[0:28] e
[0:58] e
[1:28] e e
[2:20] are there any additions or relations
to if not I'll entertain a motion to
[2:26] approve the agenda as presented
so Move Motion by Roby any discussion
[2:33] hearing none all those in favor signify
by saying I I anyone oppose motion
[2:38] carries we've also got a few items on
the consent agenda uh I'll entertain a
[2:44] motion to approve those items on the
consent agenda motion to approve motion
[2:49] by Kevin any discussion hearing none all
those in favor signify by saying I
[2:55] anyone opposed motion
carries uh next on the agenda is the
[3:01] public comment and we have two sign Mr
Frank Kennan okay right uh if you'll
[3:10] state your name and three
minutes
[3:17] okay my name is Frank Keenan I I reside
on Victor Street just wanted a little
[3:23] shout out to utilities department
specially electric crew in a low power
[3:28] line called in him out we both agreed
he's going to be back the next day and
[3:32] before I knew it was done they rais a
line about 4 foot for service both my
[3:37] house in my neighbor's house I call
Spectrum and then at Spectrum is good
[3:43] driver
at but doesn't bother me because I don't
[3:46] have at service so number two is U
update on the city park on North has got
[3:55] any information out of that and when
that project is done is there any
[3:58] thought about renaming it to
to Pat Park Memorial Park Veterans Park
[4:03] there's a whole bunch of names I think
would be appropriate yeah and we
[4:07] actually hopefully sometime in March or
April we'll have the final design ready
[4:13] to go to B um it's been a unique project
because of the water uh but uh water
[4:19] just a little bit but yeah so hopefully
you'll see some um some dirt being turn
[4:24] this summer okay all right that's that's
my comments yeah thank you thank you sir
[4:31] um Mr Hall Danny
hle okay Alan three minutes yes
[4:43] sir Mar and uh city council and City uh
attorney and manager uh just over what's
[4:51] been going on just got a question to you
for one thing uh Are you ashamed of The
[4:58] Honorable president Donald Trump
uh because I'm actually ashamed of y'all
[5:05] he's he's come out and said that there
are only two Sexes and yet uh we
[5:12] wouldn't do it in our city or county or
our state he said that uh that boys
[5:17] could not be in in females bathrooms or
in sports and yet we didn't protect them
[5:22] on their own in the city or county or
our state so now they're drawing up
[5:27] things to fall behind but I'm like I
said I'm ashamed that we didn't stand uh
[5:32] to just common sense I also want to
address to you and and uh things that's
[5:38] coming out and the thing that was put on
the TV and everything else believe the
[5:42] science and yet the science today is
showing more and more the lies of well
[5:48] just more or less say the previous
administration and the highest paid
[5:52] person Dr FY uh by the federal
government but uh children has been
[5:58] wounded at 212% % greater after taking
the shot and having uh disorders as ADHD
[6:06] epilepsy Caesars brain inflammation and
and learning disorders uh there's other
[6:13] ones that another area is calling for a
halt of the injections particularly in
[6:18] children another one even by fizer own
report said after they took the shot 4
[6:23] days there was 12200 deaths 42,000
injuries and nearly half of these were 8
[6:29] 18 to 50 which didn't really affect too
seriously about even if they had that
[6:35] that sickness so even madna is coming
out now and saying that they got the
[6:40] vaccine before the virus was even
released to the world so I know the
[6:44] whole problem that wearing this mask and
it was put even pushed here in the city
[6:49] and everything else is that we're scared
to die and the Bible says appointed a
[6:54] man wants to die and after that's a
judgment and so no matter what any of us
[6:58] do we all going to die
so but when we start forcing people
[7:03] against their will to wear masks take
shots and everything else then we've
[7:08] violated the Constitution freedom
justice and Liberty so I just uh ask you
[7:13] that all of you would consider before
they do another plan pmic that all these
[7:20] things that you have a different outcome
a different thought and not be so scared
[7:25] for your lives and seeing and and even
taking action uh following Donald Trump
[7:31] president uh to protect their children
in the schools from the shot and from
[7:36] this uh sexual disorder uh that that's
going on thank
[7:44] you okay next item on the agenda I'll
turn it over to Brian or chief green uh
[7:51] for a special recognition
[8:03] mayor we've had a busy day so we didn't
get a chance to go home and change into
[8:06] our address uniforms we do apologize to
John who looks a lot better than we do
[8:11] but
uh uh we are here to present John his
[8:15] intermediate certificate um the state
training and standards recognized two
[8:21] certificates for law enforcement in
North Carolina intermediate certificate
[8:25] and an advaned certificate uh it's based
on years of service training as well as
[8:31] education can take the place of some of
the the training points we receive so
[8:36] it's a combination of of things to to to
get this it's not easy to get uh
[8:42] requires a lot of work and we would like
to present John with his intermediate
[8:46] certificate
and um the uh well I'm sorry I'm
[8:54] ti so but we would like to present
anybody's intermediate certificate from
[8:58] training standard
[Applause]
[9:12] John congratulations thank
[Applause]
[9:16] you okay next item on the agenda I'd
like to ask Jamal Farley to come forward
[9:22] please
[Applause]
[9:33] oh and Mary Francis I didn't know we
were going to have
[9:42] two but uh this is a special day and uh
the city is honored every February to
[9:50] recognize Black History Month and uh I
thought I was just going to be talking
[9:55] to jam and I i' had been picking on him
earlier but now that I see Mary Francis
[10:00] I I'll be nice okay uh but uh whereas
during Black History Month we honor the
[10:07] extraordinary contributions made by
African-Americans through the history of
[10:11] our Republic and we renew our commitment
to liberty and justice for all and
[10:16] whereas during Black History Month we
recognize the achievement of
[10:20] African-Americans and their role in
shaping history along with the
[10:24] contributions that African-Americans
have made to enhance the economic
[10:28] cultural spiritual and political
development of our of our country and
[10:33] there's a whole lot more there but now
there the lincolon city council does
[10:40] hereby Proclaim and declare the month of
February as Black History Month in
[10:44] lincolon North Carolina and further
encourages all citizens to observe the
[10:49] month with appropriate programs
ceremonies and
[10:53] activities I can shake your hand
[Applause]
[11:02] we appreciate you uh mayor and Richie
and all Council for doing this uh
[11:07] because we do have a lot of rich black
history in Lincoln County from the
[11:13] Eastern to the Western and in between
and we have history standing next to me
[11:18] as she was the first
africanamerican elected official on the
[11:22] council so um we thank you thank you for
your support and uh hope to make things
[11:28] better in the new future thank you and
let me let me add to that if I'm not
[11:34] badly mistaken Mary Francis was not only
the first African-American elected to
[11:39] city council but she's the only person
that has ever been elected to a position
[11:46] in Lincoln County so but not not the
only one well it's more to
[11:53] come not the last it's more to come she
the first but won't be the last thank
[11:59] you thank
you thank
[12:03] [Applause]
[12:15] you and I I'll say this Jamal and I go
back so far oh gosh uh ever since he was
[12:25] was a kid so uh I I have earned the
right to pick on Jam
[12:29] but some most of them are my
[12:34] teachers Mr Johnson I
know thank you all okay next item on the
[12:41] agenda is public hearing and I'll open
up the public hearing and turn it over
[12:45] to Jean good evening how are youall
tonight um this is um currently ex zoned
[12:52] exist I'm sorry the existing zoning is
neighborhood business this property is
[12:55] located on North Carolina Highway 27 um
doesn't have an address but it's four
[13:00] different Parcels which are listed
here the proposed zoning would be a
[13:05] conditional rezoning to General
manufacturing and Commercial conditional
[13:09] District um it's these three lots
they're currently vacant um you can see
[13:13] that by the brown color they're already
they're already Zone commercial it's
[13:17] just neighborhood business um and the
proposed use would be for a warehouse
[13:21] for storage for delivery of incontinence
and nutrition products throughout North
[13:26] Carolina this is an area where you can
kind of see see the lots a little bit
[13:29] better and how they sit we're um these
27 splits and it to the left it's 150
[13:36] and to the right is 27 and there's the
bank um I think there's an insurance
[13:40] office bugbusters is here um so the left
side is predominantly commercial and the
[13:45] right side is predominantly
residential that's a just a street view
[13:50] of the empty
lot um this one I just did it so you can
[13:55] kind of see the commercial business the
church and the insurance and then it's
[13:58] this
here and then I just s an aerial from
[14:02] Google so you can kind of see what
businesses are there and this this area
[14:06] with the trees is the area that we're
going to be talking
[14:10] about um it does back up to
um sorry I can't Road right off the top
[14:17] of my head Arcadia Heights Road sorry
about that um so this is Arcadia Heights
[14:21] Road and that's just a view from that
road currently the land use plan um
[14:27] shows this in the neighborhood business
and plan business area um we do feel
[14:32] that it's consistent with those areas
when you read the descriptions um so we
[14:37] do not recommend um amending the land
use plan we do feel like it's consistent
[14:41] with that and you can see the colors the
back three lots are in the neighborhood
[14:45] business and the front lot is in the
plan of
[14:48] business I'm going to switch the screen
just so you can see but it is um we'll
[14:52] look at the site plan in minute in
closer detail but it would be an
