Board of Directors - Regular Meeting

I'd like to call this regular meeting of the Texarkana Arkansas Board of Directors to order. A couple of housekeeping things. If you have your cell phone with you, we would appreciate it if you'd silence your cell phone during the course of the meeting. If you wish to address the board tonight, there are citizens' communication cards on the ledge. If you could complete one of those, get that to our city clerk. She can get that to me so we can have a record of you speaking tonight. This time, we'll have a roll call.

Director Harris?

Here.

Director Holabush? Here. Assistant Mayor Brewer?

Here.

Director Jewell?

Here.

Director Smith.

Here.

Director Roberts.

Here.

Mayor Brown.

Here. At this time, we'll stand for our pledge of allegiance and invocation given by Director Terry Roberts.

Let us pray. Almighty God, may your grace cover each aspect of this meeting. We pray that all voices will be heard and that we have a mindset of being inclusive and not exclusive. May this be a safe place for people to express their opinions and a place where ideas matter more than titles. May everyone be engaged and involved and all concerns be addressed. May each member of this board feel valued and that we recognize the skill set and knowledge that each person brings to this meeting. In Christ's name we pray. Amen.

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

You may be seated. At this time, we'll move right on into our citizens' communication time. Is there anyone here wishing to address the board tonight? Any citizen wishing to address the board during citizens' communication time? Seeing and hearing none, we'll move right on into our presentations. We have a couple of employee service awards tonight. Our first is Mr. Clay Hicks.

Is Clay here? Did he make it?

We have Clay Hicks, and I believe it's Adrika Allen. Clay works for Public Works for five years. Ms. Allen works for TWU for five years. So would you please give them a round of applause? At this time, we'll move right on into our consent agenda. We have six items on the consent agenda tonight. Item number two is approval of the minutes of the regular meeting of July the 20th. Item number three is to adopt a resolution authorizing the city manager to enter into a contract for the Lindbergh Street six-inch water main replacement project. Item number four is to adopt a resolution authorizing the city manager to enter into a construction contract with contact contractors for Sanderson Lane, Senator Street, Garland Avenue, Washington Street rehab projects. Item number five is to adopt a resolution authorizing the city mayor to seek proposals for Amendment 78, financing of the new fire pumper apparatus. And then the last item, number six, is to adopt a resolution approving the 2026 bond budget. What is the board's desire on the consent agenda? Motion to it.

I'd like to pull one. Yes. The one about the context. Which number is that?

Contact contractors? Yes.

Number four. Four. I just got a couple of questions.

Okay. Four. Director Jewell's pulled number four, so we'll be voting on two, three, five, and six. Motion to adopt.

Second.

We have a motion and a second. Any other discussion? All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? The consent agenda passes. Director Jewell.

Okay. Number four. My question is the alternates are – let me get over there to it. We're approving – Well, Mr. Richards, would you tell me, elaborate on the different alternates that we are, if I'm referring to that right? Yes, sir. The alternate bids B.

So they're virtually just different pavement sections. So we've got a long stretch of existing concrete pavement on Washington in front of Cooper. And so the engineer provided some different options for that. The largest bid is going to be replacing all of that with concrete. The next largest bid is going to be the straight section will be asphalt, and then where the trucks are turning will be concrete. There was also some alternate pavement sections in there utilizing a geogrid matting below the pavement surface, which assists in spreading the load out, and you can reduce your pavement section on that. But ultimately, the bid that we are proposing we go with is we'll do asphalt in the straightaway section. There's really the major pavement concern there is for where the big trucks are making the turning movement. So those sections will be replaced with concrete, but we'll do asphalt in the straightaway.

So the difference in the alternates is LORC, Concrete versus asphalt in the difference?

Partly, yes. There's also some geogrid options in there. But ultimately, we felt this bid was the best bang for our buck.

Now, contact was pretty much the low bidder on pretty much all the alternates, right?

Yes, sir. That's correct.

Okay. That's pretty much all I have.

any issue yes hey Tyler uh for the capital alley this outland outline for uh Garland Avenue do you have to start and stop um areas where that's going to begin and end uh do you have that right now or I can come to y'all no sir I'm sorry I don't have it right now um I don't recall off top of my head okay I'm sorry well I'll get with you it's pretty lengthy but because I have a ward meeting coming up and I kind of want to be able to tell

know the war war citizens yeah you know about the streets that are about to start being repaired i'll get yeah we'll get that to you quick that'll be great that'll be great thank you any other discussion i guess i got okay um sounds the lane i i don't see it but is that going to be the concrete section and they're going to go back with concrete or what you're doing with that sir yes those they'll go back with concrete now the entire section of concrete a lot of that road is

Perfectly fine. So we'll go into the areas that the panels that are bad, replace those panels. But yes, we are going back with concrete where it was concrete in that location.

