City Council - Regular Meeting

Good evening, everyone. It is 6 o'clock on July 21st of 2026 and we're going to call to order this meeting of the Gallatin City Council. Each of our meetings, we begin with the invocation and the Pledge of Allegiance. Councilman Alexander will offer our invocation and then Councilman Jones will lead us in the pledge. I would invite you all to stand with me, please.

Let's pray. God, we pause tonight and just thank you for being such a good God. our creator, our redeemer, our provider. You do so much for us, and we just stop at the beginning of this meeting and give you thanks for that. We ask, Lord, tonight for your presence in this place. Lord, we pray, as the psalmist did, that the words of our mouth and the meditation of our hearts would be acceptable in your sight. Oh, Lord, my strength and my redeemer. And we ask these things in the strong name of Jesus. Amen.

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

Thank you all. Thank you, Councilman Alexander, Councilman Jones, and Ms. Kitchwell, if you would call the roll for us, please.

Vice Mayor Hayes. Present. Councilman Alexander.

Present.

Councilman Carter.

Present.

Councilman Fann. Councilman Fennell.

Present.

Councilman Jones.

Here.

Councilman Juvenz.

Here.

Mayor, we have a quorum.

Thank you. Thank you all for being here this evening. Tonight you have the minutes from the July 7th, 2026 City Council meeting for consideration for approval.

Motion to approve. Second.

Motion by Councilman Fennell, second by Vice Mayor Hayes. Are there any corrections, deletions, or additions requested? Seeing none, all in favor of approving the July 7, 2026 council meeting minutes, please say aye.

Aye.

Opposed say no. Minutes are unanimously approved. It is now time for recognition on agenda-related items. This is the period of the meeting for any item that is on tonight's agenda. You would speak at this time. You're allowed to speak for five minutes. We need your name and your address for the public record. I would tell you that there are two public hearings tonight. One is for an annexation of 5.73 acres located north of Peach Valley and east of Woods Ferry. And one is... also related to that same property. So if your concern is that, you may wish to wait and speak under the public hearing. Otherwise, you're welcome to speak now. And then at the end of the meeting, there is a public comment period of time for speaking on items that are not on the evening's agenda. So if it's on the agenda, now's your time. If it's not, the end of the meeting is. And if you want to speak under the public hearings, you may do that as well. But right now, public recognition on agenda-related items is now open.

David Lucky, 110 Clarendon Place. I'm here to speak on item number seven, the ZOCO zoning change. I want to start off by saying that I'm not in opposition to this at all, and I think the staff and the consultants and certainly Planning Commission and even Even the council here has done a great job in reviewing this and putting forth the right type of input to make this a successful change in the ordinance. I have spoken a couple of times about this and I just wanted I'm sorry. I spoke a couple of times about this, and I just wanted to further raise some cautions or some things that the city and the city staff needs to take into account. One of the main things that concerns someone that's been in the development business for 40 years would be The rigidity of this change from what we've had to what is proposed and the layering of the way residential is set up and certainly some of the commercial. I was driving in tonight in the new project that's going on the old car lot on the right coming up from Hendersonville on the, I don't know what it is, farmer's market. I'm not sure that that would be built in its current format under the zoning change here. I think that you would have a vastly different project. That being said, I think that the consultant made a comment about the citizens and what the citizens wanted to be reflective of Gallatin. I think with something as complicated as this change, I'm not sure anyone, even a layman such as myself that's been doing it a long time, fully realizes what the changes and the challenges could be. My point would be to have an open mind about it and there's going to be significant issues that come up, I believe, in my understanding and looking at it, of projects that couldn't be built because of affordability and because of the cost that some of this, the requirements in this form-based zoning will require. And that's going to have to, be looked at on a case-by-case basis, but it's nevertheless gonna be a challenge. It's also gonna be a challenge, in my opinion, for smaller developers to be able to act on and complete projects just because of the sheer upfront cost in order to meet some of the requirements of the form-based zoning. You're going to have to spend a lot more money upfront to even figure out what you can do. I've been doing this a long time and I've been scratching my head over what we can do with it. The housing type is going to change considerably based upon the layering principles in the residential section. The council and planning commission are gonna have to evaluate that on a case by case basis. But the end result of the change in the code is going to require that there's more density in smaller areas and that there's more open space and other uses around those areas. And as long as the city's okay with that, that will work well. And, you know, if you had a 100-acre track and you were going to develop it and you might have 20% of it be open area under the old zoning ordinance, under this new one, you're going to have 40%. 50% that could be open area or civic area and and and all of those units are going to be crammed into a smaller area and if that's what the the citizenry of Gallatin wants that's fine I tend to think that projects usually do better when they have flexibility you know i'm a i'm in the capitalist camp so i think that that whatever is going to work has to work economically and i think having flexibility in your design having flexibility in in the zoning application or the product that goes into a particular zone is very very limited under this form-based zoning and i would just be go on record as cautioning this body and the planning commission and staff that there's going to be some affordability and execution challenges with this. Thank you.

Thank you. Anyone else would like to speak, please come forward to the podium. Okay. Seeing no one, I will close public recognition on agenda-related items and move to Mayor's comments. And the first thing that we are going to do this evening involves a large group of people who are out there in the lobby. So I would welcome them in, and I will join our Parks Director, Mr. David Brown, at the podium, and then we will present a really wonderful proclamation.

We may as well.

They don't organize as quickly as they swim.

I like her. She's a bold one right here. Littles in the park. Thank you. Thank you. Y'all are welcome to come out and take pictures. Okay, now you guys are gonna stand there for a few minutes, 10 minutes.

And I'm going to introduce to you all Mr. David Brown, who is our Parks and Recreation Director, because then he's going to follow with some other introductions.

We want to thank everyone that came, all you swimmers that came and everything tonight. I want to introduce Jamie Morris. She's our Aquatic Director, and she's going to do a little introduction of some people, and then we're going to let the mayor read the proclamation and take some pictures.

Thank you. Hello. I am Jamie Morris. I am the supervisor of aquatics at the Gallatin Civic Center. Today, we just want to highlight our awesome summer swim program here. These kids and these coaches and parents, of course, spend five weeks of their summer vacation swimming every single day, just about in the pool, going to meets, improving skills, all those great things. We try to promote the sport, good sportsmanship, all the great things in a kind of recreation environment for these guys. So big thank you to everybody. We had our biggest season yet this year with 94 participants. And I'd also like to shout out. Yep. I'd also like to shout out our head coach, Brooklyn Boyd, if you'd like to come on over, and her coaches. This is Brooklyn's first year being the head coach, and she did a phenomenal job organizing all the staff, all the coaches, and leading our teams to great success this year.

