Yeah, it is same kind of mercy. Hello. Hello. We'll call the July 22nd, 2025 city council meeting to order. Remind everybody to silence your cell phones
and uh have an opening opening prayer with the pledge of allegiance to the flag. Miss, do you mind leading us in prayer? Yes. Thank you. Heavenly Father, we come before you right now with our bow heads and humble hearts, asking you, oh Lord Jesus, to lead and guide us, shield and protect us. Lord, watch over all the
leaders of this world. Oh sweet Jesus, Lord decrease each and every one of us on this podium that we and you increase in us that we do the business of the city and these blessings we ask in your name. Amen. Amen. I pledge to the flag which
nation. Roll call, please. Ma'am. Council member Grimes here. Council member Hampton here. Council member Wood here. Vice Mayor Landry here. Mayor Ketcher here. Got us for a minute. Mr. Bri, this
good to have y'all back. Yes. Item number three on the and our condolences to your sister. Thank you. Item number three, approve approval of items on the consent agenda. Approval to
read by title only. Ordinance 1055. Approval to read by title only. Resolution 2025-15, 2025-16, and 2025-17. Motion, Council Member Brian,
Council Member Hampton, yes. Council member Woodfolk, yes. Vice Mayor Landry, yes. Mayor Kry, yes. Receiving requests from the general public, is there anyone here who wants to speak on anything that is not on the agenda? Hearing
and seeing no one, we're going to move on to item five. Are there still we still don't have any bids, Carly? In case we have we have no bids to open RFQS to look at. Number six, general business is just got
online. Okay. Yeah. Yes, I'm here. We're going to move move item 6J up to 6A Scots out of town and we were going to go ahead and do the Duke Energy ordinance
verse. Anyway, Scott, can you hear me? Yes, I can. Can you hear me? Okay. Oh, yeah. Good. All right. Adam six. We're going to change the 6A introduction of first reading of
ordinance 1055 for Duke Energy Franchise Agreement. Council will take any action deemed necessary. An ordinance of ordinance granting to Duke Energy Florida LLC DBA Duke Energy and Electric Utility Rights
of Way Utilization franchise prescribing the terms and conditions related to the occupancy of municipal streets and rights of way in the city of Perry, Florida for the purpose of providing electric service providing for a severability for severability of
provisions and providing an effective eight. Well, Scott, say again, Mr. Mayor, I couldn't hear you that time. I said, go ahead. Well, uh, let me introduce Kim Graves, uh, to you. She is on the phone with me.
She is the manager of community and government relations. Uh, and she's in the corporate office here in St. Pete. And this is just the first uh reading of the ordinance. This this ordinance and
agreement that we have with the city of Perry uh was originally signed back in 1996. Uh we are requesting a renewal uh of the franchise agreement with a um
with a statement basically on behalf of Duke Energy to say thank you to the city of Perry for being such a great customer and uh we we appreciate the business and the relationship that we have with you.
Well, we appreciate y'all as well. been a pretty fantastic job the past, you know, two storms we've had getting us back up and going. Yes. And I since what Scott says, um, we have, you know, we're coming up, we're still in storm season, but I know we've
got a long road ahead of us with some other upcoming uh, stuff. So, anything that you guys need from us, just let us know. We're always here to help. I appreciate the way you just keep us going dayto day. But we have very few or
I do at my house have very few outages and I really appreciate that. Yeah, that's that uh that that concrete pole work. Yeah, we we're still working across the whole state of Florida. So, I appreciate it. That's what we're trying to do. Keep the reliability on
a motion. Is this first does anybody have any is there any discussion questions or sir not first reading is there any discussion anybody from the audience or staff
anybody want to say anything I wonder if this would be a good time to address those subcontract issues you brought two meetings ago the Oh did you get it taken care of Danielle or I talked with Scott about it you talked with Scott about it. Scott, are you
aware of the the contractors that were coming around doing damage to property? Uh, John, was this uh what you called me about a little while back about mailboxes and a a hole that was um in somebody's driveway?
Yes. Yeah. And uh Venita, that was Venita, right? Yes. Yes. Yeah. I I did drive over myself and uh investigate. Unfortunately, I you know, I had a street, but I didn't have a particular
address or a customer name. I I did drive that street uh to to both ends. Uh I didn't see any damage, and the indention that I saw on the ground uh didn't look like it was uh in such a way
that it would hurt a vehicle or injure someone if if they were to to step in it. But with that said, if uh if there are other complaints that you would like me to uh to investigate in particular,
I'm ready to do so. Okay. I'll give you a call. Yeah, that'll be fine. Give me a call and we'll ride over there together. Okay. Because I have the um exact addresses of the houses that had the damage done to their personal property such as mailboxes and driveways and and
the city garbage cans. I'll be happy to help you with that. Okay. All right. I'll speak with you. Thank you. Yeah. What happened? What happened? Um mailboxes were damaged for when they
were backing up or when they were putting poles up, they were just letting them fall. Yeah. And you know, like people that had like decorations in their yards, it was getting damaged because with them backing the big trucks up, they were they weren't paying attention. And a lot of damage was getting done residents property up in
the ballet area. Any other discussion from anyone about anything? Bring that to my attention. Thanks, Scott. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. We'll we'll attend the uh public hearing for the franchise agreement. We look forward to meeting with you.
All right. See you then. Thank you. Thank you. Bye. Hi. Okay. Agenda item 6 A. Kayla Pearller with Powell Jones CPA to present the 2023 2024 financial audit and council to take any
action deemed necessary. First off, my name is Caleb Pura. I'm one of the Jones CPA and I'm here to 2024 financial aid.
Morning's report. On page six, we have the independent audit report says in the ending paragraph, we have audit bills financial statements of the city of Perry and in our opinion of financial statements
present fairly in all material respects the financial position of the city as of September 30, 2024. The basis for opinion paragraph of third paragraph down it says we conducted our audit in accordance with auditing standards generally accepted in the United States of America and with
government audit standards. Next move on to page nage we have management discussion analysis. Obviously this is quite a large report. management discussion and analysis is a more compressed view of these financial statements and is a great place to start
if you're looking for a summarized read to condense this information. But I'm going to move on to the financial statements themselves on page 22. You have the balance sheet of the governmental funds. This lists each one of your governmental
funds in a column and then as a total for all of them. This does not include your utilities and business type attributes. For your assets, you had $6 million in cash. I'm going to cover just some of the
major ones here. You had amounts due from other funds of 1.0 08 billion amounts due from other governments of 1.02 million and restricted cash balances of 876,000
total assets for 9.16 million. Next we have your liabilities or what you owe accounts payable of 321,000 acred liabilities of 321,000 book
unearned revenues of 1,395,000 and amounts due to other funds of 1,750,000. Total liabilities were 3,79,000 for year end.
