Board of Mayor & Aldermen - Regular Meeting

meeting a board of mayor and alderman for November 18, 2025 is now in session. Let's stand for the pledge and please remain standing after 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.

Let us pray. Eternal God, again, we come calling upon your name. We thank you for this great day. We realize that this is a day that you have made and we rejoice and we're exceedingly glad in it. We thank you for this great city. We thank you for the the people of this great city. We thank you for this board, Lord. We we pray that you will come and and and entertain us, Lord, as we conduct the business for the people. We thank you again for this great country. And Lord, we thank you, Lord, for the veterans that we we have have praised two days ago. Lord, we thank you again, Lord, just for being good to us. Of course, it's in your name we pray. Amen. Amen.

Before we start our business agenda for the night, we have a couple of items. First, as brother James just mentioned, Tuesday was Veterans Day. If you are a veteran, would you please stand? [applause] Thank you for your service to this great nation. Now, on a little different item, I'm going to ask the alderman to come with me down to the front. We have a special proclamation for a very special young lady.

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Would y'all like to join us up here also? Come on up, Grace. Just jump right here. That's for you. Okay. Proclamation. [clears throat] City of Springfield. Whereas the city of Springfield proudly recognizes the outstanding achievements of its citizens whose dedication, perseverance, and excellence bring honor to our community. And whereas Springfield High School junior Grace Prrowse delivered an extraordinary performance at the Class A Girls Golf State Tournament, bringing consecutive rounds of 71 on Thursday and Friday to finish to overpar, securing victory by four strokes over a highly competitive field. And whereas Grace's achievement marks Springfield High School's first ever golf state championship and only the stir third state championship in school history across all sports, joining the 1993 Springfield football team and the 1989 wrestling champions. Whereas Grace demonstrated remarkable consistency and composure throughout the tournament, recording par or better on 31 of 36 holes. And whereas her perseverance in moments of immense pressure, relying on her preparation, her confidence, and her faith exemplifies the character and determination we celebrate in Springfield's youth. And whereas her dedication to her sport, her school, and her personal development serves as an inspiration to current future generations of Springfield youth. Now, therefore, I, Buzzy Pool, mayor of Springfield, Tennessee, along with the board of mayor and alderman, do hereby deem it an honor and a pleasure to

extend this proclamation of recognition to Grace Prrowse. [applause]

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and also thankful to brother Tim here. We knew that which brand tailor made TP5X is your ball of choice. There is [applause] a good [applause] football team. AH, now on with our agenda. Item 1.3 approval of minutes from the record meeting of the board of Marman held October 21st 2025. Have a motion by Alman Bradley. Any questions or comments? Stewart. There we go. Please state your name, please.

Yeah, Ray Stewart, 508 Fth Avenue East. It's good to be here with you again. I passed out something. you didn't have a lot sketch or anything to look at last time we were in front of you, but if you would, there's a couple of points I'd like to make on that. Uh, one, if you haven't been to the property of 506, which is the subject property of the discussion tonight, you may not realize how steep a grade you have coming down the hill by the detention center. My driveway is right next door to that and it's about an 18 foot drop from my driveway to the driveway that you're looking at there uh that currently has a uh shared drive there with 504 506. Another thing you might uh consider looking at, there's a red line that goes down the middle of that lot. You haven't seen that before in a sketch either that shows what a 51 foot wide and some inch lot looks like there compared to the others on the street. Also, right at my driveway, it makes a very good little dog leg turn there. So, you're you're hitting that downhill slope blind. Uh you can stand down there at that driveway that you're looking at on 504 506 that share drive. And if you stand in that driveway or if you sit in a normal car, uh you're barely seeing the top of an 18-wheeler before it makes that curve. So, I just hope that uh if this goes through, they don't have many 16 year olds or 85 year olds backing out at that point on 49 East. Uh I appreciate the time tonight and uh there's also another communication attached to that if you care to look at it. Thank you very much.

