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and at this time uh i'm calling his
meeting to order

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pastor clark to do a roll call
mayor hamm

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mayor pro temp hello
councilwoman jones president

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councilmember broadway here
councilman woman matthews

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councilman gaylord
councilman akon here

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we're all here uh next item on the
agenda is the adoption of the agenda

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is any changes to the event audition
yes sir i'd like to add item e under new

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business goldwell fire department engine
number four emergency motor purchase

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and i believe we have a closed session
on them uh to discuss the personnel yes

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sir okay

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any other uh conditions or
changes to

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johnny anyone once you might i just want
to add i just want to add one um i know

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we
acknowledge councilmember matthews and

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being the first african-american uh
female elected council member i just

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want to um address the consideration of
a resolution to be doing for the

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archives of the city and that
recognition of that

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do you have one prepared i don't like
consideration for they've been doing it

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it's not a motion to uh adopt a gender
please

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move to about six
that's that's the job the agenda hasn't

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been in that case we've got a first and
second uh

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is there any uh
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objections or whatever if not always in
favor raise your hand

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all opposed
emotional care

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we have no old business so we'll go
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the fy 20 hours update
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good evening mayor council
david i am very pleased

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to tell you that we are as they say in
short roads with the audit

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um
so just a quick update so on friday

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i reviewed the final financial statement
and the compliance section so i reviewed

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the whole audit giving back my
corrections that needed to be done

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and so i anticipate at this point
that the

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senior auditor has turned over the final
audit

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to the partner so it has to go through
partner review and then it has to go

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through qc or quality control review
so at that point they will have an issue

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date
i expect that to be done within about

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two weeks uh borrowing any kind of major
interruptions but i don't expect

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anything different um so very pleased
with uh that we're finally getting to

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the end of this i know the council is
um we should be able to get a published

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audit and bound books in probably about
a week after i get the final

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um the lgc will receive the copy as soon
as it's issued final

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um so they'll actually get it probably
before the council will but we'll try to

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make that as timely as we can to get it
to you as quickly as we can

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so that you have the opportunity to
review the audit

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what our plan is is to bring back to the
march 7th meeting is to have john frank

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the partner in charge he's the cpa that
y'all have seen her several times to

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come back and discuss the audit with the
council and answer any questions you

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have so my hope is that you've had it in
your hands at least one to two weeks so

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you can
put together questions or you can ask

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them on the slot when they get

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we will have copies for uh found copies
for all the council and for the

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newspaper
uh for the city manager and his office

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as well
um so at the time when we bring the uh

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the dixon huge to present the audit on
seven i also have two agenda items one

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will be to amend the final fy 20
contract

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that has to be done and approved by
council so that they can get paid the

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final rounds and then i'll also bring
the fy 21 contract for the council to

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approve
um they have agreed to continue on to

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the third year of the audit so what
we're going to do is we're going to put

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in a completion date of june 30 of 2022
which means that

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getting that done we will be called up
okay we'll be calling okay that's good

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news you say
june

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completion that's a bound copy
yes it's i'm gonna be honest with you

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it's gonna be tight but um as we have
discussed we're making some

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modifications to the duties that i'm
doing so that i can focus on the audit

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so that we can get it done it is going
to be a tight deadline because it took

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probably two or three months to do the
financial statement part of the audit so

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it's going to be time but um you know
that's the tentative agreement that

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we've had with lgc and talking with
susan and sharon um so we can get called

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up so at that point
when when we get to july 1 of 2022

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the 20 the fiscal 22 audit where we are
now is due no later than december 1 and

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midnight okay so we we've got a little
bit of time in there so we've already

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been talking i've talked with auditors
about scheduling field work so that we

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can get done and be on time with that so
i just think that's really good positive

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news that there's been a lot of people
that have worked very hard on this and i

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really appreciate all the effort and the
support that i've been given to try to

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get this done because it has really been
a job um i have in your packets um i did

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this little
fun balanced governmental funds in your

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packet so what this is the top part of
this actually comes out of the audited

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financial statements it's in what's
called the statistical section

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the statistical section is prepared by
staff and it is not audited

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but what i wanted to
give you is to show you i want you to

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look at the top part where it talks
about general funds so you have general

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fund and below that's other governmental
funds but where you see highlighted in

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yellow is that fund balance percentage
that we talk so much about if you scroll

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all the way to your far right under 2020
you see nine point three eight percent

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okay so that's that magical number that
the lgc says has got to be above eight

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percent
now i have talked to y'all for two years

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that we were not sure that that number
if it would not go below eight percent

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it's at nine point three eight percent
so it's not much but we'll take what an

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extra 1.38
what what i wanted to point out to you

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is just that table that i have below
that's colored in blue and white

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those are those are the pieces of debt
that the council has taken to improve

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the city of gulf war some of it's been
streets some of it's been wa foster

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brian multi sports complex and so forth
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through fiscal 19 the city's taking on
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uh 39.2 million dollars in debt just in
the general fund it's not utility fund

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stuff
plus what's not showing on this sheet is

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we had a 1.75 million dollar commitment
to tiger there was no we did not borrow

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any money for that even though it had
been talked about by previous

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administration
so out of that the general fund paid a

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million of that so what i want you to
look at is if you go back to the middle

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of the page where it says 2015
and you scroll down about middle where

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it says fund balance percentage was
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now the reason that that number part of
the reason gets so high is because

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there's been a lot of debt that's why i
gave you the table below so when you

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look at all that debt that came on board
from 15 until 2019 because if you

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remember i i came in january and the cd
took like uh it's like four million

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dollars in street bond debt in december
just before i got here so that's all

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part of that number so i think what's
important to realize is not to be so

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short-sighted or short focused to say oh
my goodness fund balance went down two

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million dollars you're at nine point
three eight percent in fiscal twenty

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what's important to realize it is kind
of the winding down of like a five-year

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project so stuff we do
doesn't happen in 30 60 90 days it

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happens over years it happens over
various councils so just kind of keep

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that long-term perspective in your mind
and that the the the story that we're

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showing and sharing with you today is
that it's getting better because as you

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i gave you all that november update and
i showed we were two plus million in

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general fund we're going to be probably
like 4 million in the utility time so

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things are they're going to turn around
so when we can get done with the 21 all

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that hopefully at the end of june or
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then we can tell an additional story
where that picture starts going on the

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upswing so i just wanted to share that
with you um just to give that little

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sneak peak ahead since you're not going
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and i'd be glad to take any questions
amortizations of most of those bonds are

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10-year
or 15-year amendment yes or most of them

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are 10 or 15 yes
yes sir yes sir that is correct and

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we're going to see when we do the 2023
budget um there was a refinancing of

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this building i think it was a
combination of this building in the

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paramount so we're going to have a big
chunk of debt service that's going to

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drop off when we do the fiscal 23 budget
which is going to help it's going to

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give us a little bit of room that some
things that might need to be done we'll

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be able to get uh i haven't prepared the
schedules yet to put in the budget but

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that that's all happening right now i'm
actually working on budget sheets so we

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can get those out to the department
any other questions that's actually

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going to be going down yes sir that's
right because because we haven't taken

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all much debt so the three years we've
been here it's just been about three

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million dollars worth of debt certainly
not in comparison to the 39.3 so

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so yes you're going to start seeing that

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since it's already come up in
conversation the fun balance the magical

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eight percent eight percent is that
because it's one twelfth of the year it

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is can you talk a little bit about a
little bit about what that eight percent

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would represent why eight percent
in what case scenario do we ever need

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eight percent of our total budget
sitting in cash so the reason that um

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they really want you to have well that's
really like the absolute bottom but they

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want you to have at least eight percent
because cash flow

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paying deals um and i would tell you as
from the standpoint of this budget that

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we manage here is about 65 million
managed to budget at the other unit i

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was that was over 105

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you're wondering how am i going to pay
payroll this week so what they wanted

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you to have the eight percent for was so
that you can pay your bills timely and

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then if you had a major disaster you
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whatever that you could react to and
then you could make sure that emergency

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response happened
and then you can pay the field so that

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that was essentially one of the big
reasons they want you to have that now i

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would say units our size which we do not
have an electric uh system in ours

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they're running about 40
and as as i've mentioned before uh susan

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and sharon at lgc would really like to
see us have that probably 30 to 40

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percent i would say that i would be
comfortable if we were like maybe 22 to

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25 but but that's yeah exactly so that's
not i mean that's my personal opinion

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but the council does whatever it feels
is best for the city

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thank you yes sir

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it is good news positive news yes thank
you and thank you all for your support

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we all appreciate it very much thank you
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yes sir i'd like to discuss the american
rescue plan coronavirus state and local

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fiscal recovery funds final guidance
there's a little bit of background in

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march 2021
the arpa state and local fiscal recovery

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funds were provided to state and local
tribal governments with the resources

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needed to respond to the pandemic and
economic effects

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on may 10 2021 the u.s department of
treasury issued its interim final

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guidance
on may 17 2021 the city council

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accepted 8.8 million in arpa grant funds
and on june 21st 2021 the city council

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adopted the grant project fund for the
arp special revenue fund with

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expenditures of 1.6 million
for lost public lost revenue

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2.6 million for water sewer and
broadband infrastructure as identified

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in the fy 21 and 22 budget
in 4.6 million for contingency

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on january 6 2022 the u.s treasury
issued its final guidance

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implementing our statutory provisions on
eligible and ineligible uses

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for the state local fiscal recovery
funds which provides broader flexibility

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and greater simplicity in the program
one of the most significant changes in

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the final rule is a standard allowance
for revenue loss of up to 10 million

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dollars not to exceed the awarded amount
for each recipient

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which in our case is 8.8 million
given this flexibility staff recommend

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the full award 8.8 million be applied to
lost public sector revenue

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to fund general government services
primary salary and benefits

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allowable expenditures
would include any payroll for a legally

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authorized function of the government
such as public safety environmental

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health recreation administration and
public utilities

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this will simplify the compliance
requirements under uniform guidance and

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replace tax and utility revenue that can
then fund previously agreed water and

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sewer infrastructure and other
expenditures as determined by council

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under north carolina law
if council approves this change the

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finance director will bring back a
project budget amendment to council at

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the next meeting in march to amend the
grant project related to the

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slfrf award
recommendation is for council to approve

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utilizing the standard allowance for
revenue loss for the full sl frf award

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of 8.813
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pending any questions i request a vote

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to approve this
you ever want to understand what you

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just said
i would like for you to um

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while i have read this
um if you could just simplify

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okay please um to simplify
we've been given authority to use all of

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our 8.8 million
in

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the general fund
or you can use it in utility fund

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there's lots of different ways we can
use it it can be applied against

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personnel is what the staff is
recommending because it's very easy to

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track
and very easy to report on

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and then what would normally have funded
tax revenue for personnel can be

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utilized as we deem appropriate
with

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then applying north carolina state law
rather than federal law so federal law

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on the uniform guidance has a lot of
restrictions that you'd have to apply to

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you need to have a program manager
overseeing a lot of different things in

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this case uh catherine is i think the
finance department can oversee

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the um
the funds if we put them towards

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personnel costs
for their payroll etc

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okay
i understand that thank you my question

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is
well maybe i don't understand it so let

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me ask the question so what you're
saying is that funding is now going to

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fall
under what you're saying but it can only

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be used based on the recommendation of
the staff for payroll is that what

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you're saying staff's recommendations we
will assign it against payroll and then

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the money that you would have gotten in
taxes from property taxes sales tax et

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cetera that would have paid for payroll
can then be used in the manner in which

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we previously decided so
1.6 million as i mentioned earlier in

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the background has already been put into
the budget to pay for operating expenses

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and payroll and then 2.6 million was to
go for capital improvements

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in public utilities
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we can take the funding
that is becoming available and apply it

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still buy those capital projects but we
would do that under north carolina law

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rather than uniform guidance

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so
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do you have to have a decision on this
tonight because to be perfectly honest i

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don't feel
confident enough to make a decision

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because i'm not fully understanding and
i don't want to

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take up a lot of time that i just don't
feel confident to make a decision

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to approve or not approve
this

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so i guess does this have to be settled
tonight

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we can take it to the retreat or we can
take it to the march meeting um i know

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the finance director would prefer to
start putting the funding towards the

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payroll costs so that we can spend it
down

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so i'm not i'm not asking for um and i
know councilwoman you have a question

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but um
i would

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i would like if we could at least move
it to the retreat it just would give me

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more time to ask you know some more
questions to you um city manager so i

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can make a more confident decision okay
i would actually like to have the 10

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arch
simply because i am not under

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understanding everything
and i want to make sure that some money

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goes to public utilities i don't want to
backtrack and what we've done and what

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we've decided
and and listening to this i'm not really

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understanding if we're going to do that
so i would like to have more time to

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research this and it's going to take
more time than um councilwoman matthews

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it's going to take more time than in
march because i would like to

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truly understand it because
we are looking at something extremely

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important here and it affects everyone
it affects the staff it will affect our

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constituents so i want to make sure that
i make the right decision

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i wouldn't change the way we were
spending it this year it's just how the

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different plots of money are aligned um
there is one project that was originally

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put in the budget for 550 thousands to
do a study for public utility

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requirements but because we've got the
asset inventory assessment that's being

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done for 400 000 we're going to put that
on hold so

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that funding would be available to do
other things as determined as we go

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along here but
that's that's for another day

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catherine i don't know if you had
anything else to add

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because you know we're having to get the
departments to code their payroll

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um however with the council having
reservations for that i will still go

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ahead and direct them to start coding
their payroll getting their timesheets

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in because the problem is because we're
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you know we're past seven months and for
us to get the justification we need to

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to take the whole 4.5 million we're
running out of time and it is a

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tremendous bonus to try to go back and
fix

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so we it's fine we can do what we need
to do and one thing i will say to the

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council is
because we are are supplanting and we're

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allowed to supplant
those monies the council can now say

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okay well we have general fund monies
available to do other things so if you

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wanted to allocate something for like
some utility assistance program out of

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the general fund you can do that if you
so choose to do or you have other

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projects but the thing you have to
realize is remember that first trench of

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money that 4.5 million is already
obligated instant spent the contingency

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the other 4.7 million you have the
ability to decide where you want to go

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and again that can be a as we go through
the 2023 budget process that you can

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make those decisions because all we're
going to do is supplant

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that other 4.7 million into payroll
which brings up other revenues like

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property tax or sales tax or utility
revenues to do a project or if you have

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some other community based need that you
see you can do that in the general fund

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money the strings are not fair so you
don't have to deal with the procurement

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the contract in the beginning and that
can be a real nightmare

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because one of these you have good
services which can be a nightmare when

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you're trying to find people and you're
in a very specialized type of field so

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see if i'm oversimplifying this

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let's say we have two pots of money
we've got eight million from

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the recovery act and we've got our
general fund balance

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all right
we get that eight million dollars into

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this pot here so that pot's got eight
million dollars in it

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all right right now we're taken out of
the other pot to pay our personnel

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and that's taking up a lot of our
general fund balance so now what we can

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do is we can take out from that eight
million dollars to pay personnel

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and that frees up the personnel money to
do

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capital improvements to do whatever we
have a need for

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so really and truly it's it's really a
i'm not going to say it's too simple but

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that's exactly
typically you know federal grants they

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don't allow us discipline
so that that's the one thing that has

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been really um just mind-blowing for all
of us and local government that have

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dealt with federal grants is they
typically don't like this

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but the guidance that we've gotten from
school of government and these weekly

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calls that we sit on with carol
she specializes in the finance aspect of

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it she has been telling us that what
we've been reading from the final guys

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it's okay to do that so that that's for
us i think for the administrative

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nightmare um like we've been with with
the crf money with the county how much

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that this is going to bring this is
actually gonna it's more volume but it's

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actually gonna be simple because we can
use it all in payroll so plant those

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dollars as you said and just take a spin
i'd be fine with just to lend it to the

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retreat myself
i'm up for retreat

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so while i understand that it may be
super simple for you guys you have two

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people on this board who has requested i
requested it for the retreat but i am on

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the same boat with councilwoman and if
we can

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hold this off until march meeting
then let's do that

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i am asking that we do that for those of
us who it's not so simple for

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i would i would suggest that
we have time that we treat to discuss

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this more in depth

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than we might have uh after another
meeting in march

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and of course that's two weeks from now
so hopefully

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one someone who
needs additional information would have

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two weeks to research it and satisfy
themselves

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that they would take one or the other
position

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by the tweet time
councilwoman are you okay with that

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because i'll still support your mark 7.
no i'm not no i'm not but uh i will vote

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no and it will be voted down but
no