The difference between your assets and was your fund balances or essentially your net worth as of year end. These are segregated into three main components. restricted balances which were 96,000 assigned balances of 1,848,000
and unassigned balances of 2,483,000. That unassigned balances represents amounts that can be used to fund ongoing operations for the city. The this represents about one year in expenditures for your governmental
funds. So fairly sufficient reserve there as the GFOA recommends two months. Moving on to page 24. Here we have the statement of revenues, expenditures, and changes in fund
balance. This is similar to an income statement in forprofit accounting. Once again, this is for your governmental funds. for your revenues. I'm going to hit on some of the larger numbers here. We have property taxes of 1,997,000,
discretionary sales tax of 775,000, telecommunications of 267,000, franchise taxes of 412 420,000, motor fuel taxes of 985,000,
utility taxes of 559,000, and intergovernmental revenues of 563 3,000 and grant revenues of 1,426,000. Total revenues altogether were
8,279,000. Next, you have your expenditures. These are split out by the main functions or category or departments of your government. You have general government which had 2,179,000
expenditures. garage 165,000 police 2.6 million fire 1.5 million public works transportation one or 766,000 and economic development of 49,000.
Now you also have your capital outlay or amounts used to purchase capital assets that have a life of more than one year of 2,259,000. Total expenditures altogether were 9,577,000. This created a deficiency of revenues
over 1,297,000. But you had transfers in and out that netted $500,000 in uh in your other financing sources and uses and speed up proceeds which is subscriptionbased IT
arrangements uh of 400,000 and this brought your total other financing sources and uses to a $900,000 increase. Um and your net change in fund balances were 397,000
decrease as of year end. Now um that okay I would like to note also here that there was a net change in fund balance in the general fund of $288,000 that was increase. Um, now this also was
subsidized by those net transfers I was talking to you about previously of 500,000. The net came in from the um the gap revenue fund. So without that included in the general fund, you would have run a $272,000 loss for the year. Now this isn't
terrible considering all the hurricanes and other expenditures that occurred during the year. Moving on to the two pages back to page 26. This is the statement of net position
for the proprietary fund. Each one of these funds are listed here. The columns uh these are your utility funds. This is uh similar to a balance sheet. Shows your assets and your liabilities. The difference between those which are
your net is your net position or essentially your net worth every year. Assets these are broken out between current and capital assets. Your current assets which use the fun operations for the next year includes cash of 6.9 million.
Accounts receivable of 831,000 amounts due from other funds of 1,226,000 amounts due from other governments of 652,000 and inventories of 460,000.
Total current assets total 10 million as of year end. Next we have your capital assets which total 32.7 million for the year. This brings your
total assets altogether to 42.7 million. We're going to move on to your liabilities. These are once again segregated between current and non-current. Um for your current liabilities, those are amounts that are expected to be payable within the next year or at least to be drawn
upon in the next year. And the non-current liability represents amounts that are not going to be payable in the next year for a longer term. For current liabilities, um, you had accounts payable of 407,000. You had SRF, USDA, and pre-construction
loans payable of 238,000 payable. Next year, you had amounts due to other funds of 563,000 and utility deposits of 239,000. Total current liabilities altogether
were 1,570,000. Next we have your non-current liabilities. Um the primary uh balances here are your SRF loans which were 3.6 million, your USDA loan of 2.7 million and your
pre-construction loan of 11 or 111,000. You also have OPED payables and net pension liabilities of 856,000 in net. Those represent amounts that are calculated by actuaries for your
benefits given to your retirees. And finally, the difference between your assets and your liabilities. You had total liabilities of 8.879 879 million and you have those total assets of 42.7.
When you take those away, you're left with 33.9 million in net position or net worth. Majority of this is tied up in your capital assets, which is the first number on net under net position of 26 million. The unrestricted portion of
your net position, which can be used to fund ongoing operations, is 7.8 8 million which represents uh about one year of operating expenses. Moving on to the next page. Here we have the statement of revenues, expenditures and changes in net position
for the proprietary funds. Once again income statement, your total operating revenues for your utilities were 8.2 2 million for the year. Then in your operating expenses,
you had a total of 7.35 million. U some of the larger components of this were personnel services which were 1.97 million uh supplies and expenses of 2.29 million and depreciation expense which
was 1.86 million. Total operating income for all of your proprietary funds was 9 9,000. Next, we have your nonoperating revenues and expenses. These total decrease of
238,000 for the year. You also had transfers out of 500,000 and capital contributions and operating grants of 4.23 million for the year. When you add these all up together, you
had a net change. Basically, your total profit all in all together for all of your proprietary funds of 4.88 million. This increased your net position from 29 million to 33.9 million.
Moving on to the next page, this is the statement of cash flows that previous statements were on the um approval basis. This is just showing cash in and out for your proprietary box. Chose net cash provided by operating activities
was 2.46 million and net cash used in non- capital financing activities of 1.163 million and net cash flows used in capital and related financing activities was 144,000.
Total net increase in cash as of year end was 1.17 million which increased your cash from 5.7 to 6.8 million or almost 6.9 million as of year end. So very solid cash and operating results
there. We added over a million dollars and just capping on what we had said previously we had a pretty decent change in that position for those proprietary funds as well. So good operating results. I'd say that um even though you guys had the storm and a lot of uh cost
associated with that, you guys have enough reserves to weather that storm uh financially. Moving on to page 30. Um here we have your fiduciary funds. Um this is the statement of that position which just delivered a balance sheet for
the police officers and firefighters pension funds. Your total assets were 16.8 million liabilities were 72,000. So your net position was 16.7 million as of year end. um you had approximately a
$2 million liability estimated by the actuaries for the police and firefighters pension funds. Though this uh liability is adjusted year to year. Um next year looks like it's going to be much better. Probably put you actually in the positives because that can swing
wildly based on things like um your stock investment returns, things like that, which obviously stocks fairly well. Moving on to the next page, we have your statement about revenues, expenditures, and changes
position. Once again, firefighters, police officers, and firefighters fund. Um, your net uh sorry, total contributions to these plans for the year were 577,000.
You had investment income of 3.17 million which brought your total increase or add additions to these funds up to 3.75 million. Then you had your deductions which were paid out primarily for benefits which totaled 1,233,000
causing a net increase in balances of 2.5 million of your rent. Moving on to the next page, we have the notes to the financial statements. Each one of those tables we looked at previously at the assoc
because those are just the numbers. They don't necessarily explain why behind the numbers. These notes provide a lot of background and supporting information. everything from this note one which is a summary of your significant policies. It talks about the
and things like information on your debt, the different uh loans that you got to have and the repayment terms to things like your assets and the remaining depreciable lies and all those. I'm not going to cover these in detail. We're going to skip on to page
75. On page 75, we have our budgetary comparison schedule for the 10. Here we have your revenues and expenditures. what was budgeted versus your actual also with your original
amounts for total revenues. Uh you bud your final budget amount was 6 million and you had 6.8 in actual exp actual revenues which meant that you exceeded budgeted revenues by 885,000 which is very good there. For
expenditures, you budgeted 7,699,000 and you expended 9,528,000, which means that you went over your budgeted expenses by 1,828,000.
