the board for council meeting for March 26 2025 notice that this meeting has been due advertise public meeting for the meeting recorded possible everyone please watch for the pledge to the flag of the United States
of America and to the stands one nation indivisible and justice for all councilwoman H here councilman Jackson here councilman Lowski here councilman Morrisy here councilwoman Patton here
council President Randolph Shark here mayor Ro here um motion pay bills please make a motion that the bills are properly augmented and signed we approve for payment second any questions
councilwoman H yes councilman Jackson yes councilman Linkowski yes councilman Morsy yes councilwoman Patton yes council President Randolph Sharp yes consent agenda the items listed below
considerable will be enacted upon by one motion there will be no false discussion of these items if discussion desired this item will remove the second record maintain a motion for resolution 202585 and 86 make a motion for
resolution to consent agenda items 202585 through 86 second councilwoman H yes councilman Jackson yes councilman Lowski yes councilman
Marsy yes councilwoman Patton yes council President Sharp yes okay at this time I open the meeting to the public for any questions or comments anyone from the public wish can speak please come to the microphone for the record and
is that for the resolution or just the talk is for the resolution any questions or comments don't forget to sign They're not asking usually first okay so uh my name is Thomas Woodson and
uh I am I live at Colonial Square Place which is the area between the high school and police station um Colonel Square Place is a area that we have a lot of town houses and but one of the
things about these town houses is we have limited parking so what has happened um in our neighborhood at Columbus Square Place is um people are marking their parking spaces with cones now initially I've
been in this area i love doing more thanks to you guys uh for about 30 years and one of the things that uh has happened in our neighborhood at work were placed is when it was snow and we would dig out our areas we would put
cones there that was fine and when the snow melted we would take the cones back and everything was back to normal but recently um we've had people move in and what has happened the households
which may have had an average of maybe two cars per household now they have between two and five so what I have been seeing in the last two years is minor
confrontations and uh from I see them certainly escalate i for some reason I've become a spokesperson for my community and I don't know why but anyway uh one of the things is they you know say she did this she put this thing there so I hear everybody complain I
hear my I see my confrontations and I want to to address it so I went through the police station a couple of weeks ago and uh one of the people there told me that this is a civil matter and they sent me over to code enforcement so I spoke to Jonathan over at code
enforcement he was very helpful in explaining to me uh about it being a public street and that uh the parking on the street um was public parking and that you know nobody could really mark
off a place um and say this box and I you know I I want to say this that I don't think my neighbors understand that or even know that because um they put those out there and if you
move them then all of a sudden there's there's some anger and so I went to police station and and Jonathan said "You got to police station." And I spoke to an officer and I told him my concern and he
said he would look into it and I I guess one of the neighbors that really um kind of kind of hurt me she he told me that her son parked in front but there's a neighbor there that has a sign that says
your car will be towed if you park here and um and the police officer told me he had to remove his vehicle which I knew was wrong but I need some clarification so that's why you know so so it seems to be some kind of gap who put this who put
the tow is a tow sign but this is a this is a neighbor individual to sign what area what's your number this is Columbia Square Place i know but what's what's your building like what what's your address my address is 73 Columbia
Place yes so um so that was kind of you know kind of took me back and I said well when I spoke to the officer um not that one but when I went over to the police station I told him about it he said well you know when we come out of
the academy we don't we are taught those types of things so he made a mistake so I said okay that's that's fine i wasn't I was just there to get some clarification about a public street uh
parking and you know uh I didn't want our neighborhood at Colonial Square Place to become a place where there was going to be complications over parking and so I wanted to address that and um
and I thought that I mean I when I spoke to police officer I said I know here only about prevention i don't want to be here as a reactionary and uh it was very clear he understood what I was saying and he said that he would you know look
into this kind of meeting and also uh about the newsletter i agreed to newsletter and I thank you very much for the newsletter it's very informative um I love it when it was mailed cuz I told you got you know but now that it's on the website it's kind of you know you
can't really get it but anyway so my point is I just figured that if our um people at Gon's workplace I don't know if this is happening all over uh but I assume that it probably is but
I I I think that if there was a flyer that said please read you know this is a public street you cannot march off with a cone because I think basically people don't know the law or the codes or anything like that and they assume that
