[0:54] Thank you, gentlemen.
[1:00] Uh, Miss Walker, who's called the role,
[1:02] please.
[1:02] » Honorable Mayor Fowler, honorable
[1:05] Councilman Bilbury,
[1:06] » Honorable Councilman Williams,
[1:08] » Here. Honorable Councilwoman Hawkins
[1:10] » Here.
[1:11] » Honorable Vice Mayor Hill,
[1:12] » Present.
[1:14] » Uh item number one, consider the
[1:15] approval of agenda as presented. I'll
[1:17] take a joint motion. I assume everyone
[1:18] has reviewed the minutes and uh we've
[1:21] got an agenda in front of us. Uh I'll
[1:22] take a joint motion if everyone if
[1:24] someone so chooses.
[1:28] » Uh first by Mr. Williams and second by
[1:31] Mr. Bilbury. Um, Miss Walker, I'm going
[1:33] to just go ahead and since since I'm I'm
[1:36] I'm going to let you call the role for
[1:37] these today for
[1:40] » Honorable Bilbury.
[1:41] » Yes.
[1:41] » Honorable Williams,
[1:42] » Yes.
[1:43] » Honorable Hopkins,
[1:44] » Yes.
[1:44] » Vice Mayor Hill,
[1:45] » Yes. Uh, that's motions both of approval
[1:49] of agenda and the minutes are approved.
[1:51] Uh item number three, consider approval
[1:53] to suspend the reading of resolution
[1:55] 374-25
[1:58] and ordinance 727-25.
[2:01] Uh this is just to suspend those resol
[2:03] the resolution suspend the reading and
[2:06] of the resolution and ordinance. Uh
[2:08] we'll get into those here in a minute.
[2:10] Do I have a motion to approve the
[2:11] suspension of the reading?
[2:12] » I make motion.
[2:13] » Mr. Bilbury.
[2:16] » Mr. Williams is second. Um Miss Walker.
[2:20] Honorable Bilbury,
[2:21] » Yes.
[2:21] » Honorable Williams,
[2:22] » Honorable Hawkins,
[2:24] » Vice Mayor Hill,
[2:25] » Yes. Uh, item number three, suspension
[2:27] is approved. Uh, item number four,
[2:30] consider approval of resolution 374-25
[2:34] to an annual budget adoption and
[2:36] monitoring policy. Mr. Morrison,
[2:39] » The state is moving toward u we follow
[2:42] this policy all the time, but they're
[2:44] wanting these policies in place to prove
[2:46] physical fitness um fiscal fitness with
[2:50] financial policies. And so this is just
[2:52] setting out what we already follow uh in
[2:55] a policy format. In January, we begin
[2:57] capital projects discussion. February
[3:00] and March, we continue budget
[3:01] preparation with budget estimates and
[3:03] proposed expense meetings with staff. By
[3:06] April, the preparation continues with
[3:08] finalized revenue estimates, expenses,
[3:10] and present to council. By June 30th,
[3:13] the final second reading approval uh
[3:15] with council finalizing and approving
[3:17] budget July 1st through June 30th is
[3:20] execution with close monitoring of
[3:22] revenues and expenses with monthly
[3:24] reports reviewed by staff and council.
[3:26] Uh as soon as possible at fiscal year
[3:28] end, the audit firm comes to city hall
[3:30] to conduct field work. that usually
[3:32] begins uh pretty quick in July, August
[3:35] and September. And then end of year the
[3:37] audit firm would present to council
[3:39] which they are wrapping up and getting
[3:40] ready to do that now. So this just sets
[3:42] those policies that we already abide by
[3:45] into written format and we will send
[3:48] this to the state to to continue to
[3:50] prove that our we're fiscally well
[3:52] managed and fiscally fit.
[3:54] » Thing we've we do annually since I've
[3:57] been on here. So it's just codifying
[3:59] what is best practices. That is correct.
[4:01] Thank you.
[4:05] » Do I have a motion to approve? Oh, thank
[4:07] you, M. Mr. Williams. Do I have a
[4:09] second?
[4:11] » That's a motion for a second. Miss
[4:14] Walker,
[4:14] » Honorable Bilbury,
[4:16] » Honorable Williams,
[4:17] » Yes.
[4:17] » Honorable Hawkins,
[4:18] » Yes.
[4:19] » Vice Mayor Hill,
[4:20] » Yes. Motion passes. That's that was item
[4:23] number four. Uh item number five, the
[4:27] floor will now be open for public
[4:28] comment on ordinance 727-25.
[4:31] Uh this is a consider approval of the
[4:34] second and final reading of ordinance
[4:35] 727-25 to allow duplexes in two family
[4:39] uh two family residential structures as
[4:42] a conditional use in the R1 low density
[4:46] district and as a permitted use in R2
[4:49] medium density district. um and to
[4:52] establish supplementary regulations.
