City Council - Regular Meeting

All right. Welcome ladies and gentlemen to the uh Thursday, September 18th, 2025 full council meeting. Uh welcome to our youth council uh that is here tonight and also our girl scouts that are back there. Uh we have a Mr. Steven Davis was not able to make it tonight. was going to pray for us. But we do have one of our youth counselors volunteered to come up, Addison Hixon. And so if you would, what we're going to do is Miss or not not young lady Addison Hixon, I apologize. She's going to come up and pray. After she's done, please remain uh standing for 30 seconds for a moment of silence and then please remain standing for the pledge of allegiance. A lot of it. Please bow with me. God, I thank you for this day. I thank you for everything you've given us and all these opportunities that you have given us this day, this year, and for everything you've blessed in this town and this country. Please help this town as we get through the rest of this year and this hard time right now. And um please just keep your hands on us throughout everything we do in Jesus name. Amen.

Amen. Thank you. If you would 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.

Thank you.

All right. Um, Miss Gelton, can you give us a roll call?

Mr. George, here. Miss Wetszel here. Miss Young, Mr. Olsen, Mr. Bradley here, Mr. Pearson here, Mr. Gray here, Mr. Keller here, Mayor Teague here, Mr. Smith and myself. You got a quum. All right. Thank you. Uh, ladies and gentlemen, if you had the opportunity to look over the minutes for the August 21st, 20 25 meeting. Motion to approve. Second. I got a motion and a second to approve the minutes. Uh, all in favor? I.

Any opposed? All right, moving forward. Uh, at this point in time, oh, you're already up there. Okay, Miss Baker's, uh, Miss Baker's going to give us our finance uh, report.

All right. General fund revenues for the month of August totaled 1,358, 208, which is just right at budget projections. Of that 1,110,812 was sales tax and state turnback. 51,49 was franchise fees and permits. 195,987 was all other revenue. A tax revenue comparison for the city and county sales tax. For year to date, the city's portion was 3,740,525. The county's portion was 4,527,954. Um for budget both of those are just slightly below bud budget projections but they are trending in the right direction. General fund expenditures for August were 1,330,542. Of that 1,89,276 were personnel expenditures. 241,266 were utilities and other street fund revenues for the month of August totaled 1,214,135. Of that 678,996 was 2021 street sales tax. 219,033 was state turnback and advalorum tax. 102,938 was interest 700 was street cutting permits. 212,468 was all other revenue. Street fund expenditures for the month of August. Operational expenditures were 218,739. Of that 135,86 was personnel. 82,933 was utilities and other capital expenses totaled 4561 that was for a concrete bucket. The 2021 street sales tax spending total 1,64,71 that was towards South Waterl Avenue drainage maintenance, pavement preservation, downtown improvements, the raise grant project and the US 64 west sidewalk project. State turnback street

project spending was 4,200 and that was Russville trails and traffic signal improvements. Economic development funds revenue was 128,816. Of that 106,000 was new sales tax and rent. 22,816 was interest expenditures total 48,756 and that was parking lot improvements at the soccer complex. The balances of the economic development funds are listed below combined at $6,77,80.75. Capital asset fund August revenue was$1450. All of that was interest expenditures total 24,7978 and that was for an ambulance repair. Below is a breakdown of the 2021 cent sales tax. What's received? What's been spent? The balances remaining. The cash balances at the end of August totaled together 23,60841531. And that concludes the finance report if there are no questions.

Thank you so much, Miss Baker. Appreciate you. All right. All right. In the mayor's report, uh like I said earlier, I would like to welcome the 2526 Youth Council. There's a whole slew of you and uh we we're excited. We swore them in a little bit earlier. I do want to uh personally thank uh Councilman Gray and Miss Skelton for all they do as far as the youth council. We Mr. Keller also help Mr. Keller was down there today and uh so like I say it's a Miss Wessel was down there too if I remember right. Was anybody else able to be down there? I know everybody else may have been working but it is uh it's great to have all of you. Uh they voted a mayor and vice mayor I think didn't they? Or I was

the mayor is Corey Brown. Cory, you want to stand up real quick? [Applause] And our vice mayor is Ian uh Warning. Yeah, we're excited. Uh great great group of young people that we're excited to see what u see what you guys do this year and it's the future's really bright. Hey, we did take a vote on who which mayor had the best hair.

