[0:28] everybody about to please um dear Lord
we glad that we're here today to discuss
[0:32] the plans of our town and really
thankful thankful for decisions that
[0:38] we're going to make opportunity to do
everything your will and that is pray
[0:43] that everyone understands that we have
to be
[0:47] respectful we understand that this is
for the good of all of us in Jesus name
[0:51] we pray
[1:25] c
jri d Mr
[1:53] number three comments as they relate to
items on the agenda
[2:07] our of action on agenda item at today's
meeting members of the will be given an
[2:22] opportunity to make your comments and
the entire public comment period will be
[2:28] limed 30 unless an extension is granted
this is not and answer session where you
[2:37] can ask question
[3:21] AG
[3:30] I
[4:27] we
[4:50] com
[5:00] com
[5:42] number
[6:29] even
my name is
[6:35] Kennedy my name is Kennedy my address is
9147 rwood Drive Louis
[6:43] 71220 to the counil
coun woman um I'm a former B City
[6:52] employee and I would like to read um the
um information that I just passed out to
[6:58] the mayor City
City Attorney
[7:05] andity at the city council meeting I
spoke during public comments about the
[7:10] American Rescue plan payments
arpa to the city of as employees after
[7:16] the me after the meeting I request the
documentation detailing the specifics of
[7:23] arpa payments to the city of bash
employees during my presentation last
[7:27] month IED the cler as to the process of
criteria for city employees to receive
[7:33] their arpa payments she told me the
payments would be only made to employees
[7:39] who work between October 1st 2021 to
December 31st 2021 and who remain
[7:45] employed until December 31st 2024 unless
they retired and no resignations would
[7:50] be considered after a few days I emailed
the city cler requesting the information
[7:56] and writing I asked her to create lloy
their names titles and the amounts that
[8:01] they received I was supposed to receive
the information within a 72 hour time
[8:06] frame as stated by the City attorney
Jones during the January 2025 city
[8:09] council meeting that did not happen
within a designated time however I
[8:15] finally receed the information a day or
two later after receiving the paperwork
[8:19] I realized I needed some additional
information to complete my
[8:22] research I the additional information
included the employment dates and
[8:27] retirement dates for each IND on thepa
list in responding to my second request
[8:33] I did receive that information within
the 72 hour time frame now what did my
[8:38] research
uncover there is a letter attached to
[8:42] this list of employees to the list of
employees who receive payouts from Miss
[8:47] Laura Harts who is the CPA of party
company I assume this is the accounting
[8:52] firm who hired who was hired by mayor Al
the introduction of the letter States
[8:58] thank you for providing us
with the request from city council
[9:01] regarding the remaining ARP funds with
the city of B one request from a council
[9:06] person was to research arpa premium I
did ask a few councilman had they made
[9:12] the request and they told me no they
told me the mayor did all of this on her
[9:16] own this means that the that Miss har
began the process without any discussion
[9:21] or approval from the bachor city council
the city council controls the budget so
[9:26] how was the mayor able to
disperse ,7
[9:31] 3467 without approval from the bachor
city council the letter goes on to say
[9:37] the arpa final rules allow for
retroactive payment of an hourly premium
[9:43] pay as long as the period payment is not
for hours work prior to March 3rd 2021
[9:48] which is the effective day of
thepa Miss Hart Miss Hart ends her
[9:54] letter by saying this letter is in no
way intended to all the rules and
[10:00] regulations governing the American
Rescue
[10:03] plan I thinktime people put disclaimers
in therey to
[10:07] C the mayor represents the executive
branch of government hence she does not
[10:12] control the legislative or judicial
branches of government she is supposed
[10:16] to work with the councel not strong arm
belief or deceive them I have reviewed
[10:22] this payout list and the list clearly
reveals discriminatory practices with
[10:26] the
payment why are for different people
[10:31] there are so many discrepancies for
example Jim supervisor Terry Davis hired
[10:37] show H shows February 10 2022 he was
paid
[10:42] $2,000 however police patrolman
Elizabeth brixie whose hire date was May
[10:47] 31st 2022 only received $1,000 and she
is considered an essential
[10:52] worker Cemetery supervisor Mark Alfa
received $2,000 and he was hired March
[10:58] 18 198
but Mr Terry Davis had only been
[11:02] employed approximately 10 months and
received the exact same
[11:05] amount I on the other hand started July
1st 2017 and resigned December 28 2022 I
[11:12] was shot what three days of the deadline
but main his employee Kendrick Johnson
[11:17] who was hired on December 28
2022 and he was paid
[11:21] $2,000 which means he had only been
employed for three days with the city of
[11:25] Bachelor security officer Ronica Johnson
12 21 2022 and she was paid $1,000 for
[11:33] being employed with the city Ambassador
for 10 days police Sergeant cassand who
[11:38] was hired 1110 2022 was paid $22,000 for
approximately 50 days of
[11:44] employment however I work for over five
years and receive zero retroactive pay
[11:49] I'm also curious to know why
communication officer Sandra Alexander
[11:53] who hired date shows May 5th 1999
retirement date shows December 1st
[12:00] only received
$1,333 33 but judicial assistant Sheila
[12:05] and Hunley who hir Day show February 5th
1997 and retire Day show November 1st
[12:12] 2021 only received
[12:16] 66667 Pam Duncan administrative cour was
hired February 27 2013 and retired
[12:23] November 1st 2021 also received the
exact same $667 67 they both worked for
[12:30] at least eight months during the ARP
dates and received less than some of the
[12:33] others I've named who worked for seven
to 10 months and why would fire driver
[12:39] Jeremy defi who was hired 1119
2022 only receive
[12:44] $1,000 but the maintenance man Kendrick
dson hired December 28 2022 and security
[12:49] person Monica Johnson hired December
21st 2022 received
[12:54] $2,000 or better yet how did
communication a mar who H date was
[13:00] December 10th 2012 get paid
$2,000 but communication officer Sandra
[13:05] Sandra Alexander who hir was May 5th
1999 and retired December 1st 2021 only
[13:11] got paid
$1,333
[13:14] 33 I also noticed that Frederick
Hatfield H shows
[13:19] 61422 and he received $1,000 but he
worked for the city of bash for at least
[13:25] 15 years before resigning and returning
in
[13:29] year but but if we're going by the
mayor's plan that was
[13:34] recommended by Mrs Hart um wouldn't that
disqualify him from being able to
[13:39] receive arpa
funding because you you you wasn't
[13:42] supposed to resign am I
correct okay so record
[13:48] clerk Yolanda Wilson hir date was May
3rd 2022 and she received $2,000 but Pam
[13:55] Duncan who was hired 227 2013 and
retired 111 2 only receiv
[14:01] $667
67 Yolanda was hired to to fill Pam's
[14:06] place when she
retired on top of all the Nam that I
[14:10] just listed the mayor paid four
assistant Corners James Marsh Ryan Floyd
[14:17] Scott Floyd Rick penon ,000 each last
time I checked Corners do not work for
[14:23] the city they work and are paid through
the Parish police year so I would love
[14:27] to know the proc behind that one as well
it must be a reason um you know and I'm
[14:33] just calling it out cu I just want to
understand because I I truly thought cor
[14:36] was paid you know by
the based on my research and Analysis
[14:41] mayor Olive has proven to be very
vindictive and financially irresponsible
[14:47] the mayor has proven to be highly
discriminatory as it relates to this
[14:51] payout as a result of the city council's
fail to property research study and
[14:55] analyze this situation they are
indirectly respons responsible for
[14:59] aiding and abetting the mayor in her
fraudulent Financial practices against
[15:03] the city of B
Louisiana therefore I have a few
[15:07] important recommendations for the bachor
city council number one make a motion to
[15:11] immediately compensate employees who
qualify for the arpa retal payment but
[15:16] did not receive funds because it was
more than just
[15:19] me number two immediate reg
sorry real slow number two
[15:29] resignation of Mayor Betty number three
I request that criminal charges be filed
[15:35] against Betty ol for committee M Fe in
office RS statu 14134 says m in office
[15:43] is committed with any public officer or
Public Employee engaged in illegal
[15:47] wrongful or intentional H it can include
theft misusing of public funds or making
[15:54] decisions that are not in the best
Public's best interest and Mal office
[15:57] can be grounds from Office through a
recall elction or by stat St statute
[16:03] thank you all for your time that be
[16:25] awesome EMP
[16:29] resarch I like make
[16:51] research research who eligible to be
paid be
[16:58] El they fall under that term and we find
we do a research and find any employee
[17:03] that comes under that terms and
condition they should be
[17:16] paid I com last in last's meeting I did
ask for a list of um not only the
[17:25] employees that received it but the
employees that possibly were eligible
[17:29] so for the record I asked for that last
month and I have not received that yet I
[17:34] asked who would make it even fall closer
qualifications I want to see
[17:49] I first I
[17:55] to but I said in
[18:08] attorney
got
[18:14] frame the the inial
list and when I sent the email I C all
[18:20] the counsel and as I resp as I responded
backney City attorney I made sure I was
[18:25] including you all so once I got the
information
[18:29] first that included this's letter right
I asked some coun seen
[19:23] recall asking his heart myself about the
deadline date
[19:28] I had some feeling that has been done
properly and I think what going to
[19:35] happen unless we come up with some type
of a or some type of resolution to to
[19:41] amend the budget and do some rescue F
make the necessary adjustment once we
[19:47] find out who's eligible you know because
everything was done so quickly and last
[19:55] minut you know we doing last minut
Contin
[20:02] I think once we we find out who anybody
can file a claim say I'm for this
[20:10] because of this Fe submitted to the
court office whoever need to be
[20:13] submitted to and then once that is
done we uh look at what kind of money we
[20:20] look at where the money going come from
that they
[20:24] requ
also of
[20:29] ideas of what we would like to see like
for myself for example it was a couple
[20:34] things maybe like U enhancing the parts
but one of my um ideas
[20:39] was uh cost a living bonus we wasn't
ready aware of
[20:46] the Prem
until and that's exactly I said
[20:53] in you have we have to you all have to
be willing to enforce
[21:14] I'm how much want to so as y see
only
[21:21] show some people I so if I Nam your name
don't take it personal I'm just showing
[21:26] you where
Jim got paid was here 20 years and got
[21:33] paid th000 and and Joseph was here 10
months
[21:41] and
[21:46] mayely break
[21:51] law for the counil sake because again
Council position we got
[21:59] on
[22:05] all the this that here today I can speak
I
[22:11] think this was only given to us the last
minute we I think it our eyesight and
[22:16] the mission tree came along and then we
start researching looking into it we I
[22:21] said we this was not even put in the
line item of the 24 25 budget something
[22:27] attached to got past that stage and like
you say well I just want to speak for
[22:32] this Council I about think this Council
sleeping we're not we're acting on as we
[22:36] receive it and I just want to put that
on a record that this
[22:42] Council we we would only give the last
moment and
[22:50] weary she told and don't and we we acted
in the best interest and the best our
[22:56] ability and our knowled
[23:05] I think the of agre they
have
[23:17] to I'm speaking from
[23:23] this situ situation we
[23:36] secure I did not personally go through
any list and pick out any Nam pleas
[23:43] reflect that let's on we
[23:51] have is it
[23:56] my speaking on on theend but I'm
[24:05] speaking I'm
[24:53] good evening to everybody my name is
Robin Simmons and I am the owner
[25:01] my husband and
children it's at 918 Washington I'm not
[25:06] a native of Bast but my husband is so
are my children but this is a home that
[25:12] I have called my home for 43 years we
have been in bus 43 years at 918
[25:20] Washington Street can you not hear me
[25:28] I thought didn't need it but I'm here
tonight to speak about the trash and the
[25:33] white in our
community it's important to me I don't
[25:37] live in the city but I do own pretty
much a city block at 918 North
[25:41] Washington and 10 other addresses that
are around there and
[25:47] we what I gave y'all is a copy of the
list of properties that was emailed to
[25:54] the code enforcement officer on February
19th
[25:58] Reform Act 2024 was passed by the city
council I personally drove by every one
[26:04] of these addresses this
afternoon one of them number N I could
[26:10] not find I don't know that that exists
but I think address is wrong and then
[26:17] number has been down but the rest of
them are the same or worse than what
[26:22] they were and I'm just in a year I feel
like some of that should have been
[26:26] handled I don't
but um I am concerned and about about
[26:34] our city and I'm very concerned about
people that come our C next month on
[26:39] March we will have our annual bck
contest and it comes thousands of people
[26:46] over a thousand will come from every
corner to our city Breen in our
[26:52] restaurants they're staying in our
hotels they're buying gas at our gas
[26:56] stations anding every
Corridor of Bas and they're passing some
[27:03] very undesirable looking places to get
to meet and it's embarrassing to me and
[27:11] it should be embarrassing to all of us
we are proud of our city and I proud to
[27:15] be here but we need help and keep
beautiful I'm not on that committee but
[27:22] I know some of the people that are and
they are great individuals that
[27:28] for this city and they get
paid and I don't know how they go about
[27:33] this but I know that they willing to
help they're will to if there's somebody
[27:38] that's that AFF it that needs help their
they're there to help and all they have
[27:45] to do is just ask them and and they made
this list and they are tirelessly riding
[27:50] around trying to find properties and
while I was looking there was a lot more
[27:54] properties and one thing that has
nothing to do with properties next to B
[27:59] the road is torn up and it's just mud
and I was told that's been there for
[28:03] almost a year the road is blocked and
we're proud of our Rams and all these
[28:08] people come to our basketball games and
our football games and our baseball
[28:11] games and they I mean that's a mess and
they're coming down marable and there's
[28:17] a lot of mes on marable it's not a main
drag but we just we just need to address
[28:23] that if y'all would to try to help clean
organizations and there's businesses
[28:30] that'll to help
um whatever they
[28:38] call know that they GRS that will help
tear down some of these properties I'm
[28:44] probably speaking out of term but I
think they could probably help elderly
[28:48] people get rid of those cars in their
yard that they don't want and they are a
[28:53] tool that we need to use in the city and
from a business person's
[29:00] perspective please let's clean up our
city to make us proud because they're
[29:05] coming they're coming in droves to see s
sptings and other places in this town
[29:11] and I want them to be PR I want to be
proud
[29:37] with
[29:39] anticip it
out work
[29:43] be out and before
football
[29:49] started at same time
samees fled
[30:07] I think call his name he was here his
entire house flooded
[30:11] because what
I let us table this because the urgency
[30:17] was this man losing all of his property
because our drainage system was not
[30:23] working we tabled it at the time to take
care of the drainage system so and the
[30:28] drainage still hadn't been taken care of
on the other street that is why I said
[30:33] let's prioritize that's a big word for
me
[30:37] priori flooding we need to fix the
flooding and then we would go to fix
[30:42] that road just because we did not we all
agreed to do that and I told it was my
[30:47] district and I did want to take care of
the flooding first so was a priority
[30:53] thing not that I ever said don't fix it
Pi it back
[30:59] off I asked the
engineer he stated that it need to be
[31:05] done but it wasn't urgent to the shut
down shut down so we were surprised when
[31:12] the shut down
[31:28] that mean going get back to it next
[31:34] weable
proceess had to get so we
[31:41] had we had
[31:47] noed TR
reason they got to look at it I think
[31:54] the price was way higher than what they
anticipated
[31:58] so it's
[32:02] station it should never been bled off
because was
[32:05] noer to saf and come from
[32:21] engine that should be open Mr
[32:28] who who ordered that road to be closed I
guess that's what we need to establish
[32:32] because they've been going back and
forward for the last three months the to
[32:37] me reason that cannot be
[32:42] reopen
[32:51] man on April
14 was
[32:58] Council vot mayor did not vot mayor only
V break time and that
[33:06] not in as much
asled was a problem with the road and I
[33:12] spoke with
interest two there are two schools over
[33:16] there student
commuters resents that live
[33:22] there employees that drive to those two
schools every day
[33:27] a recomendation
public go ahe um I'm El Mo P I'm the CEO
[33:36] morous General Hospital right here at B
glad to be here today take this
[33:41] opportunity to talk about you know what
we're trying to do as a community um we
[33:46] look at buildings that we have houses
and you know we're a good partners so
[33:51] what we want to do is definitely partner
inuring that we do take care of houses
[33:58] life and just try to work together as
partnership I know that mayor and the
[34:03] council want to do what's right and us
as a medal Community we just want to
[34:08] make sure that we do the same thing and
get good part um I'm just happy to be
[34:13] here be honest with you I've been here
about seven months and uh I this is a
[34:17] great place to live it's a great place
to be and uh we would just want to
[34:21] provide excellent healthare and we want
to make sure it's safe so we want to
[34:25] make sure it's safe in the daytime we
want to
[34:28] so whatever we can do in Partnership we
willing to do it and help out because we
[34:34] not definitely not here I'm not
I'm lives of people that we serve and
[34:41] I'm a man of
[34:55] service ter
