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Everybody sitting on the back row like you done something bad. >> [clears throat] >> And I know that Mr. Patterson's the only one back there that's done anything bad. Uh thank you all for taking your time out of your day to come to our meeting tonight and our first official meeting with the honorable Mark Raga

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uh who is now our new council member. Um would you please take the roll? >> Okay. Ms. Barrow? >> Here. >> Ms. Butterfield's absent. Mr. Chapel? >> Here. >> Mr. Raga? >> Here. >> Mayor Kelly?

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>> Thank you. Um before we get started, is there anybody in the audience that would like to come to the podium and state your name and address for the record? >> invocation first. >> Invocation pledge. >> Oh, I'm so sorry. I was I apologize. Got a lot going on.

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Uh Mr. Raga, will you do the uh Everybody please come to attention. >> Absolutely. >> Okay, sir. Go ahead. >> Let us pray. Heavenly Father, as we gather here today as a city council, we thank you for the opportunity to serve our community.

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We ask for your guidance and wisdom in our discussions and decisions. Help us to work together in unity and to put the needs of our citizens first. May our words and actions reflect compassion, integrity, and justice. And we ask you continue to protect those that keep our great nation safe. In

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Jesus' name. Amen. >> Amen. >> Mr. Chapel. >> 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

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justice for all. >> Everybody please be seated. You all are nice here. So, when's Ms. Butterfield coming back? Does anybody know? >> She said she's going to be gone all week. >> Oh, just this week? Okay. All right.

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>> I don't know where Kathleen's going, too. She's in Italy or something. She wouldn't >> Yeah, she did. She went to Budapest. Yeah, she she She's probably been gone a week already, huh? Has she? She owns an apartment there or

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something like that. Yeah. So, anyway, um is there anybody that would like to come to the podium and and have anything they'd like to talk about that's not on the agenda? And the agenda is right outside the door there. If you're interested, it's only three

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things tonight. It won't take forever, but uh if not, um the first item is approval of the minutes from July the 21st, 2026. >> I make a motion that we approve it with uh

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add on I had you put the clerk would put on there on the vote on the Stevenson that uh council member Botaford abstained from it. >> Yes, she did abstain. >> Yes. I just want to make it

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>> Okay. >> Well, I'll second that. >> We have a first and a second. Madam Clerk, will you please call the roll? >> Ms. Barrow? >> Yes. >> Mr. Chappell? >> Yes. >> Mr. Rega? >> Yes. >> Mayor Kelly? >> Yes. Thank you, Council. The second I'll handle. Um

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makes me very happy when I I sit at the desk every day and not everything is very pleasant, but this it was very pleasant to open a letter. She didn't realize that it was uh more than just Mr. Sammons, but it was addressed to Mr. Sammons. You'll see it

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in your folder in your package. She observed that he was um very astute and that he had um did what he could do to clear up this tree that had fell down on the property and uh

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uh also to be recognized as the fire department did some of the cutting and twisting and pulling as Mr. Sammons told me but uh Ms. Neach wanted to you know that um this tree had fell down and that uh when it fell down um

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uh it blocked the road I guess and so they'd gone down there and did the right thing and cleared up the road and uh uh it went really really well and so I wanted to put that in your folders for you

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so that you would know that there are some people out there that that do say nice things and thank you Tony and thank you Eric you did a great job >> That much? Outstanding.

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Congratulations. That's that's it's very easy for people to uh say negative things. It's hard. A lot of people won't accommodate people. So, when you get a letter like this it's big. >> Yeah. >> Outstanding. >> Yeah. I already paid her, so

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>> It's nice to see you can do [laughter] things like that to help help our residents. >> Absolutely. That's what they're here for. I mean you know? And we stacked it all in your yard, so you know where it came from. >> [laughter] >> Okay.

