City Council - Regular Meeting

Good evening, everybody.

Our September 14, 2026 meeting is now called to order. We're going to have invocation and then Pledge of Allegiance by yours truly. Will we stand for the prayer and pledge at this time? Let us pray. Oh, dear God, how we are so grateful for another day in this journey of life that we have. God, we thank you as we have several agenda items that need to be addressed and start to be discussed. God, we understand we cannot do anything or don't want to do anything without you, so we pray that you would guide us, you would lead us in respectful conversation and intelligent conversation God, that we understand, as the word says, and we quote so often, even in meetings such as this, that we should do everything decently and in order. Thank you not only for this meeting, but I ask that you bless the residents of our city, given all that we go through, not just in Natchitoches, but in other cities as well. We know that there's a calendar of events. Some events have passed, but there are some before us. As we're looking at Meat Pie and Car Show and Christmas and Top of the Boot and so many other things, God, we thank you for your divine protection that these events will go well. We give you glory and praise now in your son Jesus' name. Amen.

Amen.

Will you please join me in reciting the Pledge of Allegiance? All right, thank you all. The next item on the agenda is the reading and approval of the minutes from our meeting on August 24th.

May I make a motion that we dispense with the reading of the minutes of August 24th and that they be adopted as recorded? No corrections.

Motion has been made. Second. Motion has been made and seconded that we dispense with the reading of the minutes and to adopt them as they have been recorded given that there are no corrections to them. Any comments or questions about this motion? Okay. Seeing none, Mrs. Stacy, roll call vote.

Nelson.

Yes.

Smith-Kirkendall. Yes. Harrington. Yes. P.T.

Yes. All right, that motion carries. Next, we would like to do what we do every month. And this month, we've got our employee from the Planning and Zoning Department, Mr. John Putak. And just want to acknowledge him. We've shared the Facebook post on him. I think it pretty much got some good interactions. But Chantrell, just anything you'd like to say about Mr. John?

John has been a delight to our office. I love his organization skills. I love his artisticness. I encourage him to share thoughts of anything that he thinks will make our office run a little bit more smoothly. He keeps me in line with a lot of things. I don't have to run and second guess and make sure things are done. I can give him an assignment and I know it's done at the same time. If he has an issue about something, he'll come to me. I can explain it to him and, again, it's done. I don't have to hold his hands for anything. I can give him direction and know that it's followed. So he's been a great support, and I appreciate him being with our department.

Okay. All right. So I know customers, residents who have to engage with the planning and zoning department will probably interact with John. But, again, he does great work for us. So just when you see him, tell him the good job that he's doing for the city of Natchitoches. All right. After that, y'all, we have a proclamation on, and this is one that is one that we've been doing annually, not new to us. But it's a proclamation declaring September of this year, September 2026, as ovarian cancer awareness. And we don't have Councilwoman Washington Eli with us, but we've asked our Councilwoman at large, Smith Kirkendall, to read this proclamation for us.

Thank you, Mayor. This is Proclamation Resolution Number 063 of 2026, a proclamation declaring September 2026 as Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month in the City of Natchitoches. Whereas ovarian cancer is the fifth leading cause of cancer-related deaths among women and accounts for more deaths than any other genealogical cancer, and whereas the American Cancer Association society estimates that 22,440 women are diagnosed with ovarian cancer every year in the United States. Whereas recognition of the warning signs are essential to an early detection and effective treatment and early symptoms of ovarian cancer are commonly overlooked, public awareness and knowledge are essential to getting a diagnosis before the cancer worsens. And whereas it is critical that those affected by ovarian cancer have the proper resources and access to healthcare to prevent, detect, treat, and ultimately defeat ovarian cancer. and all cancers, and whereas ovarian cancer and the hardship it brings have affected too many lives, this month the City of Natchitoches stands with everyone who has been touched by this disease, and we recognize all those committed to advancing the fight against this cancer through research, advocacy, and quality care. Now, therefore, I, Ronnie Williams, Jr., Mayor, and the Natchitoches City Council Do hereby proclaim September 26 as Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month in the city of Natchitoches and encourage all citizens to honor ovarian cancer patients, survivors, their families, and caregivers. And remember those who have lost their lives to this devastating disease. And I move for adoption and approval of resolution number 063 of 2026. Second. Second.

