Board of Commissioners - Regular Meeting

Good afternoon. Uh, Mount Juliet, uh, excuse me, uh, the board of commission, the city of Mount Juliet will conduct a public hearing and consider the following on March 23rd, 2026, 6:15 at the city hall located at 2425 North Melotate Road. An ordinance to adopt a fee schedule for the Mount Juliet parks department and to amend the city of Mount Juliet code of ordinance chapter 24 regarding the park fees. An ordinance to adopt a fee schedule for Mount Juliet fire department and to amend the city of Mount Juliet code of ordinance chapter 12 article one regarding the fire related fees. an ordinance to adopt a fee schedule for the planning department and amend the city of Mount Juliet code ordinance 20 chapter 26 article 6 section 26147 regarding fees an ordinance to adopt a fee schedule for the building codes department and amend the city of Mount Juliet code of ordinance chapter 8 article 3 section 8-59 regarding fees an ordinance to amend the city of Mount Juliet code of ordinance chapter 2 article 6 to establish reasonable court cost legislation taxes and ecitation fees. An ordinance to amend the city of Mount Joy code of ordinance chapter 28 to adopt the state traffic offenses and rules of the road to repeal section 28-66 regarding reckless careless driving. An ordinance to amend the fiscal year 2025 2026 budget. Ordinance 2025-35 to appropriate funds for cost of living adjustment for the city employees. An ordinance to amend the fiscal 2025 20226 budget ordinance 2025-35 to transfer funds from police department personnel budget to operation budget. an ordinance to enacting a

one-year moratorum on the acceptance and approval for RM8 RM16 zone development in the city of Mount Juliet, Tennessee. Public invites to attend and comment. At this time, we open up the floor to any citizens comments or concerns. Seeing no comments, we will close the comments and we will reconvene at 6:30. Thank you.

There we go. Good evening, Mount Julia. Today is March 23rd, 2026. I hereby call this meeting to order of the commissioners. We have a quorum tonight present. Four of the five elected officials following city code 620-210. We will proceed to conduct business of the city of Mount Juliet. Good evening, ladies and gentlemen, and thank you all for coming to this meeting for the Mount Juliet city commission. My name is Vice Mayor Bill Trevette. On behalf of the commission and the staff, I welcome you uh here tonight. Tennessee log gives every Tennesseeian the right to attend city commission meetings, observe how their government is doing business. We appreciate each of you as you've taken time out from your personal schedules to be here tonight and see how your city government is working. First item tonight is to set the agenda. Um we actually have a couple changes here um to the commission. Um you should have a couple things at your table. U without objection, I'd like to make two changes. Uh the first item will be to um to adopt the uh item 8E with the new version. Looks like there's some changes in there for the date. also would also ask the board to adopt 8 A, B, C, D, and E under consent. Is there any objections?

Uh 8E is on consent. However, it's just the updated uh wording that needs to be modified. Yeah. 10 A 10 B. Yes, ma'am. No, ma'am. 8E was the updated version for the the date.

A 10 B, 10 C, 10 D, and 10 E. Yeah. I just want to make sure is there any changes

any objections? All right. All right. With that, um, we'll go ahead and vote for, uh, setting the agenda as stated. All those in favor of the changes signify by saying I. I. Any oppose? Objections. That was there. Four to zero. All right. Uh, let's see here. We'll move on down to uh the packet is 249 pages with one unfinished business. Seven items uh that have been moved over to consent. Uh if you do not have a copy of the agenda, uh you may get a copy of the wire basket at the doors for the folks that are here tonight. Let's see here. We'll start off with the uh invocation and pledge of allegiance and uh we'll ask our deputy city manager, Mr. Mullins.

Thankful for all the blessings that you've given us. Thank you, thank thankful for the son that you sent to die on the cross for our sins. As we head into this Easter holiday, make sure we remember that you have served as the final sacrifice for our sins. So Lord, we pray that that you would provide wisdom over this board. That you would bless and help us guide us to make the best decisions possible for our city. So Lord, we also pray that you be with Mr. Martin, Miss Debbie, and Pops Martin this morning as they're dealing with some illness. Lord, we thank you for all you've given us. Thank you for all you're going to give us. In the name of Jesus, we pray. Amen. Amen.

