[0:02] Iran and Chris Banks
yeah
[0:08] Ron I'd like to say something
um thank you for for all the time that
[0:13] you've contributed with city
um the county to the students in this
[0:18] area I appreciate that my son played for
you both
[0:22] mine's Place yeah so he's coached a lot
yeah
[0:26] thank you for your time limitations
[0:34] this certificate is presented to Coach
Ron Gilmore and Coach Chris Vance in
[0:40] honor and recognition of your
exceptional coaching skills and
[0:44] dedication to the youth that earned the
Liberty High School volleyball team as
[0:49] first state to win the championship as
well as setting the record for most wins
[0:53] in a season
congratulations to both of you and then
[0:57] we'll we'll name all the kids I love
slowly pass these out I'll call their
[1:02] names and Ron come up here
[Music]
[1:08] Chris
[1:11] come on
thank you
[1:14] thank you
congratulations if you guys want to say
[1:18] before we call your team up if you want
to say a few words uh well if I look to
[1:23] head coach your talk she's a good talker
[1:27] uh I want to let go of what you said
earlier very thankful for Coach Gilmore
[1:33] a huge influence for his team and for me
um can't say enough good things about
[1:39] him his leadership his mentorship and uh
just very grateful for him really proud
[1:46] of each and every one of the Liberty
High School of volleyball team these
[1:51] young ladies were bar they had a goal in
mind they came together in unity and
[1:56] they worked hard to achieve that goal
and that means something that's
[1:59] something very special not only for
Liberty High School but for the
[2:04] community in Clarksburg very proud of
each and every one of these young
[2:09] okay thank you we would like to start
with Gabby Floyd
[2:16] yes
[2:30] Savannah Patterson
[2:35] congratulations
Haley Haynes
[2:42] oh yeah
[2:49] grenade talk
[2:57] Aspen Hixon ball
[3:01] congratulations
Jasmine Hudson
[3:11] Maddie McGill
come on here
[3:16] well adults are against volleyball
practice today
[3:21] Savannah
[3:26] [Music]
[3:33] be playing at the Salem College and
softball next year all right
[3:38] Abby Davis
[3:44] Gracie Jenkins
[3:51] Kylie Swagger
[3:57] Reagan Snyder
[4:03] Addison napkin
[4:08] Haley White
[4:14] Olivia Lima foreign
[4:21] [Music]
[4:27] [Applause]
[4:51] is
[4:54] let's get some remember
[Music]
[5:28] thank you guys congratulations
[5:33] [Applause]
[5:43] [Music]
[5:50] [Music]
[6:04] tonight
[6:40] to me
now
[6:49] how are you good
[7:10] thank you
Nation
[7:16] [Music]
[7:25] yes sir
I can't talk about the kids
[7:31] she's like forget me yeah
[7:43] yeah
okay uh this is a proclamation
[7:48] whereas 211 is a great accomplishment
confidential service that helps people
[7:54] across North America to find local
resources when they are in crisis and
[7:59] whereas West Virginia 211 is managed by
the United Way of providing for
[8:06] assistance through West Virginia and
whereas the United Way of Harrison and
[8:11] Dodgers counties maintain the
wb211 line which the next residence of
[8:18] Harrison the Dodgers downies to the
vital non-emergency Health and Human
[8:23] and whereas
wb211 Specialists are trying to identify
[8:28] and address the root cause of clients
problems and connect them with a wide
[8:33] range of available resources that meet
the underlying needs ensuring people in
[8:39] need are connected to vacancies that can
help them whereas wd211
[8:45] is making the social services
ecosystem more efficient in Harrison and
[8:50] Dodgers County and whereas in the city
of Clarksburg supports the efforts of
[8:56] the United Way of Harrison's Rogers
County the wb211 network to provide
[9:02] assistance for all those that we serve
and whereas the Harrison the city of
[9:08] Clarksburg appreciates the services
provided by United Way in Harrison and
[9:12] Dodgers County and further recognizes
the positive impact their students are
[9:18] Interstate our communities
[9:27] [Music]
in the city of Lawrenceburg and
[9:36] encourages all citizens to join and
support you this vital community service
[9:40] and Witnesses whereas I have an
inherented myself to my hand and have
[9:47] caused the official seal of the city of
Clarksburg to the effects here to this
[9:52] second day of February
2023 James Marina City Clarksburg West
[9:57] Virginia
congratulations
[10:03] [Applause]
[10:08] it's about our community I want to thank
Jacqueline Brown she is our community
[10:13] resource specialist she answers the
phone calls the calls that we get from
[10:18] so many of our residents who need help
and need connected to resources in their
[10:22] Community but to succeed and I'm I can't
tell you you know because they're
[10:27] totally confidential calls but they're
tough conversations to have and just to
[10:32] know that our residents have a live
person to call like Jacqueline and talk
[10:37] to her and and probably about some of
the most difficult things that they're
[10:41] going through in their life that's a
that's an invaluable resource for this
[10:44] community and that could be the first
step in the process of healing their
[10:47] Brokenness so I want to thank our
community I want to thank Jeff and I
[10:51] want to thank Amy want to thank
everybody at 201 or 201 staff staff
[10:55] across West Virginia this is a Statewide
resource right and I want to thank our
[11:00] community for their support So
Jacqueline do you have anything you
[11:03] would like to add
um I just want to let everyone know that
[11:07] um
let people know job 211 if they need any
[11:11] Social Services
thank you all very much thank you
[11:23] good morning
[11:36] foreign
[12:05] communication and public hearings Chris
Lane of 317 Buckhannon Avenue wishes to
[12:10] address Council
[12:13] how's everybody this evening
great looks like we got a lot of good
[12:18] things going on in our little Community
[12:22] um one touch base
um since uh since we had spoken last uh
[12:27] here at the at the last meeting
Steve appreciate the caller uh make sure
[12:33] I call earlier today that looks like I
have a meeting here and a few short
[12:36] weeks so appreciate everyone's time to
make that happen
[12:41] but also since uh since I was here in
Spoke Class A few other members of our
[12:47] neighborhoods actually reached out to me
and shared some of their stories and
[12:51] some of the issues that they've been
having since the the storm drain system
[12:55] was was put in place
there's some other residents that's also
[12:59] been experiencing flooding one of which
has been experiencing flooding within
[13:03] their basement uh as a result from it
um
[13:07] so I've been I've met with a few of them
look some of the sides
[13:11] reviewed to my wedding I'm gonna try and
put together as much information I can
[13:15] to be able to bring to the meeting to
share and review that with everybody
[13:21] um that being said uh notice something
in the newspaper there earlier this week
[13:26] it's probably a larger issue than the uh
than the issue we're having over at
[13:31] Spring
and it's um well actually it's also an
[13:34] issue we're having in Spring is some of
the lead water lines and the city's uh
[13:38] and the water boards plan to replace
lead water lines in our community
[13:43] it's my understanding that this evening
there's there's a resolution to amend
[13:47] sections 5 25 and 38 of the city Charter
uh on the on the agenda this evening to
[13:56] address issues that could potentially
prevent that Water Project from from
[14:00] executing
um I haven't did a whole lot of research
[14:03] on it I just just seen this a couple
days ago so I've put together a little
[14:09] bit since then but you know some of my
concerns being a resident over there you
[14:15] know having small children lead lines is
not desirable to have have my water
[14:21] source come from
would like to see see the project come
[14:26] to fruition
understands a large project I think 80
[14:29] some plus million dollars is being spent
on it and I believe there is you know
[14:34] rate adjustments that was already
approved and passed where you know we
[14:38] are or will be paying higher water rates
to help support the project and I'm fine
[14:43] with doing that to be able to have safer
water lines
[14:48] my understanding the the issue right
there goes circles around to the Charter
[14:54] change that was voted on in 21.
