City Council - Special Meeting

District here. Mr. Henry, district here. Mr. James Green, district. God at this meeting according to your will in Jesus name I pray. Amen. Amen.

I aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the stands one nation indivisibley and justice for all comments as they would like to relate to item on the agenda please. Mayor if I may before uh we go to public comment uh re officer may mutend members I passed out a lease agreement we were supposed to have this on the agenda uh for this meeting but due circumstance that we couldn't control uh we weren't able to get Mr. Brown's information uh until earlier this morning. So I ask that the council if if you could consent to expanding the agenda to add an item to provide the mayor's authority to enter a lease agreement of Donald E. Brown in regards to leasing the ditto building at 16 at uh 615 street. Uh it's kind of uh something that was uh something that the mayor's been working toward for a few weeks that kind of sped up and came to what we thought was fruition Friday. Um but we had a hiccup again. No fault of anybody's other than just circumstances and we were able to get this to you in a packet when it came out yesterday. But uh Mr. Brown's here. If you decide to expand the general agenda to consider it, um he can answer any question that you have. But again, this lease is for the

DO building. Um on 615 members that you expand the agenda and add this uh to item uh there will be four seats. Uh then we ask public comments on all three items. If council to expand.

I'll second. At this time, we'll have public comments on should the agenda be expanded to include this item which is the uh asking for the authority entered into the contract the lease agreement regarding 615 M Street commonly known as D Mr. Donald Brown. Any public comments as it relates to should we get a not

okay excuse me Louisiana good evening uh councelor you're setting lease agreement to whom now? Uh, Mr. Donald E. Brown. Yeah, this expand object to expansion. No,

thank you. I'm sorry. Um, object to expand. I'd like to come in to expand Charles from South Washington Street. object of agenda have not been posted within the time period get the public chance to see under 24hour notice. Uh this is a special meeting. Only thing to be heard on the special meeting agendas have to be posted in 24 hours which have not been posted. I require unanimous consent.

That's why requires unanimous consent. As far as what he's saying is correct. That's why question is this uh discussion or say it's an action authority. Obviously that's the request of council move in favor

any oppos agenda comments You want my full name? Yes. The address

Rose baby sister Rose T Thompson 120 Park Avenue 122. That's it. That's it. I I see where we're not going to go into a real discussion about the sold. Correct. Correct.

Okay. Well, I'm going to put my little two cents in and I'm gone. Uh I object to those solar panels. I know what you all is up against. For me as a citizen and a taxpayer, uh I have a problem with them coming in here and taking advantage of the citizen of this community for the last three and a half years and they paid not one tax to the city of Bast and that is documented uh not a dollar been paid. And I'm wondering why are we still giving them uh the representation of giving them those occupational life license, but they're not paying no taxes. They change the name every year so that they can get those those uh I guess freebies and and that is not right for us because we have to pay taxes. We have to pay our tax at the end of the year. but they see a loophole and they want to change that and don't pay taxes. Now, I I'm what I'm saying is is true facts and I just want to uh I'm against them solar panels in the first place, especially here in the city. Now, the parents getting their taxes, but the city don't get their taxes. Now, something is wrong with that. But I don't found out some more information that I'm not at liberty right now to go into it. But I'm going expose that myself because I'm tired of people coming in here taking advantage of the city of Bapt. And I'm going say this cuz I'm probably going to get on somebody nerve when you had crooks that were in that last administration

that didn't give a damn about this city. But I love my city. Thank you. You're welcome. Once again, good evening Ricky Bashian Street. I expect uh two things on the agenda. Number four, thank you. Number 4 A, resolution 2621-25, a resolution approving the merit to apply for 2026 LGAP funding. Can someone tell me what LGAP means?

That should be the Louisiana Government Assistance Program. Say it again. Louisiana Government Assistance Program. Okay. Uh, thank you. I got understanding now. Uh, I can concur with that. I can concur with that. Ladies and gentlemen, uh 4B, uh revoke the 20 26 occupational license for any business associated with 705 lane pass. Uh what business are we talking about? Because sir, it's not state here. It could be a dog pound over there, fishing hole over there. What business are you all attempting to revolt business like? It was a solar panel. Oh. So what's the name of this business? Two names.

Three names. One name. You got perfect landing. So you got a couple of names. Okay. What name is the license issuing up under? Perfect land. It's perfect. It's perfect land development. The Sunbeam, Golden Beam or Green Data Center is the project name. The actual company name. You said say anything.

The the company name is perfect land development for both SAS crafts and collars. The project name for SASwood is green data center. The green data center. The project name for Cerswood Lane is Sunbeam Power LC. But the company is Perfect Land Development. Okay. So from my understanding on the uh license is landing. Am I correct council? Okay.

All right. Thank you. And with that said, ladies and gentlemen, uh this been going on for a while over since it started across the street from us. From the very beginning, it's been chaos from the last administration upon the this board knowledge. You didn't know anything about it. Not a thing. All it's up to you, Mr. uh Dodie. I spoke to my council member, Mr. Lock, about this same old very issue yesterday. We must be responsible for our action. That falls with the city. when the license was first given in the last administration and I believe it was given unfaithful. That's why we're here today to revoke these license because I believe it was done unfaithful and you're changing names to another name to another name. I can concur what Miss Thompson said. We should have taken this pain head on from the very beginning from the last administration. Out of May, Mr. Mayor, you inherit this trouble. Correct it, sir. This board, you're the legislative body. Correct it. If some heads got to roll, let it roll. If you have to dismiss some people, dismiss these people

because bash is under a spotlight on a lot of unnecessary foolishness. Let's govern ourselves professionally. Let's get on the right track and do the right thing. I know there's a circumstances occurred just recently. I'm not gonna get into that because I have not seen their legal life yet. But if you gonna vote tonight to revoke these license, we we've been stopped. We can't we can't do that. Well, there's nothing else I can say, ladies and gentlemen.

But yet again, when you get the opportunity to do this, have mercy with both these lights. We thank God. I said when you get opportunity because it's going to alleviation.

This city got to fight this. Let's make some heads roll here now. Good evening. at 1300 South Washington Street. Comment on number 4B of license say we not we cannot we will issue this when we walk in an injunction. So we cannot revoke the license as

it's an injunction. Okay. Wow. Injunction. Well, I I recommend to the injunction is a legal proceeding. Let me go. Injunction is a legal proceeding. There have been a legal proceeding filed against the city of Ashley. Adjunction. With that in mind, Mayor Mo. Okay. With that in mind,

with with that in mind, there been a legal proceeding file in the city of Bapt. With that in mind, the fact we cannot discuss this tonight, I recommend that this council and mayor retain outside counsel. I think the mayor spoke of that last month concerning based on some of the similar situation there. I think it's it's is it's at a point where we cannot depend on our current council that we have here. Okay? Because you all are getting served at the last moment with legal papers. You're getting served with legal papers now and and you're serving our mayor, serving our council with these legal papers. I think you you're not going to uh make those moves tonight. You need to go ahead outside council. remove the current Mr. Jones need to be removed from this issue as well as Mr. Smith because they're going to become policy issues and he's over policies and proceedings and Mr. Tom is the current mayor. You're not going to get a fair shake.

Ain't no mayor.

