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Commission works out to order. First of all, I want to welcome everybody and welcome guests. Thank you for attending.

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The first thing for discussion is the Christmas parade discussion. As we talk about this, one thing that I want to start out with is just the acknowledgement.

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kind of that set my

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just my reasoning here for this is that I think we've all been in situations

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in our employment careers where we work for jobs, work for bosses, sometimes it's just

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that they didn't want to hear whatever they didn't want to hear dissension and stuff.

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If you had concerns, they weren't really interested in stuff and one thing that has kind

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struck me is that it's not what we, that's not the kind of thing that I want to do as far

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as that, if they are concerned, if there are, you know, just some thoughts that I want all

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employees to kind of feel for you to share those. And to make those known and stuff, it's not

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meant to be, to turn into just a debate or to become adversarial. It's just that I think about things

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like the O-rings on the challenger is that that was a known problem but nobody from below said

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anything and then never did go upwards and so then there was a challenger explosion.

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So from that standpoint we're not dealing with anything like that big but also at the same

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time I want to stay you know if staff have concerns is that feel free to bring them to me

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and then I'm not just going to sit on, I'm going to bring those up for the to the commission

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to that hear the concerns that are raised and then go from there.

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Ultimately, I think we all all staff acknowledges that the decisions that are made in the

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direction that is given that comes from the commission.

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We fully understand that.

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We fully support that and understand the process and everything.

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But we also appreciate the fact that we can have these open discussions to make sure that

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making good decisions on behalf and for the community.

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So I just think it's important for us to kind of start from that standpoint.

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And that's my objective here is just to begin if I'm hearing concerns,

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I feel that you guys want me to pass them on and not just set up and stop.

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So from that one thing I will say is Lieutenant Herko is here to for the police.

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Assistant Chief,

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he is getting married, so that is something that they had already planned.

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They asked me, I felt like it handled this a little bit, and so I, that is why Chiefs

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happened and Chief Heath aren't here enough stuff.

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So, but gets into too much logistical, I'll let, we'll have Lieutenant Herko discuss, answer any

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question but I think we should be good. Overall I gave you the notes that were put together

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again like I said but don't want to get into debate it was just that we wanted to be able

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to voice our concerns to you and so from that standpoint it's just that some things that

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kind of jumped out at me that I wanted to make note of. Parade route would affect five major

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intersections that was pointed out. This was stated that it created a greater disruption to

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normal traffic flow than we experienced during our annual independence day celebration, as presented

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as kind of discussed if we close the Udwar Ringoed Absent Pike intersection.

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I'm thinking about

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Lee Highway that come in over the bridge from Aperson, where do they go if we had that completely

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blocked off and stuff for an extended period of time.

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So from that standpoint, there's just a few concerns about that, parade route being in

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the dark that provides, creates a little added specter of safety for anybody walking it,

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If we open it back up after we're, after we're done, what does that mean for pedestrians

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that might be needing to cross roads and that sort of thing?

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So there's a few concerns about that.

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As far as police and staffing and emergency response, all hands response from police

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department, and there's just that a little bit of it because we have a lot of intersections

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and traffic to kind of be managing at that point.

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And so police work, and certainly we would have enough hands on deck to be able to do that.

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And so those are just some of the issues I'm trying to looking over some of the things I've highlighted.

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Essentially we're talking about a, you know, when we have our July, we're just in this space, but we're creating an event space that's about a mile or a long or so.

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And so that creates a little bit more challenge, and then just also the parking itself.

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The community church parking lot, not sure that it's going to be available.

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There, at this time, they've indicated tasks they're not inclined for us to use as parking lot.

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And just...

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So that is really like I said, that is really all I really wanted to just kind of share that information.

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At the end of the day, if the commission is like, this is what we want, this is the date that we want it.

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Then staff will do our dead level best to have the events, make it, try to do our best to keep it safe for everyone and ensure the safety of everyone.

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one and put on the best possible event as much as possible.

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With that, I'll open it up for discussion.

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Mass a quick question.

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Since, for a second, for safety reasons and everything you've been

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heard on that that you know and all the rounds that we've done.

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What do you suggest is a good route to you?

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for everything that we are trying to do as a community,

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630 in the evening, on a Sunday night.

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Saturday night.

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Saturday night.

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Me personally, I think the best is what we did last year.

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Thank you.

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They're just going to do it as Saturday night.

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I'm church poverty.

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Yeah.

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Because the university.

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It's Saturday night.

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It's a little property.

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So, but you asked me what the best route was.

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And I think last year, with everyone lining up on what is now innovation arrived, can we get

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up down the university and then everyone has anything out onto the church and school parking

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lots like we did last year.

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I think that that is the best option, but as the chief, the assistant chief and Lieutenant

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booth, all of us have discussed, whatever y'all tell us to do, we will get it done, the best

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But would Sunday be an option to that Sunday instead of Saturday?

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Because after the sun goes down on Sunday, then it would be open.

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Yeah, I apologize.

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I understand you.

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What's in the business?

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The only problem at the school, I think that's...

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Concerns we have.

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This is part of it.

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So I got a couple of suggestions.

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And that, you know, I didn't appreciate the bus mayor and what she came up to start this discussion.

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I still think me personally, the best route is to have people go into the ball field, line them up that way.

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These times the ball field.

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They come out and go left on a little day parkway.

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left on some pipe at the red light, and the red dot will be closed,

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one line so they couldn't

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come all the way over into, because they'd be in the storage line.

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I know there's a rest, but we can put up barriers and stuff to kind of come down, that short

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distance from the ball field to the red light there.

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Take a left on AppSumPyke, and go down one side of AppSumPyke,

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make a new turn at X on, come back up, and then go back into the

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ball field at that point.

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I don't remember how many people, because the past year,

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how long it was.

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I think last year was a little bit smaller than anticipated,

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because it was below freezing.

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It was very cold.

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I've been very vocal about two things.

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One, I think we need to combine both events in a one.

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I think I think we'd have better crowds.

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Secondly, I've been very opposed to doing it on a school night, because I think that detracts

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from families, Sunday nights or tough, parents are trying to get their kids back in the

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groove to go to school the next morning.

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What if we did it on Thanksgiving night?

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You've got families in town, you've got a lot of people in town.

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They're looking for something to do other than a $20 movie ticket.

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What if we did a Sunday night, Christmas parade, and combined both into that night?

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It would avoid Sabbath.

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McKee's going to be shut down.

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I think traffic should be considerably lighter on Thanksgiving night.

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Would that be Thursday night?

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The Thursday night?

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It doesn't.

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I think a lot of people go out of town.

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Well, it depends. I mean, all of our family comes to our house. So we've got 25 people looking for something to do.

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I just think something to help and they like that is bad choice.

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Because we do the, our family does the boat parade every single year.

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The Friday after Thanksgiving for us, that's a family tradition.

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And I think it's a chance to do something very similar here.

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I don't just, you know, you were talking about what's for your family and I understand that I see where you're coming from.

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Not family, we're doing a lot of traveling.

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Oh, thanks, give me, give me, give me back.

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You know, there's not much of it left so we try very much to get together.

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So to me, I mean, y'all do much, I won't.

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It'd be hard for me to do it on Thanksgiving.

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Number one, I'm pooped out from cooking and traveling.

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That's just been personal because I leave Wednesday, we go down and cook, and sometimes

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I don't get home after I've been down Thursday.

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Yeah, I think for our staff on the holiday weekend,

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but to have to do that,

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you know,

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I would not want to personally ask them to do it.

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I don't think it's given up.

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The one thing that kind of strikes me, and like I said,

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is that nothing art, art, art,

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particularly out, doesn't lend itself easily to a parade, a parade, and I know that

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Christmas parades are great, but that is, in my opinion, half of the challenge is

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is that we don't have a clear, easy parade route that really lends itself where people can

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park easily and get to the parade route, watch it, and then get back to their vehicle

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sees.

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And stuff, you've been talking with you, I've mentioned East Ridge, and so I was looking

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at that and had a discussion and chiefs out talk with them a little bit about what there's

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are along that main road and stuff and but it's got all of those side roads to go off

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for people park, walk up and sit and watch the parade and then go back.

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It's a little easier to get out, get back and forth. To me, that's probably one of the biggest challenges

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is that we have looking at it. It's, it's, you know, where do people park to be able to walk to,

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wherever we're doing it. So we could block or get the property over here again.

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All the businesses around here. They're going to be closed on the weekend.

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And I know you said some of the business owners over at

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track-trust five shopping center, Vietnam,

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they're good friends of mine who managed the lost

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potterals, since they would love for it to have it there

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because it brings business into them.

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And it's, you know, they'd love to participate some of these

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as well.

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But I talk to track-trust of five, too.

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And they had no objection because, again,

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I didn't say that somebody said that, I'm just saying that that's when I was talking to you that they might object to it.

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We haven't even had any conversations.

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At the end of the day, one thing that we always have to remember, though, is that we're always working with the good graces of any of these businesses and staff.

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and that we're holding a city event and relying on parking

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that they provide to us if they want to.

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The thing that concerns me is that one incident

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and stuff if somebody trips and falls or something like that,

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then we're looking at their looking at potential litigation

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and stuff like that.

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That is a concern that I don't think you can just dismiss after I was here.

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No, but we've had that for a year.

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Sure.

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The fourth of July we've had it here for a year, I mean, and I know that we do an entrance policy over here.

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What do we do on the McKee's property across the street?

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What do you have?

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What is that?

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No, I don't know what it's called.

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Police agree.

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Police agree.

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Yeah, yes.

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Police agree.

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So, you know, I mean, we've been doing it in both of July, just now all the businesses

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is, in fact, there's some part of parking lot for hours.

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It's probably from about five o'clock until 10 o'clock.

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When everybody gets to clear that out.