Thank you to all my swimmers and my amazing six assistant coaches, two of whom are here, Berkley and Marios. Thank you guys for all the love you poured on these kids.

Thank you to our other coaches, Aikman, Addy,

You guys, I'm really delighted to get to recognize you tonight. You had a great season. And I can actually speak from experience on the sport and say that I know you've done a lot of hard work. And so thank you for being diligent. From my own experience, I can say the best thing of swim team was the memories. So I hope you hold on to the friendships you've made, and I hope that you remember your successes. Grow from your not greatest successes and keep trying to reach your goals. So congratulations to all of you. Do you have a proclamation to read? And I have six copies of it tonight, but we will get you all certificates as well. This says, whereas the Nashville Swim League consists of 18 teams across the greater Nashville area and is divided into smaller divisions, the Gallatin Wave Runners swim team falls into the AA North division with four other teams. And whereas the Gallatin Wave Runners swim team had its biggest team thus far with six coaches and 94 swimmers this year, And whereas the Wave Runners went undefeated in the regular season, winning all three dual meets and first place in its division for the regular season. They've been division champions, he exhibits, they've been division champions for three years in a row. And whereas the Nashville Swim League hosts a championship meet at the end of each season, this year the Gallatin Wave Runners took fourth place out of the 18 teams. This is the first time the team has ever won the division spot at the city meet. The Gallatin Wave Runners also had more swimmers receive awards in the top 10 in each age group, in which some age groups had more than 100 swimmers. And whereas the City of Gallatin congratulates the Gallatin WaveRunners swim team for an incredible year, having taken home many placements throughout this year's meets, now therefore I, Paige Brown, Mayor of the City of Gallatin, do hereby recognize all of the members, coaches, and administrators of the Gallatin WaveRunners swim team, and ask citizens to join in celebrating this team's outstanding accomplishments. So congratulations.

I'm going to let you guys hold these. So again, you're going to hold one. And these are your coaches, okay? Okay.

It's a good thing David don't want to .

Mr. Brown, you're blocking the kids. All right, here comes one. Yes, smiles. Smiling. Thank you.

It is delightful to have some youth and some smiles and some happiness at Council, so thank you again Gallatin Civic Center Parks and Recreation. Coaches and swimmers, congratulations. I want to mention a few things upcoming, but I do also want to mention Third Thursday, Remember, that's the third Thursday throughout the summer. And last week's third Thursday, it was a trio performing. And oh my goodness, they were incredible. I've never seen a crowd so engaged with entertainment as I did last week. And they are actually going to be performing at the Powell Theater in August. So if you're interested in seeing more, you should check that out. There are some things coming up I do want you to be aware of. I did get an email today from the American Red Cross. Right now they are sitting at 37% of needed blood supply, and so they really encourage anyone who's eligible and willing to give blood to find one of the local drives and contribute because this is what they call the high trauma season, and so blood is always in high demand. There is a drive coming up at the Gallatin Civic Center on the 24th, That's from 11 to 4. Coming up is also the Friends of the Gallatin Miracle Park Pool Party. That is at the Aquatics Facility from 6 to 8 on the 24th. On the 25th, there is a bike ride across Scenic Sumner sponsored by Brass, Our Lady of the Lake Catholic Church. That starts at 7 a.m. Market Day at the Gallatin Farmer's Market is every Saturday. There's a health and wellness expo at West Eastland Church of Christ. I've been to that before. Lots of good resources and some basic vital testing if you would like to go by and check that out. That's from 11 until 3 at West Eastland. Antique and classic car shows at the Civic Center upper parking lot. There's a free hygiene pantry at Unlimited Potential on the 28th from 10 until 2. The Shalom Zone is also having a pantry on the 29th from 10 until 2. And then another blood drive on the 31st at the Civic Center, same time, 11 to 4. American Legion Breakfast is on the 1st of August. And let's see, there's a... Back to school bash at the Gallatin Shalom Zone from 9 to 11 on the 1st, and then come up on the 3rd is Mr. Kellogg's birthday. And I think that's all for this evening. I am going to move on to the regular agenda, and item number one on that agenda is a public hearing on Resolution R2606-47, which Councilman Alexander will introduce.

Thank you, Mayor. This is a resolution of the City of Gallatin, Sumner County, Tennessee, adopting a plan of services... for the annexation of 5.73 plus or minus acre parcel located north of Peach Valley Road and east of Woods Ferry Road and providing for an effective date. This public hearing is now open.

Public hearing's open. I'd welcome anyone who wishes to speak to the podium. Seeing no one indicating they wish to speak, the public hearing on Resolution R2606-47 is closed. Item 2 is public hearing on Resolution R2606-48. Councilman Alexander again, please.

Thank you, Mayor. It's a resolution of the City of Gallatin, Sumner County, Tennessee, annexing a 5.73 plus or minus acre parcel located north of Peach Valley Road and east of the Woods Ferry Road. located into the city of Gallatin, authorizing the annexed property to be indicated on the official zoning atlas, assigning the annexed area to a council district, repealing conflicting ordinances, providing for severability, and providing for an effective date. This public hearing is open.

Public hearing is open. I would welcome you to the podium if you wish to speak. Seeing no one, public hearing on Resolution R2606-48 is closed. Item 3 is second reading on Ordinance 02605-45. Councilman Fennell.

Thank you, Mayor. This is all. Ordinance amended Chapter 9, Fire Protection and Prevention, Article 6, Fireworks of the Municipal Code to Prohibit Sparkling Devices as Authorized Under Tennessee Code as Amended. Motion to approve. Second.

Motion by Councilman Fennell, second by Councilman Givance. Opening the floor for any discussion, comments. A reminder, we are not banning sparklers, so... Anyone? Okay, this is second reading on Ordinance 02605-45. All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed say no. Passes unanimously. Item 4 is second reading on Ordinance 02606-53. Councilman Alexander.

Thank you, Mayor. This is an ordinance appropriating $8,270.74 for repairs to the 2019 Spartan Rescue Fire Apparatus. Motion to approve. Thank you.

