[0:01] Okay, we're going to go ahead and start
our regular meeting with a roll call. We
[0:04] know Commissioner Patton's going to be
just a couple minutes late, so but we'll
[0:07] go ahead and start.
>> Okay. Um, Commissioner Patton will be
[0:11] coming soon. Commissioner Barwick
>> here.
[0:13] » Commissioner Webb
>> here.
[0:14] » Commissioner Stefan
>> here.
[0:16] » Mayor Abshire
>> here. Would you all stand and join me in
[0:19] the pledge of allegiance?
[0:23] I pledge algiance to the flag of the
United States of America and to the
[0:29] republic for which it stands. One nation
under God, indivisible, with liberty and
[0:36] justice for all.
[0:46] » All right, we have a couple of special
presentations this evening. One is to
[0:50] recognize a longtime employee who
retired in December and we've had a hard
[0:56] time getting our gift in and getting him
here all at the same time. So, uh I'll
[1:03] leave this to Commissioner Stellan to
make this presentation.
[1:06] » Thank you, Mayor. We're just we're very
happy that uh our former public works
[1:11] superintendent join us this evening with
lovely wife. Thank you. So, um we'll
[1:15] just go with this. So over the last 35
years, Mr. Brent Kaine has worked his
[1:20] way up through the ranks, originally
beginning his career as a laborer at the
[1:23] wastewater plant. In recent years, this
council chose to create a new position
[1:27] and appoint Brent as the city's director
of public works. Knowing Brent and how
[1:32] he thinks and plans, we wanted to put
him in a position to help our water and
[1:36] wastewater departments plan for the
future. Through Brent's career, the city
[1:40] has seen major upgrades to its sewer
infrastructure, including a major
[1:43] wastewater treatment plant upgrade in
2000. Under Brent's leadership, the city
[1:48] has focused on maintaining older sewer
lines by relining them with a sleeve
[1:51] that will add another 50 years of life
to those lines.
[1:55] In recent years, Brent has led projects
of a new water tower being built on the
[2:00] city's east side. He has also led a
total infrastructure replacement project
[2:04] throughout the Crab Orchard National
Wildlife Refuge, benefiting the refuge
[2:08] and its tenants. Those upgrades will
soon be a part of the city's system,
[2:12] making the refuge and their tenants
customers of the city for the future.
[2:17] The thing I've appreciated about Brent
the most is his commitment to the
[2:20] long-term health of the city's
underground infrastructure. He not only
[2:23] understands the maintenance and repair
needs of today, but has intentionally
[2:26] budgeted for major upgrades over the
next decade plus. His methodical
[2:31] approach to planning allows our
residents to enjoy some of the lowest
[2:33] water and sewer rates in the region.
While we hate to lose him, he has set
[2:37] the city up for future success, and
we're very grateful for his leadership.
[2:41] Brent, on behalf of a grateful city, we
congratulate you on your retirement and
[2:46] wish you nothing but happiness in your
next chapter. While a lot of your work
[2:50] cannot be seen, our community is in much
better shape because of your commitment
[2:54] over the last 35 years in making
upgrades and setting us up for future
[2:57] success. Thank you from a very
good city.
[3:02] » Come on up here.
[3:12] In grateful recognition of your 35 years
of service, presented to Brent Kane.
[3:15] Wish you the best in retirement. I don't
know how he's retiring. He's like way
[3:19] younger than me.
>> Started in junior high.
[3:22] » Congratulations.
[3:28] Good deal. You
>> like to say something, B? Yeah, Brent.
[3:30] Come on.
>> Speech.
[3:33] » Well, I didn't plan a speech. I'm better
at speaking about public works project
[3:38] than anything, but I I guess I really
need to say thank you to the city of
[3:42] Marian for giving me the opportunity,
giving me a job where I can support and
[3:46] raise a family. Um, the current
administration really set things for the
[3:50] future in place by helping me do what I
do. Um, and I appreciate all that. I
[3:56] appreciate all the people that I've
worked with, worked for, all the
[3:59] different council people that have been
influential on me. This council has been
[4:04] very influ influential on me and what I
could do for the city. Um, can't leave
[4:09] out anybody that helped me through this
process, all the people that worked with
[4:13] me, for me. Um, thank you to all those
people. Thank you, the city of May. And
[4:18] I look forward to hopefully continue on
in some way, shape, or form to to make
[4:22] Marian great again.
