Weekly Update

November 1, 2019 Greetings Mayor and City Council! Save the Date: November/December 11/2 – Memorial Service for Major Harvey Storms 1pm 11/5 – Election Day 11/12 – Council Worksession at 5pm and Regular Meeting at 7pm 11/15 – Council is invited to tour the Gilleland Pool, Water Plant and the Wastewater Plant. Meeting at Gilleland Pool at 1:30 pm 11/18 – Special Council Meeting to canvass votes of the November 5 General Election at 6pm. 11/20 – Council Worksession with PCDC Board for CEDS 2.0 review at 6pm at PCDC 11/23 – Pfall Pfest Crafts Show 9am-4pm at the Rec Center 11/26– Council Worksession at 6pm (tentative) and Regular Meeting at 7pm 11/28-11/29 – City Offices Closed for Thanksgiving Holiday 12/3 – Special Council Meeting for Board and Commission Interviews & Appointments at 6pm 12/7 – Pfestival of Lights & Christmas Parade at 5pm 12/10 – Council Worksession at 6pm (tentative) and Regular Meeting at 7pm 12/18 – Council Joint Meeting with PCDC in Council Chambers 12/19 – Coffee with a Cop 7am-9am at Starbucks 1709 E. Pflugerville Pkwy 12/24 – Cancelled- Council Worksession at 6pm and Regular Meeting at 7pm 12/24-12/25 – City Offices Closed for Christmas Holiday

Administration: • Lake Pflugerville Phase 1: Attached you will find the plans and cost estimates for Lake Pflugerville Phase 1 as approved by Council in June. However, in light of public comment given at the last meeting in opposition of the proposed lake improvements, staff is revisiting these plans. As we do so, this provides an opportunity, not only to consider changes to the plans for the lake, but to determine if this is the best use of this bond money considering the current needs within our existing parks system. Staff is currently working on a recommendation for Council’s consideration. Attachments are Lake Phase 1 Biehle West Trailhead, Lake Phase 1 Beach Parking, Lake Phase 1 Cost Estimates. • Pursuant to Council discussion regarding Lake Pflugerville, and speculation of developer participation at the October 22nd Council Meeting, attached is a summary of the developer’s involvement, and an agreement of sale, labeled Villages of Hidden Lake Summary and Settlement and Agreement of Sale 2010. • A Memorial Service will be held for Major Harvey Storms on Saturday, November 2, 2019 at First Baptist Church Pflugerville. Major Storms was recorded MIA during the Korean War on December 1, 1950 and Accounted for July 29, 2019. Service details: 1:00 pm – Visit with friends and family, 2:00 pm – A time of Remembrance • The Youth Advisory Council held its first meeting on October 21, 2019, elected its officers, and heard from Mayor Gonzales on local government. Students from the Youth Advisory Council volunteered at Trunk or Treat at the Animal Shelter on Saturday, October 26, 2019. It was a beautiful day and hundreds of kids visited their Go Fish game. It was a true hit with the kids. Photo attached as yac_trunk_or_treat. • The City Council is invited to attend a tour of the Gilleland Creek Pool, Water Plant and Wastewater Treatment Plant with the Facilities subcommittee and city staff on Friday, November 15, 2019. The tour will begin at 1:30p at the Gilleland Creek Pool. Please let me know if you plan to attend by end of day, Monday, November 11, 2019. If a quorum is anticipated to attend, a notice of possible quorum will need to be posted on Tuesday morning. • The November 12, 2019 Council Worksession is scheduled to begin at 5:00 p.m. to allow for additional time for discussion related to After Action Reports (AARs) for major City events, the draft Master Transportation Plan, and a potential May 2, 2020 bond election. Please advise me of any conflicts. Please find the draft agendas for the November 12, 2019 Council Worksession and Regular meeting attached as cc111219ws and cc111219a. • Today is the last day of Early Voting for November 5, 2019 elections. The Pflugerville Tax Office processed 2,828 voters through yesterday. Early voting daily totals are available on the web: o Travis County: https://countyclerk.traviscountytx.gov/elections/current-election.html o Williamson County: http://www.wilco.org/Departments/Elections • Grievance Policy: Following last week’s update, Charlie made additional revisions to the Grievance Policy to help clarify the process. Please disregard the document provided last week and provide any comments/changes to the attached revised Grievance Policy to James Hartshorn by Wednesday, November 6th. • The National League of Cities will be holding its annual City Summit this November 20- 23, 2019 in San Antonio. First time attendees can attend for a registration rate of $475. Future conferences will be further away in Tampa Florida (2020), Salt Lake City, Utah (2021) and Kansas City, Missouri (2022). So, this may be a good opportunity to learn about the organization if you are interested. Please let me know if you would like us to register you and make arrangements for you to attend this conference. Information on the event here: https://citysummit.nlc.org/ • In the upcoming weeks I will be sharing some educational pieces from the recent TML and ICMA Conferences. This week please see the attached presentation on how local governments can deal with fiscal stress. The presentation is attached as Pragmatic Municipalism. • Pflugerville hosted a Urban Land Institute (ULI) Regional Growth Roundtable at the Rock Gym on 10/30/2019. Trey, Emily and Amy Madison gave a presentation about growth in Pflugerville and had extensive interaction with regional ULI members. City of Hutto and CAMPO also gave presentations. • Following the Regional Growth Roundtable, Trey took Ashby Johnson on a tour of the MoKan Corridor route through the entirety of Pflugerville. The CAMPO Transportation Policy Board is slated to accept the Mokan/Northeast Subregional Study on Monday, November 4th beginning at Noon. Agenda is available here: https://www.campotexas.org/resource-category/meeting-agendas/

Communications: • Pflugerville Field trips let kids unplug and explore: The Patch • TAMIO Region 5 on Friday, Terri, Jesse and Samantha from communications attended a Region 5 retreat from the Texas Association of Municipal information officers. The retreat was in Round Rock and included a representative from Facebook’s government division and a special session to discuss Instagram use for cities. It was a great opportunity to network with other Communications professionals from area cities and the region.

Engineering: • Black Locust construction to begin 11/2, notices out to community • Pfennig Lane open to traffic, substantially complete

Finance: • P-Card program implementation is underway and employee cards have been ordered. A policy and procedure manual has been reviewed by an employee peer group and is under initial review by management. • Trey, Lauren and Amy participated in a Government Finance Officers Association webinar on preparing for an ERP upgrade.

Library: • A second free health screening was held at the library on 10/30, as a partnership with Austin Public Health. Patrons had access to free blood pressure, cholesterol, and blood sugar screenings. • We held several events and programs for Halloween including these highlights: a Dia De Los Muertos Celebration, a special storytime with the Friendly Witch (played by Adult Services Librarian Meg Miller), and a teen murder mystery night at the Heritage House Museum • The programming librarians and other programming staff attended the Central Texas Library System (CTLS) performer showcase on Friday. The programmers attend this event to help decide which performers to hire for special library shows throughout the year. • Assistant Director Daniel Berra exhibited for the Heritage House Museum at the 12th Annual Travis County History Day in Austin, highlighting genealogy and local history resources available through the museum and the library.

Parks: • Along with volunteers from the Rotary Club, the American Legion and Camp Gladiator our parks operations team planted 12 trees in Cambridge Heights as a part of the Texas Arbor Day Celebration. A representative from the Texas A&M Forest Service was there to discuss the history of Arbor Day, the importance and the official proclamation signed by the Mayor was on hand as well. • Last week the Parks held their first ever Spooky Pflix Night at Heritage Park. Despite the cold temperatures there were a total of 120 attendees throughout the night. Parks is hoping to offer similar events in the future. See attached picture labeled Spooky Pflix 1 & 2.

Pflugerville Community Development Corporation (PCDC): Report is attached as PCDC – November 1, 2019

Planning: • On Monday, the Planning and Zoning Commission will consider a Specific Use Permit for a proposed expansion of a Bar/Tavern in the Downtown District at 200 E. Pecan St. • This week, Erin and Emily attended the Texas Downtown Association Conference in Georgetown, TX.

Police: • RBFCU and CBS Austin dropped off breakfast and treats at the PD for First Responders’ Appreciation Day on Monday • Lt. Vronka and staff participated in the Chamber of Commerce’s Halloween on Main Street and Blue Santa donation opportunity • Members of Command Staff and officers were treated to a First Responders’ Appreciation Breakfast at Wells Point Senior Living • Coffee with a Cop is coming up on November 19th, 7am-9am, Starbucks at 1709 E. Pflugerville Pkwy

Public Works: • We have rented a Street Sweeper and begun sweeping in several areas of town. Steeds Crossing and the Ridge at Steeds have been swept and crews have moved on to neighborhoods where storm water drains into Gilleland Creek

November 8, 2019 Greetings Mayor and City Council! Save the Date: November/December 11/12 – Council Worksession at 5pm and Regular Meeting at 7pm 11/12 – CAMPO Open House, 3-7pm Pflugerville Pfarmers Market, and 4-7pm Pflugerville Recreation Center. 11/15 – Council is invited to tour the Gilleland Pool, Water Plant and the Wastewater Plant. Meeting at Gilleland Pool at 1:30 pm 11/18 – Special Council Meeting to canvass votes of the November 5 General Election at 6pm. 11/20 – Council Worksession with PCDC Board for CEDS 2.0 review at 6pm at PCDC 11/23 – Pfall Pfest Crafts Show 9am-4pm at the Rec Center 11/26– Council Worksession at 6pm (tentative) and Regular Meeting at 7pm 11/28-11/29 – City Offices Closed for Thanksgiving Holiday 12/3 – Special Council Meeting for Board and Commission Interviews & Appointments at 6pm 12/7 – Pfestival of Lights & Christmas Parade at 5pm 12/10 – Council Worksession at 6pm (tentative) and Regular Meeting at 7pm 12/18 – Council Joint Meeting with PCDC in Council Chambers 12/19 – Coffee with a Cop 7am-9am at Starbucks 1709 E. Pflugerville Pkwy 12/24 – Cancelled- Council Worksession at 6pm and Regular Meeting at 7pm 12/24-12/25 – City Offices Closed for Christmas Holiday

Administration: • This week we are highlighting a presentation that was given at TML on developing a cyber-security awareness culture in your city. Please see the attached handout labeled TML-Cyber-Presentation. • CAMPO is holding two open houses in Pflugerville in November, Nov 12 3-7pm at the Pfarmers Market and Nov 12 4-7pm at the Recreation Center. Please see the attached handout, CAMPO Open Houses, for more details. • Staff has received communication from the City of Austin Transportation Department regarding their route designation for Non-Radioactive Hazardous Materials (NRHM) traveling through Austin. Austin is asking the surrounding areas for input on this route. More details can be found in the following attachments: Initial Communication Regarding NRHM and 191011_COA NRHM Route Designation. Should Council Members wish to provide any comments please contact Trey Fletcher by Monday November 11th, by 5pm. • The Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) is requesting public feedback on the Texas Transportation Plan 2050 (attached as TTP 2050 Fall 2019 Surveys). The TTP 2050 is a policy document that guides TxDOT’s funding priorities and investment strategies. For more information, please access the following link on the CAMPO website. To submit comments online, please access the links and surveys listed in the attached card by November 15, 2019. • The Youth Advisory Council held its second regular meeting on November 4, 2019, met with Pat Epstein, Chair of the Planning and Zoning Commission and attended the Planning and Zoning Commission regular meeting.

Communications: • Stage 3 Water Restrictions lifted: encourage water conservation o City press release o Patch o KXAN o Community Impact • Water notification letter to post office on November 4, to homes starting November 5 o We have received about 30 calls since Tuesday about the water notice and 5 media inquiries o City website o CBS Austin - Pflugerville water not properly treated for possible contamination for nearly a year o Patch – Pflugerville fails regulatory standards for parasite o Fox 7 News – Failure at water treatment plant possibly exposed to residents to parasite, says city o KXAN – City failed to meet minimum water treatment standards for months. • Pflugerville Pflag is doing a story on the wastewater plant expansion plans and came out on Friday to tour the facility and take photos • Blue Santa release sent Monday. Covered by Patch.

Engineering: • Engineering staff met with TxDOT North Travis County Area Office for the Quarterly Update meeting to discuss various City of Pflugerville projects • CIP staff hosted a ROW Coordination meeting for multiple CIP projects with Seven Arrows ROW Services firm to receive updates on various projects • Cindy Pierce and Patricia Davis attended a Leadership Training in Austin • Annual Floodplain letters were sent out to property owners as required by FEMA • Pfennig Lane street lights have been installed and roadway has been opened to the public. Final striping anticipated next Tuesday, November 12th, weather permitting.

Finance: • The Comptroller’s November allocation of sales taxes has been completed and the revenue received by the City increased by 19.5% ($165,166) from November 2018. This information and the attached sales tax analysis chart, titled FY20 Sales Tax November, is based on the net cash payment received by the City; however, reports you see from other sources may vary depending on the types of collections included (i.e. current, prior period, audit). Through November, approximately 17% of the budgeted sales tax has been collected. • On Thursday and Friday, Lauren and Amy attended the Government Finance Officer’s Association of Texas meeting. They attended courses on a variety of topics, such as: SB2 updates, other post-employment benefits, and capital planning strategies.

Library: • The library will host two history related events of interest next week. On Tuesday (11/12) at 6pm at the Heritage House Museum, we will have a talk called “LBJ Stories Never Told Publicly” by a local, Bill Harris, who worked for LBJ. The next day (11/13) at the library we will host a talk about the Harlem Hellfighters at 6 p.m. as a special Veteran’s Month presentation (registration required). This talk will be given by the African American Archivist from the Austin History Center. • We are happy to announce that our partnership with PCDC to provide the online learning resource, Lynda.com to the community will continue. PCDC has provided the funds for the resource and the library provides access through our collection of electronic resources giving support to small businesses and the workforce in Pflugerville. Lynda.com offers online courses on a wide variety of subjects from software to business skills to management techniques all taught by industry experts. In the first year about 10,000 video courses were viewed by nearly 400 patrons. Access is free with your library card. • November is Men’s Health Month, often referred to as Movember. To celebrate Men’s Health Month and raise awareness of men’s health issues, the Library will host a Facebook competition for Pflugerville’s Most Stellar Stache. The competition begins Movember 24. The winner will receive the much coveted and sought after 2019 Stellar Stache trophy.

Parks: • The 40 Mile Trail Challenge has begun! Walk or bike 40 miles on Pflugerville trails from now until the end of January and win a prize! Make sure to keep track of your progress and bring proof to the Pflugerville Recreation Center. All pfinishers will receive unique swag and $5 of registration for the 2020 Pflugerville 5k. To find out more, visit this link.

Pflugerville Community Development Corporation (PCDC): Report is attached PCDC November 8, 2019

People and Culture: • New P+C Director: During the November 12 Council meeting, the City Manager will recommend that Council approve the appointment of Bonita Hall as our new P+C Director. Bonita brings more than 20 years of HR experience, having served at the Director level in cities across the state such as Longview, Odessa and Pearland. • Open Enrollment This week the P+C Department and our new insurance broker (HUB), invited all employees to attend Open Enrollment at the library. Employees were able to hear about our new medical and dental plan options, and had the opportunity to visit with our insurance carriers and retirement specialists from TMRS and ICMA.

As recommended by HUB, we have elected to stay with Aetna and to offer the same PPO plan to employees with only a 2% rate increase over last year. This was negotiated down from 11% so we are pleased with that result. The following is a summary of the PPO monthly rate change from last year:

Aetna Medical Coverage PPO Plan 2019 PPO Plan 2020 Increase Per Month Employee Only $0 $0 $0 Employee + Spouse $571.14 $582.56 $11.42 Employee + Child(ren) $434.16 $442.84 $8.68 Family $814.64 $830.93 $16.29

New this year is the addition of a high deductible health plan (HDHP) as an option for employees to save on their premiums. While employees would have to pay the full cost of medical expenses up to the deductible, their monthly premiums are much lower and they will have the option to open a health savings account (HSA) into which the city would contribute $1,400 per year. For some, this is a great option. The following is a summary of the rates with the new HDHP compared to last year’s PPO monthly rates:

Aetna Medical Coverage PPO Plan 2019 HDHP 2020 Savings Per Month Employee Only $0 $0 $0.00 Employee + Spouse $571.14 $460.52 ($110.62) Employee + Child(ren) $434.16 $350.08 ($84.08) Family $814.64 $656.86 ($157.78)

Finally, the city is now offering a new DHMO dental plan as an option for employees to save on dental insurance. The trade-off for the lower rate is that you have to choose from a small network of authorized dentists with which the insurance company has negotiated rates. For employees who do not have a preferred dentist, this is a great option. Below is a summary of the monthly rates compared to last year:

Dental Coverage PPO Plan 2019 PPO Plan 2020 DHMO 2020 Employee Only $0 $0 $0 Employee + Spouse $52.24 $53.72 $11 Employee + Child(ren) $59.72 $61.40 $13.74 Family $84.92 $87.33 $24.72

For additional information, please see attachments: Pflugerville OE Power Point – 2020, 2020 Pflugerville Benefit Guide, 2020 Rate-Sheet- Pflugerville.

Police: • On Thursday, members of Command Staff and officers celebrated the 97th birthday of World War II Veteran Frank Hanson, Citizens on Patrol member, and Pflugerville resident. Frank was treated to lunch and birthday cake. • Chief Robledo met with Wayman Cummings, Director of Threat Intelligence of Unisys on Friday. • Coffee with a Cop will be on November 19th at 9am, Starbucks at 1709 E. Pflugerville Pkwy.

Public Works: • Sereniah, Vicky Rudy, and Matt Woodard attended LCRA Zebra Mussel Workshop in Austin • On the remote chance Pflugerville receives any frozen precipitation in the coming days, we have outfitted 1 dump truck with a sander and have ensured that sand is readily available.

November 15, 2019 Greetings Mayor and City Council!

Save the Date: November/December 11/18 – Special Council Meeting to canvass votes of the November 5 General Election at 6pm in the Council Chambers 11/19 – Coffee with a Cop 7am-9am at Starbucks 1709 E. Pflugerville Pkwy 11/20 – Council Joint Meeting with PCDC Board at 6pm at PCDC 11/23 – Pfall Pfest Crafts Show 9am-4pm at the Rec Center 11/26– Council Worksession at 6pm and Regular Meeting at 7pm 11/28-11/29 – City Offices Closed for Thanksgiving Holiday 12/3 – City Employee Holiday Pfun Party 11:30am-2pm at Spare Time 12/3 – TML Region 10 in Bryan at 6pm 12/7 – Pfestival of Lights & Christmas Parade at 5pm 12/10 – Council Worksession at 6pm (tentative) and Regular Meeting at 7pm 12/17 – Special Council Meeting for Board and Commission Interviews & Appointments at 6pm 12/18 – Council Joint Meeting with PCDC in Council Chambers 12/24 – Cancelled- Council Worksession at 6pm and Regular Meeting at 7pm 12/24-12/25 – City Offices Closed for Christmas Holiday

Administration: • At the November 26 Regular Council Meeting, an oath of office ceremony will be held for Mayor Gonzales and Councilmember Weiss and Council will consider appointment of Mayor Pro Tem and appointments to CAN, the CAMPO Transportation Policy Board and the CAPCOG Clean Air Coalition. We have not included appointment to the CAPCOG General Assembly on this agenda as the Council just considered those appointments in September. • Please find the attached draft Council agendas for the November 26, 2019 Worksession and Regular Meeting. (attached as cc112619; cc112619) • The City received a Notice of Enforcement (NOE) from TCEQ in reference to the Notice of Violations (NOV) letter dated October 11, 2019 (NOE attached as 20191113 TCEQ Notice). They note that we sent out required public notice on November 4th. The NOE lists Failure to meet the minimum standards for cryptosporidium removal and the Monitoring/Report Violations. All are referenced back to the October 11th NOV and violations already covered by the public notice we have completed. This NOE is first contact with the Enforcement Division stating that formal enforcement action has been initiated. Staff spoke with our TCEQ enforcement representative today and we are working toward a Supplemental Environmental Project (SEP) that would be included in the final enforcement order. The enforcement order is expected in 60 to 90 days. This would include penalties unless we provide an acceptable SEP. This letter has no new violations, no new public notices. • Per a Councilmember request, please find the attached Consulting Services Summaries for end of FY18 and end of FY19. (attached as Consulting Services Summary and Archive 9.30.18 and Consulting Services Summary and Archive 9.30.19) • Council is invited to join City staff at the annual Holiday Pfun Party on December 3rd from 11:30 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. at Spare Time! Get your game faces on; we are bowling again! Pizza, laser tag, and games will be offered as well. • At ICMA last month there was a presentation that discussed transforming public spaces through low-cost temporary changes and involving community members in the process. Presentation attached as Tactical Urbanism. • Please see the included document, labeled Budget Vision Statement, for the vision and mission statements in the FY20 budget.

Communications: • Pflag is working on a story on potential bond election including why we are considering a bond election and what projects might be considered. • The City has received 67 calls from residents pertaining to the Public Notice as of 11/15/2019 at 2pm. Various news outlets have ran stories: o Community Impact: “We’re going to make it right,” City Manager says. o Statesman: Engineering firm lays out issues. Also attached as Statesman_Engineering. o CBS Austin called to confirm details of the Community Impact story and asked for a copy of the presentation. We provided the link to the video as the Impact Story was factual. • The Statesman ran an article on the CAMPO open houses in Pflugerville, linked here, and attached as Statesman_CAMPO. • Community Impact ran the following stories: o Pflugerville City Council approves an updated camping ordinance, article found here. o New People + Culture director Bonita Hall appointed, article found here. o Best Little Plaza in Texas is a finalist in Texas Downtown Association Awards, article found here. • Relocation of wine company to Pflugerville creates 300 jobs o Dallas Morning News o Patch o Area Development • The Police Departments event, Coffee with a Cop, was covered by Patch. • Press release issued by Hutto PD detailing the success of a joint narcotics operation in which we provided support that resulted in the arrest of two suspects and the seizing of multiple types of illegal drugs, a 9mm pistol, and cash. KXAN new story found here. • The following news outlets covered the shooting in Pflugerville that occurred on Thursday. o KVUE o CBS Austin o KXAN o Statesman, attached as Statesman_Shooting

Engineering: • Aileen Dryden was announced officially as the City’s ADA Coordinator – ADA Transition Plan as per Resolution approval at November 12th City Council. • E Pf Pkway/Jesse Bohls project kick-off meeting with Travis County and Design Engineer • Speed Studies speed limit data collection completed, pending analysis for determination of final speed limits for Weiss Lane and confirmation on Pfennig Lane. • Rowe Lane – 30% Design Schematic completed and submitted to city by PapeDawson and submitted draft AFA with TxDOT • Kelly Lane Phase 2 & Phase 3 – Intersection improvements at Vilamoura and Jakes Hill approved by Council for 2020 Design and JMT directed to proceed; in addition the roundabout design at Vilamoura will be included in Kelly Lane Phase 2 • Pecan Street Biltmore Traffic Signal – 100% plans submitted for review • Pecan Street at FM 685 Intersection Analysis complete, pending scheduling a meeting with TxDOT for review and discussions • Pecan Street at Heatherwilde Blvd – 90% Plans submitted for review • American Water Infrastructure Act Risk & Resilience Plan (RR) and Emergency Response Plan (ERP) RFQ advertisement began November 13th • Please see the attached pictures of the Weiss Ln and Black Locust projects, labeled Engineering Pics.

Library: • On Thursday, Assistant Director Daniel Berra participated in a panel for the Governor's Small Business Forum hosted by PCDC highlighting resources available to support small business owners. • On Friday, library staff (Jennifer Coffey, Melissa Gryzbowski, and Meg Miller) and PAWS Director Rhonda McLendon presented at the TRAPS conference on "Becoming a Pet Friendly Library: Tips from a Public Library and Animal Shelter Partnership." • On Saturday, the library will hold two free, fun events for youth and families. At 11 a.m. there will be a "Toddler Dance Party" and at 3 p.m. an "I Love the 90s" Teen Party.

Parks: • The Parks Operations team, in a partnership with Travis Co., hosted the TRAPS Central Region Maintenance Rodeo on Thursday. There were 277 parks and recreation maintenance professionals from around the area who participated in a variety of competitions including plant identification, irrigation, mower and trailer obstacle courses, a nail driving competition, a backhoe challenge and a backpack blower event. They received breakfast, lunch and the winning teams from each event qualified for the state maintenance rodeo in Galveston in the spring of 2020. • Today, the Parks and Recreation team is hosting the Central Region TRAPS conference at the Pflugerville Marriott hotel. Council member Weiss delivered the opening speech to kick-off the event. There are 250 parks and recreation professionals from Kerrville, College Station, Temple and all points in between that make up our Central Region here in Pflugerville today. They have 4 education sessions, a lunch with an awards ceremony and a social at Hannover’s after the conference today. Please see the attached pictures labeled TRAPS Pics. • The Drop by Drop Landscape Rebate Program started on October 1, 2019 for FY20. Any resident or customer of Pflugerville Utilities or resident qualifies for the program. This program offers the residents an opportunity to convert their high water use turfs or plants to low water or drought tolerant plants and get up to 50% rebate not to exceed $500.00 per program year. Applications are posted on line and hard copies will be at the Recreation Center and City Hall. • Heritage Park Trail will have some upgrades on the trash bins. The Eagle Scout committee has reviewed and approved an Eagle Scout candidate to refurbish the bins along the trail. The Parks Department has collaborated with this venture to not only enhance our bins but to give the scout an opportunity to earn his Eagle Badge. The work will be done on the weekend of November 23. • Equipment for E-Sports will starting to arrive at the Recreation Center. Set-up should begin in the next couple of weeks. • The Pflugerville’s Pfestive Pfarmers Market on November 12 was very successful despite the cold weather. Customers braved the wind and cold temperatures to start buying provisions for Thanksgiving. The November 26 Pfestive Market will have a couple of vendors selling hot coffee, hot apple cider and some hot cocoa and meat and condiments for Thanksgiving meals.

Peoples and Culture: • On Monday, P+C hosted New hire Orientation for 5 new employees. See attached photo (NewHireOrientation) Front row: Chandler Schultz, PAWS; Chermaine Burleson, Library. Back row: Rodolfo Leal, Streets; Kristell Arianna Abbate, Engineering; and Tony Scott, Parks & Rec. • On Wednesday, P+C welcomed their new Director, Ms. Bonita Hall. See attached photo (BonitaHall…)

Pflugerville Community Development Corporation (PCDC): Report is attached as PCDC November 15, 2019 as well as the Strategy Draft for the November 20 Joint City Council/PCDC meeting. Document attached as Pflugerville CEDS 2.0 and link to ALL CEDS Discovery Documents found here. Planning: • In October we reported that the CDBG 2019-2024 Consolidated Plan and 2019 Action Plan was reposted for public comments after receiving feedback from HUD on their initial review of our submittal. Staff made the requested changes and resubmitted the plan as required. That plan was approved by HUD on Wednesday. • North Pointe – Staff continues to work with the developer on finalizing their PID and TIRZ documents. • Planning and Zoning Commission met last week and took action on the following: o Three Legged Goat SUP (request to expand the bar use at the northeast corner of Pecan and Railroad) – Recommended Approval (Council Dates – November 26th and December 10th) o CDBG Consolidated Annual Performance Evaluation Report (CAPER) – Recommend Approval (Council Date – November 26th) o Fifteen subdivisions were statutorily disapproved – As a reminder the Planning and Zoning Commission approved modifications to the development review schedules to account for requirements created by HB3167. HB3167 became effective September 1st and requires development review applications to follow a revised review schedule. All new subdivision applications will be accepted on specified application dates in order to be considered by the Planning and Zoning Commission within 30 days of a complete application as required by HB3167. Previously, a subdivision was only placed on the agenda once it met all the requirements of the UDC. The new process differs from the previous review process by removing an opportunity for an applicant to waive consideration of a subdivision application by the Planning and Zoning Commission until the application meets the minimum requirements. The new process requires that if a complete application does not meet the UDC requirements, then formal action is required by the Planning and Zoning Commission by placing the application on the consent agenda for statutory disapproval with the deficient items identified. • Site Development Plans approved: o The Human Bean (SP1907-01) Drive Thru Coffee Shop at 105 Rex Kerwin (just west of Pecan and 10th Street) o Surf Thru Car Wash (SP1906-01) formerly Bubble Clean at 1617 F.M. 685 – car wash expansion o Carmel West Phase II Amenity Center (SP1810-01) Approximately 3,800 square foot amenity center buildings and related improvements at 6201 Wolf Pack Drive • Active development (under review and under construction) is updated monthly here.

Police: • Lt. Vronka participated in the Pflugerville CARE Team Meeting. • Assistant Chief Smith attended the Travis County Emergency Management Coordinator’s Meeting at Lakeway Police Department. • Commander Mirabelle was a panelist for the first-ever Texas Women’s Leadership Institute executive preparation panel, helping female executives through interview preparation and round table discussion. The panel was hosted by the City of Cedar Park. • 3 new officers completed “mini academy” and will begin Field Training on Sunday. • Don’t forget Coffee with a Cop, on November 19th at 7am-9am at Starbucks 1709 E. Pflugerville Pkwy • This Saturday, November 16th at 9am is the Run with the Chief & New Officer. The run starts at Bohls Park.

Public Works: • Pflugerville Pflag came out to tour WWTP • Staff attended Central WWTP Expansion Coordination Meeting • Patricia Rinehart attended the Central Texas Water Efficiency Network quarterly meeting on 11-14-2019 • When PfISD delayed school by 2 hours earlier this week due to the upgrades that were installed on our School Zone signals over the last year, staff was able to reprogram the signals within minutes, which allowed signals to be operating at the new delayed time. • Streets did end up sanding several bridges during this week’s weather event.

Have a great weekend!

November 22, 2019 Greetings Mayor and City Council!

Save the Date: November/December 11/23 – Pfall Pfest Crafts Show 9am-4pm at the Rec Center 11/26– Council Worksession at 6pm and Regular Meeting at 7pm 11/28-11/29 – City Offices Closed for Thanksgiving Holiday 12/3 – City Employee Holiday Pfun Party 11:30am-2pm at Spare Time 12/3 – TML Region 10 in Bryan at 6pm 12/7 – Pfestival of Lights & Christmas Parade at 5pm 12/10 – Council Worksession at 6pm (tentative) and Regular Meeting at 7pm 12/17 – Special Council Meeting for Board and Commission Interviews & Appointments at 6pm 12/18 – Council Joint Meeting with PCDC in Council Chambers 12/24 – Cancelled- Council Worksession at 6pm and Regular Meeting at 7pm 12/24-12/25 – City Offices Closed for Christmas Holiday

Administration: • At TML there was a training given on cyber security based on HB 3834 from the 86th Legislative Session. Please review the attached slides (HB-3834-User-Awareess) as they are a good review of cyber security measures. • Please see the attached document, CAMPO 2045, for details on giving public comment on CAMPO’s 2045 Transportation Plan. • Travis Central Appraisal District will end FY19 with a budget surplus of approximately $500,000. They are requesting that any unused budget funds be transferred to the District’s reserve for building repair or replacement. See attached letter, TCAD Budget Amendment. • The City Council is scheduled to hold a Special Meeting on Tuesday, December 17 at 6p for interviews and appointments to boards and commissions. Please find the attached report on openings and applications received as of today. Please feel welcome to encourage people to apply. Applications are available here. The deadline for applications is November 30, 2019.

Building: • Certificates of Occupancy were issued for the following projects: o Rosendin Electric (18-43195) ▪ Use: Office ▪ Location: 1-33 New Meister Suite 100 o Stuff It (19-47896) ▪ Use: Restaurant ▪ Location: 200 E Pecan

Communications: • On Tuesday, Emily Barron, Trey Fletcher, James Hartshorn, and Terri Toledo met with Community Impact for our monthly review of happenings and upcoming city issues. We discussed the Transportation Master Plan, NorthPointe status, proposed items for the November 26 City Council meeting and upcoming special events. • Maggie Holman and Jesse Davis attended a Facebook Austin event to learn more about Facebook Alerts. The City has registered and is waiting for the service to be added to our website platform. The event gave staff the opportunity to get face-to-face with Facebook and discuss the benefits of the program. The event was covered in the Austin American Statesman, found here, and attached as Statesman_Facebook. • The Pflag/Statesman ran an article detailing Pflugerville’s plans to invest $41.9 milling into the wastewater treatment plant expansion and upgrades. Article found here, and attached as Statesman_Wastewater Treatment Plant. • Communications briefly spoke to Ariana, the author of this article found in the Statesman, about the worksession item discussing the council’s consideration of a May 2020 bond election. Article attached as Statesman_Bond Election. • Community impact ran a story detailing the 54% rise in single-family home sales in Pflugerville, found here.

Engineering: • Engineering has received Recertification for FEMAs National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) Community Rating System (CRS). Our annual CRS Recertification was concluded and everything was in order so we are good for another year. October 15, 2019 Engineering submitted the CRS application as a voluntary incentive program to ensure Pflugerville residents can receive reduced flood damage to insurable property; strengthen and support insurance aspects of the NFIP; and encourage comprehensive approach to floodplain management. The voluntary program also encourages community floodplain management activities, such as the mailers distributed to over 600 residents and businesses in Pflugerville. • Active Development & Capital Improvement Projects (CIP) (under review and under construction) is updated monthly here. • Last Friday was the kick-off meeting for 6-Week Construction Inspection/Management Training for city engineering inspectors; as a meet and greet to develop unified inspection process. • NorthPointe – Staff is coordinating with TxDOT for joint scoping and review of a Traffic Impact Analysis with the developer.

Library: • The library is preparing to assist with the 2020 Census. The library is working with IT to have links to the census form in various languages on the desktops of the patron computers to provide easy access to the community. Director Coffey has also applied for a grant through ALA to add 4 tablets in various city locations to provide additional access to fill out the census form online. She will also be meeting with other local libraries to discuss other ways to support the Census. • The Heritage House Partners are busy decorating the museum for their Christmas Open House to be held on December 7th and 8th. On the 7th the Pflugerville Elementary Choir will perform on the front porch at 1 p.m. and Santa will visit the museum from 1 - 4 p.m. the following day. Holiday quilts will also be on display both days. • Adult Services Librarian Bette McDowell held her Paint & Sip program on Thursday. Happy participants made mini chalkboard signs while sipping on wine and visiting with neighbors. • Youth Services Librarian Amanda Cawthon held her Switch It Up Gaming program for teens on Wednesday evening in the library's teen space. A large group of excited teens played video games and board games while making new friends. Gaming is a great way to get teens into the library, provide a safe space for them to interact with their peers, and maybe even check out a few books while they're at it.

Parks: • November 26 is a special Pfestive Pfarmers Market to pick up holiday treats and fresh produce. The Pfestive Pfarmers Market expands on the regular market by bringing in seasonal products that are perfect for holiday shopping or getting into the holiday spirit. Join in on the pfun from 3-7 p.m. at the Green Red Barn at Heritage Park. • The Pfestival of Lights & Christmas Parade will be held on Saturday, December 7, 2019 from 4- 7 p.m. with the parade beginning at 5 p.m. We'd like to extend the invitation to council to join into the parade by riding on our decorated float, for confirmation and more details email Kaitlyn Neal at [email protected]. • Friday the seniors went to hike Enchanted Rock State Natural Area. See picture attached, Enchanted Rock.

Pflugerville Community Development Corporation (PCDC): • Report is attached as PCDC-November 22, 2019 • See also: Updated Steering Committee List and link to ALL CEDS Discovery Documents found here.

Planning: • Emily attended the Austin-Travis County Complete Count Committee meeting for the 2020 Census. Discussion focused on strategic planning, reaching hard to reach residents as well as resources available to communities from media to translation services. The committee will continue to meet monthly through March 2020. • On Thursday, we had our second Pfireside Chat with Pflugerville’s Co-Creators at Spirit of Texas Distillery. The group is collaborating on future ways they can contribute to the quality of life in Pflugerville. • Lakeside Meadows and Project Charm rezoning requests will both be considered by the Planning and Zoning Commission on December 2nd. Lakeside Meadows is a mixed use development on approximately 420 acres south of Lake Pflugerville, from Pflugerville Parkway to Pecan Street. Project Charm, is a rezoning request for approximately 90 acres on the northside of Pecan Street approximately 900 feet east of Bohls Place that would allow for a logistics and distribution center at this location. • North Pointe: We continue to work with the NorthPointe Development on outstanding issues necessary to complete the analysis of the TIRZ as well as the PID proposals. We are still waiting on the developer to provide documents necessary for the creation of the TIRZ and PID requests. Since this information is still pending from the developer the discussion on the TIRZ, PID and PUD are moving to January/February and will not be on the November 26th agenda as originally anticipated. On the agenda for Tuesday, is an extension of the PUD application, which is necessary because the UDC requires Council take action on 2nd reading of a rezoning within 60 days of the public hearing or grant an extension that requirement. All three components of NorthPointe (PUD, PID and TIRZ) are still viable but on a schedule that will have them considered by Council during the first part of 2020 as long as all of the necessary information is provided by the developer in a timely manner.

Police: • On Sunday Pflugerville Blue Guardians Chief Robledo, Asst. Chief Smith, and Cmdr. Mirabelle helped chaperone the Pflugerville Falcons Special Olympics Basketball team at the University of Texas Women’s Basketball game thanks to the generosity of former Travis County Sheriff, Margo Fraiser. • Tuesday Command Staff and Officers hosted Coffee with a Cop at the Starbucks on Pflugerville Parkway. • Cmdr. Neyland and Lt. Rowley attended the Child Protection Team Executive Committee Meeting Wednesday, a Travis County multi-agency team formed by the Center for Child Protection. • Asst. Chief Smith attended an “Excellence in Policing” lecture by Chief Andy Harvey, hosted by the Concordia University Police Department. • Council members are invited to assist with the 2019 Blue Santa gift-wrapping. Blue Santa Headquarters this year is at 1512 Stone Hill Dr. #100 (formerly Charming Charlie’s). Available dates to volunteer are December 2-5, 2pm-5pm/5:30pm-8pm; December 9-11, 2pm-5pm/5:30pm-8pm. Please email Lt. Chet Vronka at [email protected] to reserve a time.

Public Works: • Streets and Drainage has prepared the City for the holidays, setting up decorations throughout the City. • Patricia Rinehart presented to two 4th grade classes at Wieland Elementary. The presentation was to teach the students about conserving water, to educate them on their local water source, and about the importance of keeping water clean for their community. See picture attached Wieland Elementary.

November 27, 2019—Thanksgiving Week, brief Weekly sent on Wednesday Greetings Mayor and City Council!

Save the Date: November/December 11/28-11/29 – City Offices Closed for Thanksgiving Holiday 12/3 – City Employee Holiday Pfun Party 11:30am-2pm at Spare Time 12/3 – TML Region 10 in Bryan at 6pm 12/7 – Pfestival of Lights & Christmas Parade at 5pm 12/10 – Council Worksession at 6pm (tentative) and Regular Meeting at 7pm 12/17 – Special Council Meeting for Board and Commission Interviews & Appointments at 6pm 12/18 – Council Joint Meeting with PCDC in Council Chambers 12/24 – Cancelled- Council Worksession at 6pm and Regular Meeting at 7pm 12/24-12/25 – City Offices Closed for Christmas Holiday

Administration: • Sereniah will be out on vacation and unreachable December 11th through December 17th. • This week there is attached a short presentation on deliberately engaging residents from the recent ICMA Conference, labeled as ICMA Community Engagement. • The City Council is scheduled to hold a Special Meeting on Tuesday, December 17 at 6p for interviews and appointments to boards and commissions. Please find the attached report on openings and applications received as of today. Please encourage people to apply, especially for the Board of Adjustment. Applications are available here. The deadline for applications has been extended to December 9.

Building: • Robert attended an ICC Plan Review Certification course in San Antonio November 18- 22nd and successfully passed the exam. • Certificates of Occupancy were issued for the following projects: o North Forest, Bldg 1 (18-42457) ▪ Use: Office ▪ Location: 701 FM 685 o The Learning Experience Daycare (18-42129) ▪ Use: Daycare ▪ Location: 701 FM 685, Bldg 2

Communications: • Communications is promoting the placement of the Christmas Tree in the Plaza this year. The video of the assembly of the tree had 521 views in less than 24 hours on Facebook. The City will be encouraging the community to visit the Best Little Plaza in Texas to see the tree. The Christmas Tree video is also available on Youtube. • Quarter Moon Productions and the statewide television show called YOLO TX covered the Texas Monthly BBQ Festival. Brothertons BBQ and Pflugerville, Texas was mentioned in the recent episode. View the show online here. • Austin Business Journal reached out about the NorthPointe Extension and is following the project closely. There is an article running this week about the project that mentions the extension request that went to Council on November 26. Found here, and attached as Capital Gains • This week’s Pflugerville Pfocus is already online due to the Thanksgiving Holiday and can be viewed here. • Community Impact ran a story about Council’s decision to move forward on the purchase of Comerica Bank, found here.

Engineering: • Patricia Davis completed a Leadership Training Class with TML • Pecan Street at Biltmore Traffic Signal Project o 100% Plans Completed o Advertisement to newspaper on 12/4 o Project Bids advertisement begins 12/11 o Pre-Bid Meeting 12/18 o Bid Opening 1/9/20 o City Council Award 1/28/20 • Pre-Construction meeting held on 11/25 for Swenson Farm PRV project • ROW Management o SH45 Appraisals have been completed and ROW Agent proceeding with offers

Parks: • Last week, the Pflugerville Parks and Recreation Commission approved the annual report of activities by the Tree Care Advisory Board (TCAB). In accordance with City Ordinance 95.42 Establishment of a Tree Care Advisory Board the Pflugerville Tree Care Advisory Board wishes to submit its annual report of activities. The annual report is attached as TCAB Final. • Our annual Pfall Craft Show held at the Pflugerville Recreation Center pfeatured over 55 vendors who hand-made a variety of items including quilts, candles, jewelry and baked goods. This seven hour event included fun door prize raffles, live music and pfocused on shopping in our own community. See attached picture, Pfall Pfest Craft Show. • All parks maintenance crews worked on getting holiday lights put up at Gilleland Creek Park and at the Heritage House Museum. See attached pictures labeled Parks holiday decorations and Seasons Greetings Parks. • Pfestive Pfarmers markets will be held on December 10th and December 17th at Green Red Barn at Heritage Park. Mrs. Claus will attend on December 17th from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. at the Gazebo to take photos with pets and kids! Come shop for holiday treats at the market! • Drop By Drop Landscape Rebate Program is open to residents who want to reduce their water usage on their lawns and landscape beds. The program offers a rebate of up to 50% not to exceed $500 per program year. Participants are encouraged to pick up applications at City Hall offices, the Recreation Center, the Pfarmers Market or login to: pflugervilletx.gov/dropbydrop. Participants are not to make any purchases before program manager approves them.

Peoples and Culture: • Pf 101 is starting up again next year beginning on January 22nd and ending at the March 24th council meeting for a graduation ceremony. Pf 101 is a Citizens Academy used by the City to share with residents about our day to day functions and roles of your local government. The purpose of Pf 101 is to educate residents about operations, cultivate future leaders, and showcase talents of staff. Pf 101 will consist of eight different classes. Participants will learn about different departments and have the opportunity to visit different city facilities. We cannot wait for another successful year of Pf 101!

Pflugerville Community Development Corporation (PCDC): Report is attached as PCDC – November 29, 2019

Police: • BLUE SANTA GIFT WRAPPING: Council members are invited to assist with the 2019 Blue Santa gift-wrapping. Blue Santa Headquarters this year is at 1512 Stone Hill Dr #100 (formerly Charming Charlie’s). Available dates to volunteer are December 2-5 (2p – 5p) and (530pm – 8p) and December 9-11 (2p – 5p) and (530pm – 8p). Please email Lt. Chet Vronka at [email protected] to reserve a time.

Public Works: • Line Maintenance staff installed 90% of the new air line for the WTP air water separators • Streets and drainage crews moved the Christmas tree to the Plaza • The Sign Shop made 36 specialty signs that will be presented at the end of year Holiday Luncheon

Happy Thanksgiving!

December 6, 2019 Greetings Mayor and City Council!

Save the Date: December 12/7 – Pfestival of Lights & Christmas Parade at 4pm 12/8 – Beards, Badges, and Backpacks Holiday Event, at Shot of Texas Ranch, 1-6pm 12/10 – Council Worksession at 5pm and Regular Meeting at 7pm 12/17 – Special Council Meeting for Board and Commission Interviews & Appointments at 6pm 12/24 – Cancelled- Council Worksession at 6pm and Regular Meeting at 7pm 12/24-12/25 – City Offices Closed for Christmas Holiday

Administration: • Sereniah will be out on vacation and unreachable December 11th through December 17th. • At the recent TML conference Baytown shared a presentation about using community- based strategic planning to elevate trust in local government. See the attached presentation labeled Community-Based-Strategic-Planning. • Beards, Badges, and Backpacks: Come to the holiday fun awareness event for Backpack Friends. 1-6pm at Shot of Texas Ranch: 201 Cobb Creek Road, Georgetown, TX 78633. See the attached picture, Beards, Badges, and Backpacks, and this website for more details. • The City Council is scheduled to hold a Special Meeting on Tuesday, December 17 at 6p for interviews and appointments to boards and commissions. Please find the attached report on openings and applications received as of today (2020 Board and Commission Applications and Openings). Please encourage people to apply, especially for the Board of Adjustment. Applications are available here. The deadline for applications has been extended to December 9. • Recreation Center Feasibility Study: Staff has been working with Brinkley Sargent Wiginton (BSW) Architects on a Senior and Recreation Center Feasibility Study. BSW has completed the market analysis (attached as “Recreation Center Feasibility Study Draft”) and is working on the final phase of the document which will include cost estimates, a pro forma and an operations plan for a full cost recovery recreation center. We anticipate completion of the study by the end of January, at which time we will provide to Council and the bond committee for consideration.

Building: • Temporary Certificates of Occupancy were issued for the following projects: o Chaparral Distributing (19-46796) ▪ Use: Office, Distribution ▪ Location: 1801 Central Commerce Ct, Bldg 3 o Stone Hill Apartments (19-41760) ▪ Use: Residential/Apartment ▪ Location: 17900 Pfluger Farm Rd, Bldg 12 • Certificates of Occupancy were issued for the following projects: o Dental Offices of Dr. Janice Kim (19-46424) ▪ Use: Business ▪ Location: 428 Grand Avenue Pkwy, Suite 150 o North Forest Office Space (19-45787) ▪ Use: Office ▪ Location: 701 FM 685, Suite 100-110 • Certificates of Completion were issued for the following projects: o North Forest Office Space (19-45789) ▪ Use: Office ▪ Location: 701 FM 685, Suite 140

Communications: • Maggie Holman and Terri Toledo attended the Open Government Conference in Austin with tracts on what can be released, redactions, legislative updates and a specific tract related to police and public information. • Community Impact ran three articles on Pflugerville this week: o Pflugerville to consider 400 acre mixed use development south of Lake Pflugerville o Pflugerville officials seek to remedy city’s water treatment failure o Crashes, fatalities on SH 130 reach four-year high

Engineering: • Engineering and Public Works staff hosted the Water Environment Association of Texas (WEAT) Student Design Competition Overview session at the City’s Wastewater Treatment Plant on Thursday, December 5th. Utility staff (Josh Woodard, Phillip Scruggs Fernando Castillo, Clay Palousek) provided leadership for the tours at the Wastewater Treatment Plant to field questions, clarify operations and feedback to students. The WEAT Student Design Competition overview session was a collaborative effort of Engineering Consultant firm representatives and mentors to highlight competition requirements leading up to the Regional 2020 competition on March 31st during the Annual Texas Water Conference in Fort Worth, Texas. The City’s Wastewater Treatment Plant Expansion (WWTP) project was selected as the design prompt for University Engineering student teams Capstone projects. Design competition involves a real-life application for students to propose design alternatives to expand the capacity of the WWTP from 5.3 MGD to 10 MGD. Universities from Texas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Arkansas Universities were invited to attend, of which SMU, Tarleton State University, Texas A&M University (College Station and Kingsville), University of Houston, Texas Tech University, LeTourneau University, Monterrey Institute of Tech in addition to Engineering representatives from CP&Y, FNI, CDM Smith, Black and Veatch. Photo is attached: WEAT

Finance: • Representatives from the City’s external audit firm, Pattillo, Brown, & Hill are on site to conduct fieldwork for the FY19 financial audit.

Library: • The library held their annual family friendly Dickens Day Celebration on Wednesday. The event featured a storyteller who gave a retelling of the Dickens’ classic “A Christmas Carol” along with holiday treats and crafts. • Adults enjoyed a Craft Crawl at the library on Thursday with a variety of materials provided to make gifts and holiday decorations while sipping on hot cocoa and visiting with other community members. • With so many holiday events happening around the city on Saturday, teens have one all their own at the library’s Yule Ball. This Harry Potter themed holiday event will have teens dancing, playing games, and enjoying refreshments in a special after-hours library event. • The Heritage House Partners will hold their annual Christmas Open House and Quilt Show this Saturday and Sunday at the museum featuring special guests, holiday treats, and beautiful holiday decorations. On Saturday enjoy a special performance by the Pflugerville Elementary School Choir at 1 p.m. and on Sunday, Santa will visit the museum. The event will be held from 1 – 4 p.m. on both days at the Heritage House Museum.

Parks: • Pfestival of Lights: Join us in downtown Pflugerville tomorrow night from 4pm to 7pm for the Pfestival of Light and Christmas Parade! For more information on the pfestivities, use this link. • Recreation Programs: o Last week’s Inaugural Pfall Pfun Camp was one for the books! On Monday, we played the day away at Gilleland Creek Park, and then came back to the Recreation Center to make Thanksgiving wreathes. Tuesday we journeyed to Play for All Abilities Park in the morning, and then watched Toy Story 4 at the Pflugerville Library. Wednesday we had a pre-thanksgiving meal at Gattitown, and ended the week playing at 1849 Park! See attached picture Pfall Pfun Camp2. o Last night there were Pokemon Card battles and trades at the Pflugerville Recreation Center! We’re excited for the next battle in January. See attached pictures, Pokemon Card Club and Pokemon. • Community Services: o Pfestive Pfarmers markets will be held on December 10th and December 17th at Green Red Barn at Heritage Park. Mrs. Claus will attend on December 17th from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. at the Gazebo to take photos with pets and kids! Come shop for holiday treats at the market! o Community Service volunteer and Eddie Garcia raked leaves and tree branches at Heritage House property on Dec. 4. This was a request from Daniel Berra for this weekend’s event.

Peoples and Culture: • This Tuesday we had our Annual Holiday Pfun Party at Spare Time Texas. Staff enjoyed some fajitas, awards, Pfun Bowl Competition, and a Basketball Competition. Our employees who have been with the city for 5, 10, 15, and 20 years received a street sign with their last name on it and we had employee nominated awards. See pictures attached: Holiday Party

Pflugerville Community Development Corporation (PCDC): Report is attached as PCDC- December 6 2019

Planning: • On Tuesday, staff submitted the projects for consideration in CAMPOs Regional Transportation Project (RTP). Staff will provide updates as they are received from CAMPO. • On Thursday, the Austin City Council approved the interlocal agreement that was approved by Council in October to begin conducting health inspections within our city limits. Staff has met with stakeholders and letters were sent today to all food establishment and public pool operators that discuss what to expect in 2020 for health inspections. The interlocal is effective on January 1, 2020.

Police: • Chief Robledo assisted Round Rock Police Department with Command Staff promotional boards on Monday. • Chief Robledo, Asst. Chief Smith, and Corporal Herrera hosted the Pflugerville Youth Advisory Council and provided them with a tour of the Justice Center. Please find a photo attached, YAC_Police. • Chief Robledo and Ingrid Friedman of the Office of Community Liaison were interviewed by CBS Austin for a story on Blue Santa • Chief Robledo facilitated a conference call for the Texas Police Chief’s Association Women’s Executive Committee, of which she is the Committee Chair. • On Friday Lt. Rowley and Sgt. Thomas attended the District Attorney’s Interagency Sexual Assault Team meeting. • Pflugerville PD Chaplains are hosting the Cover the Car in Prayer event at St. Elizabeth’s Catholic Church to pray for our officers for safety and protection. This will be the 2nd year for this event. This is a come and go event so officers and public can come anytime between 1 and 3pm on Saturday, December 7th.

Public Works: • Utility and Engineering staff met for Pre-Construction meeting with Plus Six Engineering, Freese and Nichols Engineering, and Bar Constructors for the Wastewater Plant Expansion. • DCS Engineering has submitted three set of plans for Surface Water Treatment Plant (SWTP) improvements including a new Contact Time (CT) Study, relocation of the Manville interconnect, and an Interim Sodium Permanganate injection plan. We expect a minimum 30-day approval process. o The CT Study reflects proposed modifications to the disinfection and treatment process. The CT Study includes one disinfection zone, increases the free chlorine residual at the end of the disinfection zone, and relocates the entry point of the 12- inch Manville interconnect into the SWTP. The relocation of the Manville interconnect also involves installation of approximately 250 LF of PVC pipe to redirect flow to the Manville system. This relocation improves on the disinfection process as recommended by TCEQ. o The Interim Sodium Permanganate injection plan calls for dosing sodium permanganate at the 36-inch header located at the Lake Pflugerville Lake Intake Pumping Station. The sodium permanganate use is to address odor/taste/color issues from Lake Pflugerville. These odor/taste/color issues are expected as a result of removing zebra mussels from the intake pipe and a changes in chemical dosing in the SWTP processes. The submittal to TCEQ is seeking approval of the interim plan while a permanent solution is designed, bid and built, and is seeking authorization to permanently dose sodium permanganate in the City’s raw water supply when the permanent process is completed.

December 13, 2019 Greetings Mayor and City Council!

Save the Date: December 12/14 – Blue Santa package distribution, 8am-12pm, additional information under Administration section. 12/16 – PfISD groundbreaking for MS7 and Elementary 22 at 10am, Pleasanton Parkway, East of Weiss Lane. 12/17 – Special Council Meeting for Board and Commission Interviews & Appointments at 6pm 12/24 – Cancelled- Council Worksession at 6pm and Regular Meeting at 7pm 12/24-12/25 – City Offices Closed for Christmas Holiday

Administration: • Sereniah will be out on vacation and unreachable December 11th through December 17th. • Trey will be on the TCMA Public Policy Committee for Region 7 assisting TML with legislative matters. • The 2020 Bond Committee will have their first meeting on December 18th, at 6pm in the council chambers. • Councilmembers may be receiving inquiries from the development community regarding “Information on New Distribution Center Pecan.” For clarification, it is still “project charm” and not to be disclosed, but the P&Z case (Project Charm PUD) to entitle the “distribution and logistics facility” was considered and recommended for approval on 12/2. It will advance to Council in January. • Councilmember Metayer requested information in reference to police services and which areas of town have a higher demand on our law enforcement than other areas as a derivative of the Verdunity presentation on Tuesday in the form of heat maps. This information is publicly available through this website: http://www.communitycrimemap.com/?address=Pflugerville%2CTX • Attached you will find a presentation from ICMA that details how to cultivate trust with residents in the digital age. Please see Cultivating Trust for more information. • The Pfestival of Lights was a great success and fun for all who participated. Please see this website for pictures taken by the Knights of Columbus. • Council Members are invited to assist with the distribution of Blue Santa packages on Saturday from 8am-12pm, at 1512 Stone Hill #100 (formerly Charming Charlie’s), recipients will pick up their presents from Blue Santa HQ.

Building: • Temporary Certificates of Occupancy were issued for the following projects: o Victory Church (18-42582) ▪ Use: Assembly ▪ Location: 19201 Wilke Ln o TCESD #2 Station #4 ▪ Use: Fire Station ▪ Location: 911 W Pflugerville Pkwy • Commercial Building Permits were issued for the following projects: o HEB-Sushi Bar (19-47838) 201 FM 685 o Everi Games (19-48343) 828 New Meister o Murphy Gas Station (19-48190) 1700 FM 685 o Provan Opportunity (19-48099) 1401 W Pecan St o Austin Executive Catering (19-47806) 900 Harvard Dr

Communications: • The pfinal Pflugerville Pfocus of the year is available online at www.youtube.com/cityofpflugerville. • The 2019 Year in Review booklet is at the printer and will mail to Pflugerville homes the week of December 23. Preview the document online at this private link. • We are working on a series of welcoming and safety-reminding signage at Lake Pflugerville. The first step is to add Welcome Banners in the parking lots and along roadways adjacent to the lake. The attached designs will be up soon! (Picture attached as Polebanners_lake). We are in the process of creating a welcome kiosk with map to assist visitors in finding park amenities and understanding all park rules for a safe visit. • The City sent out two press releases this week: o Pflugerville City Council addresses Lake Pflugervile Improvements o Pflugerville National Night Out ranked 2nd in Texas and 13th in the Nation • The Austin American statesman ran an article discussing council’s deliberation over the $2.5 million dollar plan to realign Kelly Lane. Article found here, and attached as Pflugerville council mulling $2. o The Pflugerville Pflag called for follow-up and details on Kelly Lane realignment at Cele/Hodde. Engineering responded to those media questions and inquiries about the existing widened portion at Weiss and various improvements. • Community Impact ran the following two articles o Major milestones took place locally in 2019? o City Council approves reduced scope for Lake Pflugerville improvements • The Austin Business Journal ran a story on Northpointe and the rezoning, found here. This article led to a series of calls from KVUE about the project. We referred them to the developer for specifics. KVUE did end up running a story, found here. • CBS Austin ran a story detailing Chief Robledo’s efforts to do a polar plunge if the community raises $5000 for Blue Santa, found here. • KXAN called on 12/12 to follow up on the status of Zebra Mussels in Lake Pflugerville because it was announced they are in Lake Marble Falls and Granger. We confirmed that they are in the lake and we are working on a mitigation plan. The story angle was that zebra mussels are a regional issue. Lake Travis/Austin/Pflugerville and now Granger and Marble Falls.

Engineering: • Public Works and Engineering staff participated in a American Water Works Association (AWWA) Risk and Resilience webcast to facilitate pre-planning in support of meeting the December 2020 Federal requirements deadline to deliver city’s plan • Engineering hosted e-Builder project management software presentation for staff to demonstrate software tools to enhance efficiency and effectiveness. • Engineering and Planning staff attended a TxDOT hosted meeting with City’s Consultant Engineer Pacheco Koch, Developer’s Engineer Kimley Horn and TxDOT staff to discuss the Project Charm, Pecan/FM 685, and Pecan/SH 130 projects. A follow up meeting for Pecan/FM 685 is anticipated soon. • Cindy Pierce attended the Bastrop and Travis County Drainage Study meeting as the City’s representative. • Pecan at Biltmore construction plans bidding started 12/11/19

Finance: • The Comptroller’s December allocation of sales taxes has been completed and the revenue received by the City increased by 22.4% ($171,492) from December 2018. This information and the attached sales tax analysis chart is based on the net cash payment received by the City; however, reports you see from other sources may vary depending on the types of collections included (i.e. current, prior period, audit). Through December, approximately 25.8% of the budgeted sales tax has been collected. Report attached as: FY20 Sales Tax December.

Library: • The holidays continue at the library with specially created programs for various age groups. On Wednesday evening, children aged 8-12 enjoyed crafts, movies, and refreshments at the library’s Tween Holiday Hangout. • On Saturday, Santa will visit the library for pictures with younger kids following a special holiday story time with Jingles the Elf. • The library’s Pflugerville Poetry Society held a Wine and Poetry Reading celebrating the release of their pfolio of original poetry on Monday evening. • Assistant Director Daniel Berra attended a meeting for the steering committee for Central Texas Digital Library, the library's Overdrive Consortium. The consortium is made up of 50 central Texas libraries who pool resources to provide an eBook collection to all of our patrons. Daniel is now serving as the consortium's lead. • Library staff member David Ruano recently completed his capstone project, the final step before finishing his master's degree in information science. As part of his project he created a training and informational video for all of the library's many electronic resources. The step-by-step guide will be a valuable resource and training tool for library staff and our patrons.

Parks: • 2019 Walkers Luncheon was held on Wednesday for all participants of Pforty Mile Challenge. • New cardio was installed on Thursday at the rec center, see attached picture labeled weight room..

PAWS: • PAWS had a Dell group working at the shelter on Thursday the 12th putting out mulch for our new trees, moving and organizing our food room and volunteer office, and socializing dogs and cats. See photos attached: Dell Group • PAWS will have its annual volunteer Christmas party at Pflugerville Library on Sunday, December 15th.

Pflugerville Community Development Corporation (PCDC): Report is attached as PCDC – December 13 2019

Planning: • On Tuesday, Council discussed with the City’s Consultant, Kevin Shephard with Verdunity, the Land Use and Fiscal Analysis. Included in the report and discussed during the workshop, Mr. Shepherd outlined recommendations for the city to close the resource gap. The third of four recommendations was to update city codes and regulations in support of more high ROI development patterns and outlined several examples of provisions that could be included to achieve that outcome. Staff has taken that list and compared it to our current requirements as well as how other cities in the region have addressed development requirements along key highway corridors. That analysis is provided in the attached spreadsheet. This information is provided in order to continue the conversation, and we will look to further the conversation on this topic. • Last week we reported that staff submitted the projects for consideration in CAMPOs Regional Transportation Project (RTP). Staff will provide updates as they are received from CAMPO. The projects submitted included the following: ▪ 130 Frontage Road/FM685 ▪ SH 45 Frontage Roads ▪ Colorado Sand Drive ▪ FM685/Dessau ▪ MoKan Trail Corridor ▪ Immanuel/Old Austin Hutto/Timmerman ▪ Pecan Street ▪ Pecan Street ▪ Pfennig Lane (East) ▪ Pflugerville Parkway ▪ Rowe Lane ▪ Weiss ▪ Central Commerce/Royston/Picadilly • Planning and Zoning Commission met last week and took action on the following: ▪ Two rezoning requests were recommended for approval: • Lakeside Meadows PUD (416.63 acres south of Lake Pflugerville between Pflguerville Parkway and Pecan Street) – proposed mixed use development that proposes employment, retail, and residential. • Project Charm PUD (93.559 acres located on the north side of Pecan Street just east of Bohls Place neighborhood) – proposed logistics/distribution facility project. ▪ One preliminary plan was approved for the Townhomes of Old Town East and Two final plats were approved (Townhomes of Old Town East and Carmel West Phase 3). ▪ Eight subdivisions were statutorily disapproved – As a reminder the Planning and Zoning Commission approved modifications to the development review schedules to account for requirements created by HB3167. HB3167 became effective September 1st and requires development review applications to follow a revised review schedule. All new subdivision applications will be accepted on specified application dates in order to be considered by the Planning and Zoning Commission within 30 days of a complete application as required by HB3167. Previously, a subdivision was only placed on the agenda once it met all the requirements of the UDC. The new process differs from the previous review process by removing an opportunity for an applicant to waive consideration of a subdivision application by the Planning and Zoning Commission until the application meets the minimum requirements. The new process requires that if a complete application does not meet the UDC requirements, then formal action is required by the Planning and Zoning Commission by placing the application on the consent agenda for statutory disapproval with the deficient items identified. • North Pointe: We continue to work with the NorthPointe Development on outstanding issues necessary to complete the analysis of the TIRZ as well as the PID proposals. Staff met with the developer and his team on Thursday and the developer is working to provide documents necessary for the creation of the TIRZ and PID requests. The PID and the TIRZ for NorthPointe are still viable but on a schedule that will have them considered by Council during the first part of 2020 as long as all of the necessary information is provided by the developer in a timely manner. • In November, we were notified that our CDBG Consolidated Plan had been approved. On Monday we received the official letter of approval from HUD. It is attached for your reference: CDBG Consolidated Plan

Police: • Commander Mirabelle attended the Pflugerville ISD School Safety and Security Committee meeting on Wednesday. • On Friday the Office of Community Liaison provided a tour for the Akins High School Criminal Justice class • National Night Out 2019 results are in: Pflugerville was once again recognized for its excellence in the National Night Out programming. Pflugerville competed in the category of cities with populations between 50,000 and 100,000, in which we ranked 2nd among cities in Texas and 13th among cities in the nation • Saturday, December 14th 8am-noon is Blue Santa gift distribution. Blue Santa Headquarters is located at 1512 Stone Hill #100 (the old Charming Charlie’s location) and recipients will pick up their presents from Blue Santa HQ.

Public Works: • Completed Region K Implementation Survey for 2021 Regional Water Plan • Hosted TWUA wastewater collections class • Completed filming of Great Basin for engineering • Completed filming of Falcon Pointe sewer main for Colorado Sand extension for engineering

December 20, 2019 Greetings Mayor and City Council!

Save the Date: December/January 12/24 – Cancelled- Council Worksession at 6pm and Regular Meeting at 7pm 12/24-12/25 – City Offices Closed for Christmas Holiday 1/1 – City Offices Closed for New Year’s Day 1/1 – Pfreeze Pflop at Mentzer Pool at 10am 1/7 – Board and Commission Training at 6pm 1/10 – Council Worksession at 8am 1/13 – Board and Commission Training at 7pm 1/14 – Council Worksession at 6pm and Regular Meeting at 7pm 1/20 – City Offices Closed for MLK Jr. Day 1/28 – Council Worksession at 6pm and Regular Meeting at 7pm

Administration: • The Youth Advisory Council held their holiday social on Sunday, December 15 at Spare Time with bowling, video games and laser tag. Please find the attached photo of Mayor Gonzales with Youth Advisory Council members at the social. • The first citizen Bond Committee meeting was held on 12/18, the next meeting will be held on 1/8/2020 • Board and Commission Training will be held on Tuesday, January 7 at 6pm and January 13 at 7pm to cover establishment of boards and commissions, Texas Open Meetings Act, Texas Public Information Act, records management, conflicts of interest and the City’s code of conduct. All new and returning board and commission members are invited to attend. • At the 2019 TML Annual Conference, the Texas Recreation and Park Society discussed the 10 Minute Walk to a Park Initiative. Their presentation is attached as Walk to a Park.

Communications: • On Thursday, December 19, the U.S. Marshals Service Lone Star Fugitive Task Force Sand Antonio arrested Dominic Nicholson, after Pflugerville Police filed an arrest warrant, charging him with capital murder in connection with the death of Germichael Perry-Moses on November 14, 2019 o Arrest in Schultz Lane shooting: o KXAN o Pflag Story Attached: Pflag Shultz Lane Shooting o Fox 7 o CBS Austin

Engineering: • Pre-Construction meetings were held on 12/19 for the following projects: o Pecan/Biltmore Traffic Signal o W. SH 130 Interceptor • The Heatherwilde/Windermere Subdivision project was approved for final acceptance on 12/19 • Engineering and Public Works staff met with Kimley-Horn Engineering consultant to finalize discussions related to the Traffic Signal Transition report. Consultant to submit final report to TxDOT by end of year, for requests of necessary upgrades prior to city accepting responsibility of maintenance and operations of existing TxDOT traffic signals along FM 685 and FM 1825 (Pecan St.) • ADA Task Committee had project kick-off meeting 12/18 with a majority attendance of department representatives. • Project Updates: o Wells Branch at Immanuel Road – City received Austin permit and coordinating with Developer’s Engineer for traffic signal in January o Manville Waterline project progressing, sidewalk closure anticipated in January. Public notice to be provided by first week of January o SH 45 W/WW Easement acquisition in progress o E. Pflugerville Parkway/Jesse Bohls Extension – City staff coordinating with Lakeside Meadows development • City staff hosted a ROW meeting with 7Arrows for SH 45 W/WW, Old Austin-Hutto Road, Kelly Lane Phase 2 and Colorado Sand Dr. projects • Colorado Sand Drive – consultant preparing Right-of-Entries for surveying and beginning evaluation of the Copper Mine Intersection • Picadilly/Central Commerce/Royston – Final Schematic is approved, as decision pending for pavement design to be confirmed • Black Locust roadway improvements are moving along, north direction roadway ready to be paved. Photo attached: Black Locust • Wilbarger Park storm work in progress, as tie-in to existing storm has been prepared.

Finance: • The City’s FY20 Comprehensive Budget has been posted to the website and submitted to the Government Finance Officers Association for consideration of the Distinguished Budget Award. • The City’s external auditor wrapped up on-site fieldwork for the FY19 audit this week. • 132 employees participated in P-Card Cardholder training sessions over the last two weeks and we began distributing cards to employees.

Library: • Save the date: Winter Pfest, January 11 at 2pm • Over 300 people enjoyed an Afternoon with Santa last weekend at the library • Adult Services Librarian held her Paint and Sip program for adults on Thursday. Attendees enjoyed wine while creating an acrylic painting of a desert cactus • Youth Programs will be on a break from December 21 – January 5 as we prepare for an exciting new year of programs and events for all ages.

Parks: • Bundle up for a movie night at the Green Red Barn at Heritage Park (901 Old Austin Hutto Rd.)! We’ll be showing Dr. Seuss’s How the Grinch Stole Christmas (the version from 2000) – so bring your blankets, chairs and movie snacks and enjoy this pfamily pfriendly evening. Kid’s crafts will start at 7pm and the movie will begin at 7:30pm. West Pecan Coffee + Beer will be selling warm drinks • Last Saturday the Knights of Columbus conducted a special flag retirement ceremony at the Rec Center. The retired flags are on display in the Rec Center for a month, before the burning ceremony in January. See photos attached Flag Ceremony • This Saturday the Rec Center will be hosting an E-Sports event. We will have a NBA 2K20 Tournament on our Xbox. The E-Sports area is set up and ready for Rec Center members to play for free in the game room. • December 17th the seniors had their Christmas/December Luncheon, it was catered by Captain Red’s and we had 315 members attend.

Pflugerville Community Development Corporation (PCDC): Report is attached PCDC – December 20 2019

Planning: • Proposed code amendments have been posted online for public review and comment. Generally, the proposed code amendments help to address code enforcement items related to home occupations, temporary uses, and mobile food vendors. Staff intends to bring the proposed code amendments forward to the Planning and Zoning Commission for a public hearing on February 3, 2020. o Link to Code Amendments Page (Includes summary of proposed code amendments) o Direct Links to Code Amendments for: ▪ Section 4.6.4 Home Occupations and Section 4.6.5 Outdoor Display and Storage ▪ Section 4.7 Temporary Uses, Structures, and Permits, 4.9 Mobile Food Vendor, and 4.10 Mobile Food Park (Mobile Food Vendor provisions relocated to Section 4.7)

Police: • Chief Robledo, Asst. Chief Smith, Cmdr. Mirabelle, Ofc. Gutierrez and Dispatch Supervisor Jamie Machu slid into Scott Mentzer pool taking a Polar Plunge to raise money for Pflugerville Blue Santa. See photos: Polar Plunge • Wednesday Pflugerville PD Blue Guardians delivered presents to children at Austin Oaks Hospital who will not be able to be at home for the holidays • Pflugerville PD Blue Guardian members visited the young women at Refuge Ranch (a long-term, residential, therapeutic community for girls who have been rescued out of sex trafficking) to have lunch and play in an UNO Championship. • Chief Robledo attended the Law Enforcement Executives of Central Texas meeting hosted at Lakeway PD on Thursday

Public Works: • Installed drain lines for chemical drains in order to prevent chemical mixing in basement and recover chemical in the event of spill. • Rerouted compressor drain lines and back pulse drains to prevent water on ground in basement to improve employee safety.

December 27, 2019 Greetings Mayor and City Council!

Save the Date: December/January 1/1 – City Offices Closed for New Year’s Day 1/1 – Pfreeze Pflop at Mentzer Pool at 10am 1/7 – Board and Commission Training at 6pm 1/10 – Council Worksession at 8am 1/13 – Board and Commission Training at 7pm 1/14 – Council Worksession at 6pm and Regular Meeting at 7pm 1/20 – City Offices Closed for MLK Jr. Day 1/28 – Council Worksession at 6pm and Regular Meeting at 7pm

Administration: • Here is a short presentation that the City of Orem, Utah presented during ICMA. It discusses how to engage4 all your residents in visioning for your city. Attached as, This is Your Future Too. • CMO Staff (Sereniah/Trey) and PCDC (Christian) met with Workforce Solutions Capital Area (Tamara Atkinson) on Thursday to discuss collaborative opportunities and the development of a grant application (https://www.jpmorganchase.com/corporate/Corporate- Responsibility/advancingcities-stories.htm) to direct workforce development resources to the Pflugerville area. The application is due January 15, 2020 and is being led by Workforce Solutions.

Communications: • Tree recycling information was sent out on Nextdoor citywide and promoted online. o Community Impact o Patch • Expect traffic delays on Saturday, December 28, between approximately 9 a.m. – 3:30 p.m. for the services to honor the life of Deputy Brian Pfluger at First Baptist Church Pflugerville. Anticipate a heightened police presence in the area and note that portions of 10th Street and Pfluger Street will be closed. Sent information on Nextdoor to neighborhood nearby and posted onto city’s news/Key to the City/social media.

Engineering: • City staff released advertisement of a Request for Qualifications for the Weiss Lane/Pecan Street Waterline project 12/25. The Weiss Lane/Pecan Street water line project is in the 5-year CIP with an anticipated cost of about $42M (cost to be further confirmed as part of design). It will include upsizing existing 24-inch water line along Weiss Lane andexisting16-inch water line along Pecan Street to State Highway 130. The Statements of Qualification (SOQs) are due at 4 p.m. January 20th. • Upcoming public notices for disruptions to traffic travel patterns along Pflugerville Parkway and at the intersection of Wells Branch/Immanuel Road o Sidewalk closure notification along Pflugerville Parkway between Railroad/Mammoth Cave to Pfluger Farm Lane beginning the week of January 6th to end of February for installation of Manville waterline o Wells Branch/Immanuel Road new traffic signal turn on anticipated week of January 12th. The signal will be in flash mode until January 22nd to alter drivers prior to full activation of signal • Construction plans approved and pre-construction meeting held for PfISD Elementary School #7 and Middle School #22. Construction anticipated to start at beginning of year.

Library: • With the year drawing to a close, our librarians shared some favorite books they read in 2019 on social media last week. If you are looking for a good read to start out the new year, take a look at these excellent titles! o The Downstairs Girl by Stacey Lee o Strange Practice by Vivian Shaw o The House of Broken Angels by Luis Alberto Urrea o Modern Watercolor Botanicals by Sarah Simon o 18 Minutes by Peter Bregman o Ordinary Girls by Blair Thornburgh o Sorcery of Thorns by Margaret Rogerson o Where We Come From by Oscar Casares o American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century by Maureen Callahan o What Happens in France by Carol Wyer o My Lovely Wife by Samantha Downing o Midnight in Chernobyl by Adam Higginbotham o Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi o Bitter Root Volume 1: Family Business by David F. Walker o Then She Was Gone: A Novel by Lisa Jewell o Monster, She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction by Lisa Kröger

Parks: • This week we hosted Adventure Camp, Winter Pfun Camp, Pokemon Card Club, Unplug and Explore, and One Day Camp. There was also the inaugural Pf-Esports NBA 2K Tournament this past Saturday. Picture is attached: NBA 2K Tourney

Police: • Saturday Chief Robledo and members of Command Staff will attend the funeral for Deputy Brian Pfluger, the San Jacinto Sheriff’s Deputy who died in the line of duty on December 21st. Funeral is being held at First Baptist Church of Pflugerville; Visitation to begin at 11:00am with the service at 1:00pm. • Chief Robledo is one of 6 Texas Law Enforcement officials being honored at this Monday’s ServePro First Responder Bowl at SMU stadium for officer suicide prevention program. Press release sent to media and information included in Friday’s Key to the City. KVUE news interview to air Friday, December 27 and Monday, December 30. Press Release is attached, titled First Responder Bowl

Public Works: • Power outage at Wastewater Treatment Plant, but no catastrophic failure during outage. Plant staff did an amazing job with response and keeping everything running for the 1.5 hours the plant was without power. • Coordinated finishing the insulation installation at Water Treatment Plant recycle pump station

January 3, 2020 Greetings Mayor and City Council!

Save the Date: December/January 1/7 – Board and Commission Training at 6pm 1/10 – Council Worksession at 8am 1/13 – Board and Commission Training at 7pm 1/14 – Council Worksession at 6pm and Regular Meeting at 7pm 1/20 – City Offices Closed for MLK Jr. Day 1/28 – Council Worksession at 6pm and Regular Meeting at 7pm

Administration: • Legislation effective 1/1/2020 affecting cities: o Post-disaster taxes: House Bill 492 will allow a temporary property tax exemption for a portion of the appraised value of certain property that was damaged by a governor-declared disaster area. The tax exemption is effective if a local governing body chooses to adopt it within 60 days of the governor's disaster declaration. • The City received the attached letter titled Pflugerville Solar Farm, regarding the status of the Pflugerville Solar Farm with supporting evidence that Recurrent has met the milestone in the Non-Annexation Development Agreement to begin Physical Construction by December 31, 2019. • Please find the attached draft Council agendas for January 14, 2020 Worksession and Regular Meeting. (attached as cc20200114ws; cc20200114rm) • If you still have questions about SB 2 and its impact please see the attached Q&A from TML. Attached as SB 2 Q&A.

Communications: • Mayor Gonzales editorial in the Statesman/Pflag here • Pflag 10 biggest stories of 2019 here: 1. City officials unveil new plans for 120-acre Northpointe 2. City treatment failure left customers susceptible to parasite 3. School board responds to teacher outcry for pay raises 4. High school grad makes history with national speech title 5. Man finds closure after father’s remains recovered from North Korea 6. Cyclist Thi Ho memorialized with trail rename 7. Man charged with capital murder in gas station shooting 8. Trustee Carol Fletcher PFISD reflects on 18 years 9. City Council approves improvement plan for Colored Addition 10. Controversial rezoning for field near Gatlinburg • Communications push for fireworks-free New Year’s Eve and to view the Year in Review either online or in your mailbox. www.pflugervilletx.gov/yearinreview • KVUE Chief and PPD #smashthestigma campaign here • Library job fair article in the Statesman/Pflag here

Library: • Regular programming will resume at the library next week. In addition to our normal offerings we have some new entertaining and educational things to look forward to in 2020 including: additional appointment slots for using the Pfab Lab Equipment on Saturdays, a Teen Fuse Bead Night, and a Harry Potter themed murder mystery for adults (sign up now for a role!). • Last Monday, a packed-house of seniors enjoying a screening of the movie Downton Abbey. This monthly senior movie matinee established and run by Adult Services Library Bette McDowell continues to be a very popular program. • On Sunday, the library will hold a Pet Friendly Movie Matinee. Families are encouraged to bring their pets and enjoy a screening of Dora and the Lost City of Gold. Canine and human snacks will be available.

Parks: • Approximately 200 people attended Pfreeze Pflop and 325 pounds of food were donated to Circle of Hope food pantry. Picture attached: Pfreeze Pflop • Adventure Camp was December 30th through December 31st o Stars and Science Austin brought their mobile inflatable planetarium to teach the kids about stars in the sky. Picture attached: Adventure Camp o We traveled to Austin Bouldering Project and learned how to climb. • Winter Pfun Camp was January 2nd through January 3rd. o We traveled to Bob Bullock Museum and watched an IMAX movie on Sea Turtles. o On Friday, we visited the Pflugerville Animal Welfare Services and had a pizza party at the Green Red Barn. • Pflugerville Pokemon Card Club had over 30 children in attendance, up from our 3 children last meeting. • Unplug and Explore is this Saturday, we will be going on a cave tour in Colorado Bend State Park. • Senior Field Trip to the George Bush library in College Station is on Monday, January 6th. PCDC: Report is attached as: PCDC January 3, 2020

Public Works: • The Water Treatment Plant has started the work to install a second/spare LAS pump to ensure we have a swing pump in place at all times to properly chloraminate our drinking water. This will also allow for better operator control as it we will be installing drawdown tubes to be able to verify pump capacities. • The Water Treatment Plant has worked for the past two weeks to better optimize monochloramine and free ammonia levels leaving the water treatment plant. This benefits both the treatment process as it optimizes our chemical use to only use what is necessary while also creating the most stable chloramine residual that is longer lasting in the water distribution system. By setting these goals for the WTP operators, this gives a baseline and minimizes any opportunities of nitrification in the distribution system. With the decrease of nitrification, we can slowly minimize the chlorine levels leaving the plant, which minimizes future possibilities with taste and odor.

January 10, 2020 Greetings Mayor and City Council!

Save the Date: January 1/13 – Board and Commission Training at 7pm 1/14 – Council Worksession at 5pm and Regular Meeting at 7pm 1/20 – City Offices Closed for MLK Jr. Day 1/28 – Council Worksession at 6pm and Regular Meeting at 7pm 1/30 – Pflugerville Chamber of Commerce Awards Banquet at Courtyard Marriott at 5:30pm.

Administration: • Two towns in Massachusetts discussed how to make decisions during a crisis situation affecting both of their towns at ICMA. See the presentation labeled Decision Making. • The Pflugerville Chamber of Commerce Awards Banquet will take place at the Courtyard Marriott in Pflugerville on Thursday, January 30, 2020 at 5:30pm. The City has a table for 8. Please let Karen know if you are interested in attending. • The Pflugerville Education Foundation’s Gala will take place at the Courtyard Marriott in Pflugerville on Saturday, February 1, 2020. The City does not currently have a table at this event. Please let Karen know if you are interested in attending.

