There it goes. Very good. Uh, good morning everybody. Welcome to the city of Parker council meeting for the 8th of June. Today we only have one item on the agenda. So, um, moving right along to the
invocation. Everybody please stand. Mr. Chapel, you're up, my brother. Oh, bless this council as we go another step forward in improving the citizens of Parker and bless our fire department,
bless our police department that they will stay out of harm's way. ask you in this name. Amen. >> I aliance 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. >> Okay. Um, will you call the role, please? >> Yes, sir. Miss Barrow, >> here. >> Miss Bifford, >> here. >> Mr. Chapel
>> here. >> Mr. Haney >> here. >> Mayor Kelly >> here. Thank you, ma'am. Um, if there's anybody in the audience that would like to come to the podium, state your name and address if you'd like to talk about something that is not on the agenda today. Anybody?
>> How you doing, sir? >> I'm doing good. How are you? >> Fine, thank you. >> My name is Tim Norris. I represent East Bay Flats. >> Yes, sir. >> And I'm here today just kind of a phone call from my manager that uh we have bill
water bill and quite a money for that water bill that was a day late but my understanding is the department had some issues with getting the bills out on time. So asking that the bill
interest charge, whatever it is, be removed. >> Mr. Norris, a couple questions for you while you're here. Um, who's the name of the person and their phone number at Wood Woodard? Is it the name of the man?
Yeah. What's their name and phone number? >> Who do you want to talk to first? >> The highest ranking person there. >> Okay, it's Lucy Jones. Okay. And their phone number. >> Have you not talked to her yet? >> I've tried several times in the last two
weeks since we became aware that the bill was late. Now, you should know that maybe you're not aware, but this isn't the first time they've been late. >> No, it's How many times have they been late? >> Three. >> How long ago was it? >> Doesn't make any difference. You get one free late fee.
>> We pay your bill on time for the last three years. >> Okay. And we discovered because of your uh manager there that you hadn't paid a deposit. >> It's not because of our manager. >> No, we discovered because of her that it hadn't been made. She was able to help
us to do that. >> When did you send us when we were supposed to give you a deposit? >> At the time that the I don't think you were management down there at the time of it. >> Sure, we do. >> No, you're not. We're going to turn the water off on the 10th and that's the end
of it. Everybody pays a late fee. You cannot get a waiver. >> We're your biggest service. >> Doesn't matter. You're getting a bargain. >> No, we're not getting a bargain. We're paying you $48,000 a year for trash pickup. >> But you just asked me about water, not
trash. >> That's another thing. But we're giving you money, but we don't even use that service at all. >> Well, sir, everybody in the city of Parker, >> I feel like you're not working with the city. I'm sorry, sir, but is this has been gone over every day for the last
two weeks. Your late bill is about 4600. >> It's not our fault that we were late. >> Understand it's the emails and the bills. We haven't received paper bill yet. >> They haven't been sent out yet. >> They haven't been sent yet. >> Why are we late? >> No, last month. >> Last month. Yes. Not on time.
>> Yes, they were. Yeah, they were. >> So, what's the phone number to this, Miss Jones? 706. >> Thank you. >> 888. >> Yeah. >> Okay. Thank you. One other thing that you should be aware of when the ladies
at the front office call to explain why a water bill is late and why a water bill is what it is and why it's built the way it is. Berating them and talking to them the way they were spoke to on the phone will
not get any dear from me. It will not. If anybody calls that office and berates those ladies like happened last week, I will not do anything for anybody. >> My understanding is you do the same thing. >> Okay, sir.
>> I want to be careful. >> Oh, no. No. I'm being very careful. Very careful because I knew this was going to come out to play. So, I need a deposit of almost 11,000 and I need a a late notice of 4666.
