City Council - Regular Meeting

to order. We're going to have invocation and then we're going to have the pledge of allegiance. Will we all stand for the prayer and pledge? Let us pray. Heavenly Father, we come before you tonight with grateful hearts, thankful for the opportunity to serve this city and its people. We acknowledge that leadership is both a privilege and a responsibility. And we ask for your presence to guide our thoughts, our words, and our decisions. Lord, we pray for unity among us. Not unity for its own sake, but unity rooted in truth, respect, and a shared commitment to what is right. Help us to listen well, speak honestly, and lead with integrity. Where there are differences, grant us wisdom. Where there are challenges, grant us clarity. And where there is tension, grant us grace. We thank you for progress already made. We are grateful for the completion of the Buddha town project. And for the world represents growth, perseverance, and investment in our community. And as we prepare to begin the new fire station project, we ask for your hand of protection and provision over the workers, the planners, and all who will one day rely on this facility for safety and service. Remind us that the decisions we make tonight impact families, neighborhoods, and future generations. Help us to stand firm on the good principles to pursue justice and to act in the best interest of all. May this meeting be marked by cooperation, sound judgment, and a shared desire to leave our city better than we found it. We place this we we place this time, this council, and this city in your hands. In your name we pray. Amen.

Amen. Will everybody please join us in the pledge of allegiance. 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. All right. All right. The next item on the agenda early up typically is anyway, the reading and approval of our minutes from our most recent meeting which wasn't two weeks ago. I know we were happy about that. Um, but was on December 8th.

Yes. First, hello everyone. Haven't seen most of you since last year. So, I would like to make a motion that we dispense with the reading of the minutes of December the 8th, 2025 and they be adopted and as recorded. A second. Motion made and seconded. Again, it's been over a month now, but any comments or questions about uh that particular motion to adopt the um minutes as they have been uh recorded. All right. Seeing none, Mr. Stacy, roll call vote. Eli, yes. Nelson, yes. Smith, Kirk Doll, Harrington, yes. PT, yes.

All right, that motion carries. Look, I'm just going to take a few minutes because we do have a a few um agenda items, but uh Steve, will will the presentation show up on the Smartboard, too? I got both of them. Okay. Just a second.

All right. Yeah. So, Steve's going to get that up. And what prompted this is or really what prompted me to talk about Safe Streets for all implementation? We've heard of this uh program already. We've had a couple uh successful opportunities at this particular grant. really uh three times we've won um and I'll kind of talk about that a little bit later kind of detail that out. We have it from the um safe streets action plan which we went through back in around 2022 and then we applied we took that plan and we applied for what they call uh implementation dollars. We didn't get imple implementation dollars in I think that was 23 we applied but in 24 we were awarded what's known as demonstration dollars. All right. So Steve, you could just click to the next um slide or the first slide there. Yeah. And it just has some points, Steve. So I got some animations in there. Um you could hit that first. Hit it again. Okay, there we go. So what is Safe Streets? It's um it's we call it SS4A. Um and what it is, it's a $5 billion competitive federal grant program. So, uh that means that um cities from all over the country can apply to this particular program to to receive this type of funding. And it originated from 2021 with the biartisan infrastructure law. Um and they have a whole name for it, but we just pretty much kind of shorten it like that. And the aim of it and I just have highlighted with that second point is for zero traffic deaths by planning and building safer streets for all users. So this again is from the department of transportation and so it's focused on zero traffic deaths. Now that's really ambitious and I don't know if y'all remember when we were going through this they had a term for this. Anybody remembers that term they had zero traffic deaths?

It was called vision zero just vision zero. So um so again try to reduce those traffic there. So what that means is the funding that comes from SS4A it's specifically designed to help to meet that goal. It's not about you know um you know building you a pavilion. It's not about some other uh activity. It's specifically designed to meet that goal of zero traffic deaths. And so, um, you hit it again. Just a few more slides I want to share with you. All right. Go down with the city's wins. First, in, uh, spring of 2022, we apply for a planning grant. 270,000 was the value. And, um, that plan was adopted by the city council in January of 2023. Uh, I have an image on the next slide that kind of brings back and some of the things that we went through because I know some of it could be lost. All right. Then the second thing that happened with um SS4A, again remember this started in uh 2021. Well, the bill was passed in 2021. A lot of these grants kicked off in 2022. So we really started winning right at the beginning of SS4A. We applied for demonstration implementation funds in the spring of 2023. We were awarded in u fall of 2024 with $870,000 for demonstration. And I do have a note from Nick that basically we are near um we are near almost complete with the consulting contract. The consultant that's going to be your engineering firm that's going to design these demonstration projects and that's going to be you know temporary things. It's demonstration. I have another image I'm going to share with you on that. All right. So we've got a 20% match of that. So you really get over a million dollar investment. Again it is demonstration. It's not permanent infrastructure, but it does show the residents of Nacus what can be. Like I said, we're uh very near to completing that uh consulting

contract. And then in 2025, which I think is our Christmas gift uh last year, um we got the news, it was sent to our grants writer, uh Nicole Gray. She forwarded over to me late that night. I found out on Christmas Eve that we were awarded, uh implementation dollars. So this is the fifth round or so. So we won in three different rounds. So this has been a very successful uh effort for the city of Nagatish. And uh we were awarded 5.7 million uh dollars. And we initially weren't going to put out the press release, but I saw the Nagish Times put it out and I'm actually I'm happy that they did, but I think it was their um their weekend edition, January 3rd, January 4th, and you know, so they covered it, covered on the front page, and we just had a couple things that I sent over to them because it then came back with the clarification, which you know, just wanted to share some things mainly. front page.

Oh, it was on the front page. Oh, yeah. The clarification. Yeah, I've got it here. It's also on the front page. And it's just it it maybe it was from Cassidy. I'm sure y'all get Cassid's press releases and maybe he had it mixed up with Raise Grant, but a lot of the language was Ray Grant and that's different. It was directly

It was directly from him. Yeah. And and look, Cassidy has been great. the headline said Cassidy sends 5.7 which in a way he really did but I just wanted to highlight that it was a competitive grant process to where he didn't just send it to us we had to go through a process of you know very rigorous writing and I think council I sent this to y'all back in July or something and I thought then it was a winning narrative I thought it was going to be really successful and it ended up being successful the good thing about this there is a 20% match most of these grants have match but light core which is known as the Louisiana Infrastructure Technical Assistance Corporation. They're new. They're probably 2023. What they notice is all these grants are coming out. Well, cities might not have the money to match. Cities might not have the capacity to uh write these grants. So, they came up with light. Lite will write the grant for you. Lidore would provide the match. So, what we did was we said, "Okay, we're we're applying for this 5.7. We know we got a 20% match." Reached out. We went through the light process. They said, "Okay, if you get it, we will provide your match." So, one thing I love about this is that's a 100% investment in the city of Nacatish coming outside of the city of Nacatish from the Department of Transportation and from this relatively new state agency known as light of course. So, I thought that that was really good that we're getting uh and you know it doesn't cost the city um anything directly like that. So, I think that's really good. Now, let's talk about some of the things the next se that we're going to eventually get. Well, I actually have some pictures. This goes back I see a particular council woman in this picture, right? So, this goes back to I think 2022, y'all. We had a really good group, uh, Vulker went through a bid process, but they were dynamic. I told them, "Look, we want to be ready the next time. we need you to really put this plan together, but we need it to be really good, but we need you to put it together kind of quickly because we want to apply