Thank you, Mr. Stewart. At this time, we will close our public comment period, moving to item 1.5, our public hearing. Item one, ordinance 25-27, an ordinance amending title 16 of the Springfield Municipal Code relative to sidewalk regulations. Is there anyone here to who cares to speak to item one? Seeing none, item two, ordinance 25-28, an ordinance reszoning property on Highway 41 from A-gricultural District to multiple residential and OIC office district MRO. Anyone here care to speak to that item? Seeing none, moving on to item three. Ordinance 25-29, an ordinance reszoning property at 501 Highland Street from commercial general district to high density residential district R7. Anyone here to speak to that item? Seeing no one, moving on to item four, ordinance 25-30, ordinance amending section 11-812 of the Springfield zoning ordinance entitled sidewalk cafe overlay zone. Anyone here to speak to that item? Item five, ordinance 25-31, an ordinance amending section 11 203 of the Springfield zoning ordinance relative to the definitions of substantial compliance and submission date. Anyone here to speak to that item? Seeing none, moving on. Item six, ordinance 25-32, an ordinance amending the Springfield zoning ordinance relative to vested property rights. Anyone care to speak to that? Item seven, ordinance 25-33,

an ordinance amending the Springfield zoning ordinance relative to residential parking requirements. Anyone care to speak to that item? Seeing none, moving on. Item 8, ordinance 25-34, an ordinance reszoning property at 5065th Avenue East from medium density residential district to high density residential district R7. Anyone here to speak to that item? Seeing no one, moving on. Item nine, resolution 25-21, a resolution annexing and zoning property on William [clears throat] A. Batson Parkway to multiple residential and office district MRO. Anyone here to speak to that? Seeing none, we will close the public comment period. Moving on to our legislative part of our agenda. Item 2.1, discuss and possibly take action on ordinance 25-27 on second and final reading, an ordinance amending title 16 of the Springfield Municipal Code relative to sidewalk regulations. Do we have a motion? We have a motion by Alman Hollowman and a second by Alderman Greg. Any questions or comments? Hearing none, are we ready to vote? Let's cast our votes. Anyone care to change their votes? Seeing none, will you count the votes, please?

Motion passes seven and zero. Item 2.2, 2 discuss and possibly take action on ordinance 25-28 on second and final reading an ordinance reszoning property on Highway 41 from a agricultural to multiple residential and office district MRO. We have a motion by Alderman Hubard, a second by Vice Mayor Harris. Any questions or comments? Seeing none, we ready to vote? Let's cast our votes. Anyone care to change their votes? Would you tally the votes, please? Motion passes seven to zero.

Item 2.3, discuss and possibly take action on ordinance 25-29 on second and final reading and ordinance reszoning property at 501 Highland Street from commercial central district to high density residential. We have a motion by Alderman Hubard, a second by Alderman Hollowman. Any questions or comments? Hearing none, are we ready to vote? Let's cast our votes. Anyone care to change their vote? Hearing none, would you tally the votes, please? Motion passes seven to zero.

Item 2.4, Four, discuss and properly take action on ordinance 25-30 on second and final reading, an ordinance amending section 11-812 of the Springfield zoning ordinance entitled sidewalk cafe overlay zone. We have a motion by Alderman Hubard, a second by Alderman Greg. Any questions or comments? Hearing none, are we ready to vote? Let's cast our votes. Anyone care to change their vote? Hearing none, would you tally the votes, please? Motion passes 70.

Item 2.5, discuss and possibly take action on ordinance 25-31 on second and final reading and ordinance amending section 11-203 of the Springfield zoning ordinance relative to the definition of substantial compliance and submission date. We have a motion by Alderman Hollowerman, a second by Alman Huard. Any questions or comments? Hearing none, are we ready to vote? Let's cast our votes. Anyone care to change their vote? Hearing none, would you tally the votes, please? Motion passes seven to zero.

Item 2.6, Six, discuss and possibly take action on ordinance 25-32 on second and final reading. An ordinance amending the Springfield zoning ordinance relative to vested property rights. We have a motion by Alderman Hubard, a second by Alderman Hollowman. Any questions or comments? Hearing none, are we ready to vote? I have a question. Yes. So, if you've got five people in the house, you have to park on the street. You've got two in the garage and two in the driveway and one on the street. Are the police going to be called at this point? Say that one more time. So, this is about the parking right on the street. This is about property rights.

Okay. Well, I'm sorry. I missed the wrong That's the wrong question. I apologize. We'll get to that one next. Okay. Are we good? Yes. Thank you. My mistake. We have our motion. We have our second. We ready to vote? Let's cast our votes. Anyone care to change their vote? Would you tally the votes, please? Motion passes seven to zero. Item 2.7, discussing possibly take action on ordinance 25-33 on second and final reading. An ordinance amending the Springfield zoning ordinance relative to residential parking requirements. We have a motion by Alderman Greg, a second by Alderman Hubard. Any questions or comments?

