[2:29] 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

[2:44] 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.

[3:06] Gracious Father, we pause at the beginning of this gathering to recognize the responsibilities,

[3:11] duties, and assignment given to our mayor and the city council.

[3:16] May those who serve in this chamber be guided by wisdom, integrity, fairness, and courage.

[3:21] Give them the ability to listen carefully, consider diverse perspectives, and make decisions

[3:26] with the well-being of our entire community in mind.

[3:29] May they remember that behind every policy and every decision or people, families, children,

[3:35] seniors, veterans, workers, business owners, students, neighbors and individuals from many cultures

[3:41] backgrounds and traditions that rely on their decision-making ability to enhance the future of

[3:46] our great city. Help us to build a city where every person is treated with dignity and respect,

[3:51] where differences do not divide us, but broaden our understanding, where opportunity is pursued with

[3:57] fairness and where compassion guides our response to those who are experiencing difficulty.

[4:01] grant our elected leaders patients when challenges are difficult, humility when perspectives

[4:07] defer and wisdom to seek common ground without compromising the principle of justice and

[4:12] human dignity that represents our Creator. Your word reminds us to seek wisdom to pursue justice,

[4:18] to love mercy and to walk humbly. May those principle guide the work that takes place in this

[4:23] chamber on today that contribute to a safer, stronger, more compassionate and united Fayette

[4:28] Bless the Mayor to City Council City officials, employees, and all who contribute to the life and future of our community.

[4:36] Give them clarity when decisions are difficult, patients when the pain is deferred, and discernment to recognize solutions that strengthen the entire community.

[4:45] And everything we give you thanks and praise would gratitude,

[4:48] Humbness for the opportunity to serve your people with hope for the future of our city

[4:53] May we move forward together in peace and your name. We preferably submit this petition on behalf of our leaders as we

[5:00] We trust you throughout this process, amen.

[5:02] Hey man, I'm glad to lead you to the top of the night.

[5:07] I just say something to the Republic, which is that one nation under the individual

[5:15] with liberty, justice law.

[5:18] Pasta, hi, Tau.

[5:19] Thank you for that wonderful prayer.

[5:21] I know you for a long time.

[5:23] You're doing great work in your ministry.

[5:25] You're going to work to some road after school care and some of the other things that you're doing.

[5:29] Tell the audience a little bit about yourself in your ministry.

[5:32] Yes, sir. My name is Apostle Aperhite Tower. I bring your greetings on behalf of New

[5:37] Salem International Ministries located at 4,000 to 6 March and row right here in the

[5:43] Gapless City of Fayetteville, North Carolina. The focus and purpose of our ministry is to teach

[5:48] biblical principles and strategies that's going to challenge you to change in order to improve

[5:53] your quality of life and for specific areas. Spirit to growth, community and economic development,

[5:59] housing as well as educational excellence.

[6:03] On this weekend, our community and we are inviting the entire city of Fabio to come out.

[6:08] We're having a community give back back to school program where we're going to have free

[6:13] haircuts.

[6:14] We're giving away schools supplies.

[6:16] We're also giving away food, clothing, and we're also going to have information concerning

[6:22] our upcoming private school, New Salem, Christian Academy that will be open up in the

[6:27] 227 to 228 school years, so we'll be given an information concern of that.

[6:32] So you all are welcome to come if you're not busy this Saturday from 10 to 3.

[6:37] All right, thank you. Can we give us a hotel?

[6:39] Pause for a hotel around the door.

[6:44] Pause for a hotel?

[6:45] What time would that be?

[6:49] All right. All right.

[6:51] Well, thank you so much.

[6:52] Pause for a thank you for that wonderful prayer.

[6:54] Councils, we move to the next item.

[6:57] And we have the announcements I will go to, Council Member Jones.

[7:03] Thank you, Mr. Mayor.

[7:03] I just want to take a few moments to acknowledge my other half.

[7:08] She started a journey with me right after undergraduate school.

[7:12] She was a Winston Salem State Ram.

[7:13] I was a fellow state Bronco.

[7:15] I didn't hold that against her.

[7:17] But she decided to marry this young man at the time.

[7:22] So I'm excited to just share that on this Friday we will be celebrating our 28th wedding

[7:27] Anniversary. So I miss you. Love you. Hi. I just wanted to let you know that. Thank you, Mr. Mayor.

[7:36] The smart man sir. Councilman here. Thank you, Mayor. I would like to reiterate from.

[7:44] I was trying to get it all on on my cake. Yeah, just want to reiterate from last week that.

[7:51] This weekend that Saturday the 29 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. We will be having the 34th annual.

[7:59] your module festival that would be in the Smith or Seabruck Park and we hope that

[8:09] you will come out there and enjoy the unity time and bring your family's going to be a big day of

[8:14] food trucks and you can get your blood pressure check and just a whole lot of great health and

[8:19] fun times and for those of you that have not registered to vote you also have an opportunity to do

[8:26] That with the NAACP, NAACP, they will have a table and partnership with a mega-side

[8:36] five fraternity, the Beta Kai chapter we look forward for you coming out and stopping at

[8:41] our table.

[8:42] Thank you, Mayor.

[8:43] Sir.

[8:44] All right.

[8:45] Councilman Davis.

[8:46] Thank you, Mr. Mayor.

[8:47] I just wanted to announce that Femble's very own, favorable, commonly youth council is having

[8:51] a member of interest meeting on September 3rd from 6.30 PM to 8 PM, any 9.12 waiters or

[8:58] interested in having being a voice for your age demographic please join them at the Febbo Youth

[9:05] Council office at 7.25 West Row and Street on September 3rd from 6.30 to 8 PM.

[9:12] Thank you, Mr. Mayor.

[9:13] Thank you.

[9:14] All right, Council seeing no other announcements, I moved 5.0 to City Manager's report, just

[9:19] to cue it.

[9:22] Thank you, thank you Mayor, two quick announcements and both of them, very positive.

[9:29] On this past Wednesday, the Fable Fire Department traveled to Chicago and earned the International

[9:34] accreditation for the Commission on Fire accreditation in a national for the fourth time.

[9:40] So if we could Chief Dove, if you, and when you come up and give your presentations well,

[9:44] if you could tell the council more about that, but the accreditation is a process of self-assessment,

[9:51] verify through peer review, and our favourified department is one of only 127

[9:56] five departments on the planet.

[9:59] To carry the IIT.

[10:00] So, class 1, and internationally, accredited recommendations. Thank

[10:07] you.

[10:09] Outstanding.

[10:10] The other quick announcement is, this past weekend has also been very instrumentless.

[10:17] Well, our Assistant Clerk Paula Hanbury received her North Carolina Certified Municipal Clerk Certification.

[10:24] The certification recognizes municipal clerks have completed over a year, professional education

[10:29] training focused on knowledge and skills essential to effectively serve their communities

[10:34] and pass their required exams. The certification reflects a commitment to professional excellence

[10:39] continuous learning and the highest standards of municipal clerk service. So Ms. Handbrake,

[10:45] congratulations Paul.

[10:49] That's also. All right. Thank you. Congratulations again to Chief Dove and

[10:53] our great Friday Department. I know we look forward to hearing your presentation tonight,

[10:56] but thank you as Outstanding of 127 on the planet so that's huge so we thank you in the

[11:04] hard work to do all the do every day and this policy certainly we congratulate you for your

[11:09] credentials and all of the city employees we have a very hard work in dedicated and qualified team

[11:14] that work hard day in a day out a lot of you don't see all the work that they do behind the scenes

[11:21] to keep the city running but we thank each and every one of you so so with that council we move

[11:26] to the approval of the agenda item 6.0. I'll annotate a motion to approve. We'll use our

[11:31] show systems. As a motion by Councilmember Harris, there's second. Second. All right, we're

[11:36] going to use our show. I heard Councilmember McNadd out there. All right. So, in any discussion

[11:42] on the motion. All right, Councilor, look to you for your votes to approve the agenda.

[11:48] All right, Madam Curtis, unanimous. Moving to the consented items, we had a couple of Senate

[11:56] Item questions, I think Councilmember Jones, 7.085 I think, all right, and Councilor

[12:06] if you could, we'll separate up a down on 086, I know we've had, this was a continuation.

[12:12] So if we could approve the agenda with those two items, Councilor Jones, do you want to

[12:18] make a motion?

[12:18] Yeah, some of them to approve the consent agenda agenda with the exception up pooling 7.05 and 7.06.

[12:28] All right.

[12:29] There's second.

[12:30] Second by Councilman Davis.

[12:33] I saw on the chair system.

[12:34] All right, discussion on that.

[12:36] All right.

[12:36] Council, I look to you for your votes.

[12:38] This is to approve with the exception.

[12:39] Those two items.

[12:43] All right.

[12:43] Motion carries.

[12:45] Adam 7.085.

[12:46] How could you council member Jones?

[12:49] Thank you so much.

[12:50] I just wanted to provide some clarity for the community in regards to this item.

[12:56] I am in support of it as it is written at this time.

[12:59] I wanted to just provide some additional clarity.

[13:02] So what I want to do, I just want to recap my understanding and you can fill in the gaps.

[13:06] I don't want to take a lot of time.

[13:08] There were obviously some concerns from the community in regards to this particular

[13:12] rezoning, and so I just wanted to provide some information to address those.

[13:18] The first aspect of that, it was originally planned to

[13:22] rezone again about 123 acres from L.I. to H.I.

[13:28] and part of that rezoning per my understanding was one addressing

[13:33] temporary storage and then another aspect was some building

[13:37] modifications there. So those were two things.

[13:40] So, the current recommendation, which was revised, which, again, I mean, a agreement with

[13:49] is to reduce that rezoning down to 61 acres.

[13:54] And that would be for the area where they're actually going to build the extension of the

[14:00] still-fab manufacturing.

[14:03] All right.

[14:04] In addition to that, there were some concerns with the Rosus Lake bayed, possibly being

[14:09] 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.

[14:19] So as currently met the roses Lake Lake bed will not be to the conservation district.

[14:24] They have a great to keep that in place as well.

[14:28] Yes, Councilman, that's all correct.

[14:30] All right.

[14:30] And then thirdly, this should address the aspect of ownership.

[14:33] This isn't, this isn't an odd situation, this is something that actually occurs very frequently

[14:39] with them real estate where if someone doesn't necessarily own a property, they can do

[14:44] an affirmation of an affidavit, of ownership. Is that correct? Correct. That happens almost

[14:51] every reason. Yes. Yes. And this is not just big organization, just smaller ones,

[14:55] as well as smaller businesses as well. And basically, just wanted to community know it.

[15:00] 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.

[15:14] 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.

[15:29] 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.

[15:38] And I know some of the individuals did go to the zoning commission as well to voice their concerns.

[15:45] 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.

[15:53] That would greatly appreciate it.

[15:55] I think Councilman, you covered it pretty well right there.

[15:58] I think you've been pretty much involved in this for a while.

[16:02] So you know, well, what's been going on and what the concerns are out there.

[16:07] Okay. All right. And Mr. Mayor, I'll be ready to make a motion.

[16:11] Yes, sir.

[16:12] It's on you.

[16:13] All right. So I moved to approve the amended map amendment to heavy industrial and retaining

[16:20] the current city area as presented on the evidence base of mid-it and findings that the

[16:25] rezoning is consistent with the future land use plan as demonstrated by the attached

[16:30] consistency and reasonable statement.

[16:32] All right.