again so that we could put ourselves in a position to get some of the uh demonstration implementation funding. And I think that that has uh really uh worked out for us. This is probably not SS4A, but this is in the city of Winfield just to kind of give you some idea of what demonstration because we do have some demonstration dollars coming. Now, what we won on uh Christmas Eve was not demonstration. it was hard infrastructure dollars that's coming to the city of Nacatish. But if you go to the city of Winfield and I saw it um you know I think the Winfield Journal or something but they've got a makeshift roundabout that they have there and we just thought that was kind of interesting you know whereas people complain about our roundabout. It's almost like Winfield is saying let's see we might want one in our city. But um but anyhow so there'll be demonstration projects. We don't have a demonstration roundabout, but like I said, those speed tables, which is um we said this before, I think it's Isidor right by NRMC. You have that. It's not a speed bump, but it makes people slow down right there by the hospital, which I think people should slow down right by the hospital and a lot of other places. But um let's see. I think I got another little uh image that I want to share. Steve, you really can't see this this much, but this is just some screenshots and messages from DOT. Again, I shouted when I heard the news. Oh, yeah. You go back real quick, Steve. story real quick. Um, yeah, back trace. Can you get back? Well, anyway, it it was the screenshots from the email that they sent to us on There we go. Uh oh, one more. There you go. That they sent to us on Christmas Eve. And I think I shared this with the council members. We shared this with people who wrote letters of support for us because we wanted to uh share that news with them as well. And just saying, "Hey, congratulations. Y'all won. You got 5.7. And by the way, to show you how competitive this is, I think about seven or eight Louisiana cities got planning dollars, you know, to do the action plan, which we did 3 years ago now. So,

that's how much ahead of the game we are, but I know many got a planning grant. City of Baker, there were a few others, y'all. There were only two Louisiana cities that got implementation dollars during this stage. You know, one of them is Nagachish, but the other one is Lafayette. Lafayette Parish government is how they see it. So, I don't know if that's going to affect multiple cities down in Lapayette. They got about 7 million. So, 2 million difference, but they're much bigger than what we are. But when you let that really set in, of all the cities in Louisiana, only two were awarded implementation dollars, and Nagatish was one of them. I mean, just you need to think about that on your way home to when you go home. Okay. All right, Steve, hit the hit hit the next thing. Um, and this just how will we use these pedestrian bridge adjacent to South Drive bridge. I think that's really important that we get it. Um, we applied for funding. They have a bridge program that came about with the bipartisan infrastructure bill. We applied for funding that, but deal uh not deal well probably a federal transportation federal department of transportation said the bridge it doesn't qualify because it's not old enough. So, it has to get old enough and in poor shape and then when it gets in poor shape, but obviously we don't want to wait till it get in poor shape. It's kind of the situation we are in with the Church Street Bridge right now. But, um, but it gives a there are no sidewalks like the Kaiser Bridge has sidewalks, you know, even although technically Church Street Bridge doesn't have sidewalks, you would say. It does have a way you can kind of walk through. So, but South Drive doesn't even have that. So, we'll get a pedestrian bridge there. I think that's that's really my that's about $2 million to do that. It's really important channelized signals at these really intersections on Kaiser Avenue. And I know somebody may say, "Well, why you ain't do them anymore?" Well, the more money, the more you do, the more it's going to cost. You know, the more the bigger your ask has to be. So, it just all these things just cost money, right? But channelized signals, that's

going to be like you see in some of the big bigger cities. you go to some of these cities, New Orleans and New York and place like that, you hit the button um and it allows the walk, allows pedestrians to walk, so forth, so on. So, you'll get those at some of those key intersections along Kaiser Avenue. All right, I think we got a couple other here. Couple others, y'all. There's a refuge island. I think Councilwoman at large uh Smith is going to like this refuge island because I know she talked about uh Melrose and crossing the street and Nick had he would say, "Hey, we're we're applying for a grant that that's going to help with that." So, with this grant, there's going to be a refuge island right there by Burger King on Kaiser. It's a very bad intersection, very pa bad kind of coming into Kaiser. Um so, that refuge island, I'll show you what that looks like in just a minute. It's going to help to make her safer. It's about reducing those traffic deaths, whether it's pedestrians who are walking or people who are in the vehicles. So, that's what this grant is about. And then one that's really really I think big for Northwestern is the the extension of Taratin to the bypass. I think they've been wanting to do that for uh many years. This grant gave us an opportunity to do that. So, this shows that we do support Northwestern State University. Um is through infrastructure. Nobody people may not appreciate it, but in terms of and I say that to say a lot of times the street is redone. People say streets need to be redone, but they don't really they just, you know, they say, "Hey, government supposed to do that." But that's going to be a big one for Northwestern, especially when you have graduations, when you have uh basketball games as a basketball game tonight and you have traffic on campus, they can get out to the bypass that way instead of bringing them back to downtown, bringing them back into the city like that. Couple images I want to share. Oh, and then the realignment of Texas Street. Uh, it's all in the Grand Narrative. All right. Just a few pictures I want to share. Um, Steve, this is actually What bridge is this?

Church Street.

Ah, Church Street. That's Church Street. All right. But the reason I showed Church Street because I couldn't get a good Google picture of uh South Drive Bridge. Sidewalks. You may want to call those sidewalks. you know, uh, the more modern one is going to be on the the Kaiser Bridge, but this one does at least have a place where pedestrians can walk. That South Drive bridge, I mean, it is about this wide. I mean, you can't really bike across it. You can't walk across it. It's very dangerous. And I know Councilman uh Nielsson, this falls in his district. I know this is something. So, that's a really big win for us. And I just want to show you Church Street. All right, let's look at this other one. Uh, Steve. All right. This is a refuge island. Not really sure what city, but think about tobacco warehouse. All right. Think about where Burger King is. Think about where you have Melrose and you have the the little medians going down there. That is a very dangerous one. What this allows people to do instead of them cuz K is wide. Instead of them trying to run all the way across or run to the middle, they have some type of protection. So, it's just it's a shorter distance. It's a safety mechanism. And I know it's going to be one there and there may be a couple other refuge islands that we asked for in the grant and that got funded. But again, I think that's a huge improvement. I think that's something that's going to help with people who are moving back and forth um going across Kaiser so forth and so on to get to some of those businesses. All right, people can travel safely and get some house rice from Hondas. Now, these are just some screenshots that I have kind of give you some of the projects. Again, we talked about the pedestrian bridge. There going to be some lighting improvements as well and it shows those areas with lighting improvements. Woodyard, University Parkway, you see Kaiser at Williams, Kaiser at Eastfield, Kaiser South. So, a lot lot happening on Kaiser. As you can see, Kaiser was a focus. That's where a lot of the traffic goes because that's where you have a lot of your businesses, right? You've got the new Super One there, you've got

Walmart there, you've got, you know, fast food, the hospital, you know, keep on keep on. So, uh you you do get a lot of the improvements there on uh Kaiser crosswalk refuge. I see one refuge island right there, North Mailroads. Uh the the the the rumble strips. All right. Th those will help as well. Different crosswalk enhancements. All right. Road striping, signage, and things like that. So, these are the things that we're going to be allowed to do through this important grant. All right. Just a couple more slides. This is that look at toin. If you are going I've got kids at well one kid at middle lab so I go here every day I got two at the uh elementary lab you see a road and it basically ends. So as far as I'm thinking I was talking to Nick about this earlier what NSU really wanted is to extend out. They've got Prather they've got other things that are happening. Graduation's happen. They want to allow people just stop the congestion get on out to the bypass. once they get to the bypass, they can go to 49 or wherever they're trying to go to kind of move traffic along. So again, I think that's really really big.

