Remarks by Gene Smith
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“And is this the document that we're voting tonight or would we need to substitute?”
“Well, with the portion of this document where it talks about the covenant and the city's first right of refusal. Yes, sir. Are they happy with that? Because he had mentioned that they had communicated with city attorneys. That's right. I'm assuming it was you.”
“So is the church... If the council was to vote this, and I don't know if we will, if the council was to vote this document, is the church happy with this, with the de-annexation, with the covenant, the city has right of first refusal, should this property ever go up for sale?”
“Okay. And it's fully executable to where no third party can interfere with the covenant itself.”
“That's a pastime. I'm not a president anymore. No, I was talking to that person.”
“This is not the document that is currently before us. We would have to substitute. Substitute that document. This is not the ordinance. that is currently before us, 262700.”
“The requirement, or does this replace the document in whole?”
“So the majority of this document is what we have before us, because we just received this this evening, so that's why I asked. Yes, sir. So the majority of this document is what currently exists.”
“Mr. President, I would like to ask the city attorney. In the covenant, it talked about should the property go for sale. What about annexation? What if they chose to annex, say, into another city? It doesn't mention that. Can it?”
“Right. Can we, can we, if, if we were to do this, would it include annexation?”
“Mr. President, I would like to say real quick before we go into the procedure itself, the first young lady that came down to speak, she was very eloquent in how she said it. Whoever made the decisions, and I'm not trying to belittle anyone, and please understand what I'm trying to say. Whenever the choice was made to start the school, somebody dropped the ball on finding out what the requirements were gonna be. And that is what has caused us to be where we are today. And y'all have basically dumped that in our lap. Y'all's mistake has dumped this in our lap and have put us in a very serious…”
“Can we include the verbiage for annexation as well as sale of property?”
“I would like to include that as a motion as well. Of course, it will need a second.”
“But I believe someone else would need to second my motion. We have a second. We have a second. Yes, sir.”
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“Whether or not we need to have that on record tonight.”
“It's my understanding that the staff has a negative recommendation.”
“Then you cannot make the motion if you're abstaining.”
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“Mr. President, one thing I would like to say is it's not necessarily about the products. It's about the staffs doing their due diligence and reporting to the council.”
“Mr. President, I was not able to go to the Bulls in the Park Saturday night. I was hoping to hear how that went. Mayor, did you ride?”
“Motion for approval of the agenda. Second.”
“Mr. President, I move for approval of the consent agenda as presented.”
“Mr. President, I move for approval of resolution 8894-26. Second.”