[0:01] All right. Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. I'll call the Jonesboro City Council meeting to order.

[0:11] Item two, Pledge of Allegiance and the invocation by Dr. Charles Cummins. Please stand. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic of which it stands one nation under God in the visible with liberty and justice for all.

[0:32] Thank you for allowing us to be here this afternoon.

[0:36] We're pretty far in your name that we care out for business according to your will,

[0:41] your purpose, your plan, which is this name we play.

[0:44] Thank you.

[0:48] I will be filling in for Maricopa Neighborance and I as most of you know,

[0:53] his family has a health emergency and we want to pray and think about them.

[0:58] So item three, Madam Clerk, we call the roll.

[1:02] All right.

[1:05] Loaded up.

[1:07] Yes, please.

[1:08] Dr. Cummins, will you push mine for me?

[1:11] First is buttons.

[1:14] It pushes your buttons all the time.

[1:18] Watch and see how you vote for my credit on there.

[1:23] All

[1:26] right.

[1:27] We have 11 present.

[1:28] So we can conduct business.

[1:30] Item 4 special presentations.

[1:33] We have none.

[1:35] Item 5.

[1:36] Consent agenda.

[1:40] I would like to make a motion that resolution 24-186 be removed from the Consent Agenda.

[1:47] Second, it already is.

[1:52] It's showing that it's been removed from the Consent Resolutions to be removed from the Consent Agenda.

[1:57] All right.

[1:58] So we have a motion on the floor to adopt the Consent Agenda minus item 2.

[2:03] It's already removed.

[2:05] Okay.

[2:05] Okay, so it appears on some of the copies of the adjudice.

[2:19] All right, all in favor, say aye.

[2:21] Aye.

[2:22] All opposed.

[2:33] I don't have a list of resolutions to be remodeled on the mayor's agenda.

[2:43] Resolution 24186, resolution by the city, by the Jonesboro City Council, the hired DTA

[2:48] to study impact fees in the city of Jonesboro.

[2:54] Move to the dot.

[3:00] I

[3:03] think we would.

[3:05] Let's read the resolution here.

[3:08] By the Jonesboro City Council to hire DTA to study impact fees in the city of Jonesboro.

[3:14] Whereas the city council is reviewing proposed changes to its zoning regulations and has been considering the issue of impact fees.

[3:21] and whereas it is crucial to determine the impact of development in the city before

[3:26] considering changes to the city code or the assessing of said fees and whereas the

[3:31] city council believes such a study may take several months and an expert is required

[3:36] to conduct an accurate study on impact fees and make recommendations for what if any

[3:41] fees would be appropriate and whereas it is the desire of the impact fee review committee

[3:46] to hire DTA where they're consulting services,

[3:50] whereas the Impact Fee Review Committee held a meeting

[3:53] on December 3rd, 2024, and voted unanimously

[3:56] to recommend the acceptance of DTA's proposal.

[3:59] Now, therefore, be it resolved by the City Council

[4:01] for the City of Jones Royal Arkansas,

[4:03] that Section 1, the City of Jones Royal Arkansas

[4:07] shall contract with DTA for a Citywide Impact Fee Study.

[4:11] Section 2, the Impact Fee Review Committee and staff

[4:14] are approved to take necessary actions

[4:16] to finalize contractual necessities and administrative tasks associated with the study.

[4:21] Section 3, the mayor and city clerk are hereby authorize to execute documents to effect.

[4:26] Effectsuate this agreement.

[4:28] Move to the dock.

[4:29] Second.

[4:30] We have a motion to adopt.

[4:31] In a second, I'll open the floor for council discussions.

[4:34] Ms. Porter, did you want?

[4:36] Yes, thank you.

[4:37] I'd like to make the following points.

[4:40] One, impact fees provide an incentive for developers to build outside

[4:45] of Jonesboro City limits, two, any slowing of development will affect the amount of sales

[4:50] tax Jonesboro receives. Currently, sales tax makes up roughly 70% of our city's revenue.

[4:56] 3. The impact fee will exer-

[5:00] We are upward pressure on housing costs. Four, many of our citizens will see this as a new form of taxation imposed without a vote of the people. Five, although the $59,000 cost of the study is a small percentage of our total expenditures, I hope that we have not reached the point where we feel that $59,000 is a trivial amount. So for these reasons are urgent no vote. Thank you, Ms. Porter. Anyone else on the council?

[5:29] I assume as part of this study, DTA would look at like the areas that are still available

[5:38] where the impact fee would make a difference because I know also we've had a lot of development

[5:44] over the years commercially and residentially, you know, I'm just wondering how much of

[5:50] an impact there is out there still for the land that would be developed that these impact

[5:57] these might be applied to. And I know it'll look at the different impact fees and you know things

[6:03] like that, but I assume that would be part of the scope of the project. City planner shaking

[6:08] his head, yes. It won't be. It won't be necessarily citywide. There will be areas where there

[6:15] will be more of a need for it or determined or after analysis. For example, the area west of

[6:24] downtown where we want revitalization and development and encourage that we

[6:32] would not probably they would probably not recommend imposing an impact

[6:37] being that area the the issue is that and even though you can say that that we

[6:47] should have passed this 10 years ago or 20 years ago the fact is we we don't

[6:52] want to look back in 10 years and say we should have passed 10 years ago. And I have seen

[6:58] and as many people here have seen what happened with the over development of the area north

[7:05] of Johnson but became known as apartment city and the kind of the blight that occurred

[7:11] there and a lot of those apartment complexes were built by other say corporations. For example,

[7:17] the Grove. You remember the Grove? I remember it because very soon after it opened, it was supposed

[7:25] to be student housing and parents thought, you know, paid rent for their kids so that they're not soon,

[7:34] not long after it opened, you could hear gunfire from there and police were called and I know

[7:40] I remember the number of, hearing about the number of police calls and chief L is nodding his head

[7:47] And parents, you got to be where parents didn't want to have their children attending ASU living there.

[7:57] And so then the management started moving in non-students who were very scary and it caused a lot of problems.

[8:06] Also, there were a lot of apartment complexes built, overbuilt that eventually because of poor management and other reasons.

[8:14] and the corporations undercapitalized didn't maintain them and they ended up with boarded

[8:22] up windows and blight on that area.

[8:26] And this is why you have impact fees because companies can go belly up.

[8:31] And then it falls to the citizens and the taxpayers to clean up after that.

[8:38] and we see examples of it right downtown here and we see for example Arby's on

[8:48] Highland Drive sitting vacant on a long time and in code enforcement we have

[8:53] there are staff having to be involved in policing and in the police

[8:59] department and the fire department providing public safety for vacant property

[9:03] that becomes, you know, areas that invite crime and this is why, well this is why part

[9:14] of the reason we do this because there is an impact of development and sometimes bad

[9:19] development on a city and it impacts the services and it puts a strain on the citizens

[9:28] and the taxpayers, and the taxpayers have to pick up the dom for this.

