2018-07-24 · City Council · Transcript · Work Session Meeting

--- title: July 24 2018 Work Session Meeting date: 2018-07-24 source: 2018-07-24_July_24_2018_Work_Session_Meeting.wav --- [0:00:25, 0:00:40]: No, I try back to it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. [0:00:40, 0:00:50]: But for I know. [0:01:04, 0:01:10]: We'll talk, we'll talk. [0:01:35, 0:01:36]: But I'm just saying. [0:01:37, 0:01:40]: Yes. [0:01:42, 0:01:50]: Is it good? [0:01:53, 0:01:55]: [148.0, 150.4]: And three times. [0:02:50, 0:02:51]: Yeah. [0:02:53, 0:02:55]: Yeah, that's what they're doing. [0:03:08, 0:03:10]: All right. Um [0:04:00, 0:04:01]: Yeah. [0:04:13, 0:04:15]: But we have points technically we do. [0:04:25, 0:04:41]: Alright ladies and gentlemen, I have uh 402 and I'd like to open up the uh Tuesday, July 24th, uh work session for the council. Call of order. And um Mr. McFarlane, passing the floor. Could you please give us the indication? [0:04:43, 0:05:03]: Body heads. Holy Father, we thank you right now for all that you've done for us, all that you've delivered to us, all that you promised us, God. We know that you will give those things that you promised. Bless right now, this council. Bless right now, mayor. Bless right now, everyone that is here in this building. Give them wisdom that we might lead this city in the way that you would. [0:05:03, 0:05:15]: We have to be blessed, the workers of this city. Bless all that takes encompass of everything that is done. We bless these things. We pray these things in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen. [0:05:17, 0:05:29]: And to the republic for which it stands for my nation, my God, individual, with liberty and justice for all. [0:05:39, 0:05:40]: Present. [0:05:45, 0:06:05]: Mayor for Jim Cant, it was not in attendance. Councilman Alexander. Councilwoman Private. Present. Mayor Ford may have the four. Thank you. Madam Clerk, appreciate that. I need a motion to adopt the agenda, please. So voted. I second. Uh vote on folks. I know you you just second that. [0:06:05, 0:06:25]: Um we we we have we need to make an amendment to the motion and i i'm sorry about that could you withdraw your motion from thank you appreciate that mayor yes sir we need to amend the agenda go right ahead please uh motion to amend the agenda to include uh to add community and schools presentation um by miss uh [0:06:24, 0:06:44]: uh Linda Harris and I would also like us to uh uh hear item number seven uh also Linda to hear item number seventeen after executive session. Number seven after executive session okay is there a second is there a second okay thank you very much any further discussion [0:06:44, 0:07:04]: Yes sir. Uh exactly the community that's good. I'll make that first. We'd like to make that first. Okay. Okay. We'll make that the first item after public comments. Okay. Thank you for that. Appreciate it. Is it for the discussion? All favor, please indicate. Thank you very much. Okay. We have reviewed the minutes for the following meetings. [0:07:04, 0:07:22]: June 27th, 2018, and July 9, 2018. Please take a look at those, see if there's any adjustments we have to make. If so, we'll address those with the clerk. We'll get a chance to approve these at our next council works at school council meeting community. [0:07:23, 0:07:25]: Yeah. [0:07:27, 0:07:45]: On that note, I'll move on to any public comments. Ms. Okay. So now public comments have been submitted. Then for the first item before we get on forward to reports, I'd like to have uh Ms. Glenda Harris come forward and give us our community schools briefing. [0:07:45, 0:07:47]: Thank you, man, for coming forward. [0:07:50, 0:08:10]: Thank you, Mayor Ford, Council, and I and the guests for allowing me the opportunity to share with you our mission and what community skills is and what we do. We have a packet in front of you. We're not going to go through that whole packet. But I will go through four main documents that are in that packet and then the other [0:08:10, 0:08:30]: I will touch on, you can refer back to those later for your need. And so I would first want to just share with you a little bit about what community schools is, what we do. We are a the largest non largest national nonprofit dropout. [0:08:30, 0:08:50]: Prevention organization in the country. And what we do is we work directly with students at the high school level to prevent them from dropping out of school and finding the resources for them. We are a we have a Georgia affiliate, which serves 41 districts within the state of Georgia. [0:08:50, 0:09:10]: Georgia, 41 school districts. Um, they have there are 248 sites in Georgia, and we work with approximately 1389 students on a case managed basis. So when we go into the school, just to give you an understanding of what we um [0:09:10, 0:09:30]: What the model looks like is, so I can let you know too, we are in Henry County High School, Stockbridge High School. The model what looks like is that we go into the school, we have a site coordinator that is our employee that we place in the school, we partner with the Henry County School System, and they allow us to have office space both in the school and then by office space. [0:09:30, 0:09:50]: As well. And what we do is we work with the principal to do a needs assessment on the school. We do work with the students who are most at risk within the school to find do a needs assessment to find out what is the problem and what is preventing them from staying in school. And what how we can remove those barriers so that they will stay in school or graduate. Ultimately, we will [0:09:50, 0:10:05]: to see that student succeed and we want to increase the graduation rate within Henry County. And so directly what affects this area is Scott Ridge High School. So we do have a site coordinator there who works directly with the students. And um [0:10:06, 0:10:26]: So, what I do want to refer to first is, and you don't have to be in your packet, I'm just going to show you. Right here is our report card for last school year instead of 16-17. You'll have one soon from 17 to 18 years. But in this, this reflects Henry County because we just started in Stockbridge last year and this past year. But this orange one is the orange. [0:10:26, 0:10:46]: The large piece is my favorite because it shows the colleges that our students were accepted at and the scholarships that they were accumulated that they received. And that shows that last year we had$140,000 in scholarships that were awarded the students in Henry County High School. And that's the total, and these are the colleges that they would were. [0:10:46, 0:11:06]: accepting that. So moving on. We have a um the next document that's very important and I do want you to get out because I think it's something that y'all will appreciate when you look at this is directly a data from our database. Me and our data, every student we work with, every time we work with them, every time we see them. [0:11:06, 0:11:26]: what their needs are and how we provide for those needs. And so this is our end of your report and it's going to show you the total school supports 181. Our case managed students we had that we that we provide direct services to was 75. We always work with at least 5% of the population. [0:11:25, 0:11:27]: when it's over a thousand. [0:11:28, 0:11:39]: And um and so what we provide though in the school is three tiers of support. Tier one being host school. That might be assemblies, that might be um just anything that can affect [0:11:39, 0:11:59]: the whole school. And tier two is group settings. Those are are also case managed students, which is group two. That's that is group settings. Tier three is one-on-one individualized supports. Tier two and tier three we have to have permissions that's from the parents in order for us to work with the students directly to provide services and to enter them into our database. [0:11:59, 0:12:19]: And the database is where we get this data here. So this also shows you the in-kir status as far as how many of the students that we worked with as seniors that graduated, those that were promoted, retained, transferred out, dropped out, and other. And the ones that were the exited programs. [0:12:19, 0:12:29]: and we have that broken down on the next page. Below that we will see also the colleges they were accepted at and the scholarships they received of the students that we worked with, correctly. [0:12:31, 0:12:44]: On page two, it explains more detail what our Tier 1 services, Tier 2 and Tier 3 services look like. It breaks it down so you can see exactly the initiatives that we support in order to support those children. [0:12:46, 0:13:06]: And then on tier three, I mean on page three, uh you do see the dropout prevention. And it breaks it down into the six students that we did lose within our program and why. Some were transferred out, some with one of them was actually dropped out of school, but we were able to connect and with Connecting Henry's uh swag program. [0:13:06, 0:13:10]: So even when we lose them, we follow them to try to connect them to services. [0:13:12, 0:13:30]: And then you see our mission amendments. Um this uh last year we started our our um site granting will meet in the first five minutes of our board meeting and present to our advisory council um a couple of stories of kids that they're working with and it really brings it to home what we do. So I capture some of those here. [0:13:31, 0:13:51]: And so I want to bring out I want to highlight one story. And one is Jamaria Patterson. And sh we worked with her um directly with um our uh site coordinator. Did she did not have a home, they were living in a hotel and they were being kicked out of the hotel, everything was in storage. Our site coordinator was able to find them that [0:13:51, 0:13:56]: day or rental home to move into, she took camera equipment over here so they had something to sleep on. [0:13:56, 0:14:16]: and food so they had something to eat and then made arrangements uh to try to get the foot and the stuff out of storage but with timing issues it was they were not able to get the things out of storage before they got ripped before they sold them. So we were able to work through different coaches, state office, to get uh c um donations [0:14:16, 0:14:36]: So that we were in the house, you know, fill their house and give them a place to live. And Jamaria wrote an essay, and her essay won for the state for CIS Georgia for our state champion for this past year for 2018. And our state coordinator, actually, because of her efforts with Jamaria, she won. [0:14:36, 0:14:56]: uh site pointator of the year which they just went they just instated because she did such a fabulous job. And we were actually met, there's a a news uh release in there that we'll share show you show you um put that we met at the aquarium. We honored um uh First Lady Weal and um the shriners for the work that they do with children [0:14:56, 0:15:16]: As well. So you can read on that later. We also, because of the great work, the Atlanta Journal Constitution wrote a two-part article on the site coordinator and the students, and that is in there as well. And then if we move along to the rest, what I wanted to share with you next is [0:15:16, 0:15:17]: How we [0:15:17, 0:15:20]: support our site coordinator. [0:15:21, 0:15:41]: My first document, and this is another one that's important for you to see, is um our second coordinator costs detail, and this breaks down the cost. It is includes the salary with the benefits, it also includes any program costs, support costs that may come from my support or [0:15:40, 0:16:00]: or the state office support, any training, any travel expenses, things like that. Some of these are hard expenses and some of those are in kind at this time, which eventually may roll over into heart expenses that will be, you know, that will definitely pay out. But right now some of those expenses are in kind. [0:16:00, 0:16:20]: And of course, these expenses will grow as our organization grows and we add on the program manager to support the cycle leaders' work. But this is the basis of what the cost is to have a site commander in a high school right now. And then on the next page that I want you to look at is our contributions and grants. [0:16:21, 0:16:41]: And this is just to show you what um how we receive our funding from contributions and grants. And the first portion is where the school system, in your county schools, does fund$30,000 towards our services. And they also provide an in-time contribution of the office phase that I mentioned. [0:16:41, 0:17:01]: Before for my two site coordinators and for myself. And then they also provide laptops and electronic, you know, become printers and anything that my site coordinators might need at our office. We also partnered heavily with the period expo that took place this past weekend. And we had uh we have about 1200, uh a little over 1200. [0:17:01, 0:17:21]: Henry County residents. We passed out almost a thousand backpacks and the re the um