um and I vaguely recall the charter
[14:59] change
whenever it was put up the boat just to
[15:02] make things more convenient for voters
to be able to come out and vote on City
[15:07] elections along with County elections so
I think it's a really good idea
[15:11] to streamline things make it happen
quicker more efficient and more
[15:16] Consolidated places
um
[15:19] my concern is that uh oh after reviewing
it and reviewing what information I
[15:25] could find on it you know it it appears
that the the term length for Council
[15:30] Members elected in 2019 was extended for
a year
[15:34] and on in the newspaper article that I
read earlier this week you know it it
[15:39] quoted uh quote the mayor saying that
people voted for the charter change in
[15:43] 2021
and that was so uh right down here
[15:50] two
that was intended to get more people
[15:53] involved with the election
I agree with that Fair statement I
[15:58] have to see elections with the county
elections would get a lot more people
[16:01] involved more voters involved and would
help the overall process
[16:16] you know
the one concern I had with the quote
[16:21] quote mentioned
the right here it's quoted says the
[16:26] context of it is so you cannot extend
your term to office once you're in
[16:29] office but in order to realign the terms
to get them to even years the people are
[16:34] elected in 2019 were given an additional
year
[16:36] that's the only way we knew how to align
it with the county
[16:42] so my understanding that the only way to
align it with an even year would be to
[16:45] extend it for a year
um at least that's the way I'm reading
[16:50] the quote
and I'm not
[16:53] expert in elections not like expert in
government but Common Sense tells me
[16:58] another way to align it with even years
would be to shorten it a year as opposed
[17:04] to extending it so I think that might
have been a potential potential solution
[17:09] available at the time that wasn't
executed
[17:13] the larger concern that I have with the
extension of the terms
[17:19] is that uh
you know West Virginia Constitution
[17:24] I believe it's uh article 6 section 37
provides that no law shall be passed
[17:31] after the election of any public office
but shall operate to extend the term of
[17:37] this office
[17:39] so I think that's that particular
section right there is probably
[17:44] my opinion my knowledge of bonds
and the the issuing of bonds and the
[17:49] security and the validity of bonds
is if there's an issue raised about the
[17:55] constitutional right of the amendment to
begin with whether it was literature
[18:00] meant to be passed or legitimate to be
put before the voters
[18:04] you know that would make it challenging
for any bond Council or anybody looking
[18:08] to assist with issue of the bond help
that Bond go through
[18:12] it's my understanding that if the Bond's
not received then the lead line project
[18:17] might not happen
which would be very detrimental I
[18:21] believe me my family and the overall
Community
[18:26] um so I would would encourage and would
hope
[18:30] that the resolutions put before Council
this evening looking to address and
[18:35] correct
the the amendment that was put in place
[18:40] um
would be passed and that would correct
[18:44] all the issues to hopefully allow Ford
for the bond to be issued and Ford
[18:49] that project to move forward I think our
projects a big assets for the city
[18:54] it's a big asset to the residents
I think it'll it'll be very helpful
[19:00] um
in the event though that it's it's not
[19:03] um
not passed
[19:07] um I would be curious to learn more
about the original Amendment
[19:12] um like I said I haven't had much time
to research it nor have I had much
[19:15] material to research on
so with that in mind would like if I can
[19:20] miss that here
um
[19:30] concerns around the bonds that may have
been already discussed
[19:35] thank you
Tim stranco our water wishes to address
[19:41] cancer concerning the bond issue and
wonderful project good evening Mr Mayor
[19:45] counselors my name is Tim stranco I'm a
member of the West Virginia bar and
[19:49] happy and proud to serve as general
counsel for the water board Clarksburg
[19:52] water board our general managers here
tonight Jason Myers and also a bond
[19:56] counselor from Steptoe and Johnson Tom
Heyman is is here tonight as well
[20:01] I won't elaborate much on the prior
speaker and we've already talked about
[20:05] this in work session but this is a 90
million dollar project that will re
[20:10] reinvigorate
of our infrastructure here in Clarksburg
[20:14] and and bring that money into in
economic activity into town so it is a
[20:20] remarkable project I served as a public
member of the infrastructure Council for
[20:25] a number of years so I've seen projects
from all over the state this is a this
[20:29] is a landmark
in the history of West Virginia
[20:32] infrastructure funding and my
compliments to Jason for putting
[20:35] together a funding package that really
is a remarkable in its generosity and
[20:40] low interest rates and grants that will
help us
[20:44] remake our water infrastructure and to
do that we need your help with the the
[20:50] charter amendments I'm happy to report
we discussed after your work session we
[20:54] discussed with Bond Council the
Amendments that Council are worth uh
[20:58] mentioned and bond Council finds those
to be appropriate
[21:02] um so we have the water board has no
objections not the bond counts also
[21:05] endorses those and there's also a a typo
I know your City attorney is aware of as
[21:10] well and I would I would like to say in
conclusion that Thank The City attorney
[21:13] for his hard work on this as a team the
water board in the city are going to go
[21:19] forward and and rebuild our water
infrastructure and we're very excited
[21:22] about that so I thank you for your time
Mr Mayor subject any questions
[21:27] thank you
city managers report an update
[21:36] city managers report February 2nd 2023.
from the manager's office I would like
[21:42] to thank all department heads for their
hard work and dedication submitting a
[21:45] conservative budget proposals Economic
Development completed its first Ura
[21:49] Workshop meeting January 31st
Economic Development would also like to
[21:54] announce the city of Clark river
Clarksburg has been awarded a U.S
[21:58] Department of Transportation Safe
Streets and grants for all roads for all
[22:02] grants in the amount of two hundred
thousand dollars this grant has a twenty
[22:06] percent or fifty thousand dollar match
and we'll address a two-way traffic
[22:10] study and bicycle pedestrian
infrastructure planning job well done to
[22:15] Brittany and her co-workers
from the police department four new
[22:19] officers started the West Virginia State
Police Academy on January 30th with a
[22:24] tentative graduation date of May
the police department responded to 1 596
[22:30] calls for service in the month of
January
[22:32] officers Jason Bartlett and Brett Levine
were promoted to the rank of Sergeant
[22:37] and Sergeant Chad Travis was promoted to
the rank of Lieutenant on February 1st
[22:43] from the city parks the National Park
Service still has our grand application
[22:47] for the pickleball courts and will
continue to process it we hope to have a
[22:51] decision within the next few weeks
the AMP step lights have been delivered
[22:56] and will be installed as weather permits
and the city parks assisted the town
[23:01] remember for with a repair of a catch
Basin at the Clarksburg City Park
[23:06] North Water Treatment Plant the
discharge monitor report was submitted
[23:10] for the month of January 2023 with no
violations to report the process treated
[23:14] approximately
350 million gallons of Wastewater
[23:18] main raw pump number one was shipped out
Wednesday February 1st for repairs
[23:23] planning for phase five of long-term
control plan is still ongoing and then
[23:27] you'll bring recently took his class one
Wastewater exam and has successfully
[23:32] passed his test congratulations Daniel
from the fire department the fire
[23:37] department responded to 249 calls for
service for the month of January
[23:41] they also assisted the West Virginia
quick response team with a Narcan
[23:44] distribution location site at Central
fire station
[23:48] congratulations to the lieutenant
Jeffrey Rogers on his retirement on
[23:51] January 15th Lieutenant Rogers committed
25 years of service to the city of
[23:56] Clarksburg
from the Robertson Grant Performing Arts
[24:00] the Robinson Grant will have five public
events for the month of February on
[24:04] February 3rd Anthony and lindsayati
concert on February 12th the Black
[24:10] Panther movie February 16th across the
river musical February 18th Michael
[24:17] palisak stand up
and on February 25th
[24:22] forever Tina concert
several private events are scheduled and
[24:27] we will be hosting a fundraising event a
school thespian Festival a family party
[24:32] and a musical performance for school
students we are currently working on
[24:36] reducing our phone and Internet fees
more information to follow
[24:41] from code enforcement Code Enforcement
issue 29 building permits for a total
[24:46] job cost of 339
503.40 or
[24:51] 40 novs one citation one three
condemnation orders 18 inspections and
[24:59] 32 Animal Control complaints
11 properties were checked to clear
[25:03] vagrance
Patrol area checks resulted in 11 entry