[9:32] And so, whatever sales tax we're talking about, payables in comparison to the cost of

[9:40] cleaning up after over development and bad development and poor management, the corporations often

[9:49] out of state that come in and do this.

[9:51] Basically, carpet baggers.

[9:53] And so I feel as though we need to really this is why other cities have done it and

[10:00] They have not suffered as a result of doing it. I don't know any city in Arkansas. Several cities now have impact fees, including Conway or Sister City,

[10:09] Sound Springs, Cities in Northwest Arkansas, Tony Town. They all have impact fees. None of them have suffered as a result of having it as far as business growth.

[10:20] What they have had is a way of offsetting the cost of services as a result of this development.

[10:29] And I just wanted to set the record straight on why we have this.

[10:34] It's in order to have a good city.

[10:37] And it's not going to drive away good business.

[10:41] Companies are still going to want to build there and develop here.

[10:45] We have two medical centers and a university.

[10:49] They're still going to come here. They're not going to be frightened away by one time impacting,

[10:56] which may not be that much.

[10:58] Just to clarify, this is just a study regarding the impact these are the implementation

[11:03] or adoption of any impact these.

[11:05] And I realize that, but I realize there's a lot of pushback on this,

[11:09] thinking that this is something we're enacting now.

[11:12] We are studying this. This is just a study at the areas and uses of it.

[11:17] And by the way, you have to specify what is to be used for and the number one use ordinarily

[11:27] is public safety, police and fire, also drainage and parks, and other things as far as public

[11:36] services and public safety.

[11:38] So it is the benefit of a city to do this and that's why I'm saying that the pushback

[11:45] against his study, I just want to clarify so everybody understands what it is we're studying and why is all.

[11:55] That's all.

[11:55] Williams, anyone else on the council?

[11:57] Mr. Mayor Pratim?

[11:59] Yes sir.

[11:59] I would just say I couldn't get the list to pull up Arkansas business firewalls, everything so much.

[12:04] But if you looked in the list of Arkansas business in December, they published the list of largest commercial projects in Arkansas.

[12:10] And we were near the bottom.

[12:12] Hoxie had a bigger project last year than we did.

[12:15] So this, you know, we don't need to study to tell us

[12:17] this is a bad idea.

[12:18] Jonesboro Cycle and ATV moved to Bono.

[12:21] This is a growth tax.

[12:22] If you look at our permits, our permit activity is down.

[12:26] So we're in a competitive environment.

[12:28] And you know, you're either growing or you're dying.

[12:31] This is a step in the direction of killing our city.

[12:35] Anyone else on the council?

[12:36] I just want to make one comment.

[12:38] And the primary reason that I brought this up

[12:42] that point I did in conjunction with Mr. McLean.

[12:45] We've been talking about impact fees.

[12:48] I've been part of this council now for 16 years,

[12:50] been part of city government for closer to 20.

[12:55] And we've been talking about this since I started coming around.

[12:59] We've kicked this can far enough.

[13:00] Let's find out if we need it or not.

[13:06] Anyone else on the council?

[13:08] Anyone on the audience, we should speak on this item.

[13:10] I don't know,

[13:14] at least state your name and address with the record, please.

[13:19] Rick Wyatt, 806, Senator Lane Jones-Barram.

[13:22] I was fortunate enough to be on the Impact Freak Committee when we studied this and the

[13:29] vendor that we came up with, I think, stood out to me to be superior than the other vendors.

[13:36] And I don't think the study would be good, but the thing that I wanted to clarify tonight

[13:40] That is in their project understanding.

[13:45] They state that all work to be completed was satisfying the requirements of Arkansas

[13:51] Code 1456-103, the Arkansas impact fee law.

[13:56] I don't know if y'all are familiar with that or not, I don't want to be redundant, but there

[14:03] is a statute that addresses what you can and can't do, and I've got copies of this for the

[14:09] council members if they want to, and I'm not trying to sway you for against the study.

[14:15] But a couple of things I want to point out to you, in the code, there is a language of

[14:23] what an impact fee is. There's also a language of what it can't be used for. There is a list

[14:32] of permitted things that you can do with it. And one thing that struck me, it has to be

[14:39] reasonably attributable to the to providing for a new development. You can't take

[14:47] say where we're going to do something north jonesboro and we're going to use

[14:51] that money down in bio debut. It has to be a tribute to that new development.

[14:57] There is a formula for

[15:00] For assessing it. And then another thing is one of these says that the city will refund the unused portion after seven years plus interest. And so there's a big accounting thing that goes along with this, according to the statute. So, you know, if you charge a developer X number of dollars to do whatever. And you don't use that.

[15:29] money that's permitted for that after seven years you have to give that money back to the

[15:35] developer plus entry. And so I just want you to be aware of that. And then another thing is

[15:41] you know a lot of people talk about well you know traffic and we've got this and that. But if a

[15:48] need is present prior to the new project it's not created by the new project. So if we need

[15:56] an extra placement now and next week we come up with a project or we're going to charge

[16:02] them impact free so we can hire a new placement now it has to be as a result of that new impact

[16:09] so Rick would you mind getting a copy of that to look so you can send it out to all the

[16:17] council members because everybody don't have a copy of that state statute and everybody

[16:21] that note in that state statute is pertaining to.

[16:26] I've got copies.

[16:29] Mr. White, if you will, give it to me, and I'm going to give it to the city clerk and

[16:33] she can disseminate it to the council.

[16:35] Thank you, sir.

[16:37] Did you have anything else to add, Mr. White?

[16:39] No.

[16:40] I mean, you know, I think that they'll do a good job of explaining what you can and can't

[16:46] do.

[16:46] But I want you to understand that it is regulated by statute, of what you can and can't do.

[16:52] It's not just extra mining for the city to do whatever we are.

[16:57] So it's got to be specific.

[16:59] Thank you, sir.

[17:00] Anyone else in the audience wish to speak on this?

[17:05] Here in Madam Clerk, will you load it?

[17:16] Go ahead, Brian.

[17:18] Sorry, but I didn't see you over.

[17:21] I just wanted to quickly say that I believe it was last year whenever the City Council charged the mayor to come up with a committee to a point to research this issue and they did so and

[17:36] And we've got quite a few meetings over the past eight or ten months, however long it's been a while.

[17:42] And I appreciate them for their input and for their research on this.

[17:47] And I believe it was Councilman Hafter that said this is an effort to study what these actual impact fees would be.