So, a relatively large uh amount that you guys went over budget there primarily due to hurricanes and other capital investment that you guys did. Next we have your other financing sources and uses which include your
transfers in um these uh were budgeted at $1.75 million actual 2.86 86 million which was the fact that you had additional $1,114,000 in income from that.
Net bottom line, you budgeted 57,000 to go to reserves and you uh your actual results had 228,000 going to reserves which meant that you had 171,000 in excess of net budgets.
Okay, let's move on to page 98. page 98. Page 98, we have the schedule of expenditures of federal awards and state financial assistance. This shows all the expenditures for federal and state grants for the year. For total federal awards you expended we
had 5,949,000 because you exceeded 750,000 that required us to do additional procedures for a federal single audit. We selected your uh drinking water SRF loan and loan forgiveness programs as your major
programs. That's 16 66.468 the assistance lifting number. Total expenditures under those programs was 3,243,000 at the year end. For state awards, we had 432,000
which was under the $750,000 threshold. So it did not require a state launch effect. Our report on control over financial reporting compliance in the internal control section it said
that we did not identify any deficiencies. And on the next page in the the report on compliance other matter section which has to do with any uh direct material uh compliance issues that we encounter. We didn't see any material non-compliance
that was required to be reported under government operations. Moving to the next page page 102 our report on compliance for each major program. In the second paragraph, it
says that the city applied all material specs with the compliance requirements for that program. Moving back a few pages to page 109 is the independent account. on the independent account support. Uh
this explains that we did an examination to determine whether the city was in compliance with certain board statutes relating to investment public funds and the editor of community redevelopment agency funds. We found uh in the second to last paragraph that the city complied
in all material aspects of those statutes. This concludes my presentation financial statements. I just want to say thank you to Carly. She did a great job. I know it was tough coming in towards the end and having to switch accounting
softwares and having these storms, but she was a trooper and got everything done for us and to get Amy to change. So, I was really thankful there even obviously a little worrisome when you have someone like Penny who's been here for so long transition now and uh we're
just thankful that she she done a great job in herstead. You guys have any questions? I think we're all good. Thank you. You too. Going home. The agenda on 6B
resolution 2025-15 budget amendment for the local option gas tax and council will take any action deemed necessary. A resolution of the city council amending the budget of the general fund and local option gas tax fund for the
city of Perry, Florida for the fiscal year October 1st, 2024 through September 30th, 2025. 300,000 of it was this year, this fiscal year. So I needed to do a budget
amendment or be like 300,000 over budget. It's just it's already been spent. Y'all already approved the project. This is just house. Okay. Have a motion motion. What What is the amount?
$37,410.72 for the store of the year. We did two years worth of paving in one year at one time basically this year, right? To save to save the mobilization costs, I think. Yeah.
Second Brown. Yes. Council member Hampton. Yes. Council member Wood. Yes. Vice Mayor Landry. Yes. Mayor Ket. Yes. Excuse me. Agenda item 6 C, resolution
2025-16, budget amendment for legal fees, and council will take any action deemed necessary. Resolution of the city council amending the budget of the general fund and water fund for the city of Perry, Florida for the
fiscal year 20 October 1st, 2024 through September 30th, 2025. contract up to $52,000. So, she has the $36,000 retainer and then have anything extra,
she can build up to $52,000 contract amount. Um I was told when I budgeted last year that you just did the 36,000 but you had the um invoice for the seller versus Manning's case. We didn't have enough
money in there to just truly what her is for this budget year. I've budgeted what her is. We have a motion. So is that Landry?
Miss Landry second. Council member Bryant. Yes. Council member Hampton. Council member Woodall. Yes. Vice Mayor Landry. Yes. Mayor Kry. Yes. Agenda item 6D resolution 2025-17
budget amendment for ARPA and council will take any action dee necessary. Resolution of the city council amending the budget budget of the general fund and warehouse fund for the city of Perry, Florida for the fiscal year
October 1st, 2024 through September 30th, 2025 last year with ARPA and then there's higher priorities or we can't get it in time. you need to get it by the police here. Um, so like the police and K9
training facility, they possibly are going to have access to a different facility. So they don't want to buy their own and they think that they safety equipment would be more beneficial to them. So they wanted to ask for that change order. And then for
the warehouse department, we have decided we haven't gotten to be able to do the inventory system this year. We're trying to take it piece by piece and it's kind of one of those things that the previous finance director made the decision to have that inventory module
in our system and I'm not sure that it's going to work because of the way that it's set up and there's just a lot of that stuff. So, we need filing cabinets for payroll because currently we don't have enough filing cabinets to store all
of the employee files properly. they're not environment. Okay. So, and then then the rest we just want to say like say that somebody purchased they budgeted 5,000 we got it from pork just put that remaining money towards the garbage truck that we already purchased
um and just change the money around that way we use all the AR money this year. Okay. Well, this is our last year, isn't it? To use it but we we had budgeted all of it this
year. We just like to be done. Yeah. That's smart. All right. I have a motion or any other discussion. If not, we entertain a motion. You said if you have any money left
it that will go toward garbage truck. So the garbage truck that we purchased already. Remember we pulled some we purchased some water revenue. Yeah. But I mean we still had we already paid for it. We would just move money around
instead of paying using water revenue. You can then use the AR for money and that frees up the water every day. That's not necessarily has to be capital outlet to be operating. The only thing I know that we need God
is we need all of this and knows we need God's trouble. Got to get those men off the back of the trailer because it's unsafe.
This would help us get it. Dang, that garbage truck we purchased is still under warranty, isn't it? So, they're fixing whatever. Did we ever find out what the problem was? They won't give us a loaner until this is the company you're using.
don't have just be another one like what we had. It's a sensor. They're having something to do with the sensor, but it's an emission sensor.
What I was told and it was not the the garbage part of the truck was actually the chassis of the truck from Freight. Okay. Y freight. Yeah. So, this is a Peterville truck. Yeah.
You know, I just I heard the garage guys talking about it. They were It's just the special the diesel. There's so much emission sensors. That's what it is. I've got a tractor
at the airport that's 21 years old. I got a tractor that's two years old. The two-y old gives me a lot more problems than that old one because of the emissions what you're talking about the death the it's just a it's a
it's just one thing after another. Talking to some of the vendors truck prices are supposed to go up 40 50 $60,000 because I guess some of the emissions that the government placed on the trucks in the next few years. So it's just gonna get
keep increasing batt and tariffs and whatever else. So yeah. Anyway, have any more discussion on the budget amendment for ARPA? If not, I'll entertain a motion.
Yes, he did. Yeah. Okay. I think he already did. Have a second. Second by Miss Landry. Council member Bry. Yes. Council member Hampton. Council member Woodall. Yes. Vice Mayor.
Yes. Yes. Agenda item 6E, proclamation of appreciation, and council will take any action deemed necessary. You want me to read this? It may hurt.
