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good evening and welcome everyone we'll
go ahead and call the meeting to order

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if you would we'll have a moment of
silence

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and if you'd stand will recite the
pledge of

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pledge allegiance to the flag of the
united states of america and to the

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republic for which it stands one nation
under god indivisible with liberty and

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justice for all

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rogers here councilman randy bowen here
councilwoman debbie gump here councilman

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herb curtis here
city manager nate stansberry present

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city attorney brian bailey
excuse me

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chief josh thomas
chief jimmy suttle

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street foreign tyler straiter
building code zoning mike starrett

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sanitary director d evans

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you have the
minutes of the work session

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the regular session and two special
sessions in your packet

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if you want to take a few minutes to
look those over

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thank you

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um

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i move to approve the uh reading of the
minutes

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for all
regular session and special session

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meetings

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is there a second
a second

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it's been moved and second all in favor
say aye aye

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opposed
motion carries

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uh next we have the visitors section and
first on the agenda is betty brooks

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if you don't mind coming to the podium
so we can all hear

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okay

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okay i don't i know i only get five
minutes

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it's not a hard fast rule all right i
think i've got

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[Laughter]
now go

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all right um

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i'm bringing this one video up i think i
sent a couple pictures to debbie and kim

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i didn't have your all's numbers to send
to before the meeting but i did want to

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show you this one um
this is the one we're concerned about

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can you all see it is it running um

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when it rains clear is that what it does
well anyway um

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see it running
that's going down the alley beside my

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house when it rains it's going into our
garage

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so uh
if i was talking to kim or

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the mayor earlier and um what i was
concerned about is them opening up an

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alley it hasn't been open since 1960s we
do not want it open because if it does

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all that's going to come down and make
it worse

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and
uh skyler is not here

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this evening but when uh we had some
neighbors that moved in

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they had been there for a while and they
got a big truck and a big camper and all

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this stuff so the alley they had uh
metal posts put in four on one side and

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was it four on the other three on the
other well somebody stole some of them

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off our side uh we don't know why but
they're gone they keep hitting the signs

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and stuff
there was a sign um

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erected there that stated that no big
trucks can come down the alley

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which meant the uh
ups truck the big mail trucks and the uh

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trash trucks they do a lot of damage to
the hillside

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and that's
uh raking it all out i mean it's just

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really on some of those pictures you can
see it's taken out the side of the road

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is the alley that's closed that the
upstairs no it's not the one that's

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closed it's one that's open it goes from
uh walnut street to cemetery street they

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i don't think it has a name they call it
bison alley but you know it's right

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there beside the house but it's tearing
into our bank which means it's going to

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cave in onto the road okay
right now it's on the city property

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but we do not want responsibility if it
falls into the road okay i mean the big

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trucks are not supposed to when the last
trash people had at the browns they

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didn't allow them to come down through
there and i think that's maybe what's

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going to have to happen again you know
and then earl bayless has his at the

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corner and he's got the big
metal poles and stuff up

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and people you know it's just really
ridiculous for a big vehicle to come

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down through there we hear that hit the
signs all the time

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so
but anyway so that was two of the things

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the other one was um
i took pictures of our road on walnut

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street since 1968

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1968 is when i moved up there okay then
in 2001

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i was in office at the time that's the
last time that's 21 years ago since that

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road's been taken care of the water
company's been up and it has cut big

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large gaps you know clear down the road
to lay the new pipeline and what's

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happened is it wasn't filled in
correctly so it is sinking and which

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means it's coming apart and then when
the wat when it rains in the water it's

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cracking the road i mean it's really bad
so from one end of point a to point b

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i feel it needs black topped i don't
know how else you're going to correct

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that because when that water comes down
did you see any of the pictures

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i don't think they were sent to me oh
okay i'll have to offer jill's four

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okay and um anyway but you can't see it
from a vehicle good you need to get out

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and walk it it's not that far from one
end of the street to the other they

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don't want it
and then coming down oak street those

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people uh
it's a vacant lot who owns it now and

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it is got a

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uh what is it called a mailbox and it's
that tall and it's out in on city

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property it's where a sidewalk should be
and when they got the big truck parked

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over there you can't get up through
there i mean you have to back down the

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hill and go up an alley
that to me

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if it was me they should move the
mailbox back a couple feet then we

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wouldn't have any issues
but i just wanted to bring those i

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didn't know if debbie's been over there
looking at stuff or not but that's some

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of the things that i wanted to bring to
their attention before when the weather

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starts getting bad i know you make a
plan

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i think i've been there since the
weather the past it's been a

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probably the beginning of january oh
okay so did you see some of the issues

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i just wanted to get on the list
for some of the stuff to get done be if

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when before they start planning okay
i appreciate your time

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is there any questions i mean
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nate did you want to comment
i i mean i'm kind of flying blind here

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but we can reach out to you and try to
meet you on site and look at some of

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that stuff you know the paving thing i
just make a general statement yeah

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everybody's got a street that once paid
right and so we'll try to incorporate

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that where we can and see if we can come
up with some fixes but now oak street

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there where the southern states at we've
got holes huge i took some pictures of

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those today too
and they fill them in but it's with like

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a cold patch and when they come and plow
it all comes out anyway i mean it's the

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gravel and whatever so it probably needs
something else it's just a section

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probably no bigger than where you're all
at but it's still pretty bad okay so

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all right we've had some holes open up
with the winter weather right across

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town so we'll be working on those
shortly all right thank you thank you

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and billy
he's the quiet one thank you

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okay next we have dr john williams

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i don't have anything as specific as
betty did

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the truth

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so i labeled this a public notice
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i appreciate everyone providing the
props uh that support

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what i'll be talking about
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so this is for the public and everyone
here is a member of the public i am

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we're all lumped in there

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officials associated with the city of
weston incorporated

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describe their employment as a
governmental service

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they were just talking about a service
street paving or something of that

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nature so that's typically how it's
described

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since the term government is formally
defined

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and
as control of the mind

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by what law agreement contract
and others

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does any person gain control over
another's mind

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well i'll give you some examples but
it's i don't want to take that much time

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this evening but that is the definition
of government

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and
if no one's ever pondered that i would

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ask you to
begin to ponder it at this point in time

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because why is it called that
and by the way if you look up the

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history of this linguistic issue you
will find that government is a modern

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term it dates from
what we currently consider in the

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calendar that's used
as the year zero

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so before that time there was no such
thing

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what did they call the rulers of that
time a good question for the public

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but the point is there is no
legislation or statements or

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constitution or anything that
says people can control of people's

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minds
but it's very widespread in our society

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if you understand what that means and
how that is used

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i'll point to one example that's in this
very room and that's that flag everyone

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was pledging allegiance to
i don't know if everyone's aware

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but an american flag with a golden
boundary like you see on that flag

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that signifies the incorporation act of
1871 in which the original constitution

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was
kicked to the side it's still there but

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it got kicked to the side and ignored
that's why so many unconstitutional

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things occur in this land
at this point in time and anybody can

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read any newspaper look at any website
they want and they're going to see

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the question is constantly raised is
that constitutional is that costly well

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that's part of the mind control most
people in this country don't know

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that they've been taken over many times
before

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and this dates back the most recent
event was 1871. and the place we're

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standing in that's called a state and i
see montana semper liberai up there in

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latin
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makes you wonder if that's ever existed
but it's there it is posted for all to

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see
and there's that flag posted for all to

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see
furthermore mind control is classified

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in existing criminal codes as an offense
causing harm to people

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so if i attempt to engage in mind
control on this person or this person

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i could be charged with criminal action
and yet we have entire institutions

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whose name is
mind control government it's astonishing

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but it is true
thus persons engaged in mind control are

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prosecutable under both common and
statutory law

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this is all information for the public
to consider and you can research all you

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want on this you'll come to the same
place i guarantee it so

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i can't i can't find any question about
these things

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so my question then uh is presented
tonight what authority does the city of

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weston incorporated represent
and i've looked into it tried to find it

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out and it's difficult to find
right now according to what i did find

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in 2022
the city of western is operating as a

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private corporation
it's registered as a duns number and

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that's the database of universal
numbering system uh another global

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enterprise if you look into that
organization and what they're doing

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you'll be quite surprised and wonder why
are we registered why is the city of

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weston incorporated registered in an
international global numbering system

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it's quite interesting
but they have a number zero three nine

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six zero seven five six nine registered
in 1913

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this was the year after the federal
reserve act was thrown through the

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congress
and people were conned into accepting it

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it was never approved and there's no law
authorizing it and yet they're running

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the whole monetary system now it's quite
astonishing

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the city is a private corporation that's
part of the state of west virginia as

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stated on that
placard up there the state is registered

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as a corporation dunn's number 828092515

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it is part of the usa incorporated and
that incorporation occurred in 1871.

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most people are totally unaware of that
fact you can look it up called the act

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of 1871 it's registered it was never
approved in congress

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because congress was held in suspension
at the time and you may think find this

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familiar under a state of emergency
declared for the first time by an

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executive that would be president
lincoln at the time declared that state

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of emergency
as far as i know it's still in effect

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because he was assassinated
and therefore couldn't rescind the order

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the constitutionality of executive
orders has been reviewed by the supreme

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court and basically they have no
constitutional authority so that's where

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that stands
can the code officials or any member of

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the city council deny that they are
operating as a private corporation

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i've got the registration numbers right
here in front of me and they're

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available to anybody that looks them up
under the duns number

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this fact has led other americans not me
other americans have sued governments

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before in the united states incorporated
and it resulted in a supreme court

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decision
establishing what is called the clear

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field doctrine
out quote from the supreme court's own

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document
quote

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open quote
governments descend to the level of a

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mere private corporation and take on the
characteristics of a mere private

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citizen
just like we are

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where private corporate commercial paper
federal reserve notes and securities or

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checks
is concerned

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more and more more language so i'll skip
over

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for purposes of suit such corporations
and individuals are regarded as entities

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entirely separate from government that's
clearfield trust company versus united

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states in 1942 case
what the clearfield doctrine means and

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you can read the whole thing if you want
to read it all what it basically means

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is
when a body posing as a government is

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using
federal reserve notes

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commercial paper
they're acting as a private corporation

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by definition
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that's the clear field doctrine
so if you go into the supreme court on a

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suitcase you may run into that

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the government loses its sovereignty
status

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and becomes no different than a mere
private corporation when they're

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operating in this manner
the fact that the city and its officials

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continue to represent themselves as
governmental officials when in fact they

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are employees of a private corporation
constitutes

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prima facie evidence of fraud

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either they're unaware or ignorant of
the facts or they are simply

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misrepresenting themselves to the public
so without loss of sovereignty under the

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clear fuel doctrine that it leaves
sovereignty in the hands of

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the people the public

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as far as i'm
concerned i won't stand under a

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fraudulent authority
such as this or or the state or the

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united the united states governments a
fraud too

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and has been since 1871.
so

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a free person shouldn't stand under such
fraudulent activity

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um
as a private corporation what this means

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to the average person so betty this
applies to you as well

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so any business that you might have with
this institution this organization would

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have to be conducted under a contract
so the u.s code as it's called the usc

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codes are corporation contracts and if
you look into that code you'll you'll

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come to understand oh it's all about
business it's all about money transfers

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it's all about
things we do have and things we don't

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have and who gets what and this is the
american way excuse me dr williams

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i appreciate your time here this evening
but

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but you've reached your limit if you
could just quickly summarize we'd we

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would appreciate it yeah well the
constitution of course has this free

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speech thing and you know there's no
mention of timeliness in the free speech

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amendment i'll be darned
no it's mentioned in the local

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government and of course private
corporations can set their own rules and

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play by their own games so go ahead i
will i will simply respect your right to

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your own time
so i'm just informing the public and

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yourselves about these facts and i will
leave this copy with my references if

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anybody else wants to know where to look
this stuff up it's all available so at

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least at this time if it's not been
censored

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so i would urge you to either contact me
if you want to learn more or to look

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into it for yourself and i'll leave this
copy with the city council so that they

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can make copies and spread it around
and i will point out

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do i have an issue yes
my one issue falls under this i had

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presented this to the building appeals
court code the code appeals board

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same information same discussion under
an issue that mr starrett had brought to

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my attention months and months and
months ago okay so it has nothing to do

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with that or that specific issue or
anything i'm even concerned with what

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concerns me is that
in subsequent actions

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nobody in the city had looked at any of
the references or any of the information

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that i had presented
now i don't know if you're a lawyer or

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if you've studied the law but that's
prima facie evidence of

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what they call
abusive authority

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ignorance of the law uh i mean there's
many many terms that describe it

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so i would urge you to look into the
information i took time to gather for

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you and brought to you
because it's of importance in the

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current time and in the time immediately
ahead of us

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as we're watching this entire country be
ripped to shreds internally and

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externally
and you may find yourself in a war or

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you may find yourself in other
restrictive measures but it is

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definitely time that americans learn
what the reality is and why we got to

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this point why things are the way they
are mr williams and any person might

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have to pave a street
in a community that has such low funding

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and such a low priority was he cited
with a violation what what's going on

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here was you cited with a violation we
don't need a history lesson

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was you cited with about uh oh i'm
finished i'll i'll wrap up

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so yeah probably for your attention but
my point is i urge you to look into this

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matter
we understand thank you very much thank

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you
thank you

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i did take notes

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i seriously do

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next under uh reports of city boards
commissions and outside agencies

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there is a cemetery board monday
february 14th at 9 00 a.m

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the historic landmarks commission will
be meeting thursday at 5 pm

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the planning commission will be meeting
wednesday at 4 30 pm

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parks and recreation will resume their
meetings for the year

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on friday march 18th at 2 p.m
and the lewis county eda's next meeting

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is wednesday february 23rd
at 5 pm

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the board of zoning appeals will be
tuesday february the 8th at 6.

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cancel
okay board of zoning

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mayor make note of that
code of appeals board next meeting

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thursday february 17th
at 6 pm

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and we have listed that the neighborhood
watch will be meeting wednesday march

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2nd
at 6 pm at the courthouse

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and the
oh there are minutes in your packet from

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the
lapc meeting for lewis and upshur

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counties

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and that looks like
board of directors agenda minutes is

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that chamber of commerce okay

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there are vacancies on the board of
zoning appeals two positions

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and you have a note to appoint a member
of council or the city manager

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to the lewis gilmer solid waste
authority

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i do i think it's time we've gone almost
a year now without a member on that

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board and they struggle to have a quorum
and so if no one on council wants to

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volunteer their time i'm putting myself
up as tribute to to be appointed that

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board if you are willing
would someone like to make a motion to

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appoint the city manager as our
representative

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i'm moved to appoint our city manager
that's a representative

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i'll second okay it's been moved in
second to appoint the city manager as

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our
louis gilmer solid waste authority

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representative all in favor say aye aye
opposed

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motion carries
i'll take the chamber

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so you don't have to rotate a sanitary
board report d

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good

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evening the uh
current project we're just still

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wrapping up it seems like we've been
wrapping up forever

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but we are wrapping up the issues we've
had with a couple of the

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landowners on that one
and one phase one of the sludge removal

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process we have placed the ads that we
needed to place for the blower

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replacement and
for the sludge removal the contractor

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coming in to
take out some of this initial sludge

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that we had
to thank for helping us fund and

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county commission as well those ads are
going to run

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uh
two times and then we'll

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select the low bidder for that one
contract

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phase two of the project
for the long term sludge removal

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that's also being advertised for
engineering services to assist us with

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that
region 7 is taking care of the

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ads and the procurement process for that
will be assisting us with the interview

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process with that as well

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as far as the plant report goes brock's
been pretty busy because bernie is

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um
as you all know our right hand man and

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he's off on workers comp because he did
hurt his back

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and he's been out for about three weeks
so

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we're kind of scrambling a little bit
down there but getting things done

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nonetheless
and he's also been brock has speaking

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with some contractors who are interested
in the phase one of the job and also

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with engineers who are interested in
phase two

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we still have a few more meetings with
uh different engineers this week as well

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and i think possibly another one next
week

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we um
did a couple new taps one of them was in

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shady brook one with river another one
was in the parking lot behind wendy's

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that was a holden
mr holden for his barber shop

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it's a miss utility markouts for them
and we worked with west virginia

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american water company on a line
replacement because it was very close to

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our
pump station and we want to make sure

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there wasn't any compromising there
so we spent the day out there with them

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um we did get the westin manor pump
station rebuilt with some assistance

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from precision pumps and we added rails
for safety there and added a new lid to

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that which was in very bad need of
replacement

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vacuum on the vac truck
vacuum pump on the back truck did go out

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adam was able to
take care of that for us so we didn't

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have to send that out which saved us a
good bit of money there

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other than that he just did the routine
maintenance on pumps and pump stations

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this month
as far as me in the office i have been

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working with the engineers and the
contractors that have been coming in

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stopping in asking questions as well
working with a software company on

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trying to get the email billing for
customers up and running

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did all the normal
reports of council payable accounts

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receivable
and

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trying to help brock as much as i could
and covering the office for him down

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there while he's covering for bernie
if y'all have any questions i'll be glad

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to answer anything you have
otherwise our meeting is next monday at

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4 30. it's open to the public and open
to all of you

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obviously i've got a question sure
the you said the back truck what'd you

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say happened to the backdrop the pump on
it yeah went out but adam was able to

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repair that in-house so we didn't have
to

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not the jet truck but the veterans okay
oh that's what i was thinking about

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i seen the look in your eyes whenever i
said that so yeah it was the backdrop

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and i was just curious due to the lease
and what police cover yeah because i was

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thinking it was just a couple of the uh
i think he put two new couplers on it

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and
just kind of revamped it and it was

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actually working very well for us this
week

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we did have a couple major line breaks
today just with the freezing and falling

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of everything they were able to mandate
those a little bit until we can get

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bernie back in here and help us with
actual replacement of those lines

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have you guys cited
many of our lines that's running into

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your systems
that you may bring forward to the city

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for the spring as far as repairs or
where we have money allotted to to get

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our
drainage out of your system

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i think they're i think brock and uh
mike as well as or mike as well as uh

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tyler have worked on some of those
together yeah okay

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thank you

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is there any update on the john street
slip have you noticed any more slippy

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chill next i know that was one of the
things unless it changed this week no

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there wasn't any
so we're hoping i mean i haven't talked

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to him today but as of right now no
but we did make um dep aware when we