So is that actually Jefferson Street? Yeah, you're right. Because Charlton is actually That's right. This is actually Jefferson because Well, Jefferson turns what is it called on campus? Is it Jefferson on campus, too? South Jefferson. South Jefferson because really Tarlton is where Middle Lab is. It's where those

columns. That's really what So really, yeah, you're right. This really technically is Jefferson. So it's really extension of Jefferson is what you're going to do. Okay. All right. How grants work. Last slide, I promise. All right. So the city decides to apply for a grant. All right. We go through it. We we think about our needs. And this could be in public safety. We've got grants for the fire department on a smaller level. We've done other economic development, community development. But we look at it. there's what you call a no notice of opportunity. Um, and we just decide, hey, well, we think this will benefit our city. That could be myself, that could be Nicole, that could be the department head. Nick Ferrett is in on a lot of those. When when it's fire, of course, it's Chief Win. When it's police, of course, it's um Chief Collins. So, then you get an award announcement. Now, we don't always get what we asked for. All right? It's kind of like somebody who's a gambler. They don't they tell you what they win, but they don't tell you what they lost. All right? But uh we don't always get um what we ask for, but you got to ask in order to get. So we we ask a lot. Okay. Um in order to get some. We ask a lot so we can get some. So yeah, the grant then what happens is there's a grant agreement process. All right. Now, uh the grant agreement process is initiated. This this could be different when you're dealing with the federal government. They move at their own pace. Um we do have an update for raise. Nick told me today that for Ray's grant and I know this is different from this one but we are yeah the design work is ongoing and we are expecting 90% preliminary plan by the end of March. So Gresham Smith a Baton Rouge based engineering firm they are designing this. So you don't just go and dig up. You don't just put up a building, you know, it has to go to to the architects if it's a building. It has to go to the engineers if it's something like a street or drainage or something like that. And that could take some time. So raise grant is a big one. It's taking some time. Now part of the

challenge we've had with RA because we were awarded in 2022. Part of the challenge we've had with RA is we went through DOTD and we love DOTD. We need DOTD. But they have a whole lot of projects that they deal with. When you have a whole lot of projects and relatively few engineers, that's what we call bureaucratic. In other words, the process gets slowed down. So, we ran into a situation with the raise grant where the process was slowed down a little bit, we think our agreement was sitting on somebody's desk. They were working on something else. It's kind of like we say, and Eddie, you can relate to this, where we say with the um with the Terty Bridge, they've been saying over and over, you know, we saw it the other day, Ed and I were talking. We saw, oh, we signed up for these DOT announcements and the Church Street Bridge is on there. Yay. But um but again it's it's that bureaucracy. It's going to happen but it's just some of that is above our control that that that we can that we can control. But raise grant we think once we go through this design and we meet obligation we're going to meet obligation then we'll go out for construction and we're thinking if not the end of this year beginning of 2027 raise grant will be uh moving forward. Last thing I want to say after you have then you're going to have your selection of engineer firm. Y'all let me be very clear. No grant money is sent to the city to be in any of the city bank accounts. That's only one uh initiative that we got direct funding for and that was and that's every city every city in America based on the formula that was the American Rescue Pl Rescue Plan. And what we decided we decided to split it up. We put some on water, we put some on utility assistance, we put some on streets, we just split it up. We put some on the water treatment. Blah blah blah. All right. Cities could have done, you know, to meet the meet the needs of a city. however you want to do do it. But every other grant is reimbursement there. We don't have 17 million sitting in the bank from DOT. DOT is not going to send us 5.7 million to sit in the bank somewhere. It's based on a process because I know they've learned over the

years, hey, to keep things with integrity, to make sure things are running smoothly, to make sure nobody does anything that they shouldn't do. Long before I was here, the federal government decided what we're going to do is we're going to do it on reimbursement. So, we're doing that with Raise right now because we got to pay Gresham Smith for their work. Gresham invoices us and Nick gets those invoices. He'll send them to finance. Finance pays it. Then we we deal with DOT. We submit for reimbursement. Is that something else? No, sir. You you explained it. Okay. So there's no money coming to us. No, sir.

It's a reimbursement process. Invoice. We pay the invoice. We tell them we paid the invoice. Now y'all pay us and it goes back to the city coffers. That's what happens. Doesn't go anywhere else. All right. So, I just wanted to kind of share that. I'm excited about this. I think we're in the works with another one, but that will be counting um you know, counting your chickens before they hatch. So, I think we're in the works with another significant grant that that's infrastructure related, but we shall see. All right. I I've taken up way more time than I wanted to. All right. Uh but certainly, anybody has any questions for me, uh please reach out to me, send me emails. A lot of people have my cell phone number. Do what you have to do. All right. We now have a proclamation. And the proclamation is read by Councilwoman Smith Kirkindo.

Thank you, Mayor. This is resolution number 003 of 2026 proclamation declaring January the 19th 20126 as Martin Luther King Jr. Day in the city of Nacades. Whereas each year on the 3rd Monday of January, schools, federal offices, post offices, and banks across America close as we observe and honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr's King's birthday. And whereas the first national celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. holiday took place January 20th, 1986. And this year the celebration will be on January the 15th, 2024. Whereas America was moved by a young preacher who called a generation to action and forever changed the course of history. The Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. devoted his life to the struggle for justice and equality. So in seas of hope for a day when all people might claim the riches of freedom and the security of justice on Martin Luther King Jr. Federal holiday we celebrate the life and legacy of Dr. King. And whereas Dr. King advocated nonviolent action as a means to overcome the evil of racism in America and he led the effort that resulted in the civil rights act of 1964. Whereas Dr. King guided us toward a mountaintop on which all Americans, regardless of skin color, could live together in mutual respect and brotherhood. Dr. King recognized the power of service to strengthen communities and achieve common goals. Whereas Dr. King dedicated his life to empowering people and challenged them to lift up their neighbors and communities. He broke down barriers within our society by encouraging Americans to look past that differences and refused to

rest until our nation fulfilled its pledge of liberty and justice for all. And now therefore, I, Ronnie Williams, Jr., mayor of the city of Nacadage, hereby proclaim Monday, January 19th, 2026 as Martin Luther King Jr. Day in the city of Nacage in honor of the memory and legacy of Dr. King. And I move to adopt resolution number 003 of 2026.

Second. Motion made and seconded. I think everybody knows the great honorable uh tremendous legacy of Dr. King. Um you know I just hope that this is not a day that we just let pass by. I often like to say let's not have it as a day off but a day on. And so there'll be different activities. I see Mr. uh Matthew Craig you're here. Are you here for this particular agenda item? Yes, you are. Okay. Yes, sir. Thank you. What's I'm sorry. I said yes, sir. Thank you. Okay. No, we appreciate you. You don't you don't need to say anything. Nothing.

Okay. Well, we we're so grateful, Miss Matthew Craig. I know he's going to get to Northwestern tonight cuz got a game, but we appreciate um Matthew. We appreciate Dr. Wise. We appreciate uh Nicole Gray. Uh there are some others. There's some others, right, who served on the committee. Yeah. Uh, Britney Brousard.

Britney Brousard. So many great people who just look, they boxed me out and I'm glad they boxed me out because they're like, "Hey, we can go and do this without you, mayor." So, what we got some uh flyers that they created and some activities that are going on this week and into the beginning of next week, which is, you know, MLK day this coming Monday. Obviously, the city's going to be closed to observe that, but their their activities starting, I believe, on on Thursday, I believe. Yes. on Thursday all the way through Tuesday. Really? Tuesday, right? The 20th, right? Would you say that? That racial rec racial reconciliation day. Is it something like that? Correct. Yeah. And we do this, we start the service uh Thursday, Friday, and Saturday.