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Um and then the um we had a bit of a situation that we've just discovered and I'd like to give you just a little bit of information about it. Uh for some reason and I don't know why but um there was an amount of cash

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that had been overlooked and I thought it was a mistake had been made uh but in talking to Carl Riggs and Ingram they let us know that there was no mistake made that they were just unaware that in excess of 38,000 I believe that's the number um that was

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in a uh a uh a box, a security box or whatever in the police department that was gathered over a period of time from cases that they had had involving uh

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um you know, not and I'm not saying all of it was, but where they had arrested people and they had money on them and the money was then taken as part of the evidence. So, if they let's say they arrest somebody with drugs and they had the money, they take the money, too. Well,

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it got put in the box from my understanding. And um when it got put in that box, it never got entered into the audit. So, they said, "Now, wait a second. We need to have an audit." And so, the auditors came and they looked at the

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money and my understanding is it's been moved to put in the general fund, but what we're wanting, Council, is an isolated specific account to accommodate funds that are taken by law enforcement during the

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commission of whatever they're working on, what crime, whatever, and have an account to put that in because some of the money is used to uh to benefit law enforcement. Some of the money can be used for lots of things,

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but mostly like to buy things for the police department. And so, what we would like to accommodate Call Ridge and Ingram and me, really, a separate account opened by uh a opened by our accounting section

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so that all the money that the police take into custody will be secured and part of the annual audit. And then at the end of each period of time, one of the problems we have now, and I've instructed Mr. Sloan to remedy this, he's communicated with the police

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department, but I've instructed Mr. Sloan to find out from the court what do we do with some of this money cuz unfortunately it's been there a long, long time. So, once a judge orders what he's going to order, it'll be entered into our record cuz I'll bring it back to you.

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And then we can take that information that's been ordered by a judge at the municipal circuit, and uh and then we can put it in the general fund. It's in the general fund now. We'll leave it in the general fund, but it this will enable us to have uh a contractual amount with the bank, and

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it'll be much like the the signs the forms that you were receiving last week for uh in Mr. Reger's case, the ability to sign checks, but in everybody's case, the ability to have knowledge of where our savings and so on and so forth is. So, what I'm asking you is your blessing

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to open a savings [snorts] account, checking account, whatever I'm advised is best to store the money that belongs to the police. >> Yeah. And and I would tell you that it's required. >> Yeah, it is required. >> we have to

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>> But we didn't know it was required because we didn't even know it was there. It was in a cigar box basically. >> Yeah. >> And I'm being facetious, but I'm telling you that they should have they should have Whatever. It's I mean it's it's water under the bridge. I've I've

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We've identified it. Carr Riggs and Ingram have have attached to it, and we are going to uh do the right thing. I just need your blessing to open the account. >> motion that we allow you to open that account. >> We have a first. Do I have a second? >> Second. Can can we still have uh

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now that we've got a second, can we at least have a little bit more discussion? >> If you'd like to. >> Um so, I understand that that's a lot of money, $38,000. We can put that into a high interest-bearing account, and >> I No, you can't make any money on it. Cannot make interest on it.

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No money like that. It's very cannot make any interest. >> Really? >> Yeah. It's like the It's like uh uh water department money. >> Okay. >> Can't make interest on the deposits. >> Okay. >> Not allowed to. >> So, the bank just holds on to that money for free? >> Well, they probably spend it on trips to the Bahamas. I don't know what they do with it, but I know we don't get it

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back. I can tell you that. But, as as it is right now, Mr. Rega, it's sitting in a shoe box, being facetious, but it wasn't accounted for. My biggest fear is, if you want to know the truth, >> Yeah. >> uh that the judge disagrees with the

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attorney and we have to return the money to whoever it was that um it was taken from. >> Yeah. >> And so, Ron, you might get your check back, but um the the My point is that you know, um >> [clears throat] >> I hope it doesn't happen.