[25:06] letters six Vehicles tagged and six
yellow tags on Doors
[25:11] from the finance department the finance
department reports the following
[25:15] demolition payments
[25:18] 3531.89 payment agreements of 605
dollars grass and weeds
[25:26] 837.80 board UPS 417.50
vacant property registrations of one
[25:34] thousand three hundred forty two dollars
and eighty cents fire service fees of
[25:37] 391 831.87
[25:42] be no tax of one million two hundred
sixty eight thousand ninety one dollars
[25:46] and forty eight cents
13 new business license and four
[25:51] business license renewals
from Public Works Crews were passing
[25:55] streets in the neighborhoods let her
pick up along Baltimore Avenue 12th
[26:00] Street Milford Street tuna Street and
Ohio Avenue they responded with four
[26:05] notices of violation secured three
vacant structures
[26:08] responded to seven see it click it fix
it complaints
[26:12] and installed Courthouse only parking
signs handicapped and yellow paint on
[26:17] 3rd Street near the new courthouse annex
that concludes my report
[26:22] City corpse information a zoning form in
connection with the notice of
[26:26] application to operate a private plus
Private Ryan restaurant and Tavern a
[26:30] stop by world global logistic LLC of
1111 North 15th Street parksburg in
[26:36] terms of the outcome on January 26
2026. no unfinished business new
[26:42] business public hearing regarding the
2022 comprehensive plan chairman
[26:48] foreign
I will open up the public hearing for
[26:53] the comprehensive plan
uh we'll let Carolyn speak on this
[27:21] foreign
[27:59] foreign
[28:11] thank you very much for the time this
evening as part of the public hearing I
[28:16] just wanted to introduce us a few things
about this project the first being my
[28:21] name is Carolyn yagel I'm with
environmental planning and design and
[28:24] over the course of the last year been
working with
[28:28] John and all of the stakeholders
throughout this process that have
[28:33] participated and we have had quite an
opportunity to hear from hundreds of
[28:40] residents and business owners
and as part of the public hearing record
[28:45] would like to identify there have been
quite a number of points of Outreach and
[28:51] drafts that have been developed as part
of this work there have been a series of
[28:56] neighborhood workshops this was sort of
the core element from the public
[29:00] Outreach and one of the ones that sort
of kicked this off was actually back in
[29:07] December of 2021 where we started to
distribute all the information and the
[29:13] way in which people could participate we
were part of the Winter Fest activities
[29:18] and then geared up so that we could
start this series in May of 2022. we
[29:25] also then met with folks in July as part
of the second series of neighborhood
[29:31] workshops and is from taking the
information that we had in May started
[29:36] to conceptualize really what the areas
of focus of the plan
[29:41] would possibly be and where the areas of
interest from the residents and the
[29:46] business owners were and we'll get to
those very soon
[29:49] the last round of Outreach was in
September and we were part of things
[29:55] happening right here right nearby and
again being able to reach out to people
[30:02] so of all of the things that were
discussed if they could pick one and
[30:06] identify that there was a particular
Focus area or project within that Focus
[30:11] area what would it be so as we pulled
all of those ideas together uh there
[30:16] have been a series of four drafts that
have been available to the public as
[30:20] part of this fall late summer and fall
and the approach was to do four things
[30:26] one build on the character and the
assets that you have secondly we're
[30:32] trying to consider really what are the
top priorities of the many things that
[30:37] people have an idea about doing and how
can they collectively come together I
[30:41] think a few of the things earlier on the
agenda this evening are even
[30:44] highlighting how there is the focus to
come into think about different areas of
[30:50] connectivity Mobility infrastructure and
all those kinds of things the plan
[30:55] looks at certain items of those and even
more so the third component of that is
[31:02] what is realistic in terms of the set of
four goals that ultimately have come out
[31:07] of the plan and then how through the
next 10 years as this plan will be
[31:13] moving forward that actionable step set
of steps
[31:18] so from those four areas of focus there
are I would say
[31:23] four simple verbs but these verbs mean
quite a bit the first one is to reclaim
[31:30] Vitality reclaim
the second one is to embrace in the
[31:35] terms of the resources that are here
within Clarksburg
[31:39] the third is looking at nurturing
again
[31:44] bringing together people the
neighborhoods all of the physical
[31:48] improvements that you all have a
component of caring for and being part
[31:53] of those decisions day after day and
year after year and then fourthly
[31:58] thinking about how to strengthen
the abilities of all the elements of
[32:04] communication and those lines of
communication so that as you move
[32:08] forward with your actions you're able to
get the kind of feedback that you desire
[32:13] and people are able to participate in
that process as well
[32:19] so each of these four goals then
identifies within the plan a series of
[32:25] broad actions and then those actions are
further identified some of the ones that
[32:30] moved up to the top based upon all of
the feedback that we received did focus
[32:35] on looking at again that Vitality piece
both from a physical planning
[32:40] perspective and probably more along that
element of a Baseline and to support the
[32:46] physical aspect is looking at what the
policies are so actually considering
[32:51] some of a rehaul of the ordinances that
guide the scale and the character of
[32:57] development so that you can Embrace
again
[33:00] all of the assets and highlight the
things that you like to highlight
[33:05] looking into also the second action
there were things uh here that consider
[33:11] again what are your existing resources
and the ways in which those resources
[33:16] actually
are a component of Economic Development
[33:21] so well beyond just downtown you have
lots of things happening from whether
[33:26] it's a Parks and Recreation or an open
space perspective how does that network
[33:30] of natural resource serve as a large
asset to the people here and visiting
[33:37] and what does that mean in terms of
actually furthering your Economic
[33:42] Development opportunities
[33:45] thirdly in terms of considering elements
of Maintenance or mitigations and then
[33:52] also the complement to that the code
enforcement piece
[33:58] and lastly again thinking about all of
this coming together and again the words
[34:04] that is getting out and the work the
feedback that is coming in so that is
[34:09] something that moves everyone together
in a positive and forward moving step
[34:15] so with that there is one Element within
the comprehensive plan that sort of
[34:21] takes these ideas and starts to
highlight the possibilities of how and
[34:26] to what extent these actions can come
into play some of them are city-wide
[34:31] some of them have a particular Focus
there are certain areas or certain
[34:35] neighborhoods and when we were
considering each of these areas of the
[34:40] neighborhoods coming together there are
certain ones that different areas
[34:45] different neighborhoods have an interest
in highlighting
[34:49] different points of the plan so while
there is one plan for the city-wide
[34:54] there are almost subsets to this so as
you all have the opportunity to be in
[35:00] parts of the neighborhoods or those
neighborhoods coming together the kinds
[35:03] of funding that you would ultimately be
pursuing or considering in the ways in
[35:08] which they could affect different
neighborhoods and even
[35:11] you're adjoining I think areas right
Beyond you know the city boundaries
[35:18] so quite a number of Partners some of
those Partners even the United Way right
[35:22] was here this evening doing different
things sort of on that daily level and
[35:27] the ways in which a number of people can
come together the component of this
[35:32] comprehensive plan in terms of its
actions and the potential Partners is
[35:37] definitely a blend of both public and
private Partnerships and being able
[35:41] again to strengthen those kinds of
relationships and those kinds of actions
[35:46] so that you can again move forward
through the coming decade so this is a
[35:51] quick overview for the matter of the
public Hearing in terms of the things
[35:56] explored within the comprehensive plan
and I do want to ensure that there is
[36:00] other time for others to ask questions
or participate as part of this so you
[36:06] want me to I can put the mic back and
offer anyone else out an opportunity to
[36:11] speak on it or if you have other
questions I can get to that after
[36:15] Heathers have had a chance
[36:18] is there anyone in the public that would
like to speak on this uh comprehensive
[36:24] plan
with not a council of open it up
[36:30] anybody on Council have any questions
I think we we decided that we would have
[36:37] a work session for the council at a
later point where you if you could come
[36:43] back and we could go and and real depth
