Remarks by LaWana Mayfield
116 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 5 of 5
Thank you, Mayor Harrington. So for item 36, which is a request to approve a contract in the amount of $1,203,308.75 to the lowest responsive bidder, what I wanted Well, I reached out to staff because we only received one being so that's not the lowest responsibility. That's the only better. So the first question that I asked was one, why did I go back out for an additional bid? What we have in here in our language is that initially no bids were received. So the question that I asked is what was in our language? and did we do an inquiry to try to identify why there was no bid on it initially,…
And that was just a clarification that I wanted. As we're having to transition based off of federal and state language, when we're putting out bids, making sure that we're creating as many opportunities as possible. But yet, because this needing a specific skill set because of the aquarium safety measures that needed to happen, I just wanted for us to be able to identify that. Move to approve A and B. Second. Second.
Actually, my question is for 46, so for 45, move to adopt a resolution authorizing the refund of property tax assessed through the clerical or assessment heiress in the amount of $8,030.50.
Right, 47 is the one that we are discussing right now.
Yes, thank you, Mayor Harrington. 47 is the one I asked for discussion. So I wanted to clarify, this is a, Request for my numbers. My apologies. My iPad is doing something a little interesting over here. So item 46, which we just approved, it was asking staff to give, give us another column. because the columns that was initially presented just had the net levied uncollected amount in percent that was collected. I wanted us to have an additional column with the total amount that's been collected up to date to clarify those numbers. So for the minutes, that's why I had pulled item number 46 to…
So the additional information will be helpful for me since what we're doing is setting the public hearing for September 28th is between now and then it will be helpful to know what they, language is in the contract of what is going to be preserved as historic because council has already been a part of media concerns and community concerns on a building that was designated as historic. The building was so the building was sold again somewhere in those conversations made There was demolition that challenged the history that I believe council members thought they were preserving in their vote.…
Thank you, Mayor. So just follow up. If it is not a demolition, if it is a partial removal, or if it is presented during the redevelopment, as we reimagine space, but this facade, anything within, I don't care if it's a plaque, if that is what helped it receive the historic designation and that is removed... that is a different conversation to me than a demolition, because that is what we're trying to preserve. So if that preservation doesn't happen, and if it is there, please just send me what the statute is at some point from where that is protected. And believe me, as you mentioned, we…
Thank you, Mayor. Same question as the last. This is to set a public hearing on the, excuse me, Lytle McNinch House Historic Landmark. What we've identified is based on the current. value the potential amount of deferrable taxes will be approximately $5,104 for the city, $9,175 for the county, plus an additional $238 37 for special district one taxes again bringing that information back as well as a snapshot of what is the totality of defer taxes do we have in the city right now because I think it will be helpful for us to actually run. Start running a tab to keep track of where we're not…
I think she's getting ready to do an actual presentation.
Thank you, mayor. Thank you. Excuse me, chief and team. Couple of questions. What's the financial expectation of the city at, since this is only a three year grant. So after that, what happens?
So it will be helpful to know exactly what that cost is. We just passed our budget. So you're talking about us having to identify additional staff that will not be paid for through this grant. I also want to make sure that my colleagues understand that A concern that I have is, one, that the details may determine whether this initiative functions primarily as a targeted crime reduction grant or honestly becomes a major federal accelerator for local surveillance infrastructure. So when we look at what was just mentioned as far as the fact that the initiative supports a wide range of public…
I have a question for the manager, manager Jones. This is 22 days out. I believe from the questions that have been asked around this council that the At minimum, six of us have shared very clear concerns. I do not think there is support for staff to continue using staff resources to even try to investigate this grant. We have just gone through this and we are having a conversation where council supported our representative to go say yes for discussion to get more information. We are now looking at 60 plus million dollars going back to 2018 because we said yes that we would listen to the…
Thank you. I actually, when we had to check in with staff on Friday, asked a question specifically about the land purchase. I don't know if anybody there who was actually on that call, but I have a note where I was waiting for a response specifically to the question that I asked on this particular item. And it's unfortunately not in my... follow-up that staff gave to me earlier. Did they pass the question on to you?
Okay, Major, what I was just trying to... We're looking at a purchase price of this of $3,745,000. So I did have a specific question that I asked staff, but the staff are not here nor did they respond to. So that's not helping me. So Manager Jones, if we're going to have a meeting on Fridays, As well as Monday, it will be helpful whatever questions we ask actually make their way back to it. Major, I'm not going to hit you with a question tonight that you didn't have two days to prepare for since I initially asked this on Friday afternoon at our check-in time.
He's calling on you. I was not clear the way you started out, Mayor Harrington, but I believe at the end you stated that the clerk is going to announce who received six or more votes.
My apologies. When you were reading it, it sounded like we were saying we weren't going to announce who was nominated.