2017-09-25 · City Council · Transcript · 09 25 September 25 2017 transcript

--- title: September 25 2017 date: 2017-09-25 source: 2017-09-25_September_25_2017.wav --- [0:00:51, 0:01:11]: Oh yeah. Well I think what someone is on the inside. [0:01:11, 0:01:14]: [ 75.8, 95.8]: Well hey, how are you doing? Oh yes. That's good scene. Congratulations you then. Yes, ma'am. This is a good idea. [0:01:35, 0:01:36]: [ 97.5, 100.0]: That's what we do. [0:02:04, 0:02:10]: [131.0, 137.0]: [0:02:30, 0:02:32]: [155.0, 158.5]: [0:03:20, 0:03:25]: [235.0, 245.1]: No, they're going to wipe it out. Oh, okay. [0:04:42, 0:04:47]: [295.0, 296.5]: [0:04:57, 0:05:00]: Yes, [0:05:00, 0:05:03]: Yeah. [0:05:03, 0:05:12]: [313.0, 327.4]: This is my designated space here. Well wherever you want, we usually [0:05:28, 0:05:29]: Hello? [0:05:33, 0:05:53]: Oh skin but it's way and uh just on these things. I just don't really know. [0:05:53, 0:06:13]: Oh, that one it's the book that we uh [0:06:13, 0:06:33]: And black out of the year you know about the city out of the city parts. [0:06:33, 0:06:46]: Yeah, I would have to go. [0:06:47, 0:06:50]: [425.0, 428.2]: [0:07:08, 0:07:21]: Yeah, yeah, it's like all that one. [0:07:33, 0:07:46]: Okay. [0:08:00, 0:08:02]: [484.2, 493.5]: [0:08:35, 0:08:36]: Yes it is. [0:08:40, 0:08:42]: Yeah. [0:08:45, 0:08:46]: [555.4, 558.6]: [0:09:23, 0:09:36]: At this time we'll call the work session meeting Monday, September twenty fifth for the city of Stockbridge to order. And at this time we're delighted to have with us this evening Pastor Um [0:09:36, 0:09:48]: Our bishop Richard Whiphart from New Hope Ministries and his beautiful wife. We appreciate both of them being here and we'd like to ask the bishop if he would come up and open us with our invitation. [0:09:50, 0:09:54]: We'll follow that by pledging the American flag. [0:09:56, 0:10:00]: I'm honored to be here today and thank you so much for having me, Mayor Neal. [0:10:00, 0:10:05]: Let us pray. Most eternal God in heaven, we thank you today for your grace and for your mercy. [0:10:06, 0:10:26]: I thank you today, God, for this great city of Stockbridge. We pray that you continue to be with us. We continue to lift our mayor up before you and our council men and women. And Father, all those that undergird this county, we pray today, God, for Brother Randy, who has taken his new position on today. I pray that you continue to grace him. [0:10:26, 0:10:46]: continue to give him the strength and the fortitude that he needs to carry out his new assignment. And Father, we pray today that you would continue to be with our servicemen and women in this county, Father. So we bless you. We honor you today. We thank you for what shall be said today. And we pray that your spirit would move among us today. [0:10:46, 0:10:56]: and that you would be glorified. So we thank you and we bless you today. And we ask all of this in your precious Son, Jesus' name. Amen. [0:10:58, 0:11:12]: Of course, America. It's a republic. Nation, uncard, indivisible. [0:11:18, 0:11:24]: At this time we're gonna call on our clerk when that's a holiday and ask her if she would please to call her own. [0:11:24, 0:11:29]: Councilman Alexander. Present. Councilman Blount. Present. [0:11:30, 0:11:33]: Fair deal. Present. Fair Pro Camp 4. Present. [0:11:34, 0:11:34]: And [0:11:36, 0:11:49]: Let the record reflect. Councilwoman Gantt. Councilwoman Robinson. Present. Mayor Neal, you have a form. Thank you. At this time I need a motion to adopt to adopt the agenda for the evening. [0:11:50, 0:11:53]: Mayor Neal, I make a motion to adopt the agenda. [0:11:53, 0:12:05]: Thank you. Second. We have a motion from Ms. Robinson and a second from um Pro Tem Ford to adopt and approve the minutes. All in favor? Agenda. [0:12:06, 0:12:07]: Oh my god. [0:12:08, 0:12:17]: Okay, thank you. At this time we will review minutes, um not to vote on them tonight, just to review minutes of the following meetings. Um [0:12:18, 0:12:22]: And those are from eight three, august third. [0:12:22, 0:12:24]: Um August the fourth. [0:12:25, 0:12:26]: August fourteenth. [0:12:28, 0:12:31]: From our retreat on august seventeenth. [0:12:32, 0:12:35]: uh and from