know yeah then changes to the agenda anybody know about I was going make boys and girls play it tell the February 25th 2025 city council meit the order everybody to
silence or cell phones and thank you you pray with me please Father in heaven we just come to you tonight thank you praising you for who you are and what you do we thank you for the
rain that we've had recently and for the beautiful weather we've had today we thank you for your protection provision all that you do I thank you for this Council Lord I Thank you for each member on it and pray that you
would lead guide us and direct us that we might make right decisions good decisions decisions that would please you as we lead the citizens of this city in Christ's name I pray
amened Al to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liy and Justice if I get to the meet without fing backwards I'll be doing good also
i' like to Miss Shirley I don't think she's been doing too good but I think she's on the men so we could just say yeah say an extra prayer for her yeah I she's been a rough go with the past week or two yeah
anyway BR off please man or whoever's going counc council member hon counc member wood here vice mayor Landry here mayor K here it number three approval of items
on consent agenda a approval to read by title only resolution 2025 d04 counc bran yes counc member wood yes vice mayor Landry yes mayor K yes receiving request from the general public is anyone here to speak on
anything not on the agenda hear nothing we'll move on to item number five which is the uh bids I think this bid was done last meeting okay all right item number six I'm gonna
move item number 6 e to the top that is councel to discuss the boys and Girls Club kitchen expansion bid Council to take any action any necessary so what did we come up with on it Joy
Carlton y what do you want let to speak on this there several from the Boys and Girls Club here it looks like my name is Emily King um my address is 25 um I'm the executive director of club
and kind of as we gone through this process I feel like um we might have lost a little bit of um what we're trying to do anyway as um as forward um I left all of you some pictures so you
could see the space that we're um that we're trying to expand because um it's sounds like it's just a kitchen expansion but currently right now we um like I said we have a residential oven we're um we're picking almost 5,000
meals a month out of this kitchen um currently we've been grandfathered in but um if we if this was uh built today it wouldn't meet current um fire standards and um what we're what we're trying to do is make it to where we can
um expand the kitchen and um have a commercial oven have more warmers because upgrade to the electrical right now um the electrical was made for a pavilion so we really um we're trying to operate um Beyond its current capacity
so um I think um um Alexis is our cook so she can kind of tell you a little bit about um what the space is like to work in it's really small it's two of us in the kitchen and like most of the time we
basically bumping with each other trying to get everything done because I C for head she does after school and it's like really tight ask something Emily and I talked last night for a little bit how many meals did y'all start out with when we
first started it was about 50 Ms a day and now it's at 250 300 250 or so between all the yeah so so the amount of meals you're doing is going up five times but the kitchen
hasn't and you're doing it all off the four or five burner house stove it would really make it where we could expand on any options as well so we just wanted to kind of give you all context for you know when we come when I come forward and talked about it
and the bids came forward like you didn't have context what for the current situation that we have just wanted to provide that for you have any questions for us the um I know the first thing that got my
attention a while back was the electrical second thing that got my attent because I noticed the amount of free and the warmer and yeah get hot all this was going on in there and like Emily said electrical was made
for about three laat bulbs and a couple of plugs you know and it's uh way past that at this point and the I don't know just the just I don't know how y'all do what y'all do off of
what you're working off of I really don't it's my hat's off to you I don't think I could pull it off it's ladies about that's 20 times man 20 times when I went and visiting the boys girls club and I was like
here and you know if we had the commercial oven yeah that hood would man I bring up the current fire code and get the electrical where it needs to be that's how we actually um meet our third
compartment but we we don't have space for the compartment right now yeah what's the third compartment is a what is that a health department thing okay yeah you have to okay that's they got to go
okay anyway I'm I'm looking at number five on the screen and it says that all of that is supplied by the city is that included in the price that was quoted to
us so that would be in addition to how much that there's a was the commercial EV about 4,000 give or take we just recently bought one for L rge but the uh I mean the the hood and
all that part of the building isn't it I think that okay I know those are those can get pricey so we really don't know what the bottom line is have it somewhere it's it's about
um maybe, maybe for all the equipment she out a t of 145 okay give or take many
split consider I think it said well now that says yeah are you sure that wasn't included that that's not included 9% sure it's not I think said weay wish we had a copy of
did which one the U well we own it we own it and well I know we own it John quick question with us own that build and all the Tang they would go say for instance we're not
going to say it's going to happen but if they sell if we decide that they want to leave and the building is ours everything in there belongs to the city okay well I guess is we're talking about close to
150 total and I just some experience I know if an inspector walked in and inspected that they would shut it down yeah uh the fire supression
is bad so I will make the motion at 150 coming from
gas cash carry forward and I'm giving her the journal entry transfer to where where is is the building and
equipment what fund is it in well that we transfer to there 150 and then the par would have a transfer in of
150 and as you spend it'll go to building improvements and equipment and that F that's my motion before we vote on the motion we have a second on that before we vote I
need ex do we ever have that round table where we were going to get together and rewrite this contract yeah we didn't State a round table but that me and Emily talked about it would that I I prefer for that to be done