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>> Yeah. >> It won't happen again once the account's open uh and we'll and we'll um be able to put more money in there, hopefully. If But, let's say um Miss Stanley's driving down the road and she gets pulled over and she's got a bag

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of weed in the car and 50 grand. >> Yeah. >> They going to take that 50 grand. They going to keep it, and they should. And um uh if I'm driving down the road and that's in my car, the same rule applies. >> Yeah. >> They put it in this account until a

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judge orders whatever it is that's going to happen, because some of the money is Let's say two police agencies, just use that for an example, are working with a narcotics task force and they make an arrest. And at the time of the arrest, there's three agencies involved, and

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they get a pillowcase full of cash. It's could be divided by all three agencies. It could be divided by a big chunk for the lead agency and less for the lesser agencies, depending on their work, but it it can't make interest. It is what it is. >> Yeah.

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>> I'm just My desire is that it doesn't go back to whoever it was that that they took from. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> So, like for example, 38,000, I look at that as when I'm sitting down I'm writing out the budget, that's half a police car. >> Yeah.

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>> That's half a police car. >> Yeah. >> And that's what I got to look at. So, but I can't I I I couldn't have spent it cuz I didn't know we had it to spend until 10 days ago. And now we know uh Suzanne's on top of it. Call Riggs and Ingram are aware of it. We made them

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aware of it. One of the questions I asked in the audit, was there anything that you discovered during the audit, Mayor Kelly, that was untoward? It's untoward. Should have had a Should have had uh some kind of a control vehicle to control that item.

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So. >> I would just ask this. Um is possible that that law has changed, Mayor? Because I did a little research for this, and it's called the asset forfeiture trust accounts. And what they're now saying is that uh as part of the equitable sharing of

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local police uh that they they specifically state that any interest in that money that's at a bank can be share if it's forfeited if it's seized and then if it's forfeited that the forfeited money along with the interest that the bank allows >> What do they say if we don't know where

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it came from? >> Uh well, that's it only segregated it into two different categories. It segregated it into criminal cases and civil cases. And as you know, the civil cases are a whole lot easier. >> Yeah. >> The criminal cases are a little bit more difficult, but in many minutes

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municipalities, what they'll do is they'll they'll take that money and the bank will be overseen by um Who's our Who's our Bay County uh assessor? Uh not assessor. >> appraiser's office. >> appraiser. Yes. That that they actually handle those accounts. They find the

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appropriate banks that will apply the interest to it, and then it is the feds, then the state, then the municipalities that get into involved in that equitable sharing. You know, that they decide how much your local police had to do with it versus the Feds or the state.

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If it's forfeited, they they divvy it up along with and and you're probably right, but the the mention they they did mention that there was that you could share in whatever interest the banks give you because some of this money can be there for years. And that's what I

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assume. >> Assuming it's accounted for. Right? Right? We If you have a bucket of money that we do not know where it came from, I can't give it back to you if I don't know who where it came from to start with. >> Well, but but here's the thing in both

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civil and criminal there's a there's a time limit for when those people the money was taken from that they have to claim that money. If that money's not claimed in a certain time frame, then it becomes the property of the the the seized agency.

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>> Right. Okay. >> So. >> So, anyway. >> Yeah, I think we have a first and a second. Right? >> Well, they did open up an account >> No. We wanted to get your blessing first.

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So, I'm asking you permission to open an account for the police department to put their seized cash assets and so so I mean we have a place to keep the drugs, right? But we don't have a place to keep the cash.

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And I didn't know there was cash until 10 days ago when they came and sat in my office and said, "Did you know there was any cash?" Didn't know. But so I'm asking you Well, I'm asking you Ron is for the council to give me the blessing to open an account at a

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institution to put the money safely in so that it's not in a in a shoe box. >> We have a first and a second. >> We do. >> We're really just moving to a vote at this point. >> Yeah, it's it's got to go to a vote. Madam Clerk. >> Ms. Barrow? >> Yes. >> Mr. Chapel?