[17:57] And then the committee would review that study and bring back any recommendations at that point on what the actual fee structure would look like if anything at all.

[18:05] So, again, just to clarify, the history of this was, city council asked for a committee

[18:11] to be created to study this.

[18:13] They have done that.

[18:14] And this is the result of their study and their recommendations of that study effort.

[18:18] So, you know, if funding for the study is grand tonight, then obviously we'll keep you

[18:24] in the loop as the process goes along and planning and several members of that committee have

[18:28] expressed interest in kind of providing updates as we move along, a multi-month study.

[18:32] So don't be expecting anything coming back any time in the next couple of weeks.

[18:37] I don't want to make this comment.

[18:39] I think I've made this comment, I guess, for 13 or 14 years.

[18:43] Sometimes we don't have problems with some of the issues that are brought up, and I don't

[18:47] either.

[18:48] But the same time just like Mr. Watt, this copy of the, the, the, the, the not demonstration

[18:55] of the information out there so that we can make that decision way before these things

[19:01] happen.

[19:01] I think that just need to happen a little bit more frequent, okay?

[19:05] Okay.

[19:09] Thank you, Brian.

[19:09] Anyone else?

[19:12] All right.

[19:13] Madam Clerk, you're all loaded on the.

[19:29] All right.

[19:30] The issue passes.

[19:32] Item 6, new business, ordinances on first reading.

[19:36] Ordinance 25, 0, 0, 0, 5.

[19:38] Who would suspend the rules and offer by title only?

[19:42] All right.

[19:43] I have motion in a second.

[19:44] Spend the rules and offer by title only.

[19:47] All in favor say aye.

[19:48] Aye.

[19:49] All opposed.

[19:51] An ordinance amending the Jones Royal Code of Ordnance's section 117.330C, known as the

[19:58] sidewalk ordinance of the city of Jones.

[20:00] Councillor Arkins, all providing for a contribution and lieu of construction, exemption for property and planned industrial parks. Create, do you or Darryl, one want to speak on this briefly?

[20:16] How do you run up here? All right.

[20:20] We have any questions. I will say, if I may, Mr. Mayor broken. Sir, I will say someone who had quite a bit of input into the sidewalk ordinance. I do support this.

[20:35] I'm amendment to it.

[20:38] Anyone else on the council?

[20:41] Anyone in the audience wish to speak on this item?

[20:44] Here and none.

[20:48] Just try and state your name and address for the record, please.

[20:54] James Owen Heinz, 508 Ridge Crest.

[20:57] There are just a couple of things, and I haven't read the ordinance.

[21:01] But two things that need to be done.

[21:04] I'm not really opposed to it, but do need to make sure that.

[21:08] And I know this for industrial parks and they've got parking lots and that sort of thing that they're that they do have some way for the pedestrian traffic to get through there safely.

[21:20] And second is is want to be sure that this contribution money is used for sidewalk somewhere else instead of used for some other purpose.

[21:31] Thank you, sir.

[21:33] Anyone else on the audience?

[21:41] We move on to second reading.

[21:43] Item 7, unfinished business.

[21:45] Ordnance is on second reading.

[21:47] Ordnance 24.037.

[21:49] An ordinance established in Consolidate and Special Traffic Patterns

[21:52] near Jonesboro Public Schools,

[21:54] campuses, and for other purposes.

[21:57] Anyone on the council or anyone in the audience wish to speak on this?

[22:01] Here

[22:06] are none.

[22:07] Ordnance is on third reading.

[22:09] Ordnance 25-0-0-1.

[22:12] An ordinance to amend chapter 117.

[22:14] None is zoning ordinance for providing for changes

[22:17] and zoning boundaries from R-1 to C-3.

[22:20] Limited use overlay for property located at 56-22

[22:23] South Carolina Railway Road as requested by West Scott

[22:26] Enterprises.

[22:27] Move to the dock.

[22:28] Second.

[22:29] Motion in a second to adopt.

[22:31] Anyone on the council?

[22:33] Wish to speak on this.

[22:35] any one in the audience wish to speak on this item.

[22:42] Here and then, Madam Clerk,

[22:55] the item passes.

[23:00] Ordnance 25-0-0-0-2, an ordinance to a men chapter 117 known as the zoning ordinance, providing for changes and zoning boundaries from R1 to C3,

[23:09] limited use overlay for property located at 29-26 Wood Street is requested by a rising land surveying.

[23:18] Move to a doll.

[23:19] Second.

[23:19] I have a motion and a second to adopt anyone on the council wish to speak on this.

[23:26] Anyone in the audience wishing to speak on this item,

[23:32] right here in the item clerk.

[23:45] Right, the item passes.

[23:47] Ordnance 25-0-0-3, an ordinance to amend chapter 117 known as rezoning ordinance provided for

[23:55] changes and zoning boundaries from R1 to I2, for property located at 5,500 South Stadium

[24:01] and Boulevard, as requested by Jim Heatherley.

[24:06] Move to adopt.

[24:07] Second.

[24:08] I have a motion in a second to adopt.

[24:10] Anyone on the council wish to speak on this?

[24:13] Anyone on the audience wish to speak on this item?

[24:19] Here and none, Madam Clerk,

[24:30] the item passes.

[24:33] Ordnance 25-004, an ordinance to amend chapter 117,

[24:38] Article 3, known as the zoning ordinance

[24:40] of city of Jones, where Arkansas,

[24:41] All providing for changes and zoning boundaries from our one single family medium density district to our M 12 residential multi family for property located at one thousand six north Warren street Jones, we're Arkansas is requested by carantane more house.

[25:00] Move to the council. Move to a dot. I have a motion and a second to adopt anyone on the council wish to speak on this item. Anyone in the audience? Yes, Jim Graham and Graham Law firm 2500 Alexander Drive. This is a proposal to rezone five and a half acres to RM 12. A couple of things that are important. This isn't a floodplain. So he's not going to be able to get it.

[25:29] It's going to affect how many units he can have.

[25:31] We asked for RM12 to give him flexibility

[25:34] for what he could build on to make it a viable project.

[25:41] The staff report, as you've probably seen,

[25:43] is all check marks, so this is all good

[25:46] with our Lane Use Plan and the Planning Commission staff report.

[25:51] I did before, I wasn't involved in this at the application stage,

[25:55] but shortly after I became involved, I asked Monica to give us a list of the property owners

[26:05] within 400 feet instead of 200 feet for a neighborhood meeting. We had that a few weeks

[26:13] ago and nobody showed up to object. And so I think one more thing, this is my client

[26:22] Mike Carrington Morehouse, he's here somewhere over there.