Any other questions? If not, I would instruct the city attorney to read the resolution.

Whereas Public Works is requesting board authorization for the city manager to enter into a construction contract with contact contractors for the Sanderson Lane, Senator Street, Garland Avenue, and Washington Street rehabilitation projects. And whereas the city of Texarkana, Arkansas solicited bids, and after three qualified bids were received, the Public Works Department selected contact contractors as the low bidder at a cost of $3,093,916.99. And whereas Spears Engineering reviewed the bids and found no errors in the submission and contact contractors is a very experienced and capable of completing the project. And whereas the funds are budgeted and available in the 2025 general obligation bonds. 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 a contract with contact contractors in an amount not to exceed $3,093,000. $1,916.99 for the purposes set forth above. Pass and approve this third day of August 2026.

Move for adoption. City attorneys read the resolution and have a motion to adopt. Second. We have a motion and a second. Any other discussion? Could you call the roll?

Director Harris?

Yes.

Director Holabish? Yes. Assistant Mayor Brewer?

Yes.

Director Chul?

Yes.

Director Smith?

Yes.

Director Roberts? Yes. Mayor Brown?

Yes. Resolution passes. Moving on to our regular agenda, item number seven is consider the following action concerning the demolition of substandard structure located at 110 East Broad Street. We'll conduct a public hearing to receive comments regarding the certification of certain delinquent taxes, and we will adopt a resolution certifying the amount to be put on the tax books as delinquent and collected accordingly. Roger. This was the old region's building downtown at 110 East Broad. It's haunted us for years.

Mm-hmm.

Get rid of it. Does anybody? First of all, we're conducting a public hearing to discuss 110 East Broad Street demolition. Is there any other discussion, any other questions for Robert?

What's existed there in the past? What's that?

It was a clothing store or something at one time. It had been anything for a long time.

But what was it years ago? Regency House. Pardon me? Regency House, Dillard's. Yeah, the old Dillard's store from the past. Yes. Yes, sir. We've been tearing this down since 19, 20? What? Did it involve a lawsuit in the past? Oh, yeah. OK.

Yes, sir. And that finally was resolved just here within the last six months.

Yeah. Have we gotten any response from them?

No. I have spoken with the owner, but response wasn't great.

Any other discussion during the public hearing? If not, we'll close the public hearing. If there's not any other questions for Roger, I'd instruct the city attorney to read the resolution.

Whereas notice was given pursuant to Arkansas code annotated 1454-904 to the property owners of the property located at 110 East Broad Street, Texarkana, Arkansas, 71854, of a hearing before the Texarkana, Arkansas, Board of Directors to determine the amount of the lien, if any, to be placed on the property for the expense incurred by the city for removal of demolished structures and debris from nuisance properties. of such parcel of real property under the provisions of Arkansas Code Annotated 1456.201 and Arkansas Code Annotated 1454.901 the texarkana arkansas code of ordinances including without limitation chapter 11 article 6 and whereas such notice was given pursuant to applicable law more than 30 days prior to the date of the hearing and stated that the hearing on the matter would be before the city board of directors on august 3rd 2026 commencing at 6 p.m in the texarkana arkansas municipal building

Boardroom.

And whereas a hearing on such claim by the city was held this date pursuant to said notice and in accordance with the provisions of applicable law and the Texarkana Arkansas Code of Ordinances. And whereas the property at issue property owner and lien amount with the amount of the lien on the said parcel being the city's incurred expense for such parcel plus 10% penalty is provided by law including without limitation Arkansas Code annotated. 1454-904 is as follows. Address, ward number, and Miller County parcel number. 110 East Broad, Ward 2, parcel number 1013680. Legal description, all of lot 6 and 7, block lot 075-007, subdivision, original city. Owner, Gupta Lands, USA, Department B, PO Box 103, Greenland, Arkansas, 72737. cost $15,000. Whereas the Board of Directors has determined that there should be certified to the Miller County, Arkansas tax collector to be placed on the books as delinquent taxes, the amount set forth for each said parcel of real property. Now, therefore, be it resolved by the Board of Directors of the City of Texarkana, Arkansas that the amount set forth for each piece of property herein are hereby certified to the tax collector from Miller County, Arkansas for placement on the tax books as delinquent taxes on the respective parcels real property identified and described therein and collected accordingly as provided for by applicable law including without limitation arkansas code annotated 1454 901 passed and approved this third day of august 2026. city attorneys read the resolution desire of the board i got a question um we've got our lien amounts fifteen thousand dollars right yes sir that is the maximum the state will allow us to do well that's