Communications: • Recreation Pf-Esports featured on KVUE here. • Victim services recruitment underway and was covered by the Pflag in print but not online (no link). • Coverage of last week’s Police Press release on STEP traffic enforcement initiative: o Fox7 Austin o KXAN o Patch

Engineering: • City staff hosted a meeting with TxDOT and the Engineering Design Consultant for discussion of the FM 685/FM 1825 (Pecan St) Intersection improvements, as the project has received full funding and TxDOT is in agreement with the proposed alignment improvements. An Advanced Funding Agreement has already been submitted to TxDOT for review and approval. • City staff hosted the first construction progress meeting for the Phase 1 Wastewater Treatment Plant project. The Contractor has mobilized and will commence with tree removal.

Finance: • The Comptroller’s January allocation of sales taxes has been completed and the revenue received by the City increased by 14.9% ($119,561) from January 2019. This information and the attached sales tax analysis chart is based on the net cash payment received by the City; however, reports you see from other sources may vary depending on the types of collections included (i.e. current, prior period, audit). Through January, approximately 34.1% of the budgeted sales tax has been collected. Attached as: FY 20 Sales Tax January. • The Quarterly Budget Report for the Quarter ended September 30, 2019 has been posted to the City’s Quarterly Financial Report website and is available at this link: FY19 Fourth Quarter Financial Report

Library: • Adult Services Librarian Meg Miller visited a local school to help them troubleshoot their broken laser cutter. Teachers reached out to us based on the success of our Pfab Lab and our knowledgeable staff. • Youth Services Librarian Amanda Cawthon will visit a local STEM Fair this Saturday and demonstrate our Ozobots, tiny robots that teach youth coding skills. • Amanda Cawthon also wrote an article for her 5th annual Teen Job Pfair that will take place on March 7. Library staff takes turns writing an article each month for the Pflugerville Pflag. Here's the link to Amanda's article. • Local business owner, Chef Juan (Cafe1) led patrons in cookie decorating at Adult Craft Night on Thursday. Chef Juan has become a regular guest at the library and his programs are always popular with our patrons. • Join us for Winter Pfest on Saturday from 2 - 4 p.m. This free family friendly event created by Children's Services Coordinator, Carmen Lazo, features cocoa, cookies, crafts, games and winter themed activities.

Parks: • The Pflugerville Parks and Recreation Department was awarded a state award with the 2020 Texas Recreation and Parks Society Lonestar programming award for the Unplug and Explore program. Daulton Mobley, Recreation Coordinator and staff will receive the award at the state conference in February in Galveston. • Pflugerville High School Nature Club cleaned up Settlers Valley Creek at Moose park on January 7 & 8, 2020. Emmanuel Alvarado, President of the Nature club made arrangement to schedule a two day cleanup of the creek. There were a total of 23 students that volunteered after form 4:30 pm to 5:30 on both days . We provided grabbers, gloves and bags plus gathered all of the bags for disposal. In their efforts, they collected in excess of 50 trash bags in both days. This project will be done a monthly basis. • On December 21, 2019, Eagle Scout candidates Jason Borgholthaus and Jason Dryer brought volunteers to Heritage Park to re-do the five trash bins along Heritage Trail and replace all 20 of the backboards for the story walk trail. Both of the Scouts worked tirelessly in soliciting funds and volunteers to accomplish their mission. There were close to 40 volunteers assisting in this endeavor. The story walk trail backboards were done by using recycled adopt a trail signs that had been removed from use. The signs will provide a longer use for the story walk during the year. Both of the Eagle Scouts will receive their Eagle Badge later this year.

PCDC: Report is attached as PCDC – January 10, 2020

People and Culture: • P+C hosted a “come and go” New Year party this week to provide an informal opportunity for employees across the organization to visit our offices and it socialize. It also provided an opportunity for current staff and our new P+C Director to meet if they had not already done so.

Planning: • The Planning and Zoning Commission met on Monday and took action on the following: o Two rezoning requests were considered: ▪ Timmerman Rezoning – After discussion by the Commission and hearing residents’ concerns the Planning and Zoning Commission did not recommend the request for rezoning. • Rezoning for approximately 150 acres along the north side of Pecan Street immediately east of the Bohls neighborhood. The applicant is taking the community and Planning and Zoning Commission feedback into consideration and has the opportunity to amend the request in order to address the issues (buffer and traffic) that were raised on Monday. This proposal is for land abutting Project Charm. ▪ Carmel Rezoning – Planning and Zoning Commission recommended approval of this item and will be before Council on Tuesday, January 14th. • Rezoning for approximately 6.2 acres to single family districts. This request is a result of the recent addition of the recent addition of land that was annexed into the Carmel Subdivision o Two final plats were approved (Lifestyle Communities and Cielo North) o Fifteen subdivisions were statutorily disapproved – As a reminder the Planning and Zoning Commission approved modifications to the development review schedules to account for requirements created by HB3167. • The Capital Improvement Advisory Committee (CIAC) met on Monday to discuss the water and wastewater Master Plans and consider changes to those impact fees. The Committee is recommending to Council that the fees be increased to the maximum allowed by state law. We anticipate this item coming forward to Council in February. As a reminder, the CIAC is comprised of the Planning and Zoning Commission plus one ETJ resident. • On Wednesday, the RFQ for a new Comprehensive Plan was posted. Staff will be accepting submittals on this project until February at which time staff will review all of the statements of qualifications. Staff anticipates bringing the selected consultant to Council for consideration in March. • NorthPointe: We continue to work with the NorthPointe Development on outstanding issues necessary to complete the analysis of the TIRZ as well as the PID proposals. The PID and the TIRZ for NorthPointe are still viable but on a schedule that will have the considered by Council during the first part of 2020 as long as all of the necessary information is provided by the developer in a timely manner.

Police: • Lt. Rowley attended the Williamson County Cross-Check meeting on Tuesday, a regional criminal investigators meeting. • Lt. Rowley also attended the Travis County ISAT meeting (Interagency Sexual Assault Team) on Friday. • Officers and members of Command Staff were invited and will attend the Weiss H.S. girls’ basketball game for Law Enforcement appreciation night Friday. • Friday, Civilian Director Billy Gibbens attended the CAPCOG Criminal Justice Mandatory Grant Workshop required of agencies seeking grant funding.

Public Works: • Utilities worked with Regulatory to update the Public Water System Monitoring Plan which was approved by TCEQ. It brought water sampling more in-line with the size of the water utility. Previously, personnel were grabbing an excessive amount of samples in order to cover as much ground as necessary. This has made sampling more efficient for staff while also allowing for a template for future use in the event it is needed. • In the event weather turns bad with the front that is coming through Friday afternoon we have 6 employees on standby, with all employees aware that everyone is “on-call” in the event of an emergency. Cones and barricades will be staged, as necessary, at known low water crossings. Vehicles and equipment will be fueled, and chainsaws at the ready.

January 17, 2020 Greetings Mayor and City Council!

Save the Date: January/February 1/20 – City Offices Closed for MLK Jr. Day 1/28 – Council Worksession at 6pm and Regular Meeting at 7pm 1/30 – Pflugerville Chamber of Commerce Awards Banquet at Courtyard Marriott at 5:30pm.

Administration: • Please fin the draft City Council agendas for January 28, 2020, labeled cc012820wsa and cc012820a. • Workforce Solutions has submitted a grant application to JP Morgan Chase for the Pflugerville Pforward Implementation Program to work with the City and PCDC to conduct a labor market analysis, engage community input, create strategies for jobs and skills development, to plan for workforce and training needs, to lay the foundation for a training center and to recruit community partners to participate. Please find the attached information and grant application, labeled Pflugerville Pfoward Implementation Plan and JP Morgan Chase Grant Application. • The Pflugerville Chamber of Commerce Awards Banquet will take place at the Courtyard Marriott in Pflugerville on Thursday, January 30, 2020 at 5:30pm. The City has a table for 8. If you have not already, please let Karen know if you are interested in attending. • The Pflugerville Education Foundation’s Gala will take place at the Courtyard Marriott in Pflugerville on Saturday, February 1, 2020. The City does not currently have a table at this event. If you have not already, please let Karen know if you are interested in attending. • The TML Elected Officials Conference will take place at the Embassy Suites in Frisco March 4-March 6, 2020. Please let Karen know if you are interested in attending. Conference Information: https://tmlelectedofficialsconference.org/ • Youth Advisory Council members met the Parks and Recreation Commissioners and Parks staff and attended the January 16, 2020 Parks and Recreation Commission regular meeting. • Sereniah and Karen held Board, Commission and Committee basic training on January 7 and January 13 to familiarize the members on the establishing documents of the boards, commissions and committees, the Texas Open Meetings Act, the Texas Public Information Act, Records Management, Conflicts of Interest and the Code of Conduct. • The previous TML conference had a session on race and equity in the workplace, please see the attached handout: Race and Equity: How Your City Can Implement Targeted Strategies to Improve Outcomes.

Communications: • Water: All media called for interviews and were referred to the meeting and city website. o The Public Notice letter proof was approved on January 13 and printing is complete of almost 25,000 letters. The printer confirmed today that the letters are being tabbed and labeled now and will be delivered to the post office on January 21. o KVUE Pflugerville water worries addressed o Impact: Pflugerville announces another water treatment failure. o Impact #2 Two cases of cryptosporidiosis reported in Pflugerville o Impact #3 DCS Engineering: Coding error responsible for Pflugerville water treatment violation o CBS Austin Two residents blame failed water treatment system for parasitic infection o Pflag /Statesman: https://www.statesman.com/news/20200116/engineers-explain- indefensible-violation-at-pflugerville-treatment-plant, also attached as Statesman – Water_Engineers. o Statesman: Pflugerville receives 2nd water violation following parasite issue in November, also attached as Statesman – Water. o Water and Wastes Digest https://www.wwdmag.com/software/coding-issue- responsible-texas-water-treatment-plant-issue o The Mayor spoke to CBS Austin/KEYE today and it will run at 6 p.m. • Bond Committee survey launched on Wednesday o The City is promoting the new bond committee survey for resident feedback. Nextdoor, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Key to the City were all used to reach residents. o In the first 24 hours more than 200 surveys were completed. • Last week’s Article in Community Impact stirred up discussion about new developments in downtown Pflugerville. o Mike Parker from the Pflag called asking about timelines for development and zoning of the Old Gin. We confirmed that we have not received development documents and that so far we have had a pre-application conversation. The current zoning would permit the development proposed. The next step is the correlation with our downtown code amendments which will be up for public comment and review in the future as part of the ongoing code amendments on the website. The Pflag asked when the item would be before City Council as the developer has expressed she intends to build in June, but we don’t have that information at this time. Here is the link o Connect Media also ran the following article: Old Gin Pforum on its way to Pflugerville • Project Charm o Costar news – Marissa Luck has been inquiring about the Project Charm quite heavily and was at the meeting Tuesday. o KXAN: Massive Amazon warehouse advances just outside Austin o Impact: City Council takes steps toward proposed 38m sq ft distribution center o Statesman: Rumored amazon distribution center in Pflugerville gets council nod, also attached as Statesman – Amazon. • Project updates provided to Community Impact on roadway CIP projects: o Colorado Sand Drive – No major updates, design is ongoing. o Black Locust Drive – The contractor is continuing to work on the southern portion of the road. Completion is anticipated for summer 2020. o Kelly Lane Phase 2 – No updates. Construction is anticipated to begin in late 2020. o Old Austin Hutto Road – Design consultant is finalizing the design, construction is anticipated to start in spring 2020. • The Statesman has a photo gallery of the Library Winterfest found here. • Today’s episode of Pflugerville Pfocus highlight’s the #SmashtheStigma award, the water treatment plant and the Project Charm zoning. View the episode online

Engineering: • Ali Abdelfattah, Assistant City Engineer-Development and City Engineer (Patricia Davis) attended the Tony Korioth Supervisory Academy in Round Rock on 1/14 and 1/15 to explore proven concepts of leadership and practical approaches to common challenges. • Traffic Signal at Wells Branch & Immanuel Road turned on “Flash Mode” during this week and anticipate full activation next week, just after the Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday. City staff is coordinating with Police, Contractor, Design Engineer and Austin Traffic Signal for activation. • Engineering Associate Romulus Atanasiu and Construction Manager Bradley Marshal began working the week of January 13th.

Library: • Winter Pfest was a big success this past weekend. Several hundred children and parents packed the library and enjoyed all the activities planned by Children’s Programming Coordinator Carmen Lazo. As with most of our events, our many volunteers played crucial roles and everyone had a great time. See attached photo Winter Pfest. • The Small Business Development Center from Texas State University held one of their free small business trainings at the library on Thursday. The workshop, called StartUpU, taught participants about the basics of starting a business. They had a full class, and we hope to work with them to hold additional free small business trainings in the future. • As Tax Season begins, the library is preparing to offer resources to the community. Tax forms have been ordered and will be available soon. The AARP will be back starting in February to offer free tax help to anyone who needs it on Thursdays and Fridays in the library’s computer classroom. We are currently working with them to make sure all of their technology needs are met before they begin offering the service.

Parks: • In partnership with Treefolks and Neighborwoods, 5 trees were planted at Wells Point Park on Saturday. Please see attached pictures labeled Tree Planters and Tree planters2. • Seniors are on their monthly Texas Towns Field Trip today, destination this month is Gonzales, Texas. Friday Jan 17th from 8am to 5pm

Pflugerville Community Development Corporation (PCDC): Report is attached as PCDC – January 17, 2020.

Planning: • CityWorks Asset Management - Staff in Utilities, Parks, Streets, GIS and IT have already participated in initial kick off meetings, the week of 12/17 to establish responsibilities, needs and timelines. Since the initial kick off meetings staff has been working on the configuration of CityWorks to include Public Requests for Service, Work Orders, Inspections, Employees, Equipment, Materials, Contracts, Reports and GIS Services which are at 60% completion. Go live and overall staff training is anticipated the week of March 2nd. • Staff completed the 2019 Community Profile. Please see attached, labeled as 2019 Community Profile Report_1.13.2020. • On Wednesday, Trey and Emily met with PfISD at their quarterly meeting. They discussed growth of the district and opportunities for future school sites. • On Wednesday, Trey and Emily met with Travis County Development staff at their quarterly meeting. They discussed the turn lane for 1849 Park and general development issues that are impacting both entities. The 1849 turn lane is anticipated to be released by the end of January, after which construction may commence. • On Thursday, Trey and Emily met with Travis County and the City of Austin transportation staff to discuss future opportunities for collaboration on FM685 as well as the MoKan corridor. Staff will continue meeting on a monthly basis in an effort to be more collaborative on studies and funding of roadways that are within all three jurisdictions. • North Pointe: We continue to work with the NorthPointe Development on outstanding issues necessary to complete the analysis of the TIRZ as well as the PID proposals. The PID and the TIRZ for NorthPointe are still viable but on a schedule that will have them considered by Council during the first part of 2020 as long as all of the necessary information is provided by the developer in a timely manner.

Police: • Lt. Rowley and Asst. Chief Smith attended the Regional AMBER Alert review meeting at Travis County Office of Emergency Management. • Civilian Director Bill Gibbens and PSAP Manager Nancy Roller attended the CAPCOG Texas Statewide Communications Interoperability Plan meeting.

Public Works: • We had our tri-annual TCEQ Compliance Inspection today for our Public Water System (TX2270014). Everything went very well with no compliance issues noted for the WTP. • Matt Woodard along with other Public Works staff attended the Tony Korioth Supervisor Academy this week in Round Rock. • Permeate Motor 2 was swapped with the spare we have to be sent to be reconditioned. We have been systematically taking motors/pumps off to be reconditioned/repaired during the winter to ensure we minimize the risk that these assets have of going down in the summer. • The Chlorine Brine pump was swapped out with spare after critical failure on existing pump. We recently realized the need for a spare pump and had it put into place for a quick swap if needed which came to fruition this week. • Had Manville interconnect vault in plant facility cored to allow for a sump pump to remove rain water from vault as needed. Previously, there was no way to remove rain water and staff had to drop a pump down every time to empty the vault. • Re-plumbed the wash-down water for the membrane trains to not have a possible cross- connection on the plant facility with the chemical recirculation and the potable water on- site. • Adjusted High Service Pump control valves to minimize the water hammer that has been experienced at the plant for quite some time. This minimizes the damage that could be done to the water transmission line and should minimize the risk for line breaks on this critical line. This also eliminates the RPZs at the plant from having to dump water on the line due to the differences in pressure on both sides of the line. • In the last two weeks 71 locations of damaged sidewalks have been repaired. Totaling over 1,500’ of sidewalk.

Have a great weekend!

January 24, 2020 Save the Date: January/February 1/28 – Council Worksession at 6pm and Regular Meeting at 7pm 1/30 – Pflugerville Chamber of Commerce Awards Banquet at Courtyard Marriott at 5:30pm. 1/30 – Friends of the Library Book Sale @ Library 2/1 – Pflugerville Education Foundation Gala at Courtyard Marriott at 5:30pm. 2/8 – 12th Annual Romance Readers Social @ Library from 2 to 4pm 2/11 – Council Worksession at 6pm (tentative) and Regular Meeting at 7pm 2/15 – Dance Through the Decades at the Recreation Center from 5:30 to 9:30pm 2/17 – City Offices closed for President’s Day 2/25 – Council Worksession at 6pm (tentative) and Regular Meeting at 7pm

Administration: • At ICMA the City of Reno shared how they were able to transform their city through the power of arts and cultural investment. Take a look at the attached presentation, labeled ICMA_Big Arts Little City. • Texas Women’s Leadership Institute visited the City this week for a two day training course on skills needed to be an executive. Women Leading Government joined them for lunch on Friday and enjoyed hearing from Joyce Wilson, El Paso’s first City Manager.

Animals Welfare Services: • Friends of Pflugerville Animal Shelter is hosting an “Ales and Tails” fundraising event at Compadre Brewery on Saturday, Jan 25th from 3-6pm. A food truck will be on site, and raffles, a silent auction, and pet photography will be offered. Proceeds go to benefit animals at Pflugerville Animal Shelter. Compadre Brewing is located 16920 Joe Barbee Drive, Pflugerville. • Online, form fillable pet adoption applications went live this week on our website, making it easier for applicants to submit to adopt pets.

Building: • Certificates of Occupancy were issued for the following projects: o Smiling Donuts (19-45666) ▪ Use: Donut Shop/Office ▪ Location: 428 Grand Ave Pkwy, Suite 130 o DNT Construction (18-41837) ▪ Use: Office ▪ Location: 2400 Picadilly Drive o Sun Belt Rentals (19-44394) ▪ Use: Office/Warehouse ▪ Location: 16801 Joe Barbee o Cash Construction (19-43910) ▪ Use: Office ▪ Location: 18607 Heatherwilde Blvd • Commercial Building Permits were issued for the following projects: o Space Squared (19-48254) o Carmel Amenity Center (19-48225) o Buckeye International (19-48365) o PISD/ Pace (19-48081

Communications: • Residents are now beginning to receive their public notice letters. Communications has logged about 8 calls now about the situation (as of Friday, Jan 24). • The Statesman ran two stories on Pflugerville this week o Violent Crime in Pflugerville dropped in 2019, attached as Statesman_Crime o Waterpark Entrance Improvements, attached as Statesman_Waterpark ▪ KXAN also called about the information regarding the waterpark (Typhoon Texas) and we anticipate a story on it today. • Patch coverage the Timmerman rezoning case, article found here.

Engineering: • Bradley Marshall, Engineering Construction Manager met with Pflugerville Postmaster, Design Engineer and Contractor at the Post Office to resolve citizen concerns related to mailboxes on Weiss Lane. • Cindy Pierce and Ali Abdelfattah, Assistant City Engineers, along with Matt Woodard and Brandon Pritchett from Public Works, participated in a TCEQ Industrial Pretreatment Program Stakeholders meeting for discussion including Testing Requirements for City’s pending Fats Oils and Grease (FOG) Program. • Assistant City Engineers attended a meeting with Design Engineer Consultant and TxDOT staff members to preview the Inventory Report and discuss requests for upgrades to the existing traffic signals along FM 685 and FM 1825.

Finance: • 2019 W-2s were distributed to all employees. • Staff met with the Financial Advisor and Bond Counsel regarding possible bond propositions and to discuss questions posed by the Bond Committee.

Library: • The library participated in an outreach event at Windermere Elementary for their Literacy Night. Staff Member Carmen Lazo attended the event along with 2 members of our Friends of the Library group. They signed attendees up for library cards and talked about library programs and resources. • Staff member Joan Meyers had a full house for our Intermediate Computer Class, held twice a month in the library’s classroom. Joan taught attendees the ins and outs of Excel. • Library Director Jennifer Coffey attended a Complete Count Committee meeting to discuss efforts to help ensure the 2020 Census is a success.

Parks: • 160 seniors attended the senior luncheon this week. • Pf-Esports Madden Tournament this Saturday at the Recreation Center from 1:00- 3:00pm.

People and Culture: • This week we kicked off Pf101. (Please see attached picture labeled Pf 101). The purpose of Pf 101 is to provide a program for residents to learn about local government, cultivate future leaders within our community, and showcase talents of staff. During this first session, the participants learned about city government, city administration and organizational structure, and how the City of Pflugerville connects with the residents. The next session be on Wednesday, January 29th and will cover the Finance Department and PCDC.

Pflugerville Community Development Corporation (PCDC): Report is attached as PCDC – January 24, 2020

Planning: • Two weeks ago, we reported that the Planning and Zoning Commission acted on the Timmerman 2020 rezoning case (property west and north of Project Charm). Because the vote taken by the Planning and Zoning Commission was not completed as an affirmative recommendation to approve or deny, legal has determined that the request must go back before Planning and Zoning Commission before it may proceed to City Council. Because of this, the rezoning case will not appear on the 28th Council agenda and is anticipated to be rescheduled for the Council agenda in March. • North Pointe: We continue to work with the NorthPointe Development on outstanding issues necessary to complete the analysis of the TIRZ as well as the PID proposals. The PID and the TIRZ for NorthPointe are still viable but on a schedule that will have them considered by Council during the first part of 2020 as long as all of the necessary information is provided by the developer in a timely manner.

Public Works: • Submitting EPA-Required Risk Management Plan which was completed by Freese and Nichols. • We had a tri-annual TCEQ Compliance Inspection for Kelly Ln WCID #1 Water System (TX2270382). Everything went very well with no compliance issues noted for the water system. • Regulatory Manager Matt Woodard and Regulatory Operator Matt Johns attended the TCEQ Pre-Treatment Program stakeholder meeting on January 23rd in Austin. • Implemented Spill/Slug Control Plan for WTP and addressed Hazard Communication Law which is required by law to be reviewed by employees yearly. • Suez has been on-site all week working with operators on membrane repairs for Train 3 which has significant damage to the membranes and will need either more repairs or replacement.

January 31, 2020 Greetings Mayor and City Council!

Save the Date: January/February 2/1 – Pflugerville Education Foundation Gala at Courtyard Marriott at 5:30pm. 2/6 – AARP Free Tax Help @ Library Begins, 10 a.m. - 3 p.m. each Thursday and Friday until Tax Day 2/8 – 12th Annual Romance Readers Social @ Library from 2 to 4pm 2/11 – Council Worksession at 6pm and Regular Meeting at 7pm 2/15 – Dance Through the Decades at the Recreation Center from 5:30 to 9:30pm 2/17 – City Offices closed for President’s Day 2/25 – Council Worksession at 6pm (tentative) and Regular Meeting at 7pm

Administration: • Please find attached the draft City Council agendas for February 11, 2020, labeled cc021120wsa and cc021120a • This week the city brought in Joe Serio to conduct an all-day training on time management. 44 employees attended and leaned the fundamentals of time management and were provided with practical tools they can use to make the most of their time, both professionally and personally. See attached photo: Time Management Training • This week Karen Thompson attended the Texas Municipal Clerks Certification Program’s Election Law Conference in Frisco. At the conference, Trista Evans and Jennifer Stubbs were recognized for graduating from the Texas Municipal Clerks Certification Program (TMCCP). TMCCP is the only university-level professional education program for city clerks and city secretaries in Texas and is the third oldest program in the country. The 69th Texas Legislature adopted HB 2092 which sanctioned the program and provided that certification would be issued to each person successfully completing the program. • This week’s TCMA handout shares the program in Nashville, created to fund public art projects. See attachment labeled as Art in Nashville Communities.

Communications: • Resident calls have increased as they received the public notice over the weekend. As of Friday, 19 residents have called and search terms on the website have increased by 50% for “Pflugerville water.” • Pflugerville had a traffic fatality on January 26 which was covered by CBS Austin, Fox and KXAN. • Coverage on the zoning Project Charm o KXAN o Community Impact o Statesman o Austin Business Journal o KVUE (including councilmember quotes from meeting and Mayor) o KLBJ radio o Rebusiness Online • Communications prepared a video for the Youth Advisory Council summit held Saturday. • With the increased mentions on social media about coyotes and wildlife in the area, Communications worked with PAWS to create some Pet Tips on keeping your animals safe. View them online here and on the City Facebook. • People + Culture Bonita Hall, Kevin Connaughton and Communication’s Terri Toledo have been meeting with the Pflugerville Employment Coalition to plan a job pfair on May 2 in Pflugerville. This is a partnership event with the Pflugerville Chamber, ESD, City, PfISD and PCDC. Stay tuned for more information on the project.

Engineering: • Six Weiss Lane resident mailboxes have been reinstalled as agreed by the USPS. Post Master notified City of acceptance and residents have resumed mail services as of 1/29 and received all mail that had been held since November.

Finance: • Finance presented to the Pf101 participants on Wednesday night about various financial aspects of the City’s operations. Through several small group exercises the participants were able to discuss and learn more about the City’s revenue sources. • The Financial and Budget Committee held the first meeting of 2020 on Thursday with an overview of the FY19 budget results and a review of the City’s residential solid waste fees. A recommendation for changes to the residential solid waste rate is forthcoming to Council • 1099 Forms for 2019 were mailed to all required vendors.

Library: • We had a huge turnout of seniors on Monday for a screening of the film Judy, about Judy Garland. Over 60 seniors packed in the front meeting rooms for the movie, part of the library's monthly series, senior movie matinees. • On Tuesday, teens took part in a special Teen Night at the library featuring an escape room. Teens worked together in teams to try and escape by solving the series of puzzles and clues planned by Youth Services Librarian Amanda Cawthon. • Adults took part in an interactive mystery at the library on Thursday. Each attendee was assigned a role and they slipped into character for the night. Adult Services Librarian Bette McDowell led the attendees on this role-playing adventure. • The Friends of the Library held their quarterly book sale at the library on Thursday. All sales are used by the Friends to support library programs and materials. • On Saturday, Assistant Director Daniel Berra will take part in Growing Your Roots: An African American Genealogy Conference at the Austin Public Central Library. Daniel will highlight the resources and programs our library offers while interacting with the attendees and making connections with other organizations. • The Heritage House Museum will be open on Sunday from 1 - 4 p.m. The Heritage House partners host the museum the first Sunday of each month. When the Pfarmer's Market resumes in March, library staff will open the museum each Tuesday during the market. Parks: • We had a trip to Vanishing Texas River Cruise with 24 seniors and just finished our hike at St. Edwards Park with 6 seniors. Staff attended the senior EXPO to build some connections and see how San Marcos runs their EXPO. • The Special Olympic PFLAMES scrimmaged the PISD Falcons 5v5 Bball on Tuesday evening at Pflugerville Middle School. Final score 24-22, we will get them next year!

People and Culture: • The city is currently searching for a new Information Technology Director. The job has been posted and we are screening applicants.

Pflugerville Community Development Corporation (PCDC): Report is attached as PCDC – January 31, 2020.

Planning: • On Monday, Emily participated in the monthly meeting of the Technical Advisory Committee meeting for CAMPO as the City’s representative. The major discussion item was related to the 2045 RTP. The list of projects being considered for the 2045 RTP (long range plan) are included in this week's TAC packet, which is available here, schedule includes a public comment period for the 2045 RTP during Feb/March of 2020 (dates not yet announced). The TAC packet also includes information about (i) the 2019 FTA Section 5310 Project Call; (ii) development of the 2021-2024 Transportation Improvement Program (TIP); and (iii) a presentation of the Regional Transit Study. On Thursday, we were notified that two of our projects in the RTP will not be reflected as submitted. The two projects below from the City of Pflugerville are being withdrawn by CAMPO for inclusion in the 2045 Plan for the reasons listed. o SH45 Frontage Road: Construct new frontage road and ramp reversal; $18,631,200.00; Duplicate (Project included with City of Round Rock submittal) o MoKan: New multimodal trail; $10,142,400.00; No TxDOT Concurrance • A site development permit for “Burger Stand #17” was issued on Monday for the property immediately south of Costco • On Friday, Emily met with ISD Representatives to discuss the location of elementary #23 which is currently being considered at the southern end of Hidden Lakes Boulevard. A final determination on this location is anticipated by the ISD over the next couple of months.

Police: • Monday, the new Victim Services volunteer class started, with 15 registered participants • Cogburn Family Foundation donated $5,000 to the Pflugerville Blue Guardians non- profit to help support victim survivors at Refuge Ranch. • Asst. Chief Smith and Lt. Rowley attended the regional AMBER Alert Plan meeting at Travis County Office of Emergency Management on Tuesday. • On Thursday Chief Robledo attended the TCMA William “King” Cole session 1 workshop • Chief Robledo attended the Texas Police Chiefs Association Executive Board Meeting on Friday.

Public Works: • Regulatory operators completed the Total Water Loss Control Program Workshops with Texas Water Development Board. • Starting to move the Wastewater Treatment Plant towards more automation on chemical feed systems as well as grabbing more data for better process control

Have a great weekend!

February 7, 2020 Greetings Mayor and City Council!

Save the Date:

February 2/8 – 12th Annual Romance Readers Social @ Library from 2 to 4pm 2/11 – Council Worksession at 6pm and Regular Meeting at 7pm 2/15 – Dance Through the Decades at the Recreation Center from 5:30 to 9:30pm 2/17 – City Offices closed for President’s Day 2/25 – Council Worksession at 6pm (tentative) and Regular Meeting at 7pm

Administration: • The next TML Region 10 meeting is being hosted by the City of Taylor on Tuesday, March 31 from 6-9pm. Please let Karen know if you would like to attend. For information visit TML Region 10 Meeting. • The TML Elected Officials Conference will take place at the Embassy Suites in Frisco March 4-March 6. Please let Karen know if you are interested in attending. Conference Information: https://tmlelectedofficialsconference.org/ • Windermere Elementary School is having a Career and College Day on May 20 from 1:00-2:30pm and has invited the Mayor and Councilmembers to attend and present to the students. Please let Karen know if you are interested in participating. • PCDC is holding their quarterly breakfast on Thursday, February 27, from 7:15-9:00am. The focus will be internships, “minternships,” and apprenticeships. If you would like to attend please contact Karen. • Mayor Gonzales and members of the Youth Advisory Council (YAC) attended the YAC Summit in Kyle last weekend. The Summit included presentations by youth motivational speakers David Flood and Jonathan Jones, a panel discussion, several breakout educational sessions, a YAC video contest and a social outing at EVO. A special thanks to Wade Maness for producing the City of Pflugerville’s award winning YAC video! See the video here. • Councilmember Weiss relayed a Pflugerville citizen concern regarding the westbound approach on Wells Branch Parkway to Heatherwilde Blvd in which there is no striping or painted curbs or reflectors alerting drivers. The east bound left turn is separated from the through traffic but only with striping. This intersection is within the city of Austin. Pflugerville staff contacted Austin Transportation Department staff. o Response from Austin staff was, “ATD’s first step is to get some work orders in the pipeline to refresh the markings leading to the turn bay and for the median nose and left turn arrow that appears to have faded. I’ll give you all an update on timing of this when our crews let us know when we can expect this work. Our signs team is also going to consider adding some lane assignment signs at the mast arm. The thought is that these signs would potentially help keep drivers in the through lanes from trying to turn left if they miss the left turn bay.” • TML recently released a Legislative Update. For more details review the attachment labeled, Legislative Update 3.

Court: • Attached for your review and information is a report which shows the collections activities for the Municipal Court with Linebarger, Goggan Blair & Sampson, LLP. (Labeled lb2) The first full quarter of FY20 has resulted in the clearance of 39 cases totaling $6,787.76 of general revenue collected for the City. You will continue to be provided with quarterly updates from the Court.

Communications: • Community Impact asked for a CIP update and the following information was provided: Black Locust Drive improvements ongoing, completion is anticipated for Summer 2020; Railroad Avenue (Wilbarger to FM 1825) was anticipated to begin by March 2020 (but began today); Old Austin-Hutto Road improvements – expected to bid in Spring 2020; Kelly Lane Phase 2 & 3 improvements – construction anticipated to begin in spring 2021; Colorado Sand Drive improvements – no major updates, design is ongoing. • Community Impact also ran an article on the proposed bond projects. • KVUE inquired about a lawsuit and we do not comment on pending lawsuits or personnel matters. This is the story they ran. o Pflugerville Pflag also reached out and is planning a story. • The closure of Railroad Avenue on Friday and Monday from 9am-4pm was covered by the following: o City Press Release (Information was also sent to nextdoor) o Community Impact • Another article in Community Impact, titled: Local retail real estate strong but not immune from national closures, mentions that the base asking rent in Pflugerville, Round Rock, and Hutto decreased and that new retail space is being added in the area, including Pflugerville. • KXAN is interested in a story on potential bond item on Tuesday’s council meeting. KXAN also reached out twice about the intersection of Wells Branch and Heatherwilde and the traffic in the area and apartments. The intersection is not in the city limits. The only nearby apartment complex that is in the city limits is the Highlands Luxury Apartments with 292 living units. They have been open since 2017.

Engineering: • SH 130 WW Interceptor – City opened bids for the SH 130 Wastewater Interceptor on January 15th as well as completed the bidding process as required and recommended award of the construction contract to S. J. Louis. While staff was in progress of issuing Notice of Award and setting up the pre-construction meeting, the low bidder Excel retained an attorney who subsequently submitted a letter to the City of his dissatisfaction of not being awarded the construction contract. City staff had discussions with the city attorney and in the City’s best interest, city staff has proposed a Resolution for the 2/11/2020 Council meeting requesting to reject all bids and rebid the project. City staff is prepared to advertise for the rebid on 2/12/2020. • Wells Branch at Immanuel Traffic Signal – City staff has been coordinating with Idea School for activating the traffic signal by the end of February. City met with the Contractor, Engineer, Police and an Idea School representative late January to activate the traffic signal and upon activation, safety concerns were noticed immediately and the signal was placed back in flash mode until the concerns can be properly addressed. The traffic signal will remain in flash mode in lieu of re-installing an all-way stop control, as the red flash of the traffic signal will be more noticeable for traffic. • 1849 Park Left Turn Lane Improvements – City staff has received a permit pending from Travis County for the proposed 1849 Park Left Turn Lane improvements. Thanks to the efforts of city staff and design consultant the project construction should commence late February/early March.

Finance: • The Quarterly Budget Report for the Quarter ended December 31, 2020 has been posted to the City’s Quarterly Financial Report website and is available at this link: FY20 1st Quarter Financial Report • The Consulting Services Summary for the quarter ending December 31, 2019 is attached as: Consulting Services Summary 12.31.19.

Library: • We are celebrating Black History Month at the library! We have several displays up including: a book display, a genealogy/local history related display, and a display of Nigerian wedding dresses. We have posts on Facebook each day highlighting influential African-American authors. And we have a Black History Month Movie Matinee double feature on Saturday 2/15 where we will show Toni Morrison: The Pieces I am and Black Panther. • On Wednesday, children took part in the library’s annual Toddler Talent Show. Our talented tiny patrons delighted the crowd by telling jokes, singing songs, and displaying other talents. See attached photo Toddler Talent Show 1 and 2. Note for the second picture, her talent was “I can fall on the ground.” • On Thursday, adults came to the library for pfree Professional Head Shots. The photos were expertly shot by Jesse Davis, a member of the city’s excellent communications department. • The library’s 12th Annual Romance Readers Social will take place on Saturday featuring several local authors. Check out Adult Services Librarian Bette McDowell’s article in this week’s Pflugerville Pflag about the event. • Tax season is in full swing at the library. The AARP began their pfree tax help on Thursday. The tax help will continue each Thursday and Friday up until tax day in the library’s computer classroom. We also have tax forms available and if there is a form needed that we don’t have, library staff will print it out for patrons at no charge.

Parks: • This week the senior program took 37 seniors on a trip to the George Bush Library in Dallas. Thursday evening they took 29 seniors to the Farmstreet Opry in Bastrop. • A draft of the Pflugerville Recreation Needs Assessment was provided to council a few months ago. The report has been completed and is attached as Pflugerville Recreation Needs Assessment Report 2019. • The clubhouse at Windermere Pool went through some renovations this week. See attached pictures labeled, Windermere 1 & 2.

People and Culture: • Pf 101 was held on Wednesday evening at the Pflugerville Justice center. During the third session the participants learned about the Municipal Court and the Police Department. Councilmember Metayer stopped by during the session to say hello and welcome the participants. The next session will cover the Pflugerville Animal Shelter on Wednesday, February 12th. There will be a graduation ceremony held on March 24th at the City Council Meeting. See attached photos Pf101-1 and 2

Pflugerville Community Development Corporation (PCDC): Report is attached as PCDC – February 7, 2020.

Planning: • Planning and Zoning Commission met on Monday and took action on the following: ▪ Three rezoning requests were considered: • Wilke Ridge Rezoning (18008 Wilke Ridge Lane) – Rezoning a 1 acre tract from Agriculture Development Reserve (A) to Retail (R) and approximately 6.8 acres from Single Family Suburban (SF-S) to Parks Facilities and Open Space (PF). Planning and Zoning Commission recommended approval of the request with a vote of 7-0. This item will be before City Council on February 25th. • Villarreal Development Project Rezoning (18102 Becker Farms Lane) – Rezoning approximately 8.284 acres from Agriculture- Development Reserve (A) to Single Family – Mixed Use (SF- MU). Planning and Zoning Commission recommended approval of the request with a vote of 7-0. This item will be before City Council on February 25th. • Heatherwilde Office Condos (201 N. Heatherwilde Boulevard) – Rezoning approximately 2.2 acres from General Business 2 (GB-2) to General Business 1 (GB-1). Planning and Zoning Commission recommended approval of the request with a vote of 7-0. This item will be before City Council on February 25th. ▪ Two proposed ordinances for code amendments were considered: • Amending Subchapter 4 regarding Home Occupations. Establishes conditions and limitations related to the parking of commercial vehicles associated with home occupations on residential lots; Establishes conditions and limitations for the storage of equipment and materials associated with home occupations on residential lots; Adds a provision related to a bed and breakfast requiring a certificate of occupancy as a clarification; Modifies the list of prohibited home occupations to exclude additional land uses that are generally incompatible with residential uses. Planning and Zoning Commission recommended approval of the code amendments with a vote of 7-0 with the exception that "massage therapy" and "breeding" be removed from the list of prohibited home occupations. This item will be before City Council on February 25th. • Amending Subchapter 4 regarding Temporary Uses to address temporary use and structure regulations and provides for a permitting process, as further described below. Reorganizes certain sections for ease of use. Adds general provisions. Clarifies when temporary use permits are required. Modifies the tents and canopy section to include fire safety provisions. Relocates temporary portable storage unit provisions from Ch. 98 to this section. Relocates mobile food vendor provisions from section 4.9 to this section; allows for mobile food vendors to operate without a temporary use permit provided it meets all criteria, and the host site is registered with the City. Adds a section related to on-site events. Adds a section related to other temporary uses and structures not specifically identified which may be authorized by a temporary use permit. Adds a section for temporary use permit application and review process. Planning and Zoning Commission recommended approval of the request with a vote of 7-0. This item will be before City Council on February 25th. ▪ Four final plats were approved and four preliminary plans were approved. (One of the final plats and one of the preliminary were related to Project Charm) ▪ Six subdivisions were statutorily disapproved – As a reminder the Planning and Zoning Commission approved modifications to the development review schedules to account for requirements created by HB3167.

Police: • New Citizens Police Academy started with 15 registered participants. • Lt Rowley was invited to speak to students at Murchison Elementary about being a police officer. • Lt. Rowley attended the Travis County District Attorney’s Interagency Sexual Assault Team (ISAT) meeting. • Officer Alicia Fitzpatrick was chosen to be part of a Duluth Trading Company ad campaign featuring strong females, including female first responders.

Public Works: • We held a Department meeting on Thursday, February 6 to inform all PW employees of the WWTP Expansion Project progress along with information that will be happening the next two years at this facility. A new parking layout for all employees at the plant was also discussed that will begin Monday, February 10. Progress Report is attached as WW Plant Expansion Progress Report • Started daily rotation of River Pumps to ensure they are all working as intended for summer use. • Regulatory staff met with Antea Group a third party laboratory to collect samples In accordance with 40 CFR Part 141.35 and 141.40, our public water system (PWS) is required to monitor and report contaminants under the EPA's fourth cycle of the Unregulated Contaminant Monitoring Rule (UCMR 4). Our records also indicate that as of January 1, 2020 our PWS, as established in the EPA’s Web-based reporting system, the Safe Drinking Water Accession and Review System (SDWARS), is scheduled to report UCMR 4 monitoring data for one or more of our monitoring schedules in 2020. • Finished installation of needle valves on all in-line turbidimeters to ensure adequate flow at all times to ensure rate of flow is properly controlled. New in-use covers for all turbidimeters were also installed to allow for installation of new controllers. Have a great weekend!

February 14, 2020 Greetings Mayor and City Council!

Save the Date:

February/March 2/15 – Dance Through the Decades at the Recreation Center from 5:30 to 9:30pm 2/17 – City Offices closed for President’s Day 2/18 – School Board Appreciation Reception at Rock Gym 4-6pm 2/25 – Council Worksession at 6pm (tentative) and Regular Meeting at 7pm 3/6 – Police Department Annual Awards Ceremony at First Baptist Church at 7pm 3/7 – Teen Job Pfair at the Library from 2-4pm 3/10 – Council Worksession at 6pm (tentative) and Regular Meeting at 7pm 3/23 – Police Department Victim Services volunteer class graduation at the Justice Center EOC at 7pm 3/24 – Council Worksession at 6pm (tentative) and Regular Meeting at 7pm 3/28 – Spring Pfling at Heritage Park Noon-3pm

Administration: • At the ICMA conference in October the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) had a presentation on partnering with local governments for resilience analysis. Please see the attached presentation, nrel resialence for more details. • Karen attended the Deutschen Pfest Committee meeting this week to provide an overview of the Open Meetings Act. Councilmember Weiss attended the Deutschen Pfest Committee member as a member of the City Council Special Events Subcommittee. • Please find the draft agendas for the February 25, 2020 Worksession and Regular Meeting attached as cc022520wsa and cc022420a respectively. • 45 Frontage Roads: Staff has been working with the City of Round Rock staff since the approval of an Interlocal Agreement with the City of Round Rock was authorized in 2015. The cities have split the incurred costs 50/50 to date, but Round Rock is in the lead on the effort. A toll and revenue study was performed by Stantec in which the basis of the attached memo. The study considered all project elements which included the frontage road connections, u-turns and ramp changes creating westbound Heatherwilde Blvd exit. Upon our last meeting with Round Rock staff, we determined that developing a strategy to challenge the estimated costs beyond construction is needed and should involve collaboration among the City Attorneys. Please see the attached documents labeled SH 45 Frontage Roads – Stantec, and Final Pecan-685 Intersection Analysis 102519 as well as the below tables for more details.

Animal Welfare Services: • Adoption fees have been lowered to $20 adoption fees through Sunday for Valentine’s Day at PAWS. • Today, Animal Service Officers attended a career fair at Hendrickson High School to provide students information about career paths in the animal services field. • Friends of Pflugerville Animal Shelter is having a fund raiser at the Growler Bar, 1300 FM 685, Suite 100 on Saturday, Feb 15th from 2-4pm. There will be raffles and a silent auction, and Growler Bar will donate $1 from every pint and $1 from every pizza sold. All proceeds raised by Friends of Pflugerville Animal Shelter go to benefit PAWS animals and facilities.

Communications: • Bond Coverage o The city setup a page on the website to highlight the bond details and it was featured in today’s Pflugerville Pfocus. o KXAN ran a story on the bond Monday before the council meeting. City staff worked with KXAN on getting information and offered interviews AFTER the council meeting with the bond committee. o Staff spoke to TX Government Insider to update last Friday’s eblast with correct bond information. Anticipate today’s issue to be updated. o KVUE reached out on 2/14 for an interview about the bond and is speaking to Melody Ryan. The recording is taking place in suite 500 and the story is expected to run tonight at 6 p.m. • KXAN o KXAN ran a story titled Pflugerville drivers worry booming growth aids to congestion at Wells Branch and Heatherwilde ▪ Kxan called many times related to this story as far as apartment growth in the area, construction etc. The intersection is in Austin’s jurisdiction. o KXAN is doing a story tonight on the nonprofit and right-of-way sign removal. The teaser article went up this morning. The City is responding with a statement for the story in regard to the regulation of signs in the rights-of-way because they create both unsightly and unsafe conditions. The City community web calendar, Facebook groups, local news media offer additional ways to promote their event and show bandit signs are not the only option. • Historic Colored Addition improvements approved o Community Impact o KXAN also covered this and includes the Library digital archive of the Historic Colored Addition. • Trash Rate Increase o Statesman and attached as Statesman-Trash Rate. o Patch o Community Impact • Police o Pflag: Ex-Pflugerville officer files lawsuit over whistleblower case o Fox 7: Police landlord locks tenants out of house and threatens them… • PCDC o Community Impact: PCDC outlines economic initiatives o KXAN: Construction to begin on traffic plan leading to Typhoon Texas Entrance o Community Impact: Construction on FM 685 by Typhoon Community Impact

Engineering: • Staff from Engineering, Public Works, Planning, Idea School Property Manager and Contractor met on site at the Wells Branch/Immanuel traffic signal for discussions and resolution; agreed on scope of work and will submit plan for City approval soon • Heatherwilde Windermere Subdivision – staff is working with Contractor to discuss warranty issues stemming from concerns along Blackthorn Dr. • Pflugerville Parkway pedestrian path remains closed until repairs are complete, requested contractor to complete by end of month. (East of Colorado Sand Dr.) Construction Progress • Railroad Ave. mill and overlay was completed 2/7, striping was completed today and pre- walk next week; One accessible curb ramp that is not ADA compliant and will be reconstructed • The reconstructed pedestrian trail along the North side of Pflugerville Parkway between Railroad Ave/Mammoth Cave to Pfluger Farm Road has also been completed. Sidewalk soon to open after cleaning up the area adjacent to the trail • Typhoon Texas driveway construction funded by PCDC commences on 2/14, with an anticipated completion 6/2020 • 1849 Park Left Turn Lane Preconstruction meeting held on 2/13, completion anticipated 5/2020 • W. SH 130 Interceptor project bidding began on 2/12, anticipated bid opening 2/27 and 3/10 CC; • CDBG El Malino and Bellemeade bidding began on 2/12 • Eight Preconstruction meetings were hosted during the week; Project Charm among meetings as they received a Site disturbance permit for a “Ground Breaking” on 2/17; Carmel West Phase 3 Section 2 site also was included with a preconstruction meeting Design • SH 45 W/WW Project – ROW Agent has completed five purchased agreements with 3 final Easements remaining. • Pecan/Heatherwilde Intersection improvements ready for advertisement of bids, awaiting TxDOT final concurrence • Colorado Sand Dr. – ROW Agent began discussions with Mehlenbruchs and PfISD for alignment; city staff requested Waste Water analysis that is underway and staff will coordinate with North Pointe developer upon completion of analysis. • Picadilly/Central Commerce/Royston – Final schematic is approved; Open House scheduled for 3/19

Finance: • The Comptroller’s February allocation of sales taxes has been completed and the revenue received by the City increased by 26.4% ($255,008) from February 2019. This is similar to the increase seen in February’s allocation last year. This information and the attached sales tax analysis chart is based on the net cash payment received by the City; however, reports you see from other sources may vary depending on the types of collections included (i.e. current, prior period, audit). Through February, approximately 45.0% of the budgeted sales tax has been collected. Attached as FY20 Sales Tax February • The City’s annual reporting for Hotel Occupancy Taxes (HOT) is attached as HOT Report FY19. The report has been submitted to the Comptroller for inclusion in a comprehensive state-wide report, as required by Texas Tax Code Sec. 351.009. The report has also been posted on the City’s Annual Financial Documents webpage.

Library: • The library is planning a Small Business Resource Fair to be held on April 4th. The focus of the event is to connect residents with resources and support for their small business or to learn how to take the next step in starting one. Many people in the community don’t realize there are organizations and free resources available to help and we hope to bridge that gap. It will feature organizations like PCDC, the Chamber of Commerce, SCORE business mentors, etc. More info will be shared once we get closer to the date. • The Pflugerville Quilt Guild has their quilts on display at the library throughout this month. Not only are the quilts beautiful, but the guild has included descriptions explaining techniques, history, and importance of the art they create. Take a look next time you visit the library and gain a greater appreciation for quilting. • The library’s Ukulele Club, led by staff member Laura Brekke, visited the Pflugerville Care Center last Saturday and serenaded delighted residents with songs for Valentine's Day. • Library staff from the Jarrell Community Library sat in on the library's Bilingual Storytime to learn techniques to take back to their own community. This weekly library program is led by staff member Carmen Lazo. Our library staff often serves as mentors for other libraries, sharing our knowledge within the profession.

Parks: • The Seniors had two trips this week one to the Bob Bullock/ State Capitol and a food trip to Moonshine Grill in Avery Ranch. Bob Bullock/ State Capitol had 15 participants and the Moonshine Grill had 24 participants. • The Windermere clubhouse renovations are now complete. Please see the pictures for all the hard work the operations staff did, attached as Clubhouse 1 & 2.

People and Culture: • Pf 101 was held on Wednesday evening at the Pflugerville Animal Shelter. During this session, the participants learned about the Community Programs, the different ways citizens can volunteer, and how Friends of the Pflugerville Animal Shelter assists the shelter. The next session will cover the Pflugerville Public Library on Wednesday, February 19th and a graduation ceremony at the March 24th City Council meeting. See attached picture of Pf 101’s animal shelter tour, title Pf 101.

Pflugerville Community Development Corporation (PCDC): Report is attached as PCDC – February 14, 2020.

Planning: • The Consolidated Annual Performance and Evaluation Report (CAPER) related to our CDBG program was approved by HUD this week. The CAPER is our end of year report that was approved by Council in November. The correspondence from HUD is attached as CAPER PY 19 for your reference.

Police: • Lt. Lewis attended the Central Texas Regional SWAT Team command staff meeting. • Chief Robledo and Cmdr. Mirabelle attended the District Attorney’s Interagency Sexual Assault Team Executive Committee meeting • Please be aware that on May 7th the Citizens Police Academy graduation will be held at 7pm in the Pflugerville Justice Ctr. Courtroom.

Public Works: • Finished installation of SC200 controllers for each membrane train’s turbidimeter. This will drastically reduce the dependency on a single instrument for all of the trains to be more resilient in the event of an instrument failure. The final piece of this will be completed next week as it will require a plant shut down to finish the wiring and switchover. • Pulled replacement wire set on a wire that was abandoned many years ago that allowed the operators to better adjust their polymer dosages on the centrifuges. Given the cost of the polymer to this process, this small fix has the potential to pay back large dividends in savings since it allows the operators to adjust as needed. The final piece will be completed next week to integrate the dosing system back into the SCADA. • Repaired a submersible pump and replaced a level transmitter at the Colorado Sands Lift Station which brought to light a problem with how the high level alarms at the lift stations transmit their data to alert staff. This will involve some SCADA/Integration work to better notify staff of issues without having to wait on a customer to notify us of a problem in the future.

Have a great weekend!

February 21, 2020 Greetings Mayor and City Council!

Save the Date:

February/March 2/25 – Council Worksession at 6pm and Regular Meeting at 7pm 3/5 –Old Austin-Hutto Open House, time and location TBD 3/6 – Police Department Annual Awards Ceremony at First Baptist Church at 7pm 3/7 – Teen Job Pfair at the Library from 2-4pm 3/10 – Council Worksession at 6pm (tentative) and Regular Meeting at 7pm 3/23 – Police Department Victim Services volunteer class graduation at the Justice Center EOC at 7pm 3/24 – Council Worksession at 6pm (tentative) and Regular Meeting at 7pm 3/28 – Spring Pfling at Heritage Park Noon-3pm 3/31 – Picadilly/Central Commerce/Royston Open House, time and location TBD

Administration: • A joint Council worksession with the Pflugerville ISD Board of Trustees is scheduled for Tuesday, April 7, 2020 at 6:30 p.m. Please mark your calendars. • The next TML Region 10 meeting will be hosted by the City of Taylor on Tuesday, March 31. Please let Karen know if you would like to attend. For information, visit TML Region 10 Meeting. • Members of the Youth Advisory Council (YAC) volunteered at the Dance Through the Decades at the Recreation Center on Saturday, February 15. (See attached photo: yac_parks_dance) They held a regular meeting on Monday, February 17 and attended the Pflugerville ISD Board meeting on Thursday, February 20. • At ICMA 2019 there was a session about how cities can prepare for the next recession. It also discuss how adjust to restraints placed on cites by state legislatures. The presentation is attached as “preparing for the next recession.”

Communications: • Trey and Patricia did a phone interview with the Pflag about upcoming projects along Pecan Street (at Heatherwilde Blvd., FM 685, Biltmore and SH-130). The story will be published next week. • Fox 7 ran an article about planned improvements in the Historic Colored Addition included in the May 2nd transportation proposition. This follows a KXAN story on these improvements from last week. • Community Impact ran a story on Council Member Rudy Metayer considering running for the state senate. – “Pflugerville Council Member Rudy Metayer ‘seriously considering’ run for Kirk Watson’s state Senate seat”

Engineering: Construction Progress • The pedestrian trail along North side between Railroad Ave/Mammoth Cave to Pfluger Farm Lane remains closed due to weather delays. Impeding completion of the work along the trail. • W. SH 130 Interceptor project prebid meeting was held on 2/20 with bid opening 2/27; • CDBG El Malino and Bellemeade pre-bid meeting was held on 2/20, with bid opening 2/27 Design • SH 45 W/WW Project – ROW Agent has completed five (5) purchased agreements with 3 final Easements remaining • Old Austin-Hutto Road: continued discussions with property owner for donation underway (Open House scheduled for 3/5) • Kelly Lane/MIS/Colorado Sand Dr. (Open House scheduled for 4/21 from 5-7 pm) • E. Pflugerville Parkway/Jesse Bohls Extension two (2) alignment alternatives proposed by Engineering Consultant. Meeting with Developer of Lakeside Meadows planned next. • Pecan/Biltmore Traffic Signal Notice of Award (NOA) has been issued, preconstruction meeting pending • Colorado Sand Dr. – ROW Agent began discussions with Mellenbruch and PfISD for alignment; project information will be combined for display at the Open House scheduled for 4/21 with Kelly Lane PH 2 • Picadilly/Central Commerce/Royston – Final schematic is approved (Open House rescheduled for 3/31)

Finance: • This week, staff attended a regional Government Finance Officers Association of Texas meeting in Round Rock where TML presented an update on several legislative matters specific to Finance, such as implementation of SB2 requirements and single local sales tax rates. • The FY19 Investment Reports are included on the Council agenda for Tuesday, February 25th. These will be presented quarterly going forward with the 1st quarter of FY20 scheduled to be included on the March 24th Council agenda.

Library: • Free tax help provided by the AARP continues at the library each Thursday and Friday. We've had a line at the door before opening each day the service is offered. It will continue each week until Tax Day. • Our "Girls Who Code" group met in the computer classroom at the library on Wednesday and continued work on their semester long coding project. The library relies on volunteers to help lead the group weekly, teaching the participants coding skills that will help them immensely in their future endeavors. • The library hosted PF101 this week. Library Director Jennifer Coffey and Assistant Director Daniel Berra presented about what the library offers the community and took participants on a tour of the facility.

Parks: • A group of 21 seniors went to the Fayette County Opry in La Grange on Monday. On Tuesday, a luncheon was hosted for seniors with about 130 attending. • Dance Through the Decades was a new community involved program held last Saturday. Over 93 tickets were sold for the three hour event. Through use of facilities and volunteers we were able to offer a sensory friendly hour, in addition to hours of fun including two photo booths, light refreshments, a great DJ & a caricature drawings to take home. Please see attached picture labeled Dance through the Decades.

People and Culture: • Pf 101 was held on Wednesday evening at the Pflugerville Public Library. During this session, the participants learned about the many programs and activities the library has available and also ways Pf 101 members can volunteer. Participants went on a tour of the Library. The next session will cover Development Services on Wednesday, February 26th. There will be a graduation ceremony held on March 24th at the City Council Meeting. See attached picture labeled Pf 101 Library.

Pflugerville Community Development Corporation (PCDC): Report is attached as PCDC – February 21, 2020

Planning: • Two site development permits were issued this week: o National Tire and Battery - located at 1020 E Pecan St, south of HEB and east of O’Reilly Auto Parts. The plan is for a 6,190 sq. ft. building for the purpose of establishing an automotive service business. o Keystone 5, Lot 2B, just south of Costco. The site designed to host a restaurant and retail center in a 8,494 sqft building. • Over the past few months, staff has been working with legal on a new sign code that will update sign regulations for downtown and ensure our regulations are in line with recent case law. Today, staff posted the newly proposed sign code on the City’s website for review and public feedback. Due to the substantial reorganization of the proposed code, it is proposed as a repeal and replace of the existing ordinance. The draft amendments can be found here: Direct Link to Draft Sign Code

Police: • Please be aware that on May 7th the Citizens Police Academy graduation will be held at 7pm in the Pflugerville Justice Ctr. Courtroom.

Public Works: DCS Engineering DCS Engineering has had a five year engineering agreement with the City of Pflugerville covering the Surface Water Treatment Plant that would have expired in January 2020. It was extended for one year during the compliance and rehabilitation of the water plant following the notification of Tier 2 and Tier 3 violations in November of 2019. DCS Engineering was directed to lead the compliance and rehabilitation effort at that time, under the current engineering services agreement. The current extension will expire in January 2021.

DCS Engineering is now at or near the end of assessments, evaluations, and training for the water plant. It is currently in the process of designing and overseeing a number of projects identified during the this effort. These include, but are not limited to, a CT Study and relocation of the Manville line, interim Zebra mussel solutions, chemical systems, and a number of pump and valve replacements.

Work Authorization 2020-3 ($55K) is to provide engineering for the relocation of three Raw Water Strainers from the Lake Intake Pumping Station to just in front of the membrane facility intake to aid in capture of zebra mussel debris. This project Is anticipated to be completed by May 2020.

There is a possibility for there to be a limited number (2-4) of additional work authorizations from DCS Engineering before the compliance and rehabilitation effort is complete. In March the City Council will be asked to approve a Work Authorization for expansion of the High Service Pump Station at the SWTP. This expansion will provide necessary added capacity to meet TCEQ requirements until the water plant expansion is completed. This is an approved CIP project in the FY2020 budget. Construction of this project is anticipated to be completed in April 2021. Any additional work authorizations would be limited to small projects and/or pay for services as we complete the compliance and rehabilitation effort.

Waste Water Treatment Plant • Implemented new maintenance procedure for centrifuges in order to extend the life of the units currently in place. Water Treatment Plant • Installed replacement water heater for chlorine generation system to produce a more stable sodium hypochlorite product for disinfection. • Replaced sodium hypochlorite injection line that was previously leaking which involved a plant shutdown to accomplish. • Adjusted distribution system set points to maximize efficiencies in regards to plant power consumption and equipment wear. These small changes allowed for longer runtimes of a single high service pump (instead of calling for a second to run) which minimizes the power needed to distribute water and will extend the life of the control valves for the system. • Lowered finished chlorine residual target for operations to accomplish a variety of goals: o Reduce or eliminate the presence of chlorine taste and odor within the distribution system that is normally present at the higher levels that were previously being dosed. o Reduction of disinfection byproduct formation due to lower levels of chlorine being used on finished water which produces a better quality product for our customers. o Should reduce chemical costs for disinfection by 30% per year if operations stays within new target range.

Have a great weekend!

February 28, 2020 Greetings Mayor and City Council! Save the Date: February/March 3/5 –Old Austin-Hutto Open House at Pflugerville Recreation Center from 5-7pm 3/5 – Census informational event at the Library, March 5 from 6-7:30pm. 3/6 – Police Department Annual Awards Ceremony at First Baptist Church at 7pm 3/7 – Teen Job Pfair at the Library from 2-4pm 3/9 – TIRZ Board Meeting at Development Services at 6pm. 3/10 – Council Worksession at 6pm and Regular Meeting at 7pm 3/18 – Pet Pfest at the Library from 2-4pm 3/23 – Police Department Victim Services volunteer class graduation at the Justice Center EOC at 7pm 3/24 – Council Worksession at 6pm (tentative) and Regular Meeting at 7pm 3/31 – Picadilly/Central Commerce/Royston Open House, time and location TBD

Administration: • Please find the attached draft agendas for the March 10, 2020 Worksession and Regular Meeting titled cc031020wsa and cc031020a. • On Wednesday, Development Services hosted Pf101 providing information on current and long range planning, code compliance, mapping, building inspections and floodplain.

Communications: • Trash Rate o KXAN covered the proposed rate increase here. The original story was on 2/25/2020, they updated the story after attending the Council meeting. o Fox 7 o KVUE o Patch • Communications has reached out to John Lawler since Tuesday’s Council meeting and is working with him on some additional 2020 Census promotion in the Pflugerville area. A full list of ways Pflugerville is promoting and has promoted the census is attached as 2020 Census Promotion. In addition the City setup www.pflugervilletx.gov/census which is linked from the city’s homepage as a resource about the Census. The Census is featured in the March utility bill insert as well. Lawler is using clips from Friday’s Pflugerville Pfocus to show at the Travis County Commissioners meeting next week what Pflugerville is doing to promote the Census and to emphasize our collaboration. In addition, he has invited Terri Toledo to participate in a media outreach meeting as there may be funding for his team to purchase additional advertising in Pflugerville for the Census. View Friday’s Pfocus here • The City is working on communications to both residents and employees about COVID- 19, Coronavirus. The website http://www.pflugervilletx.gov/virus is setup with links to the Austin Public Health and Center for Disease Control resources. The City sent out infographics and materials on hygiene practices and a flyer on COVID-19 to all employees via Slack. (see attached file Coronavirus hygiene information). The regional PIO network, RICCL, is holding a conference call on the COVID-19 communications in the next few weeks and we are connected with communications efforts in the region via HSEM. Social media posts encouraging hygiene and educating on COVID-19 are scheduled. • Impact Fee Study o Community Impact o Statesman, see attachment titled Statesman Impact Fee. • City staff worked closely with Community Impact on accuracy for a map highlighting locations of projects related to the Transportation Bond that will run in the March 2020 issue. • Public Works crews helped hang new signage at Lake Pflugerville including a “Drink in this view” sign and “here pfishy…pfishy” conversational fun signs at the park. Parks and Recreation, Public Works and Communications have worked together on new signage for the Lake. The new signs are meant to be both educational and fun. See attached photo Drink in the View. • Pet Pfest covered by Patch.

Engineering: • Black Locust – city staff has requested contractor to remove and replace portions of unsatisfactory asphalt material for roadway and will work towards substantial completion on the project. • Contractor continues work on sidewalk pedestrian trail along the North side between Railroad Ave/Mammoth Cave to Pfluger Farm Road. Anticipate opening soon. • 1849 Park Left Turn Lane construction to begin on March 16th. • Engineering hosted Cyber Security lunch and learn sponsored by Jones and Carter; engineering staff were trained and have completed the legislative requirement. • Wells Branch/Immanuel Road Traffic Signal intersection improvements – Idea School agreed and have scheduled 3/7 to complete work; anticipate activation of traffic signal no later than Monday 3/9

Finance: • The Tax Increment Finance Registry Report and the FY19 TIRZ financial report were submitted this week to the Comptroller in accordance with the Tax Increment Financing Act (Tax Code 311). In addition each taxing unit that levies property taxes on real property in the zone received a copy of the FY19 annual financial report, attached as TIRZ Annual Financial Report FY19.

Library: • In preparation for National Poetry Month, the library is currently accepting submissions for our 7th annual Poetry Contest. Entries will be displayed around the library in April and winners will receive a gift card courtesy of the Friends of the Library. See the library website for contest details. • Youth Services Librarian Amanda Cawthon tried a new innovative program called MuVChat (sound it out!). Teens in attendance watched a screening of the movie “Mean Girls” and used their phones to send comments (approved by Amanda) that were displayed on the movie screen for everyone else to see. It was a fun interactive experience that Amanda plans to use again in the Summer. • On Tuesday, Children’s Program Coordinator Carmen Lazo attended a training at the Round Rock Public Library focused on planning for the Summer Reading Program. In addition to learning new techniques, the event also provided a great networking opportunity. • On Thursday, Youth Librarian Melissa Grzybowski participated in an outreach event at Brookhollow Elementary for their Diversity Day. She read stories to every grade level at the school, reaching over 500 kids at the event.

Parks: • Pflugerville has met the standards to be certified again for 2019 as a Tree City USA! This makes Pflugerville’s 13th year with a Tree City USA designation. • Wednesday 14 seniors participated in a trip to the historic painted churches of Schulenburg, • “Unplug and Explore” won the Lonestar Programming Award at the Texas Recreation and Parks Society State Institute in Galveston. This program took children 6-12 years old outdoors to state parks and showed them outdoor recreation in different ways. See attached photo: Unplug and Explore Award.

PAWS: • PAWS had a great group of eight gentlemen from Dell come volunteer at the shelter today. They relocated some landscape timbers, filled holes in on walking areas, scrubbed all the dog houses, and helped clean the cat adoption room. They enjoyed getting out and working in the sun for a change, and we appreciate them pitching in. Photos attached: Dell 1 and 2

Pflugerville Community Development Corporation (PCDC): Report is attached as PCDC – February 28, 2020

Planning: • On Monday, Emily participated in the monthly meeting of the Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) meeting for CAMPO as the City’s representative. Discussion at the meeting related to the 2045 Regional Transportation Plan (RTP) including an update on the refinement of projects (MoKan was removed from our list due to lack of concurrence from TXDOT ; the 45 frontage roads were also removed from our list however, that was because they were duplicative of Round Rock’s project). The list of projects being considered for the 2045 RTP (long range plan) are included in this week's TAC packet, which is available here. CAMPO's schedule includes a public comment period for the 2045 RTP during Feb/March of 2020. o The TAC packet also includes information about the Regional Transit Study; POLARIS Modeling being done at the University of Texas; Transportation Development Credit (TDC) applications for the Regional Transportation Demand Management (TDM) Program; and a discussion regarding updating performance measure targets for the Transportation improvement Program (TIP). • On Tuesday, Jeremy and Emily participated in the PfISD/Chamber event “The Real World.” They met with students who might be interested in a career in public service. This event is a joint event between the ISD, Chamber, Workforce Solutions and Careers in Texas Industries. • Three site plans were permitted this week: o Mott Elementary School Parking Lot located on Hodde Lane for a new parking lot to include 131 parking spaces. o Picadilly Business Park Lot 2A to construct an office/warehouse on 2.507 acres in a total of eight (8) buildings at 17016 Joe Barbee Drive. o Valvoline Instant Oil Change located in Stone Hill, just north of the IHOP, to construct an automobile service and repair facility. This land use was authorized at the council meeting on October 22, 2019. Police: • Commander Mirabelle attended Texas Police Chief’s Association’s sub-committee meeting for the women in law enforcement career mentorship program on Thursday. • On Friday, Chief Robledo was a featured speaker at Pflugerville ISD’s Leadership Experience event.

Public Works: • TCEQ sent a letter, attached as TCEQ Sampling Update, informing us the revised Total Coliform Rule Sample Requirement has increased due to population increase for Pflugerville water system #2270014. Previously, the population count for our system was 40,149. This count has been updated to 42,903 and that results in the increase of monthly samples that must be submitted from 40 to 50 samples. For this testing, Pflugerville operators collect the bacteriological samples and take to City of Round Rock Environmental Services, which is a State certified laboratory. The new sampling requirement will be in effect starting in April, 2020. • Pulled and cleaned Lake Pump 1’s strainer for cleaning and zebra mussel removal due to high differential pressure on strainer unit. Also increased the backwash cycle time to be more appropriate for the volume of mussels being pumped through the intake. • Found and addressed issues with raw water flow constraints in the programmable logic controller (PLC) which wouldn’t allow the raw pumps to ramp up to full speed. Also found and corrected an issue with Raw Water Pump 1 being called to be the only lead pump at all times in the PLC when it should cycle through them. This was causing unnecessary shut downs of the membrane units. • Worked together with Fleet to be able to fix a broken chlorine contact chamber drain valve that wasn’t allowing us to properly drain and clean the extended contact basin. • Submitted all Water Use Surveys to the Texas Water Development Board which is a data collection of water used annually to determine water demand projections for regional and state water planning. We have 8 different Public Water Systems that we have to operate and report on. Pflugerville PWS #2270014, Kelly Ln #1 PWS #2270382, Kelly Ln. #2 PWS # 2270386, Lakeside WCID #1 PWS # 2270410, Lakeside WCID #2A PWS # 2270409, Lakeside WCID #2B PWS # 2270371, Lakeside WCID # 2C PWS # 2270373, Lakeside WCID # 2D PWS # 2270410.

March 6, 2020 Greetings Mayor and City Council!

Save the Date: March/April 3/6 – Police Department Annual Awards Ceremony at First Baptist Church at 7pm 3/7 – Teen Job Pfair at the Library from 2-4pm 3/9 – TIRZ Board Meeting at Development Services at 6pm. 3/10 – Council Worksession at 6pm and Regular Meeting at 7pm 3/18 – Pet Pfest at the Library from 2-4pm 3/23 – Police Department Victim Services volunteer class graduation at the Justice Center EOC at 7pm 3/24 – Council Worksession at 6pm (tentative) and Regular Meeting at 7pm 3/31 – Picadilly/Central Commerce/Royston Open House, time and location TBD 4/4 – Small Business Resource Pfair at Library from 1-4pm

Administration: • The Parks and Recreation Commission took action at their regular meeting in February to declare a vacancy in the student member position. We will advertise the opening and bring an item to the City Council for this appointment as soon as possible. If you know of high school students interested in serving, please have them submit an application. Application available here. • Trey attended the P3 Conference 2020 in Dallas this week. Useful summary information regarding public private partnerships and project evaluation tools are attached as AIAI- GuideToP#s and AIAI Flyers.

Communications: • Construction o The City announced a temporary lane closure on Kelly Lane and work on the Old Austin Pflugerville Road south of Pecan Street to begin on March 4th. ▪ Community Impact ran a story and tweeted about the closures o The City announced work on the traffic signal at Wells Branch Parkway and Immanuel Road will take place on March 7-9, with the signal being operational the week of March 9th weather permitting. ▪ This information was sent to Fox 7 and KVUE as they had called about it a few weeks ago. The information was also sent on Nextdoor to neighborhoods near the intersection since residents have been very interested in this traffic signal. o Community Impact ran an article on the reconstruction of Old Austin Hutto Road. o Community Impact also ran an article detailing every Pflugerville road project on the May bond proposition • David Barer with KXAN investigative is doing a story on Weiss Lane and cash Construction, asking questions about Weiss Lane and the timeline. Communications referred him to the City Attorney. • Two news sources ran stories on the proposed development next to Project Charm: o KVUE o Austin Business Journal, also attached as “Proposed Development ABJ” • Community Impact and the Pflag are following movement on the Timmerman property. • Communications live streamed the Census event at the library on Thursday night.

Engineering: • The Old Austin-Hutto Road Open House meeting was hosted at the Parks and Recreation Center on 3/5 from 5-7 pm and included attendees from the public, Community Impact reporter, City's PIO, Engineering, Assistant City Manager Trey Fletcher and Engineering Consultant. • Environmental Specialist, Chase Williams coordinated with Travis County for Blackhawk environmental concerns. • 3/5 Engineering hosted a presentation by LMK & ProPipe for Sliplining as an alternative of trenchless repairs for wastewater or water construction to replace old infrastructure in a quick and efficient manner • Typhoon Texas driveway demolition has begun • Biltmore @ Pecan Traffic Signal Pre-Construction Meeting held on Wednesday for underground work to begin in May, after coordination meeting in March with Oncor for work prior to start.

Finance: • The City’s independent auditor presented on the City’s FY19 financial statements to the Finance and Budget Committee this week. The auditor noted that the City has received an unmodified (clean) audit opinion, free of misstatement and with no audit adjustments. The audited financial statements will be included in the City Council’s March 24th agenda for acceptance by the City Council.

Library: • Youth Librarian Melissa Grzybowski wrote the library’s monthly article for the Pflugerville Pflag, highlighting the many things we have planned for youth during Spring Break. The highlight of the week is our Pet Pfest on Wednesday, March 18 from 2 - 4 p.m, featuring animal themed fun for the entire family. To see the article click here. • On Thursday, the library held a program called, "Be Counted!: A Census 2020 Informational Session." This partnership with the League of Women Voters featured a speaker from the U.S. Census Bureau. • On Saturday, the library will hold its 5th annual Teen Job Pfair featuring many local employers. The event supports both business and teenagers in the community looking to gain some experience or land a summer job. Youth Librarian Amanda Cawthon created and continues to expand this event each year. To learn more about the Teen Job Pfair, click here.

People and Culture: • On Friday the City of Pflugerville Pfun Committee hosted “Let’s Taco ‘Bout You” breakfast meet and greet. The committee provided an assortment of breakfast tacos, morning beverages (coffee and orange juice), and salsa. The event was opened to all employees within the City of Pflugerville. We’re proud to announce, we received a large turnout and representation of each department of the City of Pflugerville Pfamily. During this event, attendees were able to connect with other Pfamily member new and tenure during a joyous happy Friday breakfast. See picture attached Pfun Committee.

Pflugerville Community Development Corporation (PCDC): Report is attached as PCDC – March 6, 2020. Also attached “Wayfair and Marketplace Implementation” presentation.

Police: • Detectives with the Criminal Investigations Division attended the Cross Check regional investigators meeting Wednesday • On Thursday Lt. Rowley attended the Capital Area AMBER Plan meeting • Sgt. McKissack attended the TxDOT Crossroads Coalition regional traffic meeting

Public Works: • The contractors for sidewalk repairs have exhausted funds for FY20. They were able to repair 211 locations and over a half of a mile sidewalks. • Replaced air relief valves not meant for chemicals and installed air relief valves designed for low pressure and chemical lines for the membrane cleanings. • Repaired sodium hydroxide injection quill which is used for membrane maintenance cleans and recovery cleans. • Finished cleaning the rest of the raw water strainers after large volumes of zebra mussels and Asiatic clams were causing issues with differential pressure on the other pumps. Will continue to monitor issues with shells getting into strainers, especially during the spring breeding season when mussel volumes will become significant. • Waste Water Treatment Plant operators personnel replaced the chlorine drip on the clarified arms which results in a more effective spray which minimizes total suspended solids from moving to the tertiary filters, thus extending their life a little more. DCS Engineering DCS Engineering has had a five year engineering agreement with the City of Pflugerville covering the Surface Water Treatment Plant that would have expired in January 2020. It was extended for one year during the compliance and rehabilitation of the water plant following the notification of Tier 2 and Tier 3 violations in November of 2019. DCS Engineering was directed to lead the compliance and rehabilitation effort at that time, under the current engineering services agreement. The current extension will expire in January 2021.

DCS Engineering is now at or near the end of assessments, evaluations, and training for the water plant. It is currently in the process of designing and overseeing a number of projects identified during the this effort. These include, but are not limited to, a CT Study and relocation of the Manville line, interim Zebra mussel solutions, chemical systems, and a number of pump and valve replacements.

At the Tuesday, March 10th Council meeting, Council will be asked to approve Work Authorization 2020-1 ($85,060) for payment to DCS that covers services for assessments, evaluations, training, etc. from December 1, 2019 to February 29, 2020. Work Authorization 2020-7 ($64,940) is seeking authorization to provide engineering services for the remaining tasks identified by TCEQ and DCS during the compliance and rehabilitation process.

We anticipate that all the remaining compliance and rehabilitation engineering efforts by DCS are covered by these two Work Authorizations.

Work Authorization 2020-5 requests that City Council approve engineering services for expansion of the High Service Pump Station at the SWTP. This expansion is critical as it will provide necessary added capacity to meet population growth and TCEQ capacity requirements through 2024 and to the water plant expansion. This is an approved CIP project in the FY2020 budget. Construction of this project is anticipated to be completed in April 2021.

Have a wonderful weekend!

March 13, 2020 Greetings Mayor and City Council!

Save the Date: March/April 3/24 – City Council Regular Meeting at 7pm (TBD) 3/31 – Picadilly/Central Commerce/Royston Open House, time and location TBD 4/3 – Officer David Jester Retirement, Justice Center, time TBD

Administration: • Ducks Donuts is opening in Stone Hill Town Center at 18616 Limestone Commercial Dr. They came by the City Manager’s Office to invite the Mayor & Council to attend their grand opening happening today until 7pm. • The TML Region 10 meeting and dinner to be hosted by the City of Taylor on March 31, 2020 has been canceled.

Communications: • Press releases prepared for council meeting and various future messaging scenarios. (TBD at Council meeting) • All scheduled upcoming social media posts related to visiting our facilities or special events through April 13 have been removed. • Graphics and social media posts prepared on handwashing and methods to prevent spread of illness. • Communications participated in their weekly 3pm PIO regional phone conference call to discuss COVID-19 and regional response. • Communications Division is implementing their emergency communications plan and is ready with messaging as needed. • Facebook Local Alerts Implemented: After waiting several months for the activation approval, we now have access to Local Alerts on the Police Facebook. This is a new tool from Facebook that allows us to cut through the Facebook algorithm and share important messages to our public. The feature can be used for emergency messaging. The City requested it for both the City of Pflugerville FB and the Police. The Police is the only one in operation at this time. We have contacted Facebook today that we need both turned on as soon as possible. Local alerts is a free tool and can be used in emergencies as well as in less critical situations where timely information is valuable. Specifically, local alerts are meant to help you communicate information that is: o Urgent and time-sensitive o Need to know o Actionable o Local o Relevant to the public at large • Spoke with Community Impact on roadway project timelines. Corrected print story where they mixed up who they interviewed. Online version fixed. • Old Austin Hutto Road open house article on reconstruction. • Traffic light to activate at Immanuel Road/Wells Branch Parkway – Community Impact. • Pflugerville expanding water treatment plant - Statesman • KXAN called about the water treatment plant expansion and asked if it was related to issues of the past year. Told them no, it is an expansion as outlined in our water master plan. • Four water-related service agreements – Community Impact. • PCDC sent a press release about an award – Community Impact. • Texas Government Insider contacted us about a story on our water plant expansion. It should run in the next issue.

Engineering: • Stone Hill Splash Pad equipment was delivered to site. • Wilbarger Creek Park – Contractor completed concrete sidewalk on west portion of the project site. • Pedestrian Hike and Bike Trail along Pflugerville Parkway repair is complete. • Picadilly Dr./Central Commerce Dr./Royston Ln. – Open house scheduled for 3/31 • Request for Statements of Qualifications for the Industrial Pretreatment has been reviewed and the legal notice will run in the Pflugerville Pflag on 3/18 and 3/25.

Finance: • The audited financial statements for the year ended September 30, 2019 will be included in the March 24th agenda for acceptance by the City Council. The audit includes an unmodified (clean) audit option, free of misstatement and with no audit adjustments. Following acceptance, the Comprehensive Annual Financial Report (CAFR) will be posted to the City’s website where 10 years of financial reports are posted. • The Comptroller’s March allocation of sales taxes has been completed and the revenue received by the City increased by 8.7% ($66,908) from March 2019. This information and the attached sales tax analysis chart is based on the net cash payment received by the City; however, reports you see from other sources may vary depending on the types of collections included (i.e. current, prior period, audit). Through March, approximately 52.5% of the budgeted sales tax has been collected. Attached as: FY20 Sales Tax March.

Library: • The Teen Job Pfair this past Saturday was a big success with 165 teens in attendance, who talked to local employers about summer jobs. See photo attached Teen Job Pfair. • On Tuesday we had a special story time with a visit from Noodle the Snake, courtesy of Jessica Lilley with PAWS. Excited kids enjoyed snake related stories and a few brave ones held Noodle. See photos Storytime with Noodle. • Library Circulation Staff members attended a meeting at the Cedar Park Library with circulation staff from other surrounding libraries. They shared ideas, discussed solutions, and continued building a professional support network of library staff. • We are taking extra steps to sterilize computer keyboards and tables around the library. We have hand sanitizer available around the library and posters reminding patrons to wash their hands regularly. We are in communication with surrounding libraries, sharing information about actions we are all taking.

Parks: • The Pflugerville Rotary Club completed their trail clean-up project at Gilleland Creek Park on March 7. • Staff has been diligent in disinfecting the hallway and lobby/desk area of the rec center hourly • Monday and Tuesday was gathering information for trips in May along with learning more about COVID-19

People and Culture: • Pf101 was held on Wednesday evening at the Public Works Department. During this session, the participants learned about the many different divisions that make up the Public Works department.

