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LET ME GET MY BOOK RIGHT HERE.
UH, REVEREND CRAIG SEMANS IS HE HERE? HE IS NOT HERE.
WOULD YOU DO AS AN EYES WHEN YOU DO, PLEASE MENTIONED THE FACT THAT, UH, ONE OF MY OWN HERE JULIUS IS, IS LOST HIS SISTER, WHICH IS A TERRIBLE BLOW.
AND ALSO MR. MATTINGLY HAS GONE BECAUSE HIS FATHER HE'S 97 YEARS OLD IS VERY OLD, WHO HAS BEEN IN GOOD HEALTH.
SO HE WOULD SAY A FEW WORDS FOR THEM.
I WANT TO THANK YOU FOR THIS DAY AND FURTHER, THE TIME THAT WE HAVE HERE TO SH TO CONDUCT THE BUSINESS OF THE CITY TOGETHER.
AND WE ASK THAT YOU BLESS THESE PROCEEDINGS AND GIVE EVERYONE THE WISDOM THAT THEY NEED TO MAKE THE DECISIONS THAT ARE THE PROPER ONES FOR THE CITIZENS OF THE CITY.
WE ASK YOUR SPECIAL BLESSINGS ON THE FAMILY OF ALDERMAN PAR HAM, UH, ALL OF THEIR RELATIVES THAT WHERE YOU WOULD JUST TOUCH THEM AND COMFORT THEM IN THEIR TIME.
AND ALSO FATHER, WE ASK THAT YOU WOULD WORK IN THE SITUATION THAT AUTOMATICALLY IS GOING THROUGH WITH HIS FATHER, THAT YOU GIVE HIM THE WISDOM TO MAKE DECISIONS THAT HE NEEDS TO MAKE AT THIS TIME IN JESUS' NAME WITH FRIGHTENED, MAN, YOU MAY CALL ROLL MA'AM UM, HERE.
FIRST THING THAT I HAVE THE HONOR, AND THE PLEASURE TO DO IS TO SWEAR IN THE POLICE CHIEF, I GUESS I'M WANTING TO DO IT RIGHT NOW.
OH, I'D LOVE TO INTRODUCE MY WIFE.
THIS IS MY WIFE, JANINE, PLEASE.
WE HAVE THE CIVIL RECORDS BY THE CITY.
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WHERE IS THERE? THE TOTAL OF 97.6 MILLION GALLONS IN THE MONTH OF JULY, THE MAXIMUM AS LOW AS 4 MILLION GALLONS A DAY, THE AVERAGE TREATED 3.1, THE YELLOW TODAY, THE BIOLOGICAL OXYGEN DEMAND SUFFICIENT SUSAN BOONE WAS 93%.AND THE SUSPENDED SOLIDS EFFICIENCY REMOVAL WAS 93%, WHICH IS IN OUR NPDS PERMIT LIMITS.
WE ALSO HAVE
EVERY MATTER WE HAD A SPILL AT LIFT STATION NUMBER 10, WHICH IS ADJACENT TO AND TRICK PORT AREA, UH, A BILL, UH, COMING OUT OF THE WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT, WHERE TWO PIPES FIT TOGETHER, SPLIT.
IT HAD BEEN INSTALLED MANY YEARS AGO IN A AWKWARD POSITION.
IT WAS A JAM THAT UNDER A STRAIN, IT'S SPLIT ABOUT NINE INCHES ON AUGUST BEFORE REWARDER PUT A BAND AROUND IT, THE HYDROX AND MEN AROUND IT IN ORDER TO PARKS.
AND UNFORTUNATELY THE VERY NEXT DAY WAS THE UPS STRIKE.
UH, TOOK US A WEEK TO GET THE REPAIR PART IN, UM, ON AUGUST THE 11TH, WE WERE MAINTAINING AND LOOKING AT THIS FACILITY ON A EVERY SIX HOUR BASIS AROUND THE CLOCK, UH, AT SUNDAY NIGHT AT SIX O'CLOCK, EVERYTHING WAS FINE ON MONDAY MORNINGS, WHEN WE DID OUR ROUNDS, UH, THE BELL HAD SPLIT AND WE HAD WESTBORN THAT HAD GOTTEN TO THE RIVER ON AUGUST THE FOURTH, AND THEN IT SPLIT AND STARTED LEAKING.
