City Council - Regular Meeting

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You in? Okay. Good afternoon everyone. The meeting of the Streetport City Council is now called to order. I'm going to ask Chief Reese to lead us in the invocation and I'm going to ask Councilman Bucher to lead us in the pledge of allegiance. You will bow your heads. Father God, in the name of Jesus, we thank you right now for everything that you have done, everything that you are doing, and everything that you will be doing. Father God, we give you all the honor and all the glory right now. Father God, we ask for this prayers over this meeting as we move forward with the city business that everything is done pleasing to your sight. Father God, we ask that policies, procedures, laws, and ordinances are followed. Father God, we ask for a special prayer for those who may be grieving. We pray a special prayer upon the communities, our city, our state, and the United States of America. In Jesus name we pray. Amen.

Amen. If you would face the flag and repeat after me. I pledge algiance 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. Madam clerk, will you please call the role? Councilwoman Taylor present. Councilman Brooks here. Councilman Talif Farerrell here ma'am. Councilman Butcher here. Councilman Jackson here. Councilman Green I'm here. And Councilwoman Bowman present. Is there a motion to approve the minutes of the administrative conference Monday, April 27, 2026 in the city council meeting Tuesday, April 28th, 2026. So move. Second.

So moved by Councilman Green, second by Councilman Ber. Any discussion? Yes. I'mma move you. You been sitting by the screen too long. Let's vote. Too much.

And this passes with seven. Does any council member have any awards, recognition, or distinguished guests not to exceed 15 minutes?

Councilman uh Jackson. Um, I would like members of best 13 and Eric Drake to come to the podium, please. Um, and Madam Chair and council, they have a very, very special program that they want to talk about today. Um, I'm really kind of excited. And uh, if Chief is Chief over there, um, why you getting the Chief? Um,

Hey, Chief. I was saying I was um excited about the program they're going to talk about today um um is dealing with drones and I know we have a lot of drones that we have flying around for security. I'm not sure if officers are flying those drones or if we can ever transition into having trained civilian fly drones. Therefore, your officers can be on the street versus, you know, maneuvering the drones. So, definitely want you to pay attention to this program um because I believe it can help with public safety um as well as our film and television um that we're rolling out as well. Um it's on you guys.

Well, how y'all doing? Uh I'm Constitious Johnson, the president of Best 13. I just want to tell the city and y'all thank y'all for y'all partnership with us and uh y'all have helped elevated us to another level where we able to bring the something new here to the city with the technology industry through with the uh drones. But I'm going to let Eric Drake, this is his program. He had partnered with Best 13. We flew him in. He's fa he's not trying to lead with no money or nothing. You going to teach us and get us certified, FAA certified. You'll be two steps away from being a private pilot. So, we going to go through the whole process as well as we going to learn it. So, we'll be able to keep this program here and be able to teach the people of Streetport, Louisiana, black, white, the community of Streetport, young and old, for this industry and understand drones is not just for taking PE pictures. People been using them like they're toys. But this more than you can do agriculture, roofing, real estate, construction, working in warehousing, all things you can do with you going to talk about this. This Eric Drake, right?

Good afternoon, city council, mayor, chief, and citizens of Streetport. Um, my name is Eric Drake and I'm coming from Detroit. Um, I am a certified drone pilot. I've been flying drones now for eight years. Um, I currently own three businesses. I have a construction site which is your highf flying pictures. I have the educational side which is higher height drones and Kathy uh drone security. So that's a security side. Um the drones are here. The um technology is vast. However, I noticed that a lot of us is being left behind. Um, I developed this platform because I noticed that there were students that were in Detroit that wanted to learn, but because I had an aviation background, I took for a granted that anybody can pick it up. Well, looking and learning that everybody is not like the next person, I along with a partner of mine took a curriculum, broke it down, and rewrote it. By doing that, my success rate or graduation rate went from 50% to 98% graduation rate. I made it simple, easy, and understanding for the youth growing up. I can go on and on and on about drones, but I just want to tell you how drones has helped me um financially. It's um very rewarding. I went from making $30,000 a year to making 90 something thousand dollars a year. Well, in six months. So, the money is there. The technology is there. The need is there. I just want to come from Detroit to bridge the digital gap. I'm not trying to come to Shreveport and get

your money and go back and invest it in Detroit. I'm just trying to train individuals here in Shreveport to learn that same skill so they can invest in their own community. So if you have any questions on Okay. Um what's the age group to participate in this program? 14. It start at 14. Um legally with the FAA you are able to what I like to look at as like a driver's permit. From 14 to 16, you're able to fly, but not able to make money. Okay. From the age of 16 and up, you're there. You're then able to become uh uh part 107 pilot, and you're able to charge for your services.

Okay. Um how much um would a charge be for the kids to sign up? Well, for that is I do that in stages because Okay. 14 I don't see 14 to 16 paying for what a person that is ready to go and take the exam to be paid for.

So um we're doing now of rolling out a pilot program and the first step is to get the trust which is um understanding the functions of a drone, the laws of the drone, the areas in which you can fly basically giving you the groundwork. Once that's done, you graduate to becoming a private pilot. So, this week, I'll be here helping everyone get their part uh get their trust. I'll be back in a week or so to start the class for the part 107. Thank you, Madam Chair. Yes.

And and chief, our current drone pilots, all of them are officers, post-certified. Is that a requirement to be a drone pilot for SPD? All of them are trained, licensed, insured, drone pilots. They're officers as well. Yes. Okay. Yes. One of the difficulties I'm mic

one of the main considerations here in our community um with our pilots and the credentiing is the amount of air traffic. The regional airport, the downtown airport, Barksdale Air Force Base, all of everything here is somewhat restricted airspace. So the pilots really really have to understand that and do the appropriate FFA deconliction whenever they go airborne. It's it's really complex. So we've never discussed anyone being a pilot other than a certified seasoned police officer. But I would be willing to listen and talk about it and absolutely if that see if that may be an option. But that's some of the limitation here because of all of the airfields around us and all of our entire area is almost restricted air space and that deconliction is what you got to do.

Sure. M madam chair. Yes. That that kind of answers my question. I think what Councilman Jackson was touching on. Do the drone pilots have to be postcertified officers? I do that. I do not know. Uh, no one has ever told me that question, but I can I can tell you for sure all of them that are drone pilots that we pay for their licensing are SPD seasoned officers. But we could we could obviously use those officers in other places if

none of them none of them are fulltime. Being a drone pilot is extra for us. So, if you're a patrol officer, you go out each day in your patrol shift and do whatever it is you do. None of our pilots are full-time pilots. Being a pilot is secondary to what you're doing. So, on each patrol shift, there are licensed pilots. Until there's a need for a bird to go airborne, they're doing their normal patrolling duties. If they're on patrol and there's a need to go airborne, do they stop their patrol? That is correct.

