City Council - Regular Meeting

March 10th, 2026. Present for the committee are Jules Green, Councilman Fowler, and Councilman Gary Johnson. Footnote: Alexandria City Council meetings and council committee meetings are broadcast live and may be viewed by may be viewed live by the public on Optimum Channel 4. A rebroadcast may be viewed on Optimum C channel 4 and the city of Alexandria website www.c cityoflexandria.com. Our agenda item calls for to hear from David Manning, president of the Alexandria Historical and Geological Library and Museum. Okay. Hello, I'm David Manning.

Good afternoon. I

I live at 5408 Random Drive here in Alexandria. I'm president of the Alexander Historical and Genological Library and Museum at 503 Washington Street. Now, this is a city building. Th uh this library is started by an act of Alexandria city government and the Alexandria and the Alexent Genealogy Library opened its doors in 1908. This is a Carnegie library where the Carnegie Foundation and the local businesses businessman Simpson Shepard Bryan put up equal amounts of money to build that building. When the parish library opened its doors on Fifth Street across Street from the from the city library, all the books and things moved to the from there to the parish library. A few years this building was used for city offices. In 1976, a group from here raised money to have this building uh refurbished and opened the Alexander Historical and Genological Library Museum as a ben bicesentennial project. At the time the library contained a small libraries from the D, the S and some of other groups with a few other books and artifacts. In the early 2000s, J Krower had a dream and she refurbished the downstairs and opened up the museum part of the library. A few years ago, we purchased the old Shallow Church building at the corner of Washington and Martin Luther King Boulevard. At this time, we have put a

proper roof on the building and have it rot watertight. Our library today has over 16,000 books, over 6,000 rows of microfilm, over nine filing cabinets full of surname files, five filing cabinets with other collections, many three- ring binders donated to us by genealogologists throughout this area, even some from New Orleans. Uh we have trained genealogologists there. I am one of them. Patricia Boon is another one. Uh Patricia Boon has quite a bit of formal study in African-American research. This is research after before 1864. I have been a volunteer at this library since 1991 and glad to report that we have no payroll and no debt.

I'm here to thank the city of Alexandria for making Alexandria's Carnegie Library possible and invite all of you and everybody here to come visit this library. It will surprise you. Now, as the country, the city is celebrating the 250th year anniversary of our country. The Alexander Historical General Ox Library and Museum is celebrating 50 years in existence. And I'll celebrate this with a statement of where were your ancestors in 1776? And we have st staff to help you find this. So I will personally invite all the city council and everybody here come visit the biggest secret in el in Alexander, Louisiana. Okay.

Thank you. Thank you. Now do you have any questions you would like to ask me? We have to set appointment. No. No appointment. Just we're open 10 to 4 Tuesday through Saturday. 10 to 4. 10 to 4. And that was Tuesday through Saturday. Tuesday through Saturday. All right. You had mentioned Miss Ted Crower and her husband worked together at that library for years and years and years. They were them uh Tiny and her Henderson and her husband and her mother. And there there's a group of others. I I I knew all them. Oh, yeah.

And I, like I said, I've been with them since 91. Every What happened is everybody died, left me in charge. So, uh, thank y'all for Mr. Manny. Mr. Manny.

Yes, sir. Uh, I heard y'all purchased the Shallow Church there on U Washington Street and y'all have done a great job thus far with it. I have family connections with that church goes back with the Hobby family, the Perry family and uh it looks good. I'm glad it was able to be salvaged because that was a beautiful it is a beautiful church and is historic. It historic value truly stands out and again I thank you all for going forward with that.

Uh the church building what a lot of people don't know is is period with Alexandria City Library and the Bentley Hotel. They were all built in the same time period. So we are happy and hope and still trying our best to get it to where we can get it where we can open it up as our museum. Outstanding. Thank you again, Mr. Manning. Yes. Where do you where do you all get um your donations or your funds from to um keep this running the way that you do?

We are run 100% on donations. We charge 15 cents a copy which probably does not pay our costs for uh the copy machine. Now we are able to operate because of y'all. Okay, this is my thank you for you because you know this is a city building. Uh you do pay our utilities and maintenance and uh we are trying our best to become an archive.

