Council Meeting - Regular Meeting

Oh, Arlene, they did feed us, too, so forgive me.

They just didn't have water. Oh, they brought it.

I can't find my pen. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry.

Thank you.

Well, there's going to be some people talking about that person.

Are we going to have that for the judges?

I guess we all comment section. Might have to put some...

Oh, okay.

That's what I would like to hear.

All right. All right. All right. You don't need to interrupt. You don't need to interrupt. That's it. Come here. What do you mean? Thank you.

Yes sir.

I don't think that you know me. Thank you so much I call this song for City Council meetings of order. Today is Monday, July 13, 2026 at 530.

Y'all get to silence y'all's phones, please.

I'll do roll call now. Mr. LeDoux.

Here.

Mr. Darby? Here. Ms. Monso? Here. Mr. Baden? Here. Mr. DePetta?

Here.

Since we have a brand new city council now, we will follow Revised Statutes 4211 to nominate a chairman. So does anyone have nominations for chairman?

I have one. I nominate Daddy as chairman and Troy Darby as a... We're just doing chairman right now. Huh?

We're just doing chairman right now. Okay. So Danny? Yeah. Josh? Any other nominations? So you want to do Danny first?

Right. So members of the council, it's my opinion that on multiple nominations, We're not going to vote against anybody. We're on the same team. I say that we call the nominations and the order that they were made. Everybody gets one vote. So you can't vote for both. And we'll vote on, I guess, Danny was nominated first. He gets three votes. It's over because obviously there's only two votes for the other candidate. And we'll proceed in that fashion.

Yeah. Mr. LeDoux? Yes. This is for Danny, to be chairman. Danny. Mr. Darby? Yes. Ms. Monso? No. Mr. Baden?

No.

Mr. DePetta?

Yes.

Okay, motion carried, and Mr. Darby is the chairman, so... No, Mr. DePetta. I mean, I'm sorry, Mr. DePetta will take over.

Thank you. yes

How do they do it?

Needed to change?

Thank you.

This one specifically needs four. This won't take long.

Thank you.

We're going to have the invocation now. Everybody rise. Thank you.

Please bow your heads if you don't mind. Dear Lord, we just ask you to watch over this city council, our city, as we embark on a new future with new leadership, Lord. We ask you to lead the mayor. and this city council down the road in the right direction that you see fit, Lord. May we become one. May we become a team that works together for the best of all citizens and all problems in our city. Lord, we ask you to guide each and every one of us to do the right thing, make the right choice for the citizens, but not each one of us. Take into account that we represent more than just us. Lord, we ask you to watch over these meetings in the four years to come, to give us your discernment and your love, Lord, to lead us in the right direction. We pray over this meeting now, and Lord, we ask these things in your name. Amen.

Amen.

with liberty and justice for all.

We have a request which is a little out of the ordinary, but I'm going to go ahead and let it happen. Before the finalizing of the agenda, Mr. Charlie would like to talk. Now, Charlie, it says speak before the approval of the agenda.

Yes, sir.

Okay.

Ready for me to speak?

Yes, sir. And we're going to limit you. We're going to keep a clock on you, Mr. Charlie. All right?

As long as it's not a good.

No, I promise that.

Charlie Atherton, 122 Vine Street, Silver, Louisiana. I was just interested in when you finalized the agenda to request that you add the Mossfield dirt pit issue for discussion to the agenda. My understanding is the ordinance says ponds, and ponds have to come before the council. And I'm not sure, because I hadn't researched it, but I don't even know if the city has any engineering requirements or whatever for retention ponds. I don't think they even, it may be they don't even address it. But I'm just saying that since the ordinance says ponds go before the council, And and the past council was dead set against it. It would be common sense that This issue if something changed that it would come back before the council.

So I'm just asking that you had I'm gonna tell you what what I had planned I had planned I'm putting that on the agenda today But we're probably going to do that at another time when I get more conversations about what's going on there and What I see Needs to be done in the future So I I remove that I removed my request to put that on the agenda for this evening But you're going to have the opportunity to speak at the end of the meeting Just like there's a lot of other people here. They're going to have that same opportunity

Yes, sir. I mean, I don't want to beat it to death. I just, making a simple citizen request to put it, I'm not going to beat it to death. I just think that when the administration does not follow the, there's a difference between following the letter of the law and the intent of the law. And it's of great concern. that the council has a position, but the administration didn't follow it.

We can continue that at the end of the meeting, Mr. Charlie. We always appreciate what you have to say.

I appreciate you tolerating me.

Thank you. Okay. Roll call again, please.

Mr. LeVue? Here. Mr. Garvey?

Here.

Ms. Monso? Here. Mr. Baden? Here. And Mr. Capetto?

Here. Do we have a motion for the approval of the minutes from last week, month? We have a second. Mr. Darby, Mr. LeDoux seconded. All in favor? All opposed?

Well, it's got to come up.

Okay. Thank you. Now we're going to have the approval of today's agenda. Now we want to make a note that number. Motion carried. Thank you. For those out there watching, we're going to have approval of the agenda. But just a note that there's a motion and a second to remove number three. Okay, we're gonna vote. All right, motion carries. We have a motion and a second to remove number nine. Go ahead and vote.

Okay, motion carries.

And we're gonna need a motion and a second to remove number 10. And now our vote. Thank you, everyone. The first item that we're gonna have, we've already elected a chairman, so we're gonna take a motion. Oh, I make a motion to approve the agenda as Stated.

As the item is removed. Yes. You got to put it up there.

I pressed it.

There you go.

There it is. I had the button pressed down. Now we can vote. It's going smoothly so far. We're going to move to the first item. We've already elected a chairman, so now we're going to elect a vice chairman for the newly elected city council. Do I hear a motion for vice chairman? Motion.

Oh, we're going to do it like we did a while ago?

Yeah.

I'd nominate Troy Darby.

Troy Darby. Do we have any other nominations for vice chairman? Josh. Josh Baden. Okay. First thing we're going to do is we're going to vote on Troy Darby's nomination. Okay. Congratulations, Troy. You are the vice chairman. and the motion passed for Vice Chairman Soto. Item number two, public hearing on ordinance setting forth property tax millages, rates for tax year 2026, ordinance 3926, Mayor Stoops.

I believe the mayor would defer this to me. So this is just a, um, a renewal. I mean, there is no renewal. This is just the same rates that we had last year. Um, this is just what we have to do, um, in order to, uh, set them our budget for the years, $3,550,000 in total revenue, all inclusive of all three of the millages, general Alamo street maintenance and fire maintenance.