Okay. So, that that once again I I think that's kind of what Councilman Jackson's asking. Can we something like this might leave them as patrol officers and maybe these trained people could do that obviously for a fee but they they wouldn't be postcertifi certified police officers. I'm I'm open to anything. Uh I would feel quite certain everything we do is uh uh public knowledge or it's subject to public subpoena. So if you're a pilot and you're working for us and you film something, witness something, then you become a witness on paperwork to come to court.

Okay. And the drones are obviously tied into RTCC. That is correct. Correct. Yes. Okay. All right. Thank you, Chief. Yes, Madam Chair. C and and and Chief and and I'm looking at it just like a 911 operator. You know, that person to my knowledge doesn't go through your your police academy. you know, they're they're hired civilian that wear the uniform that that assists with the job. So,

um I was excited when they told me about this program cuz I'm always looking at and I know for other entities um but in the spirit of public safety, if I can keep that officer in a vehicle, boots on the ground and we can have more pilots, you know, flying around, especially between the hours of of 12 and 3:00 a.m. when we know most of our our shooting, not just shooting. We can complaints about drag racing, different things like that, that drone can see a whole lot. Sure. just being up in the air and then we can have those boots on the ground to making sure that we're we're detouring people from committing these these types of crimes. Absolutely. I'm I'm open to conversation. I be happy to explore it.

Right. Um Chief, this would be something that I would like to explore also. Um maybe on the same scale as auxiliary police. They could be auxiliary drone officers. Not actually an officer, but something to help with crime. And we keep our other officers on the street. So, it's something I would be open to.

Absolutely. The technology is endless. As a matter of fact, this week uh today companies in town, they are demonstrating uh drones that dock on fire stations or police stations. Uh they automatically tie into 911. When a call comes into 911, even before an officer is even dispatched, the bird takes flight, filming along the way, and goes directly to the site of the incident and hover and is sending back live feed uh to RTC uh to 911 and to the responding officers. Uh we demoed it uh out in Councilman Jackson's area a couple of months ago. Uh we were at uh our temporary uh substage facility on Kingston Road and we sent the drone I believe to Lowe's. So within unbelievable amount of seconds 10 or 15 seconds it was already on scene before an officer could have even

got dispatched. So we are are looking at that technology uh to cover our entire shreport area. Okay. So stay tuned. Get your wallets ready. I think Mr. Drake had a response to some of the commentary. And then if Chief Reese is over there, I'm not sure how drones can assist um his department with with fires and stuff.

I just wanted to um address address chief. you may want to um have your pilots to apply for a waiver. By you being um special response, you can get a waiver for most of the airspace confliction and you don't have to worry about that. So that's one of the things that as a drone pilot you can do. Um, uh, other than that, um, it's it's a growing and a very interesting, um, industry to say the least. Um, drones are saving lives. They are, um, doing agriculture, uh, construction, um, search and rescue.

I mean, it just goes on. I don't have the time to continue going on with you guys, but I mean I'm open to questions and able to give you my honest and professional answer to lead you to the best decision and what you can you can make. The other portion of where drones are used too is for in the area of autism and wandering because that is uh one of the effects of autism is that individuals will wander. And so instead of having just foot soldiers, you have the drones in addition to that where they will be able to come back and trace and then look in a larger area. It's funny you say that.

Just had a class last year that I didn't know that were on the spectrum and they did better correct than my students that aren't on the spectrum. Correct. You know, the points of paying attention, the um knowledge in which they receive the questions in which they were asked and wasn't scared to challenge me. Correct. So, that was one of my most rewarding classes. Um, however, I just want to be able to give this talent to more youth. It in Detroit, I had co-op. Correct.

After school, I was able to go to the bus station and work. It helped me so much. And my parents when it was time to graduate, my parents didn't worry about senior fees, pictures, or anything like that. I had it. I want to be able to give that next sister or brother that opportunity and able to give them something a skill that will take them a lot further than where I went. That's why I'm Chief Shie Ree has a couple commentary and then before y'all go, can you tell everybody how they can sign up for the program? Yes, sir.

So, sure. We would love to uh partner uh with Best 13. I think I talked to MJ about it. The fire department has had drones for the last 6 years. Thermal imaging drones used for search and rescue hazardous materials incidents. Uh K9 search and rescues. Uh many of ours, of course, we're talking about airspace and everything else. We have waiverss and exemptions. Uh and you're also able to apply for those through FAA before flying for if you're doing it for photography and everything else. So, as y'all are teaching that class, we would love to be we I have several that would like to become drone pilots that are not already uh that are not already pilots. So, uh, we would love to be included in that conversation. Uh, again, we're flying thermal imaging drones and also the first person view, uh, drones as well. So, just let us know, especially if it's involving the camp or kids.

Right. And chief, same thing. Y'all use firefighters. Y'all don't use civilians. Y'all use firefighters to fly drones. Uh, correct. Unless it's for media purposes, uh, for putting up stuff on social media, stuff like that. We can use anybody, uh, that we have. But these are typically firefighters, investigators. I have two drones in my vehicle that I keep, uh, at all times. Our chief of safety keeps one in his vehicle. So these are Yeah, these are regular firefighters, but anybody within the street fire department that can respond to a scene can fly any one of these drones as long as they have their port 107.

So to answer your question about um how we sign up, it's just best to contact Best 13. Um best 13 is the one that's going to set it up. I'm just here to deliver the package, educate you guys so you guys can turn around and educate other people within the Streetport community. Thank you. Thank you, madam chair.

Thank you. U also even though he's doing drone is also teaching you he going to teach you how to code too. Code drones feed information to the drone. That's a big part of it too. And uh y'all know y'all can contact us. We got the flyer on our uh website ww best3.org. got it also on best 13 Facebook page has as well. Y'all can come in one of our page and we gonna be at we start class Wednesday at 620 Texas Street. It's free is open to the public ages 14 to 16 and 17 to adults. So we're going to teach two different programs advanced, you know, for the adults and stuff. And this something we going to continuously do. He going to leave and he training us what we could be able to teach to be certified pilots. We already know where the testing place at, where you go get tested at out here and everything for your FFA license and everything like that.

So, we thank y'all for listening. Thank you. Thank you.

