I personally think that redefining it for 15th grader is a good thing. 00:31:52.740 --> 00:31:58.780 I don't, I mean, there's a lot of competition from the 1 to 49, so you'd have to do a lot 00:31:58.780 --> 00:32:00.780 to stand out within that big group. 00:32:00.780 --> 00:32:01.780 I agree. 00:32:01.780 --> 00:32:05.020 Well, Tina, would you like to make that recommendation then? 00:32:05.020 --> 00:32:09.580 I do recommend that redefining from 15th grader be in large business. 00:32:09.580 --> 00:32:10.580 Okay. 00:32:10.580 --> 00:32:16.180 Do we have someone to second that motion? 00:32:16.180 --> 00:32:20.240 Second? 00:32:20.240 --> 00:32:24.540 This is Jill Jester. 00:32:24.540 --> 00:32:33.020 Okay, don't mute me. 00:32:33.020 --> 00:32:34.020 Let's see. 00:32:34.020 --> 00:32:41.180 So, we have a motion and a second, and do we have any discussion before we take the 00:32:41.180 --> 00:32:42.180 vote? 00:32:42.180 --> 00:32:50.780 Chair Bain, are you going to do the two recommendations separately, because the additional recommendation 00:32:50.780 --> 00:32:51.780 was adding the... 00:32:51.780 --> 00:32:54.780 Yes, okay. 00:32:54.780 --> 00:32:59.540 Let's do this one first, and we'll do the other one in a second, how about that? 00:32:59.540 --> 00:33:00.540 Okay. 00:33:00.540 --> 00:33:08.900 I see no one opposed at this point for, excuse me, no discussion, so we'll entertain the 00:33:08.900 --> 00:33:09.900 vote. 00:33:09.900 --> 00:33:10.900 We'll take the vote. 00:33:10.900 --> 00:33:18.460 All in favor of making the change include 50 to 99 as a new category, signify by raising 00:33:18.460 --> 00:33:19.460 your hand. 00:33:19.460 --> 00:33:20.460 We'll do the vote. 00:33:20.460 --> 00:33:21.460 Let's see here. 00:33:21.460 --> 00:33:22.460 We're going to start with Jason. 00:33:22.460 --> 00:33:23.460 Jason? 00:33:23.460 --> 00:33:24.460 All right. 00:33:24.460 --> 00:33:25.460 Tony Clark? 00:33:25.460 --> 00:33:26.460 Aye. 00:33:26.460 --> 00:33:27.460 Jill Jester? 00:33:27.460 --> 00:33:28.460 Aye. 00:33:28.460 --> 00:33:29.460 Jesse Davis? 00:33:29.460 --> 00:33:30.460 Aye. 00:33:30.460 --> 00:33:31.460 Tina Albert? 00:33:31.460 --> 00:33:32.460 Aye. 00:33:32.460 --> 00:33:33.460 Lee Ramsey? 00:33:33.460 --> 00:33:34.460 Okay, I see you. 00:33:34.460 --> 00:33:41.740 Steve Edgar? 00:33:41.740 --> 00:33:43.500 Aye. 00:33:43.500 --> 00:33:44.500 Mark McClellan? 00:33:44.500 --> 00:33:45.500 Aye. 00:33:45.500 --> 00:33:46.500 Jimmy Mejia? 00:33:46.500 --> 00:33:47.500 And then Mayor Hutspeth? 00:33:47.500 --> 00:33:48.500 Aye. 00:33:48.500 --> 00:33:49.500 Okay. 00:33:49.500 --> 00:33:58.380 So John Baines is also an aye, and so we're going to include another category, and then 00:33:58.380 --> 00:34:02.700 your second recommendation, Kay, is? 00:34:02.700 --> 00:34:07.860 The proposed expand the award categories to include Business Ally of the Year, Entrepreneur 00:34:07.860 --> 00:34:13.620 of the Year, and the Minority Women Veteran Owned Business of the Year categories. 00:34:13.620 --> 00:34:14.620 Okay. 00:34:14.620 --> 00:34:18.380 Chairman Baines, I'd like to make a couple of clarifications, if I could. 00:34:18.380 --> 00:34:20.980 Please, please make a clarification for us. 00:34:20.980 --> 00:34:21.980 Okay. 00:34:21.980 --> 00:34:28.420 First, I think that the, I saw a slide that said the Small Business Award from this board 00:34:28.420 --> 00:34:34.740 began in 2009, but I know that it has come about since I've been on the board, and I've 00:34:34.740 --> 00:34:36.860 not been on the board that long. 00:34:36.860 --> 00:34:37.860 It's 2019. 00:34:37.860 --> 00:34:38.860 That was a typo. 00:34:38.860 --> 00:34:39.860 That's okay. 00:34:39.860 --> 00:34:47.580 Secondly, I also wanted to clarify that our business awards with the Chamber this year, 00:34:47.580 --> 00:34:51.980 we have different categories that are similar to these, and you did not have to be a Chamber 00:34:51.980 --> 00:34:56.940 member, and actually several of the finalists are not Chamber members, just to let you know 00:34:56.940 --> 00:34:59.940 it is citywide. 00:34:59.940 --> 00:35:02.660 This would be a big change. 00:35:02.660 --> 00:35:08.540 I don't know how many of you all have attended the City of Denton awards, business awards, 00:35:08.540 --> 00:35:13.340 but typically you've got the fire department, and they give one award, and you've got the 00:35:13.340 --> 00:35:17.340 police department, and they give one award, the parks department, and they give one award. 