City Council - Regular Meeting

with him today. Okay. Good evening everyone and welcome to tonight's uh Greenwood City Council meeting on this Monday, February the 2nd, uh 2026 approximately, not approximately, it is 7:03 p.m. Miss Derry, would you call the role for us, please? Sure. Acy Brown here. Ralph Maker here. Tim Terry's absent. Roger Rainwater here. Steve Tedford here. pal's absent, but there is a quorum.

Thank you very much. Before you stand, uh, Brother Coleman from Free Will Baptist offered to switch places with me tonight, and I told him I could I could pray for four hours just like I can counsel for four. So, we're not going to switch. So, if you'll please stand, and we'll start our meeting tonight with uh our prayer led by Nick Coleman from Free Will Baptist, followed by our pledge of allegiance by Chief Brad Hobbs.

Let's pray together. Well, God, we are thankful for the blessings of the day. We're thankful for the blessings of life and of health that you have given to us. We're thankful for the blessing that you have given to us through your son. Thankful for the salvation that we can receive when we place our faith in him. And Lord, we are thankful that we have life in you. I stand here now, Lord, in a room full of a lot of people that work uh thankless jobs. Lord, I thank you for them tonight. And I pray, Lord, that you would bless them. That Lord, you would lift up their spirits. That Lord, you would bless them and their families tonight. And Lord, may you bless this meeting. Lord, we thank you for where we live. We thank you for our community. We pray that you bless it in Jesus name. Amen. Amen.

Allegiance 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. Thank you. You may be seated. At this time, I would ask council to consider approving the minutes for the January 5th, 2026 regular city council meeting. There's also a special call meeting minutes in there. I did get them done today, but okay. Uh there's a discrepancy Tom has. He's pointed something out. Okay.

So, I'm going to go back and listen and verify if that's correct or not. I see numbers. He can state for the record what it is that he has issue with. with explanation among other details. That's the 11.5 million. with the capital.

I will go back and listen and correct it accordingly. Okay. Do we need to pro? You can table that set. Table that one. Okay. Is that council good with that? Tabling that until the I don't know if you want to even that record is correct. Yeah. He just wanted to clarify that in case it is something that was said. So, council, you what do you see fit to do? Just go ahead and make a motion. We adopt the minutes uh pending that correction. Okay. Second. Both both meetings. Yes. Both meetings.

Okay. Uh M. Mr. Brown. Yes. Mr. Maker. Yes. Sure. Tim Terry just walked in. We're approving minutes, but uh I don't know. You want to be part of this vote? No, I'll abstain. All right. Mr. Rainwater. Yes. Mr. Tford. Yes. pass the majority. Thank you. Okay. Uh recognitions and acknowledgements. Good timing. Uh sir, Mr. Terry. Yes. I have uh something to acknowledge

for you. You I know you've already know obviously, but I want to do it here tonight. For more than a quarter century, the soundtrack of Greenwood Athletics has carried a familiar voice. Steady, passionate, and unmistakably loyal. That voice belongs to Tim Terry. And in 2025, it earned statewide recognition. Once again, the Little Rock Touchdown Club is named Terry the recipient of the 2025 Sully Award, honoring the most outstanding broadcast call in an Arkansas high school football game. It marks Terry's second Sully with his first coming in 2018 and serves as another milestone in a career defined by dedication to Greenwood High School. This goes on and on and on. He Tim's already got a large head, so we're not going to we're not going to go on with that. But I would ask Mr. Terry, Councilman Terry, to give us just a little snippet of a touchdown or whatever you want to do, whatever, whatever call you want to make.

Uh, you're listening to Greenwood, right? I can say that. Yeah, I see. Um, can they want the Golden Boy? I'd like to do Yeah, the Golden Boy included and and also the trip around to Benson's to get a hamburger. That's what the call was. Yeah. Yeah, that's the call. Okay. I wish I had it. I might have it. Uh, can I just play it? How about that? Yeah. No, you Yeah, you can play it. Uh, there probably is an old baby in there. Uh, sorry to put you on the spot. Shotgun for Archer. Trips out to the left, the wide side. Second goal to 10.

Kane wants to throw. Has pressure now. He's got to roll out. Scrambling for his life. Can he get the corner? He's got it. It's time to throw. He want to try to run. COMES BACK ACROSS THE FIELD. MAKES A MAN MISS THE 10. MAKES A MAN MISS the nine. ARCHER ON HIS FEET. OH, BABY. GOLDEN BOY. OH, BABY. You got another one? I got about 50 of them. 50 of them. So, at my funeral, if you could do that as you're bringing me down. Yeah. Just something.

All right. Oh, baby. Appreciate that. Thank you. Yes, sir. Thank you. Very humbling. Well, it's it's very cool. We appreciate you. Y uh anyway, moving on. Thank you for that. Uh committee reports. Uh, I did not obviously take Well, I say obviously I didn't take a chance to take the opportunity to look at all of them this afternoon. I think we got most of them. Um, didn't get planning. Okay. And what was another one? Boys club.

Boys, girls club. Okay. I know Kenny came by to get his contract signed today, I believe. So, anyway, if there's not something that you don't see that you need to know, contact myself and or Danielle as always, and we'll we'll get that information to you. uh citizen forum. Uh it is the night of politicians. I don't know what is there full moon. What's going on?

Uh we are honored to have everybody. I just went ahead and have everybody sign up on the uh citizen forum tonight. You you uh please come to the microphone, say whatever you want to say. You've got 30 seconds. I'm joking. It's it's typically five minutes. You don't have to take that long, but if you can if you want to. So, uh, I'll just call you up and if you'll come to the microphone, give us your name and your address for our record and do what you need to do. I've got, uh, Mr. Wyatt McIntyre.

Good evening. First of all, thank you for allowing me to come up and speak to you all. It's a pleasure. Uh, my name is Wyatt McIntyre. I'm a candidate for Sebastian County Sheriff. Uh, first of all, I am a Christian. I'm a Republican and I am pro- second amendment. I have over 24 years of law enforcement law enforcement experience, a little over 23 with the Sebastian County Sheriff's Office, and I've been the police chief town of Mansfield for the last year. Um, during that time, I've held numerous different leadership roles. Uh, I was a sergeant in the uh jail. I was a sergeant on patrol. I went back to the jail as a as a lieutenant as assistant jail administrator where I held that position for the last eight years of my employment there. While with the sheriff's office, I was on honor guard for over 16 years. That is something that I'm very very proud of. Um I assisted and set up the logistics of a lot a lot of funerals for fallen officers and people in the military and all kinds of different things. Uh I was also on search and rescue for um I don't probably 13 years. I was on SWAT team for 13 years where I was assistant team leader for four years and the last three years I was on team I was a team leader. Uh since being down in Mansfield, it's brought a whole new uh gambit of different things I never had to deal with at the sheriff's office. You know, municipalities, you guys have to deal with a lot of different things. Um, so you know, dealing with schools, I never never had to deal with that as a deputy and, you know, having to deal with schools and juveniles. So, I'm still still learn 24 years into this, I'm still learning the job. Um, couple things I want to work on as as a sheriff is first of all, leadership. I want to get our deputies in leadership classes

sooner. Okay? We are horrible about waiting until law enforcement were mostly lieutenants, sometimes sergeant, but mostly lieutenants before we start sending people to uh leadership training. I want to start it way way sooner. Uh few different reasons. One for the deputy that, you know, it gives them training. It gives them before they can start developing bad traits or bad habits, this will help get them out of it. and then when they have to come deal with the general public and take calls and answer questions, they're going to be better suited for it. I don't want our deputies to be just servant leaders. I want them to be informed leaders. So, I want to get them to into leadership training sooner and, you know, be able to answer the questions, to be able to answer the why. Um, I'm sure most of you guys see this. Uh, having driving up and down 71. I want to get our deputies back on the county roads. You know, so many times I drive up and down 71. Um, you'll see, especially from Virginia Lind area to Greenwood, you know, you see three, four, five county units sitting on the side of 71. I want to get them back on county roads. Get them back out serving the public of who they're supposed to be serving. if they want to be a trooper, they can go to troop school, you know. Now, I'm not saying that there's never a time our deputies need to be on highways and in cities. Um, one thing I would do when I worked for the still work for the county is I would go on and check check their stats, see what they're doing. You know, one just to see if there's any crime around my house, but two, I would check traffic, you know, their uh what they're doing as far as running traffic and stuff. Out of the last time I looked, and I forget the time frame, probably three, or four or five days, out of 77 traffic stops, only two were made on county roads. The rest were made on highways or

in a city somewhere. I'm not saying, again, I'm not saying there's not a time and place. But there's got to be a better split. We got to get our deputies back on county roads and out of cities and stuff. I got a ton more things I could talk to you guys about, different ideas. I got I got but you guys have any questions? Thank you sir. Appreciate you. Thank you. Next on the list is Ricky BS.

Hello. I'm Ricky BS. Thank you all for allowing me this time to speak. I live in Hackett at 8801 Amity Lane and I've been in involved with the county for around 28 29 years with volunteer fire department at Sugarloaf. I was eight years chief and 16 years first responder. I'm now your current chief deputy corner. I've had that role for last four years and been working with the corner for total of nine years and I'm running for the corer's position and I would really appreciate your vote. Thank you.

Thank you sir. Appreciate you. I'm going right down the list. Non politician Mr. Buddy Lloyd or maybe he is. I don't know. Ah, I live at 305 Twisted Old Way and I am not running for office.

I'm here tonight tonight to give you kind of an update on the partnership with the Greenwood Masonic Lodge number 131 and the city of Greenwood. Uh I'm building our new home for the Masonic Lodge and the permanent home for Troop 54. Uh we're presently uh we just got insulated. We're waiting for sheetrock to be delivered and hopefully by the end of next week we will have uh sheetrock hung and starting our drywall. So very quickly we plan to be in the dry and you're welcome to come by and take a look at it u share with you our your your ideas or your thoughts and but we're excited. We're ready to move and We're excited about having the Eagle Scouts in there with us as well. I I would like to add one other thing. I'm also I live at Twisted Oak Way, which is East Village. I'd like for you all to take some time drive through. There's a lot of new homes that have been built. There's one person that moved into East Village from Greenwood. The rest of them are from outside of Greenwood, outside of the state of Arkansas, and they chose Greenwood, Arkansas. Thank you.

Thank you, sir. Next up is Miss Tammy Brown.

