[0:00] the next one that did we have to improve
the resolution
[0:04] 13-013 for all systems bridge for fiscal
year 2013 2014.
[0:12] we all have a Content information
[0:20] it's the resolution of the operating
system for fiscal year 2013 2014
[0:26] uh called the Federal Regulations are
attacked by the United States Congress
[0:30] mandates and all of the structures to
find its Bridge located in all public
[0:33] roads shall be expected ready for Safe
Load passing and posted in accordance at
[0:38] the National Bridge inspection standard
and that and inventory of these groups
[0:42] be maintained by each state
in each state so this is something that
[0:47] the holy spirit is already passed and
the town is going to pass and it's in
[0:51] reference to uh
the land Hills Bridge
[0:58] um
[1:06] entertainment Associates it's time to
pass the resolution support of updated
[1:10] repair
[1:14] account
[1:20] all right
so the most Superior human atmosphere
[1:24] next we have IMS
Mr Harper is here with us from IMS uh
[1:32] we're going to pass a resolution for the
airport project but first he has a CIP
[1:36] uh for the next five years the capital
Improvement plan for the next five years
[1:40] this time yes ma'am Mr Harper from Miami
please stand and you can come face us
[1:45] all right I'll just give review okay
um the telephone has to submit the CLP
[1:52] to FAA every year to maintain their
eligibility for Grant from both the LA
[2:00] dodt team okay and so this year we've
actually have a program with several
[2:07] projects for 2014 we're talking about
rehabilitating uh runaway pavement tax
[2:13] repavement paper and pavement which is
uh you have an available entitlement of
[2:18] six hundred thousand dollars the uh
ledotd is talking about getting in
[2:24] another 120 000 and when interesting in
front of this is that if we go ahead and
[2:31] design this now it's an extra possibly
four hundred thousand dollars that the
[2:36] FAA is thinking about getting in so
we're really highly motivated particular
[2:42] you see an additional 400.
how much already uh 607 it works at the
[2:48] uh 700 and uh eighty seven thousand
dollars
[2:52] so we've been busy trying to shake the
tree for that in 2015 we're talking
[2:57] about doing RSA improvements which is
our runaway safety area improvements to
[3:04] put the airport 2016 we're working on
prohibit defense and Mexican inspecting
[3:10] those improvements that we designed 2017
we're doing a Airport layout plan 2018
[3:17] we are designing parallel taxiways and
we've got carriers so total for the
[3:25] specificity for the program through the
2018
[3:30] is 3 million two hundred sixteen
thousand dollars will change
[3:36] for the next five years so a great fun
you are the resolution so that you we
[3:43] can actually submit this to the FAA so
we can be in line to make sure and
[3:49] that's three point tomatoes and there's
3.2 3 million 216 000
[3:55] 750. over the next five years so that's
an awesome place for that boy may I say
[4:01] the airport is looking great right now I
feel just a matter of fact you'll you
[4:07] just completed the construction survey
and uh so that we can exit that project
[4:11] a new way
that was part of that uh
[4:15] great announcements to me to do the
newspaper about that particular event
[4:20] yes
okay any questions about the airport
[4:23] Grant or the money or the funding that
we have gotten the truth all the things
[4:28] that was in the way that's going to do
you know obstruction obstruction that
[4:32] we've accidentally survey to identify
all the trees that need to come down and
[4:37] we're getting ready to do that project
to remove those trees system
[4:48] we have business to the airport about a
year or two ago that actually flew in
[4:53] for a granting and they were stating how
nice and well improved the airport is so
[4:59] we like to give credit or credits we
thank you for the good work you know how
[5:03] many times the way across the woman
Jenkins
[5:06] okay so this time we have a resolution
[5:15] number
13-014 resolution for the town of Homer
[5:20] uh title two of the Louisiana revised
Statute 1950 provides cities towns and
[5:25] passions and other public political
subdivision with this state be
[5:28] separately joined acquire established
construct expand on these control equip
[5:32] improve maintain operate regulate in
police airports Landing fields for the
[5:37] use of aircraft it would be additional
for the seat to make it to ensure the
[5:43] CIP plan will be
implement
[5:46] at a price of 0.3.2 million dollars over
the next five years this time I will
[5:51] entertain a motion for a resolution
13-014 I will make the most motion made
[5:57] by councilman second five second second
night
[6:01] uh Jake is all in favor state by saying
aye
[6:05] any opposed so the motion carries thank
you so much Mr Harper
[6:15] next we have the Verizon water tower
release agreement
[6:21] which one of y'all want to take over
[6:30] there
[6:33] with regards to the water tower at the
current time I believe that we do have a
