City Council - Regular Meeting

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Huh? If I can't get her on time, I'll just get here when I can. Okay, guys. That's good. That's good. All right. Um, we'll call this uh order. call this to order and we'll start with our 2026 goals. Mr. Tolles.

Okay. Council members, if you'll look at your work session agenda, you'll see uh the Q2 vision 2026 goals. We briefly talked about them at the last meeting. Um you know, if any of these are are unclear, you want more explanation, happy to give it, but uh create an appropriations process to be voted on by council. That's with our CFO. I think we're on track to get that done this quarter prior to our um our budget. Complete parks and recck maintenance facility. Uh currently uh getting the easement with Alabama Power. I think that's been uh sent back to the power company and they're going to run utilities to the facility. So, we should be on track there. Um Bellewood Tap Project, I believe that bid today. Uh Glenn, are you is that right? bid bid this afternoon. And um Glenn, do you want to come up real quick and talk about the uh the bid? Mayor, council, we did receive bids this afternoon at 1:30. Uh we had two biders actually only had two plan holders and those both of those plan holders uh submitted bids and uh the two biders was Wiregrass um construction and Lewis Lewis Incorporated. Uh Lewis Incorporated is the contractor that did the Devil Avenue tap sidewalk project. And of course Wiregrass has done a lot of paving in the city and very familiar with them. The bids, the low bid was uh submitted by Wiregrass, $654,958. The budget basically in the application was about $800,000. So it was substantially less than what we had set up in the application. So that's a good very good thing. And the bids actually surprised me. Uh Lewis's bid was

732,000. So both bids were very good bids. That's that's a very good sign. and we'll be going through the bids and we'll probably prepare bid recommendation and for the mayor and possibly for the next council meeting assuming everything in the bid looks good. So, very good bids. So, um how that applies to our budget uh the the transportation assistant program grant that we we use an 8020 grant through ALDOT. So 80% is state funding that comes in and then 20%'s a match from us. So obviously the lower the bid, the lower our match amount. So it's a win-win all the way around. Um so another goal, the best city of surplus properties, certain properties being investigated um with city attorney for clear title. Uh I know our city attorney still has some of those um properties. We've outsourced the title work on that. Um, one of those properties though I think came up in the last uh council meeting with regard to Bates. Um, that was one of those properties that city ended up with over time. I know there has been some um, you know, Facebook comments, social media comments on on that regard. Does anybody on the council have any questions or about that based on what some of the people on social media asked or No. Okay. Um review the chamber and WDC contracts. That's with the mayor's office and we are in fact doing that. No problems with that this quarter. Um options to mitigate speed in residential neighborhoods. Council Chief Moore is working on a presentation. I've asked him to also coordinate with engineering. uh that was something we also did in the in the last quadrinium. So I think probably an update on on that

maybe there's new technologies or or recommendations but certainly be willing to to provide that to you. Um state and federal agenda for Fort Rucker that's with with mayor's office as well. And then um police present technology solutions to council that'll be a force multiplier prior to the budget. Uh that is uh with Chief Moore. I don't know, Mike, do you have anything you want to talk to them about that particular goal?

So, we we're still working on towards getting some sort of group um within the police department to go and review other real crime centers, get an idea of what we don't know, what we don't know, and getting ideas of what it would cost, what it, you know, what we would need. I've got the room for it. I've got some of the equipment um sending somebody to a class that's on the agenda tonight to for drone operations and understanding of that. So, we're just slowly moving forward. Uh I plan on sending people out to uh observe a team to observe these other places, but that's obviously that's going to be after June July time frame. The current mission we talked about last council meeting uh will take precedence and then we'll move forward from there. So that's kind of where we're at with everything.

We have old Copenville agreement called about an update on that again today. That still with the school system. Um no no update on that. Um Ashley, have you have you heard back from the No. So try to reach out. Mayor, I don't know if we can reach out to to superintendent of the school system about the Coppenville agreement or not, but that's that is something that we're having a little bit of difficulty getting some feedback from them on. Um,

currently, Jonathan, currently with them not responding to us, I mean, they're maintaining the building and there's no risk for the current occupants being expelled. So, if the status quo just stays, I mean, is there a negative to that on our side?

There's not. And I guess the only thing that that gives me a little bit of concern is there's a there's a a lease agreement um that frankly I think um we probably should take action on if we're going to continue to to lease it. I think the the option to do that was was written into the lease. I think that by not doing that it it becomes daytoday. But I don't think that the school system nor the city have any interest in having that happen. Um I think in good faith they're they're trying to work through this. I know they lost their attorney. Okay.

Um sometime over the last 12 months they got a new attorney. Uh we were in contact with them. I you know I I don't know what's what exactly is going on um there, but I I fully expect that they'll come back to the table. Um just maybe not on our timeline.

Okay, sounds good. Um, and then our quarterly nuisance property and customer service experience reports. We're going to continue as long as you're okay with that to do that at the last meeting of each quarter. And that's what we have planned for this second quarter. That those are our quarterly goals for this second quarter. Any questions on those goals? All right, we'll go ahead and review the agenda. for tonight's meeting. Begin with roll call, open prayer, pledge of allegiance, approval of the agenda, consideration of consent agenda. Anyone have any question about anything in the consent agenda? Right. Um just kind of highlights here. We have 332,000 almost a million dollars in the WWTP upgrades. This is this was stuff that we had worked on and had approved last council, isn't it?

Yes, sir. This is part of the SRF program that we're working on both the wastewater treatment plants. I did get an update from the consultant and I forwarded it over to um Leanne and our accounting department. We're we're 75% 80% done with the capital outlay on those two projects and they have submitted in reimbursements for those from the state so that we can get those projects closed out this fiscal year and get reimbursed back for that work under this fiscal year. And what percentage of that do we anticipate getting reimbursed for? It's 100% up to the total amount which I believe was like 3.2 million if I remember correctly. Cool. I was trying to remember the details of all that. It's been a minute since we had all this.

It has been there. There was a small amount. I came back to the council and said I would like to get a little bit. There was a little bit of work that I'd love to get done that was just outside the scope and and y'all authorized me to go ahead and finish it up. So, it won't be a 100% reimbursement, but it's it's very close to 100%. Okay. Okay. I can give you those updates, sir, if you is that is that also Ardura? Is that part of that same project? There Ardura is the consultant for that project. So, they're the they're the engineer on the project. Okay. And Smiths is a cons is the contractor. All right. That's that's what I thought I was remembering, but it's just it's been a minute. So, I wanted to make sure we were all on the I've got a full email. I'll send it out to the council so you know where all our payments.

Yeah. Well, especially since we have a couple new councilmen that haven't uh that weren't part of those discussions. That'd be good. I'll be glad to. Thank you. Yes, sir. and um and Lewis Incorporated demolition clearance for the CDBG demo project. Um Poly Inc. for consulting services for the wastewater treatment plants. Barge Design for construction services on County Road 606 relocation. Is uh is that anywhere near completion yet? Because everybody keeps asking what's being built out there.

So they're they are getting close on the road relocation. I'd say they're probably 75% completed that road relocation with the county. So, we're doing it was to relocate the road and do utility relocations as well. So, that'll tie back into the um to Bowville Circle there when they get complete. So, when the the project is complete, you'll have asphalt 606 will be completely relocated back to that point. But, they're well on their way and they're well within the contract time.

Okay. And then we have Alabama Power uh Company part of that same utility relocation he just mentioned. We have some travel requests, um, disposal requests, some tradein requests, destruction requests. Any questions on any of that? All right. Then we'll have an Enterprise Police Department presentation. Um, and then privilege of the floor and staff reports. And then under old business, we have a public hearing in consideration of ordinance 031726A for reszoning of 26 acres land of land owned by Danny Gay. Um, is there anything that we need to know specific about this? No, members of council, but that's exactly correct. It's a reszoning of about a quarter of an acre from R3 to R4. We'll have a presentation that we'll present to you at the regular public hearing time at your council meeting.

Okay. You said it was unanimous. Okay. Um public hearing uh consideration ABC license request LAN Mexican Restaurant for a retail liquor license and then approval of the 2025 financial audit. And then we'll um have a public hearing and consideration of extending deadline for demolition phase three dangerous buildings.

Yes, sir. Just to give youall a quick update on phase three of the city initiative. Um we started off uh with 15 properties that were identified to be demolished. of those 15, four of them have already been demolished. Um, and then the uh remainder, the 11, three of those have signed up for the phase three of the CDBG. We're actually trying to get as many properties that we can uh on that grant before we let it out to bid. Um, and then two of the properties are actively working on a remediation on their properties. and it it we went we visited it appears that they are moving and making progress on these properties. Um and then later on in the uh meeting tonight we have the uh six remaining that we are asking uh permission to advertise and go ahead and see if we can't um go ahead and start that demolition project on those six.

