Board of Directors - Regular Meeting

A couple of housekeeping things. If you wish to address the board tonight, we have citizens' communication cards on the ledge. You can get one of those citizens' communication cards and fill it out and get that to our city clerk. She can get that to me so we'd have a record of you speaking. Also, if you have your cell phones with you tonight, we'd appreciate if you'd silence your cell phones during the course of the meeting. At this time, we'll have a roll call.

Director Steve Smith is absent. Director Roberts?

Here.

Assistant Mayor Harris?

Here.

Director Hollabush? Here. Director Brewer?

Here.

Assistant Mayor Brewer?

Here.

I had it wrong on this. No problem. I'm so sorry. Mayor Brown?

Here. At this time, we'll stand for our invocation and pledge of allegiance. I believe Director Brewer has someone to do the prayer.

Before we do the prayer, Danny Jewelton. And also for the prayer, we'll have Reverend Foote from Long Road Baptist Church in the direction of Reverend Hill.

Let us pray. Eternal God, our Father, Lord, we come to you in the name of your Son, Jesus Christ. Lord, we want to thank you first, Lord, for being God and for being God all by yourself. Father, we ask that you bless this city council meeting. Father, we ask that you bless and give them all strength, Lord, to lead the city in the way that you are pleased for it to be led. Father, I ask that you remove all colorblind, what make us colorblind, Father, let us see Each and every one is brothers and sisters in Christ. Father, I ask that you unify us, Lord, as one city. I ask that you let Texas County, Arkansas shine your light, Father, that America still has hope. I ask, Lord, that you give us peace, give us strength, Lord. I pray these prayers in your darling son Jesus' name. Amen.

justice for all. You may be seated. At this time, we'll move right on into our citizens' communication time. I have Mr. Philip Wilson.

How are y'all doing tonight? Oh, I'm sorry. I want to thank the board for being here and allowing us to speak to y'all tonight. I want to first say to Mr. Tyler Richards, I want to thank you for always being in our community. Wonderful in our community, man. I want to thank you. We realize you can't do everything, but you do come to look out for us.

We want to thank you for that.

Yes, sir. I just got one concern for the board, and I don't know who would answer this question. Now, I'm aimed to buy the Paradise Club. I'm sure a lot of y'all are familiar with that. But it's a deal with the – I know Mr. Robinson has been speaking on it about the ordinance. Now, is it a special permit that we can get for noise ordinance? I mean, if they are going to 12 o'clock, and I have a security company, too, and I notice that officers come up a lot and tell us to turn the music down. And now I know that the music that's there is not louder than what they're doing at 12. And I understand they employ a lot of people. Man, that's great. I understand that they pay a lot of taxes. That's great. But is there a special permit that they have to be able to go to 12 o'clock? And I'm just concerned. Can anybody answer that question for us?

They have a planned unit development that was approved through the planning commission that regulates their hours of operation.

Okay. So is this something they only can get?

No, sir. No, anyone can apply for a planned unit development. It's a zoning.

Okay. Anybody can apply for it?

Yes, sir.

Okay. Well, that was my only question. I've got one more concern. I don't know who would be able to answer this question. We have a bridge out. Maybe you can answer. We've got a bridge out over there on Seabrook? Yes.

Yes, sir.

Do we have any idea of what is it, something that we can do as a community to help the city to get that done? What's the deal?