our retreat on august eighteenth [0:12:35, 0:12:42]: and a work session meeting on august twenty ninth. We will be voting on those at the next meeting. [0:12:43, 0:12:51]: At this time I'm gonna ask our clerk if we've had anyone who's signed up to um come and make a public comment. [0:12:51, 0:13:11]: Aaron, no comments. Okay, we'll move on. Tonight we have uh four items under new business. The first one is going to be presented by our public works director, Deshus Aaron. That will be council consideration to approve the twenty seventeen local maintenance improvement grant list. [0:13:11, 0:13:13]: Of streets for resurfacing. [0:13:14, 0:13:31]: Mayor Neal and Council are come before you tonight asking for your approval of the city's 2017 LMIG uh street resurfacing in the amount of eight hundred and thirty-seven thousand five hundred and forty six dollars. Currently the the city is running behind on the LMIG and that. [0:13:32, 0:13:41]: Two thousand seventeen should have already been done, but when I got here we were struggling to get two thousand sixteen out. So one of the things that's gonna come before you is [0:13:42, 0:14:02]: And November we're going to come asking you to approve the two thousand eighteen L meag list. Funding is available. I had talked to Linda before she left because when we send in this request on by January the first, twenty eighteen, they want to know that twenty seventeen was completed and what's the cost gonna be for [0:14:01, 0:14:21]: twenty and eighteen. So we're asking for your approval tonight of a list of streets that were submitted to you. Because streets were chosen based on a ratings from the engineering firm, the street review that they completed, I think two or three years ago, and that's the list that we're following. So tonight we're coming before you asking that you approve. [0:14:21, 0:14:24]: about twenty seventeen ALME list. [0:14:27, 0:14:30]: Is there a motion to approve? [0:14:33, 0:14:34]: Yeah, mayor. [0:14:35, 0:14:47]: I'll make a motion to approve the proposed list for 2017 uh El Make Local Maintenance Improvement Grant for the streets that uh Mr. Deschus is uh presenting to us. [0:14:48, 0:14:49]: Do I hear a second? [0:14:50, 0:14:50]: Thank you. [0:14:51, 0:14:54]: Have a motion and a second. Is there discussion? [0:14:56, 0:15:16]: Just uh if I could ask a simple question. Um the area that I live in in all truth transparency I live in uh off of Peach Drive in Winslow and Eagles Landing and uh the campground road extension is in process and there are several neighborhoods that kind of surround us. Uh are there any considerations? [0:15:16, 0:15:36]: being taken uh in place for those particular communities or some communication or coordination between what we're doing and that roadway which is running through the city limits at some point since I represent all of the residents in that area as well that I'm trying to look at [0:15:36, 0:15:56]: Look out for. Well what's gonna happen is once we do the two thousand eighteen list, then we'll reevaluate the roads. We've been undone fifteen miles since I got here resurfacing. Uh industry standards suggest that you should reevaluate your roads every five years. So we'll be coming up on a five year term and we'll do another evaluation. [0:15:56, 0:16:11]: and we'll go from there as far as which streets get resurfaced. Because by following a engineer or a professional opinion on the roads, it takes sub subjectivity out of it and politics out of it. It gets the roads that really need to be resurfaced, redone. [0:16:11, 0:16:31]: Yeah, just to follow up, I'm just saying that um I know in in the particular community with which I dwell I don't border the road, my street has not personal street that I live on has not been impacted, but as the residents uh as a council member who lives in that particular area, right now the entire street [0:16:31, 0:16:51]: is just torn up where they're uh intersecting Wembrook Drive with Campground Road Extension. So I just want to make sure that whatever we do that we're fair to those residents and that we take a look at what what the impact is and have some communications uh with the county on uh on co in