Will this motion out?

All right, council.

We're gonna go ahead and uh get this meeting started.

Uh I'm gonna have to um uh talk to Brian Emerson about uh his length of meeting schedules and times, but mosquitoes are important, and now that y'all are all etymologist, uh we can move forward with that.

So uh that's a lot of good question and answer session.

That's what we're here to do.

Um I just wanted to uh make you aware um as well that um uh we got ball games going on, so I got a grandson, so we gotta get out there tonight.

So anyhow, let's go ahead and begin tonight's city council meeting.

Uh we'll start it off.

Uh I'll lead us in pledge allegiance, and then councilman Janet will uh lead us in prayer.

Okay.

I pledge allegiance to the United States of America and to the Republicans one nation undervisible.

Please pray with me.

Dear Father in Heaven.

We thank you with grateful hearts for your bountiful blessings.

We thank you for family, friends, and neighbors.

We ask for your protection for our public servants.

Please grant us understanding and wisdom as we tend to the people's business.

Help us to act justly, love mercy, and walk humbly with you.

This we ask in the name of Christ.

Amen.

Amen.

Thank you, Ms.

Board.

Council, if you would please go ahead and mark your presence.

And we do have members present, all members present.

So I would like to um make this.

She doesn't know I'm going to do it, but April Leggett.

She's dedicated a decade of service to the city of Jonesboro.

We yes, please come on down.

Come on down.

Um you play a vital role in ensuring transparency, accuracy, and accessible to local government.

She began her tenure at the city clerk's office in April of 2016, advancing the deputy clerk and ultimately being elected as city clerk in 2020.

Throughout her service, Leggett has been responsible for maintaining city records, supporting city councilman operations, and serving as a key link between the citizens and their local government.

Duties that are in high standard with integrity, and I appreciate that, April.

April also has contributed to the professional beyond Jonesboro.

She is in leadership involvement with the Arkansas City Clerk, Recorders, and Treasurers Association, AML, and our own citizens fire academy.

So her 10 years of service reflect a continued commitment of excellence, accountability, and public service for the residents of Jonesboro.

So I'm going to thank you for your service.

Here's your tenure pen.

Move to adopt.

Whereas the City of Jonesboro is requesting that City Water and Light provide free utilities at the following location, 423 U West Huntington Avenue.

Now therefore be it resolved by City Council for the City of Jonesboro, Arkansas that section one that City Water and Light requested this resolution to provide free utilities to the locations listed above.

Section two to permit such services to be provided without charge.

So provided is now in shower main, a use or purpose which the city is engaged in as part of its governmental or proprietary functions under the authority to it by state law.

Same movement to adopt.

Any discussion by council.

Anyone in council chambers?

I don't see any.

If you would please go ahead and cast your ballot.

Okay, that does carry.

Next we'll move on to resolution 26042.

Resolution requesting free utility services from Citywater and Light for City Owned property.

The City of Jonesboro is requesting that City Water and Light provide free utility services at the following location.

Section two to permit such services to be provided without charge.

City of Jonesboro hereby affirms to City Water and Light that the ultimate use of CWL utility so provided is now in shower main a use or purpose which the city is engaged in as part of its governmental or proprietary functions under authority to it by under authority to it by state law.

Move to adopt be recused from voters because we do have a motion on the floor.

If you would please cast your ballot any discussion, first of all.

I don't see anyone in council chambers.

I don't see any as well.

If you would please cast your ballot.

And that does carry.

So now council will move on to item number six, and these are items on new business.

These are ordinances on their first reading.

This will be ordinance 26014.

Only second.

Do I have motion on the floor?

All in favor say aye.

Aye.

Any opposed?

An ordinance to amend chapter 117 known as the zoning ordinance providing for changes in zoning boundaries from I1 to C3 OUO for property located at 5925 East Johnson Avenue.

Any discussion by council or questions?

I don't see any.

Anyone in council chambers?

I don't see any as well.

