City Council - Regular Meeting

It's all right. He happened to be standing by. They brought him in the room and said, no, y'all clipped something serious. They busted her chest wide open, had her sutured, cleaned up her aorta.

I mean, she went in like, imagine going in, you think you're going to be under for 30 minutes.

And she woke up five hours later with a ventilator on. How are we? Yeah.

I gotta get it all settled in.

Did you fool them again? Me too. But did you fool them? Okay.

I can offer one of them. Okay. I can read a man like that. Just counsel me. yeah that won't keep you up tonight no Calling today's agenda meeting to order.

let's see mr. Bilgey let's see mr. Marcy Lewis in the prayer yes sir and mr. Vecino in the pledge please

Oh, Heavenly Father, we thank you for another day of grace and mercy, Father God. We pray and ask that you will watch over all of the people that are represented here today, that you watch over the city of Lake Charles and all its residents, Father God. We pray and ask that you watch down upon my colleagues as we make our decisions this evening, Father God. We pray and ask that you continually bless our families. In your darling son, Jesus Christ's name, we pray. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen.

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Appointed chairman to review bids for project number CP3537, Gosport Recreation Splash Pad. Appointed chairman to review bids for project number CP3051, 2025, Citywide Striping Package. Appointed chairman to review bids for project number CP3492, Mallard Golf Club Driving Range Improvements. Ordinances for public hearing. An ordinance ordering demolition and authorizing the City of Lake Charles sent into an agreement for demolition of a structure located at 711 Falls Street, Rose Young Fontenot and Frank Fontenot owners. An ordinance ordering demolition and authorizing the City of Lake Charles sent into an agreement for demolition of a structure located at 738 Iberville Street, swimming pool only, Nakia Yvette Guillory. An ordinance ordering demolition and authorizing the City of Lake Charles to enter into an agreement for demolition of a structure located at 312 Maple Street, Marlene Johnson Marks, owner. An ordinance ordering demolition and authorizing the City of Lake Charles to enter into an agreement for demolition of a structure located at 1302 11th Street, Stephen Daniel Peters and Betty Louise Allen Peters, owner. An ordinance ordering demolition and authorizing the City of Lake Charles Center into an agreement for demolition of a structure located at 1517 Martha Street, Don Eric Muhammad, owner. An ordinance ordering demolition and authorizing the City of Lake Charles Center into an agreement for demolition of a structure located at 641 6th Street, Matthew D. Heinrich, owner. An ordinance ordering demolition authorizing the city of Lake Charles sent to an agreement for demolition of a structure located at 802 North Simmons Street. Joseph Trent, Andrew Point, Matilda Andrew Point, Fontenot, Joanne Andrew Point, Nathaniel Gregory Key, Ramona May Key, Prudhomme, Clarence Mathias. Andrew Point, Marshall Lawrence Andrew Point, Eldridge Andrew Point, Marjorie Guillory Talbert, Peter L.G. Guillory, Eleanor Elaine Guillory St. Mary, Audrey Jean Guillory Duplichan, Julius Leo Guillory, Emily Jeanette Guillory Creighton, John Edward Guillory Serra Ardian, Guillory Williams, Cheryl Ann Guillory Atuli, Joseph Anthony Guillory, Terry Annette Guillory-Dinkins, Derrick James Guillory, Lois Vere Guillory, Louis Robert Guillory, Charles DeAndre Guillory, I mean Edwards. Cassandra Rose Edwards and Joseph Pierce Edwards, owner, subject to a tax lien held by the state of Louisiana. An ordinance ordering demolition and authorizing the City of Lake Charles into an agreement for demolition of structure located at 913 Fifth Avenue, Castillo Investments, LLC, owner. An ordinance ordering demolition and authorizing the City of Lake Charles into an agreement for demolition of a structure located at 1011 Orange Street, Carport slash Deck Only, Charles Thomas Miller, owner. An ordinance ordering demolition and authorizing the City of Lake Charles to enter into an agreement for demolition of a structure located at 1415 8th Street, South Wing Building Only, Hamilton Christian Academy, Incorporated, owner. An ordinance ordering