00:35:17.340 --> 00:35:23.660 So I also would be interested to hear from our mayor and our mayor pro tem as far as 00:35:23.660 --> 00:35:28.780 if there's been any feedback, because, of course, if we keep expanding, then, of course, 00:35:28.780 --> 00:35:33.860 all of those other departments can expand as well, and is there any concern there as 00:35:33.860 --> 00:35:40.660 far as expanding the number that each department can give just in general, and then we can 00:35:40.660 --> 00:35:53.820 get down into the specifics of the individual proposed added awards? 00:35:53.820 --> 00:35:59.540 I'll defer if Mayor Hedsmith or Councilmember Davis, if you have any comments. 00:35:59.540 --> 00:36:09.100 If not, I can provide a little context, and so you're correct that we don't have a set 00:36:09.100 --> 00:36:13.620 number we're striving for, and in fact we went back and looked at our records. 00:36:13.620 --> 00:36:19.460 We always offer to all city departments, if they have a business that has stepped up and 00:36:19.460 --> 00:36:24.400 helped them in a particular year, what we found is that not every department gives an 00:36:24.400 --> 00:36:25.400 award every year. 00:36:25.400 --> 00:36:26.940 It kind of ebbs and flows. 00:36:26.940 --> 00:36:30.320 Sometimes we have more than others, and sometimes we have less. 00:36:30.320 --> 00:36:37.180 So we don't have a particular number that we're trying to get to, and generally, if 00:36:37.180 --> 00:36:42.820 a department says we have two or three businesses that we want to nominate, we've allowed that 00:36:42.820 --> 00:36:43.820 to go forward. 00:36:43.820 --> 00:36:47.060 There was never a set number on the other department. 00:36:47.060 --> 00:36:48.060 I've never seen that. 00:36:48.060 --> 00:36:49.060 That's interesting. 00:36:49.060 --> 00:36:53.180 I've never seen that at the awards a department give more than one other than this board. 00:36:53.180 --> 00:37:00.660 Yeah, we've had a few instances where they kind of presented a joint award to two kind 00:37:00.660 --> 00:37:07.020 of groups together or to kind of a collective, maybe two companies that had worked together, 00:37:07.020 --> 00:37:09.580 but we haven't had a requirement. 00:37:09.580 --> 00:37:14.540 My only other concern would be that just the possibility that it would dilute the importance 00:37:14.540 --> 00:37:23.540 and the special or around one or two, but of course it's up to this board, and other 00:37:23.540 --> 00:37:28.620 than that, I would just say that we do need to make sure that we are in our lane as far 00:37:28.620 --> 00:37:32.900 as supporting economic development, and I'm not saying that these don't as we dive in 00:37:32.900 --> 00:37:40.060 deeper to the criteria that's been proposed, but that is what we do, and that's what we've 00:37:40.060 --> 00:37:46.100 been focused on in the past as far as who has been adding jobs to our business community, 00:37:46.100 --> 00:37:52.140 and so that's kind of been the focus in the past, just making that notice we go forward 00:37:52.140 --> 00:37:54.980 in discussion. 00:37:54.980 --> 00:37:59.180 That point that you made right there is exactly why we wanted to bring these to the board 00:37:59.180 --> 00:38:04.740 for discussion and kind of get your feedback, particularly as Kay and I discussed, as these 00:38:04.740 --> 00:38:11.100 new categories kind of tie with some new areas that were identified in our strategic plan, 00:38:11.100 --> 00:38:14.700 so we thought that it was worth having this conversation and say, are we ready to make 00:38:14.700 --> 00:38:21.220 a little bit of a shift here, want your feedback, so certainly that exact thought is why we're 00:38:21.220 --> 00:38:22.220 here today. 00:38:22.220 --> 00:38:27.340 In particular, I'd like a little more drill down in the business ally, because that does 00:38:27.340 --> 00:38:31.460 seem like something that we have considered in the past as far as voting on the small 00:38:31.460 --> 00:38:33.300 or large business. 00:38:33.300 --> 00:38:38.020 The other two I can kind of see carved out a little easier, so maybe we can expand a 00:38:38.020 --> 00:38:44.380 little bit on what would differentiate who would win a small business of the year versus 00:38:44.380 --> 00:38:49.100 this carve out to be a business ally, because in my mind, whomever would win one of those 00:38:49.100 --> 00:38:54.580 big awards, the small or large business of the year for economic development, would also 00:38:54.580 --> 00:39:02.100 have these things built in as a necessary component, but I'll be listening. 