May 10, 2022 Board of Aldermen

THIRD, DO WE HAVE PETITIONS TONIGHT? YES.

REVEREND JOHNSON WROTE HERE.

OTHER WOMAN PARIS PRESENT.

ALDERMAN ASKED HER MAYOR, ALDERMAN KINSEY, ALDERMAN, THE BEST PRESENT OBERMAN ITEM HERE.

[3. Request and Petition of Citizens.]

OTHER RESIDENTS HAVE EXPRESSED CONCERNS.

OUR FIRST ONE TONIGHT IS WENDY CAR.

AND IF YOU CAN COME UP AND GIVE US YOUR ADDRESS FOR THE RECORD, GOOD EVENING.

BOARD OF ALDERMEN, I'M WENDY CARD, AND I'M A RESIDENT OF NEWBURGH.

I'M HERE TO ADDRESS ISSUES RELATED TO THE PETITION OF CITIZENS.

IN MY CIRCLES.

THEY HAVE WITH CURRENT PROCEDURES, THEY WANT TO PARTICIPATE, BUT ARE APPREHENSIVE.

HERE'S WHY PEOPLE DON'T WANT TO ANNOUNCE THEIR ADDRESSES.

ACCORDING TO THE CITY'S CODE ORDINANCES, THEY ARE NOT REQUIRED TO ALL THEY HAVE.

ALL THEY NEED TO SAY IS IF THEY'RE A RESIDENT OR NOT, YOU CAN HAVE THIS POLICY YOU PART IN REQUIRING CITIZENS TO IDENTIFY THEMSELVES AND STATE THEIR ADDRESS, BUT YOU CANNOT ENFORCE IT.

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BUT THE CITIZEN REFUSES TO IDENTIFY THEMSELVES OR DISCLOSE THEIR RESIDENCE.

THEY MUST STILL BE ALLOWED TO SPEAK DURING THE PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD UNDER STATUTE AND UNDER THE FIRST AMENDMENT.

SECONDLY, CITIZENS WANT THE OPPORTUNITY TO ADDRESS INDIVIDUAL BOARD MEMBERS, YOUR RULE DESIGN FOR THE MAINTENANCE OF ORDER AND DECORUM RESTRICTS THE CONTENT OF SPEECH.

THIS POTENTIALLY BY THE FIRST AMENDMENT, THE CITY'S CODE OF ORDINANCES.

ALSO NOTES SPEAKERS MUST BE COURTEOUS IN THEIR LANGUAGE AND PRESENTATION.

PERSONAL TAX WILL NOT BE TOLERATED WITH THAT SAID MEMBERS OF THE BOARD SHOULD NOT BE ABLE TO PERSONALLY ATTACK PEOPLE.

ATTENDING THE MEETING.

I'D FULLY RESEARCHED THIS TOPIC AND ALSO CONFERRED WITH A MUNICIPAL ATTORNEY WHO AGREES WITH THESE FINDINGS.

IN CLOSING, I'M HERE TO REQUEST THAT THE BOARD STOP ASKING CITIZENS TO IDENTIFY THEMSELVES WITH THEIR ADDRESSES AND ALLOW THEM TO DIRECT QUESTIONS TO THE INDIVIDUAL BOARD MEMBERS.

I WANT TO MAKE IT CLEAR FOR RESIDENTS WATCHING THIS.

THAT MAY 17 IS THE ELECTION FOR THE CITY OF NEWBURGH MAYOR AND ALDERMAN EARLY VOTING HAS ALREADY STARTED.

SO PLEASE GET OUT AND VOTE AND THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME.

THANK YOU, REBECCA TINDER.

MY NAME IS REBECCA TINTO AND I CURRENTLY RESIDE AT 5 7 2 1 GONDOLIER DRIVE AND NEWBURN.

I WAS HERE LAST MONTH AND I SPOKE ABOUT THE VULNERABILITY OF UNION POINT PARK.

EVEN THOUGH THERE IS A SECOND MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING BECAUSE IT'S A WORKING CONVERSATION.

THINGS CAN CHANGE JUST LIKE IN A CONTRACT.

IF BOTH PARTIES AGREE, IT COULD CHANGE.

SO WOULD THAT FOUR MINUTES THAT I SPOKE LAST MONTH, I STAYED TO THE END OF THE MEETING.

I WENT TO THE BATHROOM.

I CAME OUT OF THE BATHROOM.

I WAS AT THE TOP OF THE STAIRS.

I LOOKED DOWN MICHAEL AND CAROL MOORE WERE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE STEPS WHERE THE BACK AGAINST THE WALL.

I DIDN'T THINK ANYTHING OF IT.

I PROCEEDED DOWN THE STEPS AS I GOT CLOSER TO CAROL MOORE, SHE PROCEEDED TO SAY, OH, DO WE STILL HAVE TO TALK ABOUT THIS? YOU STILL GOING TO TALK ABOUT THIS? I LOOKED AT HER, I DID NOT ENGAGE IN CONVERSATION WITH HER.

I PROCEEDED TO GO DOWN THE STEPS.

I WAS WALKING FAIRLY QUICKLY.

I'M NOT SURE WHO TRIED TO GRAB ME OR WHO TOUCHED ME, BUT SOMEONE TOUCHED MY ARM, MR. KENDALL, THIS IS AN OPPORTUNITY TO TALK ABOUT CITY EVENTS.

THIS IS NOT A OPPORTUNITY TO GET INTO ANY TYPE OF DEBATE OR FORM ABOUT PERSONAL ISSUES THAT YOU MIGHT HAVE WITH INDIVIDUAL CITIZENS.

I WANT TO SUGGEST YOU TAKE CARE OF THAT WITH A CIVIL COURT.

DO YOU HAVE ANYTHING GERMANE TO THE FUNCTIONS OF THE CITY OF NEWMAN YOU WOULD LIKE TO TALK ABOUT DURING YOUR FOUR MINUTES, BESIDES CHARACTER ASSASSINATION OF INDIVIDUALS WITHOUT SPECIFICALLY NAMING NAMES.

FIRST OF ALL, WE NEED TO HAVE SAFETY IN CITY HALL.

I'M IN CITY HALL AND I AM PRACTICING MY FIRST AMENDMENT, RIGHT? TO SPEED.

BUT THIS SHOULD BE A SAFE PLACE FOR EVERYONE TO SPEAK NO MATTER WHAT THEY'RE SPEAKING OUT ABOUT.

SO, AS I WAS SAYING, AS I CONTINUED DOWN THE STAIRS, CAROL MOVER WAS FALLING DOWN.

I MEAN WAS IN CITY HALL AND I WAS BEING HARASSED.

NOBODY IN CITY HALL SHOULD BE HARASSED.

THIS IS ABOUT SAFETY FOR YOUR FREEDOM OF SPEECH.

I CAME BECAUSE THERE IS A CONCERN ABOUT THE PARK AT NO POINT SHOULD SOMEONE MEET ME OR TWO PEOPLE MEET ME IN THE MIDDLE OF THE STEPS WHERE I FOUND OUT THERE WAS NO CAMERAS.

IF THAT'S TRUE OR NOT, I DON'T KNOW.

THIS IS WHAT I'VE BEEN TOLD.

SO AS I CONTINUED DOWN THE STAIRS, KARA MOORE IS FOLLOWING ME DOWN WITH STATE AND

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THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

AND PLEASE, WE DECIDED TO GO BACK UP THE STAIRS AND THEY RECORDED.

WHO DID THEY REPORT TO SOMEBODY ON THIS BOARD THEY REPORTED TO CAUSE THEY WEREN'T LEAVING.

SO SAFETY.

LET ME GRAB MY BAGS.

SO I ALSO WANT TO SAY 'CAUSE I KNOW IT'S GOING TO BE SAFER.

UH, THE NEXT SYSTEM WILL BE BERNARD WHITE.

YEAH, HALDEMAN AND THE OLDER WOMAN.

MY CONCERN IS ABOUT STANDING WHITE.

NO PROBLEM.

MY CONCERNS ABOUT STANDING AWAY AND ALSO THE ELEVATOR, BUT THAT AMOUNT OF MONEY YOU GOING TO SPEND FOR THAT ALVEDA OR IF YOU GET IN AN ELEVATOR, I ESCALATE OF WHAT YOU WANT TO CALL.

IT IS MORE THAN WHAT I WAS TRYING TO GET AND UNDERSTAND THINGS CHANGED 20 YEARS AGO WHEN I COME DOWN HERE AND WE TALKED ABOUT ELEVATORS, I'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT IT HERE, READ ALMOST EVERY TERM.

AND THE MONEY THAT LOOKS LIKE WOULD BE SOME MONEY THAT WOULD CUT SHORT OR COME FROM STANDARD WHITE REBUILDING THE STANDARD WHITE.

NOW WE COME UP WITH, THEY COME UP WITH A SECOND PLAN AND I'M ON, ON THAT COMMITTEE.

AND I DON'T SEE HOW IN THE WORLD, YOU CAN COME UP WITH SEVEN PLAN WITHOUT MEETING WITH THE COMMITTEE.

WE HAVEN'T SEEN ANY SECOND PLAN AT ALL, BUT IT'S ON THE PAPERWORK.

SO WHAT I'M SAYING IS THAT I TOTALLY DISAGREE WITH IT.

AND THE PLANS THAT WE HAD ALREADY LAID OUT AND WENT THROUGH WITH HOW I'M GOING TO DO MY BEST TO STAY ON THAT.

AND I'M NOT GOING TO CHANGE IT ON IN THOSE CIRCUMSTANCES.

SO I JUST WANT TO GET THAT OUT.

I MEAN, BECAUSE IT'S NOT FAIR, LIKE EVERYTHING IS DEALING WITH RECREATION OR DEALING WITH VIEW OR YOUR PEOPLE ENJOYING THEMSELVES HAS BEEN PUSHED BACK.

AND I CAN GO BACK FURTHER AND TELL WHERE SOME OTHER THINGS WE'LL PUSH BACK DOWN HERE.

AS A FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE RECREATION ADVISORY COMMITTEE, WE HELP TO ORCHESTRATE AND GET JULIE POINT IN SHAPE EDITS IN NOW, OKAY.

BEFORE THEN THAT WAS A BICENTENNIAL FARM.

AND WE'VE THOUGHT BICENTENNIAL BUMPER GOING TO BE FOR THE CITIZENS OF NEW BERN.

IT SAID FROM THERE THE MAYOR THAT WAS THERE AT THAT TIME, THEY SAID THAT WE COULD HAVE ALWAYS ENJOYED THAT, BUT IT CAME THROUGH THE POINT THAT HE PUT HIS TWO BUILDINGS ON.

WOULD THEY PUT THOSE TWO BUILDINGS ON? THERE WAS NO NOTHING NOT THERE FOR PARKING SPACE.

I DON'T UNDERSTAND HOW WE CAN ALLOW THIS TO KEEP RIDING ON HAPPENING.

AND WE CAN ALLOW PEOPLE TO BUILD BUILDINGS OR COMPANIES BUILD A BUNCH OF BUILDINGS WITHOUT HAVING A RECORD OPERATIONAL SPACE IN THE MIDDLE OF THAT FOR FAMILIES OR WOMEN.

ARE YOU THE HUSBAND WHO HAVE SURE TO DO A SMALLER CHURN? THERE ARE REASONS FOR THAT.

SO THEY CAN TAKE THE CHAIR AND NOT LET THEM PLAY IT.

WHY NOT GO THERE? EVERY POT THAT WE HAVE.

AND IF WE HAVE 30 POTS IN NEW BERN, IF WE HAD 30 POTS IN NEWBURN, THAT'S NEVER ENOUGH.

LET'S NEVER KNOW ANY TIME WE LOOK AT THINGS.

NOW IT'S AGAIN, REGULAR FOR RECREATION.

AND IF YOU GO BACK AND PULL THE OLD THING, , IF YOU GO BACK AND PULL THE OLD SHEET OUT WITH VERY OLD SHEET, YOU'LL SEE CITY MANAGER, UH, YOU KNOW, YOU SEE THE MAYOR, THE BORDER, ALL OF US.

AND ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THAT SHIT, REPARATION, BUT THING BROKE OUT AND RECREATION AND BACK THAT, THEN THEY START THE BAY, LEAVE ALL THEIR, EVERYTHING.

THE CITY CATERED MOSTLY TO YOU.

NOW, WHY, WHY ARE WE NOT DOING IT NOW? WE'RE NOT DOING IT NOW.

SO NOW WHEN I LEAVE, YOU'RE GOING TO START SEEING MORE

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MISS THE WHITE.

OUR NEXT SYSTEM IS EDWIN VARGAS.

I WANT TO ASK ABOUT I'M EDWIN VARGAS.

I RESIDE AT ONE 19 RANDOM WOOD LANE IN NEW BERN, NORTH CAROLINA THIS WEEK AND A WEEK FROM TODAY, TUESDAY WILL BE ELECTION DAY FINALES.

AND I'M ENCOURAGING THE CITIZENS IN NEW BERN TO PLEASE COME OUT AND VOTE THIS OUR POCKETBOOK ISSUES.

I DON'T THINK THE ECONOMY HERE IS GOING TO BE GREAT FOREVER, BUT YOU GOT TO, WE HAVE TO LOOK AT BOTH THE COUNTY AND THE CITY TO SEE WHAT WE CAN DO AS FAR AS SHARE RESOURCES TO COVER COSTS.

BECAUSE IF THIS CITY HAS A SERIOUS ECONOMIC DOWNTURN, WE'RE GOING TO REALLY BE WATCHING THINGS.

AND WHAT'S GOING TO HAVE TO HAPPEN IS EITHER THE, TO PROVIDE SERVICES OR RAISE TAXES.

THE CITY HASN'T RAISED TAXES IN QUITE A FEW YEARS.

SO I ENCOURAGE THE CITIZENS OF NEW BERN TO LOOK OVER TO CANDIDATES, LOOK AT THEIR SCORE CARD AND COMPARE AND SEE WHAT THEY'VE DONE IN THEIR AREAS THAT YOU'RE VOTING FOR AND REALLY COME TO VOTE ON TUESDAY.

CAUSE THE NUMBERS ARE NOW LOW, BUT I'M EXPECTING TRAFFIC TO PICK UP SATURDAY AND FOR PEOPLE TO VOTE THIS COMING TUESDAY.

THAT'S ALL I AM.

THANK YOU, SIR.

THAT, THAT IS ALL OF OUR PETITIONS.

A CYCLER.

YES, SIR.

FASTER.

I UNDERSTAND THE WHY CENTER.

WASN'T THAT PLAN THAT WE APPROVED THE PLAN THAT WAS ORIGINAL PLAN OF THE TWO STORY BUILDING.

YES SIR.

IT WAS.

UM, AND SO IF YOU REMEMBER, A MONTH OR TWO AGO, WE HAD TWO OPTIONS BECAUSE THE DISCUSSION WAS TO A EIGHT AND WENT BASICALLY $8 MILLION THAT FEMA WAS ALLOCATING.

AND SO OUR CONTRACTORS CAME UP WITH A DESIGN THAT BASICALLY WOULD FIT THAT $8 MILLION COST.

AND WE LOOKED AT THE ORIGINAL 34,000 SQUARE FOOT STRUCTURE AND THAT PRICE IS APPROXIMATELY $12 MILLION.

SO THIS BOARD ULTIMATELY GAVE DIRECTION TO PURSUE THE 34,000 SQUARE FOOT FACILITY FOR $12 MILLION.

SO ORIGINALLY WE WERE LOOKING AT BUILDING BACK A STANDARD WHITE CENTER, ALMOST IN THE SAME SQUARE FOOTAGE AS WHAT WE CURRENT, WHAT THE OLD WHITE, OLD ONE USED TO BE ORIGINALLY ORIGINALLY.

AND NOW THE PRENTICE LAWRENCE, WE APPROVED THE ONE WITH ALMOST DOUBLING THE SIZE OF IT.

UM, CLOSE TO IT, CLOSE DOWN.

I THOUGHT I REMEMBERED IT THAT WAY.

I JUST WAS CONFUSED.

[Consent Agenda]

THIS FAMILY HAD THE CONSENT AGENDA MIRROR.

UM, I LIKE TO, UM, MANDY CONSENT, AGENDA AND POOL, UM, ITEM NUMBER SIX, UM, PROCLAMATION FOR THE FORGOTTEN 29 TO BE DISCUSSED TONIGHT.

AND THAT'S MY MOTION SECOND.

THANK YOU, MAYOR AND A BOARD FOR ALLOWING ME TO HAVE THIS TIME TO SPEAK ON BEHALF OF THE FORGOTTEN 29 HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS, THESE 29 HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS FROM JT, BARBARA HIGH SCHOOL BOUGHT THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT OF THE EARLY 1960S HOME TO NEWBURN THESE BRAVE 29 STUDENTS, WOMEN AND YOUNG MEN AGES RANGING FROM 16 TO 18 YEARS OF AGE PROTEST, MARCH, MARCH, THE STREETS OF NEWBURN PROTESTS AND AGAINST THE LOCO SEGREGATION POLICIES MARCH PROTEST AGAINST DURING A TIME OF JIM CROW RULES.

QUESTION SECOND.

IS THERE DISCUSSION SEEING NONE ALL IN FAVOR OF THE MOTION, SAY AYE, ALL OPPOSED.

MOTION CARRIES.

UM,

[6. Consider Approving a Proclamation for "The Forgotten 29".]

THESE BRAVE 29 YOUNG MEN AND WOMEN.

THE ONE, THE COURSE OF BEAR PROTESTING WAS ROUTINELY INSULTED AND ABUSE AND LATER INCARCERATED, BUT THAT DIDN'T STOP THEM.

I TIP MY HAT TO THEM DURING THE TIME OF JIM CROW RULE, IT HAD TO BE, IT HAD TO TAKE SOME MONEY, BRAVE TEENAGERS BY THE GRACE OF GOD TO GET OUT AND PROTEST THESE 29 TEENAGERS PROTEST, MARCH PEACE FOR PROTESTS.

AND IT TOOK THEM AFTER EIGHT MONTHS OF PROTESTING,

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THEY SIT DOWN AT TWO LUNCH COUNTERS, TWO BUSINESSES HERE IN THIS CITY.

A LOT OF US IS FAMILIAR WITH IT.

UM, THE CLARKS DRUG STORE AND THE CREST DEPARTMENT STORE, AND THEY DID A SIT IN AND AFTER EIGHT MONTHS OF PROTESTING AND AN ECONOMIC BOYCOTT, THOSE TWO BUSINESSES OPEN THEIR DOORS, OPEN THEIR LUNCH COUNTER TO SERVE BLACK CUSTOMERS, THOSE 29 BRAVE TEENAGERS, THEY CHANGE THE OF NEW BERN'S HISTORY.

SO THOSE 29 FOR ME WOULD NEVER BE FORGOTTEN.

UM, MAYOR, I WOULD LIKE TO TAKE A MOMENT IF YOU DON'T MIND AND BOARD, UM, TO BRIEFLY READ THIS PROCLAMATION.

UM, AND AFTER I READ THE PROCLAMATION, IF THE BOARD SO ALLOWS, WE HAVE ONE OF THE 29, UM, HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS HERE WITH US TONIGHT, AND HOPEFULLY I HOPE THAT HE WOULD LIKE TO SAY A FEW WORDS MAYOR'S OFFICE PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS ON FEBRUARY 1ST, 1960, THE SIT IN MOVEMENT OF THE 1960S IGNITED AT THE FW WOOLWORTH AND GOLDSBOROUGH.

WHEN FOUR STUDENTS FROM NC A AND T SAT DOWN AT THE WHITES ONLY COUNTER AND REFUSED TO LEAVE UNTIL THEY WERE SERVED.

AND WHEREAS AT THAT TIME, THE JIM CROW RULES REQUIRED BLACK CUSTOMERS TO PURCHASE THEIR SANDWICHES AND SODAS AT THE BACK DOOR AND THEN TAKE THEM TO GO.

THEY COULD NOT SIT AT A LUNCH COUNTER WITHOUT BEING ARRESTED.

AND WHEREAS THE CITY IN MOVEMENT SPREAD ACROSS NORTH CAROLINA AND OTHER SOUTHERN STATES WHERE SOME OF THE FIRST TOWNS SIT-INS WERE ORGANIZED BY YOUNG PEOPLE IN NEWBURN AND ELIZABETH CITY.

AND WHEREAS THE NEW BERN CITY IN BEGAN ON MARCH 17TH, 1960, WHEN A GROUP OF 29, AFRICAN-AMERICANS MAINLY HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS ENTER THE FRONT DOOR OF BOTH THE CREST DEPARTMENT STORE AND BOB CLOCKS, DRUG DRUGSTORE, WHERE THEY SAT DOWN AT THE LUNCH COUNTERS WITH BIBLES AND BOOKS AND ASKED TO BE SERVED.

AND WHEREAS THE STORE MANAGERS REFUSE TO SERVE THEM AND ASK THEM AND ASK, EXCUSE ME THAT THEY LEAVE.

WHEN THE STUDENTS REFUSE, THE LUNCH COUNTERS WERE CLOSED AND POLICE ARRESTED THE 29 AFRICAN-AMERICANS.

AND WHEREAS THE PERSISTENCE AND ACTION OF THOSE FORGOTTEN 29 LED TO THE DESEGREGATION OF NEWBORNS DOWNTOWN BUSINESSES JUST EIGHT MONTHS LATER.

