City Council - Regular Meeting

Greenville City Council meeting, vacation, and then Tim Ward will lead us for the last time in the Pledge of Allegiance.

Let us pray. Father, we're always thankful, Lord, to come and be about your business. Lord, Father, I ask you to bless the Council. Lord, Father, God, that they just hear from you. And we pray, God, and blessings and Lord and Mr. Kidwell, that you bless them. Thank you for their service. And we just give you praise and glory as always in Jesus name. Amen. Amen.

There were 150 trucks, more or less, and it was going along great until we had a gully washer come blowing in.

Saturday afternoon, calls Depot Street to flood and the Gentry to flood and the bandstand to flood. And we're going to have to cover the town, I guess. And so we can keep these things going on. Did you have a, is that? That would be me. Yes.

We had barrel and leaf Saturday night in our annual meeting.

Okay. So that did go on.

Yes.

Good, yes. So appreciate everything. And then we got the guys from EMS over here that were going to do something. Appreciate you coming out today. And maybe you can come back on September the 1st. But today is a sad day for me. I think it's a very, very happy day for the man sitting to my left. But this is his last meeting. And I want to say thank you. You've done a great job. You've been a great team member, and I'm very proud of all that you've done. And I'm going to let Kathy talk a little bit about your history here because it's pretty darn cool.

It'd be interesting if Christina had a picture of you from way back when.

Oh, you've got a good one from him from way back when with his longer hair. So Tim, Mr. Ward has been serving on the city council since for the last three years. And that was when the... The charter was changed. The charter was changed in April of 23. And previously, city council members had served on Board of Mayor and Alderman. Then it became city council for two-year terms. And when the charter was changed in April of 23, that was in the time frame. The following election in August was for Ward 1. And those individuals were going to get to serve a three-year term to get us on track for four-year term moving forward so he was the first one to to go through that cycle and he's been with us for the last three years and of course many of you know prior to that oh there's the one there's a good one um prior to that he served he served our community and served with the police department for 33 years so grand total for the town of greenville mr tim ward has served us proudly for 36 years so if we can all give him a round of applause I did a little research today, too. And so when he announced his retirement from the police department of 33 years, it said in his statement, I believe to the Greenville Sun or to the WGRV, that he had something in the works where he was going to serve his community in a different manner. And then lo and behold, he ran for office a few short months later. So who knows? He's enjoying retirement, semi-retirement. But He's still involved in the community in a lot of ways, so we appreciate you.

Thank you. It has been my honor to do this job and continue serving this community. I would ask of our community to become more involved. We have a whole lot of people that like to I like to fuss and complain on social media, and to them, I'm not saying their concerns are not valid. I just wish that they would use a different platform to address them. And by that, I mean show up to a meeting, run for office, and for God's sake, vote. Our voter turnout is abysmal. So if you have concerns about this board or this town, by all means, let's get them addressed. Show up. Kathy's doors open. The mayor's doors open. Uh, all our phone numbers and emails are out there. Um, make your voice count instead of, um, just blasting on social media that that's my, my one real complaint about this job. Um, but other than that, thank you. Thank you. I know I have probably made decisions that have made people upset. Uh, some of the people have agreed with, but, uh, I made the best decision that I thought could be made at the time. So thank you.

And about five minutes ago, I got a call from Jenny Kidwell, and she is not feeling good today, so she couldn't get out. So she'll come in and visit with us on the 1st. Anything from anyone? Okay, we'll move on. There's no... public comments is there okay so we'll move on to unfinished business and we'll item 6.1 is consideration to approve the minutes from the regularly scheduled meeting held on August the 4th of 2026 so we got these last week if we would like to hear a motion to approve We have a motion from Tim Ward. Is there a second?

Second.

We have a second from Matt Hensley. Any further discussion? All those in favor say aye. Aye. Those against like sign. Motion carries. Consent agenda items. There are none. The next is the mayor's appointment of four board positions to the Greenville Municipal Planning Commission. It's a three-year term and made that decision and I'd like to... congratulate Paige Mingle and Anita Ricker. They're going to serve a second term. They've both done a great job in their first term and very excited about having them. And we've also selected Courtney Hutcherson. And, Courtney, if you want to come up and introduce yourself a little bit. And the other one is Dallas Blair. Dallas is an attorney locally here in town, and I think it will be a great opportunity help to us to have an attorney on our board.