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>> Yes. >> Mr. Rega? >> Yes. >> Mayor Kelly? >> Yes, thank you very much. >> With the one note, maybe we could get Mr. Sloan to confirm that we can actually put that into an interest-bearing account cuz I know the mayor's right. There was a time where we we prevented that money from

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from harvesting any interest, but I think they may have recently said that that's silly because that money could be there so long. So, if if that's changed, I sure think we should benefit from whatever interest we can >> I will tell you if it costs more for him

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to work it than I'm going to make off it, then I would rather not keep it. I'll give it to somebody. I'll give it to the benevolent society. If it costs me more in legal fees to make a It's like the policeman said, what's the point in having a seizure program if it

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ends up costing you more to seize it than it does to to take it, you know? Hell, let's just burn it. >> How do we handle non-currency like like boats, cars, homes? >> Send it to public auction. >> Yeah. >> They go in the city yard and once a every When When was the last time we

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sold off stuff, Tone? >> If it's people's assets, most of the time we represent them. >> We don't Yeah, cuz we don't we don't do that in the yard anymore. We'd send it down there to the auction place and let him sell it for us. >> And then and then we can take that money and put it in the general fund and use

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it, right? >> Right. >> Excellent. >> Very good. >> Yep. >> Very good. >> Okay, you got the floor, Mr. Rega. >> Mr. Chapel first. >> The only thing I got is Saturday is our yard sale. And uh

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I'll tell you So, I got people that call me wanting to know if they can come. I said, "Yeah." Everybody wants to know if we're going to charge. I said, "Not this year. We're not going to charge." But this Maybe next year we might

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charge. Five dollars a table or something. >> Okay. >> Well, that's all I got. >> All right, thanks. >> That's something very good you're doing. >> Uh I just wanted to see if Mr. Tindell has some

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>> Oh, I'm sorry, Mr. Tindell. You were a little late coming in the door. Did you have anything for us today? >> I'll be right back. >> Okay. All right. I'm going to go ahead and get started with Reagan, then we'll get back to you. >> Thanks, Mr. Tindell. >> Go ahead, you're up. What When individuals are looking for a

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place to buy a home or in general, kind of a place to live, I was interested in what resources were available to help them make that decision. In short, we we've heard a lot of good things about our city, particularly Mrs. Nice writing a great letter,

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but we've also heard some other side of the coin, and I thought, you know what? How do people find information about cities and communities? What What resources are out there for them to go find that data to determine if they wanted to move to Parker or

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Callaway or Springfield or or anything else? Well, >> They They read the Parker Citizen. >> Ma'am, that's true. You look in the Parker Citizen. Yeah, there you go. There you go. So, questions like, you know, what Where's the best place to live to craft a new career or or to retire

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or raise a family? Those kinds of queries don't exist out there. If you go to the normal US Census Bureau, they ask questions like, how much money do you make? How long have you lived here? You know, what is your house worth? Things like that. So, I went looking for an

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organization that would fill that void, and I found a very very informative organization called Niche. And they're nationally recognized. They at one time were one of the top 500 fastest growing companies in the in the country. And

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what I admired about them was when you look at what they do in order to rank cities and communities and neighborhoods, their methodology was different. And they combined, you know, public databases, they had their own proprietary research, they performed

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actual resident reviews. That's the difference. They actually call and because of Title 13, we can't discuss what our individual residents said, but you can go look at what our residents said about Parker in their reviews, which is really pretty captivating. So,

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I really In short, I wanted an objective assessment about where we were today as a city so that if we could focus on improvements, where where they would be. And as it turns out, Niche has already evaluated and ranked Parker. So, um little little bit about the company.

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They they started in Pensford Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania back in 2002. So, they're not new. They've been around for about 24 years. And they started by evaluating schools and colleges to help people figure out where to go. You know, it's a lot of money to go to college

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today and you probably want to spend a little bit of time figuring out where to spend that if you're in fact going to go in that direction. And they really help people do that. So, essentially their overwhelming concept was how do I find a great place to live, go to school, craft a career,

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and it really boiled down to where do you want to live and where do you want to raise a family? And they're one of the first companies I think that did a very comprehensive approach to looking at the different communities that were out there and answering some of those very very basic questions. So, what made

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Niche different from the consensus company is really their methodology. If you go to the next slide here, please. One of the things they do is you might be able to see that over here, Ms. Barrows, is they actually get on the phone and they talk to people. That's

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very different from some of the other census companies that send, you know, information requests out and and where you you know, you lose a lot by not having that bi-directional communication. And they looked at things like

