Council Committee - Regular Meeting

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e e e e regular meeting of the mayor and city council has been called to order city of Port Allen Louisiana at 5:36 p.m. each person must decide before entering the chambers which item they wish to comment on if they are not seated in the chamber when the agenda item is heard they will be notified by

an officer to enter the council chambers to address that agenda item agenda please silence all electronic devices please stand for the [Music] pledge I to flag United States of americais roll call please M Joseph M laon here Mr Hubble here M King here Mr P here approval of the minutes of the regular meeting of January 8th 2025 I'm mov hey was moved by councilwoman Gardon second by councilman pay Miss Joseph yes M Gordon yes Mr Hubble yes M King yes Mr P yes pass okay we have an amendment uh yes mayor council uh we have a request to amend the agenda to add an agenda item to hear from the library board about some upcoming uh I guess items that would be put before the city of Parish uh we would need a motion to amend the agenda of the council uh so pleases to hear that agenda item and like any other motion to amend that motion need a unanimous consent in order to be passed motion H Joseph yes M Gordon yes Mr hu yes M King

yes Mr P we'll make that fi of 6A 6 8 five public comments from the public are allowed in accordance with L RS 42-11 section 2 through 34 and specifically limited to an agenda item to be considered during the meeting 3 minutes per person and 15 minutes per topic p number six presentation by the Fort Allen Police Department FL safety Chief Mitchell this ain't going to be long however I'm going to get ready to tell tell a little story you know on why need okay so an incident had occurred in sometime last year was the beginning of the year where we had uh multiple shots call um and as y'all already aware we extremely sh right so with that being said uh we got multiple uh calls shot they can hear you oh they can hear you we had multiple shot fir call uh in various locations one was in from Porter another one was in um North nor 14 and uh P another one was on South 12 in uh um another one was on Avenue A and once again we shorthanded so we didn't have a accurate location on where to go so we went and we started searching those surrounding areas upon searching we end up eventually getting uh a phone

call from my Anonymous caller which we get a lot of those um people who don't want to be involved we tell you what's going on leave but we got Anonymous call from this particular person we said hey shot the shot was over here on on Court Street right by South 12 at that point I end up getting on scene I start knocking at all doors until I end up coming up to this resident who still want to remain anonymous but provided me with this video footage of what happened okay up I like to point to if you pay attention the car coming up right here this South push so they comeing to the intersection of South this the plan yeah all right that's the car I just listen once again they not do this okay at that point in time hold stop again I sto can y'all make out that vehicle anybody can make up that vehicle a little bit more even with that car going at spe nobody can't make up that right right I can't

I'm a cop cop over 10 years I still can't make that okay so I'm going go ahead and get back to you how to so with that being said we end up seeing the direction of travel they was going which is West on uh P Street if we had a gunshot detector cameras F will be able to get a pinpoint accurate of that deal we depending on the community and y'all been extremely healthy but what they can provide we limited once that car had lost um left out of frame we had nothing else so that kind of deterred us further on getting to the the root cuse right there which was that deal so I'm coming to you guys with y' support moving forward to try to get flight safety because with the the tools that they can help us help provide to us we'll be able to do our job more efficient and it's not only help us out it help the community out it help the city the whole city so at this point as y'all can tell I'm extremely hor I'm just not getting a little bit of my voice back I like to let re okay take CH the begin can we move that on screen yeah we no not everyone it's all [Music] right um all right guys first just want

we have uh Mr Ford on the screen I just want to briefly introduce him this is sheim foryd I've been working with myself at G been working relentlessly for who the last couple weeks I'm just diving into the uh DNA of this of this system that we we come to know but before I get started I kind of want to do something I'm a very interactive person I like being engaged so I need a just a little bit of participation for my positions if you don't mind can you please PL your cell phones you never do anything to it just pull it out for me so I can hold it up can join to if you want I did and I give cou second so and I I appreciate you joining me so with that being said you got I won't make you know too long so with that being said the reason why I instituted that because on the back of our cell phones we have a camera and it's at the disposal of of us very quickly is ready to Stu is in our back pocket people keep purses brief cases anything you want to name and you have the ability to access and use it at the moment's noce all right so if you had to take a guess on how many cameras cover the city just take a while any I'm open anybody want to give me a suggestion all right so we got one person that's correct we have none none we have zero all right and from a law enforcement standpoint I find it to be a uh it's very hard to work with all right we're in 2025 we move to the 21 C 21st century police we GA a lot of data a lot of evidence that we present to the DA's office all we use for further

investigations not just further investigations but we work with other jurisdictions to try to solve cases and when you don't have those tools especially a tool that's again reg available um it sort of put the concrete on your back and it makes your job just that much hard as you saw in the video that Chief mitell show that that crime could have easily been solved all right so we have statute being violated we don't have a suspect we don't have a car we don't have anything to go off of thankfully the citizen had a residential camera and again residential cameras are great but usually they our residents on budgets so you have to buy a budget camera um replacement of it it's going to be idea for their home not to always catch a public aard Street and that's not their duty to do it's our job as a as C to to provide that but being helpful being helpful they still provide those videos for us to help us in our investigation but sometimes it's just not enough um you can get a car view etc etc The Next Step before I so to turn over to Mr FL is you take a look around I did the interaction with you guys with the the cell phones and the cameras but if you look around in here we have a small camera on the stand here but so this the column is blocking we have one in here by Cil G there's one on the wall on the back and there's one at the top last time I checked not much crime goes on in here but this room is more equipped than the city of Port Allen as far as video and audio and quite frankly I think that's a problem that we have to attack and it's for the benefit get to the benefit of all of us um my role before kind of do a roll I was detected now countless cases

um shootings aggravated assaults where the investigation that I did I thought did a great job we had local residents that help video provided but it was just that little bit more of information that I could have used to identify a vehicle a person walking a license plate a matching a car mod that would have really really really helped not just really really really helped we could have H somebody account before which is the person that did so I'm going turn over to Mr Ford and he to explain a little bit more to about flock saet thanks CH Smith can everybody hear me okay chief assistant chief can you hear me okay yes sir okay great um so yeah as assistant chief Smith said I'm I'm shanus for I'm the flock safety rep that's been helping out Chief and assistant chief Smith um you know and at the end of the day flock safety's mission is to eliminate crime right ac across the United States um and we do that through our technology whether it's hardware and software um for the purpose of of this city council meeting I will be passing it over to Jonathan he'll introduce himself and then can kind of get into the context of this thanks good evening good folks hear me yes yes sir awesome thank you so much so my name is Jonathan bus I'm part of local government Affairs team here at flock so we were founded back in 2017 uh when our CEO was the victim of property crime in his neighborhood in in Atlanta Georgia um and at the time he thought having a doorbell camera would be enough uh so he went to his local PD and said here's some evidence um and turns out it wasn't uh his uh they told him you need a license plate so he did a little bit of research and found out that license plate reading technology has been around for over 30 years it's just typically

