Mayor and Board of Aldermen - Regular Meeting

Welcome everyone. I'm now calling this meeting to order. Please stand with us. We'll be led in prayer by Alderman Gallagher. Please remain standing after that for the pledge of allegiance that will be led by Alderman at large George Payne. Heavenly Father, we're so thankful for the opportunity opportunity to be here again tonight, Lord. Lord, I just want to pray for our soldiers that are uh away from us, Lord Jesus. And just pray for your protection around them, Lord, as they go and uh do their jobs, Lord. Take care of every one of them, Lord. We also pray that you'd be with us during this meeting, Lord. That that you would lead to everything and we would lead nothing. In your name we pray. Amen. Amen. 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.

First on the agenda this evening is the approval of minutes for the March 17, 2026 meeting. So moved. Second. We have a motion by Alderman Hoots. A second by Alderman Payne. Is there any discussion? Hearing none. Roll call. Alderman Payne. Yes. Alderman Lewis. Yes. Alderman Hoots. Yes. Alderman Jerome. Yes. Alderman Gallagher. Yes. Alderman Wheeler. Yes. Alman Flores.

Yes. That motion carries. Next on our agenda are parks contracts with Rose Calac and Midsouth Sports Productions. Yes, mayor board. These contracts with Rose Kalisac and Midsouth Productions or Sports Productions are renewal contracts that we have for our parks department. The first contract with Rose Calisac is for a term through December 31st, 2029. And it's for the facilitation and assistance for riding the softball tournaments in Greenbrook. She'll provide eight tournaments um with two additional softball tournaments. She uh won't be or Calac won't be responsible for concessions and gift shops and maintenance. that'll be a city function. Um it'll have the 30-day termination for convenience clause. The second contract is al or is with Midsouth Sports Production. Um it expires December 31st, 2029 as well. Um that contract will be for the tournaments of Snowden. Um same terms as our previous contracts. These will just renew the contracts for additional uh three and a half years um as presented and set forth in the contracts for your approval.

Mr. I'll make that motion. I'll second. We have a motion Payne, second Water Alderman Lewis. Is there any discussion? And again, it's my understanding that this is an extension. There's no material changes to the to the agreement. Correct. There's no uh material changes, no substantive changes. It's just the dates. Any other discussion? Hearing none. Roll call. Alderman Payne. Yes. Alderman Lewis. Yes. Alderman Hoots. Yes. Alderman Jerome. Yes. Alderman Gallagher. Yes. Wheeler. Flores. Yes. That motion carries. Next on our agenda is a letter of no objection to Texas Gas.

This a letter of no objection needs approval for Dylan Brink to sign. This will be authorizing the city to construct a fence on the city's property near the city hall. uh that'll uh be somewhat over uh different areas of the Texas Gas easement for the gas line. Um Dylan has met with the Texas Gas representatives um so they are comfortable with the terms of the actual no objection. This will give us authorization to uh construct the fence along with being on their easement and the rights they have with the fence over the easement. But we need this to be signed by Dylan so it can be filed to Chancellor Clark's office with no objection so we can construct the fence set forth in the agreement. Make that motion.

Second. We have a motion by Alderman Gallagher, second by Alderman Wheeler. Is there any discussion? Hearing none. Roll call, please. Alderman Payne, yes. Alderman Lewis, yes. Alderman Hoots, yes. Alderman Jerome, yes. Alderman Gallagher, yes. Wheeler, yes. Arman Flores,

yes. That motion carries. Next on our agenda is a resolution for emergency utilities repair. This resolution just ratifies the expenditure in the amount of $5,120 uh associated with emergency repairs um for the emergency line boore at Debbie Drive and Donna Cove was done by CV Construction LLC. Just need authorization to approve the expenditure since it was over 5,000 and needed to be done in order to ensure uh utility services for that area. So moved. Second. We have a motion Payne, second Alderman Hoots. Is there any discussion? Hearing none. Roll call. Alderman Payne. Yes. Alderman Lewis. Yes. Alderman Hoo. Yes. Alderman Jerome. Yes. Alderman Gallagher. Yes.