Pflugerville Community Development Corporation (PCDC): Report is attached as PCDC- March 13, 2020.

Planning: • On Tuesday, Jeremy attended the HBA Planner’s round table to discuss development activity in Pflugerville. • On Thursday, we held our quarterly Development Pforum. Developers, architects, engineers and planners are invited to hear from development staff on various development updates. This quarter they discussed code amendments related to outdoor storage and signs; impact fee updates; CIP projects and master plan approvals. The next pforum is scheduled for June. • The second round of open houses for the CAMPO 2045 Plan begins the week of March 23. Attached is the flyer with dates and locations: Open House Flyer.

Police: • On Monday, Chief and Command Staff attended the ESPN/Special Olympics North America banner presentation for Hendrickson High School’s recognition as one of the Top 5 most inclusive schools in the Nation. Chief Robledo was also honored at the event for the Police Department’s support and inclusion with the Falcon sports team. • Chief Robledo, Asst. Chief Smith and Lt. Vronka were special guests at the Special Olympics Unified Champions Dinner Celebration on Monday. • Chief Robledo was a special guest at the 1st Induction Ceremony for the Spanish Honor Society at Hendrickson High School on Wednesday. • The Police Department is in daily communication with Travis County ESD2 regarding COVID-19 status and updates. At this time there have been no requests for assistance from Austin Public Health (APH), Travis County, or ESD2 other than to remain consistent with messaging from the CDC and APH. • The Police Department Victim Services volunteer class graduation planned for March 23 at 7pm has been postponed.

March 20, 2020

Greetings Mayor and City Council!

Remember to be checking your slack messages, we are sending updates there.

Administration: • The City Manager’s Office is closed to the public and has transitioned to a work from home status. The City Secretary will maintain office hours three hours per regular business day from 9am to noon for election services as required by State law. Calls and emails to the office will be responded to during this time. Building Inspections: • Admin Techs are working from home, and calls are being forwarded to voice mail, which goes to admin’s email, and are then responded to accordingly. Voicemail messages updated to advise of office closure and provide email addresses. • Mail will be checked twice a week. Checks will be processed and taken to Finance three times a week. • Admin Techs communicate with Building Department staff, citizens, trades, and builders through email and phone. • Online submittals of permits through MyGov (MyPermitNow) are still being processed. Permits can be paid for online with the exception of impact fees. Applicants are being directed to mail checks in to be processed. When received and processed the associated permit is issued. Permit can be printed from their mygovernmentonline.org account. • Inspectors still reporting to work in the field. Residential and Commercial inspections have continued as normal, except for service calls to citizens homes. If not allowed entry due to the COVID -19, inspection will have to be rescheduled for a later date. Builders and trades have been instructed to observe the “Physical Distancing” advisory, and only communicate with inspectors via I-Message and email. • Plan review continues as normal with TCESD#2 and 3rd party reviewer Bureau Veritas.

Communications: • Gwen is working with IT on WebEx launch and any IT related issues to work from home access and ability. Gwen has been writing up all the instruction sheets on how to do WebEx and running trainings while also keeping our pflugervilletx.gov/virus page clean. • Samantha is keeping a tally list of all the things we say and update so when we’re done we can reverse it. She has been watching social media posts to make sure we don’t post something that has been changed or advertise a canceled event. • Jesse has been doing social graphics for us related to updates as well as sharing shifts at the EOC. • Terri is working remote EOC • Maggie is working with Travis County EOC • Wade is making videos on proper hand washing and on what you can and can’t flush as we have been having problems with clogs. • Virtual/online EOC underway. Public areas, including lobbies, of city facilities are closed to the publice • City’s first Public Health Emergency declared on 3/19. The full list of COVID updates are all online at www.pflugervilletx.gov/virus • We have sent 9 press releases this week and posted additional campaigns on social media for fostering pets, not clogging toilets and social distancing • Maggie and Terri listened on the weekly Travis County and Regional PIO COVID-19 conference call on 3/20/2020 where the term physical distancing was recommended over social distancing • Due to significant number of media articles, they are attached with links in the attached Compiled Media Reporting word file • New messaging on avoiding clogs in toilets and social distancing this week. • The May 2 Pflugerville Employment Coalition is canceled. • Communications staff working with IT on solutions to hold virtual public meetings starting in April. Engineering: • CIP Division – Project Management, Planning, Consultant Contract Management, Bid- Phase Services, ROW Easements, etc. o Project Management meetings continued with Kick-off meetings for a couple of Utility projects as approved by City Council in February o Continued Design progress meetings for 2018 GO Bond projects via teleconference • Construction Division – Inspections and Citizen Concerns o Construction inspection services continued throughout the week with business as usual o Construction materials were available and there was a healthy workforce • Development Division – Project Management and Development Reviews o Engineering Development Reviews for Site and Subdivisions continued, including staff augmentation reviews on several projects o ROW Permits were submitted and continued with reviews by Engineering staff o TIA review services by Engineering staff continued • Project Updates o Received 13 projects for review, 7 completed by 3/20; remaining on track to meet 3/26 deadline o Staff has been able to maintain email/call correspondence along with conference call meetings (Idea School, Project Charm Flood Study, Lifestyle Communities) o Pre-construction meeting for SH 130 was completed with about 30 teleconference attendees 3/18 o Travis County approved Construction Permit for SH 130 Interceptor project o E. Pflugerville Parkway pedestrian trail Warranty work completed and inspected; open week of 3/22 o Pedestrian Trail along Pflugerville Parkway between Railroad/Mammoth Cave to Pfluger Farm Road will be open during the week of 3/22 o Swenson Farms PRV (Pressure Reducing Valve) project substantially completed 3/18 o Colorado Sand Dr. ROW Agent coordinating conceptual alignment with PfISD o RFQ ad for Industrial Pretreatment to begin advertisement on 3/24

Finance: • Finance created new payroll codes and provided all employees guidelines to track time during this event. We will be processing payroll on its regular schedule next week. • Although the office is closed to the public, staff continues to respond to customer requests and questions via phone, email and chat. In addition, funds received via mail and electronically continue to be processed on a normal schedule. • We have been continuing to work with the auditors on finalizing the audit and completing the CAFR. The CAFR will be posted to the City’s website next week. • We met with the City’s financial advisors via video conference to discuss market conditions, updates on a bond election and timing of any future issuances • We are continuing to process payments to vendors on the typical weekly schedule • Staggered schedules have been implemented and we are utilizing remote working options whenever possible.

Library: • Library staff is conducting inventory of materials, cataloging and ordering materials as usual, creating online activities, performing authority control of records, issuing virtual temp-disaster relief cards, updating accounts and expired cards. Staff is also assisting PAWS with animal walking and socializing. The only things that cannot be done at home is inventory and assisting PAWS. There are no more than 2-4 people in the library at any given time.

Municipal Court: • Due to the public counter being closed, Municipal Court is able to operate with one part-time clerk who responds to any email and USPS correspondence, distributes other incoming interoffice and USPS mail within the Justice Center, processes online payments, data enters any citation received and performs file maintenance. We received 12 emails, 4 citations for data entry and 15 online payments, so the workload is not overwhelming at this point. • The Court Administrator/Associate Municipal Judge has been working full time (reporting in-person and remotely) overseeing operations, planning, etc. • Court hearings and trials for April will be cancelled and reset to June • Additional court staff will begin reporting in next week, working alternate hours to achieve appropriate social distancing, to process continuance notices and perform file maintenance. • Judges are available for emergency protective orders, warrants, and other necessary functions.

Parks & Recreation: • Events: Kaitlyn mostly working from home o Pfloating Egg Hunt canceled- working on credits/refunds. o Currently on stand-by for Pfine Art Market, waiting to hear further direction from the ISD o Deutschen Pfest is currently looking at options and impacts for canceling or rescheduling the event to a date in the fall.

o Working on excel for Deutschen Pfest expenses- waiting on committee budgets. o Working on the ordinance & permit process for special events with other city staff. o Working on a revised Pfirecracker pfestival recommendation. • Community Services: Eddie working from home o Working with Drop by Drop Rebate customers, approving projects and answering questions about the program. o Communicated with Pf market vendors on their availability in case the market opened earlier and their availability. o Communicating with Chase Williams, Environmental Specialist regarding reporting of volunteer hours and future clean-up projects. • Recreation Programs: Daulton working from home o Projects/Programs that have been stopped ▪ Spring Break Camp ▪ Unplug and Explore ▪ Pokemon Card Club o Projects/Programs that are rescheduled for another date ▪ Nature Pfest o Summer Pfun Camp is planned to go on as scheduled • Athletics and Aquatics: Suzie working from home o Currently working on employee evaluations: Whitney & Tony o Working with Finance and Whitney on a refunding process for all canceled programs. o Working on fee presentation to be submitted to Finance/FAB • Aquatics: Whitney working from the office o Continuing to work on Community Pass improvements. ▪ Implementing training for a new Front Desk module that allows us to scan people in and access registrations, POS items and other programs from the same area. o Working with Daulton and Stephanie to make sure online camp registration good to go and processes are in place that will be as user friendly as possible with most of us being remote. o Entering swim lessons classes in Community Pass o Working on refunds for class and program cancellations with Leann o Pool maintenance operations have continued to ensure the pools are ready for the public once we open back up. o Planning for summer operations is continuing, lifeguard classes have been put on hold but we are still taking applications for summer employment. • Recreation Center: LeAnn working from home o Recreation center was closed as of Tuesday afternoon with other city buildings ▪ Building maintenance is still doing daily cleanings and looking into season maintenance while the facility is closed. o Currently working on answering emails and working in Community Pass to refund and reschedule program affected by the quarantine • Senior Programs: Rob working from home o Senior programs are canceled until May 1st. Monday was spent making sure we got the information out to the seniors about trip and program cancelations and that the Rec center was shutdown. o Working on summer and fall field trip planning o Studying for CDL certification. o Responding to seniors' emails daily • Administrative: Stephanie working from home o Working on adding Parks Commission minutes in Legistar o Assisting Daulton with website editing for Summer Camp registration preparations. o Processing refunds and credits onto accounts for reservations. o Worked on Webex training with Communications staff this week, will be teaching our department how to use screen share for remote meetings in the upcoming week. • Parks Operations: Junior working from the office o Have two 6 man crews working on an every other day rotation, each employee has been assigned their own vehicle to stay within the social distancing guidelines and their own grouping of parks to maintain. ▪ Between full-time and part-time staff; parks, playgrounds, trash cans, water fountains and other park amenities are being checked 7 days a week. o 1849 Park is currently closed o All parks restrooms have been cleaned, disinfected and closed until further notice

People + Culture: • People and Culture is evaluating the potential impact of HR6201 in regards to sick leave and FMLA. • This week People and Culture has been posting positions, working with new hires when necessary, participating in webinars and taking care of paperwork filing. • The following events have been canceled: Wellness Fair, Coffee with the City Manager, New Employee Orientation, Unconscious Bias training • March evaluations have been extended to the end of April • Jennifer Stubbs and Ashley Smith are working in the office while the office is closed to the public. Bonita Hall and Kevin Connaughton are working from home. Planning: • With some adjustments, 85 percent of the Planning Department team will be fully operational working from home once all are able to remote the VPN and then only an occasional visit to the office for supplies/files as needed. At this time, only Emily Barron, Jeremy and GIS staff can remote in to the network, however, everyone is able to access their email and other web based resources (MyPermitNow) and apps (Slack) without the VPN and are able to complete the majority of their tasks remotely. With the exception of field work (site inspections and data collection) and code compliance, we believe the majority of planning staff will be able to work remotely and maintain expected levels of service. o Meetings are all being accommodated through conference calls o Site inspections are being scheduled and completed on site as the need arises o Submittals can now be accomplished 100% online as of this week o Code compliance is completing the majority of their work from their vehicles and only coming into the office on a limited basis o We have delayed public hearings through April. This impacted three projects: Lakeside Meadows PID, Timmerman 2020 rezoning and Coleman (1st Street Downtown) rezoning. At this time we do not anticipate a delay in any other projects or review times unless cancellations are made to the Council schedule in April. o Walk-in customers have been redirected to call the Development Services number and these calls are being taken by our administrative staff and answered/routed accordingly o We are working on a digital approval process for site development permits • On Wednesday, Emily and Jennifer participated in the Austin-Travis County Census 2020 Complete Count Committee meeting – The Census Bureau is constantly monitoring the COVID-19 situation. They are focused on the health and safety of communities as well as their constitutional obligation. At this time they have not modified any of the deadlines and they are still planning to have it completed by July 31, 2020. Postcards have gone out and residents should be receiving those in the mail this week in order to complete the Census online, by phone or by mail. They are considering modifying in person outreach to virtual outreach to help residents that do not respond to the initial postcard. Attached is the .pdf provided regarding their updates concerning the Corona Virus. (Memo on Corona Virus Census.Counts.pdf) • Also on Wednesday, we submitted our recertification application to Scenic City Certification Program. The Scenic City Certification Program is a program that supports and recognizes Texas municipalities that implement high-quality scenic standards for public roadways and public spaces. The Scenic City Certification Program provides a proven, highly-regarded tool to Texas cities for assessment, evaluation, and recognition of infrastructure standards. Any Texas city may apply to the Scenic City Certification Program for an objective, points-based review of existing municipal infrastructure ordinances. Every application receives a score sheet evaluation; cities that score at the upper level and demonstrate a landscaping/tree planting program, on-premise sign regulations and prohibition of new billboards may earn Certified Scenic City designation. The benefits of participation include: provides an expert third-party evaluation of existing standards, facilitates internal review and analysis of development plans, serves as a platform to educate citizens on the impact of local regulations, fosters community character and civic pride and enhances economic development efforts. In 2015 we were designated as a Gold Scenic City. That certification is active for five years and expires this year. • CityWorks our asset management system, is up and running. Streets, Utilities and Parks are now able to capture service requests, work orders and inspections as well as track costs and equipment. In addition, CityWorks will allow departments to capture information specific to events such as festivals or severe weather while tracking FEMA costs. This will enable departments to evaluate trends, business processes, perform analysis and provide management and Council metrics. Our consultant team is in the process of completing our citizen service request portal, which will streamline our current online service requests by eliminating the need for double entry and closing the loop with citizen by automating responses to service requests. • CAMPO has cancelled all of the open houses in March and April regarding the 2045 RTP and 2021-2024 TIP. They are working on a new plan to seek public comment • Three site development permits were issued this week: o Picadilly Office Sites at 1317 Picadilly Drive, Building A for construction of 5,358 square foot professional office building and associated improvements. o Vine Creek Phase 1 Temporary Parking Lot at 17729 Shafer Drive for construction of a temporary parking lot in support of their model homes. o Vine Creek Phases 3&4 Temporary Parking Lot at 17801 Shafer Drive for construction of a temporary parking lot in support of their model homes. Police: • “Go Bags” have been created and assigned to Patrol Sergeants containing extra PPE (Personal protective equipment) resources for patrol. • Available PPE and sanitation supplies have been distributed and ordered. Supplies are currently on backorder. • Distributed training bulletins on exposure procedures, decontamination processes and PPE response protocol for specific calls • Created a vehicle disinfecting station in sally port for personnel • Created disinfecting protocol for exposure for employee and uniform contamination • Staff temperatures are recorded daily at the beginning of shifts to ensure the health of employees, currently no staff members have reported experiencing symptoms consistent with the virus • The front lobby is closed to the public. Information is placed at entryways and social media to alert the public. • Evidence Control Section has limited public contact by suspending property releases unless mandated by law, and limiting visits to other facilities for business purposes • The Prescription Med Box program has been suspended until threat of exposure is minimized. • Non-emergency calls are being handled by patrol officers by phone. Response is being limited to emergency calls or calls where response is necessary • Citizens are being referred to the online reporting system for calls for service that are reportable on-line • Officers are responding to medical calls only at the request of EMS. • Victim Services and Crime Scene are responding to scenes in which there is a critical need for their services. Victim Services is handling most contacts by phone or email. • Incoming information and directives from county and state officials are evaluated and steps are being implemented as necessary. • The public has been very understanding and patient with the changes implemented. There have been some inquiries received but very few complaints. • Command Staff is working various hours in order to communicate with staff and ensure that service expectations are met. • Patrol shifts are limiting contact with each other by cancelling show-ups and show- downs and conducting pass-on via through email and MDC (Mobile Data Computer). Operating full shifts at this time. • Specialized units are supporting patrol and working normal hours. • Records staff will continue to work their normal work hours, with telecommuting being an option as needed • Dispatch shifts will maintain their normal work schedule. Access to the center is restricted to communications personnel only. • Evidence/Crime Scene staff will ensure that the office is open during normal business hours. Two employees have the ability to telecommute as necessary. • Victim Services staff are maintaining normal office hours, however, both full time employees can telecommute as needed. The part time staff member will not be working due to employment as a hospice counselor with another company.

Public Works: • Water Treatment Plant - Five operators and the foreman continue to rotate shifts to maintain the plan and produce clean water • Relocation of the Manville line is on hold, but design on the High Service Pump Station expansion continues • Waste Water Treatment Plant – Four operators and the foreman continue to rotate shifts to maintain the plant • Pumps and Motors – Two staff members are on hand for repairs for all system pumps and motors • Line Maintenance/Meters – Six crew members are on site prioritizing repairs and maintenance. There has been an uptick in calls for clogged lines. Meter crews are responding to customer service issues, replacing meters and reading meters. • Regulatory – One operator is on site working on the City’s annual Consumer Confidence Report. Required water quality tests will be conducted next week. Other staff are writing reports from home. • Recycle and Chipping are suspended. • Street and Drainage – Eight employees are currently on site, with one assigned to the EOC. These crews are maintaining mowing, signs, and other functions as needed • Fleet – Two employees are working fleet on Tuesdays and Thursdays to handle emergency repairs • Facilities – The Facilities Department is fully staffed in order to provide a safe environment for employees who continue to work on site in the City. All facilities have been deep cleaned and sanitized. Additional cleaning is done each morning where employees are working. These areas are also sprayed with disinfectant. The crews are rotating back in the afternoon for additional disinfecting. • Public Works Administrative Support – Two admin support staff have had telephones forwarded to cell phones and are working from home on various projects.

March 27, 2020 Greetings Mayor and City Council

Be sure to be checking your Slack!

Administration: • The City Manager’s office continues in a work from home status, communicating by Slack and videoconferencing as needed. After our mock public meeting yesterday, you should have received more information today and and look forward to implementing this in April with the April 6 Planning and Zoning Commission meeting.

Communications: • Communications continues to work on getting information about changes to City services in the midst of COVID-19 to the public o Posted video this week on not clogging toilets o Began #Istayhomefor on social media o Amenity closure press release, Williamson County and Travis County orders press release and Police Public Service Announcement on fraudulent COVID-19 tests o Watching news coverage and taking notes on local press conferences o Conducted virtual meeting test to prepare for April o Continue to respond to resident questions about COVID-19 on social media etc. o Had Community Impact post an update about City services affected by COVID-19 to help with questions about trash and curbside pickup, posted 3/26 o Maintain PIO for City virtual EOC o Participating in weekly calls on regional PIO messaging for COVID-19

Engineering: • Engineering Level of Service – High level project management services provided and high level construction inspection services continued throughout the week • Swenson Farms Pressure Reducing Valve project substantially completed, minor valve adjustments pending and coordinating the required Heatherwilde Elevated Storage Tank Maintenance project to be initiated late spring • Priority construction projects determined in event of need to stop construction • Developed an email contact list for all construction projects for efficiency of notifications to contractors • CIP Design progress meetings continued during week via teleconference and Skype o All projects considered maintain schedules as developed o RFQ under development for next projects o RFQ ad for Industrial Pretreatment began 3/24, staff to extend response SOQs to end of April in response to COVID-19 to allow sufficient time and consideration for engineering consultant submissions o Legal discussions planning for potential response to Time/Cost Delay requests by contractors o Established efficient process for electronic reviews/processing of invoices and construction payment applications • Staff work update: o 10 employees work from home o 3 employees in Development Office o 4 Employees in CIP office (2 performed filed inspections 90% of the time) o 3 Staff Augmentation employees work from home

Finance: • Utility Billing customer service hours have been reduced to 10am – 4pm Monday – Friday and staff have begun an A/B daily shift rotation, with two employees in the office and two working remotely. • The City’s FY19 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report (CAFR) has been posted to the Annual Financial Documents page on the City’s website and is available at the direct link: https://www.pflugervilletx.gov/home/showdocument?id=7047. The report has also been submitted to the Government Finance Officers’ Association (GFOA) for consideration of the Certificate of Achievement in Financial Reporting Excellence Award. • The City’s CAFR and continuing disclosures, required by the City’s debt covenants, have been uploaded to the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board (MSRB) EMMA website, for easy access by investors, rating agencies, and other interested parties. • Staff participated in updates and training on COVID-19 through both the City’s Financial Advisor (RBC) and the GFOA.

Library: • Library is closed until at least April 13 which involves no circulating physical items, patrons keeping all checked out items with no late fees or blocked accounts, events and programs canceled through May 1. • We are highlighting our electronic resources including ebooks, movies, music, resources for parents teaching at home, etc. • We are still available for card signups and account issues and issuing temporary cards over the phone. • Digital Resource List - On Library Website o The library has collected links to virtual resources to help keep your family busy while practicing social distancing. • We are engaging through social media and virtual tools o Virtual story times, watercolor hour, crafting videos, online book discussion and clubs, online teen programs • Staff working behind the scenes o Trainings, virtual meetings, inventory, staff evaluations, preparing book orders, cataloging items into our system, preparing future programs and events • Future planning for new community needs o When we reopen we anticipate an increased need from the community in job seeking support, training, and other assistance o We expect an influx of people needing access to computers and are planning accordingly o We are watching webinars and other trainings related to job search assistance and disaster response o We are planning public classes and trainings related to job search, resume writing and interview practice o We are connecting with potential partners like the Workforce Commission, Workforce Solutions, etc.

Parks: • Events: Kaitlyn working, coming into the office to make phone calls o Working on rescheduling Deutschen Pfest. Speaking with current vendors and assessing impact, reaching out to new vendors, looking at viable dates in September and the impact of the move to that weekend o Working on the ordinance and permit process for special events with other city staff o Working on revised Pfirecracker pfestival plan o Secured a $5,000 HEB donation for Deutschen Pfest event • Community Services: Eddie working from home o Working with Drop by Drop rebate customers, approving projects and answering questions about the program, evaluating before and after photos of project submittals o Currently has 28 vendors who have applied for the Farmer’s Market starting in May • Programs: Daulton and Rob are both working from home o Working on summer program lesson plans and schedules, employee schedules for camp, summer and fall field trip planning, planning fishing event on June 6th o Researching requirements to program e-sports tournaments online for our youth and teen community at home o Created a virtual Zumba class free for the public to take online o Added virtual museum tours for seniors o Working on a walking challenge program for the community that could be rolled out during closures, a 10,000 step challenge • Athletics and Aquatics Operations: Suzie working from home o Working on staff evaluations, fee presentation to be submitted to Finance and Budget Committee, creating trail mapping routes for 5K and fun runs o Working with Finance on refunding process for all cancelled programs o Working on CityWorks with GIS to get more familiar with the reporting functions and the software o Updating standard operating procedures for pool maintenance operations o Pool maintenance operations are weekly as of now. Staff is doing the cleaning and chemical requirements to keep outdoor pools free of algae and ready for use once the restriction is lifted • Aquatics Programs: Whitney working from the office o Continuing to work on Community Pass improvements ▪ Implementing training for a new Front Desk module that allows us to scan people in and access registrations o Camp and swim lesson registration was put on hold o Conversations with the Red Cross about operation rollout schedules once COVID-19 restrictions are lifted o Planning for summer operation continues, in-person lifeguard classes have been put on hold but staff is pursuing online options for portions of the training that can be done online • Recreation Center: LeAnn and Tisha are working from home o Working on updating standard operating procedures and front desk training procedures • Administrative: Stephanie is working from home o Processing refunds and credits onto accounts for reservations th o Created flyers for the Farmer’s Market starting May 5 and the Family Fishing Event June 6th o Responding to citizen emails and updating websites as new information posts • Parks Operations: Junior is working from the office o Have two 6 man crews working on an every other day rotation, each employee has been assigned their own vehicle to stay within the social distancing guidelines and their own grouping of parks to maintain ▪ Between full-time and part-time staff parks, playgrounds, trash cans, water fountains and other parks amenities are being checked 7 days a week ▪ This week staff has also repaired shade structures, power washed playground equipment, performed trail maintenance, and mulched flower beds and trees ▪ 1849 Park is currently closed ▪ All park restrooms have been cleaned, disinfected and closed until further notice ▪ Staff is offsetting contract mowing in the parks as well as mowing the ball fields ensuring they stay maintained and healthy ▪ A huge load of fiber mulch is being delivered by end of this week. The crew will begin to load and distribute to the playscapes and park system ▪ Staff has put out 40 signs in the park system letting park users know only playgrounds and restrooms are closed but the trails are still open

PAWS: • PAWS facility remains closed. • Animal Services Officers are on call for emergency response only, responding to the same type of emergency calls that they have done for afterhours call out • Kennel staff and Animal Services Officers are working together rotating shift cleaning and caring for animals along with one part time Admin Tech with Kennel Tech experience • Our full time Admin Tech is working a few hours from home each day. • We have successfully gotten two more cats into foster this week, but have two dogs returning from Starmark tomorrow and we will seek fosters for those.

PCDC: Report is attached as PCDC-March 27, 2020

Planning: • On Monday, Emily participated in the monthly meeting of the Technical Advisory Committee meeting for CAMPO as the City’s representative. This meeting was held virtually. To note from the meeting, all in person open houses for the 2045 Plan have been canceled and they are working to put together an online public meeting tentatively scheduled for April 6th • On Wednesday, Emily participated in a regional working group regarding fair housing. This was the result of the Analysis of Impediments (AI) to Fair Housing regional report that was completed by the city last year, in partnership with the cities of Austin and Round Rock, Travis and Williamson County and five public housing authorities, as part of the CDBG Consolidated Plan. The goal of this group is to continue the conversations started with the AI in order to collaborate and coordinate on regional fair housing issues. • All development submittals are now occurring online. Several site development submittals and subdivisions were submitted this week, including the site development plans for La Quinta/Hawthorne dual brand hotel planned for Stone Hill.

Police Department: • The Police Department is in daily communication with Travis County ESD2 regarding COVID-19 status and updates. • All specialized units have been reassigned to patrol to add additional shifts for rotation and flexible staffing • All events have been canceled at this time

Public Works: • The Public Works Department continues working at reduced staff but is providing essential services in water, water testing and reports, wastewater, line maintenance, mowing, and facility cleaning and maintenance. Supplies are in place or on order to allow a shelter in place scenario for a skeleton crew should the situation deteriorate. • Water Treatment Plant – Five operators and the foreman continue to rotate shifts to maintain the plant and produce clean water. o Operations: Repaired Train 4 bleed valve after extensive electrical troubleshooting, replaced safety shower, replumbed brine pumps for added reliability • Wastewater Treatment Plant – Four operators and the foreman continue to rotate shifts to maintain the plant. o Operations: Implemented automation scheme for sodium bisulfate to save on chemical costs and tube wear, replaced progressive cavity pump stator with one designed for wastewater, worked with BAR construction to reroute WAS line, and repaired polymer line lead at the centrifuge • Pumps and Motors – Two staff members are on hand for repairs for all system pumps and motors • Line Maintenance/Meters – Worked with utility billing to further identify emergency services and other services to be offered under the current stay at home orders. Emergency repairs were prioritized and same day service was suspended. New protocol was established for delivery of work orders between utility billing and line maintenance crews • Regulatory – One operator and the Regulatory Manager are on site working on the City’s annual Consumer Confidence Report (CCR). Reports are due to Manville and Southwest Water Supply April 1st. Required water quality tests were conducted this week. • Recycle and Chipping remain closed • Street and Drainage - Eight employees are currently on site. The division has switched to a two day on, two day off schedule, rotating through all crew members. These crews are maintaining mowing, signs and any other functions as needed. Forty signs were made to assist parks with closures and social distancing. • Fleet - Two employees are working fleet on Mondays and Thursdays to handle emergency repairs. This is a change from the previous Tuesday/Thursday schedule and was made to facilitate repairs for Police Department vehicles. • Facilities - The Facilities Department remains fully staffed in order to provide a safe environment for employees who continue to work on site in the City. Additional cleaning is done each morning where employees are working. These areas are also sprayed with disinfectant. The division purchased two sprayer/misters to enhance the disinfectant treatment. The crews are rotating back in the afternoon for additional disinfecting. • Public Works Administrative Support - Two admin support staff have had telephones forwarded to cell phones and are working from home on various projects.

April 3, 2020 Greetings Mayor and City Coucnil

Be sure to be checking your Slack!

Administration: • With the postponement of the May 2 bond election to November 3, the City Secretary’s Office will also be closed to the public at this time. The City Secretary’s and City Manager’s Office will continue in a work from home status. • Please find the attached draft agenda for the April 14 City Council Regular Meeting at 7:00pm. No worksession is currently planned for April 14. Titled cc041420a

Communications: • KXAN asked about code enforcement – we have not made changes to our procedures or enforcement at this time. Story here. • Community Impact asked about economic impact of Deutschen Pfest in light of it being postponed – a story is anticipated. • Deutschen Pfest Statesman Story here. • Pflag story on bulk trash pickup charges here. • Press release announcing Amy Giannini as Assistant City Manager. o Community Impact o The Patch • Closure of Lake Pflugerville o Closed Lake Pflugerville and received tremendous community support in this decision. Facebook post exceeded a reach of 50,000 and 300 shares. • Police homicide investigation on March 31 • Virtual Council meeting notification release o Twitter engagements went up 360% after the use of a thread for promoting the virtual meeting • Mayor Gonzales message was posted on Wednesday. As of Friday, April 3 at 11am it had more than 8,280 reach and 4,100 engagements on Facebook. After sending it on Nextdoor it had 707 views on YouTube. • Postpone may bond election to November release. o Community Impact coverage. o Statesman/Pflag coverage. • We continue to work on ways to engage with the community. In the next few weeks, Parks and Recreation is going to participate in National Picnic Day for backyard picnics on social media. Last week we held a #Istayhomefor campaign which increased engagement. We have departments doing virtual programs, and parks is about launch several programs including a backyard bingo. Attached is a snapshot of engagement with the City’s social media platforms titled Social Media Engagement.

Engineering: • Over the past year, staff has been working with KPA Engineers on development of New Standard Specifications that will update the City Engineering Specifications & Specification Product List for Materials to bring them to current standard as well as state and federal regulations. Today, staff will finalize the new specifications and anticipate posting on the City’s Engineering webpage for review and public comment April 10th • ADA Transition Plan Task Committee has completed SOQ evaluations and compiled information • Engineering and Planning staff come to a win-win resolution with Travis County discussions of TIA Pro-rata funding for the Ridge at Blackhawk Development, which is anticipated to require many infrastructure improvements within the Kelly Lane/Hodde/Weiss/Cele Road intersections. • Completed and submitted the Gilleland Creek TMDL Update to TCEQ 4/2 • Staff coordinated with issuance of the Travis County Order on 4/1 for Construction on Priority projects as determined to cease construction. Contractors were notified and inspectors followed up with job sites to ensure closures on 4/2. On 4/3 ALL construction was resumed, as determined by the Governor. • Contractors are following construction Inspection Protocol for safety and health of inspectors • 1849 Park Left Turn Lane Project – Construction progress meeting was great with collaboration of Travis County; on schedule and the contractor is very motivated; offers to provide a cost-savings to the project as agreed to utilize County’s milling machine and work crew to perform additional work, that has been revealed due to underlying varying field conditions different than the construction plans. • Weiss Lane - Cash has agreed to mow the tall grassy areas, for concerns of safety operations expressed by City Engineer • Pecan Street at 685 – TxDOT has agreed to cover the associated state cost in the amount of $131,451 as a result of staff coordination for the Local On-System Agreement (LOSA) required by TxDOT. Staff augmentation engineer provided comments as discussed and agreed by the City Engineer for concerns of increased costs for the City’s expenses to design/construction Pecan/FM 685 intersection improvements. • Lake Pflugerville Park – Concept plans for restroom and parking lot received and under review by staff; as well an updated schedule has been provided • Colorado Sand Dr. – ROW Agent met with PfISD and held a collaboration discussion with North Pointe Developer related to the public improvements for Colorado Sand Dr. City staff to meet next week for discussions based on meeting minutes from ROW Agent.

Finance: • The City has 2 outstanding insurance claims related to the TCEQ water violations. The City does not have coverage through TML for these type of claims so the City has evaluated each claim internally to determine whether the claim can be resolved. Claim 1 has been denied based on the source of water. The claimant drank from a freestanding water cooler at Austin Park and Pizza who purchases water from Windermere Utility Company. Claim 2 will be a settlement of $357, or the equivalent of 10 months of the claimant’s water portion of their utility bill as requested by the claimant. The claimant is a resident that alleges he and his wife had parasites and this significantly undermines his wife’s fight against cancer. • Notices of Appraised Value - Travis Central Appraisal District has informed us that appraisal notices will be mailed to property owners on or about April 10th. Williamson Central Appraisal District has made the decision to postpone sending appraisal notices until April 14th (if not later). The deadline to file property protests for the 2020 protest season is May 15, 2020 (in either county). • Staff continues to stay informed on COVID-19 by participating in a variety of webinars and trainings, this week from the Government Finance Officers Association, Standard and Poors and Texas Department of Emergency Management.

Library: • Youth Services Librarian Amanda Cawthon has been awarded the Texas Library Association’s, Young Adult Reading Incentive Award honoring a librarian for exceptional ability to motivate young adults to read. They recognized her DiversiTeen Book Club, which provides teens with a safe space to discuss books that celebrate diversity and how they relate to their own lives. • We are working towards a plan for when we reopen that includes safety for patrons and staff and changes in service needs for the community. • We are working with area libraries to share resources and ensure consistency in operations and developing plans on how to handle the return of items currently checked out. We are also updating our emergency procedures to address future public health situations. • Library programming staff continue to create content and engage with the community through virtual programs. Highlights this week included: Crafty Café at home, Watercolor Hour, Spring Pfoto Challenge, and Virtual Storytimes. • We are launching a new electronic resource next week called Creativebug. It provides free access to online art and craft classes. While we are closed, our programming librarians will make immediate use of it to create virtual programs and our patrons will have access to a wide array of activities for children and adults while they are at home. • We’ve already seen an increase in the usage of our electronic resources including eBook checkouts, movies streamed, and learning resources accessed. • Through an agreement we’ve reached with Ancestry.com, our library edition is now available for use at home (normally it can only be used at the library). • The library’s monthly Pflugerville Pflag article can be seen here. It highlights the things we are doing to support the community while we are closed.

Parks: • Events – Kaitlyn is working from home o Researched options for Music in the Park to Transition to a virtual event if needed due to COVID-19 and other virtual streaming ideas. o Worked on a virtual recreation center with other staff members. o Contacted all Deutschen Pfest performers about the postponement of the event to the fall and their fall interest/availability o Working on the Pflugerville Egg Hunt options to replace the Pfloating Egg Hunt event. • Community Services – Eddie is working from home o Pfarmers Market due to open on May 5th, depending on the status of COVID- 19. There are currently 30 vendors who have applied to sell at our market this season. o Drop by Drop Rebate Program ▪ Three new applications were approved this week, making a total of 24 ▪ 2 projects were completed, rebated submitted to finance ▪ As of this week, 5 projects have been completed and rebates sent. ▪ Current rebate totals: $813.76, Resident expense: $1,886.21 o Due to current directive of social distancing and shelter in place, all trail cleanup projects have been canceled. o Collaborated with Keep Pflugerville Beautiful (KPB) members in completing Gold Star Award application for KTB and we earned the Award of Excellence for our GCAA application. • Parks Maintenance – Junior is in the office and the park system o Provided supplemental mowing to the city to assist the contract mowing at the various parks and trails o Closing down of Lake Pflugerville with barricades, cones and signage o Removal of basketball rims and volleyball nets at various parks to assist with limiting social gathering • Recreation Center – LeAnn and Tisha are working from home o Hosted a virtual Zumba class on Facebook Live, at its peak we had 97 participants o Working on updating Rec center and front desk standard operating procedures o Working on a virtual option to help the community participate in the 20th year celebration of the opening of the Rec Center on April 30th • Programs – Rob and Daulton are working from home o Worked on a roster of seniors for staff to call and check in on. Give the senior members a chance to have an interaction with staff and allows staff to see how they are doing and if they need help with anything. o Continued planning the Pfamily Pfish event. o Working on a virtual Pfitness challenge, soon to be ready for rollout. o Updating standard operating procedures for all recreation programs. o Finalized Summer Day Camp schedules • Aquatics/Athletics – Suzie is working from home and Whitney is working from her office o Completed video calls with Aquatics staff o Participated in a video call with Central Texas Aquatic personnel about current operations guidelines and future planning o Working on summer programming, including virtual training, EAPs, and operation changes o Working of the 5K and fun run race routes for special even ordinance/new permit process o Updating standard operating procedures for Scott Mentzer Pool • Administrative Technician – Stephanie working from home o Standard operating procedures for the scholarship process and scholarship registering for classes was completed this week. o

PAWS: • PAWS facility continues to be closed to the public, but we are seeing adopters and fosters by appointment only, outside. Animal Welfare Officers are now working security at Lake Pflugerville between 8am and 5pm daily. We continue to have a skeleton crew for cleaning and animal care at the shelter. We continue to promote animals for foster and adoption on Facebook.

PCDC: Report is attached as PCDC-April 3, 2020. Also attached is Annual Financial Report 2019 - PCDC

Planning: • CAMPO posted a series of online public meetings and open houses this week for the 2045 Transportation Plan. Details on the call in information is attached (CAMPO Online Public Meetings and Open Houses .pdf).

Police Department: • The Police Department is in daily communication with Travis County ESD2 regarding COVID-19 status and updates. • All events have been cancelled at this time • Monday, Wednesday, and Frist Chief had weekly conference calls with Regional Chiefs about COVID-19 procedures, staffing models and officer safety measures • Wednesday Chief had a conference call with Travis County District Attorney’s Office about COVID-19 and its effect on sexual assault cases. • Officer David Jester retires today. A retirement celebration will be planned after COVID- 19 restrictions are lifted.

Public Works: • The Public Works Department continues working at reduced staff but providing essential services in water, water testing and reports, wastewater, line maintenance, mowing, and facility cleaning and maintenance. Supplies are in place or on order to allow a shelter in place scenario for a skeleton crew should the situation deteriorate. • Water Treatment Plant - Five operators and the foremen continue to rotate shifts to maintain the plant and produce clean water. Operations: Made repairs to high service pump #3 and adjusted timing of high service pump #1 to allow for better operation. Installed salt tank level transmitter to allow for more efficient and safer readings. Replaced obsolete sodium hypochlorite variable frequency drive with a current drive that allows for standardization and efficiency. Made repairs to lake pump control wiring. Replaced ACH transfer pump with modern model allowing for more efficient operation and maintenance and allows for redundancy in the event of pump failure. • Wastewater Treatment Plant - Four operators and the foreman continue to rotate shifts to maintain the plant. Operations: Moved in to the temporary lab trailer so that BAR Construction can begin demolition of the existing lab building as part of the wastewater treatment plant expansion project. • Pumps and Motors – Two staff members are on hand for repairs for all system pumps and motors. • Line Maintenance/Meters – Assisted wastewater treatment with cleaning of centrifuge drain lines. • Regulatory – Worked on Consumer Confidence Report and submitted data to Manville and Southwest Water on time as required. Completed and submitted the DLQOR (Disinfectant Level Quarterly Operating Report) to TCEQ for 1st Quarter 2020. Completed various required samples. Wiped down and disinfected Regulatory Shop. • Recycle and Chipping remain closed. • Street and Drainage – Eight employees are currently on site. The division has switched to a two day on, two day off schedule, rotating through all crew members. These crews are maintaining mowing, signs and any other functions as needed. Coordinated to provide signs and set traffic control items for closure of Lake Pflugerville. School zones signs were updated to reflect the current closure of schools. • Fleet – Four employees are working fleet on Mondays and Thursdays to handle emergency repairs. • Facilities – The Facilities Department remains fully staffed in order to provide a safe environment for employees who continue to work on site in the City. Additional cleaning is done each morning where employees are working. These areas are also sprayed with disinfectant. The division purchased two sprayer/misters to enhance the disinfectant treatment. The crews are rotating back in the afternoon for additional disinfecting. • Public Works Administrative Support – Two admin support staff have had telephones forwarded to cell phones and are working from home on various projects.

April 10, 2020 Greetings Mayor and City Council

Be sure to be checking your Slack!

Communications: • Trey, James, Emily and Terri held a virtual meeting with Taylor Buchanan from Community Impact. We emphasized that all CIP projects are continuing right now and planning applications continue without slowing down. They are going to use the hashtag #Pflugervillestrong and a banner is going up over 1825 with that message as soon as it is received. It is in the mail and expected any day now. Impact is writing about the turn lane into 1849 Park. • The Library had an interview with Charter Spectrum News Wednesday about how libraries are helping community during the pandemic. Daniel took interview to highlight Pflugerville and the story has not yet run because they are interviewing a series of libraries for the story. When it is online, we will share the link. • On Tuesday, ACMs and City Manager toured city facilities to say thank you to staff. Watch the video highlights here. • Communications increased promotion of the #9PMRoutine after some additional thefts in vehicles occurred this week. Increased promotion included a story in the Key, homepage news item, posts on social media reminding the public, and a repost of the #9PMRoutine video. We specifically targeted the neighborhoods where the thefts were occurring. A story was added to the next utility bill insert, the Pflyer, to encourage everyone to participate in the #9PMRoutine. • The City launched the Intranet for employees this week. It provides a link to helpful information and support for employees working remotely. • The Census website is showing that Pflugerville is now at a 51.1% response rate. A week ago, we were at 44%. We are posting on social media to encourage people to continue to respond to the Census. • HOAs asked to close parks with city. o Community Impact o Austin American Statesman • A word document is attached containing recent media coverage titled Week 4 (Compiled) Media Reporting

Engineering: • Performed Environmental Inspection of 4 project sites related to erosion compliance • Construction Division continues management of 68 construction projects. • Contractors are following Construction Inspection Protocol for safety and health of inspectors • 1849 Park Left Turn Lane Project – Construction progress meeting 4/9, target milling confirmed for 4/13 weather permitting. Collaboration with Travis County final paving to coincide with City’s construction on Cameron Road extending from the 1849 Park left turn lane improvements up to Fuchs Grove Road • Wilbarger Creek Park – construction progress is great, work for the parking lot has begun. • All CIP projects considered maintain schedules as developed • Industrial Pretreatment SOQ reevaluated to maintain schedule date 4/9 SOQs were received and will be processed for Committee evaluation • ROW meeting hosted by city for updates on CIP projects

Finance: • The Comptroller’s April allocation of sales taxes has been completed and the revenue received by the City increased by 3.9% ($30,875) from April 2019. These collections represent the cash payment received by the City from taxpayers for sales that occurred in the month of February. The Comptroller is offering assistance to sales taxpayers in the form of short-term payment agreements and, in most instances, waivers of penalties and interest (Comptroller help link: here). Through April, approximately 60.0% of the budgeted sales tax has been collected. The analysis is attached as FY20 Sales Tax April. • Began distribution of the FY21 Budget Workbooks to departments to begin the budget preparation process. • Continued to stay informed on changes due to COVID-19 by participating in a variety of training sessions, this week from the Government Finance Officers Association and American Payroll Association.

Library: • Ensuring Access o We continue to offer temporary cards to anyone in the Pflugerville area who requests one. These cards allow free access to all of our electronic materials. Patron can come in and verify their information when we reopen to get an actual card. o We saw an increase in the usage of e-materials in March. Highlights include (percentage increase over average): eBooks (15%), streaming movies (50%), Hoopla new users (100%), Lynda.com (56%), Other Business Resources (80%), Homeschool/Teaching support (90%), Language Learning (70%) • Community Engagement o Children’s Programmer Carmen Lazo launched a new virtual program this week called Reading Buddies. Parents set an appointment with Carmen who contacts them and reads a story to their child utilizing Webex Meetings. This program is proving very popular! o Upcoming new virtual programs include: Virtual Book Buzz (librarians highlight newly published books) and a Virtual Petting Zoo. Follow the library on Facebook to see our full array of virtual programs and other ways we are engaging with the community during our closure. • COVID-19 Response o Staff members Bette McDowell, Laura Brekke and Joan Meyers made masks to protect city staff. Bette also used the library’s laser cutter in the Pfab Lab to cut fabric for masks for the group through covidmaskmakers.com o The library has joined Grow with Google. This partner program provides free resources that community organizations can use to teach digital skills to help people grow their careers and businesses. We will use this resource to create programming when we reopen to support the changing community needs, including job search assistance and small business support.

Parks: • Parks and Recreation launched a virtual recreation center this week: www.pflugervilletx.gov/virtualrec • Events o Set up and prepared 250 egg hunt kits with the help of city staff & delivered to over 122 families in the Pflugerville community. See video here. o Coordinating a backup plan to move Music in the Park to a Fall option if needed o Created virtual programs such as the Pflugerville Chalk Challenge launching next week & working on multiple options for upcoming weeks o Coordinated new dates with Deutschen Pfest committee & working on creating a new game plan with entertainment and vendor committee members. New date is Oct. 16th – 18th • Community Services o Researched best operating procedures for Farmer’s Markets currently operating in Austin with COVID-19 precautions in place. We have over 30 vendors ready for our May 5th tentative start date. o Coordinated with CMO, Communications Dept. and the Pfun Committee on “Pflugerville Heroes Work Here” signs and banners for entrances and exits of City Facilities. o Completed Standard Operation Procedures for the Farmer’s Market o Worked on online tutorials for home gardening instruction • Parks Maintenance o Park operations crews are still practicing social distancing while working a normal schedule. 1 team member per vehicle o We have shut down all the parks for Easter weekend. Thanks to Animal Control for helping us patrol and enforce these temporary closures o Crews are still doing supplemental mowing to help the contractor catch up to their schedule, adding mulch, pruning trees, checking trash, disinfecting water fountains, adding wood fiber in the playgrounds and power washing all playground equipment o Crews are also still mowing the athletic fields on a weekly basis to ensure they are ready when the bans are lifted o Lake Pflugerville and 1849 are closed and will remain closed even after the holiday weekend • Recreation Center o Communicated with all instructors on plans for summer programming options and potential timelines o Attended a Special Olympics Webinar planning for summer and fall programming • Programs o Summer camp preparation including forecasting how long it will take to stand up a program when the bans are lifted. o Weekly phone calls to our senior participants to check in and see how they are doing o We opened the 26.2 Mile Pfitness Challenge and are up to 51 participants enrolled and 3 people already have completed the challenge o Researching other virtual events and programs, looking into the option of Virtual Bingo o Planning to provide a virtual art competition for World Art Day April 15th • Aquatics and Athletics o Currently working on pool opening scenarios with timelines of based off shelter in place projections o Researching virtual class options for aquatic education programs • Administrative Technician o Worked on HUD scholarships affected by class cancelations due to the restrictions o Planning a Let’s Go Trailing program for our parks

PAWS: • PAWS officers continue to patrol Lake Pflugerville and provide lake security. Starting Friday, we have extended their patrol hours from 8am-5pm to 7am-7pm. • PAWS continues to run on a skeleton crew to provide daily care of animals and cleaning and maintaining the shelter. We continue to see citizens by appointment for adoptions. • For Easter weekend, PAWS staff will have a presence at Pfluger and Gilleland Parks, providing security at the parks and trails. PAWS staff will also be patrolling between Bohls and Heritage Park by vehicle, and available for response at other parks at PD request.

Planning: • On Monday, the Planning and Zoning Commission held their first virtual meeting. The Commission acted to statutorily disapprove six subdivisions. As a reminder, the Planning and Zoning Commission approved modifications to the development review schedules to account for requirements created by HB3167. • As part of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act (CARES Act), we have been provided a special allocation of CDBG funding in the amount of $158, 241. The award of this funding is provided in the attached letter from HUD (City of Pflugerville CARES Act CDBG Formula Award Letter). Staff is working through the requirements on ways we can best utilize the funding to help prevent, prepare for, and respond to the coronavirus in Pflugerville.

Police: • Monday, Wednesday, and Friday Chief Robledo had a conference call with Regional Chiefs • Wednesday Asst. Chief Smith participated in State Operations Center Weather Call • The Police Department is in daily communication with Travis County ESD2 regarding COVID-19

Public Works: • The Public Works Department continues working at reduced staff but providing essential services in water, water testing and reports, wastewater, line maintenance, mowing, and facility cleaning and maintenance. Supplies are in place or on order to allow a shelter in place scenario for a skeleton crew should the situation deteriorate. • Water Treatment Plant o Five operators and the foremen continue to rotate shifts to maintain the plant and produce clean water. o Continuing to make small changes to lower finished chlorine level goals to make a more refined end-product. o Finished installation of chemical feed pump signal conduit to begin installation of replacement pumps. Once the pumps are installed, they will be standardized across the chemical feed systems. o Inspected Train 4’s raw water control valve for the presence of zebra mussels in both the pipe and the construction screen going into the train. No deposition of zebra mussels was found on the pipe or the construction screen which was anticipated given the ongoing maintenance of the raw water strainers. o Continuing to work on inventory management of critical parts for the plant to allow for better repair response times in the future. o Replaced air/oil separator in air compressor at River Pump Station and finished annual preventative maintenance on schedule. • Wastewater Treatment Plant o Four operators and the foreman continue to rotate shits to maintain the plant o Repaired leaking bonnet on the motor for Reclaimed Pump # 3. After troubleshooting issues with tertiary filters, operators made repairs. o Operators repaired an inverter fan on Aerator 2 failed causing the drive to overheat and shut off. o WWTP Operations staff have started to optimize the aerator speeds to try to minimize power costs as much as possible. o Operators worked through power outage on Thursday due to storm event, assessed for damage after plant was restored and returned plant to normal operator conditions. • Pumps and Motors o Two staff members are on hand for repairs for all system pumps and motors o Pulled and repaired Highland Park Life Station Pump 2 after significant clogging was noticed on the pump impeller. • Line Maintenance/Meters – Staffed and working on routine line maintenance and meter items • Regulatory o Worked on Consumer Confidence Report and submitted data to Manville and Southwest Water on time as required. Completed and submitted the DLQOR (Disinfectant Level Quarterly Operating Report) to TCEQ for 1st Quarter 2020. o Completed various required samples o Wiped down and disinfected Regulatory Shop • Recycle and chipping remain closed • Street and Drainage o Eight employees are currently on site o The division has switched to a two day on, two day off schedule, rotating through all crew members. These crews are maintaining mowing, signs and any other functions as needed. Coordinated to provide sign for park closure this weekend. • Fleet – Four employees are working fleet on Mondays and Thursdays to handle emergency repairs • Facilities o The Facilities Department remains fully staffed in order to provide a safe environment for employees who continue to work on site in the City. Additional cleaning is done each morning where employees are working. These areas are also sprayed with disinfectant. o The department purchased two sprayer/misters to enhance the disinfectant treatment. o The crews are rotating back in the afternoon for additional disinfecting. • Public Works Administrative Support – Two admin support staff have had telephones forwarded to cell phones and are working from home on various projects.

April 17, 2020 Greetings Mayor and City Council

Be sure to be checking your Slack!

Administration: • Southeast Loop Study Update – City staff has been serving in a stakeholder role, monitoring the development of Williamson County’s Southeast Loop Study. Based on a summary of the email received by staff this week, the goal of the study was to enhance safety and mobility within the County by considering connectivity for east/west travel between SH 130 and FM 3349, and north/south travel to US 79. The Southeast Loop will address the tremendous amount of growth and immediate transportation needs in the Hutto and Taylor areas (as well as north Pflugerville). Additional information is available for review on the project webpage. With Williamson County voters approving the 2019 Williamson County Road Bond Program, the next phase of the Southeast Loop project includes creating plans, specifications & estimates, followed by construction of two sections of the route: from SH 130 to CR 137 and from CR 404 to US 79. Over the last several months, the project team has gathered additional data and conducted further engineering analysis in order to finalize the recommended route and a schematic for those two segments and the schematic has been finalized and is now available on the County's website here. • Please find the attached draft agendas for the April 28, 2020 City Council Worksession and Regular Meeting. Titled cc042820wsa and cc042820a.

Communications: • Travis County Order was updated on April 13 extending Stay Home until May 8. The City did a FB boost Alert that was shared more than 380 times and viewed by more than 35,000 people. • Communications continues to update the website and respond to resident inquiries about city services during COVID-19. Terri and Maggie attended the Regional PIO conference call for ongoing messaging on the COVID-19. • Impact covered the 4/16 Kelly Lane and Pflugerville Parkway pavement work • The Patch: Library resources help ease anxiety • Pflugerville Pflag: Pflugerville among coronavirus hot spots in Travis County. • Community Impact: Construction underway on left turn lane into 1849 park. • Compiled media coverage attached as “Week 5 (Compiled) Media”

Engineering: • The City Council approved an agreement with Freese and Nichols in October 2019 to provide staff augmentation services for the Engineering Department. Freese and Nichols has managed 18 projects and additional tasks over the past 6 months. Please find a report attached. City staff will be bringing forward an item to request approval for an additional 6 months of staff augmentation services with Freese and Nichols on April 28, 2020. Report attached as CC_Engineering Update. • Jenna Goolsby named as the Interim Floodplain Administrator for the city. • Development o Completed 5 project reviews and 11 projects on target to meet 4/23 deadline o 2 Construction Permits Issued: Construction Plan and Site Plan for Project Charm o Performed Environmental Inspections of 6 project sites related to erosion compliance • Construction o Continue management of 68 construction projects o Performed 135 total construction inspections for week of 4/12 o Contractors are following Construction Inspection Protocol for safety and health of insepctors o 1849 Park Left Turn Lane – Construction project meeting 4/16; milling performed o Pecan at Biltmore Traffic Signal – coordinating review of contractor submittals; signal mast arm equipment has been ordered • CIP o Gilleland Creek Pool Complex Kick-off meeting held 4/14 o E. Pflugerville Parkway/Jesse Bohls Extension – progress meeting 4/15; preliminary alignment design ongoing, City and Consultant coordinating with Lakeside Meadows developer to revise site plan to reflect E. Pflugerville Parkway design; geotechnical data collection complete o Colorado Sand Dr. – City hosted a webex meeting with PfISD, Developer, Engineering Consultant, ROW Agent, City staff (ACM, Planning, Engineering) for discussions of alignment and ROW; Open House has been postponed until resolution of alignment o Pecan/Heatherwilde - coordinating with TxDOT for concurrence letter of approval for project bidding; coordinating with the Windermere HOA for monument sign, landscaping, irrigation and flag poles o Highland Park 24” Interceptor – Design progress meeting held on 4/14

Finance: • Travis and Williamson Central Appraisal Districts have provided their Preliminary Estimates of Taxable Value for the coming tax year. As a reminder these taxable appraised values are as of January 1, 2020. Certified Taxable Values are anticipated on July 25th. Some key points follow and graphs of the 5 year history are attached as Property Value Preliminary Analysis. o The City’s preliminary valuation totals $6.78 billion which is an increase of 9% over the prior year. Of this amount, $269 million is attributed to new improvements. o The value of multi-family properties increased 19% over the prior year, commercial properties increased 14% and single-family increased 7%. o The average residential value increased only 1.2% to $257,612. • Staff participated in virtual meetings hosted by both Travis and Williamson Appraisal Districts this week. In those meetings each district expressed that they are anticipating difficulties through the property value protest season in the current COVID-19 environment. They are expecting logistical difficulties such as scheduling and processing hearings and perception challenges such that the valuations are as of January 1, 2020 but the property owners are under financial stress now. TCAD further expressed that they are maintaining their position that the January 1st valuation is prior to the current economic conditions, but indicated that the independently appointed Appraisal Review Board has authority over resolution of protest values.

Library: • We have added a “While we are Closed” page to the library website (Thanks to Gwen in the Communications Department!). There is a button with a direct link to it on our main page. It offers a quick highlight of what we are doing to stay engaged with the community and directs them to additional information: library.pflugervilletx.gov/my- library/about-the-library/location-hours/while-we-are-closed • The library was awarded the 2019 Achievement of Excellence in Libraries Award from the Texas Municipal Library Directors Association (TMLDA). It is our 8th time receiving this award! • We officially launched another electronic resource this week called Gale Business Plan Builder. This tool takes you through a step-by-step process to create a business plan so that you can secure funding for a business endeavor. • Library staff continues to make masks for other city departments, to date over 150 masks have been made and delivered to the Police Department, Public Works, PAWS, Parks, and more. • Virtual Programming highlights from this week include: Crafty at Home Café, Watercolor Hour, Online Diversiteen Book Club, Homeschool Teens, Reading Buddies, and storytimes. On Saturday we will host a virtual visit from Tiny Tails to You with a live interactive animal program at 11 a.m. • We are also enlisting the many talents of our part-time staff to create online content and video tutorials based on their special skills. This includes Virtual Dungeons and Dragons (Thanks for the shout out Doug!), how to play musical instruments, how to cook, Instagram Stories, a podcast and much more. Keep an eye out for these to post online soon. • With the uncertainty surrounding when the library will reopen, the librarians have begun making plans for an online, virtual Summer Reading Program in case this is necessary. The summer is one of the busiest times of the year at the library and we need to be prepared. They called a meeting together with other local libraries to share ideas.

Parks: • Events: o Created new virtual challenges this week, skills challenge and chalk challenge o Created Deutschen Pfest fall contracts to send out to fall vendors o Secured back up Music in the Park for our June performances o Worked on virtual programming music licenses for social media postings • Community Services: o Working on roll out for Pfarmer’s Market to compile with all Covid-19/Sheltering restrictions o Worked with Communications, the Pfun Committee, and CMO to design and install heroes work here banners. See photo attached: Heroes Work Here.

PAWS: • PAWS continues to facility fostering and adoptions through appointments. • Animal Services Officers continue to patrol Lake Pflugerville and provide security between 7am and 7pm daily. • Shelter staff are in the midst of repainting the stray cat and cat isolation rooms, and touch up the cat adoption room and work on other maintenance projects at the shelter. • PAWS had an online program on Facebook this week called Poorly-Drawn Pets. Citizens posted photos of their pets on our Facebook page and staff drew photos of the pets. The request for drawings was greater than expected, and staff had to recruit additional volunteers to help draw the animals. An album of the photos and drawings will be posted on the PAWS Facebook page today. • This weekend, PAWS will have a Caption This contest on our Facebook page. Staff will post photos from shelter animals and ask citizens to create a caption. The winning caption will be the one with the most likes. Staff will then create a meme using that photo and caption. • Stay tuned to PAWS Facebook page to see more upcoming contests and programs to continue to engage our citizens.

PCDC: Reports attached: April 10, 2020 and April 16, 2020. An informative retail presentation is also attached titled Covid19 Retail Webinar

Planning: • The site development permit for Project Charm has been issued and a pre-construction meeting was held today (Friday). This permit allows them to begin all site construction activity. Until this point the site was limited to grading, tree removal and pier formation. Construction is anticipated to last until July of 2021. Site construction is anticipated to occur 7 days a week. • On Wednesday, Trey and Emily met with Travis County Development staff at their quarterly meeting. They discussed various construction projects, general development issues and collaboration efforts while working remotely. • Timmerman 2020 rezoning has been notified for the May 12th Council meeting. The notice will appear in the newspaper next week and property owners, within 500’, will receive individual notices sent directly to them.

Police: • Link to Crime Map can be found here. • The Police Department is in daily communication with Travis County ESD2 regarding COVID-19 status and updates • Monday, Wednesday and Friday Chief Robledo had a conference call with the Regional Chiefs • Asst. Chief Smith participated in semi-weekly conference calls with DSHS and CAPCOG Regional Emergency Management Coordinators. • Tuesday Victoria Nails & Spa donated masks, sanitizer and Isopropyl Alcohol • Wednesday Dispatch Supervisory Belinda Alexander was named PPD’s Communications Officer of the Year as part of the annual Telecommunicator’s Appreciation Week. • Friday Home Depot donated several respirators for officers.

Public Works: • Two admin support staff have had telephones forwarded to cell phones and are working from home on various projects. • The Public Works Department continues working at reduced staff but providing essential services in water, water testing and reports, wastewater, line maintenance, mowing, and facility cleaning and maintenance. Supplies are in place or on order to allow a shelter in place scenario for a skeleton crew should the situation deteriorate. • Water Treatment – Five operators and the foremen continue to rotate shifts to maintain the plant and produce clean water. o Replaced RPZ and water line for better operation for chlorine generation system. o Replaced hoses and changed oil in large peristaltic hose pumps that provide for maintenance cleans and recovery cleans on the membrane units. o Performed annual acid clean on chlorine generation cells to remove built up calcium on cells. o Replaced outdoor plugs that had failed due to loss of in-use covers causing a failure in the regeneration system on one of the chlorine generation units. • Wastewater Treatment – Four operators and the foreman continue to rotate shifts to maintain the plant o Repaired chlorine contact clarifier drive chain after motor had slipped which made the chain bind. Changed oil in clarifier drive while unit was down for chain repair. o Cleaned extended chlorine contact basin to minimize the amount of total suspended solids going into the filters to try to minimize the loading onto them. • Pumps and Motors – Four staff members are on hand for repairs for all system pumps and motors o Ran conduit and wire for Well 7 chlorine and ammonia control integration. Once equipment is installed, it will give better operator control over the chlorine to ammonia ratio for a more stable product. • Line Maintenance – Six staff members, the foreman and the Superintendent are reporting to work to maintain and repair of water and wastewater lines. o Coordinated with Engineering Department to inspect PRV installations on Swenson Farms. Found that both PRVs were operational, but one was in the off position. Scheduled to meet contractor to adjust the PRVs. o Assisted development by turning off water to dead end main for water tie in o Responded to 3 water leaks and 3 sewer backup calls. Completed 4 utility locate requests. Inspected 1 sewer lateral. Informed development about one warranty issue (water leak). Investigated leaking air release valve on Pflugerville Parkway. After primary investigation, determined the ARV belongs to Manville Water. Informed Manville of our findings. • Meters – Three staff members are reporting to work for installation, maintenance and repairs of water meters and leak investigations. • Regulatory/Water Conservation – Two staff members and the Manager reported to work and one worked from home to continue regulatory efforts. o Received lab results from Austin Foam and Plastic for pretreatment. Worked on CCR (Consumer Confidence Report) o Completed various Bac-T samples • Street and Drainage – Ten staff members, two foremen and the superintendent are reporting to work to maintain streets, drainage, mowing and other miscellaneous tasks. o One foreman has been tasked with being a logistics coordinator with responsibilities including securing supplies, maintaining records and distributing masks city-wide. o Staff members lit City Hall, the Library, Recreation Center and Justice Center with blue lights to support for healthcare and all essential workers. o Several employees hung “Stay Home, Safe and #pflugervillestrong” banner over Pecan. o One employee has been assigned to disinfecting vehicles for PD for PM shift change. o A contractor has filled in some rutting of the asphalt on Kelly Lane from the golf course east, which will make the drive smoother and safer until phase 2 of Kelly Lane rehabilitation can begin. • Fleet - Four staff members are reporting to work three days per week on Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday. • Resource Recovery – Two staff members are reporting to work to assist with the Recycle Center and other miscellaneous tasks including mowing. o Staff reopened the Recycle Center on Friday, April 17th, accepting all items. The Recycle Center will be open normal hours, Friday, Saturday and Monday 8-5. No compost or mulch will be available at this time. o One employee has been assigned to disinfect Public Works buildings to assist Facilities Maintenance. • Facility Maintenance – Department remains fully staffed in order to provide a safe environment for employees who continue to work on site in the City. o Additional cleaning is done each morning where employees are working. These areas are also sprayed with disinfectant. The division purchased two sprayers/misters to enhance the disinfectant treatment at City Facilities. o One employee has been assigned to disinfecting vehicles for PD for AM shift change.

April 24, 2020 Greetings Mayor and City Council

Be sure to be checking your Slack!

Administration: The Council Worksession next Tuesday, April 28 will take place from 5:30-6:30p to allow for a 30-minute break before the Regular meeting starts at 7:00p.

Communications: • Communications is preparing messaging for when it is time to reopen safely and a communications plan • Fox 7 inquired about Uncle Gary’s live music and social distancing drop off • Communications updated the Covid-19 page to reflect that Waste Connections will extend their Level 3 trash pickup through the end of May. (no items beyond the trash cart) • See attachment Week 6 Compiled Media document for this week’s media coverage.

Engineering: • Engineering and PIO in progress planning for virtual Open House meetings mid- May/June • Hardcopies of MS4 Annual report submitted to TCEQ • Development o Completed 6 Site Plan Reviews o Completed 1 Construction Plan Review o Completed 3 Final Plat Reviews o Completed 1 Preliminary Plan Review o Performed Environmental Inspections of 6 project sites related to erosion compliance • Construction o Contractors are following Construction Inspection Protocol for safety and health of inspectors o Continue management of 68 construction projects o Central Wastewater Treatment Plant construction project continues o 1849 Park Left Turn Lane Project – Construction progress meeting o Wilbarger Creek Park – construction progress is great, restroom facility installed • CIP o Highland Park Interceptor field visit for alignment review o Pecan/Weiss Water Line consultant coordination with Lakeside Meadows o Wilbarger WWTP Owner’s representative kick-off meeting o Justice Center Parking Lot, Sewer Lines and North Standpipe projects being coordinated by City staff with engineering consultants o RFQ for Generator at Water Treatment Plant advertisement to paper 4/22 o Pecan/Heatherwilde – finalizing TxDOT for concurrence letter for approval for project bidding; coordinating with the Windermere HOA for monument sign, landscaping, irrigation and flag poles

Finance: • Attached is a financial outlook memo covering current and future budget impacts titled Financial Impact Memo. This will be included in Tuesday’s City Council discussion. • At last night’s Finance and Budget Committee meeting, fees for PAWS, Planning, Building and Utility Customer Service were presented and discussed. The Committee made recommendations to provide the proposed fees for each department to City Council. These will be included on a future agenda.

Library: • We strive to engage with all age groups through our programming and our staff is maintaining this imperative virtually. While we have many current programs, here is one example of a virtual program for each age group: o Reading Buddies – For young children, Carmen Lazo is providing one-on-one virtual reading sessions. Parents make an appointment, then Carmen reads and interacts with the child through Webex meetings. o Make Watercolor Paints at Home – For tweens, Youth Librarian Melissa Grzybowski created a Youtube tutorial on a fun way to make watercolor paint at home utilizing typical household supplies. o Youtube Book Reviews – For Teens, under the tutelage of Youth Services Librarian Amanda Cawthon, Library Assistants Karsen LaRue and Tiara Allen have begun a series of fun YouTube book reviews made specifically with this age group in mind. o Virtual Book Buzz – For Adults, Librarians Bette McDowell, Meg Miller, and Chermaine Burleson offered an overview of exciting, recently published books on Thursday. This event is typically an in-person program, but they seamlessly transitioned it to a virtual one shared through social media. o Virtual Watercolor Hour – For Seniors, Adult Services Librarian Bette McDowell has created a series of tutorials showing how to create beautiful watercolor paintings. While not only for seniors, Bette has developed quite a following from this crowd and many have enjoyed these virtual lessons while the building is closed. o Tiny Tails to you Facebook Live Stream – Entire families enjoyed a live interactive animal show last Saturday that engaged with over 100 families. The performer was able to interact in real time as children asked questions in the comments section while learning about some interesting creatures. • We love our seniors! Library staff has started calling some of our homebound patrons and other regular senior patrons to check in on them, have a little chat, and let them know we are thinking of them. • Mask making update: Library staff members, Joan Meyers, Bette McDowell, and Laura Brekke with assistance from Vivian Herrera and Jyoti Parasher have now made over 200 masks for city employees in various departments. They continue to make more with the hopes of maintaining a stockpile to meet city needs going forward. Amazing ingenuity and dedication from these staff members! • The librarians took part in a virtual Texas Librarian Association Conference this week. We learned about library responses to Covid-19, listened to author talks, and explored many other ideas. We look forward to next year’s conference (hopefully!) returning to an in-person event. • Electronic Resource Update – As we continue to look for new electronic content to provide our patrons, we are currently assessing the possibility of adding a new resource called Masterclass. This resource is an immersive online experience that offers access to genius by allowing anyone to take online classes with the world's best. Learn filmmaking from Martin Scorsese, cooking from Gordon Ramsey, or writing from James Patterson, and many more. We are looking at the feasibility of adding it as a resource, and if we do, we very well could be the first library to do so. Stay tuned! • In the news! Patch ran a story about the electronic resources we provide to teens.

Municipal Court: • Attached for your review and information is a report which shows the collections activities for the Municipal Court with Linebarger, Goggan Blair & Sampson, LLP. (Labeled Court Collections) The second quarter of FY20 has resulted in the clearance of 148 cases totaling $26,989.40 of general revenue collected for the City. You will continue to be provided with quarterly updates from the Court.

Parks: • Events: Currently in week 2 of our 5 week Chalk Challenge on Facebook: This week’s theme is PF Community Spirit. See picture Pflugerville Strong. • Community Services: o Pfarmers Market will open on May 5, from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. at Heritage House parking lot. A plan is in place to block the entrance to the museum. Only vendors who sell food or produce items have been invited. The crafters, artisans and other non-produce vendors will not be present until current restrictions are lifted. ▪ The gravel parking lot has been designated for vendors only, all customers will park at the Mentzer Pool parking lot ▪ Entry into the parking lot will be at the North end of the parking lot, monitored by staff ▪ Exit from the parking lot will be at the South end of the parking lot, monitored by staff ▪ Entry into the vendor area will be monitored by staff, West side of vendor area ▪ Exit from the vendor area will be monitored by staff, East side of the vendor area ▪ Vendors will be set up in “U” formation, entry will be from the West side ▪ Vendors will make purchases along the West side, continue South, then proceed along the East side, then exit at designated gate ▪ Hand washing stations will be at both entrance and exits from the vendor area ▪ Hand sanitizer will be available for customers ▪ Booth spaces will at a minimum have 6 feet of separation between ▪ A limit of 10 customers will be allowed at any given time ▪ Social distancing guidelines will be enforced • Recreation Center: Tai Chi was scheduled as a Virtual Class at 10am on Friday on Facebook Live • Aquatics and Athletics: Participated in National and State Aquatics conference calls covering various topics including projected summer facility openings, summer programming options, maintenance during the Covid-19 regulations, CDC recommendations and virtual trainings options for staff.

PCDC: Report is attached as PCDC – April 24, 2020. Also attached is the PCDC Annual Report for FY19 titled PCDC-annual report.

Planning: • On Friday, Emily participated in the monthly meeting of the Technical Advisory Committee for CAMPO as the City’s representative. This meeting was held virtually. To note from the meeting, the TAC acted on: o Amendments proposed to the 2019-2022 Transportation Improvement Program (TIP), the amendments primary focus were on TXDOT projects o 2045 Regional Arterial Transportation Plan (RTP) o The TAC recommended approval of both items • The draft CAMPO 2045 Plan document has been updated and the public comment period extended to Monday, April 27, 2020 to give the public more time to review and comment on the updated draft. The public comment period for the 2021-2024 Transportation Improvement Program (TIP), which considers the impact of the IH35 corridor, has been extended until June 1, 2020. Updated information and project scores will be posted to the TIP online open house for public review and comment in late May. • Notifications were mailed this week to property owners within 500 feet of Timmerman 2020 rezoning request. The request is scheduled to be considered by Council on May 12th.

Police: • In daily communication with Travis County ESD2 regarding Covid-19 status and updates. • Asst. Chief Smith participates in semi-weekly conference calls with DSHS and CAPCOG Regional Emergency Management Coordinators. • Thursday Chief Robledo participated in an online meeting with the Travis County District Attorney’s Interagency Sexual Assault Team. • Thursday Chief Robledo and Asst. Chief Smith participated in conference call with Fire Chiefs from Travis County’s ESDs to discuss current issues with Covid-19 Antibody Testing for First Responders, led by ESD2.

Public Works: • The Public Works Department continues working at reduced staff but providing essential services in water, water testing and reports, wastewater, line maintenance, mowing, and facility cleaning and maintenance. Supplies are in place or on order to allow a shelter in place scenario for a skeleton crew should the situation deteriorate. • Water Treatment: Five operators and the foremen continue to rotate shifts to maintain the plant and produce clean water. o Finished plumbing for ACH suction and discharge line for permanent solution with anti-siphon valve o Repaired 4” CIP pump line and replaced actuator and valve for chemical cleaning after a failure. o Continuing to replace rusted strut throughout WTP membrane basement to properly support various pipes throughout facility. • Wastewater Treatment: Four operators and the foreman continue to rotate shifts to maintain the plant. o Repaired sodium bisulfite chemical leak o Tested centrifuge communication failure for construction to ensure they can be clear to tear down old building. o Installed updated dissolved oxygen controllers to replace units that were obsolete and parts were unavailable. • Pumps and Motors: Four staff members are on hand for repairs for all system pumps and motors. • Line Maintenance: Six staff members, the foreman and the Superintendent are reporting to work to maintain and repair of water and wastewater lines • Meters: Three staff members are reporting to work for installation, maintenance and repairs of water meters and leak investigations. • Regulatory/Water Conservation: Two staff members and the Manager reported to work and one worked from home to continue regulatory efforts. o Obtained scheduling for the next round of UCMR (Unregulated Contaminant Monitoring Rule) water testing Worked on CCR (Consumer Confidence Report). o Completed various Bac-T samples o Water Conservation Department completed a PSA video shoot on Wednesday featuring the Watershed Model and Save our Pfuture activity book. This video will be featured in the NaturePfest video sent to homeschoolers, teachers, parents and community members for educational purposes on the importance of saving water. It will also be placed on the City’s website, pfreshwater.com o Water Conservation with the assistance of Communications, added instructions on “How to perform your own Sprinkler Evaluation” on the Water Conservation website page: https://utilitybilling.pflugervilletx.gov/water-conservation. This video will be available to all residents and HOA’s as an instruction guide on how to perform evaluations on their irrigation systems for leaks or needed repairs, while also educating them on saving water. • Streets and Drainage: Ten staff members, two foremen and the superintendent are reporting to work to maintain streets, drainage, mowing and other miscellaneous tasks. o One foreman has been tasked with being a logistics coordinator with responsibilities including securing supplies, maintaining records and distributing masks city-wide. o One employee has been assigned to disinfecting vehicles for PD for PM shift change. o Crews mowed several acres along with patching 35 potholes and replaced numerous signs that were hit or damaged. o Assisted Pump and Motor Maintenance Department transport 2 large pumps. • Fleet: Four staff members are reporting to work three days per week on Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday. • Resource Recovery: Two staff members are reporting to work to assist with the Recycle Center and other miscellaneous tasks including mowing. o The Recycle Center will be open normal hours, Friday, Saturday and Monday 8-5. Starting Friday April 24th, compost will be available for pick up. o One employee has been assigned to disinfect Public Works buildings to assist Facilities Maintenance. • Facility Maintenance: Department remains fully staffed in order to provide a safe environment for employees who continue to work on site in the City. o Additional cleaning is done each morning where employees are working. These areas are also sprayed with disinfectant. The division purchased two sprayers/misters to enhance the disinfectant treatment at City Facilities o One employee has been assigned to disinfecting vehicles for PD for AM shift change

May 1, 2020 Greetings Mayor and City Council

Be sure to be checking your Slack!

Administration: • Please find attached “Cinemark WARN Notice” Notification of temporary facility closings and employment separation. • Please find attached draft Council agendas for May 12, 2020 titled cc051220wsa and cc051220a • CAPCOG has provided the attached memo, titled CAPCOG Memo, that their air quality program has prepared analyzing the potential impacts of behavior change associated with COVID-19 on regional air quality. They have been getting a lot of questions about this and there have been some local news stories about it as well, so they figured it would be best to prepare an analysis that we and other local stakeholders could use to see what the data show and understand how to interpret the data. Air quality is a complex, technical subject, but we hope that this memo helps shed some light on this issue.

Communications: • COVID Communications – Communications launched a page www.pflugervilletx.gov/reopen to outline all the openings taking place in the City. This page complements the /virus page by allowing information on the pandemic to remain on the virus page while having a separate page for facility information. • The Recycle Center has reopened and we have resumed curbside chipping pickup. The City sent two press releases this week: one explaining the reopening of city facilities and one on the City’s finances. Both are posted online at www.pflugervilletx.gov/news. • We designed and coordinated an ad for the Community Impact highlighting a letter from the Mayor, featuring essential employees at work and encouraging the public to connect with the City. We provided a graphic highlighting “Phase 1” reopening to help educate the community on Governor Abbott’s announcement on Monday. • After the governor’s announcement, website traffic to the Covid-19 page rose again. Most of the public is inquiring on effects on parks and facility closures which was further clarified on Tuesday evening at Council. • The City is working on an inspirational video with the Police Department that is thanking the public for being resilient. Pflugerville Pfocus is available online at www.youtube.com/cityofpflugerville. • News stories went on the website about Air Quality Awareness Week, Motorcycle Awareness Week and Economic Development Week. • Staff changes at the Pflugerville Pflag. Mike Parker and six of the staff at the Pflugerville Pflag have been let go. Rich Oppel, a former Austin American-Statesman editor, wrote a piece on the layoffs, which I think provides a decent summary of what info is available to the public. AAS Assistant Metro Editor Tom Labinski is our new contact. Ariana Garcia remains a staff writer for both papers. Mike worked for 15 years for the Pflag covering Pflugerville. • Attached is “Week 7 (Compiled) Media”

Engineering: • Participated in a presentation by TCEQ of the Gilleland Creek Stakeholders meeting • Development: o Completed 2 Site Plan Reviews, 2 Construction Plan Reviews, 3 Final Plat Reviews, 5 Preliminary Plan Reviews • Construction: o Contractors are following construction Inspection Protocol for safety and health of inspectors o Continue management of 68 Construction projects o 1849 Park Left Turn Lane Project – Construction progress meeting, improvements 80% complete o Performed 159 construction inspections for week of 4/26 • CIP: o Pecan/Weiss Water Line consultant coordination with Lakeside Meadows o Generator RFQ for Generator at Water Treatment Plant began 4/29 o Kelly Lane Phase 2 and 3 – city staff in preparation for a virtual Open House meeting

Finance: th • On April 24 the City received an update from Waste Connections extending collection restrictions to cart-contents only through May 29th. Letter attached as: Waste Connections Continuity of Operations (COVID-19) Phase III Extension • Each section of TIRZ#1 has been apportioned its applicable share of the FY20 tax increment (tax receipts on the value over base value). The Falcon Pointe section increment totaled $1,563,066, and the Pecan District increment $12,477 in its first year. These funds will be used to pay for the expenses and obligations of each section of TIRZ#1.

Library: • Curbside Pick Up begins today! We are offering it Monday-Friday from 10am-5:45pm. The process is entirely contactless and similar to the retail to go models used by many businesses. Patrons can also return items during these hours. All returned items will be quarantined for an appropriate length of time before we handle them to check in and return to circulation. This represents the first phase in our resumption of services and the building remains closed to the public until further notice. See pictures attached Library Curbside 1 and 2 • Another new service began this week – Resume Assistance. Patrons can email their resume to us and we will provide edits and make other suggestions. We will continue to ramp up our support for community members who find themselves out of work. • Update on temporary cards – we’ve now issued 58 since we have been closed, providing members of the community with immediate access to our electronic resources. • Speaking of electronic resources, find attached a brief report that highlights some of the increased usage we’ve seen during March and April. Our community continues to look to the library for both entertainment and educational opportunities. Titled Electronic Resource Usage. • We received some wonderful feedback from a patron last week. After librarians Bette McDowell, Chermaine Burleson, and Meg Miller presented their Virtual Book Buzz program last Thursday, a patron emailed us with this to say, "Book Buzz last night was great. Everyone was unbelievably prepared. Maurice(my husband) and I got excited about several books we never would have considered. Thank the staff for broadening our literary choices. In appreciation, we have made a donation to the Central Texas Foodbank in the library's name. Please let all the contributors know." Looking for a good new book to read? You can view the Virtual Book Buzz on our YouTube Page. • On the subject of virtual programs, we held some new ones this week including: Virtual Gardening Club and a Virtual Poetry Workshop.

Parks: • Events: o Working on options to push Music in the Park to a later time in the summer or possibly fall season o Working on Summer events that would stay within Governor guidelines to social distancing o Week Three of the Chalk Challenge Theme: Something Tropical. For more information please check out our Facebook page • Community Services: o Pfarmers Market will open on May 5, from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. at Heritage House parking lot. Only vendors who sell food and produce items have been invited. Seventeen vendors have committed to attend Tuesday. A “face mask” vendor will be present as well for those who would like to purchase face masks. Staff will be there to assist with social distancing guidelines, traffic flow and to answer any questions. There will be hand washing stations and hand sanitizer for patrons to use as needed. Map attached as Pfarmers Market Map • Parks Maintenance: th o Set-up the Recreation Center’s 20 Birthday inflatable cake. See photo “Happy Birthday” • Recreation Center: o Virtual Tai Chi Friday, 10am on Facebook o The Pflugerville Recreation Center is now 20 years old. Check out the video Communications did highlighting the center serving the Pflugerville community over the last 20 years. • Programs: o A virtual running program can be found on the departments Facebook page or through this link o Over 90 participants have competed in our 26.2 Mile Virtual Pfitness Challenge. We have 68 people who have completed the course and the have walked or run a combined 5,783 miles during this quarantine. • Aquatics and Athletics: o Working on summer swim lesson scenarios

PCDC: Report is attached as PCDC – May 1, 2020 • The PCDC will host National Economic Development Week May 4-9. To publicize the event, the PCDC will promote Pflugerville Economic Development programs and businesses via social media platforms. • Since the beginning of April, the PCDC has donated nearly 400 masks developed by Essentium to the Pflugerville Police and City of Pflugerville Employees. The PCDC was the first business to order masks from Essentium.