[26:27] He's a local owner, lives in Jones, where also this is not an out-of-state entity that's

[26:32] going to be trying to build some development here and won't be here to tend to it.

[26:38] If you look on the application packet, there is a suggested rendering and it looks like really

[26:43] nice units in part of the city that I think is in need of something like this.

[26:48] So happy to entertain you in questions.

[26:50] questions per council.

[26:55] Thank you, Councillor. Anyone else in the audience wish to speak on

[26:59] this item?

[27:02] You're an item, Madam Clerk.

[27:13] The item passes. Ordnance 25, 0, 0, 6, an ordinance

[27:18] to vacate and abandon a portion of the alley located in Part 2's addition as requested by

[27:23] Flex Properties and Corporate. I have a motion in a second. Dr. Cummins, did you second

[27:33] that? Is that a yes down there? I have a motion and a second to adopt. Anyone on the council

[27:41] with a question or comment on this item? Anyone on the audience with a question or

[27:49] comment?

[27:51] It was out of order in the agenda.

[27:56] One down the mayor's agenda right here.

[27:58] Okay, so I'm sorry.

[27:59] Okay, back to school stuff.

[28:01] Okay, when I just read was item 25-0-0-6.

[28:07] Okay.

[28:08] Is that not the order on the...

[28:10] Well, seven is listed before six.

[28:13] So I was...

[28:15] Adam Clerk, can we continue with this one?

[28:18] Yes, we're on six.

[28:19] We are on six.

[28:21] Yes.

[28:21] The clerk informs me we are on six.

[28:24] And I'm going to restate it just for the record.

[28:25] ordinance 25-0-0-6 and ordinance to vacate and abandon a portion of an alley located in part

[28:33] of this addition is requested by flex properties and I have a motion in a second to adopt anyone on

[28:38] the council wish to comment anyone in the audience wish to comment on this item right

[28:48] here

[28:50] is there some comment all right here none madam clerk and

[29:02] the item passes ordinance 25-0-0-7

[29:07] 7, an ordinance to vacate and abandon a portion of the street right away and Allie's located

[29:13] on Shilly Street as requested by Flex Properties, LLC.

[29:19] Move to the top.

[29:21] I have a motion and a second to adopt anyone on the council with a question or a comment.

[29:28] Anyone in the audience with a question or a comment?

[29:32] All right.

[29:33] Here and none.

[29:33] Madam Clerk.

[29:45] And the item passes.

[29:46] That concludes our business item 8 will be Mayor's Report, Engineering, Department

[29:53] Government Capital Projects Update by Craig Lyte.

[30:11] I appreciate you getting to me so quickly this evening. I'll be I'll be brief about my comments tonight. I was asked to give a give an idea of the projects that we're doing with the 2025 capital funds that amount of monies that were budgeted this year. So I'm going to try to keep it focused on those those specific projects, but if there's other projects you want to know about, I'll try to answer those questions if you'll ask those. With our 2025 miscellaneous roads money, which was

[30:41] is a half a million dollars.

[30:43] The projects that we're working on with that

[30:44] is the North Church Hawk signal,

[30:47] which is go with the Swimming Pool at Parker Park.

[30:50] We've submitted those plans to our dot for permitting.

[30:54] It's, we're at, I'm gonna say 90% plans.

[30:57] I'm sure they're gonna have some comments back

[30:59] that we need to address,

[31:01] but we have started getting quotes on the equipment for that.

[31:04] So we can get that, hopefully get that installed this year

[31:07] with those funds.

[31:09] We've also submitted the plans

[31:11] for the Johnson Avenue roadway turn lane and side path.

[31:16] This is from Caraway Road to the Newman Center on the north side of the road.

[31:20] We're going to put a turn lane in there.

[31:22] It was at Jay Towns in that next road.

[31:27] If you come over the top of the hill on Johnson, if you've driven that way,

[31:32] there seems to be always somebody in there.

[31:33] There's no turn lane.

[31:34] It's very dangerous.

[31:35] There's been several rear end collisions.

[31:37] So we're going to do a little lane widening there to be able to get a turn lane in for a short distance.

[31:42] And then we're going to put a 10 foot side path on the north side of the road from Caraway Road down to the Newman Center.

[31:48] Hopefully eventually it will extend all the way to the Greensboro Village and the Highway 351 to that trail project that's going along there.

[31:57] So as part of that project is also a small piece of sidewalk from Melrose to Marion Berry.

[32:03] that we're going to pull away from that permit once we can, and we'll go ahead and get that project under construction this year.

[32:14] The other part is a fairly large project that may need some additional allocations to actually get it under way.

[32:21] I think our last estimate was over $700,000 for the project.

[32:26] And I said this year's budgeting for street projects was a half a million.

[32:31] We're also working on the design for pedestrian accommodations at South Cobra House and Southwest Drive Intersection.

[32:40] That's one that one of our local tenders to council meetings has asked about multiple times.

[32:47] There are no pedestrian accommodations at that intersection.

[32:50] You do have to just kind of bolt across that road if you want to get across it.

[32:56] Now that we've built the trail down South Cobra House to Southwest Drive, we need to figure

[33:02] out a way to get pedestrians across that safely.

[33:04] So we're working on the design of those improvements to that facility.

[33:09] With the same monies, we're also putting in traffic calming devices at several locations.

[33:15] We've already installed one at Oak Street.

[33:18] We're just waiting on, it's a speed table, we're waiting on the signage to be put up and

[33:23] And we're also putting in an always stop at Oak in that rains, open rains.

[33:32] There and it'll be a lighted sign like what's at Huntington in Flint.

[33:37] So we're getting that equipment ordered now.

[33:41] There's be additional speed tables at Brazos and I know I'm Fair Park.

[33:46] Those are the ones on Fair Park are under construction this week.

[33:50] So those projects are moving forward pretty quickly.

[33:54] We're also going to do a traffic calming.

[33:56] It's going to be some curbing work done at Union and Hope Street.

[34:00] We're having issues with people coming down Union and instead of taking the right turn

[34:05] to go to Main Street, they're blowing down Union Street further and that to lane into

[34:13] the residential neighborhood area.

[34:15] And we're going to do some curbing there to try to slow people down as they enter that residential

[34:19] district. So that will be with those monies this year. We're also doing a lighting project

[34:26] down Cretz Street. Tonight the council approved the purchase of some lighting equipment

[34:33] that's being purchased through grant funds but these funds will be used to actually hire

[34:39] a contractor to do that electrical work and install those lights. So that's what's going

[34:45] We went on with the half-million in street funds.

[34:49] We also got a half-million in sidewalks and side paths money.

[34:56] We're doing that still continuing the South Culber.