[16:32] most of the accounts from the Jones. It's like the second-by-a-hair discussion.

[16:38] All right, Councilor T. for you votes on O.A. 5.

[16:46] I'm Clark, who we miss.

[16:48] Councilmember Ferguson?

[16:50] I don't know what you're doing now.

[16:54] Okay. All right, most of you guys are there. Thank you.

[16:58] Thank you.

[16:59] Some point O.A. 6 is a continuation of a special use permit

[17:05] that we heard a few weeks back access item to be pulled for a separate vote, especially

[17:12] just to our audience, are basically governed by state statute, which says that there

[17:19] are a number of fines of facts, six in this case, that sworn testimony in evidence either

[17:30] support or or do not support a build a case to support or not support these

[17:39] find as a facts for council so council wanted a separate vote for this for

[17:43] consent and with that can entertain a motion to consider this item unless there

[17:50] was some further questions council on. So, Mr. Mayor. All right,

[17:55] It's a much better Council member of the House and that is to approve.

[17:59] All right, and it's a special use to see if you have to read these findings.

[18:04] Okay, all right.

[18:05] It's a much better Council member of the House as their second.

[18:08] Seconded by Council member Green.

[18:10] All right, discussion.

[18:12] All right, Council, look to you for your votes.

[18:19] All right.

[18:19] Madam Clerk, motion carries seven, three.

[18:21] Those voting opposed, tops, and Colvin, and Davis.

[18:26] All right.

[18:27] All right.

[18:27] moving to public hearing.

[18:34] At this time we are preparing to hold a public hearing with a city council

[18:38] formally seeks your input. Individuals designed to speak in the hearing with the signed up

[18:42] to speak with the city clerk by name and address before the start of tonight's meeting. We'll

[18:46] begin with a staff presentation then we'll move into the formal hearing. 15 minutes will be allowed by

[18:52] those in favor and those opposed to the item in the hearing. Individual speakers are limited to

[18:56] three minutes each unless by previous arrangement, a single spokesperson is designated, in which

[19:01] case the spokesperson may use the entire 15 minutes.

[19:04] When the city clerk calls your name, please come to the podium, please clearly state your

[19:08] name and address for the record and you may then begin to address the council.

[19:12] When the light changes from green to amber that means you have approximately 30 seconds remaining

[19:16] and that the conclusion of your time, the time will ring or the light will turn red.

[19:21] So at this time I'll stop and turn it over to the user.

[19:28] Leave me.

[19:29] Good day. Good evening.

[19:42] Don't see the presentation.

[20:02] 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.

[20:24] The Council has already seen this presentation once before at their work session on June 1.

[20:30] The original presentation had seven examples of those seven examples for or selected by the Council

[20:37] to move forward for public hearing.

[20:44] The staff presented the four examples to the Planning Commission at their July 21 meeting

[20:50] as part of the public hearing process and to get their recommendations.

[20:54] to tonight we bring it back before the council for your consideration.

[21:05] The first example

[21:06] in this is for building mountain signage and what we're doing with this example is we would

[21:12] remove the five sign limit that we currently have in place and then building mountain signs

[21:18] would only be regulated by the wall area of each side of the building using the increased allowance

[21:25] below.

[21:28] The way it reads unless otherwise stated, the permitted copy area for building

[21:33] mom and sonage shall be calculated as the greater of either. Currently it's one to one.

[21:40] We would increase that to 1.5 to one and the second one is 10% currently and that would increase

[21:48] to 15%.

[21:53] The next is the downtown two district. This would remove the downtown two

[21:58] districts for the limitations of the subsection below, and it would place or allow the

[22:04] DT2 district to use the same standards as all other non-residential districts for building

[22:11] mounted signage. Currently, DT2 district is limited to one exterior built-in mounted sign per

[22:21] free from.

[22:24] Example F is window signage and this would remove the limitation on window

[22:31] signage related to walls that have wall signage. It would increase to 100% coverage of the

[22:39] glazed area of every window and door on all sides of the building. And as a side note, the

[22:45] DT2 district is already regulated in the same as all other non-residential districts for

[22:51] low signage below is the current standards as you see scratched out 50% of the

[22:59] cumulative square footage of a glaze area that would increase to 100% and we would

[23:07] take away, as it says down there below, shall not exceed the square footage of an

[23:12] installed wall sign. And what that really means is if there's a wall sign up there

[23:16] smaller than what is allowed for the glaze area, then you would have to stick with the

[23:23] signage size of the wall sign, instead of the, so we were removed both of those standards

[23:29] and increased it to 100% coverage. Our last example,

[23:36] in this example, we removed the five

[23:39] time limit for building mountain signs, for building or tenant space, allow full wall coverage

[23:46] of all building walls.

[23:49] So basically a wall wrap, whether it was one big sign and cumpson, the whole side of

[23:54] a building or wall building or multiple signs, one side or all sides of the building.

[24:02] And the only regulating requirement would be that they would be required to have a sign

[24:08] permit for any sign that they did place on the building.

[24:17] The recommendations, so when July 21st, the Planning Commission met and voted 5-0,

[24:24] the recommended city council approve example B and C as presented below as example B, as we

[24:32] showed in the first slide, and example C is the downtown two district example.

[24:39] The

[24:43] options here, approve with examples of B and C as recommended by the Planning Commission.

[24:50] Approved with some or none of the examples I was recommended by the Planning Commission.

[24:56] Remain back to staff with specific Verbiage or Change.

[25:00] The bill is as desired or did not all text the amendment options.

[25:18] Councillor Fattos?

[25:19] Mr. Mayor, there's no questions.

[25:21] I'm not prepared to open the public hearing.

[25:22] All right.

[25:23] That will open the public hearing.

[25:25] Madam Clerk.

[25:26] Mayor, we have no speakers for this item.

[25:28] That will close the public hearing, Councillor Fattos.

[25:30] There's no questions, Mr. Mayor.

[25:32] I'm prepared to make a motion.

[25:33] Mr. Mayor.

[25:33] I'm prepared to make a motion.

[25:34] I'm moved to approve.

[25:36] An example's BC and F.

[25:39] All right. Motion by Councilmember Hodges to approve is there a second by Councilmember Davis. I believe a song sure system discussion.

[25:49] All right. Councilor look to you for your votes on this item.

[25:57] All right. Madam Kurt.

[25:59] That is approve of an opposition Mayor Pro Tim. All right.

[26:04] 8.02.

[26:07] Mr. Van Geans.

[26:11] Robo.

[26:11] Good

[26:14] evening, Mayor.

[26:16] Pleasure to be with you here tonight.

[26:25] I don't know.

[26:26] That's right.

[26:26] I'm a PDF.

[26:27] I got it now.

[26:28] I did that last time.

[26:29] Apologies there for the brief delay.

[26:35] So you have before you.

[26:36] We're having to be back again with another applicant for the can do performance financing program.

[26:42] Tonight we have one project in front of you.

[26:44] But I think it's really great.

[26:45] One of the work with for some time.

[26:47] As you may recall, this program was developed to advance city's goal.

[26:51] of increasingly number and diversity of local vendors available to you and

[26:55] ever institutional institutions here in the community.

[27:00] Importantly, it is designed to address the typical barriers that keep small companies

[27:05] from growing, especially those in low and moderate income communities.

[27:08] And it overcomes the hurdles of traditional lending.

[27:11] It's administered by the 501C3.

[27:13] And we have a number of partners that have worked with us throughout this process.

[27:16] And we'll continue to.

[27:17] 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.

[27:28] I would say today's a good exit time to say now is a great time to apply.

[27:33] 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.

[27:41] But if the company creates required jobs, the funds are treated as a forgivable loan, meaning they don't

[27:46] accrue interest and they help that company move forward and grow.

[27:50] We had 29 unique businesses apply, working through those, we had 17 candidates that were within

[27:56] the qualified areas or qualified as into the type of businesses they were, even though we can't

[28:02] fund non-profits a lot of non-profits ask, 7 projects were submitted to the investment committee,

[28:07] Six of those went forward with one, I think, withdrawing to seed our partner for reviewing

[28:12] the financial due diligence and we had one project that meant the scoring criteria for

[28:17] this round of funding.

[28:18] Just as a reminder, the air is in blue and it does change and has change.

[28:22] There's a new link, but this was the maps that were in place at the time of this round

[28:27] of applications.

[28:28] These are your load of modern income census tracks.

[28:33] And, again, to qualify, they have to be a company that has 15 or fewer businesses.

[28:39] I am employees, sorry, operating in the sense of tract, and they have to create one job or $25,000,

[28:45] provided with at least 60 of those new hires being from low to moderate income households.

[28:50] They have to pay at least 10% above the local average for the positions by classification,

[28:55] and create 50% of the jobs within 18 months and 100% within five years.

[28:59] Our applicant today that we're pleased to bring forward this college of Scotland and

[29:04] Cabinet and cleaning solutions.

[29:05] And if you have a moment, we'd like to let him have an opportunity to say a little bit

[29:09] about his company and his project.

[29:10] Carlos?

[29:15] Hello, everyone.

[29:16] Yeah, that is nice.

[29:16] All right.

[29:17] My name is Carlos Godwin.

[29:18] In 2019, I started my commercial cleaning business, of course, it's called Cabinet and

[29:25] cleaning solutions.

[29:25] and we've been providing services to many companies around

[29:30] federal, including federal state, for liberty, for it brag, and we've also

[29:36] done work with Seymour Johnson Air Force Base.

[29:39] And today we're asking for approval for $125,000 for a capital

[29:44] equipment request, and these requests are broken down into three

[29:49] different categories, category number one, we're looking for fleet.

[29:53] So we're looking for $55,000 to purchase two to three utility.

[30:02] 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.

[30:29] as well as some of our small business equipment,

[30:34] like our buckets and our carts and things like that.

[30:39] And we're also looking to invest some of that

[30:41] last bucket into facility changes as well as safety.

[30:47] So this investment is just not going to help with the bottom line.

[30:52] We also want to increase our staffing.

[30:55] 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

[31:05] and we're hiring different positions such as cleaning technicians, floor specialists, supervisors as well as HR representative.

[31:15] So, again, just a quick $125,000 request for approval for our capital equipment so that we can improve our

[31:26] Our business and our infrastructure.

[31:29] So thank you guys for the time and opportunity.

[31:32] Also want to thank the K&DU program for helping us go through this journey.

[31:37] Thank you, sir.

[31:41] Thank you.

[31:41] And I'm sure you're going to have to answer any questions either.

[31:44] Now or during or after the public hearing that's required.

[31:47] We do respect the request that you approve these funds.

[31:50] I think importantly, folks.

[31:51] These are to buy the items that allow a company grow that typically

[31:56] require a line of credit, or some sort of instrument that adds interest costs, makes it very

[32:02] hard to purchase equipment, pay the debt, pay your people, do the work, and wait to get paid,

[32:06] and that's what the program is designed to do to allow them to get the assets they need to grow.

[32:11] And for people looking for more information, they go to CanDueCarolineFund.com.

[32:16] We have a new application form going up tonight.

[32:19] And with that, thank you for the opportunity to present this tonight.

[32:22] Thank you for support.

[32:23] All right.

[32:23] Thank you.

[32:25] 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

[32:31] All right, so that will close the public here and Council I look to you for

[32:37] Motion Council number 100 have a quick question for the gentleman from Camden

[32:45] Where's headquarters were you based out of we're off of

[32:49] World Street, one online World Street.

