For joining us today uh for this council meeting July 28th.

Uh this time I'll entertain a motion to suspend the rules.

So moved.

There's a motion by Mr.

Creel.

A second by Mr.

Nail.

Mr.

Creel, any discussion?

No discussion.

Mr.

Nail, any discussion?

No discussion.

Discussion from the council members.

There being none all in favor of suspending the rules.

It's approved on a 7-0 vote.

Thank you.

To the routine agenda, we're removing item six and Joseph Albert Yockum Zero Baby's April's drive.

Right.

That's a code enforcement hearing, correct?

All right, thank you.

So moved.

By Mr.

Creel.

Say a second.

Second.

I think Mr.

Gray.

Um the second.

Wait.

We sound alike.

Mr.

Creel.

He was a close second.

Okay.

No discussion.

No discussion.

Mr.

Graham discussion.

Okay.

Any other council members any discussion?

All in favor of the agenda amended agenda.

It's approved on a 7-0 vote.

All right.

That brings us to the first of first of all, before I proceed, I would like to recognize Mr.

Nathan Barrett.

I think.

Oh good.

Nathan, you're hiding, and my eyes aren't what they used to be.

Good to see you, Nathan.

Uh Mr.

Barrett's the supervisor for District 5.

Thank you for being with us today, Nathan.

Brings us to the mayor's report, Mr.

Mayor.

That was my introduction, Nathan Fi Nathan Barrett, and also you know Keith Heard back in the corner.

And uh we welcome them and welcome everybody to our meeting today.

Uh just a couple of little things, but we're gonna have a movie bash, right, Jamie Lee?

Six o'clock at the uh uh we're at pavilion, okay.

George Lawrence Pavilion on Point Cadet.

And uh we have citizens police academy applications will be through Thursday.

So those are two good little things that uh you know we encourage everybody to take advantage of.

Um that pretty much concludes my report.

Thank you.

Okay, thank you, Mr.

Mayor.

Uh we'll move on to departmental reports.

Yes, sir.

I'll ask Chief Everett to come up.

Hey, good afternoon again.

Um so as you know, school school season again.

We got our kiddos, our precious resources are getting ready to get back on the buses, get ready to get back in the cars, get in school.

So one of the things from the public safety side of the house that we want to remind everybody is be a little more patient, give yourself a few more minutes in the morning times and the evening times when you're going to and from.

We don't want any of our precious resources getting injured or anything like that.

School buses that are stopped, those lights are home.

Please remember that we have to at least stay ten feet back when those lights are activated.

No passing of the school buses, those are things that will get you in trouble, will get you fined eventually could have an impact to your driving privileges within the state of Mississippi.

So we just want to remind everybody to be cautious, look out for our um young people as they're going back to school, but this is kind of that public service announcement that school is starting, and we're gonna be out in full force, making sure all of our um ones going back to school are gonna be well protected.

So thank you, Chief.

Thank you very much, Council President.

Just wanted to make sure the chief was able to give everyone an update and let all the citizens of Biloxi hear what was going on with that and make sure that we do protect our children.

So thank you very much.

Thank you, Mr.

Weaver.

That brings us to the council report.

Uh we'll begin with uh Mr.

Nell in Ward 3.

Oh, okay.

Um first of all, I want to say I know it's hot out there.

All the workers for the cities out there working in this hot sun.

Uh take my hat off to them.

And uh I think I don't know how we would do this, but the the guys who actually cuts the grass and rides the lawnmowers and does the most sweating in the city of Bloxy.

I I think they deserve a at least a dollar an hour.

If we can find it in the budget, maybe to give these guys it's hot out there.

Maybe not for the whole year, but at least maybe for four months out of the year or something.

Just maybe try to look into that for these guys because it's it's hot.

And they're out there in that hot sun, sweating to death right now.

I watched them on the way in here on Ivory Shield.

And um, and then um Hill of Park looking good.

I mean, y'all y'all doing a real good job at Hill of Park.

Uh we have any updates on the pond.

Were we gonna we got the we're still waiting for the grant agreement to get here before we can start any um any work on that pond?

So until that grant agreement gets here, which is gonna fund that work, we can't do anything.

I'm not sure.

Rachel, do you have any update?

Have you heard from them?

Oh, we have if we if oh excuse me, excuse me, just for a moment.

If you're gonna speak, please just have somebody get you a mic.

So she said that we've approved the grant agreement.

We're just waiting to get it back from DMR executed, and then we can we can start scheduling out how we're gonna proceed.

All right, hey, thank you.

And um, oh, I was gonna ask you one more thing.

Um the um ditches.

Yes.

Um do we have a machine that cleans ditches?

Yes.

When the grass cutting slows down, can we get maybe some of them?

That's what we do.

We do back on the groove again.

We only do our ditch cleaning and cutting in the winter months um when we're not cutting the grass.

Yeah, that's should generally kind of how we handle it.

Okay.

All right, all right, thank you.

You're welcome.

Mr.

Neal, Ms.

Mill, I did check on that.

And uh Christy and Clio both said we had that piece of equipment that you were talking about.

Okay, all right, thank you.

And then uh um on the on the broadwater property, um that still didn't get cut.

And uh I was just wondering how the previous um council person that was sitting in my seat actually got something done at one time when they actually went out there and cleaned it up and they did the other side of um the the property and all that.

I I wouldn't see how maybe we can go about maybe doing that again.

Because it got done at one time.

And I think it was was just you know the squeaky wheel deal.

And um, and about the um the library, have we get any um any quotes on fixing the library uh roof, Bloxy West Library?

Yes, we have quotes on that.

What they are off top of my head, I'm not sure.

Okay.

Um, but we're waiting on the bond funds to be available.

All right.

Let me throw my two cents at that.

You know, it's it's a very uh flat roof and it has uh just old technology, and I think we were looking at some dura last, maybe some putting some pitch on that.

All right, all right, good.

Hey, thank you.

That concludes my report.

Remember to pull that mic close so everybody can hear.

All right, thank you.

All right, Mr.

Creel.

All right, real quick, a couple shout-outs real quick.

First of all, um I'm not sure if it's Jerry or Christy and or Christy, but uh um Jody Ewing, I just want to give you a shout out for Jody.

He's um he he's top notch.

Uh I know he deals with the commercial side of it, but at the same time he deals with our residents.

Um he handled an issue that was very delicate in Wildwood Trace here recently that was able to uh satisfy the resident and was able to uh get the uh contractor that was at fault on board to even reimburse the resident for the repair.

So um that guy would be consolidated as it catch up to a person with white gloves.

That he's he's doing well.

So thank you for for Jody and also uh Jerry Courtney Lamy uh has been very, very responsive to the residents of there on board four.

Um we've had some calls on some issues underneath the bridge on that south side on Pops Ferry Road.

She took care of that.

I reached out to her about uh something on Pops Ferry Road.

She gave me the address before I could give it to her, and she even mentioned the the the house across the street that she's already addressed.

So I appreciate their efforts and them staying on top of it.

It's uh it's not an easy job, but um and and everybody can do it better, but thanks to those two, uh, I think they're top notch.

Uh Christy, real quick, um, any update on the uh technology of the traffic lights at uh Riverview and Sunkis Country Club.

Not yet.

We're gonna get our our Lamey who does our traffic signals to go in and look at those and see if there's room to add another turn signal in the traffic control box.

Okay, and then why were you there uh any update on the Pops pass and Nelson traffic study or over?

No, it is uh I need I'll get you an update on that.

I'm not sure where it is in the queue uh with the approval, but I will get you an update.

Okay.

Yep.

Perfect.

And that's all I have.

Thank you.

Thank you, Mr.

Creel.

I have two things.

Uh the first is to echo what Chief Everett said about schools and sessions, school zone speeding, passing a stopped uh school bus and so forth.

Please drive carefully and and be very attentive, particularly in neighborhoods and around bus stops.

Um the time changes again, it may be a little darker in the morning or darker when kids come home from school.

So please be attentive at that time of the day.

Um the second thing is I want to thank public works for finding not buried treasure, but a drain that had been covered on Fairview Drive, rumored to exist, and that was in fact verified.

So that will help because that that location usually during a moderate rain water will build will be build up there.

So appreciate the efforts of your crew.

Thank you.

Another urban legend disappeared, solved.

Thank you, Christy, and you and your team for that.

That concludes my comments.

Mr.

Glavin.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

Um got a few things.

I I want to shout out again to um the grass cutting crew.

Uh last week they were uh catching up on Pops Ferry Road.

Um looks like they uh got to Hudson Cron, Hickman Skeet Hunt, uh, all those all those streets uh they got to the grass cutting.

I got a lot of phone calls of appreciation.

Told everyone I passed that along.

Um today's uh agenda we also have um resolution D.

And uh it it goes uh it's a support resolution for the USA uh USDA to include wild caught peeled and divaneed shrimp uh to our emergency uh assistance programs.

And you know, that may not sound like a lot, but this is another uh thing that we're doing on the federal level, supported by the state level, um, to support our local shrimpers and fishermen.

This will have far-reaching effects on our local uh seafood industry.

Um allow the processors uh to provide uh this mandate uh for I I don't know how many, I don't have the statistics on on how many pounds of shrimp, but it's for locally caught shrimp.

Uh they can't go into the foreign shrimp and supplement it uh to these uh food banks or these emergency assistant uh programs.

So it again we're going to uh continue to work hard and put the pieces together to re rebuild our industry, and I appreciate everyone's support on it, including our our uh federal and state legislators.

Um I want to point out today was a long anticipated uh congressional hearing held by Congressman Isell uh several months ago, almost a year ago, uh I reported on the Save Our Sound initiative and the effects of that.

Um I'm gonna say two things.