very expensive for neighbors to acquire that technology so he developed uh what is now the best-in-class technology that doesn't break the bank um and we are now in over 5,000 5,000 communities helping solve over 10% of prime and really what we're helping do is answer the Paradox where police are expected to do more with less um and we what we find to be a solution to Staffing shortages um in in law enforcement is having a collaborative policing technology platform in making officers more effective having more objective data but also working with the community um that's one of our founding principles we have a whole Suite of solutions uh uh what we're going to talk about for this part is the license PL reader and this is how it works uh so you drive by one of these cameras um they're in a fixed location they're not moving around um and they take a snapshot of the back of your car and really it takes stock of two things number one the license plate right uh number two the vehicular T so it makes notice of the color the make of the car if it has a bike rack um that's data that's included in as part of that snapshot and it really is helpful as an investigative tool right because if something happens something terrible happens people some people don't memorize a license complete they remember what the car looked like so that description alone helps law enforcement be able to have a real objective lead bread crumps if you will leading to a suspect um so we provide 24/7 coverage but on top of that um there's a proactive element to it where this data is integrated with the National Crime information center so that means that if someone's coming into your neighborhood coming into your jurisdiction uh that you know a stolen vehicle's coming in of a missing person a missing child uh someone with a felony warrant is coming into your jurisdiction you will be notified in real time typically in under 30 seconds uh you'll get that notification so there's that

proactive component that investigative component and you get you know solar powered so you don't have to put wires down this is what it looks like to have a real time alert um this is a a car that's that's been flagged associated with a catalytic converter theft uh so you get you can get a text message alert an email or an inapp alert and you can customize your own alerts uh this is what it looks like for an officer to search through the system um looking for criteria of a vehicle so you can include what the vehicle make the body type as I mentioned um again providing um just information about where someone may have been at some point in time um and I I wanted to just really quickly emphasize we built this technology with privacy in mind uh if the data is not being used right like if your car drives by one of these cameras and you're not going to be investigated for anything that data will be deleted in 30 days and that's a hard delete uh the only data that's kept beyond that is data that would be part of an investigation so uh I also just want to emphasize we don't own the data you guys are the masters of your own data we help store it um in a government Cloud um but we can't sell this information we we don't really collect personal data um there's no personal data Associated this is literally data about Vehicles when it comes to license plate readers um and we believe in security so all the data is encrypted end to end um and there you know you can't go into the system like we built it with accountability in mind and transparency so you can't just go into the system and wonder what your neighbor's doing you need a search reason and any search in the flock system is part of an indefinitely available audit Trail so these things this the system is audited um and yeah we we want to make sure that there's transparency the process so we also provide free of charge uh a transparency portal this will you know showcase to the public you can include it in your city website but this is a tool in the

toolbox uh it it explains you know what it's being used for what it's not being used for um you can even publicize your license plate reading policy and even show the return on investment some agencies show like hey here's how many stolen vehicles we've recovered here's how much stolen property we've recover they can put a dollar amount so that's a real benefit um in terms of this you know transparently and ethically using this technology I wanted to quickly share about uh our gunshot detection system um imagine if you're responding to a terrible situation you get a 911 call um and there's been reports about uh gunshots uh this will allow you to have a virtual crime scene um you are getting notified about where shots have been fired in under 60 seconds um so even before someone calls 911 and a dispatch is sent out you will already be aware of where that may have happened uh so you can not only preserve evidence you can protect victims better and you can apprehend suspects because this will be um uh this will be paired to the licensed plate reading cameras in your neighborhood so if there is a vehicle that there are witnesses there's a car getting away the the license plate reading cameras are informing are being are helping you inform about what is the situational awareness where maybe someone's fleeing a scene uh so again just to recap you're protecting evidence you're protecting victims and you you have way better situational awareness now that you have G shot paired with licensed reading technology um and I just wanted to just reemphasize again um this is uh within these devices operate within a 90t radius um um and yeah there's more gunshots reported than 911 calls made so I I I really uh think this is a is a powerful tool and this is just to visualize it um you know before someone is even dispatched you already have um eyes on the scene understanding where uh shots were

fired um and I did want to again just reemphasize um we we train these devices so they're not really listen they're not listening to conversations they've been trained to soltion to explosions that are comparable to to to gunshots so these look like 5-second audio clips that are reported and saved when a gunshot um is fire is fired or firework or sow is detected our technology is evolving so that that's what those specific cases are being used for uh but again you're triangulating within a 90 ft um which enhances evidence collection um and I did just want to again emphasize all that is automatically deleted uh on a 30-day basis so again if it's some uh something benign no one got hurt it's um you know you will be able that will be deleted unless it's part of an ongoing criminal investigation so again you you guys own all the datas um and the real power behind you know having a licensed Plate Reader having gunshop detection and then having live video is that you're actually able to have eyes on a situation um this is what our live video camera looks like uh when you're operating it um you are able to where some of these cameras are Place let's say it's a hight traffic area and there's like some kind of game happening you really develop a situation awareness where you can proactively monitor these cameras uh or reactively if there's reports that there's an incident uh you're able to uh better understand the situation uh and really pair these different devices to gather good information good evidence and save lives so here's a few amazing features I'm not going to run through all of them but uh these cameras you are able to pan til in Zoom um and you have a 25 times optical zoom feat which from what I've been told is really impressive um um and but we we really do help you in terms of setting these up finding good places that they will be helpful places where you really want to have eyes on the ground uh and we help you with the permitting

installation and the data storage um so just to kind of recap uh we're a very upfront company the price that you get is very upfront uh we want to be your safety as a service partner so we don't just give you the technology and walk away we actually help you maintain it we help update it um and again as I mentioned beh help in the installation process permitting and the data storage uh so we are already continently helping prevent and in Louisiana where already 45 law enforcement agencies here are some of them um I did want to just share a couple quick stories uh where we had a they had a hidden run situation had a central um Central U officers responded to reports of two vehicle crash uh the victim was reported that he was reared by Chevy and paa that fled the scene um so they quickly queried their LPR and they found a magic vehicle thanks to our uh license litting technology in kener uh one in April 18th uh where officers responded to reports of two suspects attempting to break into Vehicles they received reports of at least 12 vehicle burglaries in the neighborhood again these are people just reporting with very limited information like it was a blue car running away um but they were able to successfully pray the system and identify the suspects before anything else or Worse happened um in similar situations April 24 the officers received an alert that a vehicle had been detected nearby um they initiated a traffic stop and erects the two suspects who were charged with illegal possession of firearms simple burgy and a position to uh with intent to distribute among others um I don't want to take up too much time but I did want to just um quickly share sorry this uh story here um where uh officers responded to reports of a driveby shooting um in Kenner um and they found a deceased victim on the scene uh so again resp responding to a real life and death scenario they queried their flock safety um cameras and within 3 hours of the