Is this the one? Is this it? This is the way I jumped ahead. So, so we're going I'm I'm curious as how this is going to work with people that have more than four vehicles. They say you have two car garage, you have two in the on the driveway, and you have one on the street. How is that going to work out for people? So, this only deals with new builds. Okay? So, when a when a developer is going to do a subdivision, this is going to require So, if you look at your packet and say, "Look on the exhibit u really look at exhibit C, we're 11.- 807, [clears throat and cough]

which is page six." U when you look at what a one family detached dwelling uh it's going to require a single lot developed or redeveloped within an existing neighborhood. If on street parking is already prohibited then that builder needs to build three spaces for each dwelling unit that has two bedrooms or less. If on street parking is permitted then two spaces for each dwelling unit. So it depends on the circumstances. So this is governing for development or redevelopment. Right? So it's not going to penalize anybody. It has nothing to do with people getting cited for parking somewhere. This is what a builder needs to do when they're building a house. So, okay. All right. Are we good?

So, we haven't gotten to the part. So, what So, later down the road, if someone does get does get called for that, that's going to become a police matter or that's going to become an HOA matter at that point. So, I'm questioning I'm trying to understand how this will be enforced per se. This is enforced when you submit the plans to build the house. But later down the road when there's actual people in the houses and there's people parking on the street, will there be is this this has nothing there won't be penalties for those people? I I I was listening to Jim Moore last month. He was talking about we're making this a police matter as opposed to an HOA matter. So according to the municipal code, parking is is regulated by this body, right?

And so that has nothing to do with this. So what what what that issue is nothing. This is trying to prevent a parking issue on the front end, right? So that's that's the goal here. So, the goal here is to say if you're building uh or redeveloping a lot in a neighborhood or subdivision where on street parking is prohibited already, if if this body has already or by HOA by by subdivision is already prohibited, then that builder has to put three spaces of off- streetet parking for for two bedrooms or less and a half a space for each additional bedroom. Okay? If on street parking is permitted, which is going to be most of the streets in the city where it's already permitted, then they need to put two spaces on that lot. Where it becomes a law enforcement issue is when this body prescribes via the municipal code by ordinance that on street parking is permitted or prohibited or places limits such as 2-hour parking or 15minute parking. That's when the police department uh is is asked by you all to site those in violation of the ordinance that doesn't have anything to do with this.

I got you. That's another separate issue. I just want to make sure I wasn't understanding how this all got. This is separate from this has nothing to do with the police department aspect of enforcing the parking. So when it comes before you all, we had one last month. We've had them because on street parking is is a thing. It's it's a it's a growing problem where it's interfering with people's driveways and and v traffic. When you all say, "Okay, no parking on this street or this side of this street," then that tell we're required to go enforce whatever you all put into place. So when you all vote to approve one of those prohibitions, then the police department is required to enforce that. Understood.

This is done. This particular ordinance before you tonight is on the planning side of things. when builders or developers are developing subdivisions or lots. I understand. I was thinking down the road how that would look, how that would shake out in the real world. Sure. Any other questions or comments? Are we ready to vote? Sir, let's cast our votes. Anyone care to change their votes? [snorts] Would you tally the votes, please? Motion passes seven to zero.

Item 2.8, 8 discuss and possibly take action on ordinance 25-34 on second and final reading an ordinance reszoning property at 506 Fth Avenue East from medium density residential to high density residential district. We have a motion by Alderman Hubard, a second by Alderman Bradley. Any questions or comments? Mayor is this is what Mr. Stewart spoke on? Believe it is. Is he asking for it not to be approved? Is that what he's wanting? Or I think he's in opposition of it. But I think is there any Yeah. legitimacy to any of this

this letter? I have not seen that letter. He gave you all a copy. I haven't seen it. Oh. [cough and clears throat]

Is it illegal for a member of the planning commission to go look at a piece of property that's on the agenda? I I don't I don't believe it is. And I think that that conversation that question has come up frequently. I think there's a misinterpretation or misunderstanding of where you where one ventures into territory of ethics. I don't find it I don't I know I'm pretty certain it's not illegal. Um and I don't know if it is unethical as long as you were careful about how you went about that. But so this looks like what he passed out was an email I guess that he had sent to me. So, was that your question about the illegal aspect?