Motion is made, and we have a second with it as well, adopting this proclamation. Look, and she's no stranger to us. Mrs. Lentz, any words that you'd like to share? Yes, ma'am.

Most of all, my gratitude. Thank you, Stacy, for always helping and for all of you. Thank you. Thank you, Mayor Willis. I appreciate you so much. Thank you. So as I was rushing over here and feeling stressed about getting to the soccer field and back across, then I remembered how blessed I am to be dealing with just the day in, day out busyness of life and how not only ovarian cancer, but every cancer and every time you're dealing with disease in your body, how it's debilitating. And so in each of our lives when we are so busy with our regular go in and about, I just want to stop and just have gratitude for that. I know myself and my own health and my family with my mother, It is a luxury. It is a pleasure. And it is an honor to get to be healthy and well. So the big thing that I want with the awareness is, yes, we want to get the word out, early detection. But I want all of you to remember how vital it is that you advocate for yourself, for your health. I used to think there was no Calvary. But there is a Calvary. but they don't know to come help you if you don't ask for help. So you must listen to your intuition and trust yourself and lean on your health care providers. Please be an advocate for yourself so that we can see each other again next year and y'all be excited to see little chocolates and little things that are coming. But I do ask, I thank you as a city and for all of our campuses, LSMSA, Northwestern State, we're all turning teal. Your support is just wonderful. I ask that tomorrow and every Tuesday in the month of September, the little ribbon I've given you, please wear teal on Tuesdays. And if you haven't talked with anybody in your family about ovarian cancer, please do. Every time you see a teal ribbon, you're going to think, did I talk to my mom? Did I talk to my sister? Because ovarian cancer is not a women's disease. It is a disease that happens to all of us any time we lose someone we love. So thank you for your time. Please keep being advocates for yourself, talking with your health care providers so we can be here again together next year. Yes? Thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you so much. Thank you. We're going to get a picture together, huh?

Yeah, we will.

You know, I brought our ribbons for that.

Look, and please, did you state your first and last name?

Oh, hey, so for the jury? Yeah. The only time y'all ever arrested me was over my dog. She didn't have her leash, so that was the only time I've been there. I'm Leah Coleman-Lentz, and I am from Louisiana, but I've been here in Natchitoches since I came to college, left for a short minute, and came back. But thank y'all all for all the work you do.

Leah, we appreciate your consistency, your dedication to this cause. and just really specifically thankful that you're able to take a personal hardship and turn it into a passion that can impact somebody else's life for the positive.

Well, if your mama brought you some ribbons and told you to do something, I bet you would. I was on a ladder today and somebody came up and they said, why do you do this? It's so hot. It's so hot. But if you've ever been with anyone who's going through a terminal illness, you know, they get hot and they get uncomfortable and they can't get up and do. So I have gratitude for being able to do that. And it's my mama's guilt. You know, she keeps me moving forward.

I keep doing it every year.

Thank you, mom. All right.

Any comments or questions about the proclamation?

I'll keep bringing y'all candy. I'll get you the cookies again.

Seeing none, Mrs. Stacey, roll call vote.

Nelson? Yes. Smith-Kirkendall? Yes. Harrington?

Yes. PT?

Yes.

All right, that motion carries. We want you to come. Yes, ma'am. I'm sorry. I'm grateful to be present.

I'm also trying to get back. Let's see. I really don't know.

I don't know if he's right.

He hasn't. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know.

Okay, look, so we have an ordinance for final that's on here, and we have three for introduction. and then a resolution, okay? So this one that's for final is read by Councilman Harrington.

This is Ordinance 31 of 2026, Ordinance establishing a six-month moratorium upon the consideration receipt and or processing of all future and pending applications for placement of a mural in the historic district of the city of Natchitoches, setting a public hearing date and further providing with respect thereto. This was introduced at the prior meeting and I'm going to read it title only. I move to adopt Ordinance 31 of 2026. Second.

