City Council - Regular Meeting

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You good? Council, y'all ready stuff? I will call the meeting to order. Brother brethren, would you stop for prayer? Let's pray. Dear God, thank you for the day. Thank you for every blessing that's ours. Thank you for the privilege we have of living in a country uh where we have freedoms that we have. Just guide our meeting tonight. May we look to you and everything that uh is said and done in Jesus name. Amen. Amen. Amen. To the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for its one nation, indivisible with liberty and justice for all.

Baker here. Bradley here. King here. Singinger here. Thompson here. Robert Thompson here. Is there a motion for approval of tonight's agenda? So move. Second. Second. Baker. Yes. Bradley. Yes. King. Yes. Ringer. Yes. Crystal Thompson. Yes. Robert Thompson. Yes. Is there a motion for approval of the minutes? Some moved. Second. Second. Miss. Lisa. Bradley. Yes. King. Yes. Russer. Yes. Chris Thompson. Yes. Robert Thompson. Yes. Baker. Yes.

There's no unfinished business. Under new business, we have ordinance for 2026 budget. Miss Lisa, could you read that please? being enacted by the city council of Clarksville, state of Arkansas, an ordinance to be titled an ordinance providing for and adopting for the city of Clarksville, Arkansas, a budget for the 12 months beginning January 1st, 2026, ending December 31st, 2026, and to appropriate resources and uses for every expenditure item and operating fund to declare an emergency and for other purposes. Whereas the city council has made a comprehensive study and review of the proposed budget. And whereas it is the opinion of the city council that the schedules and exhibits of financial information prepared and reviewed revealing anticipated revenues and expenditures for the calendar year appear to be as accurate as possible for budget purposes. Now therefore be it ordained by the city council of the city of Clarksville, Arkansas. one that this ordinance shall be known as a budget ordinance for the city of Clarksville, Arkansas, adopting a budget for the 12-month period beginning January 1st, 2026 and ending December 31st, 2026 reflecting estimated revenues and expenditures as herein after set forth on the succeeding pages which is incorporated here in by reference. All revenues herein are estimated and subject to change and all appropriations are calculated upon available revenue. Two, the effective amounts of funds for each and every item of expenditure classification herein proposed in the budget for 2026 are hereby approved by the city council of Clarkville, Arkansas and are hereby authorized and appropriated for the purpose hearing set forth for the calendar year ending December 31st, 2026. Three, emergency clause being necessary to maintain the health, safety, and welfare of the citizens of the city of Clarksville, Arkansas. An emergency is hereby declared to exist and this ordinance shall take full force and effect immediately after its passage.

Okay. For questions or comments. That includes a 60 cent an hour rate. Yes. Great.

Questions, comments. Council and entertain a motion to suspend the rules and place it on the second reading. So move second. Miss Lisa. King. Yes. Risinger. Yes. Crystal Thompson. Yes. Robert Thompson. Yes. Baker. Yes. Bradley. Yes. Read by title, please.

Be enacted by the city council of Clarksville, Arkansas. State of Arkansas. an ordinance to be titled an ordinance providing for and adopting for the city of Clarksville, Arkansas, a budget for the 12 months beginning January 12th, 2026 and ending December 31st, 2026 and to appropriate resources and uses for every expendure item and operating fund to declare emergency and for other purposes. Is there a motion to suspend rules placed on it third reading? So move second. Second Lisa Russer. Yes. Crystal Thompson. Yes. Robert Thompson. Yes. Baker. Yes. Bradley. Yes. King. Yes. Could you read my title, please?

Be enacted by the city council of Clarksville, state of Arkansas. An ordinance to be titled an ordinance providing for and adopting for the city of Clarksville, Arkansas, a budget for the 12 months beginning January 1st, 2026 and ending December 31st, 2026 and to appropriate resources and uses for every expenditure item and operating fund to declare emergency and for other purposes. Is there a motion to adopt the ordinance? So move. Second. Second. Lisa. Crystal Thompson. Yes. Robert Thompson? Yes. Baker? Yes. Bradley? Yes. King? Yes. Risinger? Yes. Is there a motion to approve the emergency? So move.