[32:51] Also, thank you so much.

[32:53] Yeah.

[32:53] Councilman McNair, you had a question?

[32:54] OK.

[32:54] No, sir.

[32:55] I will, if you don't.

[32:57] Councilman Davis, do you have a question?

[32:58] I'll try to make a motion, sir.

[32:59] I'll do that, sir.

[33:01] Yeah, I'll do it.

[33:02] No, we'll make a motion.

[33:03] OK.

[33:04] I guess not.

[33:05] I don't have to fight over.

[33:06] Yeah.

[33:08] All right.

[33:09] I saw that.

[33:10] Davis, make it.

[33:11] All right.

[33:11] Councilman Davis, make it.

[33:13] I moved.

[33:13] I moved that we approved Cardinals, Godwin, and it

[33:16] can't be in clean and solutions LLC for they can't do

[33:18] performance finance in funding and the amount of $125,000 in authorized CDF to release the fund

[33:26] subject to the candidate entering into an incentive agreement. Thank you, Mr. Mayor.

[33:32] All right, question. All right, so let me get a second on that motion. Most of the time from

[33:36] the day of the second by hair and that is a district to business. I think he's a growth streak, right?

[33:41] Yes. That's why I was kind of quiet. All right. Thank you. Thank you, Mayor. And I like this. I like

[33:48] whenever we can support our local business owners right here in favour. Mr. Robo, tell me

[33:56] who does this, who does the verification that everything goes through in accordance to

[34:00] the request tonight?

[34:02] It is a team effort, as far as from this point forward, it is our staff working with special

[34:10] council, and then we require, again, to mention, and then we are also working with I per

[34:14] metrics, who is one of your monitoring groups for the funds

[34:17] of provided at the time in city staff as a prize of all the

[34:20] contractional documents that go into it.

[34:23] Everyone enters into a contract.

[34:24] We enter into security grants, for example, for the vehicles

[34:27] will hold title.

[34:28] In that case, so should we know I have good faith in this project

[34:33] and actually in all of the companies we've been working with,

[34:36] but should someone try to do something like cellar vehicle,

[34:39] they wouldn't be able to do that without,

[34:41] you know actually they would not be able to do that legally so we do the right things we can

[34:46] but we also know that these are small businesses there's risk involved and they're trying to grow

[34:50] but it is we also work with seed and then when companies need training or upskilling we work with the

[34:55] hub and FSU are applicants who maybe aren't ready yet so we do have a variety of different parts.

[35:01] I'm glad to hear that, and I'm ready to vote me. All right. I have a couple more questions. Council member McNair.

[35:07] 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.

[35:18] All right.

[35:18] We do have a team of experienced financial volunteers that sit on our steering committee.

[35:23] 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.

[35:30] Councilmember Miller.

[35:31] Yeah, thank you, Mr. Mayor.

[35:33] Yeah, encouraged by this program.

[35:35] I definitely want to see a grow in more applicants accepted.

[35:38] A question for Robo and then a question for Mr. Camden.

[35:41] I'll go with Mr. Camden first.

[35:43] How do you find out about this program would encourage you to apply?

[35:47] And then I'll go ahead and I'll give you my question.

[35:50] My question for Robo.

[35:50] My question for you is just what's the the most common reason for denial for applicants?

[35:58] Well, I was just searching on the federal website and I found it, I really didn't understand

[36:05] what it was and then I think I don't know if it would say that at the time, but I

[36:09] re-start to one of the people in the organization that were able to inform me so and then

[36:15] we just started filling out paperwork and going through the whole process.

[36:19] Okay.

[36:20] Glad that you too.

[36:21] Thank you.

[36:22] 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.

[36:33] We need as much help as possible on that.

[36:35] This fund is targeted for small existing businesses to help them grow.

[36:40] Like you've got right here a person, you've got full time with the employees in there.

[36:44] 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.

[37:01] And so that's really been the challenge for the vast majority of folks that have come in they haven't been ready yet.

[37:06] 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

[37:13] 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

[37:24] 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

[37:30] 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

[37:36] 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

[37:43] How long ago

[37:45] This 2019 so he's a perfect fit for this when it first came out

[37:48] But it was until the second round where he was able to hear about it

[37:51] So I think you know, I think we just need to get the word out to qualifying existing businesses

[37:55] We have other programs for startups

[37:57] 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.

[38:05] Thank you.

[38:06] Thank you.

[38:06] And this guy went again.

[38:09] Good work.

[38:09] Very impressive.

[38:11] Robert, when we first talked about this, it was a gap that needed to be filled.

[38:16] Because as you said, there's something here regardless of what stage of business in it.

[38:21] If it's a conceptual idea, you have to hub, which will help you with business plans and

[38:25] other services to help you get incorporated and tax ID numbers and all those kind of things

[38:30] that people need when you first start.

[38:32] Then you have those who have been in business who have learned the trade, but now they're

[38:37] ready to grow in scale, which is Mr. Goin, and then you have our community development.

[38:42] So there's something along the way, regardless of what size your business is, that somebody

[38:48] services in the community that are available to you. Again, we just want to encourage people

[38:54] to apply it as a success story for, I think maybe the first one we approve the local contractor,

[39:00] she bought additional equipment with it, and now my understanding is she just got recently

[39:03] awarded a $4 million contract.

[39:06] Thank you.

[39:07] I'm glad to be able to grow up and have 16 employees now, a vast exceeding, quickly exceeding their

[39:14] job creation expectations, and I have been feeling well.

[39:17] Carlos has five years to get it because we didn't want it to be a burden on compliance

[39:21] for the company.

[39:21] I have no doubt he's going to meet those numbers much faster than that.

[39:25] So, fantastic.

[39:26] Well, look, I don't want to delay this any further, councilor Davis.

[39:31] Robert, can you tell us one of the next cycle for applications to come in?

[39:35] We, if we get a large influx, we tend to run as a group, but you can apply any time.

[39:41] So, and now is the perfect time because we've just worked through this approval here.

[39:45] And so we are absolutely ready.

[39:46] We've got a brand new forum online that will make applying even easier on our site.

[39:51] So now is a perfect time, it's always a good time to give us a call and we can handle

[39:55] just about anything that comes in.

[39:57] Thank you, sir.

[39:58] All right, Councilor look to you for your votes.

[40:06] All right, motion carries unanimous congratulations. Let's go and look forward to great things.

[40:18] 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.

[40:39] it's only seven eleven at night.

[40:42] Don't start to, hey, hey, I thought you wanted to get

[40:46] this one out of my way, oh, you don't worry about that.

[40:49] You think of some questions for you?

[40:51] Yes, I usually sight myself up, but we're ready.

[40:57] Good evening, Mr. Mayor.

[40:58] Members of the Council, Kevin Doug, fire chief here tonight,

[41:01] present in the calendar year 2026, second quarter report.

[41:06] We have three highlights for the second quarter

[41:09] that we're very excited to share as Dr. Hewitt said.

[41:12] We went through our accreditation process and we're awarded accreditation

[41:16] for the fourth time. And what I need everybody to know is that's not

[41:21] done in a vacuum. That's not done just by the fire department.

[41:24] That's a whole group effort by the city. When our peer

[41:28] assessors come in, they interview, city managers office, they interview IT,

[41:33] the interview, HR, finance, budget, and our normal one center, obviously. And if those folks

[41:40] don't have their ducks in a row, it doesn't work for us. So we also share this with them

[41:44] and we're appreciative of their work. And also I have to thank our partners at Fable Technical

[41:50] Community College. They gave us that beautiful training center that we take advantage of

[41:55] every day, and that helps a ton as well. Also, we participated in a smoke alarm Saturday,

[42:03] campus where we visited 111 homes and installed 135 smoke alarms in three hours

[42:09] all three of charge and we held our groundbreaking for Fire Station 16 so it was a

[42:16] good quarter moving on to operations we responded to 7,359 calls in

[42:25] to. Slight increase from 2025 with April be in the busiest of three months.

[42:33] 4452 of those calls were medical in nature, 1,115 false alarms, 1,018 service calls, and

[42:42] 317 fires. We have your heat maps that you like to see. This is your fire map,

[42:55] and

[42:55] As always, we're happy to get you zoomed in to your districts if you wish, help you identify any issues.

[43:06] 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.

[43:15] I want to give special attention to the decrease in a long handling time.

[43:19] We thank Ms. Reed and her staff for being very efficient.

[43:23] Calls are being turned out of our 911 Center and average of one minute and three seconds.

[43:30] Did it again, Chief?

[43:32] Calls are being turned out of our 911 Center and an average of one minute and three seconds.

[43:36] Let's go.

[43:41] 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.

[43:49] What was known as inference, which is the National Fire Instant Reporting System, is now nearest,

[43:56] which is the National Emergency Response Information System, say that three times fast.

[44:03] This change took place in January of 26th.

[44:07] Several areas that we previously tracked are no longer tracked, and some have been manipulated

[44:11] and some are collected different.

[44:13] 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.

[44:22] All right, so for our fire statistics, there were 317 fire responses in the second quarter.

[44:28] 68 of those were structure fires.

[44:31] 12 of those started in the kitchen.

[44:34] Sadly, there was one civilian fire fatality in nine civilian injuries.

[44:38] There were seven firefighter injuries, thankfully, all minor springs and strains and things like that.

[44:45] The percentage of fires confined to the room of origin is a 57% which is one of the things, one of the changes.

[44:54] Previously, we would identify fires of starting the room of origin contained.

[45:00] 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.

[45:13] 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.

[45:28] The dollar save ratio was at 94.33% we had a significant fire loss as this quarter which brought

[45:36] that number down a little bit. That was 2.681 million in total fire loss. Six of the

[45:45] structure fires were intentionally set and we had three lithium-ion battery fires. We did use

[45:52] one of our fire blankets so we had a lithium-ion battery fire in the back of a tractor trailer

[45:57] It was a tot of batteries that were taken off on us and we used our fire blanket.

[46:08] The top three fire losses were the hotel fire on sick and more dairy road.

[46:13] This picture is awesome to me, but I'm a fireman.

[46:16] It probably scares the heck out of a bunch of people.

[46:18] But one of the occupants took this out of their window that morning.

[46:24] The second fire was a residential fire on the Dolphus Road and then we had a farm equipment

[46:28] fire on a stormy point road.

[46:33] You'll see a decrease in EMS calls. This is also another part of

[46:37] that nearest where some calls are now reclassified as service calls. Overdoage responses

[46:43] at Narcana Administration continue to trend down.

[46:49] Our Hazmat team had a busy, as, excuse me,

[46:52] had a busy quarter. Natural gas responses increased almost triple. We don't know why,

[46:58] there was no smoking gun, but we're going to continue to monitor that.

[47:02] 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.

[47:13] Moving on to our most important pieces are human capital or personnel.

[47:18] We held our six annual women in the Fire Service Day.

[47:22] This is when we invite women interested in the Fire Service to the Training Center.

[47:26] They kick all the males out.

[47:28] Our female officers and firefighters are there to answer their questions.

[47:32] 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.

[47:42] It was actually a really good quarter for us in regards to separations.

[47:46] This chart looks a little dramatic, but we only had two resignations and one retirement in the second quarter.

[47:55] At the end of the quarter, we only had one vacancy which was a permanent technician.

[47:59] and inspiring stations. We filled that. But unfortunately we are starting to see an increase in

[48:04] resignations over the summer.