president contract we is covers it the president have signatures on it yeah oh yeah I hadn't seen the Pres oh yeah will someone make sure they email that to me please and guess you know
about the last contract yes yeah bill you said when it was spent it would go to where where is it going to be charged to once it's spent where is it going to be charged to to the uh in the parking park
building Improvement building Improvement equipment Parks Building Improvement Park okay fun building and whatever equipment go to
uh thank thank you I'll second it counc Bry yes council member wood yes Landry yes may yes and I you're and just for the record
you were correct last meeting I could discuss and vote on this I check with ethics yeah there was no reason for me not to participate or vote so anyway I'm [Laughter] you have
to thank you coming John do you say you want to move 6 a or leave it where it is now agenda on 6C Bob Kate to provide an update on recent tcda activities and Council to take any action being
necessary Mr Kate time this afternoon I really appreciate it don't take it for gred time as I give you an update on what tcda has been doing in the last six months share with you that I Shar with County Commissioners last week and I
want to get right back to next regular schedule meeting of the city council and share the same information with you because both of you have been equally supportive in our efforts and both of you deserve the update that I'm about to provide when I joined the team six
months ago I committed that first of all we would work tirelessly to bring industry to Taylor County but second I said to most of you with whom I've met individually and some of you more than once that I would never want you go to bed at night not knowing what I was
working on because this needs to be out what where we can share what's going on and understand so my purpose tonight is today is to use about 10 minutes of your time sharing information with you then take what every time that's need it after that to answer any questions you
might have or to get any input you would like to share with me we have a strong Board of Directors for tcda you would recognize every name on this list I want read them to you but you recognize the background we have there the experience and the insights
that they bring to bear the board has been extremely supported of Laura Della and I if you don't know Laura Della Laura is the for former Secretary of Commerce for the State of Florida she was the first woman Secretary of Commerce in history in Florida and she
now works for us halftime so as jbass likes to say we have a big game hunter on our team equally important just hit one more thought on that don't go back you're doing fine you're um you've been very supportive I've met with uh you Bill and
you said how can I help you are you giving the help you need Bita I've reached out to you but we haven't been able to connect yet of course I've met with you ward on more than one occasion and again you and Diane whenever we're through talking the last thing you say is how can I help you how can I support
you I want to thank you for that so we have three priorties and let me discover them in order first is support existing industry we do not need to lose any more industry in Taylor County amen so even as we seek out new industry we
need to support our existing industry I've had to be careful because I share that and then someone immediately thinks well are you coloring outside the lines are you doing something that's not legal or ethical or it's imoral or no no I'm not I want to make sure we're clear of that but you she'd be amazed if an
agency has 60 days to review a permit respond that with a phone call sometimes they might review it in one week if you're looking to bring something here that's going to make a million dollar payroll and you bring them in three weeks sooner that's worth money to the city of Perry into Taylor County so
that's the kind of things we do we work to make things efficient we work to build teams we do not color outside the lines but at the same time with that supporting existing industry my focus to today and and sharing with you is really going to be on the recruiting new
industry because we must Recruit new industry to Taylor County all you have to do is read the headlines of the newspaper for the last two months or the last 14 months and you know exactly where we're at and why this is a priority and of course when new industry comes they have to have a place to come
too needs to be identified it needs to be available so having said I would not color outside the lines I do wanted to share with you what we've done with our local Outreach with our supporting our exist existing industry we would met with and I have
met with numerous if they'll answer the phone I'll come meet with them that's basically what you can say I've met with all the largest employers in Taylor County I've met with small ones too and no one calls that phone that I don't answer it that I don't say what do you need so i' well I told Don Perez that
I'm not into the retail side of it I've helped with retail too I'm not in the housing side I've helped with The Grove apartments uh if they need help I try to provide it we got to understand what the bu business challenges are whether they're planning for growth or expansion
and if so how can we facilitate that how can we make that happen how can we get obstacles out of their way because we're all in economic development now you're not thinking that way we all need to change our thinking it's not enough to for us to just say someone comes to us and says something we say we can't do
this or you can't do that need to get a little more of a Chick-fil-A approach how can I help you be successful how can I make you succeed how can I get these obstacles out of your way we need to be welcoming for helping our existing industry succeed if you look at the next slide
you'll see an example where that's happening because you haven't been out the big top in the last week it is it's amazing shocking might be a better word they're doubling their capacity they're positioning for long-term success and their positioning
here in Taylor County they had initial discussions do we want one plan or two took a look at going to Texas for that second plan but it's all in Perry it's all in Taylor County it's all and it's happening here that is one week old but that they
are moving fast when these P I took these pictures last week they'd only been working on that building nine days this is happening and it's happening fast what you um may find as interesting as that though is when you walk in their office is the job postings that they
have who they're looking for the technicians people to travel and build these things around around the country the people will help in marketing and sales so we think about doubling in size but they're adding to their employment base as well I've been working on building teams