But we're invoicing $630,000.

It cost us $630,000, correct. So the max we can bill them is $15,000? We billed them for the full amount. But the maximum lien we can place per state law is $15,000.

So if they paid the $15,000, are they in the clear?

With this ordinance. We still invoice them for the 600-some-odd thousand dollars. And technically, there's a way that we can attempt to collect that as well.

The difference between 630 and 15? Yes.

Which we will be pursuing.

OK. Any other questions? So we'd entertain a motion. Motion to adopt. Second. I have a motion and a second. Any other discussion? Would you call the roll?

Director Harris?

Yes.

Director Holabish? Yes. Assistant Mayor Brewer?

Yes.

Director Jewell? Yes. Director Smith?

Yes.

Director Roberts? Yes. Mayor Brown?

Yes. And the resolution passes. Moving on to item number eight, consider the following action concerning the maintenance of overgrown lots. Conduct a public hearing regarding the placement of liens on forty-three Overgrown lots, adopt a resolution, placing liens on all 43 overgrown lots. Roger.

These are just more weed-like liens that we've got clean-up liens on. You've got the list there in front of you. Same thing we did last month. We just had a few, but we got the rest of these done.

Roger, are we cutting all those lots, or are we outsourcing those?

Yes, we're doing it. All right. Our environmental department. Got you.

This time we are conducting a public hearing to discuss the placing of liens on these 43 lots. Is there any other discussions? Any other questions? Anyone have anything? If not, we will close the public hearing. I would instruct the city attorney to read the resolution.

Whereas notice was given pursuant to Arkansas Code Annotated 1454-904 to the property owners of the properties listed in Exhibit A of a hearing before the Texarkana Arkansas Board of Directors to determine the amount of lien, if any, to be placed on the properties for the expense incurred by the city for removal of overgrowth, trash, and debris from nuisance properties of such parcel of real property under the provisions of Arkansas Code Annotated 1456-201 and Arkansas Code Annotated 1454-901, and the Texarkana-Arkansas Code of Ordinances, including without limitation Chapter 11, Article 6, and whereas such notice was given pursuant to applicable law more than 30 days prior to the date of the hearing and stated that the hearing on the matter would be before the City Board of Directors on August 3, 2026, commencing at 6 o'clock p.m. in the Texarkana-Arkansas Municipal Building Boardroom. And whereas a hearing on such claim by the city was held this day pursuant to said notice, and in accordance with the provisions of applicable law in the Texarkana-Arkansas Code of Ordinances, and whereas the properties at issue, property owners, and lien amounts, with the amount of the lien on each said parcel being the city's incurred expense, for such parcel plus 10% penalty as provided by law, including without limitation Arkansas Code Annotated 1454-904, are listed on Exhibit A attached here too. And whereas the Board of Directors has determined that there should be certified to the Miller County, Arkansas, tax collector to be placed on the books as delinquent taxes, the amount set forth for each said parcel of real property. Now, therefore, be it resolved by the Board of Directors of the City of Texarkana, Arkansas, that the amount set forth for each piece of property in Exhibit A are hereby certified to the tax collector from Miller County, Arkansas, for placement on the tax books as delinquent taxes on the respective parcels of real property, identified and described therein and collected accordingly as provided for by applicable law, including without limitation, Arkansas Code Indicated 1454-901, passed and approved this third day of August, 2026.

City attorneys read the resolution and desired the board.

I've got a question. Okay. Just a kind of rhetorical question. How good are we at collecting these liens?

The weed lot liens, we usually collect them.

Okay.

They're placed in front of your property taxes. You have to pay that before you can pay your property. So we're pretty good.

We're good.

Yes?

I noticed one person on there cut the property. They deceased.

The lien will stay with the property. When somebody buys it, the lien's up there on it.