coordination [0:16:51, 0:16:52]: [1012.5, 1014.0]: Yes. Thank you. [0:16:55, 0:16:59]: Okay, we have another question, this one from Mr Blount. [0:16:59, 0:17:08]: Baron, how you doing? I'm doing it. Uh the question is uh when when this uh when the L Meg uh list comes out, is that is it usually this late in the year or is it [0:17:09, 0:17:14]: Well, what normally happens is the list is due by January first of of the year. [0:17:15, 0:17:18]: And when I got here I started in December two thousand and sixteen. [0:17:19, 0:17:21]: The sixteen lists should have already been done. [0:17:22, 0:17:27]: And you should have been submitting information for two thousand seventeen to get done, but [0:17:28, 0:17:42]: Like I say I got here late and we had two thousand and sixteen, we hadn't had that done, so we got that done. So now we're coming up on two thousand seventeen, we want to get that done and then we'll be moving to two thousand eighteen, which catches us up with DOT. [0:17:43, 0:18:02]: But I'm saying as far as the projects because if it was supposed to be presented in January first, which you just then the eighteenth should be January first also? Eighteen will be January the first of this year. We'll let'em know this is what what you see in there's a list of streets and what the cost analysis is, what the s [0:18:02, 0:18:19]: probably cost would be to do those roles on that list we send it to DOT. Okay, I was just curious because for everybody that could be streaming, how would we catch up in three months if the n new list come out in January? What actually is gonna happen is we'll probably do [0:18:19, 0:18:30]: two thousand seventeen and twenty eighteen together. So that way we're caught up. Then when we're going into twenty and nineteen we'll be up to date. We'll be sending them two thousand and nineteen information. [0:18:30, 0:18:31]: Thank you. [0:18:33, 0:18:37]: Okay, we have a motion, we have a second, we've had discussion. [0:18:38, 0:18:39]: Any other discussion? [0:18:40, 0:18:41]: All right, all in favor? [0:18:44, 0:18:47]: Eh? Anybos? [0:18:48, 0:18:51]: Did we get a filed vote? We did. Okay. [0:18:52, 0:18:56]: I need to let the red girl reflect that Councilwoman Gantt is in attendance. Okay. [0:18:57, 0:19:05]: All right, we're moving on to uh the item number two. Um and this is also being presented by Mr. Aaron. [0:19:06, 0:19:26]: Yes, madam mayor. Uh we come before you tonight asking for your approval on some stormwater projects we had bidded out and uh site environmental was the lowest bidder. Site engineering I mean was the lowest bidder. Uh these are some projects that have been on the drawing board for approximately seven to eight years and we're just moving [0:19:26, 0:19:33]: forward with it and one of the things is it's coming out of stormwater fund balance because stormwater wasn't allocated in the funded in [0:19:33, 0:19:42]: the previous flies, so we're coming out of Stormwater Fond balance and the cost is two hundred and sixty seven thousand five hundred and fifteen dollars. [0:19:43, 0:19:47]: All right, you've heard this presentation. Do I hear a motion? [0:19:49, 0:19:52]: Yes, ma'am. I move that we approve. [0:19:54, 0:19:55]: I think present. [0:19:57, 0:20:04]: Second. Okay, we have a motion and a second for item number two under new business. Um is there a discussion? [0:20:07, 0:20:15]: There is no discussion, then we'll move forward. This um Mr. Aaron has told us is coming out of stormwater fund balance. [0:20:15, 0:20:18]: Do um at this time, all in favour? [0:20:20, 0:20:28]: I had a I had a question. Okay, let's put this on the vote on hold. We have one last question. Yeah, I'm sorry, I should have thought about this earlier. Um [0:20:28, 0:20:48]: When you we take this out of fund balance, what do you have any idea what the balance would be after you do that? Is it take is it take all without a zero or no sir it doesn't. When I had talked to Linda we we reviewed the funding for this, it takes us down to about two hundred and fifty thousand and that was one of the reasons why we were going forward with the stormwater rate evaluation. [0:20:48, 0:21:01]: So that we could stay current because you got