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[1:54] okay okay then we can hear you uh reverend smith can you hear us good

[2:01] yes sir okay all right it's on you all right well let's just pray dear lord

[2:09] we just thank you for the men and women that you have chosen to lead our

[2:12] community we pray tonight lord god for a double

[2:15] portion of your wisdom so that they may make the right decision

[2:19] for the many many many situations that they have to make

[2:22] decisions about today we not only pray for this meeting lord

[2:25] god tonight but we pray for our community

[2:28] we pray lord god for the town and for the staff lord god and for all the

[2:31] residents that's living here now lord we agree

[2:34] together that this meeting will go as you have planned it

[2:37] to go and that it'll it'll result in the wealth and the best welfare

[2:41] for your people in jesus name amen amen thank you for that prayer now we

[2:48] have a pleasure for allegiance for my american

[3:03] one rights under god and indivisible with liberty and justice for all

[3:14] councilwoman burns here councilman sharp yeah

[3:18] councilman reynolds um called in he's excused

[3:22] councilman freeman councilman bradley here

[3:25] we have a quorum okay thank you shalitha do we have anyone for public comment

[3:32] and she's not even on um oh i think she's no we don't have

[3:38] anybody come here okay maybe we don't have

[3:42] anyone in the chat do we for um item number one she received the zoom

[3:49] um information and i see she's not up here okay miss

[3:56] weaver

[3:58] okay do you have any additions or deletions to the agenda

[4:05] for any councilmembers um mayor we do need to

[4:08] talk about the um what the local government commission refers to is their

[4:11] unit response letter that we need to respond to if we can

[4:16] put a proposed draft for that each board member's seat

[4:21] we can consider that okay

[4:26] so we have there's item number four

[4:32] [Music] okay

[4:40] all right do we have approval of the agenda

[4:44] so movie second what's the remain property second to

[4:49] improve the agenda all in favor all opposed motion carry

[4:58] we're now moving to consent agenda for approval of our november 10th regular

[5:02] meeting and approval of minutes for november 19 special meetings

[5:19] okay motion has been made by a council councilmember bradley seconded by a

[5:24] council member um

[5:28] [Music] all a favor all close

[5:34] motion care

[5:37] okay and number one on the agenda she still

[5:41] she was uh

[5:47] someone more present

[5:57] okay okay

[6:04] all right so we'll move to resolution of the town council

[6:08] of the town of a husky for certain findings of fact that authorizes certain

[6:11] actions concerning proposed bond can we do this before the state

[6:24] cuts us loose um i think you have to do um parts of this before

[6:32] they and all this is saying is that the town wants to move forward with

[6:38] it you've got the documentation that you understand

[6:40] what the potential possible interest could be

[6:44] approving this and that um this is the that the council is

[6:51] interested in moving forward with this then with the adoption of this

[6:57] then the local government commission will hear it

[7:01] it will not be at their february meeting it will the earliest it will be is their

[7:05] march meeting and once

[7:10] once we get this they send out the request to banks

[7:17] and at the right time and understand when it's going to be on the local

[7:20] government commission's calendar because banks don't want to

[7:22] send in responses now for doing a

[7:28] refinancing that you can't that we couldn't do until the end of march 1st

[7:32] of april because of the timing of the lbc so we have to wait

[7:37] to get those responses um because the bank's not going to hold open i think

[7:41] about 30 days as long as they'll once they submit that proposal

[7:45] how long they'll hold that interest rate open so this is just

[7:51] just part of the process of saying we we know what the potential

[7:55] of borrowing up to you know 9.6 million dollars we understand

[7:59] if we're at a you know i think they listed in their potential as has a three

[8:03] percent interest rate what all that interest would be we've got all

[8:07] those details here to look at once we adopt that say

[8:12] move forward then the lgc and the bond council will

[8:16] issue you know the request of the banks then this will be heard

[8:20] at the march meeting of the local government commission

[8:24] and then they'll make the decision to tell us that we can move forward or not

[8:27] or what or under what conditions and then

[8:31] it'll come back to the town council at the march um council meeting for the

[8:36] council to make the final decision of what to do with this

[8:43] today's actions are just authorizing the moving forward the process without

[8:48] completing the process correct right and because the council doesn't does not

[8:54] need to and should not make final decision on that until we have the

[8:58] interest rates um and we won't have those interest

[9:01] rates until until that point um because the bank's not going won't

[9:07] give us interest rates now no the local government commission is not going to

