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The notice requirement provided for the open public meetings law has been satisfied. Notice was properly given. Said notice has been transmitted to the Curry News on Friday, July 3rd, 2026, as well as posting in the board bulletin board in city hall. Roll call.

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>> Councilwoman Terry Briggs Jones, >> present. Councilman Robert Grant, >> present. >> Councilman Charles McCrae, >> present. >> Councilman Wyatt, >> absent during roll call. Councilwoman

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Darcela Cessums, >> present. >> Vice President Steve Hockaday, absent during roll call. Council President Julian Cherry, >> present. >> We have five members present and a quorum.

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Thank you, Deputy Clerk. At this time, I'm we're going to be going to executive session. >> Thank you so much. Madame Deputy, will you please read the executive session resolution? Whereas the Open Public Meetings Act, chapter

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231, Public Law of 1975, authorizes a public body to exclude the public from the portion of a meeting at which specified topics will clearly endanger the public interest or where their personal privacy or guaranteed rights of individuals whose activities or affairs

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are to be discussed would be clearly in danger of unwarranted invasion. And whereas the matters about to be presented for discussion clearly meet the circumstances test of such act. Now therefore, be it resolved that the municipal council of the city of Planefield in the county of Union now

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adjourns its public session to reconvene an executive session for the purpose of discussing the following contract negotiations. Be it further resolved that the discussion executive session will be disclosed in the minutes to be released at the next regular city council meeting provided that

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consideration of the subject matter has been closed or that where such matters adversely affect the rights of prospective current or past public officers or personnel of the city of Planefield. Such individuals have in writing requested the disclosure of such discussion at a public meeting and

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provided such public disclosure will no longer clearly endanger that public interest. Be it further resolved that the public is now hereby excluded from the executive session. >> Thank you. May I please have a motion to go into close session? >> So moved. >> Second.

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>> May I have a motion to have a motion to close executive session? I'm sorry. We're into executive. Sorry. Let's go. >> Sorry, VA. Go ahead. >> Okay. So I we're gonna hear um a few

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quite a few resolutions this evening which talks go into the details of those development agreements and the enter but I want to first kind of

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All right. >> Thank you all for being patient. BA Levenson, can you open us up? >> Yeah. So, we have >> Are you speaking to the microphone?

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>> Thank you. So, we have some redevelopment agreements on for your consideration this evening. And I want to just give the context of why we're putting these forward and why we're putting these forward now in a special meeting and not our regular July meeting. We plan to

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introduce the city's operating budget in the July meeting which is next Monday. And in order to do so, we need to know what it what the council's decision is on these redevelopment agreements because they come with community benefits in the millions of dollars that

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impact our operating budget. And as you know, we have a deficit that we're facing. And so we've been out looking for any revenue source that we can find. Um, and that is why we are presenting these agreements to you tonight, so that we have these revenue sources to offset

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some of the deficit and how that will impact residents and employees. >> Thank you, BA. Director Fields, can you please present the resolutions being for consideration tonight? So the first resolution 246-26

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this is associated with an agreement that has been fully approved. The first and second amendment to this redevelopment agreement. It was initially approved in 23.

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There was an amendment that happened in 24 to this redevelopment agreement and what would be presented and by the way these are memorandums of understanding not the agreements it itself the

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agreements haven't been presented for the third amendment but this agreement was initially presented the redevelopment agreement for 13 for up to 1,400 units. When they returned the

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second time, it went down to a little over,300 units. Now, what's being presented today is an amendment to the redevelopment agreement that's already been approved

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for the remaining phases. Two of the buildings have already been built. One building has been built on one at 131 East or excuse me 321 East 3rd Street.

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Another is being constructed now at 401 East 3rd Street. Those total a total of 398 units. What we're going to be talking

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about is 919 units. Going back for another amendment offers us an opportunity to consider an immediate community benefit. The community benefit for the remaining

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919 units would be a total of 4 million proposals. The 4 million proposed is being proposed to be paid out 1 million

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immediately upon execution of the amended redevelopment agreement. Then the remaining 3 million paid out over time that includes looking at planning board site plan approval as

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also the remaining phases. Then there is also uh land acquisition that's a part of the community or the redevelopment agreement amendment that would be a total of 2 million.