So that ordinance will now move on to its second reading.

Now we'll move on to ordinance 26015.

Move suspend the rules and offer by title only.

Second.

Do we have motion on the floor?

All in favor say aye.

Aye.

Any opposed?

An ordinance to amend chapter 117, known as the zoning ordinance, provide any changes in zoning boundaries from RM8 to RS5 for property located at 1601 Granger Drive is requested by Crafton Toll.

Any discussion by council or questions?

I just wanted to mention I did go by and look at that property.

Mr.

Conrad's here tonight.

He simply wants to split that property in half and build two single family homes.

Thank you for your input, Councilman.

Do we have any other questions or comments?

Anyone from the audience?

I don't see any.

So that will now move on to its second reading.

Now we'll move on to item number seven.

These are items on unfinished business.

These are ordinances, first of all, on the second reading.

Ordinance 26008.

An ordinance to amend ordinance 93741 to reinstate the multi-way four-way stop signs at Rains and Wilkins intersections.

Any discussion by council or questions?

I think we all know where this is.

Anyone in the council chambers?

The audience?

I don't see any as well.

That'll now move on to its third reading.

Now we'll move on to ordinance 26009.

An ordinance to the city of Jonesboro to place various traffic signs at designated locations as determined by the traffic control committee.

Any questions by council?

I don't see any.

Anyone in council chambers?

I don't see any as well.

That'll move on to its next reading.

Now we'll move on to ordinance 26010.

An ordinance by the City Council of Jonesboro or an ordinance by the City of Jonesboro to place various traffic signs at designated locations as determined by the traffic control committee.

Any questions or comments from council?

I don't see any.

Anyone in council chambers?

I don't see any as well.

That'll move on to its next reading.

We'll move on to ordinance 26012.

An ordinance to amend chapter 117, known as the zoning ordinance providing for changes in zoning boundaries from R1 to C3 for property located at 6904 East Highland Drive.

Any questions or comments by council?

I don't see any.

Anyone in council chambers?

I don't see any as well.

That'll move on then to its third reading.

Now we move on to ordinances on the third reading.

Ordinance 26011, and this this will be voted on by council.

In ordinance to amend chapter 117, Article 3, known as the zoning ordinance of the city of Jonesboro, Arkansas, providing for changes in zoning boundaries from C2 to C3 for property located at 20 at 2005 East Highland Drive.

Move to adopt.

Council, any questions or comments.

I don't see any.

Anyone in Council Chambers.

I don't see any as well.

If you would please go ahead and cast your ballot.

And that does carry.

Next, we'll move on to Mayor's reports.

We do have the financial reports, statements are online and available to council.

If you would please go ahead and look at that.

And if you have any questions for Steve, I know he'll be happy to take those whether here tonight or in his chambers.

I would like to say spring weather has allowed from enjoyable time outdoors activities and our parks are busy as well as construction work and road overlays are going on.

So if you've been downtown at all, you've probably seen Main Street one lane pilot project.

This will be roughly six month project from Main Street from Washington to Krecht, has brought forth by the connectivity committee.

We've had a lot of input.

Most of it is very positive, and I think there's some ideas that can come from it.

I'll be meeting with a resident or actually a business owner downtown tomorrow with some concerns that we might be able to address.

The stripe markings on the right side of the road are designed for delivery, emergency lane, allowing the local downtown deliveries and emergency vehicles to park as needed without causing a full stop on the roadway.

In the next month, you'll utilize some of the youth council to collect feedback through surveys on utilizing downtown for suggestions for improvements.

Upon the completion of a six-month pilot, we will return the full feedback to council.

I appreciate the input of residents that allow us to continue making these improvements in our city.

Please remember though, the design week for Plan Jonesboro is complete.

And as the 30-year plan is being designed by DPZ co-design and Crafton Tall, the public input survey is still open for residents to make their ideas known.

Please visit PlanJonesboro.com to ensure your voice is heard.