[9:10] hear it for approval until march so it's kind of the the

[9:16] just this is just continuing y'all understand

[9:21] the amount of money we're potentially looking at refinancing and understanding

[9:24] the potential interest and understanding the that we're just

[9:28] moving forward in the process

[9:32] okay so this doesn't hold us reliable for anything at this point you're not

[9:40] committing to anything other than not good person okay

[9:48] you have a question for the council do you have a motion

[9:56] so there's one question i mean i think he explained behind you it says

[10:00] rule number two am i correct

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[10:13] and what this is saying y'all understand it's 9.6

[10:16] it's nine million six hundred twenty one thousand dollars we're looking at

[10:20] um financing and this is the same process we'd go through we're talking

[10:24] about a project that if you're just talking a new project and

[10:29] [Music] and so it's important for you to

[10:32] understand we're looking at nine million six hundred twenty one thousand dollars

[10:35] worth of potential debt here well this is for refinancing of that debt not

[10:40] the original issuance of it

[10:47] and then we move forward with the um

[10:55] of the document yep

[11:06] second to adopt the resolution all in favor aye all opposed

[11:14] motion carry

[11:22] okay next up we have the bond order um and that's simply um

[11:32] as we just talked about this is this is saying that this is going to be a

[11:35] general obligation bond and this is the order to go to get the

[11:40] request for proposals from the bank for the for the bond order

[11:44] so you just need a motion of the bond we'll make a motion without the bond

[11:52] second we're saying i mean probably secondly

[11:55] to bond order all in favor on the pose motion carry

[12:03] and now mayor item number four um

[12:13] as part of our annual outlet the um the all that has been completed

[12:21] jeff best will be here

[12:27] a february board meeting to present the the findings and the um and the

[12:33] information from the audit the audit's already been submitted to

[12:37] the local government commission the local government commission has

[12:40] reviewed our audits our our statement they had two concerns

[12:46] that they issued back about our audit item number one was when we received

[12:54] um sales tax and um and

[13:00] state shared revenue tax of franchise taxes

[13:05] for the 2019-2020 budget year that money was received during the previous budget

[13:09] year but by the time the department of

[13:12] revenue got the money sent it to us it was after july first so when we got

[13:16] it it was entered into our computer system

[13:20] um in the 2020 2021 budget year and

[13:27] that should not have been it should have been entered into

[13:30] last budget year and that was 290 some thousand dollars in revenue

[13:34] that had to be put into a um a journal entry and moved back into

[13:39] the previous budget year the auditor said that much money 290 some thousand

[13:44] dollars was not immaterial and had to be noted

[13:47] in audit and so the local government commission

[13:49] put that as a concern that that revenue was contributed to

[13:54] the wrong budget year and had to be adjusted prior to the

[14:01] completion of the audit that was um that was one of the that was

[14:04] actually the second finding the first concern they had

[14:08] was um that our front balance is not as high as

[14:14] other units our size and that our fund balance did go down a

[14:20] little bit last year because the repayment to the water and

[14:23] sewer fund will repay money there with um

[14:29] they asked for us to explain those two issues and our

[14:32] resolution to those issues and what they refer to as the unit letter and have

[14:37] each of the board members to sign that um and

[14:40] that has to be addressed before they will consider the refinance of the

[14:43] wastewater treatment plant so to expedite that process the staff has

[14:48] prepared a draft letter that we've put at your

[14:51] place in front of you if the board wants to consider that as a response to

[14:55] the local government commission's unit letter

[15:00] and if y'all do i have the original here that

[15:03] that gal can y'all can sign and we'll get that sent back to local government

[15:10] commissioner has any counseling understand the letter

[15:14] from the government i mean the um the commission i haven't

[15:18] seen them i have the actual letter this is the

[15:22] response letter

[15:33] okay and um mostly the first page it says

[15:37] it's our is their concern and they want each board member to sign it and then

[15:41] the second page is just the list of the two two concerns here

[16:11] so basically all we're doing is signing the uh explanation

[16:15] to the responses of a commission had about our office

[16:21] okay

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[16:29] okay

[16:33] um do we have a motion

[16:38] i make a motion we sign the response and send it back in

[16:43] a second [Music]

[16:48] must remain properly secondly to sign and approve the response letter

[16:52] from the local government commission all in favor

[16:56] all opposed what you care

[17:03] all right do you have any staff reports today

[17:07] um staff reports here in the back of the agenda packet we can expand on any of