00:39:02.100 --> 00:39:07.540 Yeah, so currently for the small and large business recognitions, there is no criteria 00:39:07.540 --> 00:39:14.940 in there in regards to their support for business, for the economic development policies and 00:39:14.940 --> 00:39:19.340 programs, new development of program education opportunities, mentoring and training, so 00:39:19.340 --> 00:39:24.540 on that criteria sheet that was provided to the board, it kind of outlines that, and that's 00:39:24.540 --> 00:39:31.180 an additional category of criteria that's added to just the business ally category. 00:39:31.180 --> 00:39:34.920 That is not considered for the small and large businesses. 00:39:34.920 --> 00:39:39.500 There may be some crossover, you're absolutely correct, but particularly the business ally, 00:39:39.500 --> 00:39:45.620 I'll use an example, not to say that there will be the award category, but for US aviation, 00:39:45.620 --> 00:39:51.980 they have created a workforce pathway program with the Indian ISD, so that's considered 00:39:51.980 --> 00:39:59.100 they're an ally, they create an allyship with Indian ISD, a business that may be open to 00:39:59.100 --> 00:40:07.260 creating internships for UNT and TWU, so that business ally category kind of has some things 00:40:07.260 --> 00:40:14.740 there that assist in differentiating between the large and small business categories. 00:40:14.740 --> 00:40:23.320 In these particular categories, I went through the strategic plan to look at, and it did, 00:40:23.320 --> 00:40:28.500 it has a mention there of greater support of supporting entrepreneurs and recognizing 00:40:28.500 --> 00:40:33.180 entrepreneurs and minority-owned businesses and marketing and such, so they weren't randomly 00:40:33.180 --> 00:40:34.180 selected. 00:40:34.180 --> 00:40:39.100 Jessica's point, we try to tie it back to the things that were mentioned in the strategic 00:40:39.100 --> 00:40:44.700 plan that was passed by council last year, but to see your point, there may be some duplicates 00:40:44.700 --> 00:40:49.860 of effort from the chamber, but that's why these recommendations say adding and expanding 00:40:49.860 --> 00:40:55.180 opportunities to recognize businesses, as opposed to just one a year from the chamber 00:40:55.180 --> 00:40:56.180 awards. 00:40:56.180 --> 00:40:57.180 If I may comment? 00:40:57.180 --> 00:40:58.180 Go ahead, Tina, please. 00:40:58.180 --> 00:41:04.340 Well, that was my comment, because I'm not familiar with all the awards that the city 00:41:04.340 --> 00:41:09.620 gives, is this a duplication, are there other awards that are very similar to this? 00:41:09.620 --> 00:41:17.700 That's kind of my question, and then for me personally, on talking about the ally award 00:41:17.700 --> 00:41:25.340 versus small business, if a small business goes above and beyond, it includes these things 00:41:25.340 --> 00:41:31.300 that an ally does, and that's what makes them stand out even further for them to receive 00:41:31.300 --> 00:41:38.260 the small business award, so it would be, in my mind, hard to differentiate what is 00:41:38.260 --> 00:41:43.620 an ally versus, you get the ally award, and then another company gets the small business 00:41:43.620 --> 00:41:48.180 award, or would the same company get both? 00:41:48.180 --> 00:41:53.020 If I could ask for a point of order here, if we're having a lot of discussion, and I 00:41:53.020 --> 00:41:57.140 think we ought to go ahead and make the motion, second it, and then have the discussion and 00:41:57.140 --> 00:42:07.420 include that so we can come to a conclusion, so can I get a motion to entertain the second 00:42:07.420 --> 00:42:12.180 recommendation from Patrick, please? 00:42:12.180 --> 00:42:17.420 I'll give the motion. 00:42:17.420 --> 00:42:21.340 Okay, Jimmy's making the motion, we need a second. 00:42:21.340 --> 00:42:22.340 Steve Ageroff, second. 00:42:22.340 --> 00:42:23.340 Thank you, Steve. 00:42:23.340 --> 00:42:24.340 And please continue the conversation. 00:42:24.340 --> 00:42:25.340 Thank you. 00:42:25.340 --> 00:42:35.100 And Chair, just so I'm clear on the motion, is the motion for all three proposed awards? 00:42:35.100 --> 00:42:36.100 That's correct. 