WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:06.560 All right we're on. All right it is nine o'clock and we do have a quorum so we'll call to order 00:00:06.560 --> 00:00:13.040 the Public Utilities Board of the City of Denton for Monday October 12, 2020. First item on the 00:00:13.040 --> 00:00:16.800 agenda is our consent agenda. Does any board member wish to pull an item? 00:00:20.240 --> 00:00:30.400 Really? Yeah I pull consent agenda item number G. G all right. Any others? All right do we have a 00:00:30.400 --> 00:00:41.360 motion to approve items A through F and items H through J? I move. And a second? I'll second. 00:00:41.360 --> 00:00:49.680 All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Okay carries. Item G. I have a conflict here 00:00:49.680 --> 00:00:56.000 so if you want to knock me out. Okay are you just going to abstain? 00:00:56.000 --> 00:01:01.920 You have to you know I'm abstaining I probably if there's any discussion I need to leave the room. 00:01:01.920 --> 00:01:11.440 I'll move approval of item G. Do we have a second? I second. All in favor say aye. 00:01:12.320 --> 00:01:22.720 Aye. And then Billy abstain? Okay that one carries. Motion carries. Next item is items for 00:01:22.720 --> 00:01:28.320 individual consideration. Consider the approval of the September 28th 2020 minutes. Do we have a 00:01:28.320 --> 00:01:39.840 motion to approve? I move. That's moving approval. Do we have a second? Second. Okay all in favor say 00:01:39.840 --> 00:01:49.360 aye. Aye. Opposed? All right next item is item B. Consider recommending the adoption of an ordinance 00:01:49.360 --> 00:01:54.480 of the city of Denton the Texas Home Rule Municipal Corporation authorizing the city manager 00:01:54.480 --> 00:01:59.600 to execute a professional service agreement with Burns and McDonald Inc. for the supply of a solid 00:01:59.600 --> 00:02:04.960 waste management strategy for the solid waste and recycling department providing for the expenditure 00:02:04.960 --> 00:02:12.480 funds therefore and providing an effective date RFP 7281 awarded to Burns and McDonald Inc. 00:02:12.480 --> 00:02:18.160 and the not to exceed amount of $155,250. Go ahead Brown. 00:02:18.160 --> 00:02:23.360 I think you're muted. 00:02:23.360 --> 00:02:30.880 If you'll give us a second we're having some technical difficulties. 00:02:32.880 --> 00:02:38.560 Pull in the entire IT department and turn the mute off. 00:02:38.560 --> 00:02:52.560 There's Barbara. Good morning. 00:03:03.200 --> 00:03:08.560 I think he's back. 00:03:08.560 --> 00:03:18.960 Well good morning Madam Chair. Yes Madam Chair, members of the board. My name is Brian Berner. I 00:03:18.960 --> 00:03:23.360 am director of solid waste for the city of Denton. Appreciate the opportunity to come before you today 00:03:23.360 --> 00:03:29.040 to talk about our comprehensive solid waste management strategy and the proposal to go with 00:03:29.040 --> 00:03:32.880 Burns and McDonald. So let me pull up my presentation here. 00:03:32.880 --> 00:03:50.720 All right can everybody see that? Yeah very good. All right what I want to talk a little bit about 00:03:50.720 --> 00:03:55.360 today is what a comprehensive management strategy is and how it differs from a plan. 00:03:55.360 --> 00:03:59.360 Talk a little bit about the process we went through to identify the consultant complete the 00:03:59.360 --> 00:04:04.240 strategy. Go about how a little bit about how we're going to go about completing the strategy 00:04:04.240 --> 00:04:10.880 and then talk about our time frame. So with that let's talk about a couple of concepts here first. 