WE CAUGHT IT ON MONDAY MORNING.
WE HAD NOTHING TO GET TO THE RIVER WHEN I WAS 11, WE HAD SUN AND GET TO THE RIVER.
AND TO BE HONEST WITH YOU, WE REALLY DON'T KNOW HOW TO DETERMINE EXACTLY HOW MUCH GOT THROUGH THE RIVER MAP, CONSERVATIVE ESTIMATES, MEANING THAT I'M TRYING TO PROJECT PAC WAS SOMEWHERE BETWEEN THREE AND A THOUSAND GALLONS LEAK IN SOMEWHERE BETWEEN THREE AND 500 GALLONS ACTUALLY REACHED THE RIVER.
UH, WE REPORTED THE LEAK AND THE SPILL TO THE RIVER TO, UH, PROPER AUTHORITIES, UH, IN A REGIONAL OFFICE IN LITTLE WASHINGTON.
UM, WE TOLD THEM OUR PLANS TO FIX IT.
AS SOON AS THE PARK CAME IN, IT DID, UH, ARRIVE ON TUESDAY, AUGUST 12TH, AND WE SCHEDULED IT FOR SUNDAY.
BUT BECAUSE OF THE LIGHT DAY ON THURSDAY, WE DIDN'T HAVE ANY MAJOR EMERGENCIES.
WE RESCHEDULED THAT AND ACTUALLY, UH, REPAIRED THE LIFT STATION ON THURSDAY NIGHT, BETWEEN 11 IN THE EVENING AND ONE 30 THE NEXT MORNING, UH, PUT THE LIFT STATION BACK IN OPERATION.
AND THAT REPAIR, UH, IS AN EFFECT.
THERE IS NO LEAKAGE TAKING PLACE NOW, UH, AS PART OF THE CLEANUP AND ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERNS, WE MONITOR FOR FECAL COLIFORM, WHICH THE NEWSPAPER REPORTED.
UH, WE HAD SOME VERY HIGH READINGS.
WOULD YOU BE EXPECTED WITH A RAW WASTEWATER REACHING THE RIVER? UM, WE HAVE CONTINUED MONITORING EVEN THROUGH TODAY AND WE'LL CONTINUE MONITORING AT LEAST THROUGH THIS FRIDAY, UH, EQUAL COLIFORMS ARE NOW IN NORMAL LEVELS, WHICH IS BELOW 200 FECAL COLUMNS PER LITER OF FLUIDS FOR ALL INTENSIVE PURPOSES.
NATURE'S TAKEN THIS COURSE AND HEALTH HAZARD IN THAT AREA.
HOW WAS THE, UH, THE PROBLEM DISCOVERED, NOT THE LEAK ITSELF, THE FACT THAT YOU HAD A BAD COMPONENT ONCE, ONCE THE LEAK SURFACE TO THE TOP OF THE GROUND WAS STARTED RUNNING, UM, WE ACTUALLY HAD TO DIG DOWN AND RETURN.
I MAY HAVE HAD TO FIND OUT IT WAS LEAKING.
I MEAN, WHO SAW SOMEBODY SEE IT? AND WE SEE IT OR OPERATOR THIS ACCESS STATION AND WANTS A BAG.
UH, AND IT WAS BETWEEN NINE 30 OR 10 30 ON MONDAY MORNING DOING HIS NORMAL CHECK OF THE STATION AS ONE OF OUR LARGER LIFT STATIONS THAT WE SEE ON A DAILY BASIS.
AND WHEN HE APPROACHED THE STATION, HE SAW THE WATER, THE GROUND WAS, WAS DAMPED IN.
UH, SO HE, HE CALLED HER APPROVED TO DIG DOWN AND INVESTIGATE, FIND OUT VOLTS EVENTS WHERE THERE HADN'T BEEN ANY RAIN THAT DAY.
AND THERE'S NO WAY IN A SEWER SYSTEM TO DETECT OR SAY A CATASTROPHIC FAILURE, LIKE A RUPTURE OF THE PIPE OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT.
THERE'S NO, NO METERING THAT WE HAVE TO DETECT THAT.
AND WE DON'T HAVE TO BE VISUAL, I GUESS.
