[0:00] Speaker of the Board of Mayor and Audreman meeting for September 8, 2025, and we have John Longworth, one of

[0:06] our carable police chaplains with us this evening. And if Audreman Marshall will leave us in the

[0:11] pledge of relief, please rise. Thank you. Thank you very much for being here.

[0:16] Absolutely. Let's pray together. Father, Lord tells us that this is the day the Lord has made, which

[0:22] shall rejoice and be glad in it. But if we're honest with ourselves, there are days we just

[0:26] don't feel like we're joycing. And I know that there are people perhaps some in this room who

[0:29] I've just had a difficult day, we face challenges and circumstances that are less than ideal

[0:36] and I pray that will be sensitive to the needs of one another and as a town we would encourage one another

[0:42] and uplift one another.

[0:44] Father, I thank you for the people that service so well for the town employees.

[0:50] I pray that they'll continue to have a desire to do their jobs with excellence.

[0:53] I thank you for Chief Lane and Chief Selberg and for the men and women that serve under their leadership.

[1:00] protect and service so well in Lord I pray that you will watch out over them and care for

[1:06] them and protect them even as they protect us. I thank you for our mayor, Lord, and our

[1:13] board of Audemn, and we asked tonight Lord that you would give them divine wisdom to govern

[1:19] justly, pray Father, that you would give them strength to lead faithfully and discernment to

[1:25] and critically, and humility to serve selflessly.

[1:29] What I pray that their decisions would honor you and serve the well-being of our community.

[1:35] Lord may they be united as they consider the business before them this evening,

[1:38] and I pray God that the discussions that take place tonight would be marked with respect

[1:43] and a shared commitment to make our town a better, a safer, and a more friendly place

[1:48] to live, work, and play.

[1:50] Again, I thank you for our leaders, blessed in my praise, they serve us.

[1:54] We ask this in Jesus name. Amen.

[1:59] I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America.

[2:04] And it's through the Republic, which is said, one nation under God,

[2:09] indivisible with liberty and justice for all.

[2:14] Thank you so very much, Mr. Longward, and Alderman Marshall.

[2:18] The next item on the agenda is the role.

[2:21] Mr. Hall? Mr. Marshall? Mr. Robbins?

[2:26] Yes.

[2:27] We have a forum.

[2:29] Thank you all for being here.

[2:30] The first item on our agenda is the approval of the agenda.

[2:33] Mr. Mayor, are there any changes or corrections to our agenda?

[2:37] Mayor, we have no changes or corrections this evening.

[2:40] Is there a motion to approve the agenda?

[2:42] Motion to approve the agenda?

[2:43] Second.

[2:44] Okay. We have a motion in a second.

[2:46] Ms. Diamond, if you call the roll please.

[2:47] Ms. Marshall? Yes. Mr. Robbins? Yes. Mr. Hall? Yes.

[2:52] Mayor Freisher? Yes. The agenda has been approved. The next agenda item is a group of the minutes.

[2:57] We had a work session on August 25th, 2025. Everyone's had a chance to review those minutes.

[3:03] Are there any changes, relations or corrections? Seeing none, is there motion? Motion to approve.

[3:09] Second. May the motion in a second? Ms. Diamond, please? Ms. Marshall? Yes. Mr. Robbins? Yes.

[3:15] Mr. Hall? Yes. Mayer Fration? Yes. Those minutes are approved. The next set of minutes are from our board meeting on August 25th, 2025. Any changes or corrections to those minutes?

[3:26] Seeing none is there a motion? Motion to approve. Second.

[3:29] Give a motion in a second. Ms. Diamond, if you call the roll please. Mr. Robin?

[3:33] Yes. Mr. Hall? Yes. Ms. Marshall? Yes. Mayer Fration? Yes. Those minutes are approved. Do we have any presentations this evening?

[3:41] This may or no special presentations this evening.

[3:44] The next item on the agenda is sit us in comments and I did receive a comment card right before 6 o'clock by the skin of her team.

[3:55] We would love to hear from you.

[3:56] I'm going to go over a few just a few quick rules.

[4:00] If you would come to the front, ask your name and address for the record.

[4:04] Our meetings are live streamed in televised, so we will make sure you speak into the microphone.

