Board of Mayor & Aldermen - Regular Meeting

Good evening. Welcome to the board of mayor and alderman meeting for the city of Hendrisville, Tennessee. It is March 24th, 2026, just a tad past 7 p.m. We're going to start our meeting as we typically do. That's with a prayer followed by the pledge. And providing our prayer tonight is Socrates Hogwin. He is the senior pastor at Marintha Assemblies of God. Pastor Hogan, we appreciate you coming back. We appreciate very much what you and your congregation do for the city of Henderson and our whole community. And uh like I said, appreciate you being here.

Amen. I'm so humbled to be here. Thank you all. Let us pray. Let us pray for uh for guidance, for vision, for wisdom. But above all, before we start praying, there's a national day of prayer in Hendersonville. And the community church is called 380. uh is the Hendersonville Community Church. That's the name of the church. It's 381 West Main Street in Hendersonville. It's on May on Thursday the 7th of May at uh from 7:30 to 8:30 a.m. in the morning. It's a very good time for us to get together in Hendersonville and pray for nationally with with the whole country. and we would love to be part of it. Also part of this uh gathering right now also I have any anyone who has a prayer petition. I have one already. Uh anyone wants uh have any prayer requests that they wanted to to call on to

Okay. So I will I will Pray for him. Yep. Well, let us pray. Lord, we thank you, Father, for this opportunity. We come in agreement to your word. Your word, Lord, is wisdom. Father, thank you for the opportunity that we have, Lord, to put in your hand, Lord, this group of leadership here in Hendersonville. Father, City Hall is a lighthouse, Lord, for the whole nation. Thank you, Lord, for this opportunity we had to call on to you. Lord, look at the needs that we have in this city. Father, oh make provision, Father, make, oh Lord, uh remarkable miracle happening, Lord. Oh Lord, healing Lord and above all protection, Lord, for the first responder, Lord, for every office in this town, Lord, I declare Hendersonville to become, Lord, oh Lord, a s a city of prosperity, Lord, that we walk in obedience to your word and we will see the glory of God. Lord, I thank you for this meeting, Lord, and give them wisdom, Lord, understanding. pour oil over their head, Lord, so they can Lord be anointed with your blessings and your favor. Thank you, Lord, for this opportunity. In Jesus name I pray. Amen. And amen.

Thank you, Pastor Hogwin. Appreciate that. Again, um he's with Mayor Anthony Assemblies of God here in Hendersonville. Thank you so much. Sure. Please, please join me for the pledge. I aliance to the flag of the United States of America to the stand. One nation under God, indivisible, liberty, justice for all.

Thank you'all. I'm going to entertain a motion that we accept the agenda that was provided to you in your packets. We have a motion from Alderman Dixon

and a second from Alderman Garza. Um I will I will need to bring your attention to item number three which is under ordinance and resolutions that we've got an item there that was just tonight considered in our public works committee. Um and so we are waving the twoe rule there. And also this does not take a motion. I'm going to remove item number five. We need to rework some of the verbiage in that. Um and um probably we'll take it back to committee since it's going to be uh some significant uh change to changes to the wording there. Um but so we're going to remove item number five. Um any other discussion? Any other motions? Okay. All those in favor of accepting the agenda with item number five withdrawn, please say I.

Those opposed, please say no. That passes unanimously. Next round to a proclamation for National Donate Life Month. I'm going to meet you all right down here. There we go. I appreciate you all being here. Let me read this proclamation and then I'm going to ask for Sean to say a couple a couple words and then uh after she speaks we're going to No, we're going to do the video first, weren't we? Okay. Okay. Uh whereas Tennessee donor services is a donate life agency, a nonprofit organization dedicated to saving and improving lives through organ eye and tissue donation throughout Tennessee, including Hendersville, and is one of 56 organ procurement organizations throughout the nation. And whereas more than 100,000 Americans and 3,000 Tennessans are waiting for life-saving organ transplants. And whereas each hero organ donor can give the gift of life to eight people and each tissue donor can improve another 75 lives. And whereas the most effective way to address this health crisis is to educate and to encourage our community to register their decision to be an organ eye and tissue donor in the donate life Tennessee registry donatlifeetn.org or at a driver's services center and learn more about living donation at donatelife.net net and whereas saving lives through an organ, eye, and tissue donation and find is such immediate worthwhile importance that now therefore I, Jamie Clary, mayor of the city of Hendersonville, Tennessee, do proclaim that the city of Hendersonville observes April as National Donate Life Month. I encourage all residents to register

their decision to be an Oregon Eye and Tissue donor in the donate life Tennessee registry at donatelifeetn.org or the local drive drivers center. And I want to tell you all this is that um I've done that. It's very very easy to do. Uh my feeling is with the exception of my knees, I probably have some decent body parts that could help some folks. Um and um my feeling is that if I can help prolong somebody's life or save a life, I'm going to do it. Um but somebody on the other side is that is Rashan Moran. Um you want to come up and talk to us? Awesome. Oh yeah, we want to do the video. Sorry. Um, as of April 28th, I will be donating

Jason, can you back up? Yeah.