But then he he's stating that he's worried about people backing out into Fifth Avenue. Is that

what do all the other homes on Fifth Avenue? I mean, I mean, is this coming down to that there's a lot that has existed that a house is being torn down and there's going to be two houses built back? Yeah. On that one lot? Yes. Yes. There was a duplex there that burned and so the gentleman is asking, the owner is asking to subdivide the lot. It's it's a large lot. He's asking to subdivide the lot. Otherwise, he'll just rebuild the duplex. He can rebuild the duplex there without any permission. He would like to subdivide the lot to build two single family homes.

You still got the same amount of cars, wouldn't you? I'm not looking at that wrong. If you got two single family homes or one duplex, you probably still got two occupants there. I mean, you're still going to have two family residences, if you will. So, I I would I would think so. I think Mr. Stewart's concerns and he's not here, but in my conversations with him, I think his concerns were the layout and concerns about the way the duplex driveway is now allows for a turnaround, and he was concerned about how that might look. And I hate to be putting words in his mouth, but he's not here. He's left. I don't see him I don't see him here anymore, but let's move on then.

Um, any other questions? Has there been any major accident you know of cheap in that area? I I I can't really comment. I don't know what it is. I'd have to go back and look at some data. So just hear about this part, but I can get you something by tomorrow morning. No, that's that's fine. Mr. He like Tim say he's gone. So can I ask him something? I'm not aware of any issues with this property. This is the first I've ever heard of anything about backing out of the street. Council person, that's your that's your ward.

It is in my ward. And if you'll notice, there's been several homes on that Fifth Avenue where the older homes have been taken down and some tall and skinnies have been put up. I don't I don't see it personally as an issue. I could see maybe he wouldn't want two extra residences beside him, but that's positive. That's positive growth in my opinion. I mean, he didn't we're not allowed to ask him questions during public comment, but he so he didn't stay for this part of it. His original site plan did not work for the city, and Mr. Durham uh had him to redo that and when it was brought back, it worked well enough that the planning commission voted okay to allow it.

So I guess I know I note in the packet that um it matches our comprehensive growth plan in terms of the high higher density in that area. So it it's consistent with the planning commission and with our growth plan. Okay. Any other questions or comments? Ready for the vote. Ready to vote? Let's cast our votes. Anyone care to change their vote? Would you tally the votes, please?

Motion passes six to one. Item 2.9 discussing policy take action on ordinance 25-35 and ordinance reszoning property at 2814 Memorial Boulevard from commercial general to commercial services to allow medical and professional services. We have a motion by Alman Hubard, a second by Alman Bradley. Any questions or comments? Hearing none, are we ready to vote? Let's vote. Anyone care to change their vote? Would you tally the votes, please? Motion passes seven to zero.

Item 2.10 discuss and possibly take action on resolution 25-21 on second and final reading, a resolution annexing and zoning property on William Batson Parkway to multiple residential and office district. We have a motion by Alderman Hubard, a second by Alman Greg. Anyone questions or comments? Hearing none, are we ready to vote? Let's cast our votes. Anyone care to change their vote? Would you tally the votes, please?

Motion passes seven to zero. Item 2.11, discuss and possibly take action on resolution 25-22, a resolution authorizing the distribution of longevity pay to full-time employees of the city of Springfield. We have a motion by Alderman Troder, a second by Alderman Hubard. Any questions or comments? City manager.

Yes. Thank you all um for uh for your approval in advance of this longevity pay for our employees. We uh as you know in the budget we changed that structure this year to that benefit had I think those amounts have stayed the same for quite some time and so we updated those amounts to be consistent with with the new environment that we have and uh our employees are grateful. We're grateful for what they do every day especially for those who stay. I mean, we've got and we'll talk about in a little bit of retirement coming up, but we've got a lot of a lot of employees that have a lot of years of service and so we want to reward those who stay who are loyal to the city and uh and dedicate their time and their life to the service of our citizens. So, thank you.

Any other questions or comments? I'd second that motion as they are we retain. Let's cast our votes. Anyone care to change their vote? Would you tally the votes, please?