Okay. and um authorize mayor to execute engagement agreement with Bradley Arant Bolt Cummings. Uh identify, develop, draft, and submit federal and state grant applications on behalf of the city of Enterprise. We discussed this I think last council meeting.

Yes, sir. Um so essentially, you know, we have several projects that um that the council have identified. one being a connector road to Rucker Boulevard is the most prevalent. We we do not have a a plan to to pay for that should, you know, we identify a route. Uh it could be a $2 million road, could be an $8 million road, but either way, that's going to be outside of what we would normally budget for for road projects in a given year. Um and no windfalls of money coming in from, you know, uh postcoid or anything like that. So, um, this is basically to allow us to to utilize someone that has some expertise in federal grant writing to identify what buckets of money we could actually pursue and then should we want to pursue that, we would come back to the council and know a little bit more. So, um, for example, the defense community infrastructure program is is one grant bucket that we could go after, but each one of those, just like the TAP program, have different levels of match. Um and and so we would need to probably come back at that point if we wanted to pursue that grant, tell you more information about it. Um but this this in this this contract would allow us to have somebody identify those opportunities and then if we move forward with the grant to write the grant for us.

Any questions? All right. Uh we'll have a consideration request from Blake Moore uh to purchase playground equipment and uh we all I want to know is why are you getting rid of the swings? Where are the swings? And the splash why you getting rid of those two.

So good evening council. Two weeks ago at the work session, I presented uh the playground uh to you guys and uh I know there was some feedback, mostly positive um but some questions on swings. Uh the swings are staying. We have a three-base swing set as I mentioned in the work session and didn't mention anything about the splash pad, but splash pad is staying. I think Councilman Johnson, I think you asked or or Councilman Walls, one of you asked about the splash pad and I mentioned that as something that we're going to look at in next fiscal year to to update, but um a couple of you reached out to me since that presentation. I know Councilman Mack, you you were not here um for that, but you had some questions. And uh just to let everyone know, this is going to meet the criteria for the national demonstration uh site for uh both inclusion and play on. And so they have uh seven principles there uh that this playground meets. And uh if you'll give me a minute, I'll go over those with you. Uh one is to be fair. Uh the environment provides um opportunities for physical, cognitive, social, emotional, and sensory development for every user regardless of their ability. Um two is uh to be included and flexible. Uh provides flexible access to play such as ramps, transfer platforms, and variety activity levels. um allowing children of all mobility levels to play alongside their peers. Um also uh it's to be smart uh features simple uh designs with sensory feedback and organized layouts and set clear exam uh expectations and help children understand how to navigate the space. Uh be independent encourages uh selfdirected play through accessible surfacing, clear routes and equipment that empowers children to explore at their own level. um to be safe meets or exceeds all safety standards while offering appropriate risk-taking which is

essential for development and allows for easy supervision. Um six is to be active and engaging. Accommodates diverse needs by providing opportunities for physical, social and imaginative play encouraging substantial activity. And last one is to be comfortable. Uh provides uh comfortable spaces for both movement and gathering uh including uh considerations for sensory needs, shared areas, and seating for caregivers. And so uh once this is installed, uh we will be one of the tops in the nation and have two signs there. um that displays uh everything I just read to you. Could you provide data to us for copies for speaking points? Thank you. Yes, sir. Absolutely. That'd be awesome.

Will there be swings? There will be swings and slides and tunnels and a multitude of other things. All right. Very good. Hey, very good. Thank you for the uh for the social media post and you guys did it was very comprehensive. Thank you very much for that. I

I still don't understand why you're getting rid of the swings. Just leave it there. All right. Um, where are we at? What the Um, I I think Councilman Walls wants to bring you back up here and ask why we're not keeping the swings. Sorry. Okay, let's get serious again. Next page. All right. Request permission to purchase equipment for mowers. Mr. Mont.

Yes, sir. So, those um those two items there are budgeted items that were put into public works for replacing two of our oldest zeroturn mowers and we secured prices on those and those are under the allotted bid amount that we had covered under the bid for this year. Any questions on that?

We just did two autonomous mowers. We we did um one of those will uh we we contacted the the vendor on those and they'll be delivered sometime in the next I think within the next 20 25 days is what he's projecting out. Um one of those will stay at the airport and the other one is going to parks and rack to we're going to try on the the ball fields there um to see how those help us. These are two actual what's on the agenda tonight are actually two just commercial grade zero turn that we use around the bypass and cutting cutting areas that we put a a person on. Um we do keep those just for your information when we rotate those out. We'll take the two that came off that have a lot of trouble. We'll actually do a full evaluation to see if it's worth complete overhaul on the machine and keep them maybe as a backup or do we go ahead and come back to you and ask to dispose of that that equipment. We try to get every bit p piece of usable hours out of that equipment that we buy.

Okay. Thank you, sir. All right. And then we are requesting permission to seek bids uh for resurfacing improvements. Yes, sir. At the last council meeting that y'all approved um Pauliey's task order to complete the design of those roadways and I think they're getting very close to having that street list complete um and going to bid. This was just for transparency purpose. We always come back and ask permission to go to bids from this body. So, the plans are not 100% complete. We don't have the road list 100% that that I know of. Um, but they u they're getting very very close. So, we thought we go and get permission now for you to go to for us to go to bids on those. And then once we get bid prices, we'll bring it back to this body and ask permission to to move forward with the project once we have spent. We have do we have an estimate of what we think that we're

typically shoot between a mill and me and half sir on the on the on the street list and we always add alternates to that as well so that we can work see what the numbers turn into. If we get really good bid prices, we try to push those that list as far as we can. If the prices are a little high, maybe we we push it back a little bit just to to take as much advantage of economy of scale as we can. Sure. All right. And then uh seek bids for demolition clearance of public uses properties. I think what was alluded to earlier? Yes, sir. This is to go to bid with those six remaining properties on the CDBG I mean excuse me on the city initiative project.

Okay. Any questions about this? Uh Barry, sorry I bring you back up for going back to the mowers and this has kind of off the cuff here, but Ron Ferrell, who is on our airport board, uh talked to me one day in the neighborhood about uh the FAA allowing leases of land for farm use and whatnot. Just curious, how long does it take y'all to mow the airport area? And would you be interested in listening to Ron to see what he had to say about potentially generating revenue stream and potentially cutting down on the amount of work we have?

So, um, yes, sir. I've got about a little over 30 years experience with FA and airports. It is very common to have agricultural type use around airfields. The one of the problems with that is you need to make sure while you're doing the work, they're not in the safety zones and that kind of stuff. Also, you need to make sure that whatever they plant is not an attractant to birds. So, um I I'll say sometimes it makes sense, sometimes it doesn't. At our particular airport, we don't have a lot of adjacent land that is perpendicular to the sideways of the runways. Most of it is kind of out towards the ends. There's not a even though there's a lot of land that we cut, um well over 100 acres out there. Um there's not a big group for it to be planted. Um, I'll be glad to talk to anybody though to see what what they have and see if it makes sense. Um, we do it's a constant state of of cutting during the summer. So, as soon as we stop, we never we never really stop and we just keep rotating around and keep keep the grass down. So, currently we have um two guys that are dedicated in the field and with the autonomous mower that give us another man out there. So, three men cutting, which is about what we've been running for the last 10, 15 years. Well, your background and if it's not feasible, I mean, I'll tell Ron, never mind. But, um,

I'll be glad to talk to him. Chances are that it would not be feasible, but you never know of what what he's looking at. So, if you want to give him my number and tell him to give me a call, I'll be glad to to talk to him and let's look and see what's available. I'm open to any opportunity to get a revenue stream to to help the city with something as long as it doesn't cause us a problem with safety and cause a bird attracting out there. Yes, sir.

All right. We have a request to amend the employee handbook uh for holidays. Um holiday falls on a Saturday. The holiday shall be observed on the preceding Friday. Holiday falls on a Sunday. Shall be observed on the following Monday. This is just to ch change that language at the very bottom um to where they're all falling on a Monday except for Veterans Day. And this is to make it more in line with what the city has been doing in the past. And then this language also matches um the Alabama code for what the state holidays um for how they're handled if they fall on a Saturday or a Sunday. So, this is just in line with that. and then also kind of in line with what the city's already been doing in the past.

All right. Thank you. And then we will call for nominations for the Enterprise City School Board seat one. I believe this we have to do this by tonight, right? Okay. So, we'll vote on that tonight and for a five-year term commencing on the next regular meeting of the board in June. So, I will open the floor for nominations and we'll take nominations. We'll close that and we will move to a point and vote. Then we'll have mayor's report, council member comments and adjournment. Any questions on the agenda for tonight?