[14:56] 11,990 ft building it would have eight
reg parking spaces um two accessible
[15:01] parking spaces one loading dock 3 to
five employees it's for storage and
[15:06] distribution of medical supplies um the
hours would be Monday through Friday and
[15:11] their business hours I think they I
think he said 7 to 4 so no late nights
[15:15] um right now they only have one Traer
trailer per month and five to six box
[15:19] trucks per month um and they do show
them here that in the future they might
[15:24] potentially add an accessory structure
behind it just an extra storage building
[15:28] um but but that's not in the plans in
the immediate plans and I'm just going
[15:32] to get out of this one and just show you
a closer up of
[15:36] the plan it's
[15:41] not you can see that we come off at
27 and when you come straight in there
[15:46] would be the loading dock and the trucks
would be able to back into the parking
[15:49] area and and get out easily it shows the
building the parking
[15:54] spaces they would have a sidewalk out
front and it's set pretty far back on
[15:59] off the road that first lot is pretty
much just going to be open space and
[16:03] then the driveway and parking with the
building set towards the
[16:06] rear any questions about the
cycling is that in the jurisdiction of
[16:12] the sheriff
department that is in the etj I believe
[16:17] let see actually yeah it is it is um
Lincoln County Sheriff's
[16:23] Department it would be serviced by us
for water their sewer would be private
[16:27] their electrics through Duke Solid Waste
would be a private vendor and but it
[16:31] would be the lincolon fire department we
sto at the corner right there
[16:39] 15027 um there were there were several
conditions of approval from the staff
[16:42] Review Committee um I've got them listed
in your packet we're not going to go all
[16:46] over all of them but it's used you know
it's the standard just meeting the
[16:50] ordinance requirements for screening
Landscaping parking lot Landscaping we
[16:54] asked that they leave as many wooded
areas as possible um and they'll show
[16:58] that on their plan um they will need an
erosion control plan and submit that to
[17:02] Danielle at the county
um and CDOT would require a driveway
[17:08] permit and an encroachment agreement for
utilities um there are a couple things
[17:12] he wanted labeled on the site plan um
they would need to meet the requirements
[17:16] of appendix D of the fire code um they
would need an approved water supply on
[17:20] site um before they have combustible
materials on site and they need to
[17:24] coordinate with the Fire Marshall and
any requirements for fire suppression um
[17:28] our City Public Works did not have any
comments because it is in the etj so it
[17:31] would not be there streets and then um
Water Resources said that they would
[17:36] need a waterline extension permit from
um ncdeq and install a water line to
[17:40] connect the existing water line in front
of East Highway
[17:45] 27 um this is a conditional zoning it
would have an expiration date of 5 Years
[17:49] From the date of approval any
adjustments that don't affect the
[17:52] overall layout of the plan and then our
technical nature we would let whatever
[17:57] Department made that comment approve the
change if there were changes on the site
[18:00] plan that affected it move the building
closer to the road or change the density
[18:04] or change the size it would come back to
city council for
[18:10] approval we have to look at the
statements of proposed consistency and
[18:14] reasonableness um so the lincolon land
use plan does that show this in the
[18:17] neighborhood business and plan business
as we talked about earlier um it is
[18:21] consistent with the land use plan
because it expands commercial
[18:24] development along East Highway 27 um and
it's reasonable because develops vacant
[18:29] land that is currently underutilized and
it reuses an existing property that's
[18:33] already zoned commercial um if you did
choose to deny it you would need a
[18:37] statement to support that and it's the
reason I just put that it's um the use
[18:41] is not desirable in the area and
therefore reasonable
[18:45] denial planning board did vote to
approve this um 6 to zero in favor of
[18:50] recommended approval and they recommend
the following actions recommend approval
[18:54] of the resoning of the property from
neighborhood business to GMC conditional
[18:58] District
approve the statement of consistency and
[19:00] reasonableness for approval of the
resoning request and that the zoning
[19:04] would be effective upon the signed
signed conditions of
[19:08] approval any questions for
me the existing zoning and and Zoning
[19:15] we're looking to change it to what what
would you say are the key differences
[19:19] between those two zonings neighborhood
business it's typically smaller sized
[19:24] buildings um but you could have like in
neighborhood business you can have a
[19:28] convenience store store it just can't be
you can't sell gas per past midnight um
[19:32] there's just a different variety of uses
GMC typically is a wider variety of
[19:39] industrial type uses um but when you do
these conditional zonings it it makes
[19:43] them adhere to what this site plans say
um so it would be restricted to that
[19:47] 11,900 ft building um if you wanted to
put a condition on the hours you could
[19:53] cuz the condition follows it um that's
up to you I don't have a condition on
[19:57] the hours I just went with what he said
that they would be but we did not put in
[20:00] a condition of approval and if it were
if it were more residential if it were
[20:04] surrounded by residential but it's on 27
headed east and it it is the left side
[20:09] is predominantly commercial and I think
that you'll see East Main expand that
[20:13] direction play for commercial
projects
[20:18] okay and the applicant is here if you
have any
[20:22] questions any other
[20:26] questions uh Bud do you want
speak not unless you have questions je
[20:33] said it a lot better than I
can then uh I'll entertain a motion to
[20:38] close the public hearing that motion
motion by Jill any discussion hearing
[20:44] none all those in favor signify by
saying I I anyone opposed motion carries
[20:49] now I entertain a motion to
approve uh as recommended by the
[20:56] staff I'll make that motion motion by
Kevin any discussion hearing none all
[21:01] those in favor signify by saying I
anyone opposed motion
[21:07] carries thank
[21:11] Ben okay next item on the agenda is our
audit
[21:16] report and I'm going to turn it over to
Pam so that if she wants to make
[21:25] 38 oh yeah yeah I was about to leave
that John D
[21:30] oh how in the world could I do
that okay John it's all
[21:37] yours just can't leave out on I've been
wanting to ignore John for
[21:42] years good evening good evening I'm here
it's my honor tonight to come before you
[21:47] to present a request for lincolon City
industrial incentive Brant now I'm
[21:52] representing a Lincoln City existing
industry the name of the company is Fant
[21:57] fantech is located at 352 North General
Boulevard spant Tech manufacturers
[22:03] expanded metal sheets cools and
component parts this incentive request
[22:08] is for the construction of a 20,000 ft
Warehouse Edition the installation of a
[22:14] new 10t expanded metal grading line and
a new stamping press and the agreement
[22:20] would read that honor before February
5th 2025 spantex shall begin the
[22:26] construction of a building addition and
equipment
[22:29] expansion within two years dat of this
agreement spanch should make an
[22:33] investment in machinery and building
expansion of 3, 850,000 of which 3,
[22:40] 205,000 will qualify for incentives
under the Lincoln City industrial
[22:44] incentive Grant policy within two years
at this agreement spantech will also
[22:49] provide at least four new jobs at such
site paying an average weekly wage of
[22:54] $11,000 including
benefits and upon approval of this
[22:58] requests the city will provide
$2,187 per year in Grants after all the
[23:05] taxes are paid and the investment is
made this would be a 5year period after
[23:10] the Project's completion this is a level
two incentive grant for this type of
[23:14] project I'll be glad to answer any
[23:19] questions any questions of John I think
so if not I'll entertain a motion to
[23:25] approve the economic incentive grant for
spend excuse Mr Mayor can I ask if you
[23:31] would do it in two different one's a res
one approve the resolution to do it and
[23:36] then a second motion to approve the
agreement itself okay then uh I'll
[23:42] entertain a motion to approve the
resolution so Move Motion by Roby any
[23:47] discussion hearing none all those in
favor signify by saying I anyone oppos
[23:52] motion carries now I entertain a motion
to approve the uh incentive Grant
[23:59] I'd like to make that motion motion by
Kevin any discussion hearing none all
[24:03] those in favor signify by saying I
anyone opposed motion Carri thank
[24:11] you now I was trying to leave po John
out Carol
[24:17] um I'll let Pam introduce you and uh say
whatever she wants to about about the
[24:24] audit well uh good evening Council as
you know this is our annual time to
[24:30] review our prior year audit and Carol
with louder milk church and Company is
[24:35] here to uh what I say give you the good
news so we'll just give it to her and
[24:39] let her do her thing Miss
[24:47] Carol I'll try not to take no more than
three
[24:53] minutes we tried to bribe Carol before
the meeting to to make it short but no
[24:58] Carol take as much time as you need okay
um the your audit has been sent to the
[25:04] LGC and it has been approved by the LGC
you received an unqualified opinion with
[25:09] what they require and I was going to go
over the highlights
[25:14] um like two or three page thing go over
that and then if anybody has any
[25:19] additional questions or anything um I'll
entertain those uh the general fund is
[25:25] your main operating fund and at the end
of the year you have had 16,
[25:31] 86978 of total assets which is an
increase of about $2 million the
[25:37] majority of that is an increase in
cash uh your fund balance at the end of
[25:42] the year was14 m81 which is an
increase of a little over 2 million your
[25:50] fund balance reserved for streets which