It stays there until we release it.

What I'm saying is if the person is deceased, how is per se they getting the notice and all the other stuff?

They don't get it?

That's what happens a lot of times is somebody will die and leave the property to somebody, but they never put it in their name. It stays in the deceased person's name. And that's the only thing we have to go off of is the records that we've got with the county.

Any other questions? So we have a motion and a second. Could you call the roll? Do we have a motion and a second or not?

We don't have a motion.

No.

We have a second.

We have a motion for the resolution.

Second.

We have a motion. Motion. Yes or no? Yes. Motion and a second.

All right. We have a motion and a second. Could you call the roll, please?

Director Harris? Yes. Director Hollabush? Yes. Assistant Mayor Brewer? Yes. Director Jewell? Yes. Director Smith? Yes. Director Roberts? Yes. Mayor Brown?

Yes. Resolution passes. Moving on to item number nine is to adopt an ordinance to amend ordinance K286 to rezone the property located at 1401 Dudley Street from 01 Office Quiet to C1 General Commercial. Jamie.

Okay, this property is located on the corner of Martha Street and Dudley. This is the Dollar General right here. You may remember this property used to be a dentist's office. The gentleman who's asked to rezone it, he's actually passed away. The executor of his estate is the one that's asked to rezone it. They are wanting to operate a funeral home at this residence, or not this residence, but this property. This is zone C3 over here. They're asking to rezone this to C1. That is the more restrictive zone that still allows for a funeral home. This property over here is all vacant. We've had no opposition to this.

any questions for jamie jamie is that would they have access is is that maude street that goes behind back here uh yeah on back back here is mob street okay so they would have access all the way around yes okay any other questions if not i remind the board this is an ordinance to pass tonight it would need to be read three times

Hearing no other questions, I'd instruct the city attorney to read the ordinance in its title form for its first reading.

An ordinance amending ordinance number K-286 as amended and for other purposes.

Ordinance has been read on its first reading. I desire to have it read on its second reading tonight.

Second reading. Abbreviated form, please. Second.

I have a motion and a second for second reading. Any other discussion? Could you call the roll?

Director Harris?

Abstain.

Director Halbig? Yes. Assistant Mayor Brewer?

Yes.

Director Jewell?

No.

Director Smith?

Yes.

Director Roberts?

Yes.

Mayor Brown?

Yes. An ordinance amending ordinance number K-286 is amended and for other purposes.

Ordinance has been read on its second reading. Desire for third and final. Third and final reading. second abbreviated form second so the motion is second for third and final reading any other discussion did you call the roll director harris i'm sorry what i got some other questions it's your answer is a no okay director hallabish yes assistant mayor brewer yes director jewell no

Director Smith?

Yes.

Director Roberts?

Yes.

Mayor Brown?

Yes. An ordinance amending ordinance number K-286 is amended and for other purposes.

So the ordinance has been read on its third and final reading, a desire to adopt. Motion to adopt. Second. So the motion and a second to adopt. Prior to the board voting to adopt this particular ordinance, is there anyone here wishing to speak for or against? Director Harris.

We notify everyone within 300 feet. And on this one, we sent out 21 notices.

We got no response.

The reason I'm saying that is because even though the cremation thing I'm especially getting response and questions about that and they said they didn't get no notice and they said based on East Street they said based on the ordinance which you stated that there wasn't no notice necessary

The cremation facility did not have to be rezoned. That didn't come before planning, so we didn't have to notify. Planning had nothing to do with that. It was already zoned for that.

And that's my concern, was anybody notified about this? Because I don't want them to come back and say, hey, we weren't notified. well we keep a list of everyone that's notified so if somebody calls you you can now I will tell you from looking at this list

I will tell you, from looking at this list, most of the people that were notified do not live there. They live somewhere else. So they rent their property. We notify the owner of the property, not the person that resides there.

Jamie, did they, the executor, did they give any indication how soon they plan to be in operation? No.

Any other questions? We have a motion and a second to adopt. Any other?

I believe there's someone. Yes, sir.

Good evening, everyone. I'm Gary Davis. I'm the person purchasing the property to open another funeral home here in Texarkana. The building, I've canvassed the neighborhood myself now for about two years and talked to other business owners and you know, the community over there and no one has opposed it personally to me. So I just want to make that clear. Uh, it's mainly going to be used as an office building. I have another funeral home on the Texas side where I do in bombing and everything else. So I'll use that as a conference center for the Arkansas side because the state laws are different from Arkansas than they are on Texas. So I have to do different paperwork on Arkansas side. and apply for different permits. So that's the reasoning for purchasing that building and opening another funeral home there. Thank you.