[4:37] Okay, we've got another special
presentation and with McKinley and Alex
[4:41] join me up here, please.
[4:46] I'm just standing there real quick.
This past Valentine's Day, McKinley
[4:52] Miller and Alex Henry arrived at her
home on the 300 block of South Market
[4:56] Street. And when they got home, they
heard a disturbance next door and went
[5:01] to investigate it. They were unable to
contact their neighbor due to a height
[5:07] of a fence, but they could hear someone
in distress. So after calling 911,
[5:11] Marian Police Department responded, was
able to get over the fence where they
[5:15] found that neighbor had been out there
for several hours after a fall. Without
[5:20] McKinley and Alex's help, the neighbor
uh certainly would have suffered more
[5:24] and may not have survived. Because these
two amazing young people did not ignore
[5:28] what they heard and made an effort to
help, they likely saved someone's life.
[5:34] So, for your actions that evening, I'd
like to present you both with this
[5:38] challenge coin. These are the modern
incarnation of the key to the city, if
[5:44] you will, and they're given to
extraordinary people by me who have done
[5:49] extraordinary things. So, you guys did
good. Thank you so much.
[6:09] Okay. Um,
[6:14] item number three on the agenda is our
public comments audience to visitors.
[6:18] This is the opportunity for anybody like
to address the council with city
[6:21] business to do so by stepping up to the
podium.
[6:26] » Yes, I'm going to the mayor.
Chief,
[6:33] » I've been embarrassed before.
>> Yes, I'm going embarrassing. I would
[6:36] like to tell you we are quick to
criticize the PD
[6:43] police department. But today, I'm just
going to tell you there was there's a
[6:48] scam going on
and with the SSA, they're trying to use
[6:53] social security plus US Marshalss. I was
fit to be tied this morning, but you
[6:59] know, I do my due diligence. By the time
I got home, I didn't had everybody
[7:02] pissed off at me on the phone because,
you know, I have that propensity to do
[7:07] that. But he took He's laughing. He took
his time out and called the numbers. We
[7:13] later found out it was to u
>> Well, it ended up being to a Starbucks.
[7:19] » To a Starbucks. Yeah.
>> But they
[7:22] » What did you order?
>> I didn't order anything. It started off
[7:27] with them giving me a email or text
saying that I ordered a a iPhone 16 for
[7:35] a,000 something. I mean 17. I got a 16.
I don't need the 17 first of all. And
[7:40] then they went on to make it official,
give me a claim number, ID number, and
[7:45] then transfer him to US Marshall.
and he was, you know, I'm one of those
[7:51] people who take a lot of notes
and numbers and I just noticed they all
[7:57] had accents and ask a simple question.
Why does everybody got accent? And then
[8:01] they started off with I'm turning into
tr
[8:05] etc. And so when I got to ask the
questions, I I actually kind of
[8:09] irritated them because they were
screaming at me by the end of the phone
[8:13] call. So he told me he's going to have
me arrested and I told him I could do
[8:16] one better. I'm gonna take myself to the
police department and put my hands out
[8:20] to have Chief Fitz arrest me because
just tell me where which one's gonna
[8:24] arrest me.
Well, you don't know who you who you
[8:28] dealing with. I said, "Well, I know the
mayor and I know the sheriff and I know
[8:31] a few people and I wear a few hats,
but you picked the wrong one today, but
[8:36] I want to be arrested cuz you done told
me you're going to call Trump and he's
[8:40] going to come down here and have me
arrested."
[8:43] So, by the time I got there, when I got
in, I I was mad, too. But I didn't show
[8:48] the guy that Chief Fitz came on out for
me
[8:53] and uh I gave him the numbers and he
cross check. We knew it was a scam, but
[8:59] I was really,
you know, I have that that personality
[9:04] that gets lovely when I get mad. So, but
he did calm me down and he called the
[9:10] numbers and of course the guy hung up
because he was no longer because I told
[9:14] him I can go to FBI office. I know all
these officers I can I can go to them
[9:18] but you said Mary department. So, Chief
Fence is my hero today.
