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Please stand
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with liberty and justice for all.
>> Father, we thank you for the opportunity

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to gather together, Lord, to be about
the work of of of people today. Lord, we

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pray that you would give us his wisdom,
Lord, and serve as we try to make good

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decisions. Help us to do things that are
right for our people and good in your

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sight. In Jesus name we pray.
>> Amen. Amen.

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» Let the roll show that everyone is here
except for

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Tony Wolf

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district.

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And at this time before we approve the
I'd like to ask council to approve an

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amended agenda adding under new business
item H

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removing a sales tax increase on grocer.

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Is there any discussion?
All in favor say I.

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» Oppos? Nay. The eyes have

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take a minute. Item three approve the
minutes. So take a couple minutes to

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look over the minutes from last meeting.

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to approve

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a motion to second. Any discussion?
Hearing none. All in favor say I.

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Any
reports of council district one council

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Kelly?
District two, council.

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» District three, counc.
>> Um, I don't I was just going to inquire

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about have we maybe hired someone to
take those trees down.

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» We have taken bids. We've got low bid
and that should be happening very soon.

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» Okay. I just wanted to be able to tell.
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» Yes. [snorts] All all there are four
total trees and they should be coming

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down very soon.
>> Thank you.

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Thank you.
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Uh, district
four council. No.

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Okay. Wolf is out.

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All right. From my part, I have got
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to report before the biggest news I want
to report. Uh the first thing is

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Lamar Cwell of retirement is this Friday
we'll have a little city employee

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lunchon for Lamar. has worked with the
city for a long time and

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we're excited for him and

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the second thing is uh there was some
confusion and miscommunication on the uh

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our
youth football league football and cheer

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which is not run by the city. It's run
by it own board of parents and all, but

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we got that we got that corrected.
They were looking for a place to

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practice. They had not reached out to
us. Now that we know what their needs

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are, we've got that taken care of. They
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So, all that's good and we're glad that
he will help. And then the the third

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thing, the big news of the day,

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right? But is our fire rating. We got
our ISO rating. Our fire department has

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worked hard.
Chief Atkins has really worked

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to to get to this point, but also this
council uh the former council and mayor

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have done really work put in work and
former mayors to grow our fire

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department and to move us to to a
different level. And um u we are very

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excited. I'm going to go ahead and say
the the headline. I'm turn it over to

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you too. Uh we are we have moved from a
four to a three in our ISO rating which

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is outstanding. Uh that a one is the
best, a 10 is the worst. And moving to a

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three is helpful to all our homeowners
and is particularly helpful to uh to our

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commercial property owners. And so we're
excited about that. That will begin.

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I'll turn it over to Chief.
>> All right. So, yes, and we thank the

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previous council, the mayor, and and
definitely all of you as well. We

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couldn't do it by oursel. We had to have
cooperation.

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We're fortunate to to work with

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Can everybody hear?
>> Well, question is from people online.

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» Okay.
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» So
again, we thank everybody for the

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cooperation. We couldn't do it by
ourselves. Um, as y'all know, It's not

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uh
it's not cheap to do it. Um we have

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tried to to do it as economical as
possible not waste money. Therefore, we

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have purchased some used trucks. uh we
had researched and found took our time

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and found something to be in good shape
mileage for the simple fact that we just

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realized
we can't afford million million and a

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half and $10 million contracts.
So we're cutting corners there. But um

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so
what led up to a better story? First of

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all, a little bit about us. We cover 41
square miles.

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We go from Sandy Creek on 49 to 1500
block 49 north, north and south, east

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and west from from lake
all the way to

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a good bit of golf. I got a map I'll
show you in a minute. So, we cover a

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pretty good area and for a long time it
was covered with one station and then

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y'all know the history of several years
ago the old

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Suzana fire station which it location
was good for them when it was just their

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fire department but when we absorbed it
really didn't fit

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the coverage map for really helping us a
whole lot other than just that

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took over. So, one of the things that
helped us get that score down was moving

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to its current location
because we had areas in that direction

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that was over 5 miles from the fire
station. So, all of that was taken in

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within 5 miles. So that that helped our
school.

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Okay.
And we covered Highway 280 from the

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Jackson G when we touched them all the
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just past right around the

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Right.

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So we currently are operating out of two
stations. Station one is right here at

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339 North. street station in the picture
there is in 911. That's kind of what

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so
the green area is our coverage area

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outside the city and then the center
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combined is the 41 square miles we
cover. Um that's the locations of

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station one and station two.

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» Well, next slide is going to show that
All of our territory except for a little

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bit on the far corner where it makes a
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[clears throat] the mile out there on
road that is outside of five miles. So

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that one spot is not getting credit for
being covered by a fire department even

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though we cover and we are going if they
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eventually that's probably our next
to get them covered, but also by getting

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them covered and having our entire
coverage area within five miles, it

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actually helps every one of the things
they look at is station distribution. So

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better we have our entire area helps.