I'm sorry. I can't hardly see you. I'm sorry. Are you done? I'm done unless y'all have any questions Does the council have any questions? Any discussion? There doesn't seem to be any discussion from the From out there We have a motion to vote on this?

Is there anything in particular that needs to be read at the public hearing for this, Arlene? He read the description and that's good enough.

Okay.

Is there any public comment that was left off? I didn't see any. No cards on it. Anyone else? Okay. Take a vote. Thank you, motion carries. Item number four, public hearing on ordinance amending ordinance number 1949 MC series to correct the property description for annexed property for DV Property Holdings LLC for property located at 2211 Patton Street. Ordinance 4126, Danielle Monso.

I mean, from what I understand, I think it's just correcting things that were done incorrectly whenever they annexed it into the city. We can't hear you. I'm sorry, I don't know very well. I think it's just correcting things that weren't done properly whenever they were annexed into the city.

That's correct. Members of the council, this involves a survey or description that adds the portions, if you'll see the yellow errors there, to add those portions to the description, which includes the roadway.

That includes the center center line of the road over the entire road.

I'm sorry for her to sit there and say she don't speak very loudly.

And then to not use the microphone when you have a person with a hearing impairment who can't hear.

I'm sure she'll address that. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Any discussion from the council? Any discussion from the audience? Okay. Do we have a motion for this? Mr. Dowry made the motion, seconded by Mr. Baden. Vote. Motion passed. Okay, number five, introduction of ordinance setting forth septic hauler rates for the city of Sulphur, ordinance 4226. Mayor Stutes.

I bring this to Jennifer Ann Alston.

We're really excited to announce that we're going to start a soft launch program that Austin can speak more on the technical side of back at our wastewater facility. We have not had septage haulers in since the hurricane. So in six years, This was a major part of the revenue income and the public utility fund that we have lost over the last several years. So, um, the ultimate plan is to build a offsite, um, septage receiving station north of town that is in design. It's still in the design phase. Uh, and we're also working on funding. We feel like the return on investment is is going to be very substantial for the city. Uh, we have set rates based off of what it's costing us right now to operate the facility with the chemicals. And the rate is about 11% higher than it was about six years ago, which I think that's being conservative. Um, and I've also called around to the other places that are accepting accepting haulers with which there's not very many or any in this area and so we are a little above what um like let's say lafayette alexandria but i think it's still going to be very substantial for the um for all of the um plants expansion i think company is going to be very happy to have to be able to for us to provide that service to them Austin, do you want to speak more?

You pretty much covered everything, unless you have any specific questions.

Who's our customers? Port-a-potty companies, that type of thing? Yes. Septic tank.

Yes, they can go in and suck out residential septic tanks or port-a-cans at construction sites, different things like that, yeah.

So where are those guys going at this point? Were we servicing some of those guys already?

No, they were going other places.

Actually, the conversations I've had with them is they're going as far away as Doosan legally. Now, some of them are actually crossing the line into Texas, which is not allowed. So it's a real advantage to the local haulers to use our facility. And it's going to save them a lot of time and a lot of money in the long run.

Absolutely. I know that they are trying to develop and build another one that might sell in Lake Charles area. Yeah.

Is that something like local RVers will be able to use as well? Or is that more commercial side and not private?

No, I mean, yeah, we would accept that as well, yeah.

Okay, thank you.

Okay. Any more discussion from the council?

Do we have any more discussion from the audience? Yes, sir. Would you like to get to the podium on that? Not really. Okay.

Thank you.

And I'm going to write you down, Charlie, again.

Charlie Atherton, 122 Vine Street. I was just curious, one, if the If Westlake is receiving this same waste, it still goes to the sulfur regional plant. So their rates, you need to take that into account. But I was just curious, what is the anticipated yearly revenue to the city for providing space for the sewer haulers as you did in the past?

So we're starting off with a soft launch, uh, with a goal of 600,000 for this fiscal year. Um, and, and anticipated going forward. Uh, once we get a, uh, receiver station up and running, that's not at the plant. Um, I'm estimating between 2.2 to 2.6 million.

Okay. Cause I think in the past it took in what?

Two million close to 2 million.

Yeah, to me, why is it not at the sewer plant itself?

Well, we're going to do a soft launch at the sewer plant, but it's very hard to dilute all of the concentrated waste that goes into the plant at the plant. So it's easier if you can do it at an off-site so that there's an opportunity for the waste to be diluted before it gets to the plant, constipates the plant, and then causes... destruction to the facility.

Okay, I appreciate that. It's just a big deal. It's a regional plant and it's a great benefit to West Cal for the sewer haulers to have a place to dispose of it. Thank you.

have we have we took into consideration as far as the load capacity being that we are treating Westlake sewer and the city of Sulphurs we're taking on the additional load capacity yes yes we are okay and it's it is compatible to hold it yes okay what is the load capacity of it do you know

Um, I don't have the numbers like the, you're talking about the plant as a whole, right?

Like before we end up having to start looking into the production of producing another waste treatment facility to where it's not overloaded.

Right. So, uh, the, the current dry capacity of our, of our plan is about 9 million gallons per day. Uh, we operate, uh, between five and six. Um, so we still have, um, I have room.

Any more comments?

Just to follow up with Mr. Baden, what is the capacity of the city during rainy weather? It used to be at 10 million extra gallons. And I'm just curious.

The wet capacity of our plant is 27 million gallons per day.

At some point, I think the city, the sewer plant exceeds the permit limits.

He just answered your question that the wet capacity is 27 million gallons.

Okay, thank you. I appreciate that.

Any other comments? Motion on item five? Okay. I'll vote. Item five passes, carries. Number six, rule to show cause for the condition of the following address to condemn building or structure located at 1608 Weekly Road in accordance with Article 9, Section 5-286 through 5-296 of the Code of Ordinances. Troy Darby.

Austin, you want to bring us up to date on that, please?

Tommy.

Tommy.

Yes, sir. This is a, I would say it's a garage makeshift apartment. We've been working this property for six months or so. And Mr. McGee, I believe, is here. He's made excellent progress, so I have granted several extensions. But this is a means to an end. One way or another, I'm ready to move on from this project.

Could you please get up and speak if you'd like to?

We have been making progress on this property since January when we started working on it.

We just moved the... Excuse me, Randy McGee?

Randy McGee. I'm speaking for the family. I'm a representative of the McGee family.

And the address?

1608 Weekly Road. Okay, that's your address? No, I live in Carlos.

Okay.

But that's family property. Nobody lives on that property.

Okay. What is your current address?

2319 Bonton Drive, and it's considered Sulphur, Louisiana, but it's in Corners.

Thank you very much, Mr. McGee.