Alderman Wheeler. Yes. Arman Flores. Yes. That motion carries. Next on our agenda is the ratification of an emergency contract for a rental generator. Yeah. This contract is still on an emergency basis for the rental agreement um for the emergency generator with Thompson. Um our gener or the city hall generator is due is out of service and it's due to a bad alternator. Um so this generator is needed as a backup um in the event we lose power at city hall. So tonight just need authorization for the ratification of this contract until such time that generator can be located so the city halls ensures that it has power. So move second.

We have a motion hoot second Jerome. Is there any discussion hearing? None. Roll call. Alderman Payne, yes. Alderman Lewis, yes. Alderman Hoots, yes. Alderman Jerome, yes. Alderman Gallagher, yes. Alman Wheeler, yes. Arman Flores, yes. That motion carries. Next on our agenda is a community bank easement.

Yeah, this easement uh we previously had an easement, the city had an easement from community bank um for the utility relocation on Goodman Road. Um once the design or once the construction started along with the actual asbuilts for the um location of the utility line, it was noted that the easement could um be relocated and somewhat u decreased. Um community bank has agreed to abandon the previous easement and allow us just to have this easement. So it's uh will fit the needs for the utility line relocation which is required for the I55 widening but also allows us for less space to maintain upon completion of the project. Uh so tonight just need authorization for the mayor to sign the um community of the revised easement which uh lets releases the old easement and also or extinguishes the old easement but also um gives us the easement that's needed for the actual line relocation.

Motion second. We have a motion by Alderman Wheeler, second by Alderman Payne. Is there any discussion hearing? None. Roll call. Alderman Payne. Yes. Alderman Lewis. Yes. Alderman H. Yes. Alderman Jerome. Yes. Alderman Gallagher. Yes. Alderman Wheeler. Yes. Alderman Flores. Yes. That motion carries. Next on our agenda is a uh court department contract with TransUnion.

Yeah. This contract with TransUnion. It will help the court department. It's a extend a renewal of the existing contract. Um so the terms are still relevant to the city from the standpoint of Mississippi law. Um, it helps, it provides cloud-based software for the court to use for those defendants who don't appear. Um, that allows us to the city to have uh 500 transactions per month. It's for a three-year contract and the fee is $230 per month, which is an increase of from 185 to 190, I think the previous contract. Um, since it isn't locked in for three years though, there is a um discount given for the overall term. So tonight you need authorization for Thomas Masten to sign this agreement with TransUnion so they continue to use this uh software to help locate those dependents who don't appear in court.

So move second. We have a motion H. Second Alderman Jerome. Is there any discussion hearing? None. Roll call. Alderman Payne. Yes. Alderman Lewis. Yes. Alderman Hoots. Yes. Alderman Jerome. Yes. Alderman Gallagher. Yes. Alderman Wheeler. Yes. Yes, that motion carries. Next on our agenda is uh a contract with Civic Plus for IT department.

This contract with CIT department will help continue and uh monitor or help continuous monitoring for the ADA compliancy which is required under the American Disabilities Act. So this uh contract will ensure that the website and the materials on the website are compliant mainly by allowing PDF um to be turned into speech in some areas so that those can be read or interpreted by people who may not be able to see those. So tonight need authorization um for the contract to be signed. The first year cost is $17,73 and then subsequent years will be um added as well. The audio is included also in the first year at a 25% discount. Um, and then the dock access includes a 50% discount for the first year as well to need authorization from Michael Norris to sign this contract um to allow for the continuing monitoring of our ADA which is required by the city as a governmental entity that we're in compliance with. Um, so that's uh what the city plus contract will do and authorization is needed for signature.

I'll make the motion. Second. We have a motion Payne, second Jerome. Is there any discussion? One thing I was just going to note for the minutes is software is ancillary to the service and that's why it's used as a professional service contract as opposed to a commodity. That would just be reflected in the minutes. Any discussion hearing? None. Roll call. Alderman Payne. Yes. Alderman Lewis. Yes. Alderman Hoots. Yes. Alderman Jerome. Yes. Alderman Gallagher. Yes. Alman Wheeler. Yes. Arman Flores. Yes. That motion carries. Next on our agenda is a resolution for a sponsorship for the DInnesota County Economic Development Council.

