[0:09] Well, it's 6:00 and I'm going to call
this meeting to order
[0:13] and u
thank you.
[0:25] Our father in heaven, we are grateful
for this new year and grateful for the
[0:30] opportunity to meet in this city council
meeting. We pray for the thy spirit to
[0:33] attend us as we discuss the needs of our
community that we will be able to be
[0:39] guided by the spirit and the decisions
that we make. We are grateful under thee
[0:44] for this free land that thou has given
us to live in for the liberties and
[0:49] freedoms that thou has granted unto us.
Please bless us that as we make
[0:53] decisions that we will keep those
liberties and freedoms in mind.
[0:58] Guide and direct us in our affairs. We
pray in the name of thy beloved son
[1:02] Jesus Christ. Amen.
>> Still remain standing with those
[1:05] pledgiance
[1:10] to the flag of the United States of
America and to the republic for which it
[1:15] stands. One nation under God,
indivisible, with liberty and justice
[1:21] for all.
>> Thank you.
[1:24] » All right.
[1:29] » Okay. M, you call the role, please.
>> Alex Jones,
[1:33] » he's running about 20 minutes late.
>> Cameron Calbert
[1:36] » here. Dave Doug Brown
>> here.
[1:42] » Adam Borders
>> here.
[1:44] Stables
>> here.
[1:47] here.
>> Let the record reflect we do have enough
[1:50] to have a forum.
Next item, I'm going to kind of go a
[1:55] little slow, give Alex time to get here,
but the next item is to adopt the
[1:59] agenda.
[2:03] » Motion to uh motion to adopt the January
15th agenda.
[2:08] » Second.
>> Motion's been made by Council Calbert,
[2:12] second by Councilman Brown.
Is there any discussion
[2:24] hearing? None. All in favor signify by
saying I.
[2:27] » I.
>> All oppose the last item.
[2:34] And the next item is the September 2025
financial report.
[2:42] Hope everybody's had a chance to look
up.
[2:46] I'll entertain a motion.
>> I make a motion to accept the September
[2:51] 2025 financial report.
>> I second.
[2:56] Let the record show Councilman Staples
made motion.
[3:00] Second by Councilman Borders. Is there
any discussion on this?
[3:09] Seeing none, all in favor signify by
saying I.
[3:12] » I. All oppose like sign
hearing. None.
[3:18] It passed.
Now to October 2025 financial statement.
[3:28] Now there motion there.
[3:33] I make a motion that we accept the
October 2025 financial report.
[3:40] » I'll second. Let the record show that
Councilman Staples made a motion to
[3:44] accept the October 2025 financial
report. Second by Councilman Borders. Is
[3:50] there any discussion on this?
[3:57] Hearing none. All in favor signify by
saying I.
[4:00] » I.
>> All oppose I sign
[4:04] that the record reflected passed.
[4:10] Okay. the now November 2025 financial
report. I'll entertain a motion for that
[4:16] one.
>> Motion to approve the November 2025
[4:20] financial report.
>> I second that motion.
[4:24] » Let the record show Councilman Calbert
made motion to pass November 2025
[4:29] financial report. Second by Councilman
Staples.
[4:34] Is there any discussion on this one?
[4:40] Hearing none. All in favor signify by
saying I. I.
[4:44] » All oppose would like sign.
Pass unanimously.
[4:51] And next is October 16, 2025 minutes.
[4:57] I'll entertain a motion for that.
[5:04] I make a motion that we accept the
minutes from October 16th, 2025.
[5:12] » I'll second.
>> Motion's been made by Councilman
[5:16] Staples, second by Councilman Borders.
Is there any discussion on this?
[5:26] Hearing none, all in favor signify by
saying I.
[5:29] » I.
>> All oppose would like sign
[5:32] that the record reflected passed
unanimously.
[5:36] Now the special call meeting for
December the 2nd, 2025
[5:41] minutes.
[5:45] I'll entertain a motion for this
very short minutes.
[5:53] I make a motion that we accept the
meeting special call meeting minutes for
[5:57] 12 2025.
[6:02] » I say it. Let the record show that
Councilman Staples made a motion pass
[6:06] the special call meeting for 12225
second by Councilman Calbert. Any
[6:14] discussion on this?