Yeah, Corey won. We we we uh between her and I who had the best hair and I'm just going to say she's got better hair than me. And then we do have a group of Girl Scouts that came in for a tour today and they were back in the back. Uh we're grateful for all the the uh volunteers that make a difference between Girl Scout, Boy Scouts of America, and Cub Scouts and all the the different uh entities that are out there. So, and one uh last thing before we get on there, we have the legislative audit. Uh have you guys have been presented with that? And hopefully you had an opportunity to look at that. And I do believe we need to do a roll call on that. So, Miss Skelton, if you would do a roll call, basically stating that you have looked and been presented the uh legislative audit. One thing I would like to say real quick is a lot of if you ever see people say, "Well, the city should be audited." We are audited every year. All of our finances are audited. There's literally a team from the state, which is called legislative audit. They come and they literally stay in our building for probably three months. There's a team of them and they go to all of the departments. They look at everything and so we are uh we we definitely are audited and so that that is something that does happen every year.

All right, this is for the 2023 and then I think the 2024 will be out shortly. We'll have to do it again. Mr. George, yes. Miss Wetzel, yes. Miss Young sent me an email stating that she had read it. Mr. Olsen, he's at a conference. Mr. Bradley, yes. Mr. Mr. Pearson. Yes. Mr. Gray. Yes. Mr. Keller. Yes. Mayor Te. Yes, ma'am. Mr. Smith. And myself. Thank you. Thank you. All right. Um, moving on to departmental report. Uh, Chief Yun's got a 30 second report. Uh, yeah. Yeah. Get this.

All right. Thank you for allowing me to do my report for the youth council that's here. If you don't know who I am, my name is David Young. I'm the chief of police for the city of Russellville. And I think I talked to some of you before the meetings and offered you an opportunity to come police department visit and we can have a good old time and learn about your PD while you're part of the youth council. So, uh, wanted to throw that out there. Uh far as my annual report, you know, this is not a comprehensive report of all the activities that occurred in 2025, but it is but its purpose is to highlight our accomplishments, display the progress that we have made in providing law enforcement services to this community and the challenges that we face in delivering those police services. Uh this is just a picture of montage of the year in review. You know, even though most of the work that we do goes unnoticed, you know, 2025 has been the year where we were more in the spotlight, not just locally, but across the state and the nation. Whether it was managing protest to investigating high-profile cases, the professionalism and the dedication by your Russellville police officers and investigators to keep our community safe has been impressive. you working with our local, state, and federal law enforcement partners, we have been able to hold those accountable who distribute deadly drugs in our community and we addressed human trafficking headon. You know, I have included a couple of the few press releases in your packet. You know, a lot of times people see it in the news and kind of skim over it, but please read those because it does there's a lot of hours that go into that and a lot of hard work to make this happen. You know, while providing professional police services, we continue to improve our engagement with the community. From our citizens police academy to our involvement with our local Special Olympics organization, we continue to explore ways to further engage with our citizens. You know, some of the programs that we've done that, you've seen the increased bike patrols. I think they're pretty popular in the downtown area and on the trails. You know, the project

lifesaver, that's one where we're looking at getting funding for. our um devices to help with Alzheimer's patients when they get lost. We're still working on that. And of course, our citizens police academy uh we start in January. We're going to be taking applications in the next few months and that's always been popular with the the citizens in the city. Uh they have a lot of fun with that one apparently. But we do a lot of other things too. I mean you see the the torch ride and all that. So sharing our expertise, this is actually kind of funny. You know, we at the police department believe in sharing our knowledge and training with others. One example of this, and this is the first time I think we've ever done this, was having our driving instructors do a city-wide training for those who drive city vehicles to educate and familiarize them with the basic vehicle operations in order to reduce accidents. Uh I think I think almost every department I think every department participated. Uh needless to say, when budget comes around, I'm going to need a few more cones.

