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If you all give us just a minute. Oh, there we go. All right. So we will call our August 24th meeting to order. We welcome those who join us in the audience. Those who also

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join us remote. We welcome you. At this time as with every meeting we would like to start with our invocation to prayer. We have a postal April. High tout with the New Salem International Ministries. Pasta, high tout. If you would, if we could please stand for the prayer, immediately following if we could repeat the pledge of allegiance.

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Gracious Father, we pause at the beginning of this gathering to recognize the responsibilities,

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duties, and assignment given to our mayor and the city council.

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May those who serve in this chamber be guided by wisdom, integrity, fairness, and courage.

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Give them the ability to listen carefully, consider diverse perspectives, and make decisions

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with the well-being of our entire community in mind.

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May they remember that behind every policy and every decision or people, families, children,

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seniors, veterans, workers, business owners, students, neighbors and individuals from many cultures

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backgrounds and traditions that rely on their decision-making ability to enhance the future of

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our great city. Help us to build a city where every person is treated with dignity and respect,

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where differences do not divide us, but broaden our understanding, where opportunity is pursued with

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fairness and where compassion guides our response to those who are experiencing difficulty.

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grant our elected leaders patients when challenges are difficult, humility when perspectives

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defer and wisdom to seek common ground without compromising the principle of justice and

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human dignity that represents our Creator. Your word reminds us to seek wisdom to pursue justice,

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to love mercy and to walk humbly. May those principle guide the work that takes place in this

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chamber on today that contribute to a safer, stronger, more compassionate and united Fayette

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Bless the Mayor to City Council City officials, employees, and all who contribute to the life and future of our community.

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Give them clarity when decisions are difficult, patients when the pain is deferred, and discernment to recognize solutions that strengthen the entire community.

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And everything we give you thanks and praise would gratitude,

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Humbness for the opportunity to serve your people with hope for the future of our city

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May we move forward together in peace and your name. We preferably submit this petition on behalf of our leaders as we

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We trust you throughout this process, amen.

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Hey man, I'm glad to lead you to the top of the night.

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I just say something to the Republic, which is that one nation under the individual

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with liberty, justice law.

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Pasta, hi, Tau.

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Thank you for that wonderful prayer.

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I know you for a long time.

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You're doing great work in your ministry.

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You're going to work to some road after school care and some of the other things that you're doing.

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Tell the audience a little bit about yourself in your ministry.

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Yes, sir. My name is Apostle Aperhite Tower. I bring your greetings on behalf of New

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Salem International Ministries located at 4,000 to 6 March and row right here in the

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Gapless City of Fayetteville, North Carolina. The focus and purpose of our ministry is to teach

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biblical principles and strategies that's going to challenge you to change in order to improve

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your quality of life and for specific areas. Spirit to growth, community and economic development,

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housing as well as educational excellence.

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On this weekend, our community and we are inviting the entire city of Fabio to come out.

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We're having a community give back back to school program where we're going to have free

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haircuts.

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We're giving away schools supplies.

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We're also giving away food, clothing, and we're also going to have information concerning

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our upcoming private school, New Salem, Christian Academy that will be open up in the

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227 to 228 school years, so we'll be given an information concern of that.

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So you all are welcome to come if you're not busy this Saturday from 10 to 3.

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All right, thank you. Can we give us a hotel?

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Pause for a hotel around the door.

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Pause for a hotel?

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What time would that be?

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All right. All right.

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Well, thank you so much.

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Pause for a thank you for that wonderful prayer.

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Councils, we move to the next item.

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And we have the announcements I will go to, Council Member Jones.

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Thank you, Mr. Mayor.

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I just want to take a few moments to acknowledge my other half.

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She started a journey with me right after undergraduate school.

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She was a Winston Salem State Ram.

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I was a fellow state Bronco.

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I didn't hold that against her.

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But she decided to marry this young man at the time.

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So I'm excited to just share that on this Friday we will be celebrating our 28th wedding

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Anniversary. So I miss you. Love you. Hi. I just wanted to let you know that. Thank you, Mr. Mayor.

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The smart man sir. Councilman here. Thank you, Mayor. I would like to reiterate from.

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I was trying to get it all on on my cake. Yeah, just want to reiterate from last week that.

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This weekend that Saturday the 29 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. We will be having the 34th annual.

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your module festival that would be in the Smith or Seabruck Park and we hope that

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you will come out there and enjoy the unity time and bring your family's going to be a big day of

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food trucks and you can get your blood pressure check and just a whole lot of great health and

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fun times and for those of you that have not registered to vote you also have an opportunity to do

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That with the NAACP, NAACP, they will have a table and partnership with a mega-side

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five fraternity, the Beta Kai chapter we look forward for you coming out and stopping at

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our table.

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Thank you, Mayor.

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Councilman Davis.

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Thank you, Mr. Mayor.

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I just wanted to announce that Femble's very own, favorable, commonly youth council is having

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a member of interest meeting on September 3rd from 6.30 PM to 8 PM, any 9.12 waiters or

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interested in having being a voice for your age demographic please join them at the Febbo Youth

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Council office at 7.25 West Row and Street on September 3rd from 6.30 to 8 PM.

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Thank you, Mr. Mayor.

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Thank you.

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All right, Council seeing no other announcements, I moved 5.0 to City Manager's report, just

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Thank you, thank you Mayor, two quick announcements and both of them, very positive.

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On this past Wednesday, the Fable Fire Department traveled to Chicago and earned the International

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accreditation for the Commission on Fire accreditation in a national for the fourth time.

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So if we could Chief Dove, if you, and when you come up and give your presentations well,

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if you could tell the council more about that, but the accreditation is a process of self-assessment,

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verify through peer review, and our favourified department is one of only 127

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five departments on the planet.

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To carry the IIT.

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So, class 1, and internationally, accredited recommendations. Thank

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you.

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Outstanding.

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The other quick announcement is, this past weekend has also been very instrumentless.

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Well, our Assistant Clerk Paula Hanbury received her North Carolina Certified Municipal Clerk Certification.

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The certification recognizes municipal clerks have completed over a year, professional education

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training focused on knowledge and skills essential to effectively serve their communities

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and pass their required exams. The certification reflects a commitment to professional excellence

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continuous learning and the highest standards of municipal clerk service. So Ms. Handbrake,

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congratulations Paul.

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That's also. All right. Thank you. Congratulations again to Chief Dove and

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our great Friday Department. I know we look forward to hearing your presentation tonight,

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but thank you as Outstanding of 127 on the planet so that's huge so we thank you in the

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hard work to do all the do every day and this policy certainly we congratulate you for your

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credentials and all of the city employees we have a very hard work in dedicated and qualified team

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that work hard day in a day out a lot of you don't see all the work that they do behind the scenes

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to keep the city running but we thank each and every one of you so so with that council we move

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to the approval of the agenda item 6.0. I'll annotate a motion to approve. We'll use our

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show systems. As a motion by Councilmember Harris, there's second. Second. All right, we're

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going to use our show. I heard Councilmember McNadd out there. All right. So, in any discussion

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on the motion. All right, Councilor, look to you for your votes to approve the agenda.

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All right, Madam Curtis, unanimous. Moving to the consented items, we had a couple of Senate

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Item questions, I think Councilmember Jones, 7.085 I think, all right, and Councilor

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if you could, we'll separate up a down on 086, I know we've had, this was a continuation.

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So if we could approve the agenda with those two items, Councilor Jones, do you want to

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make a motion?

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Yeah, some of them to approve the consent agenda agenda with the exception up pooling 7.05 and 7.06.

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All right.

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There's second.

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Second by Councilman Davis.

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I saw on the chair system.

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All right, discussion on that.

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All right.

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Council, I look to you for your votes.

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This is to approve with the exception.

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Those two items.

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All right.

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Motion carries.

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Adam 7.085.

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How could you council member Jones?

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Thank you so much.

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I just wanted to provide some clarity for the community in regards to this item.

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I am in support of it as it is written at this time.

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I wanted to just provide some additional clarity.

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So what I want to do, I just want to recap my understanding and you can fill in the gaps.

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I don't want to take a lot of time.

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There were obviously some concerns from the community in regards to this particular

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rezoning, and so I just wanted to provide some information to address those.

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The first aspect of that, it was originally planned to

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rezone again about 123 acres from L.I. to H.I.

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and part of that rezoning per my understanding was one addressing

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temporary storage and then another aspect was some building

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modifications there. So those were two things.

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So, the current recommendation, which was revised, which, again, I mean, a agreement with

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is to reduce that rezoning down to 61 acres.

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And that would be for the area where they're actually going to build the extension of the

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still-fab manufacturing.

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In addition to that, there were some concerns with the Rosus Lake bayed, possibly being

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And then there's a conservative conservation district there, and then beyond that there was a layer of trees there and just providing some visuals.

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So as currently met the roses Lake Lake bed will not be to the conservation district.

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They have a great to keep that in place as well.

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Yes, Councilman, that's all correct.

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All right.

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And then thirdly, this should address the aspect of ownership.

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This isn't, this isn't an odd situation, this is something that actually occurs very frequently

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with them real estate where if someone doesn't necessarily own a property, they can do

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an affirmation of an affidavit, of ownership. Is that correct? Correct. That happens almost

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every reason. Yes. Yes. And this is not just big organization, just smaller ones,

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as well as smaller businesses as well. And basically, just wanted to community know it.

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Hey, I want to, I'm wanting to buy this land before I buy it. I want to make sure that I can do what I need to do with it, and it's no different than if I was opening a salon or something somewhere. I want to make sure that I can get that. So that had just been in place.

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Third, fourthly, in the last aspect, part of a small portion of their operations would be moved from the front of still fab, which is right there located near one of my Wichbring Pines community to the back.

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So that was a plus for this particular community, I've spoken with those of Wichbring Pines and we just had our Hill and Dale West meeting as well.

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And I know some of the individuals did go to the zoning commission as well to voice their concerns.

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And so I just wanted to provide that sort of there's any aspects that I've missed that would provide some clarity on some things if you would do that.

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That would greatly appreciate it.

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I think Councilman, you covered it pretty well right there.

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I think you've been pretty much involved in this for a while.

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So you know, well, what's been going on and what the concerns are out there.

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Okay. All right. And Mr. Mayor, I'll be ready to make a motion.

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Yes, sir.

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It's on you.

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All right. So I moved to approve the amended map amendment to heavy industrial and retaining

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the current city area as presented on the evidence base of mid-it and findings that the

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rezoning is consistent with the future land use plan as demonstrated by the attached

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consistency and reasonable statement.

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All right.

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most of the accounts from the Jones. It's like the second-by-a-hair discussion.

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All right, Councilor T. for you votes on O.A. 5.

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I'm Clark, who we miss.

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Councilmember Ferguson?

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I don't know what you're doing now.

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Okay. All right, most of you guys are there. Thank you.

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Thank you.

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Some point O.A. 6 is a continuation of a special use permit

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that we heard a few weeks back access item to be pulled for a separate vote, especially

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just to our audience, are basically governed by state statute, which says that there

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are a number of fines of facts, six in this case, that sworn testimony in evidence either

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support or or do not support a build a case to support or not support these

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find as a facts for council so council wanted a separate vote for this for

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consent and with that can entertain a motion to consider this item unless there

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was some further questions council on. So, Mr. Mayor. All right,

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It's a much better Council member of the House and that is to approve.

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All right, and it's a special use to see if you have to read these findings.

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Okay, all right.

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It's a much better Council member of the House as their second.

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Seconded by Council member Green.

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All right, discussion.

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All right, Council, look to you for your votes.

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All right.

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Madam Clerk, motion carries seven, three.

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Those voting opposed, tops, and Colvin, and Davis.

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All right.

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All right.

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moving to public hearing.

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At this time we are preparing to hold a public hearing with a city council

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formally seeks your input. Individuals designed to speak in the hearing with the signed up

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to speak with the city clerk by name and address before the start of tonight's meeting. We'll

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begin with a staff presentation then we'll move into the formal hearing. 15 minutes will be allowed by

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those in favor and those opposed to the item in the hearing. Individual speakers are limited to

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three minutes each unless by previous arrangement, a single spokesperson is designated, in which

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case the spokesperson may use the entire 15 minutes.

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When the city clerk calls your name, please come to the podium, please clearly state your

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name and address for the record and you may then begin to address the council.

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When the light changes from green to amber that means you have approximately 30 seconds remaining

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and that the conclusion of your time, the time will ring or the light will turn red.

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So at this time I'll stop and turn it over to the user.

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Leave me.

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Good day. Good evening.

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Don't see the presentation.

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Good evening, Mr. Mayor. Members of the Council. My name is Scott Walters. I'm with the Development Services Department. This will be a short presentation on possible text amendments to our signed codes, specifically related to wall-mounted signage, window signage, and the downtown to district.

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The Council has already seen this presentation once before at their work session on June 1.

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The original presentation had seven examples of those seven examples for or selected by the Council

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to move forward for public hearing.

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The staff presented the four examples to the Planning Commission at their July 21 meeting

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as part of the public hearing process and to get their recommendations.

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to tonight we bring it back before the council for your consideration.

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The first example

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in this is for building mountain signage and what we're doing with this example is we would

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remove the five sign limit that we currently have in place and then building mountain signs

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would only be regulated by the wall area of each side of the building using the increased allowance

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below.

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The way it reads unless otherwise stated, the permitted copy area for building

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mom and sonage shall be calculated as the greater of either. Currently it's one to one.

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We would increase that to 1.5 to one and the second one is 10% currently and that would increase

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to 15%.

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The next is the downtown two district. This would remove the downtown two

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districts for the limitations of the subsection below, and it would place or allow the

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DT2 district to use the same standards as all other non-residential districts for building

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mounted signage. Currently, DT2 district is limited to one exterior built-in mounted sign per

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free from.

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Example F is window signage and this would remove the limitation on window

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signage related to walls that have wall signage. It would increase to 100% coverage of the

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glazed area of every window and door on all sides of the building. And as a side note, the

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DT2 district is already regulated in the same as all other non-residential districts for

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low signage below is the current standards as you see scratched out 50% of the

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cumulative square footage of a glaze area that would increase to 100% and we would

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take away, as it says down there below, shall not exceed the square footage of an

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installed wall sign. And what that really means is if there's a wall sign up there

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smaller than what is allowed for the glaze area, then you would have to stick with the

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signage size of the wall sign, instead of the, so we were removed both of those standards

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and increased it to 100% coverage. Our last example,

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in this example, we removed the five

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time limit for building mountain signs, for building or tenant space, allow full wall coverage

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of all building walls.

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So basically a wall wrap, whether it was one big sign and cumpson, the whole side of

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a building or wall building or multiple signs, one side or all sides of the building.

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And the only regulating requirement would be that they would be required to have a sign

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permit for any sign that they did place on the building.

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The recommendations, so when July 21st, the Planning Commission met and voted 5-0,

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the recommended city council approve example B and C as presented below as example B, as we

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showed in the first slide, and example C is the downtown two district example.

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options here, approve with examples of B and C as recommended by the Planning Commission.

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Approved with some or none of the examples I was recommended by the Planning Commission.

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Remain back to staff with specific Verbiage or Change.

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The bill is as desired or did not all text the amendment options.

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Councillor Fattos?

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Mr. Mayor, there's no questions.

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I'm not prepared to open the public hearing.

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All right.

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That will open the public hearing.

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Madam Clerk.

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Mayor, we have no speakers for this item.

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That will close the public hearing, Councillor Fattos.

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There's no questions, Mr. Mayor.

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I'm prepared to make a motion.

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Mr. Mayor.

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I'm prepared to make a motion.

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I'm moved to approve.

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An example's BC and F.

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All right. Motion by Councilmember Hodges to approve is there a second by Councilmember Davis. I believe a song sure system discussion.

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All right. Councilor look to you for your votes on this item.

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All right. Madam Kurt.

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That is approve of an opposition Mayor Pro Tim. All right.

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8.02.

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Mr. Van Geans.

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Robo.

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Good

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evening, Mayor.