shooting they identifi the vehicle its owner um using the camera so 10:00 a.m. uh the first suspect the 23-year-old Kenard local was arrested for first-degree murder um and at 1: p.m. the suspect uh the second suspect the 25-year-old was arrested on the same same charges um so just to give you an idea you know this is all happening in real time people are operating with limited information um but you know within within the next day uh those suspects were apprehended um and just to kind of quote uh the ker police chief uh let this serve as a message to anyone who considers terrorizing the city or its people that ker PD will be relentless until a bring a criminal to justice so this this means a lot to the families of the victim uh being able to know that you know there isn't uh someone running around the city um and I just want to really close out uh with our first anber alert um solved I apologize I'm going for too long um uh back in Georgia where we were founded in 2020 a mom was walking down the street with uh her baby uh when two strangers uh literally um pul uh pulled up to her um and at gunpoint stole her baby she fought she fought as best as she could uh but she remembered it was a red Honda with a damaged back wheel uh that information alone was enough to successfully um Locate the suspects uh we have a very strong Network um in Georgia uh where we were founded um so by 12:00 this an amber alert is issued a baby is stole it by 2:00 uh they were able to locate the vehicle and they knew that the suspects were fleeing the state so they were able to map out uh a safe stop to make an arrest um and by 6:00 the baby's reunited with the mom uh stranger on Stranger abductions are very rare to solve uh and here in this scenario we were able to solve it within the same day um I share this story not only to talk about how great our technology is but this baby is a toddler

um and this family lives to tell the story um it's she shows the power of our network but also you know we've been able to help recover over 400 people Nationwide uh that's probably an underestimate um so this is the real value where you could bring to your community not only knowing that you'll be better protected but um you'll be protected efficiently um so happy to answer any questions I do apologize if I went for to that question so um while I'm kind of closing down I did really want to add um one story one investigation promise you won't be wrong at all but um Jonathan gave a good example of how within three hours the suspect was identified arrest Char first and k well myself and T's name dealing with a very very similar case now luckily the person the victim did not die which is always awesome but nonetheless the crime was still committed and he suffered a major almost life threed injury well that was January 1st in the location of Avenue G in South T Street and it is February and it's still under investigation so to take we going on two months now a month and a half now and to be able to Crunch it down within 3 hours of a crime a major major violent crime being solved it does so much Justice to our city in our community um this is not a product that we can pack up and take to our house and benefit from this is for the city of P this is for our community and that's who it brings justice so I'm going go ahead and shut this down I appreciate you guys for listening

how you oh we place plac all the ENT all the ENT and then as y'all he PT that's the ceras we place them our Sayan all the high like intersections and stuff like that this is the H SP to me la1 and Avenue G when people come off that bridge they got a lot of traffic coming over there they got a lot of people do a lot of UT over there so so so the major part of Hope give you a little bit more insight the major part of this camera initiative is to get the entire city cover right it's just like a res a residential house you want to make sure that I was getting to so it's just so it's just like a res your house you want to cover the major part of your house first I haven heard question he wants to know the cost of it oh another thing to add to that U one of the things also uh bless us with with the uh the G shot detective that they gave us Tri so with that being said they they said they come and place it in our city your charge and if don't need so I'm sorry guys the B did die but if I remember correctly um it was a quote of 23,000 um a year subscription um it comes like a 2-year contract and then up on your closer to the end of the 2E you have a chance to

to review and R also the Raven technology which his name of gun shot detection they're doing the Project SAFE um project operate sales I think I'm sorry if I can't remember correctly they going to do a a 60-day trial they're going to 60 day Trier if you like it we can keep it and if you don't they'll come and pull up all the equipment and um so um let me stop you so I think we didn't have the presentation ready for committee meeting so it's just the presentation tonight I think we can get more information next month for a committee meeting and then put it on the agenda to vote um next month if we want to um cuz I think you're asking for for the new fiscal year to put in your budget for New Year or you want to start before that we could start now I like to start now okay so we'll um kind of talk about it uh for a committee meeting so whatever other information you need to bring I guess to them like the price you know Georgia computer so so so we can bring it to committee meeting and then they can vote for the next meeting so it kind of was a um you know just an informative um video thank you okay 6A Library not sure who good evening my name is Tammy Martin I'm the director of West B Library which means that I oversee both branches of the library we have staff at each one but I'm sort of the boss all so um Elliot is setting up our presentation um libraries have evolved a

lot people tend to think of us as a storehouse of books and that's not what we are anymore we we got plugins on the laptop our R comes and works in detail for us and next um all right so we're ready to go so tonight I want to talk to you about all the resources at the library that are above and beyond books we do have lots of books but much more than that so some of our resources are books magazines and and DVDs we have over 70,000 titles of books so that's not copies that's 70,000 titles so if we have two copies of Jane a that it only counts once so we have 70,000 titles we collect I can't see it 112 magazines if you have a magazine subscription you're wasting your money you can come to the library and check it out for free um we get Newsweek people gardening magazines keto magazines whatever you need uh even a homeschooling magazine and then DVDs not everyone has access to streaming um capabilities not everyone has internet access a lot of people still come in and check out DVDs we have Classic Movies TV series lots of children's DVDs we got the entire Disney collection um and they're really great for road trips if you put a DVD player on the back of your car you can drive all the way to Disney and they'll be fet um additional resources we have all

the local newspapers we have the advocate Point P um we did have the Westside Journal until they stop publication but we'll have that again as soon as they're back in business but we also get USA Today and the New York Times you can access the New York Times through our databases without paying for it so you can read the New York Times online for free or you can come in and get the paper it doesn't has to come through the mail so it's not that day's addition but um and then public computers we have 20 public computers they're equipped with Microsoft Office they're connected to the internet they have print capabilities we have uh one particular employee named Louise who can help you with any computer problem you have um and then we have these databases so databases tend to fall towards the academic they have um information for research papers and things like that but then there's also medical databases we have a car repair database if you're old school you remember the Chilton manuals but that's all online now so you can come to the library or access it from home and print out those directions of how to change your starter and not get them greasy not get the book greasy when you're working on it um go ahead all right so this is our Digital Collection in addition to physical books DVDs magazines newspapers we have access to online books audio books for your commute um so the first one is called Cloud Library that is um a Consortium and agreement between most of the public libraries in the state of Louisiana we have all gone

in together and there are over 300,000 titles in that collection um that is just books and audio books um try Parish e library and Libby are kind of the same thing on tri parish e library is on your computer but Libby is an app that you can download to your phone Libby is a really smart app if you have more than one library card for example I have one here I have one in EBR I have one I have one in St tamony you can put all your library card numbers into it and it connects to all of them at the same time so when you're looking for an available copy of hug fin it tells you which library has it and you can click on it and check it out right then um those collections however only have what we purchased to put in them the one that's called hoopla it's sort of set up uh pay as you go so it doesn't cost us anything to offer you hoopla but when you click on something and check it out we pay for that checkout and only that checkout but the other thing about hoopla is you don't have to worry about whether something is available because everything is always available we can all check out the same thing and all watch it together or read it together it's really great for required rating for school required rating when nobody can get their hands on that book that the English teacher said you got to have by Monday we can all check it out on hoopla hoopla also contains more than just ebooks and E audio books it has access to music the Taylor Swift album is on there if that's your thing

not my thing but um they have uh comic books it has um uh TV shows old TV shows especially I Love Lucy uh the Andy Griff show um and it rotates because we don't buy things and put them in that collection kind of like Netflix does every month they take some things out put some new things in so it's constantly rotating um teen Cloud Library that is for middle school high school students and it has a lot of that required reading in it but it also has some study guids especially like the Baya wolf um Shakespeare things like that that helps explain them that is really essential if you have a middle school high school student that has those required reading assignments and then tumble books is maybe my favorite it is for the little kids it has all the picture books and nursery rhymes and all that and it's interactive they turn the page on the book there are little dots that go along with the text and read it out loud to them if that's what they prefer there are games that are associated with it it's a really good way to um integr R some literacy into what your child is already doing on the tablet and then our services uh so many people don't realize that you don't need to go across the river for so many of the things that we offer uh we serve as a document Center you can come in you can scan you can print you can copy you can fact um there are minimal charges for copies and faes but compared to going across the river it's really convenient um my staff does an amazing job of Outreach we go out to the schools we go