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so i guess we have a a
situation here where we need to

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determine whether we're going to do it
and let's just uh

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the the impact again is
you might not be able to transfer that

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funding to purchase
some of the public utility capital

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improvement programs the way we're
talking about under north carolina

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versus the federal law requirements if
we wait until march if you wait

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you know i i haven't figured out those
numbers yet but it makes it more

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difficult to account for all those
personnel costs

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in the end if you don't do it you can
just do it the next year instead of

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accomplishing all in this budget here
you

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start to put that in the fy 23 budget

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catherine i will ask you to weigh in on
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the salmon's uh comedy just made

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as to the uh
impact of the land

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so um what
because the council approved the 2.5

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billion for this fiscal year that
capital just gets the money okay

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so there's really unless something
breaks you know and it tears up and you

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can't process your silver so i think you
know if you ask for a sherman he would

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of course like to get it done
but i think that my conversations that

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i've had with the manager with bert that
that can weigh

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so 1.6 million is a given okay
so

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we know that that was used to balance
the fy22 budget so we've got authority

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to do that that's company stop us
but really what we're trying to do is

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get it all gathered in so that it's
under lost public sector revenue but

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it's fine it can wait tomorrow so i i
mean it would i i urge manager let's go

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ahead and try to get it done so i can
get the staff started but we can go

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ahead and get started i'll key in the
payroll to do the 1.6 million and if we

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have to and we've got to shift it and
put it in the 2023 budget to do the

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other 4.5 million we can and if at that
one time you know you resolved your

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questions and you feel comfortable to
vote to move it to lost public sector or

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whatever you know you want to do we can
at that point i mean that's fine

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the problem with march or february my
problem is i want to help the finance

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department as much as i can
to get that i don't see that another

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month
and another two weeks makes a lot of

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difference and we'll have time in
february to go through this

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i think so and like i said it just it
makes it a little bit cleaner because

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the decisions may but if the council's
got some you know

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worries about that it's fine another
month is perfectly fine we'll get

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consistent
our budget preparations start in march

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uh yeah correct
well yes we'll start so

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the managers also start meeting the
departments in march we're getting the

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budget sheets ready now some departments
can start putting that stuff in so yes

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it's cranking up right now but you won't
see a whole lot of activity until march

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and with the unit assistance uh letter
the agreement that we have we have to

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turn the budget into lgc by the 15th of
may so you all will actually have the

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budget in hand
probably a good three or four weeks

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earlier than you've had before which is
good because it gives you time to review

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it and have some time to go ahead and
ask questions

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okay for those of you
who understand this

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and uh
councilman aycock did a very

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good job of explaining that
i

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still am not understanding all of this
and i i am a very intelligent woman

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but i would like to have time
to look at this

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however if you call a vote
and you decide that you want to do it in

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february
then

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i
have no other choice but to rush

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and look at this
i'm not asking enough so that's my final

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say haste makes ways and when someone
doesn't understand something

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then out of respect
you should allow them to understand it

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so that they can make a good decision
that's i'm not asking you to rush what

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i'm just saying is
my suggestion right now is to let's not

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do anything tonight
and then when we have our retreat

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see if all your questions have been
answered by the retreat and if we can

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make a vote at retreat and we make a
vote okay now i can agree with that

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i can agree with that i'm not i'm not
going to try to undermine

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anybody's
you know their understanding of this

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thank you and you know i'm not trying to
say i am trying to undermine it and i'm

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not going to try to make y'all make a
decision you don't feel comfortable with

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what i'm trying to say is let's see if
we can't get it done as soon as you all

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feel comfortable that's the only thing
i'm saying

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you know
if you don't feel comfortable in

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the 21st and 22nd of february then we'll
just extend it until the first meeting

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in march but no later than the first
meeting in march we will have to make a

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decision thank you and i can agree to
that

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what about you i know we all i know we
all get a

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subscription to the nclm magazine
uh and i know roseboro will showcase as

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far as allocating the allocation of
these funds

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so i think like you said i've been kind
of

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updating myself on this and uh but like
i said by

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that meeting if we haven't decided and
there

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still needs to be some points of clarity
made at that point

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but actually as far as tonight deciding
i mean let's say got two weeks for the

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retreat
i mean between now and then and if we

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need to extend out after that
i'll have some questions more questions

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asked at that point too this one kind of
being quiet

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tonight but um
i think like see if we don't necessarily

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have to vote on it tonight we can wait
to the retreat then see if we have any

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questions thereafter would that be a
proper protocol to do that

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and we can refer to the retreat
everyone in an agreement with that

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okay
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you have to put um on the agenda for the
retreat yes sir

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okay

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next item is the
older event center

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departmental oversight change

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good

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evening propose a departmental shift
of oversight of the australia event

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center from paramount
to the

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goldsboro golf course
um

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a little bit of history
for those who may or may not know about

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that uh this was the uh
country club

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purchased and renovated by the city in
2015

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operations transferred from goldsboro
parks and recreation to paramount they

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was in parks and recreation during the
uh during the overhaul

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and then transferred to paramount in
2016.

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the site includes a 18 more municipal
golf course pickleball ports clay tennis

436
00:32:59,760 --> 00:33:05,279
courts
uh it is um and the facility itself has

437
00:33:03,600 --> 00:33:10,960
a ballroom you're all familiar with that
you'll be there in a couple of weeks

438
00:33:08,480 --> 00:33:14,559
dining room bar kitchen patio coke shop
and locker rooms

439
00:33:12,399 --> 00:33:19,279
uh utilities maintenance and certain
amenities are split between the uh gdc

440
00:33:17,200 --> 00:33:23,120
and the volvo golf course right now
between the budgets

441
00:33:20,880 --> 00:33:28,080
and the gdc has rented a public weddings
banquets conferences meetings etc

442
00:33:26,159 --> 00:33:32,399
uh it's available for city department
use at no charge and maybe the city

443
00:33:30,320 --> 00:33:36,000
sponsored two of the activities at the
discretion of the department

444
00:33:33,679 --> 00:33:43,039
headquarters
prior to kobe 19 which was a uh

445
00:33:39,919 --> 00:33:47,039
event activity
for a period of time

446
00:33:45,039 --> 00:33:52,160
it was growing by an average about about
20 per year

447
00:33:49,020 --> 00:33:52,160
[Music]

448
00:33:54,240 --> 00:34:02,000
uh what we propose is that uh the
oversight be transferred to the golf

449
00:33:59,440 --> 00:34:06,320
course uh which is a division of parks
and rec

450
00:34:03,279 --> 00:34:10,960
uh we feel that this integration of the
two together will be allow us to operate

451
00:34:08,560 --> 00:34:15,679
more efficiently and will avail us to
more uh activity greater activity with

452
00:34:14,159 --> 00:34:20,879
the increased use of the golf course
that we've been seeing during the the

453
00:34:17,679 --> 00:34:20,879
pandemic and since

454
00:34:26,079 --> 00:34:33,760
with activity uh while the event center
is still rebounding from that uh closure

455
00:34:31,919 --> 00:34:38,159
and uh
kind of softer activity

456
00:34:35,919 --> 00:34:41,599
and uh putting them together with the
maintenance ground keeping custodial

457
00:34:39,760 --> 00:34:44,480
staff and shared throughout the site and
facility

458
00:34:42,720 --> 00:34:49,280
uh the activity we more effectively
align those increasing tournaments in

459
00:34:47,760 --> 00:34:53,359
golf course
and finance will no longer need to split

460
00:34:51,599 --> 00:34:56,639
utility bills and better contracts
between the two departments

461
00:34:55,040 --> 00:35:01,599
the budget impact
we expect to be modest

462
00:34:58,960 --> 00:35:05,599
we expect it to be positive reduced
overhead maintenance and administrative

463
00:35:03,280 --> 00:35:12,640
expenses uh increased revenue from
additional bar and space rental activity

464
00:35:08,880 --> 00:35:18,320
we project uh 15 22 percent increase in
revenue immediately

465
00:35:14,800 --> 00:35:20,960
in this in the rest of this fiscal year
uh

466
00:35:19,119 --> 00:35:24,800
community activity programs can be
explored through revenue streams

467
00:35:28,240 --> 00:35:33,040
the
existing uh personnel

468
00:35:31,440 --> 00:35:36,960
would be uh the events of the manager
who we actually are uh interviewing for

469
00:35:35,760 --> 00:35:41,359
right now
uh our event center venture was

470
00:35:38,560 --> 00:35:46,800
enthusiastic about this uh this
proposal and uh but then got a nice

471
00:35:43,920 --> 00:35:51,200
offer uh elsewhere and and has moved on
and so we are uh currently we have some

472
00:35:49,359 --> 00:35:54,079
uh excellent applicants and uh we're
gonna

473
00:35:51,920 --> 00:35:58,400
make those uh uh have those interviews
this week and next week

474
00:35:56,079 --> 00:36:03,359
uh right now uh we have a patron
services and operational assistant who's

475
00:36:00,240 --> 00:36:07,440
a permanent part-time uh employee uh
jamie tyler

476
00:36:04,720 --> 00:36:10,960
um who has worked at the paramount for
several years and then has been

477
00:36:09,440 --> 00:36:15,520
at the
second in command at the event center uh

478
00:36:13,359 --> 00:36:19,839
heading up uh staffing for for the
events and such

479
00:36:17,119 --> 00:36:24,400
um with a flexible schedule
uh we have uh several

480
00:36:22,800 --> 00:36:28,160
building attendants who are event
specific so we're really carrying very

481
00:36:26,480 --> 00:36:30,480
little overhead on
personnel

482
00:36:29,280 --> 00:36:36,079
right now
uh and then i am the uh

483
00:36:33,200 --> 00:36:40,240
and the uh director of the event center
right now i do have an extensive

484
00:36:37,920 --> 00:36:44,800
background in hospitality as well as
theater so uh it was a good fit

485
00:36:42,800 --> 00:36:47,119
but i can also see where the benefit is
of uh

486
00:36:45,920 --> 00:36:51,359
moving this
toward the uh and

487
00:36:49,359 --> 00:36:55,400
linking it to the operation of the golf
course

488
00:36:52,240 --> 00:36:55,400
the proposed

489
00:36:55,520 --> 00:37:03,119
personnel will be uh obie uh at the
director of gulf uh would now oversee

490
00:37:00,160 --> 00:37:05,599
the fgc together with the uh
golf course

491
00:37:04,480 --> 00:37:09,040
um
uh kyle hope who's our clubhouse manager

492
00:37:07,520 --> 00:37:14,400
over there right now
and then uh the person who we're

493
00:37:11,440 --> 00:37:18,640
interviewing for right now uh between
the three we get to be a little bit more

494
00:37:16,240 --> 00:37:26,160
efficient this is an operation that is
days nights and weekends so um anytime

495
00:37:22,800 --> 00:37:32,079
that we can save uh by not staffing
both uh both sides uh at the same time

496
00:37:29,599 --> 00:37:37,119
if it's not essential and then you know
that becomes a more efficient operation

497
00:37:34,720 --> 00:37:41,440
and then uh jamie tyler uh you know
continuing on uh potentially in this

498
00:37:39,839 --> 00:37:46,400
position with the picture services and
operational assistant heading up our um

499
00:37:44,240 --> 00:37:49,800
our event specific staff
at that time

500
00:37:52,960 --> 00:38:01,680
so this has been it was a new operation
back in 2016 and since i arrived in 2019

501
00:38:00,160 --> 00:38:06,160
uh you know we've seen it
uh continually

502
00:38:03,200 --> 00:38:11,040
increase the revenue uh in
2019 of course was

503
00:38:08,800 --> 00:38:14,400
last year that before
it was closed in 2020

504
00:38:13,200 --> 00:38:17,680
and
you know it was showing a a good

505
00:38:16,400 --> 00:38:21,920
progression
and we expect that to bounce back but we

506
00:38:19,920 --> 00:38:28,320
don't expect it to be particularly
robust for a little while still we have

507
00:38:24,960 --> 00:38:34,640
a we have a solid uh schedule ahead but
we have not seen a return of

508
00:38:32,240 --> 00:38:37,599
activity that we've had in the past not
uh um

509
00:38:36,320 --> 00:38:43,119
you know not to the level that we have
expected or desired uh and so again with

510
00:38:41,040 --> 00:38:47,359
the activity at the golf course we think
that that we can leave those together

511
00:38:45,359 --> 00:38:50,960
and really make something special happen
and have a great amount of activity

512
00:38:50,160 --> 00:38:56,640
um
the revenue you know it has been again

513
00:38:54,240 --> 00:39:03,200
steadily increasing but it has never
covered the expenses yet however the um

514
00:39:00,160 --> 00:39:08,160
added in the use of the city the cost uh
or the uh

515
00:39:05,200 --> 00:39:12,320
uh the value of the use by the city we
start to get close to covering the

516
00:39:10,240 --> 00:39:16,320
expenses that we've had and again it's
been a trend that we've been watching

517
00:39:13,599 --> 00:39:21,680
for for years even if it was predating
me i mean to see what those um

518
00:39:19,200 --> 00:39:25,680
what those numbers are uh budget impacts
uh no additions to staff salary or

519
00:39:23,920 --> 00:39:30,800
investments of facility and equipment
would be required to make this change

520
00:39:28,880 --> 00:39:35,280
the management team will see value
adding amenities and modifications to be

521
00:39:32,720 --> 00:39:40,720
proposed in future budget years
and we see again a net benefit from

522
00:39:38,800 --> 00:39:46,079
increased use and efficiency in this
first year the remainder of this first

523
00:39:42,720 --> 00:39:49,520
year at potentially around 25 000
um

524
00:39:47,599 --> 00:39:54,839
so we recommend that this is something
that we do it's not a a uh it's not a

525
00:39:53,040 --> 00:40:00,960
major
uh budget line item you know perhaps in

526
00:39:58,240 --> 00:40:05,920
the scope of the city at large but we
think that anything that we can do to

527
00:40:02,640 --> 00:40:10,880
enhance that efficiency and add value is
going to be uh beneficial

528
00:40:08,720 --> 00:40:10,880
so

529
00:40:15,420 --> 00:40:18,489
[Music]

530
00:40:22,839 --> 00:40:28,640
i uh
thought of this i've been thinking about

531
00:40:26,240 --> 00:40:34,960
it from the day i was hired uh
my goal was to of course the concern was

532
00:40:31,760 --> 00:40:39,319
to get those words of recognition
so the city wants to have the sunshine

533
00:40:51,680 --> 00:40:57,920
the jeep they think the clubhouse should
be part of the bottles and that

534
00:40:56,319 --> 00:41:02,960
and and now
it will eliminate a lot of chances that

535
00:41:00,160 --> 00:41:06,560
i have not forgotten
if i were over it

536
00:41:17,440 --> 00:41:25,440
so the goal is you know as usual to try
and still create revenue streams for the

537
00:41:22,880 --> 00:41:29,040
golf course
so that we can still continue to show

538
00:41:27,760 --> 00:41:34,960
our profit
or break even at the end of the year

539
00:41:31,359 --> 00:41:34,960
we have the bar that we're

540
00:41:44,319 --> 00:41:47,319
um

541
00:41:54,640 --> 00:42:02,960
but now we can use indoors we get to
showcase what we have

542
00:41:58,960 --> 00:42:02,960
uh today i was visited by somebody

543
00:42:14,560 --> 00:42:16,960
they're just

544
00:42:28,110 --> 00:42:33,599
[Music]
finance director uh

545
00:42:31,839 --> 00:42:38,079
miss captain do you have any comments
you want to make for this

546
00:42:36,000 --> 00:42:42,400
no sir i think this is proposed for the
fiscal 23 years

547
00:42:40,240 --> 00:42:48,160
so it doesn't pose us any problems as
far as financial budget okay

548
00:42:45,359 --> 00:42:50,400
and mrs allen you have any comments
you're not going to start right now

549
00:42:49,280 --> 00:42:54,400
you're going to start it in fiscal year
23.