Thank you for the invite. I am Tammy Brown. I am running for treasur collector, Sebastia County. I need your vote March 3rd. I am a child of God. I am a Republican and I am a taxpayer. I live in Greenwood at 600 Bonnie Bell Lane outside of Greenwood city limits on a farm with my husband of 42 years. I have one daughter, a son-in-law, and one granddaughter, which is very special and precious. I have 29 years with Sebastian County. I am currently serving as a chief deputy treasurer. Chief deputy treasurer acts as the elect in her absence, which is quite often. The treasur's office handles all the monies from the county reports to direct deposits to investments to sending the city their money from the taxes. The collector's office mails out your tax statements and we collect all the county taxes. We have three different locations. In my tenure with my in my experience, my office is primarily controlled by state laws. I have always answered questions or I will get you to who can answer your question for you. I have the experience to you to be your next county elected official treasure collector. Any questions?

Thank y'all. Thank you, ma'am. Thank you. Next up is Ashley Buckley.

My name is Ashley Buckley. I'm currently running for circuit court judge in Sebastian County. It's a nonpartisan election on March 3rd. I got the opportunity to come and speak with you all um in the December meeting and I really mainly came to socialize tonight and so I thought, well, all the other politicians are speaking, so I may as well come up and and introduce myself. So, I appreciate the the time to be able to share that with you all. Um, but I've been working really hard since I was here last. I've knocked on a lot of doors. Um, and one thing that has been surprising um is that a lot of people, they they aren't familiar with the upcoming election. I know this election was originally supposed to be towards the end of May and it's coming up um and the legislature last March changed it to March. And so, um, so I think one thing that is really important is just making sure that all of our neighbors, our friends and family know that that election's coming up because it's a really important one. We have really important leadership positions that are that are on on deck to be voted on. Um, and with early voting coming up soon, February 17th. So, just making sure that everybody is um educated to get out and vote. Um, but I would love to have y'all's vote. Um, and while I'm up here, if anybody has any questions that maybe you might have thought of since the last time I was up here, You live here, Ashley?

I'm sorry. You live here? We live in Bonanza. So, I live my my husband William and I um we live with our two sons and we live at 1309 South Fork Lane in Bonanza. So, we live right behind on the other side of Bear Hollow. So, I take Bear Hollow right across. But, um yeah, so we lived there for about five years and we lived in Fienna Hills before that um after we got out of school. And we've have our own law practice in downtown Fort Smith. And we've had that for about 10 years. We just celebrated our 10 year anniversary together. Um doing civil litigation, but 15 years married. So y'all been Yeah. practicing law enforcement for 15 years.

Uh for 10 together. Yes. I was when I got out of law school, I worked for a big law firm in Memphis. We both had jobs with big law firms and we did that for a few years and then decided to move back here. I'm from here. um grew up in this area and um we moved back here and I was a deputy prosecutor for Sebastian County uh for three years and worked for Dan Shu. I got to do a lot of jury trials um and then I moved on to the US attorney's office and then I was an assistant uh assistant US attorney there and I did um human trafficking, crimes against children, online exploitation, things like that. And then when we started our family, I decided my husband opened our office 10 years ago and I said, "Well, I'm just gonna come work with you." So, yeah.

Ever have any trials with our attorney? I'm sorry. Did you have you ever had any trials with our attorney? I don't think we've had any No, I don't think we have. I was one time I guess I had I was representing a victim in a car wreck case that you had when for city. Yeah. William and I worked everything out. Okay. Good. Yeah. Yeah. We think he's a good guy. Yeah, he is. He's a very good one. you guys the closer the closer. Well, Mr. City attorney, I'm not that familiar with with uh Mrs. Buckley, what what is uh your opinion, you know, working as a fellow attorney?

Well, having worked with her and her husband both, I can say that they're they're both honest people. Um they have compassion for their clients. Um and they're generally both well respected in the legal community. And I think she'd be a a diligent, fair judge worthy of your consideration for a vote if that's what you're asking. Sure. Thank you. Plus, she was in the dandies. So, I mean, you cannot. Yeah. That's why I put pictures of my horses on a lot of campaign material and that gets more attention than anything. So, I get a lot of people excited about that. Too much can. That's right. Yep. Well, thank you so much, council.

No, I'm sorry for the third degree. We know Tammy. Yes. What does that mean? Yes, we know Tammy. That's good. We don't We don't have to ask. I'm just kidding. Thank you very much. Yeah. Thank you'all so much. I appreciate the time. Appreciate you. Anybody else running for anything? Anybody Jeff? No. Cover. Thank you all for being here tonight. We appreciate you. And the rules are you will stay till the end of the meeting. Right, pastor? I think that's What did I just say? Thank y'all for being here,

man. I got power, don't I? Thank you all for being here. Like we do. Exactly. Good luck to y'all.

Yeah. Good luck everybody. Uh finance report, Mr. Tom. Okay. Okay. So, what I want to show you, I've got two important pieces of information to disclose. First, one is that what you're about to see is something that we haven't seen in quite some time. The second that I want you to remember is what you're going to see does not a trend make. So only watch only see what's on the screen. Pardon? It's the beginning of one. It's the beginning of a new trend. I'm totally all for that.

Any pluses are good.

Any any black numbers versus red numbers are good. So here we are. The city sales and use tax for January, which was November's uh collections and January's distribution, up 4.46%. Uh realizing that we are budgeting as zero no growth. Um that is pretty indicative of a very good uh Black Friday or Thanksgiving sales period. Uh people actually went out and really did some shopping apparently. Uh county sales tax also went up 1.04%. And th those numbers right there, the county sales tax will immensely help if that trend is anything over zero and positive will help our situation with our operating budgets for all departments that are supported by county sales tax. So those are those are very encouraging. The next would be the advertising and promotion uh 11.27% 27% increase uh for the monies that was received in the month of January and that actually reflects December mostly because there only a one month lag there. As far as the uh comparative is concerned about how we did compared to other cities within Sebastian County, you're looking at only Bonanza. Sorry, she she shops in Fort Smith apparently. um or here uh and Huntington were down. The rest of us were up. Uh I think even talking with Bob, I think he mentioned that even Van Beern was up about four and a half percent. In the city sales and use tax, that's very good. We stand alone. We don't compare with others. I just want you to see what the trend was all across the area for the cities. As far as the city sales and use taxes, the trend from 2018 on, it's it's really been uh this will be the third year in

three years. We've now hit a very respectable amount of collections for the month of January. Like I said, it reflects November. So 2024 and 2025 was on a downward trend. Um so this 4.4%, like I said, is very encouraging. Again, the um rebates did play into this and I wanted to show you the rebate came in at 11 uh,335. It is much higher than what the trend was, but if you go down to this bottom number, percent of rebate to the distribution, as long as this number is below this 4.26 number, I'm fairly happy. We want to keep that number below last year's uh percentage to the distribution. But we also are looking at potentially um

this scare scary scary month of February. So I think at your meeting in March we'll have a really good idea because this will reflect right here this February number the endofear rebate submissions to the state and that's usually when the state hits us harder with it. As long as the numbers are below this $115,000 mark, I'm feeling comfortable that we will probably end up positive. But we'll see. There's a lot can happen throughout the year. As far as the uh audit is concerned, we had $9,300 in a takeback on the audit adjustment paybacks. This year it's only 2003. So, we're doing fairly well on that side as well. Now, when you look at the city of Greenwood as far as our percentage for distribution and compare it to taxable sales, we have to add back the rebates to come up with the dollar amount of what we would have been had there been no rebate or no audit adjustment. What was the amount that our percentage increase would have been still a very healthful healthy 4.3 03%. So 4% growth is still phenomenal from where we have been in the last couple of years. And that equates to 699 just just under $700,000 in growth in taxable sales. So there was a really good robust November is what that's showing you. The distribution being in January. And because this is a year-to date, it's the same numbers. I just wanted to show you this number will change monthto month as you'll see it. um as far as where the sales are going and it kind of gives you an idea as the pulse of the consumer within the city of Greenwood. All right, going to the county sales tax. Again, this number 104 was obviously not as good as last year's number as far as percentage increase is

concerned, but it's still an increase. We went from 218,000 collections to 220. This number of 1.04% 04% going spread across the departments that are recipients of the county sales tax are going to be benefactors of that. So that keeps up. There's a a little bit more of a cushion to the uh contingency. The combined sales tax last year the combined was down 2%. We're actually up almost 3% right now in combined when you take county and city together. So those are all very favorable numbers. Again, it's the start of a trend. I hope this is advertising and promotion. What you do see here in the January column for 2026 is the right now this has been rolled forward from the numbers you received in my original report. And that's because the original report that came to you was for through December 29th in order for me to get it distributable to you. the month ended on the weekend and we did have some collection that came in Friday after the numbers were submitted. So that's been rolled into here now instead of the 8.8% decrease we had received some collections in the last two days of business days of the month. It now equates to 18,816 which is much greater than the 25 number but it's more in line with what you would normally expect a January to be. So while that 11.2 two cent 27% gives you the impression that they're doing much better. It's more the fact that the monies are coming in a little more timely now and we're back to what a normal January would be. Minor growth, not virtually 11.27%. It's just that there was so much de delinquent or delayed payments that happened in January that started catching up later in the year when you

start seeing these numbers go really high. Um that's what's caused that anomaly, but it's still positive. As far as the cash flow is concerned, we began the year 2026 with a 12,174 all-in cash balances on the accounts held by the city. Uh the we had a net increase of about a little under half a million dollars in cash and the year-to- date net increase being the same. Current fund balance all funds 12 million6 that's 3.77% increase in our cash funds. Just so you know that's because we didn't have a budget passed and so the spending was curtailed to uh hold the line on the 25 budget for the month of January. So there's not a lot of spending that went on. That's why that balance rose. Just operating expenses is what we were paying normal and customary. We do budget a 60.34% however reduction. Most of that is in the capital side. Most of it's on the restricted fund side, not on the unrestricted side. As far as the capital expense is concerned, we had se an outlay of capital expense of 71,888 and that's all water sewer. That actually is more. It's all sewer, I believe. So, all yours that was uh come through this year as far as when it was paid. We're on a cash basis. Capital expenditures and improvements 2026 was a budget of 10 million 9. Uh 8 million6 was water sewer. So right now of the total amount that was budgeted for capital 66% spent 83% of the water sewer budget we have nothing spent on the city side of the capital or on the all other departments excluding water sewer. So there you have uh good news for a

change actually I'm I'm encouraged. Thank you very much, sir. I feel like we need to date it. Stamp it. Get your text. My text. Yes, I did. Thank you. Appreciate that. Uh yeah, thank you, Tom. That is good news. And we hope it is a start of a new what's the word? Trend. Trend. Thank you. Friend is our friend. Friend words get

uh just I want to pause for just a second and most of you well most of you in this room know uh Michelle but Michelle Jones works in our finance office our latest uh addition to Tom's staff if you will her father passed away just moment just moments ago I guess so department heads and everybody's aware so just if you would remember Michelle's family and your parents. She's had a she's had a long hard time. Daughter surgery, didn't have a great time. Another daughter had some issues with the pregnancy. Her father just passed. So, if you'll remember her, what's her dad's name? Can is it all right to say?

