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Thank you. Meeting day Monday, August 25th, 2025 at 6 p.m. Commission Chambers, 500 Southwest 109 Avenue. Roll call. Madam clerk, clerk know the absence of commissioners Yano and Martin. Please stand for the invocation.
If you guys don't mind, I'm going to be giving the invocation today. Yes, sir. In Jesus' name, I will always pray. Dear heavenly father, thank you for granting us the gift of life, the gift of service, the health and safety of our family and our friends. We want to thank
you Lord for granting us the gift of service and making our city prosperous. We want you to have continue to have your blanket of security and love over this great nation, God, this state, Lord, our county, and our city. Please
continue to guide us, to give us wisdom to make the right decisions here in the city of Sweetwater. And Lord, I have a special prayer. We lost one of our retired police officers just last week. Detective Edwin Millan Zabala was just notified of this and I haven't had time
to speak to anybody. If you could please grant his family peace and love during this very difficult moment. We know that you have a plan. We don't understand that plan, but we love you and we look forward to everything that you grant us.
We accept the difficult times and we know that those difficult times will help us to receive those moments of triumph. In Jesus' name, I will always pray. Amen. Amen. stand of to the republic for which it stands.
One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Item number five resolution city. Thank you Mr. President. employees and the best quality of care in every aspect that we possibly can and
we do that in the city of Swed. We're very proud of that. The issue in hand is that the rates are going up and every type of insurance and everything that we basically touch everything's going up in cost but especially coverage. One of the
things that's one of the things better. Okay. Well, I'm going to get my Marine Corps voice out. And so the college the quality of care is something that's very important to all of us. So
we we tried to get the renewal as fast as we possibly could from and I know Jolie worked really hard on trying to get that renewal but companies wait till the last minute and then give us the renewals.
The renewal came in from AdMed at the time of about 30% increase. 30% increase. The then uh working Jolie along trying to get this down and and asking to see
if we could improve and why and the reasons and everything that came down to 26%. At the time I knew that this was very hard and very difficult. I know that in order to go out, it's hard to just pick somebody to represent
us and so on. And it's very tedious that if you don't have a relation and not a broker to try to get as many companies as you can to bid on a group that's had issues. Admit supposedly and I and I hope I don't say the wrong number but I
think it was 116 or 114% rate loss just the medical loss ratio is 116% Yolanda Mazo. Thank you Yolanda. So sorry. I'm sorry. Repeat that number again.
116. The number the issue at hand then we we have a a company that's a broker that handles all our other insuranceances, Brown and Brown. I checked with our people in finance and they told me that the experience we have with Brown and Brown has been excellent. And at the
time it was easy to go ahead and just add another section of coverage since they already been our broker and whether it's casually still insurance. So it was an easy move for me to go and accept and to try to not to have to go to an RP especially with the little time we have.
We already experienced that last time when last minute we're trying to get coverage in and we almost have people without coverage for several day. I don't ever want to go through that again. So uh at that point Lana contacted them. They went ahead and we
went and and actually they went and quoted several companies that the ones that wanted to give us a quote there was one or maybe two I'm not sure they go but I'll let them explain that part. So
at that time, United came back. They were the less than cost with apples to apples benefit, which in other words is similar almost to the
exact of what we have right now in coverage. the difference. I'm going to let them go through the numbers and explain the numbers, but this is the solution that we got. Now, I also due to to a couple of you that I have spoken
to, I know that you had some issues in the past with this company, but that's why the VP of the area is here for the company. And I I I want you to ask those questions
from him. I think that the most important thing that we need to do is in today's world try to give the good coverage that we can to our employees and also save from our taxpayers a whole lot of money at the same time because it's very difficult to say, hey, we'll
keep this other company that's going to charge X amount more and it's almost a million dollars more, little less. And then the coverage is the same coverage we could have got with this
company for $500,000 less. So I've asked a lot of questions. We've gone through the numbers. I had our own finance department go through the numbers and look at them. I think that this is the very best at this time we
could present. Now we took a bundle. It was actually I I'll stand correct. I think it was 12% increase. But if we took the bundle of the dental and the vision, they brought it down to 9%.