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Pleasure to be with you here tonight.

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I don't know.

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That's right.

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I'm a PDF.

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I got it now.

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I did that last time.

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Apologies there for the brief delay.

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So you have before you.

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We're having to be back again with another applicant for the can do performance financing program.

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Tonight we have one project in front of you.

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But I think it's really great.

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One of the work with for some time.

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As you may recall, this program was developed to advance city's goal.

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of increasingly number and diversity of local vendors available to you and

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ever institutional institutions here in the community.

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Importantly, it is designed to address the typical barriers that keep small companies

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from growing, especially those in low and moderate income communities.

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And it overcomes the hurdles of traditional lending.

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It's administered by the 501C3.

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And we have a number of partners that have worked with us throughout this process.

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And we'll continue to.

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We launched it with five million dollars to never leave from the city to a million from the state and job creating businesses can apply for up to seven or fifty thousand dollars worth of funding.

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I would say today's a good exit time to say now is a great time to apply.

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Go to can2careline.com and you can and we'll share the link at a moment there, but we'll be making a push to encourage people to apply for our next round funding.

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But if the company creates required jobs, the funds are treated as a forgivable loan, meaning they don't

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accrue interest and they help that company move forward and grow.

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We had 29 unique businesses apply, working through those, we had 17 candidates that were within

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the qualified areas or qualified as into the type of businesses they were, even though we can't

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fund non-profits a lot of non-profits ask, 7 projects were submitted to the investment committee,

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Six of those went forward with one, I think, withdrawing to seed our partner for reviewing

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the financial due diligence and we had one project that meant the scoring criteria for

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this round of funding.

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Just as a reminder, the air is in blue and it does change and has change.

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There's a new link, but this was the maps that were in place at the time of this round

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of applications.

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These are your load of modern income census tracks.

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And, again, to qualify, they have to be a company that has 15 or fewer businesses.

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I am employees, sorry, operating in the sense of tract, and they have to create one job or $25,000,

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provided with at least 60 of those new hires being from low to moderate income households.

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They have to pay at least 10% above the local average for the positions by classification,

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and create 50% of the jobs within 18 months and 100% within five years.

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Our applicant today that we're pleased to bring forward this college of Scotland and

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Cabinet and cleaning solutions.

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And if you have a moment, we'd like to let him have an opportunity to say a little bit

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about his company and his project.

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Carlos?

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Hello, everyone.

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Yeah, that is nice.

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All right.

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My name is Carlos Godwin.

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In 2019, I started my commercial cleaning business, of course, it's called Cabinet and

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cleaning solutions.

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and we've been providing services to many companies around

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federal, including federal state, for liberty, for it brag, and we've also

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done work with Seymour Johnson Air Force Base.

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And today we're asking for approval for $125,000 for a capital

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equipment request, and these requests are broken down into three

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different categories, category number one, we're looking for fleet.

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So we're looking for $55,000 to purchase two to three utility.

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So that we can deploy more crews simultaneously. We're looking at $28,000 for flow care equipment. This is specifically for our stripping wax service. So we're looking at parts of some buffers and scrubbers and also tile ground equipment. And then I last bucket is $42,000 for our specialty equipment. And this is for our pressurizing trailers, our carpet cleaning and carpet extraction.

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as well as some of our small business equipment,

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like our buckets and our carts and things like that.

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And we're also looking to invest some of that

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last bucket into facility changes as well as safety.

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So this investment is just not going to help with the bottom line.

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We also want to increase our staffing.

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so we're looking at hiring five people over the next five years with three of those to be in the next 18 to 24 months

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and we're hiring different positions such as cleaning technicians, floor specialists, supervisors as well as HR representative.

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So, again, just a quick $125,000 request for approval for our capital equipment so that we can improve our

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Our business and our infrastructure.

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So thank you guys for the time and opportunity.

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Also want to thank the K&DU program for helping us go through this journey.

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Thank you, sir.

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Thank you.

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And I'm sure you're going to have to answer any questions either.

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Now or during or after the public hearing that's required.

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We do respect the request that you approve these funds.

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I think importantly, folks.

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These are to buy the items that allow a company grow that typically

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require a line of credit, or some sort of instrument that adds interest costs, makes it very

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hard to purchase equipment, pay the debt, pay your people, do the work, and wait to get paid,

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and that's what the program is designed to do to allow them to get the assets they need to grow.

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And for people looking for more information, they go to CanDueCarolineFund.com.

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We have a new application form going up tonight.

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And with that, thank you for the opportunity to present this tonight.

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Thank you for support.

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All right.

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Thank you.

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I'll see any questions at the moment so that I'll open up the public here. Madam clerk mayor. We have no speakers for this item

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All right, so that will close the public here and Council I look to you for

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Motion Council number 100 have a quick question for the gentleman from Camden

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Where's headquarters were you based out of we're off of

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World Street, one online World Street.

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Also, thank you so much.

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Yeah.

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Councilman McNair, you had a question?

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OK.

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No, sir.

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I will, if you don't.

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Councilman Davis, do you have a question?

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I'll try to make a motion, sir.

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I'll do that, sir.

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Yeah, I'll do it.

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No, we'll make a motion.

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OK.

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I guess not.

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I don't have to fight over.

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Yeah.

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All right.

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I saw that.

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Davis, make it.

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All right.

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Councilman Davis, make it.

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I moved.

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I moved that we approved Cardinals, Godwin, and it

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can't be in clean and solutions LLC for they can't do

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performance finance in funding and the amount of $125,000 in authorized CDF to release the fund

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subject to the candidate entering into an incentive agreement. Thank you, Mr. Mayor.

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All right, question. All right, so let me get a second on that motion. Most of the time from

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the day of the second by hair and that is a district to business. I think he's a growth streak, right?

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Yes. That's why I was kind of quiet. All right. Thank you. Thank you, Mayor. And I like this. I like

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whenever we can support our local business owners right here in favour. Mr. Robo, tell me

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who does this, who does the verification that everything goes through in accordance to

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the request tonight?

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It is a team effort, as far as from this point forward, it is our staff working with special

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council, and then we require, again, to mention, and then we are also working with I per

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metrics, who is one of your monitoring groups for the funds

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of provided at the time in city staff as a prize of all the

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contractional documents that go into it.

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Everyone enters into a contract.

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We enter into security grants, for example, for the vehicles

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will hold title.

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In that case, so should we know I have good faith in this project

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and actually in all of the companies we've been working with,

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but should someone try to do something like cellar vehicle,

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they wouldn't be able to do that without,

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you know actually they would not be able to do that legally so we do the right things we can

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but we also know that these are small businesses there's risk involved and they're trying to grow

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but it is we also work with seed and then when companies need training or upskilling we work with the

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hub and FSU are applicants who maybe aren't ready yet so we do have a variety of different parts.

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I'm glad to hear that, and I'm ready to vote me. All right. I have a couple more questions. Council member McNair.

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And I just wanted to say before we vote to Mr. Carlos Congratulations, because you do have my vote. And I'm excited for you and your new staff.

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All right.

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We do have a team of experienced financial volunteers that sit on our steering committee.

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And Michelle Scott here is the one that has to check off and sign off on any piece paper that comes in before it gets anywhere.

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Councilmember Miller.

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Yeah, thank you, Mr. Mayor.

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Yeah, encouraged by this program.

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I definitely want to see a grow in more applicants accepted.

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A question for Robo and then a question for Mr. Camden.

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I'll go with Mr. Camden first.

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How do you find out about this program would encourage you to apply?

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And then I'll go ahead and I'll give you my question.

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My question for Robo.

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My question for you is just what's the the most common reason for denial for applicants?

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Well, I was just searching on the federal website and I found it, I really didn't understand

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what it was and then I think I don't know if it would say that at the time, but I

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re-start to one of the people in the organization that were able to inform me so and then

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we just started filling out paperwork and going through the whole process.

456
00:36:19,680 --> 00:36:19,800
Okay.

457
00:36:20,380 --> 00:36:21,120
Glad that you too.

458
00:36:21,540 --> 00:36:22,080
Thank you.

459
00:36:22,080 --> 00:36:33,200
And I think today I would say that it's not so much denial as in, and this is something we're working really hard on by identifying businesses and setting out mail as now trying new ways to get the word out.

460
00:36:33,280 --> 00:36:34,960
We need as much help as possible on that.

461
00:36:35,140 --> 00:36:40,240
This fund is targeted for small existing businesses to help them grow.

462
00:36:40,640 --> 00:36:44,640
Like you've got right here a person, you've got full time with the employees in there.

463
00:36:44,640 --> 00:37:01,780
We've had, I'd say the challenge we've had is we've had a large number of people that haven't yet really gotten started and set up so we've been working to try to get them the tools they need to become fully incorporated operating business versus a secondary contract work.

464
00:37:01,920 --> 00:37:06,960
And so that's really been the challenge for the vast majority of folks that have come in they haven't been ready yet.

465
00:37:06,960 --> 00:37:13,940
We have some people that have come back and they'll be able to grow through that and others we feel very confident they will be able to

466
00:37:13,940 --> 00:37:24,320
Sometimes they want to take a step from step one to step 14 and we've been working to try to help them get into something around step five and six before they go come back and

467
00:37:24,320 --> 00:37:30,520
Look for this big approach. So it takes a lot of time, but also to the other side as we have a lot of early earlier stage companies

468
00:37:30,520 --> 00:37:36,280
I know I feel confident there's a lot of businesses that are out there doing the work every day and they're trying to

469
00:37:36,800 --> 00:37:43,120
Keep them with everything they have to do to keep their business going that haven't yet heard about this. I think your business is a perfect example you've been business

470
00:37:43,120 --> 00:37:45,280
How long ago

471
00:37:45,280 --> 00:37:48,560
This 2019 so he's a perfect fit for this when it first came out

472
00:37:48,560 --> 00:37:51,600
But it was until the second round where he was able to hear about it

473
00:37:51,600 --> 00:37:55,500
So I think you know, I think we just need to get the word out to qualifying existing businesses

474
00:37:55,500 --> 00:37:57,120
We have other programs for startups

475
00:37:57,120 --> 00:38:04,400
We have other grant programs or really big companies, but this unique in the sense it's for a small existing business to help them grow.

476
00:38:05,340 --> 00:38:05,880
Thank you.

477
00:38:06,080 --> 00:38:06,260
Thank you.

478
00:38:06,920 --> 00:38:08,140
And this guy went again.

479
00:38:09,420 --> 00:38:09,840
Good work.

480
00:38:09,960 --> 00:38:10,600
Very impressive.

481
00:38:11,660 --> 00:38:15,920
Robert, when we first talked about this, it was a gap that needed to be filled.

482
00:38:16,340 --> 00:38:20,920
Because as you said, there's something here regardless of what stage of business in it.

483
00:38:21,200 --> 00:38:25,600
If it's a conceptual idea, you have to hub, which will help you with business plans and

484
00:38:25,600 --> 00:38:30,120
other services to help you get incorporated and tax ID numbers and all those kind of things

485
00:38:30,120 --> 00:38:32,200
that people need when you first start.

486
00:38:32,500 --> 00:38:37,320
Then you have those who have been in business who have learned the trade, but now they're

487
00:38:37,320 --> 00:38:42,260
ready to grow in scale, which is Mr. Goin, and then you have our community development.

488
00:38:42,500 --> 00:38:48,440
So there's something along the way, regardless of what size your business is, that somebody

489
00:38:48,440 --> 00:38:54,080
services in the community that are available to you. Again, we just want to encourage people

490
00:38:54,080 --> 00:38:59,920
to apply it as a success story for, I think maybe the first one we approve the local contractor,

491
00:39:00,440 --> 00:39:03,980
she bought additional equipment with it, and now my understanding is she just got recently

492
00:39:03,980 --> 00:39:05,940
awarded a $4 million contract.

493
00:39:06,240 --> 00:39:06,560
Thank you.

494
00:39:06,680 --> 00:39:06,780
Thank you.

495
00:39:07,240 --> 00:39:14,240
I'm glad to be able to grow up and have 16 employees now, a vast exceeding, quickly exceeding their

496
00:39:14,240 --> 00:39:17,080
job creation expectations, and I have been feeling well.

497
00:39:17,420 --> 00:39:21,220
Carlos has five years to get it because we didn't want it to be a burden on compliance

498
00:39:21,220 --> 00:39:21,900
for the company.

499
00:39:21,900 --> 00:39:25,300
I have no doubt he's going to meet those numbers much faster than that.

500
00:39:25,440 --> 00:39:25,920
So, fantastic.

501
00:39:26,320 --> 00:39:30,320
Well, look, I don't want to delay this any further, councilor Davis.

502
00:39:31,280 --> 00:39:35,280
Robert, can you tell us one of the next cycle for applications to come in?

503
00:39:35,720 --> 00:39:40,720
We, if we get a large influx, we tend to run as a group, but you can apply any time.

504
00:39:41,280 --> 00:39:45,260
So, and now is the perfect time because we've just worked through this approval here.

505
00:39:45,440 --> 00:39:46,560
And so we are absolutely ready.

506
00:39:46,660 --> 00:39:50,880
We've got a brand new forum online that will make applying even easier on our site.

507
00:39:51,260 --> 00:39:55,760
So now is a perfect time, it's always a good time to give us a call and we can handle

508
00:39:55,760 --> 00:39:57,080
just about anything that comes in.

509
00:39:57,160 --> 00:39:57,880
Thank you, sir.

510
00:39:58,560 --> 00:39:59,940
All right, Councilor look to you for your votes.

511
00:40:06,050 --> 00:40:10,570
All right, motion carries unanimous congratulations. Let's go and look forward to great things.

512
00:40:18,080 --> 00:40:39,280
All right. All right, council moving to the 9.01 staff reports start up with our chief dove and our ISO rated fire department, 135 in this in the world, 127, 127, 127, I got to say I'm not really ready.

513
00:40:39,280 --> 00:40:41,880
it's only seven eleven at night.

514
00:40:42,240 --> 00:40:46,720
Don't start to, hey, hey, I thought you wanted to get

515
00:40:46,720 --> 00:40:49,000
this one out of my way, oh, you don't worry about that.

516
00:40:49,000 --> 00:40:50,420
You think of some questions for you?

517
00:40:51,160 --> 00:40:55,140
Yes, I usually sight myself up, but we're ready.

518
00:40:57,060 --> 00:40:58,100
Good evening, Mr. Mayor.

519
00:40:58,120 --> 00:41:01,180
Members of the Council, Kevin Doug, fire chief here tonight,

520
00:41:01,360 --> 00:41:05,200
present in the calendar year 2026, second quarter report.

521
00:41:06,680 --> 00:41:09,200
We have three highlights for the second quarter

522
00:41:09,200 --> 00:41:12,620
that we're very excited to share as Dr. Hewitt said.

523
00:41:12,660 --> 00:41:16,940
We went through our accreditation process and we're awarded accreditation

524
00:41:16,940 --> 00:41:21,260
for the fourth time. And what I need everybody to know is that's not

525
00:41:21,260 --> 00:41:23,840
done in a vacuum. That's not done just by the fire department.

526
00:41:24,380 --> 00:41:28,580
That's a whole group effort by the city. When our peer

527
00:41:28,580 --> 00:41:33,180
assessors come in, they interview, city managers office, they interview IT,

528
00:41:33,180 --> 00:41:40,180
the interview, HR, finance, budget, and our normal one center, obviously. And if those folks

529
00:41:40,180 --> 00:41:44,220
don't have their ducks in a row, it doesn't work for us. So we also share this with them

530
00:41:44,220 --> 00:41:50,400
and we're appreciative of their work. And also I have to thank our partners at Fable Technical

531
00:41:50,400 --> 00:41:55,380
Community College. They gave us that beautiful training center that we take advantage of

532
00:41:55,380 --> 00:42:03,160
every day, and that helps a ton as well. Also, we participated in a smoke alarm Saturday,

533
00:42:03,160 --> 00:42:09,900
campus where we visited 111 homes and installed 135 smoke alarms in three hours

534
00:42:09,900 --> 00:42:16,820
all three of charge and we held our groundbreaking for Fire Station 16 so it was a

535
00:42:16,820 --> 00:42:25,500
good quarter moving on to operations we responded to 7,359 calls in

536
00:42:25,500 --> 00:42:32,120
to. Slight increase from 2025 with April be in the busiest of three months.