demolition and authorizing the City of Lake Charles Center into an agreement for demolition of a structure located at 1432 Fournette Street, garage only. Alex John, Jr., estate owner. An ordinance ordering demolition and authorizing the City of Lake Charles Center into an agreement for demolition of a structure located at 1433 Shaw Street, JDB Holdings, LLC owner. subject to a tax lien held by the state of Louisiana. An ordinance ordering demolition and authorizing the city of Lake Charles to enter into an agreement for demolition of a structure located at 1616 Legion Street, Willard Edward Captain, owner. An ordinance ordering demolition and authorizing the city of Lake Charles to enter into an agreement for demolition of a structure located at 4508 Autumnwood Lane burn structure, Jacob Robert and Heather Lynn Ross, LLC, owners. Ordinances for final action and ordinance accepting the most responsive and responsible quote and authorizing the City of Lake Charles to enter into an agreement for project number CP3134, North Louisiana Avenue slash Jackson Street interchange water main improvements. An ordinance authorizing the City of Lake Charles to enter into a cooperative endeavor agreement with the Louisiana Department of Treasury for the Preon Lake pedestrian bridge. An ordinance authorizing the City of Lake Charles to enter into a cooperative endeavor agreement with the Louisiana Department of Treasury for the electrical street lights on Sallier Street. An ordinance amending section 24-4-205 of the City of Lake Charles zoning ordinance relative to variance limitations. The next item is an ordinance authorizing the settlement of a claim against the City of Lake Charles in the suit style Jana M. Gallier versus City of Lake Charles and Triron Dean McGinnis, docket number 2025-1812, Division H, on the docket of the 14th Judicial District Court, Parish of Calcasieu, State of Louisiana. And the City Council may opt to go into an executive session on that item. The next are resolutions. A resolution authorizing the City of Lake Charles to advertise to receive sale bids for project number CP3545 West McNee Street Drainage Improvement Southside Barb High School parking lot. with the companion ordinance. A resolution authorizing the City of Lake Charles to issue a request for proposals for the most qualified proposer for maintenance of city lights for the Public Works Department with the companion ordinance. An ordinance authorizing the City of Lake Charles to advertise to receive sale bids for project number LCR 109 citywide sidewalk and median enhancements. with a companion ordinance. A resolution setting date to appoint a member to the Recreation District No. 1 of Ward 3 Board to fill the expiring term of Mark Young for a period of five years. His term expires on October 27, 2006. Ordinances for Final Action. An ordinance authorizing, I mean, for introduction is an ordinance authorizing the settlement of a claim against the City of Lake Charles in a lawsuit styled Jennifer White, Kenneth White, Kathleen Washington, Daniel Washington, Sherilyn Solano, Michael Solano, Donald Piper, Cheryl Piper, and Craig Johnson versus Consolidated Gravity Drainage District Number 2, East Calcasieu. City of Lake Charles and Calcasieu Parish Police Jury, docket number 2021-5235, Division F, on the docket of the 14th Judicial District Court, Parish of Calcasieu State of Louisiana. An ordinance authorizing the City of Lake Charles to enter into a cooperative endeavor agreement with the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development for the Praon Lake Road Pedestrian Bridge. An ordinance authorizing the City of Lake Charles Center to a cooperative endeavor agreement with the Louisiana Department of Treasury relative to a one-item appropriation contained in Act 961 of 2026 RLS for park improvements at University Park and Nelson Road Park. An ordinance accepting the lowest responsive and responsible bid and authorizing the City of Lake Charles Center to an agreement for project number CP3445 Shell Beach Drive bridge over Python Cooley repair and to amend the budget as necessary. And... The last one would be an ordinance accepting the lowest responsive and responsible bid and authorizing City of Lake Charles to enter into an agreement for project number CP3537, Gosport Recreation Splash Pad. And that's all that I have.