[35:07] nobody are ready toch
clean F money that I did receive from
[35:17] representative Francis Thompson but
right now we're in the stage of working
[35:24] on another
that those strings are not as stringent
[35:30] as the others that have come before us
so we welcome you to come to sign up in
[35:36] fact we were about to make an
announcement but due to the weather we
[35:41] haven't been able to put our equipment
out to
[35:47] start thank you very much for your
welcome I am Mar Miller I was born in
[35:54] morehous General Hospital a long time
ago let me say I'm a 1973 graduate of
[36:00] Bast High School 1973 so that tells you
something but I'm just here to ask
[36:06] you to behold how good and how pleasant
it could be if the city of vast was
[36:14] beautiful I think we would all agree
that our city is in need of
[36:19] renewal
Rejuvenation revitalization and
[36:24] beautification our city as a matter of
City should be kept beautiful keeping B
[36:31] do you
agree keeping B beautiful would help to
[36:37] solve mental health problems that exist
in our community as well as the crime Mr
[36:45] Patterson just said that he was about
keeping Bast safe that's important to
[36:50] him that's important to me as well
keeping Bast beautiful is to act in a
[36:55] proactive man rather in a reactive
manner to our problems given the right
[37:01] conditions the people here could
Thrive and thank you for this
[37:08] opportunity let me just say to express
my concerns regarding what I saw
[37:16] today today as I drove around
town
[37:21] unfortunately I saw
filth
[37:25] trash lter
abandoned dilapidated houses and some of
[37:32] them might been adjudicated to the city
of B I don't know and this evening I beg
[37:38] you to
Hear My Cry feel my pain my Agony my
[37:46] suffering and my grief I'm hurting
because I know that the current
[37:50] landscape is depressing I'm hurting
because things do not get better on
[37:55] their own
better when actions are taken to make
[38:03] them better and I'm hurting because what
I of what I see and because of what I
[38:08] don't see I'm hurting because we have
potential but it's being wasted and
[38:14] misused we all need Mustard Seed Faith
do do we have Mustard Seed
[38:22] Faith must that's all we need must
receive Faith with faith this this city
[38:28] right here could become one of the best
cities in the South now in the let me
[38:34] correct that in the United States of
America one of the best cities in the US
[38:39] America USA and recently there have been
catastrophic disasters from the east
[38:47] coast to the West Coast sadly families
have been displaced consider selling the
[38:54] adjudicated
properties to them
[38:58] okay I just want you to know I care so
much about this I care because I was
[39:02] born here and I will probably die here
but for now I want to live here and live
[39:10] here with a good quality of life I want
all of the residents to have a good
[39:15] quality of life I need all of the
residents to feel beautiful live
[39:19] beautifully think beautifully and to act
beautifully after all what goes around
[39:25] comes around behold how good and how
pleasant it could be if this city of
[39:32] Bast was beautiful in closing be
reminded of the words of the musical
[39:38] philosophers Earth Wind and Fire they
said and I quote where there is no
[39:44] Beauty you have to do what make some
beauty Lord have mercy
[39:50] in um I just have a comment right to
Miss Miller and Miss Simons I have three
[39:56] prophecies on and and they're listed
that we should enter into a Cooperative
[40:02] Endeavor agreement pre so we plan we
going to see a little action great I'm
[40:07] glad you have that must receive Faith fa
faith that the city of Bas can become
[40:11] listed among the top 10 cities in the
United States of America let's reach for
[40:17] the top after all where there is a will
there is a
[40:29] we have some guest some
[40:33] students student government
[40:57] facy
members any of the facy
[41:03] MERS
[41:15] announ come to the microphone please
state your name
[41:31] even my name
isart I'm here at uh with my student
[41:37] council members we just really wanted to
come and see how our local government
[41:42] works uh we're at with Delta Elementary
School and um we're just excited to be
[41:48] here and to see how everything is
working together for the better of their
[41:55] good thank you
[42:14] Henry
746
[42:18] District um I Rose to um I basically had
one comment but I'm going to pick I'm
[42:24] going start backing off the
said they talking about black uh there
[42:31] is a thing that's called keep more house
beautiful but I don't think a lot of
[42:36] citizens understand exactly what uh keep
more house beautiful me and what that
[42:41] project is uh from my understanding and
talking to people I think there are a
[42:46] lot of people that think we're just
talking about up here inside up here
[42:51] around Courthouse down the main Avenues
and things of that nature
[42:57] where we have a lot of businesses but
keeping more house beautiful ought to be
[43:02] about should be about and needs to be
about the entire community of
[43:08] Bast going outside into those side
streets those streets as one way in and
[43:14] one way out where you have a dead end
and where you have a lot of dumping over
[43:19] on Ma feet I think it was the the area
was cleaned up maybe one or one or two
[43:25] times before pass through there now it's
become a big Dumping Ground what do we
[43:31] do for places like that uh that keeps
coming around you know every six months
[43:39] and it needs cleaning up do we install
cam is that a place maybe we can install
[43:43] some cameras can we possibly look at uh
heightening the uh fine level increasing
[43:49] the fine level uh for lers because
that's just as important as any road
[43:55] downtown I'm
minimize anything but it needs to be
[44:01] made clear to the public to every
citizen and master that keeping more
[44:07] house beautiful is about South
Washington East Madison West Madison Van
[44:16] Avenue uh nutam Avenue all the streets
with in the uh confines of the city of
[44:23] the city and I think if we if we do
there we can do uh to uh maybe put the
[44:31] word out about that because a lot of
people don't get interested in things in
[44:36] in programs like that because they think
we're only talking about a specific area
[44:41] and again every street every road every
Avenue everything here in Bast needs
[44:48] needs attention and I think that's where
a lot of our a lot of our uh a lot of
[44:53] our attention has gotten away from those
as opposed to our downtown so again I
[45:00] want to make sure that everybody
understands that keeping more
[45:05] house beautiful is more than just about
keeping more house beautiful because B
[45:10] is the is the uh is is the seat of
morous Paris Bast is the seat of morous
[45:16] Paris so we need the entire city of Bast
to be beautiful for more house uh to be
[45:23] beautiful again thank you yes sir
[45:32] my name is I
[45:37] live9
Louisana and I'm
[45:41] a
of I was
[45:46] born October 7 1951 at General Hospital
I one of the first ladies to be
[45:55] going my com reference to what has been
spoken to about black and so for I work
[46:01] for six years for the city Ambassador as
C offic ior with the fire chief and we
[46:09] removed about 60 houses that
were there was a group of people who got
[46:18] an injunction to stop
[46:27] as experiment for train
burn
[46:34] of I personally know is not funding to
bring houses down a lot of people think
[46:41] the city has money they
don't but the other thing that I came
[46:47] comment about I've been following
Council
[46:51] meetings and I've heard the ma mention
several times
[46:58] to do different things but I never heard
one counil person say that they worked
[47:04] on anything to
[47:11] get not anybody and one of the
things it appears the council has
[47:19] delegated their responsibility to
the if each one of you work to try to
[47:26] get
uh grants of help even within the
[47:31] community try to get churches and
organizations to network together to
[47:37] clean up some of this stuff we would
have a better option but all I hear is f
[47:42] and
blame I'm a lifelong citizen I've never
[47:47] want to live anywhere else with
that but it's apparent that we have more
[47:55] interest
[48:02] [Applause]
[48:12] improve the summer we had a municipality
conference and there was a session H
[48:24] in were session H at the municipality
conference in swport Louisiana where
[48:31] this city or any other municipality in
the city of B will fill out application
[48:36] up to $2 million to take care elated
houses clean up community and also what
[48:43] it Calla or something Happ we could
apply for but there was no action taken
[48:48] on it and uh I just want to share that
with the this C I'm up to defend this
[48:52] Council but we're doing the best we can
I'm defend our marriage well don't get
[48:55] me
okay but when you come up and say what
[48:59] the body do that you try to separate too
much of that but we what the mayor tell
[49:05] us we try to do the best we can cuz she
she's she's the chief
[49:10] executive now if she don't tell us we
don't
[49:13] know and one other thing um we have been
told every almost every meeting the is
[49:19] over day operations and if I was a wrer
you better believe i'
[49:24] beting I am not a I'm a nurse by
profession I try to work with the
[49:30] community but you supposed to use the
expertise that you have to help this
[49:33] city go forward I not a
[49:42] iason when you talking about grant
writing when this Council knew about a
[49:46] grant it's already written and we never
get to M we just said that was a grant
[49:50] such and such a program p e p I never
heard of but that's a gr for see other
[49:57] words we got to be more we got to be
more transparent one of the
[50:01] other Administration need to be more
transparent with
[50:05] this La of transparency is probably the
biggest problem we have in our
[50:10] community here say with the
[50:20] c items on the agenda
lisw provides
[50:26] has the opportunity to address this
board prior to our taking action on an
[50:32] agenda item at today's meeting members
of the public will be given an
[50:37] opportunity to speak on any item before
a vote is taken you will be afforded
[50:43] five minutes to make your comments and
the entire public comment period will be
[50:48] limited to 30 minutes unless an
extension is granted this is not a
[50:53] question and answer session where you
can ask questions and demand answers of
[50:59] the board members mayor or the city
employees we have
[51:18] now I respect everybody's
op but when you know the functionality
[51:24] of the city government misleading state
that Mr Le just made very misleading and
[51:31] I'm very disturbed by that because I get
up every day to do the best I can I
[51:35] challenge you now you talk about grants
who wrote the grants or was it offered
[51:43] to the city of Bast but that falls under
day-to-day operations what I want to
[51:47] know is show me how many grants that
this man have since the public got this
[51:53] misconception that the grant writing is
done by this
[51:57] Mar I I I I I beg to differ with you
because I kind of know I worked I know
[52:04] how I work and that was a Mis statement
and when it comes to the reputation of
[52:09] the city council I stand on what we have
been doing because we've been trying to
[52:14] make progress with this city trying to
work with the mayor and we have met with
[52:20] the mayor before we come into this me
and then when we get in here things
[52:24] change I don't want to change back to
the grant saying that the May is the
[52:30] only one look for grants that is that is
that is that is not
[52:35] true not true in no sense and if the
Amica could provide us with how many
[52:40] Grant she written in three or four years
versus the grant that was given to the
[52:45] city of bastor and then I may be able to
take a little bit of responsibility for
[52:50] not applying all of ourselves but don't
come to this Council me and try to act
[52:55] like f because if you know what goes on
behind closed doors if you come to a
[52:59] finance me and then I'll be able to
explain to you what we're really talking
[53:03] about because we try to keep the piece
up here in some decoral but if you
[53:09] really really know the real fight what
the real fight was about you would be
[53:14] amazed and you would be astounded
because you all it's it's it's two sides
[53:18] to the story three sides it's my side
Administration side then that's a Truth
[53:24] side so the TR is in the
beholder in the telling you need to get
[53:30] remove the person whether it's myself
the mayor councilman green remove it and
[53:36] look for
facts and I and I I I I really really
[53:41] I'm disappointed in that statement
because that's a divisionary tactic we
[53:46] here to work together not to compete
against each other we here to uplift the
[53:50] city of B not to divide because when you
divide A House Divided a sure fall
[53:58] you also
that
[54:03] must I'm out here clean up every time
the you know anything myt I'm here
[54:09] cleaning up so I I know that's misle
[54:16] St I just feel like it was staged I'm
just being honest
[54:38] I
[54:40] am and I as many GRS as possible and in
[54:49] and and million and they have been
and certain parts of the gr has to be by
[55:00] certain people narrative then it goes on
technical assistance so I say that to
[55:07] not have my character or my professional
background attacked go
[55:20] ah ask
[55:26] have you informed the counil
[55:34] ofar okay my name
is I've been volunteer with since
[55:40] about7 when Cindy me and I told her no
and I don't know what I any I want to
[55:47] make C
you providing GRS for demol
[56:04] he worked for the city and public works
and he worked very hard but he made a
[56:09] suggestion to kmb and to others as well
that possibly we could start partnering
[56:18] with property owners and approaching
them about they part of the demolition
[56:23] cost and we part of the demol
contract signed by property owner as
[56:31] well
asul that theer
[56:35] is C amount of time whe and it's it'll
be clean
[56:43] of money to be provided we would pay the
money directly to theer own we don't get
[56:50] invol
who now another stipulation
[56:57] he can tell you about it it's a simple
process we have the contract drawn up
[57:02] between the property owner
andm we agree to payer owner % of the
[57:09] demolition cost
get and we give it directly to the
[57:13] property own once the building the
structure is brought down the property
[57:19] is clean according to my inspection and
it's done in a man we've been 201 the
[57:27] first one we brought down was the ew
Smith house at the intersection of West
[57:32] Madison and
[57:38] time
[57:41] now but anyway of Y remember a white and
[57:53] need and
rest history we brought down about 27
[57:59] structures and trying to bring down
moreci
[58:05] railroad Hospital have all been very
generous and kind us and gr us the money
[58:11] to do
[58:26] [Music]
[58:49] pH I said your phone
[58:56] we would even partner with the city
another thing the
[59:01] city we' approached several owners that
have turned
[59:06] us now the city would them and them they
to
[59:15] do and I know I know you offer that
service to the people Mar
[59:50] we are
currently working on GR
[59:56] is about to
[1:00:00] come and the window of
[1:00:05] opport a lot
[1:00:09] of lot
ofs
[1:00:14] support
[1:00:18] supp it's not just a matter of spitting
out of gr and think it's going to to
[1:00:24] happen but I want you to talk we going
close this out about what our plan
[1:00:31] is starting distri all the areas a c and
d every year we do the love
[1:00:39] Louisiana and we picked up 13 tons of
and we need everybody we need to support
[1:00:45] the city and I said this over and over
again cannot do it along there are laws
[1:00:51] in place and Mr attorney Jes can speak
to that but go
[1:00:57] ahead and talk about what our upcoming
plan is and Grant that we are
[1:01:08] presently presently it's under under 397
Francis Thompson instrumental get us AED
[1:01:18] Grant we Reed half funds we expense
about $8,000 I think at this
[1:01:27] the plan was to
use City equipment and city employees
[1:01:34] during it was originally set out to do
during the the summer time during our
[1:01:40] summertime hours to use some of the
money to pay over time to clean those
[1:01:45] adic pieces of prop that we identifi it
has to be
[1:01:53] onit at the time we didn't
pass in the budget so we at time now
[1:02:00] we're at strength of the weather we're
going to try Implement that try to
[1:02:08] work we don't have the to te down houses
what we're on doing was trying to clean
[1:02:13] the Lots or the get the trash up and cut
the underbrush bush using City equ and
[1:02:22] was I have a question
[1:02:34] but we don't have we don't have the
money to be able to to dispose of it and
[1:02:39] if if it
hasard materials
[1:02:45] is as and stuff like that it has toet
the
[1:02:50] CR all have
[1:02:56] we have
[1:03:05] EnV
[1:03:13] original5
[1:03:18] question the resue American Rescue
plan I see here clean
[1:03:26] for return to the tax Ro we all some
$200,000 that money being
[1:03:34] used
approved you go back and get your
[1:03:49] american, but you got 200,000 for 25,000
but you have 200,000 in your budget
[1:03:55] have been approved 24 25
[1:03:59] budget
[1:04:06] y' the budget was aded October that was
he say was part of budget so we after
[1:04:14] once it adoped we didn't come back
forward to to amend the budget to remove
[1:04:19] it so once the budget was adopted so was
that
[1:04:24] $200,000
[1:04:37] $200,000,000
reason I
[1:04:41] Wasing down
because I was
[1:04:48] thinking of some of $55,000 I can pay
over time for the city workers to down
[1:04:56] City
theity
[1:05:02] so all
of to to employes
[1:05:15] to at time so it's but I you said the on
about that we can't those but I'm not
[1:05:24] talking about those talking
can be T down and we can utilize the
[1:05:28] city equipment and now what we can do
also to save money you guys budget each
[1:05:34] coun in their District can
notify inform you which property need to
[1:05:38] be down and we can pay the over time to
the city workers I was told it only take
[1:05:43] like a day maybe two days to down C
especially if you have one to two give
[1:05:49] three employ they take three days to
tear down so so I'm looking at
[1:05:55] off I'm just get I can say $500 a day
for each employee $1,500 so I can say 20
[1:06:02] 20 grand I
probably in myri those we still have to
[1:06:10] for
[1:06:31] the only way that we can dispose right
now is we hire a what they call a roll
[1:06:37] back through one of the trash services
and we have we have a track we can tear
[1:06:45] it down with a track but it's still
still has to be to a lamp
[1:07:02] we have a burn curtain located
atfield but we can only
[1:07:08] burn trees
and that type of debris we
[1:07:14] burn you have to speak toq