Planning: • The Census Bureau extended the overall period for individuals to get counted from August 1st to August 15th, and has closed all field operations until after June 1st. The Bureau is also now asking for a further extension of enumeration until October 31st (typically this is complete by August 1st) and the currently extended deadline of August 15th. The Census is working to adapt their campaign operations for this longer stretch and hopes to increase the overall response rate in Travis County. The communications team is posting on our social media response rates for Pflugerville to help encourage our residents to participate in the count. The Census Bureau has provided an interactive dashboard to compare response rates as a city and county to others around the country (Link Here) as well as an interactive map that tracks daily response rates (Link here).

Police: • Wednesday Chief Robledo attended the ISAT (Interagency Sexual Assault Team) Executive meeting via video meeting • Thursday Lt. Rowley and Detective Campana participated in a Zoom meeting for a new ISAT project, Measuring Success • Friday Lt. Rowley, Sgt. Welch and Detective Campana attended the monthly ISAT meeting, via video meeting • In daily communication with Travis County ESD2 regarding Covid-19 status and updates. • Asst. Chief Smith participates in semi-weekly conference calls with DSHS and CAPCOG Regional Emergency Management Coordinators • “Covid-19” Related Expenditures pdf is attached

Public Works: • The Public Works Department is working at reduced staff this week, continuing to provide providing essential services, but has a plan in place to bring back full operations staff in Pumps and Motors, Utility Line Maintenance, Meters, Streets and Drainage, Fleet, and Resource Recovery starting Monday, May 4th. Staff will continue safety and disinfection procedures, come in alternating shifts, and travel with one person per vehicle. • Administration o Two admin support staff have had telephones forwarded to cell phones and are working from home on various projects. o Administration has teamed up with Communications Department to produce an updated Public Works video for Public Works Week which is May 17th-23rd. • Water Treatment: Five operators and the foremen continue to rotate shifts to maintain the plant and produce clean water. o With the increased temperatures and dry weather, we are starting to see higher than normal water demands during this time of the year. Just in the past week, the City has increased water usage by roughly 25% compared to the first half of the month of April. • Wastewater Treatment: Four operators and the foreman continue to rotate shifts to maintain the plant. o Worked to get report generation more streamlined to minimize staff time manually getting reportable data o Pulled Reclaimed Water Pump and motor to be repaired. • Pumps and Motors: Four staff members are on hand for repairs for all system pumps and motors o Installed and tested chlorine auto-valve at Well 7. This allows for tighter control of chlorination system and starts the phasing in of more operator control of various sites. o Reinstalled repaired motor for Well 6 to be ready to startup site soon. • Line Maintenance: Six staff members, the foreman and the Superintendent are reporting to work to maintain and repair of water and wastewater lines. o Began Trenching at lake for Water Treatment Plant o Investigated Swenson’s PRVs • Meters: Three staff members are reporting to work for installation, maintenance and repairs of water meters and leak investigations. • Regulatory/Water Conservation: Two staff members and the Manager reported to work and one worked from home to continue regulatory efforts. • Street and Drainage: Ten staff members, two foremen and the superintendent are reporting to work to maintain streets, drainage, mowing and other miscellaneous tasks. o One foreman has been tasked with being a logistics coordinator with responsibilities including securing supplies, maintaining records and distributing masks city-wide. o One employee has been assigned to disinfecting vehicles for PD for PM shift change. o Crews mowed several acres around the City of Pflugerville • Fleet: Four staff members are reporting to work three days per week on Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday. • Resource Recovery: Two staff members are reporting to work to assist with the Recycle Center and other miscellaneous tasks including mowing. th o The chipping program will start Monday May 4 , 2020 on a modified schedule. o One employee has been assigned to disinfect Public Works buildings to assist Facilities Maintenance. • Facility Maintenance: Department remains fully staffed in order to provide a safe environment for employees who continue to work on site in the City. o Additional cleaning is done each morning where employees are working. These areas are also sprayed with disinfectant. The division purchased two sprayers/misters to enhance the disinfectant treatment at City Facilities.

May 8, 2020 Greetings Mayor and City Council

Be sure to be checking your Slack!

Administration: • Attached is the May 2020 Air Quality Newsletter from CAPCOG.

Communications: • Media Coverage Week 8 is attached • Covid-19 o The Mayor’s May update was posted on the City's website to keep residents informed in addition to regular Pflugerville Pfocus episode updates. On Thursday, May 7, the Community Impact Newspaper E-edition for May went online and we shared the Mayor’s May letter and COVID-19 update that was featured in the May Community Impact on Facebook, Twitter and Nextdoor. See attachment title “Mayor CI Ad”. o We did a Facebook Alert on the new website www.pflugervilletx.gov/reopen and it had 5776 views. The City is using a new software to gather heat map data to help us continually provide information people are seeking. The two most frequently asked questions from the public include the Lake/trail and curbside trash pickup/bulk pickup information. o An ad is running in next week’s Pflugerville Pflag highlighting Library and Recreation Center programming. o We have worked with P+C on some graphics for internal communications related to COVID-19. • Community Impact: On Tuesday, Trey, Emily, James and Terri met with Community Impact in our monthly virtual meeting and emphasized the /reopen website. They asked questions about the Lake and opening various components. They asked about the road bond for November, and we mentioned that Council will make a decision by August on the November bond election. We mentioned that the summer reading program is going virtual and Maker Pfest is canceled. • Award Promotion: The 2020 Capital of Texas Latina Industry Leaders Award Honorees were announced on Thursday, May 7 in a press release from the Greater Austin Hispanic Chamber of Commerce. The City then sent information on this announcement on social media May 7. Chief Robledo will be receiving an award virtually on May 29 between 12- 1 p.m. For information, visit business.gahcc.org. • Public Service Week: We celebrated Public Service Week with a Facebook header and corresponding post on LinkedIn. Internal communications was led by the Pfun Committee on Slack. o We are preparing for Public Works Week in the City of Pflugerville. We will celebrate with a video highlighting the department in conjunction with a Proclamation at City Council on Tuesday.

Engineering: • City staff hosted TxDOT quarterly coordination meeting on 5/5 • City staff hosted a Texas Water Development Board Funding Presentation on 5/7 for Wilbarger WWTP project • Development: o Completed 4 Site Plan Reviews o 10 Development projects in queue to meet 5/14 review deadline • Construction: o Contractors are following Construction Inspection Protocol for safety and health of inspectors o Performed 149 construction inspections for week of 5/3 • CIP: o E. Pflugerville Parkway – Draft schematic, cost estimate and drainage report submitted, staff to determine where future 6-lane arterial would start, coordinating with Lakeside Meadows development o Kelly Lane Phase 2 – Virtual Open House 5/20 o Pecan at Heatherwilde – Final plans completed and coordinating for TxDOT concurrence; pending HOA coordination for sign, landscaping, irrigation and flag pole o Justice Center Expansion – Survey and geotech underway, consultant updating conceptual layout o 6 Park projects under construction

Finance: • The Comptroller’s May allocation of sales taxes (March sales) has been completed and the revenue received by the City increased by 11.2% ($105,811) from May 2019. This is approximately 2.6% ($26,734) greater than budget and 14.8% ($154,954) greater than the Average Scenario provided by Eight20 Consulting for May. Quarterly sales tax payments are also received in May so a portion of this revenue is comprised of sales made in January and February. Statewide, May sales tax collections decreased 9.8% from May 2019. • After updating projected sales tax revenues to include May collections data, FY20 sales tax revenue is projected to fall between $10.27 million and $11.01 million, which is approximately $882,554 (8%) to $144,884 (1%) less than the original sales tax budget of $11.15 million. The Monthly Sales Tax Report and a Sales Tax Forecast graph, updated to reflect the May collections compared to both the original budget projections and scenarios provided by Eight20 Consulting are attached as: FY20 Sales Tax Reports May.pdf • The FY21 Budget Schedule is attached as: FY21 Budget Schedule. • Waste Connections has indicated their intent to resume normal garbage collections, using the following phased in approach: o Monday, May 18th – begin collecting up to 6 bags outside the cart (any type of garbage, household or yard) ▪ We will be asking customers to help us stay safe by securely tying bags of sufficient strength to pick them up from the top to prevent breaking or spilling. o Monday, May 25th – resume normal collections (resume collection of bundled brush and bulky items)

Library: • Our Curbside Pickup service is off to a great start! So far we are averaging around 100 cars per day picking up reserved items and/or returning items. We've had very positive feedback from the community. As a reminder this service is available from 10 am - 5:45 pm, Mon - Fri. • We’ve also received positive buzz on our new Resume Review service. Library Assistant Joan Meyers received this wonderful feedback from a patron after looking over their resume: "Thank you very much! These are great tidbits to help me polish my resume up. Thanks to you and everyone at the library for keeping on top of this pandemic and making sure everyone still has great resources even if we can't go there!" • Virtual Programming Update: In addition to our established programming, we rolled out a couple new virtual programs this week including: Creativebug Club (utilizing this new electronic resource to encourage hands on creative projects) and Shared Shelf Book Club (highlighting eBook titles available through our platform Hoopla). • Community Engagement Update: We've started a new Facebook group called "Little Pflugers." This group is for families with babies, toddlers, and preschool aged children to learn about all of the exciting storytimes, programs, and services we offer. Creating a group will allow these parents to more easily find the specific information they are looking for as the number of our social media posts is rapidly growing. • Also on the engagement front, this month we are featuring a Facebook promotion called 30 Days of Kindness. It fits into the theme of our ongoing, Kindness Revolution and allows us to offer some positive ideas during these difficult times. The idea for the promotion came from one of our Homeschool Teens named Audrey. • Future Plans Update: We are currently in discussions with PFISD on a couple different partnership possibilities to support the district's students. We are also engaged in talks with Workforce Solutions on partnership possibilities to provide resources and services to community members looking for work. More to come... • Our senior Youth Services Librarian Amanda Cawthon wrote an excellent piece for the library's monthly Pflugerville Pflag article on reading advice during the pandemic. • Not everything is so serious with our librarians! Shifting to virtual programming on the fly has lead to a few mistakes. Check out this blooper video put together by our communications guru, Jesse Davis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbVeD02mly8

Municipal Court: • As requested by Council, the quarterly collections report has been revised (attached as “Municipal Collections Report Q1-2020”) to include the number of cases referred and the corresponding total fine amounts. You will notice an increasing trend in the number of cases being referred to Linebarger as court continues to work hard on warrant purging and cleaning up of files during our transition to paperless. So far we have sent files from 2014-2018, and will now be sending files from 2018 to current.

Parks: • Events and Programs: o Upcoming Virtual Programming: A weekly Spotify playlist to enjoy while quarantined, a cookbook for families and seniors to try new recipes, fun date night ideas while social distancing, an at-home activity book with ideas like backyard camping and board game nights for families. o Week 4 of the Chalk Challenge – this week’s theme is Super Heroes! • Community Services: o Pfarmers Market opened on May 5 (pics attached titled Pfarmers Market 1 and 2) from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. at Heritage House parking lot. There were 13 vendors with more scheduled for next week. The vendors and customers appreciated the market being open and thanked staff for requiring face masks to be worn by everyone. • Parks Maintenance: o Tree Removal at 108 Fenway Park Dr. o Stone Hill Park water fountain repair o Flagpole repair at Heritage Park o Old Town Park water fountain repair • Recreation Center o Virtual Tai Chi this Friday at 10am on Facebook Live

PAWS: • PAWS continues to facilitate fostering and adoptions through appointments. • Animal Services Officers continue to patrol Lake Pflugerville and provide security between 7am and 7pm daily. • Shelter staff are in the midst of repainting the stray cat and cat isolation rooms, and touch up the cat adoption room and work on other maintenance projects at the shelter. • PAWS officers will begin limited call response next Thursday, and begin limited impounds of stray dogs of all ages, and stray kittens under 3 months old only, striving to keep shelter capacity below 50% o Strays will be accepted in the field only, not from citizens coming to the shelter. o Owner surrenders are not being accepted at this time • The shelter will remain closed to the public and will be facilitating adoptions, reclaims and fosters by appointment only.

PCDC: Report is attached as PCDC-May 8, 2020

Planning: • The Capital Improvement Advisory Committee (CIAC) met on Monday to discuss service area boundaries related to Roadway Impact Fee Study. This item will be considered before Council on Tuesday, May 12, 2020. • Planning and Zoning Commission met on Monday and took action on the following: o One rezoning request was considered ▪ 306 N. First Street Rezoning – Rezoning a 5,600sf lot located at 306 N. First Street from Single Family to Office (O). Planning and Zoning Commission recommended approval of this item. This item will be before Council on Tuesday, May 26th. o The Capital Improvement Program (CIP) was presented to the Planning and Zoning Commission and they recommended approval of the 2021-2025 CIP. This item will be discussed with City Council on May 12, 2020. o One replat for Springbrook Industrial was approved. o A subdivision waiver for the Lisso Tract was considered and approved. The waiver allows the number of lots in the first two phases of the project to exceed 100 lots with only one access point and an additional emergency access point. This was requested in order to allow time for improvements to Immanuel to be completed prior to additional access to that facility being granted. o Eleven subdivisions were statutorily disapproved – As a reminder the Planning and Zoning Commission approved modifications to the development review schedules to account for requirements created by HB3167.

Police: • In daily communication with Travis County ESD2 regarding Covid-19 status and updates • Assistant Chief Smith participates in semi-weekly conference calls with DSHS and CAPCOG Regional Emergency Management Coordinators • “Covid-19 Expenditures” pdf is attached • Wednesday Chief Robledo participated in the Texas Police Chief’s Association’s Board meeting held via video conference • Thursday Assistant Chief Smith attended the CAPCOG Homeland Security Task Force meeting held via video conference • Friday Chief Robledo will take part in the Special Olympics Banquet being held virtually via video conference • Chief Robledo is a 2020 Capital of Texas Latina Industry Leaders Award Honoree for Public Service from the Greater Austin Hispanic Chamber of Commerce (GAHCC). Chief will receive her award virtually on May 29 between 12-1pm. (For information visit GAHCC) o While members and social media followers of GAHCC have already seen a sneak peek of this year’s recipients, the GAHCC will announce this year’s honorees to the community in a press release coming soon. At that time, the City of Pflugerville will be able to announce Chief Robledo’s recognition th • On May 5 Frank Hansen, longtime Pflugerville resident, WWII Veteran and Pflugerville Citizens on Patrol volunteer, passed away. Frank’s funeral will be held on Tuesday at 1pm at Cook Walden Capital Parks Funeral Home (14501 N IH35)

Public Works: • The Public Works Department began to bring back full operations staff in Pumps and Motors, Utility Line Maintenance, Meters, Streets and Drainage, Fleet, and Resource Recovery. Staff will continue safety and disinfection procedures, come in alternating shifts, and travel with one person per vehicle. • Administration: o Assisted Communications with video preparation for Public Works Week o PUC application started for CCN transfer • Water Treatment: Five operators and the foremen continue to rotate shifts to maintain the plant and produce clean water. o Replaced 14” valve on Train 4 raw water line which involved a plant shutdown. o Manville Interconnect project has started and work is progressing quickly to move interconnect location. o Cleaned and cleared Lake Pump Strainer 1’s drain port causing issues with Lake Pump 1. This drain port was getting clogged due to zebra mussel infestation that have caused clogging in drain. o Issued purchase orders on for the relocation of strainers, the first step in addressing the zebra mussels issue. Once the strainers are relocated to catch the shells prior to them entering the plant and damaging the membranes, the City will begin chemically treating for zebra mussels. o Started pre-plumbing new LAS Transfer Pump to be more resilient for this critical chemical component in the future. Work will require many facets of plumbing, electrical, and instrumentation to work properly, but will eventually make the chemical transfer system much more robust and more reliable and will be much more cost effective than the current set up. o Total water system flows are now averaging between 8.5 – 9.0 MGD. During this same time last year, we were averaging between 5.5 – 6.0 MGD • Wastewater Treatment: Four operators and the foreman continue to rotate shifts to maintain the plant. o The clarifier spray bars are currently in a place where they are starting to corrode away given their location and constantly spraying water. To prevent damage to the clarifiers, WWTP staff have been working to pre-plumb a replacement line with sprayers at minimal cost that will be able to withstand the temperature and water while also being easier for the operations staff to clean and service when the sprayers need it. o Filter cloth media that was approved at the April 2020 City Council meeting arrived at the plant this week and staff has a game plan to start the process to replace media starting next week to ensure the filter system works properly until the expansion is completed. • Pumps and Motors: o Started work at various lift stations replacing or rebuilding check valves for various lift station pumps. This minimizes the pump wear and tear while also making sure the pumps are more reliable in times of heavy flow. • Line Maintenance: o Assisted Manville test a shut out on Mangan Way. o Continued trenching at the lake for Water Treatment Plant. o Installed pressure reducing valves on Swenson Farm. • Meters: o Rebuilt the 3" TRU/FLO meter at Surf Thru car wash. • Regulatory/Water Conservation: o Began the process for lead and copper samples by preparing addresses and giving sample bottles to residents. o Submitted water service boundaries to Texas Water Development Board. • Street and Drainage o The Street Crew repaired sections of road on Mayapple and Kelly Lane. o Staff mowed 35 acres of drainage ways, 35 acres of right-of-way and shredded 70 acres. o School zone signals were reprogrammed not to come on the remainder of the school year • Resource Recovery: th o The chipping program started Monday May 4 , 2020 on a modified schedule. o 224 residents dropped off brush last weekend • Facility Maintenance: Department remains fully staffed in order to provide a safe environment for employees who continue to work on site in the City. o Additional cleaning is done each morning where employees are working. These areas are also sprayed with disinfectant. The division purchased two sprayers/misters to enhance the disinfectant treatment at City Facilities

May 15, 2020 Greetings Mayor and City Council

Be sure to be checking your Slack!

Administration: • Project Charm has been providing aerial photography of the jobsite including Pfennig Lane segment. See attached titled Project Charm 1-5. They provided the following update as of 5.11.2020, “To date, 100% of the building pad is complete, anticipate completion of over 900 foundations by 5/14 and started erection of structural steel.” • Please find the attached City Council draft agendas for the May 26, 2020 Worksession and Regular Meeting titled cc052620wsa and cc052620a • City Manager’s Office is collaborating with PCDC on an application for Economic Development Administration Cares Act grant. th • The Kelly Lane Open House will be held virtually on May 20 at 6pm. o Meeting Date/Time: May 20, 2020 @ 6pm Meeting Link (Public): Join Event Meeting Number: 965 049 333 Call-in Number: +1-408-418-9388 (US Toll)

Communications: • Promoted curbside trash pickup to residents with Facebook alert, on Nextdoor and included in Pflugerville Pfocus. • Shared information on social media as received by CommUnityCare as key messages related to testing and COVID-19. • Graphic created, social media post and press release about updated curbside trash pickup. The social media post reached 13,347 people according to Facebook analytics and was shared on Nextdoor and Twitter. • Community Impact story on trash pickup resume • Maggie participated in the PIO Regional Call on Friday. Dr. Pickett said the main objective is to get the word out about testing resources. They are working on isolation facilities. These facilities are not for people who need urgent care, but instead people with COVID-19 who do not have the ability to isolate at home (they're homeless, live with someone at risk for a complications, etc.). They're also working on the statewide mandate to test all nursing homes. Another challenge is transportation to testing sites, particularly for members of the community who don't have cars - they're currently working on a solution. • Spoke to Community Impact about Wilbarger Creek Park which resulted in a story • Kelly Lane Virtual House is next Wednesday. Press release sent on May 14. Story in Community Impact • Police in partnership with Crimestoppers sent a release for additional information on the March 31 shooting o KXAN o Fox 7 • Pflugerville Pfocus highlights Public Works Week, the COVID-19 updates including a mention that we will have Independence Day fireworks and information on the Capital Improvement Program. Watch online at www.youtube.com/cityofpflugerville. • On Monday we will release the full 3 minute version of the Public Works Video highlighting employees for Public Works Week on Facebook and Linked In. Watch the full video on Youtube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vf1iRWmVR1o&t=2s • Prepared graphics for city facilities to reflect that a mask must be worn inside the facility. • News Coverage Highlights (See attached list Week 9 (Compiled) Media for full list) o Pflugerville Pflag wrote about the Police pursuit of a grant for PPE and COVID expenses. o Timmerman rezoning article Pflag o We responded to KVUE inquiry about the Timmerman rezoning. o Roadway impact fee story Community Impact o Water treatment repairs in Community Impact

Engineering: • City staff hosted follow up meeting on 5/15 for financing options with Texas Water Development Board (TWDB) to coordinate submitting a Project Information Form (PIF) • City has partnered with the City of Austin as a regional partners for the Gilleland Creek Floodplain study. See attached Statement of Intent. • Development: o Completed 2 site plan reviews o 11 Development projects in queue to meet 5/22 review deadline • Construction: o Contractors are following Construction Inspection Protocol for safety and health of inspectors o 176 construction inspections for week of 5/11 • CIP: o Pecan at Dessau/FM 685 – hosted a coordination meeting for discussion of public education on the proposed innovative o 15 projects under construction

Finance: • The Quarterly Budget Report for the Quarter ended March 31, 2020 has been posted to the City’s Quarterly Financial Report website and is available at this link: FY20 Second Quarter Financial Report • The Consulting Services Summary for the quarter ending March 31, 2020 is attached as: Consulting Services Summary 03.31.20. • The Texas Municipal League Intergovernmental Risk Pool (TML-IRP) has authorized a return of member equity payments and the City will receive funds of $9,471.

Library: • We are happy to announce two new partnerships with PFISD to support students and their reading! o First, Youth Librarians Amanda Cawthon and Melissa Grzybowski are launching a Pflugerville Reads Project with the district to get books into the homes of local children. On Tuesday, May 26, parents of PFISD students will be able to receive a free book for each child when they pickup their breakfast or lunch from several PFISD schools. The purchase of books was partially funded by the Friends of the Library and a stipend awarded to Amanda by the 2020 Young Adult Reading Incentive Award. o The second partnership with PFISD will provide students with direct access to the library’s eBook collection. Students will use the district's Sora App as they normally would to find eBooks, but now the library's collection will also be available to them. It is an easy way to extend access while utilizing a system already in place. o These initiatives add to the Digit Cards we already offer students for access to all of our electronic materials. With these multiple efforts, we are working closely with PFISD to ensure students and their educational needs are met during these difficult times. • The City’s IT department extended the reach of the library’s Wi-Fi to cover our entire parking lot. This allows us to provide internet access to people sitting in their cars. With the facility closed, and even after we reopen, this gives community members without internet at home an option to stay connected while maintaining social distancing. Our promotional effort for this offering is ongoing. • Virtual Programs update: Adult Services Librarian Bette McDowell held a special virtual event this week called Famous Artwork Explained. Local artist Michelle Stoffler presented on the unique stories behind famous works of art. • The award-winning DiversiTeen Book Club had a special visitor at their virtual meeting this week, author Sara Saedi joined the group. The excited club members talked to Sara about her experiences as an author and discussed her recent book, Americanized: Rebel Without a Green Card.

Parks: • Community Services: Pfarmers Market was closed on May 12th, due to rain. Next Tuesday’s weather forecast shows clear skies and sunshine, looking forward to seeing everyone at the market on Tuesday. We will still have all our COVID-19 protocols in place. Please plan to stop by and visit the vendors. • Parks Maintenance: o Maintenance crews started turf prep at Wells Point this week by adding top dressing to the fields. This will help level out the fields again and promote turf growth after a year of wear and tear from practices and games. Fields are closed to the public at this time. o Staff repaired the damaged water fountain at Stone Hill Park. • Recreation Center: Virtual Tai chi will be hosted at the Rec Center this Friday at 10 am. • Aquatics and Athletics: Aquatic staff hosted and led Central Texas Aquatics virtual meeting to discuss area re-opening plans covering hours, safety, training, and swim lessons for aquatic professionals in our region.

PAWS: • PAWS staff continue to patrol Lake Pflugerville during COVID-19 closures from 7a-7p daily. • Animal Services Officers will begin answering calls in the field each Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 8a-5p. • The Shelter remains closed. Adoptions, fosters and reclaims continue to be facilitated by appointment only.

PCDC: Report is attached as PCDC May 15, 2020

Planning: • Site Development Plans Approved: o Crosslife Academy located at 4109 Kelly Lane for an 18,045 square feet, place of worship • Active development (under review and under construction) is updated monthly here.

Police: • Tuesday members of Command Staff and CID attended funeral services for Frank Hanson, WWII Veteran, Pflugerville resident, and long-time Citizens on Patrol member. • Wednesday Chief Robledo and members of Command Staff participated in a “drive-thru parade” at the Pflugerville Care Center. • Thursday Chief Robledo presented Cpl. Kyle Dimmitt with the Guardian Angel Award that was announced on May 8th by the 100 Club of Central Texas. Press release. • In daily communication with Travis County ESD2 regarding Covid-19 status and updates • Asst. Chief Smith participates in semi-weekly conference calls with DSHS and CAPCOG Regional Emergency Management Coordinators • “Covid-19 Expenditures May 15” pdf attached.

Public Works: • Administration: Two admin support staff have had telephones forwarded to cell phones and are working from home on various projects. The rest of the Public Works administration are working from the office. o Starting Friday, May 22, staff will provide open office hours on Friday afternoons preceding City Council meetings from 3:30-4:30 pm to allow for coordination with City Council members regarding Public Works and CIP related items or questions. For the time being, these meetings will occur via Webex. Please contact Sereniah and copy Amy Giannini ([email protected]) to schedule appointment no later than the Wednesday prior to the open office hours. In your request, please include topics for discussion so that the appropriate staff can be scheduled and prepared for the discussion. o Coordinated with Public Utility Commission (PUC) on CCN application and process for Manville CCN transfer. Completed application and working on final map requirements for the submittal. Per the PUC, the process for the CCN transfer should take up to 6 months once the application and agreement are received, which longer than typical as they are currently working from home due to the pandemic. o Coordinated with PCDC on improvements as needed at FM 685/Pecan o Per request from Councilman Pena, attached is a summary of projects (titled Water Treatment Plant) that are being completed at the water treatment plant along with a list of work authorizations that have been completed or are underway for the plant in the past two years. In the addition to projects being completed by consultants, the City has hired experienced plant operators on staff over the past 6 months who have evaluated the plant, assessed the issues and developed a plan for repairs and regular maintenance. In the attached water treatment plant document, the list of necessary improvements and repairs that were identified by the licensed operators in December are included along with the current status of those items. As you can see, the majority of the issues identified have been remedied and our operators will work to complete the list and continue regular assessments and maintenance at the plant to ensure resiliency. o City staff are continuing to lead discussions with Oncor to address frequent power outages on south side of Pflugerville that impact the City’s Central Wastewater Treatment Plant, 130 Commerce Center, and the Gattlinburg neighborhood. To date, staff has met virtually with Oncor twice to get updates on the status of an investigation being completed by the electric company. They have communicated that they have identified some items that they plan to target to improve the reliability of service. They are also assessing the route and cost of a potential redundant feed for the treatment plant. o Held kick off meeting for Risk and Resilience Assessment • Water Treatment: Five operators and the foremen continue to rotate shifts to maintain the plant and produce clean water o Performed significant rehabilitation of High Service control valves after fixing an issue earlier this year that caused damage to both the rubber parts and metal disk and shaft. We still have a single control valve to repair, but we need to replace a 24” butterfly valve that isolates the control valve before we can safely perform the rehabilitation. With the control sequencing corrected earlier this year and the valves having been rebuilt, we should see significantly longer life-spans out of the control valve wearable parts. o Manville Interconnect relocation project is ongoing and required a 4-hour plant shutdown on Thursday to complete the tie-in. o Installed new rotating assembly on Backwash Return Pump # 2. • Wastewater Treatment: Four operators and the foreman continue to rotate shifts to maintain the plant. o Begin replacement of filter cloths as approved by City Council in April 2020. o Pulled and cleared non-potable water pump impellers o Construction of Wastewater Treatment plant expansion ongoing • Pumps and Motors: Continuing to assist with Water Plant Improvements/Repairs • Line Maintenance: o Continued trenching at lake for Water Treatment plant o Adjusted pressure reducing valves in Sorento. • Street and Drainage: o Made street repairs on Frost Circle o Installation of No Parking Zone signs were installed on Picadilly Drive per the ordinance approved by City Council in March 2020. o The Sign Shop replaced several crosswalk signs that were worn and faded. o Staff prepared department vehicles and equipment to be able to respond quickly, if necessary, for the potential weather events this weekend. • Resource Recovery: o 342 piles of branches have been chipped curbside over the last 7 days, for an estimated 1,360 cubic yards total. o 345 customers visited the Recycle Center with 220 dropping off brush. o 20 refrigerant units were taken to the City of Austin saving the City from paying to have the Freon evacuated. o We currently have enough compost available to get us through this weekend (including Monday) at which time our supply will be depleted. We are currently running low on compost as we are awaiting the test results of current piles. We are expecting test results back on two piles the afternoon Friday, May 22nd. In the event the piles do not pass there will be no compost available for Memorial Day weekend. If the piles do pass, compost will be made available directly after test results come in. The process to get a compost pile to be acceptable is that it has to be turned over multiple times over the course of a month to allow the bacteria to cook any of the microbes that are present in the sludge. Once the pile has been turned multiple times and is allowed to cook for a sufficient amount of time, a sample is pulled for E.coli to make sure that the E.coli count is below acceptable levels. If the sample has too high of an E.coli count, then the pile has to be turned more and allowed to cook for longer to resample the following week. This process takes a significant amount of time and effort to make sure that the compost that is available for citizens is of sufficient quality to be considered compost. • Facility Maintenance: o Additional cleaning is done each morning where employees are working. These areas are also sprayed with disinfectant. The division purchased two sprayers/misters to enhance the disinfectant treatment at City Facilities

May 22, 2020 Greetings Mayor and City Council

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Communications: • Prepared signage for the front of city hall and other facilities to notify delivery personnel that we are accepting deliveries. Posted signage for wearing a mask in public areas of our facilities. • Prepared signage for hand sanitizer stations in the city and at the lake reminding people to be safe with COVID-19 still in the area. • We assisted with a virtual open house for the Kelly Lane project. Article: https://communityimpact.com/austin/round-rock-pflugerville- hutto/transportation/2020/05/20/city-of-pflugerville-details-kelly-lane-transportation-project-in- may-20-virtual-open-house/ • Press release was sent on Thursday evening about the Lake trail reopening and sent out on social media to the community. • Held virtual press conference for the Police Department via Facebook live. • Week 10 (Compiled) Media Coverage is attached.

Engineering: • Pflugerville’s Pfirst successful Virtural Public Open House meeting was held on 5/20 with the Kelly Lane projects (Kelly Lane Phase 2, Phase 3 and Kelly Lane improvements at Falcon Point (East) with the traffic signal at Jakes Hill o Overall, COVID-19 has truly allowed each of us to learn to be flexible, innovative, and experiencing new horizons. We will schedule a Strengths Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats (SWOT) analysis in order to support Pflugerville’s effort as we prepare for the next Virtual Public Open House Meetings over the next couple months. • Although unsuccessful, City of Pflugerville staff collaborated with PCDC, CAPCOG, for potential Economic Development Administration (EDA) Application in an effort to participate for funding on the Pecan at FM 685 intersection improvements and upcoming FM 685 Corridor Study. • Traffic Signal fully activated at Wells Branch/Immanuel Road after intersection improvements were completed by the IDEA School development. City staff will coordinate for adjustments of signal timings as traffic normalizes after COVID-19 and full reopen of activities around city. • Development: o 16 Development Projects in queue to meet 5/28 review deadline • Construction: o Contractors are following Construction Inspection Protocol for safety and health of inspectors o 143 construction inspections for week of 5/18 o Black Locust Project substantially complete o 1849 Park Left Turn Lane project substantially complete • CIP: o Highland Park Interceptor geotechnical and survey are underway o Industrial Pretreatment Program and FOG Program SOQs submitted 5/21 o Pavement Design Criteria RFQ development

Finance: • Departmental budget meetings with the City Manager began this week. th • The May 26 City Council agenda includes a request to authorize City participation in the Texas Association of School Boards (TASB) Energy Cooperative and authorize City Manager to execute agreements for electric service. While electric rates are dependent on the market and change daily, rates from this past week indicate potential annual savings of $60,000 to $85,000 depending on the term of the agreement.

Library: • We are now offering Remote Printing through our curbside pick-up. Patrons can send prints from home or the parking lot using their own computers or devices, then pick up their prints utilizing our existing curbside service. We are not charging for these prints though we are limiting it to 10 pages and black and white only. We've found an increased need in the community for printing services, and this provides an option while we are closed. • Children’s Services Coordinator Carmen Lazo was interviewed by a representative from the Texas Library Association for an upcoming article in School Library Journal about our planning for a virtual summer reading program. • Our "Pflugerville Reads" book distribution will take place at 10 PFISD schools next Tuesday! This project by Youth Librarians Amanda Cawthon and Melissa Grzybowski will provide much needed free reading materials for low income kids and teens in the community. See the attached flyer titled Pflugerville Reads Project flyer. • Virtual program highlights - The library's Ukulele Club met this week for a virtual strum along led by staff member Laura Brekke. Our Crafty Cafe at Home program by Adult Librarian Meg Miller featured making desktop organizer's utilizing basic crafting materials. • We’ve added updates to our While we are Closed page on the library website including: remote printing, Wi-Fi access in the parking lot, our resume review service and more. We are using this page to highlight services we are providing to the community. Many of these new services will continue even after we reopen.

Parks: • Community Service: o Pfarmers Market on May 19 was a huge success. There were 20 vendors present, and we had two more produce vendors reach out about joining us next week. This will give us 22 groceries and produce vendors for the month of May. Customer traffic was excellent, everyone who attended wore masks or bought one from the Masks by Design vendor. We also handed out 5 disposable masks as needed for those who didn’t bring a mask but didn’t want to purchase one from vendor. See everyone next week. • Parks Maintenance: o Gateway Sign Maintenance and landscape prep for the volunteer work project on Friday. o Lake Pflugerville Maintenance and prep work for anticipated trail opening. • Programs: o Participated in a virtual call for parks and recreation professional across the state to discuss re-opening plans for senior programs and facilities. • Aquatics and Athletics: o Participated in a virtual call for parks and recreation professional across the state to discuss CDC recommendations, Red Cross guidelines and re-opening plans for municipal aquatic program and facilities across the state.

PAWS: • PAWS staff continue to patrol Lake Pflugerville during COVID-19 closures from 7a-7p daily. • Animal Services Officers began answering calls in the field this week on Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 8-5p. • Animal Services Officers will be on emergency call out only on Memorial Day and will resume field response on Wednesday and Friday. • The Shelter remains closed. Adoptions, fosters and reclaims continue to be facilitated by appointment only.

PCDC: Report is attached as PCDC – May 22, 2020

Planning: • On Monday, we applied for the 2020 BUILD Grant for Pflugerville Parkway. The Better Utilizing Investments to Leverage Development (BUILD) grant is a federal grant that allows project sponsors to pursue funding for multi-modal, multi-jurisdictional projects. Funds for the FY 2020 BUILD Transportation grants program are to be awarded on a competitive basis for surface transportation infrastructure projects that will have a significant local or regional impact. • On Monday, Emily participated in the monthly meeting of the Technical Advisory Committee for CAMPO as the City’s representative. This meeting was held virtually. To note from the meeting, the TAC acted on: o 2021-2024 Transportation Improvement Program (TIP): The TAC recommended approval of this item. The TIP is anticipated to be acted on by the policy board on June 8, 2020. As part of the development of the TIP, the CAMPO Policy Board will be taking action to defer $633 million in funded projects to address the funding gap for the IH-35 Capital Express Project. • On Wednesday, the monthly general meeting of the Austin-Travis County Complete Count Committee was held virtually. At this meeting, the Census team discussed updates regarding the census and modifications that they continue to work through due to COVID-19. Currently, Pflugerville’s response rate is ahead of the county, state and national average response rates of 58.7%, 54.5% and 59.8% respectively. As of today, Pflugerville’s current response rate is 65.6%. • On Thursday, the Census released information showing the 15 fastest –growing large cities by percent change between July 2018 and July 2019. The full press release regarding the fastest growing cities in the south can be found here. Our estimated population by the Census for July 2019 was 65,380 people. Staff estimates that our currently city population has exceeded 71,000 people.

Police: • Tuesday Lt. Rowley participated a video conference for the Child Protection Team with the Center for Child Protection • Wednesday Lt. Lewis and Lt. Rowley met with APD representatives to discuss ongoing partnership with investigations along with assistance from Crime Stoppers. • Thursday PD held a K9 retirement party on the front steps of the Justice Center for K9 Isa. • In daily communication with Travis County ESD2 regarding COVID-19 status and updates. • Asst. Chief Smith participates in semi-weekly conference calls with DSHS and CAPCOG Regional Emergency Management Coordinators. • No change to last week’s Covid-19 Related Expenditures attached again.

Public Works: • Administration: Two admin support staff have had telephones forwarded to cell phones and are working from home on various projects. The rest of the Public Works administration are working from the office. st o On May 21 , we celebrated Public Works Week by providing a box lunch and handed out a stainless steel water bottle to PW employees while still practicing social distancing. • Water Treatment: Five operators and the foremen continue to rotate shifts to maintain the plant and produce clean water. o Replaced hydrogen blowers on the sodium hypochlorite generation system. The existing blowers were in a condition that they had become both inefficient and were to the point where they could fail at any moment. The replacement units are both more efficient motors as well as more efficient in removing the hydrogen from the system improving employee safety. (Picture of new unit installed next to older unit that was also replaced titled Hydrogen Blower) o Repaired a broken wash arm coupling on strainer # 1 that was identified when they were pulled previously. This ensures that when the strainers backwash, they do so effectively and to clear any debris in each of the tubes. o Installed sodium permanganate pumps for eventual chemical injection after strainers are relocated. o Performed Clean-In-Place (CIP) on Train 5 which allows for greater membrane flux rates. We continue to see very good flux rates on all operable trains after these CIPs. o Further reducing chlorine levels leaving the WTP due to water stability and try to minimize disinfection byproduct (DBP) formation. We have been reducing the chlorine levels slowly over the past 6 months to both reduce chemical costs and also to deliver a better quality product to our customers. Thus far, we have reduced chlorine levels by 50% since December 2019. o Continue to see higher production flows this month given the warmer weather. For the month of May, we are seeing average flows above 8 MGD. • Wastewater Treatment: Four operators and the foreman continue to rotate shifts to maintain the plant. o We noticed that the screw pump that is operating currently was starting to develop a “knock” which is concerning giving its size and how critical it is to the WWTP’s operation. On Monday, staff noticed that the lower bearing on the screw pump was starting to leak oil down the pipe column, indicating that a seal has either started leaking or has blown out completely. Before this becomes a bigger issue, we are going to have to pull the screw pump out from the influent lift station and have the bearing and wear ring repaired. This is a massive undertaking as it involves renting a temporary trailer-mounted pump to ensure that we have secondary means to transfer flow into the WWTP in the event of an emergency. We are currently mobilizing this equipment to get the pump repaired ASAP. o Repaired backwash pump for Filter 3 to continue to operate the existing filters until the media on Filter 3 can be replaced. Staff continue to work on each of the tertiary filters to replace filter media and address maintenance issues with each of the individual filters. o WWTP Operations staff have scraped as much compost as possible from the current piles and we believe that we have enough to make it through this weekend, especially since Monday is a holiday. We should know by COB Friday whether or not our current piles pass the E.Coli analysis to be considered compost and have it ready for the following weekend. Staff will be coordinating with the Public Works Admin team and the Communications department in the event we run out of compost this weekend. • Pumps and Motors: o Finished repair of River Pump # 3’s air/oil control valve actuator. This valve uses a dual chamber control system to prevent any pipeline or pump damage upon start-up and shut-down of the River Pumps. It is an incredibly complex system, so the repair was a significant undertaking, but it ensures that the pump and pipeline are protected from surges or pressure spikes. o Replaced River Pump # 2’s packing material in the packing gland to prevent any overheating of the pump shaft. This ensure that we don’t damage the pump or motor during normal operation. • Line Maintenance: o Water pressure drop/outage was reported in Blackhawk Monday May 18th. Worked with Manville to determine the cause and found that Manville was working on their 12” water line that fed two meters to that area. Water pressure was restored within the hour after the initial reporting. o Continued trenching at the lake for WTP sodium permanganate feed line. • Regulatory/Water Conservation: o Regulatory staff meet with Antea Group, a third party laboratory to collect samples. In accordance with 40 CFR Part 141.35 and 141.40, our public water system (PWS) is required to monitor and report contaminants under the EPA's fourth cycle of the Unregulated Contaminant Monitoring Rule (UCMR 4). Our records also indicate that as of January 1, 2020 our PWS, as established in the EPA’s Web-based reporting system, the Safe Drinking Water Accession and Review System (SDWARS), is scheduled to report UCMR 4 monitoring data for one or more of our monitoring schedules in 2020. o We are working on Water Loss monthly reports which is a data collection of water lost to help with the yearly determined water demand projections for regional and state water planning. We have 9 different Public Water Systems that we have to operate and report on. • Street and Drainage: o The Street Crew made a curb and gutter repair that had begun to crumble o The Drainage Crew mowed 6 locations totaling almost 20 acres o The Street Department teamed up to clean an area of illegal dumping off of Lincoln Ave in preparation of the upcoming CDBG project in the subdivision. o The Drainage Maintenance Crew regraded a drainage channel in the Windermere subdivision that had begun to wash out and erode. o Secured portable message boards to alert drivers of the signal going live at the intersection of Immanuel and Wells Branch. • Resource Recovery: o Chipping picked up 363 piles for an estimated 3515 cubic feet of brush. o 343 customers visited the Recycle Center last week. o The Recycle Center will be closed on Monday May 25th in observance of Memorial Day. • Facility Maintenance: o Painted the floor at PAWS in the Cats adoption and Isolation room with a floor epoxy. o Replaced the counter top in the kitchen at PD o Installed disinfectant wipe dispensers at the Rec Center weight room.

May 29, 2020 Greetings Mayor and City Council

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Administration: • At the May 26, 2020 Worksession, the City Council received an update from Charles Brotherton of Travis County Emergency Services and Dr. Mark Escott, EMS Medical Director. As a follow up to the Worksession, they have provided the following link to the UT Austin COVID-19 Modeling Consortium: https://covid-19.tacc.utexas.edu/ • PfISD 2020 High School Commencement information is attached as PfISD Graduation Packet. Our graduation schedule is: o Pflugerville HS - June 1 at 8am o Hendrickson HS - June 2 at 8am o Connally HS - June 3 at 8am o PACE - June 3 at 11am o Weiss HS - June 4 at 8am • Please find the draft agendas for the June 9, 2020 Worksession and Regular Meeting attached titled cc060920wsa and cc060920a. Please note that the Worksession is scheduled to begin at 5:00 p.m.

Communications: • Week 11 Compiled Media attached. • Graphics, signage and information about the Lake reopening • Pflugerville Pfocus highlights the COVID-19, Lake and EMS Week. www.Youtube.com/cityofpflugerville • Virtual press conference for the Police Department, press releases submitted on Sage Apt. incident • Prepared TML Award entries for the City. • Assisted with Pflugerville Reads book handouts

Engineering: th • Small Cell Wireless Facilities: This serves as an introduction for the upcoming June 9 City Council as a Worksession and Agenda Item for two (2) proposed City Ordinances for approval of 1st Reading related to Small Cell Wireless Facilities o Small cell facilities provide supplemental support for “macro” networks, including antennas and equipment mounted on towers or building rooftops. They are intended to help carry increasing data load and allow users to have better connections and faster speeds. Small cell facilities are dual technology, supporting 4G and 5G service. o The City is compelled to allow small cell pole installations by State and Federal laws that give access to the City’s public right-of way (ROW) to wireless facility providers. The City will do its best to minimize potentially adverse impacts (clutter, aesthetics, interference or conflicts within the ROW), but cannot prevent the use of the public ROW for this purpose. th o Accordingly, staff will be presenting two ordinances during the June 9 City Council meeting, in order to effectuate the necessary amendments related to incorporate Small Cell Wireless Facilities Ordinance #1: ROW Management and Incorporate New Fees; Ordinance #2: Engineering Design Manual Updates for design guidelines and ROW Permit requirements. This information is furnished to provide City Council with background information related to wireless small cell facilities in the City’s rights-of-way, both to provide context and to aid in supporting Visionary Leadership, Effective Governance, and Proactive Collaboration. The City's efforts to date to regulate small cell infrastructure where allowed by Federal and State law supports a Beautiful, Desirable, Safe and Environmentally Responsible City. • Development: o Completed 23 total plan reviews for 4-Sites, 6-Final Plats, 3-Preliminary Plans, 3- Construction Plans, Site Disturbance Permits and 7-ROW Permits o 8 Development projects in queue to meet 6/4 review deadline o 3 Project Coordination meetings o 7 Environmental Inspection Site Visits o 2 PAC Meetings • Construction: o Contractors are following Construction Inspection Protocol for safety and health of inspectors o Total 105 construction inspections for week of 5/25 o CDBG El Malino construction progressing o Central WWTP construction progress on-going • CIP: o Picadilly/ Central Commerce/Royston – 60% Plans provided o Lake Pflugerville Phase 1 – Staff PS&E Review Comments provided to Engineer o Kelly Lane Ph 2 and Ph 3 – 60% PS&E Review comments provided to Consultant o Russells/Caldwells (Historic Colored Addition) – 30% Design Review comments provided to consultant 5/25 o Pecan/Weiss Lane Water Line project – Preliminary Engineering Report provided 5/26

Finance: • At last night’s Finance and Budget Committee meeting presentations were provided for Library room use fees, Police Alarm Permits, and some changes to Parks fees. The Committee discussed these fees and made recommendations for Council consideration. The Committee will continue to review fees at its June meeting and a Master Fee Schedule will be presented with the FY21 Proposed Budget. • Following up on requests from the 5/26 Council meeting: o FY20 estimated utility fund balance is $21.5M. Of this amount, the City is required to hold in reserve an amount equal to 25% of operating expenditures. For FY20, that amount is expected to be $5.1M leaving $16.3M in available utility fund balance. This available fund balance is expected to be used for utility CIP projects. o A listing of some of the school districts using the TASB Energy Cooperative are attached as TASB References. Closest to Pflugerville are Round Rock and Temple ISD.

Library: • Pflugerville Reads was a big success! 1527 books were distributed to students through our partnership with PFISD. School librarians, Pflugerville Library staff, and other City of Pflugerville staff worked together at 10 campuses to distribute books to children and teens. The Friends of the library contributed funds and Youth Librarian Amanda Cawthon used the award money from her YARI award for the Diversiteen Book Club for the project. We are looking into additional opportunities to give away more books over the summer. • Expanding Curbside Pickup – The service continues to average between 80 – 120 cars per day. We have begun to utilize the curbside pickup to fill other community needs. This includes picking up prints submitted through our remote printing service, distributing craft supplies for virtual programs that have a work along from home component, and filling other requests like Tax Forms. As our summer reading program begins we will continue to expand the things we distribute through curbside pickup to keep the community engaged and meet their needs even with the facility closed. • Virtual Summer Reading Program - Each summer, the Pflugerville Public Library welcomes the kids, teens and adults of Pflugerville to enjoy a summer full of books and special events. The 2020 summer reading program will look a little different from previous programs to keep library patrons and staff safe. This year's summer reading program will take place online. Kids, teens and adults will have their own summer reading challenges to complete for each of the eight weeks of summer reading. In addition to the challenges, the library will have online events and crafting with curbside take-home kits. The summer reading program will take place June 6-August 1. For more information on summer reading, visit pflugervilletx.gov/summerreading. • Upcoming Virtual Program of Interest – Women’s Suffrage Presentation by the League of Women Voters, Thursday June 4th @ 6:30 pm. The virtual presentation will highlight the movement's most popular and revered leaders in the United States.

Parks: • Community Services: Pfarmers Market on May 26 was a great success. There were 18 vendors and lots of visitors. Please stop by and visit next week, Tuesday 3 pm to 7 pm. • Parks Maintenance: Opened Lake Pflugerville trail back up for public use • Recreation Center: LeAnn retires this Friday after 27 years of service to the City of Pflugerville. She started as the director of Pfun camp, oversaw the opening of the Recreation Center and retires as the Recreation Superintendent. We appreciate the work she did and congratulate her on her next chapter in life. Staff got to say goodbye to her virtually in our last staff meeting (photo attached LeAnn goodbye). • Aquatics and Athletics: Presented to the Finance and Budget Committee our recommended fee increases for FY21

PAWS: • PAWS Officers are now answering calls in the field Monday through Friday from 8am- 5pm. • The Shelter remains closed to the public but staff are now facilitating stray intake curbside at our gate Monday through Friday from 8am-5pm. • Intake is currently restricted to dogs of any age and kittens under 3months old. Adoptions, fosters and reclaims continue to be facilitated by appointment only.

PCDC: Report is attached as PCDC – May 29, 2020

Planning: • The Planning and Zoning Commission will consider a Specific Use Permit for a proposed brew pub at 115 E. Main St, discuss Downtown District code amendments, and consider 16 subdivision applications in accordance with HB 3167 on Monday 6/1.

Police: • Chief Robledo was interviewed by Spectrum News and KXAN related to the Minneapolis Police in-custody death of George Floyd. • Chief Robledo began reaching out to our local religious leaders to discuss the events that occurred in Minneapolis and to let them know that we do not condone that type of behavior, nor does it have any business in policing. Actions similar to those taken by the officers in Minneapolis are not tolerated here. Aside from being inherently wrong, that type of behavior is not in line with the Mission, Vision or Values of the Pflugerville Police. • Friday Chief Robledo was honored at the Greater Austin Hispanic Chamber of Commerce’s virtual awards ceremony for Latina Industry Leaders award. • In daily communication with Travis County ESD2 regarding COVID-19 status and updates • Asst. Chief Smith participates in semi-weekly conference calls with DSHS and CAPCOG Regional Emergency Management Coordinators. • List of COVID-19 Related Expenditures is attached.

Public Works: • Administration: Two admin support staff have had telephones forwarded to cell phones and are working from home on various projects. The rest of the Public Works administration are working from the office. o ACM and staff are providing open office hours on Friday afternoons preceding City Council meetings from 3:30-4:30 pm to allow for coordination with City Council members regarding Public Works and CIP related items or questions. For the time being, these meetings will occur via Webex. Please contact Sereniah and copy Amy Giannini ([email protected]) to schedule appointment no later than the Wednesday prior to the open office hours. In your request, please include topics for discussion so that the appropriate staff can be scheduled and prepared for the discussion. o Finalized Public Utility Commission (PUC) application for Manville Water CCN transfer. Staff coordinated with PUC GIS staff for preliminary review of maps needed with application. Application is anticipated to be submitted next week. o As outlined in the Water Master Plan, the City needs to start evaluating additional water supply needs for the future. Garver, the City’s owner’s representative for the water treatment plant expansion project, presented as part of their scope various options available to the City to accommodate short term and long term water supply needs of the City. • Water Treatment: Five operators and the foreman continue to rotate shifts to maintain the plant and produce clean water. o Received and installed floor grating for citric acid totes. This had previously corroded to the point where the totes could not sit on the grating without the risk that the 275-gallon tote would fall and cause a chemical spill. The newly installed grating has been coated with a rust-inhibitor to extend the life of the grating and to prevent any chemical from attacking the metal in the event of any chemical leaks. o The main overhead power line that provides power to the warehouse/workshop was seen arcing recently and power was shut off until we could make the necessary repairs. This presented as a very dangerous situation until we could get power shut off. Once we disconnected the line away from the MCC gear, we ran a new main electrical feeder to the warehouse to provide power to the building. o Received 24” butterfly valve to replace downstream valve for High Service Pump 1. The installation of the valve will occur next week and will involve significant coordination for the repair to schedule multiple shut downs to get the pump back into service after finding the valve would not shut down properly. This pump will be needed for summer peak flows, so the repair of the butterfly valve is critical to operation. o Repaired finger-guards on backwash recovery pumps and fabricated inspection plate to ensure staff safety when working around the pumps. • Wastewater Treatment: Four operators and the foreman continue to rotate shifts to maintain the plant. o Staff finished replacing filter cloth in Filter 1 and replaced two of the backwash actuators so far (See picture of the new cloth installed compared to old cloth from a couple months ago titled Filter Old and Filter New). Staff will continue cloth replacements in Filters 2 and 3 in the coming weeks. o The expansion joint for the non-potable water (NPW) pumps slipped over the long weekend, but staff quickly repaired the expansion joint and had the system back up and running quickly. The NPW pumps create the pressure for the clarifier wash down and the chlorine injection system. When these go down, the operations staff are manually dosing the clarified wastewater to ensure we stay in compliance. o A temporary radio system has been installed for the WWTP Expansion project that is intended to replace the Fiber line running to the bio solids building. This was tested successfully and staff were trained on how to change the radio in the event there is a loss of communication. • Pumps and Motors: o After the storms last weekend, we had a City-owned electric pole fall down at the North Standpipe near the Police Department. Although the electrical service was not impacted, this created an unsafe condition. Staff had Oncor cut power to the pole until we could get a new pole installed and electrical breaker panel moved. This standpipe controls how water is distributed into town from the WTP. It is of critical importance that the site has power to see the level in the tank. With the help of the staff at the Police Department, we were able to set up temporary power through their building, which allowed us to continue running normally until we could get a new pole mounted. Their willingness to help the Utility out during this event was instrumental in ensuring we could continue to operate efficiently and we cannot thank them enough for their assistance! o Measured intermediate brackets in the wastewater wet well at the Weiss Lift Station to be able to fabricate the brackets and install the new pumps that need extra space on the guide rails to be able to slide into the pit. • Line Maintenance: o Responded to a water outage for Sorento Phase 9 (Private Development). After coordinating between city engineering, Cash Construction (the contractor who constructed the project infrastructure), and Texas Water and Property (the private utility company), we found the two problems causing the water outage. Line Maintenance crews had to expose a water valve that was buried in the closed position in one location, and found a partially closed valve on the private water line at another location. After opening both valves water service was restored. o Crews assisted the builder for the Holiday Inn Express to diagnose their private fire line water issue and we were able to provide the site with water via their fire line. o Continued installation of Sodium Permanganate Line for Water Treatment • Regulatory/Water Conservation: o The Customer Consumer Report (CCR) is now complete and will post by July 1, 2020. The CCR is required to report the violations from 2019 on the Pflugerville CCR. The TCEQ requires every community public water system (PWS) to generate and make available a CCR to their customers by July 1 of every year, which includes information from the previous calendar year. This report is also known as an Annual Water Quality Report or Drinking Water Quality Report. The CCR is a document that provides consumers information about the quality of drinking water in an easy to read format. The CCR summarizes information that the City collects to comply with Federal and State (TCEQ) regulations. It includes information about the source(s) of water used (i.e., rivers, lakes, reservoirs, or aquifers), chemical contaminants, bacteriological contaminants, compliance with drinking water rules, educational health information, water system contact information and public participation opportunities. o Staff worked with 120 Water Audit, a company assisting the City with this year’s Lead and Copper Testing as required by TCEQ, in identifying testing volunteers as well as translation of letters that will be distribution for upcoming testing. o Regulatory Department assisted with the distribution of free books to kids at various elementary schools within PFISD. • Streets and Drainage: o Assisted with cleanup and repairs at the Pflugerville Gateway “Welcome to Pflugerville” sign. o Assisted with reopening the Lake • Resource Recovery: o Please visit our new Dashboard for the Recycle Center o 281 customers utilized the Recycle Center this past weekend o Chipping picked up 243 piles, estimated at 1,226 cubic yards of brush • Facility Maintenance: o Painted wall at weight room in PD o Repaired A/C at various locations around the City of Pflugerville o Replaced the floor in Highway Enforcement Unit (HEU) at PD, also installed a new shelf and rearranged all desks. PD Photo attached.

June 5, 2020 Greetings Mayor and City Council

Be sure to be checking your Slack!

Administration: • Sereniah was a panelist on Leadership Austin's Engage Breakfast Series on June 3. The panel discussed community resiliency and the regional impact of COVID-19. You can watch the Facebook live video on Leadership Austin's Facebook page, facebook.com/leadershipatx. • Trey will be on a panel discussion Virtual City Chat hosted by the Urban Land Institute, Austin on Wednesday, June 10th. There are three different panels and it runs from 4- 5:30pm. Link here. • On June 11 at 4-5pm, there will be a Virtual Coffee Chat that may be of interest. This is FREE virtual networking to learn more about ULI and how to get involved. Register here • Attached you will find the “Combined Public Service Reopen Timelines” document which gives our projected dates for reopening parks, pools, rec center, library services and PAWS. These timelines, particularly for Rec Center and pools, could shift depending on the number of seasonal staff we are able hire and train. All dates are also subject to federal, state and county orders.

Communications: • COVID-19: posted update on Governor Abbott’s phase 3. Updated /reopen website and posted FB alert. Responded to many questions from residents about what this means and city programming. Shared information about Music in the Park delayed until August/Sept/October months. • Continued to film virtual programming • Filmed Mayor’s message for the community related to George Floyd and sent on social media, website and Nextdoor. Participated in Blackout Tuesday across all City Social Media which was well received by the community. • Submitted 4 TML award applications for the City. • January-June communications data compiled in pdf titled Mid-Year Report

Engineering: • Small Cell Wireless Facilities: th o Upcoming June 9 City Council Agenda Item for two (2) proposed City Ordinances for approval of 1st Reading related to Small Cell Wireless Facilities. City staff has continued coordination with AT&T as well as all Utility providers with progress on the status of the upcoming Small cell facilities. The City has received the first request for a Small Cell installation on a FM 1825 (Pecan Street) which was approved be TxDOT (copy attached, titled Small Cell, excluding plans). The location as proposed is in line with the preferred location(s) as provided in the upcoming Right-of-Way Ordinance. th o Accordingly, staff will be presenting two ordinances during the June 9 City Council meeting, in order to effectuate the necessary amendments related to incorporate Small Cell Wireless Facilities Ordinance #1: ROW Management and Implement New Fees (previously approved Feb 2020); Ordinance #2: Engineering Design Manual Updates for design guidelines and ROW Permit requirements. This information is furnished to provide City Council with background information related to wireless small cell facilities in the City’s rights-of-way, both to provide context and to aid in supporting Visionary Leadership, Effective Governance, and Proactive Collaboration. The City's efforts to date to regulate small cell infrastructure where allowed by Federal and State law supports a Beautiful, Desirable, Safe and Environmentally Responsible City. • SH 45 W/WW Line project – City staff has received a second counteroffer from property owner (attached, titled Counteroffer 2). “The Owner’s Attorney has requested the amount as a settlement and they do have an appraiser as the basis for this counteroffer but they would not be willing to share that unless we end up in a special commissioner’s hearing. Property owner would like to settle but is at “the bottom of his negotiating range.”” th • Utility Coordination Meeting scheduled June 24 , 3 – 5 pm as a Virtual discussion. As part of the ROW Management Ordinance City staff will initiate Quarterly Utility Coordination meetings as part of the implementation of the ROW Ordinance and continue previous utility discussions. • Traffic Signal Transition Plan Report – Kimley-Horn has completed and submitted the Final Report related to the traffic signal transition and City staff has been coordinating efforts for a presentation to City Council 6/23 providing summary of report, providing the following: o Preview the Plan for City ownership of operations and maintenance of TxDOT traffic signals o Inventory and assessment of existing City traffic signals o City’s preference for traffic signal equipment and technology o Alternatives for traffic signal communication o A prioritized list of CIP projects towards development of City’s Advanced Transportation Management System (build-out approach) o Next steps for action items to be initiated within the FY20 Budget • Development: o Completed 10 total plan reviews o 7 Development projects in queue to meet 6/12 review deadline o 3 Construction Improvements Project Acceptance for Public Infrastructure • Construction: o Contractors are following Construction Inspection Protocol for safety and health of inspectors o Total 121 construction inspections for week of 6/1 o CBDG El Malino construction progressing o Manville Interconnect project final walkthrough performed by Engineer 6/3 o Black Locust Project substantially complete, pending revegetation o 1849 Park Left Turn Lane project substantially complete, coordinating mailbox reinstallations o The installation of the splash pad facilities at Stone Hill Park is anticipated to start at the end of June, weather permitting, and take 4-5 weeks to complete. • CIP: o Rowe Lane at FM 685 – Coordinating AFA/LOSA with TxDOT o Kelly Lane Ph 2 and Ph 3 – Design progress meeting 6/3 to discuss Phase 3, 90% PSE 6/26 o Russells/Caldwells (Historic Colored Addition) 30% Design Review meeting 6/3 o Highland Park Interceptor – THC Permit application submitted, Design meeting scheduled 6/9 o Geyser St. Drainage project – City staff review underway; comments to be provided 6/3 o Pecan/Weiss Lane Water Line project – Preliminary Engineering Report review meeting 6/5

Finance: • A new electric rate of 3.358 cents/kWh has been locked in with the TASB Energy Cooperative for a term of 84 months. This rate is effectively a 10% reduction from the rate the City is currently paying. We estimate annual savings of $73,000 based on the City’s current usage.

Library: • Part of the role of a library is to engage with the community and help provide context in difficult times. Adult Services Librarian Bette McDowell curated a collection of recommended readings for adults under the heading of Black Lives Matter. Youth Services Librarians Amanda Cawthon and Melissa Grzybowski assisted by adding youth recommendations. The list highlights important perspectives from many brilliant African- American authors. The post on Facebook has about 200 likes and has been shared almost 100 times. One of the comments perfectly illustrates our purpose, “I definitely don't know enough. Thank you for these lists and for the direct curated list link! Reserved a copy to pick up and start." Link to post here. • Youth Librarian Melissa Grzybowski wrote this month's Pflugerville Pflag article giving an overview of the Summer Reading Program, which will look different this year without in-person programs. Read the article here to see what we have planned. As always, all ages are invited to participate, which includes you, mayor and council members! Find attached a flier with our adult summer reading challenge titled SRB Adult Reading Challenge. Are you up to the challenge? • As previously mentioned, we've seen a big spike in the usage of our electronic resources during the pandemic. One of the resources being used the most is Lynda.com. As a reminder, this training tool for small businesses, job seekers, and continuing education was made possible through a partnership with PCDC. With their generous funding and utilizing the library's platform for access, this workforce development and business support resource continues to benefit the community. In fact, during May more than 2,100 video courses were accessed with over 130 hours of viewing time. A big thank you to PCDC for this continuing partnership!

Parks: • Programs and Events: o Last of the chalk challenge this week, winning submission will be announced on Facebook today. o Tai Chi class on Facebook Live, Fridays at 10am o Announced our Summer Concert Series was moved to early Fall. • Community Services: o Pfarmers Market on June 4, 2020 was a great success. There were 20 vendors present; a couple of small rain showers but the market was well attended. • Aquatics and Athletics: o All openings for seasonal aquatics staff and parks staff positions are now posted online. If you know someone interested in working for the Parks and Recreation Department this summer please let them know.

PCDC: Report is attached as PCDC – June 5, 2020

Planning: • Planning and Zoning Commission met on Monday and took action on the following: o One rezoning request was considered: ▪ 115 E. Main Street SUP – Specific Use Permit for a bar/tavern at 115 E. Main Street (next door to Freedom Machine Tattoo). Planning and Zoning Commission recommended approval of this item. This item will be before Council on Tuesday, June 23rd. o 2 Preliminary Plans were approved and 3 final plats were approved o Eleven subdivisions were statutorily disapproved – As a reminder the Planning and Zoning Commission approved modifications to the development review schedules to account for requirements created by HB3167. o The Planning and Zoning Commission also had a worksession to discuss amendments to the Downtown Overlay. • On Monday, staff issued a Request for Qualifications for the Downtown Utility and Infrastructure Study. This study was included in the FY20 Budget and is an effort to further the items in the Downtown Action Plan approved by City Council in 2018. Selection of the consultant is anticipated to be considered by Council at the end of July. • Projects of Interest: o Project Charm – This project continues to be an active site and the landscape along Pecan changes daily with the activity construction related to this project. Attached is an aerial photo provided by the project (see Project Charm.jpg). o Lakeside Meadows – Staff is reviewing multiple subdivision applications for this project including extension of major utility infrastructure that will provide wastewater service to this site. The industrial properties to the south along Pecan and a portion of the residential are anticipated to be the first projects that begin vertical construction in this development. o North Pointe – Staff is currently working with the developer of North Pointe regarding the extension of Colorado Sand through the eastern tract of the development. To date we have not received any submittals for development for this project since the approval of the PUD last fall. o Pecan District – This project is still within Phase 1 with construction of the apartment complex The Elliott. Phase II is anticipated to be submitted for review later this year. o Carmel Subdivision – Staff is reviewing the last phase of Carmel West development. The preliminary plan for Carmel East, which extends the subdivision to Cameron Road, is also under review by staff. o Springbrook Industrial is under construction at the northeast corner of New Meister and Schultz. This is an industrial flex space that is anticipated to be completed in phases. Site Development permit is anticipated to be issued later this month with building permit issuance for three buildings following shortly after. o National Tire and Battery (NTB) is under construction at the northwest corner of Immanuel and Pecan. This project was permitted in May and construction is anticipated to be completed by October. o Typhoon Texas – A site revision was approved to add additional parking and accommodate internal improvements that were necessary due to the change at the intersection of FM685 and Town Center. The onsite construction is anticipated to be completed next week.

Police: • Monday Round Rock Police Department donated 18 large crowd-control shields, 18 riot helmets, 8 large riot batons and 440 Flex Cuffs to help us prepare for a large-scale disturbance or protest, should one develop, • Monday Asst. Chief Smith participated in the Texas General Land Office Hurricane Outlook webinar • Thursday Pflugerville Police Department’s online policy project was completed and our policy manual was posted online for the first time: https://police.pflugervilletx.gov/about/policies • Friday Lt. Rowley, Sgt. Welch and Det. Campana participated in the District Attorney’s ISAT (Interagency Sexual Assault Team) video meeting. • In daily communication with Travis County ESD2 regarding COVID-19 status and updates • Asst. Chief Smith participates in semi-weekly conference calls with DSHS and CAPCOG Regional Emergency Management Coordinators • Asst. Chief Smith participated in several State Operations Center weather calls, regarding Tropical Depression Cristobal

Public Works: • ACM and Administration: Two admin support staff have had telephones forwarded to cell phones and are working from home on various projects. The rest of the Public Works administration are working from the office. o Amy Giannini and staff are providing open office hours on Friday afternoons preceding City Council meetings from 3:30-4:30 pm to allow for coordination with City Council members regarding Public Works and Engineering related items or questions. For the time being, these meetings will occur via Webex. Please contact Sereniah and copy Amy Giannini ([email protected]) to schedule appointment no later than the Wednesday prior to the open office hours. In your request, please include topics for discussion so that the appropriate staff can be scheduled and prepared for the discussion. o The Manville CCN transfer application was submitted to the Public Utility Commission (PUC) this week. GIS staff did coordinate in advance of the submittal with PUC GIS staff for presubmittal reviews of the mapping information in an effort to expedite the application acceptance process. Per previous correspondence with the PUC, the process for the CCN transfer should take up to 6 months once the application and agreement are received. Manville has been notified of the application submittal and has been sent a copy for their records. o Evan Groeschel, the Operations Director in Public Works, started this week. He will serve as the director over several departments including Streets & Drainage, Fleet, Resource Recovery and Facility Maintenance. Evan comes to us from the City of The Colony with 12 years of public service where he served in many roles including Director of Public Services. o Amy Giannini and Brandon Pritchett met with Oncor to continue discussions regarding frequent power outages along the south side of Pflugerville that affect the City’s Central Wastewater Treatment Plant, 130 Commerce Center and Gattlinburg neighborhood. Oncor provided a status update of their efforts including the installation of several smart switches along the affected feed that will improve reliability. The smart switches are anticipated to be installed within 8 weeks. Oncor also committed to assessing vegetation management along the feed. o Amy Giannini participated as a panelist for the American Council of Engineering Companies of Texas June chapter meeting. The panel also included representatives from the Cities of Georgetown and Round Rock with discussion regarding the challenges of COVID-19 and agency priorities for the future. • Water Treatment: Five operators and the foreman continue to rotate shifts to maintain the plant and produce clean water. o Staff replaced the influent valve actuator for Membrane Train 1 and recalibrated unit to ensure that it would work properly. We’ve recently stocked a significant amount of spare parts at the WTP site to ensure we have parts needed for failures on each of the membrane trains, so this part came out of recently ordered stock and was reordered to ensure we keep critical spare parts on the shelf at all times. o The WTP/Pump and Motor teams have High Service Pump # 1 working properly now and are able to temporarily hold off on replacing the 24” discharge butterfly valve until the winter when water demand is significantly less than the summer time. The replacement of the valve will require the shutdown of the discharge header which feeds water into the system and therefore waiting until the winter will provide more flexibility for the repair with less demand for water. o As part of the violations that occurred in 2019 in regards to the Water Treatment Plant, the City received a fine from TCEQ in the early part of 2020 in the amount of $21,840. With coordination with TCEQ, staff submitted a Supplemental Environmental Project (SEP) to offset the fine. The SEP has been approved by TCEQ and will fully offset the $21,840 fine once the project is complete. The propose SEP project is Manville Interconnect relocation that is currently under construction. The need for the project was identified by TCEQ during a visit last year. In addition to offsetting the fine, the project will also be a beneficial for the water quality. By moving this interconnect location, we will be reducing taste and odor causing compounds that could be created as a result of previous interconnect location. • Wastewater Treatment: Four operators and the foreman continue to rotate shifts to maintain the plant. o The construction contractor working on the Wastewater Treatment Plant expansion hit the primary 24” force main that comes into the plant from the Weiss Lane, Carmel, and Renewable lift stations as well as the treatment sludge from the Water Treatment Plant. Staff responded quickly and assisted to mobilize the area to ensure that the contractor could perform the repair and that the spill was contained at all times. Our staff shut off these lift stations while the repair was ongoing which took approximately 5 hours. Given that the lift stations were turned off, staff also called for wastewater transport trucks to pump flows at the Weiss Lane lift station to ensure we did not have any Sanitary Sewer Overflows during the repair. We are currently compiling the costs of this mobilization to ensure that we recover the costs as necessary from the contractor. o Installed stator on progressive cavity pump 1 at the WWTP to have more compatible material for the wastewater solids we have. o Replaced air regulator valve on River Pump 1’s control valve as the existing unit was leaking excess air and not allowing the valve to open smoothly. The replacements allows for more consistent pressures on the discharge piping manifold. • Pumps and Motors: o Repaired the discharge valve on one of the finished water pumps at Well 7 in order to give better operational flexibility for WTP and distribution staff. o Re-Set the motor and set the impeller height for the Well 6 pump and motor to be better prepared for summer flows and have greater flexibility when needed. • Line Maintenance: o Exposed 36” main for tap for the Water Treatment Plant o Assisted PARD with a water back up at Mentzer Pool and discovered a blockage in the 4 inch line. o Continued installation of Sodium Permanganate Line for Water Treatment, which will provide zebra mussel control once complete. • Regulatory/Water Conservation: o Staff worked with 120 Water Audit, a company assisting the City with this year’s Lead and Copper Testing as required by TCEQ, in identifying testing volunteers as well as translation of letters that will be distribution for upcoming testing. o Responded to several water restriction complaints and educated the residents of our current Stage 2 water restrictions. o Water Conservation Specialist Patricia Rinehart is coordinating with PAWS for them to assist in selling the remaining stock of Rain-barrels to residents since they are able to operate monetary transactions and residents would not have to schedule a different time and pickup location to retrieve them. • Street and Drainage: o Sign shop repaired multiple signs that were damaged throughout the city and made over a dozen signs for various city departments. • Resource Recovery: o Please visit our new Dashboard for the Recycle Center o 309 customers utilized the Recycle Center this past weekend o Chipping picked up 459 piles, estimated at 2,313 cubic yards of brush • Facility Maintenance: o Installed 15 hand-sanitizing dispensers throughout the City in preparation for the reopening. o Replaced stained ceiling tiles in the City Courts Department o Trimmed over grown bushes on the east side of the Library

June 12, 2020 Greetings Mayor and City Council

Be sure to be checking your Slack!

Administration: • Please find the attached City Council draft agendas for the June 23, 2020 Worksession and Regular Meeting titled cc062320wsa and cc062320a.

Communications: • We coordinated our new EOC situation reports and are sending them on Wednesday and Friday. • We worked on a reopen press release which goes out on Friday and are updating all areas of website with new services as of June 16 following the termination of the Travis County Stay Home Order. • Preparing signage for library and utility billing related to reopening. • The July Pflyer utility bill insert is turned in for printing. The June Pflyer is available online. • The CCR water reports are now online at www.pflugervilletx.gov/ccr • Week 13 Media Reporting document is attached.

Engineering: • Small Cell Wireless Facilities: Staff is preparing to address City Council feedback for topics associated with two (2) proposed City Ordinances related to Small Cell Wireless Facilities. City staff has planned for a Webex Utility Coordination meeting on June 24th, 3:00 – 5:00 p.m. • Atlas 14 Stakeholder Meeting – Assistant City Engineer Ali Abdelfattah and Floodplain Manager Jenna Goolsby participated in an Atlas 14 Webex (meeting slide presentation attached as Atlas 14 Presentation). City staff participation in collaboration of the Wilbarger Study project. • Weiss Lane project – City has closed out, provided Final Acceptance and Warranty has begun, other matters related to City’s rights for Litigation, which Legal Counsel has advised may be 18 months • SH 45 W/WW Line project – City staff request will proceed with accepting counteroffer from property owner and begin preparation for establishing a bid date. • Utility Coordination Meeting scheduled June 24th, 3 – 5 pm as a Virtual discussion. • Traffic Signal Transition Plan Report – A presentation by Kimley-Horn and City staff will be on the 6/23 City Council in order to confirm Final Report related to the traffic signal transition for City plans of full operation and maintenance of TxDOT traffic signals in City limits. Topics for 6/23 City Council presentation include providing summary of report, providing the following o Preview the Plan for City ownership of operations and maintenance of TxDOT traffic signals o Inventory and assessment of existing City traffic signals o City’s preference for traffic signal equipment and technology o Alternatives for traffic signal communication o A Prioritized list of CIP projects towards development of City’s Advanced Transportation Management System (build-out approach) o Next steps for action items to be initiated within the FY20 Budget • Development: o Completed 9 total plan reviews o 10 Development projects in queue to meet 6/18 deadline o 7 Project Coordination Meetings o 1 Construction Plan Approved o 4 Environmental Inspection Site Visits o 3 PAC Meetings o 1 Construction Final Walkthrough • Construction: o Contractors are following Construction Inspection Protocol for safety and health of insepctors o Total 149 construction inspections for week of 6/8 o Black Locust Project substantially complete, pending revegetation o CDBG El Malino construction progress meeting 6/11 - work ongoing o Waste Water Treatment Plant (WWTP) construction progressing – concrete placement continues and wastewater line installations o Wilbarger Creek Park - Contractor has completed the curb & gutter at the parking lot, is working to finish the limestone block install at the outdoor education amphitheater, and continues to install concrete flatwork on site. They are installing drainage at specific areas including the playground spaces. The contractor is finishing connection of W/WW for the restroom structure. o Manville Interconnect project Final walkthrough completed and close-out paperwork begin prepared o 1849 Park Left Turn Lane project substantially complete, mailbox relocation confirmed and close-out paperwork in progress; Travis County decision pending for 3-Way stop at Pecan/Cameron intersection o Stone Hill Splash Pad – Contractor still anticipating end of June for delivery of equipment and construction to begin upon arrival anticipate a 4-5 week installation for completion by end of July/early August o Swenson Farms PRV, project substantially complete, awaiting close-out documents from Engineer • CIP: o Melber Lane Alignment study underway with survey o Russells/Caldwells (Historic Colored Addition) discussions for driveways, fire, and utilities related to roadway design; coordinating to confirm detention pond o Highland Park Interceptor - THC Permit application submitted, Design meeting 6/9 o Wilbarger WWTP Owner’s Representative – TWDB PIF Application completed and submitted 6/10; RFQ advertisement submitted to paper 6/10 for two CIP projects o Industrial Pretreatment Program and FOG Program SOQs Review Team has received SOQs for review o ADA Transition Plan – Consultant was provided the City Standard Details (Curb Ramps, Handrails, etc.) for review

Finance: • The Comptroller’s June allocation of sales taxes has been completed and the revenue received by the City increased by 16.9% ($142,425) from June 2019. Through June, approximately 78.2% of the budgeted sales tax has been collected. This information and the sales tax analysis chart (attached as: FY20 Sales Tax June) is based on the net cash payment received by the City; however, reports you see from other sources may vary depending on the types of collections included (i.e. current, prior period, audit).

Library: • 2020 is turning out to be quite a year, to say the least. Library Tech Peter Shugart has begun documenting the year including the Pflugerville response to Covid-19 and the George Floyd killing. He is collecting images and documents from across the city to include in the library’s local history digital archive. As he puts it, “ So 50 years from now when someone asks what 2020 was like, we will be able to show them.” • Next Wednesday, Assistant Director Daniel Berra will be a guest speaker in the PCDC webinar series, 3D City Strikes Back! He will give an overview of what the training platform Lynda.com offers to the community and how the partnership with PCDC is benefitting workforce development and supporting small businesses in Pflugerville. • Library Director Jennifer Coffey has submitted an entry for an Institute of Museum and Library Services grant. If awarded, the grant money will be used to purchase a 24 Hour Library-to-go Vending Machine, that will be filled with books and other materials to provide patrons with around the clock access. The grant would also be used for a solar powered, electric vehicle charging station that is portable and can be used as a micro electric grid in times of emergency. • Next week the library plans to continue expanding services to the community by distributing Care Kits to Go upon request through our Curbside Pick-up Service. Much like the Care Cabinet in the courtyard, the kits will offer personal grooming items to community members in need.

Parks: • Community Service o Pfarmers Market on June 9, 2020 was a great success. There were 20 vendors present; there is plenty of fresh produce, baked goods, pastas, salsas, pecan products, exotic vinegars, jerky, energy power bars and much more. Come shop local. COVID-19 protocols are still being used at the market. Everyone who has attended the market have been wearing facemasks and washing their hands before entering and exiting. • Parks Maintenance o Trail maintenance for Myrtle Pfluger Trail o Playground mulch installed at Central Park in Falcon Pointe and Falcon Pointe Spash Pad playground o Flower bed maintenance at Stone Hill Park o Water found repair at Stone Hill Dog Park o Lake Pflugerville trash receptacle install

PCDC: Report is attached as PCDC – June 12, 2020

Planning: • On Thursday, we held our quarterly Development Pforum, our first one held virtually. Developers, architects, engineers and planners are invited to hear from staff on various development updates. This quarter they discussed development activity, code amendments related to downtown, the kick off of the Comprehensive Plan, Roadway Impact Fee Study and received a CIP update. The next Pforum is scheduled for September. • Staff reviewed the number of applications during the quarantine period vs the same time frame last year (March – May 2019 and March – May 2020). Applications for subdivision were up 36% and site development applications were up 50% over the same time period last year. For the year, subdivision applications are up 164% and site development applications are up 56%. • Last year Council passed a resolution for the creation of a community engagement project. Next week, staff will request from PCDC the funding for this year’s project. As you may recall, last year we created the Best Little Plaza in Texas. This year’s project will expand upon that space, creating landscaping and seating improvements into Main Street, lighting buildings along Main and Railroad, adding new art features, sidewalk along Walnut and other amenities that will encourage residents to come visit downtown. Staff will begin working on this project and anticipate it being complete in time for PARKing Day, which is currently scheduled for September 18, 2020.