out to Council on Aging we have bookmobile that has regular stops but when Co started we kind of backed off on the bookmobile a little bit and started doing some more personal service we still have those neighborhood stops for the bookmobile but we serve our Shu inss and elderly on a personal level Miss um Cherry takes them their books directly to their house can leave it on their doorstep or see them and some of them that's the only interaction they're going to get this week um she takes on crafts um it she does an amazing job she's really dedicated and one of the best assets plus b Mar has um we have a meeting room um it's bigger than this one uh ours at the South Branch seats 150 people the one here in Port Island if you haven't been to it lately has been remodeled has all new paint all new flooring we've got the projector and the screens it's completely free to use there is no charge and reference all right that one employee his name is Louise and if you don't know Louise you need to know Louis Louis is your man he was named what Louisiana Library association's Public librarian of the year for 2024 um he can help you with your phone with all those apps that I just talked about he can help you set up a resume apply for a job find the research book that you're looking for for your homework whatever it is L this afternoon Casa is doing some training in our meeting room and Louis is in there setting up her Powerpoint when I left this afternoon so so our statistics this is just for 2024 it includes Port Allen for the

whole year and the South Branch opened on May the 16th so half the year we checked out over 65,000 items we had 8,000 272 computer sessions which tells me not everyone has a computer at home not everyone has the internet at home we provide that vital connection um Louis all by himself answered 15,000 reference questions last year that doesn't include where's the bathroom or what time do you close those are real reference questions that people needed help with and couldn't find the answer on their own everybody says just Google it it's not always the answer you you really need some direction sometimes and in 365 days we had 572 programs that's amazing we're not even open on Sundays we had over 30,000 people attend those programs and there are only 28,000 people in West BGE Parish so does that mean everyone of y'all came to a program last year I hope you did I hope you did okay all right we in 2020 three join forces with Dolly Parton's Imagination Library really quick explanation of it the foundation mailed children under the age of five a book every month for them to keep it comes in the child's name addressed to them and there's no cost to the parent there's no cost to the state um there are no restrictions other than be under the age of five and live in back Ridge

no restrictions at all if you haven't signed your children your grandchildren your nieces and nephews up I brought applications all you got to do is fill it out drop it off drop it in the mail you don't have to drop it off to me or you can go online and fill out the application and we'll get your kids starting we right now have 353 active that is about 20% of the eligible people the eligible children in West Baton Rouge so I'm really doing a push to get more kids signed up there is no L cost um we've had 90 graduate already that's really good um okay so on March 29th the library is asking for a millage renewal um it will be effective for 10 years it is for 4.1 Ms it is not a new tax it is simply a continuation of what we have collected for the last 10 years however this year we are not collecting 4 .1 Ms we've rolled back to 3.9 Ms we're tightening our belt we finished building the South Branch so we don't need to add funds to that um we are fully stacked we don't need so we're tightening our belt um reassessment hit everyone hard this year it it I'm taxpayer my reassessments made me eyes pop out of my head so we're trying to be kind to the taxpayers we're trying to only collect what we need and the parish council ask every taxing body uh that's under their purview to do that and and we agree um because it's it's important to us that we not over tax people and that we spend your money responsibly and if we don't need it we don't need it so that there's a really good example on the Assessor's website of how to figure out what your

tax bill will be and and I wish I had done that before I opened up my bill but um if your house is assessed at $150,000 and you have homestead exemption you pay towards the library $30.75 a year so think about that for just a minute all those services that I told you about tonight um how much does Netflix cost you a year just a month how much Netflix cost you a month how much your Amazon crime cost you a money you can drop those things you need a book you don't have to get online well you can get online and reserve it but you can also pick up a phone and say Kim pull this book to the side for me I'm coming by to get it or tell Miss Sherry to bring it to my house that's what we do for westage every day every day drop some of those subscriptions people okay next all right these are just beautiful pictures of all of our wonderful West B rge people enjoying our library our programs sweet little boy I got sweet spot for um did his water painting we had a princess tea party it was a story time the princesses came and read stories and had a tea party with all the little girls in their precious little costumes we have after school board games uh chess Checkers uh connect for all sorts of things you can just come sit at one of our tables soak up the air conditioning in the summer we have teen game nights on Friday night they really love that they real for some reason the teenagers love to be in the library after it's closed I don't understand the attraction we don't check out books on those nights but they love

it we have a family color onon featuring Mr Donovan Mitchell before he was famous and then those are just some sweet little children that we taught enjoying the library in in the um in Port Island Branch so I brought handouts for everybody there are some handouts on the table that review some of those statistics that I just went over and include some more pictures of our beautiful West B rich people the application for the Dolly Parton Imagination Library and some pens if you want to take a p I brought six of the we love our library signs they are hot cakes y'all if you want One DB one on your way out but we got them at the library at the front door we bought 500 and they are going fast what questions do y'all have for me anything thank you so much for your time thank you you oh uh let me reiterate March 29th your ballot will include a constitutional amendment the libraries tax renewal and the drainage tax renewal for the entire Parish I'm here I I think y'all all know me if you don't I'm Carri Den school I'm on the parish council I'm the chairperson for the parish council I'm here in support for the library tax I serve on Miss Tammy's board and they do a phenomenal job y'all they really really really do so we really do or would appreciate your support on this March 29th while I'm up here on the same March

29th the parish has two renewal taxes the library and also our drainage tax and um the thing I can say about the drainage tax is all you have to do is is go back to 2016 we all know the devastation that happened in this state Miss Charlene at that time was on the parish council so I know she knows this there was a map that came out that showed all the uh parishes in the central part of Louisiana and they were all showing the flooded parishes and they were all in red in red and there was this one little bitt one in the middle right Miss Charlene one little bitt one that didn't get any flood so we appreciate that you all would approve that renewal on that millage fors and just remember all the municipalities your water goes into our ditches and we get it discharged to the inter Coastal Canal so thank you all for your time and I appreciate it I think we're done thank you all right ay number seven consider the introduction of an ordinance to Res subdivide the municipal property located at 605 North 15 Street also known as 9108 AC in section 67 t75 or 12E designated a lot CND D p82 through 85 this item was not approved by the planning zoning commissioner before Mr Joseph begins Council just want to say uh a few things on this agenda item uh one because this item was

