Board of Alderman - Regular Meeting

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All right. Good evening, everyone. I call this meeting of the Horn Lake Mayor and Board of Aldermen to order this May 19th, 2026 at 6 p.m. in Horn Lake City Hall. We have a quorum present tonight, so we can proceed with our agenda. We'll be having an invocation by Alderman Flessow and pledge of allegiance by Alderman McKenzie.

May it be. Dear Heavenly Father, thank you for this city and thank you for all the people that work here and and be with them, and bless them, and be with all the graduates tonight that are graduating, and that they glorify you in everything they do, and they realize who is in charge of the whole world. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. Amen.

Let's rise for the pledge of allegiance. 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.

All right, now we have a roll call by Ms. Carter.

Alderman McKinney.

Here.

Alderman Bledsoe.

Here.

Alderwoman Armstrong. Here. Alderman Smith.

Here.

Alderwoman Johnson. Here. Alderman Langston.

Here.

Alderman Bostick.

Here. All right, we have a quorum. I entertain a motion to accept the municipal docket.

May I make that motion?

Motion by Alderman Bostick. Second. Second by Langston. Any discussion? All right, roll call for you, Ms. Carter.

Alderman Bostick.

Aye.

Alderman Langston. Aye. Alderwoman Johnson. Aye. Alderman Smith. Aye. Alderwoman Armstrong. Aye. Alderman Bledsoe.

Aye.

Alderman McKinney. Aye.

Motion passes unanimously. All right, I entertain a motion to approve the minutes from the May 5th Board of Aldermen meeting. I make a motion, aye. Motion by Alderman Bostick, second by Alderman Bledsoe. Any discussion? Roll call, please.

Alderman McKenney.

Aye.

Alderman Bledsoe. Aye. Alderwoman Armstrong.

Aye.

Alderman Smith.

Aye.

Alderwoman Johnson. Aye. Alderman Langston. Aye. Alderman Bostick. Aye.

Motion passes unanimously. All right. I entertain a motion to approve this consent agenda. Aye. Alderman Bostick. Aye. Oh, that's all A through R. All right. Do we have a second?

I'll second, Mayor.

All right. We got a motion by Alderman Bostic, second by Alderman Armstrong. Any discussion? Roll call, please, Ms. Carter.

Alderman McKinney.

Aye.

Thank you. Alderman Bledsoe.

Aye.

Alderman Armstrong. Aye. Alderman Smith. Aye. Alderman Johnson. Aye. Alderman Langston. Aye. Alderman Bostick.

All right. Motion passed unanimously. All right. I entertain a motion to approve the claims docket.

Mayor.

Alderman Johnson.

I'd like to make a motion to accept the claims docket for general fund $525,182.00. I make a motion to accept the claims. General fund. 525,000. $1.82. Mayor, that's the same one. This is the correct one. That's what I just said.

No, no. This is the correct one for 519.

All right. I make a motion to accept the claims docket for general funds, $459,756.30. Library fund, $1,907.13. Economic fund, $3,467.17. Utility fund, $98,792.72. For a total docket of $563,923.32.

All right, do we have a second? Second. All right, Alderman Langston. Any discussion? Roll call, please, Ms. Carter.

I'm not sure if I have the correct copy in my packet.

We just had a golden one on the board.

We'll make sure that we get that. She may have, Crystal may have uploaded the incorrect one. The one that I had just given, Alderwoman Johnson, is the correct one.

Just the last one. All right. Roll call, Ms. Carter.

I'll be certain to give everybody to send those out for your packets. All right. Roll call. Alderman Bostick. Aye. Alderman Langston. Aye. Alderwoman Johnson. Aye. Alderman Smith. Aye. Alderwoman Armstrong. Aye. Alderman Bledsoe.

Aye.

Alderman McKinney. Aye.

All right, motion passed unanimously. All right, we don't have any special guests or presentations tonight, but we'll go ahead and go with our planning cases, go for our approvals of that. Andrew.