Police: • Saturday Command Staff participated in the Community Black Lives Matter and George Floyd remembrance march, sponsored by Black Pflugerville. • Thursday Lt. Vronka and Command Staff have been involved in ongoing discussions with Black Pflugerville regarding a car parade on June 20th to celebrate Juneteenth. Our staff is merely providing recommendations for a safe route that will allow for a successful parade while minimizing the impact to traffic flow, as this is not a City event. • Friday Chief Robledo, members of Command Staff and officers accepted bakery items from a Pflugerville Resident, Michael, who will also be celebrating his 8th birthday and wanted to take a photo with police. • In daily communication with Travis County ESD2 regarding COVID-19 status and updates. • No update this week to the List of COVID-19 Related Expenditures

Public Works: • ACM & Administration: Two admin support staff have had telephones forwarded to cell phones and are working from home on various projects. The rest of the Public Works administration are working from the office. o We are beginning the return process next week for the Public Works and CIP Administration and staff. o Amy Giannini and Brandon Pritchett attended meeting and contributed to utility rate discussion with NewGen Strategies. o In conjunction with Engineering Department, Amy and Brandon met with Garver to discuss preliminary engineering report (PER) for the water plant expansion. A preferred treatment process was selected during the meeting. Garver will finalize the PER and provide a presentation to City Council at the July 28th meeting summarizing the path forward for the water treatment plant expansion project. o Discussed and developed Reopen plan for Public Works and Engineering. • Water Treatment: Five operators and the foreman continue to rotate shifts to maintain the plant and produce clean water. o Starting on the morning of Wednesday, June 10, we noticed that we had a precipitous drop-off in raw water flow from the Lake Pump Station going into the WTP. We have been working around the clock to troubleshoot the issue and determine why we are not getting expected flows out of our Lake Pump Station and what caused it to drop off so suddenly. We are currently consulting with DCS Engineering and Garver, engineering firms who are both working on water treatment plant projects and have familiarity with the plant and operations. Currently, the WTP is keeping up with demand but are still experiencing flow limitations out of the Lake. Staff has pulled one of the three pumps at the Lake on Thursday to see if we notice any issues with pump cans or the screens at the bottom of the pumps. We did determine the screen had come lose are currently trying to dislodge the basket. We are also planning to bring in a diver next week to inspect the intake pipe and butterfly valve to determine if debris may be obstructing flow or if the butterfly valve may have failed, creating an obstruction. o Suez has been on-site all week working with staff to remove the membrane modules on Train 3 and to prepare the plastic components on each of the 5 cassettes. The purchased membrane modules that Council approved in its May 12th meeting should be on site by June 22nd to prepare to install. Once the membranes are installed, there will be an extensive cleaning of the modules before being ready for service. These modules will remain off until the Strainers are relocated. o The Strainer Relocation projects started this week that involved material being delivered as well as the contractor beginning to work on various components of the prep work. o WTP staff replaced the safety shower in the basement that had a broken arm that would not allow anyone to shut the water off if you engaged the shower. • Wastewater Treatment: Four operators and the foreman continue to rotate shifts to maintain the plant. o The discharge piping for the non-potable water pumps that control the chlorine feed had cracked causing the system to lose pressure. Staff was able to repair the cracked fitting and keep the system feeding chlorine without any negative effects. o Repaired a leak on the chlorine drip line for one of the clarifiers to allow for a more consistent chlorine drip on the weirs to minimize algal growth. The leak was allowing a chlorine drip to go straight into the clarifiers, which would affect the RAS feed coming back to the influent of the plant which could create an issue with our reseeding of the plant. o Staff started to measure the moisture content of the compost piles that are cooking currently. This moisture analysis will allow staff to better judge how compost is curing and when it needs to be turned. This also allows them to know when to add more mulch to the pile or when they need to add water to it. • Line Maintenance: o Repaired Jet truck #262, rear jettier assembly had a clogged valve. o Assisted Wastewater Treatment staff to prime the non-potable pumps. • Regulatory/Water Conservation o Regulatory staff teamed up with Terri, Gwen, and Jesse to get the all of the 2019 Customer Consumer Reports on the city’s website. o Continued consulting with 120 Water Audit, a company assisting the City with this year’s Lead and Copper Testing as required by TCEQ, in identifying testing volunteers that will be distributed for upcoming testing. • Street and Drainage: o Staff is currently determining which projects will move forward for the FY20 Pavement Maintenance Program. Once the project selection is finalized, we will move forward with developing bid documents and bidding the projects over the next couple of months. We are planning to present the 5-year (FY21-FY25) pavement maintenance plan to City Council in October 2020. o Currently evaluating ways to optimize the use of the Pavement Maintenance software in order to further advance creating efficient and effective methods regarding pavement maintenance. o Researching the capabilities of the City Works software and integrating inventory control within the system. o Safety coordinator ordered additional thermometers in preparation for the reopening of the city departments. o Multiple road repairs were performed throughout the city. o Sign shop repaired/installed multiple signs throughout the city and made dozens of signs for various city locations along with completing routine machine maintenance. o Streets crew mowed several acres and performed tree removal along Weiss Lane that prohibited normal traffic flow. • Fleet: o Currently the City has a GPS software in place, however it is cumbersome when attempting to utilize it to its fullest potential. Fleet and staff are currently researching and evaluating options that could potentially better fit the needs of the City. • Resource Recovery: o The recycle center will not have compost this weekend and until further notice as we have been unable to pass current compost piles. Once the compost piles pass, we will provide notification and continue distribution. The process to get a compost pile to be acceptable is that it has to be turned over multiple times over the course of a month to allow the bacteria to cook any of the microbes that are present in the sludge. Once the pile has been turned multiple times and is allowed to cook for a sufficient amount of time, a sample is pulled for E.coli to make sure that the E.coli count is below acceptable levels. If the sample has too high of an E.coli count, then the pile has to be turned more and allowed to cook for longer to resample the following week. This process takes a significant amount of time and effort to make sure that the compost that is available for citizens is of sufficient quality to be considered compost. o 279 customers utilized the Recycle Center this past weekend o Chipping picked up 416 piles of brush from residents estimated at 2,097 cubic yards of brush. • Facility Maintenance: o Currently Facilities Maintenance utilizes a work order software for daily work orders and a system dedicated to perform routine maintenance. City Works is being considered as the platform for which Facilities Maintenance can utilize its work order system as well as integrating routine/reoccurring maintenance. o Covered an outdoor area at the PD with sheet metal for large size evidence inventory. o Installed all required plastic guards at multiple City Facilities

June 19, 2020 Greetings Mayor and City Council

Be sure to be checking your Slack! Save the Date: 6/25 – Police Department Graduation via Zoom. Details below under PD

Administration: • We have been notified that Kimberly Castillo, Chair of the Parks and Recreation Commission, is moving out of the city limits this month and is therefore stepping down. She stated that she will truly miss being involved and living in Pflugerville.

Communications: • COVID-19: o Issued reopen press release. Sent to news media, posted on social media and website. o Updated /virus website with additional business resources for download for signage related to masks etc. o Posted information on the Travis County Order • Police Department: Worked with police on an awareness campaign and request for information from March homicide. Press releases sent to follow up on arrests related to Reds Gun Range burglary • Water – prepared notifications for subdivisions affected by Manville Water plant maintenance. Prepared automatic replies via the CHAT feature to respond to any posts about odor/color/water. • Prepared materials for announcement of Pfirecracker Pfestival for 2020 • Week 14 Media Reported document is attached.

Engineering: • Small Cell Wireless Facilities: th o Staff reviewed the feedback provided during the June 9 City Council meeting and coordinated with Legal Counsel and as a result of discussions, staff have been advised to propose removing and relocating three of the current sections within Chapter 96 of the Code of Ordinances, namely Sections 96.01, 96.08 and 96.09 to other existing Chapters of the Code that best suits the intended purposes. These changes require two (2) new Ordinances which will be provided as Agenda Items ORD-0529 and ORD-0530 for amending Title XIII, “General Offenses” and Title VII, “Traffic Code.” Chapter 96, Section 96.01 “Obstructing Streets & Sidewalks” and Section 96.08 “Repair of Defective Sidewalks” have both been removed from the current proposed Right-of-Way Management Ordinance and are proposed to be relocated within Title XIII General Offense, Chapter 130 “Offenses Against City Regulations” as New Section 130.12 and Section 130.13 respectively, as offenses applicable under Chapter 130. Chapter 96, Section 96.09 “Braking Devices Prohibited” has also been removed from the current proposed Right-of-Way Management Ordinance and will be relocated within Title VII Traffic Code, Chapter 70 “Traffic Rules” as a New Section 70.03. o Staff also coordinated with legal regarding the modification to the proposed Right- of-Way Management Ordinance to account for a need for a Demolition Bond and Chapter 96, Section 96.80(C) has been updated to clarify the requirements of the pole attachment agreement in which a similar type Demolition Bond will be required with Pole Attachment agreement, as required by the proposed provision 96.72(B) for surety bond for any utility provider, for consistency. The title of Paragraph, Section 96.80(C) has been modified to Pole Attachment Agreement and City Manager Authority and the first sentence has been updated to read “A network provider shall execute a Pole Attachment Agreement, including providing the required insurance and performance bond, with the City to access and use City service poles, which includes traffic lights, non-decorative street lights, and traffic signage, to dictate the terms of use…” which addressed the concern for Equipment Abandonment or providing a Demolition Bond to allow for an applicable recovery fee for the City in the event a Network provider abandons or no longer owns a facility within the Right-of-Way. o Geotechnical Requirements and Foundations has been reviewed in the proposed Right-of-Way Management Ordinance as Section 96.48, 96.50, and 96.52 and covers information related to geotechnical changes in the ROW for proposed Network Node installations. The Engineering Design Manual Section 11.11.D.4 requires a ROW user to complete an Industry Load Analysis requirement prior to installation of Network Nodes. o Proposed Fees have been verified with Texas Local Government Code, Chapter 284 and the City’s fees are within the regulated provisions. At such time of changes with legislation, the City will modify and update the Fee Schedule at that time. • Flood Insurance Assessment – City staff has performed a Flood Insurance Assessment (FIA) to determine current level of flood insurance coverage throughout the City and is submitting the findings to you as the Community’s governing body in an effort to improve floodplain management practices and obtain CRS credit points. The more CRS credit points a community has, the greater reduction in flood insurance premium rates for community residents. This flood insurance assessment along with a memo summarizing the results is attached for your reference, titled MEMO-CRS FEMA. No action is being requested of Council on this item. Performing the assessment and submitting the results to council is all that is required to obtain the CRS credit points. o CRS Background Information for Reference: One of the last remaining FY2020 Goals for Engineering to accomplish is to increase Pflugerville’s current Community Rating System (CRS), 9 Score related to Flood Insurance savings for the citizens of Pflugerville. CRS is a voluntary program for communities participating in the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) to lower flood insurance premiums by “going above and beyond” the minimum requirements for the NFIP eligibility. In order to improve Pflugerville’s current 9 CRS rating, the City can engage in any of 19 credible activities under the four (4) CRS Categories: 1) 300 Public Information Activities; 2) 400 Mapping and Regulations; 3) 500 Flood Damage Protection Activities and 4) 600 Warning and Response to receive credit points. Each of the four (4) categories has series of activities that identifies activities and credit points to be earned towards points to improve CRS class rating. A rating of 10 is the entry level for CRS and for every 500 points earned, the CRS number drops by one (1). One of the creditable activities under Category 300 is to conduct a Flood Insurance Assessment (FIA), which Staff has performed and the corresponding report has been attached for reference. The FIA is part of Item 370 for CRS Category 300. The City has also scheduled a visit from a Certified Federal CRS Specialist on 6/25 to review City’s efforts. • On 6/20 City Engineer, Patricia Davis will speak at the Black Pflugerville Juneteenth Celebration at Lake Pflugerville Pavilion. She will present an update of the Historic Colored Addition Project. • City staff hosted a meeting on 6/18 with HEB’s Director, Real Estate HEB, Jared O’Brien related to the HEB at the Northeast corner of Pecan St./FM 685 to discuss the Innovative Intersection “Displaced Left Turns” Improvements project. Also attending the virtual meeting was Design Engineers (Pacheco Koch and FNI) for both the Pecan/FM 685 and Old Austin-Hutto Road projects. City Engineer presented project scope and TxDOT support and participation, major highlights for intersection geometric changes, displayed figures with explanation for impacts to the HEB driveways along Pecan St., provided benefits for efficiency, operations and safety for both traffic maneuvers in/out of HEB driveways on Pecan and at Pecan/FM 685 intersection with improvements, provided preliminary schedule, requested HEB support and participation for a Public Education Campaign to inform motorist of the upcoming changes in advance of construction, as well discussed the collaboration efforts for both Pecan/FM 685 project with the Old Austin-Hutto Road project. The Engineers are coordinating the Traffic Control Plans such to minimize impacts to the eastern HEB driveways. Mr. O’Brien does not see anything objectionable or perceive any traffic pattern changes for HEB as a result of the proposed improvements. City staff will maintain communication with Mr. O’Brien and HEB’s Public Affairs Office as a follow up for Public Education. • El Malino CDBG Project – City staff has discussion meeting 6/15 and met Engineer and Contractor 6/18 for discussions related to mailboxes and driveways. Based on an assessment and determination of the Design Engineer, it was recommended and agreed by City Staff for reconstruction of existing brick mailboxes for removal of obstructions within the right-of-way and to replace them with breakaway TxDOT safety mailboxes as single or multiple units. City staff has already coordinated with the Engineer, Contractor and sought Legal Counsel direction for notification of residents, which will include a discussion with each individual resident, prior to removal of mailbox units for reconstruction. • Traffic Signal Transition Plan Report – A presentation by Kimley-Horn and City staff will be on the 6/23 City Council to confirm Final Report results related to the traffic signal transition for City intentions for full operation and maintenance of several TxDOT traffic signals in City limits. Staff will also update for next steps towards implementation efforts to begin in FY2020 for Phase 1 of the proposed Traffic Signal CIP projects. • Development: o Completed 7 total plan reviews o 13 Development projects in queue to meet 6/25 review deadline • Construction: o Contractors are following Construction Inspection Protocol for safety and health of inspectors o Total 129 construction inspections for week of 6/15 o Black Locust Project substantially complete, pending revegetation; site visit 6/18 o Central Waste Water Treatment Plant (WWTP) construction progressing – concrete placement continues and wastewater line installations o Wilbarger Creek Park – Contractor work on amphitheater and continues installation of flatwork; Water and wastewater connections for restrooms almost complete; payment application processed 6/18; on target for August 2020 completion o 1849 Park Left Turn Lane project substantially complete, close-out paperwork in progress; Travis County decision due 6/19 for 3-Way stop at Pecan/Cameron intersection, city staff reviewed o W. SH130 Interceptor WW project continue tunneling work as ongoing this week and coordination for removal of spoils material from site to other location o Stone Hill Splash Pad – (status unchanged) Contractor still anticipating end of June for delivery of equipment and construction to begin upon arrival anticipate a 4-5 week installation for completion by end of July/early August • CIP: o Russells/Caldwells (Historic Colored Addition) discussions for driveways, fire, and utilities related to roadway design; coordinating to confirm detention pond o Wilbarger Regional Waste Water Treatment Plant (WRWWTP) Owner’s Representative – Project Information Form (PIF) has been submitted, reviewed and accepted by the Texas Water Development Board (TWDB) for inclusion on the CWSRF Intended Use Plan – Project Priority List for funding. The next notification should be an invitation to apply for funding, as the Financial Application deadline is August 31, which will require City Council Action. In addition, the WRWWTP RFQ solicitation for selection of a Design Engineer was posted on the City’s webpage on 6/17; Advertisement notice was also included to the paper for an RFQ to be posted 6/24 solicitation for selection of a Design Engineer for the Wilbarger 54” Waste Water Interceptor Project; both project submittal deadlines for Statements of Qualifications (SOQs) are due 7/29 o Lake Pflugerville Park Phase 1 – 6/15 meeting discussion with Fire and 6/16 meeting with Building Official both discussions went well minor comments regarding turning radii at parking and review for inspections by Building Construction Plan Approved o Pecan/Weiss Lane Water Line project – Coordination meeting with Lakeside Meadows 6/19 review based on Water Master Plan; upsize for water lines may be required as further discussions with Development o Historic Colored Addition – Meeting discussion with Engineer on 6/19 related to Texas Historic Commission (THC) preliminary information; further discussion with geotechnical engineer necessary; Emily volunteered to coordinate with the Church for the parking lot and driveway; Fire Department review for radius o Kelly Lane Phase 2 & 3 – 6/15 Coordinating with consultant for Drainage improvements and Value Engineering study, prior to proceeding; increased drainage has raised concerns for project design and construction that will need to be discussed further; Design Consultant discussions with City staff has resulted in major Drainage needs that are beyond the current scope for the contract. Staff is has received information from the Design Consultant

Finance: • We have received a little more information on the June 2020 sales tax collections that were 16.9% higher than June 2019. It appears that our sales taxes are being supplemented by construction, including construction materials sourcing related to Project Charm. We believe at least 5.7% of the 16.9% of the year-over-year increase can be attributed to current construction, which will end with the construction. We also saw a surprising amount of stability in internet purchases and food establishments due to our residents staying within Pflugerville. At this time, we are not sure if this represents a momentary spike in purchases or a shift in habits. Currently, we anticipate sales tax revenues to exceed budget by $384,700 for FY20.

Library: • We’ve seen heavy demand for the Care Kits we began distributing through our curbside pickup earlier this week. In the first two days we distributed nearly 50 kits. We are now also accepting donations from the community for the personal hygiene items included in the kits (toilet paper, soap, shampoo, toothpaste, deodorant, etc.). There has already been a great response to our call for these donations, which are quarantined before distribution. It is a clear reminder of how the needs of many in the community have changed during the pandemic, but also how the community is willing to help those in need. • Speaking of Curbside Pickup, we are seeing a big uptick in our numbers. We are now serving around 130 cars per day. Part of the reason for the increase is that more people are becoming aware of the service. Another reason is we continue to add new services and funnel them through the Curbside Pickup. The Curbside has allowed us to provide resources and entertainment to the community while maintaining control of the process to ensure we protect the health of our staff and the public. • One of the things people depend on the library for is access to computers. With the building closed, we have been unable to meet this need directly. We are hoping to change this soon. We are currently exploring the option of checking out laptops to our patrons. We are working with our IT department and hope to have this in place soon. This would expand our offerings that address the community’s technology needs which already includes Wi-Fi hotspots available for checkout, the extension of the library’s Wi- Fi to cover the entire parking lot, and our remote printing option. It will also extend access to those likely to most benefit from our many electronic resources including our offerings related to workforce development, job search, and training. Stay tuned for more info. • Weekly Virtual Program Highlights - Crafty at Home Cafe, Online Reading Buddies with Ms. Carmen, Pflugerville Ukulele Club, Online Teen Night: Escape Room, Virtual Storytimes, and Paint Night.

Parks: • Events: The Pfirecracker Pfestival agreement has been signed by Typhoon Texas, we are looking forward to a great show on July 4th. Staff also secured a $5,000 donation from HEB as sponsor of the eventm • Community Services: Pfarmers Market on June 16, 2020 was well attended as all markets have been. There were 18 vendors present; there is plenty of fresh produce, baked goods, pastas, salsas, pecan products, exotic vinegars, jerky, energy power bars and much more. COVID-19 protocols are still being used at the market. Everyone who has attended the market have been wearing facemasks and washing their hands before entering and exiting. • Parks Maintenance: o Lake Pflugerville playgrounds, pavilion, docks, fishing piers and the north parking lot opened on June 16th. o Athletic fields were opened back up for summer reservations • Programs: A virtual scavenger hunt called the Pfinders Club of Pflugerville: Missing Key started today & will end June 30th. Follow on Facebook for more information. • Aquatics and Athletics: th o Gilleland Creek Pool opened June 16 , reservations for open swim and lap swim can be obtained online. o Class trainings and re-certifications this week for lifeguards, water safety instructors and pool managers. o Local sports organizations were sent a call for fall ‘20 and spring ’21 field allocations this week. They will have until July 3rd to submit their field allocation requests back to the department for the upcoming seasons. Fields will be allocated according to the terms of the field use policy and availability.

PCDC: Report is attached as PCDC – June 19, 2020

Planning: • The Downtown Council subcommittee met with staff on Monday to further the efforts of downtown code amendments. The conversation focused around land use policy. This topic will also be covered with the entire Council during the worksession on the 23rd. • On Wednesday, Emily presented this year’s Community Project to PCDC requesting their grant funding for the project. PCDC approved the request and staff will begin moving on implementation of the project and anticipate it being complete in time for PARKing Day, which is currently scheduled for September 18, 2020.

Police: • Thursday Lt. Lewis attended the Central Texas Regional SWAT Leadership Meeting hosted by Leander PD. th • On June 4 , Office of Community Liaison resumed the Citizens Police Academy, but moved to a virtual format utilizing WebEx. Each Thursday evening through July 23rd, the Citizens Police Academy Class 31 meets online for their weekly class. • New Officer graduation for our 4 most recent police officers will be held on Thursday, June 25th at 6:30pm. Due to COVID-19 restrictions and adherence to social distancing, each officer can only have 4 family members attend. The event, however, will be broadcast via WebEx for friends, family, and any City Leadership who chooses to watch. Mayor and City Council members will be pre-registered prior to the event and will receive an email from WebEx to complete the registration. The WebEx information is as follows: o Registration link: https://pflugervilletx.webex.com/pflugervilletx/onstage/g.php?MTID=e922abdbf6f14930 3423257d1f340e973 o Event number: 146 319 1826 • In daily communication with Travis County ESD2 regarding COVID-19 status and updates. • List of COVID-19 Expenditures attached.

Public Works: • Administration: Two admin support staff have had telephones forwarded to cell phones and are working from home on various projects. The rest of the Public Works administration are working from the office. o Public Works and CIP Administration have begun alternating shifts from the office to prepare for reopening. • Water Treatment: Five operators and the foreman continue to rotate shifts to maintain the plant and produce clean water. o We are still troubleshooting issues with raw water flow at our Lake Pump Station. In coordination with DCS and Garver, we are working on two parallel troubleshooting techniques currently to try to address issues with flow coming into the WTP. One of the routes we are taking is inspecting and cleaning the construction screens that are located in between the raw water line and each individual trains. This work is being done in tandem with pulling and inspecting our Lake Pumps individually. We have pulled and cleaned each of the construction cleans for Trains 1, 4, and 5. Staff also worked with a confined space contractor on Monday to pull the basket screen that had come loose from the pump was stuck in the pump can for Pump 3 at the Lake Pump Station. This involved lowering a person down a 23-foot shaft that is only 24” wide to retrieve a basket that only had 1” of tolerance to the walls (Pictures of work and basket attached). This increased the output of the pump significantly after it was reinstalled. Staff have now pulled Lake Pump 1 and found the exact same problem that was found on Pump 3. The basket screen is at the bottom of the pump can and we have a contractor mobilized for Monday to pull the screen out of the 24” pump can. Once this is pulled out, staff will move to Pump 2 assuming that the basket screen is still in place. The good news with the pumps being pulled is that we have not seen a significant amount of zebra mussel shells on the pipe walls in either of the pump cans. This bodes well for the future of the pump station as well as the membrane system given the work that has been done to ensure the strainers are working properly. nd o On Monday, June 22 , we will have a shutdown of the WTP that will be required to do the tie-in for the strainer relocation. This work will require significant coordination with the contractor doing the work as well as the operations staff to ensure we have adequate water stored to make it through the day. Monday was chosen as it is a non-watering day for those following watering restrictions. With the WTP down during this time, it also allows us to accomplish 2 other goals during the same shut down. We will have a diving contractor that is going to be inspecting the raw water line from the lake intake structure to the 48” butterfly valve halfway down the spillway to ensure that we don’t have any obstructions causing issues with our pumps. At the same time that this is occurring, we will have the opportunity with the work being done to video the line from the outside of the membrane building to the in-line static mixer near the WTP gate. This will give us a glimpse of the pipe and would be the only opportunity to see the condition that it is in currently. • Wastewater Treatment: Four operators and the foreman continue to rotate shifts to maintain the plant. o Repaired and restarted sludge transfer pump # 1 after a fuse had blown on the control panel. This pump allows for the centrifuges to run based on the sludge holding tanks instead of on the WAS lines allowing for a more consistent product to be delivered to our process. o We are still out of compost for this week. Our sample analysis vendor couldn’t get sample results in by this Friday, June 19th, but we will be sampling again on Monday to try to pass existing piles for next weekend. We are continuing to analyze our process to ensure that we are running the compost operation in the most efficient manner which will produce more consistent compost results. o Operations staff are continuing to work on Filter cloth replacements on both Filters 2 & 3 as time and flow permits. This ensures that we still have adequate treatment of the final clarified wastewater and keeps the final effluent product within TCEQ and EPA guidelines. o Staff worked to clean the RAS lines that recirculate through the clarifier arms of each clarifier. The allows for a more consistent return sludge product being returned to the head of the plant to keep the plant seeded. • Line Maintenance: o Assisted SUEZ and Water Treatment operators replace plastic for train 3 modules. o Completed Sodium Permanganate piping at Lake Pflugerville. • Regulatory/Water Conservation o Worked with Tetra Tech and key city staff to work on the America’s Water Infrastructure Act of 2018 (AWIA): Risk Assessment and Emergency Response Plans. o Met with consulting firm on grease trap cleaning frequency for Circle K. • Street and Drainage: o Staff is currently determining which projects will move forward for the FY20 Pavement Maintenance Program. Once the project selection is finalized, we will move forward with developing bid documents and bidding the projects over the next couple of months. We are planning to present the 5-year (FY21-FY25) pavement maintenance plan to City Council in October 2020. o Evaluating the capabilities of the City Works software and integrating inventory control within the system. o Safety coordinator ordered/distributed additional thermometers in preparation for the reopening of the city departments. o Multiple road repairs were performed throughout the city. o Sign shop repaired/installed multiple signs throughout the city and made dozens of signs for various city locations along with completing routine machine maintenance. o An area was prepared at PAWS for the installation of a shade cloth in order to protect kennels. The shade cloth will be installed by the Boy Scouts in a volunteer effort. o On February 11, 2020 City Council was presented the 2019 Pavement Report. In the presentation staff recommended that 20% of the approved street maintenance budget be allocated towards preservation of roadways and the remaining 80% be allocated towards rehabilitation. With a total approved budget of $1,750,000, this scenario would allow $350,000 for preservation and $1,400,000 for rehabilitation of existing roadway. In addition, at this meeting different pavement preservation and rehabilitation techniques were discussed which included HA5, Chip Seals and Hot-In-Place pavement maintenance. • Resource Recovery: o The recycle center will not have compost this weekend and until further notice as we have been unable to pass current compost piles. Once the compost piles pass, we will provide notification and continue distribution. The process to get a compost pile to be acceptable is that it has to be turned over multiple times over the course of a month to allow the bacteria to cook any of the microbes that are present in the sludge. Once the pile has been turned multiple times and is allowed to cook for a sufficient amount of time, a sample is pulled for E.coli to make sure that the E.coli count is below acceptable levels. If the sample has too high of an E.coli count, then the pile has to be turned more and allowed to cook for longer to resample the following week. This process takes a significant amount of time and effort to make sure that the compost that is available for citizens is of sufficient quality to be considered compost. o 220 customers utilized the Recycle Center this past weekend o Chipping picked up 397 piles of brush from residents estimated at 2,000 cubic yards of brush. • Facility Maintenance: o Picked up additional sneeze guards and finished installing them throughout the City. o A successful fire inspection was completed in the Recreation Center. o During a repair of the A/C system at the Heritage House, it was identified that the unit needs to be replaced. Currently Facilities Maintenance is securing an estimate. • All divisions will continue to implement practices of self-evaluation and continuous improvement in order to identify opportunities to increase efficiency and effectiveness. In addition, goal setting will increasingly become an integral part in the operations and success of the department as a whole.

June 26, 2020 Greetings Mayor and City Council

Be sure to be checking your Slack!

Communications: • COVID-19 updated graphics and charts related to current case counts. Updated FAQs on website and Issued release on new Governor Abbott and Travis County Orders. • Coordinated messaging for the Lake Pflugerville closure • Police Department: Worked with police on an awareness campaign and request for information from March homicide and media coverage. Assisted with graduation. • Release went out about Sereniah Breland’s TCMA President Elect status – The Patch and Community Impact covered • Water – prepared notifications for subdivisions affected by Manville Water plant maintenance. • Created Pfirecracker July 4 messaging. • Pflugerville Pfocus online at www.youtube.com/cityofpflugerville

Engineering: • Small Cell Wireless Facilities: Staff has coordinated and met with a Utility Provider on 6/22 and addressed their concerns. Also related to Small Cell Staff will confirm with Legal Counsel for minor change in wording related to the Authority to provide notice to public related to the "Obstructing Sidewalks." June 23rd Staff proposed removing and relocating three of the current sections within Chapter 96 of the Code of Ordinances, namely Sections 96.01, 96.08 and 96.09 to other existing Chapters of the Code that best suits the intended purposes. These changes require two (2) new Ordinances which will be provided as Agenda Items ORD-0529 and ORD-0530 for amending Title XIII, “General Offenses” and Title VII, “Traffic Code.” Chapter 96, Section 96.01 “Obstructing Streets & Sidewalks” and Section 96.08 “Repair of Defective Sidewalks” have both been removed from the current proposed Right-of-Way Management Ordinance and are proposed to be relocated within Title XIII General Offense, Chapter 130 “Offenses Against City Regulations” as New Section 130.12 and Section 130.13 respectively, as offenses applicable under Chapter 130. Chapter 96, Section 96.09 “Braking Devices Prohibited” has also been removed from the current proposed Right-of- Way Management Ordinance and will be relocated within Title VII Traffic Code, Chapter 70 “Traffic Rules” as a New Section 70.03. • Flood Insurance Assessment: June 25th, Jenna Goolsby met with a Federal Community Rating System (CRS) representative to review the City's Floodplain Program and for city to present highlights of the Flood Insurance Assessment. The visit was arranged to gain fifteen (15) points in Category 300. The City successfully gained all 15 points, and expect a report from the CRS representative within two (2) weeks. o Background: One of the last remaining FY2020 Goals for Engineering to accomplish is to increase Pflugerville’s current Community Rating System (CRS), 9 Score related to Flood Insurance savings for the citizens of Pflugerville. CRS is a voluntary program for communities participating in the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) to lower flood insurance premiums by “going above and beyond” the minimum requirements for the NFIP eligibility. In order to improve Pflugerville’s current 9 CRS rating, the City can engage in any of 19 credible activities under the four (4) CRS Categories: 1) 300 Public Information Activities; 2) 400 Mapping and Regulations; 3) 500 Flood Damage Protection Activities and 4) 600 Warning and Response to receive credit points. Each of the four (4) categories has series of activities that identifies activities and credit points to be earned towards points to improve CRS class rating. A rating of 10 is the entry level for CRS and for every 500 points earned, the CRS number drops by one (1). For each one-point drop in the CRS number the cost of the flood insurance premium for each property outside the floodplain but still maintain a flood insurance premium, the CRS reduction is more modest since their risk is already lower. One of the creditable activities under Category 300 is to conduct a Flood Insurance Assessment (FIA), which Staff has performed and the corresponding report has been attached for review. The FIA is part of Item 370 for CRS Category 300. • ACM Amy Giannini and Assistant City Engineer Ali Abdelfattah hosted a webex meeting with TxDOT staff for discussion related to a Speed Study on FM 1825 (Pecan Street) in the vicinity of the Pflugerville High School. TxDOT is proposing modifications of the regulatory speed limit and will require future action from City Council. Once staff has confirmed changes as necessary, request for action will be presented to City Council. • Engineering Specifications on City webpage at https://www.pflugervilletx.gov/city- government/capital-improvement-program-cip/projects-overview/draft-specifications- details. Comments will be received until July 31st. Engineering Construction standards will be made available within the next two weeks and the anticipated review time for these will extend past the standards. City staff will compile and update as necessary with a target for finalizing and presenting to City Council for adoption prior to end of FY20 • 54 attendees participated on the City's Virtual Utility Coordination Meeting held June 24th. Assistant City Engineer Ali Abdelfattah and Construction Manager Bradley Marshall presented information highlighting the proposed ROW Management and Engineering Design Manual information. • Traffic Signal Transition Plan – City staff is coordinating with Kimley-Horn as a follow up to the 6/23 City Council presentation to Finalize the Traffic Signal Assessment Report and return on 7/14 to present request for City Council to authorize a Professional Services Agreement contract to proceed with Design for the Priority 1 Traffic Signal CIP Projects. • Development: o Completed 15 total plan reviews o 22 Development projects in queue to meet 7/2 deadline o 9 Project Coordination Meetings • Construction: o Total 143 construction inspections for week of 6/22 o Small Cell and ROW Ordinance Inspection Training 6/22 o Black Locust Project substantially complete, inspection crews determined there is still a small area pending revegetation; site visit 6/24 o Wilbarger Creek Park – Contractor has completed the curb and gutter work; progressing with installation on amphitheater and continues installation of flatwork; Water and wastewater connections for restrooms almost complete; on target for August 2020 completion o Manville Interconnect project Final walkthrough completed; inspector visited site for follow up items noted on punch list and close-out paperwork begin prepared o 1849 Park Left Turn Lane project substantially complete, inspectors have been out on site to monitor removal of erosion controls as vegetation has been obtained; close-out paperwork in progress o W. SH130 Interceptor WW project - 6/25 construction progress meeting; continue tunneling work as ongoing this week and coordination for removal of spoils material from site to other location; Site meeting with contractor 6/25 o Stone Hill Splash Pad – Contractor delivered the equipment to the site late afternoon Friday, 6/19; no work performed this week, yet city staff has requested Contractor to provide what is causing delay for starting installation, confirm a start date, confirm a completion date. • CIP: o Jakes Hill Traffic Signal Plans – discussion 6/24 with Consultant still progress for 90% PSE o Russells/Caldwells (Historic Colored Addition) discussions for driveways, fire, and utilities related to roadway design; coordinating to confirm detention pond o Highland Park Interceptor – staff coordinated this project with the SH 130 WW Interceptor project for ensuring tie-ins o Wilbarger Regional Waste Water Treatment Plant (WRWWTP) Owner’s Representative – Project The Wilbarger for to be posted 6/24 solicitation for selection of a Design Engineer for the Wilbarger 54” Waste Water Interceptor Project; both project submittal deadlines for Statements of Qualifications (SOQs) are due 7/29 o Pecan/Weiss Lane Water Line project – City staff received and provided comments on the Final Preliminary Engineering Report 6/26 o Historic Colored Addition – Engineering consultant discussion for Texas Historic Commission coordination on additional components for project o Kelly Lane Phase 2 & 3 – 6/24 Coordinating with consultant for Drainage improvements and Value Engineering study, prior to proceeding; increased drainage has raised concerns for project design and construction that will need to be discussed further; Design Consultant discussions with City staff has resulted in major Drainage needs that are beyond the current scope for the contract. o Colorado Sand Drive – Assistant City Manager, Trey Fletcher has set up a coordination meeting 6/29 for discussion with the City Manager and Pflugerville Independent School District (PfISD) President to get project moving

Finance: • The FY21 Proposed Budget will be delivered electronically to the City Council and Finance and Budget Committee today. The Budget Message (beginning on page 1, following the table of contents) serves as an executive summary outlining the highlights of the proposed budget and provides some insight into the changes included in the numbers. • At last night’s Finance and Budget Committee meeting presentations were provided for Parks and Recreation fees, adjustment to Building utility inspection and alteration fees, and a new Planning PUD development fee. The Committee discussed these fees and made recommendations for Council consideration. A proposed Master Fee Schedule will be presented with the FY21 Proposed Budget. • As previously reported, the City’s June allocation of sales taxes from the Comptroller was 16.9% ($142,425) higher than the June 2019 allocation. A chart of the annual sales tax information is attached “FY 20 Sales Tax June”. The large increase is due, in part, to construction, including construction materials sourcing related to Project Charm. We believe at least 5.7% of the 16.9% of the year-over-year increase can be attributed to current construction. In the June allocation, we also saw a surprising amount of stability in internet purchases and food establishments due to our residents staying within Pflugerville. At this time, we are not sure if this represents a momentary spike in purchases or a shift in habits. Through June, approximately 78.2% of the budgeted sales tax has been collected. Currently, we anticipate sales tax revenues to exceed budget by $384,700 for FY20.

Library: • Weekly Virtual Programs – Family Craft Time, Crafty Kiddies, Online Reading Buddies with Ms. Carmen, Online Storytime with Ms. Melissa, Online Kids Club, Online Teen Space, Online Teen Dungeons and Dragons, Tween Scene, Virtual Laser Cutter Craft, Virtual Book Buzz, and Senior Watercolor Hour • Program Highlight – Next week Library Tech Joan Meyers will present a virtual introductory workshop on American Sign Language. Participants for this self-paced workshop will learn signs including letters, numbers and simple phrases. We already have nearly 60 households and individuals registered and there is still room for more. Yahoo News even picked up the story. • The website Book Riot mentioned the Pflugerville Library in an article titled, “Librarians and the Power of Social Media.” As the article indicates, we use social media as an important tool for community engagement, outreach, and promotion. Want to see what we mean? Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram!

Parks: • Events: th o Finalizing Run of Show for the July 4 activities at Typhoon Texas o Pfirecracker Pfestival firework show next Saturday night, check out our website for more info https://pfirecrackerpfestival.com/ o Pfinders Club, our virtual family scavenger hunt online, has 16 families registered and 5 families have completed the course. Go here for more information. • Parks Maintenance: o Performed trail maintenance at Lake Pflugerville to fill in cracks along the trail from the rising heat of the summer season o Installed new trash receptacles at Lake Pflugerville parking lot to handle the current load capacity o Staff performed trail maintenance at many pedestrian bridges along Gilleland Creek due to storm on 06/23/20 o Crews installed more fencing along the Biehle house property to help prevent people from parking on-site o The water fountain at Cambridge Park has been repaired • Programs: Had a test run of our Parking Lot Bingo program this week. 7 sets of participants used either bingo kits created by staff or their own homemade bingo kits, parked in the Rec Center parking lot and played bingo from the safety of their car while Parks and Rec staff called out numbers from an outdoor sound system set up. Looking forward to make some small changes and rolling this out to the public soon for contactless bingo program for families and seniors to participate in safely. • Aquatics and Athletics: o Hosted Lifeguard classes and recertification’s classes this week for new and current aquatic staff o Hosted a virtual meeting for all swim instructors

PCDC: Report is attached as PCDC – June 26, 2020

Planning: • Two site development permits were issued this week: o Anytime Fitness is a proposed fitness center that will located at 18717 Weiss Lane just north of Sorento subdivision. o Rapid Car Wash is a proposed car wash that will be located at 21315 N SH 130 NB SVC RD Bldg 8 (Just south of CR138). • The 2020 CDBG draft Action Plan was posted online for public review today and will be available for comments until the end of July. The Action Plan will be considered by City Council at both July meetings. We have also been awarded CDBG –CARES Act funding which is separate from the annual funding we typically receive. Projects utilizing that funding are anticipated to be placed on the City Council agenda for consideration in August. • Public parking signs were posted downtown to encourage the use of public facilities for public parking in the area. (See attached pictures titled Downtown Parking Sign) • Trey and Emily participated in a webinar about current conditions on suburbs. A summary is attached as Suburb 2020.

Police: • Saturday Chief Robledo and Asst. Chief Smith participated in the Juneteenth Car Parade, multiple officers assisted with traffic control along the parade route. • Monday: o Chief Robledo participated in a Leadership Interview for students at Angelo State University. o CID division met with Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission Human Trafficking Team. o CID participated in a conference call regarding the ARIC breach and current Fusion Center breaches across the nation • Wednesday Chief Robledo met with the family of our Homicide victim to provide comfort prior to their media release. • Thursday new officer graduation was held for the 4 new officers who are now in Field Training. • Friday Chief Robledo is participating in a Zoom Community Forum with pastors of the Mosaic Church. Austin Community leaders/activists and other Central Texas Chiefs will be participating in the forum. • In daily communication with Travis County ESD2 regarding COVID-19 status and updates. • List of COVID-19 Related Expenditures is unchanged.

Public Works: • ACM & Administration: Two admin support staff have had telephones forwarded to cell phones and are working from home on various projects. The rest of the Public Works administration are working from the office. o Public Works and CIP Administration have begun alternating shifts from the office to prepare for reopening. o Public Works and Engineering staff kicked off the American Public Work Association (APWA) Self Assessment on Thursday and completed a SWOT analysis for the Public Works Department. Over the next year, staff will work through the assessment with a consultant to develop policies and procedures for all divisions of Public Works. • Water Treatment: Five operators and the foreman continue to rotate shifts to maintain the plant and produce clean water. o The tie-in for the strainer relocation was finished this week. The tie-in on Monday and Friday involved having the plant shut down. Plant operations staff did an exceptional job in preparing the water distribution system to provide water to our customers even while this tie-in was in process. o A diver was sent down on Friday to inspect the suction line of the intake structure. o A contractor was mobilized this week to pull the screen that was previously attached to Pump 1 that had fallen into the can much like Pump 3’s screen had previously. This again involved lowering a person down into the 23’ pump can that is only 24” wide to retrieve the screen. After numerous attempts to get the screen removed, it was finally removed and the pump was reinstalled on Wednesday. The pump is now up and running. o The sight tube on the air/water separator vessel for Train 5 started to indicate that it was leaking air into the vessel. This creates a problem as the larger the leak, the more air gets pulled into the pump which could cause cavitation as well cause false turbidity readings on the in-line analyzer. Staff repaired the sight tube to correct the issue and get the train back into operation quickly. o The chlorine hose for the permeate injection pump started to leak late last Friday night. Thanks to procedures and checklists that have been put into place, staff was able to identify the problem and correct it without any significant issues to the treatment system or to the operation as a whole. • Wastewater Treatment: Four operators and the foreman continue to rotate shifts to maintain the plant. o Staff are continuing to work on filter cloth replacement for the remainder of the filters to continue to keep TSS numbers below TCEQ and EPA permitted levels. Since we have been replacing the filter cloth, we have seen a tremendous reduction in our TSS levels which brought us below the excursion levels that we were previously at before they were installed. • Line Maintenance: o On Tuesday, there were numerous power outages in the Pflugerville area that affected the water service areas that are served by Manville WSC. During these power outages, Manville WSC had a disruption in their ability to provide water to these service areas which resulted in the City receiving numerous low pressure or no water calls to the MUD and District areas that Manville provides wholesale water service. City staff contacted Manville WSC and received word back that they had corrected the problem, but areas that the City operates had instances where water pressure had dropped below state minimum requirements. After identifying areas of low water pressure, line maintenance staff mobilized quickly to flush the areas that were affected in order to bring chlorine residual levels up to acceptable levels. After this was completed, staff coordinated with the Regulatory crews to pull bacteriological samples as is required any time that water pressure falls below state minimums. All bacteriological sample results were negative for coliforms and E.coli. o Drained Well 6 in preparation to disinfect, fill, and sample the tank for proper operation. • Street and Drainage: o On February 11, 2020 City Council was presented the 2019 Pavement Report. In the presentation staff recommended that 20% of the approved street maintenance budget be allocated towards preservation of roadways and the remaining 80% be allocated towards rehabilitation. With a total approved budget of $1,750,000, this scenario would allow $350,000 for preservation and $1,400,000 for rehabilitation of existing roadway. In addition, at this meeting different pavement preservation and rehabilitation techniques were discussed which included HA5, Chip Seal and Hot-In-Place pavement maintenance. Currently staff is compiling the necessary information to move forward with the FY20 Pavement Maintenance Program. o Crews responded to street flooding at Picadilly Dr. and Central Commerce Dr. caused by heavy rains received early this week. In addition, crews provided traffic control and cleared clogged drainage inlets. o Crews responded to a traffic accident at Heatherwilde Blvd. and Great Basin cleaning up debris left from the accident and assisted with a fuel spill caused by the collision. • Resource Recovery: o The recycle center will have compost starting tomorrow, Saturday 6/27 as we were able to pass a current compost pile. The process to get a compost pile to be acceptable is that it has to be turned over multiple times over the course of a month to allow the bacteria to cook any of the microbes that are present in the sludge. Once the pile has been turned multiple times and is allowed to cook for a sufficient amount of time, a sample is pulled for E.coli to make sure that the E.coli count is below acceptable levels. If the sample has too high of an E.coli count, then the pile has to be turned more and allowed to cook for longer to resample the following week. This process takes a significant amount of time and effort to make sure that the compost that is available for citizens is of sufficient quality to be considered compost. o 213 customers utilized the Recycle Center this past weekend o Chipping picked up 315 piles of brush from residents estimated at 1,588 cubic yards of brush. o No charge from Austin Wood to leave a specified amount of brush grindings per Mike Yaw.

July 2, 2020 Greetings Mayor and City Council Be sure to be checking your Slack! Administration: th • On June 5 , an Employee Guidebook for COVID-19 (attached) was implemented to help ensure the safety of employees and the general public who enter our facilities. As part of the process of developing the Guidebook, a Reopen Committee was formed with employees representing all departments to review and to provide feedback to address the unique circumstances in their respective workplaces. In addition, a Telework Policy (attached) was developed, reviewed by the Reopen Committee, and disseminated to employees. To date, approximately 40 employees have been authorized to telework full or part time. • Staff has continued to revise our public reopen plans as circumstances evolve. Attached are the current reopen plans for the Library and PARD based upon the Austin Public Health (APH) Stages currently adopted by Austin - Travis County. The metric used for these stages is the 7 day average hospital admits. The staged plans (PARD Reopen Plan and LIBRARY Reopen Plan attached) allow staff to shift with the environment instead of tying openings to specific dates. • Councilmember McDonald and Trey Fletcher met with representatives of CommUnityCare this morning to discuss the establishment of a community testing facility in Pflugerville. The former Wordyisms building is being evaluated for feasibility, and if the site warrants, an Interlocal Agreement with Central Health would come forward for approval. • The July Texas Town & City (TTC) is now available online here. You can read it as a digital book or download the pdf, accessing it anytime and from anywhere. • Reminder: Staff will be holding budget meetings on Tuesday afternoon and Wednesday morning of next week. A schedule was emailed out to the Council on Wednesday, July 1. We would like to have no more than 3 Councilmembers attending each meeting. Please let Karen know if you would like to attend any of the meetings and she will forward a Webex invitation to you. Finance section of today’s weekly provides link to documents and additional information. • Austin Materials, LLC, after filing a lawsuit and nonsuit in the past two months, refiled a lawsuit regarding the Grand Ave Pavement Maintenance Project. Staff has discussed the suit with Legal Counsel and will submit it to TML Risk Pool for coverage and defense. • For the July 14, 2020 Council worksession and regular meeting, the City Council is scheduled to hold a joint worksession at 5:00 p.m. with the Pflugerville Community Development Corporation (PCDC) for discussion in executive session regarding a PCDC performance agreement for Project Charm. Following the joint executive session item, the City Council will have a separate executive session item to receive an update on Limas vs. City of Pflugerville. Please find the draft agendas attached as cc071420wsa and cc071420a.

Communications: • COVID-19 Messaging: o Created messaging for the Emergency Council Meeting and responded to social media inquiries about masks. o Designed graphics to remind public to wear masks and inform about the Travis County Order. The growth rate in Pflugerville is 171% since June 4 in the 78660 zip code. o Contacted Shontel at the Chamber to continue to remind Chamber members of the business resources posted online at www.pflugervilletx.gov/virus including downloadable pdf signs for proper mask wearing, handwashing and public notifications. o Created a social media dashboard to track success of social media posts on COVID- 19 and engagement within the community. o www.pflugervilletx.gov/virus page was updated with recent testing information and to make the business resources more prominent. o Received media inquiries on mask requirements o Worked on COVID-19 social media report that compares and contrasts the number of posts, volume and engagement from March 13 (City Council’s first COVID action) to June 30 to last year at this time and the previous months. It shows how residents are relying on social media more than ever for City and COVID-19 information. The report is attached as COVID-19 Social Media Engagement. • Firework Promotion: o Several posts on social media about no personal fireworks have been going out for the past two weeks. o There was a note in The Pflyer June utility bill insert to remind residents that personal fireworks are illegal. The City made a FB event and has been posting the importance of staying in your vehicle when watching the show. o Because Thursday is the highest web traffic day of the year for the City, a note was put on the city website about watching fireworks from your car. o A video was posted emphasizing the social distancing and requirements to stay inside your vehicle for the fireworks show. www.youtube.com/cityofpflugerville o A Nixle is going out on July 4 an hour before the show to notify the community about no personal fireworks in the City limits, that there’s a professional show from Typhoon Texas at 9:30 p.m. and if watching from area parking lots, please stay inside your vehicle. o Communications approached Community Impact about an article on the importance of staying in your vehicle based on the Travis County gatherings rule. o Signs will go up in parking lot entrances before the fireworks show to reinforce messaging to stay in your car. • Census promotion: Shared continued information on the census on social media • Parks and Rec Month: Prepared promotion including this video for July is Parks and Recreation Month campaign that launches this week. • Week 15 Media Coverage document attached. Engineering: • CIP: o The City’s Water Plant Owner’s Representative provided a presentation to staff on 7/1 to discuss final process recommendations for the water treatment plant expansion project. A presentation will be made to City Council on 7/28 regarding the project including next steps. In addition, a supplemental agreement will be brought forward at that time for Owners Rep services through the design and bidding phase. An RFQ for the design of the Water Plant Expansion Project is anticipated to be issued in August. o Staff met with Kimley-Horn and associates to discuss the next steps for the Signal Assessment Plan Implementation based on the feedback from City Council on 6/23 including alternative contracting methods for implementation. A professional services agreement will be placed on the 7/14 agenda for City Council consideration to take the project forward to the next step of development. o The Final Preliminary Engineering Report for the Weiss Lane/Pecan Street Water Line project was provided to staff on 06/29/2020 o Kelly Ln Phase 2 project is ongoing. During the final design phase, we have determined that there are significant drainage issues associated with the project. We will bring forward a supplemental agreement to the July 14th meeting for City Council consideration in addition to provide additional information on the project issues. Staff anticipates receiving 90% plans at the end of July. o Staff had a meeting with PfISD on 6/29 to discuss the alignment of the Colorado Sand Drive project. The District provides direction which will modify the alignment. Once the revised alignment is agreed upon, the District will have the property appraised and the project will continue through the design process. o In coordination with the Police Department, Engineering staff has been working with an architect to prepare the Justice center Sewer line plans for rebidding. Staff is currently working through the terms of the agreement to push the project forward. o Staff has also been coordinating with the Police Department for the Justice Center Parking Lot and Storage building. Due to change in course for location and size of the evidence building, staff is working with the consultant on the revised scope and plans to bring a supplemental agreement forward for City Council consideration at the 7/14 meeting. • Construction: o The Central Wastewater Expansion project is underway with more concrete being poured and wastewater lines are being installed. o SH 130 Wastewater Interceptor Project is ongoing. o The CDBG El Malino/Bellemeade Project is ongoing. o Wilbarger Creek Park work on the parking lot. o Typhoon Texas Work final walkthrough is being coordinated. o Manville Interconnect waiting on close out paperwork. • Development: o 5 Site Plan Reviews o 3 Final Plat Reviews o 5 Preliminary Plan Reviews o 3 Construction Plan Reviews o 8 Development Projects in review queue to be completed by 7/9 o 1849 Park Turn Lane working with contractor on coordinating the removal of the silt fence at the 1849 Park. o Pecan at Biltmore Traffic Signal-Work is ongoing. Finance: • A google drive folder has been set up for City Council members, available at this link: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1WSeRrFwaUW- ZVK6aA2ps_9DHmFy3TmCj?usp=sharing. The folder contains pdf files: FY21 City Proposed Budget, FY21 PCDC Proposed Budget, City Organization Chart, and Historical Account Analysis for both the General and Utility Funds. Also included are excel based files for: General Fund Expense Spreadsheets, Utility Fund Expense Spreadsheets and the draft budget of the line item for City Council. Library: • The Library officially received notice of continued accreditation for the 2021 fiscal year. The Texas State Library basis this accreditation on the annual report submitted by Library Director Jennifer Coffey. Meeting the standard set by the State Library ensures our eligibility to participate in services like statewide interlibrary loan, the TexShare Card program, and other funding opportunities. • How are community members spending their time during the pandemic? Many are utilizing the library programs and services even with the building closed. Since mid-March, using our resources and services, patrons have: o Participated in over 100 virtual programs o Learned by accessing nearly 750 hours worth of educational/training videos and courses (Lynda.com, Mango Languages, Creativebug) o Streamed over 1,100 hours of movies (Kanopy, Hoopla) o Checked out over 20,000 eBooks and eAudiobooks (Overdrive, Hoopla, Freading, TumbleBooks) • Virtual Program Highlight - Art Explained: The America Flag in Contemporary Art. Join us on Thursday evening in honor of Independence Day, to learn how artists have manipulated and reinterpreted the American Flag as creative symbolism, occasionally garnering praise but more often criticism. Local artist Michelle Stoeffler will present. Parks: • Events: o July is Parks and Rec Month nationwide, here is a link to our page Parks and rec month as well as the National Recreation and Parks Association page https://www.nrpa.org/events/july/ o Pfirecracker Pfestival is Saturday July 4th, click on the link for more information https://pfirecrackerpfestival.com/ • Parks Maintenance: o Staff worked to close down the lake and other park system amenities with the spike in new COVID-19 cases within Travis County and Pflugerville area o Bridge and trail repair along Gilleland Creek due to last week’s storm PAWS: • PAWS Officers continue to respond to calls Monday through Friday from 8am-5pm. • The Shelter continues to have normal hours of operation but will be closed on Friday, July 3rd, and Saturday, July 4th in observance of Independence Day. Officers will be on call for emergencies those days as well. • Intake is currently restricted to stray dogs of any age and friendly stray cats of any age. • We are not currently accepting feral cats. PCDC: Report is attached as PCDC Updates July 2, 2020 Planning: rd • Based on feedback provided by Council on June 23 , staff has updated the draft for the Downtown Code Amendments and they were posted online today. Downtown Overlay Link Downtown Architectural Link At the Council meeting, the question regarding acreage was requested; please see attached file with requested information (file name: Downtown Map w acreage). Staff will discuss the changes with the Planning and Zoning Commission on Monday, and are working on scheduling a meeting with the neighborhood for mid-July. The code amendments are currently anticipated to be considered for action by the Planning and Zoning Commission and City Council in August. • The Request for Qualifications for the Downtown Utility and Infrastructure Study closed today and staff will begin reviewing the submittals next week. This study was included in the FY20 Budget and is an effort to further the items in the Downtown Action Plan approved by City Council in 2018. Selection of the consultant is anticipated to be considered by Council at the end of July. • Projects of Interest: o Project Charm – This project continues to be an active site and the landscape along Pecan changes daily with the activity construction related to this project. Attached is an aerial photo provided by the project (see Project Charm 1 and 2 photos attached) o Lakeside Meadows – Staff is reviewing multiple subdivision applications for this project including extension of major utility infrastructure that will provide wastewater service to this site. The industrial properties to the south along Pecan and a portion of the residential are anticipated to be the first projects that begin vertical construction in this development. The developer has begun providing the documentation necessary for the next steps in the Public Improvement District (PID) process. o North Pointe – Staff is currently working with the developer of North Pointe regarding the extension of Colorado Sand through the eastern tract of the development. To date we have not received any submittals for development for this project since the approval of the PUD last fall. o Pecan District – This project is still within Phase 1 with construction of the apartment complex The Elliott. Phase II is anticipated to be submitted for review later this year. o Martin Tract PID – On 6/23 Council opened the public hearing for the Martin Tract PID. Staff is reviewing the details of this request. We have also received a rezoning request for this tract, which will come before City Council later this month. Police: • Monday Office of Community Liaison hosted a WebEx meeting with the Carmel Neighborhood to discuss implementing a neighborhood watch program. • Wednesday Cool Moves Summer Safety program officially started and will run through August 31st. • A list of relevant training courses that our officers have attended, along with a list of mandated courses, is attached as PD Trainings. • In daily communication with Travis County ESD2 regarding COVID-19 status and updates. • List of COVID-19 Related Expenditures to be updated next week. Public Works: • ACM and Administration: Amy Giannini, Trey Fletcher, Matt Turner and Manville Staff met with the PUC this week to go over our application for the proposed CCN transfer. The agreement between Manville and the City allows Manville to retain its legacy customers until ownership of the property changes or the property is redeveloped. The PUC has expressed that the properties with legacy customers shall be dually certificated for both City and Manville CCN, which the current agreement does not contemplate. City staff will work with our legal counsel and Manville to determine what next step is appropriate. The PUC has provide for a 10-day extension. • Water Treatment: Four operators and the foreman continue to rotate shifts to maintain the plant and produce clean water. o Two of the three lake pumps were pulled in June where it was determined that the pump strainer baskets had come loose from the pump and become lodged in the pump can below, creating flow issues. The last lake pump, Lake Pump # 2, was pulled this week and it was determined the pump strainer basket was stuck in the can much like the other two Lake Pumps. All of the baskets had to be retrieved by a confined space team. Due to a pump shaft that was barely threaded into the coupling, which could eventually cause premature failure of the pump or motor as this would cause the shaft to wobble over time, the pump will be placed back into service once the shaft is replaced. Once this is completed, we will resume flow- testing on all 3 pumps to continue to troubleshoot flow issues coming into the WTP from the Lake Pump Station. We are currently keeping up with flow by changing some operational practices with staff and continuing to work towards a resolution with plant raw water flows. o The 10” chemical recirculation line in the plant developed a crack and snapped the line at a T fitting which resulted in a large amount of water spilling onto the membrane basement. This line is responsible for performing our chemical cleanings, which happen more frequently during the summer. A contractor will perform the repair by the end of the week. • Wastewater Treatment: Four operators and the foreman continue to rotate shifts to maintain the plant. o Staff continues to expand and refine how we are sampling our compost piles as well as how we are monitoring the effectiveness of the composting process. Staff have found numerous ways to improve the process and are looking for ways to make a better product for citizens to use. o The WWTP had a power outage on Monday that was the result of one of the fuses on the pole that feeds the plant dropping. This was corrected by Oncor, but did take about 3 hours for the repair to be completed. During this time, the WWTP operated normally on generator power. We have inquired with Oncor and are still waiting on more details that Oncor can provide as to what could have caused this to occur. We have also asked Oncor for an update on their plans to install smart switches and other improvements to prevent frequent outages at the plant and on the south side of Pflugerville. • Pumps and Motors: The first new pump and intermediate brackets were installed at the Weiss Lane Lift Station. Once all 3 pumps are installed, flow testing will start to determine the full flow capacity of the 24” force main. • Line Maintenance: o The Pfennig Lane Pump Station control scheme has been modified to better circulate water in the Heatherwilde EST. This will allow for a lower water age in the elevated storage tank and allow us to accomplish a 50% water turnover rate that is recommended by AWWA. o Two of the pumps at the Pfennig Lane Pump Station are undergoing maintenance on the Air over Oil check valves to ensure they operate effectively and do not cause any water hammer on the line when they run. While this is going on, one of the pumps packing lines is being repaired after showing a pin-hole leak on the supply line. • Street and Drainage: o Checked multiple Storm Inlets and drainage areas for debris, and fixed/locked loose lids in multiple subdivisions. o Inspected and addressed several city owned areas for overgrown foliage in preparation for fireworks this weekend to reduce the possibility of grass fires. o Assisted with the closing of Lake Pflugerville after closure announcement on June 30. o Began level ups on citywide sidewalks where the adjacent pavement has sunken or heaved. o Mowed several acres including Pfluger Cemetery. o Coordinated with PD and EOC staff to facilitate July 4th signs and traffic control plans. Two crewmembers will work on Saturday, July 4 to install signage for the event and remove the signage after the event is over. o On February 11, 2020 City Council was presented the 2019 Pavement Report. In the presentation staff recommended that 20% of the approved street maintenance budget be allocated towards preservation of roadways and the remaining 80% be allocated towards rehabilitation. th o Staff will be presenting an item to Council at the July 28 meeting for consideration. If approved a contract will be executed and the application of HA5 for identified roadways will begin. This is a popular and effective preservation method being utilized by many Cities including the surrounding Cities of Georgetown, Round Rock, and Austin. This project will take approximately 10 days to complete and is a highly regarded method for roadway preservation. Staff is also currently scoping the plan preparation for the FY 2020 pavement maintenance projects with Halff and Associates. • Resource Recovery: o 246 customers utilized the Recycle Center this past weekend. o Chipping picked up 135 piles of brush from residents estimated at 680 cubic yards of brush. • Facility Maintenance: o Deep cleaned PW Admin Building and disinfected o Retrofit 13 light fixtures at Colorado River pump station to LED fixtures, ballasts and bulbs.

July 10, 2020 Greetings Mayor and City Council

Be sure to be checking your Slack!

Administration: • The Parks and Recreation Commission has a current opening for a regular member with an unexpired term ending December 31, 2021. One application has been received and we will continue to accept applications through the end of day July 23, 2020. We will bring the applications forward for consideration at the July 28, 2020 regular Council meeting. Please encourage citizens to apply. The application is available on the City website: https://www.pflugervilletx.gov/city-government/boards-and- commissions/board-and-commission-applications • The Special Events Subcommittee met with staff this week to discuss the feasibility of major fall events in light of the significant upturn in covid cases. Many cities in our region have opted to cancel major through the fall, if not through the end of 2020 in an effort to reduce the spread. After discussion, it was decided that Deutschen Pfest, which had been postponed to October 16-18, will be cancelled this year and resume next year in the Spring. In addition, Chili Pfest (Nov 7) and Music in the Park events will also be cancelled this year. Other events will be considered when the subcommittee reconvenes next month. • Departmental budget meetings were held this week with Council. Thank you Councilmembers for taking the time to meet and review the budget with the department heads. Please let me know if you have any follow up questions that I can address. The proposed budget is included on the July 14, 2020 agenda for Council discussion and a budget worksession is planned for July 28, 2020. The budget will come forward for public hearing on August 11, 2020 and consideration of adoption is scheduled for the August 25, 2020 regular Council meeting.

Communications: • State of the Web, the City’s new annual platform review, content guidelines update and revisions to development and training, was held (handouts attached). Highlights: The city’s website has been viewed 500,000 times in 6 months and views are up 13.86% over this time last year. For the first time, the COVID-19 information pages have exceeded the homepage for views. The City website averages 52 visitors an hour and in the last few months during COVID-19 that average has risen to 70. The City has added new features to the website including callout buttons, panels and graphics that are more mobile friendly and ease in use of the website. The State of the Web is the kickoff of additional training for city website editors. • Prepared budget graphics and documentation to help clarify misconceptions taking place on social media and explain the tax rate. • Worked with PCDC on speaking points and expectations for July 14/15 Charm announcements and media speaking points. • Prepared graphics and information for the reopen plan by phases for Parks and Recreation. News story and graphics here. • Ordered Pflugerville logo face masks - anticipate delivery first week in August. • Week 16 Media Reporting document attached.

Engineering: • City staff coordinated internally and via Staff Augmentation to develop and confirm updates to the proposed 2020 Bond Transportation and Parks projects. Amy and Shane have also prepared updates and will present information during the July 14th City Council meeting. • Construction on the SH130 Interceptor continues. Change Order #1 for Project Charm to be executed. • Development: o Completed a Draft MS4 training plan to fulfil the TCEQ Stormwater Permit which requires annual stormwater training to relevant City staff. o New pamphlets were ordered, TCEQ Stormwater permit issued in 2019 requires the City to expand public education outreach beyond the one pamphlet. • Construction: o Projects pending close out: Black Locust, Manville Interconnect, 1849 Park Turn Lane, Swenson Farms P.R.V. o WWTP Expansion more concrete is being poured and more wastewater lines are being installed. o Working with contractor on coordinating the removal of the silt fence at the 1849 Park. • CIP: o Kelly Lane MIS project meeting was hosted by City staff for a quick update and discussion for planning modelling efforts anticipated to be performed over the next few months. ▪ City staff hosted a Kelly Lane Phase 2 meeting for discussions with the design consultant, JMT and verify information for the proposed request of a Professional Supplemental Agreement on the July 28th City Council. The Kelly Lane Phase 2 project has seen significant changes to the drainage since the initial preliminary engineering was done about 8 years ago. The previous drainage analysis completed with the preliminary engineering was insufficient and significantly underestimated the improvements needed and Atlas 14 rainfall data has also increased the design requirements for the drainage improvements. A roundabout has also been added since the project was initially estimated which has increased the footprint of the project and therefore increased costs. ▪ In November 2019, our current consultant had estimated the construction costs for Kelly Lane to be about $6.7M. The current cost estimate based on detailed drainage analysis and design shows the construction costs to be $13.5M mainly and significantly due to the drainage issues associated with the project. Due to the drainage issues, the infrastructure needed to convey the flows has increased in scope and the footprint of the overall project has increased to properly fix the drainage issues. This increase in scope affects all components of the project from the additional roadway components to ROW acquisition. ▪ Staff believes 2 options vetted for decisions to move forward: • Reduce scope of the project to eliminate intersection of Vilamoura St to west and increase scope and cost of Kelly Lane Phase 3 to incorporate increased scope. • Issue COs for cost difference and incorporate any value engineering savings we can come up with. If we include additional funds needed for Kelly Lane Phase 2 on the GO Bond election, there is a chance that it gets voted down and then we cannot issue COs for 3 years. ▪ Staff is currently planning a request for a Professional Services agreement to increase scope of engineering consultant and issue COs for the Kelly Lane Phase 2 to be presented to City Council. • Parks: o Wilbarger Creek Park: ▪ Contractor has completed the curb & gutter at the parking lot, is working to finish the limestone block install at the outdoor education amphitheater, and continues to install concrete flatwork on site. They are installing drainage at specific areas including the playground spaces. The contractor will begin installation of site irrigation and grass turf of practice field July with turf installation complete in early August. o ADA Transition Plan: ▪ The ADA Task Committee Team reviewed a list of sidewalk location for selection of the Engineering ADA Consultant to perform sidewalk inspections for compliance with ADA. ▪ Facility audits to commence: week of July 13 for the ROW intersections. Facility, Parks & Trails audits to commence week of July 20. Consultant will collect field data and process during the months of July-August. o Stone Hill Splash Pad: ▪ Splash pad equipment delivered to site. Anticipate installation to begin July, duration of work estimated at 4-5 weeks. As soon as permits are finalized, work will commence (awaiting City of Austin Health Services Permit approval). Please note City of Pflugerville has adopted a Reopening Stages strategy related to Parks facilities. Splash pads are not able to be open until Stage 1 conditions exist in Travis County per Austin Public Health Guidelines.

Finance: • The FY21 Proposed Budget has been posted for the public on the City’s website at: www.pflugervilletx.gov/FY21proposedbudget. Minor revisions from this week’s meetings with Council have been incorporated into this document, a summary of monetary changes is attached as: Revisions based on 7.8 7.9 meetings • The FY21 Proposed Budget was also amended to adjust the preliminary tax rate calculations. Following discussions with the City’s Financial Advisor held this week, the Debt (I&S) portion of the property tax rate has been adjusted from .1721 to .1783 in order to preserve some of the City’s capacity to issue future debt within the proposed tax rate. The resulting total preliminary tax rate is .4970, detailed on page 30. This modification had no effect on the expected amount of operations and maintenance (O&M) revenues in the general fund. • The FY21 Proposed Budget contains Master Fee Schedule, beginning on page 277 to be adopted with the budget. A summary of the fees, including current fee to proposed fee and date of current fee adoption is attached as Master Fee Schedule Fee Comparison 7.10.2020. • The Comptroller’s July allocation of sales taxes has been completed and the revenue received by the City increased by 17.6% ($155,345) from July 2019. Through July, approximately 87.5% of the budgeted sales tax has been collected. We will continue to analyze these results to ensure we have an accurate understanding of current sales tax drivers. This information and the attached sales tax analysis chart (attached as: FY20 Sales Tax Reports July) is based on the net cash payment received by the City; however, reports you see from other sources may vary depending on the types of collections included (i.e. current, prior period, audit). th • In addition to holding a FY21 budget discussion item in the worksession on the July 28 City Council meeting, the City Council will also be asked to consider issuing a Notice of Intent to issue 2020 bonds. This proposed issuance would include: o Limited Tax (GO) Bonds, $15.87 million - final authorization of the November 2018 bond election for transportation projects. o Combination Tax & Limited Revenue Certificates of Obligation (COs), $40.00 million – for water and wastewater projects o Limited Tax Refunding Bonds, amount to be determined dependent on market conditions o Combination Tax & Limited Revenue Certificates of Obligations (COs), $10.00 million – for completion of Kelly Lane, Phase 2 and other transportation projects (pending discussion on the July 14th City Council agenda)

Library: • We’ve suspended our curbside services until further notice. This decision to put curbside on hold is based on protecting staff and the community at a time when we are on the cusp of entering Stage 5 of Austin Public Health’s Risk Based Guidelines. The service necessitates some amount of interaction between staff members and between staff and community members. We will resume curbside when the situation improves. In the meantime we are still offering many services to the community including virtual programs, our assortment of electronic resources and materials, extended Wi-Fi service, remote reference service, resume review, and more. • Virtual Program Highlight: Barrio Writers Summer Workshop – Youth Services Librarian Amanda Cawthon partnered with the non-profit organization, Barrio Writers, to engage youth between 13-18 years old to participate in a week long college-level creative writing program. The program provided youth with an opportunity to learn different forms of writing (poetry, spoken word, short stories, essay), free cultural arts connections to the community, and a chance to share their own writings. Through the program they built skills in reading, grammar, creative writing, critical-thinking and freedom of expression through cultural arts. • New electronic resource launching soon: Biblioboard. This platform will provide local authors a chance to make their self-published eBooks available to the community, a request we often receive. Biblioboard also provides access to other self-published materials from around the country, some of which are reviewed by the respected publication, Library Journal. In addition, the platform provides an easy to use software for creating eBooks. We can also expand this platform to include other community generated content including music, image collections, and more. Biblioboard provides a great opportunity for the community to engage and share.

Parks: • Community Service: o The Pfarmers market was open on July 7, the market was very well attended. Market staff handed out 80 new Pfarmers shopping bags, along with new Pflugerville coasters and stickers. Customers and vendors appreciate the COVID- 19 protocols we have posted. Customers are utilizing the two handwashing stations and individual hand sanitizer bottles. We will continue to follow all protocols as long as we need to, State still considers Farmer’s markets essential businesses. o Community Garden requests continued to come in during COVID. Communications Dept. staff came by and took some pictures (attached as Garden 1 and 2). The plots are in full bloom. • Programs: o Rec staff are repainting areas of the lobby and game room to spruce up the facility when we open back up to the public. o Parks Operation staff has been working to build new storage shelves for the facility and performing other routine maintenance. • Aquatics and Athletics: o Changed the online reservation capacity at Gilleland Creek Pool from 50 to 25 to accommodate Stage 4 restrictions and help with social distancing guidelines. o Canceled summer swim instructor training and lessons due to COVID restrictions. • Administration: o Jimmy Marek, Parks Caretaker, retires from the city this Friday.

PAWS: • PAWS Officers continue to respond to calls Monday through Friday from 8am-5pm. • The Shelter continues to have normal hours of operation but is now keeping our gate closed to control access to the shelter. Signage outside the gate instructs customers to call our main number so we can assess needs and jurisdictions before letting customers on the premise. This helps us better protect staff, customers, and our animals. • Intake continues to be restricted to stray dogs of any age and friendly stray cats of any age. We are not currently accepting feral cats.

PCDC: Report is attached as PCDC-July 10, 2020

Planning: • Planning and Zoning Commission met on Monday and took action on the following: o One rezoning request was considered: ▪ The Enclave on Cele (aka the Martin Tract) Request to rezone approximately 40 acres from Agriculture/Development Reserve (A) to Single Family Residential (SF-R) Planning and Zoning Commission recommended approval of this item. This item will be before Council on Tuesday, July 28th. o One Preliminary Plan was approved and 1 final plat was approved. o Eleven subdivisions were statutorily disapproved – As a reminder the Planning and Zoning Commission approved modifications to the development review schedules to account for requirements created by HB3167. o Had a general discussion about the upcoming kick off to the Comprehensive Plan. o Recommended approval of the CDBG 2020 Action Plan which includes scholarships and completion of the roadway projects in the Yellow Sage area. This will come before City Council on July 28th. o Discussed amendments to the Downtown Overlay. • The Capital Improvement Advisory Committee met on Monday to discuss the study assumptions related to the Roadway Impact Fee Study. This will be discussed with Council on July 28th.

Police: • Tuesday Commander Jason O’Malley joined the Pflugerville PD Admin. team. Announcement attached as Commander O’Malley. • Friday Lt. Rowley attended the Travis County District Attorney’s Interagency Sexual Assault (ISAT) meeting via video conference. • In daily communication with Travis County ESD2 regarding COVID-19 status and updates. • List of COVID-19 Related Expenditures attached as COVID-19 Supplies List July 10.

Public Works: • Oncor has finished setting up poles that were found to be deficient that feed into the wastewater treatment plant and Public Works. This is the first step in making sure that we have reliable power coming into the plant and in the neighboring subdivisions around the treatment facility. The conversion of the lines to the new poles should be completed by next week. • Water Treatment: Four operators and the foreman continue to rotate shifts to maintain the plant and produce clean water. o We are close to a resolution on the problem with getting raw flow into the WTP from our Lake Pump Station. As was stated in previous updates, we found issues with the pump baskets at the Lake Pump Station that were corrected as we pulled each pump out of the pump can. As the pumps were put back online, we started to see increased flow capacities out of the pumps that was more in-line with what they should be producing. As we started to see higher demands on the system and thus higher flows in our raw water line, we noticed that we were getting an increased volume of zebra mussels and Asiatic clams that were coming into the plant facility which would only allow for so much water to flow into each individual membrane train. This increase in zebra mussels and Asiatic clams would be explained by higher sustained flows which create a velocity where they cannot stay attached to the pipe where they are attached. Staff has been tirelessly cleaning off the construction screens in front of the membrane trains every day to ensure that we are continuing to produce water as needed from the WTP while also ensuring that we don’t cause any damage to the membranes themselves. This daily cleaning should only continue until the strainers are completely installed within the next week. This will alleviate staff having to manually clean the construction screens although we will be monitoring the status of them for the remainder of the summer to ensure that we protect the membrane modules as much as possible. o Repairs were made last Friday on the 10” chemical recirculation line that feeds the chemical solutions that clean the membrane trains. o Train 4’s chemical recirculation block valve was repaired. There was a faulty solenoid that caused the valve to fail to close when requested to by the PLC. o Electrical work is continuing for the Manville interconnect at the WTP. • Wastewater Treatment: Four operators and the foreman continue to rotate shifts to maintain the plant. o WWTP operations staff have completed the replacement for the filter cloth on Filter 2 and should be finishing Filter 3 within the coming weeks. We continue to see improved operation of the filter system with the replacement and greater reliability with the filter system which should last until the expansion is completed. o Staff continues to run different variations on the composting process to ensure they are cooking the piles correctly. They are running different setups on different piles to see what nets the best results on the end product. We are now testing 6 different piles that were arranged and built differently to test out various operational strategies while also building a 7th pile. This whole process to fine- tune the process will ensure that we are getting the best product we can and minimize any inefficiencies that could be present during the composting process. • Pumps and Motors: o A level transmitter failed at our Falcon Point Lift Station which had to be replaced in the early morning hours on Monday July 6th. This station, as all of our lift stations, will run via backup floats in the event of this occurring. Staff responded quickly and had the station back into normal operation within 2 hours of the call- out. • Regulatory: nd o Completed Disinfectant Level Quarterly Reports for 2 quarter. o We have sold our remaining stock of rain barrels. Residents are continuing to inquire about the rain barrels so staff will research for future programs to allow all residents to have them available to purchase. • Line Maintenance: o Conducted numerous pressure checks and performed hydrant flushing throughout the Lakeside MUDS due to Manville outages. o Prepped and formed sidewalk at Helios for repair. Unbolted and inspected 3 manholes for HALFF Associates. • Street and Drainage: o We conducted speed studies and traffic counts on Wolf Pack and also Alturas Ave. after receiving citizen concerns of high speeds on the streets. o Multiple storm inlets were inspected in the Gatlinburg, Bohl’s Place and Picadilly subdivisions for safety. th o Staff will be presenting an item to Council at the July 28 meeting for consideration. If approved a contract will be executed and the application of HA5 for identified roadways will begin. This is a popular and effective preservation method being utilized by many Cities including the surrounding Cities of Georgetown, Round Rock, and Austin. This project will take approximately 10 days to complete and is a highly regarded method for roadway preservation. o Staff is currently scoping the plan preparation for the FY 2020 pavement rehabilitation projects with Halff and Associates. o Have been working with GIS and IT to start utilizing the Storeroom feature in City Works. This will help gain insight to the beneficial use of this feature and ability to help track material use. • Resource Recovery: Chipping picked up 314 piles of brush from residents estimated at 1583 cubic yards of brush • Fleet: Currently the City has a GPS software in place, however it is cumbersome when attempting to utilize it to its fullest potential. Fleet has identified 6 different vendors that have offered information that is currently being reviewed. • Facility Maintenance: o Inspected Heritage House Museum for termites and determined that treatment is required. Currently treatment is being scheduled for approximately one week out. o Chemically cleaned all condensing coils in multiple city department structures (Library, Rec Center, City Hall, PW, Field Ops, PD, P+C, WTP, PAWS and lake pump). o Currently integrating routine tasks into the City’s City Works system in order to create operational efficiency.

July 17, 2020 Greetings Mayor and City Council

Be sure to be checking your Slack!

Administration: • Please find attached the draft agendas for July 28 worksession and regular meeting, titled cc072820wsa and cc072820a. • The current Budget Schedule is attached as FY21 Budget Schedule 7.17.20. This schedule has been updated to reflect additional deadlines of the CADs, SB2, and the final date for public hearing notice newspaper publications. The City Attorney is preparing a written legal opinion regarding the authority to order an election on the Voter Approval Tax Rate unless the City’s new rate exceeds the 8% threshold to hold an election.

Communications: • Budget: o Worked with finance on the FY21 budget website, graphics and speaking points o KXAN, KVUE, CBS Austin and Statesman called for clarification on the budget. o Provided background information to print publications before the Council meeting to better explain the budget items on the agenda and clarify social media misconceptions. o www.pflugervilletx.gov/budget goes directly to the website with FAQs and information. • Project Charm: shared additional information on social media about Project Charm and supported PCDC with quotes and press release. • COVID-19: o Updated graphics giving updated growth rate. 850 new cases in 78660 zip code since June 4. o Updated website with new curbside testing site information and did a COVID-19 alert on Facebook to promote the site. o Updated pflugervilletx.gov/virus with the Austin Public Health testing site dashboards. o Working on an updated mask campaign to keep the conversation going on wearing a mask. • Pflugerville Pfocus highlights the budget, November bond election propositions and the announcement of Project Charm. Watch online at www.youtube.com/cityofpflugerville • Website tracking: o Working with our new tracking software, the City was able to measure data and feedback from website users who visited the city’s /virus and /reopen webpages over the last 70 days. Based on feedback from the COVID pages on our site, 43.48% were promoters of the site, 26.09% passives and 30.43% detractors. The information generates a NPS Feedback, or Net Promoter Score, which is an index to measure the willingness of your audience to recommend your organization’s products and services to others. We ranked +13.05 which means that overall the COVID information is a positive experience for our end users. We are measuring response and satisfaction with various website content to improve our website and customer experience. • Bond Information: o We packaged a story on status of all our previous bonds and updated the bond webpages linked from (www.pflugervilletx.gov/bonds) to reflect each project and its status. o We created a page for the 2020 Bond Election that will be updated as wording is finalized but is current based on Council’s direction. o We sent Community Impact and the Statesman information about the 2014 bonds to today to use as background when writing a story about the proposed bond election. o We pitched the story a second time to Taylor Buchanan during our meeting with the Community Impact emphasizing that we had people asking the CMO about our previous bonds. We have the news story in the key and are planning to share it out on social • The City of Pflugerville was recognized on Thursday as a finalist in the Government Social Media GSM Virtual Golden Post Award ceremony for best use of live stream for the Chili Pfest Pepper Eating contest last year. • Maggie Holman, Jesse Davis and Samantha Hall attended a virtual Texas Association of Municipal Information Officers (TAMIO) webinar on how cities listen and demonstrate understanding of residents’ sentiment during crisis hosted in partnership with Texas Christian University.

Engineering: • Development: o Development coordinated with the Heatherwilde and Wells Branch Retail development for a Drainage Easement Vacation. Developer is working to prepare a drainage easement vacation document associated with a site plan in the review process which staff anticipates for council approval on a proposed August Council Agenda o Information Sharing Access Agreement (ISAA): A resolution to allow City Manager signature of an ISAA between FEMA and the City of Pflugerville to allow FEMA to share policyholder information protected by the Privacy Act which is personally identifiable information (PII). This information from FEMA is needed for routine floodplain administration procedures by City staff. Anticipated July 28 Council Agenda o City staff coordinated with The Conlan Company, and Allied Underground for three (3) water tie-ins slated for July 30th from 10:00 p.m. – 6:00 a.m. related to the Amazon (Project Charm) development project. The tie-in will affect residents, businesses and both hotels east of the Bohls Subdivision and three (3) notices will be provided to the affected entities prior to the work. The first notice was distributed on 7/16/20 as the subsequent 2nd and final notices will be distributed on 7/20 and targeted for 7/28. Coordination with the Police Department, Utility Billing and the Emergency Services District #2 (ESD#2) will continue until the work has completed. • Construction: o Total 125 inspections for the week o Projects acceptance for 7/17/2020 ▪ Black Locust Project Working ▪ Swenson Farms P.R.V. o Projects pending close out by end of July ▪ Manville Interconnect working on close out. ▪ 1849 Park Turning Lane working on close out. • CIP: o Pecan/Weiss Lane th ▪ Staff Coordination call on Tuesday July 14 between the Weiss/Pecan Street Water Line project and Lakeside Meadows project. Discussed combining project components by upsizing the Lakeside Meadows 12” line to 16”, and the City could cost-share to cover the cost difference of the size change. The 16” water line associated with the Weiss/Pecan Street Water Line project would no longer be included. Advantages include cost savings and freeing up space in the existing raw water line easement for a future parallel raw water line. The 16” would serve the purpose of providing future service to the properties south of Pecan and to provide service/fire flow for the industrial development. It was agreed upon that the Lakeside Meadows Industrial 12” as described above would be upsized to a 16”, and the 16” water line associated with the Weiss/Pecan Water Line project will no longer be included. o Historic Colored Addition: ▪ Consultant has requested delay for 60% deliverable given some of the knowns and their impacts to other elements of the project. o Industrial Pretreatment Program and Fats Oils and Grease (FOG) Program staff Selection Committee convened a meeting and selected an Engineering firm for recommendation to be presented to the City Council • Parks: o Wilbarger Creek Park ▪ Change Order #1 on Council agenda for July 28. Finishing installing drainage at specific areas including the playground spaces. The contractor will begin installation of site irrigation and grass turf of practice field July with turf installation complete in early August. Playground equipment to begin installation end of July, duration 2-3 weeks. Outdoor work-out circuit equipment to be installed in August.