Daniel, it's it starts with a she live here. Yes. Up King's Mountain. Uh, okay. So, we'll move on. But remember her family, please. Agenda additions. Uh, there are none unless the council has some or one or two. If not, we'll move on to old unfinished business. Number one is a city attorney repeal replace ordinance number 23-7 private club permitting. Third reading table from a previous meeting. Mr. Mayor, if

Yes, sir. I would ask if we could table this one more month, if that's okay with everybody to give the give us a second. Have a motion. Mr. Terry, is that put that in for motion? Yes, I'll make that motion, Mr. Mayor. Second. Second motion. All those in favor? Mr. Brown? Yes. Mr. Mr. Terry? Yes, Mr. Rainwater. Yes, Mr. Tedford. Mr. Pal. Yes. Mel, thank you. Got out of my box there for the chairman somewhere. Yeah.

Okay. Moving on. Number two is uh city council uh discussion on state bid procurement procedures table from previous meeting. I missed I think Councilman Tedford had put this on originally. No progress on that. Okay. like table let it begin again. Do we need table or gohead or let it go and come back later? Yeah, that's fine. Yeah, you want to withdraw it. Yeah. Okay. All right. Let's just do that. Number two.

Number two is withdrawn. Number three, new business pol, not policy, but police animal services ordinance repealing replacing ordinance. Number 23-11, animal services rules and regs first reading. Chief, it's basically process. Also big program If you probably not only ask them easily identify I'm really proud to have that. The other big thing that I'm proud of is online.

So hopefully will encourage people to to also that fee will go down but also a mobile registration online process. they can do it on their home and hopefully you know that will encourage more people to register their animal as well. But also it'll serve our elder elderly population. We can go to their house and register their dog and not only register it, but if you want us to uh to put a microchip in it, we will be able to do that for a fee. And hopefully we can start uh I'm not going to say we'll be a a thriving business, but hopefully we can recoup some of the money that we're losing on on this. If we can if we can microchip a pet, you know, comparable rates to what a vet could or or a little less, maybe we can get more of that. So, and that would help us rehome and get these dogs back to uh their owners quicker as well. So, I think this is a good thing. Uh this is on the first reading. feel free to uh come back at us. We've worked hard on this. We're really proud. The codification team uh went back and forth. I want to really thank Hunter for helping me with this. He he really uh uh really doing a good job with that cotification and uh the city attorney has looked over this. the uh uh madame clerks looked over it as well and we're really proud of it and we understand that there might be some changes but but that's the big ticket items really. Uh it just streamlines a lot of the wording as well. Uh the city

attorney and I have ran into that where we've gone to court where kind of gets lost in the m too much is sometimes a bad thing. We just need to keep it simple and this aligns a lot with state law like the animal cruelty. It's just basically adopting the state law. We don't need to really have a city ordinance re reinventing the wheel of what the state law says. And same thing with the raggies. And if you have any questions, I'll I know I know we had a little wording issue on the that's I need to I do need to mention that the we did put in there a caretaker exemption which meaning you know they're not going to get fined for taking care and feeding these cats. Uh typically somebody could uh but they would not. They would be exempt from that because they're doing it for a purpose, a meaningful purpose, not just willy-nilly feeding animals back behind McDonald's which causes, you know, a public health issue. Is there any questions that that you

I guess so the registration uh is it a when you say it's a one-time thing is it uh are they current registration people grandfathered or they need to everybody needs to register this one time you know going forward? Well I don't have that answer. I'll get that to you. I I don't I wouldn't have a problem myself of grandfathering it in. I just need to make sure we can get that information uploaded on this system that we're we're going to with Hunter. We could probably we could probably work something out. Just take a little uh take a work. Are you meaning ones that ever did before or

I know that I mean my dog is microchipped and you know registered, but I mean that I mean I have no problem doing it again. You know, I just saying I just wanted to kind of clarify that. Well, that's what we're wanting to get away from. We we're really not wanting somebody to have to register dog over and over and over every year. I love that. I'm so glad.

Yeah. We want to do it one time. So, let me get back with you. I'll talk to Hunter how that process work. Maybe there is a little growing pains with this. Just trying to figure out the logistics of the online payment system, but Hunter's using it on his, you know, in his uh job duties now and it seems to be working uh well for him. So, I don't know if there's a lot of clutter involved in let's say you have 500 pets registered. I'm wondering if you have something on there that would let folks know if their animal passes away or whatever to get on there and take it off just to lessen the blow having Right. I don't

uh I think I think I think you could put up to four animals on that system, right? And then you we we had got a little logistics on that too. You can put four on there just that system and we might have to pay to if because the ordinances I call that the mayor's provision. uh six animals on. You don't have to you don't have to explain. I thought you Yeah, I thought three was enough. But uh so right now we can only do four at one time. So we're kind of working that issue, too. I think there's going to be some growing pains, but they shouldn't be too bad. Sorry. Sorry. And will the portal

if you'll come to my office in the morning? Will the portal be through the the the city's website? Yes, sir. Yes, sir. It'll basically mimic what Hunter's using. We'll put it on the bottom of our website and it'll just it'll once you click the tab, it'll automatically just go to that. You can pay. And another thing, if uh with this mobile pet registration, if say one of our elders is is not really good with computers, we can go. We can't handle any money. That's the only uh problem. It's got to be a You talking about me again?

It's got to be a credit card, cashier check. We can't take any money. We can't handle any money. So, uh, but but say for instance, our elder needs help, we can go to their house. She can help them online. She can just knock it out for them real quick. If that makes sense. Hope that's the ideal anyway. Sounds good. Chief on section 11 on Cetaker identification. Yes, sir. Y'all are providing the identification badge. We will we will uh to the TNR volunteers. We will provide the badge and it would mimic something you're requiring that they have identifying clothing. Are you are y'all supplying like a vest or something?

We we wasn't going to supply it. We were going to encourage and ask. I don't know if we can uh I don't know if we can take that on that cost just yet. I mean I don't A t-shirt is not much but it is a cost. I mean, we're cutting, so we would just encourage I think we just encourage them to wear something maybe with their name or get a logo. Maybe we could help. You know, if if if we could afford it, maybe we could help. I'm open. I'm open. If you if you would like to put that in there, we assume the cost of some t-shirts. I'm just assuming kind of a little reflective of best city of Greenwood TNR volunteer or something.

Definitely put that in there. That's that's relatively inexpensive. Pretty inexpensive. Well, I I in some ways I kind of like a idea of a vest. That way maybe it could be passed on if somebody, you know, leaves the group or whatever. They can, you know, turn their vest in and let somebody else, you know, use the vest, whatever. We could definitely do it. That's what y'all would like to do. Could you explain what TNR stands for again? Uh, help me. But, uh, trap, neuter, uh, some of them say rehome or return, but it's basically, you know, they a colony of p of of of cats or a colony. They

Yeah, I don't want to get crazy. Basically, they get these colonies and and feed them and then they catch them and they're able to neuter them and and they they tip their ear and that way they know which cats they've dealt with. And then they try to rehome them, reborn them really, make them barn cats if they can. But, uh, ultimately they just try to stop the the breeding population and they've done a really good job if you've noticed already. So, it's working and I don't know very much about it, but it's working. How did he do, Mr. Ransom? Was that How did he do with his description? Was that

I'm trying to Maybe we get a new TNR. I'm trying. Well, I think they they do a very good job and they do a tremendous, you know, help to the city, you know, in in keeping especially the the cats, you know, but also, you know, everything that y'all do. And I would entertain that, yeah, some way that we could look into, you know, supplying them, you know, adding it to your budget, you know, some type of provision to provide them, you know, vest or something like that. Look into that. If it's working, let's support it. Let me ask you, how do you how do you measure that it's working? I mean, do we have a number of cats that have been

there? There's a uh Favville has they where they document it and they provide a monthly uh spreadsheet of how many colonies they're working. Uh it's in that, but they right now they don't provide to me or any that I know of. I'm sure they could if they if they would. They could probably answer it. Yeah, I'm sure they could provide what they're doing and how many how many animals that they've neutered. Probably neuring one pet or I mean one animal probably saves 10. I don't know how many litters they have. I mean, you're a biologist. Well, that that's kind of where I'm getting. I mean there

there was just an article in our in our wildlife professional magazine talking about TNR. Um I

as a as a biologist I can't support TNR. Um I think it it probably violates the Federal Endangered Species Act depending on where you uh search between 67 and 69 species worldwide have gone extinct because of feral cats. Feral cats are just that. They're feral. Um they're they're they're not they're not a wild species. We don't we don't manage or or promote feral animals anywhere else. Feral pigs, feral horses. Um they're they're escaped domestic animals. I think they do more damage uh in the wild than most people realize. millions of billions of of birds, reptiles. Um they're they're threatened because of the predatory nature of cats. That's just what they do. They're they're killers.

And uh you know, there's zonotic diseases, those diseases that can be spread to humans, uh there's cat to cat diseases, there's cat to wildlife diseases, and vice versa. Um I I just don't support TNR. And so that that's my my only complaint about this. What would you suggest of of uh be in in today's you know what I'm going to ask is what's what's society expect of us. You know I can't just round up what I expect of society is that they take care of their pets, right?