I I was wrong during those uh passionate discussions.

I asked everybody to think about what if the Bonnie Carey spirit spillway was opened again.

This is uh around October of 2025, and my comments were they were only about two feet away from opening the spillway.

Well, we had the Corps of Engineers there today.

They said there weren't I was I was wrong, they corrected me.

There weren't two feet away, they were two inches, two inches away.

Um want to thank my fellow council members that were able to uh make it to that real important meeting.

Uh our President, Mr.

Tuesdale, uh, and Councilman uh Anthony Marshall uh kind of heard them talk about two inches, two inches away from opening those spillways, and we would have had a repeat of 2019-2020.

Um it was very compelling.

Congressman Ezel said it was a lot of eye-opening uh information that he learned.

Um we learned that we could uh initiate more collaboration with the core and maybe look at ways that we simultaneously open different spillways, not only as the water approaches uh down here on the Mississippi Gulf Coast and Sound, um, but maybe the other 32 states as it's coming down through the floodplains, how can we utilize AI or other technology or other means uh to get those flood waters mitigated before they arrive down here and and create a potential uh catastrophe?

Uh I felt that the meetings were um they were very open and I'm very hopeful as we continue to support it on the very ground zero area of Biloxi uh that we'll get the support all the way up and uh our leadership and uh hope every councilman on this uh council as well as all the communities along the coast recognize the importance of it.

It was certainly a very eye-opening uh meeting.

I'm gonna end this discussion on this topic with one thing.

I do forward uh kind of a summary of Linda Hornsby's uh presentation.

It included a lot of facts.

I emailed that to most of my colleagues.

If you didn't get a copy and want to get a copy of it, I'll send that to you.

But it's it wasn't just a tourism perspective, even though that's where it was dominated by that.

It it just showed the economic um the economic uh damage that could be caused uh by something like that.

And we have the means if we continue to communicate effectively to prevent that from happening in the future.

Okay.

Uh I want to thank well, before I get to that, I got a question for Christy.

Uh this general question as well.

We have certain warranties uh like when a developer finishes or a contractor finishes a uh a road and they install it or pave it, they generally give us a year or two on a warranty uh and many other things in in the infrastructure.

Uh I just just a general question.

Uh how do we track because it usually they'll turn it over to us.

We've got one year.

Do we kind of track that and just go back and look at those uh infrastructure?

Yes, we track those in CityWorks, and what we do is we create an um basically a work order for ourselves internally about three months out to go send an inspector back out and go do a reinspection in ahead of time.

Um and they that will keep popping up in our in our inboxes until that inspection is complete, and then we'll contact them and let them develop and let them know hey, we see this, this, and this needs to be addressed, and if or if there's nothing out there, we'll tell them this is we everything looks good, we'll go ahead and release your maintenance bond.

Okay.

Um I want to thank, I know Nathan Barrett uh is is in attendance.

I want to thank him.

He uh provided some material.

Uh we have an initiative uh tomorrow at Belmont Garden uh senior community uh uh residential community, and uh they're certainly helping.

Also, Rick Weaver uh I contacted him, he's agreed to also provide some resources uh for that event.

If any of you have an hour or two, we're gonna start at 8 a.m.

Uh this is for some of these seniors uh that were, I mean, they were devastated by uh the first tropical storm that came through here.

It actually flooded uh dozens of those apartments.

Um I went out there, I helped some of the seniors move TVs and entertainment centers and and all that kind of stuff.

And this is to give them uh a little bit of relief and hope that if they are under a different uh a threat, similar threat, uh, that they do have the means to to kind of mitigate that.

Um with that, if uh I can ask uh Mr.

I'm sorry, Mrs.

Uh Woodward, if she would uh come up here and say a few things about the event.

I think she has some flyers.

You need some help, you need some assistance.

Uh I just want to point out she's she's got crutches over there, she's kind of uh mitigating a foot that she broke.

She broke that foot helping her residents during the first flood, uh trying to you know help them a little bit as those floodwaters were intruding in into their apartments.

And I'll give her the remainder of my time.

I'll be a teacher for my spot and start asking out to echo what Mr.

said.

Special.

Um we had at least units that flooded out, and we're talking a lot of our senior citizens that um gain half of their life veterans, nurses.

When they walk out, then they don't walk hard or have appreciate how far we have gotten so um on the bond.

Uh but tomorrow we're just asking we're going to let us overflow.

Please pick up that mic and be sure it's on so everybody can hear you and the folks that are watching this video.

Okay.

Pull it a little closer.

There you go.

Thank you.

So tomorrow from 8 to 10 30, we will be having volunteers at Belmont Gardens.

It's 871 Motzi Road.

Um, again, this is um an ongoing issue that we have been trying to solve.

Um, this is not a permanent solution tomorrow.

It's uh it's a band-aid, it it's just to help things.

It's to help our seniors that have always been there for us.

Um if y'all have any kind of a time, we would love to have you.

Um let's just show up for the people that showed up for us.

How many uh units do you have?

We have 60 units, 60 units, and then about 18 uh flat it just at Bertha.

Okay.

Beginning of the bertha.

Um we did have an issue when Bertha was coming, we kind of scrambled and we got a small amount of dirt.

The dirt is now loaded for today.

Um Mr.

King has been extremely helpful with getting things um all scheduled up, and we hope for we hope for a good turnout tomorrow, and we hope to see everyone there.

Thank you, Kimberly.

Thank you.

I just want to add that uh Ty uh Perlont, uh a lot of you know him.

He he's kind of works with the Keysler group, he helped with the um track.

Uh if we remember we all went out there and volunteered on the Amtrak issue.

Uh he's he's been helping with this as well.

Mr.

President, that concludes my report.

Thank you, Mr.

Glav, and thank you, Kimberly for sharing that information.

Brings us to Mr.

Shoemaker.

Just two things.

Uh last week I mentioned a couple of new uh businesses opening in Wool Market, and since then we had another new one.

It's a Mexican restaurant, El Vulcan on Lorraine Road, where the old uh is right next to Woolmarket Grocery.

It opened actually it opened on last Tuesday.

Uh secondly, uh Director Labata.

I'll get with you later.

I don't it's just I've had a couple of reports where the sidewalk and a couple of areas, not many, where the new sidewalks were constructed.

There's a few small washouts starting in a couple of yards.

Kind of we figured that.

I know we discussed that.

We figured it would happen, and we've had a lot of rain, but I'll get you a it's like I said, it's a small list for now, but I'll get that to you.

And that's all I have.

Thank you.

Thank you, Mr.

Shambaker.

Mr.

Gray and Ward 1.

Uh first of all, I want to thank uh Dan Quaif and a board of supervisors for paving Comfort Street.

Thank you all.

I mean, they they come out and they did it.

They're fixing a look at doing some repairs underneath the um the I-11 bridge from division to the railroad tracks, walk and track there, they're gonna come in and do some repairs there.

Um still working on that.

If we can get the concrete pads where the old benches were taken up, dangerous for one thing, because they're sticking up so much, and maybe them lights right there by Hopkins.

There's a group of lights there that's um not being used, and we do maybe we can use some globes to fix some of the globes that are broken.

Won't fit and um is there any word?

I guess maybe this would be a walt question of any funding from veterans to St.

Paul.

Um all the roads are starting to fail in there.

If we got any word on that funding coming from there, yep.

I mean, uh we got a lot of holes on we ain't gonna have any any cones for cruising the coast, they're gonna be out all through there.

Right now, right now, councilman, uh, for the project what we call project Rod 9, Rodenberg 9, which is from veterans to um St.

Paul, basically, as you stated.

We anticipate based on the final cost to close out our current projects that we will have about 32 to 34 and a half million available to bid Rod 9.

Uh we are in discussions with the administration about whether they will seek to get the additional nine million dollars from FEMA or if they wish to contest it for the full amount of monies we need to complete the rest of the infrastructure.

That's where we're currently at.

Okay, so we're still waiting on funding.

We we have funding.

Uh wait.

Yeah, right now we're we're reviewing the plan for Rod 9.

We're about to uh internally we're doing a QCQA.

are in discussions with the administration about whether they will seek to get the additional nine million dollars from FEMA or if they wish to contest it for the full amount of monies we need to complete the rest of the infrastructure that's where we're currently at okay so we're still waiting on funding we we have funding wait yeah right now we're we're reviewing the plans for Rod9 we're about to uh internally we're doing a q cq a uh we're close to returning that back to the design engineer for rod nine uh and after he makes the edits the plans will be bid ready we believe we have enough based on the engineer's estimate to bid the project but we will definitely need we believe additional monies for any potential change orders or costs that come up that are unforeseen FEMA has agreed to an additional nine million for that project uh although by yes sir so one of the ways that it's coming in at less cost than originally estimated was we went back and asked the design engineer to look at all the uh sewer mains again and systems and we eliminated about four and a half million dollars building a brand new lift station on the beach so money wise it'll be it we're we're pretty close and there's gonna be some discussions with the mayor and the administration if they wish to go after that nine million from FEMA uh there's some ties to the last project which we uh has some additional FEMA uh hurdles to overcome well just the the 13th of the 14th projects this is the last of the 344 million that we got to do the whole thing but the cost escalating factor that was you know admitted to this thing should have been 570 million we wouldn't had not the you know the need to do this so uh that's the ongoing battle with uh we've been fighting with FEMA for the last two and a half years so but we do have I think when the smoke clears we'll have enough to to bid Rod nine yes sir we barring any unforeseen issues we we should have sufficient monies to bid Rod9.