Finance: • The Consulting Services Summary for the quarter ending June 30, 2020 is attached as: Consulting Services Summary 06.30.20. • This week staff participated in entity meetings held by both the Travis and Williamson Central Appraisal Districts (collectively CADs). Next week the CADs will release the City’s total Certified appraised values which will be used by the Travis County Tax Office to calculate the City’s No New Revenue and Voter Approval Tax Rates. At a meeting on August 11, 2020 the City Council will vote on the proposed rate to be used on all notices and considered for adoption on August 25, 2020.

Library: • Recently Community Impact reported that 7,000 individuals in the 78660 zip code have applied for unemployment benefits. Clearly the immediate needs of our community have shifted. In order to better meet these needs, we are expanding our “Resume Review” service into a more extensive, “Job Search Coaching” service. Library Techs Laura Brekke and Joan Meyers are taking the lead on this project. The new service will include an initial 30 minute phone appointment to gauge specific needs, then additional virtual appointments to help with things like designing a resume, prepping for interviews, job searching online, related library resources and more. • Update on PFISD support – In May we launched a new initiative to give PFISD students direct access to the library’s eBook collection utilizing their school district’s platform. The idea is to make it as easy as possible for students to access books. So far 285 eBooks have been checked out this Summer by PFISD students utilizing this set up. Combined with the Pflugerville Reads book distribution earlier this Summer and the library’s special Digit Cards for PFISD, we are supporting the students of our community in multiple ways during the pandemic. • Virtual Programs Highlight: Online Teen Night: DiversiTeen Book Buzz – Teens got the early buzz on upcoming YA releases with Youth Services Librarian Amanda Cawthon. The Webex event also included interactive polls and drawings for prizes, which were of course new books. • Check out this link to the library’s recent Virtual American Sign Language Workshop. Library Tech Joan Meyers led the workshop and Adult Services Librarian Meg Miller provided additional virtual learning resources.

Parks: • The Pfarmers market was open on July 14, extremely hot temperatures saw a smaller crowd than usual. Customers are utilizing the two handwashing stations and COP hand sanitizer bottles and we will continue to follow all COVID protocols. • An Eagle Scout project has been approved and is scheduled to start at the Lake Pflugerville on July 24th. We are working with the scout to ensure COVID-19 protocols are adhered to and the proper authorities are informed of his group working in our park system that day. • Staff is transitioning the Deutschen Pfest 5k into a virtual race, more information to come soon. • Staff hosted a virtual animal visit with Tiny Tails to You on Friday at 11 am on Facebook. • See attached “Virtual Animal Visit” information.

PCDC: Report is attached as PCDC – July 17, 2020

Planning: • On Wednesday, the Planning Department hosted a community meeting to discuss the proposed downtown code amendments. Approximately 35 residents, generally from the Old Town area, were in attendance and asked questions and provided feedback on the draft. The Q&A from the meeting will be posted online in the next few weeks for the public to view. In order to ensure that there has been adequate time for public involvement staff anticipates that this item would move forward to P&Z and Council around the end of September. • On Wednesday, Trey and Emily met with Travis County Development staff at their quarterly meeting. They discussed various construction projects, general development issues and collaboration efforts while working remotely. • On Wednesday, Trey and Emily met with PfISD at their quarterly meeting. They discussed growth of the district and opportunities for future school sites. • The site development permit for Springbrook Corporate Center Buildings 2, 3 and 5 located at 1121 Meister Lane was issued this week. This permit allows construction of 267,979sf of warehouse space split among three buildings.

Police: • Wednesday Chief Robledo and Command Staff participated in a video meeting with Karl Spencer and Romaine Anglin with 100 Black Men of Austin, Inc., the non-profit local chapter of 100 Black Men of America, Inc. This great organization mentors and develops young people to improve the quality of life within their communities and enhance educational and economic opportunities for all African Americans. • Grant Update: PD was notified that our Coronavirus Emergency Supplemental Funding Program grant application was approved and the Governor’s office has awarded us $22,168.93 for the purchase of equipment and PPE supplies for First Responders related to the preparation and response to the COVID-19 Pandemic event. • In daily communication with Travis County ESD2 regarding COVID-19 status and updates. • List of COVID-19 Related Expenditures to be updated on July 24.

Public Works: • ACM & Administration: o As a guest speaker for a WTS virtual event, Amy Giannini provided a presentation alongside Angela Johnson with the City of Austin and on Municipalities at Work: Roles in City Government on July 15. o Staff coordinated with Manville and the PUC this week to define a path forward for the proposed CCN transfer. The PUC has granted a 30 day extension to allow for time to process a revised agreement that documents the required dual certification for areas with legacy customers. The City’s attorney is working through proposed changes to the agreement. • Water Treatment: o Total water system average demand so far for July has been roughly 11 MGD and has so far peaked at 13 MGD. We expect the demands on the system to continue to creep upwards as temperatures stay high and rain isn’t forecasted. o The strainer relocation project was completed this week. This project has alleviated shells from developing in the membrane construction screens and has so far shown to keep the screens clear from mussel and clam shells. Since the relocation of the strainers and the removal of the trapped baskets in the pump cans, we have seen a significant increase in available raw water pumping capacity that is more in line with what we should be producing from our raw water intake. We will continue to monitor the status of the construction screens at each of the membrane trains to ensure that we don’t start to see any debris buildup in the pipe. Our crews have worked around the clock over the last month troubleshooting, pinpointing and solving flow issues through the plant, which now allows more flexibility in its operation of the water treatment plant and also ensures that we continue to meet demands through our peak periods. o Two sodium hypochlorite fill line leaks were repaired this week. Both lines were on the sodium hypochlorite generation system that fills our bulk storage tanks. This work took significant coordination as it involved pre-filling our storage tanks given water demands currently while also repairing the pipe leaks that are about 20’ in the air. These repairs will alleviate some minor corrosion that had happened over the years that this was not addressed and make the area much safer for staff to work around. o Train 2’s drain channel valve actuator was repaired this week after the shaft key had slipped off the shaft causing the valve not to open properly. Again, this involves staff coordination, as the plant has to be shut down in order to facilitate the repair in the drain channel for employee safety given the velocities of the water entering the channel and the possibility of engulfment. o The River Pump Station communication line was replaced with a cell modem that give us vastly greater communication capabilities. Previously, it was on a dial-up modem which operated intermittently. • Wastewater Treatment: o One of the non-potable pumps that drives the WWTP chlorine feed failed on Friday afternoon. Due to the age of the pumps, the replacement parts are not available. We anticipated this becoming an issue soon, so replacement pumps were ordered a couple weeks ago to replace the non-compatible units. They are scheduled to be delivered and installed next week, but operations staff have been manually dosing chlorine during higher flows in order to maintain adequate chlorine during higher wastewater flows and stay within compliance. o The upper bearing on the new sludge holding tank blower appears to have blown a seal that caused the motor to seize. This failure is repairable, but we will be waiting on parts to repair. The backup blower is currently running without any issues. • Pumps and Motors: o Staff pulled and repaired a clog with Boulder Ridge Pump 2 due to an excessive amount of rags that had developed in the wet well. • Line Maintenance: o Completed site restoration after water main leak at Helios and Sun Light Near Way. o Started a project to assist our local ESD2 flow testing several fire hydrants for Insurance Services Office (ISO) rating purposes. The ISO scores fire departments on how they are doing against its organization’s standards to determine property insurance costs. • Street and Drainage: o With combined efforts, several crews repaired a large section of asphalt on Picadilly near the frontage of I-35. o A contractor will be performing road repairs on southbound Dessau on Monday July 20. One lane will be closed for the day while the work is performed. • Resource Recovery: o Chipping picked up 322 piles of brush from residents estimated at 1623 cubic yards of brush. o A presentation will be given to the Finance and Budget Committee at their July 23rd meeting regarding current and proposed fees as it relates to the Recycling Center.

July 24, 2020 Greetings Mayor and City Council

Be sure to be checking your Slack!

Administration: • Staff has created reopen plans for the Parks Department and the Library based on the current Austin Public Health (APH) Stages which allows flexibility to shift with the environment instead of trying to set specific dates (attached as Library Reopen Stages and PARD Reopen Plan). The metric used for the APH stages is the 7 day average hospital admits. These documents are also available on the website under Parks and the Library webpages. • CARES Act: We submitted our application for the initial 20%, working on our second submission as well as parameters for small business program for approval. • Attached please find a memo regarding “Interim Options for Conducting Committee Business” from Speaker Bonnen to House Committee Chairs. • The City is currently accepting applications for members to serve on the Equity Commission. Information and the application are available on the City website here or by contacting the City Secretary’s Office at [email protected]. We have currently received one application from Shawn Douglas. After a number of applications have been received sufficient to fill the seven positions, we will bring those forward to the City Council for consideration of appointment. • Trey was appointed to serve on the Urban Land Institute (Austin) Regional Growth Local Member Council. Local Member Councils are designed to engage members based on their expertise and passion within the land use industry. Local Member Councils are topically focused, multidisciplinary groups that meet regularly to exchange ideas, examine industry trends, and share information and best practices in a collaborative and collegiate manner.

Communications: • Posted graphical reopen plans for the library on city website and social media so the public can monitor what facilities are open and services available based on the current Austin Public Health stages. • Prepared a Wear a Mask video to further reiterate the importance of wearing your mask and your new 9 a.m. morning routine. The mask also promoted the Pfarmers Market. • Worked on budget messaging and video scripts to highlight where your property tax dollar goes and the upcoming public hearings. Information in the Key and updated online at pflugervilletx.gov/budget • Coordinated with Austin Public Health PIO for additional messaging about the COVID walk-up testing site at the Pfield to help it reach capacity. • Week 18 Media Reporting document attached.

Engineering: • Amazon (Project Charm) development: City staff continues to coordinate with the Developer, Contractor for upcoming arrangement of the anticipated water shut-out. The second round of pflyers were distributed on Thursday, July 23rd to the impacted business, residential and community. The third distribution is scheduled for next week July 28th, 48 hours in advance of the tie-in work. As a reminder the water will be shut out on July 30th beginning at 10:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m. to make 3 water connections to the City line. • The City and Manville management met to discuss water service for properties south of Wilke Lane which are currently in Manville's CCN o Currently, Manville does not have capacity nor future plan to serve these areas o Discussed and agreed on: Manville desires for developer (future developments) to come to them to verify ability to serve and if Manville determines they are not able to serve, they will provide a letter notifying the developer as well as the City that the property can instead be served by The City of Pflugerville o For properties south of Wilke, Manville has already confirmed and determined an inability to serve and plans to provide a letter to the City, which will allow the City to move forward with providing water service to these areas. • Development: o A resolution to allow City Manager signature of an Information Sharing Access Agreement (ISAA) between FEMA and the City of Pflugerville to allow FEMA to share policyholder information protected by the Privacy Act which is personally identifiable information (PII) will be on the July 28 council agenda. This information from FEMA is needed for routine floodplain administration procedures by City staff. o Environment Inspections: ▪ Investigating two cases of illegal dumping • One case involved a man who has been doing yardwork dumping tree limbs along a storm drain discharge to Lake Pflugerville and dumping what appeared to be wheelbarrows of soil into a runoff created wetland that drained to the lake from the storm drain. • The other case involved quite a few buckets of paint, roof shingles, and other construction materials from what appeared to be a home remodeling contractor. The materials were dumped in close proximity to a City stormwater discharge pond near Killingsworth Ln. • Both cases were investigated in collaboration with Travis County officials because of their proximity to county lands. In the first case, the person who was dumping to the lake was living in the county but dumping on city property, County investigator advised that we handle the investigation because the dumping was on city property. In the second case, county investigators ended up taking over because the dumping turned out to be on county property, extensive cleanup would be required, and because prosecution would likely be required. The county officials felt that they had better resources to achieve this. • Construction: o 131 inspections for week of July 16 o Pecan at Biltmore - the Traffic Signal poles were delivered to the project site on Tuesday, July 21st and construction crews are working to place the poles and equipment in preparation of tieing in electrical wiring and connecting power. We hope to see pflashing lights within the month of August. th o Project Charm – in preparation for water the water tie-in July 30 the Project Charm construction crew has coordinated with the City for a Temporary Traffic Control Plan (TTCP) to be installed beginning Friday, July 24th to perform related site work necessary in advance of the water tie-in. The TTCP will close the outside travel lane on E. Pecan St. between Sun Light Near Way up through the west side of the Amazon (Project Charm) entrance at the new proposed Pfennig Lane intersection and will remain in place until the beginning of August. • CIP: o Industrial Pretreatment Program and Fats Oils and Grease (FOG) Program staff Selection Committee convened a meeting and selected an Engineering firm for recommendation to be presented to the City Council at the August 11th meeting. o Standby Generator staff Selection Committee convened a meeting and selected an Engineering firm for recommendation to be presented to the City Council at the August 11th meeting. o Kelly Lane Phase 2 project, there have been significant changes to the drainage since the initial preliminary engineering was done about 8 years ago. The previous drainage analysis completed with the preliminary engineering was insufficient and significantly underestimated the improvements needed and Atlas 14 rainfall data has also increased the design requirements for the drainage improvements. A roundabout has also been added since the project was initially estimated which has increased the footprint of the project and therefore increased costs. • Parks: o Wilbarger Creek Park: Change Order #1 on Council agenda for July 28, CO#1 has additional expenditures and days. The contractor is continuing work on concrete flatwork and paver installation. Irrigation lines are beginning installation. The playground vendor has coordinated with the contractor on installation and equipment was delivered to the site on 7/23. Playground installation is estimated to take 2-3 weeks. Coordination is still on-going with Oncor. o Lake Pflugerville Phase 1 – Coordination with City maintenance crews on irrigation preferences and electrical needs for design. 90% plans to be submitted for City comment Aug. 1. Upon review, plans will be submitted for Site Design Permit process.

Finance: • On Tuesday’s agenda, the item Discussion regarding the FY21 Proposed Budget includes additional information regarding the Master Fee Schedule which will be adopted along with the FY21 Budget. Our intention is to allow this time for Council to focus on discussion regarding this fee schedule which begins on PDF page 282 of the FY21 Proposed Budget. In addition, the Master Fee Schedule Fee Comparison document that was provided to Council in the 7/10 Weekly Update has been attached to the agenda item. This document details the changes for each fee, from the current to the proposed, and includes a reference to the current fee authorization. • At Thursday’s Finance and Budget Committee meeting, presentations were provided for utility service tap/installation/inspection fees and Recycle Center fees. The Committee discussed these fees for services and them recommended for Council consideration. These items have been included in the 7/28 agenda item Discussion regarding the FY21 Proposed Budget for discussion, if desired, and will be incorporated into the Master Fee Schedule to be adopted with the FY21 Budget. • Finance, Utility Billing, Public Works and CMO Staff have been working with New Gen Strategies and Solutions on a Utility Cost of Service Study and Rate Proposal. The consultant presented the findings to the Finance and Budget Committee at last night’s meeting. The presentation is attached as: NewGen Utility Rates Presentation to FAB 7.23.20. o Highlights from the Committee’s discussion include: ▪ Impact on rates due to the 5 year capital improvement program which includes infrastructure projects necessary to maintain the existing systems and add capacity for growth. ▪ The assumptions related to growth, interest rates on debt, reserve spending and personnel costs. ▪ Messaging and explanations to customers regarding necessity of increases to appropriately fund the utility systems. o Staff is preparing information to regarding some of the Committee’s discussion, questions, and concerns, which will be relayed to Council and the Committee. • The Finance and Budget Committee also briefly discussed the FY21 Proposed Budget and decided to resume this discussion at a meeting to be held on Thursday, July 30th. • The suspension of late fees and disconnection for non-payment on water, wastewater and trash bills due to COVID-19 expired on July 15th. Last week, late fees were assessed on the 1st cycle of customers (with bills due on 15th of each month). This week, Utility Billing began the notification process to the 1st cycle customers with past due balances in anticipation of disconnections next week. We continue to refer customers needing financial assistance to the Travis County Community Center and other organizations known to provide financial assistance.

Library: • The "Job Search Coaching" service mentioned last week has officially launched. Community members can sign up for one-on-one virtual appointments to help with resumes, interview preparation, conducting online job searches, related library resources, and more. See the attached flier titled Job Search Coaching and help us spread the word! • Virtual Program Highlight - Writing Class: Writing Your Story & Keeping a Journal, author and teacher Tracey Lander-Garrett led attendees in a virtual writing class including writing exercises and feedback. • Pay it Forward Pflugerville -This year our end of the summer Pay it Forward celebration will look a little different. Keeping things virtual, Youth Services Librarian Amanda Cawthon is highlighting local organizations on social media that serve the community so patrons can learn how to get involved. In addition, on Saturday, August 1st, we will host a blood drive in the library parking lot. You can make an appointment to donate directly with We Are Blood. • Behind the Scenes: With the building closed to the public we are using the opportunity to work on some important projects related to the library collection. We are completing a full inventory of all of the physical items in the collection, updating some of the ways we catalogue certain materials to make them easier to find, and changing how we label other items. These activities will help us serve the community more effectively going forward.

Parks: • The Pfarmers market was open on July 21st, and we saw an increase in market attendees from the last few weeks thanks to recent advertisement and recognition in Pflugerville Pflag and Community Impact. • Began annual athletic field maintenance at 1849 Park, including aeration, fertilizer and top soil dressing in preparation for fall field allocations.

PCDC: Report is attached as PCDC – July 24, 2020

Planning: • On Tuesday, staff had the Comprehensive Plan initiation meeting with our consultant Freese and Nichols. The official kick off to the plan will occur on August 12th. We will begin reporting monthly the status of the Comprehensive Plan. • On Wednesday, the Downtown Council subcommittee met with staff to further the efforts of downtown code amendments. The conversation focused around community feedback, final drafts, and schedule. We will be hosting a meeting with the community and the downtown subcommittee in the next few weeks and anticipate taking the downtown code amendments forward to P&Z in September and City Council in October. • The neighborhood meeting regarding downtown code amendments was posted online this week and can be found here. • On Thursday, staff hosted a Roadway Impact Fee 101 Stakeholder Meeting to help inform our stakeholder groups about the study. This meeting will be posted online next week.

Police: • Tuesday Lt. Rowley attended the Center for Child Protection’s Executive Team ZOOM meeting. • Wednesday Chief Robledo participated on a virtual meeting with the District Attorney’s office regarding the DA’s Inter-Agency Sexual Assault Team. • Thursday Citizen’s Police Academy held their last class (virtually) and participated in their Citizens On Patrol orientation, which prepares them for the next step of volunteerism. • Friday Chief Robledo and Lt. Lewis participated in a video meeting for the Central Texas Regional SWAT Team Executive Team. • In daily communication with Travis County ESD2 regarding COVID-19 status and updates. • List of COVID-19 Related Expenditures is attached as COVID-19 Supplies List July 24.

Public Works: • Water Treatment: o Finished installation of Lake Pump # 2 and fixed the control wiring for the control valve. The contractor finished installing the strainer spool piece on the pipeline and pump is ready to be placed back into service. o We have been receiving intermittent low level alarms from the River Intake Pump Station that has been causing our river pumps to fault out and stop. This has been occurring on a cyclical basis and the problem is currently pointing to a supply- side problem coming from the Colorado River. We are currently communicating with LCRA to confirm that their River Operations group is ensuring that we have adequate water diversion going to the River Pump Station to ensure that we can continue to flow water from the River to Lake Pflugerville. Currently, given the volume of our demand on the water distribution system, we are keeping even on what we are sending to the Lake and what we are withdrawing for consumption, but this doesn’t include any water loss to evaporation. We are also currently pumping from the River Pump Station at our full capacity of 13 MGD to keep the Lake as full as we can while we can. o The electrical gear at Well 4, which provides water to Windermere, had an incident in the gear caused an arc-flash to occur and faulted out both pumps. Staff were able to repair one of the pumps, but the motor on the second pump will need to be evaluated and possibly rewound given the damage that occurred as a result of this failure. City staff coordinated with Southwest Water Company about this incident and will be keeping them in the loop going forward on status of repairs. o After numerous repairs on the chlorine generation system chiller, the unit is back into service. Repairs consisted of a new heat exchanger, holding vessel, refrigeration lines, and various sensors. The unit has not been in operation for many years, but is absolutely critical to proper operation of the chlorine generation system and ensures the system works efficiently and creates a stable product to be used for the disinfection of the finished water product. This was all possible with the help of the Facilities Maintenance Team who really took charge in assisting with the repairs, and the water treatment plant group is very thankful for all of their help through this. • Wastewater Treatment: o Reinstalled and tested recently repaired Reclaimed Pump # 2 to have greater flexibility on providing water to the Northeast Metro Park ponds. o Operations staff continue to manually disinfect clarified wastewater before filtration as non-potable pumps pads are being poured and pumps are to be installed once pump pad are level and ready to set pumps and motors on. • Regulatory: o Continued receiving incoming samples for lead and copper testing from Pflugerville residents. o Water Conservation added a "How to make your own Rain Barrel" video on the website. • Line Maintenance: nd rd o Repaired 6” sewer main in alley between 2 and 3 street. In addition, located the sewer main and four laterals in the alley for planning and development. o Staff is continuing monthly flushing throughout the city. • Street and Drainage: o Began inspecting numerous asphalt issues throughout the city and preparing for upcoming asphalt projects. • Resource Recovery: o Chipping picked up 322 piles of brush from residents estimated at 1623 cubic yards of brush. • Facility Maintenance: o Changed all A/C filters in the city and treated with mold and mildew preventer o Repaired the heat exchanger for the Chlorine tank at water treatment plant.

July 31, 2020 Greetings Mayor and City Council

Be sure to be checking your Slack!

Administration: • The City was notified on Thursday morning by Austin Public Health that five positive pool locations have been identified in Travis County for the West Nile Virus, and there is one probable human case. Map attached as Arbovirus Surveillance. Media release from July 29th attached as APH Media Release. The additional three positive pools were identified on Thursday, July 30th. While the ILA with APH does not include vector testing, staff is working with APH to get some testing sites in our area. • Please find attached draft agendas for the August 11, 2020 City Council Worksession and Regular Meeting titled cc081120wsa, cc081120supa and cc081120a. • Staff is working with Austin Public Health to establish a COVID testing site at the former Wordyisms (103 N. Railroad) once the current site at The Pfield relocates around Labor Day. The testing at this new location would continue through December. The current testing site is seeing about 200 people per day. • As you know we have had periodic citizen complaints about the quality of internet service providers and the lack of competition in Pflugerville. The City no longer has franchise agreements with telecommunication firms, and regulation is by the PUC. o Via LinkedIn, staff ran across a firm called Lit Communities that can help to address these issues which have only become more prevalent and critical during recent times as a result of the pandemic affecting residents’ ability to effectively work from home, telecommute, continue their education, etc. o The City of Brownsville issued an RFQ in April, and awarded a contract recently to Lit. o Staff reached out to DCM Helen Ramirez and she says the initiative was a result of discussions with Jordana Barton at the Dallas Fed last year that led to the creation of a coalition with the UTRGV, TSC, BISD, PUB, Port and EDCs in January. Everyone contributed funding ($21K) to create a scope / RFQ then subcommittee and worked hard so that could be selected July 7. They had great response with 11 submittals. o The total investment is $155,750 for the completion of a Broadband Feasibility and Digital Inclusion Plan over a 22-week period. The contract is here. Their efforts were also featured on the ICMA website.

Communications: • Pflugerville Pfocus is now available online at www.youtube.com/cityofpflugerville and on the City’s social media accounts. • Updated the City website with information related to Council budget discussions. • COVID – continued promotion of the 9AM routine reminding residents to clean phones, wash hands and grab masks as they head out the door. • Hosted an Intranet training to feature the internal communications tool that launched this summer. The platform has become a critical piece of internal communications while many staff are working remotely due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Engineering: • Wilbarger Creek Regional Waste Water Treatment Plant (WCRWWTP) Owner’s Representative – City staff submitted a Project Information Form (PIF) in May 2020, which was accepted by the Texas Water Development Board (TWDB) and the City was approved via an invitation to submit a formal application for grant funding, as inclusion on the Clean Water State Revolving Fund (CWSRF) under the Intended Use Plan – Project Priority List for funding. Staff is pleased to submit an application for TWDB grant and anticipates an Agenda Item for inclusion on the August 11th City Council meeting for a Resolution of notice of intent to submit the TWDB application to apply for funding, as the Financial Application deadline is August 31, which will require City Council Action. In addition, the WCRWWTP and Wilbarger Creek 54” Waste Water Interceptor Projects RFQ solicitations for selection of a Design Engineering Teams ended on July 29th as Statements of Qualifications (SOQs) have been received and the Selection Committee has begun review of the SOQs. The Owner’s Representative and city staff anticipate recommendation of consultants for both projects on the September 22, 2020. • Please see attached reports for the Wilbarger Creek Park titled Wilbarger Creek Park Project History and Wilbarger Creek Park Permit History • Construction: o 125 inspections for week of July 27. o Project Acceptance Letters sent for Manville Interconnect and Black Locust Rehabilitation Project 7/29/2020. o Project Charm successfully completed the two water line tie-ins • CIP: o Pecan/Weiss Water Line (CP&Y) ▪ Made minor revisions to the water line alignment through the Lakeside Meadows property. ▪ Fieldwork/ survey started this week. ▪ Environmental performing the fieldwork this week. ▪ Coordination with consultants on proposed 800’ PZ Tank and future WTP expansion. • Parks CIP: o Wilbarger Creek Park – City staff has coordinated and further negotiated with the Contractor based on feedback from the City Council during the July 28th meeting. Staff will provide a more detailed update and a modified request for the Change Order for consideration by City Council on August 11. The playground vendor has coordinated with the contractor on installation and equipment was delivered to the site on 7/23. Playground installation is estimated to be complete by 8/12. Coordination is still on-going with Oncor, target to be completed by 8/12. o Lake Pflugerville Phase 1 –90% plans to be submitted for City comment Aug. 7. Upon review, plans will be submitted for Site Development Permit process. o Gilleland Creek Pool Complex – 30% plans submitted for City comment 7/17, staff returned comments 7/28. Plans to continue to be refined. o Rec & Senior Feasibility Study – consultant to complete remaining scope items including facility program and operational cost pro forma. o Stone Hill Splash Pad – City of Austin Health Services plan review comment/response anticipated week of 8/3. Once approval is provided, work will commence immediately.

Finance: • The Finance and Budget Committee met last night. Following a budget discussion, the Committee approved a motion to recommend the FY21 Proposed Budget to City Council. • The FY21 Proposed Budget has been updated on the website to reflect the certified valuations received from the Travis and Williamson Central Appraisal Districts. A summary of changes from the previous draft of the budget are located on page 2 of the document. • The City received the initial disbursement of CARES Act funds from Travis County for $706,211. • Finance Staff met with the Financial Advisor regarding the Texas Water Development Board Grant application that will be submitted in August. • As a reminder, all budget drafts and documents are maintained on the FY21 City Council Budget Documents google drive, including downloadable excel files of department expenditures by fund.

Library: • New E-resource, Biblioboard launched – BiblioBoard offers self-published eBook lending and tools to help libraries and their community to create, share, and discover local content in an unlimited, simultaneous use experience. Local authors now have a place to create, publish, and share their work for free. Biblioboard is made up of three components: Pressbooks for book creation, the Indie Author’s Project for submission and review, and Biblioboard for lending. Visit pflugervilletx.gov/eresources to see this and all of our electronic resources. • Virtual Program Highlight: Online Teen Dungeon & Dragons – Over the spring and summer, 10 teens participated in three online Dungeons & Dragons campaigns, playing for a total of 30 hours. As Dungeon Master (DM), Library Tech Liam Lansangan led the groups through a campaign based in an Egyptian pyramid while Shift Supervisor Peter Shugart supervised the Webex meetings and helped out with any technical issues. One of the teens that participated in the first campaign will be volunteering as DM in the fall to lead a campaign with Liam supervising the meetings. In addition to providing teens with a fun activity that further cements their connection to the library, D&D also encourages social interaction, team building skills, communication, creativity, and problem- solving. A great example of a truly innovative virtual program designed by Youth Services Librarian Amanda Cawthon! • Curbside Restart – We are tentatively looking at Tuesday, August 11th as the date to restart our curbside pick-up service. Director Coffey has been monitoring the Covid numbers provided by Austin Public Health and is encouraged by the downward trend in hospitalizations. She is watching to ensure the trend is sustained. When we do restart, we will shift the available days to Tuesday – Saturday in order to provide more options for those who work traditional hours.

Parks: • The Pflugerville Pfarmer’s Market will be highlighted by the USDA’s Social Media Team on August 6th for the National Farmers Market Week. USDA is working with our PIO on guidance for links, hashtags and photos. More information next week. • Turf maintenance was performed this week to prep for upcoming fall sports on 1849, Wells Point and Pfennig fields. • Staff has been repainting walls and re-arraigning of equipment/furniture as we prepare for future Stage 3 reopening plans.

PAWS: • PAWS has adjusted our shelter operating hours to better serve our citizens. We are no longer closed on Wednesdays. Our new shelter hours of operation are: o Mon-Friday 11a-6p, and o Saturday & Sunday from Noon-5p. • The shelter gate remains closed to control access to the shelter. Signage outside the gate instructs customers to call our main number so we can assess needs and jurisdictions before letting customers on the premise. This helps us better protect staff, customers, and our animals. • Intake continues to be restricted to stray dogs of any age and friendly stray cats of any age. We are not currently accepting feral cats. • Officers continue to respond to calls for service in the field Monday-Friday from 8a-5p.

PCDC: Report is attached as PCDC Weekly Report – July 31, 2020

Planning: • The Roadway Impact Fee Stakeholder Meeting, along with FAQs, has been posted online and can be found here. • A site development permit was issued for Cielo Apartments, located at 2200 West Pflugerville Parkway (just east of the intersection of Greenlawn Boulevard and Pflugerville Parkway). The project consists of 350 dwelling units in 14 buildings. • Trey and Emily met with Capital Metro this week to continue working towards a transit pilot program for the City. We anticipate being able to bring forward an interlocal agreement for Council consideration soon, as Capital Metro expressed interest in implementing service beginning in October.

Police: • Tuesday Chief Robledo served as a panelist on a virtual conversation titled “Clearing the Pathway for Healing and Policing in America”, hosted by the Lion Strategy Group. • In daily communication with Travis County ESD2 regarding COVID-19 status and updates.

Public Works: • As previously mentioned in the July 3 Weekly Update, the Public Utility Commission has expressed concerns with the application for the proposed CCN transfer due to the legacy customers. The agreement between Manville and the City allows Manville to retain its legacy customers until ownership of the property changes or the property is redeveloped. This is beneficial to the City as it allows time to extend water facilities to the proposed areas. The PUC has expressed that the properties with legacy customers shall be dually certificated for both City and Manville CCN, which the current agreement does not contemplate. City Staff has worked with our legal counsel to finalize changes to the agreement to allow for the dual certification while protecting the City’s interest to serve the areas in the future. The agreement was forwarded to Councilmember Peña, the Manville Liaison for the City Council. The PUC has provided for an extension through August 15, 2020 to allow for changes to the agreement. • Amy Giannini and staff are providing open office hours on Friday afternoons preceding City Council meetings from 3:30-4:30 pm to allow for coordination with City Council members regarding Public Works and Engineering related items or questions. For the time being, these meetings will occur via Webex. Please contact Sereniah and copy Amy Giannini ([email protected]) to schedule an appointment no later than the Wednesday prior to the open office hours. In your request, please include topics for discussion so that the appropriate staff can be scheduled and prepared for the discussion. • Water Treatment: o Performed quarterly calibration on chlorine analyzer units and turbidity analyzers. This is required by TCEQ, was on a service contract with the manufacturer, and is phasing out in which these tasks will be performed by city staff, reducing the cost of service and keeping the water system in compliance. o Completed troubleshooting of backwash recovery pump #1 to find that the main disconnect for the motor had become stuck in the open position which would not allow power to free-flow to the motor. A replacement disconnect has been ordered, and we expect to have it installed when it arrives on site in about 2 weeks. o Completed flow testing on Raw Water Pumps coming from the Lake to test full capacity of the pumps after the strainers were relocated. We should have the full report within the next week, but the preliminary results showed that the pumps, pipeline, and strainers can run 29 MGD if all systems are working appropriately. While this works in practice, we still have to plan the plant with a single unit out of service per TCEQ requirements which would constrains the Lake Pump Station to have an effective capacity of 19.3 MGD. • Wastewater Treatment: o One of the sludge holding tank blowers was torn down after a seal leak. This blower will have to be repaired in a proper machine shop, but should be repaired in the coming weeks. o The non-potable pumps started to be installed this week in order for the chlorine feed system to properly function as intended instead of having staff manually disinfect the finished clarified wastewater. The replacement pump is built with proper materials in order to extend the life until the end of the expansion project. The previous pumps were installed with non-compatible materials to the chemicals that the WWTP uses. o The expansion project is ongoing and operations staff have been coordinating with the contractor to install temporary plant communications radios to facilitate data transfer amongst the plant PLCs. This will allow the construction company to be able to start the excavation of the influent lift station wet well that will eventually take the entirety of the plant flow when completed. • Line Maintenance: o Repaired leaking copper line on Altitude Valve located at Olympic and Heatherwilde. This valve controls flow of surface water into the area. o Assisted water treatment personnel cleaning raw water filters at WTP. o Assisted wastewater treatment personnel priming the non-potable pumps at the WWTP • Street and Drainage: o A contractor repaired 430 feet of Dessau where the pavement was failing. • Resource Recovery: o Chipping picked up 425 piles of brush from residents estimated at 1602 cubic yards of brush. • Facility Maintenance: o Cleared the fallen tree by the entrance dock door to the Library. o Repaired all broken sprinkler pipes and replaced broken sprinkler heads at PAWS.

August 7, 2020 Greetings Mayor and City Council

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Administration: • The August Texas Town & City is available online here. • Travis County CARES Act ILA: o We submitted our first reimbursement request this week to Travis County which covers March expenses and will be applied towards the initial 20% received by the City. Pflugerville is the first City to submit a request and has worked with the County to identify and correct issues with application documents and processes which will hopefully speed up the process for future requests. Special thanks to Lauren Henkes, Assistant Finance Director, for her work on this project. o Travis County approved the Pflugerville Cares Small Business Grant Program which continues to move forward under PCDC’s leadership in partnership with BCL. PCDC will provide further updates to Council during next week’s Council meeting. • Please see article regarding: What a NIMBY Victory in Plano Means for the Future of Urban Planning in Texas. • Congratulations to Councilmember Rudy Metayer and Judge Farren Sheehan for making the list of Austin’s top attorneys for 2020 in the Austin Monthly Magazine! https://www.austinmonthly.com/austins-top-attorneys-2020/ • City staff is working with Austin Public Health to establish a COVID testing location at 103 N. Railroad Ave (former Wordyisms location). PfISD has notified APH that testing at The Pfield can continue there until September 26 at which point the testing would start on September 28 at the new location. The Garlicks (property owners) have consented to this use of the building. To make the site viable, TxDOT has provided verbal approval for the installation of a temporary driveway in the MoKan ROW from FM 1825 / Pecan Street up to the testing site allowing cars to enter from Pecan and exit onto Railroad, but a Multiple Use Agreement is required. The temporary driveway is a reimbursable expense via CARES ACT funds. • Amy Good provided a letter of resignation on Wednesday, effective August 19, 2020. We wish her well in her new endeavors. • The U.S. Economic Development Administration (EDA) Austin Regional Office Investment Review Committee (IRC) has rendered a decision on the City’s application request. Attached please find correspondence from Regional Director, Jorge D. Ayala, stating the project merits further consideration titled IRC Correspondence. The project will be processed for $2,300,000.

Communications: • Rolled out information for the September 2 E Pflugerville Parkway Open House • Coordinated messaging for the reopening the Lake trail on Monday, August 10 and updated the City's Parks and Recreation Reopen Plan • Worked with Waste Connections on upcoming changes to the former chipping program. The new program will be called Limb Pickup and messaging will be in the September utility bill to instruct residents about how to sign up for curbside limb pickup in the future. • City website traffic from a mobile device has peaked at 73% (it had been @61% for quite some time). New buttons and features on the website were added a few months ago to make the site more mobile-friendly and our mobile traffic has increased. • The City continues to promote wearing a mask and is now participating in the International City Manager's Association (ICMA) hashtag use of #WeMask, #WeWearIt4U. With City Hall Selfie Day coming up on August 14, we will be promoting how our staff wear masks for you. • Worked on budget communications and infographics to help outline and explain the budget to the public once adopted. • Prepared information on the Bond Election and CDBG for after Tuesday’s Council meeting • Met with Community Impact virtually and discussed Downtown Plan, upcoming Comprehensive Plan, the anticipated changes to the curbside limb pickup for inclusion in the September issue, new PAWS hours and East Pflugerville Parkway open house. • Find attached Week 20 media document.

Engineering: • Wilbarger Creek Park: A revised change order will be brought forward for City Council consideration at the August 11th meeting. Poor communication and project management are the key components that have resulted in this change order coming in after the contract final completion date. The cost overruns should have been reported sooner to communicate the unexpected incurred costs and changes to the project. The City’s project manager made a mistake to provide approval and direction for the contractor to proceed with work items prior to execution of a change order. o Unexpected incurred cost overruns should have been reported immediately by the project manager for management and City Council to review and approval. th o Since the July 28 City Council meeting, City staff has met with the contactor to renegotiate the proposed Change Order in the amount of $56,468.4 as presented in the proposed August 11th City Council meeting. City Staff and the Contractor are committed to complete the Wilbarger Creek Park project with the approved Change Order cost and added 135 days for a substantial completion date of October 15th and final completion date of November 15th. o City Staff is currently coordinating with the Contractor on the last remaining critical issues that serve as a potential threat to the contractors scheduled completion dates. Oncor must provide power to the site in order to complete the remaining light pole installations. City Staff will continue to provide an update on progress until the project has been completed. o City staff is requesting approval of the proposed Change Order for payment to the contractor for completed work and provide work days so the at contractor can complete the project. The contractor has continued to work in a good faith effort. The City would provide payment for the work as performed and has committed to satisfactorily completion the project. • Grand Avenue Parkway: City Staff has coordinated with Attorney Jeff Chapman, who is currently representing the City on Grand Avenue Parkway issues with the Contractor, and it has been determined that the City should bring on a new engineer to design, re-bid and reconstruct the failing pavement areas as determined through a geotechnical evaluation and recommenced new proposed pavement structure. City Staff plans to issue an RFQ on August 19th for these design services. The goal is to redesign the project given its current state and rebid the work. • SH45 Water & Wastewater Extensiosn: City staff is working through the last remaining easements acquisition for the wastewater through a Memorandum of Understanding with a developer that will allow impact fee credit for an easement donation since the project is on our 5-year CIP. • ADA Coordinator : Effective August 11, 2020 the City Manager has appointed Ali Abdelfattah to become the City’s new American with Disabilities Act (ADA) Coordinator. He has already began with transition meeting discussion with the Engineering Design consultant for Project Management of the ADA Transition plan to continue forward meeting the Federal Deadline December 31, 2020. Staff is coordinating for website updates and notices references ADA Coordinator to be modified. • Old Austin Hutto Rd Project : City Staff is coordinating with Tim Timmerman and working through easement acquisition via a Memorandum of Understanding for a donation of ROW. This remaining property acquisition is the last remaining item to finalize prior to bidding the project. If able to secure the ROW acquisition quickly through this process, staff anticipates we can finalize ROW in August/ September and meet the proposed target of September 2020 to advertise the construction of the project. • Stone Hill Splash Pad : City of Austin Health Services plan review comments were received week of 8/5 and have been coordinated with the manufacturer for response and resubmission. There are 4 items to address in the plans before approval. Manufacturer working to expedite comment response in coordination with City staff. • Drainage Master Plan: The City has released an RFQ for engineering services to provide the City with a Comprehensive Drainage Master Plan and feasibility Drainage Fee Study. The goal for the Comprehensive Drainage Plan is to address critical drainage problems, provide an effective tool to manage future development and produce a list of capital improvement projects for implementation to address drainage issues. In addition, the Drainage Fee Study to be developed in support as a funding mechanism for implementation of the CIP projects as noted in the Drainage Master Plan as well provide funding for maintenance of storm drains and waterways. The study will determine the need for a Drainage Utility Fee and if warranted the amount of the fee. RFQs are due August 20th and the anticipated target for Consultant selection is September 22nd. The funding for these plans is allocated in the FY 2020 Engineering Budget. • Kelly Lane: Please see attached presentation titled Kelly Lane Report for project limits and additional information regarding Kelly Lane summary o Kelly Lane Phase 2: $6,375,000 was approved by voters with the 2018 GO Bond for Kelly Lane Phase 2 Construction costs, as well staff proposed a request for an additional $10.6M from CO Funding has also been requested in support of the proposed increased construction costs associated with additional costs associated with Drainage, Retaining Walls, Earthwork, Right-of-Way and Other miscellaneous costs. The impacts of these items were presented to City Council during the CIP Update at the 7/28 meeting. • Drainage $3,230,952.80 • Retaining Wall $1,064,660.00 • Roundabout $ 1,200,000.00 • Earthwork (other than retaining wall) $ 266,408.00 • Construction Phase Services $ 179,050.63 • Right-of-Way (ROW) $ 3,000,000.00 • Misc. (Utility Relocation, contingency) $ 1,111,725.03 • Contingency $ 500,000.00 o Kelly Lane Phase 3: ▪ City Council approved CO funds in the amount of $820,000 in 2018 allocated for the Kelly Lane Phase 3 project. The proposed 2020 GO Bond includes proposed funding to push the Kelly Lane Phase 3 project forward through construction with a total project cost of 13,600,000 (Total cost listed for Kelly Lane Phase 3 for bond is $14.3M which includes Project Management and Bond Issuance Costs).

• Construction: o 82 Total Inspections o Onsite meeting for Wilbarger Park 8/4 and 8/5 o Accepted Manville Waterline Project pending City Council Approval o Project Acceptance of 1849 Park Turn Lane • CIP: o Melber Lane: City Staff and Consultant Engineering team and ROW Agents met with residents for a discussion. 6 property owners took part in the discussion in hopes of obtaining the ROE for survey and geotechnical work to begin. City provided meeting notes to property owners and have received notice from 4 property owners will not return Right-of-Entry (ROE) forms next week. Further discussions will occur with remaining owners. o Wilbarger Creek RWWTF TWDB Application – City Components ▪ Legal Agenda and forms signed by City Engineer for the TWDB Funding Application. • Parks: o Wilbarger Creek Park: Change Order #1 on Council agenda for August 11, CO#1 has additional expenditures and days. Playground installation is on-going and projected to be complete by 8/12. City staff, contractor and consultant have been coordinating with Oncor on providing power to the park. A plan has been put in place and an estimate is to be provided to the City on 8/7 for review. Management of remainder of project has been transitioned to new project manager. o Creekside Park Playground Replacement – Approved by Council on 7/28/20. PO has been submitted to Finance for processing. Manufacturing typically requires 8- 10 weeks, installation 3-4 weeks.

Finance: • The interim portion of the upcoming FY20 audit took place this week. Various staff and departments were interviewed by the external auditors with Pattillo, Brown and Hill, LLP on finance related procedures and internal controls in place. The fieldwork portion of the audit will take place this fall, after fiscal year-end. • On Tuesday, August 11, Council will consider a resolution to specify the proposed FY21 tax rate, which will be the maximum rate that can be adopted. The rate specified will be the rate published on public hearing and other notices required by the Tax Code. Attached as Proposed Tax Rate and History, is a summary of the various FY21 rates (no new revenue, voter approval rate, proposed rate) compared to the FY20 adopted rate. For each calculated rate, the document summarizes: the net tax revenue, rate distribution (operating and debt), funding distribution, and a summary of the funding of the FY21 general fund proposed budget. The 20 year historic rate chart is also included. • This week the Travis and Williamson Central Appraisal Districts (CADs) mailed postcards to all taxpayers directing them to the Truth-In-Taxation taxpayer websites. These sites allows taxpayers in Travis and Williamson counties to access tax information such as: proposed rates, proposed tax levies, proposed tax rates, and public hearing dates and notices. In addition, the site provides a place for taxpayers to provide feedback directly to each entity. Feedback received from these sites, will be provided to the City Council through the Weekly Update. • Additional information has been posted to the FY21 Proposed Budget website to provide readers historical information regarding the tax rate and revenues. Much of this additional information is newly required due to SB2 legislation.

Library: • Friends of the Pflugerville Library have sponsored an additional 10 Wi-Fi hotspots for circulation, including devices and service plans through next year. • Program Highlights: The library’s first virtual Summer Reading Program wrapped up on August 1. The summer featured a variety of story times, crafts, presentations, and club meetings for children, teens, and adults. The Adult Summer Reading Challenge, sponsored by the Friends of the Library, had 80 participants reading a total of 648 books. The final Summer Reading Program event, Pay It Forward Pflugerville, highlighted local nonprofits on the library’s social media pages and finished with a blood drive that included 21 donors. • Library staff continues to update the library website to make it informative and inclusive. They are working on database guides, book lists, and community resources. th • Curbside services will resume on Tuesday, August 11 . New service hours are Tuesday– Saturday from 10:00 am to 6:00 pm in order to provide more options for those who work traditional hours. Services will be limited to the pickup of materials, craft kits, and care kits. We will continue to monitor case numbers provided by Austin Public Health and services will continue as long as numbers do not approach the latter part of Stage 4 of the Library Reopening Plan again.

Parks: • Community Service: o The Pflugerville Pfarmers Market was highlighted by USDA National Resource Conservation Service on social media August 6th for the National Farmers Market Week. Check out the Pflugerville twitter page for more information. o An Eagle Scout candidate is completing his project at Lake Pflugerville this week. They are practicing COVID-19 rules by wearing masks, operating in a small group and wearing volunteer vests. There is staff onsite during the project service work, the project will be completed by mid-day Friday August 7th. • Irrigation repair completed at 1849 Park and Stone Hill Park • Staff created a remote control car race course in the parking lot of the Recreation Center for the public to use while social distancing. Staff changes the course once a week, for more information please check out the Pflugerville Parks and Recreation Facebook page.

PCDC: Report is attached a PCDC Updates – August 7, 2020

Planning: • Emily attended the Technical Advisory Committee meeting with Capital Metro regarding Project Connect on Thursday. The meeting was to provide an update on the status of Project Connect an no action was taken. Austin City Council is anticipated to take a vote next week regarding the budget and the placement of the item as a referendum on the City of Austin ballot in November. More information on Project Connect can be found here: https://capmetro.org/projectconnect/ • Next week, staff will announce a public meeting with the Council’s Downtown Subcommittee to hear from residents about the draft Downtown Code Amendments. • Projects of Interest: o Project Charm – This continues to be an active site and the landscape along Pecan changes daily with the activity construction related to this project. Attached is an aerial photo provided by the project (see “Project Charm photo” attached). o Lakeside Meadows – Staff is reviewing multiple subdivision applications for this project including extension of major utility infrastructure that will provide wastewater service to this site. The industrial properties to the south along Pecan and a portion of the residential are anticipated to be the first projects that begin vertical construction in this development. The developer has begun providing the documentation necessary for the next steps in the Public Improvement District (PID) process. o North Pointe – Staff is continues to work with the developer of North Pointe regarding the extension of Colorado Sand through the eastern tract of the development. To date we have not received any submittals for development for this project since the approval of the PUD last fall. o Pecan District – This project has been issued a Certificate of Occupancy for Phase 1 of the multi-family project, known as The Elliott. The applicant is working through the subdivision process for the balance of the tract which we anticipate moving forward later this year. o Martin Tract PID –On 6/23 Council opened the public hearing for the Martin Tract PID. Staff is reviewing the details of the PID request. The rezoning request for this tract (aka the Enclave at Cele), will be before the City Council for 2nd Reading on the 11th. The applicant has also begun working on the subdivision process for this site.

Police: • Friday Lt. Rowley attended the virtual meeting for the District Attorney’s Interagency Sexual Assault Team regular meeting. • Friday Chief Robledo attended the virtual meeting for the District Attorney’s Interagency Sexual Assault Team Executive committee meeting. • In daily communication with Travis County ESD2 regarding COVID-19 status and updates. • No update on list of COVID-19 Related Expenditures at this time.

Public Works: • Staff provided Manville a copy of the revised CCN agreement for review based on feedback provided by the PUC. The Manville Board will review the agreement at their August 13th Board Meeting and if approved, the agreement will be added to the August 25th City Council agenda for consideration. Staff also met with the PUC and Manville staff on Friday to finalize the maps for the CCN transfer agreement and application. • Amy Giannini and staff are providing open office hours on Friday afternoons preceding City Council meetings from 3:30-4:30 pm to allow for coordination with City Council members regarding Public Works and Engineering related items or questions. For the time being, these meetings will occur via Webex. Please contact Sereniah and copy Amy Giannini ([email protected]) to schedule appointment no later than the Wednesday prior to the open office hours. In your request, please include topics for discussion so that the appropriate staff can be scheduled and prepared for the discussion. • Amy Giannini and Brandon Pritchett met with Michael Irlbeck at EPCOR to discuss their existing water supply capabilities and potential future capabilities. • Water Treatment: o The water system is currently producing anywhere from 11-13 MGD on a normal basis with our highest peak days being Wednesday and Thursday which are our residential watering days. Flows are expected to stay in this range or increase as the current weather outlook appears to be dry and hot for the rest of August. The water operations group is maintaining flows throughout the plant while still continuing to monitor the volume of zebra mussels and Asiatic clams that are continuing to get caught in the strainers before the membrane building. o We are currently producing the maximum volume that we can per day out of our River Pump Station with all 3 pumps running normally. This produced anywhere from 11-12.5 MGD depending on Colorado River levels and how LCRA diverts water to the stream that we divert from. This may cause Lake Pflugerville to continue to drop with higher temperatures, especially given the evaporation rate of the Lake on a given day. • Wastewater Treatment: o An aerator shaft coupling started to make a knocking noise on Monday evening which led to the eventual shutting down of the aerator. This aerator is one of the 2 permanent aerators on one of the extended aeration basin, but due to the installation of floating aerators on each of the carousels, the dissolved oxygen leaving the carousel 2 is still holding up until the repair can be made. We are coordinating with the vendor to rush the coupling in as soon as we can and expect to make the repair in the coming weeks. o Operations staff worked and rebuilt the centrifuge polymer pump to make sure that we continue to create a high-quality cake product to be used in our compost operation. o Performed annual maintenance on the blowers for both post-aeration and sludge holding tank blowers that are still installed. • Pumps and Motors: o Bohl’s Lift Station Pump 2 was pulled on Monday after it was noticed that the runtime hours on the pump were significantly greater than the other pump. It was found to have a severely degraded impeller that needed to be replaced. The pump needed to be taken to Houston for repair, but we had a spare ready to be placed in the wet well. o One of the pumps at the Boulder Ridge Lift Station started to have a blow back on the discharge of the pump. Staff pulled the pump and found that there was a significant amount of rags and a metal wrap ring that attaches to a vac truck stuck at the bottom of the pump. This was pulled away from the suction line and pump to be pulled out. Once these were removed, the pump was reset in the wet well and started to work normally. • Line Maintenance: o Coordinated a water shut out for the Amazon project that successfully took place Thursday night July 30th. o Assisted DCS with flow meter installation on the force main at Weiss by exposing 24” force main in ARV manhole downstream from lift station. o Responded to and repaired a section of Verona force main that got bored through at Kelly Lane and Weiss Intersection. Assisted by Streets department contributing traffic control and additional hands. • Street and Drainage: o Crews are removing STOP bars and cleaning curb lines in the Royal Pointe and Spring Trails subdivisions in preparation of the HA5 application that will happen later this month. o Crews worked with Utilities to repair a large sinkhole in the road at the entrance to The Reserve subdivision at Kelly Lane and Weiss Lane. o The Drainage Crew cleared a beaver dam in the drainage behind Dunes Drive. • Resource Recovery: o Chipping picked up 252 piles of brush from residents estimated at 1270 cubic yards of brush. • Facility Maintenance: o Completed termite treatment at the Heritage House Museum. • Inspected the Library sprinkler system, repaired three broken pipes, several heads, and replaced two solenoids.

August 14, 2020 Greetings Mayor and City Council

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Save the Date: 9/11 – Urban Land Institute Austin Chapter Workshop

Administration: • TML has announced that the 2020 TML Annual Conference will be conducted as a virtual conference. Registration will open on September 1, 2020. • Save the Date: The Urban Land Institute (ULI) Austin Chapter will engage the Pflugerville City Council and Planning & Zoning Commission in their UrbanPlan for Public Officials. This workshop is ideal for local decision makers who would like to learn more about the fundamental forces that shape and affect the built environment and the important leadership roles that elected and appointed officials play in the real estate development process, and will provide a great segue into our comprehensive planning process over the next several months that will be facilitated by Freese and Nichols. o We look forward to your participation. This daylong workshop will be held in person with all of the protocols to ensure everyone’s health and safety, and posted in accordance with the Texas Open Meetings Act. o September 11, 2020 o Additional details are forthcoming. o For more information: https://americas.uli.org/programs/urbanplan/urbanplan-public- officials/ • The last day to file as a candidate in the November 3, 2020 General Election is Monday, August 17, 2020 at 5:00 p.m. Current candidates are Ceasar Ruiz and Victor To for Council Place 2; Rudy Metayer for Council Place 4; and Jim McDonald and Bob Reichenbach for Council Place 6. • Please find attached draft agendas for August 25, 2020 worksession and regular meeting titled cc082520wsa and cc082520a.

Communications: • Continued communications on the budget with residents and media. • Sent news releases on the CDBG program and bond election • Held an internal web editors training on website features and updates • Prepared video, pictures and social media posts to participate in the ELGL City Hall Selfie Day on August 14. • Completed Pflyer utility bill insert with information on the upcoming limb pickup program with Waste Connections and the Bond Election • Pflugerville Pfocus is online at www.youtube.com/cityofpflugerville

Engineering: • East Pflugerville Parkway: Virtual Public Open House Meeting set for 9/2, beginning at 6:00 p.m. The City/County and TxDOT are coordinating with organizing the meeting. Meetings with individual property owners are also under way as requested. • Wilbarger Creek Park: City Staff is coordinating options for electrical service with Oncor. The current option proposed by Oncor would result in a significant change order to the project. City staff are looking into and coordinating with electrical engineers on other, more cost effective options including adding step up and down transformers to the existing service line approximately 1600 LF south of the project (which is in line with the original bid for connection and extension) or going all solar for the project. Oncor received a ROW permit on 8/12, as staff hosted a Pre-construction meeting necessary for relocation of a streetlight pole in conflict at the Wilbarger Creek Park construction site. Oncor has committed to start and complete project by 8/21. The playground equipment installation is anticipated to be completed by 8/21 as well, eliminating conflicts with the area of playground. • Grand Avenue Parkway: A newspaper Advertisement was issued on 8/12 to begin for receiving Requests for Qualification (RFQ) on 8/19 for an engineering firm to provide Design, Bidding, Construction Administrative Services and Materials Testing related to the Grand Avenue pavement repairs. The City is also taking advantage of this opportunity to include requests for solicitation of Engineering Firms related to the FY2021-2022 Pavement and Infrastructure Maintenance Projects. The priority will be to select an engineering firm to begin design to reconstruct the failing pavement areas on Grand Ave. The goal is the redesign and rebid the project in the most efficient manner while maintaining quality to provide health, safety, and welfare to the public. • Wilbarger Creek Regional Wastewater Treatment Plant Project: With City Council approval of the Resolution on 8/11 to file an application with the Texas Water Development Board (TWDB) Clean Water State Revolving Funds (CWSRF), city staff and Owner’s Representative (CP&Y) have confirmed the package in preparation to submit 8/31. The CWSRF Loan would provide a subsidy of 1.3% below market rates for the proposed financial assistance not to exceed $165,667,300. In addition, staff Selection Committees have met and anticipate recommending selections of engineering consultants for both the Wilbarger Creek Regional Wastewater Treatment Plant and Wilbarger Creek Wastewater Interceptor on the 9/22 City Council meeting. • Kelly Lane: o Kelly Lane Phase 2 project, a Utility and ROW Coordination meeting was hosted by City staff on 8/11 and 8/13 respectively. Utility entities requested to complete relocations by 4/2021, as engineering consultant to provide 95% PS&S 9/15 and 100% plans 10/20. ROW acquisition anticipated estimated completion late October/early November 2020. Long lead anticipated for ROW acquisition of the Golf Course, as the Appraisals process has already begun. o Kelly Lane Temporary Traffic Signal project, the plans are being finalized and the easement will be received on 8/19 from developer in order to set advertisement for August. City staff met with engineering consultant on 8/13 to preview the Traffic Control Plan and final comments for the 100% PS&E. The construction duration is anticipated 45 days. • Justice Center Sewer Line Project: o Justice Center construction will address sewer backups that have been occurring in the Justice Center due to bellies in the underslab sewer service line o Requires sawcutting of existing floor, replacement of one area of pipe, and rerouting of another line to minimize impact to the building • Colorado Sand Drive: The ROW Agent presented the approved alignment, as agreed to by PFISD and North Pointe Developer, to the adjacent property owner 8/12, pending discussions next week • Pecan St./FM 685 Intersection: Project was discussed with TxDOT on 8/13 during the City/TxDOT Quarterly Coordination meeting. Project plans are 90% and are under concurrent review, while consultant plans for delivery of 100% PS&E in late September/ early October, depending on feedback. • Development: City responded to an illegal dumping complaint near Becker Farm Rd. (substance appeared to be paint or plaster wash into a storm drain) • Construction: o Stone Hill Splash Pad: Onsite meeting for Stone Hill Splash Pad 8/13/2020. Austin Health Services Department approved plans for installation of equipment. Coordinating with Building Department for permit release. o Traffic Signal: City staff coordinating with the Contractor on the Pecan/Biltmore traffic signal for Flash-mode to begin 8/25/2020 and Activation 9/1/2020, just before the Labor Day Holiday. • CIP: o Highland Park Wastewater Interceptor project monthly progress meeting held on 8/12 for status of ROW coordination, with a meeting planned 8/25 with the land owner. o Old Austin-Hutto Road project – City Staff continues coordinating with Tim Timmerman and working through easement acquisition via a Memorandum of Understanding for a donation of ROW. Staff anticipates we can finalize ROW in August and meet the proposed target September 2020 advertisement to begin. This schedule is dependent on the property owner approval. o SH45: City staff is working through the last remaining easements acquisition for a donation of a wastewater easement with a property owner. Once the easement donation is finalized, the project will be bid.

Finance: • The FY21 Proposed Budget has been updated on the website to reflect the changes articulated by Council at the 8/11/20 meeting. The reduction of the proposed property tax rate from $0.4970 to $0.4863 resulted in a reduction of proposed property tax revenues in the general fund of $673,338. The remaining changes include removal of the Parks Master Plan ($150,000), removal of the Police Firing Range ($100,158), increase in budgeted sales tax ($200,000) and increase in the transfer from fund balance ($200,000). A summary of changes from the 7/10/20 draft of the budget are located on page 2 of the document. • The City has received citizen feedback from the Travis and Williamson CAD Truth in Taxation websites. The feedback received through 8/13 is attached as: Tax Portal Feedback 8.14.20. • The Comptroller’s August allocation of sales taxes has been completed and the revenue received by the City increased by 34.4% ($333,276) from August 2019. Through August, approximately 99.2% of the budgeted sales tax has been collected. We will continue to analyze these results to ensure we have an accurate understanding of current sales tax drivers. This information and the attached sales tax analysis chart (attached as: FY20 Sales Tax Reports August) is based on the net cash payment received by the City; however, reports you see from other sources may vary depending on the types of collections included (i.e. current, prior period, audit).

Library: • We are proud to announce, Youth Services Librarian Melissa Grzybowski is the recipient of a 2020 Texas Book Festival Collection Development Grant! The $2500 award will be used to enhance the collection of juvenile graphic novels, a format of books that have become extremely popular in the past 10 years. These graphic novels are an excellent format to connect reluctant readers with the joy of reading and for all youth to develop a love for books. • Since the facility closed to the public in March, we have now issued over 350 Temporary Library Cards. These cards give our new patrons immediate access to all of our electronic resources and physical items through our curbside pickup. When the library does reopen, these cards can be upgraded to normal cards with the verification of address. In the meantime, we are extending access to all who request it. • Heritage House Museum Update – While the museum is closed to the public we are using the opportunity to complete some much needed upkeep on the historic building. We replaced the HVAC system, treated the building for termites and sealed the crawl space beneath the building to keep out pesky rodents. A big thank you goes to Imad Shamaa, Maintenance Supervisor, for coordinating these efforts. • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion – Director Jennifer Coffey has initiated a review of library policies by the entire library staff, looking at the wording we use in our policy document to ensure we are a welcoming place for everyone. We are now also reserving a portion of our weekly staff meetings to have conversations and dialogue regarding subjects like inclusiveness, implicit bias and serving a diverse community.

Parks: • Community Service: Staff assisted Jonathon Bonds, Eagle Scout candidate in completing his project at Lake Pflugerville. His task was to rebuild two trash bins from scratch and upgrade five additional bins. The Scouts practiced COVID-19 rules by wearing masks, small group (7 scouts) and wearing volunteer vests. See photo attached “Eagle Scout Project” • Parks Maintenance o Fallen Warrior Memorial Maintenance o Irrigation repair Pfennig Park and Stone Hill Park o Opening of Lake Pflugerville Trail • Aquatics and Athletics: New fence and gate installed at Mentzer Pool

PCDC: Report is attached as PCDC Updates – August 14, 2020

Planning: • On Tuesday, Jeremy presented at the Chambers monthly luncheon about development in the time of a pandemic. • The meeting with the Downtown Subcommittee regarding the Downtown Code amendments was announced to the community this week. That virtual meeting will be held next Wednesday. • We held our official staff kick off on the Comprehensive Plan on Wednesday. One of the first actions for Council to consider will be the appointment of a Comprehensive Plan Advisory Committee (CPAC). The committee will be made up of 25 residents (6 Council member appointees, 2 Mayor appointees, and 17 appointees selected by application (see attached application “Advisory Committee Application”). We will begin posting the application next week for residents to apply to serve on the CPAC. Formal appointment by the City Council is anticipated for September 8th. • After approval from Council on Tuesday of the 2020 CDBG Action Plan, staff submitted the final documents to HUD for formal approval of the plan

Public Works: • Amy Giannini and staff are providing open office hours on Friday afternoons from 3:30- 4:30 pm to allow for coordination with City Council members regarding Public Works and Engineering related items or questions. For the time being, these meetings will occur via Webex. Please contact Sereniah and copy Amy Giannini ([email protected]) to schedule appointment no later than the Wednesday prior to the open office hours. In your request, please include topics for discussion so that the appropriate staff can be scheduled and prepared for the discussion. • As previously mentioned in the July 3 and July 31 Weekly Update, the Public Utility Commission has expressed concerns with the application for the proposed CCN transfer due to the legacy customers and CCN boundaries. The agreement has been revised to incorporate dual certification for the legacy customers and was forwarded to Councilman Pena, the Manville Liaison for the City Council, for review. Manville’s Board approved the revised agreement at the August 13 meeting. The revised agreement will be brought to the City Council for consideration at the August 25 City Council Meeting. The PUC has provided for an extension through September 4 to allow for changes to the agreement and to provide updated maps. • Water Treatment: o Flow produced out of the water system has started to peak so far this summer during our Wednesday and Thursday watering days. For Wednesday, the water system produced 14.7 MG. That is the highest single day peak in the water system’s history. In 2019, the water system peak day was 13.5 MG. If you compare this to average water system flows throughout the winter where usage is almost entirely domestic use, we are generating a roughly 3x peaking factor on the production facilities. o We had a drain pump fail Wednesday evening that resulted in having to shut down the plant for a short period in order to catch up on the drain channel. Given the criticality of the pumps in the channel to the operation of the membrane system, a spare pump was ordered back in January to ensure that we did not have this portion of the plant be a hindrance if one of the pumps failed. The second pump was installed Thursday morning and the plant was put back into normal operation to keep up with higher flows that the plant is requiring during the heat of the summer. o Various pump packings were adjusted at the water treatment plant High Service Pump Station and the River Pump Station to ensure that we continue to keep the pumps shafts lubricated and running as smoothly as possible during the peak of summer demand. • Wastewater Treatment: o The construction company working on the expansion inadvertently shut off the potable water line to the centrifuge polymer feed system that caused us to dry feed the polymer into the injection system. This causes the polymer to bind inside the injection line and develop a blockage in the line. Even though the inadvertent shut-off was brief, staff cleared the lines with the construction company’s assistance. o Repaired Clarifier 2’s motor mounting bracket as the chain kept slipping off the drive. This involved rebuilding the mount system to keep the drive running for now and work will continue to fabricate a more permanent mounting system. Staff also noticed that the motor shaft seemed to have too much play, which will eventually become a problem and have proactively moved to get the bearings and seals ready to repair. • Regulatory: o Texas Commission on Environmental Quality has revised the rule on Backflow Prevention and Cross Connection on Irrigation Systems. It is considered a Health Hazard. This will require City Ordinance changes. New installations and replacements will consist of installing a Reduced Pressure Principle Assembly that will need to be installed at least 12 inches above ground. Whereas Double Check Valve Assemblies are installed underground. DCVA’s are not for Health Hazard applications. o The updated 30 TAC Chapter 344 rules, regulating Landscape Irrigation in the State of Texas, were adopted as proposed on July 1, 2020 at the TCEQ Commissioners at the Commissioner’s Agenda and were published in the Texas Register with the Secretary of State, which became effective on July 23, 2020. TCEQ’s Landscape Irrigation Landscape Irrigation Rules and Publications web page has been updated to reflect this change and to provide the link to the updated 30 TAC Chapter 344 rules located on the Secretary of State web page. o Completed monthly dam inspection for Lake Pflugerville • Street and Drainage: o Assisted with removing cones and reopening the Lake Pflugerville trail. o A crew is working to remove antennas from school zone signals after recently changing all signal to cell modems. o Programming of the School zone signals was completed for the school year that is projected to start September 8. o Crews completed preparing Spring Trails and Royal Pointe for the HA5 surface treatment of the asphalt that will occur later this month as approved by City Council at the July 28 meeting. Andale Construction is currently finishing a job in Georgetown and will then mobilize to Pflugerville to begin the HA5 project on 8/21. • Resource Recovery: o Request for brush grinding quotes were sent out on 8/11/20, with a deadline date of 8/26/20. The list was compiled from the Texas Comptrollers HUB. o Chipping picked up 223 piles of brush from residents estimated at 1124 cubic yards of brush. • Facility Maintenance: o Relocated a sink cabinet and installed Ice Maker in PAWS. o Repaired two leaks, one from the A/C in the attic and one from the toilet at PAWS. • Ran about 30’ of conduit and electric cable and install pole light by the front entrance gate at PD.

August 21, 2020 Greetings Mayor and City Council

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Save the Date: 9/11 – Urban Land Institute Austin Chapter Workshop

Administration: • Council should have received a “KnowBe4” training assignment for cyber security and implicit bias training. These are the same training modules that have been assigned to all city staff. The state required cybersecurity training consists of four modules totaling about 60 minutes, and one module which is a recording of a webinar offered by ELGL called, “Tools to Address Implicit Bias in Local Government,” which is also approximately 60 minutes. The ELGL module is not a requirement, it is provided to you if you would like to participate. These modules can be completed at different times as your schedule permits, with a deadline to complete the IT training by September 19th. If you did not receiving the KnowBe4 email, or have other questions, let Sereniah know, thanks! • The last day to file for a place on the ballot as a City Council candidate in the November 3, 2020 General Election was Monday, August 17, 2020. The candidates are as follows: Council Place 2-Ceasar Ruiz and Victor To, Council Place 4-Bob Reichenbach and Rudy Metayer, and Council Place 6-David Rogers and Jim McDonald. Early voting will take place October 13, 2020 through October 30, 2020. • Jos A Bank store in Stone Hill Town Center closed this week. • The City’s search for our next Finance Director is underway, and interim leadership will be with Ms. Martie Simpson. Martie is the executive director of the Government Finance Officers Association of Texas (GFOAT). Previously, she served as finance director for the City of New Braunfels starting December of 2014. Before working in New Braunfels, she started her municipal government career in 1997 with the City of Killeen and finished her career as the executive director of finance. She is a Certified Public Accountant and is a graduate of Baylor University.

Communications: • Prepared bond communications including website in Spanish and English • Prepared budget graphics for after adoption. • Prepared communications for water shutoff on Thursday, upcoming pavement maintenance and Pflugerville Parkway Open House • Increased promotion of the Pflugerville Cares program • Prepared messaging for upcoming limb pickup service changes - the transition to Waste Connection begins October 1, but this is the final month that residents can take advantage of the City's free curbside pickup. • Messaging on PD for anti-drunk driving campaign ahead of Labor Day weekend • Pflugerville received an honorable mention for our participation in the ELGL City Hall Selfie Day (selfie_day_prop.jpg)

Engineering: • Effective April 2021, the City’s National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) Community Rating System (CRS) Class rating will reflect an improved score from the current CRS Class 9 to a CRS Class 7. The new Class 7 rating improvement will result in reduced floodplain insurance rates for residents, a 15% premium reduction for those with policies located in the floodplain or Special Flood Hazard Area (SFHA), whereas Class 9, only provides a 5% reduction. The improvement is a result of the CRS Cycle Verification visit which occurred June 25, 2020 (occurs every 5 years), as 1,804 CRS credit points has been received. Staff has attached the draft verification report Community Rating System Draft, as provided by the CRS Specialist for reference. City staff diligently reported on all of the City’s creditable floodplain management activities and also worked to implement new activities to obtain CRS credit. The NFIP CRS program provides credit points for all activities a community implements which exceed the minimum NFIP requirements. • East Pflugerville Parkway: Virtual Public Open House Meeting set for 9/2, beginning at 6:00 p.m. The City, County, Engineering Consultant Team and TxDOT are coordinating with organizing the meeting. Meetings with individual property owners (as requested) began 8/14 and are anticipated to be completed prior to the public meeting, 1 remaining. • Wilbarger Creek Park: City Staff has coordinated with Oncor on a proposed viable option for providing electric power at the Wilbarger Park, anticipating final design 8/21 from Oncor and hope to provide direction to the contractor 8/21. Previously Oncor proposed an option that would have resulted in a significant change order to the project. The Consultant’s electrical engineer and Oncor communicated a more cost effective option as designed to for upgrading an existing pad-mounted transformer which will be set up for connection to an existing Oncor pedestal box, allowing contractor to install the service line approximately 1600 LF south of the project (which is in line with the original bid for connection and extension). On 8/19 Oncor has completed relocation of a streetlight pole in conflict at the Wilbarger Creek Park construction site. The playground equipment installation was completed on 8/19, eliminating conflicts within the area of playgrounds. • Grand Avenue Parkway: 8/19 the Requests for Qualification (RFQ) was posted on the City’s webpage for solicitation of an engineering firm to provide Design, Bidding, Construction Administrative Services and Materials Testing related to the Grand Avenue pavement repairs. The City is also taking advantage of this opportunity to include requests for solicitation of Engineering Firms related to the FY2021-2022 Pavement and Infrastructure Maintenance Projects. The priority will be to select an engineering firm to begin design to reconstruct the failing pavement areas on Grand Ave. The goal is the redesign and rebid the project in the most efficient manner while maintaining quality to provide health, safety, and welfare to the public. • Kelly Lane: o Kelly Lane Phase 2 project, Engineering consultant still on target to provide 95% PS&S 9/15 and 100% plans 10/20. ROW acquisition anticipated estimated completion late October/early November 2020. Long lead anticipated for ROW acquisition of the Golf Course, as the Appraisals process has already begun. o Kelly Lane Temporary Traffic Signal project, the advertisement was published 8/19 for Bidding to begin 8/26 for contractors. The easement was signed on 8/14, pending receipt of original hardcopy from developer, construction Pre-Bid on 9/3 and Bid Opening set for a Virtual Meeting on 9/10. The construction duration is anticipated 45 days. • Colorado Sand Drive: City staff anticipate a meeting with property owners week of 8/24 • Development: o Environment Annual Training Program: The stormwater environmental training will be conducted Tuesday, 8/25 and Thursday 8/27 in one hour sessions starting at 2:00 PM. via a webex meeting. The Water/Wastewater/Parks departments will receive training from the “A Drop in The Bucket” and “Storm Warning” DVD’s. Streets/Code/Building departments will get training from the “Ground Control” and “Raincheck” DVD’s. A quiz will be given throughout the test based on the materials. Preparation this week included optimizing a webex set up for video sharing, paring down the quizzes for time constraints, creating an online sign in sheet, and setting up the webex meeting with City personnel. • Construction: o 119 total inspections o 8/17 Project Acceptance for Commons at Rowe Lane 6B o SH130-Tunneling for the piping is complete. Back fill of the shafts will be complete next week. o Stone Hill Splash Pad-Permit from Building Department issued 8/21. Contractor and Consultant directed to start construction installation of equipment Monday 8/24/2020. o Wilbarger Park-Playground equipment installations completed 8/19 o Pre-Construction Meeting-Sorrento 7 held on 8/20/2020 • CIP: o Wilbarger Creek Regional Wastewater Treatment Plant Project: City staff and Owner’s Representative (CP&Y) are finalizing the Texas Water Development Board (TWDB) Clean Water State Revolving Funds (CWSRF) Loan application and have confirmed the package to be submitted on 8/31. City Council approved a Resolution on 8/11 to file an application, as the CWSRF Loan would provide a subsidy of 1.3% below market rates for the proposed financial assistance not to exceed $165,667,300. In addition, staff Selection Committees have confirmed and on target to submit recommendations for engineering consultants for both the Wilbarger Creek Regional Wastewater Treatment Plant and Wilbarger Creek Wastewater Interceptor on the 9/22 City Council meeting. o Pecan St./FM 685 Intersection: Project plans are 90% and are under concurrent review, while consultant plans for delivery of 100% PS&E in late September/ early October, depending on feedback. o Old Austin-Hutto Road: City staff in final coordination with property owner for easement and anticipates receipt of executed easement document by 9/9. A preliminary schedule as proposed to complete revised PS&E by 9/7, advertisement to paper 9/9, Bidding begins 9/16, Pre-Bid 9/24, Bid Opening 10/1, City Council Award recommendation on 10/13, target Pre-construction meeting 10/19 and an anticipated construction start 10/20. o SH45 W/WW Project: Closing has been confirmed on the Camp parcel (Parcel 4) for 8/31 and City staff coordinating with ROW agent to confirm last remaining developer easement by 9/9. o Justice Center Sewer Line Project: ▪ Justice Center construction will address sewer backups that have been occurring in the Justice Center due to bellies in the underslab sewer service line ▪ Requires sawcutting of existing floor, replacement of one area of pipe, and rerouting of another line to minimize impact to the building, and terrazzo floors will need to be repaired ▪ City staff hosted a Pre-Bid meeting on 8/20 with three construction contractors, Consultant and Police staff in attendance ▪ First virtual bid opening scheduled for 9/4 at 2pm.

Finance: • The City has received citizen feedback from the Travis and Williamson CAD Truth in Taxation websites. The feedback received through 8/20 is attached as: Tax Portal Feedback 8.20.20.

Library: • Next Wednesday, Youth Services Librarian Amanda Cawthon is presenting as part of a virtual event hosted by Representative Celia Israel and PFISD Trustee Renae Mitchell called “Sharing the Shelf: Your Back to School Virtual Bookshelf.” For more info about the Facebook Live event click here. • New “Assistance for Job Seekers” page on the library website! We’ve pulled together into one place, many of the resources and services we offer to community members looking for work. We will use the page as a place to direct people looking for assistance and as something people can discover on their own to learn about the support we offer. • Check out Children’s Programs Coordinator, Carmen Lazo’s recent insightful article for the Pflugerville Pflag entitled, How to help your child become an avid reader. • The Library Board has initiated a survey of our patrons focused on how we are responding to the needs of the community during the pandemic. We will use the results in our perpetual review of library resources and services. If you’d like to take the survey, you can here. • Our talented part time staff members continue to dazzle us! Check out this excellent cooking tutorial for lentils (daal) created by Library Tech Jyoti Parasher. Not to be outdone, Library Tech Erin Byrne won the City Staff Virtual talent Show with her song and video called… Pflugerville Rawks!

Parks: • Community Service: The Pfarmers market was open on August 18, and we had 7 vendors present for the Tuesday market. There were at least 4 new residents to Pflugerville who attend the market and spoke to staff with how much they enjoyed the experience. • Parks Maintenance: o We were alerted mid-week of irrigation issue at Wells Point, staff was able to diagnose and correct the concern within 24 hours. o Power washed the rec center facility, cleaned up the flower beds and repaired irrigation issues. o Sprayed for weeds and filled in crack along the trail at Lake Pflugerville. o Repaired split rail fence at Heritage Park.

PCDC: Report is attached as PCDC – August 21, 2020

Planning: • The Downtown Subcommittee met with residents regarding the Downtown Code amendments was announced to the community this week. We had 27 residents attend and approximately 10 of them spoke. The Community Impact was also in attendance and wrote this article covering the meeting. The Downtown Subcommittee will be meeting next week to go over the outcome of the meeting and work towards a final draft and adoption schedule. • On Wednesday, staff from Planning and CIP, met with representatives for St. Mary’s church to provide an update on the status of the Historical Colored Addition Subdivision infrastructure design efforts. • The application for members of the Comprehensive Plan Advisory Committee (CPAC) was posted this week and our communications team is helping to get this application (see attached) out in the public. As mentioned in last week’s update, one of the first actions for Council to consider will be the appointment of a Comprehensive Plan Advisory Committee (CPAC). The committee will be made up of 25 residents (6 Council member appointees, 2 Mayor appointees, and 17 appointees selected by application (see attached application). If you would please, send me your appointee by September 1st for inclusion in the resolution establishing the CPAC, which is anticipated to be on the Council agenda on September 8th. • Staff has begun working on the improvements in Downtown funded by the PCDC Community Grant. Improvements include building lighting, new artwork, sidewalk, streetscape improvements, seating and games. Improvements are underway and anticipated to be completed early this fall. A new art piece, donated by the Downtown Business Association, was installed on Wednesday next to Council Chambers and reflects iconic images of Pflugerville. (See attached file: Plaza – DBA Artwork)

Police Department: • Tuesday Lt. Rowley participated in the monthly Center for Child Protection meeting, via web meeting. • Wednesday Chief Robledo participated in a virtual meeting with the Board of Advisors for Irish Angel, a non-profit organization that collaborates with first responder charities who aid in provided support to PTSD programs in an effort to support first responders. • In daily communication with Travis County ESD2 regarding COVID-19 status and updates. • List of COVID-19 related expenditures is attached as COVID-19 Supplies List Aug 21.

