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are there any additions or relations
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approve the agenda as presented
so Move Motion by Roby any discussion

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hearing none all those in favor signify
by saying I I anyone oppose motion

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carries we've also got a few items on
the consent agenda uh I'll entertain a

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motion to approve those items on the
consent agenda motion to approve motion

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by Kevin any discussion hearing none all
those in favor signify by saying I

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anyone opposed motion
carries uh next on the agenda is the

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public comment and we have two sign Mr
Frank Kennan okay right uh if you'll

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state your name and three
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okay my name is Frank Keenan I I reside
on Victor Street just wanted a little

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shout out to utilities department
specially electric crew in a low power

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line called in him out we both agreed
he's going to be back the next day and

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before I knew it was done they rais a
line about 4 foot for service both my

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house in my neighbor's house I call
Spectrum and then at Spectrum is good

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driver
at but doesn't bother me because I don't

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have at service so number two is U
update on the city park on North has got

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any information out of that and when
that project is done is there any

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thought about renaming it to
to Pat Park Memorial Park Veterans Park

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there's a whole bunch of names I think
would be appropriate yeah and we

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actually hopefully sometime in March or
April we'll have the final design ready

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to go to B um it's been a unique project
because of the water uh but uh water

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just a little bit but yeah so hopefully
you'll see some um some dirt being turn

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this summer okay all right that's that's
my comments yeah thank you thank you sir

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um Mr Hall Danny
hle okay Alan three minutes yes

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sir Mar and uh city council and City uh
attorney and manager uh just over what's

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been going on just got a question to you
for one thing uh Are you ashamed of The

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Honorable president Donald Trump
uh because I'm actually ashamed of y'all

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he's he's come out and said that there
are only two Sexes and yet uh we

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wouldn't do it in our city or county or
our state he said that uh that boys

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could not be in in females bathrooms or
in sports and yet we didn't protect them

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on their own in the city or county or
our state so now they're drawing up

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things to fall behind but I'm like I
said I'm ashamed that we didn't stand uh

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to just common sense I also want to
address to you and and uh things that's

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coming out and the thing that was put on
the TV and everything else believe the

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science and yet the science today is
showing more and more the lies of well

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just more or less say the previous
administration and the highest paid

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person Dr FY uh by the federal
government but uh children has been

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wounded at 212% % greater after taking
the shot and having uh disorders as ADHD

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epilepsy Caesars brain inflammation and
and learning disorders uh there's other

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ones that another area is calling for a
halt of the injections particularly in

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children another one even by fizer own
report said after they took the shot 4

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days there was 12200 deaths 42,000
injuries and nearly half of these were 8

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18 to 50 which didn't really affect too
seriously about even if they had that

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that sickness so even madna is coming
out now and saying that they got the

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vaccine before the virus was even
released to the world so I know the

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whole problem that wearing this mask and
it was put even pushed here in the city

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and everything else is that we're scared
to die and the Bible says appointed a

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man wants to die and after that's a
judgment and so no matter what any of us

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do we all going to die
so but when we start forcing people

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against their will to wear masks take
shots and everything else then we've

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violated the Constitution freedom
justice and Liberty so I just uh ask you

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that all of you would consider before
they do another plan pmic that all these

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things that you have a different outcome
a different thought and not be so scared

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for your lives and seeing and and even
taking action uh following Donald Trump

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president uh to protect their children
in the schools from the shot and from

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this uh sexual disorder uh that that's
going on thank

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you okay next item on the agenda I'll
turn it over to Brian or chief green uh

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for a special recognition

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mayor we've had a busy day so we didn't
get a chance to go home and change into

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our address uniforms we do apologize to
John who looks a lot better than we do

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but
uh uh we are here to present John his

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intermediate certificate um the state
training and standards recognized two

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certificates for law enforcement in
North Carolina intermediate certificate

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and an advaned certificate uh it's based
on years of service training as well as

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education can take the place of some of
the the training points we receive so

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it's a combination of of things to to to
get this it's not easy to get uh

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requires a lot of work and we would like
to present John with his intermediate

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certificate
and um the uh well I'm sorry I'm

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ti so but we would like to present
anybody's intermediate certificate from

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training standard
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John congratulations thank
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you okay next item on the agenda I'd
like to ask Jamal Farley to come forward

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please
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oh and Mary Francis I didn't know we
were going to have

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two but uh this is a special day and uh
the city is honored every February to

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recognize Black History Month and uh I
thought I was just going to be talking

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to jam and I i' had been picking on him
earlier but now that I see Mary Francis

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I I'll be nice okay uh but uh whereas
during Black History Month we honor the

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extraordinary contributions made by
African-Americans through the history of

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our Republic and we renew our commitment
to liberty and justice for all and

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whereas during Black History Month we
recognize the achievement of

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African-Americans and their role in
shaping history along with the

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contributions that African-Americans
have made to enhance the economic

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cultural spiritual and political
development of our of our country and

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there's a whole lot more there but now
there the lincolon city council does

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hereby Proclaim and declare the month of
February as Black History Month in

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lincolon North Carolina and further
encourages all citizens to observe the

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month with appropriate programs
ceremonies and

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activities I can shake your hand
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we appreciate you uh mayor and Richie
and all Council for doing this uh

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because we do have a lot of rich black
history in Lincoln County from the

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Eastern to the Western and in between
and we have history standing next to me

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as she was the first
africanamerican elected official on the

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council so um we thank you thank you for
your support and uh hope to make things

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better in the new future thank you and
let me let me add to that if I'm not

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badly mistaken Mary Francis was not only
the first African-American elected to

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city council but she's the only person
that has ever been elected to a position

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in Lincoln County so but not not the
only one well it's more to

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come not the last it's more to come she
the first but won't be the last thank

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you thank
you thank

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you and I I'll say this Jamal and I go
back so far oh gosh uh ever since he was

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was a kid so uh I I have earned the
right to pick on Jam

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but some most of them are my

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teachers Mr Johnson I
know thank you all okay next item on the

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agenda is public hearing and I'll open
up the public hearing and turn it over

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to Jean good evening how are youall
tonight um this is um currently ex zoned

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exist I'm sorry the existing zoning is
neighborhood business this property is

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located on North Carolina Highway 27 um
doesn't have an address but it's four

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different Parcels which are listed
here the proposed zoning would be a

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conditional rezoning to General
manufacturing and Commercial conditional

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District um it's these three lots
they're currently vacant um you can see

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that by the brown color they're already
they're already Zone commercial it's

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just neighborhood business um and the
proposed use would be for a warehouse

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for storage for delivery of incontinence
and nutrition products throughout North

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Carolina this is an area where you can
kind of see see the lots a little bit

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better and how they sit we're um these
27 splits and it to the left it's 150

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and to the right is 27 and there's the
bank um I think there's an insurance

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office bugbusters is here um so the left
side is predominantly commercial and the

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right side is predominantly
residential that's a just a street view

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of the empty
lot um this one I just did it so you can

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kind of see the commercial business the
church and the insurance and then it's

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this
here and then I just s an aerial from

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Google so you can kind of see what
businesses are there and this this area

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with the trees is the area that we're
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about um it does back up to
um sorry I can't Road right off the top

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of my head Arcadia Heights Road sorry
about that um so this is Arcadia Heights

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Road and that's just a view from that
road currently the land use plan um

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shows this in the neighborhood business
and plan business area um we do feel

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that it's consistent with those areas
when you read the descriptions um so we

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do not recommend um amending the land
use plan we do feel like it's consistent

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with that and you can see the colors the
back three lots are in the neighborhood

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business and the front lot is in the
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business I'm going to switch the screen
just so you can see but it is um we'll

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look at the site plan in minute in
closer detail but it would be an

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11,990 ft building it would have eight
reg parking spaces um two accessible

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parking spaces one loading dock 3 to
five employees it's for storage and

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distribution of medical supplies um the
hours would be Monday through Friday and

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their business hours I think they I
think he said 7 to 4 so no late nights

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um right now they only have one Traer
trailer per month and five to six box

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trucks per month um and they do show
them here that in the future they might

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potentially add an accessory structure
behind it just an extra storage building

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um but but that's not in the plans in
the immediate plans and I'm just going

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to get out of this one and just show you
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the plan it's

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not you can see that we come off at
27 and when you come straight in there

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would be the loading dock and the trucks
would be able to back into the parking

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area and and get out easily it shows the
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spaces they would have a sidewalk out
front and it's set pretty far back on

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off the road that first lot is pretty
much just going to be open space and

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then the driveway and parking with the
building set towards the

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rear any questions about the
cycling is that in the jurisdiction of

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the sheriff
department that is in the etj I believe

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let see actually yeah it is it is um
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Department it would be serviced by us
for water their sewer would be private

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their electrics through Duke Solid Waste
would be a private vendor and but it

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would be the lincolon fire department we
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15027 um there were there were several
conditions of approval from the staff

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Review Committee um I've got them listed
in your packet we're not going to go all

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over all of them but it's used you know
it's the standard just meeting the

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ordinance requirements for screening
Landscaping parking lot Landscaping we

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asked that they leave as many wooded
areas as possible um and they'll show

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that on their plan um they will need an
erosion control plan and submit that to

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Danielle at the county
um and CDOT would require a driveway

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permit and an encroachment agreement for
utilities um there are a couple things

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he wanted labeled on the site plan um
they would need to meet the requirements

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of appendix D of the fire code um they
would need an approved water supply on

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site um before they have combustible
materials on site and they need to

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coordinate with the Fire Marshall and
any requirements for fire suppression um

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our City Public Works did not have any
comments because it is in the etj so it

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would not be there streets and then um
Water Resources said that they would

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need a waterline extension permit from
um ncdeq and install a water line to

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connect the existing water line in front
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27 um this is a conditional zoning it
would have an expiration date of 5 Years

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From the date of approval any
adjustments that don't affect the

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overall layout of the plan and then our
technical nature we would let whatever

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Department made that comment approve the
change if there were changes on the site

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plan that affected it move the building
closer to the road or change the density

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or change the size it would come back to
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approval we have to look at the
statements of proposed consistency and

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reasonableness um so the lincolon land
use plan does that show this in the

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neighborhood business and plan business
as we talked about earlier um it is

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consistent with the land use plan
because it expands commercial

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development along East Highway 27 um and
it's reasonable because develops vacant

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land that is currently underutilized and
it reuses an existing property that's

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already zoned commercial um if you did
choose to deny it you would need a

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statement to support that and it's the
reason I just put that it's um the use

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is not desirable in the area and
therefore reasonable

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denial planning board did vote to
approve this um 6 to zero in favor of

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recommended approval and they recommend
the following actions recommend approval

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of the resoning of the property from
neighborhood business to GMC conditional

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District
approve the statement of consistency and

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reasonableness for approval of the
resoning request and that the zoning

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would be effective upon the signed
signed conditions of

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approval any questions for
me the existing zoning and and Zoning

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we're looking to change it to what what
would you say are the key differences

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between those two zonings neighborhood
business it's typically smaller sized

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buildings um but you could have like in
neighborhood business you can have a

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convenience store store it just can't be
you can't sell gas per past midnight um

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there's just a different variety of uses
GMC typically is a wider variety of

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industrial type uses um but when you do
these conditional zonings it it makes

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them adhere to what this site plans say
um so it would be restricted to that

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11,900 ft building um if you wanted to
put a condition on the hours you could

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cuz the condition follows it um that's
up to you I don't have a condition on

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the hours I just went with what he said
that they would be but we did not put in

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a condition of approval and if it were
if it were more residential if it were

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surrounded by residential but it's on 27
headed east and it it is the left side

