City Council - Regular Meeting

Welcome ladies and gentlemen to the uh Tuesday, June 17th, 2025 full council meeting. Uh Dr. Joe Cloud was not able to uh be here to pray. So I will pray on his in his behalf and then we will have a 30 second moment of silence. After that, if you would stay uh standing if you can and we will uh have the pledge of allegiance. Father God, we thank you for this opportunity to be here together and I pray that your wisdom and your grace and your mercy be upon all of us. I pray that we make decisions based on the best uh ability of our knowledge of the situation and we make uh decisions uh for the best of our citizens and our community. Ask this in Jesus name. All right. If you would join me 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. Thank you. Miss Kelton, could you uh have a roll call?

Mr. George here. Miss Wetszel here. Miss Young, Mr. Olsen here, Mr. Bradley, Mr. Pearson here, Mr. Gray here, Mr. Keller here, Mayor Teague, Mr. Smith. Hi, and myself. You have a quum. Thank you. All right, ladies and gentlemen, have you had an opportunity to look over the minutes from the May 2025 meeting? Motion to approve. Have a motion and a second to approve. All in favor? Any opposed? All right. Item will minutes will be approved. All right. At this time, Mrs. Brittney Baker will come forward and u give us a u financial update. All right. I know we have a long agenda, so I'll get through this as quickly as what is feasible. General fund revenues for the month of May total 1,529,44. Of that 1.1 approximately was sales tax and state turnback. 95,000 was franchise fees and permits. 291716 was all other revenue. A tax revenue comparison for city and county sales tax year-toate analysis as well as the budget year-to- date analysis is listed here. Um the city's portion was 2,362,949 for 2025. County was 2,8448. General fund May expenditures totaled 2,183,635. Of that 1.7 was personnel expenditures. 437407 was utilities and other street fund revenues for May were 1,47,325. Of that 703,749 was the 2021 street sales tax. 23919 was state turnback and aalorum tax. 101877

was interest and 2500 was street cutting permits. Street fund expenditures for the month of May. Operational expenditures total 272,220. Of that 28,000 were personnel related expenditures. 64,000 were utilities and other street capital spending total 680 for computer equipment and maintenance. Um 2021 sales tax spending was 886468. That was towards South Waterl Avenue, drainage maintenance, pavement preservation, downtown improvements, US64 sidewalk project, and the US64 east pedestrian improvements. State turnback street projects total 5,000 and that was towards the core of engineer project. Economic development May revenue totaled 128,748. Of that 10536 was new sales tax and rent. 23,712 was interest. May expenditures total 4 489,448. Of that there were various expenditures including Arkansas Valley Alliance appraisals, pressure washer, the capital transfer and the pickle ball courts and with their corresponding appropriation numbers. Here listed are the balances of the various economic development accounts and these are the reconciled balances as of May 31st of this year. They total 5,860,181.34. Capital assets may revenue total 777,219 of that was the sale of the old fire station the transfer from fund 37 and interest of 3802 May expenditures total 55,577 of that 39577 were building expenses 16,000 were towards airport apron improvements and this is a breakdown of the 2021 cent sales tax and you'll see it broke into the street portion RFD RPD capital parks economic development capital in totality the

unspent balance at the end of May was 22 million680140 and 94 cents and that concludes the finance report thank you Maker any questions all right the mayor's report this week uh or this month we have consideration of appointment for uh Lance Oakley to the airport commission and we also have consideration of the airport of Bradley Hopkins to the report commission. Do I have any motion on these? Motion to approve. Have a motion and second to approve. Any discussion? All in favor? Any opposed? All right. Both those shall be appointed. Um at this point in time, uh Chief Chris Vic will join us and give us a quick rundown on what's going on with the fire department this year. He said quick. He said quick. It's about 54 slides. Uh, no. I'm kidding. I think the easiest thing was be I was just I printed a handout. I'll give you the boring stuff there, but I appreciate the opportunity to talk and I will move fast because I know there's 500 items on the agenda, so I'll move quick. But so I want to when they asked me to do it, I was like, well, how can we measure impact to the community? And so I I think the the easiest thing is to always start with statistics and say, "Hey, that we're 321% up since the last time we added people to the line since 1993." Uh or that we're 9.8% up from last year's call volume already. So we're already on pace for almost 5,000 calls. Again, we're 62% up on house fires this year, just from last year, and we're already 5% up on medical calls. Our average response time last year was 4 minutes and 3 seconds. So, I went through statistics and I'm like, nah, that really doesn't show us a good impact. All right. So, then I decided to go, well, this is the one of the two new ambulances that we have. They're really, really great. Uh, the new engine and the new platform. So, some of the new equipment that we've been able to use