[35:00] Councilor Harris, and Flint Street Project making the connection there down Thomas Street and then Wood Street to Short Street. And so that's under construction right now. We've got a small piece of sidewalk plan for Madison Road between Jefferson and Washington Avenue on the west side of the roadway. Jason to the new county courthouse. We've got a piece of sidewalk that we'd like to get put in down through there this year.

[35:29] And then the remainder of the funds will be used to start down Jefferson Avenue with an additional side path down those and those those projects were picked by the connectivity committee on soft surface.

[35:46] Well, these aren't with 25, 20, 25 capital funds, but we do have some soft surface trails that would be done with grant funds this year.

[35:56] With our half million drainage funds this year, we're doing a project on Maplewood Terrace.

[36:02] This is relocating a ditch that is basically runs into the back of somebody's house and

[36:08] is cause flooding issues throughout the years.

[36:10] And so we have some funds set aside to do that project this year.

[36:14] Also on Les Leand and Tony Ann, we've got some money budget to do some drainage work, some

[36:20] and curbing and some piping to relocate.

[36:23] The water basically runs from city streets

[36:26] onto private property.

[36:27] So we're going to redirect that in that area.

[36:31] And then we also have some funds in the miscellaneous

[36:33] to purchase a piece of property on North Main Street.

[36:37] It's five acres that is part of the core of engineers

[36:40] master drainage plan for the city.

[36:42] It's come up for sale.

[36:44] They've agreed to sell it to us for less than the appraised value.

[36:47] it's a flood property so hopefully you'll see that fairly soon come before you

[36:53] to purchase but that will come out of that mislining strange funds. We have

[37:00] 450,000 allocated in railroad money this year. A percentage of that will be used

[37:06] for just general maintenance but a few projects that we're going to do we're

[37:10] going to install some switchpoint protectors for all the rail switches out

[37:14] there we've had a kind of an issue with those getting damaged and every time they get damaged,

[37:20] it's $5,000, $6,000 to get fixed. So we're going to put protectors on those this year to try

[37:26] to minimize, I think we had four of five of them damaged last year. And so we're going to put these

[37:34] protectors on them to try to minimize that. We're also going to put some camera equipment in our

[37:38] rail yard. We've had a couple of incidents of injuries at a rail yard by the railroad

[37:46] crews and we've been asked by the NSF about putting some cameras up and we think it's a

[37:51] good measure and we have some funds this year to try to do that.

[37:58] And then we were allocated

[38:00] a million dollars for asphalt overlays this year. That actually bid today, so that contract

[38:06] will come before you in the next couple, in the next 30 days anyway. The projects on

[38:13] the list are Nettles and Avenue from Flint to Puy, Beanie Drive, Olive It, Bobby Don Drive,

[38:21] Olive It, Eagle Drive, Hawke's Cove, Hunter Lane, Bass and Carter Drive that's all off

[38:30] Aggie Road, the east of Red Wolf. Richardson Road from Root Road to Longcrest, Longcrest

[38:39] Drive from Richardson Road to Willow Road. Willow Road, that's from Ingalls to I-555, an overlay

[38:46] on Warner from Olive to Union, an overlay on Oak Street, from Olive to Madison, and then

[38:53] West Craighead Forest Road from Lincoln Drive to South Culber House. Those are the projects

[38:59] that were bid, the dollar amounts actually of the bids came in a little bit lower than

[39:05] it did last year, so we might have a little bit extra funds to add a road.

[39:10] We have a running list of several million dollars of overlay projects that need to be

[39:16] done, so we'll select one or two, hopefully, off that list, add since those projects came

[39:21] in.

[39:22] That was the project that we're going to do with the 2025 allocations.

[39:27] Are there any questions about any of those projects?

[39:30] Do you, Mayor, if I may?

[39:32] Yes, sir.

[39:33] Craig, do you want to touch on the Brussels Projects again?

[39:35] I got one more question.

[39:37] The Brussels, yes.

[39:39] They're traffic calming.

[39:41] Traffic calming.

[39:42] Yeah, the speed tables.

[39:43] That's great.

[39:43] We put out radar counters out there and there's a lot of fast moving cars down through there.

[39:51] When do we anticipate doing some drainage work in that area?

[39:56] Brazos?

[39:58] I'd say...

[40:03] I drove through there, I drive through there almost every day, but driving through after

[40:10] a rain, it's pretty, it's water, all of the road and kids having to stand in the water

[40:18] waiting on the school bus.

[40:22] You don't have to tell me now. It is on a list. The last time

[40:28] We talked about it, it was to redo the whole neighborhood, the drainage, and it was about

[40:34] five and a half million dollars, and this was probably, I can't remember how many years

[40:39] ago it was, if we put that estimate together, but it's been some time ago, we were looking

[40:43] for CDBG funds to help fund that.

[40:46] When we did the Rastreet Trainage Project for the future widening of the Rastreet, we put

[40:52] in that underground system, and we put in new in-the-pipes

[40:56] extending into the Fair Park neighborhood,

[41:00] and we set them fairly deep, they come up very quickly,

[41:04] but the intent is to pull those out

[41:06] and start putting underground systems in at a much deeper level,

[41:09] to start, you know, as an overall fix for that area.

[41:13] But it's gonna be, you know, we need a sizable allocation

[41:17] for it.

[41:18] I didn't know that fair few matter all those roads in there, fair field, like Mary Jane,

[41:29] how to understand that, how to look at it.

[41:33] Also, are we planning, I know you didn't go through your list and say any, but are we

[41:38] planning to do any roundabouts coming out?

[41:40] No,

[41:45] we did look at around about a few years ago at Benard, may

[41:54] not be Benard, Forest

[41:57] Home Road and that Intersect and Shree is at Benard, now it's not Benard, anyway, we've

[42:04] looked at one there, we priced it out, honestly a four-way stop's been working out

[42:10] there for quite some time, and not really causing that many delays, if there's a particular

[42:21] one that you think we need to look at, we'll be happy to put it on the list and have it

[42:27] looked at for around about, but we don't have any around about projects. In terms of our

[42:31] long range roadway projects that we do have on the list, Highland Nestle Rogers Chapel

[42:39] intersection out on 18. Need some additional turn lanes added to it. South

[42:46] Caraway Road and Race Street intersection needs to be blown up into a

[42:52] full intersection like what Caraway in Highland is. So full double turn lanes

[42:57] other way around on there.

[43:06] It's a very tricky intersection.

[43:16] It is being a five-pointed intersection.

[43:25] We get a lot of requests for traffic calming and you know you put these in to move traffic

[43:32] faster and then you put in other things to slow them down.

[43:37] The intersection itself is not over capacity.

[43:42] You can get through it.

[43:43] You don't have real long delays to get through it.

