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for
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ready yes sir I'm ready
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ready all right before we start if
anybody would like to address the board
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tonight under public comment there's a
signup sheet here at the
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front so I wanted to make sure we got
that in
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place we got a few minutes before six
but there have been times we have
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started late so we're going to start a
little early I'm going to call this me
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go ahead and sign I'm going to call this
meeting to order tonight our invocation
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will be done by commissioner wil Wilkins
and our Pledge of Allegiance by
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commissioner
Albright let us pray gracious father Our
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God we come before you this evening to
say thank you we thank you oh God for
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the grace that you show us father God
and the mercy that you give us we thank
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you Father God for your abounding love
in our lives we ask father God you
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please bless every member of this board
bless our citizens father God we ask a
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special blessing this evening on a
pillar of our community sister mild go
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father God we thank you for her all that
she's done father God we pray that you
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would just watch over give longevity of
Life father we thank you we love you we
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lift you up and we glorify you holy Your
Righteous name we say thank you right
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now in the mighty name of Jesus and his
name's sake we pray amen amen amen take
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PL I to the flag of the United States of
America and to the rep for stands one
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nation God indivisible with liy Justice
for
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All
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see Madam Court roll call please
commissioner gleon here Wilkins here
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commissioner alight here Mayim kachinsky
here mayor Willer here thank you all
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right is there any additions or
deletions from our agenda tonight
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not seeing any I'm sorry one item close
session sir okay we will add a item to
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close
session Kevin we have to have number
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announced or any of that we should
what's the what's the purpose it's a
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Personnel mounted 143 318
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1186 person now okay we'll add that
under close session number
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16 anything else any other
changes not hearing any I'll entertain a
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motion to approve the agenda with the
addition of the closed session
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ation all right the motion is made by
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the mayor Pro Tim all those in favor say
I I oppose no motion carries 4
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to0 all right at this time I'll
entertain a motion for item five the
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consent
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agenda motion is made by commissioner
Wilkins all those in favor say I I
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oppose no motion carries
420 and we move to item
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six with Miss Mrs
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GS m m if you would come up front with
me
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please a walk we got you tax bill
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here up stra
taxes I know you
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will this all the years I've known you
you've been one of the finest people
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that I have ever met you have always had
crore at the Forefront of everything you
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did and if it wasn't crore it was a
county and a lot of people didn't always
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agree with you but we just wrote it down
that they were wrong so at this
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time you come for the yeah everybody
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coming get
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there bab in
the he'll be in the back
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all right are we good on that yes sir we
are good right this time I have a
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proclamation honoring Mrs mild bur gos
whereas Mrs milber Curry go was born in
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s for Township to Roger and cor Curr on
August 28th
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1929 and whereas Mrs GSS has three
children Sandra aen Karen kimry her
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husband clay and Jerry Ross and two
grandchildren Tracy mcen and Genie
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Parish her husband Chad whereas Mrs GS
worked for the state of North Carolina
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for 39 A2 years and retired in February
of
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1996 as a health information manager
with adatc which is alcohol and drug
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abuse treatment center and whereas Mrs G
organized the gramble county genealogy
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society and has been the president for
the past 30 years doesn't seem that long
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does it and has been doing lineage
research from o group since the early
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1990s and whereas Mrs G has been a
member of the United Daughters of the
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Confederacy since 1995 and is currently
serving as the North Carolina division
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registrar is a member of the Daughters
of the American R Revolution and
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organized a chapter in Granville County
in 2000 and whereas Mrs G worked with
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the Board of Elections for 20 years as a
Precinct judge at crore elementary
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school served on the ramille county
library board and served on the city's
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planning board from 2001 until
2018 and whereas Mrs G has researched
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cataloged and collaborated on cemeter
records from gramble County 454
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cemeteries which include an endless SA
walking in the woods looking for old
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cemeteries and has published three books
current connection Bible records of
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gramble County and marriage records of
gramble County 1866 to
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1894 now therefore the proclaimed that
as the mayor and on behalf of the city
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of cmore I thank Mrs M gos for her
public service to the city of prore and
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the community and her tireless
dedication to Pro
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of the records of Grille County
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congratulations thank you and I love
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now miss mild you're more than welcome
to hang around with us if you'd like but
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you can also leave if you would like
well since this in good hand I want a
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picture of
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a
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good Miss Builder you know he's married
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don't you I don't
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care he's young enough to be my grandson
close enough category I'll put
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okay thank y thank you very much for all
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you've done absolutely
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um let's see where am I here got that
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got that got that yeah we don't have any
all right under public comment item
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seven
Mr
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Callas you are the only one on my list
if you would stand up give your name and
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your address and then you have three
minutes pass that back down to hold
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three minutes um my name is Michael call
address 2016 Harrison Court in prore
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27522 um I'm here just to refresh