[17:11] those that felt that i needed to at this

[17:16] time

[17:30] so

[17:48] the um this information the um police department we've hired

[17:52] two um sworn already sworn officers that they are

[17:57] employed now and we've hired four individuals that we are sending to basic

[18:03] law enforcement training they started last week with the basic law enforcement

[18:07] training and so if those four individuals um once

[18:11] they complete that then we will our police department be

[18:14] fully staffed at 18 officers

[18:18] where is that with 18 yes sir

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[18:54] um

[19:02] any questions from the council

[19:15] all right yeah do we have any any council comments

[19:21] [Music] it's good to know that we got officers

[19:24] coming to the rescue good to know that what's the what's the

[19:29] time plane you said at four in in in the academy training what's the

[19:34] time frame possibly for that the class um

[19:38] goes through the end of may and then they will

[19:42] after that point we can submit their paperwork to the

[19:45] uh training standards to get the certificate back to square them in

[19:50] and that'll probably take till mid to late june at that point

[19:54] we'll have them sworn in then they will be riding in a

[19:58] car with a with a um another officer

[20:04] and while they do what's referred to as their field training

[20:08] and that'll take um three to four months to do field training and then they'll be

[20:14] on their own okay i guess curious where's the square then

[20:18] wait done well um sometimes it's done town hall

[20:22] sometimes the police department um that's

[20:27] you know usually as soon as we get the paperwork back to square them in

[20:32] we're usually in a hurry to get it done and so it's really

[20:35] we probably should do more of a um formal swearing in and and announce it

[20:41] and deal with that but we just generally we're trying to hurry up and get them

[20:44] sworn in just as soon as we get the paperwork back so it's just like as soon

[20:47] as we get them in get paperwork get everybody together

[20:49] swear men we're done you know get them on

[20:51] get them on the street so um we probably should do something more for

[20:55] that and it it's council at any of these i have council

[21:05] um i would like we can start we can send y'all notices of when we know

[21:10] we're going to do that um

[21:20] so that's wearing in all four were sworn in

[21:25] so uh yeah so all four was running already

[21:28] under conditions they graduate bletc yeah

[21:31] they're successful yeah we can't swear them in until they get that blet

[21:35] certification and then we send it to the state and the

[21:38] state training standard sends it back to us

[21:41] that they've done their background on their check and then

[21:44] they'll give us the certification that will allow us to swear them

[21:50] you basically look into it by the end of september before you get them on the

[21:52] street by ourselves um that would be about right yeah

[22:03] where are we at with the street sweeper project

[22:06] um the local the regional office usda has approved it it's been approved

[22:12] by the state level office is sitting in the state level

[22:16] waiting for the federal government to put funding into the state

[22:21] account for for grants um and your guess is good in mind when that

[22:28] will happen um normally in years when you change the

[22:33] political party of the president the outgoing president takes all the

[22:36] grant money in the budget and dumps it and and gives all those grants away

[22:40] absolutely as soon as you can before the in before the political party changes

[22:45] but that's not happening this year a few more hours yeah

[22:51] because it's usually the outbound president

[22:56] any money to work with yeah but that's we don't know quickly so basically all

[23:01] the paperwork's done we're just waiting on being awarded the

[23:03] actual money we're just waiting for for the federal government to send money

[23:06] down to the state um to the state office and that hasn't

[23:10] happened i understand

[23:14] where we are where are we with the um outfit of the

[23:18] police vehicles i know we have some um three

[23:22] three nuclear police dicks have come in they have been

[23:25] strike um i think i'm not completely up to date on that i

[23:31] think it was a question about the um the computer stands

[23:36] were not correct i think that was the the issue um

[23:39] with those i think and i i don't have a exactly what's going on with that i

[23:45] think chief is um and the department is working out those details

[23:51] i tried to speak with him today and he's he's sick today

[23:55] [Music] he's not about a commission right now

[24:00] you don't want jane daniel no

[24:14] any other comments from our council carrie mr town manager uh thank you for

[24:22] sending that um information about the code vaccines

[24:27] vaccinations that's taking place on thursday

[24:30] um at the amphitheater um have the police been out there trying to

[24:36] monitor traffic flow through there how is

[24:40] how does that work i've had several people

[24:46] the first um complaint the the first two days they were doing it

[24:52] they asked if they could use the amphitheater

[24:54] we said yes we asked what support they needed they said they

[24:58] um they had it covered and they were going to use sheriff's department they