[9:29] I just want to give a hand for when
people actually
[9:32] » How long did he keep the cuffs on you
though?
[9:36] I think all we got was a hug.
[9:42] That smile.
>> Okay.
[9:45] » Thank you.
>> Anyone else like to address the council?
[9:50] » All right. We'll move on to item number
four, which is our consent agenda this
[9:54] evening. It consists of three items, A,
B, and C. Would anybody on the council
[9:59] like any of the three items voted upon
separately? Anybody from our audience
[10:05] like any item from the consent agenda
voted upon with a separate vote?
[10:11] Okay. Hearing no objection, I would
entertain a motion to pass the consent
[10:14] agenda as presented.
>> I make a motion we uh accept the consent
[10:20] agenda A, B, and C as presented.
>> I'll second that.
[10:25] Just want to make a note because of the
subsequent presentation after this vote
[10:29] that item C is approving the
recommendation of the Boon Street
[10:33] Community Center board to approve
appointments of Katherine Dawson and
[10:37] Colin Hawthorne to the board which fills
two open vacancies. And we'll hear from
[10:42] uh Mr. Wimberly here in a moment. Roll
call, please.
[10:46] » Commissioner Patton,
>> yay.
[10:47] » Commissioner Barwick,
>> yay.
[10:49] » Commissioner Webb, yay.
>> Commissioner Steel, yay.
[10:52] » Mayor Abshire,
>> yay. Mr. Wimberly.
[11:04] All right. Thank you, mayor, and thank
you all city council for voting our two
[11:08] new board members in. Uh I want to
introduce you to Miss Kathy Dawson and
[11:14] also Mr. Colin Hawthorne. And I'm gonna
have them come up and speak on their own
[11:19] behalf uh because I'm very excited to
have them. But before I do that, I also
[11:23] want to thank Tony Mo and also David
Stoppler uh for the boys and street
[11:29] edition. They were very instrumental in
pushing things forward, helping a whole
[11:33] lot. So I just want to say as the
chairperson of the board, I want to just
[11:37] thank you guys for your help and your
support. So want to publicly acknowledge
[11:41] that. All right. So Kathy, if you want
to come up first.
[11:57] Mayor and um council members, thank you
for approving me. Um the Buon Center uh
[12:05] I think has been a wonderful addition to
the city and I am very excited about the
[12:11] addition to the to the building. I can
see so many uses for it. I volunteer
[12:17] there. I like children. I uh my
retirement career, if you would, was a
[12:24] substitute teacher with preK and uh the
lower grades. I just like to be around
[12:30] kids. They you never know what those
four-year-olds are going to say.
[12:35] And um so and I think every child
deserves the best. would be every child
[12:41] deserves every chance that that child
can have to create a good life for
[12:48] himself or herself and I like to be a
part of that. I can't volunteer as much
[12:54] as I want to. You can tell I'm kind of
crippled up and old. Um but uh um I do I
[13:01] do look forward to working with the
board of the uh center and coming up
[13:08] with new ideas for ways to serve the
entire community and the children
[13:13] especially.
>> Thank you.
[13:15] » Do you have any questions of me?
[13:22] All right.
[13:27] Come up, please.
[13:35] » Hello. Uh, thank you, mayor. Thank you,
council members, um, for this
[13:39] opportunity to join this this Boon
Center board. Um this is a great
[13:43] opportunity to be a part of the forward
thinkers and innovators of this
[13:48] community. Uh I have a strong passion
for serving my community and um that is
[13:53] going to be one of the the reasons that
uh Mariam stays the place people want to
[13:58] live. Um I'm here with my family with my
kids and uh it's very important to me
[14:03] that they they I I show them that we
serve and and that this is a great place
[14:08] to live and that and to be proud of
where we are. So, thanks so much for the
[14:12] opportunity.
>> Any activities coming up?
[14:15] » We have
>> That was good.
[14:18] » Good.
>> Good. Terrence,
[14:20] » I do want to mention we have a Black
History Month uh business expo coming up
[14:25] on uh the 20th of this month. So, you
all be sure to come out and support and
[14:30] uh be a part of that. Um and we also
have a chili cookoff coming up next
[14:34] month. And um they're great events. They
will be great. And uh again, it's a
[14:38] great resource, a great a great place to
be, and uh let's be the reason that that
[14:42] it is it stays that way. Thanks so much.