Hello everyone. Uh, my name is Jeremy Cook and I'm a teacher and soccer coach at Station Cap High School. Um, as of April 28th, I will be donating a kidney to Ronnie McMahan, uh, Hall of Famer at Vanderbilt Basketball. Um I met Ronnie in 2008 and we had a ABA basketball team here Nashville Bronx and I was a GM of um owner wasn't uh necessarily great for the players lots of issues and they would come to me with lots of problems but Ronnie was the one guy who was there to help me out through all that and that is the sole reason why I'm doing this. Um, it's obviously 16 years later and people will think that that's not a huge deal, but to me that's a very very big deal because without Ryan would have been a lot worse for me there and he helped me out tremendously. Um, so whenever I found out uh through the 3HL and 145 the zone that Ryan need one, I immediately went online and and fill out the form and 16 hours of testing later uh I was above a 92% match. That's all we know. He had a 92% match and they denied him. Um obviously doing it. Um I don't look at it as saving a life. I look at as extending a life. Um and if you know somebody who's worthy of that, I don't know why you wouldn't do it. Um there's some sacrifices I have to make. Like I can't take any more insaids, ibuprofen, um creatine, small stuff, but that's small potatoes compared to what you can do to help somebody else's life. Um, so I wish that uh more people would look into this. They would be more willing to help others uh because without this kidney um Ronnie was rapidly decreasing kidney function 10% capacity and eventually we hit diialysis and eventually death. So I think it's a cause that everybody should look into if

they can help somebody out. I don't know why you wouldn't. Thank you. Coach Cook is just a normal guy. There's no reason he's special. There's no reason he um no qualifications that he has to be able to match a kidney with somebody else. It just happens to be the the case that he's able to. Um if he wasn't a 92% match, he could donate a kidney to somebody else so that somebody else could donate to the other person so that somebody else could be the donor for the person that he's donating to. Uh little, let's see, almost 11 years ago, I was so sick that Lance's wife had to give me a bath. I couldn't That's weird to say, I know, but I could not walk to the bathroom. I couldn't stand long enough to brush my teeth. Uh my lung function was down to about 19% of expected, while all of y'all should be, excuse me, all of y'all should be about 100% lung function. Um, I have cystic fi fibrosis and it was trying to take my life away from me. But because of somebody's selfless decision that I have no idea who they are or where they're from were in an accident and they had made the decision to donate their organs to people in need like me. They had made the decision to give people hope to people like me even though they don't know us. I I owe my life to my donor. Um, I just wish I could squeeze their necks and and thank them for the second chance of life that I've given. I try really hard not to take my opportunity and my gift of lungs for granted. Um, I do want to do want you to think for a second about how many people you you know and love. I'm not going to ask you to reveal any private health information, but some of you up here may have diabetes or high blood pressure or heart disease or anything like that. So, imagine if you're hanging on for your life and you're not sure if you're going to see your next birthday, but you've got the option for a lung transplant or

or a diabetes um excuse me, a kidney transplant or a pancreas transplant or a heart transplant or whatever it is that you need. Having that hope of a potential transplant, if if the timing works out, if God's will is for you to keep living, you've got to have the donors. And I'm thankful to God for my donor and for my sec uh second chance of life. The folks that you see up here with me also have relationships with organ donation. If their children um if they didn't receive a transplant themselves, their children have passed away and generously donated their organs to other people to give hope. So, I just encourage that you guys consider um being superheroes for people that you don't know. And even if you want to altruistically give a kidney or a part of your liver, there's a lot of people that need them. So, thank you for your time. Thank you for having us and for the proclamation that April is national or Tennessee Hendersonville donate life month. We appreciate it.

Thank you. Rashan is so will you can you introduce everybody else who's here? I think there's a stick Can you introduce everybody else? This is Trisha Lopez, our external affairs coordinator with uh Tennessee Donor Services. Okay. Hello. I am blessed Can you get to the microphone? Yeah.