Thank you. The first case is case number 2026-005. It's a request from Applicant Creative Construction LLC to approve a flat for the Minnesota Commons A8 Commercial Subdivision. This flat would separate the property from surrounding land that is currently combined into a single parcel. This separation will facilitate future development on the site. So on the next page is the, in the blue color, that's the entire current flat, or sorry, that's the entire current parcel. And so in this yellow box, the applicant's just asking to cut out one piece of property from that. So on the next page, we have the zoning layer that's in PUD. And then on the next page, here is the actual drawing of the plat. That's the full plat. I know it's kind of hard to see. So on the next page is a closer up view of that. And so shown below is the screenshot of the details that the proposed property lines would isolate the property in the southern three acres between Interstate Boulevard and the Core 5 development. And so on the next pages, as I always do, I post all of the subdivisions and regulations that we have to review. And the first section is for streets. There's no new streets being proposed, so there's no issue there. The next section is about easements. There were no issues found with the easements. Regarding the first letter, the proposed plat provision shows 20-foot utility easement along both Interstate Boulevard and Hill Road, a 10-foot utility easement along the rear of the proposed lot, and a 5-foot utility easement along the proposed northern boundary, which will be designated as the side property line. So that passes all the requirements. And then regarding letter B, there's no apparent streams running through that lot. So based on the land elevation maps available, it appears that a lot of water may accumulate on this site and flow toward the north toward the nearest creek offsite. However, with no officially named and protected creek on the proposed lot, the engineer will eventually create a site plan on the lot has any drainage system required to move water appropriately. And so at this stage, there's nothing that conflicts with this criteria. Next is on blocks. There's no new blocks being made. Next is for basically block shapes. It's a pretty standard block shape, so there's no violations present there on the proposal. And then finally, last section is about public sites, facilities, and open spaces. This is just one commercial lot, so there's nothing in conflict with the regulations there. So that is the planning staff review, and we have a minute there. So in conclusion, based on the criteria that the planning department and planning commission must consider, planning staff recommends approval of That concludes the presentation.

All right. Anybody have any questions for Mr. Andrews?

If we approve this, is there certain things that can go on this lot if we approve this?

So right now, this is just for the property lines. And so the applicant already has land use approval from... previous board meeting I believe in 2022 for a gas station and so that was a conditional use case that was approved and the minutes of that conditional use case shows that the only condition being imposed was that the applicant applicant comes back at a later time to subdivide the property and that's where we're at now subdividing the property

Okay, the guy that was going to the gas station, he sold it to somebody else, right? On this slide, no, it's the same owner. Okay, because it's been over two years, I think.

I don't know the gas station. Yeah, but this one was just already approved, just X for a plate.

Yeah, about two years ago.

Yes, sir. All right, any more questions for Andrew? Mr. Hoxton? All right, so is the developer here?

Byron Houston, Houston engineer representing the developer.

All right. Do you have any questions? Any questions for him? Thank you. What's your name again? Byron Houston, Houston engineer. Thank you, Mr. Houston. Thank you. All right. I'll entertain a motion. What is that? Mayor.

Mayor. Go ahead. Make a motion to approve case number 2026-005 for approval for the Southern Commons AA Commercial Subdivision on parcel number 108-736-000-0000500 by Creative Constructions.

All right, we got a motion by Alderman Bostick. We have a second.

I second.

Second by Alderman Johnson. All right, any discussion? Roll call, please, Ms. Carter.

Alderman McKinney. Aye. Alderman Bledsoe.

Aye. Aye. Alderwoman Armstrong. He said aye.

Alderwoman Armstrong. Aye. Alderman Smith. Aye. Alderwoman Johnson. Aye. Alderman Langston.

Aye.

Alderman Bostic. Aye.

All right, motion passes unanimously. All right, Andrew, case B.

Thank you. This is case number 2026-060. This is a request from applicant Creative Construction to LLC to approve a plat for Deserto Commons A5 commercial subdivision lot 1. This plat would separate the property from surrounding land that is currently combined into a single parcel. This separation will facilitate future development on the site and on the next page we have the area being desired to cut out from the previous parcel. the same original parcel just on the other side of the street the applicant is actually the streets kind of already make the parcel itself and so he's just wishing to have that be its own new parcel so on the next page we have zoning same zoning it's pud zoning on the next page i have the full drawing page of the plat and as shown on that previous outline this is going to be the eventual boundaries of the property and on the next page is a closer up view for everyone to see the details and so for our review as before going through the same exact criteria there's no new streets being proposed so there's nothing conflicting with that section On the next page we have the criteria regarding easements. And so for our review regarding letter A, the proposed flat provides 20 foot utility easements on all sides except for the sides adjoining the corner lot where the utility easements are proposed to be 10 feet. This far surpasses the requirements. Regarding letter B, there are no apparent streams running through the slide, There's nothing conflicting with that requirement. And then on the next section regarding blocks, everything is fine for that. On the next section regarding lots, there's nothing conflicting with the lot design standards. There's direct access to public streets on that lot, even though it surrounds another lot. And so it'll have a piece adjoining railroad and a piece adjoining Interstate Boulevard. And so for the next section regarding public sites, facilities, and open spaces, this is just one commercial lot, so there's nothing conflicting with those requirements. So I have the Planning Commission meeting minutes posted there. And then in conclusion, based on the criteria that the Planning Department and Planning Commission must consider, the planning staff recommends approval of the post-platform. So it commons a commercial subdivision, not one with no changes. presentation.

