The City Council convened for a special meeting to review the content of the upcoming policy agenda and clarify the public hearing process for a new council member. Council members discussed various budget amendments, grant fund reallocations involving Tanglewood and Bay Vista projects, and a job training agreement. Significant time was devoted to the urgent expenditure of expiring CDBG/CV funds, with staff detailing the strict federal timeline to avoid losing approximately $300,000. The meeting concluded with the council entering executive session to discuss pending litigation with Airbnb and Me Case.
I'd like to welcome everyone to this special call meeting by the mayor. Purpose of the meeting, of course, is to uh do an agenda review. So uh need a motion to approve or approve the content of the meeting. All right, move by Mr. Shoemaker. I'll say all right, second by Mr. Tisdale. Any discussion, Mr. Schumaker? Mr. Mr. Tisdale, anyone else? All in favor? Those opposed. Motion carries unanimous. Uh almost. Not quite, but almost. Um we'll go ahead and go around the room. So uh we'll start with Mr. Tisdale. Any items you want to discuss or any ideas after reviewing the initial content? Um sure, Kenny, if you if you don't mind, would you review the public hearing process because we've got a tree hearing on tomorrow's uh agenda, and that's gonna be new for the new council members. So if you could just go over the format. All right, as I understand it, uh we'll have opening remarks um by Mr. Creel. Uh there is a time uh uh Jerry Crew. Uh there is a uh time constraint on those opening remarks that he'll have uh somewhere around the 10-15 minute uh mark, then the opposing uh or or the counter uh to Jerry will have their time. It's also around 10 or 15 minutes. I'll I'll clarify that uh tomorrow, and then there's a final rebuttal that's uh five or ten minutes, and then we'll conclude that uh hearing with any other uh questions or or comments. Is that good enough? So what is the purpose of this public hearing at the council before the yeah? Good good question. So the public hearing is just that we call a public hearing to inform any informed uh concerned citizens that want to come to this hearing to to listen uh into this discussion about uh the trees. I believe that it's a tree removal, right? Is that what we're discussing? And to hear uh information to clarify exactly why we are having this uh debate on on 26 trees or 32 trees or however many it is. That's correct. This is uh this is an appeal by the individual of the planning commission's decision. But but then so once that's concluded, then we go into our policy agenda where it's the first thing on the policy agenda. That is correct. So so does anything come out of the public hearing? It's a hearing, just a hearing to listen to both sides. There's no action that's taken during the hearing per se. Any action would be taken during council during our council meeting. Yeah, nor normally had there been no appeal, this would just come on uh normally for the council to approve the recommendation of the planning commission. Since there's an appeal, it's basically an extra public hearing uh that they're afforded. So uh they filed an appeal from the planning commission's decision, and that kicked in an extra public hearing before the rule before y'all's meeting. So that was from the roll straight into it after not the tree committee, the planning commission. No, the planning commission approved the recommendation of the tree committee. So it's been through two stages.