Sorry. Hi y'all. I am blessed to get to do this and work with these amazing folks. Our ambassadors are truly remarkable people. They go out and they share their stories, their journeys so that they can spread the word about donations so folks can understand how important it is and how many lives are truly touched by this. Uh education is so important and we don't have enough of that. And if it weren't for the folks behind me and the folks to my to my right here, I I don't know uh what that would look like for a lot of people. Right now, we have 100,000 people that are waiting nationwide for organs and about 3,000 in the state of Tennessee. Um, and it is our responsibility. It's our duty. It's our honor to be able to go out and advocate for those folks. Um, I'm going to let everybody I'll I'll just hand it off and let folks introduce and share their a little bit about their journey as they go along. Um, Rashan didn't say this about herself, but she just got back from mountain climbing with with her new lungs. So,

let me say that. I was I was offered the incredible opportunity to shout from the mountaintop how happy I was or what God had given me and that my second chance of life. And from the minute I woke up, I said, "Wow, this person must have been an athlete because I've never breathed so easily in my life." The second thing I thought of was I'm going to shout from every mountaintop what God has done for me to give me this chance. And every time I get to tell this story, I consider you guys another mountaintop. But I got invited to go to Akenagwa in Argentina to climb the mountain as a study to uh look into how elevation impacts transplanted lungs. So I went with uh lung doctors from all over the world, Austria, uh Denmark, Croatia, Switzerland, and recipients from all of those countries as well. It was a remarkable experience. So, I encourage you all to take a chance on doing something out of your comfort zone because without me saying yes to that, I would have missed out on a lot. So, I know that's not very poetic, but there you go. Wendy is Wendy. Hello. My name is Wendy Hartley and this is my husband, Steve. In April uh 2017, we lost our youngest son, Kevin, to a work accident. He was 21 years old. Um but we were given comfort in the fact that he saved four lives on May 1st, 2017. Um I have had the pleasure of meeting his lung recipient and his heart recipient and I know that the kidney recipients are both doing well. So that's our connection.

Hey, um my name is Stephen Snyder. Um, I have worked for Tennessee Donor Services since 2007. Um, I my father was a two-time kidney recipient um, in 2019 due to lifelong type 1 diabetes. I myself was in the same boat uh, for a kidney transplant. Um, an actual uh, co-orker of mine ended up being a 95% match. So, I had a living donor, which I'm very grateful for. Um, I didn't have to spend a lot of time on dialysis like a lot of people do. Um, I only spent about a year on dialysis. Um, but it's very hard. Um, and I don't wish that on anybody. So, um, the guy, the co-orker that gave me my kidney, um, we didn't know it at the time, but we were best friends. He started at TDS two months before I did in 2007. I was the best man at his wedding in 2012. Um, and it just so happened that he was the perfect match for my kidney. And we still work together to this day. And it it's like a whole lifetime movie really. It's a whole whole situation. But I'm forever grateful for him. He is my my my kidney brother from another mother. Um, and um, I encourage everybody to to sign up to donate because if it wasn't for him, I probably wouldn't be here. So, thanks. Hello. Uh, my name is Donovan Dealau. Um, I am a live liver donor for my father. 21 years ago, he needed a transplant. And the way it worked uh at that time it was he was 62 years old and it was going to be very difficult for him to move far enough up

the transplant list. He would have been too sick and too elderly perhaps to maybe survive the surgery. So my brother and I flipped a quarter uh to see who would donate and I got that opportunity. Um it didn't exactly work out the way we had planned it. Um it turns out we both went into surgery at the same time. Uh, normally that doesn't happen. And I'll try to make this very short, but um, about five hours into the surgery, they found out that my portal vein, which is the vein that connects your heart to your liver, um, didn't look quite right. If you can imagine a tree, sometimes the roots grow into the ground and sometimes they grow on top of the ground. Well, my portal vein, the the the veins spread across the top of my liver instead of going into it. And they hadn't really ever seen that before. It's over here. They aborted the surgery and put my dad to the top of the list and he got his liver 48 hours later. So, we're very thankful for that. Um, it's been 21 years. I still get emotional. Right now, my dad is in Florida on vacation and he lives he lives right next door to me and is just uh going very strong. And that's what everybody else here is spoken about.

The selfless gift of donation is transformative. and you can never repay that or be thankful enough for that. So, um I just encourage everybody to to become a registered donor. Um because you just never know when it's going to be you or someone you know that you know you can make that difference or they can make that difference in your life. So, thank you all. Appreciate it. Rashan, can you tell us the website again? Uh, donatelifeetn.org. Okay. Yes. Thank you.