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is predominantly commercial and I think
that you'll see East Main expand that

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direction play for commercial
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okay and the applicant is here if you
have any

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questions any other

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questions uh Bud do you want
speak not unless you have questions je

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said it a lot better than I
can then uh I'll entertain a motion to

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close the public hearing that motion
motion by Jill any discussion hearing

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none all those in favor signify by
saying I I anyone opposed motion carries

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now I entertain a motion to
approve uh as recommended by the

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staff I'll make that motion motion by
Kevin any discussion hearing none all

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those in favor signify by saying I
anyone opposed motion

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carries thank

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Ben okay next item on the agenda is our
audit

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report and I'm going to turn it over to
Pam so that if she wants to make

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38 oh yeah yeah I was about to leave
that John D

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oh how in the world could I do
that okay John it's all

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yours just can't leave out on I've been
wanting to ignore John for

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years good evening good evening I'm here
it's my honor tonight to come before you

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to present a request for lincolon City
industrial incentive Brant now I'm

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representing a Lincoln City existing
industry the name of the company is Fant

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fantech is located at 352 North General
Boulevard spant Tech manufacturers

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expanded metal sheets cools and
component parts this incentive request

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is for the construction of a 20,000 ft
Warehouse Edition the installation of a

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new 10t expanded metal grading line and
a new stamping press and the agreement

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would read that honor before February
5th 2025 spantex shall begin the

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construction of a building addition and
equipment

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expansion within two years dat of this
agreement spanch should make an

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investment in machinery and building
expansion of 3, 850,000 of which 3,

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205,000 will qualify for incentives
under the Lincoln City industrial

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incentive Grant policy within two years
at this agreement spantech will also

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provide at least four new jobs at such
site paying an average weekly wage of

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$11,000 including
benefits and upon approval of this

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requests the city will provide
$2,187 per year in Grants after all the

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taxes are paid and the investment is
made this would be a 5year period after

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the Project's completion this is a level
two incentive grant for this type of

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project I'll be glad to answer any

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questions any questions of John I think
so if not I'll entertain a motion to

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approve the economic incentive grant for
spend excuse Mr Mayor can I ask if you

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would do it in two different one's a res
one approve the resolution to do it and

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then a second motion to approve the
agreement itself okay then uh I'll

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entertain a motion to approve the
resolution so Move Motion by Roby any

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discussion hearing none all those in
favor signify by saying I anyone oppos

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motion carries now I entertain a motion
to approve the uh incentive Grant

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I'd like to make that motion motion by
Kevin any discussion hearing none all

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those in favor signify by saying I
anyone opposed motion Carri thank

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you now I was trying to leave po John
out Carol

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um I'll let Pam introduce you and uh say
whatever she wants to about about the

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audit well uh good evening Council as
you know this is our annual time to

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review our prior year audit and Carol
with louder milk church and Company is

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here to uh what I say give you the good
news so we'll just give it to her and

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let her do her thing Miss

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Carol I'll try not to take no more than
three

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minutes we tried to bribe Carol before
the meeting to to make it short but no

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Carol take as much time as you need okay
um the your audit has been sent to the

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LGC and it has been approved by the LGC
you received an unqualified opinion with

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what they require and I was going to go
over the highlights

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um like two or three page thing go over
that and then if anybody has any

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additional questions or anything um I'll
entertain those uh the general fund is

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your main operating fund and at the end
of the year you have had 16,

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86978 of total assets which is an
increase of about $2 million the

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majority of that is an increase in
cash uh your fund balance at the end of

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the year was14 m81 which is an
increase of a little over 2 million your

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fund balance reserved for streets which
would be your pal bill was 437,000 uh

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you received this year
about $384,000 wor pal Bill and since

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spend about
75,000

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and
no you didn't spend the change sorry you

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received 384,000 in P Bill sorry uh
total revenue at the year was 19

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m757 you budgeted 188 mil8 so you were
really close to a million dollar over

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what you had budgeted and you have an
increase of about $4.5 million

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and majority of that is Ador taxes
increase of about 2 million sales tax

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increase of about $2,000 your
Investments were up about

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300,000 and then you had a donation I
think you had several donations of

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property during the years some land and
stuff so that helped to contribute to

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that uh your expenditures were 18
million

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589 U which was an increase of about
$3.5 million um but you had budgeted 20

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million but you only spent 18 so you're
about million million and a half less

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your revenues over under
expenditures were um 1, 168 39

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596 your other income is $1.4
million and that consists of the

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issuance of new debt and leases of about
a little over a million dollars and

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transfers in from the water and sewer
about $400,000

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you had an increase in fund balance of
2,583

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968 um and your inventory increased
$7,000 your ad alarm taxes collected was

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7.9 million compared to 5.8 the year
before your percent collected is

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98.71%
um your investment income was 668,000

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nearly $330,000 increase from the prior
year you do have an increase in cash but

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also the rates and stuff increased and I
think you did a little bit of uh

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different find U investing this year
which increased

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that your available fund balance without
P pal bill is

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7.22% with pal bill

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71.5% um
8.33% is what it takes for one month

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um to cover one month's worth of
expenditures is what LGC says the

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minimum
threshold um for a town your size is 25%

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you're at
71.5 and average percent units is

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46% so you're above the threshold and
you're above units around your size so

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you're doing very good in that sense
anybody have any questions on the

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general

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side we go on with the water and sewer
fund uh your total assets at the end of

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year were 34
m655 and that's an increase of about

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975,000
uh that's due to an increase in cash and

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also to a decrease in fixed assets due
to

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depreciation your net position at the
end of the year was million which is an

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increase of about
900,000 your operating revenues was

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8,765 which is an increase of
62

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8,000 um and most of that was tap fees
and I think that's due to some new

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development and your operating expenses
were

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8,212 th000 which is an increase of
391,000

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and that looked like it's kind
attributed to supplies repairs chemicals

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and I think some salary
increases um you had an operating income

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of 553,000 your non-operating Revenue
expenses was

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84,000 and that's made up of interest
income of about

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400,000 donation of some property 510
and then interest expense on your debt

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of
43,000 you had to transfer out to the

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general fund of 369
9,000 your change in net position was

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9887 40 which is an increase of about
740,000 from the year before your

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accounts receivable at the end of the
year is

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695,000
your investment income is

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399,000 and that's an increase of about
150,000 which that's your rates and

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increase in cash and your available fund
balance is

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99.43% in the water fund
your electric fund um you had assets at

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the end of the year of 12,
329 which is an increase of little over

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a million dollars and majority of that
is cash your net position at the end of

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the year was 10,481
823 your operating Revenue was

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7,933 and uh that was your mainly your
sales were up and I think that was

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mostly probably weather related this
past year um you're operating

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expenses um were $7.1 million which was
just very close to what the year before

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your
operating uh income is

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$789,000 your nonoperating revenue is
296,000 and majority of that is interest

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earned on your Investments he
transferred out to the general fund

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34351 and your change in net position
was 1, 152,000 which was an increase of

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about 170,000 from the year 4 your
accounts receivable is 582,000

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and your interest income um your
investment income was

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$297,400 and your available fund balance
in electric fund is 85.9 3% so you have

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a good available fund balance in both
funds and um you actually added to fund

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balance in all those funds this year

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and then you have your component unit
which is a tourism Authority and your

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total assets is 568 th000 which that's
mainly

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cash and um a little bit of fixed
assets and then your total cash for all

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funds was 30, 271 442
and then your restricted cash is

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$916,000 and that's made up of pal Bill
restricted cash and some federal asset

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seizure and also deposits utility
deposits that comes to

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96,000 do anybody have any questions
about any of

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that the LGC required a few years ago
was called the unit data form and in

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that we put and basically kind of all
the information from the audit and it

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has a lot of questions in it too and
then it kind

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of looks like uh like if there's any
kind of areas and there's two area two

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things that yall will have to apply to
as a board um one of them is the water

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and sewer asset condition um it's less
than 50% I think we had this last year

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it's um um 31 and I know that all have
the AIA grants that you're doing and

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looking at those so that's probably you
know a response to that and the other

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one was that um your audit was late
getting to the LGC our firm had a Cyber

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attack and we were out of commission for
about over two

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months and uh we still made the meeting
on time but it was a challenge just to

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get to get stuff kind of completed
and um so that is that that is our fault

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but you have to respond to that
and Pam does have a letter from our firm

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and LGC was notified you know that that
we had a few audits that would be late

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just because we didn't didn't have the
access to our computers I don't know if

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I'd say that was y'all's fault but not
necessarily our fault un fortunate being

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involved
yes but you'll have to but that would be

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the you know if it was our because we
couldn't access

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St where where it's
got this is just for me I okay cash and

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Investments what kind of Investments are
we talking about there you have you have

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cash with the um North cash North cash
management um we're limited on what we

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can't invest yeah you're you're limited
the state has laws that limit you what

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you can invest
stand um but you had at the end of the

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year North Carolina Cash management um
of 17 million

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666,000 and then you did some new
investing this year I think it's called

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North Car class and you had $200,000
worth of Investments with

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um yeah they the state uh statutes
limits what stuff that you can invest in

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but um every I think the stuff
everything was paying better this year

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thank

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you anybody have any other
questions and I know I just had you just

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got the audit this evening so if there's
you know you go through the audit and or

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you go through this and think well I
wish i' to ask that you know just phone

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call away um don't mind answering a
question if you know or you know if I

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need to come back to you know address
something more formally you know I'll be

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happy to do that
and I will make this comment about Carol

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um I've worked with a lot of Auditors
over the years different jobs and u i I

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swear Carol you're the easiest to work
with thank

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you I can promise it's the best
presentation and it was over three

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minutes oh no no no we years ago when I
first got in this business it would be

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about 30 minutes and yeah keep working
on it you

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but a lot of the Investments a lot of
the the the

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financials it's it's directly
attributable to your staff yes yes your

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staff because we couldn't do we couldn't
do the work that we do if it wasn't for

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the quality of work that they give us to
work with so so just as a recap

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what um income that the city has made on
investments this year

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uh let's see
okay in the general fund it was 668,000

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so I can't add my head um and the water
fund that was

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399,000 so that's a little over a
million and the electric fund was nearly

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300,000 so probably somewhere between uh
right close to probably

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1.4 okay so Pam I'd say you're well
worth

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your good job need to pay for
right Richie and I were talking about

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this the other day the the fund balance
is you know

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that's I I can't say
enough uh and and thank him for for

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keeping us on the straighten there uh
because I'd much rather see a a healthy

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fund balance than operate in the in with
the deficit yeah because you never know

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what tomorrow is you know it's nice to
have a fish in there yes and I were

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talking we state call it rainy day fund
you know but but that fund balance we

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want it to be healthy and one of the
things as y'all know we we've got city

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park that uh we're going to have to fund
and also the new Public Service Center

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but with the additional monies that
we're we're getting this year and

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hopefully with additional monies uh that
we'll get next year there is a chance we

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may be able to cash flow that and so we
wouldn't have to go into debt and now

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that is that will be you know our
objective is a try to do that I can't

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guarantee that but that would be nice to
be able to do those two main projects

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major projects and not have to go into
debt so and we've been able to do that

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because you know watching watching
pennies here there those base hits turn

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into home runs
quickly because your Revenue came in

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over what you budgeted your expenses
came in under what you

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budgeted s your on that what about is do
that got the rail trail the completion

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of the rail trail
does

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that have anything to do with I mean as
far as

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financing uh well now um are you talking
about like the phase four we go that

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right now like I say it's it's on a
long-term um plan but uh we've got two

425
00:39:46,920 --> 00:39:53,720
other Park projects that are for it so
and that they'll have to be funded as