All right any questions for Mr. Andrew? All right thank you Andrew. Any questions for the developer?

Yes Mayor.

Do you have, do you know what you're going to put there? I know we've, I heard earlier about it.

The discussion has been in the event center. There's no details yet but as soon as the details are put together and plans put together we'll be submitting to the city to review and make sure.

All right. Any more questions for the developer? All right. I entertain a motion. Mayor.

Alderman Bostick. I make a motion to approve case number 2026-062. It's a request for a class approval for the Southern College A5 commercial subdivision, Block 1. I agree with that.

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Alderman McKinney.

Aye.

Alderman Bledsoe. Aye. Alderwoman Armstrong. Aye. Alderman Smith. Aye. Alderwoman Johnson. Aye. Alderman Langston.

Nay.

Alderman Bostic.

Aye. Motion passes six yeas, one nay. All right, moving on to 2026 CDBG PF resolution by Darrell Dixon.

Good afternoon. I'm Darrell Dixon, North Delta Plan Development District. We're project administrators for state and federal funding assistance. And tonight what we have for you is a bank of resolutions that certify compliance with the rules of the Community Development Block Grant Program that you all have agreed to apply to. It's funded from the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Those require compliance with its rules. So there are about nine functions that I'm going to go through briefly here tonight for you all to consider. The first is called Section 3. Section 3 of the legislation that authorizes the Community Development Block Grant Program says that any hiring that is done as a result of the project should, to the greatest extent feasible, benefit people in the local area. So the first document, the Grantee Section 3 Action Plan, says that if there is any hiring that's required by the project, that you all will advertise locally. And to the greatest extent possible, make sure that those folks are the ones who benefit from the hiring. The second is a Section 3 plan resolution that says that you will require any of your contractors under this funded project, if you're funded, to certify the signing, that they'll do the signing. The next item is called basic 504 requirement. And it just says any improvements that y'all make with the federal funds will be accessible to those with disabilities in accordance with federal law. The next one is a minority business-owned enterprise and women business-owned enterprise resolution. To participate in this fund in the state of Mississippi has to have targets or goals for participation by minority women-owned businesses. This says that you all will accept the state's goals. And they are 10% goal for minority business-owned enterprises and 5% for women-owned business enterprise participation. The next one is the national objective resolution. The national objective for the Community Development Block Grant Program is to benefit 51% or more low to moderate income residents. And so you certify that anything that you do with the funds will comply with that requirement. The next one is a maintenance resolution that certifies that whatever improvements are made with the funds, city will maintain for at least 10 years. And the project that y'all are looking at doing is sewer related. So you'll maintain those sewer improvements that you will make with the funds. The next one is a matching funds resolution. Because of the population of the city of Horn Lake, you have to apply in the regular government category. which means they require matching funds as a portion of this. And so in order to be competitive, talking with the city manager and your engineer that's procured, matching funds of at least dollar for dollar is what would make your application competitive in the bank of applications that they'll receive. Next document is the Code of Standards of Conduct, which just verifies that the city agrees that no officer, employee, or direct family member of any of those two groups would financially benefit from the project that's being done with these federal funds. And the last thing is the Housing Urban Development Program Guidelines, which simply agrees to the compliance requirements with regards to state and local laws, financial systems and records maintenance, retention of records, right to audit, conflict of interest, and equal employment opportunity. So briefly kind of describe the compliance regimen Again, my firm, if the project is funded, goes to make sure that you comply with all those rules. But I do recommend approval for those so that we can get that application in next week. The 29th is the deadline to have that in. So we're working with your team to make sure that we're able to do that. All right. Any questions for Mr. Dixon?