and it's a team effort it's not I me m if you hear me say that please forgive me because that's not how I think first of all I needed to beat the utilities so we've met with Duke Energy we've met with Georgia PARTA railroad we've met with Tri County Electric and particularly like in the railroad I had
some background to dude from my former job here but you know people some companies wanton rail some could care less but those that don't have rail but it may be running by them how do you get a sighting how do you think about that and what kind of cost benefit that we need to be thinking about for them we're connecting with our key
infrastructure so doctor's Memorial Hospital Big Ben Technical College Taylor County School System I've had multiple meetings with each of those you'll see later we've had six site visits to Taylor County of people kicking the tires on industry in tayor County Big Ben Technical College is now
on my tour route they do a very impressive job of telling what we're doing how how they will pivot to support industry and I actually had a company uh in here in December flew in in their own plane into the airport came and spent the day with us went to Big B
and as we're leaving shaking hands they said the high point of my trip was Big B that is one impressive place we hope you're marketing the heck out of that also connecting with the community I had I as I said I'll speak to anyone that'll let me let me do it I spoken to
the Women's Club The Garden Club rotary guamas clubs met with the county Z zoning board and I told them don't even have an agenda I just want to tell you what we're doing and how we're thinking so when I come here and I need something I don't want to be that the first time that we've ever met Taylor County
pastors group busy learning from others we don't didn't reinvent the wheel you do know me you know my background's industry and not Economic Development hopefully that industry of background is coming to Bear but there's people out here smarter than I am some of those are on that list Dian head with
Career Source Stacy Bertrand with Duke Energy pness Readiness and now they've asked me to serve on the nedp board so I'm rubbing elbows with people who've been doing this a lot longer Phil go to your first one UIL
Outreach you're leaving out a major one the city of per well fortunately I have the city of Perry on on our board so I didn't didn't mention them by name I apologize no
slight in in intended no oversight intended no I'll tell you what and I John didn't get paid for this compliment but we have board meetings and John doesn't miss them now I will tell you that's that's a pretty rare attendance record to not miss a board
meting so where the leads come from they literally come from everywhere and there's not up there that's for instance every one of those is real city and county officials those of you who have called me know that I follow up that I reach out FL Commerce calls laella gets
calls Hurricane Relief responders we had people working at the coast that saw that said I might be interested in bringing something here some of you've been in those meetings local citizens direct industry contact site selectors Consultants it could go on I realized after I put that together there were
more leads get vetted it it's important and one thing I do want to make sure you know that there is a process here and the process I want you to know because we don't work we work in sunshine we share what we can share we don't share what we can't share but the process is
not secret we vet leaves so if I get a call and I get calls I find out have you ever done this before are we the third time you've done this or the first time have you made 50 million pounds of this or you made a court now you want to come to Taylor County and must give you a
site and fund you and see make you can make it here successfully we do those things does it pass the sniff test let me tell you they don't all pass the sniff test B of Commerce also vents they look at their financial performance they do they have a board of directors are they
Incorporated and you know what's their financial standing what's their reputation and they do that and they also because you know when I first came here Tim Johns of Florida commerce said there are really three kinds of people there to come to Taylor County that are going to come to Taylor County especially during times of of of duress
like we're under say charlatans dreamers and those who are seriously interested in coming to Taylor County he said you have to be equally aware of both charlton's and drers because while their intentions may be different the results will be the same
won't be happy those that passed this mustard get tracked on a project spreadsheet Laura and I alone have access to that that's where all the information is tracked it's where we keep up with everything their investment their employment the number type of projects the average wage
this is how we keep up with the projects we sign confidential agreements now we do that through Florida commerce so Florida commerce is kind of our shelter under which we hide that's not the right phrase but under which we shelter so Florida Commerce and the company sign up for conf a
confidentiality agreement and tcda falls under the Commerce so we don't talk names I won't tell you names or social security numbers or any more than that what I will tell you is I sanitized the spreadsheet in the next slide is that sanitized spreadsheet
these are active projects in the pipeline today so they all got a project name no identifying information they have an industry type but nothing that you can take further than that and the investment if we know it and the
employment that they have shared with us so you can see there there's nothing that should be foreign to Taylor County Light Industry Munitions and defense wood manufacturing heavy industry that's the categories that's where we are that's
what we have that ranges from a a low of what 15 million up to a high of 2.5 billion potential investment you see the employment ranging from 15 to 700 but these are in the pipeline
we also have to have sites available and we do you're familiar with the Gramp's Legacy site it's in the city of Perry approve the zoning that was needed made that happen thank you very much we have the city of Perry property which is in the county so if you ever get your tongue Tangled on that one and
that one has just been selected by Duke ennery for their site Readiness for 20125 there were only two properties in the state approved by Duke Energy for site selection ready assessment and that was this one and one other one I'm just going to have to
silence a phone here please excuse me sorry so that starts in April we'll go through that Readiness assessment so it's not like we're showing it I've shown it twice in the last several weeks to a prospective client a perspective company but you know working on getting