426
00:39:51,119 --> 00:39:58,400
well but ultimately yes it'd be nice to
be able to hook the laboratory and have

427
00:39:55,599 --> 00:40:05,440
have that but I I know Carolina thread
Trail who was very active with our first

428
00:40:01,040 --> 00:40:09,560
three phases I I think that the the the
roadblock they hits funding and and the

429
00:40:08,040 --> 00:40:14,079
lack of
funding and you got to remember a lot of

430
00:40:12,440 --> 00:40:21,560
that's also in the
county it's not city property so we will

431
00:40:18,119 --> 00:40:25,480
have to come up with a a cooperation
with the County Commissioners to

432
00:40:23,359 --> 00:40:32,160
complete that phas how much further we
got to go before we get to the county

433
00:40:28,560 --> 00:40:37,200
jeans at a mile that last leg now we own
a good bit of it we purchased our

434
00:40:34,720 --> 00:40:41,400
portion is like close to a mile yeah I
think it's 1.7 total between the city

435
00:40:39,599 --> 00:40:44,520
and the C some of that would have to be
negotiated with the railroad

436
00:40:44,599 --> 00:40:53,880
company
yeah that's a good time right

437
00:40:50,359 --> 00:41:00,160
there okay thank you Carol thank
you thank you Carol and next while we're

438
00:40:57,680 --> 00:41:07,079
talking about finances let's let's just
turn it back over to

439
00:41:01,920 --> 00:41:12,920
Pam well I'm I'm here to uh give you a
budget amendment where I want to

440
00:41:08,240 --> 00:41:12,920
increase our budget by $248,500

441
00:41:27,520 --> 00:41:35,400
month the police department received uh
some additional funding for the control

442
00:41:32,599 --> 00:41:37,880
substance tax which is not normally this
amount of money but they received a

443
00:41:36,760 --> 00:41:44,119
little over
$6,600 so that will help them with their

444
00:41:41,000 --> 00:41:48,800
U drug enforcement type thing so that
was that was a nice push for for them

445
00:41:46,440 --> 00:41:53,640
our power bill second installment came
in we only get two in in a year and this

446
00:41:51,920 --> 00:41:57,960
is the second one but it was over our
original budget and we our true up was

447
00:41:56,160 --> 00:42:04,920
100 little over
$12,000 those funds go towards the

448
00:42:00,839 --> 00:42:10,480
paving of our uh city streets and we
also uh we received our one of our last

449
00:42:07,560 --> 00:42:14,680
reimbursements for AI AIA grant for the
water department we're almost to the

450
00:42:13,160 --> 00:42:19,000
point we're waiting on Mill to finish
that we're almost to the point where we

451
00:42:16,240 --> 00:42:23,200
finalize that and as I stated before try
to go for some big funding from the

452
00:42:21,280 --> 00:42:27,880
state for some additional infrastructure
which is what Carol mentioned about our

453
00:42:26,160 --> 00:42:32,240
uh performance indicat is one of our
water andur things we have to work on

454
00:42:29,400 --> 00:42:36,920
that's what that grant for but U that
was a reimbursement that we need to pay

455
00:42:34,720 --> 00:42:40,440
Mill and for some of their
services uh if you have any questions

456
00:42:38,839 --> 00:42:44,760
I'll be glad to answer them but the
majority of this is investment income

457
00:42:42,280 --> 00:42:50,640
other than the two that I just stated
are we doing good yes sir okay that's

458
00:42:47,400 --> 00:42:55,200
all I want okay if there are no other
questions in I'll entertain a motion to

459
00:42:52,760 --> 00:43:00,480
approve the uh budget
ordinance that motion motion by Jill any

460
00:42:58,440 --> 00:43:06,480
discussion hearing none all those in
favor signify by saying I I anyone

461
00:43:03,319 --> 00:43:15,960
opposed motion carries thank
you and next I'll turn it over to Tanya

462
00:43:11,200 --> 00:43:15,960
uh about a proposed

463
00:43:19,520 --> 00:43:27,960
policy we have a policy based upon the
activities of the police department so

464
00:43:25,640 --> 00:43:33,240
in your packet you had a information
page um Chief green has been very busy

465
00:43:31,000 --> 00:43:37,640
working on grants we talked about cops
grants before now we're looking at

466
00:43:35,440 --> 00:43:41,160
another grant that he is working on
there's a lot of work that goes into

467
00:43:39,359 --> 00:43:45,720
these grants and a lot of documents are
required and in going through what this

468
00:43:43,400 --> 00:43:51,079
particular Grant required was a
whistleblower policy and that's why

469
00:43:48,440 --> 00:43:55,839
you'd have a draft in your packet
because for his Grant application it

470
00:43:53,599 --> 00:44:02,160
required us to have this type of policy
in place um there's a like I said a

471
00:43:59,440 --> 00:44:08,640
drafted it was drafted off of a sister
City's policy that they had put in place

472
00:44:05,720 --> 00:44:14,359
with some tweaks to um of course have
our type of wording in it and at this

473
00:44:12,160 --> 00:44:19,800
time that's what we're asking for is
that the policy could put in place so

474
00:44:17,040 --> 00:44:24,760
that we have it and it will let him be
in compliance with the items that are

475
00:44:22,280 --> 00:44:30,000
needed for his Grant application this
particular Grant application is for

476
00:44:27,640 --> 00:44:34,680
$50,000 which has to do with mental
health programs they currently have an

477
00:44:32,319 --> 00:44:40,280
intern that is working with them
embedded into the PD but going forward I

478
00:44:37,880 --> 00:44:44,400
believe this is a grant that if they're
um approved for it will assist them in

479
00:44:42,680 --> 00:44:49,599
getting someone that may be more
permanent over a long term instead of an

480
00:44:47,359 --> 00:44:54,440
intern that they've
got so I just um asking if you have any

481
00:44:52,599 --> 00:45:00,240
questions about the
policy for you so the policy sets up

482
00:44:57,520 --> 00:45:06,359
protections for people who who
potentially believe they are seeing some

483
00:45:02,079 --> 00:45:10,920
sort of misuse of Public Services what
is what are the

484
00:45:08,160 --> 00:45:16,079
protections I guess for people who are
getting the whistle blown on them that

485
00:45:13,599 --> 00:45:20,440
is towards the end oh the protection for
the people they getting whistle we um

486
00:45:18,480 --> 00:45:23,599
are we would do an investigation in
accordance with the policy it has to be

487
00:45:22,079 --> 00:45:28,280
reported through the chain of command
that's listed there we would do an

488
00:45:25,400 --> 00:45:34,440
internal polic um investigation of that
and based upon whatever is found is how

489
00:45:31,240 --> 00:45:39,319
we would go forward because this is
probably we're looking at potential

490
00:45:37,200 --> 00:45:44,440
employees that may be involved in
whatever is perceived as being a misuse

491
00:45:42,440 --> 00:45:48,640
yeah absolutely and then we have a
progressive disciplinary process in our

492
00:45:46,640 --> 00:45:53,200
Personnel policy on how we handle
misconduct yeah and it and it should be

493
00:45:51,040 --> 00:45:57,640
there there should be a policy of this
in place but there also should be just

494
00:45:55,319 --> 00:46:02,160
safeguards to make sure because you can
yeah but our Personnel policy does

495
00:46:00,000 --> 00:46:07,079
protect that to a degree as well one
thing I want you to understand you know

496
00:46:04,559 --> 00:46:11,559
and it should be in this policy if that
allegation is is against the city

497
00:46:09,160 --> 00:46:17,280
manager or HR then it goes to the city C
attorney so but that's that's actually

498
00:46:14,280 --> 00:46:23,240
the way it should be so and in our
Personnel policy if there's things that

499
00:46:19,480 --> 00:46:30,520
occur that employees have um grievances
against the manager or myself then that

500
00:46:26,960 --> 00:46:30,520
goes to the C attorney to

501
00:46:32,800 --> 00:46:43,359
investigate any other
questions if not I'll entertain a motion

502
00:46:38,040 --> 00:46:43,359
to approve the Whistleblower

503
00:46:43,680 --> 00:46:51,280
policy make that motion motion by Jill
any discussion hearing none all those in

504
00:46:49,520 --> 00:46:57,319
favor signify by saying
I anyone opposed motion carries thank

505
00:46:54,680 --> 00:47:06,599
you Tanya thank you
okay now oh uh Trent uh come on up and

506
00:47:02,280 --> 00:47:14,400
tell us U an update from The
Young and uh especially no you ask if we

507
00:47:11,440 --> 00:47:14,400
could limit you to three

508
00:47:14,880 --> 00:47:23,520
minutes the
m

509
00:47:20,760 --> 00:47:28,760
is and I I'll say this while Trent's
coming over to the

510
00:47:25,720 --> 00:47:35,319
podium uh apple
drop it was and I have said this

511
00:47:32,000 --> 00:47:40,960
publicly several times now I I thought
the apple drop was the best

512
00:47:37,480 --> 00:47:45,920
conducted uh activity that I've seen the
city do it's fantastic really I

513
00:47:43,880 --> 00:47:54,960
appreciate I mean and a lot of kids a
lot of fun activities I I mean but it's

514
00:47:50,680 --> 00:48:00,480
also things to yourself Council Rich Ela
all the Investments been made I you know

515
00:47:57,839 --> 00:48:05,119
to hear everything that the positive we
got especially about the

516
00:48:01,800 --> 00:48:08,960
train I mean you know it who knew that
was going to make that big difference I

517
00:48:06,400 --> 00:48:13,160
I mean I knew it was going to be fun but
it has become a thing that like people

518
00:48:11,599 --> 00:48:17,200
from around us and different counties
know about it like people I I had a

519
00:48:15,160 --> 00:48:20,839
friend that lives in asille asked she
was like you have a train I was like

520
00:48:19,319 --> 00:48:25,760
yeah wow like how did you what and she
was like yeah I I heard about I saw some

521
00:48:22,680 --> 00:48:28,720
pictures and she was like I she knew I
lived here so first thing she did she

522
00:48:27,319 --> 00:48:34,359
sent me a message and was asking about
it and she was like when can we come

523
00:48:30,720 --> 00:48:40,280
ride it and I was like next special
event um you know it's one of those

524
00:48:36,960 --> 00:48:43,640
crazy things but it's I mean you I mean
I'm so glad that you know it's

525
00:48:41,559 --> 00:48:47,720
appreciated because the work that went
into it from our community all the

526
00:48:45,880 --> 00:48:52,880
people involved I mean it's it's no
small feat especially as what we you

527
00:48:50,559 --> 00:48:56,440
know from where this started you know
back in

528
00:48:53,920 --> 00:49:00,359
2018 and that's where you know I made a
little ation for you just so you can

529
00:48:58,079 --> 00:49:04,200
understand you know I I know Kevin you
were really you know you the very

530
00:49:01,920 --> 00:49:08,640
beginning and I you know and and there
was a couple years for Co that we didn't

531
00:49:05,880 --> 00:49:13,559
have it and so you know to see what it
was to what it is now you know and it's

532
00:49:11,799 --> 00:49:17,839
like I said everybody that's involved in
like the funding that we get you know

533
00:49:15,200 --> 00:49:21,760
whether it was from the city or was ltda
made we also had sponsorships I mean you

534
00:49:19,960 --> 00:49:26,200
know all these people care about the
community and they're investing into it

535
00:49:24,240 --> 00:49:30,040
so I you know I'll run through this just
so we can get a good idea of it you know

536
00:49:28,280 --> 00:49:34,359
like I said background is you know it
started in 2018 you know the crowd size