Any other council member? I want to take the time to um acknowledge and council Jason, I think you also have a student at your school. We have 16 graduates from Greenos High School that will be graduating with their associates degree. And I think that is commendable for high school seniors to graduate not only receiving their diploma but also receiving an associate degree from Southern University at Shreport. Um and I think that was also an individual at Southwood um with the same credential. So you can be quiet, but you need to give it up for these students in this climate that we're IN because they graduate from high school and college. God, I don't know why y'all dare to stand up for these kids. Yes, because once they enter college, then hey, they only have two years or maybe a year and a half to obtain their bachelor's degree. So, kudos and congratulations to KTO Parish School System um for that remarkable achievement and to the students at Grenos High School in Southwood and I'm sure that there are others that we aren't aware of at this time. Mayor Arseno, do you have any awards recognition or distinguished guests not to exceed?

I do have some uh an announcement and some recognitions. Okay. I want to uh praise we have five African-American women from various departments in the city who received graduate degrees. All of them received a master's of business administration. Awesome.

Four of them from WY University and one from Grand Canyon University. all in their fields of work. And so I'm very proud of Ashley Calhoun with human resources, Freda Edmund with public works engineering, Lehantra Hawkins in revenue, Alicia Mason at public works permits and inspections, and Melissa Price with SPAR. All of those are from WY and Leah Johnson with revenue.

All right. Thank you everybody. I do want to recognize and then uh announcement announcement wise see I can open this because it's a mouthful. Um we share with Boer a a tremendous support for Barcel force base and as a result of that shriport boer has been named a 2026 great American defense community. Okay, one of only three named in the country. So we should congratulate ourselves. ALL RIGHT. AND THAT'S ALL I HAVE. MADAM CHAIR,

do you have any communications from the mayor relative to city business? No, ma'am. Okay. We want to congratulate all the 2026 graduating seniors and those that have are receiving your associates and masters and doctorate and bachelor's. I'm sorry I put it all out of order. Uh degrees. That's a major accomplishment. Yes.

Thank you. I just I I wouldn't think I'd like to congratulate all of the uh juniors at uh Captain Shre who are now becoming seniors and they will have their uh ring ceremony today at 6:00 at Captain Shre and my granddaughter Keelani Green will be receiving her ring this evening along with him. Madam Chair, thank you.

While we're congratulating everyone, I want to congratulate Councilwoman Bowman and her husband for celebrating 24 years of marriage yesterday. So, I'm gonna congratulate my nephew Kingston again because he going from kindergarten to first grade.

Okay. Does any member have any questions or concern relative to property standards for Mr. Green? Come on, sache on down here. Any questions? Okay. Councilman Green. Yes, sir. Were you able to were you able to uh catch up with whoever has that Circle K on 70th Street uh in Juela? Well, it's not that I needed to catch up with them. Um I did give it to zoning. Yes, sir. Uh and we'll we'll send them their a cleanup letter for that, but I did give it to zoning. Thank you. Thank you, Madam Chair. Brooks. Oh, all right. Sache, have a good one.

All right. Everyone should have received the budget to actual financial report from finance public hearing. There is none. Madame clerk, will there be any legislation be added today regarding the public hearing? Mhm.

Um, ordinance 36 of 2026 is subject to Louisiana Revised Statutes, Title 33, Section 4712, which would require a public hearing if any objections to that ordinance had been filed uh within 15 days of the original posting of ordinance 36 of 2026. Uh, no objections were filed to the proposed lease amendment in ordinance 36 of 2026. Um, which has been on file with the clerk with the council clerk's office since April 14th, 2026. So, no public hearing is required.

Thank you, sir. So, there's no legislation added today? No, ma'am. Okay. Today, we're here public comments on agenda items only. Um you please state your name and your address for the record. You have three minutes to speak and madame vice chair will handle this part of the agenda. Thank you madam chair. Um John Glover.

Good excuse me. Good evening members of the uh council the administration. Uh John Glover 9100 Walker Road apartment 217ort Louisiana zip code 7118. um listening to our attorney's comment about public hearing. We didn't even know we could have a public hearing. So, there's that. But I do wise to ask and to get more clarification on ordinance number 36. Now, yesterday I heard a comment that said that alluded to the city being accountable or responsible for some of what 50 Cents had had um entered into his lease agreement with. I thought when that lease agreement first came about, he was going to be responsible for the wholeness of that agreement. Yesterday it was a comment that said, "Well, what has our economic de develop economic development director has done to assist Mr. Jackson?" So, I wanted to get clarity whether or not we were ever responsible or were going to be held accountable to do anything with regards to what he's doing with Millennium Studios and definitely the Epic Center knowing those different documents that will address those needs. two and I did speak to the attorney. It mentioned in paragraph I mean number six and I don't have the page number of the um amended uh agreement. It said the tenant has fulfilled its obligation under section 15B number one original excuse me original lease to utilize the studio for one or more purposes stated in the original lease. Now, I guess because I

never saw the original uh lease, I didn't know what those particular obligations were that was being referenced here. So, if someone can tell me though, he told me, but he the public needs to hear what those obligations were under that original lease. Now, this new lease is saying that you will no longer be accountable for what was under the original lease. You're going to start this lease as one that has just new altogether. Thank you. Attorney Edwards, can you update Miss Glover with that please? Uh yes, I'll take your your last question first. Okay.

The um the provision that you referenced in the amended lease says that B essentially that GUI Film and Television Louisiana will be held to have fulfilled the performance requirements from the original lease. Those performance requirements were essentially two productions per year. The reason why uh the extended lease holds GUnit um to have fulfilled those obligations for the prior two years is first of all the requirements in the extended lease which are as you know by reference from the state CA much much much more robust

than the performance requirements from the original lease. And then secondly, because um in order for GUnit to start the work that they want to start at uh Gunit Studios, Millennium Studios, um they have had to undertake a number of things including this extended um lease agreement to get the uh site control over um the epicenter etc. So um the provision that you referenced in your second question is to say that uh the performance requirements in the original lease which is two productions per year or one production every six months I think is actually how it's worded.

Um are essentially supplanted by the much more rigorous requirements in the um the state CA. Um your first question was what again? You don't remember either. Uh oh, wait a minute. That was the one whether or not the city was going to be responsible for any aspect of the original lease.

The city is not um in the lease itself. The city is not um responsible for uh production, promotion or um creation of or or marketing of the projects that would um um happen at Millennium Studios. That would uh that requirement stays with Gunit and would much would would likely be better done by Gunit Film and Television Louisiana. Just wanted to make sure that I along with all of us understood the if there were any obligations the city had to or had already done that I gained knowledge of that. I do appreciate your taking that uh opportunity to share that with me. Thank you.

No problem.