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went to bidding for
uh phase one

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that we were going to be watching that
and there may be a need for using money

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for that so they're very aware of that
it's documented

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thank you
thank you dean thank you

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okay next uh finance report

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in our special session you guys were
provided with the report nothing much is

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yeah and we can thank mckenna for that
i don't know what's going on yeah

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thank you
must be the finance touch because i was

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the one who made the report for the last
meeting and i couldn't get it to blow up

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right but uh mckinnon was able to
provide that for us and we did get a

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report late today from our accountants
that i'll i'll check on and make sure

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there's nothing
to uh too out of whack but uh

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unless there's any questions i'll just
submit that to your alls for review like

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i said at the last meeting
our revenues are up

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about 100 000 more than what we
projected at this point

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over the year
um and our expenditures are have been

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lower than projected so
just to kind of give a review for those

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in the in the public i think that we're
in a pretty good

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pretty good standpoint here our sales
tax came in this past month and that was

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um you know we project about 150 000 a
quarter on that we had about 167 000

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come in so
from all indication things things are

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holding pretty true um we may have a
little bit money

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we may be able to throw in a street or
something like that in the spring paving

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season that's what we're gonna any extra
funds we have we'll try to do something

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of that nature
you know but

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up right now and hopefully knock on wood
our winner

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is going to make a turn here in february
and be over

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but yeah we've spent 2 500 3 000 over
our assault budget at this point so

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um but i think it's been money well
spent yeah sure and and we'll probably

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try to buy some more equipment here with
the budget we have for those kind of

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things next year so

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with that said unless there's any
questions i'm just going to submit it

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and let it stay in it as it
is

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okay street department report you have
that in your packet

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do you know if he got
raw for brownie

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she just asked about the alley behind
glenn brown's house we we had a

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quotation for it because we weren't sure
how much to cover and so we said let's

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just look at rocking the whole thing it
was

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multiple thousands of dollars to rock
the whole thing and so we're just

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waiting for the weather to break to go
out there and take a better assessment

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of it and see if we can try to trim that
back a little bit thank you

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any questions on the street department
report

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oh i think i have a couple may have a
couple of items on my front porch that

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may belong to the street department
found in the road

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i think i have a grease gun and my
neighbor brought some spinner thing and

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put on my porch yesterday i think we
were having problems with our salt

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spinners there's some kind of boat that
you were having there we lost the people

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okay
we do believe a greasy gun that maybe

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came with it

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appreciate it thank you we'll come get
it

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i've got a quick question
yeah

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confident for the
electric lines on the

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west second bridge the kings electric
did they complete that project

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all has been done that i'm aware of that
was going to be completed we talked

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about doing an additional works there to
run conduit from that box down the

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parking lot to provide to the covid
testing but i think at this point

447
00:33:55,440 --> 00:34:00,000
they're they're happy with their
situation they've got like a generator

448
00:33:58,399 --> 00:34:02,320
and things of that nature but on the
bridge

449
00:34:00,960 --> 00:34:07,080
everything i'm aware of is done and
completed

450
00:34:03,440 --> 00:34:07,080
we just paid them

451
00:34:08,159 --> 00:34:13,040
they're flipped on some of the bulbs
were burnt out and so we replaced some

452
00:34:11,040 --> 00:34:17,000
of the sides of them and we're working
on the other side

453
00:34:21,839 --> 00:34:27,440
did you check with dave bush on that
not yet no yeah yeah

454
00:34:30,000 --> 00:34:40,000
did you replace the green bulb yeah the
green bob is no longer there okay

455
00:34:36,240 --> 00:34:40,000
it bugs me i know it's no longer there

456
00:34:41,679 --> 00:34:44,399
i know right

457
00:34:45,200 --> 00:34:50,240
okay we'll move on to police department
report

458
00:34:52,080 --> 00:34:55,199
[Music]

459
00:34:57,040 --> 00:35:01,720
you were busy i appreciate you josh

460
00:35:04,240 --> 00:35:07,240
so

461
00:35:21,920 --> 00:35:25,839
any questions about that report

462
00:35:28,560 --> 00:35:34,560
please convey to the officers that we
also appreciate them and all they're

463
00:35:31,839 --> 00:35:34,560
doing as well

464
00:35:36,400 --> 00:35:42,320
and and i really appreciate them in the
morning sitting up by the old water

465
00:35:40,800 --> 00:35:47,920
company site when i'm going to school
because it really slows me down

466
00:35:45,119 --> 00:35:47,920
through the arrows

467
00:35:52,720 --> 00:35:56,720
next is the fire department report

468
00:36:02,000 --> 00:36:08,960
along with all the other page staff but
he has nothing to report outside of the

469
00:36:06,720 --> 00:36:11,280
report that's in the packet
okay

470
00:36:11,520 --> 00:36:17,200
and that's chuck clem right the
president of the vfd

471
00:36:15,119 --> 00:36:21,040
hey chuck uh when i was cleaning out the
supply closet

472
00:36:18,880 --> 00:36:24,000
in our department i found came across
this book i didn't know the fire

473
00:36:22,720 --> 00:36:27,970
department would like to have but it's
american heroes and it's fireman would

474
00:36:26,000 --> 00:36:31,090
you guys yeah didn't you be interested
[Music]

475
00:36:32,400 --> 00:36:38,240
did we not ask him to report on that
first meeting

476
00:36:35,760 --> 00:36:42,160
if if he would
um while you're here we had uh one

477
00:36:41,200 --> 00:36:48,960
meeting
um in regards to the fireworks yes um

478
00:36:46,000 --> 00:36:51,520
would you care to provide a report to
council

479
00:36:49,920 --> 00:36:55,440
about our first meeting yeah still
planning early basically yeah just an

480
00:36:54,480 --> 00:36:59,760
overview
what we're wanting to do is just uh kind

481
00:36:57,680 --> 00:37:02,880
of partner with the city uh city
businesses

482
00:37:00,960 --> 00:37:06,560
on main street and wherever one wanting
to hold some type of street fair

483
00:37:04,720 --> 00:37:10,400
uh which basically be on water because
we would have a parade and then shoot

484
00:37:08,640 --> 00:37:13,520
the fireworks off from the city parking
lot

485
00:37:11,440 --> 00:37:16,400
over on the other side of the river
so

486
00:37:14,400 --> 00:37:21,040
you know have vendors come in set up
have stuff for kids we could have our

487
00:37:18,320 --> 00:37:25,200
parade have our flame queen coronation
and then we could set fireworks off and

488
00:37:23,280 --> 00:37:29,440
then it kind of involves the businesses
and stuff more so and then it allows

489
00:37:27,680 --> 00:37:35,200
more stuff to take place on main street
instead of the athletic field where it's

490
00:37:31,760 --> 00:37:39,359
kind of faded away over time
uh so

491
00:37:36,800 --> 00:37:42,880
we met with um cherry
and debbie

492
00:37:40,480 --> 00:37:47,119
i think the mayor was sick uh couldn't
make it and we've kind of started a

493
00:37:45,200 --> 00:37:50,480
planning process rebecca was there as
well

494
00:37:49,119 --> 00:37:54,000
to uh
get this kicked off and try to get

495
00:37:52,800 --> 00:37:57,760
something put together for the fourth of
july

496
00:37:55,520 --> 00:38:05,160
when is your next meeting uh i believe
it was the uh first tuesday and

497
00:38:00,880 --> 00:38:05,160
now second second tuesday

498
00:38:06,320 --> 00:38:10,640
next week at the fire department yes
february 8th

499
00:38:09,839 --> 00:38:14,160
oh
i'm i'm sorry march 8th

500
00:38:12,960 --> 00:38:17,680
oh yeah
that's right okay sorry

501
00:38:16,160 --> 00:38:21,359
march 8. basically the things we're
working on right now is trying to time

502
00:38:19,200 --> 00:38:23,599
things out for the event it's just you
know

503
00:38:22,079 --> 00:38:27,359
uh what time is the parade gonna be what
times fireworks we know what time

504
00:38:25,200 --> 00:38:32,960
they're gonna be 10 15.
uh everything else was trying to get

505
00:38:29,599 --> 00:38:35,680
organized out and come up with a plan
okay

506
00:38:33,920 --> 00:38:39,680
basically the street fair
with the thought was to have it on water

507
00:38:38,720 --> 00:38:42,720
street
and

508
00:38:40,640 --> 00:38:47,359
since
their

509
00:38:44,000 --> 00:38:52,400
the public tends not to attend
a lot of the activities

510
00:38:49,440 --> 00:38:56,240
anymore at the athletic field
and of course there is a cost associated

511
00:38:54,720 --> 00:39:00,400
with fireworks
and um so

512
00:38:58,079 --> 00:39:04,160
as we you know the times change we need
to change and roll with it and and the

513
00:39:02,720 --> 00:39:07,839
street fair
um

514
00:39:05,520 --> 00:39:12,800
which has has the potential to raise
some money for towards the

515
00:39:10,400 --> 00:39:16,880
fire work display yes and also
businesses over the past few years the

516
00:39:14,720 --> 00:39:21,760
fire department has had to
go to businesses for uh donations

517
00:39:19,520 --> 00:39:26,160
uh for the fireworks
um if not we would not be able to do it

518
00:39:24,079 --> 00:39:30,640
uh you know fireworks is anywhere from
five to ten thousand dollars a year

519
00:39:28,400 --> 00:39:32,560
in cost and we was not making that kind
of money

520
00:39:31,599 --> 00:39:37,599
uh
at the field even if we charged you know

521
00:39:34,480 --> 00:39:40,800
entrances fees and all that so
over the past few years we went to

522
00:39:38,960 --> 00:39:44,640
businesses and then you know we will
continue to go to businesses along with

523
00:39:42,720 --> 00:39:50,480
the help of the people on the committee
uh for donations for fireworks and what

524
00:39:47,520 --> 00:39:53,280
money we raise this year if it exceeds
the amount that we have allotted then

525
00:39:52,079 --> 00:39:56,280
that will go towards next year's
fireworks

526
00:39:56,320 --> 00:40:04,160
and it also gives the citizens something
to do downtown and if businesses choose

527
00:40:01,280 --> 00:40:08,960
to be open during that time from you
know between the parade and fireworks

528
00:40:06,319 --> 00:40:13,119
time we can have activities for children
i think that we're involving we're going

529
00:40:10,720 --> 00:40:16,000
to reach out to some civic organizations
such as rotary

530
00:40:14,560 --> 00:40:19,920
the chamber
and

531
00:40:17,440 --> 00:40:25,079
truly be a community effort to provide
something for folks to do on 4th of july

532
00:40:22,079 --> 00:40:25,079
rebecca

533
00:40:27,230 --> 00:40:30,599
[Music]

534
00:40:35,040 --> 00:40:41,280
i would also like dad to provide
entertainment as well i think would also

535
00:40:39,119 --> 00:40:46,560
be part of the
festivities the festivities and the draw

536
00:40:43,440 --> 00:40:46,560
to get people downtown

537
00:40:47,560 --> 00:40:53,200
[Music]
does the city ever or in the past

538
00:40:51,280 --> 00:40:57,040
assessed with financing
the fireworks

539
00:40:54,880 --> 00:41:00,079
at one at one time
years ago

540
00:40:58,079 --> 00:41:04,400
uh they used to provide
five thousand dollars i think it was and

541
00:41:02,560 --> 00:41:07,200
that's when we done ten thousand they
used to pay for half to help offset the

542
00:41:06,319 --> 00:41:11,520
cost
and then whenever the

543
00:41:09,280 --> 00:41:15,440
city had some financial hardship
they pulled that and we just never did

544
00:41:13,440 --> 00:41:20,560
you know go back to that
i just i guess i don't understand why

545
00:41:18,319 --> 00:41:25,040
we wouldn't assist
the fire department for the community

546
00:41:23,760 --> 00:41:28,240
i don't necessarily have an issue with
it i think you know in the budget i'll

547
00:41:26,720 --> 00:41:31,440
be four days into our new budget so we
can set that in the spring priority and

548
00:41:30,000 --> 00:41:36,480
make it make it happen i don't see an
issue with it necessarily i apologize to

549
00:41:34,000 --> 00:41:40,560
you man it's kind of a question to you
that's making a general statement but i

550
00:41:38,480 --> 00:41:43,280
think it's something to think about but
last year when i approached the fire

551
00:41:42,000 --> 00:41:46,240
chief about it he was just like well
this year you know we've always done by

552
00:41:44,640 --> 00:41:48,319
donations we'll continue to do that but
it was something i brought approached

553
00:41:47,119 --> 00:41:52,400
him so i think we could probably help
out in some capacity especially with the

554
00:41:50,480 --> 00:41:55,760
flame festival i mean i think that's
that's something we need to take to the

555
00:41:53,599 --> 00:41:58,400
next level as a community so
i mean

556
00:41:56,640 --> 00:42:01,359
we're all standing by let us know what
you need what you think you think you

557
00:41:59,760 --> 00:42:04,720
need especially next month or so that
would be very helpful for us in the

558
00:42:02,720 --> 00:42:09,119
budget season the main reason i bring it
up is because i think a couple years ago

559
00:42:07,119 --> 00:42:13,040
we almost had to cancel and shut down
the whole fireworks

560
00:42:10,720 --> 00:42:16,560
i remember that the donations and i just
think it's a

561
00:42:14,480 --> 00:42:19,760
big hindrance in the fire department to
have to rely on donations that they may

562
00:42:18,240 --> 00:42:24,079
not get that we should
contribute at least at some point don't

563
00:42:22,160 --> 00:42:27,440
disagree and the businesses have had a
difficult time with covet for the past

564
00:42:25,920 --> 00:42:31,520
couple of years too
yeah i really hated last year going

565
00:42:28,960 --> 00:42:34,560
around asking business just due to
you know

566
00:42:32,640 --> 00:42:39,440
um all the all the closures and stuff
from codewood so sure

567
00:42:37,040 --> 00:42:43,280
we we did not raise enough money last
year to compensate for it but the fairs

568
00:42:41,839 --> 00:42:47,040
and festivals
what we got from them the twenty five

569
00:42:44,720 --> 00:42:50,640
hundred dollars end up offsetting that
okay so we're gonna work on that well

570
00:42:49,200 --> 00:42:56,240
two we're moving it we're making it a
city advantage as well sure so

571
00:42:53,440 --> 00:42:59,839
there's justification there
sure all right thank you thank you

572
00:43:00,240 --> 00:43:04,960
okay next building code zoning report

573
00:43:06,079 --> 00:43:12,800
well as you all can see my mine's in the
packet also i don't want to type much

574
00:43:10,560 --> 00:43:17,440
time just reading all this
the only thing i will say that

575
00:43:15,520 --> 00:43:20,640
when we had the meeting with the state
auditor

576
00:43:18,720 --> 00:43:25,920
i just want you all to know that this
was a team team effort with the state

577
00:43:23,440 --> 00:43:31,200
auditor that we had in there and i'm
really proud of everyone that worked on

578
00:43:28,240 --> 00:43:33,599
that map and we got that to them and
again today

579
00:43:32,800 --> 00:43:38,160
we
reach out to the state auditor on

580
00:43:35,839 --> 00:43:43,200
sharing our map with them
and i just i just want to say thanks to

581
00:43:40,800 --> 00:43:46,800
everyone that helped with that
and if you have any questions um i'll be

582
00:43:45,599 --> 00:43:51,839
happy to
answer on my part and then you can also

583
00:43:48,960 --> 00:43:56,560
see on there that mr andrew darby has
a part in this this month so if you got

584
00:43:54,000 --> 00:44:02,079
any questions for me you can ask me and
i am assuming if you have any for andy

585
00:43:58,400 --> 00:44:02,079
he'll answer your questions also

586
00:44:03,760 --> 00:44:10,400
a quick question
maybe as far as the

587
00:44:08,400 --> 00:44:13,280
structure and the maps and all because
is any part of that digital are we doing

588
00:44:12,480 --> 00:44:17,119
that
by paper or as far as what i mean by

589
00:44:15,599 --> 00:44:21,680
digital is
when there's a change in

590
00:44:18,960 --> 00:44:25,680
andy you want to come
i up yeah they died it wasn't on

591
00:44:26,240 --> 00:44:30,560
thank you
okay sorry about that so what i was

592
00:44:29,280 --> 00:44:36,240
asking was as far as when you're
structuring these maps if there's any

593
00:44:32,880 --> 00:44:39,680
part that's digital or when a vacant
structure becomes uh

594
00:44:40,880 --> 00:44:46,560
someone that ends up renting a structure
or buying a structure and taking it over

595
00:44:44,640 --> 00:44:51,760
filling the structure is there any way
going into where you can automatically

596
00:44:49,520 --> 00:44:54,720
put that into where it's
it would show on a mapping system

597
00:44:53,680 --> 00:44:59,040
digital
yeah um

598
00:44:57,200 --> 00:45:02,960
yeah it's all digital i mean it takes a
lot of time at the beginning because you

599
00:45:00,400 --> 00:45:07,440
know we've got a hundred and some
properties that we added to the map but

600
00:45:04,720 --> 00:45:11,280
as going forward as things change
all we can get we can go in there and

601
00:45:08,880 --> 00:45:15,200
you can change it uh real quick i mean
just gotta go in and yeah like you said

602
00:45:13,520 --> 00:45:17,760
it's digital and you just change it and
change it from

603
00:45:16,319 --> 00:45:21,520
if it deteriorates more and we got to
tear it down rather than fix it we can

604
00:45:19,440 --> 00:45:24,880
do that or if it becomes like you said
uh

605
00:45:22,319 --> 00:45:28,400
occupied we can change it from vacant
occupied

606
00:45:26,960 --> 00:45:31,520
click of a button
so

607
00:45:29,520 --> 00:45:36,720
incidentally for the public
we met with jb mccuskey

608
00:45:34,000 --> 00:45:41,599
and he made the statement that the city
of weston had the most professional

609
00:45:39,280 --> 00:45:45,280
presentation that i had seen throughout
the state

610
00:45:42,560 --> 00:45:48,000
so i want to commend our our city of
weston team

611
00:45:48,720 --> 00:45:55,839
i thought it was a cookies i'm sorry i'm
sorry and debbie brought cookies and he

612
00:45:53,040 --> 00:45:55,839
liked the cookies

613
00:45:56,240 --> 00:46:02,480
i appreciate it thank you
and this map that they have created um