Proclamation of appreciation. Whereas the city of Perry submitted critical projects for inclusion in the state of Florida's budget for the 2025 2026 fiscal year. Whereas five projects were approved by Governor Ronda Santis with new vetos
ensuring vital investments in the future prosperity and well-being of our community. And whereas the city of Perry recognizes the outstanding leadership and steadfast advocacy of our legislative delegation, including represent representative Jason Schae,
Senator Corey Simon, and their dedicated staff whose efforts during the legislative process greatly benefited our city. And whereas the city also extends its sincere gratitude to Governor Ronda Santis and his and his professional
staff for their thorough review and the steadfast support of these projects ensuring the taxpayer dollars are invested wisely and effectively for the benefit of Perry residences residents. Now therefore, the city council of Perry, Florida, does hereby extend its
deepest thanks and sincere appreciation to representative Jason Surf, Senator Corey Simon, their dedicated legislative staff, Governor Ronda Santis, the governor's professional staff for their exemplary leadership, tireless efforts,
and unwavering commitment to the success of the city of Perry. Let it be known that their collective efforts have created a lasting and meaningful impact on our community. And the city of Perry remains committed to honoring this investment through responsible stewardship and continued
growth. Not an expert in I know enough about it. Document like this the city attorney doesn't belong. attorney attorney say he's saying it city of
city attorney doesn't belong the mayor where it says board catcher there that needs to move up under mayor and John Mark as the clerk moves under the clerk.
If we don't put the attorney out here, let's put the animal control just below around here. Great. That's just our standard letterhead. It just looks that way the way it's all
lined up. But yeah, I can make it look better for the official one. Yeah. They need a vote. That was discussion that we voted. They need a vote. All right. So, necessary.
Did we vote yet? Motion with changes, general. Motion to change it. Motion with changes. Council member R. Council member Bry. Council member Hampton.
Yes. Council member. Yes. Vice Mayor Lry. Yes. Mayor. Yes. Agenda item 6F. Council to discuss proposed millage rate for the city of Perry for the fiscal year 2025 2026.
Council will take any action deemed necessary 5.836. That's the same billing rate as last year. That would bring in $2,151,000 at $266 2,1,26
with $27,492 of this go. Um, $36,000 more than what we brought in last fiscal year with the adjusted prior year actual proceeds. So this would be sees a 0.25%
change from the roll back rate. This is the city manager's recommendation to fund our budget. Um their other two options are the current year roll back rate which is 5.8188 and it is the millage rate that would bring in the same amount of tax as last year considering any adjustments in the
tax roll. Sorry, what was the number again? I didn't I mean I could give typically I'll just say the what's your second it's 5.818.
Okay. I mean the mill rate it's more so y'all are telling me if you wanted to leave it the same and bring in the same amount of revenue or if you want to change it and increase it or so it would bring in 2,145,000
and then the maximum millage rate that you do is 6.4272 4272 and it is the maximum millage rate but only with a majority vote. It would bring in $2,370,000 and that's 218,000 more than last year.
So John's recommendation is to leave it the same as last year at 5.8336. Yep. a house. It would bring in 2,151,266 was 2,100
45,000. So we input in the budget for he presents tonight as the prior. Okay. So you're talking about a $6,000 difference. It's a 0.25%
27 fund got it. Y'all voted on it a while back and it took us a long time to get it. Weird. Yeah, because you had to go through
find the right person who knew it. Do we have a document with any of those figures on it? I could pass it around, but it's just the But you're going to put this in the next meeting. I do need to know a number tonight
because we have to give it to the tax the property appraiser. So, it's either the prior year, which brings in $6,000 more, or it's the roll back rate, which only brings in column saints.
I will do it next year but we do this we have to make decision to go back down I will yeah only works one direction and John your recommendation was to say stay the same
you will be doing fine $6,000 property taxes. I don't know how they can predict when we don't know what the taxes are going to be. Yeah. How are you able to predict when they get these numbers from the trim? Um
the truth in millillage. So this is what the property taxes will be. This is how they're determined is the mill rate. I'm saying we've lost so much. The city though in the city we didn't lose a lot. It's it was the county but I
mean Donna Beach with property bridge and she already has done her evaluation for this year. Yeah, she comes she know she comes to I don't remember her doing that last year. I know at some point she used to
can't remember when it was up to me. I go back 6,000 Aaron heard I don't think he would say it was up to me which would get a true
151 1,266 instead of the 2005, right? Basically, you go for the lesser rate. Yes, ma'am. It would be if you 51,000 and if you went with the rate that
you're saying it would be 2,145,000. So it's a $6,000. Yes. Roll back rate and current. What's the difference? 36,000. Oh yeah. 36,000
from last year would generate $36,000. it would generate that's what when I put it into I think it's the property value for the current mil $6,000 I thought it was low.
Yeah, that is extremely low. Uhhuh. Okay. [Laughter] That's difference in roll back. Yeah. Wondering if it's worth it.
Yeah. Go ahead. If we find something different later, we can bring us down. Bring it down. You can't go up. Can't go up. Nope. Go forward. I'll make the motion for it to stay as last year's
5.8336. Okay. 5.8836 mills. I'll second that. Council member Bry. Yes. Council member Hampton. No.
Council member Wood. Yes. Vice Mayor Landry. Yes. Mayor Kendrick. Yes. And once we find out if we can go down, we can always have that option. That's if it's feasible cuz
true. We don't want to be at a B like the county in right now. What's my agenda and all this paperwork? All right. Agenda item 6 G H. Right. Is it G? Yes.
Oh, okay. Yeah, we're set in the public hearing what we just did. I think council will set public hearing dates for the fiscal year 2025 2026 millage rate in the fiscal year 2025 budget and council will take
any action deemed necessary. Council final part is trying to figure out the dates. My discussions are September 11th, Thursday, but the school board public hearings on our regular day
and then September 30 23rd, which is the regular, and then they just need to be at 5:00. Thank you. Everybody okay with those dates? 911 has a bad ring to it, but it does unfortunately.
at 2 p.m. You said 5:00. Sorry. So, we do on the 112. On the 23rd, it would just follow our 4:00 meeting, but on the 11th, it' be a five. They both would need to be at
Yeah. We're not going to have our regular meeting on the 9th. Yeah. cancel. I don't want to cancel it. All right. Agend
item 6H. Wait, were we Did we finish that? Everybody agree on Okay. Agenda item 6H. Pursuant the COOP charter section 5.02 02 city manager to officially
present the proposed budget for the COP for fiscal year 2025 2026 and council to take any action deemed necessary. That's the military workers cost this
fully paid. That's how works. replace it all split up equally J. What about the health insurance? I noticed a big difference in it this year to last year. I don't even have a mark
now. But you know if somebody went from say that they only had employee coverage and then they went to family it would bring it up and you know turn over. So that could be why
I thought it went down though and that's why it still went up 1.5%. Okay. How much did the FRS go up? the numbers, but each one was like 0. Okay.
It's all police and fire in a separate retirement. So and I'm looking at the life and health for ad admin services. I don't have a page number,
but it says that in 2024 it was 41,600 and something. In 25 was 50,882. And you're recommending $84,000.