Let's see. Long story, Mr. Marks.

No problem. I got several things. The first one is we are coming up on the October deadline for the following projects to OCD, the Sports Complex, the Gospel Recreation Center, and the Community Center on Appaloosa Street. So for, again, I am requesting that the council be given copies of the formal applications of the projects that are to be submitted to OCD that verifies that all of the necessary processes and procedures have been followed by the City of Lake Charles. In advance of the applications being submitted to on October 15 So in other words, I'm requesting that those documents be given to the council by October 1st That would give us two weeks if anything Has to be done with them The second thing is, if I'm correct, the following projects had their funding pool for various reasons. ABC School Project, and my numbers may be off, so if they're off, bear with me and give me the corrected amount. ABC School Project was two plus million. Green Coast was two plus million. Second Harvest was five plus million. Railroad Avenue was four million. and thereabouts. I'm requesting that formal documentations be forwarded to the council stating where those funds have been reallocated to and the reasons the fundings were pulled. I know we've had that verbally before but I'd like to have the council to have that in written documentation. The next thing, I would also like to have a written status update on the three projects that are moving forward, which are the Sports Complex, the Gosport Recreation Center, and the Community Center. Basically stating where we are on each project, the stage of it, are we within our budget allocations, and if we're not, will extra funding be pooled, and where will it be pooled from? an estimated timetable from groundbreaking to finish on each project. I know we can't zero in and say exactly because there's a lot of variables, but a ballpark figure, is it going to be within this term or what? I had those three things. One other thing I want to get clarity on, what is our policy in regards to if someone puts a car in another person's property and leaves it there? In other words, I had a constituent called. Somebody left a car on her property, took the license plate off, took the wheels off, and left it on her property. So now she's getting paperwork or citations from the city about having a vehicle with no wheels on her property. So she's calling because she's being forced to have to pay to move that car. So do we have any ordinances in place that govern that?

All she'd have to do is call a wrecker.

Yeah, but she's going to have to pay for it. No, she doesn't. Okay. Is that correct, mister?

As far as I know, the wrecker driver can either go after the registered owner of the vehicle or he can try to get the title with his name after a certain amount of time.

All right.

The wrecker's going to hold on to it until someone comes to claim the car. Right. And then he can claim the title. That is correct.

So it would be no cost at the owner's expense? No, she just called the record and had it removed from her property.

I don't represent the record companies, but I understand what Mr. Fondell is saying. But I can't tell you that for sure. But they generally will come and haul it off and they're going to hold on to the car. and after a period of time they have to lean on the car someone doesn't claim the car and pay for the tow they're going to sell the car either for its value or scrap and they're going to come out better than they did for the tow so that's why I understand Mr. Fondo is correct gotcha well I should tell you you had something

yes um paula broussard property standards department um according to uh property standards code enforcement it is the property owner's responsibility for their property regardless if somebody puts something an illegal pile or a car whatever on their property it's still their responsibility to contact the record service to have the vehicle removed so that's why some they received a citation from us to get the vehicle removed we do have a no call we do have a um the record that we use that will remove the vehicle you have that name so i mean i can give it i don't want to say it but i can give it to you yes all right so um but yes they can call a record service around we have a lot of record services they can call around to see which one will remove it at no cost okay so okay

In Brentwood, I called and got Entergy to come out and change all of the lights down Illinois Street, which surrounds Brentwood Park. That was about a little over a month ago. All of those lights are out again and it's not due to being broken. So if we could get in touch with Entergy to find out if they can come out and check and see if we have some sort of short, because the park around there is dark and getting calls from a lot of residents. um the tire shop on warren street do we have an update on that miss broussard and i'll tell you why i reported before that they store cars there i've given pictures if you drive in the front of it now it's like they starting to jump car lot on on the front side that faces pran lake road

According to our last case, they were compliant. We'll have to go out there again and reevaluate. So we can't be there constantly every day to see the progress in whatever they're doing. So, of course, if you file a complaint with us, it prompts us to go out there. But, I mean, it hasn't even been 30 days since it was compliant. We'll go out there again. We have spoken to the property owner, not the manager, the actual property owner, and let him know that if he is in violation again, he's gone straight to hearing. There's no removing it, and he will be fined.