And this resolution would just authorize a sponsorship economic council and it slute industry. So move second. We have a motion. Alderman Hoot, second Alderman Payne. Is there any discussion? Hearing none. Roll call. Alderman Payne. Yes. Alderman Lewis. Yes. Alderman Hoot. Yes. Alderman Jerome. Yes. Alderman Gallagher. Yes. Orderman Wheeler? Yes. Orderman Flores? Yes. That motion carries. Next on our agenda is a resolution for police department surplus property.

Yeah, this resolution actually has two different categories for surplus. One is the category for equipment that was or vehicles by the previously purchased by the city and the other category is those that were forfeited to the city through the circuit court process under with the DA's office. So tonight need authorization for both surpluses as set forth in the resolution in accordance with Mississippi code 172525. So move. Second. We have a motion by Alderman Hoot, second by Alderman Lewis. Is there any discussion? Hearing none. Roll call, please. Alderman Payne, yes. Alderman Lewis, yes. Alderman Hoots, yes. Alderman Jerome, yes. Alderman Gallagher, yes. Alman Wheeler, yes. Alman Flores, yes.

That motion carries.

Next on our agenda is a final change order for the nail road extension project. This is just a final change order to reflect the quantities and qual or the quantities for the products needed. Um the change order will close out the project and in the amount of 11,96934 increase. It is with AUF. So this final change order has been signed by AUF and recommended by civil link. So tonight need authorization for the change final change order due to the materials adjustment in the amount of $1,969.34. that's within the budget and that's 3% of the project cost. But since it's we just want to go it had to come back in front of the board since it is a final change order even though it's under 1%.

So we have a motion by a wheeler. Is there a second? Second. Second by alderman Lewis. Any discussion? Hearing none. Roll call, please. Alderman Payne, yes. Alderman Lewis, yes. Alderman Huth, yes. Alderman Jerome, yes. Alderman Gallagher. Yes. Arman Wheeler. Yes. Artman Flores. Yes. That motion carries. Next on our agenda is a resolution to clean private property. Mr. Mayor, I move we adopt a resolution granting authority to clean private property as presented on the stand. Second.

We have a motion Payne. Second Alderman Hoots. Is there any discussion among the board hearing? None. Is there anyone in the audience who has a financial interest in any of the properties who would like to speak? Hearing or seeing none, roll call, please. Alderman Payne, yes. Alderman Lewis, yes. Alderman Hoot, yes. Alderman Jerome, yes. Alderman Gallagher, yes. Arman Wheeler, yes. Flores, yes. That motion carries. Next on our agenda is our planning agenda. Miss Whitney Cook.

Yes, sir. So, our first application we've got is a subdivision application. Um, this is uh a loc it's 1.381 acres of agricultural property and it's located at 7381 Gwell Road. It's going to be on the northwest corner of Mayan Drive and Getwell. Uh, currently there's two houses on it. They've both been addressed uh through E911 for some time. We had somebody come in and purchase them. They're wanting to renovate them. If you've noticed, the first one up against Gatwell has been highly renovated. Looks great. They're in the process of cleaning the secondary one. However, they want the ability to sell them, flip them uh after the fact. So, right now, they're under one ownership under one lot. Per agricultural ordinance, it says that each lot must be an acre piece. Um however they requested a variance to this under their subdivision application based on the fact that uh there were two separate addresses on it. Um so what they proposed is that lot one would have 7.73 acres and that would be the one directly um associated with direct access on Gwell Road. Uh the second one would be the one in the rear. It would be a halfacre, a little more than a half acre and it would u be accessed by Maymand Drive which is a recorded ingress egress uh that's 30 foot wide that's already on the property. Um, again, although it doesn't meet all the qualifications under a minor subdivision and under agricultural zoning, uh, we feel that it's already been in place. The address is already there. They're already living quarters to two separate families. Uh, and this is basically just cleaning up the title. So, it was approved unanimously by the planning uh, by the planning commission.

Mr. May, I make a motion we approve item number one. Second. On item one, we have a motion by Alderman Wheeler, second by Alderman Lewis. Is there any discussion? Hearing none, roll call. Alderman Payne, yes. Alderman Lewis, yes. Alderman Hoots, yes. Alderman Jerome, yes. Alderman Gallagher, yes. Arman Wheeler, yes. Arman Flores, yes. That motion carries.