I mean that that's if you're a pet owner, you should be a responsible pet owner where you got a cat, dog, whatever. Um, when you take on an animal, that's your responsibility. So, somebody uh who's not taking care of their animal should have extremely stiff penalties uh and shouldn't be allowed to keep them. Um, you know, dogs are running in the streets. I mean, what do we do with dogs? We we catch them. We temporarily house them until we can find a home for them. And if we can't find a home for them, they're euthanized. Right. I mean, I know people don't like to hear that, but why why do we treat cats differently than we do dogs or differently than any other animal? That's that's my

for for me right now as a manager of of it is solely the expense. I don't pick up any cats. We we don't pick up any cat. We can't afford to pick up cats. We can't afford to pick up the dogs that we're picking up now. Uh that's I Yeah, I I agree. I mean, you're you're the subject matter expert on it. It's just such an expensive uh

it's just such an expensive program as uh us getting in the animal keeping business. I've never seen or I guess I've never heard of the other side of the coin as as Ralph you know put it there you know as named feral cats you know and fereral hogs and other you know but if the I think though as you're saying chief there's I don't know of another alternative you know so I think in in place of another alternative I I would you know still support this

if the TNR program you know stops some of the breeding that's going to cut down on some of the diseases and some of the it's not going to be a fix all, but it does at least it keeps the majority of them away from the back of McDonald's or Sonic or uh and that's what we were seeing for a long time as we were, you know, we caught a few people feeding them behind McDonald's and it just creates such a sir it creates such a public hazard back there. Yes, sir.

It's it's a it's definitely a public nuisance by I don't dis disagree with that, but I mean until we can fix people's habits of taking care of their animals properly, I mean, people are feeding raccoons and everything else in their backyard. I mean, I just I don't u I don't see that, you know, trapping animal and neutering it and I would agree with you that uh that but nobody's registering their cats. I can't pick up a cat and even know where to begin to find a home for it.

Nobody wants to take them. Nobody wants them, but they want them. No, everybody wants them, but they don't want them. They don't take care of them. Like you said, I've seen a major difference since the program's been going on in my subdivision. Yes. Thank you for what you've done. I was just going to say I You're saying that people aren't aren't registering their cats right now. people aren't registering their cats or dogs.

Okay. So, so if you're going to the program and you're registering the animals, then you know, you should be able to find unless you're unless you're chipping them, you would never know whose domestic animal that was to begin with. And so, it's kind of a moot point. We're doing the best job we can with what we have really to just make sure they're not populating more And uh so it's it's the best we can do with what we have. Stopping the propagation is probably more appealing to the community than kill on site. So

well it may not be ideal but it's working right and euthanasia is expensive. So we can't just take them and kill them. We have to do it the humane way and that's euthanasia and that's very expensive. So meaning I don't we're going to take it to a vet or somebody. I know that y'all don't like that but I mean we can't I can't have a police officer or somebody out there just killing the cats and then or the dogs and then we're violating state law of cruelty to animals. So uh it does seem like it was worse a few years ago than it is now. Seems like it folks have been doing a good job. Mhm. Mr.

Chief, it says that that we're requiring registration of dogs and cats in the city. How y'all going to try to enforce that? And do you think that'll help with the issue that we've had? I'm hoping it'll help if we get the payment down of registration. Maybe somebody can afford a one-time fee and we get more animals registered versus what we're doing now. And does TNR checks for chips? They do.

Are we going to enforce? We're going to do our best, but right now cats are the toughest thing because we cannot find the homeowners to cats. Uh, a part of this ordinance is what we're hoping to do is uh and maybe this is a boy scout project. We're going to purchase the uh the uh scanners, the uh uh I forgot what they're called, microchip scanners. We're going to place one back here at the walking trail starting back here behind city hall. We're wanting to put one at Bell Park and another one uh somewhere else. That way if a dog or cat's missing uh and somebody can easily scan it, maybe they can get it back to their rightful owners. And uh so we'll be doing that pretty soon now that the budget's passed. Uh so if you wanted to somebody wanted to do a project, we uh we'd love to have them put those up for us.

Keep hinting. The uh one thing I was wondering just on uh I know it says it on the u the fee schedule, you know, it's a onetime fee. I just wondering, you know, like on page three if you if we could make reference to the registration as being a a one time.

Right now it's a right now it's annual. We ask them to do it annually. And uh this way it' be one time fee or one time uh registration meaning if you did it online or if we came and and did it for you a mobile pet registration once you did it you're done. And that way we can microchip it. We can take a picture of it. This belongs to Brad Hobbs and we can get it back. That's our idea is to get it back to the owner as quick as we can and we don't have all these fees of housing and storing these dogs. And you're talking about going to their house

if they choose to if they, you know, they call the police. I think it'll be a service that'll be uh uh I think it'll be a great service if you can call me and I provide a service. I come to your house and we microchip your pets right there at your house. We take pictures of them. We get your information. be uploaded into the uh system and they can they pay online? Yes, sir. It'll be like what Hunter's program is. The only problem we have now is if you got more than four, you might have to you might have to uh pay twice. We're trying to work that issue. Mayor's having to hide part of his on one side of the fence and then bring it back out the next day.

Is that split between man and wife? Yeah. Uh there is there is something I want to add as uh to mo don't want to move on but uh the acreage has changed from five acres. So if you have uh and Hunter will have to help me out because I have to look at that real quick but basically if you if you're going to have more than five uh if you're going to have more than aotted animals on the on the uh okay six animals on five acres you can have more if you have additional half acre. Which section are you on? Section nine. It's uh it's it's uh four.

Four. So, livestock, poultry, and foul up to six animals, minimum five acres, and each additional acre would require additional half acre. That's that's really the same as we've got now as we have five acre limit, but uh uh that's what we added. If you had an additional one, it would you'd need an additional half acre.

Yes, sir. on the on the pet registration if they're microchipping their pet that that $25 includes the registration. No, no, it would be $15 registration and $25 microchipping. If you uh if you look at what it costs now, we're trying to recoup some of our money. So, if we do this all for next to nothing, it's going to defeat the purpose. So, we're trying to uh recoup some of it, if that makes sense. But I'm open I'm open to I was just thinking maybe if if you tell them you microchip the pet you wave the wave the registration fee

because you have all the information and u it might encourage more people to microchip which means if they leave the animal it's running around you chip it you know that they've you know to track them down to take responsibility for it.

I'm open to that. I'm we're I'm open. I'm excited about this. I'm excited about this project. I'm excited about hopefully we can stop the hemorrhaging of money on on these animals. And I'm really not it's we're not going to make any money. It's not like But I'm open to that. If you get your if you get your pet uh microchip, we'll wave the registration fee. I mean, if that's however y'all feel about it. Well, I mean, what's the what's the actual cost to you of registering an animal?

Uh, really nothing if they do it online. And really, it's not costing me anything. And really, I don't want, you know, I don't want to hurt the bets feelings here, but I'm going to be able to microchip for very little. You know, two to three dollars a pet and I'm going to charge 25. So, I'm hoping to and that's that's pretty uh I think that's good a one time lifetime fee. I mean, you know, $25, they're done for life. So, do we need to add microchipping registration, just the word registration to that? If you if you microchip your animal, we'll wave the registration fee. Well, that is considered registration, right? Mobile pet microchipping registration. Yes. Just add that word.

Mr. Pervis, you have something special. suggest government undermining what our business

I I couldn't live with myself charging somebody to that much money. I I know what you're I understand what you're saying and we might get some kickback from what is the cost from anywhere from $50 to $75 and I'm going to charge 25 but that is a very good point and I don't think we even thought about that when we that's a very good point and right well that may be yeah part of it Right. We don't We've got business partners in town. Yeah. And their tax base. I But

he makes a very good point. I I don't think about that. It's a perception, but it's not a matter. I'm really excited about going to their homes and doing this though. I don't want to, but I don't want to show up and it be just as the same amount as what it would cost to go to the vet because I might as well just go to the vet. So, we might we might talk to the vets and see if that is a large portion of their business. If it's not, they may not have any problem with it. Understood. We will we'll do that. So, so when you find one a half a mile away from the house and you scan them and you take them home, does that come with a fine? Yes, sir.

So, we just Y'all don't handle any money, so you just send send a fine bill to their house because you have all their information. No, that's what we're want to do. We're streamlining it with the district court. We're writing you a citation and then it goes to court and it's one it's running dog running at large. $125 fine. I I know you're trying to make it cheap enough that that everybody will take advantage of it, you know, but but I mean if uh y'all come to my house, you know, I don't have to load up my dog and take him to the vet. I mean, to me, it's it's worth a, you know, an additional, you know, feeding just $25, you know, I mean, you know,

I don't think that we ever thought, Mr. Ball, that's a great observation. I don't think we ever thought about that portion of it. Uh, and I'm their businesses and I want to support the business. Maybe maybe we rethink something on that. I don't think I don't see a problem with the police doing it and make a little money and I mean when we send them down there and we pick one up, they charge us to house it for seven days, don't they? Yes, sir. Are they going to cut us a deal? No. Well, then who cares? If you want to do it, you do it. I agree them doing it. I just think that maybe do a feed more in in line with, you know, saying that we're not trying to

I I think that what I was or what we were hoping to do is get more people to do it. Sure. The more people we get to do it, the less it's really not about making money here, it's about saving money here about housing these dogs. If I can get them back to them, if they're running at large and and and Mr. Oh, I left my gate open. Here you go, sir. Have a great day. If it's a continual problem, then you're going to get a citation. It was a win-win. Yes, sir. Chief Brian has You don't even like dogs. He's a Terry.

We were discussing people have the dogs when they get out, they don't even pay $75 to get the thing shipped. My mom, dad, $75, they get rid of the dog. is happy.

And we do have the reduced fee on senior citizens, right? Yes. Yes, ma'am. So, we already have that 50%. Yeah. Cheaper. So, we're encouraging them. It's going to be relatively inexpensive. Hopefully, you can get Mr. Ted makes the best point. If you're going to chip them, that's basically registering. So you can wave the 15. If they don't want to reg chip them, then it's 15 to register. And your definition for senior is 65. St. Yes, sir. You've been waiting on that? Yes.

It it may get tabled till May. That's that's fine. That's why I turned 65. Okay. Okay. Also, just kidding. On the cover page, we'll strike that ordinance number 23-11 up at the very top. I don't know why that's there. And we'll change on section one. It's got referencing ordinance number 23-04 on section 1A. There it needs to be changed to 23-11. That's just a couple. Just want to state section 1A. Yeah, changing the 23-04 to 23-11 because that is the current number ordinance.

We're excited about it. we're happy with uh and we'll go back with some of the changes but uh uh hopefully this is going to be a great thing. I I hope like working in progress. I want to say kudos to to the codification committee. We yes yeah had roundt discussions about all the aspects of it and it was a really good way to work on the ordinances. So it was really good to have that committee for this. appreciate you taking the lead on something that is not very fun. This this ordinance has been changed a lot. And thank y'all for what y'all doing, too. He was uh he was so excited taking this on originally.