Appreciate that. Thank you all for being here. Next item on our agenda is to approve the minutes from our March 10th, 2026 meeting. We have a motion from Alderman Gardwin

and a second from Alderman Burgdorf. Any discussion? All those in favor of approving the minutes from that were provided to you in your packet from March 10th, 2026, please say I. Those opposed, please say no. That passes unanimous. Oh, we have an abstain abstension from Alderman Evans. Okay. Next item we have are citizens comments. Guidelines for public comment. Speakers must identify themselves by name and address. Public comment shall be limited to five minutes per individual, which time is non- transansferable to other speakers. All comments are to be directed to the presiding officer, not to alderman, city staff, or other members of the public. Comments must address issues, not individuals or personalities. Personal attacks shall not be tolerated. Comments may support or oppose particular issues or measures, but the motives of those with differing views shall not be questioned or attacked. Malicious comments shall not be allowed. Speeches for or against particular candidates running for public office shall not be allowed. Uh, Mr. Little Raindrop Drive. I'm Robert Little, 314 Raindrop Lane. Good evening. My name is Robert. I am a resident of the Creekwood subdivision. Before I begin, I will let the any citizen here know I would like to send a copy each of you the emails I'm going to read tonight. Please send me a stamped address envelope. I'll make sure you receive them. Again, my address is 314 Raindrop Lane. Now, for the rest of you, there is some important contacts coming that I will show you happily in our neighborhood. First email was from Alderman Mark Evans. Good morning, Robert. Thank you for g attending the Bulma meeting this week. I have thought

much about what your comments concerning the roads in your subdivision and that you feel your requests have been ignored by your alderman. As you know, this has not been the case. Quite frankly, Alderman Robertson and I have spent quite a bit of time speaking with you and sharing the policies around the roads and other safety measures of these past few months. We hear your concerns and have brought them to the city staff as we should. They have reviewed the request for a four-way stop at Creekwood and Orchard Valley and for rumble strips common devices along Creekwood Drive. The traffic on this road does not meet the minimum standards for such requests. I am sorry that this is not what you want to hear, but we must adhere the standards. We will continue to monitor the situation and make adjustments as needed, but for now there is nothing more that can be done. There are speed limit signs throughout the neighborhood at 30 mph which is adequate. The city has marked the bridge on Creekwood Drive in yellow so people will see it and they have placed appropriate signage for stopping, slowing down, etc. throughout the neighborhood. In closing, I drove through the neighborhood yesterday and see the public works department along with Rogers Group did a wonderful job in paving many of the roads in your subdivision. They look great. Have a wonderful rest of the week and thank you Mark Evans. Despite the state these statements, the striping was done implemented was not done to what we signed up for. Email number two from Alderman Eddie Robertson. Robert, thanks Mark for your email. I concur. Robert, you state in your public comments that Creekwood has been ignored by the city. Since being on Bulma, Creekwood has not been ignored. We fixed the long-standing drainage problem on your property. Denied the bank's request

place a driveway entrance from the bank onto Creekwood Lane. Block the SS from Stop 30 through Creekwood. Regionally paved the neighborhood streets. oppose the reszoning of a residence to a church on Creekwood Lane. Improve visibility from Creekwood Lane on the New Shackle Island Road by requiring a resident cut down trees, limiting visibility, improving safety. Have a blessed day. Again, the resident organized a petition documented that requested four 4 foot 9 foot 9 foot 4 foot for striping. That gives us plenty of room for cars and for walking. We submitted diagrams and provide copies to the alderman and mayor. Yet there the striping was 10 feet wide, not what we requested. Their 3D mail was from Mayor Clary. All he said was, "Well said, Mark, that's it. So, while the city says they are addressing the neighborhood, the facts show the residents did not work and provide the documentation. The city did not follow the submitted request. In closing, more is going to be coming in future meetings where I'll present the other issues like paving, drainage, reszoning, each showing where the residents had to step in to get the action done what they needed to be. Again, my address is 314 Raindrop Lane. If you send the stamp address envelope, I will make sure you get a copy of all these emails. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Little. Next item we have on the agenda is our consent agenda, which we have two items on there with first one is receive and file for facilities assessment, which you see that under tab number one. And the second item there is personnel and reg personnel rules and regulations. I appreciate Jason and his staff putting that together after some of the changes we made just a couple weeks ago. So now we're under ordinance and resolutions. The first item we have is resolution 2026-10. This is a resolution of the city of Hendersonville authorizing city monument signs within the city limits. Need a motion, please. We have a motion from Alderman Robertson and a second from Alderman Skidmore. Um, it's my motion I want to explain a little bit uh about where we at with that. Um, and I talked earlier in public works public works committee about this is that really there's a bigger issue um than just saying welcome to Hendersonville. Um, since I've been mayor, um, the boards that I've worked with, the staff I've worked with understand that West Main Street, the older part of Hendersonville, I call it original Hendersonville, is a high priority for me. Um, I think I I think uh when somebody uh that lives over there has a business over there, says that they feel ignored, there's some validity in that, quite honestly. City Hall used to be in that part of town. Uh, the library used to be in that part of town. Uh, both of those were were moved out. I disagreed with those moves, but we just sort of have to have to live with those things. Um, we have spent significant amount of money and time and and staff resources um with new sidewalks there with some street lights, some LED fixtures, um, also some landscaping. And really, there's two there's there's two objectives here in in my opinion. Y'all might have other other feelings on this. One of the first ones is we need to let people know when they're in Hendersonville. When they come from Davidson County, they need to know they're in Hendersonville. Um, in talking with police officers for the past nine years, the criminals that come out of Davidson County and other places, um, but especially Davidson County, they know that when they get to