Motion by Councilman Alexander, second by Councilman Carter. Comments, questions, discussion. It's second reading on Ordinance 02606-53. All in favor indicate by saying aye.

Aye.

Opposed indicate by saying no. It does pass second reading unanimously. Item 5 is second reading on the ordinance 0206-54, Councilman Fann.

Thank you, Mayor. This is an ordinance amending Gallatin Municipal Code Chapter 9, Fire Protection and Prevention by amending Article 6, Fireworks. And I so move. Second.

Motion by Councilman Fann, second by Councilman Carter. Questions? Discussion? It is second reading on Ordinance 02606-54. In favor, say aye. Aye. Opposed, say no. Second reading passes unanimously. Item number six is first reading on Ordinance 02607-55, Councilman Jones.

Thank you, Mayor. An ordinance of the city of Gallatin, Sumner County, Tennessee, amending planned Gallatin community character map and subarea designations map by changing the community character areas from the rural character area to the general urban character area and expanding the number four Gallatin Gateway Industrial Center subarea onto a portion of two parcels. and totaling 255.32 plus or minus acres located east of Highway 31 and south of Bright's Lane. Motion to move. Second.

Motion by Councilman Jones, second by Vice Mayor Hayes. Opening the floor for questions, discussion. Councilman Juarez.

Thank you, Mayor. I still have an issue of changing rural to suburban, just like that. Because, again, Plan Gallatin is what we use and what's going to be used, including with the new ZOCO. You've probably all read it. But implementation on the new ZOCO, it says a comprehensive plan is intended to guide development within the city. All development and disordinance must comply with the comprehensive plan. I'm not comfortable to put general urban, even if we got told, you know, they want to reason industrial. So I can't vote yes for that.

Anyone else? Okay, this is first reading on Ordinance 02607-55. All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed say no. Passes 6-1. Item 7 is first reading on Ordinance 02607-56. Vice Mayor Hayes.

Thank you. An ordinance of the City of Gallatin, Tennessee adopting the City of Gallatin, Tennessee zoning ordinance and the zoning map of the City of Gallatin, Tennessee to replace the current zoning ordinance and zoning map. Authorizing revision to be made on the zoning ordinance repealing conflicting ordinances providing for severability and providing for an effective date. Motion to approve.

There's a motion by Vice Mayor Hayes, second by Councilman Carter, opening the floor for discussion. Councilman Chivas.

Thank you, Mayor. There's a few things in there. I didn't have time to go through everything, but I went all the way to Chapter 10. Like I just said, the comprehensive plan, so Plan Gallatin, is what's going to guide the development. And when I look at the new zoning map, and when I look at the map in Plain Gallatin, there's plenty of area where that doesn't agree one with the other. So I'm wondering how we're going to do that. Because, again, in Plan Galatin, it's a legal requirement. And the only stuff we have to apply, and it's in the Plan Galatin on the regulation, it's the map, the character area map. I like the open space definition. There is one that was not on the other code. Couple of detail, section 112, we're talking about the chief building code official in there. So I talked to HR, that's not the title. It's the title from HR is building electrical fire and gas code official. and per the charter is the director of code. So I think that should probably be changed a couple of words, put the real title or the titles in charter so we have actually something to bounce on. 124.7, we're talking about, amending an improvement development plan shall be approval by the decision-making authority, but I didn't find anywhere who would be the decision-making authority for that particular area. So that's probably been to look at. The staff, I disagree, and I think You're going to like what I say on that one. I disagree with Section 125 about professional expenses. I know there was an amendment made, a correction, saying should the city need to incur significant expenses related to professional consultant review, We're going to charge that to the developer. So I disagree because I think when a developer comes and does a plan, he should know, again, what the cost is going to be. We should not come back and tell him, hey, because of staff, why are you the consultant? So we're going to charge you for it. I don't think it's fair. If you go buy a car, you want to know the price of the car. If you go pay the car and they call you one week later telling you, hey, we're going to charge you $5,000 more, you're probably going to disagree with that. So I think if our fees are not adequate, we should change the fees. But I disagree with the fact we should come back and charge after the fact. That's just a comment. And section 2.4 assignment of district civic space and civic building Initially, there was a proposal of having three of the character districts as a mix, and that went to two, so I would like to know why that came to two. Question about rural conservation of the Lake District. I need an explanation on that, so if I could suspend the rule to have our planner come to answer the question, I would appreciate that. Motion to suspend the rule?

I have a motion to suspend the rules. There's a second. Before we vote, I do want to say I'm not sure that Mr. Rose probably has had a chance to make a note on all the questions asked. I would suggest, as I did last time that we considered this, that you pass your concerns to planning and let them present them comprehensively and give their explanations and their opinions so that they can have them prepared for and discussed. communicate them well. But with that, all in favor of suspending the rules and asking Mr. Rose to answer questions, say aye. Aye. Opposed, say no. No. Okay. It does pass. Mr. Rose, I'm certain you didn't get that whole laundry list, but at least the last thing that was asked.

Yeah, if you could repeat that question, please.

Yeah, I haven't asked it yet, because you're the one. I will make sure I send everything to you when we're done. About the conservation overlay district, there is an explanation there who said that...

Which section?

Section 355... About the explanation of the minimum less growth site area, civic space, and CD2 or CD3, they just talk about 10%, 20%. CD4, they just talk about 20% to 30%. Are we applying the same... the same thing for CD1, CD2, except the numbers. But are we taking account the percentage growth site area designated at ceiling space? That's why I don't understand. There.

Let me see if I understand what your question is. You're trying to understand how the percentages for open space will be applied in the CD1 and CD2A districts or over any of them?

What I'm trying to understand is that, let's say, City 1 or City 2A ask a minimum of 50% less the percentage of gross site area designated as civic space. That's what I'm trying to understand.

Okay, so the area designated as civic space would be taken out of that minimum 50% so that it's not included in that portion of what's being required.

All right, so that would be 50% and we still have to apply to the civic space area. recommendation. So OK, cool. I like that. The same question I asked before last week was about CD2A, CD2, CD3L. and CD3 were commercial approved, and I went on the definition of commercial after what's approved, what's not, and I think there's maybe something we can tweak in there, but I will send it to you. because there is a couple of staff who don't make sense to me, even if just the side of the commercial building we can put, even if it's for, I think one, it's for people getting together, but you don't need 50,000 square foot to do that, I think. So I will send it to you.