All right, then we will go into quarterly goal setting. So, council members and mayor, if you look on page four of your your work session packet, you'll see issues from Q1, two, and three added for future considerations. So, I know some of our new members haven't really participated in this, but typically we do that strategic planning process and set out, you know, in our case, um, since an election was just held, kind of our our four-year goals. and then we say, "Okay, what do we need to do this year and then each quarter this year to to move us along the way?" Um, so during that time though, we recognize that there is um there are issues that each one of you probably get phone calls about that maybe weren't addressed in our strategic planning meeting looking out over the next four years. and um it might not be gerine and so shame on me for not not bringing this to your attention throughout the first quarter um but there there's a space there at the end and it's always there and so if you if you have something during each quarter that maybe isn't something staff's currently working on but you'd like to find out if your colleagues would like to support that and and give that to staff to work on for some future quarter or year um to work on that would this would be the time every quarter when when we address that where we say, "Hey, is are are the quarterly goals good? Are we on pace? Do we need to make any audles or adjustments to what we're currently working on? Do we need to add or subtract anything from what what we've set out to do. So, just give you a little feedback on what what we're here and why we're here an hour early or than we we normally would be. So, with that,

I'll turn it back over to you, Councilman Pageant." All right. So, um I know we have listed right here a couple of things that have come up recently and there may be some other things and we'll likely have time for that if some of you have other things you want to get on this list. But, um the first one on there I believe was uh something Councilman Walls wanted to talk about. It's Rook Boulevard Park.

All right. I will uh just before we get started on the planning um for especially the new the new ones here, if we discuss anything that might pinpoint a specific piece of property that we might be interested in, um we probably want to go into executive session on that. If we are talking about anything that might have to do with specific security issues of a specific uh you know so we get into IT stuff we talk about security about a specific thing that we want uh that we're concerned about we might want to go into executive session that because there's things that bad actors may not need to know about. So all right um yeah absolutely. So thank you guys. Um, so one of the things that I know we're working on, I attended the um, Rucker Boulevard um, revitalization meeting that was held at Rucker Boulevard Elementary School um, last year and I know there's a plan for some green space um, and a greenway potentially on Rucker Boulevard. Um, I would like to just float out there and see what the appetite is for the council and the city to begin the process of identifying potential locations uh for that and um uh start moving in that direction. One um one thing that it will do for uh uh for the for the city is allow our residents that are not served by city service down Rucker Boulevard to have access to that to potentially provide some gravity towards better development or more development on Rucker Boulevard by seeing the city investing uh in Rucker Boulevard. So, um, if we want it to be, um, you know, a place that people want to live, work, and play, uh, to see the city moving in that direction to begin the process of identifying areas that may be, uh, potential sites for a, for a city park,

green space. Um, and I can go into more detail if y'all need more detail, but um, I personally knocked a lot of doors uh, when I was campaigning and and um, I think we all appreciate the close relationship that we have with Fort Rucker and the soldiers that come to our area. Freedom Drive and and a lot of the areas over there um, have a lot of dense housing, town houses, apartment complexes, and the flight students uh, a lot of them have pets, animals. So, um, you know, obviously we don't need anything grand and and large like Johnny Henderson Park, but a small uh area park or something that our city planner in the city thinks would be appropriate for that area um for a dog park, shaded area, little playground, something that you guys feel is appropriate uh to show the city that um we want to improve that area. And I feel goes hand in hand with the goals of the city for uh improving Rucker Boulevard. I think lack of green space was certainly on the comprehensive plan. Um, and there were nodes identified, not specifically saying, you know, this parcel of land would be good for a park, but in this general vicinity throughout that comprehensive plan, I do recall Rucker Boulevard um being one of those nodes um that didn't have really any any green space to speak of. Um, so you know, I think if I if I'm understanding that what what you want is not for the city to go buy a piece of land, but at this point just identify potential sites and bring them back to the council for kind of review.

Absolutely. Yeah. Feasibility. That's correct. Yeah. If we can identify some areas that would be good places for a park to go, a green space to be that may incorporate future plans for sidewalking or, you know, road improvements or other improvements so it it it flows into a cohesive plan that the city's coming up with. Um but um yeah, absolutely. If we could begin that process and I think we have it uh on one of our quarterly goals for some some Rucker Boulevard planning identify and fund the first phase of Rucker Boulevard maybe sometime and I believe that's quarter three. Maybe it ties into to that. I'm not sure but if we can begin the process. Um okay.

Uh size and scope. I know you said you not really sure exactly what this looks like at the moment, but so just generally speaking, you know, Westside Park on College Street, you got the one on the corner of Carol Street, you got one on the corner of Weda Street. Just can you ballpark kind of what you're thinking about? I

I think that might be best for maybe our city planner and the city to kind of look at the population that that park would serve and let them kind of determine what, you know, what would be appropriate. just for me um going over there. I know the green space where dog can run play um playground, you know, it I'm not I'm not a playground expert. I'll defer that to city planner and Blake to kind of talk about it and see what may be appropriate for that size of the population over there. Um but so in your mind, what what amenities would be at at that park? Swings. Definitely swings. Swings. Got it. I would say I would say definitely swings. Um uh maybe some shade over the swings.

Is that dog swings?

Dog swings. More swing. No. Um in seriousness, uh yeah, some basic playground equipment. U maybe a small little walking area that if there's a sidewalk that does connect to it, when the sidewalk gets there, they can continue to walk around the green space. Trees, plenty of trees. I feel like that shade that we don't have to buy is good shade. So planting trees would be good. Uh in a dog park, dog play area. Uh the reason behind that is that uh again a lot of the density there there's town homes and there's uh apartment complexes there's not yards that people can let their dog run. So a place that you can let a dog run free for a little bit play would uh probably be appropriate. Again I'm going to defer to park experts. Blake knows Blake's forgotten more about parks than I'm ever going to know. So I'm going to defer to to the experts on it. I'm just going to say that our city planner uh and and Blake, now if y'all want to talk about a disc golf course, I will be happy to help design it and tell you what you need. But on this, a park of appropriate size for the population it's going to serve on Rucka Boulevard and uh something that has a place where just open green space where animals are designated to be able to play.

And and I'll be in your corner because our district's backed up together in that area, four and five. So I'm I'm for it, too. See rest of the council seemed on.

Yeah, I I I think that's definitely something we've uh sort of bounced around a couple of times as additional parks and identifying and as far as I'm aware, I don't think there's any parks in district three or district 5. Um, so there's there's definitely opportunities as we start identifying, but I think Rook Boulevard makes a lot of sense because of the fact that we're trying to identif what what would be a good time frame for you and Tim, you know, how long do we need to identify, you know, is this a second quarter goal. Is this a third quarter goal?

Thank Thank you guys. So So me and Tim are going to meet right here in front of you on the spot. Um you know,

now that's government progress right there. That's what we like to see. from from the standpoint and and and yes, I'm aware of the you know the meetings that have taken place and at Rucker Boulevard and and knew that was a a future goal of ours. Um and if it's a if it's a goal of the council uh you know and if something that you want to you want to press, we certainly can press it. Um you know, I think first things first is is is let Tim and I sit down and and look at locations and and be able to present that to you. and then uh give me some time to kind of present you some ideas of what could go in that space. uh whether it be uh you know something the scale of Westside um or maybe it's the scale of Weda Street um or maybe it's a combination of both um or you know maybe it's you know and two I think maybe pulling the people that that live offer boulevard you know what what are they wanting at the same time um with with parks you know obviously will come bathroom structures um which I'm a big fan of um as you know so uh you know and currently we're putting you know, camera and security features on all our parks. So, uh, you know, this would this would fall in line right with that. So, um, again, I think we're standing here looking at you and, you know, if this is a desire that you want us to move forward with, Tim and I can can meet as early as, you know, by the end of the week and start, you know, looking at locations and and easily come back at a work session and and present those to you if that if that's your desire and wishes. Okay. I mean, I don't I don't guess we really have a a full timeline. We sort of need just need to hear from you guys when what which quarter it's appropriate to stick into our goals.

I think probably third quarter would be the most appropriate uh number to put on your goals there. Um, just to follow up on what Blake said, we we can absolutely sit down and have that conversation about some of those opportunities for future green space, park space, uh, to follow up on some comments that have already been made. We we are working through the Rucker Boulevard draft plan right now. Um, and we understand the events that took place at the Rucker Rucker Boulevard Elementary School and how important uh park space, green space, sidewalks, uh, how important that was to the citizens that attended that particular outreach meeting. Uh, so we've identified that. We're looking into some of those options right now. Uh but nonetheless, uh we'll meet with Blake and Blake and I will sit down and look a little bit more deeply into some possible locations. Okay. Be able to bring that to you back back to you at a future work session and uh be able to go from there.