Hendersonville, it's a different world. That, and I've said this many times, if you come to Hendersonville, commit a crime, our officers are going to pursue you, you are going to be caught, and you are going to face accountability. The criminals have gotten that message. first year that I was mayor, we had um around 110, maybe it was 114 breakins, uh car breakins in subdivisions off off the Walton very peninsula. That was 2017 2018. We pursued those people. We apprehended those people and those people went to jail. Um so the message has gotten out there uh among criminals. Don't go to Hendersonville to commit your crime. We need to let them know where Hendersonville is. This helps do that. It goes along with the landscaping we've done there as well as some of the other improvements we did there. We've also done there. So that's that's that's one of the big reasons there. But also going back to something I alluded to a second ago, if we expect private business to reinvest in that part of our city, the oldest part of our city, the original part of our city, if we expect private business to reinvest there, the city of Hendersonville has to reinvest there. And that's why we're spending money like we have. and we have for too long in my opinion um we have spent some money in some other places and didn't spread it out where it needed to where it needed to go. Um and so it's time for the city to it to to to reinvest in Hendersonville and put up a new welcome sign. We've been doing that in a couple different ways in other ways. But what it comes down to with both those goals is that if we don't do this, if we don't spend attention and staff time and resources on the original part of Hendersonville, we will have to in a number of years and the cost is going to be much much greater. I love this sign. I love the idea of it. I love everything we're else everything else we're doing over there. I want to do even more. Uh and I hope that you'll support this. We got in a situation where the money is actually in our budget for this. um are is is in the

budget for the estimate of this. Uh but we'll be we need T do DOT's cooperation. So T DOT said that they wanted a resolution from the city. We felt like we were okay. It had been to the planning commission. It had been to the capital projects committee. It had been through the board for budgeting process, but T dot said that they would feel better if there is a resolution. So that's why it's here now and that's why we moved it forward a little bit a little bit fast than typically than we typically would. Alderman Skidmore.

Yes. Thank you, Mayor. Just briefly again to the board this evening, our public works committee passed this unanimously and recommended uh for its full passage this evening. Um, I think we've got a a unique just in closing, we've got a really unique opportunity to to let our folks know in ward one uh wards two and three as well as the city of Hendersonville that we are making a commitment to uh West Maine and the folks that live there because I live there too um on the peninsula and we just want to let folks know that this is just the beginning, you know, of the things that we've done. Uh I don't um and this is not a slap in the face to anybody for this. I don't want us to be known as, well, I've just hit Hendersonville because of the traffic. So, um but I've got a report tonight that's got some great news about our traffic problems, uh within the city, and we're really excited to tell you about that. But I just want to let the folks know that, you know, with the planting of the trees on the median, um the sidewalks, the uh with this new monument, um you know, with also with the uh camera taking the pictures of some of the cars that have come into our uh into our homes that are illegal and they catch them and they bust them. Um, and a lot of them come through there, uh, a lot in our on the West Main Street side of Hendersonville. But, um, the mayor's office as well as this board of alderman are making our commitment and showing the people of Hendersonville that we are committed to make it a better and brighter place on West Maine. And we're

just beginning. If you think, you know, this is not enough, well, it's not. And we've got other stuff that are coming. just give us a chance to get it done. We've got a good board that is willing to take that extra step. And we've got the mayor's administration doing the same thing and uh taking that extra step to prove to you guys that we're ready. We're ready to to take that step and to show you that uh our wards of wards one, two, and three um and the rest of the Hendersonville, but mainly the West Main Street has not been forgotten. We remember we remember you. Thank you, Mayor. Alderman Goodmore. Thank you, Alman Sassy.