I was pleased to join the Chamber of Commerce for the fly into DC last week with city staff members Brian Richardson and Chris Richie.

We met with Senator Bozeman and Cotton and Rick Crawford.

Now we had individual meetings for the city, and then later in the week we met uh with those uh members of the chamber of commerce that flew in.

We discussed items and projects like public safety, industrial development, and the importance of a vibrant medical community community and safety shelters.

I can personally attest that uh each and every member uh is very supportive of what this community is doing.

They like seeing projects that we as a community have engagement in financially, and they like seeing projects completed.

So again, I want to say thank you to them personally for providing us millions of dollars in appropriations beyond typical grant cycles that have helped us make significant improvements in Jonesboro.

I was fully uh enjoyed also with the residents of the Chamber Chamber Carnival of Commerce Business Expo at First National Bank on April 10th.

The energy, I think they had over 215, which is the largest since COVID they've had participation.

It's wonderful to see new development, economic development opportunity, uh talent recruitment and retention.

Jonesboro is thriving, folks.

A foundation of arts ports light film festival is April 10th through the 12th.

Brought its creativity and local filming providing hands-on work uh workshops and filmmakers.

And don't forget the FOA OASIS Arts and Eats Festival downtown on April 25th.

That's this weekend.

I hear we even have a special guest appearance by Big John, the rodeo bull.

Don't miss your opportunity to get a picture with him.

And thank you to many of our departments for preparing the annual touch a truck event sponsored by East uh Nettleton East and NEA Baptist Hospital on April 25th this weekend as well from 9 a.m.

to 1 p.m.

This is a beloved event and gives a real hands-on of kids uh showing uh what we do in the community and their engagement.

It's really exciting to see their eyes pop open when they can get on vehicles and normally just see driving down the road.

We celebrate an amazing E91 dispatchers uh National Public Safety Telecommunications Week on April 12th through the 18th.

And uh they serve obviously vital role in our community from hearts behind the headsets.

These dispatchers are often seen but heavily or not often seen, but uh they're heavily dependent on.

The April neighbor um April neighborhood cleanup on the west end had a great turnout.

We had 9.38 tons of trash and 57 tires collected, with I'm sure many mosquitoes were in those tires, as well as glass and cardboard with volunteers' help picking up trash and continued beautification efforts.

Keep Jonesboro Beautiful Commission combined this event with their clean sweep in honor of Earth Day and the extra efforts.

Don't forget to mark your counters on May 2nd cleanup is at Annie Camp Junior High back parking lot for another opportunity for volunteers to drop off bulky items.

As spring is here and more events are offered citywide.

Please stay informed of the following city social media and websites as we continue to tour Jonesboro.

There's a lot to do around town, and these opportunities allow us to build within the city.

That's into my mayor's reports.

Next, we'll move on to city council reports.

Ms.

Porter, nothing at this time.

Thank you.

Mr.

Emerson.

No, thank you.

Dr.

Charles Kuhlman.

Mr.

Moore.

No, ma'am.

Miss Williams.

No, thank you.

Mr.

Gibson.

Uh yes, public services had a special call meeting earlier this evening.

And I would like to suspend the rules and walk on ordinance 26013.

Have a motion to suspend the rules and walk on.

What was it again?

26013.

26013.

You got it.

Okay.

All in favor say aye.

Aye.

Aye.

Any opposed.

You want me to read it in its entirety?

I can do that.

Then we then we need a motion.

Just to read it by title only.

Yes.

Second, second.

I have a motion to read by title only.

All in favor say aye.

Aye.

Any opposed?

An ordinance to establish a sports advisory committee providing for membership purpose and duties and for other purposes.

Any discussion by council.

Anyone in council chambers.

I don't see any.

If you would please go ahead and cast your own.

Excuse me.

Motion to adopt.

Motion to adopt.

Whoa, whoa, whoa.

It's an ordinance.

So it this is just the first reading.

We got a wave.

Okay.

