Code Enforcement - Regular Meeting

Okay, good afternoon everybody. It is 05:00. So, we're gonna go ahead and we're going to call the city of Jonesboro Public Safety Council Committee meeting to order. First on the agenda today is roll call. So, if you will mark your attendance.

Showing six present. So we do have a quorum. So moving right into our next item on the agenda will be the approval of minutes. Those are the minutes from our previous public safety meeting and if everybody's had an opportunity to review those minutes, I will entertain a motion to approve. So moved. Second. Okay, I have a first and a second to approve those minutes. If everybody agrees, we'll go ahead and mark your vote on the device in front of you. That motion does pass. Okay.

Moving on into the next item on our agenda today is ordinances to be introduced. Ordinance twenty five zero eighteen and we will read this in its entirety to break down the to break down the specifics on this. An ordinance to the city of Jonesboro to place various traffic signs at desired locations as determined by the traffic control committee. Now, therefore, it be ordained by the city council for the city of Jonesboro, Arkansas to make the following changes as recommended by the traffic control committee. Establish no parking on Southern Ridge Boulevard, Jackson Drive, Southern Creek Lane, and Southern Branch Drive, all in the Southern Hills subdivision.

Establish stop sign on Naughty Pine and Gladiola Drive, establishing a stop sign on Naughty Pine and Pike Road, establishing a stop sign on Gratitude Trail at Elmhurst Drive, establishing a speed limit on Naughty Pine at 25 miles an hour, and establishing a limit on Elmhurst at 25 miles an hour. Move forward to full council. Second. Okay, I have a first and a second. Is there any questions or comments from the committee?

Any from the administration and anything from the public in attendance? Okay seeing no questions or comments, we'll move on and if you will lock in your vote. Okay, that motion motion does pass. Okay. That is all for new businesses.

Next item on the agenda is pending items and I know of none. Moving on to the next item on the agenda is other business. Don't know if everyone's had an opportunity to review the report from vector mosquito control or have any questions or comments but I will say this was brought up a little bit in the AMP meeting that we had yesterday. And there's a lot of environmental factors that come from this, but some of the information in here I found very enlightening as far as the testing that's been done so far compared to May '4 compared to May '5 a year over year here is that in May '4 in the testing and they've even included an additional site for their testing, is that we went from two seventeen mosquitoes collected to only 43, and I think that speaks a lot to a lot of the spraying that we've already accomplished this year as compared to what we did in May 2024. Back in May '24, we had 97 total miles that were sprayed compared to the three twenty nine so far in the month of May, and the total number of acres treated moved from 3,500 to approximately 12,000.

So seeing over double go into the amount of application in the area that has been treated saw a roughly 80% reduction in the mosquitoes that were collected from those sample sites. Hopefully that's starting to show kind of it trending in the right direction. But of course, all the data and everything that we're able to collect from last year we had the ASU Department of Entomology that provided us a study and able to treat for these mosquitoes a little bit better. We're seeing results come through, but we're also talking about collaborating collaborating with with our our counterparts counterparts at at the the county level to maybe expand our scope and being able to target these nuisance pests going forward. So if anybody has any questions and or comments, I'd be happy to entertain those at this time.

When do we typically see there's no aerial sprays? When do they typically do that? Is that later in the year or later in the season?

My understanding, Councilman Klein, I is think it's in the month of July, August when we typically see those. Brian, do you happen to remember that from previous years? July? Okay. Yeah, I think we think we can expect to see that in the next thirty to forty five days. Yes.

Chairman? Yes. Probably a Brian question. They're up for bid sometime soon, is that right? When is that?

Yeah, I can double and triple check this, but I looked at it the other day and I believe that's up for bid again for next year service. So I think that original contract was passed in 2018 or 2019. There was a series of auto renewals in there. And so we'll have to prepare a bid packet something along those lines that will go out later in the year. So I think we all need to kind of think about what we would like see in that bid packet, if there's anything different that we want to look at or that we would package together in that.

I think I'd just like to see them sing for their supper a little bit. I mean, just a chart and comparison and I know they're doing a lot of work in different places. How many flyovers do they do and how many square miles? I don't know there's all kind of variables based on water and topography and it's hard to make comparisons. I know we've all pushed on them very hard, all of us, and we don't ever get a lot of specific answers. And I bet when it's up for bid, maybe they'll be more eager to please us.

And I mean, would be surprised if they were the only bidder and that might be something that, of course, if it's a bid or if it's an RFQ, that looks like, I think you'll see some different offerings from probably not only them, maybe the bid levels of packages, but also from some other competitors. I know years ago, I think we switched with another competitor, but at time, the I don't know if there was any other options between just the two. So, pleased with what we've seen so far, but you just don't know what tomorrow holds as far as mosquito breeding environment. Never pass up a chance to thank the community and code enforcement sanitation for all their work that they're doing as far as removing a lot of tires during these neighborhood cleanups and a lot of junk and flower pots and all that kind of stuff that you know if we would all just do our part the mosquito population would be a lot less in Jonesboro because we're not going spray our way out of this issue. Mean, we're a town surrounded by rice fields in Arkansas.

So to think we can completely eliminate them with today's science is probably not going to happen, but we can all do our part and help reduce that. And I think the thousand tires we took out of the streets, you know, last year, the neighborhood cleanups definitely is a good start to that.

Ryan, I forgot this number yesterday, but I was pretty impressed by it. What'd you say one tire could possibly breed as far as mosquitoes?

So Darren, you know, I don't know who verifies this kind of stuff. I'm not counting on but

Probably ASG.

Yeah. I've the statistics in studies that say one tire can produce environment that can produce up to 100,000 mosquitoes during a breeding season. So it's definitely something to think about.

Gotcha. Thank you, Brian. Okay. Any other questions or comments regarding vectors report? Okay. Moving on to the next item on our agenda will be public comments. Is there anything from anybody in attendance? This is an opportunity to speak on anything that was not covered on the agenda today. Seeing none moves on to our next item being adjournment. So move.

I'll second.

Okay, have a person a second. All in favor? Aye. Okay, any opposed? We do stand adjourned. Thank you very