So, our second application, uh, if you will recall, when Silo Square PUD was approved back in 2018, I believe there were two points that were um, for hotel use. One was going to be on the north end where you have the Hampton in suites, I'm sorry, the Fairfield in suites. Now, uh we also had another lot located on the south end, uh south of the silo itself, which you'll see highlighted right there in the blue. Uh that was an approved lot for a hotel as well. What you have in front of you tonight is the design review for that site. Uh it is a three-story hotel. It's uh branded for the home two suites. Um you'll have the elevations, the phototrics, and the landscape design associated with it uh in your package. Basically, not to say that it's it's not exactly like the other one, but it mimics that design. It has um three types of brick. It has some break up of the brick with some paint. It has pyaster columns. Uh very attractive building. Uh they did have some minimal landscaping. We had them adjust that. Uh the photometrics did match everything that we already had in place for Silo Square. Uh and not associated with this um application was the site plan. Um there is a site layout with the landscape here. We did ask them to reduce the points of access around the roundabout there. If you'll see there's two right there. We felt like that was way too close proximity to each other. It was going to cause some emergency vehicle access. So, we're actually having to merge those two and keeping the two on Silai Square lane south over to the west. They agreed to all of that. Uh they've also agreed to beef up the landscaping for our request and we had no comments regarding the elevations. Um after that discussion uh and everything was agreed upon, it was voted unanimously in favor of by the planning commission. Mr. Mayor, I make a recommendation that we approve item number two on the planning agenda as presented tonight.

Second. On item two, we have a a motion of Alderman Flores, second by Alderman Payne. Is there any discussion? Hearing none. Roll call. Alderman Payne, yes. Alderman Lewis, yes. Alderman Hoots, yes. Alderman Jerome, yes. Alderman Gallagher, yes. Alman Wheeler, Flores, yes. That motion carries.

And my apologies, I did get uh with the mayor's office earlier today. We had the chancery clerk's office contact us. We have an overlap of two subdivisions that have been platted and recorded down there in the county. Um the angels subdivision uh specifically lot two is going to be on the north side of Goodman Road just east of Elmore where the car wash is. Uh you're familiar with that area where the new car wash is. Uh those lots are vacant. They have not been built on. Um, fast forward to last year, we did approve a PUD on that called Centerbrook, which did have some residential homes coming out from the Cove in Greenbrook, if you'll reme remember that. Those lots were actually on lot two of this subdivision. So, we went to record that this lot had not been vacated from the commercial subdivision to allow the residential to be recorded. Uh, it was missed by our office. It was missed by the chancer clerk's office and they've asked us to clean that up. So, the request tonight is just uh to approve the vacate of lot two of Angel subdivision so that we can clean up title and get the recorded residential portion on the votes.

Mr. Mayor, I will uh make the recommendation to approve item number three on the planning agenda. Second. On item three, we have a motion by Alderman Jerome and second by Alderman Hoots. Is there any discussion? Hearing none. Roll call. Alderman Payne? Yes. Alderman Lewis? Yes. Alderman H? Yes. Alderman Jerome. Yes. Alderman Gallagher. Yes. Ardman Wheeler. Yes. Arman Flores. Yes. That's it. That motion carries.