No, sir. So the city has received a grant from the state from, uh, from R dot, uh, to replace that bridge because it's so expensive. Um, now there were a lot of hoops that we had to jump through for this grant. The, the first one was they had to do a feasibility study. An engineer had to come in, study the bridge and basically say, yeah, it could be fixed or it needs to be tore down. Um, It was a very long process, but we finally did meet with them just a couple weeks ago, and they are recommending it be demolished. Now, the second step of that was they have to design the new bridge and then bid it out, and their estimation for designing the new bridge and bidding that out their estimation was construction to begin at the end of 2027. So what we are asking is that they allow us to demolish the bridge and put in something temporary while they go through the design process and build the new one. And we asked for reimbursement for that demolition, and they said, and we just received word back, Last week or the week before, I don't recall, I believe it was about a week after we met, that we would not be able to be reimbursed for that demolition if we move forward ourself. I would still like to do that anyways, even though we won't be reimbursed for it, but we haven't quite worked all that out yet. So it's a bit of a process to... figure out how much it's going to cost us to demolish it, if we can do it ourselves and haul it off ourselves, or we got to hire it out. Not real sure yet, but we're working through that process. I don't have a very good answer for you right now, except that we are working on that. And for me personally, I can't fathom waiting on the state till the end of 2027 to to get this bridge even bid out to be replaced. And you're talking about probably summer of 28 before they actually even have a new bridge in there. So I can't fathom waiting that long. So we need to get at least something temporary in there and get it demolished. But we've got to figure out how to do that. So we're in that process right now.

Okay. Well, man, I just want to thank you for the great work you've been doing.

Mr. Maley? Yes, sir, he left.

Smith, C.Y. Smith? Yes.

I actually wrote down on the home. Okay. Sorry. Good afternoon, Mayor Allen Brown and City Council of Texarkana. My name is Cy Smith, and I am concerned about my community. AI data centers, such as the 500-acre Tex Americas Big Pine Data Center, are going to pollute all of our communities. They create a loud, constant humming. They drink up water reserves and degrade our air quality. Our neighbors, such as a rancher I met during an anti-AI rally in downtown Texarkana, will never know peace once that big pine AI data center has been built. And Scott Norton of the Texas America Center, in an interview on the podcast, The Zat Ratcliffe Show, has made it clear that this will only be the beginning of AI data center growth and further expansion of big tech in Texas, Canada. However, our tax dollars should go to education and should go to improving the pay of our teachers. I would like to ask all of you to please consider creating a moratorium against the encroachment of AI data centers in our community. We will only be harmed by big tech AI while a few billionaires and millionaires get richer at the cost of those living paycheck to paycheck. Thank you very much.

Lay down. Thank you.

Arkansas, but just a few questions up here. Now, we always stand up and you lead the plea and then say, justice for all. Ain't no way no one in here could tell me y'all got justice for all. No way. Because the Mount Edition, it's part of Texas County. No matter how y'all look at it, it's part of Texas County. And it's elderly people over there. And pay what they do. Bought their homes. And can't even come out and sit on that porch without noise. 16 hours a day. And ain't nobody up here can tell me that's right. Nobody up here will put their current in that position. And we bought our house before they let that machine get over there. We stayed on there before that machine. And it's not right. Mr. Jewel, you came out, you listened to me. He worked there, so he heard all the time. Bro, you been out, you heard. Of course you know that's your warden. Mr. Harris, you've been out. You heard it. I don't know if you've been out or not, but I know the city of Maryland comes to the house quite a few times. It ain't no way y'all can say we just keep letting them do us like this. And y'all don't care. Nobody never show no interest when I come up here. No solutions, no nothing. It's a city of origins. It's a country. That ain't right. And y'all got to stop hiding behind it. It just can't keep going on. That's not right what they're doing to us over there. You come out your house at 6 o'clock in the morning, that machine is going. You go to bed at 10, it's going to midnight. It ain't being made up. Y'all know I'm telling the truth. Everybody up here knows I'm telling the truth. Y'all will have to help us. This is supposed to be for justice for all. Give us some justice. At least try to give us some justice. Somebody do something. Mr. Hammond, you have stuck your neck out for us many a times. Many a time, when we can't get water, we directly do nothing. But you stuck your neck out, and I've been told that I wouldn't like it by him, and I don't, I'm gonna say this right up here right now, Mr. Hollywood, I don't have nothing against you. Never traded a word with you, not one. But they always said, if you ain't got nothing nice to say, just don't say nothing. So I just don't say nothing. But I don't have nothing against you, though. I would be more than willing to work with you, but you told me a long time ago, it's nothing can be done. But how can nothing be done With this many people in the neighborhood going through what we're going through and can't enough to be done. That ain't acceptable. It's got to be something y'all can do. Y'all got the power. Y'all was voting me to do this. Show us the child care about Mount Edition. Somebody step up and just try to do something. Make it like you're doing something. Lie to them.

