[0:01] good evening and welcome everyone we'll
go ahead and call the meeting to order
[0:07] if you would we'll have a moment of
silence
[0:22] and if you'd stand will recite the
pledge of
[0:29] pledge allegiance to the flag of the
united states of america and to the
[0:34] republic for which it stands one nation
under god indivisible with liberty and
[0:40] justice for all
[0:50] rogers here councilman randy bowen here
councilwoman debbie gump here councilman
[0:56] herb curtis here
city manager nate stansberry present
[1:01] city attorney brian bailey
excuse me
[1:05] chief josh thomas
chief jimmy suttle
[1:10] street foreign tyler straiter
building code zoning mike starrett
[1:16] sanitary director d evans
[1:21] you have the
minutes of the work session
[1:25] the regular session and two special
sessions in your packet
[1:29] if you want to take a few minutes to
look those over
[1:52] thank you
[2:13] um
[2:51] i move to approve the uh reading of the
minutes
[2:55] for all
regular session and special session
[2:58] meetings
[3:01] is there a second
a second
[3:04] it's been moved and second all in favor
say aye aye
[3:09] opposed
motion carries
[3:13] uh next we have the visitors section and
first on the agenda is betty brooks
[3:19] if you don't mind coming to the podium
so we can all hear
[3:44] okay
[3:52] okay i don't i know i only get five
minutes
[3:56] it's not a hard fast rule all right i
think i've got
[4:00] [Laughter]
now go
[4:05] all right um
[4:08] i'm bringing this one video up i think i
sent a couple pictures to debbie and kim
[4:14] i didn't have your all's numbers to send
to before the meeting but i did want to
[4:18] show you this one um
this is the one we're concerned about
[4:24] can you all see it is it running um
[4:29] when it rains clear is that what it does
well anyway um
[4:36] see it running
that's going down the alley beside my
[4:38] house when it rains it's going into our
garage
[4:42] so uh
if i was talking to kim or
[4:46] the mayor earlier and um what i was
concerned about is them opening up an
[4:50] alley it hasn't been open since 1960s we
do not want it open because if it does
[4:56] all that's going to come down and make
it worse
[4:58] and
uh skyler is not here
[5:02] this evening but when uh we had some
neighbors that moved in
[5:06] they had been there for a while and they
got a big truck and a big camper and all
[5:09] this stuff so the alley they had uh
metal posts put in four on one side and
[5:14] was it four on the other three on the
other well somebody stole some of them
[5:18] off our side uh we don't know why but
they're gone they keep hitting the signs
[5:23] and stuff
there was a sign um
[5:27] erected there that stated that no big
trucks can come down the alley
[5:31] which meant the uh
ups truck the big mail trucks and the uh
[5:37] trash trucks they do a lot of damage to
the hillside
[5:40] and that's
uh raking it all out i mean it's just
[5:44] really on some of those pictures you can
see it's taken out the side of the road
[5:48] is the alley that's closed that the
upstairs no it's not the one that's
[5:53] closed it's one that's open it goes from
uh walnut street to cemetery street they
[5:58] i don't think it has a name they call it
bison alley but you know it's right
[6:02] there beside the house but it's tearing
into our bank which means it's going to
[6:06] cave in onto the road okay
right now it's on the city property
[6:11] but we do not want responsibility if it
falls into the road okay i mean the big
[6:16] trucks are not supposed to when the last
trash people had at the browns they
[6:21] didn't allow them to come down through
there and i think that's maybe what's
[6:24] going to have to happen again you know
and then earl bayless has his at the
[6:28] corner and he's got the big
metal poles and stuff up
[6:32] and people you know it's just really
ridiculous for a big vehicle to come
[6:36] down through there we hear that hit the
signs all the time
[6:40] so
but anyway so that was two of the things
[6:43] the other one was um
i took pictures of our road on walnut
[6:47] street since 1968
[6:52] 1968 is when i moved up there okay then
in 2001
[6:57] i was in office at the time that's the
last time that's 21 years ago since that
[7:02] road's been taken care of the water
company's been up and it has cut big
[7:08] large gaps you know clear down the road
to lay the new pipeline and what's
[7:11] happened is it wasn't filled in
correctly so it is sinking and which
[7:16] means it's coming apart and then when
the wat when it rains in the water it's
[7:19] cracking the road i mean it's really bad
so from one end of point a to point b
[7:25] i feel it needs black topped i don't
know how else you're going to correct
[7:28] that because when that water comes down
did you see any of the pictures
[7:33] i don't think they were sent to me oh
okay i'll have to offer jill's four
[7:37] okay and um anyway but you can't see it
from a vehicle good you need to get out
[7:43] and walk it it's not that far from one
end of the street to the other they
[7:46] don't want it
and then coming down oak street those
[7:49] people uh
it's a vacant lot who owns it now and
[7:54] it is got a
[7:57] uh what is it called a mailbox and it's
that tall and it's out in on city
[8:02] property it's where a sidewalk should be
and when they got the big truck parked
[8:06] over there you can't get up through
there i mean you have to back down the
[8:10] hill and go up an alley
that to me
[8:13] if it was me they should move the
mailbox back a couple feet then we
[8:17] wouldn't have any issues
but i just wanted to bring those i
[8:20] didn't know if debbie's been over there
looking at stuff or not but that's some
[8:23] of the things that i wanted to bring to
their attention before when the weather
[8:27] starts getting bad i know you make a
plan
[8:30] i think i've been there since the
weather the past it's been a
[8:34] probably the beginning of january oh
okay so did you see some of the issues
[8:40] i just wanted to get on the list
for some of the stuff to get done be if
[8:44] when before they start planning okay
i appreciate your time
[8:48] is there any questions i mean
um
[8:52] nate did you want to comment
i i mean i'm kind of flying blind here
[8:58] but we can reach out to you and try to
meet you on site and look at some of
[9:01] that stuff you know the paving thing i
just make a general statement yeah
[9:05] everybody's got a street that once paid
right and so we'll try to incorporate
[9:08] that where we can and see if we can come
up with some fixes but now oak street
[9:12] there where the southern states at we've
got holes huge i took some pictures of
[9:16] those today too
and they fill them in but it's with like
[9:19] a cold patch and when they come and plow
it all comes out anyway i mean it's the
[9:24] gravel and whatever so it probably needs
something else it's just a section
[9:29] probably no bigger than where you're all
at but it's still pretty bad okay so
[9:34] all right we've had some holes open up
with the winter weather right across
[9:36] town so we'll be working on those
shortly all right thank you thank you
[9:41] and billy
he's the quiet one thank you
[9:47] okay next we have dr john williams
[9:56] i don't have anything as specific as
betty did
[10:00] the truth
[10:03] so i labeled this a public notice
and
[10:06] i appreciate everyone providing the
props uh that support
[10:10] what i'll be talking about
um
[10:13] so this is for the public and everyone
here is a member of the public i am
[10:18] we're all lumped in there
[10:25] officials associated with the city of
weston incorporated
[10:30] describe their employment as a
governmental service
[10:33] they were just talking about a service
street paving or something of that
[10:37] nature so that's typically how it's
described
[10:40] since the term government is formally
defined
[10:44] and
as control of the mind
[10:49] by what law agreement contract
and others
[10:53] does any person gain control over
another's mind
[10:57] well i'll give you some examples but
it's i don't want to take that much time
[11:02] this evening but that is the definition
of government
[11:05] and
if no one's ever pondered that i would
[11:08] ask you to
begin to ponder it at this point in time
[11:11] because why is it called that
and by the way if you look up the
[11:15] history of this linguistic issue you
will find that government is a modern
[11:19] term it dates from
what we currently consider in the
[11:23] calendar that's used
as the year zero
[11:27] so before that time there was no such
thing
[11:31] what did they call the rulers of that
time a good question for the public
[11:37] but the point is there is no
legislation or statements or
[11:41] constitution or anything that
says people can control of people's
[11:47] minds
but it's very widespread in our society
[11:50] if you understand what that means and
how that is used
[11:55] i'll point to one example that's in this
very room and that's that flag everyone
[11:59] was pledging allegiance to
i don't know if everyone's aware
[12:03] but an american flag with a golden
boundary like you see on that flag
[12:08] that signifies the incorporation act of
1871 in which the original constitution
[12:14] was
kicked to the side it's still there but
[12:18] it got kicked to the side and ignored
that's why so many unconstitutional
[12:22] things occur in this land
at this point in time and anybody can
[12:26] read any newspaper look at any website
they want and they're going to see
[12:31] the question is constantly raised is
that constitutional is that costly well
[12:35] that's part of the mind control most
people in this country don't know
[12:39] that they've been taken over many times
before
[12:42] and this dates back the most recent
event was 1871. and the place we're
[12:47] standing in that's called a state and i
see montana semper liberai up there in
[12:53] latin
um
[12:56] makes you wonder if that's ever existed
but it's there it is posted for all to
[13:00] see
and there's that flag posted for all to
[13:03] see
furthermore mind control is classified
[13:08] in existing criminal codes as an offense
causing harm to people
[13:14] so if i attempt to engage in mind
control on this person or this person
[13:19] i could be charged with criminal action
and yet we have entire institutions
[13:24] whose name is
mind control government it's astonishing
[13:28] but it is true
thus persons engaged in mind control are
[13:32] prosecutable under both common and
statutory law
[13:37] this is all information for the public
to consider and you can research all you
[13:41] want on this you'll come to the same
place i guarantee it so
[13:45] i can't i can't find any question about
these things
[13:48] so my question then uh is presented
tonight what authority does the city of
[13:54] weston incorporated represent
and i've looked into it tried to find it
[14:00] out and it's difficult to find
right now according to what i did find
[14:04] in 2022
the city of western is operating as a
[14:08] private corporation
it's registered as a duns number and
[14:12] that's the database of universal
numbering system uh another global
[14:17] enterprise if you look into that
organization and what they're doing
[14:21] you'll be quite surprised and wonder why
are we registered why is the city of
[14:24] weston incorporated registered in an
international global numbering system
[14:29] it's quite interesting
but they have a number zero three nine
[14:33] six zero seven five six nine registered
in 1913
[14:37] this was the year after the federal
reserve act was thrown through the
[14:41] congress
and people were conned into accepting it
[14:44] it was never approved and there's no law
authorizing it and yet they're running
[14:49] the whole monetary system now it's quite
astonishing
[14:53] the city is a private corporation that's
part of the state of west virginia as
[14:58] stated on that
placard up there the state is registered
[15:02] as a corporation dunn's number 828092515
[15:08] it is part of the usa incorporated and
that incorporation occurred in 1871.
[15:14] most people are totally unaware of that
fact you can look it up called the act
[15:18] of 1871 it's registered it was never
approved in congress
[15:22] because congress was held in suspension
at the time and you may think find this
[15:27] familiar under a state of emergency
declared for the first time by an
[15:31] executive that would be president
lincoln at the time declared that state
[15:35] of emergency
as far as i know it's still in effect
[15:39] because he was assassinated
and therefore couldn't rescind the order
[15:46] the constitutionality of executive
orders has been reviewed by the supreme
[15:49] court and basically they have no
constitutional authority so that's where
[15:53] that stands
can the code officials or any member of
[15:56] the city council deny that they are
operating as a private corporation
[16:00] i've got the registration numbers right
here in front of me and they're
[16:04] available to anybody that looks them up
under the duns number
[16:07] this fact has led other americans not me
other americans have sued governments
[16:13] before in the united states incorporated
and it resulted in a supreme court
[16:17] decision
establishing what is called the clear
[16:21] field doctrine
out quote from the supreme court's own
[16:24] document
quote
[16:27] open quote
governments descend to the level of a
[16:30] mere private corporation and take on the
characteristics of a mere private
[16:34] citizen
just like we are
[16:38] where private corporate commercial paper
federal reserve notes and securities or
[16:43] checks
is concerned
[16:46] more and more more language so i'll skip
over
[16:49] for purposes of suit such corporations
and individuals are regarded as entities
[16:54] entirely separate from government that's
clearfield trust company versus united
[16:59] states in 1942 case
what the clearfield doctrine means and
[17:04] you can read the whole thing if you want
to read it all what it basically means
[17:08] is
when a body posing as a government is
[17:11] using
federal reserve notes
[17:14] commercial paper
they're acting as a private corporation
[17:18] by definition
of the supreme court
[17:22] that's the clear field doctrine
so if you go into the supreme court on a
[17:26] suitcase you may run into that
[17:30] the government loses its sovereignty
status
[17:33] and becomes no different than a mere
private corporation when they're
[17:36] operating in this manner
the fact that the city and its officials
[17:39] continue to represent themselves as
governmental officials when in fact they
[17:44] are employees of a private corporation
constitutes
[17:49] prima facie evidence of fraud
[17:53] either they're unaware or ignorant of
the facts or they are simply
[17:56] misrepresenting themselves to the public
so without loss of sovereignty under the
[18:02] clear fuel doctrine that it leaves
sovereignty in the hands of
[18:07] the people the public
[18:11] as far as i'm
concerned i won't stand under a
[18:15] fraudulent authority
such as this or or the state or the
[18:20] united the united states governments a
fraud too
[18:24] and has been since 1871.
