Council - Regular Meeting

to have a generator this size would be about time. Nice to meet you.

Yes, sir. All right. See you, man. always your own. to go by I So many kind of hurt.

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All right. Well, good evening everyone. I'm going to call this meeting to order. Thank you all for being here tonight. If you're here for the city council meeting, you're at the right place. Before we get into our meeting, we do have two public hearings. First of all, public hearing number one, public hearing on ordinance number 4578, an ordinance to amend ordinance 4,400. The same being the zoning ordinance of the city of Columbia, Tennessee by amending the commercial downtown historic district overlaid to include property at 810 Woodland Street being tax map 99A, group K, parcel 11. This is ward three. Anyone in the audience this evening wish to be heard on public hearing number one? Hearing none. Anyone on council wish to be heard on public hearing number one? Seeing none, entertain a motion to close public hearing number one.

Second. Been moved and properly seconded. Any discussion? Hearing none. Mr. Jablonsky. Mr. Huppen. Hi. Miss Secret. Hi. Mr. Marshall. Hi. Mr. Mcklly. Hi. Vice Mayor McGroom. Hi. Mayor Molder.

I. Public hearing number one is closed. Next item, public hearing two. public hearing on ordinance number 4582, an ordinance to amend ordinance 4400. The same being the zoning ordinance of the city of Columbia, Tennessee, by approving the Morning Point preliminary planned unit development master plan, formerly part of the Rutherford Lane Westfield Park Mixeduse PUD off Rutherford Lane and Westfield Drive being a portion of tax map 112 partial 3.07. This is in Ward 1. Anyone in the audience this evening wish to be heard on public hearing number two? Seeing none. Anyone on council wish to be heard on public hearing number two? Hearing none, entertain a motion to close public hearing number two. Second.

It's been moved and properly seconded. Any discussion? Hearing none. Mr. Jablonsky. Mr. Huffman. Hi. Miss. Mr. Marshall. Hi. Mr. McKelby. Hi. Vice Mayor McBroom. Hi. Mayor Molder.

I. Public hearing number two is now closed. All right. That takes us now to our regular meeting this evening. Let me once again say thank you to all of you who are here and those of you who are tuning in on YouTube. We appreciate you tuning in and for your interest in our meeting. We're glad you're here. We have a good productive meeting scheduled for tonight. We have a lot of special visitors here as well that we'd like to say a special welcome and thank you for being here. We look forward to recognizing you here momentarily. I would also like to uh say a special welcome to Miss Kayla Eastep who is here this evening as a part of her youth leadership Murray program. Council member Huffman mentioned that um she was here and so we wanted to give a special thanks to her. I enjoyed speaking with that program earlier today. So thank you Miss Eastep for being here and we hope you learned something tonight while you're here with us. Mr. Jablonsky we will take the role now please. Sir

Mr. McCullen, Mr. Huffman here. Miss here. Mr. Marshall here. Mr. McKel here. Vice Mayor Mcroom here. Mayor Moulder

here. Let the record reflect those members who are present. Next, we have our invocation by Phil [clears throat] Sanchez of the Bridge Church. And as Mr. Sanchez is coming up, if you are able to stand, please stand for the invocation and remain standing for the pledge of allegiance, which will be led this evening by Council Member um Kenny Marshall. Let's bow our heads and pray together. Heavenly Father, we pause at the beginning of this meeting to acknowledge that all wisdom, justice, and leadership ultimately come from you. We thank you tonight for the city of Colombia for its history, its growth, its neighborhoods, its schools, its businesses, and the many people who serve this community every day. Thank you for these council members, the mayor, and all public servants who have accepted the responsibility of leadership. We know that public service requires time, energy, sacrifice, and often difficult decisions. And we are grateful for their willingness to serve. Tonight, God, we ask that you grant them wisdom that is steady and clear. When conversations are complex, give them discernment. When perspectives differ, give them patience and the ability to listen well. When pressure rises, give them calm and courage. Help them lead with integrity and humility, remembering that behind every policy and every vote are real people and real families. We pray that their work would promote peace, justice, and the long-term flourishing of this city. God, we ask you to guard this room from unnecessary division and guide discussions towards collaboration and mutual respect. May this meeting be productive, thoughtful, and marked by civility. We especially ask that their leadership would benefit those who are most vulnerable in our community, our children, our seniors, our struggling

families, and those who often go unseen. May Colombia continue to be a place where people can live, work, and raise their families and thrive. So God, we ask you to bless this time together and bless this city. And we ask these things in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.

To the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. May be seated. Thank you, Mr. Sanchez. Next item on the agenda is approval of the agenda and um I believe we do have one modification which would include removing items 10.3 and 10.4 from the agenda. That is correct, mayor.