We can only do what the law will allow us to do.

Where did that law come from, though?

But wherever it came from, it's in place. So if they exceed the noise limit or they're outside their working areas, but we have to have proof. So we're bound by the law.

Who has to have the proof? Because you heard it. You don't tell.

But I don't have the proof. And I don't know if that exceeded the law or not. I heard the ban.

How long are we going to keep hiding behind this? Don't go over the noise or anything. Y'all know for a fact you can hear this on the other side of town. Y'all know this is where you're not even supposed to be. We can't keep hiding behind this. You can hear this in other neighborhoods. Matter of fact, I think you told me you heard it at your house.

Well, I've heard it in the past, yes. But again... I can't stand up in court and swear that it exceeded the limits allowed by ordinance.

Have you ever put an effort out to come over there and see could you prove it?

No, I have not.

Have you ever been out to see could you prove it, Mr. Brewer?

Yes, come over there and I'll tell you.

Have you had your meeting to see could you help us?

But I'll tell you, I do emphasize with you because it should be one standard, no compromise. The fight is not over because that's where I was born, right around the corner from that place.

I'm saying, who can say they've been over to that neighborhood to curl up to have that meeting to try to prove that there's too much noise over there? Can either one of y'all say y'all didn't?

Chief haven't. I haven't, but I'm willing to.

Chief ain't up for it. Chief don't got nothing to do with the ordinance that y'all are by. Y'all write the ordinance, y'all say. Chief, I talked to the chief. I'm a good friend of the chief. And I ain't no way off to say nothing bad about the chief.

That makes two of us. But he can only do it.

Chief got a boss. Chief. Do what the chief boss.

Chief, didn't we do some sound studies not too recently when this came up and the decibel readings were below what the ordinance said they had to be?

Yes, sir. They were below the...

They were below what the city ordinance stated they had to be.

And Chief, Chief, did your officer come out and tell you Tri-State cannot be operated under that noise ordinance? What did you say? Did one of your officers come out, Douglas, and do a report and say he found it and said there's no way Tri-State can operate under a noise ordinance because they cannot operate the machine and stay under that noise ordinance? What did he say? I'll try to get that to you, though. But have you ever been told that the noise exceeds the level? You never got a report saying they over the level? No, sir. Okay, so now, even though we are friends, I'm asking the city right here.

We need to wrap it up, Lydia.

Lydia, I look forward to working with you.

Yeah, I appreciate it.

Hey, Mr. Liddell, I want to know, can we extend your time where you can get through talking? Because, Mayor, you have done that.

Without objections, would you all mind if Liddell continued?

No objections. Well, Mayor, that's not really thorough. You know, you should have asked that before you told him.

Chief, do we have data where we've done those decimal readings? Do we log that?

I've got that data, yes, sir.

Okay.

I'll be happy to. I mean, I can't say that I guarantee that I'll come out when you call, but if I'm available, I'll definitely make every effort.

Tyler, I have a question. That's not fair. Being that we have an ordinance for residents and then we have a different ordinance for the commercial, wouldn't that be like having a double standard that the residential, say if they're too loud, the police have to come out and say, hey, you got to be quiet versus you having industry right next door with greater noise than probably what most residents create I Mean wouldn't that be that's more of a legal question because that falls more planning and zoning No, no it is.

I think you're you're it's where the noise comes from that would be the violation and so I Tri-state is under the PUV and their ordinance. Residential is under their ordinance. So if they're right next to each other, it's a violation of where the sound originates.

