Mayor and Board of Aldermen - Regular Meeting

Thank you for the opportunity for allowing us to come together to discuss the business of the city.

We pray that everything we do and say will be in your will. In Jesus Christ's name, we pray. Amen. Amen.

Mr. Griffin.

Yes, sir. Let's start with a public hearing on those. Since what I'd like to do is cover the four that have requested 30-day extension for community development's recommendation. Those are 217 South 1st Avenue, 811 Harvard Street, 505 South LaFleur and 903 South Street needs motion and second for 30 days.

So moved.

Second.

Motion by Gary, second by Ted.

All those in favor? Aye. Opposed? Now reading the other ones that are still on the list. 212 North Davis Avenue, Delta Wheels and Tires, Inc., 708 Farmer Street, Fox and Ward Properties, LLC. Moselle Block at 518 South Bow Avenue, Cho Development Company, LLC. 713 Frosty Street, Jamal Robinson. 709 and 711 at Natalia Hutton Street. I'm going to go through all the ones and call you when we get to you. I got you. 709 and 711 at Natalia Hudson Street. That's Myron and Bobby Johnson. 517 Ferguson Avenue, John Willie Nolden et al. 1106 University Street, Jackson Fund. 709 Avery Street, Cox and Ward Properties, LLC. 208 North 1st Avenue, BMG Investment Properties, LLC. 608 South Bio Avenue, Jordan Properties Limited. 309 University Avenue, Cho Development, LLC. 912 Pearl Avenue, Brandywine Manor, LLC. 1403 South Davis Avenue, Moncarta Rentals, LLC. And three more. 517 North, 517 Young Avenue, Linda Northington and Cole Preston. 516 North Bayou Avenue, Maria de Morita and Butcher Valley. 118 Walker Street, Cynthia Squintez. Now, if you would, you had someone raise their hand before consideration of the others. Sir, would you be here to address one of those properties that I call? It would be great for you to speak up if you're comfortable. It's better up here at the podium. Would you give us your name and tell us which property, sir?

Oh, imagine that. Some of those lots are narrow in there.

i believe some of those lots in there and there too um certainly love something on that what uh that's all you're hurting what an entirely mr trodder is that your recommendation to be given a 30-day extension uh i mean there's more than 36 but property may need to be demolished you can set a time but when you come out and look at it and you expect the property to see yourself If 30 days would give him time to sort that out. I'm going to go along with you, but at the same time, I've got to know some things about your house.

Sure.

First, it would be in order to make a motion and second to add the 30-day extension on these two properties to the list of those with the 30-day extension. I make a motion.

Motion by Ted, second by Zania. All those in favor?

Aye. 30 days. 30 days. But be sure and get with Mr. Prater because they've got to come out and if it costs more than 50% in order to remove. If it's over 51, it's coming back.

Yes.

So that might be a hurdle for you. I've been talking to Mr. Prater, and he has a pretty good level of expertise in that.

So will these things start tomorrow?

Yes, sir. We'll put you on the list next month and get a report if you're with Mr. Prater. thank you for coming sir now as to the others that i read excluding ones you've taken action on it would be in order for the board to have a motion and second to adjudicate motion by dan talking about rain all in favor Okay, I got two more. The first is a public hearing on 201 South Pierman. What that is, I believe it's a medical facility in downtown historic district. Mr. Trotter, have you received any objections or anything? Okay.

Make a motion to approve.

Second. Motion by Gary, second by Danny. All those in favor? Aye. Opposed?

The next is at 1115 North Yale, and it's an additional curb cut request. It's been published. Have you had any objections to the curb cut request?

OK. Motion to approve.

Second. Motion by Gary. Second by Brian. All those in favor? Aye. Opposed? All right. We've got one. I'll keep going. Okay. Josh. A few little quick updates.

Our Highway 8 sidewalk project contractor is coming back in two weeks to finish the project and plug in traffic signal at the intersection downtown on the shore. So all that will be started back in two weeks until they're done with the projects. our airport north industrial plug mitigation project contracts moved back in on wednesday of this week and finished the uh the rome and rosemary intersection first it's gotten pretty rough so that's temporary patched and then moving on the other side work we'll complete that project and then finally our asphalt street contractor is moving in in two weeks

She had a chance to get back and look at Avery. We did. We did. I don't think that we're going to do it this year.