614
00:46:01,000 --> 00:46:06,560
[Music]
if if

615
00:46:03,680 --> 00:46:11,680
mr mccuskey is successful with getting
receiving this uh funding for

616
00:46:09,280 --> 00:46:16,560
dilapidated buildings across and
demolition of them across the state it

617
00:46:14,000 --> 00:46:20,000
would create a pool of money
so

618
00:46:17,520 --> 00:46:24,960
our cost would decrease so
westin is ready to submit their

619
00:46:22,319 --> 00:46:29,200
proposals now
thank you

620
00:46:26,480 --> 00:46:33,200
and also her answer your question add a
little bit more to that once we get

621
00:46:31,040 --> 00:46:36,560
through this the vacant structures and
like i said if we got beckon homes or

622
00:46:35,200 --> 00:46:39,680
whatever
then we get those registered and then

623
00:46:38,240 --> 00:46:45,359
they come in to take them off that will
be something we can follow also

624
00:46:42,720 --> 00:46:49,920
okay yeah i just i thought it was a
system that kind of

625
00:46:48,000 --> 00:46:53,280
all intertwined with each other as far
as

626
00:46:50,800 --> 00:46:57,520
you know from from vacant structures to
becoming occupied to

627
00:46:55,599 --> 00:47:01,599
advertisements for new business coming
in just so many things will be

628
00:46:59,599 --> 00:47:04,880
intertwined within that system there at
some point as we structure it as we go

629
00:47:03,760 --> 00:47:08,319
on
yeah these these guys they they made

630
00:47:06,640 --> 00:47:10,800
note of whether the utilities were on or
off you know whether they had a gas

631
00:47:09,520 --> 00:47:16,640
service or whether they had electric
meter and so with that they can flip

632
00:47:14,319 --> 00:47:20,079
i won't say they can push one button but
with five ten minutes worth of work they

633
00:47:18,160 --> 00:47:23,119
can color code all the buildings in the
city that don't have water service or

634
00:47:21,440 --> 00:47:27,920
all the buildings that don't have
electric you know yes yeah and so and it

635
00:47:26,160 --> 00:47:31,119
just takes time and effort and as we get
into the vacant structure ordinance

636
00:47:29,280 --> 00:47:34,720
we'll be able to create those layers and
data sets as well and be able to sort

637
00:47:33,040 --> 00:47:39,040
those very quickly and get account you
know we open up a essentially an excel

638
00:47:36,640 --> 00:47:42,400
spreadsheet and drag and select and
we'll give you how many numbers you've

639
00:47:40,240 --> 00:47:45,520
got of this and that so that's helpful
sure they've done a good job and the

640
00:47:44,160 --> 00:47:49,760
other thing i'd like to say on that is
our citizen concerns

641
00:47:48,000 --> 00:47:54,319
they're way down people i mean you can
see this we only have one in ward one

642
00:47:52,000 --> 00:47:57,280
and one in ward four so you two need to
work on your

643
00:47:55,520 --> 00:47:59,520
concern
okay

644
00:47:59,920 --> 00:48:06,640
and i'll just follow up with that has
our billing spectrum been off there's

645
00:48:03,599 --> 00:48:09,920
only one you said
no we've had a lot of building permits

646
00:48:08,079 --> 00:48:14,079
i'm still here
i have one question in terms of these

647
00:48:12,079 --> 00:48:17,440
structures that hopefully will be coming
down soon

648
00:48:15,680 --> 00:48:21,200
do we have an idea when those are going
to be started

649
00:48:18,880 --> 00:48:25,280
don't get in the way tomorrow of our
construction company because we're

650
00:48:22,960 --> 00:48:30,319
starting it right around
10 30 in the morning on south main

651
00:48:27,680 --> 00:48:34,240
that's where i'm down you're warm cherry
yeah thank you yeah you're welcome thank

652
00:48:32,319 --> 00:48:36,880
you
oh great

653
00:48:38,079 --> 00:48:42,800
next
we have city attorneys

654
00:48:46,839 --> 00:48:53,680
reports don't think he included a report
in the packet okay he sent us quite a

655
00:48:52,319 --> 00:48:56,880
lengthy email
all right

656
00:48:54,800 --> 00:49:01,520
and we have ordinances we kind of know
what he's been doing he stayed busy yeah

657
00:48:59,520 --> 00:49:06,559
i wouldn't add one thing just very
quickly to that

658
00:49:03,599 --> 00:49:11,760
i was reading at home before i came
on this city of weston on site citation

659
00:49:09,280 --> 00:49:11,760
ordinance

660
00:49:13,359 --> 00:49:19,760
we've got that as an agenda item
oh is it on there yeah yeah okay sorry

661
00:49:17,440 --> 00:49:19,760
about that

662
00:49:20,400 --> 00:49:27,440
okay you do have the report in your
packet from the city clerk on

663
00:49:25,119 --> 00:49:31,640
business licenses issued
for duty for january

664
00:49:31,680 --> 00:49:38,720
quite a few too yes
and now city managers report

665
00:49:40,640 --> 00:49:45,280
back to the business license just very
very quickly

666
00:49:43,520 --> 00:49:48,400
we have an insurance state farm office
that's opening up on garden plaza so i

667
00:49:47,119 --> 00:49:51,839
assume at some point we'll have a ribbon
cutting for that i'm not sure i think

668
00:49:50,480 --> 00:49:55,280
they've kind of been operating now there
but maybe they haven't gotten quite 100

669
00:49:53,920 --> 00:49:58,319
official yet but
we'll keep just want to make mention of

670
00:49:56,800 --> 00:50:03,679
that
still april oh okay

671
00:50:00,530 --> 00:50:03,679
[Music]

672
00:50:05,359 --> 00:50:12,880
so there is someone during business
hours in there if council wanted to stop

673
00:50:09,359 --> 00:50:16,880
in and say hello and welcome and
the person operating i think right now

674
00:50:14,160 --> 00:50:19,760
is covering jenny guertin's branch
and they'll be there for some time while

675
00:50:18,720 --> 00:50:23,280
they're remodeled and then they're going
to move back out to jenny's branch and

676
00:50:21,359 --> 00:50:26,720
then this will be a separate
thank you

677
00:50:24,480 --> 00:50:26,720
okay

678
00:50:38,640 --> 00:50:44,559
manager's report
yeah we're on city management report

679
00:50:41,599 --> 00:50:47,359
sorry yep reap grant time thank you yeah
well we're not completely finished we've

680
00:50:45,839 --> 00:50:50,720
got to get our final report in and i'm
waiting some numbers from uh mountain

681
00:50:48,960 --> 00:50:53,680
state because you have to give them how
many tons of cardboard you diverted and

682
00:50:52,240 --> 00:50:57,920
all that stuff as part of your project
so i'll get those numbers and submit it

683
00:50:55,200 --> 00:51:01,119
but our quarterly reports in so now it's
just the final report you know send the

684
00:50:59,760 --> 00:51:04,960
cancel check and stuff like that which
we did in the fourth report so it should

685
00:51:03,359 --> 00:51:08,960
be and the bins are going to be moved
tomorrow

686
00:51:06,079 --> 00:51:13,839
i think the mayor set that up
okay so we're moving the bins are we the

687
00:51:10,960 --> 00:51:16,960
ninth right yeah okay have we put that
on social media i haven't done anything

688
00:51:15,520 --> 00:51:19,920
before do we have a sign that we're
gonna put at city hall and say hey if

689
00:51:18,640 --> 00:51:24,800
you're looking for the bins or at
mountain state waste we don't have a

690
00:51:21,839 --> 00:51:27,839
sign yet but we need one okay
all right

691
00:51:26,640 --> 00:51:29,920
judy you're going to be outside waving
this

692
00:51:30,480 --> 00:51:34,960
yeah
so we'll put something up i guess to get

693
00:51:32,960 --> 00:51:37,599
those and on social media yep we'll put
that out there as well

694
00:51:36,480 --> 00:51:41,520
um
you've got my report one thing i'll just

695
00:51:39,839 --> 00:51:45,680
mention and i don't think there's really
an agenda item for it with the columbia

696
00:51:43,359 --> 00:51:48,160
club on here tonight so i'll talk about
it now

697
00:51:46,559 --> 00:51:52,319
um well actually we've got the the bids
coming up there they're at the last 11 f

698
00:51:50,319 --> 00:51:55,839
or whatever's our new business but we've
spent a lot of time on that

699
00:51:54,160 --> 00:51:58,960
in this last month and we're we're
starting to make some progress we've

700
00:51:57,359 --> 00:52:03,280
brought the attorney or the
architect on board they've been hired in

701
00:52:00,880 --> 00:52:06,640
a hourly basis not to exceed five
thousand dollars without coming back to

702
00:52:04,880 --> 00:52:10,240
council and getting your guys's approval
for further works um but we're just

703
00:52:08,640 --> 00:52:15,839
trying to get through this first process
of getting the building stabilized with

704
00:52:12,720 --> 00:52:21,599
the front coming off and the the
the danger of falling slate addressed

705
00:52:18,960 --> 00:52:24,800
before we get into any kind of
planning or drawings the building and

706
00:52:23,359 --> 00:52:28,559
things of that nature
so that's where we're standing i'll save

707
00:52:26,400 --> 00:52:33,359
the rest up for that but other than that
you know i think we're entering this

708
00:52:30,240 --> 00:52:36,240
stage i signed up for the finance
the budget preparatory thing and if you

709
00:52:35,040 --> 00:52:40,160
guys haven't had a chance to do that and
want to go i think it's still available

710
00:52:37,520 --> 00:52:43,040
to you i mean want to go with the girls
i think that's february 15th

711
00:52:42,160 --> 00:52:46,319
and
in the next two or three weeks is really

712
00:52:44,720 --> 00:52:49,440
just going to be a lot of budget related
tasks getting getting those preparations

713
00:52:48,240 --> 00:52:54,400
put together
um for for our budget season we do have

714
00:52:52,720 --> 00:52:57,920
the the public meeting that we need to
get advertised for

715
00:52:56,160 --> 00:53:01,280
arpa discussion and kind of budget
presentation and things that nature and

716
00:52:59,359 --> 00:53:03,280
so that's i think february 23rd if i
remember correctly off the top of my

717
00:53:02,559 --> 00:53:06,000
head
and then we've scheduled that for the

718
00:53:04,400 --> 00:53:08,720
masonic lodge so
um advertising wise i think the mayor

719
00:53:07,520 --> 00:53:11,119
and i need to sit down this week and
start talking about how we're going to

720
00:53:09,760 --> 00:53:15,599
set the format of that and things of
that nature yeah it might be helpful if

721
00:53:14,000 --> 00:53:22,160
we have
maybe a whiteboard i'm not sure or a

722
00:53:18,240 --> 00:53:26,559
handout handout of all of the
grants that we have

723
00:53:23,599 --> 00:53:30,319
submitted for so the public can see
what monies we have submitted what's out

724
00:53:29,359 --> 00:53:35,359
there
you know citywide or for individual for

725
00:53:32,640 --> 00:53:39,040
our project okay for pro everything okay
yeah everything yeah we need to have a

726
00:53:37,119 --> 00:53:42,880
list of that of some sort yeah we do and
i think the public needs to know that

727
00:53:40,720 --> 00:53:48,000
that you know we're
utilizing every avenue of money and not

728
00:53:45,839 --> 00:53:52,319
leaving any money on the table
but and they could also see some of the

729
00:53:50,319 --> 00:53:58,000
projects too that we have this is what
we've submitted grants for and sure and

730
00:53:54,640 --> 00:53:58,000
the dollar amounts

731
00:53:59,280 --> 00:54:03,520
yep
um so that's i mean unless there's any

732
00:54:02,079 --> 00:54:06,559
other questions i'll just leave the rest
so we can get moving here seven o'clock

733
00:54:05,040 --> 00:54:10,800
we'll i'll leave
any other questions i do do we have an

734
00:54:08,400 --> 00:54:13,920
update on the mid avenue so
we're reaching out we've got some

735
00:54:12,079 --> 00:54:17,520
contact information for the landowner
you know everything else is kind of

736
00:54:16,000 --> 00:54:21,040
come to the forefront right this last
month in regards all our other projects

737
00:54:19,599 --> 00:54:25,440
but we're at the stage where we're going
to reach out to the landowner to try to

738
00:54:22,640 --> 00:54:28,000
acquire additional property there next
to where the slip is so we can extend

739
00:54:27,040 --> 00:54:32,000
that
pull-off area a little bit larger

740
00:54:30,400 --> 00:54:35,920
we just with the city attorney i want
him to be the focus point of that

741
00:54:33,280 --> 00:54:39,599
conversation he just hadn't had the time
so that's where we're at with it and

742
00:54:37,040 --> 00:54:42,559
then you know regardless of which route
we take we're gonna have to get some

743
00:54:40,640 --> 00:54:46,720
contemporary easements that's that's our
next step in that but we're hoping i

744
00:54:44,559 --> 00:54:50,839
think we can realistically look at in
may or june to see that constructed

745
00:54:49,520 --> 00:54:55,760
thank
you i move that we accept department

746
00:54:53,839 --> 00:55:00,319
reports
for a second

747
00:54:57,920 --> 00:55:06,640
second it's been moved in second to
accept all department reports all in

748
00:55:03,119 --> 00:55:09,599
favor say aye aye opposed
motion carries

749
00:55:09,760 --> 00:55:17,440
uh next under old business the 2022-1
ordinance

750
00:55:15,040 --> 00:55:21,680
authorizing the sale transfer of
city-related

751
00:55:20,000 --> 00:55:27,599
to west virginia department of
transportation doh project

752
00:55:25,440 --> 00:55:32,640
this would be the second reading
and this is for the property for the

753
00:55:29,680 --> 00:55:37,040
bridge in deanville correct
correct between haleville and shadybrook

754
00:55:35,040 --> 00:55:42,640
right right
okay is there a motion to have the

755
00:55:39,760 --> 00:55:42,640
second reading

756
00:55:43,200 --> 00:55:48,720
i'll move to have the second reading
the ordinance authorizing the cell

757
00:55:47,040 --> 00:55:53,359
transfer of city related to west
virginia department of transportation

758
00:55:50,960 --> 00:55:59,400
division of highways bridge project
project excuse me state project number

759
00:55:56,400 --> 00:55:59,400
s321n1670-0.020

760
00:56:04,000 --> 00:56:09,760
by title and yeah my title
oh boy

761
00:56:10,480 --> 00:56:18,720
okay it's been moved in second we'll
have voting by roll call

762
00:56:15,280 --> 00:56:18,720
that's a woman sherry rogers

763
00:56:19,440 --> 00:56:25,599
yes councilwoman
yes councilman

764
00:56:23,280 --> 00:56:25,599
motion

765
00:56:25,680 --> 00:56:33,440
okay motion carries
um

766
00:56:29,680 --> 00:56:38,960
and now uh i'll entertain a motion to
ex accept the second reading

767
00:56:37,839 --> 00:56:44,960
okay
i'll move to accept the second reading

768
00:56:42,480 --> 00:56:49,680
okay it's been moved in second to accept
the second reading

769
00:56:47,119 --> 00:56:54,720
voting by roll call councilwoman sherry
rogers yes

770
00:56:51,359 --> 00:56:59,400
councilman randy bowen yes councilwoman
yes councilman curtis yes

771
00:56:59,760 --> 00:57:09,200
next oh motion carries
we have uh the

772
00:57:05,000 --> 00:57:12,319
2022-3 ordinance to acquire 241 south
main

773
00:57:10,079 --> 00:57:15,839
i'll entertain a motion to have the
second reading i think judy needs to

774
00:57:14,640 --> 00:57:20,080
read the
ordinance by title did you do that

775
00:57:18,880 --> 00:57:23,860
yes i'm sorry
[Laughter]

776
00:57:24,839 --> 00:57:34,319
2022-01 a 20-22 ordinance authorizing
the sale transfer of city property

777
00:57:32,000 --> 00:57:39,599
related to a west virginia department of
transportation depart division of

778
00:57:36,720 --> 00:57:43,359
highway bridge project state project
number

779
00:57:40,480 --> 00:57:46,359
s32 1 in
16-70-0.020

780
00:57:50,880 --> 00:57:59,920
i title only second reading
let's get all that against me now

781
00:57:56,880 --> 00:58:05,040
now a motion to accept that i'll move to
accept i'll second go ahead randy okay

782
00:58:02,559 --> 00:58:10,319
it's been moved in second and we'll have
voting by roll call

783
00:58:08,079 --> 00:58:10,319
yes

784
00:58:10,400 --> 00:58:19,119
councilman councilwoman debbie gump yes
sorry debbie counseling herb curtis yes

785
00:58:16,799 --> 00:58:19,119
okay

786
00:58:20,400 --> 00:58:30,240
and now i'll entertain a motion to have
the second reading

787
00:58:25,920 --> 00:58:34,799
on the 2022-3 ordinance to acquire 241
south main can i speak to that before we

788
00:58:32,480 --> 00:58:39,440
yeah in that motion we've kind of had it
on both these properties of hiccup in

789
00:58:36,160 --> 00:58:43,760
the last two days yeah and so with 241
south main we'll stick to that one first

790
00:58:41,520 --> 00:58:48,240
this property is owned by a woman who is
or in the um

791
00:58:45,680 --> 00:58:51,280
in a rest home and so typically on the
last this is all new to all of us right

792
00:58:49,920 --> 00:58:55,280
acquiring property and things of that
nature and we're trying to acquire this

793
00:58:53,680 --> 00:58:58,640
to when we tear down the house that's
going to happen this week we won't place

794
00:58:57,280 --> 00:59:01,359
a lien on it we'll have the property
then redeem or whatever you know

795
00:59:00,000 --> 00:59:04,079
whatever use we need for it at that
point

796
00:59:02,240 --> 00:59:08,240
but as we've tried to go through that
process we've realized two things one

797
00:59:06,079 --> 00:59:11,359
she's in a nursing home and and the you
know when we're trying to sign the deed

798
00:59:09,839 --> 00:59:14,720
the the person representing we're not
quite sure the chain of legal custody is

799
00:59:13,280 --> 00:59:17,920
there to make sure that that person is
the guardian or the

800
00:59:16,400 --> 00:59:22,000
power of attorney so we've got to get
that clarified then the second thing is