And we started clearing that property in January, and it was a mess, really. And it's gotten that way over the years, and we've got it well cleared out. We moved the mobile home out about really about three weeks ago, the old mobile home. The FEMA trailer that's all crashed in the middle of it that's been approved for FEMA demolition or move out or whatever for five years is still there. But this shed is right behind that trailer. And we've started taking it down. So it will be down. It will be down soon.

Your plans are to take this down?

Yes, take that shed down.

And how long has this process been going on?

We started in January with the whole site, you might say. Not just the shed. The shed was just part of it. We had a lot of other stuff on there that we've gotten off of there. The shed's probably the last thing standing besides the FEMA trailer. What we keep calling the FEMA trailer, it's not a FEMA trailer. It was a double-wide mobile home that a hurricane took out. Paperwork's been approved for five years to remove it, and it's still there. But that shed's behind it, and we're going to get it out of there. We've already started.

How much time do you think it'll take to remove that shed?

maybe four weeks. And that's only because it's myself and my brother-in-law that are doing the work, and he's getting ready to go off on vacation. He just got back from a vacation. So I'm thinking in four weeks, we should have that shed out of there.

Now, if he was to vote yes for me to move forward in my process, he'll have that four weeks plus some. But I just want to ensure that we get it done one way or another.

And what about the FEMA trailer? Is that going to be removed as well?

That's FEMA. FEMA operates on their own time.

Is anybody living in that FEMA trailer at this point?

They were living in it. Say six years ago. Yeah, but not at the present. It's all, it's crazy.

Because Weekly Road is actually not mixed residential either. It's residential nowadays. So we have a problem with moving forward with all the old trailers. So that is a concern, how we're going to move forward with Weekly and the structures that are on there. So Austin, Weekly's been in the master plan revision. Surely the trailer can't stay, huh? Can we have that removed when we show calls?

I don't know the history on this one particularly, but it's very possible that may be the case.

Yes, Mr. Lofton, then my question goes to you. We've got an uninhabitable dwelling on a property that's nonconforming. Can we put that in? So can we know, can we put that trailer into this? Because I guess.

Oh, no, it's not if it was not part of the item.

OK, that's that's OK.

It wasn't included in the in the notice.

I got you. That's what that's all for. That's it. I got. Thank you.

That's all you have for me.

No, that's good.

That's it so far. We may call you back up. Do we have any more Conversations from the, or discussion from the council members?

I think he said four weeks.

So if we can go ahead and continue with this, that'll give him another month until the next meeting. So we can take a motion for that. Is it just give him until the next meeting, which is...

You're saying delay it, or are we going to condemn it?

We're going to condemn it, because that'll give him, they'll give you.

And then he just starts to. Yeah. Yeah.

You'll get that.

Tell me I'll start the paperwork, and everything will start going forward. August 10th. Sorry.

So now what you're saying is you're giving me eight weeks now to get that.

No, no. Until the next meeting. August 10th. That's. Mr.

Chair, I want to provide a clarification real quick. So that double-wide, it is in the PPDR program through the FEMA. We have made some progress here lately, as far as that program goes. But I will be more than happy to update you all as soon as we get some more clearance on that. At this point, we have not.

Thank you.

Next meeting. Okay. You want me here next meeting?

Keep me in update? We'd like to see it taken down by the next meeting. Okay. What's happening right now is we're voting in a positive manner. If we vote in a positive manner, you have until that time to finish taking down your shed.

Okay.

All right? All right. We'll get it. Okay. Take a motion, please. Second. We're going to vote. A positive vote is to give him until next month to take it down. Okay, motion carries. Thank you. Item number seven, resolution appointing members of the Land Use Commission and Board of Zoning Adjustment. RES 1626, Danny DePetta. We have several people that are on that list. Go ahead and pull that up. Would you like to state the person on your list?

Yeah, for District 1, my designation would be Bill LeBlanc for the Land Use Commission and Board of Zoning Adjustment. Mr. Bill LeBlanc.

My name is Mr. Miles DeSalle for District 2.

Johnny Thomas for District 3.

Ray Vidrian, Jr.

It's Johnny Thomas for District three.

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And for district five is Jonathan Brazil. Have a motion. Second. Vote. Motion carries. Item number eight, resolution appointing members to the Sulphur Armed Forces Commission, RES 1726. Myself. Would you like to go through your list?

Okay.

Okay.

For district one, I'm nominating Tonya Leese.

Did I say it right?

Tonya Leese for district one.

District two, Mr. Sam Mesuch.

And three is Bailey Broussard.

District four is Ray Vigerine, Jr. District five.

Yeah, I'm looking for him. There he is. And district five, please come up and state your name and let them know that you're going to be district five, Armed Forces Committee.

Ethan Miller. Do I need to say my address? No. Okay, good.

Just wanted to introduce you to the crowd.

I would be glad to serve as District 5 for the armed service.

Thank you, Ethan. Can we have a motion?

Can I speak to this?

Yeah, sure. Go ahead.

I've been on the Armed Forces Committee.

Oh, can you come up?

My name is R.S. Young, and I live at 2013 Augusta Street here in Sulphur. I've been on the Armed Forces Committee for about 12 years, as far as I can tell. My husband and I both, but he's no longer with us. And I would like very much to stay on this committee because he served 43 years in the Navy. And I don't know what the procedure is, but that's, I would, I'd just like to be on this committee.

I think you're still on the committee. These were just representatives from each district, so you hadn't lost your commitment. I don't think the Arms Forces Committee's been meeting as much as they had in the past, according to what I understood, and I'm gonna try and work with the mayor, and we're gonna hopefully bring that back to a better status, but you have not lost your committee membership yet. You're still on board.

Okay, I can keep my shirt on. Yes, ma'am, you can keep that shirt on.

Just to let you know.

Ma'am. Ma'am.

Ma'am, just to let you know, like Troy has said, we've had considerable amount of conversations with the past members and the commandant and everyone that's been involved, and we're going to gear that back up because we see the need for it. We definitely see it. And we missed Memorial Day. We missed the Fourth of July, but we're not going to miss any more holidays for the Armed Forces Committee to get involved. Thank you for your service, too. Thank you very much.

Thank you.

Any other comment? Council? Audience? Let's make a motion.

OK. Vote on it, please.