THAT IS JUST LIKE WATER PIPES TRAVELING IN THE GROUND AND YOU CAN'T MONITOR THEM ON A DAILY
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BASIS.THE WAY YOU FIND THAT YOU GOT A WAR OR SILVER LAKE, IS THAT, UH, THE SATURATES, THE GROUND AROUND WHERE IT'S LEAKING AGAINST THE SURFACE AND WHEN IT SURFACES, PEOPLE USE IT ALL US AND LESS THAN OTHER BOARD IN THE STREET, OR WE'VE GOT A LEAK HERE.
WE GO AND TAKE ACTION APPROPRIATELY.
AND WHAT WAS THE COMPONENT THAT YOU HAD TO ORDER A VALVE DISEASE? I ACTUALLY, UM, THE PIPE WE'RE AT SUCH AN ANGLE WHERE WE ACTUALLY PUT AN 11 AND A HALF DEGREE BEND, UM, WHERE THEY HAD HAD TWO STRAIGHT PIECES OF PIPE JOINED BY A BELL.
WE ACTUALLY PUT A 11 AND A HALF DEGREE BED IN THAT JOINT TO MAKE IT FIT MORE PROPERLY THE WAY IT WAS LINED UP THE WAY IT WAS INSTALLED.
BUT I MAINLY WHAT I'M GETTING AT IS DO WE HAVE SUFFICIENT SPARE PARTS IN CASE WE, WE TEAR SOMETHING UP OR BORROW SOMETHING OUT AGAIN OR WHATEVER, AND NOT BE AT THE MERCY OF WAITING FOR UPS OR SOMEBODY.
I MEAN, IS THERE A COMMONALITY TO THE PARTS? UH, WE KEEP, WE KEEP A LOT OF, UH, PARTS ON HAND.
IT JUST HAPPENED THAT WE DID NOT HAVE THAT PARTICULAR ONE IN STOCK AT THAT PARTICULAR TIME.
NORMALLY IT COMES IN OVERNIGHT.
WE USUALLY CAN GET IT IN 24 TO 48 HOURS.
AND BECAUSE OF THE UPS DRIVER THAT WAS HIT BY ANOTHER CARRIER AND TOOK THE WEEK INSTEAD OF JUST THE DAY.
WELL, I JUST, YOU KNOW, IT'S FUNNY WHEN YOU WENT TO SCHOOL AND SOME OF THE THINGS THAT YOU'VE LEARNED, YOU WONDER WHERE YOU'D EVER USE IT.
YOU REMEMBER THE STORY ABOUT THE GUY, LITTLE KID THAT HAD TO STICK HIS THUMBS AND THE DIKE.
WELL, THAT'S THE KIND OF SITUATION WE DON'T WANT TO HAVE HIM HERE WITH THE SEWER LINE.
SO, UH, NO, I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'VE GOT ENOUGH SPIRES AND PARTS AVAILABLE, ESPECIALLY FOR THAT SEWER SYSTEM THAT WE DON'T HAVE SOME KIND OF CATASTROPHIC FAILURE ONE DAY AND WE CAN'T PLUG IT UP.
NORMALLY, NORMALLY EVEN PEOPLE LIKE HOUSTON FLOWER AND KESTON, UM, OR ANY OF OUR SUPPLIERS WILL NORMALLY HAVE THIS IN STOCK.
AND IT JUST HAPPENED THAT EVERYBODY WAS OUT OF THIS PARTICULAR.
THAT'S WHY I'M SAYING WE NEED OUR PARTS, MAKE SURE WE GOT THEM.
ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? WHAT DO YOU SAY IT
PEOPLE DON'T KNOW WHAT BOD MEANS AND I THOUGHT, YEAH, MAYBE WE NEED TO SAY WHAT IT STANDS FOR.
AND THERE WAS A TEST THAT TAKES FIVE DAYS TO DETERMINE, UM, WHAT THAT DEMAND OXYGEN IN THE WATER ACTUALLY VOD IN FIVE DAYS ALSO TELLS US WHAT EFFECTS WASTEWATER HAS.
I JUST HAVE A SHORT REPORT TONIGHT.