All right. If not, can I get a motion to approve the 2026 CDBG PF resolution?

Mayor.

Alderman Armstrong.

I make a motion to approve the 2026 CDBG PF resolution presented by Mr. Daryl Dixon.

I have a second. Second. All right. Any discussion? All right. Roll call, please, Ms. Carter.

Alderman Bostic.

Aye.

Alderman Langston. Aye. Alderman Johnson. Aye. Alderman Smith.

Aye.

Alderman Armstrong. Aye. Alderman Bledsoe.

Aye.

Alderman McKenney.

All right. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Daryl Dixon. Looking forward to them infrastructure improvements. All right. We're looking forward to that. All right.

I'll see you in the morning.

Thanks very much. Thank you. Get on to Hernando. All right. Next, we have citizen remarks. They'll be limited to three minutes each. We have two on the Daryl Dixon . So we have one on the list. Mr. Vincent.

Allow me to introduce myself. I'm Vincent Girard. Did you detect an accent because I'm French-Canadian? I became an American in 2003 and married an American. That's why I'm here. Got in the auto business. I've got a little kind of resume if any of you would like to get a copy. I've made a proposal to buy a property, a 6501 Highway 51, right beside Station 21, where they do the graphics for the ambulance and the fire trucks and all that. And it's a little one-acre lot. I've worked for corporations, CarMax, big auto groups. I'm going on my own. It's a semi-retirement. I'm 67. And what I want to do is not only take from the community in terms of sales, but I want to give back. We've been very socially conscious with the groups I've worked with through the years. We have donated money to multiple community causes, most of these in Shelby County.

Do you want to pass that around while they have a chance to look at that?

Yes, you can look at the community organizations that we supported, both financially and in other ways, administratively, help the way we can. The two, DeSoto County, Organization that I've been recently involved with, both monetarily and with time, is the Dream Center right here with Jenna Kirk, who's the director. It's a great organization to help families. And another one is called Mid-South Hope Garage. Anybody heard of Mid-South Hope Garage? It is a Mississippi organization. And what they do is they give vehicles to single mothers, people in need. I have a special heart for single moms because my sister was one and I married one and so we know that sometimes they need vehicles and they struggle and this next month we will have given over a hundred vehicles. So I'm very proud of that and having if I get to work in Horn Lake is just getting an idea and That I'd like to continue because I know you're a pastor and the scripture says give and it shall be given unto you. It's not about all that we get. It's about all we can give. And God blessed me plenty. And it's time to bless. We got some opportunities.

Thank you so much. Thank you.

Anybody have any questions for me?

Yes, ma'am. This lot. What are you? Are you putting a want to put a car lot?

It would be a huge car lot. It would be about 30-40 cars, not big, pretty small considering. And I would sell cars, but at the same time, I would be involved in the community heavily.

Thank you.

Yes. All right.

Any more questions for Mr. Vinson?

Thank you so much. Thank you. I appreciate your time.

All right. There will be no more in the citizen remarks. Now we're down to correspondence. Ms. Carter, you want to talk about things on the bank?

Oh, okay.

Sure. Give the good news.

Okay.

Well, thank you. Well, Mayor, just, and we are grateful that this happens, but just as a learning tool, how important it is to stay competitive in your banking practices and what have you. One of the good news. So you guys know that you all approved in March for for us to change bank. We're back in January, but we started the process in March. So I took all of the monies that we had in February and I looked at the interest rate that we had made. in February alone from cadence was seven hundred ninety four dollars and thirteen cents that's roughly interest on about 42 million okay we then in April looked at the interest rate without having all of the monies in Cadence Bank because we kept some money in Cadence so that we could still operate and give everybody chance for checks and everything to go over. But the monies that we did put in First Horizon in one month alone, we had gotten $58,000 in interest. I say that to say if I'm not here in the next four years, Lord, see if you do too. You know, it's just good practices that we make sure that somebody is staying on top of those type of things when you're holding that kind of money in CDs and or all of the other accounts that we have, that we are that we are looking into what best benefits our city in terms of monies and interest, so forth and so on. He was excited about that. So he wanted me to share that. I was excited about that too.

Oh, yeah.

All right.

I'll tell you what I feel good.

I feel good. All right. Where we at on this week tonight?

You got lost.

You got anything?