537
00:42:33,860 --> 00:42:42,840
4452 of those calls were medical in nature, 1,115 false alarms, 1,018 service calls, and

538
00:42:42,840 --> 00:42:50,780
317 fires. We have your heat maps that you like to see. This is your fire map,

539
00:42:55,480 --> 00:42:55,480
and

540
00:42:55,480 --> 00:43:02,960
As always, we're happy to get you zoomed in to your districts if you wish, help you identify any issues.

541
00:43:06,110 --> 00:43:13,730
Other response times stay consistent with the total response time average of seven minutes and 31 seconds, which is well under our eight minute expectation.

542
00:43:15,110 --> 00:43:19,230
I want to give special attention to the decrease in a long handling time.

543
00:43:19,230 --> 00:43:22,890
We thank Ms. Reed and her staff for being very efficient.

544
00:43:23,530 --> 00:43:28,350
Calls are being turned out of our 911 Center and average of one minute and three seconds.

545
00:43:30,400 --> 00:43:31,680
Did it again, Chief?

546
00:43:32,000 --> 00:43:36,740
Calls are being turned out of our 911 Center and an average of one minute and three seconds.

547
00:43:36,740 --> 00:43:37,080
Let's go.

548
00:43:41,130 --> 00:43:49,250
Before we go any further on statistics, I need to share with you that the U.S. Fire Administration has changed how we collect to report that as the fire service.

549
00:43:49,250 --> 00:43:55,990
What was known as inference, which is the National Fire Instant Reporting System, is now nearest,

550
00:43:56,670 --> 00:44:01,590
which is the National Emergency Response Information System, say that three times fast.

551
00:44:03,330 --> 00:44:06,250
This change took place in January of 26th.

552
00:44:07,010 --> 00:44:11,590
Several areas that we previously tracked are no longer tracked, and some have been manipulated

553
00:44:11,590 --> 00:44:13,170
and some are collected different.

554
00:44:13,170 --> 00:44:22,270
So for about the next two or three quarters, you're going to see some things that may be skewed, but I'll try my best to point those out to you.

555
00:44:22,930 --> 00:44:28,310
All right, so for our fire statistics, there were 317 fire responses in the second quarter.

556
00:44:28,670 --> 00:44:30,690
68 of those were structure fires.

557
00:44:31,370 --> 00:44:33,230
12 of those started in the kitchen.

558
00:44:34,410 --> 00:44:38,210
Sadly, there was one civilian fire fatality in nine civilian injuries.

559
00:44:38,210 --> 00:44:44,590
There were seven firefighter injuries, thankfully, all minor springs and strains and things like that.

560
00:44:45,650 --> 00:44:52,990
The percentage of fires confined to the room of origin is a 57% which is one of the things, one of the changes.

561
00:44:54,450 --> 00:44:59,970
Previously, we would identify fires of starting the room of origin contained.

562
00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:12,560
The billing of origin or did it get to an exposure. Well, that's changed now. Now you just report 25% 50% 75% or 100% loss. So that throws that out.

563
00:45:13,380 --> 00:45:23,860
What we're going to do from now on is to confine the room of origin. We're going to count in our 25% damage. That's the best way we can find to track that.

564
00:45:28,240 --> 00:45:36,880
The dollar save ratio was at 94.33% we had a significant fire loss as this quarter which brought

565
00:45:36,880 --> 00:45:45,920
that number down a little bit. That was 2.681 million in total fire loss. Six of the

566
00:45:45,920 --> 00:45:52,980
structure fires were intentionally set and we had three lithium-ion battery fires. We did use

567
00:45:52,980 --> 00:45:57,760
one of our fire blankets so we had a lithium-ion battery fire in the back of a tractor trailer

568
00:45:57,760 --> 00:46:05,620
It was a tot of batteries that were taken off on us and we used our fire blanket.

569
00:46:08,200 --> 00:46:12,380
The top three fire losses were the hotel fire on sick and more dairy road.

570
00:46:13,380 --> 00:46:16,200
This picture is awesome to me, but I'm a fireman.

571
00:46:16,360 --> 00:46:18,240
It probably scares the heck out of a bunch of people.

572
00:46:18,760 --> 00:46:22,800
But one of the occupants took this out of their window that morning.

573
00:46:24,480 --> 00:46:28,780
The second fire was a residential fire on the Dolphus Road and then we had a farm equipment

574
00:46:28,780 --> 00:46:30,600
fire on a stormy point road.

575
00:46:33,380 --> 00:46:37,460
You'll see a decrease in EMS calls. This is also another part of

576
00:46:37,460 --> 00:46:43,760
that nearest where some calls are now reclassified as service calls. Overdoage responses

577
00:46:43,760 --> 00:46:46,960
at Narcana Administration continue to trend down.

578
00:46:49,960 --> 00:46:52,700
Our Hazmat team had a busy, as, excuse me,

579
00:46:52,860 --> 00:46:58,560
had a busy quarter. Natural gas responses increased almost triple. We don't know why,

580
00:46:58,780 --> 00:47:02,340
there was no smoking gun, but we're going to continue to monitor that.

581
00:47:02,340 --> 00:47:11,020
And our hazmat team is actually right now getting ready to go to Hornet County for a CO call, so they're busy, they're always moving.

582
00:47:13,170 --> 00:47:16,850
Moving on to our most important pieces are human capital or personnel.

583
00:47:18,710 --> 00:47:21,630
We held our six annual women in the Fire Service Day.

584
00:47:22,070 --> 00:47:25,810
This is when we invite women interested in the Fire Service to the Training Center.

585
00:47:26,430 --> 00:47:28,230
They kick all the males out.

586
00:47:28,750 --> 00:47:32,010
Our female officers and firefighters are there to answer their questions.

587
00:47:32,010 --> 00:47:39,870
They walked them through the physical agility test, helped them with interview skills, and basically show them what it takes to be a firefighter and what it's all about.

588
00:47:42,830 --> 00:47:46,110
It was actually a really good quarter for us in regards to separations.

589
00:47:46,610 --> 00:47:53,450
This chart looks a little dramatic, but we only had two resignations and one retirement in the second quarter.

590
00:47:55,790 --> 00:47:59,710
At the end of the quarter, we only had one vacancy which was a permanent technician.

591
00:47:59,710 --> 00:48:04,930
and inspiring stations. We filled that. But unfortunately we are starting to see an increase in

592
00:48:04,930 --> 00:48:06,390
resignations over the summer.

593
00:48:08,490 --> 00:48:12,330
Our demographics remain very similar to quarter one simply because

594
00:48:12,330 --> 00:48:19,370
we didn't lose many people and we only hired one inspector. We can continue to currently be at 26%

595
00:48:19,370 --> 00:48:20,790
underrepresented population.

596
00:48:22,870 --> 00:48:26,810
Our staff completed over 32,000 hours of training in the second quarter,

597
00:48:28,280 --> 00:48:49,080
Moving on into the fire marshals office, fire inspectors completed 1,038 new plan reviews did 323 new construction inspections, 3,471 maintenance inspections and discovered 7,242 fire code violations.

598
00:48:49,080 --> 00:48:53,120
Luckily, most of those are education and fixed right there.

599
00:48:54,180 --> 00:48:58,220
Very few require a fine or any kind of additional action.

600
00:48:59,560 --> 00:49:07,020
We issued 143 news certificate of occupancies and distributed 166 educational flyers to businesses.

601
00:49:08,580 --> 00:49:12,280
Here are the top five fire code violations that we find.

602
00:49:12,400 --> 00:49:17,140
Portable fire extinguishers are still number one with electrical equipment,

603
00:49:17,140 --> 00:49:24,320
wire and then hazards be a number to you and last but certainly not least is our community

604
00:49:24,320 --> 00:49:26,500
risk reduction folks.

605
00:49:28,580 --> 00:49:34,360
We interacted with 9,999 residents and I was like really you couldn't

606
00:49:34,360 --> 00:49:41,740
find one more person to go talk to but they gave me the real numbers so that's where it is.

607
00:49:42,300 --> 00:49:50,000
We were at 104 community events, 392 smoke alarms were installed total, 116 carbon monoxide

608
00:49:50,000 --> 00:49:58,480
alarms installed, 105 children are now riding more safely in cars, 1,018 people now know

609
00:49:58,480 --> 00:49:59,500
hands only CPR.

610
00:50:00,000 --> 00:50:05,060
And we did three youth fire setting interventions during the second corps.

611
00:50:08,140 --> 00:50:12,400
And as always, no one should ever go to sleep without a working smoke alarm.

612
00:50:13,900 --> 00:50:19,780
Call us or scan the QR code for a free smoke alarm delivered your home and installed by our fine firefighters.

613
00:50:21,020 --> 00:50:23,200
And I'm happy to take any of your questions.

614
00:50:24,520 --> 00:50:27,440
Do you have a couple of councilmember here and then I had one?

615
00:50:27,900 --> 00:50:29,040
Thank you.

616
00:50:29,420 --> 00:50:30,940
Pretty good report, Chief.

617
00:50:31,080 --> 00:50:32,080
Thank you, sir.

618
00:50:33,220 --> 00:50:34,740
I was trying to see.

619
00:50:34,740 --> 00:50:37,820
I think it was, well, that says that too.

620
00:50:38,580 --> 00:50:47,300
You had a, you had where a person had lost their life.

621
00:50:47,480 --> 00:50:52,200
But I've got it written down here far as statistics, but you've got two or three to

622
00:50:52,200 --> 00:50:58,360
have that. I was trying to see was that person caught that started to fire. I think you

623
00:50:58,360 --> 00:51:07,660
see what you said the fire that was started was that person caught? Yes. Thank you. Chief on the

624
00:51:07,660 --> 00:51:09,440
page with fire inspections.

625
00:51:13,410 --> 00:51:18,150
The second quarter has got years 22, 24, 25, 26.

626
00:51:20,470 --> 00:51:22,510
Yeah. Yes. So you have a

627
00:51:22,510 --> 00:51:29,510
huge increase in fire co-violation is from 25 and 26, it doubled.

628
00:51:30,050 --> 00:51:31,030
Otherwise, that's just.

629
00:51:31,130 --> 00:51:32,770
Our inspections doubled.

630
00:51:35,950 --> 00:51:39,470
If you look at the new construction inspections, none of those were reported.

631
00:51:39,890 --> 00:51:46,230
We didn't do them in 24 and 25, and our planned reviews have almost doubled as well due

632
00:51:46,230 --> 00:51:47,710
to the additional staff.

633
00:51:48,670 --> 00:51:52,090
And a lot of those were found in the new planned reviews when they're going through

634
00:51:52,090 --> 00:51:55,070
the reviews and they say, hey,

635
00:51:55,150 --> 00:51:59,170
with this, you need a riser here or something over here,

636
00:51:59,330 --> 00:52:01,790
that counts as a violation.

637
00:52:02,010 --> 00:52:02,270
Really?

638
00:52:02,610 --> 00:52:03,090
Yes, sir.

639
00:52:03,670 --> 00:52:05,350
It's just because it has to be noted,

640
00:52:05,750 --> 00:52:07,870
but it's no, it's no, it's no, it's a violation.

641
00:52:08,750 --> 00:52:09,070
Oh, yeah.

642
00:52:09,390 --> 00:52:12,410
The maintenance inspections are at a 3471.

643
00:52:12,990 --> 00:52:16,390
Those are the ones that are on the 345 year cycle,

644
00:52:16,390 --> 00:52:20,810
where we go into the business and get them squared away.

645
00:52:20,810 --> 00:52:25,450
Okay. All right. Councilmember Jones and then Matt Prochim.

646
00:52:26,050 --> 00:52:28,790
Thank you, Mr. Mayor. First, thank you all for what you do.

647
00:52:29,190 --> 00:52:31,830
I was able to attend some of the car safety events,

648
00:52:32,010 --> 00:52:33,870
which you partnered with the state and others with.

649
00:52:33,970 --> 00:52:35,050
You all do a good job.

650
00:52:35,290 --> 00:52:38,630
I just appreciate the engagement that you have with the community,

651
00:52:38,730 --> 00:52:40,110
how responsive they were.

652
00:52:40,550 --> 00:52:42,170
And I think a lot of them were surprised.

653
00:52:42,350 --> 00:52:45,070
They were like, oh, the fire department is out here.

654
00:52:45,070 --> 00:52:47,950
So you all do a lot of things. I want to really, really thank you all

655
00:52:47,950 --> 00:52:52,690
community is really, really appreciative of you. My question is quick and I may be

656
00:52:52,690 --> 00:52:57,250
premature asking this if so you can just say so and we get it later in the

657
00:52:57,250 --> 00:53:02,850
year. I see that you're doing a good job with your stepping and your retention as well

658
00:53:02,850 --> 00:53:09,090
and I know you mentioned some things. At this moment, what are your plans or what is

659
00:53:09,090 --> 00:53:14,490
place to address the over-hire situation.

660
00:53:16,610 --> 00:53:20,530
We've been working with budget, and we think we have a solution.

661
00:53:22,390 --> 00:53:30,290
We're moving forward with our second class of 2026, then we'll start in September.

662
00:53:30,990 --> 00:53:35,950
We're going to onboard the over-hires, and we're going to work closely with budget to

663
00:53:35,950 --> 00:53:38,290
make sure we can handle that.

664
00:53:38,290 --> 00:53:43,110
because we're realizing some vacancies and some come in

665
00:53:44,570 --> 00:53:48,710
or retirements, so they're going to flush their cells out.

666
00:53:49,430 --> 00:53:53,510
The concern we have is probably for the first class of 2027,

667
00:53:55,490 --> 00:54:00,090
we may not be able to bring the overhires on it just depends on what the numbers look like.

668
00:54:01,050 --> 00:54:04,410
Okay, understood. I think we can address that at that time. Thank you so much.

669
00:54:04,770 --> 00:54:05,950
Thank you. All right, Mayor Proxima.

670
00:54:06,950 --> 00:54:13,810
Just to piggyback off of what my colleagues said about the partnership with state community services.

671
00:54:14,010 --> 00:54:20,510
I went out there and seen one of your events about the child car seats.

672
00:54:21,390 --> 00:54:27,390
In a grandpa and a pop-pop, like me, did not realize that the car seat that I had installed was installed wrong.

673
00:54:28,070 --> 00:54:33,110
Papa, so I'm glad that I went out to that event and I don't know who the young lady was,

674
00:54:33,110 --> 00:54:37,810
but she corrected me. How do you get that information out? Because I had asked a shake

675
00:54:37,810 --> 00:54:43,410
shaft a few questions about why that exercise only lasted a couple of hours and how can we

676
00:54:44,250 --> 00:54:49,650
didn't publicize that more so Papa's like me around the city can take their cars and

677
00:54:49,650 --> 00:54:54,110
get an inspected for the child seats that's carrying their loved ones. I got the guy right here.

678
00:54:55,310 --> 00:54:59,090
So he can, I'll take the beaten if there is one but he can give you the information.

679
00:55:00,000 --> 00:55:05,540
So that particular event that you were at was part of training new car seat text. So that class was a

680
00:55:05,540 --> 00:55:11,000
week long class, which included a two-hour car seat checking station for us to test our new

681
00:55:11,000 --> 00:55:16,700
text at. However, there have been since that day, there's been three more events there

682
00:55:16,700 --> 00:55:20,100
between the target parking lot and the Harris Theatre parking lot. They're pushed out through

683
00:55:20,100 --> 00:55:24,020
our social media and they're pushed out through our partners. It's not just the Fable Fire Department.

684
00:55:24,360 --> 00:55:29,060
You have the North Carolina Safe Kids Coalition. Hope Mills Fire Department's been out to help us.