remaining of elementary backpacks we were able to give to um the backpack giveaway that y'all have this coming weekend, the back to school um batch and um and then the others that we have for high school we keep at our um facility so that we [0:17:21, 0:17:41]: Can support our services throughout the year. As you look further, you'll see different organizations that contribute to contributed to us throughout 2018, our FY18 year, any grants we may receive, and any in-kind contributions. If you look at the second page of that document, [0:17:42, 0:17:47]: It also gives you some grants that we've already have commitments on for the FY19. [0:17:48, 0:18:06]: But it also will show uh what I've shown you here um is that there are other affiliates within the state of Georgia that receive funding from municipalities such as um cities, counties and so forth. And um this was just a good breakdown to show you where um the possibilities are. [0:18:11, 0:18:12]: Then um [0:18:13, 0:18:33]: Further, um, we have in the packet, it just shows you our three fundraisers that we use throughout the year, and that is our parent expo, which really isn't a true fundraiser, which the money always bounces out. You know, what the contributions that we receive go straight back to the um school supplies. Then we have an Anu Giving campaign and [0:18:33, 0:18:38]: We also have golf term that takes place. So that's really how we gain our funds throughout the year. [0:18:39, 0:18:59]: And um and so what I'd like to um say in in closing is just um I'd like the possibility in the near future to discuss the possibility of of City Stockbridge assisting us with some kind of support for the services, and that support would go directly to Stockbridge High School, um not to Hummer Ken button [0:18:59, 0:19:03]: we didn't have it reacted uh to the um question. [0:19:04, 0:19:24]: Um yes sir. Um thank you again for coming. Several years ago uh Mrs. Cromley uh indicated that there was a need for a site here in the Stockbridge community. Um is that still so uh [0:19:24, 0:19:44]: As far as a side coordinator? Well, no, a location. I think at the time there were a number of students in the program. I think the majority of the students in the program came from the city of Stockbridge. So the program tried to locate a facility here in the City of Stockbridge. [0:19:44, 0:20:04]: Now with the communities and schools, um, when we first originated we were with Connecting Henry, but we separated from them that was before I even uh joined the organization. And um we were in the middle schools with the graduation coaches reassigned to us. And we used uh those graduations start the coaches to [0:20:04, 0:20:24]: Three years ago, we pulled out of the middle schools and hired our own to go into this the sites that were most at at need. And we we work with the school system directly to find out you know where that the greatest need is. We started Hammer County High School and then last year moved into [0:20:24, 0:20:44]: Stockridge high school. So as far as a site, that's where we would be. Um in and we are inside the school. We have that site where we're seeing those kids face to face every day. Does that answer your question? Mayor for the record. Uh the let the record mayor for TM. Appreciate it. Thank you. [0:20:44, 0:21:04]: Ms. Robinson Goretta, please. Um yes, thank you, Mayor. Thank you for the presentation. Um it is definitely needed and I'm glad you made it to Stockbridge High School because I just noticed even with the um stats that you have, the dropout is basically a lot of that is the behavior. Um so you guys are doing an excellent job. [0:21:04, 0:21:24]: job in the schools. So uh and I'm thankful that you said that you've partnered with us already with our factor school. Um so that's just a partnership in itself that is huge for our community. Um I just know that I'm for it um to be support, you know, coming from the city. So you know I definitely am mayor. [0:21:24, 0:21:43]: And uh colleagues, so hopefully we can look further and discuss further. We'll have to discuss through that would make it to move forward in reference to how we want to move. Any other questions from the council right now? You have no yet. [0:21:43, 0:22:03]: Thanks for coming. Um, and I definitely appreciate uh the support I've gotten from you all and uh this student crumble. Um when you was doing when I was actually just down there today when I was explaining to you about the uh teacher, the parent teacher liaison, and I spoke to them uh at your office's um when you [0:22:03, 0:22:10]: talk about case management management cases other than grades how are they determined [0:22:10, 0:22:11]: That's a great question. [0:22:11, 0:22:31]: Um we look at the agencies, attendance, behavior curriculum. Any of those areas start dropping, then we have the ability to reach out to that child. We have a support system where referrals can come from teachers, administration, counselors, c cafeteria workers, um, they can self [0:22:31, 0:22:51]: refer themselves, a parent can come in and refer them or even teach we have students who will bring the students to to the site coordinator. So we have a good referral system. But when we go into the school the first thing we look at are our foster children, McKinney Bento and unc unaccompany. We address those for [0:22:51, 0:23:11]: first and then we work we begin to look at you know which ones are having issues with the um the um oh my goodness was just the credits when they're under when they're working in a credit recovery. We work closely with the if you if you'll remind me the name of that group that meets uh is 234 [0:23:11, 0:23:31]: And that's 23 credits within four years. And so we're part of that group as well, so that we can address the most needs within that group. So we have different identifiers that will help us um to to see which kids need the most or have most. Okay, thanks. I appreciate that. Uh thank you for coming. I appreciate it. [0:23:31, 0:23:37]: presentation was excellent. I uh maybe I'm missing it, but I don't see any contribution from the school system. [0:23:38, 0:23:58]: It's the first thing at the top of the contributions and bridges. Do you see that? And there also I mean I forgot to mention there should be a letter from uh Chairwoods. I saw a letter. Okay. And their contribution from the county is w was that only two. Not yet. [0:23:58, 0:24:18]: And I think not yet. No, there's a lot of people. Mr. Watson, since you're Starbury's high school, sir, did you want to come up and say anything to the rest of the council at all? [0:24:18, 0:24:38]: First first of all I just want to thank Miss Harris OK for all the work she's done. It came to me, I guess this is the second year in you know about having the communities and schools uh you know asked operate high school. So we we met and uh after she shared many of the things she shared with you, I thought it was a no-brainer, you know, that we would bring [0:24:38, 0:24:58]: program into our school. It was definitely a success. Last year we were fortunate to have a good site coordinator that really worked with our kids. Our focus this year was on, you know, she said the ABCs, we focus on attendance and behavior. And so I did various programs to kind of incentive for the students to come [0:24:58, 0:25:18]: Come to school, certainly site coordinator, work along with administrative staff with discipline, those kind of things. It really gave the students another adult inability that they could go to and share things, maybe even private things at times. And so again, like I said, it's definitely a benefit. There's so much more. [0:25:18, 0:25:38]: We probably can do with definitely some support, financial support, those types of things. We can do some more innovative things in our school. But again, as the principal, I definitely think it's a benefit for our kids. We have 1,500 kids in the building, so anytime we can get some additional support, we try to do like [0:25:38, 0:25:58]: like a wrap around service uh for our students uh so they won't follow big press. So I support it 100%. Thank you sir appreciate that any other questions from the council. Sir thank you for the presentation. We have the information I'm pretty sure we'll we'll go through it, have some conversation and see what we can eventually do to assist in the program. And I [0:25:57, 0:26:17]: uh I'm but we're gonna I I would say I'll think we're a little biased because Starbury's high school has the name of the city. So so we'll see what we can do with this. Okay now they'll keep me straight but we'll see what we can do. Okay thank you for the presentation thank you Mr. Weisson okay all right so on that note [0:26:17, 0:26:32]: Note uh we're going to record the uh reports. What's first on the agenda would be advisory committee. Uh speak to the mayor. Um could we have maybe this and have public safety come through the first time? [0:26:33, 0:26:53]: Okay, you um there'll just a couple that okay. In reference to the police officer here. Yes. All right, well uh I guess we can legally amend the agenda again, so I just made a motion to make that make a motion, sir. Mayor. Sir. I can move the agenda to move the uh public safety presentation to the first presentation on the [0:26:53, 0:27:13]: Is there a second? Sir. Oh okay, further questions? Okay. All favor, please indicate. Okay, thank you. Um good evening, Lieutenant Staff from the United Police Department. I'm the Eagle Watch Commander here at the Star. Um the actual stats won't be out for the city. [0:27:13, 0:27:25]: until next week that they were able to compile some stats for me to cover the office. As for the call on the service, they were down slightly for May to June. I'm sorry. Yes, May to June or something. [0:27:26, 0:27:28]: [1658.6, 1678.6]: The total incidents were slightly down. Um arrests were about the same, citations were down, and borders were down a little bit. Um report there were no homicides in the city? No rates. There were two robberies. I'm not sure exactly what they were. I know one was a pizza draft. [0:27:58, 0:28:16]: driver piece of the loop of the dryer was brought. Before I ever made an assault, not sure was all them all that were there was a commercial burglar that was at the castle jewelry. The Deck Fisher has already made an arrest in that case. [0:28:17, 0:28:33]: Larson is up a little, or though I think it's rope a little bit, I'm not sure why. Um Frogs are down, drugs stay about the same, and DUI, the heat units come over from North Henry Boulevard pretty heavily on the weekends, so they probably make more DUI arrests out there. [0:28:35, 0:28:55]: Um accident stayed about the same and there were no fatalities. Um do I have any questions? Well I have one off the top of my head. Um every time you see these stats and and they're it I guess the sense they're somewhat great compared to other cities or other countries. [0:28:54, 0:29:14]: Counties per se, is is that right? Well yes, I when I was looking at this, I mean we had two murders last month or so in the county, right here, here one over in Highland Village, one on Tunis Joe Coke. So yes, this wasn't a good idea. [0:29:14, 0:29:34]: Or the other counties were not really that bad. I mean it can be improved, but maybe what I've been told I haven't seen actually stats that we actually enjoy a less lower crime rate in the surrounding county. All right. Any questions on this side? Yes, all right. A couple of questions. So in eighteen uh eighteen [0:29:34, 0:29:54]: May we had a spike in citations. We went from 212 to 735. Was there some type of program going on? This team runs, uh was running uh either Operation Zero Tolerance or one of the one of their programs at that time, there's zero tolerance and there's a cooking ticket. [0:29:54, 0:30:03]: And they just finished another one that had to do with speeding last week. So that would have been what I'm assuming is the increase in citations for that month. [0:30:04, 0:30:24]: Okay, and sir, to follow up on the on the mayor's question, as it relates to overall crime in Henry County, uh is the overall crime in the county up or down and how do we compare it to the other cities? I don't have that information with me as to how we compare it to the other cities or [0:30:24, 0:30:30]: if grammars uplay on India, so it just gave me the statistical data, it gave me the first remote system of what we ought. [0:30:30, 0:30:50]: Would you be able to get us that information? Yes, right. And then I'll always like comparison, maybe like the year-to-year comparison, maybe what the numbers look like in twenty seventeen versus what we are now, because you know when you do it month to month, but that's twenty seventeen numbers. [0:30:51, 0:31:05]: Yeah, this is okay. So the wind is looking at this. Yeah, it's just citation. Just citation, yeah. [0:31:10, 0:31:30]: Yes, that will that will be any questions from Council maybe. I just want to say thank you for coming in and provides a report and like Councilman Alexander said you can give that