Congratulations to all our graduates. I know today's one of the intermediate schools that had their graduation. I got to go see Zaria and all the other kids. But we also have the high school graduation this evening. Also, I had a great time going to see several kids. ANNOUNCED THEIR COMMITMENTS TO COLLEGE THIS WEEK AT THE TRACK TEAM. WE GOT TWO TRACK SCHOLARSHIPS. TYREEN, I CAN'T THINK OF THE OTHER Y'ALL LATER NAME, BUT IT'S FORMER OFFICER, RETIRED OFFICER CLARK, GRANDDAUGHTER, GOT A TRACK SCHOLARSHIP TO JACKSON STATE UNIVERSITY. SO WE JUST WANT TO SAY CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL THE HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS AND THE GRADUATES, THE SENIORS. WE JUST CONSIDER JUST PROUD OF YOU. WE LOOK FORWARD TO SUPPORTING YOU, CONTINUING TO SUPPORT THEM, EVEN AS THEY GO BEYOND, ALL RIGHT? I DON'T HAVE ANYTHING ELSE, BUT JOHNSON. Anything? No, sir. Alderman Armstrong.

Yes, Mayor. I just wanted to give a brief update. I had my town hall meeting at Twin Lakes Baptist Church on May 16th. And residents from Ravenwood were concerned about sidewalks along Horn Lake Road and establishing the community center hosting senior citizens. activities and then some of the residents from Twin Lakes they were discussing their concerns about the pavement of Jackson Drive and Cherokee Drive and the culvert that needs to be cleaned at Jackson Drive and then there were some some asking for updates on the lift station that's in Twin Lakes and also light request at Church Road and Tulane, lights on Caroline and replacement lights on Fleetwood and light malfunctionings at Gray Cove and And also special thanks to Alderman McKinney. Thank you for showing up and supporting and being a voice for the city. And thank you, Chief Linville, for the phone call just to see if I needed anything from the fire department. So I really appreciate your support. I do mark this as a success. Having a town hall meeting, I got a chance to speak to some wonderful people across Horn Lake. That's in Ward 6. And the partnership from city and community seems to be building, and there's more connection. So it was a huge success, and I look forward to having many more. So thank you.

You make sure you tell them that the mic problem is going to be solved real soon. They're going around the city. They're going around the city now so they can get there. But just email this to us also.

Did you tell them your order, the order that you're coming in when we get to Ward 6?

I'm sorry?

The order in which you Ward 6 will be emailed you guys out that were last.

Yeah, yeah, yes. Ward 6 is last, yes. Yes, and also. Yes, but thank you.

Good lesson. Yeah, I do.

I also want to comment on the

meeting that was had. It was a great event. I did get a chance to speak to other people as well. And I had some concerns that were a bit different. Some people complained about the dump trucks, like the speed of the dump trucks that's coming up from the XAI or whatever, moving or whatever. But that's a concern. And since we're coming up, 4th of July is another one. about the neighbors, and I know we can't make people follow the rules when it comes to firing fireworks, but the complaint was some of the people were, instead of shooting the fireworks up in the air and letting them pop, they're laying them down and shooting them down the street, which is, of course, dangerous, I'm sure. So that was the complaint, so I just wanted to put those out. But, and if... Any other alderman who wants to use Alderman Armstrong's, you know, the way she did it, it was really nice. She had the food on the grill, people coming in and out because we were at a church that was able to be outside and all that. But if any other alderman would like to do that, I would be glad to come and do all those things and talk to the people. Very nice.

All right. Nice. No, sir. Smith? No, sir. All right. I guess we'll start with you, Dwayne. I'm trying to figure out a good one.

Dwayne, public works? I don't know what I'm talking about right now. Just with the lift station, we had to start up on a near Rose lift station. We had one up on Blue Lake and Shop Top. And we didn't have one on Patricia and Twin Lake, but I'm going to let you talk about that on Patricia.

Did that drainage station get fixed in there with Twin Lake? They're trying to fix it. They got fixed, okay, good. I'll also introduce Mr. Spencer, who's now our new public works director. He's coming to us with a wealth of knowledge, and we're just looking forward to working with you, Mr. Spencer, and thank you so much. And I know Wayne, y'all ready to do this thing. Yes, I'm trying to stay as close to him as possible.

I just want to say thank you so much, and I'll pray to build service always to you and the city and the citizens of Corn Lake and the mayor.