with this uh to update Council it's kind
[36:49] of you know we we haven't seen anything
up until this point I think we'd like to
[36:54] have a more in-depth look at it if
that's possible thank you very much
[36:58] yeah
[37:01] I do want to say I mean I was I've been
to several meetings and I want to thank
[37:05] you for you know putting all your time
in this and I think it's going to be
[37:09] good to give us a roadmap for our city
um I think a lot of things that we are
[37:12] already kind of doing but now I think it
it will show get more evidence for the
[37:17] community to support some third certain
things that we already have and uh
[37:21] so I mean I look forward to trying to
fulfill this and and following it and uh
[37:25] I expect good things to come out of it
so thank you for all your time thank you
[37:30] and I do know from the participation
that just need to be on your account so
[37:34] you're going to be working with many
people many important portions of the
[37:38] city the offices and the other
committees in order to be able to get
[37:43] any leg
thank you
[37:48] thank you thank you
[37:56] we'll close the public hearing at this
time
[38:02] consideration a first reading of an
ordinance of the city of Clarksburg
[38:06] amending sections 5 25 and 38 of the
city Charter
[38:10] to that one the query I guess more for
the City attorney Mr Marshall I'm
[38:15] guessing any type of amendment we do put
forward here
[38:17] for discussion with Item B or is it
going to be for
[38:21] [Music]
on the first one okay I appreciate it
[38:25] thank you I I didn't see indeed
would be unchanged
[38:31] I appreciate it thank you so moved
so that's a discussion
[38:38] yeah we want to skip the discussion will
absolutely it's been moved in second uh
[38:44] we'll have discussion and I'll start
down on this end James
[38:48] will uh you know
this has been ongoing for several weeks
[38:53] months uh and uh you know sitting up
here sometimes uh mistakes are made
[39:00] mistakes have been made in the past
they'll be I'm sure they'll be made in
[39:03] the future and sometimes the people up
here have to accept that and and fix
[39:07] them and that's what we're here to do
uh I don't I don't particularly like it
[39:12] but uh you know there was obviously some
glaring omissions from the original
[39:15] charter limit failed to include the
water board and uh here we are here's
[39:20] here's what we need to fix it so uh I'll
let other people discuss what they want
[39:24] to discuss but I'm offering I'm going to
offer an amendment at least to uh fix
[39:28] the one type
so okay Jared
[39:33] uh yeah I don't have much to say either
but I
[39:36] um appreciate everybody's time and
putting this together our City attorney
[39:39] uh water board City attorney
um Mr Raymond and Secretary of State
[39:43] given their opinion I respect all their
opinions I don't follow their lead and
[39:47] um
that's all I have
[39:49] Wayne just on a procedural move I'm
going to make a motion that we amend um
[39:55] section 5A to where reads uh four
members or the four members elected in
[40:01] the 20 or June 2021 election will serve
a term of four years the city Shield
[40:07] hold an election in June of 2025 for
those four membership positions those
[40:13] four membership positions shall be on
the ballot at such election pursuit to
[40:18] the procedures set forth in this Charter
such members elected in June of 2025
[40:24] will serve for a one-year term
at that time the four membership
[40:29] positions will be reduced to three and
only three members will be elected in
[40:35] the May 2026 in subsequent elections
such a members elected in May 2026 or
[40:43] subsequent elections will serve a term
of four years
[40:48] and that's that's a motion
further discussion on we need a second
[40:54] if there's going to be further
discussion
[40:57] okay discussion on the amendment
um I'd like to add uh if that's the
[41:01] route
uh we want to take I'd just like to
[41:04] remind this body that and the people who
are here that uh that'll Force us to
[41:09] have four elections in a row two will be
head bought held by the city and two
[41:13] will be held by the county uh you know I
personally feel that that's a little
[41:18] much uh I feel that the the original uh
ordinance proposed
[41:25] meets the requirements of the bond
Council and again
[41:30] you're going to have four elections in a
row two immigrants are one-year terms
[41:33] that'll be held by the city and two of
them will be held by the county and you
[41:37] know I'm looking at that you know from
what Annette tells me the cost of the
[41:41] municipal election here is twenty
thousand dollars a piece so here we're
[41:45] going to add forty thousand dollars uh
to the elections we you know don't
[41:49] really need to have uh personally I feel
that the ordinance meets the
[41:53] requirements from the bond Council and
you know I again I know we've discussed
[41:57] it Ad nauseam at this point but
you know
[42:02] we need to do what's right and uh and
we're here to fix it and I believe that
[42:06] since it meets the requirements the
black Council we need to move on and if
[42:10] if the Secretary of State or the
Attorney General says no the 2021
[42:13] candidates can't do it either I'm
willing to sit down and rehash it again
[42:16] and then that and that way we could have
a three-year term like Mr Lane has
[42:21] mentioned and what the water board will
be doing
[42:23] uh you know in their election to have a
three-year term to meet it up with the
[42:27] even years I think there's better ways
to go about it than to you know shovel
[42:31] money into a furnace uh for having these
one-year terms you know I don't like the
[42:36] one-year terms I don't but if that's
what we need to do to meet the
[42:38] requirements of long Council I'm okay
with it they've put forward an idea that
[42:42] we'll have one year term this you know
as bad as it sounds to have a one-year
[42:45] term this time around and then and you
know and the 2021 members will get that
[42:49] five-year term which I'm not going to
sit here and argue about but you know
[42:52] going this route is going to be
confusion it's going to be costly and I
[42:56] just don't think it's the right
direction for the city thanks thank you
[42:59] um yeah I had a discussion
um
[43:03] the reason for this amendment is because
the you know the original language
[43:07] in this uh in this measure is for the
the four members in the June elected
[43:13] June of 2021 to serve a term of five
years
[43:17] um
I just feel and you know based upon
[43:21] discussions that you know we had even in
the um in the work session prior to
[43:27] um
this amendment right here will not only
[43:31] satisfies the bond Council but also will
satisfy you know um the Secretary of
[43:37] States you know would also be proper you
know for the secretary of state
[43:42] Secretary of State's office my thing is
I rather just you know um
[43:48] satisfy the bond Council so we could
move on with this water project and
[43:52] satisfy you know what is proper within
the Secretary of State now we could
[43:56] either do this tonight you know or we
could do this later on
[44:00] you know but I've you know I've you know
I um I feel like we should we should do
[44:06] this tonight just you know clean all
this up and and and move on so
[44:12] thank you thank you uh Gary
I mean I don't really have much uh
[44:19] I was pretty strongly against this I'd
actually hired an attorney and was ready
[44:23] to stop this if we did it I don't think
I still don't really think we're doing
[44:28] it the right way
um I think what we're creating is a
[44:31] special election
um I don't think it would have had
[44:34] two-thirds vote
[Music]
[44:37] but uh we get into this thing with the
water board and I hate that the water
[44:42] board got involved like this and I think
this bond is just too big for us to have
[44:46] a petty argument over I mean uh
Richard wrote These amendments and I
[44:51] trust Richard and I think what we did
was correct and
[44:55] I feel kind of bad that we're about to
go against what the voters voted for
[45:00] but looking at it
trying to go up and look at it from 32
[45:05] 000 feet here and look at 96 million
dollars
[45:09] it's just not worth the fight I don't
think so I will support this and I I do
[45:13] agree with Wayne if we're going to fix
it we just need to go ahead and fix it
[45:16] all because you know maybe that this
pleases the bond Council right now but
[45:21] we've had other discussions about other
bodies not being pleased with this
[45:24] possibly or laws not being able to pass
or people being able to sue us over
[45:29] things we change I mean it's just it's
it's not worth the hassle uh I think
[45:34] what we came in and changed these
Charter amendments we had very good
[45:37] intentions
um
[45:40] and we're still going to achieve those
things it's just maybe we uh approached
[45:45] it a little too
Brazen not thinking about the Water
[45:48] Board election was not very smart I'm
not sure how we missed that uh but
[45:53] anyway that's really all I have to say
thank you
[45:57] vice mayor
well I think it's kind of ironic that we
[46:01] say that we trust
our city attorney's judgment on this
[46:06] and he's the one that wrote
the charter change
[46:11] correct you're the one that drafted the
change correct in association with the
[46:20] so we were advised by our legal counsel