685
00:55:29,060 --> 00:55:32,440
Fable Police have been out there to help us so it's pushed out through all of our social

686
00:55:32,920 --> 00:55:37,220
media's, for a brag fire as well. So all of our partners are pushing out the flyers

687
00:55:37,220 --> 00:55:41,760
and the info and the businesses, our local business community between Target and Harris,

688
00:55:41,900 --> 00:55:45,760
Teter and all these folks stepping up to welcome us to their properties. We're going to meet the

689
00:55:45,760 --> 00:55:50,800
people where they're at. I can put it out on social media all day long. We're going to go to where you are,

690
00:55:50,900 --> 00:55:54,700
where you're shopping with your family. We're going to find you. Great to have. I appreciate this. Thank you, sir.

691
00:55:54,700 --> 00:56:00,180
Chief Dev, one more question. You talked about the lithium battery blankets. I believe when I first got on

692
00:56:00,180 --> 00:56:07,260
Council, you told me that they were mainly used for parking of decks. And that's you had three on being used for two questions, two parts.

693
00:56:07,880 --> 00:56:17,160
One does every department have one, plus three questions. Two, do you need more and three? What do you do when you have a

694
00:56:17,160 --> 00:56:19,580
emergency and a blanket is not available?

695
00:56:21,680 --> 00:56:24,000
Because I, because let me back up, because I know the phone that we

696
00:56:24,000 --> 00:56:27,720
you can't use anymore because it has to be a lot of state.

697
00:56:28,940 --> 00:56:32,860
Yeah, well, we continue to learn about lithium-ion batteries every day.

698
00:56:34,080 --> 00:56:36,500
I think question one was, where are they?

699
00:56:36,720 --> 00:56:40,160
There's one on every other floor in every park and deck in the city

700
00:56:40,160 --> 00:56:43,960
to include the hospital, the hospital came on and partnered with us

701
00:56:43,960 --> 00:56:47,860
and there's one in every batagging chief's vehicle in the city.

702
00:56:49,440 --> 00:56:51,800
There are two big to go on our regular fire trucks,

703
00:56:51,800 --> 00:56:54,220
without real remodeling the whole truck.

704
00:56:54,540 --> 00:56:57,180
And we know those things are expensive enough as they are.

705
00:56:58,000 --> 00:57:00,220
So the Patagans chief can get to wherever

706
00:57:00,220 --> 00:57:01,520
they're needed really quick.

707
00:57:01,860 --> 00:57:03,060
And we have some spare.

708
00:57:04,020 --> 00:57:07,540
So the question is, we don't need any more right now.

709
00:57:07,700 --> 00:57:08,100
We're good.

710
00:57:08,820 --> 00:57:09,920
What was your third part?

711
00:57:09,920 --> 00:57:11,320
That was awful, up to you.

712
00:57:11,900 --> 00:57:11,940
OK.

713
00:57:12,800 --> 00:57:14,020
And we had used it.

714
00:57:14,120 --> 00:57:15,260
They were multi-use.

715
00:57:15,500 --> 00:57:17,060
They were designed for a car fire.

716
00:57:17,100 --> 00:57:19,720
My biggest concern, as we were learning

717
00:57:19,720 --> 00:57:28,040
And about battery vehicles is when they start burning, you can't put them out in a timely manner.

718
00:57:28,660 --> 00:57:35,000
And those concrete buildings, they degrade the concrete, they spawn, and you can lose

719
00:57:35,000 --> 00:57:35,460
the building.

720
00:57:36,120 --> 00:57:42,940
So that was the first goal, but as we're learning and moving, you know, we'll get more creative.

721
00:57:43,100 --> 00:57:46,840
You just made me think of another question chief, I don't know if you know the answer or not,

722
00:57:46,840 --> 00:57:52,660
but a while ago it was a bomb threat and I noticed that the police department had to go through

723
00:57:52,660 --> 00:57:57,400
the county to get a sniffing dog. Well, that's the police department that question.

724
00:57:57,620 --> 00:58:00,700
That's okay. Yeah, my dogs don't sniff. Yeah, I can't say I got to say that.

725
00:58:00,700 --> 00:58:06,320
They make people feel better. Thank you. All right. Council, I don't see any further questions.

726
00:58:06,520 --> 00:58:10,480
We'll look for a motion to, uh, some of them. All right. So there's a motion by my

727
00:58:10,480 --> 00:58:14,060
to receive the second quarter report second

728
00:58:14,060 --> 00:58:15,660
about here in discussion.

729
00:58:16,800 --> 00:58:19,440
All right, Council, look to you for your votes to receive.

730
00:58:22,380 --> 00:58:23,540
All right, Chief, you got off easy.

731
00:58:24,560 --> 00:58:24,840
All right,

732
00:58:48,060 --> 00:58:48,740
good job.

733
00:58:49,300 --> 00:58:49,760
I'll be in the corner.

734
00:58:49,920 --> 00:58:50,360
All right, I'm quick.

735
00:58:50,780 --> 00:58:52,100
I don't want to.

736
00:58:52,280 --> 00:58:52,960
Is that enough for that?

737
00:58:53,720 --> 00:58:54,240
I think I'll be in the corner.

738
00:58:55,960 --> 00:58:56,440
All right, get ready.

739
00:58:57,420 --> 00:58:57,480
Okay.

740
00:58:58,940 --> 00:58:59,460
All right, let's see.

741
00:58:59,740 --> 00:59:01,040
We just have to be in the office, and of course,

742
00:59:01,160 --> 00:59:02,440
our residents here in favor.

743
00:59:03,540 --> 00:59:04,140
Good evening.

744
00:59:07,180 --> 00:59:13,760
So again, I'm Chief Brian. I will be conducting our second quarter, which will be through

745
00:59:13,760 --> 00:59:20,280
January through June 30th of this year. I'll be fine. There we go.

746
00:59:29,660 --> 00:59:30,520
As you'll see our numbers

747
00:59:31,160 --> 00:59:39,480
here, persons, crime, property crimes, felony arrest. You'll see pretty much in terms of our numbers.

748
00:59:44,580 --> 00:59:59,440
I'll show you the slides that are coming afterwards that will explain where the increase is at, but in all reference you'll see that overall our crime is down, but we have an increase of 97 incidents.

749
01:00:00,000 --> 01:00:07,960
And again, that will be explained on the next slide here. You'll see our violent crime. You'll see

750
01:00:07,960 --> 01:00:18,900
for 20, 25 to 20, 26, we're at 54 percent less in terms of our homicides and in victims, 46 percent. So.

751
01:00:18,900 --> 01:00:20,780
Okay, I want to make sure to press our data.

752
01:00:21,160 --> 01:00:31,000
Yes, 54% less in terms of incidents and also 15, 46% in terms of victims of homicides.

753
01:00:31,720 --> 01:00:41,020
And then also we have a 29% decrease also in rate and we continue to lower our aggravated assault.

754
01:00:41,760 --> 01:00:47,900
But our Achilles heel right now are the simple assaults where you see here is about 18% out.

755
01:00:47,900 --> 01:00:54,520
and then overall you can look at total persons that's up about 12 percent across the board from

756
01:00:54,520 --> 01:00:56,060
25 to 26.

757
01:00:58,140 --> 01:01:04,300
Here again, it reiterates our numbers regarding homicides. One of the things that we'll

758
01:01:04,300 --> 01:01:13,180
like to tout in terms of the average solvency rate across the United States about 61 percent.

759
01:01:13,180 --> 01:01:21,280
But Fable Police Department has 100 percent clearance, 100 percent clearance.

760
01:01:22,320 --> 01:01:29,500
So we're doing that unit is doing a phenomenal job in terms of solving these crimes in

761
01:01:30,280 --> 01:01:33,200
terms of those that have been victimized.

762
01:01:37,290 --> 01:01:39,790
Door are aggravated assaults.

763
01:01:39,790 --> 01:01:45,030
Again, you'll see these numbers in terms of where we are in these misdemeanors, but yet

764
01:01:45,030 --> 01:01:49,890
We have 16% decrease where we're partnering with the Phoenix Center

765
01:01:49,890 --> 01:01:51,730
to provide a wraparound service.

766
01:01:52,210 --> 01:01:57,170
We also have our officers and detectives that do follow up to ensure

767
01:01:57,170 --> 01:02:02,270
that those victims will not be repeat in terms of being a

768
01:02:02,270 --> 01:02:04,950
victimization in terms of the domestic violence.

769
01:02:08,100 --> 01:02:12,700
As you see here, our sound thinking or shock spotter where we had

770
01:02:12,700 --> 01:02:22,140
213 alerts through this period with 8 guns recovered, 8 arrested, and 317 shell cases recovered.

771
01:02:26,620 --> 01:02:31,760
A property crimes, as you'll see these numbers, are also impacted, especially on our

772
01:02:31,760 --> 01:02:35,580
motor vehicle, where we're down 23%.

773
01:02:35,580 --> 01:02:42,500
You'll see we actually had a team that came together with a task force to address when we're starting

774
01:02:42,500 --> 01:02:47,620
have a trend and that particular task force really made an impact on our numbers.

775
01:02:48,180 --> 01:02:56,320
So you'll see that here reflected on the slide and also our robbery, down 21% in terms

776
01:02:56,320 --> 01:03:02,880
of these robberies when our patrol arrive, we also have our capers, our crimes against

777
01:03:02,880 --> 01:03:08,960
persons unit that also respond and so with that they're able to come out there and track

778
01:03:08,960 --> 01:03:14,520
and he suspects live as soon as, you know, when they get there, then they'll start investigating

779
01:03:14,520 --> 01:03:19,340
that particular case and many times they're able to get and arrest those suspects.

780
01:03:19,940 --> 01:03:24,200
So therefore you all know that many times it's going to be one or two individuals in the

781
01:03:24,200 --> 01:03:26,760
city that are committing these repeat robbery.

782
01:03:27,020 --> 01:03:32,380
So therefore we're being effective by utilizing our capers unit in there doing a great job

783
01:03:32,380 --> 01:03:32,980
as well.

784
01:03:36,530 --> 01:03:44,490
Next here is our juvenile data, as you know, this is across the nation, but also within our state.

785
01:03:44,810 --> 01:03:48,850
We've received calls from other chiefs in terms of what we're doing.

786
01:03:49,530 --> 01:03:58,110
Of course, you'll see here the biggest change that you'll see in terms from 25 to 26 is our field contacts with juveniles.

787
01:03:58,110 --> 01:04:06,730
It's up 43% now. You also see that that's reflective from 25 to 26 in terms of what we're doing in

788
01:04:06,730 --> 01:04:10,870
Caesing we're seeing 105% more weapons

789
01:04:11,510 --> 01:04:12,910
We seized

790
01:04:13,510 --> 01:04:19,230
Almost 70% more drugs from juveniles, but at the same time you also a decrease in

791
01:04:19,930 --> 01:04:25,870
Breaking and entering among juveniles by 30 almost 32% and also our

792
01:04:25,870 --> 01:04:31,430
motor vehicle theft has really been impacted also with this encounters that we have now

793
01:04:31,430 --> 01:04:38,670
almost 52% decrease the motor vehicle at that. So these are how we are

794
01:04:38,670 --> 01:04:45,310
encountering and making an impact in terms of crimes with juveniles. Now this slide

795
01:04:45,310 --> 01:04:53,410
here illustrates the crimes and contacts with juveniles during the curfew time

796
01:04:54,430 --> 01:04:59,970
which is 11 a.m. or 11 p.m. to 6 a.m. and if you're watching and seeing

797
01:05:00,000 --> 01:05:10,100
What's happening with some of our other municipalities, they're actually looking at changing their time from 11 or looking at starting at early to 9 p.m.

798
01:05:10,520 --> 01:05:23,300
So, but at this time we have right now where you see, you have 38 contacts with those 16 years in a below, where we had 17 incidents with 22 incidents that were charged.

799
01:05:23,300 --> 01:05:32,540
And 17 of these are involved in juveniles, and then you'll see the reference to the different incidents that have taken place.

800
01:05:32,980 --> 01:05:40,640
Now we actually had a total of 55 contacts during this time period, but once we engage with these individuals,

801
01:05:41,260 --> 01:05:50,000
always be aware that we're always utilizing either a real suspicion or probable cause before we are engaging with these individuals.

802
01:05:50,000 --> 01:05:55,620
And, you know, again, this is where I state that we're not approaching any of these individuals

803
01:05:55,620 --> 01:05:59,000
just based on because we think that they're 16 or below.

804
01:05:59,840 --> 01:06:04,540
And just to show that reflection when we do encounter some of these individuals, we've had

805
01:06:04,540 --> 01:06:05,560
a total of 55.

806
01:06:06,720 --> 01:06:14,220
And we had about 10 of them were 17 years of age, so that was above and also 7 were adults.

807
01:06:14,220 --> 01:06:27,800
So, many times, this kind of reflects again that we can't really tell what their ages until we actually have some type of reason to engage with them through a reasonable suspicion or a probable cause.

808
01:06:30,180 --> 01:06:41,000
Here's our school resource program. As you see, we have the 18 certified SROs, of course, today was the first day of school, and so we're going to be up and ramping up.

809
01:06:41,000 --> 01:06:45,520
And one change is different in terms of how we're looking at our numbers.

810
01:06:46,300 --> 01:06:51,140
You'll see previous year, we done it as the school year,

811
01:06:51,200 --> 01:06:54,480
but now we're just going to do it as a calendar year, just to keep it consistent,

812
01:06:54,580 --> 01:06:56,960
because that's how we usually track all the rest of our numbers.

813
01:06:57,360 --> 01:06:58,800
So we just want to have that consistency.

814
01:07:02,340 --> 01:07:06,420
Again, this slide demonstrates our partnership with our federal partners.

815
01:07:06,420 --> 01:07:15,200
If you'll see here our ATF, we had six federally sentenced during this quarter, four federally

816
01:07:15,200 --> 01:07:21,200
indicted and 48 fire arms Cs, so with those 48 fire arms Cs, those are all charge

817
01:07:21,200 --> 01:07:23,200
federally through the ATF.

818
01:07:23,520 --> 01:07:25,820
You said six federally sentenced, I'm saying 13.

819
01:07:26,560 --> 01:07:33,760
So six federally sentenced, this is with ATF, specifically with ATF, four federally indicted

820
01:07:33,760 --> 01:07:36,460
in 48 firearms charged federally.

821
01:07:36,800 --> 01:07:39,520
And then between our federal partners of DEA FBI

822
01:07:39,520 --> 01:07:43,780
and the US Marshal, we sent in seven federally,

823
01:07:44,140 --> 01:07:47,440
17 federally indicted with 28 firearms

824
01:07:47,440 --> 01:07:51,760
and nearly 600,000 in currency and asset seized

825
01:07:51,760 --> 01:07:52,760
with those partners.

826
01:07:56,410 --> 01:07:59,390
Here you'll see our Vice-Narcotics Depression.

827
01:08:00,690 --> 01:08:05,650
Of note, you'll see, meth, we're definitely rising

828
01:08:05,650 --> 01:08:09,610
in terms of seizures of meth and also marijuana.

829
01:08:10,490 --> 01:08:17,530
The marijuana was a result of a federal case that we had with DEA, so therefore we had a pretty

830
01:08:17,530 --> 01:08:24,050
good seizure from that particular case which also increased what we had from 25 to 26.

831
01:08:24,610 --> 01:08:29,510
But across the board, we're starting to see an increase in meth across the community in terms

832
01:08:29,510 --> 01:08:30,070
of usage.

833
01:08:32,760 --> 01:08:37,480
These are numbers here for our 911 Communication Center.

834
01:08:38,080 --> 01:08:43,920
You'll see 911 calls, we've processed 125,000 plus calls.

835
01:08:44,500 --> 01:08:48,580
And between that and our admin, you're almost pressing up to 200,000 calls.

836
01:08:49,040 --> 01:08:54,280
Calls for service or dispatch is about just over 103,000 calls.

837
01:08:55,080 --> 01:08:59,140
So we're continuously pushing forward with our 911 Center.