[4:08] and you have three minutes to speak and you'll see a like a stop sign there when she starts

[4:14] seeing yellow kind of wrap up your comments and I would like to invite Melissa

[4:20] Heiss to come speak to the board and I don't know that I said that correctly that's fine

[4:24] It's heissie I live at 50-hint and co-carryville Tennessee welcome. Thank you

[4:30] Okay, I'm here to actually get some clarification from

[4:34] from Strike from the Horses Males

[4:35] where the French social media as well.

[4:39] I've never spoken before the board and the mayor.

[4:44] But I have a question, I know that probably everybody

[4:46] in this room has noticed there is some adults

[4:49] and some children that are regularly

[4:52] at the corner of Simmons Bank and Pef boys.

[4:55] I'd like to know how the towns.

[4:58] Thanks.

[5:00] The towns organization, political organization has addressed that, and what can we do, because I'm very concerned

[5:10] about the children that are under, I would consider, whether to rest and educational to rest.

[5:19] So if you could address what has actually taken place between the city and those particular

[5:26] people that I'm talking about. And what can we do as a community to reach out and help those children?

[5:34] Okay, thank you very much for your comments. Chief Lane is in the room. I know we've all

[5:39] have received many phone calls. We are all very concerned as well. I'd like Chief Lane if you

[5:44] would address as to what you know about the situation and what the citizens might be able to

[5:50] to assist. Okay, thank you Mayor Board.

[5:54] Ma'am, I want to say we share your concern as well and just to give you an idea of what's

[6:00] occurred since January. The Cardinal Police Department has checked or stopped make calls

[6:06] over 60 times since January. Each time our officers come we check to make sure there's no

[6:13] laws being violated. We check on the welfare of the kids and we offer transportation to

[6:20] shelters, anything that we can do.

[6:23] We've contacted Department of Children's Services four times.

[6:28] They come out, they check the children, tell us each time that everything is okay, that

[6:34] there's nothing wrong.

[6:35] We continue to check them even, especially in the hot weather.

[6:38] You mentioned extreme temperatures, very concerning to us.

[6:44] So each time they refuse to our help, that every time we check, there's the children

[6:49] I've been okay, you know, they're well behaved, I don't know if you've ever stopped.

[6:55] I'm very impressed.

[6:57] I mean, too, and I've got grandkids, so I get it.

[7:02] So trust me, it's not for lack of care.

[7:06] Myself, assistant chief, Townsend Boat, went and spoke with them.

[7:11] And I asked them, I asked the gentleman, I said, what can we do to help get you and your family off the street?

[7:17] I was willing to help him get a job, do whatever I could do, and he refused our help.

[7:22] We verify DCS verified that they are homeschooled, and they're properly registered, so

[7:27] they're not out of school.

[7:29] And so right now, I think I know we have such a wonderful community that wants to help,

[7:35] but given that those cash donations, I think, is what's driving this.

[7:40] And so they're not violating any laws.

[7:42] We check that every time our officers are well aware of them and have been by there.

[7:46] And we attempt to deal with it compassionately, but we are restricted by the wall.

[7:52] We can only do what the wall allows us to do it until they violate the wall.

[7:55] We can't make an arrest or anything like that.

[7:59] If we saw the children in danger, we absolutely would act, and that's just not the case.

[8:05] So I'm hoping for any questions you have, or maybe if you have any more for us, if you

[8:09] go out to answer.

[8:18] Well, I'll be glad to give you my number.

[8:20] If you want to talk with me, you probably want to talk with me.

[8:23] with the decision makers, but we want to help, we do, and if you have any ideas, we are

[8:30] definitely open.

[8:41] Well, I'll give you my word that the cargo police department will continue to check

[8:51] them, and if they're ever in danger, we'll make sure that they're not. Also, you mentioned

[8:56] social media, we put a post out about a month ago that it describes state law, some of the actions

[9:02] that we were doing that came directly from us, which then you got competing sides arguing

[9:08] for against, you know, so we don't want to do that, but I'll be glad to help you anyway

[9:13] we can.

[9:15] Okay.

[9:15] Thank you, Chief.

[9:16] Thank you very much.

[9:16] We appreciate it.

[9:18] And thank you for your care.

[9:19] We do appreciate that as well.

[9:23] All right.

[9:23] The next item on the agenda is the consent agenda.

[9:25] We have items A, A through A, M.

