[0:03] Happ District B Mr Charles cord yeah
District C Mr James
[0:09] Green District D Mr Darren
Green District e Mr h
[0:30] father we give thanks to you for another
opportunity to come and glorify your
[0:34] name we ask that you will bless our
decisions that we will follow your
[0:39] guidance for the greater good of this
community these blessings and others we
[0:44] ask in the name of our Lord and Savior
Jesus Christ amen
[0:54] amen flag
[1:12] much as we
are to
[1:20] get people in the community as well as
police and fire we're going to work
[1:25] through this as pricious as we possibly
can
[1:31] can't hear you can't hear me I'm
sorry testing is that
[1:39] better okay public
[1:43] comments there any public
[1:57] comments my name is Jim Raymond
[2:01] live at 715 South Washington Street and
I'd like to read a comments yes
[2:08] sir I was raised in bash graduated from
bash High School in
[2:14] 1954 I left a me there after and off the
career and came back about three years
[2:20] ago I now live in the same building that
graduated from high school back high
[2:25] school and it's an excellent example of
what to do
[2:30] they completely redid that building and
turned it into very very nice apartment
[2:36] for
seniors when I came back to B I was
[2:40] amazed and somewhat disappointed the
amount the changes have taking place
[2:46] especially the loss of population master
has really gone through a major
[2:54] reduction
uh when you leave vacon proper is around
[3:01] they deteriorate they they get storm
damages and they end up being bled tax
[3:10] TR collectors and that's what we today
call bled
[3:15] compies if you drive around Bas you'll
see it's not just houses but commercial
[3:20] buildings the same
way I'm not aware of a actual survey
[3:26] that's been made or or count but if you
d do the math B had a population in the
[3:33] 1980s around
15,500 it has a population now
[3:40] about
8700 so that's a reduction of about 1500
[3:46] houses will be
unoccupied if you allow for some houses
[3:52] were maintained and still usable you can
get that down around 1200 so right now
[3:59] I'm up the opinion we have about 1,200
houses that are in a
[4:05] dilapidated
situation so it's a big problem to for
[4:13] us correct we're about five years behind
but if you uh think of the problem is
[4:20] not just the houses it's actually a road
block people come in here to to assess
[4:26] the situations and see all the
deap housing they don't want to bring a
[4:33] part of their businesses here so it
spends off in several directions so
[4:41] tonight what I'd like to do is
to propose that the council
[4:49] consider uh a
resolution and I'll read it I recommend
[4:54] the resolution be considered to specify
the like elimination
[5:00] administrative capability be identified
and established to support the code
[5:05] enforcement office we already have
Provisions for a flight elimation team
[5:12] and this would be a complement to that
it would provide the office type legwork
[5:17] to get the things organized and out to
the operation's people so we can get
[5:23] this thing moving you know economic and
time save ways to get this thing going
[5:29] so we don't have to there point of time
if we package it and get contractors L
[5:35] to work with us I think there a lot of
ways that we can reduce the cost and get
[5:39] this thing done so thank you very
[5:49] much all right that brings
us to number one flight in our city
[5:58] propos action to be taken on this it let
us
[6:13] reflect all right proposed action to be
taken on this item resolution to form a
[6:20] blight committee to address the blight
problem in the
[6:24] city we have before you a
resolution Atty johnes you want
[6:32] to I'd like to make a motion that we
pass a resolution that step in we
[6:38] already have a committee upon the
chairperson tonight to head that
[6:44] committee and uh my person I recommend
would be Mr Jim Rond person just spoke
[6:50] based on the information he has together
volunteer work throughout this community
[6:54] I think it' be great to work with
our current Cod enfor city government I
[7:01] think we can all work together Network
on the you know working together one and
[7:06] make a good
team with a committee I recommend
[7:10] Mr Jim
Raymond motion I mean resolution as
[7:17] chairman of that
committee okay this one would be the um
[7:23] B city council designate Mr Jones
correct yes okay
[7:30] uh go ahead I want to make a motion
since we we got to be consistent in what