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they looked at trusted public data, which was the Census Bureau stuff. They looked at proprietary They had their own proprietary research and how they asked the questions and they talked with millions of residents in those individual communities to determine

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things like what was your cost of living, what's the crime, what's what's you know, tell me about your public schools, what are the job opportunities and local amenities that exist in that in that particular community. So, anyway, they're a very unique company in

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that they really ascertain residents' level of comfort, their happiness in the various communities. Next slide, please. So, Parker, I'm just going to cut right to the chase. Look at what they [clears throat]

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ranked Parker. They ranked Parker a very high score, an overall score of an A minus. Now, when they looked at this, they looked at the public schools, they looked at housing, they spoke to the residents, they they wanted to know what was good for families, they look at

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crime and safety, they looked at the night nightlife, and they also looked at diversity. Um little note on diversity, it means different things to different people, but here what they're doing is they're looking at the common things like what is your diverse ethnicities in

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a given community. We're a small community of about 4,500 people, so do you have 30 different, you know, races that exist. They looked at residential income, so the the broader the spectrum, in other

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words, very poor to very high, like uh you know, people on food stamps to people who are multi-millionaires, that actually would give you a better rating because you've got greater diversity there. And then they also looked at age. Those communities that were very young, uh many in the middle age, and then

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those that were very old. And that's how they got that diversity rating. But, overall, next slide, please. So, overall, uh they also rate things like jobs, cost of living, outdoor activity, weather, some things we control, some

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things we don't. They looked at health and fitness, often times directly attributable to the kind of resources that governing bodies put out there, like parks of pickleball and uh walking trails and things of that nature. So, uh

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look at what they stated right there. That top line says it says Parker is with a a population of 4,590 people. Parker is in Bay County and is one of the best places to live in Florida.

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This is a third-party unbiased assessment of our little city. And I thought you might want to see this because, you know, we hear so much about what we're doing, who we are, things of that nature. I think it's very, very important to get grounded and have

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somebody evaluate us that has no skin in the game. So, one of the best places to live in Florida has the following additional data points. Um median home value here is about uh $225,000. Average rent monthly is about a little

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over $1,300. In the mix for rental and owners, and this will be important when we when the tax laws uh change, 46% rentals, 54% owners. Uh the owners will receive the tax benefit, the 46% will not because

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they're not homesteaded property. That helps us in a in a very positive way. Um and and when they analyze best places to buy a house, top 10% of all of Florida. Parker was top 10% of all of Florida, best places

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to buy a home, okay? And the lowest cost of living, top 12% in Florida. So, Mayor or the council members, you've done a really good job of keeping people's expenditures low through lower

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ad valorem taxes and you know, the different municipal fees that you've chosen to either charge or not charge. And uh best places to live for young professionals, this is key because, you know, you really want the next generation to make a town flourish it in

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their own vision, top 20% in all of Florida. So, very very very positive information here. So, now they also compared us. That was against all other cities in Florida. Now they they compared us to cities just in

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Bay County. Um so, number one, best places for young professionals in Bay County, number one of the 11 communities that they assessed, number one, our little city of Parker. And number two of 11 when it came to places with the lowest cost of living in Bay County, number two, we're keeping

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the cost down. And then we're a number four out of 11 and four out of 11 in two other categories, plus best places to live in Bay County and best places to raise a family in Bay County. So, very very positive information there. When it all when it's all boiled down,

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uh you have a a third party using actual metrics to evaluate things like functionality, efficacy, general aura of our city, uh and you're given a grade of A minus, one of the one of the top 10 grades that exist in the whole state,

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it's a clear testimony of that the decisions that were made in the governing body and other government sectors within Parker we're good. And people like Ms. Nice, um they're the majority mindset and this clearly shows that. So, once again,

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congratulations Tony because I although I think there's a lot more people like it, we just don't hear from them and and that's what the study showed. If something negative happens, you're 10 times more likely to say it than if something positive happens. That's why a positive letter like that