Motion made and seconded to adopt this ordinance six-month moratorium on murals in the historic district. We did this before as it relates to short-term rentals. And I think we, I don't know if the attorneys gave us something to work with and then we had a public meeting or did we have two public meetings? But I do think that at some point with this moratorium, we will have a public meeting to allow people to come and after they've had an opportunity to read it, to come and make comment and suggestions and we'll take those comments under consideration, right? but we will be working with, you know, city attorneys that we have here to, you know, update, add language, whatever it takes as it relates to murals in the historic district. Shontrell, anything? I know this is kind of directly impacting your department. Anything? Okay. All right. Any other public comment or counsel, anybody? All right. Seeing none, Mrs. Stacy, roll call vote.

Nelson. Yes. Smith-Kirkendall. Yes. Harrington. Yes. Peachey.

Yes.

All right. That motion carries. And again, give us a little time and we'll get into some public meetings or one public meeting and try to come up with something that makes sense for us. All right. The next... is what we see from time to time on the agenda. Coming from Chanterelle's department, it's for introduction, and Councilman Nielsen is reading it tonight.

Thank you. Ordinance number 32 of 2026, an ordinance declaring certain building unsafe and recommending that same be demolished or put into repair to comply with the building code, authorizing notice to be served, fixing hearing date, an appointing curator to represent absentees, whereas the director of planning and zoning and city building inspector have filed written reports with the city council declaring that the buildings listed below are in dangerous and unsanitary condition, which makes them unsafe and endangering the public welfare and recommending that said buildings be demolished or put in repair to comply with the building code. Item one is Siggy Sylvia Jr. and Clara M. 839 Dorothy Street is the physical address of the property. Property number two is Jack Johnson and physical property 1101 Dean Street. Third is Robert E. Jackson, 1441 Georgia Ann Street.

Excuse me there. Are you showing these as he's talking? Is that what you're doing, Steve?

No, that's the same one. Chantrelle, you got pictures for later on?

No, they're all on their PowerPoint.

Which one is this? That's the first one?

This one is 839 Dorothy. Is it just a click, Steve, or no?

Do you want to go back to 1101, Dean?

Let's see. I don't know if it's just a click or maybe it's not. Maybe they weren't incorporated on the PowerPoint, but

Yeah, I put them in a list in the PowerPoint.

Okay, I see what you're saying. Okay, yeah, a different PowerPoint from that one, okay.

Now, some of these pictures that you're looking at are not the most up-to-date pictures because the properties look a whole lot worse than what they are on this picture, especially this one. This is 839 Dorothy. We boarded that property up a couple years ago, and they still haven't done anything. We've actually mowed the grass on this one, but because it's been abandoned, we decided to put this one on the condemnation report.

Okay. Hit the next one, Steve, because Councilman Nielsen can kind of read them.

1109 Dean Street is Jack Johnson. Yeah, that's correct. And then 1441 Georgia Ann Street is Robert Jackson. 1526 Stella, Ida M. Evans, Marina A. Lewis. And 115 Kathy Drive, Edward C. Breedlove.

Percy Lucas. 1430 Sawyer Street. And 406 Gibson Street, Brilliant C, LLC.

And 831 Saleem Street is Clyde Jackson Jr. And Frank J. Raymond Sr. and Eddie T. Raymond, 1518 Mandel Street. Cesar and Alice Demas, 444 Howell Street. James W. Fluitt, 826 4th Street. Cletus Shields and Tamilia S. Relaford, 230 Lower 5th. Emily M. Kristoff, 805 Saline Street. Michael J. and Gloria J. Braxton, 1405 Amelia. Johnny L. Scarborough, 1120 Lake Street. And Edward Robertson, 1346 Dixie Street. And the last one, Robert Murphy, 1328 Silver Street.

That's 17 properties.

Okay. And thank you, Councilman Nielsen. That's just for introductions. What I know about Shuntrail is that, you know, not going to rush to just condemn a property. It's gone through a time period of being vacant and things like that. I'm a little surprised about the 4th Street property. I've always, you know the last time somebody lived in that house?

