City Council - Regular Meeting

Ladies and gentlemen, Ladies and gentlemen,

well, we need a city attorney. All right, ladies and gentlemen, we will call this uh July 17th, Thursday full council meeting to order. All right, at this time I will ask Mr. Luke Posey to come to the podium. He is going to give us our prayer tonight. After we pray, if you would remain standing for 30 seconds as for a moment of silence. uh at that time you can reflect and on things that you would like and then also uh after that would you please remain standing uh and join me in the pledge of allegiance Mr. Posie.

All right if you'd pray with me. Father God, we uh just come to you now and thank you uh first off just for this city that we get to live in, God, that we get to um raise families in and build businesses in and live in and enjoy. And God, it's such a blessing. And Father, I just thank you for that. And I pray for this meeting tonight. I pray for uh each member of the council, God, that you would just give them wisdom and discernment. and God that at the end of the day um you would be glorified in what happens here and what happens in our city and ultimately what happens in our lives that your will would be done and we pray all these things in Jesus name. Amen. All right. I can't see the timer, James, because it's blocked there. Oh, it's okay. There. All right. You join me for the uh pledge 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.

James, on my monitor that I look at uh here, I am seeing a a work bar on the bottom that shows live TV and PC. Uh just if that's something that I you probably can't fix it from there, probably. Yeah, probably something. So, just letting you know. All right. Okay. Mrs. Skelton, would you uh give us a roll call, please? Thank you. Mr. George here. Miss Wetzel here. Miss Young. Mr. Olsen here. Mr. Bradley here. Mr. Pearson here. Mr. Gray here. Mr. Keller present. Mayor Teague. Yes, ma'am. I'm here.

Mr. Smith and myself. if you have a quorum. All right. U ladies and gentlemen, have you had an opportunity to look at and review the minutes from June 17th? Second. Have a motion and a second to approve the minutes. All in favor? Any opposed? All right. Minutes will be approved, Miss Gilton. All right. At this time, if you would turn your attention to uh Miss Britney Baker, our finance director, and she's going to give us the finance report.

Finance report. General fund revenues for the month of June total 1,976,310. Of that, 927,207 was sales tax and state turnback. 54,547 was franchise fees and permits. 994,556 was all other revenue. That amount is going to look a little high. It included the raised grant deposit as well as a transfer um from fund 10 to cover EMS expenses. A tax revenue comparison year-to- date analysis. The city's portion of the county was 2,759,547. The county was 3,345,474. The actual budget. Both are just a little bit below. June expenditures for the general fund totaled 1,496,198. Of that 1,233,141 were personnel expenditures. 263,57 were utilities and other street fund June revenues totaled 2,476,689. Of that 555,237 was the 2021 street sales tax. 320,446 was state turnback and adorum tax. 100,255 was interest. 500 was street cutting permits. 1,5251 was all other revenue. This included a contribution that we had budgeted and expected from city corp as well as a fuel rebate. Street fund expenditures for the month of June totaled 166,438. Of that 140,610 were personnel related expenses. 25,828 were utilities and other street capital spending total 25,948 that was for a saw head. 2021 sales tax spending total 1,236,923. That was towards drainage maintenance,

downtown improvements, the raise grant project, US64 west sidewalk project, and the US64 east pedestrian improvements. State turnback street project spending totaled 449,414. That was towards Russville trails and the core of engineer project. Economic development June revenue totaled 105,681. Of that 83,820 was new sales tax and rent. 21,861 was interest June expenditures total 46,740 that was towards the pickle ball court construction. Below are the balances of the various economic development funds as of June 30th. The total amount for those combined is 5,919,122 and6. Capital assets June revenue total 274,309. Of that 269,914 was state grant revenue. 4,395 was interest. June expenditures total 773,790. That was for the purchase of 1801 South Knoxville Avenue. Below is a breakdown of what's been received, spent, and the balance remainings of the 2021 cent sales tax from um inception. The total remaining is 23,545859 and25. And that concludes the finance report if there are no questions.

Thank you, Miss Baker. All right. The mayor's report this week, we're going to have uh we're going to have a report end of year presentation for the rest of youth council. Uh we've had an amazing uh group of young people that have uh dedicated a lot of time to be at a lot of meetings and ask a lot of questions and u they're going to come forward tonight and give us a little bit of a report. We only have a small uh number of them because a lot of them are out of town in different places and doing different things. Uh but we're grateful for the the the ones that we have present. Take it away. Okay. Hi, I'm Ally Laura. I'm Sarah Shop.