550
00:42:52,400 --> 00:42:59,839
well mike
i guess it will depend on that

551
00:42:56,480 --> 00:42:59,839
that's the lab

552
00:43:03,200 --> 00:43:09,079
and we've seen that that it's something
that they started

553
00:43:45,200 --> 00:43:51,720
and so rather than me saying well give
me a call for us i think that um

554
00:44:07,520 --> 00:44:14,400
especially with the base losing their
dog

555
00:44:11,200 --> 00:44:19,359
you think the timing is very good
with everything including the fact that

556
00:44:17,119 --> 00:44:23,200
that event centers industry wanted are
seeing that soft return

557
00:44:24,319 --> 00:44:30,079
we have plenty on the books it's it's
not you know everything that we want

558
00:44:28,400 --> 00:44:33,599
it's not everything that we've had but
if we start adding and making an

559
00:44:31,760 --> 00:44:37,839
attractive place
uh having having people out there on the

560
00:44:35,599 --> 00:44:42,960
patio which is one of the most beautiful
places to be and yet it's not utilized

561
00:44:40,640 --> 00:44:45,839
right now because we've been exclusively
offended

562
00:44:44,000 --> 00:44:50,839
it's not rendered it's closed
and now that that doesn't have to be the

563
00:44:47,839 --> 00:44:50,839
case

564
00:45:03,520 --> 00:45:09,760
we bet god the
direct one is

565
00:45:08,319 --> 00:45:14,880
a good event
that panels uh excuse me

566
00:45:12,480 --> 00:45:18,560
and the as far as concessions if we do
do food and bar

567
00:45:16,640 --> 00:45:24,960
my system can handle that it's designed
to do retail restaurant and golf okay so

568
00:45:22,480 --> 00:45:30,079
as far as i mean we won't need to reach
out and rent buy get any other software

569
00:45:28,079 --> 00:45:34,160
in order to keep it running stuff
it actually

570
00:45:31,520 --> 00:45:37,839
we plan to enhance the ability to
actually use the space uh i don't think

571
00:45:36,400 --> 00:45:40,400
there's an option to put the space
online

572
00:45:38,800 --> 00:45:44,319
not yet so yeah i'm just talking about
that this morning so

573
00:45:42,000 --> 00:45:49,119
that could be done
right now with people about to come in

574
00:45:45,920 --> 00:45:54,720
and uh into the check uh or cash uh for
for uh making their payments uh deposits

575
00:45:51,920 --> 00:45:58,839
and and uh making this along the way uh
and we'd like to make that an online

576
00:45:56,560 --> 00:46:02,480
transaction as well and i think
together and

577
00:45:59,760 --> 00:46:07,640
marching right already has a terrific
online option for many things

578
00:46:10,240 --> 00:46:14,520
i think there's just a lot more
and it's a beautiful refugees

579
00:46:15,599 --> 00:46:23,119
it's a better facility when it's aligned
with beautiful workforce

580
00:46:19,760 --> 00:46:23,119
we've recently hosted

581
00:46:23,200 --> 00:46:28,079
mayors and
commissioners from eastern north

582
00:46:26,839 --> 00:46:35,000
carolina there and we received a
tremendous amount of confidence about

583
00:46:30,480 --> 00:46:35,000
that facility both um

584
00:46:39,599 --> 00:46:43,560
anyone else have any questions

585
00:47:43,280 --> 00:47:46,520
thank you

586
00:47:57,440 --> 00:48:00,659
[Applause]

587
00:48:00,720 --> 00:48:08,400
i'll make this very quick
i've given you a copy of my little

588
00:48:06,160 --> 00:48:12,880
speech tonight but i'm gonna forego most
of that in the lieu of time

589
00:48:10,880 --> 00:48:17,839
we do have four vacancies on several
boards commissions and i'll bring um

590
00:48:15,040 --> 00:48:21,280
this item back to the march 7th meeting
for you guys to make recommendations to

591
00:48:19,440 --> 00:48:24,880
that board and i'll bring the resolution
appointing those members back at the

592
00:48:22,480 --> 00:48:29,839
march 21st meeting
i do need you guys to review the

593
00:48:28,000 --> 00:48:33,359
board's admissions calendar that was
given to you by the email as well as in

594
00:48:32,240 --> 00:48:37,119
front of you
i have one

595
00:48:34,480 --> 00:48:41,040
major change which is a time change
it was listed as planning commission was

596
00:48:38,960 --> 00:48:44,240
meeting at 5 30 they actually meet at
six

597
00:48:42,400 --> 00:48:49,839
so if you would not mind if you guys
would reapprove that calendar from me

598
00:48:46,480 --> 00:48:49,839
and we'll get it reposted

599
00:48:50,400 --> 00:48:55,680
um
before that

600
00:48:53,359 --> 00:48:59,680
meeting while we're considering um
can you give us a breakdown of the

601
00:48:58,400 --> 00:49:03,920
members and what they should never
predict that we can do whatever his name

602
00:49:02,640 --> 00:49:06,319
i have that for you i'll send it to you
tomorrow

603
00:49:09,280 --> 00:49:13,760
any questions on the changes uh

604
00:49:14,480 --> 00:49:17,480
tomorrow

605
00:49:21,230 --> 00:49:24,349
[Applause]

606
00:49:28,400 --> 00:49:31,400
so

607
00:49:39,040 --> 00:49:42,280
thank you

608
00:49:46,319 --> 00:49:53,040
that i approve an emergency purchase of
a 50-57

609
00:49:50,800 --> 00:49:57,599
engine motor replacement for fire engine
number four which is a 12 year old

610
00:49:55,280 --> 00:50:02,559
apparatus currently out of service
this is a firefighter and public safety

611
00:49:59,760 --> 00:50:09,520
issue we're relying on a 24 year old
backup reserve vehicle with essentially

612
00:50:05,200 --> 00:50:13,280
500 000 miles worth of engine time on
the

613
00:50:10,559 --> 00:50:16,880
motor replacement is not a budgeted item
so we may need to come out of fund

614
00:50:14,880 --> 00:50:20,079
balance for this in the future but with
council concurrence the finance director

615
00:50:18,559 --> 00:50:23,920
will come back to you at a later date
with a budget amendment

616
00:50:22,000 --> 00:50:30,960
chief barfor is here to answer any
questions we have about the specific

617
00:50:26,480 --> 00:50:30,960
vehicle and engine problems

618
00:50:35,680 --> 00:50:41,800
i think it's a public safety issue
we can't ignore

619
00:50:52,720 --> 00:50:55,720
okay

620
00:51:02,800 --> 00:51:05,800
is

621
00:51:08,559 --> 00:51:14,160
so i just wanted to uh
i just wanted to make a recommendation

622
00:51:12,240 --> 00:51:17,280
for councilwoman matthews to have an
official

623
00:51:15,119 --> 00:51:21,200
resolution drawn up and more
archived for monumental contributions to

624
00:51:19,119 --> 00:51:24,960
the city council as being the first
african-american female councilwoman to

625
00:51:22,880 --> 00:51:29,200
serve on this council i realize she's
been recognized um other ways but i

626
00:51:27,280 --> 00:51:33,839
think that she needs an official
document uh presented by the council

627
00:51:31,119 --> 00:51:33,839
going to the city

628
00:51:34,000 --> 00:51:37,400
that's all right

629
00:51:57,280 --> 00:52:00,280
is

630
00:52:17,359 --> 00:52:25,760
so with that being said
tonight you have a 40 uh student

631
00:52:21,920 --> 00:52:30,319
specialties permanence uh request
from the county's

632
00:52:27,760 --> 00:52:38,640
above ground fuel dispensing facility
off of 8th street the other one is for

633
00:52:34,640 --> 00:52:38,640
the applicant's unbelief students

634
00:52:42,000 --> 00:52:48,240
i'll let you know tonight
if you would like a refresher let me

635
00:52:46,240 --> 00:52:51,599
know but i'll just tell you again the
planning board did make the

636
00:52:49,520 --> 00:52:58,240
recommendation for both of these recipes
use permits to be approved by counseling

637
00:52:56,160 --> 00:53:02,319
in greek we are asking the board to
approve the use for each one of these

638
00:53:00,319 --> 00:53:06,240
requests and order
uh a proven use of each request again

639
00:53:04,559 --> 00:53:10,160
from a long ground fuel dispensing
facility by wayne county and we'll

640
00:53:08,400 --> 00:53:14,319
replace them entertainment with abc
permits by function first limits if you

641
00:53:12,480 --> 00:53:17,440
have any questions please let me know if
i need to address it through a slide

642
00:53:16,160 --> 00:53:22,760
please let me know i'm glad you're a
refresher

643
00:53:19,119 --> 00:53:22,760
okay any questions

644
00:53:31,260 --> 00:53:34,379
[Music]

645
00:53:40,400 --> 00:53:43,400
items

646
00:53:45,200 --> 00:53:50,760
it will recess
until seven o'clock

647
00:59:43,839 --> 00:59:51,920
okay it's seven o'clock uh monday
february 7th 2022

648
00:59:49,440 --> 00:59:57,359
the regular session of the goldberg city
council is called water

649
00:59:54,720 --> 01:00:03,599
this time i would uh invite
archbishop anthony

650
00:59:59,359 --> 01:00:06,799
slater to come forward and give us a
prayer for the meeting and then we'll

651
01:00:05,200 --> 01:00:09,680
follow that with the praise believers so
if you stand please

652
01:00:09,760 --> 01:00:17,119
good evening everyone amen shall we pray
our father and our god we thank you for

653
01:00:15,200 --> 01:00:21,040
this moment that we can come together
and just call on your name

654
01:00:19,200 --> 01:00:23,440
father we ask you to bless these who
have coming to do the bidding for the

655
01:00:22,559 --> 01:00:27,440
people
the warnings that are hearing our voice

656
01:00:25,359 --> 01:00:30,640
and preparing this city to go to the
next level

657
01:00:28,559 --> 01:00:34,160
father we thank you we thank you for all
the things that have happening

658
01:00:32,400 --> 01:00:37,760
the good and the bad
the bad even preparing us to appreciate

659
01:00:36,720 --> 01:00:42,720
the good
now father we ask you lord for guidance

660
01:00:39,760 --> 01:00:46,960
tonight we ask you lord to help us as we
continue to press toward the mark

661
01:00:45,200 --> 01:00:53,599
thank you for goldberg
and all these things we pray amen amen

662
01:00:50,400 --> 01:00:53,599
thank you sir thank you

663
01:00:54,480 --> 01:01:10,040
thank you
[Music]

664
01:01:05,599 --> 01:01:10,040
liberty and justice for all

665
01:01:14,160 --> 01:01:19,920
okay madam clerk if you would call the
roll please mayor ham yeah mayor protein

666
01:01:18,880 --> 01:01:24,160
politics
councilwoman jones

667
01:01:21,680 --> 01:01:28,240
councilman broadway here councilwoman
matthews thank you councilman gala

668
01:01:26,640 --> 01:01:32,640
councilman aco
okay we're all here

669
01:01:30,880 --> 01:01:37,359
next item on the agenda is approval of
the minutes on january 24th the work

670
01:01:35,599 --> 01:01:42,079
session and the regular
uh meeting minutes

671
01:01:39,520 --> 01:01:42,079
i'll have a

672
01:01:43,200 --> 01:01:50,480
motion to approve those second
motion approve and second uh

673
01:01:49,440 --> 01:01:53,480
any
opposed

674
01:01:54,640 --> 01:01:59,520
okay
question and proof

675
01:02:01,119 --> 01:02:07,359
i'll tell you our presentations i think
we have someone from the uh gowanus club

676
01:02:05,839 --> 01:02:12,079
to come speaking david you needed to
vote on yeah i'm sorry we need it i'm

677
01:02:10,160 --> 01:02:16,640
sorry
uh we had a motion in a second i'm sorry

678
01:02:14,640 --> 01:02:21,559
all in favor approve of the minutes of
january 24 2022 raise your hand

679
01:02:21,599 --> 01:02:27,839
those are not favored there are none
motions

680
01:02:25,039 --> 01:02:33,000
carried and approved thank you
now we can go to the

681
01:02:30,000 --> 01:02:33,000
presentation

682
01:02:38,400 --> 01:02:41,119
can't even start

683
01:02:44,079 --> 01:02:50,559
well good evening uh i'm chip i'm chip
craig with the club in goldsboro and i'm

684
01:02:48,799 --> 01:02:54,559
happy to be here to
do an update presentation on where we

685
01:02:52,559 --> 01:02:58,640
are with the uh the status of the
miniature train

686
01:02:56,160 --> 01:03:01,880
uh this presentation coming up
i think so

687
01:03:11,920 --> 01:03:18,400
you just press the middle button the
middle button okay

688
01:03:16,880 --> 01:03:22,720
uh if
just just a quick reminder uh we call it

689
01:03:20,960 --> 01:03:26,720
the kiwanis miniature train at hermann
park the reality is

690
01:03:24,960 --> 01:03:30,079
it is a gold city of gold for a
miniature train you guys own the

691
01:03:28,400 --> 01:03:34,799
existing train you will own the new
train that is coming uh basically it's

692
01:03:32,480 --> 01:03:38,799
the kiwanis club we are stewards
of that train for you and our

693
01:03:36,240 --> 01:03:43,359
responsibility is we operated
for the city

694
01:03:40,079 --> 01:03:46,480
we have done that for 67 years now 100
as volunteers nobody's ever gotten paid

695
01:03:45,440 --> 01:03:48,720
to do that
uh

696
01:03:47,359 --> 01:03:52,079
it is a
am i doing that are you doing that

697
01:03:56,640 --> 01:04:03,760
so it has been going on for 67 years uh
it's an iconic part of the uh the city

698
01:04:02,160 --> 01:04:07,119
uh some people i know i've had four
generations now that uh that have

699
01:04:05,359 --> 01:04:10,640
written a train i don't know if we have
five generations but i know we have at

700
01:04:09,119 --> 01:04:16,079
least four generations that have ridden
that train uh it's been featured in our

701
01:04:13,680 --> 01:04:19,839
state magazine several times but we had
a discussion about what was gonna uh

702
01:04:17,680 --> 01:04:23,680
what we needed to do with the train
uh we came to the conclusion uh in late

703
01:04:22,160 --> 01:04:27,280
june of this year the trains would have
to be replaced

704
01:04:24,960 --> 01:04:32,079
if we wanted to keep going for another
40 50 60 70 years

705
01:04:30,079 --> 01:04:38,079
so at that time
we came before the city council

706
01:04:35,039 --> 01:04:41,680
and we asked you on august 16th we asked
a few things

707
01:04:39,599 --> 01:04:45,039
we asked for your permission that the
kiwanis club could initiate a

708
01:04:43,280 --> 01:04:48,640
fundraising campaign on behalf of the
city to raise the funds needed to

709
01:04:47,119 --> 01:04:51,839
replace the train and do you approve
that

710
01:04:49,760 --> 01:04:57,200
we asked that that you allow us to use
the reserve funds that we we had set

711
01:04:55,280 --> 01:05:01,839
aside that's required by the city that
we had those uh just like you heard

712
01:04:59,119 --> 01:05:06,640
about the fire truck committed ago
nobody wanted an unexpected expense so

713
01:05:04,000 --> 01:05:11,359
we actually allow us to use
the reserve funds uh then we had uh down

714
01:05:09,760 --> 01:05:13,839
payment for the new trade he approved
that

715
01:05:12,240 --> 01:05:17,760
uh he gave us permission to work with
the city staff on the design

716
01:05:16,000 --> 01:05:22,319
uh and the plans what was going to be
coming from the upgraded experience

717
01:05:20,319 --> 01:05:26,000
and an important aspect as well as
number four

718
01:05:24,000 --> 01:05:29,599
was if the old training has been sold in
any proceeds from that train

719
01:05:27,920 --> 01:05:33,440
would not be used just in the general
city office but instead we'll come back

720
01:05:31,839 --> 01:05:37,839
to the kiwanis club
specifically for the street replacement

721
01:05:35,599 --> 01:05:37,839
project

722
01:05:43,680 --> 01:05:52,079
chip one second is this is this a
powerpoint because it looks like he's

723
01:05:48,079 --> 01:05:55,599
not able to it it is a
this looks like

724
01:05:54,000 --> 01:05:57,760
it's also it's a
i think

725
01:05:56,559 --> 01:06:03,720
this is a piece
it's a pdf but it should be a good play

726
01:06:00,480 --> 01:06:03,720
last time

727
01:06:12,900 --> 01:06:18,839
[Music]
slides

728
01:06:30,799 --> 01:06:36,319
i think he's going to do it for you i
think okay that would be fine

729
01:06:40,710 --> 01:06:46,680
[Music]
slides

730
01:06:53,680 --> 01:07:01,119
uh on october 31st uh
on halloween day we finished our 67th

731
01:06:58,799 --> 01:07:05,440
season of running this train
uh we had over 12 000 riders in the

732
01:07:03,440 --> 01:07:09,760
regular season that's an absolute record
for us uh by the time we throw the polar

733
01:07:08,000 --> 01:07:13,039
express and the other extended runs we
did

734
01:07:10,720 --> 01:07:16,799
we probably had close to 18 000 riders
this year uh and that that is absolutely