00:42:36.100 --> 00:42:37.100 Okay. 00:42:37.100 --> 00:42:47.020 So, discussing the ally award, I tend to agree with Tina is, you know, a good business that's 00:42:47.020 --> 00:42:53.100 going to win that award is probably doing the things, it should be doing the things 00:42:53.100 --> 00:43:00.540 that are being asked of this ally award, because, you know, internships and all those things, 00:43:00.540 --> 00:43:04.620 that's just good business that we, that a lot of people already do. 00:43:04.620 --> 00:43:11.300 I think it kind of waters down the other awards, if you add this one, this particular one in, 00:43:11.300 --> 00:43:15.180 because it's all just good things that, that if you're involved in your community and doing 00:43:15.180 --> 00:43:21.420 business, and that's part of what makes you get recognized for the nomination of that award, 00:43:21.420 --> 00:43:22.420 just my opinion. 00:43:22.420 --> 00:43:31.100 If I may add for the patient as well, this award also includes organizations, so if an 00:43:31.100 --> 00:43:43.580 organization has an ally, like a United Way, NCTC has created business opportunities above 00:43:43.580 --> 00:43:51.860 and beyond or created a new program for business support based on our strategic plan, but also 00:43:51.860 --> 00:43:57.660 it opens the, it's the only award that allows organizations that have served as an ally 00:43:57.660 --> 00:44:01.540 to the business community to be recognized. 00:44:01.540 --> 00:44:05.740 So I would consider the business ally award to be more prestigious than the small business 00:44:05.740 --> 00:44:13.860 award, is that the path that we're going to take and that you're recommending? 00:44:13.860 --> 00:44:21.220 I'm not recommending any hierarchy, just that the award is added to the, to the, to the 00:44:21.220 --> 00:44:27.740 category list, but it is the only one that allows organizations to be recognized that 00:44:27.740 --> 00:44:36.620 have worked to, as an ally to the business community and not just the business. 00:44:36.620 --> 00:44:44.220 As a small business owner, I'm probably putting too much on the table here, but my time is 00:44:44.220 --> 00:44:53.860 is, is challenged and when I think of the, the kind of the universe that I'm in, there's 00:44:53.860 --> 00:45:01.980 a lot of businesses I'm not aware of and so to, for me to come up with a recommendation 00:45:01.980 --> 00:45:07.500 in these different categories with my other time commitments might be difficult and then 00:45:07.500 --> 00:45:14.380 if we were just rely on staff, then that's a different, that may be a different population. 00:45:14.380 --> 00:45:21.980 So as far as populating those that are going to be recognized, to me that's a big challenge, 00:45:21.980 --> 00:45:27.140 you know, taking the time and then having the understanding of these different categories 00:45:27.140 --> 00:45:32.420 and putting some, some names on the table, that takes a little bit of work and some time 00:45:32.420 --> 00:45:33.420 to do that. 00:45:33.420 --> 00:45:41.700 So I don't, I'm conflicted in that I rely on the, on the city recommendations, but at 00:45:41.700 --> 00:45:46.660 the same time, I realized I have some responsibility as well, you know, to, to put some names on 00:45:46.660 --> 00:45:47.660 the hat. 00:45:47.660 --> 00:45:52.420 So I'm just a little challenged when there's a little more work to do, a little more work 00:45:52.420 --> 00:45:54.020 to be done. 00:45:54.020 --> 00:45:57.380 So Mr. Davis. 00:45:57.380 --> 00:46:04.420 Thank you, Mr. Chair, you know, this is not the biggest problem in the world to have, 00:46:04.420 --> 00:46:09.280 but I am kind of concerned like Jill is with award creep, I guess, what you call it. 00:46:09.280 --> 00:46:13.280 It's just, you know, we have so many people doing so many good things in the community. 00:46:13.280 --> 00:46:17.980 We certainly want to recognize them all, but I'd be just as happy with just the small, 00:46:17.980 --> 00:46:22.900 large and then hub, the historically under utilized businesses, the minority woman or 00:46:22.900 --> 00:46:28.060 veteran owned businesses, I agree with some others that the other categories we're talking 00:46:28.060 --> 00:46:32.420 about entrepreneurial spirit, you know, that's job creation stuff, that's business creation 00:46:32.420 --> 00:46:37.260 stuff that that's baked in to the other things, the allies stuff that's kind of baked into 00:46:37.260 --> 00:46:41.380 the categories that we already have that make you the small business of the year, the large 00:46:41.380 --> 00:46:45.340 business of the year, or the hub business of the year. 00:46:45.340 --> 00:46:51.540 So I kind of prefer to keep it just at those, those three, I like the addition of recognizing 00:46:51.540 --> 00:46:57.940 some folks that maybe don't get as much recognition as they they deserve for historically deserved. 