Okay. So, what Matthew said, those who are listening may be listening, it starts Thursday, Friday, Saturday. We we've got the flyers up. We're going to announce later on, but we we just really appreciate um you, Matthew, and just tell the whole group. uh send them our regards. We appreciate that work, that effort uh that you all are doing with our student population to make sure that we are doing a great job in honoring Dr. King's legacy. And again, you all are helping us to do that in an excellent way. So, you know, Matthew is a brother of AIA uh as well, just like Dr. King uh was. So, uh we certainly appreciate your work. Uh yes, Miss Carolyn, get information.

Um I can email you. Want me to email you? How about I do that? I'm going to try to do that tonight. Okay. All right. Uh any other comments or questions? Like I said, we'll have the announcement slide later on. Seeing none, Mr. Stacy, roll call vote. Eli, yes. Nelson, yes. Smith Kirkindall, yes. Harington, yes. PG, yes. All right, that motion carries. Council, if you don't mind, will you join join me with Matthew to take this? Are you Dr. Craig? Matthew? No, you're not. Not Chad. Okay. All right, folks at NSU. Come on, man. We want to take a picture with you. All right. We got the proclamation. I didn't print a proclamation. Oh, we That's right. We Let's get the picture anyway.

All right. We'll we'll present the proclamation to you another time, but let's get a picture here. That's right. Cuz I said,

get you here. We need to move. I feel like we need to move this one. Okay. What is the show next time? Matthew Craig. Thank you.

We'll have the population for Monday. Okay. All right. And we've already started advertising on Facebook the city's page and uh for everybody to get that uh information. All right. We've got some planning and zoning for final. We've got some ordinances ordinances for final. We've got some ordinances we're going to introduce and then we've got some resolutions. So, we're going to start with the planning and zoning final. And it's read by Councilman PT. Thank you, Mayor. Ordinance number 046 of 2025 and ordinance amending ordinance number 64 of 2021 by changing zoning classification of the property described as follows. Whereas the planning commission of the city of Nagish, state of Louisiana, has recommended at their meeting on December 2nd of 2025 that the application of Frank Griffin to resone the property described above from R1 to R3 for the operation of a short-term rental be approved. May I so move to adopt ordinance number 046?

Second. Motion made and seconded. It's been a month so I kind of forgot but um did we have representation Shantrell on this one or it's pretty much the same as those have been before. I don't know if they would need to say anything or if council if you have questions they can come up but uh what what are they doing? Uh Shantrell like like we've seen otherwise. Miss Price is here if she you want Miss Price to say something. M Price want to say something? Do I need to? I don't think you necessarily need to. I mean we know what the short-term rentals are. I mean, you're going to rent them out to to individuals who who want to stay here different times. Council, if you have now, if they have any questions, y'all got any questions? It's a it's adjacent to rental property. Okay. So, it's already adjacent. It's in the zone,

right? Yeah, we looked at it. Okay. All right. See any other comments or questions since this is a voting item? Okay. Seeing none, Mr. Stacey, roll call vote. Eli, yes. Nelson, yes. Smith Kirkindall, yes. Harington, yes. PT, yes. All right, that motion carries.

All right, next we have an ordinance for final. And uh there are a couple, y'all. Wait, that's Yeah, we have a couple that kind of deal with leases. All right, we got a few that deal with leases. So I think they're going to be similar in nature, but this first one is handled by councilwoman at large Smith Kirkall.

Thank you, mayor. This is ordinance number 04 02025. It's for finals. Ordinance upon an ordinance upon the recommendations of the finance department and the airport commission that the city council of the city of Nackage authorize a lease of that area under fence at the Nackage Regional Airport for hay operations with James Russell Stacy and authorizing the mayor Ronnie Williams Jr. to execute set lease on behalf of the city of Nacage and to provide for advertising. This ordinance was introduced on November 24th, 2025 and published in the Nackish Times on December 29th, December 6 and December 13th, 2035. The term of this lease shall be from January 1st, 2026 through December 31st, 2028. And I move for adoption, excuse me, I move for adoption of Ordinance number 040. to second.

Motion is mo I think we got a second. We got two seconds. Motion is made and seconded twice uh for this particular piece. And um like I said, we've done these. Ed, you want to say something? I know it's been a month. We've slept a few times since then. Yeah. This one and the next two, they're just hay leases. Um a farmer pays the city money to cut the hay and they roll the hay. $6.50 50 cents per round bail. It saves public works and other city departments from having to bush hog it. So it saves labor wear and tear on equipment as well as um you know fuel and that sort of thing.

Yeah. All right. Look, Ed has given that explanation. Thank you, Ed. All right. Any any comments or questions about this particular item? Making money. All righty. Seeing none, Mrs. Stacy, roll call vote. Eli. Yes. Nelson. Yes. Smith Kirkindall. Yes. Harrington. Yes. PG. Yes. All right. The motion carries. Like Ed said, these next two are going to be very similar. This next one, um, this next ordinance is read by Councilman Harrington.

This is ordinance 41 for final. This is an ordinance upon the recommendations of the finance department that the city of Nacades enter into a lease of a 25 acre track in the industrial park for hay operations with James R. Stacy and authorizing the mayor Ronnie Williams Jr. to execute said lease on behalf of the city of Nacades and to provide for advertising. I move to adopt ordinance 41 of 2026. Second. Okay. Motion is made and seconded. Same thing Ed said. City property being managed by James Stacy Farm. Yes. James Stacy. Any comments, questions about this one? I'll clarify real quick. It's actually ordinance 41 of 2025 and not 2026. M.

Okay. All right. That clarification is noted on the record. All right. No comments or questions. All right. Mr. Stacy, roll call vote. Eli, yes. Nelson, yes. Smith Kirkind Doll, yes. Harrington, yes. PT, yes. All right. That motion carries. Now, this next one is Councilman PT. Thank you, Mayor. Ordinance number 042. Ordinance upon the recommendation of the finance department that the city of Nagish enter into a lease of a 29.7 acre track in the industrial park for hay operations with M&M forms of cane river and mayo move to adopt ordinance number 042. Second

motion made and seconded to adopt this one. Same as the one going back to ordinance number 40 of 2025. All right. comments or questions now. Okay, seeing none, Mr. Stacy, roll. Eli, yes. Nelson, yes. Smith Kirkind Doll, yes. Harington, yes. PT, yes. All right, that motion carries. All right. Next um is regarding the new fire station and that is read by Councilman Harrington.

This is ordinance 43 of 2025. Um, sir final was introduced previously, so I'll read by title only. This is an ordinance authorizing the mayor of the city of Nakis to award the bid for the new fire station number three, University Parkway, Nakis, Louisiana, bid number 0678. I move to adopt ordinance 43 of 2025. Second.

Motion made and seconded. Um, we have an image up here. I think that's going to be really nice coming uh into town from the bypass interstate way uh with this fire station. What it's going to do is um relocate three, which is on MLK, to this particular location. Um just a couple points to note. This was a longheld um city goal. I mean, it dates back probably the late '9s. I don't know if it goes further back than that, but um but we were able to get some funding for, excuse me, from the state. We call it Capital LA. Um but get some funding. 1.8 I think our low bid comes in. Chief Chief Win, where is that? 3,253. Pat.