838
01:09:03,330 --> 01:09:11,750
One thing that we've been having in terms of traffic enforcement, and we're hoping that

839
01:09:11,750 --> 01:09:15,150
these numbers are being reflective of what we're being able to do in the community.

840
01:09:15,750 --> 01:09:21,250
So if you see in 2025 we had 14 fatalities resulting in these crashes.

841
01:09:22,330 --> 01:09:23,990
Now we have nine.

842
01:09:24,330 --> 01:09:30,950
Then as far as the fatalities, the numbers were 16 last year when we have nine on there as

843
01:09:30,950 --> 01:09:39,110
So I hope this is reflective of what we're doing in terms of slowing traffic down and make

844
01:09:39,110 --> 01:09:43,710
sure that those that are coming through here understand that you need to slow down when

845
01:09:43,710 --> 01:09:45,810
you come in through the city of Fayville.

846
01:09:46,330 --> 01:09:52,810
Then you'll see the circumstances that contribute that contributed to these fatalities.

847
01:09:53,910 --> 01:09:59,630
As you see there in 2025, 10 of them, 10 of those incidents.

848
01:10:00,000 --> 01:10:08,560
We're speeding that contributed to those fatalities. For this year, we have five. So I believe the message

849
01:10:08,560 --> 01:10:18,740
is getting out there. On here is our traffic stop reporting where you see we're almost 2500 stops, 23,

850
01:10:18,900 --> 01:10:25,240
2400 more stops than last year. Again, that's with the increase of what we're doing also with

851
01:10:25,240 --> 01:10:30,620
personnel, we have a more personnel on the street, so there we can be a lot more proactive

852
01:10:30,620 --> 01:10:32,080
versus being reactive.

853
01:10:34,820 --> 01:10:38,440
Again, you'll see the demographics regarding the vehicle stops,

854
01:10:38,640 --> 01:10:45,380
vehicle searches, and between there, if you look at 25, among all three of the demographics,

855
01:10:46,160 --> 01:10:53,580
the numbers isn't really changing. You will see there was increase in vehicle stops, but

856
01:10:53,580 --> 01:11:00,120
We also see that there was a decreased in searches, but we still have maintained the same numbers

857
01:11:00,120 --> 01:11:03,500
across the board between all three demographics.

858
01:11:11,730 --> 01:11:17,630
This is one of the initiatives with the Governor's Highway Safety Program where speed kills

859
01:11:17,630 --> 01:11:19,210
and no the limit 2026.

860
01:11:19,750 --> 01:11:27,970
And these particular traffic enforcement activities you'll see that we had over 600 citations

861
01:11:27,970 --> 01:11:37,670
issued with speeding being the overwhelming citation, dorm or violation door in these particular

862
01:11:38,510 --> 01:11:39,270
encounters.

863
01:11:45,080 --> 01:11:52,540
Here we are internal affairs unit where you look at our numbers, use of force, has increased

864
01:11:53,160 --> 01:11:58,420
my 10, but then you'll see that the most number that's going to stick out to you right

865
01:11:58,420 --> 01:12:06,580
are internal departmental investigations and that's been as a result of officers not appearing

866
01:12:06,580 --> 01:12:12,900
at court. So we're holding our officers accountable and we're just making sure that they

867
01:12:12,900 --> 01:12:18,900
understand that it's critical for them to be a court. So you'll see the numbers being reflected

868
01:12:18,900 --> 01:12:26,700
and then you'll see our exonerations sustained and complaints of the OTCs and unfounded allegations.

869
01:12:32,040 --> 01:12:45,340
Again, this slide again will reflect in terms of the biggest standout as those suspensions and again the majority of those are what's driving those are failing to appear to court.

870
01:12:51,620 --> 01:13:03,400
As you see our department mental staffing, that's as of August 12th and if you see we're in the 90s in every one of these categories.

871
01:13:03,400 --> 01:13:09,880
every one of these categories. And if you notice our numbers last year around this time,

872
01:13:10,020 --> 01:13:15,720
we were at 64 vacant positions. And we're at 32 now, but that's with the eight additional

873
01:13:15,720 --> 01:13:23,700
that that was added. So we would actually be, I want to say, at 23. So you see, we're well

874
01:13:23,700 --> 01:13:32,540
into the, in that downrange in terms of reducing our numbers, we're projecting based on what we

875
01:13:32,540 --> 01:13:40,180
to you right now, we have about 17 or 18 that are in the pipeline and we're projecting that

876
01:13:40,180 --> 01:13:44,480
by January's class, we will have every vacancy filled.

877
01:13:44,720 --> 01:13:46,700
That's all for today, it's

878
01:13:49,770 --> 01:13:52,310
first time to talk to remember that in the case.

879
01:13:53,150 --> 01:14:00,370
And there's a lot of, in terms of what we're doing, we're also attracting a lot of ladders and

880
01:14:00,370 --> 01:14:05,550
those ladders are critical because we're able to get them on the street anywhere from four

881
01:14:05,550 --> 01:14:10,830
weeks to six weeks, you know, so that's how we're able to do that, but we're also doing

882
01:14:10,830 --> 01:14:16,530
some innovative recruiting in terms of we're bringing in canines from other states.

883
01:14:16,790 --> 01:14:21,470
People are applying from Connecticut, you know, to become a canine officer here in

884
01:14:21,470 --> 01:14:21,870
Fayville.

885
01:14:22,630 --> 01:14:25,670
We're attracting officers from New York, Kentucky.

886
01:14:26,110 --> 01:14:31,530
I mean, we have a really wide scope in terms of what we're attracting and we're bringing

887
01:14:31,530 --> 01:14:32,030
them here.

888
01:14:32,030 --> 01:14:39,230
So what that's doing is helping us to increase the level of experience from, you know,

889
01:14:39,370 --> 01:14:45,490
like I said, when we first got on here, when I first got on here last year, 75% of our officers

890
01:14:45,490 --> 01:14:52,510
had five years of less of experience. So now with attracting and bringing in these laterals,

891
01:14:53,130 --> 01:14:58,190
laterals that have left and came back. So we're really making an impact and what we're being able

892
01:14:58,190 --> 01:14:59,970
to do and in some of these.

893
01:15:00,000 --> 01:15:09,140
Is innovative program, so I know patrol is really happy to see what we're going to be able to do in terms of 15 officers per squad.

894
01:15:09,760 --> 01:15:22,780
So then now that is, that's going to tell that we'll be able to be proactive and not only reactive and then we'll be able to bring back our certain as well to, you know, to deal with any kind of projects that we may have in the community.

895
01:15:23,460 --> 01:15:28,980
So again, we're definitely in a great spot in terms of what we're looking at right now.

896
01:15:31,500 --> 01:15:33,820
Again, this is our departmental staffing.

897
01:15:33,940 --> 01:15:40,460
Of course, you know, we are in a very transient community where we have a significant, a lot

898
01:15:40,460 --> 01:15:45,100
of our employees are also military connected.

899
01:15:46,060 --> 01:15:52,080
So many times we have those that when, you know, their spouse is ready to PCS, we're also

900
01:15:52,080 --> 01:15:57,220
losing those good employees, and, you know, then we have some that come in, so, but we always

901
01:15:57,220 --> 01:16:03,580
take them, but we have that understanding that this is a transient community with Fort Bragg,

902
01:16:03,880 --> 01:16:11,260
so, but we always value the experience that those employees bring to us day in and day out.

903
01:16:14,120 --> 01:16:20,800
For those that are unaware, in April, we launched our FAPD podcast, and so we're utilizing

904
01:16:20,800 --> 01:16:25,640
these to kind of make sure and put that narrative out there in terms of our local policing,

905
01:16:25,640 --> 01:16:31,260
our department priorities and letting people know the people behind the badge and also our

906
01:16:31,260 --> 01:16:37,880
professional staff. So you can catch it. Believe the second Friday of each month either

907
01:16:37,880 --> 01:16:43,320
a Spotify, Apple, I Heart and YouTube. So we're getting out there. We're going to try to

908
01:16:43,320 --> 01:16:49,360
have that voice out there, Mr. Ferguson. I know you have that voice. We're going to get you

909
01:16:49,360 --> 01:16:50,660
there so you can help us out.

910
01:16:53,770 --> 01:16:56,010
Now you'll see our community events.

911
01:16:57,250 --> 01:17:02,830
We have several our citizens, police academy, our graduation there, that's depicted on this

912
01:17:02,830 --> 01:17:03,370
slide.

913
01:17:03,750 --> 01:17:10,410
Our special Olympics, our fundraiser for the torch run, and I don't know if you saw that

914
01:17:10,410 --> 01:17:16,250
slide on the bottom left there, we were running in the rain, and that was a tough one.

915
01:17:16,390 --> 01:17:17,030
That's commitment.

916
01:17:17,570 --> 01:17:17,830
Yes, sir.

917
01:17:17,830 --> 01:17:24,550
then our other community events were a child abuse awareness month, the pinwheels for the

918
01:17:24,550 --> 01:17:30,790
Child Advocacy Center and we also showing our telecommunications week where they had cultural

919
01:17:30,790 --> 01:17:38,470
foods from New Orleans, Latin food and Italian food also displayed during that it was very

920
01:17:38,470 --> 01:17:41,650
very festive during that week.

921
01:17:42,410 --> 01:17:54,950
And then here on this slide, here's our national police week where we honor those officers that made that ultimate sacrifice while recognizing the dedication of those that continue to serve.

922
01:17:55,630 --> 01:18:03,250
And of course, we had our awards and promotion ceremony, which we also recognize the dedicated hard work of our officers and professionals staff.

923
01:18:04,670 --> 01:18:08,450
As you see here, our motto, faith, and service,

924
01:18:08,690 --> 01:18:11,030
pride and commitment and dedication to excellence,

925
01:18:11,510 --> 01:18:13,770
and our vicious statement and mission statement,

926
01:18:14,590 --> 01:18:16,310
and at this time I will take your questions.

927
01:18:17,310 --> 01:18:18,130
All right, thank you for doing.

928
01:18:18,570 --> 01:18:19,690
We have a couple of questions.

929
01:18:20,110 --> 01:18:21,210
I have a council member here.

930
01:18:21,970 --> 01:18:26,230
Well, thank you, Mayor, and Chief, thank you for

931
01:18:26,230 --> 01:18:29,190
you and our team for all that you're doing.

932
01:18:30,650 --> 01:18:37,930
Man, I'm glad to hear that number is going to change where we're going to be fully staff real

933
01:18:38,550 --> 01:18:39,130
soon.

934
01:18:40,050 --> 01:18:48,410
And I've go back a few police chiefs and so this sounds real great so thank you and everything

935
01:18:48,410 --> 01:18:55,090
that you're doing and that your staff is doing and of course the council with putting

936
01:18:55,090 --> 01:19:01,630
and the budget to help give additional dollars to pull on many women in.

937
01:19:02,490 --> 01:19:08,710
I got a couple of questions one, but when you said about the lateral folks are coming

938
01:19:08,710 --> 01:19:16,210
and you said some are coming back, and first explained what that meant.

939
01:19:16,990 --> 01:19:24,990
So we've had officers that were previously employed with FPD that went on to other departments

940
01:19:24,990 --> 01:19:32,730
or sought employment in another career field, but they are also coming back now to the police

941
01:19:32,730 --> 01:19:39,830
department. So we're looking more and more inviting to support them coming back. I believe so

942
01:19:39,830 --> 01:19:44,510
there they're getting the message they're seeing what's going on. Yeah. Explain to me what you

943
01:19:44,510 --> 01:19:54,110
met on the K9 you're getting some K9 folks that are coming in lateral and I don't know if this

944
01:19:54,110 --> 01:19:59,910
get ready to be a dumb question here, but I'm going to use that K9 and a guy homeowner

945
01:20:08,920 --> 01:20:17,900
We've actually had two candidates that have canines that they want to bring those canines with them.

946
01:20:17,900 --> 01:20:26,380
So that's really, when you can bring on a team like that right off hand, no training,

947
01:20:27,020 --> 01:20:33,920
they'll just have to get some of the standards in terms of how we do things and our policies,

948
01:20:34,160 --> 01:20:38,660
and SOPs, but pretty much they can hit the ground running when it comes to stuff like that.

949
01:20:38,660 --> 01:20:49,700
Okay, and I close to getting close to my end here, go to your slide with sound thinking,

950
01:20:51,220 --> 01:21:00,700
yeah, sound thinking, shots, spotter, January through June 26. Give, say those numbers out loud,

951
01:21:02,240 --> 01:21:06,680
once again, because I don't want to mix them up, even though I see what I see in front of me.

952
01:21:06,680 --> 01:21:15,560
to tell me the the support with the sound thinking shot spotter for that time frame of the recoveries.

953
01:21:17,300 --> 01:21:18,080
So,

954
01:21:22,720 --> 01:21:30,060
so out of the 213 alerts we've had eight guns recovered, eight individuals arrested,

955
01:21:30,520 --> 01:21:36,980
and 317 shell cases that are also recovered. Okay, so that's been a big plus.

956
01:21:36,980 --> 01:21:43,620
It will, and one of the things for us, we understand that this is just one tool in our toolbox.

957
01:21:44,820 --> 01:21:54,980
But as we continue moving forward and collecting these shell cases, those will help us connect the dots on whether there's aggravated assaults,

958
01:21:55,160 --> 01:21:57,700
shooting into occupied dwellings or vehicles.

959
01:21:57,920 --> 01:22:05,220
And that's what we continue to just kind of hold on, because it is going to connect a dot when we get an individual or receives a weapon.

960
01:22:05,220 --> 01:22:10,900
and at that time we can pin or connect the nexus to those individuals with those weapons

961
01:22:10,900 --> 01:22:12,660
and those previous incidents.

962
01:22:13,040 --> 01:22:13,520
Yes, sir.

963
01:22:13,620 --> 01:22:13,920
Thank you.

964
01:22:14,020 --> 01:22:15,640
I don't want to take up all the time.

965
01:22:15,820 --> 01:22:18,080
I know my colleagues going to have some questions.

966
01:22:18,580 --> 01:22:27,200
I was also looking over at the juvenile data report and I'm glad to hear because of negative

967
01:22:27,200 --> 01:22:34,360
things that we have been saying, I'm glad to hear that until you come up on a young adult.

968
01:22:36,020 --> 01:22:42,960
That's when you find out the information that's needed about that particular person, not just running up on them.

969
01:22:43,300 --> 01:22:49,380
So it was good to hear that and also wanted to say congratulations to you.

970
01:22:49,380 --> 01:22:58,580
I don't think you've been before us since you were put into the governor's committee, whatever that congratulations on that sir.

971
01:22:58,880 --> 01:22:59,260
Thank you, sir.

972
01:22:59,580 --> 01:22:59,960
Thank you, Mayor.

973
01:23:00,480 --> 01:23:01,260
All right.

974
01:23:01,840 --> 01:23:10,420
Mayor Pro Tim. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you Chief. Great report. Numbers look great. I just want to add a few comments. One is your

975
01:23:11,400 --> 01:23:12,860
Emporium speeding campaign.

976
01:23:13,660 --> 01:23:21,420
I'm glad that the numbers are going down in the speeding. I know that is your model to make sure that when they come through fairfield, they know that they need to slow down.

977
01:23:22,960 --> 01:23:25,260
But I'm an emphasize school started today.

978
01:23:26,400 --> 01:23:28,020
I'm going to say that again, school started.

979
01:23:28,940 --> 01:23:31,320
I know you did a campaign around a school zone.

980
01:23:31,520 --> 01:23:32,800
I know you did it on 295.

981
01:23:33,020 --> 01:23:37,140
Rayford, Rowley, Rowley, Ramsey Street, Morgan to Rowley.

982
01:23:37,320 --> 01:23:38,500
What school started today?

983
01:23:38,760 --> 01:23:39,320
Yes, sir.

984
01:23:39,580 --> 01:23:41,020
Might want to think about that.

985
01:23:41,940 --> 01:23:43,120
Sir, how are you today?