801
00:59:20,160 --> 00:59:26,000
that this property is currently in the
state tax sale process and we missed

802
00:59:23,760 --> 00:59:29,440
that due to it being such a recent
process in the in the database hadn't

803
00:59:27,520 --> 00:59:32,880
been updated online yet
so that doesn't preclude us from being

804
00:59:31,440 --> 00:59:37,280
able to pursue the tear down of the
structure it just kind of muddies the

805
00:59:35,280 --> 00:59:40,640
water as far as acquisition
and i'm putting my city attorney hat

806
00:59:39,040 --> 00:59:45,040
here for a second since he's not here
and he's authorized me to give the

807
00:59:42,160 --> 00:59:48,319
explanation i think we can proceed to
to pass the ordinance to acquire the

808
00:59:46,720 --> 00:59:51,920
property
but we won't be able to acquire the

809
00:59:49,680 --> 00:59:56,000
property until all that stuff is taken
care of and it may never happen

810
00:59:54,400 --> 00:59:59,520
and so
we're kind of at an impasse and a sense

811
00:59:58,079 --> 01:00:03,119
of what what direction we should go and
i think it's kind of the council decide

812
01:00:01,200 --> 01:00:07,680
what they're willing to do
i don't necessarily see an issue with us

813
01:00:05,760 --> 01:00:11,680
holding off and not acquiring the
property and tearing it down and being

814
01:00:09,520 --> 01:00:14,240
ready to place a lien on it but there is
some

815
01:00:12,799 --> 01:00:18,319
question there what would happen you
know say somebody were to come in and

816
01:00:16,160 --> 01:00:23,040
redeem that property off the tax sale
and arlene may may disappear you know

817
01:00:20,880 --> 01:00:26,319
for like a better word and we'd lose any
attempt to acquire that money back or

818
01:00:25,200 --> 01:00:29,839
whatnot
so

819
01:00:27,520 --> 01:00:33,599
that is uh
i probably put it rather

820
01:00:31,599 --> 01:00:37,119
inarticulately but i think that that's
kind of the question before us and there

821
01:00:35,280 --> 01:00:40,480
are some questions like they do owe some
property taxes they're not in their well

822
01:00:39,040 --> 01:00:43,920
in this case they are in the rears
because they're in the state tax sale

823
01:00:41,520 --> 01:00:46,960
process and they also owe us municipal
fees

824
01:00:44,960 --> 01:00:50,400
when we acquired the columbia property
uh the columbia club property we we kind

825
01:00:49,040 --> 01:00:53,839
of set a
a standing precedent in a sense right

826
01:00:52,000 --> 01:00:57,520
that if we were to acquire a piece of
property we were willing to waive

827
01:00:55,440 --> 01:01:00,799
municipal fees and i think in this case
we'd probably look to do something

828
01:00:58,720 --> 01:01:03,280
similar if we can't convince the owner
to

829
01:01:01,520 --> 01:01:06,000
to pay those in advance
um

830
01:01:04,400 --> 01:01:10,960
yeah so that hasn't been that issue
itself hasn't been resolved here either

831
01:01:08,880 --> 01:01:14,960
so i just wanted you guys to be
completely be completely upfront with

832
01:01:12,799 --> 01:01:18,000
you about where this property stands and
try to answer any questions or anything

833
01:01:16,400 --> 01:01:20,240
like that on the way forward but before
you

834
01:01:18,799 --> 01:01:25,359
make that motion to have a second
reading thank you is it better for us to

835
01:01:22,799 --> 01:01:31,119
have our ducks in a row and proceed with
the second reading or are are you

836
01:01:27,920 --> 01:01:34,880
recommending that we
i think but better for us is kind of a

837
01:01:33,040 --> 01:01:38,960
relative term you know what are we
trying to achieve here we're trying to

838
01:01:36,400 --> 01:01:43,119
achieve being able to sell the property
down the line then i think you'll miss

839
01:01:41,200 --> 01:01:46,079
i'd recommend probably that you
passed the ordinance so that we can

840
01:01:44,240 --> 01:01:48,880
quickly once those things resolved have
the deed signed and filed

841
01:01:47,760 --> 01:01:52,720
now
i i really questioned in my mind we'll

842
01:01:50,640 --> 01:01:56,960
ever get to that end point where we'll
be able to get things clarified enough

843
01:01:54,079 --> 01:02:01,119
for us to to do that i don't know you
know so if our council i may say

844
01:01:59,680 --> 01:02:03,599
come back to us when that gets a little
bit more clear and we'll proceed from

845
01:02:02,640 --> 01:02:06,480
there
i don't necessarily see a problem either

846
01:02:05,200 --> 01:02:11,039
way and i don't you know we're not
really missing out on it on a whole lot

847
01:02:08,319 --> 01:02:15,119
here i don't think but
i can't predict the future that's my

848
01:02:12,880 --> 01:02:15,119
problem

849
01:02:15,920 --> 01:02:22,480
i don't really see a problem with
mike wants to

850
01:02:20,640 --> 01:02:28,000
the gentleman that is taking care of
this lady's affairs he assured me that

851
01:02:25,440 --> 01:02:31,359
he is and he does take care of her
affairs at holbrook okay

852
01:02:30,319 --> 01:02:35,680
so uh
he was gonna bring that paper in to me

853
01:02:33,039 --> 01:02:40,240
but it just never made it there yet
i've had bad weather yes we have had bad

854
01:02:37,760 --> 01:02:44,240
weather but again that's up to you guys
uh however you all feel that you should

855
01:02:42,319 --> 01:02:50,400
be handled
and i appreciate it

856
01:02:46,799 --> 01:02:50,400
well if we go ahead and do it then

857
01:02:50,559 --> 01:02:56,960
the staff can go ahead and do what they
do to that's your make it happen do you

858
01:02:54,480 --> 01:03:00,480
like to make that motion
yes i'll have the second yeah let me

859
01:02:58,480 --> 01:03:03,520
just clarify we're okay with if we
decide to waive the municipal fees to

860
01:03:01,920 --> 01:03:06,880
acquire that property at that point
everybody's

861
01:03:04,720 --> 01:03:09,599
it needs to come down suzy doesn't shoot
us yes

862
01:03:09,680 --> 01:03:16,400
susie okay with it
yes i said as long as we're getting

863
01:03:13,680 --> 01:03:20,720
something back we are okay
we're looking about 250 i think

864
01:03:18,720 --> 01:03:25,760
okay
i would i move to

865
01:03:24,000 --> 01:03:30,319
have the this is the second reading
correct second reading of the ordinance

866
01:03:28,559 --> 01:03:36,880
202203
ordinance acquiring property at 241

867
01:03:33,280 --> 01:03:41,730
south main street westin by title only
that's not good okay it's been moved and

868
01:03:39,520 --> 01:03:46,960
second to have the second reading
[Music]

869
01:03:42,960 --> 01:03:46,960
uh voting by roll call

870
01:03:47,039 --> 01:03:55,520
roger yes councilman randy bowen
councilwoman debbie gump yes councilman

871
01:03:52,480 --> 01:03:55,520
herb curtis yes

872
01:03:55,760 --> 01:04:03,680
motion
carries i'll move to accept well we have

873
01:04:00,799 --> 01:04:09,760
to i skipped uh this oh
sorry you have to read it yes

874
01:04:06,559 --> 01:04:09,760
judy get with it

875
01:04:09,920 --> 01:04:18,160
ordinance 20 2022-03
ordinance acquiring property at 241

876
01:04:16,400 --> 01:04:22,720
south main street in weston west
virginia second reading by title only

877
01:04:21,039 --> 01:04:27,760
thank you
now we're ready i'll move to accept

878
01:04:25,280 --> 01:04:32,520
i'll second okay it's been moved in
second to accept

879
01:04:29,680 --> 01:04:36,720
the second reading of the
2022-3 ordinance to acquire 241 south

880
01:04:35,920 --> 01:04:41,440
main
by title only and we'll have voting

881
01:04:39,760 --> 01:04:46,079
by roll call
councilwoman sherry rogers yes

882
01:04:43,839 --> 01:04:49,520
councilman randy bowen yes councilwoman
debbie gump yes councilman herb curtis

883
01:04:48,720 --> 01:04:54,799
yes
okay motion carries

884
01:04:51,680 --> 01:05:00,480
uh next on the agenda is the ordinance
to acquire 251 south main second reading

885
01:05:00,799 --> 01:05:06,839
is there a mission to have that second
reading i moved to have the second

886
01:05:04,799 --> 01:05:10,880
reading of the ordinance
uh 2022-5

887
01:05:09,680 --> 01:05:15,359
to acquire
i'm sorry i'm sorry

888
01:05:12,559 --> 01:05:17,720
uh let me start over i moved to have the
second reading

889
01:05:16,880 --> 01:05:22,640
of the
2022-4 ordinance to acquire 251 south

890
01:05:21,200 --> 01:05:26,720
main
the title

891
01:05:24,960 --> 01:05:32,240
is there a second
a second okay it's been moved in second

892
01:05:33,039 --> 01:05:41,760
voting by roll call
sherry rogers yes councilman randy bowen

893
01:05:39,520 --> 01:05:45,520
yes
councilman woman w yes

894
01:05:44,400 --> 01:05:51,760
councilwoman
yes

895
01:05:46,720 --> 01:05:54,960
okay motion carries go ahead city clerk
ordinance

896
01:05:53,319 --> 01:05:59,440
2022-4
ordinance acquiring property at 251

897
01:05:57,520 --> 01:06:04,760
south main street in weston west
virginia by title only second reading

898
01:06:07,359 --> 01:06:17,160
is there a motion to accept or reject
the ordinance

899
01:06:12,400 --> 01:06:17,160
i need to accept the ordinance 2022.04

900
01:06:19,119 --> 01:06:28,559
to acquire property at 251 something
a second okay it's been moved in second

901
01:06:26,720 --> 01:06:33,599
we'll have voting by roll call
councilwoman sherry rogers yes

902
01:06:31,039 --> 01:06:39,839
councilman randy bowen yes
councilwoman debbie gump yes councilman

903
01:06:36,000 --> 01:06:46,400
herb curtis yes okay motion carries
uh next when the agenda is an ordinance

904
01:06:43,039 --> 01:06:53,200
to acquire easement for forestry traffic
control this would be the first reading

905
01:06:50,000 --> 01:06:56,240
did you want to speak about that please
you guys don't have anything in front of

906
01:06:54,480 --> 01:07:00,960
you for that ordinance because we've yet
to receive i don't think the full

907
01:06:58,400 --> 01:07:04,799
documentation back from mr shriver
that bridge is slated to begin

908
01:07:03,440 --> 01:07:08,240
at any moment
um they've contacted me in the last

909
01:07:06,799 --> 01:07:11,200
couple days to say we're ready where are
you guys at

910
01:07:09,440 --> 01:07:14,480
um and i said let me get to this meeting
and i'll tell you where i'm at

911
01:07:12,880 --> 01:07:17,280
um
i think

912
01:07:15,599 --> 01:07:19,920
through this whole process yes it would
be good for us to have a have a road

913
01:07:19,039 --> 01:07:23,920
there
yes it'd be good for us to have

914
01:07:21,760 --> 01:07:26,640
access to the back of our property in a
in a better

915
01:07:25,119 --> 01:07:30,960
location
but and we did work with mr shriver to

916
01:07:29,359 --> 01:07:34,079
update the language on the ordinance i
think we tried to

917
01:07:32,559 --> 01:07:37,119
run this through here once before right
we all realized that there was a

918
01:07:35,599 --> 01:07:41,039
miscommunication and that we hadn't
included permanent access to you know

919
01:07:39,440 --> 01:07:45,520
for emergency situations and things that
nature and that seemed amicable to both

920
01:07:43,520 --> 01:07:49,039
sides and that's what we were waiting on
final review from their their side to to

921
01:07:48,000 --> 01:07:52,640
approve that and get that into the
packet tonight which didn't happen

922
01:07:51,119 --> 01:07:56,559
but i think
at this point

923
01:07:54,400 --> 01:07:59,839
i've had a couple well one one council
person reach out to me and say is this

924
01:07:58,000 --> 01:08:03,039
really what we need to do and i said
i was under the understanding this was

925
01:08:01,280 --> 01:08:08,079
kind of a priority of counsel to try to
make this traffic control

926
01:08:04,960 --> 01:08:12,799
better or in a different place
i just want to clarify and say that i'm

927
01:08:09,839 --> 01:08:16,239
fine with us to try to attempt it to as
is on spring street to use that as our

928
01:08:14,400 --> 01:08:20,960
diversion if we want to try to save
twenty thousand dollars and not go down

929
01:08:18,239 --> 01:08:23,520
this road with mr shriver um
and i think that that's

930
01:08:22,480 --> 01:08:27,679
yeah
it would be nice to have an ordinance or

931
01:08:25,600 --> 01:08:30,960
to have this read one time and if if
this doesn't work for some reason be

932
01:08:29,040 --> 01:08:35,199
able to read it a second time and and go
forward but we don't have that ability i

933
01:08:32,560 --> 01:08:38,080
don't think tonight so
to kind of put a bow on all my

934
01:08:36,480 --> 01:08:42,319
discussion as i i kind of want some
direction from you all to say

935
01:08:40,319 --> 01:08:45,520
are we fine trying this out with the
bridge construction and just utilizing

936
01:08:44,159 --> 01:08:50,239
spring street
um and can i interrupt you you also have

937
01:08:47,600 --> 01:08:53,120
been in as well as well right well and i
guess i don't know which street it is

938
01:08:51,920 --> 01:08:57,359
there at the end of fourth that curves
up but that one little portion there is

939
01:08:55,199 --> 01:09:01,279
you know 12 13 feet wide and that's
where that's my biggest concern is that

940
01:08:59,120 --> 01:09:04,239
at that point we're going to run into
people meeting each other and somebody's

941
01:09:02,719 --> 01:09:07,920
going to have to back back down the hill
which i think is a common occurrence

942
01:09:06,159 --> 01:09:11,679
today yeah i mean
for somebody who has driven that heel

943
01:09:09,759 --> 01:09:14,960
since she was 16 years of age and we
have also miss bush in the back of the

944
01:09:13,359 --> 01:09:18,159
room as well
people know what to do

945
01:09:16,480 --> 01:09:22,719
people know you know who to back who
backs up who goes where what about one

946
01:09:20,880 --> 01:09:27,839
of those traffic signal things those
portable ones is that an option i think

947
01:09:25,440 --> 01:09:30,560
it is what you check that out yeah the
price

948
01:09:28,880 --> 01:09:33,920
when we need one or two
i think two lights would probably do it

949
01:09:31,920 --> 01:09:38,000
for us there and the cost of that would
be what six seven thousand dollars

950
01:09:35,679 --> 01:09:42,159
probably which we would total
or total yeah that's for the year which

951
01:09:40,080 --> 01:09:47,440
we would have for our street department
for our projects is what do you think

952
01:09:45,440 --> 01:09:51,359
yeah i just yeah i'm okay that and i
just think there's there needs to be

953
01:09:48,880 --> 01:09:55,760
some road like some gabian rock put in
some ditches and kind of expand it out a

954
01:09:53,759 --> 01:09:59,040
little bit just give people do something
you really need some repair

955
01:09:57,760 --> 01:10:02,719
i had asked
you know a couple months ago for the

956
01:10:00,880 --> 01:10:07,280
millings to be put in and they ended up
as i said in people's driveways instead

957
01:10:04,560 --> 01:10:12,000
of on the side of the road
so i think you know with some repair and

958
01:10:08,880 --> 01:10:16,560
some rock uh because people much rather
have their roads repaired that they

959
01:10:13,760 --> 01:10:21,360
drive on with the 20 000 plus that we
would spend on that easement okay why

960
01:10:18,880 --> 01:10:24,640
don't we uh chief do you have any input
here

961
01:10:22,239 --> 01:10:28,320
on just traffic and i agree
do you

962
01:10:25,520 --> 01:10:32,239
have traffic issues over there and
your opinion

963
01:10:30,880 --> 01:10:36,000
jimmy's not here i think there's there
was some concerns right about fire

964
01:10:34,239 --> 01:10:40,000
emergency access over there if there is
a fire how we're going to get somebody

965
01:10:37,280 --> 01:10:42,800
in there but can i re refresh when we
did the repairs

966
01:10:41,760 --> 01:10:46,560
um
on depot street i thought that was

967
01:10:44,400 --> 01:10:50,800
emergency access allowed through that
area am i correct on that i think that

968
01:10:49,120 --> 01:10:54,239
was the intention but yeah the agreement
we had expired after 120 days of signing

969
01:10:53,120 --> 01:10:59,080
it that was
maybe that's something we could just go

970
01:10:55,440 --> 01:10:59,080
back to them and say hey

971
01:11:00,880 --> 01:11:05,520
we'll see if we can get that fired back
up then

972
01:11:03,360 --> 01:11:09,120
and i would look at it as well as the
bridge is an emergency it's been an

973
01:11:07,120 --> 01:11:14,400
emergency and a safety hazard to the
public don't disagree it would be nice

974
01:11:11,920 --> 01:11:18,480
as far as negotiations to gain access to
a new road and access to the back of the

975
01:11:16,320 --> 01:11:22,640
street department and all that but the
bridge is a priority it's a safety

976
01:11:20,480 --> 01:11:26,480
concern so if we need to go another
route and what changes everything is

977
01:11:24,880 --> 01:11:28,560
that they're ready to go to the state
yeah

978
01:11:27,360 --> 01:11:32,480
yeah so
no commit you know we haven't even don't

979
01:11:30,480 --> 01:11:36,640
even know if the the the road may not
even be ready by the time the bridge is

980
01:11:34,000 --> 01:11:39,840
done it's a real concern yeah so we
can't

981
01:11:38,320 --> 01:11:44,320
i say table it indefinitely at this
point that's my recommendation if you're

982
01:11:41,120 --> 01:11:47,920
going well what about the traffic light
i don't have a quote for you or on the

983
01:11:46,239 --> 01:11:50,960
agenda but that's something i mean uh
i'll look into a little bit further and

984
01:11:49,520 --> 01:11:54,880
i know there was like a four week lead
time when i got that quotation so and i

985
01:11:53,360 --> 01:11:58,239
placed a call with them on friday with
the peterson issue to see if i could get