And that's from Pat Williams Construction. Pat Williams uh construction. And we thought what we said last time, Chief was saying thought it was really competitive. The bids were close. How many bids did we receive, Chief? We we received six bids and they were all fairly close with that's when we feel we got a pretty decent uh bid and Pat Williams has done work for the city before and they've done I think they did the riverbank and hopefully if this is approved we'll start construction hopefully we can see he hasn't done work since I've been here but what I've heard people have spoken well about this particular company um but obviously we go through a bid process it's always great if you get somebody local but you got to go through the bid process That's NSA graduate.

Oh, hey. Hey. Yeah, I'll take that. I like that.

Yeah. So, you're looking at a a delta of 1.4 and fire has a um they have some meals uh that they get. So, we'll just fund it there. And uh I we you although you want the state to pay for everything, we love it when we get a safe streets for all and it's totally paid for by either state or federal or like our raise grant 17 million. No match at all. But the reality a lot of these have matches or there's some difference in what the construction actually is and the amount that we were awarded. But nonetheless 1.8 is going to cover more than half of the project and I think that that's a significant win. So we've made a chief has done a great job in making a conscious effort to there some things we were going to do but since we have this 1.4 to um take care of this um this this fire station or build this fire station uh we'll delay those. We'll put those on some other plan. Being fiscally responsible is what we're trying to tell you. Any comments or questions about this particular item. All right. I'm excited about it. Chief, you got anything else?

No, sir. Thank y'all. A long time coming. All right. Mr. Stacy, Robo. Eli, yes. Nelson, yes. Smith Kirkindall, yes. Harrington, yes. Peachy, yes. All right, that motion uh carries. Look, we're going to keep you updated every step of the way. We like to put things on Facebook, but we'll keep you up. We're going to have a big groundbreaking. You know, Chief going to do some fire demonstration. I'm just messing with them, but uh we'll have a big big groundbreaking uh with that. So, just stay tuned. Do we know Ed or Chief when we think we break ground on this?

Probably 60 to 90 days. We have to get the contract signed, uh the bonds in place, uh have pre-construction meeting, then they mobilize. So, that's just a a guess right now. 60 to 90 days. So, sometime in the spring. Yes. Our next step, our next step, we'll have to get approval through facility and planning. That's right. And uh as soon as they give, as soon as they look at the contract and give approval, then uh we'll sign the contract and move forward. All right. It's been good. Happy to be where we are now. So, it's just these things take a process. All right. From the award amount. I mean, I think we were awarded this 1.8 back in what 202 or three? It's been

Yeah, 23. So, almost three years later, now we're getting ready to build. So, it takes it takes some time from award to actually construction. All right, this next one y'all is um I think it's dealing with the airport. Yeah, it's dealing with the airport and it's Councilman Nielson. Thank you, mayor. Shifting gears to the airport from the hay. Ordinance number 44 of 2025 will read in title only an ordinance approving a lease between the city of Nacadesh and Norwest incorporated of a 801 acre track sometime referred to as lot one of the Nacades regional airport and authorizing the mayor of the city of Nacadus Ronnie Williams to execute a lease in favor of Norwest incorporated and further providing for advertising of the lease and an effective date and I move that we adopt ordinance number 44 of 2025.

Second. All right. Motion made and seconded. This is a lease. Ed, say some more. Tell me some more. Yeah, this is just a land lease. They own the hanger. It's the old Paul Fosi Dustin hanger and it sits on airport property. So, this lease is only for the land. Only for the land. It's a renewal. It's a renewal. Yes. Okay. All right. Comments or questions, y'all? Council, any from the audience? All right, seeing none, Mr. Stacy, roll call vote. Eli, yes. Nelson, yes. Smith, Kirkindall, yes. Harrington, yes. PG, yes.

All right, that motion carries. Now y'all, the next three pieces we are going to introduce. So that means that we will the next time we meet, which will be the 26th, we'll put it up for a vote. Um, so if there are any questions, council, about these, um, I think Ed can help with the first two and, um, Tim can help with the third one there. But, um, all right. This first one is read by Councilwoman Washington Eli on introduction.

Thank you, Mayor. Um I would like to table uh the introduction that's for the Russell Mary Edith state form is because of some current um payments history that have not been paid. I have spoke with uh Mr. Ed about it and I like the board to table until they payments come in current. Let me ask this too though. Is this one is this just a two week one or this cuz I know we have some that it's like a month cuz it's got to be 30 days in the We have to advertise it um 3 weeks one week apart. So So this one will come back up to us next week. I mean not next week but you know the next meeting. Yes. Okay.

Yeah. In in February. All right. Be the first meeting in February. Okay. There's a motion to table it. Is there um I think she stated why. Yeah. We we talked prior to the meeting. Um there's some delinquent payments. So prior to moving forward with an introduction, moving forward with the lease, we want that to be current. Okay. I second it, mayor. All right. Motion made and seconded. All right. Basically, just like Alex said, get current on what we have and then we'll come back and introduce entertain entertain introduce. Yeah. Yeah. What we have to It's my payments to the city. Yes, ma'am. How far behind the following ordinance?

Uh they're behind um councilwoman at large. Uh 3 months. Three months. Yes, ma'am. Cuz we've approved. Was it not the same person? The other ones James Russell Stacy. Yeah. Approved. Now, I don't know why it's different. This one says Russell and Mary Edith Stacy. The other one just said his name. Yeah. I don't. So, I'm not sure exactly why that is. Why is that Ed? I I don't know why that is. Maybe just the way we wrote it down. But the same person everything the same. Okay. It is the same. It's just the way it was drafted. Yeah. So, council, it's up to y'all. There's a motion. Well, we got a motion. We got a motion in a second to table it just until we we till they get current. Yes.

Questions, comments? Um, what I question they're next up on another egg lease. Um, that. So, does that is that included in the motion or Well, she was I think y'all one item at a time, but that you reading that. I I guess that's what I was Why didn't it come up previous? Yeah. Um, ordinance number 40 was the same. We have two and uh ordinance number 40 is they are current. They are current on those, but they are not current on several other. This is only certain ones.

So, they're currently the hay operations but not the agriculture. They they owe a total of about $1,980. And we're not going to sign these until they show up and pay. But Russell says he'll be in town on Friday to pay the the hay leases, the ones that y'all just approved. So, we won't let him sign until he pays that. But, he'll be here Friday. And the other two are fine if they get table. He won't get his crop loans till probably March or so. Okay. Let me ask you, Ed, do you always do it like that? If if they haven't paid, you may send it through the council. But, you know, it's typically not a problem. Mayor, we this is kind of new territory. Okay.

But when they say Friday, this Friday coming this Friday for the Haleies. For the Haleies, I would just like to ask one question. Can you know for now can because they're due every month for they won't have to actually really uh get behind in it. Do we do any late fees on? No, they they're due after they cut hay and then that way we know the number of bales how many to build them for. So they typically get two they get build they do seven hay bail they get build and then we send a bill lot. So that's why I'm saying though when they're doing that can they pay their money?

Yeah. that and we send them an invoice. I send it to the finance department. They send the invoice. But on this one, they haven't paid in a timely manner. Uh yeah, cuz they're behind July, September, and November. Yeah. And the reason I asked just to be, you know, consistent over time when other leases came up with there's the issue, those things were tabled. Here we have someone delinquent and asking us to introduce a lease agreement. And I'm I'm suggesting that we should table it until they come to the next meeting. It's only a couple weeks. Yeah. And it won't hurt anything since the um like say they get the crop loan until March and we're only talking $1,900. They'll spend that much cutting it one time.