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you, sir. Let's see. For the folks that uh noticed, uh our mayor is not here tonight. So, I appreciate everybody's patience working with me as I go through the agenda. All right. So, uh next item on the agenda is approval of the minutes for March 9th. Is there uh any changes or adoptions that we need to take? None. Is there a motion?

Second. Okay. All those in favor of approving March 9th, 2026 meeting minutes, signify by saying I. I. That was unanimous. Okay. All right. We'll move on down to next item. Citizen comments. In order to conduct a uh efficient business like meeting, the commission has adopted rules for how these uh meetings will be conducted. primary. These rules are designed to keep the meeting moving, assuring that all points of views are heard and considered and proved for common courtesy. During this time, anyone wishes to address the commission may do so to uh pursu it to chapter article 2 section 2 20 2-20, excuse me, of the city code for up to three minutes. Although we ask uh that you wait until the mayor or vice mayor has recognized you. Also, we ask that you observe three-minute rule with addressing the commission. At the beginning of the presentation, uh please tell us your name and address. Please address all of your comments to the mayor or vice mayor if necessary. Uh this will ask uh I will ask someone to address your comments. However, the board is is under no obligation to respond or questions. Please avoid uh the use of improper language, profanity, or other inappropriate conduct. Uh once the citizens input portion of the meeting is observed, the commission will proceed with the remainder of the evening's agenda. At this time, we open the floor to citizen comments.

All right, seeing no comments, we will close citizen comments and move on down to commissioners reports. We'll start off with Commissioner Giles.

Okay, thank you. So besides um city manager um Martin's family that we needed to keep in prayer, we also need to remember the mayor's family in prayer. He had an aunt pass away. So uh please remember uh the manus family in prayer and also I want to uh remind everyone hopefully you're participating. I know some of you I can look out on the audience and I know you are and I appreciate you doing it. This is really a great event that um the Wilson County Health Council that I'm a member of uh sponsors every year and it really truly helps people get in shape and so please keep turning those minutes in and that concludes my minutes.

Thank you. Thank you, Commissioner. Thank you. Thank you, sir. We'll move over to uh Commissioner Hefner.

Thank you, Vice Mayor. Um want to welcome all that came out. Boy, there's a packed house here today. I'm just kidding. I think we got two citizens and then the rest are uh employees, but uh appreciate y'all coming out. I appreciate everybody watching online. Um want to be, you know, want Happy Easter. I know it's coming up, but I don't think we'll be back beforehand. So, I want to wish everybody a happy Easter. Safe and happy Easter. Um, and also to u um just to echo your sentiments, thoughts and prayers go out to the Mayus family. It's the first time I'm learning of this. Uh, and then also thoughts and prayers go out to Mr. Martin, Mr. Martin's, uh, father. So, hoping and wishing and praying for speedy recovery there. And then last but not least, this is kind of a little prequel. Um, uh, you know, I ran five years ago and was pushing for term limits. I attempted twice. Uh, failed. So, uh, in the coming months, uh, I will be looking to bring term limits back, uh, as a referendum, uh, as a non-binding referendum. Um, this will give the opportunity for the citizens to truly weigh in and for this body to to hear, uh, what they have to say. In addition to, uh, term limits as a non-binding referendum, going to be adding the expansion of the board from five to seven members as a non-binding referendum. Um uh and with that I conclude my reports. Thank you all for coming out again and those watching online.

Thank you Commissioner. Next we'll move over to Commissioner Mley.

Thank you. Uh two things. Um one more comment about the walk across Wilson. This Saturday is the last day. So it ends this Saturday and that'll be uh conclude four weeks. And again get your minutes in. Uh and also another reminder that we have three elections this year. Very important elections. Um the first one coming up is May 5th. It's a county uh primary. Lots of important seats up including county commission and school board among others. And early voting for that starts April 15th. And if you haven't registered to vote, the last day to do that is April 6. So, please get registered. Thank you.