Thank you, Mayor. Um, first of all, well, not sure if anyone knows, uh, Alderman Garza and I actually represent W three, which is on the most western point of the city and a lot of people don't know this exact or don't know exactly where the city begins out there. Uh, could we actually are you able to bring up page 102 of the agenda? It's got that map there because there's a there's an ex existing sign, right? So, everyone thinks that Hendersonville starts where the on-ramp to 386 is uh off of Main Street there, but that's not true.

Um, and a lot of people don't know this. They think as soon as you go over that or go under that underpass that you're now in Madison. Um, the next page, please. But it actually that now that is the the the car lot, right? That's the new one. Uh the new well

Yeah. Dodge, Jeep, Ram, whatever. And it starts right there, like you see there on east of there is Center Point Road. So it's a whole a quarter about a quarter of a mile, I would say, maybe a little less than that, but but about a quarter of a mile west of where that existing sign exists. So people coming in, they think they're still in Madison until they get there. And so I'm really excited about these signs and I I appreciate the staff putting the effort into this. This is going to be really huge especially for Ward 3. We're excited about it uh to actually mark where we actually are. People think I live in Goodletville uh or Madison, you know. U also there's areas of Caldwell Drive that are part of W three as well. And a lot of people don't know that he's as well because you have the park there which is a goodville park. So you think the entire road is Goodville. So, this will be a great milestone for the city to really declare where our territory is. And like you mentioned, mayor, uh it is also a sign to criminals who are entering that you're now in Hendersonville, so better watch out. Uh so, very excited about this. I thank you. Uh but I wouldn't be a good finance uh um uh chair if I didn't ask how much are these signs going to cost?

Jess, you want to do it? The short answer is we don't know quite yet, but but we hope that the economic return would overcome the cost of the the initial cost of the sign. Um we're probably in the range of 100k for the sign. That's not bad.

We have to get it approved through T DOT and have it engineered. So the cost of sign number two, three, and four will decrease because we'll do the design on the first one with the engineering and then we'll just repeat throughout the city. But um you know I think in the staff report it says between 75 to 125k. So we haven't gone out to bid. We'll see. And then you know if if if we need to come back to the board we might come back to the board. If we have to scale the design back a little bit. We might do that as well.

Well and just one last thing. I think it's ironic that our pastor who prayed said that we were that he mentioned a lighthouse and then we have the lighthouse sign here. So I thought that was that was clever. I don't know if you planned that, but I that was pretty late there. Let your light shine. Thank you, Alman Sassy. Thank you, Alman Collins.

I'm I love this. I think that it's branding, but this kind of thing, especially when it expands into the rest of the city, can really provide a sense of identity for our community, which is hard when we don't have a downtown. Um, so I'm thrilled with it. I do want to say that I have a little negative, which is that I have had some of my constituents who work on that side of town complain that the medians are not being kept up to their satisfaction and they asked me to drive and look at it. I didn't manage to do that. But I'm hoping that um along with this that we can um really it does say in in the ordinance it als it says um monument signs and landscaping throughout the city. And so I'm hoping that we can also focus on the landscaping because the sign isn't going to look good if it's not looking good in the in the landscaping around it. Um, and I'm excited to see where the next one, two, and three will be located. I hope that we get a report on that soon. Thank you,

Alman Collins. Thank you, Alman Burgdorf. Hey, hey, everybody, let your light shine. That's great. I love it. Um, I'm excited about this. We were at the planning commission when this was unveiled. Um, and it was a it was a a light. No, no pun intended, but it was a breath of fresh air. I really think it's uh it's a beautiful um symbol. It's not a typical sign. It's very unique. Thank you to uh uh the who was it that put it together? Planning staff. Planning plan. Thank you planning uh for putting all this together. It looks great. And without objection, I'd like to be a co-sponsor of this. Without objection, we're going to add Alderman Burgdorf as a co-sponsor. Thank you, Alderman Burgdorf.

Thank you, Alderman Dixon. Well, thank you, Mayor. Um, I just want to spend a minute and pat this board on the back and the city employees for wanting to beautify that end of town. Thank you. Um, I remember back I I guess it was before 2016. Um, there was a commercial for somebody who was running for mayor at that time and I don't remember who it was. I barely remember what I had for breakfast.