about burn like things that come from a
[1:07:21] house shingles and
[1:07:28] yeah it was there when I
[1:07:43] got we still have
[1:07:49] bur yes perod correct
[1:08:11] other words that we have to pay again
pay over but we just have to pay for The
[1:08:16] Dumping somewhere we have
[1:08:19] to how would you
[1:08:25] on the Tage I'm right now I'm spending
uh give me the high low right now I'm
[1:08:31] spending almost $3,000 a month to empty
the two dumpsters that we have on the
[1:08:35] yard we just pick up trash on the
street so you say so it's yeah it's
[1:08:42] usually calculated by the T they take it
in they weigh it and then they you know
[1:08:48] and then they build us
[1:08:50] according I get like able toze
that we was giv
[1:08:57] outp roughly
[1:09:09] 4500
[1:09:19] for be
[1:09:42] there is no
[1:09:48] administra a private contractor we have
a private contractor likeing
[1:09:55] ARP funding that would given to each
district now that have nothing to do
[1:10:00] with the city being in any type of
violation we go out have a independent
[1:10:05] contractor to do it and pay it out our
our rescue money americ
[1:10:20] miney as long as it
[1:10:26] out
anyil
[1:10:30] anything I think be the way
to now my
[1:10:37] district money I'm I'm looking into a
private
[1:10:43] contractor to car on those du elor
houses in the community because they
[1:10:49] they don't have to they're responsible
for dumping she whatever consist on that
[1:10:53] property they are City they they'll have
to stay within compliance with the DQ
[1:10:59] and all those people now with that said
with that
[1:11:04] said with the ARP
money those private contractors can do
[1:11:09] things we can't do as city
[1:11:13] government I think I think it be more
feasible for us to contract out a
[1:11:19] private contractor and let them take
their responsibility and if we can
[1:11:24] receive
[1:11:27] a
invoice whatever you may want to call it
[1:11:31] with a private contractor for a
particular piece of property that have
[1:11:35] been judic by the p and I think I SP Mr
joh we got to look into some legal
[1:11:41] aspect of the ownership but they want to
sign out like this car say if the owner
[1:11:45] agreed to it fine you know we can move
forward okay and then if the owner don't
[1:11:51] agree to it I think we
be able to move forward under our law
[1:11:58] the city of B because it's a heal and a
to our community we can no longer let
[1:12:04] the owners will not take care of their
responsibility to tell us how we going
[1:12:09] conduct our city and we already have an
A since
[1:12:13] 1953 and we need to take action and with
the 50 under doll that I have in my
[1:12:21] district I'm going to take action
I need to ask Council maybe you I mean
[1:12:28] the attorney maybe you
[1:12:35] to
[1:12:39] I agement once we take out a contract
with a private contractor tell me the
[1:12:45] procedure let's say I have a a invoice
or B those $5,000 we don't have to do
[1:12:51] let's have to have an invoice for
have an invoice for less than
[1:12:58] $5,000 what's the procedures from there
I I know you said you have to check with
[1:13:03] the owner and like I asked that question
because the city have property too that
[1:13:07] we need to get rid we don't in our house
we can't
[1:13:25] have AER
[1:13:31] thatu homeed
[1:14:02] well
legisla
[1:14:08] sitations they would like
[1:14:21] bsed transf to contra
to so
[1:14:30] that talking properties Mr Lock is
talking about adjudicated properties are
[1:14:36] not in our name they're not our
properties they're still the owner
[1:14:40] properties in order forer is to be to
the city of you have to pass have it Ser
[1:14:48] all people and Days Run fromes
[1:14:55] to City of it's just simp we have
ownership
[1:15:01] interest not
aess we just have a stake in the money
[1:15:06] they can actually get let's say a
property's been adjudicated which you of
[1:15:11] see they to sell it we never actually
title put our name we just transfer our
[1:15:15] ability to do it to
private so a property says adjudicated
[1:15:21] to the parish or to the city you can
still redeem title ised through thatle
[1:15:28] process
theer to the
[1:15:33] citynot no because you're not the
[1:15:38] only the only thing that's adjudicated
is
[1:15:48] not no it doesn't what's the differ in
process somebody purchase
[1:15:55] what they do Pur and
[1:16:04] why right
toity right toell it but it doesn't us
[1:16:08] we don't have we just have we hav
interest we Haven officially giv notice
[1:16:14] to those owners for the law which reques
us to pass saying yes we're taking
[1:16:20] what's so what's the point of the what's
the point of the
[1:16:23] consult property because they're selling
our right to have that property if you
[1:16:28] take on the property by title you take
theability of that
[1:16:40] so only adjudicates
taxes adjudication notf title
[1:16:48] adjudication gives you the right to you
can take title from by fil you have pass
[1:16:55] and that has to be served on the owners
days from there that's adjudication is
[1:17:01] just tax it's not it's you have the
right to do it but it doesn't mean that
[1:17:07] it transfers title you have the right to
get title transfer you but you have to
[1:17:19] ex so some of the houses inct be down
[1:17:40] inad Mr Jake please see the houses in my
district that can be down our can be
[1:17:46] tore down by the city and let us
[1:17:52] knowed list
[1:18:01] did
[1:18:17] you
personated once we get once we because
[1:18:22] we really don't get a title because
judic they property we don't have that
[1:18:27] property until you get the title what we
have is we have the right to get the
[1:18:31] title we never
[1:18:45] go we have have pass
[1:18:50] for pass
[1:19:13] own yes yes I can and that's what so
when they call these on these properties
[1:19:17] or thing they ask me what the title is I
go run the title on it's adjudicated and
[1:19:22] the notice is in the law
specifically in 47
[1:19:34] 22 having a right andise you have the
right to Silent not a lot of
[1:19:41] people a right gives you the ability to
exercise something we have the right
[1:19:47] once the taxes becomes adjudicated taxes
so what's the purpose we don't own
[1:19:53] what's the purpose of clean
well
[1:19:58] because
[1:20:09] obviously own property we can goer clean
up well you can go you can go on that
[1:20:15] property and clean it up if you s out
the
[1:20:19] no so we can do the same
[1:20:38] understand yes there
[1:20:48] a can take any action necessary they
that they declare
[1:20:54] a n a half I don't care if adjudicated
notated a
[1:21:01] half so to the community we have a lot
of that so to the community the city of
[1:21:07] B can go in clean up we just can't take
title of the proper that understand that
[1:21:16] right yes you are reading that right
however the general laws in the state of
[1:21:22] Louisiana involve
what is consed code
[1:21:26] enforc and further deol destroy the your
Charter BS to the general laws of the
[1:21:34] state now specific laws likeon act your
Charter Trump but your Charter bows to
[1:21:39] the general laws of State the general
laws of the state requ a procedure and a
[1:21:45] process that we have Adan to reflect the
laws but yes the charter does say that
[1:21:51] provision that is correct however that
provision
[1:21:58] [Music]
St to one of the sites here down next to
[1:22:05] the bank post office
andity want to say hey this is a dang to
[1:22:13] side have to this community send them a
notice to that I think we had and if
[1:22:19] they do not act then we have the right
to go in and do it our
[1:22:25] corre you have you have it underne your
ordinances that the
[1:22:28] state we can do that and it's one of
theard of having a 1956 Charter state
[1:22:34] laws that are every year okay do we need
to I'll try to what do we waiting on to
[1:22:41] do that I guess I
mean we got we got
[1:22:47] $200,000 alligated for clean up and to
do this stuff beautify I think everybody
[1:22:55] want to
see on the P we
[1:23:00] oury business and come
here why can't we move forward we got
[1:23:07] $200,000 I mean we can use private
contractors or we can use our city
[1:23:13] workers I mean but once we send these
notices out to these Property Owners we
[1:23:18] cannot continue to let them turn their
noes up to this community as we go down
[1:23:27] Ander
[1:23:30] department and I
[1:23:40] willion contct
anybody coun that was to expedite you
[1:23:47] have bring
[1:24:05] saying that with your rescue money you
get
[1:24:10] somebody clean
up your District
[1:24:18] MRI you goad and private
contractor stop
[1:24:24] go ahead and a private contractor to
remove of these
[1:24:30] build
[1:24:51] theion probably
need to be revised the ex have
[1:24:59] govern
[1:25:10] soed to St
[1:25:17] are I need to ask we take this out of we
have our
[1:25:25] man
[1:25:54] of
[1:26:03] comp well what what is preventing the
city from actually
[1:26:21] implen that's what I'm trying to
we we we spent this time to pass the
[1:26:28] laws to enact the laws now it's time for
us to enforce the laws which comes out
[1:26:33] to dayto
operation like you said you continuously
[1:26:38] let the people THB theirse up at us they
not do anything we can Environ I'm
[1:26:44] talking about enforcement we can get
those people envir and
[1:26:49] find correct the issue I will say this
the issue with Environmental
[1:26:55] don't
[1:26:59] it's
so a judge but they refuse to come so we
[1:27:05] going to Contin to pay a judge $1,000 a
month for no activity that's why there's
[1:27:13] that is a first off the second thing is
that's why there
[1:27:19] because to get people to participate you
generally speaking
[1:27:25] you would take of the properties and
tax people realiz bills are
[1:27:34] going so people are a lot ofer people
[1:27:43] away people
[1:27:54] they can come to the environmental Bo
explain to the judge what's going on
[1:27:57] what's Happening that person say okay
we're going to work with you but you got
[1:28:00] to show us some progress so that
requires voluntary participation but
[1:28:05] historically in the year and a leading
up to our change just was very low
[1:28:11] participation environmental so the
concept was get them to see that we were
[1:28:15] doing things where we didn't give
Environ the people who were here would
[1:28:20] say oh I'm going to go I'd rather have
more time than days
[1:28:26] what I'm getting
at people get the misconception that you
[1:28:30] fight we trying to come up with
Solutions because we have enacted the
[1:28:34] laws and we've been stagnated nothing
has been done it's not blame gang the
[1:28:40] end game is to get results we and
there's no results then there's no
[1:28:45] results so are we supposed to just keep
sitting here and just playing like
[1:28:52] something is getting done it's not
getting that's where ask you the
[1:28:55] question we pay a
judge we got environmental officer code
[1:29:01] enforcement there has not been any
citations written not to my
[1:29:08] knowledge of private owners I'm not
talking about adjudicated property so
[1:29:13] what I'm saying is we looking for
solution we looking for to fix the
[1:29:17] problem we got the laws enacted on the
book now we got to find a way to
[1:29:22] complete the cycle you laws why not go
enforce the laws that's when you I ask
[1:29:28] you which way to which is the best way
to go well my point is you say
[1:29:33] environmental Court takes a little long
well what about the other why isn't the
[1:29:38] other Avenue being pursue what is the
problem I'm just just asking you
[1:29:45] attorney what is the problem you say
this way is long so if I'm I'm going
[1:29:51] back to what I
originally it's a twep thing if one way
[1:29:55] is not going to work you have the other
way well well ain't no way
[1:29:59] work all I do is all I
[1:30:05] do I just want I just want people to
understand that there's no we we're not
[1:30:10] impeding progress we actually passed the
laws so the laws can get done we've done
[1:30:16] our part we not want we don't want to
blame because we are Community we just
[1:30:20] want some results and we just you know
ask questions
[1:30:25] fight if you never ask questions you
never going to get
[1:30:28] results so I just want to know which is
the best way to get it done if you have
[1:30:34] a if you have a property I would tell
you from a legal standpoint if you have
[1:30:38] a property
own
[1:30:47] responsive workan oner you have owner
who is respons more time
[1:30:55] envir judge each that's
[1:31:01] two going right now I got one question
because we talk about waste of
[1:31:06] spending you spending about three in in
three years you spent about
[1:31:11] $330,000 between C enforcement the
secretary and the judge that's three
[1:31:17] years fig so you spending that type of
money
[1:31:24] with no results when I when I say no
results I mean no results I'm talking
[1:31:28] about no fines I can't find a fine if
you if I'm wrong please tell me what I'm
[1:31:33] wrong has it been a fine in the last
three years yes I started
[1:31:47] in three years have it have this been a
fine given in the last three years there
[1:31:52] was one given in EnV
[1:32:03] can just just together and come with Sol
problems not try
[1:32:19] to I I just had a comment
[1:32:25] and we took time to pass these laws but
the bottom line no citations being
[1:32:31] nothing you don't take step one you
going get to step two you will never
[1:32:36] have an active environmental court if no
citations are ever written so we just
[1:32:42] sit around like Mr said wasting money
wasting money in our community is
[1:32:49] horrible I talked to somebody and excuse
was given to me they want to know why
[1:32:55] tickets hadn't been citations hadn't
been written they said they called talk
[1:33:00] to somebody the reason that was given to
them was something about a City Garage I
[1:33:05] said sir you have to be kidding you must
have misunderstood nobody I don't
[1:33:10] believe told you that because what a
City Garage have to do writing cations
[1:33:16] and somebody
going Court sound like a bunch of
[1:33:21] excuses that's all we get
and I get tired of getting blamed for
[1:33:26] things that I have no control
over I ask for a list of how many
[1:33:32] citations were written nothing I have
nothing so we do we trying to do our job
[1:33:40] we're
trying but again we do not control
[1:33:43] day-to-day
operations okay
[1:33:55] I'm ask take agenda out of and allow
[1:34:31] AG May
[1:35:14] thank you mayor and Council
M we're just talking about the
[1:35:18] resolutions for Louisiana Department of
Environmental Quality
[1:35:25] per A and A is for the main and B is for
the West the super treatment facilities
[1:35:32] for the
city they uh is to get the permit and
[1:35:38] keep it going as we always we do the on
[1:35:45] repss emergency reps needed by monly
cleaning of lines and sections of the
[1:35:51] collection
system certain facilities and sub Basin
[1:35:56] uh continue operation maintenance and
upep and Rehabilitation of pump
[1:36:01] stations reping m whatever needed
station at West Pond
[1:36:11] facilities and maintenance and stuff and
upkeep of like D Foods pre- treatment
[1:36:17] we're putting in newers as we speak we
had purchased in
[1:36:24] or some
bers were used at the
[1:36:32] time it's time and are
[1:36:37] inefficient continue work with the
engineers on rehabilitating the main
[1:36:43] PL talking with the mayor Engineers
about
[1:36:48] getting
rehab years old
[1:36:54] time for it to be upgr and
rep we will continue to streamline eon
[1:37:03] eon economize operations of plant
equipment meaning that we'll make
[1:37:08] efficient what we can while we can until
it has be rep ints doing regular
[1:37:15] maintenance on it keeping it up to dat
so it has less we've got pretty good at
[1:37:21] everything going because
maintenance program to keep track we do
[1:37:26] it prev instead of
reactiv and we continue to train
[1:37:31] Personnel AC cross train them to work
Collections and treatment right now
[1:37:35] since I've been in there uh we have more
State licensed employees than we've had
[1:37:41] in a long time and we have two new hires
that we're training them to get them
[1:37:45] certified with the state
also and implementation process control
[1:37:52] procedures at the facility
that's Main West it's all one you have
[1:37:58] two separate facilities for permits
because you have two separate outs which
[1:38:03] means two different places have to
retreat it get it back it's not K any
[1:38:07] wild
[1:38:11] rele twoes
[1:38:32] system
[1:38:36] LS L2
[1:39:20] yes
[1:39:24] not
[1:39:59] Environ main requirs for water
discharge system
[1:40:07] L S9
[1:40:39] so much mayor and council
members my name's Debbie rers pres of
[1:40:44] planning and Z
commission uh this meeting we had three
[1:40:49] different special use requests
first special use permit was at 705 C
[1:40:57] Lane that was a um request to put in
solar panels at the new location that
[1:41:06] was torn down uh it's Sunbeam solar
LLC um they would be the same as the
[1:41:16] ones at 350 Jefferson which is behind
the old
[1:41:25] behind the data center over at the Old
Mill it's supposed to take three years
[1:41:29] to complete the project and
um they would supposedly after they
[1:41:38] finish they're supposed to have 10 full
employees so we
[1:41:48] approve with this one yes ma'am
[1:41:53] uh you said
you per yes
[1:42:01] sir he
[1:42:05] gave
[1:42:09] noard contact when ISS a special perm uh
you are you referring to the city
[1:42:16] council yes no sir why
was I was go
[1:42:23] I'm just asking
[1:42:26] question it's fine I don't mind a
question at all sir in our
[1:42:34] um book we have things that are
allowable by right and then we have
[1:42:41] things that are allowable where the um
commission can make can issue a special
[1:42:47] use permit now there are things that
have to be approved by the city council
[1:42:53] there's some that we can just issue the
special use permit and this was one of
[1:42:58] them according to the Chart that's in
the book okay I I want to see the book
[1:43:02] because I was in C enforement to yes sir
and I think if you going give a special
[1:43:06] permit to bring a company to B I think
it should come before the council I mean
[1:43:13] because we don't know what's coming into
our city it's just like an unelected
[1:43:18] board
determining what's coming to the city of
[1:43:21] B
we we have no we have no knowledge of a
[1:43:27] solar pan don't get meong I want the to
come in but when you have to switch and
[1:43:33] give a special permit then that should
be I think a city council's job whether
[1:43:38] I'm on the council or not I think when
you start dealing with the charter and
[1:43:42] you moving stuff around to fit a company
I think you need to I think it would be
[1:43:48] more appropriate for that to be brought
before the city council
[1:43:55] so the purp of
the
[1:44:00] orig it's not that they wouldn't have
passed it's just that for that
[1:44:06] particular