Next on our agenda is our mayor's report. Just a few uh updates for everyone. Uh we had a long had three weeks since our last meeting. And after that last meeting, we did uh attend um the congressional briefing trip in Washington DC. Uh, Alderman Payne was with us, Alderman Flores, and uh, we had a good report. We had plenty good visit with uh, Senators uh, Cindy Hyde Smith and Roger Wicker, uh, Trent Kelly. So, uh, this time the schedule, their schedules allowed us to, uh, to spend plenty of time with them and and really, you know, share the, uh, the needs that we have in Dninnesota County and specifically South Haven. And I felt like they were very receptive. It was a very productive trip. Uh we focused on uh one of the biggest issues uh glaring at us is the uh DURA sewer issue. Uh the disconnect from Memphis. Uh clock is ticking. We got till 2031 to get disconnected from Memphis. Uh money is the issue. So we're seeking federal funding and state funding. And so we um pretty much got a commitment from them to look at all the uh programs with the federal government that are available for utilities and to help us. So, we we're hoping to uh secure some money with that and get a solution going with that. Also, uh just a legislative update for the state of Mississippi. Y'all know the session just ended uh last week. Uh it was a very interesting uh session to say the least. Um I think we say this about this time every year. Uh but this year, there were some very interesting pieces of legislation that were floated around. Some of those were very harmful for the cities in Mississippi. And so, uh, we joined hands with, uh, some of the other cities all throughout the state and came together and fought some of this bad legislation in the report tonight as we were very successful in this. And so, I'm just going to just kind of recap some of them real quickly.

So, all these uh, things were uh, either passed or stopped. So, the first thing, as y'all know, uh the tourism tax bill, the restaurant tax that we've used to fund the tremendous park enhancements over the years in South Haven, uh that was extended. So, every four years the state legislature has to uh remove the repeal date and extend that. So, we successfully got that done again. So, very grateful for our DInnesota County legislators for all their hard work with that. Um municipal jail fees. Uh there was a bill and many of you I don't I can't remember if we've really discussed this a lot in public but um currently the u county jail uh the cities pay a jail fee. So when there's a prisoner uh that's taken there we pay a certain fee u there's to say the least there's some differences in opinion and philosophy whether we should be charged a fee at all. Uh because as y'all know the people the taxpayers who live in the cities in Dninnesota County are also county taxpayers. So if you live inside a city you do not get a discount on your county taxes. So you pay the same county tax rate as anyone that lives in unincorporated part of the county as well. So the stance that I've always taken when this was first brought to my attention is if we're a county taxpayer did we not in the cities do we not also pay for the jail? and so why are we having to pay a fee for the jail? So, I've always disagreed with that. Uh but just to, you know, kind of make the piece and get along, you know, we kind of, you know, give and take with that. Well, this past session, uh, the counties throughout the state of Mississippi were seeking legislation that would remove a cap on what the daily fees are. And so, um, as you can imagine, if you didn't agree with the fee in the first place, you certainly don't agree with an increase in the fee. And so, um, I wasn't the only mayor who strongly disagreed with that. And so, we had other mayors, uh, that united

throughout the the state and, uh, got our point across and that bill stopped. So, that's that's a good news. And the message to anybody who's watching that, we will fight that again. Uh, it's wrong. It's principally wrong. It's not fair to your taxpayers that live in cities. Uh, no one is doubting that you have an increase in prisoner cost when we set the budget in South Haven and everybody else does. we face inflation, things go up and so what we do is we consider that when we set the budget and then ultimately all the taxpayers, you know, pay the revenue for the budget. Well, it should work the same way in the county. If you have higher prisoner costs, that should be spread among everyone in the county. You shouldn't give that burden just to the taxpayers that are in your cities. And if and I'll debate that with anybody that makes no sense at all. So, long way to say it. Uh we're going to be ready to fight that again if it comes up again next year because it's principally wrong. Uh but a success this time. HB1664 was a bill that was introduced that would take away city's authority with their streets. Uh many of you and many of the citizens who are watching will tell you that uh telecommunications companies have destroyed their properties and left them. And so I can assure you that when that happens that that lands on my desk. And so we've had numerous meetings uh with these telecommunications companies to remind them that they're going to be cautious. They're not going to knock out power lines and other utility lines, which they have done. Uh we have many many citizens now who work from home. So if they're um being careless, their contractors are being careless and they knock out the power, that person is out of they have no computer and they're out of work until it's restored. So it's a major problem with this bill was to take a lot of that authority away from cities. And so again along with the rest of the mayors uh and Mississippi Municipal League, we fought that got some amendments done to a satisfactory uh level. So that was a victory as well.