would be your pal bill was 437,000 uh
[25:56] you received this year
about $384,000 wor pal Bill and since
[26:01] spend about
75,000
[26:05] and
no you didn't spend the change sorry you
[26:11] received 384,000 in P Bill sorry uh
total revenue at the year was 19
[26:17] m757 you budgeted 188 mil8 so you were
really close to a million dollar over
[26:24] what you had budgeted and you have an
increase of about $4.5 million
[26:29] and majority of that is Ador taxes
increase of about 2 million sales tax
[26:35] increase of about $2,000 your
Investments were up about
[26:39] 300,000 and then you had a donation I
think you had several donations of
[26:44] property during the years some land and
stuff so that helped to contribute to
[26:49] that uh your expenditures were 18
million
[26:53] 589 U which was an increase of about
$3.5 million um but you had budgeted 20
[26:59] million but you only spent 18 so you're
about million million and a half less
[27:05] your revenues over under
expenditures were um 1, 168 39
[27:13] 596 your other income is $1.4
million and that consists of the
[27:20] issuance of new debt and leases of about
a little over a million dollars and
[27:25] transfers in from the water and sewer
about $400,000
[27:29] you had an increase in fund balance of
2,583
[27:35] 968 um and your inventory increased
$7,000 your ad alarm taxes collected was
[27:44] 7.9 million compared to 5.8 the year
before your percent collected is
[27:50] 98.71%
um your investment income was 668,000
[27:58] nearly $330,000 increase from the prior
year you do have an increase in cash but
[28:03] also the rates and stuff increased and I
think you did a little bit of uh
[28:06] different find U investing this year
which increased
[28:10] that your available fund balance without
P pal bill is
[28:16] 7.22% with pal bill
[28:21] 71.5% um
8.33% is what it takes for one month
[28:28] um to cover one month's worth of
expenditures is what LGC says the
[28:34] minimum
threshold um for a town your size is 25%
[28:41] you're at
71.5 and average percent units is
[28:47] 46% so you're above the threshold and
you're above units around your size so
[28:54] you're doing very good in that sense
anybody have any questions on the
[29:00] general
[29:05] side we go on with the water and sewer
fund uh your total assets at the end of
[29:11] year were 34
m655 and that's an increase of about
[29:15] 975,000
uh that's due to an increase in cash and
[29:20] also to a decrease in fixed assets due
to
[29:24] depreciation your net position at the
end of the year was million which is an
[29:29] increase of about
900,000 your operating revenues was
[29:34] 8,765 which is an increase of
62
[29:39] 8,000 um and most of that was tap fees
and I think that's due to some new
[29:45] development and your operating expenses
were
[29:49] 8,212 th000 which is an increase of
391,000
[29:54] and that looked like it's kind
attributed to supplies repairs chemicals
[29:59] and I think some salary
increases um you had an operating income
[30:04] of 553,000 your non-operating Revenue
expenses was
[30:10] 84,000 and that's made up of interest
income of about
[30:14] 400,000 donation of some property 510
and then interest expense on your debt
[30:21] of
43,000 you had to transfer out to the
[30:25] general fund of 369
9,000 your change in net position was
[30:31] 9887 40 which is an increase of about
740,000 from the year before your
[30:37] accounts receivable at the end of the
year is
[30:40] 695,000
your investment income is
[30:45] 399,000 and that's an increase of about
150,000 which that's your rates and
[30:50] increase in cash and your available fund
balance is
[30:54] 99.43% in the water fund
your electric fund um you had assets at
[31:01] the end of the year of 12,
329 which is an increase of little over
[31:06] a million dollars and majority of that
is cash your net position at the end of
[31:11] the year was 10,481
823 your operating Revenue was
[31:19] 7,933 and uh that was your mainly your
sales were up and I think that was
[31:23] mostly probably weather related this
past year um you're operating
[31:28] expenses um were $7.1 million which was
just very close to what the year before
[31:35] your
operating uh income is
[31:39] $789,000 your nonoperating revenue is
296,000 and majority of that is interest
[31:45] earned on your Investments he
transferred out to the general fund
[31:51] 34351 and your change in net position
was 1, 152,000 which was an increase of
[31:56] about 170,000 from the year 4 your
accounts receivable is 582,000
[32:03] and your interest income um your
investment income was
[32:11] $297,400 and your available fund balance
in electric fund is 85.9 3% so you have
[32:18] a good available fund balance in both
funds and um you actually added to fund
[32:25] balance in all those funds this year
[32:33] and then you have your component unit
which is a tourism Authority and your
[32:40] total assets is 568 th000 which that's
mainly
[32:45] cash and um a little bit of fixed
assets and then your total cash for all
[32:53] funds was 30, 271 442
and then your restricted cash is
[32:59] $916,000 and that's made up of pal Bill
restricted cash and some federal asset
[33:06] seizure and also deposits utility
deposits that comes to
[33:13] 96,000 do anybody have any questions
about any of
[33:21] that the LGC required a few years ago
was called the unit data form and in
[33:27] that we put and basically kind of all
the information from the audit and it
[33:32] has a lot of questions in it too and
then it kind
[33:35] of looks like uh like if there's any
kind of areas and there's two area two
[33:41] things that yall will have to apply to
as a board um one of them is the water
[33:46] and sewer asset condition um it's less
than 50% I think we had this last year
[33:53] it's um um 31 and I know that all have
the AIA grants that you're doing and
[34:01] looking at those so that's probably you
know a response to that and the other
[34:06] one was that um your audit was late
getting to the LGC our firm had a Cyber
[34:13] attack and we were out of commission for
about over two
[34:18] months and uh we still made the meeting
on time but it was a challenge just to
[34:25] get to get stuff kind of completed
and um so that is that that is our fault
[34:32] but you have to respond to that
and Pam does have a letter from our firm
[34:38] and LGC was notified you know that that
we had a few audits that would be late
[34:42] just because we didn't didn't have the
access to our computers I don't know if
[34:47] I'd say that was y'all's fault but not
necessarily our fault un fortunate being
[34:52] involved
yes but you'll have to but that would be
[34:57] the you know if it was our because we
couldn't access
[35:02] St where where it's
got this is just for me I okay cash and
[35:07] Investments what kind of Investments are
we talking about there you have you have
[35:12] cash with the um North cash North cash
management um we're limited on what we
[35:22] can't invest yeah you're you're limited
the state has laws that limit you what
[35:26] you can invest
stand um but you had at the end of the
[35:31] year North Carolina Cash management um
of 17 million
[35:37] 666,000 and then you did some new
investing this year I think it's called
[35:41] North Car class and you had $200,000
worth of Investments with
[35:47] um yeah they the state uh statutes
limits what stuff that you can invest in
[35:53] but um every I think the stuff
everything was paying better this year
[36:01] thank
[36:04] you anybody have any other
questions and I know I just had you just
[36:10] got the audit this evening so if there's
you know you go through the audit and or
[36:13] you go through this and think well I
wish i' to ask that you know just phone
[36:17] call away um don't mind answering a
question if you know or you know if I
[36:22] need to come back to you know address
something more formally you know I'll be
[36:26] happy to do that
and I will make this comment about Carol
[36:31] um I've worked with a lot of Auditors
over the years different jobs and u i I
[36:39] swear Carol you're the easiest to work
with thank
[36:43] you I can promise it's the best
presentation and it was over three
[36:49] minutes oh no no no we years ago when I
first got in this business it would be
[36:52] about 30 minutes and yeah keep working
on it you
[36:57] but a lot of the Investments a lot of
the the the
[37:02] financials it's it's directly
attributable to your staff yes yes your
[37:08] staff because we couldn't do we couldn't
do the work that we do if it wasn't for
[37:12] the quality of work that they give us to
work with so so just as a recap
[37:18] what um income that the city has made on
investments this year
[37:24] uh let's see
okay in the general fund it was 668,000
[37:30] so I can't add my head um and the water
fund that was
[37:38] 399,000 so that's a little over a
million and the electric fund was nearly
[37:43] 300,000 so probably somewhere between uh
right close to probably
[37:49] 1.4 okay so Pam I'd say you're well
worth
[37:54] your good job need to pay for
right Richie and I were talking about
[38:00] this the other day the the fund balance
is you know
[38:05] that's I I can't say
enough uh and and thank him for for
[38:11] keeping us on the straighten there uh
because I'd much rather see a a healthy
[38:16] fund balance than operate in the in with
the deficit yeah because you never know
[38:21] what tomorrow is you know it's nice to
have a fish in there yes and I were
[38:26] talking we state call it rainy day fund
you know but but that fund balance we
[38:32] want it to be healthy and one of the
things as y'all know we we've got city
[38:36] park that uh we're going to have to fund
and also the new Public Service Center
[38:41] but with the additional monies that
we're we're getting this year and
[38:44] hopefully with additional monies uh that
we'll get next year there is a chance we
[38:50] may be able to cash flow that and so we
wouldn't have to go into debt and now
[38:54] that is that will be you know our
objective is a try to do that I can't
[38:58] guarantee that but that would be nice to
be able to do those two main projects
[39:02] major projects and not have to go into
debt so and we've been able to do that
[39:07] because you know watching watching
pennies here there those base hits turn
[39:12] into home runs
quickly because your Revenue came in
[39:16] over what you budgeted your expenses