All right. So, with that being said, I'll make a motion to approve tonight's agenda, uh, subject to the removal of items 10.3 and 10.4 from the agenda per the request of the applicant. Motion's been properly seconded. Any discussion on that? Hearing none, Mr. Jablonsky. Mr. Huffman, Miss Secret, Mr. Marshall, hi. Mr. McKelby, hi. Vice Mayor Mcroom, Mayor Moulder,

I that item is approved. Uh, we're now in presentations. We are going to take this a little bit out of order without objection. Beginning with item 5.3, recognition of the city of Columbia first responders and Columbia Power and Water Systems for their effort during the recent ice and snowstorm. So, I know we have several um with us tonight. If y'all can meet us down in the uh in the well here with council, we'd like to offer a brief recognition and and photo, please.

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All right. Well, this is nothing too formal. Well, we just wanted to uh to have some of the faces uh to uh the response to the recent winter storm that put in a lot of work uh to ensure that our community was safe. Uh we know that not everyone was as fortunate as Columbia was with respect to how bad we were hit with the storm, but also with respect to the response and um Columbia Power and Water Systems um did a phenomenal job of triaging the situation. Um, and we're very fortunate and thankful for their good work. I know that we have two uh tonight with us, um, who are actually back tonight who have since retired. Um, Jeff Parks and Kyle Patrick. Y'all were willing to come back and so we're grateful uh to y'all for that. Um, we're grateful for your service uh to the city and to CPWS as well. Uh, also we have our uh Columbia Police Department and Columbia Fire and Rescue um who who also answered the call of service. Uh once again, as they always do, uh when we were in our homes um warm and and uh playing outside in the snow, they were answering calls um helping folks who had fallen or who had had vehicle accidents. Um and also our public works department who um really mastered the art of um tending to a winter storm several years ago. Um, and ever since it's always just been something really uh nice to watch unfold because they know what they're doing. They know how to do it. And uh there's so many compliments that we get as a council uh during that process of how good the the roads are and how much they're doing for us. And it's not us that should get the credit. It's the men and women at those departments that do that work. So, we just wanted to recognize them tonight. We wanted to pause and say thank you uh to them for their work and for sacrificing um uh for all of us in our community to keep us

safe. So, how about we give them a round of applause? I know we have a couple of department heads. Jeff Dwire, would you like to say anything? Maybe just give a little overview of how much salt was put on the road and how many manh hours and all the things. Uh well, we [clears throat] we worked um around the clock on 12-hour shifts uh starting on Saturday morning and we went through uh I guess Tuesday morning, Tuesday morning early. So, we uh we put down about 400 tons of salt in either in salt brine liquid fashion or or granulated. Uh and we treat about 480 lane miles, I believe it is, citywide. So, uh, we're really proud of our of our team and I think we we did a great job. There's always things we want to try and tweak along the way, [clears throat] you know, reflect on and maybe make some changes, but by and large, I think we did a we did a great job. So, I'm happy.

Thank you. CPD fire, y'all want to offer any any remarks? Business as usual. [laughter] Enough said. Ryan Massie.

Yes, sir. Uh, just for your information, Sunday by I think it was 3 3:30, we had 25% of our system out. By that evening, we had everything down to about 5% of our system out. Uh, we worked from Sunday morning, I think it was 4:00 to uh really we we sent crews home Friday at 4:30 and then we still had crews working that next weekend throughout the day fixing dam [cough] houses. uh that the customers had ser uh suffered that we were fixing that. So we had a long week water department and from the uh treatment plant to the uh distribution system had several main water breaks. So while y imagine what it was like being in a hole with the water spraying everywhere. So we we struggled but we got it through. Uh I would like to personally say thank you to Mr. Jeff Clark Patrick. They were actually supposed to retire that week and chose to push their retirement out to the very end of that. Uh it was with their knowledge uh and their services that we were able to uh [clears throat] we got to learn from the best out.

How many years of service between Jeff and Kyle total? Five. You want me to say we don't? [laughter]

So I'll say together they have 95 years of service. Let's give that a try. [applause] You know that's uh and Ryan, thank you for for saying that. One thing that we take for granted um is we don't realize that that the men and women at CPWS are also first responders and and out there doing very difficult and dangerous work, tough conditions. And so, thank you CPWS. Uh Kyle and Jeff, thanks to y'all. Uh the knowledge that y'all are taking away um with your retirement is is a lot, but fact you stayed on like that fact public service. So, we are grateful for service. That's what happened.

I'm gonna tell you how to make you feel feel old. I There's no telling how many hundreds of miles I've went when Jeff was in high school to watch him play basketball. And now he's retired after 40 something years. [clears throat] Kyle over there, he climbed the first pole he ever climbed. He climbed it with me and now he's retired. So another boys uh um Robert I remember him when he was a boy he was his granddaddy's one hired me power system so that's that's [laughter] how long I'm going know him [cough and clears throat] I want to thank you y'all done a good job thank

well we're very grateful to all of y'all and if you don't mind maybe we'll take a group uh photo

yes we get everybody possibly in front of We'll scoot this back. Oh, he's just temporar. One, two, three. One more. One, two, three. Last thing I'll say, last thing I'll say, one other thing that we take for granted and that we might not appreciate is the the coordination between our departments, obviously between our inner departments, fire, police, and public works. It's it's a sight to see the way that they communicate and work with CPWs, but also all of the uh first responding entities all across county. so much communication, coordination really where you see our community shine um during during difficult times that cross communication and coordination is something that we should be very very let's give them one more ROUND OF APPLAUSE. STAY DOWN HERE. Come on, get up here.