I'm getting more and more excited about it. I mean, if we can stop some of this hemorrhaging of the money. I make a motion we adopt the ordinance for first reading by title only. Second. Motion a second. Did you want to change anything about it? We needed to change your with the changes. Okay. And and that's waving the registration fee if they get it. Uh if they microchip, well, yeah, we're just going to call that a registration, not a microchip. Yeah. Um will they be separate though? Still yet, Charlotte. Do what?

They'd still be separate because they didn't want a microchip. Some people don't trust the man knowing where they're Oh, really? Yes, it would. What we need to do is if you get if you decide to have us microchip it, we will wave the registration fee because some people will not microchip their animal. Don't believe in it. And then were we checking the price with the vets? I was going to I was going to uh at least 30. Bam. 25's good. 25. We uh just on average, we did an average uh

we a cost analysis of what it cost and that was pretty much anywhere from $50 to $75 uh at your local vet. Well, I could Mr. Bob makes a great point. We probably do need to talk to them at least and see how that's going to affect, but we'll see. I like the way you're going to put the scanners in different places because that'll also help, too. Well, at least it'll show that we're trying. I what I hope is we don't, you know, some juveniles or or adults for that matter go and tear them up and tell rip them out, you know, because they'll be stand alone. It'll be kind of like a old call box. You just open the door, get it out, scan it, and hopefully you put it back up in there, you know.

Wait a minute. You're going to need to be You're going to need to figure out a way to It comes with a lanyard cord, but we'll see. It's It's uh It's Yeah, those That's that's that's roughly $300 a piece. You just need those things like you go to academy, you check the price, you just pick the That's exact rubbing it up against that beat. You beat Y'all have cameras at the PD. Could you put one out there in your parking lot in front of a camera? Put one in the in the PD. Yes. Uh, we put in there three of them for this year and they're roughly $300 a piece.

It'd be nice if you could do put them somewhere where there's at least some sort of camera seeing them. Yeah. I'd like to volunteer Danielle to do the scanning here. She'd be good. Yeah, absolutely. She likes dogs. That way then you got proof of somebody damaging it. Are there cameras up there around the pavilion? Didn't you say he's going to pull in a bell park? No cameras up there. There needs to be. Yeah, needs to be a lot of them in my opinion. Needs to be one there at that cave. Yes, sir. They must go to the cave. None of your business. The guilty parties are out there. No, don't put a camera in the cave.

Yes. Yes, please. Mr. Brown. Yes, Mr. Maker. No. Mr. Terry, yes. Mr. Rainwater, yes. Mr. Tedford, yes. Mr. Pow, yes. Testes by majority. An ordinance repealing and replacing ordinance 23-11 and all other ordinances in conflict therewith, authorizing the regulating the keeping and control of companion, domestic animals, creatures in the city of Greenwood, Arkansas, and for other purposes. Thank you, Chief. You're up next. Oh, we need to add

Oh, I'm sorry. Yeah, we do. We We did ask for the agenda additions and I didn't realize we do have one to add. Number 10, gentlemen. Uh it's an ordinance and it's an ordinance annexation. Just leave it at that, I guess. Annexation ordinance for fire station property. Okay. Yeah, there you go. Fireman. Very good. Everybody good with that? Yes, sir. 10. Okay. All right. Chief, uh resolution authorizing policy adjustment for certification pay.

This is the this is what y'all approved in the budget where I requested that we uh change the uh certificate pay from 25 to $35. This is our policy uh indicating such. And this is what the auditors asked that we do anytime that there was a change in policy that reflected a change in uh money that we come before the council and get the uh uh policy approved. So this is basically y'all already approved it in the budget. This is just house cleaning that uh and it adds it added at y'all at uh at y'all's blessing. It added the chief one certificate that I asked for.

Hey chief, how many How many certificates are there out there? I mean, there's only one more and that's chief two and and a city of our size wouldn't qualify. Well, like basic certificate. How many B I mean is that it is that the name of the certificate or is that that's the name of it. You got B that's the first one that you get after a certain time requirement. Uh

yes. So you get basic, general, intermediate, advanced, senior, and chief one. Uh when you get into intermediate and advanced, you're going to need some college classes. You need at least your college math and college English. And then if you get your senior certificate, u you can get it a a lot quicker if you have a a uh college degree. So you can get these degree you can get these certificates quicker if you have your uh college education. And are we participating in the in the funding of the classes, sir? Are we participating in the funding in the classes?

Oh, absolutely. This is career development. This is this is from day one. You go to the basic uh law enforcement academy all the way up to getting your uh you got to go through many classes to to attain most of these. Okay. Are you asking as a city, are we giving scholarships out for these guys to go to school? Well, yeah, I'm asking if we're participating the cost of the college

education. the city can if they if they deem that that job position needs that uh like you're doing for Hunter, but the only ones that we will pay for is math and English that uh has been on the books for a long time that Mr. Rod proposed years and years ago. Uh but really uh we haven't been asked to do that. they've everybody that we've been hiring is has been having their college education. If they don't, they're eventually they'll probably want to do it, but it's not been an issue yet.

When they hire in, then they're on kind of the fast track to get to the advanced certificate certification. If you have your college degree as you know, a bachelor's or more, you're on the fast track of getting these quicker. Yeah. Yes, sir. Now, do they they don't accumulate, do they? as in if you're qualify for the advanced, are you still getting the other three below it? Yes. So, we're paying them per certificate that they have. And we've been doing that for the last 20 years. Yeah. I've always hated them. Working, right?

It helps. I mean, it helps it helps encourage uh development, career development. It helps educate our officers. It helps get them into training because there's a few of them that you have to to obtain. Uh one being your instructor development, your uh uh and then just which career field you're going to go to. If you're going to go into investigations, you're going to have to have interviews and uh interviews and techniques. And there's I mean I I would see every other department in in almost the United States is paying for certificates.

So So where does the where is the language for all of this uh because it's not is it the state level federal level? This is st this is all CLS. This is all uh Commission on Law Enforcement standards and training and it's all I can get you a copy of everything and all the requirements needed to make to to get one. I just want to make sure it's consistent with Fort Smith and everybody else around. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. That's standard. This is this is standard practices. I'll make a motion we adopt the resolution. Second. Motion. Second to adopt. Mr. Brown. Yes. Mr. Baker. Yes. Mr. Terry? Yes. Yes. Mr. Rainwater. Yes. Mr. Tford. Yes. Mr. Pow. Yes.

Thank you all. Thank you, Chief. Thank you. And again, thank you for taking on all that animal control. Uh, next is number five, finance resolution establishing a restricted virtual account for street turnback.

You remember at the budget study session and the budget approvals, we were talking about the state turnback from the street department being isolated into a restricted account. It's a virtual account under the street fund. By doing so that we'll have a better idea and be able to account for better the turnback monies and its appropriate use and we will have a much more um u accurate for instance depiction of what the expenses are to operate the street department separate from the expenses and revenue stream that comes in from the turnback. So in order to do that we have to establish a virtual account. It is by resolution as Mr. Powell asked about this restricted account is not opening up a new bank account. It's just assigning an account under our accounting system that's a sub account under street. So that's what you see here. It's given me permission to open that account in our books on our accounting system so that I could then transfer the revenues over and the expense items over into its separate budget which I will do the minute this is approved. I'll start working on getting that isolated and I will transfer the appropriate budget for those line items as well. So you'll see the line items be depicted under the same categories of expenses and revenues. So u you'll have a a clearer picture of the dollar amounts that are coming in and what they're restricted to be used for.

I think it's a better way to account. This is not new monies per se. It's just a new spot to put them. Right now the turnback monies are are basically accounted for as well as the expense items under the operations of street. They're not isolated like city sales and use tax is but there is restrictions to the turnback money. I think it's a better way to a cleaner way to account for it. So we discussed that at the meeting. I don't believe you were here. Um that this is what they asked me to do and to only just to get this ball rolling. We needed this resolution. That's what's there for. This is the one that's municipal aid coming from the state, right? Yes. State turn back. Yeah. Is very restricted. Very.

I'll make a motion we adopt the resolution. Second. Motion. Second to adopt. Mr. Brown. Yes. Maker. Yes. Mr. Terry. Yes. Rainwater. Yes. Mr. Temper. Yes. Yes. Number six. finance uh fiscal performance policy. That's under number six. You got two of these. One the blue colored six is the right one. The blue. Okay. Blue six. Bingo. Blue six. Bingo. Blue. Blue six. Okay.

I gave you a separate one that's not was not in your packet that I wrote a number six at the top. That is a revised version. I made some changes because there was some uh language in there that I wanted to clean up a little bit this afternoon. So, the one that I'm going to be giving you to actually peruse is the one that's in front of you. This fiscal policy is what sets the stage for the fact that it is what we need in order to compose the ordinance, which you'll be talk we'll be talking about in a second. There's also a narrative that goes with in your package. that goes with the ordinance and I'll talk about that in the next budget uh next uh agenda item. The blue six is what we're reading.

The the separate one that's stapled that's aside from your there's a blue six up in the upper right hand corner. That's the one we're going to be looking at. That's the one I want you to focus on because there has been some changes to that in language. Now, what I'd like you to do is to kind of peruse that. And I'm not asking you, there's no voting on this that I'm ask asking for today. There's a lot of information that's going to come to you. We talked about the codification committee and I really want them to take a look at the actual ordinance, but I want you guys when we get to the ordinance to be focused on what these policies which factor into what the ordinance says, especially the part uh governing just after the page that lists debt policies, there's one that says reserve policies and that's where the trigger points happen when the reserve falls below whatever you you guys establish as the contingency percentage or the contingency fund balance that is in the approved budget. So these trigger points key certain aspects of the expenditures unless revenue streams improve to where they're mandatory. And so these are just dropped in you when you read through these nothing is sacred in this. If you have a something that you want to make more restrictive or you want to make more um tuned down to what you want to control as far as the aspect of spending given these targets are hit, uh feel free just send me a note. Let me know what it is you'd like to, you know, talk about or change or add. uh there's no rush in order to get this contingency uh ordinance established by a specific right around the corner date. as long as it's in place and it is a a policy that we're going to or an ordinance that

we're going to enforce at the next budget season. Now, we're we're on the right track in order to make the uh targets so that they don't fall below what is acceptable for instance uh the the debt service that we have on our bonds or our bond rating or uh basic operations. So, if you go to the fiscal policies at the top, that kind of sums up why this is being done. It kind of gives you a look at what each of these facets of the finance department is looking to have the city endorse as far as how we're going to operate. The revenue policies gives you an idea of some of the things that we're fiscally responsible to be prudent with the sources of income that comes into the city and how we plan on maybe enforcing or uh generally operating from. Then you have the operating expenditures go through there and you know how we estimate the expenditures. We have an objectable objective rather and reasonable basis to allocate expenses by line items if you will and then we look at the overall budget at the U end of the day when we do our budget reviews. We have a city will maintain a budgetary control system to help it adhere to adopted budget and we'll prepare and maintain a system of regular fiscal reports. We already do that. A lot of this you're already getting. It's just now documented in a format that can be used going forward especially for when my replacement comes in. Capital expenditure policies listed there. Uh some of the things that I put in there were uh controls about a five-year plan, what we're asking for and what we're expecting. Now, some of these are new, some of these are not.