I heard three. Second. Robertson. Robert Thompson. Yes. Baker, yes. Bradley, yes. King, yes. Russer, yes. Crystal Thompson, yes. Thank you, council. We're going to work the to improve that for the for the employees. I know we did 60 cents. The goal is to get a dollar. Hopefully things go well, we're going to move right that way later on this year. Uh six is ordinance for reszoning Tyson. Miss Luc, when you're ready, could you read that, please?

An ordinance adjusting and amending the zoning map for the city of Clarksville, Arkansas. Whereas the city of Clarksville has heretofor adopted a zoning ordinance and official zoning map to guide and influence the allocation and arrangement of land uses the development of land and the future building within the corporate limits of the city of Clarksville. And whereas a petition was filed in accordance with the provisions of set ordinance to reszone certain lands within the corporate limits of the city of Clarksville. And whereas a public hearing was held on setition on December 18th, 2025, the planning commission approved the boundary change on December 18th, 2025 and recommended that the city council adopt the change and res said change was reviewed in its entirety and found to be wholly acceptable. Now therefore be it ordained by the city council of the city of Clark Arkansas that section one following described land is hereby regzoned from zoning classification R-2 AH to 1-2 I-2 description part of the northeast quarter of the southeast quarter NE-4 SE-4 of section 8 township 9 north range 23 west described as follows beginning at the southeast corner of the said northeast 4 southeast These four vents north 1,119.5 ft to the right of way of interstate highway number 40 access road vents west 12 degrees 15 minutes north following said road right away 791 ft to a point 744 ft west of the east line of said northeast 4 southeast 4 bent south 1,287 feet to the south line of said 40 bent east 744t to the point of beginning containing 21.38 acres more or less. All said property being located at 1238 Market Street, Clarksville, Arkansas. Section two, all ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict here withwith are hereby repealed. Section three, emergency clause. It is hereby found and determined that such reasonzoning is

necessary for the efficient operation of the city and the preservation of public health, safety, and welfare. Therefore, an emergency is declared to exist and the ordinance shall be in full force effect immediately upon passage and approval. Ethan, would you support me in some kind of push to get rid of that so we don't have to read that? There's got to be some better way of doing that. Right. Morgan, you Yes, sir. Um, so the plan commission reviewed this. Um, River Valley Animal Foods, uh, is what's there now. It's Morgan Barrett. Got him.

Got him. you threw me off. So, it it has operated there for a long time and has operated as a non-conforming use. Uh there they desire to perform a significant upgrade and investment to that site and that facility. And for that to happen, they had to get it into the proper zone. So, that's what this is about, just getting its use consistent with the zone. Um, do you want to talk about the amount of that investment? What they're doing is replacing all their they're building with the cookers in it. Well, let me stop for So, we're talking about the Tyson protein plant on Market Street next to the Walmart Super Center. Correct.

Yes, sir. East of Walmart. So, everybody knows this what we're talking about. They're they're going to remodel that at a a I think estimated capital outlay is 23 million. Yep. So, um, a lot of improvements to be made there. much needed improvement. So

big investment in Clarksville. And um so this is uh one of the things I did say um is that the new equipment will streamline the process and improve their process u from what really one end to the other. And this this ordinance just gets it consistent with the actual current use and the way it's been used for a long time. And it was passed unanimously by the planning commission. Mayor, you know me. U is there a specific reason and Morgan may may have to answer this why we have an emergency clause. Are they prepared to start construction tomorrow or is that's that's my only question. Not that I know of other than they started before I think they want to get started and not have it go through the full 90day process. So, this started what? Back in November, late November, 1 December.

It it's moved along rapidly and we gave them some time frames. We laid it out on different meetings that they could hit as far as in January planning commission, February, city council, and they wanted to expedite it as soon as possible. That's why it was on the December planning commission meeting so it could be here tonight. Okay. Thank you. Have a question, sir. Come to the come to the mic, please. First, did you did you sign up? Did you sign up for it? No, I haven't. So, I can't ask a question. We typically don't allow that. Um, if you sign up before the meeting for that agenda item, let me let me pull the council and see if they won't allow you. Okay. Council,

do you want to let this lady ask you a question? Okay. Go ahead. Yes, ma'am. I thought there was going to be Q&A after this is about Tyson down there at the end of the meeting. I was just wondering if ADQ is aware of the smell that comes out of that um plant when you go into Walmart and you come out a lot of times it doesn't smell very nice and I was just wondering if ADQ could follow up and do something about that. So no, you're fine. You fine, but it's also know this. I've learned in in my dealings here that Pixswuite across the street is a great deal of that smell.

