store lock it to the frame of the car. Thank you very much.
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Mayor Hallisey – I’ll breeze through these, but I do want to call attention to them. We
want to congratulate our Convention and Visitors Bureau staff, Juliana Aguilar, Stephanie
Polk, and Ashley Donde, on taking home four designation excellence awards from the
annual Texas Association of Convention and Visitors Bureau conference. These awards
recognize outstanding contributions to destination management in Texas and are juried by
an impartial panel of industry experts. I don’t see any of them here tonight, but I hope they
see this tomorrow. Thank you, you make us proud. We have a human trafficking event
taking place on October 6. It’ll be at the Civic Center. There’s a young lady in town who
kind of leads this. I’m going to tell you something, if you have children in this world, you
need to pay attention to what’s going on out there. Snatching kids, selling them into
slavery, sex slavery and every other thing. There are enough stories to make the hair on
the back of your neck turn white, and then green. They’re going to talk a lot about the
signs that you can look for. Senator Taylor’s wife, who runs a big organization out of
Houston, will be down to talk about it. Our district attorney will be there to talk about it
and I’m sure our police department will be there. So, October 6, Johnny Arolfo Civic
Center right across the parking lot here, it’s well worth your time to pay attention to what’s
going on. Congratulations to the League City Police Department. It says see the article,
but I read it in the newspaper. These guys did a great job of tagging a guy that was from
League City that was over in Beaumont. They chased him down, they put him in jail. We
always know our police department does a great job. General Lee, you’ll tell them all that
over there, right? That’s Lieutenant Lee, but I like General Lee. Just makes me feel
better to say that. He’s a good guy. Also, I want to thank Chief Lugo and our volunteer fire
department. It was mentioned earlier, I won’t go into great detail, but the 347 people that
lost their lives in the 9-11 crisis in New York City, every year the volunteer fire
department runs those stairs at Columbia football stadium in honor of those people. There
was a guy out there with one lung running. Larissa ran. Justin didn’t run, he sat with me but
he was there. We missed all the rest of you. I know your schedules are busy. Chief Lugo
made the front page of the Daily News today, so we’re very proud of him. He’s not here
either, I don’t guess anybody wants to be congratulated, but that’s alright. We were proud
of him and proud of our volunteer fire department as we always are. You met her earlier,
but congratulations to Jackie Liddel, who is the chairman of our League City Beautiful
initiative, who won first place for her painting last weekend down in Galveston last week.
She’s done a great job of providing leadership for that committee. You see all the boxes
around town that are being painted, you see the sides of buildings being painted. They’re
really taking it to heart. We’re proud of them. Congratulations to the library for hosting
the Astros Orbit. Who knows who Orbit is? That big green thing. That’s him. If you go to
the games you know about him. I understand it was so well attended they had to turn
people away at the door, which is a bad problem to have, but Orbit was outside cutting up
with them so that was good. The health fair again this year was huge. It’s a great place to
get info for keeping your health in good shape, get your flu shots and everything else. That
was out at Hometown Heroes, so thank you to those who put all that on. Last thing for me.