[46:27] correct just like the waterford's being
advised by their legal council this
[46:31] Council was advised
by you
[46:35] on that change Richards also said that
that was not that was not my decision
[46:40] that was not my decision that was not my
um proposal I did not write that Charter
[46:47] change you also said you would defend
that correct
[46:50] that it was something that you feel is
in good standing and that you would
[46:54] defend it now here's the thing
I don't have a problem correcting it
[46:58] that's fine
not a problem we can do that
[47:03] do what we need to I mean I'll vote
against it but we we can do that because
[47:07] I went off of what you advised me as
advising counselor
[47:12] not my own decision
and then 70 percent of the voters said
[47:17] what's going on here needs change
the stuff that's occurring with the
[47:24] election
is hogwash
[47:27] and it needs changed
they they disagreed with I mean we had
[47:33] total chaos with our elections
people want on drawing footballs
[47:39] that's a problem
and the people in our city had an issue
[47:43] with that
so they went out and voted
[47:47] for the charter change because they
believed in it
[47:51] 70 percent voted for that
and if I wanted to benefit myself
[47:59] I wouldn't have
referendum recall where we can
[48:07] if we do something egregious on this
Council like
[48:11] you know
appoint people to jobs they don't earn
[48:15] or they're not qualified for
you know make rooms in the back
[48:20] for
[48:24] a specially created position like Deputy
OEM
[48:30] at the county
then the people within our city can say
[48:34] what you're doing isn't correct
and I will
[48:39] with
10 percent
[48:42] signature of the voters the registered
voters in this city
[48:47] I will come in and do something about it
because the people that have sat in
[48:52] these seats have done some really dirty
things and nobody's patrolling it
[48:58] and that was why I was for the charter
change
[49:02] and also I
[49:06] my time that I
that I've sat and he sees for 20 some
[49:10] years
[49:14] so that was why I was for the charter
change not for my own personal
[49:19] gain
so just so we're clear on that and that
[49:23] you advised me as counsel and I took
that as word because that's what we're
[49:30] doing tonight
we're taking council's word that this is
[49:34] what we should be doing
[49:38] I mean we have to make it right
even though you know
[49:43] we split hairs on what's right and wrong
up here
[49:47] we split hairs on that
but hopefully the people in this city
[49:51] will stay woke
they'll stay awoke
[49:57] to what some of the council members here
want to do
[50:01] that's all I have to say
well I usually don't have much to say
[50:07] but I have I have a lot to say about
this issue
[50:11] um first of all
why this came about wasn't to extend
[50:16] council's terms because getting in
another year is not my plan not my goal
[50:22] that's the way it came up with our City
attorney drafted it up that's how it
[50:28] came out it just you had to do something
and
[50:32] uh Chris said maybe we should have taken
one year less that might even been a
[50:36] better one I I don't know we're going on
the advice of this journey so he he
[50:41] drafted it up and and that's that's what
we went with
[50:45] and the reason why is that when I ran in
2019
[50:52] you talk about a debacle of election
there was a 38 vote uh vote difference
[50:59] between the number three guy and the
number six or seven guy was 38 votes
[51:05] down
I asked the uh the clerk at that time uh
[51:09] can he make up a 38 but I I don't think
so so we went to the uh canvassing in
[51:16] the canvassing they found 30 votes 30
votes
[51:21] so this puts this guy that was six that
puts him into uh fourth place so we have
[51:27] a recount again I went to the clerk
eight votes only 1700 people voted out
[51:34] of ten thousand we only had a 17 percent
turnout not many you shouldn't have that
[51:40] kind of mistakes but you know what it
ended up you had to pick a football out
[51:46] of a uh basket to to win
thinking the voters came to me and said
[51:52] what in the world is going on out there
not to mention that we got paper ballots
[51:58] that are animated back in the 50s we
still do the paper ballots people you
[52:04] vote for three they vote for four or
five they Mark out and I we have to have
[52:09] an old person like me determine who did
they really want to vote for
[52:14] ridiculous you get electronic ballot and
you can only vote for three I'm not
[52:20] saying that thing's perfect I'm sure
there's mistakes there but it's not a
[52:24] debacle like we're doing at City Hall
and the people said we don't want that
[52:29] as Lily said 70 percent of people came
out and said we don't want that in City
[52:35] Hall anymore but yet the charter the
charter is our Constitution of the
[52:41] United States the city Charter is our
constitution
[52:45] we are going to let
four people on this Council change what
[52:51] the voters the 1700 or how many came the
last time we're going to change by these
[52:58] four votes on this Council and I I want
the people to to watch as closely we're
[53:03] going to change what the voters in
Clarksburg I don't care about the bond
[53:07] count the secretaries this all started
with a letter from the Secretary of
[53:11] State it was an opinion an opinion not
fact if it's wrong change it take us to
[53:19] court and change it tell us what we need
to do not let us decide we can do X Y
[53:24] and Z some people yeah the 201
should have their five years with no
[53:30] maybe they shouldn't we're picking and
choosing what we want now if you want to
[53:34] pick what the secretary of state says
they said do one and one but no that
[53:39] would put me to have to run another year
so I don't want to do that but it's okay
[53:43] for the the 2019 people to do it but I'm
not going to do it it's just it's kind
[53:50] of we're starting we're going to change
the charter by vote up here
[53:55] what's next the charts put in in the 50s
it's our law I don't it's what we go by
[54:01] it's it's what we have to go by that's
what the people said back in the 50s
[54:06] when they drafted this Charter we've
tried to update it make changes but when
[54:10] we try to update it we did it the right
way we put it out to the people to vote
[54:15] on not this group I don't want this
group to sign what the charter is going
[54:19] to say but apparently you guys want to
decide what the what the people wanted
[54:23] to vote for I'm not going to decide what
they want they spoke loud and clear on
[54:27] what they wanted
but I guess if if that's what uh
[54:32] you guys want to do I want the people to
see that we're they you're here
[54:37] representing the 10 000 people even if
they didn't vote you're here
[54:42] representing the 10 000 people but it
don't seem like you want to hear what
[54:45] they had to say because they voted on it
if it's wrong waterboard says it's wrong
[54:50] draft a suit
make us do the right thing I'm I'm in
[54:55] favor of that
our attorney says he did the right thing
[54:58] we did the right thing we drafted I want
to listen to my attorneys if I wouldn't
[55:03] want to listen to the water board's
attorney I'll run for the water board
[55:06] the next time I ran for this city
council that's who I want to listen to
[55:10] every attorney they got their own
opinion you know what they're like never
[55:15] mind but anyway uh you know the voters
spoke the city hall I don't want to run
[55:20] this next time and I'm not believe me
I'll run I'll I'll get my votes I'll go
[55:26] out there and work like I did the last
time I'm not scared to do that but
[55:29] should I have to
I'll do it I'll sign up for it give me
[55:34] the sign if she but should I have to the
voter said they don't want these
[55:38] elections held in City Hall and I don't
want them held in City Hall it's it's
[55:42] proven that it's not it's not run right
it's not accurate and it's it's a fact
[55:49] all you had to do is come and watch the
recount that Gary was involved in
[55:53] totaled the bottle total the bottle if
we had electronic ballots we wouldn't
[55:58] have been here for hours and days doing
this stuff the ballot boxes are in the
[56:04] back they say how did how did that
change like that how did how did they
[56:08] get all those different balances we're
in Canada
[56:11] your big guest is good as mine I don't
have confidence in it I know I don't and
[56:17] they didn't have and I'm I'm listening
to the voters I'm not listening to
[56:21] myself I'm listening to what the voter
said I got a base out there I'll get my
[56:25] votes I'm not concerned about running
when it's right when it's done not an
[56:30] opinion letter not not the water board
saying they want it I want the voters to
[56:35] tell me not you guys but that's what you
want to do and that's that's what we'll
[56:40] do I I still think this is a special
election it takes two-third votes but
[56:46] they know that might that won't get it
so it's going to be uh it's got to be
[56:51] four to three and and they they can get
it at that so we'll have them we'll have
[56:57] a special election I I still want that
looked into we weren't scheduled for
[57:01] election what do you call election
that's not scheduled is that not a
[57:05] special election
but I'll let the attorney that again
[57:09] that's what we're paying him to
determine not me
[57:13] but this is totally I want the citizens