00:04:10.880 --> 00:04:15.280 The difference between a strategy and a plan. Strategy is a framework for making decisions 00:04:15.280 --> 00:04:20.080 about how you're going to play the game and the plan is a detailed proposal for for doing 00:04:20.080 --> 00:04:26.720 or achieving something. So identifying creating that that framework identifying those issues which 00:04:26.720 --> 00:04:33.280 may affect us as we move down the pike and then the plan is really what we want to do how we want 00:04:33.280 --> 00:04:39.840 to do it and in what order. So strategy we're identifying resources identifying the constraints 00:04:39.840 --> 00:04:44.560 we have to operate in whether they be something specific to the city of Denton whether they be 00:04:44.560 --> 00:04:50.080 legal regulatory and what we're trying to do is bring value to the undervalued assets as we're 00:04:50.080 --> 00:04:53.920 moving forward and then that plan is how we're going to win the game what we're going to do to 00:04:53.920 --> 00:05:00.080 take that hill as opposed to which hill are we going to take. In our comprehensive management 00:05:00.080 --> 00:05:04.800 strategy we're working to identify the materials we're going to manage the markets that are available 00:05:04.800 --> 00:05:08.880 and if there are no markets to manage those diverted materials how do we go about creating 00:05:08.880 --> 00:05:14.560 those markets or identifying how we support that marketplace. We're going to be looking at waste 00:05:14.560 --> 00:05:19.120 diversion and disposal opportunities not just in the city of Denton but region wide so we can 00:05:19.120 --> 00:05:25.120 understand what part we play in the whole waste shed in the marketplace as we move forward. What 00:05:25.120 --> 00:05:29.360 are our operational priorities? We're going to look a little bit about fiscal management 00:05:29.360 --> 00:05:35.680 developing benchmarks and performance indicators branding marketing outreach and then as I talked 00:05:35.680 --> 00:05:39.920 and what's really going to be important is the legal and regulatory opportunities and constraints. 00:05:39.920 --> 00:05:46.960 A lot of what we operate in right now are rules that have been written back in the 80s and the 90s 00:05:46.960 --> 00:05:52.480 and we know that you know between technology advances things that have been happening in the 00:05:52.480 --> 00:05:58.000 global market the national sword out of China basically shutting the entire Asian peninsula 00:05:58.000 --> 00:06:07.120 off from from our recycling waste stream or our product stream it has really constrained us and 00:06:07.120 --> 00:06:12.960 we have to look at doing things differently you know I sometimes jokingly say you know solid waste 00:06:12.960 --> 00:06:18.240 1.0 was back in the 80s and the 90s we're really getting into recycling we were gearing it up 00:06:18.240 --> 00:06:23.920 and then back in the early 2000 it was solid waste 2.0 we were we were doing things in carts 00:06:23.920 --> 00:06:28.880 we were getting away from from you know separating things out we were commingling this is really 00:06:28.880 --> 00:06:34.880 solid waste 3.0 it's the cutting edge of identifying how solid waste is to be done not locally but 00:06:34.880 --> 00:06:40.320 potentially statewide and nationally as we move forward in the 21st century so we're going to be 00:06:40.320 --> 00:06:45.920 looking at at resource recovery policies programs and services and really setting identifying 00:06:45.920 --> 00:06:51.920 attainable goals to to anchor a solid waste management plan as as we move forward in the 00:06:51.920 --> 00:06:57.440 in in the process we had selected bernsley mcdonnell as the most qualified firm to complete 00:06:57.440 --> 00:07:04.400 the project for several reasons first of all they work not only locally but statewide and nationally 00:07:04.400 --> 00:07:08.560 to create solid waste management strategies they have innovative outreach and stake 00:07:08.560 --> 00:07:12.960 processes and stakeholder engagement they had probably had the best understanding of really 00:07:12.960 --> 00:07:16.320 what we were looking for there was there were other companies that said yeah we can do a solid 00:07:16.320 --> 00:07:20.640 waste management plan for you but again we were looking for something a little bit deeper 00:07:21.760 --> 00:07:26.480 with their synergy and and and leverage they do waste characterization studies all across the 00:07:26.480 --> 00:07:31.840 state and across the nation so they have a unique understanding of of what the city of denton may 00:07:31.840 --> 00:07:36.720 bring to the table and again their experience and relationship statewide and nationally helps 00:07:36.720 --> 00:07:44.000 bring