986
01:11:56,480 --> 01:12:00,880
that bumped up a little bit but i'll see
if i can get that

987
01:11:59,679 --> 01:12:05,520
yeah but
i move that we table

988
01:12:02,800 --> 01:12:08,880
i wonder uh the acquirings of the
easement for forestry traffic control

989
01:12:07,199 --> 01:12:12,719
indefinitely
okay is there a second

990
01:12:11,040 --> 01:12:17,600
i'll second
okay there's been a motion and a second

991
01:12:15,120 --> 01:12:22,719
to table indefinitely
the ordinance to acquire easement for

992
01:12:20,480 --> 01:12:25,760
fourth street traffic control
any discussion

993
01:12:26,239 --> 01:12:33,920
we'll have voting by roll call
councilwoman sherry rogers yes

994
01:12:31,440 --> 01:12:40,719
councilman randy bowen
councilwoman debbie gunn yes councilman

995
01:12:37,040 --> 01:12:45,520
curtis yes okay motion carries
next department organizational

996
01:12:42,800 --> 01:12:45,520
restructure

997
01:12:46,080 --> 01:12:51,199
okay you guys we've talked about this a
couple meetings here in a row

998
01:12:49,440 --> 01:12:54,800
so i guess for the public out there and
just for for the sake of it we're we're

999
01:12:53,600 --> 01:12:58,640
trying to restructure our department
heads to cover um tyler straiter has

1000
01:12:57,760 --> 01:13:01,920
has
submitted his resignation as street

1001
01:13:00,320 --> 01:13:05,120
department foreman which i won't say
he's resigning as foreman but he he

1002
01:13:03,840 --> 01:13:09,040
can't take on the added duties that
we've kind of

1003
01:13:06,480 --> 01:13:12,719
added to his plate to run that area and
so with that conversation he's got some

1004
01:13:11,199 --> 01:13:15,199
some private pursuits he wants to pursue
after hours and

1005
01:13:13,920 --> 01:13:20,159
i'm completely fine with that and i
think he's he's earned that right to do

1006
01:13:16,880 --> 01:13:23,760
those things um
what we've proposed and what i'm

1007
01:13:22,480 --> 01:13:26,880
i think a city manager i have the
authority to

1008
01:13:25,199 --> 01:13:32,640
to rearrange our organization structure
underneath myself but i just wanted to

1009
01:13:28,400 --> 01:13:35,679
make clear to everyone what was going on
and i guess there are some salary

1010
01:13:33,840 --> 01:13:39,520
implications so i think that that's with
all that being kind of a nebulous what

1011
01:13:37,600 --> 01:13:43,760
is my authority what needs to come to
council i think at this point i'm asking

1012
01:13:41,120 --> 01:13:46,960
you uh to do a couple things we're going
to

1013
01:13:45,520 --> 01:13:51,040
approved mike starrett's appointment as
street commissioner which is a vacant

1014
01:13:48,640 --> 01:13:53,600
position at his current salary of 38
thousand dollars and remain an exempt

1015
01:13:52,560 --> 01:13:58,560
employee
in his his existing schedule

1016
01:13:56,320 --> 01:13:58,560
um

1017
01:13:58,880 --> 01:14:04,800
we're going to move or we're going to
bring andy darby up as the code official

1018
01:14:02,960 --> 01:14:08,640
for the city so he'll be i'm asking you
to appoint him as the code official

1019
01:14:06,960 --> 01:14:12,880
zoning officer and floodplain
administrator for the city of weston

1020
01:14:10,560 --> 01:14:17,440
with a salary of 36 000 which is an
increase um but he'll be full-time an

1021
01:14:15,440 --> 01:14:21,840
exempt employee there and that that
number's to meet that exemption

1022
01:14:19,360 --> 01:14:25,120
threshold by federal law
um

1023
01:14:23,040 --> 01:14:28,080
and then i think uh
i think for for this issue that pretty

1024
01:14:26,719 --> 01:14:31,840
much takes care of what we're going to
do we're going to leave the assistant

1025
01:14:29,679 --> 01:14:35,840
building inspector position vacant for
the time being see how this goes forward

1026
01:14:34,320 --> 01:14:38,960
and
we did i'll just just make note that we

1027
01:14:37,600 --> 01:14:43,360
did hire our replacement street
department worker who started starting

1028
01:14:40,560 --> 01:14:47,280
today caden old acre um and so with with
those

1029
01:14:44,800 --> 01:14:50,800
with the rays that darby will mr darby
will obtain and and the rate that mr old

1030
01:14:49,280 --> 01:14:54,880
acre they can't they canceled each other
out essentially compared to our previous

1031
01:14:52,800 --> 01:14:59,840
street department employee so that was a
net yeah net neutral move in a sense

1032
01:14:58,080 --> 01:15:04,640
which was one of the reasons we
predicated that that hiring decision so

1033
01:15:02,640 --> 01:15:08,840
um
so i guess all that was to say i i we

1034
01:15:06,960 --> 01:15:12,159
can list all those details in the
minutes um

1035
01:15:10,080 --> 01:15:17,360
but i'm just asking for feedback i guess
on that department of review and

1036
01:15:13,920 --> 01:15:21,360
and approval of those those moves
so what now mr stared you said what was

1037
01:15:19,679 --> 01:15:24,719
his title going to be
street commissioner i think that's a

1038
01:15:23,040 --> 01:15:29,360
vacant position we've had
previously

1039
01:15:26,960 --> 01:15:33,040
is he going to be involved with his old
department at all or i think there'll be

1040
01:15:31,120 --> 01:15:36,880
a there'll still be an involvement there
and kind of a co-working but mr darby's

1041
01:15:34,880 --> 01:15:41,040
going to run the department he by state
building code we have to have a singular

1042
01:15:38,400 --> 01:15:44,640
code official in a sense and so that
requires licensing and things that

1043
01:15:42,480 --> 01:15:48,000
nature and he's on his way to doing that
and so we'll have to fill out that

1044
01:15:45,679 --> 01:15:50,960
paperwork and such but as far as current
projects you know with the with the

1045
01:15:49,440 --> 01:15:55,040
buildings we're tearing down mike's
going to stay involved with that

1046
01:15:52,640 --> 01:15:58,320
um see those those through and then yeah
i think between the two of them and and

1047
01:15:56,800 --> 01:16:02,400
just our whole inner workings how we
work we'll still all work together on a

1048
01:16:00,080 --> 01:16:06,360
lot of these issues in a sense but mr
darby will be that point person

1049
01:16:08,800 --> 01:16:15,199
other questions just one second here
we're

1050
01:16:12,159 --> 01:16:21,239
working on some numbers here real quick
what did you say it was

1051
01:16:17,600 --> 01:16:21,239
do you need my calculator

1052
01:16:30,090 --> 01:16:33,399
[Music]

1053
01:16:41,470 --> 01:16:51,640
[Music]
what was the rate for mr old

1054
01:16:47,840 --> 01:16:51,640
1190 per hour

1055
01:17:08,230 --> 01:17:14,360
[Music]
mr curtis are you still ciphering

1056
01:17:16,159 --> 01:17:24,159
yes
so you said 11.90 for him and and then

1057
01:17:21,520 --> 01:17:28,400
36 000.
for mr darby so the raise that mr

1058
01:17:26,800 --> 01:17:32,159
darby's getting what's that amount from
what he's making now well currently

1059
01:17:30,080 --> 01:17:38,400
we've got him on a part-time basis and
so his hourly rate is going to be in a

1060
01:17:33,840 --> 01:17:42,640
sense produced he's 20 20 an hour 20 000
a year is what we budgeted or what we

1061
01:17:40,480 --> 01:17:46,719
agreed to
what we're looking at is

1062
01:17:44,400 --> 01:17:50,000
we budgeted 32 000 for that assistant
building inspector position so

1063
01:17:48,320 --> 01:17:53,120
essentially we're taking
reorganizing our structure right and

1064
01:17:51,520 --> 01:17:56,159
taking mike as the existing is to pull
them out of that budget and we'll place

1065
01:17:54,640 --> 01:18:01,600
them in the street department and then
mr darby will have to come up with four

1066
01:17:58,560 --> 01:18:05,679
thousand dollars in that
for his salary but with our resignation

1067
01:18:04,159 --> 01:18:09,360
in the street department
and mr old acres rate that more than

1068
01:18:08,000 --> 01:18:14,719
makes up that four thousand dollar
difference that's how i was trying to

1069
01:18:11,280 --> 01:18:14,719
justify being a net neutral move

1070
01:18:15,360 --> 01:18:18,960
he will not they're going to divide

1071
01:18:23,840 --> 01:18:29,199
as far as the street commissioner his
duties and is he going to have more to

1072
01:18:27,280 --> 01:18:31,760
take on mike as far as the street
commissioner compared to where he's at

1073
01:18:30,960 --> 01:18:34,800
now
as far as pay goes

1074
01:18:35,040 --> 01:18:40,640
well his pay isn't changing
right

1075
01:18:38,480 --> 01:18:45,280
i mean i think it's
that range is a sour or a department

1076
01:18:42,880 --> 01:18:49,120
head level salary in my mind and i think
that yeah there will be more duties

1077
01:18:46,480 --> 01:18:53,600
there but he's also in order for
in order to be an exempt employee you

1078
01:18:51,199 --> 01:18:58,159
have to manage so many people and so
that's

1079
01:18:54,480 --> 01:19:01,520
that exemption is 36 or 35 550 or
something like that by federal statute

1080
01:19:00,400 --> 01:19:05,199
at this point
so his duties will be street

1081
01:19:02,800 --> 01:19:08,960
commissioner yeah he he'll
it's kind of a tough question to answer

1082
01:19:06,640 --> 01:19:11,520
will he have more responsibilities
within the street department he will

1083
01:19:10,480 --> 01:19:15,360
right
yeah you know absolutely but i don't

1084
01:19:13,840 --> 01:19:18,880
know i think it's
from a work perspective right now he's

1085
01:19:16,960 --> 01:19:23,120
juggling three or four different hats
in the city building and so

1086
01:19:21,520 --> 01:19:25,760
to me it's a question for him i think in
a sense and he's agreed to do it at that

1087
01:19:24,800 --> 01:19:29,440
rate and
i think we're trying to move forward

1088
01:19:27,440 --> 01:19:34,600
right mike
maybe he's having second thoughts now

1089
01:19:31,360 --> 01:19:34,600
thanks herb

1090
01:19:55,370 --> 01:19:58,600
[Music]

1091
01:20:20,159 --> 01:20:24,600
sorry any more questions i hear
rumblings

1092
01:20:25,190 --> 01:20:30,560
[Music]

1093
01:20:33,280 --> 01:20:39,120
and i'll just elaborate on on just for
the public sector kind of the motivation

1094
01:20:37,120 --> 01:20:44,159
for all this is that
we tried having a working form and

1095
01:20:41,040 --> 01:20:48,480
running the street department um
that was it worked into a degree but it

1096
01:20:46,719 --> 01:20:52,239
was very frustrating for mr straighter
because he was working and also trying

1097
01:20:50,480 --> 01:20:55,120
to super in inevitably breaking up the
cruise where he couldn't be there and he

1098
01:20:53,840 --> 01:20:59,040
had to pull himself out of the hole or
whatever to go check on another job and

1099
01:20:57,040 --> 01:21:02,719
very efficient inefficient and i commend
him for doing as best he could with it

1100
01:21:01,120 --> 01:21:06,639
um so it really spoke to the need of
having one person that kind of oversee

1101
01:21:04,400 --> 01:21:10,560
those operations set up those duties
manage the personalities and things of

1102
01:21:08,400 --> 01:21:14,400
that nature a little bit better than
somebody who's going to be trying to tie

1103
01:21:12,080 --> 01:21:16,480
it into getting work done and things of
that nature

1104
01:21:15,520 --> 01:21:20,000
and so
from from my standpoint when i looked at

1105
01:21:18,159 --> 01:21:23,280
it as the city manager
you know could we have advertised the

1106
01:21:21,360 --> 01:21:28,080
position possibly
but i i felt that mr stared had the

1107
01:21:25,360 --> 01:21:32,239
skills really to run that department
and the skills that we'd look for in

1108
01:21:29,520 --> 01:21:36,000
that position but also it didn't require
us to create a new position in the sense

1109
01:21:33,840 --> 01:21:40,719
of from a budgetary standpoint so i
thought this was really a win-win

1110
01:21:37,760 --> 01:21:43,120
situation for all parties i think
mike had expressed some interest in

1111
01:21:42,080 --> 01:21:46,000
doing it and so that when that
opportunity presented itself i

1112
01:21:44,800 --> 01:21:51,440
approached him about it and felt this
was the the best way forward for us as a

1113
01:21:48,080 --> 01:21:55,600
city to try to to keep our overhead low
and and move forward and we're still

1114
01:21:53,520 --> 01:21:58,719
still see production and see see things
get turned around so

1115
01:22:02,159 --> 01:22:08,560
and mike doesn't
receive benefits so i don't see 40 000

1116
01:22:06,880 --> 01:22:13,120
being online
i'm good with that okay

1117
01:22:10,400 --> 01:22:19,360
he's proven himself okay it's additional
duties it's only two thousand good i'm

1118
01:22:16,159 --> 01:22:24,320
fine more here if you watch
i'm good with that

1119
01:22:21,120 --> 01:22:29,679
would you like to make a motion so
how do you want that word edney to

1120
01:22:26,800 --> 01:22:32,560
accept the reorganizational chart as
presented yeah

1121
01:22:31,120 --> 01:22:35,679
i think that's fine and we'll list those
changes salary in the minutes so that

1122
01:22:34,080 --> 01:22:39,679
you guys have that stuff
in front of you i think we're required

1123
01:22:37,520 --> 01:22:42,239
to list those in the minutes yeah and i
think that's fine

1124
01:22:40,880 --> 01:22:46,320
but i won't make you repeat them all or
anything like that yeah thanks because

1125
01:22:43,520 --> 01:22:46,320
they're on my desk

1126
01:22:46,400 --> 01:22:57,280
okay is there a second
to approve that reorganization

1127
01:22:52,320 --> 01:22:57,280
okay it's been second any discussion

1128
01:22:57,600 --> 01:23:04,960
we'll have voting by roll call
councilwoman sherry rogers yes one randy

1129
01:23:02,239 --> 01:23:08,960
bowen yes councilwoman debbie gump yes
councilman herb curtis yes okay motion

1130
01:23:07,679 --> 01:23:14,080
carries
moving on to

1131
01:23:10,560 --> 01:23:18,000
new business letter a
all right

1132
01:23:16,320 --> 01:23:22,639
this kind of tied into that departmental
organizational restructure

1133
01:23:20,480 --> 01:23:26,000
mouthful that we just handled but
by charter we're supposed to have a

1134
01:23:24,000 --> 01:23:29,120
finance director we have an operator
that we've kind of operated under the

1135
01:23:27,679 --> 01:23:32,400
assumption and
that the city manager would handle those

1136
01:23:30,560 --> 01:23:35,679
duties which
i think

1137
01:23:33,760 --> 01:23:39,199
it's accomplished it's worked but it
hasn't worked as well but we also had a

1138
01:23:37,600 --> 01:23:42,480
firm that we paid yeah and we and we
still do yeah we've been using subtle

1139
01:23:40,719 --> 01:23:46,480
sonic to kind of fill in for those those
holes of knowledge that i don't have and

1140
01:23:44,719 --> 01:23:48,960
they kind of provide a check on me in a
sense right they're checking our

1141
01:23:47,520 --> 01:23:52,719
financial reports and generating those
and things

1142
01:23:49,920 --> 01:23:57,120
um but as we've discussed i think
we we see a need for bringing these

1143
01:23:54,560 --> 01:24:00,000
duties back in house and as we stalk
talk through the different uh the

1144
01:23:58,719 --> 01:24:04,400
different times we had the special
meetings we had about this topic uh

1145
01:24:02,639 --> 01:24:08,480
i see really two spheres of influence
within the finance department a

1146
01:24:05,600 --> 01:24:12,800
collector's side and of the finance
payroll yeah the the revenue side and

1147
01:24:11,280 --> 01:24:16,639
the collection side i guess is the best
best way to say it but

1148
01:24:15,360 --> 01:24:20,639
so
miss johnson i've approached her about

1149
01:24:18,719 --> 01:24:24,320
taking on expanded duties within her
role

1150
01:24:21,600 --> 01:24:28,000
she's reticent let's say to be very
honest about it and i've assured her

1151
01:24:26,320 --> 01:24:31,760
that this isn't we're not hiring her to
be our financial expert in a sense but

1152
01:24:30,159 --> 01:24:35,360
we do need somebody who's directing the
day-to-day

1153
01:24:32,960 --> 01:24:39,360
um supervision of our our financial
workings that's something with all the

1154
01:24:37,120 --> 01:24:43,760
other duties that i'm performing in the
state of our operation that i think that

1155
01:24:41,679 --> 01:24:47,120
i've i've really been shorted on and i
haven't had an opportunity to really

1156
01:24:45,280 --> 01:24:50,400
delve into our our quickbooks and make
sure each day our transactions have been

1157
01:24:49,040 --> 01:24:53,840
attributed correctly and things that
nature

1158
01:24:51,600 --> 01:24:57,280
and also like with benefits with peia it
works i pair bills

1159
01:24:56,080 --> 01:25:00,880
but you know i haven't really had a
chance to really delve into the numbers

1160
01:24:59,120 --> 01:25:03,920
and all that stuff and and really give
probably probably what our employees

1161
01:25:02,480 --> 01:25:07,600
deserve as far as
um advice and updates and things of that

1162
01:25:06,400 --> 01:25:10,960
nature and so
those two roles are what i'm i'm really

1163
01:25:09,760 --> 01:25:14,239
seeing
her sliding into

1164
01:25:13,520 --> 01:25:17,840
so
at this point and then i think with that

1165
01:25:16,000 --> 01:25:21,440
move in the future here we're going to
identify a candidate to come in and

1166
01:25:19,920 --> 01:25:24,639
essentially be the assistant with a
little bit

1167
01:25:22,800 --> 01:25:28,560
more financial background more financial
experience to handle that other side of

1168
01:25:26,000 --> 01:25:33,040
the equation for us and then attempt to
pull back the duties from settle and