to be aware of what's going on here it's
[57:18] they kind of want at least two of us
maybe three of us off here uh but that's
[57:24] not gonna work that'll only make that
only makes my resolving even more like I
[57:28] ran the first time I'll run this time
and I'll get on this discount so they're
[57:33] not going to get me off by saying you
know well you got to run again I'm good
[57:38] with it I got a lot I got those people
out there that I listen to apparently
[57:43] this Council doesn't listen or all of us
don't listen to it but I listen to what
[57:47] those voters want that's where I'm at
but again we'll go on Wayne made that I
[57:54] got one point to make uh
foreign
[57:59] ERS will still get what they want if you
pushed down the road but I know one
[58:02] thing for sure the voters will
definitely want will not will not want
[58:05] lead water pipes so we will listen to
the voters and we will help them out by
[58:09] making sure we do not get in that way so
we're gonna the voters would be I'm
[58:13] guarantee if they voted again they would
be uh worrying about water and leading
[58:19] their water pipes
maybe you know maybe you don't think so
[58:22] I think that's a simple but they also
will get what they want because I agree
[58:26] that vicarbutter turnout is good for our
city they will they will get that
[58:30] whereas cleaning up getting it right and
we're not getting the way of these huge
[58:33] infrastructure project maybe the biggest
in the state's history
[58:37] we're not getting away with that because
of our egos I'm not and that's why I'm
[58:41] well it's a simple thing Jerry if it's
very simple the bond count I want to
[58:48] listen to the voters I don't want to
listen to what people are saying an
[58:51] opinion letter and so forth it's a
simple thing they go across the street
[58:55] they file they file said if I'm told to
do it the voters I'll I'll explain that
[59:01] to the voters I can't explain us making
that determination based on an opinion
[59:07] letter I can't do that there's a there's
a process it's called a legal process
[59:11] and it could be done immediately I'm
sure they got the letter drafted up uh
[59:16] ready to go across the street they've
talked about this they know possibility
[59:20] that's not going to pass they got a
letter drafted to go across the street
[59:24] tomorrow we could uh address it with the
courts and I don't have any problem with
[59:28] I'm going by what our attorney says he
said I drafted a good plan for us I
[59:32] drafted good Charter amendments and I'm
gonna go against why are we paying him
[59:36] why is he giving us opinions why why are
we doing that that's all I want to know
[59:41] I want the people to know we're paying
for these opinions and you're going to
[59:45] go against his opinion he said I I'm
comfortable with what we do man we could
[59:49] absolutely fight it and I believe we
could win but we're talking about 96
[59:52] million dollars
they well again you have another source
[59:57] of that money if we screw this up I
don't think we're going to if if we're
[1:00:01] wrong they're going to go through a
street and beat us they're going to go
[1:00:04] and let's do it but I'm going to end
this conversation let's let's move on
[1:00:08] you we had an amendment by Miss America
like to call the question on the
[1:00:12] amendment and SEC of section 5A that I
made
[1:00:16] okay we got an amendment we did we got
uh I think we had a motion in the second
[1:00:22] vote vote in a second okay all in favor
[1:00:28] oh no I'm sorry no I'm gonna change that
you guys got me all flustered up here
[1:00:38] what is it
[1:00:42] emotion okay a motion to mend Amendment
what uh Wayne had proposed right section
[1:00:47] 25 you need
subsection a change June of 20046 to May
[1:00:54] of 2000. that was I was going off for
that Amendment Wayne offered an
[1:00:59] amendment to Section Five Section Five
that would include one-year terms for
[1:01:03] 2019 and 2021 members right but I think
if you're voting on Wayne's Amendment at
[1:01:08] this time I guess you would be in the
U.S that give me the second round that's
[1:01:12] how I couldn't do it
[1:01:16] so where we at
[1:01:28] vote for that no it's been moved in
second yeah
[1:01:34] no okay no go ahead everybody yeah
[1:01:43] Jerry Keith yes Jim Alpha Joe nope
Jerry riffle yes
[1:01:50] Wayne work yes
vice mayor Jenkins no mayor no
[1:01:56] what is it four to three four knows
three guesses
[1:02:01] okay so it fails uh the amendment fails
Amendment fails I'd like to offer
[1:02:06] another a motion that uh we move to
amend
[1:02:10] oh give me a second here I'm sorry
section 25 letter A where it says such
[1:02:16] membership position shall be on ballot
for election June 2026
[1:02:20] such member elect in June of 2026 or
subsequent elections will be returned to
[1:02:24] four years uh strike June and hit sir
may for June
[1:02:30] make the election fall on May the May
primary as was intended in the charter
[1:02:34] amendments that's the only type of that
I saw with the
[1:02:37] uh the the
aspect of the mayor aspect that I
[1:02:40] believe that I believe that was squash
conference so my amendment is to insert
[1:02:45] May over top of June in letter A in
section 25.
[1:02:49] so it will still be just uh you'll have
a five year for the 2020 ones yes
[1:02:55] okay that's what you just voted for
that's what I'm saying I think we have
[1:02:59] confusion there I almost feel like we
need to redo that vote that's not oh
[1:03:02] yeah
motion was to have one of your terms for
[1:03:05] 20 20 21. I believe
[1:03:13] original motion but Mr Heitman uh made a
made a motion to amend section 25A to
[1:03:21] clean up the language from May 26 May
2026 and June
[1:03:26] or I'm sorry June 20 26 to May 25th I'm
not for the
[1:03:30] five years five-year term so
[1:03:34] okay
[1:03:38] voted for the amendment we did not vote
for
[1:03:48] and added
an extra election yes right and that's
[1:03:54] what and I voted against that yeah to
know the fact oh my gosh go back to the
[1:04:00] original and Mr Hyman yeah
[1:04:04] let's keep going the the motion that
I've made is to strike tune and insert
[1:04:10] May on the type of on the typo that's
what I have motion and I seconded that
[1:04:14] there we go yeah
this is just for the typo
[1:04:18] section 25A up for it yes all in favor
all right all right those opposed the
[1:04:27] eyes have that
come on now let's go let's go back to
[1:04:30] the original motion on the floor
I'm not the chairman yeah I've had the
[1:04:35] original motion from uh will
I'm gonna it's been moving second it's
[1:04:39] about for a boat
then moved inside
[1:04:45] all right all in favor all right those
opposed no
[1:04:54] somebody say no yeah
Gary Keith
[1:04:59] hi Jerry riffle aye Wayne worth aye vice
mayor Jenkins no no
[1:05:14] consideration of first three in an
ordinance regarding Charter amendments
[1:05:18] and elections
so moved second moved in second uh
[1:05:23] discussion we've had enough discussion I
guess but discussion
[1:05:29] they're being uh
we had a motion in a second all in favor
[1:05:35] all right those posts no no well
[1:05:45] can work yes
[1:05:51] consideration of a resolution
authorizing the city clerk of the city
[1:05:54] of Clarksburg to undertake all necessary
to appropriate actions in preparation
[1:05:58] for a city election to be held on June 6
2023 with respect to the proposed
[1:06:03] amendments to the Charter of the city of
Clarksburg the election of three seats
[1:06:06] on City Council of the city of
Clarksburg for terms of one year the
[1:06:10] election of one seat on the Clarksburg
water board for a term of three years
[1:06:13] and this Diary of terms of office of the
members of the Clarksburg water board as
[1:06:17] may be appropriate in order to align
such terms to a coincide with the same
[1:06:21] date as the regularly scheduled
Statewide primary election and other
[1:06:25] matters related there too so moved
second been moved in second discussion
[1:06:30] again I want to stress that I I don't
want that election held in City Hall if
[1:06:35] there's any way that it could be moved
to the county uh with having electronic
[1:06:41] ballots instead of these paper ballots
uh I I definitely want that looked into
[1:06:47] by our City attorney if that's at all
possible
[1:06:51] okay it's been moved in second on
favorite some discussion just real quick
[1:06:55] just reiterate what I said earlier what
we're doing here is going to keep
[1:06:59] everything on schedule we're going to
insert a one-year term for the next
[1:07:02] election which you know I don't really I
don't like I don't like it I I really
[1:07:06] don't but to satisfy the bond Council
and I believe it satisfies the
[1:07:10] requirements of Secretary of State we
have to move on I'm sorry but uh does
[1:07:13] that satisfy the citizens who voters it
ends to the the same uh resolution that
[1:07:21] the citizens voted on yes okay okay uh
the moves any more discussion back one
[1:07:27] year
okay all in favor all right all right
[1:07:31] those opposed
[1:07:37] no no well Hyman all right
Gary Keith
[1:07:45] aye Jerry riffle aye Wayne
aye vice mayor Johnson no mayor no
[1:07:52] question
consideration of a resolution to adopt
[1:07:56] the 2022 comprehensive plan Mr Mayor I
move we tabled this
[1:08:01] and uh Revisited an org schedule and
move it maybe hopefully to the next
[1:08:04] agenda or maybe into
uh March 2nd been moved in second all in
