City Council - Regular Meeting

Got six seconds. Wait a minute. Okay, let's call this meeting of the Tusca City Council to order. It's great to see everyone here tonight. If you'll please rise for the council prayer followed by the pledge of allegiance. Dear God, bless our proceedings tonight. Give us wisdom to know what is just and the strength to do what is right. 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. I hear a motion to approve the minutes.

So move. Have a motion second. Both with councelor Eatman. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Minutes approved.

Proclamations and statements by the mayor and council. Of course, Mayor Maddox is not here tonight, so uh I will be as as president of the council filling in for him. Um so we have representatives from drinking water week. I know Alvin's here. Alvin Brewer, if you'll come forward. He was okay. All you guys come on up. Y'all want to come up? Yes. And I'll read the proclamation from here because I don't want to fall on my bad knees. Whereas drinking water serves a vital role in daily life, fulfilling essential needs for health, hydration, and hygiene, and contributing significantly to the quality of life enjoyed by all citizens. And whereas Tuscaloosa Water consistently provides high quality drinking water with zero detected PFAS while also supporting critical services such as fire protection, economic development, and environmental stewardship within the community. And whereas the dedicated professionals of Tuscaloosa Water, including treatment plant operators, engineers, technicians, and field crews, work tirelessly around the clock to ensure the delivery of safe, reliable, and dependable water services to all residents. And whereas continued investments in infrastructure, advanced monitoring systems, and smart technology strengthen system rei reliability and safeguard vital water resources where citizens are encouraged to share in the responsibility of protecting Lake Tuscaloosa through pollution prevention, water conservation, and active engagement with their local water systems. So on behalf of Mayor Walt Maddox and this city council, we do hereby proclaim the week of May 3rd to the 9th as drinking water week and the city of Tuscaloosa

encourage all residents to recognize the importance of clean, safe drinking water and to take an active role in protecting this vital resource. And I can tell you the only one of the main reasons I do not like to go on vacation or out of town is there's no water better anywhere than we have here in the city of Tuscaloosa. Will you please introduce yourself and and uh any remarks you would like to uh My name is Corey Son. I'm process asset director here at the city for u uh all our water treatment plants. Um just thank you very much.

Well, I know I have been able to attend to tour all the plants and I'm just amazingly impressed with the great job you guys do and if those here from the water Tusc water will stand and be recognized and let's give them a hand for THE GREAT WORK. THANK YOU, COREY. REALLY appreciate it. And u I know this is such an exciting meeting, but uh and I know you want to stay to the very end, but you're more than welcome to leave if you'd like. Don't don't don't beat each other to the door. All right. Agenda item comments by citizens.

No, sir. Okay. Unfinished business. This will order demolition of the building located at 2018 Dina Washington Avenue. So move second motion. Second vote. Well, we don't vote yet. Virgil council. This is for the condemnation of 2018 Dina Washington Avenue condemned August 8, 2025. This property has 22 housing code violations. The owner has been contacted as aware of this hearing. And the owner is aware that if it's condemned by the city council, the cost of demolition will be charged back to the owner. The owner has continued to make repairs and the representative is here to represent.

Okay. Could the representative please come and address the council? Give your name and address for the record, please. Lisha Ball, 3616 First Court. It looks really nice in the work that you've done so far and we really appreciate that greatly and I believe uh council it's the recommendation of staff to give an additional 120 days right okay so we have a motion to second um for 120 days voting with councelor Eatman yes yes yes yes yes yes Mr. Conor, this was a public hearing when it was introduced. Yeah, I know that's it was, but it Did we have to do another one? Yes, sir.

Okay. Anybody want to uh speak for or against this demolition or not going to be one? Okay. All right. Thank you, Brandy, for reminding me. Thank you, ma'am. Continue uh what you've been doing. It's great. Thank you. Okay, clerk. This will order demolition of the building located at 2722nd Street. Do you hear a motion? Second.

