This agenda session, serving as a planning meeting for the upcoming November 4th business meeting, reviewed numerous resolutions, grants, and zoning requests. While most consent items were discussed, three items (A8, A9, and A12) were pulled to New Business for further discussion due to councilmember questions regarding e-waste funding and federal grant constraints. The session also included a Walk-on Ordinance to establish a Food Commission and introductions of a new City Engineer.
Okay, everybody. Whoa. Keith, we gotta fix that. Okay, what about that? Is that bringing this order? Just gonna leave that. Okay, much better. Okay, welcome to the agenda session for October 28. This is the agenda session for the November. Help me out. The November 4th City Council meeting. Just a reminder, it is not a business meeting, it is just a planning meeting. Um first up next week we'll have the sales tax and monthly financial report from Stephen Dotson, our CFO. And then we'll jump right into the consent agenda. Um first two items being council meeting minutes, and then beginning with A3. And also um, just to let anybody know, same is in the other room. There are it's hard sometimes for us to guess as a staff what what consent items you might want to hear more about and what are fairly straightforward. So by all means speak up. It can be really informal, just let us know. Don't feel like I have to call on you. Just jump in and let us know if you want to hear more about it. We've got staff that can talk about each item. The first one, A3 is a resolution to approve amendment number one to the engineering services agreement with RJN group. It's a hundred it's eight hundred and fourteen thousand and a hundred and thirteen dollars for waterline condition assessments and to approve a contingency in the amount of 120,000. And Tim is here and can speak to that if you all would like more info. The next is a transportation asphalt patch truck replacement. It's a resolution to approve the purchase of an FPS asphalt pothole patch truck from Burkamp Inc. pursuant to an HGAC cooperative purchasing contract in the amount of 278,449 plus any applicable surcharges, freight or delivery fees, up to 10% of the original purchase price. It's worth noting that FPS does not mean Fayetteville Public Schools. So just uh A5 is something that is exciting. It's uh the Walker Senior Center Generator and Automatic Transfer SWIFT purchase that will support meals on wheels and senior nutrition programs. This is a resolution to approve the purchase of a generator and an automatic transfer switch from Nixon Power Services pursuant to a source well cooperative purchasing contract in the amount of $59,718.17 cents, plus any additional tariff charges up to 10% of the original purchase price for the Fayetteville Senior Center's meals on wheels and senior nutrition programs. And Byron, do you want to come up and tell us a little bit more about that? Is that what you were gonna ask Minister Jones? No, my question was does the city own um the the senior city. I'm sorry, I took my sip of my drink too soon. We and Keith we own the building, but it is operated on a contract with area agency on aging. Is that correct? That's correct. Byron, do you want to yes Mayor? Uh the senior center is owned by the city. Um it serves as not only as a recreation center for seniors and for social events, but also they serve the mill on wheels program out of there, and so they serve uh 950 meals a day out of that center, hot meals a day and 355 frozen meals a day. And they also um at any one time they have about seven to eight thousand dollars worth of food in their freezer, and so that's really the need for the generator just to make sure that that uh is protected. It is also uh on a shelter list of one of our five shelters in the city approved by the Red Cross. So just another need for the generator. Thanks, by Teresa. Go ahead. Um, so just to just um I'm assuming that that um the um senior center asked for this generator, this backup generator, it's probably been on the list for a long time. There is a currently a generator there, and the transfer switches failed and it needs to be replaced. And so we're replacing a generator that's non-functioning at the moment to get it back into functional.