I mean I mean attorney well he acted that me not like he mayor correctly. But what what I'm saying is I recommend this is my command because I was on the previous council. I have some insight what how this all generated how it started and you all now that you have a legal proceeding going you need to have outside counsel. outside counsel or Mr. Pierre he he he's Mr. Beier or outside counselor that I would recommend now that you've been file they have actually took you in to the court Mr. Uh Richard said last week, last month that don't worry about no court proceeding, you know, but you don't want to get into cost of car money. Well, now you got to respond to that uh injunction

and and I wouldn't have been on my local council, Mr. Jones terminated from the city government to okay because Mr. know was a part of the original receiving of all this life and all the M do Mrs. Dre and all that stuff all that stuff is going on in the city of B right now he was I I confused Mr. but he was part of it okay over policy that have been a policy change how they receive the current operation license they asking you to do an injunction on Mr. I'm tell you the policies have been changed order to go around the city council current policy that you have in place and I I really appreciate the protect the city the citizen ambassador the newly elected mayor I think you all need to be put on real protection saying from my heart I ain't trying to under protection of the citizen you want to be elected by other citizen be protected other citizens Because right now we've been in a general we are we are afraid to incur legal expenses. I thought I know me said last month but we're looking at other it's too late now they took action on our attorney were able to keep them off. Mr. Jones was able to keep them from filing the injunction as well as Mr. Smith. Now you you are in you that's a fourth district court that fing

fourth district court. Okay. I think I was what it I think you may have 10 15 days maybe 10 days to respond to I'm not sure don't stick that to me but okay but right now at this time table and go section by yourself and think about how outside representation if you have to move Mr. Jones and Mr. SP, you got $100,000 to fight with. Well, they they about halfway through the year right now. You may have $50,000 to fight with. You know, you get your outside person. You going to get an outside person. But the soul kind of people, they for real, I want to share this with you. Can I have one minute? Can I get a one minute? Sit down. I

think Okay. The soul the soul. I think the sold people are real. Are you aware councilman? Everybody knew Mr. uh I mean everybody said Mr. Don we put that stop and see who all the they have never stopped. They have solar candle coming from the back side to the north side to east side all the way up halfway. They basically one third or two3 through with their project. They totally disrespect the sin request and it's time to stop. We're a small town but we got big heart. We can fight with kidney Texas. They got money all over the country but we need to fight them because they came in illegal. I think we got them coming in illegal under my conspiracy do spread all this that's in play right now. Okay. And it's going to continue. But Mr. Jones Smith they have no involvement with this with this particular project. what's going on right now. Thank you.

I want to make a motion suspend.

I'll second water. So this is very important issue. So therefore public comments you won't be out of order when we want to come back up and speak when we get in our deliberation about this about what's going to occur within our packages based on where Robert's order based on our procedures usually when you're making public comments you know you usually don't get a chance to speak again but we don't want everybody to get a chance to speak when we get down to Willie Whitmore, 1013 Hood Street B, Louisiana. If you check the record, I am still a very active voter here in the city. You know, it's amazing to me that at the last moment, the city gets an injunction not to vote on that issue. This solar panel issue has been going on for a while now. We've got people coming in here changing names of businesses. We've got people signing documents that they say they did not sign. And now these people who have people that have invested in this solar panel company, let me tell you, these people have money. That's why they are trying to fight the city of Bastram to put those

solar panels over on that old mill site. I would make a suggestion to the mayor and the city council of Bass, Louisiana. Get your ducks in order. Take these people to court because there will be a complaint filed with the attorney general for the state of Louisiana. Our platform will file that complaint first thing tomorrow morning. So, I'm putting you on notice of that. It's not right for people to come in this city and try to bully our mayor and our city council. And what's so bad about it? They're taking advantage of the people that live right here in the city of Bass, Louisiana. Now, the ball is in your court. Don't be intimidated by any attorney, be it their attorney or a city attorney, to not do the job that you were voted on to do. Thank you. 26-2125 approving the mayor apply for 26 gap. Can I get a lot wasn't any estimate for park? I'm applying for this grant.

This area trying to get the air, you know, our units are out. representative Fisher and Senator K Andrews will get this also trying to get us two big units of 20 tons. But as of right now, I want um X for this because I want to have this in play. You these are air like this in the gym and it'll be hooked up to a eventually they'll be hooked up to a generator like we just had ice on in case the lights go off. The big units will not work, but they'll kick in those those units like that. So our kids can can you know won't go without or the community go without just improving there. And then we also eventually next year I apply for the same thing for the Melissa Center generator. Okay. Quick question. Is this u I see the man on there 23,900. Is this something that's going to be coming from a grant that's uh that we're expecting or is this something that's come from a general fund? First, we have to come get a resolution tonight. We ask you right now to approve this resolution so I can apply for this is a LGAP grant right for community that money if funded. This is what I do. So, so I'm sorry. Okay. One other question.

If uh if the grant is not it becomes n then what do we do? I would ask senator and state represent

there's there's there's multitudes of ways you can get lap is limited in funding amount based on the population. It's a legislative uh grant they put in each year. If you exceed the amount that you request and you get put in what's called capital outlay. So I believe the threshold for us $50,000. There's there's parts to this grant that's required. One of which is a resolution authorizing us to apply for funds. Uh and then you do the proposal and you have two others recommendation from your from your legislators who of your district. And uh so this was a necessary avenue. We'll figure we'll find out probably sometime after June whenever they pass all the bills and the and the funding bills where we fall out if it if it was approved or if it was not approved. Uh other than that it doesn't require us to extend anything up front. We just have to package you have to upload a resolution that resolution that we're authorized for. We applied for it most years and received something of it. You sometimes receive it sometimes. And I also got a um I also got another estimate. It's with the generator and this uh I thought it was like 30,000. They just said 50,000. I think I think I can get it up under that. I might do the generator and this just trying to enhance park

may I have a comment. Um I think I asked sometimes last year when we vote I do want a a written record of our signatures. We do we need to expand agend it's on there. So we decide I do I pass that's why as right I put on there before because there was some debate about where it was deciding name you circle the the approved or disapprove. So where's the copy that that'll go? So this would be everything. Well, I think what we could do uh to do it all at the same time, actual roll call.

So yeah, that's what I thought. Somehow it was removed, but that's how that's how we normally used to do it. And then later we we'll look at some of the resolution. We'll see where our names come. My hand range is unique. I always wrote I always wrote in the record based on based on the minutes of what it was that night because it's not required to be there. But when y'all asked to put it back, I went back to that system. So you could also circle the approved, disapprove, reflex it. So that there was some comment about, hey, you put name, I didn't put whatever. So in order for it to be transparent, it allows you to put your name and then you can you start confirming your vote.

That was just to be clear. In that way if anybody said hey I meant to sign underneath no and I signed under because there was two columns it would column somebody if somebody's if somebody's signatures not there then they uh which would be voice recorded doing wrong. So if you don't sign and you said on record if they see that don't get you didn't sign.

But that way I made it clear for you. You don't actually go or nay you just get you circle put your way. I thought it was just a little bit better than the previous official record will still reflect that.

Correct. The record record reflects that it controls the instrument. You have to go back to the record for the record. This is we we always have done it this way and we got away from it from some kind of way. And I think this is the proper way of doing things because you actually got to signature versus the attorney, the mayor or anybody writing your name in. Well, I can tell I can tell you why we got away from it is because at one point somebody in the meeting to yes and then later on we didn't have all signatures and they came in and wanted to sign underneath no and have a script they actually voted no and things reflected. So we had a document where they wanted they hadn't signed that night how we usually passed it around something happened that night they didn't sign it that night they came back and later said no I want to change the record I vote no I voted yes on that so it was this whole thing so technically under law resolutions don't have to have signatures on anybody go by what the minutes say you don't go by the signatures on it because you could technically vote one way and then when it comes around Right. She certifying that that represented the voice that night and then it would be her certification. So it actually was the situation that occurred there was that individual or two signs and I make two suggestions putting you on the spot is that on these resolutions where there's a date if you would sign after the vote when the last person passes back to you you circle pass and put the date sign in this instance Mr. lock is absent.