not uh approved by Planning and Zoning uh any vote to move forward on this agenda item in other words to overturn Planning and Zoning uh denial of this would take a 23 vote of the council tonight so if if again uh if the if the uh intent of the council is to override planning and zoning and actually proceed with the subdivision you would need four votes tonight in order to do so uh should the council elect to do that on this particular agenda item we probably we would ask that the agenda be amended to add two additional items uh that would follow up uh this particular agenda item those agenda items weren't placed on the agenda because of in the event the council uh does not proceed with the resubdivision request those agenda items would be unnecessary and move anyway so as you may recall first good evening as you may recall last month you introduced in ordinance to sell Municipal property located in nor 15 Street this item is the resubdivision to create the lot that you plan to sell uh it's 9.1 Acres City uses it as a disposal lot the um a lot to be created it's going to be a little under 8 Acres like 7.92 leaving one acre for the city to maintain ownership of uh this is for the proposed residential development that Mr strange is um organizing for Ral no development I believe he's been in contact with many of you so this is just an item to create that lot it doesn't sell the lot the

next item would uh but of course that is pending the uh appraisal coming back which we do not have yet um but the price is fixed to be no lower than $700,000 for 7.92 Acres so um but you have to create the lot before you can sell a lot so matter did not pass the pl own commission ever you have the authority to supersede that and this is the item to do so what was the reason plan is on Deni I can't answer that there was no well there was no extended discussion about the reason I believe based on what I observed that it had a lot to do with concerns about the market price of the proposed homes to be built for as rental properties and then one member um didn't like the idea that they were going to be rentals at all um so you know there was no extended discussion to to to try to I guess address those concerns but but ultimately I think it just came down to um some folks who just don't want any additional development and some folks who just didn't I'm sorry wait pause so you ask me my opinion is I believe it came down to some people who don't want any development some people who didn't want it to be rental and then some people who had issues relative to the market value that was expressed by the developer but that was just based on an observation of what I heard at the time okay thank Lance I have a question for Mr strange will these houses be government subdivis

I apologize I'm one short David strange R out development uh the houses themselves the construction of them is financed with Community Development block grant funds those funds are given to the federal government by the federal government to the state to allocate so yes the federal government is ultimately paying for the construction of its homes the the units themselves are not subsidized it's not a Section 8 development or anything like that so we we've talked a couple times he about the development and pictures and stuff but this time I just wanted to go over a just a little bit of the math with you real quickly and we talked about some of the things U and so I just brought some pages from the market study that that was done which was about $8,000 for this Market study and it it shows a couple of uh what the proposed rents were at the time when this was going to be Apartments back almost a year ago and now we've switched it to single family homes uh and the state has approved that the third page has those rents on it and I have uh miss vacity here from the management company to explain real quickly how those rents get calculated and how people qualify and and why they tend to to vary uh and then there's just some very interesting statistics that this Market study uh pointed out and that is that there's a declining

population base here that the population base is older here than any surrounding community that the renter percentage the people of rent in this versus own their homes is almost 50% that the median income of this Market that 50% of the residents make less than $50,000 50% that that's a staggering number in in comp comparison to to the National averages um and so um the the capture rate of this that we talked about earlier is that if we build this only 1% of the demand of this community would be satisfied and building these this huge need for these houses uh on that page also is what the market rents are and we talked about that that the market rent and the greater baton reach metro area for a one-bedroom apartment is $1,100 that's what the market study says for a two-bedroom it's 1370 and a three-bedroom at 17713 on that page three you will see that our rents are nowhere near those numbers and they're calculated based upon an individual's income we talked about how it can't be more than a third of your disposable income so therefore if you made $330,000 your rent can't be more than 10,000 if you make $100,000 your rent can't be more than 30,000 uh that's how these rents get calculated so for instance Miss King if you walked in and wanted to rent one of these houses you have to produce your verified tax returns and income and then it would calculate what your rent is so your rent will be different than your neighbors because you make different amount of money than your neighbor uh you go just a little bit further in uh these documents it's going to show the the application log I mean there were a hundred applications for

this grant Statewide 19 got approved after that is the calculus of how did the state make this determination and it's a very complicated formula that that appears here um it's under the what was called the Louisiana Housing corporation uh funding for multif family cdbg from from Crime 3 we talked about the three hurricanes uh it was 23 $3 million that were awarded for these 19 housing developments Statewide and uh again back to the calculus that the state made this determination based upon what communities within the hurricane affected portion of the state which was the majority of the state which communities needed housing the most and those 19 were the ones that were chosen and they were chosen based upon the fact that you have 50% of of the population here is making less than $50,000 and the because of the grant funds from the federal government we're able to take what are essentially $300,000 hurricane proof houses and rent those for the rental rates that that the chassity will tell you about in just a second so real quickly just a couple more things is I mentioned this earlier to you too the security system that we have and all the cameras that police the inside of our development and the outside they link to that system that uh was presented to y'all earlier we do that in other cities they can instantly have access to our our so if you have a car going down the road shots fired and our camera is catching it they have instant access to that um so it's it's it's highly technical there's development Wi-Fi for

the whole neighborhood um the the price that we would pay for for this parcel of grand land is $700,000 the total development cost is $16 million so you're talking about millions of dollars in Revenue to the city in the form of sales tax property sale at alarm tax going forward um and it it's again a community that if we build these houses only 1% of the need within this community gets satisfied uh when you build that I I'll answer any questions you have but I'd also like chassie to go over real quickly um after I you finish with me how the rent actually gets calculated she's done this for us Statewide for a number of years and and is our state manager that that manages all of these development fors so you're saying that the housing develop would be gone by the rent by the income not just basic the 1100 that you told us before ma'am not the $1,100 that you told us the one bedroom Bas on rent the $100 is the market rents that that's what the average Market rent in which the Baton Rouge MSA okay but their rent would be based on their income it is based on their income but but the market rent for are those numbers in this market but the individual's rent is based on their personal okay real quick because we have some people that signed up for this agenda item hey let me ask you something before you yes sir that that this development Bill apartment you talking about putting back selling the land and all that I think we need to work on some other things besides building houses putting

apartments and stuff in here you don't have but one grocery store we have here now why you want to come in here and bring more people to the city to what we have now uh well with due respect I'm here to talk about this Housing Development but I do know having been in this for a number of years and in particular one development in Alexandria Louisiana where the exact same issue came about and they simply didn't have enough rooftops with disposable income to support a grocery store after we did our development and one or two other developments were done in that neighborhood they were able to open a grocery store we got enough hous around here we need more well you have to have the houses to to to generate the income for the grocery store but I'm not I'm not here to open a grocery store you try to sell a house I'm try to build yes sir we'd love to have you enough you explain anything okay so my name is SW I work forc Asset Management um at of operations for Louisiana and Mississippi as a director of operations for Louisiana and Mississippi um my job is to ensure that all properties developed by Rowan Oak and other owners are in compliance with any guidelines laid out before you all specifically talking about ensuring that if this property is a income averaging property that we make sure all residents qualify based on their income and are giving the proposed rents based on their income um I've currently worked three deals with income averaging um with one actually in progress currently so I can't attest to the rent amounts truly being based on income as David mentioned we verify income and assets to ensure that these households