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is really, really important. Final thought, and sorry for taking this long, but 25 years ago when when Kim and I moved to Parker, Parker was a a diamond in the rough and we recognized that. But today, there's a whole lot more diamond here than there is rough and I

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think this study shows that. So, I think everybody here should be commended and I'm not much into giving compliments, but we hear so much about what is said about us and sometimes I think we just need to take it with a grain of salt. Here's a third-party unbiased organization. They work with

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the US Census, they work with state government, they look work with with other governments, they work with real communities and they talk to those communities to find out what their feedback is. And I found this extremely positive and and something I I I found just by

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happenstance and I I just wanted to share it with you. >> Very good, Mr. Reger. Thank you for that. I've got one other thing if you'll allow me, Mayor. >> No. >> No. >> No, thumbs up. No, go ahead. Go ahead. >> What you got for me, brother? >> Um uh

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in planning, you would asked us to embark in a study. It had to do with um health. When we were doing some research on uh a couple of things in in our community we came across a couple of American Heart Association um data points. One of them was that

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200,000 people a year die of preventable deaths caused by choking caused by uh uh heart failure and people don't know CPR. And I happen to be talking to Eric, and I think we have this amazing

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resource out there that maybe we could harness in a way. Uh the last time we had a community meeting, uh we were a little disappointed in the turnout. I think only a dozen people showed up. And we were even talking

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about whether or not we would want to continue that, right? On the fifth >> Tuesday of the month. We already voted to stand stand down on that. >> Stand down it, okay. But I was thinking if we could advertise something like that, maybe kill two birds with one stone. Have

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maybe Eric provide us with somebody who is certified in CPR. Um communities don't do that kind of training anymore. When I was a kid, they used to do it all the time. You know, Boy Scouts would have that that sort of thing. And it occurred to me that we have the

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resources here to teach a 15-20 minute CPR class. I was hoping that we might put it on the agenda for one of those town hall meetings. Uh maybe have somebody who's certified and and I'm >> Eric, can you teach CPR in 20 minutes?

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>> No, it's 2-hour class. >> 2-hour class. >> There you go. >> 2 hours. You can get You can get them certified in 2 hours. >> It's a 2-hour 2-hour 2-hour class depending on if it's a recertification or certification. >> Yeah. >> Quick as you're doing is 2 hours for a recert.

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>> Maybe maybe the condensed version just to kind of help people uh with >> That's just That's a one That'd be like one person that you could teach for free. >> All right. >> If you have a class, it's going to take up 4 hours for a recert. >> But you could probably teach like Heimlich maneuver and uh maybe if if somebody's on the ground, how to check

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their pulse, that sort of thing, and maybe how to get their heart started again, uh you know, while 911's on the line. >> a better idea to consider publishing where all the AED devices are in public. >> Yeah, that's a good idea. I'll tell you what, that you probably

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see this on commercials where, you know, it's that plunger device. A lot of people have been saved who are choking on a big old hunk of steak or >> It's not recognized by the American Heart It's not recognized by EMS. That's why Miss Barrows asked us to buy them. >> Oh.

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>> But they will not allow it in the MOU. >> No kidding. >> Yeah. >> No kidding. That's interesting. >> Won't be approved in the protocol. >> What do you think about I mean 2 hours I didn't realize it was that long. >> At least 2 hours. >> I wouldn't necessarily think >> So when I taught CPR, Mr. Reagan, I

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moved at the speed of the slowest student. So if I had six in my class and four rocking it through it and two were slow, we waited for them because to do two-person CPR, you got to have two people. So I would say if we did them six at a time

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we would have to allocate about a at least a half a day per class. >> Mhm. >> Why don't you just break it up do like one Saturday and another Saturday? >> Yeah, well we would, but we still have the same people. You wouldn't get through dozens of people. Not if you're going to do it properly.