[6:38] temporary agreement in place there's
still some issues about
[6:41] contractual liability that we're still
working on to hammer out a long-term
[6:46] agreement but I believe Mr Coleman can
answer some of those questions or
[6:49] respond better to it yeah basically
Verizon wants to put a antenna on the
[6:56] blue water tank up there and they're
willing to as I understand it pay the
[7:01] time about 460 dollars a month
uh in lease money uh and they want to
[7:08] fight are talking about a five-year
lease
[7:11] and they're talking about a
three percent increase per year to take
[7:18] care of inflation and then they would
like they wanted full renewals but we
[7:23] could buy them and that was not possible
that most it could do would be 20 years
[7:28] you know but with three percent
compounded for 20 years it gets up to be
[7:32] a fairly decent figure you know and uh
type of thing and uh but uh the other
[7:40] thing is that I think that the plus to
us is
[7:43] that this will give you if you do happen
to use it for us it'll give you much
[7:48] better reception than what you've had in
the past plus the fact that you will
[7:52] also have available to you 4G coverage
which is a heck of a lot faster than
[7:58] what might have now and so I think it's
a plus if it can be brought about in a
[8:03] way that's not detrimental in any way
for the town right talk to Dennis
[8:08] butcher about the antenna and he shared
me in Engineers did it's not a problem
[8:13] to have it up there that type of thing
they're asking for I think now an
[8:19] agreement from now to the end of the
year or until you reach the other
[8:24] long-term agreement so that they can go
on and begin surveying and do making
[8:29] certain studies that they might need to
do that involve federal regulations and
[8:33] so forth and so on and I think right now
what they're looking for is that
[8:37] resolution from y'all
saying that they can have access to the
[8:42] the tank itself or get in or key or
whatever because there's a lot gate and
[8:48] can have access and digress from it and
to make some studies I mean now in the
[8:54] end of the year and hopefully that might
be done maybe even within the next 30 to
[8:59] 60 days and maybe it might be it would
be operational
[9:04] services
and also on top of what Mr Coleman
[9:07] stated this would be the first Venture
for Verizon in the town of North
[9:12] Louisiana also with regards to
Etc yeah more in the library there's
[9:17] hell of us that they're going to use
whatever we agreed to it's a pattern for
[9:21] most of the other parents and all of the
gym so this is an agreement or a
[9:25] resolution
security
[9:28] I wasn't prepared to a resolution we
will have that ready yes we don't have
[9:33] to do an agreement for the end of the
year are you saying that they need a
[9:36] resolution on a group
they would want an agreement in place to
[9:41] get started basically to be able to get
the key to go on to the property because
[9:44] it is again they're looking for an
agreement that said it's okay for them
[9:48] to come and do the surveys and have him
coming in and out of it and make plans
[9:53] for making an installation for the rest
to the until the rest of you December
[9:58] 31st that's right not if not to exceed
this in the 31st I think or otherwise
[10:04] what was recommended would say or until
y'all reach a long-term agreement with
[10:09] them if it's super okay so not longer
but is it sooner
[10:15] okay I'm entertaining motion so that
would
[10:20] appreciate it
yeah
[10:31] Verizon Wireless to enter into a
agreement from October the 7th to
[10:37] December 31st to start uh the process of
seeing how they can utilize an antenna
[10:45] in 4G on the Oklahoma water tower
to the group and then if you come to an
[10:49] agreement between that life resolution
and a conditional agreement between now
[10:53] it is in the 31st and bring it back to
the council
[10:57] will help everybody you say we will get
better service yes absolutely so that's
[11:02] interesting
so he will
[11:07] second all in favor by saying aye
um any opposed
[11:16] okay Mr Coleman the grant updates
[11:23] can I just talk from here
[11:32] basically the plan that asked me if I
would to come and let's make a
[11:38] report on the activities of the grant
committee and that's what we will
[11:43] attempt to do is the grant committee
Miss Jenkins is here and Mrs Jackson is
[11:50] here uh Mr mccalman's also on our
committee as he is the mayor and Laurie
[11:57] uh is on the committee and uh Tony
Johnson
[12:02] and then the engineer which is a Baylor
engineer
[12:07] and they were supposed to be here
tonight
[12:09] and they're not and I'm disappointed in
that because they were supposed to bring
[12:13] some things to be passed out so that as
I'm trying to cover this y'all could be
[12:18] looking at something you can take them
home with you and show you in more
[12:20] detail but anyway I'll try to recover it
as best I can okay one of the things
[12:26] that we kept accomplished since we began