em employees funded out of stormwater and things of that nature. So we were accumulating all this cash when we didn't have a active stormwater program going. [0:21:02, 0:21:07]: So now we're starting to use those resources to do some stormwater projects. All right, thank you very much. Appreciate it. [0:21:07, 0:21:09]: Okay. Uh [0:21:09, 0:21:12]: Then in that case we'll go ahead and vote all in favor. [0:21:14, 0:21:33]: All right, thank you so much. Now we're moving on to item three, council consideration to approve purchase of chipper not to exceed seventy one thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars. This is coming, I believe, out of fixed asset. It is a fixed asset. It's coming out of general fund fund balance. Is that correct? Yes, madam mayor. [0:21:33, 0:21:35]: Okay. Um [0:21:36, 0:21:52]: Do I hear a motion? Yes. I make a motion to accept the recommendation of Mr Aaron uh to purchase this chipper because uh during a storm um we were uh in need of this particular uh piece of equipment going forward. [0:21:53, 0:22:00]: All right, we have a motion. Do I hear a second? Second. We have a motion and a second. Is there discussion on the item? [0:22:02, 0:22:05]: Mm. Have a question by Mr. Blount. [0:22:05, 0:22:13]: on on this chipper, um just for clarity, when we when we do um because we're still in in the process of doing our budget amendments [0:22:14, 0:22:21]: Um these these items have already been discussed and I just wanted to know this is coming out of the general fund. [0:22:21, 0:22:22]: Yes. [0:22:22, 0:22:24]: Fine balance. Yes, I think. [0:22:24, 0:22:27]: 'Cause this is a public w works asset. [0:22:29, 0:22:34]: Fixed assets come out of the general fund balance, I believe. Is that correct? [0:22:39, 0:22:43]: No well it depends on for which department it is. If it was a uh [0:22:44, 0:22:49]: a water or sewer project like the one that's coming up, it'll come out of that that fund balance for water and sewer. [0:22:50, 0:22:56]: Okay. Uh we have a motion. We have a second. We've had our discussion. All in favor? [0:22:58, 0:23:00]: Okay, thank you for your vote. [0:23:01, 0:23:03]: We're moving on to item number four. [0:23:03, 0:23:04]: Um [0:23:04, 0:23:11]: Council consideration to approve purchase of a pump for Smith Barnes lift station not to exceed thirteen thousand [0:23:12, 0:23:20]: Four hundred and forty four dollars. This I believe uh is coming out of water and sewer fund balance, is that correct? Yes, madam mayor. [0:23:21, 0:23:21]: Okay. [0:23:22, 0:23:25]: Uh do I hear a motion? [0:23:25, 0:23:27]: We have a motion to a hear second. [0:23:27, 0:23:27]: Okay. [0:23:28, 0:23:31]: Have a motion in a second. Do we have discussion? [0:23:32, 0:23:38]: Okay, thank you. Um on the new businesses today said this is required to be a budget amendment. [0:23:39, 0:23:51]: I mean I is it already budgeted before or is it something we don't have to amend our budget? This would come out of the the next uh quarterly budget amendments, this item would the cost for this item would come out of that. [0:23:51, 0:23:53]: We'll do it in the next budget amendment. [0:23:55, 0:24:01]: So we're not vote you don't want us to vote on this? Yes, ma'am. What what we're gonna do is [0:24:01, 0:24:15]: We got some funding. We're gonna take money from different line items, but we wanna reimburse it so that we'll have money available in in those funds that cost centers that we're currently gonna be taking this money from. [0:24:17, 0:24:26]: Okay.'Cause this is an item that we need to get kinda quick'cause we'll be running with just one pump in that station and if that pump's failed then we run into trouble. [0:24:26, 0:24:32]: I think y'all have already talked about this um i in a previous meeting. [0:24:32, 0:24:33]: Did we not? [0:24:33, 0:24:53]: No. No, not about this. Okay. I think it was a chipper that we talked about in the previous meeting. All right. Okay. I have a question though, right? I I mean I I know the necessity for it. The issue I guess we're going to ask is about if you budget on the luggage to know where the [0:24:53, 0:24:55]: Right now, this [0:24:56, 0:24:59]: Right now. [0:25:00, 0:25:01]: Where [0:25:02, 0:25:11]: Maybe maybe there is, but one of the concerns Mr. Holtzinger had is if he has another issue and he has to spend money [0:25:11, 0:25:17]: to repair or replace something, he'll run out of funding'cause this is gonna come from his regular operating budget. [0:25:18, 0:25:29]: And so he just wanna do a budget amendment from the water and sewer fund balance to replace that thirteen thousand four hundred and forty four dollars in his operating budget that he's spending for this pump. [0:25:36, 0:25:40]: It's like sixteen thousand dollars when I talk to him for his equipment. [0:25:43, 0:25:47]: Okay. Uh any other discussion on item four? [0:25:47, 0:25:48]: Yes. [0:25:48, 0:26:04]: I just I just I think what we want to make sure and I'm one hundred percent behind what you're doing so the public understands what is going on and I think you've kind of capsulized it into an email is that both of these pumps have actually exceeded the life [0:26:04, 0:26:19]: that they were programmed to do at this point. So really both of them have outlived their useful years and you're being proactive now uh I mean we're responding to that need is that correct? Yes, sir. [0:26:22, 0:26:24]: Okay. Any other comments? [0:26:25, 0:26:26]: All in favor? [0:26:28, 0:26:30]: Okay, thank you very much. [0:26:30, 0:26:40]: Um we'll leave new business, go on to discussion item, uh council discussion for task order number six, HVAC evaluation. [0:26:40, 0:26:43]: Presented by Dashus Aaron again. [0:26:43, 0:26:57]: Yes, madam mayor. I just come tonight, just want to get uh counsel's comments and concerns. As you know, we've had all kinda issues with the HVAC system here in this building and since June of two thousand and thirteen [0:26:57, 0:27:04]: We spent seventy five thousand ninety five dollars and seventy one cents in maintenance and repairs on on this [0:27:04, 0:27:09]: equipment and in the last month we put in three compressors [0:27:09, 0:27:10]: in this unit. [0:27:11, 0:27:25]: And I just want some guidance and direction. Maybe I could meet with the city manager to seek his opinion as well as what do we want to do to move forward. Do we we had our own call, one of our own call engineering firms had a HVAC [0:27:25, 0:27:29]: engineer come out and look at the system and he found some issues with [0:27:29, 0:27:31]: the system and I just want [0:27:32, 0:27:42]: council's opinion and how how would you like to move forward? Would you like to continue to go it go in the direction we're going in, is repair as necessary, or we look at [0:27:42, 0:27:48]: doing a complete evaluation and maybe we have to replace the system or rehab the system, but [0:27:49, 0:27:55]: But I just need some guidance as to what direction council would like to go in reference to the HVAC system here. [0:27:56, 0:27:56]: Mayor. [0:27:59, 0:28:01]: Okay. Uh Ms. Robinson. [0:28:01, 0:28:07]: I don't want to continue to pass. Um, I want it to be taken care of so if you can get with [0:28:07, 0:28:20]: Mr. Knighton and you all discussed that, but hopefully my colleagues agree that just continue to patch, we're just wasting money when we can just go ahead and take care of it now. And that's my thoughts on that. [0:28:21, 0:28:21]: I think her [0:28:23, 0:28:25]: Okay, any other comments? [0:28:25, 0:28:45]: Yes. Okay. Mr. Ford. Yeah. No, so there's there was an al allocation in SPLOS. I have to get with finance to see how much money is available, what funding is available. There was some fund [0:28:45, 0:28:51]: funding for building maintenance and the air conditioning system. So I would have to get with her to see how much money is available. [0:28:52, 0:28:56]: Oh, okay. That'd be something good for us to know how much that would be and of course how much it would cost to [0:28:56, 0:28:58]: to overhaul the entire system. [0:28:58, 0:29:03]: Yes, I think. Okay, thank you. So we'll bring this back for further discussion later. [0:29:03, 0:29:05]: Is that good? Okay. [0:29:05, 0:29:09]: Any any other comments about uh number item number five? [0:29:10, 0:29:12]: Well I d I'm I'm a little confused here. [0:29:13, 0:29:16]: The the the I can I s am I recognized? [0:29:17, 0:29:28]: I just wanna make so was it your intent just to discuss this tonight or you just kinda wanna see where we a are at because I'm with Councilwoman Robinson about fixing this problem? [0:29:29, 0:29:49]: once and for all. And then I think, you know, we've seen with our audit um that we have funding available, um uh a year and a half worth of reserve funds and then we have balance in all of these various accounts. So I'm under the opinion that we fix the problem uh [0:29:48, 0:30:00]: once and for all and I I believe financially you stated to us that you uh want to move forward with uh with doing something uh permanent for this. [0:30:01, 0:30:14]: Yes, sir, we do, but I still would like to defer and meet with the city manager to get his input on that because this is gonna possibly be a major expenditure. And and I just wanna tap into his wisdom and knowledge as well. So [0:30:14, 0:30:17]: I think our city manager would like to make a comment. [0:30:24, 0:30:24]: [1826.4, 1831.0]: There we go. Thank you, Madam Mayor and uh and the council. I I certainly would want to [0:30:31, 0:30:45]: uh meet with the public works director to evaluate the system to determine what needs to be done, if a full scale evaluation would need to be done in order to determine if it can be completely repaired. [0:30:46, 0:30:50]: with uh a relatively uh minor assessment [0:30:50, 0:31:06]: um versus uh having a full scale overhaul of the system which would obviously cost quite a bit more m bit more funding. Um and and I hear the sentiments of the council is to ensure that it is repaired completely [0:31:06, 0:31:11]: and not uh continue to uh place band aids on the on the system. [0:31:11, 0:31:22]: and uh uh continue to have to revisit it. So I'll meet with uh a Public Works Director, uh we'll come up with an assessment of the system and then bring that back for your understanding and information. [0:31:24, 0:31:25]: Thank you. Any other comments? [0:31:27, 0:31:39]: Okay, well we have completed our agenda. Um at this point, uh we're gonna call on our new city manager, Mr. Randy Knighton, if he has any comments that you'd like to make. [0:31:39, 0:31:47]: Um just uh I want to express again uh my uh sentiments of uh the warm welcome that I have received uh from the Council [0:31:47, 0:31:51]: uh from staff and from uh many citizens that I've heard from [0:31:51, 0:32:06]: Um and uh certainly uh was uh very thankful for the reception that you provided for me a couple of weeks ago and I was thankful that my parents could be here uh as well to uh be a part of that. So thank you very much. [0:32:06, 0:32:09]: I am excited. I'm looking forward uh to [0:32:09, 0:32:12]: working very hard. Uh we met with department [0:32:12, 0:32:18]: uh managers uh earlier today and we'll uh have several other meetings scheduled already for the remainder of the week. [0:32:19, 0:32:35]: as well as certainly want to meet with you and uh uh scheduling meetings with uh city managers and other officials uh throughout Henry County. We want to uh uh strengthen the relationships that we have and uh uh serve the citizens of Stockbridge. [0:32:35, 0:32:37]: uh with the highest professionalism. [0:32:37, 0:32:44]: and and excellence. So I look forward to uh continuing uh the good work that you all have already established here. [0:32:45, 0:32:49]: Thank you. Uh now uh from our city clerk, any comments? [0:32:50, 0:33:10]: Okay. Um comments from our city council. I'll start on the right with Mr. Alexander. Yes, thank you, Mayor. I appreciate it and um thank you everybody for tuning in and participating. I want to take my time to um first of all reach out and thank some of the staff members who have been very supportive of things that we have done. [0:33:10, 0:33:30]: uh particularly I had a town hall at Red Oak United uh Methodist Church on Saturday. Mr. Ering uh volunteered and gave up his time to uh personally attend the town hall giving very valuable information to the s to uh the citizens. They were very appreciative of that. [0:33:30, 0:33:50]: I want to tell Mr. Aaron thank you. Uh you didn't have to do that, but you did uh out of your own accord, and it was much appreciated on my part, and