Okay. Well, I'll send you some more pictures of it, so just to verify. Okay, that would be great. Okay. The other one, I got a call from a resident that lives on Mitchell and Oregon. To my understanding, Miss Wendy, if we no longer put speed bumps on alleys anymore, correct? I know we didn't do it in Oak Park. They told me the last time we did it in Oak Park, that was the last time. But I was made aware that these alleys off of Mitchell and Oregon, they have speed bumps too. and they were calling to complain because they say the speed bumps are far away. I hadn't had a chance to go ride by there, but I'm almost positive that these may have been speed bumps put by residents years ago. So they wanting to know could they put or have the city place more speed bumps because like the problem in Oak Park, they were so far away and they got a lot of speeding down those alleys. Is that possible or no?

I'm going to say I don't really know, Mr. Marks. I know in the Oak Park area, those speed bumps were really replacements. We were just replacing those and that's what we did. I'm not sure because of these speed bumps along, you said Mitchell and Oregon. If they were placed there by the HOA or the homeowners association, whoever it was, we will not be responsible for those.

you know if we own those streets now because i know we can't put i will have to check on that and get back with you all right appreciate it i went i attended the uh landlord meeting last week and i listened to all the stuff that they had to say in regards to moving the stuff out of the evictions and the law states that once the eviction goes through the marshall has 24 hours to move or the land owner has 24 hours to move the stuff out of the apartment of house and move it to the right of way they have 24 hours that they hire the marshals to sit out there and watch the stuff to make sure to give the the owner time to come back and get it after those 24 hours it's garbage i told them that the city would pick up the white goods like miss wendy told me but all the other stuff i told them that the city wouldn't pick it up all of the landlords that were in attendance and they had about 30 of them they were receptive to the fact that they have to move it and we're going to send them citations so i'd like to get an ordinance work with uh the legal try to get an ordinance to for those things that are left on that right away miss wendy go ahead

Mr. Marks, before we do that, we actually have a meeting scheduled with the city court on evictions and maybe updating the ordinance and everything. Our legal team will be, a representative from our legal team will be at that as well. So before we just go into any big plans, and I'll update you on what comes of that meeting. Understood.

Okay. We're trying to avoid them putting stuff on the curb in the first place. Yeah.

The landlord, let them go inside the house, get whatever they need, and then the landlord either take it to the dump themselves or if they put it out, they need to pay us. Well, see, the marshal says that, well, Judge Richard stated that state law tells them that they have to put it on that piece of property, that right-of-way. That's state law. So he's saying unless we can get around that, the only recourse is... What miss Wendy is talking about and possibly changing the ordinance the other thing is What happens to properties when they are sold to the state if they're adjudicated I'm looking at our list today. We had a couple of them that were sold to the state what happens do we get money off of that or We just turn it over does anybody no they got some that says we get this list every week and it says sold to the state I read a couple of them on here and I was just curious to know what does that mean you know Mr. Begaras Now I can't sign.

You know what I'm talking about? Sold to the state just means it's adjudicated property. That's the old language that they've carried over. Before 1974, the adjudicated property used to be handled by the state of Louisiana. Now it's by the parish and the city.

So that means that the property has been turned over to the city?

We have a lien for the back taxes on it. Okay. And it's got to sit there for three years, and then after the three years, it can be sold to a third party, and that's when the city can recoup some of its money. During that three-year period, the owners can redeem it, and we'll get our money back. The city will get our money back from that. Plus interest, right? Plus the interest and penalty. Yeah.

Okay.