[48:08] Our demographics remain very similar to quarter one simply because

[48:12] we didn't lose many people and we only hired one inspector. We can continue to currently be at 26%

[48:19] underrepresented population.

[48:22] Our staff completed over 32,000 hours of training in the second quarter,

[48:28] 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.

[48:49] Luckily, most of those are education and fixed right there.

[48:54] Very few require a fine or any kind of additional action.

[48:59] We issued 143 news certificate of occupancies and distributed 166 educational flyers to businesses.

[49:08] Here are the top five fire code violations that we find.

[49:12] Portable fire extinguishers are still number one with electrical equipment,

[49:17] wire and then hazards be a number to you and last but certainly not least is our community

[49:24] risk reduction folks.

[49:28] We interacted with 9,999 residents and I was like really you couldn't

[49:34] find one more person to go talk to but they gave me the real numbers so that's where it is.

[49:42] We were at 104 community events, 392 smoke alarms were installed total, 116 carbon monoxide

[49:50] alarms installed, 105 children are now riding more safely in cars, 1,018 people now know

[49:58] hands only CPR.

[50:00] And we did three youth fire setting interventions during the second corps.

[50:08] And as always, no one should ever go to sleep without a working smoke alarm.

[50:13] Call us or scan the QR code for a free smoke alarm delivered your home and installed by our fine firefighters.

[50:21] And I'm happy to take any of your questions.

[50:24] Do you have a couple of councilmember here and then I had one?

[50:27] Thank you.

[50:29] Pretty good report, Chief.

[50:31] Thank you, sir.

[50:33] I was trying to see.

[50:34] I think it was, well, that says that too.

[50:38] You had a, you had where a person had lost their life.

[50:47] But I've got it written down here far as statistics, but you've got two or three to

[50:52] have that. I was trying to see was that person caught that started to fire. I think you

[50:58] see what you said the fire that was started was that person caught? Yes. Thank you. Chief on the

[51:07] page with fire inspections.

[51:13] The second quarter has got years 22, 24, 25, 26.

[51:20] Yeah. Yes. So you have a

[51:22] huge increase in fire co-violation is from 25 and 26, it doubled.

[51:30] Otherwise, that's just.

[51:31] Our inspections doubled.

[51:35] If you look at the new construction inspections, none of those were reported.

[51:39] We didn't do them in 24 and 25, and our planned reviews have almost doubled as well due

[51:46] to the additional staff.

[51:48] And a lot of those were found in the new planned reviews when they're going through

[51:52] the reviews and they say, hey,

[51:55] with this, you need a riser here or something over here,

[51:59] that counts as a violation.

[52:02] Really?

[52:02] Yes, sir.

[52:03] It's just because it has to be noted,

[52:05] but it's no, it's no, it's no, it's a violation.

[52:08] Oh, yeah.

[52:09] The maintenance inspections are at a 3471.

[52:12] Those are the ones that are on the 345 year cycle,

[52:16] where we go into the business and get them squared away.

[52:20] Okay. All right. Councilmember Jones and then Matt Prochim.

[52:26] Thank you, Mr. Mayor. First, thank you all for what you do.

[52:29] I was able to attend some of the car safety events,

[52:32] which you partnered with the state and others with.

[52:33] You all do a good job.

[52:35] I just appreciate the engagement that you have with the community,

[52:38] how responsive they were.

[52:40] And I think a lot of them were surprised.

[52:42] They were like, oh, the fire department is out here.

[52:45] So you all do a lot of things. I want to really, really thank you all

[52:47] community is really, really appreciative of you. My question is quick and I may be

[52:52] premature asking this if so you can just say so and we get it later in the

[52:57] year. I see that you're doing a good job with your stepping and your retention as well

[53:02] and I know you mentioned some things. At this moment, what are your plans or what is

[53:09] place to address the over-hire situation.

[53:16] We've been working with budget, and we think we have a solution.

[53:22] We're moving forward with our second class of 2026, then we'll start in September.

[53:30] We're going to onboard the over-hires, and we're going to work closely with budget to

[53:35] make sure we can handle that.

[53:38] because we're realizing some vacancies and some come in

[53:44] or retirements, so they're going to flush their cells out.

[53:49] The concern we have is probably for the first class of 2027,

[53:55] we may not be able to bring the overhires on it just depends on what the numbers look like.

[54:01] Okay, understood. I think we can address that at that time. Thank you so much.

[54:04] Thank you. All right, Mayor Proxima.

[54:06] Just to piggyback off of what my colleagues said about the partnership with state community services.

[54:14] I went out there and seen one of your events about the child car seats.

[54:21] In a grandpa and a pop-pop, like me, did not realize that the car seat that I had installed was installed wrong.

[54:28] Papa, so I'm glad that I went out to that event and I don't know who the young lady was,

[54:33] but she corrected me. How do you get that information out? Because I had asked a shake

[54:37] shaft a few questions about why that exercise only lasted a couple of hours and how can we

[54:44] didn't publicize that more so Papa's like me around the city can take their cars and

[54:49] get an inspected for the child seats that's carrying their loved ones. I got the guy right here.

[54:55] So he can, I'll take the beaten if there is one but he can give you the information.

[55:00] So that particular event that you were at was part of training new car seat text. So that class was a

[55:05] week long class, which included a two-hour car seat checking station for us to test our new

[55:11] text at. However, there have been since that day, there's been three more events there

[55:16] between the target parking lot and the Harris Theatre parking lot. They're pushed out through

[55:20] our social media and they're pushed out through our partners. It's not just the Fable Fire Department.

[55:24] You have the North Carolina Safe Kids Coalition. Hope Mills Fire Department's been out to help us.

[55:29] Fable Police have been out there to help us so it's pushed out through all of our social

[55:32] media's, for a brag fire as well. So all of our partners are pushing out the flyers

[55:37] and the info and the businesses, our local business community between Target and Harris,

[55:41] Teter and all these folks stepping up to welcome us to their properties. We're going to meet the

[55:45] 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,

[55:50] where you're shopping with your family. We're going to find you. Great to have. I appreciate this. Thank you, sir.

[55:54] Chief Dev, one more question. You talked about the lithium battery blankets. I believe when I first got on

[56:00] 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.

[56:07] One does every department have one, plus three questions. Two, do you need more and three? What do you do when you have a

[56:17] emergency and a blanket is not available?

[56:21] Because I, because let me back up, because I know the phone that we

[56:24] you can't use anymore because it has to be a lot of state.

[56:28] Yeah, well, we continue to learn about lithium-ion batteries every day.

[56:34] I think question one was, where are they?

[56:36] There's one on every other floor in every park and deck in the city

[56:40] to include the hospital, the hospital came on and partnered with us

[56:43] and there's one in every batagging chief's vehicle in the city.

[56:49] There are two big to go on our regular fire trucks,

[56:51] without real remodeling the whole truck.

[56:54] And we know those things are expensive enough as they are.

[56:58] So the Patagans chief can get to wherever

[57:00] they're needed really quick.

[57:01] And we have some spare.

[57:04] So the question is, we don't need any more right now.

[57:07] We're good.

[57:08] What was your third part?

[57:09] That was awful, up to you.

[57:11] OK.

[57:12] And we had used it.

[57:14] They were multi-use.

[57:15] They were designed for a car fire.

[57:17] My biggest concern, as we were learning

[57:19] And about battery vehicles is when they start burning, you can't put them out in a timely manner.

[57:28] And those concrete buildings, they degrade the concrete, they spawn, and you can lose

[57:35] the building.

[57:36] So that was the first goal, but as we're learning and moving, you know, we'll get more creative.

[57:43] You just made me think of another question chief, I don't know if you know the answer or not,

[57:46] but a while ago it was a bomb threat and I noticed that the police department had to go through

[57:52] the county to get a sniffing dog. Well, that's the police department that question.

[57:57] That's okay. Yeah, my dogs don't sniff. Yeah, I can't say I got to say that.

[58:00] They make people feel better. Thank you. All right. Council, I don't see any further questions.

[58:06] We'll look for a motion to, uh, some of them. All right. So there's a motion by my

[58:10] to receive the second quarter report second

[58:14] about here in discussion.

[58:16] All right, Council, look to you for your votes to receive.

[58:22] All right, Chief, you got off easy.

[58:24] All right,

[58:48] good job.

[58:49] I'll be in the corner.

[58:49] All right, I'm quick.

[58:50] I don't want to.

[58:52] Is that enough for that?

[58:53] I think I'll be in the corner.

[58:55] All right, get ready.

[58:57] Okay.

[58:58] All right, let's see.

[58:59] We just have to be in the office, and of course,

[59:01] our residents here in favor.

[59:03] Good evening.

[59:07] So again, I'm Chief Brian. I will be conducting our second quarter, which will be through

[59:13] January through June 30th of this year. I'll be fine. There we go.

[59:29] As you'll see our numbers

[59:31] here, persons, crime, property crimes, felony arrest. You'll see pretty much in terms of our numbers.

[59:44] 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.

[1:00:00] And again, that will be explained on the next slide here. You'll see our violent crime. You'll see

[1:00:07] for 20, 25 to 20, 26, we're at 54 percent less in terms of our homicides and in victims, 46 percent. So.

[1:00:18] Okay, I want to make sure to press our data.

[1:00:21] Yes, 54% less in terms of incidents and also 15, 46% in terms of victims of homicides.

[1:00:31] And then also we have a 29% decrease also in rate and we continue to lower our aggravated assault.

[1:00:41] But our Achilles heel right now are the simple assaults where you see here is about 18% out.

[1:00:47] and then overall you can look at total persons that's up about 12 percent across the board from

[1:00:54] 25 to 26.

[1:00:58] Here again, it reiterates our numbers regarding homicides. One of the things that we'll

[1:01:04] like to tout in terms of the average solvency rate across the United States about 61 percent.

[1:01:13] But Fable Police Department has 100 percent clearance, 100 percent clearance.

[1:01:22] So we're doing that unit is doing a phenomenal job in terms of solving these crimes in

[1:01:30] terms of those that have been victimized.

[1:01:37] Door are aggravated assaults.

[1:01:39] Again, you'll see these numbers in terms of where we are in these misdemeanors, but yet

[1:01:45] We have 16% decrease where we're partnering with the Phoenix Center

[1:01:49] to provide a wraparound service.

[1:01:52] We also have our officers and detectives that do follow up to ensure

[1:01:57] that those victims will not be repeat in terms of being a

[1:02:02] victimization in terms of the domestic violence.

[1:02:08] As you see here, our sound thinking or shock spotter where we had

[1:02:12] 213 alerts through this period with 8 guns recovered, 8 arrested, and 317 shell cases recovered.

[1:02:26] A property crimes, as you'll see these numbers, are also impacted, especially on our

[1:02:31] motor vehicle, where we're down 23%.

[1:02:35] You'll see we actually had a team that came together with a task force to address when we're starting

[1:02:42] have a trend and that particular task force really made an impact on our numbers.

[1:02:48] So you'll see that here reflected on the slide and also our robbery, down 21% in terms

[1:02:56] of these robberies when our patrol arrive, we also have our capers, our crimes against

[1:03:02] persons unit that also respond and so with that they're able to come out there and track

[1:03:08] and he suspects live as soon as, you know, when they get there, then they'll start investigating

[1:03:14] that particular case and many times they're able to get and arrest those suspects.

[1:03:19] So therefore you all know that many times it's going to be one or two individuals in the

[1:03:24] city that are committing these repeat robbery.