Okay, maybe they should be contacted too.

Yes, ma'am. So a few years ago, Morgan, you may jump in on this too. The city of Rustville spent a lot of money getting a was it smellter or sniff meter? It's a thing. It's a thing. And so they created an ordinance and there was a rendering plant still there today. Um that again if you go in Rustville especially in the summer it's pretty ripe. And so they tried to create a process to prevent that and find that when that smell was overbearing. There's a lawsuit that was filed. There's a case out of I think it's city uh city of county of Washington and I want to say it's a Fatville case, but basically the ADEQ is in charge of any sort of noxious odors like that. It's hard to have an ordinance that we can do anything. So yes, ADQ needs to know about it, but they have certain parameters and it's very difficult to regulate those sorts of smells. And Morgan, is there anything else that you can add? That's

okay. They're supposed to have a written complaint. Okay. Real problem and it's a problem in multiple communities. I don't think Ma'am, can you can you tell me your name? It's Marvel Anderson. Okay. I don't think that we have come up with a process to address it well, but it's hopefully we'll figure it out pretty soon. Yeah. Right. And maybe the one up here on Cherry Street, too. That's ad. Yes. Thank you very much. This new process may help with that.

It's u cities cities are restricted by in a way they're not restricted, but there's only so much they can ask, right, legally. So for any business that comes to town, if they fit in a zoning code, that's where the council and the planning commission focus their needs. And like if it's a C2 versus a C1 versus a C3, each have different requirements because of the locality to residences and schools. Um if you go back in time, those were here remember when adult the adult the exart came to town. Our codes didn't address any of that. So, we learned by that process that we need to try to be forward thinking and think of all those things that potentially can come to town so that we're zoned accordingly. But we don't do like in in the terms of environmental. We don't have that process. We require them to go through federal and state permits and then they can get a permit from the city. So, once they have those permits and we know that they're clear from both federal and state, we have no grounds to deny them at that point. And to do so, you'd be in violation of the interstate commerce law. Find yourself in in court fighting that out. So, we try to stay ahead of it best we can. I don't know. I think at some point in time, they required, for example, the city required Tyson to keep the doors closed whenever they were washing trucks, keep that smell down. Don't know that to be the truth, but I was told that and I've never seen that in writing. And I don't know that legally the city has the authority to do that. There's no legal grounds to do it. So,

and it's all kind of based on atmospheric conditions because sometimes you can go down to Walmart, there's absolutely no smell and the next time when it's overcast and everything, it's knocks you in your face soon as you step out of the vehicle. So, a lot of that is strictly by the climate by the by the atmosphere. So there'd be it'd be hard for us or even probably even ADQ to specifically say on this day it the smellometer or whatever was this reading because you know it it's there's just a a lot of of speculation on what their smell is.

Sorry ma'am. No, no, it's fine. It's fine. Any council? If not, I would entertain a motion to suspend the rules and place it on it second reading. So move second. Okay, Miss Lisa. Baker, yes. Bradley, yes. King, yes. Yes. Thompson, yes. Robert Thompson, yes. Could you read by title, please? An ordinance adjusting and amending the zoning map for the city of Clarksville, Arkansas. Is there a motion to suspend a rules and place on its third reading? Some move. Second. Second. Miss Lisa. Bradley. Yes. King. Yes. Ringer. Yes. Crystal Thompson. Yes. Thompson. Yes.

Baker. Yes. Did you read by title when you're ready? An ordinance adjusting and amending the zoning map for the city of Clarksville, Arkansas. Is there a motion to adopt the ordinance? So move. Second. Miss Lisa. King, yes. Risinger, yes. Crystal Thompson, yes. Robert Thompson, yes. Baker, yes. Bradley, yes. Is there a motion to approve the emergency? I'll move. Second. Second. Miss Lisa. Risinger. Yes. Crystal Thompson? Yes. Robert Thompson? Yes. Baker? Yes. Bradley? Yes. King?

Yes. Thank you. Uh, next item is going to be 6C expense for fire maintenance for auto extrication Jason. Chief Chief Wer. No, he he had to leave. Oh, got a call. Okay. They had a call. Yeah. Basically, um, who are you?