Motion passes seven to zero. Item 2.12, discuss and possibly take action on resolution 25-23, an initial resolution authorizing the insurance of not to exceed 6,500,000 in aggregate principal amount of general obligation public improvement bonds of the city of Springfield, Tennessee. We have a motion by Alderman Hub, a second by Alderman Troder. I believe city manager Ryan Martin has [clears throat] something to add to this. Thank you, mayor. Just to kind of give a brief overview of not only this item, 2.12, but also 2.13. Those are the u the same topic, the same item, but two different resolutions that are required. Uh legally, we're required to do an initial resolution and then an authorizing resolution. And so, you can see those details in your packet. The $6.5 million uh is for the fire station. Fire station number three that we have a kickoff meeting planned for this Thursday to begin the design on. We have an agreement in principle as you all you already had approved the terms the principal terms of the agreement and talked to our city attorney Christy Barti this afternoon and we've got the rest of that agreement worked out and we're ready to move forward with the fire station. So this authorizes the issuance of that debt $6.5 million as we're anticipating the fire station to be in the neighborhood of 7 million. So, we have 500,000 that we had set aside in cash in the budget to begin get started with the design and 6.5 million will be as a result of a geo bond issuance. I did hear uh some some uh coughing at that at the 6 and a half number that is nowhere near the 83 million that we borrowed that were borrowing for the wastewater treatment plant. So, 6 and 1 half's a lot less, but we're looking forward to getting that fire station built.

We have to spend money to promote growth. Any other questions or comments? Just the six and a half. Is that just building or is that equipment too or That's everything that's fixtured except for of course we already have the the the engine the apparatus for the station. You all would approve that purchase some time back. Just one and uh but this will be fixtures furniture and equipment. This will be Any other questions or comments? We ready to vote? Let's cast our votes. Anyone care to change their vote? Hearing none, would you tally the votes, please?

Motion passes seven to zero. Item 2.13 discuss and popsy take action on resolution 25-24 a resolution authorizing the issuance sale and payment of not to exceed $6,500,000 in aggregate principal amount of general obligation public improvement bonds of the city of Springfield Tennessee and providing the levy of taxes for the payment of debt service on the bonds. We have a motion by alderman hover, a second by alderman Troder. Any questions or comments?

Mayor, if you don't mind, just just [clears throat] to clarify on that item, this does not require an additional levy of taxes. This is based on our current tax structure and tax rate we had budgeted for this debt. The amortization schedule is in 2.13 for this bond issuance. You can see what the annual uh debt service total would be. It's in the neighborhood of $450,000 a year for 20 years. The previous resolution was the initial resolution that requires notice to the public that we're going to borrow money and uh and if if the citizens object to that, they have a certain amount of time to let you all know that they object to that. This resolution is for the authorizing authorizing our uh folks to do that and issue that debt on our behalf. Ashley Menulti from Stevens Incorporated is here tonight. He's the consultant, our bond consultant that we work with. that if you have any questions specifically about the bond, he can answer that. But this resolution is separate and that it authorizes once that time limit has passed for the public to object for us to move forward with that debt issuance.

Any questions, comments? Are we ready to vote? Let's cast our votes. Anyone care to change their vote? Would you tally the votes, please? Motion passes seven to zero. Item 2.14, discuss and possibly take action on resolution 25-25, a resolution authorizing the issuance, sale, and payment of up to $4 million of capital outlay notes of the city of Springfield, Tennessee, and levian and valerum taxes for the payment of the notes. We have a motion by Alman Bradley, a second by Alderman Hollowman. Ryan, do you have anything you want to add to this one?

Yeah, thank you, mayor. So, first thing to point out is that the the agenda wording is slightly off. It's 4,50,000. The agenda says 4 million. It's actually 4 million and 50,000 is what the resolution is for. So, I want to correct that. Um on the front end, this is for the electric system. So, we had budgeted this year to take on some some debt to finish up some projects, some major projects. Batson Parkway is one of those, finishing the electric work out there. Another one is u the district substation upgrades. that project that we had to had issued debt for previously but had to take from that to work on Batson Parkway and to uh to purchase some transformers that came in uh unexpectedly in the last fiscal year. So we've up to $4 million of the debt issuance. The reason we're doing a capital outlay note instead of a bond issuance for the electric system that was recommended by our bond council and our bond consultant to do the debt issuance this way because we are you know working toward a change in the statutory structure of the electric utility. The capital outlay note would be easier to pay off early than a bond would be. So that's the reason for the difference between the two debt issuances. It was originally scheduled to be all bond. one big bond issuance we would have done for $10 million, but this is going to be split into two for those reasons.