request that some of the election
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workers have made uh folks that worked
at the crore precinct um
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um I've worked for about four years and
that loation um well it has
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a adequate space in either the gym or
the cafeteria some of the arrangements
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uh traffic patterns coming into the into
the building um and the parking lot
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itself uh are a little bit awkward um
and some of us talked about the
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possibility of using the community
center for that that pral precin polling
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location um and I think a few emails
were were written um before this past
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election and and I also followed up with
some emails and and spoke with a few um
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so I went to visit the the community
center and the will Oak looks like it
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would be adequate Pride for there's a
runoff election in in May or June I
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forget which um but we expect kind of
low turnout um and thought it would be a
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good trial run that the board would
consider that um and the general
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election we're expecting a huge turnout
uh even for the primary election that we
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had a few weeks ago we had at one point
30 or so people waiting in line and and
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they were inside the building um will o
room I don't think will have that kind
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of space and I always worry about
weather you know folks come to vote and
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may be part of their decision whether or
not to come vote uh if the weather's bad
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and they know they have to be standing
outside uh you might be a
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deterrent um and and whenever we're
we're setting up the the arrangement
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setting up the the sping plat we're
always looking for ways to make it uh
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most efficient for the voters make it as
pleasant and experience as possible um
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at least what what we have available to
to us as far as resources uh so the
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community seter just seems like it's a
great central location um the kind of
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thing that you know City the county um
would build for you know a function like
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this and uh if nothing else it's it's
great advertisement for the community
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center and all facilities that it
offers so I just just wanted to refresh
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that that request and uh what the board
to consider Mr call we would be more
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than happy to consider it I know some
members of this board have already
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expressed an interest but we need an
official request from the Board of
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Elections okay before we can do anything
at all okay so if you can get them to
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send us something we will definitely put
it at the top of the list for
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consideration okay
excellent the old halling middle school
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was also an
option you thought about that
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um I I would consider it a a a plan B if
we were to move from from the new huling
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middle school it's a little bit further
out of the way um I understand the
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facilities or uh you know it's not
staffed regularly so it might be harder
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to to get um help setting up and and
cleaning up
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um but yeah we did consider that also
and you know we may do with whatever we
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can get unfortunately that's that's the
the attitude you know we get for
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election
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can May Pro him have you spoken to yourn
for Board of election yet the the head
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judge the chief judge for the precinct
has spoken with her a few times um I I
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don't recall specifically what the the
results of that work I understand that
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she maybe did have some discussion with
somebody theor here in the city
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and what I heard was
um it was noted right away I I don't
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know specifically what but um we we
definitely will come back and let her
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know that it's under consideration
all right thank you sir thank
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you thank you
much all right we move down next to
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item
9A discussion on petition to General
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Assembly about City boundaries Mr city
manager Mr Mayor members of the board uh
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this item has been placed on the board's
agenda for discussion uh by the group
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before any action can be taken or
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made said this item has been placed on
the agenda for board
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discussion do we have any
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information that your phone's covering
the buttons you're not going to be able
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to answer anybody are you mayor Pro
10
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um I was just looking my left
conversation with one of the legislators
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involved was they just needed a letter
from the
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board um with a vote
decision to be sent to them and they
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would take it from
there if we wanted to go forward with
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this there is a letter in the package
from the city attorney yes oh okay I
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thought that was part of his no Sim Sim
Sim s
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it was before
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that okay I didn't see
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that I don't think any of had it
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okay um
is there if you want Kevin to jump in
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I'm sure he can Kevin Let's uh since we
got you here um the information she that
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he has none of us have we might have it
in
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theed it by
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email
now I have not been told by any of the
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legisl legislators who I have spoken
with about this that the city needs to
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take any specific
action whether that's adoption or
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approval of a letter or a specific
request in fact I've been in touch with
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uh a bill writer from the general
assembly who was preparing the
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background work necessary I have still
today not gotten a direct answer from
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any of our
legislators uh about what is required of
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the city in terms of procedure in order
to see this through however because
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they' put me in touch with a bill writer
I am assuming that there's nothing
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further that the city is required to do
now as a practical matter I think I
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would always recommend that the city put
this on for public hearing uh prior to
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any action by the general assemblying
not going to happen absolutely well let
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let's let him finish first let him
finish well I I know the board does not
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love this response but the board can do
what he want however I do think that the
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Optics of uh changing the city these
corporate boundaries without providing
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affected Property Owners any opportunity
to make comments is not is is
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potentially problematic uh
whereas at least giving folks the
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opportunity to express comments or