And I think with that deal, it basically certified to move forward. And I think I had a conversation with almost each one of you, every one of you, and explained that. Uh besides that, there's there's other things, but I'll go over a little later. So, at this time, uh, Jolie, why
don't you come up and introduce, um, the broker and and if you want to state anything first. Go ahead. Sure. Um, this is Evelyn Alvarez from Brown and Brown. Um, she's going to share a little bit about, you know, the
market analysis that she did. Um, my conclusion of everything that we looked at is that our claims are are not good, right? and and obviously that that factors into that 30% increase that we initially got. Um we did try to
negotiate with AVMED to get it down to a 26.5% but that was it's still very very high. United Healthcare came in with a very aggressive offer. I thought it was very competitive just comparing to other cities that I work with um to be in the
single digits for the medical loss ratio percentage that we have I thought was very very good. um market trend is about maybe 13 to 15% right now for increases. So this would be a 9% increase. Um so
that's that's like an overview of of everything. But um Evelyn can give you more information now and it is an apples to apples match. They basically created a plan exactly what we have now. So if there's a co-pay of $10, it's a co-ay of
$10. If the specialist is $20, it's $20. So, I thought that that was good, too, because we want to make sure the employees know that they're not losing anything with their coverage. Okay. State your name and title for the record, please.
Good evening, council. Evelyn Alvarez, executive vice president, employee benefits practice leader for Brown and Brown in Miami Day. It's a pleasure to be here. So to follow on what Yoli said, we went out to market to all the carriers and the most competitive one from a a rate perspective, network uh
and everything that they had to offer was United Healthcare. Um we did have one that was very close to United Healthcare, which was Sigma. Um but they were offering their narrow network and what I mean by narrow network, they did not have a 100% of the hospital match. So your closest uh hospital which is
Kendall Regional, now it's AC part of ACA hospitals were not part of the network. So when we look at apples to apples from a network perspective, uh it was definitely United Healthcare from a price standpoint. Everybody else was 21%
19% over current. Going back to a comment that Julie made as far as the benefits is concerned. Everything was pretty much matched. There is a small change on the there's some prescription drugs for cholesterol diabetes where it's covered now at 100% zero cost to
the members. And we did have a third tier prescription drug co-ayment where right now it is $85. Sorry, excuse me. All right. Excuse me. It is $85 currently and it's going to
$70 co-ayment. So that's the only different as far as the tiers 10, 20, and 65, you're going to 1035 and 70. Other than that, everything on the
plan matches what you have today. Any questions for me? And I do have United Healthcare with me today to address any other concerns of maybe previous uh experiences or maybe some of the comments that have been said lately about United Healthcare. Commissioners.
Yeah. Commissioner Diaz. Go ahead. Yes. I would like to hear the Sorry. Yes. I would like to hear the see what they want to say. Commissioner, stay in for the record, please. Good evening. Brian Garrison, vice
president of sales and account management for the South Florida Office of United Healthcare. Um, good evening, commissioners and and uh, Mr. Mayor. Thank you for the opportunity to be here. I guess I'll just open it up for any questions that you all have. Um, I
know it sounds like there maybe was some situations in the past with the last time you were with us that I would definitely love to address if I have any types of specifics on claims or whatever the case is. But uh we're very excited to be in the position to potentially partner with the city of Sweetwater. Um
I know our network is very robust in the South Florida market. Um and I I believe it's, you know, if you look at the peer numbers, it's one of the largest, if not the largest of any carrier down here. Does that mean that every single provider you utilize today is going to
be in our network? No. Um but access will not be an issue. And um you know there might be physicians that your employees and members you you were utilizing in the past that they weren't be able to utilize now that they may be able to utilize now uh when they come over to United Healthcare. So I do want