basically put a cone out there because everybody else dies so I don't think it's anything about anybody being you know angry or mad or whatever i think it's more about just not having the knowledge of Let me see let me see if I
can find the code tomorrow i'll be here tomorrow let me see if I can find the code tomorrow last searching code was three there's there's there's girls in there that are really good at finding it for me um let me see if I can find something that's in
there and if we if we do have something like that maybe we can see if we can get everybody to clone the scale and get a copy of it square yeah just mail mail it out to everyone mailing is not really a good idea but a
flyer in the doorway are very effective we had an incident with trash being put in that alley and I found myself and other neighbors that had to call over to public works and public works I guess they finally they knew about the problem and they put flyers in the doors this
was about a month and a half ago and that problem seems to have gone away so I I'm just saying like mail just it'll save you money also i I I know it seems to be more effective it's cheaper to put it in the door but I was making sure
everybody got it i appreciate that but um let me let me let me look into the ordinance tomorrow see if I can find one that says it's about it being public street and that i have to go back and look at when it was drawn up itself how it was designated and if
there's anything to do with title 39 included with it or Okay is there any way I could be notified of a meeting or anything like that i did maybe
thank you very much what's your name again sorry woodson thank you Mr woodson for being a good neighbor thank you thank you very Chamber 11 hello every couple things and ask some
questions one March is full awareness month and as everybody knows I have a heart for the community and informing the community about important matters and um just want to let you know if you're 45 and if you don't want to get there
other um the second thing that I want to say is I see the senior centers chugging along very well and I know that we address the seniors but um my concern now is for our youth are there any plans
um regarding a community center or possibly that luckily empty building down there the old I don't know what your plans are to do with that property where the one that's
the old property right yes oh I thought it was I was here a few we own 11t of part of it Right so okay so when I first came here there was an issue of finding the people i got
I plan that we're looking forward in the very near future for Okay but now go back to that particular property several years ago when there was talk about the 11 foot of it and then finding
people who were on the right of who owned it you never found out that I know they keep putting in she approach 11 ft of their building is input
[Applause] somebody purchased the tax they're probably going to foreclose on they did foreclose on it okay so they did foreclose on Yeah somebody purchased the tax on that
process there's a title defect on that so I don't know if they're going to locate the people right no because it's 11 foot of the building oh yeah right so until that is addressed right now we have no money titled to it
because it's owned by another entity and could she contact the tax and say she's interested in purchasing the property you never you'll have to cash because you're never going to get title on that property because
this approach is just a defect and you'll never have title title insurance so in essence how does we're going to have to wait and see what happens with these people right now that purchase the tax sale certificate and
pay away from it and it goes back on the tax and then it's got to stay on the tax for a period of time um and then continue tax we still got to offer up for sale this is the second time this happened and these people don't do due diligence
because what happened the last time somebody was trying to do this halfway through foreclosure they figured out there's a defect they don't want title or do any due diligence into what they're buying so they go and snap up these tax sale certificates start foreclosure then realize the property is
not going to be marketable so the guys before this dropped it then these guys came in at the next tax sale and now they're going through the same And now they're going through the same thing they need to get our taxes on so but there is plans in the work to look for a new site or possibly doing
something for a new What about community garden is a young a young lady came in here about two years ago who was interested in doing a community maybe three before co that came in that was interested in doing a community garden
um she was supposed to come back with the location and then we would try to figure out how we get water to it and all those things and she never came back so she now well scout it out see where you want and then we'll talk about it
there was one lady who did that's where we move most of it to public works building out front of the public works all fruit trees out there in front of the public works building that's here off of no barrels lane by the
school yeah by the new school And I assume that spot has access to I mean I don't know how much left available there's trees in there you can't
thank you anyone else in the voc 637 Fth Avenue mayor last week when I brought up the ordinance about the dog license once the video went out and I sent everything I pretty much got death