so
[18:29] a free person shouldn't stand under such
fraudulent activity
[18:33] um
as a private corporation what this means
[18:35] to the average person so betty this
applies to you as well
[18:40] so any business that you might have with
this institution this organization would
[18:44] have to be conducted under a contract
so the u.s code as it's called the usc
[18:48] codes are corporation contracts and if
you look into that code you'll you'll
[18:53] come to understand oh it's all about
business it's all about money transfers
[18:56] it's all about
things we do have and things we don't
[18:59] have and who gets what and this is the
american way excuse me dr williams
[19:05] i appreciate your time here this evening
but
[19:08] but you've reached your limit if you
could just quickly summarize we'd we
[19:12] would appreciate it yeah well the
constitution of course has this free
[19:16] speech thing and you know there's no
mention of timeliness in the free speech
[19:19] amendment i'll be darned
no it's mentioned in the local
[19:23] government and of course private
corporations can set their own rules and
[19:27] play by their own games so go ahead i
will i will simply respect your right to
[19:32] your own time
so i'm just informing the public and
[19:36] yourselves about these facts and i will
leave this copy with my references if
[19:42] anybody else wants to know where to look
this stuff up it's all available so at
[19:46] least at this time if it's not been
censored
[19:50] so i would urge you to either contact me
if you want to learn more or to look
[19:54] into it for yourself and i'll leave this
copy with the city council so that they
[19:59] can make copies and spread it around
and i will point out
[20:03] do i have an issue yes
my one issue falls under this i had
[20:07] presented this to the building appeals
court code the code appeals board
[20:12] same information same discussion under
an issue that mr starrett had brought to
[20:17] my attention months and months and
months ago okay so it has nothing to do
[20:21] with that or that specific issue or
anything i'm even concerned with what
[20:24] concerns me is that
in subsequent actions
[20:28] nobody in the city had looked at any of
the references or any of the information
[20:33] that i had presented
now i don't know if you're a lawyer or
[20:37] if you've studied the law but that's
prima facie evidence of
[20:42] what they call
abusive authority
[20:47] ignorance of the law uh i mean there's
many many terms that describe it
[20:52] so i would urge you to look into the
information i took time to gather for
[20:56] you and brought to you
because it's of importance in the
[21:00] current time and in the time immediately
ahead of us
[21:03] as we're watching this entire country be
ripped to shreds internally and
[21:07] externally
and you may find yourself in a war or
[21:12] you may find yourself in other
restrictive measures but it is
[21:16] definitely time that americans learn
what the reality is and why we got to
[21:20] this point why things are the way they
are mr williams and any person might
[21:24] have to pave a street
in a community that has such low funding
[21:29] and such a low priority was he cited
with a violation what what's going on
[21:34] here was you cited with a violation we
don't need a history lesson
[21:37] was you cited with about uh oh i'm
finished i'll i'll wrap up
[21:42] so yeah probably for your attention but
my point is i urge you to look into this
[21:48] matter
we understand thank you very much thank
[21:53] you
thank you
[21:54] i did take notes
[21:58] i seriously do
[22:02] next under uh reports of city boards
commissions and outside agencies
[22:08] there is a cemetery board monday
february 14th at 9 00 a.m
[22:14] the historic landmarks commission will
be meeting thursday at 5 pm
[22:20] the planning commission will be meeting
wednesday at 4 30 pm
[22:27] parks and recreation will resume their
meetings for the year
[22:32] on friday march 18th at 2 p.m
and the lewis county eda's next meeting
[22:39] is wednesday february 23rd
at 5 pm
[22:44] the board of zoning appeals will be
tuesday february the 8th at 6.
[22:51] cancel
okay board of zoning
[22:55] mayor make note of that
code of appeals board next meeting
[23:00] thursday february 17th
at 6 pm
[23:05] and we have listed that the neighborhood
watch will be meeting wednesday march
[23:09] 2nd
at 6 pm at the courthouse
[23:15] and the
oh there are minutes in your packet from
[23:20] the
lapc meeting for lewis and upshur
[23:23] counties
[23:29] and that looks like
board of directors agenda minutes is
[23:34] that chamber of commerce okay
[23:42] there are vacancies on the board of
zoning appeals two positions
[23:51] and you have a note to appoint a member
of council or the city manager
[23:57] to the lewis gilmer solid waste
authority
[24:00] i do i think it's time we've gone almost
a year now without a member on that
[24:03] board and they struggle to have a quorum
and so if no one on council wants to
[24:07] volunteer their time i'm putting myself
up as tribute to to be appointed that
[24:12] board if you are willing
would someone like to make a motion to
[24:16] appoint the city manager as our
representative
[24:20] i'm moved to appoint our city manager
that's a representative
[24:24] i'll second okay it's been moved in
second to appoint the city manager as
[24:30] our
louis gilmer solid waste authority
[24:33] representative all in favor say aye aye
opposed
[24:38] motion carries
i'll take the chamber
[24:42] so you don't have to rotate a sanitary
board report d
[24:53] good
[24:58] evening the uh
current project we're just still
[25:03] wrapping up it seems like we've been
wrapping up forever
[25:06] but we are wrapping up the issues we've
had with a couple of the
[25:11] landowners on that one
and one phase one of the sludge removal
[25:17] process we have placed the ads that we
needed to place for the blower
[25:22] replacement and
for the sludge removal the contractor
[25:27] coming in to
take out some of this initial sludge
[25:30] that we had
to thank for helping us fund and
[25:35] county commission as well those ads are
going to run
[25:38] uh
two times and then we'll
[25:42] select the low bidder for that one
contract
[25:46] phase two of the project
for the long term sludge removal
[25:51] that's also being advertised for
engineering services to assist us with
[25:56] that
region 7 is taking care of the
[25:59] ads and the procurement process for that
will be assisting us with the interview
[26:03] process with that as well
[26:06] as far as the plant report goes brock's
been pretty busy because bernie is
[26:12] um
as you all know our right hand man and
[26:15] he's off on workers comp because he did
hurt his back
[26:18] and he's been out for about three weeks
so
[26:21] we're kind of scrambling a little bit
down there but getting things done
[26:25] nonetheless
and he's also been brock has speaking
[26:29] with some contractors who are interested
in the phase one of the job and also
[26:33] with engineers who are interested in
phase two
[26:35] we still have a few more meetings with
uh different engineers this week as well
[26:40] and i think possibly another one next
week
[26:44] we um
did a couple new taps one of them was in
[26:49] shady brook one with river another one
was in the parking lot behind wendy's
[26:54] that was a holden
mr holden for his barber shop
[26:58] it's a miss utility markouts for them
and we worked with west virginia
[27:02] american water company on a line
replacement because it was very close to
[27:06] our
pump station and we want to make sure
[27:09] there wasn't any compromising there
so we spent the day out there with them
[27:15] um we did get the westin manor pump
station rebuilt with some assistance
[27:19] from precision pumps and we added rails
for safety there and added a new lid to
[27:25] that which was in very bad need of
replacement
[27:29] vacuum on the vac truck
vacuum pump on the back truck did go out
[27:33] adam was able to
take care of that for us so we didn't
[27:37] have to send that out which saved us a
good bit of money there
[27:41] other than that he just did the routine
maintenance on pumps and pump stations
[27:45] this month
as far as me in the office i have been
[27:49] working with the engineers and the
contractors that have been coming in
[27:52] stopping in asking questions as well
working with a software company on
[27:59] trying to get the email billing for
customers up and running
[28:03] did all the normal
reports of council payable accounts
[28:07] receivable
and
[28:10] trying to help brock as much as i could
and covering the office for him down
[28:14] there while he's covering for bernie
if y'all have any questions i'll be glad
[28:19] to answer anything you have
otherwise our meeting is next monday at
[28:23] 4 30. it's open to the public and open
to all of you
[28:28] obviously i've got a question sure
the you said the back truck what'd you
[28:33] say happened to the backdrop the pump on
it yeah went out but adam was able to
[28:38] repair that in-house so we didn't have
to
[28:42] not the jet truck but the veterans okay
oh that's what i was thinking about
[28:47] i seen the look in your eyes whenever i
said that so yeah it was the backdrop
[28:51] and i was just curious due to the lease
and what police cover yeah because i was
[28:55] thinking it was just a couple of the uh
i think he put two new couplers on it
[29:01] and
just kind of revamped it and it was
[29:03] actually working very well for us this
week
[29:06] we did have a couple major line breaks
today just with the freezing and falling
[29:11] of everything they were able to mandate
those a little bit until we can get
[29:15] bernie back in here and help us with
actual replacement of those lines
[29:21] have you guys cited
many of our lines that's running into
[29:25] your systems
that you may bring forward to the city
[29:29] for the spring as far as repairs or
where we have money allotted to to get
[29:33] our
drainage out of your system
[29:36] i think they're i think brock and uh
mike as well as or mike as well as uh
[29:43] tyler have worked on some of those
together yeah okay
[29:47] thank you
[29:50] is there any update on the john street
slip have you noticed any more slippy
[29:54] chill next i know that was one of the
things unless it changed this week no
[29:57] there wasn't any
so we're hoping i mean i haven't talked
[30:01] to him today but as of right now no
but we did make um dep aware when we
[30:07] went to bidding for
uh phase one
[30:10] that we were going to be watching that
and there may be a need for using money
[30:14] for that so they're very aware of that
it's documented
[30:20] thank you
thank you dean thank you
[30:29] okay next uh finance report
[30:34] in our special session you guys were
provided with the report nothing much is
[30:38] yeah and we can thank mckenna for that
i don't know what's going on yeah
[30:43] thank you
must be the finance touch because i was
[30:46] the one who made the report for the last
meeting and i couldn't get it to blow up
[30:49] right but uh mckinnon was able to
provide that for us and we did get a
[30:52] report late today from our accountants
that i'll i'll check on and make sure
[30:56] there's nothing
to uh too out of whack but uh
[30:59] unless there's any questions i'll just
submit that to your alls for review like
[31:02] i said at the last meeting
our revenues are up
[31:06] about 100 000 more than what we
projected at this point
[31:09] over the year
um and our expenditures are have been
[31:13] lower than projected so
just to kind of give a review for those
[31:16] in the in the public i think that we're
in a pretty good
[31:19] pretty good standpoint here our sales
tax came in this past month and that was
[31:24] um you know we project about 150 000 a
quarter on that we had about 167 000
[31:29] come in so
from all indication things things are
[31:33] holding pretty true um we may have a
little bit money
[31:36] we may be able to throw in a street or
something like that in the spring paving
[31:39] season that's what we're gonna any extra
funds we have we'll try to do something
[31:43] of that nature
you know but
[31:45] up right now and hopefully knock on wood
our winner
[31:48] is going to make a turn here in february
and be over
[31:52] but yeah we've spent 2 500 3 000 over
our assault budget at this point so
[31:57] um but i think it's been money well
spent yeah sure and and we'll probably
[32:01] try to buy some more equipment here with
the budget we have for those kind of
[32:05] things next year so
[32:08] with that said unless there's any
questions i'm just going to submit it
[32:10] and let it stay in it as it
is
[32:14] okay street department report you have
that in your packet
[32:21] do you know if he got
raw for brownie
[32:27] she just asked about the alley behind
glenn brown's house we we had a
[32:30] quotation for it because we weren't sure
how much to cover and so we said let's
[32:33] just look at rocking the whole thing it
was
[32:36] multiple thousands of dollars to rock
the whole thing and so we're just
[32:39] waiting for the weather to break to go
out there and take a better assessment
[32:42] of it and see if we can try to trim that
back a little bit thank you
[32:54] any questions on the street department
report
[32:57] oh i think i have a couple may have a
couple of items on my front porch that
[33:02] may belong to the street department
found in the road
[33:07] i think i have a grease gun and my
neighbor brought some spinner thing and
[33:12] put on my porch yesterday i think we
were having problems with our salt
[33:15] spinners there's some kind of boat that
you were having there we lost the people
[33:19] okay
we do believe a greasy gun that maybe
[33:22] came with it
[33:30] appreciate it thank you we'll come get
it
[33:32] i've got a quick question
yeah
[33:36] confident for the
electric lines on the
[33:40] west second bridge the kings electric
did they complete that project
[33:45] all has been done that i'm aware of that
was going to be completed we talked
[33:48] about doing an additional works there to
run conduit from that box down the
[33:52] parking lot to provide to the covid
testing but i think at this point
[33:55] they're they're happy with their
situation they've got like a generator
[33:58] and things of that nature but on the
bridge
[34:00] everything i'm aware of is done and
completed
[34:03] we just paid them
[34:08] they're flipped on some of the bulbs
were burnt out and so we replaced some
[34:11] of the sides of them and we're working
on the other side
[34:21] did you check with dave bush on that
not yet no yeah yeah
[34:30] did you replace the green bulb yeah the
green bob is no longer there okay
[34:36] it bugs me i know it's no longer there
[34:41] i know right
[34:45] okay we'll move on to police department
report
[34:52] [Music]
[34:57] you were busy i appreciate you josh
[35:04] so
[35:21] any questions about that report
[35:28] please convey to the officers that we
also appreciate them and all they're
[35:31] doing as well
[35:36] and and i really appreciate them in the
morning sitting up by the old water
[35:40] company site when i'm going to school
because it really slows me down
[35:45] through the arrows
[35:52] next is the fire department report
[36:02] along with all the other page staff but
he has nothing to report outside of the
[36:06] report that's in the packet
okay
[36:11] and that's chuck clem right the
president of the vfd
[36:15] hey chuck uh when i was cleaning out the
supply closet
[36:18] in our department i found came across
this book i didn't know the fire
[36:22] department would like to have but it's
american heroes and it's fireman would
[36:26] you guys yeah didn't you be interested
[Music]
[36:32] did we not ask him to report on that
first meeting
[36:35] if if he would
um while you're here we had uh one
[36:41] meeting
um in regards to the fireworks yes um
[36:46] would you care to provide a report to
council
[36:49] about our first meeting yeah still
planning early basically yeah just an
[36:54] overview
what we're wanting to do is just uh kind
[36:57] of partner with the city uh city
businesses
[37:00] on main street and wherever one wanting
to hold some type of street fair
[37:04] uh which basically be on water because
we would have a parade and then shoot
[37:08] the fireworks off from the city parking
lot
[37:11] over on the other side of the river
so
[37:14] you know have vendors come in set up
have stuff for kids we could have our
[37:18] parade have our flame queen coronation
and then we could set fireworks off and
[37:23] then it kind of involves the businesses
and stuff more so and then it allows
[37:27] more stuff to take place on main street
instead of the athletic field where it's
[37:31] kind of faded away over time
uh so
[37:36] we met with um cherry
and debbie
[37:40] i think the mayor was sick uh couldn't
make it and we've kind of started a
[37:45] planning process rebecca was there as
well
[37:49] to uh
get this kicked off and try to get
[37:52] something put together for the fourth of
july
[37:55] when is your next meeting uh i believe
it was the uh first tuesday and
[38:00] now second second tuesday
[38:06] next week at the fire department yes
february 8th
[38:09] oh
i'm i'm sorry march 8th
[38:12] oh yeah
that's right okay sorry
[38:16] march 8. basically the things we're
working on right now is trying to time
[38:19] things out for the event it's just you
know
[38:22] uh what time is the parade gonna be what
times fireworks we know what time
[38:25] they're gonna be 10 15.