Motion second. Virgil, this is for the condemnation of 2722nd Street condemned August 8th, 2025. This property has 46 housing code violations. The owner has been contacted is aware of this hearing. The owner is also aware that if it's condemned by the city council, the cost of demolition will be charged back to the owner. The owner has completed the exterior repairs to the house. The owner is not here to represent and you're recommending we vote no. Vote no. Right. Okay. There's a recommendation to vote no. Again, this was a public hearing at the time as first um addressed. Is there anyone like to speak for or against? Okay. Being none, voting with councelor Laneir. No. No. No.

No. No. No. Okay. and uh or the demolition is no longer ordered. Um consent agenda. This approves items A through E on the consent agenda. So move. We have a motion in the second voting with councelor Eatman. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. And consent agenda carries. Public hearings. Clerk. This approves off- premises retail beer and table wine licenses for 10th Avenue Station. So move second. We have a motion in the second. May Beth, good evening council. Good evening. Good evening.

I have ABC application for Sabula LLC doing business as 10th Avenue station. They are applying for a retail beer and a retail table wine off premises only. They will be located at 160210th Avenue. The hours of operation is Sunday through Saturday 6:00 a.m. to 12:00 a.m. Here is my aerial view. All my reports have been filed with the city clerk. TPD will give their report and then the applicant. Okay. Officer Pransken. Good evening, council. Um, in reference to the application before you, the police department has no objections.

Okay. Thank you. Is applicant uh or representative here and give your name and address for the record. Abdul Casim 6973 Ktown Circle, Condell, Alabama. Ken AOK 1107 23rd Avenue. This is a transfer of an existing station that's been there some time. Um the interesting part of this is that many of you all may know uh up to his father who has been many times in town for a while. So he has literally grown up in the business. Yeah. I knew him when he was little. Indeed.

So we just took over this business trying to make it look better and improve it. We're going to remodel it over the summer to make it look better in the area. Any questions? Further questions from the council? Yeah. What is Sadoula? What is what? Sorry. The name the name of the place. Oh, Sabula. Sabula. Does that mean something? Uh, that's my one of my dad's nicknames. All right. Very good. Um, all right. This is a public hearing. Anyone would like to speak for or against this application? Seeing none, voting with councelor Eatman. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. And motion carries. Do we just need one vote on the beer and wine?

Just one vote. Yes, sir. Thank you. Best of luck to you. Resolutions and ordinances not of a general nature permanent operation. Clerk, this approves a 240 nonprofit taxexempt special event license for Theater Tuscaloosa Incorporated. So move. Second. Have a motion. Second, Mayor Beth.

Okay, we have Theater Tuscaloosa Incorporated doing business as curtain up for a nonprofit tax exempt license. This event will be at Shelton State Community College at Bean Brown Theater at 9500 O Greensboro Road. The event will take place on May 14th at 7:30. Here's the aerial view. My reports have been filed with the city clerk. TPD will come and then the applicant for questions. Okay. Thank you, officer. Once again, council, uh, in reference to the application, before we police department has no objections.

Okay. Is the applicant here? And please come up and give your name and address for the record. And I know one of the questions um that was asked when you were here before, Michael, is uh tell us about how what you're planning for this event and what is curtains up.

Sure thing. Uh Michael Walker, address is 845 Forest Drive, Homewood, Alabama. Uh soon to be Tuscaloosa. Uh so curtain up is our season reveal. We're going to be announcing this the shows that we're doing next season and we're doing this event as a fundraiser for the theater. Um it's going to take place on May 14th at 7:30. We're thinking it's going to last about two hours long. Um and uh we've already got tickets on sale for this event. Okay. And um congratulations once again on being named executive producer for Theater Tuscaloosa. Thank you. Any questions from Michael? All right, let's vote with councelor Laneir. Yes. Yes. Yes.