They're loosely followed currently. I'd like to make this more of a routine practice. Uh the debt policies talking about uh consider re refunding outstanding bonds if one of the more of the following conditions are met. It kind of gives you an idea what we think about whenever we're looking at should you call the bond or should you go after a bond and what's the return? You'll look for uh some of the ways that we're looking to manage a bond or manage debt service. And then the reserve policies are there and our fiscal reporting policies and how we report to you every month. The first two paragraphs are the key. It says the fiscal performance policies represent an effort to establish written policies to guide the city's financial management decision-making practices. They are designed to help contain the cost city government as well as to strengthen the fiscal financial capacity of the city to perform and maintain effective services and programs. Sometimes we have a an agenda item that we think is something the city is good for the city, but it could be at the detriment of some other program that we're currently doing. We have to manage it in that respect. While some of the policy statements are specific and may limit certain types of financial practices, the policy statements are not intended to restrict the ability and responsibility of the council to manage emergency and unusual service delivery needs above and beyond the limitations established by this fiscal policy, fiscal performance policy. So, I wanted you to know it gives you some latitude, if you will. These are the policies that um are highly adaptable to your uh considerations and concerns. And I'd like you to look these over and if you have a question on one, I' I'll be more than happy to give you some u insight as to why that's there or why it's needed. If you want to change some of them or add some of them, just let me know. Uh

I'm not asking for a vote on this. I just wanted you to consider some of what needed to be done in order to get that contingency reserve ordinance at least started. And the cotification committee, I do want to have them look over that because one of the things I I'll have some concerns about is something that we change that might be in this fiscal policy. If if it's stipulated by a specific percentage or dollar amount in the ordinance, that means you have to go back and change the ordinance and that's a long drawn out process. I would rather they look at it from that perspective to see if there's wording that could be changed. And one of the things I had a problem with initially and I was debating is the 15% whether that needs to be actually stated in there because you have a latitude to change that every year and I don't want to have to go back and change the ordinance every year. Um so I show I'll show you some of the things that I've done on the next agenda item. But that's all I wanted to say. If you have any questions on it, let me know.

Yeah. So Tom, on number 32, I remember us discussing um the the reserve percentage and I was thinking it it was 20%. Wait, you dropped it this year to 15. Yeah, but it was just for this year though, right? Right. And that's why it's in there for 15%. But that that's this is just a fiscal policy that can be changed. Okay.

What I would like to do is be able to modify this every year you approve that budget. these numbers will change, but I don't want it impacting the ordinance. So, if we change that to 20%, as long as the ordinance stipulates that as approved and adopted by the fiscal policy, you should be okay. And I haven't had a chance to run this by the codification committee, but I know his brain's already working uh thinking about the best way to word it so that we don't have to go back and change the ordinance. So if we ultimately adopt this by resolution then we can just re change the resolution every year but it becomes official policy when we adopt it by resolution ultimately

which wouldn't affect the the ordinance unless the ordinance has a specific amount in it like 15%. Can it not say the ordinance? It it can it can and I'll show you what I mean when I when I get to the ordinance because I've modified that too. I've got some alternative language in there. So we want to put this on the agenda again for next month policy. You want to adopt it by resolution? Well, I we've got three readings. I mean, can we go ahead and adopt? But this isn't an ordinance. This is not the ordinance. No, this is just for you to go through and

one of those you know the group by resol those are I think adopted by resolution too. Yes. Our financial policy. So right now it's it's a it's a living policy we're working on. Let's put it on for next month and then at some point we'll adopt it by resolution. Maybe even next month. There's obviously a lot of questions and so there's a there's a two sevens. So this is like really the the the other one the the establishment of the general fund is just again just to give us just some that's a narrative that yeah just a narative

yeah I'll I'm talking about that next this this policy the fiscal performance policy the reserve policies are the ones that um I wanted to give you some focus and illustration on number 33 on that policy number 33 is the contingency reserve if it falls below and right Now it's 15%. This is just for illustration. We could change the wording, but if it falls below 15% for the current year budget, the following steps will be taken by all appropriate departments. These are trigger points that you're saying not can be. That's what I want you to peruse and think about. I want you to look over this and see if there's something that's restricted to where you don't have any latitude. It will happen if these triggers are met. So this says it will um trigger a reserve fund falls below 10% of the established contingency reserve balance. Reductions in operating departments capital expenses and improvement projects will be required. To what extent that is you guys control that now these are these are just examples. You can change that percentage. You can change the amount or what it is you want to have that trigger to be. I just put something in there to give you a road mapap to think about because then I I said the next level would be 25%. That may be if you you're saying wow if we go below 30 or go over 25% I'm I'm thinking we ought to it ought to be shoot the moon take everything out. That's totally your call. I just wanted to show you where the trigger points tend to fall and what requirements. Now letter D under that 33 it says if the contingency reserve falls below 75% reductions in personnel operating expenses capital reductions will all be implemented and service levels may be significantly reduced. That means you're at a critical stage. You have 25% left of your contingency

fund. Open that day. I appreciate you were headed there. We're close to Yeah. So that's that's why I I wanted to give you this is your meat to consume if you will of regurgitate back to me what it is you want in the more specific. Got it. You are painting you are developing a succession plan for who follows you and I appreciate you doing that. So I agree. So

it saves us a little time of having to wait for the first Monday and him coming here and saying this is how much money we have left and then we can say you don't hire you don't buy nothing you don't buy nothing just automatically you don't buy nothing you trigger I'll make a motion to put this on the next I second it so table it yeah motion second Mr. Brown. Are we tableabling the policy part? Fiscal performance policy. Okay. Yes. Mr. Baker. Yes. Mr. Terry. Yes. Rainwater. Yes. Mr. Tedford. Yes. Mr. Pal. Yes. Yes. Bring it back next. Thank you.

Moving on. Number seven is a narrative and ordinance establishing contingency fund. First reading.

So the this is really just a narrative for you. It's not the the actual ordinance. It's just giving you the highlights about what the ordinance why it was developed and what it's designed to do. Um the summary shows the 15% although that number changes and I did put that in there but I wanted to go to the background where it says municipal governments are encouraged to maintain adequate reserve balances to manage unforeseen expenditures, emergencies and revenue volatility. The Government Finance Officers Association, GFOA, recommends the city municipalities maintain an unrestricted fund balance of no less than two months of the general funds operating expenditures. We're not using the two-month. We're using a flat percentage. However, I went back to the actual budget that was approved and adopted and the two months of the general fund operating expenditure percentage would be 15.4%. So you're just point4% off of where that number would be. You're an immaterial difference. 64,800,000 is rather immaterial in in the way we look at it. So either way, you're right on. You can you can either do the expenditures, two months of the average expenditures, or we can do a flat percentage, and we chose the percentage route, but they're they're in line. That's what I wanted you to see. on down at the bottom where it says number five under key provision of the ordinance.

You need water? I got water.

Okay. Replenishment requirement requires restoration of the reserve if it's been used within three fiscal years. I kind of thought I threw a number out there, but um section six of the ordinance that you will will be looking at does talk about that in a little more detail. And seeing as though we're on the ordinance as well, I wanted to go to section six on the last page. It says, "In the event restricted reserve funds were used for an emergency or disaster in a budgeted year or falls below the required 15% level, the fund shall be replenished during the city's annual budgeting process where current year anticipated operating revenues will be allocated annually as needed to replenish the reserve in such amounts as determined by city council. So, you're not restricted to having to do three years. You can make it sooner or you can make it longer depending on how much was used and what what the circumstances are, but you're doing it in order to asssure that the restricted reserve fund is replenished to the requirements of this article. So I I gave you more latitude. I I there's a little disconnect between the narrative that I gave you, but you have that option. You could flat out say we have to do it in such a manner that it's fully funded back within two years, within one year, within six months. soon. I mean, as soon as possible, but not to the point where Doug's driving a backhole and has a badge and a gun,

right? But we also wanted you but we also wanted you to have the comfort to know that you will set that as far as the replenishment is concerned and it's not stipulated. And remember, this is just a narrative. This is not a policy or a procedure. The ordinance sets that the fiscal impact on the next page of that narrative numbers one through five. I've outlined and told you about at the budget meeting that we had the budget approval uh uh council meeting. Those are how we look at why we needed to establish the funds. And a couple of the ones that were down there was the potential impact they have on the bond ratings and corresponding increases in borrowing. It also shows fiscal responsibility to the citizens that you all have in you're charged with. Um so that that's a narrative for you to look over. You have two copies of it in there actually. Um and now I want to get to the actual ordinance itself because you have not seen it and there it's going to be in front of the codification committee as well at the next meeting. which I was the 27th.

It's the 17th. Yeah, that's your next one. Okay, we'll do it at that meeting. I guess I'll get that in front of you if you have an agenda to put it on. Yeah, it's already on there.

It's on there. Okay, good. Um, I want to draw your attention to section three. Just so you know, I'm not asking for this to be put on for first reading. You can, but I want you to really look it over. I don't want this to be a hasteful decision or a quick decision. I want it to be a well thoughtout decision on the wording so we don't miss anything. The section three, the general fund contingency reserve shall be maintained at a target level equal to 15%. But I go down after it says um as adopted in the city's annual budget pursuant to Arkansas code annotated 1458202 unless modified by the council to adjust for economic conditions warranting the change to the initially established 15%. That whole thing could be changed just by referencing what drives that to the ordinance. But that'll be the codification committee's recommendation as to how to word that so that we don't have to change it every time the percentage changes. I just dropped that other in there down at the bottom the paragraph the last paragraph in the event of an emergency requiring immediate action. I didn't want it to be where we had to convene the council if there's a true emergency as defined in this ordinance of what an emergency is. declared emergencies. However, it does say that uh the contingency reserve may be funded how it's funded. Uh the restricted reserve fund shall only be used in the event of a city council declared disaster declaration. Okay, you may want to ponder that and think of maybe a wording, but you guys would have to say you're going to declare a disaster just like happens in any other government, state government, federal as well. The city council shall then pass a resolution to appropriate the funds.