to our city manager and you can forward it to us. Thank you so much for that. [0:31:30, 0:31:38]: Okay. Appreciate you being doing it. All right. Uh we'll go back now to the new council advisory committee. This is a file computer. [0:31:42, 0:32:02]: Thank you, Mayor and Council. This is the second quarter of the report from the U Council, and we wanted to make sure that you are updated on all the things that we have done. But we believe that a picture speaks a thousand words. So once uh the city clerk gets this stuff, I'd like to take a look at some of the things that our new council has achieved. I also want to introduce and let you know. [0:32:02, 0:32:15]: that our chairman of the youth council is here, Mrs. Cruz. She actually works with the city now and doing some things, and we really appreciate her standing out to doing those different things. [0:32:15, 0:32:35]: These pictures will show you some of the things that have occurred, but we want to just run those down to you. In this report, we've been tailored to make sure our kids are understanding what government means, not only city government, but local, as far as state and federal. So we work towards making sure they become leaders. And in speaking of leaders, [0:32:35, 0:32:55]: They actually work with kids as well, teaching them how to become leaders. We did start with our opening retreat where we actually got the kids together and actually made them bund to get to know each other, making sure that they can achieve these processes. The evening volunteer moving night, we worked with [0:32:55, 0:33:15]: uh our um uh counterpart, I don't know if you call it a counterpart, but um the young lady you got to give me a main street. Uh and the kids really enjoyed that because it gives them another opportunity to work with the city and this is where it is. Anything that the youth council can do to help the city, that's what we are here to do. [0:33:15, 0:33:35]: a food truck. We've been doing that for a couple of things, working with that to include having one uh that we actually sponsored and awesome job. It was our um what do you call it uh Hanukkah not Hanukkah but the Luau those strange words the luau and the kids really enjoyed that as well and getting kids [0:33:34, 0:33:54]: Young people interested in coming to and attending the things that the city already has because one of the things we don't want to happen is our young people don't know what's going on, and then once they get ready to leave Stockbridge, it's always we don't do anything here, and that's not the case. We do quite a few things here. [0:33:54, 0:34:14]: speak enough on that and you can see how lovely they look in their uniforms. They are performing and representing Stockbridge in every way. The beautification day where they plant flowers. It is not so much that they just do the work but they have to have the opportunity to share and learn. It's about hands-on. It's not just about what you can tell [0:34:14, 0:34:34]: them but what they can show you. So the beautification day was a nice uh plug to that. We also want to be working with uh some of the council men and women to make sure that we support your your events. One will be uh the litter campaign and the other would be the backpack or the back school piece. Uh while we say [0:34:34, 0:34:54]: This. Anytime that you can use our young people and actually ours, they're yours. Anytime you can use them, we request that you let us know so we can actually have them there because believe it or not, young people listen to young people. Most times they listen to young people more than they listen to us. And if we want young people to stay in the city and start. [0:34:54, 0:35:14]: Side bridge, we have to start addressing their needs and their wants and the things that they are looking forward to. As you can see, we have a wonderful group. We have nine people on our advisory council and 17 in the E Council. We went up a notch, and I think next year we're going to go even further. One of the things I did want to mention in closing. [0:35:14, 0:35:34]: uh that you actually gave us uh uh uh amount of five thousand dollars to go to North Carolina. And we really do appreciate all that you do. Not only that, but the money that you send into our um our uh account each time to get these things done. Uh but we're pleased to let you know for some of you that didn't want to talk to several [0:35:34, 0:35:54]: the council and they did not know that seven thousand dollars was turned back into the council. So we really appreciate you actually helping us do that to acknowledge that. If you have any questions at this time. I just want to um add that uh Mr Mc [0:35:54, 0:36:14]: Uh Chair McFarlane, if you can add the piece of the money that we're trying to do for the nationals, if you can clear that up as well in your presentation. And this is the nationals now this year going to Los Angeles, California. What we're doing, and we got this uh recommendation, as a matter of fact, I got this recommendation from the council that we need to [0:36:14, 0:36:34]: Involve more of the parents' activities and also the community as a whole. So instead of asking the council for extra money, we're raising the funds. As a matter of fact, my church is going to be donated, and anyone would like to donate, please feel free. This is an opportunity for us to ask you to support in that effort. We have, I think, 10 to 12 years. [0:36:34, 0:36:54]: young people that would be going to Los Angeles that's a registry. We're kind of excited about that because what we're looking to do is to take them out from their surroundings and actually make them and get them to experience others' surroundings. This is most important to us. So we actually put this piece together so that that way we can actually get them [0:36:54, 0:36:58]: out of town to know what's out there so they can bring it back here. [0:36:59, 0:37:19]: Mr. Thomas. Uh I'd just like to take this opportunity, uh Reverend McFarlane, just to thank you for uh coming out to uh meet with me uh a couple of weeks ago. Um I express uh you know my concerns, uh, being very cordial in your answers. Uh [0:37:19, 0:37:39]: I think you and I sort of came to an understanding and I I I appreciate that. And um I met you in the hall earlier and just said that uh you know, okay, you know, with the direction. Um we all stand for improvements and I think as we go forward. [0:37:39, 0:37:48]: I think many of us will probably get involved to make sure that anything that's associated with the City of the Doctorate, we try to make it better. [0:37:49, 0:38:09]: Thank you so much. Any other questions from the council? I appreciate your presentation, sir. It was it was excellent as usual. And everything that you do for this particular program and the hours that you put in. So thank you so much uh for your contribution. I would, however, like to hear from the chairwoman over there to see uh allow [0:38:09, 0:38:29]: I always like to hear from the kids and to see what they're thinking and what's going on in the program. It'd be okay if you indulge me and just kind of hear what they have to say and what she has to say. If I could just say she's a little shy because she also there she's interning for the city for the record, so there's opportunity. [0:38:29, 0:38:49]: Opportunities that the youth council are being able to do the um she so she's currently the intern and we're trying to open doors for all of our youth in our city to enter as well. So that's probably why she was a little shot. Whatever you like to say. I was gonna say my name is Helly Cruise and I am here in the topic. [0:38:49, 0:39:09]: Council. Um, like uh he mentioned we have done a lot of events in the past uh months since our new council was um we will be you know this morning in August I believe. And we've done a lot since then. We've done our Luwau, which was a big hit with the kids and the community, and I think they all really enjoyed that. And our next big thing coming up will be our public service. [0:39:09, 0:39:29]: This project, which we're still talking about, and I'll be discussed more at our next meeting in August. And also the National Linux City, which will be in California this year. So we're raising money for that. We're hoping to it. Like you said, there's about 10 or 12 of us going. So we've been um we've been raising money for that, just getting more ideas about how we can go and uh bring some ideas after making me vendor. So that's what we've been up to. [0:39:28, 0:39:47]: And we thank you for your support, all you want to do for us. And please feel free to contact me and we'll be in touch with you and anything else that you can do. Appreciate that. Anybody else any questions for a buddy or any or passing the floor? Thank you for your presentation. We appreciate it. Thank you so much, Mary and Council. Thank you. [0:39:48, 0:40:08]: Main Street Advisory Board. Um, if Mr. Brackers might I as a representative to the board, uh I'll just sort of open this uh go ahead. Um I know the council um and staff know that uh earlier we had the combined meeting, uh Main Street, DDA, um, and so [0:40:08, 0:40:28]: the information that's in the packet. Um I personally won't get into that. You do have it. Uh Mrs. Bragg will probably come forward to share that with those that may not know and maybe the uh the public audience. But I do want to commend uh Mrs. Bragg and the staff and and actually the board. [0:40:27, 0:40:47]: uh because as I see it from from the chair that I sit in, uh they're very active. And if when you look at the report, uh it's a lot and they have been very active. And I personally just want to commend the staff uh for the work that they do. Um I was prepared to read the mission statement [0:40:47, 0:41:07]: Because reading the mission statement and the vision statement, and we're in this process now where we're with doing a comp plan, everything that we do, and one of the issues I uh tentatively had with the youth council and some of our other programs, you know, as a city, that should be one. [0:41:07, 0:41:27]: uh mission of one go. And all of the entities and and the part, the component, should be about trying to get to the same place. And I can truly say that uh in the main street program, when I analyze and compare the city's uh mission statement and the main [0:41:27, 0:41:47]: Mission statement, I can see uh how it all relates. And so with that being said, and just trying to conserve time, I'll just add the practice a little bit. Now you don't want to get me started. So I'll let you just go ahead and just talk about some of the things that probably not in the reports because I [0:41:47, 0:42:07]: I think the council at the joint session you sort of went through and said the fact that for some of the other folks that's around that don't have the opportunity to see this, you may just want to highlight some of the things. Okay. Um thank you, Councilman Thomas, and thank you all. Um mayor, mayor for chair and council members. [0:42:07, 0:42:27]: The Main Street program has been busy over the last quarter Q2. As you can see from our report, we have worked with City Brandon initiative, which hasn't been concluded yet, but we are still working on that. All of you all have received some requests to respond. [0:42:27, 0:42:31]: to our um braid. [0:42:33, 0:42:34]: Okay. [0:42:36, 0:42:56]: I don't care. Branding taglines. Um and then also um coming up with the city um logo so that we can move forward with some of our wayfinding initiatives that we would like to have in place as soon as possible. Um the downtown RSVP has been completed. [0:42:56, 0:43:16]: And so we will have the final report on that particular project by the end of this month, and I'll be able to share that with you all. And it is our hope and will be the recommendation of the Main Street Advisory Board that the RSVP recommendations be included in the comp plan that we're currently working on with the city. [0:43:16, 0:43:36]: Little Free Library project is moving right along. We have three installed in our plan, as you all may remember, from the first of last year was to have five installed in the downtown area. And we've been approached by two more organizations about having those. [0:43:36, 0:43:56]: Sponsored and placed in the downtown area, so we're excited about that as well. Over the last two months, Stockbridge Stories, which is our initiative that brings forth historic preservation through storytelling about the city of Stockbridge and important personalities that come from. [0:43:55, 0:44:07]: from the city of Stockbridge. We have a welcome home tour as you all know. We welcome Chris Kenny to the air back home to the area. He was our hometown Olympic winter athlete. [0:44:08, 0:44:28]: Martin Luther King Jr., we had an observance of the 50th anniversary of his death by placing a memorial photo here in the City Hall lobby and then also having information on the Facebook through Facebook posts in recognition of that observance. [0:44:27, 0:44:42]: also recognized throughout the state