to open it up answer any questions or concerns that you commissioners have um and I'm happy to address anything I can. Yes sir. Um thank you. I appreciate you guys coming over and you know um welcome back. Thank you. Um myself, I had a very bad
taste with United at the beginning when I was a commissioner. Everything was a rush rush. Pretty sure all the commissioners here at the same and and I and I left with a very very bad taste about this company. Uh the mayor called me not too long ago, maybe about two or
three days ago. I went around check and um I think you guys came a long way for this and and and like the mayor says, appreciate mayor. Thank you very much for what you did cuz this is this is this is something that you know this is life insurance and that's on only us. We
got to make the decision for all the employees, police officers and everybody in the city. So based on that I um I mean I was going to ask you a bunch of question basically it's appleo to me. Appleo is everything the same? I mean, um, I don't have that much to say, uh,
other than give you another chance and thank you for coming back and, uh, thank you. I mean, I have a bunch of questions that I have here, but um, I'll let the other commissioner Thank you, Commissioner Diaz go. Yeah, I just want to say, you know, thank first
off, thank you again for the opportunity to give us another chance and and Commissioner Diaz or any commissioner, any employee or member of my team and my account management team that will be assigned to this case as things come up, please bring it to our attention. If there's a claim question, a prior off question, and those types of things,
that's what my team is there to do to service you and make sure that we're helping you navigate. It's not an easy the health care system is not easy to navigate and you know in order to control costs there's prior off sometimes there's you know there's a lot of reasons why prior off may be uh
denied delayed or whatever the case is and it goes both ways. Sometimes it's on us uh sometimes it's on we're not getting the information we need from the provider but we work very hard to work closely with those providers to get um the information that's needed to get to a yes. Um, obviously there has been a
lot of news about United since the murder of our CEO in New York. Uh, there's been a lot of misinformation out there about prior ros and denials. Uh, I'm not going to get into defending that because that was a lot of there was just a lot of fake information out there. Our
overall book of business, 95% of our claims and prior os get approved on the first go round. of that 5% that is not. It could be whether it be a a coding issue, a code that was submitted incorrectly that doesn't match a prior off and those types of things that
sometimes delay a claim and or a prior off from being approved. When we get engaged and we work with you all and your HR team and your members and employees, we take that to a 1% denial rate. And that denial rate might be it's not medically necessary. It might be a
lot of different reasons, but it gets closer to 99% than 95. So that 5% is, you know, there's there's work that needs to be done, and that's collaborating with you all and your HR team to understand what's going on, working with the physicians office or
hospitals in order to get to the yes. And we we are very successful a high percentage of the time to getting to yes. So, I I appreciate the opportunity to address those concerns, but please, if there's any types of situation as we move forward with this partnership, we
want to absolutely address everything and make sure that you, your employees, and your members are all taken care of the way you are taking this decision very seriously, which obviously I commend you for. Thank you, sir. Commissioner D. Yes, sir. Can I um can I get the the
finance department? Hey, how how much money? Because you're talking about percentage here. You you got more or less how much money are we saving from the other company to this one? Say your name for the record, please. Scott Mendlesburg, finance department, city of Sweetwater. Uh our proposed
increase was on the medical side alone 26.5% $778,000. Um, this will be a 8.969% increase, $263,000. Uh, we're also getting the savings by
bundling our dental plan here. And, um, premiums for POS members are actually going down a little bit. So, that is good news. And it's quite a difference from our renewal. That PS is is that for the employee that wants to add a a uh a me a family
member? There is a buy up for the POSOS opportunity and then there are people that are on just regularly on POSOS like the commissioners. Yeah. So how much would that would be for for an employee that wants to get somebody from his family member to pay you? You want to know what the premium would be?