$74. That's a big jump. In 2025, it was budgeted at 82,000. Yeah. And we're already at 50,000 this year. Yeah. We still have But we probably haven't paid June and
then we'll have July, August, September. based it off of each employee if you have employee spouse child like from 50 to 80 was a big jump. Where is the budget? I'm looking at something that says
admin recommend. What is that? That's what that So, this is out of our new engine system. So we input the admin recommended is what our budget is or what we're that's what we're recommending to you to approve with the
budget. Say that again. The admin recommended is what we're recommending to you all to approve with the budget. So that's that's what's okay. What's the next column? 2025
a repeat. That's the fiscal year 2425 budget and then the actual 2025 is that appropriated is that what is that budget like that's what was appropriated
deate is All right. Change every time we send this out. Maybe I'll figure it out. I'm looking at estimated operating revenues general fund 5.6.
I'm summary. Then if you'll turn the page uh recommend this 5.9 it can't be that way that includes grant revenue. What? So on the first page the estimated
operating revenues of 5.6 plus the grant revenues of two 253,000 is going to be the 5.9 because on the 5.9 it includes the fire grant, the storm water grant.
Maybe add a line in below that that says, but this that's just how it's set up. But if we're going to budget grants, I have to put it in the system and it's going to reflect operating.
It's going to come out overall budget figure. But the front page is just kind of the true operating numbers, true operating. And then you have your grant revenue and grant expenditures. But
those do flow in and out. But these are grants that have already been approved. Yes, ma'am. Like those two are actually we started them this year. You just make it real simple and say
instead admin recommended say 26 budget or something. and change it. That's just what came out of our ed tech software. So I was input it back into the system. I have to
work out of the same spreadsheet. What has been page? What what has been received? That would be the 20 25 actual problem. You're comfortable
at using cash reserve for operating expenses. Just you parts. Are you talking about the parts? talking about a 3% increase in pay that's coming
out of cash reserves. Sure, it is [Music] going to cash with the increase. That's 688,000 surplus budgeted and there's 553 so far I like.
David Down to 553. schedule budget work regular meeting for Saturday.
Did you see a dollar amount in anywhere in there on poor reserves? It was for the parks is what I thought you were referring to. That's why I talked about that. So for the parks project or the boys and girls club project in parks which y'all approved
which is $150,000. It's not going to be finished. So yeah, I see that's the amount that was gonna that's what I thought he was talking about. Why wouldn't it be available? But I didn't see reserves anywhere else.
That portion is not finished. If you had 150,000 and you only spent 50, you got a contract for 100,000 a contract
and it ought to be acred. I thought it wouldn't acrew though if it not completed until the next year. What? If it's not completed until the following year, I didn't think it would be in
double check with the it be approved. Typically, the way that they're acrewing is based on invoicing when we pay it and that date. It's not just when the project was approved by you all. They're apping it based on actual date
of pay. to when they receive the money. I mean, it ends up being the same, but I just don't want it to be over look like it's over budget. Thank goodness we got some water. All right. Yeah, when you want to set the workshops
during regular meetings or just have separate workshops just for the budget. When did you need this approved? The budget y'all will not approve until the two public hearings in September.
just receiving feedback. Yeah. All right. Today's the 22nd according to my phone. You want to try to have one? Well, we got the August 12th meeting coming up. Do you want to try to have
one then? What we going to do differently there than what we've done tonight? I mean, we're in a regular meeting tonight, so just be better prepared for it. Maybe. Yeah. I mean, we could have us a dedicated workshop just for the budget
if y'all wish. Two or three, however many it takes. Maybe it would be a better idea to have a separate one. Well, be the pleasure of the council. Do it with me. schedule budget workshops
or we can come in early 4:00. We have a workshop. Wayne, I'm sorry. And we come in at 4:00 on the 11th and the 23rd and then we have a 5:00 meeting.
Typically, like we want the budget workshops to be in July and a or July August prior to because that way we can get feedback correct what y'all want and then hopefully when we present the budget September 11th, that's kind of what y'all that's already how y'all want
it and I'm not having to change a lot in the last few weeks. Doesn't matter. That makes sense. Name it, ma'am. Name it. How about we do the first one in August 12th during the regular meeting and see
where it goes from there. Here's everybody okay with that. like to be prepared to that's going to be a that's going to be a long meeting and like I said let's need to set another one during the day sometime either way okay so when
August 12th during the regular meeting and we need to set more we will that worked early so she has time It's going to be at 4. Yeah. Starting at 4 during the regular meeting, we'll
we can just go ahead and get the general business and then go in the budget workshop. Do we have to set a separate meeting just for the budget workshop? I don't think we do. I would just go
places. Okay. August 12th, 4 o'clock, we'll have the regular meeting and then we'll when we get done with the regular meeting, we'll just roll into the workshop. Hopefully now we'll just All right, sounds good.
496J item 6K council to sign letter for police department JAG grant authorization and council to take any action deemed necessary that's want to change around a little bit right okay
that's actually on the screen that Mr. parts displaying. That's the change copy that she emailed to us. If you'll scroll down, you'll see the Yep. Right here at the bottom. So, they took it out of the first
And I believe he's going to be using them for investigative purposes investigations. It's like it's the grant we've gotten in the past. It's like justice assisted grant is authorizing you to sign the grant
when you're ready to sign it. Same thing you did with the last meeting with all the Hurricane, man. Must be hard to find. I understand. Everybody okay with that? Yep. Signing. Okay. But
she's going to make a correction first, right? Yes. We have a motion. Motion. Second. Council member Bry. Yes. Council member Hampton. Yes. Council member Woodall. Yes. Vice Mayor Landry.
Yes. Yes. Agenda item 6L. Council to discuss International Property Maintenance Code and council will take any action deemed necessary. I got looking into it myself. It's a little too detailed for my liking.
It could violate just about every square inch of the city of Perry with it. I understand something needs to be done, but that thing's just too detailed. It's too much. One one thing that someone said in this meeting once before is
that rung with me or stayed with me is it you know we were told that these regulations and these laws are ours. So yeah, I had when you think about it,
me and they suggested if we needed to make if we needed more than what we have to make changes in our current code, not adopt some universal code. That's right. You know,
where did this come from? Our current who initiated the who initiated change in the code who initiated that code? It was conceal a meeting we had with Don Perez coming
up with ideas how to make downtown better and one of us talking about policy and that was just specific for downtown. that you had two downtown strategies I'm assuming. One of the things that came out of his
policy changes to address the buildings downtown. We got to look at our current code and all it really says is hazardous buildings. Just because it's ugly don't mean it's hazardous. Hazard. Yeah. When I was searching for ways to try to make downtown better, this popped up that a lot of
municipalities have already adopted and I agree with you. The wrong hands every property per violation of something. It's wrong. Well, once you set this thing in motion, I mean, you got to figure the variables
of the people that are going to be involved. I mean, I mean, code enforcement officer could change, the police chief could change, we change, you change, and then in the wrong hands, it could be. Yeah. Yeah. I agree with you. I'm going to
if you got that big, if we do this, you got to go and pick each one of those out and do away with it. I think we ought to change what we got and add to it, revamp it whatever we
need to do to make it work. Do we have any idea how many property infraction code ordinances type thing that basically what this thing is doing? Do how many do we have already in place? I don't even know. I know one's been done here, one's been
done there, and there's part of one in here. Like you were saying, they're scattered all in that got some that fall under the ordinance, some that falls under the land development regulations. There you go. So, residential
anything. There's not a lot that gives them leverage on the commercial aspect. That's what he was looking to I got to talk. Okay. I agree with they need to do something. We got Rs falling in and all kind of stuff. Yes, this
I was told this would make Harry H pretty much. So I don't so okay you know I saw where you had set out what you had started as questions about
specific things that we might want to address and that was a good start on on what we need to do that I did that she Look at what we have and bring some things back.