Okay that's all I have thank you yes sir and uh I got some calls over the weekend I don't know how true it is but a lot of calls Jerry Krill trimming the shrubs at the uh community development that true Jerry we appreciate it I just want to give you a little thing is there any way I mean I don't know if it's being difficult for the the uh directors to sit over here with the microphone so they're not running around I mean that's just my opinion I don't know how everybody else feels about that um that's all I have to include my report thank you thank you Mr.

Gray Mr.

Marshall and more too I don't really have questions okay I shouldn't be over 30 minutes so we just we'll be okay uh to the uh police chief you mind stepping up uh not to be a slight to anybody but uh uh asked some questions throughout the community in the last um few weeks they have noticed since our last conversation that there has been a uh great change in the amount of um unhouse that is laying out on our sidewalks they've noticed that and then we I tell them I will pass that a little bit of uh pat on the back to you make sure that you understand that they know it's when things are done right and you've done a good job on that we have to continue don't don't slack up now but continue to keep going we like the way they was looking like that also uh um I did the comment that your officer did a good job uh on the situation with the uh second line if they had the situation in the car yes sir and I've had uh I've had two other residents come forward that had interactions with your officers and they wanted to let me know that they had interactions with your officers and they were happy to okay they did good so they do see a change they do see improvement they understand that you know you can't change things overnight but you know they heard me say what I said about what you guys did and they just want to make sure that you know their experiences was on the same level of good sir thing uh as far as going back to getting back to school for kids and everything do we have any kind of get back to uh going back to school notifications public notice notices we can we put out anything like that what we got um I'm not a hundred percent certain if that's something that's going out through public affairs but we can get something out we can do a press release through the police department through the media outlet so we can get that accomplished yeah that's something get us a Facebook something we we can community start sending around the people you know reposting and sending out to everybody from the police department be careful watch out for our children things like that.

If we can get if you get two or three of them, we all we just start passing it out.

Okay, I sure appreciate that.

Yes, sir.

I'm good.

Okay.

Unless you just want to sit there.

Well, you know, you can go back on the seat.

No, somebody else on the top.

Uh parks and recreation.

That'll be you.

All right, Mr.

Director.

Yes, sir.

Uh going up to the bathroom.

I mean, we opened the bathrooms up.

We got the uh the um main street every year, every year.

They do a praise in the park.

And they like to have it so that the grass is cut, they want the trash picked up, they want it decently.

I've already got Miss Uh Chrissy working on that grass, but uh the trash, things like that.

You know they come in there Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday do it every year.

It's important to my community that they do it.

It's not just one church, it's several of the churches in the community all get together and they come out there and they do the ministry, they do things with the people that are there in the park, and it's kind of it's the it's the events that we want.

You know, it was you're not gonna have loud crazy music.

Dare the people you want to come out there and and use utilize the park, very family uh atmosphere.

Um we can work on maybe get somebody out there to walk that trash line for us, you know, knowing that they're coming out there, especially they're gonna be out there this evening too.

You know, if you can do that, I will definitely uh appreciate it.

It's also brought to my attention that the rails for the going up towards the battle from is still missing and look bad.

So, how are we looking on that?

It's kind of dangerous.

Make a note to the president.

This doesn't take my time, it's him taking his time.

Uh-huh.

Gotta write this down or I'll forget.

Go ahead.

Take a moment.

We're waiting.

Go ahead.

We um I met out there earlier before here as well about the roll gate now that the concrete has been finished.

Um I will also talk with them and see what you know, maybe when they're reinstalling that gate, we get to it, maybe there's some pieces we can use to fix that railing on that sidewalk as well.

Okay, yeah.

Going to the bathroom is a secret client.

Yeah, and they gotta have something to hold on to.

Um, we want somebody, one of the older ladies uh to hurt themselves on that.

All right.

Okay.

Yeah.

The the piece that's missing, you know that it's just railing just missing, right?

Yes, sir.

All right.

Thank you so much, sir.

Yes, sir.

Uh, in reference to the save out sound, I was pleased to uh be in attendance with Congressman Ezzel.

Um I had good people I sat next to.

Uh we all was behaving ourselves very well.

Uh it's nice to hear that we have someone that's in our community that could go and sit down and not do anything, but uh uh former mayor blessy is taking upon himself to form a coalition to work with everybody he could that would join in with him.

And I'm happy to see that um our former president of the council has joined in also in reference to uh saving our sound.

The mayor, I want to say you're on a good job on that.

We appreciate that.

And it's you know, we're we're as a council will be standing.

Uh as far as I'm concerned, we'll be standing with you on that, make sure that we do save our sound.

It is a part of our tourism, it is a part of our uh, as they explained today, it's part of the of feeding the people.

A lot of people get fed off of that.

So we want to make sure that the uh the the sound is kept clean, prosperous, and um for the next generation.

Okay, that would make sure you got everything.

That would conclude my report.

Thank you, sir.

Thank you, Mr.

Marshall.

Uh that concludes the council reports.

We'll now move to the public agenda.

We'll allot up to 45 minutes for citizens who wish to address the council, just a reminder, it's an opportunity for your comments, it's not a question and answer session.

Each speaker can speak for up to three minutes.

Don't feel obligated to speak the full three minutes, but if you'd like to, you certainly may.

With that having been said, we'll start with anybody on my left, your right.

Ms.

Ruske.

No, it's it's off.

We we have a microphone specialist.

All right.

Must have fun.

Okay.

There we go.

So uh Sarah Rusky, Harrison County Library System.

And you should have all gotten an invitation, but just in case, I just wanted to step up for a moment and invite you to our library Lollapalooza, which is an open house at the Margaret Sherry Library next Monday from four to seven.

And the friends of the library will be having what they're terming a mega book sale.

So the public's invited to come as well to learn more about our services to sign up for the friends if you're not already a member.

You can get your library card if you need to or renew it if it's expired, and just learn more about what what we are doing and hopefully um enlighten you about our services if you're not familiar.

There'll be snacks, prizes.

It's a family-friendly event.

So just hope to see you there.

Thank you, Ms.

Rusky.

Is there anybody else on my left, your right that wishes to speak?

Anyone on my right, your left?

Last chance.

Anyone in the back?

All right.

That concludes citizen comments.

We'll move to the policy agenda.

If the clerk would read item A, please.

Ordinance to amend municipal facilities.

All right.

The motion was made by Mr.

Creel, the second by Mr.

Gray.

Mr.

Creel.

Yes, this is just some a resolution to clean up some language based on the rentals with the um new agreement with the downtown market.

And um it is just adding George Lawrence Pavilion and just cleaning up the language going forward with the new uh program.

Thank you, Mr.

Creel.

Mr.

Gray, any comments?

No, I I have nothing.

Thank you.

Any any comments or questions from the other council members?

That being on a call for the question.

All in favor.

It's approved on a 7-0 vote.

That brings us to item B when the clerk is ready.

Ordinance to amend sections of the land development ordinance pertaining to tree committee, tree permit, tree protection, and definitions and interpretation.

Motion was made by Mr.

Creel and the second by Mr.

Gray.

Mr.

Creel.

Yes, sir.

All right.

So this is a lot of uh clarifications and and amending the uh the resolution to I guess strengthen it a little bit.

Um it it it identifies when public hearings are not required for single family residential properties unless it's a majestic tree.

Um it also states that all development projects must go through the uh the development review committee where tree survey and a landscape plan and a mitigation plan are required.

Um there's a lot of clarification with the communication between the director, uh Jerry Creel and the Arborist and the tree committee.

Uh also the number of mitigating trees has been increased in this language uh and based on the diamond of a tree removal.

So for majestic tree has got to come before us.

Uh anything maybe that you can add or that I missed, or you you covered a great deal of it.

One other thing is that uh we did remove the requirement that if a single family homeowner is trying to take down five or more trees, they would not have to go for a public hearing because in most of those cases they're just trying to comply with their insurance company.

And it's on is as long as it's on their property, correct?

Right.

It's on their property, yes, sir.

Sure.

And that's that's basically it.

I I know uh your tree committee um uh with under direction, Ms.

Susan has done a great job.

They put a lot of effort and thought into this.

Um I know it wasn't just a happenstance, it was over several meetings that they um that they got to this this final uh compromise.

So I appreciate their efforts.

Thank you.

Thank you, Mr.

Creel.

Mr.

Gray.

Uh echo everything Mr.

Creel said.

I got one question for Jerry though.

Um is there any way of getting a few phone calls of the live oak trees are hanging down in the cemetery?

They were about when the winds blowing, knocking down headstones.

That's something you can look at.

Yes, sir.

We do.

Uh and we just removed uh a limb that it fell in the cemetery just last week.

Uh we're we're constantly looking at that.

So we try to keep the tree canopy up at least 14 feet above the road level.

Okay.

Thank you.

That's all I have.

Any other questions or comments from the council?

If there aren't any, I'd just like to thank uh Mr.

Creel and the planning commission.

I know they spent a lot of time and uh and a lot of energy on revising these ordinances, and it's it's in dealing with issues over a number of years, uh there was the need to clarify some points and maybe clarify a definition or two.

Uh and uh all of these revisions are improvements, and and I particularly appreciate that.

Thank you.

And I think it's a little more clear to the public, hopefully it is.

When in doubt about removing a tree, they could always call community development and somebody could answer that question or let them know what they need.

That's correct.

All right.

Uh that being said, all in favor of the ordinance is presented.

That's approved on a 7-0 vote for the clerk.

The clerk would read the next item, please.

Ordinance amending the leisure and recreation districts.

Uh Mr.

Creel made the motion.

Mr.

Glavin uh seconded that motion, Mr.

Creel.

Yeah, so I I do have some questions on this here.

So uh based on the map, and unfortunately, technical difficulties here trying to pull it up.

Um it's south of the bridge, it doesn't go north of the bridge, correct?