feelings on the issue uh when and doubt
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is always the better option in my
experience um but this it's it's up to
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the city how you like to proceed to to
the board that's why
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big yeah mayor
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Pro
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um this is not an action of the board
this is a legislative action it's not us
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the public hearing would be held by the
legislature anybody who proposes this
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bill would have to deal with the public
common at that point the city of
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creedmore is
just um
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acting at the behest of a legislator it
was a legislator who brought this to us
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and that's going to that's public
hearing would be on that it's not for us
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to decide there's a statute and there's
not a statute govern this particular
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process well then I've got another
lawyer who's telling me a lie who
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happens to be a
senator there is not a statute and we've
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already discussed this there's not a
statute that governs the legislative uh
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the process for the general assembly to
amend boundaries there are processes by
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which the city can
initiate uh an amendment to the city's
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corporate the boundaries of the city's
corporate limits we've discussed those
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options in P but we can't enact it
ourselves we need legislative approval
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to do it the legislative boundary
Amendment that's correct and that's a
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con that's a that is not something that
arises under State Statute that P
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granted to the general assembly by the
North Carolina Constitution there's not
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a statutory process that outlines what
needs to be done by the state or by the
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general assembly in that case it's
simply an action by the general assembly
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it uh come as a result of a petition
from a or a bill proposed by an
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individual legislator and it follows the
same process that any other bill would
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follow right not something that Ares
under statute that that sets forward
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specific procedures for for that proc
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okay am I still on the floor well I need
to go to somebody else but you can
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finish with your thought P well when
you're when you're ready I would like to
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make a motion that this board vote to go
forward with this and send a letter to
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the
legislature um telling them this is
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something that we would request because
I have been told that that's all re I
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don't know why we have two different
answers I'm sorry Kevin we will come
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back to you on your motion um
commissioner
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gon you've been in touch with the bill
writer there they are going to they are
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going to be writing a bill or you don't
know I don't I've been asked bu a bill
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writer from the general assembly's legal
department to provide background on what
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specifically would be uh involved in the
boundary amendment that is under
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consideration I provided information but
I've not heard and I specifically asked
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Bill writer in addition to our three
legislators uh to give me some you to
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explain to me what specifically would be
required if anything from the city
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nobody's given me a specific response to
but I would assume that as if we took a
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vote on it then we are starting a
process that does have
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rules well I I think that if the city
were to if you all were to to vote to
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petition the general assembly to uh
enact legislation amending City bound
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that would still not uh enter into any
specific process uh under the north
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carine General statutes it would still
be something that we are asking the
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general assembly to do on behalf
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of anything
else any other commissioner wils I have
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a question for the attorney how would
this uh affect taxes for those homes
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so uh the parcels that have been
identified as part of this process are
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those that are located within uh they
donut P par the ones that are kind of
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located within or enclosed on you know
several sides by the city's corporate
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limits but they are not themselves
within the city's corporate limits
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therefore they are not tax subject to to
the city taxes they're subject to County
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taxes um and any other special
assessments that might they might be
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affected by but this process would uh
incorporate those Parcels into the
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city's tax they would now be subject
both to the County taxes but also to the
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city taxes so are we able to grandfather
those people in until there's a change
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of ownership I I don't want somebody get
hit or something with a city tax that
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they've never paid I I don't that well I
I think that the bottom line I'm not
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aware of that ever having been done by
the general assembly that's not to say
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it couldn't be done I think a practical
matter the general assembly much like
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this board can do whatever provided that
uh that that is specifically
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incorporated into the test of of any
that would carry this U boundary
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adjustment out
um so I think that would require further
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conversations with our represent and Sen
and with Bill writers but I don't see
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any reason why couldn't
happen is that something we include in a
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motion
or I I think this this board can include
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that in a motion this evening if the
board chooses to go down that Mr Mayor
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if we can I would like to have it
included in the motion well if possible
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let's make sure we're deciding to do yes
sir um what concerns me is sticking our
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nose since somewhere to accomplish
something where we don't need to stick
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our nose in other words if the process
is playing out like it should that we
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shouldn't be involved in it at all it's
up to the legislators and their bill
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writers and all that I hate for us to
stick our foot in and have it get it cut
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off now that is my reservation on this
and I know the mayor protim has spoken
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to some of these others and I I trust
her 100%
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but personally I have not heard anything
from any of them I know they've talked
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to her but I I haven't heard anything
and I don't know if any of the other
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Commissioners have heard anything and I
would feel better if if I heard from
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them exactly what they think we should
do as a community so yeah and and I'll
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just add this is a conversation that
manager and I had last week was that you
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know I am
uncomfortable recommending as