I understand completely what you're describing. It's just that, you know, it's so they're right next door. It should be parallel, you know.

That's the ordinance that's in place.

And I guess this question is like.

That would be up to the board if they wanted to change that noise ordinance. Okay, gotcha.

Are you serious? They could change it?

I'm not saying that it would be legal for them to change it or anything, but it's an ordinance that we have now, and what I'm saying is I can't change that ordinance. I can't change any ordinances.

You said they can change it.

They can change anything in the ordinances.

That's what I thought. So I was saying how they can change something.

Director Harris. Mr. Liddell, I know it was a while back that this was brought up before the Planning Commission to change the time by myself from 630 to 630. But the Planning Committee basically said it could not be done. because the company had to request that change in time. This time was changed back in 2004 by the board, which I wasn't on the board, this board that came in 2004. And then when it went before the planning committee, they told me that it had to be up to, the tri-state to come forward and change the PUD. That question has been asked as to could we change the PUD without tri-state admission, even though it was done by this board. So that's the legal question that's been trying to get asked by the city attorney as to can we change the PUD. We've stated this before.

You can't change the PUD without tri-state's permission. Blessing. Blessing or agreement?

But what happens if we do change it? And would I try to state a blessing? They sue you?

They sue.

We got an agreement because I hear that at the last board meeting that the city manager stated that we – Well, I'll probably look at it. He talked about immunity, but wouldn't know every time that an employee of the board would do something. And I had brought this up before, that I know sometimes that... is it will be that the board can do something, even though it's right or wrong. One time they done something that I say was clearly wrong, and they know they were wrong, but they know they got the taxpayer expense. won't pay for what they did wrong, because the taxpayer would come up and pay for the legal fees or something that's wrong, or that they'd known that was wrong. But in this instance, we tried to correct the incident that that was done by our previous board back in 2004, but then we showed that we're trying to do something in good faith before the court because even though the taxpayer may be putting a bill for this, but we're trying to correct the issue that was done that's supposed to be cannot be changed. That if the order was put on the agenda and we voted to change the time to 6-6-30, then They come and sue the city and say, no, we want to stay at 6 to 11 o'clock at night. And then we get sued, but we can show that the court that we did this on the best, if you say for the welfare... and help and welfare of the citizens of their community there. Because I even hear the same noise at my house. And I know I stay about, I'm going to say about three, about a quarter of a mile away.

You're asking if we could get immunity if that were the case? Well, we somewhat... Or if our damages would be limited?

What damage could it be? Because we're doing something in the best interest of the citizen, you know, and they always say the welfare, the help and welfare of citizens.

Right. You could still pay damages. An injunction... Past loss of revenue. They stopped doing that. A case takes a year. How many, I don't know, four hours a day of work over a year. Damages there. Attorney's fees. Your attorney's fees. So essentially what we're talking about is taxpayer money. So I would advise not.

doing something. Okay. But in other incidents, we know that taxpayer is taxpayer money. When a employee goes after a citizen, then they know they got the taxpayer money because they know the taxpayer is going to pay for it. Because they're going to have the immunity. First, you've got to get over the hump of qualified immunity. Once you get over the hump of qualified immunity, they're going to have legal representation, even though we're going to be Arkansas Municipal League or Burt Newell.

Yeah. If this board were to pass, change the noise ordinance, and then change... the hours of violating the PUD and all that, first thing tri-state's going to do is go to court, stay our orders, and probably put that on hold pending trial or court action.

They will certainly try, I'm sure, probably get an emergency injunction.

Yes, and more than likely prevail. So it would probably be out of our hands anyway.

Yes.

Subjecting us to possible payment and all that. So although we, as stated earlier, we can do pretty much anything we want to as far as ordinances and all that. But preventing in court action is a whole different matter.

Right. I wouldn't say you can do almost anything you want with an ordinance, but you can almost anything within the law.