We have questions for Josh. Thank you.

We need approval of the Shelby Sewer Basin change order.

I want to ask, we completed the Shelby Sewer Basin rehab project, and this is the final change order we're going to place.

Motion moved. That emotion day motion by Dan. Thank you. All those in favor. Oh, thank you.

Yes, sir. I'm back. I need a motion and second to approve the consent agenda unless there are any questions. Motion by Brian.

Second. Second. Danny. All those in favor. Opposed?

I have a brief update in the file. And then there is a memo that we're working on.

And we're going to get some additional input from a couple of department heads.

But that's kind of the approach. You know, some of the things in that memo, if we start executing that, are just day-to-day operations. And some of those will require the board. So we're kind of trying to give you a big picture if we got it. It's a decent big picture until I talk to Philly, and then it'll be a real big picture.

And then we'll have one executive session on them.

Economic development.

Yes, sir.

All right, Bill. Yeah, I'm having a discussion. Got any questions for Bill?

I'm just still amazed at how much new construction we've had in Cleveland just in the last 10 months. It's amazing.

Thank you. Anna.

How are y'all doing?

We're good.

Good, good. You have my report unless you need anything from me.

Good job.

Thank you.

No questions for Anna? All right. Thank you, Anna. Yes, sir.

Y'all have my report. Y'all have any questions for me?

I just think it would be appropriate for you to say what Top Radio Mississippi said.

Oh, that's true. A week ago, Monday or something, that the, what's his name, one of the public service, public safety commissioners for the state of Mississippi was on Super Talk Radio. And I mean, Cleveland is having one of the best police forces around and one of the safest towns, a lot of them due to the great chief of police that we have. But we were the only city that he didn't mention, so.

Telling everybody what we already knew. Exactly.

Great.

A little hard to follow, but. Well, y'all had 16 fire calls. That ain't just an ordinary day. Well, it's all an important information. Jamie is not here. Jamie is not. That's right. I do not.

He is not on.

He's not on?

No, sir.

Lucas.

It was a lengthy report this time. A lot.

The report. Much better job with the report, Lucas. We're making improvements. Good job. Streetlight list shorter, but still too long.

The streetlight list. It's shorter, but it's still too long.

Yeah. We wouldn't have it any other way.

First off is the final change order on the April expansion product.

Zero contract time, zero call, just the quantities change over for our loadout documents.

Motion? So moved. Motion by Robert, second by Gary. All those in favor? Aye. Opposed?

Second is the approval of INDOC state grant match for our AOP project.

So moved. Motion by Danny, second by Zinnia. All those in favor? Aye. Opposed?

And the third and final is the MDOT state match for our final hangar reimbursal.

So moved. Motion by Ted, second by Robert. All those in favor? Aye.

Good job. Last time I saw the marks, it looked like they were going to have about 225 and 235.

So when we come out there for this, recognizing that we get a chance to do a tour, we've seen some areas. You going to fly?

I'll take her up.

It's like a tour. We've seen some pilots. We're going to have a student's flight.

Yeah. They give it. They give it. Free flights with student pilots. Yeah.

Okay. Christian, you're out there. I'm out here. I'm sorry. I'm talking to a story. Christian, anyone? I know Gary was asking for updates on the assessment part.

we have an update for um given this report on june 30th we have an update for as it relates to the park we're still a lot we have budget we put in the budget for improvements um to get done but we're kind of short that i only have three labor guys right now trying to keep up with uh

Are we going to put that new playground equipment on Google Street? Because I think we budgeted for it and we approved that.

So we have been, we got donated some equipment that's put up, but we got donated some equipment that will be put out. So we're going to get with Public Works and we got it done.

I noticed that we have a pool.

Yes. The funds for the playground are in the bond fund, so they won't lose them. Thank you. You're welcome.

