City Council - workshop

i mean refresh my memory i know obviously we improved true north a couple months ago whatever that time frame was we did that but did we also not do this for and always get the providence's mixed up be the first providence or second providence before that when they did their addition at knox and old edge hill road that that was under the old code i think we had to do some rezoning there so they could combine some parcels but it's similar and I mean I know the problem with being worried about what's going to happen now based on what you think could potentially happen in the future i would assum

Could this not all be done as a variance as opposed to rezoning, just granting them the variances they need to do what they want to do? That way the zoning is protected if there ever was a change in the future?

In refreshment memory, what did the Planning Commission recommend for True North?

And why do you think there's a difference between that and this?

So it's just, I don't know. The difference is to me now is I had no one come to me from Savannah Barony when we did True North. But I have already had residents from the Rapids neighborhood come to me and say that they don't want this because they, and this is their opinion, not mine, and it's not even something I'm knowledgeable on that they've already had issues with Victory being a neighbor.

I'm sure. I've been in there during the full service.

And I would just add, too, not to further the conversation, there's a risk that Victory could decide to move whatever and some other commercial, but there's also a threat that Victory outgrows the property they're in, abandons it because they've got to go elsewhere to grow, and then you're stuck with an abandoned church on Martintown Road with I don't know what you'd do with that as well. So, you know, there's risks on both sides of that, risks to the neighbors on both sides of that.

Is it currently the recommendation of the administration that we do this as presented? We do all the sites and just eat the $16,000 and get it done?

All right. Did I have any further questions?

Chief, you said everybody in our department will have access to this data as well? No, sir. Do we limit who accesses flock data in our department? Yes, sir. Have we participated in the flock audit program that you know of, the red flags, any habitual searches or repeated searches or anything like that?

Mr. Clifford, what happens to our decommissioned vehicles? Do we have an auction program that we work with? We do.

The FOIA software, is that something specific to public safety or has that been able to be used throughout the city? That was able to be used throughout the city.

Mr. Cleaver, do you think going into the future that you'll come back to this FOIA software?

So one of the things that I'm not seeing in the budget, and God bless y'all, y'all do a good job doing this and putting this together, is why would the Department of Energy fund not be in here? And is there any way that we can get maybe just one additional page that explains the interest that's in every account that we hold, and if that interest is beholden to anything?

To me, it's a total clarity thing where if you're being forthcoming with every penny that the city has in its possession, and it leaves you in a position where a citizen can never say, ha-ha, you had this money over here, and it wasn't in the budget or so, et cetera. Well, I mean, I found there was $2.5 million of interest in the DOE fund that really nobody knew anything about publicly this year. They just say it's not going to happen.

I'm not disagreeing with you at all. I'm not necessarily saying it's been hidden. I'm saying if we compile everything into the one document, then it makes it all that much simpler.

No, no, no. I didn't make a comment that we were hiding something. I'm saying that to take this action lies in the face of accusations that we could be hiding something. is what I'm saying. He can look into that.