HB 4045 is a bill that would put a uh taxable value cap on economic developments uh at the local level. So what that means is if you have an economic development that exceeds $2 billion uh that the state would recapture that money that normally goes to the local government. When I say local, I'm not just talking about the cities. I'm talking about the county and your school system. So, when we all celebrate a big economic development, and y'all know in 2026 that we announced the largest economic development in Mississippi history coming to South Haven. Well, this bill would remove that money from your school system or the majority of that money and let and take it back to the state. Well, that's the most socialistic piece of legislation in the history of the Republican party. uh we fought that and we were successful. So that was killed. Uh but you can bet that it's going to come up again. So if I would encourage everyone to pay close attention to that because again that's principally wrong. Um well there was an annexation bill that was floated that would require a mandatory referendum by the citizens who are being annexed. And let me just tell you this, there have been numerous annexations in the state of Mississippi. Uh numerous annexations in South Haven. Uh, the subdivision where I live was annexed in 2009 and if you gave me a chance to vote, I would have voted no and I wouldn't be your mayor right now. Not that that matters, but the point is nobody votes. If you're getting free services from the city and you live just outside the city, you're not going to vote to pay more taxes. No sensible person would. And so the bill makes no sense. The current system works as it is. You have a court system that uh considers all the facts of an annexation. Every annexation request is not granted. Uh the cities have to show that they have the ability to improve the services to the people who are being annexed or else the annexation is denied. So the system is working great right now and so that was a bad bill and

that bill was killed this session. Good news, DRUA that as we mentioned earlier received $10 million from the state of Mississippi. So, I thank the state I think our local delegation for fighting for that to help us get $10 million. Uh, the only problem with that is we've secured roughly 30 $40 million and it's a $260 million problem. So, we still got a lot of meat on the bone. Got a lot of work to do. Um y'all y'all heard me in these public meetings talk about a situation uh that I discovered in 2024 while reviewing uh the sales tax re diversion every month. I noticed in mid 2024 that something was wrong with our diversion. So we softly started uh finance director at the time reached out to the department of revenue started bringing that to their attention and um then eventually I get involved and explain to them that there is an error. Well as we start asking questions and requesting and start requesting an auditing process. We learn that the way the department of revenue tracks diversions is antiquated to say the least. Uh there is actually an Excel spreadsheet. Uh that is your only way that they know what city a business is located in. Well, technology, as y'all know, is um you know, grown by leaps and bounds. There's technology now when you put in an address, it immediately u floods uh the other information, tells you who lives there, what city you're in. Uh that's that would be the easy solution to making sure this never happens before. But at the end of the day, what I discovered, not only were we not getting proper diversion from a large uh uh one of the largest businesses in this city, I found 65 other businesses in the city of South Haven that were not getting sales tax diversion from the state. So the what that means, the state was keeping our money. And so there's a limit. They only go back three years for that, but they

did go back and they did correct the problem. $2.3 million problem for for South. So we did get that money back. And so I promised the Department of Revenue in 2024 that I would help them. And so I did. In 2025, um, uh, Representative Rodney Hall, uh, agreed to author legislation to do a study to, um, to get in and find out the things that need to happen, uh, to eliminate these mistakes that obviously if it affected South Haven, it affected cities all over the state. And so that bill was passed. That's a big thing. So now there'll be a study committee. Uh hopefully I will be on that and uh we want to study that and bring in new software to make sure this never happens to any other city in Mississippi again. Again, speaking of um uh Representative Rodney Hall, want to credit him uh with his efforts for the West End redevelopment. he went to work for us and uh and and along with our other uh delegation, we were able to receive 750,000 to be applied to our original business district in the West End and we will use that money very wisely. Um the only thing that was not passed and it's my understanding that it kind of got grouped in with the school choice bill, as y'all know, if you followed it, that was the the number one uh most heated topic of discussion. And so the other education bills kind of fell because of that. U but we have a bill and Ottoman Hoots, you were the one that initially uh suggested this and I and I it was a great idea and we've taken that uh baton and ran with it and uh really pressed to have uh auto registration as a mandate, not an option, but a mandate for school residency proof. And so there's been a lot of work done on that and we think it's going to get passed, but like I said, it was a it was a casualty to the other education bills this time, but we'll stay on that. And as you know, and we all know, we have a problem uh with