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I mean, we've got that.

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We've got parking over at first horizon,

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and some of those businesses up there.

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We've got parking lot,

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and you can go up to a high school,

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middle school, and park there, and walk down.

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I mean, there's a lot of places people can park at.

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But I will tell you, I've been up to clean,

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And on key street, their Christmas parade, it's the same top as probably East Bridge.

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I mean, we went over there at 819, we knew it was Christmas parade, and we parked down

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the side street because we can't get to the restaurant.

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I just think that there's a lot of roads.

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They have to be concerned with as well as us, but I think if we come up with a different

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rate route everybody likes. I don't want to shut down ooloring or I think that's the main

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thoroughfare we've got to keep open.

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Could we talk to some of our office to work with us? Is this a staging area?

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A lot to lean on.

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Well, remember Jack, three years ago, did not want. He said he can't protect the prey people

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in the prey even at cell days. So that's why I was thinking that we shut down.

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That's the pocket that lives in poor play and can come up the ball field through the ball field out.

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Excuse me, but has anyone, do you say that no one's talking to the businesses?

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Has anyone talked to the church yet?

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Yes, and they've sent the notes.

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That right now they're not inclined to let us use that particular.

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This is basically a book

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for staging, I think.

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University's good, I think, for my share.

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The thing is having to deal with it the fact that you say private community.

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And we have to, we'd have to do it before, can't do it Saturday night, but have we done

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after or sundown, or now most schools are out for the whole week?

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Now, not just, when's the Thursday and Friday?

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But most schools are going for the whole week, as parents have complainer, how much account,

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Georgia schools, surrounding schools, the kids are getting a whole week for, for thanks

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given the share.

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I'm still trying to understand the parade route.

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So start stage over at the, at the, at the ballfields.

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Yeah.

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Come up the driveway.

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Yeah.

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Take a look.

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I don't know.

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Is that a tenth of a mile?

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Down to the intersection.

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Take another look.

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So in, once you get the intersection, take a look.

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And then the parade will hug the westbound lanes going in, you know.

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either side, it doesn't matter, it wants to get the X on like a U term and come back up, so everybody else can, you know, see it out, call it close.

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Okay.

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The only thing is, is when they go this way, and they do the U term, go on back, and this side can't see the other side.

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I think this guy down's twin year, and then Pride Blots end up at the Commons.

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What we're serving as park and spots for the Pride Blots.

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And then they're already there for the second part of the event, the Christmas tree lighting.

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because that would still lead you to the park.

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You need to set over there.

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Yeah.

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The cul-de-sac and front of the honor.

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You just have the floats actually end up at Founders Hall.

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And they stage there that way they can attend.

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The Christmas tree lighting.

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Santa Claus arrives.

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That's where they park.

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We just don't let it.

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I just know a lot of people want to write down their floats.

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Get out there.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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It would be difficult.

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And they can go all the way through which her left and leave.

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I

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guess I would just have to be a condition of being in the parade as you don't get to leave that lot until the set time.

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Can I offer a suggestion?

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So we are the parade.

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You also have about 50 ROTC cadets and they seem to be always the ones that are like,

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where do I pick up the kids?

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I'm supposed to go over here and I'm now being told to go over here and so we're going to have all these kids here.

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What if that's what you guys choose to do because you will have those people that have the animals

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You know, depending on the weather and you want to get those animals home the kids stuff like that. If we designated

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We're gonna shut it off. If you want to keep going, you continue on to

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Leone and then exit out into a wringle or if you want to turn it state when you have to be designated to

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All right, we know flow it's three through seven. We're gonna turn in towards found us all

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than 8 through 12, we're going to keep going.

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They just have to designate ahead of time

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what they're going to do so traffic, no.

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I think that works.

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Luckily, we don't have animals anymore in our parades.

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I knew we'd just stop the dance in horses,

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but I didn't know if anyone put like a cow.

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The Supreme Council is back on the city on the city.

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No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

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Yeah, you shut up, I'm crazy.

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It says that I've been in the four that people that have animals, either of their animals have a little

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basket on the very end by your own contacts or they have their own people more round, scooted up.

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No, no.

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Lieutenant, would they be able to just, if they went right up, swan y'all, up to where the...

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back in, could they just pull over there to break down, did we just designate that as the

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ending spot, where they could break down and then go?

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Yeah, we just, we have it.

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Yeah, we just, just out and off the right, right here at Fortlander's place, and like, hey,

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you're, this is the list of people that should be pulling off into the back and parking area

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to break down or what have you, and that will limit,

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because if you tell parents that, okay,

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my junior ROTC, this is where they're going to end up,

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then you will have 50 cars already parked

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there waiting to get their children.

303
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That's true.

304
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When I used to believe in one middle school

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where they picked up my bat,

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I know I put my son up there many times,

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and crazy into there,

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I think when I'm back down to the, um, not all of them.

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So I just wrote all my back down to where they originated,

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Jacques Hatt wrote, and that wrote the show off.

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And they just pulled in there and stopped.

312
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That's where we used to have it.

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And they walked from there on the way down.

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There's a nice little wall.

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People parked on the sides and everything.

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And it seemed to work well for a while.

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And we did the ballpark, which, that was fun,

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because you want to use up all the little living park

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way shooting it down.

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But this year, this is the route chosen.

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All they have to do is walk in founder's hall to the beautiful 350.

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The parking lot.

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They can pick a, if you're on a float like a baseball team or something, tell them, they don't

324
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let the behavioral case just wandered towards the parking lot,

325
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but the only issue there

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be your disassembly because someone, oh, I didn't, I signed up last minute and I didn't

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know about this and we may tell them before you need people along.

328
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Well, I want to see the Christmas crew lying and it could just turn into a little bit

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issue and that's what she used to do.

330
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Do you tell them they're getting cold with that point?

331
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I'm sorry.

332
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And the way that we do are is we find out what spot, what number you are when you get there.

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don't designate ahead of time because people will show up late and then it just makes it harder

334
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for other vehicles to get in place. So it would be a almost spot making a list and trying

335
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to get it too. Well, and I think that's more doable than I could even be like a shared Google

336
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sheet so you can get it on your phone. Yeah, I mean I wouldn't put, I would put it on my officers

337
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are very good. I would put someone that was more seasoned to be paying attention to something

338
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like that. And if I'm in the same position that I was last year where I was lining

339
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everybody up, okay, you know, do you plan on pulling into founders all over, no, and then

340
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I just marked that off and I share that as we go.

341
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Some people like the older cars or new sport cars, they may just drive when they go after they get through just going out when you drive the home.

342
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So now changing for mine.

343
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Commission, if you're here to do what the Commission is.

344
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If you guys are open to letting us, because I was thinking about what you're about.

345
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If we did that on the north side of down and made a new turn down by Exxon and came back this way and went back in.

346
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If you're open to letting us create the route and to something that we can manage a little easier,

347
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I mean, if you're open to that, I think, and still have a lengthy parade route,

348
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I think that we might be able to give what you guys are wanting and stuff.

349
00:26:50,540 --> 00:26:53,380
So how long is the parade last last year?

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I've been going to it.

351
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I'm tired.

352
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I was tired.

353
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It was a little bit over now.

354
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And it was not a mile long.

355
00:27:02,540 --> 00:27:04,100
How many participants total?

356
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I think last year it was 60.

357
00:27:09,820 --> 00:27:10,400
It was cold.

358
00:27:10,900 --> 00:27:11,460
It was cold.

359
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It was cold.

360
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But I think I'm more than a handful.

361
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Didn't show up because it was.

362
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It was the coldest parade I've ever had.

363
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That's one reason I didn't get it.

364
00:27:22,580 --> 00:27:24,460
I walked it, it was very cold.

365
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So are we saying set a start in Inspot and y'all decide how to get from point A to B, or?

366
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I think if you guys are open to that, I mean, I think we can come up with something that'll be a little

367
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easier to manage, but still have some to have a lengthy, long enough parade route and stuff.

368
00:27:45,420 --> 00:27:50,280
Yeah, I think that's a good suggestion, because I like the idea that if people are parked

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over in that area and staff and then as seen as we're done, if they're all coming back

370
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this way and going out that direction, that they can kind of pull off to the side, get

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their staff together, and then either stay or continue on if they're not going to the

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life.

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What I like about that, too, is that I'm going to add some pot, I mean, I'm going to go out

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while we're going over, if you didn't get some fight, if I get to the keys to war, or if

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you need to do someplace else, I'll probably probably have ways to have a little David Parkway,

376
00:28:26,040 --> 00:28:31,420
and most of the workers are charged ship after sundown on Saturday, I believe, except for the

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truckers, and they roll, I think.

378
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Like, after 10, not like, you know, Sunday, but anyway, we know it's important for them so we won't be considered about that, but at least employees still have to get to.

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And I like that, because if we're not extending out into the intersection itself, then people coming over the bridge from absent direction, then they still have options of which way they could go.

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And ring gold, and then come from Lee Highway, same thing, is that traffic is going to be unimpeded.

381
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Because we're Chris and I were waiting to hear back from Tita and to close that intersection down completely.

382
00:29:16,580 --> 00:29:19,540
I think we're going to be concerning to them.

383
00:29:19,540 --> 00:29:26,240
The side Daisy has it too on a state highway, and Easter is a side Daisy and also it's keeps for you.

384
00:29:27,440 --> 00:29:28,500
I can't remember the state.

385
00:29:29,360 --> 00:29:31,040
You know the state road.

386
00:29:31,800 --> 00:29:34,540
But it's not lying just like us.

387
00:29:35,460 --> 00:29:38,460
But more businesses and stuff.

388
00:29:39,360 --> 00:29:40,560
So what about the date?

389
00:29:42,810 --> 00:29:45,650
That's the second wrinkle in that.

390
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Is there a better date that would work?

