The Fayetteville City Council held an agenda session on Tuesday, September 30, 2025, at 4:30 PM. This was not a business meeting; no votes were taken. The purpose was to review and set the agenda for the upcoming business meeting on October 7, 2025. Several items were discussed in detail, including the proposed infrastructure bond, aquatic center design contracts, and a secure firearm storage resolution presented by youth council members.
Oh, there we go. It's 4:30. Perfect timing. Thank you all for being here. Um, this is our city council agenda session, uh, Tuesday, September 30th. And for those of you who have um not uh been to an agenda session before, it is not a business meeting, so we are not taking action. We are simply setting the agenda and going over the plan for next week's meeting, and next week is when the voting will happen. So I will be let's go over the agenda. And it looks like next week, the first item of business that we have is I'll be proclaiming it mental health awareness week. And so thank you for the youth council for working with us on that. And we'll also next week have a sales tax and monthly financial report from Stephen and uh Stephen Dotson, our chief financial officers. We'll go through and read the items of consent. We do our meeting minutes. Uh, first item of consent um on the consent agenda now is the architectural contract for the aquatic center design with craft and toll of associates. This was an RFQ. Um that we are seeking to um authorize a professional architect uh textural contract with traffic and tall and a total amount of 232,524 for design of an aquatic facility. Um and Wade, since can you go ahead and speak? I know this is one that we may have a lot of questions about, and I'd love if you would speak to it. Yeah, thanks, Mayor. Uh so yeah, the like the point of bringing this forward now is to this phase that was called a pre-bond phase, and the information gathered is gonna better inform the voters. Uh what this will include, it will be an evaluation and refining of the water technology feasibility study. It will determine what components can be included within the budget and which may be considered for future phases. It will provide conceptual operations costs for the facility. And we can use this information for cost share and operation costs negotiations with the Fayville School District. Thanks, Wade. I'm gonna I know we have questions on it, but before we get to those, I'm gonna go ahead and read A3 as well, since they're so tied together and let you speak to that, and then we can talk about both of them at the same time. A three is the aquatic center pre-construction contract. So same project. This one um would be authorizing the contract with the construction manager at risk with CDI contractors in the amount of 39,999 for the construction base. So uh CDI will help us establish conceptual cost of the facility. Uh they will uh evaluate the cost of the revenue generating components. And they can also use this information for payable school district negotiations. So this seems like our uh be is on the first bond agenda, and so we'll be spending all over 250,000 on something that may not be included. And um, so I would like to take it off consent and actually have it on our way that's next week so the opponent can ask a lot of questions uh about this. I understand that you need to get uh better cost estimates, especially in negotiation, but it seems like a lot of money for something that has not been included by voters yet. Right. And I guess it's confusing to me, and I love to do Steve because I asked this question even last um time. Why don't we construct um work on the construction of those streets and infrastructure as people are building, and it was because we didn't know if it was gonna be built, but we're putting this before we've even voted on the quadratic scenario. So it's confusing how we'll do it for some and we won't do it for others. So that's my question on the table as well. Wait, can you kind of oh I'm sorry, she directed that at Stephen. I apologize, Minister Jones. I know Wade was gonna speak to that as well. Well, I mean, I guess my response here is kind of echoes what Wade said. When you're gonna go out to the voters, you you basically need to provide a structured approach to to what people would be voting on here. And that's what the architectural contract and the CMR is going to provide us. They're gonna provide us with uh like a fleshed out concept of what what you would actually see there, be able to develop the business plan accordingly, find out which components are revenue generators and which should be going in there. And without uh without that kind of information prior to going out to the vote, we wouldn't be able to answer those questions. It would basically just be a ballot question with not much behind it. And so that's the reason why you would do this.