[7:38] we do and how we apply things we just
received this today
[7:42] yesterday just like when you Mar you
bring us something at the last minute we
[7:47] got to be consistent we say we have to
table it until we do our research on so
[7:52] I recommend that we table this until we
have a chance to look at it and do our
[7:57] due diligence and to see what actually
it is because we haven't had time to
[8:02] research it so you know we want to make
it fair for everybody we don't want to
[8:06] look like just when the mayor present it
that we table it we need to be
[8:10] consistent as whether it's myself or
anybody on this board or there so I
[8:16] respectfully ask this board to table it
until the next
[8:21] meeting we have two motions on the
[8:25] floor what I was get thank you
okay we have a motion by Mr
[8:34] Bradford is there a
[8:38] second I need to ask a question for
clarity because I'm just a little bit
[8:44] confused mad chair yes ma'am go ahead M
so who is on the BL elimination
[8:53] team so your for for if I can provy it
real quick your BL elimination teams in
[8:59] the code enforcement Reform Act it was a
flight elimination team it was designed
[9:03] to be a multi- agency Task Force Team it
was put together that would
[9:07] have would have regular meetings to
bring community members in it is and
[9:13] I'll read it to you so there is
a mayor's office designat a designated
[9:20] member from the mayor's office there is
a bachor police department designated m
[9:24] per Sheriff's Office
designate uh bachor city code
[9:27] enforcement designate Bor city council
designate keep morous beautiful
[9:32] designate stor District commission
designate planning zoning commission
[9:36] design city clerk designated person B
fire department designated City Marshall
[9:41] designated person it would be the
members this it's supposed to be a
[9:44] multiagency team so that you had
questions about is this a fire hazard
[9:48] and if you look at 1064 it talks about
the responsibilities of the black team
[9:52] members it talks about that uh code of
Court enforcment design need is to
[9:58] perform inspections for the things the
city police department responsible for
[10:02] the locations with that deal with crimes
you know what would be considered your
[10:06] your disorderly
places and abandoned vehicles the
[10:10] Sheriff's Office perform the code
enforce they will talk with who has what
[10:16] they've done and that was to bring in at
that time Mr McCain was doing it for the
[10:20] Sheriff's office there was some thing
that he was getting some movement doing
[10:23] in different techniques the goal and
concept behind all of it the fire
[10:26] department was there to inspect
potential firehouses exist from some of
[10:31] these old houses where we've had fires
before where they C on fire the concept
[10:35] was is to uh and keep morouse beautiful
was the Civic organization to help align
[10:39] the civic interest with the city
interest so we didn't have it come out
[10:42] at these announcements meetings like
that that was the concept behind all
[10:46] this and have meetings so there was you
know I've talked to every council member
[10:52] I've said it from the day before I was
ever voted on to be confirmed uh every
[10:56] person came to me and said hey this is a
problem we're having this is what it is
[11:00] this was to get people the stakeholders
in a room to have that dialogue outside
[11:04] of a council meeting and what they have
dialogue with council members and myself
[11:09] I can say from my experience I've had
dialogue with multiple areas these
[11:13] groups to have that dialogue in a room
where everybody's having it together
[11:16] instead of individually and you're
trying to remember hey this is what they
[11:18] talked about this is their concerns that
was the concept behind it was to put
[11:22] somebody in there so that there is an
accountability team of what's going on
[11:27] what's occurring what these groups can
bring so that team hadn't put been put
[11:31] together yet has not been put together
but that team does exist in your
[11:34] ordinance it's 1060 through
1060
[11:39] 1067 that Mr J remember when I was
asking about a board that was that was
[11:44] intill yeah and that's we kind of got
off last last last time we got off on
[11:49] the that's board I was talking about
because you know we talked about the
[11:51] sheriff department remember I told you I
want to find the board you talking about
[11:55] yes well you just brought it to my
attention that's the board we