[4:55] Uh just to recap, this was considered at
[4:58] the last meeting and moved forward to to
[5:02] to the second meeting. Um I'll open the
[5:05] floor now for anyone to have any comment
[5:08] from the public.
[5:16] Yes, sir. Please come forward and state
[5:18] your name and
[8:42] Thank you, Mr.
[8:46] Anyone else?
[8:51] Hear no one else. I'll close that
[8:53] section of the meeting for public
[8:55] comment and um turn it back over to the
[8:58] council for comments and questions. I
[9:01] I'll start I'll echo what Mr. Herren
[9:04] said. It's the same thing I said at the
[9:05] last meeting. I am personally concerned
[9:10] about just both R2 and R1 and and how
[9:14] this came to be and why this is coming
[9:16] up now. And and I recognize this went
[9:18] through the planning committee um and
[9:20] and is coming to us with a favorable
[9:22] recommendation from the planning
[9:24] committee. I want to be somewhat
[9:25] differential to that. But I I personally
[9:28] raised questions at the last meeting. I
[9:30] I don't have those questions answered.
[9:31] Um I I would like to understand this
[9:35] issue better.
[9:36] um as to uh I I agree with Mr. comparing
[9:40] that um uh you know why why are we
[9:42] changing that that's a fun my
[9:44] fundamental you know threshold question
[9:46] is why the change why now what's driving
[9:50] this issue are we getting questions
[9:52] commentary from from citizens saying hey
[9:54] I can't redevelop my property uh I I
[9:58] don't have those answers uh and on the
[10:01] back end of last meeting we've had some
[10:03] commentary about other opportunities are
[10:07] we considering other um uh other ideas
[10:11] uh uh concepts that wouldn't be this
[10:13] wholesale change of R1 R2 uh across the
[10:18] board and just tied to to a square
[10:21] footage requirement of of those parcels.
[10:24] Uh Mr. Rider at last meeting brought up
[10:27] some I do to uh give opportunities to
[10:30] those families or those those owners of
[10:33] those partials that want to redevelop.
[10:36] Uh that that was an interesting concept
[10:38] and I don't know if we've explored that
[10:40] uh uh uh sufficiently. So um my
[10:44] recommendation is that we return this
[10:46] back to planning and have a more of a a
[10:50] table this for now. turn this back over
[10:53] to planning and have a little bit more
[10:54] robust conversation to consider could to
[10:57] take into consideration other
[10:59] alternatives and and and is this a you
[11:04] know the pendulum feels like a swinging
[11:05] back from what Mr. Heron referred to,
[11:07] you know, years ago when when we made a
[11:10] significant change. Is this pendulum
[11:12] swinging? Is this concept feels like the
[11:15] pendulum swinging back a little too far?
[11:17] So, um, that's my comments. I'll turn it
[11:20] over to anyone else on the council for
[11:21] any of their comments
[11:27] on the planning committee.
[11:29] U
[11:32] at one time it sort of gave it rough
[11:34] sort of rough on us for everybody to
[11:36] come up with okay and then the
[11:39] councilman turn it down. But I'm like
[11:41] you. I think there's other things that's
[11:43] been invented since then if we table it
[11:45] go back but uh Mr.
[11:48] uh educate us a little more and maybe
[11:51] have here
[11:56] we'd have more opportunities something I
[11:58] mean back then it was just yes and no
[12:01] practice and uh I think there's enough
[12:04] new stuff here that we could we could
[12:06] work with he did touch on something also
[12:10] uh when you get a building permit or
[12:13] something how is there a limit on uh
[12:16] when you And when it doesn't take place,
[12:19] I mean, if I tell you it's going to be
[12:21] such and such, is it a six months that
[12:23] you got to start it or is there anything
[12:25] like Yeah.
[14:53] We have to keep reviewing it.
[14:56] » Is there an end to it? Is there an end
[14:58] to it? Is I think it's two years or two
[15:00] and a half or something along those
[15:26] right to say say that uh we zoned it for
[15:29] a certain thing
[15:31] and after it gets zoned in that can be
[15:34] changed to anything
[15:39] » If you're going some of those other
[15:41] ones. Am I not right?
[15:48] » Yeah.
[16:03] So, let's just say they let's just say
[16:06] they came in a business and they want to
[16:09] change it. Uh they're going to put their
[16:14] they asked for a zone and they gave what
[16:15] they're going to get. They gave us uh
[16:18] going to be be the business office and
[16:22] six months a year later they put
[16:26] apartments or something like that.
[16:30] So there is a there is a thing on that.