Yeah. Uh, but it was a good time and I think I heard a lot of positive responses from that. Did you keep track of which one was which department was the best in driving? Police department, of course. Oh my gosh. If you see lawnmowers pitted into the ditches, we did not teach them, Matt, Terry. I'm just telling you,

uh, appointments and promotions during during the year, we did have the following promot appointments and promotions were made. Uh, Officer Haley Tolik was appointed to the public information officer and if you have not seen her work and she's out there everywhere, very proud of her. She sees my vision and uh, she took she took the bull by the horns and ran with it for sure. Uh, of course, Officer Andrew Reeves, who was the former public information officer, he was promoted to the rank of sergeant and officer Alex Shipley was promoted to the rank of sergeant. Department recognition. You know, we've had several officers recognized uh during this year. The following officers were recognized and awarded for their dedication to the community and this department. It should be noted that all these nominations for these awards were persons outside of this department that came from the community. You know, Officer Jenna Spencer got a CARES Award. Sergeant Andrew Reeves got the Housing Authority Community Service Award. and Corporal Kevin Hobby, even though it was in December, as has been since I last reported, he got the Arkansas Attorney General Poke County Officer of the Year for 2024. And so, we're proud that we're getting the state recognition that highlights the professionalism of your police department. And a couple other things, everybody loves it, obviously. You probably won't hear another word I say, but also in August this year, we had our three-year reacredititation inspection in order to maintain our tier one accreditation status. We've been accredited agency since 2015 and we were second in the state out of 36 agencies to receive this designation. We successfully met all the criteria to remain accredited and with the accessor making the statement and I'm kind of proud of this that our department is one of others should model after. Now, it doesn't say that we're perfect by any means, but it does display our commitment to providing professional police services to this community. And we're also looking for ways to improve. And I know my time's running out. I'm sure the timer is about to come up there, ain't it, James? But, uh, you always looking and I I actually added this today because I was in a

little rock I was in Little Rock for a meeting today and we're always looking for ways to improve our services that we provide to the community, whether it's the addition of drones, canines, or other technology just today. And I I'm really excited about this. This I was in a meeting in Little Rock with 20 of the largest departments in the state where we were asked to participate in an information sharing network that would be at no cost to the city paid for by a federal grant. You know, this would allow us to share information more efficiently between agencies as we deal with the same people in this highly mobile society. So that is something very exciting for us. So um and it costs no money. Did I mention that? Okay. Uh to conclude, uh well, let me do this first. I have a video. I need to do that right now.

No, a video. It's a 45 second video, boss. I'm I promise you. I'll call you in. Um but this video actually is a promotional video. Uh brand new and you're the first public showing of it. Oh, I'm excited about this. Yeah. Have you seen it yet, Bob? No, I haven't. I'm excited.

Okay, let me make sure I run this right here. I got to So, have you test the audio? We're good. Okay. So, our success is solely based on our relationships with the community. That includes our neighborhoods, businesses, our school district, and anybody else that, you know, depends on the safety and protection that Russell Police Department provides. The mission of the Russell Police Department is simple but powerful. You our mission is to provide professional police services to enhance community safety, to protect life and property, and to reduce crime and the fear of crime. [Music] Join the Russellville Police Department. We're a great place to work. We serve a great community. Great support. You'll love it here.

Yes, sir. All right. I'm taking applications now. Hey, I like it. I like it. I have multiple openings, so please apply. Yeah. Uh to conclude though, our continued success would not have been possible without the support of the mayor, the city council, and our community partners. I also want to thank the men and women of the police department who serve, you know, in daily commit to our department and this community. It's truly honored to serve as your chief as their chief as we continue to face the challenges that face our profession as a community as we move forward. So, thank you very much. I'll answer any questions or you're good.