I mean I' I've been on the council for 10 years now and Dale's longer and that's this has never come up. We renew these every year and they've never been behind. So maybe it should hopefully be resolved by the next meeting. Yeah. I mean, and it's being introduced. So, I guess Alex, we can make a move on something that's being introduced. Table it. It was asked to be it was tabled table. That's a motion on Okay. Yeah. All right. It's been second. Any any comments or questions about this? All right. Mr. Syo. Eli. Yes. Nelson. No. Smith. Kirkoff. Yes. Harrington. Yes. PT.

Yes.

All right, that motion carries. Now, we've got this next one, which I think is like Ed was saying is very similar to the one we just dealt with. Um, and it's read by Councilman Nielson. Ordinance number two of 2026 or an ordinance upon the recommendations of finance department that the city and aces enter into an agriculture lease of 96.82 82 acre track at which 69.11 acres is farmable land more or less with Russell and Mary Edith Stacy Farms and authorizing the mayor Ronnie Williams Jr. to execute said lease on behalf of the city of Nacadus and to provide for advertising and this is basically like the previous

okay same situation. I make a motion that we not move we have well table it yes we have a motion that we table this second motion made and seconded to table any comment or question all seeing no Mr. Stacy, robo. Eli, yes. Nelson, no. Smith Kirkindall, yes. Harrington, yes. PG, yes. All right, that motion carries to table it and deal with it in in the in the near future. All right, this next one is read by Councilwoman Smith Kirkall and is there will we see this all the time, Christmas lighting supplies.

Thank you, mayor. Ordinance number 003 of 2026, an ordinance authorizing the mayor of the city of Nackage to award the bid for Christmas lighting supplies, which is bid number 0681. Whereas a resolution number 087 of 2025 was passed by the nature city council on October 13, 2025 authorizing the mayor to advertise for bids for Christmas lighting supplies. And whereas this bid was advertised in an actor's times on December 11th, December 18th, and December 25th, 2025 in accordance with law. Whereas three bid proposals were received and opened as follows. Dean Naida and Associates, Sarasosa, Texas, Sarasosa, Florida, $91,411. Christmas Lights, Inc. Edund, Oklahoma, $124,660. Holiday Radiance, Avon Lake, Ohio, $138,250. Whereas two bids received from Elite Elite, Elite Textile Trading LLC and Christmas Lighting and Beyond did not comply with the terms of the bid and were not accepted. Whereas on January 7, 2026, the appointed committee of Clarissa Brown Smith, finance director Ed Lee, director of purchasing Tim Tusc, utility director, and Dale Nielsen, Councilman, reviewed the bid proposals for Christmas lighting supplies, which is bid number 061. Whereas above appointed committee members unanimously recommended that the city award the bid to the lowest bidder, Dean Na, and Associates in amount of $91,411. Now therefore be it ordained that the honorable Ronnie Williams Jr. Mayor is

hereby authorized and empowered and directed to sign any and all documents necessary for acceptance of this bid and this is for introduction only. Got some comment now? No, this is just our annual uh restocking of Christmas lights supplies, streamer bulbs, sockets. We talked about this before, but a lot of positive comments on the lights. They're beautiful. This year, we uh we we did ask for a little bit extra for the hund. Yeah. Special things for the hund. We want the hundred to be

um the best. Nice. Have we put put together a committee to I think uh Miss Andrew and them have a committee. I don't know if they've started. Y'all got a committee going? Yeah. Hopefully our lieutenant governor and others will kind of help out with advertising at least. And they are

it. It seems to be very positive this year. I mean, weather. We were just blessed with good weather. I think all of those Saturdays. One time I think it rained, but it rained after everything was over. So, still were able to get people here. So, that should be hopefully a good economic boost um during this time. Okie dokie. Okay. So, we'll see that. That's our usual thing. Again, like the Councilwoman Lord said, it's just for introduction. Look y'all, we just have four resolutions left. And this first one is uh Councilwoman Washington. Eli.

Thank you, mayor. Resolution number 01 of 2026. A resolution authorizing the mayor to execute change order number one to the contract between the city of Nagage and AP Peak Construction for 2025 street rehabilitation program. Whereas on July the 25th, 2025, the city of Negatives execute contract with eight peak construction LAC construction of project known as the city of negatives 2025 street rehabilitation program with the contract amount of $570 and2 $26310 completion of November the 18th of 2025. Whereas AP Construction has completed all work as the project and whereas the city engineer issued change order number one dated December the 8th of 2025 to provide the account of final quality qualities of the contract items and I move to adopt resolution number 001 of 2026. Second map just make a comment that it's $570,26310.

Thank you, Councilwoman. Large. All right. Did we get a a second? We got a motion. Second, Ed. I know Nick shared with me that any questions you can answer. This What is this street program? This is This is the East Fifth.

This was East Fifth Benville intersection. East Fifth, uh, part of, um, I call it Fish Hatchery Road. Uh, and so this was there were change orders added and there were change orders deducted. The net decrease was $105,673. So a net cost to the city for this project was $464,589.81. So Nick has a long narrative written. It's most of it is uh quantity adjustments at the end of the project. Less asphalt, less rock, less things like that. That was the big larger part of the deduction.

Okay. I'll get Nick to send the change order narrative. He can send it to everybody. Did y'all not the council not get it? Oh, did we get it? It's in here. Oh, okay. It's in here. It gives you the purpose and the it explains what the changes are. Well, he already got it. Yeah, he's right behind the resolution. Good deal. Good deal. I want to ask this question. I know you said Fish Hatcher Road. They started midway. Are you planning to come toward um South Drive? I don't know of any more that's planned for that right now. I know Nick based on his evaluation picked the worst section, the section that was in the worst shape to redo.

It was pretty bad there. The beginning is bad, too, but okay. Okay. All righty. Good. So, we got that. So, that's a savings of $105,67329. Awesome. And just to go ahead and tell y'all, we did get 100,000 for St. Mary's Lane. Um, a portion of it. So, that's good. We think uh with this savings any additional that we'll need. Did we get bids for that yet? No. You didn't really do bids, did you?

Yes, we did. I'm having to think because it's not on here. We did an RFP cuz it's a small project. It's only that one section of road, but but if there's some overages, we have some savings, I guess, is what I'm saying. Yeah, we have some savings, but the what we saved on this project, we can put towards St. Mary's. Finishing up the St. Mary's if we need it. Yeah. And that's the block, that's the section between Williams Avenue and East Fifth. Any um any questions, comments? All righty. Seeing none, Mrs. This is a good change order, y'all. It's a decrease. All right, Mr. Stacy, roll call vote. Eli, yes. Nelson, yes. Smith Kirkindall, yes. Harrington,

yes. Yes. All right, that motion carries. Look, I don't know. The picture shows two line, but the our document says water treatment facility improvements. Is that the No, this is with the one we just did the picture. Uh-uh. No, we just there. Okay. What are you looking I guess what I'm saying is Yeah, I see. It does say yes. Are we supposed to the resolution is for the water treatment facility?

Okay. Oh, I got you. Okay. All right. I got you. So, okay. So, yeah, just don't worry about the pictures when you see. Okay. Okay. Councilman PT.

Thank you, mayor. Resolution number 002 of 2026, a resolution authorizing the mayor to advertise and accept bids for the water treatment facility improvements. Whereas the city wishes to advertise public bids for the water treatment facility improvements phase two. Whereas the seal proposal shall be addressed to the city of Nagadish office of the director of purchasing at 1400 Sabine Street Nagadus Louisiana 71457 are received at the city of Naggetis person purchasing department at 1400 Sabine Street Nagis Louisiana. Whereas the city of Negatives will accept sealed and electronic bids for the project until 2 pm on Thursday, February 12th of 2026 at the office of the director of purchasing at 1400 Sabine Street. Whereas the bids will be publicly open and read aloud at the location and time above. May I so move to adopt resolution number 002?