Well, I'm talking about enacting an ordinance where you can pretty much do anything you want to. But prevailing in a court of law is a whole different deal. Correct. And tri-state would have a pretty good cause of action when going to court.

Well, you know, I hate discussing possibilities about... lawsuit and this that the other But I would just say I would not recommend putting more taxpayer funds in jeopardy And by doing that Outside of planning the Planning Commission and outside of discussions with tri-state. I would not recommend that I

So if my neighborhood come together with a petition, and let's just say we're going to file a suit against the city then for a nonrepresentation, would you recommend that?

As the city attorney, no, I would not recommend that.

So if y'all can't help us, the only way we probably could get some help is if we get a petition and file a lawsuit. But that ain't what we want to do because we don't want no problems with the city. We want help from the city. I don't want to be in, nobody's bad, you know, in terms of the city. I don't want nothing to do with the part of the city. All the chiefs, or the fire chiefs, as I called out before, the new people who won't report nothing over there, we don't want nothing like this. We just want justice. We don't want no lawsuits. We don't want to fight. But we want y'all to speak with y'all. Y'all make that wrong over there. See?

Any other discussion?

One more question.

All right, go right ahead.

And those tax dollars y'all keep talking about, they come from the city. They're not child tax dollars. It all belongs to the city. And we are part of the city. Thank you, Mr. Merrill.

Anything else? Anybody wish to address the board? Citizens' communication time. Anyone else? If not, we'll move into our consent agenda. We actually have seven items on the consent agenda. Does anybody wish to pull any items off consent? Number seven is coming off. Anyone else? That leaves six items on the consent. Item number one is approval of the minutes of the regular meeting on June the 1st. Item number two is to adopt a resolution to approve the FAA grant application for procurement of the ARFF vehicle and additional equipment to be paid from the FAA grant and the Arkansas Division of Aeronautics. Item number three is to adopt a resolution to approve the interim airport director to enter into a contract with Rosenbauer Minnesota LLC for the purchase of the ARFF vehicle and additional equipment to be paid from an FAA grant and Arkansas Division of Aeronautics. Adopt a resolution to approve an FAA grant application for the construction of a vehicle service road to be paid for from an FAA grant in the Arkansas Division of Aeronautics. Adopt a resolution to authorize the interim airport director to execute work order number 2500666-2 with Garver LLC for engineering services for vehicle service road construction to be paid from. from an FAA grant in the Arkansas Division of Aeronautics. And last, adopt a resolution to authorize the interim airport director to enter into an agreement with Tatum Excavating Company for the construction of the vehicle service road to be paid from an FAA grant in the Arkansas Division of Aeronautics. The desire of the board for the consent, items 1 through 6.

Move for adoption. Second.

Do we have a motion and a second? Any other discussion? All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? And those items passed. Director Harris.

