But let's go back to the function.

I got things for the same point.

But I always like to watch the view therefore.

Give me a little bit of time and I'll build a fence around here.

I gotta say it's looking nice over there.

Usually it's gonna be that was terrible.

Yeah, sure.

First thing that that was the first thing to be more Tony World True or the one by his cut down.

I'm glad to have you on board down there.

Are they gonna required up on nuclear power in the state or what?

It's five o'clock.

Okay.

Good afternoon, everybody.

It is officially five o'clock, and we're gonna go ahead and call to order the public safety council committee for the city of Jonesboro.

At this time, we'll go ahead and we'll take roll call.

And so if you don't mind to mark your attendance on the device in front of you.

Okay, and we do have five members present, so that does give them a quorum, does give us a quorum for today.

So we will move on to the next item on our agenda being the approval of minutes from Tuesday, July 21st of 2026.

Move to adopt okay.

I have a motion, a second to adopt the minutes from the previous meeting.

Do I have any questions or comments from anybody on the committee?

Any from the administration and any from the public in attendance.

Okay, seeing none, we'll go ahead and call for a vote on the approval of the minutes from the previous meeting.

Okay, and that motion does carry.

Moving on to the next item on our agenda being new business, we only have one resolution to consider tonight.

That is resolution 26101.

A resolution agreeing to the permanent closure of the airport road at grade intersection with the union's the Union Pacific Railroad upon the completion of a grade separated highway crossing at this same location.

Whereas the Arkansas Department of Transportation has entered into certain agreements with the Union Pacific Railroad regarding the construction of an overpass to replace the existing at grade railroad crossing on airport road in the corporate city in the corporate limits of the city of Jonesboro.

Whereas the Arkansas Department of Transportation is required by these agreements to provide proof of the Union Pacific Railroad via a resolution passed by the local local municipal corporation that it agrees with the removal and permanent closure of the Act Grade Crossing upon the completion of the new grade separated crossing.

Whereas the Arkansas Department of Transportation has constructed said grade separated crossing at this crossing location and wishes to finalize its obligations to the Union Pacific Railroad regarding this work.

Now therefore, be it resolved by the City Council of the City of Jonesboro, Arkansas, that one upon completion of the grade separated crossing by the Arkansas Highway Department described above.

The city of Jonesboro hereby agrees to the removal and permanent closure of the former Act Grade Railroad crossing at this location.

And two, the mayor and the city clerk are hereby authorized to take further steps and actions on behalf of the city as necessary or appropriate to accomplish the purpose of this resolution as stated above.

Do I have any questions or can comments from anybody on the committee?

Okay.

Any from the administration?

And any from the public in attendance.

Okay.

Seeing none, we'll go ahead and we will call a vote on this item.

That motion does pass and is forwarded on to full council.

Thank you, everybody.

Moving on to the next item on the agenda being pending items.

I know of none.

And moving on to number six other business.

Um everybody had received a copy of the vector mosquito control report for the previous month.

Um if you didn't take a look at it, it's a good read.

It seems like we had a lot of aerial sprays that went on, and even more impressive, probably a lot due to the weather that we've been having, but the number of mosquitoes are down considerably from the previous year.

Um anybody have any questions, comments, or anything regarding vector mosquito control?

Chairman.

Yes, sir.

Not specifically related to vector, but I'll just be the broken record, uh, particularly since two of y'all are on AMP.

Is AMP talked any more about I know they had some interest in mosquitoes?

Is AMP talked any more about that?

It's been a conversation that we've we've been having, however, nothing has moved forward as far as talking to county just because that would be an inner intermunicipal relationship that we would have to go on.

Um, you know, we had talked about doing a study of being able to do additional spraying on the outside on the outskirts of the city limits where we're specifically seeing a lot of this mosquito where a lot of the mosquitoes are being um bred in these uh farm farming communities and all the fields that are surrounding the city, but at this time nothing's moved forward on that.

Maybe Craig Rickard or Jerry or somebody want to come talk to us at one of our meetings about it because uh here comes Brian.

I feel like before you know it'll be winter and we'll forget about it, and it'll be spring and we'll talk about it.

Yeah, um we've actually I've spoken with Craig Rickard and we've worked with our finance department, and um there is going to be an RFQ um issued to for potential uh companies to maybe come in and do a study and to see what they think could possibly be done, and that would kind of be the the first step.

I think AMP allocated some money for that.

Um so we've been working with AMP with Craig Rickard specifically on issuing that RFB or RFQ to help find suitable vendors who might be interested in doing a study to see what next steps would be.