And the other thing is... Another question is, who pays for commercial demos? Is that handled just like a regular house demo, or do we pay? Or charge the company for a commercial demo. It's handled just like a residential. And we put a lien against their property? Sure. Okay. All right. And my last question is, can, Ms. Broussard, can you explain to me what these terminologies mean on this list? It says on hold, ordinance default date, council deferred, agenda meeting, and council meeting.

okay on hold means the case has been put on hold either by the legal department or upper administration okay that's what that means the agenda meeting means that it's scheduled for agenda meeting and you'll see a date by there default date is that another one that means that after that date per city ordinance that y'all passed after that date we can go out for bids And what was the last one?

At that point, it's too late for it to come back from it. We're going in the process of tearing it down, correct? Yes. Okay. And the council meeting just has been deferred for vote?

If it says deferred and then a date, that means that the city council has deferred it to that date. And council meeting, of course, means that it's scheduled for council meeting on that date.

Okay.

All right.

that's all I have mr. president thank you mr. Bilbo yeah maybe a month ago I bought something up but I don't think I did a good job explaining myself I saw we had in the budget that we had allocated money for beautification of commercial business districts or main streets and I want to specify I really was meaning like once a once a business been down so long that it should be up to them to bring that property back up to to a standard Not us allocating money for, I got nothing against beautification if it brings in business, but I don't think we should be allocating money to beautify when someone actually owns it. And if they purchase it, they should have a requirement, a new requirement, not to bring it up to the new standards that we put on them. and she shouldn't be grandfathered in or anything. To me, I think we got more things to spend than, I got nothing against trees and flowers and sidewalks, but I think we got more that we can do and we need to start holding these businesses accountable because they just changing names. You know, I'm always referring to my good tie companies in my district. They change names, and they come back, and we still fighting them. They still ain't brought up the code. You know, I still get the, I don't know who own Miami Tie. I don't know who own the one across on Gershner, but they bought these businesses, and they just accumulating worse. I KNOW THEY MIGHT BE UNDERNEATH THE STANDARD, BUT UNDERNEATH THE STANDARD DON'T MEAN IT'S GOOD. YOU KNOW WHAT I'M SAYING? WHATEVER THAT CODE IS, IF WE GOT COMPLAINTS, WE SHOULD PUT NEW CODES, NOT TO THE SAME.

MR. RIPPLE, IF I MIGHT. YEAH. Let's say somebody's in violation because the landscaping is not in place or it died or whatever happened to it. And just because it changes hands, that obligation goes with the property and that new property owner should be responsible for the landscaping as well, not the city of Lake Charles. And really, we probably will not be issuing a transfer of licenses until it is brought up to a standard.

And just for clarity, in the budget, some of that beautification that you're reading is beautification for city-owned property throughout certain districts.

Okay, okay.

I just saw, I just hear a lot of, go ahead. No, it's all for city-owned property. We can't go beautify private property.

Yeah, if it was in the budget, it's probably, I feel pretty confident, city property because we don't go on private property and do beautification.

But I just, I really just see, I get a lot of businesses that's, come in and they'd rename it and they're still the same. You know, and then change with them.

That should not happen, Mr. Bilbo.

When you change occupational licenses is when the time you could address it, right?

Well, if you're in the process, the person that's currently operating the business is in violation, but let's say it changes hands prior to that violation being corrected, then it should follow the property and if we're aware that there's a violation there, the license shouldn't be transferred to this product.

Hold the renewal

Oh, the renewal to the standard.

Yeah, we talk about stuff as simple as parking light stripes. You know what I'm saying? You need to bring it all up to code so everything look uniformity. You know what I'm saying? I just saw a couple as I was passing. I brought it up. I didn't think I did a good job explaining. And I wanted some clarity about the beautifications. And we just come out on a holiday, so I don't have much. I had that in my notes. So I'm done. Is it? Yeah.

All right. Mr. Fondale? I don't have anything. Mr. Young?