537
00:49:32,680 --> 00:49:38,200
when we see you know we look back just
you know kind of roughing it with

538
00:49:35,799 --> 00:49:42,200
estimates you know the pictures it's 500
people that's still not bad I mean you

539
00:49:40,280 --> 00:49:45,160
know we're at city of 10,000 I mean you
know you're still you know at that point

540
00:49:43,599 --> 00:49:50,599
in time you start thinking about like
that's 5% of your population coming out

541
00:49:47,520 --> 00:49:55,440
you know on yeah on one evening night
you know at that time all it was was hey

542
00:49:52,760 --> 00:49:58,960
we have cherille Shooters have a DJ you
have some face painting you get two food

543
00:49:57,200 --> 00:50:04,000
vendors and then the apple drop that was
it it was it took place on the on the

544
00:50:01,359 --> 00:50:08,160
courthouse it was a great start it was a
moment of like where you know as a city

545
00:50:06,520 --> 00:50:11,400
we recognized like we could do something
for families and like let's give people

546
00:50:10,040 --> 00:50:15,319
something to do and you know come
together that was a great way to you

547
00:50:13,280 --> 00:50:18,799
know start it this is what the first
year kind of looked like um sorry

548
00:50:17,720 --> 00:50:22,559
there's not that to milon pictures out
there of it so you get a picture of me

549
00:50:20,599 --> 00:50:29,040
and my daughter Caroline when she's one
and my wife um but I mean you know it's

550
00:50:26,760 --> 00:50:33,799
it's nothing spectacular but everybody's
still having fun and that that's really

551
00:50:30,799 --> 00:50:38,400
the main thing right here when we came
to this part that's where I think Ed

552
00:50:37,359 --> 00:50:44,040
because you've been a part of it since
day one you just start seeing what it

553
00:50:41,920 --> 00:50:47,760
could be you saw the excitement you see
everyone who's been you know who was

554
00:50:46,000 --> 00:50:50,200
there who was having a good time even if
it is just walk around talking to people

555
00:50:49,359 --> 00:50:55,599
that you
know I you know I you know I enjoy that

556
00:50:54,440 --> 00:50:57,920
yeah more than anything my wife makes
fun of me cuz like she's like like you

557
00:50:56,839 --> 00:51:02,440
like me to go out cuz you know you're
going to talk to half the people she

558
00:50:59,680 --> 00:51:07,400
absolutely hates that but y'all all get
the same thing right you know it's it's

559
00:51:04,240 --> 00:51:12,680
a time where you get the feedback from
the rest of the community about how it's

560
00:51:09,400 --> 00:51:18,160
going so we jump from there to two years
ago two years ago is when our our

561
00:51:15,680 --> 00:51:24,040
committee at Richie came to us and said
hey can y'all help uh Laura Morris as a

562
00:51:22,920 --> 00:51:28,319
young adult steing committee can y'all
come to help her you know we you know we

563
00:51:26,640 --> 00:51:33,559
we have a bigger plan we have this
thought of what this this event can be

564
00:51:31,559 --> 00:51:37,559
we said yeah we would love to because we
were you know as as young adult commit

565
00:51:36,160 --> 00:51:40,839
at that point in time we were giving
feedback you know there was ideas that

566
00:51:39,319 --> 00:51:44,559
you know that were coming from Council
from Richie you know and trying to get

567
00:51:42,799 --> 00:51:49,559
that Master Plan of like what's our
future you know three five 10 years what

568
00:51:47,119 --> 00:51:54,559
you know what do we see as the group of
uh you know young adults who are that 25

569
00:51:52,559 --> 00:51:58,319
to maybe 45 you know who have younger
kids what can we do you know we want

570
00:51:56,760 --> 00:52:03,440
bring people in we want you know that's
how we grow I will steal my Lita thing

571
00:52:00,920 --> 00:52:08,240
for the day cuz I saw cliff and John's
right there we're not grow and we're DED

572
00:52:06,240 --> 00:52:11,760
and we recognized that and said all
right you know we want to get younger

573
00:52:10,160 --> 00:52:15,599
how do we bring these families in here
how do we show off the city this is what

574
00:52:14,480 --> 00:52:22,359
it happened in
2013 we went from 500 to 1500

575
00:52:19,000 --> 00:52:26,000
people you know we triple that was just
a rough estim and even at that time you

576
00:52:24,440 --> 00:52:29,880
know two years ago we we talked about it
we were like

577
00:52:27,040 --> 00:52:34,799
you think there was that many people I I
I'll go back to this day and I saying

578
00:52:31,599 --> 00:52:39,000
like I think it was closer to two but we
saw the big change because we had people

579
00:52:36,640 --> 00:52:43,040
in the community outside of like just
you know Laura and her little team it

580
00:52:40,680 --> 00:52:47,680
was young adult committee you had
sponsorships from local businesses you

581
00:52:45,400 --> 00:52:51,319
know that people started buying into it
all of a sudden we get snow machines

582
00:52:49,680 --> 00:52:56,760
yeah we have a DJ we have more giveaways
than we ever had a blue we have blue an

583
00:52:53,400 --> 00:53:00,280
artist face painting uh we we start
running games the chbl shooter are still

584
00:52:58,559 --> 00:53:04,520
there but now we've included the theater
Guild they brought people Apple Queen in

585
00:53:02,920 --> 00:53:10,520
her full court just instead of just
being the Alp Queen our vendors you see

586
00:53:07,400 --> 00:53:15,599
how much you know we went from two to
seven that and that just happened over a

587
00:53:12,799 --> 00:53:18,839
couple year span we had Co in between
this was the hardest one because this is

588
00:53:17,440 --> 00:53:25,240
coming out of Co this is the you know
the one that was really everybody look

589
00:53:22,040 --> 00:53:29,760
come and enjoy downtown come see what we
have to offer

590
00:53:27,599 --> 00:53:34,839
and they showed
up as you plan these things I think you

591
00:53:32,440 --> 00:53:38,920
know I always sit there and worry like
do we reach enough people are people

592
00:53:36,280 --> 00:53:42,480
going to know by and these pictures you
get to see the Frozen characters from

593
00:53:40,520 --> 00:53:48,040
the theater Guild you see what the snow
looked like when we lit it up on the

594
00:53:44,160 --> 00:53:53,799
courthouse law this is a picture from uh
from the DJ booth uh for Eric

595
00:53:51,599 --> 00:53:57,040
Taylor you can see the light up stuff
you can see the Apple in the background

596
00:53:55,480 --> 00:54:02,040
there's not too many
spots on that ground that you can see

597
00:54:00,480 --> 00:54:06,920
all you see are
people those are people that may may

598
00:54:05,160 --> 00:54:12,160
live here at that point yeah they may be
traveling in but once again they

599
00:54:10,200 --> 00:54:16,799
saw a community that's was coming
together and they wanted to celebrate

600
00:54:13,599 --> 00:54:16,799
together and we gave them the

601
00:54:17,079 --> 00:54:24,480
opportunity Ed with a sweet hat I had to
take that picture up

602
00:54:21,480 --> 00:54:30,160
there but as you look out across I mean
I I got to give Ashley Ashley the to ago

603
00:54:27,760 --> 00:54:35,720
the bubble guns you know actually set up
on stage with two bubble guns and just

604
00:54:33,119 --> 00:54:39,880
doing this for like 30 minutes I mean
you know her fingers could I mean it was

605
00:54:37,680 --> 00:54:45,680
just perly
stuck but it's that bottom right picture

606
00:54:43,440 --> 00:54:52,400
that makes you realize why you do
it to see the amount of kids who are out

607
00:54:49,640 --> 00:54:57,200
there enjoying it and you know the free
giveaways while yes we spend a good am

608
00:54:54,720 --> 00:55:00,000
amount of our budget towards us
there's a lot of kids I mean like you

609
00:54:58,720 --> 00:55:03,680
know when they go out these things they
don't get things we give them to them

610
00:55:02,160 --> 00:55:08,000
for
free and it's amazing that when you when

611
00:55:06,200 --> 00:55:12,799
you get up on that stage and you look
out and you see all the twinkling lights

612
00:55:10,240 --> 00:55:15,880
cuz you know that's at least one kid
that's their night's made nobody has

613
00:55:15,119 --> 00:55:20,280
spent
anything but that's because of

614
00:55:18,119 --> 00:55:27,079
everybody's investment
into uh into the apple

615
00:55:24,440 --> 00:55:30,079
drop also I put a picture of Taylor Ed
goes like she couldn't move for like two

616
00:55:28,559 --> 00:55:34,839
days after this goes like she face
painted the whole entire night away um

617
00:55:33,039 --> 00:55:37,680
you know this is just a small you know
picture of what our group look like at

618
00:55:36,079 --> 00:55:42,160
the end of the night you know putting
everything

619
00:55:39,440 --> 00:55:49,559
up now we come to this
pasture this past year is that banner

620
00:55:45,240 --> 00:55:53,720
year Ed the numbers don't lie this year
was fully for the young adult steering

621
00:55:51,400 --> 00:55:58,079
committee it was you know it was fully
our baby to take you know for it to for

622
00:55:56,400 --> 00:56:04,119
it to happen or
not crowd siiz easy estimates 3,300 or

623
00:56:01,640 --> 00:56:09,079
4,000 people I'll talk about it here in
a second

624
00:56:05,440 --> 00:56:14,039
because as y'all as city council y'all
invested in Pacer

625
00:56:10,720 --> 00:56:17,680
AI it was able to give us pings to see
how many people were downtown during

626
00:56:15,720 --> 00:56:21,559
that during that
time we always talk about like you know

627
00:56:20,440 --> 00:56:26,599
how many people were at that event like
where did they come from we have that

628
00:56:23,280 --> 00:56:33,039
data now we can show what that invest
does why you know how we're bringing

629
00:56:28,480 --> 00:56:36,359
people in from outside how and how many
people the best part was we were able

630
00:56:35,200 --> 00:56:40,359
toas the highest amount of cash
donations in the history of the event

631
00:56:38,680 --> 00:56:46,559
that will you know over $1,000 will go
to uh the uh animal uh lean County

632
00:56:43,880 --> 00:56:53,520
Animal Services and H house those are
the two groups this year that that we

633
00:56:49,880 --> 00:56:53,520
that we designated you know to get that

634
00:56:53,960 --> 00:57:00,880
money while everything's free we do ask
for donation and it just it goes to

635
00:56:58,280 --> 00:57:06,039
Great organizations that help our
community next year we you know we we we

636
00:57:04,000 --> 00:57:08,920
we plan to beat that number very easily
we've already talked about what things

637
00:57:07,079 --> 00:57:13,280
we're going to do
better because we want to help you know

638
00:57:11,400 --> 00:57:18,520
we want to continue to see the health of
the city the county our community get

639
00:57:16,319 --> 00:57:22,599
better all of a sudden my type had to
get a lot smaller

640
00:57:20,240 --> 00:57:28,720
right that's how much stuff we had we
mve to Main Street still got a DJ the

641
00:57:24,720 --> 00:57:28,720
Train the train the Train the

642
00:57:28,880 --> 00:57:35,480
train sounds like lta's got enough money
we can buy two trains

643
00:57:32,599 --> 00:57:39,880
now I'm just going to go P that out like
don't me here sing my supper for $7,000

644
00:57:38,119 --> 00:57:44,400
after I heard that number we need we
need to have two

645
00:57:41,319 --> 00:57:48,920
trains at this point in time gaming
truck was there for older kids we had

646
00:57:46,920 --> 00:57:52,319
other games from cook Reynolds still
face tank we had temporary tattoos we