with sales tax funds to to provide a better service. And I really didn't feel like the equipment was probably the best way to show your impact either. the construction of our live fire training facility which has been fantastic. It's used weekly. Um we fight lots of fire. We put about 800 degree temperatures in there and we can put somebody in there and we can really mimic a live fire. We can do all kinds of different scenarios. Um also didn't feel like that hit the mark. We started our own paramedic school this year. All right. So we have six members enrolled. Uh so we should have close to 30 members uh as of this time next year that are paramedics on the department. Uh it's an online program. It's actually nationwide and they will come on site to our station and do their skill sheets and all their skill check offs there at the station. And then again we have six enrolled our for ourselves. So some of the new equipment that we've uh implemented is ultrasound and it has been incredible what we can do. Obviously when you think of ultrasound you're going to the you're going to get your the baby looked at and everything but we also use it for cardiac. Uh we use it to look at lungs vessels. Uh we can look and see if they're you know, if there's some type of uh spleenic bleed or if there's a liver laceration or something like that or a kidney laceration in which we actually found one on a on a kid and took him to Children's, which was a life-saving measure. Um, again, that's an actual uh view from one of our ultrasounds that we use on the iPad with our ultrasound right there of of a baby. So, the new things that we're putting in this week are our new IV pumps so that we can control the medications a lot easier, a lot faster, uh, and a lot more stable. And then we also have these new ventilators that are probably second to none in the country. Uh we can we can take an airway and we can put somebody and we can protect that airway and and give everything in a controlled environment and take care of them in the best way possible to get them to a higher level of care. So when I was thinking about all those

things, it didn't really hit the mark for what I thought it should. So then I was like, how do you how would you guys measure that, right? How do you gauge success in the community? How do you know you're making the right decision? And I can only imagine the types of phone calls that you get on a daily basis. So, how do you get your feedback? And it's pretty simple. It's the people, right? Uh that's what makes the world go around. There's individual influence, positive and negative impact, right? And the one that I like the most is the power of collective impact. Me and Nathan were just talking about that as far as community members, organizations, and different institutions working together to move forward. Um, and so really it's the importance of relationships. And so when I did this, I thought about you, Dr. Gray, because I know that you work in a lot of this. So I I found Dunar's number, right? So Dr. Dunar was an anthropologist that studied relationships. And every person on average has five close loved ones, 15 good friends, 50 friends, 150 meaningful contacts, 500 acquaintance, and so on. Right? So when I did that, I was like, what's the point? Well, this is the point. These are all the calls that we made within the last year all the way up to almost Bullfrog Valley, Hector, Appleton, all around the city. And there's a closer view of just the city. And another view of the city and then we went to the neighborhood level where we could see all the different calls that we've made in the last 365 days. So when you start talking about impact and you start talking about relationships and loved ones, um to me that's where it started to make sense. So we had 4,325 calls last year. And if you can look at the number of the loved ones, the good friends and affected friendships that we impacted and that you impacted with your decisions, the way that you you fund and you support with what we do, uh you technically impacted over two million people from all around the world just with your decision- making. when you look at what we did in fire and EMS last year.

So, we talk about measuring community impact and how it drives our strategic plan. We are not your typical fire department. And if anybody's interested, come hang out with us for a day and you'll see the different things that we were asked to do such as rescue task force. We were the first in the nation to team up with RPD who's been fantastic on helping us along the way on dangerous situations. Drone response, again, a great partnership with RPD on that. uh inspections, permitting, and now ambulance transport. And now we take another chapter in where we're going to go into code enforcement. We'll see how that goes, but we'll make it a positive, right? Um emergency management has became a new thing for us. And so has enhanced special operations, which is one of the things that we have on the agenda tonight. So, um I've said it to you guys a million times. We're only ever going to be as good as the community the city council is willing to invest in. And we we're fortunate that you guys want the best and we really appreciate that. So that's a record set from the fire department on doing a a report. So any questions? Good job, sir. I really appreciate that. I I do want to thank the council because you guys have equipped our fire department that it it is nationwide. It's probably one of the best. And it I'm not just talking about Arkansas, but nationwide. Our equipment is literally the state fire association had a convention in Hot Springs, and they asked for ladder one to be brought because they wanted that to be the showpiece. Uh, and that's that is what responds to our calls here each and every day. So, thank you. Um, I get to be the liaison fire department. So, I'm really lucky. Uh, I appreciate that. And I think you've, uh, just just saying everybody out there, you kind of set the bar there for presentation. So, uh, well, I like all the maps. Easier to give you a one pager if you want to look at revenue or inspections, all that stuff on your own time. The maps are on the back of the dots, the impacts. But, can you send me I'd like to look at those maps. Yeah. And you have a copy of it on the back of that page, too, as well. I mean, your your PowerPoint. Yeah. All right. Thank you. All right. Thank you for being quick.

Awesome. All right. Uh, moving on. Uh, Mr. Gray, uh, does personnel committee have anything this week? Yes, we do. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Um item one is a consideration of approval of the creation of a new civilian position uh associated with job description titled investigative services front desk specialist. Uh this uh p this uh went through personnel with a due pass recommendation of the full council. Um I don't know if the council wants to hear from uh chief ewing on uh the specifics of this because it is a new position. Yeah. Uh so I I present this as a motion to adopt. Have a motion to adopt. Any discussion? All in favor? I. Any opposed? All right, we'll move forward. Uh our item two is consideration of an ordinance amending the city administration code adopted by ordinance 2460 and for other purposes. Uh, mayor, I move we suspend the rules, dispense with the reading requirement and read of uh, one of one time only, please. Uh, because the, uh, chief has asked that we needs to do that to move forward and that is having to do with reorganizing code enforcement. All right, I have a motion suspend the rules. Uh, all in favor? I. Any opposed? All right, sir. An ordinance amending the city administration code adopted by ordinance number 1460. Other purposes and ordinance have passed would transfer the duties of code enforcement from plan development to the fire department. Motion to adopt. Um motion is second. All in favor? I. Any opposed?