If you want to approve it today, there needs to be a motion to wave second and third reading.

If there's no emergency, then it would just go to its second reading.

Okay.

So it'll be on its second reading at the next.

So we're on the first reading discussion.

It'll move on to the second reading.

Okay.

All right.

All right.

Thanks, Council.

All right.

Now we'll move on to the other half.

What's Chris?

Are you going to be able to do that?

I was going to move on to the other half.

Dr.

Anthony Coleman.

Yes, sure.

Thank you.

One, uh I've been here since 96, so I'm in year 30 of my anniversary of as a resident in Jonesboro.

And I say that because I missed the last meeting, and I want to honor my wife that we have been married for 25 years, and that date fell on city council.

So I think I think family was a little bit more important than city.

I want to stay with her another 25, right?

Yes.

But uh the thing that I want to say about that is is that we're grateful uh to see over the past several years how Jonesboro has expanded and grown the quality of living here and um and I was just amazed that uh we did not have to travel hour, two hours out of town to find fine dyeing and just have time to just relax and to see in the green spaces, and so I appreciate what Jonesboro is doing.

Uh we're able to eat and just have a good time here, and we're doing well, but I also know that there are challenges, and uh, one thing that I don't want to do is, and I've heard one of my colleagues say this before Kitty kicking the can down the road uh because I heard a definition that says that if you keep doing the same thing, expecting a different result, it's insanity.

And so there's some things I know we've been speaking about and uh getting information being transparent, communicating.

I want to ensure that we are continuing to do that.

I've asked a few times uh months ago, weeks ago uh about uh the east side, the east park uh that's being um planned, uh and I was promised to be a part of that.

I haven't heard anything yet, so I'm I'm waiting to to hear that.

We have residents that are really eager and want to know what's happening, how how that's going, but also that there is a lot of traffic on prospect.

We know that part of the um plan is to expand some of the road in prospect, and I know we've already gone over that and done some of those uh having those discussions.

Um, but I think we need to do, I would like to see done um maybe another study or something down prospect, even beyond where the park is because it's a community that area is really is growing fast.

Uh it's a lot of houses and neighborhoods being being built across the track in the fields off Kathleen Street, and so uh, and then it's a lot of speeding going on on that Kathleen Street.

So I'm mentioning that because I don't know where else to mention it in the year.

Um, but it's a lot of traffic, a lot of speeding uh going on uh on Kathleen on Prospect, which of course feeds those communities, and so um I'd like for us to to consider that.

And uh on an ending note, uh, I I was able to host uh a Grammy Award winning artists here on this past Sunday.

Uh we got that out and it was well attended, it was on the ASU on ASU campus, and uh and we just grateful, uh I'm grateful to the Lord for um the success of it, but also just the city of Jonesboro coming and just uh being a part and to know that you know uh we can have groups and uh camaraderie and have a good time without having fights and all the other things that people try to portray and um say about certain groups or individuals.

But I just want to say that I appreciate being here in Jonesboro, and I'm sorry I missed, but uh I think home was first, but thank you all.

And Councilman, just in response to that, I know Brian and I actually discussed today.

We're about 60 percent on that completion on the East Side project, and so uh when we have that, it should be here what by the end of this week.

I think we're ready.

We can present that, so we'll uh be contacting you reaching out, so we want you you involved in your district, obviously.

Both of y'all, you bet Mr.

Hefner, thanks, Mr.

Bryant.

Thanks, Mr.

Miller, Mr.

Street.

Okay, thank you.

All right, next uh we're moving on to item 10.

Uh this is uh open for public comments.

Anyone can come forward and you can make your comments.

You are limited to five minutes.

Patty Lack, 4108 Forest Hill Road.

Um, I just want to share with you guys being a citizen and listening to citizens is that um uh a lot of the city is losing respect and a lot of trust in the city, and I only say that because of what came out when I requested the expense report from the uh volleyball tournaments um earlier in the year.