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uh adopt any specific statement on this
request until we know exactly what it is
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that is going to be required of the city
if anything really and and that's where
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I'm at too and and what what I'm what
I'm concerned about is that any adopted
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statement by this board may be used as a
litness test to gauge the public
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reaction to this what's being proposed
here and that
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if we go ahead and do this and there's a
large public backlash to it we may end
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up in a situation where our
Representatives might say well you know
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this maybe's not in anybody's interest
to pursue any further so I would like to
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have a better understanding of the
process before the city takes any
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concrete action that's kind of where I'm
at commissioner
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g i I agree I certainly believe we need
to close the dut holes do things like
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that I think us stepping in here
now is going to open us up to public
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scrutiny it's not going to be like
nobody's going to see this and we're not
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going to get at the next meeting for
public comments everybody from the dut
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holes there's no way the bottom line is
if it can be done through the
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legislature and they tell us what we got
to do then we do it other than that I I
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think we're
we're opening up a can of worms that
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you're not going to be able to put the
cat back on the
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can and and there's nothing that says it
really needs to be done tonight in fact
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this is purely a discussion item but so
it still give and it's not like we
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haven't been working on it so I just
think uh a little bit more time to look
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at this other stuff would be prudent in
this thing mayor protim you've got till
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July I said that the first time there
was a meeting is this a short session we
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are running out of time and it is it is
it is not our decision that started with
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this board Senator bod came to the city
and had a meeting with with the fire
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department about getting more funding
for the fire department and she said you
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are not collecting all the taxes that
you're due we have citizens in creedmore
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that are getting police and fire
services without paying a dime for it
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because they're in these donnut holes
and her answer to me was everybody has
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to pay their fair share I brought it to
this board and said there's a short
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session we need to move fast it's been
two months now and we're still not even
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anywhere near this we do not need a
public hearing it is not concern of the
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public only the people that are involved
and it's not but the legislature has to
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know if this board wants them to
consider it so we we have to vote to
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send a letter to the legislature to say
would you consider this that's all we
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have to do and I know you haven't been
told that but I have and and I'm not
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lying is it is it you said second ago
that the legisl needs needs to know that
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this is something the city is the legisl
not
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aware because we have to send them
something in writing saying our board
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has voted and we're asking you to do
this but where and I guess my question
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is where is this you keep saying there's
a requirement to do this but I nobody
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I'm I'm not aware of any requirement
imposed by Statute Constitution and I've
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not heard from how do they know we have
an issue that's the only place I
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understand that but they he needs
something in
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writing for I mean to makes sense to me
I mean I think City ofed an
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entirely legislative matter to the
general don't see why they would need
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anything from the city I think that you
you said it just a few minutes ago that
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this is not something that the city need
have any involvement in this is an
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entirely legislative matter the general
assembly introdu the bill it goes to
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that FR but they they they're not
experts on every peaceful land in the
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state of North Carolina we have to give
them the information of that you've
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shared that so now they need something
that says the board of creedmore would
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like you to check into this I mean they
will will not go forward until they
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can't just do it on their own without us
saying okay what what I'm I'm can you
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explain to me why that's the case they
want to know if the city we don't need
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to do anything is something that is
entirely done by the general assembly
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it's separate and part the city has no
involvement we have to ask them where
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these where these these two an thought
process is overlap if it's something
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that's entirely done by the general
assembly which I think is the case I
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don't know why they need anything from
the city except for the city to be the
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one to open up the potential can of
worms so that they can take a look at
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and see whether this is something they
want to back or that's it and and that's
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fair that's a requirement and if any of
our Representatives or our Senator are
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going to say I will not introduce a bill
until the city does these things as a as
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a person that's exactly what I was told
exactly those words that's the case they
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i' I've asked them that question
directly s times and if they want to
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respond to me and say these are the
things that we are going to require
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before we will sponsor a bill then I
will advise the board in that case that
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that is something that if this board
really wants to go through this process
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that's what you're going to have to do
but they've told me as an elected
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official for the city of creedmore that
that's what they want and that's all
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they need to do and all I'm doing is I'm
giving you my legal advice that the city
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not stick its nose in something that's
that we until we know that doing so is
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absolutely necessary because any
blowback from a formal action by the
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city to adopt a letter and send that off
is going to come back on the city not
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the general assembly and and if that's
if that's a risk that that a majority of
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this board is Will to run that's fine as
far are not you legal advice that that
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is not at this time until we know that
doing so is an absolute necessity for
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this process to move forward I have been
that that's exactly what's needed for it
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to go forward and and that's fair I
don't dispute that it might be the case
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I've asked that same question and I've
not received a specific response you all
[32:08]
are free to move forward with that
