Good evening and welcome to Ovito City Hall. If you would please rise and join me in the pledge of allegiance. 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. If you would please join me in a moment of silence. Thank you. It is Monday, June 16th. We have four members of council present and accounted for. And with that, we'll call
the meeting to order. First up, we have the approval of the minutes. What's the pleasure of council? We do have amended minutes. So, I'd be happy to entertain an a motion to approve the minutes as amended for the
April 28th, 2025 men uh meeting. So, moved. Second. Any discussion. All right. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. I. And next up, we have a public comment. Is there anybody in the audience wishing
to address city council? I don't have any written requests. All right. Come on up. And if you wouldn't mind, please share your name and address for the record. Okay. Um, Joseph Principe, 1470 West 25th Street in um, Sanford. Um, I
live in Sanford. Is it okay that um, I'm speaking at this meeting since it pertains to a veto? Absolutely. Okay. Um I'm here to speak tonight regarding the uh delayed report um the delayed release
of the annual um comprehensive financial report which is a cornerstone of government transparency in America um that shows where taxpayers money is
going like where it's being used in all that taxes taxes taxes like it's one of the most complained about um necessary evils quote unquote in our society. And like um like a business has to make
revenue like by selling a product like a government um like that's not their purpose. They have to Oh, it went out. Oh, we we have a sort of squirly mic. Let's trade you out here. I was worried
that would happen. Okay, so um mic check. Well, mine's not working either, I think. Let's check up in the booth. Is it still roll? Oh, there we go. All right, we're back again. Oh, so um like a government doesn't work that way.
So taxes is that way of making the revenue so that they can stay afloat and um um provide services and pay bills and pay their employees and all that. And um
since taxpayers money of course originally comes out of our pockets. Like it's money that we worked hard for to get, it's natural for us to want to know where the money is going and also
to elect public officials um that make the best possible use of the taxpayers's money. So in 1978, fresh off the heels of um the tumultuous Richard Nixon administration, which undermined
public trust in the government, as part of like the effort to rebuild that trust, they um mandated by federal law an annual comprehensive financial report, which as the name suggests is a comprehensive
detail of where all the taxpayers 's money is going and also it includes the salaries of city employees such as the mayor, city council people, police person, I mean policemen, firefighters,
um like all that kind of stuff. Um and it's a cornerstone of government transparency because Oh, we got we got the beeper. Uh so gota gota allow you to finish your comments
in about five seconds and then I have good news for you and that is you I'll just share with you now. We have already completed our annual comprehensive financial report and it is online on our website. So the I checked the website at 5:00 today. It wasn't up. Oh, it's right
there and we'll be able to have somebody in the back pull that up for you before you leave today if you'd like to see it. Oh well, yeah. Great news. Yeah, it was already approved by the city council back in April. That was one of the points that I was going to make. Yeah. So, it Oh, is
it not up online yet? Ah, okay. We will get that online. Thank you for bringing that to our attention. Appreciate it. Okay. Is there anybody else wishing to address council tonight? All right. With that, we'll close public comments and move on to the consent
agenda. What's the pleasure of councel? Mayor, I would like to remove number six from the consent agenda. All right. And we'll just leave that as number six then. And would anybody like to move to approve the consent agenda
with items number four and five? I'll make a motion to approve. You have a second. I guess I'll second. All right. Any discussion? No. All right. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. I. Any opposed? I think
that was unanimous. All right. And from here on out, we do have to do the roll call vote. So, uh, thank you to the city clerk for allowing us to be as efficient as possible with the parts we could. And next up, we have item number six, resolution 4613-25.
Mr. Cobb, if you could get us up to speed on this one. Uh, yes. Thank you, Mayor. Uh this is a request for the city council to um approve the purchase of 80 replacement radios and related equipment u and to surplus 80 police radios, our
current radios and then also a budget amendment to approve a budget amendment regarding the purchase of the 80 radios. We had originally proposed that we would purchase a portion of the a number of the radios this fiscal year. I believe in the budget we allocated around $300,000 for the purchase of replacement
radios. And what we've encountered through our work with Motorola is that at the end of the month, we're go there's going to be a 10% price increase. And we started looking at well, okay, we're going to have um I think we're going to be purchasing around we were the initial plan was to
purchase around 59 radios this year and then purchase the B remaining balance next year. We look at the instead of paying the additional 10% increase that's supposed to go into effect at the end of this month, we we proposed purchasing all 80 radios this month uh
before the 10% price increase goes into effect. Uh the um total cost to do this is $97,13520. I as I mentioned before, we originally had allocated $300,000 in this year's budget uh for that. Uh the remaining 21
radios we would be able the 21 radios would be purchased for 187,964 uh dollars with federal federal forfeiture funds. Uh the remaining 59 would be purchased with the use of
general fund as well as um some reallocations within the police department. Then as well as use of fund balance, uh it's recommended that city council adopt resolution number 43 4613-25. All right, with that, do we have anyone from the public wishing to address
council before we get going? All right, we'll close public comment. And what is the pleasure of councel? I move to approve uh resolution 4613-25.