uh everything else was trying to get
[38:29] organized out and come up with a plan
okay
[38:33] basically the street fair
with the thought was to have it on water
[38:38] street
and
[38:40] since
their
[38:44] the public tends not to attend
a lot of the activities
[38:49] anymore at the athletic field
and of course there is a cost associated
[38:54] with fireworks
and um so
[38:58] as we you know the times change we need
to change and roll with it and and the
[39:02] street fair
um
[39:05] which has has the potential to raise
some money for towards the
[39:10] fire work display yes and also
businesses over the past few years the
[39:14] fire department has had to
go to businesses for uh donations
[39:19] uh for the fireworks
um if not we would not be able to do it
[39:24] uh you know fireworks is anywhere from
five to ten thousand dollars a year
[39:28] in cost and we was not making that kind
of money
[39:31] uh
at the field even if we charged you know
[39:34] entrances fees and all that so
over the past few years we went to
[39:38] businesses and then you know we will
continue to go to businesses along with
[39:42] the help of the people on the committee
uh for donations for fireworks and what
[39:47] money we raise this year if it exceeds
the amount that we have allotted then
[39:52] that will go towards next year's
fireworks
[39:56] and it also gives the citizens something
to do downtown and if businesses choose
[40:01] to be open during that time from you
know between the parade and fireworks
[40:06] time we can have activities for children
i think that we're involving we're going
[40:10] to reach out to some civic organizations
such as rotary
[40:14] the chamber
and
[40:17] truly be a community effort to provide
something for folks to do on 4th of july
[40:22] rebecca
[40:27] [Music]
[40:35] i would also like dad to provide
entertainment as well i think would also
[40:39] be part of the
festivities the festivities and the draw
[40:43] to get people downtown
[40:47] [Music]
does the city ever or in the past
[40:51] assessed with financing
the fireworks
[40:54] at one at one time
years ago
[40:58] uh they used to provide
five thousand dollars i think it was and
[41:02] that's when we done ten thousand they
used to pay for half to help offset the
[41:06] cost
and then whenever the
[41:09] city had some financial hardship
they pulled that and we just never did
[41:13] you know go back to that
i just i guess i don't understand why
[41:18] we wouldn't assist
the fire department for the community
[41:23] i don't necessarily have an issue with
it i think you know in the budget i'll
[41:26] be four days into our new budget so we
can set that in the spring priority and
[41:30] make it make it happen i don't see an
issue with it necessarily i apologize to
[41:34] you man it's kind of a question to you
that's making a general statement but i
[41:38] think it's something to think about but
last year when i approached the fire
[41:42] chief about it he was just like well
this year you know we've always done by
[41:44] donations we'll continue to do that but
it was something i brought approached
[41:47] him so i think we could probably help
out in some capacity especially with the
[41:50] flame festival i mean i think that's
that's something we need to take to the
[41:53] next level as a community so
i mean
[41:56] we're all standing by let us know what
you need what you think you think you
[41:59] need especially next month or so that
would be very helpful for us in the
[42:02] budget season the main reason i bring it
up is because i think a couple years ago
[42:07] we almost had to cancel and shut down
the whole fireworks
[42:10] i remember that the donations and i just
think it's a
[42:14] big hindrance in the fire department to
have to rely on donations that they may
[42:18] not get that we should
contribute at least at some point don't
[42:22] disagree and the businesses have had a
difficult time with covet for the past
[42:25] couple of years too
yeah i really hated last year going
[42:28] around asking business just due to
you know
[42:32] um all the all the closures and stuff
from codewood so sure
[42:37] we we did not raise enough money last
year to compensate for it but the fairs
[42:41] and festivals
what we got from them the twenty five
[42:44] hundred dollars end up offsetting that
okay so we're gonna work on that well
[42:49] two we're moving it we're making it a
city advantage as well sure so
[42:53] there's justification there
sure all right thank you thank you
[43:00] okay next building code zoning report
[43:06] well as you all can see my mine's in the
packet also i don't want to type much
[43:10] time just reading all this
the only thing i will say that
[43:15] when we had the meeting with the state
auditor
[43:18] i just want you all to know that this
was a team team effort with the state
[43:23] auditor that we had in there and i'm
really proud of everyone that worked on
[43:28] that map and we got that to them and
again today
[43:32] we
reach out to the state auditor on
[43:35] sharing our map with them
and i just i just want to say thanks to
[43:40] everyone that helped with that
and if you have any questions um i'll be
[43:45] happy to
answer on my part and then you can also
[43:48] see on there that mr andrew darby has
a part in this this month so if you got
[43:54] any questions for me you can ask me and
i am assuming if you have any for andy
[43:58] he'll answer your questions also
[44:03] a quick question
maybe as far as the
[44:08] structure and the maps and all because
is any part of that digital are we doing
[44:12] that
by paper or as far as what i mean by
[44:15] digital is
when there's a change in
[44:18] andy you want to come
i up yeah they died it wasn't on
[44:26] thank you
okay sorry about that so what i was
[44:29] asking was as far as when you're
structuring these maps if there's any
[44:32] part that's digital or when a vacant
structure becomes uh
[44:40] someone that ends up renting a structure
or buying a structure and taking it over
[44:44] filling the structure is there any way
going into where you can automatically
[44:49] put that into where it's
it would show on a mapping system
[44:53] digital
yeah um
[44:57] yeah it's all digital i mean it takes a
lot of time at the beginning because you
[45:00] know we've got a hundred and some
properties that we added to the map but
[45:04] as going forward as things change
all we can get we can go in there and
[45:08] you can change it uh real quick i mean
just gotta go in and yeah like you said
[45:13] it's digital and you just change it and
change it from
[45:16] if it deteriorates more and we got to
tear it down rather than fix it we can
[45:19] do that or if it becomes like you said
uh
[45:22] occupied we can change it from vacant
occupied
[45:26] click of a button
so
[45:29] incidentally for the public
we met with jb mccuskey
[45:34] and he made the statement that the city
of weston had the most professional
[45:39] presentation that i had seen throughout
the state
[45:42] so i want to commend our our city of
weston team
[45:48] i thought it was a cookies i'm sorry i'm
sorry and debbie brought cookies and he
[45:53] liked the cookies
[45:56] i appreciate it thank you
and this map that they have created um
[46:01] [Music]
if if
[46:03] mr mccuskey is successful with getting
receiving this uh funding for
[46:09] dilapidated buildings across and
demolition of them across the state it
[46:14] would create a pool of money
so
[46:17] our cost would decrease so
westin is ready to submit their
[46:22] proposals now
thank you
[46:26] and also her answer your question add a
little bit more to that once we get
[46:31] through this the vacant structures and
like i said if we got beckon homes or
[46:35] whatever
then we get those registered and then
[46:38] they come in to take them off that will
be something we can follow also
[46:42] okay yeah i just i thought it was a
system that kind of
[46:48] all intertwined with each other as far
as
[46:50] you know from from vacant structures to
becoming occupied to
[46:55] advertisements for new business coming
in just so many things will be
[46:59] intertwined within that system there at
some point as we structure it as we go
[47:03] on
yeah these these guys they they made
[47:06] note of whether the utilities were on or
off you know whether they had a gas
[47:09] service or whether they had electric
meter and so with that they can flip
[47:14] i won't say they can push one button but
with five ten minutes worth of work they
[47:18] can color code all the buildings in the
city that don't have water service or
[47:21] all the buildings that don't have
electric you know yes yeah and so and it
[47:26] just takes time and effort and as we get
into the vacant structure ordinance
[47:29] we'll be able to create those layers and
data sets as well and be able to sort
[47:33] those very quickly and get account you
know we open up a essentially an excel
[47:36] spreadsheet and drag and select and
we'll give you how many numbers you've
[47:40] got of this and that so that's helpful
sure they've done a good job and the
[47:44] other thing i'd like to say on that is
our citizen concerns
[47:48] they're way down people i mean you can
see this we only have one in ward one
[47:52] and one in ward four so you two need to
work on your
[47:55] concern
okay
[47:59] and i'll just follow up with that has
our billing spectrum been off there's
[48:03] only one you said
no we've had a lot of building permits
[48:08] i'm still here
i have one question in terms of these
[48:12] structures that hopefully will be coming
down soon
[48:15] do we have an idea when those are going
to be started
[48:18] don't get in the way tomorrow of our
construction company because we're
[48:22] starting it right around
10 30 in the morning on south main
[48:27] that's where i'm down you're warm cherry
yeah thank you yeah you're welcome thank
[48:32] you
oh great
[48:38] next
we have city attorneys
[48:46] reports don't think he included a report
in the packet okay he sent us quite a
[48:52] lengthy email
all right
[48:54] and we have ordinances we kind of know
what he's been doing he stayed busy yeah
[48:59] i wouldn't add one thing just very
quickly to that
[49:03] i was reading at home before i came
on this city of weston on site citation
[49:09] ordinance
[49:13] we've got that as an agenda item
oh is it on there yeah yeah okay sorry
[49:17] about that
[49:20] okay you do have the report in your
packet from the city clerk on
[49:25] business licenses issued
for duty for january
[49:31] quite a few too yes
and now city managers report
[49:40] back to the business license just very
very quickly
[49:43] we have an insurance state farm office
that's opening up on garden plaza so i
[49:47] assume at some point we'll have a ribbon
cutting for that i'm not sure i think
[49:50] they've kind of been operating now there
but maybe they haven't gotten quite 100
[49:53] official yet but
we'll keep just want to make mention of
[49:56] that
still april oh okay
[50:00] [Music]
[50:05] so there is someone during business
hours in there if council wanted to stop
[50:09] in and say hello and welcome and
the person operating i think right now
[50:14] is covering jenny guertin's branch
and they'll be there for some time while
[50:18] they're remodeled and then they're going
to move back out to jenny's branch and
[50:21] then this will be a separate
thank you
[50:24] okay
[50:38] manager's report
yeah we're on city management report
[50:41] sorry yep reap grant time thank you yeah
well we're not completely finished we've
[50:45] got to get our final report in and i'm
waiting some numbers from uh mountain
[50:48] state because you have to give them how
many tons of cardboard you diverted and
[50:52] all that stuff as part of your project
so i'll get those numbers and submit it
[50:55] but our quarterly reports in so now it's
just the final report you know send the
[50:59] cancel check and stuff like that which
we did in the fourth report so it should
[51:03] be and the bins are going to be moved
tomorrow
[51:06] i think the mayor set that up
okay so we're moving the bins are we the
[51:10] ninth right yeah okay have we put that
on social media i haven't done anything
[51:15] before do we have a sign that we're
gonna put at city hall and say hey if
[51:18] you're looking for the bins or at
mountain state waste we don't have a
[51:21] sign yet but we need one okay
all right
[51:26] judy you're going to be outside waving
this
[51:30] yeah
so we'll put something up i guess to get
[51:32] those and on social media yep we'll put
that out there as well