process you know adopting and approving
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a letter to send on and it's if this
board votes to do that I will support
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that effort wholeheartedly all I'm
saying is that my legal recommendation
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is that we not do that until we receive
some specific concrete you know written
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instruction as to these are the step
get commission alri so Kevin what
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specific or nonspecific reply did you
get from them the response that I
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received was does the city intend to
adopt a letter and does the city intend
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to hold a public hearing and I said my
response to that was the city will
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consider whatever requirements are
imposed can you tell me what
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specifically will be required of the
city uh so that we can assess our
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options before decide what to you know
how to move forward and I've not
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received any a specific response however
after that email exchange I was told uh
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a staff attorney from the bill writer's
office will be reaching out to you and I
[33:08]
received a email from the bill writer
Bill writer's office asking for specific
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parcel information which the city's
already prepared um I forwarded that on
[33:18]
and asked the same question of the bill
writer you know what if anything is
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going to be required by the city before
a bill can be introduced uh and timately
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put into committee and voted on and i'
not received a specific response to that
[33:34]
request
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to all right any other
[33:43]
questions all right commissioner
kachinsky I'll go back to you and your
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motion if you would like to make it I
make a motion that this board
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votes to send a letter to the
legislature to ask them to consider for
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legislation the expansion of the city's
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boundaries is that
it I know that commissioner Wilkins had
[34:11]
a request what was your request graph of
the as far as taxes grandfather them as
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far as taxes what does that mean yes
that means anybody currently in donut
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holds wouldn't be included
until until 202
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until it's a change of property 2025
yeah until change of property like the
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owner of the home yes no oh what's the
point that's what's the point what's the
[34:38]
point of doing it we're trying to
increase the revenue for the city so we
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can afford to help the point of is I
don't think it's fair to hammer somebody
[34:45]
with tax hang on hang on no we'll just
discuss yeah yeah I know but I'm I'm
[34:50]
going to get it to where we know which
way it's going here commissioner I mean
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mayor proen has made a motion M Mr
Wilkins has made an amendment to the
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motion yes sir so we don't do these very
often so I'm not real clear we do the
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amendment first got to ask if I accept
the
[35:10]
amendment decide whether that whether
that amendment is something she's
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comfortable withing to her motion or not
right we'll then put it to a vote uh
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depending on the results of that a new
motion could be made which would would
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include I got you now okay
so you are not comfortable with his
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Amendment the point of this is for
everybody to pay their fair share if you
[35:37]
are getting services from the city of
creedmore without paying which what is
[35:42]
what all these properties are doing
right
[35:44]
now I'm paying for their services you're
paying for their services and they're
[35:49]
paying nothing everybody needs to pay
their fair share the city of creedmore
[35:54]
is trying to maintain the services that
we offer to the citizens who pay for it
[36:01]
and the ones that are not paying for it
are um the ones that are not paying for
[36:06]
services are getting the services that
is the point of this and that was the
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Senator's point we we're not getting
enough the fire department needs a
[36:16]
firehouse and and the state can't
provide the funding to them unless they
[36:21]
know the city has done everything that
they could do to get the revenue they're
[36:25]
entitled to and we're not so as far as
who is and who isn't I'm not sure that's
[36:32]
up to the legislators and whatever the
law says but I'm willing to let them
[36:38]
take a look at it and see what's going
to happen um these these people have
[36:44]
lived in these Pro most of these
properties if I'm not mistaken are
[36:48]
undeveloped
so there are people that are living in
[36:53]
some of them but a lot most of them are
undeveloped and the point is
[36:58]
we're going to start growing we need to
get that Revenue in place now um we're
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not talking Millions we're not talking
hundreds of thousands we're just talking
[37:07]
a small amount of Revenue that will help
the city which we could use to help the
[37:12]
fire department and that is why we're
doing this we're trying to
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um get the revenue the city's entitled
and to quote someone else everybody has
[37:23]
to pay their fair
share and that's why I'm doing it so I
[37:28]
can't accept that Amendment I'm
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[37:33]
sorry
I put the chief of police on the
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spot just woke him up Chief said what
but Chief would you have any idea how
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many clothes you do like on night
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Street I wouldn't say on night Street
specifically I
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would um
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the people in
dutchville Pay 6% fire
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C so they are paying for the fire
service not paying as much as us but
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they're paying 6% fire tax to the count
to the
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county um again I if we vote on this
motion I want to
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vote one by one because I want to say
why I'm voting just to get away from us
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uh Mr Wilkins yeah I just want to
restate for the record I'm very
[38:30]
uncomfortable not including the
grandfather clause I don't want people
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to get hit with additional taxes I just
want to make sure I were clear on it
[38:38]
okay now as I have explained to them
mayor Pro Tim we can do this that we're
[38:43]
we know where we're at we can do it as a
vote or a consensus I think the general
[38:49]
feeling is to do it as consensus which
will accomplish the same thing at the
[38:53]
vote so and Kevin will draw up the
letter and just were clear if that was a
[38:59]
specific this does not require a formal
vote this could be okay and who we know
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where this requirement is this a
requirement imposed by this is a request
[39:11]
from imposed by this this is a request
from Senator bod and to uh uh
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representative winsler okay she said
between the two of them they work
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on Mr to dra letter well I would I would
request that Mr I I would like our City
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attorney to do it then I want it done by
the end of this week problem and if you
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would send it to the city manager and
we'll go from there that way if he has
[39:41]
any questions or once he sends it out we
can address them as promly as possible
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all right now we've got a motion on the
floor do you want to leave it on the
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floor or withdraw it no I want to um
leave it on we don't need a vote we need
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a consensus well that's why you have to
remove your your motion all right I will
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remove my motion all right now you can
State what you would like us to do just
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don't make a
motion I would like us to um instruct
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the city manager to draft a letter
stating that the city of creedmore is
[40:15]
requesting this um just asking the city
send us a letter so we can have it in
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support of the
annexation and there's an
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email um um in your email from one of
our legislators to that effect I'm Sor
[40:33]
and I want the letter done by the end of