Yes. Yes. Yes. Motion carries. Good luck, clerk. This acknowledges the contents of the 2025 municipal water pollution prevention report. So move second. Motion second. Voting with councelor Eatman. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Motion carries. Clerk. This authorizes execution of environmental assessments. Some move. Second. Motion second. Both of councelor Eatman. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Motion carries. Clerk. This authorizes budget and program changes to the 2023 action plan of the city's 5-year consolidated plan. So move. Second. Motion second. Voting with councelor Lenir. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes.

Motion carries. Clerk. This selects Mac Environmental LLC for home repair services. Second. Motion second. Vote with councelor Eatman. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Motion carries. Clerk. This selects Vulkar Incorporated for home repair specialist services. So move. Second. Have a both motion and a second. Both with counselor. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Motion carries. Clerk. This authorizes execution of a funding agreement with MAC Environmental LLC. Motion second. Motion second. Voting for councelor Keatman. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Motion carries. Clerk.

This authorizes execution of a professional services agreement with Vulkar Incorporated. So move. Second. Motion second. Voting with councelor Laneir. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Motion carries. Clerk. This authorizes a professional services contract with Thornton, Muso, and Bellamin Incorporated regarding the Edlo Love Water Treatment Plant. Motion. Motion second. Vote Councelor Eatman. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Motion carries. Clerk. This authorizes a professional services contract with Thornton, Muso, and Bellamin Incorporated regarding lift stations 2 and 33. So move. Second. Motion and second. Both of Council Laneir. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes.

Motion carries. Clerk. This authorizes a minor public works contract with Dac and Applied Americas Incorporated. So move second. Motion second. Vote for counselor Eatman. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Motion carries. Clerk. This authorizes a minor public works contract with Edco LLC. So move. Second. Motion second. Vote for counselor Eatman. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Motion carries. Clerk. This authorizes a minor public works contract with Cummins Sales and Service. So move. Second. Motion second. Both of Councelor Laneir. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Motion carries. Clerk.

This authorizes a cooperative maintenance agreement with ALDOT. Second. Motion second. Voting with councelor Eatman. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Motion carries. Clerk. This authorizes acceptance of a donation from Tuscaloosa City Schools. So move. Second. Have a motion. Second. Both of the councelor Laneir. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Motion carries. Clerk. This authorizes execution of an agreement with Umbrella Entertainment Group, the air show network. So move. Second. Motion second. Go voting with councelor Eatman. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Motion carries. Clerk. This authorizes amendment number one to the 2026b warrant series budget. So move.

Second. Motion second. Both the councelor vener. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Motion carries. Clerk. This amends the resolution establishing city council committees and appointment of members alternate members and chairs. So move. Second. Have a motion to second. Bman with councelor Eatman. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Motion carries. Ordinances and resolutions of a general nature or permanent operation. This is for introduction. Clerk, this in this authorizes the issuance and making provision for the payment of 39,2925,000 general obligation warrant series 2026A. Motion second.

Motion second. Both with councelor Laneir. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Motion carries. And now do I hear a call for unanimous consent? Unanimous consent. Second call for unanimous consent voting with councelor Eatman. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Motion carries and this requires three votes. So do I hear a motion for a final adoption? Call for final adoption. Second. Motion second for final adoption. Voting with councelor Laneir. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Motion carries. Clerk. This authorizes the issuance and making provision for the payment of 29 28,940,000 general obligation warrant series 2026 B.

So move second. Motion second vote with councelor Eatman. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Motion carries here. Call unanimous. Thank you. Second. Second. Motion to second for unanimous consent. Voting with councelor Laneir. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Call for final adoption. Second. have the motion second for final adoption. Voting with councelor Eatman. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. And there you have all three votes. Motion carries. Clerk. This authorizes amendment number 11 to the fiscal year 2026 general fund budget. So move. Second. Have a motion second voting with councelor Laneir. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes.

Yes. Call for unanimous consent. Second. Motion second for unanimous consent. Go to the councelor Eatman. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. And motion carries. Clerk. This annex is approximately4 acres located south of 4730 Hy Lane to the corporate limits of the city of Tuscaloosa. Motion. Second. Motion second. Voting with councelor Laneir. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Call unanimous consent. Second. We have a call for unanimous consent and a second. Voting with councelor Eatman. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Motion carries. We're on a roll. Let's go.