[51:36] um
you've got my report one thing i'll just
[51:39] mention and i don't think there's really
an agenda item for it with the columbia
[51:43] club on here tonight so i'll talk about
it now
[51:46] um well actually we've got the the bids
coming up there they're at the last 11 f
[51:50] or whatever's our new business but we've
spent a lot of time on that
[51:54] in this last month and we're we're
starting to make some progress we've
[51:57] brought the attorney or the
architect on board they've been hired in
[52:00] a hourly basis not to exceed five
thousand dollars without coming back to
[52:04] council and getting your guys's approval
for further works um but we're just
[52:08] trying to get through this first process
of getting the building stabilized with
[52:12] the front coming off and the the
the danger of falling slate addressed
[52:18] before we get into any kind of
planning or drawings the building and
[52:23] things of that nature
so that's where we're standing i'll save
[52:26] the rest up for that but other than that
you know i think we're entering this
[52:30] stage i signed up for the finance
the budget preparatory thing and if you
[52:35] guys haven't had a chance to do that and
want to go i think it's still available
[52:37] to you i mean want to go with the girls
i think that's february 15th
[52:42] and
in the next two or three weeks is really
[52:44] just going to be a lot of budget related
tasks getting getting those preparations
[52:48] put together
um for for our budget season we do have
[52:52] the the public meeting that we need to
get advertised for
[52:56] arpa discussion and kind of budget
presentation and things that nature and
[52:59] so that's i think february 23rd if i
remember correctly off the top of my
[53:02] head
and then we've scheduled that for the
[53:04] masonic lodge so
um advertising wise i think the mayor
[53:07] and i need to sit down this week and
start talking about how we're going to
[53:09] set the format of that and things of
that nature yeah it might be helpful if
[53:14] we have
maybe a whiteboard i'm not sure or a
[53:18] handout handout of all of the
grants that we have
[53:23] submitted for so the public can see
what monies we have submitted what's out
[53:29] there
you know citywide or for individual for
[53:32] our project okay for pro everything okay
yeah everything yeah we need to have a
[53:37] list of that of some sort yeah we do and
i think the public needs to know that
[53:40] that you know we're
utilizing every avenue of money and not
[53:45] leaving any money on the table
but and they could also see some of the
[53:50] projects too that we have this is what
we've submitted grants for and sure and
[53:54] the dollar amounts
[53:59] yep
um so that's i mean unless there's any
[54:02] other questions i'll just leave the rest
so we can get moving here seven o'clock
[54:05] we'll i'll leave
any other questions i do do we have an
[54:08] update on the mid avenue so
we're reaching out we've got some
[54:12] contact information for the landowner
you know everything else is kind of
[54:16] come to the forefront right this last
month in regards all our other projects
[54:19] but we're at the stage where we're going
to reach out to the landowner to try to
[54:22] acquire additional property there next
to where the slip is so we can extend
[54:27] that
pull-off area a little bit larger
[54:30] we just with the city attorney i want
him to be the focus point of that
[54:33] conversation he just hadn't had the time
so that's where we're at with it and
[54:37] then you know regardless of which route
we take we're gonna have to get some
[54:40] contemporary easements that's that's our
next step in that but we're hoping i
[54:44] think we can realistically look at in
may or june to see that constructed
[54:49] thank
you i move that we accept department
[54:53] reports
for a second
[54:57] second it's been moved in second to
accept all department reports all in
[55:03] favor say aye aye opposed
motion carries
[55:09] uh next under old business the 2022-1
ordinance
[55:15] authorizing the sale transfer of
city-related
[55:20] to west virginia department of
transportation doh project
[55:25] this would be the second reading
and this is for the property for the
[55:29] bridge in deanville correct
correct between haleville and shadybrook
[55:35] right right
okay is there a motion to have the
[55:39] second reading
[55:43] i'll move to have the second reading
the ordinance authorizing the cell
[55:47] transfer of city related to west
virginia department of transportation
[55:50] division of highways bridge project
project excuse me state project number
[55:56] s321n1670-0.020
[56:04] by title and yeah my title
oh boy
[56:10] okay it's been moved in second we'll
have voting by roll call
[56:15] that's a woman sherry rogers
[56:19] yes councilwoman
yes councilman
[56:23] motion
[56:25] okay motion carries
um
[56:29] and now uh i'll entertain a motion to
ex accept the second reading
[56:37] okay
i'll move to accept the second reading
[56:42] okay it's been moved in second to accept
the second reading
[56:47] voting by roll call councilwoman sherry
rogers yes
[56:51] councilman randy bowen yes councilwoman
yes councilman curtis yes
[56:59] next oh motion carries
we have uh the
[57:05] 2022-3 ordinance to acquire 241 south
main
[57:10] i'll entertain a motion to have the
second reading i think judy needs to
[57:14] read the
ordinance by title did you do that
[57:18] yes i'm sorry
[Laughter]
[57:24] 2022-01 a 20-22 ordinance authorizing
the sale transfer of city property
[57:32] related to a west virginia department of
transportation depart division of
[57:36] highway bridge project state project
number
[57:40] s32 1 in
16-70-0.020
[57:50] i title only second reading
let's get all that against me now
[57:56] now a motion to accept that i'll move to
accept i'll second go ahead randy okay
[58:02] it's been moved in second and we'll have
voting by roll call
[58:08] yes
[58:10] councilman councilwoman debbie gump yes
sorry debbie counseling herb curtis yes
[58:16] okay
[58:20] and now i'll entertain a motion to have
the second reading
[58:25] on the 2022-3 ordinance to acquire 241
south main can i speak to that before we
[58:32] yeah in that motion we've kind of had it
on both these properties of hiccup in
[58:36] the last two days yeah and so with 241
south main we'll stick to that one first
[58:41] this property is owned by a woman who is
or in the um
[58:45] in a rest home and so typically on the
last this is all new to all of us right
[58:49] acquiring property and things of that
nature and we're trying to acquire this
[58:53] to when we tear down the house that's
going to happen this week we won't place
[58:57] a lien on it we'll have the property
then redeem or whatever you know
[59:00] whatever use we need for it at that
point
[59:02] but as we've tried to go through that
process we've realized two things one
[59:06] she's in a nursing home and and the you
know when we're trying to sign the deed
[59:09] the the person representing we're not
quite sure the chain of legal custody is
[59:13] there to make sure that that person is
the guardian or the
[59:16] power of attorney so we've got to get
that clarified then the second thing is
[59:20] that this property is currently in the
state tax sale process and we missed
[59:23] that due to it being such a recent
process in the in the database hadn't
[59:27] been updated online yet
so that doesn't preclude us from being
[59:31] able to pursue the tear down of the
structure it just kind of muddies the
[59:35] water as far as acquisition
and i'm putting my city attorney hat
[59:39] here for a second since he's not here
and he's authorized me to give the
[59:42] explanation i think we can proceed to
to pass the ordinance to acquire the
[59:46] property
but we won't be able to acquire the
[59:49] property until all that stuff is taken
care of and it may never happen
[59:54] and so
we're kind of at an impasse and a sense
[59:58] of what what direction we should go and
i think it's kind of the council decide
[1:00:01] what they're willing to do
i don't necessarily see an issue with us
[1:00:05] holding off and not acquiring the
property and tearing it down and being
[1:00:09] ready to place a lien on it but there is
some
[1:00:12] question there what would happen you
know say somebody were to come in and
[1:00:16] redeem that property off the tax sale
and arlene may may disappear you know
[1:00:20] for like a better word and we'd lose any
attempt to acquire that money back or
[1:00:25] whatnot
so
[1:00:27] that is uh
i probably put it rather
[1:00:31] inarticulately but i think that that's
kind of the question before us and there
[1:00:35] are some questions like they do owe some
property taxes they're not in their well
[1:00:39] in this case they are in the rears
because they're in the state tax sale
[1:00:41] process and they also owe us municipal
fees
[1:00:44] when we acquired the columbia property
uh the columbia club property we we kind
[1:00:49] of set a
a standing precedent in a sense right
[1:00:52] that if we were to acquire a piece of
property we were willing to waive
[1:00:55] municipal fees and i think in this case
we'd probably look to do something
[1:00:58] similar if we can't convince the owner
to
[1:01:01] to pay those in advance
um
[1:01:04] yeah so that hasn't been that issue
itself hasn't been resolved here either
[1:01:08] so i just wanted you guys to be
completely be completely upfront with
[1:01:12] you about where this property stands and
try to answer any questions or anything
[1:01:16] like that on the way forward but before
you
[1:01:18] make that motion to have a second
reading thank you is it better for us to
[1:01:22] have our ducks in a row and proceed with
the second reading or are are you
[1:01:27] recommending that we
i think but better for us is kind of a
[1:01:33] relative term you know what are we
trying to achieve here we're trying to
[1:01:36] achieve being able to sell the property
down the line then i think you'll miss
[1:01:41] i'd recommend probably that you
passed the ordinance so that we can
[1:01:44] quickly once those things resolved have
the deed signed and filed
[1:01:47] now
i i really questioned in my mind we'll
[1:01:50] ever get to that end point where we'll
be able to get things clarified enough
[1:01:54] for us to to do that i don't know you
know so if our council i may say
[1:01:59] come back to us when that gets a little
bit more clear and we'll proceed from
[1:02:02] there
i don't necessarily see a problem either
[1:02:05] way and i don't you know we're not
really missing out on it on a whole lot
[1:02:08] here i don't think but
i can't predict the future that's my
[1:02:12] problem
[1:02:15] i don't really see a problem with
mike wants to
[1:02:20] the gentleman that is taking care of
this lady's affairs he assured me that
[1:02:25] he is and he does take care of her
affairs at holbrook okay
[1:02:30] so uh
he was gonna bring that paper in to me
[1:02:33] but it just never made it there yet
i've had bad weather yes we have had bad
[1:02:37] weather but again that's up to you guys
uh however you all feel that you should
[1:02:42] be handled
and i appreciate it
[1:02:46] well if we go ahead and do it then
[1:02:50] the staff can go ahead and do what they
do to that's your make it happen do you
[1:02:54] like to make that motion
yes i'll have the second yeah let me
[1:02:58] just clarify we're okay with if we
decide to waive the municipal fees to
[1:03:01] acquire that property at that point
everybody's
[1:03:04] it needs to come down suzy doesn't shoot
us yes
[1:03:09] susie okay with it
yes i said as long as we're getting
[1:03:13] something back we are okay
we're looking about 250 i think
[1:03:18] okay
i would i move to
[1:03:24] have the this is the second reading
correct second reading of the ordinance
[1:03:28] 202203
ordinance acquiring property at 241
[1:03:33] south main street westin by title only
that's not good okay it's been moved and
[1:03:39] second to have the second reading
[Music]
[1:03:42] uh voting by roll call
[1:03:47] roger yes councilman randy bowen
councilwoman debbie gump yes councilman
[1:03:52] herb curtis yes
[1:03:55] motion
carries i'll move to accept well we have
[1:04:00] to i skipped uh this oh
sorry you have to read it yes
[1:04:06] judy get with it
[1:04:09] ordinance 20 2022-03
ordinance acquiring property at 241
[1:04:16] south main street in weston west
virginia second reading by title only
[1:04:21] thank you
now we're ready i'll move to accept
[1:04:25] i'll second okay it's been moved in
