City Council - Regular Meeting

facility. So, I think that

the asphalt and actually poured concrete as a driveway coming into the facility that was done um last week. I was out there this morning. Um it's cured out well enough that people drive on it. They're actually driving on it today. So, that that was good to see that. Um the the the fence around the whole back is complete except for the gate. Uh talked to Blake Moore and he's engaging the fence contractor to come in and put the gate up sometime later this week. Um, and we got the whole back of it filled with crush and run and the two storage trailers are moved to the back so they can use that facility as it is. We are working uh with Poly right now on coming up with a design for the electrical on the inside. So, they wanted some outlets around the inside of the building and some lighting so they can come in with some light switches and turn that on and off. And uh we're going to look and try and do that in-house if we can do that in-house depending what the final design is. We're supposed to meet with with Glenn later this week uh to finalize those plans. hopefully have the interior done relatively soon, but Blake has that facility up and running now. So, that that will conclude our uh our Q1 goals. Staff is already in the process of looking at Q2 goals as well. We're just a month away from that. Um, one thing that I noticed that we we also haven't been doing um and I think we we normally wait and start the uh the quarterly uh work session like an hour earlier um for the next quarter. So the first one I didn't know if we wanted to look at that for you know a four o'clock meeting uh for the work session to start at the first to start at the first meeting in uh in April or or if you wanted to wait a little while longer to to discuss that maybe when more of your colleagues are here. But

yeah, we probably need to get everybody on on board with that. But um I think it'd be a good idea to try to get that on the agenda as soon as we can. Okay. Usually at at that one, um, council kind of talks about if there's anything else she'd like to add to the to the quarterly goals or to the agenda for the uh for the staff to consider. So, um, just something that that came up when I was going through this the other day. So, okay. So, that's um, April 7th. Is that the first council?

You said April. say I'm good. We can check my calendar here shortly, but we'll check with everybody. Yeah. When make sure it's going to work. Okay. And that's our our quarterly goals.

All right. So, we'll review the agenda now. And um So we'll open with roll call reg prayer and pledge of allegiance. Sorry, first day of my new lips today. Approval of agenda and then we will go through the consent agenda. And we have contract billings. Um Smith environmental construction for WWTP upgrades project Poly Inc. for consulting services wastewater treatment plants. um pre-demolition asbestous sampling, city property mapping, fine Getty Associates for contract services, and then we have travel request. Um Mr. Tullus, you and I had discussed um bringing this maybe before the council about changing the way these since this goes out to the public.

Yeah. So, um thank you for bringing that back up. um for the rest of the council. So, one of the things that um I guess there's two two facets of this. I think one we have a a workar around by password protecting the PDFs as we upload them to the site, it will verify that it's a human accessing the information. So um you know with the advent of technology and particularly AI being able to data mine um we felt that if they're not humans they could uh people from outside this area or other countries could be data mining that and using the information that might be personally identifiable um in the packets that we upload whether it's here planning commission or board of adjustments to uh to scam or or proliferate illegal activity towards um members of the community or developers in our community. So, I think we have something that we're going to try on that. The the other thing that has been brought to my attention that is sort of I guess as long as Beverly's been here, so you know, 10 15 years at least, we always put um travel requests down. And on the travel request, we list the the name of the person, the dates that they'll be going, etc. And so, you know, it it has the the ability to notify people that that go through that information when certain personnel are going to be here or not. Um, and we don't think that that's necessarily a good thing. if the council would like us to and and would would be okay with it. Administratively, we were going to pull that information off of it and just basically put the department the amount of the travel and and basically what the travel is for. Um I think Councilman Pageant thought that that would be acceptable based on the rules of transparency that the council's striving for. Um but I don't know how the rest of

you feel. No, I feel the same way. That's too much security. Yeah, we need to do it. I I think as long as the dollar amount and the department is on there, then that's transparent enough. If they really want to know, they can come down to the city and we'll give them the rest of the information. And typically within the the larger packets, a lot of the receipts and reimbursements from the trip are uploaded into the hund some odd pages in the document. So they could wait and see who went on the trip after the fact. Yeah. So I agree with that. Okay. So, we're going to do the the name of the com or the department department and the the cost. Yes, ma'am. Okay.

Yeah. That's for safety, too. I mean, you know, Yeah. It's a good idea. Whoever thought about it, you don't want people to know when you're out of town, you when your house is open up. Okay, perfect. Okay, sounds good. Thank you.

Yeah, good. So um then we have a request to dispose of inventory um presentation certificate toys for tots uh to the police department mayoral recognition. Um, Enterprise Recreation and Aquatic Center was named ARPA's outstanding facility of the year and Blake Moore's professional year in recreation. Congratulations, Blake. Super. Congratulate you again officially in the middle of the meeting. That That was by you. By you, Blake. Right.

Um, and then we have a request to address the council for the Aaron Grantham St. Patrick's Day parade. Um, do we know of any issues with we do it every year? Okay. And then a request to address the council for Oscar club. Um and then we'll have privilege of the floor staff reports and then we'll go into old business and we will review and consider bid recommendation for irrigation well multi-purpose recreational complex. Mr. President. So if you remember end of last year, we received bids for a new irrigation well on the new I say new PV park phase 2, the second phase of PV park. Um we have irrigation currently on the three fields that were done on the college complex as well as the three that were done on the old PV park side. Uh currently those are tied into the city's drinking water system so we could get a well installed. We we took bids on that end into last year. Just to remind you, the the total bid came in last year at roughly $862,000. If we took every deduct that we could to get it down within budget, we were still at $760,000, which was well over budget. um worked with Polygen Engineering to reproduce some sets of plans and our recommendation is to come back to award the base bid at the new bid that we just got at $579,378. What that does not include is a building around the electrical controls that are there and we plan to do that in house.

We we had the materials that were given to us or given to us. We bought with the previous bid when we did PD Park contractor never built the well, but he did purchase some materials. So, we have some materials to build part of the building. So, we plan to build the building around the electrical controls uh inhouse using staff to keep this project back within budget. So, this gets us back um to the original budget and keep this back on track. So, it's our recommendation um for you if you seek to to move forward is to award the base bid at that $579,000 number and and this keeps it within budget. Yes, sir. Okay.

All right. Any questions?

All right. Thank you. And then we have a uh we review and consider bid bid recommendation for uh from Barry Mott on behalf of police chief Michael Moore for two Mitchell Chrysler Dodge Jeep Ram for eight Dodge Durango police pursuit vehicles and one Dodge Durango GT+ for $367,160. Okay, since Chief Moore is not here, I I'll fill in for him. This was a budgeted request for him for those vehicles. Uh these are within the budget for the police vehicles and um we opened up bids and they were compliant and recommend award to um to Mitchell for those nine vehicles.

All right,

any questions on this? Just for clarification, there's nine vehicles there. Eight of those were for police cruisers that that are there. One is to replace the mayor's Tahoe that he's currently driving now. So that ninth vehicle, uh it will appear like a police vehicle, but it doesn't have all the the stuff inside it that a police patrolman's vehicle will have. Um so appearance-wise, it will it will be there and be outfitted so that the police can use it. But our our plan for the knife vehicle is to give that to the mayor to drive and then his current Tahoe will go back into the fleet to be used for for staff to use um after we we de um delight it, take all the the police lights off of that, but we will use that back uh for for a staff vehicle to be used at city hall.

All right. Thank you. Sorry for that clarification. And then uh we will have a request to authorize mayor to execute task order number three with our Dura uh for engineering and technical services associated with College Street wastewater treatment plant.