threats for saying that people shouldn't follow the ordinance so I I don't know i mean you don't enforce anything i'm not that's not the only one you don't enforce so because I bring up things that go on people can I'm like the most hated
person in the world if you would see I think most of copies of of the things that people say and how you should have an ordinance to adults and nobody has to follow that people should be able to have whatever they want i got called everything you can think of i got death
threats in my messages it's crazy but you guys don't enforce none of your ordinances it's like you pick and choose you're a very weak administration so because we bring it up that you want
to do something I have to get that price is that fair we follow all the ordinances but you don't enforce something you really don't yes we do no you don't i brought that off last week i got a death price
because I got it off and going after that well Diane I'm sorry you got a death price well we can't control what the public says to you clear agenda it's a point that Can I finish my sentence 50% of the people's polls are not registered diane you have
a habit of cutting people off when you're trying to speak to you about something so you've spoken so now can I speak yes uninterrupted please we can't control your interaction with the public and what you say and what people say to you that there's nothing we can do about that now but for you to come in here and
say that these people aren't doing their jobs and we don't enforce the code we do i report stuff all the time to them they're right on it are you going to get every single home in Linda absolutely not that's what we depend on our good neighbors as Mr woodson back there has
came to this meeting and pointed out to us so there everybody is a stakeholder in this community it's not five people's job to make sure that everything goes right in this community it's all of our jobs i try to name anything that's but we
can't control your fights on Facebook with people i'm just saying because I try to bring up the matters that things should be done and that's why people hate me what I'm saying I don't know I don't know but we don't have anything to do with that part i say but to attack people that
work in that office and say they don't do their job is not right i just want to let you know the two that you did give me um we're we're working on it um one of the homes which I'm not going to say out loud i will talk to you afterwards they did receive um a notice um so we're
we're working on those too that you Oh I'm sure we're gonna work on them but some of them as Councilwoman Sharp said we just don't know until someone brings it to our You give us the address and stuff we'll we'll check it out make sure I wish this do I have like 30 seconds
just to make a suggestion because I did see the post and unfortunately there are a lot of people in Lyn Mall including in my neighborhood that aren't following that policy of three dogs exactly is it possible that in the next newsletter um
that that ordinance we will we have it has been in the newsletter before but we can we'll reiterate it we'll remind everybody what the policy is and that's all you can do right yeah but I'm just saying from the tone of the
Facebook most people ate more i I'm I'm not trying to dispand right or wrong i'm just saying from the tone what people were talking about about their dogs that their dogs were part of their family and nobody can really regulate how many dogs they had and my thought was okay now
we're going to be in anarchy because nobody wants to follow rules or laws or do what they're supposed to do so if it could possibly anyone else from the public hi my name is Brendon Murray um I live
at 75 Colonial Square Place and just generally speaking I just want to inquire i don't know if this is the time and place to do it but just the overall development plan within this town just you know being a young citizen within here just want to generally have an idea of like what direction this town needs
to go develop yeah okay well again so besides that there's no general like development plans in the foreseeable future to develop right now you mean like everybody that comes in now is looking looking at businesses
that have been open or closed and they're changing them they come to join and they go through whatever they want but the overall direction of the way you know the town looks and it's really pretty much built out okay so it's like going
to be at a steady trajectory for a second pretty much okay well thank you so much if you have any ideas like All right well um come back not another storage facility that's
notous and apartments unfortunately because of the way state has regulated things a lot of times we can't say no to what in town you know i mean they just keep you know stuff and they I mean it's
like churches you can't say no to churches they have good problem but like like when you see like I discovered that there was a halfway house two blocks away from me right but that's state regulated so we don't we don't know right i was like
what's going on over there there's a lot of people that look like they live you know going coming in from coming through it was is a state regulated we're not even aware of it we're not even aware of it we can put them in we don't even know about it like like hair hair salons and stuff like that they come into the joint ladies board and
they could nobody comes in and says we don't want that we don't need that or whatever the case may be we have to allow it as long as they meet all the criteria that is in there but I've noticed most of these hairs are doing great business yeah they
are the barber shops and stuff all right anyone else from the public wishing to speak seeing none close to the public thank you very much