>> Thank you both for volunteering and for
[14:46] your help.
[14:50] » Thank you very much.
>> Thank you.
[14:52] » Thanks, Darl.
[14:56] » Okay. Under new business, under item
five under the pavilion, uh this item
[15:02] relates to uh getting an amplifier for
sale service. Anybody that's been to the
[15:07] pavilion might know it's sort of in a uh
uh dead spot so to speak. Very very poor
[15:14] if any cell service inside that building
for several years. We've been um trying
[15:20] to plan and set aside which this year we
did and budgeted for this which is the
[15:25] uh
my motion to approve the purchase of
[15:30] Well, you know what? This is your
department. I'll let you do that
[15:33] commissioner.
>> Okay. I would make a motion to approve
[15:36] the purchase of a self service amplifier
from Nova Communications, which is a
[15:40] budgeted item.
>> I'll second that.
[15:43] » Okay. Any questions on this?
>> Roll call, please.
[15:47] » Commissioner Patton,
>> yay.
[15:48] » Commissioner Bwick,
>> yay.
[15:49] » Commissioner Webb,
>> yay.
[15:51] » Commissioner Steckelan,
>> yay.
[15:52] » Mayor Abshire,
>> yay. Item six
[15:58] A is what this item relates to. This
ordinance is vacating property in the
[16:03] Shannon Heights subdivision. This is in
the area of uh bordered by Hendrickson,
[16:09] Midway, Vixsburg, Concord, and a few
surrounding lots on the south side of
[16:16] Concord.
And this relates to the um 41 new
[16:23] 27 new houses and some duplexes. They're
going to be built hopefully starting
[16:27] this summer with Budslick Development
that's going to be building those. So
[16:31] there's 36 parcels of land. If you guys
have ever looked at the map carefully,
[16:35] you know that there are crazy shaped
lots in there. And so they're hoping to
[16:42] make this sim uh simpler and I think
divide their property up just into five
[16:47] parcels where they'll build these
properties instead of trying to manage
[16:50] 36 property identification numbers. So,
uh, the assessor's office suggested that
[16:56] we do this, and that's this step is to
vacate these lots in this ordinance from
[17:03] that subdivision so that they can be
basically combined.
[17:08] Um, I'll just go ahead and make that
motion to approve ordinance 4095,
[17:13] vacating property in the Shannon Heights
subdivision.
[17:18] I'd second that.
>> Okay. Discussion on this item?
[17:24] Are all these lots vacant? They aren't,
are they?
[17:27] » They are.
>> They are vacant.
[17:29] » Yes.
>> Okay.
[17:31] » And if you mean by vacant, they have
nothing. No structures on them. Is that
[17:35] what you mean?
>> Yeah. I see a couple of houses on here.
[17:39] » That's maybe an old picture.
>> Old picture.
[17:41] » Yeah.
>> Okay.
[17:42] » Old GIS.
>> Old GIS.
[17:47] » Any other questions?
[17:51] Roll call, please.
>> Commissioner Patton,
[17:53] » yay.
>> Commissioner Barwick,
[17:54] » yay.
>> Commissioner Webb,
[17:56] » yay.
>> Commissioner Steckelan,
[17:57] » yay.
>> Mayor Abshire,
[17:59] » yay. Item 6B, seeing your packet, the
list of TIFF grant applications
[18:05] received. There's only one, I think, on
this list.
[18:10] Um,
somebody mind make that motion?
[18:15] I'd make a motion we accept the uh
approve the fiscal year 26 tiff grant
[18:19] applications received through February
20th 2026.
[18:22] » Second that.
>> Okay. Roll call, please.
[18:27] » Commissioner Patton.
>> Yay.
[18:28] » Commissioner Bwick.
>> Yay.
[18:29] » Commissioner Webb.
>> Yay.
[18:31] » Commissioner Steckelan.
>> Yay.
[18:32] » Mayor Ab.
Do we know what they're doing on this?
[18:36] » I'm just curious.
>> It's a storefront replacement.
[18:39] » New windows and door.
>> Oh, okay.