meet these requirements um so that they are truly qualifying for affordable any questions that you like for me to elaborate on um as David mentioned providing this housing would only CER to 1% of your population um I know that it's been mentioned possibly that we're looking to rent these units and I do want to say also that although the objective is to rent we do offer programs within the community that aids our residents in being able to be homeowners also so it's not just Focus SED around just ring we want to yes we want good residents but we also want to promote them to be able to own homes in the future with that being said we bring in Bankers um real estate agents things like that to help gear them up for that also so the focus is not just centered around yes we want to provide a community and sustain that but we also want to help educate and provide opportunities so that they can reach different in their Liv okay but they won't be able to ever own any of those not this current development but they will have rents that affordable to them and that's the purpose of of course bringing in low income housing I don't think we need in a low income houses put in the middle of it I think that property needs to be developed to where something to benefits citizens and kids for so for apartment and all I know you don't have anything but I'm just Harding my opinion what everybody here because I think no that's we' done studies on the area what the RS are you do have households that are in situations to where rents are more than their income which makes it hard for them to truly live whereas

we're providing low inome housings to where it's affordable for them to be able to function on who's going to benefit is the city benefit off of yes sir we purchasing Land from the city bringing you purchase the land from the city of P and you're bringing your apartment there and youch charging p in the federal government and the people be paying you that they would be paying rent but also understanding that these are extremely low rents whereas you have rents that max out here at $1700 you're lower r to the mayor the council to the citizen thank you all for for your time um just a lot lot going on um my my thing is what you do for one development you have to do for another development you all have a a do share responsibility to govern to ad advise to recommend and to Counsel on behalf of what the citizens want and my first question was if this development was declined or denied just last year based on infrastructure traffic and not in my backyard why are we approving this development to go literally 2 minutes down the road to do a development that was denied again again by a government body for checks and balance which is the Planning and Zoning Deni this development for different variables may have been because of traffic may have been because of infrastructure may have been because of not in my backyard whatever the reason was it was deny again and now

we're so anxious again to put this as an agenda item on the ballot to push this forward I understand that he has a deadline of July to get everything moved forward and and the um the engineering and all this stuff that he has to get forward understand that if this project does not go forward and it does not meet that July deadline you can't say hey you did meet the deadline give us the land land back who's to say that they're not going to take that land and just let it sit there and not do anything because if they pay $700,000 for it they pay $500,000 for it and this development does not proceed and does not move forward and does not meet that July deadline that's proposed by Lac then what he has to have sight control of the property sight control does not mean that you have to sell the property to him he has to either own it have a long-term lease agreement in place or he has to own it I mean or he has or you have to sell it to him so maybe we can come up with something some type of contingency to say hey look let's do a long-term lease or what have you but you also have to understand that once this property is no longer the city of Port Allen you cannot you cannot get it back and again we keep having these conversations about infrastructure you have property that's by the city of cour Island that's owned he say she say this cannot be a a sewage treatment plant where is it on paper where is it on paper can we see it on paper and then let's figure out okay if this can't be the way sew plant what's the next plan of action but again you guys have a produci responsibility for the citizens of Port Allen to make sure that you guys are doing things that's in favor of the citizens we prefer not to have counsel that's going to say motion motion motion

I agree I agree I agree without doing researching and asking the proper question we want forward progress we are going to get forward progress and we're not going to keep standing here just letting things slide up under the table we understand again he has a deadline that he has to meet or he loses the $6 million that was awarded to him and he does not get to give get the $1.2 million developer feed that's associated with this project we get it we understand but again I ask you guys to understand that what you do for one developer you must also do for other developers or you're opening yourself up and exposing yourself to other things H okay first of all not against development for over 20 years I worked with Victor Coury and I helped him develop the water par I help them develop Cory bore I help them develop light sugar lers things that last things that are to the community okay what is disturbing I'm for smart Ro Port Allen is a g why it's not be like I don't know we could be downtown to our downtown is just sorry it really is one one of our biggest assets to be tourism and it's nothing okay we have R views that that M doesn't have we can have a highend top dollar uh Riv restaurant with vendors yet they're exits okay we have not utilized our

assets at all we're sitting on a piece of gold and we treat it like garbage okay that's what's upsetting to me because what what worries me most it's none of our young brightest people are stay they're living they are to stay there is a future here but you know what the ones I talk to they don't believe me now I'm not I have no taking again cuz my son will never live here and that's the honest truth none of his friends that went to Port Island H will ever live here and that breaks my heart some of the best and the brightest you're an exception fact nonetheless and number two what bothers me the most is I knew that roolling God only knows what he dumped on that property and the thought of somebody building and putting human beings on that land terrifies me before I did any negotiations with anybody I would have a soil test done okay simple as that because you're setting yourself up 20 years from now sit it Pour down in a massive lawsuit because everybody in that in that no home just gu cancer or has cancer we already have a cancer problem here you know that needs to be looked into but the EPA has programs where they have environmental race waterer treatment plans that don't look bad that are safe and if you didn't know it was a race waterer treatment plant you'd never guess it and there's funds available to do

that my other right is if I live back there Court Street is already congested there's that subdivision there you going to have if if they did what what they say they're going to do you're going to have 88 additional cars going down for stre going back to those streets sorry it's too much that's at the minimum if nobody has any visitors they don't have the kids that 88 cars that's a lot and if I live back there I would not appreciate that one bit I don't mind grow there's plenty of land over on the other side by Commercial Drive this place that's just too congested right there uh the developer and he had his first meeting him and I got in a little disagreement I'm sure y'all remember it about rent remember and he said something entirely different than what he's trying to to sell to y'all right now and that that bothers me okay b r one of the biggest problems right now and I can bring in two people that will talk to y'all that Rich has an addiction Court why do they have an addiction court because they they made in these lwi income houses and I can bring them to you it's not just here say I've done everything I can do to try to help them that finally get out some of these slum apartments in B that was supposed to be the golden nuggets what happens is they can't get out of them the r fets sewer V up whatever they still got to pay their rent so y'all was saying okay go ahead and move

out no because everywhere in back M has a credit check they call from who you're renting from good luck with moving because you're never they're never going to give you good credit right me get out of this so they stay and they stay and they stay and they live in conditions that nobody should be living in so finally it got so bad the city of got L had to create an aition Court to help all these people out so average they're probably stra 10 to 15 years and then what they're going to do is sell all the interest off to somebody else and they'll just use it as a tax right off and then in 20 years you going to have a SL and you will have an addiction for that's just the way that works they're just in it for the money and that is it that's a care less now something that we might be able to investigate which I did not do but um I went to something where they had some a speaker from the naac p and he said in his speech were we aware that section A payments could also be used as home ownership that might be something that we want to explore I don't know but I I I just don't think this is a good idea we have a nice town and there's other you know we could explore long income housing that people can buy I mean seriously I don't know it just you know if you have a bad feeling about it I don't know anybody that I've T to that has a good feeling about this we're looking at y'all As Leaders we Arch protection

and that's all I have to say thank you U Mr Robertson do you have something on this topic real quick yeah you okay [Music] sign up for didn't realize yeah we've done 15 way past 15 minutes on this topic just relative to the process that um the way that that if the property is subdivided and zoned then all we do is get an option from the city to purchase the property and then we go back through the process of we get a phase one environmental done we get soil samples done we apply for the building perms we go through all the inspections with the State Fire Marshal we go through everything with the the state DEQ and then when all of that stuff if all of that stuff passes then we come back and simultaneously on the same day we buy the land from the city and we pay for the building permits to proceed nothing happens until all that is done so at this point it's simply an option to sell the lands the only other thing that I would say to that is that you we we've seen these pictures before is are $300,000 hurricane proof houses show me some pictures of a sewage system you going to put with on that I don't want to get the um the 50% sent three bedroomroom houses Ami houses with $892 so that means a family can live in this house for $892 and