um that particular Zone in the city it's
[1:44:14] it's for mixed use and so that's the
reason we had to issue the special
[1:44:19] permit instead of it just being approved
out
[1:44:24] so would approved right no it couldn't
have been approved by the uh code
[1:44:30] enforcement officer himself there are
some things that he can approve that we
[1:44:35] don't have to issue a special use permit
for so it couldn't have been approved by
[1:44:40] him just out it had to have the
agreement of so another question
[1:44:46] both
projects what what do they pay on behalf
[1:44:51] of the city what
[1:44:54] uh added taxes uh right now the uh the
property is being assessed as open land
[1:45:04] no improvements once the solar panels
are being built it's reassessed then as
[1:45:11] improved property therefore the city
gains more tax money than they would
[1:45:16] have if it's just open and
[1:45:20] no let Mr you remember that board you
and I was talking about remember the
[1:45:26] board that I
said you talked about told take it back
[1:45:31] out because put it back in yeah Bo that
is in the cfor hold I'm just saying you
[1:45:38] remember what I'm kind what I'm talking
about what I'm saying is you added
[1:45:41] another board that's what I'm going here
these are unelected people that's making
[1:45:47] changes
before when it like what she said you
[1:45:51] can't do it out understand I was infor
when you see it when the Dot's there you
[1:45:56] can do it but when you have to make some
special accommodations I don't think
[1:46:01] unelected board should be making those
type of decisions for the city of B
[1:46:07] because we have constituents and I got
to get with my constituent and see would
[1:46:11] they even want toone it for that or
would they want to make an exception so
[1:46:17] now I got to go tell them about this
this solar panel deal over a good thing
[1:46:23] but would you feel kind of bad if um you
got clients and they asking you and you
[1:46:28] got constituents or whatever in your
district and they asking you about a job
[1:46:31] and you have no knowledge of it so
that's when I asked you before you
[1:46:36] remember I keep Haring on what you bring
us everything that you prove and
[1:46:42] disapprove therefore the counselor know
what's coming into the city of B Because
[1:46:46] if you just bring us something that you
disapprove we would have never knew what
[1:46:50] you
approve would like for you to bring us
[1:46:55] everything you know it's just a copy you
know what you approve and disapprove so
[1:46:58] we'll have some kind of knowledge of
what's businesses that's coming to Bast
[1:47:03] because if I would have looked and seen
that thing and I know about code
[1:47:06] enforcement I would say hey you know
what that problem need to come before
[1:47:09] the city
[1:47:15] council I think I have your phone number
but anyway I can get I can copy the
[1:47:21] pages
I
[1:47:24] can
and would you like me to do that I got
[1:47:30] I'm well aware of how it goes I'm saying
about I'm talking about the business
[1:47:34] that you approve yes sir and disapprove
because I asked you I've been the first
[1:47:39] about two months I was on the counil
I've been asking about I've been asking
[1:47:43] about I've been asking about the approve
and disapprove I've been asking but I've
[1:47:47] never received one from I've just been
just kind of patiently Wai well now
[1:47:52] agenda that we have on the meeting that
we meet at that if if something is
[1:48:01] disapproved that's on this
agenda I could tell you about it now
[1:48:09] if if there's something that goes to the
code enforcement
[1:48:15] officer and it's not approved just
because it's black and white in our
[1:48:23] Zone ordinance that this is in a certain
area and it cannot be approved we don't
[1:48:30] see
that okay well I got a better solution
[1:48:35] there whatever you approve or disapprove
it's pretty simple would you please
[1:48:38] provide when you come do your mon report
provide a
[1:48:42] copy and it goes for code enforcement
also when you approve application for
[1:48:48] somebody with a business just provide us
with a cop
[1:48:52] I'll go by I'll tell you what I'll do
before the next meeting I'll just go by
[1:48:57] the code enforcement officer office and
the ones that we don't see I'll get
[1:49:08] of yes sir because I
have concern about what
[1:49:15] bring citiz
[1:49:24] we have one that right here to East city
hall right here they got we nobody going
[1:49:34] they
were I think before any I don't know
[1:49:40] where you this
project I'm fam with this this company
[1:49:45] create 10 jobs and kill all 30 35 3500
citizens right coming right into
[1:49:52] community and we got a great deal
concerned of that I think that should
[1:49:57] need to be Ted until this Council get
the full
[1:50:00] detail we
should we have Commit commit like ear
[1:50:08] they can't bring in IND City especially
inside the city limit who going affect
[1:50:14] the citizens of this city now I don't
think that here got P up and rning
[1:50:23] uh but before we go into the
international site the new site with uh
[1:50:27] the country out of Texas I think out of
Texas if I yes sir they Tas I spoke with
[1:50:33] them already uh Dallas Texas Tas I spoke
them already because I got so many
[1:50:38] causing concern about why coming inside
the city well the citiz 95% African
[1:50:46] amans I think before you go any further
if you have approve you might disapprove
[1:50:53] the board people out there protesting
because there are some great concern of
[1:50:58] the citizen in this community about P
that stuff coming over their head C it
[1:51:05] may be I think it need to be T we can
get more detail and can ensure the
[1:51:10] citizen that it's going to be safe you
know we just we got interational a part
[1:51:16] for 100 years okay they finally thank
God God pray good on one hand
[1:51:23] okay we don't want to create the same
thing within this city limit where our
[1:51:26] children have to go to school and and
and grow and and and
[1:51:31] produce solar panels can be dangerous I
I think we probably the only city that I
[1:51:36] know I travel quite a bit around the
country that ever seen a solar panel
[1:51:41] with inside C
limit I see them all out Ria I see them
[1:51:46] in Cross I see going each Direction
outside the city limit down the within
[1:51:51] the city
that's that's a a help to this community
[1:51:56] and I think that need to be table or you
going to have people out demon and going
[1:52:02] make it wor what it is we can get to the
fact before we go and them approval to
[1:52:06] come inside our city to create 10 job
and kill all 3500 people now I will say
[1:52:12] one thing sure after our uh meeting the
I'm not sure if it's a code enforcement
[1:52:20] of his secretary
I don't know who sends out the letter
[1:52:25] but at any rate from that office there's
a letter sent out telling the people if
[1:52:30] they're approved or they're denied the
only problem I see and I I'm I'm willing
[1:52:36] to do whatever y'all want me to do but
they may have already sent these people
[1:52:41] a letter saying that they're approved so
I don't know if there's any kind of
[1:52:45] legal
action against the city if we now say oh
[1:52:50] wait you're not approved now I guess
attorney J if they have a question we
[1:52:55] got attorney we can deal with that but I
hope attorney whoever they are Tak a
[1:53:00] citizen of this community under
consideration okay because you're
[1:53:05] talking about my grandchildren children
I probably W live another 10 15 years my
[1:53:10] grandchilden will yes sir and their
children going be with this I just don't
[1:53:16] think it's appropriate to bring that
inside the city limit unless we Ure
[1:53:23] by DQ whoever agency environment who can
ensure the city this not going to be a
[1:53:29] half 10 jobs not going to hurt us one
way or another and for land whoever own
[1:53:35] the land going pay the
taxes right whoever but my understanding
[1:53:41] they buy they they have a purchase
option to purchase this land from Total
[1:53:46] one they haven't been sign seal delivery
yet they making payments they makeit on
[1:53:52] know and then they make F the obligation
but right now to one is the tax well
[1:53:59] taxpayer
because I say this toal one sold it to
[1:54:05] them for $700,000 I may be wrong and
they turn around sold it back to toal
[1:54:11] one for
$600,000 that g place we cannot afford
[1:54:16] to play games in the
B I'll find out and I know that by
[1:54:20] research I'll find
and
[1:54:30] I'll let try to stop that and hold that
a better dat we get some yes sir not you
[1:54:36] you just trying to project somebody
proba push it don't push
[1:54:41] my thank you um our next special use
permit was uh location at 305 North
[1:54:49] Washington Avenue
that is right beside aon's
[1:54:55] Furniture um it's a building if you're
facing eron's Furniture it's a little
[1:55:00] building to the right that's kind of
connected on uh gentleman wanted to open
[1:55:05] a car lot and sell cars there and that
was
[1:55:10] approved uh if you're facing erand
furniture on North
[1:55:17] Washington there's a little building to
the right of that long
[1:55:37] Place who's going up by the old church
of chicken Church Chicken where City
[1:55:42] Garage is yes
sir is another garage uh that's that was
[1:55:48] going to be uh this is that's on the
this that I was going to tell you okay
[1:55:54] that is in the cor of our
city you get all
[1:56:00] right okay uh the next special use
permit was 1510 Elm Street sweet D
[1:56:09] that's in the um I think it's called
Robinson Williams it used to be uh the
[1:56:15] school on Elm
Street uh there's a lady uh her name is
[1:56:21] Miss haw
and she wanted to be approved to put an
[1:56:25] adult dayare in there U she's talked to
the owners of the building uh they're
[1:56:33] okay with
it uh it would be from 7:30 to 3:30
[1:56:38] every day the person would pay $40 per
day she's providing transportation that
[1:56:45] will take them to and from their home
they'll have food provided
[1:56:52] uh breakfast and lunch will be provided
there um they'll only have 35 people at
[1:57:00] the most and they'll have activities for
the people during the day music
[1:57:07] Bingo exercises different things for
senior people to go to rather than just
[1:57:14] having to sit at the house and have
nothing to do or maybe their family
[1:57:19] works and they
until they
[1:57:25] get do you you may not know answer will
it be CS
[1:57:35] sleep I don't
know M Mo I don't know about that
[1:57:42] because it's not going to be anything
that's going to be
[1:57:49] overnight so I can't
tell us and I guess I didn't think about
[1:57:55] asking her because it got off you know
they left at 3:30 so I'm sorry I don't
[1:58:01] know the answer
[1:58:05] that yes kind
[1:58:13] of the name of it is Hawkins adult
daycare
[1:58:19] healthare uh they'll have a
[1:58:29] they'll a nurse practitioner on call in
case someone gets hurt or has heart
[1:58:35] attack or whatever uh and they'll have
[1:58:40] a
CNA there on the site in case they need
[1:58:46] some kind of
little
[1:58:49] special Medical adice
[1:59:00] she's already got all of her yeah she's
already got all of
[1:59:07] her certificates and everything that she
needs from the state yes she already had
[1:59:13] that
[1:59:23] okay our next uh and those were the
special use permits going to the items
[1:59:29] that were approved by right drama queens
dance company that's at 651 East Madison
[1:59:36] Avenue and that's just a dance studio
they go in and teach the children
[1:59:41] dancing brotherto brother Automotive
1503 South Washington they're just
[1:59:47] changing owners that is
the automotive center that's on the
[1:59:53] corner of South Washington and colling
road right there on the corner it's not
[1:59:58] changing the type of business just the
owners uh the next item that was
[2:00:05] approved was zavon Z Mitchell signature
Services
[2:00:12] 2107 Cooper Lake Road now that's his
address and that's where he's housing
[2:00:18] his business however people won't be
going to his
[2:00:23] and it's called a crowning service if
someone passes away they go and they
[2:00:31] have a crown like a physical crown that
they put uh at the cemetery on the
[2:00:38] casket and then they offer music as
well and so you just call the person and
[2:00:44] tell them what you want to do and then
he goes out so nobody will be at his
[2:00:49] home the next item was St
service 302 West
[2:00:55] Madison they're moving from Van Frank
and that's the one mren that was at the
[2:01:07] city
theity we got problem
[2:01:14] already trying
[2:01:19] to I think when you deal especially dist
we
[2:01:25] got
Ty
[2:01:30] that's city council
[2:01:40] back I don't know how long it's been in
business starting off on the wrong
[2:01:47] foot because you to through there I
thought it's a city I know the
[2:01:53] city move many bad cars we don't got
them many bad cars it's Clos it's right
[2:01:58] at our Gage kind of tied to our it look
like it's a city problem like belongs to
[2:02:05] the city but it belongs to a private
person
[2:02:09] well I mean have already given the
permit it's already been approved they
[2:02:15] already op
[2:02:22] who's the owner of it
[2:02:27] um Steve's mobile mechanic service and
let me see if I can see the gentleman's
[2:02:33] uh the the gentleman's individual name
is not own here so I'm
[2:02:38] Sorry appr
by back there what I'm saying I want to
[2:02:43] know the owner because we we got to make
sure that the owner know that this got
[2:02:47] to be a it's got to be the area got to
be
[2:02:50] clean is not a junkyard we we approve it
for what what does it approve for uh a
[2:02:57] mobile mechanic Mobile Mechanic means
you go
[2:03:01] out well he's going to work on the cars
there at that shop that's not a mo I
[2:03:07] mean that's a specific fure he's got on
there these a mobile mechanic mobile
[2:03:12] means you go out to
place so that's a deception if you going
[2:03:18] to have Mobile Mechanic on there you got
to go out turning that into a car shop
[2:03:24] up town but you the application says
Mo just like in big cities when you call
[2:03:30] the mobile M come to your house just
like I call mobile he come to my house I
[2:03:34] don't take my car to
him that's where needs the mile because
[2:03:38] he drive and fix your car wherever it
[2:03:42] is so I I think we since you approve I
think Council need to really we need to
[2:03:49] reconsider that
code enforcement go by there if he's
[2:03:54] going have bu up there make sure it's
going be AI influence on
[2:04:01] not because you just St yourself as a
mobile so it's on the false pretense if
[2:04:08] you got the license saying you're mobile
but you actually having people bring the
[2:04:13] vehicles to
you leight
[2:04:24] okay next one is I'm sorry I can't
pronounce this name it's a Spanish name
[2:04:30] but it's a food
[2:04:34] truck I would mess it up if I tried but
it's a a food truck uh it's a Mexican
[2:04:41] food and um they'll be located in the
city wherever the business gives them
[2:04:47] the right to be they have to get
approval from the business for instance
[2:05:03] next one is Morehouse Community Medical
Center 501 durum
[2:05:08] Street uh you know they built the new
building where the old movie theater was
[2:05:14] well they're opening their old
building so they'll be located in both
[2:05:19] locations
[2:05:23] the next item was k and t jiy ta 647
East Madison and that's just a person
[2:05:32] who's going to be open just to do income
taxes during income
[2:05:42] tax and
[2:05:45] that's yes sir
[2:06:03] particular
from committee
[2:06:46] City counil
[2:06:53] we need to let our people know what's
coming into the city especially thata
[2:06:59] that
[2:07:23] I think that I made a suggestion earlier
so we won't have this problem it's going
[2:07:28] be a special
perm to come of network with the counil
[2:07:33] before approve it now we got a problem
because y'all already
[2:07:37] approved now it's going to be hard to go
tell somebody that spent
[2:07:41] money that you got to
stop you know we probably didn't if we
[2:07:46] would P our people they probably told us
right off the turn down already been
[2:07:53] approved I think I'm going let the
attorney on this situation but what do
[2:07:58] you think
[2:08:21] was
that have
[2:08:59] that's one of those I was talking about
that you I'm going go back and find it I
[2:09:04] promise you I'm going find
[2:09:10] it type of stuff the type of thing that
I fear was going to
[2:09:19] happen have
[2:09:24] of so it's 33429
[2:10:13] so the and
[2:10:17] zonings z
[2:10:35] have
[2:10:51] me that when they go to the board of
appeals it don't come to the city
[2:10:56] council did you did you just say it go
to the board don't come to the city
[2:11:01] council so y have aard
of they
[2:11:15] have because there there's two ways it
goes your board of appeals Acts
[2:11:24] of off
[2:11:51] it for us to make I mean motion
to
[2:11:58] R for counil to
[2:12:04] V I guess I question before I get
that the day this
[2:12:11] particular what day would this approve
[2:12:22] was I think it was
[2:12:28] just our meeting was the 27th January
the 27th it's normally the third Monday
[2:12:35] of each month but we WEP it the 27th
because of Martin Luther
[2:12:43] King so January 27 what day did
the approval
[2:12:51] you for approv that you that it came
before the 27 January do you have a c
[2:12:57] letter Sun saying they have been
approved I don't Mr Bradford because uh
[2:13:03] the committee doesn't send that out it's
the office of the code enfor
[2:13:14] off
you sor
[2:13:40] I don't have I'm I answer I looked at
when I looked at it it says you got the
[2:13:47] right to appeal it goes to
the city council always had the say so
[2:13:55] when I was in and I read the book pretty
thoroughly andless something to change
[2:14:00] because I'm I'm perplexed why would a
city council go back to an unelected
[2:14:05] board for some
[2:14:10] approve speaking
ziss
[2:14:17] have cityil
[2:14:24] that
what what I was saying I mean because I
[2:14:31] in my district I don't really have a
problem but I don't want this to set a
[2:14:34] precedent where a
board have final when we elected
[2:14:39] officials represent our district so when
you have a
[2:14:44] of because that's why they put it in
there you have the option to do it you
[2:14:48] don't have to option
[2:14:58] I'll be contacting you so you can work
on something because I don't think
[2:15:03] nobody in the city of B would go for
unelected person dicta what comes to the
[2:15:09] city of B and based on my analysis and I
worked up there with Mr MC we studied
[2:15:14] this
PRD and we have been through this with
[2:15:24] Mr we came up his deal so I'm glad we
having this discussion something good
[2:15:31] comes out every day now going to force
us to research the law because I don't
[2:15:35] think that un elected board should have
never what comes into the city of now I
[2:15:43] think it's a good idea Mr just one vote