[1:03:27] So therefore we're being effective by utilizing our capers unit in there doing a great job

[1:03:32] as well.

[1:03:36] Next here is our juvenile data, as you know, this is across the nation, but also within our state.

[1:03:44] We've received calls from other chiefs in terms of what we're doing.

[1:03:49] 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.

[1:03:58] It's up 43% now. You also see that that's reflective from 25 to 26 in terms of what we're doing in

[1:04:06] Caesing we're seeing 105% more weapons

[1:04:11] We seized

[1:04:13] Almost 70% more drugs from juveniles, but at the same time you also a decrease in

[1:04:19] Breaking and entering among juveniles by 30 almost 32% and also our

[1:04:25] motor vehicle theft has really been impacted also with this encounters that we have now

[1:04:31] almost 52% decrease the motor vehicle at that. So these are how we are

[1:04:38] encountering and making an impact in terms of crimes with juveniles. Now this slide

[1:04:45] here illustrates the crimes and contacts with juveniles during the curfew time

[1:04:54] which is 11 a.m. or 11 p.m. to 6 a.m. and if you're watching and seeing

[1:05:00] 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.

[1:05:10] 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.

[1:05:23] And 17 of these are involved in juveniles, and then you'll see the reference to the different incidents that have taken place.

[1:05:32] Now we actually had a total of 55 contacts during this time period, but once we engage with these individuals,

[1:05:41] always be aware that we're always utilizing either a real suspicion or probable cause before we are engaging with these individuals.

[1:05:50] And, you know, again, this is where I state that we're not approaching any of these individuals

[1:05:55] just based on because we think that they're 16 or below.

[1:05:59] And just to show that reflection when we do encounter some of these individuals, we've had

[1:06:04] a total of 55.

[1:06:06] And we had about 10 of them were 17 years of age, so that was above and also 7 were adults.

[1:06:14] 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.

[1:06:30] 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.

[1:06:41] And one change is different in terms of how we're looking at our numbers.

[1:06:46] You'll see previous year, we done it as the school year,

[1:06:51] but now we're just going to do it as a calendar year, just to keep it consistent,

[1:06:54] because that's how we usually track all the rest of our numbers.

[1:06:57] So we just want to have that consistency.

[1:07:02] Again, this slide demonstrates our partnership with our federal partners.

[1:07:06] If you'll see here our ATF, we had six federally sentenced during this quarter, four federally

[1:07:15] indicted and 48 fire arms Cs, so with those 48 fire arms Cs, those are all charge

[1:07:21] federally through the ATF.

[1:07:23] You said six federally sentenced, I'm saying 13.

[1:07:26] So six federally sentenced, this is with ATF, specifically with ATF, four federally indicted

[1:07:33] in 48 firearms charged federally.

[1:07:36] And then between our federal partners of DEA FBI

[1:07:39] and the US Marshal, we sent in seven federally,

[1:07:44] 17 federally indicted with 28 firearms

[1:07:47] and nearly 600,000 in currency and asset seized

[1:07:51] with those partners.

[1:07:56] Here you'll see our Vice-Narcotics Depression.

[1:08:00] Of note, you'll see, meth, we're definitely rising

[1:08:05] in terms of seizures of meth and also marijuana.

[1:08:10] The marijuana was a result of a federal case that we had with DEA, so therefore we had a pretty

[1:08:17] good seizure from that particular case which also increased what we had from 25 to 26.

[1:08:24] But across the board, we're starting to see an increase in meth across the community in terms

[1:08:29] of usage.

[1:08:32] These are numbers here for our 911 Communication Center.

[1:08:38] You'll see 911 calls, we've processed 125,000 plus calls.

[1:08:44] And between that and our admin, you're almost pressing up to 200,000 calls.

[1:08:49] Calls for service or dispatch is about just over 103,000 calls.

[1:08:55] So we're continuously pushing forward with our 911 Center.

[1:09:03] One thing that we've been having in terms of traffic enforcement, and we're hoping that

[1:09:11] these numbers are being reflective of what we're being able to do in the community.

[1:09:15] So if you see in 2025 we had 14 fatalities resulting in these crashes.

[1:09:22] Now we have nine.

[1:09:24] Then as far as the fatalities, the numbers were 16 last year when we have nine on there as

[1:09:30] So I hope this is reflective of what we're doing in terms of slowing traffic down and make

[1:09:39] sure that those that are coming through here understand that you need to slow down when

[1:09:43] you come in through the city of Fayville.

[1:09:46] Then you'll see the circumstances that contribute that contributed to these fatalities.

[1:09:53] As you see there in 2025, 10 of them, 10 of those incidents.

[1:10:00] We're speeding that contributed to those fatalities. For this year, we have five. So I believe the message

[1:10:08] is getting out there. On here is our traffic stop reporting where you see we're almost 2500 stops, 23,

[1:10:18] 2400 more stops than last year. Again, that's with the increase of what we're doing also with

[1:10:25] personnel, we have a more personnel on the street, so there we can be a lot more proactive

[1:10:30] versus being reactive.

[1:10:34] Again, you'll see the demographics regarding the vehicle stops,

[1:10:38] vehicle searches, and between there, if you look at 25, among all three of the demographics,

[1:10:46] the numbers isn't really changing. You will see there was increase in vehicle stops, but

[1:10:53] We also see that there was a decreased in searches, but we still have maintained the same numbers

[1:11:00] across the board between all three demographics.

[1:11:11] This is one of the initiatives with the Governor's Highway Safety Program where speed kills

[1:11:17] and no the limit 2026.

[1:11:19] And these particular traffic enforcement activities you'll see that we had over 600 citations

[1:11:27] issued with speeding being the overwhelming citation, dorm or violation door in these particular

[1:11:38] encounters.

[1:11:45] Here we are internal affairs unit where you look at our numbers, use of force, has increased

[1:11:53] my 10, but then you'll see that the most number that's going to stick out to you right

[1:11:58] are internal departmental investigations and that's been as a result of officers not appearing

[1:12:06] at court. So we're holding our officers accountable and we're just making sure that they

[1:12:12] understand that it's critical for them to be a court. So you'll see the numbers being reflected

[1:12:18] and then you'll see our exonerations sustained and complaints of the OTCs and unfounded allegations.

[1:12:32] 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.

[1:12:51] 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.

[1:13:03] every one of these categories. And if you notice our numbers last year around this time,

[1:13:10] we were at 64 vacant positions. And we're at 32 now, but that's with the eight additional

[1:13:15] that that was added. So we would actually be, I want to say, at 23. So you see, we're well

[1:13:23] into the, in that downrange in terms of reducing our numbers, we're projecting based on what we

[1:13:32] to you right now, we have about 17 or 18 that are in the pipeline and we're projecting that

[1:13:40] by January's class, we will have every vacancy filled.

[1:13:44] That's all for today, it's

[1:13:49] first time to talk to remember that in the case.

[1:13:53] And there's a lot of, in terms of what we're doing, we're also attracting a lot of ladders and

[1:14:00] those ladders are critical because we're able to get them on the street anywhere from four

[1:14:05] weeks to six weeks, you know, so that's how we're able to do that, but we're also doing

[1:14:10] some innovative recruiting in terms of we're bringing in canines from other states.

[1:14:16] People are applying from Connecticut, you know, to become a canine officer here in

[1:14:21] Fayville.

[1:14:22] We're attracting officers from New York, Kentucky.

[1:14:26] I mean, we have a really wide scope in terms of what we're attracting and we're bringing

[1:14:31] them here.

[1:14:32] So what that's doing is helping us to increase the level of experience from, you know,

[1:14:39] like I said, when we first got on here, when I first got on here last year, 75% of our officers

[1:14:45] had five years of less of experience. So now with attracting and bringing in these laterals,

[1:14:53] laterals that have left and came back. So we're really making an impact and what we're being able

[1:14:58] to do and in some of these.

[1:15:00] 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.

[1:15:09] 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.

[1:15:23] So again, we're definitely in a great spot in terms of what we're looking at right now.

[1:15:31] Again, this is our departmental staffing.

[1:15:33] Of course, you know, we are in a very transient community where we have a significant, a lot

[1:15:40] of our employees are also military connected.

[1:15:46] So many times we have those that when, you know, their spouse is ready to PCS, we're also

[1:15:52] losing those good employees, and, you know, then we have some that come in, so, but we always

[1:15:57] take them, but we have that understanding that this is a transient community with Fort Bragg,

[1:16:03] so, but we always value the experience that those employees bring to us day in and day out.

[1:16:14] For those that are unaware, in April, we launched our FAPD podcast, and so we're utilizing

[1:16:20] these to kind of make sure and put that narrative out there in terms of our local policing,

[1:16:25] our department priorities and letting people know the people behind the badge and also our

[1:16:31] professional staff. So you can catch it. Believe the second Friday of each month either

[1:16:37] a Spotify, Apple, I Heart and YouTube. So we're getting out there. We're going to try to

[1:16:43] have that voice out there, Mr. Ferguson. I know you have that voice. We're going to get you

[1:16:49] there so you can help us out.

[1:16:53] Now you'll see our community events.

[1:16:57] We have several our citizens, police academy, our graduation there, that's depicted on this

[1:17:02] slide.

[1:17:03] Our special Olympics, our fundraiser for the torch run, and I don't know if you saw that

[1:17:10] slide on the bottom left there, we were running in the rain, and that was a tough one.

[1:17:16] That's commitment.

[1:17:17] Yes, sir.

[1:17:17] then our other community events were a child abuse awareness month, the pinwheels for the

[1:17:24] Child Advocacy Center and we also showing our telecommunications week where they had cultural

[1:17:30] foods from New Orleans, Latin food and Italian food also displayed during that it was very

[1:17:38] very festive during that week.

[1:17:42] 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.

[1:17:55] And of course, we had our awards and promotion ceremony, which we also recognize the dedicated hard work of our officers and professionals staff.

[1:18:04] As you see here, our motto, faith, and service,

[1:18:08] pride and commitment and dedication to excellence,

[1:18:11] and our vicious statement and mission statement,

[1:18:14] and at this time I will take your questions.

[1:18:17] All right, thank you for doing.

[1:18:18] We have a couple of questions.

[1:18:20] I have a council member here.

[1:18:21] Well, thank you, Mayor, and Chief, thank you for

[1:18:26] you and our team for all that you're doing.

[1:18:30] Man, I'm glad to hear that number is going to change where we're going to be fully staff real

[1:18:38] soon.

[1:18:40] And I've go back a few police chiefs and so this sounds real great so thank you and everything

[1:18:48] that you're doing and that your staff is doing and of course the council with putting

[1:18:55] and the budget to help give additional dollars to pull on many women in.

[1:19:02] I got a couple of questions one, but when you said about the lateral folks are coming

[1:19:08] and you said some are coming back, and first explained what that meant.

[1:19:16] So we've had officers that were previously employed with FPD that went on to other departments

[1:19:24] or sought employment in another career field, but they are also coming back now to the police

[1:19:32] department. So we're looking more and more inviting to support them coming back. I believe so

[1:19:39] there they're getting the message they're seeing what's going on. Yeah. Explain to me what you

[1:19:44] met on the K9 you're getting some K9 folks that are coming in lateral and I don't know if this

[1:19:54] get ready to be a dumb question here, but I'm going to use that K9 and a guy homeowner

[1:20:08] We've actually had two candidates that have canines that they want to bring those canines with them.

