Council - Regular Meeting

Thank you. Thank you.

All right, well, good evening. I have 5.30 on the clock, so I'm going to call tonight's meeting to order. I would like to welcome all of you who are here this evening at the City of Columbia City Hall, City Council Chambers for tonight's meeting for September 10, 2026. And I'd like to give a special welcome to Girl Scout Troop number 1308 who are here tonight and sitting on the front row and are going to help lead us in tonight's Pledge of Allegiance. So we welcome all of you who are here tonight in person and also those of you who are tuning in live or who may be tuning in after tonight's meeting. We have no public hearings this evening, so we will start right into our regular meeting, beginning with the call to order and roll call. Mr. Jablonski, will you take the roll, please?

Mr. McCollin? Mr. Hoppin? Ms. Sechrest? Mr. Marshall? Here. Mr. McKelvey? Mr. McBroom? Here. Mayor Mulder?

Here. Let the record reflect. All members of council are present. this evening for tonight's invocation and pledge. First, we're going to have Mike Dawson of first Baptist church of Columbia, uh, to come to tonight's podium. And as he's, as he's coming to the podium, I'd also like to invite girl scout troop number 1308 to also meet, uh, pastor Mike Dawson and myself down. If y'all will come on up troop number 1308, um, we will, uh, say the pledge and they will lead us in the pledge after the invocation. Um, And before tonight's invocation, I've asked Mike Dawson if he could please help lead us with a moment of silence. As we remember tomorrow, the 25th anniversary of September 11, 2001, many of us remember where we were at the exact moment where we were when we found out what had happened. And tomorrow is an important day to remember, to remember how our country came together during that very difficult time. And remember the lives that were lost on that very difficult day for our country. So with that, I would ask for all of you to please stand as you're able. We'll have a moment of silence and then the invocation. And I will stand with the Girl Scout troop for the Pledge of Allegiance.

Amen. Amen to that moment of silence. Very appropriate, very timely, and we ought to have done it, and I'm glad that we did. I want to, before I speak the invocation, the prayer for guidance and direction, I want to do something that in speech class I heard you're never supposed to do, and that is make an apology. And I want to make an apology to our city council. I pray for you all once a week. In my prayer journal on Mondays, I pray for men and women in authority. The Bible teaches us to pray for those who are in authority that we may lead a life of peacefulness and quiet and so forth and all godliness. So we are to pray. But I usually just pray for the city council. And when I was called on to pray tonight, I said, you know, I'm going to do differently. I'm going to pray for the city council by name. So I'm going to pray for Des Mulder, our mayor, and Randy McBroom, our vice mayor, and Carl McMullen from Ward 1, and Charlie Huffman, Ward 2, and Cheryl Seacrest, Ward 3, Kenny Marshall, Ward 4, Brian McKelvey, Ward 5. And I took out of my prayer journal the list of persons and authority people that I usually pray for. And that doesn't include you all by name. But now I've got you on there by name. And so on Mondays, you can know that I'm going to be praying especially for you by name. I'm sure many other people do that as well. But we will be doing that. So we'll bow together in prayer before our group leads us in the stage of belief. Father, we thank you that we can come to you and do what the Bible says, and that is pray for those who are in authority. Father, we thank you for those who are in authority in this city. Lord, we are kept safe by your watch here. But we're also kept safe by men and women of wisdom who have been placed in positions of leadership and authority. We're kept safe by people who are in law enforcement and those first responders and those who are helping us to be a safe place. And we give you thanks. Tonight, you have heard our silent prayer as we think about what happened 25 years ago tomorrow in the United States of America being attacked on our own soil. And yet, Lord, we thank you that over these 25 years, we've learned many, many things. We've learned about security and so many other things. And thank you that these girls who are here representing this scout group and know that they live in a safe place because of your watch care and because of persons like these before us here today who have been put in places of authority and leadership. Lord, we pray that people who are in these places, all of these tonight, we pray for Jazz and Randy and Carl and Charlie and Cheryl and Kenny and Brian. We pray, Lord, that you will give them the wisdom, the insight, the discernment, the query, the biblical wisdom. understanding of how things work so that they can continue to lead us as they have led us we pray for the city of columbia we pray for the state of tennessee and the united states and this world that you have made lord thank you that you put in this world persons made in your image And we thank you that whatever height or whatever shortness or whatever weight or whatever color our skin or whatever age we are. that we are made in your image and help us to treat each other that way. Lord, we thank you that we can stand and pledge allegiance to a flag that represents freedom, it represents family, it represents faith, and we're grateful to live in such a land. Lord, continue to lead our leaders and help us be good followers. Help us to live lives that are worthy Of what you've called us to do. And thank you that Jesus. You set the example for us. Not only in the way you live. But you gave your life. You might live forever. We make this prayer. Thanking you for every blessing. In Jesus name. Amen.

United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, with indivisible liberty and justice for all.