Second. All right, we've got a motion and a second. Any discussion, Mr. O? Yeah. Um, so we we talked about this uh a little bit on the phone earlier and u um just about what these um new radios do and um some of the additional functionality we'll have um over what
the other ones were. Uh one question I came up with with later though um it's mentioned here that we would be surplusing um the ones that we currently have with the current radios going out of service or out of um uh out of out of
support, right? and not making the parts for them anymore like that. Um, it seems like we may be able to get something for the old ones at surplus. Do we do we have any idea how much we may get from the old ones? If history is any guide or anything like that, to be honest with
you, I couldn't tell you. I would have to check with our purchasing folks to see if there is a number that we would normally get. Uh, I'm sure it's a small percentage. So, new information. It is actually on the quote from Motorola. So, there's
actually a tradein value that's already allocated. It's it's the very bottom line. It says the APX next radio tradein credit. So, they're offering to give us $250 per radio, which is already reflected in the quote. Um, I know Chief
Beaver Beavers had looked into some other options. Um, the problem is they can't guarantee their quotes for more than 90 days and so we would have to follow back up with them once the radios are received to see if they can give us a better price. But Motorola will
guarantee the 250 per radio. Thank you. Okay. Thank you. Anything else? Nope. All right. On this side. Good. All right. Well, that is quite a price tag, but our police need to be
able to communicate with each other uh using radios that are are supported and modern enough to actually be serviced. So, uh with that, we'll call the vote. Motioner, Council Member Alan A. I.
Second, Council Member Jeff Bodford, I. Mayor Megan Slidic, I. Council member Keith Britain. Hi. All right. That passes. Now we're on to the official resolution one and only uh resolution
4610-25. Mr. Cop, if you could Oh, it looks like Mr. Kelly is mobilizing to share. Hi, Mr. Kelly will be the introductory uh presentation. Good evening, mayor and council. um this request for city council to approve the
advertisement of a call to artist for a logo design for the Obito arts and entertainment district. Uh back on April 28th, we presented a uh draft resolution and included in that draft resolution was a logo and city council directed staff to uh work with the public arts
board to uh create a logo. Uh back then on May 7th, the public arts board recommended that we do a call to artist uh for $1,000 to uh produce a logo for the arts and entertainment district. Uh the logo
should reflect the values and culture of the Ovido community. The proposed logo shall fit into one one square. Uh it shall also or a uh a vertical 32 uh proportion. The logo shall uh be
submitted in a SVG or PDF format uh initially but the approved logo shall be submitted in a vector format and the design shall be in full color as well as single color and the logo shall include the name arts and entertainment
district. The proposed budget again is $1,000 for a stipent for the winning uh logo design. Uh the logo uh submitts will be open for 30 days. Uh there is sufficient funding in the public arts board and it is recommended for the city council uh
adopt resolution number 4610 and I'll answer any questions if you have any. Thank you. Is there anybody in the public wishing to address city council on this matter? All right. With that, we'll close public comments. What's the pleasure of council?
Make a motion to approve resolution number 4610-25. Is there a second? Second. All right. Thank you. Um, any discussion? No. I mean, I talked to Mr. Kelly last week about this. I mean, it's it's
similar to what we've talked about with this with the cup. It's um it's up to the uh establishments out there that whether or not they want to participate in this and then we're only going to be doing it during events, right? Uh that's correct, Councilman. In the uh draft ordinance that was presented back
in April, uh the it stipulated that this would only be allowable during Oidi Oido events and then the establishments have their choice if they want to do it and then they have to go find a supplier in order to make the cups and then use the logo. Uh that's correct. It's it's up to
the establishment to uh select their own vendors. The city's not going to get involved in that at all. Okay. No, I'm good with that. Thank you, Mr. Britain. Any thoughts? I'm good. Thank you, Mr. Yeah. And just and I and I think this is clear enough. The um the submitter will
submit a separate design in full color and then in the single color and they don't have to be exactly the same, right? Because you do uh they should be the same or similar. Close enough. Yeah. close enough to where any modification you they are discernible um that it's
the same that it's one logo for the arts and entertainment district but uh that is for basically printing purposes. So we have a logo in case we ever need it uh for other purposes and then there have a one color logo um for cost purposes that will go on a cup that um
is recognizable. Okay. And and the cut the the cups that the establishments print, they can print in either color or black or uh in the single color. Um whichever there's will be single color. Yes.