It's been a while, and I've reached out to, now, like I said, a lot of these pictures, you look at just the front of the property.

Right.

But if you walk through the properties or walk around the properties, then you'll see where the floor is falling in, the roof is falling in. And we based on, before we can timber structure, we'll look at the safety habits. You have children, you have vagrants that like to hide in structures that's been unattended. And we have sent out notification. We've actually cleaned up a lot of these properties where we've gone in and we've actually either cut the grass or we've boarded the structures up. This one, for instance, that whole back half of that is gone.

On the Silver Street when we're here?

This is 1346. That was 46 on Lake.

Well, I'm looking at two different ones. Yeah, they got two different.

Which one are you talking about? This one here. I guess he's moving through this one now. Mm-hmm.

Oh, you're on this side. So the 826.

That's a neat house.

The floor is actually rotting really bad all the way around the porch.

It's bad in the back.

It is. Yeah.

Yeah, I passed by so many times, often wondered about who owned it.

Yeah, who owned it. Mr. Flute owns it. Who owns it? Mr. James Flute owns it. He owns several properties, and I don't know where he's at or what's going on, but a lot of his properties are now in this condition, where he used to be one of the top contractors that would go and renovate, and restore properties, but he hasn't done anything in a while.

And has he reached back out to you after you contacted him? No, he hasn't. I haven't heard anything from him.

I mean, we've cleaned that property. That property is actually boarded up. It's a nice house, though. Right. It is.

It's got a nice porch.

It's right across the street from 8.

We have the property we were dealing with for years. Yeah.

But I spoke to the owner at 115 Caffey, which Chantrell has been working with for a pretty good while. And he finally admitted to dragging his feet on it. And his contractor's wife is in the hospital waiting for a heart transplant. So he's kind of asked for some help. Additional time and I told explained to him that look the intent is never to tear him down. It's to rehabilitate him and get him fixed and you know that he's got 30 days to show a little sign of improvement and Hopefully that can be done

I know you started on some demolition I've seen, and it's looking good. It's really looking good. Thank you. And I think it's going to bring some, I don't know, appeal to the communities and neighborhoods. I think it looks good. So you have sent notices? Are you going to send notices to these people?

No, I've sent notices before we've made it to this point. A lot of these properties, like I've said, we've already either cut the grass, boarded it up, or cleaned the properties. So we've sent notifications for everything we've done to a property before we've touched it. This is just like this is the last of the final straws of making them do something with their property is to recommend that they be condemned.

Ms. Rock, on average, how long have you been dealing with each one on average? six months, a year?

Most of them are a year because of how our finances run for budgeting purposes. When a new fiscal year starts, I normally try to start with a new list of properties. So these properties that we're looking at now are properties that I began working with a year and a half ago. So that next year, when our budget comes around, if I have to demo these properties and I have to use city funding, it's going to come from the next budget year.

Correct.

And then next year, I'll have a new list of of properties that we'll start working on. So it's always a year and a half behind before I actually bring the property to condemnation.

It will give them some time.

So it's a very slow process.

It is. But we go out of our way to work with a lot of our homeowners, especially if someone comes to me and say, hey, give me a little bit more time, like the 115 Cathy. will give them as much time as they say, please just give me three, four, six months. I'll do that before I even bring it to you guys to recommend it's condemned.

Okay, good, good.

Okay, well this is for introduction.

Okay. So look. Any questions? This one is a little different than a typical ordinance. It lays over for 30 days. So we'll be looking at it next month in October instead of the next meeting, which is on the 28th of this month. So again, reach out to us if there are any questions about it. All righty. Okay. Next, we've got an ordinance introduced and it's going to be read by Councilwoman Ellard Smith-Kirkendall.