Before you leave, chief, I would like to say uh I know you're not going to say it, but uh police chief David Euing was inducted into the Arkansas NH housing hall of fame for 2025. This is something that uh someone outside of the department nominated him for. This is a statewide award and uh we're proud of your community commitment and um that's it's really good to see that recognized outside of our city. Thank you, sir. Thank you, sir. Thank you. All right. Okay. Uh Mr. Gray,

thank you, Mayor. Uh personnel committee me met 10 days ago or so and considered an item brought by Mr. Keller. Uh and we have created an ordinance u that will be added to the personnel policy manual that will give an employee discount uh for certain city recreational facilities and rentals. And with that mayor, I I move um that we suspend the rules read by title only one of one readings of this ordinance. I have a motion and a second on the reading. All in favor? I. Any opposed? Sir,

in order submitting the city of Russville personal policy manual by adding a section section 18 to add employee discount rate for city recreation field and rental policy and for other purposes, this ordinance would pass would amend the current personnel policy manual of the city of Russellville by adding a new section section 18 within section three of general employees benefits. Motion to adopt. I have a motion and a second to adopt. Any discussion? Miss Skelton, can you give me a roll call?

Mr. Gray? Yes. Mr. Keller? Yes. Mr. Pearson? Yes. Mr. Bradley? Yes. Mr. Olsen, Miss Young, Miss Wetszel. Yes. Mr. George? Yes. All right. Is there anything else, Mr. Gray? No. Thank you, council, for doing that. It's going to be a nice benefit for our city employees. Thank you for bringing it. Um, Mr. Keller, moving on to the finance committee. Do you have anything tonight?

Uh, one or two items, sir. uh from our 5:30 meeting this evening. Uh item one is consideration of a resolution authorizing the mayor and the city clerk treasurer to execute an amendment to the agreement with Blackstone Construction LLC as construction manager to modify the downtown streetscape plan to improve traffic and pedestrian safety to expand the project in a limited scope and to add more drainage improvements for the project. We present item one as a motion to adopt. All right, I got a motion to adopt. All in favor? I. Any opposed? All right.

Item two has no more actions on it this evening. Items three and seven. Uh item three is consideration of a resolution waving formal bidding requirements for the purchase of striker sales cardiac life pack 35 monitors and and defibrillators total of five of them uh for the Russellville Fire Department's firebased EMS and seven is the appropriation from the Russellville EMS service services fund 10 in the amount of $419,3844 to purchase those five cards. cardiac monitors. We present items three and seven as a motion to adopt.

All right, I've got a motion to adopt on items three and seven. All in favor? I. Any opposed? All right. Item four is consideration of a resolution to authorize the mayor and the city clerk treasure to execute an agreement extension for lawn care services of the Russellville Oakland Cemetery with After Hours Lawn Care Incorporated for the calendar years of 2026 and 2027 under the same terms and price in the current agreement. We present item four is a motion to adopt. I've got a motion to adopt on item four. All in favor? I. Any opposed?

All right. Items five and five A. Item five is consideration of a resolution accepting a bid and authorizing the mayor and the city clerk treasur to execute a contract to install parking lot lights and EV chargers at the downtown parking lot between Commerce and Arkansas Avenue. And item five is the appropriation from economic development capital fund number 27 in the amount of $116,41349 cents for the lighting and EV chargers. We present items five and 5A is a motion to adopt. Items five and 5a have a motion to adopt. All in favor?

Any opposed? All right. Item six is a consideration of a resolution to authorize the mayor and the city clerk treasurer to execute a bill of sale as buyers for the structure at 2011 West Parkway Drive. We present item six as a motion to adopt. All right, we got a motion to adopt on item six. Uh all in favor? I. Any opposed? All right, sir.

Items eight and 8A. Uh item 8A is consideration of a resolution for the uh city of Russellville to accept a bid through ONIA or was it OM Omnia Partners uh from from Geo Service Surfaces Incorporated to purchase new turf for the fields at the Russellville soccer park on behalf of the Russellville Parks and Recreation Department. Uh, and item eight is the appropriation from the 2021 parks and recck special fund and general fund reserves in the sum of $355,800 for that new turf. We present items 8 and 8A. Is a motion to adopt? Have a motion from 8 and 8A to adopt. All in favor?

I. Any opposed? All right. Item nine is consideration of a resolution levying millillage taxes on all property in the city of Russellville, Arkansas for the year 2025 for peeling resolution number 2284. We present item nine as a motion to adopt. Had a motion to adopt on item nine. Uh all in favor?