of Georgia in May, so we also had some information about stock bridge history and highlights on the Facebook post as well throughout that month. [0:44:43, 0:45:03]: Main Street staff has been to several trainings over the past quarter, and the one that I would like to highlight most is the STS Marketing College. That's the Southeast Tourism Society's Marketing College. Both um the Main Street um assistant and myself are in a certification program so that we will [0:45:03, 0:45:23]: Receive our certification within the three-year program for tourism marketing. And this was our second year that we complete, second session we complete completed. So we'll have one more session and that will be done next year. So we're really excited about being able to receive that certification. We've had [0:45:23, 0:45:43]: Several events activities that Main Street is very proud of, one being the downtown discovery tour. Some of you all here in this room were able to accompany us to Dublin, Georgia, where we were able to convene with the downtown development of. [0:45:43, 0:46:03]: Authority director and their tourism director and city officials to discuss how they have handled their Martin Luther King Jr. heritage there in Dublin, which is very similar, almost identical to our heritage here with Martin Luther King Sr. [0:46:03, 0:46:23]: And that particular trip was very informative and we've um established a connection between our city and that city. So I'm looking forward to expounding on that particular relationship and making sure that our tourism efforts connect. We hosted Main Street movies, we tried to host [0:46:23, 0:46:43]: One on July the 14th, and that would have to be canceled due to incoming weather. We're planning for Bridge Fest. Um we're working with um CC McGee, Connell Ingram, and um Brian uh over in the on the events team to make sure that uh Main Street is in [0:46:43, 0:47:03]: Involved with Bridgefest because they are increasing the footprint of BridgeFest this year, and Main Street will have some activities on Martin King Senior Heritage Trail. So we're going to have activities on both sides of the railroad track this year, and we're looking forward to that and exposing our [0:47:03, 0:47:23]: community to the Main Street district and that area as well. Small Business Saturday is a big event for small businesses across the country and Main Streets across the country are also charged with celebrating [0:47:23, 0:47:43]: Small Business Saturday in Subway. And we will be doing the same here in Stockbridge as we have over the past couple of years by including our small businesses not only in the Main Street district, but as across the city as a whole. We'll be working with the Stockbridge Association of Businesses. [0:47:43, 0:48:03]: We'll be actually doing a presentation on Small Business Saturday at their meeting on the 26th. So we're trying to get more and more small businesses and entrepreneurs excited about and participating in Small Business Saturday because this is a time when people across the nation come together. [0:48:03, 0:48:23]: To support small businesses and we want that here in Stockway and celebrate with that whole party. Um and that concludes my report. Were there any other um items that you all needed further information on? Yeah, I do um a couple things quick. Meanwhile, Miss Small Business Saturday is what day? What Saturday? [0:48:23, 0:48:25]: The alternative twenty four. [0:48:28, 0:48:48]: And the movie that was cancelled with increment weather, do we have risks of data or we just not particularly I will that particular movie was sponsored by um KISS one oh four point one and um they were the ones who actually canceled the movie so I am in communications with it. [0:48:48, 0:49:08]: Have a calendar to complete, and they have to look to see if they will be able to bring another woman back to Slackbridge. They know how supportive we are, our community is of the event, and I emphasize to them that it was something that our community was looking forward to, and so they're going to get back to me to let me know, and I will of course let [0:49:08, 0:49:13]: that you want to know of another AQ schedule. Thank you. Council, any questions for Ms. Rats? [0:49:15, 0:49:18]: Thank you for your presentation. Thank you very much. [0:49:19, 0:49:21]: DDA, Downtown Development Authority. [0:49:23, 0:49:43]: Um well yes. I'm on the DDA board. Uh quick update. I know that um we had a couple of meetings this past weekend and um currently the DDA um has waited for we're waiting with um Main Street and [0:49:43, 0:50:03]: In the city of Stockbridge, in regards to the RSBPD, to implement certain things. One of the things that projects that we have looked at, one of the low-hanger fruit is the actual mural that crosses over the bridge. That mural would be whether it's welcome to stop. [0:50:03, 0:50:23]: Ridge or the example that RBPD had given was Danny King picture. That's something that we're currently working with and trying to reach out to the owner and actually get done right now. We also have [0:50:22, 0:50:42]: The continuing running facade grant still available. The chair, Roland Clark, has recently developed a postcard to that effect that goes out to all the businesses in the down in the DDA area. We've talked about the expansion. [0:50:42, 0:51:02]: Of the map. Currently, our map matches the same map as Main Street. However, we believe that it is important to expand the map a little bit more for certain reasons and purposes in order to reach some of those areas and business locations, specifically for facade and other things that we're trying to do. [0:51:02, 0:51:22]: In the downtown area. In regards to business recruitment and development, the plan for the DA is to actually have a meeting with different developers. Currently, there's an RFP RFQ out right now for the development of the fire station. We are in host. [0:51:22, 0:51:42]: hopes that the DEA will have the ability to join in the efforts of that once the a developer produces the plans and renderings and the council votes on that, the DEA would love to be able to partner or work with the city to make sure that that development [0:51:42, 0:52:02]: it takes place. In regards to um also the DDA has met with a couple of developers that are actually interested. One of the things we've had to do necessarily the there have been positions where the DDA [0:52:02, 0:52:07]: um basically in regards to the roles of the DDA. [0:52:07, 0:52:08]: Um [0:52:09, 0:52:29]: Aren't quite necessarily those of actually recruiting the businesses that come here. However, we're thinking outside of the box and we kind of visualize what type of businesses it is that we want in our downtown area. So instead, that's exactly what we're doing. If we want a coffee shop, we're going to people who might be interested in bringing [0:52:28, 0:52:48]: in a coffee shop here and say hey you know we got possibly the perfect location for that and another discussion um that w or or jazz spot or art gallery or you name it but a restaurant or two um have shown some interest so we're looking at a couple quite a few things. Um we also [0:52:48, 0:53:08]: Have discussed and would like to present. At some point, we were asking for the support of counsel to have a direct staff person that would basically help the DEA. Currently, the DA doesn't have that. Support staff. [0:53:08, 0:53:28]: Person right now, and I believe that we're gonna head in that direction soon in the months to come. In regards to the city-owned properties or any properties that are available in the downtown area, the DDA is also asking and requesting that we're gonna work on and hope that we can work with staff to find those empty business. [0:53:28, 0:53:48]: buildings or spaces that might be available in attraction to what we're doing. Um however, being that we are waiting on the final result of the RSB PD, and we just heard from Ms. Braggs that that is now um going to take place at the end this month, we will be able to start implementing and meeting more on those projects. I have nothing for [0:53:48, 0:54:08]: question for uh Mr. Gantt in reference to the EDA. Now mayor in response to uh mayor approaching Gantt um and was referenced the RF the fire station RFP was referenced today we had several people in uh in response to um the RFP who actually met here in the city [0:54:08, 0:54:20]: We hauled, received information from our procurement officer, and then actually went over to the fire station to view the site. Had it to report that 8%, 75-8% fire station. [0:54:20, 0:54:40]: has been cleared out. We had a roll off dumpster there this morning and also we have uh ready for storage space and other things that are in need. So uh great work by the public work staff in particular. Uh within a matter of about uh a day or so getting most of that um it was highly value. We got a few other things we need to take out as well but uh [0:54:40, 0:54:54]: for the most part has been cleared out. I took some pictures uh earlier today as well. Uh so they did a great job and uh we're moving forward with the RFP and uh hopefully we'll get some very creative and innovative proposals, which I think we'll be very something. [0:54:54, 0:54:55]: Cleaned up pretty good, huh? [0:54:58, 0:55:00]: Yeah, the question is now. [0:55:00, 0:55:20]: Mayor, if I might I just wanted to add to Mayor Pro Temp's um report with regard to the um mural. Um I did meet with the building owner on Thursday of last week and he is considering it, so um that was an update that I have not given her yet, so I wanted to make sure that she had that. Thanks. Okay. [0:55:20, 0:55:26]: Thank you so much. Anything else on the council? Okay. Appreciate your report. Um finance department. [0:55:28, 0:55:30]: [3383.5, 3384.2]: Mm-hmm. [0:56:28, 0:56:48]: Well good afternoon. Um afternoon mayor and counsel. Uh my name is John Williams. I'm the interim um interim treasurer, city treasurer. And my report here is gonna be over uh the second quarter for the finance of the city. Um we start off with uh [0:56:48, 0:56:55]: of first sheet that that that's up on the um the board is um [0:56:56, 0:57:05]: simple income statement for uh the general fund. I we start off with the um [0:57:06, 0:57:13]: The budget as of uh June 30th, 2018, we have revenue budget of uh [0:57:15, 0:57:35]: $3,465,200. Um we actually had revenue come in at$3,590,500. Expenses came in at$4 million. [0:57:35, 0:57:50]: Well we had to start with a budget of$4,113,743. We had expenses, including in commerce, to total to$4,335,387,000. [0:57:51, 0:58:03]: With that, we have a difference with revenue to expenses negative 734,847. [0:58:06, 0:58:10]: We want to just meet I'm sorry. [0:58:10, 0:58:30]: I'm lost. Can you tell me where we are on the sheet? The first sheet. You're still on the first sheet. First sheet. Yeah. I think it's the bottom line that you're going across there where it says total expensive. Yep. Thank you. All right. First sheet on the first sheet, we have um the top level. [0:58:30, 0:58:50]: we have all the revenues. I started out with the budget as of June 30th at 3.54 million. Going across we have at the end, I'm looking at the actuals plus incumbents, we're looking at 3.5 million. [0:58:49, 0:59:04]: We're going up to the bottom here, we have the expenses. This is all just for the general fund. We have 4.1 million for the budget and we have 4.3 million for the actual expenses. [0:59:06, 0:59:23]: Below that we have uh uh our operating income, which is at a loss at seven hundred and forty-four thousand eight forty seven. Okay, if I understand right, then that means we're over we're over budget right now. So is that was that is that how I read that? Uh [0:59:25, 0:59:45]: Yeah, I wouldn't say we are over. If if you're looking at as far as expenses, you're coming in pretty much, you're spending pretty much your budget. Well, as far as the revenues, the revenues have not hit. Uh you're gonna have some revenues gonna come in at the end of the year. [0:59:45, 0:59:52]: There's some timing issues too throughout the course of the year when the revenues we receive later on February. [0:59:54, 1:00:08]: So during the course of during the course of the year you you you're gonna have some ups and downs, whether it's uh revenue uh or expenses. Okay. Mainly um at the end URC, the revenues are gonna catch up with the expenses. All right, thank you. [1:00:10, 1:00:12]: Moving to the second thing. [1:00:18, 1:00:20]: Second age. [1:00:21, 1:00:23]: is a uh more detailed [1:00:25, 1:00:45]: Summary of the financials. Um this is uh also the general fund. Uh this goes into detail. We we have total um revenue that three point five that came in. At the bottom we have four point oh million that came in. [1:00:45, 1:01:04]: here. That is due. You go back to your first sheet, you'll see a difference between the expenses that we have here opposed to expenses on the first sheet. That's because this does not include in commerce. This just includes exactly what you spent for that for the