came in under what you
[39:20] budgeted s your on that what about is do
that got the rail trail the completion
[39:26] of the rail trail
does
[39:28] that have anything to do with I mean as
far as
[39:34] financing uh well now um are you talking
about like the phase four we go that
[39:41] right now like I say it's it's on a
long-term um plan but uh we've got two
[39:46] other Park projects that are for it so
and that they'll have to be funded as
[39:51] well but ultimately yes it'd be nice to
be able to hook the laboratory and have
[39:55] have that but I I know Carolina thread
Trail who was very active with our first
[40:01] three phases I I think that the the the
roadblock they hits funding and and the
[40:08] lack of
funding and you got to remember a lot of
[40:12] that's also in the
county it's not city property so we will
[40:18] have to come up with a a cooperation
with the County Commissioners to
[40:23] complete that phas how much further we
got to go before we get to the county
[40:28] jeans at a mile that last leg now we own
a good bit of it we purchased our
[40:34] portion is like close to a mile yeah I
think it's 1.7 total between the city
[40:39] and the C some of that would have to be
negotiated with the railroad
[40:44] company
yeah that's a good time right
[40:50] there okay thank you Carol thank
you thank you Carol and next while we're
[40:57] talking about finances let's let's just
turn it back over to
[41:01] Pam well I'm I'm here to uh give you a
budget amendment where I want to
[41:08] increase our budget by $248,500
[41:27] month the police department received uh
some additional funding for the control
[41:32] substance tax which is not normally this
amount of money but they received a
[41:36] little over
$6,600 so that will help them with their
[41:41] U drug enforcement type thing so that
was that was a nice push for for them
[41:46] our power bill second installment came
in we only get two in in a year and this
[41:51] is the second one but it was over our
original budget and we our true up was
[41:56] 100 little over
$12,000 those funds go towards the
[42:00] paving of our uh city streets and we
also uh we received our one of our last
[42:07] reimbursements for AI AIA grant for the
water department we're almost to the
[42:13] point we're waiting on Mill to finish
that we're almost to the point where we
[42:16] finalize that and as I stated before try
to go for some big funding from the
[42:21] state for some additional infrastructure
which is what Carol mentioned about our
[42:26] uh performance indicat is one of our
water andur things we have to work on
[42:29] that's what that grant for but U that
was a reimbursement that we need to pay
[42:34] Mill and for some of their
services uh if you have any questions
[42:38] I'll be glad to answer them but the
majority of this is investment income
[42:42] other than the two that I just stated
are we doing good yes sir okay that's
[42:47] all I want okay if there are no other
questions in I'll entertain a motion to
[42:52] approve the uh budget
ordinance that motion motion by Jill any
[42:58] discussion hearing none all those in
favor signify by saying I I anyone
[43:03] opposed motion carries thank
you and next I'll turn it over to Tanya
[43:11] uh about a proposed
[43:19] policy we have a policy based upon the
activities of the police department so
[43:25] in your packet you had a information
page um Chief green has been very busy
[43:31] working on grants we talked about cops
grants before now we're looking at
[43:35] another grant that he is working on
there's a lot of work that goes into
[43:39] these grants and a lot of documents are
required and in going through what this
[43:43] particular Grant required was a
whistleblower policy and that's why
[43:48] you'd have a draft in your packet
because for his Grant application it
[43:53] required us to have this type of policy
in place um there's a like I said a
[43:59] drafted it was drafted off of a sister
City's policy that they had put in place
[44:05] with some tweaks to um of course have
our type of wording in it and at this
[44:12] time that's what we're asking for is
that the policy could put in place so
[44:17] that we have it and it will let him be
in compliance with the items that are
[44:22] needed for his Grant application this
particular Grant application is for
[44:27] $50,000 which has to do with mental
health programs they currently have an
[44:32] intern that is working with them
embedded into the PD but going forward I
[44:37] believe this is a grant that if they're
um approved for it will assist them in
[44:42] getting someone that may be more
permanent over a long term instead of an
[44:47] intern that they've
got so I just um asking if you have any
[44:52] questions about the
policy for you so the policy sets up
[44:57] protections for people who who
potentially believe they are seeing some
[45:02] sort of misuse of Public Services what
is what are the
[45:08] protections I guess for people who are
getting the whistle blown on them that
[45:13] is towards the end oh the protection for
the people they getting whistle we um
[45:18] are we would do an investigation in
accordance with the policy it has to be
[45:22] reported through the chain of command
that's listed there we would do an
[45:25] internal polic um investigation of that
and based upon whatever is found is how
[45:31] we would go forward because this is
probably we're looking at potential
[45:37] employees that may be involved in
whatever is perceived as being a misuse
[45:42] yeah absolutely and then we have a
progressive disciplinary process in our
[45:46] Personnel policy on how we handle
misconduct yeah and it and it should be
[45:51] there there should be a policy of this
in place but there also should be just
[45:55] safeguards to make sure because you can
yeah but our Personnel policy does
[46:00] protect that to a degree as well one
thing I want you to understand you know
[46:04] and it should be in this policy if that
allegation is is against the city
[46:09] manager or HR then it goes to the city C
attorney so but that's that's actually
[46:14] the way it should be so and in our
Personnel policy if there's things that
[46:19] occur that employees have um grievances
against the manager or myself then that
[46:26] goes to the C attorney to
[46:32] investigate any other
questions if not I'll entertain a motion
[46:38] to approve the Whistleblower
[46:43] policy make that motion motion by Jill
any discussion hearing none all those in
[46:49] favor signify by saying
I anyone opposed motion carries thank
[46:54] you Tanya thank you
okay now oh uh Trent uh come on up and
[47:02] tell us U an update from The
Young and uh especially no you ask if we
[47:11] could limit you to three
[47:14] minutes the
m
[47:20] is and I I'll say this while Trent's
coming over to the
[47:25] podium uh apple
drop it was and I have said this
[47:32] publicly several times now I I thought
the apple drop was the best
[47:37] conducted uh activity that I've seen the
city do it's fantastic really I
[47:43] appreciate I mean and a lot of kids a
lot of fun activities I I mean but it's
[47:50] also things to yourself Council Rich Ela
all the Investments been made I you know
[47:57] to hear everything that the positive we
got especially about the
[48:01] train I mean you know it who knew that
was going to make that big difference I
[48:06] I mean I knew it was going to be fun but
it has become a thing that like people
[48:11] from around us and different counties
know about it like people I I had a
[48:15] friend that lives in asille asked she
was like you have a train I was like
[48:19] yeah wow like how did you what and she
was like yeah I I heard about I saw some
[48:22] pictures and she was like I she knew I
lived here so first thing she did she
[48:27] sent me a message and was asking about
it and she was like when can we come
[48:30] ride it and I was like next special
event um you know it's one of those
[48:36] crazy things but it's I mean you I mean
I'm so glad that you know it's
[48:41] appreciated because the work that went
into it from our community all the
[48:45] people involved I mean it's it's no
small feat especially as what we you
[48:50] know from where this started you know
back in
[48:53] 2018 and that's where you know I made a
little ation for you just so you can
[48:58] understand you know I I know Kevin you
were really you know you the very
[49:01] beginning and I you know and and there
was a couple years for Co that we didn't
[49:05] have it and so you know to see what it
was to what it is now you know and it's
[49:11] like I said everybody that's involved in
like the funding that we get you know
[49:15] whether it was from the city or was ltda
made we also had sponsorships I mean you
[49:19] know all these people care about the
community and they're investing into it
[49:24] so I you know I'll run through this just
so we can get a good idea of it you know
[49:28] like I said background is you know it
started in 2018 you know the crowd size
[49:32] when we see you know we look back just
you know kind of roughing it with
[49:35] estimates you know the pictures it's 500
people that's still not bad I mean you
[49:40] know we're at city of 10,000 I mean you
know you're still you know at that point
[49:43] in time you start thinking about like
that's 5% of your population coming out
[49:47] you know on yeah on one evening night
you know at that time all it was was hey
[49:52] we have cherille Shooters have a DJ you
have some face painting you get two food
[49:57] vendors and then the apple drop that was
it it was it took place on the on the
[50:01] courthouse it was a great start it was a
moment of like where you know as a city
[50:06] we recognized like we could do something
for families and like let's give people
[50:10] something to do and you know come
together that was a great way to you
[50:13] know start it this is what the first
year kind of looked like um sorry
[50:17] there's not that to milon pictures out
there of it so you get a picture of me
[50:20] and my daughter Caroline when she's one
and my wife um but I mean you know it's
[50:26] it's nothing spectacular but everybody's
still having fun and that that's really
[50:30] the main thing right here when we came
to this part that's where I think Ed
[50:37] because you've been a part of it since
day one you just start seeing what it