I don't know who it was. Um um if if I could remember, I would tell you, but I don't. But I remember a comment in that commercial, and it was that he wanted to beautify the strip of shame. And the first thing that came to my mind was that strip of shame has a lot of small business owners

and they feed their family with the money they make from that strip of shame. And I thought it was disgraceful and I'm glad that person obviously did not win their election, but I I I really appreciate this in that it takes me back to that terrible commercial. Um, it has hit social media. I don't know if anybody saw some of the the posts. Um, people some of the comments, a lot of the comments were, "Well, this would pave a lot of road." Well, they obviously don't know how much it cost to pave because it would not. Um and um I I do appreciate that they're thinking in that that way, but um and also the fact that Hendersonville is on its side. Um it was a significant comments that were taking place. I think it's cool and I appreciate that we're supporting um this. Thank you.

Thank you, Alderman Dixon. Um I'm glad you mentioned that and I'm glad y'all asked about the cost. Um this year in paving we're we're coming I want to say between $6.5 and $7 million is what we're spending on paving. Um at the same time in addition to that um we have funded construction for the alignment. Um we're about to go to construction for the synchron the fast 20% of the synchronization project. We're doing that as well. Um we also have funded design for stop 30 and Drakes Creek Road intersection and also we're at the design phase of exit 8. So there's a lot more going on as far as infrastructure. uh we're spending a lot of money on those which are which are higher priority items. There's no doubt about that. And then um we also uh are paying for the design of nine more road projects. So I feel like we are uh paying attention to the highest priorities. This is a pretty high priority priority as well. Um I appreciate you all's comments. Anybody else? All those in favor of resolution 2026-10, please say I.

I. Those opposed, please say no. That passes unanimously. Thank you all. Now we have second reading of ordinance 2026-05. This is an ordinance formally requesting the director of the sum emergency communication district to officially name a certain roadway as Riverwood Drive that is located in the city of Hendrisville, Tennessee, south of Sterling Road, south of Kland Drive and continuing south of the current Riverwood Drive. Um we have a motion from Alderman Sassy and a second from Alder from Alderman Martin. Alderman Burgdorf, go ahead.

Thank you very much, Mayor. This is a great opportunity to clean up something that's been going on for a long time. As you know, Ward One's one of the oldest, the OG, as as Jamie declared it uh in the city of Hendersonville. And this is just a um it's a it's a afterthought. It wasn't really an afterthought. It's a forgotten piece that just needs to be cleaned up to provide proper uh postal service and emergency services to those neighbors out there. U thank you mayor for bringing this forward and uh putting all this together. Thank you public works for uh addressing it as well. And uh without um objection I'd like to be a co-sponsor.

Okay. Without objection, we're going to add Alderman Burgdorf to be a co-sponsor. Any other discussion? All those in favor of ordinance 2026-05 on second reading, please say I. Those opposed, please say no. That passes unanimously. Now we remember we withdrew item number five. We're down to the first reading of ordinance 2024, excuse me, 2026-04. This is an ordinance amending Hendersonville Municipal Code, Title One, General Administration, Chapter 1, Board of Mayor and Alderman establish some procedures for cancellation or postponement of regular meetings for cause. We have a motion from Alderman Garza

and a second from Alderman Dixon. Any discussion there? All those in favor of first reading of ordinance 2026-04, please say I. Those opposed, please say no. Who do we have? Uh, Alderman Sassy. Anybody else? Okay, so that passes with a majority vote. Okay, next we're on to brief committee reports. First one is from our public works chairman and that is uh Chairman Skidmore.

Yes, thank you. Believe it or not, it's going to be a very brief u report tonight. So, I know that you all will be happy uh for that. Yeah, I know. Promises, promises. All right. But I assure you that it will be. Um I do just want to say uh we did have a long meeting tonight, but I want to cut to the chase. The things that that help are that are more important for the city of Hendersonville as a whole and not in specific areas in the district. We'll catch that during budget time for in the following weeks of our meetings. But anyway, I do want to let people know uh which is very very important is about our traffic. Um I didn't know that. I don't know if you all knew this or not, but we've got traffic in Hendersonville. It's considerable, but we are almost ready for the light synchronization project to be completed. We've got bid openings starting next week to complete the rest of this. And so you'll be noticing in the future some changes that are about to happen in Hendersonville. And I really hope and pray that it is successful the way that we want it to be. But I I believe that it will. I firmly believe in it because it's been a long time uh coming. Um the other is uh we do want to let everybody know about our storm removal update and uh the crew that came in for on an emergency type situation. They've officially gone and the city now has come back in to take over the whole city again. But it's like everybody's starting a new now because the the debris people that came in did such a fantastic job for us and it cost it cost the city but we were prepared for it and we're going to be able to get a lot of the reimbursement money from