Good. Good. Well, I thank you. We played phone tag for a long time, you and I. But I want to thank you for um that presentation that just did because I didn't know a whole lot about it, but I'm definitely going to come visit it.

Come come visit us. Now, I tell you, we are a working library. We're trying to grow. We operated by volunteer. You may see us little bit messy there and all, but come visit us and see what we have. Uh we we think we have a library, one of the best libraries in Louisiana and for for historical research. Uh I know we've had Vanity Fair come in here from New York doing research on Pathy uh of 12 years a slave. Mhm. We have an article she wrote that did appear in the Vanity Fair and we have other authors coming through researching to write history.

Okay. I have a question. Um I know that Alexandria in its history had a big fire that um destroyed a lot of records. Um, do do you could you speak do you is does your does the genealological library kind of have some archives and things that uh predates that? The as a genealogologist I will tell you that the Civil War destroyed city and parish records.

It did not destroy federal records. Uh we are finding things all the time that uh Michael Hilton in Shreport is writing a bunch of history for this area. He's from this area originally from federal and uh state supreme court records. So we're getting a few I have got a few deeds. We have a few deeds that go back but uh we cannot re reproduce parish records or city records but we are getting access to more and more state and federal records. Okay.

All right. That's great. Thank you for presenting and you know it's has such a folksy homegrown feel about about it. So I thank you for keeping it going and hopefully there's some younger people that can be trained up and have some interest. We're trying to train a few. Uh how about how far can you go back? Do you have all the micro film everything is that like old town talks? I went back in this library to 1623 in the New Netherlands to my ancestor. Okay. Wow.

So we're not just this area. We through our uh some computer programs and all we are affiliated with affiliated library with family search that is the church of Jesus Christ latter-day saints library in Salt Lake.

So we get access to a lot of those you can't get at home. And also I I will say that if you're African-American and your parents were were slaves, it gets harder after 1864. But like I say, we have Patricia Boone that has spent a lot of money on classes and training to be able to know what records to go to. And if you have parish records exist, you can go back. It's a struggle. It's It's going to be hard. I'm not going to lie about that, but we have people that are doing it. Is Miss Boon there every day or I mean Tuesday through Saturday?

Tuesday through Saturday 10 to 4. I'm I'm usually there Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. And Patricia Boone is there Friday and Saturday usually. Now, one of us tries to be there. We do have other volunteers that are there. So, but we both are there to help individuals and we do this free of charge. We operated as a free Carnegie library like it started off. Did I answer your question there? Yes, sir. You did. Okay. I'll say one thing. If you've never been, it's very worth going. Buddy,

the amount of information that's available, the stuff they have on display is amazing. Very I I've been there since 91. I'm still finding things that I didn't know were there. Okay, Miss Manny, thank you for your presentation. We appreciate you greatly.

With that, that con concludes this this committee. I don't think sir really wants to talk to you. the last city. Okay. All right.

The Alexandria City Council meeting is called to order Tuesday, March 10th, 2026 in the city council's chamber. We call to order. Alexandria City Council meeting and council committee meetings are broadcast live and may be viewed live by the public on Optum Cable channel 4. A rebroadcast may be viewed on Optum cable channel 4 in the city of Alexandria, Louisiana website. We're going to have invocation by Councilman Green and the pledge allegiance by um Councilman Lord. Father God, as we come once more, thank you for this day. Father God, we ask that you blend our minds, our hearts to the betterment of this city, this parish, this nation. These in your son we name we ask. Amen.

Amen. Please 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. We have roll call please. Mr. Johnson here. Miss Felter here. Mr. Green present. Mr. Fowler here. Mr. Yes. Mr. Lariday here. Miss Perry here. Do you have a Madam President? You have a quorum. Approval of amendments taken from our regular meeting held on February 24th. The motion please. The second. Second.

Motion by Councilman Fowler. Second by Councilman Bord. Public comments. What section of the written minutes would you like to make a comment on? If it is not in the written minutes, there will not be any discussion or comments, only on the minutes only. If you have any questions pertaining to any items on the agenda, please contact administration before or after the meeting. Discussion. Mr. White.