All right, we have one more presentation this evening. We're going to also take out of order without objection. This is going to be item 5.4. Really excited uh about this item. That's okay. Um item 5.4, four, which is presentation from our local Army recruiting office of Colombia, celebrating the achievements and commitment of our future soldiers who have chosen to serve while strengthening community support for their journey. Um, I've had the opportunity to um get to know some of these guys at the local recruiting office. And one of the things that we've talked about is um you know the Columbia uh Army recruiting office is constantly recruiting uh new members of our military who are enlisting in in the army who are going out to serve our country and we feel like it's appropriate to to give them attention to show them that they are loved and supported by this community um and that we are appreciative of their service uh and that they're willing to serve our country. So, we wanted to invite uh the uh the newest class of recruits, if you will, uh to our council meeting for recognition. Um, and so I believe we have several of them who are here. So, I'm going to ask them to come on up. Um, if you're here and you're a recruit, come on up. And we're gonna um recognize all of you this evening. And then at the conclusion, I'd like to also recognize Sergeant First Class Ryan Spiller, who is the station commander uh at the Columbia location to offer um some brief remarks as well. So, we have this certificate of enlistment is the certificate of enlistment certified that I'm going to give your name has enlisted for service in the United States Army. The people of the United States are deeply grateful to you for your personal commitment to national defense and so

too are those of us at the city of Ethan Boon. Did I pronounce it right? All right. Austin Spires, Duncan Gabbit, Corbin McGarity, Michael Malone, Wesley Mitchell, Aaron Holland, Joseph Daniels, and last but not least, Gabriel Meredith. Did I miss anybody? Got everybody. Very good. That's an indicator of uh third class skier. You got us all got it all. So with that said, would you like to maybe offer some remarks?

Yes. Thank you, Mayor and Council for allowing us to do this. biggest thing they reason for this eventual obvious no matter where they go whether it's over that we all have Thank you so much. Would you like to also introduce who you also have with you?

This is uh so is actually our future soldier leader. Um he is the one that is in charge of getting them ready for basic training. He trained on Tuesday 4 pm over at our recruiting office. He's on the brains behind the operations to get them ready. And we also have my company commander Captain P who is in charge of the Nashville recruiting company. We have stations in Mass Mercy Columbia Juliet and Galaxy and they will go to basic training in the next couple of months. Is that right? Yes. So all of them between February and I think the latest one was July.

All right. She's a senior once she graduates. Was that June? Okay. June. So once she graduates high school and approximately how many come through the Columbia recruiting office? So last year we enlisted 68 troops uh for last year. That was from October 1st to September 30th of 2025. Right now we are at 21 in this year. So far, 11 of these were for last quarter, which was October and

we just want to once again on behalf of all of us at the city of Columbia say thank you uh for your service. Uh we are very grateful uh that you've chosen this career path and your willingness to go serve our country. Um, and we are with you in thoughts and spirits and prayers as you go about your service and you always have a place here in Colombia uh to call home and that that you can rely on for support uh in any way that you ever need. So, thank you once again for your service. Truly, it means a lot to all of us. And let's give them one more round of applause [applause] so much. Thank you. [clears throat] Yes.

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Thank you. Randy, help me scoot this back. Thank you, sir. Thanks, sir. right there about where it's I don't know. We don't need any closer. [laughter] We got another one.

Boy, they got recruited a lot better than I did. About 80 of us went to national us and they said, "I live out of here. the DI looked around and said, "I don't know." And the DI said, "Why did you sign it?" All right, we do have one more presentation this evening. It's item 5.1, presentation of the economic impact award presented to the city of Columbia Parks and Recreation Department. So, I know we have a Max here. Mac, you the only one? I am. All right. Well, the rest are working, sir. Okay. There you [laughter] go. Well, this uh award is from the um who is it from? From sports destination management.

Sports destination management. There you go. If I would have read it, I would have known. Uh this champions of economic impact is presented by sports destination management to the uh PGF 13 under super select and the city of Columbia Parks and Recreation Department for being champions in the small market 2025. This is a nice award. Welld deserved. Matt, congratulations. Thank you very much. [applause] Tell us a little bit about this.

Uh, this award is basically a a national recognition for our size. It basically gives a award to individuals who bring in a lot of economic impact which is basically generated through our ball terms. PGF is beer girls fastpo. They held six tournaments last year. Did an outstanding job. 75 teams. Everyone travel from out of state, came in, spend their money, and that's basically what this award is for. The fact that we generate those funds for our area in our If I could, mayor, I'd like to thank this or the this council, vice mayor, mayor, uh, city manager, assistant city manager, and every department head forward this because each one of you were involved as you know.