the week was that city manager or right
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that's what I was going to say you said
city manager oh I'm sorry City attorney
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not city manager I'm sorry who is this
address
[40:48]
toat I do it to those two those
to commissioner Wilkins you good okay
[40:57]
we have a
request to the board by the mayor Pro
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Tim we're just basically and everybody I
I know has heard it so we're looking for
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a
consensus commissioner BCE
[41:12]
you I will say I agree that we close the
donor hold okay that's good enough
[41:19]
yes yes I agree okay so there's your
consensus all right now I feel better
[41:27]
about that
and okay we move on to item
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10A uh the bro law firm mou city manager
the city of creemore initially entered
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into a memorandum of understanding with
the Bros Law Firm on March 2016 this
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original agreement expired on June 30
2017 copy is included in the agenda
[41:50]
package for the board following its
expiration the parties have continued to
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abide by the terms of the original
memorandum
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except in so far as the city approved an
updated compensation structure in
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2022 the purpose of this new memor is
set forth the understanding between the
[42:06]
parties concerning the nature of the
relationship under which the law firm
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serves as a City attorney to replace the
original memorandum the current
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compensation rate of $215 per hour will
continue through June 30 2024 the new
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compensation rate of $225 per hour will
become effective July 1 2024 and run
[42:27]
through June 30 of
2025 this memorandum Shall Serve shall
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govern the relationship between the
parties for the period beginning on the
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effective date of this memorandum and
continue for a three-year period through
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June 30
2027 at which time it will automatically
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renew for one year terms unless termin
terminated 10day termination in writing
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by either
party board approval a motion would be
[42:52]
an order to approve the proposed
memorandum and authorize the manager to
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execute um
and that that agreement is in the
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package for the board I know you've had
time to review that yes okay
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um at this time any questions Mr
Wilkins Comm Albright No
[43:12]
Sir Mr gon Mo mayor Pro him no sir all
right not hearing any discussion we have
[43:20]
a motion to if I oh I'm sorry you all
hopefully also receive an email updated
[43:26]
version of theou uh after the agenda was
published I recognized that there was a
[43:34]
provision in theou that likely that has
left out that probably should have been
[43:39]
included that discusses amendments to
theou and compens services schedule the
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version that I sent you all I believe
last Thursday maybe last Wednesday was
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uh included a paragraph 8 that would
allow the memorandum of understanding
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and the compensation proc Services form
to be amended by written agreement
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between our firm and the city subject to
uh approval by majority vote of the
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board um and it would also allow this
board in the future the chooses to to uh
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delegate the city manager the authority
to negotiate and approve those sorts of
[44:17]
amendments uh again if the board wanted
to take that action um but again I think
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from what I understand anyway a lot of
this concern that has that that has
[44:27]
gotten us to this point has been about
how things have changed over the years
[44:32]
and and how formal or informal those
changes have been so I wanted to make
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sure that any updated memorandum of
understanding will provide a process by
[44:42]
which those sorts of amendments or
changes need to be done just so that you
[44:47]
we create a clearer record moving
[44:51]
forward all right at this time I'll
entertain a motion to approve the broad
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Law Firm new and updated memorandum of
understanding and authorize the city
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manager to execute so Move Motion is
made by commissioner Wilkins all those
[45:08]
in favor say I I oppose no motion
carries
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420 Kevin thank
[45:18]
you all right let me find my little
sheet there that I have since
[45:24]
lost all right I got that and we move on
to discussion items uh
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11a mayor protim requested board
discussion on closing Sanderford
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Street for the operation of creed
Moore's Farmers Market mayor Pro 10 so
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some time ago one of our citizens
brought to our attention that um there
[45:50]
was an issue with the farmers market
that's being operated down at the
[45:54]
American
Legion and I suggest at that time if we
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could close off actually there was a
discussion amongst all board members
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close off sanord Street and allow the
farmers market to be here or in this
[46:08]
parking lot cuz there's not really a lot
going on in the parking lot on Saturdays
[46:15]
so um I would like us to give this a
whirl and see if we can do it and move
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the Creed more Farmers Market to um it's
shut down down Sanford Street so people
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could walk it they could park in our
parking lot and walk there we could they
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could set up Booth all up and down
Sanford and we would set an set
[46:36]
times uh so it wouldn't be the entire
day maybe from 9 I don't know what it
[46:42]
was when it was at the community center
I think it was like from 9 until 2 or 3
[46:47]
or something I thought it was like 9 to
12 9 to 12 something like that yeah set
[46:51]
it up so that it's just a certain amount
of hours we don't want to inconvenience
[46:56]
everybody all day long but I would like
to see our Farmers Market get back up to
[47:02]
where it was and
um and I know that John would like to
[47:07]
see it do a little bit better than it
was and let's we can try it uh does that
[47:13]
mean shutting down the one at the
American Legion I have no idea if
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anybody asked me that question I don't
know the answer to that I don't want to
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run competition I don't want to argue
with anybody um whoever's down at the
[47:25]
farmers market by the American Legion is
welcome to come up here and just do it
[47:29]
on Saturdays here she can do it there on
Wednesdays if if they want to but that's
[47:34]
just my idea if um the chief or Mr
frango sees any problem like shutting
[47:40]
down Sanderford on street if we're going
to violate any rules laws it's our
[47:45]
street so I think we can do it and we
would probably need a banner that said
[47:50]
CREAM more Farmer Market and we could
put the time on it we could get uh
[47:56]
removable pieces so that we could change
the time if we needed it Kevin any
[48:00]
problem with us shutting down one of our
own streets for a certain amount of
[48:04]
time as long as nobody doesn't pay
attention and runs everybody over well
[48:09]
that would be a problem I think provided
that you the city is Sovereign over the
[48:15]
city streets so we probably need to
close it beyond the ATM machine just for
[48:22]
citizen
convenience I I'll leave the contract
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question
atic I
[48:29]
don't what you thinking commiss wils I
just want to ask the chief I don't put
[48:34]
you on the spot will this would this
cause any undue burden to your
[48:38]
department I'm
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good any commissioner Albright any
questions mayor PR I've heard from
[48:49]
commissioner gleon no but I'll make a
motion that
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we close Sanford Street for Farmers
Market city manager do you see any
[49:02]
issues or and and as long as we can find
somebody to run it we're not going to
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run the farmers market it's going to be
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a city manager do you know of any issues
or reasons that we couldn't do this or
[49:24]
should we uh
kind of do some of the leg work before
[49:30]
we actually vote on
this well typically F markets have signs
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they have um barricades that got to be
put out on the street um there's maybe
[49:42]
tents put up or the vendors bring their
own tents there may be some logistical
[49:45]
things that need to be thought through
um I don't know if any other issues if
[49:50]
Chief says he's okay with
it Chief do you have any problems with
[49:54]
this I would just ask if Police
Department is going to be required