Public Works: • Water Treatment: o Flow produced out of the water system is continuing to have high peaks this month during our Wednesday and Thursday watering days. For Wednesday, the water system produced 14.9 MG, which is slightly above last week’s total production. If you compare this to average water system flows throughout the winter where usage is almost entirely domestic use, we are generating a roughly 3x peaking factor on the production facilities. With the usage being as high as it is, there may be a noticeable drop in Lake Pflugerville for the next few weeks as demand from the water system exceeds our Colorado River Pump Station capacity. We are currently diverting, on average, 11.2 MGD from the river for the most current week with all equipment operating. Our average water demand for consumption for this same period was 12.4 MGD, which results in a little over 1 MG daily that we are not recovering in Lake Pflugerville. This trend may continue in the coming weeks until we see lower temperatures or rainfall in the area. o Staff worked to install discharge pressure gauges on all of the chemical feed pumps throughout the water treatment plant. This allows for better operational tuning of the chemical feed pumps and to spot a problem with discharge chemical lines before they become a larger issue. o We are continuing to see a large volume of zebra mussels and Asiatic clams accumulate in the raw water strainers that were relocated. Staff are continuing to take each of them down once a week to inspect the strainer candles in the event they are starting to be clogged. If they are starting to become clogged, they are being cleaned out. While the strainers have an automatic backwash system that we currently have set to run every 30 minutes, the shell volumes we are seeing at the exponentially higher flows sometimes are more than can be cleaned off by the backwash system. The good news is that while these are requiring inspection more frequently than anticipated, we are protecting the membrane modules and have seen no evidence of any mussels or shell fragments making their way into the membrane modules or causing any higher than normal decay rates on our Integrity Tests. • Wastewater Treatment: o On Friday, August 14, we called out a service representative for Ovivo to take a look at our failed aerator. After inspecting the aerator with staff, the Ovivo rep noticed that we had lost a lower bearing in the gear drive which is concerning as the only place for that bearing to be would be in the gear box itself. Pieces of the bearing were located in the gearbox, however we could not find all of the rollers and the assumption is that they are still in the gearbox, which would have resulted in damage to the gears that allow the aerator to run. Ovivo has stated that they can remove the gear box from the mechanical aerator safely, but it would require us to divert flow during low demand events to do the work. We are waiting to hear back from Ovivo on the lead time for the gear box but currently expect it to take 3+ months. We are coordinating costs and lead times in order to make the best decision possible and at the same time working on some short-term stopgaps to keep our ammonia levels as low as possible leaving the treatment facility. With an aerator like this down, ammonia levels tend to get to elevated levels that could become a problem for both our effluent quality and our microbial life within the treatment system. In the short term, we are planning to rent the 2 – 40 HP aerators to get by until we get a better word from Ovivo on lead time for the gear box. o Work was completed to install the second non-potable pump which will ensure the chlorine injection system continues to run properly for the remainder of time that is online before the expansion completes. • Line Maintenance and Meters: o Staff responded to an initial reported leak from in the area of 3300 Killingsworth, then after further investigation of where it was located, staff realized it was the main, which would require water services to be shut off to a large amount of residents in order to repair it. We coordinated and completed the repair Thursday August 20th and notified PIO to let residents know of the water disruption and coordinated with streets to help put signage out to warn residents of a mass water shut off. • Street and Drainage: o Two Sign alert flashing STOP signs for the intersection of Hidden Lake Crossing and Weiss Lane were installed making the intersection more visible increasing the safety for the travelling public. o Work has begun for the 2020 Main Street/Plaza project. ▪ A new art piece has been installed in the Plaza ▪ A new sidewalk behind Hanover’s connecting Railroad with Suite 500 has been formed and will be poured in the coming days ▪ Another new sidewalk for the stage, this time with a ramp, has also been framed. The sidewalk and ramp with allow for handicap accessibility ▪ Framing for decks around four trees on Main Street has begun o In FY13 the Sign Shop introduced a sign replacement program, replacing all regulatory signs (any sign that a motorist can get ticketed for) along with replacing all street blades. To keep with federal and state guidelines for retro- reflectivity (the science of having the signs reflect back to the light source/headlights rather than reflecting the light in many different directions) the Sign Shop has begun replacing these signs once again. With the help of the GIS Department the City has been mapped into quadrants, each year 1 quadrant will be replaced rather than taxing our resources to do them all in 1 a year timeframe. This initial quadrant will include the replacement of 468 STOP signs. • Resource Recovery: Chipping picked up 187 piles of brush from residents estimated at 943 cubic yards of brush. • Facility Maintenance: o Laid black rubber floor in Cat isolation room and caulked the gaps between. o Deep cleaned and performed PM on the A/C in the SCADA room. o Repaired the underground leak at PAWS and installed two new hose bib connections.

August 28, 2020 Greetings Mayor and City Council

Be sure to be checking your Slack!

Save the Date: 11/13 – Urban Land Institute Austin Chapter Workshop

Administration: • This year, TML Region 10 will elect officers - president, vice president, and TML Board director - by electronic ballot. All terms are two years and begin on October 16. Candidates must be elected officials. For a description of duties, click here. For a list of current officers, click here. If you would like to place your name on the ballot, contact TML Region 10 Secretary Tanya Smith, College Station city secretary, by September 18. Please include your name, title, bio, and desired TML Region 10 officer position. The electronic ballot will be sent on September 23 to the mayor in each TML Region 10 city. Each city will have one vote. • Thank you to Councilmember Metayer for recognizing our Pflugerville Police Officers at the Council meeting on Tuesday that assisted in Cedar Park on August 16. I would like to provide some additional information. That Sunday, Cedar Park Police Department (CPPD) Officers came under fire as they responded to a disturbance that originated due to a family member having kicked down the door of the residence. As CPPD Officers arrived and entered the residence, the suspect began shooting at the officers, striking and wounding three of them. The suspect then barricaded himself in the residence with three hostages, prompting the activation of the Central Texas Regional SWAT team (CTRS), of which Pflugerville Police Department is a member. Lieutenant Makeba Lewis, Corporal David Morrow, Corporal Tyler Schafer and Police Officers Lee Van Noy and Tara Dodds responded to the scene on behalf of the Pflugerville Police Department and CTRS. Over the span of 16 hours, CTRS officers took positions of cover in an attempt to secure the home and to protect Cedar Park residents from additional danger while CTRS Negotiators kept the suspect calm. The suspect would eventually release the hostages and surrender to officers without further incident. o The Pflugerville City Council approved an ILA (Interlocal Agreement) in August 2019 allowing the Pflugerville Police Department to become the fourth agency to partner with the Central Texas Regional Swat Team (CTRS). The following agencies are partner agencies; Cedar Park, Georgetown, Leander and Pflugerville. o CTRS enhances the City’s operational capabilities during critical incidents. Often times, these critical incidents require a special skill set, manpower and/or assets that are usually not readily available to each of the local police departments individually. Many of these same critical incidents have a propensity for major news media and social media coverage that can have a lasting and profound effect on our community and law enforcement as a whole. The Pflugerville Police Department is proud to be a member agency of CTRS and continues to bring a professional response to these incidents with a goal for a peaceful resolution. • Please find attached the draft agendas for the September 8, 2020 Council Worksession and Regular meeting titled cc20200908a and cc20200908wsa. • CARES Update: o $700K has been received so far from the County (20% fund advance). o General allocation (attached as Exhibit A) has been approved by the County. o Completed and submitted our first reimbursement request on August 6th. As of today, Pflugerville remains the only city to submit a reimbursement request. As such, Pflugerville has spent a considerable amount of time working with the County to correct and streamline the process for submittals. Future requests should be much faster and easier to complete. o To date, the City has spent or encumbered a total of $276,737, not including eligible personnel time which will be calculated and submitted in October. o There have been questions regarding rental assistance programs. The ILA with the County (attached as Pflugerville CRF Funding ILA) prohibits the City from providing rent, mortgage and utility assistance using these funds because there are existing County programs which offer this assistance. Staff has requested data from the County as to how many Pflugerville households have received assistance through these programs and the total dollar amount associated. This information will be provided to Council as soon as it is received. o PCDC and BCL continue to administer the Pflugerville Cares Small Business Grant Program. PCDC provided a program update last Friday as part of the weekly update (attached). Additionally, PCDC staff hand-delivered more than 200 flyers on Friday resulting in 140+ website hits that day. The program continues to be promoted via radio, online, newspaper ads, city publications and social media. Deadline to submit is Monday, August 31 at 8pm. • The City of Pflugerville was notified earlier this month, that in accordance with the Water and Sewer Rate Stabilization Agreement Between the City of Pflugerville and Windermere Utility Company, the Rate Increase Percentage is 0.3% in accordance with Section 1) agreement effective October 1, 2020. Attached please find supporting documentation titled 2020 CPI Increase published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics reflecting the annual percentage increase in the Consumer Price Index for all Urban Consumers for the South Region over the prior calendar year as of June. Notice of the new rates and rate change will be sent to the City and Windermere customers (by bill messaging) in September 2020. • Due to efforts to increase participation and certainty of council members, we are asking to save the date for the ULI exercise to be Nov 13. More details coming.

Communications: • Shared budget infographic and information out to the public after City Council's adoption of the budget and tax rate • Pflugerville Pfocus is complete for the week and available online at www.youtube.com/cityofpflugerville. It features the budget and the updates that are underway downtown. • Budget fact sheets in English and Spanish are now posted online and the bond website is current in English and Spanish at www.pflugervilletx.gov/bonds and www.pflugervilletx.gov/bonos • We are working with CIP and on promotion for the hosting of the September 2 E Pf Parkway virtual open house. • In preparation for the city chipping service to transition to Limb Pickup we are preparing graphics for social media to educate the public on the upcoming transition. The chipping is on a monthly service currently, and residents last opportunity to use the city's service is in September. The information is in the utility bill insert for September and we are sharing onto social media, in the Key etc... so residents are aware of the change. Bundled loads up to 2 cubic yards are taken curbside for free under the new program, or residents can take to the recycle center. Limbs larger than 2 cubic yards or unbundled will be picked up for a fee to Waste Connections. Visit www.pflugervilletx.gov/limb for more information. • With Austin Public Health switching to Stage 3, we are communicating the changes for our city parks and library which go into effect on Friday. Lake Pflugerville Park will be open. The Library Courtyard will open. Visit www.pflugervilletx.gov/reopen for more details.

Engineering: • East Pflugerville Parkway: Virtual Public Open House Meeting set for 9/2, beginning at 6:00 p.m. The City, County, Engineering Consultant Team and TxDOT have confirmed the meeting, as well completed the final meetings with individual property owner (as requested) on 8/24 • Wilbarger Creek Park: Oncor completed design and submitted a ROW Permit to City for upgrade work to be perform at no additional expense to City. In addition the MEP Design Team for Consultant completed electrical design and provided to General Contractor 8/27, pending confirmation of pricing or determination of need for additional costs for project. Contractor pending final determination for start date to install approximately 1600 LF service line south of the project. • Grand Avenue Parkway: City awaits Statements of Qualifications (SOQ) to be submitted by 9/17 in response to the Request for Qualifications (RFQ) as advertised 8/19. Priority for selection of an Engineering firm to provide Design, Bidding, Construction Administrative Services and Materials Testing related to the Grand Avenue pavement repairs • Kelly Lane Phase 2: Engineering consultant still on target to provide 95% PS&S 9/15 and 100% plans 10/20. ROW acquisition anticipated estimated completion late October/early November 2020. Long lead anticipated for ROW acquisition of the Golf Course, as the Appraisals process has already begun. • Kelly Lane Temporary Traffic Signal project, project posted to City’s webpage and Civcast as Bidding began 8/26 for contractors. The easement has been confirmed as completed as ROW cleared 8/27. Construction Pre-Bid on 9/3 and Bid Opening set for a Virtual Meeting on 9/10. The construction duration is anticipated 45 days, with a 30 day final completion to wrap-up for project acceptance. • Melber Lane: Staff is seeking further direction from Legal Counsel for means of obtaining Right of Entry (ROEs) from adjacent property owners. Property owner opposition and resistance has delayed alignment study two (2) months progress for components of the Melber Lane design project. Citizens formed the Cameron Historical Coalition as representatives speak in protest of the proposed design concept for Cameron Lane and Melber Lane in the vicinity of the 1849 Park. The City’s ROW Agent and City staff has been coordinating in an effort to assist Design Consultant in obtaining much needed ROEs from adjacent property owners for geotechnical and environmental data collection. The Consultant has been directed to continue forward with alignment as much as feasible without ROEs. • Highland Park Interceptor: Staff includes this item as notice for for potential condemnation to acquire necessary easement(s). The proposed project is listed as priority #1 to be completed by 2023 in the City’s approved Wastewater Master Plan as intended to remove the current Highland Park Lift Station due to insufficient firm pumping capacity to meet existing peak flows. City staff hosted a meeting on 8/26 with the property owner for discussions of needed easement with an alignment that can be installed within the existing alignment of the current wastewater line, yet received non- support for the proposed alignment. The project schedule anticipates Final design plans by 12/2020 plus a three (3)-month TCEQ review and hopeful to package Plans, Specifications and Estimate (PS&E) by late 4/2021 to early 5/2021, possible target bid date 6/2021 and delivery before 11/2022 of a new wastewater interceptor along Wilbarger Creek, west of SH 130 and decommissioning of the Highland Park interceptor. Based on opinion from the City’s ROW Agent and due to the fact property owner has indicated they do not support this alignment, it would be imperative to closely adhere to all Senate Bill 18 requirements. If property owner settles there would be a potential for 6 months for acquisition, otherwise condemnation could potential for acquisition impact 15 to 18 months, which would not allow City to meet 2023 deadline for completion of construction. Although a suggested alternative route as supported by the property owner would potentially require a 5-7 month acquisition, in addition approximately $388,000 increased construction expenses and higher risks/detractors than the proposed alignment as presented by the City’s Consultant Team. City staff has already coordinated to add approximately a $7K Change Order to the current SH 130 Wastewater Interceptor project to accommodate the stub connection for the 33” Highland Park wastewater interceptor. Staff will provide an update in September after further discussions and determine if any other viable options available. • Development: Items Anticipated for the 9/8 Council Meeting o Drainage Easement Vacation: Wells Branch Service Station site development project, located in the Carmen subdivision at the Northeast corner of Heatherwilde Blvd. and Wells Branch Pkwy. Proposed easement vacation for the site development improvements will eliminate the need for an existing drainage easement along Wells Branch and dedicate a new, smaller easement. o Speed Study Ordinance FM 1825: As part of the speed spot check program (Engineering and Traffic investigation), TxDOT performed a speed study in order to establishing Speed Zones updates - a speed limit on F.M Highway 1825 (Pecan Street) . The existing speed limit on F.M Highway 1825 (Pecan Street); 50 MPH and 35 MPH within the school zone area. A speed zone study for the F.M Highway 1825 (Pecan Street); was conducted on March 12, 2019 and repeated on July 2020 to verify speed within the downtown area; identified sections of the roadway in both directions, between Dessau Road and Wells Branch Parkway. Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) gathered data using a speed radar device during Peak and off-peak periods to capture travel speeds that were more likely to be considered free-flow, or unimpeded by the influence of other vehicles, to assess what an isolated driver would consider to be a safe speed to traverse the roadway. City staff is proposing to amend Chapter 72 of our Code of Ordinances specifically relating to speed limits on city streets by update the speed limit (reduce speed) to 40 mph on F.M HIGHWAY 1825 (PECAN STREET) and 30 mph within the school zones; Speed shall not change within the downtown area ( from FM 685/Dessau Rd. to 5th Street shall remain 30MPH). This action updates our ordinance to be in compliance with state law in order to enforce speed limits on city streets. The recommended speed limit is a result of a speed study for engineering traffic safety. Changing of the posted speed limit from 50 MPH to 45 MPH and from 45 MPH to 40 MPH will indemnify road safety to Pecan Street/FM 1825. o PUE Vacation associated with Weiss Elementary and Weiss Middle School site plan development.. This existing PUE is located along the North side of Pleasanton Parkway. The proposed school development will be constructing a public City wastewater line along the north side of Pleasanton Parkway, with the optimal alignment for this line being in the same location as this existing PUE. In order to give appropriate and adequate easement width for the proposed wastewater line, the PISD has proposed to vacate the existing PUE, dedicate a new PUE location across the parcel to accommodate all dry utilities, and dedicate and exclusive wastewater easement in this area for the wastewater line. Because a new PUE is being dedicated across the tract, this existing PUE along Pleasanton is no longer required and is being petitioned for vacation to avoid conflicts with the proposed wastewater line. The PISD is currently verifying that no dry utilities exist within the PUE to be vacated and receiving utility owner consent for this vacation. Once utility owner consent is obtained, staff will be able to verify that this PUE vacate does not have any negative impacts to the City or other utility companies. o Blackhawk Plaza Wastewater Pass-Through Agreement between the City of Pflugerville and Lakeside MUD #23. The Blackhawk Plaza is a proposed daycare use site development project within the City of Pflugerville. This project is located Northwest of the Rowe Lane and Commons Parkway intersection, is located within the City of Pflugerville wastewater CCN; however there are no public City wastewater lines currently to the tract. The closest wastewater line to the property, located near Commons Parkway, is a Lakeside MUD #23 wastewater line. The Lakeside MUD #23 lines feed into the City wastewater system. This agreement will allow the Blackhawk Plaza to connect to the Lakeside MUD #23 line, while still being a customer of the City of Pflugerville and still being served by the City of Pflugerville by connecting to the MUD #23 line for ‘pass through’ purposes. This property will be a wastewater customer of the City of Pflugerville and pay wastewater impact fees to the City of Pflugerville. • Construction: o 86 total inspections o Project Charm will have to do additional work to the tie-in to the water main along Pecan. As a result, there will need to be an additional water shut off which will affect the apartments at Biltmore and Pecan, hotels and businesses east of Biltmore to SH-130. Planning has started for additional work. Date and time to be determined. o Pecan at Biltmore Signal Light Project- Signal Light started in flash-mode on 8/25/2020 and will be activated on 9/8/2020. • CIP: o Wilbarger Creek RWWTF TWDB Application: Application is complete and will be delivered on 8/31 o High Service Pump Station: Final Design and TCEQ Submittal September 7, 2020

Finance: • Following Tuesday’s adoption of the FY21 Budget and Tax Rate, the adopted budget document is being finalized and will be posted on the City’s website next week. The Truth in Taxation sites for Travis and Williamson counties have been updated with the adopted property tax rate. • The City has not received any additional citizen feedback from the Travis and Williamson CAD Truth in Taxation websites this week. • The Finance department has worked closely with the financial advisor, bond counsel and CP&Y to complete the financial portions of the application for the Texas Water Development Board for the Wilbarger Wastewater Treatment Plant & Interceptor project. • This week Finance participated in the evaluation of SOQs and interviews for the ERP Consultant. • Review of the first draft of the Preliminary Official Statement to issue GO and CO bonds in September was completed and comments were provided back to the financial advisor.

Library: • The number of DigiT Card sign-ups is on the rise as the school year begins. As a reminder, DigiT cards are one of the many ways we support PFISD and students. The cards grant access to all of our electronic resources, eBooks and Wi-Fi Hotspots. The applications are collected by the district’s school librarians and sent to Director Coffey. The students are then set up remotely with an account. As of now we have 120 students signed up! • Virtual Book Buzz – On Thursday, Librarians Bette McDowell, Meg Miller, and Chermaine Burleson once again offered a program highlighting upcoming fiction, nonfiction, and graphic novel titles for adults. Each registrant received a Book Box with an advance reading copy and other library goodies, made available during our Curbside Pickup hours. • On Saturday, students will have the chance to take a free online full-length ACT practice test with The Princeton Review. They will receive in-depth feedback question by question with a comprehensive score report to help identify areas of weakness and evaluate current performance. By offering this service for free, we are removing cost as a barrier to success. As of writing this, we have 12 students signed up. • On Friday, the library courtyard reopened with certain restrictions designed to ensure social distancing, the wearing of masks, and cleaning of tables between uses. We hope this will give people an additional opportunity to take advantage of the free Wi-Fi.

Parks: • Parks Maintenance: o Friday the Parks System transitioned into Stage 3 re-opening ▪ 1848, Pfennig and Wells Point Parks were re-opened to local youth sports associations for practices and games ▪ Basketball, Volleyball and Tennis courts were re-opened ▪ Open spaces in the park system have opened back up for public use ▪ Lake Pflugerville opened up allowing public access to docks, piers, north parking lot, and the beach o Irrigation repair at 1849 Park and Wells Point Soccer Complex • Aquatics and Athletics: o Gilleland Creek Pool Hours for Fall (pre-construction) ▪ Starting September 8th through October 4th: • Monday-Friday Lap Swim Only: 4:30pm-7:30pm on 1 hour intervals, reservations here. • Saturday & Sunday – Public Swim Only: 12:00pm-5:00pm

PCDC: Report is attached as PCDC – August 28, 2020

Planning: • The Council Downtown Subcommittee met with staff on Monday to review the public meeting held last week, discuss the final draft of the amendments, and established an adoption schedule. Staff will provide a status update of the amendments during the Council worksession on September 8th and outline the schedule for adoption of the amendments. • The application for members of the Comprehensive Plan Advisory Committee (CPAC) was posted last week and our communications team continues to help get this application out to the public. As mentioned in earlier this month, one of the first actions for Council to consider will be the appointment of a Comprehensive Plan Advisory Committee (CPAC). The committee will be made up of 25 residents (6 Council member appointees, 2 Mayor appointees, and 17 appointees selected by application. If you would please, send me your appointee by September 1st for inclusion in the resolution establishing the CPAC, which is anticipated to be on the Council agenda on September 8th. • We issued a site development permit this week for the PfISD Provan Opportunity Center located at 1401 A West Pecan (by Pflugerville HS).

Police: • Tuesday Hope Alliance (Williamson County Crisis Center) presented Sgt. De La Rosa and Corporal Janie Campana with the Allies of Hope Officers of the Year award for Pflugerville P.D. This award is given to officers who have gone above and beyond on behalf of one or more people who were victimized by Domestic Violence and/or Sexual Assault. • In daily communication with Travis County ESD2 regarding COVID-19 status and updates.

Public Works: • Administration: o We have started the process of performing the demolition of the Biehle House located at 17912 Becker Farm Dr. near Lake Pflugerville that will involve a preliminary lead abatement due to the house having a significant amount of lead paint throughout. This project is being performed as part of a Supplemental Environmental Project (SEP) that eliminated the $33k fine requirement after a violation at the Central Wastewater Treatment Plant in March 2019. Due to the house being purchased with Utility Funds when the City acquired the property for the Lake Pflugerville reservoir, the abatement and demolition of the house will be funded through the Utility Fund. o After the approval of the revised CCN Agreement at the City Council meeting this week, the agreement and maps have been sent to the PUC. • Water Treatment: o Due to the rain that we experienced last Friday night/Saturday morning, production flows have dropped to an average of 10.8 MGD for the water system, however we have started to notice flows start to return to normal summer flows at the tail-end of the week. o The level transmitter failed at the Colorado River Pump Station last Saturday, which caused the pumps to lock out and not run as the well. After staff arrived to the facility and assessed the situation, they replaced the level transmitter with a spare we have on-hand to get the facility running again shortly after. o Staff replaced the flow control valves for the turbidimeters that monitor the water quality for each membrane train to be metering ball valves. This change allows for a tighter control of the flow for each unit which allows for a more stable data point that controls the trains. This also allows for greater operator flexibility when working on the turbidimeter units as it allows for proper flushing of the sample lines when needed. o The lift station at the Water Treatment Plant that sends the plant domestic waste to the Weiss Ln. force main failed this week that caused the pumps in the wet well to short out and need to be repaired. Staff installed the spare pump and are currently working to repair/replace the existing pumps, which should take place in the next couple of weeks depending on the extent of the repairs needed. o Pump and Motor maintenance staff repaired a check valve on the backwash recovery pump system and had to replace a rotating assembly on one of the pumps to ensure proper operation. • Wastewater Treatment: o Maintenance staff installed the repaired motor for progressive cavity pump # 1. o Operations and maintenance staff have been changing a significant amount of process parameters in order to address the aerator that is currently down including the mobilization of a rental aerator system that will allow the plant to continue to operate within permit limits more readily once installed. These units will be delivered next week and we have already mobilized the civil and electrical contractors to move on getting these set up as soon as possible given the critical nature of the system and the time window of delivery for the • Pumps and Motors: o Maintenance staff replaced the impeller on Pump # 3 at the Highland Park Lift Station. • Regulatory: o On a weekly update from a couple weeks ago, we made note of a rule change regarding backflow prevention devices that was passed by the TCEQ. After reviewing what was published in the TAC and then following up with TCEQ to get confirmation on the regulations that they implemented, it was determined that the impact of the regulation change would have a very negligible impact on our residential customers. While we will still have to update the ordinance to reflect the rule change, it will only a very specialized group of water customers. o Water Conservation attended the Keep Texas Beautiful Virtual Conference this week along with the committee. The Keep Pflugerville Beautiful committee received the Gold Star Affiliate recognition at the conference for their environmental efforts throughout the community and meeting requirements for the recognition. o The Water Conservation website page was updated with added Rain Barrel and Watershed Model Demonstration videos on to the education pages for teachers, students and the community to view and use as a tool for education. • Line Maintenance and Meters: o After notification that Project Charm contractors had hit a water main this week, Line Maintenance Staff assisted with turning valves to isolate the line while the contractor made the repair. Surrounding areas were affected by the water shut out during the emergency repair so staff notified PIO to allow for communication to residents of the water disruption. • Street and Drainage: o Work at The Plaza downtown is progressing and includes: ▪ The sidewalk along Walnut, between Railroad Avenue and Suite 500 which is complete. ▪ The new sidewalk and ramp leading to the stage which is complete (handrail to be added later) ▪ Decks around the trees that are taking shape o Heatherwilde Roadway Rehabilitation Construction Project is bidding 8-28-2020. The construction contract is anticipated to be placed on the agenda for City Council consideration on 9-22-2020. o The HA5 Project is ongoing in the Spring Trails and Royal Pointe Subdivisions and is on schedule to be completed earlier next week. • Resource Recovery: o Our current compost inventory will run out by the end of day on Friday, August 28th. We have various different testing piles that we are working with different mixtures to find the ratio of wood chips to bio solids to have a proper moisture content and allow the prospective compost piles to cook appropriately. o Chipping picked up 327 piles of brush from residents estimated at 148 cubic yards of brush. • Facility Maintenance: o Deep cleaned and disinfected thoroughly the Field Ops Building. o Troubleshot and repaired two A/C’s in the Library for Great Hall and the Tech Services. o Cleaned up (trimmed, mowed, puled weed and cleaned the ground) in the courtyard at the Library for reopening on Friday.

September 4, 2020 Greetings Mayor and City Council

Be sure to be checking your Slack!

Save the Date: 9/29 – Council and ESD #2 Joint Meeting at 6pm 11/13 – Urban Land Institute Austin Chapter Workshop

Administration: • Registration is now open for the October 14-16 Virtual Conference and Exhibition. See attachment TML 2020 Conference. • Windermere has provided a PDF copy of the annual notice of CPI increase, attached as WIND 2020 CPI Increase • The City of Pflugerville is now accepting applications for regular openings on all boards and commissions for terms beginning January 1, 2021. Applications are available on the City’s web site: Link to Applications or by emailing [email protected]. Please encourage all interested citizens to apply by November 15, 2020. Interviews and consideration of appointments will be scheduled to take place at a City Council meeting in December 2020. • The September Texas Town & City (TTC) is now available online here. • News and Insights from Focused Advocacy for September 2, 2020 attached. • The application period for the Pflugerville Cares Small Business Grant Program concluded on Monday, August 31st. The program has been very successful with initial reports from BCL indicating the amount of eligible grant applications could be as much as $1,295,000, far surpassing the $920,000 originally allocated to the program (see attached report from PCDC). To meet this demand from our local small businesses, there is an item on the Sept. 8th agenda to approve a contract amendment with BCL to administer up to an additional $375,000 in grant funds. • For the city, a total of $311,785 has been spent or encumbered to date for COVID-related projects and equipment, not including personnel time which will likely be our largest expense. In addition, there is an item on next week’s agenda to approve $95,546 for HVAC filtration as part of the general allocation of CRF funds previously approved by Council. • Texas Municipal League will be holding virtual roundtable discussion with state lawmakers in each of TML’s regions. See attachment TML Virtual Roundtable. • The nomination period for the 2020 Air Central Texas (ACT) Awards is open! The award guidelines and nomination form are on the ACT Awards page. Now is the time to recognize the remarkable individuals and organizations that help improve the air quality in Central Texas! This year, two awards will be presented at the November 4th CAC Meeting. o Air Central Texas Outstanding Organization Award recognizes an activity by an organization that has exhibited exceptional leadership on regional air quality issues within the past year. o Bill Gill Central Texas Air Quality Leadership Award recognizes an individual who has had a significant and lasting impact on Central Texas air quality.

Communications: • Finalized the English and Spanish versions of the Bond Video and Fact Sheets which are now online at www.pflugervilletx.gov/bonds. Coordinated social media posts and media information about the video to go out on Friday, September 4. • Assisted with messaging on the upcoming limb pickup program with Waste Connections so customers interested in using the service in September are aware of the changes. The program is currently operating on a monthly schedule. • Worked with Finance on updates to the budget website • Assisted with the E Pflugerville Parkway open house on Wednesday • Prepared information on the Utility Rate Study worksession so residents are aware of the discussion prior to the Ordinance reading on September 22. Some residents have requested additional transparency on fees based on the recent Limb Pickup changes, so Communications is sharing information on City Council’s review of the study following the presentation on September 8 to aid in transparency. If approved by the Council, the rates would go into effect on November 1. • Pflugerville Cares program is featured in the September Texas Town and City Magazine for TML

Engineering: • East Pflugerville Parkway: A virtual open house meeting was held via Webex by the City, County, Engineering Consultant Team and TxDOT to present alignment options along East Pflugerville Parkway between Colorado Sand Dr. to Weiss Lane as well extending towards Travis County section further East towards FM 1100. Twenty-seven (27) total attendees for the meeting including 5 call-in attendees (public), 11 pre- registered attendees (public, and Doug Weiss), and 1 journalist (Kelsey Thompson). Staff anticipates comments, questions, concerns to be submitted to the City’s [email protected] email over the next two weeks and official responses to all items will be posted on the webpage. Preview of the news article published 9/2 viewed here. • Wilbarger Creek Park: The electrical work is moving forward based on the most cost effective solution identified. The project timeline is still on target for project completion (substantial October/final November). • Grand Avenue Parkway: In response to a request for qualifications (RFQ) released by the City, statements of qualifications (SOQ) are expected to be submitted by 9/17. Priority for selection of an Engineering firm to provide Design, Bidding, Construction Administrative Services and Materials Testing related to the Grand Avenue pavement repairs. Additionally, in the Austin Materials lawsuit, Legal Counsel has been authorized to accept service for the City and have appeared in the litigation, as in its at beginning of the discovery phase of litigation. Counsel responding to requests for disclosure. • Kelly Lane Signal: – 9/3 Staff hosted a Pre-Bid meeting for the Temporary Traffic Signal project at Jakes Hill. Virtual Bid opening on 9/10. • The signal at Pecan Street and Biltmore will be fully activated on 9/8. • The contractor for the Stone Hill Splash Pad is anticipated to start installation on 9/8. The installation is expected to take 4 weeks. • Engineering hosted 2nd Annual Retreat meeting as a Satellite Virtual Meeting. Three Divisions met in separate locations to convene wrapping up the FY2020 year and launching a kick-off for the FY2021 year by Reconnecting, Rebuilding, Reenergizing and Rallying one another for a half-day session. Guest speakers included Sereniah Breland who presented thanks and encouraging words “Allowing It or Coaching It.” A popular saying among football coaches “If a player if loafing, you’re either coaching it, or you’re allowing it to happen.” Second speaker was Assistant City Manager, Amy Giannini, who also encouraged and thanked Engineering Team for work over the FY2020 year and anticipated expectations for Fy2021. Amy also reminded team she is determined for providing the resources, tools, training and support necessary for Engineering to achieve Department Goals. • Wilco CDBG-MIT Grant Application Stakeholder Meeting: Engineering staff participated in the CDBG-MIT meeting hosted by Williamson County (WilCO). WilCO is in the process of applying for a Community Development Block Grant for Mitigation (CDBG-MIT) through the Texas General Land Office (GLO). This grant would allow the County to put in place a flood monitoring system to increase safety and mobility awareness during flood events. As part of this grant application, the County conducted this meeting with all adjacent communities to inform stakeholders and ensure their efforts did not overlap with any other community efforts. In addition, the County is requesting letters of support to demonstrate to the GLO that the ultimate project will benefit residents and is supported by local officials.

Finance: • The adopted FY21 budget document has been finalized and will be posted on the City’s website today.

Library: • One of the library's most exciting events will take place at the end of September, Library Con (formerly Comic Con)! This year it will be entirely virtual, but with a similar lineup of artists, writers, performers and more. Check out Adult Services Librarian, Bette McDowell’s article in the Pflugerville Pflag for more info. Bette and the rest of the programming staff have done an amazing job shifting all of the plans online due to the pandemic. • Curbside Update – With our curbside pick-up service back in full swing, we wanted to share a behind the scenes look at the set up. As a reminder we are not only distributing books placed on reserve, but also care kits, kits for virtual programs, and remote print jobs. See the attached file titled “Curbside Behind the Scene”. • Virtual Program Highlight – Virtual Sign Language with Library Tech Joan Meyers. Participants registered for this self-paced workshop and learned some basic American Sign Language signs via a prerecorded video. They were also sent additional resources to help with the learning process. We had over 150 people take part! • Our Fall programming has begun, all virtual this year. This includes weekly storytimes, crafting programs, special events and much more for all age groups. To see a listing of all we have planned, check out the library calendar.

Parks: • Community Service: o Staff are working with an Eagle Scout candidate on installation of owl habitats and bird houses at Pfennig Park along the trail. o Staff are working with the Rotary Club on a volunteer service project beautifying the park entrance to Pfluger Park. • Parks Maintenance: o Completed irrigation repair at Stone Hill Park o Followed up on a citizen service request about a downed tree in Pfennig Park along the trail. • Recreation Center: Staff rearranged weight room equipment, added new TVs and repainted fitness room. Weight Room picture attached.

PCDC: Report is attached as PCDC September 4, 2020. Please see also Press Release titled Curative Inc Press Release.

Planning: • Project Charm: This project continues to be an active site and the landscape along Pecan changes daily with the activity construction related to this project. Attached is an aerial photo provided by the project (see Project Charm photos attached). • Lakeside Meadows: Staff is reviewing multiple subdivision applications for this project, including extension of major utility infrastructure, that will provide wastewater service to this site. The industrial properties to the south along Pecan and a portion of the residential are anticipated to be the first projects that begin vertical construction in this development. The developer has begun providing the documentation necessary for the next steps in the Public Improvement District (PID) process. Staff is also working with this developer, and the adjacent property owners, on the long term alignment of Pflugerville Parkway in this area. • Pecan District: This project has been issued a Certificate of Occupancy for Phase 1 of the multi-family project, known as The Elliott. The applicant is working through the subdivision process for the balance of the tract which we anticipate moving forward later this year. The developer submitted a request for an administrative amendment, within the parameters permitted by the approved PUD, for adjustments to the roadway alignment and circulations, minor adjustments to open space placement, arrangement of residential uses, and updated the parkland fee. • North Pointe: Staff is continues to work with the developer of North Pointe regarding the extension of Colorado Sand through the eastern tract of the development. To date we have not received any submittals for development for this project since the approval of the PUD last fall. • Martin Tract PID: On 6/23 Council opened the public hearing for the Martin Tract PID. Staff is reviewing the details of the PID request. The rezoning request for this tract (aka the Enclave at Cele), was approved by Council on the August 11th. The applicant has begun working on the subdivision process for this site.

Public Works: • Administration: o Amy Giannini and staff are providing open office hours on Friday afternoons preceding City Council meetings from 3:30-4:30 pm to allow for coordination with City Council members regarding Public Works and Engineering related items or questions. For the time being, these meetings will occur via Webex. Please contact Sereniah and copy Amy Giannini ([email protected]) to schedule appointment no later than the Wednesday prior to the open office hours. In your request, please include topics for discussion so that the appropriate staff can be scheduled and prepared for the discussion. o Amy Giannini and Brandon Pritchett have met with Oncor several times over the summer to discuss the frequent power outages along the south side of Pflugerville that affect the City’s Central Wastewater Treatment Plant, 130 Commerce Center and Gattlinburg neighborhood. Oncor has stated that they are currently designing and preparing for the installation of several smart switches along the affected feed that will improve reliability. Oncor also committed to assessing vegetation management along the feed. • Water Treatment: o While the most recent rain dropped our average daily demand down significantly, our average total water production for this week was 12.15 MG, with 10.8 MG of that total coming from the surface water treatment plant. We are still continuing to pump at full capacity from the Colorado River with the average being roughly 11.55 MGD, so we may hold steady on the level of Lake Pflugerville if we continue to get rain or if water demand continues to drop. If we start to see an increase again in demand, the lake may continue to slowly drop but we are still in a very good position in terms of quantity of water in the reservoir to be used for potable water production. o Operations staff finished working with the City’s third-party integrator to install sodium bisulfite chemical feed pumps and have new updated logic in place in the PLC which allows for automatic switchover and better control of the de- chlorination of the finished membrane cleaning solution. o New citric acid pumps were installed which allow the operations staff to control the chemical cleaning process more efficiently and prevent any inorganic fouling to occur to the membrane modules. • Wastewater Treatment: o The floating aerators that are meant to be installed in Aeration Carousel # 1 were delivered on Monday and the contractor to safely install the equipment mobilized on Wednesday to start the installation process. This will take a few days, but should be completed by the middle of next week. o Operations staff have started the process of assembling and preparing to replace the spray lines on the existing clarifiers in order to ensure they work correctly for the foreseeable future. This process will involve some coordination with various utility teams as it will involve shutting a portion of the non-potable water line down and doing the work suspended above the clarifier as we are unable to drain the clarifier to work with it empty given the plant’s current flow. • Street and Drainage: o Heatherwilde Roadway Rehabilitation Construction Project is current out for bid and closes on 9-11-2020. The construction contract is anticipated to be place on the September 22 City Council agenda for consideration. o HA5 Project, mineral bond/sealant preventative maintenance on roadways, is complete with final walk-through taking place 9-8-2020. o Continuing the Plaza Project downtown • Resource Recovery: o Compost is currently unavailable until further notice. We have various different testing piles that we are working with different mixtures to find the ratio of wood chips to bio solids to have a proper moisture content and allow the prospective compost piles to cook appropriately. o Chipping picked up 219 piles of brush from residents estimated at 1104 cubic yards of brush. o Operations has worked with Communications to begin the notification process regarding the changes to curbside chipping services and recycle center come October 1. A notice of change in service for curbside chipping is available on the City’s website. • Facility Maintenance: o Performed preventative maintenance on three A/C units at Pfennig lift station and changed all filters. o Cleaned the fountain in the Library courtyard and performed some landscape work.

September 11, 2020 Greetings Mayor and City Council

Be sure to be checking your Slack!

Save the Date: 9/29 – Council and ESD #2 Joint Meeting at 6pm 11/13 – Urban Land Institute Austin Chapter Workshop

Administration: • Trey Fletcher presented to CAN on 9/11 by invitation to (Austin, Pflugerville and Travis County) to report on highlights from adopted budgets and anticipated challenges with the next budget cycle (FY22). Presentation given is attached as FY21 Community Advancement Network. The City is a member of CAN, or the Community Advancement Network. CANews September 2020 pdf is attached. • Please find attached draft agenda for the September 22, 2020 Council Meeting cc20200922a draft.

Communications: • Bond Communications: o Reached out to reporters about the bond video to generate additional coverage and educational awareness. o Contacted HOAs with an email linking to the videos to share with homeowners o Other news outlets have acknowledged receipt of the video and will use in future coverage. Statesman. Patch. o A series of posts are scheduled for next week to encourage virtual meetings to discuss the bond if interested. • Assisted with communications on Austin Public Health PPE giveaway • Discussed with Statesman the PF Cares allocation resulting in this story. • Posted information about the utility rate study in preparation for first hearing on September 22. • Press release about the results of additional patrols funded by the TxDOT IDM Grant over Labor Day led to this story. • Worked on messaging on the limb pickup program. Visit www.pflugervilletx.gov/limbpickup for the latest details.

Engineering: • Engineering staff participated in the 9/10 Quarterly Development Pforum Meeting providing a CIP Update, information for upcoming New CRS Rate 7, announcement of Quarterly Utility Coordination meeting 9/30 and request for participants to serve on Engineering’s Pavement Design Committee. • East Pflugerville Parkway: 9/18 deadline for public comment to Virtual Public Open House Meeting as hosted by the City, County, Engineering Consultant Team and TxDOT for alternative alignment options along East Pflugerville Parkway between Colorado Sand Dr. to Weiss Lane as well extending towards Travis County section further East towards FM 11. Staff anticipates comments, questions, concerns to be submitted to the City’s [email protected] email over the next two weeks and official responses to all items will be posted on the webpage. Information about the project can be found on the City’s website at: https://www.pflugervilletx.gov/city-government/capital-improvement- program-cip/project-overview • Wilbarger Creek Park: The electrical work is underway per the newly executed change order described in last weeks Weekly Report. The new substantial completion date is 10/20/2020 and the final completion date is 11/20/2020. • Wilco CDBG-MIT Grant Application Stakeholder Meeting: 9/11 Engineering staff participated in the CDBG-MIT meeting hosted by Williamson County (WilCO). WilCO continues process of applying for a Community Development Block Grant for Mitigation (CDBG-MIT) through the Texas General Land Office (GLO). Grant deadline October 30th, as the grant would allow the County to put in place a flood monitoring system to increase safety and mobility awareness during flood events. As part of this grant application, the County conducted this meeting with all adjacent communities to inform stakeholders and ensure their efforts did not overlap with any other community efforts. In addition, the County is requesting letters of support to demonstrate to the GLO that the ultimate project will benefit residents and is supported by local officials. • Development: o Vine Creek License Agreement: Developer is proposing some landscape and irrigation improvements in the City right-of-way along Cele Road. This proposed agreement is under review by staff and is expected to go through council for approval after it is approved by stall and by legal review. The Vine Creek development is located Northwest of the Cele and Melber Intersection. This development desires to extend some shrub beds and landscaping and also maintain turf grass with irrigation in parts of the City right-of-way along Cele, Melber, and Landmark Drive in order to create a neat, well-managed, and naturalistic look. This agreement between the City and Vine Creek property owner/developer will allow the private landscaping improvements to encroach within City Right-of-way along Cele, Melber, and Landmark Drive. The agreement outlines that will be the owner’s responsibility to maintain and remove if needed. o In order for the City of Pflugerville to be recognized as ADA complaint - The City of Pflugerville has developed an Americans with Disabilities Act information program to provide information to the public about the City’s policies and procedures regarding ADA. The City of Pflugerville will not discriminate against qualified individuals with disabilities on the basis of disability in its services, programs or activities. We are currently working toward completing our self- evaluation and developing an ADA Transition Plan for 2020. All complaints of discrimination on the basis of disability will be promptly and objectively investigated. On Tuesday, September 8, 2020 we had the first progress meeting for the ADA Self-Evaluation and Transition Plan. The Consultant Kimley-Horn made a presentation to the ADA Committee members to explain the scope of services, self-evaluation initial findings, proposal for staff training, and insure project schedule. The Transition Plan appears to be on time, on schedule and as planed. The public outreach meeting will be schedule on November 17th, 2020. Final Transition Plan will be presented on December 2020. The City Council work session meeting will be on February 2021 • Construction: o Construction on the Stone Hill Park Splash Pad started 9/8/2020. o Signal Light at Pecan and Biltmore-Signal light was activated 9/8/2020 • CIP: o We have received and are reviewing the 60% Gilleland Creek Bathhouse Civil drawings submittal from Waeltz & Prete, Inc. The proposal from Public Restroom Company for the 2 buildings to be replaced for $601,723 is proposed for the 9/22 City Council meeting.

Finance: • The Comptroller’s September allocation of sales taxes has been completed and the revenue received by the City increased by 16.2% ($164,992) from September 2019. Through September, approximately 109.8% of the budgeted sales tax has been collected. FY20 sales tax revenue received increased 17.5% over FY19 sales tax revenue received. This information and the attached sales tax analysis chart (attached as: FY20 Sales Tax Reports September) is based on the net cash payment received by the City; however, reports you see from other sources may vary depending on the types of collections included (i.e. current, prior period, audit). • Starting Monday, September 14th, Utility Billing staff will be in office to answer customer calls from 8am-5pm. Previously, staff hours were modified to accept customer calls from 10am-4pm. The public lobby will remain closed at this time. • Finance participated in a bond rating agency call with Moody’s Investor Service. We expect to receive a credit rating issued by Moody’s in the afternoon of Tuesday, September 15th ahead of the sale of bonds on September 22nd.

Library: • Adult Services Librarian Bette McDowell has received a Texas Commission on the Arts grant. She is planning on using the money for a virtual Día de los Muertos family program via Facebook live in October. Kudus to Bette! • Virtual Program Highlight – Senior Crafternoon: Paper Marbling. Seniors who signed up for this program enjoyed a craft at home working along with the instructional video on YouTube created by staff. They were able to pick up a kit with supplies through our curbside service in the days leading up to the program. • SAT Practice Test – After hosting an ACT practice test a couple weeks ago, we will be hosting a virtual SAT practice test this Saturday provided by The Princeton Review. We have over 40 students signed up! • We’ve used a portion of the Cares Act funds allocated to the library to purchase eBooks through Overdrive, our eBook platform. With these funds we can address the increased demand we’ve seen for eBooks during the pandemic to help bring down wait times and add new titles to the collection.

Parks: • Staff completed Virtual Events certification training. • Storm weather this week affected trails. Staff barricaded low water crossings before and during the storm. After the storms crews cleared bridges of debris, removed mud off the trails and performed bridge and trail maintenance along affected areas of the trail system. • We have added a small computer lab in the lobby for those needing access to a computer for work, school or personal reasons. Staff will also use the space for online rentals and online registration in the lobby as well as a central location for participants to evaluate classes and programs in the facility.

PCDC: Report is attached as PCDC – September 11, 2020

Planning: • As discussed at the Council Worksession on Tuesday, staff is working to bring forward the amendments for the Downtown District Overlay in October. As requested by Council Member Heath, attached are acreages for Downtown (see file Downtown Area Statistics). Also, on Tuesday, we summarized the changes we made to the drafted amendments. We have compiled the comments we received, and the reasons behind why a request was, or was not, included. That information is attached for your review as well (see file Downtown Code Amendment Feedback 9.9.2020). The final draft has been posted online, along with summaries of the overall amendments and the Transitional Compatibility Zone (TCZ). The Downtown Code Amendments will be presented to Planning and Zoning Commission on September 21st and will follow to City Council on October 13th and October 27th. • Attached is a memo regarding the CIAC action on the Land Use Assumption and CIP pertaining to the Roadway Impact Fee Study (see file CIAC Action Memo to Council 9.11.2020). This memo is provided in accordance with LGC Chapter 395, in order to proceed with the study. The first public hearing will be on your agenda for September 21st. There will also be an item requesting your approval of resolution setting a 2nd public hearing. In order to maintain the schedule established for this project, notification will appear in the Pflugerville Pflag for the 2nd public hearing on Wednesday, September 22nd. Should Council not call for the 2nd public hearing on the 21st, notice of cancellation will be sent. • On Thursday, we held our quarterly Development Pforum virtually. Developers, architects, engineers and planners are invited to hear from staff on various development updates. This quarter they discussed the Downtown District Overlay proposed code amendments, status of the Comprehensive Plan, Roadway Impact Fee Study, a CIP update and the FEMA CRS Class Rating Change. The next Pforum is scheduled for December.

Police: • Wednesday Lt. Lewis participated in the Central Texas Regional SWAT Team leadership meeting. • In daily communication with Travis County ESD2 regarding COVID-19 status and updates. • Updated list of COVID-19 Related Expenditures attached as COVID-19 Supplies List Sept. 11

Public Works: • Water Treatment: o The drain valve actuator shaft on Train 5 had a failure late Friday night/Saturday morning which wouldn’t allow the membrane train to run as it wouldn’t allow the train to maintain a level to be able to run normally. Maintenance and operations staff worked through the early morning hours to fix the actuator shaft, but couldn’t make necessary repairs without more staff available. The train was allowed to stay off until Tuesday, but the operations staff continued to periodically wet the membrane modules to ensure they wouldn’t become stiff and damage the fibers. On Tuesday, City maintenance staff completed the repairs to Train 5 and operations staff ensured that the membrane integrity was still intact before placing back into normal operation. o Due to recent rains, treated water production demands have dropped significantly throughout the City. For this week, our average treated water daily demand is 8.3 MGD. We are continuing to divert water from the Colorado River at full capacity until Lake Pflugerville is back to its full level, at which point we will continue to maintain the Lake at 35 feet. The lake is currently at approximately 33 feet. o Staff continue to reduce finished water chlorine levels leaving the water treatment plant in order to both reduce chemical costs and minimize disinfection byproduct (DBP) formation throughout the distribution system. o Operations staff completed work on installing and configuring a replacement chemical recirculation line high range chlorine and pH analyzer. The existing analyzer was never designed for high range chlorine analysis and was moved to a location that allowed the probe to run dry which would damage the probe on a routine basis. The replacement analyzer was installed in the originally designed location and the probe can run dry without damaging the instrument. This instrument will allow operations staff to better control the de-chlorination process as this allows for accurate readings of the membrane cleaning solution and is tremendously safer for our operations staff as they won’t be required to handle a highly concentrated chemical solution for analysis in the lab. • Wastewater Treatment: o Maintenance staff responded to a call on Sunday after one of the existing floating aerators had tripped off and couldn’t be reset by the operations group. After going through the control panel and troubleshooting possible problems, it was determined that the motor for the blower had failed. While the mixer is still running on the aerator, the blower is needed to provide air to that section of the carousel. The blower and motor are close-coupled, so they would need to be replaced/repaired together. Utility staff have ordered a replacement unit, but in the interim will be pulling the blower for repair. o One of the post-aeration blowers had failed in an off condition on Sunday which would create an issue where we could potentially have lower than normal DO levels leaving through the outfall of the wastewater treatment plant. Operations staff took swift action to ensure that the other blower was started and ramped up to keep DO levels well within permit requirements. The blower that had failed had an electrical short in the HOA switch that was fixed promptly after maintenance staff arrived later that day. o The chain drive sprockets on Clarifier 1 have started to wear recently given both their age and the condition of the teeth of the sprockets. On Monday, the chain had slipped off of the sprockets and maintenance staff had to manufacture a modified sprocket to keep the chain drive running until the replacement arrives that was ordered earlier this month. o Due to delays brought about by rain this week, the interim floating aerators have been delayed until Monday of next week to ensure that the contractor has ample time to create the proper safety mechanism for their staff that will be working on top of the aeration basins. • Regulatory: o Worked with Antea Group (3rd party water sampling firm) on a proposal to conduct special sampling for TTHMs (Total Trihalomethanes) • Line Maintenance and Meters: o Staff assisted utility maintenance personnel with removal/repair of train #5’s drain valve at the SWTP. • Street and Drainage: o Staff continues to work on the Main Street Project. o Crews have been cleaning storm inlet protectors that were clogged and removed those that are no longer needed throughout the City. Some of the inlet protectors had been creating ponding in the street. o Several areas of asphalt were repaired on N. Cascades by the Street Crew. o The Mowing Crew cleaned the bike lanes on Wells Branch. o All school zone signals have been tested and are ready for area school zones starting September 14th, 2020. o Sign Shop replaced multiple STOP signs throughout the city. • Resource Recovery: o Compost is currently unavailable until further notice. We have various different testing piles that we are working with different mixtures to find the ratio of wood chips to bio solids to have a proper moisture content and allow the prospective compost piles to cook appropriately. o Chipping picked up 178 piles of brush from residents estimated at 897 cubic yards of brush. o Operations has worked with Communications to begin the notification process regarding the changes to curbside chipping services and recycle center come October 1. A notice of change in service for curbside chipping is available on the City’s website. • Facility Maintenance: o Repaired the A/C’s in the Field Ops building, New building at PAWS and PD shooting range.

September 18, 2020 Greetings Mayor and City Council

Be sure to be checking your Slack!

Save the Date: 9/29 – Council and ESD #2 Joint Meeting at 6pm 11/13 – Urban Land Institute Austin Chapter Workshop

Administration: • Attached is a letter from Travis County Appraisal District regarding the 2021-2022 Reappraisal Plan.

Communications: • Worked on communication related to the reopening of City playgrounds, restrooms and water fountains starting September 18 to include messaging and graphics. Press release. • Worked with Austin Public Health on the communications of the testing site location shift from the Pfield to 103 N Railroad Avenue. APH is taking the lead on the communications with the City sharing messaging. The information will also be in the next episode of Pflugerville Pfocus. • Shot video for a promotion to feature the renovations to the Recreation Center at a future council meeting and in Pfocus. • Continue to follow the Governor and Covid messaging. • Working on website updates and messages related to recycle center, limb pickup, drop by drop and various services as modified in the FY21 budget. • Week 26 Media reporting document attached.

Engineering: • East Pflugerville Parkway: 9/18 deadline for public comment to Virtual Public Open House Meeting as hosted by the City, County, Engineering Consultant Team and TxDOT for alternative alignment options along East Pflugerville Parkway between Colorado Sand Dr. to Weiss Lane as well extending towards Travis County section further East towards FM 11. Staff anticipates comments, questions, concerns to be submitted to the City’s [email protected] email over the next two weeks and official responses to all items will be posted on the webpage. Preview of the news article published 9/2 viewed at https://communityimpact.com/austin/round-rock-pflugerville- hutto/transportation/2020/09/02/east-pflugerville-parkway-project-alignments-previewed-ahead- of-november-bond-election/ • Wilbarger Creek Park: The new substantial completion date is 10/20/2020 and the final completion date is 11/20/2020. • Grand Avenue Parkway: Statements of Qualifications (SOQ) were received 9/17 in response to the Request for Qualifications (RFQ). Priority for selection of an Engineering firm to provide Design, Bidding, Construction Administrative Services and Materials Testing related to the Grand Avenue pavement repairs. Additionally, in the Austin Materials lawsuit, Legal Counsel has been authorized to accept service for the City and have appeared in the litigation, as in its at beginning of the discovery phase of litigation. Counsel responding to requests for disclosure. • Construction: o 83 Total Inspections o Stone Hill Park Splash Pad- Projected completion date is 9/30/2020

Finance: • Finance participated in a due diligence call with underwriters and financial advisors, part of the process of the sale of bonds on September 22nd . • Moody's Investors Service reaffirmed the City’s Aa1 rating for the September 22nd bond sale. The city’s sizeable and growing tax base and strong financial position were some of the reasons the City was successful in maintaining this rate.

Library: • Hispanic Heritage Month (September 15 – October 15) – In honor of the culture and contributions of Hispanic and Latino Americans we are highlighting books by Latinx authors available at the library. Follow us on facebook to see a daily post featuring a suggested book. As an example, the first post highlighted the fantastic book, Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia. • Office Manager Kim Vo utilized her connections within the Vietnamese Community to market library services and programs. Kim established a relationship with a Vietnamese language publication that is distributed in the Austin and Dallas areas that will print updates on the library provided by Kim, also utilizing her bilingual language skills. The first full page library update was published in their current issue. We expect this will increase awareness of library services and programs for this segment of the community. Great work by Kim! • Virtual Program Highlight: Tween Book Club Online – Tweens received a new book to keep as well as a discussion and activity guide offered for pick up through our curbside service. Youth Services Librarian Melissa Grzybowski selects a different title each month highlighting a diverse group of authors and providing engaging activities related to the reading. • We continue to improve our engagement with the community during the pandemic by focusing on providing information in accessible ways. We have an updated Kid’s Book Recommendation Page on the library website. In addition to book lists, there are also instructions on how to get personalized recommendations from the librarians, instructions on how to access eBooks, and more. Great work updating the page by Youth Services Librarian Amanda Cawthon with an assist from Jesse Davis and Gwen Holford of the city’s top notch Communications Department. We have similar pages for teens and adults.

Parks: • Events: Pfamily Pfishing Challenge at Lake Pflugerville, Sept. 25th - October 4th. Submissions and winners announced through Facebook. More details to come next week. • Community Service: o Nearby Coffee Company has joined our Pfarmer’s market. Tuesday was their first time and they had a great turnout. o The Rotary Club of Pflugerville has committed to assist with the Pfluger Park entrance landscape project on October 3. The project will start at 1:00 p.m. and continue until we are finished. They will bring approximately 15 to 20 volunteers. • Parks Maintenance: o Demo at Creekside park is complete, site prep next week and new equipment due to be installed starting mid-Oct. o Staff repaired damaged fencing and a gate at Lake Pflugerville (due to single car accident on 09/13/2020). o Crews performed trail maintenance and installation of hot coal boxes at Lake Pflugerville. o The playground, restrooms and water fountains in the park system are opening back up today, Friday Sept. 18th. • Recreation Center: Soft opening of the Rec Center will begin on Sept. 25th. The weight room and track will be available to members by online reservation. Members will enter through the automated back entrance, check in and work out in their 45 minute time block. Then rec staff will clean before the next round of reservations.

PCDC: Report is attached as PCDC – September 18, 2020

Police: • Member of the Highway Enforcement Unit participated in a multi-agency sting targeting illegal car meets in North Austin, at the AMC theater, that also spill over into Pflugerville. The operation resulted in over 22 arrests, 25 cars towed, and over seven guns confiscated, some of which were stolen. In addition, approximately 400 additional participants received criminal trespass. Participating agencies included Austin Police Dept., Texas Dept. of Public Safety, Travis County Sheriff’s office, Pflugerville Police Dept., and Round Rock Police Dept. The sting was set up in response to numerous public requests to put an end to the noise and reckless behavior, including cars doing burn-outs, racing, and reports of guns being fired at these meets. • September is Suicide Prevention Awareness Month and the PD created a video showing support for officers who may find themselves in need. You can view this video here. • The Pflugerville Police Department joined the Neighbors App, collaborating with Ring and the community to help solve crime. The Neighbors Public Safety Service is a program that allows public safety agencies to access Neighbors, an app created by Ring, to communicate with residents about crime in their area. In turn, app users will also be able to engage with the department and share video from their Ring device to help solve crimes. Similar to the Pflugerville Police Department’s Digital Neighborhood Watch program, the police department does not have direct access to security camera footage. These programs help connect residents who may have information about a crime to police officers that can help them. • In daily communication with Travis County ESD2 regarding COVID-19 status and updates.

Public Works: • Water Treatment: o Operations staff coordinated with Suez to correct a lingering issue with the Drain Channel PLC settings that was causing the pumps to short-cycle which would have shortened the life of the pumps over time. The pumps would run for short bursts at a time instead of waiting to hit their level set point and running for longer durations. This was also causing an issue where the Suez PLC would prevent the membrane trains from performing each of their respective Clean-In- Place procedures. After finding the PLC bit that was causing issues, it was changed to look at just the level indicator that it should have been programmed to look at instead of discrete bits/floats. o Maintenance staff are still inspecting the condition of the strainers on a weekly basis even in the absence of higher flows. We’ve been seeing that the volume of zebra mussels has dropped dramatically as flow rates and velocities through the raw pipeline have dropped; however, we are still catching and removing zebra mussels and Asiatic clam shells before they make it to the membranes. • Wastewater Treatment: o The temporary floating aerators were installed on Monday which provide both mixing and injection of air into the aeration tank that has a failed gearbox on one of the aerators. Operations staff are still evaluating whether these aerators will provide enough air to bring ammonia levels down on the effluent and support the microbial life in the wastewater treatment plant. If they don’t provide enough air to keep up with the plant flows and microbial life, the existing failed gearbox will have to be replaced in-kind which will have an extended lead time to get the replacement in Pflugerville. o RAS Pump 2 had a seal failure that required a rotating assembly to be replaced with our spare unit with the damaged unit being sent off for repair. Total down time for unit was less than 2 hours. o One of the post-aeration blowers tripped on Sunday and would not run in Automatic that controls the VFD speed to ramp the blower up and down depending on dissolved oxygen levels. Staff were able to run the backup blower in auto as designed, but fixed the automatic sequencing of the failed blower on Monday. Staff found that a relay had failed in the PLC panel that controls the automatic control of the post-aeration blower. • Regulatory: o Continuing to update the Water Conservation Plan for the next 5 year o KPB Committee (Keep Pflugerville Beautiful) planning a Fall Sweep for Oct 9th to clean up the entrance of 1849 Park. The KTB program has to choose an area and make it environmentally and conservation friendly. • Line Maintenance and Meters: o Staff attended 4-hour training session about municipal bacteriological testing procedures • Street and Drainage: o Staff continues to work on the Main Street Project. o Crews have begun work on the temporary driveway located on the Mo-Kan right- of-way that will run from Pecan to the parking lot of the old Wordyisms building. The temporary driveway is for support of the Covid testing facility at the Wordyisms building. o New controllers were replaced for the traffic signals at the intersections of Oxford and Immanuel, and Picadilly at Grand Ave. We suspect that the signal at Oxford and Immanuel was struck by lightning or power surge and the other signal was due to age. o In preparation of the asphalt surface treatment that was done in the in the Royal Pointe and Spring Trails subdivision the Street Crew removed all STOP bars throughout the subdivisions. With the completion of the surface treatment the Street Crew has repainted the STOP bars, thus completing the pavement maintenance in Royal Pointe and Spring Trails. • Resource Recovery: o Compost is currently unavailable until further notice. We have various different testing piles that we are working with different mixtures to find the ratio of wood chips to bio solids to have a proper moisture content and allow the prospective compost piles to cook appropriately. o Chipping picked up 208 piles of brush from residents estimated at 1040 cubic yards of brush. o Brush pile grinding process began at the recycle center on 9/15 and should be completed by 9/17; with 1/3 of the brush grindings being left behind for compost operation. • Facility Maintenance: o Started preparation for the upcoming Sewer Project at the Police Department.

September 25, 2020 Greetings Mayor and City Council

Be sure to be checking your Slack!

Save the Date: 9/29 – Council and ESD #2 Joint Meeting at 6pm 11/13 – Urban Land Institute Austin Chapter Workshop

Administration: • TML Region 10 election was cancelled: TML Region 10 issued a call for officer candidates, and we received three (one for each open position) by the September 18 deadline. Since there are no contested races, the election is cancelled. Congratulations to the 2020-2022 TML Region 10 officers (terms begin on October 16, 2020): o TML Region 10 Officers (2020-2022) o President - Larry Wallace Jr., Mayor, Manor o Vice President - Victor Gonzales, Mayor, Pflugerville o TML Board Director - Connie Schroeder, Mayor, Bastrop

Communications: • Worked with Finance on the press release for the bond project and graphic. See graphic attached as Bond Money Bag Answered questions with Statesman reporter which led to this article. • Coordinated promotion of the opening of the Recreation Center for Friday. Invited Community Impact to an early tour and posted a video highlighting some of the changes. • Communications attended the TAMIO webinar – Lessons from Coronavirus to discuss various communications efforts related to COVID-19. • Continued communications about the upcoming limb pickup and various fee changes. • Worked with public works and parks and recreation on transitioning Drop by Drop to a landscaping recommendation website for water conservation. • Pflugerville Pfocus features the bond issuance, new speed limits on Pecan, new COVID testing site and the recreation center opening on Friday. Watch online at www.youtube.com/cityofpflugerville. • Austin Business Journal called about the Lisso Tract Preliminary Plan. Anticipate a story.

Engineering: • Wilbarger Creek Park: The new substantial completion date is 10/20/2020 and the final completion date is 11/20/2020 • Old Austin-Hutto Road: City has obtained all ROW and project advertisement submitted to Austin American Statesman 9/23, with Bidding to begin 9/30 • Construction: o 96 total inspections o WWTP Expansion: BAR Constructors has been in progress on CWWTP Phase 1 Expansion since 11/19/19. As of end of August, current contract amount is $42,152,345.71 with a planned value completion of $12,130,017.78. Earned value of construction is $13,714,414.33 or 33% complete by budget and 113% of plan. The current contract time is 727 days of which 283 days are used or 39% complete by time and critical path schedule indicates ahead by 15 days. Major components of work complete by budget include: yard piping (26%), clarifier (85%), effluent filters (88%), UV building (84%), BNR basin (36%), and Headworks / Influent LS (<1%). September milestones are planned for the following: Temp. LS for SH130 - all work up to setting new pumps, effluent filters – hydro test structure and begin equipment installation, UV basin – hydro test and install finger weirs, clarifier – hydro test and complete trough, BNR basin – complete excavation of first half and continue slab pours, and Headworks / Lift Station – begin excavation. o SH 130 Interceptor: The SH-130 Interceptor is currently about one week ahead of schedule to meet the Phase A (from the Central WWTP to Project Charm) Substantial Completion date of November 9, 2020. Approximately 70% of the pipe is installed at this time. The excavation work for the tunneled portion of the project is complete. The contractor is working on the second step of the tunneled portion of the project by pulling pipe through the hand dug tunnel. There is about 200’ of pipe left to install through the tunnel for this step. The next step and final step will be to pump concrete into the space between the tunnel wall and outside of the pipe which will take about 2 weeks to complete and is planned to start next week. Phase B (Project Charm to Pflugerville Parkway Lift Station) is ahead of schedule. The bore and jack beneath Pflugerville Parkway has been completed. The bore and jack under FM 685 is ready to go as soon as the rain stops. All creek crossings have been installed and are being maintained. Completion testing has begun on the Phase A portion of the project to check for any leaks before placing the line in service. Overall the project is on or ahead of schedule with two Change Orders under review totaling about $32,000 due to field found conditions. These are the only change orders on the project to date which have added cost to the City on the project. o Stone Hill Splash Pad-Work to be completed 9/30/2020 weather permitting. • CIP: o Weiss/Pecan Water Line: Coordinating with manufacturers of existing Pressure Reducing Valves (PRVs) that form East Pressure Zone boundary for purpose of planning the conversion from East Pressure Zone to proposed 800’ Pressure Zone. Environmental site assessment field work complete, letter submitted to Texas Historical Commission and awaiting response. Continuing coordination with engineer for Lakeside Meadows (Pape Dawson) for purpose of fine-tuning alignment through proposed development and future road ROW and further investigation of what appeared to be an above ground fuel tank in the vicinity of the proposed water line route through this property. o Wilbarger Creek: TWDB Funding Application has been accepted as administratively complete, currently answering questions as it is being reviewed by TWDB. Continuing coordinating with Garver on scoping of the Wilbarger Creek RWWTF design contract. o Historic Colored Addition: Consultant submitted a supplement for additional survey and storm design, and also include the additional funds for the exhibits/discussions for Fire.

Finance: • Finance is coordinating the payment process for the recycling center for new fees effective October 1, 2020 • Finance has been working with the City’s financial advisors to finalize the bond pricing, and sale authorized by City Council on Tuesday.

Information Technology: Please see below additional information Council requested related to the 2 open questions from this week’s Council meeting: • What was the implementation cost for City of Georgetown’s ERP project? o Attached is the final SOW between Georgetown and Sierra Cedar (“Georgetown Workday Deployment”). Cost highlights include – ▪ 10 year TCO estimate is at $10.65 mil ▪ One time implementation costs - $4.5 mil ▪ Ongoing annual subscription costs - $501K • For the City of Palo Alto ERP project, what was Plante Moran’s recommendation and what was the outcome of that project? o Palo Alto was running an SAP system when they hired Plante Moran for an ERP needs assessment and selection project. Through the ERP needs assessment phase, we found that the City was not using much of SAP’s functionality and had not implemented all modules as originally planned. They also struggled with support and maintenance of the system. Partly because SAP may not have been the right fit for the size and complexity of Palo Alto. The City decided to issue an RFP, received proposals for core ERP and UB, shortlisted vendors and performed due diligence and demonstrations. However, they had significant staff turnover during the project and had issues making a final decision on a vendor for ERP, so they put the project on hold. To the best of our knowledge, the City has not moved forward with a contract to replace SAP. We believe they chose Advanced Utility for UB but don’t believe they have a contract in place to move forward with the implementation at this time.

Library: • The library's 5th annual Lib Con (formerly Comic Con) will take place online for the first time this Saturday. Tune in for a fully virtual celebration of comics, literature, and pop culture with authors, artists, cosplayers and more. Activities include Q&A panels, drawing lessons, and a cosplay contest for ages 13 and up. This event is free and family- friendly. Find more information on the Library Con webpage. • To address the ongoing impacts of the pandemic on the community, the library is excited to announce a new electronic resource called Brainfuse. This resource includes two pieces, one providing assistance to students and the other providing assistance to veterans. Brainfuse Help Now offers on demand eLearning for students of all ages including virtual tutoring sessions available 7 days a week. Brainfuse Vet Now provides support to veterans and their families with navigating the VA bureaucracy, providing academic tutoring, and employment transition assistance. This resource was made possible utilizing Cares Act funds. • Virtual Programming Highlight - Voter Registration Information Presentation by the League of Women Voters. The group held a virtual presentation in Spanish on Thursday and will hold one in English next Tuesday. This is part of an ongoing partnership initiated by Adult Services Librarian Bette McDowell. • We will also have a local organization offering on site voter registration this Saturday during our Curbside Services from 10 am to 6 pm. • Assistant Director Daniel Berra is attending the virtual conference of the American Association for State and Local History. This year's virtual event is addressing questions that are emerging from the pandemic, such as defining what history institutions will look like and how they will operate in and after the recovery, as well as what role historic institutions can play in combating systematic racism. • In the news - Patch ran an article highlighting the library's many upcoming virtual programs for seniors this Fall. They also ran one about the launch of Brainfuse.

Parks: • Pfamily Pfishing Challenge opens today and goes through next Friday Oct. 4. More info can be found here, https://www.facebook.com/events/324378908826516 • Parks Maintenance: o Staff fixed lights at Great Basin Bridge o Performed weed control application at Stone Hill Park o Crews worked on irrigation repair Cambridge Heights Park o Pre-emergent and any killer were applied to the turf at 1849 Park. • Recreation Center: The facility is having its soft opening today. Will be open 7 am to 7 pm Monday – Saturday and Sunday 1 pm to 6 pm. o Current open areas include the restrooms, walking track and the fitness room. o Reservations are managed to assist with social distancing more information here, https://parks.pflugervilletx.gov/recreation-center. o Also see the communication video about the Rec Center opening back up here.

PCDC: Report is attached as PCDC-September 25, 2020

Planning: • The Planning and Zoning Commission met on Monday (due to the Labor Day Holiday in September, their monthly meeting is held the 3rd Monday of the month instead of the 1st), and took action on the following: o Downtown District Overlay proposed amendments – Planning and Zoning Commission held a public hearing on this item. Two residents spoke on this item. The Planning and Zoning Commission recommended approval of the amendments as presented by staff. City Council will conduct a public hearing and consider this item on 1st Reading on October 13th. o 1 Preliminary Plan was approved and 5 final plats were approved o Ten subdivisions were statutorily disapproved – As a reminder the Planning and Zoning Commission approved modifications to the development review schedules to account for requirements created by HB3167. • The Capital Improvement Advisory Committee met on Monday to discuss the collection rates and policy recommendations related to the Roadway Impact Fee Study. The CIAC is anticipated to make a rate and policy recommendation at their October 5th meeting. This item will be discussed with Council on October 27th. • A new art piece titled “UNITY” was completed in the plaza space this week (see attached file stage art.jpg) . This art was funded as part of the community engagement grant we received from PCDC. The art piece was done by artist Gabe Portillo, an artist with SprATX, who drew inspiration for the piece from the City’s diversity and values. Improvements, funded by the PCDC grant, are anticipated to wrap up in October.

Public Works: • Water Treatment: o Configured sodium hydroxide VFD controller that was installed to allow the chemical feed pump to run through the SCADA system. Previously, staff had to manually run the pump to try and neutralize the residual chemicals that come off the membrane trains after a recovery clean. This configuration allows the operators to be able to run the sodium hydroxide from the SCADA system so they can monitor the effectiveness of the neutralization in real-time adding a significant amount of efficiency to this process. o Replaced pH and temperature probe that was installed on the permeate header line with a chlorine analyzer. The previous pH and temperature probes were not being used for any TCEQ reporting and was not effective for any type of process control for the operations of the treatment facility. By replacing this with a chlorine analyzer, the operators can control the permeate header dose with much greater control and can deliver a more consistent product through the membrane trains that goes through to the clear wells. o Worked with Garver and Xylem on setting up a pretreatment pilot system at the Lake Pump Station to divert some raw water flow into a miniature pretreatment basin for the WTP expansion project that will require TCEQ approval for the surface overflow rates that we are hoping to achieve with the upcoming expansion project. This pilot system will stay at the Lake Pump Station for a couple months to run various different chemical dosage variations to make sure that we can better understand what is the best combination of chemicals that would be required and how to properly size the plate settler pretreatment basins. o Re-routed ACH chemical discharge line that runs to the drain channel sump pump to be properly routed on the wall instead of across the ground. This was previously done as a temporary measure but was never installed permanently and thus created a tripping hazard for the operations and maintenance staff that would work on the chemical pump or near the area. o Replaced one of the PVC air manifolds that routes compressed air to various portions of the membrane building with a stainless-steel manifold meant for high pressures. This is the start of an ongoing winter project to make sure that we make the plant’s compressed air handling processes much more robust in dealing with problems that may arise in the future. Since most of the compressed air lines throughout the membrane building are assembled with PVC, they will routinely break or blow off given that they are not designed to handle high air pressures. In order to prevent this in the future, staff will be slowly replacing these air lines. This must be done during the winter as each time a section is replaced, either the entire plant or a large section of the plant must be taken offline. • Wastewater Treatment: o Staff finished the remainder of the hydrogen peroxide that was being used as a stopgap until the floating aerators were installed. Once the hydrogen peroxide was finished, the totes were cleaned, removed, and recycled. o Maintenance staff made more interim changes to the clarifier chain sprocket to ensure that it lasts until the new sprocket arrives in the next week. o The repaired sludge holding tank blower was returned and started after getting the bearings replaced after a previous bearing failure. • Regulatory: o Received the last samples from residents for Lead and Copper samples for Kelly Ln. #1, Lakeside #1, Lakeside #2A, Lakeside #2B, Lakeside #2C, Lakeside #2D o Completed and got TCEQ approval of Sample Site Plan and Materials for sampling pool for Lead and Copper samples for Lakeside Mud 3 PWS 2270422. o Continued to work on Monitoring Plan for Lakeside Mud 3 PWS 2270422 after receiving the approved Lead and Copper sample pool. These are required from every Public Water System that we operate and are typically updated annually to ensure that sample sites are representative throughout the water distribution system. o Worked with Freese and Nichols on Industrial Pre-treatment and F.O.G program to start sampling the influent lift station for heavy metals and for possible contaminants to get a baseline for what the Central WWTP takes in on a daily basis from any Categorical Industrial Users or commercial entities. • Line Maintenance and Meters: o Assisted water treatment staff with installation of Pilot piping at the lake pump station. o Line Maintenance and meters staff have been gathering pressure data in conjunction with the water treatment plant gathering water quality data in order to migrate select neighborhoods in the southern portion of Pflugerville to have water fed from the South Standpipe instead of the North Standpipe. This will allow for a greater volume of groundwater to be used on a daily basis which minimizes the volume of water that we need to divert from the Colorado River and also reduces cost due to the relative inexpensive nature of groundwater treatment. Staff will still be monitoring both water quality data and pressure data to ensure that this change will work in the long-term, but preliminary results are very promising. • Street and Drainage: o Installed a temporary driveway on the Mo-Kan right-of-way for the COVID testing site which will be located at the old Wordyism’s building on Railroad. o The Drainage Maintenance Crew is assisting the Pump and Motor Maintenance Crew install a pad at the Water Plant. The pad will allow Pump and Motor Maintenance to get their equipment in place to drain tanks that collect zebra mussels. Currently this area is bare dirt and as you can imagine becomes very muddy after draining the tanks. • Resource Recovery: o Compost is currently unavailable until further notice. We have various testing piles that we are working with different mixtures to find the ratio of wood chips to bio solids to have a proper moisture content and allow the prospective compost piles to cook appropriately. o Chipping picked up 227 piles of brush from residents estimated at 1124 cubic yards of brush. o Chipper 356 went down on Monday the 21st. A chipper has been rented from Austin Rent Way Equipment Rentals. • Facility Maintenance: o Continued preparation for the upcoming Sewer Project at the Police Department. o Waxed the entire first floor of the Rec Center for the soft opening on Friday.

October 2, 2020 Greetings Mayor and City Council

Be sure to be checking your Slack!

Save the Date: 10/31 – 1:00-4:00pm Halloween Drive Thru at Library Parking Lot 11/13 – Urban Land Institute Austin Chapter Workshop 11/17 – 6:00pm Special City Council Meeting to Canvass Votes

Administration: • The City Council will appoint the next Charter Review Commission at the November 10, 2020 Regular City Council Meeting. The Mayor will appoint three members and each Councilmember will appoint two members. Up to five additional members can be appointed by a majority vote of the Council. The Charter Review Commission must have at least 13 and no more than 20 members. Charter Review Commission members must be registered voters of the City with at least one year of residency. They serve without compensation and cannot be employees of the City or members of any other City board or commission. Names for appointments to the Charter Review Commission may be submitted to the City Secretary. Please find attachment from the City Charter: Charter Review Commission information. • Attached is a project newsletter for the Pflugerville Solar Project titled Pflugerville Sun Newsletter. • The Travis County Emergency Services District No. 2 will hold a virtual town hall on Thursday, October 15, 2020 at 7:00 p.m. The event is open to the public. Those that would like to access the livestream can register here. • We are currently taking candidate applications for all boards and commissions for terms beginning January 1, 2021. Please encourage citizens to apply by November 15, 2020. Applications are available on the city website here. The City Council will hold a Special City Council meeting on December 1, 2020 at 6:00 p.m. to consider appointments. • Please find the attached draft agendas for the October 13, 2020 City Council Worksession and Regular Meeting titled cc101320wsa and cc101320a.

Communications: • Worked with other departments to share information regarding fee changes beginning October 1, including Utility Billing, Public Works, Parks and Recreation and the Library. • On October 1, coordinated announcement of PD's Bring Me Home and Pflugerville Autism Buddies programs resulting in two media interviews (KXAN and KUT). • Reimagined the Drop by Drop website to remain as a resource for conservation after the program ceases. • Continued communicating new Limb Pickup service. • Shared information from APH regarding new hours for the Downtown Pflugerville testing site.

Engineering: • The Old Austin Hutto project, as approved by voters in the 2018 GO Bond Election, is currently out to bid. The project is anticipated for award at the October 27 meeting. • Wilbarger Creek Park: Project will be substantially completed this month. • Grand Avenue Parkway: Scoping meeting with Kimley-Horn took place on Sept 30 to investigate and create construction documents for the reconstruction of failing portions of Grand Avenue Parkway. Staff has continued to prepare and compile the requested documents for Legal Counsel discovery. • The Stone Hill Splash Pad Construction is complete. Coordinating training operations training for staff.

Finance: • Payroll worked closely with People + Culture to implement alternate work schedules for employees to promote an even better work/life balance. • Finance set up cash collections at the Recycle Center to begin taking cash and electronic payments for fees that went into effect 10/1. • Finance kicked off the new budget year by closing out purchasing for FY20 and opening the new budget for FY21. • Staff attended the GFOAT Statewide Regional Webinar. Discussions included lessons learned and upcoming challenges under Senate Bill 2

Library: • In the news: Our new e-resources supporting the community continue to receive media attention. KXAN covered our new Spanish language eBook platform for youth, MakeMake. The Austin-American Statesman covered all of our new e-resources including Help Now (students) and Vet Now (veterans). Community Impact plans to include information regarding our new Vet Now e-resource in a November article in honor of Veterans Day. And finally, our monthly column in the Pflugerville Pflag was published last week, written by Adult Services Librarian Meg Miller about her upcoming Virtual Pawject Runway Program. • The library will serve as a polling location on election day. The voting will be set up in the front meeting rooms and the rest of the library will remain closed. We will also cancel our curbside service for the day, to ensure easy access to the building and less confusion for voters. • Virtual Program Highlight: Virtual Laser Cutter Craft – Utilizing the tools of the Pfab Lab even with the facility closed, patrons picked up a kit in advance through our curbside service that included laser cut materials, then followed along at home with a video tutorial created by library staff to make a unique wooden elephant phone stand. • We have a full calendar of virtual events for all ages in October, take a look!

Parks: • Community Service: o The Pfarmers market was open on September 29th and had one new vendor, Hamilton Pool Road Vineyards and Organic Produce. The Nearby coffee Co. joined us again for the second week in a row and will be here until the market closes later in the fall. o Upcoming service project on Saturday Oct 3rd. PARD staff will partner with the Rotary Club of Pflugerville to redo the entrance median and flower beds at Pfluger Park. Start time Saturday is 2:00 pm • Parks Maintenance: o Staff installed an irrigation controller at Pfennig Fields. o Crew performed trail light repair at Moose Park. • Programs: o Staff set up a Deutschen Pfest Pfun Run warm up video with Camp Gladiator. o Recording took place Friday, October 2nd at 10:00am at Pfluger Park. o Registered Pflugerville Parks and Rec Program to participate in a fall E-Sports league, more information to come. o Created temporary Pickleball lines on the Tennis Court in Windermere Park (see attached photo titled pickle ball). Pickleball had the highest participation growth of any sport surveyed nationally per the Rec Center Study we had completed late last year. To learn more about the sport click here, https://usapickleball.org/what-is- pickleball/. o

PCDC: Report is attached as PCDC-October 2, 2020. PCDC Mid-Year Report is also attached.

