Planning Commission - Regular Meeting

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Good evening everyone. I call this meeting of the Horn Lake mayor and board of alderman to order this November the 4th, 2025 at 6 pm at Horn Lake City Hall. We have a quorum present tonight. Uh so we can proceed with our agenda. Uh we're going to have invocation by Alderman Blessel and the pledge of allegiance by Alderman Larry McKenna. All right, we're going to have an invocation by Alderman Blesso and pledge of allegiance by Alman McKenna. by Ed, please. Dear heavenly father, thank you for this beautiful city that we have and thank you for the beautiful weather we've had lately and uh be with everybody that's sick and help them get well and be with all the workers that work for the city and be with the alderman and the mayor and everybody that's involved with the city that make it a greater city and that we honor you in everything we do. In Jesus name we pray. Amen. Amen.

Let's rise for the pledge.

I pledge algiance 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. Now we have a roll call by Miss Tanya Carter.

Alderman Boston here. Alderman Langston here. Alderwoman Johnson here. Alderman Kelly here. Alderwoman Armstrong here. Alderman Bledo here. Alderman McKenna here. We have a quorum. Now we will move uh to vote. Um I entertain a motion to accept the municipal docket. Mayor, Alderman Langston, we approve the municipal docket adding to executive session personnel matters concerning employee 736.

All right. Do we have a second? A second. Second by Alderwoman Johnson. Any discussion? Roll call, please. Miss Carter. Alderman Bostic. I. Alderman Langston. I. Alderwoman Johnson. I Alderman Smith. I Alderwoman Armstrong. I alderman Bledsoe. Hi,

Alderman McKenna. I motion passes unanimously. I entertain a motion to approve the consent agenda.

Alman McKenna motion that we approve the consent agenda. We have a motion uh to approve the consent agenda by Alderman McKenna. Do we have a second? Second. Second by Alderman Bless Blesso. [laughter] All right. We have any discussion, Mayor? There's a correction that needs to be made on a letter from parks department. Um Mr. Mitchell's name is misspelled. I thought we had the new copies passed out. We don't have the new copies up here. I just I just passed out what I had the latest.

Okay, we supposed to have it's supposed to be a corrected uh copy on your desk. Okay, but it's it should be Princess Mitchell. P R E N T E S. I mean P R E N T I S. Make sure our notes reflect that it say Mitchell. Thank you, Alderwoman uh Armstrong. Thank you, Mayor. All right, any more discussion? All right. Roll call, please. Miss Carter. Alderman McKenna. I. Alderman Bled. Hi. Alderwoman Ar. I. Alderman Smith. I. Alderwoman Johnson. I. Alderman Langston. I. Alderman Bostic.

I. Motion passes unanimously. All right. We're now going to our claims docket. I entertain a motion to approve the claims docket. Mayor Autowoman Johnson.

I move that we accept the claims docket for general fund $371,96.93 for the general fund. Library fund $13,224.37 Economic Development Fund $8,6364 Utility Fund $118,9627 for a total docket of 513,000 73021.

All right. Uh, do we have a second? Second. Second by Alderman Langston. Any discussion? Roll call, please. Miss Carter. Alderman Bosik. Nay. Alderman Langston. I. Alderwoman Johnson. Hi. Alderman Smith. Hi. Alderwoman Armstrong. I. Alderman Bledo. Hi. Alderman McKenna. I.

Motion PL passes 6 to one. We don't have any presentations tonight. No planning. Uh but we do have new business. It's a public hearing which is I now declare open for this resolution to clean private property. We have a list of private uh properties which have not been maintained. This will give the city authority to access private property to clean and to make our city look better. Is there anyone who wishes to speak on any of these properties listed? Open. Me open. I now declare this public hearing open. Come on. Just give your name and your address. Mr. Ever, did you give your address?

It's It's okay.

Uh, may I give the address at this time? Uh, my address is 8540 Cedar Lake Drive. Uh, in Walls is the mailing address, but I'm actually physically in South Haven. and I own a property to which you have as a cleanup property. Uh I would have been with you the previous time but my wife has cancer and we kind of dealing with those issues as well. But I am totally shocked as to being here because uh some of you may not know the history of these 43 acres of property to which I own. I did send each alderman a copy of uh actually the the graphic as well as the legal descriptions of my property which is uh called Twin Lakes. And that is the misnormal because uh in the history of this county, they allowed a federal government project to be surrounded by houses and to uh disfigure that project which was a water retainment flood water retainment system uh from 1956. I'm an economist. I worked for the US Army Cores of Engineers for 27 and a half years and retired as the core here in Memphis as a senior economist. I have a variety of experiences and in that job I work with the team of engineers uh environmentalists and others and I was the economist who did the benefit cost analysis. In fact, I did the analysis on uh Pin Creek and uh Horn Lake uh for that project.

