City Council - Regular Meeting

And they wait until there's no traffic coming and they just shoot over. And they do a stop.

So you anticipate that this grant will help us on the current street plans that we have going forward.

So would this help us in the rebuilding of these roads to Or the reconstruction we're doing.

So it's not really going to save us any money on our projects. As far as lighting is concerned, there's a lot of unlit areas.

Right now, we're doing it on a trial basis, you're saying.

I noticed you get 50% of the rental fee back. So we don't know enough about it to make a decision. It would be nice to save $8,000. You know what I'm saying? If we're going to buy them anyway, because we're only going to get half of that. So it would be about $7,650 is what I saw. So should we consider buying them rather than renting them?

Do we have to purchase more for additional reservoir?

I just did like a, I contacted probably over 207 people and did like my own little pro-con list. So I was going to go over that when we have our meetings. That's fine.

I'm going to stand up. Okay, hello, my name's Donnie Finn, place six. You know that the home plate readers are a big concern, and you know what's a big concern? We have AOC, Bernie Sanders, Ron Sedances, DeSantis, and Abbott all on the same side, and they all agree on it. So, you know, that's a big thing. I decided to do some collaborative work on my own concerning this topic with my vote coming about using a tool I've used when making decisions that affect my constituents and stakeholders of our fine town. I used this a lot when I was a high school principal and assistant superintendent, and

Thank you. Mr. Master. I understand all of your feelings in this subject, but I haven't heard enough from the other side. This is what they call an implied consent. If you don't complain, you agree with what we have in place. That's what bothers me a little bit. We as a council, are responsible to provide safety for the citizens, whether it be an upgraded and efficient fire department or an upgraded and efficient police department. And we are responsible for providing them the tools that they need to get the job done to protect you, all of you out there. A year ago, we were given the opportuni

Thank you for that vote of confidence, Greg. I'm very grateful. I do love you, man. Do you have two timers for Charlie? I'm probably going to take the lead. I love the chemistry that we have in this council. We have a bunch of people that love this city. They love each other. They want to see the best outcome for our city. None of us up here get paid. There's this misconception that we're somehow going to make money by making decisions or whatever. This isn't big government. We are a democratic republic. in that we don't vote on everything we elect people to represent us it's a representative

Be involved in every issue. We'll have a better city, a better government.

Let's follow civil political discourse. That's what our country has to have. Civil, political discourse. And that's what this is. That's what you did. That's what we're doing. We're just trying to come to a reasonable conclusion for all of us. That's the way government is supposed to work. But it's got to be civil. You can be passionate without being angry and mad and mean and all that. You know what I'm saying? Know your facts and give them. But do it in love. Do it in the spirit of fairness and of caring anyway thank you and y'all do that by the way i'm not saying you don't do that i'm just

Yeah, I kind of did this last time about something that I was talking about, and I was like, somebody said I pounded the table. I was not angry. I'm just trying to make a point.

I MAKE A MOTION THAT WE DISCONTINUE THE USE OF FLUK TECHNOLOGY, THE CAMERAS.

I know what I want to say, but I think you've got to be technical to be legal. So here we go. the action that i make a motion on uh is to not authorize city manager craig lament to sign by the way he's a great city manager to sign the fy 20 26 27 motor vehicle crime prevention of 40 mbcpa grant award letter and enter and not to enter into a one-year agreement with flock safety fiscal year 2026 through 2027 to continue that and not to continue the city's automated license plate reader program all right so just to make sure that we don't have any any misinterpretations in here I'm gonna pull the