Hawk Cove City Council Meeting 3/17/26
0:00:02 Speaker: I don't want to move. I'm sorry.
0:00:05 Speaker: I'd have to give you a table of cereal.
0:00:07 Speaker: This is [name] City Hall meeting. 2C, March 17, 2026. Couple of order at 633. Y 'all will forgive me. I'll have to pass it on to the Mayor of [name] if I can't continue. Thank you for the item. [name] is my president. [name]. I did [name]. with. Yeah,
0:00:40 Speaker: but you can't say it.
0:00:41 Speaker: Sure. How about a cool
0:00:45 Council member: door because you have heard this time and pray over our mirror. Pray over daddy. Her Lord her healing that she would recover quickly. We pray for those others that could not be here that are ill. We pray Lord for your continual guidance and direction and all that we And thank you in [name] name, Amen. Amen.
0:01:17 Speaker: Amen. Thank you. You stand for the pledge of allegiance, please.
0:01:23 Speaker: Pledge allegiance
0:01:24 Speaker: to the flag
0:01:26 Speaker: of the United
0:01:27 Speaker: States of
0:01:28 Speaker: America
0:01:28 Speaker: and to the Republic for which it stands,
0:01:32 Speaker: one nation under God,
0:01:34 Speaker: indivisible,
0:01:36 Speaker: with liberty and
0:01:36 Speaker: justice for all.
0:01:38 Speaker: Thank you all.
0:01:45 Speaker: Do we have any other comments?
0:01:47 Speaker: We do not, Mayor. there's
0:01:52 Speaker: no all these businesses receive public works reports and
0:01:56 Speaker: you're
0:01:58 Speaker: gonna have one for
0:01:59 Speaker: two
0:02:00 Speaker: months
0:02:01 Speaker: because when that's a
0:02:02 Speaker: January so you have to
0:02:07 Speaker: I do
0:02:11 Speaker: have something on the wastewater,
0:02:14 Speaker: okay, if you want to, go ahead,
0:02:20 Speaker: on February
0:02:21 Speaker: 20th,
0:02:23 Speaker: the
0:02:23 Speaker: [name] station
0:02:25 Speaker: got clogged up, here's where we're going,
0:02:29 Speaker: across the city, $2
0:02:32 Speaker: ,514 .93. somebody put some
0:02:36 Speaker: socks in there.
0:02:38 Speaker: Can
0:02:39 Speaker: you all see this
0:02:39 Speaker: picture?
0:02:40 Speaker: See this round thing right here?
0:02:42 Speaker: That's the impeller that goes on the bottom of the pump. This is what it looks like on the cleaned out version.
0:02:51 Speaker: But then when the pictures come around you'll see what
0:02:53 Speaker: those socks did and how much it cost to
0:02:56 Speaker: get
0:02:57 Speaker: that out of there.
0:04:24 Speaker: Yeah, that's all that.
0:04:25 Speaker: There was two
0:04:26 Speaker: different times it's been getting clogged up, but
0:04:29 Speaker: both months you'll notice that
0:04:30 Speaker: they
0:04:31 Speaker: had call outs to the Red [name] station.
0:04:35 Speaker: Both times it's being clogged up with wipes and feminine products,
0:04:41 Speaker: and it's causing it to kick
0:04:42 Speaker: the
0:04:42 Speaker: pump
0:04:44 Speaker: off,
0:04:45 Speaker: and they're having to come
0:04:45 Speaker: back, fix the
0:04:46 Speaker: floats, and
0:04:47 Speaker: get
0:04:49 Speaker: it going again after they scoop
0:04:50 Speaker: out the stuff.
0:04:53 Speaker: At least it's kicking it off, and I'm
0:04:55 Speaker: burning it up.
0:04:56 Speaker: Yeah,
0:04:57 Speaker: it's kicking it off.
0:04:58 Speaker: At least
0:04:59 Speaker: enough to give him the chance to catch it before it does burn up.
0:05:07 Council member: What was the previous, the prettiest issue with it too?
0:05:13 Speaker: Yeah, the same thing.
0:05:28 Council member: On the cheek. On the cheek. Okay.