And to note uh historically, this uh city actually moved around the property to which I own and the property that I own actually was acquired from the state of Mississippi as a tax forfeited property. Uh because of my experience, I proceeded to identify with the fact that it was a retention basin uh for flood water retention, which has to do with the fact that back in the 1950s and early 60s and all, it was farmland and waters coming off of the hill area would come and they made that levy. That's a levy that was made for temporarily holding water. It is not designed for holding water. It is a disaster waiting to happen right now.

You have one minute, Mr. Ever. Thank you. I'm sorry. One minute. Yes, sir. Oh, one minute. It's just three. It's three. I gave you an extra one cuz I ain't start off right. Oh, okay. [laughter] You good? You good? Continue on. If you tell sir

I uh made available to Alman Armstrong and to all of the altmans copies of documents which went through the chancery court uh which uh cleared the fact that the covenant the people used to think that they had access uh uh to that property and it's a part of their land deeds currently. And if things were right, the party who developed that subdivision and sold it should be object uh subject to suit. And because all of that covenant was removed and I I sent you documents of that also that plan which was the government retention basin had an easement on it on the property for and it was supposed to be a project that last only 25 years. Once I got it, I proceeded to go through my congressman went forward at the time time and made determinations that this was a sham and had all of that removed. You got documents that evidence that and what you have right now is my property is illegally occupied with water with a dam and what you are accusing me of is truly the responsibility currently of the Horn Lake homeowners association which at the time and is defunct now but the home owners should be uh the true subjects if there was a lean to be put forward on their property. Thank you, Mr. Everett. I gave you a little extra time. I know you was rolling, man. [laughter]

Well, I'm I'm wanting you all not to make a mistake. I've seen the uh city before and you all could follow the records. The only reason why I didn't get the damages that uh harassment because the same thing you're doing now was uh was about to do. You can check court records and you'll find that I've got about five different suits on. Yeah, we looked we looked at him, Mr. Ever. Thank you so much. All right, we're going to respond to Mr. Ever. Um, you can have your attorney reach out to me. I'm the city attorney, Ronda Griffin Willis. So, at whatever time you can have him reach out to me, but I'm sure that this department

you talk to your attorney. I I I was to file and work through all those things and prosay. You're an attorney? No, I proate. You say you need the attorney on that. I'm the person doesn't make you an attorney. No, I'm not counting myself attorney. I'm saying at that point we'll deal with Thank you, Mr. Alexander. Okay. There's nobody I talk to but me pro.

Thank you, Mr. Ever. All right. Any board, do you have any questions concerning this property? All right. Do we have a motion? May or may I? I do have a question. Um, legally, can we go on his property and clean it and then charge him for it? Yes. Okay, that's my question. Thank you.

All right. Any more questions? Do we have a motion? I entertain a motion to accept the resolution to claim private property. Do we have a motion? Do we have a motion? Motion falls on the floor. All right, we're now at citizens remarks. Do we have any one on the citiz? Okay, we can move on again. All right, Mayor Ottoman correspondents. Uh, want to thank the parks department for their wonderful work with the Halloween event in the parks. want to thank them uh for a great event. Uh give them a hand. Yeah, give them a hand. [applause] Um we just thank them. Uh we also have in the morning we will be having our uh breakfast uh veterans breakfast in the morning at what is it? 8 8:00

8:15 is the breakfast and the program start at 9:00. So, uh, please come out tomorrow, uh, at the Lander Center. Thank you. All right, Al, the Lander Center is open. No matter how much construction going on around, [laughter] it is open. Alman Bost, Alman Langston, Alman Johnson, Alman Smith, Alman Armstrong, Aldwoman Armstrong, Mayor,

thank you. Um, I wanted to I didn't get a chance to put out flyers, but our citywide um service project um is November 24th from 1:00 to 5:00 at Latimer Park. Um, I hope to get the flyer out um before our next meeting. Um, that way everyone will have it, but it's 1 to 5 at Latimer Parks. Thank you. Oh, and also one more thing. I'd like to thank um the Horn Lake Police Department and the Horn Lake Fire Department had good participation at our game night. Um it was a a great time. I think the fire department had so much fun. I I think they had more fun than the kids. Um Chief Pulling of course wasn't there to play um Uno uh No Mercy. And also for our Red Ribbon Week, we had the police department there to um judge our posters. We had over 50 posters that were submitted for Red Ribbon Week, which raises awareness to um drugs and bullying um things of that nature at our school. It's an event we put on every year and the police department kindly comes and judges our poster. So, thank you very much. We really appreciate it. Um but that's all I have, Mayor. Thank you.

Thank you. You you forgot to tell them about my Monopoly game. I'll have to reserve that for a later time. How I end up being a mayor in Monopoly. [laughter] All right. I ought to bless them. Oh, yeah. Everybody, y'all need to be real careful next week. I think the temperature is going to dip way down. So check on your neighbors and check on their animals and stuff and make sure everybody's safe because here we are thinking this great and all of a sudden you're about to freeze to death. So everybody check on everybody. That's all. Thank you all bless them. Uh Alder McKenna.