00:46:57.940 --> 00:47:03.920 But the others well intentioned, I think, but maybe a little bit, a little bit much 00:47:03.920 --> 00:47:08.460 we diluted just a little bit dilute the prestige of the other awards just a little bit when 00:47:08.460 --> 00:47:11.960 there's so many categories available. 00:47:11.960 --> 00:47:18.140 So Mayor Pro Tem, once again, to underscore your recommendation, then you just want the 00:47:18.140 --> 00:47:21.660 one rather than the other than all three. 00:47:21.660 --> 00:47:26.660 Yeah, just the just the one new one, we've redefined the other two, or I guess, reestablish 00:47:26.660 --> 00:47:31.780 re categorize the other two new criteria there, and just the one new one. 00:47:31.780 --> 00:47:36.740 So that would be either amendment to them, I can propose that as an amendment to the 00:47:36.740 --> 00:47:37.740 motion. 00:47:37.740 --> 00:47:40.460 However, the moment prefers. 00:47:40.460 --> 00:47:50.320 I think that makes that makes sense, I think you said it better than I did, Mayor Pro Tem. 00:47:50.320 --> 00:47:54.900 So you're making an amendment, then, instead of having those three categories, we'll just 00:47:54.900 --> 00:48:03.500 have the one for the woman on minority veteran category. 00:48:03.500 --> 00:48:04.500 Is that correct. 00:48:04.500 --> 00:48:05.500 That's correct. 00:48:05.500 --> 00:48:08.100 That's my best the amendment I'm offering. 00:48:08.100 --> 00:48:09.780 Okay, we have a friendly amendment. 00:48:09.780 --> 00:48:12.740 Do we have a second to the friendly amendment. 00:48:12.740 --> 00:48:15.580 I have a second. 00:48:15.580 --> 00:48:17.620 Okay, Tina Albert. 00:48:17.620 --> 00:48:18.620 Okay. 00:48:18.620 --> 00:48:20.660 Once again, any, any more discussion. 00:48:20.660 --> 00:48:27.940 I do have one more point I would like to make, though, please, if we're redefining small 00:48:27.940 --> 00:48:34.460 versus large with the number of employees, I believe Kay on your slide for the minority 00:48:34.460 --> 00:48:38.480 women in the veteran says one to 75 employees. 00:48:38.480 --> 00:48:41.660 So would you change that criteria for that award to be the one to 50. 00:48:41.660 --> 00:48:42.660 Yes, ma'am. 00:48:42.660 --> 00:48:43.660 Yes, ma'am. 00:48:43.660 --> 00:48:44.660 Okay. 00:48:44.660 --> 00:48:45.660 Thank you. 00:48:45.660 --> 00:48:46.660 That's my clarification. 00:48:46.660 --> 00:48:55.660 I wonder with that was necessary if that's necessary to limit the size. 00:48:55.660 --> 00:49:03.020 Yes, that's what I was gonna say is blowing it up. 00:49:03.020 --> 00:49:04.020 Yep. 00:49:04.020 --> 00:49:13.540 So as the dust settles, what are we going to do with the chair right now you have a 00:49:13.540 --> 00:49:19.340 main motion to approve all three categories, you have a an amendment to that motion for 00:49:19.340 --> 00:49:21.820 just the minority women owned and veteran owned business. 00:49:21.820 --> 00:49:24.980 So if you want to take action, you would vote first on the amendment. 00:49:24.980 --> 00:49:28.500 And if that's approved, then you'd have a second vote on the main motion. 00:49:28.500 --> 00:49:38.140 Okay, so let's let's follow our lead counsel here and let's vote on the friendly amendment 00:49:38.140 --> 00:49:42.500 to have just the one category without numbers. 00:49:42.500 --> 00:49:44.500 Okay. 00:49:44.500 --> 00:49:51.180 All in favor of the friendly amendment, we're going to go around Jason Thomson. 00:49:51.180 --> 00:49:52.180 Tina Albert. 00:49:52.180 --> 00:49:53.180 Aye. 00:49:53.180 --> 00:49:54.180 Jesse Davis. 00:49:54.180 --> 00:49:55.180 Aye. 00:49:55.180 --> 00:49:56.180 Jill Jester. 00:49:56.180 --> 00:49:57.180 Aye. 00:49:57.180 --> 00:49:58.180 Tony Clarke. 00:49:58.180 --> 00:49:59.180 Aye. 00:49:59.180 --> 00:50:00.180 Lee Ramsey. 00:50:00.180 --> 00:50:01.180 Aye. 00:50:01.180 --> 00:50:02.180 Steve Edgar. 00:50:02.180 --> 00:50:03.180 Aye. 00:50:03.180 --> 00:50:04.180 Mark McClellan. 00:50:04.180 --> 00:50:05.180 Aye. 00:50:05.180 --> 00:50:06.180 Jimmy Mejia. 00:50:06.180 --> 00:50:07.180 Aye. 00:50:07.180 --> 00:50:08.180 And Mayor Gerard Hutsmith. 00:50:08.180 --> 00:50:09.180 Aye. 00:50:09.180 --> 00:50:24.020 John Baines agrees to the friendly amendment so we have a unanimous approval of the friendly 00:50:24.020 --> 00:50:25.020 amendment. 00:50:25.020 --> 00:50:29.220 So let's go back to the main amendment to have all three. 00:50:29.220 --> 00:50:30.220 Isn't that correct counselor? 00:50:30.220 --> 00:50:35.020 So now yeah, the main motion now has been a change to just to a motion to approve the 00:50:35.020 --> 00:50:36.020 one category. 