All right, well, thank you, Pastor Mike Dawson, for that message this evening. Very special and meaningful. It's always a pleasure to have you here, and we appreciate what you do for our community. Also, I would like to say thank you to the Girl Scout Troop 1308. We have a good group tonight. I just want to say their names so that they can be recognized once more. Abby, Avery, Everly, Khadijah, May, Sophia, number one, Sophia, number two. Spelled differently, by the way. Reagan and Wren. And girls, if you could once more just please stand up and face the crowd and wave. Let them all know you're here. All right, well, we had a really good visit today, and we're so proud they're here. And I even told them that they could leave right after they were recognized, but they wanted to stay a little bit longer. So we're grateful for them, but they are able to leave if they need to. As I told the parents, y'all have been here for a while now, so we're so grateful that you've been here and spent some time. And I hope the troop got something out of our visit today. With that, we will now go to the approval of the agenda, Section 4, approval of tonight's agenda. Entertain a motion. It's been moved properly. Second, any discussion on that? Hearing none, Mr. Jablonski.

Mr. McClellan, Mr. Huffman, Ms. Sechrist, Mr. Marshall, Mr. McKelvey, Ms. Merriman-Groom,

Aye. That item is approved. The agenda is approved. Next, Section 5, Presentations. Item 5.1, Presentation of the Carnegie Medal to Samuel Harden Adcock. And we have a special presentation this evening for that. And actually, the best we can tell, this may be a historic presentation because we do not believe that the Carnegie Medal has previously been awarded in the City of Columbia. Is that right, Mr. City Manager? To our knowledge, that is correct. to our knowledge and certainly to our knowledge with regards to the city council having the ability to make the presentation on behalf of this civilian honor. So I thought I would read just a bit about the medal itself. The Carnegie Medal is North America's highest civilian honor for heroism. Established in 1904 by Andrew Carnegie, it is awarded to individuals throughout the United States and Canada who voluntarily risk their lives to save or attempt to save others. The Carnegie Medal is a bronze medallion, three inches in diameter, and is awarded to civilians who risk death or serious physical injury to an extraordinary degree, saving or attempting the lives of others. The medal is adorned with laurel, ivy, oak, and thistle, respectively, signifying glory, friendship, strength, and persistence, the attributes of a hero. And now I'd ask for Mr. Adcock, if you would please come forward. And I'm going to read this about you a little bit, and I'm going to hopefully not embarrass you too much. But it's very special, and I wanted to read this, and I want the crowd who's here tonight to hear this, and those who are watching also to be aware. Samuel Adcock is an auto assembly plant tool coordinator, was awarded the medal in March after he helped rescue a man from drowning on May 23, 2025. At a boat ramp in Chickasaw Trace Park in Columbia, a 25-year-old who was severely autistic ran into the Duck River and was swept downstream by the current. On the south side of the boat ramp, Samuel Harden Adcock, 26, and another individual, both from Columbia, were with Garner's family when the family they saw McNary get carried downstream. Adcock immediately waded out to the channel and began swimming freestyle downstream to try to reach McNary. They then entered the water and swam to catch up to McNary. About a thousand feet downstream, McNary was swept into a calmer area of the river where Adcock caught up with him and grabbed him. McNary struggled to stay afloat and submerged Adcock, who pushed McNary away to get air. Adcock stood on an underwater tree limb and grabbed McNary before he pushed him toward the riverbank. The other individual then arrived and positioned himself behind McNary. The two men pushed and pulled McNary to a large tree root on the riverbank where they waited for first responders. The riverbank had a steep, rocky ledge that prevented them from climbing up into the woods. Garner and Adcock kept McNary calm until a rescue boat could take him back to the boat ramp where his parents waited. An ambulance then took him to the hospital. The boat then returned to pick up Adcock and Garner. The individuals were tired and cold, but not injured. Adcock and Garner still went when they later visited the hospital to check on McNary. Adcock was the Pittsburgh-based Carnegie Heroes' 10,561st hero. The Hero Fund, established in 1904, has awarded the medal to 10,581 individuals in recognition of their heroism, defined by the commission as acts of life-saving done at extraordinary risk to the rescuer. And so Mr. Adcock, we're so incredibly proud of you and pleased to be able to provide you this award. And so I would now ask for city council to please join me with Mr. Adcock for the presentation. On the medal, actually, it includes.

Thank you.

All right.

Council Member McClellan. All right. Thank you, everyone. That takes us now to item 5.2, presentation by Kelly Johnson on the fruit teaser. I see Ms. Johnson in the audience this evening. She's officially on the agenda, so we're going to call her up for a presentation on what we have going on here with this coming weekend fruit teaser. We're all really excited about it. Tell us more, Ms. Johnson.