Yes sir. If you remember in the work session, one of the requests that we had in for public works budget was to figure out what to do with College Street wastewater treatment plant, which was one of our oldest plants in the city and also has the potential of being one that is going is probably going to experience a good bit of growth on that side of town. All the all the southern and western part of the circle, the undeveloped parts of the circle, all feed to that wastewater treatment plant at College Street. So, currently that plant's um about a 1.2 2 million gallon per day plant. Um hydraulically we looked at it. We think about a million gallons per day is about what can push through there and we're seeing 700 to 800,000 gallons per day now currently. So we're about 70 80% of what we feel comfortable as capacity. So one of the requests was to do a 30% design on that plant which is look at the current conditions look at the site that's there. do enough engineering to determine what the total buildout of that part of the of the city within the city limits would be, what size the plant should be sized for, do enough that we can do permitting through the state to find out what the state would allow us to do for permitting and then also start a GIS system for that side of the circle and go ahead and start doing this the right way that we can build upon that in the future. So, all that was within the budget amount that we had in our contract of $350,000 to get that 30% design. All right. Thank you. Then request to purchase equipment for parks and wreck. Um I don't even know what a robotic scrubber and dryer is. Even council. So uh this is a budgeted item, something we talked about in our strategic planning session a couple months back, couple weeks back. And uh anyways, I would say probably this past summer um myself and and Jonathan and Leanne uh

had the opportunity to watch a demo there in our gym of these uh robotic scrubbers and sweepers. And uh just efficiency and you know, as far as finding people to clean and showing up to work, it seems like uh these do the job. And uh just kind of a couple facts on them. uh 4 hour charge time on them and then anywhere from a 8 to 13 hour uh run time off the charger. Um covering uh the scrubber and dryer uh basically cover a little over 27,000 um uh feet per hour and then the uh vacuum and sweeper uh cover a little over 20 thou 21,000 uh feet per hour. Um go back into a docking station. Uh basically you map it out and uh they take off on their own. They've got sensors on them. So we tested that. If you walk out in front of it, um it stops um so it doesn't you know there's people out there or anything like that. Uh you know it kind of have it has a mind of its own there um as far as stopping. But uh two-year warranty on on the parts and I mean that's minus you know your scrubber pads and and squeegees and things like that. But uh

sounds like a giant Roomba. pretty much uh you could you could call it that. Um but you know a lot of school systems are going to this got off the phone with Enterprise uh paper and janitorial today on it. Um they just left a school system they're looking at a couple couple places in our area are looking at them as well. So I think this would be a great opportunity to uh to jump on this and efficiently uh you know clean our facility. You said two-year warranty. Two-year warranty. Yes, ma'am. All right. Any questions? No, I ask. Is there plans to use that up here too or strictly at the at the rec center? Use it where? Here.

Uh, right now just at the rec center, but we can look at that.

And then, uh, we have a request to seek bids for the 2025 TAP sidewalk project sidewalk project. So, this is the the um the tap sidewalk project uh for for Bellwood Avenue. Um so Glenn has submitted in a set of plans to ALDOT. We've got those comments back and we're ready to go to bid any day. And Glenn and I looked back and we didn't we never asked for permission to go to bid. So, this was just to to make sure for transparency purposes we came to to you and got your permission to seek bids um for the sidewall project. Once those bids are secured, uh we'll bring it back to you for award. All right. Thank you. Any questions on this? Then we will um call for a motion to set a public hearing for March 3rd, 2026 at 6 PM on the matter of issuing a temporary business license for Enterprise Metals and Recycling located at 9:30 Bellwood Road. Is there anything we need to know about this tonight?

No, sir. This is just a call for the hearing to be held on the dates you've got. Okay. And then we'll have mayor's report, council member comments, and adjournment. All right, Mr. Tullus, I think you're next up, mayor and council members. Um you'll see it says potential 772. Um we had discussed this in executive session at our last council meeting. Um we had a request from a developer that's looking to redevelop the um former Wraid Family Dollar property on the corner there bypass Rucker Boulevard. Um you you've all had a chance to review I assume the the document that uh was given to you in executive session. Um, basically just want to make sure that if if everybody is comfortable with that or had any questions about that, um, it would be my intent to push that forward onto the next council agenda. Um, unless there's any, um, you know, further discussion or changes that the council would like to see. And um just for clarification, we're the developer still wanting to keep that actual project um kind of under wraps until it's until they make it public or

Yes, sir. Um so in order and and this is not atypical in in order for them to get the development done and have an agreement with the company or companies they're looking to bring in. um they would need to know that this our agreement with them would be executed. Um so that's they would like to do it and of course we'll have to advertise public notice all that stuff. It won't reference specifics of of the company or companies but it will ref reference all um of the incentive or potential incentive that would be um all of that is performance-based. So, in other words, no tax dollars that they the project doesn't generate would be given to them. Um,

so nobody up no money up front. No, that's right. And and it would it's not quite like this, but it would equate to about a 50/50 split of sales tax generated from the project for a period of time. Um, not to not to exceed 10 years, I believe, is what the document said. Um, but I don't have that in front of me. So, and that's the number that's being that's the number that's being worked on, right? The term, the length. It is, but they're they're pretty adamant about that. So,

it is, but you know, we we set a we set some criteria that basically that on the last term, last council term. Obviously, we can change that, but we set criteria on the last council term that um basically gave the mayor's office pretty much free reign within those boundaries to negotiate to the point that we approve with then it still has to come for us to approval, but they can get a long way without having to constantly come back and forth back and forth. Well, this was out of the boundary, but um you know, if anyone has any heartburn over that, we can definitely have that discussion. But I think based on the the fact that it checks a number of boxes for that area that we've been trying to hit, um I'm personally um willing to take a long long a much broader look at that than we would on. And to refresh the council some I know we have a new member um since we we've talked about that but there there were three predominant areas that the the council and and you know we at some point can decide if those are still the three areas or there need to be more but um along Rucker Boulevard for redevelopment purposes um downtown and the southern bypass were the three areas of enterprise that um it it that the council agreed in the last term to say hey these are areas as we would consider um economic development incentive packages to to make things happen for for a variety of reasons. Redevelopment on Rucker Boulevard and downtown cleanup blight um fill vacancies that existed at the time. I think at that time J C Penney was gone. the builder's cash and carry was was a vacant property. Um, write aid and office depot were all vacant. And so um and now subsequently

we've we've uh got a draft at least of our Rucker Boulevard plan. Um, and so one of the one of the things that um that I liked within the agreement was that the developer agreed to um to follow our Rucker Boulevard plan or at least the the draft of it to incorporate sidewalks and landscaping um into his into his project. So um or their project, but um anyway, it is outside those those parameters. I think existed along the terms of about five years and 50% of of the the sales tax generated by the project for for a period of five years um andor a certain dollar amount. this would exceed that fiveyear. That's the substantive change. That is why I brought it back to the council and said, "Hey, you know, this is something that's one off." Um, but it meets our leakage needs. Um, you know, we we don't sell enough of the products that this developer would be looking at at bringing in. Um, and if they if if the project fails after a year, they get nothing. If it fails after five years, they get nothing. and they're not guaranteed to get anything except what the project generates.

I'd much prefer those agreements because it's pretty it's we've seen some some of them that came in with grand promises that didn't follow follow through and so we didn't end up having to give anything out. So, never really heard that. Okay. All right. Any questions on that?