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What's being proposed is to pay out 500,000 immediately upon redevelopment agreement execution and the remaining 1.5 at closing. So the total also being proposed are

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naming rights for a street that would be completely that is currently on Cottage Place. There are no homes on this street right now. It houses the sewer and solid waste facility

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and it would only border the proposed development. What we would be looking at naming rights for a price of 250,000. What's being proposed in total as a part of the community benefit? Four 4

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million. The municipal property acquisition 2 million. The l naming rights 2.75. That makes up a total

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of looking at 6.25 in total. The developer is proposing upon execution of the redevelopment agreement to make 1.5 million available

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immediately. 1 million from the community benefit, 500,000 from the land acquisition. Should we go through all of them or take questions one by one? >> All of them. >> All of them.

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>> Thank you. Please. >> The next resolution looking at 247. 247. This 247 is a property that's located between 927

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and 1013 South Avenue. What's being proposed here would be 32 units, a total of 396

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parking spaces. >> [gasps] >> This is proposing a mixeduse development where for every two-bedroom apartment there would be two parking spaces. For every one-bedroom apartment there would be one parking space and there were to

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be additional parking spaces for the commercial property. The total community benefit here would be 1.5 million making 750,000 available upon execution of the

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redevelopment and the remaining payments over three different parts. The next redevelopment agreement or excuse memorandum of understanding we are requesting to pull

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at this time to continue negotiation. 248-26 please pull 249-26. This is associated with three different locations. This is

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looking at the location where we are right now. The for a municipal complex. This would be for 325 Watchon Avenue and then the parking lot that's across the

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street. It also includes the property that currently holds the PAC, the additional land there, as well as the land at the corner of Park and 7th Street, the Green Hill building that we

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recently started or the area in and condemnation redevelopment plan. It also includes the lot municipal lot number seven for parking that's owned by the city with these lots that are owned by

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the city. What would include is at this location. This would include a new municipal complex where this building is roughly about 26,000 square ft. It would construct a 45,000

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square ft municipal complex that would house the same program that we have now with the court, the police headquarters in their offices as well as uh council

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chambers and council offices. It would have 100 parking spaces associated with it. In this location, we would have up to 116 apartments

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with one to one parking that would be here. Then over at the Pac, there would be an additional theater, the historic Pac building would remain. There would

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be an additional 10,000 square ft theater. There would be up to an 80 room boutique hotel. Then across the street in the municipal parking lot, there would be a

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200 parking space, parking deck for resolution 250. This is a resolution where parts I'm sorry I didn't go over the community

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benefit for the previous one. So the previous community benefit it would include a $1 million community benefit where 500 would be payable immediately.

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It would also include a land acquisition price of a total of 3.37 million that would go back into the construction of the theater.

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Looking at resolution 250. This is a project that has partially been fully approved by the council and in fact has gone through with planning board and is in compliance.

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This is known as the property that's located at the corner of Watchon and Fourth Street where there was previously approved redevelopment agreement for 55 units.

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Also across the street, looking at the corner of 4th and Cleveland is looking um at 403 Cleveland, which is owned by the city. It is a surface lot. This would include the acquisition of

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that surface lot as well as neighboring properties around it to create a parking deck. That parking deck would be owned by the city. It would be a 400 space parking deck. Then across the street for

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the entire block that's surrounded between Fourth Street, Cleveland, Fifth Street, and Park Avenue. The redevelopment plan allows for the development up to 425

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additional units and it would be one to one parking. So you would have one to one parking. You would have a 400 space parking deck that would be owned by the city. For this there is proposed to be a

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$2 million community benefit, $1 million payable immediately and then the remaining broken up into three parts. and the land acquisition would be

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500,000. The last resolution is related to a professional services contract. This is a professional services contract needed for an emergency basis to temporarily replace the services of our electrical

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sub code official. This is to bring on the services of an agency that is approved by the department of community affairs. The uniform construction code official approved where they would come on as our

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electrical sub code temporarily until another sub code official comes back and it would not exceed 50,000. All right. Any

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questions? All right. So, I'm going to open up to public comments. Limited to resolutions tonight only. That's on the agenda. A total of 30 minutes has been allocated for public comments. Each speaker will be given three

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minutes. If any member of the public would like to call in for public comment, please dial 646558 8656. Enter the meeting ID 934-914887. Dial star9 to raise your hand.