735
01:07:15,520 --> 01:07:19,359
phenomenal
uh next

736
01:07:20,960 --> 01:07:26,640
one since then november 4th we had a
very cold groundbreaking day

737
01:07:27,440 --> 01:07:33,280
we plan on running train that day we've
had phenomenal great weather all year

738
01:07:31,440 --> 01:07:38,000
where we run the train almost anytime we
wanted to for that particular day if you

739
01:07:35,119 --> 01:07:42,520
remember it's got 45 degrees and raining
and we cannot run the train thanks

740
01:07:43,280 --> 01:07:50,480
uh and then we normally do the uh the
jiggle in the park which is only one or

741
01:07:47,920 --> 01:07:54,319
two days of ride in the train
uh we expanded that this year to do the

742
01:07:52,640 --> 01:07:57,920
full express and we ran the next two
weekends on extended runs

743
01:07:56,400 --> 01:08:02,160
uh and you'll see a couple pictures
there you may see that we're actually a

744
01:07:59,520 --> 01:08:05,599
dog friendly uh type friendly ride there
you'll see uh bear ham was happy to be

745
01:08:04,160 --> 01:08:11,280
there for his dogs
uh and you'll see on the far right-hand

746
01:08:08,160 --> 01:08:15,280
side it says 1953 training retired on
december 18 2021

747
01:08:13,440 --> 01:08:18,880
and about 8 30 on that night that was
the last part of the stream the mayor

748
01:08:17,199 --> 01:08:23,359
had the opportunity to be on the train
after that particular run uh then we put

749
01:08:21,279 --> 01:08:27,279
it away in the tunnel we had everything
decorated and we left it that way for a

750
01:08:25,520 --> 01:08:29,600
couple days we left lights on everything
else just kind of felt like a fitting

751
01:08:28,719 --> 01:08:35,640
way
to retire the train and running for over

752
01:08:32,000 --> 01:08:35,640
67 years

753
01:08:38,159 --> 01:08:45,839
all right here we go all right
let's go back and look at the bunches in

754
01:08:42,239 --> 01:08:48,799
august of 16 2021 the left-hand side
we said there's gonna be about a hundred

755
01:08:47,279 --> 01:08:51,679
and ten thousand dollars for the new
train

756
01:08:49,679 --> 01:08:55,120
ten thousand dollars is gonna cost us
for the bricks because you are gonna be

757
01:08:53,440 --> 01:09:00,319
a fundraising bricks
and about thirty thousand dollars for a

758
01:08:57,600 --> 01:09:05,040
train platform of some type if funds
allowed and we needed about 150 000

759
01:09:03,279 --> 01:09:08,239
to get there
right now is today we're looking at

760
01:09:06,719 --> 01:09:12,000
still a hundred ten thousand dollars for
a new trade we're looking at twenty four

761
01:09:10,239 --> 01:09:14,640
thousand dollars what's the cost of the
bricks

762
01:09:12,960 --> 01:09:18,880
that's an increase in expense but you
know what's good about that that means a

763
01:09:16,480 --> 01:09:23,839
lot more people bought a lot more bricks
than we anticipated that our fundraising

764
01:09:21,359 --> 01:09:29,040
goal uh was more than that
and uh so when we figured we're done

765
01:09:26,000 --> 01:09:33,120
with that we have about 60 000 cash fund
will be available

766
01:09:30,480 --> 01:09:37,279
to construct the platform uh that a
significant increase

767
01:09:34,799 --> 01:09:40,640
uh so about 200 uh two thousand dollars
total

768
01:09:39,359 --> 01:09:44,480
if we go back and look at how the
funding was originally here's how we

769
01:09:42,319 --> 01:09:48,080
planned on funding this fifty thousand
dollars from that legacy fund that

770
01:09:46,000 --> 01:09:51,759
reserve fund that you allowed us to pull
down and we did that

771
01:09:49,520 --> 01:09:55,120
uh we figured about twenty five thousand
dollars in the old trade we go towards

772
01:09:53,839 --> 01:09:59,840
new trade
and to me i thought this is stretch but

773
01:09:57,520 --> 01:10:03,360
about seventy five thousand dollars from
donations from our community our

774
01:10:01,520 --> 01:10:06,640
citizens and our businesses
look at the right-hand side

775
01:10:05,280 --> 01:10:10,560
we still have that fifty thousand
dollars we put into that train

776
01:10:08,800 --> 01:10:16,800
there is zero money going from the new
train to be sold when we go into that

777
01:10:13,560 --> 01:10:21,520
152 000 of cash donations in this
community uh for this trade that is

778
01:10:19,520 --> 01:10:26,320
absolutely phenomenal exceeds our
wildest dreams and that is still on the

779
01:10:24,080 --> 01:10:29,360
low end because they got a call again
today when somebody said hey they want

780
01:10:27,920 --> 01:10:32,400
to contribute a significant amount of
money for that

781
01:10:30,960 --> 01:10:35,199
so we think that more money is going to
be coming in

782
01:10:33,600 --> 01:10:40,560
uh here
so that's a good thing so we know we

783
01:10:36,960 --> 01:10:46,000
have about 202 000 total of cash
that we can spend on this project

784
01:10:43,360 --> 01:10:49,760
on that 152 000 i can tell you right now
that uh as of

785
01:10:48,000 --> 01:10:54,560
uh about three o'clock this afternoon
129 000 i was sitting in our foundation

786
01:10:52,560 --> 01:10:57,360
bank account we have about twenty three
thousand we do still coming in for

787
01:10:56,080 --> 01:11:00,800
people in the committee that we actually
know this would be there and then i got

788
01:10:59,360 --> 01:11:05,520
a call from the train manufacturer
saying i needed another 25 000

789
01:11:03,840 --> 01:11:08,880
uh to go to the next step on the train
so

790
01:11:06,640 --> 01:11:13,040
i'm now down to 104 000 because we have
released twenty five thousand dollars

791
01:11:10,320 --> 01:11:13,040
more than hit for

792
01:11:18,560 --> 01:11:27,280
so the fundraising 152 000 so you see
the golden ticket says 65 000

793
01:11:24,719 --> 01:11:31,280
we had 12 reserved seats one to train so
i would be contributing five thousand

794
01:11:28,800 --> 01:11:36,320
dollars you wanted to a1c you could do
that somehow we ended up selling 13

795
01:11:34,159 --> 01:11:41,120
uh instead of 12. that created a little
bit of a problem that somebody uh

796
01:11:38,320 --> 01:11:41,120
was actually going

797
01:11:44,400 --> 01:11:52,400
level a thousand dollar level we have 16
donors and we have 15 donors giving us

798
01:11:50,239 --> 01:11:55,920
500 or more
but what i really want to focus

799
01:11:53,679 --> 01:12:00,880
attention on is that yellow graph
that 34 000 doesn't sound like a lot for

800
01:11:58,560 --> 01:12:06,159
the citizens but that is nickels and
dimes and dollars and five dollars

801
01:12:03,920 --> 01:12:10,400
and 100 donations and hundreds of
citizens in this community step forward

802
01:12:08,400 --> 01:12:14,239
to give towards that trade it's that
thirty four thousand dollars it really

803
01:12:12,159 --> 01:12:18,640
helps us do a whole lot more than we
plan on doing

804
01:12:16,719 --> 01:12:22,320
also let me just go back right i learned
two things as well on this

805
01:12:22,560 --> 01:12:29,120
never underestimate the power of a
mother on that 5 000 column over there

806
01:12:27,040 --> 01:12:34,000
those golden tickets i had a call from
the individual uh back in late january

807
01:12:32,400 --> 01:12:37,360
he said he wanted to donate five
thousand dollars for his business

808
01:12:35,520 --> 01:12:40,880
somebody i did not know they were not on
any of our lists to say this is somebody

809
01:12:39,600 --> 01:12:44,400
we should approach
but i asked the person

810
01:12:42,640 --> 01:12:49,040
well why do you want to do this they
said well my mother wrote the train

811
01:12:46,800 --> 01:12:53,520
uh during the bull express had one of
your cars and she called me up and said

812
01:12:51,600 --> 01:12:58,320
you need to contribute to this project
uh so we appreciate the uh that little

813
01:12:56,159 --> 01:13:01,679
motherly knowledge there
uh community gets some kind it's hard

814
01:13:00,159 --> 01:13:05,040
for us to put a value in this but i can
tell you right now it is significant as

815
01:13:03,440 --> 01:13:08,560
you will see in a moment
we have what we call a construction

816
01:13:06,560 --> 01:13:13,360
coalition of partners that are donating
their time their talents their expertise

817
01:13:10,880 --> 01:13:18,239
and their labor for the construction
and the improvements

818
01:13:15,280 --> 01:13:22,320
what they do significantly magnifies the
amount of money we have because if the

819
01:13:20,159 --> 01:13:26,880
money we had towards the construction
issues primarily for materials not for

820
01:13:24,320 --> 01:13:31,840
labor we could do a whole lot more
uh i also have a group that uh two

821
01:13:29,360 --> 01:13:34,480
individuals contacts and said that what
they would like to do is they have the

822
01:13:32,960 --> 01:13:38,400
equipment to do it they would like to go
to lufkin texas so the train's ready to

823
01:13:36,239 --> 01:13:41,520
pick it up and bring it back here that
saves us five thousand dollars because

824
01:13:40,080 --> 01:13:44,800
that's gonna be a five thousand dollar
hard cost

825
01:13:42,719 --> 01:13:48,800
a contract transportation company get
that trained here so that's a huge

826
01:13:47,120 --> 01:13:52,560
savings again that hundred and ten
thousand seventh time for the train

827
01:13:51,199 --> 01:13:57,040
here's an additional five thousand
that's now freed up with these towards

828
01:13:54,320 --> 01:14:01,360
uh other upgrades
let's look at our construction coalition

829
01:13:58,840 --> 01:14:04,800
partners uh we were approaching and
talking to each of these companies uh

830
01:14:03,440 --> 01:14:08,000
individually
and they don't know me i know some of

831
01:14:06,560 --> 01:14:11,920
these people they don't necessarily know
me i'm not a construction person i don't

832
01:14:09,679 --> 01:14:14,800
run in that circle necessarily
but a lot of people said yeah they were

833
01:14:13,280 --> 01:14:18,960
willing to help
i was in communication with david perry

834
01:14:17,040 --> 01:14:23,199
with the goldsberg building supply and
he and i would shake his females about a

835
01:14:21,120 --> 01:14:26,880
week or so before christmas
he asked me for a whole lot of details

836
01:14:25,040 --> 01:14:29,199
about what does it cost to be what do
you think about the sign and things like

837
01:14:28,400 --> 01:14:32,080
that
so i sent him a detailed email and

838
01:14:30,800 --> 01:14:36,960
that's
six or seven pages of information and

839
01:14:34,719 --> 01:14:41,199
details he was looking for
but i said to him i said the number one

840
01:14:38,480 --> 01:14:45,040
thing that need is i need somebody who
can get all these people potential

841
01:14:43,280 --> 01:14:48,480
stakeholders in the room at the same
time that we can do that we think we do

842
01:14:47,199 --> 01:14:52,320
a lot because talking to everybody
individually i was like kind of hurting

843
01:14:50,719 --> 01:14:55,920
cats
probably the best christmas gift done

844
01:14:54,400 --> 01:14:59,040
yet in a long time at 8 30 in the
morning or chris support i got an email

845
01:14:57,600 --> 01:15:02,080
from david saying
that he was all in the volunteer

846
01:15:00,480 --> 01:15:05,520
building supply that he would take the
point he would be in charge he would

847
01:15:04,080 --> 01:15:10,480
make that kind of meeting happen that's
exactly what we needed to happen

848
01:15:07,679 --> 01:15:14,400
in late january he pulled together all
kinds of different individuals they had

849
01:15:12,159 --> 01:15:17,360
a meeting what came out of that
ta loving company said they're going to

850
01:15:16,000 --> 01:15:20,640
step up
they are now the construction

851
01:15:18,480 --> 01:15:24,880
supervisors managers
planners providing all the labor all the

852
01:15:23,040 --> 01:15:29,679
budgeting they're taking control of the
product from that aspect that is

853
01:15:27,120 --> 01:15:32,560
significant you just can't put a value
on that because there's a lot of money

854
01:15:30,880 --> 01:15:36,400
to be involved in that
jeremy smith jason simple said

855
01:15:34,960 --> 01:15:39,920
he'd take care of all the ground work
needed to be done all the grading

856
01:15:38,400 --> 01:15:43,199
everything needs to be done to prep for
the uh patio

857
01:15:41,520 --> 01:15:47,040
uh wayne electric and senior students
and yet we're all in take care of the

858
01:15:44,800 --> 01:15:51,520
electrical part uh we've got to rework
some defensing

859
01:15:48,719 --> 01:15:54,880
in there signals take care of that
joe smith the smith's engineer design

860
01:15:53,360 --> 01:16:00,000
said you think they're going on the
architectural drawings

861
01:15:56,480 --> 01:16:03,760
and brian jones was a civil engineering
keyboard said yeah you think you're

862
01:16:02,159 --> 01:16:07,520
doing one need to know the simple
engineering designs in order to get that

863
01:16:05,520 --> 01:16:11,040
from having a lead and take it all
through the planning commissions and

864
01:16:08,719 --> 01:16:14,320
everything else t11 said hey we'll guide
you to the historic commission

865
01:16:12,480 --> 01:16:17,920
everything needs to be done
this is significant i don't know how to

866
01:16:15,840 --> 01:16:21,280
put a valid figure on there but it's a
significant dialogue here what these

867
01:16:19,920 --> 01:16:26,159
people got i think somebody in this
council asked me a few months ago

868
01:16:24,400 --> 01:16:29,679
are you going to use local people i
think the answer yes

869
01:16:27,840 --> 01:16:33,120
uh it's not that we have to contract the
working people they have step forward

870
01:16:31,679 --> 01:16:35,679
and say we want to make a difference in
this community

871
01:16:36,960 --> 01:16:44,400
so what's going to happen with the cash
funds we've donated this 152 000 plus i

872
01:16:41,840 --> 01:16:49,199
can tell you right now 100
every penny will be spent

873
01:16:46,239 --> 01:16:53,040
on this upgrade project uh none of the
donated cash funds are going to be used

874
01:16:51,520 --> 01:16:55,520
to replenish that reserve fund we're
going to pull that up for the down

875
01:16:54,400 --> 01:16:59,760
payment
none of those funds are being used for

876
01:16:57,280 --> 01:17:03,040
any kind of expenses anybody
form

877
01:17:00,800 --> 01:17:06,560
awareness not using that for anything
like groundbreaking ceremonies anything

878
01:17:05,360 --> 01:17:10,560
like that
we feel when people say we want to give

879
01:17:08,960 --> 01:17:15,040
towards this project new training the
upgrade 100 of those dollars in penny

880
01:17:13,679 --> 01:17:18,960
should go towards that project it's
exactly what's going on there are no

881
01:17:16,719 --> 01:17:22,640
overhead expenses or anything else 100
of every dollar is going to go right

882
01:17:20,880 --> 01:17:25,040
into this project they could approve for
the city

883
01:17:25,840 --> 01:17:31,600
where are we now really three phases
one's the training too is that brick

884
01:17:29,840 --> 01:17:35,520
patty everything to construct
three is the uh construction of some

885
01:17:34,080 --> 01:17:39,440
kind of platform
phase one new trains one of your

886
01:17:37,440 --> 01:17:43,360
railroad companies they can train
i received these pictures last week the

887
01:17:41,199 --> 01:17:45,760
train is almost finished right now we're
kind of waiting for him to get a paint

888
01:17:44,800 --> 01:17:49,199
shot
when we started the project we were

889
01:17:47,280 --> 01:17:53,760
about a 10 month lead time
and todd swann said that uh with the

890
01:17:52,159 --> 01:17:57,120
training he said while we gave him the
money it would probably be about june

891
01:17:55,520 --> 01:18:01,520
before we'll have a train
that was kind of disappointing

892
01:17:59,040 --> 01:18:04,480
i was in shock on the wednesday before
thanksgiving he called me and said well

893
01:18:03,199 --> 01:18:07,600
you had to schedule because you had
another train

894
01:18:05,840 --> 01:18:12,320
just like this with these manufacturing
so you could do kind of two of them side

895
01:18:09,600 --> 01:18:15,440
by side at the same time do some things
get some

896
01:18:14,080 --> 01:18:18,880
a little bit of
time savings there he said i think the

