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» Evening everybody.
Good to have all of you here that are
here. We thank you for coming uh to this
uh our [music] city uh board meeting. We
hope that um you find it enlightening as
we move forward in this great city.
We ask that um as you come that you
would please take notice that the agenda
is in your seat and uh that's what we'll
go by in this meeting.
>> So we're going to open this meeting with
prayer
and if you would would you stand with us
thank them.
Our father and our God, we come this
time thanking you for being the God that
you are. We thank you dear God.
You have still look beyond our fault and
supply our need. Thank you for this time
that we have time to sit together and do
the business of this city. And we know
dear God that after all things are said
and done, we pray that it will be in
your will. So we pray to let your will
be done. God bless every person that is
here in the sound of my voice. You know
that in which we all have the uh thank
you for being the God that you are.
Thank you for your mercy. Thank you for
your grace, your patience, your love,
and your understanding. And always we
pray that you would give us this day
[snorts] our daily bread. It's in Jesus
mighty, masterful, merciful name we
pray. Amen.
>> Amen.
First on our agenda, we have u our chief
of police is coming
uh to uh present and to speak on behalf
of two of our retiring police officers,
which we hate to see them go.
All
right. So, uh, Captain
Norris and Harvey, if y'all step up
here.
[clears throat]
Good afternoon, everyone. I want to
thank you for being here today. It's an
honor to stand here before you as we
celebrate the retirement of Captain
Michael Harvey and Captain Michael
Norris, whose dedication, leadership,
and service has been a long lasting mark
on this department and our community.
For 25 years, both captains have worn
the badge with pride, integrity, and
commitment. Throughout their career,
it's been filled with challenges,
success, and countless moments of
service. They are truly examples what
every chief would want. Behind every
accomplishment is a person who has
sacrificed time, missed family events,
worked long hours. Today, we recognize
not only the captains here on their uh
professional achievements, but also the
sacrifices made by their family and
their loved ones throughout their
journey. While retirement marks the end
of a law enforcement career, it also
begins a new exciting chapter. We hope
it brings you good health, happiness,
and many opportunities to come. On
behalf of everyone here, we want to
thank you for your service, your
leadership, your friendship. Your
congratulations are well earned. We wish
you and your family nothing but the very
best ahead. I would ask that if the
audience if you please stand with me and
congratulate captain the captains on
outstanding career and a welldeserved
retirement. [applause]
Thank you.
turn this down.
>> Thank y'all. Thank you. Thank you.
>> So, we're presenting uh both captains
here with their service weapon.
>> And if y'all want to say anything,
>> I just like to say it's been a memorable
25 years. And I want to thank all of
y'all. Thank you very much.
>> Thank you.
>> I want to say thank you all very much. I
appreciate what the city has done for
me. Sir,
>> I did the best I can for the city. I
thank you very much.
>> Yes, sir.
>> Thank you. [applause]
Yes, sir.
Michael.
» Okay.
Stand with us.
woman.
» Mr. Bobby, you want to come this way?
Okay. [laughter]
» For them, huh?
>> Okay.
>> Stay out of line. But the board members
for certain after you take this photo of
these. Yes, sir. All right.
On three. One, two, three.
And take a couple more.
One, two, three.
Okay. It would allow
police officers come up and current
police offic
I know that you
probably come stand here. Sound down
here and then some
Come down.
» All right. Got you.
>> Oh, hip ain't like it used to be.
Good thing I work behalf of these guys.
[laughter]
Good.
All right. On three. One, two, three.
Couple more. One, two, three.
And we get one for portrait.
» Too late for that. One, two, three.
>> Thank you.
» Go, Mike.
Michael. Michael. Michael.
[laughter]
McGee, I can't see you,
>> Alderman McGee. Yeah, there we go.
>> On three. One, two, three. One more,
please. One, two, three. All right.
» You got it right there.
>> Okay. You good? [clears throat] All
right.
let me say thank you again uh
to all the police officers that that
have once served and are still yet
serving. But uh you don't know what a
privilege it was for me to serve with
the Brook Haven Police Department. Um
some of you all some I see have grown
now know me when I know wore the uniform
and I appreciate the training that I
have and the love for this city. Even
though we working we were working for
peanuts, we were still doing the job. So
we thank you all. Thank you officers so
very much.
>> [clears throat]
>> Next on my agenda is approve the regular
meeting and regular board meeting from
June 2nd, 2026. Need a motion?
[clears throat]
» Moved and second. Have we approved the
uh board meeting for June 2nd, 2026?