391
00:29:49,150 --> 00:29:52,330
I think we need to think of him.

392
00:29:52,650 --> 00:29:56,290
Jim McKee has been very vocal, but not one ever, right?

393
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On a Saturday night.

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Pillight.

395
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Pillight.

396
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Public comment pre-speached— What time do they go to work over, what time do they go to work across

397
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the trots roll out?

398
00:30:19,700 --> 00:30:24,520
But then, you had to understand, too. Waquie is a seven-day Adventist community.

399
00:30:24,520 --> 00:30:30,860
So, they're very strict, I mean, for example, they don't donate things for football night,

400
00:30:31,120 --> 00:30:36,660
for if you're in sports, they'll donate two schools for health and all that, but they

401
00:30:36,660 --> 00:30:41,680
don't play games, anything that's played on a Friday or Saturday, no, it's to boot.

402
00:30:42,160 --> 00:30:42,860
So, after Sunday?

403
00:30:43,180 --> 00:30:43,540
So after Sunday?

404
00:30:43,540 --> 00:30:43,660
Until after?

405
00:30:44,100 --> 00:30:44,340
Well, yeah.

406
00:30:44,500 --> 00:30:45,940
But Sunday is not to Sunday.

407
00:30:47,240 --> 00:30:47,520
No.

408
00:30:47,520 --> 00:30:47,800
Saturday.

409
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Saturday.

410
00:30:49,460 --> 00:30:49,620
Saturday.

411
00:30:50,580 --> 00:30:50,820
Saturday.

412
00:30:50,820 --> 00:30:52,940
in the wintertime, Sunday at the 631?

413
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Yeah.

414
00:30:53,840 --> 00:30:56,080
So, each time after 631, I was sorry, not.

415
00:30:56,280 --> 00:30:57,000
They can do things.

416
00:30:57,180 --> 00:31:01,380
I said, I had a lot of balls, soft balls, that plays.

417
00:31:01,780 --> 00:31:02,220
I'm sorry now.

418
00:31:02,220 --> 00:31:03,360
I know they did something.

419
00:31:03,880 --> 00:31:04,380
I'm sorry now.

420
00:31:04,380 --> 00:31:07,140
I thought it was with their school, but I didn't know what it was for sure.

421
00:31:07,240 --> 00:31:10,480
And I think that, once you get to November, December, the sun goes down around

422
00:31:10,480 --> 00:31:11,040
Bob 30.

423
00:31:11,240 --> 00:31:12,120
Because then, quickly.

424
00:31:13,840 --> 00:31:20,300
And their discussions that they've that Connie has had, like, sure, she's not here.

425
00:31:20,300 --> 00:31:27,380
that Connie has had with me is that as soon as it's sundown on that Saturday on the 21st,

426
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because at that point they're shipping everything, all the little Christmas trees,

427
00:31:33,380 --> 00:31:41,080
they're going out, close to coast that at that evening. And so that soon sundown goes,

428
00:31:41,520 --> 00:31:45,580
is that that's at that point they're ready to ship things out.

429
00:31:45,680 --> 00:31:48,680
I think the Christmas tree cakes would have already been delivered before that,

430
00:31:57,000 --> 00:32:03,740
I'm just going off what she said is that that is when they have a lot of things going.

431
00:32:03,800 --> 00:32:04,680
You would know.

432
00:32:04,820 --> 00:32:06,020
Out the door.

433
00:32:06,180 --> 00:32:11,720
So we only have to shut down until nine max for everyone to clear out.

434
00:32:11,880 --> 00:32:13,820
That's not a big delay for them.

435
00:32:17,090 --> 00:32:30,090
It's not as much of an impact if we just say we're not closing down the Udwa, the four corners, I think there's a work around with that.

436
00:32:30,090 --> 00:32:31,250
A little bit at that point.

437
00:32:34,780 --> 00:32:43,480
The 28th is the following Saturday and then December 5th is Saturday after that.

438
00:32:46,900 --> 00:32:56,820
One thing I do want to point out is that Christina has been working on setting the dates for getting

439
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like market vendors and different things like that.

440
00:33:00,900 --> 00:33:07,720
And she's not sure whether some of them at this point that she's already had them like Santa

441
00:33:07,720 --> 00:33:11,800
is one instance that she's already had that set and stuff.

442
00:33:11,800 --> 00:33:17,040
So, she'll do a best to get somebody else if it's a different date than what she is originally

443
00:33:17,040 --> 00:33:17,760
set it on.

444
00:33:18,060 --> 00:33:21,380
I don't know if we'd want a lot of vendors taking up our space for the price floods

445
00:33:21,380 --> 00:33:22,300
but need to go.

446
00:33:22,640 --> 00:33:22,740
Sure.

447
00:33:22,740 --> 00:33:24,040
I'm there with you.

448
00:33:24,560 --> 00:33:26,100
So, just Christmas tree lily.

449
00:33:26,100 --> 00:33:31,140
It's an hour, maybe an hour and 15 minutes for the private cell.

450
00:33:32,200 --> 00:33:35,100
Yeah, you have to operate and then press tree lighting.

451
00:33:35,220 --> 00:33:36,000
People are going to be ready to go.

452
00:33:36,800 --> 00:33:38,080
Thanks for coming.

453
00:33:38,260 --> 00:33:39,520
Thanks for coming from the rest.

454
00:33:41,400 --> 00:33:41,880
So

455
00:33:46,520 --> 00:33:51,920
are you still thinking the 21st or are you looking at other things?

456
00:33:51,920 --> 00:33:56,860
I don't really like the 21st, but, you know, that's the one.

457
00:33:56,860 --> 00:34:05,940
I think maybe after I don't, you know, usually Santa Claus comes in sometimes I'm Thanksgiving

458
00:34:05,940 --> 00:34:07,020
morning.

459
00:34:07,720 --> 00:34:10,820
I have a lot of places I haven't come in then.

460
00:34:11,540 --> 00:34:15,860
I guess it's just me, my tradition of not having Santa Claus come in before.

461
00:34:16,280 --> 00:34:16,520
I don't know.

462
00:34:16,520 --> 00:34:19,780
I don't know.

463
00:34:19,860 --> 00:34:21,580
I don't know.

464
00:34:21,580 --> 00:34:22,480
I don't know.

465
00:34:22,480 --> 00:34:25,240
I don't know.

466
00:34:25,240 --> 00:34:25,860
I don't know.

467
00:34:25,860 --> 00:34:26,780
I don't know.

468
00:34:26,780 --> 00:34:26,840
I don't know.

469
00:34:26,840 --> 00:34:27,580
What is Thanksgiving?

470
00:34:27,820 --> 00:34:27,880
What is it?

471
00:34:28,260 --> 00:34:29,960
It is the 26th.

472
00:34:30,320 --> 00:34:30,560
Yeah.

473
00:34:30,580 --> 00:34:30,600
Yeah.

474
00:34:30,640 --> 00:34:31,280
I'm with you, Dave.

475
00:34:31,560 --> 00:34:31,600
Yeah.

476
00:34:31,660 --> 00:34:34,200
I think before Thanksgiving, it's just a little too premature.

477
00:34:35,300 --> 00:34:35,500
I'm sorry.

478
00:34:35,700 --> 00:34:39,120
You want to get Thanksgiving over with to get in the Christmas spirit.

479
00:34:40,520 --> 00:34:43,420
And that Friday people hit Thanksgiving that morning after that.

480
00:34:43,420 --> 00:34:47,180
Because Easter is just, there's the Saturday after Thanksgiving.

481
00:34:47,540 --> 00:34:48,900
There's the 21st.

482
00:34:49,040 --> 00:34:50,960
Easter is just, and there's on the 21st.

483
00:34:51,080 --> 00:34:52,620
They're going to hit it that black Friday.

484
00:34:52,620 --> 00:34:57,060
So that would be, I mean, that's not Christmas decorations as well.

485
00:34:57,640 --> 00:34:57,820
Yeah.

486
00:34:57,820 --> 00:34:59,040
It's not Halloween yet.

487
00:34:59,480 --> 00:35:00,660
I got it from the commentator.

488
00:35:01,520 --> 00:35:03,200
I got Halloween Christmas and Thanksgiving.

489
00:35:03,600 --> 00:35:06,120
How about 21st would be more accommodating for our staff,

490
00:35:06,380 --> 00:35:08,080
that way they could have Thanksgiving weekend,

491
00:35:08,260 --> 00:35:09,700
if they are going out of town.

492
00:35:12,740 --> 00:35:14,860
But I'm found whether they're the bigger thing I was concerned about

493
00:35:14,860 --> 00:35:17,900
is moving the parade back to the comments areas.

494
00:35:17,980 --> 00:35:19,880
So we could do one larger band.

495
00:35:21,340 --> 00:35:24,180
Well, and I think Chris correct me if I'm wrong.

496
00:35:24,180 --> 00:35:26,960
And it's that you guys would be able to do a lot of staging

497
00:35:27,940 --> 00:35:32,200
as on the few days beforehand and stuff

498
00:35:32,200 --> 00:35:35,420
to have everything pretty much ready to set in place

499
00:35:35,420 --> 00:35:41,580
if we're condensing things to the round our events,

500
00:35:41,900 --> 00:35:43,040
you know, footprint.

501
00:35:43,820 --> 00:35:46,360
You'll be able to get a lot of things set in place

502
00:35:46,360 --> 00:35:52,740
and be staged so that it depending on which day you did it,

503
00:35:52,740 --> 00:36:05,360
that you would be able to, even if it was over that Thanksgiving weekend, is that they could quickly move and move things in a place on say that Saturday to get that done.

504
00:36:06,340 --> 00:36:06,380
Yeah.

505
00:36:07,200 --> 00:36:12,980
One day I would like to use the places for the business that I talked with last year that may concern was the garbage.