two things. We have a problem with people that uh that are coming to get in our schools that don't live here. Uh they're not taxpaying citizens and everybody's welcome here, but you should fairly pay taxes like everybody else and truly live in Dninnesota County if you're going to go to Dninnesota County schools. The other thing that's happening is you have uh students who are escaping uh some of the uh troubled neighborhoods of Memphis, Tennessee. Uh and they're coming down here to schools in Dninnesota County and they're bringing their problems with them. Uh there's a lot of gang activity obviously in in Memphis and so some of that is leaking into our schools. So this bill will help us combat that as well. And in fact, that's the most critical issue and we'll we'll stay on that and get that try to get that approved at the next session. But that's it. Just wanted everybody to know that there was a has been a whole lot of activity going on from a legislative standpoint over the last few months and overall we came out well. So again, I thank our delegation for all the hard work. Uh last thing to update um tonight is uh we are ready uh we've been talking about the um Starlanding Sweeney roundabout. We are ready to uh uh to go to bid on that. So we need need a motion to authorize that to go to bid.

I'll make that motion. Second. We got a motion by Alderman Gallagher, second by Alderman Wheeler. Is there any discussion? Hearing none. Roll call, please. Alderman Payne, yes. Alderman Lewis, yes. Alderman Hoot, yes. Alderman Jerome, yes. Alderman Gallagher, yes. Alman Wheeler, yes. Alman Flores, yes. Okay, that motion carries. Next on our agenda, uh, is a donation docket. Mr. Mayor, I approve uh I move we adopt the donation docket and approve the donations by Lucky Dog, Castle Retail, and by Lucky Dog and Castle Retail Group to the animal shelter. All of them are to the animal shelter, right? Yes. Yeah. I'll second that.

Okay. Have a motion Payne, second by Alderman Jerome. Is there any discussion? Thank you for the donations. Certainly. If there's no other discussion, roll call, please. Alderman Payne. Yes. Alderman Lewis. Yes. Alderman who? Yes. Alderman Jerome. Yes. Alderman Gallagher. Yes. Wheeler. Yes. Flores. Yes. That motion carries. Next on our agenda is our um personnel docket. Mr. Mayor, move we approve the personnel docket as presented. Second. We have a motion by Alderman Payne, second by Alderman Hoots. Is there any discussion? Hearing none. Roll call. Alderman Payne? Yes. Alderman Lewis? Yes. Alderman Hoots? Yes. Artman Jerome. Yes.

Artman Gallagher. Yes. Arman Wheeler. Yes. Artman Flores. Yes. The media media is in the back of the room, sir. Excuse me. Would you Where where are we again? Oh, motion pass. Motion pass. Okay. So, that motion motion carries there. Next on our agenda is our city attorney's legal update. On the agenda. Okay. So, we'll keep moving. Next on our agenda is our utilities billing leak adjustment docket. Mr. Mayor, I move we approve the utility bill leak adjustment docket as presented. I second. We have a motion by Alderman Payne, second by Alderman Lewis. Is there any discussion? Hearing none. Roll call. Alderman Payne?

Yes. Alderman Lewis? Yes. Alderman who? Yes. Alderman Jerome, yes. Alderman Gallagher, yes. Arman Wheeler, yes. Alman Flores, yes. That motion carries. Next on our agenda is one claims docket. Mr. Mayor, I move we approve the claims docket in the amount of $2,829,59064 cents including demand checks. Second. We have a motion. Alderman Payne, second Lewis. Is there any discussion? Hearing none. Roll call. Alderman Payne. Yes. Alderman Lewis? Yes. Alderman Hoots? Yes. Alderman Jerome? Yes. Alderman Gallagher? Yes. Alman Wheeler? Yes. Arman Flores?

Yes. That motion carries. Next on our agenda is the purpose of determining the need for executive session. I'll make that motion. Second. We have a motion Gallagher. Second byman Hoots. All in favor say I. Any oppose say no. Eyes have it. Motion carries. The needs this evening are claims and litigation against utilities and the fire department, economic development within the city, fire personnel and interdep departmental personnel with no action. Is there now a motion to declare executive session? So move second. We have a motion by Alderman Hoot, second Alderman Jerome. All in favor say I. I. Any

oppose say no. Eyes have it. Motion carries. The mayor and board will now enter executive session.