897
01:18:17,520 --> 01:18:22,239
training will be ready for about the
first week of february which is right

898
01:18:20,719 --> 01:18:25,840
now
we've been in communication but

899
01:18:23,679 --> 01:18:30,480
unfortunately thanks to the new omicron
uh version of covet this shot has been

900
01:18:28,320 --> 01:18:35,199
armed by that uh and they were in the
training city right now there's several

901
01:18:32,719 --> 01:18:38,640
trainees working on the normal custody
they're waiting for the painters paint

902
01:18:37,040 --> 01:18:42,560
shop and the paint shop has been shut
down for six weeks now

903
01:18:40,719 --> 01:18:46,320
so we're a few weeks behind so we think
they're going to be uh in this stage

904
01:18:44,560 --> 01:18:49,600
that are probably in the late march we
should have taken the trip

905
01:18:49,760 --> 01:18:56,640
we're talking about expanding the patio
area around the uh around the concession

906
01:18:54,480 --> 01:19:01,920
state the pink area is the existing
footprint such a standard train station

907
01:18:59,760 --> 01:19:06,560
everything is gray and blue
is existing concrete that the areas are

908
01:19:04,719 --> 01:19:09,520
green are areas we're going to expand
into

909
01:19:07,760 --> 01:19:13,920
everything right now should be replaced
with paper so it's all going to be

910
01:19:11,120 --> 01:19:21,199
worked in actually full-size bricks
it'll be a significant improvement

911
01:19:17,440 --> 01:19:24,880
we have uh 583 individual bricks there
uh in

912
01:19:23,199 --> 01:19:29,360
into this design we're incorporating
lots of literacy elements

913
01:19:27,120 --> 01:19:32,320
so we are trying to make this a a come
to place

914
01:19:30,880 --> 01:19:34,640
for kids when the train's not running
it's still going to come to the

915
01:19:33,280 --> 01:19:38,000
educational
learning experience a literacy

916
01:19:36,239 --> 01:19:41,280
experience
one of our five thousand hour donors

917
01:19:39,679 --> 01:19:46,080
were playing at this plan for them to
call us back up a couple days later said

918
01:19:44,000 --> 01:19:50,960
we already gave you five thousand
because we're so all about limits and we

919
01:19:48,080 --> 01:19:54,320
wanted to get an additional 2500
to help underwrite the cost of those

920
01:19:52,719 --> 01:19:58,960
wonderful breaks
so again people really stepped in and

921
01:19:56,159 --> 01:20:02,400
helped us out in a lot of different ways
the reason we want to do this

922
01:20:02,800 --> 01:20:06,080
if the slide will change

923
01:20:08,080 --> 01:20:12,320
is this is what the area looks like
around an existing transect it's all

924
01:20:11,120 --> 01:20:15,840
dirt and look
it's not very attractive so everything

925
01:20:13,760 --> 01:20:20,000
you see there all that gray area is
going to be a nice brick patio at some

926
01:20:17,520 --> 01:20:22,080
point that's the significant improvement
we think for uh

927
01:20:20,910 --> 01:20:25,760
[Music]
from this angle or everything you see

928
01:20:23,840 --> 01:20:30,159
it's all going to be great favors
that will be a big improvement

929
01:20:27,679 --> 01:20:33,360
uh we just think that's a
if we did nothing to get a new tree and

930
01:20:31,840 --> 01:20:38,159
there's a great patio they think that's
a big improvement for hunter park

931
01:20:36,560 --> 01:20:41,600
uh the other thing we've been working
with we've been working on the city of

932
01:20:39,520 --> 01:20:45,199
designs and everything else the city and
departure recreation department they

933
01:20:43,360 --> 01:20:50,639
received a recent grant
uh to put in some ada compliant

934
01:20:47,679 --> 01:20:53,360
sidewalks uh uh in the area uh in the
park

935
01:20:51,520 --> 01:20:56,159
right now to get to the train station
you have to walk the dirt bug those

936
01:20:55,199 --> 01:20:59,679
sidewalks
any kind of access here

937
01:20:57,920 --> 01:21:03,120
so working with the city they've been
working on the signs and stuff

938
01:21:01,600 --> 01:21:06,239
because we're doing this and they've
decided that if they if the fund's

939
01:21:04,800 --> 01:21:11,040
allowed to do everything they want to be
great if the funds don't allow them do

940
01:21:08,719 --> 01:21:15,840
everything that they want to do
what partisan rex would like to do

941
01:21:13,199 --> 01:21:20,000
is a five five foot wide 88 line
sidewalk comes with the parking lot of

942
01:21:17,840 --> 01:21:23,440
the spring patio and then on the back
side and come off that patio and go to

943
01:21:21,840 --> 01:21:26,880
the playing around and go out to the
back parking lots it's something we

944
01:21:24,800 --> 01:21:30,159
don't have right now but we think that's
going to be a significant improvement as

945
01:21:28,320 --> 01:21:33,440
well and they've given us commission we
can get paid all kinds of new things on

946
01:21:31,840 --> 01:21:36,080
their sidewalks as long as we maintain
it

947
01:21:34,080 --> 01:21:38,480
so we can make the sidewalk educational
as well

948
01:21:37,340 --> 01:21:42,880
[Music]
phase three is what are you gonna do as

949
01:21:40,960 --> 01:21:45,760
far as construction we'll talk about it
at overhang and everything else so we

950
01:21:44,719 --> 01:21:50,800
wanted to
cover the area uh this is a picture of

951
01:21:48,000 --> 01:21:53,920
the existing downtown train depot
our initial thoughts for the thirty

952
01:21:52,159 --> 01:21:58,159
thousand hours so we tried to build
something that kind of looked like this

953
01:21:56,080 --> 01:22:02,239
that would go over top of the uh
training and some of the brick areas

954
01:22:00,960 --> 01:22:05,120
uh
now we're looking at something a little

955
01:22:03,440 --> 01:22:08,480
bit different uh this is actually a
train station at some other part i think

956
01:22:06,880 --> 01:22:12,719
it's in wisconsin that's a miniature
train just like ours you can see that

957
01:22:10,880 --> 01:22:15,199
that building looks like an old train
the way the roof line is and everything

958
01:22:14,239 --> 01:22:19,040
else
so as now that we have more money

959
01:22:17,520 --> 01:22:23,840
available to us we think we're gonna
have probably 70 75 thousand dollars

960
01:22:22,080 --> 01:22:28,400
federal refurbished
and labor that's basically covered

961
01:22:26,639 --> 01:22:33,520
then we're meeting with the ta loving
your design folks and stuff our plan

962
01:22:30,719 --> 01:22:37,360
right now and we're in this design phase
is probably take the roof off the

963
01:22:35,040 --> 01:22:40,880
concession stand rebuild it with
something like this

964
01:22:39,199 --> 01:22:43,760
integrate the architectural features and
make it look like a training code and

965
01:22:42,639 --> 01:22:48,560
try to do
uh a covered uh platform area as well

966
01:22:47,199 --> 01:22:52,400
because we have that much more money
available to us

967
01:22:49,920 --> 01:22:56,320
that's just a huge improvement from the
community

968
01:22:54,320 --> 01:23:00,080
so what's the future of the old trade
that questions being asked uh we have

969
01:22:58,320 --> 01:23:04,800
decided for a variety of reasons and
it's best to sell the train

970
01:23:02,400 --> 01:23:09,600
and the reason of that is it's still
fully functioning operational we have

971
01:23:07,440 --> 01:23:12,480
hate to have teared apart they've done
it

972
01:23:10,880 --> 01:23:17,120
to do that and there are several places
that would love to have this train

973
01:23:14,719 --> 01:23:22,159
we think we have set uh based on the
forms of the virtual rim this is train

974
01:23:18,960 --> 01:23:26,320
number 688 it's the 188 train of these
ever built up about 250.

975
01:23:24,639 --> 01:23:30,239
we think the city of goldsburg or this
trade has set an operational record for

976
01:23:28,159 --> 01:23:35,199
these types of trades it has been a
continuous service for 68 years it has

977
01:23:33,120 --> 01:23:39,120
never missed a year there are older
trains out there but most of these

978
01:23:36,960 --> 01:23:42,800
operations have multiple trades they'll
take a train out of service for a few

979
01:23:40,719 --> 01:23:46,320
years and rebuild it or fix it up and
then put it back in the service so we

980
01:23:44,719 --> 01:23:50,239
think based on the feedback we've gotten
from the museum and everything else this

981
01:23:48,320 --> 01:23:53,920
train is probably set a record we'd like
to see it and continue to set that

982
01:23:51,679 --> 01:23:56,719
regular operating somewhere else
uh

983
01:23:54,880 --> 01:24:00,239
currently it's being sold at surplus
equipment uh by the city which is what

984
01:23:58,560 --> 01:24:02,400
it has to be done it's the sort of gov
deals

985
01:24:01,440 --> 01:24:08,960
site
uh the minimum bid for that is 20 000 so

986
01:24:05,840 --> 01:24:12,239
that sale will close next week 2016.
but here's the thing i'm going to do

987
01:24:10,480 --> 01:24:17,199
instead of that money that we get from
the proceeds from there we're not going

988
01:24:14,080 --> 01:24:17,199
to put it back to the training

989
01:24:19,080 --> 01:24:22,380
[Music]

990
01:24:23,280 --> 01:24:28,800
we don't need a fifty thousand dollar
reserve fund right now because we have a

991
01:24:27,120 --> 01:24:32,960
new trade you don't expect the huge
expenses if we can get back to that uh

992
01:24:31,040 --> 01:24:36,320
20 000 plus
uh they were in a pretty good shape in

993
01:24:34,800 --> 01:24:41,040
case something was wrong with the tracks
very big expenses we have the reserve

994
01:24:38,880 --> 01:24:45,679
fund in place
and then lastly what's ahead for all

995
01:24:43,040 --> 01:24:49,199
this uh well we're in the design phase
right now in february and march we'll be

996
01:24:47,199 --> 01:24:53,520
coming back to you here sometime in the
future for the planning efficient for us

997
01:24:50,960 --> 01:24:57,440
to hear design ideas we have
uh we expect delivery to trade sometime

998
01:24:55,679 --> 01:25:01,440
in the late march the first part of
april

999
01:24:58,960 --> 01:25:04,400
in march and april we expect the
implementation

1000
01:25:02,800 --> 01:25:08,000
of that brick patio that we should put
that in place

1001
01:25:05,600 --> 01:25:11,199
and probably because we've
expanded what we want to do

1002
01:25:09,360 --> 01:25:14,480
construction-wise maybe
this summer before we had the platform

1003
01:25:13,040 --> 01:25:18,159
replaced
the key thing is we feel since the

1004
01:25:16,239 --> 01:25:22,159
donors have given us money
uh in order to

1005
01:25:20,639 --> 01:25:25,520
get these bricks in order to make this
happen we feel it's absolutely critical

1006
01:25:24,159 --> 01:25:30,639
if you don't open the tray and start
running your train until that patio in

1007
01:25:28,159 --> 01:25:34,880
place it has all those bricks there that
uh that they paid for to make that so

1008
01:25:33,280 --> 01:25:38,719
we've got some pressure ones to get that
patio part done and we want to do all

1009
01:25:36,800 --> 01:25:42,320
that together we can wait a little bit
longer on the other construction in the

1010
01:25:41,120 --> 01:25:45,520
summer
things really slow down as it's too hot

1011
01:25:44,159 --> 01:25:48,960
that's one of the reasons why we want to
build a covered area kind of

1012
01:25:47,120 --> 01:25:52,480
continue to operate
so we feel that once we get into it that

1013
01:25:50,800 --> 01:25:56,159
we should be able to put ourselves in
position if we need to stop running for

1014
01:25:54,560 --> 01:25:59,280
two or three weeks to get the
construction done or been postponed

1015
01:25:58,000 --> 01:26:03,199
until fall
we're very comfortable with that

1016
01:26:01,760 --> 01:26:06,880
uh and then we just want to thank
everybody i want to thank the community

1017
01:26:04,880 --> 01:26:09,679
that's out there and all the supporters
because this is not something that wants

1018
01:26:08,560 --> 01:26:12,480
something
for the city this is being done by the

1019
01:26:11,520 --> 01:26:16,480
community
uh for the city of goldsboro because

1020
01:26:15,120 --> 01:26:21,040
they feel that this is an important
thing and i kind of want to thank you

1021
01:26:18,560 --> 01:26:25,199
for watching for 67 years
have been donating volunteering their

1022
01:26:22,800 --> 01:26:28,639
time to get that training running and i
appreciate all those that have come

1023
01:26:26,560 --> 01:26:32,800
before me for decades to make that
happen

1024
01:26:29,920 --> 01:26:32,800
so thank you

1025
01:26:33,120 --> 01:26:39,679
any questions good job thank you thank
you

1026
01:26:37,280 --> 01:26:45,440
all right one last thing while i'm here
today goldberg 2022.com

1027
01:26:42,480 --> 01:26:49,760
we have semi officially closed out
our fundraising campaign however for

1028
01:26:47,679 --> 01:26:53,440
some reason anybody wants to continue to
donate

1029
01:26:51,520 --> 01:26:57,199
we are at that limit let's say about the
deadline i'm saying tonight or tomorrow

1030
01:26:55,280 --> 01:27:00,719
the only reason we still
you still have the opportunity to donate

1031
01:26:58,960 --> 01:27:05,280
and get a break
is because we're waiting on some of the

1032
01:27:03,360 --> 01:27:08,719
finalization of the graphics part of the
print company

1033
01:27:06,639 --> 01:27:12,639
the important breaks of things that we
have uh integrated that we use the

1034
01:27:10,960 --> 01:27:17,280
corporate logos
where the graphics department brick

1035
01:27:14,320 --> 01:27:20,239
company is finalizing that because quite
finalized that yet

1036
01:27:18,880 --> 01:27:23,840
but that could happen we're hoping to
happen today or they happen tomorrow as

1037
01:27:21,840 --> 01:27:26,880
soon as that happens then we're done so
if you haven't had the opportunity you

1038
01:27:25,679 --> 01:27:31,760
still have the opportunity to get it
right probably by about noon tomorrow so

1039
01:27:30,480 --> 01:27:34,639
thank you any other questions or
anything about this

1040
01:27:33,120 --> 01:27:37,679
mr craig
i

1041
01:27:35,360 --> 01:27:42,239
i know you're very passionate about this
and i've seen you

1042
01:27:40,000 --> 01:27:48,800
up here i've seen you out of the park
and your wife as well

1043
01:27:44,880 --> 01:27:54,880
and uh i can't say enough about
your dedication to this project

1044
01:27:52,080 --> 01:27:58,800
you've been out there in rain cold
uh hot uh

1045
01:27:56,880 --> 01:28:02,400
heat and so forth
and there's also other members of this

1046
01:28:00,480 --> 01:28:05,920
organization that are also very
dedicated

1047
01:28:03,840 --> 01:28:09,520
this is going to be a great addition to
the park

1048
01:28:07,040 --> 01:28:14,000
and it's going to be enjoyed this new
one's going to be enjoyed like the open

1049
01:28:11,520 --> 01:28:19,120
has been george for generations as well
so i commend you and uh

1050
01:28:16,560 --> 01:28:23,679
your wife and all the other members and
i i guess uh

1051
01:28:21,280 --> 01:28:27,040
harsh best is probably uh we were
long-time conductors

1052
01:28:26,080 --> 01:28:30,080
yes
yeah he's been a member of our club i

1053
01:28:28,639 --> 01:28:34,159
think since
i would say in 1977 they performed then

1054
01:28:32,560 --> 01:28:40,000
so he's probably driven that train more
than anybody else and he proved his life

1055
01:28:37,199 --> 01:28:43,000
he made the he drove the last round or
something

1056
01:28:46,990 --> 01:28:52,560
[Music]
because we just knew that any day

1057
01:28:51,360 --> 01:28:55,280
something could go wrong with this old
train

1058
01:28:53,520 --> 01:28:58,800
and it's important community we'd be out
of business for once on there and we

1059
01:28:56,800 --> 01:29:03,600
just felt that the best way to keep
going for another 50 60 70 years at the

1060
01:29:01,600 --> 01:29:06,560
same time in the effort to try to train
there so

1061
01:29:04,639 --> 01:29:10,639
uh teaming forward
and what part of those work and one

1062
01:29:08,719 --> 01:29:13,840
other thing i want to mention uh i think
it's pretty clear

1063
01:29:11,840 --> 01:29:16,480
but for those that don't know there are
no paid

1064
01:29:15,360 --> 01:29:20,560
uh
staff

1065
01:29:17,440 --> 01:29:25,199
of this uh project uh in terms of
running the train it's all volunteer am