Yeah. Premium and how much to add a a member uh on the POS side. The premium would go from uh on the employee side $149 um down to 68.80 80 bi-weekly, which is $1441
less bi-weekly. On the family side, it's8 $7.93 less bi-weekly. On the employee plus children, it's $9.16 less. And for the employee plus
family, it's basically 93 cents less, which is basically the same. Wow. Thank you, sir. Appreciate it. Thank you. Good. Mayor, you want to say something? Good. Any other commissioners? All right. I have a comment. Um, I had a
horrible experience with United, sir. I I I've been around this city for 28 years and and the employees obviously rely on us and we all talk about insurance. Um, the second that I heard United, I was very hesitant. I had a a meeting with the mayor, as we do a lot. Uh the mayor,
most people don't know, actually worked in the industry for 15 years. Um so his word goes a long way. I have all the faith in the world in Yolanda who
sits back there. I think that she's doing a kick-ass job and she's one of the greatest attributes that we've had in the city of Sweetwater because of the mayor. Um, the the other reason why I'm even considering you is because that other
lady sitting there in the in the second row. Uh, Evelyn is uh is a nononsense lady. She's definitely a professional, but she's kickass at what she does. She's not going to present us with a a load of crap. And I've I've known you
for several years. So, I have a few requisites. Number one, and the mayor and I have already discussed this and he's not going to allow it to happen, but I want to vocalize it. Um, prior to the term, 90 days prior, we're not going to get a
renewal notice 30 days prior here. Here's here's what the quote is, right? We will put in for an early renewal for the for your case. The one thing I do want to just caution, early renewal on a first year case can be somewhat problematic from the perspective of we
only have so much claims. Um, but we value the the uh partnership with Evelyn and we will get it as early as we can because I do want to put us in the best possible position to give you a renewal that's favorable to the city. So, doing that too too early can be detrimental,
but it won't be within 30 days. You'll definitely get it well in advance of 30 days. I know that you'll work with the mayor's office. He he understands how the health system works. Yep. I'm I'm also confident that between Evelyn and Yoli, they can implement some
proactive measures to lower our premiums, which is something that we need to do. So, I'm looking forward to that. Now, you did mention doctors in network may not necessarily be the same. I'd love an opportunity to for you to deal for your team and whomever your
your point of contact is to deal with the mayor and Yoli and Evelyn directly because we may have some special circumstances and the reality is the more you work with us the more loyal we will be to you. Um and other than that it's going to be
a yes vote from me. We're about to take a vote. I hope we don't have a negative experience. Uh, I just want you to understand it's because of three individuals that I'm even considering you. It's our mayor, it's Yolanda, and Evelyn. Other than that, I personally wouldn't even let you guys walk through
the door. I hope we have a better experience. I understand the market. Um, and I hope that you guys work with us. Mr. President, you can count on us working with you. you have my commitment um that we will work very closely with you and the Brown and Brown team and
Yolanda to to do better this go round. Um I appreciate potentially the second opportunity here to make things right. Uh again, I just strongly strongly ask that if you do run into any issues or any of your employees, please bring it to my team's attention and I know Evelyn
and her team definitely will. Um, but I think we have a pretty good track record in working with Evelyn that she can speak to that look, healthc care is tough and it's not always smooth and we're not perfect, but my team, we work very, very hard to get to the yes and do
the right thing by our members and that you can count on for me and my team as we move forward and hopefully as we sit here from a year from now, uh, you'll be very happy you made this decision today. I look forward to it. It's not only the mayor, uh, but he's got people on his team that are pretty nononsense. if
something isn't efficient. Trust me, those ladies sitting over there, you don't want to mess with those ladies there. Yep. I got their cards. So, other than that, anybody else have anything? Mr. Mayor, you have anything? Yeah. Uh, one of the things, could you bring up the information on the ware that's also a big additive that they're
going to step up and actually help us and u making sure we keep our group as healthy as possible. So, go ahead. So, one of the things that AVMED gives us right now is they give us $10,000 towards wellness dollars, which some of you attended the wellness fair recently. We actually have a weight loss challenge
that's going to start really soon. We have some fitness classes that are starting soon, and we're using those funds from AVMED to do that. Well, United is also matching that $10,000. So, we'll be able to do that, do those programs towards wellness, but they have
an additional program towards wellness that we don't have right now, which is that every employee has the opportunity to earn up to $1,000 in gift cards if they do certain wellness um activities and they get to log it. So, something as
simple as tracking their steps for that day could be a $50 gift card. And then something as simple as uh tracking your sleep or doing a health questionnaire. That could be a $25 gift card and you could earn points throughout the year all the way up to $1,000 per member that
we have. So, I thought that that was a really great benefit that we weren't getting before and it's just a way to continue motivating employees to live a healthy lifestyle. Well, I'm sure the mayor is going to be uh implementing the get healthy sweet water initiative. I sign me up. My fat ass needs to lose
30 pounds. Uh, thank you, Yoli. Mr. Mayor, you have anything else? Not after that. I said ask. Not after that, bro. I said after. I'll be honest with you. All right. I didn't ask. Roll call. Madam clerk. I would I would He would He moved. I want to go ahead and second it if you
don't mind. You know, I apologize. Let me step back. We have a motion on the floor by Commissioner Salia. Second. Do we have a second? Second. Second by Commissioner Rinaldo Ray. All in favor say I. I. Any opposed?