Well, I'm here to officially invite you all to our fruit teaser event scheduled for this Saturday, hopefully 3 to 8 p.m. in the Murray County parking lot, which is right behind the county tags. I'm asking you all to come, though, because we're making two different proclamations, and y'all will be officially doing those proclamations at the event and not tonight. That proclamation, the first one is going to be the fruit tea capital of the world. And the second proclamation is going to be the official drink of Columbia, Tennessee, is fruit tea. So I would ask for you all to join us. We're doing the first proclamation hopefully right at 345. Second proclamation is closer to the 6 p.m. If any of you are available to come during that time frame, I would love to have you help read that proclamation. If not, we'll figure it out in a moment, too. The event is meant to be a one year only event that Columbia Main Street does. I won't do this again because next year during the event, our tourism department will be making a large announcement about the fruit tea festival that we have planned. So I would love for you to join us this year, Columbia Main Street side of things, and then join us year after year, because it's only going to get better for our community. And it is going to be a fun evening. If you don't know anything about it, though, I have 17 different teams competing with fruit tea. You have a $5 ticket, and that gets you to try all the different fruit teas and then vote for your favorite fruit tea. So somebody will be walking home with the award that says i have the best fruit tea in columbia because a lot of people already think they do so we're going to see who actually does at the event i have three youth bands performing all under the age of 18 one of them is the parks and recreations battle of the bands winner they're performing first at 3 15 and then i have two other bands after that you also have in the event several fruit tea initiatives a learning zone where kids get to learn how the Duck River is what we use to source our fruit tea because of the water. And then there's activities, food trucks. You get to make your own fruit tea shirt and buy other merchandise. So it's going to be a fun event, and I hope you all are able to join us.

All right. Any questions for Ms. Johnson on this, customer Marshall?

Yes, several references.

Yup, the list right now, I have Puckett's, Square Market, JJ's Barbecue, Old Glory, Omega's Market. A couple more, probably. And then I have individuals and food trucks who also serve it. The I would love to have even more restaurants on it, but not everybody could staff it. I square market is one that wants to be there. So I'm having a junior Main Street staff their booth. So yeah, it's kind of equal though. If you can make a good fruit tea, you can compete. So let me know if you want to compete.

So it sounds like there will be an award given to someone that will be able to claim that they had the best fruit tea in the city that is now proclaiming to be the fruit tea capital of the world and the city that now has the official drink as being fruit tea.

That's correct. I think that award will also be given year after year. So you have to keep the competition going though. So next year it can totally change. Um, there is a fruit tea chugging competition that I still have two available slots in. If anybody is interested, it is a hundred dollar cash if you win. And then I do have a poem competition. I have three, uh, youth who are under the age of 16 11 and 11 who have all written and have won the fruit tea poem competition so a lot of fun residential things that we're doing at this event as well well thank you very much miss johnson and this is just the latest and your good work uh with columbia main street i'll have to say it was at first fridays last week i was just so impressed with

a lot of things but i appreciate how you've incorporated musicians and and some musicians that are getting some stage time that might not otherwise get it as easily and uh with such accessibility so thank you for a good first friday's event thank you for putting this event on um another example of plumbing main street doing good things and uh if we haven't heard about it then we haven't been paying attention to her uh instagram channel that has a an announcement on fruit teaser almost every other day so uh and you've also been very creative with those as well so Thank you for all your good work. Thank you to the Main Street Board and thank you to Junior Main Street. And we will see you on Saturday.

See you all. Thank you all.

Thank you. All right, that takes us now to item 5.3, presentation by the Miracle League for playground equipment assistance. And we have a couple of representatives in the Miracle League here. I think we mentioned this last week during the study session that they would be here tonight for an update on the Miracle League of Columbia at Murray County Park and sort of what's been going on out there and what the current needs are. And it looks like we have Mike Ugla and Julie Beck here. I don't know who all speaking, but y'all will have the floor. Welcome to City Hall, City Council Chambers, Mr. Ugla.