to work on this is is last year we got a
[12:32] 35 000 grant
for which we bought a backup that the
[12:38] town's been using has been very helpful
and very new year
[12:43] and one of the other things that we've
done here since we got a grant for a
[12:48] hundred thousand dollars from Delta
Regional authorities to make some
[12:52] improvements to the Sewer treatment
plant down there and the town matched at
[12:58] was sixty thousand dollars and that's
been uh completed
[13:02] there are still some other improvements
that need to be made down there to bring
[13:07] it up to Optimal operating efficiency
about years ago when that plant was put
[13:13] in
uh they
[13:17] didn't wind up with enough funds to
complete the project properly and so
[13:22] they had to kind of gerrymander a pickup
and use some of the old stuff out of the
[13:27] old plant in
it and it doesn't operate
[13:33] as well as it should have or could have
but yet still we still have an answer
[13:38] maybe for that the other thing is is
that
[13:42] that we there was obtain a grant from
Louisiana Community Development block
[13:50] grant to put in a water well which y'all
all are aware of that has been put in
[13:56] that resulted in about was about 470 uh
one thousand dollars and of which the
[14:05] town had to pay I think it was about 37
000 out of that of low performance
[14:12] it's very fortunate that we got that
well
[14:15] because now that we have another Well
down if we haven't had that drill drill
[14:20] we'd be in serious serious trouble you
know and as some of y'all are probably
[14:25] wearing is there is another well over at
Mayfield that was an older well
[14:32] that because of the alkaline salt
that has deep through the casing and the
[14:40] internal fighting both we've had three
different companies have looked at it
[14:44] and said that it's not we don't believe
that it's going to be repairable
[14:50] there's an outside possibility maybe a
10 change that we might could get some
[14:54] kind of special approval from the
Department of Health and
[14:59] environmental people
to put a plastic sleeve inside that but
[15:04] the likelihood of that is somewhat
remote but it is every opportunity of
[15:10] trying to drift that problem of that
well going down being looked at and
[15:14] addressed and we'll talk about that a
little bit later
[15:18] the
there was a project that we submitted
[15:25] last year
to make improvements to the sewer system
[15:30] down
really an area that's bounded by Lewis
[15:34] Marine Dutchtown Pearl Street West 4th
from Louisiana Department of funds
[15:42] uh but it wasn't approved now we knew at
the time we submitted it that it
[15:49] would be questionable
the situation that we got into that we
[15:54] understand that there were nine grants
submitted
[15:57] six of them got approved all six of them
the town came up with about fifty
[16:02] thousand dollars matching funds which we
did not have at that time so we didn't
[16:06] commit that because we didn't have it
but we know that in the future we could
[16:10] resubmit it and if we come up with
matching funds like the other people did
[16:15] then we would likely be able to receive
that Grant in the near future
[16:21] we did a
utility rate evaluation report
[16:26] and uh regular engineering did that and
uh that report had been done and at no
[16:35] cost of the town of Homer the rent that
we get from the EQ will pay the town
[16:42] whatever the cost of that was
uh this last year we had a
[16:48] applied for about 36 000 but we only got
uh thirty six thousand dollars from
[16:55] Louisiana Community
[16:58] and they've all weed eaters and mowing
equipment
[17:03] and repair a roof on some stuff I think
and that was at no cost to the panel
[17:11] uh the other thing that has happened
from our from the activity of the
[17:17] committee was that there are two
groundwater tanks over at Mayfield
[17:23] they received water from the West
and then there is uh
[17:31] chlorine cooked in the water to kill any
germs or an environmental stuff
[17:36] but it has to be held supposedly in
there for about 30 30 minutes in order
[17:42] to be effective
those tanks are supposed to according to
[17:46] the people that make pains these
supposed to be rehabilitated every 10
[17:51] years those tanks were over 20 years old
when we got some funds together to try
[17:57] to rehabilitate one which would cost
about twenty thousand dollars and they
[18:01] went over there and tried to
rehabilitate it and clean it up on the
[18:04] inside and scale off of it started one
enough a pencil-sized holes in almost
[18:11] every foot in the tank which meant
structural interior integrity was gone
[18:17] and so the bottom line is the people
that have cooked inside a tank said
[18:21] there's no way they could do that to
give us any kind of guaranteed so then
[18:24] the decision was made to seek some funds
and we took some funds that we were to
[18:29] go used to run a lineup for Lion's Hill
Road we took some funds that we were
[18:34] going to maybe run a line out Dutchtown