FEMA but it's going to it's going to take about two years to get that money back. Um but I'm still proud that uh it's about $2.5 million. So, it was really under what we thought that was going to be the original because we thought it was going to be around three or even more, but it it came in about two and a half, maybe 27, something like that. Um, we did have a cubic yards were about 116,000 cubic yards of uh tree damage that we were able to take up. And I'm very proud of that. um that we were able to get that out and get it out of the yards as fast as we could and I'm very very pleased with that. Um the the last thing uh there's only two other things. One is we we went through our budget this evening uh preliminary and we are scheduled to have an open or a uh project um board meeting to talk about the budget on April 27th and we haven't had we don't have a time yet u the but the date is will be April 27th. Um and finally I want to talk about one finally one thing and I um I think I've already spoken about it actually. It was our storm debris. Um and I mayor I believe that's it and we did the operating budget. So we're we're good to go this evening and we're doing it in record time. Thank you mayor

chair chairman Skidmore 3 minutes and 10 seconds. Wonderful. Wow. Wow. Thank you much chairman Sassy Finance Committee. All right.

Thank you, Mayor. Um I do just want to mention one thing about Chairman Skidmore's report. Uh I drive down Center Point Road and you know all the limbs are they're gone. Uh I will say Caldwell Drive two days ago I went was on there and there was still some limbs so I uh asked us to check that out. But Centerpoint Road was done. I saw the truck actually driving through our neighborhood as well. And then I turn on to Hunts Lane, which is a county road. They're everywhere. Uh it's it's awful. Um everyone's piled and there's a there's some pro homes on that on that road with a lot of property, a lot of trees, and they piled them all up there. And I'm just hoping the county can uh get to those quickly. Uh people think that's part of Hendersonville. It's not. That's one area that's not part of Hendersonville. So uh back to my report. So, we had a record number of ordinances and resolutions tonight, a record of zero. Um, and so, but the our main discussion tonight was on the fiscal 2027 operating budget and the uh expenses. We went over every single department, asked a lot of questions. uh looking forward to the next workshop to get the full scope of uh of the budget uh for the next fiscal year. Uh we definitely got some the some work to do. The staff has some work to do. Uh it's not going to be as easy as we've had it in the past, but we're going to get it done. I have full confidence in our in our staff and in the mayor and producing uh a solid budget. So, I look forward to reviewing that. That's all my that's my report. Thank you,

Chairman Sassy. Thank you. Chairman Evans, nonprofit committee.

Yes, sir. Thank you. We uh the nonprofit committee met tonight. Thank you uh for Director Ingresol and her staff for the work that they've done on pulling all that together. I think it was like 400 pages of of documentation. But um we went through that and believe it or not, we uh the five of us made a decision of where we want to land as far as the nonprofit that we'll put in the budget. So, I think that we've um we came up with something that's pretty much equal to what it was last year with a couple of tweaks and uh we've uh may not have to meet next week. So, we've uh we decided we were are not going to meet. Um so, um had a good meeting and got through it all. Chairman Evans, thank you.

Yes. Next is our bow report from Jesse.

I feel like I have to keep mine under a minute, so I'll do my best. I'm not going to go line by line because the report is static from the last time we met. I do want to give everyone an update. We did hear back from the Boring Company. So, if you don't know, um our planning staff applied for a free mile a tunnel with the Boring Company. We were in the top five. They've reached out to us um to continue conversations with them. And what we submitted was an undergrounding utility project along Main Street where we could put utilities underground in a tunnel. We were not selected as the winner. Okay. Uh but we're going to continue conversations with them. They're still interested in the project. We're still interested in the project. U so unfortunately as of right now, we're not the number one. Uh but we did put a lot of work together for um a presentation for BOMA, which is one of the goals, the 10 goals that I submitted to you guys this year. So, we will at some point uh bring some information in front of you for what it would cost to do undergrounding uh utilities, but we're not in the top uh finalist with with the boring company. We will continue those conversations and if anything comes of that, I'll keep you posted. And that that concludes my report. Appreciate that, Jesse.

Alderman Garza. Motion to adjurnn. We have a motion to adjourn from Alderman Garza. Second from Alderman Sassy. All those in favor, please say I. I. Those opposed, please say no. That passes unanimously. Thank you. Have a good night. Have a good night.