it was much appreciated uh by all the citizens who attended because they said your presentation really gave them information uh like they had not received it before. [0:33:50, 0:33:57]: especially uh in their community. So thank you so much for uh uh reaching out and coming out on Saturday. I want to thank Miss Moore. [0:33:57, 0:34:17]: for uh providing valuable background information and for helping prepare me uh for the town hall. Uh it was very informative. This the information, the packages that were prepared for me. Everybody I was able to go step by step and review those packages with everybody in attendance. So thank you so much. [0:34:17, 0:34:37]: much. I also want to thank uh Miss Vanessa Holliday, our city clerk, for her her part that she played in making sure that uh everything was ready and that um getting me the equipment and coordinating that. So I wanna let you know that th that is very much appreciated until all our staff members who really do [0:34:37, 0:34:57]: Do a good job on a daily basis delivering for our citizens with numbers that aren't as great as most people think they are. So thank you all so much for everything you do. And I would just likely lastly close by saying we have Hispanifest, Bridgefest preaching Hispanifest coming up this week. [0:34:57, 0:35:17]: weekend and as one of the spearheads of this event I just want to say right now in light of what's going on in America that Stockbridge is a very open and inclusive community that welcomes absolutely everybody and we're very tolerant of of of everybody and we want to welcome all of the citizens and we [0:35:17, 0:35:37]: We celebrate not just the Hispanic community uh on Saturday, but we celebrate the entire community uh with Bridge Fest Preacher and Hispana Fest and we're looking for a huge crowd. Everything is free for this particular event except for the food and the merchandise, but all the entertainment is free, so come out and enjoy yourselves on Saturday. [0:35:37, 0:35:38]: Thank you so much. [0:35:40, 0:35:41]: Mr. Blount. [0:35:42, 0:35:45]: Yes, I wanna say uh hats off to all the staff also and uh [0:35:45, 0:35:50]: Thank our new city manager. Um, welcome you once again for [0:35:50, 0:35:52]: Coming to your first uh council meeting. [0:35:53, 0:36:01]: They w they all won't be like this, but uh we uh we uh we enjoyed that. And and it's a proof that this city is uh trending in a good direction and uh [0:36:02, 0:36:06]: I I pray that the city continue to have transparency with the citizens. [0:36:06, 0:36:19]: And uh and and just keep the city in prayer because we are moving in a in a direction we're coming into uh some really times that we uh are really need to come together and uh strive to continue to keep our city whole and uh [0:36:19, 0:36:21]: I'm just uh glad to be a part of the system. [0:36:23, 0:36:28]: Uh Mr Forward. Thank you, Mayor. I appreciate it. Once again, uh Randy, welcome. [0:36:28, 0:36:48]: I know we're gonna have a great time together and you're gonna help us move the city forward and the citizens will see that and see the progresses uh that we're taking and they're gonna be pleased and and blessed. So uh we're gonna have a great time together. Citizens, uh always I'm glad to see you engaged and continue to be engaged with us as we continue to move the city forward and do uh your business for you. [0:36:48, 0:36:52]: as we continue to work together for the betterment of of all you citizens. [0:36:53, 0:37:06]: And for the individuals that attended the prayer walk in Hen that was under McDonough for Henry County with all the different uh pastors and religions and municipalities that were re present there and community folks, it was great activity on Saturday. [0:37:06, 0:37:16]: So uh for you folks that have attended that and had a good walk and a good prayer session as we try to bring the county together as well and all the all the municipalities as one, all the citizens. [0:37:17, 0:37:20]: And uh on that note, God bless you all. Thank you. [0:37:21, 0:37:23]: Uh yes, Miss Scant. [0:37:27, 0:37:46]: Um um thanks everyone for coming out tonight. Welcome, Mr. Knight. Um this period of time, the past couple of days, um, for