rollance. Okay. So, it's an ordinance. Okay. So, we need a roll call for personnel and this is a reorganization. So, if the council has any questions, this would this would be the time to ask those questions about since we're reorganizing a department. Well, this is just moving the code enforcement guys over to fire, right? It is. They're they're leaving um planning and going over to Yeah. Okay. Miss Skeleton, will you give us a roll call? You're Mr. Gray? Yes. Mr. Keller? Yes. Mr. Pearson? Yes. Mr. Bradley? Yes. Mr. Olsen? Yes. Miss Wetszel? Yes. Mr. George? Yes. All right. Thank you. Back to you, Mr. Gray. U. The third item is similar. It's going to need a one of one time only uh consideration ordinance amending the city of Russville personnel policy manual adding a new section section 21 to add an AI policy as required by act 848 of 2025 and for other purposes. Uh this is required by state law coming up by I think it's in August August 1st something like that we have to have this done. Uh so mayor I move we suspend the rule suspense with the reading requirement read the first of one reading by title only with a short explanation. Have a motion and second. All in favor? Any opposed? Sir or submitting the city of Russell personnel policy manual by adding a section section 21 to add an AI policy

as required by act 848 of 2025. And for other purposes, this ordinance, if passed, would add the for mentioned AI policy which is attached to this ordinance as exhibit B and um as required by act 848 which is attached to the ordinance as exhibit A. Um and we'll amend the policy by adding a new section to incorporate the policy as attached. Motion to adopt. Motion and second. All in favor? I. Any opposed? All right. Uh, yes. M, will you give us a roll call on that? Mr. Gray? Yes. Mr. George? Yes. Mr. Keller? Yes. Mr. Pearson? Yes. Mr. Bradley? Yes. Mr. Olsen? Miss Wetszel? Yes. Thank you, Miss Gome. Moving on. Uh, is that all from you, Mr. All right. Thank you, Mr. Gray. It's a busy one for you for personnel. Uh, moving on to finance committee. Uh, Mr. Keller, how would you like to proceed? Thank you, mayor. from our 5:30 meeting this evening. Uh item one is consideration of a vote for the selection of an entity for the Boulder Church properties sponsored by Councilman Paul Gray. This was forwarded to the council with no recommendation. Mayor, I moved uh to recommend the uh Russellville Playhouse um proposition for this second. There's a motion in a second for the Russell Playhouse. Any discussion?

If we go with this option, I I just think we ought to have some uh achievement steps. Yeah, absolutely. If we do choose this option, um I like this option just because it's something the community doesn't have. Uh, but we will have to set parameters and and Mr. Smith, would this be a resolution that we would have to set a contractual thing or is this an ordinance? Guess it depends what you're wanting to do. Well, we would have to if we set up, as Mr. Pearson said, a timeline um for fundraising or whatever. And if that is not met, then obviously another reason I like this idea is that uh if this does not go forward, the part the city still has the property and we have the ability to uh to do something else with it. But um so my question is what would we need? I guess it' be a contract. Is that correct? Okay. And I'm open to anything. I'm just I want a discussion on this. So that's why we're Can could we could we amend the motion to um contract with move to contract with Russville? I accept that friendly amendment. Who will be the one that's going to put those parameters that the council wants uh together? Um, I'd be willing to work with uh the Rustville Playhouse folks. Of course, we're going to have to work with the city attorney. Um, Mr. Smith, the mayor could work with us as well if you're so inclined. Can Mr.

Smith take a first shot at it? Yeah. And then negotiate from there. Absolutely. with the contract who would be um responsible for the physical structure as far as repairs because right now it needs a roof. So, I need to know if I need to come back to you guys with an appropriation, put a roof on it because our appraisal went down $25,000 from last year to this year because the the building is actually degraded. So I need to figure out which um if is it is that going to be responsibility of the restville playhouse or is it going to be the city of Russville is one thing I'd like to I mean as I understand it in their proposal it was for them to take care of all the the repairs and whatnot to the building and any maintenance and then improvements and whatnot. And even in that case the city would still retain ownership. It would just be I just want that was one of the things I wanted to be clarified because at this I because if we if we were going to retain that responsibility I you know I needed to move on that so that we would stop the uh diminishing I guess the best word. So yeah I'm fine with that. So so we got a motion and a second we're to accept to contract not the motion and a second to contract with Russville Playhouse. Just to clarify that is Mr. John Piston and his team. Uh, and we've had discussion. All in favor or is there any more discussion? Okay. So, we got So, we're going to be moving forward with the contract. All in favor? I. Any opposed? All right. So, we will be Mr. Pony, Mr. Gray will be contacting you uh to move forward in working on a contract um on behalf of Rusville Playhouse and the city of Russville. All right, back to you. Yeah, we're still You should have been doing that. We're good.