all those things done that that you know we got done on Andy Jackson's prop also I have you know when I first got here and I learned to use used the tax map then I learned I really didn't know how to use the tax map it was in and out and back and forth and over and left and right so I really want to give a an
appreciation Mitch Stevens and David Goodman who work with me Shauna kind of authorized and Empower them to do that I have a master spreadsheet now of every property in Taylor County I can sort it I can tell you how far it is from the airport tell you how many acres is on it someone comes and says I want to be
three miles from the airport or 40 acres or more or eight Acres or less I can sort all that and come up with those share those we still have the tcba site options program with four rivers more than Mar they still have the two major tracks the
3400 acre track the 3,000 acre track that the land use has been designated for business development which is the industrial land use category and they're still committed to do that uh as as appropriate so we bring contacts to them that need that kind of land just a quick
update on the GP Foley site you about is it available when will it be available you know if anyone can tell me what Georgia Pacific's thinking you're a better person than I am and I worked there for many years um but they're not uh it's not a bad thing what they're
doing is they've really actually started the clear process So after talking about it for a year they finished all the aspect to success with and the actual demolition starts April 1 so at that point we can then start to look at are we a year year and a half out that'll be a Brownville site and and who would B
might be interested in that I tell you they're interested all the time I spent an hour and a half on the phone yesterday with a company that wants that site but that site's not ready today so we got to get our minds on what sites are available what can we do now we're not in a waiting thing for a year and a
half to two years from now before the the site comes I covered you know kind of the things that I want just kind of in summary here well over 20 projects lots of projects don't make the list because the phone call doesn't pass muster so I
spend a time giving them a code name and then saying it didn't make any sense so lots of projects 20 over 20 made the list 11 remain active we've had six site visits to T County just to give you a sense of those that didn't make it I mentioned the vetting process uh in one
case I know for certain they selected Texas and not us and another one the project they're working on they had to get it all worked up then present it to their board it didn't get approved and another one they plugged in the hurricane risk factor into their matical equation Taylor County didn't pass
muster and they went somewhere else again I just emphasized this is nothing here is foreign to Taylor County pulp industry was Heavy industry Light Industry wood manufacturing def those are things we're all already competent out we can
do next slide please so clearly no ribbon cuting yet and I I uh I don't there's no teasing this it's way too serious for that this is a marathon if anything it's a marathon cross with a hurdle race if you ever
watch the 100 meter hurdles in the Olympics you jump over one guess what the next thing is you got to jump over another one we do that every day and every week and you got to get through all of them to get to the end but there is plenty of interestes in Taylor County I would want you to know
if I I sit in meetings I've said in this meeting where someone I rate and I and we believe in freedom of the press freedom of speech but you'll hear nobody cares about Taylor County y'all don't care about tayor County nobody nobody nobody people care about Taylor County
we are a tremendous amount of interest in Taylor County we're getting lots of support I get it from the the board of Commerce they specifically pay attention to what's happening in Taylor County who's coming to Taylor County to bring
us contacts so it's it's really it's almost gratifying sometimes to see that support but we still got to get to the point where we bring industry to Taylor County so by was giving us a score to Dad giv us an a for effort and an F for results but I would remind you the RAC is not to the Fain of heart
we're in this for the Long Haul I tell people sometimes I feel like I'm living in the parable of the so won't go get religious on you here but if you ever heard the parable of the se you know some seed fell on good soil some in rocky soil some in Brier
thickets what I do every day SE seed and I can't be responsible always for where it landed but I can keep sewing the seed and that's my commitment to you and as we would close I would just say what questions do you have or what counsel
would you give any input uh I can't tell you my Sher County Commissioners I had a a lady behind me kept one know I want to know what that industry is that's doing Munitions and I'm not going to tell you you asked me a hundred times and I'm still not going to tell you so don't ask those questions but it's your something
you wish I'd covered I didn't or something you don't know that I'm working on one one thing you brought up about you know about the U we've had so much natural and financial
Devastation we are right for exactly people to come in here and you know take advantage of us and I'm glad to know that you and you know filter a lot of those out in the beginning I mean you've been
at this a long time in the business world you he feel who is and isn't I mean it's you know I just reiterate I I I put my best in put forward but when we ever get more serious and we get more serious be times when you'll be sitting across the table
from these people just be you know C break some to Taylor County to the city of Perry right now that's what my job is and that's what I do but there'll be time when everybody gets a chance to go does this make walking around sense he's got to find that balance between who is and who is not and know
who can't be too careful either more stories but you know when you call them and they tell you they've got three Mills running you say good my my board will send me to any of them where can I go to and I'll go this week and they start Heming and Hauling and yeah you know all of a sudden doesn't
feel quite so good any other questions or comment I too appreciate you're vetting these companies that might want to come here Taylor County has a history of being
suckered in so many times and we paid the price for it and so I I appreciate you're working hard to keep that from happening this time thank you your time I really apprciate thank you thank you Mr Bo
all right agenda item six D jamy bridon to discuss super puff semi trucks and councel to take any actions necessary okay D