647
00:57:50,400 --> 00:57:57,680
brought in professional face pains cuz
we recognize that like we as a group we

648
00:57:56,280 --> 00:58:02,799
could do it but we're not very good at
it to see kids with full face mask and

649
00:58:00,559 --> 00:58:06,880
like you know my daughter's had the full
unicorn look you know you know it's

650
00:58:05,319 --> 00:58:11,520
awesome because once again you know
they're having fun that line was out of

651
00:58:09,640 --> 00:58:15,680
control and one of the things I got you
know I got told you know as the chair

652
00:58:14,000 --> 00:58:21,039
what I need to do better job is we need
I do I need to do better at line

653
00:58:18,079 --> 00:58:28,119
management did I just we didn't expect
to have 50 people in line to get their

654
00:58:24,559 --> 00:58:28,119
face painted not professional

655
00:58:28,400 --> 00:58:34,319
oh god I've made a mistake on that one
I'll take that mistake cuz that means it

656
00:58:31,680 --> 00:58:40,960
was better than
expected we have the snow machines again

657
00:58:37,240 --> 00:58:48,240
we tripled our giveaways tripled them
and guess how how many we at the end of

658
00:58:43,240 --> 00:58:51,079
night zero everything was gone I'm sure
I'm still going to be like maybe taking

659
00:58:49,760 --> 00:58:55,680
out at in the middle of the night on the
street because all the horns I gave away

660
00:58:53,520 --> 00:58:59,760
and how many people just love that noise
all night long of hearing little kids

661
00:58:57,280 --> 00:59:03,720
blow horns but we also have princess we
have BL artist we have ch Shooters Apple

662
00:59:01,599 --> 00:59:07,760
Point her court now look at it our
vendors we go up to eight now six food

663
00:59:06,000 --> 00:59:12,079
and beverage One retail and then we have
one that didn't show up we really could

664
00:59:10,000 --> 00:59:15,920
have used them they didn't but the
bigger part here is that right there

665
00:59:14,599 --> 00:59:22,319
downtown
Merchants we had two restaurants in five

666
00:59:18,079 --> 00:59:27,440
retail stayed open on this night of all
nights and decided to bet on us as the

667
00:59:25,599 --> 00:59:31,359
city and also as a committee to make
sure saying that we were going to have a

668
00:59:28,880 --> 00:59:31,359
great apple

669
00:59:31,400 --> 00:59:38,520
drop they
had talking to Cur vles you know he he

670
00:59:37,400 --> 00:59:41,280
was upset with me at the very beginning
he was like why in the world would you

671
00:59:39,520 --> 00:59:44,960
get you know we can handle all the food
you know anything I was like no you

672
00:59:42,839 --> 00:59:48,640
can't you're not I was like just get
ready for it it's going to be it's it's

673
00:59:47,079 --> 00:59:52,400
three it's three hours of
hell he told me at that night he was

674
00:59:50,680 --> 00:59:57,680
like yeah you were right the wooden
spoon who just opened up they sold out

675
00:59:55,480 --> 01:00:01,720
we have ret shops that people went into
that they didn't know even

676
00:59:59,480 --> 01:00:04,480
existed those things were helping small
businesses were helping downtown we're

677
01:00:02,920 --> 01:00:08,200
getting the foot
traffic whether it was that you know

678
01:00:06,640 --> 01:00:11,640
them riding the train and see the pickle
fetish open or whether or not you know

679
01:00:10,400 --> 01:00:16,839
they're at with the Apple Queen and her
court and they go to Just kid around

680
01:00:14,079 --> 01:00:20,480
which is right behind it steer South was
open I mean we have all these places

681
01:00:19,200 --> 01:00:26,319
that people got to explore that maybe
they didn't never seen before and that's

682
01:00:23,440 --> 01:00:30,000
the that that's the big payback for it
this is the numbers this is where we

683
01:00:27,839 --> 01:00:35,839
talk about like when it comes from you
know Pacer

684
01:00:32,160 --> 01:00:41,920
AI visits 2.9 thou
29,000 this is during that time period 5

685
01:00:38,520 --> 01:00:41,920
to 8 on December

686
01:00:42,960 --> 01:00:48,760
31st this is where that number of 33 to
4,000 it it's all depends on like if you

687
01:00:47,359 --> 01:00:54,119
look you know it's how many kids came
with each person right if you just say

688
01:00:51,920 --> 01:00:59,799
it's one kid you know for every two
people okay well he's we're you know

689
01:00:56,920 --> 01:01:03,039
like we we creep up 4,000 pretty
quickly Richie I know I'm probably

690
01:01:01,599 --> 01:01:07,319
missing something else on this I didn't
put all the data in here CU I mean there

691
01:01:05,280 --> 01:01:11,280
it's really awesome to see it but we we
pulled people from Gaston County

692
01:01:09,079 --> 01:01:15,400
Cleveland County and katala that's the
best part of it is actually shows you

693
01:01:13,039 --> 01:01:20,200
where those people were coming from and
we had a higher concentration from more

694
01:01:18,680 --> 01:01:27,160
I would say in the maiden area in the
Denver area than you expect um and and

695
01:01:23,599 --> 01:01:32,760
across the county it wasn't just the
2892 it was throughout the county and we

696
01:01:30,319 --> 01:01:36,760
saw that with um Santa's Village as well
yeah talked to a lot of people from

697
01:01:34,000 --> 01:01:40,960
Denver Iron Station Pumpkin Center so
that's what we want we want to bring

698
01:01:38,119 --> 01:01:44,640
those dollars into the City and I agree
with I agree with Tren and it's return

699
01:01:42,520 --> 01:01:48,599
on investment
absolutely and I think we get it I mean

700
01:01:46,960 --> 01:01:54,760
we easily can sit and say it's three or
fourfold you know for what was put into

701
01:01:52,119 --> 01:01:59,200
it the funni part one thing went on here
one it shows you like place people went

702
01:01:57,240 --> 01:02:03,680
afterwards yeah that there's like four
McDonald's like you know McDonald's and

703
01:02:00,960 --> 01:02:08,920
Waffle House that was the place but this
is what it looked like this

704
01:02:05,160 --> 01:02:13,200
year th this top left picture was at
520 and I was freaking out because I was

705
01:02:11,039 --> 01:02:16,839
like where's everybody at where why are
people here I look back and I laugh cuz

706
01:02:15,279 --> 01:02:22,440
I'm like there was a good amount of
people already there at

707
01:02:19,440 --> 01:02:26,839
520 my daughters uh they our neighbor
Sloan top right you can see our giveaway

708
01:02:25,240 --> 01:02:31,760
you know Rudy Jennifer down there and
then there's

709
01:02:28,559 --> 01:02:36,680
Shelby getting ready for it you get
overrun by kids man like yeah they're

710
01:02:33,799 --> 01:02:41,359
not they're not patient they want their
stuff this is what it started looking

711
01:02:38,760 --> 01:02:46,319
like as we get closer to the 6:00 hour
at top left picture it start to fill

712
01:02:44,079 --> 01:02:50,279
in you start seeing everybody getting
their face

713
01:02:47,680 --> 01:02:55,160
painted I saw more pictures of adults on
that train and I then I saw kids

714
01:02:56,039 --> 01:03:01,839
this ain't for those kids you know it's
awesome that it was big enough that like

715
01:03:00,279 --> 01:03:08,119
everybody was able to get on there no
matter you no matter your

716
01:03:04,799 --> 01:03:12,039
size Ed once again looking good with
your Apple

717
01:03:09,839 --> 01:03:17,240
Queen you got you had a dance party
going

718
01:03:14,000 --> 01:03:23,359
on but that's the picture look at that
that's your watch shot of it

719
01:03:19,559 --> 01:03:28,240
all this is at right right about 7:00 up
on the stage everybody's Gathering up

720
01:03:25,640 --> 01:03:31,599
there there there's not one spot where
you see

721
01:03:31,839 --> 01:03:41,279
asphal the amount of investment that was
made paid off because we saw people

722
01:03:36,760 --> 01:03:46,680
downtown going to like our shops our
restaurants taking pictures posting them

723
01:03:43,880 --> 01:03:46,680
showing off our

724
01:03:47,799 --> 01:03:55,079
city I can't say thank you
enough because for someone who has two

725
01:03:53,079 --> 01:03:59,599
small children I'm always looking for
something to do

726
01:03:57,200 --> 01:04:06,359
this brings so much
happiness to not just people of my age

727
01:04:03,119 --> 01:04:06,359
it's everyone who comes

728
01:04:07,200 --> 01:04:11,960
downtown our group right after
everything said and

729
01:04:12,520 --> 01:04:18,000
done after I walked 30,000 steps and
pants that were too

730
01:04:19,599 --> 01:04:27,960
small this is just feedback I put it out
there I put it out on the seses that are

731
01:04:24,480 --> 01:04:35,760
the town talks lington Denver and
teral and I said hey tell

732
01:04:31,680 --> 01:04:35,760
me was it what can we do

733
01:04:36,520 --> 01:04:43,760
better 147 comments
later we have four comments that are out

734
01:04:41,680 --> 01:04:50,119
tell you that are like oh wasn't the
best you

735
01:04:45,680 --> 01:04:57,640
know all right 150 so 147 minus 4 all
right 143 comments just like this they

736
01:04:54,079 --> 01:04:57,640
came from Dallas amazing

737
01:04:57,920 --> 01:05:04,680
time one of the biggest things that we
saw is people saying this I hate we miss

738
01:05:02,640 --> 01:05:09,079
it this year seems like everyone uh year
it does get better we appreciate this so

739
01:05:06,359 --> 01:05:13,359
much for families who want to uh to get
home it's such an amazing family family

740
01:05:11,520 --> 01:05:17,200
friendly
event y'all Y y'all hear it from me all

741
01:05:15,599 --> 01:05:23,640
the time because I'm in it and I and I
love the city I love everything that we

742
01:05:19,559 --> 01:05:28,200
do but now I want y'all to see the other
random people who have that don't come

743
01:05:25,359 --> 01:05:31,559
to these things and don't talk to you
they're they're taking their time

744
01:05:29,640 --> 01:05:35,680
they're putting it out there they're
they're promoting the this event better

745
01:05:33,400 --> 01:05:35,680
than we

746
01:05:36,119 --> 01:05:44,960
are new location's fantastic it's
awesome one thing that we didn't even

747
01:05:41,839 --> 01:05:51,520
think about and I'm glad it worked out
was somebody that had a child that had

748
01:05:48,880 --> 01:05:55,400
special needs and they even were able to
enjoy their time we didn't think about

749
01:05:54,400 --> 01:05:58,640
that we thought we thought about all the
different age groups everything wouldn't

750
01:05:57,400 --> 01:06:02,520
think we didn't think about them that
was our fault but it it worked out

751
01:06:00,279 --> 01:06:07,359
because as they say right there they
absolutely

752
01:06:03,720 --> 01:06:07,359
love uh the

753
01:06:08,839 --> 01:06:15,520
event this is the this is just a short
this short

754
01:06:13,240 --> 01:06:19,799
thing first and foremost thank you to
Betty FL she took us underneath her Wing

755
01:06:18,119 --> 01:06:23,839
DDA she already had a lot going on
with's

756
01:06:21,079 --> 01:06:29,200
Village but she G she helped give us
Direction the members our young adult

757
01:06:26,079 --> 01:06:34,480
steering committee it doesn't happen
unless we're all you know full fully

758
01:06:32,119 --> 01:06:38,480
committed we take times away from our
families every month to meet to figure

759
01:06:36,640 --> 01:06:43,240
out what we can do better and how we can
help the city or our community in