What about that commercial sign there? Just beat up. I'm bring Didn't we get some money from somewhere to help some of them with signage
asking for a million through CGP? I talk about downtown. You don't know where signs just blown out. You got frames and pieces and stuff just sitting there. John, with that um that grant
you saying that we what you say a million? Um is it people on the waiting list for that or it's going to be you put your paperwork in and let's get the money approved first and we'll figure out part of that is admin fees too. So they'll be helping us out the program
however works. Okay. I know CDBT it's up to 22,000 per facade. Okay. That they have to hire like a a designer or approves the land and all that. It'll be a full process. Okay.
That's that's a year down the road. Okay. I was thinking be something like the dream grant. It's like that. Yeah. monitored by an architect or a planner and all that. It'll be good if we get it and it's
going to be tied to the fire department. We get a fire department if we get solid fire going up. My daughter did not change our store at all. We have a good project already in there with a high score. Good. Good deal.
Any more discussion on the International Property Code maintenance? Should have not, we move on to agenda item 6M. Council to discuss road closings request for King Tree Parade, Forest
Festival, kids parade, Christmas parade, trunk or treat, and council to take any action deemed necessary. So, we're in road closing season. thought we already last year Jamie come to us and he stated
that he wanted to already have this done when he didn't have to every year come before us and do this. So is it a requirement that he has to do this every year because he stated last year that's why he wanted to he wanted to get that part out of the way. Yeah. Some kind of blanket. Yeah. Well, he wouldn't have to come
before us every year and ask. He may have forgotten about that but he's the one that emailed us. I'd rather not speak for him, but I think what the intention was is to actually have guys approve for him to do all of them for that. Yes. Yes.
So, this would be the next year moving forward. Same request as we normally have the chamber to last. I think correct. I think what you ask once a year
for all this is the once a year. Okay. Yeah, because we work out this is you giving them so we wouldn't have to do it individually. We just do it all at once. Okay. Okay.
Gotcha. And we changed events. I mean, we're having a Christmas parade this year that we don't normally have. I think things got a little messed up with the hurricanes. Okay. Things kind of came and went. I think we're trying to get back on
schedule now. Hopefully, we'll stay on schedule. It's a weekend. I think she's trying to make it a weekend, is it? One night. Yeah. Event.
Oh, anything for the kids. Anyway, Miss An made a motion. Do we have a second? Second. Yes. Council member Hampton. Yes. Council member. Yes. Vice Mayor Landy. Yes.
Possibly. It's an answer. Yes. It does come with a whole agreement every year. You still want to get approved every year. Every year. Okay. Agenda item 6N, council to appoint one citizen to serve
on the Perry Fire Pension Board of Trustees and council to take any action deemed necessary. Um, Mr. Mark Southerntherly has agreed to do it. He's looked at the insurance that he wanted me to send them.
He said everything looked good for him. So he's just he's ready to start with y'all's blessing. Good. I have a motion. I think everybody motionbody. Excuse me.
Council member. Yes. Council member, Vice Mayor Landry. Yes. And Mayor Kedron. Yes. Agenda item 6
or zero. Take your pick. Approval of minutes for the June 2024, 2025 regular session. Motion to accept. I have one question.
when you all were discussing the forward sign and center so you had a put up traffic back I think we voted yeah to for it to stay
as is yeah we voted for it to stay like it is it was going to be very expensive to put it right in and it's working well like it is so we voted to keep it like it is Traffic is
I've even talked with the bus garage, the lady of the bus garage, and they like it. The night the gentleman come weren't here to put the new light up, they discovered that the box is bad traffic. I cannot remember the dollar
amount. It was a lot. It was a lot. And while he was there, he had 10 different people stop and ask him what he was doing and they did not want the light up. So that's why he mentioned that to
Wasn't it mainly put there for school traffic to start with or I I don't know. I'm asking. Yeah. Only I can figure the lights up back up the one time. I had more complaints because they liked it the other way.
I've not had the first complaint. Stop signs. Well, most everybody there's nobody around treats us a stop sign anyway. Truth be known. But we've put up additional signage. Let them know there's stop ahead [Music]
of Okay, you made a motion. Council Yes. Yes. Council member. Yes. Vice Mayor Landry. Yes.
Mayor Patrick. Yes. City manager. Report. Whoa, I can't believe what I said. 176. Oh, okay. Carly
le department. Uh just that keep on talked yesterday after we had an interview with a police applicant. Uh he signed his conditional offer of employment today accepting it. So we are waiting on drug screening physical and hopefully we'll have a new officer here
within the next couple of weeks. He's already certified. So we're excited about that. Not it's not good to see everybody but it's really good to see. Yes it is.
to see Mr. Mr. Good to see you back. All right, Arby. We're just uh we're still flushing the hydrants, working on them, and uh
we put in for another firehouse sub agreement. Our last one was denied. We don't we put in for another one this time. I think we had to have it in on July the 8th, I think it was, or something like that. But anyway, we put
in for how much longer will it take you to finish the hydrants, do you think? We're a little over 10, but considering that the first 25% of them had to be dual tested, it took a lot longer. Um,
now that we're just floating, we're doing a quarter of them doing the flow test and all that. A quarter a year. A quarter of a year. So they don't take so long to do. Every five years they got to be tested
and uh for ISO. So we doing a quarter every year. Then after we do that quarter, then it's just blowing the hydrants and flushing them out, greasing everything, make sure everything works. So weather permitting,
I would guess between 8 to 10 flushing days we should be done. So that's going to be three of week. So it's going to be it'll be the middle probably of next month, I would assume. Okay. The middle to the end of August. Well, that's good. Y'all have playing
well. Thank you. You guys have been doing a good job. Daniel, I've got a couple things. Um, one is just for y'all's thought for next
meeting. The parcel that we own on Plantation Road that has damage from Hurricane I a gentleman has come to us. He lives right behind the parcel. He wants to purchase the parcel
and he's willing to clean the parcel, have the trees cut, cut and clean the parcel if we will, you know, cut some of the cost of purchasing the lot. I've sent out letters. One property owner has contacted me that he is not interested.