[50:41] could be you saw the excitement you see
everyone who's been you know who was
[50:46] there who was having a good time even if
it is just walk around talking to people
[50:49] that you
know I you know I you know I enjoy that
[50:54] yeah more than anything my wife makes
fun of me cuz like she's like like you
[50:56] like me to go out cuz you know you're
going to talk to half the people she
[50:59] absolutely hates that but y'all all get
the same thing right you know it's it's
[51:04] a time where you get the feedback from
the rest of the community about how it's
[51:09] going so we jump from there to two years
ago two years ago is when our our
[51:15] committee at Richie came to us and said
hey can y'all help uh Laura Morris as a
[51:22] young adult steing committee can y'all
come to help her you know we you know we
[51:26] we have a bigger plan we have this
thought of what this this event can be
[51:31] we said yeah we would love to because we
were you know as as young adult commit
[51:36] at that point in time we were giving
feedback you know there was ideas that
[51:39] you know that were coming from Council
from Richie you know and trying to get
[51:42] that Master Plan of like what's our
future you know three five 10 years what
[51:47] you know what do we see as the group of
uh you know young adults who are that 25
[51:52] to maybe 45 you know who have younger
kids what can we do you know we want
[51:56] bring people in we want you know that's
how we grow I will steal my Lita thing
[52:00] for the day cuz I saw cliff and John's
right there we're not grow and we're DED
[52:06] and we recognized that and said all
right you know we want to get younger
[52:10] how do we bring these families in here
how do we show off the city this is what
[52:14] it happened in
2013 we went from 500 to 1500
[52:19] people you know we triple that was just
a rough estim and even at that time you
[52:24] know two years ago we we talked about it
we were like
[52:27] you think there was that many people I I
I'll go back to this day and I saying
[52:31] like I think it was closer to two but we
saw the big change because we had people
[52:36] in the community outside of like just
you know Laura and her little team it
[52:40] was young adult committee you had
sponsorships from local businesses you
[52:45] know that people started buying into it
all of a sudden we get snow machines
[52:49] yeah we have a DJ we have more giveaways
than we ever had a blue we have blue an
[52:53] artist face painting uh we we start
running games the chbl shooter are still
[52:58] there but now we've included the theater
Guild they brought people Apple Queen in
[53:02] her full court just instead of just
being the Alp Queen our vendors you see
[53:07] how much you know we went from two to
seven that and that just happened over a
[53:12] couple year span we had Co in between
this was the hardest one because this is
[53:17] coming out of Co this is the you know
the one that was really everybody look
[53:22] come and enjoy downtown come see what we
have to offer
[53:27] and they showed
up as you plan these things I think you
[53:32] know I always sit there and worry like
do we reach enough people are people
[53:36] going to know by and these pictures you
get to see the Frozen characters from
[53:40] the theater Guild you see what the snow
looked like when we lit it up on the
[53:44] courthouse law this is a picture from uh
from the DJ booth uh for Eric
[53:51] Taylor you can see the light up stuff
you can see the Apple in the background
[53:55] there's not too many
spots on that ground that you can see
[54:00] all you see are
people those are people that may may
[54:05] live here at that point yeah they may be
traveling in but once again they
[54:10] saw a community that's was coming
together and they wanted to celebrate
[54:13] together and we gave them the
[54:17] opportunity Ed with a sweet hat I had to
take that picture up
[54:21] there but as you look out across I mean
I I got to give Ashley Ashley the to ago
[54:27] the bubble guns you know actually set up
on stage with two bubble guns and just
[54:33] doing this for like 30 minutes I mean
you know her fingers could I mean it was
[54:37] just perly
stuck but it's that bottom right picture
[54:43] that makes you realize why you do
it to see the amount of kids who are out
[54:49] there enjoying it and you know the free
giveaways while yes we spend a good am
[54:54] amount of our budget towards us
there's a lot of kids I mean like you
[54:58] know when they go out these things they
don't get things we give them to them
[55:02] for
free and it's amazing that when you when
[55:06] you get up on that stage and you look
out and you see all the twinkling lights
[55:10] cuz you know that's at least one kid
that's their night's made nobody has
[55:15] spent
anything but that's because of
[55:18] everybody's investment
into uh into the apple
[55:24] drop also I put a picture of Taylor Ed
goes like she couldn't move for like two
[55:28] days after this goes like she face
painted the whole entire night away um
[55:33] you know this is just a small you know
picture of what our group look like at
[55:36] the end of the night you know putting
everything
[55:39] up now we come to this
pasture this past year is that banner
[55:45] year Ed the numbers don't lie this year
was fully for the young adult steering
[55:51] committee it was you know it was fully
our baby to take you know for it to for
[55:56] it to happen or
not crowd siiz easy estimates 3,300 or
[56:01] 4,000 people I'll talk about it here in
a second
[56:05] because as y'all as city council y'all
invested in Pacer
[56:10] AI it was able to give us pings to see
how many people were downtown during
[56:15] that during that
time we always talk about like you know
[56:20] how many people were at that event like
where did they come from we have that
[56:23] data now we can show what that invest
does why you know how we're bringing
[56:28] people in from outside how and how many
people the best part was we were able
[56:35] toas the highest amount of cash
donations in the history of the event
[56:38] that will you know over $1,000 will go
to uh the uh animal uh lean County
[56:43] Animal Services and H house those are
the two groups this year that that we
[56:49] that we designated you know to get that
[56:53] money while everything's free we do ask
for donation and it just it goes to
[56:58] Great organizations that help our
community next year we you know we we we
[57:04] we plan to beat that number very easily
we've already talked about what things
[57:07] we're going to do
better because we want to help you know
[57:11] we want to continue to see the health of
the city the county our community get
[57:16] better all of a sudden my type had to
get a lot smaller
[57:20] right that's how much stuff we had we
mve to Main Street still got a DJ the
[57:24] Train the train the Train the
[57:28] train sounds like lta's got enough money
we can buy two trains
[57:32] now I'm just going to go P that out like
don't me here sing my supper for $7,000
[57:38] after I heard that number we need we
need to have two
[57:41] trains at this point in time gaming
truck was there for older kids we had
[57:46] other games from cook Reynolds still
face tank we had temporary tattoos we
[57:50] brought in professional face pains cuz
we recognize that like we as a group we
[57:56] could do it but we're not very good at
it to see kids with full face mask and
[58:00] like you know my daughter's had the full
unicorn look you know you know it's
[58:05] awesome because once again you know
they're having fun that line was out of
[58:09] control and one of the things I got you
know I got told you know as the chair
[58:14] what I need to do better job is we need
I do I need to do better at line
[58:18] management did I just we didn't expect
to have 50 people in line to get their
[58:24] face painted not professional
[58:28] oh god I've made a mistake on that one
I'll take that mistake cuz that means it
[58:31] was better than
expected we have the snow machines again
[58:37] we tripled our giveaways tripled them
and guess how how many we at the end of
[58:43] night zero everything was gone I'm sure
I'm still going to be like maybe taking
[58:49] out at in the middle of the night on the
street because all the horns I gave away
[58:53] and how many people just love that noise
all night long of hearing little kids
[58:57] blow horns but we also have princess we
have BL artist we have ch Shooters Apple
[59:01] Point her court now look at it our
vendors we go up to eight now six food
[59:06] and beverage One retail and then we have
one that didn't show up we really could
[59:10] have used them they didn't but the
bigger part here is that right there
[59:14] downtown
Merchants we had two restaurants in five
[59:18] retail stayed open on this night of all
nights and decided to bet on us as the
[59:25] city and also as a committee to make
sure saying that we were going to have a
[59:28] great apple
[59:31] drop they
had talking to Cur vles you know he he
[59:37] was upset with me at the very beginning
he was like why in the world would you
[59:39] get you know we can handle all the food
you know anything I was like no you
[59:42] can't you're not I was like just get
ready for it it's going to be it's it's
[59:47] three it's three hours of
hell he told me at that night he was
[59:50] like yeah you were right the wooden
spoon who just opened up they sold out
[59:55] we have ret shops that people went into
that they didn't know even
[59:59] existed those things were helping small
businesses were helping downtown we're
[1:00:02] getting the foot
traffic whether it was that you know
[1:00:06] them riding the train and see the pickle
fetish open or whether or not you know
[1:00:10] they're at with the Apple Queen and her
court and they go to Just kid around
[1:00:14] which is right behind it steer South was
open I mean we have all these places
[1:00:19] that people got to explore that maybe
they didn't never seen before and that's
[1:00:23] the that that's the big payback for it
this is the numbers this is where we
[1:00:27] talk about like when it comes from you
know Pacer
[1:00:32] AI visits 2.9 thou
29,000 this is during that time period 5
[1:00:38] to 8 on December
[1:00:42] 31st this is where that number of 33 to
4,000 it it's all depends on like if you
[1:00:47] look you know it's how many kids came