Thank you, Miss Glover. David Hackne. Good afternoon. I'm Dave Hackne. I live at 9660 Railsback Ridge, Shreport, Louisiana 7106. Councilman Bureer is my councilman. Uh I'm here today to speak on this uh and I forget the number, but it's the Red River Express um resolution or ordinance, I guess it is, that going to be considered. Um I saw that there's there there's been a lot of good progress. I want to compliment the people, Mr. Mayor, Councilman Butcher, uh the parties uh advancing this, but there's still a number of concerns and the timing of of this particular ordinance uh when it gets approved. So, this project is basically building a road in Cado and Shreport, building a bridge over the Red River, building a road on the Boer side. Um, as I understand it, the bridge has to be built first before the roads. Um, you build the bridge, you earn the right to have the roads. Um, there's been a number of of of good uh guard rails put on this project. 35 mph speed limit. Um, that's that's great news. How how that gets enforced is going to be important. Um, no trucks over 26,000 pounds. That's great news how it gets enforced. Um I'd kind of like to know are there similar streets somewhere else in Shreport that have these same restrictions that you know I can go out and sit and watch and

say there's an 18-wheeler doing 50 m an hour. Uh you know it are things being enforced. Um number four in this agenda I don't understand. I'm not smart enough. It it seems like uh it's saying this doesn't have to go to MPC for reasonzoning if I'm if I understand it correctly. And um I think this should go to MPC because you're you're building a road uh and it's a privatelyowned business that Red River Express is doing and it's going through residential lots, lots that are zoned for houses. And to me that that requires its owning change. Um and lastly, this Red River Express has to produce a mailer and send it out to the neighborhood. Um you know, I don't I don't know how receptive people will be to get a mailer saying this is what's going to be done. I also have a concern. Um, only a part of this road is in the city limits and it promptly goes south of 12 oaks into Kado Parish and port property. And so the port has defined this as a highcapacity flow through east west arterial. I don't know what that means, you know, and and so if they're saying 60 mph high-speed trucks, what happens when it gets to the to the Shreport property? And lastly, I just want to say we call that the trapezoid. That's Shreport's version of the straight of Hormuz. Okay.

So, thank you very much. Thank you, Mr. Hackne. Madam Chair. Yes. C. Uh, Mr. Hackne, I'm I'm going to discuss this when we get to this part on the agenda. I'm sorry. I said I'm going to discuss, ask a few questions. We'll get this part of the agenda, but for the record, we're not voting on this. Uh, do we vote on this today? No. No. No. We're not voting on this till two weeks. Yes, sir. Mr. Ryan Williams.

Good evening. How's everyone doing? Ryan. All right. Ryan Williams, uh, 1533 Marshall Street. Uh, of course, I'm always going to be in favor of good business for the city of Shreport when it comes to leasing and lease terms and things of that sort. Uh, as a developer in downtown Shreport, we of course we want to see it vibrant. We want to see it grow. We want to see it safe. Uh, and on on with that being said, uh, with the permission of Mr. Mayor and Madame Chair, uh, I don't want us to forget what month this is, right? May is a very important month for me as a mental health advocate. Um and also finding other advocates. So this is the month where we seek out other advocates. And um this little green pen right here can change a lot of lives.

Correct.

And what this little green pen does when you wear it, it makes you a mental health advocate. And it's okay to not be okay. And I think that's the expression that we need to start expressing throughout our city. We talk about healing and what's next for our community. I wear my little pen every day. What I'm asking the citizens to do in the city of Shreport, starting with our council, our mayor, is to be an advocate. And this little pin turns you into a lifesaver and an advocate. And that's what I'm asking everyone to do today. And that's why I've asked the council if it's okay if I can just present each of you with a pen that makes you an advocate for mental health. So when someone is not okay, they can see this little pen and they can ask you a question and it's okay to say you're in a safe space. You can let me know that you're not okay. Now, um I'm buying them personally and Seedlinks is going to be the company that's going to be presenting them to whoever wants to step up and be an advocate for people who are not okay. And I think that's just one step in the many steps that we're going to take to try to save our community and to try to reach people who need us the absolute most uh inside of our community. So, um I brought enough pins for the council, for the mayor. I know you have your I love street pens. You can place it above it or under it. It doesn't matter. Um but I just want you to know that in conjunction with who we are and what we do as a community that anybody can be an advocate. Everybody should be an advocate when it comes to mental health. So, in the month of May, we're going to recognize be recognized by wearing our pins, uh, our green pins that says that we are mental health advocates and we care about the mental health of our neighbors, our friends, our family

members, and everybody that we come in contact with. And that's going to be a step in making sure that our community is going to be a little bit more healthier. Right. If I can just have that permission to do so. Mr. Williams, for ethic reasons, what's the value of the pen? I'm sorry. What's the value of the pen? Like 20 cent. Okay, great. Thank you. We were just making sure it wasn't $75 plus. Oh, no, no, no, no, no. I think it's like 20 cent on Amazon. And I'm going to put the bill for this because in the in the fight that we fight, if I can share this, if I have some time to share this, they know you normally have your pens dipped in gold, so they just want to make sure it was it wasn't gold.

Sure. Uh I I just like to say honestly and truthfully that um in the fight that we fight every day when it comes to mental health, we can't do it alone.

It's no amount of LPCs, doctors, psychiatrists, psychologists that can do it alone. It takes every person to check on everybody inside of our community to make a difference. And I honestly believe that we have the leadership in place that will make a difference. We are one of the greatest healthcare communities in the state of Louisiana when it comes to um taking care of our own. But I think it starts with making sure that people are healthy, happy, healthy mentally, physically, and emotionally. And it starts with the people that's in this room and will project outside of this room. So, I'm grateful for the opportunity to present these little green pens. And just remember that you are not only an advocate, but you have the ability to be a lifesaver as well. Thank you so much, Councilman Green.

Yeah. Lawyer, I'm running for office. Can I still take one? You said lawyer. It's generally a bad idea to give legal advice in public, but yes, you can take one. Brian, will you will you give those to the clerk?

Mr. Sammy Mirs.

Sammy Mirs, 1133 South Point Parkway, apartment 111, Shripport, Louisiana 71105. Today I'm speaking on resolutions 9839, 9A44, 9A45, and 9846. I think it's a wonderful idea for the mayor to execute a cooperative endeavor with the GUnit Film and Television Louisiana LLC concerning the Epic Center. So, please, if you'll vote on this today going forward, this would really be appreciated very much. I also think it's a wonderful and super idea too for our mayor to in shreport city to execute a cooperative program endeavor agreement between the city of shreport and northwest family justice center to have an operate a domestic violence service center here in shreport or just wherever they can. There's been too much ridiculous violence nonsense that's been going on and it is so just ridiculous and so stupid it's got to stop like a red light at once. My heart goes out to those two mothers that lost their kids. I was really hurt very much. And please vote yes on this resolution today, too. Please vote yes to recognize May 22nd, 2026 as National Maritime Day. That's a new one. And please vote yes to recognize Early Childhood Educators of Kids to College Academy LLC. All four of these I've been working on today just to work on them. If you'll vote on lease yes today, it would really be appreciated very much.