some stuff so if you look at this graphic here off to the right i think it really best 00:07:44.000 --> 00:07:47.920 demonstrates what we're looking for we're looking to the future we're going to be data driven looking 00:07:47.920 --> 00:07:53.600 at metrics and focusing on the people to create alignment provide new ways of thinking and 00:07:53.600 --> 00:07:58.720 identifying those critical ends to really help us forward with that strategy that we're developing 00:07:58.720 --> 00:08:04.080 for the city of denton this is going to be unique a lot of other people have have developed plans 00:08:04.080 --> 00:08:07.760 and they've been successful and some have not been successful but again what we're looking 00:08:07.760 --> 00:08:14.640 for is that that basic foundation as we move forward with this process you know as we look 00:08:14.640 --> 00:08:20.480 at the at the burns mcdonnell leadership scott pasternak who has many years of experience 00:08:20.480 --> 00:08:28.400 leading solid waste projects will be the project manager seth cunningham an engineer as well as 00:08:28.400 --> 00:08:33.040 bob craigs who's senior vice president burns mcdonnell will round out the leadership team 00:08:33.040 --> 00:08:40.080 they will be partnering with both the recycling partnership as well as future iq which is an 00:08:40.080 --> 00:08:47.280 innovative outreach and focus-based task force uh synergistic building community to help identify 00:08:47.280 --> 00:08:52.720 the education the outreach the the communications the task force but again this is going to be very 00:08:52.720 --> 00:08:58.960 data driven so again reengineering deconstructing reconstructing what this solid waste program 00:08:58.960 --> 00:09:05.280 should be considering as we move forward if you look at what they've done in relationship to what 00:09:05.280 --> 00:09:10.080 we're looking for they worked you can see in the city of austin dallas frisco georgetown 00:09:10.080 --> 00:09:17.760 paso phoenix denver i mean just all across the state and the nation trying to help you know in 00:09:17.760 --> 00:09:23.680 the planning identifying waste quantities doing business and financial uh implementation looking 00:09:23.680 --> 00:09:29.120 at waste minimization policies uh collection so again it's it's soup to nuts what we're what 00:09:29.120 --> 00:09:34.480 we're really looking for that to help us identify our strategies we're moving forward uh 00:09:34.480 --> 00:09:40.000 specifically they actually gave us reports from work they've done with the cog georgetown city 00:09:40.000 --> 00:09:45.680 of georgetown the tceq as well as ohio department of natural resources and the city of columbia 00:09:45.680 --> 00:09:51.840 missouri with city of columbia specifically they had done a strategy a study related to their 00:09:51.840 --> 00:09:57.760 organics waste management uh program and again not only that the capability of what they were 00:09:57.760 --> 00:10:03.280 looking at but also environmental impacts greenhouse gas generation uh so of all the 00:10:03.280 --> 00:10:08.400 organic streams so again we're really excited about them bringing this this amount of of of 00:10:08.400 --> 00:10:15.360 expertise to the table our key focus areas again you know landfill waste reduction zero waste 00:10:15.360 --> 00:10:22.000 philosophies waste management diversion promotion of ingenuity and reuse and recycling so again i 00:10:22.000 --> 00:10:27.840 think we're seeing a lot of of those those key aspects of what it's been asked for over the past 00:10:27.840 --> 00:10:33.200 year and as we're moving forward uh they have fulfilled that need and and and appear to be the 00:10:33.200 --> 00:10:39.600 best qualified firm as we move forward so really over the next 12 months there's several tasks that 00:10:39.600 --> 00:10:43.920 are going to be taking place first and foremost is the waste stream characterization they're going to 00:10:43.920 --> 00:10:50.320 go into our not only our residential uh units but also multifamily and commercial units and really 00:10:50.320 --> 00:10:54.480 identify what we're throwing away and in what volumes you know exactly how much plastic is 00:10:54.480 --> 00:11:00.160 ending up in both our recycling stream as well as our solid waste stream what sort of organics are 00:11:00.160 --> 00:11:06.240 are in there what sort of a mixed material that if it was separated out better or if there was a a 00:11:06.240 --> 00:11:13.600 legislative change which would drive uh how this material was was produced on the front end it would 00:11:13.600 --> 00:11:20.080 create a commodity on the back end so using that information to help us you know uh uh 00:11:21.440 --> 00:11:26.720 create and move forward in our strategy from that we will springboard into visioning workshop 00:11:26.720 --> 00:11:32.480 workshops again structured engagement so again in in addition to individual surveys uh creation of 00:11:32.480 --> 00:11:37.520 a think tank uh developing not only you know convening not only those that are interested 00:11:37.520 --> 00:11:42.400 in recycling diversion but also uh let's just say the naysayers people that may not support the 00:11:42.400 --> 00:11:46.560 program because again we got to get buy-in from everybody to be able to move forward effectively 00:11:46.560 --> 00:11:50.400 so figure out exactly what it looks like for the city of denton what the hurdles are 00:11:50.400 --> 00:11:56.160 and as we move forward there collect the data create the identify those marketplace opportunities 00:11:56.160 --> 00:12:01.600 and again you know how does this coalesce and fit in with our sustainability plan what are 00:12:01.600 --> 00:12:08.240 those environmental uh uh impacts looking at the education outreach opportunities again you know how 00:12:08.240 --> 00:12:15.840 we educated people back in the 1990s and 2000s uh early 2000s about uh diversion is significantly 00:12:15.840 --> 00:12:19.680 different than the tools that we have today so what does that look like as we reach forward and 00:12:19.680 --> 00:12:24.960 then finally you know the the financial management how do we how do we fund a lot of this what will 00:12:24.960 --> 00:12:31.760 it be able to cost and that will help us identify how we move forward in in the the uh implementation 00:12:31.760 --> 00:12:37.120 of these programs all across the city so with that i would like uh like to answer any questions 00:12:37.120 --> 00:12:49.600 that you might have and uh uh move for approval if if acceptable questions yes i think this sounds 00:12:49.600 --> 00:12:57.200 really really promising and the only the only question i have really is um what's the time 00:12:57.200 --> 00:13:05.680 frame or how far out is this strategy going to be looked at a 2030 2040 i'm just curious as to 00:13:05.680 --> 00:13:11.680 to how far into the future that this is going to project well again that you know that with just 00:13:11.680 --> 00:13:15.840 just like investing and everything else you know you sort of look at the past to help predict the 00:13:15.840 --> 00:13:20.880 future here though we're going to be looking at the fast at the past but trying to future think 00:13:20.880 --> 00:13:26.160 into the future so you know the further out we go that the fuzzier the vision is so we don't want 00:13:26.160 --> 00:13:31.360 to go so far that again we have no confidence in what we're looking at so we're looking really at 00:13:31.360 --> 00:13:38.400 a 15 20 year time period and in about seven to ten years actually go back in do a a a gut check you 00:13:38.400 --> 00:13:42.880 know where our assumptions are right where our variables correct and then do a course correction 00:13:42.880 --> 00:13:49.760 in that time period so you're saying you're looking ahead 15 to 20 years 15 to 20 years i 00:13:49.760 --> 00:13:56.800 think that is that that is a very safe uh uh window for us to be looking at uh from an investment 00:13:56.800 --> 00:14:01.680 standpoint as well as an implementation standpoint and by that time technology is going to change 00:14:01.680 --> 00:14:06.960 have changed significantly and hopefully uh what we're doing uh from a diversion standpoint has 00:14:06.960 --> 00:14:11.600 changed significantly and the variables will need to be recalibrated for us as we move forward from 00:14:11.600 --> 00:14:20.640 that point okay thank you