NOW, THEREFORE I DANA E OUTLAW MAYOR OF THE CITY OF NEW BERN ON BEHALF OF THE NEW BURN BORDER BALDWIN DO HEREBY PROCLAIM THE MONTH OF MARCH AS A TIME TO REMEMBER THE FORGOTTEN 29.

AND I JUST WANT TO SAY THEIR NAMES PLEASE.

NAMELY, THE TEENAGERS WERE CHARLES BELL HARS, CHAPMAN SHELTON, KIRKMAN, JAMES E. BENJAMIN, LINDA PELHAM, CAROLYN STOCKY, DORIS HUMPHREY, LOIS ARRINGTON, SIDNEY SASSER, JAMES H. DICKSON, JIMMY SUGGS, ALFRED BARTLESVILLE WILLIAMS SHEPHERD, EDDIE KING, JOHNNY BESS, CHARLES L. DICKSON, RAYMOND COLLINS, PATRICIA WHITEHEAD, WILLIE CORPSMAN, LEO BELL, CHARLES ALL JUDGE LYNDSEY, WHITE EDWARD BELLAMY, FREDDIE SESAR, JIMMY THOMPSON, DARRYL POOL, WILLA MAE, DEANS, RAY SOUTHERNER, SUTHERLAND AND ROBERT BELL ANYWHERE IN WITNESS WHERE UP I HAVE HERE ON TO SIT MY HAND AND TO FIX THE SEAL OF THE CITY OF NEW BERN.

THIS THE 10TH DAY OF MAY IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD, 2022 DANY OUTLAW MAYOR THANK YOU MAYOR FOR SIGNING THIS AND DOING THIS.

UM, AND I KNOW MR. BARFIELD, THANKS YOU AS WELL.

UM, AS I ASKED BEFORE, IF MR. BARFY WOULD LIKE TO COME FORWARD, WE ALL ARE FAMILIAR.

WE ALL KNOW MR. BARFIELD.

MOST OF US, HE IS A NATIVE NEW BERNIE'S SON.

HE HAS BEEN A LIFELONG CITIZEN OF NEW BERN.

HE IS ALSO BEEN A LIFELONG ADVOCATE

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OF EQUAL RIGHTS FOR ALL.

SO IT MR. BARFY, IF YOU'D LIKE TO COME FORWARD AND SPEAK ON BEHALF OF THE 24, FORGOTTEN 29 EXCUSE ME, 62 YEARS AGO.

AND THIS RIGHT HERE WAS 29 BLACK STUDENTS.

I JUST WANT TO SAY THAT WE ALL DO BACK IN THE SIXTIES.

IT WAS HELD IN NEW WORD, BUT ONE THING WE HAD, WE HAD GONE ON OUTSIDE.

I LIKE TO TAKE THANK Y'ALL FOR DOING THIS, UH, CHILD.

AND I HAD TALKED ON MEGAN AND MAYOR COUPLE OF YEARS AGO, AND THEY WERE VERY PLEASED WHILE I WAS TRYING TO DO MY NEXT PROJECT.

I WANT TO GET A MOCK.

'CAUSE SEE WHEN PEOPLE COME HERE, RIDE AROUND THE BUS, THEY SEE HOW HAS SHE BEEN? BUT THEY NEVER SEE WHAT THE 29 BLACK KIDS IN NEW BERN, BUT NEWBORN ON THE MAIL.

AND MY THING WAS, THIS IS A LIGHTER WE'RE GOING TO LET IT SHINE.

AND WE DID THIS YEAR.

SO ANYBODY THAT WANTS TO CONTRIBUTE TOWARDS GETTING A MODEL, BUT FOR GUIDANCE WENT IN THERE, YOU CAN SEE ME OUT OF THE OTHER 1105 NORTH PASSARD STREET, QUAD FROM THE POT.

BUT I WANT TO SAY ONE MORE THING.

IT WOULDN'T ONLY FORGOTTEN 29.

THE GENTLEMAN THERE SPOKE FOR AN HOUR, WHITE BOB EXCUSE ME, BOBBY LENIENT.

THEY PICKED UP THE CROSS AND CARRIED THE STRUGGLE AND NEWBURN.

SO THANK YOU ON THANK YOU.

MOST OF BARFIELD, POINT THE POINT OF ORDER AND ULTIMATE BEST YOU PROBABLY WANTED TO.

WE HAVE TO OFFICIALLY VOTE ON THIS BECAUSE I DON'T WANT US TO FORGET THAT IT DOESN'T BECOME OFFICIAL.

IF THERE'S NO MORE QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS, I LIKE TO MAKE MOTION CHECK MOSTLY A SECOND.

WAS THERE DISCUSSION, SEEING NONE, ALL IN FAVOR THE MOTION, SAY AYE, ALL OPPOSED.

SAME MOTION CARRIES.

MAY I LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION THAT WE APPROVE THE CONSENT AGENDA MOTION.

AND SECOND TO APPROVE THE CONSENT AGENDA ON FAVOR OF THE MOTION, SAY AYE.

AYE.

ALL OPPOSED.

MOTION CARRIES.

[11. Presentation on Juneteenth of New Bem/Duffest.]

LET'S GO TO ITEM NUMBER 11.

MAYBE YOUR NEXT ITEM IS A PRESENTATION ON JUNETEENTH OF NEWBURN.

AT THIS TIME, WE'D LIKE TO ASK TALENA MASSEY TO COME UP AND MAKE HER PRESENTATION WELL, GOOD EVENING, EVERYONE BACK AGAIN.

ANOTHER YEAR GOES BY QUICK.

DOES IT DOES.

IT REALLY DOES SHARE WITH US VERY FAST.

AND LORD, WE ARE DEFINITELY WORKING BEHIND THE SCENES TO BRING YOU GUYS ANOTHER GREAT JUNE TEAM, UH, FESTIVAL THIS YEAR.

UM, AND NOT JUST A FESTIVAL, BUT 10 DAYS OF ACTIVITIES FOR EVERYONE IN, UM, IN THE ENC TO ENJOY.

SO I'M DOING A LITTLE DIFFERENT THIS YEAR.

I DON'T HAVE A POWERPOINT FOR YOU GUYS TO GO THROUGH.

AND NONE OF THAT, I'M JUST, UH, INFORMAL CONVERSATION GOING TO LET YOU GUYS KNOW WHAT WE HAVE SCHEDULED AND WHERE MAYBE, UM, OUR NEW GUARDIANS OR CITIZENS AND YOU GUYS CAN PLUG AND PLAY YOUR SUPPORT IF YOU KNOW, IF YOU DEEM NECESSARY.

BUT, UM, I, UM, AGAIN, WANT TO THANK, UM, ALL OF YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT IN THE PAST.

I APPRECIATE YOU COMING OUT.

UM, MAYOR, YOU WERE THERE LAST YEAR TO ATTEND AND SEVERAL OTHERS, UM, JUST HAVING THERE AND SHOWING YOUR SUPPORT.

ALSO THE DISCRETIONARY FUNDS THAT YOU,

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UM, THOSE WHO CONTRIBUTED, UH, AS WELL, WE, UH, TO SAY WE APPRECIATE IT AS AN UNDERSTATEMENT.

UM, THIS FESTIVAL IS, UH, GROWING ORGANICALLY AND I HAVE NO DOUBT WITH WHAT HAPPENED LAST YEAR AND WHAT WE HAVE LINED UP FOR THIS YEAR, THAT IT WILL CONTINUE TO GROW IN OUR AREA AND BE A REASON FOR PEOPLE TO COME AND CELEBRATE ALL OF THE DIVERSITY THAT NEWBURN HAS TO OFFER.

SO WITH THAT BEING SAID, UM, I BEGAN INTO THE SCHEDULE.

I'M NOT SURE IF YOU ALL HAVE IT, BUT THERE IS A WORKING SCHEDULE THAT I DID SEND FOR YOUR REVIEW.

THIS IS A WORKING DOCUMENT IS CONSTANTLY CHANGING.

AS WE BRING ON MORE PARTNERS AND MORE ORGANIZATIONS TO, UM, PARTICIPATE AND COLLABORATE WITH, UM, THIS DOCUMENT WILL CONTINUALLY BE UPDATED, UM, UNTIL WE GET TO OUR CELEBRATION.

SO WITH THAT BEING SAID, I'LL GIVE YOU A LITTLE BIT OF WHAT'S GOING ON.

UM, STARTING FRIDAY, JUNE 10, THERE WILL BE A KISS 1 0 1 0.9 INTERVIEW THAT WILL TELL, UM, IF YOU GUYS ARE FAMILIAR WITH ONE-ON-ONE 0.9, THEY'RE HEARD THROUGHOUT EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA, BUT, UM, THEY HAVE A VERY FAR REACH.

SO THIS IS AN OPPORTUNITY FOR US TO GET THE MESSAGE OUT THERE TO, UM, OTHER COUNTIES AND THINGS LIKE THAT.

UM, THERE WILL ALSO BE THE ART WALK, WHICH WAS HOSTED BY THE ARTS COUNCIL, UM, WHICH IS TYPICALLY A VERY BIG HIT FOR US.

UM, THEY CURATE A WONDERFUL JUNE TEAM COLLECTION AT THE BANK OF THE ARTS THAT EVENING THAT IS OPEN AND FREE TO THE PUBLIC FOR ANYONE TO COME AND ENJOY.

AND, UH, IT IS USUALLY A HIGHLIGHT THAT THAT STARTS THE BEGINNING OF ARGENTINE FESTIVITIES.

SO WE WANT TO THANK, UH, JOHN AND THE ARTS COUNCIL AND EVERYONE WHO WORKED SO HARD TO PUT THAT TOGETHER.

UM, IT'S VERY IMPORTANT TO BE ABLE TO SEE THE DIVERSITY IN OUR ARTISTRY HERE IN EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA.

UM, SO THE NEXT DAY WE WILL HAVE A FACEBOOK LIVE CONVERSATION THAT BEGINS TO DISCUSS THE HISTORY OF JUNETEENTH AND HOW THAT CONNECTS TO DIFFERENT AREAS.

AND ONE OF THOSE AREAS IS AFRICA.

SO, UM, THAT'S, UM, AN OFFLINE CONVERSATION THAT IS HAPPENING ONLINE.

ONCE AGAIN, FREE ON SATURDAY, THE 11TH, SUNDAY, THE 12TH, WE HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO GO TO VARIOUS CHURCHES THROUGHOUT NEWBURN AND DISCUSS AT, UH, BEFORE THEIR SERMONS, UM, JUNETEENTH AND THE IMPORTANCE OF THAT.

UM, SO, UH, I WANT TO THANK OUR FAITH COMMUNITY FOR JOINING IN AND ALLOWING US TO HAVE THAT TIME AS WELL.

UM, MONDAY IS OUR PODCAST WITH OUR ONE AND ONLY WENDY CARR HERE, UM, WHO HAS BEEN A SUPPORTER OF JUNETEENTH FOR MANY YEARS AND WE HAVE A SPECIAL GUEST WE WILL BE ANNOUNCING SHORTLY.

UM, SO THAT WOULD BE, UM, GREAT WAY TO HEAR ABOUT EVERYTHING THAT ELSE THAT IS GOING ON THROUGHOUT THE REST OF THE WEEK AND ANY MORE FORMAL INFORMATIVE SETTING.

UM, TUESDAY WE HAVE OUR HEALTH DAY, IF ANY OF OUR CITIZENS ARE INTERESTED IN PARTNERING WITH US, UM, WE KNOW THAT IS IMPORTANT TO BE ABLE TO ASSIST AND THINGS LIKE MENTAL HEALTH, PHYSICAL HEALTH, THINGS LIKE THAT.

SO THAT IS OUR DAY TO BE ABLE TO DO THAT.

AS OF RIGHT NOW, WE HAVE ZOOM LETTING THE PARK WITH WORK AT FORT TOTTEN AND WE'RE WORKING WITH, UM, FOSTER AND WITH CARRIE TO BE ABLE TO BRING THOSE TYPES OF THINGS TO FRUITION.

SO THAT IS, UM, OUR TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY IS GOING TO BE HBCU AND DIVINE NINE DAY.

THAT IS A YOUTH EVENT THAT WE'RE VERY EXCITED ABOUT.

WE HAVE SEVERAL COLLEGES THAT WILL BE VISITING THIS AREA THAT DAY.

WE WILL HAVE A YOUTH EVENT AT THE VILLAGE.

UM, WE'LL ALSO HAVE A LOT OF OUR SORORITIES AND FRATERNITIES, THE DUBAI NINE COMING TOGETHER TO SPEAK ON THE HISTORY OF THOSE ORGANIZATIONS AND WHY THEY ARE SO IMPORTANT TO, UM, THE DIVERSITY OF NEWBORN AS WELL.

UM, SO THERE'S WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY IS OUR TRIUMPH PALACE LECTURE SERIES.

UM, AND THAT IS SUPPOSED TO BY MS. SHARON RYAN AND TRY AND PALACE.

SO WE WANT TO THANK THEM FOR THEIR SUPPORT AS WELL.

FRIDAY, THE YOUNGER PROFESSIONALS WILL HAVE THEIR ANNUAL ROOFTOP PARTY, UM, EXCUSE ME, ROOFTOP, SOCIAL, WHICH ALLOWS ENTREPRENEURIAL ENGAGEMENT, UM, ON THE SECOND FLOOR AND ENTERTAINMENT AND FOOD ON THE FIRST FLOOR THAT WILL BE ON THE ROOFTOP OF OLIVER.

AND, UM, I'LL BRING IN CHEEK.

UH, SO PLEASE, UM, TRY TO SUPPORT THAT AS WELL.

ANY OF OUR, UM, LOCAL BUSINESSES, A LOT OF OUR LOCAL SMALL BUSINESSES PARTICIPATE IN THAT.

UM, SO THAT'S A GOOD EVENING FOR A BUSINESS ENGAGEMENT.

SATURDAY IS OUR FESTIVAL, OUR PARADE IN OUR FESTIVAL THIS YEAR.

UM, IF YOU GUYS REMEMBER LAST YEAR, WE HAD THE MARINE CORPS.

UM, THEY HAVE ALSO BEEN REQUESTED TO COME BACK THIS YEAR AND THEY'RE SUPER EXCITED ABOUT THAT.

WE WILL HAVE THE UN AMBASSADOR, UH, SYLVIA.

WE'RE STILL COMING IN HERE.

AGAIN, WE HAVE LINKED UP, UM, WORKING WITH THE TDA AND MELISSA REGAL TO, TO LINK UP WITH SOCIAL MEDIA INFLUENCERS WHO WILL ALSO BE COMING INTO THIS AREA THAT DAY TO EXPRESS, UM, TO THEIR AUDIENCES.

HOW, UM, HOW WELL BERN HAS BEEN AS AN EXAMPLE, AND AS THE TEMPLATE FOR HOW TO HAVE SUCCESSFUL JUNE TEENS FOR OTHER AREAS AND OTHER CITIES.

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UM, THE ONE THING THAT WE DO HERE WHEN WE TRAVEL AND WE TALK ABOUT THIS, UM, IS HOW WELL NEWBURN, HOW WELL ORGANIZED WE ARE WHEN IT COMES AND HOW BIG OUR CELEBRATION IS AND HOW DIVERSE IT IS THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE WEEK.

SO IT'S A, IT'S A GREAT OPPORTUNITY FOR OTHER, UH, INDIVIDUALS TO COME TO OUR AREA AND SEE HOW WELL WE'RE DOING.

UM, SO WE, WE'RE ALSO WORKING WITH FOSTER ON THAT AND PUTTING ALL OF THE, THE PEOP THE PIECES IN PLACE FOR THAT, BUT WE HAVE TONS OF COMMUNITY PARTNERS.

UM, AND WE'RE, UM, OUR BIGGEST PARTNER FOR THAT IS DEAF FEST.

DEAF BEST WILL BE HAPPENING THIS YEAR, SIMULTANEOUS WHILE JOE SMITH IS HAPPENING AS WELL.

UM, I APOLOGIZE THAT MS. CAROL IS NOT HERE TO SPEAK ON THAT.

SHE IS UNDER THE WET WEATHER WITH BRONCHITIS, SO WE WISH HER THE BEST SHE IS IN OUR PRAYERS.

UM, BUT WE ARE PARTNERING TOGETHER BECAUSE AS ALWAYS, WE DO NOT WANT TO TRY TO REINVENT THE WHEEL.

WE WANT TO TRY TO UTILIZE THE GYMS THAT WE ALREADY HAVE HERE IN ORDER TO BE ABLE TO MAXIMIZE THE EXPERIENCE FOR OUR CITIZENS.

SO, UM, WE WILL HAVE THAT PARADE AT 11 AND WE WILL ALSO HAVE THAT FESTIVAL THIS YEAR, MUCH SHORTER, 12 TO FOUR, AS WE KNOW, IT'S VERY HOT.

IT IS VERY HOT.

SO, UH, WE LEARNED FROM LAST YEAR AND WE TAKE A LOT OF THE CONSTRUCTIVE CRITICISM INTO CONSIDERATION, AND WE LEARNED THAT IT WAS JUST TOO LONG.

SO, UM, WE WILL ALSO HAVE SOME MEDICAL TENTS OUT THERE, SOME DOWN TENTS FOR PEOPLE AS WELL, JUST TO TRY TO MITIGATE THE HEAT.

IT IS IN OUR, UM, WE WILL DO OUR BEST THIS YEAR ALSO TO PROVIDE THE FIREWORKS AS WELL.

AGAIN, THAT WAS A BIG HIT LAST YEAR.

SO WE ARE WORKING OUT FUNDING FOR THAT.

IF ANYONE IS INTERESTED IN ASSISTING WITH THAT AGAIN, THAT IS USUALLY OUR BIGGEST TICKET ITEM.

BUT, UM, AGAIN, THE FEEDBACK THAT WE RECEIVED FROM LAST YEAR, IT IS IMPERATIVE THAT, UM, OUR COMMUNITY IS ABLE TO SEE THINGS LIKE THAT WITHIN THEIR COMMUNITY.

SO, UM, AGAIN, THE COMMITTEE IS BEHIND THE SCENES WORKING TO PULL THAT TOGETHER.

WE HAVE SPONSORSHIP OPPORTUNITIES AVAILABLE, AS WELL AS ANYONE WHO WANTS TO DONATE YOUR TIME, YOUR TALENT, OR ANYTHING ELSE THAT YOU WOULD LIKE TO, UM, WE WOULD CERTAINLY LOVE TO HAVE YOU HAVE MEETINGS EVERY FRIDAY AT SIX 30 VIA ZOOM.

THEY ARE OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.

ANYONE CAN JOIN THESE MEETINGS.

UM, WE HAVE HAD SOME VERY INTERESTING CHARACTERS DURING THOSE MEETINGS, BUT WE UNDERSTAND THAT WHEN WE OPEN UP OUR MEETINGS TO THE PUBLIC, THAT'S WHAT WE'RE GOING TO RECEIVE.

UM, SO IF YOU ARE COMING WITH INTEGRITY AND WITH A GENUINE HEART TO SUPPORT, WE WELCOME YOU ON ANY OF THESE MEETINGS.

AND AGAIN, THEY'RE NOT JUST FOR THE COMMITTEE, THEREFORE THE ENTIRE COMMUNITY, BECAUSE THIS JUNE TEAM 10 DAY CELEBRATION IS FOR EVERYONE.

SO, UM, WE WRAPPED THAT UP ON SUNDAY WITH A PLAY AT THE NEW BARN, CIVIC THEATER, HOW SAN COFA, IT WAS A BIG HIT LAST YEAR.

SO WE'RE GOING TO GO AHEAD AND RUN THAT BACK THIS YEAR AND MAKE SURE, UM, THAT WE SUPPORT THAT AS WELL.

THAT IS A TICKETED EVENT, AS WELL AS THE, UM, THE OTHER EVENT ON THURSDAY, BUT MOST OF OUR OFFERINGS ARE FREE SO THAT THE ENTIRE COMMUNITY CAN ENGAGE WITH JUNETEENTH AND UNDERSTAND AND GET THE INFORMATION AND THE HISTORY OF WHY IT'S SO SIGNIFICANT.

UM, AS WELL AS WE HAVE NOT OUT OF SAN COFA REMEMBRANCE, BUT IN MY AFA.

AND THAT IS REALLY JUST WHEN MOSTLY THE COMMUNITY OF WOMEN COME TOGETHER.

I MEAN, IN POINT PARK AND WE LAY THE SEEDS DOWN FOR A, UM, WE THANK EVERYONE FOR WHAT THEY'VE DONE.

UH, WE REMEMBER THOSE THAT WE'VE LOST.

UM, WE HONOR THEM AND WE JUST, UH, DO A PRAYER AND ASK GOD TO BRING US A, UM, ANOTHER SUCCESSFUL JUNE TEAM THE NEXT YEAR.

SO THAT'S ALL IT IS.

IT'S JUST A REMEMBRANCE.

UM, LAST YEAR WE HAD, UH, MY SAMSON OUT THERE AND WE, YOU KNOW, WROTE NAMES OF PEOPLE THAT WE, WE HAD LOST DUE TO COVID AND ALL KINDS OF THINGS.

AND WE RANG A BELL AND, UM, WE JUST REMEMBERED THEIR NAMES AND THANK THEM FOR COMING BEFORE SO THAT WE COULD BE HERE.