second to accept
[1:04:29] the second reading of the
2022-3 ordinance to acquire 241 south
[1:04:35] main
by title only and we'll have voting
[1:04:39] by roll call
councilwoman sherry rogers yes
[1:04:43] councilman randy bowen yes councilwoman
debbie gump yes councilman herb curtis
[1:04:48] yes
okay motion carries
[1:04:51] uh next on the agenda is the ordinance
to acquire 251 south main second reading
[1:05:00] is there a mission to have that second
reading i moved to have the second
[1:05:04] reading of the ordinance
uh 2022-5
[1:05:09] to acquire
i'm sorry i'm sorry
[1:05:12] uh let me start over i moved to have the
second reading
[1:05:16] of the
2022-4 ordinance to acquire 251 south
[1:05:21] main
the title
[1:05:24] is there a second
a second okay it's been moved in second
[1:05:33] voting by roll call
sherry rogers yes councilman randy bowen
[1:05:39] yes
councilman woman w yes
[1:05:44] councilwoman
yes
[1:05:46] okay motion carries go ahead city clerk
ordinance
[1:05:53] 2022-4
ordinance acquiring property at 251
[1:05:57] south main street in weston west
virginia by title only second reading
[1:06:07] is there a motion to accept or reject
the ordinance
[1:06:12] i need to accept the ordinance 2022.04
[1:06:19] to acquire property at 251 something
a second okay it's been moved in second
[1:06:26] we'll have voting by roll call
councilwoman sherry rogers yes
[1:06:31] councilman randy bowen yes
councilwoman debbie gump yes councilman
[1:06:36] herb curtis yes okay motion carries
uh next when the agenda is an ordinance
[1:06:43] to acquire easement for forestry traffic
control this would be the first reading
[1:06:50] did you want to speak about that please
you guys don't have anything in front of
[1:06:54] you for that ordinance because we've yet
to receive i don't think the full
[1:06:58] documentation back from mr shriver
that bridge is slated to begin
[1:07:03] at any moment
um they've contacted me in the last
[1:07:06] couple days to say we're ready where are
you guys at
[1:07:09] um and i said let me get to this meeting
and i'll tell you where i'm at
[1:07:12] um
i think
[1:07:15] through this whole process yes it would
be good for us to have a have a road
[1:07:19] there
yes it'd be good for us to have
[1:07:21] access to the back of our property in a
in a better
[1:07:25] location
but and we did work with mr shriver to
[1:07:29] update the language on the ordinance i
think we tried to
[1:07:32] run this through here once before right
we all realized that there was a
[1:07:35] miscommunication and that we hadn't
included permanent access to you know
[1:07:39] for emergency situations and things that
nature and that seemed amicable to both
[1:07:43] sides and that's what we were waiting on
final review from their their side to to
[1:07:48] approve that and get that into the
packet tonight which didn't happen
[1:07:51] but i think
at this point
[1:07:54] i've had a couple well one one council
person reach out to me and say is this
[1:07:58] really what we need to do and i said
i was under the understanding this was
[1:08:01] kind of a priority of counsel to try to
make this traffic control
[1:08:04] better or in a different place
i just want to clarify and say that i'm
[1:08:09] fine with us to try to attempt it to as
is on spring street to use that as our
[1:08:14] diversion if we want to try to save
twenty thousand dollars and not go down
[1:08:18] this road with mr shriver um
and i think that that's
[1:08:22] yeah
it would be nice to have an ordinance or
[1:08:25] to have this read one time and if if
this doesn't work for some reason be
[1:08:29] able to read it a second time and and go
forward but we don't have that ability i
[1:08:32] don't think tonight so
to kind of put a bow on all my
[1:08:36] discussion as i i kind of want some
direction from you all to say
[1:08:40] are we fine trying this out with the
bridge construction and just utilizing
[1:08:44] spring street
um and can i interrupt you you also have
[1:08:47] been in as well as well right well and i
guess i don't know which street it is
[1:08:51] there at the end of fourth that curves
up but that one little portion there is
[1:08:55] you know 12 13 feet wide and that's
where that's my biggest concern is that
[1:08:59] at that point we're going to run into
people meeting each other and somebody's
[1:09:02] going to have to back back down the hill
which i think is a common occurrence
[1:09:06] today yeah i mean
for somebody who has driven that heel
[1:09:09] since she was 16 years of age and we
have also miss bush in the back of the
[1:09:13] room as well
people know what to do
[1:09:16] people know you know who to back who
backs up who goes where what about one
[1:09:20] of those traffic signal things those
portable ones is that an option i think
[1:09:25] it is what you check that out yeah the
price
[1:09:28] when we need one or two
i think two lights would probably do it
[1:09:31] for us there and the cost of that would
be what six seven thousand dollars
[1:09:35] probably which we would total
or total yeah that's for the year which
[1:09:40] we would have for our street department
for our projects is what do you think
[1:09:45] yeah i just yeah i'm okay that and i
just think there's there needs to be
[1:09:48] some road like some gabian rock put in
some ditches and kind of expand it out a
[1:09:53] little bit just give people do something
you really need some repair
[1:09:57] i had asked
you know a couple months ago for the
[1:10:00] millings to be put in and they ended up
as i said in people's driveways instead
[1:10:04] of on the side of the road
so i think you know with some repair and
[1:10:08] some rock uh because people much rather
have their roads repaired that they
[1:10:13] drive on with the 20 000 plus that we
would spend on that easement okay why
[1:10:18] don't we uh chief do you have any input
here
[1:10:22] on just traffic and i agree
do you
[1:10:25] have traffic issues over there and
your opinion
[1:10:30] jimmy's not here i think there's there
was some concerns right about fire
[1:10:34] emergency access over there if there is
a fire how we're going to get somebody
[1:10:37] in there but can i re refresh when we
did the repairs
[1:10:41] um
on depot street i thought that was
[1:10:44] emergency access allowed through that
area am i correct on that i think that
[1:10:49] was the intention but yeah the agreement
we had expired after 120 days of signing
[1:10:53] it that was
maybe that's something we could just go
[1:10:55] back to them and say hey
[1:11:00] we'll see if we can get that fired back
up then
[1:11:03] and i would look at it as well as the
bridge is an emergency it's been an
[1:11:07] emergency and a safety hazard to the
public don't disagree it would be nice
[1:11:11] as far as negotiations to gain access to
a new road and access to the back of the
[1:11:16] street department and all that but the
bridge is a priority it's a safety
[1:11:20] concern so if we need to go another
route and what changes everything is
[1:11:24] that they're ready to go to the state
yeah
[1:11:27] yeah so
no commit you know we haven't even don't
[1:11:30] even know if the the the road may not
even be ready by the time the bridge is
[1:11:34] done it's a real concern yeah so we
can't
[1:11:38] i say table it indefinitely at this
point that's my recommendation if you're
[1:11:41] going well what about the traffic light
i don't have a quote for you or on the
[1:11:46] agenda but that's something i mean uh
i'll look into a little bit further and
[1:11:49] i know there was like a four week lead
time when i got that quotation so and i
[1:11:53] placed a call with them on friday with
the peterson issue to see if i could get
[1:11:56] that bumped up a little bit but i'll see
if i can get that
[1:11:59] yeah but
i move that we table
[1:12:02] i wonder uh the acquirings of the
easement for forestry traffic control
[1:12:07] indefinitely
okay is there a second
[1:12:11] i'll second
okay there's been a motion and a second
[1:12:15] to table indefinitely
the ordinance to acquire easement for
[1:12:20] fourth street traffic control
any discussion
[1:12:26] we'll have voting by roll call
councilwoman sherry rogers yes
[1:12:31] councilman randy bowen
councilwoman debbie gunn yes councilman
[1:12:37] curtis yes okay motion carries
next department organizational
[1:12:42] restructure
[1:12:46] okay you guys we've talked about this a
couple meetings here in a row
[1:12:49] so i guess for the public out there and
just for for the sake of it we're we're
[1:12:53] trying to restructure our department
heads to cover um tyler straiter has
[1:12:57] has
submitted his resignation as street
[1:13:00] department foreman which i won't say
he's resigning as foreman but he he
[1:13:03] can't take on the added duties that
we've kind of
[1:13:06] added to his plate to run that area and
so with that conversation he's got some
[1:13:11] some private pursuits he wants to pursue
after hours and
[1:13:13] i'm completely fine with that and i
think he's he's earned that right to do
[1:13:16] those things um
what we've proposed and what i'm
[1:13:22] i think a city manager i have the
authority to
[1:13:25] to rearrange our organization structure
underneath myself but i just wanted to
[1:13:28] make clear to everyone what was going on
and i guess there are some salary
[1:13:33] implications so i think that that's with
all that being kind of a nebulous what
[1:13:37] is my authority what needs to come to
council i think at this point i'm asking
[1:13:41] you uh to do a couple things we're going
to
[1:13:45] approved mike starrett's appointment as
street commissioner which is a vacant
[1:13:48] position at his current salary of 38
thousand dollars and remain an exempt
[1:13:52] employee
in his his existing schedule
[1:13:56] um
[1:13:58] we're going to move or we're going to
bring andy darby up as the code official
[1:14:02] for the city so he'll be i'm asking you
to appoint him as the code official
[1:14:06] zoning officer and floodplain
administrator for the city of weston
[1:14:10] with a salary of 36 000 which is an
increase um but he'll be full-time an
[1:14:15] exempt employee there and that that
number's to meet that exemption
[1:14:19] threshold by federal law
um
[1:14:23] and then i think uh
i think for for this issue that pretty
[1:14:26] much takes care of what we're going to
do we're going to leave the assistant
[1:14:29] building inspector position vacant for
the time being see how this goes forward
[1:14:34] and
we did i'll just just make note that we
[1:14:37] did hire our replacement street
department worker who started starting
[1:14:40] today caden old acre um and so with with
those
[1:14:44] with the rays that darby will mr darby
will obtain and and the rate that mr old
[1:14:49] acre they can't they canceled each other
out essentially compared to our previous
[1:14:52] street department employee so that was a
net yeah net neutral move in a sense
[1:14:58] which was one of the reasons we
predicated that that hiring decision so
[1:15:02] um
so i guess all that was to say i i we
[1:15:06] can list all those details in the
minutes um
[1:15:10] but i'm just asking for feedback i guess
on that department of review and
[1:15:13] and approval of those those moves
so what now mr stared you said what was
[1:15:19] his title going to be
street commissioner i think that's a
[1:15:23] vacant position we've had
previously
[1:15:26] is he going to be involved with his old
department at all or i think there'll be
[1:15:31] a there'll still be an involvement there
and kind of a co-working but mr darby's
[1:15:34] going to run the department he by state
building code we have to have a singular
[1:15:38] code official in a sense and so that
requires licensing and things that
[1:15:42] nature and he's on his way to doing that
and so we'll have to fill out that
[1:15:45] paperwork and such but as far as current
projects you know with the with the
[1:15:49] buildings we're tearing down mike's
going to stay involved with that
[1:15:52] um see those those through and then yeah
i think between the two of them and and
[1:15:56] just our whole inner workings how we
work we'll still all work together on a
[1:16:00] lot of these issues in a sense but mr
darby will be that point person
[1:16:08] other questions just one second here
we're
[1:16:12] working on some numbers here real quick
what did you say it was
[1:16:17] do you need my calculator
[1:16:30] [Music]
[1:16:41] [Music]
what was the rate for mr old
[1:16:47] 1190 per hour
[1:17:08] [Music]
mr curtis are you still ciphering
[1:17:16] yes
so you said 11.90 for him and and then
[1:17:21] 36 000.
