[0:00] at 7 o' I'd like to motion that Matt
Brown run the meeting in the absence of
[0:04] a mayor
second all favor
[0:10] I all right I want to to stay here uh
we'll call the meeting
[0:16] order um Wayne if you could lead us in
PR
[0:21] you yes
[0:27] sir FL States of America and to the
Republic for which it stands one nation
[0:34] under God indivisible with liy and
justice
[0:40] for dear father we come to you today
thanking you for this day thanking you
[0:45] for your love and your blessings and
thanking you for this opportunity for us
[0:49] to gather together as a city of w to
talk about the business of the day Lord
[0:54] I pray that everything we do would bring
honor and glory to you and I pray for
[0:57] the decisions that are made here tonight
going forward so would always be about
[1:01] the citizens of walk and I thank you for
all these things in Jesus name amen amen
[1:09] amen about Miss chair right on the
camera we get a roll callon where's
[1:16] Beach here Amy long here Terry Courtney
here Sher gel here Dan Martin here Matt
[1:23] Brown
here uh we have a couple announcements
[1:27] City Hall will be closed for Memorial
Day on May 2 7 uh we'll have our Caucus
[1:32] meeting on June 4th in council
chambers and we'll have our events
[1:37] planning meeting at 6:15 on June 11th
along with the council
[1:43] meeting U can uh I motion to approve the
agenda
[1:51] second all in favor I I I any opposed
[2:00] um then we need approval of the minutes
for April 2nd 9th and
[2:06] 16th I I I would ask um rather than
approving the minutes tonight that
[2:11] Council considers presenting minutes to
the people and that perhaps we table
[2:15] this for our next meeting for approval
um there's been a concern that
[2:20] perhaps not everyone's aware of what you
fa in the last meeting and I just think
[2:24] in the spirit of transparency rather
than motioning to combine and approve
[2:28] that we change our habit present the
minutes e either we read them or we
[2:33] present them in in writing so that
everyone's aware of what the minutes
[2:38] what's contained in the minutes I second
that motion thank
[2:48] you is that a motion to table all of
them or just the last one all of them
[2:52] please okay thank
[2:58] you it's okay Beach yes Amy long yes
Terry Courtney yes Sher gas yes Dan
[3:05] Martin yes Matt Brown
yes next up we have uh citizen comments
[3:11] we have Mr
[3:23] colmer thank you you
sir thank you
[3:30] thank
you thank you
[3:51] sir thank you chairman Brown uh citizens
members of council
[3:57] uh other stakeholders as well uh my name
is Kelly Fulmer U as many of you all are
[4:05] aware who have been attending the
meetings um my re-engagement if you will
[4:12] after many years of uh willfully being
absent from attending meetings um
[4:18] stemmed from the for now former mayor
and um what I consider to be memb of his
[4:25] administration targeting me as a citizen
and the now famous email that I continue
[4:31] to reference was that you know I was
told to kick robs and so uh in the
[4:38] spirit of that and as an evangelist for
good government and someone as a
[4:43] multi-generational citizen of the city
thinking that our citizens deserve
[4:47] better than what we've been getting I
would like to First applaud uh you all
[4:52] as council members for doing your due
diligence and following through on your
[4:57] commitment to exercise
your um oversight responsibility of the
[5:03] executive uh here in the city uh as time
has gone on U my theory of this case
[5:11] kind of um and it's infant U state was
that you know it's almost unbelievable
[5:21] in this day and age that what had went
on and what I experienced would be
[5:25] possible um especially in you know the
age of
[5:30] uh the the news media the social media
and again just living in a small
[5:34] community where you know everybody seems
to be interested in everybody else's
[5:39] business uh perhaps maybe to a greater
extent than they are their own and so
[5:45] it's been amazing as I have U gone
through this process which uh again I'm
[5:51] glad that we are at least through stage
one of that
[5:56] um but I don't think our work is either
a community as a council is complete um
[6:03] again my theory of the case has
continued to develop over several months
[6:07] and my
conclusion is only that those uh things
[6:13] that were done that have been discovered
which ultimately I'm sure be uh outlined
[6:19] at least in large measure by special
Council rhs's report to the community
[6:23] was only really possible due to what I
consider to be a culture of of