SO, UM, THAT IS EVERYTHING.

UM, THIS YEAR, I DON'T HAVE AN ASK.

I'M NOT ASKING FOR CITY HOLIDAYS OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT.

I COMPLETELY UNDERSTAND THAT OUR CITY AGAIN IS VERY DIVERSE AND EVERYONE IS AT A DIFFERENT STAGE IN THEIR WALK WITH DIVERSITY.

SO AS WE HAVE TO ASSUME THAT EVERYONE, UM, IS AS A PROGRESSIVE THINKER, AS THE FORGOTTEN 29 IS FOOLISH.

SO WE ARE GOING TO CONTINUE TO CELEBRATE OUR DIVERSITY, UM, OUR EQUITY AND OUR INCLUSION, AND ENSURE THAT EVERYONE IS IN A SAFE ENVIRONMENT AND THAT THEY CAN REALLY TRULY UNDERSTAND THE IMPORTANCE OF JUNETEENTH AS WELL AS, UM, HAD JUST HAVE A GOOD TIME AND ENJOY EVERYTHING THAT NEWBORN HAS TO OFFER.

SO I ONLY ASK, I GUESS IF I DO HAVE AN ASK, IT WOULD BE THAT YOU SUPPORT THAT, IS IT, UM, IN WHATEVER WAY YOU FIND, UM, YOU WOULD LIKE TO JUST HELP US, UH,

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EVERYTHING OBVIOUSLY NEEDS VOLUNTEERS, IT NEEDS FUNDING, IT NEEDS ANYTHING THAT ANY OTHER FESTIVAL WE NEED.

SO WE ASK THAT, YOU KNOW, YOU JUST HELP WHERE YOU CAN, AND WE HOPE YOU ENJOY YOUR TEAM THIS YEAR.

AWESOME.

MASSEY.

UM, IN REGARDS TO, UM, THE DUFUS.

UM, MS. CAROL, WAS SHE SUPPOSED TO COME HERE AND INFORM THE CITY THAT THE SERVICES THAT IS GIVEN TO DOVE VEST, WE WANT TO BE IN COLLABORATION WITH JUNE TEAM? YES.

AND THAT'S WHAT I SAID.

UNFORTUNATELY, SHE'S UNDER THE WEATHER, SO SHE COULDN'T DO HER PART.

AND I RE I, I DON'T WANT TO SPEAK FOR THEM, BUT, UM, YES, THAT IS A COLLABORATION THAT, UM, DEAF FESTIVAL HANDLE, YOU KNOW, THEIR CITY SUPPORT THINGS THAT THEY'VE DONE TYPICALLY FOR DUFF FEST AND, UH, WE'LL PARTNER AND DO THE OTHER PARTS OF THE FESTIVAL AS WELL.

UM, MR. FOSTER, UM, IN REGARDS TO, UM, WHEN THE GENTLEMEN CAME DOWN FROM, UM, THE LEAGUE AND EXPLAINED ABOUT VOTING, AND, UM, OBVIOUSLY I SIT ON THE YOUNGER PROFESSIONALS AS A FOUNDER AND A BOARD OF DIRECTOR.

I CAN'T VOTE IN SUPPORT, I'M ASSUMING, BUT I DID WANT TO KNOW IF I HAVE THE ABILITY, IF THERE IS ANY FUNDS LEFT, UM, LIKE WE DID LAST YEAR, IF I CAN DONATE IT TO THE FIREWORKS, IF I HAVE THE ABILITY TO DO THAT AGAIN.

AND JUST, I GUESS, TO, JUST TO CLARIFY THINGS, UH, YES, IT'S NOT PUTTING ON ANY OF THE EVENTS BESIDES THEIR THURSDAY EVENT, BUT THEY ARE HELPING AS FAR AS BEING A FIDUCIARY FOR THE JUNE TEAM COMMITTEE, BUT, UM, DFSS IS HIS OWN 5 0 1 C THREE AS WELL.

SO IT'S JUST A PARTNERSHIP.

OH, THE WOMAN HARRIS, WE'RE GOING TO SPEAK WITH THE FINANCE DIRECTOR, UM, ABOUT, SO WE'LL GET BACK TO YOU ON THAT.

SO NOW LET'S GO TO I NUMBER 12, MAYOR, NEXT ITEM IS CONDUCT A PUBLIC HEARING ON THE REZONING, THE 1301 SOUTH GLEN BURNIE ROAD, AND CONSIDER ADOPTING A STATEMENT OF ZONING, CONSISTENCY, OR INCONSISTENCY, AND CONSIDER ADOPTING AN ORDINANCE TO RESIGN 1301 SOUTH LANE, BERNIE ROAD FROM C4 NEIGHBORHOOD BUSINESS DISTRICT TO SEE THREE COMMERCIAL DISTRICT THIS TIME LIKE THE SF OFTEN COME UP AND MAKE THE PRESENTATION.

I STRUCTURED THAT.

AND THEN, UM, YOU WILL BE, WE WILL BE COMING BACK TO PUT IT ON THE AGENDA TO ACTUALLY GET THE STREET CLOSURES AND STUFF APPROVED.

I THINK I'M NOT SURE AT PARKS AND RECREATION, I DON'T THINK I'VE RECEIVED THE APPLICATION YET.

ONCE THEY GET THAT, THAT WILL GO THROUGH THE APPROPRIATE PROCESS.

ANYTHING ELSE ON THAT EITHER?

[12. Conduct a Public Hearing on the Rezoning of 1301 South Glenburnie Road; and a) Consider Adopting a Statement of Zoning Consistency or Inconsistency; and b) Consider Adopting an Ordinance to Rezone 1301 South Glenburnie Road from C-4 Neighborhood Business District to C-3 Commercial District.]

AWESOME.

THANK Y'ALL FOR HAVING ME HERE TONIGHT.

AGAIN, WE'VE GOT THE REZONING APPLICATION FOR 1301 SOUTH WIND BERNIE ROAD, QUALITY OIL COMPANY, PROPERTIES 0.9, FIVE ACRES IN SIZE.

I THINK COMMERCIALLY IN COMMERCIAL USE HISTORICALLY CURRENTLY, UM, UH, TV STATIONS.

THE PROPERTY EXISTED WAS DOWNING A C4.

IT'S THE NEIGHBORHOOD BUSINESS DISTRICT ESTABLISHED AS A DISTRICT AND WE, WHICH THE PRINCIPAL USE LAND IS PROVIDE FOR THE RETAILING OF GOODS AND SERVICES, THE NEARBY RESIDENTIAL NEIGHBORHOODS REGULATIONS TO THIS DIRECTOR FOR DESIGN TO LIMIT THE BUSINESSES WHICH MAY BE ESTABLISHED THERE IN ORDER TO PROTECT YOUR BUDDY RESIDENTIAL AREAS, NAPKIN C THREE COMMERCIAL DISTRICT.

CAN YOU SPEAK UP A LITTLE BIT SURFACE? I'M HARD TO HEAR YOU.

CONVENIENCE STORE BOJANGLE'S TO THE EAST, GOT THE FOX CHASE, MOBILE HOME PARK AND, UH, TO THE SOUTH AND GOT AN OFFICE BUILDING.

GET CLOSER HERE.

THE C3 COMMERCIAL DISTRICTS ESTABLISHED AS A DISTRICT FOR OFFICES, PERSONAL SERVICES AND RECOUNTING OF DURABLE AND CONVENIENCE GOODS.

THIS DISTRICT WOULD GENERALLY BE LOCATED ON THE CITY'S MAJOR RADIO ROADS BECAUSE THESE DISTRICTS WILL BE LOCATED ON HIGH VOLUME TRAFFIC ARTERIES AND WILL BE SUBJECT TO VIEW OF NOT ONLY LOCAL RESIDENTS AND TORRES OTHER NON LOCOMOTORS AMPLE OFF-STREET PARKING, UM, INAPPROPRIATE APPEARANCE, INCLUDING SUBSTANTIAL PLANNING SHALL BE PROVIDED AND GET A SURVEY OF THE USES FOR C3 SINGLE-FAMILY AND MULTI-FAMILY RESIDENTIAL HIGH TRAFFIC, RETAIL, AUTOMOBILE SALES, RENTAL, REPAIR GAS STATIONS, CARWASH RESTAURANTS WITH, OR WITHOUT DRAFTERS, GET BACK TO HERE, UH, UP TO THE NORTH.

YOU'VE GOT A RALLY'S AUTO PARTS DIRECTLY TO THE NORTH, ACROSS THE STREET, GOT THE WASH HOUSE AND, UM,

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I THINK IT'S CURRENTLY USED AS A CHURCH.

AND YOU GET BACK TO THE PITCHER.

WHAT IS A RILEY'S UM, IS THAT A C3 OR IS THAT A SEAT? IT'S A SEAT.

IT DOESN'T SAY THAT'S WHY I WAS CURIOUS.

YOU HAVE TO GO UP ABOUT THREE, LOTS TO GET TO THREE, THREE.

YES, SIR.

UM, SO ALL THE UTILITIES RIGHT ABOUT THE CITY OF NEWBURGH.

SO WE'VE GOT 2010 CAMERA REGIONAL LAND USE PLAN.

THIS AREA IS CLASSIFIED AS COMMERCIAL, WHICH IS THE MIX OF LAND USES INCLUDED IN THIS DESIGNATION RESIDENTIAL DENSITIES RANGE FROM MAXIMUM ONE TO FIVE DWELLING UNITS PER ACRE, HIGH DENSITIES ARE PERMITTED WITHIN MULTI-FAMILY RESIDENTIAL AND PLANNING UNIT DEVELOPMENTS.

AND WITHIN SOME ZONING OVERLAY DISTRICTS, COMMERCIAL AREAS OF NEW GROUND, THE INTENSITY INTENSITY PERMITTED VARIES DEPENDING ON THE ZONING DISTRICT AND AN OVERLAY STANDARDS SPECIFIED IN A LAND USE ORDINANCE JANUARY.

THIS AREA IS CATEGORIZED CHARACTERIZED BY URBAN AND HIGHER INTENSITY USES THAT REQUIRE URBAN MUNICIPAL AND PUBLIC SERVICES.

INCOMPATIBLE USES WITHIN THIS LAND CLASSIFICATION ARE INDUSTRIAL AND AGRICULTURAL.

ACCORDING TO THE REGIONAL LAND USE PLAN, THE SUBJECT PROPERTY HAS HIGH SUITABILITY FOR DEVELOPMENT.

THERE ARE NO MENTAL HAZARDS ON THIS PROPERTY, AND IF THE PROPERTY IS NOT IN A FLOOD ZONE, SO THE PROPOSAL TO REZONE THE SUBJECT PROPERTY, THE C3 COMMERCIAL DISTRICT IS CONSISTENT WITH THE CHARACTER OF ADJACENT LAND USES.

AND TONY CLASSIFICATIONS STAFF HAS FOUND THE PROPOSED REZONING TO BE IN A PUBLIC INTEREST AND CONSISTENT WITH CITY LAND USE AND TRANSPORTATION PLANS.

UM, AND THE PLANNING BOARD DID RECOMMEND APPROVAL BY DIANA WAS VOTED ON APRIL 5TH.

STAFF RECOMMENDS APPROVAL OF THE REQUESTED RETAILING BACK TO THE MAP.

WE'D BE GLAD TO TAKE ANY QUESTIONS AT THIS TIME.

WELL, OKAY, GO AHEAD, SETH.

AND THE, THE MIDDLE OF THAT PICTURE, I GUESS IT BE, UH, NORTHWEST THAT'S A GAS STATION ON THE CORNER AND IT'S C4.

WHY WOULD IT BE C4? AND THIS NEED TO BE C3 TO BE THE SAME TYPE OF USE THAT WAS PROBABLY PRE-DATE THIS THEN AN ORDINANCE ZONING DISTRICT THAT GAS STATION USE WOULD BE MY GUESS.

IT'S NOT A GASOLINE SALES IS NOT A PERMITTED USE IN C3.

SO IT HAD TO HAVE GOTTEN THERE BEFORE THAT DISTRICT WAS, WELL, I THINK IT'S WORTH NOTING THAT RIGHT ACROSS THE STREET IS A GAS STATION.

SO IT'S, IT'S NOT LIKE IT'S OUT OF THE ORDINARY TO HAVE A GAS STATION ON THAT CORNER.

THEY DON'T SELL GAS ANYMORE.

THEY DON'T NOT ANYMORE.

AND I THINK THE DIFFERENCE TOO, IS THIS ONE WILL NOT HAVE FOOD.

I BELIEVE THE OTHER ONE THAT'S DOWN THE STREET THAT IS LIKE A CONVENIENCE STORE AND HAS OTHER, WHAT THEY CONSIDER RETAIL ITEMS. THIS WILL HAVE NO RETAIL ITEMS. THEY, THEIR BUSINESS MODEL IS A SMALL RETAIL DROUGHT.

IT'S JUST GAS AND DRINKS.

AND, UM, I THINK THEY CARRY LIKE THREE OR FOUR ITEMS. OKAY.

I'LL GIVE YOU AN OPEN UP A PUBLIC HEARING.

AND IF ANYBODY FROM THE PUBLIC, LIKE COME FORWARD AND ASK QUESTIONS, MAKE COMMENTS, STATEMENTS, CONCERN THIS FREE, DO THAT THIS TIME.

AND THEN, UM, WE'LL GET BACK WITH SOME OTHER QUESTIONS.

UH, JAMES WOODS, MY TEAM ZERO THREE PRINTER CLUB ROAD.

UM, IS THIS THE OLD OR THE TV STATION? THE TV STATION IS ACROSS? I DON'T THINK SO.

IT'S GOTTA BE THE TV STATION BECAUSE RALEIGH'S IS ON THIS CORNER.

I KNOW WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT.

THAT THAT WAS A LITTLE, I THOUGHT YOU WERE TALKING ABOUT THAT'S WHAT IT WAS.

YEAH, THEY'RE ALL TOTALLY.

THAT IT'S REALLY NOT BIG ENOUGH FOR A GAS STATION.

UM, I'M KIND OF WITH OTTOMAN ODOM AND I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHY THIS ONE HAS TO BE A C3, IF EVERYTHING ELSE IN THAT AREA IS C4.

UM, AND I MEAN, LOOKING AT THAT, KNOWING THAT AREA AND HAVING WORKED IN THAT AREA FOR SEVERAL YEARS,

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I MEAN, IT ISN'T THE BUILDING THERE NOW.

IT MIGHT BE, IT MIGHT BE 1500 SQUARE FOOT.

'CAUSE.

I MEAN, I JUST DON'T UNDERSTAND WHY IT HAS TO HAVE THAT DESIGNATION.

IF EVERYTHING AROUND IT, ISN'T DESIGNATED THE SAME THING.

YOU'VE GOT TO SEE FIVE TO THE LEFT OF IT, C4 FOR A ROUNDED.

WHY IS THIS HAS TO BE C3 APPLICANT DOES HOURS TO OPEN A GASOLINE SALES STATION ON THIS SITE? WELL, MEN, I KNOW THE STATION ACROSS THE STREET DOES NOT HAVE GAS NOW, BUT THEY STILL HAVE TANKS IN THE GROUND RIGHT DOWN ON THE CORNER OF GLEN BURNIE AND BRUNSWICK BEAR C4.

IT SEEMS LIKE THAT WHOLE AREA WOULD BE C4 AND NOT, YOU HAVE ONE PACIFIC C3.

EVERYTHING IS C4 IN THE MIDDLE OF IT.

YOU KNOW, ONCE AGAIN, WE'RE BACK AT THIS PICK AND CHOOSE AND ZONE AREA, AND WE'RE GOING TO OWN EVERYTHING.

IT SEEMS TO ME THAT WHOLE AREA SHOULD BE A C4 BECAUSE EVERYTHING ELSE IS C4 EXCEPT.

SO THAT ONE LOCK IT'S ONE TO MAKE A C3 OR THAT THE APPLICANT WANTS TO MAKE IT A SUITCASE.

EXPLAIN TO THEM THE SITUATION.

YES, SIR.

DOES HE UNDERSTAND WHAT I'M SAYING? OKAY.

ANYBODY HAVE SLEPT COME UP AND ASK QUESTIONS, MAKE COMMENTS CONCERNS.

UM, MY NAME IS DANIEL DENSBERGER I'M WITH FOLLY OIL COMPANY.

UH, WE'RE THE ONES WHO WERE PETITIONING FOR THE CHANGE, UH, IN YOUR EYES THAT THE TANKS ARE STEPPING IN THE GROUND ACROSS THE STREET, UH, AT THAT THAT COULD BE AN ACTIVE STATION, BUT WHAT WE DO HAVE A LITTLE BIT OF A DIFFERENT CONCEPT.

WE ARE NOT TYPICAL RETAIL SALES.

WE HAVE A VERY, VERY SMALL WINDOW THAT WE SELL THROUGH, UH, ONLY ABOUT 400 SQUARE FOOT EVEN HAS ANY PRODUCT IN IT AT ALL.

SO, UH, WE, UH, WE'RE A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENT.

AND THE PURPOSE OF THAT IS WE'RE ABLE TO BUILD STORES, UNLIKE MOST OF OUR COMPETITORS, AND WE SELL GAS CHEAPER THAN MOST OF OUR COMPETITORS.

SO IN THIS DAY AND AGE, I DO FEEL I GET THE NEIGHBORHOOD USE BECAUSE PEOPLE WANT LESS EXPENSIVE GAS RIGHT NOW, MORE THAN AVERAGE DAY.

UH, BUT I'M HERE TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS THAT YOU HAVE AND HAPPY TO.

AND THANK YOU FOR CONSIDERING US.

WE'VE BEEN WANTING TO BE IN NEWBURN FOR QUITE A WHILE, AND THANK YOU FOR LETTING ME PRESENT.

SO WHAT ARE YOU PLANNING ON DOING WITH THE BUILDING CURRENTLY NEAR IT'LL BE TORN DOWN.

IT'S GOING TO BE TORN DOWN DRY.

SO HOW MANY SQUARE FEET YOU'RE LOOKING TO BUILD THE BUILDING ARE WITH THE SIZE OF THE, OH, I'M SORRY, BECAUSE YOU WOULDN'T HAVE THE CAB CARS TO COME IN AND COME OUT.

UH, THE, THE, THE COMMERCIAL THAT THE C4 DOESN'T ALLOW RETAIL FUEL CELLS.

SO HOW ARE YOU GOING TO DO THAT? SO, SO CURRENTLY THE EXISTING LOT HAS FOUR CURB CUTS.

THREE OF THEM ARE ON BRUNSWICK.

ONE OF THEM ON GLEN BURNIE, WE'RE ACTUALLY GOING TO CLOSE.

ONE OF THE CURB, CUTS ON BRUNSWICK AND KEEP THE EXACT CURB CUTS THAT WHERE THEY ARE EXISTING RIGHT NOW.

NOW OUR BUILDING IS AN 800 SQUARE FOOT BUILDING.

IT HAS A RESTROOM, A PUBLIC RESTROOM IN IT.

IT ALSO HAS A LITTLE OFFICE AND THEN IT ASKS, HAS A LITTLE CELLS ROOM.

THAT'S APPROXIMATELY 15 BY 15.

AND WE HAVE THE PRODUCTS THAT WE CARRY MOSTLY IN THERE, OR FIVE-HOUR ENERGY DRINKS, CANDY BARS, CIGARETTES, TOBACCO PRODUCTS, THINGS OF THAT NATURE.

AND SO OUR MAIN GOAL, OUR MAIN PRODUCT IS GAS AND TOBACCO PRODUCTS IS ANOTHER BIG THING.

HOW FAR YOU AND ME FROM THE DITCH BACK THERE IN THE BACK OF THE BUILDING NOW, UH, THE BUILDING WILL BE, LET'S SEE THE LOT, UH, TRYING TO ADD IT UP IN MY HEAD.

IT APPROXIMATELY A HUNDRED FOOT.

HAVE YOU TAKEN A LOOK AT THE DISH TO SEE IF THERE'S ANY TYPE OF CORROSION GOING ON IN THE BACK? HAVE YOU HAD A CHANCE TO LOOK AT IT IN? I HAVE LOOKED AT IT, UH, YOU KNOW, THE, THE, THE POSITIVE THING ABOUT THE, THE GAS WORLD NOW IS THAT, UH, OUR TANKS ARE DOUBLE WALL.

THEY HAVE A SOLUTION IN BETWEEN THE TWO WALLS THAT IF THE SOLUTION GOES UP OR DOWN AT ALL, IT'S REPORTED TO A, UH, WHAT'S CALLED A BEADER ROUTE THAT TELLS YOU IF YOU HAVE ANY GAS ESCAPE OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT.

SO FROM AN ENVIRONMENTAL STANDPOINT, BEING CLOSE TO A STORM DRAIN OR A CREEK OR THINGS LIKE THAT, UH, IT'S A, IT'S A WHOLE DIFFERENT WORLD FROM THE OLD DAYS OF CORRODED GAS TANKS AND STEEL TANKS AND THINGS LIKE THAT.

SO IT'S, IT'S HIGHLY MONITORED, HIGHLY REGULATED, UH, INDUSTRY.

SO, UH, BUT, UH, WE'RE PROBABLY NOT GOING TO GET BACK THAT FAR IN DISTURB NEAR THE CREEK AND ALL THAT.

