The Fayetteville City Council convened to review the upcoming agenda for November 18, 2025, and address a series of consent items, public inquiries, and substantive new business including budget adoption, grant acceptance, and zoning requests. While most routine matters proceeded under the consent calendar, significant deliberation occurred regarding the School Resource Officer (SRO) program sustainability, the allocation of CDBG funds for housing, and the rezoning of a 26.7-acre site for a new school in Marks Mill Lane.
Okay, we will go ahead and call the agenda session to order. And we are reviewing the agenda for next week's meeting, which will be Tuesday the 18th. Is that right? November 18th. Okay. Thank you, Jonathan, for nodding in the thumbs up. Thank you. Thank you, thank you. Okay. So the first um items up is we have a everything seems brief after uh last Tuesday's meeting, which was quite lengthy. So we have a, I would say a pretty typical consent agenda, and I will start reading that now. Um it's not a business meeting, so you don't have to vote. So jump in if you would like a member of staff to come and talk to you more in depth about any of these consent items. Uh the first two, or well, the first one is from Peter Nearing Garden. It's a resolution to approve an agreement with red line contractors for the hauling and disposal of solid waste in the city of Fayetteville for a period of two years, and that will automatically renew for an addition for additional two year terms. Okay. I think that one was pretty straightforward. The next one is a resolution to authorize a contract with Hub International Mid America pursuant to RFP 25-13 for insurance brokerage and consultation services in the amount of $13,000 per year, and to approve a project contingency in the amount of $1,300 per year. And Steven can discuss that with anyone who has questions. Is that for building insurance, vehicle insurance, health insurance? It's uh primarily our I would say our buildings, and we've got our procurement director here tonight, too. If uh you want to dig into that in a little more detail. Yes, I it's it's not the health, it's not related to health insurance. It's liability, property, cyber, and casualty coverage. Um three, a resolution to authorize total expenditures and excess of 40,000 for all maintenance, repair, and operations supplies and commodities across all departments citywide using corporate accounts with purchasing cooperatives or state contracts for the fiscal year within the approved budget. Steven, can you speak to that one a little bit, please? I'm actually gonna defer that one to Amanda. Forgive me, sorry for putting you on the spot. Amanda, can you tell us more about this one? Sorry. So the city uh various departments utilize corporate business accounts using cooperative purchasing agreements to procure essential supplies and commodities to support city operations. Uh purchasing cooperatives and state contracts are utilized across city departments to save the city time by being solicited already on a national level and saving money, as there are oftentimes discounts offered with cooperative contracts. Uh procurement has consolidated multiple corporate business accounts across all departments in order to leverage quantity discounts, align spend with our environmental purchasing policy, collect measurable data on spend analytics, and remove the risk of fraud and ethics violations. Some of these businesses, for example, include Amazon Business, Office Depot, Canon, Gray Bar, and CentOS. Thank you. One thing I'd add, this is something that we've uh we've done in the past, and we're just continuing it for the following year. Great. Thank you, Stephen. Um the next one, a four is a resolution to award RFP 25-17 and authorize a one-year contract with Dotchery and Dottery Investments LLC, doing business as first employment staffing as the city's primary provider on an as-needed basis for general clerical positions and as a secondary provider for janitor custodian transportation maintenance workers and other positions as needed with automatic renewals for four additional one-year terms. I've got questions about I guess this one and the next one. Um I'm just wondering how much uh we depend on uh these temporary staffing uh uh organizations or businesses. Uh do we use them for all our janitorial needs? Is it just when we're lacking people and don't have positions filled, do we use them? Kind of if you just give me a quick uh rundown. Yes, and so not every department uses temporary services, but you mentioned one that does janitorial services when we have peak seasonal changes or we have vacancies, it's a way to get someone in. It's also a good recruiting ground for us too, so that if we can try someone out and see how they work and when we have vacancies, encourage them to apply. Um, some of our other departments like transportation uh seasonally and uh parks, we'll need to use people to fill in. Okay, thank you. And just to clarify, so we're not outsourcing like whole positions, we're just using it like you said seasonally or peak times or when we have vacancies. That yes, that is, and each department has their own budget for that as well that they have to stick within.