I would suggest that you print his name, ask him sign on. So that way if someone just got the public records they know okay you check the minutes and so usually something like that came back I would put that way but that's why

yeah voice record and that's it is that's how we got that point where they were all right. You say that snapshot. Yeah.

Not actual transcribe. So you doing snapshot. So I think it's best to sign because I've looked at the minutes and I get right. It's more efficient. It's just when you I'm not saying it's ever happened with this board, but you have somebody who sign a quick question. Uh I was signing this uh this document which again something new uh new to me. Uh what uh what ordinance uh are we are we going under uh to do this or state law whatever is in reference. There is in this particular action there is no state law that requires resolution be signed once voted by the council. It's it's effective doesn't have to be signed by the mayor because the mayor has no power. It's active once voted by the council. This was just historically done prior to coming here. They had two three calls. They had yay and and abstain or absent whichever it was. They would frequently give them their ven book. They give them there's usually three copies of it. We go past some balloons. You got to go through the council too to get balloons. So you had to you had to uh

and eventually at some point there was a vote a voice vote over a resolution and that voice vote. Later on they tried there was an individual who had not signed it that night. it was realized afterwards they called that individual come sign it and that person decided that they want to sign the vote we're not vote that night and so that's where whenever I was asked yes under the law you don't have to have signatures on the voice counts that's what counts well we removed it to keep that issue from occurring now we're going back to that per the request of council and that's we're going back to those are council's wishing us to go back that. So, we've gone back to we just went back to it in a different form. It's just established a custom and a best practice. Uh that to me, like I said, that's more of an official record. Um especially when talking about getting a public record request on certain things. You don't need anything else, but you can see exactly who signed, who the vote was, who was absent, who was present, and when it was passed. So, it's just a custom This this board is already established. We want to be revoked of 2026 license.

I want to notify the council that atrox 3 p.m. 27 p.m. file temporary training order to the temporary restraining order injunction to keep this keep this license from being revoked filed in the more district court. It was uh parking land development versus city of B at this point. It is pending litigation. I would make that litigation discuss what there and I would ask that if you want to discuss more than that session I just want to know can you send me who who filed an injunction

target for the injunction the representation. Yeah, they're attorney.

Yeah, that's trying to go through the same. So just for curiosity, um is that normal how the process goes when you when the city do they contact that that ent? So what they do is is on a temporary on a for petition for an injunction and restraining order temporary restraining order injunction hearing. You have to have a hearing within 72 hours on a temporary restraining order. They try to do it as quick as possible based on emergency circumstances. No, I get what you're saying about the reason I'm ask the general posted right. So in order for that's what I was asking. So once the administration identifi did they contact Land Development say hey we don't have no if you read the petition they actually had an employee they said saw at 7

last night they filed it today. So what time did we find out about these injunctions? approximately 3:00. And the reason I was asking because if you guys notify them, if you notify them, do you also notify this body that this being taken place? Because you know, I wasn't aware. I wasn't.

No, this thing actually and and I can explain more to tell you how quickly everything's evolved has moved. It's moved on a very fast track. In fact, you said that uh employee came by. No, I'm saying that's what it said. The reason what made it yesterday 16 so what made I'm just asking just I have no idea

what was that question I was asking in this injunction it said employee came by at 700 p.m. last night when he noticed post on the door at 610 city hall at 4:30. So just curious to know why would somebody just look at that's kind of that's why I actually was notified we wasn't talking

and look we can do an open session executive session I just It does well with because you know what? No. No. I'm I'm going do it cuz with this whole situation it just seem like so much and it just seem like so much under underlying uh misinformed and I I'm trying to stay in my seat. So we always look for transparency. You also always look for someone being influenced and it from my perspective it just seemed like it's it's dropped the ball and drop someone.

Yeah. So if if we can do it in open session if that's the will of the council I can do it in open session.

I'm in the spirit of transparency and I'll say this for the record. We made our wishes known last year. We didn't want any further activity and and Deon we we did we asked you what was going to stop them from doing any further activity. We thought the more moratorum was going to do it. So you know I'm I represent district 8 but I love every district ambassador and that is what we told people. We told people we had um created a moratorum that would stop any further. solar farm um activity. Like I told them, the ones on the side of the city hall, we cannot do anything about because it's already um construction has already started. So now we are looking really bad to our constituents and to the citizens of Bastro because everything we said is not true now. It's it's totally changed. So now as elected officials that is trying to do the best by our city, we're not looking like that. We're getting hammered in the community about these solar panels. First of all, they don't think we know what we're talking about. we it's leading to mistrust and I do not ever want to be in a seat and telling my people one thing and something else is happening and I don't know anything about it just like this occupational license I would like to know what signature who signed this occupational license I don't know if you can answer that question

so here's I did not sign occupational license when there was off they got the occupation license way before I came on board. Anytime you get an occupational license automatic renew it comes like that. So I would have no knowledge on myself on any sold papers. Mark Amore saying do not have a signature on anything.

I said one time I was going to be transparent with this council. I had kept my word and my word is my bud on y'all up here. I don't know nothing about what's going on. Y'all was here before I was let that night pass. That is the same moratorium that existed in Paris. Louisiana does not have in fact inside the city.

Yes, they do. Here's where I'm going with this that night. If you play the video, I explain specifically any there was three things I told you. I said, "Hey, anything that happened before we introduced it, we can't go back on." That's one.

So from the time we introduced it to the time we adopted it, that was the gray area. Depends on if they had noticed from the time we adopted it on that that right there. There was no more solar form permits could be issued or anything like that. Very clear that we all accepted if there was a permit issued prior to us introducing that's in the area that we couldn't do anything at that time. Now let me bring it forward. So we had a lot of going on there. We I said, "Hey, there's three areas. I'm being very clear. This whole thing that they had, this license permit they had, this zoning thing came from January the 27th, 2025 when the board voted that special use permit. That's that's the one you're using. That's the one they have. I've gone through and done a timeline on everything.

But at any time, we don't have to issue an occupational license. Yes, you do.

Why? Because the standard issue occupational licenses, are they a business? And did did they fill out the application? It's in it's in your section 13. Did they fill out and the tax collector is the one who issues it? Did they fill out an application and did they have a sales tax? Now, there's three things when you have a business. There is occupational that means that you can transact business. There is zoning. Can you do that with land? And then there's an occupancy permit. Okay, that's where did your building meet the fire code? How many people can you have in it? What can you do with it? Okay, occupational license is just a register of business for sales tax purposes. It does not authorize you to perform any activity on that land or if you get that occupational license in the wrong place, the wrong zoning, that's on you. If you actually look this the reason why they had this zoning permit from January 27th 2025 that was before the introduction of our solar forum moratorium it's not even greater it's before the introduction when they tried to do the name change to the project name not the actual company the project name change the company stayed the same. Perfect land golf when they tried to do the project name change from Sunbeam to Golden Beach that never that never got heard got anything done. Okay. They ran off January 27th, 2025 the voted on by the planning and zoning commission which is the very thing that caused us to discover all this stuff that hey they have planning zoning had all this power we didn't realize they had. And so what happened is when I delineated out those three areas I remember the specific question was asked me at that time we didn't have files I