SO WE WOULD KIND OF STAY OFF OF THOSE, THOSE TYPE OF OBSTACLES.

SO NOW THE QUESTION IS WITH, WITH THIS BEING A C FOR NOW, WHY DO YOU WANT TO CHANGE IT TO A THREE? WHEN THAT, THAT WHOLE AREA THERE'S ALREADY COMMERCIAL?

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AND SO THE, THE C3 DOES ALLOW RETAIL.

IF, IF, IF THE OTHER ALLOWS IT, WE WOULD NOT CHANGE IT.

WE WOULD GO WITH WHAT WE HAVE SAYING.

IT ALLOWS OTHER AUTOMOTIVE PRODUCTS, BUT OUR UNDERSTANDING IS IT DOESN'T ALLOW THIS PARTICULAR.

SO IF WE'RE WRONG ABOUT THAT, THEN I'M WASTING MY TIME.

AND I WANT THEM TO EXPLAIN WHAT THAT DIFFERENCE IS.

A GAS STATION CAN ONLY BE IN C3 IS WHAT YOU'RE SAYING.

A GAS STATION.

I DON'T WANT TO RETAIL AS THE USE IS NOT ALLOWED IN C4.

SO THAT STATIONS ARE NOT ALLOWED ON C4 IS WHAT YOU'RE SAYING ABOUT TODAY'S STANDARDS.

I CERTAINLY HAVE SOME AROUND TOWN THAT PROBABLY LOCATING THERE BEFORE THAT YEAH.

THAT WERE GRANDFATHERED IN.

BUT TODAY TO PUT A GAS STATION, IT MUST BE IN THE C3.

I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE I CLEARLY UNDERSTAND THAT QUESTION.

UM, SETH OR FOSTER OUR NEW GAS STATION, OUR CITY GARAGE.

DID WE REZONE THAT? CAUSE THAT'S C3 NOW, DO YOU RECALL? GREAT.

WE'D HAVE TO, WE WOULD HAVE TO LOOK IT UP ON MAPS.

I DIDN'T EVEN HAVE TO LOOK UP THE HISTORY THAT PREDATES ME.

ISN'T IT RIGHT DOWN THERE.

WHERE THE C3, YOU SEE WHERE THE RED, I MEAN, IT'S LOCATED BACK IN MY MEMORY SERVES ME CORRECTLY.

I THINK WE HAD THE REASON THAT, BECAUSE WE PUT FUEL CELLS.

THAT IS CORRECT.

I REMEMBER THAT IS CORRECT.

SO THAT'S WHY THAT WAS ORIGINALLY C4.

AND WE HAD TO CHANGE IT TO SEE, I BELIEVE POINT IS WE DID IT FOR OURSELVES, RIGHT? YEAH.

YOU ARE GOING TO USE AN UNDERGROUND TIMES INSTEAD OF ABOVE GROUND.

ARE THERE ANY OTHER RESIDENTS THAT COME FORWARD ASKING QUESTIONS, MAKE COMMENTS CONCERNING THIS ITEM I JUST ASKED IS THIS, IS THIS GOING TO BE FOR UNDERGROUND TANKS ARE ABOVE GROUND TANKS AND THEY USE THE ZONING DISTRICT AND SPECIFY UNDERGROUND.

I HAVE A QUESTION.

SO HOW MANY EMPLOYEES WILL YOU BE THINK YOU HAVE AT THAT PARTICULAR LOCATION? IT VARIES.

UM, WE TYPICALLY BETWEEN THREE AND SIX, UH, WE DO HAVE LIMITED HOURS OF OPERATION FROM SIX TO 10, BUT BECAUSE WE PRIMARILY OPERATE IN SMALLER COMMUNITIES, NOT SMALLER THAN NEWBURGH, ACTUALLY.

UM, WE DO A LOT OF 24 HOURS OF FUELING FOR EMERGENCY SERVICES VEHICLES.

AND SO WE OFFER THAT TO THE MUNICIPALITIES THAT WE GO THROUGH.

SO WE DO ALLOW OUR TANKS, OUR STORES TO BE USED BY MUNICIPALITY THAT NIGHT AND THINGS LIKE THAT.

VERY FEW RESIDENTS EVER USE THAT, THAT, YOU KNOW, AT NIGHT, BUT SO WE SHUT EVERYTHING DOWN AT 10 O'CLOCK AT NIGHT, NO, COME BACK UP AT SIX.

THAT'S OUR TYPICAL HOURS TO HAVE CHEAPER GAS.

WE TYPICALLY ARE THE PRICE LEADER.

WE REALLY ARE.

UH, WE WERE INDEPENDENT.

WE HAVE 140 STORES.

WE'RE A FAMILY OWNED BUSINESS.

SO YOU HAVE A LOT OF THE STORES NOW THAT ARE BEING BOUGHT BY THESE HUGE REITS AND BEING CONTROLLED BY WALL STREET.

AND THEY HAVE TO HAVE A CERTAIN LEVEL OF RETURN TO PAY THEIR INVESTORS.

WE'RE NOT LIKE THAT.

WE'RE A FAMILY OWNED COMPANY.

WE'VE BEEN FAMILY OWNED SINCE 1929.

AND WE'RE, WE'RE JUST DIFFERENT.

WE'RE VERY COST CONSCIOUS.

AND WE GENERALLY COME IN THE COMMUNITY BENEFITS FROM, FROM OUR PARTICULAR SETUP AND OPERATIONS.

I HAVE A QUESTION OR WILL THERE BE ALCOHOL SALES? NO, MA'AM THANK YOU.

UH, MAYBE OTHER RESIDENTS ARE LIKE, COME FORWARD, ASK QUESTIONS, MAKE COMMENTS CONCERNING THIS ITEM.

IF IT'S NOT SO MUCH SMEAR, I LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION.

I'D LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION TO CLOSE THE PUBLIC HEARING MOTION.

SECOND, IS THERE A DISCUSSION SEEING NONE ALL IN FAVOR OF THE MOTION, SAY, AYE, ALL OPPOSED MOTION CARRIES.

SO MAYBE THE NEXT TIME YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE TO DO IS CONSIDER ADOPTING A STATEMENT OF ZONING, CONSISTENCY, OR INCONSISTENCY.

WELL, BOARD WON'T HAVE ANY DISCUSSION OUT AT THE HEARING IS CLOSED.

BEFORE YOU GO INTO THE MOTION.

WAS THERE ANY DISCUSSION ABOUT ANYTHING? YEAH.

I SAW PHOTOGRAPHS ON OF HIS OTHER STORES AND THERE'S NICE LOOKING FACILITY.

THAT'S BEEN, BEEN SAID, I'LL MAKE THE MOTION, UH, LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION TO CONSIDER ADOPTING NOW.

AND IT'S, UM, UH, REVOLUTION, UH, DOC LUCIAN, 2 13 0 1 SOUTH BLIND BURNIE ROAD FROM C FOUR NEIGHBORHOOD BUSINESS DISTRICT OF C3 DISTRICT.

AND WE WANT TO DO

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ITEM A FIRST AND THEN WE'RE TO ITEM B.

I WOULD BE ADOPTING A STATEMENT THAT SOUNDING CONSISTENCY OR INCONSISTENCY.

YEP.

WELL, I'LL MAKE THAT MOTION.

I'LL MAKE A MOTION THAT WE ADOPT THE STATEMENT OF ZONING CONSISTENCY.

UM, A SECOND.

WE HAVE A MOTION AND A SECOND.

IS THERE DISCUSSION? SEE NONE THE SEPARATE ROAD COPS STARTING THE BALLROOM BAGEL.

OTTOMAN DANGLE.

OUT A WOMAN HARRIS OUTER MAN ASKED HER MAYOR OUT LONG OUTER RING.

UH, CONSIDER ADOPTING AN ORDINANCE OF 1301 SOUTH LAND ROAD FROM A C FOUR NEIGHBORHOOD BUSINESS DISTRICT TO A C3 DISTRICT MADISON AND A SECOND.

IS THERE DISCUSSION STARTING WITH ALL OF THEM AND ODOM ALDERMAN ITEM.

I'LL RUN THIS OUTER KINSEY.

WITH SOME ADDITIONAL RECOMMENDATIONS.

MAYOR OTTOMAN ASKED HER OUT A WOMAN HARRIS ALDERMAN BINGO MOTION CARRIES IN IT.

ANY OTHER ITEMS ASSOCIATED WITH NUMBER 12? OKAY, THANK YOU.

LET'S GO.

GOOD.

I'VE

[13. City Manager's Presentation of Fiscal Year 2022-2023 Budget.]

EVER 13.

MAYBE YOUR NEXT ITEM IS A PRESENTATION ON FISCAL YEAR 22, 23 BUDGET.

AND YOU HAVE A BUDGET BOOK IN FRONT OF YOU AT THIS TIME.

I'D LIKE TO PROVIDE SOME GENERAL INFORMATION AND THEN WE'RE GOING TO GO THROUGH A LITTLE BIT AT THE BOOK.

SO, UM, AFTER YOU LEAVE HERE TONIGHT, YOU CAN TAKE YOUR TIME TO GIVE THIS.

IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS OVER THE NEXT SEVERAL DAYS, FEEL FREE TO REACH OUT TO THE, UM, TO THE FINANCE DIRECTOR OR MYSELF.

SO, UM, DEPARTMENT HAD STARTED WORKING ON THEIR BUDGETS IN JANUARY OF THIS YEAR.

UH, WE DID HAVE A BUDGET RETREAT WITH WARD BALDMAN ON FEBRUARY 11TH WHERE THE, WHERE THE DEPARTMENT HEADS GAVE AN OVERVIEW OF, OF WHAT THEY WERE LOOKING FOR ON THE BUDGETS IN EARLY MARCH, THE BUDGET COMMITTEE CONVENE WITH THOSE DEPARTMENT HEADS AND, UH, UH, FOR PRESENTATIONS.

UH, AND THEN THE BUDGET COMMITTEE HAS BEEN WORKING FOR THE LAST SEVERAL MONTHS ON, ON THESE BUDGETS.

SO THE NEXT STEP AFTER TONIGHT WILL BE A PUBLIC HEARING, WHICH WILL BE HELD ON MAY 24TH.

AND THE GOAL IS TO ADOPT THE BUDGET ON JUNE 14TH.

SO WE HAVE TIME TO PLAY IF THERE ARE ANY ISSUES THAT ARISE AND YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS OR CONCERNS.

SO THE BUDGET WAS DEVELOPED, KEEPING IN MIND GOALS AND OBJECTIVES OF EACH DEPARTMENT AND ONGOING INITIATIVES THAT WE STARTED SUCH AS RESILIENCY, UTILITY INFRASTRUCTURE, AND STORMWATER IMPROVEMENTS, IMPROVE STREETS AND SIDEWALKS AND QUALITY OF LIFE ISSUES.

UH, YOU KNOW, WE WERE IN, UH, A LITTLE BIT OF A DIFFERENT SITUATION THIS YEAR, WHERE WE HAVE AN ELECTION ON MAY 17TH, UH, BUDGET HAS TO BE APPROVED BY JUNE 30TH OF THIS YEAR.

SO, SO WHILE WE DID LOOK AT IT AT A BASIC BUDGET, THERE ARE CAPITAL ITEMS IN THIS.

THE INCOMING BOARD WILL HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO, TO REVIEW AND REVISIT CAPITAL ITEMS IN THE NEXT BUDGET YEAR.

SO FOR THE, FOR THE TOTAL BUDGET, THE GENERAL FUND BUDGET IS A RECOMMENDED 42,514,000.

THE WATER FUND, 12,314,000 SEWER FUND, 13,917,000 ELECTRIC FUND, 58,979,000 SOLID WASTE FUND 3 MILLION, 641,000 AND OTHER FUNDS.

8.5 MILLION.

THE TOTAL CITY BUDGET IS PROJECTED AT 139 MILLION, $946,333.

THIS IS A 4.7% INCREASE OVER FYI 22.

THE INCREASE IS DUE TO INFLATION COST OF GOODS AND SERVICES INCREASED FUEL COST.

ALSO AN INCREASE IN THE STATE RETIREMENT, WHERE WE HAVE TO ADD AN ADDITIONAL 1%.

THAT'S A 1% INCREASE.

WE ARE RECOMMENDING A 5% COLA FOR CITY EMPLOYEES AND A MERIT UP TO 2% THAT'S BASED ON THE, THE ANNUAL EVALUATIONS.

SO THE ONE THING THAT WE HAVE SEEN ACROSS THE BOARD, ESPECIALLY WITH MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENTS IS, UH, SALARIES HAVE BEEN INCREASING AND WE'VE SEEN LOCAL GOVERNMENTS EVERYWHERE THAT HAVE CONSTANTLY BEEN, BEEN RAISING THEIR RATES.

WE'VE ALSO SEEN ISSUES WITH PRIVATE INDUSTRY RAISING THEIR WEIGHTS AND, AND THE CITY HAS LOST SEVERAL VERY GOOD QUALIFIED EMPLOYEES GOING TO THE PRIVATE SECTOR.

SO WE HAVE TO KEEP UP AND MATTER OF FACT, I'M GOING TO SEND THIS TO YOU.

UM, THE NORTH CAROLINA LEAGUE OF MUNICIPALITIES RECENTLY RELEASED A MERIT INCREASE STUDY, AND IT ACTUALLY WAS RELEASED FRIDAY AFTER WE'VE DONE SOME THINGS TO GIVE YOU.

IT'LL GIVE YOU AN IDEA THAT WE ARE IN LINE WITH THE REQUEST ON THIS.

I WILL ALSO SAY THAT WE ARE IN THE MIDDLE OF A SALARY STUDY, AND WE ANTICIPATE THAT STUDY BEING COMPLETED BY THE END OF THE FIRST QUARTER OF F Y 23.

AT THIS TIME, I FULLY ANTICIPATE COMING BACK TO THE BOARD

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UH, OUR GOAL IS WE'RE GOING TO HAVE TO MAINTAIN AND KEEP OUR WORKFORCE INTACT.

UM, UH, THE NUMBER ONE ASSET THAT THIS CITY HAS, WE, WE, AND WE DO HAVE A LOT OF ASSETS, BUT IT'S OUR EMPLOYEES AND WE DON'T RETAIN THOSE EMPLOYEES WE'RE IN TROUBLE.

UM, SO THIS BUDGET IS PRONOUNCED IN THE GENERAL FUND.

WE HAVE NOT PULLED FROM ANY FUND BALANCE ON DEBT REVENUES.

WE WERE SAW A 4% INCREASE IN AD VALOREM TAXES, WHICH EQUALS TO ABOUT $627,000.

AND WE SAW A 17% INCREASE IN SALES TAX, WHICH EQUATES TO ABOUT $1.4 MILLION.

WE DID HAVE APPROXIMATELY $9.6 MILLION IN CAPITAL REQUESTS THIS YEAR, THIS BUDGET FOR CAPITAL REQUESTS, APPROXIMATELY 5.2 MILLION.

AND I'M GOING TO GIVE YOU SOME HIGHLIGHTS OF THAT AND ADMINISTRATION.

WE ARE LOOKING AT ADDING SECURITY CAMERAS, STREAMING THE PEG CHANNEL ON THE ROKU, UH, ADDING A NEW PUBLIC ALERT SYSTEM.

WE HAD THE, UM, CODE RED.

AND SO WE WERE LOOKING AT DOING SOMETHING NOW, SINCE THAT'S BETTER BRANDED THAT CAN, THAT WE CAN TEXT AND CALL IT EMAIL WITH RE-POINT IN CITY HALL.

NOW WE DID RECEIVE FEMA FUNDING TO THE 0.2 SIDES OF THE BUILDING, BUT WE STILL HAVE THE OTHER TWO SIDES.

SO DOING THAT, AND ALSO THE STAIRWELL IMPROVEMENTS TO THE THIRD FLOOR OF CITY HALL, HUMAN RESOURCES, ADDING SECURITY CAMERAS TO THAT FACILITY AS WELL IN POLICE LOOKING AT ADDING 12 NEW POLICE VEHICLES AND FIRE PLANNING AND DESIGN FOR A FUTURE FIRE STATION WEST NEWBURN, ADDING A SELF-CONTAINED BREATHING APPARATUS, COMPRESSOR DIESEL EXHAUST ROOM REMOVAL SYSTEM, AND ALL THREE OF THE EXISTING FIRE DEPARTMENTS AND A WILDLAND FIREFIGHTING SKID UNIT EXTRICATION EQUIPMENT, AND BE ABLE TO REPLACEMENT PARTS ON YOUR CREATION.

LOOKING AT REPLASTERING THE AQUATIC CENTER NEEDS TO DO AFTER ABOUT 12 YEARS OF OPERATION IN PUBLIC WORKS, CONTINUING WHAT WE STARTED A FEW YEARS AGO BY HAVING 250,000 SIDEWALK IMPROVEMENTS.

AND THAT WILL BE FINE, UH, REGULATIVE, UH, TO THE BIKE PED PLAN THAT IS CURRENTLY BEING UPDATED, SHOULD REALLY BE RELEASED WITHIN THE NEXT TWO MONTHS.

ALSO $400,000 IN STREET IMPROVEMENTS AND 2018, WE DID A, UH, A STREET SURVEY TO DETERMINE THE ROAD PAY.

THAT SURVEY IS BEING UPDATED 3 23.

SO LOOKING AT USING THAT SURVEY TO RATE THE NEXT SET OF ROADS AND DETERMINE THE PRIORITY OF, SO AT THIS TIME, WHAT I'D LIKE TO DO IS GO OVER THE BUDGET BOOK WITH YOU, JUST SO YOU'LL HAVE AN IDEA OF WHAT TO LOOK FOR.

THE FIRST INFORMATION ON HERE IS THE MANAGER BUDGET MESSAGE ON THE BUDGET SUMMARY.

YOU'RE GOING TO SEE A VARIETY OF, OF INFORMATION.

IT STARTS OFF WITH THE CLASSIFICATION PLATE.

HEY PLAN.

NOW WE ARE RECOMMENDING A 5% MERIT INCREASE.

HOWEVER, WE'RE ONLY RECOMMENDING IT TWO AND A HALF PERCENT INCREASE ON THE CLASSIFICATION PAY PLAN.

THE NEXT ITEM YOU'LL SEE IS, IS THE STAFFING AND POSITION HISTORY REPORT.

LAST YEAR, WE HAD 497.5 FUNDED POSITIONS.

THIS YEAR, WE WERE RECOMMENDING 499 POSITIONS DOWN THERE.

THERE ARE NO NEW FULL-TIME.

WE ARE RECOMMENDING IN THIS BUDGET.

HOWEVER, WE HAD SEASONAL PART-TIME POSITIONS IN POLICE AND PARKS AND RECREATION.

UH, THEY DON'T QUALIFY AS SEASONAL PART-TIME ANYMORE.

SO WE'RE MOVING THOSE TO REGULAR FULL-TIME PANTS.

THAT 1.5 NEW EMPLOYEES, AND THE NEXT ITEM, YOU'LL SEE THE DUES AND SUBSCRIPTIONS IN THE BUDGET FOR EACH DEPARTMENT WITH A BREAKDOWN.

THE FOLLOWING TAB, YOU'LL SEE TRAVEL AND TRAINING BREAKDOWN BY DEPARTMENT.

AND THEN THE FOLLOWING TAB YOU'LL SEE CAPITAL EXPENSES FOR ALL APARTMENTS IN THE FUND.

THE MAJORITY OF THE CAPITAL IS IN VEHICLES AND WE WILL FINANCE THAT.

UH, THE MYLON ASKED THE QUESTION, SO ON THE CAPITAL EXPENSE BUDGET, WHERE IT SAYS THE POLICE DEPARTMENT, SINCE I'VE BEEN ON THE BOARD EVERY YEAR, WE'RE REPLACING VEHICLES, ARE WE TAKING THE ONES THAT ARE GETTING REPLACED OUT AND ACTUALLY, YOU KNOW, SELLING THEM AND ACTUALLY GETTING SOME MONEY BACK? YES, THEY'VE TAKEN OUT SERVICE.

AND BASICALLY THERE THERE'S A, UM, BASICALLY A PLAN THAT THEY GO BY WHEN IT MEETS CERTAIN CRITERIA AND THINGS, THOSE VEHICLES NEED TO BE REPLACED AT THE, WHEN WE LOOKED AT REPLACING THEM.

SO THOSE, THOSE ARE SENT OUT TO GOV DEALS AND AUCTION OFF.

THE NEXT ITEM YOU'LL SEE ON THE TAB IS GOING TO BE ON FEES AND CHARGES ITEMS YOU'LL SEE IN RED ARE RECOMMENDED CHANGES.

AND DO WE GET A, DO WE HAVE A GOOD THAT WE GET A LOT OF RETURN ON THE INVESTMENT, OR I'D LIKE TO SAY THAT WE GET A LOT TOO TRADITIONALLY WITH GOV BILLS.

YOU GET A SMALL PERCENTAGE OF BACKUP.

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MOST OF THOSE ARE IN CEMETERY FEES, ESPECIALLY WHEN IT COMES TO NOMINATE, RIGHT.

WE HAVE BEEN QUITE LOW ON THOSE FEES.