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If you want to give people a false hope and think that 10 minutes of CPR training is going to save your life. >> Yeah, and I don't want to do that. >> It ain't going to happen, brother. It's not going to happen. You >> I just I see the kind of quality individuals that we have here, you know, employed by the city and I was looking for a way to

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maybe harness some of their knowledge at some of these town hall meetings. Maybe maybe a light version, like I say, Heimlich method. I mean, I I went to one of these Ducks Unlimited things and a guy started choking and a first responder came up, did the Heimlich

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method and this guy probably saved that guy's life. I mean, I watched that during a meeting about a year ago, year and a half ago and I thought, you know what? And and somebody with a lady at the table is yelling for can somebody help Can somebody help?" And if somebody had said, "Hey, first

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responder, I got somebody choking." You know, even recognizing things like that, that would be helpful. >> Yeah. >> And And like I say, this is this is not hyperbole. American Heart Association says 200,000 people die every year in the United States

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from preventable deaths if somebody nearby knew some form of CPR. So, anyway, just a just a thought. Maybe we can maybe just put it out there as a thought now and we can kind of, you know, stir it a little bit and I was looking for something to share

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with people at these meetings that would perhaps generate a greater level of interest. >> Okay. Thank you, sir. >> Your cookies. >> Sorry? >> Look at that. For sure that'll make the heart attacks happen. >> Mr. Barry, you have the floor. Well,

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ladies and gentlemen, thank you. Oh, I'm sorry. You You're good to go? You have the podium, sir. You have the podium. >> I did? >> Yeah. >> Well, I got a little something here that some people may know about

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and some people don't even have a clue about. Uh >> Is this your CPR certificate? >> This is not a CPR certificate. This is a uh I guess you What do you call that? Plat? Blueprint? >> Yeah, it's a blueprint. Or plat?

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>> map of Parker. And can anybody tell me what county Parker was >> Washington. >> You part of the state? Uh >> No, I haven't. [laughter] >> But believe it or not, Parker was part of Washington County back in the day. I guess y'all all knew

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that. I was I grew up in Graceville, so I I was a Jackson County guy. I knew that. But this uh is a What would I say? A very valuable >> It's a piece of history. >> Are you sure that? >> Very valuable. Very valuable.

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Uh in a lot of different ways. Uh artifact of the city of Parker. And my wife and I would like to donate it to the city. >> Thank you. >> Yay. >> Uh and one thing I thought on here that I thought was kind of interesting

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this is uh This was based on a uh I can find it here. Uh survey that was done in >> Let's see. >> Was 1884? >> 1887. >> Okay.

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>> 1887. So, you're talking about all the future and all the wonderful things that are happening in Parker. Uh this is what was happening in 1887. And I tried to find my street on here. I I found it. Uh >> Is it on there, really? >> Yeah, I found it. Some of the streets

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are named differently and >> They were probably dirt roads back then. >> Yeah. East Cove, West Cove. It's It's much much different than than we know now. But, uh this was an artifact that disappeared for a while

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and is now back. And we want to make sure that uh it never ever leaves the city of Parker. And uh I'm Mr. uh lawyer is not here. So,

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being an esteemed lawyer lawyer we just kind of put together as well a certificate of transfer. >> Okay. >> I don't know if it's even legal. But, uh what it says is Charles and Martha Tendall do hereby transfer and assign all ownership right ownership

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rights of this 1913 plat to the city of Parker originally in our possession uh to the city of Parker in perpetuity. I guess that means forever, right, Mr. Wright? Uh this transfer is made voluntarily

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with full consent of us. We affirm that the city of Parker shall hold all rights, responsibilities, and privileges associated with this plat. Uh, this survey is uh hereby certified and signed below by the mayor and my wife and I.

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And we we didn't want to put that in a big frame. We just thought maybe uh, we could put it >> We'll probably put a copy on the back of the plaque, is that >> on the back of it so that you know, somebody looks at it. Well, what's that? But, uh, we just wanted to make sure it came home.

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>> Thank you, Mr. Tyndall. >> where it should be and uh >> Where would you like me to hang it? >> Wherever you want to, Mayor. >> Okay. >> right there above that clock. Yeah. City of Parker there? Right over there? >> Above the clock? >> I'd like We'd like for it to be in this room. >> Oh, yeah, it's going to be in this room.