port. [1:01:07, 1:01:09]: A set of sheet. [1:01:16, 1:01:36]: This is hotel motel fund. Revenues that came in as of June 30th is$189,269. The expenses is$84,177. Gave us a positive bearance of$105.092. [1:01:36, 1:01:36]: Two. [1:01:38, 1:01:50]: We come down to the urban redevelopment fund. We have a transfer in of nine hundred thirty-five thousand seven thirty-three parts for the revenue, and we had a large shoule of expenses at [1:01:51, 1:01:55]: Nine hundred and thirty five thousand seven thirty-three. So we have zero bear step. [1:01:56, 1:02:16]: Moving down to the capital project, the grant fund for the LCI and the T. We had no revenues that came in for um as a June period, but we did. We made a couple expenses, which total 7,000 fifty-seven. [1:02:16, 1:02:21]: Which bearance is that negative 7057. [1:02:24, 1:02:44]: Excuse me, I got a question. The admin on the expenses under capital projects, was it that force the salaries? Well I mean it says admin, so what what would that encompass? Administration? Right. Three thousand five hundred eighty dollars. This is curiosity question. Um I don't have my detail right now, but uh [1:02:44, 1:02:55]: I I can I can get back to you about that. I I don't think that's anything of um or salad, but I'll make sure. Okay. [1:03:02, 1:03:03]: Next thing. [1:03:05, 1:03:06]: War is super cloud. [1:03:09, 1:03:27]: We have revenues that came in at$1,659,097. We have expenses of 1,285,614. Gave us a positive variance of$373,483. [1:03:29, 1:03:35]: Strong Word of Fund. Revenues. We had revenues of [1:03:36, 1:03:45]: Twenty thousand oh fifty six. Expenses five hundred and twelve oh eighty three. [1:03:45, 1:04:05]: We have a difference, which is a negative, will be a negative 492.027. That's due because your storm was uh that's not gonna come to the end when you when you're gonna start seeing this uh stormwater revenue. So that's why you got this kind of deep variance. [1:04:05, 1:04:12]: So the last quarter of the year this wanted to pick up I guess evil even even out some low out. [1:04:13, 1:04:29]: Sanitation fund for revenues of$644,337, expenses of$552,992, it was a positive bearance of$91,345. [1:04:35, 1:04:55]: Next page we have the uh the real man uh conference center. We have uh revenue that came in is two hundred and twenty-eight thousand six ninety-seven. That's due largely to transfer [1:04:55, 1:04:57]: From general part. [1:04:57, 1:05:08]: Expenses of$181,747. Right now, as of this quarter, second quarter, we're seeing a positive balance of$46,950. [1:05:09, 1:05:29]: Some more men's making planning. No, that no. No, that's the question right there. We definitely need that breakdown, excuse me. We definitely need that breakdown between what we we contributed and then what they actually brought in, because this this number right here [1:05:29, 1:05:35]: we need to break down every time we get this report to see [1:05:35, 1:05:55]: That's what they the eighty seven thousand eight the eighty seven thousand six sixty five is what the company that's that's the actual revenue that's companies bring in. But for this being the enterprise fund and the hack the enterprise fund is the general fund is supplementing most of uh the budget portion. That's uh [1:05:55, 1:06:02]: That's at 141, 032. That's coming in from Gerald. [1:06:03, 1:06:12]: Well then we need to probably need to talk about that at a later date in time, but that's a lot more. I got some concerns about that. [1:06:14, 1:06:20]: Any other questions? If not, go ahead. Okay. And there's conference seven. [1:06:22, 1:06:42]: We have revenues of uh twenty-nine thousand seven thirty-three and we have expenses of fifteen thousand eight fifty-one. We're sitting there deposit balance of thirteen thousand eight eighty-two. So on this excuse me, go go ahead. On this one right here, uh this revenue is revenue that [1:06:42, 1:07:02]: came in this is not anything coming in from the general fund this is how much money is made this this right here this revenue is streaming from for this conference fundamental. So honestly all of this really should go towards one category right because all of these are the whole the city staff is running all of these departments [1:07:02, 1:07:18]: So I guess if you would that's true. That's true. You have your your advanced uh uh department, they're running both of them. Right, so we'll take this twenty nine thousand seven thirty three and then uh [1:07:19, 1:07:28]: offer that offer this total of the uh off of the what the uh shortage was over there because they they should get credit for that if they're bringing that in. [1:07:30, 1:07:50]: Well, it's two different buildings, I'm saying, but they're getting charged for the mural manners, which is okay. Well it's the same staff as many, it's the same department, not the same buildings. Yeah, but the building itself has specific events in it. So that says true that you [1:07:50, 1:08:10]: events. Sh you you're seeing a circ you're seeing a a revenue a plus there and the Merrmanners it shows we're we're losing money. But we we've always throughout history have lost money at the Meromanders. It's just what I'm interested in is looking at the years of increase or decrease in that. Um [1:08:10, 1:08:12]: But right now [1:08:13, 1:08:27]: you know, it's two different buildings and it's two different kind of events. You got a smaller building there. So definitely understand that and it's uh what point was it? It's all under the events team. Correct. Make sure they get credit for what they do. Right. [1:08:30, 1:08:38]: The impressive in the side? Okay. Is that in your report, sir? No, we have two more sheet. Okay, scoop it. [1:08:39, 1:08:40]: Yeah, but [1:08:43, 1:08:55]: I think I thought. Alright. This sheet here is this this is um full with slosh. Um first one is squash three. [1:08:57, 1:09:17]: Right now we're uh your revenues that came in is sitting at$196. Expenses for squash three is$146,749. Uh this fund here is is basically uh coming to an end, but um [1:09:17, 1:09:37]: You currently have some more actual money that you need to spend on it. And I think some projects that's coming up, you gotta take care of that. Okay. You have on splash four, you have uh revenue that's still coming in. Right now it's revenues that that have been reported. [1:09:37, 1:09:57]: being reported 1 million eleven thousand four hundred and one and the expenses so far is thirty eight thousand and oh forty five sorry go right in okay the question to this right here is this just for the pretty much has the second quarter already hit or has it hit yet until [1:09:57, 1:10:10]: terms of uh the uh the amount given to the city from the county. Comes to the county first and then give it to us. So has the this just for the first quarter or is it just what is it included? [1:10:11, 1:10:31]: And usually sploss money is always lag about a month, a month and a half behind from the state. And the state essentially sends it to the county and the county sends it to us. Right. So in essence what it is and then we bring it in the sploss is generating a tremendous amount of money. We're bringing in and we got a million dollars on here and let's say [1:10:31, 1:10:51]: You know, take away two months away from that and basically almost uh a quarter. So we we we're basically in a little over a quarter bringing in another million dollars in splots, which is pretty good that we have money to spend on these um capital projects that they come up. And I would like to see if we can get back to us with. [1:10:51, 1:11:11]: The total phone balance, a splice, all of the accounts, and then the total phone balance since we've had some adjustments at the beginning of the year. Just remember that three and four is already committed to certain projects and some of those have to be re allocation at some point in time. Absolutely just want to know what the balances are. [1:11:11, 1:11:20]: So you wanna see like um what you actually have sitting in the bank? Yes. [1:11:20, 1:11:36]: In splots. Yeah. We usually do that during a retreat. Yeah. We have we have one coming up. This is coming. So [1:11:37, 1:11:57]: As well as uh CIP that will address some of that. Okay. That's not a problem. So is that it, sir? Yeah, sir. Okay, no more questions. Thank you very much. Appreciate you reading. Mr. Mayor Mr. While you're talking about the budget um [1:11:57, 1:12:06]: Pastor McFarland had intended to raise an issue about the uh use of the portion of the youth council budget. [1:12:07, 1:12:10]: to pay for registration fee. [1:12:13, 1:12:15]: Los Angeles. [1:12:19, 1:12:39]: You put in about$3,000 to cover a local trip to uh to Fogels would be a naked. And that would have covered the registration hotel travel. But there's about$3,000 in the budget for that. He had meant to ask you for permission or ask you for reality. [1:12:39, 1:12:55]: allocate reprogram that money to allow that to be used for Los Angeles for for the National India Cities trip. And I previously advised that they need the council's permission because when it was budgeted [1:12:55, 1:13:15]: It was stated that they were not going to go to California. Now they do want to go. So it requires you all to make that call. They they're trying to prepare a budget so that they can go out and raise money. So if you ask them, I'm sure they want you all to give the permission. [1:13:15, 1:13:35]: As soon as possible so that they know how much they need to raise. Because we're having that uh parent meeting, uh upcoming parent meeting in reference to that. And it's basically um the same amount of funds that would have been used even if we would have went to make it via. It was just the verbal, the verbiage that we've basically said we were. [1:13:35, 1:13:55]: We're not gonna go. Um, but the money would have still been there. So the money would have been there. It was just to clear up that we say we wasn't gonna go. But again, Megan Bib is not having theirs. Um Savannah, um Toddy Island just came in today saying that they were gonna have one, but they're still in the planning stages. Um [1:13:55, 1:14:15]: for October. So we're now going into um what is it, August and they're still in the planning stages, so we don't know if that's gonna flop or or move. So we want to still move forward since the parents are excited and wanting to um take them. The main thing is with the city last year was for the city to pay for [1:14:15, 1:14:35]: The registration, that's what that money was for in the hotel. So the students are working to pay for their travels, that's what their fundraising is for. It was already there, it was just a verbiage of us how we ask, and we just want to make sure that everybody's on the same page. All right. On that note, then since you're the council representative to to the [1:14:35, 1:14:48]: One second. Council representative to the uh to the new council then probably need to make a motion and then we'll see if we get a second and have further discussion. Yes, sir. Well um [1:14:49, 1:14:54]: when we before we're going to discuss the phase for as far as um [1:14:55, 1:14:57]: Bring it in. [1:14:58, 1:15:02]: The issue I see with this in itself is [1:15:03, 1:15:23]: when we come forward with the taxpayers' money about how we're going to spend them. And one of the questions I asked was, is there any local or somewhere, just like the kids drove up to North Carolina, what was the surrounding areas where there was youth programs that would be all [1:15:23, 1:15:43]: And the answer was to me was no. And so if there wasn't any looking outside the areas where they can drive, when we come before the people and we bring a budget for the youth council and it stated in the minute that it won't be used this year for California. [1:15:43, 1:16:03]: then I personally won't won't um won't approve of using funds for California unless they're it's funded by private entities because we can't continue to step outside of why we won't do something one year and then we come back and say now we need the money to do that. [1:16:03, 1:16:23]: Next year that we said we wasn't going to do. And then we didn't even look at any other resources for leadership outside of going to the national leader cities. And Councilwoman Robinson just mentioned what was in the plan to stay there. But I'm pretty sure in the surrounding areas, that's when we went to nationality. [1:16:23, 1:16:43]: Pascal de Cities and North Carolina that it was something that these kids could have been driven to. So I think we have to caution ourselves when we when we don't well when we say one thing, we do another, and then we come back and say, let's do this again. And we have to caution ourselves, and I'm glad the staff to see that we [1:16:43, 1:17:03]: We have Harry at the bottom of the talk. But while I'm talking, I would like to have the council ministry uh respect that I am talking, is that we have to be careful on the expenditures of funds. Okay. All right. So you you brought this up, sir. He didn't bring it to the right, so we're discussing this. Didn't [1:17:03, 1:17:23]: Okay. Well, I just want to clear up for everyone who is listening. Um, as I stated in in what I just said was we just today received um from Tybee. [1:17:23, 1:17:43]: Which is in Savannah, and they're in the planning stages. So we have, and again, Pastor McFarland and the other nine who are on the advisory council, who works extremely hard. We did look into everything. Everything was documented in our minutes. Unfortunately, our minutes haven't been made public. [1:17:43, 1:18:03]: Um but everything is documented so it's open to the public. Um we're very um aware of the funds that are being used. The main thing we're asking here is originally the year that we started, initiated our first youth council, the but the funding was there. The funding was there. [1:18:03, 1:18:23]: To go when we stated we were going to North Carolina, that again it was put in the budget, and all we're doing is we're asking for it to be still allocated for National League of Cities in Los Angeles. We have parents on board, and if my colleagues are against it, I will say that we were responsible. [1:18:23, 1:18:43]: Expect that, but we'll move forward because we do have a lot of church organizations, even Council of Church, who are going to be supportive for these young people. Because as okay, I'm talking about please. So at the end, we have our community of [1:18:43, 1:19:03]: Supporting 17 young people. And I will say in our youth council budget, we are the lowest budget in this city. And I just want to say to my colleagues: if we're going to allocate funds, we need to make sure that we keep our students at the forefront. These young people, they are [1:19:03, 1:19:23]: are out here clearly, clearly representing this city. So we're talking three thousand dollars. So all I'm asking is for my colleagues is to if you if you can move forward, let's move forward so we don't go back and forth over this. Yes, yes. [1:19:23, 1:19:43]: There are a couple things. Last year the money wasn't allocated. We actually were told that they wanted to add this money and it would be borrowed and then paid back for Carolina, and that's exactly what took place. The second thing is, although we're the lowest budget. [1:19:43, 1:19:55]: in this city I have contacted other youth councils and other cities in Henry County along with outside of here and their budget is around 10,000 people or$10,000. [1:19:55, 1:20:07]: and they have a little bit more students than we have currently. Now I know that our budget we increased it for startup money for our our youth. We actually did certain things [1:20:08, 1:20:12]: And it's from my understanding, I've even asked particularly on [1:20:13, 1:20:27]: you know, one we're not reinventing the wheel, there are youth councils everywhere um in Georgia, which is an awesome thing. It's just I think that is something that we need to really talk about and and just consider. [1:20:29, 1:20:31]: Yes, sir. Oh yeah, we have yes. [1:20:31, 1:20:51]: Quick move. I guess you want to talk. I mean first. Uh I'm I'm gonna bring you with that statement. Uh I I guess I have a couple questions on timeline. Um how soon um does this council give approved? [1:20:51, 1:21:01]: need to approve that the amount of money that parents are going to raise, I really would like to know that also. [1:21:03, 1:21:23]: I guess my biggest concern is timeline. Uh do we necessarily need to make that decision today? Do we need to wait and see um concern? Well I'm just sort of c curious, I guess, on timeline. How soon do we think [1:21:22, 1:21:35]: to do this, um how much um will parents raise to to see the total budget. It it just seemed like it just a little uh [1:21:37, 1:21:56]: off the cuff seemed like I know MacFarlane did not even mention it. I don't know how important it was to him, but I understand too sometimes that you just forget to talk about something. I I'm not necessarily against that. I I guess I just need more information. [1:21:56, 1:22:16]: Yeah, I'm in agreement with that, but when we have any entity that the council has started, which is the youth council, and I'm for the youth council 1%. But we also have to look at what we how the youth council and what funds we put into the youth council. And when we have such [1:22:16, 1:22:36]: A dynamic trip. When I say dynamic, is when you're talking about going to Los Angeles and actually the cities and all that encompasses. When the youth council knows, the youth advisory board knows our liaison to the youth council, Councilwoman Robinson knows. [1:22:36, 1:22:38]: And the parent though [1:22:38, 1:22:43]: But yet the council doesn't know the direction. And this is where I have a problem with [1:22:44, 1:23:04]: Things that are going on with the youth council that the council we implement the youth council. The youth council is not an entity of racial state like a DDA or Main Street. They're an entity of the city of Scott Ridge. And if we the council doesn't know the direction that they're going into, then why have [1:23:04, 1:23:24]: Have a youth count, uh, why have a council liaison on board? Why have these chairlines if we're not going to be informed on what the direction is when the parents do, and everybody else knows it's beside the council. And so this has been what I've been saying. We need to have more communication on the direction of what's going on. [1:23:24, 1:23:35]: the youth council. So it's we should already know the direction when when being asked for this money. And I don't as far as we just had a meeting on that. [1:23:35, 1:23:55]: Okay. Let me make a suggestion. Listen to what you brought this up, sir. And I I asked you, my father either forgot whoever case me, so be you brought this up. Uh I I know you want to say something here, but let me jump into this real quick. [1:23:55, 1:24:15]: we way this is seems to be going, continue for you counselors to continue to do what the best they can with whatever they're doing, and then we have the budget retreat, and you present at the budget retreat. I'm only assuming that the farmer may be at the budget retreat also. I'm assuming that. Alright? And then make make that present maybe lay things out a little better. That's my [1:24:15, 1:24:33]: Thought process, yes sir. Go ahead. I don't want to cut you off, but go right ahead. I'll just I'll just argue with what you just said. I don't want to have this public discussion with you you're two times. Go ahead. Because it was open. I just wanna say to everyone [1:24:35, 1:24:46]: Our youth council, which is our young people rising 10th, 11th, and 12th graders. We have an advisory board who volunteer. We have a secretary who takes the minutes. [1:24:46, 1:24:51]: minutes have been taken and submitted to our clerk's office. [1:24:53, 1:25:01]: So everyone will be aware once it's posted through our clerk's office, they've been doing the minutes from day one. [1:25:02, 1:25:22]: So that keeps everybody abreast of what's going on. We say we have a city liaison, which is myself. I'm always available to ask questions. There have been private meetings with Pastor McFarland and the city manager and the mayor and several of my colleagues to answer. [1:25:22, 1:25:23]: your questions. [1:25:23, 1:25:43]: So, by Mr. McFarland having to leave, it was very important. And everything that you all had your private meeting, you were had the opportunity to ask him those questions. I'm also available for you to ask questions. But again, the minutes that our secretary of the youth advisory provides. [1:25:43, 1:25:52]: To the clerk's office. They are detailed with everything that is discussed. There should not be that no one knows what's going on. [1:25:53, 1:25:55]: Because those should be posted. [1:25:55, 1:25:57]: as public record. [1:25:58, 1:26:07]: And our chair, he went a step further and stated he will forward all information that is needed by this council. [1:26:08, 1:26:10]: So with us [1:26:10, 1:26:14]: Maybe in the liaison. This is a city of [1:26:14, 1:26:16]: But I will say [1:26:16, 1:26:36]: This e this program is going v extremely well. It's very productive. Everyone in this community sees it. And I um I I feel very, very disheartened that we're going back and forth with this small amount when could when actually the information [1:26:36, 1:26:38]: has been provided. [1:26:38, 1:26:45]: And we're talking about a program for young people who are gonna be our future leaders. [1:26:46, 1:26:56]: So I don't know where we're going back and forth. We can talk about this again and even the attorney, he's gonna be able to state even the funding, um, Miracle Tim Gantt. [1:26:57, 1:27:04]: You were incorrect because he should be able to tell you it was another line item that he's actually talking about. [1:27:05, 1:27:08]: So all I'm gonna say to each and every one of you. [1:27:08, 1:27:16]: You're welcome. You're welcome to come um hey, I'm just being [1:27:16, 1:27:29]: Stated my comments, you are welcome to be a part, you are welcome to enhance as elected officials who approved of this youth council. [1:27:29, 1:27:49]: But I don't see any of you out when these young people have events or their meetings. Again, this is to the public. You all are welcome to get involved. Thank you. All right. On that note, uh recommendations, we just have follow up at the budget retreat. We'll get a chance to talk to all the entire staff of budget retreat. [1:27:49, 1:28:09]: And we'll deal with it at that point and see what we can come up with. Mr. Um Aaron, sorry uh public um works. Let's go forward. Good evening, Mr. Mayor and Council. All right. Uh tonight we'll be presenting our second forum public works update. And also this is the accompanying manual that details [1:28:09, 1:28:24]: 110 projects that public work has either done or in the process of completing. So we'll go get started now. [1:28:25, 1:28:45]: First thing I'm going to do is just give an introduction so everybody knows that infrastructure investment is critical to a city's continued economic success. An agent deteriorating and optimal infrastructure, along with rising expectations of what infrastructure should deliver, challenges cities' ability to meet public expectations. Cities must [1:28:45, 1:29:05]: Expand and modernize infrastructure across various sectors to help ensure that to help ensure they continue to provide businesses both large and small in an environment where they can successfully grow and operate. Research has shown that well-designed investments in infrastructure can include long-term economic growth, productivity, and land. [1:29:05, 1:29:25]: Values but also providing significant positive spillovers to areas such as economic development, energy efficiency, public health, and manufacturing. Improving infrastructure will not only create economic opportunities for residents but also improve their fundamental quality of life. And here's a breakdown of the current project. [1:29:25, 1:29:45]: We have by divisions. In stormwater current projects, we have four. We've completed 11 projects out of a total of 15. In wastewater, we have 21 total projects. We have 16 of the current five that have been completed. In water, we had 14 total projects we've been working on, nine are current. [1:29:45, 1:30:05]: Five are completed in public works. We've got 13. We have 13 projects. Six are current, seven have been completed. In parks, we've got 20. 