Wette Holland. Um they wanted they it's a invoice of several different pieces of equipment that total up to 72,9 $295. Um and he'd like to take that out of fire maintenance account. And this is a source soul source uh provider for the precision res I can't say the word precision rescue equipment. Do we Is that in addition to the extra pitch and equipment that we have? It's replacing it. Is it? I think it's I think it's replacing it. Upgrading and and replacing.

Yeah. So, and he's wanting to approval to take it out of his fire maintenance account. Is there a motion to approve that? He probably would have. Is there a second? Second, M. Please Thompson. Yes. Robert Thompson. Yes. Baker. I'm going to say no because uh I should have said it up front. I'm going to excuse myself from that because by me being a firefighter I think. Yeah. Bradley. Yes. King. Yes. Rosinger. Yes.

Thank you. Council Lisa. When you're ready, could you read the resolution for federal surplus property? a resolution in support of reviving the state-run federal surplus property program administered by the state of Arkansas. Whereas the Arkansas federal surplus property program has historically provided cities, towns, counties, state agencies, fire departments, and nonprofits across the state with access to highquality government grade equipment and supplies at a fraction of retail cost. And whereas the program enabled local governments to acquire essential items such as vehicles, tools, office furniture, emergency response gear and generators at discounts of up to 90%, often paying only 5 to 10% of the original value. And whereas the program was recently shut down due to a reported $300,000 operating deficit, largely caused by changes in federal policy that shifted surplus property sales to online platforms reducing the volume of highv value items available to the state. And whereas despite this shortfall, local governments collectively paid approximately $900,000 for surplus items through the program, receiving goods worth many times that amount, demonstrating the program's high return on investment, and value to Arkansas communities. And whereas the closure of the program disproportionately affects small and rural municipalities that rely on affordable access to durable equipment to maintain public safety, infrastructure, and essential services. And whereas the Arkansas Legislative Council's Joint Performance Review Committee has heard testimony from local officials and emergency responders urging a fiscal impact study and reconsideration of the program's closure. And whereas the city of Clarksville, Arkansas has directly benefited from this program in the past and recognizes its critical role in supporting local government operations. Now therefore be it resolved by the city council of Clarksville Arkansas one that we strongly support the revival or replacement of the Arkansas federal surplus appropriate program. Two, we

urge Governor Arkansas General Assembly and the relevant state agencies to explore sustainable funding models or partnerships to restore the file service. Three, that a copy of this resolution be forwarded to the Arkansas Department of Public Safety, the Arkansas Legislative Council, and our local legislative delegation. council. I I know that uh and and Brit's here with us tonight. So I and Stanley Bullet can tell you that we rely a lot on surplus property being available and fact that the federal government's now wanted to to basically, you know, turn it off. And some of the county folks in here can talk about the rural fire departments and smaller communities that that depend on those equipment. That's because they can't afford it. um but they could afford it being there and so them wanting to shut it down. Basically, this resolution is you guys authoring me authorizing me to sign this forwarded on to the municipal league and to the governor at the winter conference this week. So, with your approval, I will do that gladly and let them know we're not happy with them closing down the surplus.

I make a motion we pass resolution. Second. A second.

Robert Nelson. Yes. Baker. Yes. Bradley. Yes. King. Yes. Ringinger. Yes. Crystal. Yes. And the last item is going to be the CCU nomination. I didn't have anybody this year. And still we don't have any anybody for planning and zoning. So, the the motion is to to I think it's Ethan. Uh, who's Rory not here tonight? Yeah, I think it's Ethan. Ethan's Ethan Powell was one that was up this year, I believe. So, but I thought he was rolling back on.

That's what we're doing tonight. Yeah. Yeah. So, the idea is to roll Ethan Powell back on. So, that needs your approval or recommendation. I recommend that we allow him to roll over. Is there a second? Continue. Miss Lisa Baker. Yes. Bradley. Yes. King. Yes. Risinger. Yes. Crystal Thompson. Yes. Robert Thompson? Yes. And mayor, I I go off of uh this this year and I've been on ever since it started. I think some of these We got to bring that in February. Somebody brought that to me today that we got to bring you a new set of rules for 26 and committees. We'll do that in February.