I've been a resident of Green County since 1990. I've owned a business here from 1991 until 2021. Appalachian Forest Products, the lumber yard, Mossheim, innovative design industry in town. My wife and I have three children. three grandchildren with number four on the way. Uh, I've, uh, been a businessman in six states. We had 14 companies. We were the largest supplier of three in the United States. And we sold the businesses in 2021. I'm fully retired now and looking forward to spending some time helping, uh, any way I can with, uh, green County and, uh, Looking forward to serving on the committee and doing the best I can to help.

I've got one complaint. Uh-oh. You bring your dog down along Main Street.

Every day.

When I'm walking my dogs, almost every day, and my dogs go wacko.

Mine do as well.

I have to drive them out of the country to walk them because they're not big fans of other dogs or dogs. small children, bicycles, motorcycles, you name it. So I take them way out in the country and walk them.

Well, thank you, Courtney.

You're very welcome. Courtney, you and Dallas are going to make great additions to this. Well, I appreciate that. Thank you so much. Thank you for serving.

All right, item 8.2 is consideration of approval on first reading an ordinance rezoning four properties identified as Green County Tax Act 98.7, Group A, Parcel 007.00, 012.00, and 008.07, and Tax Act 86, Parcel 110 from R1, low-density residential, to M2, high-impact use industrial. Mr. Schooley.

Yes, Mayor. Yes, this is a application for approving on first reading a draft ordinance to rezone those four outlined parcels from R1 single family or low density residential, as you can see denoted in green on the zoning map. to M2 high impact industrial. And I'm gonna step over to the map just to show, point out the parcels that are outlined in red. As you can see, some of the parcels here are split zoned already into high impact industrial. And this whole outline of these four parcels Evil energy authorities can't. Various operations for their. For Internet and power. Operations. So what spurred this rezoning is that the presented the planning commission or us the staff with a. plan to build out a warehouse office addition on the existing billing you can see in the middle parcel. The large white footprint there that's a warehouse and they are going to build a two-story office building for some of their new staff members and for their fiber operations. So we're excited to see the GEA expand their services and business. to serve the customers here in Greenville and Greene County. But there is one hurdle that came about with the proposed plan, and that is that the R1 single family zoning district prohibits any commercial, industrial, or office use. So that's where I coordinated with the president of GEA, Dwayne Wells, and some of the other employees. we discussed a solution which would be to rezone all their own properties to M2 High Impact Industrial. So the Planning Commission was presented the application back on August 11th, and they approved of the rezoning. Letters have been sent and mailed to all adjoining owners, and there has been no concerns noted. Just one person was asking what was the rezoning about. We explained to them they didn't have any issues. So we, as staff, we suggest or recommend the rezoning.

So this is the first reading, so we've got a recommendation to do the rezoning. Do I hear a motion to approve? So moved. A motion by Matt Hensley. Is there a second? A second by Tim Ward. Is there any further discussion?

I just want to let it be known that I serve on the board, but I am voting.

You won't be voting.

I will be voting.

You will be voting. Yes. Okay. All right. So we have a motion and a second. All those in favor say aye.

Aye.

Those against, like sign. Motion carries. And in the next meeting, we'll have the second reading, and there will be a public hearing at that time also.

This will actually be the following city council meeting to meet the 21-day requirement.

Thank you. Okay, it'll be the second meeting in September. Thank you, sir. All right. Item 8.3 is a consideration of approval of a resolution calling for a public hearing on the proposed annexation by owner consent of one parcel of land located along West Andrew Johnson Highway, identified as Green County Tax Map 098C, Group A, Parcel 008.01.

Yes, so this is my first annexation application, and I've found that is a lengthy process to make sure everything is organized and organized. and check all the boxes are checked for the legal process of annexation. So I've worked with our town attorney, Ron Woods, on drafting the first resolution. And so this will be a two resolution process, which was confusing to me at first, but the first resolution, which is before you today, is to really just City Council Chambers, schedule the required public hearing on Tuesday. City Council Chambers, 4pm September 15. City Council Chambers, That would be the final resolution for annexation of the property. And today what we're going to go over is the plan of services of this property. Just to review it and make sure that. The City Council doesn't have any issues or concerns with it. Initially. This application was submitted to staff, we had a. review period where we scheduled a development review committee meeting with the different utilities such as the gea the greenville water commission and they didn't see any issue with annexing the property and christina if you can uh go down 41 aerial view there we go so as you can see on the aerial map highlighted is the subject property um to be annexed the history of it was a quarry at one time but those operations have ceased and now it's just been used as parking this is just a gravel lot parking and storage for the gea facility and um There's one condition on this property that you may notice is that it's landlocked. So if I step up to the board, I'll show.