[6:30] corruption uh and a conspiratorial
almost a
[6:34] conspiratorial uh component on the part
of uh the brown former Brown
[6:40] Administration and it's a cancer that
we've got to uproot and we've got to
[6:45] pull up by rud Branch I mean we can't
just you know boy we've done our job you
[6:51] know Mayor Brown is now out of office
we've got to get to the bottom of how
[6:55] this has gone on and it's amazing how
certain things just happen to you know
[7:00] wash up on my Shore but uh the fact of
the matter is that it has come to my
[7:05] attention just since the last council
meeting that we have um here with us
[7:11] this evening uh and and again these
these are things that have been alleged
[7:17] uh they certainly need to be looked into
and and verified but first and foremost
[7:23] that you know City assets have been
passed out the back door Mr Fulmer can I
[7:28] interrupt you real quick quick Mr Duncan
I don't know if this is the proper forum
[7:33] for this um I don't know if you had a
chance to read them but I don't we're
[7:38] not in the courtroom right now and I I
just want to be careful what is said and
[7:44] accused um I I have with no chance to
defend themselves well I have provided
[7:49] in written form uh for the council's
review and I'll be certainly glad to uh
[7:54] let you all review that information and
I'm certainly available as I have made
[7:59] myself s available to each and every one
of you all um to just to discuss it at
[8:05] uh at your all's convenience and so with
that thank you very much thank you for
[8:09] your service to our city thank you thank
you Mr fmer thank
[8:21] you
sorry do we have any other citizen
[8:26] comments
[8:32] all right I just had a question last
time meeting kind of wrapped up quickly
[8:38] at the end you were going to hire a
consultant but you also said that there
[8:45] would be no further investigation by the
council I was confused by that someone
[8:50] explain what the need for the consultant
is and what uh I believe the lady was
[8:57] going to be hired for how long she's
going to be working mhm what we expect
[9:00] to get from
our yeah I can address that if you guys
[9:07] are okay um so we back in the beginning
of March or be beginning of April would
[9:14] be uh after former mayor Brown rescinded
his resonation uh obviously Council felt
[9:21] it was proper to um pursue an
investigation
[9:27] um and you know we realized we could use
some outside help on this one um not
[9:34] only Mr rhs uh from the legal side uh
but we also needed experience on the
[9:40] city management side um so we hired a
outside consultant uh she's under
[9:47] contract until June 30th um now that the
preliminary investigation is being for
[9:53] the most part concluded this
evening um she has turned her time to
[9:59] focusing on the budget um as most of you
guys know they're um involved with City
[10:04] politics or city management the mayor is
responsible for proposing the budget
[10:10] obviously it's council's job to uh
examine that and and there should be a
[10:15] dialogue and feedback there um and with
the mayor's position open for the time
[10:20] being we didn't want to get behind the
eightball
[10:23] with um having a budget ready to go and
and passed by June 30th so she's turned
[10:30] her attentions um from the
investigation kind of over towards that
[10:36] aspects of it um and if her work
concludes early uh you know she'll we'll
[10:42] go our separate ways um but it's not
expected to be a long-term thing by any
[10:48] means okay that's a good say other
question was uh is
[10:54] anyone on the council have you been
discussing filling the city
[10:58] administrative position is anyone
willing to have Mr D draw an ordinance
[11:02] be voted on so that we can see where you
stand as individuals or city moving
[11:07] forward with that or where are we on
that issue I I if you don't mind um I
[11:11] that's a great question that has been
dialogue but given the fact of what we
[11:16] were currently involved in we really
didn't want to give that responsibility
[11:20] potentially to the sitting mayor um with
the turmoil and until everything you
[11:25] know pretty much settled so there has
been ongoing dial about a city manager
[11:31] um but obviously this is so new we
received a resignation last week um and
[11:35] just trying to work through this matter
and the potential appointment of the new
[11:39] mayor that's just been on pause for a
moment okay I can appreciate that but I
[11:44] also know again the budget talks need to
be wrapped up soon and the calendar days
[11:50] clicking