All right. Who Who wants Who wants to take any spot? Robert, do you want to do it? Robert's not been on the committee. Y'all nominate Robert. He's been real quiet. I've been on there ever since it started. You gonna nominate Robert? Yeah. Yeah. Well, I'm looking at Robert. That's nomination. Is there a second? I'll see. There you go. Is there a vote by council? All in favor? All in favor say I. I. All oppose say the same. Congratulations. Congratulations.

Uh, CCU. Sorry. I did that. Dana Purcell, CCU. Sorry, Roy is sick today, so you probably don't want him here. Um, did y'all have any questions? That's all right. Thank you. Roy taught you well. Thank you. Uh chamber,

you guys are killing it by the way.

Thank you. It is uh all thanks to our partnerships that we're able to make with our members and then with you guys also. So tonight I would like to highlight one partnership that we had in 2025 which was the city and downtown revitalization grant program. Um it was a $100,000 investment that funded six total projects resulting in 252,33 and 54 cents in completed upgrades to our local businesses and buildings. there was over almost 400,000 total projects applied for. Um so it shows that there is still a need to be met in our community and we look forward to further partnership. Uh and then additional grant resources that we can find to be able to meet that need. Um

among those recipients are 210 building updates, the beautiful mural that you see from Cherry Street, as well as roof repair, family shoe store, their fantastic windows in their upstairs. um their awnings as well. Uh Freedom Pet Wash, a new business that we're excited to have. We haven't had a resource like that in Clarksville. The Shabby Pig, Coach's Corner, and Tate renovation, all for exterior facade enhancements. So, with this program, it was a 50% reimbursement to eligible and improved projects. Uh it's been successful in the past three years. So, we look forward to further growth. Um along with that, uh any pro there were three projects in downtown uh that were not chosen to be recipients and we were able to coordinate with Main Street Arkansas being a network program and be able to fund those projects as well through a grant with them. So, um we're very thankful for that opportunity to be able to bring that resource.

Been amazing. Um I'm sure everyone is, you know, see drive by that that mural is incredible. Great. Thanks for putting the uh the little bike mountain bike guy on there. It's amazing. Uh Freddy's place on the west end looks really good. He put a sign out there and Doug Doug's shoe store looks amazing. Just it it just shows pride of ownership and it just it's really cool. So appreciate y'all's leadership on that for sure. Thank you. Is there any questions that you have for me? We do have our annual report uh that will be happening at our awards banquet this Friday. Um, so I'm not giving away all of the spoilers for the annual report. So you'll have to show up to hear all they'll confirm. You got confirmations from the council by Friday.

Those that I don't, I'll see you after the meeting. We'll talk. Thank you guys. You got

I won't be there. Chief some others Clark Police Department. I have the December numbers for the department. Offense violations were 395. Ticketed violations were 50. Warning citations were 185. Incident reports were 124. There were 64 arrests, 33 accident reports, 11 assigned CD cases, 12 closed CD cases. Two search warrants were executed. Seven agency assists were recorded. Uh, seven arrests for possession of controlled substance. There were 10 K9 deployments, 13 served warrants, 2,127 active warrants. There were 109 dispatch calls and 17 special events. There were 50 tasks assigned to code enforcement and 48 of those were completed. There were 22 drone deployments, uh, a mix of training and actual deployments on those, but 22 total for the month. Uh, if you look at the other page I provided, these are the numbers that Councilman King requested for the 911 funds, the budget. Uh, if y'all have any questions on any of that, I'll try to answer them best I can. I need the numbers.

Is the range out there done? It is done in the sense that we can use it. Could it use a little more TLC? Yes, it needs a little more gravel and roads a little rough, but we are able to use it. It's it's fine for use. And that that's on our list of things to do is kind of just improve those roads a little bit and drainage. Get a little drainage work done. Anything else? Nope. Thank you. Thank you. Cody's out sick. Uh Dr. Fischer. I saw him. There he is.