0:05:43 Speaker: We don't have anything to report on
0:05:45 Speaker: the fire report
0:05:46 Speaker: other than what they had told us before. When somebody calls 911, somebody's
0:05:51 Speaker: coming. I
0:05:57 Speaker: want to
0:05:59 Speaker: just have you read that off for me,
0:06:01 Speaker: I would receive
0:06:03 Speaker: from city mayor USDA SAU update report.
0:06:13 Speaker: This is basically my notes and I
0:06:19 Council member: was notated to the USDA 3 10 26 11 28 a .m. to 12 14 p .m. [name], and [name]. Yes. And we're in attendance. Yes. [name] states we are on a non -compliance list. We need to be cleared ASAP to begin discussions on modifying the loan, discussion on budget process, should begin
0:07:00 Speaker: in
0:07:03 Speaker: June
0:07:04 Council member: okay to begin in June to be ready to present council by September discussion on rate study done by [name] April of 2025 study will be adjusted presented by [name] and received by council in June after new council and mayor so after the election as seated sitting working with TCEQ for complete compliance with no fines still getting wipes and household products and pumps, causing pumps to burn out. Okay.
0:08:01 Council member: I'll just still has payment history questions. Yes. Okay. To go over with servicing office that sent info.
0:08:21 Council member: Miss [name] asking for value of the system and how many more years will system be viable. Also I'm clarifying not a reamortization but will be a modified loan out to full 40 years to
0:08:50 Council member: confirm all All TCQ issues must be cleared. Must be cleared.
0:08:57 Speaker: Good
0:08:57 Speaker: thing we got that. [name] this blanks for y 'all, sorry.
0:09:06 Speaker: We're going to go home to the city attorney also has an update on that before issue. [name] in these blanks now.
0:09:13 City Attorney: One of the primary blanks is that the council previously received And from a year ago,
0:09:24 City Attorney: what SAU USDA had provided to the city in the form of a very old antiquated system print out of the [name] account. More recently, I think I had mentioned to you that Ms. [name] had been able to supply
0:09:47 City Attorney: a printout that is based on their more modernized system. And that printout leaves so many questions that the hot co -finance team is going to be reviewing that But after it completes the audit information that it's been working on most recently and that audit I think is very close to being finished, still that printout provided by USDA I have some financial knowledge and experience I am astounded at the number of questions that it generated just for me so finance team is going to be addressing that after the priority of the audit is audits are done so wanted to let you be aware of that. [name] was noticeably less assertive, less aggressive, less confrontational in this most recent meeting, yet he is still very strongly saying that the city is going to have to reamortize that that will be the only available solution for the city.
0:11:32 City Attorney: We're continuing to look at some other potential options. We don't have anything to report to Council other than the fact that we do continue to look at potential alternatives.
0:11:47 Speaker: I believe that's pretty much it.
0:11:51 Speaker: Yeah, I had something
0:11:54 Speaker: to
0:11:55 Speaker: fill in one of your blanks there about
0:11:56 Speaker: us working with TCEQ.
0:11:59 Speaker: Last year, there was a program that
0:12:01 Speaker: was done by TCEQ as a pilot program.
0:12:05 Speaker: I don't remember the name of
0:12:07 Speaker: the— SEP,
0:12:08 Speaker: right.
0:12:09 Speaker: No, I'm talking about the [name] or the Senate [name] related
0:12:12 Speaker: to
0:12:13 Speaker: it. At
0:12:14 Speaker: any
0:12:15 Speaker: rate, after going through the pilot
0:12:16 Speaker: program, TCEQ
0:12:18 Speaker: has this program,
0:12:20 Speaker: [name] is now involved in the program.
0:12:23 Speaker: What that's going to do, we've been having regular meetings with TCEQ, they're walking
0:12:28 Speaker: us through
0:12:29 Speaker: compliance issues. Mayor, I know we kept waiting and waiting and waiting to
0:12:35 Speaker: get the SEP.
0:12:37 Speaker: They kept sending us notices and saying, hey,
0:12:40 Speaker: we're going to send your SEP,
0:12:42 Speaker: just need verify your address
0:12:43 Speaker: and the SEP
0:12:45 Speaker: notice
0:12:46 Speaker: never came.