[43:47] You know, intersections that really need our attention are South

[43:51] caraway and racetries, especially with the new sporting complex that's going in there.

[43:56] I mean, it's a, it is a, there's a lot of delay at that intersection.

[43:59] And we're probably looking at three and a half million dollars to improve that intersection.

[44:05] Brown's Lane and Caraway, it's on our dots, Interchange Improvement List.

[44:11] Alexander and Southwest Drive is on that list as well.

[44:14] And I think they're estimated 16 million on that particular project to redo the some lanes

[44:21] off the interstate.

[44:23] And so there's some big projects that need to be pushed forward, and whether or not

[44:28] that's a contribution towards the city funds on those or not, I don't know.

[44:34] But they've been identified.

[44:37] We've had race street improvements on our list for a long time.

[44:41] We have South Caraway Road that's been on our list for quite some time.

[44:45] We lack two properties from having all the need to ride away.

[44:50] And I know it's been, the funding for that's been tied up in this bond issuance.

[44:53] It's been knocked around for the last couple of years.

[44:56] Hopefully that will come to fruition sometime.

[45:00] And we'll get the finally get the funding to do those improvements. But, you know, Patrick street improvements. I know Dr. Colpins has been asking for that for quite some time. G street improvements are on our list and overpass over the railroad tracks on G street. Prospect road improvements have been been mentioned many times. I think you might. There's a lot of roadway projects. So specifically around abouts have not been a priority. But we do see these

[45:29] other projects as being you know some priorities for us that we need to start

[45:33] looking at and looking at how we fund these in a long term. I'll see you in

[45:38] email just to discuss a few. Thank you. All right Greg just get on to the important

[45:43] things down here. What about the bank? What bank is that? I think our construction

[45:51] managers are here. I saw them right behind you and I'm hoping one of two of you

[45:55] He's fixing to tell us that it's coming down this week or something big's happening so I believe

[46:02] I'm being told that the big machines supposed to start showing up in pieces tomorrow so

[46:07] It'll take a little time to get that thing set up and

[46:12] I don't know as more about it than I do so I'm not saying roundabouts and intersections are important

[46:18] But I'm telling you my phone is blowing up about the bank police come and give us an update

[46:26] So as far as the activity that you see on site right now, we've got a first piece of equipment that will work in tandem with our high reach equipment that comes tomorrow.

[46:36] We've got that there last week, I want to say Thursday or Friday.

[46:40] I'm going to say the high reach equipment will show up tomorrow and it is on several trucks and it's coming from South Texas so it'll be here sometime right around noon.

[46:52] We'll offload that and then beyond that we've got to get our site restructured to contain

[46:58] that piece of equipment and then also to protect our neighbors from the work that's coming

[47:02] up.

[47:03] We've got to be a good neighbor to everybody around us, particularly to the building directly

[47:07] to the north of us.

[47:08] That'll be the next thing you see is us protecting that building for many, for anything that

[47:15] should happen to fall off of the citizens bank building while we're in the process of taking

[47:18] it down.

[47:18] It's 15 feet away, so that's going to involve a pretty substantial effort just to keep

[47:24] their building protected while we move forward.

[47:29] As far as administrative work goes, ADQ had a SREE resummit or NOI today.

[47:36] They had some clerical things they wanted changed on it, so we've got their full attention,

[47:41] which is a good thing because they're the law, we've got to do exactly what they say.

[47:45] So we resummitted that today. Our first day of actual demolition, we're hoping at the latest it'll be Friday, March the 7th.

[47:55] Maybe Saturday, March the 8th or Monday the 10th. We're hoping that we can pull that back with 88Q. We're obviously completely beholden to them.

[48:06] But we're in contact with them several times every day just to review the process of everything.

[48:12] Like I said, there's a lot of prep work that we've got to do between now and then.

[48:17] So it does.

[48:18] It buys us a little bit of time to meet with our team or demolition team and then with

[48:24] the neighbors in the immediate area so they know what to expect out of our work and then

[48:28] obviously with the city, the same way, just planning traffic and planning the rest of the

[48:35] scope of our work.

[48:37] And then after that, what it's going to look like when we leave the site, you know, making

[48:41] We can sure that we've got an engineered plan that fits the piece of property and we

[48:47] walk away with something that manages storm water and doesn't create a problem for the

[48:53] city.

[48:55] Any questions from the council about that?

[48:59] Thank you very much.

[49:00] I saw you down there with the big excavator in the shear all looking at it over today and

[49:04] I thought here we go.

[49:06] The one that comes tomorrow is me a whole lot.

[49:08] But that's a big one that's out there.

[49:09] But the whole environment would be really big.

[49:11] All right, thank you very much.

[49:15] Brian, did you have anything else

[49:16] before I read the mayor's statement?

[49:19] Anyone?

[49:22] I'm sorry about that, Craig.

[49:23] I was just as giddy thinking about the building down there.

[49:28] Right, the mayor did, the mayor did

[49:29] leave the statement for me to read

[49:31] and it says, good evening everyone.

[49:33] Thanks for being patient while we waited out

[49:34] the winter storm.

[49:36] I want to thank our street crew for doing a fantastic job once again.

[49:40] of getting the roads in shape quickly.

[49:42] I also want to recognize the Salvation Army

[49:44] for providing overnight housing to those in need

[49:47] during the severe cold.

[49:49] While our community centers provided daytime buildings

[49:52] to get into a warm space,

[49:54] here's some more information about getting things cleaned up.

[49:58] The Sanitation Department has a new process.

[50:00] Residents for residents to get rid of larger items that are cluttering up personal space. We're calling it getting rid of the bulky junk, which we all have. Brian, do you think of that? I know Donna. I know Donna didn't think of that. Residents can load up junk, bring it to the city and center writer located at 2650 lacy drive and a specific roll off dumpster is available for accepting those items.

[50:29] items. It is a great convenience and best of all it saves the city that's the taxpayers

[50:34] lots of money and tipping fees. Sanitation routes are beginning to catch up with the backlog

[50:40] caused by the winter storm that followed a federal holiday. We appreciate our citizens

[50:45] for being patient through the process. We're all ready to get the winter out of the way

[50:50] that the city parks are truly gearing up for the nice weather. In fact, some activities are

[50:55] underway already. The baseball fields are full-swing and it's worth a drive to go

[51:00] take a look at all the beauty of the outdoor spaces. We're asking for community

[51:05] input to help bring the vision of the Martin Luther King Jr. Freedom Trail to

[51:09] life. A public meeting is underway now at New John Baptist Church at 308 North

[51:17] Maine and a second meeting will be held the 27th at 6 o'clock at New John. We are

[51:25] of course getting excited about the state of the city address, you'll hear a report

[51:29] at the next City Council meeting March 4th just a week from tomorrow and a full video

[51:34] presentation will be held at Embassy Suites March 5th beginning at 11.30. Applications are

[51:41] being accepted now for the Mayor's Youth Advancement Council 3 April 1st. We are always excited

[51:47] to meet the new members and find out what our young people have to offer. I'm pleased to

[51:52] to announce that our health accelerator plan is one yet another award, this one for engineering.