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The mic is now open. Please state your name and the resolution. and the municipality, your name and m municipality in the resolution. >> Sherry Bulock, 1060 Central Avenue, Planefield. Um, just the resolutions in

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general. Why wasn't the addresses put in? Why just the lot and blocks? Someone told me they thought that um they've always supposed to put the um actual address, not just lot and block for transparency reasons. number one. And number two, we have a lot of empty

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apartments here in Planefields and there not enough parking. And I would like the council to consider that that they seem to be giving developers tax breaks and they seem to be giving developers um breaks from the original rule of having two parking spaces per unit. And

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the streets are getting overcrowded and there's starting to be arguments now about parking spaces in some areas. And I think that the developers are getting greedy with the parking spaces and they think everybody's going to hop on a train to New York and that's not true.

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And um I just think we need to be more conscientious especially um you're taking away all the ground space. You're putting all this hard concrete and bricks and and uh there's no place for the water to go and that's why you're having some flooding and problems in the

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area also. So thank you. >> Thank you. Uh Nancy Pavar, um Myrtle Avenue. Um I understand the importance of tonight's meeting, especially with the um um

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BA telling us what the need was for. But there is some confusion in the public that I want to bring to people's attention because there was a legal notice posted in the New Jersey press and some of what was posted on July 3rd

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doesn't necessarily match up with um resolution 24726. I'll skip 248 because that was pulled. It doesn't match up with 24926 and it doesn't match the legal notice doesn't match up with our 25026.

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So, I'd be happy to give this to the clerk's office. You know, I used to be a school teacher, so maybe it's my English. Maybe AI did it. Maybe it's nobody's fault in this room, but the legal notice doesn't necessarily

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match up with what's here. It sort of does, but there are >> errors. >> Thank you, Nancy. >> Moren, is anybody online? >> Not yet. >> Name and municipality and then the

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resolution. >> Sure. Um, good evening, Quane Chamblas, Planefield, New Jersey. It's actually all of the resolutions. I wanted to know after all of this was sold, what is the total amount that would be added to the

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budget? Um, in terms of the immediate, because I know some things they said were immediate and then they'd be paid over time. I'm a little bit confused about the municipal complex there. I believe I heard 116 units of housing associated with this resolution and I'm

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trying to figure out where those going to be. Uh I'm glad that we finally have come to some reasoning in terms of parking because I see that more parking is available to these buildings now. They're like, you know, at least they're like a one to one as opposed to the 0.5

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things that you were doing before. So that makes a lot more sense even though I still think it's way um too much over it's too much overbuilding um in the city and while we're doing a lot of parking lots as a senior I'm very

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disappointed that when that building went up for the seniors you guys didn't consider a parking lot for us there's no parking lot and then we probably had an opportunity to get a parking lot over there where Bank of America is but instead that's going to be redeveloped up for more housing. So,

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and we still don't have our bus. We still don't have this shuttle, but yet we're still bringing more people in and we're not taking care of who we have here. So, you guys really need to get in the back room and figure out how you going to work out a parking for the seniors. They need to be able to park their cars when they come to the senior

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center because not everybody can fit on the bus. Definitely not everybody can fit on the van. That should be really put out of commission. And um we need parking for the seniors. Thank you. >> Thank you. I've noted your questions.

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Are there any other questions? >> All right. Seeing none. I'm going to move on to resolutions. Madam Deputy, could you please read R 246-26? That's up for consideration.

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R246-26. resolution authorizing the execution of a memorandum of understanding with SRB Planefield 3 Urban Renewal LLC and the city of Planefield regarding the redevelopment of block 305 lot 1 and

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2.01 and block 306 lots 11 12 20.01 24.01 01 26 27 and 29. >> I'm sorry, Madam Deputy. Before we move on, Director Fields, can you answer those questions? >> Sure. >> So, in in reference to the block and

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lot, the we are allowed to use the block and lot andor the address. This is how it's legally listed in the deed for the properties as well as on the tax maps. In terms of the municipal complex, we

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are currently sit sitting on the triangular property right here. This building would be updated across the street in the other lot. The 1616

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apartments are proposed to be here. In terms of parking, we have never had a 0.5 parking. We've had8 in our redevelopment plans, but the parking is

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one to one here. In terms of the senior center, the senior center actually does have parking underneath the building in the back. And in terms of the Bank of America, we are looking to have

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cityowned parking working with the developer across the street in that site. When it comes to proposal in terms of the shuttle, the shuttle will be starting this summer. We are going to

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see within the next council meeting that we were approved for UEE funding to get the shuttle started and we have had an agency that responded to the RFCP. So that could start very shortly within the

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next month. >> Thank you. And council president, in terms of the uh legal notice, uh the original legal notice was sent on June 30th for publication on July 3rd. Uh the meeting

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notice from the office of the mayor who called the meeting was subsequently changed. Uh and it was amended and was sent to the media outlets on July 3rd, the same date that it was published in accordance with the uh adequate notice

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law. 48 48 hours in advance is what we need. So it was filed as a sunshine notice, posted on the website and blasted out to um all the residents who signed up for the email. So we are in compliance with the meeting notice. So it wasn't AI, it was AJ.