Any opposed? I abstain uh from our finance meeting last Tuesday. Item one is consideration of a resolution authorizing the mayor and the city clerk treasurer to accept a bid from Western Milits for the Russell Municipal Airport to enter an agreement with Western Milright for this project. And we present item one as a motion to adopt. Got a motion to adopt on item one. All in favor? I. Any opposed?

Item two is consideration of a resolution authorizing the mayor and the city clerk treasurer to enter in a lease agreement with Seabbridge Acquisitions Limited Partnerships doing businesses optimum for downtown underground conduit access and for other purposes. I present item two as a motion to adopt. We got a motion to adopt on item two. All in favor? Any opposed? Item three is an appropriation uh from the economic development capital fund 27 in the amount of $57,895.80 uh to fund the parking lot improvements at fire station 2. We present item three is a motion to adopt.

I've got a motion to adopt on item three. All in favor? Any opposed? All right. Item four is consideration of a resolution authorizing the mayor and the city clerk treasurer to accept the bid from Western mil rights for the Russell part of the annual sidewalk maintenance program to install sidewalks and to enter an agreement with Western mil right for said purposes. Uh we present item four is a motion to adopt. Have a motion to adopt on item four. All in favor? Any opposed?

All right, moving forward. Item five is consideration of a resolution authorizing the mayor and the city clerk treasurer to enter into an agreement with uh taxab. We present item five is a motion to adopt. Got a motion to adopt on item five. All in favor? I. Any opposed? All right. Thank you. Item six is an appropriation from the general fund carryover balance in the sum of $10,000 to cover the expense of the 215 East Circle Drive demolition. We present item six is a motion to adopt. All right, got a motion to adopt on item six. All in favor?

Any opposed? All right. Item seven is an appropriation from the 2021 sales tax capital fund 7 in the sum of $166,863.70 to purchase extraction equipment for rescue unit one. We present item seven as a motion to adopt. I got a motion to adopt on uh item seven. All in favor? I. Any opposed? All right. Item eight has been requested to be tabled. So move item eight be tabled. I got a motion and a second to table item eight. Uh all in favor discussion first

disc any discussion?

Yeah. Um I we've been doing this I don't how many times we have had however many iterations uh of this and I don't understand why we keep why we're are where we are. Um, the annex, as I understood it, when we had a two-hour work session or whatever it was on this three months ago or four months, whatever it was to get this done, uh, the annex was always part of the whole deal. It was just going to be phase two. It was would you like I mean we can go into discussion and I can bring the audio from the meeting if you would like um to

not it was not No ma'am no sir uh at at if you'll go and I will share the audio with you from our audio repository at 1 minute and 34 seconds I clarify at the end just to go over that it is for the church only is what we're going to do and so I mean you can go back and if you you guys can see something different. I don't know how we can, but I clarified at the end of that. I went back today and clarified that and Mr. Hodgej does have the audio. If we would like to he can come down disputing that.

Yeah. No, no, but know what I'm saying. I'm just saying if we want to pull the audio up to because that that that's what I that's what Mr. Smith and I went off of was the audio and what we had talked about. Uh there is a And then why wasn't that communicated to the Russville Playhouse? Okay. It um sitting right there. Nobody objected to what the mayor said except they asked for a first refusal if it did come up a first refusal is for the annex is in the agreement. Then why is asbestos in here?

Where is asbestos at? I I know that when we talked about asbestos, but now it's saying that we can't as I'm reading trying to read the contract that um asbestos is an issue when it's been sitting out there with asbestos and is no one's there the playhouse is not trying to use the uh annex right now. That was going to be a part of their phase two. And it doesn't it say something about removing asbestos? I don't have the contract in front of me. I can I mean I read it and I mean I I would think if there we don't know at this time if 100% sure if there's any asbestous in the church. So if there was any asbesus in the church then it would have would have to be

removed church. I'm not I'm talking about the annex buildings. That seems to be what it's about. So here's my suggestion.