just one vote if it comes to the council
[2:15:48] if voted because I want haven't did a
study like you say he did a
[2:15:52] comprehensive study it's not I'm not
saying I'm part against it I'm just
[2:15:57] talking about the process we don't want
to short C the process because think
[2:16:02] about what you just said because if if
somebody turned down it was in Reverse
[2:16:07] if you turn somebody down then they go
to the board of appeals and they turn
[2:16:11] them down that's that's not
fin well the process
[2:16:17] there we not this year in the past we
have denied
[2:16:23] someone uh they appealed it they go to
the board of adjustments the board of
[2:16:28] adjustments denied it their next set of
their their next uh appeal is to the
[2:16:36] city
council so if the board of adjustments
[2:16:40] denies it then the city council sees it
but if we approve something like that
[2:16:46] which it states in our code book that we
to approve that according to what was
[2:16:53] adopted when the
code was
[2:16:58] adopted all Heavy industrial all light
industrial all research and development
[2:17:04] it's in here that the
[2:17:09] uh the Planning and Zoning commission
has the right to approve those by
[2:17:15] special permit now there are some things
in certain areas
[2:17:21] uh and our book says that the city
council has to approve that however
[2:17:25] these solar panels was not one of them
according to our code that's written now
[2:17:31] and that's why it never went to the city
council because it was approved and ACC
[2:17:37] what say there are
[2:17:44] cust
that no it's not
[2:17:50] been different since I have done it just
so it wouldn't be the same person that
[2:17:55] denied it one time and denied at a
second I believe the delay on that is
[2:18:01] generally
days the problem we here it's never you
[2:18:06] really never going to run into this
problem because most of the time when
[2:18:10] they approve something it's for good
cause I mean the problem you disapprove
[2:18:14] something I'm just trying to get some
understanding for when it's a
[2:18:18] controversy when they approve
counil really don't want it in well so
[2:18:25] that where that runs to is all your
counil all
[2:18:39] oftion who approve who you who you don't
there are certain things that are
[2:18:45] planning own they make final decisions
[2:18:53] have
[2:19:49] us
[2:20:14] and also allow you to put people there
who weren't elected but had more
[2:20:19] specialized knowled
[2:20:30] is is the Sol company aware of process
including time for
[2:20:39] possible
[2:20:43] doubt I don't think so Mr Green because
they wouldn't have need of kn
[2:21:16] I know where you're going but I'm going
to show you when we changed over
[2:21:21] that's when we got to P close attention
that's what I was going to bring to the
[2:21:24] counil I left my paper on but we when we
revised the code enforcement deal
[2:21:31] remember I was tell you councilman
attorney Jones that we I kept asking you
[2:21:35] are we just dealing with code
enforcement that's the only section of
[2:21:38] the code well trust or verifi I really
believe that until I start looking for
[2:21:44] something I started looking for that
boy and then I found something very very
[2:21:49] curious
enfor so I got photo copies of how the
[2:21:53] laws work versus when they changed them
Mr Lock a very very good point when you
[2:22:01] changed it it says before that the city
council appointed the board but
[2:22:08] mysteriously when you rewrote the law
this is what it states
[2:22:16] now4 the
May no I got it on I got it on my phone
[2:22:22] right here Ian I got the code
enforcement photo copy of my book if you
[2:22:26] want the I give you the I'm not looking
for I'm looking for what's in the book
[2:22:31] if you want to say what happened
[2:22:38] in17
[2:22:44] May you kind know what I'm talking
about there's
[2:22:51] the books
[2:23:40] okay this one before prior to we Chang I
got the date on this is what it say what
[2:23:46] what SE it say section 162
[2:23:51] and it says this in the book it says
Planning
[2:23:57] Commission Planning Commission shall be
she also serve
[2:24:01] zoning commission and is jump around and
it's establish it will be consist it
[2:24:07] will consist of seven members and they
will be appointed by the city
[2:24:12] council period well you should pull that
ordinance from 20 I'm not you I'm
[2:24:18] talking about what's in the Z Mr McDuff
can you go get your Zone plan zoning
[2:24:23] book The zoning book's not the law the
law is the ordinance on the
[2:24:27] books I'm saying is you had to change it
because it's in the book it's it's in
[2:24:33] the blue book so I'm looking at in the
Blue Book you can't tell me what I don't
[2:24:37] see in the book it's in the book but
then all of a sudden we change the law
[2:24:41] it says the may show me in the Code
Enforcement Act where we change
[2:24:45] that I didn't write this up I didn't do
that that's I'm going to so this come
[2:24:52] from this is this is the code
enforcement book hold up I'm tell but
[2:24:56] this is the code
enforcement we got the Corum we just
[2:25:00] having a lively debate we not I'm just
showing what I got I didn't do that I
[2:25:04] didn't say you did that I say it's in
the code enforc book A book
[2:25:13] line so you want to pull
04417 so you mean tell me it was a Mis
[2:25:18] they miscalculate this
going about all this
[2:25:32] time Z
operting
[2:25:37] not never
seen Mr just that counil
[2:25:46] appointed may I add somethinge
when we get like if someone passes away
[2:25:53] or they decide they don't want to do it
anymore um the mayor recommends a person
[2:26:00] uh for instance the last person that was
recommended was Miss Angela Glatt she
[2:26:05] works
[2:26:08] at Bush State Farm and she was the last
one that was recomended and what happens
[2:26:15] the mayor uh recommends this person and
theity
[2:26:21] voted on her for a final
[2:26:25] approval the mayor recomend now when it
first started that was different but now
[2:26:31] the mayor recommends the person and then
they're brought before the city council
[2:26:35] and Miss gladney was the last that was
approved by the
[2:26:43] counil to pull all thean but one that is
today
[2:27:13] May February 12th 2004 so actually it's
11
[2:27:20] how did it change from the mayor to the
city council I don't know if that's a
[2:27:25] printing err it's not ating
[2:27:38] erera uh I've been since 2010
[2:28:01] feary now there have been amendments
that have been made and we've added them
[2:28:07] into our packets in a book yes
sir so it seems to me the books
[2:28:29] she was on the city council the mayor
was a May back then they've been
[2:28:35] operating as the council but all of a
sudden mysteriously appears the mayor
[2:28:41] when I look through here I see the book
I'm looking at my photo copies then I go
[2:28:46] to the computer and I see the book then
I see we made changes all of a sudden
[2:28:51] it's it omitted the city council and put
the word Mayor in
[2:28:56] there all I
know de
[2:29:05] mersh what made you go back to 2004 and
see that it's on I mean I mean but what
[2:29:12] what triggered you to go and look okay
so when you pass ordinances and they go
[2:29:17] on COD
that we just said we specific I was
[2:29:22] looking at the composition the board of
adjusts so I was trying to see where the
[2:29:26] members were to see if you had your
board of adjustment so I went to your
[2:29:31] ordinances online and like any law they
put down at the bottom the
[2:29:37] instrument
[2:29:44] didn't so what we need to do to put in
place so we can change we just discre or
[2:29:50] why that book says that versus why the
the official recorder of the law says
[2:29:55] different you
[2:30:08] get
[2:30:12] off let a suggestion and I be glad to do
whatever
[2:30:18] you I'll look this code up and try to
print it out I'm not sure how long it is
[2:30:25] but I'll try to print it out I'll
compare it with the book see what the
[2:30:30] discrepancies are and then I can get
with attorney Jones and maybe we can go
[2:30:35] from there
[2:30:50] I'm trying to deal with the this wasent
out by Mr Mike Duffy and I need to
[2:30:57] know okay you say January pass
january7 Sir
[2:31:05] Mr I'm
Sor Mr repli that he letter out
[2:31:21] I'm got
Mr
[2:31:27] Mr do you have a copy of that letter
that you sent to Sun LLC the reason I
[2:31:34] asked because I want to know I want to
cop of I want to know if we
[2:31:40] in that we can appeal you know we still
procedure I heard say 10 days 11 days I
[2:31:48] what
Sun Belt LLC and we still in our appeal
[2:31:53] procedure then we have a right to appe
it's a now if we outside our appeal
[2:31:59] procedure we still have a right to
because attorney tell you that as delay
[2:32:05] appeal you
got
[2:32:08] deadin after
[2:32:13] deis I want to see what the DAT of the
letter what
[2:32:20] the decision is the decision date is
what controls okay okay just what
[2:32:26] was
[2:32:30] anybody was thee was sent
out LLC I need to know the DAT was sent
[2:32:38] to if we still in our frame if he sent
it out two weeks afterwards or something
[2:32:44] or if he if he did it in a Tim man
excuse me if he did it in a Tim we have
[2:32:50] to request what you call a delay appeal
you can always appeal anything but you
[2:32:55] call it attorney the day
[2:33:00] appeal we got to stop Community I can
you
[2:33:10] myve right
here right I could offer something to
[2:33:14] you about Sol stuff dealt with this you
need to pass a
[2:33:22] solar solar we had to
this that would mandate what the requ
[2:33:29] like so you're not going through theal
process that that
[2:33:35] way because I've heard this before
already the problem is that we don't
[2:33:41] have a zoning ordinance
onul solars and what they have to look
[2:33:47] like the knows look
[2:34:03] you
[2:34:05] canate it to
zonings counil and de we never thought
[2:34:15] not in my day time anybody would approve
a Sol
[2:34:20] they must don't know anything about Z
need to be educated as well okay and the
[2:34:26] compan taking advantage of
this I guess guess
[2:34:33] question guess
[2:34:43] question you got find out
[2:34:51] possible yeah I can get on it as soon as
we get soon as we get out of here and
[2:34:56] clearly doing it through here right now
to try and figure out the delays go from
[2:35:01] the day after decision and also in the
me we upd to reflect what the book for C
[2:35:08] counsel yeah we'll get together and see
what the I've never seen a blue book I
[2:35:13] didn't know they going around with the
blue book book I I look I look at the
[2:35:17] actual book which is one
off
[2:35:22] not by having City counc us our input
going forward yeah we can move with that
[2:35:28] we can move with solar F to look atan
toate like that so we can have
[2:35:35] unifor you just something you go by book
not something I got this out of the code
[2:35:43] enforement this ain't I didn't find this
on the internet anywhere remember I was
[2:35:47] in told come from the book that's right
down there and the book that's encoded
[2:35:53] for so our to resolve a problem so it's
not like that we arguing or fussing a
[2:36:01] mute point the code enforcement officer
sitting right there it's pretty simple
[2:36:05] walk you get the book flip it over and
you will see it that book's not your
[2:36:09] official reg well you just said you go
bu a
[2:36:12] book it's not your official but but you
just said I'm going to go by the book
[2:36:17] The Blue Book I'm going by the Blue Book
correct said you just said you going by
[2:36:21] the Blue Book I'm going by the book I'm
not going by the book I go by your
[2:36:24] official log of yourin kept by your
[2:36:34] clerk Mr bu operating the same book
that's correct so it's like it's like
[2:36:39] saying that you had two copies of the
same thing but one of them obviously
[2:36:43] there's something in between so you go
to the official Journal of ordinances
[2:36:48] which is where I'm
[2:36:56] that you make things you want to make
sure that when you make copies or
[2:37:00] excerpts of laws that you actually cop
them correct type them in
[2:37:15] there as well that's why you had to
check the Blue Book
[2:37:21] okay I'm
brainstorm you you got me on
[2:37:26] something you ear about changing the
code you said you Happ to look when you
[2:37:32] was looking for another Zone another
board that what draw you to it because
[2:37:37] you can go to the line online I used to
look at it when I was in Houston go
[2:37:41] online and it never
said it never said the mar I'm talking
[2:37:46] about it never ever said the mar you can
anybody got to go online go back type in
[2:37:52] five years from now I me back five years
you going to see it's going consistently
[2:37:57] say the board the city council but now
when I when you go online and you see it
[2:38:05] so it had to change what I'm saying now
it's saying the mayor you go put it up
[2:38:10] online now it's going to say the mayor
but if you go back and look five years
[2:38:13] ago it's going to say the counsel so
somebody changed something changed what
[2:38:18] you do
[2:38:27] 200 online
onlys well I'm ask you a question when
[2:38:32] you found out it discrepancy did the C
was code enforcement notice he one he
[2:38:38] the one provide code enforcement so if
it's a
[2:38:41] error uh why would we still be operating
on a blue book that's really available
[2:38:46] that he goes by not me he goes by that
Blue Book
[2:39:06] to reflect changes
[2:39:32] what's the so what's the process of
changing the the charter You' have to
[2:39:36] you would have to make a petition to the
governor you would have to then notify
[2:39:41] the Attorney General to say that it's
not in it's not
[2:39:45] inconsistent it's not inconsistent
ision of the Louisiana constition or
[2:39:51] general laws or the Federal Constitution
they issue a declaration to the governor
[2:39:56] stating they've reviewed it and it's not
that way the governor then issues a
[2:40:00] proclamation to the city of bastard that
if anybody is going to object I think it
[2:40:06] is percent
[2:40:11] i% object then by to the petition then
you have to go to an election
[2:40:18] well Charter that was not officially in
the charter this was Amendment so we can
[2:40:23] change the amend this was put zoning
when when they made zoning so so that's
[2:40:28] that's that was a point what I'm saying
is you don't have to go through all that
[2:40:32] change in the chart you just change the
you just change the artist because it
[2:40:36] was it was implemented so we can change
the artist to go back to where we
[2:40:40] thought it was originally so we need to
draw ordinance to change it back to what
[2:40:45] we thought it was which was the counil
that's the simp thing we need to go
[2:40:50] search down the4 ordinance and see if
it's reflected properly what it says and
[2:40:54] once we pull that we'll have an answer
and then we can say is the blue
[2:40:59] reflec reason
[2:41:06] i000 things have happened where they
didn't come before us and nothing took
[2:41:10] place so I was trying to see what we
need to do to make it more concrete so
[2:41:15] to make it more concrete if you want to
change your Charter to uh not just not
[2:41:20] just this particular thing I was just
asking the process of
[2:41:23] oh because because apparently we did an
ordinance
[2:41:27] for over $5,000 several times and and I
asked you can be done said can be done
[2:41:35] so say I was just to know would it to
change so you have to issue
[2:41:43] told yeah so and you can
do you can do something about that that
[2:41:49] somebody has created office and then it
goes to the attorney general I can't see
[2:41:54] the mayor I'm the City attorney
[2:42:20] over stud
[2:42:24] number office
[2:42:30] administ started and the first
board started in
[2:42:40] 2009
attorney resarch
[2:42:49] did the book like in
2016 I mean when I was in C enforcement
[2:42:55] I was talking to M we was researching
something and she says that it was
[2:43:00] updated in
2016
[2:43:06] because I think that was when we added
an amendment I don't remember what the
[2:43:11] amendment was but there was an amendment
to it and it was um we were given that
[2:43:17] and we added into our book and took out
the page that had to do that what book
[2:43:25] do you get your stuff out of the
book well I don't remember what color
[2:43:30] the book was and I apologize I don't
mean that negative uh when my house
[2:43:36] flooded in
2016 uh I lost my book I lost the whole
[2:43:41] thing so I don't remember what color it
was and I but you do get it out of the
[2:43:45] book book what I did I went on the
and I printed one I printed it off of
[2:43:52] the website so now mine's not colored
and back from 2016 I don't remember what
[2:43:58] color it was and I wouldn't be a
negative when I said that I
[2:44:02] promise that's
fine yes
[2:44:09] sir charum resol
[2:44:17] right you
[2:44:44] oh
yeah Saturday
[2:44:49] coming from starting at high school
[2:44:54] and we by right so if we have to postp
it we will make an announcement via
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want to get into the Black History
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[2:45:50] sir
[2:46:25] inor
[2:47:00] I'm
[2:47:19] what
[2:47:47] you 2000
[2:48:44] would you
[2:49:02] two there's actually two
ordinances never
[2:49:10] overed and there's there's
a that created a separate book called
[2:49:17] zoning goes one through
16 and then there's a Planning
[2:49:22] Commission that
is in the code ofan
[2:49:49] which one you going to theed by the May
or the counil got that's why it's not
[2:49:54] fing it's getting understanding I knew
[2:50:20] thank you
[2:51:16] officials govern
[2:51:21] yes to
original then I for
[2:51:41] the time I'm sorry time at what point we
going to rece
[2:51:49] okay
[2:52:47] BL
[2:53:15] know
[2:53:47] BRS us
[2:54:12] you know how long process I I a to
answer that duration
[2:54:28] that's a private we don't own that it's
owned by priv right owned
[2:54:34] by
we I know we it but it's still by her we
[2:54:40] should have sent out something her
amount
[2:54:44] ofine by now this has goingo long
[2:54:50] think
[2:55:11] am are not afraid that's one thing
nobody's afraid because they know City
[2:55:20] well that's that's
[2:55:49] St
[2:56:20] the
[2:57:17] res so
we
[2:57:24] 2
[2:57:34] Del is open and we have collected
information to apply for the community
[2:57:42] infrastructure the last time we applied
for this gr they ran out of money
[2:57:49] now make an application again and we are
asking for resolution of support to go
[2:57:55] along
[2:58:13] with so we asking for resolution of
support
[2:58:43] resolution2
[2:59:09] we looked at the possibili what we apply
[2:59:36] we talk about the possibili based onig
[2:59:58] yeah our recommendation is is the funds
are through the office of Community
[3:00:04] Development is the
local governmental assistance program
[3:00:09] and it's a maximum of
$50,000 one of the things that that when
[3:00:14] we look at the criteria