Thanks for having me. Yeah, I appreciate the time, the effort. Obviously, there are quite a few people in this room who have heard, at least in some way, shape, or form about the Miracle League. But I'll give a quick recap just for those who may be either in the audience or who haven't heard. But in 2001, I get a call on January 2nd from Robin Estep, who was originally Robin Hughley's Margaret Hughley around the corner here. And she's had, like everybody, tough tips for 2020, trying to figure out exactly what to do, what weighs up. Everybody remembers 2020 is a pretty challenging year, and the only thing she could think of coming out of that is, okay, how do we get something positive rolling again? And at that time, my brother and I, my brother's Dan Ugla, who had a good amount of success in the professional baseball circuit, he and I had been looking at different areas of where we could give back to our home. Columbia, who lives over in Sunnyside in the same house we were raised in. And those two, her dream of wanting to do something in honor of her nephew that was adopted by Becky, her older sister, who came home and realistically a couple months after he gets here from Ethiopia, he starts having seizures and has a very, very rare brain disorder, which Basically, they learned really quickly that he'll never be able to live a completely normal and independent life. So Robin, who had the soft heart for Kay, wanted to do something special. And his very favorite, his most favorite thing in the world was going and being like his older brother and playing baseball at Miracle League Park in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. And Robin said, with the amount of... logistics in the community and what we have in King's Daughters and all the other narratives Julie obviously very close to the best buddies why can't we do something like that here and the first person she was honored to reach out to was me and I called my brother my brother and I both immediately said this is it how do we put um baseball community that drives for a group of very enabled individuals both uh children adults so Long story short, we circle up, we commit. My brother and I put together a package. Nice serious investment up front to let the city and county know we're invested. And the next call was to Mayor Mulder. That was probably around January 10th, January 12th. And he at the time had mentioned that the Babe Ruth field that we all grew up playing on was semi-dormant. And so he connected us with Al Ray over at the county. We were able as a community between the partnership of all the large companies and banks and hospitals, we were able to raise $1.7 million in about 11 months. which was really incredible. This was just all grassroots fundraising, songwriters' nights, donations, door-to-door, amazing community presence. We were actually outpacing Nashville, Memphis, and some of these other larger areas that had a lot more resources than we did, but we were outpacing them because we believed the community of Columbia and Murray County is a solid base of people that can get on board and support. So long story short, two years later, we get through architectural permits, plans, but our pricing had gone from a $1.7 million budget to a 2.6 based on our lovely manufacturer being able to get product and the metal still what you name it concrete everything up and the county was able to after a year later the county was able to get a million dollar grant help us complete the phase one which was the baseball portion of this deal and so we started construction literally um the group they finished within six months. And out of nowhere, we figured in October, we learned we were going to have our first season, which was this past spring. I just had a lot of faces in the crowd of people that were able to attend and be there. And it's the best thing I've ever done, 49 years on this earth, and going and catching or pitching or coaching the young men and women and the adults that get to live the dream and play baseball for the first time was really special. And the other side of this, which was the phase two portion of this, we ended up having, which as I said, a recap. We had 60 people sign up within three weeks of boys and girls, men and women that signed up. And this year we're starting, we have back to start this Saturday, our games at nine o'clock this Saturday for six weeks. And we have almost 80 people. This is our first full year, 80 young men and women, and then all ages. So the baseball is already off and running. It's doing incredible. We could not have imagined having that kind of impact. The phase two, which was kind of more near and dear to my heart, was the dream that Robin had, which was also incorporating a playground that is what they refer to as an all-inclusive playground, which means... you know, specific customized equipment that can handle everything from autistic challenges to the wheelchair access to all the different areas of access. But kids of all abilities will be able to do the concept all inclusive, as you guys are well aware. is for kids just to play no matter who you are no matter what ability or disability or whatever challenge you have so we went to work years ago on the phase two portion of this with right next door and land that's already prepped and ready is the ability to roll out a playground that will serve as probably probably the coolest playground and the neatest playground would become a centerpiece for prairie county park that allows all kids of all abilities to get together and that truly is the way we felt and it was pitched to us and I saw it real time. Watching kids experience that at a very young age, they realize, hey, they're not different. They're just kids, they play. It's an area where you can actually start to incorporate and get youth understanding, not the areas of where these kids have classes or special areas, but hey, those are my friends, let's go . of the day all get on board with being able so benefits so far we knew we had a long way to go um we were able to come in under budget by over just over a hundred thousand dollars to play on that and county had already committed whatever funds we came under budget would be applied to phase two which is what we refer to as pace place which is the inclusive playground um we also had the county of earmarked another 125 000 last year to help put towards that that land so again we are already 230 000 the original quote we had were 950 000 we were able to go to work on that value engineer uh we got some people to reduce prices and figured out ways to do labor we were able to reduce it over two hundred thousand dollars so as of right now we are within i would say striking distance but we have 230 dollars that we already have Yeah, we are getting ready to go back out to the fundraising grassroots scenario that we did the first time around. Knowing it'll be challenging because we already went to these wells a few times, but we had prepped and we were ready for that. But as of right now, we have roughly a $750,000 project that we are literally $498,000 short of. And the only thing that we're really racing against is time because those quotes are good for realistically 90 days at a time. We have a quote that is good until October 31st. Our big concern with why I'm standing here today is we're not one that's ever going to have our hands out. We believe in this community. We believe that we can do it. We believe we had to. But we are going to chase the ghost of time again. And with any kind of materials, we know we're on the right track. and if there's an ability for the city to step in and make you know a healthy as healthy as you would like to say contribution it would be greatly appreciated because every day we wait we know it's going to get more expensive and we can we'll be in that same situation we're facing that ballpark we looked up at 17 and we know that you'd have like we're we're asking for City to help assist us with completing this dream that Robin had years ago. And just wrapped arms. You take into account you have 498,000 to go in anything that can be done greatly.

