2021-12-09 · City Council · Transcript · Special Called Meeting Via Zoom

--- title: Special Called Meeting Via Zoom date: 2021-12-09 source: 2021-12-09_Special_Called_Meeting_Via_Zoom.wav --- [0:00:00, 0:00:15]: Yeah, I don't see any it's recording. Uh I'll say webinars being recorded. Uh and then I believe we'd had uh some we we our IT guy was traveling or something along those lines. And so um [0:00:15, 0:00:19]: Anyway, we're gonna go forward here. Um, but we got a recording going. Anyway. [0:00:20, 0:00:40]: So I call the meeting order, invocation. I'll do that. Lord, continue to be with us as we continue to do the city's business. Allow us to have a good, profitable, and and uh logical meeting as we continue to uh handle our business of the city and look forward to a outstanding executive session as we look forward to uh selecting uh next city manager for the city. [0:00:39, 0:00:42]: Always Lord in your name. Amen. [0:00:42, 0:00:49]: Uh Mayor Ford, although this meeting uh appears to be recording, it is not live. [0:00:49, 0:01:09]: Okay, I got that. But right now we we got a timeline to stick to. And I'm sorry it's not live, but we're gonna continue on people are coming at a certain time. So we're gonna move on. If we can get it live into time, we will do so. I right now I mentioned earlier that as far as I understand, our our IT guy was traveling and somehow could not get us on live yet. And uh and right now, as far as I know, the PIO. [0:01:09, 0:01:13]: is not available so if you don't mind let's move forward plant allegiance please [0:01:15, 0:01:26]: I pledge allegiance to a flag in the United States of America and to the Republic which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. [0:01:30, 0:01:32]: All right, roll call uh please. [0:01:38, 0:01:41]: Holiday? Okay, I was pressing my button and it went down. [0:01:41, 0:01:42]: Mayor Ford. [0:01:43, 0:01:44]: Present. [0:01:44, 0:01:45]: Mayor Pro Tem Alexander. [0:01:46, 0:01:47]: Present. Councilwoman Barber. [0:01:48, 0:01:48]: I see. [0:01:49, 0:01:50]: Councilman Blant. [0:01:50, 0:01:51]: Resident [0:01:51, 0:01:53]: Councilwoman Gantt. [0:01:53, 0:01:56]: President. Councilman Thomas. [0:01:56, 0:01:57]: President. [0:01:57, 0:01:59]: Mayor Ford, you have a quorum. [0:01:59, 0:02:05]: Thank you very much. Um uh council, I need the uh motion to adopt the agenda, please. [0:02:05, 0:02:07]: So move is there a second? [0:02:07, 0:02:08]: That's it. [0:02:09, 0:02:13]: Okay, I I got Ms. Gantt taking that. All in favor, please indicate. [0:02:13, 0:02:14]: Okay. [0:02:14, 0:02:18]: All right. Thank you very much. Okay, good Thomas. Okay, is that uh [0:02:18, 0:02:20]: Now I need a motion to go into executive session, please. [0:02:21, 0:02:25]: So move, I'll make a motion that we go into executive session for personnel. [0:02:26, 0:02:28]: Okay, thank you sir. [0:02:28, 0:02:31]: Ms. Gantt, second that again. All in flavor please indicate. [0:02:32, 0:02:40]: Aye. Aye. Thank you very much. Okay. So um Miss Halday, you sent us uh another link to get in a second session, please. Ladies and gentlemen, I'll see you shortly. [0:02:41, 0:02:41]: Okay. [0:02:42, 0:02:43]: Thank you. [0:02:43, 0:02:44]: Okay. [0:02:45, 0:02:46]: Okay. [0:04:18, 0:04:19]: Oh. [0:04:23, 0:04:25]: It's almost the people that [0:04:25, 0:04:25]: That's true. [0:04:26, 0:04:37]: All right. That was really strange, folks. Um I thought I was like, what is going on? Well it uh Mr. Bond, you you threw us a curveball. [0:04:41, 0:04:49]: Yeah. Yes, I thought they were I thought you guys were done. She's just telling me no sir, we were not. Why don't you go back to regular session? [0:04:49, 0:04:50]: Whoops. [0:04:52, 0:04:53]: Yeah. Yeah. [0:04:55, 0:04:57]: You guys can go back since we haven't went live. [0:05:07, 0:05:13]: Okay. Hey, hey, it tell tell them come back to the regular come back to special call regular main meeting. Tell them to come back to that. We'll close it out. [0:05:16, 0:05:17]: You're not muted, Mayor. [0:05:17, 0:05:18]: So this is a recording. [0:05:19, 0:05:22]: Yeah, I'm sorry. You're you're right. Thank you. I'm sorry about that. [0:05:23, 0:05:24]: Thank you, but anyway. [0:05:25, 0:05:25]: Okay. [0:05:26, 0:05:32]: Okay. All right. We're gonna come back to regular meeting and then uh we we've already had our discussion. [0:05:32, 0:05:38]: Right. We know where we're going. Thank you for that. All right. We'll wait till everybody gets here and then we'll close this thing out. [0:05:40, 0:05:47]: Oh, now we're live streaming. Okay. All right. Okay. [0:05:48, 0:05:50]: Are you talking? Is somebody talking? I can't hear. [0:05:51, 0:06:05]: Uh yeah yeah I you I can hear you. We're we're we're okay. Let's see here. What do we got here? We got uh okay, we got four of us back anyway. Five of us, I'm sorry. Five back. [0:06:08, 0:06:10]: Okay. Yeah. [0:06:13, 0:06:16]: We'll wait for a couple of minutes to get poor folks back and we'll close out. [0:06:19, 0:06:21]: Okay, Mr. Thomas is back. [0:06:23, 0:06:25]: Vanessa's coming back. All right. [0:06:27, 0:06:28]: I tell you what. [0:06:29, 0:06:35]: Okay, my number dog's acting up now. Okay, so let's see here. So all right, we got the entire Blount's not back yet. [0:06:38, 0:06:39]: All right. [0:06:41, 0:06:45]: I tell you what, uh [0:06:50, 0:06:51]: I'll tell you what we're gonna do. [0:06:51, 0:06:53]: We're gonna go ahead and uh [0:06:53, 0:07:01]: Well, I need a motion. We got a we've got a quorum here. So I need a motion to uh end our executive session, please. So move. Sir second. [0:07:03, 0:07:10]: I second. Miss Barber had her hand up. She seconds that. Clerk was taking notes. I need a motion to reconvene a special call meeting, please. [0:07:10, 0:07:30]: Some of them okay, Miss Ms. Gantt. Okay. I'll give uh Mayor Pro Tem a second. All right. Um ladies and gentlemen, we've had a special call meeting dealing with uh personnel matters. We uh have nothing to report at this time publicly, and we do have a quorum. Uh so uh we have our guidance, we have a quorum, so I'm [0:07:30, 0:07:33]: I'm gonna ask for a motion to end our special uh special call meeting. [0:07:34, 0:07:37]: Someone. Is there a second? Mayor Pro Tem, is there a second? [0:07:38, 0:07:40]: Mr. Thomas seconds that I [0:07:40, 0:07:41]: We'll stand adjourned. [0:07:42, 0:07:44]: Uh talk to you all soon. Take care. Enjoy your evening. [0:07:45, 0:07:45]: And uh [0:07:46, 0:07:46]: God bless you all. [0:07:47, 0:07:49]: Good night. Good night.