986
01:23:43,360 --> 01:23:46,400
Chief Wallace already has plans about what's going on.

987
01:23:46,620 --> 01:23:48,080
So he already talked to me this morning.

988
01:23:49,060 --> 01:23:51,280
And he already has a plan in terms to address

989
01:23:51,780 --> 01:23:54,760
some of those, you know, in terms of that as well.

990
01:23:54,760 --> 01:23:58,520
Well, let me just say this. I was talking with the mayor this morning. I was telling them I was going out

991
01:23:59,560 --> 01:24:06,200
to one of my hot spots in the school zone. I was glad to see that a chief hunt had his people out there at Stony Point

992
01:24:06,200 --> 01:24:11,720
and Century that we talked about Mr. Mayor with DOT about that traffic. It's just what

993
01:24:12,680 --> 01:24:18,400
I said this is to know that we're going to do all we can to make sure our kids are safe

994
01:24:18,400 --> 01:24:22,820
in school zones and outside of school zones. Not just this year, but every year.

995
01:24:23,720 --> 01:24:27,860
Speaking of that, I want to make sure you gave some prop to your crime prevention specialists.

996
01:24:28,440 --> 01:24:33,020
Because I think the reason the motor vehicle theft break-ins has went banned because every time I turn around,

997
01:24:33,120 --> 01:24:37,940
they are emphasizing motor vehicles block your vehicle up and don't leave your guns in your cars.

998
01:24:38,120 --> 01:24:38,980
9pm routine.

999
01:24:39,200 --> 01:24:40,100
The 9pm routine.

1000
01:24:40,380 --> 01:24:42,440
I mean, they recycling over and over again.

1001
01:24:42,880 --> 01:24:48,700
I know my highly recognized one, I can't remember what her name was,

1002
01:24:48,700 --> 01:24:56,120
But all of them need to be recognized for the great job that they do at all these communities that we have across the entire city if a size of that

1003
01:24:57,000 --> 01:24:59,980
The second one is for teeth hunt we

1004
01:25:00,000 --> 01:25:09,700
We just renewed our SRO contract. Are we meeting our obligations with how many SROs we need to have in the high schools, the junior high schools, and elementary schools, so full of a song?

1005
01:25:09,880 --> 01:25:10,480
Yes, sir.

1006
01:25:10,920 --> 01:25:18,600
And what is the next requirement that we have? We have how many schools, 33, and we only have 18 SROs, I think?

1007
01:25:18,700 --> 01:25:21,220
Yes, sir. So is it still shared services?

1008
01:25:21,760 --> 01:25:36,460
I mean, right now, the, uh, a common county share, uh, a common county school system is, is paying for that, and so there will be some talk in terms of adding at least another three, uh, here, um, when, when we come up to that point, yes, sir.

1009
01:25:36,700 --> 01:25:41,260
Last question, I was going to ask Chief Doug, but I'm going to ask you, do we have dogs, uh, bomb sniffing dogs?

1010
01:25:41,740 --> 01:25:43,880
We have one. We have one. Yes, sir.

1011
01:25:44,220 --> 01:25:49,540
All right. Thank you, Chief. That's all I need to say. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. All right. Thank you. Councilmember Jones.

1012
01:25:49,540 --> 01:25:50,700
Thank you, Mr. Mayor.

1013
01:25:50,800 --> 01:25:51,220
Very quick.

1014
01:25:51,740 --> 01:25:52,560
Thanks for the report.

1015
01:25:52,840 --> 01:25:54,100
Provide some extra information.

1016
01:25:54,800 --> 01:25:56,640
Just to make sure I got that correctly.

1017
01:25:56,760 --> 01:26:00,720
Home of Siles are down over a little over 54 percent.

1018
01:26:00,840 --> 01:26:01,360
Was that correct?

1019
01:26:01,640 --> 01:26:01,980
That is correct.

1020
01:26:02,040 --> 01:26:05,820
I wanted to bring that for it because a lot of times I hear in the community nice.

1021
01:26:06,120 --> 01:26:11,740
When you hear of a homicide and it's in the media and it gets attention, I get it and it

1022
01:26:11,740 --> 01:26:15,200
gives the perception that it happens a lot.

1023
01:26:15,300 --> 01:26:16,480
I know one is too many.

1024
01:26:16,480 --> 01:26:22,360
I totally understand that, but it gives you perception that it's consistently occurring.

1025
01:26:23,020 --> 01:26:27,320
And so I'm glad that you brought that statistic up for that.

1026
01:26:27,320 --> 01:26:31,700
So I've really, really, I'm glad for that, especially what your clearance rate, that's

1027
01:26:31,700 --> 01:26:32,080
phenomenal.

1028
01:26:32,540 --> 01:26:37,780
And I want to tie that into the sound thinking a lot of my areas that some of them, they wish

1029
01:26:37,780 --> 01:26:44,640
they had it in their areas as well, but they were, for the most part, in support of it

1030
01:26:44,640 --> 01:26:49,300
kind of understand. I think you did it. I don't think you did a good job with elaborating

1031
01:26:49,300 --> 01:26:56,580
such as the shell casings and how you may not see that immediate effect but through the process

1032
01:26:56,580 --> 01:27:01,580
of your investigation it might be six months down to whatever it is it could lead to something.

1033
01:27:01,860 --> 01:27:08,680
So I think that that is a benefit of that. So my two three quick questions for you in regards

1034
01:27:08,680 --> 01:27:16,860
to the youth context. You mentioned the reasonable suspicion, probable cause aspect. Could you

1035
01:27:16,860 --> 01:27:22,560
just give us an idea, get a public an idea, what that potentially looks looks like?

1036
01:27:23,720 --> 01:27:31,500
So, what that looks like is, no one will call comes in. Says, hey, there's two suspicious

1037
01:27:32,500 --> 01:27:41,740
subjects, pulling car handles, and in the community on a street, we arrive there, we'll

1038
01:27:41,740 --> 01:27:46,540
see two individuals matching that description, that's when we approach them.

1039
01:27:48,150 --> 01:27:54,670
Then we determine that there are juveniles, and that's how they get, you know, related

1040
01:27:54,670 --> 01:27:55,850
in our statistics.

1041
01:27:56,290 --> 01:28:00,750
I understand, and again, I know there may be some nuances, but just, I wanted to share

1042
01:28:00,750 --> 01:28:08,290
that just to let folks know I really don't believe and again this is me that you all are out

1043
01:28:08,290 --> 01:28:12,970
there just looking just randomly doing it and you stated that so I appreciate that because

1044
01:28:12,970 --> 01:28:18,550
I wanted to bring some clarity with that. Number two is it relates to vehicle searches. I do

1045
01:28:18,550 --> 01:28:26,050
get a lot of this question from our residents as well. We're smelling marijuana at stop lights. So

1046
01:28:26,050 --> 01:28:30,090
hypothetically, someone stops, you stop somebody for

1047
01:28:30,090 --> 01:28:32,290
equipment violation or something.

1048
01:28:32,790 --> 01:28:36,030
Is that that smell of marijuana, is that consider a

1049
01:28:36,030 --> 01:28:40,270
reasonable cause to acts, you know, actual, however you

1050
01:28:40,270 --> 01:28:43,470
want to do this, you know, a problem cause to go ahead and ask.

1051
01:28:43,930 --> 01:28:46,090
Yes, yes, you do. Okay. Okay. Okay. And now I know it

1052
01:28:46,090 --> 01:28:48,870
makes things like, but a lot of, I get a lot of those questions

1053
01:28:48,870 --> 01:28:51,750
and that's some of the things and I'm on the other part

1054
01:28:51,750 --> 01:28:54,610
of it. Some were saying where, you know, they can't really

1055
01:28:54,610 --> 01:28:59,650
they stop me, you know, if they smell it, that can they really ask me to search my vehicle

1056
01:28:59,650 --> 01:29:06,450
or things of that nature. So I'll just want, yes, at that point. Yes. All right. Thank you.

1057
01:29:06,530 --> 01:29:11,090
Thank you. And lastly, how are your areas? I know you are used some data on things of that nature,

1058
01:29:11,310 --> 01:29:19,470
and just feedback areas that you plan for your speeding campaign, how are those determined?

1059
01:29:19,470 --> 01:29:25,630
So, a lot of those are based on the calls from the citizens here, the residents here.

1060
01:29:26,570 --> 01:29:29,950
A lot of the times you all receive complaints as well.

1061
01:29:30,370 --> 01:29:36,910
And so, we go ahead and target based on the feedback that we are receiving in terms of where the calls are coming from.

1062
01:29:37,130 --> 01:29:40,430
And that's what we direct our resources to.

1063
01:29:40,650 --> 01:29:44,170
Absolutely. So, this is it. I do thank you for that.

1064
01:29:44,170 --> 01:29:51,570
I would like to put out their rosier road and I want to give you your step a lot of credit

1065
01:29:51,570 --> 01:29:56,010
I've seen a increase presence along rosier road.

1066
01:29:56,110 --> 01:29:59,970
I mean very very strategic times in the morning midday after.

1067
01:30:00,000 --> 01:30:16,200
I see them out there. So I know that's a major cut-through for some areas of them, but definitely put that on your radar. I know it's already out there. So with the increased signage that they have out there and some other things that we're done, I just wanted to put that out there.

1068
01:30:16,200 --> 01:30:17,620
But thank you so much. Thank you.

1069
01:30:18,200 --> 01:30:18,460
Thank you.

1070
01:30:18,740 --> 01:30:19,000
Thank you.

1071
01:30:19,000 --> 01:30:21,600
All right. Thank you.

1072
01:30:21,720 --> 01:30:22,760
Councilmember McMillan.

1073
01:30:23,520 --> 01:30:24,980
Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Thank you, too.

1074
01:30:25,260 --> 01:30:27,300
Appreciate all you do. Thank you for this report.

1075
01:30:29,180 --> 01:30:36,980
at a question about how we track, how we track traffic stop data. Earlier this year, earlier

1076
01:30:36,980 --> 01:30:42,300
this summer, the governor signed a budget that did not include a general statute that's

1077
01:30:42,300 --> 01:30:48,220
been in place since 2002. The really forced departments across North Carolina to track incidents

1078
01:30:48,220 --> 01:30:55,020
by race, to be able to look at disparities especially in policing and traffic stops. As you

1079
01:30:55,020 --> 01:31:00,020
And Fayville, it's, it's, it's caused us to see that there are some disparities.

1080
01:31:00,780 --> 01:31:06,300
And we've dealt with driving wild black as, as a, as a result, you know, some of those disparities.

1081
01:31:07,220 --> 01:31:08,520
I wanted to hear from you.

1082
01:31:08,640 --> 01:31:13,320
What, what your department's take is on on the loss of this requirement.

1083
01:31:13,940 --> 01:31:18,020
And what your intention is in terms of continuing to track this data?

1084
01:31:19,460 --> 01:31:19,740
Yes, sir.

1085
01:31:19,740 --> 01:31:26,400
So, when we received that information, for us, it was also, we were surprised that actually

1086
01:31:26,400 --> 01:31:34,020
went ahead and passed, but for us, after discussing with my staff, and we had a overwhelming

1087
01:31:35,600 --> 01:31:39,640
agreement in terms of, for us as a department, it's going to continue to be in an

1088
01:31:39,640 --> 01:31:44,300
opology so that we have that transparency for the community and maintain that trust.

1089
01:31:44,300 --> 01:31:56,060
So, for us as a department, even though it's no longer requirement, we will be continuing the traffic stop reports as part of our requirement and everything that we do as a department.

1090
01:31:56,480 --> 01:31:59,740
I appreciate hearing you say that in public.

1091
01:32:00,720 --> 01:32:12,960
Also, would ask the Council to think about what we can do to ensure that, possibly, that's an ordinance or something that's solid, especially in a light of how things are changing legislatively at the state level.

1092
01:32:12,960 --> 01:32:19,120
I also wanted to ask a chief about information on the SRO program.

1093
01:32:19,800 --> 01:32:26,500
We had a discussion earlier this year about what an awesome responsibility it is to have

1094
01:32:26,500 --> 01:32:34,400
police officers uniformed in schools and also how we need to take some safeguards and

1095
01:32:34,400 --> 01:32:39,440
understand what impacts that has on our students especially and I want to make a request

1096
01:32:39,440 --> 01:32:48,420
tonight. If you look at slide 10, it does show some responses. It does show some very basic

1097
01:32:48,420 --> 01:32:53,560
information about our interaction. But the point that I brought up earlier this year,

1098
01:32:53,840 --> 01:32:59,440
that I think data would allow us to look at is how this could impact the school to prison

1099
01:32:59,440 --> 01:33:06,840
pipeline and having juvenile kids and students who are just as impacted and how important

1100
01:33:06,840 --> 01:33:13,740
It is that track that, so there are some measures like school-based arrests, a number of

1101
01:33:13,740 --> 01:33:14,520
citations.

1102
01:33:14,540 --> 01:33:15,540
Let's say that against...

1103
01:33:15,540 --> 01:33:22,860
School-based arrests, school-based tracking that, tracking citations, tracking the number

1104
01:33:22,860 --> 01:33:29,680
of court referrals that come to the SRO program, especially tracking use of force incidents

1105
01:33:29,680 --> 01:33:31,000
with our students.

1106
01:33:32,260 --> 01:33:40,160
And then those same type of racial breakdowns to ensure that we're not repeating some racial disparities that exist on the broader level.

1107
01:33:40,880 --> 01:33:45,900
I would like to see those, and I'm sure more of my colleagues would be interested in seeing that on a quarterly basis.

1108
01:33:46,700 --> 01:33:56,840
And just so you know too, for, you know, I actually had one of the SR rows that was talking, he actually came from the county and transitioned over to the city.

1109
01:33:56,840 --> 01:34:06,400
And, you know, one of the, I don't think the public really knows how much of an impact

1110
01:34:06,400 --> 01:34:12,020
it has in terms of having these SRROs in our schools because he had, he told me a story

1111
01:34:12,020 --> 01:34:20,200
of one of his, one of the students in the school that she never spoke to him and at one

1112
01:34:20,200 --> 01:34:26,880
time there was an incident where he had the restrainer from and, you know, a fight that

1113
01:34:26,880 --> 01:34:35,660
was going on in the school. And she was very, very disruptive. But he maintained, continued

1114
01:34:35,660 --> 01:34:40,780
speaking with that young lady, by the time the end of the school year came out, she came

1115
01:34:40,780 --> 01:34:46,720
and hugged them. And for him it was just one of those things where he sees the difference in it.

1116
01:34:46,720 --> 01:34:49,840
I mean, and this is happening across our schools.

1117
01:34:50,520 --> 01:34:53,080
But nobody ever really knows that

1118
01:34:53,080 --> 01:34:55,840
because we're not talking about that publicly.

1119
01:34:56,920 --> 01:34:58,260
And I just also want to make sure

1120
01:34:58,260 --> 01:34:59,600
that we do a better job.

1121
01:34:59,600 --> 01:34:59,980
.

1122
01:35:00,000 --> 01:35:20,220
We make sure that we highlighting a lot of these positive encounters that are happening because this happening every day. We just don't, you know, we don't hear about them. And we only hear about when it's negative. So I just want to make sure that we also take some, you know, that opportunity to also highlight when when the good things are also happening with our SROs as well.

1123
01:35:20,220 --> 01:35:22,980
And I think we also saw one of the good things.

1124
01:35:23,340 --> 01:35:27,560
Chief tonight in hearing you underscore the importance of having

1125
01:35:27,560 --> 01:35:29,820
probable cause and reasonable suspension,

1126
01:35:31,040 --> 01:35:34,620
prior to approaching any individual regardless of age here.

1127
01:35:34,840 --> 01:35:37,440
And I appreciate that that is a part of the enforcement

1128
01:35:37,440 --> 01:35:40,940
and part of what we're passing on to our officers as they go on to the field.

1129
01:35:41,060 --> 01:35:42,880
So thank you for saying that publicly as well.

1130
01:35:43,120 --> 01:35:43,640
Yes, sir.