[50:01]
to if something
[50:06]
happens
resp well my question along with that is
[50:12]
not only barricades but what happens if
two
[50:16]
Merchants enter into a
discussion it means they start throwing
[50:22]
things and kicking ass and all that
other stuff they can do the American
[50:28]
right but here it will be under our
[50:32]
responsibility I
think I might I suggest that maybe an
[50:36]
appropriate motion would be to direct
the city manager to start to work
[50:40]
through the logistics of closing down
the street uh making it available for
[50:44]
use for Farmers that way we don't have
to we don't have to address all of the
[50:48]
specific questions tonight we can just
ask the city manager and the staff I'd
[50:52]
like to make sure we know exactly what
needs to be in place place
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because you know with
businesses you're in my spot well I was
[51:02]
here last time no yeah but I was here
today you know it's just too many things
[51:07]
that could go wrong so i' I'd like us to
be sure exactly all the eyes are not in
[51:12]
the teas are cross I'll amend my motion
to be with
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C okay why don't we just withdraw the
motion and instruct the city manager and
[51:21]
then he can bring it back at the at the
work at the work session be so you
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withdraw your motion yep somebody
commissioner I mean mayor proten so I
[51:32]
wasn't saying to do it tomorrow Mike and
it's not going to be this Saturday I
[51:36]
understand that stop it
um Kevin do you think that do do you
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think we would be required to have
waivers for
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anybody well I think that that that will
depend largely on how is it structured
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if if this heads down pass where this is
a city sponsored event
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that I think we would probably need
waivers you know some
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guidelines however if the city is simply
making making space available that's all
[52:07]
we're doing um and and there's somebody
else who is kind of taking that
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logistical and organizational control I
don't I think we might want to have some
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sort of liability W with the organizer
in place but um I don't think that we
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would need um what individual with the
um right music F I don't think it
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provided that the city is not similarly
kind of sponsoring an orchestrate the
[52:35]
event I don't think we need the same
level
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of individual application each each but
I I kind of would like to have a set
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rules you know that you need to certain
things to protect what we already have
[52:51]
out there I think that sounds reason and
like I said I think that that that's
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something that would fall under kind of
the master agreements between whoever is
[52:59]
responsible for organizing the event you
we would say these are the city's rules
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you are responsible for enforcing them
amongst your participants in the event
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that any of these rules are violated the
city reserves a right to shut down the
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event and to not open the street for use
in the future
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okay ex exactly all right Mr city
manager you got all that yes yes sir I
[53:22]
do okay that I'll right with everybody
kind of consensus thing
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again mayor protim let me compliment you
on that idea I've been for years trying
[53:32]
to figure out how we could get them from
there to the community center but this
[53:36]
will work
great um okay number 12 city manager
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report Mr Mayor mayor Pro Tim members of
the board
[53:47]
um in addition to the reports that
you've received from all the department
[53:51]
heads I have a few items I'd like to
update the board on Johnson Controls
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began the installation of the new new
electronic door control system March the
[53:58]
25th and the project is expected to be
completed within uh 2 to 3
[54:04]
weeks um I spoke with Mr Daniel saki
assistant manager at the buner State
[54:10]
Employees Credit Union and he has given
the city written confirmation to place
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two picnic tables on their leas property
at the cash points ATM located at 110
[54:19]
sanderfer Street the Butner State
Employees Credit Union will continue the
[54:23]
Landscaping Maintenance with their
current ground vendors Richard Avent
[54:28]
with a DC3 has received another quote
for the conversion of cable fiber optic
[54:33]
to City Hall from AT&T their quote was
$1,304 a month for the same Services
[54:39]
spectrum is offering they don't own the
cable so they'd have to lease it and
[54:43]
then Mark that up and that's why the
price is higher Spectrum was offering
[54:46]
625 per month the price is double
because AT&T does not own their own
[54:51]
fiber uh bc3 also check with Frontier
and they do not own fiber optics in the
[54:56]
area so they've done their due diligence
trying to help us find an alternative
[55:00]
option two hours after the agenda went
out this past Thursday uh we received
[55:05]
even a lower monthly quote from Spectrum
governmental representative uh who gave
[55:10]
us a price of $499 per month on a
60-month agreement so I've asked them to
[55:16]
forward the contract I docy signed that
today so we can proceed with
[55:21]
that according to vc3 executive summary
and and couple meetings ago the board
[55:27]
asked for updates on the vc3 if there's
anything going on of Interest or changes
[55:31]
in the prices of the contractual
agreement that the board approved uh
[55:35]
during the month of March 2024 19
incident requests were opened and 20
[55:41]
were closed the reason tickets were
opened varied from access requested
[55:46]
access Ransom wire issues email errors
performance issues fishing Etc there is
[55:52]
no change in the contract amount for the
services during this period which I
[55:56]
mentioned was through March
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31 several options for spring baners
have been identified through our Baner
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vendor for the seasonal placement of
Main Street and the entrances to many
[56:10]
subdivisions for
fy2 there's four colorful samples at
[56:15]
each one of your workstations uh that
give you the examples of what's been
[56:19]
submitted um creedmore city of Etc can
be added or left off any and all those I
[56:26]
so there's a couple of different options
and if you want to give me your thoughts
[56:29]
on that later that would be great but I
want to show share those with
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you the City attorney has been asked to
move forward with filing a notice of
[56:38]
hearing on the city's City's entry of
default judgment on property located
[56:42]
near the intersection of NC Highway 56
Crescent Drive in Holly School
[56:47]
Road uh the 24 2 2014 fiberglass pedal
boats declared Surface by the manager
[56:53]
due to wear tear and unserviceability
were auctioned off on go deals the
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highest bid for the boats total $900 and
was awarded to Mr Jerry Watkins of
[57:02]
middlesburg Kentucky uh he has made
payment to deal go deal waiting his
[57:08]
payment to go through to come to us and
then Mr Watkins will come in from
[57:12]
Kentucky and pick these boats up the new
city county Grant granch Rider started
[57:19]
yesterday um I talked with him and Terry
hobgood today who's overseeing Grant
[57:23]
Management for the Granville County uh
we have our meeting Tuesday evening
[57:28]
about 3:00 me and Mr frangos and finance
director and a few others to talk about
[57:34]
creedmore and what our priorities are
for him getting
[57:38]
started uh and I will have him on your
may I believe it's the May agenda uh to
[57:43]
introduce him to the board uh and I
mentioned earlier to some some of the
[57:47]
board members Public Works were today
replaced all the 6 in street signs along
[57:51]
Main Street with the larger 9in sign
blades at Douglas Park Fleming M Masonic
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Dogwood Rogers and whiteall streets
subject to your questions that concludes
[58:03]
my comments any questions for the city
[58:08]
manager all
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right let's see mayor Pro 10 you have
the pleasure tonight of the siga
[58:19]
report um we had a finance committee
meeting at the guasa and I believe that
[58:26]
our next meeting a proposal to the board
for um the budget for the next year will
[58:33]
be coming uh coming
[58:38]
out and um then there'll be a public
hearing and the budget for Wason will
[58:45]
have to be
approved
[58:49]
by I think our July 1 also but we
usually get it done earlier um I do
[58:55]
understand that at the last meeting when
I was not
[58:58]
there um the board voted
to agree to hire an assistant executive
[59:06]
director for
sigua and um I don't know where we are
[59:11]
in that process because like I said I
wasn't at that meeting but that's all I
[59:17]
have so um there was a line break on
Church Street though another line break
[59:23]
on Church Street and it's the third one
in same area since
[59:29]
2011 so I uh it was supposed to be
repaired today but I don't have
[59:34]
confirmation on that I do know that I
did ask the executive director why to
[59:39]
keep breaking in the same place or
within 1,800 ft of the same place and