12 are current, eight have been completed. And government buildings. We have 27 total projects and 13 have been completed. [1:30:05, 1:30:25]: And here's a breakdown of products by division. The majority of our projects, our government buildings, they represent 24% of the projects we've got going on. Wastewater is 19%, parks is 18%, stonewater is 14%, water is 13%, public works is 12%. [1:30:24, 1:30:44]: And we go by expenditures, what we've expended on project, stormwater project so far is$496,957. Wastewater$1.2 million. Water is$1.9, majority of the water expenditures for your AMI systems that you've installed. [1:30:44, 1:31:04]: Public works is three point five million, other three point five million, one million is on completed project, and other two and a half million is for the construction of public work facilities. That's a projection of how much the facility will cost. And parts we spend a total of seven hundred and eighty six thousand two hundred and [1:31:04, 1:31:24]: $249,$416,000 that have already completed projects, and the other$369,119 is for projects that are current, and in those current projects are the two projects we got coming up next month, are the researchers on our walking trails and parking. [1:31:24, 1:31:44]: Memorial Park. One thing I realized since I've been here, Reeves Creek Trail, Park Park and Memorial Park, we have a lot of residents and visitors that use those facilities. And we want to always ensure that they're top night of this thing can happen. That North Accompacte Trail reminds me of the Reeves Creek Trail, so that's one of the things. [1:31:44, 1:32:04]: And we got form for you talk about the project list of projects. So the t the projects that have been completed of that set of meeting, do you talk about what the projects are and work? And like arcs? Well, the total amount that you said uh was [1:32:04, 1:32:24]: Smith there, he said, since the full seven million dollars, seven or seven hundred thousand dollars, eighty six thousand two hundred forty nine. Talk about what those projects and parts there, the tennis courts, you've done the inclusive playgrounds at Park Park, and also you've done the uh rubberized [1:32:24, 1:32:44]: circus at Wheeze Creek Trail and um there's some other playground equipment as well and we're also in our current project some of the things we're proposing I know you have never been on Wheels Creek Trail is we've got to do some maintenance on the bridges on on the trails. We've we've had kids. [1:32:44, 1:32:58]: are young young adults go in and vandalize on the bridges, they're taking the uh wheel craft that's in the springs and they're making holes in the bridges so we've got to find a way to address that situation and [1:32:59, 1:33:19]: But some of the other things in that as well and the parts is we're gonna move some playground equipment and also uh add additional rotorized surfaces for those facilities. So but the list is in here. I try to be as brief as I can, but this is a detailed report I get to for past. [1:33:19, 1:33:39]: Everyone here. Right, but I'm just saying there's surely I'll think are there people tuned in? I hope they are so we can kind of get some of this out to the public about some of the things that we're doing. Like the tennis courts are repurposed, uh, we're doing a great job with that. These are splot sponsors in action, right? So people understand what they're doing when they're [1:33:39, 1:33:59]: understand that penny that the penny is coming back to the city and we're doing uh some great things with it. The one question I wanted to ask is that are we looking at beefing up the amount of special needs equipment at Memorial Park because uh the equipment at uh Clark Park has been a phenomenal success. [1:33:59, 1:34:19]: Didn't know whether you might be able to speak to that or the city manager because uh it is quite a discrepancy between the two and Reese Creek. I mean uh Clark Park has just been a phenomenal success with the usage of that equipment. Yes, and we've got some projects that's gonna address that in Memorial Park. And also we looked at expanding the park and then Reed's Creek. [1:34:19, 1:34:39]: Trail and also we've also discussed the security cameras of we want to do that in the near future for all of our parks. So and one more thing, you know, I know we were talking about Cousin Blount brought it up too about the lack of parking at this great facility uh over at Memorial Park. We just [1:34:39, 1:34:59]: definitely have to move forward with doing something over there and I know that property that one there's a piece of property that there's adjoining properties and I know the one along Rock Court has been for sale or ever uh that uh would be a good addition to make expand the parking over there. What is what are the plans for that? [1:34:59, 1:34:59]: [5699.6, 5719.6]: We would like to do that as well, but I think that would be best served in an executive session just discuss of acquiring additional properties and why don't we do this as a staff, why don't we look at those particular areas and and conceptualize what that would look like in terms of expand expanded parking for the [1:35:19, 1:35:39]: Be potentially uh require uh require property acquisition. So why don't we look at that and then perhaps in the executive session that's appropriate we could talk about. Okay, good. You said earlier about all the detailed things of the projects were in a book like that, but I believe you we have them in our book on expansion. [1:35:39, 1:35:59]: And a piece of document? No, that it's a separate book. That's a s so what you were we'll get that somehow, okay, that would help to outline all these projects and what we're what we're being. All right, that's gonna put it. Thank you. [1:35:59, 1:36:19]: Um Mr. Aaron, I want to first thank you guys. I've noticed a significant amount of the public works out picking up trash, the schedule tremendously. I still hear our next door neighbors, some of my um neighbors complaining about, you know, people literally within our neighborhoods. However [1:36:19, 1:36:39]: I've seen tremendous efforts on you on the public works department working hard to keep the bridge clean, and I really appreciate it and wanted to commend that effort. I also wanted to, it was mentioned one time before, when I drive down Blippin Road, right there at the open [1:36:39, 1:36:59]: Of the Reese Free Trail, I see people there every single day. I've seen crowds now using the exercise equipment, and I think that it would be a bonus if we had that equipment or consider that for every part of you that we have right now. I mean, when I say people, I'm saying 20-30 people groups are now coming. [1:36:59, 1:37:19]: coming out and utilizing the equipment and I think it would be something that we can consider as part of I know we're talking about the special needs equipment, but we also can can consider maybe putting more exercise equipment on at each park or at each trail location. Well Deb Greenway and I have discussed just a lot of the [1:37:19, 1:37:39]: Where as you walk along the trail and have different exercise stations, you can stop and do certain exercises. So we're looking at areas where we can possibly locate some equipment. So if you want to stop and do sit-ups, you can or push-ups and those type of things. And not just one location on the Reed Street Trail, but along the trail. [1:37:39, 1:37:51]: Right, and and I I would love to do that and again I'd love to see it at our at Clark Park, at at Memorial Park or whatever the case may be, but I love that. Um so thank you. Yes, and we can discuss that. [1:37:52, 1:37:53]: Any other questions from the council? [1:37:54, 1:37:56]: Yeah. Um [1:37:57, 1:38:00]: But it's not a glad to you caution us. [1:38:10, 1:38:24]: I I had more I I can fall back on that. Um one of the things I I I really want to talk about there in public work is about oversight over waste industry. Um [1:38:25, 1:38:36]: I personally have received some complaints and Mr. Nathan stop me if you need to uh discuss the other another thing you uh [1:38:36, 1:38:56]: waste industry over site some of us especially when it comes to uh the treatment has to be cut. Um I understand that you you know calling and they have to be cut four feet. But in a couple incidents uh it was called they came out and picked up uh [1:38:56, 1:39:16]: uh they were not able or they did not completely pick up everything, but they definitely come back. And uh the other site that I ride by every day um and what they left is still there. So I don't know if you have to recall again, but it seems like if you call more [1:39:16, 1:39:36]: That it should be something where they just come back and automatically get it. But I guess the overall question is about uh oversight over waste industries, about uh summon thing and and I give you some back on this about ghost. I'm gonna say I would I was since they're a private entity, I would I would suggest that perhaps. [1:39:36, 1:39:40]: Um so you're a non graphic council person have a form [1:39:40, 1:40:00]: Meeting with them and relate to them some of the issues or questions that have been raised across our attention, and we can do that directly with their management staff and then report back to the four months. One of the things I I I'd like to mention is I've I've done solid ways with the city of Atlanta and the city of Bear, and one thing. [1:40:00, 1:40:20]: I've learned is if there's unlimited quantities residents can put out, you'll never finish a house. Because when I was with the city of Atlanta, you go to a house in Buckhead, you might get 500 of those craft bags. So every other house got 100 bags for them to finish. In Perry, they didn't [1:40:19, 1:40:39]: have to be cut in specific lengths. So you might spend an hour at a house trying to get everything there on that site. And you're trying to put a 25 or 30 foot section of a tree in a truck that's only 15 feet long. You know, and everybody won't get [1:40:39, 1:40:59]: So one of the reasons that people start limiting the amount is usually like four QB yards is what if you call in their pick up. And if it exceeds that, then they leave it here and schedule another appointment. Or you can pay additional charge for them to get it all at once. Because believe you me. [1:40:59, 1:41:19]: If it's unlimited and there is no specifications on it, only probably thirty or forty percent of the residents will get services because everybody was going to outside and memory. And just as a follow-up, uh I do have a list of concerns uh but [1:41:19, 1:41:39]: I I wouldn't hold and wait in the schedule this tonight and we can call you in and you know we can talk about it. I don't want to prolong this session. I appreciate the numbers, the finance that you shared with us, but you know, I just like to get down into the details of the service part of what, you know, numbers. [1:41:39, 1:41:59]: are good but I think we also have to be able to look at the quality of the service services that we can provide to citizens and that's sort of my concern the services that we provide the citizens uh how can we improve some of those but uh I give them this many good time. The last thing I'm not sure [1:41:59, 1:42:19]: We've been talking about this crosstop issue along Martin Luther King Senior Trip Trail for a long time. That wall is not stable. It is it the potential safety issue and it needs to be addressed. Is that in your department? Is that something you do? Is that something we do or this council can authorize? [1:42:19, 1:42:39]: something to be done because uh that is a safety issue and it is very unsightly that those cross tires are all jagged and they might actually fall out. And I mean you probably s have mentioned that over the past uh we've had several conversations with Norfolk and South is on their right of way, is their property and [1:42:39, 1:42:59]: As long as it's serving the function and purpose that they've intended it for, then they don't have an issue with it. If there's something to be done, we approach them about doing something different at that location and we're waiting on them to get approved with them. Because before you do anything on railroads right away, you've got to get their approval. [1:42:59, 1:43:19]: contract or vendor you use has to be someone that approves by them. You just can't go on there right away. And if they decide they don't want to do anything there, we just have to accept it for you. The issue is it's been that way for three years. And multiple years. Longer than that. So at some point, you know, I know the railroad takes a long time but [1:43:19, 1:43:39]: But it ain't been three years. And we gotta get with them, sit with them, sit down and talk with somebody to get a resolution on what can be done, what we can do, and just stop talking about it's hard to deal with the rail the the the railroad, but just sit in the room with them and say, look, this has got to be fixed. Because people don't see [1:43:39, 1:43:56]: or care whether that's Norfolk Southern or there, and they look at us and like, you know, this is this is a primetime corridor for us and we need to be doing better. So what is it that we can do, Mr. Knight, and to get in the room with Norfolk Southern to talk about this? Okay. [1:43:58, 1:43:59]: Good concept. [1:44:00, 1:44:20]: So contact them and make sure that uh we see we'll we'll try to address it. Mr. Aaron said we've tried before. But you know, we will try again. So what I understand you said you you talked with him and offered a a a possible solution that we would we would we would get someone to find someone to or we would do it ourselves or what? [1:44:20, 1:44:40]: The individual that I spoke to says that retaining wall is serving the purpose that Norfolk and Southern install it for. So they don't, they're not going to spend any of their farms to be to make it useful to be fine. It serves a purpose of keeping it back. [1:44:39, 1:44:59]: But there is a possibility that we might be allowed to go in and put something there or change it, but it has to be their certification, it has to be someone they approve, and they will not take spending money. So if we if they get that approved, that means we have to spend the funds for [1:44:59, 1:45:16]: And we have to use the hand or day. That's allowed to work on that. Okay, all right, got it. Thank you. But obviously Mr. Knight says no follow up with them like this. We'll try and more questions for Mr. Aaron, please. [1:45:18, 1:45:20]: Thank you so appreciate your brilliant. [1:45:20, 1:45:22]: Uh community development. [1:45:23, 1:45:24]: It's more actually. [1:46:20, 1:46:25]: But that's the one to go. [1:46:35, 1:46:55]: I don't have no doubt. Okay. Land means we're gonna