Okay. Um the next the next item it says Bait Stadium. Um so we talked a little bit in executive session. I think that the um the other party uh which would be Hillrest Baptist Church would would present this to them. So nothing's before you to vote on. Um but as I understand it, Hillrest Baptist Church will um introduce this thought to their congregation at some point in the near future. Um you'll see an amended agreement and and I would just say that the the number of years has changed and that's really the only change from the last time uh to eight years. that was something the church felt comfortable with um in consultation with our city attorney felt was um you know okay from a legal perspective. The uh we spend about um some somewhere north of $100,000 a year on maintenance of of Bait Stadium. Um the city actually uses it um city proper u six or fewer times throughout the course of the year um for that but we maintain it um and and obviously we we're fixing a a $600,000 more drainage issue right now that collapsed part of Henderson Street as a result of that. Um the city had contacted the school system to see if they had any interest since that's where we got uh the stadium from. um they had no interest in uh taking ownership of of the facility. Uh nor did the Enterprise State Community College. Um and so with the new soccer fields and football fields that were built um over at Pey Park in that area and we now have six multi-purpose fields um where we can host, you know, football, soccer, whatever those are. it doesn't make a lot of sense for the city to continue to

maintain uh additional properties that we're we're not getting a lot of use out of. And so um we then reached out to some of the churches that we had had long-standing relationships with. The first was was Hillcrest Baptist in that area. They they have an agreement right now for parking. Um and and so I know that's a huge need for their congregation. And so we had talked about how to renew that and in those discussions it it was asked you know would there be an appetite to just take over the entire property. Um and for those eight years the city would there would be no change in in the status other than Hillcrest would would be responsible to maintain the the property. Um but if the city had an event that didn't conflict with with uh church values, um we we could use it, which you know that that should never happen, right? And so um additionally, when they need to um utilize the parking spaces or at some point in the future they're going to need to resurface the parking lot, that would be on the church at that point because they're getting a disproportionate amount of use out of the the facility than we are right now. um they felt like it was a win-win for them, but obviously they have a procedure just like we would um as a city to divest ourselves of that property. They would have to go through a similar procedure to find out if there's an appetite within the congregation um to take ownership of that. So, um I I have that updated agreement in your packet. If if there's no objections to it, we would um kind of our timeline would be at the next council meeting, uh we would potentially introduce this and declare it surplus property pend pending

approval from Hillcrest Baptist. If if they did not um approve it, there would be no reason to declare it surplus property. So, but I did want to get this out in the in the public setting after talking to uh Councilman Padet um because I anticipate maybe as early as this weekend this being introduced with the congregation. Hillrest has a very large congregation. So, I would assume this would get out into public um you know, discourse at some point. So, um, that's why it's coming before you now at the work session, so that, you know, in full transparency that the public understands that, you know, we're we're we're just talking through this right now. Um, there's been no decisions that have been made.

Any questions? All right. Thank you very much.

Yes, sir. So, um, I'd like to take the next little bit and talk a little bit about technology. I've had a desire since I was first elected to the council over 5 years ago to improve the technology of our city. And um, while we've seen some slight improvements, it's nowhere near what my vision was. And um I know we just had our um planning meeting in January and um there were some things that were brought up in that meeting. I wish I had pressed a little bit more, but we had a um meeting facilitator there that was keeping us on task and on agenda. So try not to get in their way too much. But um I feel like that our technology of the city is not progressing like it really should. And um I don't really want to, you know, say that's any one particular person or department or even entity's fault. Um but it's just a conglomeration of things. We we've had some issues with technology pro u software technology providers. We've had some issues with um various departments and having staff turnover and and um trying to get long-term issues fixed and resolved in those departments to to be even ready to make any moves. And so I understand there's been a lot of things that have been having to take place and u do you have something or you just okay just waiting. All right.

So there's a lot of things that had to take place but I feel like it at this point that um our staff that we have has done a really good job of um getting a lot of stuff fixed at city hall. And then, you know, we we were renovating city hall. So, you were you didn't want to up, you know, bringing up people too much to everything at one time. So, I was willing to be patient while we work through the major projects of a new rec center and a new city hall renovation and things. But now, um, I don't want it to be another three, four, five, 10, 15 years before we see major improvements in technology. And so, um, I've had a number of discussions with our, um, MSP that provides the, uh, technical assistance to the city. And, um, you know, I don't want to spend a lot of time going through a lot of history, but, you know, one of the biggest bottlenecks that I have found being in the technology world and even talking to Jeremy, um, is non-technical decision makers. they don't really understand the need. They don't understand how to get there. you start presenting them with things that really needs to happen and they just kind of go um just getting going almost into a days because they don't have any idea what you're talking about and it's it's difficult to make a non-technical person understand and I think a lot of the decisions uh were put into the lap of non-technical people for many many many many years um just because that was the nature of who we were electing and who we were putting in various positions. Not not being negative at all on that. It's just facts. And um I think another big bottleneck has been our our software

provider. Um it seems like every time that I have personally been able to be on a phone call with um Jeremy and um I know it goes on one with Leanne and we even did some tours around looking at some various ideas and concepts of what we could do and all of the things we thought we're going to put into place. It's always they're not ready yet. They don't have this piece ready. They don't have that piece ready. I did a little look up on Tyler Technology, who I think is our main software provider. Yes, sir.

Um, they have a net promoter score of -40. Um, they have a customer service rating of 2.3 out of five. Um, while they are a near monopoly on the public sector, there's a lot of people that are, you know, frustrated with them. they they boast a 98% client retention but I think that really a lot of times talks to how difficult it is to leave a software than really satisfaction I know from uh business expense experience that it's very costly and very time consuming to change platforms um it is you know I've seen companies spend well over a million dollars and take over two years to make that process happen so um that 98% retention rate that they give is not necessarily that they're doing a great job. It's just it's difficult to change and um you know just looking at a couple of different things. So I'm I've just not been happy with the progress that Tyler Technology has made. Um there were three Tyler con contracts in Cook County, Illinois that was projected at $75 million end up costing $250 million. They were five years behind schedule. um by Becker County, Texas. Um they've rolled out a court system that calls people unable to leave jail for days besides despite paying bond because their CA case um throughput dropped from 60 to um despite paying bond. And so when they made some changes, their case throughput uh dropped from 60 to with Tyler technology dropped from 60 to 70 a day to 30 a day. And so it slowed it way down on their system. Um, and I could go on and on and on and on and on about this. Uh, but,

uh, Kiscane, Florida terminated their Tyler contract for online permitting after three years of trying to make it work. Online permitting is one of the things that we're constantly hearing that Tyler doesn't have fixed yet. Hollywood, Florida terminated Tyler contract for permitting issues. Miami Beach, Florida Commission created a task force to document unresolved issues. threatened termination. St. Pete Beach, Florida, uh, replaced Tyler with Central Square, uh, because of a lot of these things. And I have just pages and pages and pages of documentation of issues that many cities have faced with Tyler Technology. And those that have decided to face it head on have started winning awards for being digital a digital city and the the most, you know, digital friendly city. And so I would like not necessarily to fix it tonight, but to get the conversation started as to what we need to do and kind of maybe work with this council to put together a plan of where do we really want to be? I know where I'd like to be, but I'm one of five, so I don't want to, you know, run the whole show here. But, you know, just some simple things that I would love to see. Um, I'd love to see a better app than what we have. I'd love to see an app that we could from the app. I'd love to be able to, you know, report an issue in the city, a pothole, take a picture of it, get GPS coordinates that go in. Um, you city be able to have that and open a ticket up. When the ticket gets responded to, I I get information back saying, "Hey, someone actually is going to look at this. We saw this. We understand this. It didn't just disappear into the Never Neverland." And uh we don't we don't have anything like that in our city right now. Phone calls are made um you know and it just you don't really know if things get worked on and then you

happen to drive through town and oh well they did fix that. Um and so there there's a number of things that I would love to see. Um you know I was hoping that we'd be able to renew our business license online this year. I attempted to renew three business licenses personally myself and could not do that and made a phone call down and found out that no, you can't do that. I could send in paperwork, documentation, whatever it was, and then get a link to pay it if I wanted to, but I couldn't actually do the entire process online. Um, and I could go through department after department after department of things I would love to see. Once again, not trying to fix it tonight. I just want to get the conversation reignited that we have had a few times through the few years that we put all on hold uh for all the major projects we've had going on. But I will say that me personally, understanding how difficult and how big of a task this is, um, you know, I would be perfectly willing to take a long hard look at when we figure out where we want to be, bringing in a third party company that does um, you know, project management because I know that project management is a huge thing. You can't you can't do your job daytoday and manage a project of what scope that I'm talking about. Um bringing in people to help with data entry if that's required because you can't expect everyone to get their job done and still work on getting um data entered into a system that um you know maybe a new system or whatever we decide we're going to do. So, that's kind of my initial thoughts here. I've got probably 10 pages of stuff here

that we don't have time for me to go through. And um I know some of you may have some comments. I know uh Mr. Walls is a IT professional himself and I'm sure he's itching to say a few things, but um and I I would like to continue this conversation when um Casey Mack is back because he's also involved in technology. So um this is not one bit a negative on anybody any entity with exception of Tyler Technologies. Um because I'm not happy with their lack of progress. Um but you know if the backend works good maybe there's things that we can piece on top of it to make it work better. But um you know there there there's ways to get to where we want to be and I um you know there's um there's cities that I see that have you know switched to things like open gov and different ones and I don't know how good they are either that were able to get their uh full business license uh totally automated online in three to within 3 to six months. So that there's ways to get it done. Tyler may just not be the way.

Yeah, just from the staff's perspective, I'd say that's a probably a fair assessment. Um, you know, when we looked at this a couple years ago, we we just went through um a munus upgrade, which is the a division of Tyler, which houses our our financial platform, which works great. you know, we we don't have a lot of issues with that platform, but we were also paying for a lot of other bells and whistles within that program. So, a lot of the things that, you know, we're not lying to you. The system should do that. It should do work orders, right? Um, and be able to to get a ticket out. Um, you know, it it should be able to do business licenses online. And in fact, we were briefed that when we did this upgrade, if we had this add-on, it would do that. But then we get it and then it says not yet. Um, we have that update coming in the future. Um, and every time we get there, it's like, well, maybe another few months and then we'll have it. And so, you know, there there have been a lot of frustrations um with Tyler on that. So much so that recently we have looked at um our HR platform with doing a separate um IT solution for that. And I think uh Councilman Walls was involved in some of those discussions early on. Um especially when you and Councilman Mack were were in process, you were like, man, this this doesn't seem efficient. And and it's not. Um, but we've been trying to work within the confines of the system so that we can keep as much integrity as we can through the system and deliver something that the taxpayers were already paying for, right? Um, why go out and spend 50,000 or $100,000 on a new system if your system's supposed to

support it? Um, but but it it has not and it has been slow and laborious. Um, well, I know that we've been having this discussion for five years and it doesn't seem like any of their and I mean I I just read some reports of people being five years behind, you know. Yeah. Because of Tyler

that that would fit with um we've also gone away from the the court had a similar situation with doing that. We left that court went went with a different option um and we threatened threatened litigation against uh the company. Um, but that that being said, I I did ask Jeremy Naggie um with M4 to to be here tonight to maybe give you a flavor of kind of where we're at and what we're currently working on. And if there is a timeline there, that is acceptable. And if there's not, um, you know, you'll have complete staff support to to pursue other platforms or add-ons, um, to to try to integrate this. I mean, we want it. This saves us time across each department. It makes it easier for customers to do business with the city, which is what we want. Um, so I mean, you know, if we have the funding in place to do it, um, you know, we're we're more than happy to explore other options.

Yeah. Well, I know some of the things that we started talking to to Tyler about and I was on those phone conversations, um, we we wanted everything. We wanted someone to be able to use a a cell phone and practically do anything that they could do down at city hall and or a kiosk that we could put at places like Alabama Power. Uh we could put at the library. We could put in various places where they could pay their water bill, they could pay their traffic ticket, they could pay all these kind of things. And then we get back after, you know, getting all gung-ho about it. We get on the phone with Tyler and they just kind of squash everything because it's not ready yet. It's not ready yet. It's not ready yet. And here we are five years later and it's still not ready yet on a lot of those pieces.

So, um, if I can can I add can I add a couple things? Um,

so as a new council person, I I I could easily when I see a problem, I guess I could call Jonathan say, "Hey, here's a problem." But I purposely have gone through what everybody else would go through. I had a water issue at my home. I called the water department and I went looked up on Google phone number called went through the process. There was a pothole on my street did the same thing. Um those things um caused a couple of issues. One is um water department with staffing um you know if you're if you're having to answer the phone for everybody that has a problem at their home if it's not an emergency. Hey, I get, you know, can you take a look at this meter or whatever? You're having to have somebody answer a phone. Um, so using technology in in ways that you can pay a bill, report an issue, you can buy service, you can disconnect service, um, you can, um, basically, you know, we're talking about improving our main street, Rucker Boulevard, and Southside. We really need to improve our digital side and the way that our city conducts business. There's a foundational part of that, too. Um, if I'm going to pay my bill or or connect an app to a database that has sensitive information, it's vital that our city uh and we may be doing it, but it's vital that our city has an annual cyber security, third party cyber security uh company come in and do an assessment of what that is. Because if we do a march towards uh digital connectivity and convenience and it's not secure, we could be compromising the data that our citizens have. And we don't want to push forward connectivity without having the security piece from a third party. Nothing against our operational our operational side, but a third party

to assess where where our standing is on that. So, um, making sure. So, just just to understand that, I had a conversation with with Councilman Pageant about that, but just trying to make sure that that we're speaking the same same language. Um, so our operational side being M4, somebody that that's doing the day-to-day, you know, fixing issues that go on. That's right. We don't have a lot of issues there. Um, that's good. Okay. We have a third party being not M4 that helps us out with cyber security program called Arctic Wolf. Um and and so but what you're what you're particularly talking about is somebody that's not either one of those parties, disinterested party. That's correct.

That comes in and does an assessment. Right. That's right. So you don't use a security company to gauge how secure you are. The security vendor you're provide that you're buying. use a different vendor to to gauge and that vendor ideally would also come to the to the facility so they can judge physical security risk along with digital security risk. Okay.

So it it it shouldn't be anybody that has a stake in in that we're paying monthly right now. It should be a third party. What that does for your operational team is it provides feedback on not that they're doing good or bad but it just provides feedback on hey this is some more work that we need to have done. this is critical and this is non-critical. Um, I'm in IT. I work in IT and some of our premier clients, they do that with us. I have a third party and they come through and they do an assessment and all that does is ensures that I'm not looking for a pat on the back, but we're looking for, hey, what did we overlook? What where is our knowledge gap at? Where our vendors uh we had a software vendor that had a bill pay server that had a vulnerability in it and they didn't disclose and a cyber company found that for us. So, um, you know, if we're talking about paying bills online and getting access to on-prim servers or web servers, we got to make sure that all of that's secure. Uh, and I'm not the guy looking at it. So, I mean, I would feel comfortable with a third party that somebody that does this for for a living doing assessment. So, foundational. Uh, the end goal though um is connectivity. And I was excited when I heard the waterboard was getting iPads. I mean, my mind is blown that it's paper. they've been doing it on paper

and work orders are going out on paper and and and if I've got a guy in the field and he's got to go somewhere else, he's got to drive back to a central location and pick up a new piece of paper and then go. So having having digital work orders and that that the customer too can see, hey, my issue is not just oblit been lost to oblivion, but you know, I can I can see digital update that they're looking at it or it's it's scheduled. It's you know, it's common in my industry to have a ticketing system. Um, it's very common and I think that's kind of what Greg is is kind of alluding to on the service side is just basically increasing uh the availability of communication in the way that we we handle issues in the city.

It's good, like I said, it's good for for the taxpayer and our customers. It's good for employees because we have a lot of other work that we get dragged away from to respond to calls and often times maybe that person has an issue but they don't know where it is and maybe they call you. Um and now you've you've also reiterated that to to staff and so we might spend five or 10 different phone calls about the same issue. That's right. Um updates. Seems like what we're missing though is a road map with milestones. That's what we need on anything that we're going to do. We need a plan and that plan needs to have a road map and milestones attached to it. Okay,

we do really good with our quarterly stuff here. The visions, we do really good with that, but outside of a meeting I had two months ago and a waterboard that says, "Hey, you know, we're we're going to be able to check your bill eventually, but half of it's not worth." That's the last I heard of it. There's no road map, no milestones, no timeline. We need to we need to get on that.

Okay. Well, one of the thing I'm not an IT person, but I do um see the value of our city being technology savvy and and it's funny that um Councilman Walt said get us a plan because that's one of the things I not notated here. You know, like we're talking about a lot of these things I'm trying to refresh memory of, you know, things with Tyler. And so, one of the things if we're going to have this this conversation, that's one thing I said, you know, get get us a plan. um get us something that would show our um direct flaws with Tyler that are the most detrimental at this juncture um or even a plan to dissolve the relationship if that's the case. But um Councilman Padet mentioned about having a discussion. So, I would like to see us have a work set, you know, something dedicated to this so that we're just not thrown this stuff and cuz I'm a writer type of person, retainer, I want to see kind of even what um Councilman Padet his 10 pages if you wouldn't mind sending that to us or something like that and let's have a transparent conversation between us, between all of us so we know exactly what our problems are directly dayto day. Um, it's been so long about this. Uh, I don't have a business, you know, so that's one of the things I don't do with city hall is is obtain a business license. And I remember us talking about this that that was something that was going to be attainable. That's crazy that there just some stuff is just backwards. And I agree like I'm not an IT person, but we don't want to be going this way. We want to go going forward. We the city of progress. So, just like you saying, we doing all these other things. Um, making stuff easy and accessible is just

key when people are not frustrated. That's just a plus. So, I don't know what the plan is. That's really what I wanted to introduce it for tonight was to sort of get that juices flowing in our head, figure out where our problems are, where we want to go, and then set a time u very soon for a work session that is 100% surrounded around kind of jelling this together and um you know, obviously bringing our um IT provider into the conversation and making sure that uh we're understanding where we are on some of these because uh you know that's every time I've been in those conversations just been a bottleneck of Tyler. So

yeah and I like to say I agree what we need to do because I use a lot of technology and some of the stuff I have online. I can fly helicopters. I'm not an IT person. We got three experts up here, but I'm willing to learn and I've heard from a lot of folks saying, "Well, why can't we do this easier this way, that way?" Yeah. So, having a work session, well, I I'll just say in my and I know give Jeremy a second here because I don't want to take the last five minutes that we have,

but um you know what I've heard is that Munus does a good job for you guys. And so, I'm not saying let's go rip Munis out, but there may be some things we could layer on there. I know some of the cities have labored like Civic Plus because they have integrations into Tyler, uh, Open Gov, um, just I could go on and on and on, but just the problems that we're having out of Tyler, like maybe we just have to cut that piece out and get something else, but I'll shut up unless you have a minute.

Uh, good good evening everybody. Um, sorry, I just have a brief minute here, but um, what I was basically going to say this evening was that, you know, we we feel the same way about Tyler. they they have really drugged their heels on all this. Uh you know looking back historically we started some of these projects with uh resident access and utility access which is the new online payment system. We actually started those a full year ago this month and uh you know obviously those should have been implemented months ago at this point. Um, so you know, I I was really coming to kind of say some of the same stuff that you said about how it really is Tyler, but the bottom line is uh we uh just recently went through, you know, trying to use the Tyler HR module and, uh, that went rather poorly, so we ended up having to ask them for a refund for it and we're going with a different, you know, thirdparty payroll system now. Um, and in the process of doing all that, we really got their attention. Jonathan was able to get a couple of the higherups from Tyler Technologies on a call. we were able to kind of explain some of our frustrations, not just with the payroll module, but kind of everything as a whole. And we have a brand new account rep now with Tyler Technologies. Uh, and she is actually going to be coming here in in Alabama to Enterprise in March. Um, and she uh, you know, I don't know that she'd love to come uh talk with you guys, but we'll we'll get her to come.

Yeah, we we'll we'll get her to come and talk with you guys. and you know that way maybe they can help answer some of those frustrations that we have about Tyler Technologies you know themselves. Um and we can try to get kind of a a you know deadline or or a plan together at that point. Um but I have been talking with her over the last week or so and we've got kind of uh a list of exactly what we need to do to get you to your goals right now if we choose to go with Tyler. Uh we are also actively pursuing uh alternatives for permitting and inspections uh as well as the online presence with like a 311 system or work order system and all. So we we are looking at three providers for those as we speak. Uh one of which of course being Tyler because of the integrations, but um we're looking at multiple options there. And you know, one of the best options may end up being kind of a stepping stone where we we deploy something that's easy to launch now that maybe doesn't check every box, but you know, can at least handle some of the 311 requests and all and then look at a permanent solution with Tyler, you know, a few years down the road when we can get something like that, you know, fully implemented.

Quick question, IT people. Um, Councilman Patchy, you said with talking with Tyler that said it's not ready. Are you talking about like a layer of software when you you referenced you said um we thought we were ready like for instance we thinking we're here and then we say oh it's it's not ready yet. Is that what

Yeah. If I could so specifically like one of the options right now is uh you can technically renew your business license online but all you can really do right now is pay for it. We were told a full year ago that you would be able to apply for a business license online. you would be able to uh upload your gross receipts from your prior year so that it calculates your current year business license and you would of course be able to pay for it. And as recently as September, that was not only not possible, but they didn't even have an ETA for it. Um now they're saying today that there may actually be an option to enable that very soon, but as recently as September, there wasn't even an ETA for that. And of course, now they're saying it's available after renewal season. So that's really kind of too little too late. But um you know that that that's what he was talking about really was you know a lot of times we're ready to do something they tell us that something's ready and then they come in after the fact and say oh it's not ready yet or the worst thing that they do is they'll say it's ready yet but you owe us a lot more money uh you have to buy an additional module or something like that and you know to uh Councilman Greg's uh uh earlier point how sometimes they go over budget and all that's that's the reason why

I guess the qu the question I have is um who's who's show who's overseeing these modules like I don't have a road map in front of me that says these modules are working towards doing these things during and these are our milestones on this timeline. So in in software development you know I'm used to seeing milestones timelines things that we're trying to features that are going to be added in right now it just looks like well we're working on this or we haven't worked on this or we had this roadblock. There's nothing similar to this this page right here with our quarterly. You know, first quarter we're going to have these features on. Second quarter we're going to have these features online. Third quarter have I don't I don't see any coherent plan with milestones and and timelines developed. Does that not exist right now?

So, so Tyler Technologies has a project manager assigned to this entire project right now. So, it's you know the one project manager, Michael I believe is his name. He actually is is is you know handling everything we're trying to do with our online presence right now with Tyler Tech. So he has that information on on our end. So uh primarily he's been reaching out to to me and Leanne and and Jonathan right now in in in our our email threads. So we just might need to develop a coherent strategy and and push them into and I think one of the biggest things for our new account rep right now is going to be to get her caught up on, you know, how far behind everything is and, you know, make them stick to their original plans and

I know we're going into city council. Can we just get that in front of us what the milestones and timeline is since the project manager at Tyler has it and that way we have that information? I I I'll get back. We're definitely going to have to continue this conversation because it's uh this was more just to kind of get us get us uh in the mood for the conversation later. So, sure. Um nothing uh this this is not from my perspective nothing uh negative whatsoever. Just a let's do what we got to do to get the ball rolling. So yeah, sounds good. Thank you guys.

All right. Thank you. Thank you. All right. Uh we are going to convene our regular session of the city council. All members with the exception of Councilman Mack are present. And we will begin with our opening prayer and pledge of allegiance. I believe we have um Pastor Eric Bradley here for prayer. If you could stand, please. Let's pray. Father, I thank you for tonight and I thank you for how you love us and how you care for us and how you sacrifice everything for us tonight. I just pray for this council that serves our city so well. Thank you for um their leadership, but not only their leadership, but the families who support them as well as they spend time and energy uh away from family to move the city forward. And I pray that you would pour out your favor on their homes, that you would bless their spouses and kids, that you would let their houses be places of peace and rest. And God, tonight, I pray for our city and our city's hurting. Uh we're grieved. were confused with the missing of this precious baby. And God, tonight I just pray that you would sustain these leaders and our emergency personnel um the investigators who are carrying such extreme weight during this moment that no person can bear on their own. And I pray that when the pressure seems overwhelming, when the answers feel out of reach, God, I pray that you would grant them wisdom. I pray you would grant them clarity and endurance through the whole process. God, I pray that you would surround them with your peace and remind them that they're not alone. God, I pray that your protection and favor and compassion would rest over our city.

I pray that you would bring light into dark places, that you would bring hope back into fear. And God, I pray that you would bring healing into every hurting heart tonight. God, we thank you for listening to us. that your word says we can come boldly to your throne and ask these things. So God, I thank you for hearing us and are here in our hearts. And God, I thank you for working and moving even when we don't see it right in front of us. And I thank you for this council again tonight. I pray a blessing over this meeting and uh the ways that they're moving our city forward in leaps and bounds. God, I thank you for their families and pray a blessing over them again. And it's in Jesus name we pray. Amen. Please stands one nation indivisible for all. All right. I call for a motion to approve the agenda of the meeting as submitted. I move to approve the agenda of the meeting as submitted.

Second. All right. All in favor say I. I. All oppose same sign. We will now uh all matters listed within the cons consent agenda have been distributed to each member of the council for review are considered to be routine and will be enacted by one motion of the city council with no separate discussion. If separate discussion is desired on an item, that item may be removed from the consent agenda and placed on the regular agenda by request of a member of the city council. I call for a motion to approve the consent agenda as presented. I move to approve the consent agenda as presented. Second. All in favor say I. I. I.

All oppose same sign. Motion carries. All right. Uh we have James Bonnet here. All right. representing Toys for Tots is going to present a certificate of appreciation.

Hey, thank you very much. Uh, as Councilman said, uh, my name is James Bonet with Toys for Tots Foundation. I'm looking at my phone because I'm going to bring up some numbers I'll have to recall here in just a moment. Um, but the Toys for Tots Foundation has 900 chapters within the United States. Uh, I'm the coordinator for one of the Wiregrass area. And with that, you know, we we uh collect and distribute toys to economically dist uh disadvantaged children within the wire grass area. We cannot do that without the support of the community. Um now I am here to ple uh to uh present something to police chief Moore or another representative there. Very good. um for um I'll wait till Jill gets up here. Again, it's it's a big lift within the community. Uh I have a small group of volunteers, so I do partnerships and uh this year uh we partnered with the Enterprise Police Department. One of my core volunteers is a detective on Chief Moore's uh force and he said, "You know what?" And he had some great ideas. Uh great ideas. uh helped us get u collect 2,875 toys within the enterprise uh area itself and that went to 87 children among 345 families. So uh the partnership with the police uh department notably a battle of the badges event at Ali's which will go down as of right now is the largest toy drive we've done since I've been a part of it in the last six years. So that's fantastic. had everything from the public relations office helping me, you know, with social media to volunteers just helping when I could. So, Chief Moore, I just wanted to present this to you, sir.

Thank you very much.

Mayor, if you want to come in, sir, and council, if you don't mind. All right. Mayor is going to recognize Enterprise Parks and Recreation Department on two awards.

Tonight, it is my honor to recognize two very special achievements for the city of Enterprise and our parks and recreation department. At the 2025 State Conference of Alabama Recreation and Parks Association, our city received two statewide awards. First, the Enterprise Recreation of the Quarter Center was named outstanding facility of the year for cities our size. Second, our own Blake Bo was named professional of the year in recreation. Those are significant honors and they did not happen by accident. The Enterprise Recreation Aquatic Center represents one of the largest investments in quality of life of our city's history. This facility was built to meet a long-standing need in our community. It includes courts for basketball, pickle ball, volleyball, renovated gym space, strength, and cardio rooms, and a beautiful area. In its first year alone, the city the facility welcomed more than 30,000 visitors and hosted the 2025 state volleyball tournament, which set a participation record. That tells us that something is very very important. This facility is not just a building. It is a gathering place. This is a place for families, a place for young athletes, for seniors, and for visitors from across our region. None of this would have been possible without the teamwork. I want to thank our city council, our

city staff, our partners, and everyone who helped bring this vision to life. And I especially want to recognize Blake Moore. Blake has served since 2016. Under his leadership, we have expanded programs, strengthen our partnership, and successfully transition into this new recreation complex. These awards reflect more than bricks and mortar. They reflect dedication, vision, and a belief that investing in our people matters. Please join me in congratulating our parks and recreation team and Blake Moore for bringing this recognition home to Enterprise Alabama. Mayor, before before we take a picture here, I have a few words to say. I'm not I'm not going to preach, Miss Sonia.

But, uh, to I'm very humbled by the award that I received, but tonight it's not about me. It's about these men and women. Y'all come up here to the front. So, what what makes a facility of the year? Um, and it's the people number one that work inside of it. And, uh, these men and women are special. Um, since day one, um, they never wavered. Um, they come in every day with a positive attitude and ready to work. Are we perfect? Absolutely not. But I promise you this, we come each and every day trying to achieve perfection. And uh so proud of you guys and the work that you did this past year in this award is all about you. But not only you, what else makes the facility is is laying the foundation for it. And Mr. Mayor, I believe it started with you. um and your vision of we needed a swimming pool and council your vision of a swimming pool and a recreation center and improving the quality of life for our citizens and enterprise and I can't tell you you know I've been a year now as director but the the teamwork that we have in place with our city staff and our department heads is second to none and uh and this award is a team award and uh tonight I want to recognize those people too. So, you're not going to like it, but I want you to come down here, too, for for for a picture opportunity. But Shannon Roberts, uh, come on down. You you were a big part in and tearing down the the rec old rec center and and making the new one. Alan Maym with water. I know you were up here looking at the old facility and new facility. Come on down, Alan. Uh, Chief Chief Moore and Chief Davis, you know what you do on on fire safety and and keeping our facility

safe. Chief Moore with your officers. Y'all come on down. This is a team award. Leanne Schwarz, our CFO. It it doesn't happen. You know, there's a lot of meetings and crunching numbers and there was Blake Blake had a big wish list and Leanne had a big no list. Um but we made it work in the end. So come come on down, Leanne. And and Jonathan told us, our city administrator, and and all his support that he gives us, if you'll come on down. Um, and Jeremy, since you're here with it, um, the things that you've done in our facility, I mean, this this to me is is a total team award and and and Tammy and and and Lily, y'all come down. Uh, this is also a house that that houses community services and they're just as much as a part of this and making it important um to what they do each and every day from the community services side of things. And and I'm probably forgetting somebody, so if I forgot you, come on down. I I haven't forgot him. He was my last one. He's the most important one. Best for last. But Barry Mott, our our director of engineering, this this project really couldn't have done it. And I said it started with the mayor when the mayor hired Barry. And Barry can tell this story better than I can. But he told Barry he wanted a swimming pool. And uh Barry said we can make that happen. But I I've grown close to Barry over the past two years and and building this facility from start to finish. and the hours that Barry put in um are, you know, I I can't I can't count them up, but Barry Barry was instrumental in in this facility and making it happen and uh and and working together and uh CC and Lichfield architects, whe Construction, uh Blake Henderson's not here tonight, but from whe he he he was a huge part of this. But none of this could happen. What makes Enterprise special? We go to these conferences all the time and people ask me what makes Enterprise, what sets you guys apart, what makes you special? It's the people.

And right here is is the people that make it happen day in and day out. They want to serve. We have So my challenge for 2026 to my staff was a servants mentality, right? We're in we're in we're in the business of public service, right? We come in each and every day to be a servant and have that servants heart and servants mentality and serve our community. Let me tell you what this facility did. It brought 680 kids to play youth basketball this season, the largest amount that we've ever had in the city of Enterprise. It gave that mother of four a chance to see all her kids play at one time because they were all under one roof. It gave that mama and her little kids a place to go this summer and play in the pool and have birthday parties. It gave that person who just came off back surgery a place to come indoors where it's cool and walk around. It gave people a chance to have exercise classes where they didn't have it before. It gave a lady who I've known all my life who just turned 80 as one of the most frequent visitors to our fitness classes. That's what this facility is about. This facility is about community and building community. And I'm so proud to be part of this team right here that made it happen. And this is the reason that Enterprise Parks and Recre is facility of the year. You preached

One more person. forget she was a huge help at the facility with all we didn't have person at the time but public information manager my career I' had a lot of I'll say every One person. Yay. Yes, congratulations Blake on all of the achievements and the staff as well that's they're helping with all of that. Uh now we want to recognize Enterprise Chamber of Commerce Director Aaron Grantham to address the council on obtaining a permit for the world's smallest St. Patrick's Day parade and half pint 5K on h half pint 0.5K. Well, good evening. Uh, congratulations to everybody. That was amazing. I'm so sad to be following that up. Um, but thank you for the opportunity. Just wanted to come before you and publicly

ask for street closures for the 33rd annual World's Smallest St. Patrick's Day parade downtown Enterprise and the illustrious five or half point.5K. It is really hard to say. Um but it's lots of fun. Uh has been lots of fun for years in enterprise. And so um in the interest of quality of life and community development, this is uh just another year where we're asking for the same support that we have asked for uh every year. Uh I've been in contact with Chief Moore and Captain Kent. Um, and there's no changes to what we've done in years past as far as uh road closures or or city services. Um, so the event will be Saturday, March the 14th, um, downtown. Uh, we have requested a rain day of March 21, which we really hope we do not have to use. Um, just in case we do have to move it for any reason. Um, but we're looking forward to a great time and still accepting uh, nominations for Grand Marshall. So, if you'd like to be that YouTube, um, please send those in. And unless you have any questions, that is it for me.

You still going to have donuts halfway through? Yes, sir. 100%. You got to reload and carpel. Exactly. All right. Um, thank you very much. Yep. Um, what's the time, Miss Grantham? Yeah. What time is it? I do apologize. Uh, so the street closure part of it is about 11ish. Um, the parade starts at 12 and the 0.5K follows the parade at like 12:05. Any other questions? All right. Thank you. Thank you. As has been said, this has been being done for many, many years. So, do I have a motion? I move to approve the permit request as submitted.

Second. All in favor say I. I. All oppose, same sign. Motion carries. All right. is Linda Paige with the Oscar Club Day of Service here.

Good afternoon. I'm Linda Paige and I'm the president of the Enterprise Oscar Club. And for those of you who don't know what that is, that is the former women of the year. Um, and these ladies are some of the beautiful women that uh I serve with. So what I am coming before you to ask is that you will approve our ninth annual day of service. This day of service was um put together by the group of women in our club about nine years ago because that makes it the ninth annual but they put it together to bring us together as a community and to do good in our community as well. uh as a club members, we were nominated by different organizations that uh for our contributions to the community. And when we get in the club, our club, we weren't doing anything. So we decided that we had not gone into retirement that we needed to do something. So this day was formed and I think Charlene Goulsby was probably the big the spearhead of all that. But anyway, back to what we do on the day of service. Uh did everybody get all the council meeting members got? Uh okay, good. The first flyer that you see, it tells about what we do. It's our club. We embrace enhance enterprise. And how do we do that? We do that by um uh cooking a meal for a neighbor, cleaning a yard here and there. We do those kind of things all the time, but

not as a group. We thought, you know, this is the time we'll come together and do something larger. And so with this being said, we have done this for eight years and we're asking that you approve it again for this year. We've had to include a second day. It's not the day of service, but we're having to uh utilize the day of the 14th because the 21st actually lands on the spring the first weekend of spring break. So, uh, our high school students and some of our junior high, um, were not going to be able to participate, but the annual day of service kickoff will still be on the 21st. the 14th, we will have another day, but it is just for the kids to get together and we're going to be taking them out to work in the um I think it's the west side, the west and northern side of Enterprise. They'll be meeting at the Ray Helms Westside Park at 9:00. But back to the 9th annual day, we're asking that you approve this and these shirts were not to um we don't believe in bribing, but we believe in encouraging. So, we're hoping that you would not only uh approve this, but you will encourage your constituents to be also be a part. There are many different ways that you can participate and if you could, you know, somehow find your way to be at the kickoff, we would be so honored as well. That is if you approve it. So, I'm

asking that you approve the ninth day of service. All right. Thank you very much. is um I believe uh parks and recre still over the Bates Memorial, right? We good with that? All right. So, uh do I have a motion? I move to approve the permit request as submitted. Second. All in favor say I. I. All oppose, same sign. Motion carries. Thank you.

Thank you so much. I also want to ask if we could uh get uh some vest for our people while they're out on the road working because they're going to be working uh picking up litter on those two days. So, if we could get vest uh maybe about a hundred to have from the 13th I'm getting thumbs up back here. So, I think to the 22nd to let us borrow that. Just let us borrow them. We promise to return them. All right. Thank you. Thank you for all your u hard work trying to make Enterprise great. Thank you so much.

All right. Um now it's time for the privilege of the floor. This is part of the meeting where anyone in tenants who wishes to address the council may do so for three minutes. If there's a public hearing on the agenda for the topic you're concerned with, please wait till the public hearing opens to address the council. they so choose, the staff, mayor, and council respond to your comments during the appointed times later in the meeting. Repetitive, disruptive, and disparaging comments will not be tolerated. If you're found out of order, your privileges can and will be revoked. Does anyone wish to address the council at this time? Seeing none, we'll move into staff reports. Any staffs that need to give a report tonight? All right. Then we'll move into old business. Review and consider bid recommendation. I introduce and call for consideration of a recommendation from the consulting engineer Glenn Morgan to award the base bid for the installation of an irrigation well at the Enterprise Multi-purpose Recreational Complex to Donald Smith Company Incorporated in the amount of $579,378. The bid included three alternates for irrigation building options. These alternates included the original designed building, alternate one, a pre-engineered fiberglass building, alternate two, and a city provided building alternate three. Under this recommendation, the city will provide the irrigation building and the associated building electrical. Do I have a motion? I move to award the base bid for the installation of an irrigation well at the Enterprise Multi-purpose Recreational Complex to Donald Smith's Company Incorporated in amount of $579,378.

Second. All right. Is there any further discussion? All in favor say I.

All oppose, same sign. Motion carries. Introducing call for consideration of a recommendation from Barry Mott, bid purchasing agent on behalf of police chief Michael Moore, to award bid requisition number 202601 to Mitchell Chrysler Dodge Jeep Jeep Ram for the purchase of eight Dodge Durango Police Pursuit vehicles and one Dodge Durango GT+ in the total amount of $367,160. Other bids received are as follows. Landers Mclarde DCJR $384,600. Do I have a motion? I move to award the bid requisition number 2026-01 for the purchase of nine vehicles to Mitchell Chrysler Dodge Jeep Ram in the total amount of $367,160.

Second. Any further discussion? All in favor say I. I. All oppose, same sign. Motion carries. All right. Call for a motion to authorize the mayor to execute task order number three to Ardura Incorporated for engineering and technical services associated with the College Street wastewater treatment plant expansion project at a cost not to exceed $350,000. Do I have a motion? Move to authorize the mayor to execute task order number three to Ardura Incorporated at a cost not to exceed $350,000. Second.

Any further discussion? All in favor say I. I. All oppose. Same sign. Motion carries. Introducing call for consideration of request from Blake Moore, director of community services and recreation to purchase the following FY26 budgeted equipment from Enterprise janitorial and paper through purchasing corporation of America at a total cost of $84,919. Is this Cineabots I guess? Kenobots Cobots. Cinnabots uh L150 robotic scrubber and dryer. Cobots SP50 robotic vacuum and sweeper. Cabots 4 in1 charge workstation L50. Cobots charge station SP50. Do I have a motion?

Move to ahead. Move to approve the purchase uh as request as submitted. Second. Any further discussion? All in favor say I. I. All oppose. Same sign. Motion carries. Introducing call for consideration of a request from city engineer public works director Barry Mott to seek bids for TAP project number TAP U-Ta25 923 for the construction of sidewalks along Bellwood Road and George C. Wallace Drive. Do I have a motion? Move to approve the request to seek biz as submitted. Second. Any further discussion? All in favor say I. I.

All oppose, same sign. Motion carries. Right. I call for a motion to set a public hearing for March 3rd, 2026 at 6:00 p.m. on the matter of issuing a temporary business license for Enterprise Metals and Recycling located at 9:30 Bellwood Road. I call for a public hearing to be held on March 3rd, 2026, 6 pm on the matter of issuing a temporary business license for Enterprise Metals and Recycling located at 9:30 Bellwood Road. Second. Any further discussion? All in favor say I. I. All oppose, same sign.

Motion carries. Mayor, do you have a report for us?

Thank you, Mr. President. I want to take a moment to speak about something that is on all of our hearts. Our community continues to focus on the search for two-year-old Genesis Reed. When a child is missing, it touches every family in this city. It reminds us how connected we truly are. I want to recognize the extraordinary efforts of the Enterprise Police Department and the many local, state, and federal partners assisting in this investigation. Our first responders have worked tirelessly and professionalists around the clock. They are conducting a careful and thorough investigation with one clear priority, finding answers and bringing this child home. I also want to thank the people of Enterprise. Over the past several days, we have seen compassion, strength, and unity. We have seen neighbors praying together, supporting law enforcement, and offering to help whenever whenever it is needed. That spirit says a great deal about who we are as a community. During these difficult times, it is important that we remain patient and allow investigators the space they need to do their work properly. Accurate information will come through the official channels and I encourage I encourage everyone to rely on those updates. Enterprise is a strong city. We stand together. We care for one another and we continue to hold on to hope. Let us all pause for a moment as we keep Genesis, her family, and our first responders thoughts and prayers.

Thank you.

Um certainly thank you Mr. Bonet for coming acknowledging um your partnership with our um police department for our toys and tots. Um, I remember when I first uh was appointed to the council in 2017 and Mayor Cooper and I had several conversations about our recreation, our parks and rec. And being new to the council, not really paying attention, that's when the media kind of was in the um work session area when we met at the um city hall and I made a statement that um we need to have a conversation about the future of our parks and wrecks building. It was embarrassing with the number of people we have coming for tournaments and stuff. That brown building was like an eyesore and I I went on to say a whole bunch of stuff and I said we need to stop saying we the city of progress if we going to keep going to that and they printed it in the paper. That's when I found out don't do that. But anyway, we we started the conversation about our parks and travel to a couple places, looked at um other buildings and so it's just um really feels good when we drive by and see how nice it looks and we have excellent staff there and we have an excellent director. Um so congratulations uh Blake to you and your team um profession of the year. That's the serious part of that um that I'm going to say. So when I looked at my agenda today, you know, the mayor's recognitions are first. You see that Blake was getting um this big recognition for professional of the year. That's like really big, right? Then you flip over a couple more pages and then the brother is asking for like 80 something,000 for a robotic cleaning machine. And but that's the kind of thought provocative, you know, he's he's a he's a leader and he thinks, you know, strategically, this is the perfect meeting to get that on the agenda cuz the first part of meeting is going to be about me and my crew. So, they're going to just slide right on in there, Blake.

That's how you do. And so, but we appreciate you and all that you um do to keep our city um in the highlight of things and in the media. So, congratulations to you and your team and um thank you council Padet for um getting us in a place to have some different types of conversation about our city as far as our technology goes. I'm looking forward to learning a lot um as we get some information about um how we're going to progress. So, um let's keep our city in our prayers and our thoughts and thank everyone for coming out tonight. Yeah. Um I'm also looking for that it you know this old man can learn new tricks especially from these young folks the IT folks around here. But uh that's definitely a conversation we need. Mr. Brunette I'm I'm an army guy not a marine but simp thank you for all you've done. I've worked with you a few times and toys for tots is awesome. I've seen some families that got those toys. You know, we we thank our team here and and Blake, your folks are so wonderful. And I I gotta comment. It's not just a team. It's a family. And you see this family and this was just one part of the family of Enterprise with all our workers. I look in the back row back there and I talk about some menacing folks, you know, back sitting in there looking at us, but that's all the other team, but not just team, family. And we went look over here on this side. And for the last two days, I've saw that family out looking for that beautiful young child. And I was just blessed for the last two days to be with my community emergency response team, the Coffee County team. Uh I just had to put the word out on our little Telegram thing and I had probably 20, 30 volunteers just, hey, I can be there. I can be there. I can be there. I can be there. But to see the

professionalism that was there for the last two days from all our our police department and when I showed up yesterday, the fire department's out running through the trees out there, but marshals, SBI, FBI, sheriff's, everyone. I know I'm going to leave somebody out, but it was just my chest was pumping hard out there as I walked through the through the woods with my team out there looking for that young lady. and we're still available if if need be. But that's the family. They come together from around and I'm just proud as a peacock to be part of that that team, that family. And God bless every one of you. Thank you.

Um yes, same thing everyone else has already said. I'm I I do work in technology. I called I get a little passionate sometimes when I speak about it, but uh I'm I'm thankful for Blake what you what you've done. I like the request. So, if you had if you need more technology, go get another award and we'll approve it, man. We'll we'll do it. Um, but using technology to help do the things that maybe other people don't want to do. Um, or allow those people that were doing those jobs to elevate themselves into something else in the city and fill other roles that they'd rather do. So, thank you for looking into innovation and and ways of using technology. um mentioned before I was in a waterboard meeting and heard about our our Allen and their group using iPads and and starting with digital workers. I'm thankful for that. That takes that's a big shift um to go from doing everything this way and it's worked and why why change? But to step out of that and say maybe we can do a little better if it's 10% better or 15% whatever it is by using technology. So Allan, I'm thankful for you and your team stepping out and and finding ways to use technology to make our city more efficient and better. So, so I know that sometimes has growing pains and um sometimes you know I'm 47 so in the IT world I'm ancient. Um so uh you know you got to you got to you got to keep pushing yourself forward and looking for those ways. Uh congrat congratulations uh Blake I wanted to call you out and um if we had another hour I'd come ask you to speak a little bit more but we don't. Um so I won't but um congratulations specifically to you. I know you thanked your team, but for that award for uh in being recognized um as the professional of the year in recreation, I'm glad they added in recreation because I think Greg won it in in just general professional of the year. So um all right, that's that um oh, I did want to mention too as well about Miss Reed. So, um just like everybody's already said, the mayor um

beautifully put that our hearts um do go out for this young child that's missing. And uh we it's a reminder we live in a fallen world and we need we need Jesus. Um and so be praying and um u praying that any any anybody that's in a valley of decision right now makes the right decision. And um pray for this child's safe return.

Thank all my colleagues for their comments tonight. Most of it's pretty much been said, but I will um at least reiterate once again the congratulations to Blake and your team. And um thank you for coming with Toys for Tots and also the Oscar club for all that you do. And um definitely have um that um Miss Reed in our in our thoughts. It's been a continual conversation around my home. um about that. So, um hope and pray that the um those that are out there doing the investigation can get the answers. And um it's a quite a shock for our community right now and um not something thankfully that we deal with very often and definitely hope and pray for a good resolution to this situation. And with that said, we are adjourned until our council meeting of March 3rd, 5:00 pm. All right. All right.