I I jumped in your business there. We're fine, ma'am. We're fine. Um similarly, items 2, 2 A, and 2B were forwarded to the full council with no recommendation. Item two was consideration of a vote whether to resurface and repave the Phoenix Innovation Incorporated parking lot parking lot, excuse me. Um 2A was consideration of a resolution approving a release agreement and authorizing the mayor and the city clerk treasurer to enter a release agreement with Phoenix Industry Innovation Incorporated uh for any and all future claims arising from the installment sale contract of the purchase of real property. and B. Uh 2B was consideration of a vote authorizing the mayor and the city clerk treasurer to have public works to solicit bids for the resurfacing and repaving of Phoenix Innovation Incorporated parking lot. There was no there was no recommendation. So the the floor is open for any and all motions. I'd like to make a motion uh in consideration that we should have done this a long time ago that uh before the sale of the property u that we go to bid at public works takes it to bid u and the lowest responsible bidder paving the parking lot second okay it's been moved and seconded that public works so this would be 2B I'm assuming can so technically like items two and 2 A and 2B I was going to say and also a a release at the end of the project. Okay. So then is your motion to vote on two then 2A and then 2B? Put them all together. Okay. All three is

okay. Okay. Okay. So, there's been a motion and a second for the city to have public works solicit bids for the resurfacing and repaving of the Phoenix Innovation parking lot and pursuant to the sellers's responsibilities for the Dalton King building. uh and to authorize the mayor and the city clerk treasurer to enter in a release agreement with Phoenix Innovations for any and all future claims arising from the installment sale of the Dalton King building. Is that can I um Mr. uh Smith, when is what's the timing of the of the uh the release? It's submitted by you that was submitted by you. What is the timing of the release on in the agreement? I guess I'm not understanding your question. Is it Is it prior to the parking lot or is it post uh when the job is done? I I I was just I was trying to ask uh for clarification on that when when it was the contract. It would make sense to do it first for the city's perspective. So, I guess y'all probably do it the other way around. I'm just whoever I I just was asking because you were the one that submitted that. So, however that however you guys uh are we in discussion? Okay. Um because I would like to ask a question given the document that Mr. Harrison sent us all from the Arkansas Constitution Article 12 section five part B allows the city to enter into these kind of agreements if I'm reading it correctly. So would there not be an option for us to to uh pay the 150,000 we agreed to and

then that would be the end of it because article part B says uh we can enter into an agreement with any municipal organization corporation association instit institution individual for part one financial or finance economic economic development projects that checks that box. Provide economic development services checks that box and goes on and C part one buildings, furniture, equipment, facilities, infrastructure, and improvements. Um, so I'm not an attorney, but it seems that we could possibly meet our needs there by simply handing over what we had agreed to hand over in the beginning. Yeah, I made my report pretty clear. Is it your belief that if we do the other way where we we are putting out the bids and getting it done that we are within the framework that we're supposed to be think previously and it's not changed so it is what it is. It's time to move forward the council. Is there any other discussion for the motion on the floor? Oh, what fund would it be coming out of be fund 27? Uh, correct, Miss Baker. Yes, that's our economic development capital fund. that would be the fund that it should have come out of at the beginning of the project if it if it were to come out of that fund. I'm willing to move forward however we need to, but I'm just asking a

clarifying question on the way this seems to read. Um, and I do want I do Mr. Olston's motion is what I would like too. I'd like a release um pre preferably beforehand but um as well so that we're done and then Phoenix is done. So is anybody else I mean I is somebody else up here with a legal degree? Somebody is you're not reading what is anyone not seeing what I'm seeing? Is it No, I agree. It just seems cleaner that way. We meet our our um our requirement that we signed off on and never met. Um, but that's just like I said, I want I want to move forward this positively. But just throwing that out there. I think safest and best practices would be just getting three bids and and doing that. That's just my opinion. At the end of the day, we need to close this out and something needs to be done. I think that's it. But I just I feel like um from uh from my seat and from financial our financial director safest and best practices is to cover ourselves with um uh with three three bids and uh get the lowest responsible bidder like Mr. uh Mr. Olsen has proposed. But like I say, that's that's my opinion. Mr. Mr. Smith's given his opinion. I've given my opinion. And at the end of the day, we need to uh to move forward with with closing this out. Thanks. That's fine. I'm just trying to point out we will taxpayers will pay more than 150,000 which is what we agreed to most likely. So I will shut up now.

Is there any more discussion on the motion on the floor? Hearing none. All those in favor of moving forward with having public works, and please, Mr. Olsen, correct me if I misspe on this, but all those in favor of having public works solicit bids for the repaving of the parking lot for Phoenix Innovations uh and to enter in uh a release agreement with Phoenix Innovations. Please say I. I. All those opposed say nay. Motion passes. Items three and 3A. Uh item three is consideration of a resolution to accept the lowest responsible bid to authorize the mayor and the city clerk treasurer to sign a construction agreement and associated paperwork with Curb Time Solutions LLC doing business as TNT Asphalt Paving for the construction of a downtown parking lot for uh phase one of that parking lot. And item three is an appropriation in the amount of $191,231.70 from economic development capital fund 27 to fund that uh downtown parking lot construction. We present items 3 and 3A. It's a motion to adopt. Second it was you Mr. M. Okay. So we don't need Yeah. I'm sorry. Yeah. So yeah, we're back in normal. Yeah, we're back in normal. So all those in Would you Don't you do the voting for that? All in favor? I. Any opposed? All right, move forward. So item four is consideration of a resolution authorizing the mayor and the city clerk treasur to enter an agreement