Thank you very much. All right. Thank you, Max. The dollar, [clears throat] the estimated dollar amount from PGF alone was about $3.2 million per tournament. So with six, you're looking at almost $19 million. We had a total of 21 m 22 major events at Ridley and the total economic impact was about $22 million. But that will be updated this year given a post uh co uh updated formula. So, it's actually going to be a lot more and we'll announce that for sure when that comes out.

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That's what I'm saying. Two. There you go, man. Thank you. Appreciate it, everyone. I had an update too just real quickly about the state classic.

Yeah. Uh hotel rooms are reserved. Uh tickets are being sold like crazy. Um we've worked out uh with the school systems this year. They're going to buy tickets so they can bring students out for actual first game. So, we'll be full at the beginning. Uh just over 1,400 total tickets. What do you think about what we sold the schools uh have reserved and the uh local uh sponsors. So, it's going fast and it will be sold out quickly. So, anyone out there who wants tickets, make sure you get them cuz I I always get those calls at the end of the year that you know we sold out. So, let's do it now.

All right. And uh I did confirm yesterday that the mayor of Clarksville is going to be down to throw out the first pitch for the UT Austin P game. So, we'll be excited to welcome the mayor of Clarksville to town. We have some really exciting things, too, as far as who's going to be singing the national anthem that'll be announced. All right. Very good. Thank you, Mac. Thank you. All right. That leaves us with one more presentation. Will Evans is here. He he managed to stay through those. Thank you, Will, for for allowing us to do that. A little bit out of order, but we're glad you're here tonight. Welcome and look forward to your presentation.

No problem. Thank you, mayor, members of council. Um glad [clears throat] to be before you. Uh you all should have received a copy uh of our presentation. Um I'll start past the title slide and talk through our February economic development dashboard. I'll just hit a few notes uh on there. Um you will see our active project pipeline. Um we did callull that uh at the beginning of the year. will typically take a moment, look at our pipeline, take some of the cooler projects out uh and recalibrate that for the year. So, we're currently tracking 20 active projects. You'll see their potential impact. I'll just note over to the far right, you'll see the breakdown um of the various industries. Uh so, really representing a strong diversification of the projects that we are proactively uh working to bring to Colombia and Murray County. Uh next, I'll skip down to the unemployment rate. The most re recent numbers uh that have been released are for December 2025. Uh I'm sure uh you all have seen some of the news uh over the last uh week or so um which is factual that you know Murray County has moved to the highest unemployment rate in the state for that month. But I did want to provide some additional context around those numbers. um that is 5.7% which is still uh a a good unemployment rate compared to where we were back in 2008 9 10 and 11 when we were in the double digits oftentimes close to 20%. Um some of that is uh being impacted uh by General Motors and the suppliers there. We all know that uh both Ultium sales and General Motors has pulled back to one shift while they were retooling uh and getting ready for uh some new product which is ultimately going to be a positive. However, this was measured if you'll recall uh in the month of December uh General Motors was in a complete shutdown uh from Thanksgiving to Christmas. So that is reflected in these numbers. So we're hopeful as the January numbers are released uh we will see more of a true long you know what the impact of this uh reduction in a shift is going to be now that they are back at work. So just wanted to provide a little bit of

context behind those numbers. So, we don't feel there's any need uh to be overly alarmed at this point, but as we always do, we're going to continue to watch uh those numbers. And then finally, on the bottom line, um heard uh received some questions uh recently, you'll see the Q2 2025 Murray County employment. So, just again wanted to provide some context around these numbers. Uh you know, manufacturing uh and uh trade and and business services are are two of the highest uh represented. And then on the far right you'll see agriculture is represented at less than 1%. Again some additional context. What this is looking at is the number of employees uh in Murray County by businesses that are five or more and required to uh provide unemployment insurance. So that's what's measured here. So we we've heard some uh questions and comments around with us being such a strong agriculture community and having such a strong agriculture impact across the state, why is it only uh 1% or less of our employment? But if you look at a farm operation compared to a large manufacturing manufacturing operation, you know, you have hundreds of people uh sometimes thousands of people whereas on a farm operation, you know, you just have a smaller number of people there and then there's often a lot that are falling under that five person threshold. So that uh is just a little more context there of you know we we are uh a very proud agriculture community. Um but just these numbers just the way they're put together just don't quite uh present that uh correctly. Uh the rest of the um information you have is uh pretty straightforward housing permits uh housing prices vacancy rates and all of that. Shifting on to the next two uh slides. Uh really before I I move forward to that, I do want to uh as we're still transitioning into 2026, note some of the highlights for economic development uh from 2025. Uh we did successfully complete our capital campaign uh of which you guys are a generous uh investor. We were able to uh increase our economic development budget