This adds chapter 7 article 14 to the code of Tuscaloosa. Move. Second. Motion and second. Vote with councelor Eatman. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. All unanimous consent. Second. Have a motion second for unanimous consent. Vote of the council. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. And motion carries. Clerk. This amends exhibits A and B of section 1942 of the code of Tuscaloosa. So move. Second. Motion second. Voting with councelor Eatman. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Here. Call for unanimous consent. Second. And motion second. Unanimous consent. Voting with councelor Laneir.

Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. And motion carries. Auditain accounts. This authorizes the payment of bills. Keep bills. Pay my bills. Okay, we have a motion second to pay my bills. Voting with councelor Eatman. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Thank you. All right. At this time, um, we have a very, very special guest. um is I'd like to call up Shelley Doral who is the new executive director of the um sister cities u which we absolutely love and we love you too

Dr. Maxi good to have you here as well and um so Shelley I'm going to turn it over to you because we have some very special young people to recognize for the Tuscaloosa Youth Diplomacy Awards.

Yes sir. So, first of all, Sister Cities wants to thank our city council for funding us so wonderfully for the last 40 years. Um, and for the last 40 years, the last 38 years, we've done these wonderful exchanges. Um, and last year we decided to up the game a little bit and do something a little bit more. And we created with the mayor and collaboration with the city schools, uh, what's called the ambassador program. And you're going to hear me say the word incredible, wonderful, and amazing a lot because I'm going to talk about some incredible kids in our school system and in our community who have done an amazing job. Um to to earn this ambassador distinction, to earn this Tuscaloosa Youth Diplomacy Award, you had to not only be chosen to be a delegate to go to Shornorf, which is

excuse me, Dr. Daria, come on up.

Come on up, Mike. uh which not only was incredibly difficult to do, it's a very very highly competitive um achievement, but then additional to that you had to do language training, you had to do diplomacy um uh lessons. They actually we even talked about some of the geopolitical issues that they maybe would face when they're in Germany. They had to uh do be a phenomenal guest, which is a skill in itself. So they represented us well when they were in Germany, but then they also had to be amazing hosts and share the the wonderful things about our city to uh to their German uh counterparts. Additional to that, they had to have a special learning project. They had to on their own explore what's something they wanted to learn about how Germany does things. It could be cultural, historical, it could be civic. And then they had to come back and they had to teach that here in our community and give back to our community. We had students um teach uh teach lessons in elementary classrooms. We had students teach things at uh Girl Scout troops. We even had some that came to the city school board and gave a lesson on German history as it connects to the pretzel uh to the city school board which is very creative. And um so these kids then finally they had to they had to do a social media campaign to help us spread the word of this wonderful program and they had to personally invite three of their friends to uh apply for the Narosino. And I can tell you they did their job because I did interest meetings at all the high schools. We had over 300 high school students start the process of applying to be on the Narishino delegation. That was narrowed down to 60. That was narrowed down to 35 interviews. That narrowed down to 20. So when I say these kids are really in a

competition to get this opportunity, they have these are amazing, wonderful students and we want to award them this uh this um award that is from um us. It's from the city of Tuscaloosa. It is also from the city schools. Um, and also, uh, I will let you speak to the graduation cord. Yes, Dr. Derry. Yes, sir.

Good evening, council. Thank you all for giving us this opportunity to recognize this program and these young people. Um, as you just heard, what I love most about this and where I think the greatest return on your investment is this. These young people come back different. They come back from these experiences. Um, a stronger citizen, a stronger citizen for us here in Tuscaloosa and globally. So, thank you all for investing in this. Um, this what they have done here with this ambassador program is so strong that we're recognizing it with with an honor cord for graduation and then certainly this recognition because they really have done more than what is required and and to have them stand out like this is really impressive. And when you talk with these folks at one point, if you can, you'll just see their leadership emerge and um how their perspectives have changed. And we just want to say thank you to the city council for your support of our young people.