On Pops Ferry Road?

There's already uh No, it's south of the bridge, yes.

Yeah, south of the bridge.

Now, what what was the I I guess what was the reason of not increasing it and going further north across the bridge, for example, along Pops Free Road to Cedar Lake.

Well, the reason the reason that this came up, we've had all right with the uh we have existing leisure districts along Highway 90.

And with the Pops Ferry Extension now moving north, uh with the convention center, the Coliseum, uh talk of hotels going into that area.

We've had some people that have approached us about wanting to open daiquiri shops in that stretch.

So what we did is went it basically extended that West Biloxi leisure district or proposing that it come up to and include just the commercial part that is next to Rouse's there.

We did not go into the residential area because we don't want the district to extend beyond the commercial zoning that's there.

There are some locations.

Um's is one location, and then I think the area on the other side of the bridge, uh the east side is also locations for uh the leisure district to happen, but we just didn't want to include the residential part, and then north of the bridge uh is mostly residential, but uh Right.

And have a request for it at this time is Okay, yeah.

My only concern north of the bridge is it's a huge golf court golf cart community, so that's if um if they're leaving Yules or and or even around the corner to uh they can get to um uh the Mexican restaurant through through the uh the Baywood and things of that nature.

So that's that's why I was asking about if it was gonna uh anything going across the bridge.

It's no sir.

So but you're in the causeway is still in included already.

They're already in there.

This this doesn't include them because the that waterfront area right in there is already in a leisure district.

Okay, so the the leisure district in 20 words or less actually does what?

I know it it allows them open containers or yes, sir.

It allows open container, you know, they can basically walk down the sidewalk.

Uh there's some restrictions about being able to walk into or out of a club with it uh in a can or a bottle, you can't do that.

It's in a it's in a cup.

Um, but uh we see that area next to the Coliseum starting to be kind of an entertainment area moving north, and we see a lot of people walking from the Coliseum Convention Center to Pass Road to Wal Green or to some of those areas there.

And uh just with the request that we've gotten from some people that said, you know, that'd be a great place to open a daiquiri shop between Highway 90 and uh the Pass Road area.

So that's why this is being proposed.

Okay, so the elephant in the room is uh currently I see people walking there now without the Coliseum and the hotel and that, and it's the the homeless that are they're walking up with the it.

Do we foresee that being an issue of them being able to walk currently down the street with open container or well if they're doing that on Highway 90, they're fine because they're already in a district.

Right.

So by increasing it going north right there where there was a homeless camp right there on the other side of the Coliseum that I think was cleaned out by the Coliseum itself.

So do we see I know that we have a presence there?

Do we foresee a problem of them of of patrolling it sooner than later?

I think as far as patrolling goes, you know that would be the police department's responsibility, but with this propsphere extension, we see some development starting to happen in there that's probably gonna push that homeless element out of that area.

Okay.

Uh it's just that some of those properties in there are inaccessible right now, and this Popster extension is gonna make them accessible to make them developable.

Okay, thank you.

Mr.

Glavin, comments add.

Any questions or comments from my colleagues?

There being none all in favor of the ordinance as presented.

It's approved on a 7-0 vote.

Thank you.

That brings us to the next item, item D.

If the clerk would read that, please.

Resolution expressing strong support for United States Department of Agricultural Inclusion of U.S.

wild caught peeled and divaneed shrimp in emergency food assistance programs.

I'll move it.

Is there a motion by Mr.

Glav and there's a second by Mr.

Creel?

Mr.

Glavin.

Uh so do I do in my report?

Um I'm just gonna reiterate that this uh helps our working waterfront.

Uh I don't know if you knew but how many boats went out this shrimp season, opening shrimp season.

Twenty-two.

Twenty-two boats went out this shrimp season.

Ten years ago it was two hundred and fifty-five.

Um years before that, before Katrina, it was over five hundred.

Ten years before that it was twelve hundred boats.

And um I'm hoping actions like this that next year at this same time, I can give another saltwater report that shows that this number is increasing d dramatically.

Again, what does this do?

It provides fresh peeled local caught divane shrimp right here in our own seafood processors and and factories that are caught out in these waters, local waters.

A guaranteed buyer.

The guaranteed buyer buyer is the USDA.

And this will help build these fleets back.

There will be more demand for local caught shrimp, and hopefully with all the other interconnecting uh actions and legislation, uh, we'll see that uh start to happen.

That's it.

Thank you, Mr.

Glavin.

Mr.

Creel.

Uh just want to add I appreciate Councilman Glavin's tenacity on issues such as this.

Uh I I was one of the 1200 30 years ago, so there you go.

They made a movie of that effect.

Yeah, yeah.

Yeah.

Cabin Dayan.

But uh no, um I appreciate your tenacity and carrying the water on this, so to speak, and uh I concur.

Any other comments or questions from the council?

There being uncalled for the question.

All in favor of the resolution is presented.

It's a 7-0 vote for the clerk.

Thank you.

That brings us to the consent agenda.

I'll entertain a motion.

So moved.

By Mr.

Creel.

Is there a second by Mr.

Glavin?

Thank you, sirs.

Mr.

Creel.

All right, so item D.

Uh.

So this is coming out of it says uh we're so it's 147,000 that's available in the grant that we had for the Keysler Gate.

And then with the bid it being 230, we need to transfer 90,000.

It says from project 1127, but then in the exhibit, it says it's coming out of MIMA funds.

That is MIMA funds in project 117.

1127.

Which is repair and maintenance.

Okay, so we do we split MIMA funds from 999 to 1127, or is it 999 is our holding.

That's where we put stuff before we allocate it to a specific project so that we can track it.

MIMA funds can be allocated to any project that we have, provided that that project is acceptable uses.

Okay, and then um 1127 has sufficient funding.

What would what what will be left after the 90?

Didn't you tell me you had 96,000 and now says we have to do that?

I can get you that information, but I don't have it on me today.

The whole project was to push uh the sidewalks over 147,000.

We got a 256,000 dollar bid to do both sides to kind of pay the strips of the two and three feet.

So the 256 is made up of a couple of and uh that's correct.

Yes, yeah.

And 147,000 that needed to be spent.

And this was this uh that's why we put another few thousand to make the whole thing.

Right.

It's uh the other need for maintenance and very small strips of grass that are on between I 110 and uh Forest Avenue.

Yeah.

So just so you know, the reason why this this came up is I've received numerous calls on on this project here uh in in opposition of it.

So that's why I was asking about the the identifying the funds where they're coming from.

In opposition.

Yes.

And I I'm not the only one.

I'm uh that they can tell you as well.

So it it's uh Well, I think Councilman Nail and I moved over a number of times about a year ago in in order to eliminate a lot of grass cutting and edging.

This was the the you know consensus, and it was a part of 147,000.

We could have done the 147,000 dollars and see how far it took us.

But that's an additional labor intensive.

What do we do?

How much did it cost us to do that one strip?

We did we we in just cutting it?

180.

Just 180 dollars uh to cut that little strip.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And this is actually making it look like Division Street on the east side of IRT.

I 110 as well, too.

In the sidewalk to the way to the curb.

So that's basically all we're doing is taking Division Street from the east side and moving it all the way towards Keysler Air Force Base.

Yeah, I guess my question would be was there not a forethought in doing that when we were doing the project rather than an afterthought of coming back and spending.

This remaining grant money has been the issue.

It was not in the original plans.

It has taken us over three years to get permission for a project that will utilize these remaining funds.

This is what we finally got permission for.

Okay.

All right.

Is there a dead is there a deadline to expend these remaining Federal funds?

And that's not Federal funds, these are State bond funds.

So it's 140, so that roughly 148,000 is state funds.

It is state funds.

We do need to get it expended, but it it has been three years attempting.

Right.

So is but is there a deadline?

Is there an established deadline to spend?

There is no established deadline per se, but our auditors are ready to have been after us to spend it.

Yeah.

So there's an established location, though, Councilman Tisdale.

There's only a certain area where this money can be spent.

So there are specifications.

Understand.

Continue, Mr.

Graham.

So uh okay, thank you.

So item E.

So item E, and I believe that's you as well, Ms.

Rachel.

Um, so the if if I'm correct in looking at this, we we started in 23 and we've reappropriated it going forward going forward now.

We're so we if I'm if my math is right, we've used 960,000 uh 48,000.

Back numbers, those are the numbers of what the legislature is reappropriating to this.

Right.

So they reappropriated the three million, and then they just reappropriate in 2.03952?

Yes, you know, there's always a lag.

There's a huge lag between when we spend it when work is done, when we spend it, when I get reimbursed on it.

This is the lag of what is still in the grant at the state level.

What we what we have spent is much more because we are awaiting reimbursement at this moment.

That is just bringing forward our grant is all that's doing.

It's it's even uh it's to give us another year to complete the okay.

So so this is as of what day?

Uh this is there as of June 30th date.

So as of June 30th, we've we've spent the 960 that reappropriate.

I have spent much more than that.

According to this Senate bill.

According that that is what is being reappropriated in Gulf Coast Restoration Fund.

We have spent much more than that.

Like I said, there is a lack.

Right.

But uh probably five to six pay applications.

Okay, so so but as of the Senate bill that passed Senate Bill 3071.

That's what the State still had left.

And I have gone through, I've confirmed it.

I know what they haven't paid.

It matches.

It's correct.

Right.

Okay.

So but that they still have outstanding receipts that are not included in this balance.

Exactly.

Okay.

So then they'll do this again next year.

They have to roll it forward every year.

So do they keep rolling it forward until we expense all the to we get to zero or is there a deadline on this?

It depends.

Generally, as long as we're making good progress, it's within the time that we pitched it as originally.

Okay.