[51:58] This is the award that demonstrates how we are making parks and health initiatives

[52:02] accessible to everyone. I know you're all anxious to hear the latest on the citizens

[52:08] bank building. We'll keep you updated in any time. There's movement to talk about.

[52:13] Large equipment being brought in in adjacent spaces are being protected at this time.

[52:18] anything else, Brian? I got you. That concludes Mayor's reports.

[52:25] Item 9, City Council reports. Madam Clerk, we call the road.

[52:29] Mr. Street. I just did what the mayor said about the

[52:33] all of our department, Street Department, Police Department,

[52:36] Sanitation. Everybody did a great job clearing the roads and keeping them safe and

[52:41] we appreciate them as always. Thank you.

[52:44] Mr. Miller, Mr. Bryant, Mr. Haffner, Mr. McLean, Mr. Gibson.

[52:53] Yes, nominating in rules met earlier tonight, and I would like to spin the rules and walk on ordinance 25-008 in resolution 25-015, please.

[53:08] Do I have a second to walk on?

[53:10] A second.

[53:11] Okay, I have a motion and a second to walk on.

[53:13] All in favor say aye. All opposed. Which one are we going to start with?

[53:19] I'll start with the ordinance 25008. This is proposed changes, we're now changes to some

[53:32] of the counter rolls. I'm going to go through and just read the changes because it's 12 pages

[53:37] is long. So the first change is on in section 2-84 paragraph J. We are changing that information

[53:47] or that paragraph to say electronic devices, electronic devices such as cell phones, tablets

[53:53] and laptops should be silenced or turned off during council and committee meetings unless

[53:58] explicitly needed to conduct business. The next change is section 2-85 paragraph

[54:06] FD, that is being amended to say once a question is put to a vote, each council or committee

[54:13] member will electronically enter a vote of yay or nay. An exception is a council or

[54:19] committee member may abstain from voting A if he or she has not participated in preceding

[54:25] discussion of the question and B, if that council member states a valid reason for abstention.

[54:30] If electronic balding is unavailable, the city clerk will call for a voice vote.

[54:37] The next change is section 2-85 paragraph J. That paragraph is being amended to read

[54:45] for benefit.

[54:46] I'm going to accurate for them.

[54:47] It is the responsibility of the Council or committee member to notify the presiding officer

[54:53] if they will be arriving late or leaving early from Council and committee meetings.

[54:57] the next change is

[55:00] In section 2-95, paragraph A, subsection 1,

[55:08] and the second sentence of that subsection is being changed effective January of 2026 to read. The nominating and rules committee shall be made up of council members from seat 1 of wards 1, 2, and 3, and seat 2 of wards 4, 5, and 6 on odd numbered years, and seat 2 of wards

[55:33] 1, 2, and 3 and seat 1 of wards 4, 5, and 6 on even number years.

[55:40] And then the final change I think is also in section 2-95, paragraph B, subsection 2,

[55:51] the first sentence that we are adding the word present so that the first sentence reads,

[55:57] committee meetings shall be held when possible at times that allow all members of the committee

[56:01] to attend in order for a committee to make an official recommendation to the City Council a majority of the committee present must agree on that recommendation.

[56:16] All right, let's move on to the council.

[56:19] I have a quick request.

[56:21] Well, we need a motion to...

[56:23] Well, it's an ordinance, so it's just a partially...

[56:25] It's an amendment to an ordinance.

[56:28] It's amendment to the current ordinance.

[56:33] I'll move to a doubt.

[56:34] Okay, I have a motion and a second to adopt, now open the floor for discussion, Mr. Haffner.

[56:42] I was just trying to make sure, on 6 and 2295, paragraph A, the subsection 1, the proposed

[56:49] language says the nominating and rude committee shall be made up of council members from

[56:53] seat 1, avoid 1, 2, 3, and seats 2, seat 2, 4, 5, and 6, so we'll have members on both

[56:59] sides.

[57:00] that was that was the reasoning behind that is so the entire city would be

[57:04] represented rather than just three wards. Thank you. Any other questions?

[57:13] You

[57:13] want any audience have a question or an answer? All right here and none we have

[57:18] to voice open.

[57:19] I'm cleared.

[57:22] A client.

[57:23] Half-nour.

[57:25] Bryant.

[57:26] Miller.

[57:27] Hi.

[57:28] Street.

[57:28] Hi.

[57:29] Gibson.

[57:30] Hi.

[57:30] Williams.

[57:31] Hi.

[57:32] Moore.

[57:34] Dr. Charles Coleman.

[57:35] Hi.

[57:36] Emerson.

[57:37] Hi.

[57:38] Order.

[57:38] Hi.

[57:42] We have the resolution.

[57:43] OK.

[57:44] Resolution 25-015.

[57:47] Resolution by the City Council of the City of Jones

[57:50] are Arkansas to make appointments and reappointments to boards and commissions as recommended by Mayor

[57:55] Harold Copenhaver. Whereas the following appointments, reappointments have been recommended by Mayor

[58:01] Harold Copenhaver. Now therefore, be it resolved by the City Council for the City of Jones

[58:06] where Arkansas that the following appointments, reappointments, be confirmed. Public Facilities Board,

[58:12] appointment of Joe Verser to complete the unexpired term of Steve May who has resigned due to relocation,

[58:18] and expiring 10, 12 of 2027.

[58:23] Cricket County Jones World Public Library Board appointment of Christopher Moss to a five-year term ending 1-1-20-30.

[58:33] Re-appointment of Beth Smith for a term ending 6-30-20-29.

[58:39] CDBG Citizens Advisory Committee appointment of Beverly Nyx to complete an unexpired term of Christopher Moss ending 3-21-30.

[58:48] 2020-26. Municipal Airport Commission, re-appointment of Dick, or Vick did excuse me, and

[58:55] Brian Falkersen to three-year terms ending 517-2028. Jonesboro Urban Forestry Council,

[59:03] re-appointment of Nate Schimmel, Richard Abbas, James Sanders, Grant Newkirk, and Brandon

[59:10] Trader to three-year terms ending 3-4-2028. The appointment of Tom Elwood to a three-year

[59:17] term ending 3, 4, 20, 28, Jonesboro Parks and Recreation Planning and Advisory Committee.