That's regarding the thresholds for staff review versus planning commission review versus city council review?

Yes, sir.

Those are the current thresholds now. So, I mean, that threshold is not changing. We do have a staff review of buildings that are less than 50,000 square feet at the current time. So we're really not amending that portion of it.

And one I didn't understand too is 6.1.6. What page? 6.1.6 page 252. That was 252 on a PDF, so I suppose it's the same.

Sorry, what's the page number at the top? Do you have that?

6.1.6. OK, I got it. the flag lots and building sites. Can you explain to me in plain language because I don't understand what that means.

So a flag lot is a lot that has a very long linear piece of land that touches the right-of-way at the bottom, but then comes up and expands out so that the shape of the lot kind of looks like a flag, if you will. We're trying to avoid creation of those types of lots because The house then is way, way, way back in the back and does not contribute to the character of the street, right? You want the house to be close enough to the street that it can contribute to that street character. Otherwise, you've got basically hidden character way back. So that's the point of that regulation.

Thank you. Um, and another comment I have on, but that's nothing. I think that's how that got put. And I disagree on the short term rental when we put, uh, a, uh, minimum of size on a bedroom and, uh, what page the short term rental it's on lodging.

Um, is that an article nine?

Probably, but it's just a comment. It's right there where we put a regulation who mandate 140 square foot per bedroom.

I believe that also is a regulation that's been carried forward from our current code. Yeah. And we set up initially a few years back those regulations to kind of help keep certain types of structures from being converted over into short-term rentals. But it's up to you if you all have a different idea on how that needs to be done.

Where I disagree is that we don't put this top regulation on new construction, so it's kind of choosing who will regulate against new construction, but it's just in there. That was it. I will send you the stuff I have later. Okay. Thank you, sir.

Thank you.

Anyone else with comments? I have a few things, if not. I do want to comment. I appreciate Mr. Luckey's comments. It served to raise my anxiety again because throughout the Planning Commission review of this, my biggest concern has been that we are not necessarily making it easier for national builders and national retailers, but we're making it harder for independent builders and local retailers and businesses. And I contend that when only... national builders can meet your requirements, then they're the only ones we're going to get. And we talk about wanting to retain character and personality. And I think that having that open door to be creative and how we allow for things is something that's really, really important. And I fear that this is doing away with that. I do have some questions I need to get with you guys about asking just some specific properties that people have called me about that may or may not be wrong. I just want to run over them with you. And then I was also asked, and I've actually had the same thought but never did ask it of you during the process with planning. is how many large acre parcels still exist in Gallatin, say over 30 acres? Because I feel like those are great opportunities to be really unique and creative, but we're trying to fit them in a box based on our code. In everything that we've ever done since I've been working with the city, I relish that creative solution to things and that unique use of existing structures. We've even seen in the years that I've been here things that we had never imagined in our previous zoning code come forth as a possibility. and I want to be a city that embraces and encourages that, not one that makes it so difficult to even put your foot in the door because it's going to cost so much. And then finally, I will mention, because when I was driving back over here this afternoon, I heard one of the gubernatorial candidates talking about one of the biggest challenges Tennessee faces as a state, and this was actually backed up by something that was said at the TML conference last week, is the affordability. And the way that it was characterized in this ad was... We need a Tennessee that our children and grandchildren can afford to call home to. And that is something that really does concern me. And I do believe that this code is going to make housing more expensive and less attainable for first-time homebuyers. Again, I'll share some points. You guys have heard me say it before, but I think it's very, very important. Average age of first-time home ownership is now 40%. People want to talk about all the apartments that are everywhere. This is why. Because you cannot buy a home for the equivalent of what it used to be. Until about 2015 in our country, you could purchase a home for roughly one to two times what the average income was for a family. A starter home, right? Now you're looking at six to seven times. Well... When an individual or a couple or a family is paying $2,200, $2,400 a month in rent, that is eliminating the path to homeownership that for so many of us was a given that we could reach if we just did the stuff. And so I worry about how this affects this, and we've seen it play out in other states where the states start taking away the opportunity to regulate because they are so desperate for workforce. Dr. Marianna Wanamaker, what she said last week at TML was that In her opinion, one of the greatest challenges that Tennessee faces is losing our workforce, because the workforce is being forced to go to other places where they can afford to live, and all the people who are migrating to Tennessee are actually young retirees or people who are working remotely, and therefore they're not the ones fulfilling the jobs that we need filled to provide the services for the growth and population that's happening in our community. So I just share those perspectives with all of you all because I really do think that, as I've said before, it's important to get this right. And I know that that is not how you're looking at things. But as we look at things, I think we need to have a path for creatives. Because we've heard so many times, oh, we're not following the rules. Well, sometimes we need some flexibility to create something even better. And I get why we have the plan and why we have the code and why we follow the process as we do. Absolutely we should. But are we getting to the best place in the way that we have things planned? So I submit that.

I will say we are creating better flexibility with respect to materials that can be used on a house. You know, there's been a longstanding rule of the 70% brick rule, and it seems to me that so many people have come in and gotten an exception to that rule that it's become a useless rule. So we want to have a rule that we can hopefully implement and keep, and not have to grant exceptions to. So we did dial that back some and it's gonna hopefully give at least a little bit better creative ability for builders to come in and do some of the things that they'd like to do instead of every single house has to be 70% brick, right? I think the rule was that you dial it back to 65% for 50% of your homes and then the other 50% of your homes can have a simple brick water table at the bottom and do the siding and other types of materials. That's a pretty decent dial back, I would say, but giving builders a little bit more flexibility, a little bit more variety of types of homes within their developments and things like that. Not to say that every single national builder will even wanna play with the new rules, right? They may look at it and say, eh, we don't wanna have to do that and change our model that we always do, right? So it actually might give the smaller builders a chance to come in and do that, right? I don't know that it's necessarily how you kind of alluded to that it might happen. I kind of want to wait and see what does happen and who does walk in the door after we get through this. It will create a much better character of street value versus what you're going to get if you allow the same old thing that's been happening. You've got garages that stick out on every home and if the builders are allowed to they'll put those garages out and that'll be the only thing that people see along the front of the street.

I don't mind that, but the real cost is in the site work and the land and what we require people before they ever build the first house and get their first return on their investment. That is what sets it up for the risk to only be one that national builders are willing to bear versus local investors. That's my fear.