Yes, ma'am. Thank you, Madam President. Tell everybody my name is Mr. Cornelius Lawson White Jr. I live at 363810th Street in Alexandria, Louisiana. My zip is 71302. My phone number is area code 318-4466934. Um, the only problem I have, Miss, uh, Madame President, I know you said the minutes, but a friend of mine's son got shot and nobody's reported this. I want to talk about this. We need to talk about this. Mr. Be too many shooting. Mr. White, this is not

I know. I know. Let me let me let me be clear here, Mr. like because you have a great understanding and I respect you for that. But nobody knows about this. Okay. But they had to rush in New Orleans. I don't want to have them escort you out. I don't want you to be upset. Yes, sir. But this is not the time nor the place. So if you don't have anything to say on the minutes, I'll please ask you to take your seat. Okay. Respectfully. Yes, ma'am. Respectfully. Can I've been asking you for a vote from each councilman so that we can have freedom of speech. I've been asking for that for for that has nothing to do with the minutes.

No, I'm just saying can we get at least a vote on that because we used to have freedom of speech. I can talk to them individually but other than that if they say yes, yes. If they say no, no. But it would be nice. We we we just like saying we're celebrating our 250 anniversary about freedom. Mr. White, I understand madam. Thank you. I don't want to get beat down and

and I don't want you to get beat down and I do ask that you stop saying that every time you attend the meeting. You didn't get beat down and we're not going. Have a seat. MIGHT HAVE A SEAT, MR. WHITE. Have a seat. Have a seat. All in favor? Any opposed? Motion carried.

F. Consent calendar number one, introduction of an ordinance revising section 26-11 of the city of Alexandria Municipal Code with respect to the termination of utility services during extreme weather conditions. Number two, introduction of an ordinance authorizing the mayor to accept the proposal received from Clean Harbor Environmental Solutions Inc. for household hazardous waste services. Number three, introduction of an ordinance authorizing the retirement of one police K9 Maddock and authorizing this dog as surplus property to be do donated to Sergeant Darren Luno and other matters respect there too. Number four, introduction of an ordinance authorizing the mayor to enter into a corporate endeavor agreement with Christ Chris Christini Foundation to co-sponsor the 2026 Walmart CMN golf tournament schedule for May 2026 at links on the Bayou Benefit Children's Miracle Network. Number five, um, Madame President, we're going to remove this from the, um, agenda. I would not read it into the minute because it was sit down by mistakes.

Okay. I need a motion. Second. Second. Any items to committee? Number one, utility. G. Resolution six. Resolution confirming the appointment of Roy Nose to serve on the Greater Alexander Economic Development Authority Gada Board representing District 5. Motion please. Move.

Motion by Councilman Valoy, second by Councilman Fowler. Public comments, Mr. White.

Thank you, Madam President. Appreciate Um, again, my name is Mr. Cornelius Lawson White Jr. I live at 363810th Street in Alexandria, Louisiana. My zip is 71302. My phone number is area code 318-4466934. I've met Rod Nose and I've heard him on 970 a.m. when he used to talk on there. I think he'll be a good uh adding to Gator and stuff. And I I hope Gada and y'all will reach out. You know, we used to play the state championships at the Rapid Parish Coliseum for basketball and the first uh championship that uh Peabody had,

mister. Oh, no. I'm just saying that's all you see. I'm wearing your color. So, I'm supporting Peabody even though I went to Ash. Thank you for that. And we got to support Ash, Peabody. Yeah, I understand. And all I'm trying to say, it would be good if we could bring that back here to central Louisiana. You talk about economic development. We could fill up all the hotels, Mr. White. But that's what I'm talking about. It's economic development, Mr. White. Economic development, but this is not Okay. Thank you, ma'am. Thank you. All in favor? Any oppose? Motion carried. You see, Mr. Ro back there. Mr. Nose is here. No, you come speak.

Yeah. I don't really Oh, you don't have to. Okay. Thank you very much.

Thank you. Thank you. All in favor? Any oppose? Motion carried. Twice. Number seven, resolution to co-sponsor the children advocacy network and seno in the association hollyfest 2026 and other matters with respect there too. I need a motion please. Second second. Motion by council member Lloyd second by councilwoman Felter. Public comments. All in favor. Any opposed? Motion carried. Number eight. Resolution authorizing advertisement for bid for the former downtown Wising Go Ring parking garage and adjacent structure site demolition and clearance. Motion, please. Move. Second.