So the property I'm highlighting is landlocked.

So I work with the town attorney to draft a plan of services which puts a condition on plan of services that the services to be provided to this property, one of the two or both of the parcels

Justin, we can't see that over here.

This parcel and this parcel, we need to be fine with this parcel by frontage off of a public right-of-way, state right, or state highway, or be provided. The fire department and have any concerns with providing emergency response to the parcel I didn't get any other. concerns from the development review committee. So. With this resolution, we would schedule the meeting for September 15th. We would approve the plan of services so that it can be mailed out to all the parties of interest that have to be mailed 21 days ahead of the annexation hearing. And that would be the county tax assessor, the state The state assessor. Property assessor and the county mayor would all have to be mailed along with adjacent property owners, so that. they'd have 21 days to voice any concerns or anything that. They would want to address at that meeting. So the planning Commission recommended the resolution. or the annexation with the condition of that a plaque gets submitted and approved of the combining of one or two of those properties.

So all we're talking or voting on today is just to put the resolution out to take the next step, basically. Yeah. Okay.

Put in the motion.

We have a recommendation. Do I hear a motion? There's a motion from Tim Ward. Do I hear a second?

Second.

There's a second from Tim Teague. Is there any further discussion? All those in favor, you're going to vote again.

I am going to vote. I'm just saying I'm on the GEA board. Okay. All right. Let it be known.

All right. So we have a motion and a second. All those in favor, say aye.

Aye.

Those against, like, sign. Motion carries. Thanks, Justin. Thank you. Item 8.4 is consideration to approve a resolution to update policies and fees for members of the Roby Adult Center. Ms. Rader?

Good afternoon. Justin's way up there.

He is, isn't he? Yeah, yeah.

So as you all have there in your packet, I'm asking for a consideration to increase the fees for the Roby Adult Center. We have updated our policy with several different things voted on by the Roby Advisory Council. So our next step is coming before you and asking you if you all would consider the fee increase.

Can you explain what you're going to do?

Yes, so this time last year, we started taking insurance. It's a process of activity, which is why the insurance considers that, with Medicare, Humana, UnitedHealth, and Blue Cross Blue Shield. So each entity gives, if the constituent is actually covered under their insurance, we get so much money per visit, and they pay it, so it does not come out of the member's pocket. With that being said, some insurance, such as TriStar, unfortunately does not cover. But most of the insurance do cover, except for those that are actually moving from another state. And then we have to wait for a year process for them to update their insurance. But most of the time, the insurance does cover. Again, we get paid a different allotment from different insurances per visit throughout the year.

Okay. And then is there just a change in the rate also?

Yes, so if a member comes in and they have insurance, they pay nothing. If a member comes in and they do not have insurance, but we try to run it and it does not cover, then there is a base pay of $20. We are asking you to increase that to $60. If a member comes in and they want to be a new member and they actually refuse to file it on their insurance because of uncertainties and they make that choice, then we're asking you to do $120 a year. Okay.

All right. We have a recommendation. Do I hear a motion to approve?

So moved.

A motion by Tim Teague. Is there a second? Second. And Tim Ward is going to make the second. Is there any further discussion? All those in favor, say aye.

Aye.

Those against, like, sign. Motion carries. Also, my office is at the rugby, and I get up and walk around and talk to people. And Nicole has done such a good job of bringing those people together and getting folks in. And when they're walking out, they're smiling. except when it's 125 degrees out there then there's a little bit of a bite thank you so much for all you're doing and it's it's it's such an important part of some of these folks lives so it's it's it's good and if i may since i'm on that board absolutely the the amount of membership

that we've increased because of Nicole and staff's work is incredible. They are servicing our fastest growing segment of our population and they're doing a fantastic job doing it. I've been lucky to serve on the boards that I have. I'm on the Ruby board, I'm on the library board and the the work that those two groups of people put in to serve our community is, is ridiculous. I mean, it's, they are, it is nonstop. Um, and they, they take care of our community. They take care of a segment of our community that, that sometimes just gets bypassed. Um, so it's, I can't say enough good things about, about the Robey and the library.