[18:43] » They've already done the awning. Okay,
[18:49] » we all vote.
>> Did we get through the roll call? Okay.
[18:52] » Yeah. Sorry.
>> All right. Item 6 C.
[18:56] Um,
you see a pretty detailed note in here
[19:00] from Cody. So, really for a couple of
years, Cody and I have had this sort of
[19:06] working in the background. uh one of the
the
[19:11] omissions I guess or
blanks so to speak in our code is any
[19:17] kind of requirement for commercial
development to include landscaping
[19:21] requirements as to their development.
So, uh, when we benchmarked
[19:27] some other towns, that was sort of a
glaring omission in our code. And the
[19:32] idea here is is that especially as we're
having all this commercial development
[19:38] um, we really want the property owners
to keep the landscaping in mind and not
[19:44] however overburden them. So, we with
regulations and so forth. So, we really
[19:50] kind of iterated on this several times.
Um Cody benchmarked Matun's ordinance
[19:58] just simply because they're a similar
size town than we are. They've also got
[20:01] a very similar growth pattern that we
do. Um
[20:08] so that was the trick is to try to
create something that
[20:12] when architects and builders are reading
our code they can understand it clearly
[20:17] and that it's easy for our codes office
to
[20:23] uh adjudicate regulate all that stuff.
So u I'm not asking you to vote on this
[20:29] this evening. I just want to introduce
this concept. You'll notice that this
[20:34] ordinance is um
it's double spaced and it's still only
[20:40] five or six pages. There's not
a great deal of over
[20:47] burdensome regulation, but the idea here
is is that
[20:53] you're benchmarking
frontage
[20:57] or total square footage of a development
and pretty much trying to create some
[21:04] metric where they have to do a certain
percentage of that as landscaping.
[21:09] What's interesting about this is is
almost all the chains and things that
[21:14] come in, if you'll notice, Olive Garden
did a really good job. Chick-fil-A did a
[21:18] really good job. They didn't even ask us
about this. That's just what they do
[21:22] because they're so used to it in other
towns because everybody else has this
[21:25] and we pretty much just didn't speak to
it. So, uh, most of the developers are
[21:32] going to do it anyway and probably over
our requirement here, but I just wanted
[21:38] you guys to read through this draft of
this, ask us questions between now and
[21:42] the next meeting. If you see something
that you'd like included or you see
[21:46] something more importantly that you
don't understand, that means that
[21:49] somebody else reading it for the first
time won't understand it. So, our goal
[21:52] here is not to to block development,
certainly not to add lots of costs, but
[21:58] we really would like to see some green
space, some trees, and some uh nice
[22:03] landscaping and not just a a parking lot
everywhere. So, that's what this item
[22:08] is.
>> Mr.
[22:11] » Yes.
>> Does this ordinance deal with sight
[22:13] lines like for traffic and everything
also with all those things? I've noticed
[22:19] not only landscaping, but signs up too.
You wind up pulling up and it looks fine
[22:25] one way, but you turn the other way and
everything's blocked. So, with all that
[22:29] developing going on about there,
>> yeah, that's a good point. That can be a
[22:33] little tricky. Uh this ordinance pretty
much gives the codes director quite a
[22:37] bit of discretion so that he can look at
somebody's site plan or more maybe more
[22:42] importantly um discuss it with them
before they even have a site plan so
[22:46] that they can go out to the place
together. And that is something that
[22:51] sometimes you don't see until you're on
site driving by and going, "Okay, you
[22:55] can't put a sign here because of this."
And uh so that's a good point.
[23:01] » And I think that will probably come out
in the site plan or it should come out
[23:05] in the site plan as far as that site
distance that you're talking about. And
[23:10] I agree with you. There's there's a
couple of areas that I can think of
[23:14] where you
headed up to the edge of the street and
[23:18] you look and you think I can't see
anything.