AND SO OUR GOAL HAS BEEN OVER THE LAST WEEK TO CONTINUE TO INCREASE THOSE, TO BE IN LINE WITH OTHER MUNICIPALITIES AND OTHER CEMETERIES THAT WE COMPETE WITH AND THE NEXT TAB, WHICH GOES INTO THE GENERAL PHONE AND WHAT YOU WILL SEE ON THOSE TABS.

IT HAS A BREAKDOWN FOR EACH TO EACH DEPARTMENT AND HANDLE THIS BUDGET GOALS AND HIGHLIGHTS, UM, UH, OF THE PREVIOUS YEAR AND GOALS.

WHEN I'M WORKING ON A FUTURE YEARS, YOU'LL ALSO SEE UNDER THE BUDGET COMPARISON REPORTS, UM, LAST YEAR'S BUDGET AMOUNT, THE ACTUAL AMOUNT, AND ALSO THIS YEAR'S RECOMMEND RECOMMENDED BUDGET.

AND YOU WILL ALSO SEE PERCENTAGE CHANGES BY THOSE LINE ITEMS. THE BUDGET THING GOES INTO WATER FUND, THE SEWER FUND, THE ELECTRIC FUND SOLID WASTE FUND AND ALL OTHER FUNDS.

SO I ENCOURAGE YOU.

THIS IS A LOT OF INFORMATION.

SO I ENCOURAGE YOU TO TAKE THIS INFORMATION BACK AGAIN.

IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, PLEASE DON'T HESITATE TO REACH OUT, OR IF IT DOES SUGGEST THAT YOU'VE HAD TIME TO ABSORB, UH, THE BUDGET WILL BE POSTED ONLINE AT NEWBURN, NC.GOV ON THE FINANCE PAGE.

AND THAT THAT WILL EVEN BE TONIGHT OR FIRST THING IN THE MORNING.

UH, THE COPY OF THE BUDGET WILL ALSO BE IN THE CLERK'S OFFICE IN THE MORNING, AND IT WILL ALSO BE AT THE LIBRARY AND REMIND YOU THAT BULK HERE WILL BE HELD ON MAY 24TH, WHOSE BUDGET.

AND OUR GOAL WAS TO ADOPT THIS BUDGET BY JUNE 14TH.

BOSS.

WHEN YOU MENTIONED ABOUT ALL THE DIFFERENT RACES, WAS THERE ANYTHING IN THERE FOR THE BOARD? SO THAT WOULD BE AT THE BOARD OF ALDERMAN TO MAKE A RECOMMENDATION TO DO THAT.

UM, SO ONE THING THAT WE DID DO, WE'VE GOT SOME INFORMATION THAT WE PASS OUT FOR YOU, AND IT IS, WE DID DO A SURVEY OF COMPARABLE MUNICIPALITIES AND WE LOOKED AT GOLDSBOROUGH GREENVILLE, HAVELOCK HICKORY, JACKSONVILLE MOREHEAD, CITY, WASHINGTON, WILSON.

WE DON'T COMPARE TO THE COUNTY GOVERNMENT, BUT WE DID INCLUDE CREDIT THE COUNTY.

AND SO THAT WE'VE GOT THAT INFORMATION FOR YOU.

AND IF YOU'D LIKE FOR US TO LOOK AT THAT DATA, WE'LL, WE'LL BE HAPPY TO SORT OF ADDRESS THAT AND SO YOU MAY REMEMBER BACK IN, UH, 20, 19 20 THAT'S WHEN THERE WAS A MONTHLY STIPEND AND TRAVEL WAS INCLUDED IN THAT STIPEND BEFORE THAT THE, THERE WAS A MONTHLY TRAVEL FEE THAT WAS SEPARATE.

UM, AND WE DID TAKE INTO ACCOUNT FOR THIS, ON THIS CHART AS WELL.

SO YOU CAN LOOK AT THAT AND COMPARE, WELL, YOU, YOU KNOW HOW I FEEL ABOUT THIS? WE, WE DID TALK ABOUT THIS EARLY ON IN OUR TIME.

AND WE, YOU KNOW, WE DID SAY THAT WE WOULD TALK ABOUT IT ON OUR, ON OUR WAY OUT FOR WHOEVER THE NEXT BOARD IS, BUT, UM, I'M NOT GONNA MAKE ANY EMOTION, BUT I WILL, YOU KNOW, SUGGEST THAT SOMETHING LIKE THIS SHOULD REALLY BE EVALUATED BY THE BOARD THAT SITS UP HERE, UM, TO INCREASE.

UM, BECAUSE AGAIN, IT'S, THIS HASN'T BEEN INCREASED IN YEARS.

UM, AND ALTHOUGH YOU ARE ELECTED TO DO THE WORK, YOU ARE STILL DOING WORK AND TAKING YOUR TIME AND TALENTS TO SERVE YOUR COMMUNITY, YOU SHOULD BE COMPENSATED.

UM, BUT I JUST WANTED TO POINT THAT OUT THAT IT IS DUE TIME FOR IT TO BE INCREASED.

I CONCUR WITH YOU, UM, IS THERE'S A LOT OF TIME THAT, UM, EACH ONE OF US, ALL THE ONE I KNOW PUT INTO, UM, OUR WARDS, UM, IT'S NOT JUST US COMING UP.

YOU'RE SITTING UP HERE FOR TWO MEETINGS A MONTH AND COMING UP FOR SPECIAL MEETINGS.

IT'S A LOT OF OUTSIDE WORK THAT WE DO FOR OUR CITIZENS.

AND I JUST THINK NOT EVEN FOR THIS BOARD, LIKE YOU SAID, THE NEXT BOARD COMING IN.

I THINK WHEN WE HAVE A GREAT INCENTIVE FOR PEOPLE, WE CAN PULL IN GOOD PEOPLE.

UM, A LOT OF PEOPLE, YOU KNOW, WORK.

SO THEY, THEY LOOK AT THIS AS THEY HAVE A FULL

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SCHEDULE WORKING A 40 HOUR JOB, BUT THEN YET THEY STILL HAVE TO DO THE WORK OF A, OF AN ALDERMAN.

SO, UM, I THINK THEY NEED TO BE COMPENSATED FOR OUTSIDE OF THAT FOSTER.

I JUST WANT TO SAY YOU AND YOUR TEAM, THIS BOOK LOOKS AMAZING.

THE PICTURES, THE WAY THAT IT'S DETAILED, THE WAY THAT IT'S LAID OUT TO ME, I THINK IT'S GOING TO BE, I LIKED THAT HE CAN GO EACH OF THESE THINGS WITH DOOSAN.

IT MAKES IT EASIER TO QUESTION THAT, UH, LIBRARY, UH, CONTRIBUTION.

I THOUGHT WE DID AWAY WITH SPECIAL APPROPRIATIONS AND IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE UNDER CONTRACT BECAUSE THAT WAS A THREE THING WE DID AWAY WITH SPECIAL APPROPRIATION.

WE LEFT THREE THINGS, WHICH WAS THE LIBRARY CONTRACT, BECAUSE THAT IS A CONTRACT WE HAVE TO ABIDE BY WITH THAT.

WE DON'T HAVE A CHOICE IN THAT.

AND THE ALLIES FOR CHERRY POINT AND THE HIGHWAY 17 ASSOCIATION, I LOOKED AT THOSE AS CONTRACTS, BUT THE LIBRARY LIBRARIES UNDER SPECIAL APPROPRIATION IN THE CONTRACT.

SO I DON'T KNOW HOW YOU FIGURE THAT OUT AND LOOK AT THAT STILL OUT OF PAY.

AND I REALLY THINK THAT ALWAYS THE ALLIES FOR CHERRY POINT, IS THAT CONSIDERED DO'S OR IS THAT CONSIDERED A CONTRACT? I THINK IT'S MORE CONSIDERED DUES FOR THAT.

JUST CURIOUS, DISGUSTED THE PLEASURE OF VIEW.

AND AGAIN, IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS AS YOU GET THROUGH YOUR REVIEWS, WE'RE HAPPY TO MEET WITH YOU AT ANY TIME AS WELL.

THE BOARD, HAVE ANY OTHER QUESTIONS, COMMENTS ABOUT THE BUDGET AT THIS TIME? OH, ALSO TO THANK YOU IN REGARDS TO GETTING THAT INFORMATION AND DOING THE RESEARCH ABOUT, UM, EMPLOYEE PAY.

CAUSE I'M USUALLY A CHAMPION TO MAKE ME, I KNOW ME AND BOBBY ARE USUALLY A CHAMPION TO MAKE SURE THAT OUR EMPLOYEES KNOW THAT THEY ARE AN ASSET IN THE FOUNDATION OF OUR CITY AND, YOU KNOW, MAKING SURE THAT THEY HAVE GOOD, GOOD PAY IS IMPORTANT.

SO THANK YOU FOR THAT AS WELL.

AND I AS WELL, SO DON'T FORGET I'M A BIG ADVOCATE FOR OUR EMPLOYEES.

ANYTHING ELSE? SIDE, IF NOT, WE'LL GO TO THE ITEM.

[14. Consider Adopting a Resolution Approving a Memorandum of Understanding with Sound Rivers for Installation and Management of a Trash Trout Jr.]

NUMBER 14, THEY ARE NEXT TIME IS CONSIDERED A RESOLUTION OF PROOF AND A MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING WITH SOUND RIVERS, FOR INSTALLATION AND MANAGEMENT OF A TRASH TROUT JR.

IS TALKING ABOUT LIKE THE ASK OUR PUBLIC WORKS DIRECTOR OUT THE PLAY TO COME UP.

AND AL DO YOU HAVE ANYONE FROM SOUND RIVERS TONIGHT? YES, SIR.

ON LUMIERE MEMBERS IMPORTANT, PLEASE BRING THIS ITEM TO YOU TONIGHT.

ALSO THE TENANTS IS HEATHER JACOB DEBT, UH, FROM, UH, THE SOUND RIVERS.

AND I JUST LIKE GIVE A BRIEF INTRO.

UM, BEFORE I BRING HER UP FOR ANY QUESTIONS, WE WON'T STAND AT THE CONCLUSION OF THE STAFF OR FOR ANY QUESTIONS, THE BOARD AND REHAB, WE WERE APPROACHED BY SOMEONE WHERE RIVERS, UH, THEY HAVE A GRANT, UM, AF A PROGRAM THAT THEY HAVE REACHED OUT TO OTHER CITIES IN NORTH CAROLINA TO INSTALL THESE, UH, UNITS.

UH, THEY'RE ESSENTIALLY DEBRIS CATCHERS.

UH, WE, UH, UH, DEFERRED TO THEM AS FAR AS WHERE THEY RECOMMENDED A LOCATION BEFORE.

AND WE KNOW THAT THIS LOCATION, UH, OSCAR DRIVE, WHICH IS RIGHT OFF OF LAWSON CREEK.

SO, UM, WITHOUT GETTING INTO TOO MUCH OF THE DETAILS OF HOW THAT ACTUALLY, UH, QUALIFIED AS LOCATION, BOTH THE FLOW IN DEBRIS, WHICH IS WHAT'S NEEDED, UH, HE DIDN'T HAVE INPUT AS STAFF BECAUSE WE'LL ASSIST IN THEM INSTALLING THE, UH, UNIT.

UM, WE ALSO HAVE A BACKUP LOCATION IN CASE THAT LOCATION DOES NOT WORK.

UH, THERE IS NO COST TO THE CITY NOR TO, UH, OUR DEPARTMENT.

UM, IT IS FOR A TWO YEAR DURATION AT WHICH TIME WE WILL ASSESS, UM, GOING FORWARD, WHAT WE WILL DO WITH THOSE UNITS.

WHAT'S THAT I'LL PAUSE AND, UM, YOU'LL FLOOR TO A, UM, GOOD EVENING.

IT'S GOOD TO BE HERE TONIGHT ON HEATHER DANICA, DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF SOUND RIVERS.

AND I THINK ALAN GAVE YOU A PRETTY GOOD OVERVIEW OF WHAT WE WERE ASKING TO DO IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE CITY.

I WILL SAY THAT WE HAVE JUST INSTALLED ONE ACTUALLY WITH THE CITY OF WASHINGTON THIS PAST WEEK.

UH, AND SO THIS IS KIND OF A NEW PROGRAM THAT WE'RE DOING.

UM, AND WE'RE ALSO WORKING WITH THE CITY OF RALEIGH FOR ANOTHER ONE.

AND PART THIS CAME ABOUT IT'S ACTUALLY A STATEWIDE GRANT AS A STATEWIDE RESEARCH PROJECT

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TO NOT ONLY MONITOR THE MICROPLASTICS THAT WE HAVE ON OUR WATERWAYS, BUT ALSO THE MICROPLASTICS THAT WE'RE SEEING, THE REASON WHY LAWSON CREEK WAS SELECTED IS THAT OUR RIVERKEEPER HAS BEEN SAMPLING THERE FOR THE PAST YEAR FOR, FOR SOME OF THIS PLASTIC POLLUTION AND WASTE, TRYING TO GET AN UNDERSTANDING OF HOW MUCH WE MIGHT HAVE COMING OUT OF OUR, OUR WATERWAYS ACROSS THE REGION.

AND AGAIN, THIS IS IN PARTNERSHIP WITH, UH, NINE OTHER ORGANIZATIONS FROM, FROM THE MOUNTAINS TO HERE ON THE COAST AND DOWN INTO TO WHAT MINTON.

UM, BUT WE ARE ANTICIPATING TAKING CARE OF ALL OF THIS MONITORING, THE TRASH TROUT, UH, WHICH IS AGAIN, ANALYTIC COLLECTION DEVICE.

WE'LL HAVE VOLUNTEERS THAT WILL SUPPORT THE PROGRAM.

UH, AND AT TIMES WHERE WE MAY NEED TO REMOVE IT, SAY, HURRICANE IS COMING, THIS THINGS WILL, WE WILL TAKE CARE OF THAT AND BE SURE TO REMOVE THAT, TO ENSURE THAT THERE'S NO DAMAGE OR ANYTHING THAT MAY HAPPEN, BUT THESE THINGS ARE REALLY SECURED WELL.

UM, THEY ARE ABLE TO TAKE A LOT OF FLOW, UH, AND HOPEFULLY WILL HELP, UM, AT LEAST COLLECT SOME OF THE TRASH ALONG LAWSONS CREEK.

UM, SO I'LL, I'LL STOP THERE.

AND JUST TO BE ABLE TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS THAT YOU MIGHT HAVE, I KNOW THAT THE FIRST WEEK OR SO, YOU'RE GOING TO MONITOR THIS DAILY AND THEN I THINK EVERY TWO WEEKS, AND ARE YOU RESPONSIBLE FOR THE DISCARDING, ALL THE DEBRIS WE ARE.

AND SO THE VOLUNTEERS WILL COLLECT IT WE'LL GET IN AND COLLECTED.

UH, WE MADE SURE THAT THE LOCATION WAS WADEABLE AND SAFE FOR FOLKS TO BE GETTING IN AND OUT ALSO OF THE STREAM.

THEY WILL DO IT AT LEAST IN PAIRS, SO THAT THERE'S ALWAYS MORE THAN ONE PERSON THERE WITH THEM.

UM, SOME OF THE TRASH WASH SHOULD BE AUDITED FOR THE RESEARCH PURPOSE, BUT NOT EVERY TIME, BUT IT WILL THEN BE DISCARDED IN THE APPROPRIATE.

AND LET'S SAY ON DAY 13, THE FRICTION OF THE DEBRIS, UM, WHAT PROP PROBABILITY FACTOR OR IMPAIRMENT FACTOR IS ASSOCIATED WITH THE FLOW WITH THE DEVICE.

AND WITHOUT, I WOULD SAY REALLY THINKING ABOUT WHAT COULD IT BACK UP AND FLOW BACK BEHIND AND CAUSE FLOODING, UM, IT'S A GOOD QUESTION.

THE WAY THE THING IS DESIGNED, IT'S DESIGNED BY ANOTHER NON-PROFIT IN NASHVILLE AND THEY'VE BEEN INSTALLED ALL ACROSS THE MOUNTAIN REGION, UM, THAT THEY'RE MEANT TO BE DESIGNED IN A WAY THAT SHOULD NOT HOLD WATER BACK.

UM, BUT THAT'S SOMETHING WE'RE GOING TO WATCH VERY CLOSELY AND WE'LL GO BACK.

UM, EVERY TIME THERE'S A RAINSTORM, A SIGNIFICANT RAINSTORM SAY, YOU KNOW, NOT EVERY LIKE LITTLE DRIZZLE, UM, BUT THE CHECK AND CLEAN OUT THE TRAP TO ENSURE THAT ANYTHING HAPPENS.

BUT AGAIN, WE'RE BEING FLEXIBLE HERE.

SO IF WE FIND THAT THERE'S A PROBLEM, WE, WE WOULD CERTAINLY REMOVE, WELL, WE ARE, YOU KNOW, OVER AS OUR 21,000 GALLON, THE DIESEL PUMP, THE FIRST ONE, WE KIND OF HAVE A FLOAT ACROSS THERE THAT KEEPS THAT, OR GET THAT TRASH AND GETTING INTO GREAT, BUT WE DON'T REALLY DO A WHOLE LOT OF CLEANING ON THAT.

BUT IF WE ARE KNOCKED DOWN ROAD, JUST THOUGHT THIS WAS THE GREATEST THING SINCE SLICED BREAD, ONE FOOT, THREE, FOUR AROUND DIFFERENT AREAS OF TOWN.

UM, WHAT'S COAST, ONE OF THESE.

UNFORTUNATELY LIKE EVERYTHING THEIR COSTS HAS GONE UP, I THINK NOW TO PRODUCE, SAY THEY'RE CHARGING ABOUT $7,500 JUST FOR THE PRODUCTION OF THE UNIT.

UM, AND THEN THERE'S SOME, THERE'S SOME ADDITIONAL COST CONCRETE AND OTHER THINGS, BUT YOU WOULD BE FUNNY A THOUSAND DOLLARS JUST FOR THE HARD COSTS.

SO FOR THE NEXT TWO YEARS, YOU WILL BE OUT EVERY TWO WEEKS CLEANING.

A BOARD HAVE QUESTIONS OTHER THAN, AND I'D LIKE TO SEE A REPORT, YOU KNOW, HOW MUCH TRASH YOU ACTUALLY COLLECTED AND REMOVE.

AND I ASSUME THAT THE POINT SOURCE YOU'RE DOING THIS IS THE GREATEST, UH, OPTIMAL LOCATION BEFORE THE, THE REST OF THE, OF THAT CANAL BECOMES TOO WIDE OR WHATEVER TO, TO COLLECT.

THERE'S CERTAIN PARAMETERS THEY ASKED FOR INSTALLING THEM.

THEY HAVE TO BE AT LEAST 10 FEET WIDE, THE CREEKS AND AT LEAST HAVE AN INCH OF WATER AT ALL TIMES.

AND PART, UM, I WASN'T THE ONE THAT SELECTED IT.

IT WAS MY STAFF.

SO I'D HAVE TO ASK PARTICULAR QUESTIONS.

UM, BUT I THINK PARTLY IT WAS ALSO ACCOMMODATIONS TO MAKE SURE VOLUNTEERS COULD GET DOWN THE BANK SAFELY AND BE IN WATER.

THAT'S NOT TOO DEEP.

WELL, WHAT'S IT GOING TO BE INTERESTED IN, ON A WIND TIDE WHEN THE, TELL US ABOUT THAT BACKWARDS, WE WILL HAVE TO, WE'LL HAVE TO SEE, I MEAN, YOU DON'T HAVE ANY TYPE OF A REVERSE TROUT COLLECTOR TO EAT OR NO, BUT HOPEFULLY WHEN IT GOES BACK, THE OTHER WAY, IT'LL GET COLLECTED AGAIN ON THE WAY BACK DOWN.

I'M JUST COUNTING HOW MANY, BECAUSE WE DO HAVE THE WIND TIED HERE AND SAY THERE'S WASHINGTON.

THAT'S WHERE THE, WHERE IT'S LOCATED IN WASHINGTON.

THE WIND TIDE PROBABLY WILL NOT AFFECT THAT ONE.

WE'LL HAVE TO WATCH IT FOR THIS ONE.

I MEAN, LOOK, WE'RE ALL ABOUT COST BENEFIT AND, YOU KNOW, DOING ANYTHING TO THINGS LIKE THIS THAT WERE GOOD FOR OUR FAMILY, COULDN'T BE ANY WORSE THAN WHAT THE TRAIN WHAT'S ALREADY THERE.

SO THANK YOU TO YOU AND YOUR STAFF AS WELL THAT, UM, INVOLUNTARY FOR THIS, WE APPRECIATE IT.

HEY, I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW HOW YOU GOT THAT NAME.

UH, UM, MAYOR AND MEMBERS OF THE BOARD.

AND, AND CONCLUDING THIS, UH,

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WE'RE PLEASED TO BE ABLE TO PARTNERSHIP WITH, WITH ORGANIZATIONS SUCH AS THIS ARE PART OF THE BEATLES, BE THE EYES AND EARS AND IN BETWEEN THEIR VISITS AS WELL.

SO APPRECIATE YOUR CONSIDERATION.

UM, I AM CURIOUS WHAT, WHO FUNDS THIS, OBVIOUSLY YOU'RE I KNOW YOU'RE BENEVOLENT, BUT YOU'RE OBVIOUSLY PROBABLY GETTING FUNDED SOMETIMES.