Any discussion?
If not, all in favor say I.
>> I oppos. Thank you also very much. On
our appearance list, we have first of
all Slaughter and Willingham.
Thank you very much, Mayor Board. My
name is Nathan Willingham. I'm a
principal planner and partner at the
firm Slaughter and Willingham. And it's
a deep honor and privilege to be in a
thriving growing community such as Brook
Haven working on a comprehensive plan
update. Um,
many of y'all are very familiar with our
firm, having worked with my business
partner, Mike Slaughter, for many years
on uh comprehensive planning and other
planning issues. Um, I want to take a
few minutes this evening to really
formally kick off our comprehensive
planning process. I know Mike was here
several months back, spoke to the board
about the comprehensive plan, what it
is, what goes into it. Uh, I'm going to
recover some of that ground uh briefly
this evening. uh try not to re retread
everything that he said, but I do think
it's important at this stage to give a
little bit of a refresher uh and then
talk about the engagement process and
the next steps that this community can
expect when working with us in this
comprehensive plan update. Um first of I
want to introduce our planning team. Um
we're a firm out of Oxford. We do
planning comprehensive plans and
regulatory work all over the state of
Mississippi. 99% of our clients are are
cities and and counties in Mississippi.
uh very honored and privileged to serve
public sector clients here in the state
of Mississippi. Uh both Mike and myself
are AICP certified planners. That stands
for American Institute of Certified
Planning. It's a national certification
in the field of community planning. Uh
nationally recognized uh requires a
devotion to a code of ethics and
continuing ed continuing education as
well as uh experience and as you can
imagine a comprehensive exam is part of
it as well. Uh he and I together have
about 60 years of combined experience
working in the planning profession.
Mike's been doing it uh about 35 years
and we like to joke and say that he's
the younger and better looking of the
two of us that are partners. Um but you
can see his biography as well as mine
here on this next slide. Uh Mike is both
a AICP certified planner as well as a
registered professional engineer. My
background is in public administration.
I have both a masters and a doctorate in
public administration. I like to pride
myself in helping communities get things
done because we can do all the plans in
the world, but if there's not a strategy
and a a workable assetbased approach to
community development backing up that
document, it it does the dreadful thing
that comp plans often do, which is to
sit on a shelf. Uh and then in addition
to Mike and myself who are sort of the
leadership core of the team, we also
have a senior planner and project
manager in our office, a fellow named
Tab Sanford who is uh he's been doing
this work about 10 years and has a
masters in community planning, a lot of
expertise in in public engagement and
GIS work. In addition to uh the three
planners on staff, we have crucially
important support folks in our office. I would mention Samia Bandra who is a
GIS technician who is responsible for
all the maps that you will see as we go
through uh go through the planning
process. And then Vantessa Wilson uh who
is our administrative assistant and she
is the logistical soul of our operation.
And I think everyone on the board has at
this point talked to her at least once
in in trying to set up some of the
events that we've got taking place over
the next uh several days and will be in
contact over the next several months as
we work on this comp plan update. Uh so
that's our team. You know, there's five
of us in the office. Um you know, we
work all over the place. Uh we got a lot
of experience um everywhere from
Chattanooga, Tennessee to uh North
Alabama to West Tennessee. I mean, we've
worked all over the country. um and have
settled down and put our roots down here
in Mississippi uh with the honor and
privilege again of serving communities
like like Brook Haven. Uh Mike talked a
good bit about this the last time he was
privileged and made an appearance here,
but want to talk a little bit about a
comprehensive plan just as a way to
refresh our memories as we kick off this
stage of the planning process. So what
is a comp plan? It's it's essentially a
policy guide for growth and development
over the next 20 to 25 years. It lays
out for both leaders who are elected
officials and leaders who are department
heads and appointed officials as well as
community members and those who might
wish to make investments in your
community. Uh it lays out exactly what
the vision for the future is, right? It spells out what the long-term goals
and objectives for the community are in
a way that people can understand and be
oriented toward good growth and
development and understand what that
looks like going forward. We think about
it in three different ways. Uh as
planners, we sort of think about it in
the technical sense about what's legally
required for a comprehensive plan as
well as the the contents of the plan and
the methods that are used to engage with
the public and to perform analysis and
use GIS to create maps and and things
like that. But in addition to that, for a board and also for the public,
it's a vitally important piece of your
economic development and your fiscal
management strategy because as we all
know, a a community is a city is a
creature of public services. And those
public services depend on your ability
to to be able to hire good officers and
firefighters and pave streets and
provide all of the municipal services
that people expect for a growing
thriving economy and high quality of
life. And so good development leads to a
good commercial sales tax base as well
as a good property tax base that
supports your fiscal and financial
ability to do those things. Good
planning is essential for low taxes and
highquality public services. And so it's
a it's a vital part of a board strategy.