[6:19] » Hearing none. All in favor signify by
saying I.
[6:22] » I.
>> All oppose by sign
[6:25] that the record shows it passed
unanimously.
[6:29] Uh next item is public comment. So,
nobody signed up for public comments
[6:33] either, Kelly. Okay. So, did you have a
sheet do that and put on there? Nobody
[6:40] Nobody showed it up for it.
And next, uh I want to entertain a
[6:47] motion to suspend the rules for the
purpose of uh discussion and voting.
[6:54] » I'll make a motion to suspend the rules
for that purpose. Second. Let the record
[7:00] show that Councilman Brown made a motion
to suspend the rules for the purpose of
[7:04] discussion and voting. Second by
Councilman Calbert.
[7:12] » Would you call the role please car?
[7:16] » Yes.
>> Brown.
[7:18] » Yes.
>> Yes.
[7:22] » Yes.
That the record will show that it passed
[7:26] unanimously.
[7:29] Now we'll go into old business
and the first item there is a second
[7:34] reading of ordinance 012
excuse me ordinance 0102
[7:44] 025-2
[7:47] and that's a
ordinance uh amending the zoning
[7:53] ordinance
of the city t city of West Morning to
[7:58] adjust and reszone timelines required to
reflect current TCA language.
[8:06] I'll entertain a motion from there.
[8:12] » Motion to approve ordinance 0102025-2.
[8:20] » Second that motion. Let the record show
that Councilman Caler made a motion and
[8:26] second by Councilman Staples. Miss Kick
call for vote, please.
[8:32] » Brown,
>> yes.
[8:35] » Yes.
>> Staples.
[8:37] » Yes.
>> Yes.
[8:39] » Record show that it passed unanimously.
Second item on our second reading on
[8:45] ordinance 01 02025-3
[8:52] ordinance amending the zoning ordinance
of West Morland, Tennessee to adjust
[8:58] permitted
and conditional usage in the R2 zoning
[9:04] district.
I'll entertain a motion for that.
[9:10] Since we suspended the rules, can we
have catch me up on that one? Is that
[9:16] possible to do that Mr. Mayor to give us
a give me a a background on that of that
[9:22] reading of that ordinance?
>> Do we have that?
[9:26] » Everybody should have a copy of
>> It's in my I've got it here. So,
[9:33] » should
[9:45] This is the one that had to do with um
changing it from
[9:53] there's a line where it said like a tax
residential dwelling in it multifamily
[9:59] residential dwelling and it was the
wording was confusing as to whether or
[10:04] not it was like a duplex could be there.
It's just more or less clean cleaning
[10:08] this up,
>> cleaning the language up,
[10:10] » making sure the language in each section
matches
[10:13] » and attachment A goes along with that
ordinance,
[10:17] this ordinance.
>> Yes. If you'll look at um well, in the
[10:23] in part A, there's some some lines that
are struck out of it.
[10:27] » And then also in B and C. So that's what
it's doing to make it a whole
[10:32] » the ones you see that lines struck
through, they'll be taken out.
[10:35] » Okay. that will match up with TCA codes
also.
[10:39] » Okay.
[10:42] » That's just simply part of this because
we don't allow duplexes, right?
[10:46] » Yeah.
>> And so they had to mark all those out.
[10:49] » Yeah. And that continues on to the next
page where it marks it out.
[10:52] » Yes.
[10:57] » Thank you for that background.
>> Any more discussion?
[11:04] I'll make a motion then to
approve ordinance 0102025-3
[11:11] for second reading.
>> Second that motion
[11:16] » that the record show that uh Councilman
Brown made a motion to pass ordinance
[11:21] second reading on ordinance 0102
025-3
[11:28] second by Councilman
Staples. Is there any discussion on
[11:33] this? Any more discussion on
[11:38] hearing? None. Miss Kelly call for the
vote, please.
[11:41] » Borders.
>> Yes.
[11:43] » Brown.
>> Yes.
[11:44] » Staples.
>> Yes.
[11:47] » Albert.
>> Yes.
[11:53] » Record sto unanimously.
[11:59] All right. On to new business.