Thank you, Mayor. This is Ordinance Number 033 of 2026, an ordinance prohibiting the parking of commercial tractor trailers and heavy commercial vehicles on public streets within the city of Natchitoches. providing definitions, exceptions, enforcement penalties, and related matters. Whereas the City Council of the City of Natchitoches finds that the parking of commercial tractor trailers, semi-trucks, truck tractors, and other heavy commercial vehicles on public streets presents hazards to the public health, safety, and welfare of and whereas heavy commercial vehicles obstruct motorists' visibility at intersections, impede pedestrian travel, interfere with emergency response vehicles, damage municipal streets, reduce available parking, create excessive noise, increase diesel emissions, and negatively impact residential neighborhoods and commercial corridors. and whereas Louisiana municipalities possess police powers pursuant to the Louisiana Constitution and Louisiana Revised Statutes and related provisions to regulate the use of streets and protect the health, safety, and welfare of the public, whereas the City Council finds that prohibiting long-term parking of tractor trailers on public streets is necessary to preserve the city's infrastructure, improve traffic safety, maintain neighborhood character, and promote economic development. And this is for introduction only, Mayor.

All right. I think this is something Councilman Nielsen has interest in seeing happen. I remember receiving a call as well, and I actually trailed a couple questions about it. Just did a Google search. Where can truck drivers in the Aggregate Park overnight? And you've got the Chevron on the bypass. You know, they say some other local convenience stops. So the ordinance lays out why we think that this should happen. Obviously, we certainly encourage people to work and appreciate truck drivers. But as we're thinking about long-term condition of our local streets and I think some other safety matters. Councilman Nelson, you want to share some other?

I wish Nick was here. That was one of the phone calls I made was to him on roads and most places that we have in residential where you have them parking on a continual basis, the road is deteriorating prematurely. Because for a tractor trailer, most of the roads that they drive on are eight to 12 inches thick. And on a residential street, we have a two inch overlay. So with 26,000 pounds, it's not designed to to handle that kind of weight on a consistent basis. It's one thing to have the waste connections coming by to pick up your trash and you can look where they pull their garbage cans and Donald can probably verify that the streets are buckling and in my district there's a clay vein and they tear up prematurely and I have one that parks Oakland that we've already repaired the street twice but just from natural traffic and now that I have a tractor trailer on it you can see where it's beginning to do it again plus in a residential I think you have a reasonable expectation that you shouldn't be dodging a tractor trailer parked in front of your next-door neighbor's house you know most people drive to a yard off of a main highway, get in their tractor trailer, drive the truck, then come back, hop in their personal vehicle and drive home. It's just, there are probably some cases where that is appropriate, but there are a few other places in West that I've gone by that it's become customary to park the tractor trailer there and I've looked at the roads and the roads are tearing up. Donald, if you've got any input on that.

Yes. And like you said, on Oakland, you know, we have a lot of places where I think it have like a water log, mostly in that area where I know when we did Kaiser, we had like the water table holds a lot of water in that area. So a lot of times when you do that, they don't have the capacity to hold that weight load. So we have a lot of problems where we have a lot of potholes over in that part of East for sure. We have it in Oakland. on those neighborhoods over there. We have a lot of holes we have to go back and repair, and that's from the garbage trucks. But like you said, with some people parking their 18-wheels over there, that's not helping the roads. So we need to come up with something. We have it also in Holland Park. I know one time we had a gentleman that was parking over there on the end of Holland Park. It might have been Fifth Street going back. And he was parking and we had to go in there and do a lot of work too in that location because of those 18-wheelers coming through on a regular basis. And a lot of people find places to park. My son had an 18-wheeler. He parks out over by on the bypass. People, they have to rent a space to park their trucks and a lot of people trying to save money on not renting that, you know, up the cost. So I think that's why some of them parking in the neighborhoods, you know, trying to save money. But we need to come up with an ordinance.

And this ordinance here, Chantrell, did a great job collaborating with other departments, get input and all that. We had an ordinance on the books that actually cover the trucks in my district and it also covered one district, residential district in West, but it didn't cover all of them. So The majority of the city wasn't covered. Like your neighborhood, Mayor, would not have been covered. Eddie's wasn't included. Chris's neighborhood wasn't. I don't think yours was. So I don't need to be included. Yeah, so this addresses the entire city. So it should clean up everything.