760
01:06:40,039 --> 01:06:50,079
general ltda gave us you some of the
funding mayor council y'all saw you know

761
01:06:47,119 --> 01:06:53,720
and y'all saw what this could be and
what you wanted to be and you put your

762
01:06:51,880 --> 01:06:56,520
money where your mouth is to an extent
still haven't got my money to get my

763
01:06:55,039 --> 01:07:02,000
laser like show but you know we can get
there this year don't you

764
01:06:58,839 --> 01:07:05,599
worry Local Roots ont both helped you
know by giving us chair letting store

765
01:07:03,760 --> 01:07:10,480
stuff at their
place Le your

766
01:07:08,359 --> 01:07:14,440
department I will say last month I
messed

767
01:07:11,680 --> 01:07:20,000
up somebody makes me talk every you know
under three minutes and I'm just saying

768
01:07:18,359 --> 01:07:27,520
cuz I was upset cuz I forgot a very
important

769
01:07:21,319 --> 01:07:27,520
person come here BT come here BT

770
01:07:27,720 --> 01:07:34,599
this man helped tremendously if it w you
know if BT doesn't come out there him

771
01:07:32,240 --> 01:07:40,200
and Teddy last two
years this is the longest three minutes

772
01:07:37,039 --> 01:07:45,359
I've ever do I I going to let you
know here's your Apple CU your Apple of

773
01:07:42,440 --> 01:07:51,079
our ey we want you to put this you know
up there your office this is your start

774
01:07:48,039 --> 01:07:54,799
no no no you just take your Apple say I
love you too and we also want to get a

775
01:07:52,640 --> 01:07:59,160
certificate the certificate right here
the BT for his dedication to the city of

776
01:07:57,039 --> 01:08:02,720
Ling's apple drop and ensuring the young
adult standing committee was able to

777
01:08:00,599 --> 01:08:08,559
drop it like it's
hot see Iron and him giving me this

778
01:08:06,319 --> 01:08:14,279
forbidden
fruit we were working on hanging the U

779
01:08:12,079 --> 01:08:19,199
moon but I don't know what that award
would look like coming from him so now

780
01:08:16,960 --> 01:08:22,400
we're just going to work on hanging him
yeah I believe there was one person on

781
01:08:21,239 --> 01:08:26,440
one of the comments that said you know
it been funny after we dropped you right

782
01:08:24,000 --> 01:08:32,400
yeah yeah yeah and I know and looking at
y'all you'll know that he's a 75 RPM

783
01:08:28,880 --> 01:08:38,679
record I'm a 33 so I hope you can
understand why it's probably your we

784
01:08:35,120 --> 01:08:44,440
appreciate you yeah want make sure you
know you understand how much you

785
01:08:40,640 --> 01:08:47,239
appreciate how old are you today oh yeah
well happy birthday do we all need to

786
01:08:45,560 --> 01:08:52,159
say happy birthday to you too no I'll
throw the Apple

787
01:08:49,799 --> 01:08:56,799
up happy
birthday Public Works street department

788
01:08:55,440 --> 01:09:02,520
for everything they came out and did
putting up barricades getting stuff out

789
01:08:58,839 --> 01:09:06,560
trash cans Recreation depner
Nathan you let me come and wreck your

790
01:09:04,679 --> 01:09:11,719
department every year for you know a
couple days I I greatly appreciate

791
01:09:09,199 --> 01:09:15,600
especially you know letting car sit
there and go through things with me and

792
01:09:13,880 --> 01:09:19,679
you know and you can EAS be like all
right get out like let her in some work

793
01:09:18,199 --> 01:09:22,120
if it wasn't for her and the amount of
time you know there's a lot of these

794
01:09:20,960 --> 01:09:26,759
things the graphics and stuff that
wouldn't happen so I appreciate you you

795
01:09:24,239 --> 01:09:31,520
know you you investing into us and
letting us you know take time away from

796
01:09:29,440 --> 01:09:36,359
her you know on her regular stuff and
and helping out and the other you know

797
01:09:34,000 --> 01:09:40,560
employees that came out and help without
them I mean we're we're lost because

798
01:09:38,159 --> 01:09:45,520
they do all the
games student advisory

799
01:09:43,159 --> 01:09:50,359
Council there's about there's about 10
of them that came out you know Miss did

800
01:09:48,120 --> 01:09:56,360
a fantastic job help coordinating that
city of L police fire

801
01:09:54,159 --> 01:10:00,199
department yeah I mean
it's I can't say thank you enough for

802
01:09:58,520 --> 01:10:03,640
the things that yall do for all these
special events and like I know you have

803
01:10:02,320 --> 01:10:06,640
families just like everybody else you
want to be you rather be with them than

804
01:10:04,920 --> 01:10:13,120
hanging out with us out on the street
you know watching you know an event take

805
01:10:10,120 --> 01:10:13,120
place

806
01:10:15,080 --> 01:10:23,880
Run Todd Elmer this part thank you again
sir Todd came out there he wasn't

807
01:10:21,840 --> 01:10:30,040
working him and chief having you know
helping us do things

808
01:10:26,080 --> 01:10:35,360
it's that commitment that you can't buy
it's people who care they want to make

809
01:10:32,719 --> 01:10:41,640
sure that we put our best foot forward
and that we're investing to the right

810
01:10:38,360 --> 01:10:46,280
things we have those people y'all are
those people thank you'all to our

811
01:10:43,840 --> 01:10:50,920
conductor you for we did not I forgot to
give you your

812
01:10:47,520 --> 01:10:55,000
sweatshirt at apple drop so Mr Conductor
here you go here your official young

813
01:10:52,880 --> 01:10:59,199
adult steering committee and then you
know just like it said on the back just

814
01:10:56,560 --> 01:11:04,679
so you got BT Drop Like TI thank you
again thank you sir that is it I'm you

815
01:11:02,800 --> 01:11:09,560
know I'm taking up probably all the time
for the rest of the year that I'm

816
01:11:06,440 --> 01:11:13,280
allowed to speak it was well worth it
well thank you for all the work you guys

817
01:11:11,440 --> 01:11:16,360
put into it and young adults thanks for
letting me come sit in on some of that

818
01:11:14,760 --> 01:11:19,640
the planning it was fascinating there's
a lot that goes into it guys there

819
01:11:17,760 --> 01:11:22,520
really is so and that's the craer thing
you don't really think you're just like

820
01:11:20,600 --> 01:11:27,320
it's a it's a great event you know like
how how difficult can it be next thing

821
01:11:25,360 --> 01:11:32,719
know you're like oh wow there is yeah it
is yeah it really you know it's quite a

822
01:11:30,760 --> 01:11:39,080
bit that goes into it but at the same
time there's so many people within the

823
01:11:35,000 --> 01:11:42,840
city who are part of it who make sure it
happens because there are things that

824
01:11:40,480 --> 01:11:46,960
like I don't know that you know all of a
sudden ashle will jump in and say hey we

825
01:11:44,840 --> 01:11:52,239
need to do this this and this
okay I you know I I I always say Ashley

826
01:11:50,320 --> 01:11:57,159
Jones and Taylor Ed drag me across the
finish line and make me look good cuz

827
01:11:55,080 --> 01:12:01,719
they are two of the best type a personal
peop in all the world the details are

828
01:11:58,920 --> 01:12:04,679
there and it's those people that yeah
and I know Clay's probably going to kill

829
01:12:02,880 --> 01:12:10,400
me at some point because I take Ashley
away and like you know we we do so much

830
01:12:07,920 --> 01:12:14,760
involvement so hopefully it get a little
better but we're going to continue to

831
01:12:12,239 --> 01:12:18,960
see it grow and if there's ever anything
you know that youall have idea wise let

832
01:12:16,880 --> 01:12:23,840
us know we're always looking for
something better you know make it better

833
01:12:21,400 --> 01:12:28,880
all right thank you all so very much
thank you

834
01:12:26,560 --> 01:12:35,560
and uh something that I forgot to
mention at the beginning of the meeting

835
01:12:31,679 --> 01:12:41,639
and J reminded me of this Chief green
thank you for everything that you did

836
01:12:37,920 --> 01:12:47,719
today yes sir it wasn't me well it was
my people it was it was everybody

837
01:12:44,679 --> 01:12:54,199
everybody you worked hard you took a
what potentially could have been a real

838
01:12:50,760 --> 01:12:58,520
dangerous um terrible event and you
managed it

839
01:12:55,719 --> 01:13:05,520
thank you thank you I will let my guys
know please do okay next item on the

840
01:13:02,480 --> 01:13:10,639
agenda I'll turn it over to Richie uh
for resolution yeah this this is

841
01:13:07,800 --> 01:13:15,480
something we do every year um as as
y'all know if someone or there's unpaid

842
01:13:13,080 --> 01:13:20,760
taxes and that's advertised in the paper
and this just gives Susan the authority

843
01:13:17,320 --> 01:13:26,560
to do that because they do
collect have we got a

844
01:13:23,080 --> 01:13:29,719
paper we got a paper
what no it'll be it'll be in the paper

845
01:13:28,280 --> 01:13:33,520
they advertise it in the paper it just
it allows people to see that there's

846
01:13:32,199 --> 01:13:39,480
there's unpaid
taxes yeah tax yeah well I mean if we

847
01:13:36,639 --> 01:13:44,199
still got a l times once once a week a
week Wednesday well we're going more to

848
01:13:42,120 --> 01:13:47,239
an online but yeah we still have it once
a week when I it's

849
01:13:47,360 --> 01:13:59,760
online I buy
paper won't get P he have compu the uh

850
01:13:56,679 --> 01:14:05,239
resolution motion to approve by Kevin
any discussion hearing none all those in

851
01:14:02,040 --> 01:14:08,719
favor signify by saying I anyone oppose
motion

852
01:14:06,199 --> 01:14:14,960
carries okay next item on the agenda and
I don't see Chief heavner we've got

853
01:14:11,679 --> 01:14:22,719
we've got a replacement Rusty come on
up uh this is a a new fire Setter

854
01:14:19,800 --> 01:14:28,760
Intervention Program yeah
getting uh we got Terry RS it's going to

855
01:14:25,880 --> 01:14:34,199
come up and make a presentation um this
is a a program that we're it's been

856
01:14:32,400 --> 01:14:41,280
working on it for a while but it's still
kind of in an infant stage as you know

857
01:14:37,080 --> 01:14:46,840
you know police and fire and all those
we're in the uh prevention business more

858
01:14:43,840 --> 01:14:52,480
than we are in the firefighting business
now and and one of the programs that

859
01:14:50,320 --> 01:14:57,360
we're trying to get off the ground is a
juvenile fire Setter Intervention

860
01:14:54,760 --> 01:15:02,719
Program program and uh that's part of
community risk reduction and it's it's a

861
01:14:59,400 --> 01:15:07,480
big thing in our community and uh Terry
has taken this on as a project and

862
01:15:05,440 --> 01:15:12,040
worked really hard and he's done a lot
of research and uh met with a lot of

863
01:15:10,080 --> 01:15:17,560
people he some of the partners that we
have the Child Advocacy Center the

864
01:15:15,000 --> 01:15:23,080
Health Department Lincoln County schools
and those different agencies are are

865
01:15:19,840 --> 01:15:26,239
helping us to bring all that Community
together so we can have the Moes

866
01:15:24,440 --> 01:15:31,639
Outreach so we're just here tonight to
try to bring awareness to the program

867
01:15:28,280 --> 01:15:35,159
and uh you know make let everybody know
that that we're working towards it

868
01:15:33,120 --> 01:15:41,120
something we hadn't had in several years
and uh you know we don't always hear