506
00:36:13,720 --> 00:36:21,140
People filling up the garbage cans. They ask that if if we could provide garbage cans on the property, then they can fill them up.

507
00:36:21,880 --> 00:36:25,420
because they're overflowing, their garbage cans aren't big enough.

508
00:36:26,120 --> 00:36:29,800
I don't know, ex-son and who is at the place right there

509
00:36:29,800 --> 00:36:32,200
by the Dollar Tree, by and there,

510
00:36:32,340 --> 00:36:34,560
because people fill up their garbage cans.

511
00:36:35,420 --> 00:36:39,240
It's overflowing, and they need a bigger garbage can out there.

512
00:36:39,740 --> 00:36:44,460
I mean, we provided cans for last year's Christmas breed,

513
00:36:45,100 --> 00:36:47,940
and similar to the Freedom Fest we could do that as well.

514
00:36:51,690 --> 00:36:59,230
Well, one thing I'm going to say, and I'm going to quit doing is just assuming silences,

515
00:36:59,970 --> 00:37:01,350
consent, or a scent.

516
00:37:02,910 --> 00:37:07,530
So, good, clear direction from you guys on the date.

517
00:37:07,810 --> 00:37:09,090
It's really what I need.

518
00:37:10,610 --> 00:37:17,190
I think, Alonio, to what you suggested about working out the plan with everyone involved.

519
00:37:18,150 --> 00:37:22,710
My concern is the date, that's the big thing, so what do you want me to ask?

520
00:37:23,310 --> 00:37:25,650
The dates don't be killed for many hours.

521
00:37:26,050 --> 00:37:29,910
I don't think we need to ask Connie to explain.

522
00:37:30,110 --> 00:37:43,990
We are going to all ring the open, and we will not be shut down. Is that impact? And ask for what our truck sir rolls out, because people can get to work.

523
00:37:45,550 --> 00:37:59,190
Yeah. Well, the trucks can't go through down the main street because of the train trussle unless they, well, no, because they have to go through it and return it. They have to come down parkways over the parkway in order to get out that way.

524
00:37:59,190 --> 00:38:00,330
It didn't matter.

525
00:38:00,410 --> 00:38:00,930
It did not matter.

526
00:38:00,930 --> 00:38:05,750
We were rolling because of the sun down and just about that time, it's great stories.

527
00:38:07,090 --> 00:38:08,490
Because they had to load up.

528
00:38:11,050 --> 00:38:11,170
Okay.

529
00:38:11,570 --> 00:38:15,050
You can ask, finally, that, and see what she thinks.

530
00:38:15,670 --> 00:38:16,830
The net, the net should be brought up.

531
00:38:16,830 --> 00:38:17,170
Yeah, it does.

532
00:38:18,330 --> 00:38:20,670
I'm opening any suggestion after that.

533
00:38:20,730 --> 00:38:21,630
They won't.

534
00:38:22,830 --> 00:38:25,130
We need to take a David up the top of the sun.

535
00:38:25,770 --> 00:38:27,190
So we have 20 years open.

536
00:38:28,150 --> 00:38:29,650
When I check with Lee N. Yes?

537
00:38:29,650 --> 00:38:42,410
So are we saying the 21st of the 28th, or are we loosely, or the fifth, or the fifth, I don't want to go later than the fifth because nobody wants to go to Christmas tree lighting after they've already been looking at Christmas trees.

538
00:38:44,230 --> 00:38:49,950
I think that I like where we've always said I'm the third, the first Sunday of each December, so we've always done it.

539
00:38:49,950 --> 00:38:51,330
When did we get the last year?

540
00:38:51,590 --> 00:38:52,010
One day.

541
00:38:52,610 --> 00:38:53,170
The parade?

542
00:38:53,650 --> 00:38:54,810
The second Sunday.

543
00:38:56,390 --> 00:38:57,230
14th of December.

544
00:38:57,650 --> 00:39:00,230
So, we do it the first Sunday or the December.

545
00:39:00,670 --> 00:39:01,750
We're always used to do it.

546
00:39:02,130 --> 00:39:03,770
We did it the first Sunday of December.

547
00:39:03,930 --> 00:39:07,210
That is school life, though, because they're still in the bush.

548
00:39:07,390 --> 00:39:09,070
You're wanting to do a late night.

549
00:39:09,190 --> 00:39:12,090
Well, yeah, because school is out on this from the 17.

550
00:39:13,850 --> 00:39:17,690
Then, have to be that last weekend in November.

551
00:39:18,790 --> 00:39:20,850
So, the kids would be out of school.

552
00:39:22,450 --> 00:39:29,270
The housing county is in school, at least in the two days of Thanksgiving.

553
00:39:29,950 --> 00:39:30,710
I don't have a couple of weeks

554
00:39:37,880 --> 00:39:38,880
off, and as-

555
00:39:38,880 --> 00:39:46,600
So check on the 28th and 5th to see my building.

556
00:39:47,040 --> 00:39:47,060
Yeah.

557
00:39:47,440 --> 00:39:48,620
I'll stick with it.

558
00:39:50,280 --> 00:39:55,620
Currently, the 28th is open on the city calendar for the comments because of it being the holiday.

559
00:39:56,300 --> 00:40:01,620
And the fifth is pending already being booked.

560
00:40:02,820 --> 00:40:03,340
Okay.

561
00:40:03,340 --> 00:40:03,560
28.

562
00:40:04,580 --> 00:40:05,860
28 is on what day?

563
00:40:06,460 --> 00:40:06,560
Thank you.

564
00:40:06,840 --> 00:40:07,420
Thank you.

565
00:40:07,580 --> 00:40:09,100
Thank you.

566
00:40:09,100 --> 00:40:10,280
I'm a Saturday after Thanksgiving.

567
00:40:10,640 --> 00:40:10,840
I don't know.

568
00:40:11,600 --> 00:40:13,660
That would kind of go online with the Black Friday

569
00:40:13,660 --> 00:40:14,880
and Santa Claus coming to town.

570
00:40:15,060 --> 00:40:16,660
No, just places and stuff.

571
00:40:17,520 --> 00:40:19,840
So why don't you check with Connie?

572
00:40:21,340 --> 00:40:24,840
So, like we've got possibilities for the 28th.

573
00:40:26,200 --> 00:40:28,980
Now, we have to thank anybody so we can have a nice given.

574
00:40:30,940 --> 00:40:34,840
So, and then let us know, and then ask us, would you definitely prefer?

575
00:40:35,780 --> 00:40:36,320
No, okay.

576
00:40:36,520 --> 00:40:38,340
We can respond to you individually.

577
00:40:42,140 --> 00:40:43,620
So, I can do that.

578
00:40:44,080 --> 00:40:44,900
And the rail.

579
00:40:50,160 --> 00:40:50,860
Thank you, Lieutenant.

580
00:40:51,040 --> 00:40:51,540
For a good idea.

581
00:40:55,300 --> 00:40:55,940
All right.

582
00:40:56,380 --> 00:41:00,160
Moving on, the US flag veterans memorial park discussion.

583
00:41:00,160 --> 00:41:06,420
We do have some members, one member, from the,

584
00:41:11,010 --> 00:41:14,170
I always get a mixed up VFW, thank you.

585
00:41:15,370 --> 00:41:22,950
And so, I don't know if you've seen the agenda that management summary that I put out and stuff.

586
00:41:22,950 --> 00:41:35,190
I proposed basically that we put out the bigger flag for flag day, which is falls on June

587
00:41:35,190 --> 00:41:42,570
14th and then independent stay and we just keep the large flag up between flag day, June

588
00:41:42,570 --> 00:41:48,630
14th and independent stay and then take it down afterwards and then again on veteran stay.

589
00:41:48,630 --> 00:41:55,850
So, with that, I'll just kind of open it up to any discussion of what the commission thinks.

590
00:41:56,470 --> 00:42:00,310
What up to the commanders, Smith, back there on meeting.

591
00:42:01,290 --> 00:42:05,990
And he's perfectly fine to keep it at that 20 by 30 flag.

592
00:42:07,610 --> 00:42:10,810
He's trying to keep us from having an extra work as well.

593
00:42:11,150 --> 00:42:13,050
And I appreciate that.

594
00:42:15,730 --> 00:42:22,270
I think the 20-30 flag was a bit of a fly as better than the heavier flag, that was

595
00:42:22,270 --> 00:42:26,210
back to the ones of those.

596
00:42:26,690 --> 00:42:31,310
My suggestion was only a starting point for the discussion.

597
00:42:32,270 --> 00:42:36,630
I think correct me if I'm wrong.

598
00:42:37,070 --> 00:42:37,470
I was sorry.

599
00:42:37,690 --> 00:42:45,010
I agree with you, but you correct me if you wanted what was suggested before for safety issues.

600
00:42:45,010 --> 00:42:49,770
are y'all more inclined to keep it

601
00:42:50,750 --> 00:42:52,010
and what y'all were suggested to begin

602
00:42:52,010 --> 00:42:55,310
or do y'all think it's feasible to change it

603
00:42:55,310 --> 00:42:56,730
for the larger for these certain days

604
00:42:56,730 --> 00:42:59,690
because it does go close to the ground for half mass.

605
00:42:59,810 --> 00:43:01,010
It does fly, I know.

606
00:43:01,470 --> 00:43:03,750
Or in fact, it's capable of picking a man up

607
00:43:03,750 --> 00:43:04,850
when the wind comes strong.

608
00:43:07,150 --> 00:43:08,970
Justify that because my son flew it.

609
00:43:10,130 --> 00:43:13,050
When he had the help, he would fly up in the air

610
00:43:13,050 --> 00:43:26,070
I think I loved it, you know, but I know Dennis had talked about that safety that he would be in more, that's my concerns, more safety.