Second. All right. Motion made and seconded. Tim, what are these improvements?

This is the second part of the water treatment facility improvements of the uh estimated 17.7 million uh dollar expansion and rehab. It's going to be the rehab of the Clear Well 2 U plant 2, Clearwell 2 tube settlers and u actuators on plant two. That way we can take down plant three and do a complete rehab on plant three. Plant two puts out 2.5 million, so we need it running at total capacity with plant 4 at 2.5 million. So we can keep up with our daily usage, which averages about 6 million. So we're going to be pushing it pretty hard just trying to keep up to to have plant 3 completely rehab. So this is this bid just for plan three or is it two and three?

Two and three. Two and three. So plan three goes down when plant four comes up. You know plant two will go down first. That way we can get it putting out max capacity. On paper it's supposed to put out 4 million but years ago one of the clarifiers was turned into a thickener so it only runs half capacity. If we push it hard we can get 2.5 million out of it. The water's not the greatest, but that's what we have to do to be able to take down plant three. So, we don't think this renovation project will give us more production.

It wouldn't the renovation's going to let us go to as much as the clarif the the plants that we have in existence now will put out. Okay, gotcha. How we doing on plan 4? I know that's

changing the subject. We have a we have a total water plant shutdown scheduled for sometime around the beginning of February, which means we're going to be shutting down the entire water plant. We will not be producing water at that time to do the electrical tie in. Uh we're going to try to do it midnight. Um but plant 4 is waiting on that.

Good. With our clear well 3 being down, it kind of hinders it. We don't have that million gallons that we can put out into the system. So, we're waiting on East Fifth to be completely rehabbed right now. East FTH elevated tank, which is a million gallon. It's almost done. That's what we're waiting on to be able to do this shutdown. So, we're close. Complicated.

Complicated. Well, I I would say this is this is um indicative of our commitment to the residents of Nacadus. We said that we would improve our water capacity and that's exactly what we're doing. Plant 4 is near completion. We're working on rehabing two and three. It's one of those things we said we would do and we actually see it right now. So obviously we can't this can't happen without the support of the city council. Obviously the leadership and our utility department, the engineers and folks like that. So um really really appreciative of that. You know, water is one of those deals that people just take for granted all the time. And if you don't have it, you see how important it is. So we're trying to make it to where we don't ever get to that situation or we minimize people not having water or being with the lack of water. So really good really good. This is a better agenda than I thought. Really good. Really good deal here. Okay. So, getting ready to advertise for bids. All right. Any any comment or question here?

I don't know, man. I just I'm wondering once we get at full capacity, maybe we could be a landing destination for a data center. Oh, man. I'm just kidding. But that that's out there in Streetport. Our inquiry. Oh, really? Oh, no. We No. No. I don't know, bro. I don't know if I say no. We need to look at this now. But uh you know I know it's it's become very controversial. It's become controvers but here's what I've heard. They will they being the the companies whether it's Meta I don't know who else besides Meta um who's doing them but they'll pay for the improvements cuz they going to suck up a lot

but and I don't think they necessarily need treated water but I mean people throughout the country some people have been turning them down going against them. you saw what happened in Shreport. Um, which I think the city council unanimously said, "Let's do it." I think the, uh, municipal, whatever they call the planning commission, fight, turn it down. But did it, hey, it it's the we did our industrial and I know we're off topic, but we did our industry analysis, and that was kind of the the hottest industry right now. Now, it doesn't create a whole lot of permanent jobs, but it does a lot of construction, but there are some permanent jobs at the same time. So, I mean, I don't think AI is going anywhere. It's here. It's here.

So, we just got to find out how we welcome it into our environment. So, but we're putting ourselves to your point though, we're putting ourselves in a position where we could possibly do this. And that's what we were saying. That's what Alex said a whole lot. Even Matt said it, you know, if we we build this, we could there is an economic development component to increasing your water capacity. And we wouldn't be able to entertain that stuff without without what we're doing now. So, this is this is this is a really big thing. I might cry. No, I'm messing with you. All right. But, um, any other comment or question? All right. Okay. Seeing now, Mr. Stacy, roll call vote. Eli, yes. Nelson, yes. Smith Kirk Doll, yes. Harrington, yes.

PT, yes. All right. That motion carries. Two more items, y'all, and then we'll all go to the NSU game. You cannot go home. Okay. So, we've got Councilman Harrington reading the next deal. Resolution four of 2026, a resolution authorizing the mayor to execute a certificate of substantial completion to the contract between the city of Nagadus and CDE construction LLC for the water distribution system improvements breed town phase 2. I move to adopt resolution 4 of 2026. Second. Okay. Motion made a second. Tim, you've got some images and I love when we do images. I love images. Thank you for the images. All right, Tim, you want to explain?

No, we I mean this was the Breeder Town project we just finished up. U Councilwoman Eli went around with me and we we did the punch list. Punch list is pretty much complete. We're going to hold on to the retainage for 45 days and then we have a year warranty after on roads, water lines.

Whoa. Year warranty. Good deal. Okay, it's good. Look, and I know it wasn't on the live agenda, but this is Breeda Town, and I know the guy said nothing happens in Breida Town, but this is Breida Town that we put the water lines in. And um it helps with that discolored um discolored water, brown tinted water, which we hate. Trust me, the utility department, they don't like that. Um and the best way I'm told anyway that we could address it, it's a long game. It's doing these type of works, going in the ground,

changing out the old cast iron, putting this new type of stuff in that's going to be more durable, more last longing. So, that's Breeda Town. Tim and I will be in conversation what our next phase is going to be uh as we talk about budget and things like that. I will say the one on South Williams has started. So, y'all drive by South Williams, y'all see some activity. I'm seeing some cables, but Tim, I talked to you about that. I'm just kind of interested. I rode down there today. Um, but we got one breed of town, this one in South Williams. We're doing on both sides of the river. All right. So, just so that that's very clear to you. So, you know, we we're about addressing the needs everywhere in the city. Okay. But we did put a Facebook post up and I know there were people saying, "Hey, oh, what about this area? What about this area?" If we could change all water lines, I guarantee you we would do it at one time. But because we don't have that unlimited pot of money, we're just chugging along. Now, I think, and again, I said this earlier, we're not going to uh count our chickens before they hatch. I think we're going to get some good news. We may not get the good news, but I think it's headed toward that way, and we'll be able to report that out uh if it comes to us. But we are looking for funding to change out these water lines, to improve these streets, to support our law enforcement, to support our firemen, to support whatever the city has to do. We're trying to do it because it takes money to get it done. Okay. All right. So, this is substantial completion. Any comments or questions about it?

Mayor, I will say that in this area, the residents have been telling us that the water tastes a lot better. The water looks a lot better. They have better pressure. So, it's it's been a a really good uh experience so far. That is awesome. That's the news we like to hear. We like to hear. All right. And this is second phase. And like I said, we'll talk to him and I talk more about is there another phase in breed town so we're just trying to make sure we're um representing everybody everywhere in the city of Nacades. All right. Uh then lastly, Councilman Nielson, we made it to the last item. Last item. Oh, we got a vote. We got a vote. Yeah. All right. I think we got a motion in a second, didn't we? Yes. Okay. I got a little too excited. All right, Mrs. Stacy. Roll call vote. Eli. Yes. Nelson.