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So notable improvements, uh we've added
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So when city hired me. They had uh
including me, they had one full-time

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person and two part-time when I first
got hired. We now have seven full-time

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and 12 part-time employees, all of which
are certified career firefighters that

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helped us a lot on our ISO school.
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Yes, sir. Can you [clears throat]
explain to people the difference in

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because in certified parttime I mean
fulltime or part time certified officers

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hours
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» that they're all they are all certified
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» yes so
currently our part-time people most of

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the time get 24 hours a week now there's
a open spot because somebody took a

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vacation day They may work with extra
but most of the part-time people work 24

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hours per week. Either one 24hour shift
or two 12 hour shifts. Fulltime people

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um currently are working up to
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overtime kicks in for we fall under FLSA
parab standard act. We can work up to 53

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hours per week without hitting.

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So that's just traditionally the way
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So any other questions?

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» And a big thing that helped us because
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of the overall score is based off of
water. Obviously, we can't put out fire

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without water. So, uh to help that
section, we uh we have added to our

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fleet a couple more tankers that can
haul a lot of water that we can keep a

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constant flow.
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when we got them to bring us this time,
which is an extra step, it's a little

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extra work on on the ISO representative,
but that's okay. That's that's it done.

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So we told we we don't want a split
rate. We want to get rid of that X

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because we were at 44X before. We want
to get rid of X. So he said, well, you

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got to prove that you can
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amount of water flowing without losing
the stream. Yeah, we know. So,

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so that was big. We have done away with
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Current score was 44x and a 10. 10
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So if you're if you're over five miles
from a recognized fire station, whether

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they're coming to you or not, as far as
ISO concerned, you're not covered. And a

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lot of insurance companies will need to
write your policy and if they do, it's

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pretty high. All right. Our new score
effective that will go in effect for

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insurance purposes November 1st
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10. So still if you're over five miles
from the station is 10, but everything

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else is three. We didn't w because we
can now haul a sufficient amount of

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water to help meet our
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» Chief, if I may add.
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understand is the areas that are outside
of the city limits that are in our fire

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district.
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legal recourse to collect fire damage.
They want to give us a donation they can

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but we can't collect fire. For that
reason, um we are working with the

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county commission on how we resolve that
issue and and

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potentially get get some help from them
on making sure that we can have a a

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station far enough out to reach that
area all the far northeast corner of the

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fire district in less than five miles.
We want to make sure we

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live there even though they're not in
the city limits they are in a fire.

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Yes. And again, like I said, since it is
part of our fire district, it still

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counts against us without having
big. So, we're helping them, we're

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helping ourselves also.
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So, a whole bunch of little bitty points
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under the new system,
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points would be perfect. Uh, nobody's
perfect. a 90.0

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and up. If you're better than a 90, then
you are a class one. And there are very

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few of them.
Class two would be 80 to 89.9.

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And class three, which we are, is 70
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We actually gain a whole 10 points. We
were 62 previously. And it takes a lot

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of little points to get that 10 big
points that we got to move a whole

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numeric. number.
Our goal is a two

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and I think that that is achievable.
One of the biggest things is personnel.

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See from from the from the volunteer
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volunteer. You can be paid, but if
you're off duty, you're not at the

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station and you have to come back in
when the call comes in. ISL counts three

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offduty people to equal one.
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We're supposed to
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purposes, they want us to have a minimum
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Well, a lot of times we can get that,
but it's not in our initial response. U

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you know, a lot of times we end up with
six or eight, maybe 10 of our own fish

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getting to that 12 mark because of
automatic aid from our department to

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come to help us. So sometimes we can't
get that 12 hours.

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So any that's a goal for down the road
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So this is a breakdown.
So the community risk reduction

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that's hard to see 5.5 total points
possible. We got 3.7 out of that. Um the

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water points we moved up to 32 out of
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water. Uh fire department side we did
move up but they still uh a lot of

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territory we can gain points right
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50 and we're at 30.7.
So once in the future once we get a

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training facility you get extra credit
for training at training facility

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instead of just reading the book at
discussion. So more of the hands-on

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stuff you get extra credit
that goes back to number of personnel.

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It goes back to number of stations for
your distribution to cover your area

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like it's supposed to be. So there's a
lot of those little points that add up

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in that fire department section. And
then the green section

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is emergency communications. So that is
through dispatch. So everybody in the

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county gets the same score because we
all use

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They got their own dispatch. Everybody
else in the county gets the same score

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on this because we all use county
sheriff's office. Our dispatch center.