Passes unanimously. Thank you very much. Item number nine has been removed. Item number 10 has been removed. We're back to item 11, the resolution appointing the American Press as the official journal of the city of Sulphur. Resolution 2026, and that would be mine. We have had the American Press as our journal for about four years now and I believe that the main reason is because of their coverage. They have more digital coverage and they have more actual numbers of papers that are being sold and that's on a daily basis and on a weekend basis as well. And they also they put out a paper more often during the week. So that's why we have chosen or will potentially choose the Lake Charles American Press. Do we have any discussion from the city council? Any discussion from the audience? Okay. Make a motion. Okay, we're going to vote on it. Passes unanimously. Lake Charles American Press will be our publication. Next item on the agenda. Item 12, resolution authorizing Mayor Stoots to sign emergency shelter and staging agreement with Beauregard Parish School Board for temporary shelter and emergency equipment staging at Singer High School for Hurricane 2026 season for the city of Sulphur. Resolution 2126, Mayor Stoots. We'd like to keep that.

I'm going to refer that to Austin if you have any questions, but we'd like to keep that in the same standing

questions no question any questions from the council any questions from the audience okay make a motion motion uh miss monso seconded by mr baden vote please motion carries Number 13, resolution authorizing the advertisement for bids for the 2026 fire hydro replacement project. Resolution 2226, Mayor Stutes.

This project has been long coming. So this involves about 25 hydrants that will be replaced. We're going to be using a portion of all of the Act 461 supplemental funding that we received from the state. That's about $225,000. And the total estimated construction cost is going to be about $725,000.

So where's this going to bring us up to date on replacing hydrants throughout the city? I mean, I know that's been an issue in the past.

So I actually spoke with Chief last week or so. I think there was some conflicting data, but once we get the new data in, I'll give you an update. Okay. I'd like to know that number. As of last year when we developed this, we were at about 33 to 35 hydrants that were out of service. So this will be a good push.

Okay. Can you give us an update as soon as we get that number? Absolutely. Because there may be other monies we can look for to help us get us back 100%. That'd be nice.

Thank you.

I knew that's kind of on your agenda. So yeah, good. Thank you.

Do we have any other discussion from the council?

Can I ask just an hypothetical question? What is the load capacity? We're pretty packed in here for a fire motion approved for people. 60 people. 60? Okay. I think we're open to that now. That's why I'm asking.

If you want me to kick some big white, I will.

Well, I mean, I want to abide by the law.

Let's keep on target, and we'll let the chief take care of this, if that's all right.

I'm just asking a question. Okay.

Well, we're talking about fire hydrants right now.

Well, we're also talking about ordinances.

Okay. Can I get a motion? Any more comments from the audience? Can I get a motion for the fire hydrant? Mr. Darby, seconded by Ms. Monso, ready to vote. Motion carries.

Motion carries.

we are going to go to the public comment section we'll begin the process Ms. Clark, is Ms. Clark here? Please state your name and your address, please.

Donna Clark, 1530 Garth Drive, Sulphur. My question is about the trash pickup in Sulphur. Evidently, waste management picks up don't know what you call it the stuff that doesn't fit in the trash can bulk bulk that's a good bird and I've been told that they don't like to pick up bulk now whether they do or they don't I don't know but I do know that in my neighborhood alone I've had two houses that with mattresses sitting on the road. One man finally picked his up, but hers is still there probably for over two months, maybe a little longer. I mean, I don't know about y'all, but I don't wanna live like that. And I don't like stuff. She had other stuff besides mattresses. I don't know if they don't know who to call. I know I've called the city. They give me a number to call waste management. You cannot get through to them unless you give them the address you want taken care of or their account number. So something needs to change because we're living, we're not living in the past. We need this crap picked up.

Do you have that address, ma'am?

I have two addresses, but, uh, would you give them to us? Yes.

I mean, I guess so we can pass it on to the right people.

Well, there's one right now that, uh, he picked up his mattress and they both have trucks. I mean, there's a dump. Okay. But anyway.

And we encourage you to use the dump. Yes, absolutely. The convenience center, excuse me. And it's a great asset. It's a great thing that we have available to us. And some people use it, some people don't. But if you get us the addresses, we'll address it. And whoever happens to be your city council person, I'm sure we'll be glad to address it.

And if they're not wanting to pick this stuff up and we're paying for it, then something needs to change there. We either need to get rid of them or something. Okay?

So that's my opinion.

One address is 1609 Garth Drive. The other one is 1005.

Garth.

Oh, no, I'm sorry. It's south. South, south, south. I forgot what the name of the street is. don't ever go on that street um anyway it connects with going okay it probably would be very easy to address if we drove down those streets it would yeah okay you would see okay so i and i just have a question about the the waste management you know i mean if they're not going to pick it up maybe you could send out letters you know, to tell people they are not going to be picking this up. You need to make other arrangements.

I think it would be nice to have a representative from waste management come in and address us one day. Yeah. Mr. Chair, you kind of go over that.

Yes, I can tell you that our waste management contract does include bulk and they are supposed to be following through the neighborhoods weekly. So if there is a problem where bulk is not being picked up, please let someone know Austin or Denise, and we can get with a representative and make sure that that is taken care of properly.

I see the truck occasionally. Not necessarily in my area, but I see it running.

Okay. Who is the person that you let know? Because the lady at the city gave me the number to waste management, and you cannot get through to them without giving the address you want addressed.

Correct.

I don't mind letting a waste management representative know the problems that the citizens are having when it comes to picking up bulk at different addresses other than theirs. And I'll get back to you on what I hear from them.

Yes, and that's why we're getting the addresses so that we can address that.

The other address is South Scott.

South Scott? Yes. OK.

Thank you.

Thank you very much.

OK.

Tiffany Ruxtel. Am I pronouncing that right, Tiffany? I know you as Tiffany, but I never knew your last name. Hi.

What was your name?

Tiffany Ruxtel. I'm going to give my work address, because I do not live in the city of Sulphur, but I do work in Sulphur. 120 South Huntington.

Thank you.

I am here to speak about public transportation. First of all, I want to congratulate all of the new committee members, council members. Congratulations on your new seats. But I am here to not necessarily ask a question, but maybe give you some comments on why I have such a passion about this. I work for SC3. It's a local nonprofit. that's dedicated to serving our community. Yes, I wrote a speech, sorry. I have the privilege of overseeing our community works division, which is where I work closely with individuals and families who are striving to improve their lives despite facing significant challenges. I help them with employment, I help them with resume building, I help them with job seeking of any kind. I'm here to speak on behalf of my clients. For many of us, getting in a vehicle and driving to work, a doctor's appointment at the grocery store, even picking up a prescription is something we don't even think about twice. But many people in software, transportation is one of the biggest barriers they face every single day. I've met individuals who want to work but can't even make it to job interviews. Parents who miss medical appointments because they have no way to get there, seniors who struggle to access basic necessities, families who are doing everything they can to become self-sufficient, excuse me, but are held back by one simple obstacle, they have no reliable way to get there. So transportation isn't just about getting to one place or another, it's about opportunity. It's about employment, healthcare, education, independence, and dignity. As a community, we have worked hard to support one another through difficult times, and I believe we have another opportunity to make a lasting impact through this city council. Establishing public transportation in Sulphur would not only improve the quality of life for countless residents, but it would also strengthen our workforce, support local businesses, which we all need, and create a more connected and accessible community for everyone. So I guess my three minutes today that I'm spending to speak to you guys is about what are we going to do about public transportation. It's been in the works for years from what I hear, but nothing's happened. We have a new administration, so with the new administration, I bring forth that comment and concern. I think that we really need to put something on the books for that. My clients want to work, like I said, but they have no way to get there. And Lake Charles has public transportation, so why can't Solver? Thank you.