Yes, I was one of them. Surprised by this time now it hadn't come up. Yeah, but you said that there is... There is some language there, but they did it for a couple districts.

And the signs are long gone. Okay.

Yes, there needs to be a citywide audience for the whole city.

Just some of the things it says near the end of the documents we have. saying his ordinance is needed because it improves public safety, protects city infrastructure, which you heard Councilman Nielsen deal with a little bit, or kind of extensively, preserves neighborhood character, supports economic development, and creates clear, consistent enforcement. So just wanted to share that. Look, this is just for introduction. So just if there are any questions. Certainly connect with us and reach out to us, okay?

Can I also say this? There will also be fines assessed for those, the first, second, and third offense fines. And as far as jail time for those who does not abide by this ordinance. So people need to be aware of this.

Right, okay.

They're aware of this.

Got you. No, thank you for pointing that out. Okay, one more ordinance for introduction. Councilman PTS Hamlin.

Thank you, Mayor. Ordinance number 034 of 2026, an ordinance approving a license agreement, a temporary staging area with AEP Southwestern Electric Power Company for the temporary use of Park Natchitoches as a staging area in the event of emergency conditions and further authorizing the mayor of the city of Natchitoches to enter into the license agreement a temporary staging area with AEP, Southwestern Electric Power Company, and to execute any and all other related documents that might be necessary and proper to provide for advertising and a savings clause. This is for introduction.

All right. Tommy helped to put this together. Good to see you tonight, Tommy. So we worked on it. You got any comment, Tommy, that that would be?

It does allow the city to get out of the 90 days notice. It's a five-year agreement, but if you have problems with it, you can notify them and terminate the agreement.

Okay. Good. Awesome.

What exactly are they going to be doing with this staging?

If you had another large storm and they had to bring... A lot of trucks. This would allow them to park at the park.

Oh, they had the park. All right.

Is this the same one? Was it them that last time, I guess it was last year or two years ago, and they really damaged the parking lot pretty heavily out there. I don't know. Was that them? Do you remember? I think they actually had living quarters and all that.

Yeah. Mess hall, living quarters, their own bathrooms. It's a small city that they bring. But how was it? How did they leave? Pretty bad, didn't they? They fixed it. They did. A few spots buckled up on that. I was just curious. Mm-hmm.

The concerns I had about it was I felt like I ought to be only using hard surface areas. Drive off into the soccer field and run it up. That would be a problem. And then it did allow for, I think it was 90 days. Is that correct, Mayor? 90 days that they could actually use it in response to a storm. Right. It seemed like a long time period. Until they fix it. The last big storm, how long did we have trucks in town? It was quite a while. Pretty good while.

Yeah, that storm was last year?

I go back to his war. Yeah, it was about two years ago.

I think there was some staging even at the Laura.

Yeah, we've had them for the most recent ice storm.

Okay. Well, was it last year? No. Oh, it was this year. And they staged here. And a lot of people out of power for an extended time. Yeah, they staged here.

And drove somewhere else, but I don't remember where they were going.

Yeah, I guess because we're centrally located. Yeah, I guess because we're centrally located. This doesn't have any fee with it.

I think it was a dollar. The consideration is that they're serving... They actually have customers in the city.

Right.

So there's some people that live in the city.

Which I'm one of them. I'm one of them, yeah. Okay. No, I got you. No, I see.

Y'all got any comments, questions about this?

It's just for introduction, so you know what that means on that. Okay. All right. So we'll deal with that at the next meeting. And we have one resolution left before we have just a few announcements, and we'll gavel out. And that resolution is handled by Councilman Arrington.

This is Resolution 62 of 2026, a resolution authorizing the Mayor of the City of Natchitoches, Ronnie Williams, Jr., to enter into a master services agreement with KSA Engineers Incorporated. This is whereas the City and the Natchitoches Airport Commission solicited proposals for engineering services under Request for Qualifications 0117 one proposal was received from KSA of Shreveport, Louisiana. Whereas on August 25th, 2026, the Natchitoches Airport Commission approved resolution one of 2026 recommending that the city and the Natchitoches Airport Commission enter into a master service agreement with KSA engineers. I move to adopt resolution 62 of 2026. Second.