611
00:43:27,050 --> 00:43:29,230
Do you have anything to say, sir?

612
00:43:33,390 --> 00:43:44,970
So one point I did, the confirmed size of our platform, so if it's 120 feet, it's all that is the minimum size to fly at 30 foot 5 feet before flying.

613
00:43:45,810 --> 00:43:56,790
So that's telling you that whole just makes minimum the height because you should always average according to the maximum size of the height of the line.

614
00:43:57,450 --> 00:44:09,790
But that doesn't take into the mechanics that are built in this, so that it's the minimal for that size, but it may not be the minimal for the best capability for the mechanics inside the black hole and work it.

615
00:44:10,650 --> 00:44:19,350
But if we want to look at it, according to the black hole, the warranty flag is the characteristic flag, which is a 20 to a 30 to a 40 to a 40.

616
00:44:19,350 --> 00:44:27,350
And that is large flag as far as I need to alteration, so let the 30 foot left, let me put flag that usually, you know,

617
00:44:28,310 --> 00:44:36,630
camping world, and Mr. Leonis doing his, is a, or do you wish they also find for that protest, but,

618
00:44:36,910 --> 00:44:44,130
rolling out so, 20 by 38, the nearest flag, is the tip way to top it, is the largest flag, and of course you have flag,

619
00:44:44,650 --> 00:44:47,830
it's also large flag and flag on military installations.

620
00:44:47,830 --> 00:44:56,150
The one below that is usually found on non-Hallody, is the post-like which is a 10-fold

621
00:44:56,150 --> 00:44:59,230
by 19-foot-like.

622
00:45:20,400 --> 00:45:24,700
So, the most flag is 17 by

623
00:45:27,740 --> 00:45:49,940
113A, 8 foot, 8 foot look, 8 foot look, 7 foot, so it's a little smaller. Our recommendation is if we're going to fly the air supply again, we're going to get some flag up, because it is the smaller one we put up. It's not that drastically different from a visual standpoint, but it's there.

624
00:45:49,940 --> 00:45:56,240
30 by 50 up on the pole and, you know, it should be select holidays.

625
00:45:56,660 --> 00:45:58,540
We have organizations ourselves,

626
00:46:01,040 --> 00:46:05,480
suitable high school, that can come out of and assist

627
00:46:05,480 --> 00:46:12,900
the city if it's needed to raise and lower the flag, but then we look at which holidays

628
00:46:12,900 --> 00:46:13,940
are going to choose from.

629
00:46:14,740 --> 00:46:18,720
So, you know, in US flag vote and in military regulations, there's a set number of holidays to

630
00:46:18,720 --> 00:46:24,200
why the Lord is flagged on, but it also said that you can fly at a smaller version and

631
00:46:24,200 --> 00:46:26,520
a little bit of that one for saving experience.

632
00:46:27,320 --> 00:46:31,740
And since we're not military, we wouldn't have to amount that back.

633
00:46:32,860 --> 00:46:34,040
Yes, but it is recommended.

634
00:46:34,820 --> 00:46:40,260
So for our organization to be up to the American Legion, are our servo-one, regularly, or

635
00:46:40,260 --> 00:46:46,480
bylaws, and servo-one or manual procedure, says the fall of the military, or US Army

636
00:46:46,480 --> 00:46:51,180
to build a ceremony, manuals, and that covers the Yosami flag

637
00:46:51,180 --> 00:46:54,000
and needles, and everything, as well.

638
00:46:55,080 --> 00:46:58,440
If an organization does not have a set standard,

639
00:46:58,700 --> 00:47:03,500
it is recommended to use the Army and Yosami manuals,

640
00:47:03,540 --> 00:47:03,800
et cetera.

641
00:47:04,720 --> 00:47:06,620
So that's where we're making that recommendation

642
00:47:07,180 --> 00:47:11,260
to kind of follow what the military manuals say,

643
00:47:11,400 --> 00:47:13,840
because they're in line with the Yosami flag code,

644
00:47:14,100 --> 00:47:15,480
but fly on those like holidays,

645
00:47:15,480 --> 00:47:25,600
We can put the larger one up, and it says, but then again, if I come into watch holiday,

646
00:47:25,900 --> 00:47:31,720
we're going to get an I see on the notes, it's like a for the July, better in the day,

647
00:47:32,320 --> 00:47:34,640
but I would argue Memorial Day is the most important.

648
00:47:36,160 --> 00:47:40,540
And that's tough because it's half, half, half, half, half, half, half.

649
00:47:40,540 --> 00:47:44,340
It's half, half, half from sunrise and zoom, and you're putting it back on full staff.

650
00:47:44,340 --> 00:47:48,840
So there's some extra matter of labor involved to that.

651
00:47:49,160 --> 00:47:51,500
But these days, schools out.

652
00:47:51,760 --> 00:47:52,660
Let's just sit down here.

653
00:47:53,520 --> 00:47:55,280
So unless you've got kids going to summer school,

654
00:47:55,480 --> 00:47:57,140
or have them call out and get paid paid.

655
00:47:57,400 --> 00:47:59,980
Well, Chris is saying normally does it.

656
00:48:01,140 --> 00:48:03,360
I don't know that we really will get to their mess

657
00:48:03,360 --> 00:48:05,560
who would apply like that.

658
00:48:06,120 --> 00:48:06,700
But potentially.

659
00:48:07,100 --> 00:48:07,580
Potentially.

660
00:48:08,540 --> 00:48:10,580
I mean, some support if it's not windy,

661
00:48:11,200 --> 00:48:12,780
just to make sure the flag doesn't touch.

662
00:48:12,780 --> 00:48:18,780
But I think the 20 by 30 year round would be the best.

663
00:48:19,760 --> 00:48:20,660
I agree.

664
00:48:21,300 --> 00:48:24,060
Yeah, you guys are the experts in the South.

665
00:48:24,160 --> 00:48:26,060
I think we need to follow your recommendations.

666
00:48:28,200 --> 00:48:34,720
And with that commission, what I'd like to do is to set it by resolution that that's what we're doing.

667
00:48:35,840 --> 00:48:39,380
The most sure way to have consistency of what we're doing,

668
00:48:39,380 --> 00:48:48,520
So there's not power of personalities and stuff like that saying, hey, we want this big flag or something is that that we have consistent action

669
00:48:48,520 --> 00:48:54,760
We know what we're doing. So we'll bring it back in in resolution form to the flag size

670
00:49:13,380 --> 00:49:17,820
I think the poll is different too, it's supposed to be not 250 feet in my room.

671
00:49:18,820 --> 00:49:22,860
So that, I think some of the numbers were risk-spoken size when you threw that.

672
00:49:23,060 --> 00:49:25,360
So higher than 20 feet is the minimum standard.

673
00:49:25,640 --> 00:49:25,880
Okay.

674
00:49:26,140 --> 00:49:29,740
For a 30 foot above 50 foot, I don't know.

675
00:49:30,360 --> 00:49:34,240
I know the Athens flag poles of our 50 feet.

676
00:49:34,640 --> 00:49:36,840
I don't know if I did look better about that after the meeting last week.

677
00:49:36,840 --> 00:49:38,820
But they're out of the market to be.

678
00:49:39,260 --> 00:49:41,020
But they're a mechanics inside the flagpole,

679
00:49:41,300 --> 00:49:44,180
or also designed specifically to fly that order flag

680
00:49:44,180 --> 00:49:45,780
or the heart-20.

681
00:49:46,060 --> 00:49:50,220
Is it minimal because of the set quarter higher flagpole?

682
00:49:50,960 --> 00:49:51,660
But our recommendation,

683
00:49:52,160 --> 00:49:55,500
and to be able to do, we're doing the air inside,

684
00:49:55,980 --> 00:49:58,680
is to put about 38 points on your round.

685
00:49:59,540 --> 00:50:01,720
20, about 20, about 38.

686
00:50:02,020 --> 00:50:04,520
20, about 30, about 30, about 30, about 30.

687
00:50:05,020 --> 00:50:11,620
Well, as we would say, but when your work is 20, but very deep, when you fall into the U.S. flag vote,

688
00:50:11,760 --> 00:50:14,740
for sending it to the betterment, I think that there's more to the right.

689
00:50:15,060 --> 00:50:20,920
Before we, before I reach down, I'll make sure that I got the right work with him,

690
00:50:20,940 --> 00:50:23,020
make sure that I got the exact right dimensions.

691
00:50:23,300 --> 00:50:25,840
Do not hurt in a slight 20, about 30 here.

692
00:50:27,480 --> 00:50:30,940
We're up this 20, about 30, but we're there this 20, about 30 action.

693
00:50:31,460 --> 00:50:34,040
And this gentleman, he did this in the military.

694
00:50:35,540 --> 00:50:36,180
I do that.

695
00:50:36,500 --> 00:50:36,520
I do that.

696
00:50:36,520 --> 00:50:36,600
I do that.

697
00:50:36,600 --> 00:50:37,340
I do that.

698
00:50:37,340 --> 00:50:40,940
I did a part two different.

699
00:50:41,040 --> 00:50:42,260
I think that's where I got the two.

700
00:50:42,420 --> 00:50:45,000
Because he was talking about the bigger one.

701
00:50:45,820 --> 00:50:48,200
That our public out here was like a pattern to do something.

702
00:50:48,720 --> 00:50:48,840
Whatever.

703
00:50:48,840 --> 00:50:50,220
What I read is.

704
00:50:50,540 --> 00:50:51,120
And the reason.

705
00:50:51,340 --> 00:50:52,280
I was so large.

706
00:50:52,400 --> 00:50:56,000
Actually, our public was not the size that needed to be in order to fly.

707
00:50:56,640 --> 00:51:00,320
That's why I think the public had some of the issues that they averaged it.