Thank you, Commissioner. All right. So, uh my report uh go off there. I would like to thank everyone for coming out tonight. Yes, it's a packed house. So, I appreciate everyone. Also, the folks that are online. Um as I stated, uh it seems like I get two or three phone calls after each meeting. So, for the folks that are online, I appreciate that. It's uh always great to see folks that are still participating on that other side there. Also, just a reminder, um, you know, with the, uh, the storms, you know, the season that we're in, you know, we're starting to see, uh, storms right around the corner. So, just be thinking about the emergency side of things. Uh, you know, we just over the last couple days, we've actually been able to, uh, start getting a couple emails with NES. Uh, throwing out some proactiveness approach. So looking forward to attending those meetings to hear uh what they're trying to accomplish there when it comes into um making sure that our our areas are are provided with the correct utilities as well as the uh um you know the notifications as well. Great job the public works uh the notification came out that all the brush cleanup is cleaned up there. So, we greatly appreciate all the uh the patience from our citizens as um our public works was out there with a third party vendor cleaning up our streets. Great job to them. I believe they were three or four weeks ahead of schedule, so that's good news there. Um my understanding from public works, they'll be back on normal schedule. For anyone that may still have some brush piles out there, just be looking out for the updated uh schedule that's on the city website. uh Justin Beasley as well as our first responders from our police and fire. Great job over the last couple weeks getting out notification to our citizens on just different updates that we have going on with our city. It's always great to see that each department is uh um taking that proactive approach to get out there and and get that information to the citizens. the social media uh over the weekend.

Seeing a lot of uh new business these last couple weeks uh of ribbon cutings as well as uh you know businesses that are out there with the promotions. Got a chance to see a couple business with some lines out the door. So again, as Mr. Martin's not here tonight, I know he's going to be talking about shopping local. So, please take that opportunity to uh to get out springtime and uh whether if it's, you know, refreshing your yard or else if it's just uh doing those home projects, just think about the shopping local. I know uh our city manager would really uh be upset if I didn't bring that up tonight. And I think our deputy manager will be probably talking about that as well. So, um actually, I tend not to do this too often, but my daughter's birthday is this Thursday. So, shout out to Brianna. She's turning 21. So, um, it's just one of those things that, uh, just a blessed dad to have, uh, you know, some healthy kids that their birthday's right around the corner. So, continue to pray for the men and women that are, uh, in this war overseas, folks. Um, it's, you know, I guess we're very blessed to make sure that war is, you know, on the other side of the ocean, as well as, um, you know, the men and women that are fighting for our country. So, uh, anytime you see a man or woman in uniform, just always thank them for their service as well as the thoughts and prayers to our city manager and our, um, and our mayor for, uh, for the family, uh, you know, situations and and loss that they're going through, uh, over the last couple days. So, with that, I will move over to our deputy city manager uh, for 10 minutes for city updates. First of all, Vice Mayor, I'm never going to let you let look at my note list again because you thanked everybody that I had on my list, but I do want to thank uh our public works department with the debris pickup, also our first responders. Uh and I've also sit in recently on with our parks department as they're getting ready for the celebration of the 250th uh birth of our country. They're doing a lot of good work getting ready for that show. I

think it's going to be one to remember this year. Uh I also want to recognize that along with Commissioner Giles and the Mount Jill Rotary Club, we attended the Everone's Wilson uh St. Patrick's Day event where they uh they got very close to reaching their goal, do a lot of good things in Wilson County uh in the service. But u I think you've covered just about everything else, Mr. Martin. Obviously, um I appreciate the opportunity to set at the table with you today. It is unfortunate the reason I get to sit at this table with you today. And I I do hope that Mr. Martin uh pops for everybody that's been in Mount Juliet for some time and remember the service that he provided to us down in Providence when Providence first opened. um isn't feeling real good and and struggling with some medical stuff that uh I know that the Lord answers prayers and is already working uh to heal Mr. Martin and I just appreciate that he's going to do that in advance. Uh in addition to that, I think you covered everything else I had, Mayor. Thank you. Great minds think alike. So that's it. All right, we'll move on down to unfinished business uh for consents. All right, I got some reading to do, so uh I guess we're going to work through this. So, here we go. So, uh 8A, an ordinance to adopt a fee schedule for the Mount Juliet Parks and Recreation Department and to amend the City of Mount Juliet code of ordinance chapter 24 regarding park fees. 8B, an ordinance to adopt the fee schedule for Mount Juliet Fire Department and to amend the city of Mount Juliet code ordinance chapter 12, article one regarding fire related fees. 8C, an ordinance to adopt the fee schedule for the planning and zoning department and amend the city of