[11:57] specifically referring to I help you
find you found it you know I told you it
[12:02] was going to be there so you got
different people in it you know all of
[12:06] us back so do understand sh department
and different people you remember you
[12:11] don't R yes so understand this if we
want to change membership of it if we're
[12:16] getting in the ground for tell me what
the changes are I can bring it to the
[12:19] March meeting because we have to just
amend the ordinance we can change the
[12:22] membership we can change whatever we
need to change in it it just I will be
[12:26] sure to email it out as I've emailed out
other things I emailed out that section
[12:30] of it for look at it for changes and Mr
Green is correct Mr J green District C
[12:35] is correct when we talked about this
initially it was realized we put it in
[12:39] talked with the May's office about it
when we were doing the ordinance and
[12:43] that this would be a conceptual team to
get in front of this there was a
[12:47] discussion between Mr Jer and I and the
administration that we would probably be
[12:53] looking at some way to conform this this
was more of a placeholder to put it in
[12:57] where would the membership come from
what would happen how would it look uh
[13:01] so that we don't overlap things you know
we W want to take Planning and Zoning
[13:05] spot we also want to take the historical
spot but how could you keep this to the
[13:08] Forefront and have that dialogue that
seemed like was
[13:12] lacking I know that both uh the
administration and Council have you know
[13:17] wanted to have that dialogue between our
outside Civic groups and the
[13:24] administration what can be done it's
much like grants you know there's a lot
[13:27] of things that people have offered in
the public how can they get to a point
[13:31] where we can vet all these things so we
can be on the same page other than in a
[13:35] meeting till 10:00 at night has anybody
else been appointed from any other
[13:39] department here no l the first
appointment large largely since this has
[13:43] been enacted that would be the first
appointment and we can always we do
[13:48] always have a right to amend and add
yeah other people this is just a first
[13:52] step yes if you if you wanted to look at
it and table it till you got time to
[13:57] decide what your membership want to be
you can do
[14:00] that if I'm not mistaken the mayor had a
spot the clerk had a spot and somebody
[14:05] else had a spot it was like three or
four different spots with Administration
[14:09] and and the mayor's office has has a
spot the Bor police spot the Sheriff's
[14:14] Office spot the city code enforcement
has a spot city council has a spot keep
[14:18] house beautiful has a spot historic
district commission has a spot Planning
[14:21] and Zoning has a spot City Clark has a
spot the design behind City Clark is
[14:26] because you have somebody with records
there it doesn't have to be the city
[14:28] Clark you can be somebody else who can
answer those questions on their behalf
[14:31] and bring that to the
discussion and then the bash fire
[14:35] department and the city Marshall's
office as well as the councel have the
[14:38] right to appoint one person cor okay we
all have a spot and I all have an
[14:43] obligation to move this project forward
um we've been drag I interrupt you
[14:49] now we all have the right to move this
project forward I mean we always go back
[14:56] and amend I mean each one of these
here we need eliminate the council have
[15:01] a power to eliminate as uh being Council
section 10 64 give us the operation to
[15:10] eliminate team eliminate the team as
well but like I said but for us to keep
[15:15] kicking this can down the road our
community we don't get anything done
[15:18] with be next year year after next was
the same bright problem we have this was
[15:23] just point a we have a committee this is
just a point a chairman that who have an
[15:30] authorization fr the chairman of my
understanding would be there's no
[15:33] chairman in this committee it's it's
more of an action committee AC and so
[15:38] there's no chairman spot in there
particularly it's an action committee
[15:42] together that have that thing there is a
state of purpose for it and the design
[15:46] behind it down in 65 if you here's
here's the reality if you if you
[15:50] appointed somebody tonight there's no
terms on these things it's just at the
[15:54] will of the council or the appointments
so we need to create terms we need