0:12:48 Speaker: Part of the reason for that, we didn't know it at the time, is that we had opted to go
0:12:53 Speaker: into this program so
0:12:55 Speaker: there's no need to do that particular SEP. We've made great strides
0:12:59 Speaker: in what, are we three weeks in?
0:13:04 Speaker: Yeah about three weeks in to it and what that will do is the last time that they
0:13:10 Speaker: came out and did their
0:13:11 Speaker: surprise inspection.
0:13:14 Speaker: We've answered
0:13:15 Speaker: probably I'm gonna say 90 %
0:13:18 Speaker: probably
0:13:19 Speaker: 90
0:13:19 Speaker: %
0:13:20 Speaker: of
0:13:21 Speaker: what they what they wanted on
0:13:23 Speaker: the infractions. We have been very responsive
0:13:27 Speaker: to
0:13:27 Speaker: that so
0:13:29 Speaker: that
0:13:29 Speaker: will now won't
0:13:30 Speaker: help us with some engineering.
0:13:34 Speaker: The city needs to
0:13:36 Speaker: have an engineer do a report on the
0:13:40 Speaker: viability
0:13:41 Speaker: of the aging plant, the life expectancy of the plant,
0:13:46 Speaker: its capacities.
0:13:47 Speaker: Yeah I think this will also help us get grants
0:13:50 Speaker: that we don't necessarily have to be
0:13:53 Speaker: great
0:13:54 Speaker: with the USDA to have those or we don't have
0:13:56 Speaker: to bend I guess to their whim
0:13:58 Speaker: to
0:14:00 Speaker: get those
0:14:00 Speaker: so communities unlimited
0:14:02 Speaker: will be helping
0:14:03 Speaker: me and what those would be for. I don't have enough information to
0:14:07 Speaker: go far into
0:14:07 Speaker: with you guys
0:14:08 Speaker: but enough to
0:14:09 Speaker: tell you that there are several
0:14:10 Speaker: that I believe that we're
0:14:12 Speaker: gonna have some challenges but we're
0:14:14 Speaker: gonna find that we may be eligible for them. These are not loans,
0:14:18 Speaker: they are full grants. What it can do is refurbish, refurbish the plant, you know, refurbish
0:14:26 Speaker: the lift
0:14:27 Speaker: stations that
0:14:27 Speaker: are aging
0:14:28 Speaker: and
0:14:29 Speaker: so
0:14:29 Speaker: that's some stuff that I'm looking into.
0:14:36 Speaker: I've sent some TCEQ for an engineer.
0:14:41 Speaker: They do not provide engineers
0:14:43 Speaker: and even through this program
0:14:44 Speaker: that we're on they do not provide engineers for us but communities unlimited will likely be able to help us find someone.
0:14:53 Speaker: We're going to need that engineering report
0:14:55 Speaker: so that we can
0:14:56 Speaker: stand strong to show the viability or lack thereof.
0:15:01 Speaker: On the city's behalf as
0:15:03 Speaker: far as
0:15:04 Speaker: you know restructuring the
0:15:06 Speaker: Re -ameterizing
0:15:07 Speaker: it, or however,
0:15:09 Speaker: you know, whichever direction that goes. But we need a whole lot more information, so we're in
0:15:15 Speaker: the early stages of doing that. I'm hoping it's not going to take us super long time. I think we'll be wrapped up probably
0:15:21 Speaker: with this program in somewhere around 90 -ish days. [name] take those infractions
0:15:27 Speaker: off, and like I said, we've worked really
0:15:28 Speaker: hard and made great
0:15:30 Speaker: strides to
0:15:30 Speaker: give them
0:15:31 Speaker: everything that they asked for.
0:15:35 Speaker: I'm going to have any questions
0:15:36 Speaker: for me about any of that.
0:15:44 Speaker: Thank you, [name]. Thank you.
0:15:50 Speaker: You know the further questions on the report. Moving on to item E, [name] Annual Racial Profiling Report, 2025 for the City of [name], Police Department in compliance with Texas Code of [name], Article 2 .132.