[3:00:20] would meet was it had to be on public
property and we looked at we have a
[3:00:25] piece of property located adjacent to HB
Adam cemetery and we're we're running
[3:00:32] out of cemetery blot
so applying for that Grant to see if we
[3:00:37] can clean that piece of property level
it and have survey for ceter Block do
[3:00:44] you have resolution
[3:00:48] have to make the
resolution I'm just pulling I'm just
[3:00:52] pulling the data stuff together to put
on the applic
[3:01:41] ol 25
[3:02:14] me
[3:02:42] I'm asking
[3:03:15] the
[3:03:26] if a resolution has not drafted where
number
[3:03:45] come can will will
[3:03:53] AV
[3:04:00] re so it's not a
[3:04:06] resolu I have to know this I don't know
what the lgap is for what the specific
[3:04:12] and so we cannot vot on
[3:04:16] this if our journey don't know we can't
vote on this okay Grant as Mr oral if
[3:04:23] you don't want to vote on that's not it
man we cannot just sign off on something
[3:04:27] that we don't we we we can all read we
have to be able to read it and look at
[3:04:32] it and then we definitely are in support
of it we don't want to lose the money
[3:04:36] but you are asking us to do something
that you should not we cannot vote on
[3:04:40] something that we do not have in front
of
[3:04:43] us and I know it may be like a simple
mistake but we we needed in front of us
[3:04:48] and that's what I was telling you so you
were saying that so I don't want to see
[3:04:52] this grant go through and that's not the
case what I'm I'm tell you I
[3:04:57] don't but it's not but it's definitely
not City counc call I just received my
[3:05:02] package at 9:00 last
[3:05:10] night it's just a support letter it's
just a resolution of support
[3:05:18] I make a motion I make a motion the
table cuz I I don't want to draw
[3:05:21] something last minut I'm trying to find
one I think I did one
[3:06:14] in my only consideration was
it's not one item a simple resolution
[3:06:23] that you
support about I don't know what Mr was
[3:06:29] reading I don't know what he was reading
from so you ask me to
[3:06:35] from okay okay okay item number 11 of
new
[3:06:40] business discussion demolition of
structure at 1305
[3:06:47] okay uh Mr Bradford yes 135 me is uh
elaborated propy uh the police jury
[3:06:56] under a letter W in get a permission on
their behalf by being adjudicated still
[3:07:03] legal point the owner of the Mr Jones is
brought up a Endeavor agreement yes uh I
[3:07:13] need the woman specific
okay you you had we had other
[3:07:20] stuff yeah I've got I've got everything
done down to name I just didn't know how
[3:07:25] spell the name exactly I think it's Mary
Hawkins no the the
[3:07:31] property a description of the
[3:07:40] property that's I had Carol I had c r o
l i n that's what I
[3:07:48] what are we doing this is property out
of District B uh money that we given to
[3:07:56] District B this is one of the projects
that we're taking on we'll T down 13 we
[3:08:01] demate 1305 Mi can I can can I make a
suggestion for you please
[3:08:07] U being what I was told because the
house have best it's going probably
[3:08:13] going to run all year
$55,000 that going be
[3:08:20] okay for the for the legal the way it
was structured was is that the person
[3:08:26] the the
owner person of the home would contract
[3:08:32] with the person to do it and we
reimburse up to the amount that he had
[3:08:37] so which was 4,500
bucks that's what we came together with
[3:08:41] was that and they would present it to us
that after it was done and as long as
[3:08:46] the ProCuts were to meeting with the
ordinances in the state law so that it's
[3:08:50] in compliance now then we would pay we
would pay we would reimburse the so
[3:08:55] other
[3:08:57] words out of that's coming out
of Contra have so it was they have to
[3:09:06] present us with it it has to be returned
to the the property then is returned to
[3:09:12] where it would meet and comply with the
ordinances of Bor and the state laws if
[3:09:16] there's any appliable St
and at that point they present us with
[3:09:19] the invoice services for reimbursement
up
[3:09:24] 45
[3:09:31] you it it goes back to the owner's
property so how do we get the
[3:09:38] $4500 back we don't
don't you giv away not giving away that
[3:09:45] you allocate I just want to
I know what's going to happen tomorrow
[3:09:50] mind Happ tomorrow yeah so so here's
here's what the the kind of the benefit
[3:09:56] detriment of the Cooperative Endeavor
agreement was the benefit was is that we
[3:09:59] don't have to go through the hearing we
don't have to have an engineer report we
[3:10:02] don't have to produce all these cost and
we don't have to worry about finding the
[3:10:05] contractor the detriment is is that we
also don't get to recoup our cost but we
[3:10:12] don't have all the administrative cost
either but but you but you clean some
[3:10:18] correct you can do it through a CA she
said you can do that as long as you pass
[3:10:22] through a CA
[3:10:25] because did I did I just my did I just
say my
[3:10:30] number did I just say my number
[3:10:47] be approved take V on the $55,000 you
have to the the council has to approve
[3:10:53] the Cooperative Endeavor oh
[3:11:04] okay I got I got a question serious
question because I don't care where the
[3:11:11] money come from it's still City money
was it a grant or whatever was it in a g
[3:11:15] fund it's going to come from
the city no it come from the already
[3:11:24] to what he saying is belong to the
[3:11:30] city now I'm I was
U I was thinking this was going to be
[3:11:38] you know I didn't think we was going to
go do private properties I thought we
[3:11:44] was going to partner with different
organizations to go do it you telling me
[3:11:48] we going to clean up a property and we
get finished cleaning up with it it's
[3:11:55] going to be back to the person that we
clean it up with without assessing what
[3:12:00] we PID to clean it up Mr Green
[3:12:10] can you a question that Direct Direct
[3:12:18] I'm can I say one thing no I'm asking a
question can I say one thing I feel some
[3:12:24] kind of
[3:12:55] all okay because I asked this question
because you know when we when we paid
[3:13:03] that that premium pay you see what
happened we open Pand box and you can't
[3:13:08] put it back in now we're going
to I I I want to clean up BL I think
[3:13:17] we need to clean up but like but I was
under impression when we clean up
[3:13:21] somebody's property that we was going to
be we was going to add that to their tax
[3:13:25] bill I I didn't know that we was going
to go clean up somebody's property and
[3:13:29] then give it back to
[3:13:32] him question just statement let let me
make a stat to Sor I'm sorry go ahead
[3:13:41] and answer Mr J green and then Mr BR and
maybe we have
[3:13:47] let
[3:13:54] M was directed to
[3:13:58] me I think
he hold I brought I brought I brought I
[3:14:04] brought this issue to on the
G had the floor so I was asking point of
[3:14:15] information someity
I okay the the I'm going be real short u
[3:14:21] the rescue money that will allgate to
each district yeah to spend as their
[3:14:27] their leure long as they did something
within the community and all say
[3:14:31] nonprofit and also said
private now this is a private piece of
[3:14:36] lot that have been judic by the Mohawk
Parish police year the moha par polier
[3:14:43] had issued a letter saying they have no
objection to us in this
[3:14:48] property the owner of the property say
she have no objection they don't have
[3:14:51] the money that's why we got some much
bright you got to understand half of
[3:14:55] this stuff is standing around this
community because the people do not have
[3:14:57] the money and we have the obligation to
protect the other neighbors in the
[3:15:02] community okay now now with that said
that 50
[3:15:08] $50,000 we have the Le use as we choose
it east east C and I have a spoke with a
[3:15:15] private contractor that would do it
under
[3:15:19] $5,000 and and with that said it
wouldn't have to be
[3:15:23] bided or I didn't think it had come for
the counsil how each district get to
[3:15:28] spend their money I didn't think so but
but I mean you know now now back before
[3:15:32] the counsil we might not never get it
spent we might not never get it I have I
[3:15:37] have a question
[3:15:44] so is this proper
or still owned by that said individual
[3:15:50] adjudicated by the parish owned
by a family individual and then I have
[3:15:56] spoke with them and they said sure they
have no objection to us cleaning this
[3:16:00] proper and they going to sign all in but
just like the uh what they call here
[3:16:08] Beauty so in other words the same thing
they doing so in other words how about
[3:16:11] this how about this I'm just just
brainstorming so so if you have an
[3:16:16] individual they have a piece of property
they haven't been adjudicated but it's
[3:16:22] BL we can spend our money to get that
yes under section under Section six of
[3:16:28] our chter it say that we can tear down
or remove anything that's a danger and a
[3:16:34] hassard in the community it don't say
the at the owners it say The city can
[3:16:40] take that action and we should be able
to do if we don't do it you got to
[3:16:44] realize these people that own
property two3 of them can't afford to
[3:16:50] clean the LA house grandma grandma dead
Uncle Bob in California B Jean in Texas
[3:16:57] somebody in Detroit and all this mess is
still here I mean I like I mean I mean
[3:17:02] you
[3:17:05] know we as a city responsibility have
been all just for the clean up right and
[3:17:10] do certain particular things in our
particular district and we have the
[3:17:15] money money been alligated we paid we
paid the employe we PID everybody now
[3:17:21] the $50,000 that was allocated to each
district those counsel should be getting
[3:17:26] busy in their District seeing what it
take to clean it up and I'm not sitting
[3:17:32] back waiting to make a uh you know
that's what we asked I asked M uh Mrs uh
[3:17:39] Mrs Hardy the same thing and we spoke
about nonprofit organization I also have
[3:17:44] endeavored him for a nonprofit
organization we getting ready to give
[3:17:48] $10,000 to we not getting that
[3:17:53] back BR you
minut I'm not disagreeing what I'm
[3:17:58] saying because when when we was awarded
the $65,000 I was trying to come way to
[3:18:03] to do it with within the city but your
way prevent all that you can just get
[3:18:08] some okay private contract
[3:18:13] and you go saying thisal so the way you
make it legal iser what okay with the
[3:18:21] c correct you have to articulate the
benefits you're getting the benefit
[3:18:25] they're getting you're cleaning up light
but yes you are giving up the right to
[3:18:27] get a lean so Mr you say one word we
about to get busy okay
[3:18:33] okay
only property just
[3:18:37] anyer it's any property that would meet
the status for
[3:18:42] being a dangerous or or dilapidated
structure which is a a a very
[3:18:49] specialized word that has legal meaning
behind it it has to be one that when we
[3:18:54] do those when we condemn
things we have an engineer who looks at
[3:19:00] it who says yes issues report yes this
is it meets the state definition for
[3:19:04] dangers into life dat like we had with
the L building e side building
[3:19:09] so if I get a a contract is just it
[3:19:14] down I got
but but you have to meet that definition
[3:19:19] but what what we're giving up in return
for them allowing us to consensually do
[3:19:23] it without having to go through that
processes and all that that that
[3:19:27] unnecessary red tape is he's giving he
elected to give up the the tax the being
[3:19:35] able to place the bill on the tax he
said look we're not going to hit their
[3:19:38] taxes because they we went to them they
consented to it they're going to do this
[3:19:41] without all the house on the red well I
got I got a question well can we do this
[3:19:45] I understand what you're saying
but we don't want to get into a place
[3:19:49] where we clean somebody's property of
and then they turn around and sell it so
[3:19:53] long as you maintain that property I
don't care I kind of go along with what
[3:19:58] you saying but you don't want to get in
the business of going cleaning
[3:20:01] somebody's property up making it look
good and then they turn around sell it
[3:20:04] for a profit so if we spend 45 4500 on
it just say 4500 can you stipulate in
[3:20:12] that Z whatever it is that if you sell
the property that the city is going to
[3:20:17] be required you to give the money back
that they invested in cleaning the
[3:20:20] property all right CA is a contract our
vision in
[3:20:24] there
put you put in Language by us cing up
[3:20:30] you give it to us but we'll do away with
the the um the taxes that's on because
[3:20:35] pretty much everybody adjudicated old
taxes on it so we clean up the property
[3:20:40] you belong to the city but therefore we
don't need your the taxes that you owe
[3:20:45] on is that can they turn ownership of
that property back to the city well you
[3:20:51] can you can do that yes is the answer
and the way the way you do that is is
[3:20:56] you just file that ordinance in the
thing and they would have to consent
[3:21:00] that they're not going to object or
[3:21:10] redeem and understanding clear for for
the other Council to have clear Clarity
[3:21:15] on this that this particular
property do uh have adjudicated proper
[3:21:22] adjudicated property this particular
adjudicated property is no more than a
[3:21:26] house or a liot you mentioned somebody
engineer believe me I don't have to be
[3:21:30] engineer know that elab because it's
sitting on the ground already that
[3:21:33] particular okay but what I'm trying to
say is I agree okay okay what I'm trying
[3:21:37] to say is that
we do not want to get into if
[3:21:43] adjudicated it don't uh to the police
Maj of the city they already have a lean
[3:21:49] on the prop would I could be correct
that is correct it's unpa because the
[3:21:52] tax going go through a
[3:21:56] tax what I'm saying
is if you go clean up some belongs to
[3:22:01] the police jury that's their
jurisdiction and if they turn around
[3:22:04] just like who who sell business for us
that that lady do she do she sell
[3:22:09] property for them also EMP does they
they s proper what we don't want to get
[3:22:14] into is go clean it up then they go make
a profit off of them no they won't be
[3:22:19] they that go
to you speaking about they have they
[3:22:25] have that's a
$1,000 process to start and these
[3:22:29] particular loots and property we're
talking about if you clean up and do
[3:22:33] that thing you still can get I think the
easy way to do it is when you draw the
[3:22:37] the contract you put in there if you
sell it we we need to redeem our money
[3:22:41] back we not going to clean nothing
enough for you to make a profit off us
[3:22:45] as long as you keep it in a thing and
it's your property and you paying the
[3:22:48] taxes on it whatever but we can't go
clean up something and let you make a
[3:22:52] profit off everybody be up here clean my
y'all would y'all please come clean my
[3:22:57] properer clean my
property everybody taxes on adjudicated
[3:23:04] property they old taxes on so that's why
if you come in and say hey we going to
[3:23:08] clean this up let us have it but the the
taxes that you ow on we do away with you
[3:23:13] that's adud
[3:23:18] then that then y'all will have to come
up with some kind of contract provision
[3:23:22] where if they sell it or they do
something then you can recoup it at the
[3:23:32] next I can check real quick and tell you
I believe yes it is adjudicated no it's
[3:23:37] not adjudicated it's the taxes were
bought by somebody somebody else has the
[3:23:41] taxes so that the taxes to adjudicate
nobody buys a tax sell and that gives
[3:23:46] you the right to go in claim ownership
if you want you have to exercise it but
[3:23:50] you have a right to so it's not
adjudicated it's just the tax been
[3:23:54] purchased by that individual down there
and what it is is here is it's it's the
[3:24:00] it's discretion of how far you can go in
a contract it's not everything's legal
[3:24:04] there it's just what Provisions do you
all want can you find me the contact
[3:24:08] person yeah I actually have this phone
number we I can talk I guess I guess
[3:24:14] what I was saying about the about
property to the parish it's different
[3:24:18] between the city cuz we go clean that
property up you can't tell them what the
[3:24:21] charge if they go sell it for the the
property taxes if they go if you go
[3:24:26] spend 4,500 and they go sell it for
1,200 that's your loss you cannot tell
[3:24:32] another another mun another jurisdiction
what what they will and can charge
[3:24:37] that's the only thing I'm getting at you
go clean it up they going to sell it for
[3:24:40] whatever they want to sell it for they
don't care you just clean it up to make
[3:24:42] it look good I understand that to a
degree but what I'm trying to say
[3:24:47] I don't think the police jury even
though they have a adjudicated lean on
[3:24:50] it I'm I'm looking at this particular
piece of proper I'm speaking of okay
[3:24:54] have have have a judic adjudicated and
the owners are not going to never it up
[3:25:01] they not going to pay
judication okay and order for them to
[3:25:07] sell or transfer this property any other
name or do they have to pay the judicat
[3:25:12] police their taxes now if we want to out
that if if they pay the taxes the tax is
[3:25:21] not going even be worth the tax is not
even worth for what would you what did
[3:25:26] you to get it from that's what I'm
getting at they going to sell it for you
[3:25:29] going to go spend 4500 clean up and they
going to sell it for $1,000 yeah see but
[3:25:34] we get we get we what do we get out of
as a city we get a
[3:25:38] duplication what we need that's only I
mean section six of section six of our
[3:25:43] ERS tell us that we have the right to
take any so anything condemn danger to
[3:25:47] the community and that fall back on us
and I mean we have the money see we
[3:25:54] can't turn this into a a revenue
collection we can buy property clean up
[3:25:58] and then turn around get revenue and get
tax I don't think we need to we need to
[3:26:03] clean it up
attorney Attorney
[3:26:08] General
okay the property is
[3:26:14] adjudicated you resarch the legal aspect
of and both parties get in line if
[3:26:22] property is
sold and the police jury gets his share
[3:26:27] put the lean on and City back gets his
share yes all the leans have to be paid
[3:26:31] through
[3:26:39] the they want to sign on to a lean of
their proper I'm a problem and they can
[3:26:43] make an agreement the ca that they allow
us to right I just want to move forward
[3:26:48] clean it
[3:26:50] up put in there they
[3:27:02] going
[3:27:05] CA the
397 project that's one I'm
[3:27:16] approve
[3:27:18] that got a
motion the motion motion
[3:27:25] to that that
U
[3:27:31] 1305
yes5 okay Mr is making a