by just wondering there's going to be
[11:54] money allotted for a potential city
manager or administrator
[11:59] if the ordinance is draw up pass going
to be is time to get that kind of money
[12:04] set aside in the budget somewhere so
that they can be covered and that
[12:08] position to be filled if the ordinance
has pass there's absolutely time yes sir
[12:13] all right thank
[12:19] you major mark
[12:33] evening everybody nice to be with you
all again Council has a copy of my
[12:38] report but for the benefit of the
audience there were 947 law enforcement
[12:44] events sheriff's office in the city of
Walton in April
[12:48] 2024 uh some of those of note include
6911 hangups deputies responded to 22
[12:57] alarm drops
[13:09] deputies LED 18 business
checks they attended to serve 31
[13:14] criminal or
[13:22] civil emotional
crisis two juvenile trouble
[13:27] calls they assisted 11 stranded
motorists de responded to two overdoses
[13:35] nine requests for information they loged
460 spot checks handled 14 suspicious
[13:42] activity
reports deputies investigated two
[13:47] thefts one was from an automobile the
other was a theft of an
[13:52] automobile deputies loged 30 traffic
complaints deputies conducted for
[13:59] traffic stops
they L five vacation checks at residence
[14:05] homes and seven vehicle complaints we
unlocked 18 cars and one one person call
[14:14] and all in told they issued 70 citations
and made eight
[14:19] arrests any questions I can answer for
yall yes thank you so much for
[14:27] coming you know had um our Main
Street yeah I was before right um I was
[14:35] wondering if we have
[14:45] there's y yep and and in light of that I
I wasn't there for the meeting but I
[14:49] think what the uh the topic of the
meeting was and uh I did a little
[14:54] research uh in the last 12 months um we
investig the 38 collisions on Main
[15:01] Street in the city L of Walton uh all
those were between Chambers Road and the
[15:08] mer runs
intersection U seven of those had
[15:11] reported
injuries
[15:15] um of those 38 10 were actually at the
Mary grow intersection so so over 25% of
[15:22] the of the accidents on Main Street are
at
[15:27] marry and uh of of those 38 one involved
in commercial
[15:32] vehicle and also on on the enforcement
side U over the last 12 months deputies
[15:38] issued 168 citations all
main but you be happy to good
[15:48] good anything
else Mr sheriff is is the number of
[15:55] citations that you just relay to us is
that an increase average or is that
[15:59] below do you have a for that I I really
don't sir I I just you had had a few
[16:04] days to to pull together just what
information I have okay and after our
[16:09] brief conversation last week you have
any more information on possibly uh
[16:15] because the Main Street group was here
on possibly an increase in patrols
[16:20] regarding traffic control on Main Street
were you able to any information well
[16:24] your your uh question was specifically
about the council paying for for
[16:30] additional control for traffic and I I
haven't had an opportunity to uh to
[16:36] discuss that
topic thank you thank you thank you
[16:42] sir
[16:56] Chief good evening good
evening uh Council has a detailed copy
[17:04] of the fire department's
report but just to give a briefing to
[17:08] everyone
present January
[17:12] 1st through April 30th of this year fire
departments responded to 568 separate
[17:21] incidents 273 of those was within city
of limits that is 48% the to
[17:31] call for the month of April uh we
responded to 147 Ms incidents 22 of
[17:39] those were motor vehicle accidents and
four of those was
[17:45] overdoses additionally during the month
of April we responded to 53 fire
[17:53] in other than the report got a few
announcements to make
[18:00] um we are taking delivery on a new brush
truck that's been on order pick up
[18:07] tomorrow so before the end of May we
should have that in service what's a
[18:12] brush truck it is a CO drive vehicle and
we got a skip unit goes in the back and
[18:19] it's got pumping capabilities
carries uh 300 gallons of water in it so
[18:26] we field fires Crush fires like that
road we can't take the fire engines
[18:33] there to of them same
so additionally on the trailer we have a
[18:41] coda it's got the same pumping
capabilities it carries 100 gallons of
[18:47] water on it so places The Rush Truck
can't get to you can take Caboda and get
[18:53] those fires as
well the two new fire engines we got on
[18:59] order uh they was supposed to be
delivered the end of June I got
[19:04] notification that they're pushing the