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So we got 9.46 out of 10.
I think the one thing that's missing is

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number dispatch circuits. One more to
call

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and then
there is Another thing that 3.73 is

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called
those are negative points. So if your

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fire department and your water are not
in line with each other, if one of

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them's real good and the other one's
bad, they actually subtract because you

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have a really good fire department, they
don't have any water, they can't do the

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job. Or you can have a whole lot of
water but don't have a decent fire

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department and the water's no good. So
both they got to work together. So

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that's you know when we get those two
closer together we'll get those negative

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back. So I think that you know every
five years uh is the schedule that they

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bring us unless we think that we have
improved enough to call them on our own

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but uh which is a possibility but I feel
like within the next five years when

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they come back we will probably be ready
to move to a

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right here. I think it's the next slide.
So,

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this represents all the fire departments
across the United States. Total of

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37,358
recognized fire departments nationwide.

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And you can see different classes at the
bottom. We are now in a class three. We

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are one of 3,956
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So, we're doing pretty good.

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So at the end of the day, it's not so
much the graphs and piece of paper and

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the shiny trucks. It's the heart to go
out here and help the uh the people that

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we live around, people we call neighbors
and family, and we have that

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determination to to help people.
That's why we get called home pretty

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good bit to go even outside of our
territory because people need help and

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we're willing to help as long as we can
afford to do so. Obviously, if we have

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something going on in our area, we're
going to handle that first, but we're

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willing to help people
questions.

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I do want to say how much we appreciate
chief the job that you have done in

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because this the city has committed
resources to the fire department but

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you've also gone out and made those
resources go further and that's one of

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the things that people shouldn't miss
when we talk about the amount of water

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they have to take the trucks and you're
driving to Pennsylvania trying to take a

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truck 50,000 instead of a million those
help us get that water up get our score

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up and make it affordable. We appreciate
that.

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» All right. New business
approved rec center.

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I got a motion. Any discussion? Hearing
none. All in favor say

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» I.
Nay. The eyes have. Item B is resolution

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2617
participation in local government health

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insurance program.
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resolution

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is u
cleaning up

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our

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wording and our and making sure that
each of [snorts] our rather than

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our water board, our gas board, and our
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insurance being lumped together. The
state won't allow us to do that anymore.

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So, making sure that that we would
divide that ourselves now has to be

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divided force in Texas. So, this is a
housekeeping issue that doesn't really

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change anything other than where the
state looks at it from a legal

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perspective.
Is there any discussion on resolution

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2617?

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Do I hear a motion to
resolution 267?

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» Make a motion to approve resolution
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Have a motion to second. Any discussion?
>> All in favor say I.

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» I oppose. Nay. And the eyes have. All
right. Item C. We'd like to hear from

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our executive director of chamber of
commerce for

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all day. So, um, but I just want to come
and update everyone about the chamber,

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things that we've had going on since the
last time I was in. We um along the LCD

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chamber tourism board and the mayor. We
participated in April the dragon boat

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race. Um Fury was our name. Uh we had a
great time. It was at Winry State Park.

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We did not bring home a trophy, but we
plan on next year. So, um we were

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excited about that. But, um between May
and July, the chamber uh had 22

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members chamber memberships with us. We
had two 10 new members join and five are

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located right here in we have three in
the Auburn area and two are from city.

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So um just encouraging businesses to
join the chamber. Uh we do try to help

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with your advertising and just you know
seeing the bond that

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that our community has and I love seeing
it grow. We um we are revitalizing the

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chamber ambassador program and that is
open to anyone that either is a chamber

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member or works for a business that has
that is a chamber member and we just had

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a meeting yesterday. We have 12 active
ambassadors and five new ambassadors.

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So, that's exciting. Um, and we will
also be working with LCD chamber. We're

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going to have an ambassador day next
Friday um on the lake to bring the LC

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chamber ambassadors and chamber
ambassadors together to um just for them

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to meet in
recruit

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ambassadors. And then um we started
planning our fall festival and

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I just wanted to let everyone know that
it will be again in the Dable First

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Baptist Church parking lot and uh along
West Street and we will still have the

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car show that will be downtown. So, um
we're excited. We have a lot of things

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going on the next couple of months and
so you may see some a lot of advertising

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going on. If you have any questions,
please, you know, feel free to reach out

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to me, call me, stop by, you know, they
have a new office and I still call it

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new because I feel like I'm

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just I see new faces all the time. So, I
feel like I'm still new in my position.

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So, I would love for anybody and
everybody to stop by and see us.

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Y'all have any questions?

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Thank you.