And um I want to tell you that there was three separate meetings.

One was is that we had great tournaments.

The next meeting I heard that we lost sixty, five hundred dollars, and then last week I heard that we um made ten thousand dollars, so we don't really know where those numbers are.

I know that last week is that Mr.

McLean asked Mr.

Stearns to come up and talk about a couple of the employees of the parks department that were on the expense report just to show that they were there to help out with the numbers of how much they make and all that to show that they were actually working.

Well, one of them is a pool uh director.

The pool closes in September and doesn't open in January or February, and I don't know why we have to show that he was working at the tournaments on an expense report.

I questioned some of the expense.

I don't know if you all got the expense report on here, but it needs to be redone because the reason why I question it is because that's why we're having an FBI investigation is that we don't know where the numbers, how many and how much on some of this expense report is like there was gatekeepers and it get gives a dollar amount, but how much per hour and how many did we have?

The concession workers.

I know that I saw 11 dollars an hour that were paying our concession workers, but it says concession workers was a price, food and snacks 825, drinks 540.

But what happened to the rest of the food that was left over?

And I don't know of what tournament you cannot make money on a concession stand.

So apparently we we made some money, but we lost money all the way around.

On this expense report, it says lunch boxes from Potbelly.

$3100.

Who ordered Potbelly and who did got who got the food?

It doesn't say, but it gives a dollar amount.

It gives hotels.

Did we pay what hotels did we pay for?

And who stayed in the rooms?

We don't know.

We have a dollar amount.

It's questionable there.

The cleaning staff.

There's a dollar amount on one of them that says $600.

What did they clean?

Did they clean every single day?

How much were they paid an hour?

I know of the people that put together the tournament, but we also had some sports coordinators and we had Jim Stearns, which I'm gonna assume has the knowledge of running these things.

So we had a lot of people that cost a lot of money.

So who was running it?

The concession stand manager, we paid $22 an hour.

I don't know who gets $22 an hour to run a concession stand.

What I'm just saying to you guys, and I know that Anne, you had mentioned that Steve and uh Steve Pertie and Jim Stearns was gonna work on a different expense report.

It needs to be crystal clear to what is spent and what is taken in to the public because that's where the trust and the respect is gonna come from all of you, and we want the city to run, but we need to know what is taken in and what is not.

This expense report would have done been done correctly the first time around instead of having to go and redo it again and being more clear.

So I hope that we can work on it.

I know Mr.

Stearns is, and I know Mr.

Petit can work it on, but that's the reason why you're losing trust and you're losing respect from a lot of citizens, and we don't need that to happen in our city right now.

So I hope we can get it right the next time around.

Thank you.

Yes, if you would please come forward, state your name and address.

Carol White, 5001 Nicole Cove.

Um just wanted to show y'all these pretty tickets.

They cost three dollars a piece to get into the Joe Matt Campbell uh flag football game.

So you can see they're really nice.

I mean, they're they're very colorful, they're really nice paper they're printed on.

I have a little bit of a problem with that.

Um, for the first thing, my grandson plays flag football.

There are two entries to get in and pay your fees and and and everything.

Well, my daughter, uh, she waited, she's the mother.

Um she waited in line.

She got there in plenty of times, so she waited in the long line 20, 25 minutes, then she gets up to the ticket takers, and there's three of them very well mannered.

I mean, I have no problem with them whatsoever.

They were doing their job, but but the way it's set up, there's no way that they can monitor who what what cars in the line have been taken care of, you know, have paid their fees, and each person in the cart pays three dollars and gets this ticket.

And so I'm just wondering why we are spending.

I don't know how much these cost.

Uh Mr.

Stearns might have an idea, but um, you know, when we go to the basketball games, they're just a little tear-off ticket, and you know, they seem to be a little bit more economical, but anyway, um I'm just wondering how much it it costs for those.

Um and then uh like I said, the sale of the tickets and collecting the money took the all that time, so she made it into the game.

She was in plenty of time.