And then this is strictly for processary extension, or can you?

So uh let's see.

And I see on item I, we're just getting another just our final disbursement for MIMA funds.

Another disbursement, yes, we're putting it in 999.

And so that will be the final one for this fiscal year.

That is correct.

Okay.

And then item K.

We're just swapping parking lots, correct?

Essentially.

Yes, essentially.

Well, it's actually actually much better than that because there's a small parking lot that's directly to the south of the uh where the Tasty Tails used to be.

That's right.

And the city is still the owner of that, although they've added for use as their customers.

They have a grant that's going to uh take that over and maintain and resurface that entire parking lot.

It will still remain in our possession, but we're entering to long-term lease.

As part of that, with the Sanger coming online and to have available more parking.

Uh the administration approached them about the large lot to the east of the of that, which is essentially unused, because people perceive it to be uh only a CTA lot.

So, as part of doing this, they're going to allow public parking signs on that lot.

So ongoing into the future, that will be used for this city lot at any time.

Okay.

And no money changes hands.

Okay.

And then on the Sanger on item N, the interior repairs.

Um it's uh it's a $800,000 grant.

We're going to use the 450,000 that we have spent as our, so to speak, match.

That is what we're going to attempt to do, whether it will be allowed or not.

I can't say they have allowed that in the past.

There are three resolutions like this, and you'll see the word leverage rather than match, because we are I'm putting these in with no cash match from the city on any of these three resolutions.

Okay.

So it's money that we have already expended that we're going to use as just if that $800,000 grant, what would the match be?

Is it $80, $20, $75, $25 or does it not with Gulf Coast Restoration Fund, it's not a set amount.

It's what you pledge.

Okay.

So what we are pledging is, I think it's what $400,000.

It's almost 50 percent.

Right.

That we have already spent that's money that is nothing additional, you know, to try to get another $800,000 that could help Sanger do some other things, some backstage improvements, some town systems, things like that.

Great.

So so and one last question on that one.

Would it be up to $800, or is it $800 or nothing?

It's whatever the legislature awards.

So they could they could award a lesser amount.

They could award a lesser amount, they could award nothing.

And that's the case on every grant application that we do.

Okay.

And that's all I have.

Thank you.

You're welcome.

Mr.

Glavin, any questions?

Rachel, if you just uh item O, this is um something you and I have discussed a little bit.

Um you just want to give a general overview of this.

You don't have to go into detail.

I've seen the detail, but just kind of a little bit of overview.

Additional dredging embrasure by you.

And again, what we're trying to leverage is the prior amounts that we have spent dredging in Brazure by you.

So, you know, if it works and you get this, we'll have twice the dredging done.

One of the requirements on this kind of funding or our application is that there has been some skin in the game.

Yes.

But it's more than just that, it's 15 or 16 different criteria that you're trying to convince the committee to to look at.

Sure.

Reason.

There are about 16 things as you said that they are evaluated on.

Each one receives a certain number of points from the committee, and then the committee makes a recommendation to the legislature.

The legislature does as it wants.

Well, I I want to thank you because I know all the stuff that you're juggling in that office and everything that's kind of cut.

You're the gatekeeper for a lot of this stuff, and I've seen you firsthand with this piece, and I appreciate all the time and effort.

I have nothing else, Mr.

Shoemaker, anything?

No, sir.

Councilman Creel is asked all my questions already.

Well, thank you.

Mr.

Gray.

Question for Rachel.

Don't run off.

On M N O.

Yes.

I know you're trying to get grants to help fund this.

Yes.

The grant stuff fall through.

Would any of the bond money be used for this?

No, there is no bond money pledge.

There is no city money pledged on any of these.

The first one is widening shriners.

We have been awarded an M DOC grant that we have not accepted yet because we do not have the match.

What we are pledging here is that M Dot grant.

We're trying to get the match from Gulf Coast Restoration.

So again, no city money.

On N, that's the Sanger that we discussed, pledging prior, and then we discussed the Brazier Bayou and then pledging prior.

Okay.

All right, thank you.

And one on D.

I've been like everyone else.

I mean people around has been calling that live over here, riding down there, looking at it, and they just can't figure out why we are trying to concrete between six and twelve foot of grassy area.

They wondered why we can't plant trees there, use the money for beautification instead of concrete.

And if they do concrete it, can they at least leave areas 10 foot round areas with grading for um for trees to be planted.

So that's the a lot of the phone calls I've been, they just can't understand why we're paving that uh concrete and that much of the grass.

It's not like it's a little strip.

It's anywhere from six to twelve foot wide.

It was it was one, two, or three foot wide.

That's what that was the intent of this this project to cover those things so we wouldn't have to edge three times the the edging we've been doing on that strip.

So where where is this located at?

It's on division street.

Between I-11 and and and Forest Avenue.

And there's nothing in there two foot, everything's six foot wide.

No, it's not.

This is on the edge on the north side and the south side of of Division Street, of the median, not in the median.

This isn't the median.

This is size.

This is between the sidewalk and the road.

Which is not is the only area we're talking about.

Right.

It's between the sidewalk and the road.

And it's curve.

That's only the curve.

Yeah, it's not to three foot.

It's not six or twelve foot.

And mostly a lot of times it's one foot.

So that's a very, very narrow strip that we're looking at.

We're not looking at any of the larger strips, and definitely nothing in the median.

Well I've not uh I say I I've walked it and I've got many calls and they can't they say it's six to six to eight feet like I'm seeing it.

So that's all I have.

All right, Mr.

Marshall.

Uh oh, if who would that be?

Chris.

Yes, sir.

Um if they turn the land over to us, we're responsible for preparing other roads and anything with the happen, we got to pay for it, right?

How many how many rows are we talking about?

How far?

How many sidewalks?

What kind of well, this little section, uh Peter can I believe this is just like the 75 foot section, correct?

So this is only one small section at the very end, about 75 feet where they did a road extension uh to their next phase of their subdivision.

Okay.

So this particular one is not very long.

Okay.

Is there any more won't come in?

Yes, sir.

How many more?

Um I'm not sure what the total length is off the top of my head.

Uh miles.

Miles of road.

So we're going to take in miles of road.

This isn't this was part of that a Bell A V agreement with uh Pitcher Point that was executed years and years and years ago.

So we've already got an agreement in place that that said the city would take on these roads in this right away.

Okay.

So once we take on a roads, they say the road, the sidewalk start cracking, how much time are we before they we release them?

So it's under a two-year warranty.

Two year warranty?

Yes, sir.

Okay.

Has any of parts of it?

The warranty already expired already, any parts of it?

Yes, sir.

So we're already so we're about how many miles of that?

Uh off the top of my head, I don't know.

Okay.

Both of your departments already stretched as to maintaining.

So is this helping or hurting?

Well, any any additional uh areas we take on is just additional work that we take on, and we just do our best to make sure we cover everything that we can.

So the answer to the question was yes or no.

Is it helping you?

My understanding you're tight.

Yeah.

That's right.

I'm hearing this from the horse's mouth.

You don't know how you're gonna do it.

And we're taking on more.

So but it's also the nature of the it's the nature of the business that we do.

I mean, this goes with every subdivision development we do.

We take on the streets, the water sewer, drainage, street lights.

That's every every development.

It's not just this one.

And when it comes to engineering, we have actually outsourced some uh um uh two or three projects that had additional engineers that work under engineering.

So basically program management uh situations.

Okay.

So do you like calculate how much it's gonna cost us to we're building houses, okay?

No one's no one's against that.

Right.

Okay, but we're expanding to residential.

And every time we accept these the uh the houses that we accept in here, we're accepting the roads, we're accepting the responsibility.

Has anybody done a cost to see how much are we taking in here?

How much are we accepting?

Let me let me jump in because I think this may shed a little bit of light when we were doing this years ago.

Yeah, and we're not uh as far as base and some of the bases that we wouldn't accept, some of the crushed things.

We've actually built some of that uh resilience into the base.

You just don't throw up a road, and that's that's happened before in a number of places that uh uh I think we got uh pretty uh tough on what you could put as a road.

What is it and and whether we could use uh asphalt or rock in uh so we could have specifically stiffened out those specs that they have to meet so that it would anticipate that there would not be a lot of maintenance to happen if they meet our construction specifications and we have inspectors on site and we watch their construction to make sure it's constructed properly so that it so that to try to alleviate some of the maintenance?

It's not gonna make the maintenance go away, it happens, but um but yeah, we do our best to try to make sure it's do you have any funds set aside to take on all this extra we take on a lot of responsibility?

We take on a lot of extra police, we take on a whole lot of extra fire, we take on a whole lot of extra grass cutting.

We already pulling concrete trying to hire grass, and now you're saying that we're gonna we're accepting more grass.

Is anything in our funds to cover that?

No, sir.

We just do what we can with what we have when we take on a subdivision like this, and a lot of like you the keyword you said was done a long time ago, which means that for the most of us sitting up here, we didn't we walked into this.

Right.

Okay.

Uh is anyone come to you maybe and say, you know, when when we're gonna break even.

I know that the houses gonna be uh they're gonna pay taxes, but what's the average cost of uh how many how much taxes they pay in?

Do you know?

No one knows.

I don't know how much they pay, yeah.

So we don't know what's the average cost of the houses?

I can't Jerry can probably tell you that information, but I don't know that information.

Okay, Jar.

What you're asking about, Mr.

Marshall, is what the ordinance provides that whenever we approve a subdivision.

The council has the option of accepting those streets if they're built to the specifications that we have.

I mean, y'all actually vote on that, so it's it's not something that's automatically done whenever uh the subdivision is built.

But the trade-off.

For this particular subdivision, when was it?

For you talking about hidden springs, are you talking about Bell of or who?