And I'm Logan Gregs. So, first we are going to start. So, this is just an overview of what we've done all year because y'all seen us here, but y'all haven't really seen what we've done outside. And so, we have done the voter registration drive. That was, I think, our first event that we had. And, um, we're not sure on the specific amount of voters that we got registered. the mic up a little bit higher to you. Yeah. Yeah. Sorry. There you go.

Um but we got a good amount of um seniors registered to vote which is always a success because we want the youth to get into, you know, government and voting and just yeah getting our voices out there. Yeah. And it was a really good way to um initially connect with the school, you know, and be like, hey, we're doing things here, etc. Um, we also had the amazing opportunity as being part of the youth council to job shadow with certain city departments. Um, we had five of our members go out and job shadow and they all had a really good time. Um, and then so at least one of them also got an internship after her job shadow experience that she's been enjoying all summer. Who was that?

That was me. I I got an internship at the planning office and um I totally recommend for anyone who's going in, especially as a high schooler because I don't know, I just learned like everything and I just think it's super cool to get to have those experiences now before I go into college and decide, hey, I want to do this like forever. So, yeah, that's just my input there. And then Logan was one of the students who did drop shadow. So tell tell them what you learned.

I learned that there was a lot of stuff having to do with um what did I do? Civil engineering. Uh they have a lot of cool technology. They showed me some of their CAD software. It was really cool. My my personal opinion. Am I missing something?

Okay. And then downtown events. So we were lucky enough to work at Fall Fest and the three most recent art walks, the December, the March, and the June. Um, between everybody who went to those, we earned a combined 111.5 hours of community service just at downtown events. So, we had information booths. We helped pick up the trash downtown. We worked with Miss Housenik and her assistants downtown to work with Main Street Russellville and get a lot of the behind the scenes work done there. Are you all going to bring up your uh Accutra that you've you've purchased because Okay, I was just going to make sure this might be a good point there. You had that your scraggly looking first thing and now you got the cool stuff. So,

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Yes. Okay. So, next we did our website and social media. So, we have a bunch of different committees that you will see later on in the presentation, but our website committee came up with a design and now it is on the city of Russville page, which is I just think that's a super cool thing to put on your resume or anything like that. Then we also have our public relations team created um a social media just so that we're getting out to especially our age people to um yeah spread awareness for our cause and these are things that we will keep going. We're going to keep updating the website with next year's council and then you know we're going to keep posting on the social media so you guys should make sure you're following that and keeping up with us. And then so back in I believe it was November, Logan and Genesis proposed our budget to you guys which was a really good experience for us to you know learn how things like that go through the council. Um Ally and I had to get bids and things like that and then so we were able to get t-shirts and a table skirt and a sign from that and then so visibility and recruitment. This page just kind of has a lot of different things that we did. So up in the top right corner you can see that we created our own logo which is on a sign back there. Um but yeah we just wanted our own you logo just so that the city can recognize us. Here is our sign. Um it may take him a second. Um but as he does that yeah there it is. Super cool stuff.

That looks way better than that sign you had at your first event. That's awesome. Yeah. Yes. Um and so and then we also um to the right bottom corner you can see that we passed out flyers that we made just to get the word out there um that we're here and like we want more involvement and stuff. And then we also in August our school outreach okay so in August our school outreach committee is going to go around to the different school districts well schools within our um city and just tell them about it so they're getting public speaking experience making their own slideshows just getting info out there about us. So yeah.

Yeah. So, at the last art walk, we passed out 50 of our flyers to students who are either who are about to be in the grades needed to apply for the council. And we had a lot of people who seem pretty interested in it. And then the school outreach committee has been spending the last few months designing presentations to get them in schools and, you know, actually communicating with the youth. So, meeting attendance, we did have at least one. Usually, I think this is probably the smallest group we've ever had at a meeting. So, more than three council members at every single one of your meetings. And we also hosted monthly meetings that were our own where we checked in with our committees and got the things done that we needed done. We have just finished writing our youth council bylaws that we're going to pass next week at our meeting and we're going to meet with the juniors and everybody who can potentially be on the council next year and teach them, you know, what the bylaws say, how to use them and the expectations for next year's council. And so these are all of our committees that we have. We have four and then within each there is three to four uh students within that. and then the mayor and vice mayor positions who work with all of them. And so yeah, uh I believe that is it.