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» All right. Item D is ordinance 480F.
Uh this is

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came up if we as we passed our last
meeting, the ordinance on manufactured

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homes.
This is just an addition that goes back

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to an ordinance that was passed some 50
years ago. Uh so it's not a change, but

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it's putting u the wording into the the
particular section of the code that we

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have. Uh I believe
article four section three that that

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refers to
man homes and it just makes sure that

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it's clear to anybody who looks at it as
you see that single wide manufactured

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homes are only allowed in a manufactured
home park

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uh and nowhere else in the city limits.
So this is this is a a clarifying piece

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to make sure it's been in place for for
quite a long time.

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Any discussion?
Do I hear a motion for

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Make a motion to approve ordinance.
>> Is there a second?

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» Have a motion to second. Any discussion?

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» All right.
All in favor of ordinance 480. Yes. Say

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I.
>> I. I. Opposed. Nay. And the eyes have

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move to ordinance 530 mobile food units.
This also

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a lot of work done by planning and
zoning. Uh this just puts some rules in

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place to help to make sure that our
we have more mobile food units

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that they this is good for them and good
for the for those businesses that exist

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here all the time and brick and mortar.
And so the biggest piece of this, there

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are several things and so I would
encourage anybody who is interested in

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doing a food truck or a food trailer go
look at this after it's passed as far as

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all the thing the things that that are
that are

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gerain the situation. But the big piece
is um from my for my takeway is that a a

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mobile food unit
cannot set up within 200 ft of and this

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is my paraphrase y'all. So this is not
legal of of an open restaurant an open

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brick and mort so that we don't create

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competition for those
So, u there are other there plenty of

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other little things in there, but that's
to me is the biggest piece.

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Do I hear a motion
for ordinance 530?

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Make a motion to approve ordinance 530.
>> Second.

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» Got a motion to second. Is there any
discussion?

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Hearing none. All in favor say I. Oppos?
Nay. And the eyes have.

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Item F is ordinance 531 group homes.
Uh this is another of the um of the

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items that we had had. We had a
six-month mortorium council pass

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on group homes until we had time to look
into it and decide what was most

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active place and uses for groups of for
groups of group homes. Um, and the the

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takeaway the brief cliff notes on this
is this. I won't read the whole thing,

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but in section three, it says that group
homes, group living arrangements, the

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residential care facilities may be
located the R2 medium density

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residential district and the R3 high
density residential district subject to

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approval as a special exceptional use
complies with all standards in this

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ordinance. So the rest of the talks
about state regulations and those things

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necessary to be able to have a group
home, but the big thing is that it them

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to R2 and R3 and and they are not
allowed in R1.

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» I hear a motion for ordinance 531.
>> Make a motion to approve ordinance 531.

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» Is there a second?

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Have a motion to second. Is there any
discussion?

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Hearing none. All in favor of ordinance
531 say I

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» oppose nay and the eyes have
item G ordinance 532 is for storage

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facilities and main warehouses. This
also been part of a moratorium while our

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planning is only look to see what was
best

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for planning for we go forward and I
will focus on takeways in this

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definition
some other site plan requirements. But

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the main part of this cliff notes is
self-service storage facilities

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including boat and recreational vehicle
storage facilities may be located only

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in the M1 limited industrial district
and the M2 general industrial district

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is shown on the most current city and
zone.

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That's really the the big takeaway for
future zoning as always in all of these

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the things that are currently exist in a
zone when zoning has changed as long as

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they're used for the same
the same thing that were being used for

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that is a nonforming acceptable use. So
it doesn't mean the zoning change

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doesn't mean something that's here can
no longer be doing what it's doing. It

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means that nothing new can go in except
in these places.

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Do I hear a A motion for ordinance 532

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ordinance 532
>> second got a motion second any

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discussion

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hearing none all in favor say I
oppose nay and the eyes have item H

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item H is
couple months ago we as we decided to uh

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change our sales tax to be the same as
everybody around us and it's paid by

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Alabama almost
have a municipal sales tax at 4%.

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But one thing that we did not want to do
that we need to come back to address is

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we would like to amend that
to say that there will be no sales tax

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increase on groceries. So on grocery the
sales tax will stay at 3.5% on

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everything else 4%.

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» Do I hear a motion?
>> Make a motion to approve.

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» Okay.
>> All right. Got a motion to second.

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Any discussion?
>> All in favor of amending the prior

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motion so that there's no increase on
sales tax on groceries say I.

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» I. and all oppose.
and the eyes have before we get to a

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journ there's one thing I would like to
do because we'd like to recognize uh

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many of you know that former police
chief Steve Freeman passed away this

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past week and Chief Freeman served this
city for a long time and we appreciate

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his service and I'd just like to take a
moment

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give us a moment of silent prayer for
his family in this time of loss and and

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thanks for

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No.

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[laughter]
>> I've got a motion to adjourn on the

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table.

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» All in favor say I.
>> Oppose. Name. The eyes. Are there public

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comments?
Anybody want to address the council?

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Thank you very much. Look forward to
seeing you next time. If not,