[15:59] we need to look at some aspects of it it
was just it was roughed in for the
[16:03] purpose of that the whole design behind
code enforcement was Act was not really
[16:07] in that Avenue but it was to be a
placeholder to give us somewhere to
[16:12] go okay well my motion understand you
want to take a vote on it or not and I
[16:18] just want to let me amend my motion I'd
like to make a motion we p a chairman a
[16:24] this Committee in action with the
necessary Amendment you know that we
[16:29] move on and we make the necessary
Amendment as we go we got to we got to
[16:34] initiate this somewhere it's been in the
tri for for a while we hav initiated and
[16:39] we still have no problem we have citizen
in this community willing volunteer
[16:43] their time I think we should take
advantage of that you know to go ahead
[16:47] as councilman and leaders of the
community the government body and we got
[16:52] mous in the community on voluntary time
I think we should act on I think
[16:57] everybody know the condition
for clity there was a motion was there a
[17:02] second so I would call for a second on
on his motion see if there's a second
[17:08] all right Mr Bradford has restated his
motion is there a second
[17:14] motion I'm sorry what was your motion
again motion to go ahead
[17:20] and get to committed action and make a
necessary mean that we go to point
[17:26] people to each position and just name
the follow position that everyone can
[17:30] put some let's make one step let's give
this community one step is it a motion
[17:35] to appoint Mr
[17:40] R
Mr Been Working community help he wants
[17:47] to appoint him as the the designated FL
team member for the city
[17:52] council I got a point of
information is that correct yeah yes
[17:58] yeah yeah
well let's let's let's see where we get
[18:02] with a
[18:06] second so keep quick all right okay well
this is the board that I've been looking
[18:12] for that was we didn't this is the board
we didn't really approve it was added in
[18:18] that's what I keep going back to it was
in the original we just never took it
[18:22] out that's what I'm saying I kept saying
we kept when we looked it over I said we
[18:26] didn't we probably didn't really want
this it may be a good thing but you
[18:30] remember that and this is what I kept
saying it's a board that you supposed to
[18:33] been went reconstructed because we
really went on the same page as this so
[18:38] why would we vote on something and this
is what I've been looking for for the
[18:41] last six months just and that's and
that's correct it wasn't added in but
[18:46] what it was was when we originally did
it we had gone through many versions and
[18:50] the version that came out that we voted
on we had that you yourself and I had
[18:54] talked about taking it out and when it
came time for the vote that night just
[18:58] of all the things we were
doing still open for minut still
[19:04] open but I think at this point yes to
your point of information yes we this is
[19:09] the one that we discussed about removing
that night when we voted it just it
[19:12] slipped me slipped you and it SLI there
so what we I just ask
[19:21] second is there a second well
I'm his motion was the first to app
[19:27] Point his is
is to activate the board is already it's
[19:31] ready activ just a motion to as the
[19:36] council we
[19:40] W so right now you appoint a spot for
speaking for the
[19:46] council it's just the each the council
has a designated member on the black
[19:50] team so it's gonna be designated for
district B yeah I'm desate for the
[19:55] council as a
whole not for a whole so so that's one
[19:59] thing that may need to be spelled out if
we need to break out different districts
[20:02] and you have each district have a
[20:05] member so i' call I'd call for a second
is there a
[20:10] second
[20:17] motion call for the prev motion by Mr
Green uh I think I think are you
[20:24] resending anything you did Mr no sir
[20:29] so this that moves us on to the next
hold up hold up we we still have to put
[20:33] in place where we're able to appoint
somebody for E District I'm might have
[20:37] to bring that Amendment to the whole
meeting I'm going to bring it to I'm G
[20:42] bring it to March meeting
for because you can't amend an ordinance
[20:47] Two
Step all right brings us to number two
[20:53] the track team proposed action to be
taken on this item resolution to re
[20:58] reinstate the track program
exception uh that all donations for