And so we made sure to put a junior on every single one of the committees. So there is somebody for next year who knows how all of it works. But we're just really really very proud of all these people and I'm glad of what we got to accomplish in this first year where we were just getting our footing. Thank you. Thank you guys for being willing to kind of, you know, be the guinea pigs for this program because I mean, it's something that I feel like the city has needed for a long time. I was very happy and very thankful for Mr. Gray and all the work he's put into it because it probably wouldn't have happened without him.

Well, it wouldn't help it at all without Gina uh reminding the mayor and I we've been to a session on this and we need to get this started. I'd like to thank you uh you guys. Uh one of the things I want the public to know is these guys were meeting all the time. I met with them at uh um where did we meet? City Mall. Better than the city mall. So they do these they they're having these meetings outside of uh this you know what we're doing here all the time coming up with uh their plans. And I want to thank this iteration. The first youth council we just got it started see what would it do. These guys have left a plan. They've left documents that they're going to pass on to the next youth council so they can I think you guys we we'll use Mr. Karp here in the in the u the airport. You guys got the plane on the runway and uh and got it ready for takeoff and the next council is really going to go flying high. So I think I really appreciate you guys.

Great job. All right. Now, Miss Tanessa Vaughn, our HR director, is going to give us a uh departmental report. Good evening and thank you for giving me the opportunity to uh give the human resources report tonight. Um I'm going to be sharing just a short video of some of the key uh highlights and some of the events that the city had for the employees this year. And then in front of you and in your packets, you'll find just a brief um HR report that includes some statistical information, some staffing comparisons, um some benefit changes that we had for this year, and just a few other updates that you'll find in there. Um at the end of this, I'd be happy to answer any questions that you all have about the report. And um I'll just we'll get started here. Heat. [Music] [Applause] [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music]

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Thank you. Great job. Thank you. Okay, lots of amazing events over the year. Mr. Gray, personnel committee. Uh, no reports this month, Mayor. All right, Mr. Keller, do you have anything? Uh, yes, Mayor. From our 5:30 meeting this evening, um, item one was tabled. Item two. Mr. Keller, can I interrupt here just for a second on item one? And Mr. Smith, can you tell me because I do want some guidance here. Uh, can I discuss item one that is tabled? Can I discuss something on that? How could how would I go about doing that?

It never made it here. So, okay. Okay. So I can't seek guidance on that from after after some thought. Not during the meeting. Could I could I ask guidance after this meeting at the end? It's not on the agenda. No. Okay, that's fine. Okay, cool. So we'll we'll be added as a late item at the end because we Yeah. Okay.

Well, we'll just we'll we'll just keep going. Thank you, Mr. Keller. Sorry for the interruption. If there was a motion to discharge from committee, is that debatable? So if someone made the motion and it was second to discharge from committee, we would then be able to have discussion on the motion. Motion of the motion only but not of the item. No. Okay. All right. Thank you for trying, Mr. Keller. Thank you. I appreciate it. Robert's rules. Okay. Thank you. I apologize for the interruption.

No problem, sir. Uh item two is consideration of an ordinance amending ordinance numbers 2437 and 2487 which previously established an ambulance fee schedule for the city of Russellville. This will provide a discount to all self-pay patients without insurance if the bill is paid in full. We present item two is a motion to Oh, wait. No, I'm sorry. So, uh, I move that we suspend the rules, dispense with the reading requirement, read item two, the first of three readings uh, by title or short explanation.

Have a motion and a second on the reading. All in favor?

Any opposed? Sir Lord amending ordinance numbers 2437 and 2487 which establish an ambulance fee schedule for the city of Russville to provide a discount for all self-paid patients for insurance their bills paid in full and for the purposes this ordinance if passed would um would in adjust the fee schedule that is found in section one which the red high red underlined is the new adjustment ments to the fee schedule which is I believe now allowed by act 867 of 2025.