with HTW and Associates Incorporated for engineering services and for other purposes submitted by public works. We Present item four is a motion to adopt. Got a presentation or presented to a motion to adopt. All in favor? Any opposed? All right. From our finance meeting last week. Item one is discussion of appropriation or discussion and appropriation of an ordinance regarding a service request from cards for the enhancement to our billing software. This is submitted by Jeremy Meyers. Uh oh. They've requested for this to be removed. I do apologize. Um we need a present a motion to remove item one from the agenda. So So was that okay. Was that was that a formal motion from finance? Okay. So So uh have a motion to remove this. Uh all in favor? Any opposed? All right. Item two. Item two is consideration of a resolution authorizing the mayor and the city clerk treasurer to enter in a lease agreement with Bribeck Properties LLC for land to construct a public parking area downtown for the city of Russellville. We present item two is a motion to adopt. Have item two is a motion to adopt. All in favor? I. Any opposed? All right. Item three is consideration of a resolution for the mayor and the city clerk treasurer to enter into a purchase contract with Kelly Black for the excess property located at 718 South Glennwood Avenue for the payment of a property tax bill sponsored by public works and we present item three is a motion to adopt. Item three with a motion to adopt. All in favor? I. Any opposed? All right, moving on. Item four

is an appropriation from the 2021 sales uh sales tax capital fund 7 the sum of $27,758.50 to fund a K9 officer replacement. We present item four is a motion to adopt. Item four has a motion to adopt. All in favor? Any opposed? All right. Items five and five A. Item five is a consideration of a resolution to accept the lowest responsible bid and authorize the mayor and the city clerk treasur to sign a con a construction agreement and associated paperwork with Hard Rock Construction Incorporated and for the construction of the Old Post Road Soccer Complex improvements and 5A appropriation from the economic development capital fund 27 in the amount of $381860 $60.38 to fund those improvements. We present items five and 5A with a motion to adopt. Five and 5 A with a motion to adopt. All in favor? Any opposed? All right. Item six is consideration of a resolution authorizing the mayor and the city clerk treasur to enter in an agreement with HTW and Associates for Engineering Services. We present item six as a motion to adopt. Item six has a motion to adopt. All in favor? Any opposed? All right. Item seven is consideration of a resolution to accept the lowest responsible bid with Hard Rock Construction Incorporated and to authorize the mayor and the city clerk treasurer to execute a construction agreement and associated paperwork with Hard Rock Construction for the construction of a West Main Street pedestrian improvement. We present item seven as a motion to adopt. Item seven has a motion to adopt. All in favor? Any opposed? All right. Item eight is consideration of a resolution authorizing the mayor and the

city clerk treasurer to enter in an agreement with Barrett and Associates for engineering work. We present item eight as a motion to adopt. Item eight has a motion to adopt. All in favor? I. Any opposed? All right. Items nine and 9A. Item nine is a consideration of a resolution for the city of Russellville to accept a bid through Sourcewell from uh Firet Trucks Unlimited to purchase a Dodge Ram uh five was it 5500 4x4 Rescue Unit for the Russell Fire Department and to install uh radios, tool mounts, and other items to that vehicle. And item 9A is appropriation from the 2021 sales tax capital fund 07 and the sum of $247,500 to purchase that vehicle and uh the needed uh equipment and mounts. Uh we present item 9 and 98 as a motion to adopt. We got a motion to adopt on 9 and 9A. All in favor? I. Any opposed? All right, sir. Item 10 is consideration of a resolution authorizing the mayor and the city clerk, treasurer, and grant administrator to apply for the Arkansas Community Assistance Grant with the Arkansas Economic Development Commission on behalf of the city of Russellville. We present item 10 is a motion to adopt. All right. Motion to adopt on item 10. All in favor? Any opposed? All right. Item 11 is an appropriation from the general fund carryover balance in the sum of $26,68612 to be used to fund the Civic Plus add-ons to include the chatbot CFix

CClick Fix mobile app and agenda clerk. We present item 11 is a motion to adopt. Item 11 has a motion to adopt. All in favor? Any opposed? All right. Uh, item 12 is consideration of a resolution accepting a bid and authorizing the mayor and the city clerk treasurer to enter in an agreement with Danler Landscaping Management from June 18th, 2025 through June 18th, 2026 for landscaping services for downtown Russellville. We present item 12 is a motion to adopt. Item 12 has a motion to adopt. All in favor? Any opposed? All right. Item 13 is consideration of a resolution authorizing the mayor and the city clerk treasurer to accept the lowest responsible bid and execute a construction agreement and associated paperwork with Hard Rock Construction Incorporated for the construction of West Main Street Pedestrian Improvements. We present item 13 as a motion to adopt. Item 13 has a motion to adopt. All in favor? I. Any opposed? All right. Items 14 and 14A. Uh item 14 is consideration of an ordinance amending uh Oh yeah. So we just need 14. We don't need to do an ordinance, right? We just need a motion to adopt. Okay. So, so item 14 is a line item transfer for uh the ordinance moving the was it code enforcement to fire. Uh so this is a lot uh item 14A is a line item transfer moving all those from one item in the from one budget section to another. We present item 144A is a

