[1:15] [Music]
[1:24] ugh
[1:31] sorry
[1:49] okay okay if you can hear us can you
give us a thumbs up i'll pick on you
[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
[10:07] [Music]
[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
[16:24] [Music]
[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
[18:51] [Music]
[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