Yeah. I think when one thing that was mentioned there for the Rooker Boulevard revitalization and and it's just a simple thing, but people said over and over trees. I think it goes well in a park. It goes well on the side of a street but provide natural shade. So um trees I can remember specifically was brought up quite a bit. Um, and then on land acquisition, I would be aiss if I didn't bring up, and I know it doesn't tie in to Rucker Boulevard. I'm going off script for a second, Jonathan. I'm sorry, but I did have a constituent um reach out and um mention the possibility, you know, maybe trying to find um an area that we could uh expand our baseball facilities. So, I don't know where that would would tie in, but if we could look at that as well and uh see if that's something that we can start looking at potential sites um uh for that. I know we have some old ball fields behind the rec center that may can be turned into something else that that they need down there. But um yeah, I think if if you remember in our long long range planning, that is something I brought up to the council, you know, in 10 years. Um but start looking at land to have discussions about that. I don't think we're ready tomorrow to build a new ballpark,

but you know, we can go ahead and start looking at land for future. So, you know, that is that is one thing that we brought up in the in long range planning in in 10 years. I'd like to see, you know, us looking at something like that as well. Would that be a I mean, if they're looking at locations for potential green space, would that be an appropriate time to look at that or No, I mean Well, I think you're you you've got two different things there. You've got you've got parks Yeah. on Rucker Boulevard side and I don't I don't see that huh ball field looking, you know, happening on Rook Boulevard. Sure. Yeah. Right. Right. Yeah. Sure. Okay. But we can identify. I think I think the I think the thing would be for me and Tim to start on the Rook Boulevard side first. Okay.

And then we can address the the area for ball fields later. Very good. Okay. All right. Very good. I mean, I just I want everything at one. Thank you. Thank you.

So, our our next um item that we've already had a lot of discussion about um is modern city IT solutions. And I think there's been a lot of progress really fast in the last few weeks. Uh thankfully there was already a lot of work going on that we didn't exactly know about. So some of that is uh definitely already in the works. I do want to make sure that we don't do a one and done and forget about it and end up 5 10 years from now in the same position that we are now where technology gets stagnant. But um so I think it's something we ought to always keep on the top of our mind. Did you have something to add into that or you

No, I I just know one of the things that um you you had introduced at least sent to me and maybe um members of the council was the prospect of having some kind of an ordinance or something that addressed that very issue. um you know, in talks with our our city attorney and and just looking at it, um you know, obviously we're going to do whatever you want to do as a as a governing body, but I do think that I'd be remiss not to point out that I think an ordinance may be a bit of of an overreach for what might need to be a policy. Um, you know, whether that's internally or not. So, I think the the ordinance that was drafted is certainly a good ordinance. I I don't think it reads well to the lay person, you know, somebody that's not not in the IT world. And furthermore, I I think that there could be some issues with um I think it was 14 pages or thereabouts. Um, so most most of our ordinances are pretty clearly defined, you know, laws that we, you know, that the lay person could read and understand, hey, you know, if I do this, it's wrong. If I do that, it's okay. Um, I I think that would be another issue with, you know, if we do adopt an ordinance, we need to simplify it to, you know, a pretty succinct message on on what we're trying to do for the for the public. um if it if it just involves city staff and processes, I think we can accomplish that through a a city policy that that's approved by the council.

So, uh just to to understand that a little bit better, um I guess one of the reasons that I went the ordinance route when I was writing that up is we've had other policies that various staff members, for whatever reason, that are no longer with us have decided didn't really matter. They made their own rules up went around that and policy to me doesn't really have as much teeth to it. So, I guess the big thing that I want to make sure of, whatever we call this, however we go about it, whether we make a a very vanilla uh ordinance or we don't even go with an ordinance, whatever way that we go about this is that five years from now that someone, you know, doesn't shove that. You know, five years from now, I'm no longer on the council. various ones of us are not here that understand the the the needs and that someone says, "Oh, that's really not that important." And does away with it. I know a future council could do the same thing. But it's a little harder. It's a little more it's a lot more involved in it to overturn an ordinance than it is just to ignore a policy. So, I guess kind of kind of give me some comfort on on on those differences there. I would I would just say that um whether it's I would venture to say that we have ordinances on the books that right now that people ignore every day. Um maybe they're antiquated. They haven't been repealed. Um you know, and things change. Um so the policy or the ordinance is only going to be as good as your staff and the the governing body that I'm speaking with, city council. So if we if we work that into our current processes, so you

know, I don't know how long you've been doing strategic planning, but I would say four or five years. That's a new thing. Um it could go away tomorrow. Um the budgeting process that we've set up could go away at the next council. It it's only going to be as good as what what you drive into it. And you also have the power of the purse. So what you decide to fund or not fund is ultimately going to be your your hammer if you want to make use that term. If your if your governing body is not getting what you want, you can turn to the mayor to to me to our our department heads and ultimately say, you know, we will not fund anything other than this unless we do that. I mean, there's a lot of tools that you have

Sure. to to get what you want and and hopefully it wouldn't come to that. Hopefully your staff is competent enough to to handle directives and policies that that come down through the mayor's office and ultimately go before you just like our policy for the you know rules and operations for the civic center. Um we we certainly have a nice SOP for that farmers market other things. Um and we we generally comply with it. But those are the rules and framework that you you did both take council action to approve. our handbook takes um but we didn't write it into an ordinance.

Sure. Well, and a fair point on the ordinance because all the ordinance has been written since the founding of Enterprise. Uh I guarantee you there's a ton of them that I've never even heard of. Don't even know exist because I haven't uh taken the time to go read every single ordinance that's ever been passed in the history of the city. So, I can't tell you, you know, um that this is exactly what's necessary there. I just want to make sure whatever we do that it just is is is you know as much possible that we we keep that in the forefront of we want to make sure that that is continually done annually. So whatever whatever that that means I just I don't want to ignore that

and continue moving on. you know, you did you did an ordinance um as an example for like our our fees for trash, sewer, those kind of things to tie it into um studying the consumer price index. And it's it's it's pretty simple for anybody to understand. It's still a staff directive, but so I think if you you opted to go with an ordinance, you have some kind of annual review that's mandated um for staff to do in compliance. and that policy, which I don't think you want publicly released anyway. You wouldn't want a 14-page ordinance to go out potentially to have all the things that deal with our security and IT infrastructure. And I would so potentially have staff kind of review that annually with council at some whether you have to codify that is up to you, but I I think you'd have a very small excerpt about the annual requirement for staff to comply with that.

Sure. And then the policy would be something like what you drafted um that that we follow in review and as technology changes maybe state or federal guidelines change that gives us a you know a point every year to review that talk about that and then in between we should have working group meetings and things like that that that go on kind of on a monthly basis. Oh, that I mean that that makes sense to cut that very long document down. I I do just whatever we can do to to make sure that that is on on you know at least once a year on the forefront of somebody's mind to make sure that's done properly.

Yes, sir. And I think I think we can accomplish that. I think Greg it'll be appropriate to kind of define what the word done properly means too because I think that if we got three IT professionals here you have one on staff you know in in the building to to help with any questions. So I think all four of us may come up with an idea of how that should be done for the city, but um you know it

we need to define what properly is um and and make sure that you know certain certain industry standards are are being done when it comes. So is it is it possible that a document not necessarily the one that I put together but a document of that similar document could be alluded to in some kind of an action that is that is updated that doesn't require

I mean it ultimately it can be whatever you you know three or more of you decide it wants to be. Um, so yes, I mean I I would just ask that if we if we do that, we could we could work with the council on a on a document, an SOP or whatever. Um, and and have something that you you like and then if you do feel the need to pass an ordinance or or not. Um, we you tell us what you want. If we if you want us to review it monthly and we're not, then then fire us. Get, you know, find somebody else to do the job um because we're not doing what you want. Um that that's ultimately the the power that that you or or the mayor can have depending on the department head. If we're if we're not doing the job, then you need to find somebody that can.

Sure. Okay. I just um I just want to make sure it doesn't get forgotten about, you know, that we we move on with move on and and accomplish it. Where where is that in the I know it's added to the future issues like where where is that going to be added to kind of or where would that be appropriate to be added to help develop that document? I guess that's one of the things we talked about or we're talking about, right? Is where does that fit in to be able to accomplish creating a document with an SOP policy, whatever we want to call it.

Yeah. So, you know, very little of I think 95% of your staff is going to contribute very little to that document. Okay. Um I think I think our IT professionals, maybe our law enforcement, city attorney, um we'll have to staff it. So I don't know what would be an appropriate timeline um along with your schedules. You know, you have three IT professionals which you mentioned on the council. Um your schedules are going to be important in helping craft that document too. Um so you know, Jeremy is with us tonight. Jeremy, do you what what's a reasonable?