Yes. Smith Kirkindall. Yes. Harrington. Yes. PT.

Yes. All right. That motion carries. Now, lastly, Councilman Nielson. Resolution number 005 of 2026, a resolution authorizing and approving master services and purchasing agreement between the city of Nacadesh and Axon Enterprise Incorporated for acquisition of devices and services and authorizing the mayor Ronnie Williams Jr. to execute the agreement and any other documents necessary and proper in the premises. Whereas the city of Nacadesh desires and has determined that a true and very real need exists for the purchase and acquisition of devices and services for the city of Nacades Police Department described in the attached master services and purchasing agreement and quote summary between the city of Nacadish and Axon Enterprise Incorporated. And whereas further the proposed master services and purchasing agreement and quote summary are attached. And whereas having received the attached master services and purchasing agreement and quote summary between the city and Axton Enterprise Incorporated and proving same the city council of the city of Nacades desires to authorize mayor Ronnie Williams Jr. to execute agreement on behalf of the city and the council shall ratify and adopt any previous agreement signed to secure this contract and interest rate. Now therefore, be it resiled that city council of the city of Nacadus inlect legal session convene does hereby authorize empower and direct honorable Ronnie Williams Jr. mayor to execute the master services and purchasing agreement quote summary between Axon Enterprise Incorporated and the city of Nacadus. And I said all that to say this that this is tasers. Is that correct?

Yes, sir. And I'll give way to the chief. We pass Chief Collins who's known for brevity. He's known for brevity. I'd like to make a motion to adopt resolution 005. Second. Motion made and seconded. Seconded, Chief Collins.

Yes, sir. This is basically uh the contract to allow us to purchase tasers for our officers. As you know, nationwide, we encounter all kind of situations dealing with mentally ill, dealing with people who are violent offenders. And this gives our our officers the opportunity to be able to utilize a device that can take a person into custody, allow us to limit the exposure to injury, which is by far helpful to everyone and actually do what we need to do. Um, it's amazing. It's thoughtprovoking that Nadesh Police Department was the first to deploy tasers in this parish. And um, at this point in time, we we basically need to allow that component so that each one of our officers has a taser available. given the circumstances that they encounter each and every day.

That's great. Look, this is um it's going to help a lot. Fantastic thing. This shows us supporting our law enforcement. Chief was explaining to me we have seven tasers. Seven in a department of how many? That's all 55. Department of 55. Seven tasers. So all of them will have a taser now is what we're trying. Yes, ma'am. And that's that's what was really thoughtprovoking. We as as we talked about it on the panel, we try to save money where we can, but at this point in time, we have festivals, constant uh details and parades. And if something happen, you don't know when something's going to happen.

We can't say, "Hey, y'all wait while we have someone come over so we can utilize this." So, it it just gives our my officers the opportunity to have something that they can allow to deescalate. We just recently did force utilization and deescalation training back in December, and it's all so that we can talk people down. We don't want to hurt anyone. We don't want anyone to be hurt and at the end of the day we we this tool will allow us to do that. That's great. It's a no-brainer to me.

Chief like to get those long email. I said, "Man, you had me on the first line when you said only seven for the whole department." So, they have a tax as well and it's just using the taxpayer dollars in a responsible way to purchase what our law enforcement needs to help to keep our city safe. So, any comment or question about this resolution? All right. And I think it's a great piece. Mr. Stacy, roll call vote. Eli, yes. Nelson, yes. Smith Kirkindall, yes. Harington, yes. PT, yes.

All right, that motion carries. Thank you, council. Um, our next meeting is on the 26th. Um, and do remember that our offices will be closed in honor of MLK Day on uh the 19th. Uh, but there are several activities taking place. Download Regroup for street closures such as that. download the Go Nagatives app. We'll you know how we take a rest and then we'll get back started. Blooming on the brick, stuff like that will start appearing appearing back. Uh what is that? Uh Jazz Fest. Boom boom boom boom. It'll be here before you know it. Really right now. I mean, you got Mardigra happening, right? Uh you just had a Mardigra parade. We didn't announce it in our last meeting, but I think it was a successful parade. Um from what I can see, we'll talk about it tomorrow in our staff meeting, but I think it was good. Uh but this is a Kings and Cocktails. King cakes and cocktails a service league y'all and Steve move that that's Friday the what? Move the hand Steve is Friday January this this Friday. Yeah, move the hand. There you go. 16. So that's this Friday y'all. That's happening and it's a ticketed event. Tickets are $20 from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. So everybody's Marty Gro. We got them back to back to back. We got another crew, a new crew in this year. Crew of the nine. So they're doing they got a ball and everything going on this Saturday.

Parade will be on the 31st. parade on the 31st. That's right. Um and she may have that in here. Like Matthew Craig said earlier, um we're starting with the MLK Day of Events. Actually, starting well before MLK day. Uh and I'm still going to send it to you, Miss Cal Roy, but if you want to take a picture, you can. Uh but the 16th, it's starting with the Rolling Hills Ministry. And it just got these different things. Y'all look at it on Facebook. It's there. We may have it on the Go Nagginage app as well, but I'm not sure. But that's what I was saying. all the way through the 20th that racial that day of racial healing. The campus has been doing that now for the last few years that I know of. Uh so it's going to be at 6 p.m. And I think that's a very important topic and uh effort that hopefully people would attend to. But the big MLK day march and justice for peace program. Normally it's at the triangle, but this year is at the MLK rec center. I assume that's because of weather maybe. I don't know, but it's at the MLK rec center. So, uh, we're going to march from the Ben Johnson Community Center. Not as far as we did in previous years. We're gonna go to the MLK rec center. Okay. All right. I think we have another one. That's the same thing about the Peace March. It's just it's on flyer. All right. Starts at 10:00 a.m. Starts at 10:00 a.m. Crew of Dianes. Uh, they've got a Migra parade. It's going to take place on Uhuh. Valentine's Day. I know not. No, I'm messing around. But that's a good day. take your special significant other to the parade. All right, you already got everything planned out for you. All right, so um at 6:00 p.m. that's when the crew of Dian seasones and that's going to be a really good parade as it is every year. What's that? That's a art deal. Oh, Steve. Okay. Oh, she Okay. Yeah. Figures in focus, realism, and everyday stories. This is taking place at Northwestern State University. Uh it's really great to have a university uh in your city. Different things like this. So, um I think the lady told me she was passing it by. So, again, I think it's free and

open to the public. She'll be interested at the Orville Henchi Gallery. All right. Uh preparing our youth for the workforce put on by the chamber. All right. Be a part of the solution. So, this is going to take place January 21st, which is going to be next Wednesday. It's going to be at NRMC NRMC's list stash room from 8:15 to 9:30 a.m. So again, I think that's a very important topic that we uh should be discussing. Is that it?

All right, that's it. Look y'all, um it is 9 to 12. I don't know if y'all noticed um Saturday Northwestern won they won on a buzzer beater and they made the top 10 ESPN. Now that's they made the top 10 that's of the whole country and you had college football going on. You had uh NFL I don't know if they counted the NFL stuff but you had a lot of sports basketball NBA and we made number four. Michael Thomas hit the shot. We won. We always start out down but we come back up. It's 15 to9 now. I'm encourage you to go over get that schedule. Support the demons the Lady Demons as well and any other sports they have going on over there. Okay. All right. We kept you very long tonight. At this time, we will hear a motion to adjurnn.

May I make a motion we adjourn? Second. Motion is made in second. All in favor? I. Meeting is adjourned. Have a great night, folks. See you at the game.