you're welcome go ahead karen i just uh i wanted to echo and i think this 00:14:20.640 --> 00:14:27.040 is looks like it's going to be pretty comprehensive and broad i think it's really important to focus on 00:14:27.040 --> 00:14:34.240 the buy-in as you said because if people won't recycle you know your wonderful plans aren't 00:14:34.240 --> 00:14:41.040 really going to be any any use and at least you know word on the street is in austin is that they've 00:14:41.040 --> 00:14:48.240 had a really hard time getting buy-in you know they're they're sort of feeling overloaded by 00:14:48.240 --> 00:14:54.160 bins at the curb and they're having a hard time getting the the residents to actually participate 00:14:54.160 --> 00:15:01.920 so i'd be interested in participation rates in dentin um especially potential participation rates 00:15:01.920 --> 00:15:07.120 for commercial recycling i'm sure they're going to cover all of that but i don't want that to get 00:15:07.120 --> 00:15:13.280 lost in the weeds because that's that's the bottom line is how do you get people to participate 00:15:13.280 --> 00:15:21.120 so anyway otherwise it sounds great thank you i want to echo karen to both karen and add the 00:15:21.120 --> 00:15:28.000 participation is important multifamily housing is very difficult to get participation rates so we 00:15:28.000 --> 00:15:34.320 really need to get some buy-in in that particular sector as well as the food waste and organic 00:15:34.320 --> 00:15:38.800 that's going into the landfill if people don't recycle it ends up in the landfill anyway so 00:15:38.800 --> 00:15:43.600 we need them to participate but it does look like a real good plan burns and mcdonald 00:15:43.600 --> 00:15:50.720 is probably one of the best in the country so yes go ahead and yeah i'm just a little 00:15:50.720 --> 00:15:57.600 institutional memory i was involved in the community committee to initially establish 00:15:58.640 --> 00:16:05.760 curbside recycling here and there were all sorts of problems raised by people i don't want to carry 00:16:05.760 --> 00:16:13.440 the carts out and and you know we all know the know the scenario but i think that with a with a 00:16:13.440 --> 00:16:20.720 strong educational component uh just as was done with with the initial recycling program i think 00:16:20.720 --> 00:16:26.240 that uh that this will be very successful especially from a commercial aspect i think 00:16:26.240 --> 00:16:31.040 these a lot of these folks are would be very very happy to have this kind of service 00:16:31.040 --> 00:16:39.280 yes billy you know we had the same problem we wanted to put our trash bags in a can in a 00:16:39.280 --> 00:16:46.960 dumpster and once people saw it and saw how clean it was and how how much more efficient it was i 00:16:46.960 --> 00:16:52.800 think that they took to getting them there is the problem right and and i was on the pb we 00:16:52.800 --> 00:17:00.880 instituted recycling by the way too so i'll take a look that old yeah yeah no they put me on there 00:17:00.880 --> 00:17:11.360 when i was 15 any other questions comments all right do we have a motion to approve 00:17:11.360 --> 00:17:19.760 thank you ed it's a motion do we have a second second billy second all in favor say aye 00:17:20.400 --> 00:17:26.720 aye opposed all right thank you brian thank you very much management update 00:17:26.720 --> 00:17:33.840 good morning everyone uh we have a memorandum and this was in response to i think it's a question 00:17:33.840 --> 00:17:39.280 that barbara had on related to amherst and so we've provided in your backup but i have 00:17:39.280 --> 00:17:44.720 premium deshmuth is on the phone if if there's any questions on on that memo 00:17:49.840 --> 00:17:57.120 any questions barbara i've been challenged this weekend with lack of internet and also my ipad 00:17:57.120 --> 00:18:03.040 is not working so would you talk a little bit about that uh yes i'm gonna ask premium if he 00:18:03.040 --> 00:18:13.440 can jump in premium are you on the phone um yes everyone hear me yes yes hi good morning uh this 00:18:13.440 --> 00:18:20.240 is premium deshmuth deputy director of water wastewater chair members