So, here here's for me what I would consider reasonable is um I I have I have a lot of confidence in what we've done. I just I think though before we move into some of the new things that we've signed off on uh and start adding additional technology that it would be good to say, okay, here's a solid baseline. We have We have all of the knowledge of everything that we currently have, but then we have this third party baseline that says this is where it is. So that we know yes, we're good to go to stack additional technology or

no, we need to make some changes before that additional technology gets added. We caught you off guard. Yeah. Just I guess you know you're saying you would like to have something like that in place before like the new open gov agreement goes in you know we start actually working on that not necessarily before we go live where we've got live data that's hitting our you know if anything that's going to hit our internal networks.

Yeah, you know if if if if you guys would be comfortable with it. Let's let's say by Q4 when we went live or when we started working on the new open gov implementation uh you know starting October 1st uh you know I think we it'd be a good timeline to get the the policy in place by then and then the policy would still have to be executed. Yeah. So I guess what I want to see done is that we we've had it executed before we we begin the work with Is that is that Yeah. sec Q3. I mean, would is that feasible for the city? And now my if you're asking for my schedule to help contribute what I know, I'm I mean, this is serious enough to me that I would I I'm open anytime.

So So Ashley and I are are already working on one um you know, a new one based upon your your recommendations and uh you know, I don't I don't think that that's going to be an issue for the timeline. Do you? No. Okay. Okay. Good. So I guess for us the timeline really needs to depend on at what point do we need to have that document finalized so that it can be triggered and the work completed. Yeah. We'll need to have time to to for Greg, Councilman Greg, all the council members that want to review it to review it as well.

Yeah. And and you know, you're talking about having the work completed and all. I mean, to be clear, what we're really doing is we're documenting work that's already being completed. So I don't think that's really the issue. the the the question just becomes how long is it going to take us to really get all that into a readable policy that can be put in place here because a lot of that work really doesn't need to be a policy that is put on YouTube or put on a council packet that's on the website to help

you know keep up with the integrity of the city's security and not open us up to outside attackers and stuff like that. So really the the the timing really is more of just making sure that we do it in a sensitive way. Um and make sure that that's something that that encompasses everything that we're doing in in a secure and way like like you're wanting where it, you know, continues to to happen annually.

Yeah. Correct. Some some of that is already being done and I do agree with that, but I'm I'm very specifically talking about bringing the third party in that we've requested. So that's where I want to make sure that third party is completed by the time that we go live. I this this would be an appropriate time if we if we needed to talk about that in executive session. I think I think everybody's trying to dance dance around some there there's potential security and safety issues that I think once we go down that road we probably need to go into executive session.

Okay. Very good. So we can definitely do that. Just trying to be careful about what we're saying here so we can get a timeline. Do you would you like would you like to do that um today or Sure if we I mean I think as far as our quarterly goals I know someone else has something to add to this then that's kind of the main points that we had on this list. Okay.

So is it appropriate to do that at this point? Did y'all have anything else? One thing for future consideration there there's a gentleman in our district in district two that lives on a dirt road and uh he talks to me uh occasionally about upkeep and things of that nature. So I reached out to Jonathan and I know of maybe two or three dirt roads in the city of Enterprise and not asking those to be paved or anything. That's not in the budget at the moment but I think Jonathan identified maybe seven dirt roads in the city of Enterprise. I know of two or three of them and just not sure from a public works standpoint, do we have a policy or procedure for conditioning of those said roads? Uh I really didn't have anything to fall back on when he was talking to me about it as far as you know scheduled graveling or testing the passability and if we don't have anything for you know seven roads in the city of Enterprise maybe we should investigate that. Yeah, I think so. What what we've generally talked about was, you know, what what is our policy? Do we have policy for the seven dirt roads? Is there a plan to resurface them or or improve the surfacing on them? What about gravel? What what condition basically should dirt roads in the city of Enterprise be in five years from now, 10 years from now, so forth and so on. What what would be a trigger point to warrant an improvement and an upgrade on a road that is currently a dirt road to a gravel andor an asphalt road? Right. That's so I I don't think we have a metric right now.

The only standard we use for dirt roads is we keep them in the same condition that they are moving forward. So, if we have a soft spot in the road um where water gets into the subgrade and it becomes a softer area, we'll come in and cut that area out and we'll recompact it back. But there is no standard for for dirt roads that we keep we keep about the same width, about the same grade, about the same condition of what it was uh year over year. But we we don't have a plan move forward to get those anything into a better condition. Okay. I mean, they've been dirt for 200 years or however long they've been in existence. So,

so we have done some work in house, sir. Um, where we're looking at what it would cost to pave those roads, what options we have, everything from doing a making them a gravel road to a chip seal road to a full asphalt road. We we're not 100% complete, but if y'all would like to set that as a goal for I'd be comfortable by the end of third quarter for the dirt roads we have in the city to to give you a report back. uh here's what they are and here's some options for each one of those roads if if that's something that would make you all feel better about I had no idea we even had a dirt road that's yeah there's there's a handful of them sir I assume they were all county roads but okay and some of them actually go into the county and back into the city so like for David road for example part of that's in the city part of that's in the county so

you know the city could take care of their portion the county not do their portion or maybe we need to work together on it but I'll be glad if you want to put that down as the end of a third quarter I'd be okay with that city section just just we'll take care of just what's our responsibilities are. But each one of those roads we've delineated. We started that that already. Um and we started looking at that honestly because we were doing a PCI study and looking at that part of the dirt roads what to do with them as part of the PCI study. So if you'd like to add that to a third quarter, I'd be okay with with providing that as a go as a goal for the end by the end of third quarter.

Yeah, I'd just like to know uh because I I didn't have an answer for the gentleman other than I'll ask and you know this is not a ask. I'm not asking you to do anything except enlighten us uh so that we can be knowledgeable when we speak to people and we may be able to exceed that that goal. Uh if we can get that pulled together in the engineering department, we'll do that quicker and get you that. But we can give you a list of all the dirt roads there, the lengths, a map of where they are and then some options for them and some anticipated cost of what those might cost without going through a full design option of doing the design and what the true costs are. But we can give you some estimated swags of what what those costs could be.

And that's been an ask of us for a couple of terms. I mean, it comes up a lot. So, it's at least have an answer for the citizens. I know on D on David I think it's David Road, they've even come to council meeting or two. So,

we did we did David Road a couple years back and we we took that all the way through what the cost would be and we presented that at that time, but I can I can go back pull those files back up. Actually, Paulie and myself worked together on that proposal. So, we can pull those up and we that one should be a pretty quick, but I can also get with Shannon, get all the dirt roads we have and we can do we can do that same option for all of our dirt roads and give you a list of the dirt roads that are in the city. When we did the original PCI study back in 20 about 2020, um at the time the council said the intention of the PCI study was to keep all paved roads to a PCI of a number. Um that taking dirt roads to a paved road was not part of that drive at that time. But as we're doing the PCI study, we're looking at concrete sections. We look at um College Street part of the RAWs that are that are concrete sections of road. Um the concrete's in great shape as far as structural in great shape. Now rideability may give you a little as you go down through those things. Um and we we've got a plan that we're working on right now to get some of that taken care of. But as we're looking at that PCI study, we are we are considering dirt roads and the concrete sections as well.

None of the dirt roads were formally paved. Correct. No, none of the dirt roads that were there have ever been paved. They've always been dirt roads. Um, and at the time the the direction that was given to me when I started was if they've always been a dirt road, you know, leave them as a dirt road until we give you direction to change that. Um, we did look at David Road. David Road was a section of road, one was in the county, one was in the city and it was in the, if I remember correctly, in the millions of dollars just to pave the section that was in the city and would not basically complete the whole section of the road from one end to the other. Early discussions with the county was they did not have intention to pave their portion of David Road even if we were to go forward with our section as well. Um futile ma'am.

I said so that would definitely be futile. So you'd have half a road, right? One I think it goes back to three notch is ours and what goes back 231 is theirs. I can't remember. It's about half and half. But I I can get you I get you a full list of all the roads, all the maps, what they are and some anticipated costs. I'd be glad to do that. Okay. I think uh something else.

Yeah, I got one more going off script. I'm sorry. Um blame blame my councilman down here for prompting me. Um, we talked uh a city in a in a council meeting maybe one or two times ago when we were discussing the ATRIP and um crosswalks and putting together a plan to a comprehensive plan because I mentioned the need of a crosswalk um between um Dolphin Extension and Porter Lunsford um to to have those runners coming out of Cotton Creek and walkers coming out of concrete in that area um to have a way to cross. Uh, I see them all the time just running across and leaprogging. Um, and the city was going to look at potentially coming up with a comprehensive plan to maybe tie into another um, a trip funding potential funding. Um, so I didn't know if that was in the works or if we can get that on a goal of begin doing if it's already in progress or if we can get that in a quarterly goal to begin identifying areas that we're putting sidewalks in that we can go ahead and plan for a crosswalk or areas that we're repaving that we can get a crosswalk or or something that we can get some synergy uh with.