All right. Any questions from Mr. Ugla or for Mr. Ugla on those comments? So, Mike, just to make sure I'm clear, what you're saying is that phase two is $750,000, of which you're currently approximately $500,000 short. Right. And the county has contributed to include the $100,000 overage that was allocated and then the extra $125,000, $130,000. county yes all right any any other questions from uh this topic i just want to i'll point out i know that this was tonight was the presentation uh and uh i've asked for this to be an october agenda item for for council's review and approval obviously this is an opportunity for council to learn more about the project i want to say just on the record that i fully support the request to make a meaningful contribution towards this project as a city. When I look back over the last eight years, Some of the more meaningful projects that we had, which have been several, and we've been a partner on this project from the outset already. And this has certainly been one of the more meaningful projects. I mean, going to the opening ceremonies at the Miracle League was something, and of all the days I've been as mayor, I'll never forget. But also, I think about the dog park project that we had, and that was a project that was in a county park. Um, that initially, you know, there was some reluctance from council, you know, would we do this? Why would we do this? But we realized that it was the right thing for the community. And we now have a very nice dog park. Thanks in part to our very well, um, uh, and sophisticated run parks and rec department at Columbia that also has coordination and works with the County at the County park. And I look back and I think that was something that was a good day for our community. People appreciated seeing our community coming together in somewhat of an unorthodox way, because it's not overly common for, uh, a city to make an investment in a non-owned park but we realize for the greater community good especially recognizing where murray county park is located in the heart of columbia that many columbia residents would get the benefit of that facility and to my knowledge um we don't have a fully inclusive playground in the city of columbia at least it's available for public use in the kind of way that this playground would be and so when i think about the fact that we have 80 individuals that have signed up for this league that would be able to also be involved in this playground. But then when I think about the other individuals in Columbia that aren't involved in the league that could utilize the playground, both that have the needs to utilize it, but that also that others could utilize, I think about the benefit that it would bring. And so I look forward to this being on the October agenda item. And I would just request the members of council think hard about this request and what we might be able to do to have an impact on this phase two playground. Mr. Huff.

I was out there at the Saturday call, and I cannot, anybody here have ever seen the smiles on those kids' faces. It means a lot, and I thank you.

Again, it's the greatest thing I've ever been a part of. I'm glad you're able to experience it right once you see it. It's a highlight, really, every single week. I appreciate it.

I was just wondering the funding will go just towards building it or will it go to the equipment

So as far as baseball equipment's already been covered, we're taking care of it. So this would go physically towards the purchasing of the equipment. Okay. And we have been working just in different channels on different stuff. And it's one of the reasons we were able to cut them out is getting installers to do it, doing in-kind type services and shaving $200,000. We didn't think it was and then ask type deals. We went to work. it will be fully funded towards equipment and then whatever is needed for the addition there's turf there's zip lines there's it's a it's an impressive layout that's already architecturally laid out it's designed like it's it's ready to go like it there's no additional work outside of us being able to commit funding to be able to get a video issue

Okay, because I was going to ask if an organization wanted to donate some money towards a piece of equipment to tag it and put their name on it.

Yes, the sponsorship services were one of our first initiatives on when we were going to go door-to-door and continue to try to raise. We still are going to always fundraise. That's when we're going to need to equip everything else. Again, the reason we're here right now is because of the time we're in and knowing that we will be under the gun and continue to chase it. 1,000%. We have specific equipment. We could put a price list together, all of that.

And that's a good question. And on that note, with respect to the maintenance, does the county parks department take care of the maintenance and also just clean up and that sort of thing?

Absolutely. Yep, they do it for the Miracle League, and they're doing it.

Any other questions on that? All right. Well, thank you. And I know that we have some members of the board in the room, including our very favorite former vice mayor, Dr. Krista Martin. And whenever she's in the house, I always like to give her a shout out. So vice mayor, good to see you. All right. Thank you, Mike. That takes us now to section six, organizational business, beginning 6.1, approve the minutes of the August 13, 2026 city council meeting. been moved and properly seconded any discussion hearing none. Mr. Zabonski. Mr. McClellan. Mr. Huffman.

Ms. Sechrist. Mr. Marshall. Mr. McKelvey. Vice Mayor McBurn. Mayor Mulder.

That item is approved. Next item 6.2. Approve the retirement benefits for James Blackwood Jr. Fire Driver Pump Operator Columbia Fire and Rescue in presentation of retirement plaque by Mayor Mulder. The motion's been moved and properly seconded, and I would just point out that this would be a retirement after 24 years of service. We're very grateful for that service, and we'll see him up in the well, assuming that this item passes, and we do have a proper motion and a proper second. Any discussion on this item? Hearing none, Mr. DuBois.

Mr. McKellen, Mr. Huffman, Ms. Sechrist, Mr. Marshall, Mr. McKelvey, Vice Mayor McBroom.

That item is approved. We would now call on Mr. Blackwood and Chief and others to meet us in the well for the presentation along with City Council. to recognize one of our favorite on that black junior first.

I'd just like to say congratulations. It's been a hit. At this point, I think it's been off long enough. He's been using this remaining vacation he's had. He understands what retirement's all about. Congratulations, he's earned it.

Takes us to item 6.3, approve the appointment of Mila Martinsenio to the City of Columbia City Arts Council for a term beginning September 10, 2026 and ending on June 12, 2028. Motion's been made. Properly seconded. Any discussion? Hearing none, Mr. Jablonski.