Road you know and prove the line out
[18:39] there
we got position to use those funds to
[18:42] happen replace that water tank over
there and then Town Council voted to
[18:48] also supplement that with some funds
from the industrial funds which is
[18:52] permitted to do that under that when
that money collected is for water and
[18:57] this is what that was for and that job
was completed in July
[19:02] 23rd of this year so we do have one good
tank over there and of course we still
[19:08] are going to have to address the idea of
what we're going to do about the other
[19:11] thing it's just as bad as the one we
give them a question
[19:15] um
you water metering system we've been
[19:19] working on that for about a year year
and a half
[19:22] uh it is being bid out at the present
time
[19:26] and it looks like that the DEQ was
allowing about 900 000 and they will
[19:33] come under that nine hundred thousand
gold
[19:36] and if so then we may can use those
extra funds with their permission
[19:40] instead of qualified it or to do the
work that we have not been able to do at
[19:46] the wastewater treatment plant but you
know that's a two things the other thing
[19:52] is is we
[19:57] improvements to the Sewer lines
the van holes and a program that will
[20:04] let them take water from the soar plant
down there and use it to water the
[20:08] coffee forces and the water park the
ballpark
[20:13] and as well as put some monitoring
equipment on
[20:19] the system whereby the engineers as well
as the local Town officials and or
[20:25] whoever is working with a sewer system
and monitoring them under computers
[20:31] externally and if something goes wrong
try to get it fixed before it pairs up
[20:37] number two Community probated things
that Grant is for two million six
[20:44] hundred thousand a million of it we
don't have to pay that
[20:48] the million million six
that we talked about that this has had
[20:54] to be paid back is over a 20-year period
at an interest rate of 0.95
[21:00] which is probably risk than the
installation
[21:04] and so that has been bid out and and
it's in the process of of being done and
[21:15] improved and improved hopefully before
the end of the year
[21:18] of some of the the work will begin I
think one of the companies that's
[21:22] working on the sewer lines is already in
town
[21:25] Hall and I'm trying to be brief but
y'all asked me to do it you know
[21:30] this is that Baylor didn't come up with
a figure of about five hundred thousand
[21:35] dollars it is cost to renew the sea Hall
in complex and
[21:41] what they come up with
and as a result of that last year your
[21:46] legislators came up with a hundred and
fifty thousand of which the town had to
[21:51] come up with a 25 match or fifty
thousand dollars to make improvements to
[21:56] the City Hall
but the guy that came up from Capital
[22:00] Alpha he told us that you know we'll
please wait we're going to try to get
[22:04] you some more money next year about
something this and stuff is that okay so
[22:09] you can kind of do it at all at one time
but in order to do the 150 which would
[22:14] take care of a good portion of the roof
things that need to be taken care of
[22:19] yeah we got a twenty six thousand dollar
Grant so
[22:24] um look at a community
funds and then we filed a claim for the
[22:30] insurance company which is both of our
recent storm and they give us 20 or
[22:35] around twenty four thousand dollars so
that 26 to 24 means that that will give
[22:42] us the fifty thousand at the time needs
to match the 150 we got so we've got a
[22:46] capital Outlook October of this year
there's 225 thousand dollars
[22:54] has been approved by the legislature if
we get it funded in if you all know any
[22:59] legislatures please call them and
encourage them to see that it's funded
[23:03] because if it's not funded or bonded
we won't get the money but we're hopeful
[23:08] that it will be
we'll have to come up with a 75 000
[23:12] match on that
and we will apply for Louisiana Lookout
[23:17] money and they've kind of indicated to
us that that would become that'll leave
[23:21] us with forty thousand dollars that we
need and in order not to take it out of
[23:25] General funds
would
[23:28] want to ask that uh
representative Jefferson and he will try
[23:34] to put forty thousand dollars in there
for us
[23:37] uh in house bill one which will be at 35
Plus 40 or give us our 75 000 match so
[23:44] we could get all this
that was just done all the handicap
[23:48] accessible stuff and Etc that was being
required
[23:51] to be done without any
requirement of funds out of the grant
[23:57] program
and uh the
[24:02] many questions about the DH Department
dhh has told us the old tank of their
[24:09] food
I thought it was JC Parks up there mixed
[24:13] up Joe
mcafar that the old kind of the old
[24:18] silver tank has done that
and so we got a grant to uh to take that
[24:25] paint down and it was 35 000 and we've
gotten indications it's probably going
[24:30] to cost less than 20.