He told me his neighbor the neighbor on the other side of the lot that they were not interested, but they have not contacted me. So, their time's up. It's actually the end of this week. Um, so it's just something to think about to sell. And I guess we'll have to
come up with a price. But we we receive quotes to clean that lot anywhere from $8,000 to 20ome,000. So, that's just something to think about to sell a lot. I'm not sure what the lot's even worth.
That's on plantation. Yes, ma'am. We really don't have any no need business or need. It's a it's a low light. It's I think it's I think it's a flood zone. If it isn't it was intended years
they put the station. Yeah. They were going to use that spot for a lift station but after whatever they had to do and come find out they anyway they went with the E1 pumps in that neighborhood. So we have
no need for that that I'm not mistaken. Aren't all neighborhoods of any size aren't they supposed to give x amount of lots to the city for that purpose? Isn't that how the city wound up with so many different lots
all over thinking for some reason that rings that rings a bell? But anyway, I think if somebody was about it, it'd be great personally. Another one I had was Mark Wiggins. He called I can't remember when and I sent letters
but it's an alley behind Jarbor tires that we have no use for but the alley goes behind him and I think all the way out to 19 possibly but he's just that section behind him.
Although that's I knew there was discussion at the time about the alleys at the but he purchased that section. Is there anything on it? Does it does alley actually belong to
the city or is this an easement? It belongs to the city. We don't need access to it for anything. We don't, not that I'm aware of. I'm got with each department. We have nothing down this alley
or down that. Well, he'll fence it in and keep it up. Don't need to send a fire truck down there or anything. Probably not. Want to go refrigeration? Yeah.
They they own on the bank of ours too, don't they? I think they do anyway. Find out what each of those parcels is that par like a it's part of a parcel though. I know
y'all had discussed one time. Half goes here, half goes there, etc. Touching the question, they have to buy a whole thing, right? They want a 30ft alley, 15 foot
goes one way and 15 goes the other. The property line, then it goes to the other property owners on up the line. Or John, can you bring that up? This alley runs all the way to 19. And then there's also
another one that runs north and south a couple parcels only from the section behind him. the rest. He just wants the section right behind him. Excuse me.
Check that. Check those two empty lots behind it. John, right there. Thought there. Yep. Make sense. trying to connect with his Lord. Dig into it. I guess he would need to do
it. He doesn't need it. Was it probably a 20 foot? That looks to be like for future installation tools. I know son the garbage trucks used to
drive down back when they were had dumpsters on wheels. All right. You going to check into it? 15 of it. Thought it was bigger, wider, whatever. All right.
That little portion or how they did the title search properly, right? Process. That's what I was titled the same how that work same rules. This one do the same thing.
I agree. Okay. So, not abandoned. The roads need to be the same. Well, I guess if you ban that whole alley, I guess everybody get a chance to get a part of it or should anyway
survey and all that would be cheap. You may not need it now, but may need it in the future. wasn't the law firm did title search where they did find that
we couldn't how did they just abandon them used to be just abandon correct years ago I remember a few that were But I don't know what process or they're going just check into it and go
from there. Title search that title search process. They only go back 30 years now, don't they? Believe so. Anyway,
you want to move forward with possibly selling that to them or abandoning it to them or however however it goes. Okay, very good, Andrew. We might need it in the future.
Well, I was just going to bring y'all's attention, you know, about the car trucks. We had two side loaders that we've been having a lot of issues with. So, we purchased the the new truck.
Well, in the meantime, we've had issues with both those side loaders because I know there's been stuff on Facebook. One of the side loaders we've had to we just can't fix it anymore. It um needs new engine. So, we decided because it was going to be like $56,000.
The other one is um in the shop right now. It's got to have a transmission PTO. It's about $20,000. It's in the shop now. So, we're having to use our rear loader. We've had to bring a truck because to keep us from
having to pick it up by hand. Hopefully the new truck will have that soon. But in the meantime, we're having to use our rear loader and the rental truck. So meaning I don't know. We called they're they're still doing investigation. I talked to
the shop today. They're just doing a lot. They're just doing a thorough check of the truck right now trying to make sure there's nothing else wrong with it. They're not able to find what's wrong with it, right?
These new emission systems, they terrible. They're just little thing that throws everything out. It's been a great truck. The guys love the truck. A lot better than the other two we've had. Yeah, I know a lot of people switching
out the gas engines because of it. Trying to get away from the death systems. That was a terrible after they run out of warranty. You can't have them all deleted. Yeah, Miss Anden
are they Miss And was trying to Oh, I'm sorry. Oh, Kelly has been using electric garbage trucks for the longest. And I know they're very expensive,
but they were also given grants to receive them. But one of my is driving to land. Yeah. I I think that we need to consider going ahead getting
a new garbage truck. We don't want collability. Okay. riding on the back of the trucks. God bless his soul. Joe Adams, was that his name? Two months before he died,
he told me, Miss Hampton, y'all killing me on the back of his truck. He said, "It's very bad and hard on each of us trying to load this garbage." Listen, two months later, the young man
died. We don't want that to happen again. And I I I hate to see him riding on the back of the trucks. So, if there's anywhere we can get a truck done, I would I would suggest that we do
should have those funds approved in about four months. Everything goes four months. So they may have to ride back. I wish that fixed fairly soon have fixed it.
Whatever. How much is would it cost you rent another one? another truck to get them off the bank to truck. They're close to 450,000 rent.
Oh, to rent a truck for rent is 8,500 a month on the back of it. John, are we able to do that? be willing to come up with a price for a truck and a driver. one of our drivers had to be with him on a lot better. They can have our guys
drive their truck, but he said he done that before somebody said it worked well. But he could do that for us short term and deep south too. I think they were pretty high last time we did that.
But do they have a side or rear load? That's not check on that and get back with us, please. Ben, you had a question? Yeah, I was just going to throw it out there. I don't know. Um I know grants I was talking to somebody because we had
an EV class for electric vehicles. We did get a a little bit here. Um had a gentleman come from Tallahassee. Um he was telling us that the school board, school districts throughout a lot of the country is getting federal government
assistance to buy EV school buses and a lot of your bigger towns are going we're going electric, electric, electric. I would highly discourage us trying to move that forward. There is no
possible way that we can safely handle any catastrophe or problem that becomes from Eevee. Eevee, there's no way to put it out. That's right. The the recommendation from him was for us to find a way to buy barricades to
create pools and physically create a pool and and encompass the entire vehicle underwater and that doesn't put the fire out. Um the issues are with the ground when you have runoff. When you get thermal runoff, you'll end up having the
chemicals that are in the soil. It's it's EV is going to be something that this the everyone's going to have to be dealing with the repercussions eventually. And we are know we're 20 years behind
the the fire service. For one, the best we have right now is 20 years ago. advancements with the first EV stuff and the the Priuses and whatnot. We're nowhere close
and it would take un unknown unknownable amount of money to get you to that point. I mean the EV is very very very frightening. Thank you for that information. Yes, ma'am.