Thank you so much. Thank you so much, Madam Chair. That concludes public comments. We have no executive appointments to consider today. There are no items under consent agenda for introduction or to be adopted. Madame Clerk, please proceed to regular agenda legislation. Mine did the same thing. Resolution 39 authorizing mayor to execute a cooperative endeavor agreement with Gun Film and Television Louisiana LLC concerning the Epic Center. Second.

So moved by Councilman Green, second by Councilwoman Bowman. Any discussion? Let's vote. It's an I for me. And this passes with seven resolution 41 approving the budget for the cattle streetport sales and use tax commission for the fiscal year beginning July 1st, 2026. So move second. So moved by Councilman Green, second by Councilman Ber. Any discussion? No.

And this passes with seven. Resolution 42 authorizing the merit to execute an acceptance of active donation between the city of Shreport and Ortonwood Partners LP here after called owner and acting herein through David Strange managing member for the water and sewer mains extension and related facilities served or well subdivision. So move second. So moved by Councilman Green, second by Councilman Butcher. Any discussion? Let's vote. And this passes with seven

resolution 43 authorizing the mayor to execute a gas regulator station site servitude agreement with Delta North Louisiana Gas Company LLC for the construction and the maintenance of a maintenance of a natural gas regulator station on city property. So move second. So moved by Councilman Green, second by Councilman Brooks. Any discussion? Let's vote

and this passes with seven resolution 44 authorizing the mayor of the city of shreport to execute a cooperative endeavor agreement between the city of shreport and the northwest Louis Louisiana family justice center to operate a domestic violence service center. So move second.

So moved by council green, second by council taloferoh. discussion. I want to take this time again um Mr. Mayor to say um thank you because this is so pertinent to so many of us sitting on this horseshoe and so pertinent to the city of Shreport when we're talking about domestic violence. It also let knows our citizens know that this is a priority for us and that we are extremely intentional about making sure that we save as many lives as we can. So, we look forward to the continuous collaborative uh partnership and as Councilman Butcher said um earlier that we hope that Streetport will be a model for the nation with the improvements that we have. I'm ready to vote.

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you so very much. This pass with seven resolution 45 to recognize May 22nd, 2026 is National Maritine Day. So move second. So moved by Councilman Tal Faroh, second by Councilman Ber. Any discussion? Let's vote. And this passes with seven

resolution 46 recognizing the early childhood education of kids to college academy. So moved. Second. So moved by council green, second by madam vice chair. Any discussion? this vote

in this passage with seven. Madam clerk, would you proceed with introduction of resolutions not to be adopted prior to May 26, 2026? Resolution 47 authorizing the mayor to execute a tax order with Burns and McDonald's engineering company for a program and management services regarding the renewed streetport capital improvements project program. So move for introduction. Second.

So move for introduction by Councilman Green, second by Councilman Ber. These items have been introduced. Madame clerk, would you proceed with the intro introduction of ordinances not to be adopted prior to May 26, 2026? Ordinance 47, amending the city of Shreport, Louisiana 2026 retain risk internal service budget fund budget. Ordinance 48, amending the city of Shreport, Louisiana 2026 general fund budget. Ordinance 49, amending the city of Streetport, Louisiana 2026 capital improvements budget. Ordinance 50 repealing section 18-187 through 18-190 and sections 18-242 through 18245 of the code of ordinances. Ordinance 51 repealing section 26-216 of the code of ordinances. Ordinance 52 providing for the incurring of the debt and the issuance and sale of not exceeding $90 million of general obligation bonds series 2026 of the city of Shreport state of Louisiana prescribing the form terms and conditions of said bonds designating the date denomination and place of payment of said bonds providing for the payment thereof in principle and interest and providing for other matters in connection therewith. Ordinance 53 approving a grant of an amendment of an amended right-of-way server tool agreement with Red River Express LLC of Alabama for the construction of a railway facility on the city-owned property authorizing the mayor to execute same move for introduction.

Second move for introduction um by Councilman Green, second by Councilman Jackson. discussion by Councilman Ba

on uh ordinance 53 uh the Red River Expressway uh LLC. Uh Mr. Hackne raised a few questions. Uh the one that I'm going to answer myself is the um the mailor uh was my idea that I presented to uh Mr. Tim James as attorney basically because there's so much misinformation. It's like when you were a kid and you played telephone and you went around the room saying this is what it's going to be and then by the time it got to this person this is what it's going to be and by the time it got to this person this is what it's going to be. I wanted everything that was specifically outlined in this amended uh right of way to be spelled out where everyone had an opportunity to look at it and then discuss it whenever it came up at the meeting in two weeks. And they have agreed and that is a costly endeavor I would assume. So they have agreed to do that. Uh secondly, when it comes to the uh zoning issue, I'm going to ask the attorney to kind of answer that question if you could. What there is a it's a revocable um right of way. What does that mean,

Madam Chair? Um condition four states that um the rightway would be automatically removed revoked if any zoning changes that are necessary for the use fail. So um to the extent that there's any need to go to the MPC to get a zoning change in order for them to uh go forward with the use that's in the rightway agreement which as we all know and as Mr. Mr. Hackne said is for the uh construction and maintenance of a roadway to the extent that any zoning changes are necessary if those zoning changes fail at the MPC the rightway would be automatically revoked.

Mr. Jeen, I'm just thinking um if if if I purchased a lot in a subdivision and the master plan was shown to me and it did not include a roadway, I would want my say if a roadway was going where lots were going to be. Is that how this works?

So if there's lots there at the current time, you're saying that if it's not identified in the master plan, not necessarily what we would, you know, because development patterns change all the time. And so the master plan is a what it is basically a policy document. And so sometimes we have to re-evaluate when there's something happening with whether it's roadways or whether it's developments that occur. So it's not a it's not a law. It is a is a policy document. So it wouldn't necessarily I'm talking about the master plan of a neighborhood of the neighborhood.

Yes. So not not our master plan of the neighborhood. So, if if if you come to me to buy a lot in a specific neighborhood and I show you the master plan and the master plan says, "Okay, this is going to be lot one, two, three, four, five right here." I buy my my property and then 10 years down the road, I decide I'm going to sell those lots not for residential use. I'm going to put those make a road go through there.