1066
01:29:22,880 --> 01:29:29,840
i correct it is hundreds of volunteers
uh none of us have ever gotten paid uh

1067
01:29:27,600 --> 01:29:35,120
it's not an item that's even a
significant budget item for the city

1068
01:29:32,080 --> 01:29:39,679
because we take that burden as well uh
i want us as an exchange for that you

1069
01:29:37,840 --> 01:29:43,920
allow us to operate it allows us to keep
the funds from being raised at the train

1070
01:29:42,480 --> 01:29:47,679
but since none of them has ever gotten
paid i'd like to talk about

1071
01:29:45,920 --> 01:29:51,120
100 percent of the money we make of the
trade we put it right back in the

1072
01:29:49,120 --> 01:29:54,239
community of charities
scholarships

1073
01:29:52,639 --> 01:29:58,000
supporting various types of programs
things like that so we don't keep any of

1074
01:29:56,080 --> 01:30:03,199
that money from the quantum scopes on
anything goes into that recession stand

1075
01:30:00,560 --> 01:30:06,960
uh for training sales concessions
107 right back in the

1076
01:30:09,679 --> 01:30:16,560
and things like that so
well again uh thank you uh for the

1077
01:30:14,480 --> 01:30:19,920
presentation and thank you so much for
you and your wife and all the other

1078
01:30:18,159 --> 01:30:23,840
members of that team that makes this
happen thank you for voting for many

1079
01:30:22,159 --> 01:30:26,000
more years thank you thank you sir thank
you

1080
01:30:26,159 --> 01:30:32,320
okay
this time we'll

1081
01:30:29,600 --> 01:30:36,880
go to the public comment period
and uh

1082
01:30:35,440 --> 01:30:41,600
citizens that are in the audience that
uh want to come up and speak uh please

1083
01:30:38,960 --> 01:30:49,159
do so and you have three minutes
to uh speak please announce your name

1084
01:30:45,360 --> 01:30:49,159
when you come to the podium

1085
01:30:54,960 --> 01:31:01,199
i'm here to make a request to the
council

1086
01:30:58,560 --> 01:31:07,840
in lieu of transparency that you bring
back your finance director to recap the

1087
01:31:05,360 --> 01:31:13,440
um discussion on the audit tonight
because unfortunately myself along with

1088
01:31:10,400 --> 01:31:16,719
a lot of other schools watching online
as soon as councilwoman matthews asked

1089
01:31:15,360 --> 01:31:20,719
some really important questions and
sound went off and i believe

1090
01:31:18,800 --> 01:31:25,760
councilwoman jones also asked the
question but it didn't come in

1091
01:31:23,040 --> 01:31:30,719
until after um miss quinn's presentation
was over and it got jumbled with some

1092
01:31:28,320 --> 01:31:34,560
current conversation but
i know

1093
01:31:31,600 --> 01:31:39,440
it's a serious issue and like i said in
rule of transparency um i believe the

1094
01:31:37,360 --> 01:31:44,239
citizens of both world want to know the
financial health of our city so um maybe

1095
01:31:42,480 --> 01:31:48,159
councilman matthews and jones in your
indie comment you can recap the

1096
01:31:46,400 --> 01:31:51,199
questions that you asked and if you've
got a response to them

1097
01:31:49,920 --> 01:31:54,320
thank you
nope i think miss gwen is in the

1098
01:31:53,199 --> 01:31:58,639
audience
or maybe like next council meetings she

1099
01:31:56,800 --> 01:32:02,639
could come up and
you know just maybe recap and give it

1100
01:32:00,960 --> 01:32:07,440
again i think it's important
was it the um audit discussion or was it

1101
01:32:05,120 --> 01:32:10,880
the discussion about the 8.8 million
dollars that they were trying to

1102
01:32:08,400 --> 01:32:15,920
reallocate i believe you said i need you
to clarify i think my city manager was

1103
01:32:13,920 --> 01:32:18,880
explaining these facts and then
that piece of the conversation we just

1104
01:32:17,760 --> 01:32:22,719
couldn't hear
it was that one

1105
01:32:20,320 --> 01:32:25,679
yes so if you could recap it i think you
know a lot of people were really

1106
01:32:24,159 --> 01:32:30,239
interested in what was being said at
that point mr city manager when you give

1107
01:32:27,760 --> 01:32:35,040
your report do you mind recapping
that piece about the 8.8

1108
01:32:33,520 --> 01:32:41,840
when you give your report
sure okay thank you

1109
01:32:37,520 --> 01:32:41,840
okay is there someone else

1110
01:32:48,480 --> 01:32:54,480
i too was at home watching youtube
because

1111
01:32:52,320 --> 01:32:58,800
the video feed on facebook wasn't
happening it wasn't working

1112
01:32:56,719 --> 01:33:02,080
but several times during the time when i
was watching youtube

1113
01:33:00,480 --> 01:33:07,560
it went sound
i could see you moving

1114
01:33:03,840 --> 01:33:07,560
but there were no words

1115
01:33:08,400 --> 01:33:14,560
the reason why i'm here
is not simply

1116
01:33:12,239 --> 01:33:18,800
because
i want you to do so

1117
01:33:17,040 --> 01:33:23,600
i'm demanding that you do the right
thing

1118
01:33:20,639 --> 01:33:27,120
you see you can't have
personal conversations about city

1119
01:33:25,840 --> 01:33:31,280
business
it's supposed to be held

1120
01:33:28,960 --> 01:33:37,760
in a public forum
so that the public can have access to it

1121
01:33:35,040 --> 01:33:42,480
well with today's technology
with virtual meetings

1122
01:33:39,440 --> 01:33:46,639
youtube and the searchlight there is no
reason

1123
01:33:44,080 --> 01:33:51,679
why we can't do this or why the city of
goldsberg can't do this in fact

1124
01:33:49,199 --> 01:33:57,440
i know for a fact
i know for a fact that the city manager

1125
01:33:54,639 --> 01:34:01,520
has been notified about this issue
some weeks ago

1126
01:34:00,159 --> 01:34:07,199
again
it appears to me that there's more of

1127
01:34:04,000 --> 01:34:07,199
these this game plan

1128
01:34:08,880 --> 01:34:14,639
and we're tired
you know

1129
01:34:12,480 --> 01:34:19,520
when you go for a championship you put
your best team

1130
01:34:16,400 --> 01:34:22,800
on the floor
that's what we need

1131
01:34:20,960 --> 01:34:28,159
a good team
we need ball players

1132
01:34:24,960 --> 01:34:33,600
we don't need third street players
okay

1133
01:34:30,239 --> 01:34:33,600
and on another note

1134
01:34:33,920 --> 01:34:37,199
i was told that um

1135
01:34:37,520 --> 01:34:44,719
i'll just be direct
that councilman gaylon was appointed to

1136
01:34:42,719 --> 01:34:49,280
shut me down
let me be direct i feel no man

1137
01:34:50,000 --> 01:34:57,679
let me be direct
i have took the oath to my higher power

1138
01:34:55,760 --> 01:35:02,080
that i will take it all the way
and that means i'm gonna tell the truth

1139
01:35:00,239 --> 01:35:08,320
and just because i don't give it to you
like you want it why don't chucking job

1140
01:35:06,080 --> 01:35:12,560
that's up to you as long as i don't work
any longer

1141
01:35:09,679 --> 01:35:12,560
that's on god

1142
01:35:13,360 --> 01:35:19,679
councilman edcock
i can recall

1143
01:35:16,239 --> 01:35:23,760
you saying to councilwoman howard john
you accused her

1144
01:35:21,360 --> 01:35:28,320
that she was making a political choice
when she didn't vote to raise the

1145
01:35:26,960 --> 01:35:31,679
utility
bill

1146
01:35:30,159 --> 01:35:36,560
but yet
when you interview

1147
01:35:33,679 --> 01:35:41,040
councilman gala you asked him
did he have any problem

1148
01:35:38,560 --> 01:35:45,920
disagreeing with me well you have
obviously a problem with disagreeing

1149
01:35:43,040 --> 01:35:51,840
with councilwoman walker jones
and you pretty much articulated that

1150
01:35:49,119 --> 01:35:54,960
when i watch
these city council meetings from from at

1151
01:35:53,679 --> 01:35:57,840
home
i'm gathering data

1152
01:35:56,610 --> 01:36:03,119
[Music]
and i think you all know that i've sent

1153
01:36:00,159 --> 01:36:03,119
you an analysis

1154
01:36:03,440 --> 01:36:08,119
okay you're starting your time thanks
sir

1155
01:36:16,320 --> 01:36:19,320
uh

1156
01:36:28,639 --> 01:36:34,880
my name is james skane
[Music]

1157
01:36:32,480 --> 01:36:38,960
and i want to thank you mayor david hamm
and council members for giving me this

1158
01:36:37,119 --> 01:36:44,320
time speech
i would like to give thanks to the

1159
01:36:40,480 --> 01:36:46,800
public workers who are essential to our
city

1160
01:36:45,600 --> 01:36:51,239
that
improve all of our lives

1161
01:36:52,560 --> 01:36:58,960
and this is the letter
and i will also write for the

1162
01:36:57,040 --> 01:37:02,320
senate judge to make sure that the
public will talk to this thing

1163
01:37:03,440 --> 01:37:10,719
and this uh
okay janice kane greeting of the city of

1164
01:37:07,520 --> 01:37:15,119
goldsberg it has been necessary for me
to write right this level to the city of

1165
01:37:13,119 --> 01:37:20,480
goldsboro specifically to the department
of code enforcement and public works

1166
01:37:18,000 --> 01:37:26,639
the community of king draft in goldsboro
north carolina send a heartfelt thanks

1167
01:37:23,520 --> 01:37:31,600
out to all involved for four years i
have been calling the city for a system

1168
01:37:29,199 --> 01:37:35,440
concerning the wooded area behind my
house

1169
01:37:32,639 --> 01:37:39,600
this winter area poses a very dangerous
and unsafe environment for families that

1170
01:37:37,920 --> 01:37:44,800
live in this area
each year the cause fail on deaf ears

1171
01:37:42,719 --> 01:37:51,040
with no help or relief
due to high strawberry bushes trees this

1172
01:37:48,400 --> 01:37:56,159
area became a solid safe haven for all
roads and insects passing large field

1173
01:37:53,760 --> 01:37:59,520
wrecks knives squirrels rabbits and
snakes and lords

1174
01:38:00,159 --> 01:38:05,840
whoever has that phone i want to cut it
off or leave this council's chambers

1175
01:38:04,000 --> 01:38:08,560
right now this is the third time i've
heard this phone

1176
01:38:08,880 --> 01:38:12,960
don't bring it back in here turn it on
sir

1177
01:38:14,239 --> 01:38:20,880
do you need help um silence it bro
maybe i'll get it i'll do it we're gonna

1178
01:38:19,440 --> 01:38:24,239
need to just kick him out if he needs
help trying to silence his phone

1179
01:38:25,679 --> 01:38:33,840
stop the clock
yeah reset the clock please

1180
01:38:31,760 --> 01:38:40,320
sorry miss fiends okay
a large rat dead into my home

1181
01:38:37,440 --> 01:38:43,600
squirrels destroyed my yard boy and my
neighbor born and i grasped in the

1182
01:38:42,239 --> 01:38:48,800
backyard
we spent a great deal of our time raking

1183
01:38:46,239 --> 01:38:53,199
seasonal falling leaves from the trees
or paying someone to do it an elderly

1184
01:38:51,280 --> 01:38:58,159
neighbor fell and injured herself trying
to get away from the snake that got into

1185
01:38:55,679 --> 01:39:04,159
her shed they crawled the windows and
lies in our yard are on the porch these

1186
01:39:01,600 --> 01:39:10,239
animals are poisonous and carry viruses
and diseases that could pose an unwanted

1187
01:39:07,119 --> 01:39:15,920
medical situation we are taxpayers and
our home supposed to be a safe haven not

1188
01:39:13,040 --> 01:39:21,600
for the uninvited or unwanted robots
this became a fourth year mission for me

1189
01:39:19,280 --> 01:39:26,480
because of the silliness of the issues
and concerns i had no intention of

1190
01:39:23,840 --> 01:39:31,040
giving up our neighborhood became more
toxic after the center goals were

1191
01:39:28,800 --> 01:39:35,920
cleaned up on one side of the bench
cutting our struggle and tree which left

1192
01:39:33,360 --> 01:39:41,679
the road of no choice but to move on the
other side the more familiar the city

1193
01:39:39,280 --> 01:39:48,639
manager that i came in contact
with with did come to assess the issues

1194
01:39:45,920 --> 01:39:52,400
they acknowledged that there was a
problem and they hoped to come up with a

1195
01:39:50,400 --> 01:39:57,280
solution but they never that never
happened however one day i called the

1196
01:39:55,119 --> 01:40:02,159
call enforcement office at the center
goldsboro and reached miss stephanie

1197
01:39:59,520 --> 01:40:07,440
booker and shared with her the the
community issues they consider of four

1198
01:40:04,400 --> 01:40:12,000
years mr allen weeks and miss booker
came out to assess the area after

1199
01:40:09,679 --> 01:40:16,560
assessing the area before the month was
out they contacted the right people and

1200
01:40:14,400 --> 01:40:24,080
public works to take care of the problem
as of november 1st 20th 21st

1201
01:40:20,239 --> 01:40:28,480
special thanks to stephanie booker alan
weeks and his team

1202
01:40:25,760 --> 01:40:34,480
aaron hope said smith and christian
caleb those were the young men who came

1203
01:40:31,600 --> 01:40:41,119
out and cleared the area they need to be
given credit and recognized for making

1204
01:40:37,360 --> 01:40:45,600
our community and home a safer place and
i'll read this request

1205
01:40:43,199 --> 01:40:50,400
okay the last time i stood before the
council i was told by some that they

1206
01:40:48,639 --> 01:40:55,040
were looking to a way to have senior
citizens with that water bill i was

1207
01:40:52,960 --> 01:41:00,320
under the assumption that the council
member was going to initiate a program

1208
01:40:57,280 --> 01:41:06,800
of their own the fire that was inserted
with the water bill january 2022 the

1209
01:41:03,719 --> 01:41:11,040
lihp low-income household water
assistance program does not benefit all

1210
01:41:09,840 --> 01:41:16,239
citizens
to be ethical for this program the

1211
01:41:13,600 --> 01:41:21,119
household must have an income equal to a
less than 50 of the federal property

1212
01:41:18,639 --> 01:41:26,239
level this program does not address the
concerns that was brought up before the

1213
01:41:23,679 --> 01:41:31,760
council many of our elderly were not
qualified they will be eliminated i'm

1214
01:41:29,440 --> 01:41:36,400
requesting that the council member
continued looking to a better way to

1215
01:41:34,080 --> 01:41:43,280
assist the elderly and plan their water
bill we have many senior citizens that

1216
01:41:39,280 --> 01:41:48,610
are disabled can not i do not know how
to voice their concerns we are their

1217
01:41:46,639 --> 01:41:53,119
votes thank you thank you
[Music]

1218
01:41:49,920 --> 01:41:58,080
leave that with the uh manager
miss gaines you're going to give that to

1219
01:41:54,560 --> 01:41:58,080
the motivator with the clerk oh yeah

1220
01:42:11,440 --> 01:42:14,679
for you

1221
01:42:20,530 --> 01:42:23,620
[Music]

1222
01:42:24,560 --> 01:42:27,560
is

1223
01:42:39,760 --> 01:42:42,760
um

1224
01:42:49,520 --> 01:42:55,560
thank you man thank you okay we have
anyone else to speak

1225
01:43:02,000 --> 01:43:08,239
my name is doc
first i'd like to apologize for

1226
01:43:06,320 --> 01:43:11,840
my cell phone
electronic challenge

1227
01:43:12,960 --> 01:43:15,280
um

1228
01:43:15,600 --> 01:43:20,480
i have a bad habit
that i

1229
01:43:18,480 --> 01:43:23,480
guess and i'd like to
sorry

1230
01:43:24,400 --> 01:43:27,199
thank you sir

1231
01:43:28,080 --> 01:43:31,119
the other one you gave me

1232
01:43:31,360 --> 01:43:34,880
no thanks excuse me

1233
01:43:37,119 --> 01:43:40,239
it was nothing personal

1234
01:43:40,560 --> 01:43:44,080
i know you've been here many times

1235
01:43:49,199 --> 01:43:52,760
we know you're offended

1236
01:43:53,600 --> 01:43:56,400
thank you so much

1237
01:43:56,960 --> 01:44:02,320
due respect um
what i really like to talk

1238
01:44:00,800 --> 01:44:05,320
about
much

1239
01:44:18,719 --> 01:44:20,960
and i'm

1240
01:44:26,080 --> 01:44:31,289
um
[Music]