date back to August and the date May
[19:08] change again so depending on who those
are delivered and they go in service we
[19:15] are planning to have an open house at
the firehouse here in
[19:19] Walton so we would welcome any
citizens members of the public to come
[19:26] and attend that St that is likely at
this time going to be late September
[19:32] maybe early
October again it's all based on the
[19:37] delivery of these two new engines that
we're getting so uh you know I don't
[19:43] have a definite date this time
[19:49] know uh the fire departments our board
has passed the new budget that are
[19:55] presented for the next fiscal year
that being said the real property taxes
[20:01] the tax rate we are decreasing the tax
rate again 2 cents per th000 of value on
[20:09] residences and
businesses as far as the priate TA goes
[20:14] and something that I wanted to relay
that a lot of people probably
[20:20] aren't aware of at this time but I have
been involved as the fire chief and
[20:27] setting the tax rate the board for 4
years it's been through Co and
[20:34] inflationary cost and everything on the
rise and out of four years three of
[20:39] those years the tax rate has been
lowered it's not a light changing amount
[20:44] but we keep shipping at a little bit
each year as we can the one year we
[20:49] didn't lower the tax rates we just left
so we are working to try to keep your
[20:55] money in your pocket as much as we can
but again our operating costs and
[21:02] continue to go up of inflationary
[21:07] cost thank any have any questions just
thank thank you for your mindfulness and
[21:13] I know that our citizens feel over tax
and we know that the lines share pretty
[21:16] much as the school but again just thank
you for your minding us and making that
[21:20] possible sure and we realize you know
everybody's hurting financially
[21:25] and I do realize it's not my money it's
EUR old's money and you don't want to
[21:32] keep as much of that in your pocket as
you can as you should
[21:36] so doing pretty good at managing the
finances
[21:41] and make the dollar go as far as we can
still need the operational needs and
[21:46] start contining to grow
internally and maintain
[21:51] that
uh additionally I got two ambulances on
[21:57] order
one and it was expect out to meet our
[22:03] needs and it was a total cost of
$35,000 that does not even include the
[22:10] cop that goes in
it uh Ford or not for I'm sorry uh Chev
[22:16] and Dodge made an announcement they was
going to decrease the production numbers
[22:22] of ambulance chassis
specifically so after ordering that
[22:26] ambulance I went to my board and told to
lead times are going to get to be 3 four
[22:32] 5 years out so we need to go and order
another ambulance now can't wait until
[22:37] we actually need it to order it and they
understood and agreed in 3 months time
[22:42] the same exact ambulance went up from
315,000
[22:48] $445,000 so yeah cost of this stuff is
continuing to
[22:54] grow us we can keep it as much money as
yourp
[23:00] thank you for your diligence there sir
thank you anybody any
[23:06] questions yes sir Chief is the funding
for these vehicles come out of the fire
[23:11] department budget or you getting
assistance from the state no sir that
[23:16] fire department's budget um there is no
funding from the state or federal
[23:21] government for
that eligible to
[23:26] get I do have a Grant application in at
this time actually two of them one of
[23:34] them is called the safer
Grant and that is to help the first few
[23:40] years with the cost of adding three
additional
[23:43] firefighters
uh the federal government and
[23:48] legislation is uh looking into at this
time to determine if they're even going
[23:54] to continue to fund that Grant so even
though we got the application in if
[23:59] government decides not the fundage then
there's no money there to assist us in
[24:04] that
way uh we have another Grant in through
[24:08] the state Forestry Department the new
Rush truck I talked about with the skid
[24:13] unit well SK unit getting pretty dated
it's still in good shape but uh we
[24:20] applied for a grant to replace the hose
on it get put on the unit that type of
[24:25] thing so you get some fing with that
we'll be able
[24:30] to you know fix a lot of things update
things onute get it back to where it's
[24:37] like a brand new unit but still cost
quite a bit less new be
[24:46] purchase thank you sir thank you
[24:51] Chief Mr B
[25:00] evening everybody good evening so uh
engineering
[25:05] report High Street Bridge
