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One tree up. One day we wanted to put it down. I can't put it back. That's when I

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All right, I've got six o'clock. We'll call them. August meeting to order for the town of Thompson station.

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Board of Mayor and Alderman first action is the pleasable agents if you'll please rise to begin

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Thank you

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I move to announcements

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Thank you, Mr. Mayor. It's just a couple announcements this evening

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Wanted to share some exciting news about

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out the wind that we have for our park system.

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We won the local parks and recreation fund grant

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as from T-deck.

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So that means the town will receive $600,000.

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We've got a focus on improving the playground

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in Sarabetson Park.

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So obviously, there'll be a lot more information

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to come on this one.

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But for now, we're celebrating the win.

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Big thanks to Michael Sullivan for shepherding this grant through the approval process, and

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I think this will be a really exciting way to unlock a lot of potential in serabents and

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so happy about that.

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And then just wanted to remind y'all it's on your consent agenda to change the September

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number of BOMA work session to Tuesday, September 3rd at 5 p.m.

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All right, thank you.

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Thank you.

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Anyone else with announcements?

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All right, but that will move on.

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So we'll move on to public comment.

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Just a reminder public comment must be germane to items on the agenda.

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Each participant is allowed up to three minutes.

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Each with a combined time limit of no more than 30 minutes.

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We have one person, Jody Tomman.

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Sure.

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I'm Jody Tomman.

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My address is 2788 Thompson Station Road East.

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In a little less than three years, there's been three significant single vehicle accidents in a short stretch of road right across from my house.

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The first was an ambulance that went off the road down the embankment and rolled over.

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The second was an SUV that did the exact same thing.

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And the third was about two and a half weeks ago.

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So that's not only agenda, so it's road condition is where I'm going that's I believe the road repaving project on which one G

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So that's said very well. Yes, okay, this is a significant public safety issue. I understand we can discuss it afterwards

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But I can't allow it during public comments. It's just not germane to anything. So in the agenda. Okay, I'll be glad to speak with you afterwards

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Okay, give me just as soon as we're get done. All right, the emails.

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All right, we'll close public comments. We will move on to consent agenda.

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I just have a can I ask a question about the paving schedule?

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What's the anticipated schedule?

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So the contractor that's the lowest bid is currently doing the work that's out there.

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So we would anticipate that as soon as it honestly as soon as possible.

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I mean, we'll get the contract pulled together, it'll obviously come back before BOMO for approval,

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but we're hoping that it's kind of a seamless transition from the work that they have been doing

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on the north part to the south part. But this year, for sure. Yes. All right. Great. Thank you.

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Anyone else? Well, we're approving the contract tonight. Why would it come back in front of us?

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This is just to approve the bid. So we would have to flesh out the contract. We would include

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the schedule and all the the pertinent details. So this is just selecting part of the purchasing

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process that that we've set up through the town code but but yeah so this allows us to enter

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an negotiations with the approved contractor. What do you expect that next month will be

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looking at the contract? Yeah hopefully.

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I moved that we approve the consent agenda.

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So second, all right, proper person, second, Regina.

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passes five.

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Nothing.

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Thank you.

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Move to the new business.

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Consideration of first reading of ordinance, 2024 to 006.

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To amend title five, chapter four of the town code.

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To increase the town of administrators, authorize purchasing to $25,000.

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Thank you, Mr. Mayor.

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this change to the town code will allow for a more streamlined purchasing process and

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hope is that it will reduce some increased costs that are often borne by the town due

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to delays in getting quotes through the authorization process if it's more than $10,000. Obviously

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in the past couple of years, $10,000 doesn't buy as much as it used to, so pretty much everything

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that we have is always right around that number, seems like it's always $11,000 or $13,000

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just over and so sometimes we bring that quote to you know we get that quote we get it on an

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agenda by the time we're going back to them they've increased they've increased that cost. So

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this increased amount is in line with state law and best practices from our peer communities.

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As we talked about at the work session we'll just include on future work session agendas they'll

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will just be a box on there that includes all the purchases that have been made on an administrative basis for transparency purposes.

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So you can always, obviously, question those or we can go into more details in a public forum based on that.

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Andrew helped pull this together. So Andrew, do you have anything else to add?