1241
01:44:44,320 --> 01:44:49,040
have a very serious problem
you know there

1242
01:44:55,300 --> 01:44:58,449
[Music]

1243
01:45:06,239 --> 01:45:12,480
did he go to the
city manager in the clerk and ask for

1244
01:45:10,159 --> 01:45:15,440
time to make a presentation
at one of our regular meetings

1245
01:45:14,639 --> 01:45:18,480
sure
sir yes sir

1246
01:45:21,000 --> 01:45:26,679
[Music]
anyone else like to speak

1247
01:45:36,450 --> 01:45:39,590
[Music]

1248
01:45:42,880 --> 01:45:54,349
they
[Music]

1249
01:45:56,840 --> 01:46:02,800
opponents check to see if they have
covets or whatnot and

1250
01:46:00,960 --> 01:46:06,639
those who never try to
create some safety

1251
01:46:05,360 --> 01:46:11,040
and i said
and the next thing is that i want to

1252
01:46:08,320 --> 01:46:15,360
mention this and
asked for the um

1253
01:46:12,480 --> 01:46:18,560
of everybody but not real starting up
fundraising campaign

1254
01:46:17,119 --> 01:46:23,360
which is
actually it was from an idea that's

1255
01:46:20,560 --> 01:46:27,119
going to be one of our programs before
the people that we're working

1256
01:46:33,040 --> 01:46:38,560
for the homes and what that is is where
we're gonna go around and we're gonna

1257
01:46:37,360 --> 01:46:44,159
solicit
uh donations of scrap metal jump out of

1258
01:46:42,000 --> 01:46:47,520
what may happen and we're going to take
it to our places we can

1259
01:46:46,080 --> 01:46:50,320
break them down and recycle them and
then we'll

1260
01:46:48,960 --> 01:46:55,360
uh sell them
to make revenue and everything for

1261
01:46:52,480 --> 01:46:58,880
the organization and um the restoration
of hope village

1262
01:46:56,719 --> 01:47:04,400
so we are coming for you all this secret
yeah

1263
01:47:00,239 --> 01:47:08,639
it could pass word out and you know
just think of this because i'm sure

1264
01:47:06,800 --> 01:47:15,360
they a strap right here that will
get collected and used to

1265
01:47:11,440 --> 01:47:19,280
uh have donated to us we can
earn some things and just like say that

1266
01:47:17,840 --> 01:47:22,159
it gives the guys stuff that we're
working with training

1267
01:47:27,960 --> 01:47:31,029
[Music]

1268
01:47:35,119 --> 01:47:41,760
i feel like it creates harmony and it
also allows us to

1269
01:47:39,199 --> 01:47:41,760
make money

1270
01:47:47,600 --> 01:47:51,400
it became the city

1271
01:48:03,360 --> 01:48:09,760
give me your information so somebody at
home wants to have some metal or

1272
01:48:08,239 --> 01:48:13,520
something picked up i'm in the process
of getting my

1273
01:48:10,880 --> 01:48:16,639
garage renovated i've got a 10 roof so
if you were to give your

1274
01:48:15,199 --> 01:48:20,000
phone number if you didn't mind or your
contact information

1275
01:48:18,400 --> 01:48:23,199
right now so anybody that may want to
donate will

1276
01:48:21,119 --> 01:48:27,040
call you or text you because i know of a
lot of elderly people that may have

1277
01:48:25,520 --> 01:48:30,639
metal uh
you know

1278
01:48:28,480 --> 01:48:34,480
soda cans or anything that
anything any any dollar amount oh so if

1279
01:48:33,119 --> 01:48:39,119
you don't mind
they can contact us uh call me at

1280
01:48:41,630 --> 01:48:44,760
[Music]

1281
01:48:45,280 --> 01:48:49,119
dot 919-750-4665
gmail.com

1282
01:48:48,159 --> 01:48:53,760
or
on facebook

1283
01:48:51,360 --> 01:48:57,600
if you uh we'll come back we're gonna go
back and pick it up if you want but if

1284
01:48:55,440 --> 01:49:01,320
you'd like to you can be dropped off at
our place 117

1285
01:49:02,400 --> 01:49:07,749
[Music]

1286
01:49:15,440 --> 01:49:26,080
mr rice give that information to our
clerk over here so she can have it as a

1287
01:49:20,320 --> 01:49:26,080
if anyone calls or meet us we need yes

1288
01:49:26,159 --> 01:49:28,560
which is

1289
01:49:30,400 --> 01:49:38,800
anyone else that would like to speak
anyone else would like to speak if so

1290
01:49:36,239 --> 01:49:38,800
come forward

1291
01:49:40,639 --> 01:49:46,480
here's no one else wishes to speak so
we'll

1292
01:49:44,159 --> 01:49:51,520
move to the next item
um

1293
01:49:48,239 --> 01:49:51,520
city manager's report

1294
01:49:51,599 --> 01:49:56,960
consent agenda items be back to the
consent agenda i'm sorry we got to hear

1295
01:49:54,880 --> 01:49:59,920
them myself item c and d are presented
for council approval

1296
01:50:00,159 --> 01:50:05,760
so we've heard uh
the

1297
01:50:03,119 --> 01:50:10,480
special use permits
explained earlier

1298
01:50:07,760 --> 01:50:15,119
there's a motion to approve items uh
c and d on the consideration

1299
01:50:13,520 --> 01:50:17,920
so move
so

1300
01:50:15,920 --> 01:50:23,679
now for a second
all in favor excuse me

1301
01:50:20,639 --> 01:50:23,679
make the wrong call here

1302
01:50:24,719 --> 01:50:31,920
mayor pro tempo yes councilwoman jones
yeah councilman broadway yes

1303
01:50:29,840 --> 01:50:37,840
councilwoman matthews yes councilman
that gayler yes councilman again yes

1304
01:50:35,599 --> 01:50:42,000
okay we got a consensus
approval on the consent of gender items

1305
01:50:40,080 --> 01:50:45,360
so now we'll move to the city manager's
report

1306
01:50:43,360 --> 01:50:50,320
all right sir i'll apologize for uh
losing the facebook and youtube feeds so

1307
01:50:47,840 --> 01:50:55,760
i believe he was asked to go through new
business item b the arpa state and local

1308
01:50:52,880 --> 01:51:00,960
fiscal recovery funds update
i think that's where it was lost

1309
01:50:58,159 --> 01:51:05,360
so to reiterate the american rescue plan
act coronavirus state and local fiscal

1310
01:51:02,960 --> 01:51:10,719
recovery funds final guidance
background information in march 2021 the

1311
01:51:08,719 --> 01:51:13,920
american rescue plan act established the
coronavirus state and local fiscal

1312
01:51:12,480 --> 01:51:17,440
recovery funds
to provide state local and tribal

1313
01:51:15,599 --> 01:51:23,040
governments with the resources needed to
respond to the pandemic and its effects

1314
01:51:20,719 --> 01:51:27,280
on may 10 2021 the u.s department of
treasury issued the interim final rule

1315
01:51:25,599 --> 01:51:33,360
implementing the
state local fiscal recovery fund program

1316
01:51:30,239 --> 01:51:37,599
on may 17 2021 the city council of the
city of goldsboro accepted eight million

1317
01:51:35,840 --> 01:51:41,360
eight hundred and thirteen thousand five
hundred and fourteen dollars in our

1318
01:51:39,599 --> 01:51:47,840
grant funds that may be obligated
through december 31st 2024

1319
01:51:45,119 --> 01:51:52,000
on june 21st 2021 the city council
adopted the grant project fund for the

1320
01:51:49,920 --> 01:51:55,920
ark special revenue fund with
expenditures of one million six hundred

1321
01:51:54,159 --> 01:52:00,560
and sixty four thousand five hundred
dollars for lost public sector revenue

1322
01:51:58,719 --> 01:52:05,679
and two million five hundred and fifty
eight thousand hundred 994 dollars for

1323
01:52:03,040 --> 01:52:12,320
water sewer and broadband infrastructure
as identified in the fy 2122 budget

1324
01:52:10,080 --> 01:52:16,639
and four million five hundred and ninety
thousand twenty dollars was set aside

1325
01:52:14,719 --> 01:52:21,520
for contingency
on january 6 2022 the u.s treasury

1326
01:52:19,679 --> 01:52:25,679
issued the final rule implementing the
arpa statutory provisions on eligible

1327
01:52:23,760 --> 01:52:30,159
and ineligible uses
of the slfrf funding which provides

1328
01:52:28,400 --> 01:52:34,719
broader flexibility and greater
simplicity in the program

1329
01:52:33,119 --> 01:52:38,800
one of the most significant changes in
the final rule is a standard allowance

1330
01:52:36,800 --> 01:52:43,280
for revenue loss of up to 10 million
dollars not to exceed the award amount

1331
01:52:41,599 --> 01:52:48,480
for each recipient
for the provision of government services

1332
01:52:46,239 --> 01:52:52,080
given this flexibility
staff recommend the full award of eight

1333
01:52:50,480 --> 01:52:56,239
million eight hundred thirteen thousand
five hundred and fourteen be applied to

1334
01:52:54,239 --> 01:53:01,280
lost public sector revenue
to fund general government services

1335
01:52:58,400 --> 01:53:05,280
primarily salary and benefits
the allowable expenditures would include

1336
01:53:03,040 --> 01:53:09,360
any payroll for a legally authorized
function of the government such as

1337
01:53:06,800 --> 01:53:13,119
public safety environmental health
recreation administration and public

1338
01:53:11,520 --> 01:53:16,639
utilities
this will simplify the compliance

1339
01:53:14,719 --> 01:53:21,360
requirements under uniform guidance and
replace tax and utility revenue that can

1340
01:53:19,040 --> 01:53:25,520
then fund previously agreed water and
sewer infrastructure and other

1341
01:53:22,880 --> 01:53:29,599
expenditures as determined by council
under north carolina law

1342
01:53:27,520 --> 01:53:33,599
the council approves this change the
finance director will bring a project

1343
01:53:31,679 --> 01:53:38,560
budget amendment to council at the next
meeting to amend the grant project

1344
01:53:35,199 --> 01:53:42,320
related to the slfrf award
council then determined that they wanted

1345
01:53:40,560 --> 01:53:46,080
more information and they would wait
until the council retreat

1346
01:53:44,400 --> 01:53:50,920
to ask additional questions or get
additional information

1347
01:53:47,679 --> 01:53:50,920
on this

1348
01:54:06,560 --> 01:54:11,199
it's not like
is closed captioning the option for the

1349
01:54:10,080 --> 01:54:15,760
council
for for the words to actually go across

1350
01:54:13,679 --> 01:54:19,199
do we have that technology it is we do
have so

1351
01:54:17,440 --> 01:54:22,960
the feed has to go through for they all
wanted to be able to even use

1352
01:54:28,320 --> 01:54:35,679
is going to take my audio
which will capture the whole meeting and

1353
01:54:32,560 --> 01:54:38,800
put it up tomorrow so he'll
work with some magic and make sure that

1354
01:54:37,440 --> 01:54:42,880
every everything will be captured
tonight it'll be back up tomorrow

1355
01:54:40,800 --> 01:54:45,760
we'll be brandon with the video he
should be able to do that but regardless

1356
01:54:44,320 --> 01:54:51,000
we'll at least have we'll have some way
for everybody to be able to hear

1357
01:54:47,040 --> 01:54:51,000
everything okay

1358
01:54:58,159 --> 01:55:03,440
yes sir
and this item will be back in the agenda

1359
01:55:01,520 --> 01:55:06,480
packet as well
okay

1360
01:55:04,800 --> 01:55:10,960
do you have other comments
yes i do i would like to introduce the

1361
01:55:08,480 --> 01:55:15,599
temporary assistant city manager mr hugh
rowe o'donnell

1362
01:55:13,440 --> 01:55:19,360
stand up
we're very fortunate to have rowe here

1363
01:55:17,199 --> 01:55:23,920
for the next two months he basically
brings a wealth of experience he was the

1364
01:55:21,760 --> 01:55:29,040
assistant city manager and an interim
city manager for the town of wake forest

1365
01:55:26,400 --> 01:55:33,679
he saw excessive growth in that uh town
from i believe nine thousand over forty

1366
01:55:31,040 --> 01:55:37,840
thousand correct row uh
row was also public utilities director

1367
01:55:35,840 --> 01:55:40,800
there and he was the city engineer for
the city of rocky mount

1368
01:55:39,440 --> 01:55:43,840
um
so

1369
01:55:41,760 --> 01:55:49,040
we're very fortunate to have rowe here
advising the staff and myself and he

1370
01:55:46,880 --> 01:55:52,719
will be helping us prepare for the
budget cycle and then he has a plane

1371
01:55:51,280 --> 01:55:56,080
ticket back to ireland at the end of
march so we won't have them beyond that

1372
01:55:54,639 --> 01:56:00,239
time period so we have them for two
months but

1373
01:55:57,920 --> 01:56:04,639
joe originally is uh from ireland came
over to the states i think in 79

1374
01:56:02,480 --> 01:56:06,960
directly and then got your citizenship
and uh i've been doing great things ever

1375
01:56:06,080 --> 01:56:11,159
since
thank you for joining our team

1376
01:56:25,599 --> 01:56:31,280
also mentioned the retreat again has
been rescheduled from the 22nd and 23rd

1377
01:56:29,040 --> 01:56:35,119
to the 21st and 22nd at the goldsboro
event center working on finalizing the

1378
01:56:33,599 --> 01:56:39,520
agenda for that
uh also mentioned for the public out

1379
01:56:37,280 --> 01:56:43,840
there that the parks and rec youth
program for the spring is

1380
01:56:44,000 --> 01:56:51,360
open for registration
so yes so the soccer softball baseball

1381
01:56:49,679 --> 01:56:55,440
t-ball for ages three
through 14. and the senior games

1382
01:56:53,440 --> 01:56:58,719
registration is also available through
the first of march for tennis pickleball

1383
01:56:57,040 --> 01:57:01,920
ping pong etc
that's all i have sir thank you

1384
01:57:03,520 --> 01:57:06,320
because the uh

1385
01:57:07,440 --> 01:57:13,840
we did not
and we when we did the approval of the

1386
01:57:12,719 --> 01:57:18,239
agenda
did uh

1387
01:57:15,440 --> 01:57:22,400
you had a closed session
you did sir

1388
01:57:19,840 --> 01:57:27,119
i did yes you mentioned it
yes all right

1389
01:57:24,800 --> 01:57:31,520
well before we go there uh let's go
around the table here and

1390
01:57:30,159 --> 01:57:38,270
uh have
council comments do the

1391
01:57:35,199 --> 01:57:41,329
we'll start with you counselor
[Music]

1392
01:57:49,040 --> 01:57:52,040
um

1393
01:57:54,560 --> 01:58:01,760
i have the proclamation uh
resonating uh

1394
01:57:59,840 --> 01:58:05,760
this month as black national black
history month black history month

1395
01:58:03,760 --> 01:58:11,599
proclamation
whereas the 2022 theme for national

1396
01:58:08,960 --> 01:58:14,880
black history month is black history and
wellness

1397
01:58:12,960 --> 01:58:18,159
recognizing black scholars and
practitioners of western and alternative

1398
01:58:16,960 --> 01:58:23,199
medicine
past and present who have made advances

1399
01:58:20,960 --> 01:58:29,040
in medical fields and care daily for the
bodies minds and emotional stat states

1400
01:58:26,320 --> 01:58:32,719
of people of their communities
and whereas during black history month

1401
01:58:30,960 --> 01:58:37,760
we celebrate the many achievements and
contributions made by african americans

1402
01:58:35,199 --> 01:58:41,280
to our medical economic cultural spirit
and political development

1403
01:58:39,760 --> 01:58:46,880
and whereas dr
carter g woodson known as the father of

1404
01:58:44,159 --> 01:58:51,840
black's history initiated negro
history week in february 1926 and for

1405
01:58:50,639 --> 01:58:56,320
many years
the second week of february chosen to

1406
01:58:54,159 --> 01:58:59,520
coincide with the birthdays of frederick
douglass

1407
01:58:57,599 --> 01:59:03,679
and abraham lincoln
was celebrated by african-americans in

1408
01:59:01,520 --> 01:59:08,239
the united states and
whereas in 1976

1409
01:59:06,639 --> 01:59:12,719
negro history
week was expanded and became established

1410
01:59:10,800 --> 01:59:17,840
as black history month
it is now celebrated all over north

1411
01:59:14,800 --> 01:59:21,599
america and whereas black history month
is a time for all americans to remember

1412
01:59:19,920 --> 01:59:25,679
the stories and teachings of those who
helped build our nation

1413
01:59:23,440 --> 01:59:29,280
advance the cause of civil rights
and strengthen the families and

1414
01:59:27,599 --> 01:59:33,199
communities
and whereas african-americans have made

1415
01:59:31,280 --> 01:59:39,520
significant contributions as leaders at
the highest levels of the medicine

1416
01:59:36,239 --> 01:59:44,960
military business education law
government the arts sports and religion

1417
01:59:43,360 --> 01:59:48,159
and whereas the city of gold's worst
commission on community relations and

1418
01:59:46,639 --> 01:59:51,520
development has committed to working
within

1419
01:59:49,199 --> 01:59:56,239
all layers of the community to promote
understanding enhanced knowledge and

1420
01:59:54,320 --> 02:00:01,840
seek opportunity for change in the face
of this community

1421
01:59:58,719 --> 02:00:05,599
now therefore i david hamm mayor city
the city of goldsboro north carolina

1422
02:00:03,599 --> 02:00:10,800
hereby proclaim the month of february
2022 as black history month and the city

1423
02:00:08,560 --> 02:00:14,480
of goldsboro encouraged all citizens to
observe this month

1424
02:00:12,639 --> 02:00:18,320
by participating and supporting all
festivities celebrating the proud

1425
02:00:16,800 --> 02:00:22,880
heritage of african-americans and
witnesses therefore

1426
02:00:20,159 --> 02:00:29,520
i have been to this set my hand and the
fix to seal the city of goldberg north

1427
02:00:24,840 --> 02:00:29,520
carolina on the 7th of february 2022.