For this particular subdivision, we're taking the roads on for this on the agenda today.

No, I think she said that's just an extension of a road that already exists.

Okay.

In that neighborhood, that we're talking that development.

When was it approved?

Was it before we got on the council within the last year?

No.

It may not have been accepted yet because what happens is is that whenever the developer bills the road to the certain specs, they will approach us and ask us to assume the maintenance on that road, so the council votes to accept uh those roads.

I guess what I'm I guess what I'm trying to say, a jump in the road.

The trade-off is that yes, we get ad borum taxes.

I can tell you just from experience that you've got a piece of property up there that's zoned agricultural, uh, a large piece of agricultural property that we may be getting a hundred dollars a year off of because there's no development on it.

And then you go in and you develop you uh divide it, subdivide it into 300 lots.

Well, now you're getting land taxes on 300 lots.

So what's the building a house on it?

What's the average let me ask you this, sir?

What's the average price of the houses?

Some of those houses are between 350 and 400,000 dollars.

So we're saying a 350,000 house.

So we're my numbers on a $350,000 house plus just about $700 a year.

The question is this what is our actual cost for us and when do we break even?

Okay.

I don't know what the cost on maintaining a road is.

I know that, like Christie said, I know that our construction, our road construction standards are more stringent than any other city or county on the coast.

That's not what I'm asking.

Okay.

What I'm asking for is whether or not we're spending the money to go in, we're clear-cutting, you're building the houses.

That's fine.

We're not against house building.

What we're asking is, when do we break even?

We're gonna have to cover the cost of fire, but it's police.

We're gonna cover the cost of anything that goes wrong with those roads, just the physical roads.

We're covering the cost, it's a lot more.

This city does a lot.

All these departments going in on this.

So what's the actual cost of this and when do we break even?

Do you know?

I don't know that a calculation has ever been been done on that.

So we don't know, we we just go in, we build a thousand houses, and we gotta build, do we have to build a fire station on this other thing we're doing?

A thousand houses, we gotta build, do we build the fire station?

Did the developer do that?

It can be arranged either way.

Sometimes a developer.

Well, in this particular case, uh is it being arranged for us to build the fire station, or is the developer gonna do that?

Uh this particular case, Mr.

Frisbee is here.

He may could answer that question since we're talking about Bell A V and Hidden Springs.

Okay, Mr.

Frisburg.

Mr.

Marshall, go ahead.

Okay.

Are we gonna have to build you a fire station up there?

Not necessarily.

That'll depend on the number of folks and the fire department's capacity to serve at some point within the city as it as the population increases, no matter if it's at Bellevue or somewhere else.

This is pitched to me as a thousand houses.

Is there gonna this being pitched to me as a thousand houses?

As I look at the map, you say he's on there as a spot there for a fire station.

Yeah, so Pitcher Point Investments has an agreement with the city to donate land for various items, including city parks, a fire station, and the roadways, which if you understand the project, it it goes from Lorraine Road to Three Rivers Road, which is about two miles straight across east-west.

It's a multi-phase project, so this doesn't happen overnight, but that kind of access does not exist out there.

I think that Mr.

Schumacher would agree that that kind of east-wise.

So what Pitcher Point wants to do is create a master plan community, and we're in the process of that.

It's it's going along very well right now with the I understand it's going on.

I'm looking at what is this gonna cost Mr.

and Mrs.

Biloxi, and when do we when do Mr.

and Mrs.

Beluxie break even on this?

We're already suffering.

All of you don't have enough money to build to to work and serve the area that we have.

We don't have enough money to pay our police department for the areas that we have.

We don't have enough money to pay our fire department for the area we have.

We don't have enough money to maintain our roads.

We are already covering up grass.

We can't afford to cut grass.

Our cemeteries are overgrown.

Now we're going to take in all of this.

I'm trying to find out what is your are we going to have to build you?

Are we going to take on a fire station based on your plans?

We do not have growth and velocities there.

We'll do that according to growth in the velocity of the well, the homes are sold, and and the actually the the the says value that uh go along with it.

This is part of the development.

This is part of the growth plan.

Mr.

Marshall, I heard a question that you asked about the taxes and the revenues to the city based on the number of houses.

So these houses um that are being constructed right now right now are between 300 and 470,000 dollars.

I ran my numbers based on 350.

Pardon?

I went through that.

I based my numbers on 350, which is in the middle.

Right.

I'm keeping up with my train of thought.

I apologize.

Between that's probably a good average number.

Okay.

So that will the city should receive between $1,500 and $2,000 per each of those homes per year.

Bellavie, the Bellevue master plan community is a surplus revenue creation for the City of Blocksea.

Okay.

Your your uh $2,000 is different than mine's based on the uh millage.

We don't get all that.

Well, we just say on just on the city part.

I'm coming up with less than a thousand.

There's fees as well.

There's uh building permit fees on each home, they're also um on an ongoing basis of that one-time fee.

We're talking about three years, so we're gonna be getting these buildings, these fees every year.

We have to do the police department every year, do the fire department, we've got to go out there and cut the grass every year.

We pay the lighting every year, we pay all these things every year, but we you know you you you're front stacking the numbers.

We're trying to figure out is it feasible with the financial situation that we're in right now to continue to build and we can't maintain what we already have.

He should be answering that.

I think that's a city and an administration issue.

You answered the question ten times.

In my opinion, sir, patience.

Easy, just a minute.

In my opinion, sir, they answer your questions yes.

All right, Chief.

Yes, sir.

All right, Chief.

Mr.

Shoemaker, I'll get to you shortly.

Yes, sir.

Okay.

Are we have you had any ideas or thoughts?

Anybody approach you?

Maybe we have to build, we're gonna have to build a new fire station out here.

Uh, we've been in miss uh contact with Mr.

Frisbee, he has shown us the uh the land that that is dedicated towards it.

Now that's not something that we do just immediately when the homes are built or even sold.

We cover it with the existing fire stations, and we work with the council administration in the appropriate time to build that, say, 11th station for us, would be um it might be five years down the road, it might be 10 years, 20 years down the road, just depending on on the build out of what they are doing.

And they are multiple fire stations around that area that the county actually owns as well, too.

So uh the question is are you anticipating having to build a fire station to come or to accommodate this?

I can tell you this in our three to five year plan that we we developed uh this year, we did not anticipate building one in that five-year plan.

It would probably be after that that time frame.

Okay.

If we built the fire department out there, fire station out there, what would be the average cost?

Not five years from now, right now.

Like if we were to build one right now just to house a single uh engine company and say three to four people assigned to it per shift, uh depending on what design and everything on the fire station, let's go with uh I think uh Gulf Port's building one right now.

I think it's around three million um to build the station itself, and then you're factoring in the cost of the personnel.

So figure 12 personnel uh at maybe on average 80,000 uh after salary benefits and all that, so you're looking at uh what's that?

Close to close to a million uh added to the payroll.

Uh that if I could make this suggestion at this time, uh it sounds like there are Mr.

Marshall has a number of questions, and we have a number of new councilmen here who may have questions as well.

And it might be best, uh I suspect uh Mr.

Frisbee would be happy to sit down and explain the situation to a councilman or two or three if the opportunity presented itself.

Um Mr.

Marshall has some economic questions and and others may have those as well, but rather than spend an inordinate amount of time on on this issue at the time.

Um, Mr.

Frisbee, if you're agreeable to that, those councilmen who want to meet with you, as long as we don't have a quorum, something could be arranged, and we might be able to move on down our agenda today.

Mr.

Marshall.

Uh yeah, so let me be very clear.

Uh I'm I'm okay.

You good.

Yeah.

Uh I'm not against the development.

I've heard I've talked to you several times.

I'm for the development.

I'm for the houses.

I just want to make sure of what is the actual cost of the housing.

There is a figure, there is a number.

We need to figure out a way to get to that number before it comes to this council.

So when it can sit here before us, they're gonna say, this is the build out, this is the time frame, this is when we're gonna break even.

Up until then, we're gonna be covering the burden of these costs out of our pockets until we can break even.

That's all I'm looking for.

I voted for your area, your your your project already.

I'm gonna continue to support it.

Any time that Mr.

Shoemaker got something coming to his area, I guarantee you I'm gonna support it.

Anytime any of my fellow council members got something coming to the area, I I'm gonna support it.

But it is my right to ask you what's the numbers with the cost of doing so.

That's all I'm doing.

Thank you, sir.

Any other items, Mr.

Marshall on the consent agenda?

Uh give me one second.

Oh, I got items now.

Just curious, Mr.

President.

Am I gonna be allowed to speak about what Councilman Marshall just spoke about?

Sure.

You may have the floor.

Well, I had a lot to say.

I'm gonna make it quick.

But Mr.

Marshall, I I understand you how you finish that, that you support anything, and I hope you do, but everything you said the last 20 minutes goes against that statement.

To me, it sounds like you don't support any of it.

You hadn't asked any questions, you could have come to me, Mr.

Frisbee's at every meeting.

I haven't maybe you do.

Maybe you speak to him, but if you did, you didn't get the questions that I answered, so you didn't ask the right answers.

If we're talking about fire stations, yeah, that's been in plans.

I've seen the plans a thousand times, as is this administration.

There's an east-west road that Mr.

Frisbee spoke of.

Absolutely, it's all in the works.

It takes time.

Personally, in my ward, I'm for development.

I would think any city around wants development.

Absolutely at cost.

Every city and county, it's gonna cost money for streets, roads, drainage grass, everything.

Do we not bring developments to your city?

No, you have to plan for that.

That's what the seven of us are supposed to be doing somewhat in this administration is planning for development to bring money in.

Your $700 taxes a year for $350,000 house, I'm pretty confident away off.