My husband, he got in line probably 15 minutes before the game.

Well, he waited and he waited and he waited to get through the line.

Well, the the games had started, so he turned around and left, you know, because it it wasn't gonna be he might have got five minutes, but anyhow, okay.

So that being said, I'm sorry, I'm nervous.

It's okay.

Um, you know, um, I wanted to give a positive comment to the Craighead Forest groundskeepers.

That forest looks so good.

Um, we we camped out there.

Um we're we're local campers.

Um, but but I was very impressed.

Um, whoever's uh taking care of that.

One little hiccup, and I know y'all probably knew that.

But we went over to the uh the kids' area where the playground is and the fishing, you know, where the little ones play.

Well, let me just say there were some older teenage boys that were on the dock, and they were uh using some really foul language loud.

So we're walking by with my little seven-year-old grandson, you know.

What do you do?

Well, then I also saw a gentleman sitting on the park bench or the picnic table, I'm sorry, that was just observing the kids.

I don't know his motives or anything, but he did not look like he had children out there.

So I guess, and then I saw a bunch about five uh junior high kids that were throwing a big huge rocks into the to the lake where the kids were fishing.

So I just wonder, you know, what kind of supervision is going on out there.

I know we can't monitor everything, and I'm not asking.

I don't want any freedoms taken away.

I want people to be able to enjoy what we have.

And I I do appreciate uh the the cleanliness and and everything about Cracked Forest, except for that one thing.

So, you know, and in a supervisor position, maybe somebody has some answers.

So that's it.

Thank you.

Thank you for your comments, Ms.

White.

If you if you don't mind if you visit with Jim after the meeting and be just fine.

All right.

Yes, sir.

We have our comment here.

Uh I'm Eugene Holloway, and uh only having five minutes, I guess I gotta get right to the heart of the matter.

Uh Mayor, you and I met at my church background on the Mr.

Hardaway.

I don't mean to interrupt.

What's your address?

My address for a Marshall Street here in Jonesboro, Arkansas.

Uh we had a meeting conference at our church March the 12th.

You and some of your associates came down there.

We talked about sidewalks, uh, curbs, traffic lights, and things such as that uh with Plan Jonesboro.

Uh however, uh, I want to get right to the heart of the matter about why I'm here.

Uh this is from an article that I wrote 10 years ago that was published in the Jonesboro Sun.

And this is just some excerpts from it that I'm gonna read to you.

I'll get to the heart of the matter.

During May of this year, which is 2016, the city of Jonesboro established a committee to discuss and submit a property maintenance code to govern existing building structures to ensure a minimum level of public health, safety, and welfare for the general public and the occupants of the structure.

It is my opinion that this code and the center are honorable and beneficial to all the citizens of Jonesboro.

However, the intent of this property maintenance code is to ensure that the tenant and the landlord owner had legal avenues to take when a health, safety, or welfare issue arises within or without the city structure.

That's it.

That's it.

And this is why I'm here.

I had a friend of mine who recently I've got I I want to speak to someone after this.

I have a video here of an apartment here in Jonesboro that he was he put the down pavement on and they gave him this apartment.

There's no one in this room here right now that will go into this place.

Absolutely no one.

I don't care if you were homeless.

I think it's just the best too terrible.

I'd rather go sleep out on the street.

And we've got to do something, we've got to make some changes with this landlord tenant relationship here in Jonesboro.

It's absolutely terrible.

It's horrendous.

I don't know if you've ever been into one of them to go look, but you need to, we need to get some kind of uh group uh to start this uh movement so that some of these events uh some of these issues can be taking place.

Uh despite long opposition, strong opposition reality Jonesboro City Council passed a property maintenance code that day.

This back in 20, what, 2011 or 2015, 2016?

Uh the new code which kicks in March 15th would require owners to maintain both the inside.

This is what they try to do.

To maintain both inside and outside of properties, locked stores and windows need to work, insects and roads to be controlled.