708
00:51:00,320 --> 00:51:04,940
in the windcarts. Is it fair to say that's kind of disliked to refer to it as the 20

709
00:51:04,940 --> 00:51:07,140
about 30, and everybody knows it's the 20 about 30.

710
00:51:13,300 --> 00:51:13,700
Okay,

711
00:51:23,320 --> 00:51:29,780
thank you for coming, thank you so much.

712
00:51:31,240 --> 00:51:39,580
The last item on the agenda for discussion was the consideration of changing department head

713
00:51:39,580 --> 00:51:42,020
or key manager vacation at Croules.

714
00:51:43,340 --> 00:51:43,500
Kristen.

715
00:51:45,620 --> 00:51:49,800
So this is a follow-up to the discussion commissioner Johnson started last week.

716
00:51:50,100 --> 00:51:56,000
John Michelle and I worked on the proposed accrual schedule that you can see listed there.

717
00:51:57,120 --> 00:52:02,180
We feel that this is a good way to kind of do what we're trying to accomplish, and that's

718
00:52:02,180 --> 00:52:04,520
for crew experience leaders for those key positions.

719
00:52:05,200 --> 00:52:08,500
We have not extended the vacation accrual capital.

720
00:52:08,820 --> 00:52:10,080
It still caps at the same number.

721
00:52:10,340 --> 00:52:11,340
Follows the same steps.

722
00:52:11,520 --> 00:52:16,680
It just starts out a little bit higher with smaller increases on the same gears of service.

723
00:52:17,580 --> 00:52:17,640
The other.

724
00:52:18,820 --> 00:52:25,600
And the reason I honestly feel like we should do this again for recruitment, retention.

725
00:52:26,700 --> 00:52:29,840
Also, key managers are salary employees.

726
00:52:30,820 --> 00:52:40,540
It's salary employee, just don't clock out at 40 hours. It'll take 60 hours for a month, like that, and it's the hours to comment their goals.

727
00:52:41,260 --> 00:52:46,880
Where the hourly employees, they don't have to say for the education.

728
00:52:50,250 --> 00:52:59,810
So, I know our key managers are putting in the time and doing a lot of extra work when it comes to the city.

729
00:53:01,600 --> 00:53:07,720
One of the considerations that we've already been discussing even before this came up is

730
00:53:07,720 --> 00:53:15,780
the possibility of expanding Compt Time, Compensatory Time, is that right now if you

731
00:53:15,780 --> 00:53:23,020
have over five years with the city we don't allow it and stuff we just pay out over time.

732
00:53:23,380 --> 00:53:31,400
But I think that is something that I'm not exactly sure what the thinking was when

733
00:53:31,400 --> 00:53:45,580
And that was approved and stuff, but, you know, maybe it was to give newer employees the opportunity to get a few more vacation hours and stuff and just the eight hours that starts out.

734
00:53:45,840 --> 00:54:01,380
But one thing I would say is that it kind of works if we've been already having that discussion to open that up for all of the salaries, excuse me, all of the hourly employees to open that up, because I know that some would like to

735
00:54:01,380 --> 00:54:04,320
essentially have that instead, I would imagine,

736
00:54:04,840 --> 00:54:06,840
some would like to use that.

737
00:54:06,840 --> 00:54:09,580
And it works out for us as far as $1 wise.

738
00:54:10,080 --> 00:54:12,840
It makes really not much of a difference.

739
00:54:13,720 --> 00:54:16,380
And that actually works in our favor if we

740
00:54:16,380 --> 00:54:18,360
elect them have that as vacation hours.

741
00:54:18,800 --> 00:54:21,880
It's still dependent on, because we're really

742
00:54:21,880 --> 00:54:23,080
talking about two departments.

743
00:54:23,080 --> 00:54:25,920
We're talking about the police and the public

744
00:54:25,920 --> 00:54:28,000
works department primarily.

745
00:54:28,000 --> 00:54:35,980
It works in their favor as far as their budget to manage their budget a little bit and then the department

746
00:54:35,980 --> 00:54:45,280
had always still have control of that to meet operational needs and staff is that they're not more obligated

747
00:54:45,280 --> 00:54:49,020
and it is kept at, I believe, 40 hours and staff.

748
00:54:49,500 --> 00:54:55,060
So, I know the salary studies complain of part of the hourly people for looking at their salaries

749
00:54:55,640 --> 00:55:02,080
correct. Let's say that again. When the salary study is finished, it looks at the hourly

750
00:55:02,080 --> 00:55:07,320
employees as well and it knows what needs to be adjusted just like this. Yes, all employees on

751
00:55:07,320 --> 00:55:14,340
that is, yeah. I have concerns with doing an increase on vacation hours just for management.

752
00:55:15,400 --> 00:55:20,700
I mean, I've been an hourly employee most of my life and I know how that would feel to me when

753
00:55:20,700 --> 00:55:26,460
already getting. Management already gets the extra 1.5% for their retention bonus. Now they're

754
00:55:26,460 --> 00:55:29,160
also going to recruit a higher rate.

755
00:55:31,530 --> 00:55:36,010
Well the cap is the same for like once you get to 20 years,

756
00:55:36,050 --> 00:55:42,830
for example, but I think kind of the the idea was two things first. We we do not have any trouble

757
00:55:43,650 --> 00:55:49,810
recruiting police officers public works laborers. We we have an abundance of applications and I can't

758
00:55:49,810 --> 00:55:52,530
exactly say the same for the key management positions.

759
00:55:53,910 --> 00:55:57,110
The other consideration would just be the level of experience

760
00:55:57,110 --> 00:56:00,210
they're bringing in potentially, whereas the police officers

761
00:56:00,210 --> 00:56:02,970
is potentially maybe more entry level.

762
00:56:03,290 --> 00:56:06,210
If you have somebody who's walking into a leadership position

763
00:56:06,210 --> 00:56:09,090
with 10 years of experience, that could be something

764
00:56:09,090 --> 00:56:10,010
we might want to consider.

765
00:56:13,160 --> 00:56:14,920
Because we have two class spaces found.

766
00:56:15,100 --> 00:56:18,120
We've got the key managers and the hourly employees

767
00:56:18,120 --> 00:56:22,380
if you will. And we depend upon our employees.

768
00:56:24,500 --> 00:56:27,660
And it is easier to hire those, like you

769
00:56:27,660 --> 00:56:36,520
say, for the police officers or public works. And I know that from a corporate role, three

770
00:56:36,520 --> 00:56:44,700
weeks is pretty standard to get when you are in salary, people, people, people. In position.

771
00:56:44,700 --> 00:56:49,560
And so I think it is, I personally think it's a good thing for the city to do.

772
00:56:50,360 --> 00:56:52,020
Yeah, I think we need to stay competitive.

773
00:56:53,100 --> 00:56:58,560
And who are we taking into consideration what other local municipalities?

774
00:56:59,900 --> 00:57:06,760
As far as this, well, I guess I'll say separately what we talked about before with the compensation study.

775
00:57:06,760 --> 00:57:12,260
I am actively working to compare all of the local cities and all of that.

776
00:57:12,260 --> 00:57:20,080
But I would say, I think we need to compare ourselves not only to the surrounding municipalities, but also like Commissioner Johnson said like the private sector.

777
00:57:20,880 --> 00:57:27,960
And just knowing that I think key managers, especially, you know, maybe a police officer can only go to a city and be a police officer.

778
00:57:28,420 --> 00:57:35,080
But when you're looking at key manager positions, they could go to TVA to, you know, blue cross, whatever.

779
00:57:35,560 --> 00:57:39,240
They have a little bit, I would say, more options as far as where they go as well.

780
00:57:39,240 --> 00:57:41,620
I mean, I do what City of China go.

781
00:57:42,260 --> 00:57:43,620
So City of China, I do actually.

782
00:57:44,080 --> 00:57:49,240
And they run on a PTO schedule, but I believe they start

783
00:57:49,240 --> 00:57:50,940
in terms of maybe you can help me with this.

784
00:57:50,960 --> 00:57:52,980
But I think that they start close.

785
00:57:53,280 --> 00:57:55,040
Is it 28 days of PTO?

786
00:57:56,280 --> 00:58:00,640
33 days of PTO, so that I would say is.

787
00:58:01,020 --> 00:58:01,540
Inclusive.

788
00:58:02,520 --> 00:58:02,700
OK.

789
00:58:03,320 --> 00:58:07,720
Just to counter argument, aren't we still being competitive

790
00:58:07,720 --> 00:58:17,420
If we increase it for all of our employees and not just the management class, I don't think somebody's not going to take a job with us in a management position just because we increased it across the board.

791
00:58:19,840 --> 00:58:28,680
I would agree with that. Maybe two considerations for that would be one budgetary considerations when you're talking about filling shifts like with a police department.

792
00:58:28,880 --> 00:58:30,680
You're having to find somebody to cover those shifts.

793
00:58:31,280 --> 00:58:36,820
The second thing would just be the expanded comp time. I think that is something we could definitely bring that for approval.

794
00:58:36,820 --> 00:58:41,220
If we wanted to also take this for approval, we could bring both at the same time and that would

795
00:58:41,220 --> 00:58:46,080
allow all I really am pleased to have the benefit of basically accruing more vacation.

796
00:58:46,960 --> 00:58:48,520
So it is sort of the same.

797
00:58:49,140 --> 00:58:54,200
How likely do the other departments of the police and public works have opportunities to earn

798
00:58:54,200 --> 00:58:55,040
comp time?

799
00:58:56,040 --> 00:59:00,800
It probably varies a little bit based on position, but I think that there's, I would say,

800
00:59:00,800 --> 00:59:13,800
I'm just thinking of, you know, for Christy and for the court ladies and I mean there's others too, but just they came to mind.