by about 22%. So we appreciate your support and the support of our uh many investors. Um while we did not have any official announcements uh last year, uh I did want to just paint the picture that we do have a few uh in in the uh pipeline that we're anticipating um being announced here in the next, you know, month to few months. And those are going to be the types of projects that we are proactively incred recruiting uh focusing on that continued diversification of industry, high wage jobs and providing minimal infrastructure impact uh to the community. So please uh stay tuned for those. uh we continue to make uh strides in our uh existing industry and workforce development programs. We were able to meet with over 55 employers and workforce development partners throughout the year. Uh we were able to host the console general of Japan uh to meet with existing industries. There's several uh industries here in the community that are based out of Japan. So we were able to provide some interaction with them and their offices in Nashville. We hosted our inaugural align workforce summit. We'll talk a little bit about our second one here in a minute. Uh we did host a non-traditional workforce lunch and learn providing opportunities for employers to tap into some of the non-traditional workforce that is out there. People who may be leaving incarceration or or dealing with issues who are really striving for an opportunity to get a job and better their lives and kind of connect those dots there. And then uh we did hold an active shooter training as as well. Unfortunately, that is a topic that businesses do have to uh prepare for. Um, so we were able to bring in an industry expert for a half a day seminar for our existing industries. Then on the product development front, we were able to uh advance uh two of our existing publicly owned properties to help enhance uh their developability. One of those including the Columbia Tennessee rail site and the relocation of the power line project uh that is going on there. So as we shift forward to 2026, the next two slides are are just there as a reminder uh of of our priorities. This is the second year of our current uh economic development strategy titled

enhance Murray. Uh so what you have here is a copy of the vision uh behind that as well as the framework we're going to use. And so to summarize the vision of of where we are going as an organization is you know we can all agree we've seen many positive impacts on the growth uh that has happened over the last 10 years but it's also presented a new set of challenges uh for the community. We are well aware of that. We also understand that we must be more strategic uh in order to maintain a community that is desirable. So our vision moving forward is to focus on uh community h enhancement. Uh to simply put that uh we are striving to make things better, not just bigger uh as a community. So as we transition into 2026, we're really focusing on three main priorities uh to accomplish that. And that the top one is to create a cohesive community vision. Um, we see our organization to be a neutral catalyst to go through this process as a community to really gain wide community and stakeholder buyin. Uh, resulting in common vision across the entire county. We will then define our clear targets as a community and then utilize this vision to refine our future work as an economic development organization to make sure what we are doing is what the community is wanting to see. Uh we will continue to support our existing industries through our uh workforce development programs, growing our align Murray program, uh looking to focus or adding an industry council focused on human resources and to continue support our existing industries. And then uh we will continue to work to proactively recruit projects to the community and really focusing on three things that is diversification of industry uh creating higher wage opportunities and uh provide minimize or to minimize infrastructure impact uh with those projects. Um it's important to note that this type of project management uh can be a little more challenging. You know, we're having to have a little more challenging conversations with projects that may just not be the best fit for various reasons. uh and making sure um you know that we're having those difficult conversations on the front end in order

uh to make things easier in the long term. So all that said, we're excited about uh our year two of our five-year camp plan through 2029. Uh the last couple slides just some items to note uh regarding our annual meeting. Um the ICE event was the topic of the evening and uh it caused us to have to reschedule our annual meeting um from Jan late January that has now been rescheduled to Thursday March 206th. So you all are uh still invited. I think many of you uh did have a ticket. Those are still good. If you don't I think we've got maybe four left. Um if you guys are interested and I did want to take a moment to uh thank our sponsors which you see listed on that slide as well. Uh and then finally, our uh line Murray Workforce Summit uh our second rendition of that uh is coming up here in a couple weeks on February 25th. Just wanted to extend that invitation to you. Uh this half-day summit is going to focus on bringing together leaders, educators, and employers to align resources and share insights to build a stronger future ready workforce for Murray County. We're going to have Danny Nelms who is an organizational behavior scientist and CEO with Work Institute and Dwayne Scott who's the deputy commissioner with the Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce Development. Uh the topics uh at this year's summit is going to focus on workforce culture, retention, and employee engagement. So, uh we would invite you all to join us on the 25th and that will be at the second floor conference room of the First Farmers Bank North side on Highway 31. So, at this point, I'll stop and take any questions you all might have. All right. Any questions for Will Evans? Mr.

Mcklly, you have one. Uh, just need to There's a link on our website to register. There's no cost for that though. Okay. All right. Thank you, Will. Good good presentation. Appreciate that. All right. Next uh section is organizational business section 6 6.1 approve the minutes of the January 8, 2026 city council meeting. It's been moved and properly seconded. Any discussion hearing? None. Mr. Jablonsky. Mr. Huffman. Hi. Secret. Mr. Marshall. Hi. Mr. McKelby. Hi. Vice Mayor McBroom. Hi. Mayor Moulder.