Planning: • On Monday, Emily participated in the monthly meeting of the Technical Advisory Committee for CAMPO as the City’s representative. This meeting was held virtually. The TAC took no action. Items discussed were informational only, and included: o Federal Transit Administration 5310 program: Federal Transit Administration Enhanced Mobility of Seniors and Individuals with Disabilities Section 5310 Program is intended to enhance mobility for seniors and persons with disabilities by providing funds for programs to serve the special needs of transit-dependent populations beyond traditional public transportation services and Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) complementary paratransit services. CAMPO manages the competitive project selection process for awarding Federal Transit Administration (FTA) funding through the Section 5310 Program. Capital Metro administers the program. TPB has requested that staff review the current project selection criteria, approved in 2012, and provide potential recommendations for updating the process and criteria. CAMPO Staff has reviewed the current criteria, surveyed other 5310 grant programs and compared the criteria to the FTA program goals, rules and regulations and will be drafting potential updates for future consideration. o Fall amendment cycle for CAMPO funding: This amendment cycle does not allocate any new CAMPO funding for projects and only provided an opportunity for project sponsors to make changes to projects in the short-range program or long-range plan. o Potential Open Roads Policy for the CAMPO Region: Development of an open roads policy was one of the recommendations contained in the 2018 Regional Incident Management Strategic Plan. The policy would lay the foundation for CAMPO and its regional partners to set performance metrics for the operation of the regional roadway network. The intended outcomes of an Open Roads policy are as follows: establish regional commitment to keeping roads open, increase safety at traffic incident scenes and reduce secondary crashes, reduce congestion due to traffic incidents, and set clear and reasonable expectations for responding agencies. The establishment of a regional Open Roads policy prior to the start of construction of the IH 35 Central Express project would assist the region with traffic and congestion management on IH 35 and supporting facilities such as US 183 S, SH 130, and SH 71. • On Thursday, staff held a virtual stakeholder meeting regarding the Roadway Impact Fee Study. Council will see this item again during the October 13th worksession, at which time staff and our consulting team will discuss the impact fee options available for Council to consider. • A site development permit was issued this week for Pfluger Farm Apartments (Phase I), located on the west side of Pfluger Farm, just south of Town Center and Pfluger Farm. Zoned: PUD; 11.2 acres (portion of the 40 acre tract south of Stone Hill Apartments); 258 dwelling units • Projects of Interest: o Project Charm – This project continues to be an active site and the landscape along Pecan changes daily with the activity construction related to this project. Attached is an aerial photo provided by the project (see Project Charm photos attached). o Lakeside Meadows – Staff is reviewing multiple subdivision applications for this project, including extension of major utility infrastructure, that will provide wastewater service to this site. The industrial properties to the south along Pecan and a portion of the residential are anticipated to be the first projects that begin vertical construction in this development. Staff is also working with this developer, and the adjacent property owners, on the long term alignment of Pflugerville Parkway in this area. o Pecan District – This project has been issued a Certificate of Occupancy for Phase 1 of the multi-family project, known as The Elliott. The applicant is working through the subdivision process for the balance of the tract which we anticipate moving forward later this year. The developer submitted a request for an administrative amendment, within the parameters permitted by the approved PUD, for adjustments to the roadway alignment and circulations, minor adjustments to open space placement, arrangement of residential uses, and updated the parkland fee. o North Pointe – Staff is continues to work with the developer of North Pointe regarding the extension of Colorado Sand through the eastern tract of the development. To date we have not received any submittals for development for this project since the approval of the PUD last fall. o Martin Tract PID –On 6/23 Council opened the public hearing for the Martin Tract PID. Staff is reviewing the details of the PID request. The rezoning request for this tract (aka the Enclave at Cele), was approved by Council on the August 11th. The applicant has begun working on the subdivision process for this site.

Police Department: • Thursday we launched 2 new programs to assist with vulnerable populations: o Pflugerville Autism Buddies (PfAB) and Bring Me Home will allow family members or guardians to establish an emergency contact and provide information that can help police officers assist and bring home members of our community who otherwise may be unable to voice their needs. While Pflugerville Autism Buddies is for residents with Autism (or a related condition) and program participants will receive an ID card, Bring Me Home is available for those with dementia (or related diseases) and enters their information into a database Pflugerville police officers can access. o While serving different members of the community, both of these programs seek to create positive interactions with law enforcement. Find out more and register for these programs at www.pflugervilletx.gov/PfAB and www.pflugervilletx.gov/BringMeHome Applications can be filled out easily online, or submitted by mail or email. • In daily communication with Travis County ESD2 regarding COVID-19 status and updates

Public Works: • Water Treatment: o Cut and installed final grating for sodium bisulfite and citric acid to replace the last floor grating that had rusted due to salt and chemical damage. This allows for more than a single tote to be stored at a time for our chemical storage and pairs with the re-plumbed chemical feed pumps to allow for safer work conditions for the operations and maintenance staff. o Lake Pflugerville is now close to 34’ which is only 1’ below the full level that we will normally try to hold throughout the winter. With the Lake at this level, we will slowly start tapering back our diversion of flow over the fall/winter to be able to perform routine maintenance on both the Colorado River Pump Station Pumps and the air compressor that runs the control valves and the air burst system. It will also allow us to perform some maintenance and cleaning of the river intake screens. o Maintenance staff have pulled and sent out the motor for Lake Pump Station Pump # 1 with the intent of starting fall/winter maintenance to try and prevent any failures occurring during the peak of summer 2021. o There is now a running Pilot System that is meant to model the design of the water treatment plant pretreatment system that will undergo design after a design engineer is chosen. This will be able to model whether or not we can get approval through TCEQ for a higher flow through the pretreatment system than is normally designed. A picture is attached of the Pilot System that is currently installed and running and will be running for the next 2 months using our water from Lake Pflugerville (titled Pilot System). • Wastewater Treatment: o Finished installation of Mud valve on Filter 1 that is used for draining the filter when maintenance is needed and placed the filter back into service. o Operations staff worked with the expansion general contractor to both allow them to pull water from the non-potable water line for their hydrostatic pressure testing and to still allow the chlorine system to continue to run normally. • Regulatory: o Finalized all water samples for 2020 Lead and Copper Program and sent Lead Consumer Notification form to TCEQ. o Conducted dam inspection at the lake and checked the trail for erosion and washout o Completed Monitoring Plan for Lakeside Mud 3, and updating Monitoring Plan for Lakeside WCID #2D • Line Maintenance and Meters: o Line Maintenance assisted with quick response to fix a water line that was hit a couple of times during the Cemetery project located on Caldwell Street which temporarily caused surrounding businesses and homes to have no water. o Ran a new drain line for the pre-treatment demonstration at the lake pump building • Street and Drainage: o Drainage Maintenance assisted with the Cemetery project on Caldwell Street. o Streets repaired roadway on Sims Brooks and pothole repair on Ramble Creek and other areas throughout the City. o ROW Mowing mowed 685, Weiss, Heatherwilde and Immanuel and performed tree trimming o A traffic signal issue at Wells Branch and Immanuel was corrected. • Resource Recovery: o The Chipping program has ended the program officially on October 2nd with gathering any final piles belonging with the last weeks route. o The changes at the Recycle Center go into effect starting today, Friday October 2. Per the new fees schedule, services will be limited to City residents with the exception of dropping off brush, which will be allowed for non-residents at a cost. Please reference the City’s webpage for a summary of the services and charges: https://utilitybilling.pflugervilletx.gov/trash-recycling/recycling/recycle-center. o Compost is available once again for pick up by City residents. • Facility Maintenance: o Replaced a broken window in the Great Hall at the Library. o Working on repairing the natural gas line at PAWS.

October 9, 2020 Greetings Mayor and City Council

Be sure to be checking your Slack!

Save the Date: 10/31 – 1:00-4:00pm Halloween Drive Thru at Library Parking Lot 11/13 – Urban Land Institute Austin Chapter Workshop 11/17 – 6:00pm Special City Council Meeting to Canvass Votes

Administration: • Pink facemasks are available for the Mayor and Council for Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Please drop by the City Manager’s Office on Monday or Tuesday to pick up a pink facemask. Mayor Gonzales will read a proclamation declaring October as Breast Cancer Awareness Month at the Council meeting. • The Urban Land Institute - ULI Austin Chapter is hosting a 21-Day Equitable Development Challenge that is free and open to everyone through October. The goal is to spend time both personally reflecting and in group discussions to identify real actions we can take individually, at our company/organization, and as a community to address the inequities in the real estate industry. Participants receive weekly tasks and have the option to join facilitated group discussions. Register here. • City received notification on Monday regarding progress on the Southeast Loop and the FM 3349 at US 79 Interchange projects. Regarding the Southeast Loop, construction is expected to begin next summer 2021, just east of the Lakeside Estates neighborhood, and last approximately 18 months. In front of the neighborhood, most of the work will entail resurfacing and restriping. At the intersection of CR 138 and SH 130, the pavement will be widened for an additional dedicated right-turn lane from westbound CR 138 to northbound SH 130. You may view the interim schematic for this section on our webpage. Also, funded through the Williamson County voter-approved 2019 Road Bond, the FM 3349 and US 79 Interchange Project was identified in the Southeast Loop Study and was proposed due to the need for a grade-separated crossing over the Union Pacific Railroad. The schematic was finalized this summer and can be viewed on the project website here. Construction is expected to begin summer 2021 and last approximately 24 months. • The Youth Advisory Council began their year with a talk with Mayor Gonzales this week. The Youth Advisory Council includes 13 members from Brentwood Christian, Hendrickson, Weiss and Pflugerville High School. Next week, they will meet with the Parks and Recreation Commission Chair and attend their meeting. The group will also be volunteering at the drive-through trick-or-treat event at the Pflugerville Public Library on Halloween.

Communications: • Met for monthly meeting with Community Impact Newspaper. We briefly discussed special events, the Comprehensive Plan, Transit, HOT tax revenue and sales tax. They asked about our top priorities between now and the end of the year to which we emphasized there was a bond election coming up that would determine some priorities, close out of the budget year and projects etc. • Close captioning is now available on PfTV for government meetings. Captions are also visible on the television broadcast. • Promoted registration for PF 101 program and updated site. • Updated website with Governor announcement 10/7 and shared information with the County Participation when available. • Prepared press release for next week in anticipation of potential water rate changes and preparing city website.

Engineering: • The Old Austin Hutto project, as approved by voters in the 2018 GO Bond Election, is currently out to bid. The project is anticipated for award at the October 27 meeting. • The Wilbarger Creek Park Project is on target to be substantially complete on 10/20/2020 and final completion on 11/20/2020. • The Justice Center Sewer Repair Project is anticipated to start next week. • Staff is regrouping on the Gilleland Creek Bathhouse Project to review the location of the proposed buildings and the needs of the aquatic staff. • The Kelly Lane at Jakes Hill signal project is scheduled to start next week.

Finance: • The Comptroller’s October allocation of sales taxes has been completed and the revenue received by the City increased by 18.3% ($168,899) from October 2019. Through October, approximately 9.6% of the budgeted sales tax has been collected. This information and the attached sales tax analysis chart (attached as: FY21 Sales Tax October) is based on the net cash payment received by the City; however, reports you see from other sources may vary depending on the types of collections included (i.e. current, prior period, audit).

Information Technology: • Just a reminder, if you have not done so, please complete your cyber security training through KnowBe4. If you are unsure if you have outstanding training requirements, please check at training.knowbe4.com. Also, keep checking your email for notifications associated with cyber security training!

Library: • Virtual Program Highlight - Adult Craft Night: Botanical Leaf Embroidery. Adult Services Librarian Bette McDowell offers this monthly program utilizing one of our newest eResources called CreativeBug, a platform with video classes taught by designers and artists. Registered participants picked up a craft kit for the program through our curbside service then worked along with the curated video selected by Bette to learn embroidery techniques while completing a fun project. • The shift to virtual programming has necessitated a new skill set and cross departmental team work. Jesse Davis with the Communications Department has utilized his video and editing skills combined with the presentation skills of the library programmers to create highly polished, engaging videos for programs and tutorials. To see an example of one of these professional level videos created all in-house at the city, check out this Storytime with Ms. Carmen. It has the look, feel, and quality of something you might see on PBS! • Library staff has begun training on a new eResource that will officially launch later this year called Career Online High School (COHS). This new resource will provide the opportunity for a select number of residents to enter into an accredited, entirely virtual program for adults to obtain a high school diploma. We feel this opportunity will provide a huge impact in the lives of residents that we select for the program though an application process. More info to come when we get closer to our launch date. This resource was made possible utilizing Cares Act funds directed to the library.

Parks: • Events: o The Pfloating Pumpkin Patch is this Saturday from 11 am to 3 pm at Gilleland Creek Pool. For more information, pflugervilletx.gov/pumpkin. o The 2020 Virtual Deutschen Pfest 5K is currently accepting registrations. For more information, deutschenpfest.com/5K. • Community Service: o Last Saturday October 3rd, the Rotary club volunteers and department staff completed the landscape project for Pfluger Park entrance. We had 23 volunteers and 4 PARD employees assist with the project. See attached photo Pfluger Park. • Parks Maintenance: o Staff repaired broken cable at Pecan St. bridge low water crossing

PCDC: Report is attached as PCDC – October 9, 2020

Planning: • The Planning and Zoning Commission met on Monday, and took action on the following: o 1 final plats was approved o Seven subdivisions were statutorily disapproved – As a reminder the Planning and Zoning Commission approved modifications to the development review schedules to account for requirements created by HB3167. o Recommended approval of a Specific Use Permit for an office/warehouse in the 130 Commerce Park. This item will be before City Council on October 27, 2020. o Denied an architectural waiver request to reduce the parking garage size for dwelling units in the Cielo North project (located on the north side of Pflugerville Parkway just east of Greenlawn and Pflugerville Parkway) o Recommended approval of the update to the Transportation Master Plan, thoroughfare plan map. This update is being made to refine the thoroughfare plan map to align with the CIP related to the Roadway Impact Fee Study. • The Capital Improvement Advisory Committee met on Monday to discuss the collection rates and policy recommendations related to the Roadway Impact Fee Study. The recommendation by CIAC will be discussed during the Council worksession on October 13th and action will be requested by Council on October 27th. • The Comprehensive Plan website is now live and can be accessed through this link: pflugervilletx.gov/aspire Throughout the project, we’ll post updates, and information, here for our residents to know where we are with the project and encourage their participation in the process. • Building lighting is being installed this week along part of Main Street and Railroad. This improvement will give us the opportunity to light up our downtown for events, holidays and recognition's (ex. breast cancer awareness month, high school graduations) throughout the year. The lights were funded through the community grant from PCDC. Additional improvements, funded with this grant, are being made on Main, and in the Best Little Plaza in Texas, and are anticipated to be completed by the end of the month.

Public Works: • Water Treatment: o Replaced the pneumatic control valve air lines for Train 5 as an ongoing project to replace existing control air piping as was mentioned in last week’s weekly update. This work will continue to be done as time and material is present to ensure the control air is more robust and reliable going forward. o Installed the replacement Lake Pflugerville level transmitter. Once this can be programmed and integrated into the PLC and HMI, we will be working with the Communications department about putting some of this data on the website for both residents and staff to be able to see historical trends with the Lake level and how it moves over the course of each season with water demands. This will also work well with our Water Conservation department to show customers the effect their summer watering can have on both the Lake Pflugerville level and the volume of water that is used almost exclusively for irrigation. o Operations staff worked with Suez to adjust the acid cleaning setpoints to more accurately fine-tune the cleaning process. • Wastewater Treatment: o Operations staff performed the preventative maintenance on the existing chlorine gas regulators to ensure that this system continues to run smoothly until it is phased out with the Central WWTP expansion. o We have been working with our third-party SCADA service contractor to better collect more accurate rain data for the City as a whole. This data is incredibly valuable for the water and wastewater utility for various reporting requirements for both TCEQ and LCRA. This instrumentation will be housed at the WWTP and will be automated to be sent to both treatment facilities and will integrate in with the Lake Pflugerville level transmitter to work with water consumption data to help customers correlate how their water usage directly correlates to the rain that we receive as well. We want to make sure to quantify that decrease in volume for all residents to be able to see. o Maintenance staff are keeping the Clarifier 2 sprocket set running while also taking it down from time to time to weld on material to the sprocket teeth. They have been coordinating with the Fleet department to better weld the teeth material back on until the new sprockets are received. There was a delay in the delivery, but they should be delivered on 10/9 which will allow us to install first thing next week. • Regulatory: o Completed DLQOR's (Disinfectant Level Quarterly Operating Report) for 3rd Quarter and mailed to TCEQ o Scheduled 3rd round of TTHM testing (Total Trihalomethanes) for next week with Antea Group o Water Conservation attended the North Texas Outdoor Water Summit which is an interactive forum on everything utilities need to know to implement common- sense outdoor watering schedules and secure water savings. o Keep Pflugerville Beautiful Committee hosted the Keep Texas Beautiful Fall Sweep today at the 1849 Park. The project this year was re-planting the entrance to make the garden area more drought tolerant and to enhance the beautification for our community. • Line Maintenance and Meters: o Framed, poured, and paved a large section of sidewalk at 3917 Rocky Shore after contractor for AT&T damaged a water service line. o Rehabilitated monthly flushing hydrant with all new internal parts. o Installed multiple Smart Cover Sensors on manholes in Bohl’s Park. These smart covers will assist in determining inflow and infiltration issues in that area. • Street and Drainage: o The Street Crew made several small asphalt repairs along Kelly Lane in the section of Phase 2 where the pavement had rutted, creating a possible dangerous situation for motorists o The Street Crew made several small asphalt repairs along Grand Ave also where there was rutting • Resource Recovery/Recycle Center: o The Chipping program completed their final route last week and Waste Connections has taken over the chipping services effective 10/5-2020. o The Recycle Center started the new operation that includes assessing fee’s for certain items and saw 220 visitors during the weeks of 9/28/2020 – 10/8/2020. • Facility Maintenance: o Repaired and adjusted the gate at PAWS. o Mowed and trimmed the grass around the house at 102 S. 3rd. Street.

October 16, 2020 Greetings Mayor and City Council

Be sure to be checking your Slack!

Save the Date: 10/31 – 1:00-4:00pm Halloween Drive Thru at Library Parking Lot 11/13 – Urban Land Institute Austin Chapter Workshop 11/17 – 6:00pm Special City Council Meeting to Canvass Votes

Administration: • Please find the attached draft agendas for the October 27, 2020 Worksession and Regular Meeting titled cc102720wsa and cc102720a. • This week, Sereniah participated in a panel at the Engaging Local Government Leaders (ELGL) Local Government Oktoberfest 2020. The Oktoberfest, this year’s annual conference, was held virtually. The panel spoke on Gemütlichkeit. Gemütlichkeit is a German word used to convey the idea of a state or feeling of warmth and a sense of belonging and well-being springing from social acceptance. The other panelists were Amethyst Sloane, City of Fort Worth; Terrance Smith, City of Mobile; and Kent Wyatt, City of Tigard. • CANews (Community Advancement Network) October 2020#2 is attached as CANews. • The City Council will appoint the next Charter Review Commission at the November 10, 2020 Regular City Council Meeting. The Mayor will appoint three members and each Councilmember will appoint two members. Up to five additional members can be appointed by a majority vote of the Council. The Charter Review Commission must have at least 13 and no more than 20 members. Charter Review Commission members must be registered voters of the City with at least one year of residency. They serve without compensation and cannot be employees of the City or members of any other City board or commission. Please find attached information from the City Charter on the Charter Review Commission. Please submit your names for appointments to the Charter Review Commission to Karen Thompson by end of day November 5, 2020. • Sereniah and Trey attended the Travis County ESD2 Town Hall (virtually) on Thursday. Corresponding presentation is attached as ESD-2-Budget-and-Finance-Presentation. • Pflugerville Staff (Trey/Emily/Robert) met virtually with Austin Public Health on Monday to discuss the first year of the ILA to provide food establishment inspections, among other services. Attached is a presentation that summarizes the outputs titled FY20 Pflugerville ILA Re-cap. In addition: o Restaurant scores are publicly available: https://data.austintexas.gov/Health-and- Community-Services/Food-Establishment-Inspection-Scores/ecmv-9xxi o Complaints can also be made via 311 regarding permitted establishments • Staff met with TxDOT Austin Area Office on Thursday to discuss utilization of the Mokan Corridor for the extension of Kenney Fort Blvd south of SH 45 as noted on the Transportation Master Plan. • Staff held an ERP kickoff meeting on Wednesday with Plante Moran.

Communications: • Pflugerville listed #70 in the top 100 places to live - Livability contacted Pflugerville in March for more information for the best places to live award and announced that we are #70 this week! The Press release • Press release on the November water rates. We continue to work on messaging to better explain why the rate change was necessary including how the utility fund is funded vs. general fund; some of the major upgrades that are underway etc. The URL www.pflugervilletx.gov/utilityrates is setup with links to FAQs and additional information as we continue to tell the story of WHY these rate changes are necessary. The November utility bill insert does include information on the rate change and link to the utility rates web page. • Responded to media inquiry from the Statesman to clarify information about our wastewater plant operations for a story based on a recent interest group report. Article • Pflugerville Pfocus is now available at www.youtube.com/cityofpflugerville highlighting the upgrades at the plaza/downtown, the rate changes and that early voting is underway. • Week 30 Media Reporting pdf is attached.

Engineering: • Lake Pflugerville Park: 90% comments back to Halff, supplemental contract authorization needed to proceed to 100% plans. • Yellow Sage CDBG: 100% submittal received from Dannenbaum. Waiting on soil boring approval for final design of pavement section • Old Austin Hutto Road and Heritage Park Paving project is out to bid. • Construction: o Wastewater Treatment Plant Expansion: 40% of the project is complete and project is on schedule. Work continues on the aeration basin. Temporary Lift Station is still scheduled to be operational first week November. Contractors are working on excavation of the permanent lift station. o Wilbarger Creek Park: Parking lot paving is complete. Project will have Substantial Completion Walkthrough next week. o Justice Center Sewer Line Replacement-Started 10/12/2020 o Kelly Lane at Jake’s Hill Temporary Signal Light-Scheduled to start 10/20/2020. • CIP: o Pecan Weiss Water Line: ▪ Preliminary plan provided, coordinating with CP&Y o Historic Colored Addition: ▪ Extension of Lincoln east of Russell design – to be provided with 90% Survey and design o High Service Pump Station: ▪ Final Design: 100% design comments to be addressed.

Library: • Virtual Program Highlight: Fairy Tales with Kim Lehman – While staff has created most of our virtual content, we are still occasionally hiring performers for special virtual programs. On Saturday, this online event will feature a professional storyteller taking kids along on a fairy tale adventure. • Behind the Scenes: Library Tech, Rhiannon Damon took the initiative to create a New Employee Training Packet specific to the library. We will be able to utilize this going forward to quickly bring new hires up to speed and give them a quick reference tool for important information. This is a great example of one of our remote working projects we are completing during the pandemic. • Community Engagement: The Youth Services staff has initiated a newsletter for our homeschool families. Each month, library staff provides information about upcoming library events, new resources, learning opportunities, book reviews, online activities, and more. To see more of what we offer homeschoolers, check out our Homeschool Families webpage.

Parks: • Events: o Pfloating Pumpkin Patch was well attended last weekend. We had 3 flights, 40 tickets each flight and all the spots sold out. The event featured floating pumpkins, a water slide, a pumpkin toss game & a goodie bag for kids to take home. See photos attached titled Patch 1 and 2. o The virtual Deutschen Pfest 5k Pfun Run, Walk and Kids 1K is happening this weekend, Oct 16th-18th, deutschenpfest.com/5k • Parks Maintenance: o Staff performed trail maintenance on Mountain Creek Trail and at Lake Pflugerville Park (Massi Loop & Lake Edgeway trail connectors) o Crews repaired water fountain issues at Lake Pflugerville Park and Falcon Pointe Dog Park, and also replaced signage at the Falcon Pointe Dog Park as well.

PCDC: Report is attached as PCDC – October 16, 2020.

People and Culture: • The City of Pflugerville’s Annual Flu Shot Clinic is happening on Wednesday, October 28th at the Pflugerville Public Library from 8:00 AM to 10:00 AM. Baylor Scott & White will be at the Library to give flu shots to any employee and city council member no cost. Please see the attached consent form titled 2020 Flu Consent. The form should be filled out prior to arrival to ensure we move quickly through the process. o Day of Directions on October 28th: ▪ See attached map: Drive-Thru Pflu Clinic ▪ Drive to the Library entrance closer to 12th St/Pflugerville St West ▪ Follow the arrows ▪ Park in a Designated Parking Space indicated on the map ▪ A Baylor Scott & White representative will come to your car, gather your information, and administer your vaccination ▪ Exit following the arrows indicated on the map o Can’t make it to the Flu Shot clinic on October 28th? You have other options! ▪ Baylor Scott & White is hosting a community wide Drive Thru to Fight the Flu clinic this Saturday, October 17th from 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM at Baylor Scott & White Clinic-Pflugerville Medical Center. The address is 2600 E. Pflugerville Pkwy. Pflugerville, Texas 78660. If you are not insured on our plan through Aetna, pay for the vaccine upfront and we will reimburse you. ▪ See the attached flyer FluFlyerOctober17_Final

Planning: • At the Council worksession on Tuesday, we presented CIACs recommendation regarding the Roadway Impact Fess Study effective date and maximum rates. As we indicated, the CIAC was also asked to provide any comments on reductions that they would, or wouldn’t recommend, as part of the study. Attached please find the memo [file: CIAC Action Memo to Council 10.16.2020] regarding the responses received on reductions related to the study. • A site development permit was issued this week for a new office project located at 204 N 1st Street (southwest corner of W Walnut and N 1st). The property owner will be maintaining and improving the existing structure as well as adding an additional building (2,331 sq. ft) for office and meeting space.

Public Works: • Administration: o The City received a response from the PUC this week stating that they found the Manville CCN application administratively incomplete due to mapping (GIS) issues. We have notified Manville and they did mention that they are going through similar issues with the PUC on another application specifically related to mapping. We met with the PUC legal and mapping staff this morning to go over the comments. We plan to update the maps and resubmit by the end of next week. o The City complete interviews of Engineering firms for the Water Treatment Plant project today. The selection of the firm will be added to the October 27 City Council Meeting for consideration. • Water Treatment: o Finished final close-out of interim sodium permanganate chemical injection line for taste and odor control as well as zebra mussel mitigation in the raw water line coming from the Lake Pump Station to the Water Treatment Plant. o Installed and tested out back-up ACH transfer pump and combination electric starter to ensure a greater resilience in this critical chemical injection system. This will also allow for greater flexibility in the event a transfer pump fails. o Performed an infrared survey of both the main membrane building Motor Control Center (MCC) and the High Service building MCC to identify any electrical issues that need to be addressed during the lower demand months of the winter. This survey identified a few issues that can be fixed over the course of the next few months that will alleviate any concerns with arc flash in each of the MCC buckets in a safe fashion without any concern for any critical system failures during the higher demand summer months. o Started the process of slowly chipping away at the permeate line pipeline paint that had started to peel and rust over the life of the WTP. This process will take quite some time but will both extend the life of the pipe that has seen extensive rust pockets develop and also add to the appearances of the treatment plant upon first entering the main facility doors. o Maintenance staff pulled and inspected the strainers in preparation for a final flow-testing of the lake pump station capacity. Due to lower flows that we have been experiencing, we haven’t had a large volume of Asiatic clams and zebra mussels accumulate in the strainers. With the inspection out of the way, we are planning a final flow test on Monday to prove out the final capacity of the Lake Pump Station. o Maintenance staff installed and started up Lake Pump # 1 after the motor was pulled to replace a noisy bearing and was rewound to ensure the motor continued to run consistently. • Wastewater Treatment: o This week, Oncor needed to complete a pole installation and the movement of power lines in order to route power correctly to the new headworks facility that is being constructed as part of the WWTP expansion project. This switch to the new pole involved the treatment facility to run on their standby generator for the duration of the outage. Once the switchover was completed, the treatment facility came back on to line power without any issues. o Maintenance staff spent the better part of Monday replacing Clarifier 2’s sprocket and chain drive. This involved some significant work to pull the motor, gear reducer, and the original chain drive. This equipment has seen many years of service, so it was not in the greatest of condition; however, it was removed and replaced with a new chain drive. This work also involved coordination with our Fleet division as they manufactured a new drive cover to protect the chain drive from the elements after the original had started to show significant signs of degradation. o Operations staff attended a Human Machine Interface (HMI) workshop with our 3rd party SCADA provider that went through the scope of how the HMI will appear when the WWTP expansion project is completed. This lays the groundwork for them to better understand how it all ties together and how it will all appear when completed. This also provides them with the opportunity to be able to have input on the process if they want to modify certain aspects to work more efficiently for our operations team. • Regulatory: o Met with Antea Group for 3rd round of TTHM testing (Total Trihalomethanes) o Continue updating City of Pflugerville account profile with BSI (Backflow Solutions Inc.) and continue working getting Backflow tests completed that are on the non-compliant list. o Completed dam inspection at Lake Pflugerville. o Attended the meeting for the start of the Wastewater Pretreatment Program. • Line Maintenance and Meters: o Trenched 300ft at SWTP to extend the 1.5-inch Bleach and 0.5-inch Liquid Ammonium Sulfate lines to new injection locations. o Andrew Jones & Archie Isaac both received Water D License • Street and Drainage: o Planning for the next phase of the pavement preservation and rehabilitation is taking place as part of the Pavement Maintenance Program. o The pre-construction meeting for the first phase of the Heatherwilde Roadway Rehabilitation Project is taking place Monday the 19th. • Facility Maintenance: o Installed some dividers (plexi glass) in the children area at the Library and partitions in the City Council Chambers. o Finished replacing the natural gas line at PAWS, inspected, installed to the meter and turn on all pilots for the appliances. o Built a wall in the storage room to separate Maintenance tool area from water conservation staff. o Building Condition Assessments were conducted and are currently being reviewed. The information provided will help guide future projects and operational goals. Bipolar Ionization air purification systems are currently being installed in City facilities. These units are like UV disinfection but are not only a more consistently reliable technology in reducing pathogenic molecules but also lower energy costs.

October 23, 2020 Greetings Mayor and City Council

Be sure to be checking your Slack!

Save the Date: 10/31 – 1:00-4:00pm Halloween Drive Thru at Library Parking Lot 11/13 – Urban Land Institute Austin Chapter Workshop 11/17 – 6:00pm Special City Council Meeting to Canvass Votes

Administration: • A recording of last week’s Travis County ESD2 Town Hall can be found here with the PDF found here.

Communications: • Week 31 Media Reporting file is attached. • Communications staff attended a Texas Association of Municipal Information Officers webinar titled “What’s new on social media” with guest speakers Joseph Prorcelli, the Global Public Agency contact for Nextdoor and Jannelle Watson, the US Politics and Govt Outreach for Facebook/Instagram. The webinar outlined features useful for city governments. • Maggie Holman attended the Regional Incident Communications Conference Line (RICCL) meeting with Central Texas public information officers. • Updated the website pflugervilletx.gov/budget with a timeline of the budget process and clarification on key terms including maximum rate, no new revenue rate and information on the current budget year. If you have residents asking questions about the budget, refer them to pflugervilletx.gov/budget. • We are preparing communications items for the Comprehensive Plan Virtual Open House next week. The press release and Facebook event are out and the updated website with survey and resources will go online on Tuesday, October 27 at pflugervilletx.gov/aspire.

Engineering: • Kelly Lane Phase 2 - 95% Plans complete coordinated for initiation of Utility Relocations target to begin November 2020; Appraisals have been completed, pending city staff review, coordinating with Developments along Kelly Lane within limits of project; Phase 3 Schematic still ongoing. • East Pflugerville Parkway Alignment Study complete pending finalizing Selection Matrix and recommendation target end of October early November; also coordinating for selection of alignment for Travis County segment. • 1849 Maintenance Yard – City staff met with building supplier and concrete contractor. Options for siting the building were discussed. Will be handed off to Shawn Cooper upon his arrival. • Construction: o Wastewater Treatment Plant Expansion: ▪ As of end of September, current contract amount is $42,152,345.71 ▪ Major components of work complete by budget include: yard piping (34%), clarifier (85%), effluent filters (88%), UV building (88%), BNR basin (44%), and Headworks / Influent LS (4%) ▪ October milestones are planned for the following: Temp. LS for SH130 - delivery of pumps and associated pipework, effluent filters - canopy delivery and begin equipment installation, UV basin – begin installation of finger weirs, clarifier – begin backfill of the structure and complete hydrostatic , BNR basin – complete excavation of first half and continue slab and wall pours, and Headworks / Lift Station – continue excavation. o SH 130 Interceptor: ▪ SJ Louis has been testing installed interceptor line. Crews continue to back fill excavated shafts and interceptor line. As of the Middle of October the current contract amount is $12,762,393.94. Major components complete are the shafts (100%) piping and valves (85%). Upcoming milestones are the Substantial Walkthrough for Phase A of the SH 130 project o Wilbarger Creek Park: ▪ Substantial Walkthrough occurred on 10/21/2020. Contractor is working on punch list items. Parks crews are working on a few areas outside the limits of construction at the park clearing vegetation in preparation of final completion. Park is still on schedule for final completion on 11/20/2020. o Justice Center Sewer Line: ▪ Crews are working on repairs in the main hallway and lobby. Project is still on schedule. • CIP: o Weiss/Pecan Water Line: ▪ Submitted proposal for Supplemental Agreement #1 on October 13th, which includes archeological survey as required by the Texas Historical Commission and soil sampling and testing in the vicinity of the above ground fuel tank that was observed along the proposed route. The total was approximately $15,000, and once we have the signed authorization we will begin these services. o Wilbarger Creek RWWTFI/I Owner’s Rep: ▪ TWDB Funding Application has been accepted as administratively complete, currently answering questions as it is being reviewed by TWDB.

Finance: • The Finance Department met with FAB to review and consider action to provide a recommendation to City Council on the City’s updated investment policy. The action was unanimous to move forward to the Council for approval.

Library: • Have a safe and fun Halloween with the library! We are offering options for all age groups to safely take part in Halloween this year. On Thursday (10/29), adults who registered in advance will enjoy a virtual performance with a storyteller called Spooky Latin America. On Halloween, we will begin in the morning with a Dia de los Muertos Virtual Celebration featuring a family oriented storyteller. We will then have our Halloween Drive Thru during the afternoon, where families can dress up in costume and hold their bags out of car windows to receive goodies in the library parking lot. Staff and volunteers will be gloved and masked. Finally the day will end with a special virtual storytime with a friendly witch (Librarian Meg Miller). • Virtual Program Highlight – Book Buzz: Librarians Bette McDowell, Chermaine Burleson, and Meg Miller once again gave attendees the early buzz on upcoming fiction, nonfiction, and graphic novel titles for adults. Registrants picked up book boxes through our curbside service that included an advance reading copy. • Update on student support – As the school year continues virtual for most students, we have expanded the ways we offer support. Since the launch of the partnership with PFISD in May, over 1,500 eBooks from the library collection have been checked out by students utilizing the school district’s Sora App. To date, nearly 500 students have signed up for special DigiT Library Cards, which give them access to all of our electronic resources. Recently we launched a virtual tutoring service, Brainfuse HelpNow, which provides on demand, virtual, anonymous, tutoring for students of all levels available 7 days a week from 2 – 11 pm. We know it is a difficult year for students and we are finding new ways to provide much needed support.

Parks: • Events/Programs: o Deutschen Pfest Virtual 5K had 88 participants, ages ranged from 6-67, the fastest participant finished in 21.29. 190 of the original 278 registrations deferred their registration to the next year’s event. o Hosted a team of parks and rec professionals from the Brushy Creek MUD Parks and Recreation Department who wanted to learn more about our Esports programming, set up and future plans. • Community Service: o We have one Pfarmer’s Market left for the season. When COVID hit we didn’t know if we would have a market, but we were fortunate to be considered essential by the State of Texas. Once we opened, we never shut down except for some bad weather. We have kept our COVID precautions in place throughout the season providing a safe option for the public to purchase local goods. We currently have 15 active vendors who have enjoyed serving the public during this time, come by and check out our vendors one last time before the offseason. o Saturday, Oct. 24 at 7:30 am, the Knights of Columbus and American Legion will perform a formal presentation of colors at 1849 Park (photo attached). The local American Heritage Girls will assist with the presentation and then stay to work on a community service project in the park. • Parks Maintenance: o Staff performed irrigation, fence and gate repair at Stone Hill Park. o Crews cleared out the underbrush and raised the tree canopy along sections of the trail at the new Wilbarger Creek Park. With the park near substantial completion, the safety fencing and caution tape preventing entrance to the park has been removed by the vendor. There are still trash cans, hydro-mulch, etc. to still add before next month completion date but portions of the park are now available to public access. o Staff properly removed and replaced flags, and repaired split rails in Heritage Park at the Heritage House. o Ops crewed repaired a main line leak at 1849 Park.

PCDC: Report is attached as PCDC – October 23, 2020

Planning: • Earlier this year we applied to be recertified as a Scenic City. We have received the results of that application, and at the Council meeting on Tuesday, will be announcing that we have been certified as a Platinum Scenic City. This is an increase from our previous certification as a Gold Scenic City. • Comp Plan Update: The first community survey for the comprehensive plan which will go live on Tuesday. We are also preparing for our first virtual Open House for the Comprehensive Plan. The virtual Open House is planned for next Thursday, October 29th at 6pm and will be available via zoom and the City's Facebook page. The flyer for the open house is attached (file: CompPlan Open House 10.29.2020) Information on all things related to the Comprehensive Plan will be made available at www.pflugervilletx.gov/aspire. • On Wednesday, Code Compliance responded to a complaint regarding tree removal and construction activity at the property along Wells Branch Parkway and Dessau, southwest of the Walgreens. Staff found that there were a number of trees removed while a contractor was on site obtaining soil information. While staff is working on development applications for this property, construction activity has not yet been permitted. Staff is pursuing mitigation of any protected trees that were removed and are diligently working with the property owner to have this situation remedied. • The Board of Adjustment met on Wednesday, to consider variances for 502 S. 6th Street, to reduce the side street setbacks and increase the size of an accessory dwelling unit, for the construction of shed and RV cover. Both variances were approved by the BOA.

Police Department: • Monday Chief Robledo participated in the Travis County Dist. Attorney’s Interagency Sexual Assault Team Executive Committee virtual meeting. • Monday Chief Robledo and members of Command Staff participated in a Special Olympics “drive-by” at The Pfield to cheer on and show support for our Pflugerville Falcons. Participants parked and stood by their cars as our Pflugerville Falcons athletes drove by to ensure proper social distancing. • In daily communication with Travis County ESD2 regarding COVID-19 status and updates.

Public Works: • Administration: o Per the weekly update last week, the City received a response from the PUC last week stating that they found the Manville CCN application administratively incomplete due to mapping (GIS) issues. The City met with PUC staff to go over comments and have submitted data and responses to cure the deficiencies for the application today, 10/23. • Water Treatment: o Completed Lake Pump Station flow test to see what the water treatment plants Raw water pumping capacity is at this time. With the improvements made over the summer, the pumping capacity increased from 19.5 MGD to 21.25 MGD o High Service Pump #3 had leaking pressure sensor pipping and an issue with it faulting out (hardware Fault) during shut down. The leak was fixed, and fault issue was resolved, and it was put back into rotation. o Brandt Company removed a RPZ backflow preventer in the electrical MCC room which was a safety hazard and installed a new one in the Water Plant Lab. o Chapman Marine Inc. had divers clean the Raw water Intake Screen. • Wastewater Treatment: o This week, we installed a new discharge line for sodium bisulfite and insulated the line for cold weather. This line is vital for taking chlorine out of the water before being discharge into Gilleland Creek. We have also started winterizing pipes around the Wastewater Treatment plant as well. o Phillip Scruggs gave a tour of the Wastewater Treatment plant to Garver Engineers. Garver will be working on the new Wilbarger plant. o We completed the monthly DMR (Discharge Monthly Report) on CDX (Central Data Exchange) for monitoring and reporting to TCEQ. • Pumps and Motors: o Installed floating Aerator and returned to service at the WWTP. o Started bypassing a pump for rerouting the centrifuge drain for Pre-Treatment Sampling as part of the wastewater treatment plant expansion project. o Installed Flow Meter on Pfennig Pump Station. o Replaced Level Transducer (Transmitter) at Bohls Lift Stations • Regulatory: o Auto samplers are set up for initial pollutant scan for pretreatment. o Checked on non-compliance backflows at Stonehill Town Center. o Updated city profile on BSI online for Regulatory Department. o Had department colorimeters recalibrated as part of routine 90-day testing. o Received lab results of water samples for TTHM (Total Trihalomethanes). • Line Maintenance and Meters: o Completed the flushing pad for auto-hydrant flusher on North Heatherwilde. This location allows for us to flush the dead-end main at that location while minimizing any negative impacts on the surrounding businesses and landscaping. o Installed a sewer plug at the WWTP for pump bypassing of the drain waters from the plant back into the headworks. This bypass was installed so the influent into the plant could be sampled for pretreatment analysis. • Street and Drainage: o The Street Crew began crack sealing the pavement in the Highland Park area. Crack sealing is an important first step in maintaining streets. By sealing cracks in the street water is unable to infiltrate the pavement subsurface, which can create premature failure of the pavement. o The pre-construction meeting for the first phase of the Heatherwilde Roadway Rehabilitation Project took place on Monday 10-19 and work is tentatively scheduled to begin 10-28. • Facility Maintenance: o Repaired roof leak above server room at PD. o Finished replacing all air filters through out City Facilities (City Hall, Library, Rec Center, PD, PAWS, PW, WTP and Lake Pump) and washed all outside condensing coils.

October 30, 2020 Greetings Mayor and City Council

Be sure to be checking your Slack!

Save the Date: 10/31 – 1:00-4:00pm Halloween Drive Thru at Library Parking Lot 11/13 – Urban Land Institute Austin Chapter Workshop “UrbanPlan” at Typhoon Texas 11/17 – 6:00pm Special City Council Meeting to Canvass Votes

Administration: • The City Council will appoint the next Charter Review Commission at the November 10, 2020 Regular City Council Meeting. The Mayor will appoint three members and each Councilmember will appoint two members. Up to five additional members can be appointed by a majority vote of the Council. The Charter Review Commission must have at least 13 and no more than 20 members. Charter Review Commission members must be registered voters of the City with at least one year of residency. They serve without compensation and cannot be employees of the City or members of any other City board or commission. Please find attached information from the City Charter on the Charter Review Commission. Please submit your names for appointments to the Charter Review Commission to Karen Thompson by end of day November 5, 2020. • This week we are submitting our final round of documentation to Travis County for reimbursement of eligible CARES Act expenses in accordance with the October 31 deadline provided in the ILA. This documentation will allow the City to capture the full $3,530,000 offered by the County, in line with Council-approved priorities. PCDC has provided a summary of the Pf CARES Small Business Grant Program (attached) and BCL (our small business grant administrator) will provide a detailed report in the coming weeks as part of their scope. We are proud of the efforts across city departments to identify and implement creative and impactful projects to utilize these funds on such a tight schedule. • The City Council committee met with Travis County ESD2 on Monday. • Trey convened a meeting with AT&T representatives to discuss improvements and expansion of their services in the community. Further fiber investments and upgrades are planned for 2021. Councilmember Weiss and Mayor Pro Tem Peña also participated. • Please find attached the draft agendas for the November 10, 2020 worksession and regular meeting titled cc111020wsa and cc111020a.

Communications: • Communications helped with promotion of the Aspire Pflugerville 2040 Comprehensive Plan process by asking for public input. A survey is now open through November 20 to allow residents to rank priorities for the plan. Help share the link online to pflugervilletx.gov/aspire. You are also encouraged to share the post from the City’s Facebook page (facebook.com/pflugervilletx) to get as many residents as possible to provide feedback and take the survey. The first public open house was held on Thursday and communications supported this event with a Facebook live stream and promotions. • Pflugerville Pfocus is available at youtube.com/cityofpflugerville and features the Aspire 2040 Comprehensive Plan, newly opened Wilbarger Creek Park, an update on the Old Austin Hutto Road construction, and Pflugerville’s recent Scenic City and Wallet Hub awards. • Communications helped promote locations for Blue Santa gift drop offs and program launch. You can find more information at http://www.pflugervilletx.gov/bluesanta. • Coordinated messaging and video on roundabouts in anticipation of upcoming road roundabout construction. • Worked with media to further promote information related to the Heatherwilde and neighborhood road construction. • Did preliminary posts about the upcoming Old Austin Hutto Road construction. • Week 32 Media Reporting document is attached.

Engineering (CIP): • Kelly Lane Phase 2 - 95% Plans complete, appraisals completed and initial offer letters sent to all property owners as staff anticipates an Executive Session discussion for the Golf Course counteroffer as already received. Utility Relocation meeting scheduled 11/10; Phase 3 Schematic still ongoing. • East Pflugerville Parkway - Alignment Study complete pending finalizing Selection Matrix and recommendation target early November; continue coordination with Travis County for selection of alignment for Travis County segment. • Gilleland Creek Bathhouse - City staff regrouping to develop plan to keep pool open for 2021 season. • Pecan/FM 685 Displace Left Turn Lane project 100% Plans complete ready for advertisement/bidding, pending TxDOT approval. Awaiting TxDOT and EDA Grant formal approvals. • Pecan/Heatherwilde 100% Plans complete ready for advertisement/bidding, pending TxDOT approval. • Rowe Lane at FM 685, 90% Plans complete ready for advertisement/bidding, pending TxDOT approval for LOSA. • SH 45 W/WW 100% Plans complete ready for advertisement/bidding, target November 2020.

Library: • Don’t forget to celebrate Halloween with the library! Saturday begins with a virtual storyteller program for Dia de los Muertos. Next we will have our Halloween Drive Thru in the library parking lot for kids to get all kinds of treats in a safe way. Finally, we will end the day with a special virtual storytime with a friendly witch. • Virtual Program Highlight - Virtual Laser Cutter Craft: Features a different laser-friendly material each month with kits provided through Curbside Pickup and a video tutorial for the craft prepped by the library laser cutter. Catch the video of Librarian Meg Miller 's latest installment of her popular program on our YouTube channel here. • Speaking of YouTube - The library was recently granted a custom URL for our YouTube channel based on our number of followers. This reflects the growing interest we have generated from the many videos we post for our virtual programming. While the videos often debut on Facebook as well (where we get most of our views), the YouTube channel has become our video repository. Even when the pandemic ends, we now have a robust collection of program, tutorial, and other interesting videos generated by the talented library staff. If you are interested, take a look at all of the content on the Pflugerville Public Library YouTube Channel. • As a reminder, the library will be a polling location on election day!

Parks: • Community Service: o On October 24, Knights of Columbus Honor Guard, from St. Elizabeth Of Hungry presented the flags at 1849 Park. After the presentation, the American Heritage Girls of Pflugerville participated in a community service project at the 1849 pavilion. The AHG spread river rock on a landscape bed and also added mulch to several trees in the parking area beds. There were six moms and 8 young ladies who participated in the project. The AHG Troop plans to make 1849 Park a regular community service project site. See photos attached AHG 1 and 2. • Parks Maintenance: o Staff installed an electrical timer for the new park lights at Wilbarger creek park. o Crews repaired water fountains at Cambridge Heights Park and Moose Park. o Field Maintenance crew worked on irrigation repair for a leak at 1849 Park. • Programs: o Saturday morning at 9 am, the Parks and Recreation Department will host a free entry level Tai Chi class in the Pfluger Park in which no experience is necessary, and masks and social distancing protocols will be in place.

PCDC: Report is attached as PCDC – October 30, 2020.

Planning: • Aspire 2040 Comprehensive Plan Update: The first community survey for the comprehensive plan went live on Tuesday and we hosted our first virtual open house on Thursday. The open house was recorded and all things comp plan, including the open house, are available for viewing on our website: www.pflugervilletx.gov/aspire. • The following approvals were issued this week: o Quik Trip Construction Plans for the related Wastewater project. This project will construct the needed public wastewater infrastructure required to provide wastewater service to the Quick Trip property located south east of the SH 130 and Pecan Street intersection. The project includes gravity wastewater lines along the east side of SH 130 and a bored wastewater line across SH 130 to connect to the existing PCDC wastewater lift station south of the Renewable Energy Park. The lines are being sized with available capacity for the Quik Trip development and other surrounding properties which are also included in the City’s wastewater CCN area. o Project Charm Off-site Roadway: Construction Plans were approved for the Off- Site Pecan Street Widening improvements associated with the Project Charm/Amazon project. Project Charm has designed and will be constructing these improvements to contribute towards mitigating the impacts in traffic caused by the development as identified in their traffic impact analysis. This project will widen Pecan Street West of SH 130, adding dedicated turning movement lanes and through movement lanes on Pecan Street and will also add accel and decel lanes on the SH 130- frontage road at this intersection. Construction for this project is anticipated to begin the week of November 9th and will last approximately 7 months. o Pecan Office Flex site development, located at 2508 W Pecan St., will construct 3 buildings for office and machine sale and rental. o 54th Street Restaurant and Draft House site development permit was issued. The project is located at 19109 Limestone Commercial Dr near Best Buy. • On Thursday, Trey, Amy G. and Emily met with PfISD at their quarterly meeting. They discussed growth of the district, development projects and opportunities for future school sites.

Police Department: • The Pflugerville Police Department was awarded $20,757 from the Texas Department of Transportation’s (TxDOT) Selective Traffic Enforcement Programs (STEP) grant and Impaired Driving Mobilization (IDM) grant for promoting safe driving throughout the year. This is the third year Pflugerville Police Department has participated in the STEP grant program and the $12,847.62 received through that grant will be used for proactive traffic enforcement to ensure that Pflugerville streets are safe. The Pflugerville Police Department also received $7,909.38 from the Impaired Driving Mobilization (IDM) grant program, which will go to DWI/DUI enforcement this year.

Public Works: • Administration: o Amy Giannini and Brandon Pritchett attended the LCRA Firm Water Customer virtual meeting on Monday. • Water Treatment: o Wrapped up Manville Interconnect relocation project closeout that involved various ancillary components that changed how the disinfection process works at the WTP and how the system interconnects with Manville WSC. o Troubleshot and corrected an issue with the timing of Train’s 4 and 5 and their back-pulse valves closing too quickly which caused vibration along the header pipe of the manifold. Over time, this could damage both equipment and the manifold. o Replaced and reconfigured fill valves for the chlorine generation system to be more resilient to the harsh element of the chlorine generation system and the salt that is used for the system. This should prevent any premature failures and we have implemented a failure alarm in the event either of the valves fails to open or close. o Finished installation of support beams for the higher chemical injection solenoids for both the membrane cleaning and finished water disinfection. These were previously support via metal Unistrut that was never compatible with the environment and eventually rusted out. When we started to notice a degradation in the metal, we immediately began work to replace the support before we had a critical failure. The beams are now compatible with the environment and elevated off of the concrete floor to eliminate any residual water damage that could eventually rust the beams. o Started to now slow down diversion from the Colorado River to only divert roughly 5 MGD in preparation for winter demands given cold weather forecasts and recent rains. • Wastewater Treatment: o Wastewater treatment plant operations staff have begun the process of winterizing various parts of the plant. In a change from previous years, staff will be investing more money into the winterization of pipelines that will last for much longer than they had previously. The idea being to pay more upfront but save significantly on labor to install. • Regulatory: o Completed initial pollutant sampling for Wastewater Pre-Treatment Program o Worked on monthly Water Loss Reports for Pflugerville, Manville and all Lakeside MUDs o Met with Antea Group to conduct water sampling for TTHM testing o Mailed and hand delivered 14 letters to Pflugerville businesses that were out of backflow compliance o Patricia Rinehart and Eddie Garcia worked on and submitted the HEB Green Bag Grant today for Keep Pflugerville Beautiful to help purchase equipment used at cleanup projects for beautification throughout community. This grant is offered by HEB and Keep Texas Beautiful. This grant has been won numerous times by the committee. • Street and Drainage: o Crews are working in the Highland Park area cleaning grass and weeds that are growing in between the asphalt pavement and the concrete gutter in preparation of crack sealing. o A crew trimmed trees along Main Street in preparation of holiday decorations going up. Yes folks, the holiday season is almost upon us! o The Sign Shop made 56 signs this week, 36 of which are service award signs which are signs given to employees with 5, 10, 15, etc. years of service with the City. • Facility Maintenance: o Assembled all touchless thermometers, stands and made brackets for mounting thermometers on the stands and distributing to all assigned departments.

November 6, 2020 Greetings Mayor and City Council

Be sure to be checking your Slack!

Save the Date: 11/12 – Virtual Pflugerville Police Department Officer Graduation at 7:00pm 11/13 – Urban Land Institute Austin Chapter Workshop “UrbanPlan” at Typhoon Texas 11/17 – 6:00pm Special City Council Meeting to Canvass Votes 12/1 – Virtual TML Region 10 Meeting at 5:30pm

Administration: • The Youth Advisory Council finished October with a pumpkin carving/decorating contest judged by Mayor Gonzales and volunteering at the Halloween Trick or Treat drive thru at the Library. Please find attached photo of the winning pumpkin entry titled Winner YAC pumpkin and a photo of the YAC volunteers at the Halloween drive thru titled YAC Halloween Drivethru. • TML Region 10 will meet on Tuesday, December 1, via Zoom. The featured speakers will be TML Grassroots and Legislative Services Director Monty Wynn and Senior Legislative Advisor Jesse Ancira. For more information and to register for the free meeting, go to TML Region 10 Meeting.

Communications: • Communications assisted with election updates on the website, to employees and media. Monitored city web traffic during Election Day evening, sent press release on preliminary results and coordinated social media posts to inform residents • Continued updates on the Comprehensive Plan website and promotion of both the Open House feedback activity and the online survey. Launched a #ThankfulThursday campaign on social media to obtain feedback for the Comprehensive Plan. Added a button to the City homepage about the Aspire plan. • We met with Community Impact for monthly meeting. Editor Taylor Buchanan has left Impact. They asked about upcoming events and project updates. They are working on the December issue and mentioned Pf Cares program and highlighting larger stories of the year in the final issue. • Filmed and captured pictures of Arbor Day tree planting at Cambridge Heights Park. • Week 33 Media Reporting document is attached.

Engineering: • City staff hosted TxDOT Quarterly Coordination meeting 11/3 to discuss various City projects within TxDOT ROW. • City Engineer participated in ASCE’s Virtual CECON Civil Engineering Conference 11/4-6. • City staff submitted 3 advertisements 11/4 for Propositions A & B Bond projects and the Pecan/FM 685 DLT project: o RFQ for General Engineering Consultant for Transportation projects begin 11/11 o RFQ for General Engineering/Architect Consultant for Parks projects begin 11/11 o Advertise for Bidding Pecan/FM 685 DLT project begin 11/11; Pre-Bidding Notice and packet submitted to EDA’s Federal Engineer representative 11/6 • Construction: o SH 130 Interceptor: SJ Louis has completed the priority Phase A segment and a Substantial Walkthrough for Phase A occurred on 11/4 and punch list is being compiled. Phase B substantial walkthrough is scheduled for the second week of December. o Wilbarger Creek Park: Contractor continuing to work to complete punch list items. Parks crews are working on a few areas outside the limits of construction at the park clearing vegetation in preparation of final completion. Park is still on schedule for final completion on 11/20/2020 o Justice Center Sewer Line: Crews are progressing with work and project is scheduled to be complete in 2-3 weeks. o Stone Hill Splash Pad: Training and startup occurred 11/4/2020. Project is awaiting closeout documents from the contractor and manufacturer. • CIP: o Wilbarger Creek RWWTF/I: ▪ TWDB Funding Application still under review, and we are continuing to coordinate with TWDB during this process. Anticipate this will be on the Board’s January meeting for approval. In the meantime, CP&Y assembling procurement forms and documentation from design consultants for submittal to TWDB to show compliance with their requirements. o High Service Pump Station: ▪ Consultant provided 100% Plans, Specifications, and Bid Form. ▪ Project Bidding, open 11/11 o ADA Transition Plan: ▪ Received 1st Draft Report for ADA Transition Plan, comments pending review ▪ ADA Public Meeting scheduled 11/17, coordinating with PIO.

Finance: • Finance has been meeting with Plante Moran to review department process for the ERP project. • Finance met with the City Manager’s office and staff from Travis County ESD 2 to discuss future financial forecasts for the district.

Library: • Halloween Drive-Thru Recap: We had over 400 cars and about 1,000 happy children partake in the Halloween event in the library parking lot. Several other city departments and local organizations (including Youth Advisory Council!) also took part in the event. Children were given all kinds of goodies including candy, bookmarks, books, stickers, and much more. This successful event was planned by Youth Services Librarian Melissa Grzybowski. • Virtual Program Highlight: Romance Writers Panel – As part of National Novel Writing Month we are offering virtual programming each week to inspire writing. This week we featured a Q&A panel of romance writers for a fun and informative event. Next week we will host a virtual talk by mystery authors. Ready to write and self-publish your own book? We offer e-resources (Pressbooks, Indie Authors Project, Biblioboard) to guide you through each step of the process. • Native American Heritage Month: We are highlighting their voices with social media posts showcasing a specific book each day written by an author of Native American heritage. Check out one of these titles today! • In the news: Check out our latest Pflugerville Pflag article highlighting our support of virtual learning with our e-resources.

Parks: • Events: o Arbor Day Tree Planting – Friday Nov 6th at 10:00 am. This year’s event is staff only to prevent gatherings but we will video tape the reading of the proclamation, take some photos of the trees going into the ground and will have trees available at the holiday markets for families wanting to help increase the overall tree canopy of the city by planting their own tree as well. More details to come in a future weekly update. • Community Service: o The Pfestive Pfarmer’s Markets November 10th & 24th and on December 1st & 15th will be held at the Pflugerville Rec Center. The market will consist of 20 + vendors selling produce, meats, salsas, baked goods, pecan products, coffee, other grocery type products, face masks, and some holiday themed crafts. The vendors will be social distanced and customers will enter the recreation center through the side service door of the gymnasium. All CDC protocols will continue to be enforced. • Parks Maintenance: o Crew repaired the trail light on Settler’s Valley Trail. o Staff installed a new railing at the low water access on Pfluger Trail. o The Park Operations team participated in the Texas Recreation and Parks Society (TRAPS) Central Region Parks Maintenance Rodeo in Temple on Thursday. The group represented the city very well and for the first time had 3 staff qualify to compete at the TRAPS State Maintenance Rodeo in Frisco next year.

PCDC: Report is attached as PCDC – November 6, 2020

Planning: • Comprehensive Plan: Our The first community survey for the comprehensive plan went live last week. The open house, held last Thursday, was recorded and all things comp plan, including the open house and related activities, are available for viewing on our website: pflugervilletx.gov/aspire. The open house and related activities will be available online until Monday, and the survey will close on November 20th. • Projects of Interest: o Project Charm – This project continues to be an active site and the landscape along Pecan changes daily with the activity construction related to this project. Attached is an aerial photo provided by the project (see Project Charm photos attached). Roadway improvements being constructed by Project Charm, at the intersection of Pecan Street and SH130 are anticipated to begin next week. The roadway project will widen Pecan Street West of SH 130, adding dedicated turning movement lanes and through movement lanes on Pecan Street and will also add accel and decel lanes on the SH 130- frontage road at this intersection. o Lakeside Meadows – Staff is reviewing multiple subdivision applications for this project, including extension of major utility infrastructure, that will provide wastewater service to this site. The industrial properties to the south along Pecan and a portion of the residential are anticipated to be the first projects that begin vertical construction in this development. Staff is also working with this developer, and the adjacent property owners, on the long term alignment of Pflugerville Parkway in this area. The subdivision applications are anticipated to be approved by January. o Pecan District – This project has been issued a Certificate of Occupancy for Phase 1 of the multi-family project, known as The Elliott. The applicant is working through the subdivision process for the balance of the tract which is also anticipated to be approved by January. o North Pointe – Staff is continues to work with the developer of North Pointe regarding the extension of Colorado Sand through the eastern tract of the development. To date we have not received any submittals for development for this project since the approval of the PUD last fall. o Martin Tract PID –On 6/23 Council opened the public hearing for the Martin Tract PID. Staff is reviewing the details of the PID request with our PID and Financial advisors.

Police Department: • Friday Chief Robledo and Criminal Investigations staff participated in the District Attorney’s Inter Agency Sexual Assault Team virtual meeting where Chief Robledo, the ISAT Executive Committee Chair, gave an update on the direction of the ISAT going into 2021 and making preparations on working with a new District Attorney. • Friday Pflugerville PD was notified that the Office of the Governor awarded and activated funding in the amount of $77,945 for 3D Scene Scanning equipment as part of our Justice Assistance Byrne-Grant (JAG) application. The 3-D crime scene scanning system will allow for proper documentation of crime and traffic accident scenes in a more accurate and efficient manner • Thursday November 12th at 7:00pm Pflugerville PD will graduate five officers from Pflugerville academy class 2020-B. A private graduation ceremony will be held for the officers and their family members. The ceremony will adhere to social distancing requirements and will also be live-streamed via Webex to accommodate family members and Councilmembers who would like to attend, but due to COVID-19 they cannot. The Webex link as below: o https://pflugervilletx.webex.com/pflugervilletx/onstage/g.php?MTID=e315400acf1e0fb8 ee3e65be64191ef68 o Meeting Number 146 746 5645

Public Works: • Amy Giannini provided a presentation to the Austin Chapter of the Texas Society of Professional Engineers on Wednesday. The presentation included an update on Pflugerville including information about the preliminary election results and the bond programs approved by our citizens. • Water Treatment: o Plumbed dryers and finished installation of replacement integrity testing (IT) compressors that involved some small configuration changes for the discharge air piping. The compressor that runs the required weekly Integrity Tests is 15 years old and parts are not readily available in the event of a failure with the compressor. The new compressors should replace the existing unit and allow for a true service of the older compressor to keep extending the life of the unit but ensure that we have a secondary means of performing the required test if needed. o The water treatment plant group, in conjunction with both the Regulatory and Line Maintenance departments, has been working for a couple months now to reduce the amount of disinfection byproducts (DBPs) that are formed as a result of disinfecting the finished water leaving the membrane plant. The levels that we were seeing during the summer months were higher than normal which causes concern for utility operations as these are regulated by TCEQ and we are right on the line of having a violation given the annual average of our DBP testing. The next quarter of testing will be conducted in the middle of December by TCEQ, at which time we will know where we are with our annual average. The permanent mitigation method to minimize the formation of DBPs in our system are identified in the WTP expansion project which will look at ways to minimize our Total Organic Carbon through raw water pretreatment and to baffle the clear wells which minimizes the amount of time that the finished water is in contact with free chlorine. In order to try and combat these elevated levels in the interim, staff have integrated various operational strategies to minimize the levels of our DBPs in the distribution system while still being able to safely produce the required volume of water safely. These mitigation measures include: ▪ Minimizing the volume of storage in all tanks in town and at the WTP to minimize water age which allows DBPs to form more readily. This of course, comes with inherent risks of making sure we have enough readily available storage to keep up with water demands, but at this time of year shouldn’t be an issue. ▪ Significantly increased flushing at various high-water age locations around town. ▪ Further reduction of our finished water chlorine levels (chlorine is the primary cause of DBP when it reacts with Total Organic Carbon in the water supply). To minimize the risk of further reduction of disinfection levels, staff have installed a chlorine analyzer as close as possible to the injection point to ensure we don’t dip below required levels. ▪ Increased ACH addition at the head of the static mixer which will help further reduce our Total Organic Carbon (TOC) levels in our raw water (TOC is the root cause of the DBP formation as it reacts with chlorine to form DBPs). With this change, the membrane units will start to develop an inorganic fouling which operations will have to control with more frequent acid cleans. The acid cleaning system hadn’t been working for quite some time, and staff has been performing significant work to get it working properly again as has been noted in previous weekly updates. ▪ Re-routing groundwater from our available wells to better blend groundwater with our surface water supply (groundwater is normally absent from any TOC and therefore has very little DBP formation) o Worked with our third-party integrator to finish the programming and setup of our redundant brine pump for the sodium hypochlorite generation system and our ACH chemical transfer pump. The original design of these systems didn’t account for having a spare chemical pump at either of these two systems. Operations staff have installed both sets of redundant pumps and our integrator has now programmed alarms and feedback from the pumps to allow for alarming to notify operations staff when there is a problem with either of them. o As part of a comprehensive look at various facets of the WTP, it was identified that the “house-water” pressure feeding the main parts of the WTP for the lab, breakroom, bathrooms, and safety showers ran directly off of the main pressure off of the High Service Pump discharge header. This pressure can sometimes run upwards of 125 psi which had previously caused damaged piping within the facility. This week, a PRV was installed on the main feeder to keep that pressure more constant across the water line to hopefully reduce any chance of future line breaks. • Wastewater Treatment: o As part of the Industrial Pretreatment Program initial analysis, sampling was taking place at the headworks of the WWTP. To have an accurate analysis of all the incoming streams, process water from the centrifuges had to be diverted and a plug installed on the drain line. o As colder weather starts to set in, the operation of the WWTP has smoothed out a little while we await the delivery of the replacement aerator gearbox that was approved by Council on the October 13th meeting. With colder weather, we have a slower biological process which doesn’t consume as much oxygen as when the weather and wastewater is much warmer. With this decrease in oxygen consumption by the biological life in the WWTP, we are bringing both dissolved oxygen levels higher and therefore finished ammonia levels lower. This allows us to stay within our permit requirements for ammonia throughout the winter as long as we don’t have any catastrophic failures. o Operations staff were present during a presentation on a screening process that may be tested as a free pilot program on our solids processing units to possibly thicken our solids going to the centrifuge which could minimize our volume going to the landfill and thus reducing our solids handling costs. • Regulatory: o Assisted with transporting the backhoe to the Lake and dug out an area by the dam drains to allow for better drainage. o Changed out quick connections at 5 Bac-T sampling locations o Working on providing records and information for a Comprehensive Compliance Investigation of Public Water System (CCI) for Lakeside WCID 1, Lakeside WCID 2A, and Lakeside WCID 2D. At least every three years TCEQ conducts a thorough investigation on each Water District. • Street and Drainage: o Asphalt Crew- Performed crack seal, excavated roadway on Mammoth Cave due to roadway failure and made necessary repairs as well as making roadway repairs to Craters of the Moon. o Drainage Maintenance- Helped staining to the decks at City Hall in addition to mulching flowerbeds, mowing and completing the chalkboard installation. o The Sign Shop created signs for the Recycle Center as well as the Public Works Complex Entry gate informing Public of no-entry as well as 25 other signs that included regulatory. o Message boards were placed on Heatherwilde Blvd. informing residents of traffic changes starting on 11-18 for Heatherwilde Boulevard pavement maintenance project and door hangers were distributed to residents. o Right of Way Mowing mowed Heatherwilde, Weiss, Old Meister, New Meister, Schultz, Swenson Farms, Meadow Lane, 685, Immanuel and assisted the Recycle Center. • Facility Maintenance: o Started assembling shelves for the water tower for document storage and approximately 25% complete. o Painted the conference/training room in PW Admin building as well as re-waxing conference room floors. o Repaired a leak on 2” main water supply at PAWS.

November 13, 2020 Greetings Mayor and City Council

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Save the Date: 11/17 – 6:00pm Special City Council Meeting to Canvass Votes 11/19 – ADA Virtual Public Outreach Meeting 5:00pm 12/1 – Virtual TML Region 10 Meeting at 5:30pm 12/10 – Virtual TML Economic Development Conference

Administration: • The November Texas Town & City magazine – focusing on community engagement – is now online. You can view the online version of the magazine here. • The Special Council meeting for interviews and appointments to boards, commissions and committees has been rescheduled to occur on Tuesday, December 15, 2020 at 6:00 p.m. due to a conflict with the TML Region 10 meeting. The deadline for applications has been extended to December 1, 2020. A status of openings and applications is attached titled 2020 Board and Commission Openings. Please encourage citizens to apply. Applications are available on the city website here: https://www.pflugervilletx.gov/city-government/boards-and-commissions/board-and- commission-applications. • TML will be hosting a Virtual Economic Development Conference on Thursday, December 10 to “discuss tools, strategies, and solutions that can help foster financial growth and revitalize your community.” Learn more and register for the conference. • Please find attached the draft agendas for the November 24, 2020 worksession and regular meeting titled cc112420wsa and cc112420a.

Communications: • Road project communications: Prepared communications for upcoming Heatherwilde Roadway and neighborhood road rehabilitation project, and the upcoming Austin Hutto Road construction slated for next week. • Transit: Sent press release about transit ILA with Cap Metro – www.pflugervilletx.gov/news, Coverage in Community Impact, Pflugerville Pflag by KVUE News and KXAN Responded to media inquiries about transit and next steps for the bond projects. • Pflugerville Pfocus features Council thanking Marsh and Mcdonald for their service, information on the new transit Pickup program and reminds residents to take the Aspire survey. Watch Pfocus on Youtube at www.youtube.com/cityofpflugerville. • Comprehensive plan communications: Thank you to City Councilmembers who have shared the posts in Facebook groups and retweeted about the Aspire survey. Social media is proving to be very powerful in leading residents to the website for the Aspire participation. We are at 382 completed surveys and 20 people participated in the Virtual Open House questionnaire. The City is continuing the #ThankfulThursday posts on social media to keep the Comprehensive Plan on the minds of residents. • Communications staff assisted with virtual PD graduation ceremony.

Engineering: • ADA Transition Committee will be hosting a virtual public outreach meeting with the help Kimley-Horn and Accessology on Thursday, November 19, 2020 5-6pm. See attached presentation Pflugerville ADA Public Outreach Meeting. o Attend via WebEx at https://pflugervilletx.webex.com/pflugervilletx/onstage/g.php?MTID=ec3dd71f8a54c5 af95a62276fd1702493 (Event Number: 146 072 2975) or call 1 (408) 418-9388 (US Toll) for listen-only mode. • Construction: o SH130 Interceptor: Phase B substantial walkthrough is scheduled for the second week of December ▪ The overall project is 85% complete. ▪ The projected finish date of Phase is late December o Wilbarger Creek Park: ▪ Final walkthrough for Park Project 11/12/2020. ADA scheduled next week. ▪ Contractor is completing punch list items and monitoring vegetation growing in. Repairs by supplier for restroom scheduled for next week. In addition to making adjustments to spacing in play area to increase fall area distance between the playground equipment and any obstructions. o Stone Hill Splash Pad: Project is awaiting close out documents ▪ Construction is complete and is operational ▪ Walkthrough and training with parks staff was conducted earlier this week. Facility is ready for use, however it has been closed and winterized for the season. ▪ Projected close out date is 12/7/2020. o Construction anticipated to start week of 11/15: ▪ Jakes Hill Temporary Stop Light – Anticipated complete February 2021 ▪ Heatherwilde Rehabilitation Project – Anticipated complete March 2021 ▪ Old Austin Hutto Road – Anticipated substantial completion December 2021, final completion January 2022 • CIP: o Weiss/Pecan Water Line: ▪ Finalizing 60% design submitted 11/13/2020 for City staff review ▪ Ongoing coordination with Pape-Dawson to coordinate the water line alignment with the development plans and schedule for Lakeside Meadows projects o Kelly Lane Phase 2: ▪ All nine utility entities participated in the City-hosted Utility Coordination meeting on 11/10 Atmos, Oncor and Manville preparing to submit for City ROW Permit approval by end of November. A total of eleven (11) parcels identified for ROW acquisitions. City staff anticipates 3 Parcels to be requested for purchase during the 11/24 City Council meeting; four (4) parcels determined alignment can remain within ROW without interference; remaining three (3) parcels pending property owners counter, request clarification of potential added fees to accommodate existing features; and one parcel (1) is a Parkland that has been confirmed for the Park Commission meeting 11/19.

Finance: • The Comptroller’s October allocation of sales taxes has been completed and the revenue received by the City increased by 22.2% ($225,119) from November 2019. Through November, approximately 20.5% of the budgeted sales tax has been collected. This information and the attached sales tax analysis chart (attached as: FY21 Sales Tax November) is based on the net cash payment received by the City; however, reports you see from other sources may vary depending on the types of collections included (i.e. current, prior period, audit). • At last night’s Finance and Budget Committee meeting, the Committee reviewed the City’s Guidelines and Criteria for Tax Abatements and the City’s proposed Cash Handling Policy. The Committee made recommendations to provide the proposed policies to City Council. These will be included on a future agenda.

Library: • Virtual Program Highlight - Senior Crafternoon: Melt and Pour Candles. Registrants picked up kits through our Curbside Service and followed along at home with the instructional video created by Adult Services Librarian Bette McDowell for this hands on crafting project. The staff takes great care in planning these virtual programs to ensure our services to the community continue during the pandemic. • Career Online High School (COHS) Launch - We are excited to now offer this path for adults in the community to obtain a high school diploma through an accredited online program. We will select community members who take an initial assessment, complete a prerequisite class, and are interviewed, for this potentially life-changing opportunity. We will make a big marketing push after the new year to spread the word in the community. To learn more see our COHS webpage. • Keeping kids reading over Thanksgiving - Youth librarians Amanda Cawthon and Melissa Grzybowski are offering specially curated, pre-selected book sets for families with school aged children over the Thanksgiving break. Interested families can reply to our social media posts and we will prepare their books for checkout through our Curbside Service. • Director Jennifer Coffey and Asst. Director Daniel Berra met with the PCDC crew to discuss additional ways to work with one another in supporting workforce development and local businesses. We talked about some of the new learning and support e-resources the library launched in the past year (Creativebug, Business Plan Builder, COHS, Vet Now) and ways the library could help support PCDC's new Manufacturing Academy. We are also continuing our partnership to provide the online learning platform Lynda.com (soon to transition to LinkedIn Learning) to the community. We greatly appreciate all of PCDC's support! • The Library Board approved the library's updated 5-Year Plan drafted by Director Jennifer Coffey with assistance from board members. See the attached document titled 2020 5-Year Plan Final.

Municipal Court: • The Municipal Court Collections report has been updated (attached as “FY20 Court Collections”) for the entire first fiscal year. The number of referrals fluctuate due to the Court’s continuing work on file purging, show cause hearings, warrant issuances and cleaning up of files during our transition to paperless. The majority of older files, 2013 to 2018, have been sent and so the focus will change to 2019 forward.

Parks: • Community Service: o The Pfestive Pfarmer’s Markets are being held inside the Recreation Center on November 10th & 24th and on December 1st & 15th. The November 10th market consisted of 11 vendors who have already been selling produce, meats, salsas, baked goods, pecan products, coffee, face masks and other grocery type products. All CDC protocols will continue to be enforced. The market hours are 3:00 to 7:00 pm, come by and check us out. o On Sunday November 8th, Gregory Clarke, Eagle Scout candidate with Troop 408 completed his project consisting of building and installing (1) Owl nest perch and (3) small bird complexes along the Gilleland Creek Trail West. He and 8 other scouts spent 6 hours constructing the bird houses and the owl’s nest. • Parks Maintenance: o Parks and rec staff, along with the Texas Forestry Service, planted six trees at Cambridge for Arbor Day. Click the link for YouTube Video done by Communications: Arbor Day 2020 o Crews planted flowers and added mulch at Fallen Warrior Memorial in Pfluger Park. o The CIP playground replacement project at Creekside park has been completed and will open back up to the public on Friday (photo attached titled Creekside). o Staff have started off-season maintenance at 1849 Park. Crews have verticut the football fields, and will verticut the soccer fields this upcoming week.

PCDC: Report is attached as PCDC – November 13, 2020

Planning: • The Comprehensive Plan Advisory Committee (CPAC) held their 2nd meeting on Thursday evening. During this meeting the group reviewed the preliminary results and provided feedback regarding the vision statement for the plan and guiding principles. The first survey for the Comprehensive Plan is open for community feedback until November 20th and available at pflugervilletx.gov/aspire. • The site development permit for La Quinta/Hawthorne was issued this week. This hotel will be located at the northwest corner of Hilltop Commercial and Town Center Drive and will have 103 rooms. • As a reminder development activity can be found online at pflugervilletx.gov/maps along with a maps for resident services. • On Friday, several members of City Council participated with city staff, Planning and Zoning Commission and PCDC board members and staff, in a ULI Urban Plan event held at Typhoon Texas. This event was intended to be a realistic, engaging exercise in which participants learn the fundamental forces that affect development. Participants experienced challenging issues, private and public sector roles, complex trade-offs, and fundamental economics in play when proposing realistic land use solutions to vexing growth challenges. See picture attached ULI Event.

Police Department: • The Pflugerville Blue Santa program is underway and will run through December 4th. o Pflugerville Police Blue Santa is a joint effort of the Pflugerville Police Department and the citizens of Pflugerville aimed at providing holiday support for families in need. Blue Santa accepts donations of non-perishable food items; new, unwrapped, toys and of course, monetary donations. o A map of “Blue Santa drop-off locations” is attached. o For more information, please visit the website at: https://police.pflugervilletx.gov/community-programs/blue-santa

Public Works: • Administration: o At the November 24th Council meeting, staff will be bringing a resolution to Council regarding the rejection of a bid for the Colorado River Water Supply Improvements Project. This project was originally bid as a stand alone item and it only received a single bid of $775,395 which was significantly over budget and over the estimated cost of construction by $300,000. Due to us having another project out for bid for the water system, we took this project and bundled it with our High Service Expansion Project to bring in more construction contractors in the hopes of getting a better price. This proved successful as we received 4 bids on the bundled projects which had the Colorado River Water Supply Improvements Project come well under our budget of $525,000 and roughly around the estimated cost of construction. The bundled projects will also be on the November 24th Council agenda for your consideration. • Water Treatment: o Installed support bracing on sodium hypochlorite fill lines so that the lines are better supported against sagging which creates an issue with eventual pipeline leaks. At the same time, staff removed the chain link fence that had a significant amount of rust on the western edge of the chemical storage area and will be replacing it with concrete bollards instead. This both allows for better access for staff and equipment to be moved and worked on without the use of specialty lifts and equipment. o Finalized plumbing for low-dose sodium hypochlorite pumps to ensure that we have proper disinfection when we have lower than normal flows going through the water treatment plant in the winter. o Pulled Permeate Pump # 5 as we have had a slow oil leak on the mechanical seal for the pump throughout the summer and needed to pull the pump to get repaired. The pump was pulled, and the spare unit was installed. Once the pump is repaired, it will be installed in place of Permeate Pump # 1 as this pump has a very small water leak from the seal. These activities are part of our winter preventative maintenance program in order to ensure that the plant and related equipment are prepared for this summer. • Wastewater Treatment: o Over the past 6 months, the City’s Wastewater Treatment Plant has seen a significant flow increase from the previous year. As EPA and TCEQ register flow on an annual average, we have slowly been getting closer to our permitted flows of 5.3 MGD with the increased flows of the past 6 months. This increased has caused the Central Wastewater Treatment Plant’s annual average flow to exceed the permit allowances set by TCEQ which has caused exceedances for our treatment facility. While staff has been managing the flows as well as can be expected, with a plant that is maxed out entirely since the pandemic hit and Pflugerville day time population increased, it makes the existing equipment be critical to the operation of the plant. If a single process goes down, it puts significant strain on the treatment plant’s ability to produce a quality product at the effluent. This came into play several months ago when we had an aerator fail which caused the plant to have elevated levels of finished ammonia until we could get temporary measures installed and in place before the permanent fix was ordered. While operations and maintenance staff are working tirelessly to properly manage the facility and its components to the best of their ability, the flow that is causing exceedances can’t be controlled by our operations staff. The expansion of the facility that is still ongoing will alleviate these problems with flow exceedances, but construction won’t be entirely complete until late 2021. o Staff installed the replacement VFD (variable frequency drive) on the second centrifuge that was mentioned in a previous weekly update after it arrived. This ensures our solids handling process continues to work as intended while not requiring staff to run the centrifuge for longer hours to keep up with the solids at the facility. o Operations staff installed a new polymer injection line at the biosolids building to ensure they can always identify if and when there is a problem with their injection system. The types of polymers used on these systems can become incredibly congealed and cause significant damage if not identified quickly enough. • Pumps and Motors: o In order to facilitate repairs to one of the submersible pump elbows and the discharge piping of all of the pumps, staff started a bypass pumping operation at the beginning of the week in order to make necessary repairs. This involves significant coordination with various contractors for material availability for the pumps as well as materials for plugging the line and running a bypass pump around the lift station. Work is estimated to be completed by the early part of next week. • Regulatory: o Continued updates on monthly water loss reports for 2020 o Met Antea Group for 4th round of water sampling for TTHM testing (Total Trihalomethanes) o Completed monthly dam inspection o Hand delivered x5 non-compliance letters to Pflugerville businesses regarding backflow prevention o Completed and sent records and information to TCEQ for a Comprehensive Compliance Investigation of Public Water System (CCI) for Lakeside WCID 1, Lakeside WCID 2A, and Lakeside WCID 2D. • Street and Drainage: o At the November 24, 2020 Council meeting staff will be bringing ordinance 24- 69-4-21 titled Repair of Defective Sidewalks to Council to discuss the ordinance language as it relates to current City operations and potential changes. The ordinance currently states that the property owner is responsible for the reconstruction or repair of the sidewalk, however, the past and current practice of City operations is to contract repairs as necessary. Staff will has modified the language to allow the City to repair the sidewalk while leaving the responsibility on the homeowner, to be more consistent with current operations. The City’s current operations are consistent with other communities such as Hutto, Round Rock, Cedar Park and others. o Banners celebrating Veterans were installed throughout the City. o Holiday decorations are going up all over town. o Crews assisted with an emergency street closure on Pflugerville Parkway due to a vehicle collision at SH 130. o The Drainage Crew repaired the drainage channel on Hoops that had erosion damage. • Facility Maintenance: o Installed three humidity and temperature sensors in the second, third and fourth floor at the water tower. o Trimmed overgrown vegetation at the Library in preparation for Holiday decorations.