for mr darby so the raise that mr
[1:17:26] darby's getting what's that amount from
what he's making now well currently
[1:17:30] we've got him on a part-time basis and
so his hourly rate is going to be in a
[1:17:33] sense produced he's 20 20 an hour 20 000
a year is what we budgeted or what we
[1:17:40] agreed to
what we're looking at is
[1:17:44] we budgeted 32 000 for that assistant
building inspector position so
[1:17:48] essentially we're taking
reorganizing our structure right and
[1:17:51] taking mike as the existing is to pull
them out of that budget and we'll place
[1:17:54] them in the street department and then
mr darby will have to come up with four
[1:17:58] thousand dollars in that
for his salary but with our resignation
[1:18:04] in the street department
and mr old acres rate that more than
[1:18:08] makes up that four thousand dollar
difference that's how i was trying to
[1:18:11] justify being a net neutral move
[1:18:15] he will not they're going to divide
[1:18:23] as far as the street commissioner his
duties and is he going to have more to
[1:18:27] take on mike as far as the street
commissioner compared to where he's at
[1:18:30] now
as far as pay goes
[1:18:35] well his pay isn't changing
right
[1:18:38] i mean i think it's
that range is a sour or a department
[1:18:42] head level salary in my mind and i think
that yeah there will be more duties
[1:18:46] there but he's also in order for
in order to be an exempt employee you
[1:18:51] have to manage so many people and so
that's
[1:18:54] that exemption is 36 or 35 550 or
something like that by federal statute
[1:19:00] at this point
so his duties will be street
[1:19:02] commissioner yeah he he'll
it's kind of a tough question to answer
[1:19:06] will he have more responsibilities
within the street department he will
[1:19:10] right
yeah you know absolutely but i don't
[1:19:13] know i think it's
from a work perspective right now he's
[1:19:16] juggling three or four different hats
in the city building and so
[1:19:21] to me it's a question for him i think in
a sense and he's agreed to do it at that
[1:19:24] rate and
i think we're trying to move forward
[1:19:27] right mike
maybe he's having second thoughts now
[1:19:31] thanks herb
[1:19:55] [Music]
[1:20:20] sorry any more questions i hear
rumblings
[1:20:25] [Music]
[1:20:33] and i'll just elaborate on on just for
the public sector kind of the motivation
[1:20:37] for all this is that
we tried having a working form and
[1:20:41] running the street department um
that was it worked into a degree but it
[1:20:46] was very frustrating for mr straighter
because he was working and also trying
[1:20:50] to super in inevitably breaking up the
cruise where he couldn't be there and he
[1:20:53] had to pull himself out of the hole or
whatever to go check on another job and
[1:20:57] very efficient inefficient and i commend
him for doing as best he could with it
[1:21:01] um so it really spoke to the need of
having one person that kind of oversee
[1:21:04] those operations set up those duties
manage the personalities and things of
[1:21:08] that nature a little bit better than
somebody who's going to be trying to tie
[1:21:12] it into getting work done and things of
that nature
[1:21:15] and so
from from my standpoint when i looked at
[1:21:18] it as the city manager
you know could we have advertised the
[1:21:21] position possibly
but i i felt that mr stared had the
[1:21:25] skills really to run that department
and the skills that we'd look for in
[1:21:29] that position but also it didn't require
us to create a new position in the sense
[1:21:33] of from a budgetary standpoint so i
thought this was really a win-win
[1:21:37] situation for all parties i think
mike had expressed some interest in
[1:21:42] doing it and so that when that
opportunity presented itself i
[1:21:44] approached him about it and felt this
was the the best way forward for us as a
[1:21:48] city to try to to keep our overhead low
and and move forward and we're still
[1:21:53] still see production and see see things
get turned around so
[1:22:02] and mike doesn't
receive benefits so i don't see 40 000
[1:22:06] being online
i'm good with that okay
[1:22:10] he's proven himself okay it's additional
duties it's only two thousand good i'm
[1:22:16] fine more here if you watch
i'm good with that
[1:22:21] would you like to make a motion so
how do you want that word edney to
[1:22:26] accept the reorganizational chart as
presented yeah
[1:22:31] i think that's fine and we'll list those
changes salary in the minutes so that
[1:22:34] you guys have that stuff
in front of you i think we're required
[1:22:37] to list those in the minutes yeah and i
think that's fine
[1:22:40] but i won't make you repeat them all or
anything like that yeah thanks because
[1:22:43] they're on my desk
[1:22:46] okay is there a second
to approve that reorganization
[1:22:52] okay it's been second any discussion
[1:22:57] we'll have voting by roll call
councilwoman sherry rogers yes one randy
[1:23:02] bowen yes councilwoman debbie gump yes
councilman herb curtis yes okay motion
[1:23:07] carries
moving on to
[1:23:10] new business letter a
all right
[1:23:16] this kind of tied into that departmental
organizational restructure
[1:23:20] mouthful that we just handled but
by charter we're supposed to have a
[1:23:24] finance director we have an operator
that we've kind of operated under the
[1:23:27] assumption and
that the city manager would handle those
[1:23:30] duties which
i think
[1:23:33] it's accomplished it's worked but it
hasn't worked as well but we also had a
[1:23:37] firm that we paid yeah and we and we
still do yeah we've been using subtle
[1:23:40] sonic to kind of fill in for those those
holes of knowledge that i don't have and
[1:23:44] they kind of provide a check on me in a
sense right they're checking our
[1:23:47] financial reports and generating those
and things
[1:23:49] um but as we've discussed i think
we we see a need for bringing these
[1:23:54] duties back in house and as we stalk
talk through the different uh the
[1:23:58] different times we had the special
meetings we had about this topic uh
[1:24:02] i see really two spheres of influence
within the finance department a
[1:24:05] collector's side and of the finance
payroll yeah the the revenue side and
[1:24:11] the collection side i guess is the best
best way to say it but
[1:24:15] so
miss johnson i've approached her about
[1:24:18] taking on expanded duties within her
role
[1:24:21] she's reticent let's say to be very
honest about it and i've assured her
[1:24:26] that this isn't we're not hiring her to
be our financial expert in a sense but
[1:24:30] we do need somebody who's directing the
day-to-day
[1:24:32] um supervision of our our financial
workings that's something with all the
[1:24:37] other duties that i'm performing in the
state of our operation that i think that
[1:24:41] i've i've really been shorted on and i
haven't had an opportunity to really
[1:24:45] delve into our our quickbooks and make
sure each day our transactions have been
[1:24:49] attributed correctly and things that
nature
[1:24:51] and also like with benefits with peia it
works i pair bills
[1:24:56] but you know i haven't really had a
chance to really delve into the numbers
[1:24:59] and all that stuff and and really give
probably probably what our employees
[1:25:02] deserve as far as
um advice and updates and things of that
[1:25:06] nature and so
those two roles are what i'm i'm really
[1:25:09] seeing
her sliding into
[1:25:13] so
at this point and then i think with that
[1:25:16] move in the future here we're going to
identify a candidate to come in and
[1:25:19] essentially be the assistant with a
little bit
[1:25:22] more financial background more financial
experience to handle that other side of
[1:25:26] the equation for us and then attempt to
pull back the duties from settle and
[1:25:30] sonic or that that are routine you know
such as
[1:25:34] accounts payable and things of that
nature that they really
[1:25:38] you know what they say a basic level
accountant could could be trained to do
[1:25:42] very easily
and so that and then their estimation
[1:25:45] that's about 20 or so hours a week so
that's the that's the track i'm trying
[1:25:49] to put us on and jump start us all into
so at this point i think we need to have
[1:25:52] a finance director and i'm recommending
you appoint susie johnston and her
[1:25:56] salary would be forty five thousand
dollars a year
[1:26:00] and then i'll ask
make that recommendation answer any
[1:26:02] questions you have
[1:26:05] ms johnson have acceptable credentials
yeah can we see her last two evaluations
[1:26:11] please
incidentally how long have you been
[1:26:14] working for the city and collections and
in finance
[1:26:18] six sets what i thought
yeah
[1:26:23] thank you
i moved to appoint
[1:26:28] susie johnston as the finance director
at a salary of forty five thousand
[1:26:32] dollars a year
and she'll be an exempt employee just an
[1:26:36] exempt employee
[1:26:40] okay it's been moved in second any
discussion
[1:26:45] i just want to say i think
susie does an excellent job will be
[1:26:49] excellent disposition i agree
and i'll be keeping my eye on her
[1:26:55] we'll have voting by roll call
[1:26:59] yes
that's one randy bowen yes
[1:27:02] councilwoman
[1:27:06] yes
motion carries
[1:27:09] next westport conservation poke creek
watershed dams and channel
[1:27:14] it's the cost share agreement
i believe it's the same amount as last
[1:27:19] year correct forty four hundred dollars
[1:27:24] i'll move to approve
a second it's been moved in second to
[1:27:28] approve in the amount of forty four
hundred dollars any discussion
[1:27:34] all um voting by roll call
councilwoman sherry rogers yes
[1:27:40] comes from randy bowen yes
yes councilman curtis yes
[1:27:47] okay motion carries next
the
[1:27:51] 2022-6 ordinance
updated vacant structure and vacant
[1:27:55] property ordinance first
reading
[1:28:00] you want to do a preface on yeah sure
i don't want to cast any doubt on our
[1:28:05] city attorney's abilities but um
and i'm not doing that
[1:28:10] but this is in a sense hot off the press
you know this is something that you all
[1:28:15] have been given i think the weekend the
read
[1:28:18] which it's not a long document so i
think that that's reasonable in a sense
[1:28:22] but this is something that today we set
through this afternoon and as a staff i
[1:28:26] mean the attorney prepared it he's given
it his review
[1:28:29] i've gone through it and made some notes
i don't know if those notes have been
[1:28:33] incorporated or not at this point and
we've got some some questions on our
[1:28:37] site as far as fees and stuff of that
nature that we'll point out here in a
[1:28:40] second so i want to say i mean i know
we're all hot to get this issue going
[1:28:44] and get this settled but this may be
something that you want to take a little
[1:28:48] bit longer look at and i think that
would be fair
[1:28:50] to do that
it's up to you all i mean i don't know
[1:28:54] if you said hey i was up all weekend
reading this thing and i love it i'm
[1:28:57] ready to rock and roll i'm fine moving
forward but
[1:29:00] i do think what one thing that kind of
came to the surface in our discussion
[1:29:04] today was the fee structure i wasn't
uh
[1:29:08] maybe i missed something i was okay with
the fee structure well i think there
[1:29:12] shouldn't be more when you guys had
previously enacted this
[1:29:15] ordinance i think that the fees were
more yeah they were and
[1:29:18] we you know we sat down today and and
kind of worked through that old fee
[1:29:22] structure and said yeah that's 6 500 for
somebody that first year
[1:29:27] if they don't if they're vacant that
whole year and that's strong
[1:29:31] and i don't think it's necessarily
illegal
[1:29:34] but i think that that's with a program
that's kind of in essence starting from
[1:29:38] scratch right it's something that maybe
is not out there very well for folks to
[1:29:41] know about or even you know you've got
three months and then you're paying 500
[1:29:44] if i got the numbers right
to me that's uh i think from from our
[1:29:49] standpoint we're going to have some
serious blowback on us from a pr
[1:29:53] perspective right and i think for us to
get the program off the ground
[1:29:58] these lighter numbers probably make a
little bit more sense for us
[1:30:01] from that perspective but they do you
know if you look at the vacant or the
[1:30:06] ordinance in front of you we're only
charging 500 for properties that are
[1:30:09] vacant for in the first year and there's
no fee to register the the vacant
[1:30:13] properties in this from what i recall
and i don't necessarily disagree yeah
[1:30:19] and so
i think that for this is policy this is
[1:30:23] right up you know on the curve of what a
city manager does and what council does
[1:30:26] this is this is your wheelhouse to
to write the laws and things of that
[1:30:30] nature i'm just trying to give you some
feedback and i think i wish the attorney
[1:30:34] was here to work with you kind of more
on a one-on-one basis but
[1:30:37] um
i'm more than willing you know if you
[1:30:39] like i said if you spend all weekend
looking at it and say i've got 10
[1:30:41] comments i want to give you i'll take
them and
[1:30:44] try to integrate them but
otherwise like i said i think it might
[1:30:48] might behoove us to
look at this a little bit longer
[1:30:51] i got it you have some more joyful
questions on the language
[1:30:54] excuse me on the language
first starting off under complaints
[1:30:59] notice
excuse me the police chief any police
[1:31:03] officer the chief of the fire department
and any member of the fire department
[1:31:07] the city building code official
shall have the authority to identify
[1:31:12] nuisances and provide a warning
sorry yeah that's the next one we tell
[1:31:17] you what section or page you're on there
sorry yeah
[1:31:20] that is the next ordinance that's the uh
one site yeah that's um
[1:31:25] the on-site citation ordinance okay this
one is
[1:31:30] vacant building ordinance 2022 06.
where's that at
[1:31:35] well i have like
it is on
[1:31:40] after the west fork watershed agreement
the last
[1:31:45] signature page of the west fork water
shed treatment
[1:31:49] it's on the other side
[1:32:09] i would appreciate it if he could make
those changes and also i do believe that
[1:32:14] we do need this
wasn't it 250 dollars for the
[1:32:20] that's here
[1:32:24] right
[1:32:35] yeah it's on the
first year
[1:32:39] total first year 3500 66 000. 6 000.