If Alex don't hurry up here, we're going
[12:03] to be done.
>> Yeah.
[12:07] » Uh, first reading on ordinance
[12:11] 12025-1
[12:15] budget amendment for 2025 26 budget
community room building repairs. And
[12:24] that was repairable on this building
here. Right.
[12:27] I make a motion to approve the ordinance
112025-1.
[12:36] » I will second that motion.
>> Let the record show that Councilman
[12:40] Border made the motion to pass ordinance
on first reading for 112025-1.
[12:48] Second by Councilman Brown. Is there any
discussion on it?
[12:58] Hearing none. U Miss Kelly call the vote
please.
[13:02] » Staples.
>> Yes.
[13:05] » Yes.
>> Brown.
[13:06] » Yes.
>> Yes.
[13:09] » The record reflected passed unanimously.
[13:15] And the next item is resolution
R012026
[13:23] monthly meeting dates for 2026.
We should have a copy of that in here or
[13:29] not.
[13:42] It's just set for the third Thursday of
each month.
[13:53] » We just got to get it passed so we can
get the paper.
[13:59] We're going to forego the first month
meeting, first week meeting.
[14:06] » Do what?
>> He's asking how are we going to continue
[14:10] to do what you've been doing lately and
combine
[14:12] » the meetings with the study or
>> the advertisement is just
[14:17] » Okay.
All right. All right. I I'll make a
[14:21] motion that we uh pass resolution
R012026.
[14:26] This is the monthly meeting dates for
2026.
[14:29] » I'll second that.
>> Okay. Councilman Brown made a motion to
[14:33] pass resolution R 012026
[14:39] second by Councilman Borders.
Is there any discussion on this?
[14:44] » I I'll bring up up the discussion again
just to and again I know this is just to
[14:48] pass them for the but have you had any
thoughts Mr. Mayor? How just just out of
[14:52] curiosity since this does have something
to do are you going to combine the work
[14:56] studies. You are you going to continue
to have the work studies the first of
[14:58] the month?
>> I think we're going to continue to have
[15:00] it. If necessary, we'll have to call it
off. Then we can combine them
[15:04] » if something happens.
>> Think we all got to have habit there for
[15:07] a while. I'm just curious to like
>> It's been It's been It's been a while
[15:12] since we I mean Well,
>> there there's something to be said about
[15:15] both. There's pros and cons of both, but
>> and I think Portland they they have
[15:21] their work studied immediately through
the voting, don't they? They don't have
[15:25] it every every month. It's just
occasionally they have that.
[15:30] » Okay. Is there any more discussion?
[15:36] » Hearing none. M call for the vote.
>> Yes.
[15:40] » Brown.
>> Yes.
[15:41] » Borders.
>> Yes.
[15:43] » Yes. The director reflected passed
unanimously
[15:48] and the miles marriage mileage. I don't
I didn't have nothing to turn in because
[15:52] everybody cancel the meetings. I mean
this council had I had one that I went
[15:58] to at the ECC but it wasn't really a
meeting. It was a celebration
[16:02] and I'm not going to count the mileage
on that.
[16:06] And did you have something there that
you need to bring up or not?
[16:11] » Uh I do. Yes sir. Okay.
So the uh
[16:18] » shortly short
>> filter box at the uh treatment plant um
[16:26] has froze again and busted. Um I've been
uh working on trying to get some plans
[16:32] together uh to have a building built. I
apologize. I was going to send that to
[16:37] y'all today, but I got called and I had
a dump truck. So I went and got a dump
[16:42] truck. just pulled in in it. I just got
it back. Um but uh u we're going to have
[16:49] to build a building around that because
it keeps freezing and busting and uh
[16:54] that's uh it makes like three times and
this time it completely busted the the
[17:00] pump on the outside. So we're going to
have to have it welded plus have the
[17:04] pump fixed or get a new pump. So um we
did approve it. It wasn't last year's
[17:10] budget or this this this current budget
we did y'all did pass to get one bill,
[17:15] but uh I'm I'm working on that. So, I
wanted to bring that up to y'all's
[17:21] attention. I'll be trying to get that
put out to be in the middle of this so
[17:24] y'all just be looking for an email
hopefully
[17:28] tomorrow or Monday and I'll try to get
that to y'all so y'all can look at it,
[17:32] look over and there you can think of
that I need to add to it before I put it
[17:36] out. Okay.