Item passes. Congratulations. Welcome back. Thank you. Okay. Thank you. Yes, Mr. Mayor. Item six, a resolution of the city commission of the city of Sweetwater approving and adopting engineering consulting proposal from AMI engineering LLC for the construction
project known as the city of Sweetwater Citywide Drainage Improvement Project Northern Area Draining Drainage and Roadway Improvements Project Phase three. providing for authorization, providing for an effective date. Mayor Diaz,
we have um as you know, one of the grants that we had was a $500,000 grant after we started 108 and we've been moving pretty fast. I don't know how many of you have gone by, but we are moving way ahead of schedule and very proud of the work that's being done.
Alejandro, you want to come up here? Gomez is our city engineer. He I got to admit uh I brought him on board not too long ago. I think some of you have met him, some of you have not. And and I will be presenting him formally in the in the next meeting. But he has done an
incredible job in staying on top of not only and keeping the speed going that we need to go, but also to make sure that the change orders do not come and and effective. He's already challenged several change orders in this process.
He also came up with a a program that was uh pretty pretty good and he worked along with Frank right there sitting um our engineer or two that is on this project where Frank already had the knowledge of that particular area has
been doing a lot of the work and so on. He went ahead and looked at a way that Frank could go ahead and start with this new design. And this is why we're here today to do the design of the whole area that's left around that hotel. And I
call it my little nightmare area for the flooding. Um, and we're I'll talk to each one of you individually later on ideas that I have for that area because it's important that we clean that up pretty good. But besides that, he went
ahead and came up with an idea that he could move forward and try to do this as fast as possible to get it finished. But he will do the whole process will take a lot more time than the time that we have for the grant. I want to apologize to some of you that I said that the grant
ended in in uh January. The grant actually ends um 4:30 of 20 uh of 26. So this is 26 I'm sorry. All right. It's 26. So
therefore the we need to move as fast as possible. You all know that design is not easy especially when you have many things and once you start getting the sampling and the different types environmental things that we have to do and so on. So we went
ahead and got that. Now Frank, this is permission to start from you all and get this done and get this approved to move forward so that we make it because I don't like we did with the rest of the grant money we have. We haven't lost any money from that. I don't want to lose
any money from this grant. So he will start designing one block which is 109 I believe 109 avenue and I think it's equivalent of three points a block making it all the way to one uh to 21st
Street. Am I correct? So, Alejandra Gomez, city engineer. So, the first uh commencing the design will be 21st Street. Northwest 21st Street. 21st Street to Northwest 25th Street. Northwest 108th to 10 Northwest 109th Avenue.
Right. So, we're going to get ahead and get that done while he keeps developing the rest of the plan. So, by the time that happens, we will use up the grant money before it will expire. So this is the reason why I had to bring it to you because we cannot keep waiting. I will
not I would not take the contract unless I brought it to you all first. As I said I would uh I didn't want to do one of these move forward and then apologize and it's better to apologize and you know it's better than ask for permission but that's not the case with me. I'd rather ask for permission. Thank you Mr. Mayor. Any commissioners
have a question? Yes sir I do. Commissioner Salas. Thank you Alejandro. Thank you for being here. Hey, Alejandro. I know there there they were working on 108th Avenue and and there's this is this is what we got. Okay, I'm going to show you this one right here. And then you got the um
109th Avenue. I was there not too long uh two days ago. I passed by and looked at it. Great job, man. I mean, that that that street really needed, especially on 108, but I know you were talking about Northwest 109th Avenue. That road back there was all they they're going to fix
that up, too. Is this part of this? That is part of the scope. Correct. Okay. So, you got some type of colors here. You got some blue colors and you got some orange and the orange means that they haven't get yet done. The orange means that it's full reconstruction right now as we speak that it's proposing full reconstruction of the roadway.