[1:20:17] So that's really, when you can bring on a team like that right off hand, no training,

[1:20:27] they'll just have to get some of the standards in terms of how we do things and our policies,

[1:20:34] and SOPs, but pretty much they can hit the ground running when it comes to stuff like that.

[1:20:38] Okay, and I close to getting close to my end here, go to your slide with sound thinking,

[1:20:51] yeah, sound thinking, shots, spotter, January through June 26. Give, say those numbers out loud,

[1:21:02] once again, because I don't want to mix them up, even though I see what I see in front of me.

[1:21:06] to tell me the the support with the sound thinking shot spotter for that time frame of the recoveries.

[1:21:17] So,

[1:21:22] so out of the 213 alerts we've had eight guns recovered, eight individuals arrested,

[1:21:30] and 317 shell cases that are also recovered. Okay, so that's been a big plus.

[1:21:36] It will, and one of the things for us, we understand that this is just one tool in our toolbox.

[1:21:44] But as we continue moving forward and collecting these shell cases, those will help us connect the dots on whether there's aggravated assaults,

[1:21:55] shooting into occupied dwellings or vehicles.

[1:21:57] 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.

[1:22:05] and at that time we can pin or connect the nexus to those individuals with those weapons

[1:22:10] and those previous incidents.

[1:22:13] Yes, sir.

[1:22:13] Thank you.

[1:22:14] I don't want to take up all the time.

[1:22:15] I know my colleagues going to have some questions.

[1:22:18] I was also looking over at the juvenile data report and I'm glad to hear because of negative

[1:22:27] things that we have been saying, I'm glad to hear that until you come up on a young adult.

[1:22:36] That's when you find out the information that's needed about that particular person, not just running up on them.

[1:22:43] So it was good to hear that and also wanted to say congratulations to you.

[1:22:49] I don't think you've been before us since you were put into the governor's committee, whatever that congratulations on that sir.

[1:22:58] Thank you, sir.

[1:22:59] Thank you, Mayor.

[1:23:00] All right.

[1:23:01] 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

[1:23:11] Emporium speeding campaign.

[1:23:13] 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.

[1:23:22] But I'm an emphasize school started today.

[1:23:26] I'm going to say that again, school started.

[1:23:28] I know you did a campaign around a school zone.

[1:23:31] I know you did it on 295.

[1:23:33] Rayford, Rowley, Rowley, Ramsey Street, Morgan to Rowley.

[1:23:37] What school started today?

[1:23:38] Yes, sir.

[1:23:39] Might want to think about that.

[1:23:41] Sir, how are you today?

[1:23:43] Chief Wallace already has plans about what's going on.

[1:23:46] So he already talked to me this morning.

[1:23:49] And he already has a plan in terms to address

[1:23:51] some of those, you know, in terms of that as well.

[1:23:54] Well, let me just say this. I was talking with the mayor this morning. I was telling them I was going out

[1:23:59] 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

[1:24:06] and Century that we talked about Mr. Mayor with DOT about that traffic. It's just what

[1:24:12] I said this is to know that we're going to do all we can to make sure our kids are safe

[1:24:18] in school zones and outside of school zones. Not just this year, but every year.

[1:24:23] Speaking of that, I want to make sure you gave some prop to your crime prevention specialists.

[1:24:28] Because I think the reason the motor vehicle theft break-ins has went banned because every time I turn around,

[1:24:33] they are emphasizing motor vehicles block your vehicle up and don't leave your guns in your cars.

[1:24:38] 9pm routine.

[1:24:39] The 9pm routine.

[1:24:40] I mean, they recycling over and over again.

[1:24:42] I know my highly recognized one, I can't remember what her name was,

[1:24:48] 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

[1:24:57] The second one is for teeth hunt we

[1:25:00] 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?

[1:25:09] Yes, sir.

[1:25:10] And what is the next requirement that we have? We have how many schools, 33, and we only have 18 SROs, I think?

[1:25:18] Yes, sir. So is it still shared services?

[1:25:21] 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.

[1:25:36] Last question, I was going to ask Chief Doug, but I'm going to ask you, do we have dogs, uh, bomb sniffing dogs?

[1:25:41] We have one. We have one. Yes, sir.

[1:25:44] All right. Thank you, Chief. That's all I need to say. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. All right. Thank you. Councilmember Jones.

[1:25:49] Thank you, Mr. Mayor.

[1:25:50] Very quick.

[1:25:51] Thanks for the report.

[1:25:52] Provide some extra information.

[1:25:54] Just to make sure I got that correctly.

[1:25:56] Home of Siles are down over a little over 54 percent.

[1:26:00] Was that correct?

[1:26:01] That is correct.

[1:26:02] I wanted to bring that for it because a lot of times I hear in the community nice.

[1:26:06] When you hear of a homicide and it's in the media and it gets attention, I get it and it

[1:26:11] gives the perception that it happens a lot.

[1:26:15] I know one is too many.

[1:26:16] I totally understand that, but it gives you perception that it's consistently occurring.

[1:26:23] And so I'm glad that you brought that statistic up for that.

[1:26:27] So I've really, really, I'm glad for that, especially what your clearance rate, that's

[1:26:31] phenomenal.

[1:26:32] And I want to tie that into the sound thinking a lot of my areas that some of them, they wish

[1:26:37] they had it in their areas as well, but they were, for the most part, in support of it

[1:26:44] kind of understand. I think you did it. I don't think you did a good job with elaborating

[1:26:49] such as the shell casings and how you may not see that immediate effect but through the process

[1:26:56] of your investigation it might be six months down to whatever it is it could lead to something.

[1:27:01] So I think that that is a benefit of that. So my two three quick questions for you in regards

[1:27:08] to the youth context. You mentioned the reasonable suspicion, probable cause aspect. Could you

[1:27:16] just give us an idea, get a public an idea, what that potentially looks looks like?

[1:27:23] So, what that looks like is, no one will call comes in. Says, hey, there's two suspicious

[1:27:32] subjects, pulling car handles, and in the community on a street, we arrive there, we'll

[1:27:41] see two individuals matching that description, that's when we approach them.

[1:27:48] Then we determine that there are juveniles, and that's how they get, you know, related

[1:27:54] in our statistics.

[1:27:56] I understand, and again, I know there may be some nuances, but just, I wanted to share

[1:28:00] that just to let folks know I really don't believe and again this is me that you all are out

[1:28:08] there just looking just randomly doing it and you stated that so I appreciate that because

[1:28:12] I wanted to bring some clarity with that. Number two is it relates to vehicle searches. I do

[1:28:18] get a lot of this question from our residents as well. We're smelling marijuana at stop lights. So

[1:28:26] hypothetically, someone stops, you stop somebody for

[1:28:30] equipment violation or something.

[1:28:32] Is that that smell of marijuana, is that consider a

[1:28:36] reasonable cause to acts, you know, actual, however you

[1:28:40] want to do this, you know, a problem cause to go ahead and ask.

[1:28:43] Yes, yes, you do. Okay. Okay. Okay. And now I know it

[1:28:46] makes things like, but a lot of, I get a lot of those questions

[1:28:48] and that's some of the things and I'm on the other part

[1:28:51] of it. Some were saying where, you know, they can't really

[1:28:54] they stop me, you know, if they smell it, that can they really ask me to search my vehicle

[1:28:59] or things of that nature. So I'll just want, yes, at that point. Yes. All right. Thank you.

[1:29:06] Thank you. And lastly, how are your areas? I know you are used some data on things of that nature,

[1:29:11] and just feedback areas that you plan for your speeding campaign, how are those determined?

[1:29:19] So, a lot of those are based on the calls from the citizens here, the residents here.

[1:29:26] A lot of the times you all receive complaints as well.

[1:29:30] And so, we go ahead and target based on the feedback that we are receiving in terms of where the calls are coming from.

[1:29:37] And that's what we direct our resources to.

[1:29:40] Absolutely. So, this is it. I do thank you for that.

[1:29:44] I would like to put out their rosier road and I want to give you your step a lot of credit

[1:29:51] I've seen a increase presence along rosier road.

[1:29:56] I mean very very strategic times in the morning midday after.

[1:30:00] 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.

[1:30:16] But thank you so much. Thank you.

[1:30:18] Thank you.

[1:30:19] All right. Thank you.

[1:30:21] Councilmember McMillan.

[1:30:23] Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Thank you, too.

[1:30:25] Appreciate all you do. Thank you for this report.

[1:30:29] at a question about how we track, how we track traffic stop data. Earlier this year, earlier

[1:30:36] this summer, the governor signed a budget that did not include a general statute that's

[1:30:42] been in place since 2002. The really forced departments across North Carolina to track incidents

[1:30:48] by race, to be able to look at disparities especially in policing and traffic stops. As you

[1:30:55] And Fayville, it's, it's, it's caused us to see that there are some disparities.

[1:31:00] And we've dealt with driving wild black as, as a, as a result, you know, some of those disparities.

[1:31:07] I wanted to hear from you.

[1:31:08] What, what your department's take is on on the loss of this requirement.

[1:31:13] And what your intention is in terms of continuing to track this data?

[1:31:19] Yes, sir.

[1:31:19] So, when we received that information, for us, it was also, we were surprised that actually

[1:31:26] went ahead and passed, but for us, after discussing with my staff, and we had a overwhelming

[1:31:35] agreement in terms of, for us as a department, it's going to continue to be in an

[1:31:39] opology so that we have that transparency for the community and maintain that trust.

[1:31:44] 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.

[1:31:56] I appreciate hearing you say that in public.

[1:32:00] 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.

[1:32:12] I also wanted to ask a chief about information on the SRO program.

[1:32:19] We had a discussion earlier this year about what an awesome responsibility it is to have

[1:32:26] police officers uniformed in schools and also how we need to take some safeguards and

[1:32:34] understand what impacts that has on our students especially and I want to make a request

[1:32:39] tonight. If you look at slide 10, it does show some responses. It does show some very basic

[1:32:48] information about our interaction. But the point that I brought up earlier this year,

[1:32:53] that I think data would allow us to look at is how this could impact the school to prison

[1:32:59] pipeline and having juvenile kids and students who are just as impacted and how important

[1:33:06] It is that track that, so there are some measures like school-based arrests, a number of

[1:33:13] citations.

[1:33:14] Let's say that against...

[1:33:15] School-based arrests, school-based tracking that, tracking citations, tracking the number

[1:33:22] of court referrals that come to the SRO program, especially tracking use of force incidents

[1:33:29] with our students.

[1:33:32] And then those same type of racial breakdowns to ensure that we're not repeating some racial disparities that exist on the broader level.

[1:33:40] I would like to see those, and I'm sure more of my colleagues would be interested in seeing that on a quarterly basis.

[1:33:46] 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.

[1:33:56] And, you know, one of the, I don't think the public really knows how much of an impact

[1:34:06] it has in terms of having these SRROs in our schools because he had, he told me a story

[1:34:12] of one of his, one of the students in the school that she never spoke to him and at one

[1:34:20] time there was an incident where he had the restrainer from and, you know, a fight that

[1:34:26] was going on in the school. And she was very, very disruptive. But he maintained, continued

[1:34:35] speaking with that young lady, by the time the end of the school year came out, she came

[1:34:40] and hugged them. And for him it was just one of those things where he sees the difference in it.

[1:34:46] I mean, and this is happening across our schools.

[1:34:50] But nobody ever really knows that

[1:34:53] because we're not talking about that publicly.

[1:34:56] And I just also want to make sure

[1:34:58] that we do a better job.