[21:04] track team placed in a separate account
to
[21:09] used I thought we we never remove the
[21:22] track yeah I think that need to be as
well because that resolution refer to
[21:29] here in this meeting tonight is the
previous resolution resolution that we
[21:33] already we already said we didn't sign
and we didn't approve member last month
[21:37] the signature was
CB yeah the signatures are just the vote
[21:42] that was taken at that time I like have
move the table and move forward short
[21:47] what time a second
okay mov and second to table all in
[21:54] favor and I'll reproduce in the next in
the next thing I'll reproduce
[22:01] this brings us to uh number three
clarification on offer request to have
[22:08] Miss laa Hart appear propos action to be
taken on this item our was as ability
[22:14] determin how was amount of payment
determined his heart was unavailable I
[22:19] believe you have a letter in she gave
the
[22:26] letter time that I guess I question I
have S question who established the
[22:32] rules and eligibility for the
requirement of the receiving of who that
[22:37] I think say
counil coun municipality I thinked word
[22:44] municipality should U have something to
do with the requirement that this never
[22:49] came
municipality but I did speak at at the
[22:53] previous meeting with Mr was here about
what do we do if this occurred that some
[22:58] employees would come forward and say
they feel they're eligible and and they
[23:03] they Prov that they're eligible uh
during that period of Time how would we
[23:09] handle that
situation that situ how would it be
[23:12] handled I guess we never did established
uh I think said this is the deadline we
[23:18] said well it wouldn't be fair what did
these fund come from Mr P or someone
[23:23] will show up here at City Hall and say
well I was El we we that we got to come
[23:29] with some typee of solution to uh
compensate those people if they
[23:33] fallowing the eligibility term and again
we not quite sure eligibility because
[23:39] the council had nothing to do establish
this elil according to the ARP rule with
[23:45] with we're not having input on on the
arp rle we had no input on the establish
[23:53] uh how I would go by the
eligibility and I mean this was done PR
[23:58] Soo by by the mayor and Miss Hart and
Miss har stated herself she received
[24:03] that information from the mayor well
according to the rule the AR rule the
[24:08] municipality should had something the
council should had something to help
[24:11] them do with the establishment I spoke
of that briefly and she she replied yeah
[24:16] you may be right but this is a cut off
day I said that wouldn't be fair to
[24:20] other people I'm do the
time I ask we have have a current you
[24:25] make a current motion all C
who was employed for the for the for
[24:32] less than 98 of the designated ARP time
period between October
[24:41] 21st October 20 21st December
2022 be be conversated imately they if
[24:48] they was in part during that time and it
have to come from the general Farm we
[24:54] can't leave Mr P who was Elder just
threw him to the side of Miss Johnson
[24:58] Miss Smith whoever it may be that thr
him to the side they was eligible that's
[25:03] something I make like make a motion if
anyone approve eligibility they be paid
[25:08] a million from the
J and I know Bop I asked last meeting
[25:13] that we receive a list um for those
people that were like right at the cut
[25:19] off or were
eliminated and did not get their
[25:24] benefits based on whatever reason and we
as a Council still have not received
[25:29] that list if we have that list we
definitely have something to go
[25:33] on we don't have anything we have to
have something so we could see what
[25:40] people qualify
and list was
[25:50] email
email and and it had on the list those
[25:56] people that did not qualify
[26:00] was email that wasent out said everybody
that received it and everybody that um
[26:06] that was working that time perod well
there
[26:11] criteria who could get it
and that's that's
[26:16] the why were these people not on the
original
[26:22] list that's that's the question I need
to ask that's why why were they not
[26:29] if they qualified just like every other
officer City employee why were these
[26:34] people left
off so so the list that you sing was
[26:38] people that was qualified that didn't
Reed the paper M got a list I I see list
[26:43] that I received this the list she out is
the list that everybody that was
[26:48] eligible Miss Hart got a list of