00:50:36.020 --> 00:50:37.820 So you'll have a vote on that motion. 00:50:37.820 --> 00:50:38.820 Okay. 00:50:38.820 --> 00:50:39.820 So we okay. 00:50:39.820 --> 00:50:42.860 So the friendly amendment changed the original. 00:50:42.860 --> 00:50:43.860 Yes. 00:50:43.860 --> 00:50:44.860 Oh shit. 00:50:44.860 --> 00:50:45.860 Okay. 00:50:45.860 --> 00:50:46.860 All right. 00:50:46.860 --> 00:50:50.620 So now we're going to vote to have the one category and we're going to go around once 00:50:50.620 --> 00:51:10.260 again Jason Tomlinson, Gerard Hutsmith, Jimmy Mejia, Mark McClellan, Steve Edgar, Lee Ramsey, 00:51:10.260 --> 00:51:20.460 Tina Albert, Jesse Davis, Jill Jester, Tony Clarke, John Baines says aye. 00:51:20.460 --> 00:51:25.780 So we have that one amendment and we're done with that particular presentation it looks 00:51:25.780 --> 00:51:26.780 like. 00:51:26.780 --> 00:51:27.780 I'll let you have some more Kay. 00:51:27.780 --> 00:51:28.780 All right. 00:51:28.780 --> 00:51:29.780 Thank you. 00:51:29.780 --> 00:51:30.780 And thank you. 00:51:30.780 --> 00:51:34.940 Thank you for your thoughtfulness and thank you for your inclusiveness. 00:51:34.940 --> 00:51:40.620 As a veteran you know sometimes I forget wait a minute you know let's have a little recognition 00:51:40.620 --> 00:51:42.820 here every once in a while. 00:51:42.820 --> 00:51:49.260 And then the woman owned businesses I mean this is a different category as well and thank 00:51:49.260 --> 00:51:53.860 you for taking the time and the thoughtfulness to be more inclusive. 00:51:53.860 --> 00:51:57.100 I want to echo that Kay. 00:51:57.100 --> 00:51:59.060 We appreciate ideas. 00:51:59.060 --> 00:52:02.940 Ideas are always good and we never want to be stuck in the same place. 00:52:02.940 --> 00:52:08.220 We always want to be moving forward so thank you so much and please please do continue 00:52:08.220 --> 00:52:10.180 to bring new ideas to us. 00:52:10.180 --> 00:52:12.360 Thank you. 00:52:12.360 --> 00:52:16.500 And thanks to all of the partnership board for taking the time to have a really meaningful 00:52:16.500 --> 00:52:17.500 discussion. 00:52:17.500 --> 00:52:19.940 Thank you so much. 00:52:19.940 --> 00:52:27.780 We're down to the last item of the of the agenda ADP 21 P 21 dash 0 17 staff report. 00:52:27.780 --> 00:52:30.260 Jessica Rogers. 00:52:30.260 --> 00:52:31.260 Yes sir. 00:52:31.260 --> 00:52:37.340 So you have in your packet the second quarter statistical trends and news of Denton report 00:52:37.340 --> 00:52:44.260 so I encourage you all to take a look at that and certainly reach out to us if anything 00:52:44.260 --> 00:52:45.260 pops out. 00:52:45.260 --> 00:52:50.060 We're really excited to get the census numbers hopefully before the next quarterly report 00:52:50.060 --> 00:52:53.060 and maybe make some updates on those. 00:52:53.060 --> 00:52:59.300 We're not quite sure when the city level data will become available fingers crossed sooner 00:52:59.300 --> 00:53:04.060 rather than later so that we'll be able to update some of those and we're also looking 00:53:04.060 --> 00:53:11.220 forward to some of our universities coming back fully in person next year and so certainly 00:53:11.220 --> 00:53:16.900 that'll influence our student residences and those sorts of things that we report and I'll 00:53:16.900 --> 00:53:22.940 just remind you that we do have that sort of we're tracking a couple key statistics 00:53:22.940 --> 00:53:29.500 related to covid recovery to keep in mind office rents things like sales tax collections 00:53:29.500 --> 00:53:34.180 things like that that we're really seeing some some very positive signs here in our 00:53:34.180 --> 00:53:35.980 local economy. 00:53:35.980 --> 00:53:41.500 I think we're going to have a great summer and you know hopefully by fall we'll see some 00:53:41.500 --> 00:53:45.540 some real stability returning to our local economy. 