Can I make a motion to amend that reading schedule from one to three to back to just one okay since we already read it I wasn't sure if we could motion to reconsider. Would that would that work? Yeah. motion to suspend the rules. Read for the second of two readings. Is that we can't do because we did three last time.

Yeah. So, are you wanting to read one of one or one of two? I believe it's one of one is what the I'd like to change it to one and one instead of one to three. Suspend the rules. Read one time only with a short explanation by title only. Second. I have a motion and a second on the reading. All in favor? I.

Any opposed? Sir, an ordinance amending ordinance numbers 2437 and 2487 which establish an ambulance fee schedule for the city of Russville to provide a discount for all self to all self-pay patient insurance their bills paid in full and for other purposes this ordinance if passed would amend the fee schedule that was adopted by ordinance numbers 2437 and 2487 and the table would be amended according to the red underlined uh numbers in the table as allowed by act 867 of 2025.

I have a I have a question Mr. Pers. Will this will this um be only for those who are uninsured or if you're poorly insured, can you choose to do the cash option if it's cheaper or The reason what we're doing is our insurance uh providers are actually paying more than what we're billing right now and so we're actually leaving money on the table with our insurance providers. We do not do hard collections on people who are poorly insured. So if whatever insurance pays, we're not going after someone. We're we're not out there going to the collection agencies. I I don't that's not who we are. So, like I say, but basically right now like Medicare, Medicaid, Blue Cross, they're actually paying more than what we're charging. So, we're trying not to leave money on.

I was just checking because I know there's there's municipalities that have weird situations where you get kind of railroaded because you have insurance and you'd be better off paying the cash for it. You can motion to adopt at this point. Yes, you can. Second. Have a motion to adopt and a second. Any discussion? All in favor? Any opposed? All right. Item two will carry. Mr. Killer.

Sorry. Uh item three is consideration of a resolution approving a release agreement and authorizing the mayor and the city clerk treasur to enter a release agreement with Phoenix Innovation Incorporated for any and all future claims arising from the installment sale contract for the purchase of real property. We present item three is a motion to adopt. Have a motion to adopt. All in favor? Any opposed? All right. Three will carry. Item four is consideration of a reimbursement request for the second quarter expenses for the Boys and Girls Club in the amount of $17,95344. We pres uh we present item four is a motion to adopt.

All right. I have a motion to adopt. All in favor? I. Any opposed? All right. Item four will carry. Uh item five is consideration of an ordinance approving the private club permit for Apple Hop R Incorporated and allowing for the application of the required permits to the Arkansas Alcoholic Beverage Control Division per Arkansas Code Annitated section 3-9-222 as amended. Uh we I move that we cons I move that we suspend the rules read item five uh by title with short explanation for the first of two readings.

Have a motion in a second on the reading. All in favor?

Any opposed? Sir's approving the private club permit private club permit for Applehop R Inc. required for the state private club permit application to the Arkansas alcohol beverage control division per aca section 3-9-222 as amended for the purposes this warrants if passed would uh issue a city private club permit that's needed to apply with the ABCD location is 41 East Herald Drive in Russellville Arkansas item six is consideration of an ordinance amending the fiscal code to raise the maximum fixed asset threshold from $2,500 to 5,000. Move we suspend the rules. Dispense with the reading requirement. Read the first of three readings with uh by title and short explanation.

Second. Have a motion in a second on the reading. All in favor? Any opposed? Sir, order submitting the fiscal code for the city of Russ Arkansas adopted by ordinance number 2520 by amending the fixed asset inventory increase the me threshold from 2500 to 5,000 for the purposes or if passed would amend the fiscal code that was adopted by 2520 would raise the fixed asset threshold from 25 to 5,000 which would is the threshold that would be required a fixed asset to be on the fixed asset inventory which is required by the state law to for cities to carry.

Item seven is consideration of an ordinance amending the fiscal code amending the fixed asset code to add a removal process for fixed assets which depreciate below the minimum threshold value is set forth by the fiscal code. Move we suspend the rules dispense with the reading requirement. Read by title with short explanation only for the first of three readings. Have a motion and second on the reading. All in favor? Any opposed?