[1:32:46] okay
[1:32:50] okay but
on the other thing we discussed
[1:32:55] [Music]
[1:33:03] vacant property where's the theme now
[1:33:16] [Music]
[1:33:20] i think
[1:33:32] or regular
[1:33:36] at a future meeting i think at this
point
[1:33:38] i don't know is there a way for us to
kind of converse back and forth on the
[1:33:41] on the ordinance to say
this is what can we share drafts with
[1:33:46] you guys via email i think that's
allowed
[1:33:48] and then get us to a point where we're
happy with it
[1:33:51] it's probably the best way and then we
should send our input we have a motion
[1:33:54] and a second to table
[1:33:58] any discussion
all in favor say aye aye opposed motion
[1:34:04] carries
now we're on that next one next updated
[1:34:08] on-site citations did you have a
question herb
[1:34:12] uh yes but i'm good let's see if the
city manager wants to speak on this one
[1:34:16] first okay just real briefly and
also i haven't i haven't even reviewed
[1:34:20] this one um you did get a second copy of
the ordinance you had one in your packet
[1:34:24] yeah today through those discussions we
we decided to
[1:34:28] uh codify i think was the right word
our guys to say we're going to make sure
[1:34:32] there's a warning process in this
citation so other municipalities when
[1:34:36] you read their on-site citation they can
basically walk up and say oh there's
[1:34:39] trash here's a ticket
and and i think
[1:34:42] we were fine with that approach but
just from our discussion we we would
[1:34:47] like to use a warning process where we
go out there and say hey here's a
[1:34:50] warning please take care of your your
issue just to work with people and then
[1:34:55] if they haven't done that within the
days prescribing it we'll be back and
[1:34:57] we'll issue a citation at that point so
we decided to put that in the code and
[1:35:02] that's when you when you look at that
second copy you received today that
[1:35:05] language is added in red okay
and then we also had a question about
[1:35:11] fines
you know we had some latitude there
[1:35:14] and what we decided essentially was to
kick
[1:35:17] kick this subject to the municipal court
right instead of saying hey your first
[1:35:20] offense is going to be a hundred dollars
right
[1:35:23] i think yeah the crime and
and their reticence and all that stuff
[1:35:28] that's the judge's role to kind of take
that into consideration some the
[1:35:32] ordinance we used for this as our bases
i think was martinsburg they had every
[1:35:35] one of these appeals or complaints
coming before city council but we felt
[1:35:39] the municipal court was probably the
proper jurisdiction
[1:35:42] and the proper
setting for those things to kind of be
[1:35:46] banning about and negotiated and all
that that manner so
[1:35:50] i think it's a
i got to read this this afternoon right
[1:35:53] before i got here and i found one typo
and like i said i think it's some i
[1:35:58] think another review it was it had to do
with let me see if i could find the page
[1:36:02] ahead of that's okay
it was uh the section where we talked
[1:36:05] about court and one of those vestige
councils
[1:36:09] so if i can find it there so i'll get
that corrected but um
[1:36:13] i thought it looked good yeah i think i
think it's a very good ordinance i just
[1:36:17] like said i think
from our from our standpoint we we've
[1:36:21] all we know what kind of situation we've
walked into here and we're trying to get
[1:36:24] things up and running sure these these
ordinances i think are very critical
[1:36:28] they deserve some deliberation some
thought you know i don't necessarily see
[1:36:32] the need to
to get this done here and there it's you
[1:36:35] know emergency scenario i think it's
it's good to give your yeah to bring
[1:36:39] this before council and say here's a
draft ordinance let's talk about a
[1:36:43] little bit right and then then sit on
that for a month and come back and say
[1:36:48] are we all happy with it right and then
pass that and we can deliberate back and
[1:36:51] forth i think that's a good
precedent for us to sell set for
[1:36:54] ourselves when we're dealing with these
ordinances in the future and as we go
[1:36:58] forward so
that's that's my two cents on it you
[1:37:02] guys can disagree with that but like i
said i would rather take
[1:37:05] take the time up front and make sure
we're all comfortable with it and rather
[1:37:08] than say oh shoot we get into this we
miss
[1:37:10] something critical and then we're back
here doing an amendment to the ordinance
[1:37:13] a month or two later does that make
sense so you're recommending that we
[1:37:16] table this one as well i'm
i would
[1:37:20] that's my preference if unless you guys
feel like you've read enough i mean you
[1:37:23] just got the red lettering today right
yeah this evening and i read it yeah and
[1:37:28] actually i'm ready i'm fine
and what i do like about this ordinance
[1:37:33] as and we have people online who have
are on
[1:37:38] the phone who have called in who there
have been many concerns
[1:37:42] about some of these nuisances
that uh particularly noise
[1:37:48] that cannot
it doesn't the the after 10 pm noise
[1:37:54] ordinance doesn't really address
um
[1:37:57] but
this ordinance does address those
[1:38:01] nuisances so someone doesn't
have to listen to excessive
[1:38:06] noise
throughout and when i say excessive
[1:38:09] noise it is
excessive noise that they should not be
[1:38:13] subject to too
if you can't have a picnic in your
[1:38:17] backyard or a grill out in your backyard
because of your neighbors in
[1:38:21] consideration i think
uh this ordinance addresses that
[1:38:26] so if the ordinance is read and passed
at a first reading
[1:38:31] you can still review and
and our city attorney can make
[1:38:36] additional corrections
for where i understand it you can't make
[1:38:40] changes to the ordinance that would
materially change it what is the
[1:38:44] definition of material change
i'd leave that the council and the
[1:38:47] attorney to to go back and forth on that
[1:38:59] i think it needs some work i'm
definitely
[1:39:02] forward table and as far as the language
goes okay as i stated earlier under
[1:39:06] complaints and notice i spoke with the
building specter code enforcement
[1:39:12] officer over earlier before the meeting
and the chief of police
[1:39:16] under complaints and notice it says
states in the beginning the police chief
[1:39:20] and police officer the chief of the fire
department any member of the fire
[1:39:24] department and the city building code
officials shall have the authority to
[1:39:28] identify nuisances and provide a warning
to the alleged violator
[1:39:36] do they also have open range as well
everyone stated here in this language to
[1:39:46] to give an on-site citation as well
and the reason i ask that's because
[1:39:52] nuisance is a broad term
and
[1:39:56] of course as you're aware
mr city manager you got to go
[1:39:59] to you know through training and all
sorts of things to become a code
[1:40:03] enforcement officer to cite someone for
a nuisance
[1:40:08] or even a warning as far as that goes
because
[1:40:11] it involves and is included
and leads up to a citation which is
[1:40:15] given by someone that has to take
training classes to
[1:40:19] to do on-site citations and and
to cite someone for a nuisance so
[1:40:24] that was the first part that i've seen
that maybe
[1:40:28] we may be going just a little broad as
far as who can
[1:40:33] generate warnings and in citations
councilman curtis would you like to make
[1:40:38] a motion to table this yeah i've got one
more part
[1:40:42] in regard to some of the
fire
[1:40:47] issues okay yeah not a nuisance but
i don't even know what it deals with oh
[1:40:53] okay yeah
it might be good to send him a copy of
[1:40:56] that because he'd probably have some
input yeah yeah that's what i said i
[1:41:00] think it's oh hey i don't i don't want
to say that we were rushing it but we
[1:41:03] we're kind of trying to move things
forward as quickly as possible right so
[1:41:06] we've got this in front of you tonight
to ask these questions sure okay you
[1:41:09] know and i think that and you might want
to win councilman curtis has one more
[1:41:13] point
yeah my second was said warning
[1:41:17] which is the next sentence said warning
shall give the violator a reasonable
[1:41:21] amount of time to abate the nuisance
a reasonable reasonable amount of times
[1:41:27] a broad statement as well i think there
at least should be a window of five to
[1:41:32] 15 days five to 20 days
[1:41:36] there needs there needs to be a
means to an end here
[1:41:41] a cut-off point and and i just think
that leaves a wide open window because
[1:41:46] first of all you have all these
different titles above that's that
[1:41:50] you're given authority to cite someone
with a warning or citation and then
[1:41:55] you're saying
given the violator
[1:41:58] or shall give the violated a reasonable
amount of reasonable amount of time
[1:42:02] could you know when you're having
five or six different titles here could
[1:42:06] be
five days to 400 days
[1:42:13] and i hear what you're saying i don't
necessarily disagree i yeah it's a
[1:42:16] common practice i guess the law
especially in this regard right it kind
[1:42:19] of gives the authority to the
policeman i use that term generally to
[1:42:24] kind of make that
decision right they're trying to work
[1:42:26] with people and things that nature right
now sure you'll get a complaint say well
[1:42:30] i broke my back and my husband's out of
town until
[1:42:33] the next two months can i get this trash
pile behind my house in the next few
[1:42:36] months and you say well yeah but if you
you know five to 20 days and you're kind
[1:42:39] of handicapped by the law in a sense
you're breaking the law by giving them
[1:42:43] more so i think that's that's the
general reason for that broad of
[1:42:46] language right you let people allow them
to work with them within reason
[1:42:50] sure but that's in any of these titles
when they're on site with during an
[1:42:55] issue
could tell some you know a landowner hey
[1:42:58] you need to clean this up or
this is an issue here and if you you
[1:43:02] know this is something the city can cite
you for to look at a later time but as
[1:43:05] far as tying it in with
uh issuing citations and with the code
[1:43:10] enforcement department itself i
wasn't sure about that and then again
[1:43:14] a reasonable amount of times
i think should be narrowed down just a
[1:43:19] little more and other than that i think
it looks
[1:43:22] good and that typo i was telling you
guys about that was at section 7c at the
[1:43:27] very end there there's a before council
there i don't think you want any role in
[1:43:30] that i think that's before municipal
court that's that that language
[1:43:34] yeah
it's just something that gets overlooked
[1:43:37] sometimes you're ready to make that
motion
[1:43:40] did we table that yet
we're waiting for a motion to table okay
[1:43:48] i moved to table
the
[1:43:56] the first reading of the on-site
citation
[1:43:59] ordinance
[1:44:02] but
is there a second a second
[1:44:07] it's been moved in second to table the
first reading of the ordinance
[1:44:12] on
updating on-site citations
[1:44:16] any discussion
all in favor say aye
[1:44:22] opposed
motion carries
[1:44:26] uh next under letter e
2022-8 ordinance denial and or
[1:44:33] revocation of licenses
and permits this would be the first
[1:44:37] reading
[1:44:41] that's 20 22.00
five or six
[1:44:46] seven eight eight thank you go ahead
[1:44:52] we have discussion
sure yes
[1:44:56] okay the the whole
[1:45:00] procedure and the whole situation in
regards to
[1:45:06] code enforcement and
cleaning up our town
[1:45:11] is to clean up our town so why would you
revoke a permit
[1:45:15] because they owe you money let them put
the money into fixing up their property
[1:45:20] if they want to
so that that's a point i'd like to make
[1:45:24] about that ordinance if there's
something i'm missing
[1:45:28] i'll listen
[Music]
[1:45:34] i
the motivation for this is that we've
[1:45:37] created a process
if you can call it that i mean it's very
[1:45:41] informal we check our b o taxes our
business license things that nature to
[1:45:46] make sure if somebody's coming in and
getting a building permit that they've
[1:45:49] if they're a contractor they've
registered to have a business license in
[1:45:52] the city that they're up to date on
their b o taxes
[1:45:56] and you know if you're a property unit
you paid your municipal fees that that
[1:45:59] things of that nature it's been a very
effective process for us we've been able
[1:46:03] to a lot of people you know said well
we're
[1:46:05] your contractors out there waiting
you haven't paid your business owner you
[1:46:10] haven't paid your municipal fees
let's see how much i owe 500 bucks okay
[1:46:15] i'll pay and then we've we've brought in
untold thousands
[1:46:19] by by doing that
now in recent weeks we've had questions
[1:46:23] from
outside agencies i'll call them in this
[1:46:26] discussion at this point to say where do
you have that on the books that you you
[1:46:30] can hold up this building permit because
of this
[1:46:34] we don't necessarily have any explicit
language that says we can do that
[1:46:37] there's some general language in there
that says you know you know all proper
[1:46:40] fees and things like that should be paid
before the permit is issued we wanted to
[1:46:45] make that a little bit more explicit so
that we can hand this off to those folks
[1:46:47] when that when that question comes
and to clarify for anybody thinking and
[1:46:52] this this language here came from the
city of charleston from there being a
[1:46:55] tax sec section
that gave them the authority to do this
[1:46:58] so that's where this comes from
now i think the
[1:47:02] the point that councilman bowen's made
is a legitimate let me step in real
[1:47:07] quick and save us some time
i i was thinking that um
[1:47:11] these restrictions of revocations was
being directed at the homeowner or the
[1:47:17] person
which i don't think that should be i
[1:47:20] should have differentiated i understand
the point of view of the contractor and
[1:47:24] the license i get that but we stand but
we do and let me clarify it we do do
[1:47:29] that to the homeowner as well if they're
doing the work themselves we're checking
[1:47:33] to see that their fees have been paid
i don't think you should do it to the
[1:47:36] homeowners or the people who owns the
property if they're wanting to come in
[1:47:40] and fix it up and clean it up and you're
sitting there telling me you want you
[1:47:44] want their money before they can spend
their money i i don't think that's a
[1:47:48] the right way to go about that i think
you should uh
[1:47:52] allow them to improve their property and
hope to get your money it's still your
[1:47:56] property's improved and ultimately
that's your goal
[1:47:59] and let me let me finish my thought
there is that in my time here we've had
[1:48:03] one issue and this is the issue that
we're that we've all received an email
[1:48:06] about today
um that's the one time we've had that
[1:48:09] that situation that permit wasn't denied
we contacted that homeowner and said hey
[1:48:14] you've got multiple years of municipal
fees here that haven't been paid
[1:48:19] by our current
current practice we don't issue these
[1:48:22] unless that's happened what's going on
here and that person said oh you know i
[1:48:25] forgot and whatever you didn't think
time's been tough
[1:48:29] the typical answers and we said can we