Motion by Councilman Balo. Second by Councilman Fowler. Um public comments, discussion. I have a question.

I have Okay, Mr. Green, you go first. Uh, Madame President and council, we're the stewards of the city of the citizens. This I personally went out and examined that building, took plenty of pictures. It's the whole building is in fragile condition. and looking at the removal of the backside of that uh garage to me is going to cause a problem. We've had it for over 15 years. I think it'll be money well spent if the entire building would be removed. The back of the building is in fragile condition. I went out. I've taken pictures, which I'm not gonna put my phone on record, but uh it's in bad shape. You all need to go out and really look at that building. And the separation from the garage to the building, I find is going to cause a problem. I'm not engineer, but looking at what I saw, that's going to be a problem. I think we need to take the entire structure down. It's been there for 15 plus years

and uh we spent plent citizens money and we're stewards of the citizens money. I think it's time to say goodbye to their building. Thank you. Good points, Mr. Green. I have a question uh for the administration. Um are there any so that the people who are watching and hear in this building on uh meeting understand we want to you you're proposing to remove the garage that faces I think second street but keep the part that faces Third Street. Is that correct mayor? That's correct.

Okay. And is it possible for the garage to be safely demoed without damaging the building that faces Third Street? Are you asking if we would propose to do something to Well, I mean, like it it have has the due diligence been done to make sure that the garage can be raised without damaging the the structure that faces Third Street? Well, of course.

Okay. All right. Do we have any plans for the building that's facing Third Street? So what you're trying to do now is demolish or or remove what is a danger to the public to a building that the city owns. So you have a duty to make sure that you are not leaving standing something that is a danger. Okay. So I got

structural engineers go in, they've looked uh uh at everything and what they've determined is that area even if you leave it alone now can never be salvageable. it will never be able to work with the rest of the building. They also have gone in and as engineers, and I've been through it in detail with them three or four times, it takes more than walking in with a cell phone and taking a picture uh to look at structural integrity of a building. But they're actually those are more than one building. They're not all one building. And so the removal and excising of one part that is structurally not related to other parts actually can be done.

Okay. All right. and and would need to be done because that old part where the car elevator was in the back, people continue to park under, people continue to use it for events, popup events, and different things. And it's it's something that probably uh Well, mayor, I'm not against you really need to I'm not against you in it being raised. I just just got a couple questions. I guess my my follow-up question is, do we have any are there any plans for the portion that's facing Third Street? there are and and remain some. But what I would say is that's a separate question from whether you have a duty to deal with a building the city currently owns

from an emergency standpoint. So regardless of any plans, we have to do that. And if you were to bring in plans, the person doing it would automatically say, I can't use that. That's a piece that needs to be out anyway. So to make it more ready for development, that part would need to come out. and then you recapture that in whatever deal you make. All right.

So to um remove the parking garage and leave the rest of the structure, what is actually the plan for the for the um the building after you remove the parking lot? What what plans do we have to do with that building? Are we

we could sell it? We could enter into a a development agreement with someone who might want to do retail on the bottom and apartments on the top. Uh you could have another party that wants to come in and do an exchange. So, uh one of the things we're working on right now is someone would maybe want to take another piece of property they have. They take that one. We make an exchange and true up whatever difference would be between the exchange and that. So we gain a new property in downtown that more fits something the city could do something with. For example, the true parking garage that's catacorner uh that goes with this building, the cap one building would be a good possibility for us to take something to the ground and rebuild something where parking is needed for more than one party. the Bentley, lots of folks that would need parking and uh we actually have some those officers sort of out there to to look at and that would get us out of Weiss's and into a building that we really are more equipped to do something with. We don't want to really be in the

in a building where we would be involved in housing or those kind of things, but uh to have the building given to us when we were under threat. So, back when we accepted this donation, uh something was going to have to be done. The building was in trouble. There had been fires in it. There had been all those issues. So, the building was donated. In that time, uh we have taken people through. I'm I'm not sure about Mr. Green's pictures, but if you go inside uh and you look at it from a purely structural standpoint, what is happening the building, the building is in those bones are different than buildings would be built. It's solid. And so all of those risks, all of the things that were sort of from a structural integrity standpoint, physics-wise, Malcolm, they were it was pulling the building around. You have a tower. So that tower sits on, and I've explained more than one time, it sits on uh pylons that drive into the earth, right? So that weight, that tower is separate. It's not just sitting on a roof where it could cave and fall in. It's its own separate structure that goes through the building and into the ground. Mhm.