[3:27:38] motion with conditions attached to it as
stipulated um by attorney Jones and
[3:27:44] taking in consideration everything has
been said here on this
[3:27:50] property3 to do a Cooperative Endeavor
agreement your
[3:27:59] pleasure motion
[3:28:03] pleas make
motion
[3:28:08] okay
okay all in
[3:28:12] favor any
[3:28:21] all right
project this is a core opportun Endeavor
[3:28:26] agreement with Robinson
Williams and you will see this one is
[3:28:32] for the sum of
$5,000 to be paid to and this is coming
[3:28:39] from a grant specifically for children
for children and
[3:28:47] as you will see has stipulated this is
parallel to what stipulated in
[3:29:05] the this is for children act 397 we can
only get the second of the
[3:29:12] M the first
[3:29:16] the same thing with like the the fence
over there we took care of that the rest
[3:29:22] of that part of that so this this is a
separate gr of
[3:29:26] $5,000 we can't get the other half until
we spend this part this coming from this
[3:29:33] is coming from
Adrian proper title representative
[3:29:40] Fisher and state senator Katrina Jackson
how long you been ask
[3:29:47] okay this
grant I think we received the money in
[3:29:51] July wasn't
it we receed the money in July we could
[3:29:56] not spend it until the budget was
adopted and it was adopted in
[3:30:06] October the total Grant is
[3:30:12] 25,000
so still
[3:30:16] you pleas please used it for promoting
safety have use
[3:30:24] 5,000 use 5,000 for this and I have to
submit a report to the um to the peak
[3:30:31] project on how we're utilizing These
funds so the rest of is going to be used
[3:30:36] on
promoting um Unity is this the do this
[3:30:40] not the do
par no no Mr hold up do
[3:30:46] I'm asking a question three different
grants I'm I'm asking uh I'm asking the
[3:30:51] clerk what Grant I know you don't want
get put in this I'm asking a question
[3:30:56] cuz we got two
[3:31:03] $5,000 represent
[3:31:07] a was 25 we did get two
$25,000 Grant one came through Francis
[3:31:15] Thompson to clean
up this one is for clean up for children
[3:31:21] clean up for blight the fence and the
other
[3:31:25] part I thought one part this is Francis
Thompson okay two one of them is for
[3:31:33] blight and the other one was for
supposed to been used specifically for
[3:31:37] doson Park well doson related I spoken
with him and this time because we
[3:31:42] realize children are coming from
different places but this is the I was
[3:31:45] right this is the doson
park yes okay I mean I know do my
[3:31:57] research the last be
[3:32:16] okay on
Wednesday
[3:32:24] I the after school tutoring from 4 to 12
years of
[3:32:29] age and the projected number of
[3:32:38] students this is I make myself clear
this fund was adoped it was two
[3:32:46] different grants this fund that that
she's spending right now that mayor is
[3:32:50] talking about spending was dedicated to
doson park talking like do Park like dos
[3:32:56] Park doson Park like when they gave
money to the food truck that was not in
[3:33:01] doson park that was that come out of the
doson park Grant though now if I'm wrong
[3:33:08] somebody correct me hold up I'm I'm just
I'm just here I'm just trying to get
[3:33:13] clarity so we have a D part
it's
[3:33:18] called
[3:33:26] location I have I in my I'm saying order
to be you have to you have to State
[3:33:34] something pertaining to D par order you
want me to put
[3:33:39] in I'm trying to understand I'm trying
I'm trying to get why became a D part Dr
[3:33:44] so it had to be something in place when
you going to apply for the grant to be
[3:33:48] consist of some deal with d Park and
will so that's that's what we asking
[3:33:53] like so have with this R have anything
been utilized for do the last part will
[3:33:59] culminate the do part so how much is the
last part of it's what's left after this
[3:34:05] and this because we have Community
engagement we're going to invite
[3:34:09] nonprofit agencies that offer services
for children any nonprofit
[3:34:17] the reason why I because I think I had
spoke with and part of
[3:34:22] M I spoke about
4 that we that we have is person
[3:34:28] equipment for like the basketballs or
like gripping Flor but we have a grant
[3:34:34] that's
[3:34:45] do have to utilize what's available how
we going to get the children there who's
[3:34:49] going and that this is a facility that
we are doing The Cooperative I think I
[3:34:54] think what you're doing you know great
idea but we talking about dos and I was
[3:34:59] just out there yesterday I still go out
there basketball but but I mean we can't
[3:35:05] the kids can't dribble on on the
basketball floor properly without being
[3:35:09] so CU slippery Jake you been out there
right it need to be it need to be it
[3:35:13] need to I don't know who the but I don't
think they did a great job because now
[3:35:18] the kids go out there right now the kids
SL
[3:35:22] ice but so so now we have a grant cuz
I'm using some my money to purchase
[3:35:26] basketball Mr Lock do some other things
but we have a grant that's there for Dr
[3:35:30] par that's not getting used for Dr
that's crazy no the children meeting the
[3:35:35] children where they
[3:35:39] are but we don't have the same resources
that Mr Rand William going to over there
[3:35:47] so we are
we to
[3:35:52] execute that's that's a
great cuz I I don't I guess I don't want
[3:35:57] you to to make it seem like we we don't
want y but it's just like I being out
[3:36:03] there on the regular it's just
like it's it's a greater need it's it's
[3:36:09] a def a need for enhancement inside do
Park especially
[3:36:15] get the other half of the money then we
can but we got to spend the first half
[3:36:21] before it goes away and we were delayed
because the budget was adopted in
[3:36:27] October I got a question the first half
of the original plan
[3:36:34] toze 5,000 went to sa
promoting went to truck I got to break I
[3:36:42] got to break down
5,000 so what what I'm getting at is I
[3:36:49] guess what I'm saying when we had the or
fund correct me if I'm wrong attorney
[3:36:53] Jones you supposed to spent the arbor
funds in the manner in which it was
[3:36:57] given to you right you got
specifications that you have to spend it
[3:37:01] yeah there's regulations around around
America R funds okay so if they give you
[3:37:05] a fund for doson Park and you not using
in the manner in which the grant was
[3:37:10] that you applied for the grant
for that's kind of miss
[3:37:17] sir that's a very word to it might but
it's defin definitely on the line no no
[3:37:24] sir it's not because I talked to
representative
[3:37:29] fish to do I said so what do the
language of the gr states do the
[3:37:34] language of the great states that you
have to do something in pertaining to Dr
[3:37:37] Park we get the other half we will some
of this is a is a result of the delayed
[3:37:43] budget being adop it can't be because
you already UTI
[3:37:49] 5000 no
[3:37:53] can't the grant was 25,000 we got half
of it we got half we can't get the other
[3:38:00] half until we spend the first half and I
got notification that if it's still
[3:38:06] available so why we use the first to
[3:38:11] actually there were there were some
stipulations to more
[3:38:16] children so we can use the second in
fact I've already spoken to about
[3:38:22] lighting
yeah
[3:38:26] think CH
basketball down the court still so like
[3:38:33] the first can't talk about
[3:38:54] administrator and said this is what we
are going to do and she said it's
[3:38:59] fine this is
[3:39:03] serving I get what you saying but can
you can you tell me to let I hate to say
[3:39:08] that but how often do you go to do
because if you if you if like by me
[3:39:12] saying that someone like myself that go
out
[3:39:16] and play with your kids train the
kids shoot basketball on the court
[3:39:21] there's a need in fixing that D part
Court you still have dead spots in their
[3:39:26] court so I'm I'm what I'm saying is I
love the idea to get something to arange
[3:39:32] but the fact that we haven't did nothing
for D par it's just cuz you know I'm
[3:39:39] don't matter what pair of shoes you put
on them kids can't shoot basketball
[3:39:42] proper the basketball matter of fact the
basketball are using I think they may
[3:39:46] have two or three new basketball but
everything else problema I are you
[3:39:50] asking to change FL
[3:39:55] no but it's floor you can put it on the
floor it's it's a lot of things and you
[3:40:02] have a great person out the he can all
know everything they give everything
[3:40:06] about the
courtly we're trying to spend the first
[3:40:11] and put it for the children where it
have a direct impact I can't get the
[3:40:15] second half to take under consideration
so what type of money are we talking
[3:40:21] about for this
$5,000 that will go to after school
[3:40:26] tutoring for 4 to 12 years of age any
student in need of T projected number of
[3:40:32] students to be sered which is the number
that I how much
[3:40:37] have oh okay after we give the 5,000
here we will have 2,000
[3:40:45] uh because we spent 5,000 on the safety
and spitting
[3:40:52] U
[3:41:08] Mr it any of
it do don't put them to the
[3:41:14] G stand back what I
[3:41:27] did to 25,000 half of that
12,500 the other half is
[3:41:34] 12,500 the other go strictly to D it
can
[3:41:42] yes make this is going to go
[3:42:02] towards we don't have the we don't have
the tutors to put out there well that's
[3:42:07] what the money is for but the children
are going to benefit the kids of that
[3:42:13] disadvantage for out of town for certain
group of people dson Park Pacific dson
[3:42:19] Park he should stay in dson park okay we
should start moving around to P
[3:42:24] State freshman B like for stay to do
Park you should stay with pafic state
[3:42:32] was granted for water we start that we
can go you you can go to farest Park you
[3:42:37] can go to uh the little park down street
for me I don't know the name of it but
[3:42:44] parks for pafic use and that's da par so
so let me ask you a question so with
[3:42:51] that with that dson par so like like the
water P inside par can this be used to
[3:42:57] purchase with this
funding because there need
[3:43:04] for you just
for also the water pressure if I'm not
[3:43:10] mistaken the water pressure Dr part it's
been it's been we probably a cple not
[3:43:16] without being a to go in
[3:43:24] they I'm just I'm just giving you ideas
I go out
[3:43:31] there well we have I something yes sir
go ahead I believe when money is all for
[3:43:38] Pacific you should be to that but
thinking of Rob I don't want to take
[3:43:43] anything because
ARP money whatever it is we're
[3:43:48] allocating $10,000 for after school
program for the same facilities now we
[3:43:52] need to use that money in D Park
allocated for D Park uh District B we're
[3:43:58] allocating $10,000 to Roberton Willam
after school program okay that's and and
[3:44:05] I think the attorney just said you know
you know let
[3:44:09] not to
pay cut someone out of something El
[3:44:15] those the low most low income people who
really need the money is D Bar
[3:44:22] Community you speak of a community uh uh
William does a wonderful job of Ls in
[3:44:29] District B and I'm all for it I wish I
give more but I'm trying to stretch a
[3:44:33] little more further okay but but
$10,000 is that we can use on the ARP
[3:44:40] money American Rescue money right here
the next page over has already allocated
[3:44:46] $10,000 for the after school program
let's not dimin do Park this was the
[3:44:54] weak par and was Historical Park in this
community and every time we can get allg
[3:44:59] to D Park should be used for Dr Park I'm
sure they have
[3:45:05] 116,000 they can use that $5,000 for
when we have a basetball league you know
[3:45:11] we need some more jerseys
[3:45:15] okay you want to just table this and
[3:45:31] I
ioke this goes to the heart of
[3:45:37] it of doing something for the children
and they will at
[3:45:45] that money will be used to bring all the
agencies together have many convention
[3:45:50] like you walk rain you walk through the
door without going the water okay but
[3:45:54] this grant was not given for for that
kind of
[3:45:58] repair I thought it
[3:46:09] was I like to make a motion that
be the
[3:46:16] this
is
[3:46:19] motion
ass a motion to table
[3:46:27] that in faor
[3:46:45] according
to I'm requesting a
[3:46:51] $10,000 corpor agreement with Robinson
Williams from out of the ARP money how
[3:46:58] much I have left now spend
how trying
[3:47:03] to I SP
I this would be 15 okay that leave me 35
[3:47:33] you
I'm
[3:47:38] hold what you say we want to
give I'm talking about ,000
[3:47:45] they got T program
[3:47:51] here okay what I'm getting at
[3:47:56] is numbers keep going up and up we we
want to table five they want to
[3:48:13] get coming out youry yeah
yeah bone I
[3:48:23] have we get one for what I have to do to
get one but I I rather not speak my
[3:48:32] price uh just just text me with the
D we coordinated about it just got the
[3:48:40] details I put
[3:48:45] you make
[3:48:47] m i I make a motion we will
$10,000 ende enter into agreement with
[3:48:55] District B endeav agreement with Robert
for $10,000 I
[3:49:04] said second in
[3:49:13] FA
[3:49:19] oh let's do a question can can I
take supp
[3:49:28] have okay there's no we over we over
[3:49:34] $5,000 I mean you got to look at the
totality of what's about to happen I
[3:49:39] know we got this money I think it should
be a cap
[3:49:44] on what we can do with the money with
just individuals right in still of just
[3:49:52] $10,000 I know it's a great idea but
that's a lot of money to give just one
[3:49:58] nonprofit organization I think we need
to have I'm just brainstorming I mean
[3:50:03] it's question answer I got it right to
my opinion so U I think we need to cap
[3:50:08] it off even if it is your money because
it's still City money and it kind of
[3:50:14] look when you look at it they they're
not going to look at it as a grant it's
[3:50:17] just going to look at you gave one
organization was it nonprofit whatever
[3:50:21] you gave them $10,000 I think that's a
little steep I mean I want to help
[3:50:27] enhance the
community but I think that is uh because
[3:50:32] when you open Pand Bo somebody else
going to come up here and want
[3:50:38] $10,000 that' be up to discussion of
that program to submitt I think it's a
[3:50:42] valid program I think it have the
potential to use $10,000 or more I think
[3:50:47] we just trying to give five additional
,000 from another program I think I
[3:50:51] think I mean that's just show your
opinion I'm responding $10,000 is all
[3:50:55] spelled out for the use I like the way
the propos is written I'm not just
[3:50:59] coming off the top of my head this talk
about the program thre Monon program for
[3:51:04] $10,000 with two teachers uh I mean you
know it seem to be
[3:51:08] super I would have to say one of the
best proposals I have seen submitted you
[3:51:12] know in my in my life business is all
spelled out uh it say 11,000 but we
[3:51:18] never down to 10 uh all
been agree all depend the extent of the
[3:51:25] program other words if I want to shoot
mares I would ask for $110,000 shoot
[3:51:29] mares but we're talking about educating
kids in a Tut and reading program which
[3:51:34] this this this organization is in the
community that could use it like I say
[3:51:39] it probably could use a whole 15,000 but
excuse me it was just coming from the WR
[3:51:45] program I had a problem with from the WR
bank but like I said I think I mean I
[3:51:51] hear what you're saying I agree what
you're saying but if somebody else come
[3:51:53] in my district say well you gave Mr uh
Roberts and Williams uh $10,000 they do
[3:52:00] proposer I look at in back that would be
basically up to the uh decision of the
[3:52:05] district that it's coming from I don't
want to put a cap on your District you
[3:52:09] should want to put a cap on uh cap
District we talking about District just
[3:52:13] still City money
I from is City money I mean I'm just I'm
[3:52:19] just paying Dev what I'm saying
is when you get when you get later on
[3:52:25] people going to come up and they going
to want they going to want different
[3:52:29] things and you just can't distinguish we
just gave one person ,000 wait wait if
[3:52:34] we have it and it's a good program
somebody come up tomorrow with a
[3:52:37] $155,000 program I think it's suitable I
think that would be the district uh who
[3:52:44] whoever counsel in that District to
present it and I think I should I would
[3:52:48] want you would want me to support yours
as well I want you to support mine I
[3:52:52] didn't think we were giv $50,000 to say
mother may I I thought we would have
[3:52:57] enough sense to see what good what
benefit our community and I think Robert
[3:53:01] William is one of the best communities
in the city of Bor
[3:53:07] no Miss hey just like you got a point I
got a point let me finish you finish let
[3:53:12] me let me finish floor now my turn okay
don't sit here and think that I don't
[3:53:18] want to give them the money you miss no
you missing the whole concept of what
[3:53:22] I'm saying and you go ahead and do it
and y'all mark this down to this night
[3:53:27] watch and see what happened with other
nonprofit organizations so I'm you vote
[3:53:34] the way you want to vote I got a right
to my opinion you got a right to your
[3:53:38] opinion that's your money you spend the
way you want to spend it but I'm telling
[3:53:41] you just like that other stuff started
off good just like you do some of the
[3:53:45] churches thr it off good and then people
just turn against it you about to find
[3:53:50] out
[3:53:53] keep
[3:54:01] Mr have one for what Mr BR advocating
for for Community outre to children from
[3:54:09] the city of B by providing after school
care tutoring and mentorship
[3:54:15] recreational activities to the youth for
the furtherance of physical activity and
[3:54:22] exercise okay you have the other one
from the peak project which is the one
[3:54:26] that you
[3:54:29] compliment I I say could use more money
only thing I have with the PE that mayor
[3:54:36] is you coming out of Dr already been
alligated for D har that's the only
[3:54:41] problem I have with that but I I I refer
to that they uh that this uh after
[3:54:46] school program could use more money but
like I said but I'm going goad call for
[3:54:52] the vote yeah yeah call for the
[3:54:59] vote speak agenda
[3:55:23] D is discussion resolution 24 2073 track
program to reconsider the previous
[3:55:30] elimination of City SP program can I
speak on that man yes sir I I think
[3:55:37] that it's been u a
misunderstanding if my memory Ser me
[3:55:42] correctly I think that budget was
adopted it was more
[3:55:47] of removing funding because I I think
that we had spoke to the fact of
[3:55:53] football and at the time we uh adopted
the budget we was past football season
[3:55:57] so we said hey don't need to have that
that money in the
[3:56:00] football a line it for football when we