So, do we need to amend this be? No, sir. 50,000. The resolution is correct. The agenda wording is is is missing the 50,000. Any questions, comments? Are we ready to vote? Let's cast our votes. Anyone care to change their vote? Would you tally the votes, please? Motion passes seven to zero.

Item 2.15, discuss and possibly take action on resolution 25-26, a resolution to petition the general assembly of the state of Tennessee to amend article what is it? 15 8 of the municipal charter of the city of Springfield, Tennessee regarding nepotism. We have a motion by Vice Mayor Harris, a second by Alderman Hubard, city manager Ryan Martin, do you have something to add to that?

Yeah, thank you, Mayor. So, this is what we talked about in strategic planning back in January. It's now time to do that since the legislative session is uh is coming up. This is not getting rid of our nepotism regulations. We have very, very, very, very strong nepotism prohibition as it relates to employment with the city of Springfield. uh no relative of any elected city official shall be hired by the city and no relative of the city manager shall be hired or employed by the city. Those two things will remain. I think we all agree that those are important for those two to remain into place. Uh where we are at where we talked about at strategic planning where we are now is with we're larger with so many departments you know 18 19 departments we might be at a competitive disadvantage when a relative of an employee applies for a job in another department. Right? And so that's a that's a prohibition that we have that not many folks have. And so looking at relaxing that particular portion of the prohibition, keeping all other things, and also not allowing relatives to work in the same department, keeping that as well. So we'll still be very strong on our nepotism prohibition, but allowing and opening up for a relative of someone to work at another department, not just not the same department. That's what this does.

Any questions, comments? No. When it came to play. We were having problems with elected officials having family members. So, we want to stick with that. But due as we discussed due to the fact understand we have qualified people understand we have to we're seeing some things. Yeah.

And this would only apply to relatives of employees not relatives of of the city manager or relatives of the members of the board. this would be only relatives of of employees there. So, we we're still going to be in on the strong end of our nepotism prohibition and and I think for good reason. I would recommend keeping that. I think it does root out any any [snorts] appearance of impropriy. Sure. But when you have a relative of someone that may be good that we can't hire them because they're somebody else works in another department and and that we're larger now. When this was put into place, like you and I have had that discussion, it was for good reason. Uh the city was a lot smaller, the staff was a lot smaller then. We're at about 270 folks and 275 folks now. And so it it it warrants opening it up just a little bit.

Any other questions or comments? Are we ready to vote? Let's cast our votes. Anyone care to change their vote? Would you tally the votes, please?

Motion passes seven to zero. Item 2.16, discuss and possibly take action on resolution 25-27, a resolution amending the comprehensive world plan for the city of Springfield, Tennessee to correct mapping errors on future land use map. We have a motion by Alderman Hollowman, a second by Alman Bradley. Any questions or comments? Hearing none, are we ready to cast our votes? Let's vote. Anyone care to change their votes? Would you tally the votes, please? Motion passes seven to zero.

Moving on to our administrative portion of our agenda, item 3.1, discuss and possibly take action on the adjustment of the retail electric rates of Springfield Electric Department due to wholesale fuel cost adjustment by the Tennessee Valley Authority. We have a motion by Alderman Troder, a second by Alderman Bradley, electric department director, Mr. Terry Reish. Yes, sir. 2.8. The part is over, right?

Any questions or comments? Are we ready to vote? Let's cast our votes. Anyone care to change their vote? Would you tally the votes, please? Motion passes 7 to zero.

Item 3.2, discuss and possibly take action on the adjustment of the monthly gas rates of the city gas department. Have a motion by Alderman Troder, second by Alderman Hubard. Gas director, Mr. Benji Davis. What do you have? purchase gas adjustment decrease.5 resulting in across the board decrease.84%. Good. Very good. Any questions or comments? Hearing none. Are we ready to vote? Let's cast our votes. Anyone care to change their vote? Would you tally the votes, please?

Motion passes seven to zero. Item 3.3, discuss and possibly take action on change order number four from Jay Cumbi Construction Incorporated for the water treatment plant high service pump upgrade project. Have a motion by Alderman Hubard, a second by Alderman Greg. Any questions or comments? Hearing none. Are we ready to vote? Let's cast our votes. Anyone care to change their votes? Would you tally the votes, please? Motion passes seven to zero.