was working on information I was holding up stuff we could access now that we have access to it I remember being asked that night 70 callers is that going to be stopped I said it depends on the date they were issued if we were working off are they going to get a license because the the name chain the project name change license was to go after our adoption meeting we adopted it before when you get into the when we finally got the records in the file and we can see some which took us a long time to piece together. The reality was is that they had a January 27th, 2025 zoning permit that was voted on properly. Now, was there a public hearing? Don't really know. But that does not run to us as a violation. That runs through somebody in the public could have had 14 days to go after it. They could have complained after 14 days but not the city because it was our planning and zoning who didn't do it right. We couldn't go through our planning and zoning. That lapse and if there was an actual public hearing runs to the public for 14 days to say, "Hey, there was no public hearing. Uh there should be a public hearing. We want to stop this." As far as an occupational license goes, the only standard for an occupational license, which is what I put in that memo, that I issued out, which how to revoke it, the due process, how to do it. The only thing to get an occupational license is did they fill out the application? Do they have the sales tax? Did they go to the sales tax person? That's the process. They go down to Miss Tissa Holmes, who's our tax collector. She goes down there. She hands them the application. They go to the Morehouse Perry sales tax commission. They get it filled out. Now historically they used to go to the fire and even I talked with the chief I talked to Mr. I talked to the chief Mr. He said, "Oh, frequently we would look at things and say, hey, that's not going to get you an occupancy certificate, which is, can you be in this building

the code? We're letting you know that, hey, we're going to sign off on this, but we're not approving the building for occupancy." Even we even discussed it. He said, "I knew that like we had to send a letter because we didn't want them to think that they're going to pass occupancy check because the building's not up to code." But we said we gave a letter with it. Why we were on there, we didn't know because I'm not going to sign off and say you can occupy this building because it's not the code. But as far as occupational license, I don't know what we're doing here. Same thing with code. Why code was on there was out of as Mr. Smith said, it was a courtesy from basically the city that hey, you're not in the right zone area. Why are you paying us money for an occupancy occupational license in the wrong area? These people push and they do they meet they met the standard. The only standard is they're a business. And in fact to give you that they actually applied for two occupational licenses at the same time on March of 2025. They applied for perfect land development applied for one for SAS grass on March 14, 2025. They received their occupational license that day. They applied for the perfect land development applied for the occupational license showing the college lane address. And on that date, you stay with me.

March 14th of 25. On March 14th of On March 18th of 25, there was a letter sent to him that said, "Hey, your zoning application from the 27th was approved of January." On the 19th of March, the zoning person signed it and said, "Yes, this was approved January 27th." Not they approved the 19th. They were approved the 27th underneath that previous one. As far as the name changes, it never made it anywhere because by that time we we had gotten this the actual to bring it full term. I even got the emails in April of 2022 to bring it that far back how far this is. There was a company called Platform. They applied for this for the SAS location for a data center and solar form. In May of 22, it was voted by the planning zone to do that. In December of 22, they inquired about whether they approved. They were told they were approved through email. They sold that company to Perfect Land Development who then asked for a zoning permit in Mar February of 23. In February 20 in March of 23, that permit was approved for the for the data center and solar. That brought us to no activity on callers to December of 24 when they asked for a zoning application for the solar farm. It was voted January 27th. that was approved and then they came in with a project name change in March. Nothing's ever been done on that. The occupational license was applied for both spots in March 14th of 2025. One was signed and given by the city. The other one was signed off on by code. The fire sent a letter and said, "I'm going

to sign it, but your building is not up to spec. in our hands. Yeah. Yeah. He's got a copy of it. Okay. Um I thought last meeting I was ready on the the first name they applied for was Sunbeam. They they are headed on they're going to use the project name Sunbeam. But it's is a sunbeam is a subsidiary company of that

golden they're all subsidiaries it if I don't know their business model but I would suspect their business model is that if here's what I do know is that ultimately at the end of the day they are the people who develop it and then the investors own So that perfect land development is going to be a company that develops it and then the other company is going to call my project. So let me ask you so you have to go back to the first name which was name. Yes, right.

Yeah, that's what they told us here. They were going they go back to their name because before the war is even. So how are how are they implementing because is is on that that is the company that the project name no the application was sunbeam was the project I could show it to you on this.

Yeah correct. So at the top on the on the on the application for zoning it says on the application for zone it says project name they put sunbeam sunbeam power or sunbeam how do they do and at the bottom it has down there the perfect land development information as a company of the home that document and and so perfect land development has had an occupational license since March 14th of 2025. Land had an occupational license since March 14th. So listen,

they applied for the the new location and they applied for it at the same time. So you got they applied on March 14th. They applied for both locations. And so they applied for both. The one that was the one that was for was approved that day. The one for the one for callers. It looks like It looks like they had never been notified that they've been approved for the building. So on March,

they were sent a letter for zoning from I'm just looking at what's in the record. But the last Sunday we know we heard nothing about so that's what they did. you find out later which one land

perfect land development has always been there I didn't know I don't I don't review the occupational licenses that's the issue I I get that I get you said land there so what I'm asking is when when they was in here and you said that well they go back to why wasn't the perfect land mentioned then because perfect land development has always existed. In fact, they had an occupational renewal. Just it was not for that location. It wasn't for that location. They I didn't know until that night which one. So I didn't know until that night when they stepped up here which one they were proceeding under because as that was one of the big issues was are they trying to proceed underneath golden beans which clearly has not been voted by planning and zoning which would put it in that but you just said golden bean fall on the purple land. So they could they didn't have to mention gold bean or sun beans. Well,

they could just mention purple according to what you said. Correct. In a newer it it was it gave us the benefit that if they were going to proceed and change the project name then they were conceding that they weren't approved. Okay.

Okay. Okay. So now, so now so I'm talk. So you saying back in January there was approval of something with perfect land being. So okay. So so why are we here? Because then they come back and do a name change for Golden Development because if they filled out a new one, then they were conceding they didn't have a permit for the land. Okay. point of information. So, so

so if somebody comes to you and says, "Hey, I need a new zoning." Okay. And it's just even a name change. They're consing to you, they don't have a permit for that. Correct. If they come to you and say, "Hey, we're doing a name change, so we know we don't have a permit for this project because of this name." Okay. So, no, but just do it just do it in reality. So just say they came to us with Sun, right? Yes.

And they said they want to do a name changes on, right? But you but now you saying it really don't matter because they don't you just said because they applied the first time on something. Correct. It matters. It matters. It would matter for it would matter for zoning issues. Occupational license. It doesn't matter. We talking about zoning issues. Zon issue. It would matter. So okay. So, so, so now who are they going forward with? Is it sunbeam? Sunbeam owned by land development is what they're going with. So, that project is approved by planning.

I got information. I understand your frustration and I'm listening closely intently trying to be calm. But this is outlandish, dishonesty. When you look at documents, it's two different things at play right here. You got one that's going to operate and that development company is the one that's develop that's on the land that's developing it. So, how can the developer get an occupational license when the other person is going to operate? Now, you just said I'm listening intently to what you said. One of them develops the land. Am I right?

Am I right? Yes. Am I right? Right. One of them developed the land and the other one operates. So either the developer is going to get the license. Well, let me I didn't interrupt. No one. Let let me finish. All the people that's going to run the facility. Now my thing about this, you talk about occupational license. You said to run a business. How can you give occupational license to somebody that's got the land? What business is it? The business is the solar panel which is going to be ran by.