If not on the 10th, like everybody else in Parker that doesn't pay their water bill, it'll be turned off. >> Thank you, sir. Any discussion on this council? Is that like one bill for all of them? >> So what happens is they bill the
apartments individually and collect the money and then we send them a bill for the gallons used in the apartment complex. Their average monthly bill is about 31,000. When they transitioned from the construction company >> to the rental company, they never paid a
deposit. But I we were I was unaware of that until last week when I looked at the the late notice. And then I was in the back office when the lady called the manager down there and she started hollering and screaming at her. And this gentleman right here just sat here and
told you a lie. I never yelled at nobody. I didn't. I can show you the recording. Okay. So anyway, your time's up. You had three minutes. That's the bill on the 10th. The water's getting cut off. Thank
you, sir. Anyway, I'll try to answer your question, Miss Bar question. >> Yes, they bill each person individually. They do the company does and they collect all the money from all of the employee for the she referred to them as
doors. the doors. That was each apartment. I guess >> there's a bulk meter >> and then we have a bulk unit that we build them from >> and then each month when Mr. Sland reads the bills
uh there is just occasionally there is a they they did not know, can you believe it, till last Friday or Thursday they could do electronic payments to the city. That was the guff they gave us last week. I've heard so many lies last
week. So many stories. One of the stories they told us in management was that the property had recently been sold and they were suffering financial disparity. I don't care. It's not It's my job to make sure that the money that
belongs to the city is properly managed and my staff have told me that it was properly managed. >> So they collect all the money from there, >> right? >> And they turn around the city. Correct. Well, I think what they do is they send it into this company called Woodruff, I
think it's called. I don't have my notes right here. Um, and then they send us a check with that bill. And they didn't. And this is the third time that I've been made aware of. So, >> my question is, you're going to come in here and ask for a
right attitude to have to ask for a favor. >> You should have heard the way they talk to the gals in the front office. >> Let me answer that phone one day. let me get that phone one day. >> So, what we do as a courtesy when people are going to be late, they give them a heads up. But there's a lot of people that are late and everybody pays the
fine, >> you know, but that I discovered when they brought it to my attention that they hadn't paid a deposit and everybody has to pay a deposit that that's when we cut this water off, if they choose not to pay it, then it'll come from the
deposit. And I told them they last week we had an arrangement. They were going to pay half the tenth of this month and the other half the tenth of next month. And now apparently that's not the case. But >> what do they do to their people there that don't pay them?
>> I don't know. >> I don't know. >> Is there each one of them got one of our >> They got their own meters. Yeah. >> Yep. I don't know that. But we don't do business with each individual. We do business with the company. Well, and again
>> online. >> That's right. >> But you know, you can't >> I tried that and I got a call from health department. I can't cut it off.
>> The city could cut it off. >> Now, each one of those units pay for trash pickup. >> Correct. >> I I think that's what he's alleging. I don't know exactly what they pay >> they pay. The lady on the phone, and I
have not verified this, told me that they pay only $14.65 per month. for their like getting rid of furniture and chairs and that kind of stuff. And um they have a they have a dumpster down there. I think it's got a
crusher on it. They have some I'm not really sure exactly how the garbage is picked up, but they have garbage service. They have power. They have water and sewer from us. And um
frankly um it it was it's not acceptable to call here and talk to them the way that they did. >> Of course. That's never right. >> It's never right, John. So bad that the lady that was beaten on I before I knew what was happening, I came out in the hallway for an unrelated issue and she's
standing in the hallway crying because she had been talked to like that. So I got all the information. And I called down to the to the office and I talked to the lady down there. I got it in my notes and I explained the situation and I told her that we had discovered um
that there was no deposit made and they needed to pay the late notice and the deposit. And she said told the girls up front that they had recently sold the property and that the new people were not collecting the rate of the revenue
like they should have done. they were going through some financial difficulties and they could only pay it half now and half later. So I told her that that would be acceptable that she could pay half by the tenth of this month and that she could pay the other half by the 10th of next month.
>> And we agreed on that a week ago. And I never never uh bered her or talked badly to her that if there was anything that happened, it was the way they spoke to the gals in the front office who have no control
over people being late. They just sit there and collect the money and deposit it. That's what they do. And I'm not going to change my mind. It is what it is. If you're late, John, if I'm late, all of us, any of us, we got
to pay the bill. just is. >> Yes, ma'am. Go ahead. Did you have something Tanya? >> No. >> I mean I mean you guys satisfied with it. I mean Mr. Salmon, did you have something you wanted to add? >> I was going to say trash.
service. >> I got the feeling like listening to Mr. Norris that he thinks that they don't have that they shouldn't have to pay that. >> Everybody's got to pay it. But >> but I will say to you,
>> that's right. >> I got I got call the apartment complex on they never used it and they were wondering why we had to pay. I said everybody in Parker paid that. >> That's right.
>> I said well I I got the feeling from the way he spoke to me that that like we're doing something to his organization, but that's not the case. This is the standard that we follow for everybody. Everybody pays their own bills and if
you don't pay your bill, Mr. Sland has a list and he goes out on the 10th and he turns off all the businesses that people who didn't pay. They just do and then they have to pay a fee to turn it back on and that this is their late fee and this is now last month. Now, are you
reading right now? >> They're doing the bills. >> They're doing the bills right now for another month. >> Correct me. >> So, >> anyway, not in a car. >> It's the same thing. >> Keep it. No.