that the um sixd on the back okay she's not here yeah talked to somebody one night that you I think there's some issues with the trucks going down residential roads
and pulling wires loose and that sort of thing so all right we're GNA go back to a agenda Adam 6A Mary Gavin and Rachel Howard to discuss contending engineering RFQ process and the council
will take any action necessary four main Engineers point of contact City all left McDonald left about a year and a half agoin the past month Amir left JJ left and last day was P
Friday um we've been needed to do it anyway I think our contract for continuing engineering is from 17 18 that's always flags on these gr and things like that so we need to go through this process and get some qualified Engineers but un
forc to it now I'd like to i' like to get at least two maybe three if if we get some good qualified Engineers that respond to our RFP RFQ bless out
RF yeah I was looking at the RFQ I understand that but what I don't understand is and understand the evaluation where the
U other comes in yeah request for engineering proposal what bless move template somebody made came from
USDA so what you're telling me of these are basically the same you can right now uh we just follow the statute and we we can
advertise uh request for qualification and then fig the rest out once this comes in but uh the one thing I I like about
this example do not insert pictures photographs graphics resumés and data not specific requested if you remember those that
we've recently had they got all kinds of stuff in there that mean nothing to us and we just want the hard cold backs so I I like a motion that we uh
advertise requesting qualifications now one thing that uh you need to do is go through a list and contact them directly so we can get more involvement
do that that's that's my [Music] motion have motion a second counc Brian yes counc member wood yes vice mayor Landry yes mayor K
yes mayor gav cir said they would the the ranking for us follow up with some of their references and things like that back to us we want okay get a third yes I still don't understand is J out 6B
still stud okay so we'll save with this done agenda item 6 F resolution 2025-the 2025 motion approve BR yesc member wood yes vice
mayor Landry yes mayor K yes agenda it 6G cancel to discuss updates to the purchasing manual and councel to take any action deemed necessary so the majority of what I updated here was just um policies and how we're doing
things differently with the new Financial system rather than everything being on paper and then I added the capital asset policy that you all asked me to put in there the only other thing that I need input on is the bid and
quotation amounts we were trying to increase them because they had been I think 1997 that was when it said was on the date of the purchase of manual so I took the dollar amount in 1997 and put
it in today's money and that's how I came up with the amount we would have to do it by an ordinance from what I've researched but I wanted to at least put something together and then I canate on page 13 the bids and
quot they were I was want it to be the formal bids purchases exceeding $10,000 I think that the counties is like $35,000 so ours is way lower still but right now it's at five and then
requirements purchases of 5,000 up two and including 10 would be um verbal or written quote and then requirements for purchases less than five would just be how we normally do it in the purchase system and the
superintendent approves are are you gonna put it where you have three solid quotes or three attempted quotes you know you know why I'm asking that intended because sometimes you can't get exactly sometimes you got to beg
just to get one yeah and then I did put in the capital asset how there's certain things that we will still tag even if it's less than $5,000 like guns radios anything requested by departments and that there's a reason
that someone might want it even though it's l I like on page 15 that you got that the department must check the availability of funds prior to requesting and then you also check the availability
yeah right now in our system they're not they're not able to over request an account without me or John or somebody letting them and then at that point will move money there are some that's in there right now that have some negative numbers but their bottom line is still
okay so we haven't move stuff around yet and it everything that's they've had a reason as to why it's over oh but is that new purchasing system similar in nature to penam or is a penam I don't know no it's
is differ you can pull the accounts and the line items and see what's going on if you have a magic password like I have it they can only pull up their their Department so let me get this straight on my head
the department head or whoever makes a request through the machine through the software there C it doesn't have to be department head they're confused certain people under the department head that they've given permission they can do a purchase requisition and then at that
point the if it's not the department head that entered it they would then move it into what we call First approval on the computer and then Christy the agent would move it into second approval if she as long as she thinks it all looks fine and then I moved into third
approval and then at that point a purchase order is generated so we are doing it on the front end whereas on used to the department had signed it and purchasing agent signed the finance director didn't see it until after it was already fought
typically unless it was C and then that's good that you're seeing it to yeah I like that good job get part two it all happens instantly what four four going way back
second paragraph city manager and his see where I Chang yeah after I'm proud of are y okay the amount us to Mo for yeah the
yeah yeah okay so I'll I'll get drafted and all so that we can actually a motion on that yeah yeah it say action motion yes wood yes mayor yes mayor
yes agenda item 6h Council to discuss entering into a memor memorandum of understanding mou with the Department of Veterans Affairs polias establishing a working relationship with Perry police department and Council to take any
action deemed necessary I didn't yes sir not the B no no no we didn't get that one I've seen that she put the wrong one I guess yeah I includ yeah this one here is different
um this agreement is an extension of one that's already in place um for us to assist the VA Police Department yeah at the VA Clinic here if they don't have a police officer available until they can get there is that's what the agreement is and it's
been in place it's just time for re is that what that I've seen that yeah explore or what it there there is a VA Police Department that cover VA clinics hospital I got you they R also allows us to use them as a resource for