work from uh this is not a um this is a PDF so we're gonna have to let's see how I can get it back. Uh 75, I don't know if it would decide. [1:46:55, 1:46:57]: [6418.6, 6422.1]: And you didn't know. [1:47:04, 1:47:06]: Hey [1:47:09, 1:47:25]: Community area council. This is um reporting development. Um each and every month we do see a increase in development within the city of Stockbridge. So we're gonna go through each of the divisions. [1:47:25, 1:47:45]: This is the number, well how do you read this? This is the number for business services, and you can look at those numbers that are in your package that talks about home-based commercial. Thanks. Okay. Uh business license, the outstanding amount due for revenues. I will report that our revenues for the [1:47:45, 1:48:05]: This year have increased as of this day. We're over a million oh five nine three nine. And so um we're on target to exceed uh the revenues that we generated last year, probably the highest revenue we generated in a couple of years, because as you know, our biggest revenues will come. [1:48:05, 1:48:12]: I mean from October November, and so at this point on really we're over a million dollars in terms of revenues generated. [1:48:15, 1:48:35]: Any questions on business? Yeah it is. You you where you think that's from? Well, I I think that the economy has taken a turn for the best. Okay. Right. I think uh during the housing bus, uh people were a little bit more conserved if they didn't want to open the businesses. Uh in two thousand eleven the economy began to take a turn. [1:48:35, 1:48:55]: And so investment was out there, money uh to borrow was out there, and I think that more and more individuals and companies either have decided to expand or more individuals have decided to work a business for themselves. And so therefore I think that's why we're seeing an increase and it can only get better as we move forward. Here are our numbers. [1:48:55, 1:49:15]: Numbers for you can't see them all the way across the bottom, but here's the numbers for planning and zoning. Oh gosh, I mean. As you can see, I think the number that you need to pay attention to is the zoning verifications, because those are the number of development projects that would have come in. [1:49:14, 1:49:34]: To have some discussions about possible developments within the city of Stockbridge. So we have seen an uptick in the number of interested parties in terms of developing within the city of Stockbridge. So that's a very good number. As a matter of fact, we met with um a developer the other day, and I think it's one of my larger tracts that I've [1:49:34, 1:49:54]: That is interested in doing mixed use development. They're going to go back and see whether or not it works in terms of costing it out for him as a developer. But you know, we have 112 projects that are interested in moving forward in the city of Stockbridge sometime soon. Any questions? [1:49:54, 1:50:14]: Is there any projects that are already here that we have uh you know there that we've approved their plan that we can talk about or that we can inform the council about that we don't we have maybe unaware of or that we might be able to talk about? Right. It is I have um building to give some [1:50:14, 1:50:34]: Updated list, and you talked that we would have it by the end of this afternoon, and so we wanted to email that to you tomorrow so that you will have a copy of it. Appreciate that project list. Uh, one of the things I did want to talk about on the planning zone that's not in this package is where we are on the current plan. As many of you know, we hired um the collaborative. [1:50:34, 1:50:54]: The firm to assist us in terms of moving forward with the submission of our common land use plan that we are ending that process. Um, and so we will be bringing back to you, particularly mayor council, a draft. I was looking for that on Friday. Um, we hope to have at least by this flight a draft of what is provided. [1:50:54, 1:51:14]: Proposed and I just want to share with you some of the elements that will be a part of that comp plan. Of course, we have the highway 138 corridor plan that we did. The LCI is a portion of the comp plan. The highway overlay districts is a part of the comp plan. The RSVP is a part of the comp plan. [1:51:14, 1:51:34]: CIP. Because the City of Stockbridge is submitting their comp plan on their own for the first time, the short-term work program and the CIP have to be a part of the document that we submit. It is our anticipation to have this the first draft submitted to DCA by August the 30th. [1:51:34, 1:51:51]: give them 30 days to go back and forth in terms of um comments with changes, uh what things we need to add, what things we need to expound upon more. With a final submission to DCA, our deadline is October 18th, 2018. [1:51:51, 1:52:11]: So those are the predicted timelines for our comp plan. We're looking at special districts around the town center in terms of density. We've met with Ciara, so we've gotten that information. So we're looking for special district names for the area around the downtown area and looking at [1:52:11, 1:52:25]: some different uh areas that can that can serve as um parking uh stories and what type of uses can be a part of the development that comes into this area. Are there any questions on the content at this point? [1:52:29, 1:52:49]: The next area, which we always get proud about, is uh code enforcement. Uh as you can see, uh those are the numbers on uh code enforcement. Uh and we're generating a lot of revenue. Uh we're proud to say that uh we hope to generate more revenues going forward as we move forward with uh addressing uh parking needs. [1:52:49, 1:53:09]: And other issues that are on the table that pertains to a code enforcement and those areas of which uh judge report can have uh oversight of in terms of addressing issues for code enforcement other entities within the city of any questions on code enforcement numbers? Yes. [1:53:09, 1:53:29]: Number is like 16. So how do we deal with that in terms of those being repeat violations, folks, and continually giving warnings? Is there is there a metric to track? Well, we gave somebody a warning on this, and then two months later they corrected. [1:53:29, 1:53:49]: And then they're back in the same place again. Well, your ordinance does not speak to whether or not you warn somebody three times whether or not at that point you can spy them. What it does say that you give them a warning. So another month, if they're caught parking or doing stuff at the end, it just basically says you get [1:53:49, 1:54:09]: Give another warning, or at some point, if it's the violation is continuous for a number of days that results in a citation, then you actually do a citation. But most of the people who give the warnings and the numbers that they're given are really not repeat offenders. Um they don't like the warnings because they don't like the stuff that's stuck on their window and the shields that they have a difficult time. [1:54:09, 1:54:29]: to getting off or the signs posted on your doors. So most of these are not repeat defenders. We have about two situations in which um it involves neighbors fighting with each other. And so therefore um we're constantly out uh warning citations, warning citations. [1:54:29, 1:54:49]: And those two particular cases have been before judge record on a number of times and then after they get penalized, you're back through the warning phase again in citations. And Mr. Williams, so uh typically when we're dealing with these particular issues, uh is it mandatory that they give a warning? [1:54:49, 1:55:09]: Is it not, is it you know they have some discretion to use. I their their practice has always been to start with warnings before they immediately go to citations. And as was mentioned, typically, you know, the majority of folks keep a warning, clean it up, do whatever they have to do, and and and it's it's done. [1:55:09, 1:55:10]: Uh [1:55:10, 1:55:30]: So that that's really just for the discretion of their they're using. And typically I mean a warning is to try to bring someone to voluntary compliance. There are times when people actually don't know if they're actually violating the war and sometimes they may know. But once they give them a uh a warning, the hope is it will voluntarily comply and uh the curb [1:55:30, 1:55:50]: or or or eliminate whatever behavior they've been going for. And so most of the time you start with that and escalate it to something else by the substantial. So give me an example, um our ordinance says that the grass, which is is not atypical, but our grass height is six inches, but most of your six is twelve. And so [1:55:50, 1:56:10]: So if you have a neighbor next door who said that's over six inches, you know, you need to get out of here and you need to, you know, sight there because their grass is eight inches high, uh, with all this rain. So but typically most of our uh warnings are not repeating offenders. Yes, I'll just follow up with Mr. Williams. Now, let's say or you can this morning. [1:56:10, 1:56:22]: there are special classification, like you know some things when the windows change or whatever, they may not know. Let's say like on litter and stuff like that. If you wanted to crack down on litter, there's no ones on litter. [1:56:23, 1:56:43]: You know what litter looks like. We all know that litter is a violation. Certain categories don't get a warning. They just we just go straight to giving citations on that. Is that permissible? Well, it depends. Most of your littering is in your commercial area. Right. That's a good idea. Okay, but let's give you an example. I did remember last summer [1:56:43, 1:57:03]: Because you don't have a unified hauler for your commercial districts and you got all these different people coming in, one of the companies for one of the business might be a Dollar Tree or one of those, the hauler had problems. And so therefore they weren't able to pick up their trash. Remember that? You called it in, they weren't able to pick up their trash. [1:57:03, 1:57:23]: Because the hallway had picked it up. So typically, you as a courtesy to your businesses, all the ones that I know of, when we notified them, like we notified the dollar uh place, they gave a reason why the hallward had not picked it up, they got on top of it, and they came out and they picked it up. So most of your commercial businesses. [1:57:22, 1:57:42]: Are responsive once we give them a warning. We typically don't go out and say, hey, you know, you got this and this side. And we normally, which is traditional in the code enforcement areas, to give everybody an opportunity to clean it up when it comes to compliance. I also understand that side, like on the Dollar Tree, you know, that. [1:57:42, 1:58:02]: That's a service gap issue where they just weren't getting service. But if you go down to uh service station X and the lot littered all up, okay, they don't need a warning for that. They need a citation, in my opinion. Most of this comes down to the policy direction. [1:58:02, 1:58:22]: So that could all hand down. But just like state patrol, police departments from time to time do click it or ticket or they do these campaigns within a period of time to kind of get the message out. Right. You all could do similar things, but but you would need to know what you're looking for. [1:58:22, 1:58:42]: for whether it's litter, high whatever it is, and then let them implement you know a strategy to to address that. Maybe it's targeted in certain parts of the city. But those are things, you know, ultimately if you all set forth a a a policy directive, then you know we'll carry it out. [1:58:42, 1:59:02]: How do you retain your businesses? It's how do you be business strengthening? And those are things. Because you know, we depend on the business community for what it is we do. So we want them to come into compliance, but we don't want to run about town either. So finding that balance, and I think for us is always the best. [1:59:02, 1:59:15]: one company that we have not uh asked the claim that we give an example Oakware uh I think it's a coffee drip lady that has some coffee but I mean she she personally gets out and try to [1:59:15, 1:59:35]: cleaned up but she says people but what she says that on any given day or night people come and they just throw garbage right they just throw garbage now you know for her she makes a real effort herself but when she tells you the amount of trash but somebody riding by and they see the trash and she has to pick it up then somebody said we go [1:59:35, 1:59:55]: But we know specifically that she takes extra effort to clean up her site, but she also talks about where she sits and how people cut through and how people continue to throw out garbage. You know, it is just one of those things that happen. But I do think we need to find that perfect balance where we give them an opportunity. [1:59:54, 2:00:01]: to clean them out. What we may look at is, you know, how do you divide up repeat prevent offend?