Magelate code of ordinance chapter 26, article 6, section 26-147 regarding the fees. 8D, an ordinance to adopt a fee schedule for the building code department and amend the city of Mount Juliet code of ordinance chapter 8, article 3, section 8-59 regarding the fees. An ordinance to amend the city of Mount Juliet code ordinance chapter 2, article six to establish reasonable court costs, legislation tax, and an ecitation fee. 8F, an ordinance to amend the city of Mount Juliet code of ordinance chapter 28 to adopt the state traffic offense and rules of the road and repeal section 28-66 regarding reckless and careless driving. 8G, an ordinance to amend the fiscal year 2025 2026 budget ordinance 2025-35 to appropriate funds for the cost of living adjustment for the city employees. An ordinance amended amending the fiscal year 2025 2026 budget ordinance 2025-35 to transfer funds from public not public department personnel budget to operating budget 10 A. An ordinance to amend the fiscal year 2025 2026 budget. An ordinance to excuse me, budget ordinance 2025-35 to accept insurance and actionable proceeds and appropriate funds for vehicles for the city of Mount Juliet Police Department 10B. an ordinance to amend the fiscal 2025 2026 budget ordinance 2025 to35 to accept the grant from the Tennessee opio opioid um abatement council for the purchase of the MX908 mass spectrometer for the city

of Mount Juliet Police Department. 10 C, a resolution approving a grant contract from the Tennessee Opioid Abatement Council for the City of Mount Juliet Police Department. Almost done, folks. 10D, a resolution approving the award of the construction contract for the Willoughby Station Storm Water Project and authorizing the mayor to sign the contract. 10E. Resolution declaring the city of Mount Juliet fire department uh property as surplus to be sold. Is there a motion? Second.

All those in favor of the consent signify by saying I. I. Any oppose? I think that was unanimous. Okay. Next item, we will move down to unfinished business 9A. An ordinance to enacting a one-year uh memoratorium on accepting the approval for the RM8 and RM16 zoning development in the city of Mount Juliet, Tennessee. Is there a motion? Second. I'll second it. All right, the floor is open. Okay, commissioner.

Okay. Um, since it got up for we're going to vote, uh, there's no secret I was opposed to the whole morary thing moratorum thing to begin with, but this particular one is only for RM8 and RM16. It really doesn't do anything. So, the public shouldn't think that this stops all multifamily in the city. I've been here six and a half years and we have never approved apartments under RM16 since I've been here. Um the only thing in RM8 if a property owner would like to develop his own prop property with a minimum of 20 acres uh and put you know just a f small cluster of town homes on it um this would limit a property owner from doing that. So other than that uh we approve all multif family and uh CTC and CMU which is which is the big uh mixed use you know devel developments and it includes more than just multif family. It also includes uh single family and retail. Uh so anyway I will not be voting for this for that reason. It it just doesn't do anything really. Okay. Any other discussion?

Commissioner Hefner.

Thank you, Vice Mayor. Uh, it doesn't do anything. You know what it does? It sends a message to the citizens of Mount Juliet that we hear them, that we're listening to them. It may not make a a grandioso stop and cease all construction of multif family, but it sends a message that we're listening and we're hearing what they've got to say. And I'll be happy to amend and bring back CMU back into this ordinance, which you're going to vote against. So, you're going to vote against adding that amendment back in, and now you're going to turn around and vote against it alto together. So, you're either gonna motion to vote against it because it doesn't do anything or you're going to vote against the amendment I'm about to make to add CMU back into it. What is it going to be?