[25:14] Project uh talk to the
Duke weeks ago he said the railro reped
[25:22] them 6 to8 months for review um so hav
even got any back but I've asked him to
[25:29] keep as soon as
[25:34] he negative side
we kind an imp with the state on getting
[25:40] not to bid until we get that
location uh on our roads uh our road
[25:47] projects uh we had the bid opening last
week for the 2024 resurfacing we got two
[25:53] bids back from regular blacktop uh they
were low bidder at sh
[25:59] 74,000 and Nal had the other bid
18,000 change um reg's B was about
[26:07] 10,000 under the under estimate so we
good there um so council's authorization
[26:15] um you know based on the work theyve
done for us in the past I don't see
[26:19] issue withing that contract
directly um also uh Jerry and I have
[26:24] been in touch with Humphrey concrete to
do some side around the city uh a couple
[26:30] locations on pine pine top old Stevenson
Mill where they did the waterm patching
[26:36] and School Road um the total of those
was
[26:41] $1,132 uh thanks you guys for approving
those with the uh theal government right
[26:48] now we can go ahead and get that moving
um they expect they should be able to
[26:52] get started that that within the next
couple
[26:54] weeks um I typed up set of minutes from
the the traffic safety meeting last week
[27:01] in caucus and provided that to council
um there do you have any questions about
[27:07] any of that before I kind of get into a
okay um so basically you know most of
[27:16] you were in attendance last week um you
know
[27:19] comments pretty much spam the entire
Corridor through wall um but seemed like
[27:25] it was mostly concerned around the area
by post office and then the the
[27:30] transition on the north side of town
from the 55 M into the
[27:34] reduction um kind of you know wanting to
see what we can do to extend that you
[27:40] lower it even
further um so really you know the next
[27:46] step now is for Council to you know go
through those results and you know
[27:52] improvements that were requested by the
public and see which ones we think make
[27:56] the most sense and then
um put together a formal request to send
[28:01] the state to ask them to you know value
for those are feasible on their side of
[28:07] things
um I know uh speed bumps were were
[28:12] brought up
um unfortunately those the state doesn't
[28:17] allow those in their policy on the state
rout so most luck um proceeding of those
[28:26] uh you know speed limit adjust that's
definitely possible you know new signs
[28:31] um I did notice that the the crosswalks
through Main Street are uh a little bit
[28:37] inconsistent some just have the two
parallel lines other ones have the
[28:40] crossbars you know just making sure
those are consistent and uh you know
[28:45] fresh striking that would definitely
help uh
[28:48] and some residents had asked about a a
bypass just to take some of the traffic
[28:54] burden off of Main Street uh I know they
are doing preliminary design on on such
[29:00] a project but uh you know it's it's
would be several years out before
[29:06] anything like that
[29:10] came hopefully have a public hearing
with the city just to present what they
[29:13] have so far and get comments on what we
think works and doesn't work but then
[29:18] utility
relocation RightWay acquisition all that
[29:23] and then construction has Bud as well so
[29:28] anytime soon so there's definitely you
know shorter term improvements that we
[29:32] can look
at um and then oh um there was also a
[29:37] question brought up about uh on street
parking um the business is feeling like
[29:42] they're competing with residents and and
customers for
[29:47] Ed spaces that we have available
so res ask for anything the city to look
[29:54] at
to help with that uh and then uh just a
[29:59] quick note on our ms4 projects um we've
had
[30:04] the low area between
Oro extension trying to to clean that up
[30:10] and uh keep the water kind of
channelized into more defined area where
[30:16] it spreads out in that that little area
uh aware it's been very wet uh and that
[30:24] that area will stay wet for a long time
after every time it rains cont has been
[30:28] struggling to find a good time to get in
there and wrap that up first day I think
[30:34] his excavator saying several feet in all
the mon just trying to get in there
[30:39] scoop it out so um I talked to him
earlier he's going to try to get out
[30:43] next week but I checked the forecast
earlier and it's not looking favorable
[30:47] through the weekend
so keep their fingers crossed and get