Steve Fischer, uh, chairman of the airport commission. Um, everything on the list that you should have, uh, is not anything I don't think we need to discuss unless you see something you want to discuss. But the last item is something that was sprung on me uh on December 24th and we've been talking about uh considering in fact we spent $35,000 on um uh 90% construction ready um plans for or design for uh an airport terminal. And it's something that, you know, we're going to end up needing. We're we're not up to snuff by by any means. And I've traveled to a lot of airport terminals here in Arkansas. Well, the reason why this is coming up now is because on the 24th, I found out through an email uh about um a billion dollar grant. It's a continuation of that that BL BIL funding that you know is kind of expiring this year to some degree but there are some places that that BIL that um by partisian you know funding Congress funding uh is continuing and one of the places is in um uh airport terminal um improvements and construction and uh of that billion you know most of us going to the larger hubs, but 10% of it is going to the smaller airports. And we should never be in the habit of ignoring these things because, you know, we didn't ignore a 300 $3.5 million grant a few years ago to rehab our runway. And and against all likelihood, we got that. And that was a huge thing for our community. It would have it would have been pretty costly for us. And we sure

needed the runway. I don't think we need the airport terminal as much as we needed that runway, but we certainly do. And u this is something that the mayor and I will talk about over the next uh few days because there's a deadline coming up and and I it's not a deadline I I ignored. I didn't even find out about it until today. Well, no, I didn't find out about that until Christmas Eve. Then I talked to Garver, our engineers about that and they were looking into it and finally I got the email from them this morning saying, you know, pick up the phone and call me and um I found out that there is a deadline coming on Thursday. This is a no commitment deadline to u apply for this grant. It's not going to cost us anything to apply for it. It doesn't even cost us anything in Garver money, you know. That's pretty amazing.

That's amazing. Yeah. But anyhow, uh you know, we uh one of the reasons why we did this study or study, we did a study. I I actually flew around to a whole bunch of airports and looked at the airport terminals. And let me tell you, every community that is our size and our economic activity has a much nicer terminal building. You know, they have they have decent bathrooms. They have a kitchen area. They have a counter behind which you know all of the um all the um you know people pay for things and and and the airport manager keeps up with stuff. We uh for the community almost virtually not virtually every single one of them has a nice conference room which is something you really need on an airport. and they have a place for pilots to relax and and um anyhow that there's we have a lot of deficits and and this grant it it u addresses a lot of those things. It's it it's kind of was kind of it seemed at first it was directed toward making things accessible especially to families but it turns out it's really much more than that even to the extent of talking about competitiveness and economic viability of uh a particular community and aging infrastructure and um and uh we're not we're not um compliant um um we're ADA compliant. We are our our energy efficiency is horrible. All you have to do is walk in there and you can see it. So that we actually address a number of those things that are um

that I think that this money was made available for. So, I guess what I'm doing is I since it was thrown at me today and I've shared this with the mayor and we just need to talk, but I thought that this is something that you all at least hear about and I don't know if you have any questions about it. Okay. Well, we'll we'll work on this and see if we can get something sent in on Steve. Since you're not there's not going to be another meeting between now and Thursday, do you need a resolution from from the council to at least apply for it?

Yes. Yes. So, we do need that resolution, that motion authorize the mayor to sign for his application to apply for that that grant just to apply for it. So, so move second. Second, Miss Lisa Baker, yes. Bradley, yes. King, yes. Risinger, yes. Crystal Thompson, yes. Robert Thompson, yes. When you get done hurting people tomorrow, let me know and we're gonna Okay. Uh Stanley and Bill, you have my reports. If any questions, feel free to answer.

Oh, come on. Well, yeah. I mean, we're going to go over it in the second second meeting, but I we'll address it here right now. I want I just want the council to know that we set a record uh this weekend at the multi-purpose building. There has never been that many people in that building at one time than was this weekend. Every spot was.

And so just for the community to understand, just imagine a day where the soccer field is out there running full speed, a thousand people, the baseball fields are running, the softball fields are running, that thing is running. For every small business in town, whether you're a boutique, a food sales, whatever, gas station, your population that you're pulling from now is 25,000, but this weekend was 35,000. You add the other tournaments in, it becomes 50,000. So that's that many more people going past your door. And we've seen that from 2019 by investing in parks and moving forward, our our revenues have grown by 33%, which means there's that many more people in town spending money at our businesses. So it's all relative. And this weekend, your staff that we I just can't emphasize enough what they get paid for what they do, what you guys put up with is incredible. I just wanted them to know it and I wanted to make sure that the community knew that we're aware of it. And just like our police and fire, you guys, this parks, you guys are just killing it.