1131
01:35:44,160 --> 01:35:44,520
All right.

1132
01:35:44,540 --> 01:35:45,440
Thank you, Councilman Davis.

1133
01:35:45,720 --> 01:35:46,380
Thank you, Mr. Mayor.

1134
01:35:47,080 --> 01:35:47,860
First of all, thank you, sir.

1135
01:35:47,860 --> 01:35:53,840
presentation. I think I wanted to speak to you all as the speeding. You guys have been on a

1136
01:35:53,840 --> 01:35:58,420
tremendous job almost at a point while I'm scared to leave my house. Yeah, it's me. I'm with you.

1137
01:35:58,580 --> 01:36:02,240
But I don't speak. That's what we're trying to do. I don't speak, by the way. But what you're

1138
01:36:02,240 --> 01:36:09,620
scared of what? That's me. I did want to ask you, though. There was a comment made a question as at

1139
01:36:09,620 --> 01:36:16,720
the coffee with the mayor this morning in reference to offers us having to meet a quota on given out tickets.

1140
01:36:16,720 --> 01:36:25,160
Could you speak to that so that we can get absolutely absolutely no quota which tickets okay that that does not exist

1141
01:36:25,700 --> 01:36:28,040
That does not exist. Thank you

1142
01:36:28,040 --> 01:36:29,220
All right

1143
01:36:29,220 --> 01:36:33,100
For go to round two from here pro team. I did have a couple things. I want to say one

1144
01:36:34,060 --> 01:36:42,700
Chief thank you for the thoroughness in the report. I want I wanted to point out something put up for the listening audience that you know

1145
01:36:42,700 --> 01:36:46,540
We've heard from two of the three components of public safety tonight

1146
01:36:46,720 --> 01:36:52,680
from fire, we're from police. I see Mr. Jones, back there with OCS. The combination of what you

1147
01:36:52,680 --> 01:37:00,800
all are doing, are leading to these positive numbers that homicides almost have that these juvenile

1148
01:37:00,800 --> 01:37:08,640
related issues that we have are trending in the right way. And so we've gone through some tough times

1149
01:37:08,640 --> 01:37:14,460
to make some tough decisions, but numbers don't have an opinion, they don't have an affiliation,

1150
01:37:14,460 --> 01:37:21,960
They don't buy us their numbers and these are factual numbers to say that the combination

1151
01:37:21,960 --> 01:37:25,340
of these things are working together for a good outcome.

1152
01:37:25,740 --> 01:37:29,680
And I want to make sure we point that out from the sound thinking and child's product,

1153
01:37:30,420 --> 01:37:34,260
we had there was some public concern about that, but you get in guns off the street.

1154
01:37:34,680 --> 01:37:38,820
We've seen a rest that come out of that and I want to make sure we highlight that.

1155
01:37:38,900 --> 01:37:43,340
The SRO program where we recently renewed that, it was concerned that it was somehow

1156
01:37:43,340 --> 01:37:48,160
going to have a negative impact. What I'm seeing and I want to turn to this slide while I'm saying this,

1157
01:37:48,260 --> 01:37:54,480
if you could, the school resource officer program slide. I want the public to follow this for a minute.

1158
01:37:59,110 --> 01:38:04,690
Think it's slide number, it says 10, but it's page five, you know, of all scheme of things. Yeah.

1159
01:38:05,190 --> 01:38:06,210
So basically,

1160
01:38:08,610 --> 01:38:16,830
the orange is 22 is. Yeah, that's incident reports are getting in the calls for service. Okay. And so,

1161
01:38:16,830 --> 01:38:24,590
So the comparison from year to year, where is that, that component?

1162
01:38:26,730 --> 01:38:31,270
Because you, you have a, call for service versus incident reports.

1163
01:38:31,610 --> 01:38:34,270
So how do you compare year to year on that?

1164
01:38:34,710 --> 01:38:37,910
So we're into our second year of doing this now.

1165
01:38:37,950 --> 01:38:44,130
And so now as I stated, we're changing up our numbers from how we were, we were first

1166
01:38:44,130 --> 01:38:46,710
doing it from August from June to June.

1167
01:38:46,710 --> 01:38:54,070
So I would say, probably the end of this year, then we'll be able to get full year and then start making a comparison.

1168
01:38:54,150 --> 01:38:55,890
So the solid 12 month comparison.

1169
01:38:57,010 --> 01:38:57,150
All right.

1170
01:38:57,250 --> 01:38:58,050
All right.

1171
01:38:58,130 --> 01:38:59,290
That was one of the questions.

1172
01:38:59,530 --> 01:39:04,710
And then, too, I saw that on your gun seasers.

1173
01:39:06,030 --> 01:39:08,530
I had wrote it myself for no longer on that.

1174
01:39:08,530 --> 01:39:11,230
Um, you had,

1175
01:39:13,500 --> 01:39:15,400
there are out of the traffic stops,

1176
01:39:16,520 --> 01:39:21,280
2025, or 167 guns collectively seized.

1177
01:39:21,500 --> 01:39:23,180
And of course, these are illegal weapons,

1178
01:39:23,520 --> 01:39:24,900
not legal weapons, right?

1179
01:39:25,120 --> 01:39:26,200
Or does this count everything?

1180
01:39:26,440 --> 01:39:28,100
Well, why would you seize a legal weapon?

1181
01:39:29,140 --> 01:39:32,060
It could be if it was used in a crime,

1182
01:39:32,340 --> 01:39:35,080
or it wasn't, you know, it had to been some type of crime.

1183
01:39:35,420 --> 01:39:37,460
So some of the things that happened to the sea is correct.

1184
01:39:37,460 --> 01:39:43,120
So, it's 167 C's, last year 143 this year, these are just from the vehicle searchers.

1185
01:39:43,820 --> 01:39:50,820
Now, does that also include, are any of these statistics in any of these other categories,

1186
01:39:51,520 --> 01:39:53,940
like where it says the number of weapons recovered from shot splatter?

1187
01:39:55,200 --> 01:39:59,980
So, is there a possibility that you respond to a shot splatter, but it also shows up.

1188
01:40:00,000 --> 01:40:03,560
On a vehicle stop, it probably not correct. Well,

1189
01:40:05,620 --> 01:40:09,380
probably a chance, but I mean, what we did, we kind of isolated

1190
01:40:09,380 --> 01:40:15,840
the shot spotter and made that specific on those particular size, so when you see the eight weapons

1191
01:40:15,840 --> 01:40:20,120
that were seized, that was specifically to shot spotter.

1192
01:40:20,200 --> 01:40:23,700
Gotcha. Because I'm just trying to get a collective total, because that's a lot of guns.

1193
01:40:29,460 --> 01:40:29,980
It's

1194
01:40:29,980 --> 01:40:35,640
And I don't know if the public is tracking that, but cities across the country, I talk to

1195
01:40:35,640 --> 01:40:36,460
the mayor's all the time.

1196
01:40:36,760 --> 01:40:42,060
There has been an influx of guns and availability of guns, and this is huge that you're

1197
01:40:42,060 --> 01:40:47,880
going, you know, 130-40 guns in traffic, you get in some from shots, probably, you get

1198
01:40:47,880 --> 01:40:50,800
another from other sources, so you want to speak to that.

1199
01:40:51,340 --> 01:40:56,180
So in terms of this, so let's say for this traffic stop, so I'll give you an example.

1200
01:40:56,180 --> 01:41:02,100
So you could have an alert that that goes off from the street here in Fayetteville.

1201
01:41:02,960 --> 01:41:06,700
And officers respond to that alert.

1202
01:41:08,260 --> 01:41:12,280
And within the alert there was a, maybe let's say it was a not one will call that

1203
01:41:12,280 --> 01:41:19,140
a company to say hey, there was a vehicle in this area looking, you know, stopping it.

1204
01:41:19,140 --> 01:41:27,100
So then we have a vehicle that would respond and the course of responding to that shot spotter

1205
01:41:27,100 --> 01:41:32,320
alert. They went ahead and stopped this vehicle. Not sure. So then now you stop that vehicle

1206
01:41:32,320 --> 01:41:39,520
and then now you determine that was a crime whether related to a break-in or possible

1207
01:41:41,140 --> 01:41:47,280
other possession of marijuana or anything in that and then now you recover a weapon. So now

1208
01:41:47,280 --> 01:42:01,640
That particular incident is included in all of these traffic right on there, but you also have what we have the the shot spot or the so we will do was tie that specifically to that which is that separate slide

1209
01:42:01,640 --> 01:42:08,360
But I would say that all that data is encompassed in the traffic stop report that may have been

1210
01:42:09,700 --> 01:42:12,660
Under or from a shot spot or alert.

1211
01:42:12,660 --> 01:42:22,200
All right. Well, that's all the questions I have. I just think that, you know, and then I guess last piece I'll say I want to I want to one publicly

1212
01:42:22,980 --> 01:42:29,320
Come in to participation of the parents right that that in the curfews. It was a lot of concern about that

1213
01:42:29,320 --> 01:42:31,500
but what we see

1214
01:42:31,500 --> 01:42:35,460
in the numbers again numbers don't have an opinion and that

1215
01:42:37,640 --> 01:42:39,700
drug seizures are up 70%

1216
01:42:39,700 --> 01:42:49,020
It weapons up 105% so in other words, from 19 to 39, weapons from 19 last year to 39 this

1217
01:42:49,020 --> 01:42:58,460
year and that break, break ends with down 31% and motor vehicles are down 51%.

1218
01:42:58,460 --> 01:43:04,440
So thank you to the parents that are participating to just help us help keep some accountability

1219
01:43:04,440 --> 01:43:11,800
in place and thank you to and the way this fits in and I'll get ready to pass to Mike over to my colleagues

1220
01:43:11,800 --> 01:43:16,680
but the way this fits into the overall scheme of things, the way your departments work together

1221
01:43:16,680 --> 01:43:25,920
is that also Mr. Jones is going around the city creating programs that are alternatives for these kids

1222
01:43:25,920 --> 01:43:31,600
or some of our people in this community that have alternatives so it's working together thank you

1223
01:43:31,600 --> 01:43:36,200
good good good work for and thank you for the report tonight. So I'll go to a council member

1224
01:43:36,200 --> 01:43:39,100
McNair for the first round and then we have second round lights.

1225
01:43:39,740 --> 01:43:43,400
I'm just ready to make a motion. Okay. Let me catch your colleagues. May I

1226
01:43:43,400 --> 01:43:48,640
pro team? Thank you, Mr. McNair. I just had a comment and one question that I forgot.

1227
01:43:49,500 --> 01:43:55,080
We were talking about SROs and I had an opportunity to speak to Jack Britt, students and

1228
01:43:55,080 --> 01:44:00,260
71st students this year. I talked to Principal Dr. Tillman at Jack Britt and Dr. King

1229
01:44:00,260 --> 01:44:05,760
at Senifers. They applaud the SROs in the great jobs that they're doing. When I spoke to

1230
01:44:05,760 --> 01:44:12,660
Senifers High School seniors during the graduation practice, the SRO was at the door given out

1231
01:44:12,660 --> 01:44:17,680
pounds to all 300 students that was graduating that year. I thought that was the testament to

1232
01:44:17,680 --> 01:44:23,080
the great job that they're doing. Speaking of schools, my question I forgot to ask earlier is we

1233
01:44:23,080 --> 01:44:30,240
had a battalion of TCOs coming here about some complaints a couple of months ago. Have all the

1234
01:44:30,240 --> 01:44:31,540
Can you remember what they were?

1235
01:44:32,140 --> 01:44:39,040
The Conservatives, the speeding, the kills and reckless driving in the door-door and school zones.

1236
01:44:39,620 --> 01:44:46,440
So that issue is still being addressed in terms of with our traffic department and enforcement out there.

1237
01:44:47,260 --> 01:44:59,260
Now, the commission just recently met and we're on track to get the approval with all the standard operating procedures and everything else and how it will be consistent throughout the state.

1238
01:44:59,260 --> 01:44:59,880
um

1239
01:45:00,000 --> 01:45:08,480
By January is what we believe, January of this upcoming year, we believe that the approvals and

1240
01:45:08,480 --> 01:45:13,600
everything else will be done by the commission, and then we'll be able to implement the school

1241
01:45:13,600 --> 01:45:18,180
zones and the red light cameras. And how many TCOs are we short for this school year?

1242
01:45:18,860 --> 01:45:28,140
So our numbers fluctuate. We have about 65 on average, and those fluctuate because it's a part-time

1243
01:45:28,140 --> 01:45:34,780
position. So therefore, we're always if you'll see regarding when our turnover, that's probably

1244
01:45:34,780 --> 01:45:39,600
our highest turnover within the department for one reason or the other.

1245
01:45:39,860 --> 01:45:43,580
But if we have residents that look for some part-time work for $20 an hour, we can show

1246
01:45:43,580 --> 01:45:45,440
enough use of manpower. Thank you, Chief.

1247
01:45:45,760 --> 01:45:46,180
Yes, sir.

1248
01:45:46,620 --> 01:45:49,040
All right. Councillor Miller, McMillan, second round.

1249
01:45:49,420 --> 01:45:55,200
Yep. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Chief, one of the things that kept me engaged over the years

1250
01:45:55,200 --> 01:46:02,340
with Council was pushing to ensure we had a remain response to crime, to mental health response,

1251
01:46:03,220 --> 01:46:14,320
mental health crisis, according to policescorkard.org, we remain and have been for a while,

1252
01:46:14,360 --> 01:46:19,340
near the top of the list in terms of small cities in North Carolina and a statistic called

1253
01:46:19,340 --> 01:46:28,540
deadly force per rest and, you know, there's, there's some people who have died over the

1254
01:46:28,540 --> 01:46:33,080
years, Jayda Johnson's, one of them, Adrian Roberts and another one Joshua Oxen

1255
01:46:33,640 --> 01:46:38,260
Dine, and questions about whether or not we could have had a different response.

1256
01:46:39,580 --> 01:46:44,980
When I see the numbers of use of force going up from last year to this year, of course,

1257
01:46:44,980 --> 01:46:49,660
have that same concern. One of the we didn't move far enough policy wise to address that.

1258
01:46:50,920 --> 01:46:59,320
One of what you take is on the increase. I think it was from 37 to 47 to 27 percent increase in

1259
01:46:59,320 --> 01:47:04,200
use of force. What does that mean for us as a city and what are we doing to address that?

1260
01:47:04,640 --> 01:47:09,960
So I get to start with a note today we actually had a meeting with Chief Wallace and officers,

1261
01:47:09,960 --> 01:47:16,800
Office of Community Safety Director Jones and coming up with plans and strategies for the alternative response.

1262
01:47:17,760 --> 01:47:29,300
So as OCS gets their teams together, then we're going to have a better approach in addressing some of these issues with those that are in mental health crisis.

1263
01:47:29,760 --> 01:47:38,180
But unfortunately right now, when those calls come out, we are the only answer until we can get some of these other resources in place.

1264
01:47:38,180 --> 01:47:48,220
I would also state in terms of, there are multiple, multiple incidents that occur every day

1265
01:47:48,220 --> 01:47:55,420
in this city regarding mental health crisis, but you don't hear about them and you don't

1266
01:47:55,420 --> 01:47:59,220
hear about them because we've been successful and being able to mitigate those situations.

1267
01:48:00,400 --> 01:48:05,860
So the ones that you do hear are the ones where we have the unfortunate situations such

1268
01:48:05,860 --> 01:48:11,400
is like you were late, but there's always other circumstances that not everybody's aware of

1269
01:48:11,400 --> 01:48:11,920
also.

1270
01:48:12,360 --> 01:48:21,240
But I will tell you that we have an excellent officers in terms of how we deal with these

1271
01:48:21,240 --> 01:48:21,760
situations.