AND ACTUALLY A GRANT THAT I THINK THE SOOTHING OF NEWBURN HAS ALSO GOTTEN IT'S THE ENVIRONMENTAL ENHANCEMENT GRANT THAT COMES FROM THE ATTORNEY GENERAL'S OFFICE, WHICH IS MONEY'S FROM THE OLD SMITHFIELD FOODS, UH, AGREEMENT FROM 2000.

THERE IS A RESOLUTION ASSOCIATED WITH THAT.

IF THE BOARD CHOOSES TO APPROVE THIS, MAY I WANT TO MAKE A MOTION THAT WE ADOPT THE RESOLUTION DEPARTMENT, A MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING WITH SOUND RIVERS, FOR INSTALLATION AND MANAGEMENT OF A TRASH TROUT JR.

THE SECOND MOTION.

AND SECOND IS THERE DISCUSSION, SAY NONE OF US HAVE A ROLE STARTING WITH BINGO.

BINGO.

GUY, JOHN NUMBER 15, MAY YOUR NEXT ITEM IS CONSIDERED A RESOLUTION APPROVING AN AUDIT CONTRACT FOR FISCAL YEAR ENDING JUNE 30TH, 2022.

OUT A WOMAN HARRIS OTTOMAN ASKED HER YES.

MAYOR OUT LONG OUTER MCKINSEY.

[15. Consider Adopting a Resolution Approving an Audit Contract for Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 2022.]

AT THIS TIME, I'D LIKE TO ASK MISS OCEAN TO MAKE THE PRESENTATION SO, UM, WE DID RFP AND WAS SUBMITTED OUT TO 28 DIFFERENT, UM, CPA FIRMS. AND WE ALSO POSTED IT ON THE WEBSITE, AS WELL AS NORTH CAROLINA, CAROLINA FINANCE CONNECT, THE, UM, RESPONSES.

WE ONLY RECEIVED TWO.

ONE WAS OUR AUDITOR FROM LAST YEAR THOMPSON PRICE.

AND THEN THE OTHER ONE WAS THROUGH, UM, S PRESTON, DOUGLAS AND ASSOCIATIONS.

WE RAN THEM THROUGH A MATRIX, A SCORING MATRIX, UM, THAT WAS PROVIDED BY THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS.

THE SCORING FOR PRESTON DOUGLAS WAS A 78 AND THOMPSON PRICE WAS THE 98 BASED ON THEIR RFP.

I ASKED THE BOARD TO APPROVE THE, UM, AUDIT CONTRACT WITH THOMPSON PRICE.

UM, WE HAVE BUILT IN WITH THIS CONTRACT AS WELL, A AUDIT COMMITTEE, HOPING TO HAVE, UM, FINANCE STAFF TO BOARD MEMBERS IN THE CITY MANAGER ATTEND.

THEY WOULD DO PRELIMINARY MEETINGS, MID AUDIT UPDATES, AND THEN FOLLOW UP BEFORE THE PRESENTATION TO THE BOARD.

THE MEMBERS THAT WOULD BE ATTENDING THIS MEETING WOULD BE THOSE THAT ARE WORKING DIRECTLY ON THE AUDIT.

AND, UM, NO, ALL OF THE DETAILS WITHIN THE WORK THAT THEY'RE DOING, UM, THE PERSON THAT TYPICALLY COMES AND PRESENTS TO THE BOARD IS THE PARTNER AND HIS NOT PHYSICALLY, YOU'VE WORKED ON THE AUDIT AT THAT LEVEL OF DETAIL.

SO THEREFORE YOU COULD ASK YOUR QUESTIONS AND, AND, AND GET THOSE ANSWERS AT THAT POINT IN TIME, BEFORE IT GETS PRESENTED TO THE BOARD, HOW MANY WE SENT OUT TO 28 FIRMS DIRECTLY, AND THEN WE POSTED IT ON TWO WEBSITES.

I, HOW MANY RESPONSES TO, WOW, COULD YOU HELP ME, UM, WHAT, WHAT IS INVOLVED IN THE SCORING? SO THE SCORING MATRIX REALLY ADDRESSES WHERE ARE THEY IF THEY MEET THE DEADLINES REQUIRED WITHIN THE RFP? UM, IT ALSO HAD ADDRESSED, UM, THEIR REFERENCES.

AND SO THOMPSON PRICE HAD REFERENCES FOR LARGER ORGANIZATIONS, ORGANIZATIONS THAT SERVED, UM, UTILITIES AS WELL.

UM, AND THEN PRESTON ALSO, UM, HAD REFERENCES, BUT THEY WERE ALL SMALL TOWNSHIPS.

SO ONE OF OUR GREATEST CONCERNS WITH THAT WAS THEIR, THEIR HOURS THAT THEY HAD SET ASIDE THAT THEY HAD ALLOCATED FOR THIS AUDIT ONE WOULD, AND THEIR EMPTY FTES WOULD NOT BE SUFFICIENT FOR THE COMPLEXITY OF OUR ENGAGEMENT THAT WE WOULD HAVE.

UM, THERE WERE, UM, THEY DID NOT HAVE MEET THE TIMELINE THAT WE REQUESTED WITHIN THE AUDIT.

AS YOU KNOW, WE HAVE NOT HAD A TIMELY AUDIT IN THE LAST SEVERAL YEARS.

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SO THAT'S, UH, ONE OF THE, UM, GOALS THIS YEAR AND WE REALLY NEED TO HAVE A TIMELY AUDIT.

WE NEED TO, UM, MEET THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE LGC.

AND SO THAT WAS VERY IMPORTANT TO ME AS WELL.

AND OUR STAFF 50, RIGHT, 20, 28, 28, 28.

AND YOU ONLY HAD TO ONLY HEAD TO INDIVIDUALS TO RESPOND.

CORRECT.

SO THE FIRMS THAT WE SENT THEM TO ARE ACTUALLY FIRMS THAT ARE ON THE LGC WEBSITE AS WELL.

SO WITHIN OUR REGION AND JUST OUTSIDE THE REGION, WHEN'S THE DEADLINE FOR, UM, FOR THOSE CONTRACTORS? YEAH.

SO THE, UM, PRELIMINARY WORK IS ALREADY STARTING IN MOST MUNICIPALITIES AND FOR US TO HAVE A TIMELY AUDIT AND WE REALLY NEED TO GET THIS CONTRACT SIGNED AS SOON AS POSSIBLE SO THAT WE CAN START THAT PRELIMINARY WORK IN GETTING AND GET ON THE SCHEDULE SO THAT WE MEET THOSE DEADLINES WITH THE LTC.

I DON'T KNOW MY KIDS DO WHAT I WAS STARTING TO SAY.

I DID A LITTLE BIT OF RESEARCH TODAY, CAUSE I'M, I'M A LITTLE BIT TROUBLED BY THE FACT THAT WE'VE USED THIS GROUP FOR THREE YEARS.

AND TYPICALLY YOU WANT TO TRY TO FIND SOMEONE ELSE TO COME IN JUST TO KEEP YOU ON THE LEVEL.

UM, AND YOU KNOW, WHY DID WE ONLY GET TWO BACK? SO I I'VE TALKED TO A COUPLE OF DIFFERENT FIRMS AND A LOT OF THAT HAS TO DO WITH THE FACT THAT THEY CAN'T FIND PEOPLE TO WORK.

SO I SPOKE TO PB MAYORS, WHICH IS, UH, KEN FROM USED TO BE RSM WHO WE'VE USED IN THE PAST.

UM, AND, AND BOTH THEIR MORE HEAD OFFICE AND NEWBURN OFFICE SAID, THEY'RE WAITING ON THE KIDS TO GRADUATE, I THINK CAN COME OUT OF SCHOOLS AND TRY TO GET HELP.

BUT, UM, THEY WOULD BE INTERESTED, BUT RIGHT, THEY WOULDN'T BE ABLE TO MEET THE DEADLINE.

I BELIEVE IT'S NOVEMBER.

IF WE DON'T HAVE THE AUDIT COMPLETED BY NOVEMBER, WE GET ONE OF THOSE LETTERS, YOU KNOW, IT SAYS THAN YOUR AUDIT.

UM, SO I, I HAVE SOME CONCERNS.

ONE OF MY QUESTIONS WOULD BE BECAUSE OF THE LATENESS OF ALL THIS, IS IT POSSIBLE JUST TO DO A ONE-YEAR WITH THEM, AND THEN WE CAN START THE PROCESS BECAUSE IT MAY BE THAT THE SITUATION MAY BE BETTER AND WE CAN START MAYBE LOOKING AT SOME OTHER FIRMS FOR THE FOLLOWING YEAR.

I JUST HAVE CONCERNS THAT WE'VE WORKED WITH SOMEBODY FOR THREE YEARS.

I WASN'T ALL THAT CRAZY ABOUT WHAT THE WORK THAT THEY DID ANYWAY, UM, AND WAS LOOKING FORWARD TO BRINGING IN SOMEBODY NEW.

THAT'S JUST MY, I AGREE WITH ALL THE BINGO ON THAT, BECAUSE IT WAS KIND OF A CLUSTER, ESPECIALLY WHEN, YOU KNOW, WHEN WE WERE ANSWERING THE QUESTIONS LITERALLY ON THE SPOT.

IF, IF IT CAN BE JUST A ONE YEAR FOR THIS TO BE DONE, THEN YES, I THINK WE NEED TO GO AHEAD AND DO THAT CONTRACT AND THEN IMMEDIATELY START LOOKING FOR REPLACEMENT BECAUSE WE WANT TO GET ATTACKED ON A GOOD SCHEDULE OF BEING ON TIME AND THEN HAVING A LATE AUDIT.

I AGREE WITH WHAT YOU GUYS HAVE SAID.

WELL, YOU KNOW, THE REASON WE WEREN'T ON TIME LAST TIME, WASN'T OUR CURRENT FINANCE DIRECTORS.

I MEAN, I HAVE CONFIDENCE THAT KIM WILL STAY ON TOP OF THEM AND MAKE SURE THINGS ARE DONE CORRECTLY AND IN A TIMELY MANNER TO MAKE SURE THAT WE GET IT IN ON TIME.

UH, IF YOU GO, IF YOU'RE GONNA ASK TO REDUCE THEIR CONTRACTS BY TWO, ONE YEAR, YOU'RE GOING TO PROBABLY HAVE TO DO, UH, A NEW RFP FOR ONE YEARS OF SERVICE, CORRECT.

KIM, MAYBE, YOU KNOW THAT, UM, I BELIEVE SO, BUT, UM, I COULD ALSO REACH OUT TO ASK IF WE CAN EXTEND OUR CURRENT CONTRACT.

I THINK THAT MIGHT ALSO BE SO WE CAN EXTEND THE CONTRACT THAT WE HAVE WITH THEM CURRENTLY FOR ONE YEAR, I WOULD HAVE TO LOOK INTO THAT WELL, AND IT'S CRITICAL THAT WE DO THIS RIGHT AWAY TO GET THIS AUDIT COMPLETED IN TIME.

SO WE DON'T GET ANOTHER ONE OF LETTERS, MAN, THE PRESENTATION TOO.

I MEAN, YOU KNOW, IF WE'RE GOING TO EXTEND IT AND UTILIZE HIM, UM, THAT, THAT WOULD BE A GREAT IMPORT PORT AND SET THE PRESENTATION WAS A LOT MORE BETTER THAN WHAT IT WAS LAST TIME.

I THINK THE PRESENTER WAS JUST THE PROBLEM THERE.

A LOT OF IT, TO BE HONEST WITH YOU, I JUST HAD A HARD TIME FALLING, UH, UNDERSTAND THE MAYOR'S SIDE OF IT BETTER THAN I DID IS RIGHT.

AND I THINK THAT IF I CAN JUST COMMENT ON THAT, THAT'S WHY WE'RE IN IMPLEMENTING AN AUDIT COMMITTEE SO THAT YOU HAVE THE SENSE OF TRANSPARENCY.

UM, YOU HAVE BOARD INVOLVEMENT, YOU CAN ASK THOSE QUESTIONS AND HE JUST NEVER, HE DIDN'T WORK ON THE AUDIT AT THAT LEVEL.

SO IT REALLY WAS,

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UM, HIM PRESENTING A MUCH HIGHER LEVEL.

AND FOR THAT LEVEL OF DETAIL THAT YOU WERE ASKING WOULD DEFINITELY BE MORE FROM THE FINANCE DEPARTMENT OR FROM THE PERSON THAT WORKED DIRECTLY ON THAT AUDIT AND DID, AND DID THE LEGWORK MS. KIM, THIS, THIS IS YOUR FIELD AND YOU'RE THE EXPERT.

WHAT DO YOU SUGGEST THE BOARD SHOULD DO IN REGARDS TO THIS? I'M HERE ASK FOR AN EXTENSION OR GO AHEAD AND SIGN THIS CONTRACT.

AND, UM, SO WE CAN, SO WE DID AN RFP FOR THREE YEARS.

UM, WE SIGNED A CONTRACT ANNUALLY WITH THEM.

I WOULD PREFER THAT, UM, I FEEL VERY COMPETENT IN THE FIRM.

UM, WE'VE GOT A GOOD WORKING RELATIONSHIP, HOWEVER, UM, I UNDERSTAND YOUR CONCERNS AS WELL.

SO EXTENDING WOULD BE SOMETHING THAT MINIMALLY, WE, I REALLY FEEL WE NEED TO DO WHERE, UH, CAN YOU, KIM, CAN, CAN YOU TELL ME ON THIS CONTRACT WHERE IT OUTLINES THREE YEARS, BUT IT SHOWS THE COST FOR EACH YEAR? WHAT, WHAT PAGE IS, IT'S NOT REALLY A PAGE.

IT'S LIKE THE LAST PAGE OF THE, OF THAT ITEM FOUR TO 5 42, 5 AND 40, 43 FAMILY WITH THAT.

THAT'S OUR, THAT'S OUR TALLY SHEET, CORRECT? FROM WHERE WE EVALUATED THE TWO PROPOSALS, THE ONE THAT SAYS CITY OF NEWBURGH AUDIT PROPOSALS, EVALUATIONS AT THE TIME, THAT'S OUR, SO I'M LOOKING AT THEIR CONTRACT.

WE SIGN ONLY ANNUAL CONTRACT WITH THEM.

THE RFP IS FOR THREE YEARS, BUT WE ONLY SIGN A CONTRACT WITH, SO IF WE APPROVE THE CONTRACT TONIGHT, THAT'S ALL WE'RE ENTITLED.

ALL WE'RE OBLIGATED FOR IS THE ONE YEAR IF YOU PRINT THIS CONTRACT.

WELL IN YOUR SCORE AND I MEAN THE, THE OTHER FIRM WAS GOING TO DO 228 HOURS AND THEY'RE GOING TO DO 360 HOURS.

I MEAN, HOW GOOD TWO ACCOUNTING FIRMS VARY THAT MUCH AND THE NUMBER OF HOURS THEY'RE GOING TO SPEND OTHER THAN MAYBE, UH, SEEING YOUR IS YOUR FIRM IS GOING TO SPOT CHECK AND DO SOME 10% RANDOM AUDITS OR SOMETHING.

I MEAN, WHAT'S, WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE IN THE NUMBER OF HOURS A DAY.

AND THAT OBVIOUSLY IS PART OF HOW YOU SCORE THEM.

SO, YEAH, IT IS, THAT WAS WHERE WE REALLY HAD A BIG GAP, UM, BECAUSE I, I JUST DON'T FEEL THAT THAT'S ENOUGH TIME TO SET ASIDE.

AND SO I FEEL THAT IT WOULD BE, UM, A STRUGGLE TO GET THROUGH THAT AUDIT IN A TIMELY MANNER.

SO LIKE, UM, WHAT, UM, AUTOMATED OLDER.

SO, UM, THE RFP GOES OUT, YOU ASKED FOR THREE YEARS, BUT WE SIGNED THE ANNUALLY.

SO IF WE JUST MOVE FORWARD AND APPROVE THIS, WE'RE ONLY LAPPING FOR THAT YEAR.

WELL, I WOULD NOT FEEL COMFORTABLE UNLESS THE MOTION STATED THAT WE ARE APPROVING A ONE-YEAR CONTRACT.

I WOULDN'T WANT IT.

I DON'T KNOW WHETHER IT'S AN EXTENSION OR ONE YEAR CONTRACT, BUT THAT'S WHAT I WOULD FEEL COMFORTABLE WITH.

I WON'T FEEL COMFORTABLE WITH APPROVING AN RFP.

WE WERE JUST LOOKING AT THE CONTRACT AND IT SAYS THIS CONTRACT CAN BE MODIFIED, UH, WITH THE EXPRESS WRITTEN CONSENT OF BOTH PARTIES.

SO IT COULD BE MODIFIED TO ONE YEAR.

IS THAT YOUR MOTION? AND IT WOULD BE MY EMOTION.

I LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION THAT WE, UM, UH, SEE HOW WE'RE GOING TO PUT THIS, ADOPT A RESOLUTION, APPROVING AN AUDIT CONTRACT FOR ONE YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 20, 22.

IS THAT CORRECT? IS THAT HOW YOU THAT'S, HOW YOU HAVE IT LISTED HERE? IS THAT CORRECT FOR JUNE 30? WOULD IT BE JUNE 30, 20, 23? IT WOULD BE FOR THE AUDIT.

MA'AM ATTORNEY, ARE YOU GOOD WITH THE MOTION? YES.

THAT'S RIGHT.

THAT'S MY MOTHER.

I WAS JUST WONDERING WHAT WAS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN JUST EXTENDING THERE'S FOUR YEAR VERSUS GOING THROUGH THIS? I MEAN, WHAT I DON'T KNOW, IS IT CHEAPER FOR US TO EXTEND THEM FOR A YEAR OR IS IT, I THINK WHAT SHE SHOULD DO.

I MEAN, I'M FOR THE MOTION, BUT I THINK THAT THE BOARD NEEDS TO GET STARTED ON THIS EARLIER, LIKE FEBRUARY OR SOMETHING AND MAYBE HAVE AN AD HOC TO REACH OUT AND FIND SOME, YOU KNOW, SOMEBODY ELSE.

I MEAN LIKE THE CITY OF ASHEVILLE, I THINK THEY HAVE A POLICY THAT THEY, THEY GET SOMEBODY NEW.

EVERY WHAT I FOUND OUT TODAY, CITY BASHFUL, IT HAS A FIVE-YEAR CONTRACT AND THEY NEVER, YOU CAN'T GO TO THE SAME PERSON.

YOU CAN'T DO A NEW THE CONTRACT, YOU BARELY DO IT.

AND IT'S JUST TO MAKE SURE THEY HAVE DIFFERENT EYES LOOKING AT THEIR STUFF, WHICH I THINK IS A GOOD IDEA.

UM,

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AND JUST TO ASK, ANSWER THE QUESTION, IF THE BOARD WAS INCLINED TO ASK FOR AN EXTENSION, THE COMPANY WOULD HAVE TO AGREE TO THAT BEFORE AN EXTENSION COULD BE GRANTED AND THEY WOULD HAVE TO AGREE IN WRITING.

SO IF YOU'RE INCLINED TO MAKE AN ADOPTION AND ENTER AN AGREEMENT TONIGHT, UM, YOU WOULD HAVE TO CONSIDER THE ONE IN FRONT OF YOU.

IT SAYS THE MOTION THAT WE MADE, THEY WOULD HAVE TO AGREE UPON THAT AS WELL.

IF THE CONTRACT IS FOR ONE YEAR IT'S BEFORE YOU, I ASSUME, BASED ON THEIR THEY'RE PREPARING AT THAT CONTRACT.

AND IT WOULD BE FOR ONE YEAR, WHICH WOULD MATCH THE MOTION THAT ULTIMATELY GO MAINE.

ANY OTHER QUESTIONS ABOUT THE MOTION? IF NOT ESTABLISH A ROM-COM STARTING WITHOUT RIBBON ODOM.

I WANT TO RUN THE ITEM.

ALDERMAN ASKED HER OUT A WOMAN HARRIS OTTOMAN THING.

ON NUMBER SIX, 10, AND OUR NEXT ITEMS CONSIDER A RESOLUTION DESIGNATED APPLICANT'S AGENT FOR NC EMERGENCY MANAGER, MATT GRANT NUMBER DR.

AYE.

MOTION CARRIES

[16. Consider Adopting a Resolution Designating Applicant's Agent for NC Emergency Management Grant #DR4393.]

4 3 9 3 FEMA REQUIRES AGENTS TO BE DESIGNATED FOR THE PURPOSE OF FILING APPLICATIONS, REPRESENTING AN ACTING ON BEHALF OF THE CITY WITH RESPECT TO DISASTER ASSISTANCE GRANT, THIS RESOLUTION WILL DESIGNATE THE CITY SENIOR ACCOUNTANT AS THE PRIMARY AGENT AND THE CITY MANAGER AS A SECONDARY AGENT FOR THE HAZARD MITIGATION AND RESILIENCY PLAN.

GRANT INFORMATION FROM MR. SHELLEY'S ATTACHED.

YEAH, MAN, I'D LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION THAT WE GOT RESOLUTION DESIGNATED THE APPLICANT APPLICANT'S AGENT FOR THE NORTH COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT GRANT DIOR FOR 30 43 93 TO OUR SENIOR ACCOUNTANT.

UM, A FINANCE DIRECTOR, EXCUSE ME.

AND THE CITY MANAGER BEING THE SECONDARY.