[59:24] Reappointment of Tina Cook, John McPike, Trayma Key, to one year terms ending 3, 4, 20,

[59:30] 26. Reappointment of Lynn Frey, Frey, David Daniel, Brent Martin, to two year terms ending

[59:38] 3, 4, 20, 27. Reappointment of Charles Coleman, to a three year term ending 3, 4, 20, 28.

[59:45] appointment of Jay Clevenger, Jack Sample, James Kern, to three-year terms

[59:50] ending 3, 4, 20, 28. Board of zoning adjustments, re-appointment of Rick

[59:56] Miles, Casey K. Folls, and Kevin Bailey to three-year terms.

[1:00:00] ending 517-2028, city water and light, reappointment of John Street, to a three-year term ending 228-28 and appointment of Michael Polk to a three-year term ending 228-28. Impact fee review committee, reappointment of Ann Williams, Anthony Coleman, Russel Hanna, Carol Caldwell, Robert Hester, Mark Morris, Rick Wyatt, Charleston, Garily, Carli Steele,

[1:00:29] should quit a cutting ham and Western Wagner to a one-year term ending 3-1-20-26.

[1:00:36] Move to the dock.

[1:00:38] Second.

[1:00:39] I have a motion and a second to the dock.

[1:00:41] Anyone on the council have a question or a comment?

[1:00:43] SB recuse from vote on this because of a reappointment.

[1:00:49] Let the record reflect that.

[1:00:51] Anyone in the audience, Mr. Hines, come on up.

[1:00:55] I was thinking about you and he was talking about cross in Southwest Drive at the light

[1:00:59] down there where you walk. So, you know, I was probably quietly, James Owen Heinz,

[1:01:06] 508 Ridgecrest, did not before the runoff election in December, the mayor made a speech

[1:01:20] at Western, it's not Western system, it's Golden Crow, he's isn't it, and there were

[1:01:27] group people there and he promised that before an appointment was made to the Jonesboro

[1:01:33] Public Library Board that that person would speak to that group.

[1:01:39] I'd been watching because I'd like to be there at the meeting when that person speaks

[1:01:43] to hear them.

[1:01:44] I don't have anything, you know, an opinion on the person I'd really like to hear them

[1:01:49] get from an opinion.

[1:01:51] But anyway, I do think in order for him to keep his promise that that appointment needs

[1:01:57] needs to be delayed until he has opportunity to have them speak to that group as he promised.

[1:02:03] Thank you, Mr. Hines.

[1:02:05] Anyone else in the audience with a question or comment?

[1:02:09] Here in Madam Clerk, we call the room.

[1:02:13] I have a question about, there's an appointment for Dr. Charles coming on John's Barbarian

[1:02:18] for some creation.

[1:02:21] You want to abstain?

[1:02:24] And Ann?

[1:02:25] We had discussed this.

[1:02:27] Yeah, I can.

[1:02:28] I had discussed this for Carol previously.

[1:02:31] And she said it's not an issue in her opinion,

[1:02:35] requiring it in this particular type of appointment.

[1:02:39] I just wanted to make sure that no one else wanted to abstain.

[1:02:42] OK.

[1:02:43] Dr. Cullen?

[1:02:44] Yes.

[1:02:45] All in favor?

[1:02:47] Say aye.

[1:02:47] All opposed,

[1:02:53] Mr. Gibson?

[1:02:55] Yeah, I've got just a couple more things.

[1:02:56] Nominating rules just for transparency and procedural purposes.

[1:03:00] We had to pull an item from the agenda this afternoon.

[1:03:03] So we will meet again on Monday, is that the third?

[1:03:07] March 3rd at 4.45 to take up those items of business.

[1:03:11] And it's just some more appointments to the committees.

[1:03:15] And secondly, we did vote to dissolve public services this afternoon.

[1:03:21] and the reappointment of those, or the reassignment of those subcommittees will be as follows.

[1:03:26] The airport committee will go to finance, parks and cemeteries will go to public works,

[1:03:31] and transportation will go to public works.

[1:03:34] And any members of that public services committee that would like to be reassigned to any of

[1:03:38] those committees, please let me know and we'll take that up at Monday's meeting as well.

[1:03:44] I anticipate that'll open up a time slot for public hearings and that'll be quite beneficial.

[1:03:50] Do you have anything else? That's all I have. Thank you. All right, Ms. Williams.

[1:03:54] Dr. Coleman? I had one question. Fine.

[1:03:59] Have you guys made an decision on the ranges for the parks?

[1:04:08] That's still being I guess the the exact on the process for that and the legalities of how

[1:04:13] they would need to be charged and any kind of enforcement powers. I know that the Miss Duncan and Heather,

[1:04:18] I think, have been looking at some statutory requirements on that just to want to make sure that anybody

[1:04:23] by that you obviously empower the ability

[1:04:26] to ticket rat enforcement rules or find somebody

[1:04:30] that they follow the proper procedures

[1:04:33] and guidelines that are laid out by the state.

[1:04:35] So, not being a lawyer, I'm not gonna get myself

[1:04:38] in trouble and make any presentations,

[1:04:39] but I can't present that they're working very diligently

[1:04:41] on that, and I think that we originally planned

[1:04:44] on kind of funding and actually putting some funding

[1:04:48] in some creation behind those positions

[1:04:49] sometime during the summer.

[1:04:51] So, you know, they've got a little bit of time left to kind of work through that.

[1:04:55] Now that I've talked with Ms. Williams or Councilwoman Williams a little bit about.

[1:05:00] Some of the things that she would like to say before that position is actually created just to ensure that everybody's working in the best interest of the city. I mean, we kind of envision somebody that's not just an enforcement officer, but also a, you know, a, all, you know, hands-on person to either assist people are also point out things that need to be corrected in our park. So there's still a little bit of work to be done on that, but I think we're heading in a good direction.

[1:05:30] We're trying to ensure that Mr. Street doesn't qualify for this job, so.

[1:05:35] That's all I want to know.

[1:05:36] Right now for free.

[1:05:40] We don't want to give that up, so we've got to make sure.

[1:05:43] Thank you.

[1:05:44] Anything else, Dr. Cullen?

[1:05:46] Thank you.

[1:05:47] Mr. Emerson?

[1:05:48] Nothing at this time's border.

[1:05:50] No, thank you.

[1:05:51] All right.

[1:05:51] That concludes the public comments.

[1:05:53] I mean, City Council reports.

[1:05:54] It's item 10 public comments anyone in the audience wish to come make public comment about something that was not on the agenda tonight

[1:06:04] You're an item 11 adjournment

[1:06:07] Ocean a second all in favor say aye. We stand adjourned

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