I HAVE BEEN IN TOUCH WITH, UH, DESIGN CONSULTANTS IN CHARLOTTE AND ALSO MR. PETERSON, THE ARCHITECT HERE, UH, THE CHARLOTTE COMPANY IS SENDING OUT A PRESENTATION AND PRELIMINARY SKETCHES ON FRIDAY.
SO WE SHOULD RECEIVE THE MONDAY OR TUESDAY NEXT WEEK, THEY PLAN TO PRESENT THREE OPTIONS.
AND THEY'RE ALSO PRESENTLY WORKING ON SLIDE PRESENTATION.
THEY WILL BE PRESENT AT THE WORK SESSION IN SEPTEMBER TO PRESENT THIS TO YOU.
AND I'M ALSO PRESENTLY TRYING TO LOCATE A TOPOGRAPHICAL MAP ON THE PROPERTY TO 10 ACRE PROPERTY.
AND I'M HOPING CRIME REALLY CAN HELP US WITH THAT, BUT I HAVEN'T BEEN ABLE TO GET ONE YET, BUT WE'RE STILL TRYING, BUT I NEED THAT FOR, ARE THERE ANY QUESTIONS FROM ME? THANK YOU.
NEXT THING WE HAVE IS THE CONSENT AGENDA.
MAY I MOVE? WE APPROVE THE CONSENT AGENDA.
FIRST, I JUST LIKE TO PULL 12, 13 AND 14 ABSENT THOSE THREE ITEMS. DID YOU HAVE ANY MAPS? OKAY.
ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION YOU MAY CALL THE ROLL PLEASE.
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YES, YES, YES.THE REASON I PULL THOSE ITEMS COST, YOU KNOW, THESE ARE CHANGES THAT WE'RE MAKING TO THE ONE THAT'S GOING TO BE GOSPEL EXCESS TRUCKS.
AND I WAS JUST WONDERING, I DIDN'T GET ANY RESPONSE FROM, YOU KNOW, COMMUNITY.
I SENT THE LETTER OUT TO THE GENTLEMAN WHO BROUGHT IT TO OUR ATTENTION.
AND I DIDN'T KNOW IF YOU GUYS HAD HEARD, IF ANYBODY HAD RESPONDED NEGATIVELY.
ONE THING I HAD CONCERNED ABOUT WAS WE HAD HAD A RESPONSE AND I EXPECT IT TO HAVE SOME FROM, UH, THE MALE PLANT AND, UH, OTHERS WHO HAVE THOSE TRUCKS IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD.
I'D JUST LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION THAT WE ADOPT THOSE YEAH.
THE AGENDA ITEM IS A LITTLE MISLEADING.
THE TWO ORDINANCES, WHICH ARE THE SUBJECT OF ITEMS, 13 AND 14 COVER ALL TRUCKS, OTHER THAN PICKUP TRUCKS, ALL TRUCKS, OTHER THAN PICKUP TRUCKS, PICKUP TRUCKS, BUT IN A NO WAY HINDERS ANY LEGITIMATE DELIVERIES OR PICKUPS BY I SPOKE, I SPOKE TO DANNY.
IF I THAT'S, WHEN I SAW THE AGENDA AND HE SAID THAT WAS NO PROBLEM.
AND THEN YOU DON'T HAVE A PROBLEM WITH WHETHER IT IS WRITTEN.
IT PICKED UP SOME WORDS THAT WAS ONLY IN ONE OF THOSE ALREADY ADOPTED CONTROLS, ANYTHING ABOVE A PICKUP TRUCK, BUT IT DOES NOT HINDER ANY COMPROMISE.
IF I WERE WITH THIS GUY, YOU MIGHT CALL THE ROAD, MAN.
NEXT THING WE HAVE IS APARTMENTS.
NO POINT IT'S MISCELLANEOUS MISCELLANEOUS.
I HAVE TWO THINGS I HOPE ARE SHORT ITEMS THAT I WANTED TO RECORD.
WE POINTED COMMITTEE A WHILE BACK THE TRAFFIC ADVISORY.
IT JUST LIKE IT SANK WITHOUT A RIPPLE.
I'M SURE THEY'RE OUT THERE, BUT ARE THEY MEETING? YES.
THERE'S MINUTES IN THIS FROM THE, WELL, I HAVEN'T GOTTEN MA'AM.