>> Any more items from the audience? >> Okay. Um, so the only thing we have on the agenda, everybody, is the Clearwater Fiber Company that would like to come into Parker >> uh Clear Wave. And, um, I keep saying
that, I said to the guy, I met maybe um, the pling council's reviewed it. I'm assuming Mr. Sloan, you've reviewed it because you sent me some documents and um basically from my understanding from talking to their management the other
day. Um they're going to bring it into the city. They I went and looked at what they did on Senica. They got a machine that digs it under the earth. You don't dig it up. They go under the ground with this machine and they feed this orange pipe
through there with the wire in it. and they're going to go through different parts of the city and as people um uh use their service, they'll tag into tag into the uh into the pipe that they've
already laid in in the ditch. So, in other words, if uh if you if you want to keep the cable company you got or your satellite company you got, you absolutely can keep that. You can, this is just another option for the people of Parker, uh, if they like to use fiber
optic signal rather than, uh, something else, cable, antenna, dish, whatever. So, um the package that you received two weeks ago, you know as much about these
folks as I do and uh we've looked them up online and they they seem to be doing quite well. And u so they're they're I think one of maybe three companies that are going to be uh
putting fiber optics into in in into play. two, I believe. >> Are they here already? >> Well, you got AT&T and Unity F. Didn't they >> Are they buried or they ground? >> Are they buried? Yeah. So, I I like the
fact the things are buried because after the hurricane, I mean, I know it's been nine years, eight years, but the poles are still going to tip over when we have another hurricane. And it's nice to have internet, at least some kind of form of communication. >> Well, I like the idea they came to the city first before they started putting
in Oh, contrary to the or >> we went and did it without Yeah, I'm with you. I'm with you. >> I uh I called Mark Reagan and I asked him to set me up a a meeting for the planning council and he said he was out
of state, but they had a meeting anyway and they looked it over for us and I've read it in its entirety and I know Mr. Sloan has because he's been beating this thing for about four months. So now we're down here today to to give them a blessing and sign some papers to let
them into the city. >> A motion to approve their project. >> I would say a motion to sign a contract. Would it be? Well, a motion to uh approve them coming into the city right away and to authorize the mayor to sign
a registration and use agreement um that I had prepared. And just a caveat on that, we as you point out, John, the Unity fiber had uh when they came through Parker, it ended up being
Southern Light. They're I guess they're a subsidiary or something of Unity. and they ended up actually being a pass through. I don't know that they ended up putting five or two individual houses here. Their primary goal back in 2019
was a pass through to TH to get to Tindle uh to provide them fiber services over there. Uh there was an agreement signed back in 2019 with with Southern Light uh to do that and that was the
start of the basis uh for the agreement that I prepared uh for Clear Wave. I will tell you I've also prepared an ordinance so that it doesn't have to come back for you all uh anymore on a peacemeal basis that you would have an
ordinance that uh would deal with these communication service providers and then they would just get a permit from uh public works and u and and go that way. So, um, you're required to be
non-discriminatory and competitively neutral. And like I say, that's the reason that I started with the, uh, the Southern Light agreement, uh, that I did. So, so you're correct, mayor. I would
recommend to authorize them to get into the city rightways >> uh, and to authorize you to sign the registration and use agreement. And so we need a first and we need a motion. >> Thank you, sir. We have a motion. Do we have a second? >> Second.
>> Got a second. >> Would you call the role, please? >> Miss Barrow, >> yes. Miss Bford, >> Mr. Chapel, >> Mr. Haney, >> yes. >> Mayor Kelly. >> Yes. Thank you, councel. Um,
>> I just kind of hope it doesn't start open a flood gate. So, we'll have it's going to look like >> we won't have a ditch. We'll have a a bunch of fiber optic in the ground >> like 98 with the flags, right? >> Right. I went and watched them, John. They only there was about three vans and
maybe eight guys working on it. They got one machine that they were pushing it along under the ground machine. >> Yeah. And um I met with one of their management folks this week. He complimented me on doing a due diligence
to have everybody look at it because I wanted to make darn sure that in the future it was going to be there and it was going to be done right. Uh the thing I like about it is if what the gentleman told me told us is that it's going to be half the price of cable. That's I think
significant if that's in fact what happens. So Mr. Chapel, you got anything this week? >> How'd it go? >> Okay. Mr. Haney, what you got, sir? >> Mr.
Who? >> Well, you just happen to be first on that end. Um, Miss Bford, are you sure? >> Okay. Thank you everybody. I know it's the daytime, but I appreciate you coming. Yeah, my dad.