50% of the population in this town makes less than $50,000 and 50% rent homes so that's half of the constituents that could live for $892 in that house versus where they're currently living okay so um Evan we put on here um to introduce the ordinance to Res subdivide so can we just go with that and then re subdivide and reone is what it should have been so you're actually voting to re subdivide and reone to R3 yeah to R3 from the current uh commercial C1 C2 um so again yeah I mean we would need a motion in a second and again for this item to pass uh so be a motion to uh approve an ordinance motion to approve an ordinance uh the introduction of an ordinance to re subdivide and reone [Music] proper since this is the first major planning is only issue before the new Council I just want to say for the record that every planning is only matter comes to the council whether planning only votes in y or now that's state law the difference is three votes if the Planning and Zoning commission approves it three votes authorizes it at this level and if they do not for votes authorized it at this level but we are required by law to bring it to you so that's nothing there's no rushing going on there's no Expedition or anything like that this is the process it fail at the plan is on WE notified you of that and we're telling you what has to happen to go forward now this is not an introduction of the ordance this is the actual res

subdivide the rezoning was not discussed because the resubdivision failed you can't rezone it until you subdivide okay so there's still multiple steps that have to take place but like Mr strange said no development of this magnitude is going to be financed without multiple studies and a lot of work to do to verify that the pro property is suable and I just want to say one other thing there been a lot of mentioning of a sewer plan at this property but at the same time we're concerned about the condition of the property so you're concerned about residents but you're not concerned about my employees that's got to work at this facility it's the same property if the property is unsuitable for human uh inhabitation not for any human mean our emplo our employ it's all our employ we absolutely do nobody saying we shouldn't say wait wait time out out all I'm saying is is this told y last we just doing we not not doing all we just getting permission to do this all stff my opinion as to the the suitability is is my own I'll discuss it properly with anyone who wants to but at this point we were all I'm saying is that we were required to bring it to the council okay and what you do with it is your purp and that's all I'm saying about it if anyone has any other questions about the process I will address those questions and that's all yes okay if we separate from this property C and D right it's known it's identified as Lot C and D current current what you're

doing is taking a 9.18 acre track and breaking it up into a 7.92 or give a take and then 1. whatever's left over okay yes so when he do all his studies and he realized that nothing can be done with this property okay we still own this property yes CU he's not going to buy right it's nothing we can do with this property but we could just just keep it and if we want to put whatever on it it's still ours until you canot and and for clarification We cannot put a SE plant on it anyway how you know I'm not I'm not going to say that I'm not going to say that one at a time the former Administration did not want to put a sewer plant that close to any Residential Properties that's why it wasn't considered that that that was the gist of that discussion that was it that was it so well that was still the former administration's decision that's what happened so uh and here's the thing we were told that we need roughly 6 acres for a sewer plant we were trying to get at least 10 to provide adequate buffer and so that was also part of the consideration it was the size it was the location he didn't want to put it near residential as residential all the way around it on every side when I called the appraiser to get an appraisal done which we required to do by law to appraise us said she was going to appraise it as residential because that's the most appropriate use and that's that's all I'm saying I I don't

have an opinion I'm just saying the facts as I know them and as they have been uh explained to me throughout the process so that is why that property was not considered for a super plan reiv the property tonight is the city still not own it right yes you're just making two lots out of one that's it that's all but this is a necessary step in the process so can I get a motion to re re subdivide the property at 605 North 15th [Music] Street no motion yeah I need a motion to Res subdivide the property at 605 North 15 Street I need a second motion by motion by councilwoman Gardon second by councilwoman Joseph again Council we need two3 VES for this Joseph yes M Gordon yes Mr hub no m key yes yes you said it number eight consider approving the change order cost adjustment of $1 13,971 Road rehabilitation program phase 13

yeah can we get a mo I'm on eight consider approving the change order cost adjustment of $1 13,971 Road rehabilitation program phase 13 a motion hey it was motioned by councilwoman King second by councilman Hubble can I get a roll call Mrs Joseph Miss G yes Hub yes King yes P yes he number nine consider approving pay application number three of 48654 to MTR LLC for Road rehabilitation program 13 project 11764 okay last L you got to he said we didn't need to make we just need to delete okay so can I get a motion to consider approving the pay application number three of $4 48,6 to inra for Road rehabilitation program 133 the motion okay it was motion by councilwoman Garden second by councilman Hubble roll call please this is Joseph yes Gordon yes yes yes yes motion pass 10 consider approving the change order for a pay application number three and substantial completion for 2024 Road rehabilitation program phase 13 Michigan Avenue Council just for point of clarification on this agenda item you're

only actually voting on approving the substantial completion for the 2024 Road rehabilitation program uh not not to change order the pay application that was Prior yes this is simply accept the project is substantially can I get a motion motion second okay was motion by councilwoman Gardon second by councilman pain can I get a roll call Mrs Joseph yes G yes Mr Hub yes Miss King yes Mr P yes pass okay number 11 consider approving the final inspection of railroad lift station and this is where the pump was um the pump has been moved um I went to the walkth through um everything's working there uh I think the pump was being used um before they turn it back into the uh sewer plant is using it I think for like a week and then we should be paying for the uh pump runs can I get a motion on that I'll make a motion okay it was motion by councilwoman Garden second by councilman Hubble roll please Mrs Joseph yes M Gordon yes Mr Hubble yes M keing yes Mr P 12 consider adopting a resolution to support preparation and submitt of an application for funding through the Louisiana governmental assistance program for water and drainage not to exceed 50,000 okay second second okay councilman Hubble motion councilwoman King

second roll call please Mrs Joseph M G yes Mr Hub yes M King yes Mr P pass consider adopting a resolution to support preparation and submitt of an application for funding through the division of administration Community water enrichment fund I get a motion yes I motion by councilwoman Joseph second second by Council Hub M Joseph yes M gon yes Mr Hub yes M King yes m p and 14 consider approving a maximum funding of $22,000 for any Cooperative endeav agreement for Community organizations for events make that motion uh second okay it was motion by councilwoman Gard second by councilwoman King roll call please this is Jose yes yes yes P yes 15 consider approving the rescheduling of President's Day holiday to Monday March 3rd 20125 and this is I asked um a committee meeting if we would move President's Day um to the Monday before martyo since we're already off martyo he was motion by councilman pay second by counc Hub rooll please Mrs Joseph yeah yes H yes K yes P yes okay so um last week we heard from gallinger about uh Insurance um so they

are here I don't know if you have any questions for them but we're asking for you to consider approving the annual contract renewal for gallinger insurance um we do have Miss Lauren Mr Andrew here um so I don't know if you have any questions for him um the insurance was presented last week U I think it's going up like $18 for the employees we still keep the non-stop card uh the non-stop has been a big asset to to everyone I haven't heard any complaints about it um you can use for co-pays um Pharmacy for uh prescription prescriptions so um I ask that you consider approving that tonight that motion to motion by councilwoman Bon second by Council H Joseph yes G yes H yes yes yes okay 17 consider approving the hiring of Harissa Antoine as a full-time utility clerk at the rate of 109a uh Harissa is current Curr ly our part-time worker uh we're just asking for her to be promoted to full-time again this was put in the previous bu budget that we're currently in now so uh we do have the funding for it we're just asking her to uh be considered full time is this the job that we advertise for we did advertise for the nobody we had a few applicants um a lot were from out of state um that actually I guess cuz Advocate is where we have to advertise at um we really didn't have many local I think just one other and she's been in the position uh she's actually learned the utility billing so that's one thing I can kind of pass over she's been doing