So is your property on Pine Street? Yes, sir. I can tell you it looks nice. Thank you. It's very well kept. Yes, sir.

I guess I do have it. Okay. So you're saying that you went on Pleasant Street, Mall Street.

I'm saying I went to that community I've been over in that community I talked to the pastors over there I've talked to other business owners even the the person who's opening a crematory is not opposing me opening a funeral home there so I'm just saying I'm getting lots of feedback on about the they even asked about they want to carry a petition around about the crematory so I'm not a crematorian.

But they ain't having to say nothing about your business. No, sir. But that's what I'm asking, what the people around that notify on the street.

Yes, sir. Yes, sir.

So I ask you the same question. How soon do you plan to be in operation?

It depends on renovations and permits. We have to renovate a large part of that building because it was vandalized. All of the AC, the air conditions were all ripped out, so I have to replace all of that. That's the major issue. renovation everything else is paint and flooring but I'd say six months but you are but I guess I need to rephrase my question you you are planning to start working on the building I plan to start as soon as as soon as we can close on the deal this was the last step before we could purchase it so we plan to start within we plan to start renovations within a month yes sir

yes sir Moore's Funeral Home was owned I'm just saying I know the area and I would state my reason why for the concern but I guess the manager is alright thank you no problem any other questions we have a motion and a second to adopt could you call the roll please Director Harris yes Director Halvish yes Assistant Mayor Brewer yes Director Jewell

Yes. Director Smith? Yes. Director Roberts? Yes. Mayor Brown?

Yes. And the ordinance passes. Moving on to item number 10, to adopt an ordinance to amend Ordinance K-286 to rezone the property located at 6600 Sugar Hill Road from R1 Rural Residential to A1 Limited Mixed Use. Jamie.

OK. Hang on one second. Okay. This property is 20 acres, and it's here. This is Sugar Hill right here. This is I-30. So they have 20 acres right here. What started this right now, it's zoned R-1.

Can you go to the next slide for some business? It's not working now. Again.

It's zoned R1. They want to build a storage building on there for their own personal use. They have not built a residence yet. So A1 is the only zone that they're allowed to do that in. This is the property. It's all wooded right now, pretty much. We did have, there was two people opposed to it. That first opposition you see there has been withdrawn. She had concerns about how they were going to use the storage, and once she came to the meeting, or actually watched the meeting online and heard the lady speak, she withdrew her opposition. Number two there, the gentleman owns property on the other side of I-30. And he doesn't live here. He lives in Dallas. But he said, just very bluntly, he was opposed to it because of the plans for his property. And he didn't tell me what those plans were. But he's on the other side of I-30.

Jamie, I have a question. What does the mixed use mean?

I mean, how do they plan? So limited mixed use was designed because what we saw was we had people that had these large parcels of land. and they wanted to do something with them that made sense, but the ordinance didn't allow it. Like, they wanted to put two houses on it, where you could only have one house on a parcel of land. Well, when you've got 20 acres of land, there's plenty of land for two houses. What started it was we had a gentleman who had a large parcel of land that wanted to graze his cows on it, and he wasn't allowed to build a shed on it without a residence there first. so this was designed for people with large parcels of land and it has a very limited commercial use and that's things like a wedding venue or a pumpkin patch at halloween or a corn maze or like a little uh truck garden that you want to sell your raspberry preserves out you know in your little shed at the corner things like that

All right. Thanks for the explanation.

Any other questions? Are they planning on building a house eventually?

Yes.

Is there another way to allow for accessory buildings before a primary residence without rezoning everything to A1? I mean, can we amend that ordinance with stipulations? Because we're going to have A1s kind of popping up everywhere, and it's going to be inconsistent.

We can do whatever y'all want to do.

I sense like there's an easier way to do it than saying, okay, we've got to rezone everything just so you can build a shop first. Is that a lot of work for you guys?

Well, I mean, it's what I get paid for. I mean, if you want me to look at that, I'll be certainly glad to talk to Tyler and Roger about it.

Does that get too messy?