and they told us that they would work
[24:34] with us on the other 15 and we use it
for any other project on the portable
[24:39] drinking water sign and so that's where
we stand on that lines Hill Bridge you
[24:45] all asked me about 400 000 project and
on top of the gentleman down there and
[24:50] he said that that's more or less been
finished
[24:53] and what we did on January the 14th of
2015. but April 14 2015. different Big
[25:02] League
anywhere in the 14th 2015. I think now
[25:09] that's when it's going to be biz
you know and it probably had multiple
[25:13] years complete but in the meantime go
down and look at that bridge or if you
[25:18] look at that sign on it I think it says
very very low limit
[25:23] information school buses or the fire
trucks or anything couldn't go over it
[25:27] you know and so I think when y'all were
writing that letter to the police jury
[25:32] they made it their number one priority
of all the off-reach programs in the
[25:37] parish forums for the family and so a
big thank you to the public jury if I
[25:42] think would certainly be an order and uh
thankful thing again let's go for what
[25:49] did the school board do something about
the buses
[25:52] not letting them go over the bridge I
can't remember didn't they do something
[25:56] we alerted them to the situation and how
they addressed that I can't tell you I
[26:01] can't remember either but they didn't
yeah they voted on Sunday
[26:05] well they aborted in support the pound
for the question again maybe that's
[26:09] where she was and that was why it was
expedited it was so normal when you put
[26:13] one in under that offer off the bridge
program and really what that is and it
[26:18] means that they get a certain amount of
money each year mistake uh to repair
[26:23] bridges that are not on the state roads
that's why they call it all Bridge you
[26:28] know off-road bridge and this is not
only state roadway and so that's why it
[26:34] was in the polisher is really the one
that calls your shops on that they're
[26:38] the one is actually and they made it
their number one project I think two
[26:42] years ago
so we've been doing all we could each
[26:47] other
um
[26:53] all I know the thing is there is a grant
that we're applying for for USDA to
[26:59] improve the freshwater science
and uh that's not been completed yet
[27:05] maybe about the next meeting and who
will inform you of that but that would
[27:10] involve uh repainting the blue tank up
there you can include taking care of the
[27:18] other water treatment with what over
Mayfield that hadn't been done
[27:24] and many other things mostly probably
replacing all lines over 25 or 30 years
[27:29] old and found and now we got some that's
70 or 80 years old that need to be
[27:35] replaced and that's enough for me to say
[27:40] um
thank you for that Grant update the
[27:44] reason why that grand update was
um as late as it was because the grand
[27:49] committee meets and it's an agenda of
like 15 to 20 items trying to better the
[27:55] environment and the infrastructure here
at the town of home I appreciate the
[27:58] Grant Community and their due diligence
of serving and helping to retrieve all
[28:03] these grants and contact contacting the
necessary representatives and senators
[28:07] and once again for making those weeks
thank you recommended thank you so much
[28:11] Mr Coleman for sharing with Tyler
free volunteer time
[28:16] let me add a free volunteer time
[28:21] I'll proceed to go to Executive sessions
and Jacob has given us some like updates
[28:25] I will
get more and this time I will entertain
[28:30] a motion to enter into executive
sessions absolutely
[28:34] all in favor
um
[28:38] to discuss American Wastewater contracts
Illinois
[28:45] remember
[29:25] question
I would probably thank you session
[29:31] stated
um regarding Frank s and Willie knows
[29:35] I'm going to Chief give his
recommendations for those two fighters
[29:40] in regards to also notes
hitting the investigation
[29:44] involved in the FBI
obviously direct my recommendation
[29:49] staying the suspension without faith
until I can get some closure for me
[29:55] in regards to Frank Evans
still stands suspension without faith in
[30:00] here before the castle however we have
numbers here but every time we have one
[30:04] something else comes up and something
else come up about some video tonight
[30:07] and we're going to do a little more
research on so my recommendation stands
[30:11] Mr Mayor if that's not correct that
Frank Evans estate on suspicion without
[30:16] faith
can make some more investigation into
[30:20] the outcome
once we get there into the into the
[30:24] outcome of this position of his uh
suspension until we get the rest of the
[30:29] video if we can get it
and if you know these recommendations or
[30:34] problems foreign
[31:09] foreign