Thank you. We have several speakers on the, I'm going to go with Charlie first. You've got, it says public comments, public comments. I'm not sure what you're going to be talking about, Mr. Charlie, but this is your public comment time. additional time as you get to that we'll we'll address it as you get to that point the additional time thank you thank you but mr charlie we we know about you we know how things are sometimes so i can explain charlie atherton 122 behind street sofa louisiana

I just want to offer you some information and make some suggestions. That's the whole intent of what I've got to say. The Home Rule Charter was written and approved by the residents of Sulphur voting approval. The city government operates by the will of the residents who control the city government through initiative and referendum. The charter can only be changed by a vote of the people. The city council is the legislative branch and the mayor is the executive branch. The council dictates the laws and the mayor follows all the policies and procedures set by the council, including personnel. I suggest that this council immediately pass a motion requiring the mayor to follow the council's approved personnel policy procedure that does not approve the position chief of staff. I suggest that this council immediately pass a motion requiring that the council shall immediately receive copies of all external correspondence received and sent by the mayor and his administration This includes but not limited to all government agencies, local, state, federal, especially legal, financial, and grant agencies, regulatory agencies, engineering correspondents, and reports in public health and safety. This has been a problem in the past through no... really none of this was on purpose but uh there's been occasions where there was uh critical information some of it time sensitive that the council didn't know anything about and should have known about and one of them was relative to a grant so i'm just simply asking that the council be included on all correspondence so you and the mayor are on the same team in the same page Most of you candidates for City Council ran for the office promising transparency because city records weren't available on the city's website for you to be informed. For you to get information, you were required to go through an expensive, time-consuming process that didn't really give you the exact information that you wanted. I suggest that this council immediately pass a motion requiring all city business records, internal and external communications to immediately be electronically available, free to the public, on the city's website, excluding FOIA records that are protected by the Louisiana State Constitution. I suggest that this council immediately pass a motion requiring FOIA public records requests. Paper copies shall be only 10 cents a page. Excuse me, Mr. Charlie.

We're out of time now. We're going to see if we can give you a little bit more time. Okay, thank you.

I appreciate your tolerance.

I'll make a motion to give him another three minutes. I'll second.

Okay.

Okay, thank you.

We're going to vote on that. We're good.

$10 for CDs, thumb drives, and other electronic means. No cost for record retention or retrieval. The Home Rule Charter calls for the separation of powers between the Councils legislative role, and the mayor's executive role, providing for a check and balances of powers. Of great concern is the most important filed document in Sulphur's history. The history of the generation of all of the documentation creation of Sulphur's Home Rule Charter is missing. The file is missing, it's gone. The vault has never been locked. No keys are available. I suggest that this council immediately pass a motion. requiring changes to the layout of the new city hall to provide secure office space for the council clerk's office and secure record retentions to be in the city judge's office and also provide secure office space and secure record retention inside city hall for the council clerk and directors. City employees in the judge's office shall assist the council clerk, especially as needed in scanning in city records. I suggest that this council immediately pass a motion allowing the residents of Sulphur shall be given the opportunity to review the new city hall, judge's office, building layout, and site plans immediately. Residents' comments shall be documented and made public on the city's website. Residents' comments shall be answered and responded to promptly. The last city council was not happy with the solid waste contract and was looking for solutions that you now have to solve. One of them, waste management had cut the services and you can't My understanding is you can't even put grass in the trash cans. On June 3rd, 2026, the Calcasieu Parish Police Jury went out for residential solid waste collection and disposal services, RFP 26, PW 143. The last administration should have asked the parish that the RFP require provisions for city to have the opportunity to participate in the cost savings and the improvement, improved services and this did not happen. I suggest that the council immediately pass a motion requesting the city council immediately ask the parish if they can be added to the RFP for voluntary participation. And this was available the first time that the city went out for quotes that the cities could piggyback, just like the wards. I suggest that this council immediately pass a motion requiring that all city requested franchise fees collected by the city be set to zero and abolished. Currently this council tells the franchisee companies how much money to extort from city users each month. Franchise fees do not pay this fee residents pay.

Mr. Charlie, how much longer do you think you have?

Just Just to be sure, just say 10 minutes, but I don't think it's that much.

I tell you what, Mr. Charlie, I'll give you three more minutes. Can you do it in three minutes? Can we wrap it up in three minutes, Mr. Charlie?

I'm going to try. Yes, sir. Go ahead. Mr. Charlie, we have other meetings, too. We can keep going into other meetings. You can continue that because you're giving us a lot to think about, a lot of good things to think about, and the idea of us acting immediately on all these things is going to be real hard to do. Let's bite off a few

My point is, these are real issues that you're facing right now, and a lot of these, your campaign, you ran on solving them. You know, you council members and the mayor.

Let's go with your last three, okay? Yes, sir.

But these franchise fees are just passed through.

One minute, Mr. Charlie.

Sir?

One minute. Let her vote. We're going to vote. There's a process here, Mr. Charlie, a process on all of this. Excuse me. OK, three more minutes. Three minutes. I appreciate that very much.

Three more, OK. Well, actually, I'm done. The rest of it is just supporting notes in case y'all had questions. Anybody got any questions?

Nobody's going to have any questions.

Nobody wants to go there. If I may, Mr. Chairman, Mr. Charlie, we would love to confer back with you, but this isn't that time of the meeting where we go back and forth. It's all one way, so we do appreciate your input. Thank you.

Thank you for your notes, Mr. Charlie. There are three people getting ready to speak on the lay-down yard. Ms. Carolyn? Good evening. Please state your name and your address, please.

Carolyn Peters, 517 Prater Road, Westlake. Now, I'm here this evening speaking for Mossville residents. We're concerned about the lay yard. First of all, before I get started, I have three questions. The first one is, we came to find out if APB has received a U.S. Army Corps permit? That's the first question we'd like an answer to.

Ms. Carolyn, this is a comment section now. I can address those questions, or anybody up here can address those questions later, but this is a comment section right now. Okay.