Yes, sir. Thank you, Mr. President. One quick thing. I just wanted to spotlight the Love Our Waterways event that are coming up September 12th and 19th. I was really encouraged to see the city and the parish working together on those cleanup events. I've seen a lot of volunteers sign up. to clean up North Beach and also Calcasieu Locks, but that's a really important thing for us. And also wanted to give thanks to groups, volunteers like Clean Bayou that are taking it upon themselves to go out there in kayaks and boats and pick up Contraband Bayou and Cuyuchiculi. So just wanted to give thanks for all of those volunteers involved in that effort and encourage anybody who wants to sign up. We're giving away free litter supplies and things to help us. So that's September 12th and 19th. That's it. Thank you.

Thank you. all right the only thing I have I like to I guess bring my resolution to energy back we've done it a couple times but just not to energy regarding to our delegation regarding utilizing some of the unused FEMA dollars related to the hurricanes to be able to have the energy infrastructure that we're all paying for on utility bills, have some of that human money be redirected to pay down some of that surcharge so that we're not having to pay as much. Basically what the law says is that The co-ops were able to get FEMA money to rebuild their infrastructure, but Intergy couldn't, which makes sense. They're a private company. But now that the Public Service Commission has approved Intergy getting reimbursed by the ratepayers for those infrastructure improvements they had to make after the REIT, I think that we as Intergy payers shouldn't be treated any different than someone who's paying a co-op for their power. So we did that. We've done it a couple times. So, Ms. Ray, if you could get that, if we could just basically, I don't know, maybe take a look at it. If we need to, we can make some tweaks to it, but actually run that up again. I know that sometimes.

No, they have not.

That's what I'm asking. That's my request. I want to see that happen because, like I said, well, I'm not an attorney, but, sir, I don't think the fact that we're paying intergy makes us any – we're still a ratepayer for power, whether we're paying a private company or a co-op and – understand not wanting to pay entity because they're a for-profit entity but sure right we have a regulatory body that's put put a mechanism in place and to me you can um they can be the conduit to make that happen um so understood all right that's it i know yes sir we had a miss wendy wapperson i was supposed to call up okay before we ended the meeting okay

Council, I just wanted to introduce you all to the new city engineer, Mr. Matt Richard. I'll let him introduce himself even more.

Hi, everyone. Thank you for having me. I'm Matt Richard. I'm a licensed professional civil engineer. I've been working in the industry since about 2012. I'm looking forward to serving the citizens of Lake Charles and working with each and every one of you to improve the city and to improve our engineering department. Thank you.

Thank you. Any questions for him? Glad to have you.

Thank you very much.

You are not a contractor. You're a full-time employee with the city.

That's correct.

I'll let you get your foot wet.

Go ahead, Mr. Bondell.

Then I'll get you. All right. Anything else from the council? Anything from the administration? Nothing here. We've got three cards here, two of which are deferring time to Miles Brown. I just want to confirm. I see we have Ms. Janelle Guillory, and you're deferring to Mr. Brown. And we also have Terrence Prudom.

Okay, there he is. Okay.

All right. And, Mr. Ray, if you could, on your card, I know at least one of the subjects we're going to talk about is security, because I know you have a video. Is that the only? Yeah, that's pretty much the only thing.

Okay.

All right.

Okay. Miles Brown, 1020 4th Avenue. I want to say, I remember on January 21st, you guys voted in favor of a security contract, and it seems like whenever you guys voted for it, you stated that most of y'all wanted this just to happen for six months, but hopefully in the future, y'all will come up with a better solution. but here we are over six months and y'all possibly gonna renew this contract so um it seems like if y'all gonna renew it hopefully i'll find some better solutions than what y'all asked for on january 21st but over a period of time i've been noticing things so i wanted to provide y'all presentation of certain things that i wanted to uh highlight So, in the first video you can press play. This right here is a standard of how you're supposed to wind people from shoes to shoulder. Not only just from the front, but from the back too. And that way you can make sure that there's no weapons or drugs, whatever the case may be. And this is consistent with, I've seen this at the 14th Judicial Court, as well as the City Court, and even the IRS building. This is how they wind people down. Now, if you can go to the next video, This is how you guys are allowing it here in the city of Lake Charles. Something wrong with the beat? It hadn't started like that. Well, anyway, as you can see, you see that it's not being done properly where they're doing it just like the video you just saw. So that's just one example right there. I hate that that one started, but I have another video too to show you another example. Go to the next. Yeah, you can go to that one. I don't know why it's stuttering like this, because I gave it to him properly, but not helping my case. But the point I'm trying to make here, as you can see, is that from the video that I just showed y'all originally, compared to what you're seeing now, it's not being done properly. It's not too difficult to put a variety of things in there. So I got one more video, you can skip the next one. Not that one.

