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welcome to the Batesville city council
the lawmaking body for the city of

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Batesville moving the city forward mayor
Rick elal city clerk Denise Johnson City

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attorney Tim miton along with Council
from left to right Paige Hubbert Landon

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Reeves Dr Scott Frederick breny Bennett
and from right to left Fred crew Julie

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hle Chris P and Dr Doug Matthews mayor
and Council welcomes you to the meeting

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okay it's now 12:15 I'd like to call the
meeting to order Miss Johnson would you

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please uh the r call Miss Bennett here
Mr Fredericks here hle here H Mr

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C did what oh she did okay uh Mr KW here
Dr Matthews Mr P here Mr

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reefs okay is there motion to approve
the

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agenda second motion of second all in
favor signify by saying I I okay going

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right into new business uh first on the
agenda is to go into executive session

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uh is there a motion all moved Motion in
a second all in favor to go into

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executive session sign five saying I all
pose Light Side okay we are in executive

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session you say PA just pulled up okay

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ain't hold that call okay I think we
have everybody back in and uh coming out

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of the executive session uh I'm going to
go ahead and turn this over to our

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chairman of our Public Safety Committee
and for a recommendation to for the

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hiring of our new uh police chief I'm in
the city council meeting let me call you

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back
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Doug um we met a few sorry about that we
met a few days ago and interviewed a

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couple of candidates I will say that we
felt like uh that we were lucky in that

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um both of those candidates were uh
imminently qualified and could have done

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a good job so while that made us feel
lucky at the same time it made it a hard

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decision uh but uh we did reach
consensus and it was the consensus of

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the committee that we recommend to the
council that Mr John scarbro be named

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our next police chief so I would make
that into the form of a

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motion second have a motion and a second
Mr Fredericks uh any further

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discussion okay do you want to do a roll
call on that I do

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okay okay Miss Bennett yes Mr Fredericks
yes Miss hle yes Miss hubard yes Mr Krug

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yes Dr Matthews yes Mr P yes with that
being said our new police chief is Mr

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John

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star looking forward to John serving and
I know he'll do our community well and

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uh I think he's got a lot of support out
there and no speech uh do we have a

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little speech do you want to say
anything John I would love to love to

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hear your
comments no sir I did not prepare spe oh

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you kept telling me it wasn't a done
deal

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so you kept me nervous long enough uh I
do want to thank the council and the

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mayor uh I'll do my best to to fill a
position to the best of my ability and

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try to make you guys
proud to all of you guys thank you uh I

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prob I wouldn't be here if it wasn't for
every one of those guys out there so

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thank all of you and you guys thank you
very much and your and your and your

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wife my daughter daughter thank you too
uh for allowing me to apply for this my

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brother Lenny he probably worked harder
than

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anybody to get me here he called
everybody in the world I think even the

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pope answered for it so so thank all of
you for the support absolutely thank you

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looking forward to many years of service
service we greatly appreciate all of our

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officers and uh uh because we know
you're you know one big family and uh

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and that's important
yes very

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important okay guys I'm sorry to get a
picture go ahead and

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Jour well now we've
got have well we've got another discuss

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comments all right
yeah okay while you guys are doing

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photos there I'm going to go ahead and
uh uh mayor's comments and we're going

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to move on I know we've been working
with the BFW for the uh actually the

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purchase of their property because of
her sales tax refinance back in August

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and I know we have U we've worked Miss
Crystal Johnson who is economic

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development we contract with her with
the chamber Mr Fred Krug I know he has

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been uh working with them as well uh we
were um actually uh our meeting in

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August we met with their leadership and
they said let's both get appraisals uh

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we uh we ended up getting an appraisal
uh we felt like the appraisal was a

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little bit low uh so we felt like to be
for sure that we went ahead and went out

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to seek a second uh appraisal and that
appraisal uh the first one was 350 this

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one came back at 610,000 uh but we you
know we've always wanted to be a good

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Ste of the money as well as our
taxpayers and of course that property is

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going to be part of our new parks
initiative but we felt like it was a

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little low and we wanted to definitely
be fair uh with them uh they have

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engaged you know the attorney so our
conversation has actually been back and

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forth with the attorney we started uh
late February early March actually we

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started in September uh talking and
that's when they said that Mr U uh well

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their new attorney would be the one
representing so like I said we've kind

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of gone back and forth we thrown some
numbers out there verbally and uh they

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have not accepted our offer so we did
have an offer on the table of

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800,000 uh even with an appraisal of
610,000 uh so we're to the point you

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know we need to start moving dirt work
and like I said we're very conscious of

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you know them trying to help them find a
place at the very first meeting in early

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August when Crystal and I met with them
that was one thing they asked us to do

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and we tried we tried to do that um but
like I said we have not uh they have not

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accepted the offer so Mr mson do you
want to what's our next uh next step at

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this point should file for a
condemnation and the judge

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basically can make it immediate or give
them a give them a reasonable amount of

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time which you know they may argue hey
we need a month or two

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that may be the only thing we're
haggling about at that point but they

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can give it to us the next day and and
they have in the past but I'm imagining

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the BFW probably try to slow down a
little

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bit just go do it based on the appraisal
of $610,000 and then we put that in the

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registry of the court and we go from
there okay and if they want to come back

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and give us a counter offer at that
point we can we can always negotiate

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till there's a
final okay so did you guys hear that did

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you say
we can give them two choices is that am

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I understanding that
right one we can kick them out tomorrow

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or one we can give him a little time
well what I'm saying me up to the judge

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the judge could kick him out tomorrow
okay which I think they're going to give

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him a
reasonable guess 30 days 60 days

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something like that so the senat would
get file of course and we' we've also

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said by the end of August I think that's
the date that we've actually given them

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so we're trying to give them that lead
time but you know the longer we wait the

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the father it pushes our project down
the line and once we start doing the

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dirt work uh it's going to cost us extra
if we have to pull the crew back in

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later uh when they're not you know if
they move off the job site well and it's

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worth pointing out I think this was
overwhelmingly approved by our

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citizens and so we we have a debt to
them absolutely to move this project

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forward like they clearly wanted us to
do and and the reasonable cost and and I

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think you know everybody in here has
great respect uh you know for our

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veterans as a matter of fact we have a
veteran Mr Fred crew uh you know that

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serves on the council and so we do not
disrespect them we are visiting with

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another veterans group here of another
talking about getting a new uh Veterans

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Memorial uh you know at Riverside Park
and so I've act actively engaged another

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group and uh hopefully we can make that
a reality but I guess with that all

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being said do we want to
uh get a motion in the form of uh

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letting Mr miton go ahead and file for
the

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condemnation so moved second have a
motion and a second but Dr Matthews any

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further
discussion all in favor signify by

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saying I I oppose like sign okay if
there's no further business oh yeah by

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the way uh the city county uh meeting
tomorrow is at uh 5 uh 5: :00 5 to 6:30

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Mr Rex Nelson from the Arkansas Democrat
Gazette will be speaking uh very well

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vers on Arkansas Politics as well as
cities and communities in the state of

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Arkansas so if you can make it please
come out and with that being said if

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there's no further business is there a
motion to adjourn move second have a

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motion second all in
favor Pizza Pizza we are Pizza in the

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back guys
this concludes our meeting tonight the

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mayor and city council thanks you for
tuning in to the meeting our air times

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are Monday 7:00 p.m. Thursday 6:00 p.m.
Friday 11:30 a.m. and all other days 400

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p.m. again our city council says thank
you and good night