Board of Alderman - Regular Meeting

We can proceed with our agenda. We have our invocation by Alderwoman Johnson and our pledge of allegiance by Alderman McKenna.

Let us bow. Heavenly Father, we come tonight to say thank you. Lord God, we thank you for all the many blessings that you have bestowed upon us. Lord God, thank you for allowing us to be here once again. Lord, I ask that you just bless our city. Bless each employee. Lord, bless each resident. Lord, we ask that you just keep the um bad people away, Lord God. Those who want to harm one another, Lord God. We ask that you just help them to see a different way to solve their problems, Lord God. We ask that we have have a good meeting on tonight. Lord God, help us to be kind, Lord God, and help us to be loving. These things we pray in Jesus' name. Amen.

Let's rise. I aliance 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.

All right. Now we have our roll call by Miss Carter. I'm broken. Alderman McKenna here. Alderman. Alderman Bledo here. Alderwoman Armstrong here. Alderman Smith here. Alderwoman Johnson here. Alderman Langston here. Alderman Bostic here. All right. We have a quorum. Um, now we are I entertain a motion to accept the municipal docket. Alman Bosik, take a motion to accept the admin docket.

We have a motion by Alman Bos. Do we have a second? Second. Second by Alder Smith. Any discussion? Roll call, please. Miss Carter. Alderman McKenna. Hi, Alderman Bledo. Hi, Alderwoman Armstrong. I Alderman Smith, I. Alderwoman Johnson, I. Alderman Langston, I. Alderman Bostic, I. Motion passes unanimously. All right. I entertain a motion to approve the consent agenda. Mayor Albik

make a motion to approve the consent agenda items A through double C. All right, we have a motion by Albic to approve the consent agenda. Motions A through double C. Do we have a second? Second. All right. Alderwoman Armstrong. All right. Any discussion? Roll call, please. Thank you. Alderman Bostik. I. Alderman Langston. Hi. Alderwoman Johnson. I. Alderman Smith. I. Alderwoman Armstrong. I. Alderman Bledsaw. I. Alderman McKenna.

I. Motion passes unanimously. Now I entertain a motion to approve the claims docket. Mayor.

Alwoman Johnson. I move that we accept the claims docking general fund $623,72659 Library fund $15,552 $5502 Economic Fund $12,364.39 Utility Fund 269,000 22342 for a total docket of 920,864.92.

All right, we have we have a motion by Aldwoman Johnson. Do we have a second? Second. Second by Alderman Smith. Any discussion? Got it. Roll call, please. Miss Carter,

Alderman McKenna, I. Alderman Bledo, hi. Alderwoman Armstrong, I. Alderman Smith, I. Alderwoman Johnson, I. Alderman Langston, hi. Alderman Bostic, I. Motion passes unanimously.

All right. Now, we have presentations and special guests. Uh, well, just presentations for tonight. I'm going start off with the presentation concerning arubber day. Uh now therefore I Jimmy Stokes II mayor of city of Horn Lake do hereby proclaim April 17 2026 as a day and the city of Horn Lake I urge all citizens to celebrate a day and support efforts and to protect our trees and woodlands and further I urge all citizens to plant trees and glad to gladen the hearts and promote the well-being of this and our future generation. Uh we also have a fair housing uh resolution. Uh be it further resolved, the city of H shall publicize this resolution and through this publicity shall encourage owners and real estate developers and builders to become aware of their respective responsibilities and right under the federal uh fair housing law uh and amendments and any applicable uh state law uh local laws and ordinance. Um so we're going to also uh the fair housing resolution but we also have the proclamation now therefore be irresolved that in the pursuit of the shared goal and responsibilities of providing equal housing opportunities for all men and women in the city of O Lake uh Mississippi does hereby join in the national celebration by proclaiming this month of April 2026 as fair housing month uh and encourage all agencies, institutions and individuals public and private private uh and the city of Horn Lake to abide by the letter and the spirit of the fair housing law and acknowledge that uh acknowledge the North Delta PDA PDD area fair housing event to be conducted virtually via information below. All right. Also tonight we have some presentations,

employee recognitions tonight. Uh we want to thank all the employees who work for the city of Horn Lake and we want to make sure you know that you are valued especially those who have been here for years. We thank you uh for all that you have done for the city. Uh we're going to turn over to Miss AJ Lynville.

I'm going to ask for Lieutenant Gavanni Rivera to come forward please in recognition of 15 years. This is my body. Here you go. Thank you so much for your homework. Paramedic Blake Turner for 10 years a service. Thanks, sir. Thank you so much. These next ones are not here, but this is for one year. And this is we have we do want to recognize Pedro Alta Gonzalez uh for one year of service. He is not able to be here this evening. EMT driver.

I want to get that to And then we also would like to recognize Neil Gaspiler, paramedic.

Paramedic for one year of service. Once again, the board and I would like to thank all of our employees, city employees for your hard work and the things that you do to our officers and all emergency responders. Thank you so much. All right, we don't have any plans tonight. Let's go ahead to new business. resolution of clean clean priv and private property. It is a public hearing which I now declare open. We have a list of properties which have not been maintained. Uh this will give the city authority to assess private property to clean and to make our city look better. If there is is there anyone who wish to speak on any of these properties listed? Would any board member would like to speak on any of the properties listed? Is there anyone would like to speak on any of these proposition? Public hearing is now open and limited to three minutes. If anyone wish to speak on this public hearing, does anyone wish to speak on this public hearing? Public hearing is now closed. Any of the board members wish to speak? All right. I entertain a motion to accept the res resolution to clean private property.