All right, motion made and seconded. Ed was not able to make the meeting today, but he did share a note with me. And it's just, this is about the master services agreement with KSA. We've heard of them before. For them being the airport's consultant for another five-year term, he just goes on to say in this message to me that We followed all of the requirements by FAA and LADOTD with issuing the RFQ and advertising in the Baton Rouge Advocate as well as the Hackett's Times, and they only received one proposal, and that was KSA. Last note that Ed left is that we're very happy with KSA's performance and have a lot of completed projects to show for it. We want to renew the agreement for the five-year term. So when you hear about those grants and things like that coming to the airport, KSA pretty much, for the most part, they had the hands on it, probably all of them. So they've been good in terms of what they do at the airport. Any questions about this? All right. Seeing none, Mrs. Stacy, roll call vote.

Nelson. Yes. Smith-Kirkendall. Yes. Harrington. Yes. Petey.

Yes. All right, that motion carries. Next meeting is on the 28th of this month. GoNaggish app becomes real relevant during this time of the year, and then Regroup as well. We use that. We had to send out some messages last week through Regroup. So download that. More people can get on it, great. All right. I think we have a few announcements. This weekend is the Natchitoches Meat Pie Festival. All right. And starting on Friday and also taking place at, of course, they have a lot of vendors. And it's going to be free admission. So 25 years. So this is one of those events. critical years, one of those years that you kind of highlight. The Natchitoches alumni chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Incorporated, they're having the third annual sickle cell event, and it's a blood drive, and it's taking place this Saturday, which is September 19th from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m., and that's going to be at the MLK Rec Center. So give some blood this Saturday. The annual Women Resource Center Gala is next week. What is that, next Thursday? Is that right? 24th. Yeah, 24th. I think that's next Thursday. Yeah, they've got a comedian who's going to be the speaker. So I think they're excited about the speaker that they have. And that's always a pretty big event for the city at the event center. Magnus' car show is coming up, the second through the third. Last I heard, I don't know if y'all heard anything, but I heard they were getting more cars to enter in. I don't know if this is going to be a record year, but I heard it was looking positive at the beginning, but it's been a little while since I've talked to Ms. Sandra about it. But the car show that first weekend in October. Men's Health Fair is October 10th. of this year at the Outpatient Medical Center and working with the NACDIS alumni chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi. All right, so they've got several individuals who are going to come speak, but they're free screenings, different screenings that they have listed there. Yeah, so again, that's going to be good. So we'll be pushing that Men's Health Fair October 10th. Top of the boot, we've been announcing this. October 16th, 17th, first of its kind for the university. And they've got those different singers who are going to be here. Tickets are on sale. So we just want to certainly help get the word out about this inaugural festival. Okasa, this is the second annual superhero run. It's taking place on November 7th at the Natchitoches Riverbank. at 8 a.m. And they have a place where you can register the QR code and different things that are taking place, the fun run-walk, 5K, superhero costume contest, and face paint and so many other things happening that day. All right, just we're getting closer and closer to Christmas and November 21st up to the 6th of January. So this is, of course, a major year for us, 100 years of Christmas. We're going to start promoting. We've got some lapel pins to commemorate the call. So we'll start getting a lot of those out, seeing them at banks and other entities around town. So excited about that one. But there are different things happening. That's where you go, negativechristmas.com, to find out everything that's taking place. All right, that's it. Okay. Farmer's Market, do you have a date on Farmer's Market next month, Shauna? I know we're starting, I think it's October 12th. Okay. That second Saturday. That second Saturday in October. Gotcha. And that's going to be the short one, about five weeks, six weeks. Okay, good. All right, so several events ahead of us. All right. Those are all of our announcements. At this time, we'll hear a motion to adjourn.

I'll make a motion that we adjourn, Mayor. Second.

All right, we've got a motion and a second to adjourn. All in favor?

Aye.

Meeting is adjourned. Have a great night, everybody.