everybody that was paid and excluded so
[26:53] I would recommend I would recommend that
she suppli council with the with the
[26:59] list or she appeared
person know why they were left off so uh
[27:08] to to to explain it AR had an
eligibility pool that was wide that said
[27:13] you pay up to these people then it left
each municipality with the ability to
[27:18] Define up to that limit of the people
they wanted to get paid left to the was
[27:24] up
[27:26] to still not
I need to see the criteria for the
[27:32] people that was on the list and why
those people were left off here
[27:35] something and I think Miss there's a
onepage letter from Miss har regarding
[27:50] that right she said she based on the
person who submitt to her and I again as
[27:57] MP I feel we should have known when that
money was dispersed we should have known
[28:03] the criteria the count say we have speak
up the council we all should have known
[28:08] that and and like say haven't been
fished to councilman ta I don't think I
[28:13] have received it either uh have you Mr
Green Mr Green J green
[28:20] you I received two uh two one of them
was the exclusion and one was the uh
[28:27] inclusion okay
can we get a printting list not an email
[28:32] list ating list given to
[28:39] us okay we'll get that information for
[28:47] youest
now I think I have
[28:52] [Music]
where the agenda
[28:58] send the agenda to
uh District D I mean
[29:04] d
Corporation and also as well as seeing
[29:08] about purchasing some items for um
softball and baseball I don't think you
[29:14] have to do that through I just want to
see process in okay is there second
[29:20] second uh any public comments as it
relates to wh spring time CA or the
[29:25] purchasing of baseball or softball
equipment
[29:30] I don't hear any mayor I believe the
comments period is closed at this point
[29:33] okay it' be a full vote of the
[29:37] council about other thing you didn't
includ
[29:45] that what
was you expanded the
[29:50] agenda for
three to see what the process of
[29:56] purchasing uh items with my ARP fund for
softball baseball as well as softball
[30:05] and baseball is coming up as well as
basketball
[30:10] Lo corporate Endeavor yes that was for
the Cooperative Endeavor the C the ca
[30:15] for Whispering P Cooperative Endeavor CA
okay um Mr Green this is your District
[30:23] you want to talk about oh U whistling m
r m rward
[30:28] the is the
chairperson you come we got and and to
[30:36] bring the council to things we
previously heard from Mr Edwards that
[30:39] they were requesting some funds to clear
land at the cemetery and bring it into
[30:43] compliance with beautification
ordinances and it was a sum of money
[30:47] that was sent to councilman uh G green
which was forwarded to me that requested
[30:52] in total about $112,000 believe Mr deing
agreed with him that he would be willing
[30:57] from his uh art funds to dedicate $2,000
of that money I placed that into a CA
[31:03] that would meet the B test and
everything to try and fast track where
[31:07] we've been and where we are
app okay go ahead state your name and
[31:13] address please my name is Ronnie Edwards
1609 ho Avenue in boun I just wanted to
[31:20] uh come up and thank the council for
taking the time to uh review and
[31:24] consider our request as you know we are
uh renovating the W pan cemeter at
[31:30] Martin South if you haven't been down
there go by and take a look uh the last
[31:36] week or two weeks been remarkable
Improvement remarkable progress in terms
[31:41] of sary and our goal is to finish
cleaning the cemetery that way between
[31:47] now and uh the early part of spring to
pull all of the grass and the weed start
[31:52] gr back so we really do support uh
appreciate your support and uh look
[31:58] forward to continuing to help the city
to get rid of the blood that's been
[32:03] talked about
[32:09] here sir this time I make that
motion right and
[32:16] second any
questions all in
[32:21] favor any
oppos motion
[32:25] carries okay that con
so we can make
[32:30] it
chamber
[32:34] recogn
[32:43] as me say that when the meeting going on
say it right
[32:47] now y'all don't want to fight the black
in this community you putting up too
[32:51] many road block y'all if y'all knew
about a committee that was already
[32:55] together what have that committee
y'all still ain't doing nothing y don't
[33:00] want to do nothing just like y just
kicking a can down the road when y going
[33:05] to get serious and do something about