[25:01] didn't need any assistance okay and but then all of a sudden they

[25:04] had a lot more people show up than what they

[25:07] i think were anticipating and so at last minute they called and asked for

[25:10] assistance from us okay and so we we sent them what

[25:13] assistance we could and um so brian

[25:19] pierce with the sheriff's department was was supposed to be the one coordinating

[25:24] the traffic and traffic pattern traffic

[25:27] control and lab so um so we have tried to offer support

[25:32] and we said we'll provide support to them this could be thursday okay

[25:36] very good thank you because it's important i

[25:39] mean it's important for as many to get their vaccinations as

[25:44] as would like in the in the town in the county so um it's a good thing

[25:52] because the numbers are continuing to rise and

[25:56] we all need to be very mindful of masking and washing and

[26:03] waiting

[26:07] help from a health care perspective we can carry that to echo a little bit on

[26:12] what mr burns said um i was approached today by one of the

[26:15] hospital staff figuring to set up another testing site

[26:18] um and it'll actually be set up they're talking about setting it up on

[26:22] cameron street in the back parking lot behind the women's center

[26:27] and i told the lady that was kind of helping coordinate it that

[26:31] um we get offered the amphitheater the park area

[26:34] for any other dealings with the coven whether it's vaccine or testing site

[26:39] um she's gonna get back in touch with me friday and

[26:42] give me a little more uh intel on it you know we may be coming to you to ask you

[26:47] you know permission to use that again as long as it doesn't conflict with

[26:51] another coveted exercise back there yeah i think the only one that is

[26:56] probably the the vaccination

[27:00] and one of their concerns was doing it on hospital property they were looking

[27:04] looking to erect one of those carport shelters so they would have a permanent

[27:07] structure kind of to operate under um and i explained to

[27:11] them about some of the picnic shelters and she said they would go take a look

[27:13] at it just to see if that would work so i'll

[27:16] find out more friday i think chris smith is going to bring out to the

[27:20] amphitheater on thursday they've got like an emergency management

[27:24] um like trailer it's got the phone that comes

[27:27] out and everything inside and he's bringing that out for that

[27:32] purpose for the vaccination that will be available something for

[27:38] testing purposes okay when i find out more friday i'll be

[27:42] in touch with you if they want to use that as an option

[27:46] for the vaccine thursday is this the first and second dose that they're going

[27:50] to be doing do we have these those details

[27:52] i don't have any details um i would be surprised if you won't have very many

[27:57] people who's going to already have the first dose

[27:59] long enough to be able to get the second dose but i don't know

[28:03] what those um what those are um you know when when they did the

[28:10] the first time they used our amphitheater they were

[28:15] the same the same day they sent us emails to send out to our employees so

[28:19] frontline employees could register with the state

[28:22] vaccination website so that they would be able to be first

[28:25] in line as first responders to getting the vaccine and then they send us this

[28:32] notice out that we're going to be doing the vaccination at our

[28:36] um part and then they open that up to the general phone

[28:39] while they're having our employees to register with the state um

[28:44] you know vaccination website um so sometimes i don't feel like i'm

[28:52] getting clear details about what the purpose and

[28:55] what then who's doing what we're just trying to be supportive and

[28:59] provide for what support we can and let the

[29:03] health department coordinate who's getting what and um

[29:06] so we just want to make y'all aware that they are doing vaccinations on thursday

[29:11] from from nine to 11 30 and then from one to four i think i do think it would

[29:17] be helpful if they have any any type of details that they can share

[29:21] just to um be able to forward those to us as well

[29:24] um just with some information in the email because we get a lot of questions

[29:28] around um details around the vaccinations and

[29:31] just so that we are able to um provide information that we can we're

[29:38] asking approach be helpful

[29:43] okay

[29:46] any other comments

[29:51] so now we need a motion to recess until january 29th

[29:58] who's in charge of breakfast on the 29th

[30:02] stack we'll take care of that we line that up yet

[30:05] yeah i thought councilman freeman was cooking

[30:08] is that good for you mr franklin yes okay well i'll make emotional research

[30:13] [Music] usually if someone's asked and that's

[30:16] who's put the charge up he may not show up for that one so we're

[30:19] going to put it in charge and be hungry

[30:24] okay all right

[30:43] [Music]

[30:59] you

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