And in addition to that, for all members
of a community, for all walks of life,
the comprehensive plan is a way to think
about and engage with understanding of
the values of the community as they are
oriented toward quality of life. It's a
way of getting feedback and
understanding about what it means to
have a high quality of life in a
community. And for for us, high quality
of life is things like good jobs,
high quality uh housing for people to
live in, good schools, public safety
services, water, sewer, roads, streets,
parks, recreation, all of the amenities
that members of the public demand of
their local governments in order to make
day-to-day life in not just functional,
but but enjoyable to them to have a a
enjoyable uh life and presence and
experience. in a community. So for a
comprehensive plan, there are four
statutory requirements or four elements
of it that that have to be included.
There's a requirement for a set of goals
and objectives for a land use plan,
transportation plan, and community
facilities plan. We'll speak very
briefly about each of those. Talk about
goals and objectives. These are these
are the aspects that create quality of
life. You know, these are things like
your residential and commercial and
industrial development, where things go,
how they grow in the future, and how the
board can make good decisions with good
policies to shape that growth and
development going forward. Also, um
goals and objectives around open space
and recreation, which is a vital import
vitally important part of uh the
engagement of not just your youth in
your community, but people of all walks
of life, all ages, and all walks of
life. making certain that they're
recreational and health recreational
opportunities and the health and
engagement benefits that come along with
those. All of us in life, well, most of
us I think have had a coach at some
point who guided [clears throat] and
steered us. Even as an adult, I look for
the coaches, the people that can mentor
me. It's a lifelong pursuit in a lot of
ways. uh that starts with these
recreation programs and understanding
what it takes to to really guide and
mentor people toward a goal, you know,
and and that's a crucially important
part of your community. Um streets and
road improvements. These are of course
the most visible pieces of
infrastructure that your citizens see on
a day-to-day basis. Not an elected
official I have ever met has been able
to walk through the grocery store
without a conversation about a pothole.
Right? And so these are things that that
you hear about daytoday with your
residents that we need to to think about
in terms of how growth and development
influence your capacity to take care of
this infrastructure that people depend
on. Uh and then in addition to that
community facilities which are things
like your libraries, your police and
fire departments, the places where
public services take place.
Second element of a comprehensive plan
is a land use plan which is a sketch of
what what is needed in your community in
terms of residential development,
commercial development, industrial
development and jobs at what density of
development things should take place.
Where things are going really well in
your community and they should be kept
and preserved as they are. Where things
have an opportunity to grow in your
community and how they should be planted
and sewn and nurtured to grow. and then
other places where maybe the garden
needs a little a little tilling or
replanting or weeding so that the
existing development patterns can can prosper uh more effectively. Uh
and then also talking in the land use
plan about recreation open space and
public lands and facilities. This is the
guide for growth and development. When
you're asked to make those very, very
difficult decisions about whether an
investment in your community is the
right type in the right location for
your community and they come to you, hard and they come to
you fast. And so when someone is at this
podium requesting approval of something
and maybe somebody else wants to see it
not approved, having a plan in place
makes that decision not easy but easier
because you have the forethought that
came from the planning process and the
engagement with your public and with
your leadership to be able to make good
decisions in the heat of that moment
that's based on the forethought that was
put into the actions that you're being
asked to take. In addition to land use,
of course, there's a transportation
component to the planning process
because we all have to get around to
engage in our community. We have to be
connected to community both through
surface streets and passenger vehicles,
but also things like sidewalks and trail
systems and networks and and even even
in a rural small city environment,
public transportation systems, and how
people that that maybe don't have access
to vehicles can still have accessibility
to your community and to all the good
things that it offers.
And then lastly, we will talk about
community facilities plans. Community
facilities, we talk about planning in
general, we like to talk about the
importance of place and neighborhood and
everything that you offer as a city
takes place somewhere. And the
condition, quality, and capacity of that
location, of that place is
important to being able to provide
highquality public services going
forward. again those public services
being essential to the to the quality of
life of the residents and and visitors
and those that engage with the city of
Brook Haven.
