2021-01-15 · City Council · Transcript · Special Called Meeting

--- title: January 15 2021 Special Called Meeting date: 2021-01-15 source: 2021-01-15_January_15_2021_Special_Called_Meeting.wav --- [0:00:00, 0:00:01]: Called a meeting to order. [0:00:02, 0:00:05]: I suppose it's called January twenty twenty one. [0:00:05, 0:00:20]: And uh and I'll do the invocation at this time. You don't mind bowing your heads. Lord, uh, thank you for bringing us together once again for another wonderful meeting, a special call meeting in which we're going to discuss and interview and select a key individual to our staff. [0:00:21, 0:00:37]: Be us always Lord we kind of look through the interview process and have a an outstanding um process in which uh we select uh someone to be a member of our team. Be us always Lord in your name. Amen. All right, so let's uh let's uh do the Pledge Allegiance. [0:00:41, 0:00:51]: I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which stands, one nation of God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. [0:00:52, 0:00:54]: Madam Clerk, roll call, please. [0:01:00, 0:01:01]: Madam Clerk, roll call please. [0:01:05, 0:01:08]: Yes, I just got a message from um [0:01:08, 0:01:13]: Mayor Pro Tem Alexander, who's has went to the other meeting as well and is trying to join. [0:01:14, 0:01:16]: Uh Mayor Ford. Present. [0:01:20, 0:01:24]: Again, I just mentioned Mary um Pro Tem Alexander, Councilwoman Barber. [0:01:25, 0:01:26]: Present. [0:01:30, 0:01:31]: Councilman Blount. [0:01:31, 0:01:32]: President. [0:01:37, 0:01:39]: Council Woman Gantt. [0:01:40, 0:01:41]: President. [0:01:45, 0:01:46]: And [0:01:47, 0:01:48]: Councilman Thomas. [0:01:49, 0:01:49]: Project. [0:01:52, 0:01:53]: Okay. [0:01:53, 0:01:54]: Therefore, do you have a quorum? [0:01:55, 0:02:00]: All right. Thank you. Appreciate that, uh, Ms. Holliday. Council, I need a motion to adopt the agenda, please. [0:02:03, 0:02:03]: Come on. [0:02:04, 0:02:04]: Sorry second. [0:02:06, 0:02:07]: Second. [0:02:07, 0:02:09]: No, thank you. All in favor, please indicate. [0:02:12, 0:02:25]: Uh oh thank you very much. Okay, we got it. I four four oh and uh I need a motion to go to executive session on um in reference to uh interviewing a candidate for executive to assistant uh [0:02:25, 0:02:26]: To the mayor of council. [0:02:27, 0:02:28]: Mayor Ford. [0:02:28, 0:02:31]: Yes, ma'am. I move that we go into executive session for personnel matters. [0:02:32, 0:02:33]: All right. So a second. [0:02:35, 0:02:35]: Second. [0:02:35, 0:02:37]: Okay, all in favor, please indicate. [0:02:40, 0:02:49]: All right. Okay. So we got four zero. Um now so in this aspect we're gonna go to second session and that's the other particular Pacific [0:02:49, 0:02:53]: um link that you sent us, right, Miss Holiday, do we need to get into now? [0:02:55, 0:02:56]: Is that correct? [0:02:56, 0:03:12]: That's correct. All right. So I'm going to say goodbye. I'm going to say goodbye to you all for right now for a brief moment. We have to go to another link to get in Zeke session. Okay. I want to ask one question before we go to the other link. Go ahead. Yeah. I sent an email out asking you all how you all are going to um [0:03:12, 0:03:18]: Handle the questions, or each one of you gonna ask a question of the candidate and do a round robin. [0:03:19, 0:03:21]: Until all the questions are answered. [0:03:23, 0:03:34]: We can we can attempt that. Yeah, I we can do that. Okay. I just wanted to make sure so everybody's on the same page. Okay. Good deal. All right. Appreciate it. Thank you. All right. Well, I'll see y'all in a bit. We're gonna go into the second session now. [0:03:35, 0:03:36]: Okay. [0:03:50, 0:03:52]: [315.3, 318.4]: Webinars now we're now live again. [0:05:23, 0:05:26]: Okay, so we're waiting for Alexander and and uh Gantt. [0:05:27, 0:05:28]: Well we do have a quorum. [0:05:29, 0:05:30]: At this point. [0:05:32, 0:05:36]: Mayor, can I recommend we move forward? There's no action coming out of executive session. [0:05:37, 0:05:37]: All right. [0:05:38, 0:05:41]: I'll tell you what uh counter [0:05:41, 0:05:48]: You councilman okay he agrees. All right. All right. So council, we we need a motion to end executive session, please. [0:05:48, 0:05:55]: I'll move. Is there a second? Okay, second. Mr. Thomas seconds is okay. All in favor, please indicate. [0:05:56, 0:06:02]: We're indicating okay. I need a motion to reconvene a special call meeting, please. So move. [0:06:02, 0:06:05]: So move Alexander. Who's the second? [0:06:05, 0:06:15]: Second, Mr. Okay, Mr. Blounts, a second. Okay, we're back in our special call meeting. There's no results or information to give to the public at this time. So I make I'd like to have a motion to adjourn our meeting, please. [0:06:16, 0:06:17]: Some [0:06:18, 0:06:21]: Uh uh again, does that go to Blount here for [0:06:22, 0:06:24]: Okay, Blount second. Okay, all in favor, please indicate. [0:06:26, 0:06:32]: All right. Good deal. Have a good weekend, ladies and gentlemen. Watch a lot of football. See you soon. All right. Good night. Good night.