Way off.

It's gonna be way more than that.

Hundreds upon hundreds of houses are being built in that area.

That will bring in reoccurring money yearly for the city.

We don't get all that, I understand that, but it will be a lot more than 700.

This was these developments we started, if I'm not mistaken, 2011, 2013, there was a road back then that among other things that the city is on the hook for.

We haven't done that road yet, and that it's not on the agenda.

The agenda is for 75 foot.

I mean, nothing.

What we're talking about now has nothing to do with what's on the agenda today.

But Director Labata, real quick, you mentioned a road a minute ago that you said was about a mile long.

Was that the road?

The construction road.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Was that the construction road you were referring to?

Uh yes.

Okay.

Regarding that one mile road that Director Labotov mentioned earlier.

That road, the council, the seven of us approved, I don't know, a month or so ago.

We approved that road.

That road is a construction road that will alleviate construction traffic from several neighborhoods in my ward that have complained and they have a valid complaint for many, many, many, many years.

The streets out there, and I would be more than happy to bring any of you guys down there and show you how bad the roads and the streets are torn up, that we, after all this is said and done, are gonna need to somehow find money to repair those streets up there.

This is the first step.

So we've already approved the mile road that has been discussed.

We approved it, that's a done deal.

What's on the agenda today is for 75 feet?

And I'll I'll I'll be quiet now and and thank you.

Thank you, Mr.

Schumacher.

Real quick, sir.

Briefly.

Very briefly, and I still stand by my word.

I'm still gonna stand by my votes.

I voted for it.

I'm gonna if you came up on the agenda today, I still vote for it.

I'm asking for is what is this actually costing us to do these subdivisions as we build them out.

That's all I'm trying to get to the bottom of it.

I'm gonna support everyone that comes forward because I know people need housing.

I'm for it.

I just need to know what is the cost.

And that is not offended by this, sir.

I apologize, but I do have a right to know what's the actual cost.

You've been doing this for years.

I'm new.

So I'm asking the question.

What is the cost?

Why are we paying it?

And could it be sustainable?

That's all I'm asking.

Thank you, Mr.

Marshall.

Okay.

Were there any other questions on the agenda, Mr.

Marshall, that you might have?

I'm ready to go.

Okay.

Mr.

Neil, anything?

Um the concrete outside Keysler.

Um I walked it with you and um what it's gonna do is it's gonna make the sidewalk once you pour this bigger.

So like we're gonna have a large sidewalk going down the road.

And then like folks said, um, when we do any future pouring of concrete, you won't have a little edge anymore.

It's gonna go all the way to the curb in the future.

Anytime we pour a new sidewalk around here.

That's it.

Okay, I just have uh question on item D, which is the the concrete there on Division Street.

Uh and I received I I believe we all received a few emails on this, and the suggestion was can we look at where some of this concrete is going to be put, and I understand some of it may be too narrow, but there may be other parts there on either side of the road where these grates could be placed for planting, say of uh a gem magnolia tree or something like that to spruce up the area.

I mean uh point by point.

Basically, there's three feet all out, and so triple 50 feet don't expand.

And uh we need anything where this is now we could do up and down road, up and down highway 90.

And how many times is it take?

What does it take?

Well, let me ask go ahead, Christy.

As far as planting vegetation, we don't like to plant vegetation in those areas because there's utilities underneath there, and if you plant trees, they're gonna affect those utilities eventually.

So we try not to plant areas right behind the curve where there are utilities.

Some areas they're not.

In that area, there happens to be a lot of utilities right there.

So that would not really be something that would be conducive for us long term.

So did concrete up there, right?

So the the question I guess the question I have is or the point I'd like to make is if we table this today for a couple of weeks.

Um you hadn't you hadn't heard you hadn't heard what I'm gonna say.

So let me finish, let me finish my comment.

Just to see where in whatever green space where we could plant.

It may be Christy, you raise a good point.

And it may be that the bottom line is there is no place.

There's nothing street.

Right.

We took everything underground.

Yeah, 4.0 million just to move that move the underground.

But bottom line, it was an error in in not paving like we did the rest of division street all the way to the curb.

We're trying to correct that with some money that we needed to spend.

That was an easy way to spend it, and it gives us a pilot and idea of what we can do to minimize grass cutting in this city on those little strips of book, and then you can go all the way to the mall and come this way and start counting on your hand or on you and you and your toes where this should apply and save people from having to cut the grass and edge it.

Any alteration would require trying to get approval again.

As mentioned, this took three years.

So uh any alteration, I mean, if you want to cut out that strip, I've got to try to go back and get approval for us again.

Well, let me ask that let me ask another question.

Mayor go ahead.

Go ahead.

We've been studying this a while.

When when did we a year ago, didn't we?

Okay.

We've been figuring out how we could do this and how much was it gonna cost?

We would ready to pull it for the trade going 147,000 to spend that last money, and that would have saved a little grass cutting this year.

Okay, so here's here's here's my question, and then Mr.

Gray, I'll get to you.

Was any thought given to any vegetation at all from the get-go?

No.

None was considered, even where it may be possible it wasn't necessary.

No, not on that.

Because there are utilities in that road from back of curb to back of curb.

That's exactly why there are no vegetation in there, because those roots for trees and bushes do very they can be very damaging to utilities and there are a lot of utilities underneath that road.

We almost couldn't get all the utilities in, believe it or not, underneath that road.

So there's a reason that there's only grass there.

Okay.

Yeah.

Thank you, Chris.

Mr.

Gray, you had a question or comment.

I'd like to make a motion to table this.

So each one of the councilmen can ride down there and look for their self and make a decision as a city councilman if this needs to be concrete or not.

That's all I have.

Second.

Council President.

Hang on.

I'll give you an opportunity, Christy.

Be patient with me.

All right.

So we have a motion to table this by Mr.

Gray and a second by Mr.

Marshall.

I'm getting to that.

Okay.

All right.

So we we have a motion to table this, Carrie wants to know for how long.

Subject to call or next to the next meeting.

That's next.

That's next week until August 4th.

And hopefully everybody can get through there on their way home and take a look at it.

All right.

Until August 4th.

All right.

So that uh so we've got a motion and a second.

Mr.

Yeah, we will.

So uh Mr.

Mr.

Gray, you made the motion.

Any comment other than that or no?

And then I'm going to open it up.

I'll let Christy speak and then the other council members.

Mr.

Marshall.

I'm going to let Christy speak, then I need to say something out to get your speaker.

Okay.

All right, Christy, you're on.

I would like to just throw this out here that what y'all are voting on today is to move the money to fund us concreting this.

So even if you don't move the money to fund this, that that doesn't mean that we can't or won't still be able to concrete it, because also that's something that we can do with our in-house crews that if this is something that the mayor would like to push forward, the vote today is whether to move the money to fund it, not to actually to whether to concrete it or not.

I just want to make sure that's clear.

So we don't have to.

Thank you, Christy.

There are comments.

Mr.

Glavin, did you have a comment?

Well, uh, based on that, uh, we don't really need to table it because all if we're tabling this, we're just tabling moving the money.

We're not tabling concreting it or putting grates or planting trees or or whatever.

So that's a good point.

Uh I guess we didn't know.

Let me uh, Mr.

You done, Mr.

Glavin?

Yeah, I'm done.

Ms.

Shoemaker or anything?

Okay.

Question, Mr.

Creel.

So you yeah, but uh he still needs 90 grand to to do it.

I mean, anything.

Christy said exactly what I what I said.

We they just asked to get some more money so he can do the complete 256,000 as estimated.

We got 147,000 to spend and we're gonna spend it.

Yeah.

I have $90,000 that we under uh uh have a repair a concrete repair project that we could do this without coming to council to get it done.

Oh, good.

You know, I mean this is all about spending that money that's left in that project to accomplish this.

That's what this is about.

Perfect.

All right.

Mr.

Marshall, go ahead.

All right.

Uh who ward is it in?

I mean, it doesn't matter.

Listen, it does matter.

This listen, this is that I've been managing since since the get-go.

Honestly.

I'm not interested in that.

What I do want to do is make some of the things.

I'll tell you what I'm saying.

I'll be listening to 30 minutes worth of useful conversation.

Take a breath, take a moment.

Let's all take a moment.

Take a breath, Mr.

Marshall.

I'm gonna take two.

Go ahead.

Take two.

Go ahead.

All right.

President is due.

Uh say something.

Oh, Mr.

Marshall, go you're next, Mr.

Weaver.

Go ahead, Mr.

Weaver.

I'm still taking breaths.

Mr.

Nale, will you go ahead and fan him?

And uh but what I would like to do is utilizing your technical expertise that you pay Miss Labantai for.

What I would ask is this won't be done next week anyway.

So from that point in time, I'll get Ms.

Labata to get the utilities easement and show you where the utilities run, and then be able to bring that to you, and we'll go from there.

Uh that's the only thing that I can say as far as that.

But I asked you respect the technical expertise that we bring to y'all from the administration on there.

We're not trying to say this, that, or the other.

The problem is exactly what Christy told y'all.

You're not able to put stuff there based upon utilities.

If you would like to take a look at the utilities map, we're very open to doing that.

We're very much want to work with everyone here to include all the citizens.

This is the first time I've heard anything on the citizens' complaints about this.

I'm very open to discussion with y'all all the time, but you've got to be able to instead of waiting to get here on Tuesday.

Please talk to me throughout the week, and we could have already had this resolved.

So if you want to know the technical stuff that we do on a daily basis, please let me know, and I'll make sure that those directors get with you and we give you the information that you want.

If you come here and try to blindside me on Tuesdays, I can't help you on that.

You and I talk all the time, Councilman Tisdale.