[1:08:10] favor
aye
[1:08:13] awesome
consideration of the payment of the sum
[1:08:16] of 20
362 dollars to Gene papa for the
[1:08:21] sidewalk replacement on 6th Street so
moved second then moved in second on
[1:08:25] discussion
uh you know I mentioned back in the back
[1:08:29] but uh I propose uh and Mr crop is here
so I guess I'll address you our proposal
[1:08:36] Council that we sit back down and draft
a document that all parties would agree
[1:08:40] on and I know obviously you've agreed on
it already uh our former city manager is
[1:08:46] no longer here
uh so you know I was hoping maybe we
[1:08:50] could sit down again draft a document so
you know we're going to pay for the
[1:08:54] sidewalk and you would agree to it and
we would agree to it and we can make
[1:08:58] this happen uh that did that didn't
happen though unfortunately and uh I
[1:09:03] just I can't I can't vote for it sorry
um is there some way we could make a
[1:09:07] table it revisit it with a document I
know that wasn't really discussing
[1:09:10] either but uh
until then I can't support it I'm sorry
[1:09:14] any more discussion um I I see I
understand your point well I see this as
[1:09:19] an agreement by putting it on here and
we're this is our agreement
[1:09:25] it's public and this is our this is the
way we agreed to it uh it's just the
[1:09:29] same I think the same end do what you're
saying but I think it's just getting it
[1:09:33] done now and
I don't know this is how I see it well
[1:09:36] when we look back in the records whether
it's 5 10 50 a 100 years
[1:09:40] if we make it that long uh
there's there's going to be this Astrid
[1:09:46] in our documents
for a sidewalk replacement on 6th Street
[1:09:50] for Mr Papa that has real no verbiage or
resolution wise or anything that you
[1:09:55] know says basically we cut a check to Mr
Coffee you know again I believe what
[1:09:59] he's doing over there is great you know
I don't have a problem with that I just
[1:10:03] would rather have it for posterity sake
a document that says all parties agreed
[1:10:07] on not a handshake in a back room with
the former city manager sorry yeah no I
[1:10:11] definitely disagree how it came to a
bead but after it was disgusting we got
[1:10:16] paperwork and we got numbers and you
know once once we were finally notified
[1:10:20] counseled
um
[1:10:22] then it came to an agreement at that
point and I think it's where we're at
[1:10:25] now
why not just dropped up a document
[1:10:29] and have it signed so it's a matter of
record
[1:10:32] so that's what I proposed but uh it's
okay that's okay I had a question it's
[1:10:38] just you know for legal counsel on this
measure um
[1:10:42] is is a consideration of payment it is
that is that proper or does that have to
[1:10:48] be done through a resolution
[1:10:56] Mr Brown's
okay I mean I I do agree with with
[1:11:02] councilman that you probably want the
resolution or you want something to
[1:11:07] immortalize that
um in that situation I think you can do
[1:11:12] it by resolution upwards
okay you can do a resolution to approve
[1:11:18] to see manager and everything agreement
type of thing
[1:11:24] would that would that be what would
satisfy I mean I think it was twice as
[1:11:29] long as Mr Papa would agree to sit down
and sign it I mean that's I mean I think
[1:11:32] that's that's what I'm looking for I'm
sorry you know trying to not White
[1:11:35] Knight it here and everything but yeah
yes Mr Papa
[1:11:40] yeah and I think the mistakes were made
on REM not his we just need I certainly
[1:11:45] agree there I don't I don't disagree
um I certainly don't have a problem in
[1:11:51] waiting and signing an agreement
um I certainly know what happened in the
[1:11:55] room uh you know we have other people
that was in the room so as long as
[1:11:58] they're just in line with with what was
said and what was promised by I think I
[1:12:03] think we can make that work city manager
I have no problem waiting and signing
[1:12:06] off on a document would that be
appropriate if if everybody on here
[1:12:11] agrees we do a resolution that goes on
to our next agenda and that and have
[1:12:18] that taken care of
but then I motion to table this until we
[1:12:22] can there's one mess on the table
our second to motion the table just to
[1:12:27] get the resolution I mean Mr Papa to be
reimbursed yeah I just want to do it
[1:12:32] right the right way if if that's no I
mean I've always always wanted to make
[1:12:38] sure it's all yeah I'm in the right way
I mean again a large project I've done
[1:12:43] in the city of Clarksburg I certainly
don't want to
[1:12:46] you know have uh any animosity heart
feelings on either side I've never
[1:12:51] happening so if that's what you guys
feel that we need to do is have the
[1:12:54] document and have it signed up
absolutely I can I can certainly wait
[1:12:57] for that well that sounds good motion is
second all in favor
[1:13:01] those opposed
thank you
[1:13:06] consideration of two appointments to the
Clarksburg visitors bureau uh Mr Mayor I
[1:13:10] move that we point to two members of the
park visitors bureau one Miss Kim
[1:13:14] Drummond and one miss
[1:13:17] one Mr second moved in second all in
favor
[1:13:21] aye those opposed
I said
[1:13:26] Council Commons
uh start down there with councilman oh
[1:13:32] thanks man you're first this time
um see something say something folks
[1:13:38] pick up the phone dial 9-1-1 uh please
check on your elderly neighbors
[1:13:42] especially after tomorrow evening
because it's getting down to nine
[1:13:45] degrees and you know open your kitchen
cabinets and let your sink get air
[1:13:50] and everybody have a nice weekend thanks
for coming great
[1:13:55] councilman riffle I just remind
everybody tomorrow we have First Fridays
[1:13:59] uh the theme this month is loving
chocolate
[1:14:03] a lot of great things
um and it's gonna be cold out there
[1:14:06] we're gonna have the Senior Citizen
Center is going to actually provide a
[1:14:10] bus it's going to go around the city
dropping people off different locations
[1:14:13] we've got the gore building we have uh
Harris County Senior Citizen Center
[1:14:17] there's a sweet tart Dance for kids 12
and under it's actually the kid's a DJ
[1:14:22] djp Hoss he's gonna be like 11 he's 11
years old he's gonna be DJing so we're
[1:14:27] continuing to be unique and change
things up and just um continue to bring
[1:14:31] entertainment and spread it through
downtown I want to thank everybody on
[1:14:34] the committee First Fridays to
continuing this I think Public Works and
[1:14:38] all the city that helped make this
happen I'm looking forward to it and
[1:14:42] tomorrow night we have um you know at
the Robinson Grand Anthony nunziato uh
[1:14:47] is going to I think I might have said
his name wrong but
[1:14:50] he's a great talent but really the thing
is that we're gonna have some local
[1:14:53] talents Benjamin DeFazio and Marissa
Bailey are going to be there opening up
[1:14:57] for them so it's always great for our
local talent to be on that stage that
[1:15:02] building was is for our community I mean
it's great it's great to give our people
[1:15:08] an opportunity to get up there and and
show their talents and those two are
[1:15:13] amazing and not to forget Amici which is
everybody's local favorite band um so
[1:15:18] anytime you get them a state you get the
people in the park where you decide if
[1:15:21] you get them all out there and and uh
our community comes together
[1:15:26] so that's and you know that's a segue
until I'm glad that we're getting these
[1:15:30] things done um
and uh I'm glad we work work with the
[1:15:34] water board and get this project
happening and uh
[1:15:37] you know just
just want to come together everybody
[1:15:40] that's how we're going to move forward
everybody's got to come together and do
[1:15:42] this and I think that's what we're doing
and um excited to get back to work on
[1:15:47] real things the city needs rather than
just you know cleaning up things and
[1:15:51] just you know I really want to get back
to work uh
[1:15:54] men as chief police has noticed I've
been in his office about five times this
[1:15:58] week about other things and just uh you
know I'll slow down a little bit but you
[1:16:03] know ready to get back to work and I
hope the rest of the council is too
[1:16:06] we gotta give up get a lot of things
done and um as soon as they're counting
[1:16:10] on us to do that so
that's that's all I got have a good
[1:16:13] weekend
councilman work
[1:16:16] yeah I just wanna I appreciate everyone
coming out and um we definitely had a um
[1:16:23] very full agenda and you know very
spirited debate
[1:16:27] and um and I guess that's you know
that's that's part of the process part
[1:16:32] of the government process
um
[1:16:34] and you know when it comes to relations
to you know the the charter amendments
[1:16:40] and you know especially section five
which seems to be the you know the big
[1:16:45] thing uh
you know I you know I posed an amendment
[1:16:48] because you know I've felt that
you know constitutionally you know
[1:16:54] through the Secretary of State it was
just proper to uh you know to not extend
[1:16:59] my term you know another year
um now that failed and that's okay
[1:17:05] that's that's part of the process and um
in down the road we may have to clean
[1:17:10] that up but um but I you know I um
you know I do like the fact that we're