Well, can I state why we believe that we don't need another borrowed pit in our community?

Yes, ma'am.

Can I do that?

Yes, ma'am.

Okay. First of all, what I'd like to share with the public is that living in Mossville for over 60 years, everything that needed to be discarded from industry has been dumped in our community. Today, we're here because we wanted to stop. We'd just like for it to stop. They're trying to bring in a lay yard in Mossville, and it's right next door to my property. But it's not so much that I'm being selfish about my property. I'm concerned about Mossville. I'm concerned about what the results is going to be once this lay yard and this borrowed pit is established there. So my point is, the people that's trying to do this, they came in under the assumption that all they're going to do is put a heavy equipment yet. They want to build, they want to dig excavate more than 13 acres, 40 feet deep, literally in my backyard. But in Mossville, can you imagine something that large? Now the thing is what our concern main concern is, They're calling it a retention pond. A pond is anywhere from 12 to 20 feet deep. These people want to dig 40 feet deep with over 13 acres in Mossville. That is not a pond, by any means. We need to call it what it is. It's a lake. A lake is anything over 20 feet deep. And they're talking about 40 feet. We don't want it. We just don't want it. And the bottom line is, why should it always be Mossville? that gets the garbage. Why? Because they don't consider us. They don't value us. We still have people live in our community. And I don't care if it's four or five, then accommodate the four or five the same way you would your own people or your own family. Because we're people. So today, we just want to make sure that people understand what's going on in Mossville. And the main reason why we don't want the pit is because what they're saying is that we've made stipulations that once the pit is dug, you can't put anything in it, no toxic chemicals, no toxic waste. That's not true.

Ms. Carolyn, would you like more time?

Please. Okay. I make a motion. She gets three more minutes.

Vote, please. Thank you.

Okay. The only other thing I want to say, and I'm not going to take too much of your time. The thing is... Once these companies get what they want, then everything is just neglected. Nobody comes back to see what the condition is. But we have to live under those conditions. We have to live with the toxins that contaminates the soil. We can't grow a garden. We can't even use the water anymore. Our water system has been connected to the Westlake water system simply because of the contamination in the ground in Mossville. That's a fact. That's a fact. The next thing is, any body of water that large is considered a lake. Do you know what the kind of predators, animals that would call into the community? I'm talking about all manner of predator species, all kind. And the next thing is, no one has talked about the ecosystem. Nobody's talked about that. Once manned, any kind of natural disruption, it takes off, what it does, it causes an imbalance in the ecosystem. That's important, that's extremely important. It doesn't matter who does it, it doesn't matter if it's man, it doesn't matter if it's climate change, it doesn't matter if it's by pollution or even the invasion of predator species. The bottom line is whenever there's an imbalance, we're all affected. Not just Mossville, we're all affected. So I just wanted to try to bring this home today for the people that's in here and who's ever in the sound of my voice to please understand what's happening in Mossville. We're crying out for help. We need help. It's hard for me to get it out right now because it's so personal, the way it affects me and anybody else who lives in Mossfield. So I just hope that you understand what I'm saying and that you help us, stand with us, to make this thing change, to stop what they're doing in Mossfield, because it's not right. Thank you.

Thank you. Mr. Ronald.

Good evening, everybody.

My name's Ronald Carrier. I was born and raised here in Sulphur all my life.

What's your address?

My address, 3709 East Burton Street in Mossville.

Thank you.

Now, this pit is what it is. They got turned down by the prior city council for digging it. But they came back, they found a loophole in the city ordinance. And so say they can put down a lay down yard for the bridge. The bridge already has a lay down yard. If you going up I-10 East, look to the right. They're the lay down yard. Why would they wanna move their stuff two or three miles down the road in Mossville? That ain't nothing but a lie that they use to start digging their dirt pit. Now, I don't know about y'all. This dirt pit is gonna be two 10 acre, ponds or lakes 40 feet deep and one three acre, 40 feet deep. The city itself already told them, after you dig this hole, we don't want responsibility for it. The parish don't want responsibility for it. What are y'all gonna do with it after they dig it? Granted, it's in the city of Sulphur. This man had it annexed into the city of Sulphur. It was in the parish. Why did he annex it into the city of Sulphur? Well, people in Sulphur push overs. They can get around them because that's what's going on. And here it is. We all, especially to the men in here, we have been young men before. Boys, somebody tell us they're catching 10 pound bass out this pond. We're going to be on a bicycle headed to that pond. When we get there, oh, this is a nice place to camp. This is a nice place to go swimming. Then we got problems. So all I'm asking for the city council to do, y'all gave them the permit for the lay down yard. Pull that permit from these people before we create a problem that we all gonna regret in the future. Because this is not right, the way they did it. We turned them down the first time, they found a way around it. Now where is the integrity? of the citizens of Sulphur. And to the citizens of Maplewood, this hole is gonna affect y'all. When the north wind gonna blow, this hole is gonna affect the citizens of Maplewood. So I'm just here to warn the people, let them know we done got bamboozled.

Need any more time?

I'm done. All right, thank you very much.

Dr. Rosheda?

Rosheda. Rosheda. Dr. Ozan is fine. Okay. Thank you. I might be able to make it without. Let me put it up here.

Thank you. Don't start my time again, baby.

Y'all want to laugh and know how I hurt my knee? We can read it. I was at Vacation Bible School. I got pushed out the musical chair. Being competitive. Good evening. I'm Dr. Rochetta Sibley Ozan. I am the founder, director, and CEO of the Vessel Project of Louisiana. My address is 295 Haygood Drive, Sulphur, Louisiana. I have several issues to address, but I'm going to keep to one. Mossville. You heard Ms. Carolyn state that Mossville always gets treated like a trash dump. Everything bad goes to Mossville. When you drive down what used to be Old Spanish Trail, you may think no one lives there. because of the industry, because of the overpass, because they don't want you to see the community in the neighborhood. They don't want you to see that Mossville is alive and well and thriving, that they're having family reunions, that they are having events for the Fourth of July, that they now have a Mardi Gras crew. That they get together, it's family, it's tradition, it's people. But when industry comes in with their maps, what they leave off are the people, the families, the businesses that exist in that community. Who will be impacted? And so when we think about a borrow pit, we think, retention poem, whatever they want to call it, what will be the use for it? Because what we've learned about industry is that they always are 10 steps ahead of us. They may be saying that that pun is for one thing today, But we know there's been a lot of conversation about something that everybody has heard of now. We hadn't heard of it a few months ago, a couple years ago, but now everybody is hearing the term data centers. Everybody is hearing the terms CO2 pipelines. All of this is connected, y'all. Sulfur is moving forward. We're not moving backwards. Calcasieu Parish is not moving backwards. If you are still on the side of any industry that is relying on fossil fuels Fossils, things of the past, you're moving backwards. What we need to be doing is moving forward and stop allowing them to put things in our community for their future use to keep us dependent on fossil fuels. When you go through Mossville, Before you get to that overpass, those of you who still travel that way, because I'm pretty sure a lot of you go around. But when you go that way, I'm sure you start feeling funny in your body. your head start hurting. You start getting dizzy. It stinks. It smells like rotten eggs. Sometimes it smells like Clorox. You never know what you're going to smell when you're passing through there. But one day, Sassall came and had a meeting. They promised jobs. They promised beautification. They promised all of these things. But what have they actually given to Mossville and Westlake? How many taxes are they paying? How much improvement have they done for that area? When you drive down before you get to Phillips 66, you can't drive too fast. Can I get more time, please? You can't drive too fast because that road.