Okay. Now, and this proposal that it is right now, are they doing sidewalks too or is it sidewalks and green? When I said sidewalks are also included part of the scope with landscaping with landscaping and that's also included on this on this proposal on this part of the scope of the proposal. Correct.
Okay. That's great man. Thank you. Let me uh interrupt a second. This is design only right now. The only workmanship that's going to be taken is probably going to be I'll come back for a change order to change the existing
company that's there that's already mobilized and everything to move ahead and work as fast as possible so we don't lose the money of the ground. Yes. Okay. Besides that, everything else that's being designed and done will be
then we put out for bid and an RFP proposal and then we get the company. It might be the same company as there because it makes it a lot easier to keep going. It might not, right? But we will follow the process and we'll start doing that as early as we possibly can. So we don't give any type of
favoritis and we want to get the best price for the city. Yeah. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Any commissioners have any other comments? Move. Uh commissioner, if I see a move, give me one second. Um I like the fact that you have Frank
Alonzo here. Uh, I have a lot of faith in him. I see what you're doing, Mr. Mayor. I have to thank you for the grant dollars that are being expended or part of the grant dollars that you brought from the county. This go. So, I appreciate you for your efforts,
sir. Um, I know we have a lot of work to do there and this is just part of a phase. Uh, we got a lot of work to be done. I appreciate what you're doing, sir. Welcome to Sweetwater. Thank you. Uh, and with that, Commissioner Ian Bio moves. Do we have a second?
Second. Second by Commissioner Ronaldo Ray. All in favor? I. Any opposed? Motion P. Motion passes for resolution. Uh point of point of order. Point of order. Mr. uh attorney. This is
a contract. Why is it a reszo? Because Thank you, Mr. Finance Director. No, as to the microphone. as my uh my co-consel as my co-consel mentioned all resol all contracts are approved by resolution.
Thank you, Mr. Attorney. Mr. Mayor, do you have any comments? Yeah. Uh Mr. Attorney, is there anything that you see? I know we rushed this because we want to have it for today. Okay. Um is there anything that uh we need to do with the amounts or everything's in Everything's in there. Everything's
fine. you have authority uh that's provided in the resolution and the the I saw nothing in there that was out of the ordinary um and as with the president I have a great deal of of experience and faith in Mr. Mr. Alonzo I think that uh
um Mr. Lozo, I have a great uh we have a great relationship in moving forward. The issue is also that I want to make sure having a city engineer that's just a city engineer
that we have a lot more onsite and more view and a lot more, let's just say making sure things get done faster. An extra pair of eyes. Yeah. So, I just want to make sure that we w didn't have anything missing
because I know we rushed it and you were you were out a little bit and you came and thank you for rushing it. No, no worries. No worries. But, uh, no, I I think that u it was rushed, but I think that the resolution uh contains everything that's necessary and the documents are fine. Okay.
Yeah. The only concern that I have is the horrible slice by Franks. He needs to work on that. And a horrible driver. His driver sucks. Just want to put Just want to point that out. Item number seven, a resolution of the city of Sweetwater, uh, city commission,
city of Sweetwater, recognizing and adopting Veterans Day as a holiday of the city of Sweetwater, authorizing an annual festival in the city, authorizing and empowering the mayor to take such actions and expend such funds as necessary and proper for such holiday
and festival, adding for uh adding providing for effective date. Mayor Diaz All right. Uh, Mr. President and commissioners, you guys were all there. Sweetwater got his name out with the veterans and it's a community. We were,
I believe, the largest festival celebration for Veterans Day. Memorial Day is the day that us veterans and, you know, we're we're sad because we remember those that gave the maximum sacrifice for our country. and and it's more of a
somber day even though some people take it for a weekend and you know what we live in a free country and and that's accepted and so on but Veterans Day is different. Veterans Day is about saying thank you to those veterans that have served that have given a lot of hard
work and done a lot of things and also some come back not the way they they left and they came back uh obviously uh with a lot of pain. um for many reasons, but it's good that as a city we
get together and do an event like this that's recognized and it's it's all about our country, about our city, and about our state and our county, too. So, we are want to go a little bit bigger this year. Um Mr. Pepe Badia already