[1:17:17] taking the right steps you know to the
first step to start cleaning some of
[1:17:22] that up and um and I do like the fact
that you know we're taking the right
[1:17:27] steps now to make sure this water
project you know
[1:17:31] um you know
happens because that's really amazing
[1:17:35] you know that's that's really important
you know 98 million dollars
[1:17:39] um you know to fix our lead water lines
is extremely important and um we just
[1:17:45] want to make sure that you know um that
what we do you know um you know in our
[1:17:51] terms up here
you know when it comes to elections um
[1:17:55] are legitimate so these projects can
happen
[1:17:58] and um
and that's you know that's just that
[1:18:03] um
have a happy first Friday and um
[1:18:06] we'll see you see the next going around
Council okay
[1:18:13] I don't think there's anything else to
be said by me for the election thing
[1:18:18] but I'm pretty angry right this second I
was planning on coming here and being
[1:18:21] professional and not saying too much we
have a lot of stuff going on behind the
[1:18:25] scenes here uh a lot of things I'm angry
about advice mayor kind of already took
[1:18:29] a pot shot at me for no reason so it's
kind of on
[1:18:34] um
you know I did something I feel like was
[1:18:37] very above the board in my personal life
nothing to do with the city a while back
[1:18:41] and
now that they're mad at me they try to
[1:18:45] turn that around and retell the story
not how it happened now if anybody's
[1:18:49] interested in hearing that story I'd be
glad to tell it to you I already put it
[1:18:52] in writing put it out on the internet
and send it to the ethics board but you
[1:18:58] know it still likes to try to be turned
around uh and unfortunately with the
[1:19:02] order of council comments here I don't
get to uh speak last so instead I'm just
[1:19:07] going to say that and now I'm going to
get up and walk out of here and I'm not
[1:19:10] going to pay these fools the respect of
sitting there listening to them and next
[1:19:14] week I'm going to introduce a resolution
to remove the mayor because I along with
[1:19:19] the rest of these guys I'm pretty sure
are pretty much tired of the way we're
[1:19:23] being treated here
yeah that's it a resolution thank you
[1:19:28] very much
thank you for your comments good luck
[1:19:32] with that uh who's next down here well I
already spoke you spoke councilman Hyman
[1:19:39] uh I'd like to uh first congratulate
John and Brittany for uh their hard work
[1:19:43] securing those grants
uh for the safe streets and Roads
[1:19:46] looking forward to seeing that at the
job uh
[1:19:50] got to attend the uh swearing-in
ceremonies of our newest firefighter and
[1:19:54] the promotions of our police officers
uh to Lieutenant then we have to do two
[1:19:59] sergeants that was great you know it was
it was really packed in here as most
[1:20:02] people I've never seen in here it was it
was a great playoff maybe maybe not
[1:20:05] tonight but uh yeah it was uh it was a
great experience great to see these guys
[1:20:09] uh get promoted and and keep Clarksburg
safe
[1:20:13] uh I don't remember hearing about uh
Lieutenant Jeff Rogers retirement so
[1:20:17] congratulations
25 years of service with the fire
[1:20:20] department
uh that's that's great news
[1:20:22] congratulations to him
uh looking forward to first Friday and
[1:20:25] the dance at the senior center I know
that sounds kind of hooky but I'll be
[1:20:29] there with the kid uh dancing the night
away uh you know going back to what I
[1:20:35] said earlier about the charter
amendments and and the uh
[1:20:43] again I'm going to be the first to say
it or second to six I already did say
[1:20:47] you know we sometimes mistakes are made
and uh regardless of who sits up here we
[1:20:53] have to fix them and it made
maybe uh quick and painless or maybe
[1:20:59] ugly and you know
and uh painful but uh you know I think
[1:21:04] we did the right thing
uh
[1:21:07] if the company becomes an issue
regarding Mr Ward's comments if it
[1:21:12] becomes an issue I'm happy to revisit it
and move with three-year terms like the
[1:21:16] water board did I don't see why that's
uh and Mr Lane suggested I don't see why
[1:21:20] that's
uh can't work for us if it comes down to
[1:21:24] it
but uh you know again I think it's you
[1:21:28] know so learning Learning lesson that we
you know we just had to experience the
[1:21:31] hard way
but uh I'm glad we I'm glad we can move
[1:21:35] on hopefully move on
uh that being said have a great weekend
[1:21:40] stay warm
we'll see you next next week I guess
[1:21:44] budget talks yeah we got budget talks
councilman uh vice mayor oh there are a
[1:21:50] lot of things going on behind the scenes
[1:21:55] um you know it's funny it's kind of
ironic
[1:21:58] that um
we get real mad but we get called out on
[1:22:03] things we do we shouldn't do
and um
[1:22:07] I I'm here for the people of Clarksburg
that's why I'm here I'm not here for me
[1:22:12] my own personal gain and you know
when things occurred that are corrupt
[1:22:22] I mean I don't know what else you call
it
[1:22:26] you know
when you're making deals with Patsy tree
[1:22:30] cost about a job he's creating for you
and I mean you're you're even going as
[1:22:37] far as to say that um
I had a long-standing request to Patsy
[1:22:42] that he helped me find another position
in the county if something became
[1:22:46] available that I was qualified for
because
[1:22:50] I was burned out with working at 9-1-1
we agreed that this job would be perfect
[1:22:55] for me we even discussed that he would
try to make the pay scale for the
[1:23:00] position
at or near what I make currently to
[1:23:04] deter some of the people above me from
applying
[1:23:08] for it because they would have to take a
pay cut so this would make it a little
[1:23:13] easier for me to get the promotion with
less competition
[1:23:17] those are his words not mine
he put them out on everywhere Facebook
[1:23:22] everywhere
corrupt
[1:23:27] three
just like wanting to
[1:23:30] give your friend a job that they're not
qualified for
[1:23:35] that they don't even meet the minimum
requirements for that's dirty
[1:23:39] and I'm against that kind of stuff
it's wrong
[1:23:43] and if this Council was for it then do
it
[1:23:47] for dirty things
if they're for that then do it
[1:23:53] and do that
but I will call you out every time
[1:23:58] I'm not afraid
Not Afraid no my time is enough
[1:24:02] sadly mistaken you can keep trying it's
not up I'll sit here all day and talk if
[1:24:08] I want to
um
[1:24:12] the things like that that have occurred
in this city have killed this city
[1:24:18] for years it's occurred in this city
these kinds of things you give me a job
[1:24:25] I'll give you one
[1:24:29] you scratch my back I'll scratch yours
well I'm not okay with it
[1:24:34] I'm not okay with it it's not all right
it's corrupt
[1:24:38] I'm not splitting hairs with whether
it's corrupt or not corrupt it is and
[1:24:43] the people of this city know it that's
why they voted for us
[1:24:48] because they wanted the people that were
doing those disgustingly corrupt things
[1:24:51] out
they wanted them out
[1:24:54] and and I knew this would be a hard
fight
[1:24:57] and that people would ride on coattails
to come in and act like that they agreed
[1:25:03] with your way of thinking until they got
here
[1:25:05] and then they would continue the
corruption
[1:25:08] well
I'm not gonna sit back and let you get
[1:25:12] away with it without people knowing
so that's all I have to say
[1:25:17] well this has been a highly debated
meeting uh I've said enough I think
[1:25:23] people out there hopefully this
hopefully this sounds good and the
[1:25:27] people watch us and I want to share it
with a lot of people because it you know
[1:25:32] it's it is what it is I just want to do
right and do the right thing and it's
[1:25:40] it's hard as Lily said you know when we
came into this in 2019 nobody said it
[1:25:45] would be easy and and it certainly
wasn't
[1:25:48] I I would think we we're trying to
change a culture that had been around
[1:25:53] for a long time and when you try and
change a culture you're you're stepping
[1:25:57] on people's toes no question about it
and and we have done that but really
[1:26:03] to be an elected if you you just try to
do the right thing when you do that you
[1:26:09] go out with your head up high all I know
is when we came in here three and a half
[1:26:13] years ago this city was a mess the
police department The Code Department
[1:26:18] from the top down we promised change and
we did that and we did that and and
[1:26:24] that's that's all I could say if I left
today I'm happy with what we've
[1:26:29] accomplished
uh with that being said I'm going to
[1:26:32] keep going on and on we're doing what
we're trying to do and do the right
[1:26:36] thing I thank everybody for coming out
tonight and uh this is what government
[1:26:41] does we have agreements and
disagreements and at the end of the day
[1:26:45] you know four votes win and that's
that's fine that's how it is I I walk
[1:26:51] out with my head high even though I'm on
the losing side that's that's fine I'm
[1:26:55] for the people people say so that's the
main thing but thanks everybody for
[1:27:00] coming out and I got to take an
entertaining motion oh no let's just
[1:27:03] stay another way let's just stay a
little harder to have somebody ordered
[1:27:06] dinner