1169
01:25:30,639 --> 01:25:36,000
sonic or that that are routine you know
such as

1170
01:25:34,560 --> 01:25:40,560
accounts payable and things of that
nature that they really

1171
01:25:38,080 --> 01:25:43,360
you know what they say a basic level
accountant could could be trained to do

1172
01:25:42,080 --> 01:25:47,920
very easily
and so that and then their estimation

1173
01:25:45,199 --> 01:25:51,280
that's about 20 or so hours a week so
that's the that's the track i'm trying

1174
01:25:49,360 --> 01:25:54,560
to put us on and jump start us all into
so at this point i think we need to have

1175
01:25:52,960 --> 01:25:57,920
a finance director and i'm recommending
you appoint susie johnston and her

1176
01:25:56,560 --> 01:26:01,600
salary would be forty five thousand
dollars a year

1177
01:26:00,080 --> 01:26:05,360
and then i'll ask
make that recommendation answer any

1178
01:26:02,800 --> 01:26:05,360
questions you have

1179
01:26:05,679 --> 01:26:12,960
ms johnson have acceptable credentials
yeah can we see her last two evaluations

1180
01:26:11,120 --> 01:26:16,639
please
incidentally how long have you been

1181
01:26:14,239 --> 01:26:21,600
working for the city and collections and
in finance

1182
01:26:18,800 --> 01:26:26,000
six sets what i thought
yeah

1183
01:26:23,840 --> 01:26:30,480
thank you
i moved to appoint

1184
01:26:28,000 --> 01:26:34,480
susie johnston as the finance director
at a salary of forty five thousand

1185
01:26:32,480 --> 01:26:39,360
dollars a year
and she'll be an exempt employee just an

1186
01:26:36,320 --> 01:26:39,360
exempt employee

1187
01:26:40,159 --> 01:26:47,280
okay it's been moved in second any
discussion

1188
01:26:45,040 --> 01:26:51,600
i just want to say i think
susie does an excellent job will be

1189
01:26:49,040 --> 01:26:54,960
excellent disposition i agree
and i'll be keeping my eye on her

1190
01:26:55,199 --> 01:26:58,800
we'll have voting by roll call

1191
01:26:59,120 --> 01:27:04,880
yes
that's one randy bowen yes

1192
01:27:02,239 --> 01:27:04,880
councilwoman

1193
01:27:06,159 --> 01:27:12,080
yes
motion carries

1194
01:27:09,199 --> 01:27:17,280
next westport conservation poke creek
watershed dams and channel

1195
01:27:14,719 --> 01:27:23,600
it's the cost share agreement
i believe it's the same amount as last

1196
01:27:19,360 --> 01:27:23,600
year correct forty four hundred dollars

1197
01:27:24,639 --> 01:27:30,719
i'll move to approve
a second it's been moved in second to

1198
01:27:28,880 --> 01:27:38,400
approve in the amount of forty four
hundred dollars any discussion

1199
01:27:34,560 --> 01:27:43,760
all um voting by roll call
councilwoman sherry rogers yes

1200
01:27:40,800 --> 01:27:49,679
comes from randy bowen yes
yes councilman curtis yes

1201
01:27:47,199 --> 01:27:53,360
okay motion carries next
the

1202
01:27:51,000 --> 01:27:58,840
2022-6 ordinance
updated vacant structure and vacant

1203
01:27:55,679 --> 01:28:03,920
property ordinance first
reading

1204
01:28:00,400 --> 01:28:08,639
you want to do a preface on yeah sure
i don't want to cast any doubt on our

1205
01:28:05,440 --> 01:28:13,520
city attorney's abilities but um
and i'm not doing that

1206
01:28:10,320 --> 01:28:17,199
but this is in a sense hot off the press
you know this is something that you all

1207
01:28:15,280 --> 01:28:19,840
have been given i think the weekend the
read

1208
01:28:18,159 --> 01:28:23,840
which it's not a long document so i
think that that's reasonable in a sense

1209
01:28:22,159 --> 01:28:28,239
but this is something that today we set
through this afternoon and as a staff i

1210
01:28:26,000 --> 01:28:31,840
mean the attorney prepared it he's given
it his review

1211
01:28:29,920 --> 01:28:35,440
i've gone through it and made some notes
i don't know if those notes have been

1212
01:28:33,360 --> 01:28:39,280
incorporated or not at this point and
we've got some some questions on our

1213
01:28:37,600 --> 01:28:42,639
site as far as fees and stuff of that
nature that we'll point out here in a

1214
01:28:40,560 --> 01:28:46,800
second so i want to say i mean i know
we're all hot to get this issue going

1215
01:28:44,719 --> 01:28:49,600
and get this settled but this may be
something that you want to take a little

1216
01:28:48,000 --> 01:28:52,719
bit longer look at and i think that
would be fair

1217
01:28:50,719 --> 01:28:56,080
to do that
it's up to you all i mean i don't know

1218
01:28:54,560 --> 01:28:59,440
if you said hey i was up all weekend
reading this thing and i love it i'm

1219
01:28:57,600 --> 01:29:02,800
ready to rock and roll i'm fine moving
forward but

1220
01:29:00,719 --> 01:29:07,600
i do think what one thing that kind of
came to the surface in our discussion

1221
01:29:04,480 --> 01:29:10,560
today was the fee structure i wasn't
uh

1222
01:29:08,639 --> 01:29:13,679
maybe i missed something i was okay with
the fee structure well i think there

1223
01:29:12,159 --> 01:29:16,960
shouldn't be more when you guys had
previously enacted this

1224
01:29:15,440 --> 01:29:21,199
ordinance i think that the fees were
more yeah they were and

1225
01:29:18,960 --> 01:29:25,600
we you know we sat down today and and
kind of worked through that old fee

1226
01:29:22,400 --> 01:29:29,040
structure and said yeah that's 6 500 for
somebody that first year

1227
01:29:27,679 --> 01:29:33,440
if they don't if they're vacant that
whole year and that's strong

1228
01:29:31,520 --> 01:29:36,560
and i don't think it's necessarily
illegal

1229
01:29:34,560 --> 01:29:39,920
but i think that that's with a program
that's kind of in essence starting from

1230
01:29:38,480 --> 01:29:43,280
scratch right it's something that maybe
is not out there very well for folks to

1231
01:29:41,520 --> 01:29:47,199
know about or even you know you've got
three months and then you're paying 500

1232
01:29:44,960 --> 01:29:50,719
if i got the numbers right
to me that's uh i think from from our

1233
01:29:49,520 --> 01:29:56,080
standpoint we're going to have some
serious blowback on us from a pr

1234
01:29:53,600 --> 01:29:59,600
perspective right and i think for us to
get the program off the ground

1235
01:29:58,159 --> 01:30:03,920
these lighter numbers probably make a
little bit more sense for us

1236
01:30:01,440 --> 01:30:07,760
from that perspective but they do you
know if you look at the vacant or the

1237
01:30:06,000 --> 01:30:11,520
ordinance in front of you we're only
charging 500 for properties that are

1238
01:30:09,520 --> 01:30:17,440
vacant for in the first year and there's
no fee to register the the vacant

1239
01:30:13,440 --> 01:30:20,800
properties in this from what i recall
and i don't necessarily disagree yeah

1240
01:30:19,440 --> 01:30:25,199
and so
i think that for this is policy this is

1241
01:30:23,440 --> 01:30:29,120
right up you know on the curve of what a
city manager does and what council does

1242
01:30:26,880 --> 01:30:31,760
this is this is your wheelhouse to
to write the laws and things of that

1243
01:30:30,480 --> 01:30:35,440
nature i'm just trying to give you some
feedback and i think i wish the attorney

1244
01:30:34,000 --> 01:30:38,400
was here to work with you kind of more
on a one-on-one basis but

1245
01:30:37,440 --> 01:30:40,639
um
i'm more than willing you know if you

1246
01:30:39,520 --> 01:30:43,520
like i said if you spend all weekend
looking at it and say i've got 10

1247
01:30:41,920 --> 01:30:46,239
comments i want to give you i'll take
them and

1248
01:30:44,400 --> 01:30:49,440
try to integrate them but
otherwise like i said i think it might

1249
01:30:48,000 --> 01:30:52,880
might behoove us to
look at this a little bit longer

1250
01:30:51,440 --> 01:30:56,639
i got it you have some more joyful
questions on the language

1251
01:30:54,719 --> 01:31:00,400
excuse me on the language
first starting off under complaints

1252
01:30:59,199 --> 01:31:05,440
notice
excuse me the police chief any police

1253
01:31:03,280 --> 01:31:09,920
officer the chief of the fire department
and any member of the fire department

1254
01:31:07,520 --> 01:31:15,760
the city building code official
shall have the authority to identify

1255
01:31:12,239 --> 01:31:18,880
nuisances and provide a warning
sorry yeah that's the next one we tell

1256
01:31:17,679 --> 01:31:22,880
you what section or page you're on there
sorry yeah

1257
01:31:20,239 --> 01:31:28,639
that is the next ordinance that's the uh
one site yeah that's um

1258
01:31:25,679 --> 01:31:34,000
the on-site citation ordinance okay this
one is

1259
01:31:30,400 --> 01:31:37,760
vacant building ordinance 2022 06.
where's that at

1260
01:31:35,360 --> 01:31:40,639
well i have like
it is on

1261
01:31:40,719 --> 01:31:48,159
after the west fork watershed agreement
the last

1262
01:31:45,360 --> 01:31:53,960
signature page of the west fork water
shed treatment

1263
01:31:49,840 --> 01:31:53,960
it's on the other side

1264
01:32:09,920 --> 01:32:16,639
i would appreciate it if he could make
those changes and also i do believe that

1265
01:32:14,719 --> 01:32:22,800
we do need this
wasn't it 250 dollars for the

1266
01:32:20,400 --> 01:32:22,800
that's here

1267
01:32:24,480 --> 01:32:26,719
right

1268
01:32:35,840 --> 01:32:45,760
yeah it's on the
first year

1269
01:32:39,760 --> 01:32:45,760
total first year 3500 66 000. 6 000.

1270
01:32:46,320 --> 01:32:48,560
okay

1271
01:32:50,080 --> 01:32:55,040
okay but
on the other thing we discussed

1272
01:32:55,900 --> 01:32:59,070
[Music]

1273
01:33:03,600 --> 01:33:08,120
vacant property where's the theme now

1274
01:33:16,700 --> 01:33:19,750
[Music]

1275
01:33:20,560 --> 01:33:22,960
i think

1276
01:33:32,639 --> 01:33:35,800
or regular

1277
01:33:36,639 --> 01:33:40,000
at a future meeting i think at this
point

1278
01:33:38,719 --> 01:33:44,159
i don't know is there a way for us to
kind of converse back and forth on the

1279
01:33:41,600 --> 01:33:47,360
on the ordinance to say
this is what can we share drafts with

1280
01:33:46,000 --> 01:33:49,840
you guys via email i think that's
allowed

1281
01:33:48,400 --> 01:33:52,239
and then get us to a point where we're
happy with it

1282
01:33:51,040 --> 01:33:57,760
it's probably the best way and then we
should send our input we have a motion

1283
01:33:54,159 --> 01:33:57,760
and a second to table

1284
01:33:58,080 --> 01:34:05,760
any discussion
all in favor say aye aye opposed motion

1285
01:34:04,560 --> 01:34:10,320
carries
now we're on that next one next updated

1286
01:34:08,159 --> 01:34:14,400
on-site citations did you have a
question herb

1287
01:34:12,000 --> 01:34:18,880
uh yes but i'm good let's see if the
city manager wants to speak on this one

1288
01:34:16,080 --> 01:34:22,960
first okay just real briefly and
also i haven't i haven't even reviewed

1289
01:34:20,400 --> 01:34:26,880
this one um you did get a second copy of
the ordinance you had one in your packet

1290
01:34:24,639 --> 01:34:30,800
yeah today through those discussions we
we decided to

1291
01:34:28,480 --> 01:34:34,639
uh codify i think was the right word
our guys to say we're going to make sure

1292
01:34:32,719 --> 01:34:38,480
there's a warning process in this
citation so other municipalities when

1293
01:34:36,880 --> 01:34:41,440
you read their on-site citation they can
basically walk up and say oh there's

1294
01:34:39,760 --> 01:34:45,280
trash here's a ticket
and and i think

1295
01:34:42,960 --> 01:34:49,040
we were fine with that approach but
just from our discussion we we would

1296
01:34:47,280 --> 01:34:52,880
like to use a warning process where we
go out there and say hey here's a

1297
01:34:50,639 --> 01:34:56,560
warning please take care of your your
issue just to work with people and then

1298
01:34:55,520 --> 01:35:00,159
if they haven't done that within the
days prescribing it we'll be back and

1299
01:34:57,920 --> 01:35:03,679
we'll issue a citation at that point so
we decided to put that in the code and

1300
01:35:02,159 --> 01:35:09,440
that's when you when you look at that
second copy you received today that

1301
01:35:05,280 --> 01:35:12,159
language is added in red okay
and then we also had a question about

1302
01:35:11,040 --> 01:35:16,480
fines
you know we had some latitude there

1303
01:35:14,639 --> 01:35:19,119
and what we decided essentially was to
kick

1304
01:35:17,280 --> 01:35:22,320
kick this subject to the municipal court
right instead of saying hey your first

1305
01:35:20,719 --> 01:35:25,920
offense is going to be a hundred dollars
right

1306
01:35:23,280 --> 01:35:30,480
i think yeah the crime and
and their reticence and all that stuff

1307
01:35:28,960 --> 01:35:34,159
that's the judge's role to kind of take
that into consideration some the

1308
01:35:32,560 --> 01:35:37,600
ordinance we used for this as our bases
i think was martinsburg they had every

1309
01:35:35,920 --> 01:35:41,040
one of these appeals or complaints
coming before city council but we felt

1310
01:35:39,760 --> 01:35:44,080
the municipal court was probably the
proper jurisdiction

1311
01:35:42,480 --> 01:35:48,159
and the proper
setting for those things to kind of be

1312
01:35:46,000 --> 01:35:51,679
banning about and negotiated and all
that that manner so

1313
01:35:50,480 --> 01:35:56,560
i think it's a
i got to read this this afternoon right

1314
01:35:53,360 --> 01:36:00,800
before i got here and i found one typo
and like i said i think it's some i

1315
01:35:58,400 --> 01:36:03,760
think another review it was it had to do
with let me see if i could find the page

1316
01:36:02,080 --> 01:36:08,159
ahead of that's okay
it was uh the section where we talked

1317
01:36:05,840 --> 01:36:11,920
about court and one of those vestige
councils

1318
01:36:09,280 --> 01:36:15,840
so if i can find it there so i'll get
that corrected but um

1319
01:36:13,920 --> 01:36:19,199
i thought it looked good yeah i think i
think it's a very good ordinance i just

1320
01:36:17,280 --> 01:36:22,880
like said i think
from our from our standpoint we we've

1321
01:36:21,280 --> 01:36:26,480
all we know what kind of situation we've
walked into here and we're trying to get

1322
01:36:24,159 --> 01:36:30,239
things up and running sure these these
ordinances i think are very critical

1323
01:36:28,320 --> 01:36:33,520
they deserve some deliberation some
thought you know i don't necessarily see

1324
01:36:32,400 --> 01:36:37,360
the need to
to get this done here and there it's you

1325
01:36:35,040 --> 01:36:41,679
know emergency scenario i think it's
it's good to give your yeah to bring

1326
01:36:39,679 --> 01:36:45,360
this before council and say here's a
draft ordinance let's talk about a

1327
01:36:43,040 --> 01:36:50,080
little bit right and then then sit on
that for a month and come back and say

1328
01:36:48,400 --> 01:36:53,119
are we all happy with it right and then
pass that and we can deliberate back and

1329
01:36:51,520 --> 01:36:55,679
forth i think that's a good
precedent for us to sell set for

1330
01:36:54,639 --> 01:37:00,400
ourselves when we're dealing with these
ordinances in the future and as we go

1331
01:36:58,239 --> 01:37:03,760
forward so
that's that's my two cents on it you

1332
01:37:02,080 --> 01:37:06,639
guys can disagree with that but like i
said i would rather take

1333
01:37:05,440 --> 01:37:09,840
take the time up front and make sure
we're all comfortable with it and rather

1334
01:37:08,239 --> 01:37:11,760
than say oh shoot we get into this we
miss

1335
01:37:10,560 --> 01:37:15,199
something critical and then we're back
here doing an amendment to the ordinance

1336
01:37:13,760 --> 01:37:19,520
a month or two later does that make
sense so you're recommending that we

1337
01:37:16,880 --> 01:37:22,159
table this one as well i'm
i would

1338
01:37:20,400 --> 01:37:25,520
that's my preference if unless you guys
feel like you've read enough i mean you

1339
01:37:23,280 --> 01:37:30,800
just got the red lettering today right
yeah this evening and i read it yeah and

1340
01:37:28,239 --> 01:37:36,719
actually i'm ready i'm fine
and what i do like about this ordinance

1341
01:37:33,360 --> 01:37:40,719
as and we have people online who have
are on

1342
01:37:38,000 --> 01:37:44,880
the phone who have called in who there
have been many concerns

1343
01:37:42,719 --> 01:37:50,800
about some of these nuisances
that uh particularly noise

1344
01:37:48,639 --> 01:37:56,480
that cannot
it doesn't the the after 10 pm noise

1345
01:37:54,320 --> 01:37:59,119
ordinance doesn't really address
um

1346
01:37:57,679 --> 01:38:04,000
but
this ordinance does address those

1347
01:38:01,280 --> 01:38:07,760
nuisances so someone doesn't
have to listen to excessive

1348
01:38:06,719 --> 01:38:11,119
noise
throughout and when i say excessive

1349
01:38:09,280 --> 01:38:16,000
noise it is
excessive noise that they should not be

1350
01:38:13,679 --> 01:38:20,080
subject to too
if you can't have a picnic in your

1351
01:38:17,760 --> 01:38:23,760
backyard or a grill out in your backyard
because of your neighbors in

1352
01:38:21,280 --> 01:38:29,679
consideration i think
uh this ordinance addresses that

1353
01:38:26,639 --> 01:38:34,239
so if the ordinance is read and passed
at a first reading

1354
01:38:31,760 --> 01:38:38,560
you can still review and
and our city attorney can make