came as a title sponsor. He actually called us and said, "I am in. I want the top spot to be announced. You know, uh that was admirable and so has several
different um vendors already presided. This is very different and I want to be very clear. This is money that comes out of vendors that work with us. For instance, Clear Channel has come in and
come in strong and supporting and as the city because they could give us more as a city than they can a 501 directly. And I know some of you have that experience already. So they came in and they already started with the billboards
almost three months out announcing Valorfest in the city of Sweetwater. So Oh, you seen them already? Yeah. So, it it's it's very heartwarming to see corporations that are big like that come up. Uh some of the other ones,
Motorola has come up. By the way, Miami date uh Federal Credit Union came in strong and they say we're in Sweetwater. Uh we're here and they came in very strong for us. So, we're collecting all this. the as the United States Military
Foundation is doing it and working together to make sure that this event uh comes out better than the last. I don't know how we're going to top it because it was a good event and uh but hopefully with God's help we will. And I wanted to
bring him before you once again as the our attorney wrote it up is to move forward and uh just do this from now on. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Do we have a motion? Hold on. Chair Commissioner Sal. Yes, sir. Mayor, yeah, this is a great um a regular event. I like it. Um the
only thing I I was looking at this right here that it says the mayor is out of it's out of authorized to take actions and to expend such sum. Do you have a number? I last time is basically what it cost
for in police. Um, so the number was I don't know exactly the number right now, but it wasn't a hard number that was higher than what you guys had given me pervision to use. So there's no number as we go. Uh, I don't see
everything is going to be a sponsor. Everything's going to be mostly sponsored. By the way, Enkind sponsors um Clear Channel has come on board. iHeart Radio has come on board with other station. Telmundo is coming on board with Comcast. These are all that
said they're coming on board. Um they'll be doing uh basic uh commercial and for commercial radio everything between everybody. So that is worth a lot of money to do and they believe in the cost and they're coming on board. Uh the
other things that's hard cost are the stages are some of the uh different uh you know mostly it's the stage the bathrooms. Yeah, some things. By the way, all the tents and everything, there's another sponsor that's doing
that. Det. Yeah. Uh these people right here, the big Oh, I'm so sorry. Yeah, the company right here, the big one did it last year. Yeah, they came on they came on board, too. So, I'm very proud to say almost
everybody's come on board. I still got a couple people to call. This time we started a little earlier. We didn't have three four weeks before the event. Um, so it it helps out everybody and in staff by the way that I thank all of
them. Uh, everybody working together to make it a reality and it and it did come out very well. Sorry. Oh yeah. And yes, and volunteered uh the majority did volunteer their time and help out. Carmen was there making sure
that everything was straightened out too. Many people were here and uh and making sure. But this is the way I look at it. This is our pride of our city. Yeah. And our country and those that served. I I'm agree with you, mayor. Um let me ask you, did
do do we have a line line item for this event? Like like a line line item? We do. We budgeted for this. Yeah. For this budget. Yeah, it's we have money in there. If case we need to have more, I'll come to you. But I don't think we will. Okay. But if we need to, I'm sure that I'll
ask any one of you to please present it. and ask the president of the commission uh to present it, but I think we're we're going to be okay. Oh, good. Okay. Thank you, mayor. Thank you. Move. Just to reiterate, uh what the mayor did last year was he took monies
from our special events budget. Uh but he was able to generate somewhere close to $100,000 in donations. And the donations were uh 150. I apologize. A lot more. Okay. Okay. Well, he got us
a lot of money for free. And if I'm not mistaken, I think out of our special events budget, from what I looked at, it was basically for city staff and whatnot. Uh it was amazing what happened. We've never had an event like that in the city of Sweet Water. Yes, sir. If you're saying you're going to do it better,
I'd like to see it. Uh because that was that was amazing. Uh so, thank you for that and thank you for removing this item. I'm all for it. I definitely want to be known as a city that supports our veterans, uh, our law enforcement, our firefighters. So, I appreciate what you do, Mr. Mayor. We have a motion by
Commissioner by Ailio. We have a second by Second. Second by Commissioner Cuis. Roll call. Madam Clerk, disregard the roll call. All in favor? I. Any opposed? Item passes. Item eight, adjournment. We are adjourned. Have a
good night, folks.