[16:40] » Okay. I was told after we zoned it the
[16:42] right thing that it could be. That's not
[16:44] true.
[16:46] Well, once you've zoned it to something,
[16:48] anybody can put in that zone whatever is
[16:51] allowed in that zone, but you can't
[16:54] change it and restrict it to something
[16:56] else after they've been approved. So,
[16:59] and people don't have to build what they
[17:00] somebody comes to the council and says,
[17:02] "I want to put this particular item in
[17:05] this area. Will you please reszone it to
[17:07] this zone?" They then don't have to
[17:10] actually build what they came and told
[17:12] you they were going to build. That's
[17:13] what you're talking about. They do not
[17:15] have to do that. They have to They can
[17:16] only build something that is generally
[17:18] compliant with commercial, but they
[17:20] don't have to build an office space.
[17:21] They can build a auto repair shop or
[17:23] some other
[17:24] » That's right.
[17:42] » I'm wasting people's time. That's good.
[17:44] Thank you.
[17:44] » Do you know we had a house for others?
[17:47] Everyone just about everyone. Yes.
[18:19] Ready
[18:32] for
[18:33] » I'm sorry.
[18:34] » I'm ready for a motion.
[18:36] » But if you want to make onebody,
[18:40] » I'll make a motion that we send it back
[18:42] to planning and that we work on an
[18:45] agreement that can agree with also.
[18:48] I don't want to waste their time
[18:50] everything. Let's see if we can't find
[18:52] something in the middle.
[18:54] » Does that make no sense?
[18:55] » Yeah, I I'll just restate the motion.
[18:57] Motion is to table the matter for the
[18:59] time being and and ask Mr. Morrison to
[19:02] um um assist with uh setting up meetings
[19:06] with planning committee to uh discuss
[19:08] what what other options are available.
[19:11] Um um taking into consideration some of
[19:14] the things Mr. Rder said. Um that is
[19:17] that a fair restatement of your motion?
[19:19] » Yes.
[19:19] » Thank you. So motion to table.
[19:22] » Do I have a second?
[19:24] » I'll go ahead and second that one. So
[19:26] there's a motion in a second. Uh any
[19:28] other discussion on this issue?
[19:32] Miss Walker, please call the role.
[19:33] » Honorable Bilbury,
[19:34] » Yes.
[19:35] » Honorable Williams,
[19:36] » Yes.
[19:36] » Honorable Hawkins,
[19:37] » Yes.
[19:38] » Vice Mayor Hill,
[19:39] » Yes. Thank you very much. Motion is
[19:41] tabled.
[19:43] Uh that's all that's on my list. Mr.
[19:45] Morrison or you want to turn over to
[19:47] your report and uh uh the department at
[19:52] » Uh January 19th uh we will be closed for
[19:55] Martin Luther King Day. Uh residential
[19:57] trash services will not be affected.
[19:59] They will run on normal schedule that
[20:01] week. Uh department heads, do you have
[20:03] anything?
[21:42] Fantastic. Great outcome.
[22:49] Thank you, Mr. Bradshaw.
[22:52] Anything else? Mr. Morrison,
[22:55] my turn.
[22:57] » Uh oh.
[22:58] » I want to thank everybody that got the
[23:00] White House. We destroyed the West Wing
[23:02] of Par.
[23:04] So, I want to thank everybody having
[23:06] something to do with it.
[23:09] » Absolutely.
[23:12] » Yeah. I I I'll second that motion from
[23:16] Mr. Williams. Mr. Raider, fantastic job.
[23:17] I know that was a lot of work tracking
[23:18] people down. That's that's that's we we
[23:20] we appreciate your services to the city
[23:22] and getting that all handled. And Mr.
[23:24] Morrison as well with uh uh it was just
[23:27] tracking and it it took a while. So, we
[23:30] appreciate you all's efforts and and
[23:31] getting that across this across the
[23:33] finish line. have anything that they
[23:35] want to come forward, please do so.
[23:36] State your name and the microphone is
[23:38] yours.
[23:43] » Mr. Mr. Taylor.
[24:15] Thank you, Mr. Taylor. Anyone else?
[24:20] Going once, going twice. That would be
[24:22] the meeting. Um, next meeting, Mr.
[24:25] Morrison, please give us a date. Is it
[24:28] uh Oh, excuse me. It says it right here.
[24:29] I'm sorry. February 10th is the st is
[24:31] the next month's meeting. I'm sorry I
[24:33] missed that. Uh, we will see you next
[24:35] month and um go from there. Anything
[24:38] else? I'll take a motion to adjurnn. If
[24:40] not,
[24:40] » Motion.
[24:41] » That's a motion and a second. All in
[24:43] favor say I. I we are adjourned. Thank
[24:45] you all. See you all next month.