Item 3.4, discuss and possibly take action on a professional services agreement with Frailus of Kansas City, Missouri for a gas rate study. We have a motion by Alderman Hubard, a second by Albert Holliban. Any questions or comments? Hearing none, are we ready to vote? Let's cast our votes. Anyone care to change their vote? Would you tally the votes, please?

Everybody lo you tally the votes, please. Uh motion passes seven to zero. Item 3.5, discuss and possibly take action on easement acquisitions for the highway 257 waterline replacement project. Have a motion by Alman Hubard, second by Alderman Bradley. Any questions or comments? Hearing none, are we ready to vote? Let's cast our votes. Anyone care to change their vote? Hearing none, would you tally the votes, please? Motion passes seven to zero.

Item 3.6, discuss and possibly take action on an amendment to the TVA wholesale power contract established in 1981 as amended. We have a motion by Alderman Hubard, a second by Alderman Greg. City manager Brian Martin. You have something to add to that, I believe.

Thank you, Mayor. So, it's finally after after a couple of months of of going back and forth with TVA, we have finally reached uh suitable terms on the agreement. And that's in your packet. It's nothing more than what we had discussed before uh talking about the uh annual reporting requirements and and accounting requirements for TVA and timelines for reporting and the monthly closing process. So, all of that is there. City Attorney Christy Barti and I worked diligently on on that uh report and we're thankful for TVA for working with us as well and so we've reached a suitable agreement that lasts for 180 days and uh and so it's for your approval tonight. Any questions or comments?

Are we ready to vote? Let's cast our votes. Anyone care to change their vote? Would you tally the votes, please? Motion passes 70. Moving on to our consent agenda. Mayor, without objection, I move take as one second. All right, we have Do we have a motion? Do we have a second? Second.

Do we have a second? Are we ready? Any questions or comments? Are we ready to vote? Let's cast our vote. Anyone care to change their vote? Would you tall the votes, please? Motion passes seven to zero. Item 5.0, city manager Ryan Martin's report.

Thank you, Mayor. Uh, very briefly, we've got a couple things to uh to acknowledge. Winter Wonderland will open up this month, November 29th. It's going to be opened up a a little longer this year for more enjoyment. Hopefully, city offices will be closed next uh Thursday and Friday for Thanksgiving holiday. Our Christmas parade is coming up Saturday, December the 6th at 5:30. Looking forward to uh to that once again for this board. Uh please uh know that our annual employee breakfast and uh service awards is going to be on December the 18th at the center. That's our annual employee appreciation breakfast and service awards. So that means city offices will open at 9:00 a.m. that day. Uh we be on the lookout for an email from me. may need to schedule I'll try to avoid it if we can, but we may need to schedule a work session in December for some of those uh lingering uh um things to discuss on or information that we may receive on both the water side and the electric side. So, I'll I'll let you know if something comes up for us to uh to look at in December. Uh I mentioned our fire station 3 kickoff meeting is on Thursday. We're going to begin designing that fire station in conjunction with the IDB and so we're glad to move that project forward. Finally, mayor, a couple of farewells. Uh Zack Clark is in the back. He's been our public affairs coordinator. This will be his last meeting with us. So, we appreciate everything uh that he has done and his service to the city. And we also have another farewell, much more lengthier farewell. Terry, want you stand up, please, sir? Uh Terry Beers is retiring at the end of this month with almost exactly 32 and a half years of service with the city. SO if you if you know Terry, you know that Terry is a Springfield guy through and through all the way up his entire life. He's given his life and and his career to uh service of the city. Uh and so we appreciate everything that he's done. He's uh he's not going far. Um, we're going to we're going to still maybe work

work with him a little bit on a on an as needed or part-time basis as needed for him as much as he'll as much as he'll deal with us uh after the first of the year, but his full-time services director will come to a close at the end of the month and and we wish him well as he uh desires to go and do some traveling and they've already I think him and his wife have already gotten a taste of that this year and and he's looking forward to that. So, Terry, again, thank you for for everything you've done. Mayor, that's all I have. Thanks, brother. Yes. along with Terry. Terry's a TSU graduate, so that's one of my colleagues. There you go. [laughter] And we definitely want to give high praise to the coaching staff of Springfield High School football. Absolutely. Absolutely. They're playing some football.

Yeah. Garner Street Park. Go by and check it out. It looks awesome. Anything else? Motion to adjurnn. We are ajourned. So, make sure you turn it correctly.