Town Council - Regular Meeting

allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all we remain standing for nation heavenly father we thank you for this day we thank you for allowing us to be in this place at this time father we ask that you be with us as we make decisions that will concern the citizens fields Give us clarity. Give us wisdom. Give us understanding. Jesus ask. One change on the agenda. I was about to say you may need to use

yes there is one change on the agenda before we approve it and that is that conversation is consultant with Do I hear a motion to approve the change? Second. Motion made by Councilman Jernik and seconded by Councilman McGawan. All in favor? All opposed. We do not consent.

We do not. Okay. So that item is not at this time. We need to have a motion to continue a public hearing for the property on the corporate extended the corporate limits on Gordon Road ID 0510.

Make a motion that we extend. that we uh should continue till next month. Extend corporate limits on road 510. Second

made by Council Brown. All in favor? All those motion to extend a public hearing to amend the zoning of zoning property I521. I make a motion we extend the public hearing for ordinance to amen it 05105021 is in back questions for clarification for clarification parcels the third digit is an I not a That's what's

so I'll my parcel ID 05 I I 05021 and I'll amend my my motion so it's partial ID 05 I as an India 05021 echo I have a motion for second one by Councilman Galla second by council. All in favor?

All opposed. We're going to open the first open forum. Anyone having anything to bring before council? Please come forward. State your name, addressing will close for 6:35 railroad visits. We have for I love his name naming the party pitch whereas Ted being the founding member Burton, president of Clayton RFC, established 2013 to get the club to where it is today. And whereas with teams preferring to play down in the lowest division possible and always fighting to stay there, Ted saw an opportunity within the structure to form a development reason for a team struggling with members and travel and also build a second team to be able to play meaningful roles without being on the end of a lopsided games. The teams and players it helped develop and to loyal rugby. Without it and Ted's dedication to the sport, many teams would have folded. And whereas Ted is

directly responsible for the existence of Johnston County Park. And whereas Hardy family sacrificed time, energy, and money for the betterment of others and the community, both Wilson's Mills and the Rugby Rugby community as a whole. Now therefore be it proclaim the championship bill at the Johnston County Roby Park located at the Phil Right Community Park will be named Hardy Pitch proclaim this 11th day of August 2025 to say that I have been out and watch horror game so it is amazing to watch the fellowship and the just the overall sport that y'all show to each other and it's just amazing and I am so proud to say that y'all are part of this and if you ever need anything from town from the town let us know we will be glad Yes, it won't.

And I just want to know what this guy in white hat at the end of the thing is doing. Oh, different sport. Yeah, that's Aussie rules football. Well, thank y'all so much for being here and thank y'all for supporting the wonderful

Thank you. Well, councilman, I appreciate really appreciate it. I was a little scared because I thought it was just going to be me and Peter coming up tonight and I could talk about stuff and I saw all these people and I got really nervous. You thought you had done something wrong. I was really worried about uh you know. Hey. Yeah. Um the park's a special place for us, special place for our community and we love being a part of it. Um you guys have been incredibly gracious to us and look forward to doing more and building more and bringing more people out there. From what I understand, you have some of your members that are on our events committee or Yes. Yes, sir.

That's that's wonderful, too. I like I like the cooperation and I got to tell you, it has been a long long struggle. I remember when you first approached us now what you've got. And in the meantime, I've seen you guys selling hot dogs in front of the gun store. So, you guys have worked hard. Really have. It It's been a battle. You know, who could have predicted? You know, like we got rolling and we're got off to a really strong start and then pandemic shut everything down for two years and you know, we didn't know what was going to happen after that. And you know, we got a lot of great members that have

supported us along the way and continued to fight and you know, they believe they believe in community, they believe in family and that's what kept us going and you know we got some momentum out there now so we're just going to keep on trucking. I look forward to the uh the tournaments, the visiting team. So, yep. And all I mean you guys deserve everything. So, congratulations. Each one. The next time you go to Ireland, I teach you'll be going together. Absolutely. Thank you. Thank you. I appreciate it. I did just want to say sir, I was uh I just I know a couple of guys that the program

and when it first started out, you know, something we watched on TV and and we thought about how rough of a sport it is compared to with football, especially math. Um but those those guys talked about how how much they enjoyed it. And I really think in my mind and in my heart that that that program kept them on their to be productive adult sickness. Yeah. And I have to say for that for those kids and the kids you have now and in the future. Thank you. Yes, sir. Thank you. It's a pleasure addition.

And that's all that I have. Um I just have a couple of updates um on the lighting request at the intersections of I42 and specifically Sweden Creek Road but also Wilson Sils Road. Um the representatives in Duke Energy have assigned that task to their contractor who does the designs for the lighting at different intersections on DOT roads and I'm just waiting to hear back from them. I got that information Thursday afternoon and I haven't heard from them yet, but he said that they would be reaching out to me to start the design for that so that they can let us know how much that would be for for the town that for our portion of it. Um the second thing I have is I'd like to introduce Jennifer Martin who's sitting here with me tonight. She is our new HR director and she started officially last Monday though she came back after a whole week and um she's already jumped on the ball with with meeting and talking with all the employees and starting to look at job descriptions to work on the salary grade and stuff like that. So, she's she's already working on lots of projects. I do want to introduce you all to her.

I just want to say thank you for the opportunity. I'm looking forward to it and I'm excited to work with the town and make it the best that it can be. That's all I have. Any comments from council? [Music]

You talk about We're open the second form. Anyone have anything they want to say? Please come forward. Your name's address. close the second appointment at 6:44 before we have a motion for the session. I would like to tell the audience that we do have more on our agenda, but tonight we not going into close session to consult with our attorney. So there things that we will have to do behind closed doors. So council we are going to go to the conference and so everybody shut 318.11 Adams three. Would you mind making that motion to invite Ly

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Motion made by Councilman Brown, second by Council Dian. All in favor?