Wait a minute. I'm going to put I'm going to put that in the form of a motion actually that I would like to go ahead and amend to add CMU. What was the other res the other design? And CTC. Make a motion to add CMU and CTC back into this ordinance. That's a motion. Is there a second? If it doesn't do anything, here's your here's your opportunity to second it and put it back in so it does something. Well, no. Well, then don't don't say you're not going to vote in favor of it because it doesn't do anything. So, if we could, Commissioner, just so we can follow on down the line here is fails. That's fine. So, you're talking out of both sides of your mouth.

All right. Just so we can stay on track here. I apologize. Um, all right. It actually died for a lack of a second. Motion still on the table. Is there any more discussion? All right. No more to No more discussion. We'll go ahead and call a vote. All those in favor of item 9A. Signify by saying I. I. Any opposed? Any abstain? How' you vote for it? Okay. Okay, it passed three to one. All right. Next item is moving.

Yes, ma'am. Um, I actually have the microphone off and and I appreciate that. I call an order. I call order. That is Come on. Let's get back on track, folks. All right. Next item is 11. 11A uh for the discussion items is a downtown RFP discussion. Uh this is under the sponsorship of our city manager, Mr. Martin. However, I believe uh deputy uh uh city manager, Mr. Mullins, you have any discussion you would like to bring up?

Yeah, this is just Mr. Martin trying to uh put forth the the RFPs that came out to each one of you and seeking guidance on how you would like for see him proceed uh either with the RFPs that went out or what we the will of the board is for the the property that surrounds us. uh whether it's to continue to look for a buyer for that property or to try to make the best use of what we currently have and and maybe uh start shopping some of the buildings we have for some local leases uh you know until we determine what the path forward is going to be. Thank you sir. Um I know the commission had an opportunity to revise or to review the agenda. Um is there any discussions pertaining to um mission sellers as well as imagine one for their revised offers? Any discussion there the commissioner has?

I'm going to just um actually you know what I guess we can go and bring up uh the first uh we'll just go off the agenda. We'll go uh mission uh sellers if there is uh someone that could speak on that right there if we can. Thank you, sir. Thank you, commissioner. Let me get over the podium here. Representation, your name and address, please, sir.

Johnny Wagamman, Mission Sellers Development Partnership, uh 3 South 9th Street. Thanks for hearing us tonight, having us back, um asking for revised offers. Um we're happy to answer any questions that y'all might have. We um in coming tonight we didn't there was no discussion on if there was anything in particular that the board wanted us to comment on. Um I can just share what happened u between the last meeting and now in our revised offer. So what we've done is we have provided y'all a revised offer uh for $6,71,000. I don't have the exact number in front of me. Um, and I guess the best thing for me to do is just help you all understand or where we were coming from in why we made that offer and what that was. So, we were provided after the last meeting a set of um, uh, appraisals that the commission had done in two 2023. Uh, that totaled $8.3 million for the city property in total here. Uh, excluding the city hall property. So the approximately 6.5 acres um that is uh a part of this revised RFP. Our offer um includes a 1.3 acre public amenity in the center of the u site plan and development that is me supposed to be used for city programming whatever that might be. It's maintained by the development itself through the seabed process and just by the property owner of the development but it is a public amenity. So, our purchase price is essentially $8.3 million minus the value of the 1.3 acre public amenity, which brings us to $6.7 million. Um, uh, other than that, you know, happy happy to answer any questions. Um, our our project is a multi-sight RFP uh that we put out that we're talking about developing multiple sites at once. We're also talking about creating a CBID for this district because we have multiple

sites and are able to do that. Uh, and we're just grateful for the opportunity to get to look at this and continue to discuss this with the city. Thank you. Thank you. Any discussion from the board?

So, I got a quick question. Um, when it comes down to the common area, was there a vision that you guys had that you guys were looking for or would that's going to be left up to the commission or, you know, have you discussed anything with, you know, anyone from parks or anything like that? So our plan is we have partnered with Calbertt Street Group which is one of the best known public relations firms in Middle Tennessee and our plan is to hold open houses for the community to have input on the public spaces in the um in this development. So we'll set up a project uh website. We'll set up a dedicated project contact person and we'll solicit feedback from the city and from staff members uh through this process as well as citizens maybe. Is that a possibility?