All right. And I just just my question is, okay, if I understand it correctly, you you're telling me that there are plans for the the building that faces Third Street. I'm telling you there are multiple plans, but it's not a city plan. We don't want to be in the development building. The city owns a building that it like other things and is normal. Uh redevelopment authorities do this every day. You get a building ready and you let the private sector determine that use. Have there been Okay. Does do you know of any any plans for anyone in the private sector? Have been any

absolutely absolutely over and over and when they approach it and they have any risk at all as with most most private sector developers particularly downtown and particularly with an historic structure like that. If they don't have the tax credits and other things that line up it's not a risk they're willing to take. But you reduce risk by something like this by getting rid of what would be a cost they would automatically take on. So if you were to say buy this building the first thing the private developer looks at Rod or someone else is well the first thing I got to do is remove this back portion that that Tom Davided and two other structural engineers say can't be used. So the the real issue for us is always just on the continuum of expense. At what point, and this is where I I agree with Mr. Green, at what point do you look at any thing that donated or not to us, you don't want public money being spent for keeping it up or whatever. The problem is it is ours now. And to do anything, we have to make it safe. And I might add that we were faced with the same criticism and same concerns with the holiday in and we were able to turn that property out from the city, make a tidy profit and put it in the private sector and it's now 100% in the private sector. So we have experience with how to do this and we've had successful experience and that took us a while to do. It's about people are kind of riskaverse down here. You got to make that deal good. The most recent uh proposal is instead of any sort of cooperative development agreement which I understand there would be concerns about I have the same would be this exchange idea and if someone in the private sector who's in the development business especially for housing would want to do retail on the

bottom and some type of housing on top would offer a an exchange with us of a property they own downtown that makes way more sense for us and one of us have to pay the delta. The difference between the two values, appraised values, that's a lot better deal. And the first one I would tell you about that we're thinking about would be that parking garage. So that parking garage has a bunch of homeless folks in it next to the next to the uh uh coffee shop, right? And we have constant issues with that. And that could be taken to the ground in a new structure built that the city could either co- opt or co-own or co-operate with someone or get going and get it into the private sector too. But we do have need for that and that's a lot easier for us to deal with as a city. We have the people that can do that. What we don't want to do is be in the

house in bankruptcy. Uh actually the bank took the bank has the building and the the garage that goes with it. So capital yeah we're we're we're able to deal with that. This is a good thing that could happen. I don't want to get ahead of So if you have the private sector come in would it be left up to the city to go in and renovate that building or the private per private person?

So the exchange would be that's a great question. The exchange I think would occur after this. We wouldn't want to put it anymore. But I would say, Madame President, as you know, with private sector folks, I'll speak for Mr. Nulls on this, too. They would love for us to blackbox that out to the level of exactly where they want before they take it. They'd let us spend any amount on it to take it on on that dime. We wouldn't do that. What we would do is say, "Here's a level we'll go to. It's about there now." Uh, and I'd be happy to take any of you on a tour through it to show you. It's about there now. Can also show you exactly where the different buildings come together. And I wouldn't have known that. Looking at it, it looks like one building to me, but it's it's actually not. And they're they're very separated. Their weightbearing structures are separated so that they can be separated off. I really

don't dislike the idea of the city having to do it because I I hope it'll I want to make sure it's done right. It's a public safety issue for me now, not a development issue. It's about knowing that structure's been there on the back. It doesn't fit and it needs to be shored up and made safe. May I tell you, after being downtown last weekend, looking for a parking space,

we had a ball going on here at the convention hall. They had a wedding going on to Bentley and had the taste of Louisiana at Clifford. We need more closure. The years ago, the idea was, Madame President, that perhaps the Bentley, the idea that made the most sense to me was for Mike's valet garage to be able to go out across and turn that into parking that rolled up. So, you'd go into the shell of what used to be Weiss's. The historic preservation folks would want that. They'd want the tower to stay in the shell, and you'd go and it would be a parking garage in that. That's harder to work than you think. It is big, but to to build the structure inside and do that is not easy. I don't disagree, as I said, with Mr. Green's analysis about what we need to be careful about continuing to do. I would disagree with him that the historic preservation folks might be grabbing his phone whether he wants them to or not soon. They're not going to want to see that taken to the ground. make the suggestion that um all who would like to go and um view the building that and you that way you walk us through and you can explain what you see what your vision is so that we can see the vision.