information if we need to find somebody okay U which we've used before in investigation where we could find next kin of a veteran to assist them medically they were able to do that for us so that's that's a two-way agreement benefits us as
well yes yeah we if we didn't have one locally then they wouldn't be asking for I got you Dum yeah I saw that vehicle today and I said every now and then always meant to ask but never thought the biggest thing something
Happ confrontation we can get there it's Federal property right until they arve we will be looking a motion toow action on motion yes
yes yes yes I did have a question on this uh on the liability and responsibility of the which one you don't have that one what you have the
287g homeland security agree that was for your information only I'm waiting on analysis from the attorney okay from the police Chiefs Association to determine some some uh guidelines for us okay before but that was just your
information to be aware that it may be coming you're working on it okay okay thing is I would yes mayor signature also official that's the way that it's written by Homeland Security and federal
government that's that's the one that they sent for us to consider um I think if we have it documented in minutes or through a resolution from either side we would be okay
that but that's um like said waiting on analysis on that one and we did meet with somebody from that group couple weeks ago and it's um get more lat wait till my
time J Adam 6i 6j cancel to the point one cancel to point one citizen serve on the period police pension board Board of Trustees and the fire pension board trust Board of
Trustees got anybody yet anyone ncy which one you got oh miss iiz were thank you Mr D you want to do one it pastes pretty good so I
heard all right thank you agenda item 6K approval Amendment amended from the February 11 2025 regular session any directions or comments on
them what was the amendment ased what I said approval Amendment amended February 11 2025 regular session wasn't [Music] amended was his in there or
something I don't [Music] remember what any motion motion okay counc bran yes counc member wood yes may Landry yes may
yes hey city manager Mr Hart request put in only five of them are showing up right now I don't know why he said there's something upload with the system but there's three more that should show up there is County days networking reception March 19th from 6 to 8 at no
Campell Stadium since we're having these requests in I think it's important for one of us to be there not me all of us how do you you got any email or hold on
minut make sure going be out of the country or something only why do I have that on Wednesday better oh Ral county is okay fine I don't want to interrupt other than since I'm going it's 35 to go the first day for this
2hour reception following day is the booth Don Perez has paid the $750 for Taylor County to have a booth and so we'll be Staffing that Booth During certain hours people be coming by talking seeing what we have to tell I'll be there don't be there I believe Andy
jacks is coming I don't have a master list I just know what I've talked to so you can come that straight because it just makes Taylor County more of that team and cohesion and all but if you can't come don't think we won't be okay so March
19th six six to eight no Campbell where that any specific in the sky boxes or one of those Club things yeah Champions club or something they'll probably have signs
C Stadium hey Pop right up excuse my absence I be out of town that week yeah me too been tassy wear phone H you want wear phone got to take the B time's up okay six
I having a meeting at the Women's Club at 5:00 discuss I think most of hmgb funding T County's allocated 31.8 million which the city
will get part of that if we apply for some of hmgp Grants my next question while back I asked for a grant writer administrator y told me no that we could do it on a contract
basis I hope we put RFQ out for some type of Grant Administration firm to see what we get back I think it's time where we got more grants we can handle right now we start applying for a portion of this 31.8 million we won't be able
hand let me put the filler out there see what kind of feedback we get would they [Music] monitor you need it I agree by that I like you need all of these we have different
reping dat different things that we need to submit and if you don't know what you're doing it's very confusing yeah L money and if we don't we don't want to not handle the things that we're given right now well and then later on have
issues getting more we want to make sure that we're doing everything correctly I'm in favor of it well you mess up one little thing and they want the grant back and it's like and they call it minority business something else report what percentage of
your project was done by minority business you got do that every quarter I've heard some you got to do like some conference call every two weeks it just depends on the grant whe the requirements or some of them are easy some of them are not so
easy anyway this yeah this ready yeah okay no yet miss okay um I well I'll get you that I was want to make you a rest of some legal things happening um just follow up
to make sure that um we are staying up to date in the um City versus sellers case regarding of the last remaining detail besides the last payment which is due March 1st is the fence that was supposed to go around the property if
you all remember um and in November I reported that Mr sellers had had um a setback due to some disability with his back um he has the money now to do the fence and the people did the surveying of Delta they're putting down markers
and apparently putting down markers is an additional $1,000 um so that is supposed to be done um the attorney black believes that the fence could be completed by the end of April but it was supposed to be completed as I shared in November
sometime last year and they were asking for um they were asking for leniency and not to be considered a breach a contract and I also reminded them as they know the the exchange of deeds and their name going on none of that's done until all
of their Provisions are completed um but I just wanted to to continue to make the council aware um the payment March 1st will I understand they will have that um completed and they believe by April they'll have the fence around that
property um attorney black wants me to know once again um that they are still having challenges with the next door um I don't like to call minutes but the growth of the people hanging out behind munes continues to be a problem as an
coaches upon where they live and they don't want to be responsible for the nuisance that continues to grow and unfortunately even this weekend there was I believe that was the scene of of a homicide or at least a death of someone um and so the attorney was asking um has