Sure. So I I want to make sure so I think it'll be easier to identify potential areas for for crosswalks. The ATRIP thing concerns me on giving you accurate timelines because the of the nature of the ATRIP program. So we we were just awarded an ARIP grant for the downtown area. That's right. We cannot comp apply for another ATRIP grant until until that project lets not not until October. Until the project lets.

Okay. So, um, you know, just given the years past, if if the former council will remember the the signal or roundabout up on 27, um, that took about four years to actually let the project because it went in and out of design. And so I I I think those need to be separate like I I think what you're talking about for is identifying the funding source. um which which would be you know ancillary to the plan.

Yeah. What I'm specifically saying come up with a cohesive plan on where we could benefit with having some crosswalks put in whether it's ends up being funded by us or or we get to write a grant for ATRIP and and and tie it into some future I guess a word to use would be like shovel ready project in case we can we can write it get another grant we're ready to go on what we're going to present and say this is what what we'd like to do. I would say by by Q4 we we should I think Q4, which is normal for for us. It's kind of a catchall. It may be a little lighter. Um, in terms of our quarterly goal list,

I think every probably every council member can identify an area in their their area their their district that that they probably see people trying to cross the road or uh try to try to move around on a bicycle or on foot that they probably could could benefit in. Me specifically, the one I always see is between Porter Lunsford and Dolphin because I drive there all the time. I I can work with our city planner. That's awesome. He looks excited. He he he didn't know he was going to get so much work tonight. That's good. He is.

That's why we hired him for. There we go. Very good. and and count Councilman Pageant, I don't know if it would be, you know, in the interest of time if you want to maybe skip ahead if you're if your plan is to go into executive session to to take care of two other housekeeping issues there. Sure. The May 19th council date fire truck. Absolutely. I think uh

I just want to mention a goal. Um I I know y'all heard me I don't want to say fuss but a complaint but somewhat about the completion of Devon Avenue. Um, can we get a report for maybe Q3 on some areas and I'd be happy to go out to show you exactly what I'm talking about. Like if the project is complete, it doesn't have an appearance of completion and if it is complete, it's not done well. So, you know, I want to see that looking I I think better than what So, you you just want an update on what the status of the project is, right? And what's the goal? What's the plan to

I I think that should be a something we can do in Q2. Okay. I mean that that project I know that's been something you've had us brief on before. Um we can't change where it is. It either is complete or or not. So I think that's something this quarter we can provide an update. Ma'am, I just I I know there's a lot happening on that right now and we can put that as a Q2 goal. I give you a full update on all the the different parts of that. Okay. Um there's three or four different open issues that they're working on, but I'll give you a full report. Just do it as a Q2 goal.

And just a quick question, Mr. Mott, the with the uh upcoming uh Bailwood tap project, is that going to be the same um I guess contractor for this? It's a different contractor, Daleville Avenue. And one of the issues we had on Daleville, if you'll remember, one, we had an engineer that designed it that we terminated the contract. We had another engineer pick up the project and bid it. And then we had a waterline project like the perfect storm of all different kind of projects. But um I can tell you what I I'll commit to you to have it in in your hands by next council meeting where we've got it together. I'll just put it in a nice pretty package for you and send it to you on Daleville on Daleville Avenue. All the open items there and what's our plan to get it completed out. I I'll have that to you by next council meeting.

Okay. Appreciate it. Yes, ma'am. any other u new issues or considerations we need to add to the Okay, then um are we ready to talk about the May 19th council date?

Yes, sir. So Beverly brought it to my attention. Um on on May 19th um we are going to have our uh primary elections in this facility. Um setup is usually the day day before. Um but I think that's a Tuesday. Is that right? So, um, which means that, um, it would be very difficult to have our council meeting with voting equipment, um, and things set up and the polls may not even be closed by by that time. Um, so with that being said, um, we can I guess two primary options to consider would be to move the location of the council meeting and keep it on the same date or keep it at the same location and move the date of the city council meeting. So I wanted to have a quick discussion on that because at our next meeting in May, we will need to uh take some sort of an action on that. What kind of involvement does the city staff have with the primary election? Is that county run or is that

it's county county run? So it's not not city employees taken away from

it's it's not just bureet staff to open and and close the civic center um but and do setup or tear down to the degree they have which presumably wouldn't affect another location. So we we could look at the old council chambers, the the courtroom um if that space is available. The limitation there obviously the reason we're having them here is the the size. Um which we could look at the agenda on what needs to be done that night and you know try to if it doesn't need to be on that agenda uh not at it. Um to make it where you know we don't have any special recognitions or ceremonies where we have like the the volleyball team or some somebody come here with a bunch of parents and grandparents that would like to see their child. So we could we could probably house it there if that was a you know a wish of the council.

I think my personal opinion was we could keep it on the same date just different location would be the that's my opinion but I'm I'm one of five. So what y'all think keep it on the same date? I'd go for the same court building works for me. Okay. Make it so. So whether it be there or somewhere else, just we can Okay. Yes, sir. We We'll make it make it happen. Um Yeah. All right, then. Uh firet truck discussion. All right. This looks expensive. We have Chief Davis and Leanne. That's going to be

Yeah. I just see I see I see Chief Chief Davis almost ran up here. So that's that's a good thing.

Uh as you know uh the previous incarnation of this uh council uh put us on a plan uh because we had a lot of engines that were very old. U one of our backup engines was the same age as when I graduated and as young as I may look, I'm older than you think. Um that plan has worked out very well. Um but we didn't get far enough in that plan before unfortunately we had a recent catastrophic engine failure in unit 104 which is a 29year-old uh E1 cyclone. You have already approved for 27 a $980,000 E1. What I am requesting as a change or your approval is that we move that up to a project vehicle that they have ready now. Um which would which still has the same chassis just a different cab uh meets our needs and it will come in at 780,000. So there'll be a savings of $200,000. Uh in addition to that, you had originally or the previous again incarnation had approved purchase of the ladder truck which we should be getting here in May at the end of May. Um and the request for that was uh us paying for that out of the fire fee with a shortfall of around $200,000. That's not going to be necessary. we're going to be able to take care of that out of the same uh out of the the same budget. So, as far as the the the general fund

will have a much less impact, but the most important part of this is that u public safety is a big factor here. I do not know if we will be able to fix 104. Uh, and I do not need to be running around on a 38 year old backup engine. So, I would appreciate your consideration in moving this forward. Do I?

Yeah. Will it have swings? Let let me let me try to um help for for your purposes. So essentially what was approved already was for an FY27 expense. Um what we're talking about is an FY26 expense now for a truck that's already ready to to come in here. So So which will be we were going to spend the money anyway. It's going to be $200,000 less. It just changes which fiscal year we were going to spend the money. We're not missing we're not missing out on any grant opportunities or anything like that by pushing this forward. Well, that's but we Go ahead.

I was going to ask you to come up here.

Um, so when council originally approved this, okay, so we we have buckets of money, right? As Jonathan likes to put it, we have different buckets of money. Okay. The latter truck is coming out of a bucket of money that is specifically earmarked and and comes and cannot be spent on anything else other than than that. Um so when council originally approved the the truck for 27 those funds that $980,000 was going to come out of general fund monies. So regardless of of when the purchase is made that's coming out of general that's going to come out of general fund. So, the moving up or

$200,000. Yeah. Moving up um the purchase on that to a sooner time then allows us to save $200,000 on on it. Money is still going to come from the same place, but we're going to get it in at 780,000 versus 980. So, if that and we get it and we and we get it soon and we get it a year sooner. So, no problem. Pro actually probably like a year and a half sooner because it would have been the very end of 27. So, um, this this helps expedite that. So, we'll be getting it probably the same time we're getting the ladder truck. They'll probably both come in together. They'll both be inspected together. So, we're looking at around a month,

which helps. We don't skip a beat. We need it and we're saving money. I'm all in favor.

Those were those were the only two things. uh council, unless you have any other questions uh prior to if you wanted to entertain a motion for executive session. All right. Um I would I would entertain a motion for executive session. I make a motion we enter executive session. Second. All right. All in favor?

I oppose. Any discussion before we like should have had already before we voted on that. All right. Let's go. ask me to tell you for executive. Okay. You're going to meeting room.

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Get something in writing. All right, we need to um call this session of uh city enterprise city council to order. Um let the record show that all members

of the council are here in attendance and uh I believe we have Reverend Matt Jordan. Is he in the building today? I don't see him. We have someone filling in for mayor. Would you like to fill in and say the uh opening prayer tonight? Most gracious and heavenly father, we want to thank thee for this day and the many blessings that th bestowed upon us as we are gathered here tonight in the business of the city that were being carried out. Father, to strengthen us where we're weak, build us up where we're torn down and give us that love that goes from heart to heart and breast to breast. And Lord, as we leave here, let us leave here with a positive attitude. These and other blessings we ask in our soul in Jesus name. Amen.