You can uh Yeah. when you when you start doing something like that when it's that you can go through lots with a dedication because which that's done all the time. If it's a servitude and you just want to be able to to do that, you can. It's just a part of the planning process. So you're you're asking that if whether or not was consistent with the filed master plan that they could they couldn't do it without some approval level approval, but it's not impossible. Well, that's my whole that's my whole point because for the record, I think that and I've said this all along. I I am definitely not opposed to this. I think it's a great public uh private partnership. Uh everything that I've asked the Red River Expressway LLC to do, they have done. However, that is the biggest thing, and I've been very upfront with the attorneys. I've been very upfront with with Mr. James that those lots are going to have to be replatted. And I need to know where I can tell the people that are asking what specifically does that look like? Does that come to you for an administrative uh replat or does do they get a say? I mean, what? Because I but the the last thing I want to do is say, "Okay, this is going to zoning." And then it doesn't and I've got, you know, 150 people from a neighborhood calling me and saying, "But you said this." So, I that's why I'm trying to get this out on the table. What What happens from this point with those lots? Because we know the road has got to go over. How many lots is it? Four, five, six, seven. We know it's going to have to go over and and I'm not opposed to it. I'm I'm really not. And full disclosure, I own a lot in Esplanade. So, I I'm not opposed to it. But I want to make sure that everybody has an opportunity to speak and be heard because that's not

what they were sold. And I've told the developer of Esplanade that as well. So I need to know where I can tell my people, my constituents where we are with this. You want some? Well, when it comes to to a major change like that and and it's a roadway now, you can have you can have a private servitude that can be done administratively. Okay. If this is a dedication that's that's different. You can have a private servitude for public use and that actually has been done by uh by Mr. Larkin himself and that's how we got the roadway that connects

the main road. Yes, that's how that's done. It's it's a private service to for public use and that does not require any kind of public if it is a dedication. That's a different question. The question I've had that question posed to me before. Could you put a could you put a a servitude through lots? Yes, you can. And that doesn't require public process. Uh just before the servitude itself, unless you're creating new lots, which in this case, you're not really creating new lots. So, but but if it's a public dedication, that's a little bit different question.

Well, I'd like for these questions to be answered in the next two weeks. Uh if we could because it u like I said, I am I am on the record and I've told my colleagues this. I'm for it. Uh I'm not opposed to it. Let me just put it like that. Um I I I'm not opposed to the road. I think that it's going to be just like pretty much the boulevard that goes into the neighborhood from what I've been told and from what I've seen. So, I can't necessarily oppose that, but I I also understand that nobody anticipated those being that road being there. And um so anyway, I I I want us to get that straight before we before we get to that point because I can promise you there's going to be more than one man here at the next meeting. And that question is going to be asked

because I was asked the question before, can you put a roadway through a residential lot? And the answer to that is yes. It's done all the time. But when we start talking about dedications, what we usually, you know, we often do when it comes to dedications, that's something that ends up coming back to you guys as a part of a plat that gets signed. The dedication gets signed by a mayor. So, that's a little bit different question. And that I I would think that that would be a public process, but the question I was asked before uh when there's some inquiry about this was whether or not you can put a roadway on on a on a residential lot. And absolutely, you you can do that. So, this is a slightly different question than what I was asked previously.

But here's the other here's the other tentacle to that. What what if that roadway is for profit from the standpoint of it's a private roadway that's being built for profit. That shouldn't be an issue. So, so you're not changing the zoning because you're No, the zoning doesn't change. As the example I've given you before, uh we have a a private dedication.

Okay. going through residential lot connecting from Forny Lufus down to Esplanet. That was that was a that was not something that was approved by the MPC. That was something that there was a dedication that was submitted to the MPC that was denied. But that private servancy for public use was just platted by Mr. Larkin for the use for he can connect to that roadway to fulfill an obligation that he made for the zoning case in order to have a secondary entrance out of of Esplanade. So, you know, when you asking these those questions, I can I can tell you you actually can do that. When you're asking me whether or not a dedication has to that's that's a different question. I believe that dedication itself has to go to the NPC because of the part that it has to go back to you for approval and acceptance in the dedication. A servitude is a different question because it's done before private servitude public. Are we accepting a dedication or is the parish accepting a dedication or is there going to be a dedication at all?

Yeah, the this exact question has not been front of in front of me showing me exactly what was being planned and I haven't been in attendance to any of the NL cog meetings previously to know exactly what was happening there. But the so it is possible to go through a residential lot without reszoning. And we've done I can think of two instances right now where that has been done that was not reszoned and it was going it was actually an access going to a property to to a industrial property. And then this is a this is a private dedication for public use that that Mr. Larkin laid down in order to get access to his development or secondary access. But it was his land that he owned. Yes. Okay.

Right. Well, I I'd like to get some clarification on that. And for my colleagues, I won't I'm not going to stay on this too much longer, but uh Councilman Jackson asked this is there's seven lots up against the bayou that were originally platted for residential. So, when the when the when the road goes through the trapezoid that we would be granting the ride ofway, it would have to cross these seven lots that are currently owned. I'm assuming have y'all bought them or they y'all bought them from Mr. Tim Larkin. So my question is when people bought their lots they anticipated those being residential lots, not a road. So where where do we go with this? Because you've already got a road coming into the subdivision. Traffic noise.

Yeah. They they didn't anticipate they thought these were always going to be residential lots. So we have seven lots now that are being reszoned or being being reused. We don't know if they're going to have to be reszoned or not. I don't believe they have to be reszoned, but they may have to be replatted. Okay. Okay. So, that's just my question. And and we've got there's been some verbiage that Mr. James agreed upon uh that basically if if we go ahead because in order to go from step one to two, they need to have this right away secured and then they can go through whatever process with MPC. But we put in uh they agreed to put in they're working with their attorney and our attorney that it is revocable if the zoning is not we get we get the rightway back basically. So

because the road doesn't go anywhere without our trapezoid. So those are the terms and conditions that they set for. Yes, there are five points and I would you know look look at those points. The only one that wasn't in there was we had talked about a fence but uh we can we can discuss that in the next two weeks. Thank you Mr. Gene. I appreciate it. Thank you. Okay. You're welcome. This ordinance have been introduced. Madame clerk please proceed with ordinances on second reading and final passage. Ordinance 36 authorizing mayor to execute an amendment to the lease agreement for Millennium Studios, a city-owned property with Gun Film and Television Louisiana. So move. So move. Got moved by the chair.

That's just how much we encourage uh development. Second by a second. So move. Second by Councilman Green. Councilwoman Bowman. Uh, Councilman Jackson, I heard all of y'all. I heard all of what you all said. Any discussion? Yes. Yes, Madam Chair. Yes. I yield to Councilman. Go ahead. Move it. Uh, Brooks, since it's your district,

um, I I I want to say a couple of things to this. This is in my district and I have had people reach out to me, local business owners that own restaurants, bars, and they don't quite understand why they need why Gun needs to go from 30 years to 99.