[30:51] several dry days a
road any other questions I have a
[30:55] question about when you mentioned Pine
tops sir is this um does have anything
[31:00] to do with the drainage on the sidewalk
where citizens have fallen that's right
[31:03] yeah uh yeah the location at Pine Top of
the benger on the corner is the one
[31:07] location and there's another and U
similar problem it just it was a low
[31:12] point that just stays wet all the time
so um both of those spots the the
[31:17] contractor is going to uh trench a
little bit of drain pipe uh in between
[31:22] there to capture some of that water and
tie it into the nearest uh C
[31:28] sidewalk
better hope doesn't make it in the pipe
[31:33] will be able little
off thank you so much
[31:50] app as far as parking restri that way
there would be no Main Street the even
[31:56] though Main Street is a state they defer
to the city to control where any new
[32:01] parking areas are so yeah that's
something that we did well I was told
[32:04] that that
[32:20] wasn't came up last we right there's not
enough on street parking between the the
[32:26] business owners and employ
res
[32:31] and employes
[32:36] all you're not the only one that has
that that concern
[32:43] so thank you thank you sir and Mr
chairman yes U um we have recently
[32:50] adopted an ordinance that requires the
council to authorize uh the selection of
[32:55] the bidder for that amount of money so
uh a motion would be in order to approve
[33:01] the recommendation of the
city engineer motion yeah motion to
[33:05] approve regler second
yes R Beach yes Amy long yes Terry
[33:12] Courtney yes Sherry gas yes Dan Martin
yes Matt Brown
[33:21] yes next up we got uh resolution 20
24-7 and I will defer to counselor I
[33:31] don't know Bryce or Duncan want me to
read the resolution at this point okay
[33:36] uh this is resolution
20247 a resolution of the city council
[33:41] of the city of Walton Kentucky approving
a report of the findings of the city
[33:45] council's investigation regarding mayor
Gabriel D
[33:49] Brown um whereas KRS 83a
13013 sub paragraph 13 provides that the
[33:57] city Council shall have the right to
investigate all activities of city
[34:00] government and whereas on May the 7th
2024 the city council through resolution
[34:06] 20245 directed its special Council to
prepare a report of the findings of the
[34:12] city council's investigation regarding
former mayor Gabriel D Brown now
[34:16] therefore in consideration of the
forgoing premises be it resolved by the
[34:21] city council of the city of Walton
Kentucky section one at the city council
[34:25] of the city of Walton Kentucky hereby
approve approves its report regarding
[34:29] its investigation of former mayor Gabel
Gabriel D Brown section two that said
[34:34] report is attached here to and
Incorporated here in by
[34:38] reference so um it would be appropriate
to discuss and uh and vote on that and
[34:44] you can do that by motion and I would
note that Bryce rhs is or was here he he
[34:50] right there oh there he is waiting for
you yeah so I would defer to him on the
[34:54] context and the contents of the report
um members of council the report is in
[35:00] front of you I think you all had a
chance to review it if it's approved I
[35:03] just want to say
generally um just because I know a lot
[35:08] of people are interested in this I I'm
happy to email this to anyone tonight it
[35:13] will post on the city website in the
morning um if you remember the media
[35:17] that I've spoken to before I have your
email address I'll send that out at the
[35:20] end of the meeting if anyone else is
interested please just see me after the
[35:23] meeting and I can also get that to you
as long as council is fine with that
[35:28] um so whe if there's any discussion or
questions I'm happy to help with that if
[35:33] not I think approval would be
[35:39] order I ask I'm sorry go ahead Terry at
a high level the summary can you share
[35:45] that with the audience can we
sure um I can do the kind of summary the
[35:53] Roman numeral bullet points would that
be probably the and I can to those
[35:57] littleit
[35:59] so um essentially Council considered
charges against Mayor Brown before he
[36:07] ultimately
resigned um this report is essentially a
[36:10] summary of what those charges would have
been and I I'm happy to kind of quickly
[36:15] go through those and like I said the
before reports available after
[36:19] appr but the uh the summary is that um
former May Brown appears to have used a
[36:25] c issued gas card for person use or