I that item is approved. Next item 6.2. to approve ratification of retirement benefits for Terry Boat Wright, plant operator, wastewater department. It's been moved and properly seconded. Any discussion on that item? Hearing none, Mr. Jablonsky. Mr. Huffman, hi. Miss Marshall, hi. Mr. McKelby, hi. Vice Mayor Mc Broom, hi. Mayor Mald,

I that item is approved. Next item 6.3 confirmation of mayor's reappointment of Jadana Serest to the Columbia Housing and Redevelopment Corporation for a 5-year term beginning January 14, 2026, expiring January 14, 2031. It's been moved and properly seconded. Any discussion on item 6.3? Hearing none, Mr. Jablonsky. Mr. Huffman, hi. Miss, Mr. Marshall, hi. Mr. McKelby, Vice Mayor McBroom, hi. Mayor Molder. I that item is approved. Next item 6.4. Approve the appointment of Rebecca Kojetan to the city of Columbia Arts Council beginning on February 12, 2026 and expiring June 13, 2029.

It's been moved and properly seconded on that item. Any discussion? Hearing none. Mr. Jablonsky. Mr. Huffman. Hi. Miss Secret. Mr. Marshall. Hi. Mr. McKelby. Hi. Vice Mayor McGroom. Hi. Mayor Moulder. I that item is approved. Final item 6.5. Approval of retirement benefits for Daryl South Recreation Aid 2 Parks and Recreation Department. Approved. It's been moved and properly seconded. Any discussion on item 6.5? Hearing none. Mr. Jablonsky, Mr. Huffman, Miss Secret, Mr. Marshall. Hi, Mr. McKelby. Vice Mayor McBrroom. Mayor Mold.

I that item is approved. Next. Section seven, consent agenda. These items are deemed non-controversial, requiring no additional debate or discussion. Unless someone wants to remove any of the items, I will read through them collectively and then we'll vote on them collectively. I'm going to out of the top um take out um items 715 and 716 u the two Spring Hill related items. I know that we have um Spring Hill mayor and the city administrator here tonight. So, I'm going to take that out so we can um bring them up u for discussion just to talk to them. since they came all the way down to Columbia, we're going to let them uh with the mayor being here this evening, we'd like to recognize him. So, I'll read through the consent agenda. Um, with that said, 7.1, approved dispersements for the month of December 2025 in the amount of 13,144,6149. Item 7.2, approve payment to Murray County to provide funding for the Murray County City of Columbia Animal Services Facility for the first and second quarter of fiscal year 2026 of $121,000. Item 7.3, approve the renewal of liability and auto insurance with public entity partners in the amount of $578,175. Item 7.4, approve and authorize the mayor to sign the non-exclusive use and occupancy permit between the city of Columbia and Mutown Baseball League for the 2026 season. Item 7.5, approve and authorize the mayor to sign the non-exclusive use and occupancy permit between the city of Columbia and the Columbia Soccer Association for the 2026 season. Item 7.6, Six, approve and authorize the mayor to sign the non-exclusive use and occupancy permit between the city of Columbia and Columbia Girls Fast Pitch Association for the 2026 season. Item 77, approve and authorize the mayor to sign the non-exclusive use and occupancy permit between the city of Columbia and the Excel Aquatics for the 2026 season. Item 78, approve and authorize the mayor to sign the non-exclusive use and occupancy permit between the city of Columbia and the Columbia American Little League for the 2026 season. Item

79, approve and authorize the mayor to sign contract amendment number seven of job number 201199 between the city of Columbia and Lowe's design for professional services for the multiple renovations of the Columbia Aquatics and Recreation Center not to exceed $50,000. Item 710, approve and authorize the mayor to sign a revision to the contract between locality media inc DBA first due and the city of Columbia for an add-on module for the proactive monitoring of responder health and safety including exposure history along with incident training or event correlation exposure trends to support compliance with organizational health and safety initiatives. 7-Eleven, approve a reimbursement amount of $16,650 to LPT LLC for shy release for Greystone subdivision. 712 approve the mayor approve and authorize the mayor to sign an agreement with Quality Management Services LLC in the amount of $14,500 to include reimbursement of travel expenses to provide strategic planning consulting services to the city of Columbia. Item 713, acceptance of annual reports of the city of Columbia Employees Retirement Benefit Plan Fund and the City of Columbia Retirement Health Insurance Post-Enemployment Benefit Trust for the period ending December 31, 2025. 714 approved the purchase of desktop towers, tablets, and accessories from Dell Technologies in the amount of $227,000 9 $227,93543. 717 approved bid award and authorized the mayor to sign a contract between the city of Columbia and Steel Head Building Group in the amount of 1,463,85 to complete the Ridley Pickle Ball Complex edition at Ridley Sports Complex and Woodland Park Tennis Court renovations. That is your consent agenda. Items 7.1 through 714 or 15 and then item 7.17. It's been moved and properly seconded. Any discussion? Hearing none. Mr. Jablonsky.

Mr. Huffman. Hi. Miss Secretress. Mr. Marshall. Hi. Mr. McKelby. Hi. Vice Mayor Mc Broom. Hi. Mayor Moulder. I. The consent agenda is approved. I'll now call 7.15. Approve and authorize the mayor to sign the reimbursement agreement between the city of Columbia, Tennessee um and the city of Spring Hill, Tennessee. Uh, Mayor Fitterer from Spring Hill came all the way down this evening along with the city administrator Carter Napier. We're glad y'all are here. Uh, we did have a good uh, discussion on this at the study session meeting, but mayor, since you made it here tonight, we wanted to give you the floor. Welcome.