Thank you, ma'am. You talk about affordability, but again, what's affordability? What's affordable now? They even changed the word because the word didn't fit the narrative, so they went to attainability. Affordability is a bank term. But, you know, what I like in staff who are actually going to reduce the cost is that there is some... where we got rid of stuff we didn't need. Like, I think on City 2, you don't need sidewalks anymore. Or the 2A, you need only one side of sidewalks. So that's going to reduce the cost and hopefully reduce the price of the construction where I doubt it because we're dealing with money. So that... You know, developers are a business. They have to make a certain profit margin, and they're not going to reduce the cost and get rid of the profit margin. So this stuff is going to make a better character and something that's going to look a lot better than what we have right now. And I appreciate all the work you did, and there's probably things to tweak in it. Like horse fans, it's not... only three. That can be one or two. I know that. The working area, the outdoor arena, you've got to limit it to, I think, 500 square foot or 1,500 square foot. You're not going to find an outdoor arena for any Christian properties, 1,500 square foot. Still things that need to be changed in there, but I think it's a good start. When I open it and I read it, I can understand what's needed, even if I don't agree with everything. But I'm not done. I'm just half of it, so I would have more. But again, thanks for the job you guys did. Thank you, Brian.

Anyone else have questions? Hey, Brian. Any questions, comments?

Have we looked into other municipalities and see what the communities look like now that's implemented this?

So I would just say, yes, we have done some research on the other communities. A lot of them did adopt them fairly quickly without doing as much review as we did. We evaluated their codes and tried to pick out the areas that were problematic and made sure to adjust those as we went. So again, we've stated in the process, we made over 4,000 changes to this code document. I can't tell you that it's gonna be a perfect document and that we'll experience no problems, but that's gonna be the case with any time you adopt a new regulation, you might have to go back and tweak it, amend it after adoption, after seeing what problems you might run into. We have definitely done some adjustments that would make it. Mr. Luckey talked about the possibility of the farmer's market down here, the strawberry place down here that might not be able to be built. We think that it could have been done. The changes that we made allow now for commercial developments to have some parking in the front and versus the way that the code had been written, it would have brought the buildings all the way up and tried to push the parking into the back and things like that. We did make adjustments to where it'll be more likely for your commercial developments to be able to still do a lot of what they had potentially been able to do before. Things like that, we took and evaluated and tried to make it so that It's not going to change everything as far as how people might expect for development to occur here, but given still a little bit better regulation so that we're seeing improvements all around.

There were two communities particularly that we got feedback from and a lot of the changes that were submitted were based on feedback and challenges that they had seen as a result. I know one of the things that I have been exposed to is trying to make commercial fit everywhere and we all know from experience it just can't. It seems great in theory but you've got to have that customer base around you to make certain kinds of businesses work.

That's one of the reasons why Pascal asked a question earlier about why we dialed it back from a mix of three uses to two uses. It's not going to be the right answer to put commercial into every single So you don't want to necessarily pigeonhole them into having to do that, but a variety of two different types of zonings within the development we felt like was sufficient.

Yeah, and we certainly don't want to set businesses up to not succeed either. Any other questions, comments for now? You ready to vote on first reading on this? Okay, this is first reading on Ordinance 02607-56. All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed say no. Let's move on to first reading. Again, please get comments, questions. Ask Mr. Rose or other planning staff for any clarifications you may need. If you have any questions out there, get them to them because there's a good chance that someone, just from their own exposure, may have some suggestions that will lead to us having to better address things. So thank you all. Thank you. Item number eight is Resolution R2606-53. Councilman Carter, that is you.

Thank you, Mayor. A resolution of the City Council of the City of Dallas in Sumner County, Tennessee, authorizing the property owner and applicant to submit an application to annex a 29.67 plus or minus acre portion of a parcel into the city located north of Old Highway 109 and east of State Route 109. Motion to approve.

Question by Councilman Carter. Second by Councilman Fennell. Questions, discussion? Councilman Givance.

Thank you, Mayor. Except the fact we should not annex more, I don't think we do service to the owner of that property, knowing what we got told. First, it's not contiguous, so it's going to have to go to the county. And we heard by our GDE that they won't have electricity until we don't know when. So I think we should not annex right now until we have an answer for these people. to know when they're going to be able to get GDE on them. So I can vote yes on that.

Anyone else? Property owners should be aware of that. If they are not, they are now aware. And the request is to have the... I have the privilege of submitting an application. It is not to approve. Any other comments, questions? Okay, this is Resolution R2606-53. All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed say no.

No.

Okay, let's have a roll call vote, please, Ms. Kittrell. We think it's 4-3, I don't know.

I think it failed 3-4.

You think it failed 3-4, Ms. Kittrell.

Okay, I need...

Okay. Well, it does fail four to three. I'm really concerned about denying the person the opportunity to ask if they are in the urban growth boundary. That does not make any kind of property rights sense to me, but that is y'all's decision, not mine. Item number nine is resolution R2607-57. All in favor? I'm sorry. Councilman Fann.

Thank you, Mayor. This is a resolution to revise the employee pay plans, and I so move. Second.

Motion and a second. Any questions, any discussion? This is Resolution R2607-57. All in favor say aye.

Aye.

Opposed say no. It does pass unanimously. Item number 10 is Resolution R2607-58, Councilman Fennell.

Thank you, Mayor. This is a resolution of the City of Gallatin, Tennessee to adopt the amended 2025 through 2029 Consolidated Plan and 2026 Annual Action Plan for the Community Development Block Grant Program. Motion to approve. Second.

Motion by Councilman Fennell. Second by Councilman Givance. Councilman Givance, you're recognized.

uh thank you mayor we got i don't know put that on there but i think that's great probably uh Thank you. I appreciate it. So I'm going to make a motion to amend and keep number two to expand because I got asked to expand public services focus to homeless services more broadly, but keep the same action plan as written, same ratio and goal as previously outlined. Number two. I make a motion.

Second. I have a motion and a second. Well, I understand, but did y'all understand the amendment? I could not really. It's right there.

Number two. Okay.

Motion is second. All in favor of amending, say aye. Aye. Opposed, say no. Okay, so the item two is the amendment, but not the item three. Is that correct?

Just number two.

Sorry, I couldn't understand. Okay, so back to the original motion now is amended. Questions, discussion? On favor of resolution R2607-58, say aye. Opposed, say no. It does pass unanimously. Item 11 is Resolution R2607-59, Vice Mayor Hayes.