the bills so she's just about ready to do them on her own I make that motion motion by councilwoman Garden second by councilman Hubble roll call please Mrs Joseph yes Gordon yes hble yes King yes Mr P pass 20 public hearing to obtain views concerning an ordinance to increase the salary of City Council Members by 2600 annually Mr summer signed up for this yes before I begin how much is proposal a month how much is what how much will youall be making a month if this passes uh the council will get this yes I so it's uh 200 I think monthly so it's $100 a paycheck okay well it be nice the to is 14,000 a year 14,000 a year okay so that's pretty much in part of what the Parish government Council make they make about $14 $400 a year now they make so I'm not once I learn that okay than U Mr Robertson hey can I get a a motion on this oh I'm sorry I close the public hearing anyone from the public wish to comment close the [Music] public consider adopting and ording inre the salary of City Council Members by 2600 annually M Rose ordinance number two of 2025 an ordinance of the city of

Port Allen revising section 2-1 of the article of the Article 2 of chapter 2 of Port Allen code code of ordinances for the purpose of setting new salaries of elected and appointed officials and related matters annual salary for each council member of the city of Portland Louisiana shall be $14,600 per year which amount which amount be divided amongst 26 pays the council member serving as mayor protim shall receive an additional payment of $900 16 per year divided among 26 ption second motion by councilwoman Garden second by councilman pay can I get a roll call m m Joseph yes m g yes no M King yes Mr those want the ra do they keep the ra number 22 question now this is across the board unanimous 22 ation of the monthly financial report Miss Davis good afternoon councel how are you all I everybody the everybody got not with us did you have ch at yes we did last week

I'll get you all um but looking at it everything is running roughly around 50 no more than 56% except the sewer plan so the budget is in line for us to meet stay stay in line give me a CA and if you have any questions you can ask Council coun did you get yours I did okay so counil did you get yours I'll get [Music] questions why we could do 18 and 19 because she off to get some more information that's what she just next start than alcoholic I'm sorry condemnation proceedings none of this time May alcoholic and beverage permit Mr J the these are two renewals Tigers tobacco discount 3235 Highway One South sweet a Class A liquor cirle Cas stores uh this is C on the service road north southex but this is the mailing address in in in I'm guessing somewhere in California perhaps but um class P Li a motion to approve pleas two together second that motion by councilman Hubble second by councilwoman

Gardens roll please Jose yes Miss King Mr hble yes Miss King yes yes and Mr has oh y'all say the best of last huh I know y'all been Wai could even oh I'm sorry next agenda item is announcement as correspondence we're going to let Mr has speak how you doing how y'all doing Mr Hub you know why I'm here District 3 is disgrace I call you for years you wanton you scared of me or something you should have to you call me I have called you and text you and don't make me put it out and show you in here but for the last 48 years I I one it was your Compadre he going now you going to change you going to change that here bro if I have to do it myself but what you doing to this P to us right over here cross the street you know what I'm talking about it's ridiculous I come in that night I got to step across Apostles and rabbits to go in my house and snakes I don't told you that years ago you promised me to get all that cleaned up years ago on the national TV you promised that you and Richard Lee excuse my language y'all it's SI but I'm sick of bro if you can't do nothing about it won't you give somebody else your job let me run for because what you doing to this you take care of Y but you don't care about us over here and I'm sick of it I will be here every meeting until you get it cleaned up before the election they got trash Pils on side the street the the old people over here can't don't de what they could do to get it cleaned up you it's your job to get it picked up and you won't do it cuz you scared of me for what I ain't going do you nothing let me stop Mr H so uh you

came and talked to me yesterday so um Miss Del you can look and you can laugh I'm serious dude Mr H Mr H so you came to talk to me yesterday and I did pass the information along to miss Delo and she was able to get in touch with Republic someone did go out there but they have a big theyve started apparently taking pictures this is something new so they send something back saying that they have a big tree stump and they have a picture of it you're welcome to come see tomorrow um but but whoever cut that down it needs to be I think chopped up for them to be able to pick it pick it up they can't pick the big um tree stump or whatever it is they they can't pick that up I think they did pick up some of the trash around there but the tree stump I did send them to you told me River Road so I send them in that direction and that's what they sent a picture back of I'm not sure if that's the area so you are welcome to come to the office tomorrow and look at the picture to see if that's what you were what about the P that's been at my house before election time outside my house what about the P that PO B put down here hisself in his state that until I raise hell and y'all come pick it up you don't have to come exuse y have a do I'm going speak my mind bro you pathetic you are pathetic we're not going to take ja at people but we will get the the issue addressed um Mr H did they dumping trash by your house or somebody put stuff there they got abandoned vehicles the trailer next door to my house still putting up with rats and snakes coming for money you and your Compadre were supposed to have it move 8 years ago you want to have chel two back over here on you Ricky huh Rick Ricky what Mr Ricky to you no I'll pay

your salary Ricky come on come on listen come on let's go back go come on come on man you you can talk that stupid somebody right here on the I did address the issue that he he he brought to me Carolyn sent it in um they send pictures that apparently it's something new they take pictures of different properties now I'm not I'm not sure if they take pictures of property that they can't service or the you know pictures of every address that we we send them to not sure not clear on that but she had a picture and it was a big tree Stone so um I will send them you know by his house um to make a a PL but I mean he's welcome to come see them I think they need some to live in the res they come and pick up all of this if we call them normally they will do a pickup if if the city calls them for something other than a homeowner um I think they will pick it up that's good just for informational purposes because you heard from him my name is Ricky years ago blow you back not him Ricky Ricky there you go do you remember on a November day when that building on side of you you complained about which is gone but I came out there who was out there with me pulling Vines out and you came out of your house no you weren't you came out of your house and you said what are you doing out here I said well you call me and complain about cleaning this up years ago H so I went out there to pull it and cleaned it and I had my truck ready there and your words were don't do that you don't have to do that I have a friend it was on a Monday I have a friend coming in on Tuesday and we're going to do that I said fine Ricky

are you good with that and you said yes then I asked you about the trailer you got up here and talk talk you asked me about the trailer on the other side your house I said okay Ricky let's work on that then you told me you I went over there you said no don't worry about it that's what you that's what you told me Ricky uh by cuz you can lie to somebody else H you full of and you know I don't have any announcements we are I'm sorry we are doing our nominees for black history um I think we have um pretty good responses from that we' started u we we have three more that's coming up this week next week next to finish uh February up each each week we have three three new people all right can I get a motion I I don't have the anything on the exhibit but I do know that there is at the Museum 2 thing I got was something by word of mou nobody going to do some kind of lecture on I think it's on the 18 if I'm not mistaken yeah can I get a motion motion make a motion everybody make a motion motion by coun woman second by coun King um