Please join me in the pledge. I aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the stand indivisibley and justice for all That's right. I call for a motion to approve the agenda of the meeting as submitted. With the change, uh we will amend the FY2026 budget to include the purchase of an E1 Spartan firet truck in the amount of $780,000.

Okay. I move to approve the agenda of the meeting as submitted to change the FY okay there. 26 budget and to include the purchase of the E1 Spartan firet truck in the amount of $780,000. Do I have a second? Second. Any further discussion? All right. All in favor say I. All oppose, same sign.

Motion carries. All right. Now we have the consideration of the consent agenda. All matters within the consent agenda have been distributed to each member of the council for review or considered to be routine and being enacted by one motion of the city council with no separate discussion. If separate discussion is desired on item, that item may be removed from the consent agenda and placed on the regular agenda by the request of a member of the city council. I call for a motion to approve the consent agenda as presented. Move to approve the consent agenda as presented. Second.

Any further discussion? All in favor say I. I all oppose same sign. Motion carries. All right. Uh police chief Michael Moore believe you have some presentation. Family member. January 27. assets.org.

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Now we will have privilege of the floor. This is the part of the meeting where anyone in attendance tonight who wishes to address the council may do so for three minutes. If there is a public hearing on the agenda for the topic you are concerned with, please wait until that public hearing opens to address the council. If they choose, staff, mayor, and a council will respond to your comments during the appointed times later in the meeting. Repetitive, disruptive, and disparaging comments will not be tolerated. If you're found out of order, your privileges can and will be revoked. Does anyone wish to address the council at this time? If you would state your name. Mayor, we respectfully request that renewed pedestury of residents. and essential foot traffic to evaluate existing determining an assessment and developing a propest solutions. Thank you for your contin.

Is there anyone else that would like to address the council? All right. Seeing none, we'll move into staff reports. Mr. Mott. Mr. Chairman, um I talked with Miss Frasier in the back um while y'all were in executive session and and I heard what she said and it's the same thing that we have talked about with ALDOT before. The engineering department is on board to work with ALDOT to get a crosswalk across that section from the farmers market to that area of parking right across the street. Just want to remind you that Aldot had told us no on that before and we'll continue working with them to see if there is a way that we could work with them to get a crosswalk there. But the engineering department's in support of that and we've had conversations with like um Representative Marque um with our state senators with Mr. Tullus mayor. Um we'll continue to work on that to see how we can get that done. It it it's not that we are against that in any way. It is that is an ALDOT road. They have full control over what goes on ALD dot road and they maintain that road as well. So I will bring that back. I gave her my card. She's going to send me a copy of the letter that she read from and I'm gonna forward that on to to ALDOT, our representatives along with some comments from the engineering office in support of that to see how we can work together to get that crosswalk installed.

Thank you. Yes, sir.

All right. We will have um move into old business with a public hearing and consideration of ordinance 031726A. I call for a public hearing prior to consideration of ordinance 031726A providing for the reszoning of 26 acres of land owned by Danny Gay from R3 highdensity single family residential district to R4 mixed residential district located at 218 East Hilddrth Avenue. Right. So, um you will give us the

Yes. Mr. Chairman, members, um do have a brief PowerPoint presentation to give to you to give you a little back little bit of background on the specifics of this particular reasonzoning request. This is 218 East Hilddrth Avenue. It's at the southwest corner of East Hilddrth Avenue and Aaron Street. Um 1 19165210004 042000000 is the parcel ID number. U as I mentioned going from R3 to R4 highdensity single family residential to mixed residential district. Um you see here the location of the property as I mentioned southwest corner of those two streets. R3 zoning is located to the north, west, and south of this property and R4 zoning is located to the east. We have sent out letters to six property owners and we have received no comments for or against this proposed reszoning to date and it is a currently a vacant property. uh wanted to make sure that you are aware of the intents for the R3 zoning district as well as the R4 zoning district and also wanted to make you aware of what the allowable uses are within each zoning district to help you make your decision. So R3 district here you you see on the slide uh the purpose is to provide and preserve land for use for highdensity single family dwelling units and other compatible uses in areas that are geographically defined and protected from the encroachment of incompatible uses. So as a result you have the allowable uses which are limited to conservation subdivisions, cottage developments, single family dwellings, short-term rentals and parks. very limited amount of uses that can be found within R3 zoning district itself. It's designed for single family residential. So moving forward to R4,

the purpose of this district is to provide preserve land for both single family and duplex and multiplex dwelling units and other compatible uses in areas that are accessible to central community facilities or where a transition from a different density residential or non-residential development is desirable. And that's a key point to remember as we look uh as we look at the surrounding uses um of land in this particular area. So allowable uses by right to go along with that very uh purpose and intent of the R4 district is similar to R3 except duplexes, triplexes and quadplexes are allowed by right. So those are the types of uses if you approve this zoning tonight that could be permitted on this particular piece of property. So you see the zoning map, you see the R3 to the west, north, and south of this property. And then but you see the R4 that's uh associated with the um with the housing development um the um housing authority property to the east. So you've already got some multif family that's immediately adjacent across the street to the east of this property. uh staff does feel like this particular resoning request is in uh compliance with the future land use map portion of the city's comprehensive plan. You can see on there some of the orange that reflects the high density residential that's called out specifically. Uh either medium or high highdensity residential is prevalent in this particular area. So, this particular change uh staff feels would not be in violation of the city's comprehensive plan. So, as I mentioned, um six notices were sent out to adjacent property owners. This was advertised in the enterprise ledger on February 21st of 2026. Uh public notice signs, I'll show you a picture of those here in just a minute that were placed on the property

per our advertising requirements. um property to the east of the subject property is zoned R4 as I've mentioned. Therefore, this would be a continuous zoning. Would not be SP would not qualify as spot zoning. Uh the minimum lot size for R4 is 4,000 square feet plus 2,000 square feet per additional dwelling on the same lot. This has been shared with the applicant as well so that they know uh what their limitations would be on any future development should this be approved. And then the requested R4 zoning is consistent with the future land use map from staff standpoint. So here's a picture of the the required notices on both street frontages that was posted. And then finally the recommendation that staff has to provide to you uh here this evening. Staff recommends that case 2026-00001 to reszone property at 218 East Hilddrth from R3 to R4 be approved by you here this evening. And the Enterprise Planning Commission has also unanimously recommended approval subject to the provisions of the Enterprises zoning ordinance being met in full. And I'll take any questions that you have. So, it looks like that the lot that's in question, um, it also sits on South Aaron Street, which already holds this these types of homes, uh, duplex homes, um, is on Aaron Street, which is right there. Like, the lot goes across Hill,

correct? And it goes across Aaron. So, basically, if I'm in this lot and I look across the street, the type of of of zoning that this would allow is already represented right across the street. That is correct. Okay. All part of that housing authority property. Perfect. Any questions for the city. Are the applicants here tonight? They are. Do they have any interest in speaking or

Okay. Is there anyone here from the general public that's uh interested in voicing support or opposition? Seeing none, then we will close this public hearing and move to consideration of the ordinance. Do I have a motion? I move to adopt ordinance 031726A. Second. Any further discussion? All in favor say I. I.

All oppose, same sign. Motion carries. All right. I call for a public hearing on request from Lianda Authentic Mexican Restaurant LLC doing business as Lienda Mexican Restaurant for a restaurant retail liquor license located at 621 Bow Wevil Circle Suites 13 and 14. Are the applicants here for this hearing? All right. Does anyone from the city have anything to bring to this hearing? Anyone from the general public for or against? Seeing none, we will close the hearing. Uh, do I have a motion to approve?

Move to approve the ABC license request as submitted. Second. Any further discussion? All in favor say I. I. All oppose. Same sign. Motion carries. I call for a motion to approve the fiscal year 2025 city of enterprise financial statements as presented by Carr Riggs and Ingram LLC. I want to read the the amendment with it. What's that? Or is that just the budget? This is the financial statements. Okay. Well, I'll move to approve the FY2025 City of Enterprise financial statements as uh presented. I'll second. That's right.

All right. Any further discussion? All in favor say I. I. All oppose. Same sign. Motion carries. All right. As we move into new business, um do we have a specific Is this good enough just to reread at this point? Okay. All right. So we we uh under new business we'll take as the first uh item of the agenda uh to amend the fiscal year 2026 budget to include the purchase of E1 Spartan firetruck in the amount of 780,000. Do I have a motion? Move to approve the purchase of the fire truck in the amendment.