0:16:10 Speaker: And we have the Racial Profiling Report.
0:16:12 Speaker: Yeah. and
0:16:12 Speaker: this is y 'all's favorite thing to receive every year. State requires it. Page one through
0:16:18 Speaker: nine. My first, so I'm just into it. Oh, I'm sorry.
0:16:23 Speaker: I just thought you
0:16:24 Speaker: knew the rule today.
0:16:26 Speaker: And so
0:16:27 Speaker: the
0:16:28 Speaker: guys
0:16:29 Speaker: made
0:16:29 Speaker: a total of
0:16:30 Speaker: 93 stops and at the racial profiling
0:16:33 Speaker: now,
0:16:34 Speaker: all cities,
0:16:35 Speaker: regardless of their size, are required to do the full racial profiling.
0:16:39 Speaker: So
0:16:40 Speaker: what
0:16:41 Speaker: you're seeing front and back of the first nine pages is that full
0:16:45 Speaker: racial profiling report.
0:16:48 Speaker: It's a grueling task
0:16:49 Speaker: to
0:16:50 Speaker: sit and
0:16:51 Speaker: count handwritten
0:16:52 Speaker: citations and
0:16:54 Speaker: make sure that all those
0:16:55 Speaker: items have
0:16:56 Speaker: been documented for this report.
0:16:58 Speaker: The latter part of
0:17:00 Speaker: it is going to be the
0:17:01 Speaker: racial profiling analysis
0:17:02 Speaker: report. at
0:17:03 Speaker: the
0:17:04 Speaker: current time the state does this report
0:17:06 Speaker: for us after we submit our numbers
0:17:10 Speaker: to
0:17:10 Speaker: them
0:17:11 Speaker: and they generate this analysis
0:17:13 Speaker: and
0:17:15 Speaker: that is
0:17:15 Speaker: the last seven pages.
0:17:21 Speaker: Pretty much all there is is a bug on there or anything it just has to be submitted to the governing body.
0:17:37 Speaker: I would
0:17:48 City Attorney: just ask the council to focus your hearts and minds in prayer for the troops and military personnel of the United States. There are significant things that are happening. I'm not privy to them. see bits and pieces through new sources, but I don't like that word. So I just would like you all to consider that and remember that there are people that are close to folks here in [name] Cove, in the [name] area, in the [name] area, and [name] County, that could be a risk during these times so I'm just going to suggest that when you pray please remember.
0:18:50 Speaker: What
0:18:51 Speaker: is
0:18:54 Council member: the status of our financials? We haven't got anything for 2026. What
0:18:59 Speaker: is
0:18:59 Speaker: the status of that?
0:19:04 Speaker: Well, it's not on your agenda. We had
0:19:07 Speaker: hoped to have them by this meeting,
0:19:09 Speaker: since we did not. We should have
0:19:10 Speaker: them both by next meeting.
0:19:13 Speaker: How many months is that?
0:19:15 Speaker: It's not on the
0:19:16 Speaker: agenda, so we can't really discuss that. I'm sorry.
0:19:25 Council member: Well, I request that that be put on the next agenda. Okay, thank you. What the status is and where we're at. You said the audit was also being done, so. Yes. Only an update on all of that. That's a long time to deal with that financials. So please put that on there.
0:19:44 Speaker: We're working on it. Good job.
0:19:48 Speaker: You forgot it.
0:19:57 Speaker: Do we have any other announcements?
0:20:01 City Attorney: Hope you all get the feelings better.
0:20:09 Speaker: Get a motion to
0:20:10 Speaker: adjourn this meeting.
0:20:11 Speaker: I give you a motion.
0:20:12 Speaker: I don't close. You're going to get a second. I have a second. All those in favor?
0:20:20 Speaker: Aye.
0:20:21 Speaker: Opposed?
0:20:24 Speaker: This meeting, [name] City Hall, G .C., March 17, 2026 at 653 is now adjourned. And we thank y 'all very much.
0:20:36 Speaker: Thank you. I don't think
0:20:38 Council member: it's the phone that I'm seeing.