801
00:59:15,820 --> 00:59:20,460
I think I'd be more comfortable if we're doing it at the same time, but we're also going to allow the comp time.

802
00:59:20,680 --> 00:59:25,260
I feel like I don't want to leave our hourly employees thinking that they are so standard.

803
00:59:25,260 --> 00:59:34,000
Well, I think that's what we communicate through HR to them is we are looking at this and the top top limit.

804
00:59:34,400 --> 00:59:43,060
Yeah, I think that's a great thing and if you all would be on board with like us bringing back at the next commission meeting both of those things, like you said,

805
00:59:43,700 --> 00:59:51,720
the comp time expanded for hourly employees past five years and then this vacation accrual schedule, I think that would be good.

806
00:59:51,720 --> 00:59:53,120
Yeah, I think that sounds good.

807
00:59:53,120 --> 00:59:54,220
Okay, thank you.

808
00:59:54,420 --> 00:59:58,780
And a lot of the corporate because it's so much time and effort into training, getting

809
00:59:58,780 --> 00:59:59,720
qualified people.

810
01:00:00,080 --> 01:00:10,380
So we're talking for them. It's worth holding on to those people. And that's why we're going to favor trying to bring this to us.

811
01:00:16,150 --> 01:00:19,570
We're clear on this. And

812
01:00:22,450 --> 01:00:25,590
next step would be commission reports. Anything?

813
01:00:27,130 --> 01:00:27,750
I've got to help.

814
01:00:27,750 --> 01:00:36,330
ready. All right. So three weeks now, trash we saw the dollar dinner or a dollar

815
01:00:36,330 --> 01:00:44,850
pre-store. Laying outside next to absentee. We all drive by daily. Why is it still there?

816
01:00:45,950 --> 01:00:52,270
Have we done anything about giving you a talk to them about picking it up, talking about getting

817
01:00:53,010 --> 01:00:54,670
some type of

818
01:00:56,840 --> 01:01:03,080
rotten, not wrong with ticket, but this was the issue last year before as well

819
01:01:03,080 --> 01:01:06,200
because I remember y'all have to go out there and speak to them.

820
01:01:06,520 --> 01:01:10,260
I'm so sorry I've been out a couple weeks with knee surgery, but I'd be happy to have.

821
01:01:10,260 --> 01:01:15,560
No, but you got people that drive by, I don't know, that's, that's what brought me home.

822
01:01:15,900 --> 01:01:16,020
Sure.

823
01:01:16,200 --> 01:01:16,960
They're tree right here.

824
01:01:17,800 --> 01:01:20,200
Yeah, I mean, they don't have our A-created code case.

825
01:01:20,280 --> 01:01:22,240
They just look bad for the city.

826
01:01:22,240 --> 01:01:24,400
Yeah, they may have already created a code case.

827
01:01:24,620 --> 01:01:28,600
I just have to check them to see where that's all they need to do is be

828
01:01:29,200 --> 01:01:31,220
going to do a dollar store.

829
01:01:31,600 --> 01:01:36,380
And I noticed there are dumpsters behind the fence and so when you

830
01:01:36,380 --> 01:01:41,020
would check on that, they were supposed to be behind the fence.

831
01:01:44,570 --> 01:01:48,370
I know we ran into a similar situation behind the supercuts,

832
01:01:48,370 --> 01:01:55,750
for house subs and there was really bad flies and everything and yeah it was kind of

833
01:01:55,750 --> 01:02:03,630
concluded. Come to find out it was supposedly firehouse responsibility to have the dumpster

834
01:02:03,630 --> 01:02:10,870
emptied and lung storage short I was able to actually locate the number online for the

835
01:02:10,870 --> 01:02:17,230
over apparently had changed hands of who owned it and I was able to contact them and they were

836
01:02:17,230 --> 01:02:19,170
and what quickly contact proper management.

837
01:02:20,150 --> 01:02:21,550
So it was able to get resolved quickly,

838
01:02:21,690 --> 01:02:23,850
but it's not always that simplistic.

839
01:02:24,210 --> 01:02:26,970
Oftentimes, if there is a change in management or ownership,

840
01:02:27,670 --> 01:02:29,010
and it very well may have.

841
01:02:29,330 --> 01:02:31,870
I know I can't really talk about the whole lot,

842
01:02:32,090 --> 01:02:35,610
but I did get an email today from Garrett

843
01:02:35,610 --> 01:02:39,290
and there's discussion about potential change in use

844
01:02:39,290 --> 01:02:40,030
of that building.

845
01:02:40,250 --> 01:02:43,970
And so it could be that that's part of what's going on

846
01:02:43,970 --> 01:02:44,690
with that whole thing too.

847
01:02:44,690 --> 01:02:46,630
Yeah, we've had some challenges with that.

848
01:02:46,630 --> 01:02:50,810
It's not that I'm opposed to it, I like to drink a lot of those into it.

849
01:02:51,510 --> 01:02:54,590
But there's traces laying around on the asphalt.

850
01:02:57,790 --> 01:02:59,950
The other one I have, I've mentioned to Chris.

851
01:03:01,490 --> 01:03:09,730
For lack of better words, there is a gumball top machine that people put a quarter in, and

852
01:03:09,730 --> 01:03:13,710
it gives them food in their hands so they can feed the ducks.

853
01:03:14,230 --> 01:03:17,010
Well, that hasn't worked. I know it three months now,

854
01:03:17,150 --> 01:03:20,090
according to the contact with me about it.

855
01:03:20,670 --> 01:03:22,910
She says you put a quarter in, it will about turn.

856
01:03:23,150 --> 01:03:28,350
I said, well, it's probably full of coins, but I'm surprised we have it out there,

857
01:03:28,390 --> 01:03:31,150
because we can't, I don't know why to keep it up, I guess.

858
01:03:31,190 --> 01:03:36,070
I'm not sure who put it there. I checked with Scotty Wheeler,

859
01:03:36,290 --> 01:03:42,590
who's been here 13 plus years. He's never been involved with removing quarters or

860
01:03:42,590 --> 01:03:45,930
a replenishing supply, so I'm not quite sure.

861
01:03:46,050 --> 01:03:46,570
Let's see what it looks like.

862
01:03:46,590 --> 01:03:47,330
Now that operates.

863
01:03:48,490 --> 01:03:50,970
Practice supply, and then a little girl come running up

864
01:03:50,970 --> 01:03:54,830
for the quarter minute in work, and so on.

865
01:03:54,970 --> 01:03:57,010
So apparently someone's been running a business at the pond.

866
01:03:57,370 --> 01:03:58,210
We have no value.

867
01:03:59,130 --> 01:04:01,150
Or not, maybe the quarter is full.

868
01:04:01,910 --> 01:04:03,510
But did you give her a quarter back?

869
01:04:03,830 --> 01:04:05,130
No, it wasn't the end of the day.

870
01:04:07,830 --> 01:04:08,910
I know what he's talking about,

871
01:04:08,910 --> 01:04:14,210
because I spent my baby's up there, and it was always stuck, you couldn't.

872
01:04:14,930 --> 01:04:21,210
The daycare next to, um, um, uh, good morning, the road.

873
01:04:23,570 --> 01:04:28,050
The daycare is right past the daycare.

874
01:04:28,270 --> 01:04:30,910
There is, that ditch, T.D.D.

875
01:04:30,910 --> 01:04:32,550
never came and cleared that ditch out.

876
01:04:34,780 --> 01:04:41,180
They were supposed to weigh in with season or the wastewater people as I was looking at everything.

877
01:04:42,200 --> 01:04:48,160
I don't ever know, we ever got truly resurrection on all that stuff.

878
01:04:48,480 --> 01:04:52,420
And did you all drag a tire under the straight there?

879
01:04:52,740 --> 01:04:54,260
Because my answer do you were going to do that?

880
01:04:55,520 --> 01:04:58,440
Okay, so go pass that a little bit.

881
01:04:58,780 --> 01:05:02,080
The new building that's been sitting there empty, that's for lease, whatever.

882
01:05:03,140 --> 01:05:10,300
When you look down at the last rock, I'll call it Pith, the last set of words with the

883
01:05:10,300 --> 01:05:16,100
greats on it, the water is the standing in there. It's like it's not slope rod or something.

884
01:05:16,760 --> 01:05:19,500
I'll get you if you drove by today it's going to still have water.

885
01:05:20,540 --> 01:05:23,320
So I don't know why we don't look at that or...

886
01:05:23,320 --> 01:05:28,220
Yeah, I mean that would be through Hamilton County typically because they do the water quality

887
01:05:28,920 --> 01:05:30,240
aspects of the development.

888
01:05:31,660 --> 01:05:35,860
Yeah, TDOT, I know we've tried to have them come and clean the ditches on

889
01:05:35,860 --> 01:05:38,300
to our wringle, try to reshape them.

890
01:05:39,520 --> 01:05:45,780
I don't know that they're full-staffed, think they're just trying to find the time and

891
01:05:45,780 --> 01:05:47,000
the manpower to do that.

892
01:05:47,220 --> 01:05:53,940
Yeah, because the first little, where dog wood is, the new set areas there, that first

893
01:05:53,940 --> 01:05:58,080
water that runs out, it just doesn't have any likes to go.

894
01:05:58,700 --> 01:06:01,740
In the second one, it's a little deeper for the ditch,

895
01:06:02,540 --> 01:06:06,180
but again, it backs up because you can't get any

896
01:06:06,180 --> 01:06:07,800
a pipe under the street.

897
01:06:11,440 --> 01:06:12,560
We need an office and call.

898
01:06:12,860 --> 01:06:16,660
I reach out to TDOT and Hamilton County.