I don't understand why the Russell Playhouse can't sit down with the mayor and the city attorney and get this hashed out face to face. This is month three. We're still talking about this. We still don't have an agreement because every time we come back one side or the other doesn't seem to agree and I think the only way you can agree we had the work session and so the only way to agree as I see it is that the folks who are going to make the contract that be the city attorney the mayor who is going to carry out that contract and the playhouse sit down in a room and get this done. I think the problem comes is that we've reached an impass and so uh we're not accepting their changes. So unless you want to either back one side or the other, that's where we're at.

Well, isn't that what attorneys do is they sit and we go back and forth and we get something written that everyone can agree to? No, it's to protect the client's interest and they're wanting to loosen restrictions thereby the city's asset is under less protection than I'm trying to make it be. Okay. Uh it's what what would be lessened

when you take out for convenience when you increase uh the time for abandonment uh when you make put more and more loosen the restrictions so that they can hold the property longer and should something happen and the city want to get out of it, it won't be able to for some time and that asset could be potentially in danger of uh uh losing value in some way. I don't see how it's gaining any value right now, but um or losing probably losing value. Um still seems to be there's other people wanting to buy it. So, I don't think it's losing value.

We we heard that forever that somebody wanted to buy this until the Russell Playhouse came forward and then then people showed an interest after they came forward. But it's been out there since I've been on the council and before I was on the council. It's been sitting there as is this. It feels like it's being slowwalked in some way to me. It just feels like this. We're not I don't understand why we can't sit down. I just told you we're at an impass on those things. So, well, maybe we wouldn't be at an impass if we weren't doing an email back and forth between the mayor and you and I. Have you answered any of the PlayHouse's emails or any of their to to speak to them?

I haven't. They haven't sent me anything. I get stuff forwarded, but I work for the city. Forward is I work for the city. I understand that. I don't work for uh the playhouse, but the the council has brought the playhouse as a potential suitor to use this property in some way. And I still for the life of me cannot understand why we can't get those folks in the room, everybody in the room, so we can hammer something out. This keeps coming back over and over again. We're wasting their time. We're wasting our time and something done. Do you want me to agree with whatever they say? I didn't say that, Mr. Smith. Don't put words in my mouth. I

I said I would like for you to sit down with them and the mayor and let's figure out something. Miss Mr. Mr. Gray, just y'all I'm g to read from my email. The uh the exclusion of the annex is is item one. Okay. As my understanding, according to the agree uh the the audio, the annex was excluded with the exception No, no, sir. I'm I'm just going to explain. I'm I'm going over these points, okay? So that you understand where we're sticking. Okay, sir. Uh and so the exclusion with the annex was it was for uh Mr. Boer and Mr. Pony asked at probably around 34 36 minutes into that uh uh agreement that they would only do the church and so they wouldn't have to worry about the annex at the time. Okay. So if that can be if that can be worked out because section 41 does give them the first right of refusal on the contract.

Great. That's not even what I'm talking about. What I'm talking about is can we just maybe if they if y'all sat down face to face they would say you know what we're okay given the city's legal responsibility for that building as Mr. Smith just says we don't want that anymore or we want to keep it as the contract is if we could just get in a room together instead of this back and forth I'm tired of seeing this coming in front of us. I just want something done. And I think the only way at this point is for us to eyeball each other and the the three of you eyeball each other and get this done. So it doesn't come back in these various iterations. Every month it's a different iteration. It's a different set of problems. And I don't understand.

All right. Well, Mr. Smith and I will stay after this meeting and sit down with the rest of Playhouse. Thank you. Okay. Thank you. Okay. All right. Uh, where we at? We have a motion to table item eight on the floor. Is there any further discussion on item eight? Hearing none. All those in favor of tableabling item eight, please say I.

All those opposed say nay. Item eight is tabled. Item nine was the ordinance from the personnel committee. Uh item 10 is consideration of a resolution to accept the lowest responsible bid and to authorize the mayor and the city clerk treasurer to sign a construction agreement and associated paperwork with Bowen Specialties Incorporated for construction of drainage system improvements on South Tampa Avenue and South Udica Avenue. We present item 10 is a motion to adopt. All right, I have a motion to adopt on item 10. Uh all in favor I any opposed.

Okay. May that is the uh last item on finance agenda this evening.