Hold on. Let me finish. And you know, one person can own different entities that mean different things. One can be a developer just like Elon Musk. He's got what? Hustler. He's got the uh the thing you dig on the ground, whatever you call it. And then he got space. So it's one person with three different companies.

So when you look at these companies right here, I call them companies. It's owned by one person. One of them is the developer and the other one is gonna occupy and it's gonna do all the solar panels. They're going to be the operators of the solar panel, the investors. So now, how can we give an occupational license to the builder? Now, what going to happen with the person that's been running it? What kind of license are they going to get? So, here's here's here's your answer to that. I'll be honest with you. Why they have an occupational license when they're not going to be provide any sales tax anything I for the life of me I can't get because it frequently happens and in fact when they build stuff the company who builds it then sells it to the sells it to the

stop right there sells it to

stop right there Mr. Follow the money. Yeah. This is about money. I'm say trade again. So what happens is and this is what and I can explain to you because this is what happened in this is what happened with the solar farm. So yes, it was energy's product but a company came in and built it. It was theirs and when they were done they handed it to Energy and now it's in Energy's name. So this is I imagine the project name has to deal with the end company that's probably going to own it. They will eventually have an occupational license too. Why Perfect Land Development needed an occupational license to build something. I have no clue. That's another point of attention on point of I'm finish. Um they talk about how much taxes we was going to get, how much they was going to pay. I heard council members say $1.4 million. I'm looking at taxes that they pay. It ain't even $4,000. Yeah. Hold on. Let me finish. I mean, I'm looking at numbers. I understand what you saying. I'm looking at this perfect landing. 3355. Now, back to my That's another jumping around. I'm I'm trying to I'm trying to go slow. Walk it slow so everybody know because right now everything is going over everybody. It's two different things being misplaced by these dates and the previous marriage here. God knows I had it all the time by trying to put someone that's just the way we roll.

Let me finish. Let me finish. That's why I license. I'm reading this email. Now I know what the word change mean. It says occupational license procedure. I know procedure mean also it says change. Now I want to ask both of y'all attorneys these occupational life. We used to I I hear what you saying legally. Let me finish my assessment. The word change means that you going to do something different from what you used to do. Right.

And I'm talking about past practices. We all know about past practices. What we've been doing even when Mr. Pierre, you the other attorney, what's his name? Rich way before him. I'm going way back to Mr. Doug Lawrence.

Mr. Doug Lawrence. Now, when we before we had zoning and code enforcement, it was different. But when we got zoning code enforcement, they did that because of a place they call JG and Woods Lounge the hometown. They want to stop putting these clubs in refugee. That's why we got zon people up to speed. That was in 2000 and then it came off 2011. So what's puzzling to me and what's perplexing is that we did zoning to make sure that people put people wouldn't put stuff in places that nobody wanted. Raise me up to our facial license. You used to have to go to correct me if I'm wrong Mr. Williams and Miss Holmes. The point of code enforcement is that you go and see code enforcement looks at this map and he determines whether you fit the qualifications for that establishment. And then once you meet those criterias, you go to Mr. Williams and then you go down. I mean, maybe I'm wrong, but maybe I've been doing it all wrong when I was forgive me if I was going wrong. and you go up and you get it signed by Miss Holmes. Now it says changing the procedure come from Deon Jones. Attorney Jones told Miss Teresa Holmes that we changing the procedure. So change mean we we going to do something. But what I need to know and and and you read the statute about

occupational license at the last meeting, what the state requires, but I I need to know what law that contradicts what the city cuz it says city bash occupation just come from the city of Bash.

Oh no, no, no, no. I know what you going to read. I know what statute you going to read. That's what I'm I'm trying to ask you. Can you tell me in that statute what prohibit a city from implementing their own rules and regulations? Hold up. What stop what statute? I see what you going to read. It's just an outline telling you what's about occupational license. I'm saying what statute does it says in there that prevent the city of Bastra from instilling their own procedures like going through code enforcement first and then going to the fire chief. What statute that prohibited the city of Basher from instilling their own guard?

I know read I I seen what you read but I asked you what statute you want to know what statute you attorney. I'm asking I'm not attorney. I'm just want to know you seem to be trying to play it. We also know I'm being played. If you're being played then the law because we rely on you for the law. I gave I gave you the law and I gave you the law of your own city that says 13A says that whenever you issue

I asked you a question sir I said can you tell me the statute to try getting all funny I didn't ask you for be sarcastic I asked you politely I said can you please read the statute I know what you read now I said could you please read the state statute that says that we cannot add our own guideline that's all I asked you Mr. And I didn't ask for no sarkel. 138 is your code of ordinance. It says an occupational license. Okay.

Here's where you go.

Okay. underneath 135 payment of license taxes is where the grant issues it. It says the tax issues to a person making payments license showing such payment. The only requirement is is that you have that that's your own ordinances. If you have an ordinance to the contrary of that your state law is the one is a general law. So here's how state laws work. When it's a general law like occupational stuff, the general laws of the state of Louisiana control over your charter that control over anything else. And so that's why you have in your occupational section which is section 13 of your code of ordinance. You have we adopted the state law. That's why I cited the state law. But even further, your own ordinance says that in order for that license to be issued, that the tax collector, and that's why Teresa signs, it shall issue to the person making the payments the license show as long as they pay for the license. Let me finish because you you know, we was having a good dial and you the attorney and you just read the state law. You've been an attorney for this two years and then you was attorney for two years under administration. So you ain't tell me that we've been doing it wrong for four years.

No, no, no. I didn't ask young. I said because you I'm saying I'm saying so we you denied somebody because code said that you should deny somebody. Yes. No, no, no, no, no. That's that's not what I'm saying. I'm talking about the procedure. I just read the word procedure. I'm saying so we've been doing the procedure wrong for uh 80 years. You did it as a courtesy. But yes, if you've been asking somebody because fire or code would not sign off and they were there to pay it and they had a a sales tax account. Yes, you were wrong. Oh wow. And you knew and these are the first people who and you knew that. Oh wow. So yes. So yes, you knew.

Oh wow. And that's why you see Mr. the fire Mr. said, "Hey, look, you're doing I'm going to sign off on this because y'all directly came towards me. I'm not the only one." It was That's crazy. Hey, it was too But he he came looking at me. No, your your eyes was on me. Your eyes was on me.

Because I was the only one talking on me. Put me in there. It wasn't me. That's what I'm saying. Hey, I didn't say no boy. But put you cuz I was the only one talking. Move me, sir. I'm get out. I'm out. Move me. No, his eyes was locked on me. You got a problem with me.

He didn't either. Why wasn't me and I ain't say anything. I ain't saying you said nothing. It's too he got to do his job. M he gave me a warning. You know, he gave me a warning. I didn't say this. He came and asked his gentleman to be quiet. He refused to. He gave me a warning, man. You got to do both. I got

I got a warning. I to the warning. Now, now y'all can't pe the pot. I to the warning. I the warning. I took the warning. And what what what what argument I'm being moved under? Y'all might have to just arrest me. One of them is being moved under what what what I don't want to talk about. You ask me to be quiet and I did. Okay. Now this guy well you put him that's right and I

but read arrest me I'm sue you ass you think you in court I'm tell move me from the court and arrest me it's just that simple when I'm put under arrest I will move only on the man of arrest. I

the type of guy you got to rip me. I I learn my right

connection.

Miss Angela, District A here. Mr. Henry, District B. Here, Mr. James Green district come up so he can go to the house and go to sleep all night. Sir,

Mr. Yeah.