This is up at the
[17:40] » This is the head works.
>> No,
[17:43] » that's freezing up. Or is it the
>> No, this is the actual filter at the end
[17:47] right into the disinfection.
>> Okay. Cuz we had that stuff at the head
[17:52] where freeze up and spill water and
stuff all over the place, too. So, I
[17:56] just
>> I I actually need a building up there.
[17:59] Um,
but I don't know exactly how that's
[18:03] going to work because of the the way the
head works. design, but uh I do need to
[18:10] get a building built up there as well.
Right now, we're running a blow heater
[18:15] all day and all night when it's below
freezing uh to keep the the headworks
[18:20] off. So, we're we're having to come up
here and fuel it up after after hours to
[18:27] keep it running through the night. But,
um yeah, we will have to uh address that
[18:33] as well.
And like I said, I just things I wanted
[18:37] to talk to y'all about. But uh
>> is this a design?
[18:41] » Yes.
Yes, sir. What what they told me is it
[18:45] was supposed to get this cold cold
enough to freeze anything like that in
[18:49] Tennessee. So
>> where do they live?
[18:54] » Yeah, that's what I
>> We showed them.
[18:58] » Yeah. Prove them wrong.
But yeah, that's that's the reason why
[19:02] they didn't put a building around either
one of them because our temperatures
[19:06] don't get cold enough to freeze anything
like that they see. But there's several
[19:11] things that freeze right now that should
have been encased and I've got part of
[19:16] it to take care of some of the valve,
but
[19:21] some of these like these buildings are
going to be, you know, 30 40,000
[19:26] at a time. So,
[19:30] So, do we have enough
do we have any design for the add
[19:36] additional stuff that we want to add to
the plant so that we don't build a
[19:40] building that's going to be have to be
torn down because it's in the way of
[19:45] » the new addition?
>> I've not seen anything yet.
[19:49] Bryant has talked to me
just very briefly. We've done a little
[19:55] bit of walk through, but I don't think
that they've got to the actual
[20:01] make the datas of designing yet. I think
they're mainly right now still trying to
[20:05] get all the peritting and things done
through the state to be to figure out
[20:11] what size we can actually build before
we do.
[20:13] » You may want to keep
>> I just I'd hate to spend a whole lot of
[20:18] money building a building around it and
then have
[20:21] » pay to tear it down so that we can
>> Yeah. rebuild it.
[20:24] » That that was one reason why I haven't
done anything with the head works, but I
[20:29] will say the filter um I'm planning for
that. I'm making it um to where there's
[20:35] a a garage door on one side because the
pad is already designed for an
[20:42] additional filter to be put on when the
new plant comes on. So, um, having that
[20:47] building designed to be able to put that
filter in there without messing the
[20:52] building up or tearing the building up
or anything like that.
[20:55] » So, I have I am planning for that and
also where we can service them. It'll
[21:01] have a door on each side where we can
lift it up and if we had to, we can pull
[21:06] it out with forklift or whatever or work
all the way around.
[21:11] » Okay.
>> We need we don't need vote on that
[21:14] tonight. Wait, get the bids back.
>> Yes, I I'll get the bids back. Um,
[21:19] unless y'all have to vote on business.
>> I don't think we have to vote on
[21:25] » just just once we get the bid.
>> Make sure you put it on paper.
[21:30] » Yeah. Yeah, I'll do it. I'm gonna send
it to all of you all first. That way you
[21:34] can look at it and if there's anything
that anybody sees that they might need
[21:38] to add, think I
let me know. Um,
[21:44] If anybody wants to come down there and
look at we walk through and talk about
[21:47] it be great too. So,
>> and then this is a work study slash
[21:51] regular meeting. Uh
Aaron has he's fully licensed now to
[21:58] operate the sewer plant.
>> Yes, sir.
[22:00] » And I don't think we need Penny Southern
anymore. I think in her contract we've
[22:06] got to give her Did you have you seen
her contract?