of the board thanks for the opportunity 00:18:20.240 --> 00:18:25.360 uh i really want to highlight uh quickly highlight or summarize what was written in the memorandum 00:18:25.360 --> 00:18:33.360 as i understand the question on this particular topic was amherst it was recently done by the 00:18:33.360 --> 00:18:39.360 streets department it feels brand new and why are we going at a later date and putting in 00:18:39.360 --> 00:18:45.840 water and wastewater or doing these uh upgrades to the water and wastewater line and the memo 00:18:45.840 --> 00:18:51.680 pretty much outlines what exactly was done there are several types of maintenance that street 00:18:51.680 --> 00:18:59.760 department does and one of the lower and maintenance uh which kind of lasts for anywhere between a year 00:18:59.760 --> 00:19:06.880 and three years is a micro sealing it's a type of a asphalt emulsion that you just lay on top of the 00:19:06.880 --> 00:19:14.080 surface so uh it kind of seals in the cracks and and releases moisture to penetration into the 00:19:14.080 --> 00:19:24.240 pavement and uh that was done a year ago uh typically the life um the life line for for this 00:19:24.240 --> 00:19:29.760 particular type of treatment is about a year anywhere between a year and three years so that's 00:19:29.760 --> 00:19:36.400 why uh we believe that this street or this segment of the street was cleared for us to move in as this 00:19:36.400 --> 00:19:43.360 was very low maintenance low cost option that was conducted recently yes the surface does look uh 00:19:43.360 --> 00:19:49.120 nice and it does feel that it's completely redone but it's a very low cost quick fix 00:19:49.120 --> 00:19:56.320 after the water wastewater utilities along this segment are completed we'll come back and redo 00:19:57.360 --> 00:20:06.800 a segment uh rehabilitate a segment of that particular uh amherst street and then also repatch and redo 00:20:06.800 --> 00:20:13.600 the remaining amherst and that's what all is lined out in this memo thank you 00:20:13.600 --> 00:20:21.920 okay so um the next item that we have for you is just future agenda items 00:20:21.920 --> 00:20:25.600 i did want to point out that on december 14th we are planning to come 00:20:25.600 --> 00:20:32.000 to you to give you a wrap-up of where we ended the year with the utilities and then just have a 00:20:32.000 --> 00:20:38.000 wrap-up discussion about rates going forward certainly um it'll all be contingent upon 00:20:38.000 --> 00:20:44.160 where we ended the year you may recall we started doing that last year um you know primarily because 00:20:44.160 --> 00:20:49.760 of the deck and kind of wanted to get a full picture where where we were with with the dme 00:20:49.760 --> 00:20:56.400 but uh we'll be covering all the utilities for you on december 14th um and and not that there 00:20:56.400 --> 00:21:00.880 won't be other items there'll be other items um on agendas as we're just trying to highlight at least 00:21:00.880 --> 00:21:07.680 one of the major items and then on the new business action matrix uh we've completed uh the uh the 00:21:07.680 --> 00:21:14.160 discussion on on the dme lawsuit um that's been completed and then there was also a request um 00:21:15.040 --> 00:21:20.880 well there was a discussion in pilot project on recycling and resident residential compost composting 00:21:20.880 --> 00:21:27.360 as um brian mentioned this morning um that'll be rolled into the discussion on this comprehensive 00:21:27.360 --> 00:21:32.080 solid waste study so hopefully that that provides a response that you need um but if you have any 00:21:32.080 --> 00:21:39.120 questions on that or any of these items just let us know that's all i have any questions charlie 00:21:40.000 --> 00:21:46.720 do you have a question yes uh tony you mentioned that the uh um the update on the lawsuit between 00:21:46.720 --> 00:21:52.400 grim and the city of denton was complete we talked about what was going to happen not 00:21:52.400 --> 00:21:58.960 we did not get an update on the lawsuit we talked about what the update on the lawsuit would look 00:21:58.960 --> 00:22:05.760 like and so i think we still have things to