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The Jackson City Council held a public safety and parks committee meeting on October 14, 2026. The meeting covered park prioritization and maintenance, council chamber security protocols, the city's use of Flock license plate reader cameras, and a brief update on disaster preparedness. Key discussions included establishing partnerships for park maintenance, creating an ordinance to authorize a sergeant-at-arms, and drafting a public response regarding Flock camera privacy concerns. The council also entered executive session for personnel matters but took no official action.
Number six good afternoon. We called an order for the public safety meeting and park community meeting for the city council starting at 3 October 14th, 2026. Parks and recs. Oh, you can come up to the table. Okay, we're gonna start with number six discussion prioritization of parks, and we're gonna start from my right side with councilman Hartley. Thank you, Madam Chair. Uh first of all, congratulations. Uh uh interim directors assembly. Uh now what we have we've been provided a document of all the parks. Uh and uh very nicely done. Uh what I would like to do is uh have some information. I think we first started this discussion concerning parks, and I'll we have a tremendous amount of parks in the city, and we were trying to see you know what we could do for us reducing them or maybe uh uh having MOUs with other uh nonprofits to take care of them, but the maintenance of them is it's a bit much. And I was wondering how long will it take for us to uh maybe you guys to evaluate it. I I thought that that's what we were gonna be provided an evaluation for is the uh the attendance uh forest the maintenance and and the usefulness of all the parks. Okay, okay. Um I can't give you a definitive answer as of today, but what I can do is take note of what you're requesting um and make sure that we go ahead and put forth a plan. Any plan that we put forth, I would suggest it's done in phases. So we give you that information back so that at that point you can assess it, make your decisions, and I would suggest within um you know, maybe in areas. Um, okay, we want this group of parks. We really would like to focus in on this first, and then maybe the next. Um, I think that if we overextend ourselves by addressing everything at one time, I I think that could be you know uh just overwhelming for us uh as a city, whereas we can really be instrumental in the can you get with uh uh public works as well, especially grass cutting crews, and find out maybe they might be able to help you answer those questions concerning maintenance. Uh which one are are currently receiving maintenance, which one you know are not being used, perhaps. Uh those are the kind of information I think that's the kind of information that we're we're looking to find here. But a very good job on the graphics and uh and uh laying it all out. Some of these uh are small parks, pocket parks, and uh I didn't I forgot I had some of them. So thank you. Yes, okay. How are you doing? I'm well, how are you? Doing okay. Uh we've talked previously, and I really appreciate this. Yes, sir. And truth be told, this is under our former uh director's directive to place this together.