Second. All right. Any further discussion? All in favor say I. I. All oppose, same sign. Motion carries. All right. Call for a public hearing prior to consideration of resolution 042126 extending the deadline for the demolition of structures as described in the report of recommendation of extension for time for demolition making the deadline October 31st, 2026. This hearing is now open. Mr. M.

Mr. Mr. Chairman, um I know we had talked about this in work session, but because it's public hearing, I want to re reiterate some of the points that were made earlier. There were 15 properties that were brought in um under this. And looking through here, one, two, three, four, five of those um have been mitigated or complete, moved to phase three, working through remediation agreement. We have four more that were completed in phase two. And there's one, two, three, four, five, six that do not currently have a mitig mitigation agreement or have not signed up for a CDBG. So, we're asking just to move forward with the list as you have to give staff the ability to if we have a mitigation agreement and all, we will will not move forward with demolition. Um, but just as our attorney said before, we'll keep the pressure on and then um asking to go through those. I got a list of all the properties here. If you'd like to go through them in detail or um if anybody shows up and has them, I have those available uh that Mr. Lucas gave me.

And these have already been approved by the council for demolition. Correct. Correct. Is there any member of the G general public here to speak on or against? All right. Seeing none, this uh hearing is now closed. Do I have a motion? I move to adopt resolution 042126. Second. All right. Any further disc or any further discussion? All in favor say I.

I. All oppose. Same sign. Motion carries. Right. Call for a motion to authorize the mayor upon consultation with the city administrator and city attorney to execute an engagement agreement with Bradley Erant Bolt Cummings LLP to identify, develop, draft, and submit federal and state grant applications on behalf of the city of Enterprise. Do I have a motion? I move to authorize the mayor to execute an engagement agreement with Bradley Bolt Cummings LLP upon the consultation with the city administrator and city attorney. Second. Any further discussion? All in favor say I.

All oppose. Same sign. Motion carries. Introduce and call for consideration of a request from Blakemore, director of community services and recreation to purchase playground equipment from Game Time Streus Recreation LLC through an Omnia Partners purchasing contract and total cost of $772,52148. The equipment for use at Johnny Henderson Family Park is a FAM FY26 budgeted item. Do I have a motion? I move to approve the purchase request as submitted. Second. Any further discussion? All in favor say I. All oppose, same sign.

Motion carries. Introducing call for consideration of a request from city engineer public works director Barry Mott to purchase two Hustler XL zeroturn mowers from the Dowling truck and truck truck and tractor at a total cost of $29,998. The equipment is a FY26 budgeted item is under the allocated amount. Do I have a motion? Move to approve the purchase request as submitted. Second. Any further discussion? All in favor say I. I.

All oppose. Same sign. Motion carries. Introducing call for consideration of a request from city engineer public works director Barry Mott to authorize Poly Incorporated to advertise and seek bids for the FY26 resurfacing improvements project phase 6. Move to approve the request to seek bids as requested. Second. Any further discussion? All in favor say I. I. All oppose same sign. Motion carries. Introducing call for consideration of a request from city engineer public works director Barry Mott to seek bids for the demol demolition and clearance of public nuisance properties phase three. I move to approve the request to seek bids as requested.

Second. Any further discussion? All in favor say I. I. All oppose same sign. Motion carries. Introducing call for consideration of a request from human resources director Allison Love to amend section 4.4 of the employee handbook holidays to read as follows. Holiday schedules are set by the city council. When a holiday falls on Saturday, the holiday shall be observed on the preceding Friday. When a holiday falls on Sunday, the holiday shall be observed on the following Monday. Move to amend section 4.4 of the employee handbook as submitted. Second. Any further discussion? All in favor say I.

I. All oppose. Same sign. Motion carries. Call for nominations to the Enterprise City School Board seat one for a fiveyear term in accordance with the section 16113 of the code of Alabama commencing on the date of the next regular meeting of the board in June of this year. I open the floor for nominations to Enterprise City School Board seat one. I nominate Jennifer Borkins to the Enterprise City School Board, seat one. There any other nominations? Hearing none, I close the nominations and call for a motion to appoint Jennifer Boykins to the Enterprise City School Board seat one.

I move to appoint Jennifer Borkins to the Enterprise City School Board Seat One. Second the motion. All right. Any further discussion? All in favor say I. I. All oppose, same sign. Motion carries. Mayor, do you have a report for us?

Thank you, Mr. President. Earlier today, I had the opportunity to recognize some of our area's outstanding JOTC cadetses. These young men and women set an example through their discipline, leadership, and commitment to service. and we are proud of the role they play in shaping our future. Last week, several of us represented the city of enterprise at the Army Aviation Association of America annual summit in Nashville. This conference provided an opportunity to share our story, strengthen relationship, build partnerships, and that support continue to grow in our community. With our close ties to Fort Rocka and Army Evation, it is important that Enterprise has a present on that national stage. Looking ahead, we had several events that bring our community together. The allin credit union car sale will be held at the Civ Center, marking its 42nd year. We appreciate everyone who works to make this event a success. The pool at the Enterprise Recreation and Aquatic Center opens this Saturday, just in time for the summer session. Next Saturday, we invite everyone to join us for a festival in the park, a free familyfriendly event with live music and fireworks. I also want to thank our city staff who work behind the scenes to make these events possible. saw a great turnout for our spring showcase at the monument and that success reflects the planning and teamwork that go in providing the quality of life of our citizens expect. Enterprise is strong because of his people and together we will continue to

move our community forward. May God bless Enterprise and may God bless America. Thank you. Mr. Rich,

I certainly want to um acknowledge our officers for um their hard work in making sure that the young um boy was was returned home safely. Um and definitely um if you missed in our work session about the new fire truck, uh we moved that from a fiscal year 2027 to fiscal year 26. So that would allow our fire department to get what they need sooner. And if you didn't catch the price point, it's a $200,000 cost savings for the city. So, yay. Um, and certainly thank um, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority for coming and expressing to us the need about the sidewalk. You ladies look nice in your intensified pink. Thank everybody for coming.

Mr. Mac. Yeah, I'd like to thank all those who uh sought bids and and request to purchase equipments and the the being cognizant of the taxpayer dollars and let's get the best bang for our buck. I think uh everyone up here appreciates that. I hope the citizens do. Thank you ladies for uh your attention to detail as it comes to the farmers market. There is a lot of traffic there which is a great thing and we want to keep citizens safe as humanly possible. Uh and also thanks to HR for recognizing that there's some language in the code as terms in terms of days off and holidays and and the best way we can do to uh make things fair and equitable for all our staff too. So great job. Thanks.

Yeah, I'd like to thank everyone for coming. Thank you for all our citizens watching us on YouTube. Thank you lag very much for being part of our community, helping us out. Uh again, Sergeant Staff Sergeant Cruz, Captain Wilson. Uh I was out there that night and we couldn't have done it without all the help. Uh especially with the Fort Rucker folks and all the agencies from the Enterprise, police, rescue, sheriff's department, helicopters, drones. Uh it was successful and that's what we like to see every time we do one of those. But thank you everyone for coming. God bless and have a great week.

Uh yeah, thank you guys for for being here. want to say um I I had the pleasure to attend the quad or the Army Aviation Association of America conference in Nashville um this past week and first year going uh learned a a lot and I personally appreciate our close relationship and ties with Fort Rucker. Uh the commanding general made a statement which we know is true that Fort Rucker is the economic engine of our area. Um, and I feel like it's very important for us, um, I had two other council members that were able to go, um, and, uh, some other members of the city. It's just very important for us to learn as much as we can about what Fort Rucker does, how it's changing, and how we can be a part of that, and how we can have, uh, that economic engine continue to churn here in the Wiregrass. So, uh, looking forward to many more years of going up there and and trying to bring back some some, uh, some federal dollars to our area with with Fort Rucker. Um, if you are a fan of Army Aviation, I'd be admissed to say that, um, there's a local disc golf group that, um, is hosting a tournament as well I know about, um, at Johnny Henderson Park. So, thank you for Blake uh Moore particularly for being so easy to work with and allowing um disc golf to be a a small sport that's growing in our area. And uh we currently have the number five rated course in the entire state of Alabama. And uh once a year we um we pay a thank you to Fort Rucker by hosting the Army Aviation Heritage Memorial Disc Golf Tournament. And we have we have players from all over the area, professional players coming in to play in this event. So excited for the success of that. Um and uh yeah, thank you, Chief Davis, for saving us $200,000 on a fire truck. Thank you all for coming. I think most everything's been said. The only thing I

just can't get away from Chief Davis is sounds like my wife going shopping. I saved us $200,000, but I'm looking at a ticket that says $780,000. No. Good job. Good job. Thank you for paying attention to those kind of things and definitely glad to save money on something that we already had uh intended to spend money on. And uh and and thank you Blake for making sure that we have swings, more swings.

All right. Thank you all for coming. This meeting is adjourned. He said he ain't never seen