Thank you, Mike. And I would like to also want to personally thank Dr. Daria and the city schools because we were only able to do this through the increased collaboration of these two entities of the city schools and Tuscaloosa's sister city and that you know it it's to the benefit of the kids but it only happens when we all work together and they have been amazing partners in this. So I recognize some of these names. Would you like to call them up? I would like to call them up and be on TV. Actually there's two that I would like to speak for just a second. Reed Bankston and Jada Childs if that's okay. Yeah, certainly.

Uh my name is Reed Bankston. I'm a senior at Northridge High School and I would like like to say on behalf of everyone that attended the Scissor Cities program, thank you so much for funding and supporting. Uh, I mean, I don't mean this like when I say that was the most one of my favorite experiences I've ever had, but also one of the most meaningful. Uh, just to be able to get to meet and know people uh and friends that I'll have across the globe now. Um, everyone that I talk to about it, it's so exciting and they don't really know that they have this uh opportunity like right in their back pocket they can apply for. Uh, and so many people I've talked to wish that they had this opportunity. Uh, and so again, I just like to say thank you so much for for funding and supporting this. Uh, and thank you so much.

Thank you, Re. Thank you. Okay. Hello. My name is Jada Childs and like everyone has been saying, I just wanted to say thank you so much for letting us um get this experience and get the opportunity to travel all across the world and create so many partnerships with other people. I think we could all say we've learned something about ourselves and about other people. I've enjoyed this experience so much. It's been so cool to be able to go and look into people's lives and see how we're all similar. Um, yeah. Thank you, Jada. Where do you attend school? Central High School.

Since you brought that up, I do want to tell you every community in our in our in our city is represented with these groups. Um, every high school is represented with our students. Um, it is truly a diverse and full uh, representation of our city. And without further ado, if I may, uh, Anelise Hammond,

y'all can all kind of start. Okay, we're gonna get a picture at the end because I don't have anybody to take pictures. Oh. Is Angeline here? Yes. Okay. Angeline Cruz Fabian. Here's a Bryant student.

Thank you. Caroline Wakefield. Thank you. Congratulations. Elsa Tobenhog. Good job. Gracie Hawkins. Gracie does. Graham Wolf,

Jada Childs. YES, JENNY. I have to think who's graduating this year. Lena Albrittain,

congratulations. LIAM WEATHERSBY Mia Griml. Congratulations gets one. Thank you.

Congratulations Micaia Crawford. Congrat Reed Bankston, Sylvia Hancock, Victoria, congratulations. and Zachary Update.

I just have to say with a name like Zachary Update, he has learned patience because he's always last in the list. Um, but uh Shelley, if y'all would like the council will stand and then have everybody, you all come in front of the DAS and let's get pictures. Can y'all come up and get photo with Dr. Mary and Dr. Max? I don't trust him. What's up, brother?

What you play?

You don't get tackled tennis. makes a bag. Ready? Yes.

One, two, three. Let's give these young people a big hand once again. Sure. like some parents here.

I have just one more thing. I'm so sorry to continue, but you now have seen just just a little portion of what this does um for our community and how it benefits our students. We are hoping um in sister cities uh to expand this. You know, we have another sister city, Sunsani Tetimon, that we do not have an exchange with. That is something we are hoping to build. Um, you know, we are we are in the process of taking our Narcino exchange. We'll be going in June over there with our students. We're working with them. Um, but that is something we're looking to build in the future uh so that our students can not only have the benefit of um building that relationship with a European culture or a Japanese culture, but also an African culture. So, I just want to thank you so much again. It's been a a pleasure to be part of this.

