The special meeting of the

Greenbelt City Council to order.

Madam Clerk, can you call the role, please?

Present.

Here.

Council Member McKinney?

Here.

Council Member Coffee.

Here.

Councilmember Pope.

Yeah.

Mayor Proton Weaver.

Here.

Mayor Jordan.

I'm here.

Well, uh tonight we're going to be going into uh devoted to uh to go into executive session.

And uh before we do that though, I'd just like to ask if there are any information items that need to be shared beforehand.

Mr.

Somaron, do you have anything for us?

Any updates uh with the Labor Day Festival.

Um

wanna change

I'll provide

an update on World Friday.

Today I checked with uh Karen.

We are scheduled for inspections on Friday morning.

Those are the fire inspections and the health department.

There'll be a joint a joint inspection with the county and the city.

Um I I uh we're we're have we have embarked in an effort to do more fire fire inspections ourselves because we have our own fire marshal.

Uh Gilberto Cabrera is the state's appointed fire marshal for the city.

He ha has me he meets all the qualifications, so uh our team will be particip uh taking on a greater role in those uh uh activities.

There are inspections taking place Thursday and Friday from uh stand for the festival for the structural uh uh uh uh machines and and and activities that are on site.

I've seen the vendor testing equipment already, they were running some equipment today, so you know we've been watching it, making sure that equipment's supposed to work.

Um I I I w I am mindful not to interject ourselves because this is a Labor Day uh uh committee event, so they are uh the responsible entity, but we're on the sidelines to be helpful, and that's the key word that we are there to be to assist, be helpful and ensure a safe uh event for everyone.

Well, thanks.

It's just so exciting this time of year seeing everything come together and uh the Labor Day Festival is uh uh here we are.

It's uh the 90th anniversary, so it's really really a special uh occasion.

So it's fantastic to hear the update.

Really looking forward to it, looking forward to some good weather.

So please go ahead.

Not in and such a happy note, but thank you for the update.

Um I did want to just um because I know that uh some council members were not able to attend uh the police chief and Mr.

Samaron attended um a meeting with the Green Belt Station residents on Monday um

uh

to talk about some of the recent vandalism that we've been having in the neighborhood.

Um and I wanted to thank um the city manager and uh Chief Bowers and Deputy Chief White for attending that.

Um we had really great turnout um for that.

I obviously uh our residents are concerned um about this individual who continues to come into our neighborhood.

Um I wanna also thank the police, the video camera that is on the tr the trailer camera has been set up in the in the central park um near one of the houses that recently was vandalized.

Um we have seen um more police patrols coming through the neighborhood as well, so I wanted to thank um them also for that.

And we just reminded residents that if um we do have camera footage of this individual, um and if there are other footage that they have not shared with the police department, there is an upcoming hearing um and court date for the the suspect that has been arrested.

Any footage and evidence could be helpful in that trial.

So I appreciate everybody's attention and on this matter, which hopefully we can get wrapped up and we can have some resolution.

Thank you for that update.

And just to add to the to the matter, we have arrested the individual twice already.

The first time they were let go without bond, the second time they were held with bond and a relative posted bond for the individual.

We know there's some challenges going on there.

Um but we we have identified an individual, arrested the individual, and has been released on at least two occasions.

It's a $2,500 bond.

Yeah.