get you on a payment plan and they came
[1:48:32] in and we negotiated with them with a
payment they felt comfortable with they
[1:48:36] came in and made that payment we issued
the permit
[1:48:39] and so i you know i think everybody
needs to be treated fairly in the permit
[1:48:42] process too and that's an important
aspect of this and we don't want to see
[1:48:47] anybody you know raked over the coals
because they're down on their luck or
[1:48:50] anything of that nature but i do think
you've got to make a good faith effort
[1:48:54] to meet the laws that are on the books
for all citizens and we're just trying
[1:48:58] to figure out the best way of doing that
and so this like i said it was
[1:49:02] mostly directly copied and pasted from
charleston
[1:49:05] i'm fine tabling this too and adding
some language in there to say do we want
[1:49:08] to put a payment you know a provision in
there that says you know and if you
[1:49:14] can't pay for some reason you can enter
into a payment plan but i think we all
[1:49:18] understand that there are people out
there with
[1:49:20] tremendous means who will take advantage
of a system like that
[1:49:24] and
and will get on the payment plan and you
[1:49:27] know use us as a interest-free
institution in a sense so yeah we can we
[1:49:32] need a system in place you gotta you
gotta have a structure to make things
[1:49:36] work as you said it's working
and
[1:49:40] what's that
[1:49:49] yet receives city services
so we're talking about an issue of
[1:49:54] fairness
here you know
[1:49:57] you're putting a structure
you know the system in place to
[1:50:01] to help out on the city side and in a
sense to help the owner and the
[1:50:05] homeowner as well but
at some point
[1:50:08] the city of weston is going to have to
start reaping some of the benefits back
[1:50:12] from the people
instead of all the people were even from
[1:50:15] the city that's why we're in the shape
we're in that's why our town looks like
[1:50:18] it looks now so
i mean if it works
[1:50:24] you can't very well you know have a list
in the truck and lift the blade when you
[1:50:29] go past somebody if it doesn't fit their
municipal fees i mean you know they're
[1:50:34] still receiving a discount on their
insurance because they're so close to
[1:50:37] the fire department they're they're
receiving a lot of services for
[1:50:42] being in the city limits
the same services that someone that pays
[1:50:46] their fees
so is there an appetite to have the
[1:50:50] first reading of this proposed ordinance
or to table it this evening for
[1:50:56] [Music]
additional language modification
[1:51:01] can can the word pleasure can the
ordinance be amended
[1:51:04] for the second reading as far as as long
as it's not materially changed
[1:51:11] plan i think that would be fine okay i
think that if we add the payment plan
[1:51:15] though we do have some business owners
that will take advantage of that i hate
[1:51:20] to say that but it's just gonna be a
fact susie i think there's language you
[1:51:24] can entertain where you throw it in the
lap of the city manager or this finance
[1:51:28] director to make that determination
right a reasonable
[1:51:31] you know consideration of your
circumstances to ensure that if the city
[1:51:36] sees works go forward but also that
payment's received or something some
[1:51:39] kind of language like that and i'm
thinking at that point you get maybe we
[1:51:42] put a place in there where that can be
challenged at municipal fee appeals
[1:51:45] board or
municipal court or something that nature
[1:51:48] but which could be done amended for the
second reading i've
[1:51:53] i'm i'm fine with it you know
why not okay i think the gist of what
[1:51:57] we're trying to accomplish is still
there right we're requiring the payment
[1:52:00] of all fees randy does that language
help you and no yeah i'm good i just got
[1:52:05] questions sometimes i ask them
okay is is there a motion to have the
[1:52:11] first reading
yep i move that we have the first
[1:52:14] reading
of the ordinance
[1:52:17] let's see
[1:52:21] for denial and or
[1:52:24] revocation of license and permits
[1:52:33] okay it's been moved in second
any discussion
[1:52:37] we'll have voting by roll call
that's a woman sherry
[1:52:42] rodgers bowen yes
yes
[1:52:48] yes
okay city clerk please read that
[1:52:53] 2022-08
an ordinance to require payment of any
[1:52:58] and all municipal fees tax or
the life before city license and permit
[1:53:04] shall be issued
[1:53:08] looking for a mission to accept the
second or the first reading by title i
[1:53:13] moved to accept the first reading by
title only of ordinance 2022.08
[1:53:19] [Music]
a second
[1:53:21] randy seconds okay it's been moved in
second any discussion
[1:53:27] voting by roll call again
councilwoman sherry rogers yes
[1:53:32] councilman
randy bowen yes councilwoman debbie gump
[1:53:36] yes
councilman herb curtis yes
[1:53:41] motion carries next columbia club front
demolition
[1:53:46] well initially we had an invoice that we
were a quotation that we're going to ask
[1:53:49] you all to approve it was over five
thousand dollars
[1:53:52] friday i got the call from them said hey
we want to reconsider that quotation
[1:53:56] we've got some real questions there um i
said well i think
[1:53:59] van ostern architects who we've
solicited and brought into the fold to
[1:54:05] advise us on this stuff so let's meet
with him today on monday so
[1:54:08] through that conversation i think we we
we decided a more
[1:54:14] careful approach was needed in
consultation with the contractor
[1:54:18] and we'd solicited quotations and these
guys were the low quotation now it
[1:54:22] sounds like that price is going to
considerably increase because of the the
[1:54:26] nature of the works needed
so i don't have a quotation in front of
[1:54:30] you and it may involve we'll we'll kind
of cross that bridge when we get the
[1:54:33] quotation and see what the value is but
we may even end up having to advertise
[1:54:37] this if we can't find a way to to kind
of justify this this being a public
[1:54:42] safety hazard and things of that nature
i i think we
[1:54:46] we would have the the right innocence
right to say here's a couple quotations
[1:54:50] let's move forward and skip this bidding
process i think that's in the language
[1:54:53] but i'll keep you apprised of that but i
don't have any further details at this
[1:54:57] point i apologize
um it's kind of a moving situation
[1:55:01] looking for a motion to the table i've
got
[1:55:06] excuse me
uh i had a member of my ward
[1:55:10] a resident asked me about the
manchester bidwell corporation
[1:55:17] correct if you do you have any
information about them
[1:55:21] i think that's mr spellsberg right i
think i got an email from him today
[1:55:24] about it
um what was this what was his final
[1:55:27] request just refresh my memory
he's one he wanted to know when they
[1:55:30] could get in the building and to me he
asked me who the
[1:55:34] best uh to arrange a tour
tour the columbia club and i said city
[1:55:38] manager and i'll work with him on and
i'll get back to him on it i think
[1:55:42] it'll be when we take this front face
off there'll be some access issues for
[1:55:45] our time being until we can kind of get
that restored so it may be a little bit
[1:55:48] later
towards the middle of summer before it
[1:55:51] gets in but we'll try to work something
out with them i don't have an issue with
[1:55:54] it
thank you
[1:56:00] i'll move the table
is there a second
[1:56:04] a second okay it's been moved in second
to table the discussion on the columbia
[1:56:10] club front demolition
any discussion
[1:56:15] all those in favor say aye aye
opposed
[1:56:19] motion carries
the hour is getting late and i
[1:56:23] appreciate everyone's patience i'm going
to pass the baton to councilwoman rogers
[1:56:29] thank you that's getting late i'll be
very
[1:56:32] brief
i would like to encourage the public
[1:56:38] more of the public to
attend our meetings our committees our
[1:56:42] boards
to become involved you all are most
[1:56:46] welcome always and i hope you feel that
at every meeting i know we do have
[1:56:50] people now joining us on zoom and
those
[1:56:55] agendas are posted
and uh we did have a constituent who
[1:57:00] suggested that we move the public
comment to the beginning of the meeting
[1:57:05] which i think is is nice a nice
accommodation
[1:57:08] that that has been done for constituents
so you can read
[1:57:14] what's on the agenda and comment before
we discuss and before the agenda item
[1:57:19] comes up so we are making every effort
if
[1:57:23] there are any other accommodations that
we could possibly do
[1:57:27] to accommodate the public
we would certainly entertain those and
[1:57:31] feel most welcome to
um
[1:57:35] to let us know
i do want to
[1:57:39] also mention the arpa meeting february
23rd at six at the masonic lodge those
[1:57:45] are community weed meetings they're
rounds to table discussions they um
[1:57:53] we encourage the public
to come and sit down and have a
[1:57:57] conversation about our community
i think that
[1:58:02] everyone has pretty much been involved
our city manager has scheduled those
[1:58:06] meetings um
we'll we'll be publicizing those
[1:58:10] meetings and
definitely would like for everyone to
[1:58:13] attend and provide their input
and actually i think it would be a nice
[1:58:17] time just to sit down and have
discussions about our community and um
[1:58:22] also
an opportunity to learn what's going on
[1:58:25] in our community
so
[1:58:28] also the last thing i want to talk about
is the
[1:58:33] i think
once again i know i always thank
[1:58:36] the the city
team
[1:58:40] but uh it just can't be said enough i
can't thank you enough i think that
[1:58:44] things are moving in the right direction
i think as a result maybe the public
[1:58:48] doesn't know but we have had some a
couple of neighborhoods actually
[1:58:54] interested in being annexed into the
city of western because of our services
[1:58:59] that are being provided
and we could not do that without our
[1:59:04] staff and our city team
thank you
[1:59:09] i think we've pulled out the same speech
bucket
[1:59:12] really i believe yeah
yeah she's she come from a different way
[1:59:17] i'm talking about community
involvement
[1:59:21] and
i think every person in here needs to
[1:59:25] question everything that every elected
official and every appointed and every
[1:59:31] entity that's involved in your life you
need to go out
[1:59:35] and look and and see what they're doing
and what they're presenting and what
[1:59:38] they're selling us as a good
and what they're doing to our children
[1:59:43] or grandchildren
[1:59:46] i think we need to become involved when
things
[1:59:50] things that you've seen happening for
many years and and you see it come
[1:59:54] crashing down around you and you see the
pain and the suffering that it that
[1:59:59] creates
and a lot of it's coming from the people
[2:00:03] who think that there are leaders and
think that they're telling us what we
[2:00:07] need to do we need to step up and
tell them what we think they need to do
[2:00:12] and and to get out of our life
and to allow us to to do things for
[2:00:18] ourselves because
i think if
[2:00:21] as we've uh been apathetic over the past
30 or 40 years we've let we've let this
[2:00:27] stuff slip away from us and and it's
on the world i mean you can't pay
[2:00:32] attention much to the media i'm sorry
[2:00:36] but
welcome back
[2:00:42] but i mean but on a big scale but
whenever things hit close to home and
[2:00:47] there's there's nobody's feeding you the
story and there's nobody
[2:00:51] selling you on the
story line and it hits and you're
[2:00:55] looking and you're like
i think that's what's caused these
[2:00:58] things so i i'm kind of going around in
about way to try to be
[2:01:03] diplomatic but we really need to
question
[2:01:07] who's in charge of our children we need
to question who's in charge of our
[2:01:10] cities we need to question who's in
charge of our counties at all times
[2:01:14] we've forgotten that we have
that right and we haven't done it for 40
[2:01:20] or 50 years and believe me it's really
showing thank you
[2:01:28] i echo the sentiments of the previous
council members
[2:01:33] community is very important i think i
talked about that last time
[2:01:38] i do want to stress that there are some
upcoming things that people in the
[2:01:41] community can support and that is the
chocolate festival
[2:01:45] at the glass museum this weekend i mean
chocolate should be just a draw of
[2:01:50] everybody
coming in but that is 1
[2:01:54] 00 p.m to 3 p.m at the
glass museum and that is a
[2:01:59] 10
covers year cost of all the chocolate
[2:02:02] you can eat
so it's just like a smorgasbord of
[2:02:07] chocolate
so i've already started working on my
[2:02:10] chocolate so just putting out there no
cookies but a lot of chocolate
[2:02:14] and i also uh of course more details be
coming but we do have the community
[2:02:20] meeting planned for later in the month
on february 23rd so that's at the
[2:02:25] masonic temple
and that's a great opportunity for every
[2:02:29] community member to get involved and
voice their opinions and give us some
[2:02:33] feedback on what you would like to see
the last thing i would like to
[2:02:40] leave on is to encourage anybody
that is out there that is having a
[2:02:47] crisis situation
um to please seek help
[2:02:52] and to
um
[2:02:55] realize there are people out there that
will listen to you we are in a community
[2:03:00] that there are a lot of avenues that you
can reach out to so i just want to
[2:03:04] encourage you
to to think
[2:03:08] and and to talk
and to ask and to seek help
[2:03:12] thank you
[2:03:16] you want to announce me or
yes
[2:03:20] councilman curtis ward 4.
it's it's really i appreciate it thank
[2:03:25] you mayor
no problem it's a disadvantage being on
[2:03:29] this end because everybody talks about
everything
[2:03:32] under the sun and time it gets to me but
i will reiterate as councilwoman gump
[2:03:38] said that
there will be a community meeting at the
[2:03:41] masonic temple on the 23rd of february
and i'd just like to say as far as since
[2:03:47] i've joined the council
i've seen over the last couple years
[2:03:51] with all the committees
[2:03:54] to me that has been rebirth with really
good people that's put a lot of time and
[2:03:58] effort into them
um people within the community that's
[2:04:02] helped with writing grants each
department our new city manager
[2:04:06] we've got a new city attorney on board
that has spent countless hours on these
[2:04:10] ordinances and so for all the people out
there when you see us sitting up here
[2:04:15] and we're debating back and forth or
maybe table and
[2:04:19] uh ordinances or
ideas that's come about that's on the
[2:04:23] agenda uh it's just to make you know to
create more preparation and to
[2:04:28] to make sure we have our all of our
ducks in a row i think you have some
[2:04:32] pretty
pretty intelligent professional people
[2:04:36] within the city government
and on this board as well as far as a
[2:04:40] mayor and council that's just doing a
tremendous job and just making sure to
[2:04:44] take their time to get all their ducks
in a row uh to make things better for
[2:04:49] each one of you and the city as a whole
um
[2:04:53] and with that said
i think i'm finished would you like to
[2:04:57] make a motion i moved to adjourn is
there a second a second it's been moved
[2:05:01] in second to adjourn all in favor say
aye aye
[2:05:05] motion carries