Yeah, the open houses would be for the citizens. It would be just like the round table discussions or the um the input sessions that T dot did and we were talking about the road winding of Central Pike, Interstate etc. um to bring in the feedback. We could have a stenographer, we could have um you know comment cards, etc. All of those would be options and what we do in our public round tables or public comment areas. Okay. Um there was some discussion on uh the revise. You said that uh that was put back out for a revise. Was that um requested from our city manager or was that from the last meeting? I just want to get clarity.

Yeah. So, after the last uh the work session that we had a couple weeks ago, we were contacted by city staff asking us to revise to basically a highest and best offer uh in terms of our purchase price. At that time, we were also provided appraisals that we didn't have in our original RFP packet that helped uh understand the city's uh understanding of the value of this property. Okay. We were provided no valuation or price guidance originally. Okay. Thank you. All right. With that, um, go. I'm sorry, Commissioner. I apologize. In front of you, but the in the very middle, the green space. Is that what you're calling the public amenity? That's correct. And that would be city-owned property.

No, it would be it would be a part of the development. It would be controlled by the SEAB bid. So in the seab bid district the board of the central business district would have control over certain public amenities. The seabedsids can actually buy their own property. They can control they can maintain. They can provide programming. They can provide police support for events etc. There's a large amount of things. So the center piece of it would be controlled by the seabed this board.

Okay. Any other questions? All righty, sir. Thank you for tonight. Um, I imagine our uh once the mayor gets back and the city manager gets back, I imagine we'll be all circling back and coming with you with more questions. So, with that, we'll go and move on over to Imagine One. Thank you, Vice Mayor.

Thank you, sir. Name and address, please. Uh, excuse me. I'll first apologize. I'm fighting a cold and losing. Um Matt Gardner, 4603 Skymont Drive. Um appreciate the opportunity to be back in front of you all. Um likewise, as with my uh competitors here, um we were reached out by uh the city manager with provided the appraisals that were done as part of the last process a couple years ago. Um with those uh the city's valuation expectations uh for the land and kind of asked for our highest and best offer. Um, we did revise our bid upwards also. Um, and we have been including the voluntary contribution that we know that the city typically asks for as part of the PUD process also. Um, and so if you combine our uh our our valuation went up u just a little bit. I'm not sure. I didn't do the math on uh mission sellers off the top of my head of how much theirs went up. Um, but ours went up by about $75,000. Um the total uh 6,716,500. Um I can tell you all the math that went into how we got to that number. Um but I won't bore the board with all of that. Uh that adds on to the voluntary contribution of a,225,000 uh like that we've done with our station north and our two projects on Pleasant Grove Road. Uh so the total amount from both of those which is outside of the statutory fees and taxes and impact fees etc. But just the amount from this project for the multif family is 7,941,500. Um and uh likewise along with the mission sellers project uh team we do have a uh public amenity space in our project. Um we are planning on the development, keeping control of that, maintaining it. Um keeping in charge of landscaping, event planning, all of that stuff will be part of the basically the

HOA for lack of a better term of the development. So the city wouldn't have any kind of obligations from an ongoing maintenance standpoint on that portion. And our expectation is that from a pedestrian walkability and integration that our project works will seamlessly in with the existing city hall. Um, likewise, as I mentioned in our original presentation to this board, um, we expect this to be kind of the beginning of a process, if selected, of a city-wide cheret process, multiple meetings with multiple, um, opportunities for the public and staff and the BOC to come in and kind of help us guide how this project comes together. Um what we're showing is a kind of an anticipated u project use, number of residential units, amount of commercial space, but the form that that can take and how that math shakes out a little bit here, a little bit there. We definitely want to be guided by the residents and the uh elected officials of Mount Juliet. So, we too, as mentioned in our original presentation, really see this, if selected, as the first of a pretty long process to kind of work with the city to make sure that the vision of downtown that gets built is um consistent with what the the residents of Julie wants. And I'm happy to answer any questions that you want as long as my voice will hold out.