go in the future on that and second uh larry i think 00:22:05.760 --> 00:22:11.760 you were going to get us links to uh see the public data on that lawsuit and uh that was two 00:22:11.760 --> 00:22:16.240 weeks ago we haven't gotten those links yet so if we could get those links i'd appreciate that but 00:22:16.240 --> 00:22:22.080 no i i disagree that the status is complete we talked about what we were going to talk about we 00:22:22.080 --> 00:22:28.880 didn't get the update itself okay and i i'd like to keep that date of march 9th on the date requested 00:22:28.880 --> 00:22:34.320 okay right we can do that we'll get the links out to you it was my understanding that we were 00:22:34.320 --> 00:22:37.600 going to do that in conjunction with another report but i'll go ahead and do that independent 00:22:37.600 --> 00:22:41.280 of what's going to happen and i'll go out to you all this afternoon thanks 00:22:41.280 --> 00:22:48.000 all right then that leads concluding items does any board member wish to 00:22:48.000 --> 00:22:51.600 uh have anything added to a future agenda or have some words to say 00:22:51.600 --> 00:22:59.120 barbara would you give us an update on the bonnie bray station what the timeline is for that 00:23:01.280 --> 00:23:08.320 are you talking about the um the gis electric substation uh so um so we recently had some 00:23:08.320 --> 00:23:13.280 some discussions with the with the council on that and um that that is proceeding it is included in 00:23:13.280 --> 00:23:23.200 the fy 2021 cip budget for for dme uh we uh did recently send the council a informal staff report 00:23:23.200 --> 00:23:28.560 i i will i will forward that to you today i do apologize i did not include that and send that to 00:23:28.560 --> 00:23:34.640 you um earlier that but um but the plans are still moving forward um as previously discussed the 00:23:34.640 --> 00:23:39.440 eagle substation is is not a project that we're going to be doing so there's some additional 00:23:39.440 --> 00:23:44.560 distribution components that we've added to the gis substation but it has no impact on the 00:23:44.560 --> 00:23:49.680 architectural design or the footprint of that substation from what was previously discussed 00:23:49.680 --> 00:24:00.160 with that neighborhood committee any other board member i just want to thank kenny dr kenny banks 00:24:00.160 --> 00:24:06.160 for 20 years of service here at the city of denton you will certainly be missed but congratulations 00:24:06.160 --> 00:24:16.480 to you is he on the line i wanted to ask him he's on the line he is yes i am can you hear me yeah 00:24:16.480 --> 00:24:21.120 yes just wanted to see thank you so much season you want i just wanted to see if you were going 00:24:21.120 --> 00:24:27.360 to be doing any bird watching down in rockport i absolutely will be it's a great place for it 00:24:27.360 --> 00:24:34.480 and uh i just uh i i do want to take just a second and um thank all the board members uh and and 00:24:34.480 --> 00:24:39.840 previous boards for all their support through the years it's a um you know it's an interesting uh 00:24:39.840 --> 00:24:44.800 place to be in life and we have been planning to uh to come down here to rockport for quite some 00:24:44.800 --> 00:24:51.360 time and circumstances aligned and so uh here we find ourselves but i greatly appreciate all the 00:24:51.360 --> 00:24:59.360 support uh through the years and um and uh thank you for your service and um i um you know just 00:24:59.360 --> 00:25:07.360 really appreciate um all your thoughts and kind words your talents will be missed yes 00:25:07.360 --> 00:25:14.000 thank you very much just been a pleasure to work with you and see your dedication and your caring 00:25:14.000 --> 00:25:20.480 about what you actually do yeah it's been a pleasure to work with you thank you i appreciate 00:25:20.480 --> 00:25:32.400 it definitely all the way back to unt thank you thank you all yeah ed and i have been working 00:25:32.400 --> 00:25:41.280 together all 20 years but i've been there yeah all right so then do we have a motion to adjourn 00:25:43.360 --> 00:25:51.840 so moved second i guess we're adjourned 926 thank you thanks