1272
01:48:22,220 --> 01:48:30,980
Just this past week, we had barricaded subjects, no one knows about this, but we deal with

1273
01:48:30,980 --> 01:48:38,380
and we are utilizing our particular tactics and everything to make sure that we have a

1274
01:48:38,380 --> 01:48:45,720
safe outcome for our officers as well as those in those crisis. So it happens so many times

1275
01:48:45,720 --> 01:48:55,480
but our public is unaware of it and we deal with that on a day, day by day occasion. So I believe

1276
01:48:55,480 --> 01:49:01,780
You know, we do the best we can, but you know, future and future rise with when OCS gets

1277
01:49:01,780 --> 01:49:06,840
on, you know, get their staffing, we're looking forward to be able to address those issues

1278
01:49:06,840 --> 01:49:09,660
in even better ways as well.

1279
01:49:10,360 --> 01:49:10,700
Yeah.

1280
01:49:10,780 --> 01:49:11,920
I appreciate that.

1281
01:49:11,920 --> 01:49:17,860
Looking forward to tracking the numbers and seeing those numbers come down.

1282
01:49:18,880 --> 01:49:24,780
Down range, there's something called storyboard reporting, where we get in this habit

1283
01:49:24,780 --> 01:49:33,400
of holding up examples, good news stories, anecdotes, and maybe emphasize those a little

1284
01:49:33,400 --> 01:49:34,840
bit more than the data.

1285
01:49:36,440 --> 01:49:40,500
Would love to continue to hear the good news stories about the things that your forces

1286
01:49:40,500 --> 01:49:42,200
are doing on the streets,

1287
01:49:44,280 --> 01:49:49,360
and especially a shift in our approach to how we engage with citizens,

1288
01:49:49,360 --> 01:49:59,820
But also would love to see data like use of force, that matches, you know, that shift in terms of policy, and how to remember times up.

1289
01:50:00,000 --> 01:50:06,740
Second round. All right. Councilmember Jones, thank you. Is your first round? Is your light on? Are you ready to vote?

1290
01:50:07,060 --> 01:50:12,060
You ready to vote? Oh, no. Just a quick quick. Yeah. I was waiting. She's she's got a motion. Okay.

1291
01:50:12,380 --> 01:50:22,800
All right. Very quickly. I just wanted to find out chief about the mental health support for your staff. I mean, I know you all do a you encounter a lot of things.

1292
01:50:23,740 --> 01:50:28,580
your officers and other staff, they have family suit that they have to go on to.

1293
01:50:28,760 --> 01:50:32,900
So can you just speak to what is that look like right now and I know there may be some

1294
01:50:32,900 --> 01:50:35,320
opportunities in the future, but what does that look like?

1295
01:50:36,020 --> 01:50:43,060
Right now we have our chaplain program whenever we have a critical incident we call our

1296
01:50:43,060 --> 01:50:49,760
nurse chaplains and they'll come out two or three o'clock in the morning when we have critical

1297
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incidents that officers are dealing with. And so we have that partnership with them. We also

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have our peer support program as well where we monitor how many critical incidents that actually

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happens with our officers and then we'll make sure and reach out to them to get them any counseling

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services or request for counseling services. But you also know we received a grant for a licensed

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clinical social worker. So we're in the process of getting that all laid out so that we can

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do that advertisement and have that person on on on board full time. Thank you so much. Thank

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you, Mr. Mayor. Yes, sir. Councillor interjecting. Yes, sir. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Thank you, Chief.

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01:51:33,680 --> 01:51:38,400
And my colleague to my right here stole my thunder a little bit. But this this question was for

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01:51:38,400 --> 01:51:44,360
a cheap dove and she brought are we doing all that we can to support our women and men

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01:51:44,360 --> 01:51:52,300
in uniform. As my colleague mentioned, you know, we dial 911, you know, in the worst moments

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01:51:52,300 --> 01:51:58,420
of our life, right? You guys respond and you deal with that. So as a council or we doing

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01:51:58,420 --> 01:52:04,960
everything we can to support, again, the men and women and men in the uniform and are not

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01:52:04,960 --> 01:52:11,700
more operators. I mean, they're on the call that sometimes ends tragically. So what can we

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do to support both agencies and, again, the number one operation?

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01:52:18,380 --> 01:52:23,240
I would say it's one of those things where when we come to you and it requests the support

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where resources that you know, and I would say, you know, just continuous supportness,

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01:52:29,920 --> 01:52:32,280
but it takes more than counsel, the community.

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The community is critical in terms of the morale of our officers.

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01:52:36,740 --> 01:52:43,780
So, for example, this weekend on Saturday, Lewis Chapel, Missionary Baptist Church, the Men's

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01:52:43,780 --> 01:52:49,920
Ministry, they served our officers, all our first responders, fire, fighters, this weekend,

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01:52:50,020 --> 01:52:56,360
they served them lunch and, you know, the morale and just to have, you know, the community

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01:52:56,360 --> 01:53:03,200
come in on their own, on their own time and on their time off to come and serve those officers.

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So those type of things are what we need from our community, and it's very much appreciated.

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So I can't, you know, just tell you, and what we do in this term is continue to have

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in support.

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When you see our officer, we continue to get adaboyes, what we call the military, where people

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01:53:21,160 --> 01:53:26,120
call or they send, I've just received a letter today, where people in the community, they

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01:53:26,120 --> 01:53:30,280
send and let us know and we make sure and relay that message to the officers.

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we had a call from an elderly man that actually was talking about our cadets that stopped and

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01:53:37,240 --> 01:53:43,750
helped him two weeks ago. He left the voicemail so we making sure so when we get these calls

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01:53:44,520 --> 01:53:51,380
all of that helps in terms of the morale and the mental health capacity in terms of knowing that

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that you know that your community has your back.

1329
01:53:55,860 --> 01:53:58,060
Real quick, Mr. Mayor, since you're on that note.

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Chief, talk about national matter.

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Because you didn't speak about national matter.

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And that just happens last week or week for last.

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So, we didn't talk about it because it happened during this quarter.

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So, we're gonna present that during the third quarter.

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I just wanted you to know that the community appreciates what you do.

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Because they showed up in droves at national matter.

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Even in all that range.

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So we appreciate you.

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01:54:19,680 --> 01:54:20,080
Yes, sir.

1340
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Yes, sir.

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01:54:22,440 --> 01:54:23,640
Councilmember McNair.

1342
01:54:27,200 --> 01:54:32,040
Thank you chief. Great. Report. And thank you for

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01:54:32,040 --> 01:54:37,620
the rattle on. I'd like to encourage my colleagues if they haven't

1344
01:54:37,620 --> 01:54:44,820
scheduled a rattle on with the chief. He must do so. This is seven. It was an awesome

1345
01:54:44,820 --> 01:54:54,860
time that day. It was calm. He invited me to wear down. He invited me to wear a bulletproof

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01:54:54,860 --> 01:54:57,040
vest. I don't know. No.

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So that being said, I would like to make motion to receive the Fairbred Police Department, 2020-6 second quarter report.

1348
01:55:11,100 --> 01:55:15,380
All right, so much by councilmember McNair, second by councilmember Ferguson.

1349
01:55:16,660 --> 01:55:21,340
Had a lot of discussion on this, so council, see, and then I looked to you for your votes.

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01:55:24,150 --> 01:55:29,790
In the meantime, I have a alibi, I'd just like to mention that our class 26-1 graduates tomorrow.

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We have 20 officers that are graduating, we started out with 22, so that is a phenomenal rate in terms of what we're talking about graduating rate, but in addition to that we've had almost 50% of that graduating class were females.

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That's also where we're bringing them through.

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01:55:49,810 --> 01:55:51,010
That's a great statistic.

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01:55:51,130 --> 01:55:54,690
Thank you. Congratulations to the new graduates and chief. Thank you.

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01:55:54,690 --> 01:56:00,130
all of the members of our law enforcement as well as our fire department, OCS for thank you for

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01:56:00,130 --> 01:56:06,610
great job of keeping our community safe. So we appreciate it. All right, Council moving to the final

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item is 10.01 authorization for fire station for site prep. Even in sir, thank you, Mr. Mayor.

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May I pretend Council members to staff?

1359
01:56:21,440 --> 01:56:26,420
Okay. Now I have to find it. It's to be not any help with this.

1360
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Thank you very much.

1361
01:56:48,050 --> 01:56:48,150
All right.

1362
01:56:48,290 --> 01:56:48,850
It's a council member.

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Thank you for having me here tonight.

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My name's Dan Lamontaine.

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01:56:51,430 --> 01:56:52,390
I work with freezing nickels.

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I'll work around your contract for the city with the construction management department.

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We're here tonight to talk to you about prioritization four phase one.

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And ask for authorization to move forward with phase one, which is site preparation.

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That will consist of establishing a new project using approximately 1.5 million of geobond premiums

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and remaining fire station for project funds.

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We will prepare a safe stable build ready site,

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that consists of site clearing, grading,

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01:57:21,510 --> 01:57:23,530
feeling, stabilizing the site.

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Installation of security, getting permits and inspections,

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and then of course testing, documenting,

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and closing out the project of the site clearing.

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01:57:33,690 --> 01:57:35,750
We also ask you to authorize coming group to provide

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project management services under their scope.

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01:57:39,470 --> 01:57:41,530
And we're asking for authorization to begin the competitive

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01:57:41,530 --> 01:57:46,990
qualifications based construction manager at risk selection process. Construction pricing,

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01:57:47,230 --> 01:57:53,370
schedule, and such will come back to council for authorization later when that is complete.

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We have a schedule. This is just a working schedule. This will be refined as we move forward and

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01:58:00,270 --> 01:58:07,040
get the construction manager at risk on us under contract. We're here in quarter three.

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Council will consider in this phase one authorization. We have to complete the ongoing salvage this month.

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Advanced site preparation procurement.

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That's a good contractor for that and also begin that CMAR evaluation.

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Four. We plan to begin site preparation. We finalize the CMAR selection and onboarding

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01:58:33,080 --> 01:58:39,480
validate the design and the project costs and the schedule, then in 1st quarter 27 complete

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the site prep and pre-construction reviews, the council will consider that proposed construction

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01:58:45,980 --> 01:58:49,560
price schedule and authorize that and 1st quarter.

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And then following this council's approval, we'll begin replacement construction, we'll

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published the validated milestones with the CMAR and when the final completion

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move in day would be.

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I'm finally going to point out that the city has put

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together a project website for this project. We know there's considerable

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community interest in it. So all information will be able to go to this site

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and find out everything that's happening on the project. And a very short presentation

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for you tonight. So that's the end of that.

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Not man with that.

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All right, Council any comments or questions?

1401
01:59:34,220 --> 01:59:37,080
I think we covered a little bit upstairs, but basically,

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01:59:39,160 --> 01:59:41,860
you may have covered it tonight.

1403
01:59:42,560 --> 01:59:44,340
This is the approval of this.

1404
01:59:44,740 --> 01:59:47,900
Mr. Yates was there a component that you need to explain?

1405
01:59:49,640 --> 01:59:50,460
No? Okay.

1406
01:59:52,490 --> 01:59:55,050
like Miss Murray to address some of the best.

1407
01:59:55,070 --> 01:59:57,550
Mr. Yates had been the one we were working on. How are you doing Miss Murray?

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02:00:00,560 --> 02:00:02,520
Are there any questions for me?

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02:00:02,720 --> 02:00:09,220
I just wanted to make sure that it wasn't, so basically with this, this is kind of a new phase where

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02:00:09,220 --> 02:00:15,160
site prepping and we'll move here. I think you talked to us about the expenses related to this

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02:00:15,160 --> 02:00:23,760
will be tracked separately and the other older expenses that particular bucket for lack of a

1412
02:00:23,760 --> 02:00:29,760
better world will be reconciled and closed out. So this phase will have it separate line of expenses and

1413
02:00:29,760 --> 02:00:37,420
Paul's correct. That's correct. We're going to close the old project and do a new project and that's part of the action tonight.

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02:00:37,480 --> 02:00:41,040
Gatch. All right. Thank you, ma'am. All right. Councilwoman Hondros.

1415
02:00:41,760 --> 02:00:48,840
Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Thank you, Dan. And see if I appreciate you all coming up. So the question I asked

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02:00:48,840 --> 02:00:58,200
of ACM Yates upstairs was the CPO-2019-34 in our agenda package as well as CPO-2020-1,

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02:00:59,540 --> 02:01:05,100
which is, as you stated, closing out, see if I'm Murray the old project can start this

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02:01:05,100 --> 02:01:05,460
new one.

1419
02:01:05,520 --> 02:01:08,100
But can you speak a little bit to the funding of those numbers?

1420
02:01:08,880 --> 02:01:14,180
How much have we spent to date on that project, the one we're closing out, how much are

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02:01:14,180 --> 02:01:17,320
we transfer them over and those things, please?

1422
02:01:18,120 --> 02:01:32,400
Yes. Sorry. So the original project when it was brought before Council was for a total of 11.4 million, almost 11.5.

1423
02:01:32,500 --> 02:01:41,280
Of that, we had a general fund transfer of 1.2ish and we did a financing for 10.3.

1424
02:01:41,280 --> 02:01:47,920
So, of that funding, we've spent a little over $7.6 million dollars.

1425
02:01:48,200 --> 02:01:51,500
So that's what we're going to be closing out in this particular project.

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02:01:51,860 --> 02:01:57,100
And we're going to transfer the remaining funds, which is $3.8 million dollars into a new

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02:01:57,100 --> 02:02:04,040
capital project, along with some bond premium that we received from the issuance of the first

1428
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of the $97 million referendum.

1429
02:02:08,760 --> 02:02:10,600
If you remember earlier this year,

1430
02:02:10,760 --> 02:02:12,340
we issued $40 million dollars,

1431
02:02:12,340 --> 02:02:13,960
and we're going to take some of that premium

1432
02:02:15,680 --> 02:02:18,320
and assign it to this particular project

1433
02:02:18,760 --> 02:02:20,760
in order for us to move forward.

1434
02:02:21,560 --> 02:02:23,400
In the premium came from rate reductions

1435
02:02:23,400 --> 02:02:25,480
in our stellar credit, is that right?

1436
02:02:26,540 --> 02:02:29,080
The premium did not come from rate reductions.

1437
02:02:29,080 --> 02:02:38,820
Okay. The bond premium, essentially, when the city decides to issue bonds and we issue bonds at a premium,

1438
02:02:39,020 --> 02:02:46,960
that is because the rate on our bonds is higher than what the market is currently. So they give us additional money,

1439
02:02:47,020 --> 02:02:54,160
or they pay additional money on the face value of the bonds, essentially what we're doing is we're getting up front money,

1440
02:02:54,340 --> 02:02:57,120
but we'll pay higher interest rates over the life for the bonds.

1441
02:02:58,100 --> 02:03:06,180
for a good and also was thankful that we had the funding got the website page where

1442
02:03:06,180 --> 02:03:12,760
our residents can track the progress on the project will the budget information be on that

1443
02:03:12,760 --> 02:03:13,840
page or not.

1444
02:03:14,600 --> 02:03:19,940
I have not looked at the link for that page so I will have to defer to the thing.

1445
02:03:20,780 --> 02:03:22,080
We'll have a little bit of a little bit.

1446
02:03:22,980 --> 02:03:23,600
Very good.

1447
02:03:23,680 --> 02:03:24,400
Thank you so much.

1448
02:03:24,760 --> 02:03:25,340
Thank you.

1449
02:03:27,650 --> 02:03:32,650
All right, Council, I look to you for action on this.

1450
02:03:39,200 --> 02:03:39,940
May I put Tim?

1451
02:03:40,440 --> 02:03:42,660
I believe that we approve the phase one, Mr. Mayor.

1452
02:03:43,300 --> 02:03:45,720
All right, so much by May I put Tim to approve phase one,

1453
02:03:45,720 --> 02:03:48,920
Secretary by Davis discussion on the motion.

1454
02:03:49,460 --> 02:03:51,460
All right, Council, I look to you for your votes.

1455
02:03:59,610 --> 02:04:00,190
Thank you, Council.

1456
02:04:03,500 --> 02:04:04,300
All right.

1457
02:04:04,320 --> 02:04:06,320
All right. Thank you. I have a good evening.