An ordinance amending the fiscal code city of Russell Arkansas adopted by 2520 by establish a process to remove fixed assets that depreciate below the minimum threshold from the fixed asset inventory and for other purposes. This warrants have passed would set up a process and put that process in the fixed asset code at section six of chapter 4 of the fixed of the fixed asset and capital asset code and it would set up a process where city where the departments would use a useful ice table and do a straight line depreciation and once that depreciation went below 5,000 there would be a process that would started by the finance department to the mayor and ultimately to the council to remove that fixed asset from the fixed asset inventory. Item eight is an appropriation from the 2020 2021 parks and recck special fund reserves in the amount of $456,93060 to fund the construction of ADA restrooms and additional skateart skate park features. the Russellville skate park. We present item A is a motion to adopt.

All right, we have a motion to move forward adopt. Uh all in favor? Any opposed? All right, item nine is an appropriation from the 2021 parks and recck special fund reserves in the amount of $122,489.50 to purchase a new pavilion for Washurn Park. We present number or item nine is a motion to adopt. All right. A motion to adopt. All in favor? I. Any opposed?

Sir, from our meeting last Tuesday. Um items one and 1.1. Um, item one is consideration of a resolution accepting a bid from McConnell Construction Incorporated on behalf of Russellville Municipal Airport for the renovation of Hangar One West authorizing the mayor and the Secler treasure to enter in the agreement with McConnell Construction Incorporated for set improvements and for other purposes. Item 1.1 is an appropriation from the 2024 general fund carryover balance on the sum of $211,640 to fund renovation of Hangar 1 West. We present item one items one and 1.1 is a motion to adopt. I

have a motion to adopt. All in favor? Any opposed? Sir, item two is consideration of a resolution authorizing the mayor and the city clerk treasur to sign a one-year extension to the lease agreement with city corp for the operation of the city of Russellville's water and sewer system. We present item two as a motion to adopt. Item two has a motion to adopt. All in favor?

Any opposed? Motion will carry. Item three is consideration of a resolution authorizing the mayor and the city clerk treasurer to enter into an agreement with Terracon Incorporated for Brownfield Grant writing services and for other purposes. We present item three as a motion to adopt. Item three has a motion to adopt. All in favor? Any opposed?

Move forward. Item four is consideration of a resolution authorizing uh the donation of surplus personal prop personal property to the Central City Police Department and the Cutter Morning Star School District Police Department. We present item four as a motion to adopt. Have a motion to adopt. All in favor? Any opposed?

All right, sir. Number five is consideration of a resolution to accept the lowest responsible bid from Dusty Road Builders Incorporated to wave bidding for the procurement of concrete needed for the project to authorize the mayor and the city clerk treasurer to execute a construction agreement and associated paperwork with Dusty Road Builders Incorporated for the construction of excuse me Harmonate Park ADA restroom edition. with uh Primary Concrete LLC for the supply of concrete needed for the project and for other purposes. We present item five is a motion to adopt.

Item five is a motion to adopt. All in favor? I. Any opposed? All right, moving forward. Item six is consideration of a resolution for the city of Russellville, Arkansas to accept a bid through Omina Partners from Game Time uh is it Game Time Car Cunningham uh Recreation to build a new pavilion for Washurn Park on behalf of Russell Parks and Recreation Department in the amount of $122,489.50 50s and to authorize the mayor of the city clerk treasurer to enter in an agreement for said pavilion. We present item six as a motion to adopt. Item six has a motion to carry forward. All in favor?

I. Any opposed? And last item on our agenda for this evening for the finance committee is consideration of a reimbursement request for second quarter expenses for the Alliance for Economic Development contract in the amount of $40,647.34. We present item seven is a motion to adopt. All right. Item seven has a motion to adopt. All in favor? Any opposed? You have the floor back to you.

Thank you, Chair McKill. Uh moving on to unfinished old business. We have a consideration ordinance amending the current zoning code for the city of Rustville, Arkansas adopted by ordinance 2443 and for other purposes. Move we suspend the rules dispense with the reading requirement read for the third and final time by title and short explanation. We have a motion and a second on the reading. Uh it was it Mr. Gray. There was a second for amendment. Mr. Gray. Uh all in favor? Any opposed? Sir,

submitting the current zoning code for the city of Russell, Arkansas, adopted by ordinance number 2443 and for other purposes as orders have passed would make the following amendments to the current Russell zoning code which was adopted by 2434 in single family residence general descriptions, accessory dwelling units, location of sexually or businesses classifications and definitions. Motion to adopt. Have a motion and a second to adopt. All in favor? I. Any opposed? All right. Miss Scton, can you give us a roll call on item one?