Right.

And we went through all of this.

Right.

So if there's anything that you need, please just ask me and I'll give it to you.

Sure.

Sure.

And I I got emails that I didn't see until later this morning, just before this council meeting.

I I assume the other council members got the same emails.

I don't know if you were copied on that or not.

No, I I I got it.

But what you will say put a tree in, if you have underground utilities and you can't put the tree, that's what we need to be able to show y'all.

And all you had to do is ask.

But I have not heard a word from anyone asking about what's the issue of concreting this.

The only one only councilman that I heard anything is from Councilman Neil saying that that would be a great opportunity to be able to take care of that and utilize our time with our employees better.

Right.

Well, and that then the question was asked, and and Ms.

Labata answered it.

So we're gonna concrete this so we don't have to save on cutting grass.

Kind of the same thing, Mr.

Marshall just got finished talking about and Walmart.

If we can't afford to cut the grass on Division Street, how we're gonna take home miles and miles of more property.

We get your project.

Don't get us wrong.

We're talking about how we're gonna be able to afford to cut the grass.

Okay, you cut the glass.

Wait just a minute.

Can I just say real quick, sir?

Just a moment.

Yes, sir.

We have we have a motion to table this for a week and a second, and we're in discussion, and let's get this motion disposed of one way or another, and then we'll we'll move on to the rest of this agenda and get through this meeting.

Go ahead, Mr.

Marshall.

We're talking about I know the mayor don't want to hear this, but it is his ward.

He's the one that directly answers to those people in that ward.

And he's asking us as his fellow council members to give him a week.

We should do what he asked.

It's his award.

If if any of the other council members for four or three came and asked me the same thing, I'm gonna do that.

And this is right, because we know that's your war.

You ask, you knock on those doors.

You knocked on those doors, you see those people.

They know your house there, they're gonna knock on your door.

So he asked for that.

Give it to him.

That's it.

You got any questions or arguments, buddy?

Are you later?

But give him that.

That's his award.

All right, we have a motion to table this by Mr.

Gray and a second by Mr.

Marshall.

Um other discussion.

All in favor of the motion to table.

All opposed.

All right.

It's so there's a motion to table.

It is successful on a five-two vote.

So this will be tabled as uh understanded until the next council meeting, which is next Tuesday at 6 o'clock.

Okay.

Any other items?

I don't think we have any other items.

I think that's concluded everybody's uh one thing.

Comments and questions, Mr.

Gray.

We're not trying to blind sign nobody.

We all got blown up last night and today, as when we got all of our emails and phone calls came through.

That's when people sat down to actually read the agenda.

So that's all like now they had the opportunity to look at it and next Tuesday they have the opportunity to vote whatever way they want.

That's all.

Okay.

All right.

We'll vote on the consent agenda and then we'll take exceptions.

All in favor of the consent agenda.

That's amended.

As yeah, as as amended, correct.

No, just before we talk about all in favor of the consent agenda.

All in favor of the consent agenda.

It's approved on the 7-0 vote.

Thank you.

All right.

Now we'll move to exceptions.

Mr.

Gray, any exceptions?

I have a question.

If we vote except D, that means it takes it off the table.

It fails, correct?

No.

No, you tabled it for one week.

That's tabled for a nice off there.

That's exactly I have no exceptions.

Okay, good question.

All right.

Any exceptions, Mr.

Marshall?

I'm gonna abstain.

On I let her I.

Said I am going to stay.

Okay, so that's an abstention on item I.

Mr.

Nail, any I have none.

I have none.

No exceptions.

Mr.

Glavin.

I have none.

Okay.

I have no exceptions either.

Okay, Kerry, you got all the notes you needed.

Okay.

All right.

That brings us to code enforcement.

Uh holy macro.

We got the varsity here today.

Yeah.

Okay.

Uh Ms.

Ramage.

Ramage.

Ramage.

I gotta get that down, I'm telling you.

All right.

Okay.

Um ahead, Ms.

Ramage.

It's all yours.

All right.

Item A, 362 de B's Road, Celeste and Eugene Esh.

This is still in violation.

All right.

Is anyone here?

Is Celeste or Eugene or their representative here to discuss the matter of 362 to B's Road?

There being no one, this hearing is closed.

Next.

Item B 2694 Beach Boulevard.

This is resolved.

That's resolved.

Thank you.

Nope.

That's item C.

We need to go back to item.

That's Fayard.

All right.

So the one at Beach Boulevard is still in violation.

It's resolved.

They have been through DRC and they are submitting plans this week.

And then we'll be breaking ground, hopefully sooner rather than later.

So item B is resolved.

Thank you.

Next item.

337 Fayard Street.

This item is resolved.

Thank you.

Item D 186 Keysler Circle.

Kowalski Construction LLC.

This is still in violation.

All right.

Is anyone here representing Kowalski construction on the matter of 186 Keysler Circle?

No one here to speak on this matter.

All right, this hearing is closed.

Next item, please.

Item E 361 Bowen Street, Julie Smith.

This is still in violation.

Is Julie Smith or her representative here to discuss the matter of 361 Bowen Street?

There being no one, this hearing is closed.

Item F 379 Lee Street, this is resolved.

Item G Zero Baptist Alley, this is also resolved.

Item H, 230 Lemuse Street.

Paulette Averhart, this is still in violation.

This is actually going to be for a demo.

We're starting the process for demolition.

Yes, sir.

That's why it's with you.

Okay.

All right, is Paulette Averhart or her representative here to speak on the matter of 230 Lemieux Street?

Have you talked to her?

No, sir.

We've had zero communication.

You have no communication with her at all.

Can I know the family?

Uh I'm gonna ask that we get 30 days.

Question.

I got a question.

Mr.

All right, wait.

There's uh a motion for a 30-day extension.

I'll second it before I vote that can I all right?

We'll have discussion just a moment.

Discussion, Mr.

Marshall.

Any comments?

I know the family, their upstanding family in the community, so I just need to have a chance to talk to them on the final what their um concerns are, issues are.

I also want to make sure that uh as I said before, we have a thousand empty lights over there.

We can save our house, we can save our house.

It may not know the options.

Can you go to the next slide?

And if you notice one of those was in 2021.

Okay.

That was okay.

Okay.

And there is one more.

And it's been that way for quite some time.

Okay.

I know them.

So this is not someone I don't know.

And we go to Tal to find out what's going on.

All right, Mr.

Marshall, you have a motion.

Mr.

Gray made the second.

Any comments, Mr.

Gray?

None.

On this matter.

Mr.

Creel had a comment.

So what's the history?

How far is this date back?

2021 is the most recent photos, or the oldest photos that I have access to.

Um we've had zero communication over the years.

It's not gotten any better.

The TARP, if you go back to the first slide, I apologize.

If you go back to the first slide, you can see there's a 2021 photo on the left and on the right, you can see that tarp hanging off to the right.

And I would like to add, Mr.

Marshall, that this is a very lengthy process, and we are willing to pause this at any time.

So just for future reference, maybe, since that's already voted on.

It pausing it is kind of spinning our wills.

We're more than happy to work with anybody.

Okay.

Well, I want to I'm gonna ask that we pause it, give me another 30 days.

Go and talk to them to find out what the situation is.

Okay, if it is if it was a one to be honest with you, if it was someone, I knew we didn't care.

But this is kind of personally just kind of out of character for the person that I know.

Yeah, there may not be amazing.

Immaculate.

Okay, any other comments, questions from the council.

Uh again, is there anyone uh is Ms.

Averhard or her representative here to speak?

All right, uh let's vote on the 30-day extension.

All in favor, all opposed.

All right, there are five in favor, one opposed.

Just note that Mr.

Glavin is out of the room.

Brings us to the next item.

Item I, 223 Keller Avenue.

We're requesting 60 days.

All right, I'll entertain a motion for a 60-day extension.

This is in ward two.

Okay.

All right, Mr.

Marshall has uh made a motion for a 60-day extension.

Is there a second?

Yeah.

I'll say uh second by Mr.

Gray.

Any discussion?

All in favor.

All in favor of the 60-day extension.

All opposed.

Passes on a 4-3 vote.

All right, the next item, letter J.

Item J 250 Lee Street.

Mays Properties LLC.

This is still in violation.

This had a previously had a 30-day extension.

Yes, sir.

Uh is anyone here representing May's properties available to speak on the matter of 250 Lee Street.

There being no one this hearing is closed.

Brings us to item K.

230 Baptist Alley.

This is resolved.

Thank you.

Next item.

Item Light.

I'm sorry, 348 Park Drive, 348 Park Drive.

Betty Rice.

This is still in violation.

All right.

Is Betty M.

Rice or her representative here to speak on the matter of 348 Park Drive?

There being no one this hearing is closed.

Next item.

I apologize.

M2124 McKenzie Court Doreen Smith.

This is resolved.

Thank you.

And my colleagues may uh recall that item N was removed from the agenda earlier.

All right.

Thank you, Ms.

Ramage.

That brings us to the routine agenda.

I'll entertain a motion.

So moved.

By Mr.

Creel.

Is there a second?

By Mr.

Nail.

Questions, Mr.

Creel.

None.

Questions, Mr.

Nail?

None.

All right.

Any questions for my colleagues, comments on the routine agenda?

There being none, all in favor.

It's approved on a 7-0 vote.

Just a reminder that we will have a special meeting workshop again next Tuesday.

That's August 4th.

Since that's a night meeting, this workshop will occur at 4 o'clock on Tuesday, October 4th.

All right, I'll entertain a motion to adjourn.

So moved.

By Mr.

Glavin.

Any comments, discussion?

None.

All in favor.

All right.

Uh we are adjourned.

We'll have a budget workshop.

It is three.