1428
02:00:39,280 --> 02:00:45,040
at this time then
go around and

1429
02:00:42,960 --> 02:00:47,679
ask comments and i was told to counsel
the performance

1430
02:00:46,639 --> 02:00:50,960
okay
i did have a question for the city

1431
02:00:49,360 --> 02:00:55,920
manager but
in lower time um

1432
02:00:53,199 --> 02:00:58,560
and i know it is going to require some
um

1433
02:00:57,040 --> 02:01:04,400
discussion
um it's regarding the repaying of 38

1434
02:01:02,440 --> 02:01:09,000
528
and 64 cents

1435
02:01:09,679 --> 02:01:18,159
back to the annual community assessment
paper

1436
02:01:16,000 --> 02:01:22,719
2020 paper and i know that that's going
to require some

1437
02:01:21,040 --> 02:01:28,880
some discussion
what i wanted to know is um

1438
02:01:26,159 --> 02:01:32,880
this is that um
those bureau must spend an additional 31

1439
02:01:31,199 --> 02:01:37,920
000 funds
before

1440
02:01:33,840 --> 02:01:42,560
may the 20th 22 and i want to know where
we are with that and

1441
02:01:40,400 --> 02:01:46,560
why are we paying
back this money did we not use it could

1442
02:01:45,520 --> 02:01:50,480
we not
find um

1443
02:01:48,400 --> 02:01:55,440
housing could we not find
uh people that needed this money that

1444
02:01:53,040 --> 02:01:58,320
needed this assistance
i'll have the community relations and

1445
02:01:56,880 --> 02:02:01,360
development director
update you on that information you could

1446
02:01:59,760 --> 02:02:04,719
do it at the retreat or the next council
meeting but the repayment of those funds

1447
02:02:03,119 --> 02:02:11,760
was essentially
an administrative error double booking

1448
02:02:07,840 --> 02:02:15,040
those funds so they could pay for our
employees salaries to my knowledge and

1449
02:02:14,320 --> 02:02:18,080
then
the other spending we'd have to get you

1450
02:02:16,639 --> 02:02:21,360
an update on where where they're at for
that

1451
02:02:19,199 --> 02:02:24,639
okay thank you
um

1452
02:02:22,880 --> 02:02:30,000
i would like to thank the mayor for the
proclamation of black history month

1453
02:02:27,760 --> 02:02:34,639
i personally think that black history is
every month

1454
02:02:31,159 --> 02:02:39,119
365 days of the year but i really do
appreciate it and thank you

1455
02:02:36,719 --> 02:02:43,520
i would also like to
ask

1456
02:02:40,320 --> 02:02:48,880
um individuals to please check out the
um

1457
02:02:44,400 --> 02:02:56,320
the library and the wayne county museum
who has have wonderful exhibits of the

1458
02:02:52,960 --> 02:03:01,599
accomplishments and the presence of the
african-american indus and the culture

1459
02:02:58,800 --> 02:03:04,560
as well as in the city
there's another thing that i would like

1460
02:03:02,960 --> 02:03:10,360
to share when we're talking about
elderly

1461
02:03:06,320 --> 02:03:17,280
there is a general statute 105
2771 and it's for the elderly disabled

1462
02:03:14,440 --> 02:03:22,880
homestead exclusion
and um it helps with the

1463
02:03:20,639 --> 02:03:31,760
paying of property tax which i need to
pay mine for mainly in the paper but

1464
02:03:27,040 --> 02:03:34,880
um it helps with um homeowners 65 and
older

1465
02:03:32,800 --> 02:03:40,560
uh if you qualify
i i have a 84 year assistant and and she

1466
02:03:38,080 --> 02:03:46,000
did qualify so she
you know doesn't have to pay um taxes

1467
02:03:42,960 --> 02:03:49,840
now so i did want uh individuals to know
that that is out there

1468
02:03:47,840 --> 02:03:57,560
um go to the
tax office and see if you qualify

1469
02:03:54,079 --> 02:03:57,560
and that's it

1470
02:03:57,599 --> 02:04:05,040
i'd like to uh thank chip and becky
craig and all the quantums who

1471
02:04:03,360 --> 02:04:09,520
over these years and all the guys that
have driven the train and all the work

1472
02:04:07,040 --> 02:04:15,280
you've done so thank you very much and i
think it's a wonderful project thank you

1473
02:04:13,440 --> 02:04:18,159
that's all i have
i just want to encourage everyone to

1474
02:04:16,480 --> 02:04:22,320
take the time to educate yourselves
especially during this designated month

1475
02:04:20,719 --> 02:04:26,400
of black history to understand the
impact as well as the contributions the

1476
02:04:24,400 --> 02:04:29,840
african americans have made not only in
this country but around the world one of

1477
02:04:28,480 --> 02:04:32,800
my students who goes for high school as
a member of the interact club is working

1478
02:04:31,360 --> 02:04:37,440
on a proposal
to have a weekend title black excellence

1479
02:04:34,719 --> 02:04:41,440
which will be similar to a homecoming
setting um we whereas every day would

1480
02:04:40,079 --> 02:04:44,800
highlight different aspects of the
african-american experience and i just

1481
02:04:43,199 --> 02:04:50,599
want to give a special shout out to my
third block student ms heinz for your

1482
02:04:46,560 --> 02:04:50,599
visions that's all i have

1483
02:04:52,400 --> 02:04:57,360
sure
for those of you that could hear earlier

1484
02:04:55,040 --> 02:05:00,560
uh a question was asked about
why it was that that i was appointed to

1485
02:04:59,599 --> 02:05:06,159
counsel
and i want to refer back to the the

1486
02:05:03,040 --> 02:05:09,679
presentation that i gave whenever i was
given the opportunity to speak to

1487
02:05:07,280 --> 02:05:12,560
council about why i believed that i was
a good fit at that time

1488
02:05:11,760 --> 02:05:17,440
and
i believe that the position of goldsboro

1489
02:05:15,440 --> 02:05:20,880
economically speaking in the region and
preparing for the growth of the region

1490
02:05:19,599 --> 02:05:24,960
over the next
decade and decade and a half and beyond

1491
02:05:23,760 --> 02:05:28,719
is
is what we should be focused on that is

1492
02:05:26,880 --> 02:05:32,880
what i focused on when i was presenting
to council and not tied to any one

1493
02:05:30,880 --> 02:05:37,679
individual or any group of individuals
it's tied to

1494
02:05:35,199 --> 02:05:42,639
the best way to position this city
as we look towards the future and how it

1495
02:05:39,840 --> 02:05:47,760
will interact with the region around it
so to that point tonight we saw an

1496
02:05:45,199 --> 02:05:51,360
amazing opportunity from our local
quantities chip and becky craig who have

1497
02:05:50,079 --> 02:05:55,119
built incredible careers here in
goldsboro but also reinforced this club

1498
02:05:53,840 --> 02:05:59,440
in goldsboro
to do something

1499
02:05:56,800 --> 02:06:03,040
that keeps the city on the map and keeps
it humble within itself something as

1500
02:06:01,440 --> 02:06:07,040
simple as a train
where that anyone can go and ride with

1501
02:06:05,679 --> 02:06:10,639
their with their father with their
mother with their grands with their

1502
02:06:08,320 --> 02:06:17,199
grandparent and then they're rebuilding
this thing and look at the list of

1503
02:06:12,800 --> 02:06:23,199
donors 34 000 dollars coming from just
individual folks that's the 100 cap

1504
02:06:20,560 --> 02:06:27,520
so people donate up to 100 000 or below
34 000 this is the second highest

1505
02:06:25,679 --> 02:06:31,599
category that was in front of them this
is a generous city

1506
02:06:29,199 --> 02:06:34,960
we should be grateful for this city
and

1507
02:06:32,480 --> 02:06:38,800
then they're using local businesses not
because we told them you have to but

1508
02:06:37,360 --> 02:06:43,280
because they're the ones that stepped up
to the plate anyway

1509
02:06:40,719 --> 02:06:47,119
these are people who put in
dollars

1510
02:06:44,880 --> 02:06:50,960
and then put in their own sweat equity
as well to make goals for as strong as

1511
02:06:49,440 --> 02:06:54,960
it possibly can be i just want to say
thank you they're one example there are

1512
02:06:53,199 --> 02:06:58,880
countless other organizations that do
the same thing in spirit and act

1513
02:06:57,360 --> 02:07:03,520
and i just want to say thank you to all
of you for making goldsboro the place

1514
02:07:01,280 --> 02:07:07,239
that it is and putting us on a path to
be an even better place

1515
02:07:22,719 --> 02:07:26,360
i carried my grandson

1516
02:07:26,480 --> 02:07:33,679
so it is a family tradition
uh and the second thing is

1517
02:07:31,280 --> 02:07:37,920
here's the month of january i've got
more phone calls

1518
02:07:35,199 --> 02:07:41,119
about leaves and einstein not being
picked up

1519
02:07:39,040 --> 02:07:46,719
over five weeks period
don't blame the public works department

1520
02:07:43,520 --> 02:07:51,760
their equipment was in horrible horrible
condition during that month

1521
02:07:49,360 --> 02:07:55,840
and they got way behind and they started
working every day to the week and some

1522
02:07:54,000 --> 02:08:00,239
of them work on the mediums
so don't blame them

1523
02:07:57,920 --> 02:08:02,719
it's been picked up now and hopefully we
can get back on schedule

1524
02:08:01,920 --> 02:08:07,280
but
i just want you to know that

1525
02:08:04,719 --> 02:08:12,560
i did receive your phone calls and i did
make calls to the public works

1526
02:08:09,920 --> 02:08:15,679
and they explained to me and i accepted
it and i'm sure it's true

1527
02:08:14,719 --> 02:08:20,800
so
thank you thank you

1528
02:08:17,920 --> 02:08:20,800
i want to say that

1529
02:08:21,199 --> 02:08:28,239
i often uh
approach people uh

1530
02:08:25,920 --> 02:08:32,560
and that i have a
reason to uh or are in close proximity

1531
02:08:31,520 --> 02:08:37,280
to
and ask them where these residents have

1532
02:08:34,400 --> 02:08:40,320
goals for and
if they say they are i ask them

1533
02:08:39,520 --> 02:08:45,520
you know
how they like the city any issues etc

1534
02:08:43,599 --> 02:08:50,639
etc
uh and i get some good remarks i get uh

1535
02:08:48,800 --> 02:08:54,880
comments i get uh recommendations
suggested etc

1536
02:08:52,639 --> 02:08:58,239
uh one of the things i particularly like
uh

1537
02:08:55,760 --> 02:09:03,679
finding out or talking with are people
who have recently come to goldsboro

1538
02:09:01,360 --> 02:09:08,480
i had that opportunity the other day
when i was waiting in the gas line

1539
02:09:06,159 --> 02:09:13,520
and the gentleman that was working there
at the uh

1540
02:09:10,800 --> 02:09:19,199
there were just probably 15 cars waiting
to get fuel and he was hustling around

1541
02:09:16,800 --> 02:09:22,360
trying to keep or uh people moving and
so forth that

1542
02:09:20,960 --> 02:09:26,880
kepper's uh
a little bit uh flared from time to time

1543
02:09:26,000 --> 02:09:33,599
and
so i i stepped out of the car and

1544
02:09:30,719 --> 02:09:37,040
asked him uh you know or asked him his
name and and

1545
02:09:35,040 --> 02:09:40,800
complimented him on how the job he was
doing

1546
02:09:38,800 --> 02:09:44,560
i also asked him if he was a resident
goldsberg he said he had just moved here

1547
02:09:42,800 --> 02:09:48,639
six months before
and this is last week by the way

1548
02:09:47,280 --> 02:09:52,400
and i said so
why did you come to goldsboro he said

1549
02:09:50,000 --> 02:09:58,320
well my son's out uh signed out of
seymour johnson

1550
02:09:54,719 --> 02:10:02,639
and i moved down here from pennsylvania
and

1551
02:09:59,599 --> 02:10:07,360
so i i talked to him uh what he thought
of the city so far

1552
02:10:04,800 --> 02:10:11,040
i was amazed at how complimentary he was
of the people here in goldstone

1553
02:10:12,560 --> 02:10:19,119
it just impressed me that
here's a person from pennsylvania who

1554
02:10:16,800 --> 02:10:21,760
came down here
uh

1555
02:10:20,000 --> 02:10:25,119
as a job
working

1556
02:10:23,040 --> 02:10:29,679
but he came here to support his son also
not not financially but to give him

1557
02:10:27,520 --> 02:10:36,000
moral support
and try to encourage him in his uh

1558
02:10:31,920 --> 02:10:39,920
career that he's now been in six years
we have lots of those people here in

1559
02:10:37,920 --> 02:10:43,119
goldsboro
we have those that have been here all

1560
02:10:41,440 --> 02:10:48,000
their lives that we have people who've
been here six months like warren

1561
02:10:46,800 --> 02:10:54,840
and
uh it does my heart good to hear

1562
02:10:51,360 --> 02:10:58,560
good comments about the city uh
and i

1563
02:10:57,119 --> 02:11:02,000
i'm proud
of

1564
02:11:00,000 --> 02:11:06,719
the city here
this city that i call home goldsboro and

1565
02:11:04,639 --> 02:11:11,920
the people that make it what it is
so let's go forward

1566
02:11:09,040 --> 02:11:15,599
and continue that and and please i urge
a counselor

1567
02:11:13,199 --> 02:11:20,800
uh when you're out in the public if you
have an opportunity to uh speak to

1568
02:11:17,840 --> 02:11:25,119
people do so get their comments about
uh their

1569
02:11:22,239 --> 02:11:29,599
how they feel about goals for our land
and uh if some of them may be negative

1570
02:11:27,599 --> 02:11:32,719
uh things that we can learn from them
that we can change and make them better

1571
02:11:31,679 --> 02:11:38,480
so
that that was my comment uh and

1572
02:11:36,079 --> 02:11:42,560
it uh i wanted to share it with the
public

1573
02:11:39,599 --> 02:11:47,280
at this time i'm going to uh pass that
we close the uh

1574
02:11:45,520 --> 02:11:50,320
regular session and go into closed
session and i have a motion to do

1575
02:11:49,119 --> 02:11:55,119
something
so

1576
02:11:53,280 --> 02:11:59,520
you have a motion to close the regular
section go into closed session all in

1577
02:11:57,360 --> 02:12:04,239
favor
all right

1578
02:12:01,280 --> 02:12:07,719
so if you please uh
exit the

1579
02:40:38,860 --> 02:40:49,080
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thank you

1580
02:41:01,120 --> 02:41:06,319
with another session on is there any
further business on the council

1581
02:41:05,050 --> 02:41:09,560
[Music]
if not