Thank you. And I like to take this opportunity to say I have a wonderful staff. It's not the Nicole show. It's a whole team show. And let me tell you, they give 110% Monday through Friday. So I do have a great staff, and I say thank you to them.

All right. Thank you, young lady. All right. Item 8.5 is consideration to approve a repair to the D6 dozer at the landfill in the amount of $32,077.00. $0.82.

This is like a routine. You have to replace the undercarriage and tracks. People with dozer experience know that, and that's what Stowers is going to charge us to do that. There's some state contract, and I did budget for that. He warned me of it last year, so I tried to prepare for that one.

So we have a recommendation, do I hear a motion? So moved. Second. Tim Ward makes the motion and Matt Hensley makes the second. Is there any further discussion? All those in favor say aye.

Aye.

Those against, like sign. Motion carries. Item 86 is consideration to approve the repair of the excavator at the landfill in the amount of $19,530.89. Insurance proceeds have been received to offset the cost of this repair. What happened?

We had an unfortunate fire with our brush here a few weeks back, and they were fighting it, and some of the stuff got up on the tracks and rolled up, under it and he got it out before it got any further damage he happened to notice it so we're thankful for that matt gosnell he got put out for us so good it's one of those unfortunate things working in demos so hand brush we have a recommendation a recommendation to pay for this do i hear a motion

Motion by Tim Ward. Do I hear a second? Second. A second by Matt Hensley. Any further discussion? All those in favor say aye. Aye. Those against, like sign. Motion carries. Item 8.7 is consideration to approve a bid for roll-off containers for the landfill. Tony? Tony?

These were the only two companies that put in for, and I did check with the references, and they both are highly spoken of, but the Plum Creek was several thousand dollars cheaper, and if we decide to go pick those up, it'll even save us 3,100 there, so 3,185, but probably go with those on that. Like I said, I checked references and quality, and they're all good. I just went with the cheaper of the two.

Is this budgeted?

No, this is a part of the 700 for the equipment we have to purchase the hallway.

So it is budgeted, but it's just part of the 700,000?

It's not budgeted at all. This came about as part of the extra equipment budget. This came about as part of the extra equipment that was asked when we were in negotiations with the county on the landfill agreement in the event that we have no more space. We ran out of space earlier, even earlier than we know now. And town employees have to haul demolition directly down to GFL.

Okay. There is monies in the landfill demolition account. Okay.

All right, we have a recommendation. Do I hear a motion?

Motion by Tim Ward. Is there a second?

I'll second. I want to ask, you're comparing apples and apples with these companies. You did. So you got a spec. Yes.

Yeah, we sent out description, thickness and all that. Sidewalls, stiffeners, whole nine yards.

okay we have a motion and a second by tim teague is there any further discussion all those in favor say aye aye those against like sign motion carries and item 8.8 is consideration of a bid award for municipal solid waste dumpster purchase hello jonathan how are you good how are you doing well thanks

um we had sent these bids out or these quotes or these items to be bid out there a couple weeks ago and uh we have decided that we would like to go with the waste quip just because of the fact that uh they they figured in their freight and their prices um that are on the on the worksheet there um It actually worked out to where they were the cheapest one. It doesn't show that directly on the front worksheet there, but when you figure the freight in per item, the freight figured up to be $3,760. Everybody else was going to charge the freight, the one at the top with the waste quip. They were the ones that actually figured it in per item, so... Our recommendation is if y'all would approve the waste quip dumpsters, that's the company we would like to go with.

Is this budgeted?

Yes, it is budgeted.

All right, thank you. We have a recommendation. Do I hear a motion to approve? Motion. Second. There's a motion by Tim Ward and a second by Matt Hensley. Is there any further discussion? All those in favor say aye. Aye. Those against, like sign. Motion carries. Thank you. Do I hear a motion to adjourn? So moved. I have a motion and a second. Is there any further discussion? All those in favor say aye. Aye. Those against like sign. Motion carries. Okay, now we'll call to order the...