I think that one, yeah.

I got steel toes on. So usually when I have steel toes on, I don't have to walk through there, but as you can see, that's all that happens. Now, there are times where I take off my jacket, or if I put my stuff in there, and inside this folder, I can put a variety of things in here. So that's why, if you can just go to the last one. I've been asking, not that one, you can just skip that one. I've been asking for a while that you possibly consider having an x-ray scanner. This is something that they have at the 14th Judicial Court as well as the City Court. And this will actually ensure that things that are not allowed in here won't happen. And this is going to make their job a lot easier. So regardless, I think this will be a good idea for you guys to consider going forward with whatever y'all do with this contract. And I've already expressed my concerns as to why I feel the police will be better for this. But if the reason is for personal deficiencies, then I think it's understandable. But at the same time, I have noticed that the security that works directly for the city, they don't get enough credit. And I recognize it's not as easy as just saying give them a raise. But based off of what we've calculated, what the price of that would be, which is around $15,000 to $20,000 at least, As well as even giving them a raise, the city will be better off long term. I really think that even if this is an expensive thing, you have to remember when you guys voted for this contract, you were told $50,000, but then it ended up being $75,000 based off of what the news stated. So if the city can find an extra $25,000 for that, the city shouldn't have a problem possibly paying for an x-ray scanner because it would make their jobs much easier and this would make sure to provide another layer of protection. So that's mainly what I wanted to bring up to you guys. Let me just look at my notes real quick. How much time is it? Okay, perfect. Let me see. Yeah. So yeah, for the most part, like I said, I can give a variety of reasons as to why, but really this is mainly just about making sure you're preventing things from happening. Because I actually predict that one of these days, someone is gonna be bold enough to bring something they're not supposed to bring in here. And I've learned over the years that no matter how many cameras or facial recognition or whatever the case may be, when someone is determined to do something in the heat of the moment, they don't care about that. They're gonna do something. And at the end of the day, we don't want nothing bad to happen. So I really feel like this will help everyone out. This isn't an attack on the security that y'all have here or what you guys voted on, but this is just about making sure everyone is safe in here and also the transit building too. I recognize that that's another layer of the contract, but that's mainly what I had to say. I hate that the video's kind of stuttered a little bit, but I'm aware that most of you already got the videos that y'all seen. So there's plenty of other examples of security breaches, but I'm glad I was able to present this to you. And that's mainly it for that. And the last thing I do want to bring up to y'all, and I want to just, I should have brought this up a while ago. which is I'm very grateful to people that yield their time to me. So, you know, whoever yields their time to me, whatever the case may be, don't assume that they're in agreement with me or disagreement with what I have to say or an association. And that also goes with me too. If I don't speak in a meeting and I yield my time to someone, I have no problem objectively doing that to anybody because I like to hear people speak. I admire people coming up here to speak. This is a public forum. So just don't assume that I'm part of whatever situation or whatever somebody wants to bring up. It's pretty clear by now that I can speak for myself and I don't need anyone to speak for me. So that's mainly what I have to say on that. And just consider that going forward whenever you guys decide to renew this contract or whatever solutions that y'all have in the future. So that'll be all.

Appreciate it. Thank you. All right. We don't have any other cards.