So essentially the purpose of the
comprehensive plan is to chart a course
for future development and to provide an
expression of the aims and ambitions of
the community over the long haul to help
keep you oriented in the future toward
good decision making in the day-to-day
with a vision for the future and a
wellthoughtout set of goals and
objectives. You can make better
decisions dayto-day when tough questions
come your way. And that really is
essentially the purpose of comprehensive
plan because it is a it's a snapshot of
your community today, a vision for your
community tomorrow, and that is informed
by facts and data and information, but
most importantly by what we're going to
talk about next, which is the public
engagement process.
We share this quote a lot. It says
communities can be shaped by chance or
they can be shaped by choice. we can
keep accepting the kind of kind of
communities we get or we can start
creating the kind of communities we
want. That was a quote by Mr. Richard Mo
who is with the National Trust for
Historic Preservation. Um we talk about
the the most important part of the
comprehensive plan and new information
I'll show you this evening is the
engagement process. And I always like to go back to Proverbs 4:7 which is
wisdom is the principle thing and all
things get wisdom and then I get and get
understanding.
We can do a lot of research and a lot of
analysis from miles and miles away at a
desk where we have access to census data
and maps and information about your
community. But we can't gain true
understanding of your community unless
we seek wisdom from those that have it.
And the wisdom of your community is is
well the wisdom of all things comes from one source, but the wisdom of your
community is housed in your in the
knowledge and the understanding and the
experience of your leaders, your key
stakeholders and the members of your
community. And so the public engagement
process is the very purpose of why we do
the work that we do. Because without
that level of engagement and without
executing public engagement, we can't
find the wisdom and we can't translate
the wisdom that is part of all of your
community's individual experiences into
an understanding of the vision for the
future and of what people want for the
future of the city of Brook Haven. And
so the most important part and also as
you can imagine the hardest part of the
planning process to shape is the public
engagement process.
But our approach is to be community
first to put the the needs of the
community before anything else and to
allow the community to define the vision
for the future because it has to be
driven by your people's understanding
and your people's wisdom or it won't be
actionable. You know, you can't act on
things that are my ideas or someone on
my team's ideas. We can offer
suggestions on ideas, but they have to
be embraced and part of the collective
wisdom and understanding of this
community before they can actually you as leaders can have the confidence
of your convictions that they are the
right actions and right steps to take.
In addition to that, it's incredible to
work in Brook Haven because the level of
transparency and accountability. I
realize that that I am being recorded
and sent across an amazing digital
broadcast system in an amazing facility
right now. That level of transparency
leads to accountability on my part as a
planner for the things that I do and I
say in your community and and I I and
our team want to embrace that. We want
this to be an open and transparent
process where everybody from all walks
of life no matter where you come from or
where you're going has the opportunity
to be heard. Now I said earlier it's the
hardest part of the process and it is we
can make it's the horseto-water
scenario. We can make the information
available. We can ask and we will we
will transparently make information
available and we will ask people to
engage and be part of the process.
But we need help to make that happen
because me standing here requesting
someone to answer a question is much
less effective than a member of the
community sharing an opportunity and
saying it's telling them telling folks
how it's important to be engaged and
involved. We can take their information
when they're with us but we can't
influence their decision to be involved.
We can make opportunities available, but
we desperately need help from every
person who is interested in this
community to get the word out to make
these opportunities to be engaged part
of the planning process. And we're going
to talk some more about that here in
just a second. And then lastly, the two
points there, we want to be practical
about what we do. Our approach needs to
be grounded in what's possible with with
high aspirations and goals for what
happens in your community. And those two
last two points go together. to point
toward a practical approach to planning
that gets you something that you can
implement that does good things in your
community over time, creates positive
change because we do this based on an
optimistic understanding of the future.
It can be better. It is hopeful and we
are optimistic that through a process
like this we can make positive changes
in the community. And so with each stage
of the planning process, each each
activity, each engagement that we're
part of, each planning activity, we have
a a four-step process that repeats every
time. The first step, as you can
imagine, is preparation. Uh it's it's
identifying who the stakeholders are,
what the message that is best suited to be received by them would be. So you
identify your audience, you identify the
message, you identify the channels that
message would move across, whether it's
newspaper outlets, other news,
traditional media outlets, press
releases, um social media is a big part
of of today's environment. Whatever the
appropriate channels for your community
are, we want to identify the
stakeholders, the message, and the
channel to reach them. We then want to
make certain that we send those messages
effectively across those channels to
create awareness of the planning
opportunities. We then want to execute
each one of those engagements. Whether
it's a community survey or a public
meeting or a focus group, we want to
reach the audience and execute that
engagement as as effectively and
efficiently as possible with the highest
degree of participation. And then we
want to follow up. We want to show the
public and the leadership the results of
what happened. So people come to
meetings a lot of times, what happened?