Thank you so much, Shel. And And doc Dr. Daria, I have to congratulate you and I know these students were a big part of it. I was just so excited about your state scores and I've had so many of the schools on that have had big increases in their scores. Um, and I know that took a lot of hard work on your behalf and and but we're very proud of of what's happening in our Tusca City Schools right now. And I'm also extremely happy that we've got you around a little bit longer. For sure. Thank you for your work.

Okay. Subject to the exercise of mayoral veto or Mr. Tiner. Hey, citizens comments. Citizens comments. Oh, yeah. They look like they've all said everything they want to say. It could have stayed. One more second up. Yes, sir. It's pretty neat how that works. You ever have any problems with yours? Yeah. I mean, I don't either.

Okay. The citizens comments. Any other communications? Any citizens like to address their city council? Yes, sir. Give your name and address for the record. Yes, sir. I'm Carlton Avery. I don't have a permanent address here yet. Uh, but we're working on it as we speak. Can I pass some things out to you also? Yes, sir. Thank you, sir. I can hand them down.

Thank you. Just want to first off by saying uh of course good evening and thank you in advance to the council. Uh what you have before you my name is Carlton Avery. I'm with Peace Link. It's a conflict resolution nonprofit. And what we do is we teach conflict resolution throughout different communities. Uh what you have before you of course is our proposal for support. We've already kind of done some leg work here and worked with a local church, Mount Pilgrim Baptist Church, uh where Pastor Pastor Frank Kennedy is the uh of course the pastor. Uh what this nonprofit will be, what this initiative is about is a six-week program. It's really it's called Talk It Through Thursdays. We're going to have people within the community come out to Mount Pilgrim Church, talk about their conflicts, as well as be taught how to resolve conflicts within the community. What we've seen from this approach is more uh community cohesiveness as well as a decline in even you know nonviolent calls from the to the police department. Uh less burden on law enforcement is what we see. So there's no shortage of course with conflicts. These conflicts could rise from anything between members of the community to within the household um within even schools. And so what we're seeing is that this time of year of course schools been let out. there's a lot more uh free time with young adults and so this initiative is going to kind of help cartel some of that and to kind of give them enrichment during this during the time period of this this summer. Uh, if you would of course look through this and I want to see if I can answer any questions you may have. But if you look at the second page schedule, it starts on June the 4th, June 4th, June 11th, that's one week, one series, June 9th, June 16th, that's the second week, second series, August 6th and August 13th. And it's going to take

place at, of course, at Mount Pilgrim Baptist Church from 6:00 until 7:30. We're hoping to have at least about 100 participants per session. Um, of course, we want to our goal is pretty lofty at at 600 residents of Tuscaloosa. So, we would love a communitywide support and approach. Is this a program that you started on your own or is it a national program or It is one we started on our own, but it's not it's not isolated. We've started actually in Montgomery. We I own a mediation firm and that's where it started. But then of course this year we started a nonprofit and so we're bringing it to Tuscaloosa hopefully. Okay. And remind everybody where Mount Pilgrim is located.

Actually Mount Pilgrim and I I'll I'll be boastful. It's in Council Laneir's district. Uh it's on 39th Street, right? Yeah, that's correct. That's correct. All right. Anybody have any questions? Um, we sure do thank you for uh for this and I wish you the much success. Thank you for your consideration. Yeah, I'll definitely be participating in this. So, see if I can shake them down for a little money. Awesome. Thank you so much. Thank you all. Thank you. There's also district council funds. Awesome. Awesome. Awesome. Thank you, gentlemen. Thank you. Anyone else like to address the city council tonight?

Okay. Um, Okay. Yes, ma'am. Come up and tell everybody your name and address. Good afternoon, everyone. My name is Ruth Goins. I live at 3710 29th Street, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 35401, which is District 1. And I just like to address Mr. Eman. Yes, ma'am. I'm very I'm just speaking for myself. I'm very disappointed in you.