1355
01:38:36,480 --> 01:38:41,840
additional corrections
for where i understand it you can't make

1356
01:38:40,639 --> 01:38:46,159
changes to the ordinance that would
materially change it what is the

1357
01:38:44,159 --> 01:38:52,280
definition of material change
i'd leave that the council and the

1358
01:38:47,360 --> 01:38:52,280
attorney to to go back and forth on that

1359
01:38:59,520 --> 01:39:03,840
i think it needs some work i'm
definitely

1360
01:39:02,159 --> 01:39:10,080
forward table and as far as the language
goes okay as i stated earlier under

1361
01:39:06,159 --> 01:39:14,480
complaints and notice i spoke with the
building specter code enforcement

1362
01:39:12,080 --> 01:39:18,159
officer over earlier before the meeting
and the chief of police

1363
01:39:16,159 --> 01:39:22,880
under complaints and notice it says
states in the beginning the police chief

1364
01:39:20,639 --> 01:39:26,400
and police officer the chief of the fire
department any member of the fire

1365
01:39:24,320 --> 01:39:30,320
department and the city building code
officials shall have the authority to

1366
01:39:28,080 --> 01:39:33,520
identify nuisances and provide a warning
to the alleged violator

1367
01:39:36,639 --> 01:39:43,840
do they also have open range as well
everyone stated here in this language to

1368
01:39:46,639 --> 01:39:54,480
to give an on-site citation as well
and the reason i ask that's because

1369
01:39:52,480 --> 01:39:57,760
nuisance is a broad term
and

1370
01:39:56,080 --> 01:40:01,920
of course as you're aware
mr city manager you got to go

1371
01:39:59,920 --> 01:40:06,239
to you know through training and all
sorts of things to become a code

1372
01:40:03,760 --> 01:40:10,320
enforcement officer to cite someone for
a nuisance

1373
01:40:08,239 --> 01:40:13,440
or even a warning as far as that goes
because

1374
01:40:11,119 --> 01:40:17,760
it involves and is included
and leads up to a citation which is

1375
01:40:15,760 --> 01:40:22,400
given by someone that has to take
training classes to

1376
01:40:19,840 --> 01:40:26,800
to do on-site citations and and
to cite someone for a nuisance so

1377
01:40:24,960 --> 01:40:30,719
that was the first part that i've seen
that maybe

1378
01:40:28,880 --> 01:40:33,520
we may be going just a little broad as
far as who can

1379
01:40:33,679 --> 01:40:40,960
generate warnings and in citations
councilman curtis would you like to make

1380
01:40:38,560 --> 01:40:45,760
a motion to table this yeah i've got one
more part

1381
01:40:42,719 --> 01:40:52,000
in regard to some of the
fire

1382
01:40:47,840 --> 01:40:55,280
issues okay yeah not a nuisance but
i don't even know what it deals with oh

1383
01:40:53,360 --> 01:40:58,880
okay yeah
it might be good to send him a copy of

1384
01:40:56,800 --> 01:41:02,639
that because he'd probably have some
input yeah yeah that's what i said i

1385
01:41:00,880 --> 01:41:05,280
think it's oh hey i don't i don't want
to say that we were rushing it but we

1386
01:41:03,920 --> 01:41:08,000
we're kind of trying to move things
forward as quickly as possible right so

1387
01:41:06,800 --> 01:41:11,280
we've got this in front of you tonight
to ask these questions sure okay you

1388
01:41:09,840 --> 01:41:14,480
know and i think that and you might want
to win councilman curtis has one more

1389
01:41:13,119 --> 01:41:19,600
point
yeah my second was said warning

1390
01:41:17,360 --> 01:41:24,960
which is the next sentence said warning
shall give the violator a reasonable

1391
01:41:21,679 --> 01:41:30,000
amount of time to abate the nuisance
a reasonable reasonable amount of times

1392
01:41:27,840 --> 01:41:36,400
a broad statement as well i think there
at least should be a window of five to

1393
01:41:32,480 --> 01:41:36,400
15 days five to 20 days

1394
01:41:36,480 --> 01:41:43,760
there needs there needs to be a
means to an end here

1395
01:41:41,600 --> 01:41:48,000
a cut-off point and and i just think
that leaves a wide open window because

1396
01:41:46,560 --> 01:41:52,639
first of all you have all these
different titles above that's that

1397
01:41:50,239 --> 01:41:56,800
you're given authority to cite someone
with a warning or citation and then

1398
01:41:55,040 --> 01:42:00,639
you're saying
given the violator

1399
01:41:58,400 --> 01:42:05,040
or shall give the violated a reasonable
amount of reasonable amount of time

1400
01:42:02,719 --> 01:42:07,760
could you know when you're having
five or six different titles here could

1401
01:42:06,880 --> 01:42:11,679
be
five days to 400 days

1402
01:42:13,280 --> 01:42:18,080
and i hear what you're saying i don't
necessarily disagree i yeah it's a

1403
01:42:16,719 --> 01:42:22,080
common practice i guess the law
especially in this regard right it kind

1404
01:42:19,840 --> 01:42:25,280
of gives the authority to the
policeman i use that term generally to

1405
01:42:24,080 --> 01:42:27,679
kind of make that
decision right they're trying to work

1406
01:42:26,400 --> 01:42:31,679
with people and things that nature right
now sure you'll get a complaint say well

1407
01:42:30,000 --> 01:42:35,119
i broke my back and my husband's out of
town until

1408
01:42:33,360 --> 01:42:38,000
the next two months can i get this trash
pile behind my house in the next few

1409
01:42:36,639 --> 01:42:42,000
months and you say well yeah but if you
you know five to 20 days and you're kind

1410
01:42:39,840 --> 01:42:44,880
of handicapped by the law in a sense
you're breaking the law by giving them

1411
01:42:43,280 --> 01:42:48,159
more so i think that's that's the
general reason for that broad of

1412
01:42:46,400 --> 01:42:53,040
language right you let people allow them
to work with them within reason

1413
01:42:50,480 --> 01:42:56,480
sure but that's in any of these titles
when they're on site with during an

1414
01:42:55,360 --> 01:43:00,880
issue
could tell some you know a landowner hey

1415
01:42:58,960 --> 01:43:03,840
you need to clean this up or
this is an issue here and if you you

1416
01:43:02,400 --> 01:43:07,679
know this is something the city can cite
you for to look at a later time but as

1417
01:43:05,600 --> 01:43:12,480
far as tying it in with
uh issuing citations and with the code

1418
01:43:10,400 --> 01:43:18,159
enforcement department itself i
wasn't sure about that and then again

1419
01:43:14,960 --> 01:43:21,199
a reasonable amount of times
i think should be narrowed down just a

1420
01:43:19,600 --> 01:43:25,199
little more and other than that i think
it looks

1421
01:43:22,840 --> 01:43:28,800
good and that typo i was telling you
guys about that was at section 7c at the

1422
01:43:27,280 --> 01:43:31,679
very end there there's a before council
there i don't think you want any role in

1423
01:43:30,320 --> 01:43:35,679
that i think that's before municipal
court that's that that language

1424
01:43:34,400 --> 01:43:38,480
yeah
it's just something that gets overlooked

1425
01:43:37,119 --> 01:43:42,800
sometimes you're ready to make that
motion

1426
01:43:40,719 --> 01:43:47,440
did we table that yet
we're waiting for a motion to table okay

1427
01:43:48,639 --> 01:43:53,560
i moved to table
the

1428
01:43:56,320 --> 01:44:01,920
the first reading of the on-site
citation

1429
01:43:59,360 --> 01:44:01,920
ordinance

1430
01:44:02,480 --> 01:44:10,239
but
is there a second a second

1431
01:44:07,440 --> 01:44:13,840
it's been moved in second to table the
first reading of the ordinance

1432
01:44:12,639 --> 01:44:19,600
on
updating on-site citations

1433
01:44:16,960 --> 01:44:23,840
any discussion
all in favor say aye

1434
01:44:22,320 --> 01:44:29,480
opposed
motion carries

1435
01:44:26,159 --> 01:44:35,280
uh next under letter e
2022-8 ordinance denial and or

1436
01:44:33,040 --> 01:44:39,520
revocation of licenses
and permits this would be the first

1437
01:44:37,199 --> 01:44:39,520
reading

1438
01:44:41,440 --> 01:44:51,920
that's 20 22.00
five or six

1439
01:44:46,560 --> 01:44:51,920
seven eight eight thank you go ahead

1440
01:44:52,480 --> 01:44:59,760
we have discussion
sure yes

1441
01:44:56,639 --> 01:44:59,760
okay the the whole

1442
01:45:00,639 --> 01:45:08,880
procedure and the whole situation in
regards to

1443
01:45:06,800 --> 01:45:14,000
code enforcement and
cleaning up our town

1444
01:45:11,040 --> 01:45:17,679
is to clean up our town so why would you
revoke a permit

1445
01:45:15,760 --> 01:45:21,920
because they owe you money let them put
the money into fixing up their property

1446
01:45:20,000 --> 01:45:26,000
if they want to
so that that's a point i'd like to make

1447
01:45:24,239 --> 01:45:30,750
about that ordinance if there's
something i'm missing

1448
01:45:28,000 --> 01:45:33,939
i'll listen
[Music]

1449
01:45:34,080 --> 01:45:40,000
i
the motivation for this is that we've

1450
01:45:37,679 --> 01:45:44,239
created a process
if you can call it that i mean it's very

1451
01:45:41,679 --> 01:45:47,440
informal we check our b o taxes our
business license things that nature to

1452
01:45:46,239 --> 01:45:50,960
make sure if somebody's coming in and
getting a building permit that they've

1453
01:45:49,679 --> 01:45:54,400
if they're a contractor they've
registered to have a business license in

1454
01:45:52,480 --> 01:45:57,440
the city that they're up to date on
their b o taxes

1455
01:45:56,000 --> 01:46:01,360
and you know if you're a property unit
you paid your municipal fees that that

1456
01:45:59,440 --> 01:46:05,119
things of that nature it's been a very
effective process for us we've been able

1457
01:46:03,280 --> 01:46:08,960
to a lot of people you know said well
we're

1458
01:46:05,920 --> 01:46:13,040
your contractors out there waiting
you haven't paid your business owner you

1459
01:46:10,719 --> 01:46:17,760
haven't paid your municipal fees
let's see how much i owe 500 bucks okay

1460
01:46:15,280 --> 01:46:20,880
i'll pay and then we've we've brought in
untold thousands

1461
01:46:19,280 --> 01:46:24,800
by by doing that
now in recent weeks we've had questions

1462
01:46:23,520 --> 01:46:29,440
from
outside agencies i'll call them in this

1463
01:46:26,719 --> 01:46:32,639
discussion at this point to say where do
you have that on the books that you you

1464
01:46:30,880 --> 01:46:35,760
can hold up this building permit because
of this

1465
01:46:34,080 --> 01:46:38,480
we don't necessarily have any explicit
language that says we can do that

1466
01:46:37,199 --> 01:46:42,320
there's some general language in there
that says you know you know all proper

1467
01:46:40,639 --> 01:46:46,400
fees and things like that should be paid
before the permit is issued we wanted to

1468
01:46:45,040 --> 01:46:50,080
make that a little bit more explicit so
that we can hand this off to those folks

1469
01:46:47,920 --> 01:46:53,840
when that when that question comes
and to clarify for anybody thinking and

1470
01:46:52,400 --> 01:46:57,679
this this language here came from the
city of charleston from there being a

1471
01:46:55,280 --> 01:47:01,199
tax sec section
that gave them the authority to do this

1472
01:46:58,960 --> 01:47:04,480
so that's where this comes from
now i think the

1473
01:47:02,719 --> 01:47:09,040
the point that councilman bowen's made
is a legitimate let me step in real

1474
01:47:07,119 --> 01:47:14,400
quick and save us some time
i i was thinking that um

1475
01:47:11,679 --> 01:47:18,480
these restrictions of revocations was
being directed at the homeowner or the

1476
01:47:17,040 --> 01:47:22,480
person
which i don't think that should be i

1477
01:47:20,080 --> 01:47:27,119
should have differentiated i understand
the point of view of the contractor and

1478
01:47:24,400 --> 01:47:31,360
the license i get that but we stand but
we do and let me clarify it we do do

1479
01:47:29,440 --> 01:47:34,960
that to the homeowner as well if they're
doing the work themselves we're checking

1480
01:47:33,040 --> 01:47:38,560
to see that their fees have been paid
i don't think you should do it to the

1481
01:47:36,239 --> 01:47:42,880
homeowners or the people who owns the
property if they're wanting to come in

1482
01:47:40,560 --> 01:47:45,760
and fix it up and clean it up and you're
sitting there telling me you want you

1483
01:47:44,159 --> 01:47:50,000
want their money before they can spend
their money i i don't think that's a

1484
01:47:48,400 --> 01:47:54,880
the right way to go about that i think
you should uh

1485
01:47:52,080 --> 01:47:58,159
allow them to improve their property and
hope to get your money it's still your

1486
01:47:56,639 --> 01:48:01,280
property's improved and ultimately
that's your goal

1487
01:47:59,600 --> 01:48:04,639
and let me let me finish my thought
there is that in my time here we've had

1488
01:48:03,360 --> 01:48:07,280
one issue and this is the issue that
we're that we've all received an email

1489
01:48:06,080 --> 01:48:12,800
about today
um that's the one time we've had that

1490
01:48:09,760 --> 01:48:16,719
that situation that permit wasn't denied
we contacted that homeowner and said hey

1491
01:48:14,960 --> 01:48:20,800
you've got multiple years of municipal
fees here that haven't been paid

1492
01:48:19,280 --> 01:48:23,840
by our current
current practice we don't issue these

1493
01:48:22,320 --> 01:48:27,360
unless that's happened what's going on
here and that person said oh you know i

1494
01:48:25,920 --> 01:48:30,960
forgot and whatever you didn't think
time's been tough

1495
01:48:29,119 --> 01:48:34,960
the typical answers and we said can we
get you on a payment plan and they came

1496
01:48:32,639 --> 01:48:38,000
in and we negotiated with them with a
payment they felt comfortable with they

1497
01:48:36,480 --> 01:48:41,360
came in and made that payment we issued
the permit

1498
01:48:39,199 --> 01:48:45,199
and so i you know i think everybody
needs to be treated fairly in the permit

1499
01:48:42,960 --> 01:48:49,520
process too and that's an important
aspect of this and we don't want to see

1500
01:48:47,199 --> 01:48:52,960
anybody you know raked over the coals
because they're down on their luck or

1501
01:48:50,880 --> 01:48:56,080
anything of that nature but i do think
you've got to make a good faith effort

1502
01:48:54,560 --> 01:48:59,520
to meet the laws that are on the books
for all citizens and we're just trying

1503
01:48:58,080 --> 01:49:03,920
to figure out the best way of doing that
and so this like i said it was

1504
01:49:02,400 --> 01:49:07,040
mostly directly copied and pasted from
charleston

1505
01:49:05,119 --> 01:49:10,159
i'm fine tabling this too and adding
some language in there to say do we want

1506
01:49:08,400 --> 01:49:16,239
to put a payment you know a provision in
there that says you know and if you

1507
01:49:14,080 --> 01:49:19,440
can't pay for some reason you can enter
into a payment plan but i think we all

1508
01:49:18,159 --> 01:49:23,040
understand that there are people out
there with

1509
01:49:20,880 --> 01:49:25,679
tremendous means who will take advantage
of a system like that

1510
01:49:24,719 --> 01:49:29,679
and
and will get on the payment plan and you

1511
01:49:27,760 --> 01:49:34,400
know use us as a interest-free
institution in a sense so yeah we can we

1512
01:49:32,639 --> 01:49:38,080
need a system in place you gotta you
gotta have a structure to make things

1513
01:49:36,080 --> 01:49:43,320
work as you said it's working
and

1514
01:49:40,080 --> 01:49:43,320
what's that

1515
01:49:49,679 --> 01:49:55,599
yet receives city services
so we're talking about an issue of

1516
01:49:54,000 --> 01:49:58,960
fairness
here you know

1517
01:49:57,599 --> 01:50:03,520
you're putting a structure
you know the system in place to

1518
01:50:01,199 --> 01:50:06,719
to help out on the city side and in a
sense to help the owner and the

1519
01:50:05,040 --> 01:50:10,480
homeowner as well but
at some point

1520
01:50:08,960 --> 01:50:13,520
the city of weston is going to have to
start reaping some of the benefits back

1521
01:50:12,159 --> 01:50:16,639
from the people
instead of all the people were even from

1522
01:50:15,119 --> 01:50:20,719
the city that's why we're in the shape
we're in that's why our town looks like

1523
01:50:18,159 --> 01:50:27,599
it looks now so
i mean if it works

1524
01:50:24,159 --> 01:50:31,760
you can't very well you know have a list
in the truck and lift the blade when you

1525
01:50:29,199 --> 01:50:36,080
go past somebody if it doesn't fit their
municipal fees i mean you know they're

1526
01:50:34,080 --> 01:50:39,679
still receiving a discount on their
insurance because they're so close to

1527
01:50:37,520 --> 01:50:44,880
the fire department they're they're
receiving a lot of services for

1528
01:50:42,639 --> 01:50:48,239
being in the city limits
the same services that someone that pays

1529
01:50:46,719 --> 01:50:53,679
their fees
so is there an appetite to have the

1530
01:50:50,480 --> 01:50:57,520
first reading of this proposed ordinance
or to table it this evening for

1531
01:50:56,450 --> 01:51:02,719
[Music]
additional language modification

1532
01:51:01,119 --> 01:51:06,960
can can the word pleasure can the
ordinance be amended

1533
01:51:04,560 --> 01:51:10,239
for the second reading as far as as long
as it's not materially changed

1534
01:51:11,040 --> 01:51:17,440
plan i think that would be fine okay i
think that if we add the payment plan

1535
01:51:15,599 --> 01:51:22,239
though we do have some business owners
that will take advantage of that i hate

1536
01:51:20,320 --> 01:51:26,000
to say that but it's just gonna be a
fact susie i think there's language you

1537
01:51:24,159 --> 01:51:29,840
can entertain where you throw it in the
lap of the city manager or this finance

1538
01:51:28,080 --> 01:51:33,360
director to make that determination
right a reasonable