Yes, this is a resolution appointing Dr. Ann Marie McKee to the Gallatin Industrial Development Board. Motion to approve. Second.

Motion by Vice Mayor Hayes, second by Councilman Givance. Any questions? Any discussion? On favor of Resolution R2-607-59, say aye. Aye. Opposed, say no. That's passed unanimously. Item 12 is Resolution R2-607-60, Vice Mayor Hayes again.

Yes, resolution appointing Dr. Ann Marie McKee to the Gallatin Health Educational and Housing Facilities Board. Motion to approve.

Motion by Vice Mayor Hayes, second by Councilman Givantz. Questions, discussion? That's Resolution R2607-60. All in favor say aye.

Aye.

Opposed say no. Thank you all for having her. She is going to be a fabulous addition. Item 13 is Resolution R2607-61. Councilman Givantz.

Thank you, Mayor. It's a resolution of the City Council of the City of Gallatin directing the Gallatin Municipal Planning Commission to evaluate a potential moratorium on data centers and to provide this body with a recommendation. And that's a move. Second.

Motion by Councilman Givant. Second by Councilman Alexander. Any questions? Any discussion? Councilman Givant.

Yes, I'm a colleague. The resolution that's in the package has a blank. So you'll need to fill that blank in before you approve it. And item two, city council requests that the Municipal Planning Commission return its recommendation to this body on whether a moratorium is warranted so that it may appear on the blank city council committee meeting agenda. So you need to decide when you want it backed by.

So we can probably do the same we did with the apartment. August 25. August 25.

Mr. Rose, has the agenda been, have they missed the deadline to get this on the August planning commission agenda? No? So it can go on the August. And so.

Probably need to do it the first meeting in September.

I think September 8th is what we had said.

Yeah, I think that's what we had said originally.

September 8th.

Okay. Yeah. Motion to put September 8th. Second.

Motion and a second on the date. Questions, discussion? All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed say no. Back to the resolution as amended with the date. All right. Resolution R26007-621 is amended. All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed say no. Passes unanimously. That concludes the regular agenda. It brings us now to other business. What?

On the same thing, I know Susan worked on a, we talked about it last time, on a stopgap resolution.

Sorry, what now? Well, I mean, we just put to bed that discussion and are moving to other business. Do you have another business item?

Councilman Givance had forwarded to me last Thursday, I believe it was Thursday, a stopgap, a resolution for a stopgap that would allow... Right now it's going to Planning Commission. He's wanting to have something that would ensure that nothing gets brought in the interim while we are making the determination whether or not to do the moratorium.

Like six weeks?

60 days.

60 days.

What have we ever gotten from inquiry to submittal?

My office, I had... Mr. Allen in my office, look at that. He made some revisions to that and I forwarded that to Councilman Chavance late this afternoon.

I sent it back to you.

I'm sorry. I was getting ready for a meeting, so I haven't looked at it.

Sorry about that. That was good. The red lines were good.

Okay. So are you wanting that on the next committee?

Yeah, please.

Does this body want that to go on the next committee meeting agenda? We'll take that as a motion.

Make a motion. Second.

Motion second by Councilman Alexander. Questions discussed on that? Going on the next committee meeting, all in favor say aye.

Aye.

Opposed say no.

No.

Thank you. It will be on the next work session. Somebody help me with what that date is.

That will be next week. July 28th. Yeah.

Okay, now back to other business. I do have a couple of items. I've got a text message from Chief Sarles. Gallatin Police Department is helping to host a blood drive coming up on the 29th. You can register online for that. And also he wanted me to mention that the National Night Out is coming up, I believe it was on August 4th. but correct August 4th. And that's going to be at first horizon bank. So add those two items to the things that are coming up. And then now, um, I'll move to other business from the spot.

Go ahead. Well, who wants to go first?

Um, I have a couple of things. The first thing I wanted to inquire about, um, putting a refrigerator in the clubhouse at clear view. I've had several calls and conversations about that. Um, so I just wanted to put that on everyone's radar.

I don't have any issue with that. I mean, let's talk to Parks and the project manager on that.

And then the second thing, since I've been back from, or since we've been back, rather, from TML, I've had conversations and some phone calls about the conduct of us as council members. And so I just want to caution everybody to be mindful how... We approach our department heads and our city employees and mindful about how we interact with them because they have to work here 40 plus hours a week, every single week. We're not here, we're here generally on Tuesdays and the times when we decide to pop in. It's not fair to them to feel that that they're not supported by certain individuals on the council or to feel like people overstep and create hostile work environments. And it's also really discouraging to hear that from people that we employ with the city of Gallatin. So I just want us all to be mindful how we interact and approach the people that work for the city. And to just know that even when we're not paying attention or we may not know some people are watching and we need to be careful about the legacy that we leave, the legacy that we leave and, you know, the taste that we leave on people's minds about the city of Gallatin in our council.

Now, to be clear, because you said something that could be misconstrued, all of our employees sign workplace harassment and a workplace violence thing, and they agree to not do anything to make an employee feel intimidated or in fear in any way within the workplace. All the employees sign it, but you're specific about this body, and I appreciate that.

Yes. I mean, is that something that we possibly can... have disseminated to us and look at signing that as well? I mean, you're certainly welcome to.

I think, you know, the conversation, the challenge has always been is that no one has authority over the council members except the voters. Same with the mayor. I, however, do sign it and certainly do abide by that because I work with our employees every single day and would never want them to feel, you know, not respected and... or violated in any way, so.

Yeah, I would love for us, for you to send that to us and for this body to read that, take that into consideration and sign.

I think it would just be interesting for you all to have awareness of, you know, what each of our employees commits to when they come on board as employed with the City of Gallatin and how our actions could be construed. Anyone else with other business? Ms. McCauley.

I'm going to hand out, I've got several handouts for you.

Thank you.