[9:28] Is there anyone on the board that would like any item

[9:30] hold for a presentation?

[9:32] If none, is there a motion, please?

[9:35] Motion to agree with the consent agenda.

[9:36] Second.

[9:37] Motion and a second to approve consent agenda.

[9:40] Ms. Daniel, you'll call the vote, please.

[9:42] Mr. Robbins?

[9:42] Yes.

[9:43] Mr. Hall?

[9:44] Yes.

[9:44] Ms. Marshall?

[9:45] Mayor Frazier?

[9:47] Yes.

[9:47] The next item has been approved.

[9:49] The next item under business item is resolution 2025-41.

[9:53] One, resolution to amend the FY26 general fund budget.

[9:57] JP's files are budget officer has our presentation.

[10:01] Good evening, Mayor Member of the Board. Resolution 2025-41 is a request to amend the fiscal year

[10:06] 2026 general fund budget. Police is requesting a budget amendment to appropriate 41,000, $231,

[10:12] a building privilege tax. It's held in general fund committed fund balance. It's to cover

[10:17] the cost of software upgrade for the in-car camera video evidence library.

[10:28] That's a short and

[10:29] motion please make a motion to the second we have a motion in a second this time

[10:34] in please Mr. Hall yes this marshal yes Mr. Robbins yes mayor

[10:39] facial yes thank you very much and the next business item is the purchase of

[10:44] Motorola Solutions Evidence Library 5 and we have Inspector Chris Rossi with us this

[10:49] evening Inspector Rossi

[10:54] good evening mayor and members of the board so the back a

[11:01] a bit of background on this is we utilize motor roller solutions, watch guard software, it's called

[11:05] evidence elaborate for us, the current software that we've been utilizing. The cameras allow

[11:11] police department to preserve footage, critical incidents, evidence, and mitigate risk exposure

[11:16] to the town by recording video from the cars. Ultimately, this video, excuse me, video is

[11:24] then uploaded via the cloud and stored on our own premises server.

[11:31] So, in 2023, we discovered that Motorola is this continued evidence library for and the support maintenance on that software.

[11:40] Since that time, we've had a few issues, but we were able to mitigate those by calling tech support.

[11:47] They were still assisting with fixing the software, fixing the upload issues.

[11:52] Currently, we're in the process of trying to switch our new fleet new vehicles that we

[11:57] purchased over to Axon, which is the in-car of software also.

[12:01] So we're slowly facing out the Motorola anyway, so we thought what we had would suffice.

[12:08] Because of the replacement, obviously, like I said, we didn't anticipate that it'd be necessary

[12:13] to upgrade.

[12:15] We recently started having more issues with it, and ultimately their technical support

[12:19] advised us that if you don't upgrade to the new software, which is evidence library five,

[12:24] that you could lose critical videos and evidence that are on the server and it could

[12:28] crash and be unrecoverable.

[12:30] So because of that,

[12:34] we're wishing to upgrade in the amount of $41,230 in three cents

[12:39] the motion that Mr. Spos just presented that was approved.

[12:43] Basically that will ensure preservation of the recordings, mitigate risk to the town, and it

[12:49] also provide five-year maintenance and support,

[12:52] which should we're just to upgrade.

[12:55] I'm sorry, phasing out Motorola

[12:57] and going to the new system of X on by the time

[13:00] that period is expired.

[13:04] The suggested action is to approve the Motorola Solutions

[13:07] Evidence Library 5 with extended maintenance support,

[13:10] warranties for five years using the source mobile video,

[13:13] 1-0-1-2-3-3-m-o-t contract number 3-6-8-7-4 of total of 41-230 dollars in 3 cents, and I'm

[13:23] available if anyone has any questions that we have to answer.

[13:27] Thank you, Inspector.

[13:28] Are there any questions for staff?

[13:31] Seeing none is there a motion?

[13:32] Motion to approve.

[13:34] Second.

[13:34] The motion in the second.

[13:35] Ms. Diamond, if you'll call the roll, please?

[13:37] Ms. Marshall?

[13:38] Mr. Robin?

[13:39] Yes.

[13:39] Mr. Hall? Yes.

[13:41] President. Yes. That's been approved. Thank you. Thank you very much. Appreciate you. This

[13:45] night. Is there any additional business to come before us to see? Thank you everyone for being here.

[13:50] We are adjourned.

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