motion to adopt. All right. Motion to adopt for item 14A. All in favor? I. Any opposed? All right. Items 15 and 15A. Item 15 is consideration of a resolution authorizing the mayor and the city clerk treasur to accept the lowest responsible bid and to execute a construction agreement and associated paperwork with all services electric incorporated for the construction of the East Main Street and Knoxville Avenue intersection improvements. and 15A is a line item from the east uh US64 east pedestrian improvements to uh to the US 64 east pedestrian improvements from the South Waterl Avenue line item in the amount of $15,000. We present items 15 and 15A. Is there a motion to adopt? Uh items 15A have a motion to adopt. All in favor? I. Any opposed? All right. Item 16 is consideration of a resol 16 and 16A. Item 16 is consideration resolution waving the formal bidding requirements for the purchase of 18 tasers and supporting apparatus and services to the Russell Police Department. and 16A is the appropriation from the 2021 sales tax capital fund 07 in the sum of $13,8624 to purchase those those tasers. We present item 16 and 16A is a motion to adopt. Have a motion on 1616A to adopt. All in favor? Any opposed? No. Items 17 and 17A. Item 17 is consideration of a resolution accepting a bid from McConnell Construction Incorporated on behalf of the Russellville Municipal Airport for the

renovation of Hangar One West and authorizing the mayor and the city clerk treasurer to enter in an agreement with McConnell Construction for set improvements. And item 17A is an appropriation in the amount of $211,640 for those improvements. We present item 1717A is a motion to adopt. Mr. Karp, were you going to table that or did we are we good to go? We're good to go ahead with that. Oh, we are. Okay. We I have a request to table that. So, withdraw the motion and Oh, yeah. Can someone Can someone make a motion? Can I make a motion? Make a motion. Second motion to table items 17 and 17a. Any discussion? I don't believe Mr. Karp was able to get the contract to Miss Skelton. is that the get the proper documentation the contract to her. So, is that going to put any kind of actual work? Um, I I think he's good. Yeah, he he's the one that requested it be tabled. So, I don't want to lose or anything like that. Oh, no. No, we're not going to lose anything. No, we're not going to lose anything. Yeah, you just want to table that to next month, right? Table to the next uh next finance. So, okay. Hey, all those in favor of tableabling items 17 and 17A to next finance committee or would that be full counsel? I don't know how that works since it's it's in finance. It's in finance, but it's already been forwarded. So, it Yeah, Miss Melton seems to think it needs to go back to finance. Need to go back to finance. Yeah. Okay. So, mo to table to the next finance committee as originally moved. All those in favor say I. All those opposed. Item 1717A are tabled. Item 18 is consideration of a resolution waving the formal bidd uh bidding requirements for the purchase of

equipment for the city connectivity and internet services to purchase uh and the purchase of services of set equipment from TCW for the city of Russellville. We present item 18 as a motion to adopt. Item 18 has a motion to adopt. All in favor? I. Any opposed? All right. Item 19's consideration of a resolution for the city clerk or for the city council, the city of Russellville, Arkansas, authorizing the mayor and the city clerk treasurer and the chief of police or his designate to execute a letter of intent with project lifesaver on behalf of the city of Russellville. Uh we present item 19 as a motion to adopt. Item 19 has a motion to adopt. All in favor? Any opposed? Moving on. Item 20 is consideration of a resolution authorizing the Baron city clerk, treasurer, and grant administrator to execute a grant agreement with the Arkansas Historic Preservation Program for historic preservation restoration grant and appropriate the funds for the pass through grant. We present item 20 is a motion to adopt. Item 20 has a motion to adopt. All in favor? Any opposed? Item 21 is actually that appropriation, pardon me, in the amount of $150,000. It's a pass through from the 2024 general fund carryover balance. We present item 21's motion to adopt. Item 21 has a motion to adopt. All in favor? Any opposed? All right, moving forward. And that's the last item of the finance. That's a whirlwind. All right, moving forward into unfinished old business. Item one is consideration of an ordinance authorizing the extension of sewer outside the city limits of city of Russville, Harksaw to 1285 East Gum Street. For other purposes, this is

submitted by Nicholas Hagerty. Uh this is a third and final reading. Motion to deny. I'll second it just so that we can have discussion. Have a motion to deny and uh any discussion. Okay. Is this and I don't want to get into the weeds here, but from the parliamentary thing is are we are we going to be getting into a sticky wicket by voting yes to say no? Kind of how what I don't I would rely on the parliamentarian for that. No, just because it fails doesn't mean just because you have for instance five nos and three yeses that does not mean it passes. It means that the motion I fails. You have to have a positive a positive approval or in this case you got to read it first to even to that point even suspended the rules. So we still we need the third reading no matter what. Right. If if you want to consider passing it motion is to spend the rules read for the third and final time with a by title and a short explanation. Have a motion and a second on the uh third and final reading. All in favor? Any opposed? All right sir. An ordinance authorizing extended sewer outside the city limit city of Russell, Arkansas to 1285 East Gum Street. For the purposes ordinance passed would extend sewer to the aforementioned address much more approximately