Okay, I will get started. Last Friday, I believe it was Friday morning, I received an email from Councilman Jovance submitting a formal ethics complaint to me regarding Mayor Brown's obtaining use and external dissemination of municipal surveillance footage for purposes unrelated to legitimate city business. including use in a lawsuit based on publicly available information, sworn statements, and the city attorney's investigative report dated June 2, 2026. Councilman Gervance believes that Mayor Brown's conduct constitutes violations of the Gallatin Code of Ethics, and he has asked that I bring this to you. Specifically, he states that he believes the conduct constitutes Violate Section 2-6, which prohibits officials from disclosing confidential information obtained through their office and from using such information for personal or financial gain. Section 2-7 of the Municipal Code, which prohibits the use of municipal facilities, equipment, or supplies for private gain or advantage. Section 2-8 of the Municipal Code, which is part of the Ethics Code, which prohibits using one's official position to secure privileges or exemptions not authorized by law. First, he claims that there was... Misuse of surveillance footage in a sworn affidavit. This was in Chancery Court Case Number 25-C-263, CV-263. This was in the case of Jovance v. Brown and the City of Gallatin. And in that sworn affidavit, attached to that was some video footage from surveillance video in the city. The second instance was from improper access and release of surveillance video footage. This was based on the June 2nd, 2026 investigative report that I disseminated to all of you back on that day on June 2nd. He believes that the mayor improperly accessed and disseminated city surveillance footage. If you'll recall from that report, the mayor had received from IT some surveillance video and it got disseminated to Councilwoman George, although she was no longer a Councilwoman, I believe, at that point. It didn't come through a records request. And he believes that that violates the code of ethics that I just released to you. He's done some aggravating factors. He believes that the investigative report confirms that the video surveillance was previously denied to him when it came through a formal public records request. And he states that the city attorney's office rejected his request. He doesn't believe that... He believes that mayor Brown was aware of the 2023 denial of his public records request and, um, states that because of her prior professional experience, he thinks that she understands rules of confidentiality. I will state that in the report, the June 2nd, 2026 report, um, mayor Brown stated that she wasn't aware. that the city building surveillance video should not be released externally. And she didn't know at the time of the 2024 release that Councilman Gervantz had made a similar request and was denied access. Another aggravating factor, he says that the still image remains publicly posted, demonstrated continued in action, and if you will note in my June 2nd, 2026 report, I specifically stated And I've done an addendum that I've handed out to you tonight. I stated that it was my understanding that the still image was removed from social media shortly after posting. And in the addendum I state, this statement was made based on my understanding and belief that the still image had been posted only on Facebook and removed. I have since learned from Councilman Gervance that Ms. George also posted the still image in a comment to a post by Councilman Gervance about Miss George on Nextdoor, which is another social media app. According to Councilman Gervance, the still image is still posted in a comment to his Nextdoor post. Councilman Gervance uh seems to want the city to require miss george who is now a private citizen to remove the post from his next door post i'm not aware of any legal mechanism the city has to compel removal of the image from social media further complicating the issue is that miss george posted the image as a private citizen the post is very likely protected by the first amendment and the city risks liability in asking a private citizen to remove a post from social media which we've all learned this year. I don't think I need to go into that further. So he has asked that this be viewed as an ethics request. He's made some, he's also stated in his request that, or stated that there's some statutes that were violated, but those don't necessarily relate to his ethics complaint. And under the ethics code section two dash 10 B three, When a complaint of a violation of any provision of this chapter is lodged against a member of the City Council, the City Council shall either determine that the complaint has merit, determine that the complaint does not have merit, or determine that the complaint has sufficient merit to warrant further investigation. If the City Council determines that a complaint warrants further investigation, it shall authorize an investigation by the City Attorney or another individual or entity chosen by the City Council. The investigative report that I did on June 2nd and that you all reviewed back... back then outlines how the footage was received and how it was disseminated. He has included in this ethics report that it was used in what he says is a private lawsuit. It was a lawsuit that involved Mayor Brown and the city, and the city was represented by outside counsel, and that outside counsel would have drafted the sworn affidavit and would have determined what would be submitted to the court. That decision would not have been made, likely by Mayor Brown, but by outside counsel. And although it does state that it was a private litigation between he and Mayor Brown, the city was involved in that. And so at this point, and I will say that, you know, it does state in the investigative report that it should not have been, the original video should not have been disseminated back when it was. And I will say now that it's posted somewhere, I am not going to request that a private citizen remove it from social media. So I am turning it over now to this body because it is my duty to ask you whether you want to, whether you determine that the complaint has merit, determine the complaint does not have merit, or determine the complaint has sufficient merit to warrant further investigation.

I said, why don't you take over the meeting during this discussion?

I'm asking Vice Mayor Hayes to take over the meeting during this portion of the discussion. I don't feel like I should be managing the meeting, so I'm going to let him do it.

Anybody have any comments or anything? How are you going to sit and say that you can't put something on social media when it's always on there? My kids come to me, showed me some pictures. I don't get on and look at it because I don't care. Look like a bunch of monkeys sitting up here on the board. I don't appreciate it at all. Then somebody said it looked like a pedophile. I don't appreciate it at all. So, you know, I don't know if it's even got anything to do with what we're talking about. But if you got something to say to Paul Jones, you can come to me and say it. You ain't got to get on social media and say it or nothing else. And that's the way I feel about it. And I would do the same for everybody else. If I got a problem with anybody, I'll come to them and say it. That's all I got to say about it.

I'll say I agree with Ms. Hyde-McAuley. It's not her duty. It's not the city's duty to ask Ms. George to remove anything, even if she was still a council member. If you don't want stuff put on the Internet about you and you don't want people to respond, stop acting like we're 12. Stay off the Internet. I've had disparaging things put on the Internet about me, but you know what? It pisses my family off day in and day out. But you know what I told my family when they tell me to delete comments and they get upset? It's what I signed up for. I understand my mama thinks I'm probably the greatest first son that she has. But I sit on the council. Everybody probably doesn't feel that same sentiment. My sisters and my brothers, they think that I'm wonderful. A lot of people don't. But if you can't. Take it. Stop dishing it out. It's ridiculous that we're having to sit up here to discuss this. I don't think that this has warrant. I think this is stupid. I think it's a waste of my time sitting here. I think it's a waste of everybody's time in this room. Be an adult. Be a woman. Be a man. Man up. Woman up. If you can't take it, stop putting bull crap out there.

Okay.

Can I state one thing?

Who's talking?

I want to state one thing. In his ethics complaint, I said I wouldn't ask. I think he's concerned that Mayor Brown hasn't asked, but it would still have the same First Amendment protections once it's posted. Okay. as we all know from prior issues earlier in the year.