That's that's going to be in the I that's the intention. The intention is to keep cost down. Okay. Uh so that it's a one color print. It would be a lot more expensive. The full color is just for our purposes of promotion or something. Correct. Okay. Yep. That was
good. Anything else? All right. Well, the the one question I had, and this is sort of for for everybody on council, is should we consider changing the name because it is an incredible misnomer to call it an arts and entertainment district. People keep saying, "Oh, what are we going to do with culture? Like,
are we adding a museum and and different things and and really it is a an open container drinking district?" Um, and I get how a person might not want to cut this as drinking district, but that would perhaps I I don't know, maybe people would want it more and perhaps
that would be a little bit more descriptive of what it is. Um, so Mr. Kelly, is there anything in state statute that requires us and I I guess maybe this is a question for Mr. Bose more than you. Do we have to keep the name Arts and Entertainment District or
could we come up with a different way to describe this thing that at a later date will come to support this logo? The uh local bill that was passed uh was uh signed by the governor on June 6. So
that is now law. And that named the district for all intents and purposes for licensing purposes we'll say instead um it named that district the Obito arts and entertainment district. Okay. It's where all our festivals are and although but we have to call it that too. So we
can't have a different I can't say whether we have to call it that mayor. Um but that's what it is. That's what the state knows it by. Okay. I get that the state calls it that, but I didn't know if we called it that just because that is the the configuration it needed to be in to
go to this state. But if there is flexibility in changing the name, is that something you guys might be interested in having a discussion about? No. No. Okay. I'm I'm not opposed to having a discussion about it. Um,
if it doesn't if it doesn't really bug anyone, like it it's a misnomer and it doesn't bug me that much, but I thought, well, this is this would be the time to perhaps change the words if we did want to change them. I I I do see what you're saying and kind of sounds like, what is
that? Oh, it just means beer. You know, I wasn't really in favor of the district to start with, but I I don't care what they call it. Uh, and if the governor signed it and named it that, that's that's fine with me. Okay, I have one more question. Uh, is there
any reason it has to be an artist 18 year olds 18 years old or older? Thank you for bringing that up. We just thought that uh that was during the public arts board discussion they specified that and I believe it was
because primarily the cups were used for alcoholic beverages and they wanted an adult. Yeah. To do it. Should we maybe make it 21 and up then? Huh? It does say arts and entertainment. It doesn't say beer district, right?
All right. Any movement on changing it to 21 or leave it as it is? I I do appreciate that. I would say leave it. Me, I'd take it all the way out like high school. I kind of like to take it out, too. Are you guys up for having it that removed? Uh, no. You want to keep it 18? You want to make it 18? Just go.
Yeah. All right. All right. 18 it is. All right. With that, we'll uh call the vote. Motioner, Council Member Jeff Bodford, I. Seconder, Council Member Keith Britain, I. Mayor Megan Slick, I.
Council member Alan Au, I. All right, we've got no discussion items. On to the city manager's report. Uh, thank you, mayor. I only have one thing. Uh as we mentioned during the CRA meeting, uh the connector road is now under construction and uh we need to
start thinking about a street name. And uh so what we wanted to ask you about tonight is the possibility of taking it out to the public and doing something through our public information office to seek public input on the street name.
And uh so just wanted to see if that's something you all would like us to do. Sounds good to me. I I like a good crowd sourcing of a name. Yeah, I'm follow. Okay, we'll move forward with it then. Could we and well,
I guess it doesn't matter. We if we wanted to have it be a street or boulevard or whatever like it would be helpful to say, you know, we are leaning towards like it's not going to be a court. We know it's not going to be a court. No, it won't be a court. Uh so it would need to be a street, a boulevard, a drive and like tell people you know
these are the last part choices. Uh east west streets generally are either they're they're generally in in Oto east west is usually a street. Uh but yes, we could do a trail a way a lane you know a um I don't think it I don't
think it would qualify as a boulevard. Uh but yes, we can you know that's I think really the only one that really I would recommend against would be something that said avenue because we generally have north south is usually so no avenues perhaps that would be thing.