uh done as exhibits A and B. Uh and it's going to be 1 two acres to be serviced with the extension of sewer. Motion to deny. I have a motion in a second to deny. All in favor of denial. I I Any opposed to denial? Yeah. Can you give me a roll call? Miss or Miss Scman? Mr. George. Yes. Okay. Uh, Mr. Bradley. Yes. Miss Wetzel. Yes. Mr. Olsen? Yes. Mr. Pearson? Yes. Mr. Gray? Yes. Mr. Keller? Yes. Okay. So, Um the ordinance would f would would it would die there. So all moving on to item two consideration ordinance vacating abandoning a 20 foot alleyway between lots 12 and 13 block 42 JL Shin edition city of Russell Arkansas for other purposes. This will be the third and final reading. Also may I move we suspend the rules dispense with the reading requirement. Read for the third and final time with title and short explanation only. Second. I got a motion to second on the reading. All in favor? I. Any opposed? Sir, nor vacating abandoning a 20 foot alley between lots 12 and 13 block 42 jail shin edition city Russell, Arkansas for the purposes. This ordinance of pass would vacate the city's rights interest

in the alley as for described and is further depicted in the legal attached as exhibit A to the ordinance. to approve. All right. Do we have a motion and a second to adopt? All in favor? I. Any opposed? All right. I think so. Yeah. Okay. Okay. All right. Then moving on to item three is consideration ordinance amending the current zoning code from the city of Russville Arkansas adopted ordinance number 2443. This is the second of three readings. May I move we suspend the rules. Dispense with the reading requiring dispense with the reading requirement. Read the second of three readings by title only with short explanation. Second. I got a motion and a second on the reading. All in favor? Any opposed? Sir, an ordinance amending the current zoning code of the city of Russell of Arkansas adopted by ordinance number 2443 and for the purposes this ordinance of passed would make the following amendments which are attached as exhibit A to the amending ordinance into the current Russville zoning code which was adopted by 2443 regarding single family residential gender description accessory dwelling built units location of sexually business classification and definitions. All right, moving on to item four. We have a consideration ordinance amending the current land subdivision and development code for the city of Russville adopted by ordinance 2444. Uh this is a second of three readings. Mayor I move we suspend the rules read dispense with the reading

requirement read for the second of three times by title only with short explanation. Second. Got a motion and a second on the reading. All in favor? Any opposed? All right, sir. An ordinance submitting the land subdivision development code for the city of Russville, Arkansas, adopted by ordinance number 2444. And for other purposes, this past would make the amendments to the current land subdivision development code which is adopted by 2444 in article 12 uh sections 12.1 12.113 12.14 water and wastewater extendures outside city limits. Thanks sir. Item five is consideration ordinance approving a replat of parts of lot five and six block 111 JL Shin edition accepting the public ride of ways contained within the replat at 3301 East H. This is also a second of three readings. Mayor move we suspend the rules dispense with the reading requirement. Read the second of three times by title only with short explanation. Second. I've got a motion in a second on the reading. All in favor? Any opposed? Sir, approving a replay accepting dedication of rideways and easements to city of Russell, Arkansas on the replant. For other purposes, this ordinance, if passed, would accept the replat of parts of lot five and six, block 111, jail synd by reference to the ordinance.

All right. Moving on to item one in new business uh consideration resolution to removing unoccupied dilapidated structure providing for a lean on the property to recover costs associated with removal of structure upon non-payment other purposes. This is regarding 204 Wisteria Court. Kind of give you a little bit of backstory. Uh we do have some people here that would speak if they needed to. Um Mr. Bryant has worked hard to get his title work in order and he is ready to close and sell his property at 204 Wisteria Court. Mr. Chuck Frankhouse is a buyer who is ready to close on that property. Mr. Frankhouse has agreed to sign a uh improvement agreement that Mr. Shetty and I have uh proposed on behalf of the city of Russville and they're ready to move forward if um however the council is want to do you would you like to hear from them or are you just what would you like to Mr. Mayor I'd like to what's the timeline on this agreement? Uh the timeline is I mean I mean is they got two weeks a month or Oh no I mean it's a it's a long project. I mean it's I mean it's a burnedout house so he's going to have to he has to Mr. Mr. Frank House has to at first he has to uh get an engineer in there to agree and tell him how to proceed as far as the structural what structural damage is. He has to replace windows. He has to replace siding. So it's it's not a it's not a two or three week project. It is a it's it's a project that Mr. It's going to be several months for Mr. Frank House to do that. The first step the how long it would take to get title and all that. They're ready to close. They're ready to close. They can close this week. cuz I just don't want this thing to turn into a months on. They are They're ready to close. Uh Mr. Bryant uh is ready to close this week. Mr. Frank House is ready to close this week. They were actually going to close yesterday, but I told the title company that this was on the agenda for you guys to tear down and