[22:08] » Uh so I met with Penny today. she could
not um come up with her contract. Um she
[22:15] said that she might have it in an email
with Jerry Kirkman, but she thought that
[22:20] u she had given it to him and she didn't
have a copy of it handy. Um but she did
[22:28] ask if if we would want to keep her on
as an advisor. Um and she said, you
[22:34] know, maybe for like $500 a month or
something. Um,
[22:41] I
I'm going to leave that up to y'all. Um,
[22:46] I've tried to meet with her three months
in a row and today was the first day
[22:50] that I've actually got to sit down with
her. So, um,
[22:55] I'm not getting a lot of advising at
this time.
[23:00] » We we're paying her what, $600 something
dollars a week?
[23:02] » 68250 a week.
>> 68250 a week. And my opinion, we don't
[23:09] need her no more.
And I would suggest we send her a 30-day
[23:14] notice just to make sure because she
thinks she has a has a 30-day notice.
[23:19] » She does.
>> And uh
[23:22] I would request that uh we vote to uh
have Meredith or Aaron want a 30-day
[23:29] notice termination.
[23:34] » No need to vote. mayor can just tell you
to write the letter. You didn't know.
[23:38] » But what I was saying is we don't have
anything else on the agenda.
[23:42] » Yeah. I didn't know what you were doing
when you suspend the rules. I lost. I
[23:46] don't
>> We don't need to vote on it.
[23:48] » You don't need to vote. Just ask you to
write your letter.
[23:51] » Is that all you got?
>> That's it.
[23:55] » What was
[24:02] that?
>> That was water leak.
[24:05] I have the world to find
and we finally found it
[24:13] fourth day we worked on it finally. Um,
one night we were we tore the whole
[24:19] driveway up because I I knew it was in
the driveway. I would have bet my
[24:22] paycheck on it because I've dug it on
both sides and
[24:27] but once I got into it and found out on
the lower side um it's the line is
[24:35] lower. So it was underwater on the upper
side the line gradually went uphill um
[24:43] and got shallower. It was 10 foot deep
on the right hand side of the driveway
[24:47] and 5 foot deep on the left hand side of
the driveway. So when I dug it up on the
[24:51] left hand side of the driveway, there
was no water around it. I had to dig two
[24:55] foot under the pipe to find water. But
that was after I'd already destroyed the
[24:59] driveway and um look for it all night
till 3:00 in the morning.
[25:05] So then we started digging further up.
Um found a a wet spot in the in the
[25:14] ground. Thought that was it and dug that
up. And You got down about six inches.
[25:21] It wouldn't wet anymore. Come back down
the hill, dug some more, and then
[25:27] finally found it the third time after
that. So, it was uh it's very hard to
[25:33] find that
>> water leaks can have water,
[25:36] » especially on the side of a hill.
>> Yeah. And it does funny stuff. And all
[25:40] that road, I did not know this, but
there's actually a road up there. About
[25:45] 10 foot underneath that road, there's
black top. And it was hitting that black
[25:50] top and following that black top all the
way down, coming up at the ditch past
[25:54] NCTC.
But we didn't know there was road even
[25:58] under there, but the road the water
lines about that high off of the old
[26:01] road.
>> They built the water line on top of the
[26:05] road. I never had even knew there was
another
[26:09] » but it's full of shop rock and
everything so the water was traveling
[26:13] and where it's a duct to iron line it
sounded a lot it sounds loud it's not
[26:18] like PPC when you listening for a leak
it's really loud and
[26:24] I I like I said I would have bet money
that I would found it that first night
[26:29] but I didn't sorry about that
>> that's all I Mary, you got something?
[26:36] » I have a couple things. The budget was
approved from office. We did get that
[26:42] approval after the meeting on the
second. And then something I'd like to
[26:48] all thank you is budget meetings. We're
going to have to have budget meetings
[26:53] this year
after last year.
[26:57] Y'all were going to input a lot.
So, just been thinking about that.
[27:06] coming up start.
[27:11] » All right.
>> All right. Nobody got anything else.
[27:15] I'll entertain that final motion.
>> I'll make a motion.
[27:20] » Make a motion to adjurnn. It's not
debatable. All in favor signify by
[27:24] saying I. I.