2025-07-01 · City Council · Transcript · City Council Special Called Meeting

--- title: City Council Special Called Meeting date: 2025-07-01 source: 2025-07-01_City_Council_Special_Called_Meeting.wav --- [0:00:12, 0:00:13]: No, I'll save it. [0:00:17, 0:00:25]: All right, ladies and gentlemen, I'd like to start our special call meeting. Uh this is uh Tuesday, July first, and I have actually five twenty-four. [0:00:26, 0:00:28]: Uh please stand for invocation. [0:00:29, 0:00:43]: If you can. Lord, thank you for bringing us together once again to do the city's business. Allow us to make good logical decisions and be able to move our city forward with in this aspect as well. Be as always, Lord, in your name. Amen. Pledge allegiance. [0:00:43, 0:00:54]: Place to the fire of the United States of America to the Republic for which stands One Nation, one God, indivisible liberty and justice for all. [0:00:56, 0:00:58]: Madam Clerk, Rocall, please. [0:00:58, 0:01:02]: Good evening. Mayor Ford. Present. Mayor Pro Tem Gantt. [0:01:04, 0:01:05]: And it's not an attendant. [0:01:06, 0:01:07]: Council Member Thomas. [0:01:09, 0:01:29]: Let the record reflect Council Member Thomas is not in attendance. Council Member Berry. Present. Council Member Barber. Present. Council Member Alexander. Present. Mayor Ford, do you have a quorum? Thank you, Madam Clerk. Appreciate that. Uh Council need a motion to adopt the agenda, please. So move. For Miss Uh Ms. Farber. Uh second, Mr. Berry. All in favor, please. [0:01:29, 0:01:33]: All right. Um now need motion to go into executive session. [0:01:34, 0:01:48]: Mayor I'd like to make a motion to go into executive session for personnel real estate litigation as we normally do. All right. Sir second that motion. Second. All fair, please indicate. All right. So now she said ladies and gentlemen, we'll be back. Thank you. [0:09:15, 0:09:16]: Yeah. [1:46:53, 1:47:02]: All right, ladies and gentlemen. Council, um, I need a motion to end our executive session, please. So moved. Second. Okay, from Mr. Alzheimer's and Mr. Berry, all in favor, please indicate. [1:47:03, 1:47:23]: Unanimous decision, okay. Now I need a motion to uh reconvene our special call meeting, please. So move. Okay for Mr. Alexander? Second. Mr. Berry, all in favor, please indicate. Unanimous decision on that. And ladies and gentlemen, from the our executive session, we have a several several different motions that we need to proceed and and uh get on record here. All right. [1:47:23, 1:47:30]: Mr. Berry, please. Our first first motion is to withdraw the name of Dr. Adaderen as our sole finalist and city manager. [1:47:31, 1:47:32]: Is there a second to that motion? [1:47:33, 1:47:35]: Okay, Ms. Cant, second in all favor, please indicate. [1:47:36, 1:47:39]: All right, Mr. Berry, please. [1:47:39, 1:47:50]: All right, the second motion is to uh name Shantez Edmondson as our new sole finalist for the vacant city manager position. Okay, second from Mr. Alexander. [1:47:50, 1:47:51]: All in favor, please indicate. [1:47:53, 1:47:57]: Okay, is that now it's decision on that? Thank you very much. And um Mr. Barrett please. [1:47:58, 1:48:10]: And our final motion, sir, is to reschedule our meeting scheduled for July the fourteenth to the July fifteenth date. Second. Okay. From Mr. Alexander, second dad, on fair please syndicate. Fantastic. [1:48:10, 1:48:19]: All right, you now see on that. And now I need a motion to end our special call meeting. So moved. Second. Mr. Burr, second from the second from Mr. Alzheimer's all fair, please indicate. [1:48:19, 1:48:21]: Good night, God bless you all. We're done. [1:48:22, 1:48:23]: Thank you.