so they they held off on that. But they Mr. Frank House and Mr. Bryant are ready to move forward and close. So then it could potentially be prudent for us to table item one until next month. Uh with the understanding again that you know I guess title is going to change hands. Title will change hands this week I would anticipate. And then Mr. Frank House as the new owner would be able to enter into a rehabilitation agreement with the city on the property. I mean, we'd have kind of a time frame of what we're looking at for everything else. Yes, I believe that would Yes. If you would like to Would you like that motion? Motion to Mr. Keller. I I make motion to table item one. And would you like to bring it My question is No, go ahead. Motion is second. So, discussion. Would you like to bring that back to next week or next month for Mr. Frank House to come and uh with the and to sign the proposed rehabilitation contract. Yeah. And if if uh hopefully we'd be able to to have title change hands and a rehabilitation uh agreement signed by Agenda Prep and if that's the case, we could just remove it. I believe Mr. I believe Mr. I'd like to hear from Mr. Frank. Yes, Mr. Frank. Go ahead. No, most definitely. Please. Well, the house is an expensive house. It's not a little cracker box. It's it's valued finished value is between $250 and $300,000. We look to put in about $100,000 into this house. It's right down the street from our daughter. My wife and I would like to move into that house right down the street. Um we uh we are putting up between 20 and $30,000 with the city as a security deposit so that if we don't fulfill our obligations, the city has the money in hand to tear, you know, to

tear down the property, you know what I mean? Without having to have That's part of the rehabilitation agreement. Yeah. To have, you know, spend any money at all whatsoever. So, and we have agreed to do that. Um, but it it's it's work, but we, you know, we're we're used to doing that type of work. Yeah. And I don't think that any First, I want to say thank you for agreeing to work with us, and I hope you understand we're trying to work with you to make sure that we're we've got a recommendation from our planning department or from public works or whoever code enforcement for it to come down. You say you want to it's much better for you to buy it and fix it up. And so let's let's keep working towards that. I think that I just want you to know that our our it seems to me that our um our hope is that we'll enter in the agreement and we'll move forward and then this won't even we won't even have to vote on anything. It just move it off the off the off the agenda. It's just staying on there because we've been requested to until actions been taken that we're going to keep it on there. Okay. Mr. Frank House, would you be willing to meet me tomorrow morning in my office to sign a sign the rehabilitation agreement so that we have that in place uh and then when title changes, we'll have that in place and we can bring that back to council. Yes. Okay. Yeah. I will I will go ahead and meet you tomorrow morning uh at 8:30 in my office which is right outside here at second floor and we can we can enter into that agreement. Then you and Mr. Bryant can go to your closing company and you guys should be able to close out. title should change and then we'll bring that back to full counsel next uh next week and then they'll be able to drop everything. Okay, that sound good? Is that good with you, Mr. Bryant? Thank you. Mr. Olsson has something. I got a question. So, um in the for the ability to close, does the title company need this offer agenda? Like, so what I'm saying, do we need to remove it from the agenda and then bring it back next

month? I think the title company's good. I talked to Matt. I think he's good as long as we weren't blocking it completely tonight. It's completely ready. I think we're good. Yes. We We just didn't want to buy the house and put the money out and then come into city council and they say, "No, you're not allowed to do this when the money's already been spent." Okay. So, we we should be good. And hopefully uh you can work with your title company and get that closed as quickly as possible. I think they've got everything ready for you. So, and if I'll meet you at 8:30 tomorrow morning, we'll sign the rehabilitation agreement. We'll have that done and we should be good. Okay. Thank you for all uh coming out and being here. Thank you so much. Any Okay. So, we have Do someone have a motion on item one? The table. We have a motion to table. Motion and second. Yes. Motion second to table. All in favor? I. All right. Any opposed? All right. Thank you, Mr. Bryant, Miss Enman, Miss Bryant, and Mr. Frank House for coming out tonight. All right. So item two, I will now open a public hearing. No one here to speak. I will now close a public hearing. All right. Item 2A is consideration ordinance vacating abandoning a 10- foot of South Greenwood rightway adjacent to lot 6 and 7 block 9 of the Oakland Heights edition city of Russville, Arkansas. for other purposes is submitted by planning commission. This is 816 South Greenwood between East 8 and East 10th Street. Mayor, I move we suspend the rules. Dispense with the reading requirement and read by title with short explanation for the first of three readings. Now we got a motion to second on the readings. All in favor? Any opposed? Nord's vacating banning a 10 foot of an 80 foot rideway along South Greenwich station to lot six and seven Oakland Heights edition city Russell Arkansas for the purposes the stors have passed

would abandon vacate the aforementioned rideway along South Greenwich along lots six and seven as further depicted by the legal description in exhibit A attached here too and the aerial attached as exhibit B incorporated here and by reference Thank you, sir. Item three is consideration resolution granting license and land to Westside Church of Christ for use of a portion of the city's alley located at 505 South Greenwich Avenue subject to terms and agreements attached to this resolution for other purposes. This is submitted by the planning commission. Motion to adopt. Have a motion and second to adopt. All in favor? Any opposed? All right, move forward. I will entertain a motion. Thank you. Thank you, ladies and gentlemen. That was that was a record time there. We will adjourn. That came in a lot faster than what I thought. Thank you, sir.