[23:21] » Um
>> and and also sometimes when signs were
[23:25] put up, you go and you widen the street
just Yeah. For convenience and those
[23:30] signs don't move and then
>> Right. Right. One of the questions I had
[23:35] mayor and this may be a little bit
premature the under minimum landscaping
[23:39] requirement number two parking area
standard 10% of the total patron parking
[23:46] area what are we what are we looking for
there so it's either it's whichever one
[23:53] of these two metrics is greater so
[23:57] if
I'm trying to think of a good example
[24:01] can we just use Olive Garden maybe as as
an example because that's the one we
[24:04] looked at. So
what you would do the the first metric
[24:09] is street frontage standard. So we're
asking for two square feet of
[24:12] landscaping per linear foot of addressed
street frontage. So what that means
[24:19] addressed street frontage they address
Joseph canning Canon way not is that
[24:25] Sinclair that
>> right? So in other words their address
[24:30] is Joseph Cannon way. So we would be
measuring the distance on that site
[24:35] line,
>> right?
[24:36] » So I don't remember, we looked at it,
but
[24:39] » I don't know,
>> right? So let's say it was 150 ft. Um,
[24:43] so we'd be requiring under that metric
300 square feet of landscaping or and
[24:50] that's actually a really good example,
that would not be enough for that site
[24:54] » because that's a pretty short
>> distance whereas they've got a pretty
[24:58] big lot. So, the other one is you just
simply take all of their parking area
[25:04] square footage and 10% of that.
>> I gotcha. That makes sense. Um, I would
[25:10] encourage the word or uh in between
there.
[25:14] » Um,
>> it is
[25:16] » at the end of one.
>> Oh, okay.
[25:24] » But that's good. I'm glad you brought it
up because that's exactly what we're
[25:27] » Yeah. needing is that anything that's
the only concern I have with this is
[25:33] that developers look at it online. We
never get to even talk to them and so if
[25:39] it causes any confusion or whatever, we
want to uh
[25:44] correct that before we ever put it out
there. So, and again, this is not
[25:48] retroactive or causing anybody that's
already built or anything to to place a
[25:54] burden on their business. We're just
trying to um
[25:58] incorporate these landscaping
elements on new development moving
[26:03] forward. So a qualification for that if
their blueprints have been approved by
[26:09] uh zoning
>> then they would be exempt from this.
[26:13] Correct. I mean even if they haven't
started building yet but
[26:16] » I would think so. I mean you got to have
a
[26:17] » we already issued a permit. We can't go
back and a permit. Yeah.
[26:26] » Okay. So, read over that more carefully,
please. And um more importantly, any
[26:31] changes or questions you have between
now and the next meeting.
[26:36] Um get with me or Cody so that we can
address those and improve any of the
[26:40] language that needs to be improved. All
right, we'll move on to item 7A. Um have
[26:47] a mo I will make a motion to approve a
collective bargain agreement between the
[26:54] city and the labor's local 773 public
works employees uh retroactive back to
[26:59] May 1st 2025.
>> I would second that.
[27:02] » Any discussion on this item?
[27:07] » Okay. Roll call, please.
>> Commissioner Patton.
[27:10] » Yay.
>> Commissioner Barwick.
[27:11] » Yay.
>> Commissioner Webb.
[27:13] » Yay.
>> Commissioner Steel.
[27:14] » Yay. Mayor Asher.
>> Yay. All right. Item eight, commissioner
[27:19] reports. Uh Jim, we'll start with you
tonight.
[27:21] » Yeah. Street department. Uh been working
on sidewalk walks in Midway Court. Uh
[27:26] culde-sac repair on the Danielle Court.
Uh doing some street sweeping. Uh took
[27:32] down the skating rink. Uh uh been doing
some power washing around the square
[27:36] area. Uh been patching roads from winter
storm Fern that created a lot of damage.
[27:41] So, um, but everything's looking good on
the streets. A cemetery, we had three
[27:46] burials in the month of January. U, but
I was talking to JD today and we we had
[27:51] three in the first week of February. So,
but yeah, January was an unusually uh
[27:56] slow month for barrels, but we had
three. It's all I have. Thank you.
[27:59] » Okay, Doug, you have a report tonight?
>> No, I don't.
[28:02] » Commissioner Stuck.
>> All right. Since the last report, the
[28:05] water department reports five meter pits
were repaired or replaced, five water
[28:10] leaks repaired, three services were
updated. Three fire hydrants were
[28:14] repaired and three brand new water taps
were done. Uh it is second
[28:19] meeting. So we do have some trivia
tonight. So get ready. These are pretty
[28:24] easy. Uh first one is just a simple true
or false question. True or false? Water
[28:29] is the only substance on earth that can
exist in three states of matter.