Thank you so much. Thank you, Mr. Spencer. All right, Drew.

Thank you, mayor. Thank you, board. I don't have any names tonight, sir. I can't believe it.

All right.

Alexis, just have a couple of things. Tomorrow I'll be on Channel 3 Live at 9 with River to and then also how people can help with our foster program with the animals in our care. Depending on the weather coming in this weekend, we're supposed to have a adoption event at Hollywood Feed on Saturday the 23rd from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Hollywood Feed in our branch. And then on Monday, the 25th, even though it's Memorial Day, we still will be doing an adoption event at the Club for Fit on Goodman Road from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. And then also, we did just finish out our empty shelter event with Bissell Pet Foundation, in which Bissell covered the adoption fee for two weeks, and we were able to adopt out 26 dogs and cats during that time. That's it.

All right. Thank you. Thank you. I'll be working on Memorial Day. Oh, yeah. Touch the truck from 11 to Saturday at Horn Lake Chick-fil-A.

Yes, sir. There's a difference. Nobody knows better than us. Nobody's chicken better than us. All right. Let's see. Chief Linfield.

where are you going to start at so fire academy for kids you know we're doing it june the um this one here is a team day we had several teams that called and they was just a little older 13 14 15 and wanted to get in mom was wanting me so we're going to do a day from eight till uh 12 on the 17th it's just a one-day class but those kids will use a fire extinguisher they will we're trying to have the the sheriff's department supposed to come and do a thing on gun safety and if we don't get them we're going to reach out to our police but they said they would try to come so we're going to do gun safety with them we're going to do fire extinguisher safety we're going to do firework safety we're going to try to tell those kids to shoot them up in the air don't shoot them at all just come to the park and watch them Is that right? So that's just today. First aid, and we were just going to do that for some of the older kids. We could get them in. It's just a one-day event. Fire station number three. They didn't have it on the flyer. Okay. We'll try to make sure we get that on the website, but it is on the – it'll be a fire station.

Our parents wanted you to give them three, four days of relief just like you gave them other kids.

And then there was something you asked, Mayor, and I was looking. So if you want to do it in June, it'll probably be the second, I mean the 15th or somewhere around that time.

A tabletop.

A tabletop, but it's going to have to work with the board to do that. We could probably, I would recommend if we came in to do a tabletop exercise I was going to give with the county, I'll have to coordinate a day they could come. I don't know that they could do it on the 15th, but if y'all have some dates that you want to try to put together, let me or text me a date. And I'll reach out to them and try to set it up. They were going to come in and kind of throw the tabletop at you. And then we just figure out how we're going to work through it. So it would just take two to three hours, I would say. And they said, if we could come in here at 10 o'clock, 11 o'clock, do it a little bit on the thing. And then I've got a lunch provided, like a box lunch or something. from board up, and then we could finish it up right after lunch, and we would be through. So it wouldn't take but maybe, I'm just estimating two to three hours, no more than three, but probably do it two, but it depends on how big the event you want, but we were just going to try to give you something so you could kind of plan how you want to go and the things you need to do to start getting contracts in place and what they talked about that night. Just dig in a little more, see where we are at. And I even asked Alderman McKenzie here if he wants to pick the ward that this disaster happened in, he gets to pick.

Oh, okay.

All right, all right. You want it in six. Look, she's already picking for you. Okay. We can do it in twin lakes.

All right. All right.

Some of the phones said 740p, and they made me time to go.

That's the new public works director.

He put a time on you. He already put a time on you. All right, Phillip.

Sure, I got it.

Watch your head.

Two projects, or three, real quick. I'm going to keep it three. Hornlight lift station project. Two of the four stations are completed. They've done a startup. Speak up. I want to make sure to hear you online. Two of the four lift stations have been completed. Startup's done. The other two they're working on now and hopefully they can complete that in mid-late June and then site restoration after that will begin. I know There's probably been some sections noting, you know, gravel patches in the road and they're going to come back once they finish all the work. They're going to pave it all in one go so they can get all the pavement repairs at once. Fix any sidewalk, any curb and gutter they tear up. Seed the site and get the grass back ground and restore everything. So that's the lift station project. The street paving project. The city has allocated $3 million to go towards street restoration. We had a positive week last week. We got some data. The road scanning data and the website was having some issues. We had several communications with... software company and meetings and we got all that ironed out in the production sites online. So Chris Howey in our office is busy working and developing a list and importing all that data and figuring out the best way to utilize the $3 million. Hopefully in three or four weeks we can get all that data finessed and have a list for everybody and then have a very simple map that goes along with that it won't be it'll just kind of give you ideas around the city and then kind of iron that out and then four to six weeks we'll have a better detailed map maybe get some feedback and uh we have enough time to do it in this fiscal year i think we can definitely probably get at least I think we can get one bid. We had been separating it into two separate projects, but we may can just combine it all into one so we're not doing two separate bids.