Yes. My concern, again, is about Grand Street Avenue, about we've, you know, that street is going to get done. It's in Ward 2. I'll be the first to say that. And I know that that street was picked by the so-called study that was done. And I brought this up before. There's no way in the world that how this street can get overseas or all these other streets in the neighborhood. I think I gave a list like Hay Street, Batten Street, what was the other street? I'm trying to think of. MAYBE GROVE STREET, AND I THINK I HAD GAVE A LIST BY OTHER STREETS THAT WERE WITHIN THE CHURCHES, LIKE CURRY STREET, AND IT WAS STREETS AROUND CURRY BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, THIS STREET HERE, GRANDS AVENUE, YOU KNOW, YOU GOT And like I said, it's just how this was picked out and you left other streets that was in the neighborhood that could have been done. And these streets, you know, and they said it was done by the study, which I said at the first beginning, that study was going to not be fair for the poor people, for the poor neighborhood in my ward. And I was looking right, we spent $550,000 on this street in Grand, you know. and look at the big building, I say churches, on Grand Street. And I just think more streets should have been done. I don't know. I may bring this list back out. I can't remember all them streets that church, but I went around. and looked at every church in Hayes Street. That was one of them not being missed. Mitchell Street, that was one should have been done. It's real bad. Hayes Street, that's another bad street. And how did the study miss all those streets out of Ward 2? And like I said, this ain't the first time a study was done that was detrimental to the poor neighborhood. But like I said before, you can make a study say anything that you want to say, make a study say anything that you want to do. And look at Cleveland Street. Cleveland Street had fell in almost about two public works directors ago, now when Paul Hackman was here. That street, because it's concrete and they paved over the street, fell in. You got Fox Street. How do you miss all these streets in the neighborhood but based on the street study? So, and then how do you rectify this? No. No. And I'm probably not going to. I'm probably going to vote for this street being done because it's not that. It's just how bringing out how the study is not fair to the poor neighborhood. And that's basically what I'm trying to say. And the study never has been fair to the poor neighborhood because when the public works guy first back when I said it was public work, he did a study and the study did all the streets out in the countryside. I'm not saying them streets didn't need to be done, but how can you justify doing all the street out in the countryside, but yet you had just as many streets bad in the city limits? No. And even though I was told I was talking nonsense, When I brought that up, but yet, how is you going to be fair? I just want the government and the city to be fair. Be fair with the poor neighborhood, you know. We want the same thing. We want a good, clean neighborhood. We want the streets to be just as fair and done in the other part of the city. And that's basically what I've got to say.

Director Harris, I have never personally done a street study. Hey, come on. Director Harris, I have never personally completed a street study for the city myself. I have never chosen one of those streets. Every single one of them have come from an outside engineer. I don't know what roads you're referring to out in the country, but they came from a street study not completed by myself. But I've been over this and over this with you. Engineers completed this street study. It's all backed by data. I don't know what else you want from me.

Just to be fair with the poor neighborhood. And the mayor about the hour bus, he don't even live in the ward. So he live out in the countryside. So I didn't make him. So ain't no use getting concerned about somebody that don't live in the ward.

Any other discussion for item number seven? If not, I'd instruct the city attorney to read the resolution.

Whereas the Public Works Department is requesting the approval of the City of Texarkana, Arkansas, Board of Directors to authorize the City Manager to enter into a contract with A.L. Franks Engineering for the design of the following 2025 street bond rehab projects, McClure Road, Lion Ferry Road, Capitol Hill West Road, and Grand Avenue. And whereas the City submitted a request for qualifications in January 2026 for engineers, architects, and surveyors, And whereas A.L. Franks Engineering was selected as a qualified engineer for city projects based on their qualifications and extensive work history for the city. And whereas A.L. Franks Engineering submitted their design fee proposal for this project in the amount of $152,500, which includes a design, surveying, and bidding fee in the amount of $111,500 and a construction administration fee of $41,000. And whereas the engineering fee is 9.01% of the estimated construction cost of $1,231,323. And whereas bond funds for these three streets have not yet been received, so these initial engineering fees will be paid from the public works budget in order for construction to begin shortly after bond funds are received. And now, therefore, be it resolved by the Board of Directors of the City of Texarkana, Arkansas, that the city manager is authorized to enter into contract with A.L. Frank's Engineering for the purposes set forth above with funding from the sources so indicated. Pass and approve this 15th day of June 2026.

City attorneys read the resolution, desire of the board.

Motion to adopt.

Second. If we have a motion and a second, any other discussion, could you call the roll?

Director Smith?

Yes.

Director Roberts? Yes. Director Harris? Yes. Director Holabish? Yes. Assistant Mayor Brewer? Yes.

Yes.

Director Jewell?

Yes.

Mayor Brown?

Yes. The resolution passes. We do not have any items on our regular agenda tonight. Board of Directors, commentaries, or any board member that wishes to address the board? I do, Mayor.