otherwise allow it to be used that way
[36:31] um former May Brown kept a CED vehicle
in his possession initial week after
[36:37] returning from City business and
abandoned the vehicle outside of a city
[36:40] council member's
residence former mayor Brown used a City
[36:43] ploud truck to clear the parking lot of
a private business outside of the
[36:47] corporate limits of the city for which
he received payment in cash and goods uh
[36:53] former mayor Brown authorized payments
and excess of the agreed contract price
[36:57] with the cont contractor and fail toit
to submit two Char orders to city
[37:02] council for approval as was required by
that contract by the particular
[37:06] contract uh former mayor Brown
authorized payment to that same contract
[37:11] on another occasion prior to the city
receiving an invoice for the work
[37:16] perform and former mayor Brown
authorized payments to that contractor
[37:21] on a different occasion personally by
means of a cashier check payable from
[37:25] the general fund as opposed to the park
fund
[37:28] and for May Brown authorized a total not
all at once but a total payment of
[37:36] 2,690 to a different contractor for work
performed at the Owens Park Lake Project
[37:42] without properly making the newspaper
advertisements for
[37:45] bids uh that's the high level summary
the report includes an appendix that has
[37:52] documents that support all of those the
appendix also includes a report from the
[37:58] city's consultant the results of her
forensic audit and some recommendations
[38:02] moving forward to keep something like
this from happening again I know city
[38:06] has already moved to implement some of
those recommendations thank
[38:16] than
good making a motion to approve
[38:24] second Rose Beach yes Amy
yes Terry Courtney yes Sher gasal yes
[38:31] Dan Martin yes Matt Brown
[38:36] yes well next we got Council comments
[38:43] BR good to see
[38:49] all Grace I'd like to thank you for your
work on this and just leading us thank
[38:53] you I appreciate the chance to work with
the city on
[38:56] this situation enjoyed as much as
possible work with the council to get
[39:01] this
resolved thank you um like Amy thank you
[39:05] for everyone being here it's great to
see our citizens involved in the meeting
[39:09] so thank you um I'll raise the concern
tomorrow night we were going to meet it
[39:13] was going to be a special meeting for
potentially the appointment of the new
[39:16] mayor um I believe all of council finds
that it's very important that everyone
[39:21] here on Council is able to attend it's
it's not a decision that we should make
[39:26] without one of our team remains here um
so there's a potential Conflict for for
[39:31] one of our Council people so I was just
going to open the conversation to see if
[39:34] potentially a better day next week uh
could be
[39:39] scheduled yeah obviously that's me I
I'll be working tomorrow night so uh I
[39:45] know we talked about it at our special
meeting that maybe Monday would work
[39:50] Rose you can't do the rest of the week
right Thursday
[39:57] here
M Monday works for me so the the agenda
[40:02] was published I I guess right Joanna for
tomorrow night so there will there will
[40:05] not be a special meeting tomorrow night
we'll move that till Monday at 7: can we
[40:09] update the date on that sheet and and
keep those signatures or do we have to
[40:13] print a new sheet no print a new sheet
correct well no I think you can change
[40:18] it if everybody is in agreement to
change the date on it you don't have to
[40:21] sign a new okay perfect thank you than
you is everybody in agreement with that
[40:27] yeah yes yes I think so yeah that'll be
fine and javana you'll notify the other
[40:33] candidates that were planning to be
there tomorrow um you can get in touch
[40:36] with them yes sir okay thank you
jaon
[40:41] Sherry um I'm good just thanks for your
support hang in there we'll get
[40:49] it I don't have anything tonight um just
glad to be through this and uh hopefully
[40:55] we all sleep a little better
and
[40:59] a all right thanks everybody for coming
it's always good to see your all's faces
[41:05] I appreciate
it Mike you have a comment counil can
[41:09] you can you announce the Cates for
May um
[41:17] javana um I have Dan Martin Amy long
Terry Courtney Eric Tungate Bruce
[41:25] Bloomer and Mark Carn
[41:30] next
[41:33] week yeah disc yeah Monday we'll we'll
meet with them and like we've done in
[41:38] the past we'll have uh question and
answer time if there's anything we want