I got Mr. Brown. U Mr. Don Brown. D Brown, Miss Teen br to the city to talk to me about the ghetto building and uh we went for more on street. Mr. Brown, could you tell them something about like what you going to be doing over there in the building? Yes. I've been I retired from the army in 1988 and I started doing government contracting. I had developed product before I retired. After I retired, I decided I'd come back here to Bass. I was born in Bass. And uh my goal was to build a couple fiberglass boats a month to supplement my retirement fund and have the same level of income I did while I was on active duty. And I found a place in Marouge. I built some boats and uh about a year after I retired, I got a call to come to Kendall Air Force Base. They had a a problem. I had a product they wanted me to look at and see if I could submit a video. I was surprised to find out it was basically what I had proposed back when uh Iran seized the embassies and the US military couldn't do anything about it and they decided they wanted a way to operate should that similar thing occur later and if they had to they would seize an airfield somewhere. there and they wanted to be able to quickly put it back in service to accomplish the mission of rescuing hostages or doing

whatever the you know the government decided to do. And uh 1990 I got the award and uh I was retired ambassador and I I looked for a place to do the product in this area and I found a place in Schwarz and uh I completed the contract in Schwarz. It was a huge building, but nowhere near the one we're looking at here. After that, they called and wanted me to do another product, and it was through uh Eglund Air Force Base at Fort W. So, I loaded up my equipment and went to Eglund. I lived in worked in uh or

you just tell them what you what you plan on doing in there and then this and then we'll get to the

the main product is a large fiberglass panel about a quarter inch thick. It has eight flexible hinges and three rigid panels. They're 30 feet wide and 54 ft long. And I need I need space for a 32 foot mole and a 56 foot long uh mole to build product. And I only do government contracting. I don't I don't entertain off the street uh prospects want to know I can build this or build that. I'm a US government contractor certified by the defense department. And you're welcome to look at the rapid runway repair.com uh website.

Say it again. Rapidrunway repair. That's all one word. Rapid runway. Yeah. Rapid R. runway like a airfield airfield and repair because it's used to repair craters and runways after they've been bombed otherwise sabotaged or natural natural

to be able to put runway back in quick rapid uh time to launch. and mainly to recover aircraft that were blocked from that that damaged runway before the incident. and product is used to rapidly repair up to a 50 foot crater and u and three hours from the from the time they declared the the attack over

and it's it's been in service since 1990. You already got you already got a contact right now. I have an order for uh know the US government for for South Korea. Okay. We have sold to South Korea, Germany, United Arab Emirates, uh Taiwan and a couple other places, but they were not made their contract. Mr. Brian, how many people were you employed?

Pardon? How many people were you employed? It depends on the the size of the contract. A production rate of two sets a day will require about 24 people and they can build a panel a day. You'll be operational 247. we have those on we'll be day and night right

if if there should be an emergency uh we're we're currently approved by the Indiana Department of Air Quality produce up to 100 pound a year okay he also having yeah he also counc also So mayor, so is is the contract only for this year?

31st.

He said contract. It depends. So the term the initial first the initial first term is from is from March 1st of this year through December 31st. It reconvenes every year unless we give notice. that we never receive.

What he'll do is he'll he'll be paying the mortgage well, you know, pay price on it and then he'll he'll turn around and make modification to the building, fixing it up as go and we'll from his pay. So then we'll turn around and after June we'll file something with the government and try to get some funds to fix the building up like God show you what will be deducted stuff you do modification like patch stuff just to get in work keep doing that once again after June we'll go try to get some building help fun

if you're looking article article uh 12 which is on page six it talks about credit for extended uh he was entitled to credit towards the rent payments rent payments to be paid on you go July 1 and then you get credit for stuff but never a point where we have to owe money back so you don't get surplus credit you can only get you can only get for what the rent is. So you can't come in and do that would be something we don't want to get in a negative situation.

Mr. Well, Councilman Lock already knew about it. Uh he spoke with me. He have a lot going on right now and he know about it. We took a walk over there a couple days and he know everything that's going on. And it gives us also also the right to be able to come in and get grant money and make those mod make modifications make at the same time if we need to make those. And the one thing that was covered in there is that I think everybody's aware of the condition of the building is this is an asis lease. We're not guaranteeing that it's suitable for any business he wishes to. He is getting this building as is. He himself knows the condition of it. He's it's his duty to have inspected it beforehand looked at it. We're not guaranteed in anything other than you have this building, you can use it. We're That's it.

Mr. Brown, do you need a secretary? I can be a good secretary. Do you need a secretary? And I can be your book. I'll make a motion that we um approve um entering into the lease um for the deal building on I

will start work.

All right. Thank you, sir. That pass. Thank you. question

and I really appreciate. We thank you. I know the people in that area will be so happy. Thank you. Thank you. Appreciate this. Okay. I guess we pass I guess we just got sidetracked. I have I have a question.

I have a question about this occupational license. Oh, it says perfect land development. It says kind of business is a retail sale business. So, I'm not understanding how this is classified under retail sales and maybe somebody can explain it to me.

I don't know how they classified that came from the sales tax. my and this is what I was articulating why they have an occupational license which is really to collect sales tax the best I could derive is that the materials that are delivered there there will be let's say you go out and you buy stuff from home depot there you pay the sales tax where delivery point is okay same thing with house it's not where the builder's business is in building you pay the sales tax for bash that project there. I would assume that this account is designed to collect the sales tax on material being used to develop that property because there is going to be some sales tax related to that. I can tell you from previous solar projects that was that was where some of the number comes from just as they were they were building a building would collect all the materials that provided there this is so I imagine this is that I don't know why that's sales tax commission and tax collector here as what code they picked to put underneath but it's some way shape and form to go back to what Mr. James brings counseling James brings it that the the supplies that are being used for that are where the sales tax come from the purchase of supplies you ultimately pay the sales tax for the in destination of that product not where the business is and some point that's if there is any sales tax coming we need to reach out to the sales tax commission who collects sales tax and say hey you need to look at their books because that happens even on home projects So you audit the books of a builder who was to build a house or a building or anything. You say, "Hey, you paid all of your sales tax here." And I've had developers who did not pay that and they later got assessed by the

sales tax commission said, "Hey, we determined the supplies you used here. You didn't pay our sales tax." And so possibly that's what the occupational license is for is to collect the sales tax on material being delivered to that job site. question form you have person I believe the product service should be that they're building a solar farm I don't heard about

there is the sassifrass location in order to track it you go back they originally were they weren't called the sassifr they calling at 850 East Jefferson. So, so behind this building is going to be a data that was approved in 2022. Wow. The building the building u wasn't was the code for that was going for it.

They have so if you'll go in the folder because I had I had to do a timeline. I saw I think also maybe Mr. Tim you can come over and ask a question about this. So let me take you through the history of that. So I had to I had to go through the timeline before was filed.

So in in April of 22 I'm going to read off I had to do three. I had it back. So April 12th, 2022, there was code enforcement had an email asking about the zoning. April the 22nd, Wed submitted their zoning app to at that time the code was believe on April 22nd, 2022, 10:23, she says, "Hey, I got the I have this owning app." April the 25th, 2022, W reaches out to Miss Kennedy and says, "Hey, what's our next step?" The next part of the email is May 16, 2022. Mr. McDuffy, who was in code, reached out to W said, "Hey, we have a conference call planning at 6 p.m." May 16th at 257, 50 minutes later, W says, "Hey, will you send me the link?" May 17th, this is what this is where I gained that the data center was up. says to them, "Hey, sorry I didn't make the call. The comments call didn't go through last night, but this is the direct quote. I was able to get the board to okay everything and the containers, the fix that you said that you want to put behind the main building, everything was approved." So, so let me ask you a question. So, it was brought to my attention that they can you correct me if I'm wrong. That's why I wanted that email. So I was I was informed they put up but they were not able to use the building.