00:53:45.540 --> 00:53:54.500 So we're very excited about what we're seeing in some of these 2021 kind of early indicators 00:53:54.500 --> 00:53:59.880 and with that I will just say I'll throw in a comment and just let everyone know that 00:53:59.880 --> 00:54:07.020 about 1030 p.m. I don't remember the exact time councilmember Davis can correct me but 00:54:07.020 --> 00:54:12.540 the City Council did unanimously approve the ranch land incentive agreement that this board 00:54:12.540 --> 00:54:19.540 had seen back in December so we are very excited to welcome ranch land to Denton and for those 00:54:19.540 --> 00:54:26.360 of you who will be in attendance at the economic development partners reception investors reception 00:54:26.360 --> 00:54:31.900 this evening and the CEO of ranch land will be joining us so we're happy to introduce 00:54:31.900 --> 00:54:42.540 you to mr. Ken Davis just go ahead mr. Davis thank you chair I can just add something really 00:54:42.540 --> 00:54:48.740 quickly on the heels of that let y'all know what was important to council on the unanimous 00:54:48.740 --> 00:54:52.900 of everybody had their own reasons for voting voting yes right they had their own criteria 00:54:52.900 --> 00:54:58.100 and how they got to yes but it was interesting to see a new council with new faces folks 00:54:58.100 --> 00:55:02.540 with different lots of different priorities different things they ran on different things 00:55:02.540 --> 00:55:08.900 I want to talk about voting unanimously on an economic incentive to getting right there 00:55:08.900 --> 00:55:13.380 right out in front of it I thought that was interesting to see and some of the things 00:55:13.380 --> 00:55:19.980 that were important in the conversation were business practices corporate practices especially 00:55:19.980 --> 00:55:29.220 in the realm of food processing and meat processing ethical and sustainable and sustainable processing 00:55:29.220 --> 00:55:35.980 of meat that was important to council good wages was important to council the types of 00:55:35.980 --> 00:55:43.940 jobs we talked most about corporate jobs but of course they also do their logistics company 00:55:43.940 --> 00:55:47.660 right so they're going to have folks kind of not necessarily directly employed by them 00:55:47.660 --> 00:55:52.200 but a lot of transportation contractors and things so lots of different jobs across the 00:55:52.200 --> 00:55:56.900 spectrum coming here with that company but also that it was a corporate headquarters 00:55:56.900 --> 00:56:03.020 that was important to council that there was a large number of folks that would be hired 00:56:03.020 --> 00:56:07.140 our local market they're only bringing about seven people with them from their current 00:56:07.140 --> 00:56:11.460 location a large number of folks hired to work at their corporate headquarters which 00:56:11.460 --> 00:56:16.300 would be located in an otherwise disused building in Denton so all of those things kind of came 00:56:16.300 --> 00:56:21.220 together I think to result in that unanimous vote I thought it would be important for this 00:56:21.220 --> 00:56:27.740 board to know going forward the sorts of things council was was looking at thank you mayor 00:56:27.740 --> 00:56:33.420 pro tem I did have a couple of questions that I needed a little clarification on okay what's 00:56:33.420 --> 00:56:41.300 the do we have a projected date for the awards banquets awards program yes great question 00:56:41.300 --> 00:56:46.780 and so currently so staff is looking at two dates in location and so currently September 00:56:46.780 --> 00:56:52.260 10th was the date that was available on the third location when we were calling around 00:56:52.260 --> 00:56:59.740 and getting information so tentatively September 10th but when it is solidified to what you 00:56:59.740 --> 00:57:04.860 guys know and for those that are new it's typically a breakfast so if you're looking 00:57:04.860 --> 00:57:13.580 at maybe kind of tentatively blocking out that date on your calendar and uh I better 00:57:13.580 --> 00:57:20.620 approach him um where do we go to get updates on the progress of the road construction in 00:57:20.620 --> 00:57:28.500 the city I don't want to make you smile but I did want to I want to so um let me let me 00:57:28.500 --> 00:57:33.080 get my browser window up while we're talking um so I can give you the exact uh url but 00:57:33.080 --> 00:57:39.820 we have a construction update page we've got a road closures calendar we've got a construction 00:57:39.820 --> 00:57:45.860 interactive map um let me make sure I'm giving you the right web page and I can copy and 00:57:45.860 --> 00:57:51.500 paste it into the if you just google a city of denton understanding construction or city 00:57:51.500 --> 00:57:57.020 of denton improving denton you can find it and then I guess never mind I was gonna say 00:57:57.020 --> 00:58:01.700 I can put it in the chat but of course this is a a special city secure zoom where we don't 00:58:01.700 --> 00:58:08.780 have um offline chat that people can't see this is a it's a toma thing so um if you all 00:58:08.780 --> 00:58:12.900 email me I can send it to you but if you just