there been any further code enforcement action against or in hope to curtail the continuing problem of a lot of people hanging out there and really behind Munchies you can drive by any time and see what looks like people
getting high or maybe in the process of being intoxicated but as far as their responsibility that is moving along and I think they making good faith efforts to make us aware if there's any challenges or delay um but hopefully by April at least the fence aspect
completing what they've said that they would do will be completed and I want to make you all aware of that um also um a case that I wasn't um really brought in on as much but apparently during the the
cleanup um regarding um one of the Hurricanes one of I guess a contractor or someone um was um charged with failure to follow excavation practices in t Zone um George Stephen George clean
it wasn't clean up well excavation excavation for the new apart complex okay so they had a gas line that was breached yes um well the arrangment for that is March 4th at 8:30
p.m. I mean a. in front of Judge blue third floor okay so it was doing a construction situation um that's Mar for that's coming up as well um and I realized when you were talking especially Shar that I was talking about
Florida legislation or Florida legislative action day I guess everyone's getting in their meetings it's more expensive so I don't even know if I want to announce it but Florida legislation legislative action days I'm sped by Florida League of cities is
going to be March 24th through the 25th again their goal is to connect City officials with different um with different legislators and they're having on Tuesday at the dope Campell Stadium a dinner at 5:30 um that comes with the
price of $50 so um but that's also um happening in the month of March as a legislative session is opening um so anytime FLC does something if I can I try to just let you all know in case you're interested so hopefully whe it's
during the rural day or one of these things that maybe um maybe in maybe even in coordination with our lobbyist that someone could come up there and also being fa to Perry um city council I think it is a good idea and John would
do a great job doing it but I think any of the council members would just um so that's all I have for now just going to give you updates as to those cases thank you thank you ma'am m
g Jamie um we did talk about earlier it's called the 287g program for immigration this is not a new program it's been in place since 1996 what it is local law enforcement can enter memorandum of
agreement Immigration and Customs which is Homeland Security to um help and assist Immigration and Customs Enforcement of people here that are here here illegally and it's focusing on those that have already been
deported that have returned or ones that have deportation order in place that have not left um it would allow us to do the paperwork uh as a and be deputized as federal agents to handle that
immigration specific functional uh in the last month and a half there's been 700,000 ice detainers or deportation orders entered um of about 1.4 million people
that have been identified here illegally in the US um to serve a civil IM imigration warrant you have to be a removal officer or be part of a
287g program and be trained on how to do that the jail all jails in Florida have signed the agreement the sheriff's offices to start for their booking part procedure now local agencies are being asked to follow up in
ass moving forward we wouldn't be deputized one day and start doing it that night there's training involved um we wouldn't not everybody would be involved in this it would be a select few people um through what's called Task Force officer
programs that's not foreign to us we already participate with the federal government Department of Justice and other Task Force officer programs currently that's the US Marshal Service uh DEA and ATF we're already
doing it with them for specific Crim to impact us here locally and it's assets and resources that that we can bring to bear whenever we need and it's to be no different than what we're doing now um there's a big emphasis and push towards drug
trafficking uh human trafficking in this immigration to identify these people that are being H held here against their will or brought here for other illegal activities um if we charge someone with
a new law violation Florida law violation and they have an ice detainer it's handled totally different this if we happen across someone that has a deportation order or for some reason that want being sought to be detained we can do that on that civil
side without a new law violation so um there are some Provisions in there that that they won't pass over time to do this and and that's fine it's no big deal it's not like we're going to be sending out waves of people people I'm now we're not going to
churches we're not going to daycare we're not going to pulling people out of out of anywhere schools this is if we run across them in our normal daily activities and functions um this is my understanding of it from what I was briefed on we met
with the supervisor for HSI for our region two weeks ago um this was outlined to me by him what I've read on the agreements what I've seen from the police Chiefs Association um it's all headed exactly
the way I explained it and I don't expect it to change we're just waiting on an actual analysis by the attorneys that are assisting the Florida police Chiefs the Florida sheriffs on those agreement there's nothing it's nothing
that's out of the way it's all an established program this nothing new this is probably something we should have been doing the last four years anyway um who knows who's here legally for for nefarious reasons to harm US citizens and that's another emphasis of
that not that do you have some officers tentatively in mind to be trained we've got a couple that we could could do that that would be available have time this is
not this is an addition to duties not the only duty they would be something additional they would be doing right and they normal activities it just gives us another tool to be able to use to solve a problem right you have any
idea how many are in this County or in the city no we don't we don't know I don't think anybody knows how many years detainers I don't think anybody knows we know that the number Nationwide is
700,000 people they're looking for right now yeah and these are the the the worst people out there but they've already been no they're out there so we can stop somebody and run their name and we get an alert from dispatch saying that they have a detainer that's entered into the
National Crime Center information computer system how do we handle that you know we unless we have people that have TR been trained all we can do is call I and sit with them for hours until they might show up and or they may call