And in response to that, Ms. Hamakali, I will say in my opinion, it's not the mayor's job to ask a private citizen or a council member not to put stuff on there. Don't put stuff on the internet if you don't want people to respond. It's not your business anymore when you put it on social media. It's everybody's business. It's fair game. Everyone has the right to respond. If you don't want an argument and you don't want stuff put out there, get off social media. Put good stuff on there. Put good out in the world. Because when you put doo-doo out there, you get doo-doo back.

All right, is that a motion? No, I want something to say something. I was just asking if it was a motion. He said that this does not have any merit. So I was just wondering if that was a motion. That's what we need to find out.

What this council needs to determine is whether the complaint has merit, does not have merit, or has enough merit to warrant further investigation. That's what this council needs to decide tonight.

I say it does not have merit. Is that a motion? Yes, ma'am. Okay.

I have a motion and a two-seconded. And Mr. Jones, or Councilman Jones, seconded it. Go ahead, Mr. Fennell.

How can you start a fire and be the victim also? You know... I need answers. Talking about social media, I'm not on it. My wife handles mine for the city. I haven't probably even added to it in two or three years. I've never been on it, don't know how to get on it, but I have people send me stuff every day. I've been on that thing no telling how many times and I'm on it right now. And it's awful. It's embarrassing. But I've been told not to comment. I try not to comment. What's been done to each and every one of us is awful. It's just a shame. Do I think this has any merit? It's been two years ago. No, I don't. Is that photo... What's damaging about the photo? Maybe we should put it back out there because it seems like once it gets on there, it gets taken right off at the public seat. But another thing, too, when I looked at that photo or seen that video two years ago, I look in it and I see Courtney, our HR director. I see Chief Bandy on it. I see Bishop Clark on it. Eileen George got up here and she complained of... Bullying and or baby harassment. I don't remember that so did Linda love do we investigate that? I mean if we're gonna go back and investigate this photo Let's open it back up and let's bring Eileen and Linda down here. Let's bring in and see what the comments I mean, I didn't see anything or or did we ask you our department heads what they seen what they witnessed that night and I don't think we did. Maybe we need to go back into that and open that back up and look at it and see what's going on. I don't know. But I try not to say anything. I've tried to be nice to the councilman. I have actually tried. I don't know what works. I really don't. And Mayor Brown, you have been blasted on the Internet. And most of that stuff is just awful. It's just untrue. It's not founded. But to stir the public up and then walk away and let them start ad-libbing when they don't really know what is going on, That is an awful position to be in, not only for myself, but each and every one of you, to go out into the public. I've been here in business 43 years now. I've never had a problem in my life. But guess what? I had a councilman turn around and said something about my business. I've been there that long and said something a couple of times. And I've been there that long. I can look at my business for over the years and I know each month what my number should be. I've got 13 employees that allow my business to make a living. And then all of a sudden my numbers drop down because of a comment. How dare you? How dare you?

Did you forget you bailed out the guy who said he was going to rape my wife after he got arrested? We're not going to debate. You forgot that?

We're not going to debate. I don't believe that. You guys look all almighty here. I do not believe that person made comments like that.

You do not believe that you bailed the guy out? Can you quit? You do not believe that? No. So you didn't bail him out?

I can't. I don't understand what he said. Yeah. You're out of order. He can't understand. You're out of order. I don't understand.

Yeah. You want to be escorted out? Please do. I'm not. I'll get the police to. Please do. Ask the police to escort me out.

Well, you're out of order. Please do. There'll be another lawsuit. You're out of order. Please do.

Excuse me. Can we get back to the ethics complaint? I would like to get back to this ethics complaint. We've kind of gotten way off track. We sidetracked.

Councilman Alexander.

Thank you, sir. I know the dates don't jive. The ethics complaint is July 17th, and your investigation was June 2nd. But is there anything different? Doesn't this answer the ethics complaint?

That was just an investigation of the facts. And then I did an addendum.

And you make recommendations at the end of how to fix this. That's what we need to do.

And we've done that. I have met with police IT. I have met with IT. And we have a new understanding of how things will be released and how they won't be released.

We don't go here again.

Yes.

There's already a motion in a second, but I would like to see us just accept this report. It says investigative findings. To accept it with the recommendations.

That's not. The complaint before you right now is whether there was a violation of the ethics code based on 2-6, 2-7, and 2-8. And so that's what you have to determine. When I did that investigative report, there was not an ethics complaint before me. And I likely wouldn't have done the investigative report had I known that because... I'm not supposed to investigate an ethics report. I'm supposed to bring it to you, you guys, and then you determine whether or not it gets to be investigated. It wasn't brought to me as an ethics complaint. It was brought to me, how did this get released? And I thought I was doing my job by investigating that and bringing it to you and trying to figure out a solution moving forward. And now there's an ethics complaint, so I probably shouldn't have done that report. But we have it. I was trying to do my job trying to correct something that shouldn't have occurred from happening in the future. And I think going forward, we have that corrected. But that's not what is before you now. What's before you now is the ethics complaint itself, whether there's a violation of the ethics code.

All right. Anybody else have any questions? Yeah, I wouldn't finish. Any further discussion? No, I'd like to.

Is it related to the ethics complaint?

I guess it is. Okay. My point I was trying to make, I have never once put anything on the internet about a councilman in here. Never, never have I done that. And I don't know if any of you guys have ever, never, never, never have I done that. Another thing touching back onto, um, issues of employees or whatnot. If there are employees that are out there, I wish they would come forward and speak. That's all I have to say.

All I got to say is there's been a lot of misinformation out there and some of it was directed toward me right before election four years ago. And I've got the paperwork to substantiate it, and it came from the family that made this complaint, the ethics complaint.

All right. Anybody else? Oh, one more thing, too. If what Councilman Givance was talking about, If somebody did make a comment towards wife, I don't agree with that, and I don't like it. I'm not the one that's a judge and jury of that at all. I don't know what was said. I don't know what was done. But if that was done, I do not agree with that towards Councilman Javons or his wife. But I can't apologize for it because I had nothing to do with it.

All right, let's keep it on the subject, Kyle. All right, any other questions before we vote? All right. All those in favor? Aye. Aye. Aye. Six. Anybody opposed? Abstain or oppose? All right. Six to one. All right. Anybody else have any other business up here? Anybody? Anybody? Motion adjourned. Wait a minute. We're going to have public recognition. At this time, we'll have public recognition on non-agenda related items. Would anybody like to speak tonight? If not, public recognition is closed. Is there another motion? Motion adjourned. Second. Motion second. All in favor? Aye. Motion carries.