The problem with that is if you revise the – the current zonings to account for that um you know you could have small parcels of land in within a subdivision just trying to throw up a storage building and we we would be willing to bet that we'd receive heavy opposition to that that's why this a1 zoning was created back four or five years ago something like that yeah it was right when i first got here yeah i think the the the idea when it went to planning commission was this be solely relegated to larger parcels of land and none of the other zonings fit that description um and weren't conducive towards changing the up the sizes of those parcels so really a new zoning needed to be created to address these large parcels of land was it a minimum of two acres two and a half two and a half

Any other questions?

Okay. I was going to talk about this later on since you brought, someone brought this up. I know the address on 1604 Oaks and on 1606 Oak Street, they was trying to put a container home over there and they wanted to put a temporary shed there for putting the equipment and stuff on there while they was trying to build a fence in the property. They was told that they couldn't do that. So they go back and try to get this That's a Roger question.

Is it larger than two and a half?

Is it larger than two? The parcel's not that large. It's not? No. It is. What you run into all the time with that is they'll have some of them are not very, you know, small lots, and they want to put a storage building on them. with no plans to build a house on it at any time. So that's why we went today, one was to give people the opportunity to be able to do that if they were gonna build a house. But we don't have any other zone, like Tyler said, we don't have any other zones that allow it because most of them are not that big, they're smaller lots. Any other questions for Roger?

If not, I'd instruct the city attorney to read the ordinance on its first reading and title form.

An ordinance amending ordinance number K-286 as amended and for other purposes.

Ordinance has been read on its first reading, desired for second.

Second reading. Abbreviated form, please.

Second. We have a motion and a second for a second reading. Any other discussion? Could you call the roll?

Director Harris? Yes. Director Halbush? Yes. Assistant Mayor Brewer? Yes. Director Jewell?

No.

Director Smith? Yes. Director Roberts?

Yes.

Mayor Brown?

Yes.

An ordinance amending ordinance number K286 as amended and for other purposes.

Ordinance has been read on its second reading. Desire for third and final.

Third and final, abbreviated form.

Second. We have a motion and second for third and final. Any other discussion? Would you call the roll?

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

Yes.

Director Jewell?

No.

Director Smith?

Yes.

Director Roberts? Yes. Mayor Brown?

Yes. An ordinance amending ordinance number K286 as amended and for other purposes.

Ordinance has been read on its third and final reading. Desire to adopt.

Motion to adopt.

Second.

So we have a motion and a second to adopt. Prior to the board voting to adopt this particular ordinance, is there anyone here wishing to speak for or against? Mayor, I have a question. Yes.

Jamie, how soon? Have they expressed any time?

They actually started on the storage building before they knew they had to rezone it. So they've already poured the slab before we found out about it. So we can't be everywhere at once.

Any other discussion? Could you call the roll?

Director Harris?

Yes.

Director Hollabish? Yes. Assistant Mayor Brewer?

Yes.

Director Jewell?

Yes.

Director Smith? Yes. Director Roberts? Yes. Mayor Brown?

Yes. And the ordinance passes. Moving on to our last item on our agenda tonight, item number 11 is to adopt an ordinance to amend ordinance K-286 to rezone partial 101-0830. Located on the southeast corner of Beach Street and Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard from R4 medium density to C3 open display commercial to R2 single family. Jamie.

Okay. This property is located on the corner of Martin Luther King and Beach. This is Klein Park over here, if you know where Klein Park is. This is where County comes in. This is the McDonald's on 7th Street over here.

Can you go to the next slide?

The property right now, it's actually three lots, and two of those lots are zoned C3, and one of them is zoned R4. So it's split zoned along lot lines. A gentleman wants to build a residence there. Next slide. There is sewer and water there. There is a pad there. This is the property. So at one time there was a house here or an apartment, some kind of structure.

Yeah, duplex or something. Duplexes.

This is the surrounding property. There is residential around there. Next slide. The original request was to rezone at R4, and the Planning Commission was concerned about the leniency of the R4 and that they would be able to build duplexes or apartments or triplexes. And since he stated he wanted to build a single family home, they chose to rezone it to R2 so that it would have to be a single family home.

Any questions for Jamie? With that, how does that jive with our master plan? Because that's surrounded by commercial. I mean, even the lots that are residential, a lot of them are vacant. So, I mean, is it wise to put a single family home right there behind McDonald's and Easy Mart and the used car lot and every other commercial used around it? Well, it's residential.