Mr. Keller. Yes. Mr. Gray, yes. Mr. Pearson, yes. Mr. Bradley, yes. Mr. Olsen, yes. Miss Wetzel, yes. Mr. George, yes.

Unanimous, right? Yes. Yes. Yes. Well, the reason Mr. We have to Mr. Smith says we have to do a roll call anytime we do an ordinance is what is what we're doing. So yes, it was unanimous, but we have to do a roll call for an change in an ordinance. All right. Uh item two is consideration ordinance amending. Just point of inquiry. Did we do an ordinance on item two or did we do a roll call vote on the ordinance for item two connected to the uh fee schedule for the ambulance? We did not. You're exactly right. I missed that. I don't. Yeah.

Yes. So, how what do we do there? Uh, Mr. Smith, how do we go back to uh on item two amending uh ordinance amending ordinance 2437 and 2487. Uh, Miss Skelton, can you do a roll call? Good catch. Mr. Which item was that again? Item two on tonight's Item two on tonight's finance meeting, the consideration ordinance amending ordinance 2437 2487. Uh we read one of one. I got you. Mr. George? Yes. Mr. Keller? Yes. Mr. Gray? Yes.

Mr. Pearson? Yes. Mr. Bradley? Yes. Mr. Olsen? Yes. Miss Young. It's unanimous. All right. Thank you once again. All right. Moving on to unfinished. Uh, good catch, Mr. Kelly. Uh, item two, consideration ordinance amending the current land subdivision code development code for the city of Russellville, adopted by ordinance number 2444 for other purposes. This is third and final reading. I move that we suspend the rules read for the third and final time by title only with a short explanation. Have a motion and a second on the reading. All in favor? I. Any opposed? Sir,

amending the land subdivision of development code of the city of Russell, Arkansas, adopted by ordinance number 2444 and for other purposes ords have passed would amend the current land subdivision and development code that was adopted. uh 2444 specifically at article 12 uh subsections uh three and four water and wastewater extension outside the city is further shown by exhibit A attached with this ordinance incorporated herein motion to adopt second have a motion and second to adopt all in favor I

any opposed all right Miss Skelton will you give us a roll call when you get a moment Mr. Gray, yes. Mr. Keller, yes. Mr. Pearson, yes. Mr. Bradley, yes. Mr. Olsen, yes. Miss Wetszel, yes. Mr. George, yes. That's unanimous.

Thank you. All right. Moving on to item three. Consideration ordinance approving the replat parts lot five and six block 111 JL Shan edition accepting public rideways contained within the replat. This is at 301 East H. This will be the third and final reading. Move we suspend the rules. Dispense with the reading requirement. Read by title with short explanation for the third and final reading. Second. All right. I have a motion and a second on the reading. All in favor? I. Any opposed? Sir,

approving a replay accepting the dedication of rideways and easements to the city of Russville and the Replat and for other purposes. The sorts of past would accept the dedications of rightway and easements of the repats of lots five and six, block 111, JL Shin edition, uh, which is considered a minor re plat and a minor subdivision and would accept those dedications herein and would allow the bond to be set by the city engineer. Motion to adopt. Second. A motion to second. All in favor? I. Any opposed? All right. Miss your convenience.

Mr. Keller. Hi. Mr. Gray. Yes. Mr. Pearson. Yes. Mr. Bradley. Yes. Mr. Olsen. Yes. Miss Futzel. Yes. Mr. George. Yes. Unanimous 70. Thank you. Item four is consideration ordinance vacating abandoning of a 10 foot of South Greenwood right away adjacent to lot six and seven block nine of the Oakland Heights edition city of Russville Arkansas and for other purposes this is uh at 816 South Greenwood between East 8th and 10th Streets. This is the second and final reading. Move we suspend the rules dispense with the reading requirement. Read by title and short explanation for the second and final reading.

Second. Have a motion to second on the reading. All in favor? I. Any opposed? Sir, North V can abandon 10 10 ft of an 80 foot rideway along South Renitch adjacent to lots six and seven Oakland Heights addition to the city of Russell, Arkansas. further purposes. The sorts have passed would vacate the aformentioned ride ofway along lot six and seven of South British Avenue as further shown in the aerial attached with this ordinance as exhibit B and further described in exhibit A also attached incorporating this ordinance by reference.