our nation has been one of divisiveness or attempts to the to become divisive. [0:37:47, 0:38:07]: Um in in certain instances. I ask that we as a city pray for unity and pray for love and peace. Um it it is so important. I usually don't I I keep saying it's silly for us to say comments at the end, but I guess it gives us an opportunity to really speak how we feel. And um [0:38:07, 0:38:27]: uh tonight on my heart, you know, i it's more so about acknowledging diversity and acknowledging differences and I'm gonna continue to try to spread the word that we need to start communicating with each other and not being afraid that if you say something um about how you feel that you won't be afraid to lose your job. [0:38:26, 0:38:30]: Or the or or be hindered or hailed down [0:38:31, 0:38:41]: Um so it's a time for us to pray. It's a time for us to to share and to love. And um thank you for coming out and thank you for your continued prayers and support. [0:38:43, 0:38:45]: Thank you. Ms. Robinson. [0:38:45, 0:39:05]: Yes, thank you, Mayor. Um again wanna thank um our citizens who were here, but definitely our staff who are always working all the time and we just thank you for always uh assisting us assisting us in our last minute request. And Mr Knighton, today um while we were out in the community with our chamber, a lot of people [0:39:05, 0:39:25]: are so ready to meet you. Um they're ready to get to work with the city of Stockbridge. They're excited to help move us forward because they know communication is the key. So I'm excited about that and look forward, I mean you said it tonight, getting with the other city officials and I think that's putting us on the right track and I'm so excited that you're here. [0:39:25, 0:39:30]: And I look forward to um all of us working together as a team. So again, thank you so much. [0:39:31, 0:39:39]: Thank you, all of you, for your comments. Um I just have one couple of brief things I would like to say. I certainly two um um [0:39:39, 0:39:55]: Very delighted to have Mr Knighton join us. Um I'm very glad that he's here for several reasons. I've been filling in for him trying to keep the Stockbridge ship afloat until he got here and I want to say thank you to all the council and staff. [0:39:55, 0:39:59]: who've done uh just an incredible job. The staff people have just [0:39:59, 0:40:18]: shown us that we have wonderful people that work for the city and everybody has done everything they could to hold uh everything uh together until Mr. Knighton's arrival. We didn't know who you would be for so long, but now that you're here, uh we really are delighted to have you. So thank you so much. [0:40:18, 0:40:23]: And thanks to everyone who's uh helped us during these five months. So [0:40:24, 0:40:26]: I will look forward to going back to being the mayor. [0:40:27, 0:40:27]: And uh [0:40:28, 0:40:30]: Mr. Knighton uh taking over. [0:40:30, 0:40:37]: And at this time I need to ask our city uh attorney if we have any executive session items. [0:40:41, 0:40:45]: Okay, do I hear a motion for litigation, personnel and real estate? [0:40:46, 0:40:50]: We have a motion here. I believe I heard a second here. Who was that? [0:40:51, 0:40:52]: Okay, Alexander. [0:40:52, 0:40:58]: Okay, we'll go to executive session and those who can wait, we invite you to stay stay with us. [0:40:59, 0:41:03]: Oh, sorry, we have got to vote on that. Any discussion about going? [0:41:03, 0:41:04]: No? [0:41:04, 0:41:06]: All right, in that case, all in favor. [0:41:07, 0:41:08]: Okay, thank you. [0:41:10, 0:41:11]: [2485.0, 2491.8]: Uh we didn't touch on a post file. [0:41:42, 0:41:43]: Comes on. [0:41:45, 0:42:02]: It's a basic thing. I wouldn't really like that for which we are not really. [0:42:02, 0:42:20]: [2549.8, 2563.2]: Oh I have no idea. Oh, yeah. [0:43:10, 0:43:12]: Mm-hmm. [0:47:42, 0:47:48]: I'm not sure if you might be here. [0:48:02, 0:48:05]: Uh just said that one thing I'll try to get. [0:48:15, 0:48:20]: [2902.8, 2922.8]: Yeah, I actually turned the line down on the work. Um these are loud. Uh yeah, we move the heck on here in the back. No. I have read this. Whatever the word is not. [0:48:42, 0:48:50]: [2961.9, 2963.2]: