City Council - Regular Meeting

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all right. If you want to start with our quarter four goals.

Yes, sir. Mayor and council members, if you'll look in your vision 2025 Q4 goals, again, most of these are are transitioning into first or second quarter items. Um, wastewater treatment plant upgrades. Um, TAP project, onboarding plan, all of those uh are shifted to 2026. Um, at our next meeting, we plan to have quarterly updates on customer service and nuisance properties. Um and then tonight you're going to consider um some mitigation on on nuisance properties or dangerous buildings. That's on the agenda for tonight. Um at project on Sheffield Road, there are three lights that have been installed. I think one of them was damaged in in shipping. And so if you if you go up there to that ATRIP project now, you'll see three directions. There's there's lights in one direction. There's not. They They've got that reordered now to replace it.

They down there got it all blocked off right now. I couldn't get here that way. Same. So that [clears throat] that's why um let's see the u old copenville agreement. Again, that's last meeting you you authorized mayor's office to work with Enterprise City Schools on the final language of that. And then I added strategic planning meeting just to reemphasize to the council. I know it's coming up on the holiday season, but that that's when we set that uh date, January 14th. Just wanted to make sure that was still good with with you all. What's the time? It it'll probably it typically it has started around 9:00 a.m. Um does that still work for everybody?

Try to get out of there by 2:30, 3:00. Um, and if you're still okay with it, um, having the group that we had last year with, uh, Neil Wade and and Brian Parker as our, uh, outside consultant to come in and and run the meeting. Um, they are available on that date. So, any objection to reaching out to them? I don't have any. [clears throat]

Okay. Um, one one other thing that I wanted to bring up, um, Chief Moore had an addition that he wanted to make to the E911 board meeting agenda. And so if if he could come up here and kind of tell you guys a little bit about that, I'd like to give up some time to for him to do that. Okay.

Good afternoon. Uh, so real quickly I'm going to kind of tell you what it's about and I'm going to let Tangi go and Clarissa go into a little bit more detail if they choose. But Prepared is a company through Axon. And what they do is they they um monitor the 911 calls when they come in. Uh they um include real-time transcription and also translation uh to where the officer or the communications officer she has a question or he has a question they could type it out and it sends to the person in their own language. It speeds up everything. It uh also does it uses AI to uh further ask questions that you know perhaps we don't deal with on a daily basis, but it uses AI and then transcriptions to talk back and forth to the uh individual. Um it's a three-year contract uh that's already it's funded through 911, E911. Um but um what else am I missing?

Um I can talk a minute on prepared. It has the full support of the other Southeast Alabama 911 centers already. They have already entered into a contract and have been using this roughly for since the beginning of this year. As Chief Moore mentioned, it does translations for us, which would take the place of buoyance. It is able to speak back to the caller in 20 different languages and translate up to 227. On top of that, it also provides at least it's two programs, one at a cost of 20 cents a call and the other at a cost of 50 cents a call. But we get roughly six to seven different amenities to use, including exporting full summary of each call that comes in to our administrative staff. So if we were to get a call, say for um a shooting incident at the local Walmart, our chief of police could be notified as soon as the call is over of exactly what took place during that call. a full summary report and he could be on his way to respond. So there's several different amenities for the single cost. Our permission is really for to enter into the contract. And as I stated, it does have the full support of the other southeast Alabama 911 centers such as Dothan Houston County. Even Coffee County already use this product. The first tier of it was purchased by the Alabama 911 board. And it also assists us in our first responder compliancy that we have to meet of seven to 10% quality assurance done for each call that comes in. Currently, we maybe do 1 to 2% and that's really due to manpower and the things that we have to do. And this program does it for us automatically for every 911 call at the same cost.

What's the name of the program again? It's called prepared. Prepared. May I also can I approach and give you a handout to my Okay. You said you emailed it, Chief. No, I don't know. Yeah, but go ahead.

Now, do you Who did you say was uh was this a budgeted item or is this paid for by Thank you. It's paid through the E911 U fund that's that we have to cover.

It's a yearly contract that you'll be entering in. Yes, ma'am. It's a three-year contract. Okay. Yes, ma'am. You'll notice there's also a one-time cost for the hardware equipment that goes in the server room. That can be divided into the three years or put off into the second year, whichever would help with us budgeting.

So, you said you already had the funds budgeted for this. We already have the the funds in the budget this this past year, this year for this fiscal year 2026.

So I just a clarification on this part of this sounds like it is specifically for non-English-speaking. Yes, it as part of the assisted call taking it provides a the transcription service which types out what the caller is saying and the dispatcher is saying in that it also translates automatically if a Spanish speaker were to begin speaking or uh Haitian creole Korean um languages that we can't pick up by our ear and know what they're saying. It automatically translates to English and provides an AI speaker in that language. So we type back our response. Where is your emergency? And the AI speaker speaks it in their native language.

So in standard English, you would be communicating real time, but AI picks up when it's a language that you don't have a dispatcher that can speak. Yes. Correct. Okay. Correct. And with our current buoyance language line, we have to know what language to request an interpreter. And there have been times that we have no idea Gotcha. what the language is. Look, would this also go out on the air with the withdrawal cars and all that? I mean, it just it well we can transmit the information through our CAD system and we can directly copy paste it from this program into it and it does generate a summary of the call which would expedite that information to them. Yes.

So basically is just making us a more efficient and absolutely your job. Yes. And providing some skills that we just don't have such as the translation. So I guess the ask here is for us to approve uh you guys to enter into this contract or That's correct, sir. Okay. Somebody going to get us the proper language for the Okay. Are y'all good with this? Yes. Thank you.

Thank you. So again, that that would be an agenda item for the E91 board meeting after after the council meeting. Um, and we we will get some language drafted up if if you'd like us to add it to the uh add it to the agenda. I I'll get that. Yeah, I think we're good with that.

Okay. Um the the other thing that Mayor Cooper had grabbed me prior to uh to the work session and and asked if the council would consider um closing uh city operations or most of them uh the Friday after Christmas. So, we have uh Christmas Eve, which is Wednesday, and Thursday, Christmas Day, off currently. Um there is a that next Friday the 26 would be uh what what the mayor would like to see or at least considered. Um I've talked to most of our staff. Really, the the biggest hurdle there is trash pickup. And I think that Shannon and Barry have a plan in place. Uh again, not asking to vote on anything right now, but um obviously I I would like some feedback from you all about if if you would entertain that. We would need to bring it at at a the next council meeting, but moreover, we would we'd need to start getting notice out to people on trash routes and, you know, people that might otherwise pay a water bill or do something so that they have enough notice um that the city would be closed. I don't have an issue with it. We've done it multiple times through over the years depending on you know how I mean how Thanksgiving or Christmas has fallen. So I think we typically do that for Thanksgiving anyway.

They they have in the past. Yes. Yes ma'am. But this would be three days uh which is not necessarily Are you talking about Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday? Correct. Oh, I thought you meant Thursday and Friday. We're we're already scheduled to be closed Wednesday and and Thursday, Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.

So, um you know, there there's not a lot of impact. Talking to Leanne about revenue and water. Um you know, really business license season will start in January. Um so, there won't be a lot of impact from that perspective. Um I've talked to Barry and Shannon about trash pickup. They think they have a plan to bring people in. It doesn't mean that trash won't get picked up on Wednesday. I think their plan right now would be to have people come in on Wednesday and then flip it over to to give them Friday off. Um so it won't impact police or fire. They're going to work their normal shifts. Um but again, nothing to vote on tonight. But if you'd like me to prepare something for the next council meeting um or not, that's really what um what I would be looking for. I think from my perspective is I'm always always willing to let people have some time off but at the same time you know uh got a lot of people out here we're serving and going to make sure that all of the city services continue operating as expected because you have three days off but then you have the weekend. So, you're technically 5 days uh physical days that there's no nothing happening at at city hall. And maybe that's not a problem. Um I would just say we whatever we come back with on the next council meeting would need to address any any potential things because, you know, if something doesn't go right over that weekend, uh it'll be very loudly proclaimed.

Absolutely. I understand. Yeah. I just want to know have a schedule to know and and and looking forward that this is not something that we'll be talking about three weeks from now where trash still hadn't been picked up further and further behind. I was under the impression of Thursday, Friday, but like I said, I want to, you know, I think you said Barry and him are going to try to come up with something that they feel that if they feel that they can keep up, you know, that that's right.

I don't know. Do you want to talk about that, Barry? Ma'am, if y'all consider to do this, um, what Shannon and I have talked about is to do that week of thanks, uh, do that week of Christmas like we do in Thanksgiving. So, basically, we bring all of our people in on Wednesday. We have a full day. We take every vehicle, every person that we have and put them in the field on Wednesday. And it's a all press type effort that we pick up. If your garbage would be Thursday and Friday, if this is what y'all decide to do, if your garbage is Thursday, Friday, put it out on Wednesday. We will pick it up on Wednesday, um it'll be a hard push for us, but we'll we'll get it done. And then back Monday, it goes back to the regular schedule as it has in the past. This is the same thing we do for Thanksgiving, um where we're off Thursday and Friday, we will do the same exact schedule. We've already verified with the county that the landfill will be open on Wednesday, that's the day before Christmas, and the Friday after. what we're talking about is run that Wednesday and then we'll have to work out with our people whether we they get paid for that Wednesday and give them or give them another day off as a floating holiday. Um that's something to be worked out in the details, but Shann put her heads together quickly and said this is this could follow the same schedule that we've done for Thanksgiving. If this is something y'all would like to do,

did you did you say something about a floating crew on Friday? No, I didn't hear. for if if if y'all decide to give the day off for Wednesday and the employees decide to work. Um choices would be if depending on what HR allows us to do, we could either pay them for that day, you know, at a escalated rate or maybe give them a floating holiday for the guys that worked on that Wednesday if the rest of the city was off that Wednesday to give them a day later on to be used as a floating holiday. That both of those are opportunities. I'd have to work that out with HR and make sure that um we're in compliance with all the the regulations. But if the city's the city's closed on Wednesday, we would we would have our sanitation crew report Wednesday to pull this off to keep garbage on track for that Wednesday. Um I think three days off would have a pretty significant impact on garbage and the city to be off Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday to be honest with you.

Yeah. Um, and y'all think that's the only department that's going to be crucial to

I I can only speak from for the my departments and Jonathan I think he's he's voiced on it from talking to revenue and and water and all. Um, little little to no impact and and for for closing down the biggest one that we see right now is sanitation with garbage across the city um from my perspective. So yeah. So in in the event that we have um either either waterline breaks or a sewer line backup, we still have on call services. Those those ladies and gentlemen will still be on call as we would do for any after hours or holiday call. Those people would still be on call for so we would have those people available. The the main push that I see would be the fact that picking up the garbage. It's more than just sending out garbage trucks into the field and picking up the garbage. We have a transfer station at public works where we transfer into larger trucks and run those to the landfill. I can't just have garbage truck garbage. I got to have to have the whole crew from sanitation to run the sanitation crew to keep that operation up and running. And that's why Shannon I think that operating on Wednesday gives us a full Monday, Tuesday, all day Wednesday and then we would be if y'all would decide to do this closed Thursday and Friday. Um but that that we could keep that on schedule. That would be our anticipation. I would say check back with your staff and crew. Make sure they don't already have holiday plans or, you know, make sure if you're if you need everybody there on Wednesday, make sure that they're not already allocated and off. Um I I would like to hear a plan from from you guys if that's what you're want to do. The other question I have is is like police and fire, are they getting paid? Do they get paid time and a half or extra rate for Wednesday for for Christmas Eve or

I think they typically work their their normal schedule. Isn't that right? Come up top. So on holidays if they work if they're actually at the holiday I mean working the [clears throat] holiday um we put out a list and they have an option to uh acrew it for use of another day they want to take off in the future. I give them three months to use that day. Um or they can opt to get paid for that hour or for the for that day so they get additional money on there for 12 hours as our shift or day shift. So they get compensated. They just have if they're not uh working that day, then they automatically acrew it. Okay. So yes, sir, they're they're compensated.

Same with you, Dave. Okay. Okay. I would say just come up with a plan then um and see see if we can do something that matches maybe what they they're doing or just come up with a plan to present to us. I'm open to it. Yes, sir. Everybody else good with All right. So, that that concludes our Q4 goals.

All right. And then we will uh let's move into reviewing the agenda. We'll begin with roll call pledge of allegiance and then uh approval of the agenda consideration of consent agenda. On this consent agenda we have accounts payable A3 for $13,852.92. Accounts payable A1,170,00043170,433.99 contract building 727 727,42.64 Smith Environmental Construction uh for WWTP upgrades project number one mechanical $658,112.80 80 barge $2785.50 50 for airport life flight hanger. Also $5,464.15 for County Road 606 relocation airport. Poly inc $8,833.77 for consulting services wastewater treatment plants. Johnson Materials Supply $51,84642. Crusher Run Parks and Recreation parking lot.

So what's Crusher Run? It's little bitty rocks. It is. Yes, ma'am. That is a uh it's a type of So, it's crush crush rock. Okay.

Um it's a gradation of the rock. So, um like you can order like number 57 stone. It's a type of stone. Crush and run means basically when they crush the stone, they leave all the fines in there. So, it's a gradation that it's crushed rock, it's sand, it's all these different particles. The reason we like to use it on parking lots is when we put it down and we we roll that stuff out, excuse me, and compact it in place, it becomes like concrete, especially after it rains on it. So, crush and run is just a gradation of rot is your short answer. But we did the same thing for over at pee phase two, the big gravel parking lots, the same stuff there. Our intention is to use that over there for the new area at the rec center um until such time that we can get it paved, but it'll be a great base underneath the pavement. uh to make the payment hold up better. So, um that's the reason we used it. Ma'am,

thank you. Now, up on my rock studies. Yes, ma'am. All right. Any any questions, concerns, anything we need to pull off the consent agenda? All right. We have some travel requests for administrative, fire department, parks, reg department. Then we will consider a permit request for Mary Wy MLK Memorial March um beginning at City Hall and ending at Liberty Missionary Baptist Church on Geneva Highway. Chief Moore, we good with this?

All right. And then we will uh do privilege of the floor staff reports and old business continuation of public hearing for nuisance properties dangerous buildings.

Good morning, mayor, council. It's good to see you. Uh Ben Goldman, um I am uh coming back to you. These are a number of resolutions that were set before you in October on October 7th originally for a public hearing. Um we decided on that particular round we had had a bit of trouble getting actual service via certified mail. Um, so we thought it would be best on several of those and several of them also were ones that we were working on remediation agreements. Um, so a number of these were brought back to you uh in an attempt to get actual service or andor to do additional service via publication. We have done both. So there are three of them that we were able to get additional actual service on. The rest of them we ran four insertions of our short form notice in the paper. So on all of these we are recommending demolition there. I I would break this up though into two motions today if it pleases the council. Um the first there are three where we have been told by the property owners that um either they want to complete the demolitions themselves or they're asking for some form of remediation agreement. that has not been put forward yet in a form that we're ready to recommend to the to the council. So, we are recommending demolition. But on those three, we would recommend that that come that that motion be made uh with a request that the mayor administratively defer demolition for a period of 60 days. That would give us a firm time to inform the property owners either to to come forward with their final remediation agreement in a form where we can approve it and modify the

resolution or we just need to move on. I mean, all of these have been longer. Um, I mean, we already give So, again, just as a reminder, we we begin by sending a 20-day courtesy letter that happened on each and every one of these. When that didn't happen, then we began the formal process. That's a 50 to 60day process that got us to your October meeting and now we've given an additional you know really 60 days since then. So you're talking about five months of a process um on each and every one of these um with all the forms of notice that we we we give and and have tried to work through. So, uh, the three that we're recommending that the motion be made to adopt the resolutions, but subject to administrative deferment for 60 days, those are 100725A for 206 Mill Avenue, 10725 C for 307 West Hildrith Avenue, and 10725G for 406 Dixie Drive for each of the other ones. Um, we would recommend that they just be adopted. So, I think you could do those in two two bulk motions. I know 406 Dixie Drive, they were here in the last meeting and they had been making making progress. So, what they lack now outside of the progress is a standard plan to submit to the city.

Yes, sir. So basically what they just need to do is to uh submit us a timeline uh to uh for the remediation agreement to say this is when they'll have this done by this time this so forth and so on uh to a point where we could accept that uh basically as a safe sound and sanitary dwelling. Um they've made a lot of substantial improvements to the property already with cleaning out the outside of the property along with the inside. Um they have certified that there is no infestation. They've gotten everything taken care of in that area. Uh there's supposed to be a new roof going on the property soon. Um and Mr. Espata would be here to inform you that as well, but unfortunately he had some medical issues over the weekend and he's not able to attend today. Um but that's basically what we are waiting for is just a uh standardized timeline to be able to say this is when he'll have it done by this date, so forth and so on. So when we bring that to you for the remediation agreement, you accept it. If it's not done by then, we take care of the uh the issue uh ourselves by demo demoing the property.

Okay. Yeah. I just I wanted to avoid the case that he's actively trying to improve the home and it gets demolished. Yes, sir.

Okay. and and on all of these um because we have we are five months into the process and and really right right up knocking on the the four month door of when the first or the last Liz pendants went out. Um, we only have 100 under your ordinance, you have 120 days to act on the findings of the appropriate municipal official or you have to start over, which so which is one reason I have to be mindful of and I and I'm not recommending kind of pushing this further down the road to to wait and see. I think I think will be there there's really um you and I'm I'm glad you you pointed that out that that is why they are specifically cited to to defer that demolition. We're fully expecting that to happen.

Okay. And then 307 that's the one that he wanted to have it redesated to like storage.

Uh yes sir. So basically what he has what he has done so far is he's able to he has been able to combine the parcels with the other parcel that he owns. Uh the structure itself works within our accessory structure ordinance within our zoning ordinance. Um so he doesn't have any problem there. Basically what his plan is to do is to close up the windows, fix the siding, fix the roof, take off the u pseudo bathroom that's attached to the property as well. um and basically just convert that into an accessory structure to be able to continue doing what he's using it for now and that's storage. So, he has taken steps to do that. Um like I said, he's he's combined the parcel. He's working on a timeline to be able to remediate. Um and that's what we're waiting on from him to be able to do that.

Okay. Thank you. Any other questions? All right. Thank you very much. All right. Then we review and consider ordinance uh establish regulations for blade signs. We talked about this last meeting, but go ahead.

Uh yes, sir. I was just going to see if council had any questions about it. Uh and just remind the council that this was a ordinance uh that was brought to you because Main Street Alabama had a grant program that they applied for. They were able to uh they were able to get the grants, but we had an ordinance that basically said signs weren't supposed to protrude over the sidewalk. So, we were bringing this to you uh to allow for the blade signs, but also put standards and regulations on them as well. Is a blade sign is that what's over Magnolia Gaming. Yeah, Magnolia Gaming Raws. It is a It's an ordinance that's kind of obscure. So, it's already there. That's Yeah, it's already there. It's kind of obscure. Um, so we're just trying to clean it up and get it where we have regulations for it to allow,

you know, to allow Magnolia to sign, to allow raw sign, that type of stuff. Okay.

Okay. Under uh new business, we have a public hearing consideration uh resolution 120225 extending the deadline for demolition of structures. uh is describing the report recommendation of extension for time for demolition for a period of 120 days making a deadline April 1st 2026. That's what we just got through talking about right?

Uh yes sir. So basically what this one is this is for the phase uh one of the demolition program that we are asking for a continuence on. Um the basic issue that we had was when we were trying to bid these we were not able to uh get we weren't able to get contractors to bid at that time. We believe the reason for that was just it was just a bad time. uh in the year for them to want to build those types of projects. After we went to bid for the uh community development block grants, we were able to get multiple bids for that. So, we do have confidence that when we go out to bid that we will be able to um get bids this time around. So, we're just asking for that continuance so that way we can go to bid, get them, and then get them on the ground. Okay. So, this is this is separate from the the list that we're Yes, sir.

Okay. Gotcha. All right. Sir, um, just to follow up on that, I Kim Hughes and in the engineering department, I have put together at least a rough draft of what the bid would go out with. Schedulewise, what I anticipate is to have this on council agenda for back for your review of bids um, by the end of January, probably by the second council meeting in January. So, I'm asking for a little bit of time to get those back on the street, get them advertised, get the quotes in, and bring it back for your consideration and approval, sir. Okay.

Thank you. Any questions? Okay. U authorize mayor to execute agreement uh with J. Michael Lee Associates to conduct a facility evaluation feasibility study for the Enterprise Public Library for a lumpsum fee of $12,000. This study is a FY26 budgeted item.

Yes. Good morning, council. Um this is something that uh we want to come in and evaluate. I got uh Barry Mott to assist me with his knowledge of firms and uh we settled on this firm. We met with them a couple weeks back. Uh they'll come in uh evaluate our current library art structure uh basically the bones and the guts of that building. Uh give us a feasibility study if if that's something put a price tag on it, what it would look like to renovate that building. also come in and look at other areas uh within the city of something that if we wanted to relocate or uh build a new library altogether. So uh uh again this is FY26 budgeted item and this would give us the go-ahhead to go ahead and uh get them moving, get them in and uh get a study done and then come back to you uh and present that.

All right. Excuse [clears throat] me. Do you know if they're going to do a little survey with say the council or patrons? I know they will with with the librarian, but I'd sure like to get involved. And I think the other ones have of, you know, what the city needs, what they want, you know, just ideas like that. Yes, sir. And talking to them the other day, obviously, you know, that'll come down later down the line as they do the study, but obviously talking to Sheila will be a big big key. And then sitting down with us and then sitting down with you as the council and see what you would like to see um from the from a library standpoint. Thank you. Thank you. Any other questions? Just wanted to make sure they are gonna they are going to consult with the librarian Sheilled and Okay. All right.

Thank you. Thank you. All right. Uh next on the agenda is um authorized mayor to execute amended lease agreement. I will uh recuse myself from this one. Uh enterprise business incubator Padet Brands and Hello Chunky Cookie Company.

Yeah. So, um, really this is the agreement's already been approved. There were some, uh, issues with how we were, uh, accounting for a couple different things. So, one, uh, Councilman Pageant has, I guess, multiple businesses that operate under an umbrella. The lease wasn't reflective of that to allow those other businesses. It was only through the one entity, I think, Hello Chunky, and maybe not the pageant brands. So, we're expanding that so that he can utilize that space for the the various LLC's that are encompassed by that. And then we have um how how we were acrewing and and because there's only one meter on there for utilities like power and gas and all those things. Um it was not it was not really clear. I think there was an understanding that was done um with our economic development office. um city attorney and councilman pageant that was not reflected in the language of the lease that we executed. And so um I don't know that it was fair like for instance there was some work that was done um on the security system at the incubator that Councilman Padet paid for that impacted the security not just for his side of the building but the the entire uh security that that's part of the city property. Um, so there was nothing in the in the language of the lease to allow him to have a credit on payment um for rent uh for that. Um, so the the work the understanding that we had going into the lease was that he would have a credit if he paid for the work himself rather than have to go through and the city pay to do the work. Um, there would be a credit that was given that was not reflected in in the in the lease documents or language. um as well as um

how we calculated um the the utility rates for him because he's not the only tenant uh in in the building. Wiregrass Economic Development WRC uh as well as some time to time city and um the the uh Wiregrass Transit Service all have space in there, but there's still only one meter. So we we clean that language up to give a clear calculation which is defined in the subsequent documents. There's a there's a an Excel spreadsheet and and chart that shows the the uh the rent rate and the the deductions that would be allowable.

So basically adding the the pageant brands part because wasn't chunky cookie before was it was both one and two. Yes. and and there there are other I guess freeze dried goods or something that that he manufactures outside of just cookie that's in a different LLC. And so the the the lease wasn't reflective of that. He wasn't allowed to subleasase it or do anything which he wasn't. It was just cleans it up so that it's the umbrella company that's over there. I say every I mean is that

Yeah, I think so. So, I mean, basically [clears throat] all of everything we're doing was in the original agreement, just didn't get reflected in the lease so that city staff could follow through with what the original

all we can do is read the lease what it says and what the calculations say. So if if the the calculations were not done, so there if you look back in in Greg's economic development folder that Jesse Quillin had, there's a clear defined lease rate that's in there. That was not reflected in in the the documents there. So when we we get a bill for power, we say 60% of that is we don't get to interpret that and we didn't have a chart or anything to go by. This this gives us a methodology with which to apply when we get the bill who's responsible for what percentage of and it'll help us out on our audits moving forward.

Anything else? Good. Any questions? I can be on the hot seat.

What's that? You need to see more cookies. All right. All right. Then um as I said, I will recuse myself from that uh vote. Authorize mayor to negotiate agreement um mayor and city administration in in consult consultation with the city attorney to negotiate agreement between the city of Enterprise and Enterprise City School Board pertaining to Old Coppenville Junior High School. We talked about this in executive session at the last meeting, but um any questions? Okay.

And then um we'll call for a motion to authorize police chief to execute a two-year agreement between Gracie Global LLC doing business as Gracie University and Enterprise Police Department to use a licensed property and license right to the safe wrap system.

Yes, sir. Excuse [clears throat] me. So I sent two instructors train the trainer program for more defensive tactics and restraints. Um Gracie unh university has been around for a very long time. Uh and they have taught this new proprietary system called safe wrap what takes two pe two officers and you safely take somebody that's combative under control with no injury to the officer no injury to the u to the individual. Um, and [clears throat] so, uh, in order for them to start teaching this and training this to where we actually have the support, legal support and everything else from Gracie Industries, I have to enter into a contract. Since I sent them to the school though, they'll give me two years for free. Um, and which can be extended later time for that for me to be able to teach that and use their safe wrap uh, name and everything else through Gracie Industries. So, Was this a budgeted item? I mean,

there's no cost to it. No, sir. There's no cost at all. Okay. No. So, it's just a two-year agreement because you went through the training to be able to use. Okay. Yes, sir. All right. Any other questions? Okay. All right. Thank you. And then, uh, we will call for a motion to set a public hearing for December 16th. 2025 at 6 pm on the matter of revoking or refusing to renew a business license for Enterprise Metals and Recycling located at 930 Billwood Road. Somebody want to speak to this or

Jonathan, do you want me to address the recycling center? Um [snorts] we have been in uh we we've received several complaints from property owners and all and actually gone out there to to meet with the property owner um at on Belwood Road. Uh what we're asking for is to for you to set a public hearing for the next council meeting on December the 16th to listen to uh what staff's recommendations are, an update on the um conditional use variance that was issued at the time and to talk about a process moving forward for that property. Okay. So, B, we will make any decisions today at just setting a hearing.

Setting the hearing for next council meeting. Yes, sir.

All right. Then we will recess regular session convene into the E911 board meeting. So, we will move over to that agenda. We will uh roll call review minutes, no old business, accounts payable, and then we have an additional uh uh item on the agenda to vote on allowing them to enter to a contract with prepared by action as was discussed earlier in the work session. Then we'll adjourn that meeting, reconvene regular session, have mayor's report and council comments and adjourn. Any questions on the agenda? All right, Mr. Telus, you have anything else for this work session that you would like to discuss?

No, sir. Um, we're Chief Moore and I were just working on getting a a copy for your E 911 agenda item. So, council, anything else you guys want to discuss in this work session? All right. Well, then we will recess the work session and reconvene at 12:00 for our council meeting.

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Yeah. All right. We will call this uh regular session of the Enterprise City Council to order. The roll call show that all members are in attendance except Councilman Casey Mack who could not be here today. We will begin with the opening prayer and pledge of allegiance. Uh mayor, if you would pray for us, stand.

May we pray. Most gracious and heavenly father, we want to thank thee for this day and the many blessings that thy bestowed upon us as we gather today for the betterment of our city and our carrying our city policy. Dear Lord, strengthen us where we're weak. Build us up where tone down and give us that love that goes from heart to heart and breast breath. Father, we just thank you for this day. We thank you for our facilities. We thank you God for the city of Enterprise. May bless each one of us in this audience and bless those who desire to come and want to come and not unable. Have mercy upon us all. These and other blessing we ask in our son Jesus name. Amen.

Please join me in the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America to the republic for which it stands. One nation indivisible and justice 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. Any discussion? All in favor say I. I. All oppose same sign.

Motion carries. Uh all uh now we will consider the consent agenda. All matters listed within the 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 right. Any further discussion? All in favor say I.

All oppose, same sign. Motion carries. All right. Now we'll consider a permit request from Mary Wy for the MLK Memorial March. Call for consideration of a request on behalf of Mary Wy Good Samaritan Helping Hands to obtain a permit to hold a memorial march honoring doc Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on Sunday, January 18th, 2026 at 2:00 p.m. The march will begin at City Hall and end at Liberty Missionary Baptist Church on Geneva Highway. Chief Moore has already given his approval during the work session. Do I have a motion? Move to approve the permit request as submitted. Second.

All right. Any further discussion? All in favor say I. I. All oppose. Same sign. Motion carries. All right. Now we'll have approval of the floor. This is part of the meeting where anyone in attendance today 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 until that public hearing opens to address the council. they choose. Staff, mayor, and council will 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? Great. If you'll come forward and state your name,

cannot. Can you someone get that mic on? Good afternoon, Mike Bentley. Can you hear me? Yes.

I'm naturally loud, so uh so good afternoon, mayor and council members. My name is Mike Bentley. I'm here today because Enterprise is facing an escalating animal crisis, one that is taking lives every single day, cannot be dismissed as an unfortunate byproduct of limited resources, and will only intensify without a coordinated response. Thank you for all of your leadership. We've already shown waving the fees for our local shelters to pull animals from colony was absolutely the right decision and has made an immediate impact. That action matters. It showed responsiveness, compassion, and a willingness to step in when the situation demanded it. [snorts] For that, the community and the shelters are genuinely grateful. Because of this action, we have been able to move over 20 animals from that kill shelter to safety, and that matters. But that step, as important as it was, highlights the bigger truth we're facing. The problem is larger than any one action or one policy. Enterprise has a real crisis. And I'm going to speak plainly about it. Every single day in this city, dogs and cats are being killed, not euthanized. We need to stop softening the language. Euthanasia is mercy. What's happening here is the direct result of no space, no resources, and no coordinated structure. And because of that, healthy, adoptable animals are losing their lives. I've lived in communities across the world for the past 56 years, and I have not ever seen conditions this hard on animals, and that includes Leville, Louisiana. But I also have never seen a community with leadership more ready to do something about it. SOS, Animal Shelter, WAG, Southern Dog Mission, and countless others are doing everything humanly possible. They take in animals knowing full well that they are at capacity. They stretch their food, their space, and their volunteers further than any system should ever ask. They perform heroics, and heroics are not a

sustainable plan. The past two months have proved something important to me. Enterprise is not lacking compassion. Enterprises lacking structure. Psalm 145:9 says, "The Lord is good to all. He has compassion on all he has made." Compassion should be the standard for people, for community, and yes, for the animals entrusted to, excuse [clears throat] me, to our care. This is not a political debate. This is a moral responsibility and a quality of life issue. And it cannot rest solely on the city's shoulders or the backs of overwhelmed shelters. It must be a partnership, city, shelters, and citizens working together. Here's what that partnership looks like. A formal structured collaboration between the city and the local shelters. A working group with shared priorities, shared metrics, and shared accountability. A robust foster and volunteer network. This community wants to help. They've shown it. We need a system to channel that help effectively. Support expanding SOS capacity, which has been brought up before. And helping those like Southern Dog Mission move from private homes into a real facility. Space fosters save lives. This is the simplest truth in animal welfare. A public transparency dashboard. When citizens see the real numbers, intake, adoptions, reductions and killing of animals, it builds trust and motivates more people to get involved. A unified message and a shared commitment. The city shows leadership. The shelters show expertise. The citizens show compassion. Everyone has a role. Because one thing is absolutely certain. Doing nothing guarantees the same outcome. Animals will continue to be killed. Not because they are dangerous, not because they are sick, be but because the system is overwhelmed. I'll leave you with this. Dogs will die tonight at Colony. They will bring their they will wag their tails today, eat their foods, and then be led away to die. Not due to

behavior, not due to illness, but due to lack of space and coordination. That is not mercy. That is killing. That is a failure we can fix. And here's the part that gives me hope. This council has already shown a willingness to act. This community is ready to partner. And for the first time in a long time, the momentum is absolutely real. So, I'm not here to point fingers. I'm here to ask for unity. Let's build a system where the city's administrative capability, the shelter's hands-on expertise, and the community's compassion work as one. Let's build something better, something that honors the values of this city. Let's make the city of progress mean progress for these animals, too. Thank you for your time, your leadership, and your willingness to stand with us as partners. I'm ready to help in any way I can.

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Mike. Thank

All right. Do we have any staff reports, Mr. M? Sorry, got a couple things real quick for you. We talked about garbage being on schedule. Um, just want to let you know that currently when we talk about our schedule for that week, if that's what the council decides to do, we're talking about automated garbage. That's that's the one that for Shannon and I are the or the big ones for Christmas time, Thanksgiving, the people that roll their cans to the street and the cans don't get picked up. Those are on schedule currently and because of the budgets you've been allowing public works to work under, buying new trucks and stuff, we've been able to keep automated on schedule. We do have some new um knuckle boom trucks that have been put into the fleet and what we have seen typically in the past when we come off of a Thanksgiving day week or something like that, we get weak behind. Um we are we are better than what we were. We're currently on the county bulk, which is bulk garbage that goes to the county landfill. We're two days behind. Basically, what that means is we are picking up Friday's route today. And what we do is we stay on schedule. Like we don't just skip a day and leave it on the street for a week till the next time it comes around. We stay on schedule till we catch back up. So county bulk, we're two days behind. On grinding site bulk, we're one day behind. We're picking up Monday's route today. Um that's typical. I'd say in the past we're trying to get better so that when these holidays hit that we don't have any disruption there. Um that is our goal but currently we're we're two days behind and that's following a Thanksgiving day week. So that is a lot better. Um, I'm I'm proud that we're better, but we're still we strive for excellence and we will we will continue to do that and see if we can keep this thing back on schedule so that even when we have a day that's two days out, we will try to to keep services where they should be without being too fat and

having too many people and too much equipment for these for these times that we have. Thanksgiving and and Christmas week typically are the two bads times that we have. But um one [clears throat] thing that I've reached out to a couple of you and you've reached out to me. We're seeing an abundance of tires that are out into the public. U we've had several groups that have gone out to cleanup days and want to know what to do with the tires. We have reached out. We have a program set up with the county and with they have a contract or agreement through ADM. We get a small bit of reimbursement back on these tires. So what we're asking um everybody do is if you have one or two tires, if you put them on the street, we will come pick them up in the very short term. that is in um that is against what our policy says. Um but uh Shane and I put our heads together and I'm I'm bringing this up to you because if you want us to act differently, I will be glad to do whatever you tell us to do. Um what we're finding is the public will not do anything with them and they're sitting on the side of the roads. They're an eyesore. They're a nuisance. They're a problem. And um we have an avenue right now to at least get reimbursed back a portion of the cost to do that. This week alone, we have just taken on ourselves to do this. We've picked up over 80 tires this week out there in the public. Those are onesie twoosy type deals. Um if we get into a situation where we have an abundance like a whole ravine full of tires, we we're not prepared for that. But the if you have something there, if we if we're driving the streets, if we see them on the rideways, we are picking them up and we're cleaning them up. Um I heard from a couple of the councilmen that they would like to see that done and we are we're just taking care of it unless the council wants us to do something different. Are we still charging folks to bring tires to the recycle side?

Um, what thoughts are, Mr. Johnson, is to for the next couple weeks, if we can clean up what's in the rideway, then we'll go back to the normal policy. We just we see them sitting on the side of the road. No one's doing anything about them. So, we're we're actually like today when it's raining outside and we can't we have crews that are are down because of the weather, we're sending people out there with trailers and trucks and we're picking those tires up and taking them back to the to the public works facility. Okay. So if I couple that I've seen if I put them in my car, bring them down, I can just drop them off there.

Yeah. My thoughts are if we could do it over this week and next week and get caught back up and kind of make a dent dent into what's out there into the public, then we go back under our normal policy. Um I'm not encouraging that we violate the policy, but in the next couple weeks, we're we're trying to clean up the neighborhoods and um we're seeing as we have a like a gentleman that we'll talk later on, he has a building there that he's cleaned up and he's he's gotten it off the blight list, but he has a handful of tires of what to do with that. So, uh, we want to work with people that are trying to clean up the communities. So, that's what we're trying to do. And, um, just this week alone, like 80 tires. That's that's the rough estimate of what we've seen so far. Does that reimbursement is that just for a short period of time or is that a permanent reimbursement? Uh, it's a short it's a short term. It's a term type agreement that that the county has with a Okay.

Yeah. So, so yeah. So, um, point being is we're not inviting the public to to violate the policy. We're not inviting the public to say, "Hey, we're going to change the way we're handling stuff. This is a very short term. What we've run across is some of these homes that people are cleaning up right now. They don't know what to do with this." And we're trying to to be a good partner with these individuals that own these properties. Um, but also as we're driving the routes, our truck drivers know where these tires are on the side of the road and no one's taking ownership of it. So, what we're doing is what we're trying to do is for the next few days is go around and just pick those things up and get them done. Now, we're not getting reimbursed 100%. Don't don't think of that's the case. We're getting a fraction of the funds back, but the county is working with us to use their program with ADM to get some reimbursement back. So, we're basically collecting what we see on the streets over the rest of this week. um seeing how it goes, collecting those, put them at public works, and then we're going to work with the county to have them disposed of properly and see if we can take advantage of that program to at least get some reimbursement back for that. Um I'd encourage I my recommendation is we continue to follow the policy that we have out there. People want to come and bring their stuff to to public works through the recycling center, there is a policy for that and a way for them to do that properly and we would like for them to continue to do that. But for right now, we're just we see an abundance in the field and we'd like to just take next week this week and and possibly first next week and try to get as many of those up as we can.

So So what is that process? If the general public has a tire that they need to get rid of instead of throwing on the side of the road, what should they do with that? Shan, do you know that? Do you know that? I'll let Shannon talk to that. He's he knows those numbers and a policy if you don't mind. If they got if they got tires, they bring them to us and we charge them a fee and we dispose of the tire. But that's what we do when they have them. If they got some in their yard they want to get rid of, they just bring a couple of tires. We charge them a fee and then we dispose of them for them. Is the fee per tire or Yes, ma'am. It's a fee per tire and depending on the size of tire. Regular car tire is like $3 a piece. Okay.

The big truck tires would be like $5. And that's the that's information I would like for us to kind of make available. I don't know if that's through the website or whatever means because I do get a lot of calls just about people want to know about how to dispose of maybe not just 80 per se but three or four or something like that and to know that that is a resource and and actually know how much it is it's going to cost and all of that. Yes, ma'am. It'll be it's real easy to get inundated if we decide that we're just going to start taking tires for free cuz I'm going to tell you there's businesses in town that take off tires and they will start dumping them on the side of the roads and I'll just tell you if we can and we had a problem with that some years ago and

we still do man. I mean it's still there but I you know we've been talking about this for

and there's no way that this will handle that problem. But what we've got is we got onesie twoosies that are out there on the routes that we see every single week as the truck drivers going around. And Shann put our heads together and say if why don't we take take a short period of time. Let's go and pick up what we see out there and if we catch the people that are dumping on the side of the roads, we will use everything we can within the limits of the law to prosecute those people for dumping on the rideway. It there is a policy bring it to Pullet Works, pay the per tire fee, and do that. However, these are tires that are on the side of the road. Typically, they're in abandoned lots. there's not a house there and we can either turn a blind eye and say we hope it gets better and that's not getting any better. So, we decided that we would go around at least this week and and clean those up while we had a few extra resources of people um to put behind a a pickup truck and a trailer to pick those up. So, I just want to give you a report back that this is a short-time thing. I'd like to get it finished up this week and then we go back to the normal. But, um that's something we're trying to do to make the uh the community a better place. Um, in addition to that, we have uh for the next council meeting, we have a demo property update. So, um, we we're up for our quarterly update for that for you. Um, uh, the request was to get it to you a little bit ahead of the meeting. So, we'll try to have that out there with your package so you can look at the presentation ahead of time and maybe have some questions when we come to that council meeting next time on December the 16th. Um, I did receive a uh update from our consultant on the bypass widening right before I walked into the meeting. They are close to submitting in a 30% set of plans to ALDOT on that. They asked when we would like to do that. So, I'll work with with Jonathan, the mayor, about getting on your council agenda. I'm thinking maybe right after the first of the year, have them come down and do a full presentation to you about where we are at 30%. So, I'm excited to present that to you. They're getting really close on having that presentation ready for the for you to view. Um, and so I'm looking maybe at January would be a good time if if that works with everybody's schedule. The last item I have is I just want to take a minute and um

congratulate Jonathan Lucas. Uh, he's out in the audience. He is his first day on staff. He's the new assistant city engineer in the engineering department. So um, take a minute to introduce yourself to to Jonathan. We're really excited to have him. He comes with us with over 10 years of experience, engineering background. um super guy. Very very excited to have him on our team. He'll be a great resource for the city. So I just want to take a minute and um to introduce him to you. That's all I have unless you have any questions for me. Okay. Yeah. And Barry, I just I think Emily found it, but I think those dollar amounts and stuff are in our regs. They are. Yes, sir.

So people can see them. We'll um we'll check the website, make sure they're posted, ma'am. As you Yeah. as you pointed out, we'll make sure those are out there. The public can easily find those. We'll make sure those get updated on the website. I'll take care of that. Thank you.

I just wanted to reiterate what Mr. Mott said. I think through that maybe what what I heard at least sitting over on the side and some of our other staff members heard maybe isn't what what he was in intending. I don't want to have an unintended consequence of the public or elected officials advising the public to just bring tires or dump them out by the street and that we're going to pick them up for free or offer a new service for tire collections. I think that'll open Pandora's box unless you guys [clears throat] tell us otherwise. I I think you know we're trying to make the city clean in an effort where there there are problems. we're going to address them that maybe conflict with policy at times, but outside of that, like if if they're caught dumping tires, there are fines there. There are laws that against that. And if they want to get rid of tires, they need to do it the right way and bring it to public works and pay the, you know, whatever the fee is per tire. It sure beats driving up to the landfill and having to do it yourself. And it sure makes your community nicer than dumping it on the side of the road,

right? And that's that's that was my point in saying having a little additional blurb to this because everybody's not going to hear this so that other people can you know something that they can see that we're not changing the policy. You know we want you to be aware of what it actually is if you need to to get rid of something. Yes ma'am.

Okay. Any other staff reports? We'll move into old business, continuation of public hearing, nuisance properties, dangerous buildings. We're going to continue the October 7th, 2025 public hearing to hear, consider, and act upon all objections or protests, if any, for the removal of an unsafe building or structure to the extent that it's become a public nuisance. at 206 Mill Avenue, 216 Pledger Street, 307 West Hildrith Avenue, 230 231 Ellis Street, 404 Chamber Street, 406 Dixie Drive, 516 Friendship Street, 519 West Hildrith Avenue, and 609 Grandpine Drive. Mr. Goldman,

good afternoon, uh, mayor, council. um we come back on this continued uh hearing from October 7th and and so I'll begin uh by incorporating by reference the materials that were that were made available on October 7th so that we don't have to uh rehash that. In addition, you have been provided with a new binder. This is an update on um some of the additional mailings and and uh affidavit of publication and receipts for certified mailings that were available as of the time this was put together, but they've continued to come in even through this morning on some of the green cards. Um, I I'll also mention that there is a letter that is on file with the office of the city clerk um that gave notice specifically of this hearing today. Um, and we were able to get good service on that. We did um since we were here in October, we ran four insertions in the paper of our short form notice of this hearing. So, our recommendation uh comes in two pieces today. Um, we do we are calling for resolutions that order the demolition of each of the properties that are set for public hearing. But on three of those, we're going to ask that those be made by uh a separate motion and that those be that those resolutions be subject to an administrative deferment of 60 days to give us some time to continue to work through some some issues um with the three properties at issue there. Those are 206 Mill Avenue, 216 Pledger Street, and I'm sorry, 206 Mil Avenue, 307 West Hilddrth uh Avenue, and then finally 406 Dixie Drive. We do have some um up-to-date

photographs of the conditions of the property um that Mr. Mott can take you through very quickly. Council, I'll go through these very quickly with you, but uh this is 206 Mill Avenue, the uh picture of the building and now its current condition from today. Uh actually from yesterday when I took this picture, uh it's currently a slab. Um it's been tore down all the way. Basically, what the uh what we're going to work on is getting that slab reertified and potentially be rebuilt on at a later date. Yeah. The one on the left is the condition of the building when the letter went out when we went through less pendants. Uh and then it's been tore down since then. The slab remains. Uh this is the current condition of 216 Pleasure Street. U severely dilapidated uh on the outside, potential issues on the inside with uh work done that was never inspected. Uh this is the reason why we're asking for uh this to be ordered to be demolished. 307 West Hill Avenue. is going to be one that we're going to ask for 60 days of uh to stay the order for 60 days for administrative administratively. Um I'm working with Mr. Wheeler to get a timeline together for uh the council to repair any of the issues on the outside, take off the uh the bathroom on that right side picture that you can see um and do other do other remediation to the building to make it into an accessory structure. Uh this is 231 Ellis Street. This is uh one that we had to bring forth that was originally on the GIS listed as 402 Grime Street. Uh but after we dug through some of the records with the county, we were able to confirm that this was 231 Ellis Street. Uh this is a severely dilapidated building that we're asking for to be ordered to demolish.

Uh this is 404 Chamber Street. We're having issues with this with a lot of vagrancy, people breaking into the property that's severely dilapidated and uh and not inhabitable condition. We're asking for demolition. This is 406 Dixie Drive. Uh the owners of the property have been working very diligently to clean out the clean up the outside as long with the inside. Uh they have um they have um got an exterminator to come out there, give them a certification that there is no infestation in the building. Uh there's supposed to be a roof going on the property in the next week or so that they're working on and we are asking to stay this or asking to stay the demolition for 60 days administratively. Uh 516 Friendship Street. This is a completely dilapidated uh structure. severely dilapidated, probably could breathe on it and fall over. Uh 519 West Hilddress Avenue. This is a structure that we're actually able to get in contact with the owner and be able to get on the community development block grant. It has been accepted into phase uh two. It's just pending um historical acceptance. 609 Grand Pine is a very dilapidated building. Um, and inside is gutted out, dilapidated, water damage uh throughout. We're asking to this to be demolished.

At this time, I would recommend uh that anyone who has an interest in the property, who wishes to be heard further on this be given an opportunity to speak and then after that, the general public. And then if we could just reserve the right for final comments before the public hearing is.

Is there anyone with an interest in any of these properties that would like to address the council? Anyone from the general public? All right, Mr. Goldman, I guess it's back to you. At this time, I believe it would be appropriate, unless the council has any questions, to close the public hearing. All right, council. We asked those questions during the the work session and I'll just reiterate here just to make sure that um 406 Dixie I know they were here before. They're wanting to uh make progress and improve and have that home brought back to livable conditions. And the goal here is not to have that torn down while they're working on that.

Yes, sir. And so that that 60 days is to enable us uh to be able to finalize a remediation agreement with that property owner. the property owner has been in touch would have been here today uh but for a medical condition that communication has been very good and y'all help him formulate that agreement so it's satisfactory he doesn't have just have to come up with something submit it and hope it's going to be good enough I mean it's the city working with him to help

make so the city the city the city will formulate the agreement itself it it is it is standard in a form what we ask the property owner to do are in terms of attachments to it are one to give us some some sort of plan and I'm not talking about architectural plans in this case but um really an idea of what it is they're planning to do to the building and then a Gant chart which shows their plan for how they will time it out and we we can provide them with a with a blank Gant chart although they're available all over the internet and different people have different ones they prefer where we're where where I would say um just to make sure kind of in setting expectations, not just for this one, because again, we we really do want to be helpful to this property owner. What your building staff cannot do is formulate plans. They're very good. And that's not just your staff, but all building staffs. They're they're really only capable of reviewing them, not formulating them. So, um, but that being said, I know that they've given feedback and that there has been discussions of the things that are expected to be addressed.

That's that's kind of where I was going. He knows what's going to what it takes to get his name off of the demolition list. Okay. Very good. Any other questions? All right. See no further questions, uh, this public hearing is closed. Council, I would just make like to make one comment to uh uh Councilman Wall's uh comment about helping uh 406 Dixie Drive and this is the reason why we are giving that 60-day stay. That's the same or same uh intention with 307 West Hildrith and 206 Mill Avenue is to be able to uh say those orders, get the remediation in place uh and to be able to get them off the the demolition proceeding. not just for 406 drive, but for everyone that is uh has reached out to us that is trying to work with us um and be good stewards to the city with their property.

Thank you all very much. Thank you. All right. At this at this time, I would recommend that the council take this up in two motions. The first would be a motion to adopt resolutions 100725 A, C, and G concerning 206 Mill Avenue, 307 West Tild Avenue, and 406 Dixie Drive. Approving those resolutions subject to administrative deferment of demolition for a period of 60 days in an attempt to um work through agreements with those owners. So you said subject to administrative deferment. Deferment.

Deferment. Okay. For a period of 60 days and then just adopt the rest of them and then the second the second motion would be to adopt um the remainder of the resolutions.

Okay. All right. Do I have a U motion to adopt resolution 10725A, C, and G referring to 206 Mill Avenue, 307 West Hildrith, and 406 Dixie Drive to approve um with administrative deferment for a period of 60 days. Do I have a motion for that? I move that we uh approve or that we adopt those resolutions um subject to the administrative deferment for that period of 60 days for those addresses mentioned 206 Mill Avenue 307 West Hildrith and 406 Dixie Drive.

Second. All right. Any further discussion? All in favor say I. All those same sign. All right. Motion carries. And then um call for a motion to adopt resolution 100725B E FJ K and M referring to 216 Pledger Street, 231 Ellis Street, 404 Chamber Street, 516 Friendship Street, 519 West Hildrith Avenue, and 609 Grandpine Drive. Do I have a motion?

Okay. I move to adopt resolution 100725B C E F J K M. We've already done C, not C. So, oh, not C. Excuse me. I circle the wrong one. E, F, J, K, and M, which is 216 Pleasure, 231 Ellis, 404 Chambers, 516 Friendship Street, 519 West Hildrith Avenue, and 609 Grand Pine Drive. Second. All right. Any further discussion? All in favor say I. I. All oppose, same sign. Motion carries.

Thank you very much. All right. Now, I call for consideration of ordinance 111825A providing to amend section 1814 of the Enterprise City Code overhanging name signs to establish regulations for blade signs. We discussed this in session. Do I have a motion to adopt? I move to adopt ordinance 11825A. Second. Any further discussion? All in favor say I. I. All oppose, same sign. Motion carries.

All right. Under new B business, we have a public hearing and consideration of resolution 12225. Extend deadline deadline for demolition. Call for a public hearing prior to consideration of resolution 120225 extending the deadline for the demolition of structures as described in the report of recommendation of extension for time for demolition for a period of 120 days making the deadline April 1st, 2026. All right, the hearing is now open. Is there anyone from the city to speak on this? council. So, this is uh basically an continuation. We're asking for continuation uh for phase one of the demolition program. Uh the issue that we were having when we put these out to bid the first time, we received no bids. Uh we believe that that was just a a timing issue where we were bidding them at the uh where we were bidding at in the year. Um after we went through the community development block grant first phase, we were able to get a lot more bids. Uh, and we're very confident that we put these out to bid later this month that we should receive bids back and we should be able to bring bids to you sometime in January, probably at the second January meeting.

Okay. Is there anyone uh with interest in these properties that would like to address the council? Anyone from the general public? All right. Seeing none, this uh public hearing is closed and I call for consideration of resolution 120225. I move to adopt resolution 120225. Second. Any further discussion? All in favor say I. I. All oppose. [clears throat] Same sign. Motion carries.

Call for a motion to authorize the mayor to execute an agreement with J. Michael Lee Associates Incorporated to conduct a facility evaluation and feasibility study for the Enterprise Public Library for a lump sum fee of $12,000. The study is a fiscal year 26 budgeted item. I move to authorize the mayor to execute the agreement with the J. Michael Lee Associates Incorporated as set forth in the terms of the proposal. Second. Any further discussion?

All in favor say I. I. All [clears throat] oppose. Same sign. Motion carries. Call for a motion to authorize the mayor to execute an amended agreement between the city of Enterprise and Padet Brands LLC and Hello Chunky Cookie Company LLC for the lease of manufacturing bay number one, manufacturing bay number two, office one and office two located within Enterprise Business Incubator at 102 Commerce Drive as per the terms of the lease agreement. Let the record show I'll be abstaining from this vote. And u do I have a motion? Move to authorize the mayor to execute the amended lease agreement as submitted. Second. All right. Any discussion? All in favor say I. I. All oppose. Same sign.

Motion carries. Call for a motion to authorize the mayor and city administrator in consult consultation with the city attorney to negotiate an agreement between the city of Enterprise and Enterprise City School Board pertaining to Old Coppenville Junior High School. I move to authorize the mayor and the city administrator in consultation with the city attorney to negotiate an agreement with Enterprise City School Board pertaining to the old Coffenville Junior High School. Second. All right. Any further discussion? All in favor say I.

I. All oppose. Same sign. Motion carries. Call for a motion to authorize the police chief to execute a two-year agreement between Gracie Global LLC doing business as Gracie University and the Enterprise Police Department to use the license property and license rights of the safe wrap system, a proprietary system and safe and effective restraining techniques while dealing with hostile and disorderly individuals that must be restrained. I move to authorize the police chief to execute the agreement as submitted. A second. Any further discussion? All in favor say I. I. I.

All oppose. Same sign. Motion carries. All right. Call for a motion to set a public hearing for December 16th, 2025 at 6:00 p.m. on the matter of revoking or refusing to renew a business license for Enterprise Metals and Recycling located at 930 Bellwood Road. I call for a public hearing to be held on December 16th, 2025 at 6 PM on the matter revoking or refusing to renew a business license for Enterprise Metals and Recycling located at 9:30 Bellwood Road. Second. That doesn't need a little bit. Um,

made a motion. Are you just saying that you're going to call for it and we're going to take it up on the 16th?

Yeah, I think so. Wait. All right. We will recess uh regular session and convene into the E911 board meeting. Let the record show that all members of the E911 board are present with the exception of Casey Mack. Call for a motion to approve the November 3rd, 2025 E911 board meeting minutes as written. Move to approve the November 3rd, 2025 E911 board meth.

Second. All right. Any further discussion? All in favor say I. I. All oppose. Same sign. Motion carries. All right. Under no old business today. New under new business. Call for a motion to approve accounts payable A for November 2025 in the amount of $2,221.81. Move to approve accounts payable A for November 2025 in the amount of $2,22181. I second. Any further discussion? All in favor say I. I.

All oppose, same sign. Motion carries. We have a uh an addition to the agenda. uh call for a motion to authorize police chief to execute a three-year contract with prepared by Axen in the total amount of $32,189.50 for an AI assisted call taking platform system. I move to authorize the police chief to execute a three-year agreement with uh prepared by Axion in the total amount of $32,189.50. Second.

Any further discussion? All in favor say I. I. All oppose, same sign. Motion carries. Uh we will now adjourn the E911 board meeting and reconvene in our regular session. Mayor, do you have a report for us?

This week officially kicks off our Christmas season here in Enterprise. We have a full lineup of festivities for our community. Tonight is our Christmas tree, lighting, and holiday market at the Enterprise Farmers Market from 4 to 8:00 p.m. I want to thank our public works and park and recreation teams for the tremendous work they put in to make our city sparkle. Their efforts truly help create the festive atmosphere we'll all enjoy this time of year. On Thursday, we'll welcome thousands of visitors to to our downtown Enterprise for the annual Christmas parade. The parade begins at 6:30 p.m. is always one of our most beloved traditions. Then on Saturday, families can enjoy the annual Huio celebration from 10 to 4:00 pm downtown. It's a wonderful fun field event for residents and visitors of all ages. We are actively monitoring the weather and understand that adjustments to the schedule may be necessary. I encourage everyone to keep an eye on the city's Facebook page for the latest updates. As always, I'm honored to serve as your mayor. May God bless Enterprise and may God bless America. Thank you.

Right, Mr. Rich. Thank you everyone for coming this afternoon. Um, thank you, Mr. Bentley, for addressing us with your concerns about the animal um issue here. Um, certainly want to um welcome Mr. Lucas to our city and to our um engineering um department. I hope everybody has a um safe week with all the activities we got going on and enjoying the start of the holiday season. Thanks for coming, Mr. Johnson.

Yeah, thank you for coming and thank you for all our citizens that are watching us during our streaming here and um thank you Mr. Bentley. We've talked a couple times and you know I'm in your corner so just we I'll keep you a breast of everything. Um just echo on what the mayor said about the Christmas parade. I'm part of that committee and we're looking at it and decisions will be made sometime tomorrow. So, everybody watch your social media out there. Mr. Mr. Lucas, welcome. I didn't know that's who you were when I greeted you back there, but welcome to the city. And thank you to all our staff uh each and every day for all our workers out there. Departments are just doing great work. I see them each and every day. And also uh department heads, remind them if they see some crazy guy waving, that's me. I try to do it every time. I get a smile every once in a while from them anyways. But thank you and God bless everyone. Mr.

Walls.

Yeah. I want to um thank Parks and Recre and all the other departments that are involved in the Christmas celebration, setting up decorations. I've lived born here, raised here, and it feels good when I see those decorations come up and reminds me of when I'm a little kid. So, gets me wanting to spend a little money. So, thank you all for for doing that. Um, thank you to uh, Chief on um, sending your your crew to learn new techniques and uh, always improving and educating. I was really encouraged when I heard him say that the new techniques that they're learning um, will help not only the officers but um, the person that they're trying to restrain and keeping them from being injured. So, thank you for not just staying where you're at, but improving um, our our police force. So, thank you. Um, and thank you to our engineering department. Um, and it's it's really heartening to uh hear all the work that they do to try to make sure that those homes that need remediation that they work with them so hard to uh try to get those homes back where they need to be. And I appreciate that. And the ones that that don't want to work uh with the city, um I'm thankful that the city's moving to take care of those homes. So, thank you for your hard work there. Um so, that's it. Merry Christmas to everybody and hope to see you at a tree. Okay. Okay. Well, I'm just going to say ditto cuz everything I had planned to say would be redundant at this point. Thank all of you for giving up your lunch time to come hang out with us. And um looking forward to the uh continuation of this Christmas season as we move forward through all the celebrations. And this meeting is adjourned until December 16th five o'clock I believe. All right. This meeting is adjourned.