Where does this go? Right? So, we've got
a strategy for going through this
four-step process with each stage or
each engagement, each planning activity
that we have as part of the
comprehensive plan.
The stage that we're in now is the
visioning portion. We will take ideas
and understanding about long-term goals
and objectives,
work toward developing a strategy that
eventually becomes a draft plan. This
the next three steps that are involved
in the planning process. We'll be
working through the ne all of these
three stages will involve opportunities
for public feedback and public
engagement.
Our project timeline, we actually been
on the job for quite a bit now, but
we're starting the official public
engaged portion of the comprehensive
plan here in June and it will run
through we think about December or so.
This is a tentative timeline. We don't
rush to any sort of judgment. We work
with cities on scheduling. We are in in
no greater or lesser hurry than is
necessary to have a good quality
comprehensive plan for the city of Brook
Haven. We do set a pretty ambitious
timeline because we know that people do
kind of lose interest over time. You
know, if we kick it off now and we don't
talk to people for a few weeks, it's
going to, you know, interest is going to
die down. We want to move fast, but we
want to make the pace appropriate to the
community and to the the planning effort
that that uh is appropriate to reach
your people and get good feedback.
and then give you some information about
where we're going from here. Um, there's
one of these QR codes up here on this
slide, which we uh I think has already
been actually the survey link. The QR
code goes to a community survey. It's
one of the first steps in the public
engagement process, is to put a survey
out and just let the general public give
us understanding and feedback. It's a
great way of just getting more generic
feedback from members of the public. So,
this code and that uh web link down
below in the orange box will take you
straight to that survey. Uh in addition
to that, we're going to roll out a
project website which will have all of
the presentation material that we use
throughout the comprehensive plan. So, a
copy of anything we present will be on
the website. Uh any maps or data or
charts that we develop will be on that
website. Survey results will be on that
website. So, it will be out there and
available as sort of the the
encyclopedia of planning here in in
Brook Haven for the duration of this
project. Uh, in addition to that, we've
got a couple of face-toface engagements
coming up this next week. Um, over the
course of the next couple of days, we'll
be talking with each of the board
members and your department heads
individually. Uh, leading out from that,
we will continue to build a very robust
stakeholder list. I think our list
currently has about 73 organizations and
individuals on it. So, we're building
that list so that we can continue to
meet with small groups in focus group
interviews and also have a very uh
robust list of invitees to participate
in surveys, focus groups, and public
meetings coming up. And then rolling
forward from there, we will be
scheduling a series of public meetings
where we actually invite the general
public, the whole public to to um give
us feedback about the the community's
vision for the future about the goals
and objectives and those important
comprehensive planning elements that I
mentioned mentioned earlier. Uh as of
right now, I would encourage everyone to
uh take a look at the survey and we will
make sure to broadcast it across
multiple channels and then the next
couple of days keep an eye out for the
project website. It's got a host of
information already uh compiled about
Brook Haven and then it will be the a
source of of public data and information
about the project as we go forward.
Every single time we engage in something
that's an important milestone, that
website will be updated. The information
that we share during that milestone
activity will be placed there and we
will make certain that that information
is shared broadly through different
communication channels to try to get
that word out as often as possible. And
then at the end of it, we will have a
comprehensive plan update that serves
the needs of the city of Brook Haven and
helps to uh helps the board to make
important decisions about quality of
life, helps to smooth the pathway toward
easier decisions about investment and
helps the public to better understand
the direction and the decisions that the
board does make. I appreciate your time
very much and certainly happy to answer
any questions that you might have.
Thank you, Mr. Willingham. We're ready
for your survey to show up.
>> Thanks very much.
>> Thank you, Ryan Holmes.
Dang engineering. There is Josh.
>> Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Board, I have two
things tonight. Um,
a month or so ago, we talked about uh I
got permission to go out and get some
bids for the work on for the drainage
out on Brook Haven Street. Uh, I got two
bids for the repair. uh one from
Greenbryer Digging Services for 74,760
and then one for uh from TL Wallace for
87 or 86135.
And so I would uh recommend taking the
load bid. Uh this is the pipe over on
Brook Haven Street where the inlets, you
know, eroding away and fell in right
there uh next to the fire station.
So move second.