[1:34:59] .

[1:35:00] 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.

[1:35:20] And I think we also saw one of the good things.

[1:35:23] Chief tonight in hearing you underscore the importance of having

[1:35:27] probable cause and reasonable suspension,

[1:35:31] prior to approaching any individual regardless of age here.

[1:35:34] And I appreciate that that is a part of the enforcement

[1:35:37] and part of what we're passing on to our officers as they go on to the field.

[1:35:41] So thank you for saying that publicly as well.

[1:35:43] Yes, sir.

[1:35:44] All right.

[1:35:44] Thank you, Councilman Davis.

[1:35:45] Thank you, Mr. Mayor.

[1:35:47] First of all, thank you, sir.

[1:35:47] presentation. I think I wanted to speak to you all as the speeding. You guys have been on a

[1:35:53] tremendous job almost at a point while I'm scared to leave my house. Yeah, it's me. I'm with you.

[1:35:58] But I don't speak. That's what we're trying to do. I don't speak, by the way. But what you're

[1:36:02] scared of what? That's me. I did want to ask you, though. There was a comment made a question as at

[1:36:09] the coffee with the mayor this morning in reference to offers us having to meet a quota on given out tickets.

[1:36:16] Could you speak to that so that we can get absolutely absolutely no quota which tickets okay that that does not exist

[1:36:25] That does not exist. Thank you

[1:36:28] All right

[1:36:29] For go to round two from here pro team. I did have a couple things. I want to say one

[1:36:34] 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

[1:36:42] We've heard from two of the three components of public safety tonight

[1:36:46] from fire, we're from police. I see Mr. Jones, back there with OCS. The combination of what you

[1:36:52] all are doing, are leading to these positive numbers that homicides almost have that these juvenile

[1:37:00] related issues that we have are trending in the right way. And so we've gone through some tough times

[1:37:08] to make some tough decisions, but numbers don't have an opinion, they don't have an affiliation,

[1:37:14] They don't buy us their numbers and these are factual numbers to say that the combination

[1:37:21] of these things are working together for a good outcome.

[1:37:25] And I want to make sure we point that out from the sound thinking and child's product,

[1:37:30] we had there was some public concern about that, but you get in guns off the street.

[1:37:34] We've seen a rest that come out of that and I want to make sure we highlight that.

[1:37:38] The SRO program where we recently renewed that, it was concerned that it was somehow

[1:37:43] going to have a negative impact. What I'm seeing and I want to turn to this slide while I'm saying this,

[1:37:48] if you could, the school resource officer program slide. I want the public to follow this for a minute.

[1:37:59] Think it's slide number, it says 10, but it's page five, you know, of all scheme of things. Yeah.

[1:38:05] So basically,

[1:38:08] the orange is 22 is. Yeah, that's incident reports are getting in the calls for service. Okay. And so,

[1:38:16] So the comparison from year to year, where is that, that component?

[1:38:26] Because you, you have a, call for service versus incident reports.

[1:38:31] So how do you compare year to year on that?

[1:38:34] So we're into our second year of doing this now.

[1:38:37] And so now as I stated, we're changing up our numbers from how we were, we were first

[1:38:44] doing it from August from June to June.

[1:38:46] 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.

[1:38:54] So the solid 12 month comparison.

[1:38:57] All right.

[1:38:58] That was one of the questions.

[1:38:59] And then, too, I saw that on your gun seasers.

[1:39:06] I had wrote it myself for no longer on that.

[1:39:08] Um, you had,

[1:39:13] there are out of the traffic stops,

[1:39:16] 2025, or 167 guns collectively seized.

[1:39:21] And of course, these are illegal weapons,

[1:39:23] not legal weapons, right?

[1:39:25] Or does this count everything?

[1:39:26] Well, why would you seize a legal weapon?

[1:39:29] It could be if it was used in a crime,

[1:39:32] or it wasn't, you know, it had to been some type of crime.

[1:39:35] So some of the things that happened to the sea is correct.

[1:39:37] So, it's 167 C's, last year 143 this year, these are just from the vehicle searchers.

[1:39:43] Now, does that also include, are any of these statistics in any of these other categories,

[1:39:51] like where it says the number of weapons recovered from shot splatter?

[1:39:55] So, is there a possibility that you respond to a shot splatter, but it also shows up.

[1:40:00] On a vehicle stop, it probably not correct. Well,

[1:40:05] probably a chance, but I mean, what we did, we kind of isolated

[1:40:09] the shot spotter and made that specific on those particular size, so when you see the eight weapons

[1:40:15] that were seized, that was specifically to shot spotter.

[1:40:20] Gotcha. Because I'm just trying to get a collective total, because that's a lot of guns.

[1:40:29] It's

[1:40:29] And I don't know if the public is tracking that, but cities across the country, I talk to

[1:40:35] the mayor's all the time.

[1:40:36] There has been an influx of guns and availability of guns, and this is huge that you're

[1:40:42] going, you know, 130-40 guns in traffic, you get in some from shots, probably, you get

[1:40:47] another from other sources, so you want to speak to that.

[1:40:51] So in terms of this, so let's say for this traffic stop, so I'll give you an example.

[1:40:56] So you could have an alert that that goes off from the street here in Fayetteville.

[1:41:02] And officers respond to that alert.

[1:41:08] And within the alert there was a, maybe let's say it was a not one will call that

[1:41:12] a company to say hey, there was a vehicle in this area looking, you know, stopping it.

[1:41:19] So then we have a vehicle that would respond and the course of responding to that shot spotter

[1:41:27] alert. They went ahead and stopped this vehicle. Not sure. So then now you stop that vehicle

[1:41:32] and then now you determine that was a crime whether related to a break-in or possible

[1:41:41] other possession of marijuana or anything in that and then now you recover a weapon. So now

[1:41:47] 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

[1:42:01] But I would say that all that data is encompassed in the traffic stop report that may have been

[1:42:09] Under or from a shot spot or alert.

[1:42:12] 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

[1:42:22] Come in to participation of the parents right that that in the curfews. It was a lot of concern about that

[1:42:29] but what we see

[1:42:31] in the numbers again numbers don't have an opinion and that

[1:42:37] drug seizures are up 70%

[1:42:39] It weapons up 105% so in other words, from 19 to 39, weapons from 19 last year to 39 this

[1:42:49] year and that break, break ends with down 31% and motor vehicles are down 51%.

[1:42:58] So thank you to the parents that are participating to just help us help keep some accountability

[1:43:04] 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

[1:43:11] but the way this fits into the overall scheme of things, the way your departments work together

[1:43:16] is that also Mr. Jones is going around the city creating programs that are alternatives for these kids

[1:43:25] or some of our people in this community that have alternatives so it's working together thank you

[1:43:31] good good good work for and thank you for the report tonight. So I'll go to a council member

[1:43:36] McNair for the first round and then we have second round lights.

[1:43:39] I'm just ready to make a motion. Okay. Let me catch your colleagues. May I

[1:43:43] pro team? Thank you, Mr. McNair. I just had a comment and one question that I forgot.

[1:43:49] We were talking about SROs and I had an opportunity to speak to Jack Britt, students and

[1:43:55] 71st students this year. I talked to Principal Dr. Tillman at Jack Britt and Dr. King

[1:44:00] at Senifers. They applaud the SROs in the great jobs that they're doing. When I spoke to

[1:44:05] Senifers High School seniors during the graduation practice, the SRO was at the door given out

[1:44:12] pounds to all 300 students that was graduating that year. I thought that was the testament to

[1:44:17] the great job that they're doing. Speaking of schools, my question I forgot to ask earlier is we

[1:44:23] had a battalion of TCOs coming here about some complaints a couple of months ago. Have all the

[1:44:30] Can you remember what they were?

[1:44:32] The Conservatives, the speeding, the kills and reckless driving in the door-door and school zones.

[1:44:39] So that issue is still being addressed in terms of with our traffic department and enforcement out there.

[1:44:47] 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.

[1:44:59] um

[1:45:00] By January is what we believe, January of this upcoming year, we believe that the approvals and

[1:45:08] everything else will be done by the commission, and then we'll be able to implement the school

[1:45:13] zones and the red light cameras. And how many TCOs are we short for this school year?

[1:45:18] So our numbers fluctuate. We have about 65 on average, and those fluctuate because it's a part-time

[1:45:28] position. So therefore, we're always if you'll see regarding when our turnover, that's probably

[1:45:34] our highest turnover within the department for one reason or the other.

[1:45:39] But if we have residents that look for some part-time work for $20 an hour, we can show

[1:45:43] enough use of manpower. Thank you, Chief.

[1:45:45] Yes, sir.

[1:45:46] All right. Councillor Miller, McMillan, second round.

[1:45:49] Yep. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Chief, one of the things that kept me engaged over the years

[1:45:55] with Council was pushing to ensure we had a remain response to crime, to mental health response,

[1:46:03] mental health crisis, according to policescorkard.org, we remain and have been for a while,

[1:46:14] near the top of the list in terms of small cities in North Carolina and a statistic called

[1:46:19] deadly force per rest and, you know, there's, there's some people who have died over the

[1:46:28] years, Jayda Johnson's, one of them, Adrian Roberts and another one Joshua Oxen

[1:46:33] Dine, and questions about whether or not we could have had a different response.

[1:46:39] When I see the numbers of use of force going up from last year to this year, of course,

[1:46:44] have that same concern. One of the we didn't move far enough policy wise to address that.

[1:46:50] One of what you take is on the increase. I think it was from 37 to 47 to 27 percent increase in

[1:46:59] use of force. What does that mean for us as a city and what are we doing to address that?

[1:47:04] So I get to start with a note today we actually had a meeting with Chief Wallace and officers,

[1:47:09] Office of Community Safety Director Jones and coming up with plans and strategies for the alternative response.

[1:47:17] 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.

[1:47:29] 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.

[1:47:38] I would also state in terms of, there are multiple, multiple incidents that occur every day

[1:47:48] in this city regarding mental health crisis, but you don't hear about them and you don't

[1:47:55] hear about them because we've been successful and being able to mitigate those situations.

[1:48:00] So the ones that you do hear are the ones where we have the unfortunate situations such

[1:48:05] is like you were late, but there's always other circumstances that not everybody's aware of

[1:48:11] also.

[1:48:12] But I will tell you that we have an excellent officers in terms of how we deal with these

[1:48:21] situations.

[1:48:22] Just this past week, we had barricaded subjects, no one knows about this, but we deal with

[1:48:30] and we are utilizing our particular tactics and everything to make sure that we have a

[1:48:38] safe outcome for our officers as well as those in those crisis. So it happens so many times

[1:48:45] but our public is unaware of it and we deal with that on a day, day by day occasion. So I believe

[1:48:55] You know, we do the best we can, but you know, future and future rise with when OCS gets

[1:49:01] on, you know, get their staffing, we're looking forward to be able to address those issues

[1:49:06] in even better ways as well.

[1:49:10] Yeah.

[1:49:10] I appreciate that.

[1:49:11] Looking forward to tracking the numbers and seeing those numbers come down.

[1:49:18] Down range, there's something called storyboard reporting, where we get in this habit

[1:49:24] of holding up examples, good news stories, anecdotes, and maybe emphasize those a little

[1:49:33] bit more than the data.

[1:49:36] Would love to continue to hear the good news stories about the things that your forces

[1:49:40] are doing on the streets,

[1:49:44] and especially a shift in our approach to how we engage with citizens,

[1:49:49] 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.