[41:43] to ask specifically and then uh then
we'll anticipate voting that evening I
[41:48] think if everything goes right primarily
it's been an introduction so that if
[41:53] you're interested that if if there's
something that you didn't include in
[41:56] your letter that you can stand and
introduce yourself and and share
[42:00] anything that you would like along those
lines and thank you for asking that
[42:03] question um a citizen had asked me
previously will there be an opportunity
[42:08] for citizen comments I understand that
the discussion would be in closed
[42:12] session
correct the discussion would be in close
[42:16] session the way it normally happens is
you would give the opportunity to each
[42:21] candidate in public in the public part
of the meeting to speak and then you
[42:25] would uh go into session to discuss the
pluses and minuses of the of the
[42:32] individuals and then you would come back
out and vote thank you and so with that
[42:36] if there are citizens who um are present
and they want to weigh in or they have
[42:41] an opinion are they allowed to do that
as long as it's not a dirty laundry
[42:45] airing understood that's that's why you
go into Clos session so you keep that
[42:50] stuff in Clos session so if anybody
wants to put forth the candidacy and
[42:55] speak on behalf of a candidate that
would be fine to do in public if you
[42:59] have something negative just hold it
thank you so we need to wait till next
[43:03] week before sen CI comment
[43:10] about well I I believe if you fill a
certain way this evening and you want to
[43:14] say something I don't believe any of us
would stifle you in your opinion if
[43:17] you're not able to make it Monday then
you know yeah I be like M I
[43:23] got I would like to say I mean mram
uh he had previously been on Council and
[43:30] also served from there for a few years
he's retired now I think he's
[43:35] retired I you know I would I would
suggest Council look at
[43:41] him vote full time maybe
in if you want to run for the mayor J
[43:49] after them Council I would suggest that
you look at more somebody that's retired
[43:57] he knows about budgets he's done a
budget before try to move the city
[44:04] forward appreciate your input and that
reminds me too if um there's a deadline
[44:09] in June for anyone who is interested in
putting their name on the ballot for the
[44:13] mayor position as well as Council all
Council positions will be open and
[44:17] available um so please get involved the
more people on the ballot um the better
[44:23] that's how how I feel absolutely
Mr mentioned last week about reing
[44:29] traffic through away from Main
Street we have driving businesses on
[44:35] Main Street what that would highly
impact
[44:38] us if you rout
traffic you asking me a question yeah
[44:45] I'm asking city council too yeah I uh
put that forward because a lot of the
[44:49] traffic that comes through town
[44:57] my guess would be most of the
tra doesn't stop
[45:02] anywhere that's
[45:11] notal
believe
[45:19] irrespec because a lot of people drive
through and say oh there's a forest or
[45:24] there's a bakery orir
a dog River you people see that and BR
[45:30] in
business could
[45:34] beud
yeah just one suggestion for our
[45:40] neighbors who live on Main Street who
are but I think you put police
[45:50] there they do believe me I know um you
slow some of that down giveing people
[45:55] tickets it's you know you're going to
get a ticket you fly through here yeah
[46:01] why I Sher last we about City pay for
overtime if that's necessary to have an
[46:07] officer out here but in my other
discussions with other officers they
[46:11] said you can sit here all you want
matter not that that shouldn't be done
[46:16] but that's what I've been told
sh I think if a sheriff is sitting out
[46:22] there and see somebody going 55 down
highway they're they're going to pull
[46:27] right well the idea is they're not
[46:32] right Barb you have a question um I
think I recollect I was at the meeting
[46:38] last week and I think you were talking
about the traffic flow and what have you
[46:43] and you had to table some people's
comments because you ran out of time and
[46:46] you told them that they'd be able to
speak tonight am I correcting that I
[46:51] think we completed the road aspect I had
to cut Jane off um because
[46:58] uh her comment wasn't pertaining to the
road and we didn't allow that in the
[47:02] agenda so that's why I asked Jane to
come back to see
[47:08] then I might have miss something
but anything
[47:14] else motion to adjourn
second all in favor I