>> All in favor?
Opposes. Thank you.
>> The second thing I got is uh speaking of
fire station is uh we're looking for
looking at the renovations for the the
new truck coming in and where to place
it. And uh we've got drawings pretty
much 99% uh been uh talking to the chief
back and forth on that. And we're
looking for permission to advertise to
put that out for bid.
Need a motion.
» It's station.
>> Any any discussion? All in favor sign I
>> poses. Same sign. Thank you.
» Okay J Mike McKenzie.
» Evening board. Uh Steven Barnett filling
in for Mike tonight. Uh just one quick
update. Um we've had some complaints
about some sewer issues and and backing
up on the uh North Jackson West Court
Street area of town. Uh Sun Coast came
in last week and um did some exploring
down there and found that uh a
telecommunication line had been bored
through the sewer line. And so it had
taken on a bunch of uh debris. They
actually pulled out 8 cubic yards of uh
sediment and stuff from the sewer line.
So, they pulled that out and hopefully
it should be flowing better now. So,
we're in the process of figuring out
with the one call exactly which
communication company that is that has
their fiber line going through it and uh
we'll proceed with getting them to to
fix it.
That's what he's going to be pursuing.
Telephone company, telecommunicate
company to make them pay.
>> We'll get with Bobby on exactly what we
need to um to send, but we're working on
that.
>> Thank you.
Good evening board, to the mayor, and to
the board. My name is Larry Day. I'm
with Night and Day Group, and today the
city opened up bids for the $450,000
general obligation note series 2026.
There were five bids that were received
on this note. uh and they were all
received from qualified financial
institutions.
Uh with that being said, uh the bid that
came in the lowest in best was from
First Bank. It came in at 4.38%.
So with this competitive bid process,
it's my recommendation that the board
move forward with First Bank for the
general obligation over $450,000.
Second
>> a motion and second that [clears throat]
we move forward with first bank is any
question any discussions.
All in favor say I.
>> Yeah.
>> For for the record. Can we can we just
know the work?
>> Yes. Absolutely. Let me just pull it up
real quick.
>> Okay.
» I mean can you just just say tell what
it is?
The winning bid was with First Bank
4.38%. Trust Mart submitted a bid 4.62%.
Pike National 4.8%, Bank of Franklin
4.63%.
And the People's Bank came in at the
highest at 5.72%.
Uh
what's the years that um this bill will
take place? What what's the length of
it? The years that we'll pay paying for
this.
>> So the term is for five years.
>> Five years.
>> You have it paid off in five years.
» Are you ready to vote? All in favor sign
I. Oppos same. Thank you.
>> Thank you.
Larry. Appreciate you. You
can give it u
Miss Stewart.
Thank you.
» Scott William, is he here? Scott not
here.
» Thank you. And other businesses we
receive um an award for off-road diesel.
The bid only have one bid from Kaiser is
$42.
» Motion motion and second receive this
bid. Yes, sir. All in favor sign I
opposes same sign. Thank you.
» And other businesses we have numbers 2
through
>> 2 through 11.
>> We just voted on letter.
>> That again.
>> You just voted on 11.
>> Okay, we did. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. I'm
sorry.
Okay. Two to 10.
Need a motion?
>> Motion.
>> All in need a second.
>> I second.
>> All in favor?
Poses. Thank you.
Mr. Hinds, you got what you got for us
this evening?
Um
[clears throat]
I guess I want to start start out by
definitely thanking everyone who um came
out this weekend for our unity in the
community. I think it was it was great
to see so many people that bind
together, you know, I think it it really
was something that, you know, that
allowed the community to get out and
really enjoy themselves. So hopefully,
like I said, I'm real big. Hopefully
whatever anyone is doing in the city, I
keep saying we need participation. I
think for our city to grow, when we show
that we're an friendly city, people will
visit on a consistent basis. I just
think that as we do activities wherever
they are, you know, I think it's
important everybody participate, you
know, I think that's a big thing. Um uh
also I think I I know we got this girls
night out coming June the 20th, 25th,
what not. Girls night out. I I think
it's important that whatever we putting
on, let's let's participate at a high
level. So again, I just think it's
important that that we do that. We truly
thank you guys for all the volunteers
and um and I I can't help but call up my
guy Benjamin name who sung the national
anthem who actually was a actually was a
uh fifth fourth grader right now fifth
grade next year who I think did an
outstanding job you know again um with
the national anthem. So again all in all
I think it was a great deal community
was very uh I think enthused and we
thank you guys who came out if you
volunteered or participated any kind of
way we appreciate it greatly.