That's fine. And just for the record, Mr. McCully, we took him through. He's seen it. He he can vouch to you guys what it looks like inside. There's a lot of KOB footage. They did a full story uh on it. Uh again, if y'all remember, people were living in it. It was unsecure. They were building fires in it. All of that has been changed. It is very different than it was all those years ago when it was donated to us. So, I would be happy to do that. We can do it in singles or or I would venture to say if y'all all do it together, you can run into a a quorum issue, but if you're only going in there to view it, I believe the law allows us to take you through as long as you're not voting, making anything else, and that would be easy to do.

Okay. I just have my comment. Um, I agree that it is a safety issue on the backside with that um with that area. People still go in it all the time even with barricades. So, I think this absolutely needs to happen sooner rather than later. Um, but I agree from historical standpoint, historical preservation standpoint, I would hate and I know many many people in this area would hate to see that building go down. Um, I I'm a proponent of keeping it and I would love to see it come alive. I think the facade of Third Street, you know, we need that. If we want to bring back our downtown and continue to lift it up and have that folksy vibe that we want to see, then, you know, I think that's a key a key building.

And look, I I know you want to move on, but on that note, Mr. Johnson and others, I will tell y'all, uh, I know the council wants to move on off this. I just want you to know there there are lots of plans that people have for it. There are colleagues of of Mr. Nolles that would want to put balconies across like in New Orleans. So you could stand on the outside of where housing would be. We wouldn't do any of that. They would do that, right? But if we got an exchange that made it make sense for them to do it, the building could be reused quite easily. Okay. Yeah. And if you do decide to go on a tour of the building, be sure you bring a flashlight cuz if the lights go out, that is the darkest place in the world.

Well, it's it you get enough natural light in if we go on a on the right time of the day. And no asbestous. All of that's been baited. All of that stuff is clean. All in favor? Any opposed? Motion carried. Mr. Green. Number nine. Resolution to co-sponsor Sla Pride 2026 on June 5th and June 6, 2026. Motion, please. Move. Second. Second. Motion by Councilman Johnson, second by Councilman Fowler. Public comments, discussion. All in favor? Any any opposed? Motion carried.

Number 10. resolution to co-sponsor the central Louisiana 2026 Junth celebration. Motion, please move. Second. Second. Motion by Councilman Fowler. Second by Councilwoman Felter. Um Mr. White. Thank you, Madam President. Appreciate you.

Again, my name is Mr. Cornelius Lawson White Jr. I live at 363810th Street in Alexandria, Louisiana. My uh zip is 71302 and my phone number is area code 318-4466934. I'm so glad that y'all are doing this with Junth. A lot of us, you know, feel that Junth is like African-Americans uh Fourth of July and stuff, but without the Fourth of July first, we would never have Junth. So I salute y'all on Heaven Junth and we need to teach a lot of about what our sacrifices during the Civil War and stuff that blacks made so that we all could be free men and free women. So thank you for that. Thank you for letting me say that.

God bless you. God bless America. All in favor? You have a comment? Oh, okay. I comment. I want I want to thank Mr. Frasier and her her crew for for this Junth. They they are taking this further than Junth. There's a lot of stuff going on with with her and her crew that's doing stuff for this city that probably going unnoticed. But I want to thank her and and the people working with her for not only celebrating Junth but getting this getting this uh this thing bigger than Junth. Thank you, Mr. Ranger. All in favor? Any oppose? Motion carried.

Number 11. Resolution authorizing advertisement for bid for a 2026 Canam Defender Limited HD11. Motion, please. Move. Second. Motion by Councilman Johnson. I'm sorry, Councilman Bour. Second by Councilman Fowler. Discussion. Mr. White. Thank you, Madam President.