Funds in the contingency reserve may be appropriated only for the following purposes. And you can add to this or you can subtract from it. So I want you to look at that those lines. Declared emergencies necessary to protect life, health, safety, and property. Unanticipated or unavoidable expenditures not reasonably foreseeable during budget adoption. temporary revenue shortfalls caused by economic disruptions or delayed receipt of revenues such as what we had during the COVID uh one-time expenditures that do not create recurring operating obligations. So, those are the items that I listed there. There could be more. Remember, this ordinance was modified from AML's suggested ordinance to us. Um, in the event of the emergency requiring immediate action, the mayor is authorized to approve expenditures from the contingency reserve pursuant to Arkansas code annotated 15. They're they're listed there. Provided such expenditures are presented to the council for ratification at the next regular meeting. Reserve funds shall not be used to fund ongoing operating expenditures except on a temporary basis approved by the council. There's no blanket $5,000 thing in this uh as an exception to this. This all has to be approved by the council. So, I wanted the council to utilize their authority to control the reserve, establish the reserve, control the reserve, and approve the funding back to the reserve. So you first mapped out your succession plan. Now you've mapped out when things go bad.

So appreciate your diligence. I think we should go ahead and give this life and put it on for the first reading. We can always table it take as long as we need. So I'll make a motion to put this on for first reading by title only. Second. Did you define emergency in here somewhere? It might be in. It's not in the ordinance. in the narrative. We have a motion in a second. Mr. Brown. Yes. Mr. Maker. Yes. Terry, I didn't. That's a good thing. I mean, yes. Okay. Yes. First read. Mr. Rainwater. Yes. Mr. Tford. Yes. Mr. Powell.

Yes. Unanimous. An ordinance establishing a general fund contingency reserve, providing funding, use administration and replenishment, ensuring compliance with generally accepted accounting principles, Arkansas law and governmental accounting standards, and for other purposes. I just housing two extra pets is not an emergency. You know what I'm saying? I didn't want to Well, you declare it, right? So, it's however you define it. Quick question, Tom. So I guess GAP is general accounting practices general and what's gb is the board they like to do with all these acronyms.

Yeah. I mean Gazby general accepted that's the general accounting standards board. Um the governmental accounting is the other one. Okay. Okay. Thank you. And the fazby is financial accounting. It's all account as bad as the army. Gazsby is actually listed there. It's right before it. Government accounting standards board gb. Okay.

All right. Thank you. Number eight is finance again resolution adjusting salary matrix for federal 2.8% cola. one that says copy of the one previously you did. Well, I mean that's just the latest copy of it. So, we just updated it with the federal cola amount of 2.8%. The copy is the one we're using or the other one. The copy is the old one the nonopy. This is what we're going to mean

you can see in the up there in the first whereas it says and then the title it's different than the is just a housekeeping deal basically Okay. Yeah. Yes. Yes. Increasing all the minimums and maximums like we do with the code.

I got a question. So, this this resolution is adjusting um the matrix by the federal cost of living. However, but when we in in the budget, we we're providing colas based on the Arkansas cost of living. Correct. You reduce the amount that you're going to offer as the award. that actually way back when, like four years ago, five years ago,

you you created the distance for those that are at the max right now by moving the scale based on the national cola. That's the salary scale that we're going with. If you want to change that, that's totally up to you. But if you move it only by cola, you're not accomplishing anything as far as distance and you're not moving their that position's max. That's the only reason why you did that. Okay. It it you don't have to give any of that. I mean, it's just moving the salary scale, both the min and the max, right?

Yeah. I just couldn't remember why why we budgeted to the state cola, but then the resolution adopts the federal code. But that's I understand that we had so many I'll make a motion to adopt the resolution. Second motion and second to adopt the resolution. Second, Mr. Brown. Mr. Brown, yes. Mr. Maker, yes. Mr. Terry, yes. Yes. Mr. Pal, yes. Unanimous. Thank you. Uh, number nine, city clerk treasur resolution adopting procedure rules for 2026.

We were supposed to do this in January just because Typically I present this to you all every January but I forgot it. Any changes? No. Act one we did last year. Yeah. Make a motion we adopt this resolution. Second motion second to adopt the resolution. Mr. Brown. Yes. Mr. Maker. Yes. Mr. Terry. Yes. Mr. Rainwater. Yes. Pal. Yes. Thank you. Number 10 is uh I didn't write down. Can you read your ordinance to annex fire station property? And this is Travis's baby. Thank you. Uh closer, if you'll take this.

Uh so what you have here is an annexation. Uh well, it's an ordinance an ordinance accepting an annexation. Uh it's for the city owned property out on Mount Zion Road that I think we talked about for a fire station possibly in the future. Uh exhibit A would be the court order granting the annexation. Exhibit B would be a depiction of the property. Okay. We own the little office deals there, right? The three or four we rent. Yes.

Is that property what we're talking about or are we talking about behind it kind of down in front of it if you will or between it? Between it and the It is on the highway. It's part of it. It's all part of it. Did we annex the the building? The We're annexing the building right here. Yeah. I thought we'd already annexed the building. Huh? Half of the building's annexed already. We did that when we annexed the uh rental place. Blowing that up. Blowing up. Are you sure? Kind of like standing too.

Oh, blowing that up. The line is right here. This little rectangle probably you're not that's not city sewer there. Correct. City, right? I think it's on septic, isn't it? It's on septic. Yeah, this is do not. No, we do not. Excuse me. Who calls up for reelection if you run water sir? Good luck.

If you'll there's already water there. If you'll look at section three, there's there's a typo we'll fix. It says there's no city services scheduled be extended to the area in question. I I thought city sewer was there. Um we'll just take that out. city

or we can leave it like it is. It says it's present in the area. So that's true, right? The area being across the highway, but it does have James for water. Yeah. Yes. Who who are renters out there at this moment?

So the It's that robotics one. The Walden Whan still got it. Braden still got it written from you. Braden Whan Whan. Oh,

well, which is he on the side that has to collect city sales and use tax and remit it or is he on the side that is not at this moment? No. Because of the city. So, if we annex him in, then he's going to collect city sales tax and remit it. Well, that's good for us. Thanks. see that that it's going up. It's a trend. I mean, he's selling robots. That's not like selling donuts. That that might help.

Okay. What say you council? Uh, well, I'll make a motion we put this on by title only for the first reading. Second. Second. Motion second. Mr. Brown, yes. Mr. Mer, yes. Mr. Terry, yes. Rainwater, yes. Mr. Tempered, yes. Mr. Pal, yes. It's unanimous. An ordinance annexing certain real property within the city limits of Greenwood, Arkansas, assigning sames, and for other purposes. Thank you.

What's emergency. It's not necessarily eact. No, I I think I don't I don't see that it's needed. Do y'all I mean it can sit on it can go the three months. Yes. Wait for somebody come complain. Oh, miss collecting taxes for two months. That guy may not figure it out for six months until the Department of Finance Administration finds him. So I just take Yeah, the answer question is

we've owned that building for 10 years. I don't see where the emergency is. Well, he's not looking for emergency clause. Just skip two more readings and then adopt it in 30 days. No, I think it needs to go through its process. I would rather I would rather Is there a reason, Travis? That's your I agree. I agree. Since it's an annexation, let's just just do the other two readings. Maybe Shirley Walters wants to do opine

insurance. We're we're not the first call on half of that building. Yes,

I think we ought to go through the process, but that's just one vote. I agree. Like to go through the process. One, two, three. There's four of y'all over there, so y'all can take care of it. Do I have Do I have a motion to wave and second reading? Second, third reading. Do I have a motion? No. If it not, it fails. Okay. To answer your question, you can ask. But yeah, you can ask, but you shall not be granted. That's right.

Maybe next month we'll wave the third reason. There you go. on the curve ball. All right. Thank you, gentlemen. Uh, department reports and questions from council. Is anybody from the water people here? Wastewater. Wastewater. Not I'm sorry, not waste water. Just water. Water. No. You asking about the break? No, I'm asking about the fire hydrant over here across from the lodge and how we were having to pay for that. I thought we had a deal worked out where

split. There was a well either split now the new performing arts deals want to go over there and they certainly don't have enough money to probably come up with it. I thought that the city had like two hydrants a year they could put in somewhere. We didn't ask to take the one out that got took out. I don't know why the lodge and the performing arts if they happen to get on board have to pay to put it back in. So that is correct. Our policy was two fighter hydrants a year. So that seems like a decent place to put one since we Right.

Yeah. Right. They commission half

and so that's uh that's how we left it last fall is that it would be half done halfies. So I don't know who's in charge of doing that first. I mean I left it as that was just me talking to them. They made that decision. So the water water commission would have to tell you what their plan is on on that. Well, I'd asked Posey before about it. He was hoping that he could work his magic with the commission and just pay for it or put it back in or be one of the two free ones we put in. I don't think there's a guarantee about the free ones. I think that was just something he was doing. I mean, unless I I don't take care of his budget, but I don't policy that just predated the commission and then we assume the commission just carried it over and maybe

that be your discussion with him. I don't know. I'll bring it back up. I think I we may have already paid the lodge as a I think there was definitely one free hydra or hydra put in this year but I can't remember if there were two. I know it used to be two but like I said it was that was precommission. Where did they put in the one this year? I just know they didn't want to set a precedent of stuff for people but I the whole thing was one had been removed from that spot. If one had not been removed and it was just an area that somebody was developing I wouldn't even come and ask them. Our whole thing right there is there used to be one. I might have an answer to that question about the hybrid being added.

Well, isn't that cost share? That's the cost share. The Masonic Lodge doesn't even own that property though, right? I mean, they're leasing it from the city. So, I mean, what we're asking the lee to put in a I agree. I mean, if they took one out, it was just good practice to put one back. Well, it would help. That's up to you. The fine arts. Forget the old farts at the lodge and fat guys, me and Stir, Jeff. But but the performing arts deal is going to be over there. And Councilman Terry. So, do you need to come to the water meeting? Yeah. When is that? Wednesday night, six o' this coming Wednesday.