That it. Thank you, Miss Hind. Mr.
McGee.
Yes. Uh AJFC is um is proud to be
working with uh link L.
Uh it's a Cany children solution. Uh
navigating families to success to
connect families with resources that
make a difference. uh link L I N K
provide family community resources to
address food instability, utility
assistant, unemployment,
housing needs, mental health challenges,
substance abuse, teen pregnancy, and
parenting classes. This service is free
to families and designed to help connect
individuals with the right community
service. The phone number to call is 1
800 3886247.
The website to visit is mycanopy.org
which is m y cop pyorgl
i n k. Thank you.
>> Thank you McGee. More.
>> Yes. I'd like to invite everybody out to
the Junth celebration will be held this
Saturday. uh parade will start at 12:00.
Line up be 11:00 at the old Piggly
Wiggly which will end at a lot for all
the festivities that day. So I of course
invite the whole community to come out
uh this Saturday, June the 20th to the
Junth celebration. you like to
participate in the parade, feel free to
reach out to my wife at 601-695056
for
uh
how to uh register for the parade. Uh so
that's it, Mayor.
>> Thank you, Mrs. Tate.
>> Good evening, everyone. Um
I'm happy to see all of you tonight. I
just want to regurgitate what um
Alderman Enar Hines said. I am, my heart
is happy and I just want to say thank
you to every resident. I took wrote some
notes cuz I didn't want to leave anybody
out. Community partners and supporters.
I want to give a special thank you to
Chief Dustin Barfield and BPD. There
were no incidents nor accidents at the
Unity and community. I want to thank
Mississippi Highway Patrol and the
mounted patrol units. Mr. Ryan Jones for
bringing out the car simulator. To all
of the artists, um, we had Mr. Scott
Colom to come through. He's running for
US Senate. So, I encourage you all the
time to do your research, stay informed,
stay engaged, and know who's on your
ballot. We have a big election coming up
in November. Uh, to Brook Haven Exchange
Club Park, thank you for lending your
train. The children thoroughly enjoyed
that. To the Brook Haven Street
Department, I want to say thank you for
helping us in every way that you were
allowed to. We really appreciate your
help. Uh, to the Chamber of Commerce,
Katie Nations, thank you. Thank you.
a million times over. We had
over 52 vendors. Um, and only two of our
vendors, food vendors, didn't sell out.
And I think that was because they over
overly stocked. And so, uh, we were
definitely supporting small businesses.
I think our mission was definitely
completed. Uh, we wanted to create a
space for unity and community where all
people came out and that was definitely
seen, experienced, felt. Um, let me see.
A special thank you to
I think that's it everybody. I just want
to say thank you again. I want to bring
clarity. I don't know if there was some
confusion but this was not a Brook Haven
City sponsor event. Um two of your
elected officials did sponsor and so I
didn't want any mis to be misconcred and
it was for the citizens of Brook Haven
and surrounding areas. So for all that
supported my heart is happy and I say
thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
Mr. Spiller. Thank you, Mr. T. Mr.
Spiller.
» Yes, sir. I I just want to uh give a
little clarity to some situations at
hand. Um,
when I look out for the city of Brook
Haven, we talk about transparency and
truthfulness and honesty. And uh, and I
just want people to understand that any
city employee that wishes to talk to me
has the right to talk to me.
And no matter what someone else says,
you have the right to talk to me. I
mean, you know, there's so much going on
in this world today
that, you know, we don't have anyone to
talk to. But when you someone tells you
no, you can't talk to someone, that's that's a low blow. And I just
want everyone to know that my number is
still the same. 6017546939.
And anytime, you know, you might have
things going on in your mind to where
you know, hey, you feel you don't have
anybody to talk to. Now, I don't get
involved with day-to-day operation to
understand that part now. But if you got
something that you need to talk to me
about, my my number is always open and
you can talk to me at any time. That's
all I had to say.
>> Thank you, Mr. Grace.
>> Thank you, [snorts] Jeff.
I want to thank uh Tion and Jason for
jumping on some uh some debris piles
that I had and um some a quick response
on those, but uh that's going to be be
all I got.
>> Thank you, Miss Stewart.
» Chief,
Mr. Mo.