869
01:15:37,800 --> 01:15:45,560
about when a juvenile might be having
those type of issues it doesn't make the

870
01:15:42,880 --> 01:15:51,239
news because it wasn't a giant fire but
uh this will give us an opportunity to

871
01:15:47,920 --> 01:15:56,000
do some mentoring to to steer folks in
in the right direction ande prevent that

872
01:15:53,840 --> 01:15:59,960
so I'm going to ask Terry to come up and
I as he's beginning his talk I've got

873
01:15:58,280 --> 01:16:05,239
some handouts I don't believe y'all had
in your packet and I'll hand y'all out

874
01:16:02,400 --> 01:16:05,239
uh this Terry

875
01:16:07,400 --> 01:16:14,600
R mayor council thank you for allowing
me to come and give you a a brief

876
01:16:12,560 --> 01:16:21,159
description of the youth fire Center
prevention and Intervention Program uh

877
01:16:18,280 --> 01:16:25,719
City of Lincoln was uh sent me to class
in Raleigh for 6 days to to go over this

878
01:16:23,840 --> 01:16:29,560
class to learn about it I had no clue
about this class but it kind of hit home

879
01:16:28,080 --> 01:16:34,639
because I have a nine-year-old girl at
home and I do not want her to be

880
01:16:31,320 --> 01:16:40,560
involved in any kind of uh arson or to
be hurt uh in any kind of way uh

881
01:16:38,280 --> 01:16:45,840
basically what this program is is uh
it's an assessment this program assesses

882
01:16:43,000 --> 01:16:50,080
the youth fire Setter Behavior
understanding the motivations which

883
01:16:47,320 --> 01:16:55,760
would be curiosity experimentation
emotional distress uh that's behind it

884
01:16:53,639 --> 01:17:00,440
uh a risk ass said assessment helps
determine the level of intervention

885
01:16:57,840 --> 01:17:04,000
needed we know today in today's time
these kids go through a lot of they see

886
01:17:02,520 --> 01:17:08,920
a lot of stuff and they go through a lot
of things and how they cope with it

887
01:17:06,440 --> 01:17:13,480
potentially could be a fire um and
that's what we're trying to prevent

888
01:17:11,360 --> 01:17:18,679
education education about the fire
safety is our core part of our program

889
01:17:15,760 --> 01:17:24,040
if we can get to our youth and and teach
them the prevention part of the fire

890
01:17:21,120 --> 01:17:28,360
thing hopefully the intervention part
won't have to come

891
01:17:26,639 --> 01:17:32,880
behavioral interventions for youth who
exhibit fire setting Behavior due to

892
01:17:30,199 --> 01:17:37,520
emotional or psychological issues this
program provides counseling or therapy

893
01:17:35,719 --> 01:17:43,199
uh the goal is to address the underlying
causes of the behavior such as trauma

894
01:17:39,600 --> 01:17:46,920
anger or family issues our goal is to to
prevent like I said to prevent this from

895
01:17:45,199 --> 01:17:51,719
happening but this program has an
intervention piece in it and that

896
01:17:48,960 --> 01:17:56,520
intervention piece we would talk to said
Youth and their and their parents or

897
01:17:54,040 --> 01:18:01,480
Guardians and get them on board and send
them through a program that is held at

898
01:17:58,120 --> 01:18:04,560
the fire Park uh family involvement you
know we're going to reach out to the

899
01:18:02,560 --> 01:18:08,679
parents too not all parents not all
adults know about fire prevention they

900
01:18:06,400 --> 01:18:14,440
don't know what fire is capable of so
that's our job as the fire department to

901
01:18:12,159 --> 01:18:18,560
to do that uh collaboration with other
agencies I would like to recognize child

902
01:18:16,719 --> 01:18:24,400
advocacy and the health department that
are here tonight um they have been a

903
01:18:21,520 --> 01:18:30,520
huge asset to this program along with
the school um school system and 4 and

904
01:18:28,600 --> 01:18:36,719
the Cooperative Extension we have
reached out to a lot of people and they

905
01:18:32,679 --> 01:18:41,440
have given a lot of input uh following
up and and monitoring after this program

906
01:18:39,480 --> 01:18:47,960
after we get this program up and running
and we have an incident uh there will be

907
01:18:44,800 --> 01:18:51,840
some monitoring monitoring afterwards uh
so let's just say it may be a

908
01:18:49,600 --> 01:18:57,400
three-month monitor or a month monitor
depending on how serious the kid may

909
01:18:55,360 --> 01:19:03,880
have what he had what the kid may have
done or what determine how close we

910
01:19:01,719 --> 01:19:07,679
monitor the kid after the program
hopefully we never have to use the

911
01:19:05,600 --> 01:19:12,520
intervention piece of it that's what our
prevention side of it is going to be

912
01:19:09,400 --> 01:19:17,800
focused towards uh but I want to throw
this out too um Kataba County I've been

913
01:19:15,639 --> 01:19:21,960
going to meetings in Kataba County they
are they've reached out to us we've

914
01:19:19,639 --> 01:19:28,120
reached out to them we've coincided
together um we it's it's a

915
01:19:25,280 --> 01:19:32,040
binding agency I guess so to say we're
working together real close with them as

916
01:19:29,840 --> 01:19:37,400
well so they're they're willing to help
us as well in this

917
01:19:34,520 --> 01:19:42,239
program U the overall youth fire Center
Intervention Program aims to reduce the

918
01:19:39,480 --> 01:19:46,840
risk of future fire related incidents
protect the youth and the community and

919
01:19:44,480 --> 01:19:52,679
provide long-term behavioral
Solutions so that is all the information

920
01:19:50,280 --> 01:19:57,280
I have for you all if you have any
questions I'll be glad to try to answer

921
01:19:54,320 --> 01:19:57,280
the question question that you

922
01:19:57,400 --> 01:20:06,560
have I'm shocked for the the statistic
were the 2/3 that's what all fires are

923
01:20:04,520 --> 01:20:12,520
started by
kids and that that's a national average

924
01:20:09,639 --> 01:20:17,239
wow so going going a little further with
this program you know with the

925
01:20:14,719 --> 01:20:21,760
city how many fires do we have that are
started by

926
01:20:18,360 --> 01:20:26,159
kids do we really know we don't have the
facts we don't have the

927
01:20:23,480 --> 01:20:31,159
information um this program would
provide that as well there are systems

928
01:20:28,760 --> 01:20:37,560
already in place uh it's called Vision
2020 it's online that you can go in and

929
01:20:34,440 --> 01:20:39,800
record your incidents uh to keep track
of

930
01:20:41,159 --> 01:20:53,000
that all right good
thank thank you and thanks to the other

931
01:20:49,080 --> 01:20:58,760
cooperating uh Partners yes U because
that's that's what's going to make it

932
01:20:55,040 --> 01:21:05,280
successful U but uh thanks to everybody
that's involved with it thank you thank

933
01:21:02,320 --> 01:21:10,760
you okay Richie going to turn it over to
you about uh ABC Board requesting

934
01:21:08,520 --> 01:21:17,239
Surplus property thank you mayor we've
had a request from the ABC Board they're

935
01:21:13,440 --> 01:21:23,639
in the process of actually hiring um an
officer that uh would handle some of

936
01:21:20,280 --> 01:21:29,440
their their uh matters as far as bars
restaurants uh would also be in their

937
01:21:25,600 --> 01:21:35,239
store uh doing some prevention uh there
but um their request is actually for the

938
01:21:31,560 --> 01:21:40,040
vehicle um so looking at our stock uh we
have one that's um a vehicle that we've

939
01:21:37,360 --> 01:21:43,840
used downtown some and but it it
definitely needs a new wrap so it's it's

940
01:21:42,560 --> 01:21:50,120
something that we're going to require
them to do is wrap it and and make it be

941
01:21:46,520 --> 01:21:56,159
identified as the ABC Board vehicle or
officer so it would not look like our

942
01:21:52,639 --> 01:22:00,159
vehicle um generally speaking David
Ramsey says we get about 4,000 for a

943
01:21:58,320 --> 01:22:05,840
vehicle like that considering they're
going to have to spend probably $800 to

944
01:22:02,239 --> 01:22:10,920
get it wrapped I felt like a um a value
of about $3,200 would be acceptable that

945
01:22:08,719 --> 01:22:15,159
would get them a vehicle it's only got
like 53,000 miles so no more than it's

946
01:22:13,920 --> 01:22:19,320
going to be driven it's probably
something that'll last them for a long

947
01:22:16,960 --> 01:22:23,199
time but that's our recommendation to
council uh we are allowed to do that

948
01:22:21,440 --> 01:22:27,040
because they are nonprofit or a
government agency so that those two

949
01:22:25,040 --> 01:22:31,639
things allow us to to do that
transaction but I I think you we've done

950
01:22:29,880 --> 01:22:36,360
this in the past with different things
whether it's the county or the school

951
01:22:33,080 --> 01:22:39,840
system U fire departments as you know we
we we've done it with fire departments

952
01:22:37,719 --> 01:22:48,560
as well so I'd make that recommendation
that we sell ITC board for

953
01:22:42,560 --> 01:22:54,639
3200 okay um I'll entertain a motion to
approve Richie's recommendation I'll

954
01:22:52,000 --> 01:23:00,480
make that motion motion by Kevin any
discussion hearing none all those in

955
01:22:56,760 --> 01:23:04,920
favor signify by saying I anyone oppos
motion

956
01:23:01,480 --> 01:23:09,400
carries and Richie right back at you all
right well um because we're in winter

957
01:23:07,679 --> 01:23:14,760
time the dates aren't as bad as they
have been but uh just a reminder we've

958
01:23:11,639 --> 01:23:18,159
got first Friday recycling um tomorrow
and then Saturday we have our second

959
01:23:16,840 --> 01:23:23,280
Saturday shop
local um and then I wanted to mention as

960
01:23:21,639 --> 01:23:30,199
we're going to do a r announcement
tomorrow um but our annual curbside Lea

961
01:23:26,880 --> 01:23:33,639
pickup ends February 15th so basically
we're going to do a a message to our

962
01:23:32,000 --> 01:23:38,000
citizens to let them know that they've
got leaves that they want to rake out

963
01:23:36,080 --> 01:23:42,840
that they need to be out to the curb by
the 15th because our crews will make

964
01:23:40,280 --> 01:23:45,880
their final lap and if you put it out
behind them it's not going to get picked

965
01:23:44,320 --> 01:23:50,679
up and you'll have to bag it so you'll
get a message tomorrow uh like you did

966
01:23:48,639 --> 01:23:54,480
today about Recycling and it'll it'll
just be just a reminder to those

967
01:23:52,320 --> 01:23:58,199
citizens it's going to be a nice weekend
if You' got leaves go ahead and put them

968
01:23:55,960 --> 01:24:04,199
out we'll pick them up next week I want
to commend the public works department

969
01:24:01,360 --> 01:24:09,239
for this season all the leaves fell at
one time but they were able to keep up

970
01:24:06,320 --> 01:24:13,679
with it um we did add the automated Leaf
truck uh and that has been a game

971
01:24:11,560 --> 01:24:19,679
changer for us as y'all know we were
able to secure two for half of what well

972
01:24:17,080 --> 01:24:24,400
actually less than half uh new one was
going to be 300,000 we were able to

973
01:24:21,480 --> 01:24:29,679
secure two um vehicles that had been
used by another city for 74,000 so that

974
01:24:28,159 --> 01:24:34,000
was like I said that was a game changer
for us and we saved money so it it was a

975
01:24:32,000 --> 01:24:39,560
win-win but I just wanted to mention
that they did an excellent job uh Nathan