I do have a question. I'm sorry. I'm meeting with you. Okay. You'll provide us with minutes. Thank you.

I know it's there on Camel Bush Park. The children have started coming out playing a little in that park there, so we definitely want to preserve that park and keep it open for the children. They're playing baseball? They just come out and just play. That's probably the only other spot they can play rather than being in the streets.

We cut that park, though, don't we? It's that part right before you get to that new turntable subdivision. It used to be a baseball field. Yeah. That's why I was asking, were they playing baseball? Because there's a backstop there still.

Yeah, they are playing, so I would just want to make sure that we keep it going like that. Yeah, all the turrent table. There's a lot of small kids out there in turrent table. So we just wanted to make sure we try to keep it going.

I appreciate the question. Lady A.

Real quick before I present my item. On the consent agenda, I had requested approval for travel for the alderman. for Small Town Conference, MML Small Town Conference. So that is October 8th and 9th, and it's in Hattiesburg this year. So any of y'all that would like to attend, if you would shoot me an email tomorrow so that we can get you registered and book any hotels that are necessary. And that way we can take care of that. I do need to request to change the date for our first meeting in September due to the Labor Day holiday. So move.

Motion by Gary, second by Amy. All those in favor? Aye. Opposed?

The next item that I have is a request and authorization for the mayor to execute the documents and approval of the resolution for the DRA resolution for North Bayou Improvement Project.

Motion by Robert, second by Pete. All those in favor? Aye. And this is preliminary. Many problems in my mind. Right.

This is part of the application process. So we need this to apply. And that's all I have, Mayor.

Okay.

Well, it's not all I have. I need to request, Heather's not with us tonight, so I need to request approval of the employee action items.

Motion by Brian. I have one.

Is this a new position?

No, ma'am. We're replacing an employee.

OK, sure. All right, we'll vote. We're going in and take a session in. Yeah. OK. Robert? I just wanted to ask if they would kill

to all the department heads that we as all of them get a, just an update on what's transpiring in our ward. I brought this up before you got the bullet. A lot of times when we have in our ward, we have things transpiring that some of us don't find out even aware of. And in this detailed report, it's always that God's gift when he does the streets, he gives us a gift in the streets that's gonna be for our time. So I just wanted to make sure that in each department that we get an activity

You're talking about as far as like public works too, like they work on the street.

When you're wearing any board, they're going to... Lucas is going to start doing that.

They're doing work orders now and they're going to start sorting them by ward.

That's going to happen.

It's pretty much in there. Yeah.

because i'm the only one from the police department yeah well we got some tickets being written and ticket written war two on whatever i mean tickets i mean you don't have to go to three boxes well i hope we don't see if i hope you're doing okay they'll be there tomorrow well we're compliant very compliant

Okay. Margie? I don't know anything. Yes, but I talked to Ms. Michelle about this. I wanted to know the internal control procedures for the departments that receive the money. I just want to know what that procedure looks like if the board can get a copy of that procedure.

Are you I'm not real sure. Are you talking about like the money they spend, what it's called?

No, the money that they receive.

If a department is receiving cash or commission, they're the only people who receive cash.

Well, we have several departments. We have internal control procedures or, I guess, policies.

You're talking about cash receipts, not budget receipts.

The way we handle policies, this is the way it's been in the past. We don't distribute them. The board normally comes by to view those is how it's been in the past.

But if it's not a policy but a specific procedure, I just want you to share that. the board would be great. I just want to know what the procedure is. It doesn't have to be for saying which department. It's the same.

I mean, it's pretty much, well, no, I take that back. It's not. It's really not.

I don't have anything. Gerald, I'm good. Brian, I'm good. Danny, fine. Thank you. All right. I don't have anything I want to tell you. I want to take an executive session.

I should make a motion. We consider entering an executive session for matters of economic development and employee actions.

Second. Motion by Brian. Second by Danny. All those in favor? Opposed? Make a motion. We enter an executive session for the second. Second. Motion by Brian. Second by Danny. Now an executive session. I think that's all. Bye, Ms. Rader.

All right.