When the lithium starts burning, it's very similar to magnesium. doesn't stop easy. Okay. So, you can't put them out once even if you think they out. Put them on. They catch right back.
Kind of like the San Pedro Bay. So, you got you got to bury them and leave them buried for I think they said like 96 hours. Leave them. Wow. Yeah. Way they recommend you actually putting them out.
Anyway, the technology is running way farther than the the resources are to to manage a problem. There's just money to be made. So, everyone's running forward in the they're convenient. They are convenient,
but when something goes wrong, like 76 kids on a school bus. Yeah. Oh, yeah. And it becomes a thermal runoff and they're sitting on top of the nuclear. We can't put it out. Can't put All right. Thank you,
Daniel. You got anything else? Okay, Andrew. Sean, it's been pretty quiet. Um, I would like to say the sewer bud looks good too compared to past years. I was
told and uh just been working with the Dura this week. Uh working on some grants. I'm I'm waiting for um those are pictures I sent John. They're just sand and the main lift station. It's
kind of happened after the hurricanes. Although the creek's kind of hard to access to see. Um but we're getting sand in the line. This station's handling it. And we have uh a way to separate the grid these
dumpsters. I don't know how much it's how much of it's catching, but we're just kind of letting that ride. I don't want to move that sand because it's holding the sand line back. But you can tell if you look at that pipe, it's not halfway full close. Um
but that that's one of the first we had we had some u group come in. I guess Odura the engineers are putting out or get quotes cleaning camera that line. We had some folks come out this week and they they
walked they tried to walk get some footages look on the maps we had um I sent to today. Um like it's been out a while. It actually was worse a little while back. runs across Temple Creek
across 27. Thanks, sir. Does that happen? Just one thing. Um, I'm always starting something, but I don't understand why we did not have a
council meeting. I know we were told that we didn't have an agenda, but I don't think it's right for us not to have council meetings when we don't know who might need to present something
to us. So, I would like us to come up with a a reason why we shouldn't have if we're not going to have one if it's
not an emergency. Well, not necessarily, Joe. Not necessarily. we just walk in and we might have something that just came up that they need to talk us about. I think it's the council decision on
whether we should cancel a meeting or not. We won't be here. I believe it can be the it could be the council or it could be the mayor. Either one. I made a decision to go ahead and not have it because
well that's true to emergency meeting. Anyway, we didn't have anything on the agenda at the moment. Council's decision. Well, they could have went on without me or either any any of us. And and they
and they do. I understand what you're saying. I'm just saying though. I mean, I I understand where you're coming from. And if I mean, if the meet needs to go forward, it needs to go forward. Were you not able to attend that that day? What's that? Were you not able to attend that meeting
last two weeks ago? I wasn't able to attend that meeting. It didn't mean it had to stop though. But at the moment, we didn't have anything on the agenda. But no, the council did not vote to cancel the meeting
to Miss Hampton's point just like moving forward that the council. Sure. And that's all. Oh, we're going to check on the press at
Jens. We only have one inmate squad running right now. One of them is out on temporary disability leave. And we've had a lot of issues with our inmate squad getting squads out there. So, right now, the one guy we've got running is running a crew best
he can. One mower went down today. So, we're going to have some more fun with that. I'm probably going to get out there and mow with them tomorrow myself. I've already done that twice now and Danielle's offered as well and some of the street department guys are mowing as well, but I don't know. Is there an event going on at Dur something specific
right now? No, I just received a call said that the grass is too high for the kids to be running. Okay. Well, I can check into that, but right now we're running behind because we just have the one crew running with the one guy. Well,
we would appreciate it. Okay. Thank you. Miss Landry, that's what I was going to address. I wondered if we were mowing at all. Um, but somebody pointed out to me yesterday,
the southwest corner of Jefferson and Maine is a huge patch of sands and they're about this tall. We that's the only place downtown that
we have to know. And yeah, we literally have to take a weed eater and do it because we don't have a push bar. We got the one push bar at the yard. Yeah, I see them. Or I'll do
the Jefferson. Yes, right there. Jefferson. It's just one little short and then on the other side just one little small That's the only place downtown. I'll lock it up.
And my alley needs mowing. Um I keep it mowed behind my house, but the rest of the residents do not. And there's a lot of I had to work done on my driveway this week and I had to use the alley. And u I
hope I didn't scratch my car. A lot of it's not just the what's growing up from the land. It's encroaching from the sides. I don't know what you can do with that. Reed eater would take care of it or not.
Anyway, it's bad. And if you all have to drive your trucks down there to service the waste water or whatever, you know, you'd have trouble getting down there, too. more trouble than I did because the trucks are bigger.
That's all. Okay, man. Damn, we have a bad pothole right there at right off of Fossome at the stop sign that needs to be covered. Okay, Mr. Bry,
thank clarify about the meeting issue. I understand the mayor cannot call off a meeting. We had the past two meetings we had had. There were three of us here. I wasn't going to be able to attend
the first meeting in July. So, we weren't sure if we were going to have a quorum and that would mix with there wasn't anything on the agenda that was pressing at all. That's why I guess the decision was made not to have one.
But to your point, I understand we'll go ahead and make sure we have make sure I mean if there isn't I mean if a corp's not here corp's not here we at least have the the doors open. Thank you. M your point.
So uh something else John I sent John a text yesterday I think it was about the I think Thomasville is doing something similar to an ADU. They're taking some of those odd shaped lots they have and they're trying to do affordable housing with them.
And uh anyway, ADU is something I'd like to look into. Again, I know I brought it up a year or two ago. I was really auxiliary dwelling units. Right now, they're totally legal to put
in except they're not detached from the house. Most of your auxiliary dwelling units now have to be attached to the house under pure auxiliary dwelling. They can be detached from the house
and they some places make where it's like 40% of the size of the regular house. If you got 2,000 square foot, you can put in an 800 foot ADU. Garage apartments, those are ADUs.
They've been around forever. ADU is not a new thing. not even close to a new thing. I know a lot of places, not that we have to do what everybody else does, but other places have changed their entire
residential zoning to ADU zoning for, you know, a lot of reasons. But anyway, I just like to look at that at least for us. I mean, we got everywhere's got an affordable housing problem. was just nationwide. It seems to be
that would help some of that. But didn't we pass an ordinance before us? We do, but I don't remember passing an ordinance to that effect. I think it had to change. They have to change the LDRs. I remember you bringing it before us.
Anyway, we I got one more thing. But John, weren't we supposed to get updates through that codification thing that we paid for periodically? Committee. Yes.
Remember, we have the ordinance. I don't I haven't seen anything. Surely we pass at least one ordinance since we thought about it. It's I don't think that would have been All right.
They haven't had any news any new cond. Yeah. Anyway, we'll make sure we're getting what we're paying for and I haven't had any new notifications. So, notifications.
They're supposed to update it. Out. What? be notified. I I don't know to put it in the book, replace the one in the book. Anyway, you want to check into it? Make
sure everything's up to date on it. Okay. All right. Thank y'all very much. See you next month.