Correct. And I I believe and I don't that is because they don't have in order to hook that into the hook that up and make it functional to get their occupancy to use it. Not the occupational license occurs to have a specific solar electrical person do that. They had never had that person do that. I don't know if they have ever this property back here supposed to be. If so, is they is they occupy this building back

because again I was told that that that building wasn't allowed to be operated. It's not because they can't get they can't get a they can't get an occupancy certificate to use that building because they didn't have somebody to hook it up. It was a solar electrical come back before the reason because I heard about this location but I was able to put not for anything and so I'm asking you is this true or not that that is true because they don't have an authentic to use it.

So they would have come back before the council meeting. I occupancy certificates are issued by the by the fire marshal. So not by not on fire by the fire in the city. Yeah. And and and that's that's the so there's there's three things. There's occupational license transact. There's zoning says hey you can do this on piece of property. Then occupancy certificate says you can use that building for that. where where are we with that this situation situation they lack an opportunity certificate on that building because they don't have they don't have the person hook up the lecture so I'm saying it won't be no no transference where it won't all

if I I don't know what they have inside I've never been inside if they get an occupancy certificate and they have somebody to do that once it's once it's issued yeah I mean it would you notice that hey they've got their occupancy certificate. The only standard standing in the way is the state standards on getting that occupancy certificate. They have to meet the state building code. I have a just a point in 2022. They voted to allow that as a data center planning because I see the name on this tax notice and it says green data center LLC. This is another name. this. So, here's

So, here's I'll bring you forward. I'll bring you forward on that. That's why I referenced that 22 email string. The only way I was able to piece this together was the 22 email string that's in there. That company that owned the land at the time was called Watt. Watt. It's wt. Okay. They sold that they sold that piece of property and that that to perfect land development 23 23 perfect land development came back to planning and zoning in February 23 they made an application for zoning again as perfect land development as the green data center which is that one that you represent happened that application that's should be February 24th of 203 three. I believe it has a date on there. That application they voted in March of 23 voted to approve that long before he did this. Point of information, sir. Yes. During the big during the last administration administration and I remember this video and Mr. Williams probably attest to this when they started off they was going to make that a data center. You go and look at our meeting when I first came on. I started asking about that data center. Everybody didn't know what I was talking about. Everybody, nobody knew what I was talking about. But all of a sudden, it's brought back up. It's going to be a data center. Go back and look at the tapes. I was asking because I remember when I was in administration that that was going to be a data center, but the light bill of summer was going to be astronomical. And that was a warehouse and it was going to cost quite a bit of money to transform it over into an data center because it was not originally designed

to be a data center. It was something like that. But Mr. Williams probably knows more about what I'm talking about. He's back there smiling. So I'm I'm kind of kind of puzzled because they kind of avoided that. Well, uh, I'm telling you, you just, Mr. Jones, I'm telling you, you can't tell me because I was part of the administration. Uh, they kind of avoided that because the energy cost was going to be extra long. I'm putting I think Mr. Williams or somebody somebody fire that was not a that was not designed to be a data center and then you had to convert it over to a data center. So, I don't know how that work, but you saying about the grid plugged into the grid. We all know them people are not building no uh solar panels with the assumption they not going to be able to hook into the grid. Somebody's going to hook them into the grid. So, that's not going that's not going to stop them. If if they got a project manager to let them put $20 million worth of stuff over there and they ain't got a clue as to how they going to hook it into the grid, I need to sell him some land.

But but the point of the matter is let me let me finish my train. And the reason this coming back up, it's kind of it's kind of funny and comical to me, especially when you know the origin how it all originate. So now we said that that's a brown site. So you can't dig to get in a brown site. So now they going to have trouble put the dat and plus it's a brown site. So how you going to build something on the brown side? Listen we got another alter. We already done applied for this to be the data center. So let's just go back to 2022. Amazing. You're going back to when Miss Kennedy was up there. Now you bring all this back up. I just want you to know I don't have sun shades on. I got 2020 vision and I can see a mile away. But my point is that's not don't fall victim to believing that that's going to be a sticky point or an obstacle of getting into the grid because guess what? If you got to get a certified person looking into that grid, what you got to get on that side? So you mean to tell me a company going to build something on this side not knowing whether you going to be able to hook it into the grid and but we going to turn around and build something on another mill site now. Come on now. Everybody got a brain. Let's try to use they said mind everything waste. Let's try using it. So that's not going to be a sticking point as to hooking into it might cost him a lot of money because you don't have a few people in the United States that's certified to do it. But this company got a lot of money and Mr. C, he got problems. You think that would be a sticking point for them not being able to look at the grid? I

don't see it. Now that's license and and I'm and based on your assessment, which I don't, you know, you attorney, you know, you're not going to get into it like that. So you said that we have to give occupational license. I want to go back to the administration. I want to apologize to Miss Barry Alen did cuz we struck all kind of ways for occupational license not knowing based on your assessment that we had to give it to him. So I want to apologize just like I want to apologize to the mayor for signing off on it if you if the legal attorney said we had to give it to him. But we didn't know this when we was ostracizing the previous marriage cuz I was about to get this man right here also because you know one thing about honesty go is all you got and when people see that you paying both sides of the fence and you going to show fragrance to one man not the other then you lose respect in the community. Now, what I'm saying is this date on this thing is February 4th, 2026. And I remember I told her I said if it happens after she left, it falls under this administration. Period. But if you was forced to do it, I can understand that based on this assessment. Now I'm gonna have to get a legal opinion because if you got to give somebody occupational license if you can why give to them if everybody just operate when they want to operate.

How if you don't catch and they operate they have business going how how do you zoning your zoning code because they're not zer but once they get the license then

but they're not authorized to do it on that land. They still have to ensure that they're transacting your business on the right area. And that's where your zoning comes in. That's where your whole process in zoning comes in where you can bring them up. You can bring them to the court. You can get an injunction against them doing that activity on that land. Yes, it is a very kind act to tell somebody, hey, you're about to get a business in a place you can't get a business. But underneath the occupational license code, they the only thing they got to do. So David, let let me let me walk let me go slow with this. Somebody can come up and say just say cross I want to put a club right next door to Mr. Raptor church.

I'm going to come up and get the occupational license right get occupational license. They can't deny I got a club right church. Now you look at the bank license and I go fix it all up and then I get ready. I break here come enforcement. Oh, you can't do that. I'm going to see who this is because why would you let me spend my money and tell me that it's not that I'm not zoning for this? That's why you have zoning. You must go through zoning first.

Oh, it's a great courtesy to tell people that. But underneath the law, they're entitled to get occupational. So I occupational license that's going to say this don't say that but I'm not operational but occupational license mean but I can't operate occupational just means you have a sales tax account you're registered business here that's all it means so if I get a club over next long as I'm not doing local business I got a sales tax can I do online business depends on that activity well based on my assessment when it comes to internet business you don't really have to be zone

most internet business don't get occupational well but I'm I'm just using an example now if I got occupational license that means you say I can operate the state of Louisiana that's what you based on your own safety right says you you're registered with the city you got a sales tax account and so if you so long as I'm not really there I can really just do business as is online. I don't I'm just I'm just ask online depends on what the zoning what you can do activity wise for your zoning.

