Board of Aldermen - Regular Meeting

Let us pray. Loving God, we give thanks for the opportunity to serve our community. Grant us the wisdom needed for our responsibilities and for the decisions and choices before us. Help us not to carry the burden of outcomes, but to focus on our best intentions. Amen.

And it also is only going to impact the northern part of that intersection, so they will remain east-west traffic through that intersection, to my understanding, based on what we currently plan to right now, as well as going south to all the northwest

It is. It's for a water line that is paralleling Highway 182.

All right, good evening to the mayor and board. My name is Alvin Turner Ward 7. I rise to the mayor, to the police chief, to the fire chief, to the sanitation, and to our NACP president, Dr. Jerry Jefferson. And I'll be leaving after my comments. We have a town meeting at 7 o'clock. A lot of people upset about the taxes and all, but anyway, they want some answers. But we have one little problem. The people slow down at the police department to stop signs, but they... go through the stop sign at the next intersection. It's getting kind of dangerous for the pedestrians because they stop at the p

I'd like to just say that the purpose of this ordinance is to try to ensure that rental properties are a safe living environment, a comfortable living environment for residents who've chosen to be here in Starkville. It's a multi-step process that a facility would go through before there's any intervention by the city, the very first first thing, if there is a determination that they might be a nuisance property, the very first thing they will receive is a warning and they will have an opportunity to enter into a corrective agreement as a result of that warning. The enforcement steps up a bit

The things that were outlined in the ordinance, all the issues that were outlined in the ordinance.

I've had a couple calls from a couple landlords, and they just wanted to make sure that this isn't going to turn into like a code enforcement thing. And I told them everything that I had read, it was more criminal, but I just wanted to make sure I wasn't missing anything.

Right. Yeah, he just didn't want it to be like if there's, I mean, they...

I'd like to move approval of this. And what this does is it distributes the general fund monies that were approved during the budget process and then the other fund monies that were approved during the budget process.

I'm going to let him do this, but I'm going to say that while it does work out to a roughly 2% increase, in terms of what you will see on your bill, it looks a little different than just a 2%. For residential customers, there's a $2 a month increase and then something like one-tenth of a percent of utilization fees, so it's pennies, pennies on the dollar. For the average customer, I think it's about $2.05. $2.08. $2.08. So close. So that's the math of that. The commercial side is much more complicated in that they pay based on when they're using it, peak seasons, those sorts of things. And so