If the plumbing electricity or heat isn't working, it needs to be fixed.

Uh, in the past, code enforcement officers could listen to complaints about such issues, but that was about, but that was about it.

These are the events, or rather, these are the issues that were being presented with that property maintenance code, which was what appealed that they were to use, appeal, repeal.

I don't know what were to use because it went into effect, and then just within a matter of weeks, I think, it was turned around completely.

But we've got to do something here because people are living in turmoil.

This is a friend of mine, apartment he went into.

My daughter, right now, she was gonna come down here with me today.

She was unable to get here.

She has uh there's a snail that was on the wall in her son's bedroom.

Now, they came to cut the grass in front of her apartment, okay.

But now all of the the shrubberies and not shrubberies, but just plants and weeds and things that are growing up around.

They cut the grass, but they didn't cut those things.

So they told her that if you don't like it, you can move.

And so now what?

Property maintenance in her where you're renting from uh taking her to the yard and garden.

You have to do that yourself.

I think that's going a little bit too far.

But there's a complete denial, and there's so much more I want to reveal, but I don't have the time to do it here right now today.

But I think for this time for me to bring this to you, I would really love to hear from someone else so that we can discuss this.

I'm your lady like TD Jake says, uh talk to the left wing and the right wing so the whole bird can fly.

Thank you.

Thank you, Mr.

Hardaway.

We'll get with you after the meeting.

Thank you very much.

Is there anybody else who would like to make any comments?

Yes, ma'am.

If you would please come forward, state your name and address.

Latoya Yarbrough, 4610, Prospect Road.

Um I don't care about apples and oranges.

This is my second time seeing y'all today.

I don't care about mosquitoes.

I care about my father laying in Oaklawn Cemetery in the wrong grave because the city instructed the grave diggers to dig the wrong grave.

I care about my 81-year-old mother who cannot properly grieve because I'm having to be here because I had to meet with them today.

So while we're fixing roads, while we're making tickets for little league games, what are you going to do about the parks and recreations department?

Records.

Because apparently, my father's not the only person that was in the wrong grave.

Because the information that I received on the day that my mother and I stood at Oak Lawn to pick my father's grave was not the right information.

Or somebody dropped the ball.

Come to find out after my father was buried that somebody dropped the ball.

The supervisor that this city hired dropped the ball.

Someone made mention earlier that people are losing trust.

I've never not trusted this city.

I've never not trusted this council.

But how do you expect me to trust you and the people who you hire and the people who you put in place to handle my father's remains to tell me that he can lay in a grave that initially you said belonged to someone else?

How do you expect me to trust you to do something with some mosquitoes and some kids' tickets to a game when my father is laying in a grave that does not belong to him until he's approved to be exhumed?

Yet the city can't be sued.

The city can't have nothing done to them.

And thank you for the offer that you made.

I'm expecting the proposal, and I promise you we will respond.

So while you're meeting in your chambers in your offices over the phones and at your house, ask yourself how would you feel if it was your spouse and your father laying in the wrong grave?

How would you feel if on the day you buried your father and you went the next day because your grieving mother wanted to go visit her deceased husband's grave only to find out that it was the wrong one?

And today I get an apology.

So if we want to talk about doing something for the city of Jonesboro, bump these streets, bump the sidewalks, bump the mosquitoes, take yourself out there and get the records together so that we will know where our people are or where they're supposed to be.

Because it is unfair to my 81-year-old mama to have to be going through this today.

So if you want my suggestion, do something different.

Because apparently the parks and recreations department is falling apart.

Apparently, the records are old and ancient and just paperwork.

Because when I went out there last week, he couldn't even show me a map, but today they could create one after a very strong demand letter.

Thank you.

Thank you, Miss Cheryl Brown.

All right.

We've meet the end of public comments.

Next, we'll move on to item 11.

That's adjournment.

So moved.

Second.

You have a motion on the floor.

All in favor, say aye.

Any opposed?