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But, uh how heavy is that? Will a nail pull out of the wall? >> Yeah, it's probably It's It's pretty heavy. It It needs a little bit more than a nail. Maybe one of those >> bracket. >> Yeah, you know, you're not nailing it in the wall. >> Okay. We'll figure out something tomorrow.

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We'll figure out something tomorrow, promise. >> we're going to leave it here. >> Okay. >> So, it's yours. Take care of it. >> Okay. >> And uh we thank you. >> Thank you, Mr. Tyndall. Appreciate you, brother. >> It's a very expensive plaque. >> That is a very expensive plaque.

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>> Thank you, Mr. Tyndall. Ladies and gentlemen, that's all we have for tonight. >> Mayor, do you want to say anything about the opening in the planning commission? >> You're right. I'm sorry. >> I thought I just thought about going >> So, we we um we obviously you know that Reggie got

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promoted to city council member and he accepted that. And um do we know yet if that your position has been filled on the planning council? >> Their next meeting is next Tuesday and >> Any thoughts on that? >> And I think Ms. Stanley probably has

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already put it on their agenda. Uh the uh planning commissioners, they serve at the at the request of the the council members. >> But the planning commission themselves are who votes in their own chair. >> Right, right. >> they vote in their own chair. So uh we

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know that Terry right now is the vice chair. >> Uh >> There are four very solid members. All of them could be the chair. Uh but it's really up to them to make that decision. >> Well, it may be up to them, but I think the council should vote on that decision at the very end. In fact, I'm going to

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insist on it because we need to have a good strong uh planning council. >> Yes. >> I want a big strong good strong planning council. So that's the first thing that you should be aware of that they're going to probably promote from within. So if that

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is in fact the case, if they do promote from within, then we'll be looking for uh individuals who may be interested in going on the planning council. And I already happen to know that Mr. Tyndall would be interested in being

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considered for that planning council. And anybody else that wants to go on there, we'd consider them also. So um Ms. Stanley can get you a form. Uh it's a one-page form, not an application. And you can fill out that form and give them to her and we'll give

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them to the council. And then we'll be looking at uh at hopefully filling that seat. If not next week, then the following week. I don't want to wait a whole month, but uh um if they if the if the planning council can pick a chair, then we can

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move on from there. If they can't, then I guess we'll have to pick one for them, but I would hope that they they're able to do so. So if you know anybody that would like to serve uh on the Parker City Council on the park of planning council, or the Parker

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What's the other thing called? the >> infrastructure >> the infrastructure committee then um you can fill out that form and uh uh your name will go in the in in the hat with everybody else's. Yes, ma'am.

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>> So, you just mentioned infrastructure. Um it's been a while since we've had a meeting, Tony. Can we plan something? >> We should be able to plan it this next week, this next fifth Tuesday to have one. The uh road resurfacing road resurfacing is out to bid.

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Um so, hopefully I'll have some information that once that bid comes in. >> Okay. And what's the name on that? >> four >> You're saying in August? >> Well, when's the next fifth Tuesday? >> I don't know if you'll be You won't get no bids by August. >> 30th.

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>> So, we should have the bid by >> They Hold on a second. What'd you say, ma'am? >> We're not doing a fifth Tuesday anymore. >> No, there's no more fifth Tuesdays. We've already done that. >> Normally we have Normally we have the infrastructure meeting on >> on the fifth Tuesday day. >> So, but I still think we should be able We should have the bids hopefully to city council before that.

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>> Right. >> So, we can have a meeting then about it. >> Right. >> So, we'll plan to meet the fifth Tuesday of September. >> Okay. All right. So, do you think we'll have the bids by then, Tony? We won't will we not in August? >> We should have I I I would hope. I

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haven't looked at the dates, but I hope we have them the meeting prior to that meeting. >> Are Clearwave still not working this week or are they going back to work? >> allowed to be resurrection. >> Oh. Okay. Okay, everybody. Thank you for your

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afternoon. I appreciate you. >> Get the whole pie.