Motion to adopt. Second. Have a motion and second to adopt. All in favor? I. Any opposed? All right. Miss Gilman.

Mr. Keller. Yes. Mr. Gray. Yes. Mr. Pearson. Yes. Mr. Bradley. Yes. Mr. Olsson? Yes. Miss Young? I mean, Miss Wetzel. Yes. And Mr. George. All right. Moving on to new business. Uh I sorry I just have a question. Are we going to be under any kind of scrutiny for the at least the last two and a half years of meetings that we've had since we've not done an ordinance with a vote roll call vote like that? I I just I just don't

be a M question for Mr. Smith. I don't believe so. Is there a reason that we have to do that this way now compared to before? Well, I mean it is I think in the rules of procedure that you adopted. So you you got that going for you. Uh so I mean you should be doing because of the rules that you said that you would follow. And then I think secondly there's state law about requiring the ys and nas on any type of uh ordinance state law. So I believe the mis interpreted that is doing a roll call uh for ordinances. So based on that moving forward is what you've

Okay. Did that answer? So if we wrote it into our rules of procedure that we don't have to do a roll call vote, we would be okay because we have not done roll call votes on every ordinance that we've ever voted for. that I I just would like clarification as to why I personally think you should based on the state law. Uh but that's just me. If you want to talk to the municipal league and do something else, you free to do it. I just know we've been doing that practice for a number of years uh before you were here and that's what the municipal league advised the mayors at the time.

Okay. Thank you. Moving on item one. New business experation of resolution requiring the rehabilitation by agreement or removal or raising of an unoccupied dilapidate structure restoring the property to the Arkansas fire prevention code city codes thereby protecting the health, safety and welfare of the public. Alternatively uh advising uh the removal of the structure should rehabilitation of the structure fail providing for a lean on the property to recover costs associated with removal of structure upon non-payment other purposes. This is a wisteria court and this is the basically you're um allowing me to enter into a re rehabilitation contract on behalf of the city with Mr. Chuck Frank house uh to rehabilitate the wisteria court property.

Motion to adopt. Have a motion and second. All in favor? I think is there discussion? Yeah. Oh yeah. Any discussion? I just wanted to check we've got a uh all the Eyes dotted and te's crossed and everyone's happy with everything that's in the rehab agreement. Yes. Okay. I believe so. Yes. Okay. Great. The timeline. Yes. The timeline is uh there's a um a standard uh contract that the city has had on rehabilitations. So, and that timeline is there? Yes. Mr. Frank House, you're good with this? Mr. Frank House, are you good?

Yes, sir. Thank you. And Mr. Frankhouse is ready to bring in a deposit check uh to fulfill his portion. Uh all okay. So we have motion second. Any more discussion? All in favor? I.

Any opposed? All right. One last item. Uh there has been a request in the month of August. Tuesday, August 12th is our normal meeting. That is the night before school starts. And there's been a request if we could move our finance and agenda prep to Monday or Monday, August 11. Point of order. Point of order.

Yeah. Um, no, no, I'm sorry. Withdraw. We thought, sorry, we were discuss I thought we had to do a roll call for the That was a resol that was a resolution, but it is a resolution. So, we're good. Sorry. Okay. All right. Okay. All right. Um, Tuesday, August 12th is the normal finance and agenda prep. There has been a request to move that to Monday, August 11th. Does anyone have any conflict with that? Would would you guys vote to do that or vote not to do that?

Just real quick. So the qu the request is to move it from the night of the 12th to the 11th. Yes, sir. Same same time 5:30 for finance, 6 pm for agenda prep. Is it It's just because school start the next day. That was the request that I received. Yes, sir. 5:30 on August 11th is what the request is.

I move we uh change the date from August 12th to August 11th. I have a motion and a second to change the August finance and agenda prep from August 12th to August 11th. Have a motion and a second. All in favor? I. Any opposed? All right. We will have our finance and agenda prep on August 11th at 5:30. Does anyone else have anything? Motion to adjourn. All right. We will be adjourned. Thank you, ladies and gentlemen.