IS THAT CORRECT? SENIOR ACCOUNTANT, SENIOR ACCOUNTANT.

GET A SECOND MOTION.

AND SECOND IS THERE DISCUSSION.

SEE, NONE OF US HAVE A ROLL CALL STARTING WITH ALL THE BENGAL OTTOMAN BINGO.

AUTO WOMAN HARRIS OTTOMAN ASKED HER OUT LONG OTTOMAN KINSEY OUTER RING, THE BEST OUT OF AN ITEM.

[17. Consider Adopting a Resolution Approving a Records Retention Policy for Documents Created or Maintained Pursuant to the American Rescue Plan Act and Coronavirus State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds Award.]

NUMBER 17 MAYOR.

NEXT ITEMS CONSIDER A RESOLUTION APPROVING A RECORDS RETENTION POLICY FOR DOCUMENTS CREATED OR MAINTAINED PURSUANT TO THE AMERICAN RESCUE PLAN ACT AND CORONAVIRUS STATE, AND LOCAL FISCAL RECOVERY FUNDS AWARD, UH, BE SOCIABLE, PRESENT THIS ITEM.

SO, UM, THERE ARE SEVERAL ITEMS THAT WE HAVE IN OUR CURRENT RETENTION SCHEDULE THAT ARE LESS THAN FIVE YEARS.

HOWEVER, ARPA POLICY STATES FIVE YEARS AFTER ALL FUNDS HAVE BEEN EXPENDED.

SO THERE'S A NEED TO, UM, UH, DOC ADAPT THE, UM, ARPA C S L F R F FUNDS REFERENCE RETENTION POLICY SO THAT WE STAY IN COMPLIANCE WITH ARPA.

MAY I LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION THAT WE ADOPT A RESOLUTION APPROVING OUR RECORDS, RETENTION POLICY FOR DOCUMENTS CREATED OR MAINTAINED PURSUANT TO THE AMERICAN RESCUE PLAN ACT IN CONTROL, CORONAVIRUS, STATE, AND LOCAL PHYSICAL RECOVERY FUNDS AWARD.

SECOND MOTION.

AND SECOND, IS THERE DISCUSSION SEEING THEM AS HAVE A ROLL CALL? ALDERMAN ADAM ALDERMAN DEATH, ALDERMAN KINSEY, MAY OUR OUTLIERS ALDERMAN ASKS A WOMAN HARRIS ALDERMAN BAGEL.

[18. Consider Adopting a Resolution Approving a Nondiscrimination Policy Pursuant to the American Rescue Plan Act and Coronavirus State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds Award.]

NUMBER EIGHT MAYOR.

NEXT TIME IT WAS CONSIDERED A RESOLUTION APPROVING A NON-DISCRIMINATION POLICY PURSUANT TO THE AMERICAN RESCUE PLAN ACT AND CORONAVIRUS STATE LOCAL FISCAL RECOVERY FUNDS AWARD ANCESTRAL MAKE THIS PRESENTATION AGAIN.

THIS IS ANOTHER POLICY THAT'S REQUIRED TO, UM, FOR THE ARPA NCSL, F R F R A FUNDS.

UM, WE HAVE TO ADOPT A NON-DISCRIMINATION POLICY IN ORDER TO COMPLY WITH THE FEDERAL STATUTES AND REGULATIONS.

MAY I LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION THAT WE ADOPT A RESOLUTION APPROVING THE NON-DISCRIMINATION POLICY PURSUANT TO THE AMERICAN RESCUE PLAN ACT, THE CORONAVIRUS STATE AND LOCAL PHYSICAL RECOVERY FUNDS AWARD.

SECONDLY, DISCUSSION SEEING NONE HAVE ROLE.

CARL STARTED WITH MELBOURNE BANGALORE, ALDERMAN BAGEL OUT A WOMAN HARRIS ALDERMAN MAYOR, ALDERMAN KINSEY, ORDERING THIS ALDERMAN ITEM.

MOTION CARRIES APPOINTMENTS, ALDERMAN ATTORNEY'S REPORT SYDNEY MANAGER'S

[21. City Manager's Report.]

REPORT.

WE'RE THE ONLY ONE I'M MAYOR.

AS YOU CAME IN THIS EVENING, YOU SAW THE POSTER AT THE ENTRANCE.

AND JUST TO REMIND EVERYONE THAT NATIONAL PUBLIC WORKS WEEK WILL BE MAY 15TH THROUGH THE 21ST.

SO SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL PUBLIC WORKS STAFF.

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AND THAT'S ALL WE KNOW THE, UH, FESTIVAL FUND LOOKED VERY WELL ATTENDED AND PEOPLE, I MEAN, DID, WAS IT A GREAT SUCCESS? I THINK IT WAS A VERY GOOD SUCCESS.

I THINK THE, ONE OF THE BIGGEST HITS WAS THE DUCKING TANK.

AND SO PARKS AND RECREATION DID A GREAT JOB FOR THAT.

AND THEN I THINK THEY'RE GOING TO TRY TO BRING THAT DUCK AND PA TANK BACK ON FOUR TIMES AND WHO KNOWS MAYBE, MAYBE THEY'LL GET SOME ELECTED OFFICIALS IN THAT.

WE ALSO SPEAK TO WHAT WE DID AT 5 45 TONIGHT.

I THINK IT WOULD BE GOOD FOR THE PUBLIC TO KNOW THAT WE DID DO A GROUNDBREAKING AND MAYBE A LITTLE MORE SCHEDULE ABOUT THE ELEVATOR.

THAT'S A $3.9 MILLION PROJECT.

SO GROUNDBREAKING DID OCCUR FOR THE ELEVATOR PROJECT.

AND AS YOU MAY HAVE SEEN IN THE, UH, BEHIND US, THE CONTRACTORS HAVE MOBILIZED, UH, PARKING IN THE BACK HERE IS GOING TO BE DISRUPTIVE FOR THE NEXT YEAR.

UM, THEY ARE PLAYING TOMORROW TO START PUTTING UP FENCING IN THE, IN THE GREEN SPACE WHERE THE ELEVATOR WILL BE LOCATED, UM, REALLY IN ABOUT ANOTHER WEEK OR SO YOU'RE GOING TO START SEEING SOME MAJOR WORKERS START WORKING ON THIRTEENS AND THEN, UH, THE NEW BUILDING WILL START RISING.

SO WHEN I WAS TALKING TO THE CONTRACTOR EARLIER, UM, I ASKED, HOW FAR ARE YOU ON THAT YEAR? AND THEY SAID, PRETTY FIRM.

SO IT WILL BE A ONE-YEAR PROJECT.

UM, WE, WE DID HAVE THE BUS THAT WAS LOCATED RIGHT OUT HERE AND ALSO A FLASH WE'RE GOING TO RELOCATE THE BLACK AND THE BUS WHERE WE'RE ALSO WORKING THE DIGRAPH AND REQUEST.

WE ARE WORKING WITH THE ARTS COUNCIL ON SOME TYPE OF COVER THAT WE CAN HAVE TO PROTECT THAT.

SO I'M WORKING WITH JONATHAN AND HE IS ACTUALLY REACHED OUT TO SOME ART PROFESSORS AT ECU TO GIVE US THE BEST RECOMMENDATION FOR HOW WE CAN PROTECT THAT BUS.

AND ONCE WE GET THAT, WE INSTALL THAT IN FRONT OF CITY HALL.

GREAT USED, COULD YOU POSSIBLY, I'M NOT EVEN GOING TO PUT A SIGN UP AND PUT SOME TYPE OF A PERSPECTIVE, THIS TYPE ELEVATION OF YOUR ONE FIVE SCHOOL CAN GET AN IDEA OF WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN.

YES, WE CAN DO THAT.

I DON'T REMEMBER WHAT YOUR AWARD.

YEAH, NO.

I'VE HAD A FEW QUESTIONS.

PEOPLE DIDN'T KNOW WHAT WAS GOING ON AND YOU KNOW, IT MIGHT BE GOOD.

I KNOW YOU DON'T WANT TO PUT ANYTHING IN THE AREA WHERE THEY'RE BUILDING, BUT MAYBE SOMETHING UNDER WHERE IT SAYS CITY HALL, MAYBE THERE'S SOME KIND OF POSTER OR SOMETHING YOU CAN PUT COMING SOON OR, YOU KNOW, COMING IN A YEAR AND ENDED UP A PICTURE OF THE, WHAT IT'S GOING TO LOOK LIKE.

AND I SUCH A PLEASING, IT'S GOING TO LOOK BRIGHT.

WE ACTUALLY THOUGHT THEY WERE DOING THAT DAY.

THEY INSTALLED THIS, THIS LARGE SIDE OVER HERE.

UH, BUT IT WAS JUST THEIR SAFETY MESSAGING FOR THE CONTRACTORS.

THAT'S WHERE YOU'LL BE ENTERING THE CONSTRUCTION SITE.

YES, WE WILL GET, WE WILL GET SOMETHING HAPPENED.

ANYTHING ELSE FROM THE MANAGER? YEP.

YOU GOT A QUESTION.

WHERE ARE WE WITH THE POINT IN FIVE TODAY? SO WE HAVE SIGNED A CONTRACT WITH, UM, OAKLAND COLLIE OR ASSOCIATES AND THEY SHOULD BE BIDDING THAT PROJECT OUT PROBABLY IN ANOTHER MONTH OR SO.

UH, IT'LL TAKE APPROXIMATELY SIX MONTHS FOR THAT PROJECT TO BE COMPLETE.

SO WE WERE IN, WE WERE IN THE PROCESS, I THINK BY THE END OF THE YEAR THAT BE DONE.

SO THERE WILL BE A LOT OF CONSTRUCTION GOING ON AND ESPECIALLY WITH THE ELEVATOR GOING ON, UM, OAKLEY, KALI, OR WHOEVER HAD THEY HAVE FOR A CONTRACTOR WILL BE WORKING AROUND THE ELEVATOR PROJECT, BUT ALL FOUR SIDES WILL BE COMPLETED.

AND WHEN WILL WE START SEEING SOMETHING FOR THE STANLEY WHITE CENTER, ACTUAL GROUNDBREAKING, YOU KNOW, WHATEVER NEXT ON THE LIST.

SO, UM, CPL, THEY ARE BUSY AT WORK.

THEY, UH, YOU KNOW, WHEN, WHEN THEY PRESENTED THE FIRST PLAN, IT WAS A CONCEPT.

SO NOW THEY'RE ACTUALLY MAKING THINGS WORK ON THEIR CURRENT PLAN.

SO THEY'RE BUSY DOING THAT RIGHT NOW.

I EXPECT THEM TO COME BACK TO US AND MAKE A PRESENTATION.

UM, IT'LL PROBABLY BE ANOTHER MONTH OR SO THEN AFTER THAT, UM, THEY WILL GO TO BED AND WE HOOKED TO BREAK GROUND ON THAT PROJECT LATER THIS FALL.

START A BUSINESS WHERE THE AUNTIE ALDO SHOW THIS WEEKEND.

UM, LET'S

[22. New Business.]

MEETING AND THEY WERE SPENT SENT TO EVERY BUSINESS ON MIDDLE STREET CRAVEN STREET IN POLK STREET.

SO, UM, I GUESS WE'RE GOING TO BE HAVING THE CARS ON THE STREETS IN DOWNTOWN NEW, ON SATURDAY.

SO COME OUT AND ENJOY THEM.

IT'S A LOCAL SHOW.

SO IT WON'T BE AS LARGE AS WHAT WE'VE EXPERIENCED IN THE PAST WITH SOME OF THE REGIONAL AND STATE ONES, BUT IT'S ALWAYS GOOD TO HAVE THE CARS IN DOWNTOWN NEWBURN, BUT, UM, SPEAKING OF CLOSING THE STREETS, UM, I WANNA MAKE SURE I WANT TO CORRECT SOME INFORMATION.

I'VE HAD A FEW CALLS THIS WEEK FROM BUSINESSES IN DOWNTOWN NEW YORK, UM, ABOUT SOME INFORMATION TO MISINFORMATION THAT HAS BEEN PUT OUT THERE.

AND I WANT TO MAKE SURE FOR THE RECORD MADAM CLERK, THAT, UM, IT, THE CORRECT INFORMATION IS OUT THERE.

SO FIRST AND FOREMOST, UM, ON, UH, LET'S SEE FIT IN FEBRUARY.

UH, THE END OF FEBRUARY MEETING WAS HELD OF THE DOWNTOWN COUNCIL.

UM, TWO NOTICES WERE SENT, UM, OF THE

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AND I DO HAVE ACCESS TO THE LIST OF PEOPLE THEY WERE SENT TO WHETHER PEOPLE SAW THEM OR NOT.

I'M NOT SURE, BUT THEY WERE SENT TO ALL BUSINESSES.

THE NEXT FACT IS THAT ON FEBRUARY 24TH, THE DOWNTOWN COUNCIL HELD THE MEETING AND THERE WERE 40 PLUS ATTENDANCE AT THAT MEETING.

AND THE PURPOSE OF THE MEETING WAS TO DISCUSS STREET CLOSURES FOR THE YEAR.

SO IT WOULD BE STARTING IN APRIL GOING THROUGH THE END OF THE YEAR.

UM, THERE WAS GOOD LIVELY DISCUSSION.

OF COURSE I WAS THERE, THERE WAS GOOD DISCUSSION AND THERE WERE SOME OPPOSED.

THERE WERE, WAS ONE, ONE BUSINESS THAT WAS OPPOSED THAT WAS ATTENDING, UM, OF, OF ALL THE BUSINESSES THERE.

AND THEY JUST DON'T LIKE THE STREETS BEING CLOSED.

THEY CONCERNED THAT IT HURTS THEIR BUSINESS, WHATEVER, BUT, UM, THE ORIGINAL PROPOSAL WAS JUST TO CLOSE THE STREETS ON ART WALK EVENINGS, AND BECAUSE OF THE DISCUSSION AND THE BACK AND FORTH, IT WAS DECIDED THAT THEY WOULD KEEP IT TO EVERY FRIDAY NIGHT.

CONSISTENCY WAS GOOD.

PEOPLE DIDN'T HAVE TO REMEMBER.

IS IT THE FIRST FRIDAY, THE LAST FRIDAY? SO LOTS AND LOTS OF GOOD DISCUSSION.

SO THE RESOLUTION THAT WE APPROVED ON MARCH 22ND, THAT WAS UNANIMOUSLY APPROVED FROM THE BOARD INCLUDED EVERY FRIDAY NIGHT.

I BELIEVE IT WAS MOTHER'S DAY EASTER SUNDAY, AND THERE'S A SATURDAY IN THERE FOR THE CAR SHOW AND SOME OTHER THINGS AS WE GET CLOSER TO THE HOLIDAYS.

THAT'S A FACT.

THE NEXT FACT I WANT TO TALK ABOUT IS WHEN THE STREETS WERE CLOSED ON EASTER SUNDAY, AGAIN, WE APPROVED IT DOWNTOWN COUNCIL APPROVED IT.

THE STREETS WERE CLOSED FROM THE MORNING.

UM, THERE WERE THREE PARTICIPANTS THAT SIGNED UP FOR, UM, DINING IN THE STREETS FOR THAT SUNDAY MORNING.

IT WAS BAKER'S KITCHEN THAT STARTS SERVING AT 7:00 AM.

IT WAS CYPRESS HALL THAT STARTS SERVING AT 10 30 AND IT WAS CAPTAIN RODDY'S WHO GOES SOMEWHERE BETWEEN SEVEN AND 8:00 AM.

UM, UNFORTUNATELY I DON'T KNOW IF WE REMEMBER, BUT WE HAD A PRETTY BIG POWER OUTAGE IN DOWNTOWN ON THAT DAY, CHARLIE, I'M SURE YOU REMEMBER THAT I GOT THE TWO HOUR WARNING FROM YOU.

UM, BUT IT IMPACTED THE SIDE OF THE MIDDLE STREET THAT CAPTAIN RATTUS WAS ON.

SO THEY WERE NOT ABLE TO GET IN THE STREET.

THEREFORE IT WAS ONLY BAKER'S KITCHEN AND IT WAS, UH, CYPRESS HALL.

UM, IT WAS STATED SOME MISINFORMATION IS THAT THE STREET WAS ONLY CLOSED FOR BAKER'S KITCHEN.

THAT IS INCORRECT.

UH, BOTH CYPRESS HALT AND BAKER'S KITCHEN WERE OUT THERE.

RADISH WOULD HAVE BEEN OUT THERE IF THEY HAD HAD POWER.

UH, BAKER'S KITCHEN CLOSES AT TWO O'CLOCK.

SO ABOUT MATH QUARTER TO TWO, MOST OF THEIR TABLES WERE BROKEN DOWN AND THEIR DAY WAS ENDING, BUT CYPRESS HALL WAS STILL THERE UNTIL THREE O'CLOCK THE APPOINTED TIME FOR THE STREET CLOSURE.

UM, A PICTURE WAS PASSED AROUND THAT SHOWED REALLY NOBODY IN THE STREETS WITH BAKER'S KITCHEN.

THAT IS INCORRECT.

AND I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT, UM, CORRECT INFORMATION IS OUT THERE AS FAR AS, UM, HAVING SIGNATURES OF PEOPLE, YOU KNOW, MANY TIMES WHEN WE ASKED FOR STREET CLOSURES, YOU DO IT FOR, UH, JUNETEENTH AND OTHER ORGANIZATIONS.

WE ASK FOR, UM, NEIGHBORS TO SIGN TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY ALL AGREE WHAT THE DOWNTOWN BUSINESS COUNCIL DATA'S.

WE HAD A MEETING, WE PUBLICIZED IT, THE MEETING WAS HELD, UM, A LETTER WAS SENT FROM SWISS BAYER AND FROM DANNY BATON STATING WHO THE, THAT THE ATTENDEES WERE THERE, THERE WAS 40 PLUS ATTENDEES.

AND IT WAS A MAJORITY OF, OF PEOPLE THAT, UH, DID THAT.

I DON'T THINK ANYWHERE AND CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG, THAT IT STATES, UM, WE ARE REQUIRED TO DO THAT.

WE ASK THEM TO DO THAT.

SO THERE'S NO PROBLEMS THAT PEOPLE CAN'T COME BACK.

UM, I DID FIND OUT THAT ALL PEOPLE WERE NOTIFIED OF THE MEETING AND THE AGENDA.

SO THAT IS A FACT.

SO I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE MY POINT IN SAYING ALL THIS TONIGHT WITH THE STREET CLOSURES IS THIS IS, THIS IS GREAT FOR NEWBURN WHERE YOU GET LOTS AND LOTS OF COMPLIMENTS.

UM, I WAS NOT ATTENDING YESTERDAY, BUT THERE WAS A MEETING OF THE BED AND BREAKFAST AND SOME OF THE HOSPITALITY BUSINESSES DOWNTOWN, UM, OTHER HOTELS.

AND THEY ARE JUST, THEY, CUSTOMERS ARE RAVING ABOUT THE FACT THAT THEY CAN COME INTO OUR STREETS AND DINE ON FRIDAY EVENINGS AND REALLY LIKE IT.

AND WE'RE ALL BENEFIT BENEFITING FROM IT.

AND I WANNA MAKE SURE TO, UM, UH, MRS. MOSLEY,

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UM, I JUST WANNA, AGAIN, SINCE YOU'RE OUR COUNCIL THIS EVENING, IT IS NOT A CONFLICT OF INTEREST TO VOTE ON SOMETHING THAT IMPACTS ALL PEOPLE.

I OWN A BUSINESS ON MIDDLE STREET THAT WAS INVOLVED IN, IN BEING ABLE TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF A STREET CLOSURE, BUT SO WERE ALL THE OTHER BUSINESS.

SO THEREFORE, IS THAT A CONFLICT OF INTEREST? YES OR NO? NO, MA'AM, THAT'S NOT A CONFLICT OF MPA.

I JUST WANT TO, FOR THE RECORD, STATE THAT AGAIN.

CAUSE THERE SEEMS TO BE SOME CONFUSION ABOUT IT AND I JUST WANT TO STATE THAT FOR THE RECORD, BUT THIS IS GOOD FOR OUR CITY.

IT HAS HELPED, IT HELPED DURING COVID.

UM, IT, YOU KNOW, IT'S GOOD FOR US AND I THINK WE HAVE TO CONTINUE TO DO THINGS.

SO UNFORTUNATELY THERE ALWAYS BE PEOPLE WHO DON'T AGREE WITH THE THINGS WE DO.

WE TRY TO GO WITH THE MAJORITY.

SO THAT'S THE POINT THAT I'M MAKING IS WHEN WE HAVE A MAJORITY OF PEOPLE THAT ARE IN FAVOR OF SOMETHING AND IT'S WORKING GOOD.

THAT'S WHAT WE GET FOR.

THANK YOU ALL FOR ALLOWING ME TO BE SO ONE, I JUST WANTED TO, UM, ASK, CAUSE I KNOW SOMEONE REACHED OUT TO ME, I THINK, UM, IN REGARDS TO THE SIGNATURES, I THINK THE DISCREPANCY WAS THAT THEY SAID TO ME, WAS IT WASN'T IN THE PACKET? I DON'T KNOW WHETHER THEY WERE THERE OR NOT, BUT I THINK THAT'S WHAT IT WAS, BOTH LETTERS, WORDS.