Thank you, mayor. For the record, Matt F, City of Spring Hill, apologies for missing the work session, but 7-year-old's music program took priority over waste water. So, uh, at this point, all we're looking to do is collect information. Uh we think your engineers should study your sewage system and provide you with information, but we don't want you to bear any cost with that. So uh 715 simply allows us to reimburse you for costs that you might incur as a result of collecting this information. Happy to answer any questions that y'all might have.

Any questions for Mayor Fitter? Um, I just want to say, um, as I said at the study session, uh, mayor, I think that this is an opportunity for us to at least explore the potential, uh, partnership here, and I think that this is an example where two municipalities can work together. I appreciate the approach that you and your team have taken with respect to, hey, look, there's no pressure here. This may not work, but let's at least it's worth giving it a shot to see. That goes both ways, mayor. Right. Well, thank you. Thank you. All right. 7:15. We'll entertain a motion to approve. I'll make the motion. Seconded by council member Marshall. Any discussion on item 7:15? Hearing none. Mr. Jablonsky. Mr. Huffman. Hi. Miss Secret. Mr. Marshall. Hi. Mr. McKelby.

Hi. Vice Mayor Mcroom. Hi. Mayor Moulder. I. Item 7:15 is approved. And then the next item 716 approve and authorize the mayor to sign the agreement between the city of Columbia and J.R. Walford & Company for the evaluation of Columbia's wastewater collection system to assist the city of Spring Hill by accepting a portion of the residential sanitary sewer. This of course is just the agreement between the city and our own engineers to conduct the study. Um so I'll make the motion to approve item 716. Properly seconded by the vice mayor. Uh any discussion? Mr. Naper, you're here. You can speak if you'd like, but if not, we'll just say welcome to you. We didn't want you to All right. He says let the record reflect. He's he's good. All right. Uh, any other discussion on item 716? Hearing none. Mr. Jablonsky. Mr. Hen. Hi. Miss Secret. Mr. Marshall.

Hi. Mr. McKelby. Hi. Vice Mayor McBrroom. Hi. Mayor Mer. I. That item is approved. Thank you once again. Spring Hill. Safe travels back north on Highway 31. There being no items under section 8 administration, we'll move on now to section 9 resolutions 9.1 resolution 2605 tax corrections. It's been moved and properly seconded. Any discussion? Hearing none. Mr. Jablonsky. Mr. Mr. Huffman. Hi, Miss Secret. Mr. Marshall, hi Mr. McKelby. Hi, Vice Mayor Mc Broom. Hi, Mayor Moulder. I That is approved. Next item, 9.2. Resolution to accept the public streets and drainage improvement serving Pulk Place subdivision phases 1, 2, 2B, and three for ownership and maintenance.

It's been moved and properly seconded. Any discussion on item 9.2? Hearing? None. Mr. Jablonsky. Mr. Huffman. Hi, Miss Secrets. Mr. Marshall, hi Mr. McKelby. Hi, Vice Mayor Mc Broom. Mayor Moulder. I That is approved. Next item 9.3, resolution 2607, special assessment corrections.

It's been moved and properly seconded. Item 9.3. Any discussion? Hearing none. Mr. Jablonsky. Mr. Huffman. Hi. Miss Secret. Hi. Mr. Marshall. Hi. Mr. McKelby. Hi. Vice Mayor McBroom. Hi. Mayor Mhler. Uh, that item is approved. Next item, 9.4, resolution 2608, a resolution accepting a donation of $300 from the Midsouth Electric for the Parks and Recreation staff lunchon. It's been moved, properly seconded. 9.4. Any discussion hearing? None. Mr. Jablonsky. Mr. Huffman. Hi, Miss Secrets. Hi, Mr. Marshall. Hi, Mr. McKelby. Hi, Vice Mayor Mcroom. Hi, Mayor Molder.

I that item is approved. Next item 9.5, resolution number 2609, a resolution confirming compliance and review of financial policies and authorizing an application for the controllers financial excellence award. Second. It's been moved and properly seconded. Any discussion on 9.5 hearing? None. Mr. Jablonsky. Mr. Huffman, Miss Seagris, Mr. Marshall. Hi, Mr. McKelby. Hi. Vice Mayor McM. That item is approved. Next item 9.6, Six, resolution 2610, a resolution to authorize the city of Columbia to apply for the 2026 rescue squad grant program application and authorize the mayor to execute documents related to and accepting and administering the grant project.

Been moved and properly seconded. Any discussion hearing? None. Mr. Jablonsky. Mr. Huffman. Hi. Miss Secret. Hi. Mr. Marshall. Hi. Mr. McKelby. Hi. Vice Mayor McBurn. Hi. Mayor Merrick. Hi. That item is approved. Next item, 9.7, resolution 2611, a resolution to accept the public streets and drainage improvements serving Greystone subdivision for ownership and maintenance. It's been moved and properly seconded. Any discussion on 9.7 hearing? None. Mr. Jablonsky. Mr. Huffman. Hi. Miss Secrets. Mr. Marshall. Hi. Mr. McKelby. Hi. Vice Mayor McBroom. Hi. Mayor Muller.