Is there any uh interest in naming it after the park solar park could be. Yeah. Solar street or but nobody knows how to say it. So Larry that's what Mr. Wheeler said. I know we've already had we've already had a couple of names thrown our way,
too, so we can put you to the list. So, that's all I have, mayor. All right. Very good. Uh, city attorney. Thank you, mayor. I don't have anything to report. All right. I'm next. I've got no report. And council member, uh, nothing for me,
Mr. Bford. And the only thing is um sorry I couldn't make the ribbon cutting on Friday, but nice to see that the Ken Street got uh got reopened. So you guys had a small little attendance out there and then uh I'm assuming probably hit
the news as well. Yeah, very nice. So hats off to uh public works. So getting that done. I know that took uh took some time and and effort. So nice to see that uh open back up. And that's all I got. Mr. Britain. Uh, two things. One, I'll
piggy back on the McKinnon thing. It It looks really good. Uh, but one thing that stuck struck me is that there's no signage up there or no barriers to keep, you know, the Tom Sawyers from running around down there and running through the uh the pipes. And I I only bring it
up because I'm not sure if that's a liability or not for the city not to even have signage up there or a fence. So, uh, you know, maybe we can look into that. Uh, I'd hate to see something bad happen because we don't we don't have that up there and kids think it's a a playground or something. And the the
other thing I have is uh on Magnolia. I'm getting a lot of a lot of comments about the the bridge on Magnolia. Could we get a some sort of detailed schedule on what it's going to take to get that fixed? Yes. Okay. Has it really been three
years? No. I I go over that twice a day at least. Okay. It's not a big deal. It it it's probably been over a year on just one lane. Okay. Because the uh the impacted part of the roadway is the south side. Yeah. So, we've kept the
north side open rather than shutting everything down. Um, but uh I know I someone asked me about the new construction at the corner at 434 and how we're going to be able to uh accommodate the construction trucks
going in and out. Yeah. As well. So that that was a concern expressed and that I think that's also something we need to be uh very cognizant of. But uh it I think it it has been over a year that the it has been one lane. Okay. But uh I
know that we are progressing on I believe I believe we're still in design. But yes, I'll get with public works. Mr. Mr. Yurang will be able to get get an update for you. Okay. And I guess going back to the McKinnon, uh there was a guy out there complaining to someone maybe it was our public
affairs or was it you Patrick that the guy was complaining about the grass? No, about how long it took. This took way too long. and our engineer was there and I said maybe you can explain to the the folks on the different phases that have to go on between engineering and and they had to do a survey of the flood
plane and everything else and if we could do that upfront so that people know exactly all the all the steps that are involved in this stuff it might keep some of those comments down. Yeah, that was that was a thing. I know. I talked with a couple of neighbors and they asked me about it and I said this was
the first project that FEMA ever told us it's okay to upgrade. Yeah. Uh normally they come in and say no, you can only fix it. And and I and I told him I said we fixed some things in Hurricane Irma that Hurricane Ian rebroke and I said
but they this was the first project and we said oh that's wonderful we'll do that. And we thought, you know, we have quality engineers, engineering firms that work with us, they would just come up with a design. And the first thing they said, well, if you're going to improve it, you've got to model the base
so that you can determine what you really need. Yeah. And so, and then when I told them that that modeling took over a year to get done, they were like, "Really?" And I said, "Yes." And I said, "Then it took eight months to design it." And you know, then it took another 10 months to construct it. And so when
you start taking all those things and they were they're like, "Wow." I said, "Yeah." So that was the thing. This was the first time we've ever been allowed to do anything like that. And we were learning as we went and it they they pretty much understood, you know, when we were when I put it to them in that
you're right. Yeah. Now now we know now we can tell folks, yes, we've got to go in and and I know Mayor and I were sitting there talking. I was showing her was showing the two different ways that were coming into the culvert and and everything and that was the thing is that you had stuff coming from from the
northeast yet stuff coming from the northwest you know and it's all meeting right there and of course and then of course the massive structures downstream that they that we had to put in as well but okay just wanted to bring it up maybe we can if we could get ahead of that stuff in the future
well I forgot to mention that Junth celebration that has happening at Riverside Park this Saturday from 10:30 to 2:30. So for anybody who's around, that is always a really good time and it is in a new location. So don't head to Round Lake Park unless you just want to
hang out there first for a little bit because then you're going to want to go over to Riverside. Um so that is being put on by Washington Heights Johnson Hill Community Association and um usually there there's some pretty good free food over there. So hopefully be
able to get a lot of people out for that. Um, anything else for the good of the order? All right, we've got our next meeting Monday, June 23rd, 2025 at 5. What? There's something about this. Is this right? At 5:30. Yes. Okay. Monday,
July 7th, 2025 at 6:30 p.m. regular session. Monday, July 21st, 2025 at 6:30 the regular session. and Monday, July 28th, 2025, 5:30 p.m. for a work session. And with that, we are
adjourned.