THEN THE OTHER THING I WANTED TO KNOW IS, UM, THE DOWNTOWN WITH THE STREET CLOSURES, IF THERE IS OTHER BUSINESSES THAT MAY WANT TO PARTICIPATE, LIKE SAY POSSIBLE BUSINESSES ON SOUTH GLEN BURNIE, DO WE NEED TO GO THROUGH THAT SAME PROCESS THAT, UM, DOWNTOWN DID? OR, I MEAN, THERE ARE A LOT OF PEOPLE THAT ARE, UM, IN THE WORKS IN, IN HAVING THE CONVERSATION OF, YOU KNOW, MAYBE THIS COULD BE A CITY-WIDE THING ON SPECIFIC DAYS WHERE THERE'S OTHER RESTAURANTS THAT MAY WANT TO PARTICIPATE IN KIND OF HAVE LIKE AN OUTDOOR TYPE OF, IN OTHER PARTS OF THE CITIES THAT WAS REFERRED TO.

I JUST NEED TO GET THROUGH THAT SAME PROCESS.

AND WE DID, I DON'T KNOW IF YOU REMEMBER, BUT DURING COVID ONE, WE WERE ALLOWING OUTSIDE DINING, WE WAIVED, UM, THE PARKING REQUIREMENTS FOR PEOPLE.

ONE OF THE EXAMPLES WOULD BE LOCKUSET WE WAIVED THOSE PARKING SPACES SO HE COULD BUILD THAT OUT.

SO I PUT THAT OUTSIDE AREA FOR PATRONS TO BUILD OUTSIDE.

SO WE DID THAT AS PART OF THAT, OUTSIDE DINING TO ALLOW ANYBODY THROUGHOUT THE CITY TO DO THAT BECAUSE, UM, BUT ISN'T THAT A GOOD BUYER NOW? UM, I DON'T KNOW IF IT HAD A SUNSET ON IT.

I'M NOT SURE, BUT WE'LL HAVE A SUNSET.

I THINK WE CHANGE THE ORDINANCE TO DO THAT.

UM, YEAH.

UM, BUT YOU KNOW, IN CLOSING THE STREETS, ANYBODY CAN REQUEST A STREET CLUB.

I JUST WANTED TO JUST SEE IF IT WAS SOMETHING THAT MAY BE ALL THE TIME.

I MEAN, MAYBE IT'S SOMETHING WHERE WE JUST NEED TO MAKE AN ORDINANCE AND IT'S JUST SET UP THIS, THIS ISN'T AN ORDINANCE.

IT'S JUST A REP.

WE REQUIRE A REQUEST TO CLOSE THIS, RIGHT.

BUT YOU'RE AT A YEAR.

AND IF YOU WANT TO KEEP DOING, INSTEAD OF HAVING TO COME TO THE BOARD, IT MAY BE SOMETHING THAT COULD BE DISCUSSED BECAUSE THERE MAY BE OTHER BUSINESSES THROUGHOUT THE CITY THAT YOU GET WHAT I'M SAYING.

I'M NOT SURE BECAUSE IF YOU WANT TO CLOSE THE STREET, I MEAN, YOU MAY WANT TO CLOSE THE STREET 10 TIMES A YEAR.

YOU WOULD COME ONE TIME AND SAY, THESE ARE THE DATES I WANT TO CLOSE THEM NEXT YEAR, WHATEVER, YOU KNOW, TO JUST SAY, IT'S A BLANKET, YOU CAN CLOSE THE SHIPMENT AT YOU.

CAN'T SARAH.

WE, THAT I'M SAYING THE WAY THAT YOU COME TOGETHER AND ORGANIZING THIS.

I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT IT'S SOMETHING THAT OTHER BUSINESSES, RESTAURANTS DO DRIVE THE CITY OR I WORK, WILL IT BE MORE DIFFICULT BECAUSE OF THE LOCATIONS AND STUFF? SO I GUESS IT'S A CASE BY CASE PROBABLY ABOUT 10 YEARS AGO, I WORKED WITH THE CHAMBER TO TRY TO FORM THE GLEN BURNIE COUNCIL BECAUSE WE WANTED, BECAUSE THE COMPLAINT WAS WHAT VAN HAD US DOING THIS.

SO WE WORKED AND TALKED TO THE BUSINESSES AND NO ONE WAS INTERESTED IN PARTICIPATING.

WE COULDN'T GET A CORE GROUP TOGETHER TO LEAD IT AND DO IT, MAYBE, YOU KNOW, A DIFFERENT TIME.

THEY MAY WANT TO DO IT AGAIN, BUT IT JUST TAKES THE GROUP OF PEOPLE COMING TOGETHER AND SAYING, JUST LIKE, YOU COULD HAVE FIVE POINTS, SAY HERE'S THE FIVE POINTS GROUP THAT WANTS TO DO A B AND SAY, I'M GOING TO STILL BE THE SAME DIFFERENCE.

ALL RIGHT.

I WILL RELAY THAT INFORMATION.

AND IT WILL ALSO DEPEND ON THE STREET.

UM, YOU'VE GOT THE AUTHORITY TO CLOSE THE CITY STREET, BUT IF IT'S A STATE ROAD, WE DON'T HAVE THAT AUTHORITY TO DO THAT.

ANYTHING ELSE? YES, SIR.

IT IS ELECTION TIME MAY 17TH IS THE ELECTION EARLY VOTING IS OUT HERE FOR A REASON.

UM, I JUST WANT TO REMIND EVERYBODY THAT MAY 21ST, UM, MICHELLE AND BRIAN, UM, IS, UM, DOING AT TRIAL COLLEGE.

THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD SYMPOSIUM IS FROM EIGHT TO 5:00 PM.

IT'S FAMILY BRING YOUR CHILDREN.

IT'S $5.

UM, YOU KNOW, THAT GOES TO HELP SUPPORT THE DIFFERENT THINGS THAT GO ON AT TRIAL POWER.

SO PLEASE SHOW UP.

ANOTHER THING IS LIKE, UM, THE GENTLEMAN ON THE PETITIONER CITIZENS,

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UM, AND WE NEED YOU TO COME OUT AND VOTE.

UM, VOTING IS IMPORTANT, ESPECIALLY FOR THE INDIVIDUALS THAT YOU WANT TO PUT ON THE BOARD.

DON'T CARE WHO YOU VOTE FOR.

I CARE THAT YOU DO VOTE.

UM, THAT'S IMPORTANT.

THE NUMBERS ARE LOW.

AND IF YOU WAIT TILL TUESDAY, IT MAY BE RAINING.

IT COULD BE SNOWING, MIGHT BE NO ELECTRICITY.

YOU GOING TO BE STANDING IN LINE.

SO WHY IS HERE THIS SATURDAY? IT IS AVAILABLE.

PLEASE COME OUT AND YOU CAN REGISTER AND VOTE THE SAME DAY, SEVEN 30, YES, 7:30 PM.

AND IF YOU DO DECIDE TO WAIT ELECTION DAY, KNOW THAT IF YOU ARE NOT REGISTERED TO VOTE, IF YOU REGISTER ON THAT DAY, YOU WILL GET A PROVISIONAL BALLOT AND THAT WILL BE PUT TO THE SIDE AND YOU WANT YOUR VOTE TO COUNT.

UM, SO PLEASE COME OUT THE EARLY VOTE AND WE WANT TO SEE YOUR BEAUTIFUL FACES, UM, AND PASS YOU OUT INFORMATION AND TELL YOU TO VOTE FOR US.

AND THAT IS ALL I HAVE ALL OF THEM.

OH, EXCUSE ME.

UM, YES, MR. MAYOR, I THINK MOST OF US HAVE READ IN THE, IN OUR HURDLE IN NEWS OF THE DAMAGE THAT WAS DONE AT THE SEA GROVE CEMETERY.

I HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO RIDE THROUGH THERE THE OTHER DAY AND THE DAMAGE.

THERE WAS A LOT OF DAMAGE THERE.

UM, I WANT TO MENTION THERE'S A GROUP AND I THINK THEY'RE ALL LADIES.

THIS, THERE MAY BE, THEY ARE ALWAYS CALLED THE QUESTERS.

YEP.

THEY'RE DOING A WONDERFUL JOB AND GETTING THAT CEMETERY PUT BACK TOGETHER.

UM, THERE'S BEEN SOME CONVERSATIONS ABOUT, UH, THIS ONE PARTICULAR GENTLEMAN THEY'RE TRYING TO HIRE TO COME DOWN TO DO THE WORK ON SOME OF THESE OLDER, UH, STONES THAT WERE DAMAGED.

UH, THEY HAVE JUST REALLY, THEY'RE DOING A WONDERFUL JOB AND, AND PLEASE, IF ANYONE OUT THERE NEEDS A GOOD ORGANIZATION TO DONATE TO CLUSTERS AND FOSTER CAN GET YOU THE INFORMATION, THE QUESTERS IS A WONDERFUL ORGANIZATION AND THEY, THEY NEED TO HELP THE, TO DO THE REPAIRS TO THAT CEDAR GROVE CEMETERY.

THEY'VE DONE SO MUCH WORK OUT THERE.

AND THOSE LADIES, UM, THEY, THEY GIVE TOURS IN THE CEMETERY TO RAISE MONEY AND, UH, THEY'VE DONE A TREMENDOUS AMOUNT OF WORK.

THEY PARKED ON THE WALLS OUT THERE.

THEY KEEP THE HEADSTONES, UM, CLEANED UP AND REPAIRED.

SO, UH, IT'S A GREAT ORGANIZATION.

I HOPE THAT BECAUSE OF THIS DAMAGE, THE CITY MIGHT HAVE A LITTLE MONEY THAT THEY CAN PUT US PARKS AND RECREATION COMPLETE ASIDE TO HELP THEM OUT WITH A LITTLE BIT, IT'S GONNA COST A LOT OF MONEY TO DO REPAIRS OUT THERE.

I WANTED TO AGREE WITH BOBBY.

I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE PROCEDURE IS OR WHAT THE PROCESS IS, BUT I REALLY DO THINK THAT, UM, THE WORK THAT THEY DO IS VERY IMPORTANT.

IT'S LESS WORK THAT WE HAVE TO DO.

AND IF THERE ARE SOME FUNDS, ESPECIALLY BECAUSE OF WHAT HAPPENED, IF WE CAN, IN SOME WAY, YOU KNOW, SUPPORT THE WORK THAT THEY'RE DOING, I THINK IS IMPORTANT IF WE CAN DO.

AND I WOULD ALSO RECOMMEND THAT IF YOU HAVE SOME DISCRETIONARY DISCRETIONARY FUNDS LEFT OVER TO, THEY COULD CERTAINLY USE THE MONEY THEY'RE THERE.

THEY'RE WORKING HARD TO TRY TO RAISE MONEY TO, TO REPAIR THOSE TWO.

NOW THAT ANYTHING ELSE? NO, SIR.

UM, I JUST WANT TO SAY THAT, UH, ONE THING I REALLY ENJOYED HAVE BEEN ENJOYING DOING AS MAYOR IS, IS BEING ABLE TO SHOW OFF, UH, ALL THE HISTORY AND ARCHITECTURE OF OUR CITY AND, UM, L R P THOMAS, 96 YEARS OLD, PASSED AWAY SUNDAY AND DEAR FRIEND TO ALL AND A TRUE LEADER IN THIS COMMUNITY.

UM, AND A LOT OF THE ARCHITECTURE BANKS AND OTHER THINGS YOU SEE, OR TRUMP HOUSE, A LOT OF HISTORIC HOMES, RENOVATIONS, HE AND FAMILY, UH, DID THAT.

SO A GREAT LOSS TO THE CITY AND OTHERS ON THE BOARD, ALL MY KIDS, ALL MY BEST.

UM, KIM, YOU KNOW, NOW THAT WE'VE APPROVED THESE TWO, UM, WE'VE ADOPTED, THESE ARE RESOLUTIONS TONIGHT ON OUR RECORD RETENTION AND OUR ABOVE, UH, NON-DISCRIMINATION POLICY.

UM, SO WHEN DO YOU ANTICIPATE, WHERE HAVE YOU RECEIVED NOTIFICATION THAT WE ARE GOING TO RECEIVE THE OTHER HALF OF THE $6.7 MILLION? I KNOW IT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE IN MAY OF THIS MONTH, OF THIS YEAR.

SO WE DID SUBMIT OUR REPORT AND, UM, WE SHOULD BE, I CAN GET BACK WITH YOU ON THAT.

I'M NOT SURE WHEN THEY'RE SENDING THAT MONEY, BUT WE DID DO OUR REPORT IN, UH, THEY'RE ANTICIPATING IN SENDING THAT OUT VERY SOON.

OTHER, UM, MONIES, WHICH IS $4.7 MILLION.

UM, I KNOW WE, AS A BOARD, WE DISCUSSED THAT, UM, AND WE APPROVED, UM, I THINK IT WAS 200, $2 MILLION FOR STORM WATER, BUT WE HAVEN'T DID ANYTHING ELSE OR APPROVED OR THE

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SO, UM, AND I JUST WANT US REALLY, I THINK WE, AS A BOARD SITTING BOARD RIGHT NOW AND THAT MONEY WAS, IS WANTING TO BE RECEIVED ALL OF IT DURING OUR TENURE.

I THINK THAT WE NEED TO BE THE ONE TO ACTUALLY, UM, ALLOCATE HOW WE WANT THIS REST OF THIS MONEY TO BE SPENT.

SO I DON'T KNOW HOW THE BOARD FEELS ABOUT IT.

I THOUGHT WE PRETTY MUCH LAID OUT THE PLAN.

I SAW HOW WE DID AND THEY IN DOLLARS AND I JUST ASSUMED THEY'LL COME OUT.

I SEE THE $2 MILLION IN THE BUDGET BOOK THAT OUR MAIN FUNDS MIGHT BE IN THERE.

I JUST HAVEN'T LOOKED THROUGH ENOUGH, BUT I FEEL CONFIDENT THAT WHAT WE DISCUSSED THE $250,000 GOING INTO THE REDEVELOPMENT THERE.

I MEAN, I FEEL CONFIDENT THAT THAT'S WHAT WE DISCUSSED AND WE'LL SEE IT WHERE IT'S SUPPOSED TO.

I THOUGHT WE ONLY APPROVED THAT NIGHT WAS FOR THE $2 MILLION STORM WATER AND MAYBE I'M WRONG, BUT THAT'S WHAT I THOUGHT I MIGHT GO THAT DIRECTION GIVES ME ALL THE MUD.

BINGO.

AM I CORRECT? KIM? IS THAT, THAT'S WHAT I JUST DID $2 MILLION.

SO WE GOT LIKE 4.7 MORE MILLION DOLLARS OUT THERE TO DISCUSS HOW WE WANT TO SPEND.

SO IT'S UP TO US TO MAKE THAT DECISION.

WELL I KNOW 250,000, PLEASE.

DON'T WE'RE NEVER ON THAT.

WE, WE WERE, WE AGREED ON A $250,000 DIRECTION TO DO ALL THAT.

SO DIRECTOR WAS, IT WAS ONLY GIVEN FOR APPROXIMATELY 2 MILLION, 250,000.

JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE.

SO IS THE BOARD TONIGHT OR YOU WANT TO WAIT TO KNOW ABOUT, I'M NOT INTERESTED IN DISCUSSING IT TONIGHT? I PERSONALLY THINK WE NEED TO WAIT UNTIL THE NEW BOARD IS SEATED.

SO, UH, THEY MAY HAVE THE NEW MEMBERS, IF THE BOARD CHANGES, THE NEW MEMBERS MAY HAVE SOME, UM, IDEAS THAT THEY WANT TO PRESENT.

AND IT'S GOING TO TAKE MORE THAN, I MEAN, IT'S GONNA TAKE SOME TIME TO SIT DOWN AND DISCUSSING HIS PROJECTS.

I MEAN, LAST TIME WE, WE DISCUSSED IT ON LIAM AND, AND WE SPENT ALMOST TWO HOURS TALKING ABOUT IT AND SAID, YEAH, I THINK IT WOULD BE POSSIBLY BE A WORK SESSION OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT, THAT WE HEAR FROM THE STAFF ON THE PROJECTS THAT ARE NEEDED.

AND, UM, YEAH, LET'S MAKE A DECISION THAT WAY, BUT I'M CERTAINLY NOT INTERESTED IN DISCUSSING IT WAS NINE, NOT WITHOUT HAVING SOME INPUT FROM THE STAFF AND THE CITY MANAGER AND RECOMMENDATIONS ON PROJECTS THAT ARE CRITICAL.

WELL, THIS IS WHAT WE RECEIVED.

AND THAT NIGHT OF PHONE, SORRY, I DON'T REMEMBER.

IT WAS DISPERSED ON MARCH EIGHT AND IT WAS A BULLET POINT LINE ITEM OF MONIES THAT WAS, UM, DISCUSSED IN A MEETING BETWEEN THE MAYOR AND ALDERMAN HARRIS.

AND, UM, I THINK IT WAS, I CAN'T REMEMBER THE OTHER ONE AND THAT WAS BROUGHT TO US THAT NIGHT TO DISCIPLINE DISCUSSION.

AND THAT'S WHY I JUST BOUGHT IT OFF.

I DIDN'T KNOW HOW THE BOARD FELT ABOUT IT AND THAT'S, THAT WAS IT OPEN AND THAT'S ALL I HAVE, MAN.

UH, MARY, THE ONLY COMMENT I WOULD SAY IS THAT THE BALANCE OF THAT MONEY, YOU MAY WANT TO KEEP IN CONSIDERATION THAT THIS BOARD OBLIGATED THE FUTURE BOARDS FOR $8 MILLION IN CAPITAL EXPENDITURES OF $4 MILLION ELEVATOR AND A $4 MILLION OVERAGE ON STANLEY WHITE.

SO THAT $8 MILLION KIM ROUGHLY DEBT SERVICE ON $8 MILLION ANNUALLY.

SO WE FINANCED THE ELEVATOR, RIGHT? THAT WAS 4 MILLION.

AND THE DEBT SERVICE ON THAT WAS HOW MUCH ANNUAL, UM, WE PAID ANNUALLY.

IT IS ABOUT 360.

SO YOU MIGHT AS WELL SAY $800,000 A YEAR IN ANNUAL DEBT SERVICE FOR THOSE TWO PROJECTS.

SO TAKE AN INTEREST RATE, RIGHT.

WHICH IS GOING UP.

YES, THAT'S ALL I HAVE.

SOME OF THE DRIVEWAYS AND THOSE DITCHES AND THE OTHER AREAS THAT WE ARE CONTINUALLY COMING ACROSS.

MA'AM OKAY.

UM, CAN WE GET A STATUS UPDATE ON THE FEMA MONEY OR THE YEAH.

THE FEMA MONEY THAT WAS DEDICATED FOR THE DITCHES AND WHERE WE'RE AT WITH THOSE EXPENDITURES? UM, AL WOULD YOU LIKE YES.

MR. MAYOR MEMBERS OF THE BOARD, UM, HONORING OLDER WOMAN HARRIS, UH, WE'LL BE GLAD TO GIVE YOU AN UPDATE ON WHERE WE'RE AT.

UM, RIGHT NOW, THE CONTRACTS WE'RE OUT ON FOR THE CAT D UM, PROJECTS, UH, GETTING READY TO AWARD BACK TO AS THE BOARD TOOK ACTION, A COUPLE OF MEETINGS AGO, WE WOULD GIVE YOU A BETTER, UM, STATUS OF WHERE WE'RE AT WITH EACH OF THESE, INCLUDING THE CAFE THAT HAS BEEN IN QUESTION, AS FAR AS WHERE WE CAN CONTINUE TO ADDRESS

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WE HAVE A ROUGH ESTIMATE OF HOW MUCH WE SPENT LAST TIME WE TALKED, I THINK IT WAS ABOUT SIX, 6.6 MILLION OUT OF THE 32 MILLION THAT WE RECEIVED.

YES, MA'AM, THAT'S WHAT I RECOLLECT AS FAR AS THE BALLPARK, BUT WE CAN GET BACK TO YOU AND GET YOU A BETTER FIGURE.

AND, UM, IS THERE A REASON WHY IT'S TAKING SO LONG TO SPEND THIS MONEY IN REGARDS TO THE DITCHES AND GETTING THEM CLEANED OUT? I KNOW IT'S BOBBY WASN'T LIKE A YEAR OR TWO.

I MEAN, HOW LONG WAS IT SUPPOSED TO BE FOR US TO BE ABLE TO MAKE SURE THAT THESE FUNDS WERE SPENT IN TAKING CARE OF THE DITCHES? BECAUSE HURRICANE SEASON IS UPON US.

AND IT'S JUST DISHEARTENING TO KNOW THAT WE'VE ONLY SPENT 6.6 MILLION OF $33 MILLION AND THEY CAME AND GAVE US THAT MONEY.

AND I KNOW YOU'RE NEW, BUT THEY GAVE US THIS MONEY BASED ON THE ASSESSMENT.

AND IT, I MEAN, I DON'T KNOW IF WE NEED TO GET MORE PEOPLE OUT THERE WHAT'S GOING ON, BUT YOU KNOW, WE NEED TO START SPENDING THAT MONEY AND GET THOSE DITCHES TAKEN CARE OF.

YES, MA'AM, THAT'S ALL I HAVE.

CAUSE I CAN'T FORGET.

I CAN'T REMEMBER THAT.