with each person right if you just say
[1:00:51] it's one kid you know for every two
people okay well he's we're you know
[1:00:56] like we we creep up 4,000 pretty
quickly Richie I know I'm probably
[1:01:01] missing something else on this I didn't
put all the data in here CU I mean there
[1:01:05] it's really awesome to see it but we we
pulled people from Gaston County
[1:01:09] Cleveland County and katala that's the
best part of it is actually shows you
[1:01:13] where those people were coming from and
we had a higher concentration from more
[1:01:18] I would say in the maiden area in the
Denver area than you expect um and and
[1:01:23] across the county it wasn't just the
2892 it was throughout the county and we
[1:01:30] saw that with um Santa's Village as well
yeah talked to a lot of people from
[1:01:34] Denver Iron Station Pumpkin Center so
that's what we want we want to bring
[1:01:38] those dollars into the City and I agree
with I agree with Tren and it's return
[1:01:42] on investment
absolutely and I think we get it I mean
[1:01:46] we easily can sit and say it's three or
fourfold you know for what was put into
[1:01:52] it the funni part one thing went on here
one it shows you like place people went
[1:01:57] afterwards yeah that there's like four
McDonald's like you know McDonald's and
[1:02:00] Waffle House that was the place but this
is what it looked like this
[1:02:05] year th this top left picture was at
520 and I was freaking out because I was
[1:02:11] like where's everybody at where why are
people here I look back and I laugh cuz
[1:02:15] I'm like there was a good amount of
people already there at
[1:02:19] 520 my daughters uh they our neighbor
Sloan top right you can see our giveaway
[1:02:25] you know Rudy Jennifer down there and
then there's
[1:02:28] Shelby getting ready for it you get
overrun by kids man like yeah they're
[1:02:33] not they're not patient they want their
stuff this is what it started looking
[1:02:38] like as we get closer to the 6:00 hour
at top left picture it start to fill
[1:02:44] in you start seeing everybody getting
their face
[1:02:47] painted I saw more pictures of adults on
that train and I then I saw kids
[1:02:56] this ain't for those kids you know it's
awesome that it was big enough that like
[1:03:00] everybody was able to get on there no
matter you no matter your
[1:03:04] size Ed once again looking good with
your Apple
[1:03:09] Queen you got you had a dance party
going
[1:03:14] on but that's the picture look at that
that's your watch shot of it
[1:03:19] all this is at right right about 7:00 up
on the stage everybody's Gathering up
[1:03:25] there there there's not one spot where
you see
[1:03:31] asphal the amount of investment that was
made paid off because we saw people
[1:03:36] downtown going to like our shops our
restaurants taking pictures posting them
[1:03:43] showing off our
[1:03:47] city I can't say thank you
enough because for someone who has two
[1:03:53] small children I'm always looking for
something to do
[1:03:57] this brings so much
happiness to not just people of my age
[1:04:03] it's everyone who comes
[1:04:07] downtown our group right after
everything said and
[1:04:12] done after I walked 30,000 steps and
pants that were too
[1:04:19] small this is just feedback I put it out
there I put it out on the seses that are
[1:04:24] the town talks lington Denver and
teral and I said hey tell
[1:04:31] me was it what can we do
[1:04:36] better 147 comments
later we have four comments that are out
[1:04:41] tell you that are like oh wasn't the
best you
[1:04:45] know all right 150 so 147 minus 4 all
right 143 comments just like this they
[1:04:54] came from Dallas amazing
[1:04:57] time one of the biggest things that we
saw is people saying this I hate we miss
[1:05:02] it this year seems like everyone uh year
it does get better we appreciate this so
[1:05:06] much for families who want to uh to get
home it's such an amazing family family
[1:05:11] friendly
event y'all Y y'all hear it from me all
[1:05:15] the time because I'm in it and I and I
love the city I love everything that we
[1:05:19] do but now I want y'all to see the other
random people who have that don't come
[1:05:25] to these things and don't talk to you
they're they're taking their time
[1:05:29] they're putting it out there they're
they're promoting the this event better
[1:05:33] than we
[1:05:36] are new location's fantastic it's
awesome one thing that we didn't even
[1:05:41] think about and I'm glad it worked out
was somebody that had a child that had
[1:05:48] special needs and they even were able to
enjoy their time we didn't think about
[1:05:54] that we thought we thought about all the
different age groups everything wouldn't
[1:05:57] think we didn't think about them that
was our fault but it it worked out
[1:06:00] because as they say right there they
absolutely
[1:06:03] love uh the
[1:06:08] event this is the this is just a short
this short
[1:06:13] thing first and foremost thank you to
Betty FL she took us underneath her Wing
[1:06:18] DDA she already had a lot going on
with's
[1:06:21] Village but she G she helped give us
Direction the members our young adult
[1:06:26] steering committee it doesn't happen
unless we're all you know full fully
[1:06:32] committed we take times away from our
families every month to meet to figure
[1:06:36] out what we can do better and how we can
help the city or our community in
[1:06:40] general ltda gave us you some of the
funding mayor council y'all saw you know
[1:06:47] and y'all saw what this could be and
what you wanted to be and you put your
[1:06:51] money where your mouth is to an extent
still haven't got my money to get my
[1:06:55] laser like show but you know we can get
there this year don't you
[1:06:58] worry Local Roots ont both helped you
know by giving us chair letting store
[1:07:03] stuff at their
place Le your
[1:07:08] department I will say last month I
messed
[1:07:11] up somebody makes me talk every you know
under three minutes and I'm just saying
[1:07:18] cuz I was upset cuz I forgot a very
important
[1:07:21] person come here BT come here BT
[1:07:27] this man helped tremendously if it w you
know if BT doesn't come out there him
[1:07:32] and Teddy last two
years this is the longest three minutes
[1:07:37] I've ever do I I going to let you
know here's your Apple CU your Apple of
[1:07:42] our ey we want you to put this you know
up there your office this is your start
[1:07:48] no no no you just take your Apple say I
love you too and we also want to get a
[1:07:52] certificate the certificate right here
the BT for his dedication to the city of
[1:07:57] Ling's apple drop and ensuring the young
adult standing committee was able to
[1:08:00] drop it like it's
hot see Iron and him giving me this
[1:08:06] forbidden
fruit we were working on hanging the U
[1:08:12] moon but I don't know what that award
would look like coming from him so now
[1:08:16] we're just going to work on hanging him
yeah I believe there was one person on
[1:08:21] one of the comments that said you know
it been funny after we dropped you right
[1:08:24] yeah yeah yeah and I know and looking at
y'all you'll know that he's a 75 RPM
[1:08:28] record I'm a 33 so I hope you can
understand why it's probably your we
[1:08:35] appreciate you yeah want make sure you
know you understand how much you
[1:08:40] appreciate how old are you today oh yeah
well happy birthday do we all need to
[1:08:45] say happy birthday to you too no I'll
throw the Apple
[1:08:49] up happy
birthday Public Works street department
[1:08:55] for everything they came out and did
putting up barricades getting stuff out
[1:08:58] trash cans Recreation depner
Nathan you let me come and wreck your
[1:09:04] department every year for you know a
couple days I I greatly appreciate
[1:09:09] especially you know letting car sit
there and go through things with me and
[1:09:13] you know and you can EAS be like all
right get out like let her in some work
[1:09:18] if it wasn't for her and the amount of
time you know there's a lot of these
[1:09:20] things the graphics and stuff that
wouldn't happen so I appreciate you you
[1:09:24] know you you investing into us and
letting us you know take time away from
[1:09:29] her you know on her regular stuff and
and helping out and the other you know
[1:09:34] employees that came out and help without
them I mean we're we're lost because
[1:09:38] they do all the
games student advisory
[1:09:43] Council there's about there's about 10
of them that came out you know Miss did
[1:09:48] a fantastic job help coordinating that
city of L police fire
[1:09:54] department yeah I mean
it's I can't say thank you enough for
[1:09:58] the things that yall do for all these
special events and like I know you have
[1:10:02] families just like everybody else you
want to be you rather be with them than
[1:10:04] hanging out with us out on the street
you know watching you know an event take
[1:10:10] place
[1:10:15] Run Todd Elmer this part thank you again
sir Todd came out there he wasn't
[1:10:21] working him and chief having you know
helping us do things
[1:10:26] it's that commitment that you can't buy
it's people who care they want to make
[1:10:32] sure that we put our best foot forward
and that we're investing to the right
[1:10:38] things we have those people y'all are
those people thank you'all to our
[1:10:43] conductor you for we did not I forgot to
give you your
[1:10:47] sweatshirt at apple drop so Mr Conductor
here you go here your official young
[1:10:52] adult steering committee and then you
know just like it said on the back just
[1:10:56] so you got BT Drop Like TI thank you
again thank you sir that is it I'm you
[1:11:02] know I'm taking up probably all the time
for the rest of the year that I'm
[1:11:06] allowed to speak it was well worth it
well thank you for all the work you guys
[1:11:11] put into it and young adults thanks for
letting me come sit in on some of that
[1:11:14] the planning it was fascinating there's
a lot that goes into it guys there
[1:11:17] really is so and that's the craer thing
you don't really think you're just like
[1:11:20] it's a it's a great event you know like
how how difficult can it be next thing
[1:11:25] know you're like oh wow there is yeah it
is yeah it really you know it's quite a
[1:11:30] bit that goes into it but at the same
time there's so many people within the
[1:11:35] city who are part of it who make sure it