All right. We'll now have our department head correspondents. You have anybody to my left have anything? Chief Linda Wallace, [laughter] Chief Lynville. All right. I know. Uh Drew, you have something parks, right?

Uh yes, sir. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, board. Uh just I'll be real quick. Uh we're going to have the city of Horn Lake Christmas tree lighting ceremony. Uh, it's going to be Saturday, December the 6th from 4 PM to 6 PM at Latimer Lakes Park, same location as the Halloween. We'll have photos with Santa, hot cocoa, cookies, games, carolin, um, ugly sweater contest, letters to Santa, and and more. So, um, we're going to start passing these flyers out and just spread the word. Thank you, Drew. [snorts] Mr. Vince, I'm not tonight, Mayor. Thank you. Okay, Mr. Alexis, nothing tonight. Andrew, no sir, nothing tonight.

Okay. Do any of the board have any questions for the directors? All right. Moving on. City attorney, I don't have anything. Does anyone have any questions for me? All right. I entertain a motion to go into close determination to see if we need to go into executive session. Mayor, Alman Langston, motion we go into uh what' you say? Yeah, close termination uh to determine uh if we need to go into executive session. Have a second. Second.

Al McKenna. Any discussion? Roll call, please. Alderman McKenna. Hi, Alderman Bledo. Hi, Alderwoman Armstrong. Hi, Alderman Smith. Hi, Alderwoman Johnson. I alsotion passes unanimously with nine. Close the termination.

Hi, Alerwoman Johnson. Hi, Alderman Langston. Hi, Alderman Boston.

Absent.

Okay, we have um five yays and one absent. Motion passed. 5 to one. I mean six to one, I'm sorry. Six to one. All right. All right. I entertain a motion to go into executive session. Mayor, yes. Aldwoman Johnson, that's a motion that we go into executive session to discuss Texas gas pipeline concerns, utility rates, and um employee number 736 concerns. All right, we have a motion. Do we have a second? Second.

Second by Alder Langston. Any discussion? Roll call, please. Miss Carter. Alderman Bic. Alderman Langston. I. Alderwoman Johnson. I. Alderman Smith. I. Alderwoman Armstrong. I. Alderman Bledo. Hi. Alderman McKenna. I.

Motion pass six and one absent. We are now in executive session. What are you doing?

He's got to do more.

[clears throat]

All right. I entertain the motion to come out of executive session. I made the motion to come out of executive session. Have a motion by Alderman Langston. Have a second. Second. Second. Who's it? Uh, McKenna Smith. Any discussion? Roll call, please. Miss Carter, Alderman McKenna. I

Johnson I Langston I motion pass unanimously. Are there any motions coming out of executive session? Mayor. Alderman Langston. I move that we approve the easements for the Texas Gas pipeline expansion project. All right. We have a motion by Alderman Langston. We have a second. Second. We have a second by Alderman McKenna. Uh, okay. Any discussion? Roll call, please. Miss Carter, I Alderwoman Johnson I Armstrong I

motion passes unanimously. Do we have any other motions coming out of executive session? Mayor Alderman Langston move that we approve the sanitation increase billing price per cart to 2150 to be effected December 1st, 2025. All right. Do we have a second? Second. Second by Alderman McKenna. Do we have any discussion? All right. Roll call, please. Miss Carter, I

motion passes unanimously. Mayor, is there any way you could elaborate that on that decision now? Why we did that? Just written a brief before you put it out. Rodney, would you like to elaborate just quickly briefly on it?

Is this live? Just so everybody knows, the reason the increase on the sanitation was due to the fact that the uh county went into a contract with a different landfill. So now Meridian waste will have to go further, use more gas, more take more time to travel from the Shelby Drive landfill all the way to Bah landfill. So that increases their cost per cart which therefore we're going up to the same amount of increase. So we will not have to absorb that increase from the sanitation company. Thank you. Right.

Mhm. Thank you, Rodney. All right. Um, any more motions coming out of executive session? Mayor, Alman Langston, move that we suspend employee 736 without pay for 3 days with 90 days probation begin November 5th, 2025. Have a motion by Al. We have a second. Second. Second by Alderman Smith. Any discussion? Yes. Well, I just believe that it should be more.

All right. All right. Roll call.

All right. here. Yay. We're in We're in the motion now. Armstrong. Nay. Alderman Smith. Nay. Alderwoman Johnson. I l I

uh motion passes 5 to two. All right. Any more motions coming out of executive session? All right. If there will be none, do we have a motion to adjurnn? Mayor, I'll make that motion to adjurnn. We have a motion to adjourn by Alderman Bostic. Uh, do we have a second?