All right. Thank you, Mr. Keller. Uh so in unfinished old business business, I'm sorry. Uh item one is consideration ordinance amending the physical code for the city of Russellville adopted by ordinance 2520 by amending the fixed assets inventory to increase minimum limits threshold from 25 to 2500 to $5,000 for other purposes. This will be the third and final reading. short with a short second.

All right. I have a motion in the second on the reading. All in favor? I. Any opposed? Sir, in order subing the fiscal code for the city of Russell, Arkansas adopted by ordinance number 2520 by amending the fist asset in order to increase the minimum limits threshold from 2500 to 5,000. For other purposes, this ordinance to pass would amend the fiscal code and increase the fixed asset inventory from 2500 to 5,000. Move to adopt item one. Have a motion and second to adopt. Any discussion? All right, Miss Skelton, can you give me a uh roll call?

Mr. George? Yes. Mr. Keller, I Miss Wetzel, yes. Mr. Bradley, yes. Mr. Pearson, yes. Mr. Gray, yes. 6.

All right. Thank you. Uh, moving on to item two, uh, unfinished old business consideration ordinance amending the fiscal code for the city of Russville, Arkansas, adopted by ordinance, uh, 2520 by establishing a process to remove fixed assets that depreciate below the minimum threshold from the fixed asset inventory from other purposes. This will be the third and final reading of this. Move to suspend the rules dispense with the reading requirement. Read by title with short explanation for the third and final time. Second. All right. I have a motion and a second on the reading. All in favor? I. Any opposed? Sir,

North submitting the fiscal code of the city of Russville adoptance 2520 jobs proc to remove fist assets from that depreciate below the minimum threshold from the fixed asset inventory for other purposes. This ordinance would set up a procedure to remove fixed assets that do depreciate and sets up a depreciation guideline to uh depreciate those fixed assets so that uh it can show a formula which that will remove them once it goes below the threshold. Move the adoption of item two. Have a motion and second on item two. All in favor?

I. Any opposed? All right. Moving on to new business. We have do what? That's we got to do it is an or it is roll call. I'm sorry. I apologize. That is an ordinance. Okay. Miss, will you give me a roll call? Mr. Keller. I. Mr. Pearson. I. Mr. Gray. Yes. Mr. Bradley. Yes. Miss Wetzel. Yes. Mr. George. Yes.

Thank you for catching me, Miss Miss. Moving on to item uh one of new business is a consideration ordinance amending the current zoning code for the city of Russville Arkansas adopted by ordinance of 2443 and for other purposes. This item is submitted by the planning commission. This is requesting a one time only with an emergency clause if possible. Mr. Wilson, do you have anything to say or? Um I don't have anything to say but um we do have um Miss um um Shelby over here who would like to to speak on it. Okay. I move we suspend the rules dispense with the reading requirement read because we got to do the motion before

Okay. Okay. We we have to move forward before we can get into discussion. Just so I have a we have a motion and a second on the reading to read it one time one time one. We have a motion I that's separate. Yeah. Separate. That's separate. Yeah. One then the other. We have a motion to read suspend the rules. Read by title only with a short explanation reading one of one. Is that correct Mr. Killer. That is correct, sir. Have a second. Second. I have a motion and a second. All right. All in favor? I I Okay. No, we need discussion. No. No. Yes. All in favor? Any opposed? No. Or no, I need discussion first, right? Before we vote discussion.

Okay. Any discussion? So, we're going to we're going to go into discussion. Uh, do we need to hear from her or you guys? I just want to be reminded of you want to be reminded. Okay. The reason emergency clause not I'm not saying I'm against be reminded of the reason. Miss Stuber, would you come to the microphone and please state your name for those that are watching at home?