google city of denton construction you'll 00:58:12.900 --> 00:58:18.820 find it pretty quickly thank you so much you should be improving denton.com should take 00:58:18.820 --> 00:58:23.980 you to the main page improving it kind of it kind of does oh you have to click around 00:58:23.980 --> 00:58:29.260 just a little bit to get to improving denton gives you a lot of the headlines that we want 00:58:29.260 --> 00:58:34.620 you to see right but they get to the click yeah to get to drill down to the the reports 00:58:34.620 --> 00:58:42.220 that you really want to see um just just google it'll find it you'll find it and in concluding 00:58:42.220 --> 00:58:48.860 um do we have any updates from the um from the universities and the schools on any changes 00:58:48.860 --> 00:58:53.060 we should expect. 00:58:53.060 --> 00:58:58.740 So John first of all good morning everybody it's good to see you all um some of you may 00:58:58.740 --> 00:59:05.520 have heard that um our lagrone academy our career center the atc is um becoming a standalone 00:59:05.520 --> 00:59:11.100 campus in years past we've had students you know do half a day at denton ryan geier or 00:59:11.100 --> 00:59:15.180 braswell and then you know return back to their comprehensive campus we're going to 00:59:15.180 --> 00:59:20.500 continue with that programming but we have a lot of our students who are not engaged 00:59:20.500 --> 00:59:25.500 in band choir orchestra athletics student government other leadership positions that 00:59:25.500 --> 00:59:30.020 um are are are interested in their careers and internships and those things and will 00:59:30.020 --> 00:59:35.900 be going to the lagrone academy full time uh starting in january um i mean starting 00:59:35.900 --> 00:59:43.460 in august and um in preparation for um an additional career center um for us to study 00:59:43.460 --> 00:59:49.020 the the viability of that in the eastern section of the district um and our next capital improvement 00:59:49.020 --> 00:59:53.500 project so um just wanted to wanted to put that out there because it's a different way 00:59:53.500 --> 00:59:59.180 we're offering courses uh moving forward so um really good career development kinds of 00:59:59.180 --> 01:00:04.740 things and i sent the links to our our latest uh our latest recipient of the incentives 01:00:04.740 --> 01:00:09.100 so a recommendation for the incentives i'll send those links this morning in an email 01:00:09.100 --> 01:00:14.940 thank you thank you superintendent any work from the university any updates quick updates 01:00:14.940 --> 01:00:25.220 go ahead i was just gonna say you know this has been a tiny time for all but we appreciate 01:00:25.220 --> 01:00:29.520 all the work and other students i think uh one thing i have to say is we we anticipate 01:00:29.520 --> 01:00:34.180 being back to permitting to normal procedures for the fall the summers will be some parts 01:00:34.180 --> 01:00:39.820 some on time we at twu at least uh we always have we've maintained students on campus we've 01:00:39.820 --> 01:00:45.460 been about a 24 percent uh on campus versus or hybrid versus about and online but we'll 01:00:45.460 --> 01:00:51.340 shift back to normal in the fall and our so far uh orientation numbers all those numbers 01:00:51.340 --> 01:00:57.860 look like they're on par for prior years so it looks good thank you thank you jason similar 01:00:57.860 --> 01:01:05.660 update with uh you and t we are expecting fall to be uh essentially fully back to normal 01:01:05.660 --> 01:01:12.140 uh july 4th is probably a good good transition date for for many of our operations and some 01:01:12.140 --> 01:01:16.260 of you may have heard the news that we just penned a brand new agreement with the university 01:01:16.260 --> 01:01:24.740 of texas austin for high performance computing uh needs a massive expansion of our programs 01:01:24.740 --> 01:01:30.740 and capabilities so we're very excited about the implications of that for our university 01:01:30.740 --> 01:01:39.460 community our research community especially jessica back to you and i think we'll conclude 01:01:39.460 --> 01:01:40.940 i i can't top all of that 01:01:40.940 --> 01:01:48.860 well thank everyone for taking out of your time and your schedule and for your participation 01:01:48.860 --> 01:01:55.260 and our efforts to make denton a good place to live work play and raise families thank 01:01:55.260 --> 01:02:02.820 you very much should we conclude yes sir you can adjourn all right we'll see you at the 01:02:02.820 --> 01:02:03.860 next meeting thank you