899
01:06:18,960 --> 01:06:25,680
And the last thing I have to have is, thank you for taking care

900
01:06:25,680 --> 01:06:33,220
or investigating, or the commission, there's a tractor trail that people were ordering food

901
01:06:33,220 --> 01:06:38,720
and it came in, packed full of food, and people would come in, but ow, it's certain how I

902
01:06:38,720 --> 01:06:46,880
picked the food up, and the totagope, people say, hey, tractor trailer moved, and there's

903
01:06:48,520 --> 01:06:56,000
rear-pandom axles, left a huge indention, and I guess it may be too hot, or I don't know

904
01:06:56,000 --> 01:07:01,720
what it was to have even a truck, but Chris and his team has put up no tractor trailers.

905
01:07:03,800 --> 01:07:06,000
So was it Scotty or somebody that tried to?

906
01:07:06,160 --> 01:07:12,460
Yeah, we did, I was able to communicate with the company that was doing that, advise them

907
01:07:12,460 --> 01:07:19,140
issue they apologized, did indicate that they can't use that facility any more than need

908
01:07:19,140 --> 01:07:26,200
to find another location and they are waiting for information for me as far as the estimate

909
01:07:26,200 --> 01:07:26,640
of repair.

910
01:07:27,640 --> 01:07:27,960
Yes.

911
01:07:28,760 --> 01:07:29,600
Thank you, Chairman.

912
01:07:30,560 --> 01:07:32,960
Thank you.

913
01:07:32,960 --> 01:07:34,740
I want

914
01:07:38,230 --> 01:07:44,830
to compliment Christina and her crew this weekend for the timbre event. It was probably received

915
01:07:44,830 --> 01:07:50,170
well by the public. It was fun. I think it'll probably be larger next year. Very fun event.

916
01:07:51,490 --> 01:07:54,850
And then I was going to ask, I need the T dot contact. We'll have a theme of T dot.

917
01:07:55,590 --> 01:08:04,030
For who we've been talking to, about shop on May and about that, something very, I'm going to

918
01:08:06,730 --> 01:08:22,170
I think when Eric was here, because Jerry Daniels who owned that shop, it was flooding and stuff, and T.O.T. on that great end of runoff.

919
01:08:23,250 --> 01:08:25,050
They told us the exact opposite.

920
01:08:25,570 --> 01:08:26,170
T.O.T.

921
01:08:27,370 --> 01:08:27,430
Yeah.

922
01:08:27,430 --> 01:08:30,450
It was theirs and they weren't, we couldn't touch it.

923
01:08:30,530 --> 01:08:34,890
Yeah. Well, you've been said, hey, well, at our expense to fix the problem, we'll do it.

924
01:08:34,890 --> 01:08:37,130
And they, no, we don't want you to mess with it.

925
01:08:37,450 --> 01:08:38,210
Hmm, so.

926
01:08:38,530 --> 01:08:40,830
Because I don't know, Eric went out there and did stuff.

927
01:08:41,410 --> 01:08:43,310
It's a pretty deep hole for it.

928
01:08:43,390 --> 01:08:44,030
Yeah, it's not been out there.

929
01:08:44,050 --> 01:08:45,350
You could easily break an ankle.

930
01:08:46,810 --> 01:08:56,470
They also need to work on, um, we've done it as a courtesy as, but they need to come out and fix

931
01:08:56,470 --> 01:09:00,590
not manny overheard. Before you get in the money with that street on the backside front of the

932
01:09:00,590 --> 01:09:06,750
health department, that room is bad. It's always got far holes in everything else and we went

933
01:09:06,750 --> 01:09:10,790
out and fixed it all the time. Head neighbors in my neighborhood go out and it's not even called us

934
01:09:10,790 --> 01:09:16,350
probably go out and don't see men so they're trying to protect the part of us because how can we

935
01:09:16,350 --> 01:09:23,210
kind of welcome out of the site? It's kind of like we're the redhead stepchild. You know we're at home

936
01:09:23,210 --> 01:09:30,170
back side and they haven't been coming out and to take care of that property. So I get calls

937
01:09:30,170 --> 01:09:35,030
haven't lately though. I've got calls about why I can be fixed the road. I'm not told

938
01:09:35,030 --> 01:09:41,750
to call half county called T dot come fixed the road. I have been out there since 1999 and

939
01:09:41,750 --> 01:09:43,530
that's never been paid.

940
01:09:49,220 --> 01:09:55,580
Also there's some limbs that are fallen over. I just noticed that yesterday

941
01:09:55,580 --> 01:10:01,540
When I came with the cables come down because of the wind, if you go around this, you just

942
01:10:01,540 --> 01:10:07,660
drop that on the right side, big branches have come down over the cable and you're saying

943
01:10:07,660 --> 01:10:09,300
that there's still hanging there today.

944
01:10:09,840 --> 01:10:10,660
And where is that location?

945
01:10:11,360 --> 01:10:11,840
Hostory.

946
01:10:12,460 --> 01:10:12,700
Yeah.

947
01:10:12,920 --> 01:10:13,400
Interrupted.

948
01:10:13,400 --> 01:10:15,000
Back to church.

949
01:10:15,560 --> 01:10:17,680
And when you go around the corner, it turns into Hostory.

950
01:10:18,580 --> 01:10:18,800
Right.

951
01:10:19,360 --> 01:10:24,560
It's about like four houses on the right, there's some trees there and there's huge branches.

952
01:10:24,560 --> 01:10:28,960
This is not going to be this thing in its kind of getting lower to the ground.

953
01:10:30,420 --> 01:10:32,400
This morning when I went out, it was there.

954
01:10:32,860 --> 01:10:37,980
I haven't checked because I met up this afternoon, but I thought somebody said call on that

955
01:10:37,980 --> 01:10:41,860
because yesterday it was, I don't think it was, I don't think it was, I don't think it was.

956
01:10:41,860 --> 01:10:45,700
The last people that call it was, it's cheaper for those that fix it when the line comes

957
01:10:45,700 --> 01:10:47,340
down they don't want to sit in the ground.

958
01:10:48,180 --> 01:10:49,100
Yeah, that's what they call it.

959
01:10:49,160 --> 01:10:50,160
No, it's that issue.

960
01:10:50,160 --> 01:10:52,200
It should either be the county or EPB.

961
01:10:52,520 --> 01:10:52,780
Yeah.

962
01:10:53,460 --> 01:11:00,580
The APB came out one time in my neighborhood, and fixed it with it, and that on the back side of our railroad tracks, it was coming down.

963
01:11:01,280 --> 01:11:04,860
And they came fixed it because the poll was going to go over the tracks.

964
01:11:05,720 --> 01:11:07,060
That would have been difficult problem.

965
01:11:07,580 --> 01:11:09,200
But they don't get angry.

966
01:11:14,070 --> 01:11:15,590
All right, morning, nothing further.

967
01:11:16,970 --> 01:11:19,650
I would say that I don't have a lot.

968
01:11:20,030 --> 01:11:27,370
Probably one of the biggest things I've got a due date for the application for the

969
01:11:28,230 --> 01:11:35,730
two-rism grant for those of you that I haven't shared this with is that we can get up to

970
01:11:35,730 --> 01:11:36,910
$100,000.

971
01:11:38,070 --> 01:11:43,890
We have to have a 50-50 match, so whatever we're putting in or whatever we're requesting,

972
01:11:44,170 --> 01:11:45,510
we have to have 50-50 match.

973
01:11:45,850 --> 01:11:53,390
Well, we already have $100,000 asked in our put-in to our budget, so I feel, we should ask

974
01:11:53,390 --> 01:11:59,470
We're another 100,000, that'll allow us to do some all of the way finding signs, but

975
01:11:59,470 --> 01:12:08,330
also could allow us to move forward with larger signs as far as a larger monument sign

976
01:12:08,330 --> 01:12:15,170
up on top of Abs and Pike coming in, it really makes a statement as people coming into

977
01:12:15,170 --> 01:12:16,410
our community and stuff.

978
01:12:17,350 --> 01:12:23,690
So working on that, Michelle's been helping with that, and that's going well.

979
01:12:24,630 --> 01:12:29,170
So I could say, keep my fingers crossed, and that's got to be in by the end of the week.

980
01:12:29,450 --> 01:12:30,290
So I'll have that completed.

981
01:12:31,530 --> 01:12:39,630
Other than that, and I'm not sure, I've given you the applications, the letters of interest,

982
01:12:39,630 --> 01:12:42,550
for the airport board.

983
01:12:43,370 --> 01:12:52,390
My hope on that is or request is that you guys take a look over for those and you will

984
01:12:52,390 --> 01:12:52,870
send that.

985
01:12:53,050 --> 01:12:58,090
We'll just do that the same process that we did for the industrial development board.

986
01:12:58,470 --> 01:13:00,710
Just send me your top five.

987
01:13:00,750 --> 01:13:02,210
I'll take those votes.

988
01:13:02,950 --> 01:13:09,330
And at the next meeting of the City Council, which will be on the 8th of September,

989
01:13:09,330 --> 01:13:13,670
But we'll put that on the agenda for you guys to get them.

990
01:13:14,470 --> 01:13:22,250
So if I can get those back later, no later than the second, which is the Wednesday before

991
01:13:23,430 --> 01:13:27,310
the Memorial Day, that would be greatly appreciated.

992
01:13:27,810 --> 01:13:31,650
So sooner than the better I can get that and get that out of the way and ready to go.

993
01:13:33,880 --> 01:13:39,560
I was quite pleased with some of the fairly sharp individuals who put in that, so that's

994
01:13:39,560 --> 01:13:39,780
Sorry.

995
01:13:39,780 --> 01:13:40,540
Very good.

996
01:13:43,640 --> 01:13:45,240
And then it's all I have with that.

997
01:13:45,420 --> 01:13:47,780
There's no other items to will adjourn.

998
01:13:48,080 --> 01:13:48,220
All right.

999
01:13:48,360 --> 01:13:49,020
Thank you.