All of this, even though it's zoned commercial, all of this over here is all residential housing, even though some of it's zoned commercial. It's classified in the comprehensive plan as mixed-use commercial, which is defined as a mix of residential, commercial, and recreational uses.

Any other questions?

If not, I would instruct the city attorney to read the ordinance in its title form for its first reading.

An ordinance amending ordinance number K-286 is amended and for other purposes.

Ordinance has been read on its first reading. Desire for second.

Second reading. Abbreviated form, please. Second.

We have a motion and a second for a second reading. Any other discussion? Could you call the roll?

Director Harris?

Yes.

Director Holubish?

Yes.

Assistant Mayor Brewer? Yes. Director Jewell?

No.

Director Smith? Yes. Director Roberts? Yes. Mayor Brown?

Yes.

An ordinance amending ordinance number K-286 as amended and for other purposes.

Ordinance has been read on its second reading. Desire for third and final.

third and final reading abbreviated form second motion is second for third reading any discussion would you call the roll Director Harris yes Director Holubush yes Assistant Mayor Brewer yes Director Jewell no Director Smith yes Director Roberts yes Mayor Brown yes an ordinance amending ordinance number K286 is amended and for other purposes

ORDINANCE HAS BEEN READ ON ITS THIRD AND FINAL READING, DESIRE TO ADOPT. MOTION TO ADOPT. SECOND. WE HAVE A MOTION AND A SECOND TO ADOPT. PRIOR TO THE BOARD VOTING TO ADOPT THIS PARTICULAR ORDINANCE, IS THERE ANYONE HERE WISHING TO SPEAK FOR OR AGAINST? SEEING AND HEARING NONE, COULD YOU CALL THE ROLL?

DIRECTOR HARRIS?

YES.

DIRECTOR HOLOPUSCH?

NO.

ASSISTANT MAYOR BREWER?

YES.

DIRECTOR JEWELL?

YES.

DIRECTOR SMITH?

YES.

Director Roberts? Yes. Mayor Brown?

Yes. And the ordinance is adopted. Moving on to Board of Directors Commentary. Is there any board member that wishes to address the board?

Yeah, I need to make a statement, Mayor. All right. I just want to let my ward constituents know September 24th we have a ward meeting. And if you're still unclear where Ward 4 lies, it's from 19th Street to Realtor Road. It is bordered by the east side of State Line.

the west side of jefferson so time will be put out at a later date that's all i have there anyone else director harris about i guess a month or something ago i gave read out a sheet or email i had sent the city manager and some of those things have been been completed and some of them haven't and i'm just gonna read just the number like on number four the ditch beside house on 1602 Grant Garfield it has not been cleaned and the water is bagging up in the yard they said you may have had someone done the front but the water is not channeled out to the creek going back to on the side of the house and she just called me today to ask me when y'all going to come and try to fix that issue I'm going to give you a copy of this when I get it to you Mr. City Manager and then the lights are still being requested at Bramble Park and then Ernest Hill Park though the open ditch still need to be cleaned out and still you got piles of dirt over there been standing over there three years or more then the mitigation plan that I had requested for Jones Creek area and you sent me an email and you said no to that but there's still drainage issue in the city which I brought up and one of them for instance with you in Fairview from Spring Street with you and the city manager along with Roger Douglas stated there would need to be increased pipe size to the ditch and when they take place also the yard we visit that to that same day or several three out of street was another place no action to that day they don't plan street at all address fifteen for the three desert it flows over there a lot good you can put a carpet over there in all I think I have email inquiries about a curve on Marsden Street from and hers to Charles Street and a carpet there because that's a fluid in the air too but they would trying to see could you so the water won't flow back into the house over there and I know you know you stated wherever you do it's still going to flood but what's the word look up the word mitigation which I act for a mitigation plan it's really designed for the limited effect of flooding over there and then it appeared to need about three foot drain pipe from Park Place to Preston Street to the creek there then to cover it on marvis and severs street last flood it was almost close over the over the mailbox there then even on county street and ninth street water standing there after heavy raining and i think you brought up just about covered at lincoln street and severs street and you said that fema street see the thing was going to get involved with sin and all the spawns of money back there but it's a call that they're being so fluid they're right for that or a hair shop there I know question but the man number 8 still still I'm still requesting a house in person for the city but know that was a new house you feel just pays H.R. 6644 became public law on July