[1:50:00] Second round. All right. Councilmember Jones, thank you. Is your first round? Is your light on? Are you ready to vote?

[1:50:07] You ready to vote? Oh, no. Just a quick quick. Yeah. I was waiting. She's she's got a motion. Okay.

[1:50:12] 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.

[1:50:23] your officers and other staff, they have family suit that they have to go on to.

[1:50:28] So can you just speak to what is that look like right now and I know there may be some

[1:50:32] opportunities in the future, but what does that look like?

[1:50:36] Right now we have our chaplain program whenever we have a critical incident we call our

[1:50:43] nurse chaplains and they'll come out two or three o'clock in the morning when we have critical

[1:50:49] incidents that officers are dealing with. And so we have that partnership with them. We also

[1:50:56] have our peer support program as well where we monitor how many critical incidents that actually

[1:51:03] happens with our officers and then we'll make sure and reach out to them to get them any counseling

[1:51:09] services or request for counseling services. But you also know we received a grant for a licensed

[1:51:16] clinical social worker. So we're in the process of getting that all laid out so that we can

[1:51:22] do that advertisement and have that person on on on board full time. Thank you so much. Thank

[1:51:28] you, Mr. Mayor. Yes, sir. Councillor interjecting. Yes, sir. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Thank you, Chief.

[1:51:33] And my colleague to my right here stole my thunder a little bit. But this this question was for

[1:51:38] a cheap dove and she brought are we doing all that we can to support our women and men

[1:51:44] in uniform. As my colleague mentioned, you know, we dial 911, you know, in the worst moments

[1:51:52] of our life, right? You guys respond and you deal with that. So as a council or we doing

[1:51:58] everything we can to support, again, the men and women and men in the uniform and are not

[1:52:04] more operators. I mean, they're on the call that sometimes ends tragically. So what can we

[1:52:11] do to support both agencies and, again, the number one operation?

[1:52:18] I would say it's one of those things where when we come to you and it requests the support

[1:52:23] where resources that you know, and I would say, you know, just continuous supportness,

[1:52:29] but it takes more than counsel, the community.

[1:52:32] The community is critical in terms of the morale of our officers.

[1:52:36] So, for example, this weekend on Saturday, Lewis Chapel, Missionary Baptist Church, the Men's

[1:52:43] Ministry, they served our officers, all our first responders, fire, fighters, this weekend,

[1:52:50] they served them lunch and, you know, the morale and just to have, you know, the community

[1:52:56] come in on their own, on their own time and on their time off to come and serve those officers.

[1:53:03] So those type of things are what we need from our community, and it's very much appreciated.

[1:53:09] So I can't, you know, just tell you, and what we do in this term is continue to have

[1:53:13] in support.

[1:53:14] When you see our officer, we continue to get adaboyes, what we call the military, where people

[1:53:21] call or they send, I've just received a letter today, where people in the community, they

[1:53:26] send and let us know and we make sure and relay that message to the officers.

[1:53:30] we had a call from an elderly man that actually was talking about our cadets that stopped and

[1:53:37] helped him two weeks ago. He left the voicemail so we making sure so when we get these calls

[1:53:44] all of that helps in terms of the morale and the mental health capacity in terms of knowing that

[1:53:51] that you know that your community has your back.

[1:53:55] Real quick, Mr. Mayor, since you're on that note.

[1:53:58] Chief, talk about national matter.

[1:54:01] Because you didn't speak about national matter.

[1:54:02] And that just happens last week or week for last.

[1:54:06] So, we didn't talk about it because it happened during this quarter.

[1:54:09] So, we're gonna present that during the third quarter.

[1:54:12] I just wanted you to know that the community appreciates what you do.

[1:54:15] Because they showed up in droves at national matter.

[1:54:17] Even in all that range.

[1:54:18] So we appreciate you.

[1:54:19] Yes, sir.

[1:54:20] Yes, sir.

[1:54:22] Councilmember McNair.

[1:54:27] Thank you chief. Great. Report. And thank you for

[1:54:32] the rattle on. I'd like to encourage my colleagues if they haven't

[1:54:37] scheduled a rattle on with the chief. He must do so. This is seven. It was an awesome

[1:54:44] time that day. It was calm. He invited me to wear down. He invited me to wear a bulletproof

[1:54:54] vest. I don't know. No.

[1:55:00] So that being said, I would like to make motion to receive the Fairbred Police Department, 2020-6 second quarter report.

[1:55:11] All right, so much by councilmember McNair, second by councilmember Ferguson.

[1:55:16] Had a lot of discussion on this, so council, see, and then I looked to you for your votes.

[1:55:24] In the meantime, I have a alibi, I'd just like to mention that our class 26-1 graduates tomorrow.

[1:55:29] 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.

[1:55:45] That's also where we're bringing them through.

[1:55:49] That's a great statistic.

[1:55:51] Thank you. Congratulations to the new graduates and chief. Thank you.

[1:55:54] all of the members of our law enforcement as well as our fire department, OCS for thank you for

[1:56:00] great job of keeping our community safe. So we appreciate it. All right, Council moving to the final

[1:56:06] item is 10.01 authorization for fire station for site prep. Even in sir, thank you, Mr. Mayor.

[1:56:17] May I pretend Council members to staff?

[1:56:21] Okay. Now I have to find it. It's to be not any help with this.

[1:56:44] Thank you very much.

[1:56:48] All right.

[1:56:48] It's a council member.

[1:56:48] Thank you for having me here tonight.

[1:56:50] My name's Dan Lamontaine.

[1:56:51] I work with freezing nickels.

[1:56:52] I'll work around your contract for the city with the construction management department.

[1:56:57] We're here tonight to talk to you about prioritization four phase one.

[1:57:01] And ask for authorization to move forward with phase one, which is site preparation.

[1:57:06] That will consist of establishing a new project using approximately 1.5 million of geobond premiums

[1:57:12] and remaining fire station for project funds.

[1:57:16] We will prepare a safe stable build ready site,

[1:57:19] that consists of site clearing, grading,

[1:57:21] feeling, stabilizing the site.

[1:57:23] Installation of security, getting permits and inspections,

[1:57:27] and then of course testing, documenting,

[1:57:29] and closing out the project of the site clearing.

[1:57:33] We also ask you to authorize coming group to provide

[1:57:35] project management services under their scope.

[1:57:39] And we're asking for authorization to begin the competitive

[1:57:41] qualifications based construction manager at risk selection process. Construction pricing,

[1:57:47] schedule, and such will come back to council for authorization later when that is complete.

[1:57:55] We have a schedule. This is just a working schedule. This will be refined as we move forward and

[1:58:00] get the construction manager at risk on us under contract. We're here in quarter three.

[1:58:07] Council will consider in this phase one authorization. We have to complete the ongoing salvage this month.

[1:58:14] Advanced site preparation procurement.

[1:58:18] That's a good contractor for that and also begin that CMAR evaluation.

[1:58:24] Four. We plan to begin site preparation. We finalize the CMAR selection and onboarding

[1:58:33] validate the design and the project costs and the schedule, then in 1st quarter 27 complete

[1:58:39] the site prep and pre-construction reviews, the council will consider that proposed construction

[1:58:45] price schedule and authorize that and 1st quarter.

[1:58:50] And then following this council's approval, we'll begin replacement construction, we'll

[1:58:56] published the validated milestones with the CMAR and when the final completion

[1:59:01] move in day would be.

[1:59:05] I'm finally going to point out that the city has put

[1:59:08] together a project website for this project. We know there's considerable

[1:59:12] community interest in it. So all information will be able to go to this site

[1:59:17] and find out everything that's happening on the project. And a very short presentation

[1:59:23] for you tonight. So that's the end of that.

[1:59:25] Not man with that.

[1:59:27] All right, Council any comments or questions?

[1:59:34] I think we covered a little bit upstairs, but basically,

[1:59:39] you may have covered it tonight.

[1:59:42] This is the approval of this.

[1:59:44] Mr. Yates was there a component that you need to explain?

[1:59:49] No? Okay.

[1:59:52] like Miss Murray to address some of the best.

[1:59:55] Mr. Yates had been the one we were working on. How are you doing Miss Murray?

[2:00:00] Are there any questions for me?

[2:00:02] I just wanted to make sure that it wasn't, so basically with this, this is kind of a new phase where

[2:00:09] site prepping and we'll move here. I think you talked to us about the expenses related to this

[2:00:15] will be tracked separately and the other older expenses that particular bucket for lack of a

[2:00:23] better world will be reconciled and closed out. So this phase will have it separate line of expenses and

[2:00:29] 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.

[2:00:37] Gatch. All right. Thank you, ma'am. All right. Councilwoman Hondros.

[2:00:41] Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Thank you, Dan. And see if I appreciate you all coming up. So the question I asked

[2:00:48] of ACM Yates upstairs was the CPO-2019-34 in our agenda package as well as CPO-2020-1,

[2:00:59] which is, as you stated, closing out, see if I'm Murray the old project can start this

[2:01:05] new one.

[2:01:05] But can you speak a little bit to the funding of those numbers?

[2:01:08] How much have we spent to date on that project, the one we're closing out, how much are

[2:01:14] we transfer them over and those things, please?

[2:01:18] Yes. Sorry. So the original project when it was brought before Council was for a total of 11.4 million, almost 11.5.

[2:01:32] Of that, we had a general fund transfer of 1.2ish and we did a financing for 10.3.

[2:01:41] So, of that funding, we've spent a little over $7.6 million dollars.

[2:01:48] So that's what we're going to be closing out in this particular project.

[2:01:51] And we're going to transfer the remaining funds, which is $3.8 million dollars into a new

[2:01:57] capital project, along with some bond premium that we received from the issuance of the first

[2:02:04] of the $97 million referendum.

[2:02:08] If you remember earlier this year,

[2:02:10] we issued $40 million dollars,

[2:02:12] and we're going to take some of that premium

[2:02:15] and assign it to this particular project

[2:02:18] in order for us to move forward.

[2:02:21] In the premium came from rate reductions

[2:02:23] in our stellar credit, is that right?

[2:02:26] The premium did not come from rate reductions.

[2:02:29] Okay. The bond premium, essentially, when the city decides to issue bonds and we issue bonds at a premium,

[2:02:39] that is because the rate on our bonds is higher than what the market is currently. So they give us additional money,

[2:02:47] or they pay additional money on the face value of the bonds, essentially what we're doing is we're getting up front money,

[2:02:54] but we'll pay higher interest rates over the life for the bonds.

[2:02:58] for a good and also was thankful that we had the funding got the website page where

[2:03:06] our residents can track the progress on the project will the budget information be on that

[2:03:12] page or not.

[2:03:14] I have not looked at the link for that page so I will have to defer to the thing.

[2:03:20] We'll have a little bit of a little bit.

[2:03:22] Very good.

[2:03:23] Thank you so much.

[2:03:24] Thank you.

[2:03:27] All right, Council, I look to you for action on this.

[2:03:39] May I put Tim?

[2:03:40] I believe that we approve the phase one, Mr. Mayor.

[2:03:43] All right, so much by May I put Tim to approve phase one,

[2:03:45] Secretary by Davis discussion on the motion.

[2:03:49] All right, Council, I look to you for your votes.

[2:03:59] Thank you, Council.

[2:04:03] All right.

[2:04:04] All right. Thank you. I have a good evening.

City Council Regular Meeting on 2026-08-24 6:30 PM

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