happens because there are things that
[1:11:40] like I don't know that you know all of a
sudden ashle will jump in and say hey we
[1:11:44] need to do this this and this
okay I you know I I I always say Ashley
[1:11:50] Jones and Taylor Ed drag me across the
finish line and make me look good cuz
[1:11:55] they are two of the best type a personal
peop in all the world the details are
[1:11:58] there and it's those people that yeah
and I know Clay's probably going to kill
[1:12:02] me at some point because I take Ashley
away and like you know we we do so much
[1:12:07] involvement so hopefully it get a little
better but we're going to continue to
[1:12:12] see it grow and if there's ever anything
you know that youall have idea wise let
[1:12:16] us know we're always looking for
something better you know make it better
[1:12:21] all right thank you all so very much
thank you
[1:12:26] and uh something that I forgot to
mention at the beginning of the meeting
[1:12:31] and J reminded me of this Chief green
thank you for everything that you did
[1:12:37] today yes sir it wasn't me well it was
my people it was it was everybody
[1:12:44] everybody you worked hard you took a
what potentially could have been a real
[1:12:50] dangerous um terrible event and you
managed it
[1:12:55] thank you thank you I will let my guys
know please do okay next item on the
[1:13:02] agenda I'll turn it over to Richie uh
for resolution yeah this this is
[1:13:07] something we do every year um as as
y'all know if someone or there's unpaid
[1:13:13] taxes and that's advertised in the paper
and this just gives Susan the authority
[1:13:17] to do that because they do
collect have we got a
[1:13:23] paper we got a paper
what no it'll be it'll be in the paper
[1:13:28] they advertise it in the paper it just
it allows people to see that there's
[1:13:32] there's unpaid
taxes yeah tax yeah well I mean if we
[1:13:36] still got a l times once once a week a
week Wednesday well we're going more to
[1:13:42] an online but yeah we still have it once
a week when I it's
[1:13:47] online I buy
paper won't get P he have compu the uh
[1:13:56] resolution motion to approve by Kevin
any discussion hearing none all those in
[1:14:02] favor signify by saying I anyone oppose
motion
[1:14:06] carries okay next item on the agenda and
I don't see Chief heavner we've got
[1:14:11] we've got a replacement Rusty come on
up uh this is a a new fire Setter
[1:14:19] Intervention Program yeah
getting uh we got Terry RS it's going to
[1:14:25] come up and make a presentation um this
is a a program that we're it's been
[1:14:32] working on it for a while but it's still
kind of in an infant stage as you know
[1:14:37] you know police and fire and all those
we're in the uh prevention business more
[1:14:43] than we are in the firefighting business
now and and one of the programs that
[1:14:50] we're trying to get off the ground is a
juvenile fire Setter Intervention
[1:14:54] Program program and uh that's part of
community risk reduction and it's it's a
[1:14:59] big thing in our community and uh Terry
has taken this on as a project and
[1:15:05] worked really hard and he's done a lot
of research and uh met with a lot of
[1:15:10] people he some of the partners that we
have the Child Advocacy Center the
[1:15:15] Health Department Lincoln County schools
and those different agencies are are
[1:15:19] helping us to bring all that Community
together so we can have the Moes
[1:15:24] Outreach so we're just here tonight to
try to bring awareness to the program
[1:15:28] and uh you know make let everybody know
that that we're working towards it
[1:15:33] something we hadn't had in several years
and uh you know we don't always hear
[1:15:37] about when a juvenile might be having
those type of issues it doesn't make the
[1:15:42] news because it wasn't a giant fire but
uh this will give us an opportunity to
[1:15:47] do some mentoring to to steer folks in
in the right direction ande prevent that
[1:15:53] so I'm going to ask Terry to come up and
I as he's beginning his talk I've got
[1:15:58] some handouts I don't believe y'all had
in your packet and I'll hand y'all out
[1:16:02] uh this Terry
[1:16:07] R mayor council thank you for allowing
me to come and give you a a brief
[1:16:12] description of the youth fire Center
prevention and Intervention Program uh
[1:16:18] City of Lincoln was uh sent me to class
in Raleigh for 6 days to to go over this
[1:16:23] class to learn about it I had no clue
about this class but it kind of hit home
[1:16:28] because I have a nine-year-old girl at
home and I do not want her to be
[1:16:31] involved in any kind of uh arson or to
be hurt uh in any kind of way uh
[1:16:38] basically what this program is is uh
it's an assessment this program assesses
[1:16:43] the youth fire Setter Behavior
understanding the motivations which
[1:16:47] would be curiosity experimentation
emotional distress uh that's behind it
[1:16:53] uh a risk ass said assessment helps
determine the level of intervention
[1:16:57] needed we know today in today's time
these kids go through a lot of they see
[1:17:02] a lot of stuff and they go through a lot
of things and how they cope with it
[1:17:06] potentially could be a fire um and
that's what we're trying to prevent
[1:17:11] education education about the fire
safety is our core part of our program
[1:17:15] if we can get to our youth and and teach
them the prevention part of the fire
[1:17:21] thing hopefully the intervention part
won't have to come
[1:17:26] behavioral interventions for youth who
exhibit fire setting Behavior due to
[1:17:30] emotional or psychological issues this
program provides counseling or therapy
[1:17:35] uh the goal is to address the underlying
causes of the behavior such as trauma
[1:17:39] anger or family issues our goal is to to
prevent like I said to prevent this from
[1:17:45] happening but this program has an
intervention piece in it and that
[1:17:48] intervention piece we would talk to said
Youth and their and their parents or
[1:17:54] Guardians and get them on board and send
them through a program that is held at
[1:17:58] the fire Park uh family involvement you
know we're going to reach out to the
[1:18:02] parents too not all parents not all
adults know about fire prevention they
[1:18:06] don't know what fire is capable of so
that's our job as the fire department to
[1:18:12] to do that uh collaboration with other
agencies I would like to recognize child
[1:18:16] advocacy and the health department that
are here tonight um they have been a
[1:18:21] huge asset to this program along with
the school um school system and 4 and
[1:18:28] the Cooperative Extension we have
reached out to a lot of people and they
[1:18:32] have given a lot of input uh following
up and and monitoring after this program
[1:18:39] after we get this program up and running
and we have an incident uh there will be
[1:18:44] some monitoring monitoring afterwards uh
so let's just say it may be a
[1:18:49] three-month monitor or a month monitor
depending on how serious the kid may
[1:18:55] have what he had what the kid may have
done or what determine how close we
[1:19:01] monitor the kid after the program
hopefully we never have to use the
[1:19:05] intervention piece of it that's what our
prevention side of it is going to be
[1:19:09] focused towards uh but I want to throw
this out too um Kataba County I've been
[1:19:15] going to meetings in Kataba County they
are they've reached out to us we've
[1:19:19] reached out to them we've coincided
together um we it's it's a
[1:19:25] binding agency I guess so to say we're
working together real close with them as
[1:19:29] well so they're they're willing to help
us as well in this
[1:19:34] program U the overall youth fire Center
Intervention Program aims to reduce the
[1:19:39] risk of future fire related incidents
protect the youth and the community and
[1:19:44] provide long-term behavioral
Solutions so that is all the information
[1:19:50] I have for you all if you have any
questions I'll be glad to try to answer
[1:19:54] the question question that you
[1:19:57] have I'm shocked for the the statistic
were the 2/3 that's what all fires are
[1:20:04] started by
kids and that that's a national average
[1:20:09] wow so going going a little further with
this program you know with the
[1:20:14] city how many fires do we have that are
started by
[1:20:18] kids do we really know we don't have the
facts we don't have the
[1:20:23] information um this program would
provide that as well there are systems
[1:20:28] already in place uh it's called Vision
2020 it's online that you can go in and
[1:20:34] record your incidents uh to keep track
of
[1:20:41] that all right good
thank thank you and thanks to the other
[1:20:49] cooperating uh Partners yes U because
that's that's what's going to make it
[1:20:55] successful U but uh thanks to everybody
that's involved with it thank you thank
[1:21:02] you okay Richie going to turn it over to
you about uh ABC Board requesting
[1:21:08] Surplus property thank you mayor we've
had a request from the ABC Board they're
[1:21:13] in the process of actually hiring um an
officer that uh would handle some of
[1:21:20] their their uh matters as far as bars
restaurants uh would also be in their
[1:21:25] store uh doing some prevention uh there
but um their request is actually for the
[1:21:31] vehicle um so looking at our stock uh we
have one that's um a vehicle that we've
[1:21:37] used downtown some and but it it
definitely needs a new wrap so it's it's
[1:21:42] something that we're going to require
them to do is wrap it and and make it be
[1:21:46] identified as the ABC Board vehicle or
officer so it would not look like our
[1:21:52] vehicle um generally speaking David
Ramsey says we get about 4,000 for a
[1:21:58] vehicle like that considering they're
going to have to spend probably $800 to
[1:22:02] get it wrapped I felt like a um a value
of about $3,200 would be acceptable that
[1:22:08] would get them a vehicle it's only got
like 53,000 miles so no more than it's
[1:22:13] going to be driven it's probably
something that'll last them for a long
[1:22:16] time but that's our recommendation to
council uh we are allowed to do that
[1:22:21] because they are nonprofit or a
government agency so that those two
[1:22:25] things allow us to to do that
transaction but I I think you we've done
[1:22:29] this in the past with different things