Alman Bostic, I make that a motion to approve the resolution for cleaning the private property as addresses to the list. Motion made by Alman Bostic. Do we have a second? Second. Second by Alman Bleso. Any discussion? Roll call, please. Miss Carter. Sorry, I'm just falling apart over here. Not important. Alderman McKenna. Hi. Alderman Bledo. Hi. Alderwoman Armstrong. Hi. Alderman Smith. Hi. Alderwoman Johnson. Hi. Alderman Langston. Hi.

Alderman Bik. I. Motion passes six to one. All right. Do we have any citizen remarks for tonight?

All right, we have Miss Kirby Carter. Come on up, Miss Kirby Carter.

Commissioner Kirby Carter. Let me get put some respect on your name.

Good evening, board. I have to make up for lost time. So, you know, I had to sign in. Um, I was driving down the road and got to looking the other day and I had brought this up previously and I just thought I bring it up before the board again because, you know, we have a lot uh to offer right here on our far west end of Goodman Road. We have Chick-fil-A, we have Wendy's, Captain De's, Chipotle, there's a gas station there. Um, numerous gas stations at uh Horn Lake Road and Goodman. And I had mentioned food and gas signs off of Highway 61, reaching out to our supervisors to help try to bring in some of that off 61. There's still no signs. And I feel like it could really, really attract some business cuz I know when I first moved here, I really fed off of those signs. But South Haven has had scooters put in. They've got that off of Highway 55 already on their signs. There's other new u businesses and things that have been put up, I've noticed, on different food signs, the gas stations. So, I just felt like maybe we could go to our supervisors and stuff in our area and see if that's something we can try to work off of 61 and try to bring in some business off 61 this way. Just a thought.

Thank you, Mr. Carter, for bringing it to our attention. That that's a great idea. We'll follow up and look into it and see what we can do. Thank you so much. Have a good evening. Thank you, Commissioner Carter.

All right. Now we'll enter mayor and correspondence. Uh I would like to thank AJ for our newsletter uh that just recently came out. We just give our hand. And if you haven't seen it, uh I know it's on our website also on which is uh hornley.org also on our social media Facebook page. I think that's the only one we have. Uh but you also can look at that. Uh but we want to make sure that citizens stay informed on things going on throughout the city. Uh things happening so that we're responsible uh with your tax dollars and also with resources. Um Alman, Alman Langston, Alman Johnson, Alman Smith,

Alman Armstrong. Yes, Mayor. Just a reminder, I sent an invitation out for game night at Horn Lake Middle School to celebrate our students um who made perfect attendance. Um game night is April 14th, 5:30 to 7:00. So, it's an open invitation. So, please come out and celebrate our students who come to school every day. Thank you. Thank you. There's Horn Lake Middle School. Yes, ma'am. I know. Okay. All right. Alderman Bless. Alderman McKenna. No, sir. All right. Uh, now we'll have our um department head correspondent, Chief uh

Pull. Oh, Lord. Yes, sir. All right, Belinda. Yes, sir. Wayne, Chief Lynville.

Well, I guess I break the chain. I just want to remind all the alderman and department heads, I did put the letter out to y'all about April the 20th. They'll be here that 6:00. That's the Monday night before the next meeting. So, I'll try to send out another email when it gets to Monday or that weekend just to remind you again. But it is coming up. They want to discuss disaster situations and go over anything anybody may have questions about preparing for it. They also we got an email for all the department heads and elected officials as well today from the county. They're going to do this a winter storm response on the 21st from 10:00 a.m. to 12, but I know a lot of people can't go during the day because of their work. So, we could actually cover it that night. If you make that one here, you wouldn't need to be down there. We'll be a little more one-on-one here. Thank you. Thank you, Chief Lynville Drew.

Uh, thank you, Mayor. I don't have anything tonight, sir. Man, you you have a lot going on over that park, man. All right. Uh, Philip, evening, mayor, board. Um, I was just going to let y'all know, think I talked to most of y'all, but I dropped you a little project update on everything we have going on in Horn Lake, which is a good bit. It's a good thing. So, um, feel free to flip through that and give me a call if you have any questions. Thank you, Philip. Alexis,

thank you. I just want to uh report today that today uh the Solo County Career and Technology Center uh provided us with two full of donations, puppy food, dog food, uh kitty food, cat food for the pets at Horn Lake Animal Shelter. Uh we were there a project for this month. So he was able to pick up two full truckloads or for the provide for pets in our care. Awesome. Thank you so much. Give him a hand. We like to thank them for that donation. All right. Andrew. Yes, sir.

All right. Uh, city attorney. I don't have anything questions for any questions for attorney. All right. Board, do you have any questions? I apologize. Do you have any questions for the department heads? All right. All right. We have no executive session tonight. Uh, I entertain a motion to adjurnn. I made that motion to adjourn. Thank you, Langston. A motion made by Alman Langston. Do we have a second?

Second by Alderman Smith. Any discussion? Roll call, please. Miss Carton, Alderman Bostic. I Alderman Langston. Hi. Alderman Johnson. Hi. Alderwoman Johnson, I apologize. Alderman Smith. Hi. Alderwoman Armstrong. Hi. Alderman Bledil. Hi. Alderman McKenna. I. Motion passes uh unanimously. your