You're welcome. Again, my name is Mr. Cornelius Lawson White Jr. I live at 363810th Street in Alexandria, Louisiana. My zip is 71302 and my phone number is area code 318-4466934. I just want to know what this is. I mean, there's there's nothing that says what this is. It's a truck. It's a truck or something. Anybody know? It's a truck. It's a truck. It's a side by side. Yeah. Side by side RV. It's a RV. Side by side offro. Something like that. What is it for?

ATV. It's an ATV. Yeah. Okay. Side by side. Okay. Well, you know more about it. Now, what is this for? Is it for the police, fire, city, city utilities? I'm sure it could be for who needs it at that time for It's for public safety is the police department. Oh, it is for the police department. Well, that's a good thing. Maybe we can solve some of these shoes and stuff that's going around here. Well, I'm just saying, you know, I don't know what it's used for. I I wanted to know because Thank you. I appreciate. All in favor? Oh, I'm sorry, madam madam president.

Yes, sir. I know the next item coming up is number 12. One says max, one says limited. Mr. Carrie, can you before we go further describe distinguish the difference to me please? Um I think it's listed in the fact sheet. Um but one has different cap capabilities and components than the other. I'm not sure of the specifics with regard to the difference between the limited and limited max. I think when we get the bids in, it would have the specs on it at that time.

This just the advertisement bids not accepted yet. There's advertisement beers. So, it's two different Yes, two different size by sides. All right. One's a 2026. Two different models. Yeah. So, one has one has two doors and one HAS FOUR DOORS. GLAD THAT YOU KNEW THAT. Very folksy of you. Thank you. We got ESP. You got it. Mr. Green is second. Two door. A two door and a four door. Thank you. You're welcome. All in favor? Any opposed? Motion carried.

Number 12, a resolution authorizing advertisement for bids for a 2026 Can-Am Fender Max Limited HD11. A motion, please. Motion by Councilman Bloyd, second by Councilman Fowler. Public comments. Discussion. Yes, ma'am. Thank you, Madam President. And Mr. K, I just want to know if this is the twodoor or four-door one or which one is which. The four-door. That's the four-door one. The second the max. The max max is the four-door. And this is strictly for the police department. Yes sir. Okay.

Um can I just ask what what exactly is this like for SWAT or is it for for the police department use as needed? Okay. Well, thank you. That's a good answer, Chuck. Good answer. All right. Well, thank you and God bless you and God bless. All in favor? Any opposed? Motion carried. Number 13, a resolution authorizing advertisement for bids for chemical adjectives for Warzilla engine at DG Honda Power Plant. Motion please. Second. Second. Motion by Councilman Fowler, second by Councilwoman Felter. Public comments, discussion. All in favor?

Any opposed? Motion carried. H resolution public hearing community development number 14 to continue a public hearing to consider adoption of a resolution taking action on structures located at 3513 Bwin Avenue 2314 Paul Street and 23 Chester Street 1807 Day Street A&B second motion by Councilman Fowler second by Councilwoman Felt to go into public hearing hearing

Chad Reed with Community Development. We are asking for commenation for 3513 Baldwin Avenue. Anyone here from that address? Would you like

Hi. Um I had until today to have it down. We do have it down. We're just working on clearing the the property out. Okay. So, you need some more time. Yes, sir. How much time you think you need? Uh they waiting on me now to start helping. Uh don't know. I don't know. All we got to do is clear it, though. Mr. Smith. Yeah. Make a uh a request. Um is that so you guys under state law can set the time period that they are allowed to have after the condemnation to do the work, the demo or or rehab in some cases. Uh typically it's 30 days. We ask that since these have been on for about three months that we that be 10 days. Is 10 days enough time?

10 days is not enough time. Is 10 days. It's not. So I'm working I'm working on this in between my We're doing this ourselves. I'm working on this in between my off days. I work 12 hours shift 7 to 7. Would 30 days be sufficient? 30 days. So it's already down. It's already down. Just got to get it cleaned up. And I had paid somebody to do it, but they they backed out. So, okay. All give them a healthy deposit though. Yeah. But even with if we uh the combination with her having a uh securing a demo permit, that's still going to give her 30 days even if we condemn the property today. You still give her 30.