whether it's the county or the school
[1:22:33] system U fire departments as you know we
we we've done it with fire departments
[1:22:37] as well so I'd make that recommendation
that we sell ITC board for
[1:22:42] 3200 okay um I'll entertain a motion to
approve Richie's recommendation I'll
[1:22:52] make that motion motion by Kevin any
discussion hearing none all those in
[1:22:56] favor signify by saying I anyone oppos
motion
[1:23:01] carries and Richie right back at you all
right well um because we're in winter
[1:23:07] time the dates aren't as bad as they
have been but uh just a reminder we've
[1:23:11] got first Friday recycling um tomorrow
and then Saturday we have our second
[1:23:16] Saturday shop
local um and then I wanted to mention as
[1:23:21] we're going to do a r announcement
tomorrow um but our annual curbside Lea
[1:23:26] pickup ends February 15th so basically
we're going to do a a message to our
[1:23:32] citizens to let them know that they've
got leaves that they want to rake out
[1:23:36] that they need to be out to the curb by
the 15th because our crews will make
[1:23:40] their final lap and if you put it out
behind them it's not going to get picked
[1:23:44] up and you'll have to bag it so you'll
get a message tomorrow uh like you did
[1:23:48] today about Recycling and it'll it'll
just be just a reminder to those
[1:23:52] citizens it's going to be a nice weekend
if You' got leaves go ahead and put them
[1:23:55] out we'll pick them up next week I want
to commend the public works department
[1:24:01] for this season all the leaves fell at
one time but they were able to keep up
[1:24:06] with it um we did add the automated Leaf
truck uh and that has been a game
[1:24:11] changer for us as y'all know we were
able to secure two for half of what well
[1:24:17] actually less than half uh new one was
going to be 300,000 we were able to
[1:24:21] secure two um vehicles that had been
used by another city for 74,000 so that
[1:24:28] was like I said that was a game changer
for us and we saved money so it it was a
[1:24:32] win-win but I just wanted to mention
that they did an excellent job uh Nathan
[1:24:36] and Brad and those guys kept up with it
they they worked extra days if needed so
[1:24:41] um just proud of the work they did and
and the you know like I say the service
[1:24:45] they give to our citizens also on the
18th of February the planning board and
[1:24:50] then y'all received invitations for the
uh police recognition banquet on the
[1:24:55] 22nd so but if you would RSVP the chief
on that so he'll know whether you're
[1:25:00] coming or not mention some of the
highlights in the city page that's just
[1:25:04] something I I I think has been an asset
for us communicating with our with not
[1:25:09] only our employees but also counsil uh
like to mention there's a nice thing in
[1:25:15] there about Johnny and she has
definitely been missed the last few
[1:25:18] weeks um and not only as you know just a
cooworker but a friend for everybody and
[1:25:23] one of the things that I miss is
Johnny's life advices and I don't know
[1:25:28] if David here tonight David did an
excellent job at the funeral describing
[1:25:32] what Johnny meant to the city hall and
what he meant to to each individual and
[1:25:37] it was it was really touching and and um
and she will definitely be missed um I
[1:25:42] wanted to mention also in there that we
recognized law enforcement it was uh
[1:25:46] January 9th was law enforcement
appreciation day and then also you'll
[1:25:51] see some pictures from the public works
on their snow removal and some sidewalk
[1:25:55] repair I know our snow didn't turn out
what everybody expected but uh I'm not
[1:26:00] going to lie to you I don't care if it
snows for the next two and a half years
[1:26:03] so it's just more work for us and then
uh you'll see some pictures in there
[1:26:08] from distribution collections uh dealing
with freezing temperatures um you know
[1:26:12] naturally this time of year uh we're
dealing with broken Mains uh I think at
[1:26:16] one time how many did you have Todd 17's
what have had in there but uh about 18
[1:26:24] yeah like I mentioned last month you got
to realize those guys are out there at
[1:26:27] 18 20° and they fit some water so it's
it's it's not fun and they do an
[1:26:32] excellent job and maintaining a lot of
times aging lines want to mention a few
[1:26:37] promotions too um Matthew Mendoza uh
promoted the equipment operator Garrett
[1:26:43] Von bargain promoted the police officer
too and then Josh messic is promoted the
[1:26:48] firefighter one and we had two gentlemen
Branson mcney and Ethan Milwood who
[1:26:54] completed the North Carolina breathing
equipment school training uh that's in
[1:26:58] that that City page as well on our
homeless report we actually and we know
[1:27:03] this because of the winter time we have
less incidents and charges uh some of
[1:27:08] some of those that we see when the when
the weather's nicer right now probably
[1:27:13] on somebody's couch uh and we we see
that every year when it gets hot and
[1:27:17] gets cold our numbers will shrink and as
the weather gets better they they they
[1:27:20] get back to a normal level wanted to
mention some other business uh we uh
[1:27:24] will be meeting next week uh with the uh
Architects on hopefully the final design
[1:27:30] of the new Public Service Center and
then once that we get that final design
[1:27:34] we'll bring it to council uh for
approval and then and then bid that out
[1:27:38] so that's moving along now that we've
got kind of a definite budget and a
[1:27:43] definite Vision there it's moving along
a lot better uh mentioned City Park
[1:27:47] before same thing I hopefully sometime
March April we'll have that um final bid
[1:27:53] design I know I mentioned this in the
morning Meetup uh for the people who are
[1:27:57] want to know where why the white marks
are on the sidewalks downtown that is
[1:28:01] part of our ADA compliance and so we are
shaving those trip hazards uh I
[1:28:06] mentioned also one trip Hazard can cost
you $100,000 we've seen that at the city
[1:28:12] uh so we're going to continue that uh we
will we will be working on those uh in
[1:28:17] the next budget year also uh starting to
replace some Ada ramps that are either
[1:28:23] non-compliant
um or don't have the Braille pad on
[1:28:27] those CU you know that that is part of
the new the new ADA compliance so we'll
[1:28:32] continue that work and I'll try to keep
you updated on where they're going to
[1:28:36] where they're going to go and and and
they'll give us an idea they'll give us
[1:28:39] a map of that budget I'm three Saturdays
into it and so I feel like I've got a a
[1:28:45] good idea on revenues because that's
that's the beginning uh so this Saturday
[1:28:50] I will start on expenses and as y'all
know I go through each line it each
[1:28:54] expenditure uh and try to make sure
there's there's no anomalies that are
[1:28:59] making it you know skew one way or the
other uh and um then I will start the
[1:29:05] process of meeting with department heads
uh making sure that that their Capital
[1:29:09] needs are met and any any staffing needs
or increases that could be um regulation
[1:29:16] or so forth and then as yall know April
11th we'll be sitting in here uh
[1:29:21] finalizing everything hopefully so but I
keep you updated on that and uh last um
[1:29:27] I want to introduce Scott Clark Scott if
you wouldn't mind come up uh I mention
[1:29:32] this last month Scott will be starting
with us Tuesday um as assistant city
[1:29:37] manager he will Shadow me for two weeks
and then he's going to be spending a
[1:29:41] week with our department heads uh
getting to know their departments in and
[1:29:46] out so Scott I'll just give you a brief
moment just introduce yourself y thank
[1:29:49] you I'm looking forward to the
opportunity uh my family is very excited
[1:29:52] having much closer to home I'm excited
to put my efforts back into the
[1:29:56] community in which I live in so there's
a lot of great things and lincolon I've
[1:30:00] been here about 9 years pushing I'm
close to it so thank you for the
[1:30:04] opportunity I'm looking forward to
working with everyone working with the
[1:30:07] employees as well and the citizens
within the community so thank
[1:30:11] you and as we discuss he's going from an
hour and a half one way to four minutes
[1:30:18] so
so yeah it's a it's definitely blessing
[1:30:24] so thank you my family is very excited
as well so appreciate the opportunity
[1:30:28] thank you Scot thank you and Scott's
office is between Richie my
[1:30:37] off he doesn't stand a chance but you
know uh if you get a chance come by and
[1:30:44] and uh sit down and get to know Scott a
little bit better you going be upstairs
[1:30:49] yes yes yes I'll tell you about my my C
dealer jokes and
[1:30:56] everything thank you sir appreciate
mayor that's everything I know we got
[1:31:00] closed session okay I'll entertain a
motion to go in close session so Move
[1:31:06] Motion by Roby any discussion hearing
none all those in favor signify by say
[1:31:12] n and uh John if you will tell us the
reason why and then I need to ask Mike
[1:31:18] if he's got any questions as some of
y'all know we uh we can only do Clos
[1:31:23] sessions very specific circumstances so
in accordance with GS 143
[1:31:29] 3811 uh 85 in this
[1:31:37] casr staff real estate and we are going
to we're going to we're going to do a
[1:31:42] little bit of attorney CL stuff
under
[1:31:51] uh1 I guess yeah A1
so we got two
[1:31:59] reasons got any
[1:32:07] questions
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[1:32:21] get also when's the last time we
[1:32:33] yeah we haven't had an assistance since
[1:32:41] Rich okay y I was actually the first
yeah you were the first if you need to
[1:32:48] take
[1:33:07] thank you J har good
[1:33:14] job than
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long I go ahead and order another
[1:33:44] box i' still got the
[Laughter]
[1:33:50] first I'm assuming that's the minimum
you can can
[1:33:55] the only time I ever give them out like
when
[1:33:58] I
[1:34:02] something here you
go oh yeah yeah
[1:34:07] yeah recorded to ensure accuracy that's
right thank
[1:34:12] you you can always pull it up online
well you're
[1:34:18] right goodness
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