[59:43]
maybe we need to take a a bigger look
down the line so we don't keep having
[59:48]
these all right we'll move on any
questions for the
[59:54]
sigas not hearing any we move on to
commissioner's report we'll start with
[59:58]
commissioner
Wilkins on Wednesday March the 12th I
[1:00:02]
attended the Vance committee meeting all
the members were present and we
[1:00:07]
discussed most in time meeting various
options for continuing to raise
[1:00:11]
donations for veterans Monument that's
all I have sir all right commissioner
[1:00:19]
c i attended the uh cartar Cog meeting
on Thursday
[1:00:26]
um there was a presentation that they
did um they did a again a five County
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study on emergency facility needs
assessment um I know
[1:00:43]
since I've been in town I've been
pushing to get a emergency plan for the
[1:00:50]
city of
creedmore um which I thought I saw
[1:00:53]
something in the budget maybe that to
work on that this plan which was given
[1:01:02]
to all of the Emergency Management
directors of the
[1:01:08]
counties in the cartar they are then
supposed to share
[1:01:13]
it I guess with the local
municipalities um I know we're now in a
[1:01:21]
Bad season we're in a season where stuff
can hit the fan
[1:01:26]
um so I just want to make sure that if
we follow up with the carar and make
[1:01:33]
sure that the Granville County or
Granville County Emergency
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Management gives us a copy of this this
was more designed to find out where we
[1:01:44]
where there was a need for
facilities if it hit the fan where do
[1:01:51]
people go I know a couple years back we
had an ice storm here to was off for
[1:01:56]
almost 24 hours and everybody I called
said oh you can't use that you can't use
[1:02:00]
this you can't use that so again this
has been started by them we can take
[1:02:07]
that assessment and maybe build from
it uh the other thing that I have is
[1:02:15]
Manny Agger who's a member of the DGI
committee his brother passed away on
[1:02:20]
Sunday so we should just keep him in our
prayer that's it Mr Al
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um I attended the cprc meeting on the
21st of March and uh we actually had um
[1:02:36]
a young lady Dennis do you remember her
first
[1:02:40]
name oh did she um who came to the
meeting and said that she was a uh
[1:02:46]
realtor in the creedmore area and she
wanted to be more involved with her
[1:02:50]
family and and get to know what was
going on a little bit more so she
[1:02:54]
actually joined the cprc she gave
uh she sold out her application with
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Dennis after um our meeting so that was
really nice she was a nice young lady so
[1:03:02]
we're looking forward to having her on
the
[1:03:05]
team um I did mention to uh Dennis that
I would like to consult with the board
[1:03:14]
and and kind of bring up some new um I
don't know if you want to call them
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activities or events at the end of the
day uh Monday through
[1:03:26]
Thursday uh well actually Thursdays 600
to9 is pickle ball which is fine but
[1:03:32]
Monday through Wednesday um from 6:00
till 9: at night we either have
[1:03:39]
basketball from 600 or from 3:00 to 6:00
or from 6:00 to 9 there's private
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rentals so for the
members of our community center there is
[1:03:48]
nothing for us to do in the gym Monday
through
[1:03:52]
Wednesday so you either have to walk or
around the track which is
[1:03:57]
great or you have to use the gym
equipment or there's a fitness class but
[1:04:03]
as for using the gym
itself it's either already
[1:04:09]
rented or there's basketball for 3 hours
from 3:00 to 6:00 in the
[1:04:14]
afternoon so I told Dennis that I would
like to consult with us to see if maybe
[1:04:21]
we could suggest that there is some more
activities for people that have
[1:04:25]
memberships that that work during the
day that can't do these other things
[1:04:30]
that are offered during the day which
are all great the tots and and open gym
[1:04:35]
and and things like that but I would
just like to see some more activities
[1:04:40]
for members in the evening well and I
understand your issues but to also
[1:04:45]
remember that these rentals help pay for
a lot of that stuff that membership
[1:04:51]
doesn't quite cover so we don't it's
kind of hesitant to suggest we eliminate
[1:04:57]
a rental in order
for other for membership activities when
[1:05:03]
there are other terms for that now
there's but not everybody can go in
[1:05:08]
during the day though right and I think
it you know I pickle ball on Thursday
[1:05:13]
nights from 6:00 to 9:00 is awesome and
I think it's being well taken um
[1:05:17]
advantage of I think Dennis can uh agree
with me for with that
[1:05:22]
um but you know like it'd be nice to
have like maybe an adult volleyball um
[1:05:28]
open gym or you know maybe some
dodgeball or something you know extra
[1:05:35]
for the people that can't make the dur
you know the things during the day that
[1:05:42]
also pay memberships that I think should
have some type
[1:05:45]
of say in maybe what goes on so that's
just my thoughts than what what do you
[1:05:54]
do you have any thoughts Mr I wouldn't
want to do anything with the basketball
[1:05:58]
as a Cornerstone of the community uh
it's one of the reasons I pushed for the
[1:06:02]
gym back in 2015 19 I wouldn't want to
touch that at all I hear what you're
[1:06:08]
saying I don't know where we can get the
uh time
[1:06:15]
place mayor
[1:06:19]
Pro all right so I attended March
Mayhem where badges vers versus the
[1:06:26]
Vikings it was an excellent excellent
time our the uh from what I understand
[1:06:33]
the Granville County Sheriff's Office
forfeited because they were afraid they
[1:06:37]
were going to get slaughtered by the
creedmore police
[1:06:41]
department that's just my opinion that's
not EXA they did forfeit but I don't
[1:06:47]
know why I'd have paid extra money to
see the sheriff out there playing
[1:06:51]
basketball but our chief and our Police
Department held their own they did a
[1:06:56]
great job um the students won in the in
the long run the students won but I'm
[1:07:03]
going to tell you something they fought
really hard towards the end to try to
[1:07:07]
win that game and I'm very proud of you
guys and you raised $1,000 for um
[1:07:13]
juvenile diabetes yes yeah it was very
good very well attended I think um I am
[1:07:20]
attending the Community Police Academy
which I'm in my fifth week of that and
[1:07:25]
it is very
interesting um Jessica laws has
[1:07:30]
organized it extremely well students
from South Grenville High School are
[1:07:35]
attending they want to be police
officers and the information that we've
[1:07:39]
learned is I was amazed at our last at
our last class seeing some of the toys
[1:07:45]
that our detectives have um I attended
the Main Street conference with
[1:07:50]
commissioner alright and the mayor in
Goldsboro and we had a great time there
[1:07:56]
met some good
vendors I attended the CPR class at the
[1:08:00]
community center so now I have got my
CPR thumbs up I went to visit Wilma the
[1:08:07]
new store on Main Street Garden Center
uh Debbie Rogers happened to be there it
[1:08:12]
was a Saturday and it's a very nice shop
if you want to pick up some plants or a
[1:08:18]
gift for somebody last minute we don't
have too many gift shops on Main Street
[1:08:23]
but it's an option and she's off
offering some pretty good classes from
[1:08:27]
what I see on Facebook um Sunnyside on
Main I have become a regular at that
[1:08:33]
place and the food is superb if you
haven't tried it yet you need to go give
[1:08:38]
it a try cuz they're doing very well and
I love the Roosters on Main
[1:08:43]
Street yeah they do stand out thank you
ma'am uh let's see I have attended the
[1:08:50]
Campo meeting also the Main Street
conference which should have been a two
[1:08:56]
nights day turned out to be two days of
driving from creedmore to Goldsboro back
[1:09:03]
Creed more about Goldsboro because
Hampton in has a diamond card system
[1:09:09]
that guarantees you a room and if you're
the mayor it doesn't mean anything cuz I
[1:09:14]
got bumped and my reservation got
cancelled um I also W i' also attended
[1:09:20]
March Mayhem and I again was impressed
especially with the chief really held
[1:09:25]
his own against those young people um
old well he's older than the
[1:09:33]
students um and there does need to
honorary coach I tried to tell them that
[1:09:39]
but they didn't listen um we need to do
something about the filing at the end of
[1:09:44]
the game that that didn't work well um I
also want to congratulate pars and wreck
[1:09:50]
for a very successful Easter egg hunt um
I think it went well
[1:09:56]
um I understand that there were some
Easter egg hunters that were a little
[1:10:01]
older than they should have been but uh
I realize we can't really ask for
[1:10:07]
IDs but it it worked out well and I
think the kids all had a good time so
[1:10:12]
that covers me is there anything else
needs to come before the board tonight
[1:10:17]
just one more thing I'm
sorry mayor pro thank
[1:10:23]
you our community director would you
like to tell us the some good
[1:10:29]
news do we have any projects that we've
been waiting for that have finally been
[1:10:35]
done I won't say completed I'll say done
it's like a de headlights yeah he does
[1:10:41]
you refering
to Furbo and
[1:10:46]
Clifton we're still not talking about
those we're not talking about those as
[1:10:50]
done there is still work to be done you
will get a summary when it's complete
[1:10:54]
from
not yet okay I thought you said it was
[1:10:58]
done I I I was I was waiting for you to
make the big
[1:11:02]
announcement okay all right anything
else Comm Bon you have anything no make
[1:11:09]
a motion we go to close session we have
a motion by commissioner gleon to go
[1:11:13]
into Clos session all those in favor say
I I oppose no we are into CL session
[1:11:25]
met these mother oh yeah yeah County
Board yeah yeah I met her too she's
[1:11:30]
really nice yeah
[1:11:39]
[Music]
yeah congratul