[28:39] » It is true
that exists in solid as ice, liquid, and
[28:44] gas as vapor. So there you go again.
>> All right. Second question. What
[28:52] historic structure in Rose Hill Cemetery
built in 1918 and listed on the National
[28:57] Register of Historic Places?
>> We I have to finish the question.
[29:05] » Hold on. Listed on the National Register
of Historic Places was a gift to the
[29:10] city from the founder of Williamson
County's first bank.
[29:14] And what material is the roof made out
of? I added that. That's not That's not
[29:19] part of the
No. Yeah, the answer is Goddard Chapel.
[29:24] Yes. Donated by Leroy Goddard or related
to the Goddard family legacy in the
[29:27] area. So,
>> and what position did Mr. Goddard hold
[29:30] before he was a banker?
>> Mayor.
[29:34] » I think he was mayor.
>> He was mayor of Marion in the 1800s
[29:38] » as his gift to the city.
>> If you haven't seen the inside of that
[29:41] building, by all means go see it.
>> It's a really special.
[29:44] » It's really nice
>> gift.
[29:46] » Yep. And I do want to point out um it's
been a very busy few days at the Civic
[29:52] Center. Uh if you happen to be there, I
think it was Saturday night, you got to
[29:56] hear,00 screaming
9-year-old girls for the Taylor Swift uh
[30:03] concert. And last night you got to see
900 screaming nine and 10 year old boys
[30:09] and girls screaming at the Michael
Jackson concert. So this the place has
[30:14] been rocking the last few days. So, and
a lot of shows coming up. Be sure you
[30:17] get out there and support it. So,
>> so that's why everybody had hats and
[30:21] sunglasses on.
>> There were more There were more gloves
[30:25] last night.
It was It was pretty pretty amazing.
[30:29] Yeah. I won't say whether I had one on
or not.
[30:33] » Commissioner Barick.
>> Well, I've got a trivia question if I
[30:37] can permission to ask it.
>> No.
[30:39] » Yeah. No.
>> Okay. A few weeks back, I'd reported
[30:43] that the new lights were up around the
new roundabout on 37 and Wildcat.
[30:50] They haven't been turned on yet, but
that's coming pretty soon. But the
[30:55] trivia question is, how many of the
light poles have we had to replace from
[30:59] drivers hitting them since they were up?
Is it zero, one, two, or three?
[31:07] » Three.
>> I was told too. I didn't know about the
[31:11] third one.
>> That's That's why I was late, John.
[31:17] » So, it is three.
>> No,
[31:19] » I don't know, too.
>> Oh, yeah.
[31:21] » So, the answer is two.
>> Two.
[31:23] » But they haven't even
>> That's always next week.
[31:27] » Maybe if they were turned on, they
wouldn't hit them.
[31:30] » So, drivers, please slow down in the
roundabouts.
[31:35] We'll talk about
[31:39] » Okay. Under miscellaneous, is there
anything else from the council or from
[31:44] our guests for the good of the city to
come before the council?
[31:48] » Cody
Chief.
[31:51] » No, sir. Wendy over there. Wendy,
>> anyone else?
[31:57] Anyone have a need for a closed or
executive session this evening?
[32:02] » Chief, you have something?
>> Sure.
[32:04] » This is for it to go out. Um, we are
testing for the Marian Police Department
[32:09] Saturday, March 21st at 8:00 a.m.
Applications can be picked up at the
[32:14] police department. Please come and get
them if you want to do this job and
[32:19] serve this community and this public.
Come join us. We need you. Thank you.
[32:28] » Okay,
hearing nothing else to come before the
[32:32] council, I would entertain a motion to
adjurnn. I'll make a motion we adjourn.
[32:37] » Second that.
>> Roll call, please.
[32:39] » Commissioner Patton,
>> yay.
[32:40] » Commissioner Barwick,
>> yay.
[32:41] » Commissioner Webb,
>> yay.
[32:43] » Commissioner Steckelan,
>> yay.
[32:44] » Mayor Asher,
>> yay. Thank you all. Have a good evening.
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