If you just drove by there, you it was unbelievable how packed it was. And our police department, your artillery was there. When I drove by Sunday evening, Subway ran out of food. Yeah, we ran out of food early on Saturday, but um you know, they were running their own concession stand. Still, we we did over a grand just on Saturday out of our little concession stand.

And council, so you know that, you know, our aquatic fund took a big hit last year, but essentially that entire aquatic facility has been remodeled. The outdoor park has been remodeled. The indoor part, he's still working on the on the the pool pack. And indoors, the new walking track has been done. We took the the air conditioners off the roof that was causing all the leaks, put them on the side. So, it doesn't happen without belief from the council and your efforts. So, for the city to know, we should be a good 10 12 years down the road should we have any more. So, we're going to let the account build back up. We have the new roof almost what you'd say 80 90% finished. 90% on the on the on the MP. And that was all the insurance claim and hopefully we're saving a grand out of that side.

Next month we start putting the new roof on the terrarium side, the glass side. So yep, I think it's February 12th is what this schedule is. Yep. For a community our size to have that kind of resource. U it's it's it's beyond humbling to see the effort that you guys go through to protect it and keep it up to par. And this council supports you doing that. So well, you will see a little construction like we said through next month. Hopefully that's only biggest construction you'll see through the rest of the year. I think that should handle it. Thank you guys. That's all I should

uh on recycle. I just want to say that um following that issue with the the potential risk that the the recycle center was seeing right at at risk of this. When you're starting, when you're getting buckets of of feces and carcasses from animals, it's time to pause and think about what we're doing at the recycle because that actually puts at jeopardy the very mission of recycling. And then it causes our employees who don't have the proper training or equipment to have to sort through that stuff. So that's the reason we pause the entire facility. That's the truth of it. And so we've reopened it when we can staff it to protect it, make sure we've got somebody there. so it doesn't go back. It used to be the honor system. There was never any money allocated from the city or tied to that system. It was an honor system and now we're we're taken from parks to operate it and street and it's working just fine. We need volunteers on those off weekends on those those odd hours. Saturday from noon to 6. This weekend was Stanley's fault because I couldn't get the gate open.

Yeah, I was out. But recycle is not going to go anywhere. Go ahead. No, I said I was going to explain what happened this weekend. We did have a volunteer come up this weekend to run that. I was out to my brother and out of service and he couldn't get the lock open. So, he didn't know how to do it, so it was just shut down Saturday. We had got several people upset, but that is what happened this weekend.

So, we have that commitment to the community, right? We we have that facility. We have that mission. We had that agreement with Green Source. It ain't going anywhere. We just have to do certain things differently because the risk we were put at. And so for the inconvenience that it's caused, I'm sorry that it's not open 24/7 and I don't see it will be in anytime soon because we have proven as a community we can't do it right. So we have to do it in a way we can control it and that's just the way it is. So uh Wade acco numbers to Miss Thompson again. Oh, he's good.

He's doing a good job. Uh Wade Bell, director of animal control. Um y'all have my report, but there was a typo on the number of dogs placed in the shelter. Uh it's supposed to be six and not 84. So, I'm going to make the next report more specific because two of those were from arrests. So, okay. If you all have any questions, just let me know. Thank you, Wayne. Thank you, AP. We've got we've got a meeting this month. Wednesday. Or I say we that they'll have a meeting this month.

Probably. When did you meet? I don't know. Wednesday. Wednesday. I will I will be there. Wednesday at 4:30. Wednesday at 4:30. I would be there to inform them how to go about doing the election as far as who the chairman is and all that stuff. I I'll I'll be there. Okay. Uh so before we adjourn, Miss Lisa, you got anything? No. Before we journ, we're going to take about a five seven minute break. Next Wednesday. Not this Wednesday.

Yeah, the next. So, we're going to take about a five or seven minute break and let let the council be dismissed and then I'm going to bring my staff back in here. I've got some questions and answers that uh over the last few weeks we're going to address. It's not a public hearing. It's basically my staff meeting. We're going to address some things straight on. I'm not looking for public comment. I'm just going to clarify some things and then um uh make some special announcements for the community. So, if you want to stick around for that, please do. Uh other than that, is there a motion to adjurnn? So, move. We are ajourned. Thank you.