pass football so and I and I can't be
[3:56:06] wrong but I I just wanted to say that I
don't think that I remember any council
[3:56:10] member saying they eliminate get of St
for okay well I think there's a
[3:56:16] resolution that that that speaks to that
glad and I'm glad you brought that up
[3:56:21] because we have it in our packets and my
name is signed as yay James Green is
[3:56:28] signed as yay har Lo is signed as yay
the NES are Charles Bradford and de
[3:56:34] green is no way that I
said strip just stop or eliminate
[3:56:41] programs I said it for the record last
time I said for record again I have
[3:56:46] grandchildren in bastu that participate
in programs so why would I eliminate a
[3:56:57] program I would not and I'm furious
about this so what what I want my
[3:57:02] grandkids to do all of them go to
Sterlington and play no I work my
[3:57:06] daughter works we trying to stay local
but when you look at this um U
[3:57:12] resolution my name is like I agree to
this and I did
[3:57:16] not I did not okay I didn't write the
resolution and all you have to do is
[3:57:23] look back at I didn't sign it that's not
my signature and that's a problem too
[3:57:27] why aren't we signing resolutions okay
at one time we were signing every
[3:57:32] resolution now we sign
[3:57:36] nothing definitely not
[3:57:44] oh for
clarity they have I have instructed when
[3:57:50] they make the
resolutions there's no signature
[3:57:54] required of any member because the vote
is reflected in the minutes well de de
[3:58:00] now it's a problem with that why I say
that is because of the resolution that
[3:58:04] came up earlier we didn't see it we just
went on somebody's word and now the
[3:58:10] whole thing has changed where it says
the mayor appoints council's left out I
[3:58:15] didn't sign that so when did it happen
so that's the that's the point when I
[3:58:20] said you need to have material in front
of you yeah there's no way I can go take
[3:58:25] a test and don't look at anything so
when they pass them over since they're
[3:58:30] not signed the vote that's recorded in
the record those writings for anybody
[3:58:35] who's here in the public those writings
are my writing of the names who voted
[3:58:40] for the resolution tr get mixed up like
was
[3:58:45] yeah mixed up so they for some reason
and I don't know why they still want a
[3:58:52] name wrote on told them the law is it's
a resolution once y'all once y'all V
[3:58:56] vote that's it but when something is is
screwed like we eliminating the program
[3:59:02] like this we need something in black and
white so so for for clarity for anybody
[3:59:08] in the public nobody on that Council
signed that motion I simply recorded the
[3:59:13] vote on the
and you always know it's me because I
[3:59:17] put the first letter of your name a
period and then your last but it didn't
[3:59:21] happen like this we didn't we did not
but intend for it to be deleted but what
[3:59:27] the what y'all voted for that night in
the
[3:59:30] resolution what this was the night the
budget was passed okay you cuz I got
[3:59:35] something you know I got all my records
just keep going I'm going to walk you
[3:59:38] all the way up to this this one right
here so what was voted on was is Tove
[3:59:44] remove the money from the way it was
paid because it was being paid to City
[3:59:51] teams there was the football one was
specifically eliminated because the
[3:59:55] football season had already run and
there was no reason to put money in the
[3:59:59] football thing because by the time the
budget came through the football season
[4:00:03] was over and there had been no football
program so there was determined by the
[4:00:07] council that hey we don't have to
allocate money there
[4:00:11] because the football season's ready
there was no money spended on football
[4:00:16] that year because there was no football
program that year the track team was the
[4:00:22] track money was taken out because of I
gave the legal opinion that you can't
[4:00:27] pay for a track team but you can have a
track program you can't have a track
[4:00:31] team so it was taken out of budget but
this is eliminating programs yeah that
[4:00:36] that that's not
uh but the way they're listed so the way
[4:00:42] the items are listed in there hold on
real quick I don't mean to cut you off
[4:00:46] but the way they're list in there
reflects the budget line item the way it
[4:00:50] was titled but we still are not
deleting we deleted the money because
[4:00:56] the season was over but this is not what
this says it's saying that we as a
[4:01:01] council
deleted uh some of the City Sports
[4:01:05] programs so you have to create um
whenever you do ordinances or
[4:01:11] resolutions it's for the people that's
coming behind us somebody come behind me
[4:01:16] and they pull this it says that Angela
ta agreed to um eliminate sports
[4:01:23] programs this is what this
say I I I think cuz I think the two
[4:01:28] intertwin like approving approving the
adopting the budget and and removing
[4:01:36] some of the funds I think somehow got
they're always interwined because you
[4:01:42] made alterations to the budg adoption
instrument
[4:01:46] no not from not from eliminate a program
how how would they be so so so if you if
[4:01:57] you correct you did and the way those
amendments are done is you have to list
[4:02:01] the line item when it was listed on the
budget it was listed as those exact
[4:02:07] words the perception we cancel
[4:02:14] you saying when the budget was adopted
you just what you tell me it was a line
[4:02:19] item that St removal of C the program no
no there was nothing in there said that
[4:02:24] I'm trying to get to it before I read
that so I'm just talking about where the
[4:02:27] the I remember typing in the as they
were going as y'all were going through
[4:02:31] them which ones to take out and I put I
always put just like a c put some
[4:02:36] track they said when they made the
motion to take out not get rid of the
[4:02:41] program it for it was to move move the
money to to the
[4:02:55] appropriate just
lot the that's
[4:03:06] why at the
[4:03:19] at the last city council Mee we asked we
asked the mayor specifically about this
[4:03:26] and she said it was a arrow with the
flowers she said the prepar must have
[4:03:33] made a mistake go back and look at the
tap when I when she when we was talking
[4:03:37] about this last time she said well we
asked her about removing this she said
[4:03:41] well it must been the prepar that that
did
[4:03:44] and also and you know better than I know
we was talking about a team yes and and
[4:03:52] the reason we was talking about a team
because the money and actual we was
[4:03:58] really trying to just yeah keep people
uh from getting in trouble because you
[4:04:04] misappropriated the $188,000 right
correct so what what what you have here
[4:04:10] is you have two things you have two
things running head on okay separate I'm
[4:04:14] going to separate them for you so it's
real clear for the public one is is that
[4:04:18] uh when you're using accounting terms
talking about the budget you can either
[4:04:24] do additions subtractions or you can
call them
[4:04:29] deletions it's either subtraction or
deletion it deletion is whenever you
[4:04:33] just took the line item out because one
the football program it didn't delete
[4:04:38] the football program it deleted the line
of item am of money and so the physical
[4:04:44] document that y'all voted on that
reflected because I drafted it the
[4:04:49] physical document you voted on just
deleted the line item because the
[4:04:53] football season had already run there
was no need to allocate money there so I
[4:04:57] used the accounting term
deletion the track program we discussed
[4:05:02] that they were paying for individual
players city employees hotels all this
[4:05:07] stuff I advised yall that it was against
the law to pay that so that was taken
[4:05:12] out
of the miscellaneous funds is the
[4:05:15] accounting term you'd use to take it off
the thing if you drafting a you say
[4:05:19] delete off the line item for
miscellaneous funds you didn't delete
[4:05:22] any programs you only took out the
football program money because the
[4:05:27] season had already run you took out the
track program because I advised you
[4:05:31] legally you cannot pay for a team and
then you deleted out miscellaneous funds
[4:05:36] because that fund you didn't know where
anything was going you said look we
[4:05:39] don't want to allocate money there so
you can either make additions or
[4:05:42] deletions of the budget and that's what
it reflected it was not a deletion of
[4:05:46] the wholesale program or any way to
impede the administration or anybody
[4:05:51] from having a program it was simply to
reflect what was the current stake we
[4:05:56] proposed the budget in July but it
didn't get adopted till uh I believe
[4:06:02] this is actually I can put the date on
there it is October the 14th since the
[4:06:06] football season had run so to have money
allocated in a current year budget after
[4:06:11] the time the thing had run was was a not
it was just it was it was going to put
[4:06:15] money somewhere it would never get spent
and go back to General form Mr Jon that
[4:06:19] same night we had a parent here that was
concerned that we were deleting program
[4:06:27] now you you explaining that to us here
but what does public say yes that three
[4:06:34] City Council Members deleted program
well that's perception correct
[4:06:41] perception if anybody
fin sorry Mr La we want that corrected
[4:06:46] corre we did not delete programs no and
and I will put that on the record that
[4:06:53] discussion that night there was not a
deletion of programs any
[4:06:56] characterization that a
mischaracterization of
[4:07:00] what attorney Jes it's kind of amazing
to me that you know we was pushed to
[4:07:06] trying to get the budget pass you
remember that we kept coming back coming
[4:07:09] back and to read this on the door let
talk about the three council members
[4:07:15] that voted to pass the budget to keep
the city going we get thrown under the
[4:07:21] bus trying to make it look like that we
did something that we didn't do only
[4:07:26] thing we was trying to do was keep the
city going but you know what's going to
[4:07:28] happen next
[4:07:31] time we going to read everything and
compromising when we compromise if it
[4:07:38] take us six months we going to read
every
[4:07:41] line we going to do everything because
you see what happen when you do a good
[4:07:46] deed think about it the ones that pass
the budget are the ones that's getting
[4:07:51] ostracized yeah that was so that and and
D can speak to this you have accounting
[4:07:59] experience we both discussed this when
you amend budgets you it's not stifling
[4:08:06] something it was simply you can either
make additions or deletions from budget
[4:08:10] that was just to delete the idol it was
not
[4:08:14] not the program that's what that's why I
stay for that's why I stay for so so
[4:08:19] much took place tonight before it's
adopting the budget and with adoption
[4:08:24] the Council made their amendment in
which somehow somehow it took removing
[4:08:29] the funding is removing the program no
the the and and for clarity the
[4:08:35] football funds by the time we came
through adoption had already run past
[4:08:41] the season and so that money was going
to just sit there there and not be able
[4:08:44] to be used in other places when it
hadn't been used already the track
[4:08:48] program uh line item was actually a team
and I advise you legally you cannot pay
[4:08:54] for a team cuz cuz I also too in regards
to the track I think that uh it was it
[4:09:05] was you was you informed the council
that it was illegal for this coun
[4:09:14] give any funds to track so and
this if I heard different you know tell
[4:09:21] me tell me differ no no I will confirm
that the way in which the track funds
[4:09:26] have been expended was not was not an
appropriate way to expend the track and
[4:09:31] that's why this Council had removed the
funding for track because we wanted to
[4:09:36] be correct legal you know I voted the
way I voted but I I stand with them when
[4:09:42] they for leg purposes because when
hearing from the city attorney that what
[4:09:46] we was doing have been illegal so all us
none of us want to go to jail so we
[4:09:52] everybody did what it took to be legal
yeah the track track although it was not
[4:09:56] a program it was a team there's a
difference between a program and the
[4:09:59] team hold on so here's the thing for
transparency so so the people that don't
[4:10:04] know would look at the council body and
say oh they just don't want to deal with
[4:10:09] track but when we we have to follow your
instruction for just being legal so if
[4:10:16] we' been for some our years been illegal
that don't mean we should keep pushing
[4:10:20] you know kicking the can no no and it's
in I don't recall any dialogue
[4:10:26] regarding wholesale doing away with
programs we had a dialogue that there is
[4:10:32] no way are you authorized to have a team
and the dialogue was and then future
[4:10:37] dialogue at other meetings was how can
we proceed with having a track program
[4:10:45] I if I recall right you're absolutely
right that it came about how they were
[4:10:51] being funding who have been paid to that
but that was M see because we're
[4:10:57] thinking the funding was coming through
the city they was raising their own
[4:11:02] money for the track team I mean for the
track program call track program the
[4:11:07] proper ter be programmed because not a
team it's a program we can have program
[4:11:12] we can't have a team
correct okay okay that was a track
[4:11:15] program it say in the budget track
program call it as is as a track program
[4:11:21] and if if they can raise money to help
with their program that you know the
[4:11:26] sponsors that that should be fine I
think when Mrs
[4:11:30] misunderstood understand how would came
about and I think it should be called
[4:11:35] track
program it should be called track
[4:11:39] program and we should fund the track
program as well as the football program
[4:11:44] I mean fund the program now we can't
call them a team we can call it a
[4:11:48] program and if it's a program any
program can go outside of the city and
[4:11:53] raise funds for the additional cost of
what they need I think we misunderstood
[4:11:57] that that got past
all that that's that's the that's the
[4:12:02] delineation
[4:12:06] there keep we should we should
stipulated anything that you raise
[4:12:11] outside anything that you donate to you
should be put in a separate
[4:12:15] F that's that's what we
saying that's
[4:12:20] what what the own to see it okay well
let us do it properly because the track
[4:12:24] Program start
tomorrow and we need to correct that
[4:12:28] before we leave here T name the track
program should we we should spell out
[4:12:33] that the program have whatever we going
to give them for the program anything
[4:12:37] that race should be put in a separate
fund and move forward the ISS
[4:12:43] so when it comes to when it comes to
doing a budget when it come to doing a
[4:12:47] budget typically what they what theyve
been doing is they've been budgeting off
[4:12:51] PR year so they look at the budget see
what what been spent so when they look
[4:12:55] at the um the year to end date at the
end of June they look to say hey the
[4:12:59] track spend I'm going just go off say
$36,000 but of that $36,000 there's
[4:13:05] donations so when we when you come to
budge you budg based off what's included
[4:13:11] with the donation and that's
[4:13:15] we should correct the problem I agree
with you Mr GRE we should correct the
[4:13:18] problem and move the program forward so
what happened is is in in particular it
[4:13:23] was with track football was ready passed
track had an amount of money that was
[4:13:27] coming from donations which which and
then there was some money the city was
[4:13:34] giving in but the issue with that is
different from football that was
[4:13:38] actually paid to coaches paid to people
traveling paid people which is a
[4:13:44] team not a program but would be a
problem if we just reinstate the program
[4:13:50] instead and state on WE once we reate
the program and state anything that
[4:13:56] donat should be kept separate from the
city funding can we do that you actually
[4:14:01] on even St a program you'd have to start
a program well well we start the program
[4:14:05] and start the program and anything and
and and spell out anything that donated
[4:14:10] to the track team football team baseball
anything donate to any program should be
[4:14:15] put in a separate fund separate from the
city budget correct and Miss Hendrick
[4:14:20] stood up that night who with she's had
DNA sport for a while and she explained
[4:14:24] it there's a there's usually a a league
account and then there's a there's a
[4:14:29] city account for certain things that are
like little equipment stuff that are
[4:14:33] General like that but the uniforms come
out of the the leag can we make a motion
[4:14:38] to move on the motion that that what I
just said
[4:14:42] seor make a motion well we that's what
we accomplished with the budget okay the
[4:14:47] M track
program and and what I'm saying is
[4:14:51] you'll see when when the audit I checked
on the audit too the audit you'll see it
[4:14:56] at the end of the month and then you'll
know exactly what I'm talking about so
[4:15:00] everybody just Cal down and we was
talking about this $118,000 when I say
[4:15:06] it was when it was put into a city fund
it become City money and you cannot give
[4:15:12] City money to private citizens so you
going to see when the when the audit
[4:15:17] comes exactly why we was trying to
correct the wrong so we can have a
[4:15:24] program because actually when you
violate the law which is the man I talk
[4:15:31] to the big bad rou and other people you
could get in trouble not the city
[4:15:35] council but the people that actually
reive the fund so we was just trying to
[4:15:41] come up with a comprehensive way to to
to do it because and you can't just you
[4:15:47] know ignorance of the law is no excuse
when you put the money in to the city
[4:15:52] fund then if you violate any codes or
any law then you going to be held liable
[4:16:00] then you can get a criminal
[4:16:03] referral and to make it
clear I was I was under one directive
[4:16:09] when I City attorne to keep person legal
and I gave the advice that we needed to
[4:16:16] take that money out until we could
establish a program not a te because of
[4:16:22] what because of what there so that's
why so I gave that advice based on what
[4:16:29] I what I've seen and discover
[4:16:47] like to make a motion
that program be put back the track
[4:16:53] program be put back and any money
donated to the track program any sport
[4:16:57] program be
[4:17:08] kept about
[4:17:17] can I get a motion
[4:17:30] to ition
[4:17:36] toour yeah
I'm all in
[4:17:41] favor any CL