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[laughter] >> AJ my little dad joke. [laughter] >> Good job. Good job. >> Nice. >> Thank you. AJ, AI, AJ, did you answer the question about the address in the resolutions?

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>> Okay, good. All right. So, let's go to um resolution R4246-26 is up for consideration. Can I have a motion to adopt these this resolution? >> Second. >> Clerk, can I please have a roll call?

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>> Council members Briggs Jones. 24626. >> That's correct. >> Yes. >> Graham, >> yes. >> McCrae, >> yes. >> Wyatt, >> no. >> Cessums, >> yes.

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>> Vice President Hakad, >> yes. >> Council President Cherry, >> no. >> Yes. City, >> no. >> Five in favor, two opposed. >> No. Changing it to a no. >> No. >> Four in favor. Three opposed. Resolution passes. >> All right.

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Resolution. Madame Deputy, could you please res read resolution 246-26? R247-26. Resolution authorizing the execution of a memorandum of understanding with Centurion Planefield Netherwood Urban Renewal LLC and the city of Planefield

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regarding the redevelopment of block 645 lots 16 through 26. >> All right. May I have a motion to adopt this resolution? >> So moved. >> All right. Clerk, can I please have a roll call? >> Roll call resolution 24726. Council

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members Briggs Jones, >> no. >> Graham, >> yes. McCrae, >> yes. >> Wyatt, >> no. >> Cessums, >> no. >> Vice President Hawkiday, >> yes. >> Council President Cherry, >> yes. >> Four in favor, three opposed. Resolution

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passes. >> I'm going to skip 248. Madame Deputy, could you please read the resolution R249-26? R249-26 resolution authorizing the execution of a memorandum of understanding with

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Thatcher Duncan Planefield Urban Renewal LLC and the city of Planefield regarding the redevelopment of block 602 lot one and block 713 lots 3 and 4 and block 832 lot 2.

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>> Motion. >> Cler, can I please have a roll call? Roll call resolution 24926. Council members Briggs Jones, >> no. >> Graham, >> yes. >> McCrae, >> yes. >> Wyatt, >> no. >> Cessums,

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>> yes. >> Vice President Hakaday, >> yes. >> Council President Cherry, >> yes. >> Five in favor to oppose resolution 24926 has been adopted. >> Madam Deputy, could you read to resolution 2550-26?

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R250-26, resolution authorizing the execution of a memorandum of understanding with Paramount Urban Renewal LLC and the city of Planefield regarding the redevelopment of block 836 lot 1.

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Block 836 lot 14, block 836 lot 15.01, 01 block 836 lot 17 block 836 lot 18 block 839 lot 1 block 839 lot 2 block 839 lot 3 block 8

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>> motion [laughter] I have a motion to adopt this resolution >> motion >> second >> all right clerk can I please have a roll call >> blocked no >> roll call on resolution R25026 Six.

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Council members. Briggs Jones. >> Block. No. No. >> Graham. >> Yes. >> McCrae. >> Yes. >> Wyatt. >> No. >> Sassims. >> No. >> Vice President Hagaday. >> Yes. >> Council President Cherry.

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>> No. >> Three in favor, four opposed. Resolution fails. >> All right. >> Madam Deputy, could you please read resolution 251-26? >> You sure? Yes. R251-26,

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resolution authorizing the execution of a professional services agreement between the city of Planefield and SOS Inspections LLC not to exceed 50,000. >> So moved. >> Second. >> Cler, can I please have roll call? >> Roll call resolution 25126. Council

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members Brick Jones, >> yes. >> Graham, >> yes. >> McCrae, >> yes. >> Wyatt, >> yes. >> Sessions, >> yes. Vice President Hakaday, >> yes. >> Council President Cherry, >> yes. >> Our f our first unanimous vote of the night.

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>> R 251 26 has been adopted. >> All right. >> Concludes resolutions. >> All right. Can I have a motion to adjurnn? >> Second. >> Thank you everyone.