Mr. McClellan. Mr. Huffman. Ms. Seacrest. Mr. Marshall. Mr. McKelvey. Vice Mayor McBroom. Mayor Mulder.

Aye. That item is approved. Next item, 6.4. Approve the appointment of Vanessa Alderson to the City of Columbia Arts Council for a term beginning on September 10, 2026 and ending on June 13, 2027. Motion's been made, properly seconded. Any discussion? Hearing none, Mr. Jablonski.

Mr. Pellin, Mr. Huffman, Ms. Seacrest, Mr. Marshall, Mr. McKelvey,

That item is approved. Next, we have tonight's consent agenda. And I do want to point out one item on the consent agenda, which is item 7.12. Is that right, Mr. City Attorney? Yeah, item 7.12. On item 7.12, the attachment on item 7.12 is actually the incorrect attachment. So the city attorney and others have arranged for the proper attachment to be located at your desk so you actually do have the proper attachment for item 712 in front of you it is not the attachment on the agenda item on the computer so just wanted to make sure the record is clear but the consent agenda of course i'll read on them collectively we'll vote on them collectively unless any member of council needs to remove an item for any reason um and we're doing this uh because they're deemed non-controversial requiring no additional individual debate or discussion Item 7.1, approve disbursements for the month of July 2026 in the amount of $11,615,452.19. Item 7.2, approve and authorize the mayor to sign the amendment with Tyler Technologies to add the Parks and Recreation module to the existing contract with a total fiscal year 27 cost of $20,665. $14,260, which is a one-time conversion cost, and $6,400, $405, which is an annual reoccurring cost. Item 7.3, approve and authorize the mayor to execute a lease agreement between the City of Columbia and Campbell and Lovell rentals for storage space in the amount of $900 per month. Item 7.4, approve and authorize the mayor to sign a contract between the City of Columbia and Journal Communications for advertising in the 2027 Tennessee Vacation Guide in the amount of $10,000. Item 7.5, approve and authorize the mayor to sign a contract between the City of Columbia and Lamar Advertising in the amount of $5,625 for holiday digital billboarding advertising in the Nashville-Middle Tennessee area. Item 7.6. Approve and authorize the mayor to sign a contract between the city of Columbia and Tuck River Touring in the amount of $15,000 for live entertainment at the 27 Fruit Tea Festival. Item 7.7, approve and authorize the mayor to sign the contract with Matrix Consulting Group Limited for a user fee in the amount of $20,000. Item 7.8, approve a three-year agreement for professional services with Neal Schaefer, Inc. for on-call traffic engineering services. item 7.9 approved a three-year agreement for professional services with t squared engineering for on-call traffic engineering services item 710 approved the purchase of an extreme back dcl 800 sm25 leaf vacuum truck from cim cmi equipment sales utilizing source well contract number 112624 odb in the amount of 298 880 dollars and five cents Item 711, approve and authorize the mayor to sign the contract between the City of Columbia and Water Management Services, LLC, for Pumpkin Creek and Bear Creek Pike sewer capacity analysis and development of sewer capacity fees in an amount not to exceed $45,000. Item 712, approve and authorize the mayor to sign the Tennessee Department of Commerce and Insurance State Fire Marshal's Office Initial Rescue Squad Recognition Application Act. and any other related documents on behalf of the city of columbia and approve the required 50 application fee item 713 approve and authorize the mayor to sign a net 10 participation agreement to the city of columbia and att enterprises llc utilizing the pricing outline within the master services agreement item 714 approve the purchase of eight 2026 ford police interceptor all-wheel drive vehicles from two rivers ford in the amount of 354 272 dollars using Statewide contract number 209 and item 715 approve the purchase of eight in-car body camera systems for Motorola in the amount of $65,332.48. That's the consent agenda item 71 through 715. Entertain a motion to approve. Motion's been made. Properly seconded. Any discussion on the consent agenda items? Hearing none, Mr. Jabonski.

Mr. McClellan. Mr. Huffman. Ms. Sechrist. Mr. Marshall. Mr. McKelvey. Vice Mayor McBroom. Mayor Mulder.

Aye. That item is approved. Next, Section 8, Administration, Item 8.1, Request from Murray County Government to waive approximately $85,000 in building permit fees for the renovations at Murray County Courthouse. motion's been made seconded by councillor huffman any discussion on this item eight point All right. I just will point out that we had Mayor Butt here last week discussing this and mentioned this to us. And I pointed out then, which I point out now, I do support this request. I think any opportunity that we have to partner, work together with our governmental partners and county partner, it's an opportunity that we should take advantage of specifically here as it will reduce the total cost. And as a county taxpayer, it also is beneficial to all. So that would be my support in this item 8.1, which is, again, relative to the renovations of Murray County Courthouse. And we do have a speaker tonight, I guess, who's here. Commissioner Markham, would you like to speak? You probably signed up to speak. Sorry about that. Actually, you're not signed up, but. All right, we'll let you speak anyway. You have the floor for three minutes. Didn't make my computer screen, but you are official. Mr. Markham, welcome. You have three minutes. Any questions for Commissioner Markham? All right, Commissioner, you are on the list. Sorry to overlook that. Thank you for being here, and congratulations to you and your family for your son's induction to the Columbia Central Hall of Fame. Thank you.

Yes. We got a question from you. I want to say something. You marched the field the other night. I couldn't see the field for you. I'm proud of him.

All right. Thank you, Commissioner. We're on 8.1. Do you, member, council, have anything?

Let me add a note.

Councilman?

Tom was the quarterback that created a key when they won the championship that year. I just want to add that.

For those of us keeping score at home. It's a proud dad. You should be. All right, Commissioner. Thank you very much for being here. We're back on item 8.1. Again, this is relative to fees being weighed for the Murray County Courthouse based upon the presentation that we had and the request that we had from the mayor and is now being relayed tonight by Commissioner and Chairman of the Building Committee. Any other questions? to vote on item 8.1. We do have a motion and a proper second on the floor, so we'll now make the vote. Mr. Jablonski.

Mr. Cullen. Mr. Huffman. Mr. Sechrist. Mr. Marshall. Mr. McKelvey.

Vice Mayor McCroom.

Mayor Mulberry. Aye. That item is approved. We now have item 8.2. Request for Murray County Government to waive approximately $66,000 in building permit and associated fees for the Animal Shelter Expansion Project. Item 8.2. Move approval. It's been moved and properly seconded any discussion on that item. Again, I would just say that I support this fee waiver. I hope that as we continue to work with the animal shelter and find ways to do what we can to support that this waiver of fees will be considered and remembered, not because we want to do it to be remembered for any reason other than just to know that we are a partner in this animal shelter and we do support your efforts and we're appreciative as was pointed out last week by the director and the good work that she does commissioner we bragged on her last week in front of the mayor so we'll brag on her tonight in front of you but the amount of communication that has started coming to this council regarding the animal shelter has increased significantly and in my opinion has led to and is the reason for the increase in funding which this animal shelter has received from the city of Columbia and the reason that I support tonight's item 8.2 Pretty good compliment there, Kim. All right, any discussion on item 8.2? We do have a motion, proper second, Vice Mayor McGrath.

I want to agree with what the mayor said, getting the report, and after what you said about that, that it was very, I appreciate you, and I bragged on you last week, and you've done a great job.

Thank you. All right, we're ready to vote on item 8.2. Mr. Jablonski.

Mr. McClellan. Aye. Mr. Huffman. Ms. Segrist. Aye. Mr. Marshall? Aye. Mr. McKelvey?

Aye. Item 8.2 is approved. Thank you, Commissioner. We'll now go to Section 9, Resolutions. Item 9.1, Resolution 2658, Tax Corrections. Been moved, properly seconded. Any discussion? Hearing none. Mr. Jablonski.

Mr. McKellen. Mr. Huffman. Mr. Seacrest. Mr. Marshall. Mr. McKelvey. Vice Mayor McBroom. Mayor Mulder.

Aye, that item is approved. Next item, 9.2, resolution 2659, 10-year delinquent tax assessment deletions. It's been moved, properly seconded. Any discussion on that item? Hearing none, Mr. Jablonski.

Mr. McClellan. Aye. Mr. Huffman. Ms. Seacrest. Mr. Marshall. Aye. Mr. McKelvey. Aye. Mr. McBroom. Aye. Mr. Mulberry.

Aye. That item is approved. Next item, 9.3, resolution number 2660, a resolution approving the amended facility fee schedule for the City of Columbia Parks and Recreation Department. That item's been moved. Properly seconded. Any discussion on item 9.3? Hearing none, Mr. Jablonski.

Mr. McClellan, Mr. Huffman, Ms. Segrist, Mr. Marshall, Mr. McKelvey, Vice Mayor McBroom, Mayor Mulberg.

Aye, that item is approved. Next item, 9.4, resolution number 2661, a resolution to accept the ownership and maintenance of sewer improvements serving the Drake, Woodland, and East 7th multifamily project. This is item 9.4. Motion's been made. Properly seconded. Any discussion? Hearing none, Mr. Zabonski.

Mr. McCullen? Mr. Huffman? In secret, Mr. Marshall, Mr. Kelby, Vice Mayor McBroom, Mayor Mull.

Aye, that item is approved. That takes us to section 10 ordinances, beginning with item 10.1, first consideration of ordinance number 4594, an ordinance to amend the fiscal year 26-27 budget ordinance number 4587, providing for revisions to the general fund and establish the date of October 8, 2026 as the date of public hearing. That motion's been made and properly seconded. Any discussion on item 10.1? Hearing none, Mr. Jablonski.