Yes, sir. Just follow
someone. I'm sorry. Following up quickly
with WGK about someone running their
line through your sewer through your
sewer line. Um they're putting together
all the cost and we'll get together and
uh have that available and do the proper
thing uh as we need to. Also Nathan's
here tonight all the way down from
Oxford to talk about the the future
plans for the city of the comprehensive
plan. He has a partner Mike Slaughter
who has appeared and uh Mike is like the
rest of us old miss folks. He is licking
his womb somewhere between Omaha and
Oxford, Mississippi. And so we
thank you, Nathan, for coming.
That
>> it
>> and whatever I may have in in exact
session if you go there, mayor.
>> Thank you. Thank you all of you. Uh we
do have some stuff in exe session, but I
want to thank you all for coming out um
this evening. um appreciate you for
showing interest in what the city is
doing and what it can do and uh help in
any way you can. Thank you so much. But
now we're about to enter into executive
session. You don't have to leave, you
can stay cuz when we come back out,
we'll talk about some things that we
done in the executive session um
briefly. Um so we use the Mississippi
code of section 25417.
Uh, I need a motion.
>> Motion.
» Both of y'all made the motion. Yes.
Second.
>> All right. Thank you. Thank you.
All in favor
show a sign of I raise your hand.
Okay.
Thank you. Thank y'all so much.
Okay, we're back in session and uh we
took up some matters in executive
session and uh to approve the 10 year
anniversary of employee Jason Markham
for $1,
uh raise an hour. We hire Tiffany
LeBron. Let me let me stop
because I want to make sure that we uh
going we've got to vote on this again.
We got to vote on this for the first
time. Uh approved the 10 year
anniversary
of Jason of Jason Markham $1 per hour.
Hire Tiffany Labra for $11 per hour
pending background check for the water
department. Approve one hour
Pay raise for Kevin Collins.
Approve Casey Vender Slash's
resignation.
Approve Ashley McDuffy promotion from
the from propman to sergeant. Approve
resolution for Brook Haven High Track
and Field. Reappoint Rob Mccuri to the
park and recreation department.
temporarily temporarily suspend uh an
employee child Lewinska Lewanska
for medical reasons and upon return with
permission of a proper medical document
employee may return to employment with
the 90-day probationary period. Those
are the things we took up.
I need a motion to accept.
» That's the confusion bottom. How do we
do this?
>> You executive session you can discuss
and vote do as you like but the record
is made here. So you can pull one
separate separate vote if you care to or
take them up all the list as you do
historically.
>> Okay. So, we're going up inside the post
that we did inside there.
>> Yeah. It's just a discussion. It's the
vote is
>> that was just to see kind of where we're
going to go.
>> That's right.
>> So, you can leave executive session and
vote the way you did. Vote the way you
didn't. We're out here.
>> A motion for all items.
>> What?
>> No.
>> He said we can vote on it.
>> No, we got we can't do it.
>> We're going to take up We're going to
take up one at a time. approved the 10
year anniversary to increase payroll for
increase dollar an hour per hour for
Jason Marker.
>> Second.
>> All in favor sign I poses.
>> Nay.
>> Okay.
Hire Tiffany Lavage for $11 per hour
pending background check and drug check.
Drug and background the water
department.
>> Motion.
>> All in favor say I. Opposes.
Approve. Cassie Casey Vender Slice's
resignation.
>> Second.
>> All in favor?
Okay. Approve Ash McDuffy's promotion
from patrolman to sergeant. All I need a
motion.
>> So So move. Motion
>> second.
>> All in favor? Opposes?
>> One opposed.
>> Two. Two.
oppos. I'm sorry, James. Okay.
Approve the resolution for Brook Haven
High Track and Field.
We give it to the head coach.
>> Motion. Second.
>> All in favor?
We upon Rob McCclear to park and
recreation.
>> All in favor? Motion. Give me a motion.
>> Motion.
>> All in favor.
>> Temporary temporarily suspend Charles
Winsk Jr. Chuck for medical reasons. All
in motion. Second.
>> All in favor?
Thank you,
>> Mayor.
>> Yes.
>> Excuse me. One thing Chief has comment.
>> Yes.
Yeah, I just want to say from the chief
and myself, we want to say thank you
on your approvement after midnight
shift. Captain,
>> she's she's going to be sergeant,
correct?
>> Sergeant.
>> Okay.
Miss one approved one hour per one hour
$1 per raise. $1 raise per hour for
Kevin Collins. [clears throat]
>> Motion.
>> All in favor?
>> Just get the one.
>> Oh. Thank you.
» Need a motion to adjurnn.
>> Second.
>> All in favor?
>> I have one question. Does Bobby have
cake?
>> Yeah.