So we can recommit again next year so we keep it going. Because that project was reinstated after we saved that money on the lights. We want to reinstate the street program, which was taken away for the lights. So I want to make sure we see if we get it in this fiscal year.

That's right. And that's why we're a little bit- Right. A little bit more behind than we would have. We got that ball rolling now. Hopefully in a few weeks we'll have a list for everybody to look at. One last quick update. We had a bid opening today for our Horn Lake sidewalk. It will go from Kroger down Horn Lake Road to Brighton. And the sidewalk goes to the next little intersection in Brighton. And the bids came in good for that. We're excited about that. Awesome. Awesome.

Awesome. And we don't, I mean, we're one sidewalk at a time. We're working on it. Can't do all of them all over the city. Can't fix every street by tomorrow. But I tell you what, we're going to work on it. The best way to eat an elephant is one bite at a time.

Thank you, Vincent. Melinda, do you have anything? Phillip.

Oh, Phillip. I call him Vincent. Oh, geez. He's starting to look like him. All right. No, I don't have anything else. All right. Any board members have anything for the directors?

Alright, should turn you have anything I do actually. It's pretty quick. I need to request approval of a notice regarding the trash collection going out on private driveways. In the past, apparently the trash has been collected by the trucks going down the private driveways to these to various citizens homes and I notice needs to go out to them that

Immediately that that would be ending and they would need to bring their trash to the end of the driveway And it's for safety and liability purposes Do you know about how many Residences this is happening for That would be we have two particular.

I'm sorry. Oh

I apologize, whomever can answer. He would be better to answer.

Yeah, we have two particular right now, Ward 6, Ms. Armstrong is aware of. So the garbage trucks, these private roads are so thin that when the trucks drive down them, they end up damaging the driveway. It's not an appropriate cul-de-sac at the end, so they have to back up. And so recently, a someone yard was damaged, and they wanted immediate repairs. So Meridian- actually paid for the repairs, but technically they shouldn't have to because they're not supposed to go down the private roads. So we just requested that those citizens go back to the days when they used to bring them down to the end of the driveway.

Can I say, and to answer your question, so Meridian is compiling a list to see how many residents are actually, in one case, six different private drives to get to one person that they're going through. So they will compile a list and we'll be certain to get that just for the board's information who is actually being affected by that.

This won't affect any of the handicapped people who can't get them down there and stuff.

They usually park on the street, walk up there and get the can and take it and bring it back. Well, they can still request the back door service, correct? And they come in just to pick up.

They'll come in for the backdoor service residents. They'll come in a small pickup, not a big tandem piece of equipment.

I've seen them park, and they walk up there, get the can, bring it down, and they're just not that far.

Yeah, they'll do pickup. They'll do backdoor pickup service.

All right. Any more questions? All right. Can we get a motion? Mayor, I make the motion to that. Motion to approve for the letter to go to citizens with private driveway. A motion made by Alderman Langston. Second. Second made by Alderman Bledsoe. Any discussion? Roll call please, Ms. Carter.

Alderman McKinney.

Aye.

Alderman Bledsoe.

Aye.

Alderwoman Armstrong. Aye. Alderman Smith. Aye. Alderwoman Johnson. Aye. Alderman Langston. Aye. Alderman Bostick. Aye.

Motion passes unanimously. All right. We don't have anything for executive session. We're down to Alderman Smith's favorite part. Anybody like to make a motion to adjourn? I'll make a motion. Alderman Smith, seconded by Alderman Bledsoe. Any discussion? Roll call for you, Ms. Carter. Alderman Bostick. Aye. Alderman Langston. Aye.

Alderman Johnson.

Aye. Alderman Smith. Aye.

Alderman Armstrong, Alderman Bledsoe, Alderman McKinney.

Motion passed unanimously. Now adjourned.