1539
01:51:31,520 --> 01:51:37,840
you know consideration of your
circumstances to ensure that if the city

1540
01:51:36,239 --> 01:51:40,800
sees works go forward but also that
payment's received or something some

1541
01:51:39,280 --> 01:51:43,599
kind of language like that and i'm
thinking at that point you get maybe we

1542
01:51:42,400 --> 01:51:46,880
put a place in there where that can be
challenged at municipal fee appeals

1543
01:51:45,599 --> 01:51:50,800
board or
municipal court or something that nature

1544
01:51:48,639 --> 01:51:55,440
but which could be done amended for the
second reading i've

1545
01:51:53,040 --> 01:51:58,800
i'm i'm fine with it you know
why not okay i think the gist of what

1546
01:51:57,599 --> 01:52:03,040
we're trying to accomplish is still
there right we're requiring the payment

1547
01:52:00,639 --> 01:52:08,560
of all fees randy does that language
help you and no yeah i'm good i just got

1548
01:52:05,760 --> 01:52:12,800
questions sometimes i ask them
okay is is there a motion to have the

1549
01:52:11,119 --> 01:52:15,679
first reading
yep i move that we have the first

1550
01:52:14,480 --> 01:52:19,760
reading
of the ordinance

1551
01:52:17,280 --> 01:52:19,760
let's see

1552
01:52:21,360 --> 01:52:24,800
for denial and or

1553
01:52:24,960 --> 01:52:29,199
revocation of license and permits

1554
01:52:33,040 --> 01:52:41,119
okay it's been moved in second
any discussion

1555
01:52:37,599 --> 01:52:46,159
we'll have voting by roll call
that's a woman sherry

1556
01:52:42,840 --> 01:52:49,360
rodgers bowen yes
yes

1557
01:52:48,000 --> 01:52:55,840
yes
okay city clerk please read that

1558
01:52:53,280 --> 01:53:01,360
2022-08
an ordinance to require payment of any

1559
01:52:58,320 --> 01:53:06,960
and all municipal fees tax or
the life before city license and permit

1560
01:53:04,239 --> 01:53:06,960
shall be issued

1561
01:53:08,400 --> 01:53:15,440
looking for a mission to accept the
second or the first reading by title i

1562
01:53:13,199 --> 01:53:20,480
moved to accept the first reading by
title only of ordinance 2022.08

1563
01:53:19,280 --> 01:53:24,000
[Music]
a second

1564
01:53:21,840 --> 01:53:30,239
randy seconds okay it's been moved in
second any discussion

1565
01:53:27,679 --> 01:53:33,840
voting by roll call again
councilwoman sherry rogers yes

1566
01:53:32,639 --> 01:53:37,760
councilman
randy bowen yes councilwoman debbie gump

1567
01:53:36,719 --> 01:53:43,920
yes
councilman herb curtis yes

1568
01:53:41,199 --> 01:53:48,080
motion carries next columbia club front
demolition

1569
01:53:46,239 --> 01:53:50,880
well initially we had an invoice that we
were a quotation that we're going to ask

1570
01:53:49,679 --> 01:53:54,320
you all to approve it was over five
thousand dollars

1571
01:53:52,560 --> 01:53:58,719
friday i got the call from them said hey
we want to reconsider that quotation

1572
01:53:56,639 --> 01:54:02,239
we've got some real questions there um i
said well i think

1573
01:53:59,920 --> 01:54:07,040
van ostern architects who we've
solicited and brought into the fold to

1574
01:54:05,040 --> 01:54:12,159
advise us on this stuff so let's meet
with him today on monday so

1575
01:54:08,880 --> 01:54:15,920
through that conversation i think we we
we decided a more

1576
01:54:14,080 --> 01:54:20,239
careful approach was needed in
consultation with the contractor

1577
01:54:18,400 --> 01:54:24,080
and we'd solicited quotations and these
guys were the low quotation now it

1578
01:54:22,880 --> 01:54:27,920
sounds like that price is going to
considerably increase because of the the

1579
01:54:26,239 --> 01:54:32,239
nature of the works needed
so i don't have a quotation in front of

1580
01:54:30,159 --> 01:54:35,599
you and it may involve we'll we'll kind
of cross that bridge when we get the

1581
01:54:33,840 --> 01:54:39,840
quotation and see what the value is but
we may even end up having to advertise

1582
01:54:37,679 --> 01:54:44,639
this if we can't find a way to to kind
of justify this this being a public

1583
01:54:42,639 --> 01:54:48,159
safety hazard and things of that nature
i i think we

1584
01:54:46,080 --> 01:54:52,239
we would have the the right innocence
right to say here's a couple quotations

1585
01:54:50,320 --> 01:54:55,599
let's move forward and skip this bidding
process i think that's in the language

1586
01:54:53,679 --> 01:54:58,800
but i'll keep you apprised of that but i
don't have any further details at this

1587
01:54:57,119 --> 01:55:05,280
point i apologize
um it's kind of a moving situation

1588
01:55:01,599 --> 01:55:07,360
looking for a motion to the table i've
got

1589
01:55:06,080 --> 01:55:13,599
excuse me
uh i had a member of my ward

1590
01:55:10,639 --> 01:55:19,599
a resident asked me about the
manchester bidwell corporation

1591
01:55:17,520 --> 01:55:22,800
correct if you do you have any
information about them

1592
01:55:21,440 --> 01:55:25,280
i think that's mr spellsberg right i
think i got an email from him today

1593
01:55:24,000 --> 01:55:29,440
about it
um what was this what was his final

1594
01:55:27,280 --> 01:55:32,800
request just refresh my memory
he's one he wanted to know when they

1595
01:55:30,880 --> 01:55:37,199
could get in the building and to me he
asked me who the

1596
01:55:34,880 --> 01:55:40,560
best uh to arrange a tour
tour the columbia club and i said city

1597
01:55:38,880 --> 01:55:44,320
manager and i'll work with him on and
i'll get back to him on it i think

1598
01:55:42,560 --> 01:55:47,040
it'll be when we take this front face
off there'll be some access issues for

1599
01:55:45,760 --> 01:55:50,400
our time being until we can kind of get
that restored so it may be a little bit

1600
01:55:48,880 --> 01:55:53,360
later
towards the middle of summer before it

1601
01:55:51,760 --> 01:55:55,520
gets in but we'll try to work something
out with them i don't have an issue with

1602
01:55:54,560 --> 01:55:58,760
it
thank you

1603
01:56:00,719 --> 01:56:07,440
i'll move the table
is there a second

1604
01:56:04,719 --> 01:56:13,760
a second okay it's been moved in second
to table the discussion on the columbia

1605
01:56:10,719 --> 01:56:18,480
club front demolition
any discussion

1606
01:56:15,760 --> 01:56:21,760
all those in favor say aye aye
opposed

1607
01:56:19,840 --> 01:56:26,159
motion carries
the hour is getting late and i

1608
01:56:23,679 --> 01:56:32,000
appreciate everyone's patience i'm going
to pass the baton to councilwoman rogers

1609
01:56:29,920 --> 01:56:35,119
thank you that's getting late i'll be
very

1610
01:56:32,800 --> 01:56:39,760
brief
i would like to encourage the public

1611
01:56:38,080 --> 01:56:44,080
more of the public to
attend our meetings our committees our

1612
01:56:42,639 --> 01:56:48,719
boards
to become involved you all are most

1613
01:56:46,320 --> 01:56:54,560
welcome always and i hope you feel that
at every meeting i know we do have

1614
01:56:50,880 --> 01:56:57,360
people now joining us on zoom and
those

1615
01:56:55,520 --> 01:57:03,040
agendas are posted
and uh we did have a constituent who

1616
01:57:00,800 --> 01:57:07,440
suggested that we move the public
comment to the beginning of the meeting

1617
01:57:05,119 --> 01:57:12,239
which i think is is nice a nice
accommodation

1618
01:57:08,800 --> 01:57:17,280
that that has been done for constituents
so you can read

1619
01:57:14,320 --> 01:57:22,639
what's on the agenda and comment before
we discuss and before the agenda item

1620
01:57:19,520 --> 01:57:25,920
comes up so we are making every effort
if

1621
01:57:23,599 --> 01:57:30,000
there are any other accommodations that
we could possibly do

1622
01:57:27,520 --> 01:57:34,080
to accommodate the public
we would certainly entertain those and

1623
01:57:31,840 --> 01:57:37,679
feel most welcome to
um

1624
01:57:35,119 --> 01:57:42,639
to let us know
i do want to

1625
01:57:39,280 --> 01:57:48,159
also mention the arpa meeting february
23rd at six at the masonic lodge those

1626
01:57:45,840 --> 01:57:55,040
are community weed meetings they're
rounds to table discussions they um

1627
01:57:53,199 --> 01:58:01,280
we encourage the public
to come and sit down and have a

1628
01:57:57,840 --> 01:58:04,719
conversation about our community
i think that

1629
01:58:02,800 --> 01:58:08,480
everyone has pretty much been involved
our city manager has scheduled those

1630
01:58:06,960 --> 01:58:11,679
meetings um
we'll we'll be publicizing those

1631
01:58:10,239 --> 01:58:16,000
meetings and
definitely would like for everyone to

1632
01:58:13,760 --> 01:58:19,199
attend and provide their input
and actually i think it would be a nice

1633
01:58:17,840 --> 01:58:23,280
time just to sit down and have
discussions about our community and um

1634
01:58:22,400 --> 01:58:26,719
also
an opportunity to learn what's going on

1635
01:58:25,199 --> 01:58:30,960
in our community
so

1636
01:58:28,400 --> 01:58:34,639
also the last thing i want to talk about
is the

1637
01:58:33,440 --> 01:58:39,360
i think
once again i know i always thank

1638
01:58:36,960 --> 01:58:42,320
the the city
team

1639
01:58:40,159 --> 01:58:46,719
but uh it just can't be said enough i
can't thank you enough i think that

1640
01:58:44,239 --> 01:58:52,159
things are moving in the right direction
i think as a result maybe the public

1641
01:58:48,960 --> 01:58:56,480
doesn't know but we have had some a
couple of neighborhoods actually

1642
01:58:54,239 --> 01:59:01,199
interested in being annexed into the
city of western because of our services

1643
01:58:59,040 --> 01:59:06,480
that are being provided
and we could not do that without our

1644
01:59:04,239 --> 01:59:08,880
staff and our city team
thank you

1645
01:59:09,520 --> 01:59:14,719
i think we've pulled out the same speech
bucket

1646
01:59:12,639 --> 01:59:19,679
really i believe yeah
yeah she's she come from a different way

1647
01:59:17,440 --> 01:59:23,599
i'm talking about community
involvement

1648
01:59:21,679 --> 01:59:28,080
and
i think every person in here needs to

1649
01:59:25,920 --> 01:59:33,760
question everything that every elected
official and every appointed and every

1650
01:59:31,599 --> 01:59:37,199
entity that's involved in your life you
need to go out

1651
01:59:35,280 --> 01:59:40,320
and look and and see what they're doing
and what they're presenting and what

1652
01:59:38,320 --> 01:59:45,840
they're selling us as a good
and what they're doing to our children

1653
01:59:43,119 --> 01:59:45,840
or grandchildren

1654
01:59:46,080 --> 01:59:52,719
i think we need to become involved when
things

1655
01:59:50,639 --> 01:59:57,199
things that you've seen happening for
many years and and you see it come

1656
01:59:54,639 --> 02:00:01,280
crashing down around you and you see the
pain and the suffering that it that

1657
01:59:59,360 --> 02:00:05,599
creates
and a lot of it's coming from the people

1658
02:00:03,760 --> 02:00:10,960
who think that there are leaders and
think that they're telling us what we

1659
02:00:07,360 --> 02:00:15,040
need to do we need to step up and
tell them what we think they need to do

1660
02:00:12,880 --> 02:00:20,320
and and to get out of our life
and to allow us to to do things for

1661
02:00:18,000 --> 02:00:24,320
ourselves because
i think if

1662
02:00:21,520 --> 02:00:31,280
as we've uh been apathetic over the past
30 or 40 years we've let we've let this

1663
02:00:27,360 --> 02:00:36,480
stuff slip away from us and and it's
on the world i mean you can't pay

1664
02:00:32,719 --> 02:00:36,480
attention much to the media i'm sorry

1665
02:00:36,639 --> 02:00:41,800
but
welcome back

1666
02:00:42,000 --> 02:00:49,119
but i mean but on a big scale but
whenever things hit close to home and

1667
02:00:47,199 --> 02:00:53,440
there's there's nobody's feeding you the
story and there's nobody

1668
02:00:51,599 --> 02:00:57,360
selling you on the
story line and it hits and you're

1669
02:00:55,840 --> 02:01:01,679
looking and you're like
i think that's what's caused these

1670
02:00:58,960 --> 02:01:05,760
things so i i'm kind of going around in
about way to try to be

1671
02:01:03,679 --> 02:01:09,040
diplomatic but we really need to
question

1672
02:01:07,280 --> 02:01:12,639
who's in charge of our children we need
to question who's in charge of our

1673
02:01:10,639 --> 02:01:18,000
cities we need to question who's in
charge of our counties at all times

1674
02:01:14,800 --> 02:01:22,639
we've forgotten that we have
that right and we haven't done it for 40

1675
02:01:20,000 --> 02:01:25,520
or 50 years and believe me it's really
showing thank you

1676
02:01:28,719 --> 02:01:35,440
i echo the sentiments of the previous
council members

1677
02:01:33,520 --> 02:01:39,840
community is very important i think i
talked about that last time

1678
02:01:38,000 --> 02:01:43,760
i do want to stress that there are some
upcoming things that people in the

1679
02:01:41,840 --> 02:01:48,960
community can support and that is the
chocolate festival

1680
02:01:45,440 --> 02:01:52,159
at the glass museum this weekend i mean
chocolate should be just a draw of

1681
02:01:50,560 --> 02:01:57,119
everybody
coming in but that is 1

1682
02:01:54,239 --> 02:02:00,400
00 p.m to 3 p.m at the
glass museum and that is a

1683
02:01:59,599 --> 02:02:04,880
10
covers year cost of all the chocolate

1684
02:02:02,719 --> 02:02:08,400
you can eat
so it's just like a smorgasbord of

1685
02:02:07,040 --> 02:02:12,239
chocolate
so i've already started working on my

1686
02:02:10,159 --> 02:02:17,679
chocolate so just putting out there no
cookies but a lot of chocolate

1687
02:02:14,719 --> 02:02:22,560
and i also uh of course more details be
coming but we do have the community

1688
02:02:20,000 --> 02:02:26,719
meeting planned for later in the month
on february 23rd so that's at the

1689
02:02:25,199 --> 02:02:31,199
masonic temple
and that's a great opportunity for every

1690
02:02:29,040 --> 02:02:38,159
community member to get involved and
voice their opinions and give us some

1691
02:02:33,920 --> 02:02:44,480
feedback on what you would like to see
the last thing i would like to

1692
02:02:40,560 --> 02:02:49,199
leave on is to encourage anybody
that is out there that is having a

1693
02:02:47,040 --> 02:02:54,000
crisis situation
um to please seek help

1694
02:02:52,560 --> 02:02:56,800
and to
um

1695
02:02:55,119 --> 02:03:02,880
realize there are people out there that
will listen to you we are in a community

1696
02:03:00,000 --> 02:03:07,040
that there are a lot of avenues that you
can reach out to so i just want to

1697
02:03:04,960 --> 02:03:10,480
encourage you
to to think

1698
02:03:08,560 --> 02:03:15,840
and and to talk
and to ask and to seek help

1699
02:03:12,880 --> 02:03:15,840
thank you

1700
02:03:16,960 --> 02:03:23,280
you want to announce me or
yes

1701
02:03:20,080 --> 02:03:26,880
councilman curtis ward 4.
it's it's really i appreciate it thank

1702
02:03:25,760 --> 02:03:31,199
you mayor
no problem it's a disadvantage being on

1703
02:03:29,040 --> 02:03:35,360
this end because everybody talks about
everything

1704
02:03:32,639 --> 02:03:39,679
under the sun and time it gets to me but
i will reiterate as councilwoman gump

1705
02:03:38,080 --> 02:03:45,119
said that
there will be a community meeting at the

1706
02:03:41,440 --> 02:03:49,440
masonic temple on the 23rd of february
and i'd just like to say as far as since

1707
02:03:47,360 --> 02:03:54,480
i've joined the council
i've seen over the last couple years

1708
02:03:51,440 --> 02:03:54,480
with all the committees

1709
02:03:54,880 --> 02:04:00,000
to me that has been rebirth with really
good people that's put a lot of time and

1710
02:03:58,560 --> 02:04:04,159
effort into them
um people within the community that's

1711
02:04:02,079 --> 02:04:08,639
helped with writing grants each
department our new city manager

1712
02:04:06,800 --> 02:04:13,199
we've got a new city attorney on board
that has spent countless hours on these

1713
02:04:10,880 --> 02:04:17,679
ordinances and so for all the people out
there when you see us sitting up here

1714
02:04:15,840 --> 02:04:21,679
and we're debating back and forth or
maybe table and

1715
02:04:19,119 --> 02:04:26,239
uh ordinances or
ideas that's come about that's on the

1716
02:04:23,199 --> 02:04:30,400
agenda uh it's just to make you know to
create more preparation and to

1717
02:04:28,880 --> 02:04:33,440
to make sure we have our all of our
ducks in a row i think you have some

1718
02:04:32,320 --> 02:04:38,400
pretty
pretty intelligent professional people

1719
02:04:36,239 --> 02:04:42,159
within the city government
and on this board as well as far as a

1720
02:04:40,400 --> 02:04:46,800
mayor and council that's just doing a
tremendous job and just making sure to

1721
02:04:44,560 --> 02:04:51,679
take their time to get all their ducks
in a row uh to make things better for

1722
02:04:49,040 --> 02:04:55,199
each one of you and the city as a whole
um

1723
02:04:53,520 --> 02:04:59,040
and with that said
i think i'm finished would you like to

1724
02:04:57,040 --> 02:05:03,840
make a motion i moved to adjourn is
there a second a second it's been moved

1725
02:05:01,599 --> 02:05:08,760
in second to adjourn all in favor say
aye aye

1726
02:05:05,280 --> 02:05:08,760
motion carries