Millennium Studios is something that we the city probably should have never bought. That was before my time. They are the best tenant we could have there in my opinion. They're paying all of the upkeep. Everybody gets all lost in this $200 a month. That's not the true cost to them. And the real benefit will be one day I'm assuming they will actually film. So I want to say to everybody that said, "Why are y'all giving 50 C everything? Why are you giving G? We're not giving them anything. Correct.

We are we are partnering with them, for lack of a better term, to take a building that the city has pretty much, you can correct me if I'm wrong, Mr. Mayor, pretty much has no use for. The only use is for a studio, and I don't see any other studios trying to come here and utilize it. So, to the people that are complaining to me or expressing concerns to me about y'all are y'all are giving everything away. Actually, we're not. I think it saves us about $180,000 a year. Is that correct, Mr. Mayor? For them to upkeep, ensure, maintain the property, and none of that will really matter if and when they start filming because the benefit will be much greater than that. Mhm.

So, I am supporting this lease extension. I know obviously the people that motioned for it are, but um if there's any reservation by any other council members, I would appreciate it if y'all would support it, too. Thank you, Councilman Brooks. Madam Bcher, you convinced me, Councilman Brooks. Thank you.

So, I I too get several calls about this as well. Um, my contention has always been that we don't have a lot of people beating down the door to bring in economic development to Streetport. However, I have to counter that with you have several large businesses that pay a tremendous amount of sales tax to our city that feel like they hit roadblocks on everything they try to do from building a parking lot to building a cover to cover up electrical boxes. They, you know, and this is this is places that are generating tremendous amounts of sales tax and property tax and have been with us through an oil crisis, through a pandemic, through all of this. On this particular um building, though, I I I was against the purchase of it. In fact, we didn't even know it had been purchased until after it was um and I didn't think we needed it. But now we do have it and it's become our problem. And I agree with what Councilman uh Brooks said. There is a tremendous amount of revenue that Gunit will put into this building that will save the city money in the long term. And it's not like you've got a hospital that's going to go in there or I mean it's it's a special use building. And um we've been talking about this for two years. I personally and I don't know about anybody else sitting up here. I have not received any phone calls. not that I would from any uh production companies or anything like that saying hey I'll do it for this. So, I am going to vote for this, but I am going to also say this. Uh, number one, I want to I want to ask the mayor and the administration, what what is your take? I mean, going to the 90 99 year lease, y'all are for that, right? Y'all

have spent a lot of time on it. More more time than I have. So, is is this something that y'all are for? Madam Chair, you go right ahead and tell them. You want me to give you some depth from this side? just going to punch it from this side here. The original proposal, the original lease had a limited term because there was a limited amount of investment that was involved. This involves a much larger investment and a much larger uh enterprise and it has a whole lot more teeth to it.

So, when they requested the 99 years, just to let you know, it's not unusual. Both the casinos uh are under 99 year leases. So, it's not an unusual thing for uh for a ground lease of this nature uh to do this. When they said they would increase the investment, uh that is when I agreed that we could go with their requested 99-year lease. So, I feel very comfortable with it. I think we're getting good value for it.

Well, thank you. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. I appreciate that. I like I said, I am voting for it, but I also want us to start working very diligently to encourage the people that have invested in our community, that have already invested in our community. I want us to start diligently trying to make our city more business friendly. I think we've made some leaps and bounds over the last few years with that. I think Mr. Sabo is doing a good job trying to bring in new businesses, but to my constituents that own businesses here and that have been here for years and that are wondering why we're rolling out the red carpet, so to say, uh, with this, I say we're working to try to get everybody an equal standing here. And that really, to be honest with you, 50 is he's the only one that's showing any outside interest right now. So, I think it would be a disservice to the city of Shreport if I voted no or campaigned against this. But I do want to go on record as saying uh, you know, having a long my family goes back to the 1930s in business in Streetport. I want to make sure that that we are doing everything we can for local businesses as well. So, thank you, Madam

Chair. Cra. Yes, I I will be voting for this. I think it's a great idea and he's doing a great job and but I just need one supporter to tell me uh what size fish this is. Councilman Bushu whale. What size fish? What size fish? What are those big ones you hang on the wall? A marlin. Is that what it is? It's a whale. It's a whale. Whale. It's a whale. That's all I needed. So, I'm good. It's a whale of a deal. It's not a brim. Yes. It's a whale of a deal. Okay. I go to council woman. Madam chair, m Mr. Mayor, this this lease extension is just for Millennium and the building behind it, correct?

Yes, sir. It's not for stage works. It is not. Okay. Thank you, Councilwoman.

Yes. My regards are the same. The building sat there for years with nothing being done with it. No one said anything. Now we have someone coming in that's taking care of the the building bringing in economic development. When I signed up for the city council, I ran on an economic development. So I hear they don't like my politics. My politics is to grow this city. So I'm voting yes. We got to move forward and stop being negative on positive things coming to our city. People read this stuff on the internet. They take it in the negative ways. We got to start pouring positive into our city. Gun is going to do an amazing job.

I feel good. Um so I'm definitely voting yes. Councilman Jackson

and I want to pick it back on Councilman Brooks. Um I don't think we're rolling out the red carpet for 50 Cent. Um I think he has dealt with his fair share of of hiccups um orchestrated by the city. I do think that we can do a better job for everyone involved as it relates to business. Um, but simply 50 is taking advantage of things in our city that we didn't want. I mean, these things have sat vacant and dormant for years. We was getting ready to donate the millenniums to our library. We weren't going to receive any funding off of it at all. Um, so just just keep that in mind. Um, we're grateful for his presence. Um but as his team has said, he can't do it by himself. You know, we have to pitch in. We're asking business owners such as Councilman Burch uh Councilman uh Butcher was talking about to double down, reinvest. You know, let's spruce up all of our businesses. Um I'm grateful for all the businesses that came off Mansford Road. Pines Rose is looking great as well. Um uh we have a lot of businesses are coming to our city and so these existing business it's time to take out that that paintbrush and uh get that remodel loan and and bring your business up to standard um because we're going to have a lot of business in the near future. I will be supporting this lease uh as well.

Thank you, Madam Chair.