Hi. That item is approved. Now on the final section, ordinances 10.1, second consideration on ordinance number 4579, an ordinance to amend ordinance 4400, the same being the zoning ordinance of the city of Clem, Tennessee, by deanexing properties located off of Darks Mill Road being tax map 52, partials 38.03, 38.05, 38.06, and tax map 66, partials 1.01, 1.02, and 1.03. Motion to approve and been properly seconded. I do have Justin Bat that has signed up. You'd like to speak. I'll have to say Mr. Bat, by my count, I think you've been to every one of these meetings. Uh we got to you a little sooner tonight than we did the last one, but thank you for being here and for uh your participation in this. Uh this has been a little bit unusual, but I think you've navigated it well along with others. And so we're grateful for y'all's patience in that regard.

No, thank you. That was my comment. for the record, let it reflect that I'm just thankful and grateful for all of you. This is what it should look like between a citizen and city council and the mayor and administration as well. So, Paul, thank you. Um, everybody listened. They heard what we had to say. We thought about it logically and we dealt with it civily. And Brian McKelie was just phenomenal. He came onto the property. He listened to us and he's been the point man to bring this forward. So, I just want to say thank you on behalf of the Bat family, the Crouches, and the Dansfields. We appreciate this very much. All right. Thank you, Mr. B, and thanks for for being here. Um, we have a motion and a second on the floor. So, any further discussion hearing? None. Mr. Jablonsky. Mr. Huffman. Hi, Miss Secrets. Mr. Marshall,

hi. Mr. McKelby, hi. Vice Mayor Mcroom, hi. Mayor Molder, I that item is approved on second and final consideration. Item 10.2, Two, second consideration of ordinance 4580, an ordinance for the abandonment of a right ofway being Columbia Rock Products Road and authorizing the mayor to execute and deliver quick claim deeds to the property owner. It's been moved, properly seconded. Any discussion on that item? Hearing none, Mr. Jablonsky. Mr. Huffman, Miss Mr. Marshall, hi. Mr. McKelby, Vice Mayor McBrroom, Mayor Moulder,

I item 10.2 is approved. 10.3 and 10.4 have been removed from the agenda. So, we will move now to 10.5. First consideration on ordinance 4578 and ordinance to amend ordinance 4400 the zoning ordinance of the city of Columbia by amending the commercial downtown historic district overlay to include a property at 810 Woodland Street being tax map 99A group K partial 11. This is W three. I am going to recuse myself from this matter. So I'll hand it over to Vice Mayor McBrroom. Thank you. Thank you mayor. Um, we didn't want to have any more discussion on it. Okay, we have we have a motion to approve. We have a second.

Second. Have a motion to second. Now, do we have any more discussion? I think we covered all [clears throat] of it during study session. I don't see any roll call. Mr. Huffman, Miss Secret, Mr. Marshall. Hi, Mr. McKelby. Hi, Vice Mayor Mcroom. Hi, Mayor Mold. Abstain mayor. All right, that takes us to item 10.6. First, consideration of ordinance 4581, an ordinance to amend the fiscal year 2526, budget ordinance 4544 as amended providing for revisions to the general capital projects and grants funds and establish the date of March 12, 2026 as the date of public hearing.

It's been moved and properly seconded. Item 10.6. Any discussion hearing? None. Mr. Jablonsky, Mr. Huffman. Hi, Miss Cris. Mr. Marshall. Hi, Mr. McKelby. Hi, Vice Mayor McBrroom. Hi, Mayor Mulver. I That item is approved. Final item 10.7, first consideration of ordinance 4582, an ordinance to amend ordinance 4400, the same being the zoning ordinance of the city of Columbia by approving the Morning Point preliminary planned unit development master plan, formerly part of the Rutherford Lane, Westfield Park mixeduse pud off of Rutherford Lane and Westfield Drive, being a portion of tax map 112, partial 3.07. This is Ward One. Second. It's been moved, properly seconded. Any discussion on item 10.7 hearing? None. Mr. Jablonsky. Mr. Huffman. Hi. Miss Secret. Hi.

Mr. Marshall. Hi. Mr. McCelie. Hi. Vice Mayor Mcroom. Hi. Mayor Moulder. I. That item is approved. All right. Section 11. Other business. Any member of council have anything for the good of the council? Any announcements? All right. Well, uh, good meeting this evening. Thanks everyone for uh your attendance participation. We have no need to go into executive session, do we, Mr. City attorney? No. No, mayor. All right. So with that, we'll entertain a motion to adjurnn. Second. It's been moved by council member Huffman. Properly second council Mckelby. Any discussion here? None. Mr. Jablonsky. Mr. Huffman. Miss Secret. Mr. Marshall. Hi. Mr. McKelby. Hi.

Vice Mayor Mc Broom. Hi. Ma'am.