You got the seat and we haven't seen you no more that I haven't than on TV. And our district is district one and two is just like maybe sisters and brothers. You can work together, but one is no better than the other. They so filthy. We got it's it's just rid our neighborhood on they say the west side is bad and I mean not gunwise. I'm speaking of cleaning. You cannot have a cleanup on Martin Luther King and Dina Washington. We need to go into the avenues. We got houses with old tractors and old dump trucks and cars. has been there for five or six years cuz I've called in on them and they still sitting there

and we won't district one and two won't ever get nothing good in that district because nobody wants to come to that nasty district. I live in district one but in my neighborhood we keep it clean. The streets they come and pick up but other neighborhoods I'm not only talking about my neighbor I'm talking about other neighborhoods. Yes, sir. Mr. Eden, we need to clean up. Yes, ma'am. You need to wake up and smell the coffee. Yes, ma'am. I'd love to talk to you after to get particular neighborhoods because we do get calls all the time and we send code enforcement all the time to take care of. So, if there's a specific street, I love to talk to you after. I'm not talking about taking care of no policemen. I'm talking about cleaning up.

Oh, yes, ma'am. Code enforcement. No cars and vacant lots and grass almost as up to my knees. I'm talking about cleaning up. Yes, ma'am. We need to clean up. Now, I've been in other districts of way over in Woodland Forest and all. You don't see that what there what we got in ours. Yes, ma'am. It need to be clean. We had anybody to work with district one in some years. And I've been where I am for 50 plus years. And we hadn't had anybody to do nothing great in district one and district two.

Yes, ma'am. So what they didn't demolish, we got some old houses that's torn down, run down right there on Santa Fe Road. You can't tell us what's going on. Now I watch city council every Tuesday night and I watch it the over in the night when the the zoning when they be zon I see what's going on. Now, I don't know. You might know already, but we got two daycarees going up in District 1. You might not know about it, but I watch and see, but we need to clean up. Yes, ma'am.

We need to clean up. Now, you need to help us and have a town hall meeting because the elderly people, they they can't get out. We got elderly people in our area and that's where your votes come from. We've got one scheduled for May 6th at TCTA at 5:30. That information what? May 6th at TCTA. We got a town hall. That information is coming out next week. Where at? It's at TCA TCTA at the old West Lawn at the TCTA building. Oh, okay. Across from Rollins Mortuary. Yes, ma'am. Well, that's we not going to see very many. Yes, ma'am. Well, this be that'll be the third one I've had since I've been elected. Well, I Well, I haven't had I haven't But now I've been under the weather. Yes, ma'am.

M Eman. I've been in in and out of the hospital and I I look forward I I'll talk to you after. I definitely want to get that information out. But now we can't get it off Facebook. Yes, ma'am. We We don't want it off Facebook cuz everybody don't have Facebook. Yes, ma'am. And we we need a cleanup job. We need it bad. Yes, ma'am. And we need you to get up and do something now. Yes, ma'am. Because you got You might want to get back in. Yes, ma'am. And it's going to be hard. Yes, ma'am. Miss Goens, it's good to see you again. I haven't seen you in many years. It's great to see you in person, but I tell you just I will I promise you promise you this. We got a big change is coming because of your new city councilman, Joe Eatman. He's I hope so. If I haven't seen a change yet. Well, it's coming.

He's he's got everybody's got him a little little start, but he's he's out there. Don't come. I'm coming to you. Well, you call me Miss Goins because you know we go back a long way. I'm talking about Don't move to my district that you said was coming. Yes, ma'am. Don't come. Well, it's I'm coming back once again. You got all that in your district. Everything going on. You can't Once again, when I saw you come down the aisle, I was very happy to see you. Good to see. Good to see all.

Thank you, Miss Gohan. All right. Any more citizen comments? Okay. Now, am I ready to do this? Okay. Subject to the exercise of mayoral veto and ordinances of a general nature of permanent operation. All applicable departments hereby order to otherwise implement council policy this date enacted. We hear a motion to adjurnn. So move second. Motion second to adjurnn. V council. Yes. Yes. I Yes. Yes. Yes. Meeting adjourned.