Hi, good evening. Um, my name is Shelby Stuber. Um, I'm here today not just as a business owner, but as a wife, mother, and neighbor, and a member of this community. I want to talk to you about why family home daycare as a special permit use in R1 single family residential zones in the table of permitted uses found in the rustville zoning code would mean so much to me personally to my business and to others in our community. For me, this isn't just about convenience, it's about stability. Right now, the rules make it where my family would have to move out of our home that we just purchased less than three months ago. Um, for me to be able to continue my inhome daycare in the hopes of keeping Donna Tucker's legacy alive. Being able to live where I work would reduce my overhead costs, keep me close to my family, and give me more time and energy to pour back into my work by and by extension to the kiddos that I love. From a business perspective, it's not just about survival. It's about growth. Lower expenses mean I can reinvest in to improving services and adding educational resources and keeping my rates affordable for the families I work with. That's especially important in today's economy where every dollar matters for the parents. And the benefits go beyond me. This regulation change could open doors for other small business owners in our community who are in the same situation. people who have valuable skills and services to offer but can't afford a separate commercial space, allowing us to live and work in the same location, supports entrepreneurship, keeps money circulating locally, and strengthens our community as a whole. When small businesses thrive, communities thrive, we create jobs, we provide services for families that they rely on, and we keep our neighborhoods vibrant. The regulation change is a step towards to making our community a place where working from home isn't just a privilege for few, but it's an opportunity for many. I'm asking you to see the human

side of this decision. This isn't just about changing a line in the zoning document. It's about helping hardworking people like myself stay rooted in the place that we call home while contributing to the community we love. Thank you for your time and your consideration and listening to my story. Do you have any questions? I know that you just to clarify, this house has been a daycare for how long? I mean, um, she built it in 2000 and so she ran it all the way up until she passed away and I want to say that was about four years ago. Okay. Been there for a long time. Yes. To stay. And can you I just want to be reminded of the reason for the emergency clause.

So the emergency clause is so I can start working right away. I went in there thinking that we could have as many as 12 kiddos in the home um and live there. Um but now we had a currently we live in our camper on my parents' property. So this would just allow me to move my family back in home and start working like I was. Gotcha. I remember now I just want to be reminded and what Mr. Wilson also talked about last time. Thank you. Now, you also, just to to make sure I was understanding correctly, you also originally uh the plan was to be able to have between 12 and 15 kids, but because of the the what essentially was is an oversight from zoning Yes.

for years, apparently. So, I'm glad we caught it and we're able to fix it. Um, but you're then having to drop down to seven because that's all you are legally able to to care for until something until you receive special special use permit which is part of this ordinance. Yes, sir. Okay. Thank you, ma'am. You're welcome.

Any discussion? All in favor? I. Any opposed? Roll call. Uh, no. We do need to roll call that because that isn't we know we have. So we we do need to adopt it first before you can do the motion to adopt. Second. I thought we did have a motion to Okay. Motion to adopt. No, wait. We have to have to read him first because you or did you read first or I got lost there. You read it. Okay. Yeah. I'm sorry. I got lost there. Uh, so you have a motion to adopt. I have a second to adopt. All in favor? Any opposed?

All right. Okay. You need to get a roll call on this because it's ordinance. I got you. Mr. Keller. Hi. Mr. George. Yes. Miss Wetszel. Yes. Mr. Bradley. Yes. Mr. Pearson. Yes. Mr. Gray. Yes. 6. Okay. Move for the emergency clause. Second. Motion and second on emergency clause. All in favor? I. Any opposed? Do we need to roll call? We need to roll call the emergency clause.

Thank you, Mr. Keller. Hi, Mr. Pearson. Hi, Mr. Gray. Yes, Mr. Bradley. Yes, Miss Young. Mr. George. Yes. 6. Did you call Miss Wel? I didn't hear. Miss Wetszel. 6.

All right. All right. Moving on. Um item two is consideration ordinance amending the land subdivision development code for the city of restville aroped by ordinance 2444 I said one more I think there and for other purposes is sponsor sponsored by plan planning commission mayor move to suspend the rules dispense with the reading requirement read by title with short explanation for the first of three readings second got a motion and a second on the reading all in favor Any opposed? All right, sir.

Submitting the Lancome Lancer Division Development Cove Russell is adopted by ordinance number 2444. other purposes. This ordinance, if passed, would amend the land subdivision development code in article 5 section 5.3 require with the additional plat requirements uh to add to the final plat the base flood elevations and special flood hazard areas. Okay. So, that should be it because did we What was the How many did you read of one? First of three.

First of three. Okay. All right. Does anyone else have anything? All right. I'll take a motion. All right. We will be adjourned.