One second.

Okay, I'm sorry.

I'll make a motion. You have three more minutes.

Three more minutes.

Yes, sir.

Second. Vote, please.

Come on, baby. Thank you. You can't drive too fast because that road is bumpy. You'll tear your car up. You'll need a new tire. What are these industries actually doing for our communities? Right now, we are under fish eating advisories in Calcasieu Parish. And I just want to read a couple of them. Because some of you might not even know that these advisories exist. Don't eat catfish out of Bayou Den. Who knew that? I mean, that's a real advisory. But how many of you drive down even Wright Road? I live in Carlos. So how many of you drive down Wright Road and even though it's nowhere to park, you see a car parked there and you see somebody fishing in Bayou Den? People are still fishing because people still think our waterways are safe. But we know that these industries have already poisoned them. When we bring this retention pond, we're bringing more poison. We're never going to get rid of these fish eating advisories. So whether you eat the fat off the crab or not, You are going to be poisoned eventually. Think about it. It's not about the four or five people you think that's still living in Mossville because it's a whole community. But what happens is that's where they start because they have a bigger plan. They want to bring something else. This is just a portion. of their money grab. This is not the whole plan. Stick to what we've already done. Remember we all celebrated and cheered when we said no last time? Let's do that again. Stick together as a community and show that we are for progress. We are trying to move forward. We are not trying to be dependent on fossil fuels or their schemes. If they're not bringing us forward, they can stay in the past. We don't want it. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr.

Governor. Oh, wait. Thank you. I'm bossy. I'm sorry.

That's all the cards that we have. Does any members of the city council like to make some comments?

Sheila. I would like to make some comments. Sheila. Just in relation to some of the stuff that I've actually heard. Sheila had a comment.

Oh, I'm sorry. Is that a card filled out last this week?

Can you fill one out later then? Sure. Sure.

Sheila Broussard, I don't give out my address publicly, but the city has it. Just a quick comment. Joshua brought up how many people are in the room, and it's kind of coincidental. When I was at the House a couple of days ago, I watched a city council meeting start in another state. And they were overcrowded. And a citizen went to the city council and told them that the law said that they couldn't have a meeting if the people couldn't fit in. So they had to reschedule. So I looked right before I came. And according to the quick research, you know, how much we could trust AI, my quick research said that in Louisiana that is not the case, that you don't have to reschedule if there's too many people. But I am curious, because there's too many of us in here, and I'm not complaining, because I'm comfortable, and the air is great, so I'm fine. But I am curious, you know, what, if that is a law, if we've got a, is that a law that there's a number?

They set a number for how many people can be in an area. For square footage? What? For square footage, so many people? Yes. Yeah.

So from- I got a question. No, no, no. For this meeting, there's nothing we can do about that. No, no, I don't want to make anybody leave. If anybody should leave, I can go outside because I've got my phone. I can watch it on live stream. And that's one of the reasons why I don't have a problem with not starting a meeting over because anybody that can't get in, we've all got our phones, and this is now live stream, so anybody can watch the meeting and sit outside, and if they want to come in, come in, you know, later as people leave. But if that is the law, then perhaps we do need to have somebody count next meeting, not this one.

Oh, yeah, you ain't got to worry about it. It ain't happening again.

Okay, I am not worried, and I am not complaining. It's just the law, and so I was curious how we were going to handle that. Thank you, and thank you for your input.

I brought up the issue as I was watching people come through and was head and counting. There's a reason I didn't bring it up at the beginning. But if we're going to enforce ordinances on the public, we need to comply with them ourselves as city councils. We're going to sit up here and ask the public to take and comply with the ordinances that's put in place. We have ordinances and stipulations and transparency that we're obligated to comply with as well, Chief. And so that's my whole thing in a nutshell that I'm trying to convey from the whole thing even whenever I ran for city council. It doesn't matter if we're up here on this council or if we're sitting out here. We have laws that we need to abide by ourself. And so, with that being said, I'd like to move forward. I've looked into the project at the bar pits or retention ponds or whatever in some length. And I've gone over and I've completely walked that project from one end of it to the other. I've walked the neighborhoods from one street down the other street. And I see a lot of issues, number one, from the adjoining properties to that project. A lot of those homes in y'all's neighborhood and in y'all's area over there was all purchased by Sasol. And once they purchased that property, they've gone off and just basically... walked away from it. As far as the lack of maintaining that property and maintenance in it, y'all have an obligation to get with your police jurymen and push an issue to try to help maintain those ditches to keep the right-of-ways clean because the overgrowth on each one of those properties between the land that they're clearing for the retention ponds or detention ponds um it's an it's creating a drainage situation along just for y'all's neighborhoods because the overgrowth is is decaying is rotting it's falling over into the ditchways it's causing stoppages that is a flood hazard that within itself is flood potential um and so i reached out to y'all's um police juryman today for you guys to see if we can't get a letter written to Sasol to start moving forward to help you guys engage in getting that stuff cleaned up. Go ahead.

It's not back and forth.

It's not back and forth. This is a comment section.

This is not a question.

Sasol had contracted people to keep the grass cut and then They fired everybody. Right. So that's on what they told us as citizens. Correct. All right. Thank you. So that's why the grass is growing up.