Still give her 30 days. She's doing it. Give her 30 days. All right. 30 days. You're welcome. Can you make a motion for that? A motion. Second motion by Councilman Fowler, second by Councilman Johnson. All in favor? Any opposed? Motion carried. 2314 Carr Street. We are asking for removal of this address. The owner has demoed the property. Anyone here from this address? It's been removed. Oh, okay. He's already the owner. We're asking for it to be removed from the list. Thank you.

Move it be removed. All in favor? Any opposed? Motion carried. 23 Chester Street. We're asking for combination. Anyone hear from that address? Motion, please. Move. Second. Second. Motion by council followers. Second by council. Public comments. Discussion. All in favor? Maybe request 10 days on this one. 10 days. I'm sorry. Apologies. There's been no movement on it for three and a half months since it's last been up before you guys. So, we're requesting 10 days to go and do the work.

And no one's here to speak on behalf for the um So, okay. Are you So, when you say 10 days, what do you mean by that? the city would send another notice and then instead of saying you have 30 days to come in and demolish have 10 days before the city would mobilize it contract. Okay. So move second. Okay. Any opposed? Motion carried. 1807 Day Street A and B. We're asking for confirmation.

Anyone here from that address? You I was not aware when I purchased the property in July that it was on the list for to be demolished. So I've started gutting the house and I put the house on trespassing list for Alexandria city and I've also got a permit and I also got it extended to September to have more time to fix it. I cleaned up everything on the property, the trash outside the house and getting time to remove it, but due to the weather, it's been hard. But what? I'm sorry. So, you purchased it

from Mr. Doug, and he didn't tell me that it was on the list. Yes, sir. Sir, you're Miss Jones? I'm I'm his wife. I'm Ula Jones. Okay. So, you purchased the property unbearing that it was on demolition. You're asking for additional time to sir. How much time you need? Um, I got the permit extended to September. I, like I said, I've already started gutting the house cuz the fire started on the porch. So, the inside of the house is still solid. So, we started gutting out the house and we're about to do the framework. Okay. When do you think you'll be done with this?

Um, hopefully by April with the framework. And then I have everybody's license, the electrician, the plumber, all that. So, what you plan to do with the home? I would like to um rent it out. Okay. Because I also bought another property. I just like to to want to fix up the community. You know, you don't have to live any kind of way. So, I do would like to fix it up. I'm a single mother and my children. I'll give her 30 days. Let her come back and show us the progress and we'll give her more time. Yes. Is that good for you? As long as you making progress, we'll keep Thank you. All right. You're welcome. All right. We making progress on this. All in favor 30 days. Yes. Any opposed?

We need a motion. I move. I second it. Motion by council and second by council. Any in favor? All in favor? Public comment. Ask for public comments. Public comments. Public comments because you just made a comment. Oh, no. I'm talking is somebody else have it. Do anybody else have any comments? All right. Uh, all in favor? Any opposed? Motion carried. Madam President, who I was trying to get your attention. I'm sorry. I didn't hear you. Madam President, I'm sorry.

Uh, there's a communication problem within the city identifying issues and I'm going to piggyback on Mr. can use on things occurring in the city that we need to be more timely a breast of what is occurring from the city police city uh administration uh the shooting last night on Macdonald people was I got it Mr. Right. Okay. Yes, sir.

People were going in and they were if they didn't know about it, they wouldn't have gone there. I'm going to tell you why I want it done because last Sunday I had the police Olympics across my backyard. They were chasing a guy. They cleared six three sixoot fences. They did catch him, but the fact is they was on SWAT team was on the other side. No one knew what was going on. My little just started raising pure hell and that's how we knew someone was in the yard. But I'm just saying things that are happening here in the city is not to make us look like we're the crux of criminality, but we need to be notified when things occur for the safety of the citizens of Alexandria. And we're not trying to run people off of moving to the city, but when things happen, when you have carjackings, you have people being killed, bodies being found, the citizens truly truly needs to be notified about that. Madame President, I thank you for that moment of time to enlighten us on what's happening in this city. Thank you again.

You're welcome. I got one more thing. Tomorrow, Ash, Peabody, and Marksville play back to back to back up in uh Lake down Lake Charles. So, if you go out, go out, support your team, and uh let's go. I don't have a double pipe. Let's go. You already know Dance the journey