Mr. McKellen, Mr. Huffman, Mr. Sechrist, Mr. Marshall, Mr. McElligby, Vice Mayor McBroom,

Aye. That item is approved. Next item, 10.2. First consideration of ordinance number 4595, an ordinance conveying a 40-foot-wide electric line easement to Duck River Electric Membership Corporation for property located on Hampshire Pike, being tax map 104, parcel 16. It's been moved and properly seconded. Any discussion on item 10.2? Hearing none, Mr. Jablonski.

Mr. McClellan? Mr. Huffman?

That item is approved. Final item under this section, item 10.3, first consideration of ordinance number 4596, an ordinance imposing a temporary moratorium on the acceptance, processing, and approval of applications for land use, zoning, building, site plan, or conditional facilities requiring a study or infrastructure, environmental, acoustic, and utility impacts, providing for exemptions, providing for severability, and establishing an immediate effective date and establish the date of October 8, 2026 as the date of public hearings. Item 10.3 on first consideration. I will make motion for approval.

Second.

Been properly seconded, and I wanted to just sort of follow up on the comments I made on this last week. First, as you all know, this is following in the footsteps of what the county has already done. County Commission last year approved this moratorium. As we know in the city of Columbia, it is unlikely that a facility such as this would be able to meet with any approval at this point if they were to come forward. However, what this does do is essentially task the development services office to take a look at these issues and preclude the city from accepting, processing, or approving new data center applications, including requests for rezoning site plans and building permits for a period of six months And during that time, our staff and planning commission can work on what would be permanent zoning changes, addressing where these facilities can locate and how they operate. And I think back about how the city council many years ago took some initiative and leadership in the Jackson law, making sure that landfills would not be able to locate near the Duck River. And I think that this would allow the city of Columbia to once more take the initiative in ensuring that these data centers, before they can be approved here, that there's specific zoning here that would make sure that we know the impact that these would have on our community and also to ensure that we're capturing the centers and what the costs would be on the infrastructure from the developers themselves. And so I support this motion. There is a motion and a second on the floor. Is there any further discussion? Hearing none, Mr. Zabonski.

Mr. McClellan, Mr. Huffman, Ms. Sechrist, Mr. Marshall, Mr. McFelvey.

Aye.

Vice Mayor Mildred. Aye. Mayor Mildred.

Aye. That item is approved on first consideration. That takes us to public comments. I think we've had all the public comments this evening that signed up. We've already spoken. Any other business? I'll just mention a couple things for other business. First, tomorrow morning, we have the second annual Columbia Heroes Breakfast for September 11th. It will be essentially the City of Columbia's September 11th event where we will go and honor some heroes that will be recognized and have an opportunity to remember September 11, 2020, 2001, 25 years ago tomorrow. Registration begins at 7. The program starts at 8 a.m. at the Mule House. This is a sold-out event. The city of Columbia has a couple tables, and we'll look forward to seeing you there tomorrow and recognizing and remembering tomorrow's important day. Kelly Johnson's already mentioned to us the fruit teaser, which is Saturday, September 12th from 3 to 8 at Murray County. government public lot to just behind or on the east side of the courthouse. And then the Columbia Police Department community event, one of our favorite events of the year each year is Tuesday, September 29 at Riverwalk Park from five to seven. That's always just a really good event and excited. I was excited to see that come through. It's sort of that time of year when we see that coming through. And so we appreciate CPD for that annual event. We're looking forward to that. I mentioned already First Fridays was a big success last week, and we appreciate all the good work that goes in and the multi-departments that are involved in making that event a success. It's just a really good night for our community, and a lot of positivity was flowing on First Fridays. Any other business to discuss? Any member of council wish to be heard? All right, we have no reason for executive session. We have Councilmember Sechrist and then Councilmember Marshall. All right, Council Member Seacrest.

I just want to say congratulations to Mr. Tony Madsen on his appointment to the board, which is the public department.

Yes, yes. Since you brought that up, I just wanted to make a comment that I'm following some pretty big footsteps because our own Barrett Jones, the manager of Columbia, was on the study committee that actually created this organization. He served on that board of the first chairman of Columbia.

Thank you, Council Member Seacrest, for pointing that out. And I apologize for missing that, or at least failing to recognize that. But we are proud of that. And that is a full circle moment for the city of Columbia. And Mr. Massey, thank you for representing the city in that very important endeavor. I think for the final word, if we could have Chief Cummins, could you come just give us a quick update on the status of the crew in Texas? And we'll let you have the last word. And then we'll entertain a motion after you give us a status on how they are.

and what you know and when they're coming home.

If they already are home. Very good to hear, and thank you for being willing to come speak on the spot on that, Chief, and we appreciate it. They're in our prayers. We've been thinking about it, and we saw that you were out there, and so we just wanted to come give you a brief update. All right, we'll entertain a motion to adjourn. Motion's been made by Councilor McCullen, properly seconded by Councilor Marshall. We'll take the vote. Mr. Zblonsky.

Mr. McCullen. Mr. Huffman. Ms. Seacrest. Mr. Marshall. Mr. McKelvey. Vice Mayor McCormick.

Aye. We are adjourned.