Okay. And so I've also walked around down every one of the streets. And Ms. Arlene, do you have those pictures I sent you to where we can put a power point up real quick? Can you go to the map one, the picture of the map that I did, the marking zone? So if you look at this map, Everywhere that's marked green is overgrowth of grass and property buffer zone between any residents or any homes in Mossville. I mean, would y'all say that's correct? Everywhere around there's basically got a buffer around it with overgrowth of grass before it gets to y'all's houses. And so I went a little bit further and I counted how many actual pieces of property that are vacant and grown up to give you guys a buffer between your homes that's actually overgrown by sysall. And there's almost three to four lots between almost every home with the exception of two that's right there across the street facing the actual detention pond project. And whenever we're talking about detention ponds, I even went a little bit further and I called the parish today and I asked the Permitting and Fines Department, has any complaints been filed on a construction project across the street for the ABC school as they are in the process of developing that project and they have a detention pond. And it's a pretty large detention pond. And so if a detention pond is creating a safety issue, and it's something that's creating a problem, Ms. Peters, it's directly across the street from your house that's also abandoned and has been vacant since 2009, and it's on the condemnation list for having structural issues and safety issues.

That is not true.

That is absolutely true. I got a copy of it today.

Wait, wait, wait. Excuse me, Josh, could you hold it down for, let me talk right now. We're not going to be pointing people out in the audience for things that you suspect are done. This is in the parish, this is a parish issue right now. The issue we're addressing right now is the borrow pits and the effect is going to be on the, not only the area of Mossville, but Maplewood as a whole. The other items are parish items. Hold on, I'd like to finish. I have the floor. I think that we need to address this concerning the ponds and the detention ponds and let the parish, in your conversation with the parish, go after the growth that's going on in the parish side. It's a very complex issue that we're addressing on City of Sulphur property in District 5. And that's been turned down twice, and the people of Mossville and the people of Maplewood don't want it to continue. So if we're going to talk about the parish, we'll talk about the parish at a different time. This is to be talking about what we're talking about inside the city of Salt Lake. Let me ask you a question real quick. Let's go with the city of Salt Lake. So let me ask you a question.

You just allowed every one of these people to talk about property in the parish, and you're going to try to shut me down from talking about their same property in the parish.

No, you're pointing them out.

So I'm pointing them out. She got up and spoke. She gave her own address, and she told where her house was at. I'm not pointing her out. I'm stating facts. And now you're weaponizing what we're talking about. I'm not weaponizing.

Mr. Chairman, can we get a point of order, please, Mr. Chairman?

Ma'am, doctor, doctor. Yes, sir.

Believe me, I did my research.

Please, I understand you did. Okay, I'm going to stop this right now. This conversation is going to be over right now. If you want to talk about that, you can talk about it with the parish, but that's a parish issue right now.

Do you agree with that? No, I agree. Can I say something real quick, Mr. Baden, if you don't mind? Sure.

This is really just a comment section. You guys should not be talking back and forth, so let's give Josh the floor. It's his floor. Let him finish his conversation, please.

My opinion is that... Hold on one second. As long as we're talking about things and we're not pointing at other people.

all right all right sure okay so my opinion to this matter is is that we did not the city issued these people a permit and it's a league they purchased a permit from the city not from this administration and not from this council but from the past administration that voted it down consecutively twice so they went back to the city and also obviously they found some legal way to be issued a permit So the people that's in Mossville, they're outside of the city limits, jurisdictional limits. The people that purchased this property from us have annexed this property and are taxpayers and contributing taxpayers to the city of Sulphur. I honestly feel like our job is to represent the taxpayers of the city of Sulphur and what they're bringing to the table. And if you guys would like to consider annexing y'all's property into where we could give you some representation against it, I'd be open to listen to that. But right now, I have a hard time trying to go against people just bringing tax revenue into our community, and they did it the legal way.

He's making the comments. There's no back and forth that's going to be going on here. We can let you talk independently, but this is not a comment section where we go back and forth and back and forth. We'll let you talk afterwards.

Just to answer your question. These guys have implemented.

This is a comment section, Josh. We're not answering questions.

But this is still a comment. So these guys, after talking to the developer, these guys have implemented, after they get done doing detention ponds. that they have been willing to exercise any right to work with any resident in that area to develop this thing into a park for that community and donate that park back to that community to benefit y'all.

Okay, all right. Order. Can I have order, please? Okay, I'm going to shut this conversation down. That's it for that. Okay, it's causing too much back and forth. It's causing too much turmoil, and I'm not going to go through this anymore. All right? All right? That's my decision. Do we have any other comments? Yes, Charlie.

Can I use my three minutes?

I think it's usable.

I suggest we give you one minute to finish your conversations. We've given you about eight already, Mr. Charlie, but please wrap up your comments. Thank you.

I was at police jury meetings when the discussion was that the parish would never, ever allow another dirt pit in Mossville. I suggest to you the reason the previous two council members annexed it into the city, and one of them is still involved, is that the parish would never allow it. Your ordinance, my understanding is that it says ponds, all ponds have to come before the city council. If it's a new application or they change their plans, it's still got to come before the council. The other understanding, which I haven't verified, is that I'm not aware that the city council even has any engineering standards for retention ponds. I mean, the original intention of a retention pond was to remain dry during dry weather, but when the storm came, it would hold the water and ease it off. Thank you. Thank you.

Is it only just one comment to what Mr. Charles was saying?

We need to call it what it is. They keep saying the extension.

We're out of time, Carolyn, with you. It's a river. It's a river.

40 feet deep. Second to the acres. All right.

Thank you, Carolyn. I'm done.

Take a fork in me.

Have you spoke yet? No. Would you fill out a card, please, afterwards? All right. All right. Any more comments then? Do I have a motion to adjourn? Motion. Mr. Darby, the due vote.

I'm sorry. He said he turned in one.

Okay.

He turned in one.

Pardon me, sir?

Can we get a copy of that, Arlene?

In your name, sir? You fill out a card?

Yes. Thomas Bourgeois, 738 Sherry Drive. I originally came here to see about Resolution 9 and 10. I'm also a member of the Sulphur fire and police civil service board Did it was obviously taken out is there possible that maybe by next? Meeting we might have a couple candidates Here's the reason why There's a couple board members that their time expires this month and we was kind of hoping to get a couple in so there won't be a lapse of In that time frame.

Those people were only appointed by us. That's your committee, and that committee can add people to it.

So I didn't hear you say that again.

Your committee can add people to it, if you so choose. We appointed certain people to that committee. Just like... The young lady here that was worried about her being included, she's still included. And that committee, if you reach out to that committee, they'll be glad to talk to you about it. Oh, Civil Service Board was not mentioned today. It was taken off the agenda. Yes. Correct. All right. That's what I had heard before. Yes, thank you.

Yeah, and we're just curious of when there might be a timeframe of these nominees being nominated. That's what my comment was for. Thank you.

Thank you.

We had a motion to adjourn. Vote, please.

Let's get out of here.

I think y'all got to stay and sign that piece of paper. She said, of course, just stay for a little bit.

So I took a picture. Oh, yeah. I took a picture.