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No, we streamline the overall process as well, creating those brackets of how many quotes

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you have to get.

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And obviously, anything over 25,000 has to come back before this board.

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So it's really regulating what happens under $25,000.

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How the bid process works is also in here.

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But again, this is in line with state law and what we've done in peer communities and it's

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ready for your consideration on first reading, so you'll have second reading next month.

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All right.

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So staff recommends approval.

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thank you. Board open this up for discussion or I'll take a motion. A move we pass on

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first reading ordinance 2024-006 to amend title five chapter four to up the

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authorized purchasing the 25,000. Second all right I have a proper first and a

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Second.

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Virginia?

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Dr. Whitner?

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Dr. Whitner?

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Passes five, nothing.

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Thank you.

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New business number two.

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Consideration of first reading of ordinance 20-24-007 to adopt various building fire and property

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maintenance code codes by reference.

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Thank you, Mr. Mayor.

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So this update to the town's building fire and property maintenance codes is necessary

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under state law.

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All of these are to be effective with one exception on January 1st of this year.

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The one exception is the energy code.

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Energy code.

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And that's the state ask us to have that effective a little bit sooner.

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So that's included in the ordinance.

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I'll turn it over to our building officials around Matthews and let him describe to you a

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little bit more in detail of all these updates.

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Its local

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adoption of building codes is vital to the success of any growing town without standard building practices.

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You can jeopardize the health, life safety, and the general well-being of the residents.

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Having standard practices such as baseline expectations for every building,

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and the firefighter sees a house on fire that was built in the past 20 years,

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and when the next fall it will enforce building codes,

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he can approach the situation with confidence.

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The windows will allow him to enter in full gear to rescue the occupants and fight fire.

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This relatively small thing can mean the difference between life and death.

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We all understand the proper heating and ventilation as well as clean water and proper

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sewage disposal to help build and codes go even further.

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Small things like proper flashing and cost-based ventilation can prevent the growth of mold

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as well as seal and plumbing pictures and prevent unseen leaks and limiting penetration

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signs in the exterior to prevent insects and rodent-infestation.

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The building code requires rate-on venting and all homes.

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Williamson County is listed as a potential high rate on area by the EPA.

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The rate on gas is silent and visible tasteless and odorless gas.

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The American Loan Association and the American Medical Association identified

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great on his leading cause for lung cancer.

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Approximately 14,000 lung cancer deaths that occur each year in the United States

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are due to rate on exposure.

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The building code doesn't just ensure that the houses structure sound

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We want exposed residents to molding cancerous gas, even further make sure that the home is suitable for all residents.

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Minimum glazing ensures that residents have enough natural light and minimum ceiling heights allow for residents to feel comfortable.

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Operable windows don't just allow emergency egress for the residents, they also ensure the availability of fresh air.

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These are all taken into consideration while developing the new codes.

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All of these things are taken into account for the mental and physical health of the occupant.

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Andrew, do you hope to review these, anything you need to add to?

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No, it's pretty comprehensive, you know, we're going to 2021 on nearly every international

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code standard.

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Like Micah mentioned, we're having to use the 2018 International Energy Conservation Code

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per state law.

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We have some local amendments that the town's adopting with each of these.

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You can see them in the ordinance, but otherwise, it is the international codes as put forth by

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the International Council.

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This is an ordinance. So this is just first reading. You'll have second reading next month. Staff does

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Recommend approval

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It is is 2018 the most current energy conservation code or no

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But we are intent to say it's a statute that we had

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Jurisdictions have to follow the 2018 energy conservation code as well as some

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2009 tables and

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That's a statutory requirement by our general assembly the general assembly

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Yeah, that's a preemption

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issue as so yeah decided that

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We should have only as much energy conservation as they allow fit our walls. Yes

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Thank you.

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I move that we approve first reading of ordinance 2024 dashers or seven or dubberius fire building and property maintenance codes by reference

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First.

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Proper first.

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On second.

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Proper second.

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Regina.

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Chris.

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Hi.

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Hi.

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Hi.

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Hi.

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That's the last stop of the evening with that.

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I'll take an adjournment board.

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Can I get five minutes after we adjourn?

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I move to the adjourn.

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Second.

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I mean, he's adjourned.