I don't know. It's got the weather. I don't know. I might send a representative. You need to talk to Mr. Posey to have him ask the commission. I have I will again. I'll call him tomorrow. Is he out of Is he off out of vacations? Okay. Yeah, good question. I I like the idea too of putting something back that we that we the city took out. I mean, it's it's going to cost the lodge five grand or whatever, but I I just money we don't need to spend. We shouldn't have to spend. Charlie Right. That's what I Well, I meant I said corner. That's what I meant. Yeah. Hey, while we're on the

while we're on the top of the water. So, I ate lunch today in town at one of our local restaurants and uh they weren't selling drinks because of bull order. And I'm like, what? I was like, wait a minute, you're not not in the bull order. So apparently channel 5 got they got some misinformation that the entire city was under board. So that that's that is incorrect. I Yeah. Yeah. They evidently didn't

Yeah. They just didn't mind. terminology. Yeah, that's true.

I've never had one from there. I I do I do I do want to They're not here. Tim's not here. I do want to my knowledge there was quick action out there. I don't Did any of your folks end up working with that, Tanya? So, they got on that two from you. two occurrences. One was in Houston and Yeah, I knew there was one. Okay. I didn't know about that. Yeah. Well, they got on it quick. I I do know they had to they hired third party this time. Good one and good one to get on it more aggressive I suppose with even more equipment. So, it's taken was taken care of in a timely manner. So, I saw it on Facebook

and then had to be real and then drove Yeah. I had to be real and drove out there and sure enough sure enough it was Teresa did tell you Teresa called me. Yes, she did do it before you saw the T. Uh, no. Yeah, it was after the next day actually

or no, I don't know. But it was after but I I appreciated the call from her to alert me of that. I would chief mentioned it today in our department head meeting. We got to come up with a little more and it it probably going to fall on me, but I didn't have a chance to call chief before he called me to include his department to know because uh the subdivision that I still can't remember the name. I've only lived here my whole life. Park Heights was low on pressure and so if Chief had to go out there and fight a fire, the fire department needs to know that. So we didn't get that communicated quite like we need to. So we'll we'll fix that problem or try to do better.

And I guess when you find out, you tell the director, right? Right. So, uh, anything else for any of these department heads? Yes, I just had one on Casey. I was just kind of looking at your report and you said out there the pavilion booking, it looked like it dropped. Huh? I was going to pick I was just ask question that it dropped off signific significantly. You know, in 2026, we had 110 and 25 and well, this says 26 53. Is that what's proposed so far? I guess I'm just now reading that wrong. I thought that was 25. So we have 53 for 26. You mean that? Yeah, we might still hit that like saying. Okay,

that can't be December 26. November 26. We get there, right? Yeah, but that's what I was looking at. So, sorry I corrected. This these are they're pre-bookings. Oh, those are pre-bookings. Yeah, I didn't realize that. I thought that was 2025. Okay. Anything for any other department head. Let me ask you this. We're talking about the chief in the rental property. The guy that's written for me is a good friend of mine. And so y'all were talking about if it comes into when it comes into the city having to pay taxes on something. I don't know if he's doing any sailing out of that or do y'all think he is sailing?

I have no idea. He does um robotic what's it called? There's a word. Right. Yeah, he is. I I don't know if it was like just his office or maybe a storage area, but I just I'm just giving him a heads up that he may have start paying taxes. I wanted to know that if he's doing point of sale work. Yes. Right. He he'll be required to pick up that extra percentage for the city of Greenwood. But I I figure his business is probably a little bit more like mine, maybe a little bit more like Mike Mallister out there. Gigantic place, but they're not remitting any city sales use tax because their point of sale is off.

He's usually at Glat Felner's or at where I work or in Vegas or in Orlando. He's probably picking up and remitting their sales tax. It's probably point of sale. Now, if he's mailing some parts and pieces out of that place, he's he may be that may be the point of sale is right there in Greenwood and he may be remitting that. Okay. I was just appreciate it right into council forum.

Thanks. The roads Yeah. were done well. I mean there were I mean severall. Yeah. Appreciate all y'all's effort. I know it was hard. Yeah. Yeah. Thank you. Yes, sir. Mr. Bob. Sure.

We kind of have kicked ourselves off. We've done our homework. We've gotten our a lot of cooperation on the sales tax from all their department heads. They put together a lot of good information. We met with staff this morning to kind of do some more plotting and planning. We'll have their first town hall here Thursday at 6:30. I hope some of the council can come in case there are questions from the public because this is this is a sales tax that you guys set the rules on. Uh we have written I've got editorial opeds going out. We've got all of our points going. I did check there's no big assembly at the school on the staff development day. So, but that was an opportunity we thought we might find. Uh, I've asked Mike, Mike, Richard McKenna to talk to BFW and giving him some points. I was going to grab Buddy, but he got away. But we're going to try to see if we can get over to the Masonic Lodge to their meeting. We're going to meet with the police 23rd 10th fire department fire meeting.

Senior center. We got the senior center coming up next week, right? 11th. So, we've got the the pieces, I think, to begin to put together to cut it to go on the road and do our dog and pony show. If any of you guys are going to be able to contribute financially, get it to me by Thursday and we'll decide what we're going to do, which would probably be some signs that we'll do. Am I missing anything, Mr. Mayor?

I don't think so. Uh, get out there and talk it up and get people to vote. We're gonna I'm g I'm going to start I'm going to send you I think I've got everybody's cell phone number. I'm going to send you on your cell phones all our talking points and things so you'll all have it with you all the time. And then and we're going to start multiplying those everything we do whether it's on social media. Uh and those we're going to start doing those from our office two or three times a week and then asking you all to just share them. Everything that you see that we send out share them. And the same thing with anything we'll send you on your phones, just share it. Just share it out to people. That way you don't have to remember anything. Just just share it out to other people. Make it easy.

Yeah. Thank you, Bob, for your diligence on working on this hard. And Jeff, you and I and need to meet with I get Kim tomorrow. Let's get our sign. Figure that out. She's got she's got something made. These are the signs that we're going to put out to say this is what that's paid for or that's how that got just to let people know this is the awareness you know things have already been done and you're one that's here Thursday at 6:30 Thursday here at 6:30 this Thursday town hall yeah that that announcement's out we're we're trying to share that out now and so you know hopefully we'll if a citizen wants to contribute to the bench to the for the sign making thing do we just drop off a check to the chamber check cash whatever I'll give you a receipt and if we don't use it we'll get it back meeting

just and and there ought to be some, you know, when when you go out and meet with someone, come up with a list of people that you want to talk to specifically and ask those people to contact and not only contact, but remind them on the day of the vote to get out there and do that vote. So, one person calls five, says, "I'll I'll remind you the day before. Get out and vote and and try to do it mechanically." That's why on our talking point thing we put the little sheet on the back, you know, write down names of five and we did that this morning in council meeting. Everybody sat down and actually wrote down names of who they're going to call to forward that on to. And that's department head department head meeting. I'm sorry. Yeah, that's okay. They just think they're the council.

Yeah. Last month. So that Yes. Exactly. But I mean the people that you contact encourage them to contact five and not only that but just make sure tell them hey I'm going to remind you the day before to get out there get people tired of hearing from you and you know call them call them again and ask them to call somebody and that's how that's how all of that multiplies and y'all please call me the idea Steve has caught me with a couple of ideas already so y'all call me if you something pops up call me text me let me have an idea we just don't need to be like a dazel about it. I mean, a lot of a lot of times it's just h it's going to pass. It'll be fine. Well, we got to get them to the poll.

We think we we we think we got a good intelligent group of voters in our city and they support what our city does, but we need to make sure that they know the facts. Here's what that our council has done. And I I pointed out today a couple of times that uh y'all have gotten beat on a little bit, but as your finance director said to you in your last budget meeting, we're on the right track. And I think we can say that to our voters, we're on the right track. And is it's March 3rd? March 3rd at the EMS building. At at the EMS building and at on the on the day of the election, all the polls will be Yeah. I say all all on third. Yeah. Just this tomorrow's vote is just in two places.

They're all voting. So you can go. It doesn't matter where you live. You can pull up that you vote vote any of them. Now that's just the early voting spot right there. Okay. But if you if you want to go on your day of of election, you go there. As far as I know, that's going to be the early voting place, isn't it? That is. Yeah. Yeah. For the for the primary. Where's the other place? Does it say shelter at Ben? Uh I think rightville Baptist central city Baptist uh Washurn Fire Department Fire Department. Yeah. Some place in Charleston in the county. Yeah. But for for city limits of Greenwood on March 3rd, it'll be a regular polling places. Now that vote out.

So we're not doing the fair anymore. Any of those places he just said. That's a county property. I guess it was Oh,

yeah. Right.

Talking about voting in any of those. Did you say we could vote in any of those? Vote any voting for a city of Greenwood tax. that's going to be on those or is it because the other issues on the ballot? Well, there's like 120 maybe more now different ballots, right? And so they put, you know, based on your precinct that you vote in all that is the one that comes up. Yeah, it's in the computer. So they punch in your and your ballot punches out. She sent me a precinct. Go to your voting place. You're going to confuse a little old lady judge over there. As far as as far as the I just saw a count of two.

So there's less there's less ballots than there are polling. But but remember the your election judges all call me young men. So don't confuse them. Thank y'all. Please call me. Thank you. Give me input because this is the people in this room in this building will make this happen. And on a voting note, vote tomorrow. Tomorrow is just Republican vote. If you are a Republican, yeah, you can vote and you can vote if you're a Democrat, but you have to sign up to be a Republican. I witnessed that the other day. You can be an independent and vote to keep you a registered Democrat, right?

Unless you change your party right there in front of them. There's less than 450 people voted this at lunch. So, this is pretty important. Is that over here? Yeah. Pretty important. Yeah. And there was only a little over 100 vote margin uh in that primary and there was no Terry's on my list that had voted. So pick up all your list. Huh? When was your list? Uh at lunch. Well, that list wrong. Okay, good. I voted last week. Roger was on the list. Yeah. And the mayor was on the list. My wife was not. She will be tomorrow.

I didn't see any makers. Is the Haven't we voted for? Mine have all been out of town. Okay. I Is that Yes, sir. for Indianapolis. Delmar. Delmar. Delmer. That that that was going to be my my last comment to be sure and remember Michelle and her family and prayers. It's been a long long thing for us. Anything from anybody else. Thank you for a good meeting. Got a lot done. Appreciate everybody. Polls close at 7:30 tomorrow, by the way. Polls close at 7:30 tomorrow. Motion to journ. Go vote. Motion tojourn. Second. Second.

Second. Thank you very much. We call