976
01:24:36,480 --> 01:24:43,880
and Brad and those guys kept up with it
they they worked extra days if needed so

977
01:24:41,960 --> 01:24:48,159
um just proud of the work they did and
and the you know like I say the service

978
01:24:45,679 --> 01:24:53,159
they give to our citizens also on the
18th of February the planning board and

979
01:24:50,280 --> 01:24:59,040
then y'all received invitations for the
uh police recognition banquet on the

980
01:24:55,719 --> 01:25:02,920
22nd so but if you would RSVP the chief
on that so he'll know whether you're

981
01:25:00,239 --> 01:25:07,560
coming or not mention some of the
highlights in the city page that's just

982
01:25:04,880 --> 01:25:12,880
something I I I think has been an asset
for us communicating with our with not

983
01:25:09,880 --> 01:25:16,639
only our employees but also counsil uh
like to mention there's a nice thing in

984
01:25:15,080 --> 01:25:21,000
there about Johnny and she has
definitely been missed the last few

985
01:25:18,159 --> 01:25:25,280
weeks um and not only as you know just a
cooworker but a friend for everybody and

986
01:25:23,679 --> 01:25:30,000
one of the things that I miss is
Johnny's life advices and I don't know

987
01:25:28,159 --> 01:25:35,159
if David here tonight David did an
excellent job at the funeral describing

988
01:25:32,800 --> 01:25:40,119
what Johnny meant to the city hall and
what he meant to to each individual and

989
01:25:37,320 --> 01:25:44,400
it was it was really touching and and um
and she will definitely be missed um I

990
01:25:42,800 --> 01:25:48,199
wanted to mention also in there that we
recognized law enforcement it was uh

991
01:25:46,639 --> 01:25:52,679
January 9th was law enforcement
appreciation day and then also you'll

992
01:25:51,119 --> 01:25:57,280
see some pictures from the public works
on their snow removal and some sidewalk

993
01:25:55,199 --> 01:26:02,000
repair I know our snow didn't turn out
what everybody expected but uh I'm not

994
01:26:00,320 --> 01:26:06,920
going to lie to you I don't care if it
snows for the next two and a half years

995
01:26:03,560 --> 01:26:10,520
so it's just more work for us and then
uh you'll see some pictures in there

996
01:26:08,320 --> 01:26:14,840
from distribution collections uh dealing
with freezing temperatures um you know

997
01:26:12,679 --> 01:26:20,840
naturally this time of year uh we're
dealing with broken Mains uh I think at

998
01:26:16,920 --> 01:26:25,760
one time how many did you have Todd 17's
what have had in there but uh about 18

999
01:26:24,400 --> 01:26:30,719
yeah like I mentioned last month you got
to realize those guys are out there at

1000
01:26:27,880 --> 01:26:35,239
18 20° and they fit some water so it's
it's it's not fun and they do an

1001
01:26:32,600 --> 01:26:41,199
excellent job and maintaining a lot of
times aging lines want to mention a few

1002
01:26:37,760 --> 01:26:45,920
promotions too um Matthew Mendoza uh
promoted the equipment operator Garrett

1003
01:26:43,560 --> 01:26:51,560
Von bargain promoted the police officer
too and then Josh messic is promoted the

1004
01:26:48,600 --> 01:26:55,880
firefighter one and we had two gentlemen
Branson mcney and Ethan Milwood who

1005
01:26:54,280 --> 01:27:01,040
completed the North Carolina breathing
equipment school training uh that's in

1006
01:26:58,040 --> 01:27:05,880
that that City page as well on our
homeless report we actually and we know

1007
01:27:03,639 --> 01:27:11,199
this because of the winter time we have
less incidents and charges uh some of

1008
01:27:08,920 --> 01:27:15,760
some of those that we see when the when
the weather's nicer right now probably

1009
01:27:13,480 --> 01:27:19,320
on somebody's couch uh and we we see
that every year when it gets hot and

1010
01:27:17,040 --> 01:27:23,080
gets cold our numbers will shrink and as
the weather gets better they they they

1011
01:27:20,960 --> 01:27:27,639
get back to a normal level wanted to
mention some other business uh we uh

1012
01:27:24,840 --> 01:27:32,920
will be meeting next week uh with the uh
Architects on hopefully the final design

1013
01:27:30,840 --> 01:27:36,800
of the new Public Service Center and
then once that we get that final design

1014
01:27:34,840 --> 01:27:41,080
we'll bring it to council uh for
approval and then and then bid that out

1015
01:27:38,920 --> 01:27:45,440
so that's moving along now that we've
got kind of a definite budget and a

1016
01:27:43,600 --> 01:27:50,000
definite Vision there it's moving along
a lot better uh mentioned City Park

1017
01:27:47,760 --> 01:27:55,840
before same thing I hopefully sometime
March April we'll have that um final bid

1018
01:27:53,080 --> 01:27:59,760
design I know I mentioned this in the
morning Meetup uh for the people who are

1019
01:27:57,920 --> 01:28:04,119
want to know where why the white marks
are on the sidewalks downtown that is

1020
01:28:01,880 --> 01:28:08,600
part of our ADA compliance and so we are
shaving those trip hazards uh I

1021
01:28:06,320 --> 01:28:15,000
mentioned also one trip Hazard can cost
you $100,000 we've seen that at the city

1022
01:28:12,119 --> 01:28:20,119
uh so we're going to continue that uh we
will we will be working on those uh in

1023
01:28:17,560 --> 01:28:24,800
the next budget year also uh starting to
replace some Ada ramps that are either

1024
01:28:23,119 --> 01:28:29,400
non-compliant
um or don't have the Braille pad on

1025
01:28:27,280 --> 01:28:34,119
those CU you know that that is part of
the new the new ADA compliance so we'll

1026
01:28:32,560 --> 01:28:37,760
continue that work and I'll try to keep
you updated on where they're going to

1027
01:28:36,320 --> 01:28:42,440
where they're going to go and and and
they'll give us an idea they'll give us

1028
01:28:39,199 --> 01:28:47,480
a map of that budget I'm three Saturdays
into it and so I feel like I've got a a

1029
01:28:45,560 --> 01:28:52,719
good idea on revenues because that's
that's the beginning uh so this Saturday

1030
01:28:50,000 --> 01:28:57,280
I will start on expenses and as y'all
know I go through each line it each

1031
01:28:54,920 --> 01:29:01,520
expenditure uh and try to make sure
there's there's no anomalies that are

1032
01:28:59,600 --> 01:29:07,880
making it you know skew one way or the
other uh and um then I will start the

1033
01:29:05,360 --> 01:29:12,480
process of meeting with department heads
uh making sure that that their Capital

1034
01:29:09,760 --> 01:29:19,320
needs are met and any any staffing needs
or increases that could be um regulation

1035
01:29:16,400 --> 01:29:24,199
or so forth and then as yall know April
11th we'll be sitting in here uh

1036
01:29:21,679 --> 01:29:30,040
finalizing everything hopefully so but I
keep you updated on that and uh last um

1037
01:29:27,960 --> 01:29:34,239
I want to introduce Scott Clark Scott if
you wouldn't mind come up uh I mention

1038
01:29:32,239 --> 01:29:40,480
this last month Scott will be starting
with us Tuesday um as assistant city

1039
01:29:37,280 --> 01:29:43,520
manager he will Shadow me for two weeks
and then he's going to be spending a

1040
01:29:41,840 --> 01:29:47,760
week with our department heads uh
getting to know their departments in and

1041
01:29:46,119 --> 01:29:50,639
out so Scott I'll just give you a brief
moment just introduce yourself y thank

1042
01:29:49,480 --> 01:29:55,080
you I'm looking forward to the
opportunity uh my family is very excited

1043
01:29:52,800 --> 01:29:58,600
having much closer to home I'm excited
to put my efforts back into the

1044
01:29:56,960 --> 01:30:02,960
community in which I live in so there's
a lot of great things and lincolon I've

1045
01:30:00,880 --> 01:30:06,280
been here about 9 years pushing I'm
close to it so thank you for the

1046
01:30:04,880 --> 01:30:09,639
opportunity I'm looking forward to
working with everyone working with the

1047
01:30:07,719 --> 01:30:15,040
employees as well and the citizens
within the community so thank

1048
01:30:11,719 --> 01:30:20,840
you and as we discuss he's going from an
hour and a half one way to four minutes

1049
01:30:18,800 --> 01:30:26,320
so
so yeah it's a it's definitely blessing

1050
01:30:24,440 --> 01:30:30,920
so thank you my family is very excited
as well so appreciate the opportunity

1051
01:30:28,800 --> 01:30:35,840
thank you Scot thank you and Scott's
office is between Richie my

1052
01:30:37,040 --> 01:30:46,360
off he doesn't stand a chance but you
know uh if you get a chance come by and

1053
01:30:44,080 --> 01:30:53,480
and uh sit down and get to know Scott a
little bit better you going be upstairs

1054
01:30:49,480 --> 01:30:59,080
yes yes yes I'll tell you about my my C
dealer jokes and

1055
01:30:56,280 --> 01:31:03,480
everything thank you sir appreciate
mayor that's everything I know we got

1056
01:31:00,400 --> 01:31:09,280
closed session okay I'll entertain a
motion to go in close session so Move

1057
01:31:06,719 --> 01:31:16,000
Motion by Roby any discussion hearing
none all those in favor signify by say

1058
01:31:12,440 --> 01:31:20,800
n and uh John if you will tell us the
reason why and then I need to ask Mike

1059
01:31:18,679 --> 01:31:25,520
if he's got any questions as some of
y'all know we uh we can only do Clos

1060
01:31:23,119 --> 01:31:34,400
sessions very specific circumstances so
in accordance with GS 143

1061
01:31:29,960 --> 01:31:34,400
3811 uh 85 in this

1062
01:31:37,320 --> 01:31:46,119
casr staff real estate and we are going
to we're going to we're going to do a

1063
01:31:42,719 --> 01:31:49,119
little bit of attorney CL stuff
under

1064
01:31:51,320 --> 01:31:59,000
uh1 I guess yeah A1
so we got two

1065
01:31:59,400 --> 01:32:02,719
reasons got any

1066
01:32:07,800 --> 01:32:12,529
questions
[Music]

1067
01:32:21,760 --> 01:32:25,840
get also when's the last time we

1068
01:32:33,600 --> 01:32:37,639
yeah we haven't had an assistance since

1069
01:32:41,719 --> 01:32:51,880
Rich okay y I was actually the first
yeah you were the first if you need to

1070
01:32:48,880 --> 01:32:51,880
take

1071
01:33:07,880 --> 01:33:11,600
thank you J har good

1072
01:33:14,280 --> 01:33:18,280
job than

1073
01:33:34,960 --> 01:33:38,199
[Applause]

1074
01:33:40,960 --> 01:33:46,240
I don't know if these will last very
long I go ahead and order another

1075
01:33:44,480 --> 01:33:52,600
box i' still got the
[Laughter]

1076
01:33:50,480 --> 01:33:57,239
first I'm assuming that's the minimum
you can can

1077
01:33:55,080 --> 01:34:01,360
the only time I ever give them out like
when

1078
01:33:58,360 --> 01:34:01,360
I

1079
01:34:02,159 --> 01:34:11,040
something here you
go oh yeah yeah

1080
01:34:07,800 --> 01:34:15,960
yeah recorded to ensure accuracy that's
right thank

1081
01:34:12,960 --> 01:34:22,119
you you can always pull it up online
well you're

1082
01:34:18,119 --> 01:34:22,119
right goodness

1083
01:34:25,119 --> 01:34:27,440
how