Okay. So I guess another question. So if I get liquor license on the state provide liquor license okay now when you go get a liquor license you can't get that liquor license if x amount but that would that would prohibit you. So you could have an occupational license and not be able to get your liquor license. Okay. I just wanted it was a very I just wanted some clarity. I just wanted very kind because you prevented people from wasting money and this is the one time that somebody said on this and that's why it had to be that way.

Did they did they give us a legal anything legal saying they was challenging this? Yes. That's I believe their whole intent was that they did not want to have to follow. No, no, no, sir. I'm talking about based on we said we didn't want our face right. This was done February 4th. They just got this. We just got this injunction today. I'm saying you said that nobody objected. Nobody ever pushed back. So, and you saying that they pushed back? I'm saying you just said that they legally pushed back. I'm saying

they didn't they didn't legally push back whenever I'm the city as city attorney when asked what the legal standard is for I gave what the legal standard is for an occupational license. There was nothing to stand in the way of them getting occupational. They made numerous requests to get theirs signed because it been application been there since March 14th 25. The property is on college lanes. Was it done by special permit? The zoning was by special use permit in January 20 January 27,

right? So the special so I'm saying was a special permit was done for who? It was so a special use permit was done for the project name of Sunbeam with the the application underneath it the perfect the perfect it was outright. Why would you dispense you? It wasn't outright that time. Funny thing you just somewhere we just said it was outright.

No, the outright one was the outright one was was the the 23 green. So tell me how it work like so hold up Mr. Now, code enforcement, Miss Deb Rogers stood right there and said outright. He was sitting right there. She said, "Hold it. Let me She said we didn't." It was outright. So, wait, let me see, sir. So, what I'm getting at, we need to put people on cuz people are lying. That's just why I am not accusing you. I'm saying based on the records, they said that it's outright. And see that's why we need to go to court because this don't make sense. She said all of a sudden everybody is just it's just screwing. It's like whatever is convenience that's where we going with this your minutes and the agenda that was marked on.

So I ask you a question. So you saying she misspoke? Yeah. If she told you about No, she didn't tell me. She she told us she said that January she was talking the minutes reflected on the agenda they marked on we talking about minutes well agenda the agenda they marked on reflect and

so we can't we can't trust what the person that's over the zone to tell us who we supposed to trust. She stood right there and said that that when that when she agreed us to ride that when she read that letter to go that she said that it was done outright and then she turned around and said it was done outright. We didn't have nothing to do with that. So if it was done out right but but you know what it's two two things at play. Now you know the reason they really went over there to get it done because the land it was a deviation variance they needed right? Something like that. You you know more about that than I do. You're the attorney. Yeah, they they wanted a special use permit because why? Because

under who? So the first January one, they were under the sunbeam project. They won a special use permit. That's what the public hearing was for in the minutes and the agenda that is marked that we have indicates they voted by vote to to approve that. and it has a record of Oh, they explain. I want you to explain that to the council so they'll have a clear understanding of what you're saying about the land variation because if you vote on if they vote on the land variation, where is the vote on the permit? See, it's two different things. They voted on they voted on the special use permit that was special use permit for special use permit for the solar.

But what about what name? It was the sun sunbeam was a project named that night and the company the owner the owner of it was the perfect land but they don't they don't have it on that they don't have to be what they develop they they have it down there and they have it the owner being the owner is Mr. Khan's company well how did they get land permit Mr. What which land barriers did you and I talked about? They had so initially they had told us that they had when they first came up this all coming about it was a lot of stuff but no paperwork as you remember.

So we don't have no paperwork on something they always told us that they got a variation. It wasn't a variation. It wasn't a variance. I just I just want people don't think initially we were told it was a variance. It was actually not. When you go back and look at record, all they have is a special use permit.

I don't know if they told us wrong or if they just didn't use the right lane, the right term, but it was the record reflects that they applied for special use. That's all I have recorded for special use. Then I guess I'm still trying to clarity because we we gave them the permanent that's you said they going back to right that's how they operate under park development is the owner of it that's a project that's the project that's not the way outside. So that's my first time in the building. It was golden and it was sun. Okay, I'll make that I'll make that motion discussion session.

Angel A, Mr. Henry Dodie, District B. Mr. James Green, District C. Here, Mr. Derry Green, District D. Mr. Howard Lock, District E. for a vote to exit the executive session. I make a motion exit.

All in favor? Thank you. Charles Bradford South Washington Street here in Bas 4. Amen. I like this. I I some really close section 11 I guess received a petition to uh for injunction and as the order of the petition have not been signed by any judge that's not the copy you are being served I mean they going to serve you with a copy injunction each person should have a signature of the judge now the attorney have a ready to copy the attorney been served you have not been served the attorney should whoever ever served you all should have gave you a signed copy of the order asking you to not stop your action based on that I as a citizen not attorney but I can almost sure that it should have a signed signature of a judge had been filed shown up they got a court filing on here but don't you look at the page from the last page of service.

It have not been signed by any judge. Other word, if you all would like to go ahead and take your action on your agenda tonight, you do so. I don't think you'll be violating an order of the court because court had sign unless one of these attorneys can show you something different. If not, why would you sign? Why why not you serve with a signature of the judge? And if that's so, you all have the right I don't know what you did in the closed section, but you still have the right to to uh take action on your agenda item there. And uh I also notice these names these names that appear on the on these on these these commit application documents. They have four to five different names.

Five

five different names. And believe me, all five of those names is affiliated with Perfect Landing Development, which is a LLC corporation here in the state of Louisiana. Now, all those other names that appear here, Bean, Soda, B, Bean, Bean, Bean, you have them. Okay? They are not filed in the Secretary of State Office. That's a trade name. They do not. They are not filed here in the Mohawks parent uh DBA office and conducting bendage in Mo house parent if they're conducting business without a DBA doing business as they they in violation of the parish uh permit law.

True. Now with that said, I don't know. I don't know about attorney. You can ask your attorney. I can't question have do you have a signed copy or was the mayor you got anybody have a signed order of this this restraining order? Have you been signed? Who anybody have? No, he had one. Well, he he been served. You have not the city. But I know who the ser you have to get me. But you did not serve each individual with a signed copy. They don't have to. They serve the city. It wasn't the council. The council member

each individual their name should appear as council should be served. Mr. John, this is the legal proceeding. Their name should appear as mayor Mo as well as you council members. Okay. I don't know who Hold on. I'm dropping now. I don't know who prepared your paperwork. I don't I'm sitting paperwork and I hope ain't nobody s ser for no jail. Now, if I was sending my counsel to the seat, I'll go ahead and take action because I haven't been served. Unless you got a sign copy, huh?

Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. But it might have been they but they haven't been served properly because they don't have a signed copy. Mr. Green, your have your copies been signed by Mr. Okay. They haven't been legally serving it. They haven't been legally served. They had it. They deserve you all taken that not them. Again, I I'm only got 23 seconds. I truly believe that you all should file this attorney Deon Jones and get your outside chances to proceed with this. They're going to go on and on and on and on. There's already been a hearing that's been served, but judge issue order.

Oh, well well well they they have been served. That's your legal opinion and you ain't got legal opinion. I'm sitting there my time. Hey, I can don't talk to you. My time out. Let's check last time. Oh, hey. You going to check out you? Y'all let him say something. He can't say nothing. That's weird. He could says insulted things. That's understandable. But being rude is we need to make a motion.

I said I said meeting Man, it is mad.