back back after a couple hours say hey just give them enough information we'll try to catch a player and that's happened to us in the back well it's a mammoth job yes it because we waited a long time to address it and I expect
um there'll be an EMP to push this forward soon as soon as we get that bill analysis I mean the the M analysis done but all the shares already signed the jail side of the agreement and they're they're getting ready to good
and um unless you have questions I do think it's helpful like when you and I spoke earlier today they understand that it is in their normal is if they come across it in their normal actions as officers so there's no expectations that they're going to be
running down people who look like they may not be American citizens asking you know they're not turning into ice that's not their job and like you said it's always been a available prior to this but some of the legislation that looks
like is going to pass may end up taking it out of a lot of local units um decision making anyway so uml you would allow us to use resources they already have in place now there's Place information centers we call within
Homeland Security and Customs to help us identify people um give us Support over the phone and tell us where to call next call and that would allow us access to that with this agreement good um the only
thing and I think we did speak about this earlier if we do have a task force officer and they have identified people in our area that need to be picked up for detainers that Task Force officer would participate with them in rounding
up those F now that's when we we be going to look at Forum specifically yeah but it's a part of that function that we should be doing anyway somebody okay thank you
RB uh really only thing I got is we got our new Cascade system that yall appr by got it delivered and installed up and running that's what FS our air bottles
up okay now don't have anything else un y got any questions did you get your truck back engine Yes we finally BR truck we finally got it back right after we got brush truck back the engine went down so
it is back up going now right now we got all three of ours running at this time okay yay very good that can be a trick having everything
running all at once they do still making progress on the hydrants uh as far as flowing the hydrant we've done with that they the city the Andrew and them are they repairing
one tonight replacing one tonight we're going to be changing the one at Hardy you just okay good Danel Andrew you know what we're doing tonight and if you uh may have noticed
the water to to Loos are on it I've had some complaints that the logo lettering is a little small but aside from that it's fresh clean and there's I'll tell my sister thank you guys when she was here visiting from
Tennessee that was the one thing that she noticed that the water tower needed painting I'll let her know it is great me see being over there son had some pictures I sent John I want to show you project just recently got
finished with last week um um we actually used some new city equipment we got we got a concrete mixure that helped us out a lot during that project we're going to start we got
a few in the pipeline we're going to start so I'll try to let uh Daniel know when the streets will be closed um we've got to out some pipe at Glen Street lift station to get ready to
replace the the piping and pumps in it because it's dilapidated can give away any day and we really can't enter it until we reroute there's another LIF station that dumps directly in into it we have to reroute it into Forest main Le out of GL Street
once we do that we can start repairs um we've got a repair on Bacon street that may take several days either the depth of the main and the road is caving in we think it's
a storm drain pipe but it also lines up Sol man so um the problem will be depth the storm dra pipe itself is full of dirt so we're probably going to have to replace that
completely and there are quite a few phone cables and gas lines in the way so we will probably close the road cut the road we'll do a lot of like exploratory digging to spot the services so it may
be down for couple days um I don't see it really being a problem where it's at blocking the traffic try let everybody know ahead of time um and then also one we'll do it at night there there's a manhole Center and
green that's covered up that we'll have to raise I don't I'm guessing probably after probably 6:30 or 7 traffic kind of dies down that probably when we close that intersection to do that um I don't know how long that would take
but um that's just stuff as the crew has gotten trained and we've got a few more piece of equipment we're going to start uh tackling these projects this this is what um we had to set a manhole there was not
a manhole here in order for us to access this pipe to clean it um this is this is off Springfield we had to build our own manhole this
type that's after we set it and um that's that's the city's new concrete mixer we use to fill in the base of the uh man hole that's as we're covering it up we got it sealed
up that's what the inside looks like now I don't have the final picture because we had to wait for the concrete to get hard but basically what that is is a straddle manhole and once the concrete got hard we cut the
top of that pipe out so you look inside of it it looks just like a normal manhole and now we can access that b and clean it properly because uh there's a house on Leon that U had kept having problems and we really
could access to main cleaning properly so this is the first step in the repair hopefully that will solve the problem um this is what you know we're g be doing a lot more of these projects coming up very
good that's was like 800 lb or a little more concrete took to finish that four that concrete mix we had mix it in a bucket wheelbarrow so that's the best piece of equipment we bought so so
far that last ises guys cleaning off the road you know just clean up mess we made you know we try because of the equipment we have when we get through the road we try to rinse it down get all the dirt and stuff off make it look good
um I know we don't really have the funds for like sod uh but we do depending on where it's at uh impacted them Environ run off we do p and
Seed places where we excavate so um we the city does have some Street signage with Clos roads my department itself doesn't have we don't have our home we have to borrow from Danielle so I would like to get some of
my own signage some of these road cloes to put up proper detours but um that's we we'll get to that there but but this is just to show you what we've been doing this this is going to
kind of G be more of these in the pipeline good job good things are getting better appreciate it see here is not here okay Miss Landry anything you want to bring up I'm
good Mr like thank everybody for coming tonight and have a good evening driving this time about 30 minutes