I CAN LOOK THIS TIME, BUT AS LONG AS THEY'RE MEETING THEM, EVEN THE SECOND THING, UH, WHEN I GOT HERE TONIGHT, I HAD THIS, UH, POLICY THING FROM THE NATIONAL LEAGUE OF CITIES.
AND IT'S COMFORTING TO NOTE THAT AF SO FAR, THIS YEAR THAT THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES HAS PICKED, THEY DID WORK ON FIVE PARTICULAR ITEMS DURING THE YEAR, BUT THEY REDUCED IT TO THREE.
AND THOSE INCLUDE CLEAN WATER, WHICH MEANS THAT THE NATIONAL LEAGUE OF CITIES IS BECOMING INCREASINGLY CONCERNED ABOUT THE CONDITION OF THE NATION'S WATER SUPPLIES IN MARCH.
THEY WILL HAVE THEIR MEETING IN WASHINGTON, DC.
ONCE AGAIN, AT THE PRESENT TIME, I'M A MEMBER OF THEIR NATURAL RESOURCES COMMITTEE AND IN ENERGY ENVIRONMENT AND NATURAL RESOURCES AS IT IS CALLED AND WROTE ON AN AMENDMENT.
AS I'VE MENTIONED BEFORE TO THEIR POLICY LAST YEAR, INSERTING CONCERN ABOUT AGRICULTURAL RUNOFF OR RUNOFF FROM AGRICULTURAL ACTIVITIES AND CONFINED STYLE LIVESTOCK ACTIVITIES.
IT WAS THE FIRST TIME THE NATIONAL LEAGUE OF CITIES THAT EVER INCLUDED THESE ITEMS AS BEING OF CONCERN IN THE NATION.
SO AT THE PRESENT TIME, ALL NATIONAL REGULATIONS, ALL PROPOSED NATIONAL LEGISLATION IS CAREFULLY EXAMINED FOR REFERENCES TO THIS AND A STAFF OF PROFESSIONAL LOBBYISTS REPRESENTING 1500 CITIES ACROSS THE NATION REPRESENTING ABOUT 130 MILLION VOTERS ARE KEEPING AN EYE ON CONGRESS TO TRY TO WORK TOWARD AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE QUALITY OF THE WATER, ALL ACROSS THE COUNTRY.
SO I'M GLAD TO SEE THAT THAT IS STILL ONE OF THEIR THREE MAJOR CONCERNS.
THAT MEANS THAT IT WILL STAY ON TOP OF IT.
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POINT IT WILL HAVE RESULT, BUT I JUST WANTED TO LET THE BOARD KNOW THAT THAT IS STILL ONE OF THEIR THREE MAJOR CONCERNS WITH NATIONWIDE IS CLEAN WATER.MR. MAYOR, DID WE EVER RESPOND TO THIS KASASA ASSASSIN? THE LAST TIME I REPORTED THAT SHE HATED SO MANY SPOTS TO HER CONCERNS? YES.
WE TALKED ABOUT HIS FAMILY AND I DON'T KNOW WHAT WAS DOING DANNY OH, GREAT.
WELL, IT'S, IT'S A VERY BUSY FOUR LANE ROAD RIGHT NOW.
I MEAN, IT'S A US HIGHWAY AND IT'S GOING TO BE EVEN BUSIER WHEN THEY GET IT WIDE.
AND THEN THERE IS CONCERN FOR THE KIDS CROSSING THE STREET THERE.
AND I KNOW THAT THEY COULD RIDE A BUS, BUT A CHILD WHO LIVES A BLOCK AWAY IS NOT GOING TO RIDE A SCHOOL BUS FOR A HALF HOUR JUST TO AVOID WALKING ACROSS THE STREET.
I MEAN, I, SOMEONE CALLED HER
I'VE CALLED HER SO MANY TIMES ABOUT OTHER THINGS.
I JUST, THAT JUST PASSED OUT OVER.
WELL, THE IMPORTANT THING TOO, IS THAT YOU DOING SOMETHING ABOUT, I'LL CALL HER TOMORROW.
THINK WE TELL THEM, COME BACK AND LET THEM KNOW WHAT'S GOING.
ANYTHING ELSE? HUH? ANYBODY WANNA ADJOURN? AND MY MOVEMENT GERMS