Sure. It looks like Commissioner Maly. Okay. Thank you. So, the revised bid is 7.9. What was the initial bid? Uh the offsite um the multif family per unit was the same. I will have to dig back up on what our original bid was. So bear with me one second. Great thing about Dropbox original was 6,650,000 for the multif for the uh the land purchase only. Okay.

So that went up to 6716500. All right. Would you be doing a CBID? No, ma'am. Okay. That is not the intent. Now, if we were selected and the city expressed an interest in something like that, we'd be happy to look at it, but it is not part of our proposal like Commission Sers is.

Okay. Thank you, Commissioner. Any other questions from the other commission? All right. Thank you, sir. Greatly appreciate it. And as we said, uh once the mayor and city manager gets back, we hope to have this discussion move forward. All right. With that, we'll move on down to the next item. Uh the for discussion is the 11B aquatic center bond process and discussion. I'm going to ask our deputy city manager Mullins. Uh do you have any updates on that or do you know the process of uh what the the item was or would that go back over towards legal? Sorry,

I'll defer that back to Sam. She's got most of that information. Okay. So, sorry to put you on the spot, but do you have any updates on that as well? Uh, not necessarily updates. I had reached out to the city manager asking to get some input from you all. Um, if the board wants to put it on the ballot for August, then the timeline, the deadline to do an election resolution is May 22nd. So, that only leaves three BOC meetings left. uh or if the board wants to do the November election, then the deadline is between May 7th and August 20th or if not at all.

Yeah. Uh do we does the board want to discuss anything else? Again, commissioner a resolution, but it will um require engaging outside counsel, bond council is what they're called to do that resolution. I thought it passed by majority vote to put it on referendum. The resolution specifically says that if the board of commissioners elect to pursue the bond, then it's their intent to put it on the ballot. So, it kind of leaves it open to the board not electing to. Okay. Commissioner Ather.

So, it's it's not a question about the bond. It's a question of the referendum, correct? Okay. So, we're not deciding anything on the bond. It's just establishing the question. Yes.

And then getting with the appropriate I guess individual individuals to make sure that it's on either this upcoming August or the November, which I think it' be more appropriate in November since there's more people that are going to turn out for that. Plus, it gives us a little bit more time to define the the questions because I don't even think we've had any drafts of that sent our way. Um, so, okay, I just that was just more of clarification on my part. So, so really just do we want to purs do we want to pursue the referendum? Correct.

And if so, which one? If we go by our resolution, it would be our deadline is the end of May. Yes. Okay. May 22nd. Or we can amend the resolution. We amend the resolution to extend it and add it to November. We could do that, too. Okay. So, I guess the question is, do we want to do we want to put a referendum out per our resolution? I would say I would think yes. And if so, do we want to stick to the May deadline for the August resolution or do we want to amend it and and go for the November? Correct. So, do you want to make a motion? This is just a discussion. Just discussion. Okay. Just a discussion.

So, we have to put this back on the agenda for either the city manager can sponsor on the agenda or any commissioner can sponsor it as well. It was just letting the board know that that resolution will require engaging bond counsel. It's not just in a simple I just draft it for you. That's the beginning of the process is that very first resolution. So to to follow what Commissioner Hefner just mentioned about November's election, I think that's a great idea. I'll definitely sponsor that if that's something that the board would entertain. I don't think I don't think there's enough time we're going to do it. I agree. Properly. We probably should have done it two, three months ago. Plus, it gives the citizens enough time to be able to know about it, prepare and correct

and ask more questions to whether if it's the parks or city manager, city staff and so forth. Yeah. So, so the action item is sponsor an amendment to the resolution and then Right. And then is there anything to vote on other than the amendment to the resolution to extend it? If that's what the board wishes to do to extend it, then all you'd have to do is amend the resolution that was approved last year.

Okay. And that has to be on the next It could be on the next um agenda. Correct. For the next meeting. Okay. Any other discussion from the board commission? All right. Any action items for us tonight then for this? Just a discussion. Okay. All right. With that, we will go ahead and close the discussion items and we will move to item number 12, which is adjournment. Make a motion to adjurnn. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. Thank you folks. Have a good night.