Thank you, Madam Chair. Um just briefly for years if not decades um it's my personal opinion that shreport had lost its why anytime anytime you can start with Simon Synynic's start with why book and what it doesn't it it it takes a deep dive into why do we deserve to be the best why do we deserve to have the best medical the best entertainment the best public schools you name it. Why do we deserve to have the best? And for decades, we could never answer that question. So, I think we lost faith in ourselves. And it's ironic that it takes an outsider sometimes to come in and take that 30,000 ft view to show us what value we have underneath our noses. And I think that is what 50 Cent has done in so many areas. And that's what other entrepreneurs that call Shripport home have done for decades if not centuries. I too like Councilman Butcher, my family settled here in 1937 right in Broadmore and purchased the first one of the first houses for $7,500 and that's how we started. But to say that we're just giving away um the farm, you know, I just want people to understand that I believe as Councilman Brooks has said, this is an investment and um it is time and it's quite past time that we started investing in Shreport. The place that we call home, the p the place that we love and the place that we want our kids never to leave. So I'll be supportive of this as well. Appreciate it. Thank you. $5 million investment plus with humor and harmony brought in 35,000 people into the city of Shreport provided an opportunity to show what shreport can

do. In 2006, Miss Acory, you can speak to the film boom in the city of Shreport and you would see celebrities walking down the street that attracted tourism here and people here and it was deemed Hollywood South. At the same time when Governor Jindle got into office, all of those things began to cease. Production and everything left the city of Shreport and left it dormant and somewhat hopeless. Now we have when we look at in 2023, 2024 that a mogul decides to look at this place and see the potential that many of us have been praying for. Many of us are looking for the opportunity for our children not to leave here but to be here and the creative side of what's happening now in shriport. Mr. Mayor, you can attest to this is the cultural arts that has happened here. I think I've heard Mr. Lee talk about it so many times when we talk about tourism and attracting this. It is what a hund00 million industry that we need to tap into.

145 billion. Thank you, sir. And so we're looking at to garner a piece of that pie in Shreport, Louisiana. Little shreport, Louisiana that you look and you deemed around the architects less than 200 miles to get to Texas, Arkansas, and Mississippi. And so now in conversations that he's had, what Gunit has had with the mayor, they have agreed to look at a 99-year lease. And what does that 99year lease looks like? it looks like for capital improvements where he can turn the studio into what you all vision and what it is that he has seen. What is that going to do for Shreport? It's going to bring in a portion of that $145 billion along with capital improvements that is going to do what? And Miss Mona Bowman can tell you this. What it's going to do is going to attract other directors and producers here. What it's also going to do is that it's going to allow for employment for local businesses that are here. From the grips, from the show hands, from the cosmetologists, from the barbers, from the food industry, everybody here has the opportunity to get a piece of the pie. When Mr. Williams talked about who are the producers and directors that are fluent right now. And I gave to you the example of of Dick Wolf and everybody knows or you may not know who Dick Wolf is, but you watch the shows all the time when I'm talking about law and order special victims unit. You watch it all the time. When you talk about Tyler Perry who's here, roots in Louisiana and Marshall, Texas, or were you rooted here? You talk about that particular those particular individuals that will be collaborating together in order to build what? Shreport, Louisiana. The only people that they're looking at right now in the industry because you take a look at Kevin Hart and he's losing his industry. You take a look at Reese Witherspoon, she's losing that that industry. But the mayor and them had enough sense to go over here and

say, "We're going to do this because we see what can happen right here. We are creating economic development." As Councilwoman Bowman said, when you talk about progression, you're going to look at this council and see the things that we have done that we are doing. It is a partnership that we cannot miss. It is an opportunity that has come and the time is now to be able to get this done. So for everybody else that says, "Oh, we shouldn't do this." So, we're giving him the pie. No, he gave us the pie. And you know why he gave us the pie? Because he turned around and invested his own money. $12 million plus when nobody buying these buildings around here. And they still weren't buying them in the inter room while we still waiting working out the logistics. So, the opportunity is now this is what we want to do for our city and continuously to build and to brand. We got what Mr. Mayor coming here rail. We have the opportunity to increase our airport. So this is what all this does is a trickle down effect. We have the opportunity for Mona to be able to stay at home and invest into her own community because that's where she is on the scene in Hollywood. Wade Arina, I don't have to tell you all what this means for our children that they have a place to be that they can call home without leaving home and tell other people to come visit them while they go and visit other people. So, I want to take the opportunity to thank Streetport, Louisiana. To thank this city council for being progressive in what you do, to thank the citizens for waiting patiently and looking at the opportunity. Gunit, thank you for being here. You're not trying to be here. You're already here.

And so, let's just move on. Do what we have to do. So, we could definitely see the prize. So, with that being said, I'm going to call for the vote. Just I'm voting for it. I'm voting for it ALL THE WAY. I WAS THE FIRST one voted. Yeah,

this does pass with seven. CONGRATULATIONS. Ordinance 40 amending the 2026 public safety special revenue fund. So moved. So moved by Councilman Green, second by Councilman Butcher. Any discussion? Y'all better clap for the rest. Good job, Chief. That pass seven. This passes with seven.

I'm sorry you in here amongst all our applause. Yeah, we was congratulating the chief. Ordinance 41 amending the 2026 community development special revenue fund budget. So moved. Second. So moved by Councilman Green, second by Madame Vice Chair. Any discussion? Let's vote. And this passes with seven. Ordinance 42 declaring a public emergency in connection with the emergency repair of the 42in water transmission main and the abandonment of the 36-in water transmission main at Amos water treatment plant. So move. Yes.

So moved by council second vice chair the discussion. Got that pipe Mr. Mayor. We need that water. Get some transmissions. Yes. This passes with seven

ordinance 43 to amend chapter 66 section 84 E2 personnel of the city of Shupport Louisiana code of ordinance relative to qualification. So move second. So moved by council green second by madam vice chair. Any discussion? Let's vote. They don't tell those clickers. I know. And this passage seven ordinance 44 amending portions of chapter 50 of the code of ordinances relative to battery of a transit worker providing penalties for violation.

So moved. Second. So So moved. So moved by Councilman Green, second by Councilman Buchcci. Any discussion? Let's vote.

And this pass with seven ordinance 45 amending and reenacting portions of chapter 102 of the code of ordinances relative to bus service providing penaltencies for violation. So move second. So moved by council green, second by madam vice chair. Any discussion? Let's vote. This pass with seven or 46 authorizing the mayor to execute a cooperative endeavor agreement between the city of Shreport and Shreport Millennium Housing 4 LLC concerning the choice neighborhood development. So moved. Second.

So moved by Council Green, second by Madame Vice Chair. Any discussion? Let's vote. This passes with seven. Madam clerk, is there any table any other table legislation to be removed from the table today? No, ma'am. We have no property standards or appeals to consider today. We have no MPC or ZBA appeals to consider today. Are there any other appeals, Madam Clerk? No, ma'am. Are there any reports from officers, boards, and committees? Madame clerk, is there a clerk's report? No, ma'am. Mars, do you have any additional communications? No, ma'am.

Okay. Does any council member have any additional communications? I You stop playing. Executive session, there is none. If there is nothing else, this meeting is a journ. Hey, Councilman Green. Right. Why don't me and you meet in Morrison's and have a fish tail? Let's do that.