Director Harris. I want to follow up from that letter that I gave out at the last board meeting. And I would want to go ahead and say that that dirt that was piled up for the last three years over in Hobo Jungle, it was finally removed. And I say thank you for that because the people at that church there, been complaining about that for almost three years or more. And y'all found a move that big, about three or four big piles of dirt on the corner of Division Street, right there in Graham Street. So that was found removed there. And then the other thing you found that cleaned out the creek that was brought up too, right there on Jones Creek, right there in the housing. And that had been requested since the last time it flooded. So I guess they think about that. But my other issue, you know, why do Ward 2 have to wait on two or three years to get stuff done after the request has been made? I think I'm sick and I'm about to read you probably don't have some people coming here. So they say is taking the petition around and they want to know about the bridge. I told my own thing I can do is bring it up, you know, but no, I can't make the city do anything. We talked about the street free and right there. We cannot make I cannot make the city do that. I don't write work orders or nothing. So So, and they said they're going to be bringing a petition around. They're going to be coming before him to ask why it's taking so long. I told them, you've got my blessing. You know, the only thing I can do is bring it up. And it's been brought up at least three or four times this year by me. So, and we're having an MPO meeting that's coming up. Thursday at 9 o'clock, I recommend some of the salesmen come there because you're going to have the state, Arkansas state people there, and they're going to have it over there on Elizabeth Street at the Arkansas Council of Government building. So I recommend you even come there. And that's basically about it, Mayor.

Anyone else?

Mayor, I got one thing. A couple of meetings ago, a document was brought in in regards to the water park, and the communication was about transparency. And the document was waved around and passed around because of a deed transfer. And the document was communicated as if the A&P, the document was communicated as if there was something had happened criminally within the A&P. The funding committee, in good faith, according to the application, had no way to know that a deed, a will, had been transferred several days after. The water park has been privately owned What about bank or a new corporation? It's always been that way. There's nothing binding. There was nothing binding for us not to fund the water park. Just because a deed transfer happened several days after the fact does not mean A&P was not being transparent. So with that reckless information, with their reckless information that spread misinformation. Now, keep this in mind. When you talk about transparency, yes, discretionary amount of funding and communication system, we've addressed that. We've addressed that. But since then, we've reorganized and consolidated. Our focus in the future is moving the AMP in a decisive direction in order to support high-impact projects to stimulate our local economy. That's what we're moving forward to do. Because when you have information that's not being totally disseminated correctly, it leads to mistrust and reckless claims.

Mayor, is he finished? Director Roberts. Number one, I never said anything about criminal, and I resent you saying that.

Well, I resist you spreading mistrust.

I got the floor right now. Go ahead.

Yeah, go ahead.

We're going to go through this again. Oh, yes, we are.

And I'm going to be here tomorrow night. Yeah, you come tomorrow night.

I'll be there. Because we have got right here, in three years' time, can you explain how they have gotten a million dollars out there at the water park?

Can you explain this? By disseminating mistrust. Now, I know for your – what you're pushing is – You want the clicks? I got your email. 258 Facebook messages, 18 emails.

Let me do something right here. First and foremost, A&P's business is not this board's business. That has been decided, and it's been that way at least ever since A&P has been started. So there is an A&P meeting. That is where this needs to be aired. At the A&P, it is the commission's responsibility. It has nothing to do with it. Thank you, Mayor. And I would appreciate y'all respecting that and respecting our citizens' time to take care of citizens' city business.

Yes, sir. I respected the quorum of this board, and this has been going on the last two or three meetings, and I yield my time. A&P meeting tomorrow night at 430 in this building, same room.

Anything else? Anybody have anything else? If not, I'd entertain a motion to adjourn.

Motion to adjourn.

Second.

I have a motion and a second. Could you call the roll, please?

Director Smith?

Yes.

Director Roberts? Yes. Director Harris? Yes. Director Hollabush?

Yes.

It was pulled.

No, sir. A&P Commission hasn't approved her yet.

Oh, that's right. That's right. Yes, definitely.

Assistant Mayor Brewer?

Yes.

Director Choll? Yes. Mayor Brown.